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Women's Sitting Team Downs China, Loses to Russia
DENVER, Colo. (March 14, 2014) – The U.S. Women's National Sitting Volleyball Team split a pair matches against top world foes on Friday to open the Denver Sitting Volleyball Challenge being held at the Colorado Convention Center.
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Team USA, ranked second in the world, started the day by winning the opening set against No. 5 Russia, but errors started to pile up and the reigning European champions came back to win in four sets. The U.S. rebounded in the second match to sweep top-ranked China, which has won the last three Paralympic Games. The American victory over the Chinese marks the second consecutive win in the series going back to the U.S. win at the Moscow Cup in August 2013.
"We had a long day today, two matches with two tough teams," U.S. Women's National Sitting Volleyball Team Head Coach Bill Hamiter said. "We lost to Russia. Basically we had too many unforced errors on our side. We followed that up with a really nice match with China, beating them in three. I think the big turnaround was we just seemed way more settled and more comfortable with what was happening and just executed. The results stood for themselves."
Russia defeated Team USA 21-25, 25-19, 28-26, 25-16 in the second match of the tournament. Katie Holloway (Lake Stevens, Wash.) and Heather Erickson (Fayetteville, N.C.) had matching 12 points. Abby Mueller (Houston, Texas) and Monique Burkland (Ardmore, Okla.) added seven points each. Russia took advantage of its blocking reach with a 24-14 block advantage and out-served the USA 17-6 in aces. View match stats here.
In its second match of the day, Team USA earned a 25-23, 25-20, 25-17 victory over China with Erickson and Burkland leading the way with 13 points each. Burkland tallied six of the team's seven aces in the match. Katie Holloway added eight points. Bethany Zummo (Dublin, Calif.) charted a 50 percent positive reception, handling 24 of the team's 52 receptions. China out-blocked the USA 15-9, but the Americans' 42 kill percent was 13 percent better than the Chinese for the match. View match stats here.
"Today we struggled against Russia and then pulled a great turnaround against China, and that felt amazing," Holloway said. "That makes you realize that is all under our control. We are the ones basically playing, and it us who has to change and it is nobody else. If we were flat out losing, that would be one thing. But since we turned it around from the first team to the second team, we realized it was all about us."
The U.S. will face ParaPan zone region rival Brazil at 11 a.m. MT on Saturday morning before having a rematch with Russia at 6 p.m. MT. Team USA concludes the Denver Sitting Volleyball Challenge on Sunday at 8 a.m. MT versus China.
All Denver Sitting Volleyball Challenge matches can be viewed online for free at www.coachesaid.com/channel.aspx?channel=104.
The four-team Denver Sitting Volleyball Challenge is being held in conjunction with the Colorado Crossroads, the first junior national qualifier into the USA Volleyball Girls' Junior National Championships.
U.S. Women's Sitting Volleyball Team Roster
1 – Lora Webster (Phoenix, Ariz.)
2 – Bethany Zummo (Dublin, Calif.)
3 – Lexi Shifflet (Waseca, Minn.)
4 – Michelle Schiffler (Lake Wales, Fla.)
5 – Katie Holloway (Lake Stevens, Wash.)
6 – Heather Erickson (Fayetteville, N.C.)
7 – Monique Burkland (Ardmore, Okla.)
8 – Angela DeHaan Palacio (Sacramento, Calif.)
9 – Abby Mueller (Houston, Texas)
13 – Nichole Millage (Champaign, Ill.)
14 – Kaleo Kanahele (Oklahoma City, Okla.)
16 – Nicky Nieves (Kissimmee, Fla.)
Head Coach: Bill Hamiter
Assistant Coaches: Cara Lang, Quinton Kraeer
Team Manager: Elliot Blake
Therapist/Trainer: Kazuma Akehi
Doctor: Laura Finch
Statistician: Jeff Hicks
Denver Sitting Volleyball Challenge Schedule (all times MT)
March 14 (Session 1)
China def. Brazil 25-12, 25-10, 25-17
Russia def. USA 21-25, 25-19, 28-26, 25-16
March 14 (Session 2)
Russia def. Brazil 25-21, 25-11, 25-22
USA def. China 25-23, 25-20, 25-17
March 15 (Session 3)
China vs. Russia at 9 a.m.
USA vs. Brazil at 11 a.m.
March 15 (Session 4)
Brazil vs. China at 4 p.m.
USA vs. Russia at 6 p.m.
March 16 (Session 5)
USA vs. China at 8 a.m.
Brazil vs. Russia at 10 a.m.


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It is said 'Love makes the world go round,' and it is a merry go round in this case. We get to see some who are riding the painted horses of their libido and we know it is a cavalcade, a passing show of women at the lower end of the social class and men of stolidity, class and debauchee all well settled on their places. Naturally while it lasts it is impossible to set apart them by their social differences or polish. You see the fast and furious spin can only give us vignettes and it is set in Vienna in the early 1900s. From the world- weary narrator excellently essayed by Anton Walbrook we follow certain characters in particular in their natural habitat. The prostitute and the maid for example dare to ply their trade and accept the risks that their position entails.
The film demands that the audience pay attention to the structure, to the interplay among the characters, and to the opulent visual elements; and the effect is a delight, as typical with films of Ophuls overtly sexual themes are treated both visually and intellectually to take out what is heady and rank. By no means it is insipid but Ophuls' keen insight into what keeps the male and female, urbane and demimondaine sparkle makes the difference. Passion for any individual is ephemeral but does it not drive him or her to pursue with all the more ardor though the deed is done and the person has gone? It may be first love that one seeks to recapture but no matter the individual is not likely to quit if time is right and occasion comes along. The face and name of the loved may all be different but what drives it is invariably from same source. Metaphor of a merry-go-round for this motivating force in human behavior is apt. Love is fleeting long live love that makes the world go round.
La Ronde is based on a play by Arthur Schnitzler (1862–1931), it was an adaptation of perhaps the most famous and most scandalous play of fin de siècle and not staged in Vienna until 1921—was ideal material for the filmmaker's return to his roots. It's an ingenious piece of dramatic construction. In the first of its ten scenes, a prostitute picks up a soldier, who in the second scene romances a chambermaid, who in the next scene is ravished by her young employer, and so on until the end, when a count spends the night with the streetwalker from the opening scene and the play comes full circle.
'Ophuls shot the picture entirely in the studio, and he and his co-scenarist, Jacques Natanson, added one more character to the ten in Schnitzler's play: an unnamed, godlike figure, played by Walbrook, who, assuming several different guises, guides all the heedless lovers through their various intrigues, philosophizes between scenes, and, not incidentally, operates a festive-looking but occasionally balky merry-go-round. (When one of the male characters finds himself unable to perform in bed, Walbrook has to make a few repairs so the love carousel can keep turning.)'
Max Ophuls (1902–57)
Ophuls, who was born in Germany, worked in the theater there and in Austria during the twenties, made films in Germany, France, Italy, and the Netherlands in the thirties, and spent the forties in the United States. La ronde was made in France, where the filmmaker had been a citizen since 1938 but had not lived for a decade; its cast consisted mostly of French actors but also included the Italian Isa Miranda, who had starred in his marvelous La signora di tutti (1934). Last but not the least Anton Walbrook (The Red Shoes) plays the cicerone.
Max Ophuls' career in the German film industry had to be abruptly stopped when Adolf Hitler came into power. He fitted well all the traits that the Nazi's loved to hold up to ridicule as decadent: a Jew, – a sophisticated and artistic Jew at that. His last film before he left his native land was a tragic tale of adultery and foolish honor called Liebelei (1932) set in Vienna and based on a play by Schnitzler. (The wry romantic fatalism of Schnitzler perhaps fitted Ophuls' worldview.) Liebelei was for him a threnody of the vanished grace of Vienna that he had known. La Ronde that came after the Nazi Regime was swept off into the rubbish heap of history was much lighter in tone.
Like many European directors his stint in Hollywood was not a very happy one. Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948), which was adapted from a story by another Viennese, Stefan Zweig. Its subtlety was lost on American audiences of the day, and it flopped. His last two Hollywood movies Caught and The Reckless Moment fared no better.
Trivia: Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut is based on a novel by Arthur Schnitzler. (ack: Terence Rafferty-The Criterion Collection 15 Sep'08 In the too-brief life and art of Max Ophuls)

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Teradata Plunges 17% on Q3 Warning: Is It Economics, or Hadoop?
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Shares of enterprise data analysis firm Teradata (TDC) are down $8.73, or almost 17%, at $43.85, after the company yesterday afternoon warned Q3 results will miss analysts' expectations, and cut its full-year outlook, saying sales were weak outside the U.S. and Europe.
The company gave little insight into what went wrong in the areas outside the U.S. and Europe, and won't due so until it discusses the results in depth on October 31st, leaving analysts to wonder if it was economic weakness in certain regions or increased competition from a variety of forces, which could include Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), SAP (SAP), Oracle (ORCL), and other vendors with enterprise data analysis tools, or perhaps the open-source technology known as "Hadoop," which emerged out of technologies developed by Google (GOOG)
The stock has received four downgrades, that I can see, from Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse, Sterne Agee, and Morgan Stanley, and a number of price target cuts.
Goldman's Greg Dunham, cutting his rating on the shares to Neutral from Buy, and cutting his price target to $50 from $74, writes that although some of the cut in outlook is about the macroeconomic environment, nevertheless, he's now afraid Hadoop may start to catch up with the company's offerings and prove more of a competitive threat:
We believe that fears regarding Hadoop and other emerging technologies continue to be overblown and play a secondary role to a weak macro environment. In the quarter Asia Pacific revenues declined ~21% (10% in constant currency) while the Middle East and Africa regions were down ~19% (12% in constant currency.) Neither of these areas have large numbers of early adopters investing in Hadoop which is primarily being used and developed in the U.S. However, we don't see a snap back in data warehouse spending in the near term and believe that as emerging open source technologies mature they could displace some data warehouse workloads longer term. We also believe that fears around open source will only increase as growth continues to be sluggish due to macro. We continue to see Teradata as the leading provider of Enterprise Data Warehouses and believe its Unified Data Architecture (UDA) which combines transactional data with unstructured data sources will be widely adopted for by enterprises as the volume and variety of data continues to grow. We look forward to learning about the newest product enhancements at next week's user conference in Dallas.
Credit Suisse's Philip Winslow cut his rating to Neutral from Outperform, and cut his price target to $45 from $75, writing that he no longer sees any immediate prospects of revenue growth picking up after having slowed for several quarters:
Since Q3 2012, management has consistently noted a decline in larger deals, the number of deals, and average deal size, as customers had been running their EDWs "hotter," which resulted in an extension of increased capacity purchases, and had shifted to buying in smaller increments. We had believed two of the main factors which drove these behaviors that negatively impacted Teradata's product growth were beginning to abate, which underpinned our thesis that Teradata's product revenue growth would meaningfully reaccelerate in the second half. Based on today's pre- announced results, while the U.S. and Europe appear to have bottomed (suggesting that these two headwinds were indeed lessening for these regions), international revenue disappointed dramatically this quarter, and management's guidance suggests no rebound during the December quarter. Although we continue to believe that Teradata (with its combination of tuned hardware, software, tools and utilities, and professional services) is well positioned longer term in the data warehousing market, the timing and the magnitude of a near- to medium-term reacceleration in product revenue has become increasingly uncertain. Therefore, we are downgrading Teradata from Outperform to Neutral and lowering our target price from $75 to $45.
UBS's Brent Thill, reiterating a Neutral rating, cuts his price target from $65 to $55, writing that "TDC's miss is company specific, as TDC has the best high end data warehousing solution, but it continues to face pressure from new and cheaper alternatives."
Not everyone is willing to give up, however.
CLSA's Ed Maguire reiterates a Buy rating on the shares, while cutting his price target to $63 from $77, writing that "It's not yet clear what drove deal slippage in APAC and MEA, but we're confident it's not Hadoop-related competitive threats."
Maguire thinks the stock is worth sticking with if the U.S. and Europe can hold up, while one waits to see if Asia and other territories will improve:
We're sticking with the stock and the story, as the weakness in APJ and MEA is likely unrelated to the broader secular concerns over potential competitive threats from Hadoop, SAP HANA and cloud-based offerings. Assuming Americas and Europe continue to execute, and the reasons for the APJ and MEA deal slippage are addressable, our fundamental thesis would remain directionally valid (if the timing only gets pushed out by emerging markets). The Americas and Europe both saw accelerating growth from 2Q. Our bullish thesis on the stock and the story is predicated on the view that the company's slowdown in growth that began in 3Q12 was mostly cyclical, not a secular decline due to competition from Hadoop or cloud-based offerings. Hadoop is a US phenomenon, and the accelerating growth from the Americas would assuage concerns of competitive erosion here (not to mention Teradata's industry leadership with its Hadoop-based Aster Data offerings). It's still unclear what caused problems in Asia and emerging markets. European softness has been a lingering concern across tech, but the 13% growth (11% in local currency) demonstrates good execution and likely a firming economic backdrop. It's been our view that Teradata's long sales cycles and high-touch consulting model have inherent risks of lumpy deal flow, but the emphasis on delivering business value from analytics helps insulate the business from pure price-based competition. The improved performance in Americas and Europe supports our view that pending projects have created some pent-up demand […] At this point it's unclear what may be macro-related, what may be country- specific, whether there are sales-execution issues or whether exogenous factors (such as concerns that NSA overreach could make foreign firm skittish in dealing with US tech companies). Currency also creates an additional headwind for the business near-term. For Teradata, Japan has been a challenged market for a few years but it has been recently on the mend. China saw strong growth in 2011-2012 with high- profile wins, but we'd suspect the tenuous economy may have played a role there. We'd expect management to address these issues in detail on the 3Q earnings call on 31 October.
Likewise, RBC Capital Markets's Matthew Hedberg reiterates an Outperform rating, while cutting his price target to $55 from $70, writing that investors should focus on what works, namely, the U.S. market:
Although shares will likely remain range-bound in the short-term, off reset expectations, we believe downside is limited. We are encouraged with the accelerating trends in the US and Europe and believe a combination of improving spending trends in developed markets, re-set expectations, easier comps and a US debt ceiling resolution could help re-rate shares higher.


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Hi fellow foodies! I know it's not Friday but is it too early for pizza? I hope not because this one is a winner! Are you trying to be healthy and control your carb intake? Don't worry, I've got you covered too! (This one is for Julie who is a super inspiration to anyone trying to watch their carbs)
Chicken Bacon Ranch. That makes me hungry just typing those words. I love that combination whether it's on a sandwich, pasta, or chip. I just realized all of those are really carby. Shame on me!
I want to show you two ways to have this pizza: one with food processor homemade pizza dough and a second version that gives you a 3 grams of carbohydrates alternative. They are both delicious and satisfying. Try one today (or both. I'm not judging).
For dough:
1 tablespoon fast rise yeast
1 teaspoon sugar
1 1/2 cups warm water (not too hot or you'll kill your yeast)
1 teaspoon Kosher salt
3 cups all purpose flour
1 tablespoon dried Italian seasoning
1 cup shredded Parmesan cheese
2 tablespoons olive oil plus extra for pizzas
For pizza:
2/3 cup ranch dressing
2 cups cooked and shredded chicken
2 cups shredded mozzarella cheese
1 cup fresh spinach
1 1/2 cups cooked and chopped bacon
Extra Parmesan cheese for topping the pizza
Low carb option:
Low carb tortillas
For pizza dough:
1. Mix yeast, sugar, and water in a medium bowl. Allow to sit for 5 minutes.
2. In a food processor, add yeast mixture, salt, flour, Italian seasoning, and Parmesan cheese. Process on the shred/slice setting until a dough ball forms and ingredients are incorporated.
3. Remove dough and coat in oil. Place in a covered bowl and allow to rise for 1 1/2 hours in a warm place.
To create pizza:
1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit.
2. Cut dough into 4 equal portions. Roll out the dough with a rolling pin and place on a baking sheet or pizza pan. You should have 4 personal 6 inch pizzas.
3. Brush on a light coat of olive oil on the pizza.
4. Top each pizza with 1/4 of the ingredients including ranch, chicken, mozzarella, spinach, bacon, and a bit of Parmesan.
5. Bake on the middle shelf for 15-20 minutes.
For low carb pizza:
1. Substitute low carb tortilla for pizza dough.
2. Brush on olive oil. Bake for 2-3 minutes.
3. Top each pizza with 1/4 of the ingredients including ranch, chicken, mozzarella, spinach, bacon, and a bit of Parmesan.
5. Bake on the middle shelf for 10-15 minutes or until cheese is slightly brownish around the edges. Enjoy!


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Five schools in Norway have rescheduled their mid-term exams to allow pupils to attend Justin Bieber concerts in Oslo.
The 19-year-old Canadian pop star is scheduled to perform in the capital on April 16 and 17 - stoking fears that some children in remote schools will skip exams scheduled at the same time.
Bieber is extremely popular in Norway, where his free concert in Oslo last year resulted in dozens of injuries as teenage girls fought to get better glimpses of him.
To accommodate this Bieber-mania, five schools in the Alesund region - located 230 miles fromOslo - have rescheduled exams.
Kristin Halvorsen, Norway's education minister, said she would not intervene in the schools' decisions.
"I am concerned that students should be concentrating when they take tests and midterms," she said. "The local schools have the responsibility to schedule the local mid-terms, and if they think there is any reason to change the dates, they have authority to do so."
She added: "We've all been 14-years-old and know that interests can be intense."
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A student and instructor of Okinawa Kenpo Karate and Kobudo. Thoughts on Karate, Tai Chi, ACL Reconstruction and the Challenges of Parenting.
Thursday, August 4, 2011
Discussion: Attack Scenarios
Last night the dojo black belts had a discussion on attacks. Prior to class, each participant was to research possible street attack scenarios. The scenarios were from personal experience/concerns, newspaper articles, books, Internet searches and YouTube videos. Each person added a few items to the list for discussion.
1. Grab belt from behind in a workplace environment.
2. Grab neck with one hand.
3. Grab from behind in bear hug. Arms are pinned.
4. Blocking a door or entrance. (work cubicle, elevator, etc.)
5. Being followed.
6. Attacker charges and attacks with strikes.
7. Push...Push...Push.
8. Attack while at urinal or in bathroom stall.
9. Neck attack...hand hooking around back of neck.
10. Side by side contact when trying to leave an area.
11. Attacker throwing object to distract while charging.
12. Attacked when exiting or entering cars or homes.
13. Being jumped on while asleep.
14. Rear choke.
This list represents the items discussed in a dojo session. It is not a comprehensive list nor did we include weapons in this session. The group discussed each scenario and practiced defending against the attack. We only made it part way through our list and will have to revisit the session.
Personal Observations:
1. Often we practice linear attacks/grabs in the dojo. We need more practice in circular conflicts.
2. Blocked Entrance. I found this difficult. One participant described an actual situation which happened at work. A man stood at the cubicle entrance and would not let the person through the door.
3. Following. I had an immediate reaction when someone was following me.
4. Attacks not likely to be "karate" attacks. (technically correct punches with chambered fists)
5. We have more work to do.
12 comments:
- jc said...
thought provoking....i, too, think TMA often does alot of linear modes of attack; sounds like a good brainstorm...
- August 4, 2011 at 11:09 AM
- ~dawn~ said...
I have this blog post in my manual binder that I reference frequently: http://www.mokurendojo.com/2010/01/most-common-habitual-acts-of-violence.html
Like you said, there are quite a number of online articles and studies about how fights go down. It is very interesting to play around with different attacks. I'm intrigued by the door blocking scenario, will have to mention that one and see what we come up with!
- August 4, 2011 at 11:16 AM
- Felicia said...
Like that idea for class a lot, Michele! Sounds like a lot of good stuff was discussed and played out in "real time."
We once did a crowded/dark night club class. We kept our street clothes (and shoes) on, Sensei dimmed the lights and turned on the music/disco ball (we used the room that the aerobic kickboxing class also uses, lol) and lined us up in chairs. We practiced handling unwanted "attention" from someone sitting next to us and getting out if that person was between you and the exit. It was interesting and provided quite a bit of "food for thought." I love classes like that!
Thanks for sharing - and I hope your sinuses are better, today :-)
- August 4, 2011 at 1:42 PM
- Journeyman said...
It sounds like it was a great session. Your observations on non-linear attacks and attacks not being "karate' attacks (or other martial art) is spot on. Even just the process of thinking scenarios through is invaluable training. I look forward to hearing about any subsequent sessions.
As an aside, thanks for the mention on your blog and sorry about the terrible sentence I wrote in the paragraph you quoted. I had a plural and a singular tense all in the same sentence. I must have been pretty tired when I proofed my post.
- August 4, 2011 at 8:51 PM
- Rick Matz said...
Back in my aikido days, a guy grabbed the knot of my tie ... once.
- August 4, 2011 at 9:34 PM
- Charles James said...
Yes, question, do you know what to look for in violence before the threat has a chance to do any of these guesses at attacks on the street?
- August 9, 2011 at 10:29 AM
- Josh Kruschke said...
- August 9, 2011 at 8:49 PM
- Charles James said...
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- August 12, 2011 at 10:42 AM
- Michele said...
Thank you for your comments and shared links! I must apologize for my delayed response to your comments. Summer is flying by and I am working an additional PT job.
Felicia: You may have inspired another session for our group. Our dojo/house used to be a bar/restaurant. All I need is the disco ball... :)
Journeyman: Thanks again for your articles. It was a useful session and we want to continue exploring the topic.
Charles James: Yes, the group discusses pre-attack indicators.
However, in this instance, the goal of the group was to discuss types of attack. Numbers 1, 4, 5 and 12 were examples from the participant's personal experiences.
Thanks again for your comments!
- August 13, 2011 at 7:24 PM
- Michele said...
As the owner of the school, well also the guy who opened it up, is a 6th dan, and I have done crisis intervention long enough to know what is really on the street as opposed to the um , generic self defense. I think you need to put into perspective what the blackbelts were attempting to do. At their level and for discussion purposes they didn't need to review the precursor to the situation. It was a very hard lesson to free your mind of what you thought you knew and relook at regular old collar grabs and reinvent scenarios and deployment. I personally am trying to learn to use the seisan stance as a strike. Attacker comes in , switch angles and strike with your knee to the inner thigh, or outer thigh, many opportunity. nice to share
- August 29, 2011 at 10:44 PM
I did not realize Michele's account was logged in. The above comment was mine. Tom
- August 29, 2011 at 11:00 PM
- Mr. Martial Arts said...
Sounds like it was a fun session. I like that ideas.
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Oscar nominees: Quvenzhané Wallis and "Beasts of the Southern Wild" director Benh Zeitlin
Mad Moviegoer isn't a huge follower of "Entertainment Tonight." I am, however, a long-time cheerleader for "Beasts of the Southern Wild" and am very fond of the young lady who stars in it and her director, Benh Zeitlin (above). Thursday's Oscar nominations announcement suggests, I am hardly alone. As we head toward the February 24th 85th Academy Award telecast, "Stage, Screen & In Between" as well as "The Pick" will take the measure of this year's Oscar nominees and keep you up to date with some of my favorite prognosticators.


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Welcome back. For the last week-and-a-half we've been checking in and checking out The Soul Clinic, the edgy R&B band from York, Pennsylvania.
I was thrilled when the guys consented to this their first interview in 43 years and agreed to tell all, uncut and uncensored, right here on Shady Dell Music & Memories.
I'd like to begin today's round by reminding you that horns were making hits in the late sixties. Horns were featured in many popular soul, R&B, funk, pop and progressive rock recordings. Here's an excellent example, the Carolina Beach Music sound of the blue-eyed soul band The O'kaysions.
"Girl Watcher" - The O'Kaysions (September 1968,
highest chart position #5
S.D. KNIGHT: In previous segments we got to know a few of the members of The Soul Clinic. Now it's time to learn a thing or two about the band's lead singer, Tony Scott, who passed away several years ago. In newspaper articles published in the sixties there was apparently some confusion over Tony's age. One of them stated that Soul Clinic personnel ranged in age from 15 to 25. Rick Dillman, having joined at age 14 1/2 you were the baby in the band. When I look at pictures of Tony I get the impression that he was a lot older than 25. Please set the record straight. How old was Tony Scott?
------------------ Tony Scott
RICK DILLMAN: Tony was 40-ish.
LARRY SMITH: We didn't want to freak people out
by telling them Tony's real age!
MIKE EADS: Tony was definitely older than 25 and I think
he was in his early 40's already.
S.D. KNIGHT: A band made up of seven high school and college age guys and a lead singer in his 40s is a rather unusual formation. Where did Tony Scott come from and
how did he become part of The Soul Clinic?
Tony's real name was Willie
Drummond.. but to avoid
confusion we can continue to
refer to him as Tony Scott.
Tony was a total hedonist.
He had a habit of stretching
the truth and saying things
for shock effect. Anything
that could improve his
mystique he would put
forward as fact.
S.D. KNIGHT: Any truth to the rumor that Tony Scott was "The Fifth Beatle"? Don't answer that!
RICK DILLMAN: Tony once told me he sang backup for
Little Richard. Dick Gayman (manager of The Epics) said
Tony came into town with the York Fair, singing with the
Black Girl strip side show. I actually saw him playing guitar
to a large black stripper singing "Give Me Money". I had
snuck in to see the girls. lol. Imagine being a 14-16 yr old
and dealing with all these oddities, coming to terms with
maturation, sexuality, etc. and being in close proximity to
Tony's goings on...lol..Pretty cool huh...haha. A real life
education on the fly. Coming of age with the girls, the
notoriety, the access... way cool.
I've had both Dick Gayman
and Barry Shultz tell me that
Tony came from Canada and
was traveling with the Girly
Show band appearing at fairs
& carnivals. Others thought
he came from down south.
Tony decided to stay in York
because of a woman, of
course, named JOAN. He
moved in with her and some-
time after, got a job at the
Cole Steel plant in York. That's where he met Dick Gayman
who also worked there. They would go to lunch sometimes
and they would talk music. Although Tony was quite the
womanizer, Joan always took him back. As I mentioned in
Monday's segment, Dick Gayman and Jeff Hildebrand are the
guys most likely responsible for drafting Tony into an early
version of The Epics which evolved into The Soul Clinic.
I remember Tony singing
in a pre-Epics band called
The King Cobras. I played
guitar for them for a while
and Jeff Hildebrand was
on drums. It only lasted
about six months and we
only had one or two gigs.
S.D. KNIGHT: Okay, guys, back to our timeline. When we
left off it was December 1967. Trumpet player Rick Dillman had joined The Soul Clinic the month before and the guys savored the experience of talking shop with David Ruffin of the Temptations in a limo at Lehigh University. Where else did The Clinic play in the final days of 1967?
LARRY SMITH: We were back at Altland's Soul Ranch on
December 23rd 1967. That Christmas performance was
significant because pictures taken of the band show our
updated lineup with new member Rick Dillman among us.
Rick is seen below on the right end of the back row.
The guy in the brown V-neck is Mike Leash, our former
trombonist, who had joined the Air Force and was back
home on leave. Mike came to see us play at Altland's
Ranch and had some pics taken with us. As we said before,
when Mike left for the service in the fall of 1966, Clark Miller
joined the band as trombone player and singer.
S.D. KNIGHT: It is now my pleasure to welcome Mike Leash to the conversation. Mike, what memories spring to mind when you think about your years playing trombone in the band that was then known as The Epics but is now fondly remembered by one and all as The Soul Clinic?
When I think back to my
Soul Clinic days, I have
immediate visions of Tony's
impeccable "do"; his awe-
some performance of
"You Waited Too Long"
by the Five Stairsteps;
a lot more practice sessions
than gigs; and a great group
of guys who loved R&B.
"You Waited Too Long" - Five Stairsteps & Cubie
(June 1966, highest chart position #94)
S.D. KNIGHT: How did you get started as a musician, Mike?
MIKE LEASH: Growing up in a musical family I started
playing trumpet in second grade, and was later forced to
baritone because there were too many trumpet players.
Having never seen a baritone in a soul band, I switched
to valve trombone during high school. While I missed the
glory days of the Soul Clinic due to a 4 year stint in the
Air Force, it certainly was an experience that ignited my
passion to make music my life.
S.D. KNIGHT: Thanks for being here, Mike. I'm going to ask you to tell us about your post-Clinic music career later on so please stick around! Continuing now with our Epic Odyssey, the year 1967 came to a close with a Soul Clinic gig at the Sunny Club in Camp Hill.
A poster listing the club's December 1967 entertainment schedule reveals that The Clinic played December 30th in
a show headlined by The Fantastic Johnny C.
(Caution: audio comes in hot! Turn down loudness.)
"Got What You Need" The Fantastic Johnny C
(Feb. 1968, highest chart position #56 Hot 100/#32 R&B)
S.D. KNIGHT: Mike Eads, what memories do you have of playing The Sunny Club?
MIKE EADS: We played the 'Sunny Club' on numerous
occasions and backed up several national acts there.
I remember doing Billy Stewart ('Summer-time').
RICK DILLMAN: The last time we played the Sunny Club
we drew almost 1000 kids and after the show the owner
refused to pay us. We went to the Musicians Union for help
and nothing ever came of it. It was one of our best
performances, marred by bad management.
S.D. KNIGHT: The timeline now moves forward to 1968, a breakthrough year for The Soul Clinic. Let's take a look at a hand written list of show times for The Clinic and three other acts. Where did that show take place and who is Twila?
LARRY SMITH: That show was for Strayer Junior College
in Washington, D.C. on Saturday, January 20, 1968. Rick
Terlazzo was attending there at the time and the school
asked him to book us and some other acts. They told him
how much money was budgeted and Rick went to our
agent and sax player, Bob Hubbard, from Harrisburg.
That's who wrote that set list! Twila Howard was a singer
who at one time had an act called Twila and the Twilights
which included Jeff Hildebrand on drums. At the Strayer
show Bob Hubbard was promoting Twila and he backed
her up on sax with our rhythm section.
As you can see from the entry in my old date book above,
"Don't Be Sore at Me" - The Parliaments (November 1967,
uncharted B side of "All Your Goodies Are Gone")
Strayer was located just
two blocks from the
White House on 14th St.
The Homecoming Dance
where The Soul Clinic
played was held at the
Willard Hotel which was
also two blocks from the
White House, only on
Pennsylvania Avenue.
LARRY SMITH: On February 3rd, 1968, a couple of weeks
after the Strayer show, we opened for the Artistics at
West York High School.
"This Heart of Mine" - The Artistics (January 1966,
highest chart position #115 Hot 100/#25 R&B)
S.D. KNIGHT: West York High School was one of the many local venues The Soul Clinic played in 1968. I caught one of your shows at York College in March of that year while I was home from Penn State on spring break. As I pulled into the parking lot of the college that night, WSBA was playing the new one by Arthur Conley.
"Funky Street" - Arthur Conley (March/April 1968,
highest chart position #14)
LARRY SMITH: Good memory! That York College concert
took place Saturday March 18th. We also played there
Saturday May 11th (York County Youth Council affair),
a private gig. The year before, on May 5, 1967, we
played a 24 minute set at what was then York Junior
College. It was a "Battle of the Bands", but we were
paid $300.00 total. Hey, that was 1967 $$!! Ya know??
Then, Saturday November 18th, 1967, we were back for
another show.
S.D. KNIGHT: We now come to a major milestone in the history of The Soul Clinic... the making of your record.
Rick Terlazzo, how did that opportunity come about?
RICK TERLAZZO: Someone from the Bay Sound label
out of Baltimore heard us play "So Sharp" on stage and
liked it. They brought us in and we recorded it with
producer/engineer George Massenburg who went on
to record many well known acts. He also invented the
parametric equalizer around 1970 and is still involved
in the music industry.
S.D. KNIGHT: Do you remember which venue you were playing when the Bay Sound rep discovered you?
LARRY SMITH: I'm not sure about this. Even back then,
as young as we were, we weren't suckers. You don't
believe every guy who comes up and says "We're gonna
make a record for you."! So I don't remember where.
S.D. KNIGHT: On what date were the two sides of your single recorded and when was it released?
LARRY SMITH: Both sides were recorded at Bay Sound
Studios in Baltimore, MD, on Friday March 29, 1968.
The 45 was released on Monday May 6, 1968.
S.D. KNIGHT: What do you remember about the Bay Sound recording session?
RICK DILLMAN: We brought in another trumpet player to
double the trumpets and also a baritone sax player. So we
had two trumpets, two saxes, and one valve trombone.
I remember having a lot of trouble getting all of us in tune.
Larry had some kind of a squeak in his bass drum pedal
that none of us could hear. The engineer kept stopping us
to try to find the squeak, finally oiling the pedal. We got
the music recorded pretty quickly after that, maybe three
takes each. Then we all went into the control room for
Tony to record the vocal track. First he insisted on the
lights being turned way off, then up a little for mood and
then he sat down on a stool and said he wasn't going to
sing. We said WHAT??? He said he would only sing if
his name was on the writing credits for the B side song
"No One Loves Me Anymore." We had agreed to only
put Mike and Ted on the song credits but Tony threw
a hissy fit. We finally had to agree and that's how Tony's
name got on the record. Tony had a bad case of LSD...
(Lead Singer's Disease) lol.
That's right. Ted Saxon
and I wrote the B side
song "No One Loves
Me Anymore." Tony
had nothing to do with
it other than maybe
change a word or two
..... literally. He pulled
the old .. "lead singer
ego trip"... on us at the
last minute. He insisted
his name go on it as co-
writer or he wouldn't sing it in the studio. Guess he figured
he'd get some royalty money that way, not to mention his
ego bolstered. But Ted nor I ever got a dime for it.
Needless to say, neither did Tony.
RICK DILLMAN: As I remember it we wrote the tune
"No One Loves Me Anymore" collectively. Most every-
one in the band contributed. The writing of the tune was
a group effort after Mike and Ted wrote the chord
structure. They came up with the chording and the feel
of the song. Clark, Bruce and I wrote the horn parts
together during one practice session. Bruce wrote the
lyrics on the spot that same day. Larry and I dispute
who wrote the drum break but I can assure you that
I did...haha.. He was struggling with finding something
suitable and I came up with the bump bump ba bump..
lol.. Rick T helped us with the harmony for the horn parts
also. We put the tune together during one practice in
Clark's basement where we always rehearsed.
S.D. KNIGHT: Let's get a first hand account from the man himself, Clark Miller. Welcome to the interview, Clark! Tell us what you remember about those Soul Clinic practice sessions at your home.
The Clinic used to practice
at my house in East York
because we had a large
basement where we could
bring all the gear. The house
was in a quiet suburban
neighborhood. Nobody
parked on the street.
Everyone had driveways
and well-manicured lawns.
You always knew when the
band was practicing because cars would line the street and
all sorts of unsavory looking characters would be wandering
The basement was cool because it had access to the
outside at ground level, so we could sneak in and out
without my mom (everyone knew Doris) knowing about
it, or so we thought. It also had a pool table and a fridge
with a lighted 6 foot long sign above the table displaying
"Soul Clinic" that someone made in art class.
So, during breaks in practice, we'd all place our bets
on the table, hoist a few beers, and let loose our inner
pool sharks. The music would get quite loud in that
confined space and we just kept turning up the volume,
but no matter how loud we made it, it could not drown
out the thump thump thump of my mom's high heels as
she was marching down the basement stairs fuming
with righteous indignation that we had invaded her
peaceful abode. And she would start her tirade in
grand fashion, not to the band, but to me, with me
looking totally embarrassed in front of my friends.
Fortunately, she was easily charmed, and one thing
that we had in the band was an abundance of charm.
------------ Rick "The Face" Terlazzo
I think Terlazzo was her favorite because he was so good
looking, and she was always a sucker for a pretty face.
------------ Larry "The Pacifier" Smith
And Larry, with his gift of gab, could pacify a charging
elephant, so in the end, she backed off, having felt not
a wall of resistance, but a warm embrace of the band.
Thank God, because I would have blown my stack!
And then there was my little punk brother Mike always
hanging out getting in the way, but kind of a band mascot.
I think he tried every form of intoxicant in existence by
the time he was 14. Where did he get this stuff?
Ah, hey, you know musicians…
S.D. KNIGHT: Great story, thanks Clark! Alright, all that practicing paid off when The Soul Clinic went to the studio and waxed a record. It's time to hear the funky sound you cats were puttin' down, beginning with killer bee side of the single!
"No One Loves Me Anymore" - The Soul Clinic
(May 1968, B side of "So Sharp")
Now let's turn our attention to the better known A side of that Soul Clinic 45. "So Sharp" is a cover of a record released in July of 1967 by Dyke and the Blazers, a Buffalo R&B/Funk group. "So Sharp" by Dyke and the Blazers grazed the top 40 on the R&B chart but merely bubbled under the Hot 100, never climbing above #130.
Dyke and the Blazers are best known for their hit record "Funky Broadway" which cracked the top 20 R&B, reached
its zenith at #65 on the pop chart, and earned a spot on
my list of the 200 Greatest Hits of the Shady Dell at #79.
"Funky Broadway" - Dyke & the Blazers (April 1967,
highest chart position #65 Hot 100/#17 R&B)
Less than four years after the release of "Funky Broadway," lead singer Dyke Christian was shot to death at age 28.
We've waited long enough! It's time to hear the energetic cover of "So Sharp" recorded and released 44 years ago by The Soul Clinic. This record is currently selling for $75 USED on eBay. I'm glad I still have my copy!
Let's get some
hands together
and give it up
for those
solid senders...
they're no
you must
The Soul Clinic (May 1968)
did the band perform?
to a frenzied female fan?


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Obama holds roundtable with 12 young Colorado politicians before taking stage
Before President Barack Obama bounded onto the stage Wednesday morning in the Auraria Events Center to introduce a new student loan plan, he sat down with a dozen young Democratic politicians for about 15 minutes to listen to their concerns and urge them to support his.
"There wasn't a person in that room who wasn't inspired to run for office because of Obama," said Colorado Sen. Michael Johnston, Denver.
"For us to spend time with him, it was reaffirming. There are hundreds and thousands of people at the local level who believe good people can make an impact because of him. I hope it was reaffirming for him too."


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We're delighted to be sponsoring the 2012 SMB Influencer program yet again, and this year's Awards Gala is in full swing here in New York City. Influencers and members of the SMB community have come from far and wide to honor their peers and take part in the awards ceremony. Research In Motion® (RIM®) is a huge supporter of small and medium-sized businesses around the world, with smartphones and mobile device management solutions that are affordable and scalable. Over the years we've heard some amazing success stories of businesses that have used BlackBerry® solutions to help grow, expand, and communicate with customers and stakeholders.
I've managed to catch up with RIM Sr. Director for Enterprise Accounts Bryan Lee here at the event to chat about RIM's commitment to the SMB community, Bryan's role and impact at RIM, and the SMB Influencer program. Check it out below for the full scoop!
Biz Blog: Hi Bryan – tell me about what you do at RIM
I have the great pleasure of leading our U.S. enterprise sales division, which includes support for both large enterprises and small to medium-sized customers. In addition, I work closely with our VAR community who sell and support the BlackBerry solution.
Biz Blog: How has RIM been involved in SMB communities around the world?
Being connected, keeping your ideas and information secure, and engaging in real-time communication with your customers is crucial for starting and growing a business. These are areas that we focus on and work to constantly improve. Being reliably connected to everyone that you need to be connected with, and having access to all of the information that you need, really enables success. You know, as we've designed our business product roadmap and launched business solutions over the past 10 years, we've had SMB's in mind with products like BlackBerry® Enterprise Server Express, BlackBerry Business® Cloud Services, and the upcoming BlackBerry® 10 platform. We love the passion and dedication that this community embodies, and we love to support them.
Biz Blog: We're all very excited about BlackBerry 10. How will this new platform enable small and medium-sized businesses and business owners?
The flow of BlackBerry 10 will enable new levels of productivity – we've had some sneak peeks of this at BlackBerry World™ and the recent BlackBerry® Jam Americas event in San Jose. The platform has been designed for rapid and functional interaction to help you get things done quickly and efficiently, staying on top of the many tasks and communications that you engage in on a daily basis. BlackBerry Hub, for example, lets you access all of the information that you need at a glance, and the people view in the calendar shows you who you're meeting with and collects all the information you have about that particular person without having to jump between different applications. Integration with services that small businesses use is a major aspect, like Box being built right into the OS along with other cloud storage providers.
Ease of setup and implementation is also an important point for small businesses. ActiveSync® connectivity is available right out of the box, providing a free option for connecting the devices to your work mail server. For more robust device and application management, security, and BlackBerry Balance™, BlackBerry® Enterprise Service 10 will be available at launch. We've even enhanced the process for getting work mail, calendar, and contacts set up from a user experience perspective, which we shared at BlackBerry Jam Americas 2012.
Biz Blog: Why are programs like the 2012 SMB Influencer initiative important?
Providing solutions for small and medium sized businesses is a good thing, but it's also important to get out there and meet with the members of the community. It's a real pleasure to do that and get to discuss challenges and solutions that are faced every day. We're also here to honor the top 100 influencers; it's fantastic to see the impact that many of these individuals and organizations have had.
Biz Blog: Any final thoughts for the SMB community?
Stay tuned for more details on BlackBerry 10; we're very excited to share this with you and show you how it can help in your business. There will be more sneak peeks ahead of the launch in Q1 2013, so be sure to visit the Inside BlackBerry for Business Blog. Lastly, a big "congratulations" to each of the top 100 SMB influencer champions!
Biz Blog: Thanks for joining us, Bryan!
Stay tuned for more coverage of the SMB Influencer Awards Gala, and more details about BlackBerry 10. How have BlackBerry solutions or products helped you grow and operate your small or medium-sized business? We love to hear your stories – share in the comments below!


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1) The government must provide religious accommodations to for-profit companies
Corporations aren't people, but they are owned by people, and the religious beliefs of those people must be protected regardless of how those people choose to incorporate their businesses. The court ruled today that the accommodations provided to non-profit religious organizations by the Religious Freedom Restoration Act also apply to for-profit companies.
"[W]e hold that a federal regulation's restriction on the activities of a for-profit closely held corporation must comply with [the Religious Freedom Restoration Act," Alito wrote in the majority decision.
It's a big win for religious liberty and against the belief that your faith no longer matters once you decide to open a business.
Just as notable is what the Supreme Court's ruling did not do. Women who work for the plaintiffs, Hobby Lobby, remain able to use their employer-provided insurance coverage to finance the most popular forms of contraception. They remain free to use their wages to finance the ones Hobby Lobby will not cover. They remain free to find other jobs, too, if they want employer-provided insurance coverage that includes the abortifacients to which Hobby Lobby objects. Congress remains free to enact a new law that requires employers to cover abortifacients and contraceptives and explicitly rules out any RFRA exemptions. It remains free, for that matter, to repeal RFRA altogether.
The ruling does not even make it clear whether the Little Sisters of the Poor will, in the end, remain free from the requirement that they authorize another party to provide contraceptive coverage. That question will be answered in a different case. The Court's ruling today, in short, is an extremely limited one. It does not even restore the full scope of freedom employers had in these matters as recently as 2012. Nobody then, you may recall, was agitated over the fact that throughout the entire course of American history up to that point, their supposed "rights" to free contraceptive coverage from employers had been continuously violated.
It can be safely predicted that any change in birth rates and rates of contraceptive use based on this ruling will be undetectable. All that has changed is that employers are a little freer to refuse to engage in conduct they consider religiously objectionable. That this increase in freedom makes some people so very upset tells us more about them than about the Court's ruling.
The Supreme Court had already granted all kinds of other special rights and powers to corporations — including "corporate personhood" or the right for businesses to be treated as people under the law. And because corporations are people, the Court has ruled that corporate spending to influence elections is equivalent to speech and cannot be infringed. At a time when economic inequality is reaching record highs and support for big business is at an all time low, the Supreme Court has consistently seen fit to confer more and more power and privilege to already powerful and privileged corporations. At a time when we should be putting more checks and balances in place for corporate America, the Supreme Court is loosening the reigns.
Moreover, this case is a perversion of religious freedom. Our values of religious freedom and tolerance were meant to protect individuals in our nation from the tyranny of government and business. Recall that in the earliest days of American history, it was not only the King of England but the powerful East India Company out from under the mutual thumb of which American colonists were trying to crawl. Moreover, as I have written previously, freedom of religion explicitly includes not only the freedom to practice one's religion but to be free from the imposition of someone else's religion. The owners of Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood cannot be allowed to impose their religious beliefs on their employees.
[The reaction is] instructive because it demonstrates the extent to which the Left is emotionally and ideologically committed to the power of the regulatory state. For some time, the Left has been selling the public and the courts on the notion that somehow the act of forming a corporation and opening for business operates as an effective waiver of your most basic liberties, including free speech, free exercise of religion, and virtually the entire panoply of property rights. In effect, your business is not "your" business at all, but instead all aspects of its operations exist at the whim of the state, and if the state wants to draft you into its child-killing abortion crusade — or wants to muzzle you during political campaigns – then you best salute and fall in line…
The desire to make money does not act as a waiver of constitutional or statutory rights, nor is it morally suspect, but it certainly is indispensable to a system of free enterprise that all too many on the Left view as the enemy of "social justice." As one of my colleagues at the ACLJ stated (full disclosure: We filed seven lawsuits against the mandate, filed an amicus brief in the Hobby Lobby case, have two mandate cases before the Supreme Court now, and have filed more than a dozen amicus briefs against the mandate nationwide), "If anything rivals the Left's passion on the abortion issue, it's their commitment to the regulatory state."
When a case combines elements of both issues, for the Left a loss is cataclysmic. And if much of your public "argument" depends on creating a sense of cultural inevitability, then a dramatic halt to the latest leap forward of the allegedly unstoppable sexual revolution and regulatory state is a cause for leftist weeping indeed.
All signs Monday pointed to the fact that Democrats would rather stage a political fight over the issue than quickly resolve it for the affected women. Both the Democratic Party and the White House Twitter accounts spend much of the day rallying people to outrage on social media over the decision. "It's time that five men on the Supreme Court stop deciding what happens to women," tweeted Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
Legal observers say it would not be difficult for the Obama Administration to resolve the situation unilaterally. The Department of Health and Human Services has already taken unilateral executive action to ensure that women employed by religious nonprofits get contraception coverage in cases where the employer declines to pay. "There was nothing in the statute that specifically allowed them to create the exemption for non-profit organizations so I don't see why they couldn't extend that to for-profit corporations," said Timothy Jost, a law professor at Washington and Lee University and an expert on the Affordable Care Act's regulations. "I don't know why they couldn't do it themselves."
The communications director for EMILY's List said the ruling will motivate women to cast ballots come November.
"Ninety-nine percent of women of women aged 15-44 have used birth control – this should not be controversial," Jess McIntosh told CNN. "But conservatives in every branch of government are determined to undermine our ability to make our medical decisions on our own – just like men do. Women have decided every election in recent memory. Women were watching today, and it will absolutely be a motivating factor in November."
Some conservative women rejected the notion that the ruling will motive female voters to support Democratic candidates come November.
Concerned Women for America, a socially conservative group, said that it preserved "religious liberty for everyone, including the women represented by the other side."
Alison Howard, the group's communications director, said the ruling would motivate women in a different way: "This is so affirming to those women who believe in freedom and that's bigger than those who believe that taxpayers should fund abortion inducing drugs and contraceptives."
2. "President Obama believes that women should make personal health care decisions for themselves, rather than their bosses deciding for them."
Agreed, but there was nothing in the Supreme Court's decision that took the decision away from women and gave it to their employer. Women are still free to obtain contraceptives.
Hobby Lobby wasn't telling its employees that they couldn't seek those contraceptives, just that the company wouldn't pay for them through its health insurance.
That's not the bosses deciding women's health care decisions, that's the bosses deciding not to cover something that wasn't previously a required health care service.
There is one way that House Republicans can stay a step ahead, however. That is following the lead of Gov. Bobby Jindal, R-La., and more recently, Rep. Cory Gardner, R-Colo. (who is now running for U.S. Senate). That is, they should support a bill to allow oral contraceptives to be purchased over the counter…
Philosophically, it's consistent with limited government principles. It removes unnecessary government regulations and increases choice.
It doesn't impose new burdens on businesses or religious institutions, nor does it require an increase in government health care spending.
And politically, it would also be beneficial to Republicans. It would make it a lot more difficult for Democrats to portray the GOP as being only interested in obstructing Democrats rather than supporting their own ideas, and harder to accuse Republicans of being broadly against access to birth control.
The obvious solution to this dilemma is to take health insurance away from employers altogether. In a very, very limited way, the Obama administration has already done that by arranging for separate contraception coverage, via third party insurers, for churches and other truly religious organizations that object to such coverage. In principle, it could do the same here. And, over the long run, it's easy enough to imagine a world in which employers were truly out of the health insurance business altogether—a world in which all people got health insurance directly from the government or tightly regulated insurers.
But the people and groups who oppose government's providing insurance directly tend to be the same people who object to the contraception mandate. That's not a coincidence. While I don't doubt the religious objections to birth control are sincere, I do think they are masking another belief conservatives bring to this debate: As a general rule, conservatives don't think government should be compelling them to pay for other people's medical expenses. Voluntary insurance arrangements are fine, they say. But government shouldn't be making them pay for other people—or for services they might not like, want, or use.
The Hobby Lobby case raises a whole bunch of important and complicated questions—about religious freedom, the definition of corporations, and so on. But fundamentally this is also a case about the responsibility each of us has for the well-being of our fellow man—and, yes, for our fellow woman.
Via NRO.
Via RCP.
JONATHAN TURLEY: It's a huge blow to the Obama administration. You know, this has been an awful ten days. They were previously found to be in violation of the Fourth Amendment and privacy. Then they were found to be in violation of the separation of powers, and now they have been found to be in violation of the First Amendment and the religion clauses. I mean, you just don't want to get out of bed after a week like that.


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Kilis Hoca Hamamı: the best thing next to Paris
by oldskool on Mar.02, 2009, under non Istanbul hamams
Kilis Tarihi Hoca Hamamı
Mahmet Pasa Sokak (Behind the Paris Hotel), Kilis. 348 8138618. Males 7-11 am and 5-11 pm. Females 11am-5pm. Not expensive, but you're in Kilis anway, so just go. Designed and built by Canbolat Bey in 1545.
You might cry Stockholm syndrom, but as I lay on the warm stone, waiting for the medieval exfoliation experience, the keseci's focus impressed me. He only stopped twice, once to grunt at the 15-year-old boy doing a pull-up on the sauna door lintel, much to the dismay of the cheering onlookers, and again when the kids stole his soap. We needed that soap. The keseci needed it to swirl around the plastic tub with hot water, into which he would dip a cloth bag, blow into the bag, and wring an unimaginable amount of soap suds over my prone body. I needed it because I'd spent the last few days on a fantastic jaunt around south-central Turkey, and I'd haggled with just enough hoteliers and fruit sellers to seek out a good scrub-down in a strange town. Jeff, Steph, and I found ourselves in Kilis. If you ever do the same, go to the Kilis Tarihi Hoca Hamamı. (continue reading…)


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On a steamy, late June afternoon in which the greatest manager in club history was immortalized with a statue at Camden Yards, the Orioles blasted an-special three-run homer and witnessed a brief managerial tirade.
Otherwise, there weren't a whole lot of similarities between Weaver's tremendous clubs of the late 1960s, 1970s and early 1980s and Saturday's version that lost 11-5 to the Cleveland Indians .
For the fifth straight game, an Orioles starter turned in a less-than-stellar performance, this time from lefty Dana Eveland, who was making his first start since May 11, adding to the Orioles' troubles on the mound.
Eveland was scheduled to throw about 80 pitches, but he made it to 77 in just 3 2/3 innings while battling a free-swinging Indians team and the 90-plus heat at Camden Yards.
Eveland (0-1) was knocked around for six hits, two walks and five earned runs, following an ugly pattern recently established by the Orioles' rotation . In their last five outings — one full turn — the starters have lasted just 22 innings, and have given up 41 hits and 29 earned runs. That's an 11.86 ERA in those games — four of them losses.
Overall, the Indians tied a season high with 19 hits, including a career-high five by Jose Lopez and a career-tying-high four by Shin-Soo Choo, who also added his eighth home run. Tommy Hunter was charged with five runs in just 1 2/3 innings of relief.
The Orioles (42-35) have now lost four of five and eight of their last 11 as they head into their last home game of the first half against the Indians (39-38).
Help may be on the way, however. The club announced in the seventh inning that it had traded for 41-year-old slugger Jim Thome, who had been with the Philadelphia Phillies. When the trade — which sent Single-A players Gabriel Lino, a catcher, and Kyle Simon, a pitcher, to the Phillies organization — was announced on the video screen in center fieldthe announced crowd of 35,335 roared.
The Orioles, who also have struggled recently to score runs, put five on the board against Indians' right-hander Josh Tomlin (4-5) in six innings. Three came on one swing — a three-run homer by Chris Davis in the fourth.
The 13th homer of the season for Davis was also his second this year that has landed on Eutaw Street beyond the right-field flag court. It was the 65th Eutaw Street homer in the stadium's history and record-tying eighth in one season. There are 40 home games remaining for the Orioles and their opponents to break that record, which was set in 2008.
Besides the Davis' blast, there was also one more Weaver-reminiscent moment in the fifth when Tomlin threw behind J.J. Hardyat the plate. The Orioles bench believed it was a retaliation pitch — Jason Kipnis was hit with an Eveland pitch in the third and Cleveland rookie third baseman Lonnie Chisenhall broke his wrist after being hit with a pitch by Troy Patton on Thursday — and Orioles manager Buck Showalter came out to protest and ask for a warning.
The fans cheered loudly as Showalter resembled the fiery Weaver as he ran onto the field and yelled.
But there were no rule books torn up or dirt kicked.
And there was no championship-caliber play by these Orioles on Saturday evening, either.


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Genomes of identical twins reveal epigenetic changes that may play role in lupus
Identical twins look the same and are nearly genetically identical, but environmental factors and the resulting cellular changes could cause disease in one sibling and not the other. In a study published online in Genome Research, scientists have studied twins discordant for the autoimmune disease lupus, mapping DNA modifications across the genome and shedding light on epigenetic changes that may play a role in the disease.
Because the genetic makeup of monozygotic twins (commonly known as identical twins) is nearly identical, phenotypic traits and heritable diseases are often concordant, manifesting in both siblings. However, some phenotypes and diseases such as autoimmune disease can arise in only one sibling, suggesting other factors such as environment likely play a role in determining phenotypic differences.
Epigenetic modifications, cellular changes that can influence expression of genes, are now widely recognized to influence phenotype and frequently occur in disease. Furthermore, environmental factors such as diet and chemical exposure can change the epigenetic status of genes. Recent research has identified epigenetic modifications at several aberrantly regulated genes in autoimmune diseases such as systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), and other studies have suggested that epigenetic differences are associated with phenotypic discordance between identical twins.
In this work, researchers from Spain and the United States performed the first genome-wide high-throughput analysis of a specific epigenetic modification, DNA methylation, in the context of autoimmune disease. Taking advantage of the identical genetic background in monozygotic twins, the group directly compared DNA methylation in healthy twins and twins discordant for autoimmune diseases, including SLE, looking for changes that could be related to pathogenesis in one sibling and not the other.
In the case of SLE, the group found widespread changes in DNA methylation status at a significant number of genes. Dr. Esteban Ballestar, senior author of the study, noted that this is the largest number of genes exhibiting DNA methylation changes observed in an autoimmune disease to date, and includes genes previously implicated in SLE pathogenesis. Importantly, Ballestar's team found that a significant number of the novel differentially methylated genes are related to multiple immune system functions and are potentially linked to SLE.
"Our study suggests that the effect of the environment or differences in lifestyle may leave a molecular mark in key genes for immune function that contributes to the differential onset of the disease in twins," Ballestar said. Most studies of DNA methylation and human disease have been in the context of cancer research, Ballestar noted, and he hopes that this work will attract more researchers to also investigate DNA methylation alterations in autoimmune disease and other disorders for the development of therapies.
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I'm pleased that Bloomberg BNA has made one of my conference reports available online. It's from the midyear meeting of the National Organization of Bar Counsel, held in Chicago in February, entitled "Speakers at Bar Counsel Meeting Probe Gray Areas in Ethics of Advice on Marijuana," and reports a program at which the speakers addressed how lawyers may advise marijuana business clients (and now recreational marijuana business clients also, in Colorado and Washington) in states that have decriminalized marijuana use without violating lawyer ethics rules.
Previously I linked to other articles I've written that are freely available.


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nickparadise necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 90 diseños de 15 diseñadores freelance.
Frog Furnishings
Jayhawk Plastics Inc, (http://www.JayhawkPlastics.com) has specialized in producing quality plastic products for 37 years. 10 years ago we broke into the 100% Recycled Plastic market and began manufacturing park benches, picnic tables and lots of other site furnishings used by parks, schools, hotels, zoos, amusement parks, golf courses, cities, municipalities, restaurants, landscape architects, etc. Our products are created out of Recycled Plastic Milk Jug cartons. Our products are 100% recycled plastic and our aim as a company is to help reduce landfill space taken up by wasted milk jug products. Our company is the leading manufacturer in the nation. We pride ourselves on high quality products, produced by competent employees who provide excellent customer service at competitive prices all while maintaining an average ship lead time of 1-2 weeks. The industry average lead time is 4-6 weeks.
We are a family run business that operates as a large, professional company. We have full finance, marketing, accounting, sales, customer service, freight and manufacturing departments. Our employees are important to us and we have a family culture that spreads throughout the company. While maximizing profits are important we value a happy workforce who enjoys coming to work to help save our Earth's precious resources.
Our target market are park and rec departments, schools, cities, municipalities, zoo's, amusement parks, landscape architects, commercial shopping centers, restaurants and basically anyone who would ever have a park bench, picnic table, trash receptacle, message center, etc out in front of their shop and or in their park.
We primarily sell our products through distributorship which means we rarely interact with the end users I listed above. Generally, our day to day interactions are with large internet retailers (http://www.theparkcatalog.com), catalog companies (http://www.hayneedle.com), rep agencies (http://www.korkat.com) and some end users (Sea World, Applebees, etc). Our audience is professional and intelligent. They love that our products are 100% recycled and love doing business with us because we provide what we call the "easy button" which means we do most of the leg work to get our products in their catalogs and on their websites so they can get our products in the hands of the end user quickly and with ease. Our target market ranges from a Director at a Park to a CEO at a large internet retail company (http://www.Uline.com).
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I kind of envision a frog climbing up over the "F" in Frog Furnishings.. just a thought.
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"An inky/plum/purple color is accompanied by a stunning bouquet of violets, charcoal, creme de cassis and a hint of toast. Prodigious when it hits the palate with a full-bodied expansiveness, there is not a hard edge to be found in the 1997, only velvety tannins, compelling depth and fruit intensity, and stunning purity. It is a perfect expression of Napa viticulture and wine that should continue to age effortlessly for two decades or more." (100 pts. Robert Parker, Wine Advocate #1113, Nov. 2013)
"The prodigious 1997 Insignia (83% Cabernet Sauvignon, 14% Merlot, and 3% Petit-Verdot) lives up to its pre-bottling promise. Tasted on three separate occasions, every bottle has hit the bull's eye. The color is a saturated thick-looking blue/purple. The nose offers up explosive aromas of jammy black fruits, licorice, Asian spices, vanillin, and cedar. Full-bodied as well as exceptionally pure and impressively endowed, this blockbuster yet surprisingly elegant wine cuts a brilliant swath across the palate. A seamless effort with beautifully integrated acidity, sweet tannin, and alcohol, it is still an infant, but can be drunk with considerable pleasure. " (96 pts. Robert Parker, Wine Advocate #132, Dec. 2000)
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However, if you read his full note, you see this paragraph:
"The function bcpowmod(v, e, m) is supposedly equivalent to bcmod(bcpow(v, e), m). However, for the large numbers used as keys in the RSA algorithm, the bcpow function generates a number so big as to overflow it. For any exponent greater than a few tens of thousands, bcpow overflows and returns 1."
So you still can, and should (over bcmod(bcpow(v, e), m) ), use his function if you are using larger exponents, "any exponent greater than a few tens of thousand."