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Im pretty new to this forum but not to mtn biking so heres a little back ground. i go into the sport in 99 got a gt timberline no suspension bike upgraded enjoyed, then moved on to a 99 cannondale f900 in 2001 it had disc brakes all the bells and whistles. Then This april while locked up in the some one stolen my old Cdale. I guess as luck would have it today i picked up a 2002 cdale 2000sx which i liked better then most the new bikes i have been test riding. It seems to be in mint shape no scratches atleast the orginal owner trashed the coda brakes for some hayes. My old bike
This is not my bike i took the picture from someone on here but same exact model


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You have probably seen videos of blind mechanical engineering student Terry Garrett playing through various games such as Abe's Oddysee, Legend of Zelda, Metroid, and more. Garrett uses a combination of sounds and trial and error to play through video games with amazing results. His latest endeavor is attempting to complete the popular indie title Bit.Trip Runner. Two new videos feature Garrett explaining exactly how he is making his way through the game and the unique gaming setup he is using.
This man is simply amazing, and can complete games with more finesse than people who have perfect vision. Watch the video to the left and check out part II of the video here.
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I haven't seen M. Night Shyamalan's "After Earth," the reported $150 million sci-fi survival narrative starring Will Smith and his son Jaden that made just a fraction of that amount at the box office this weekend. I also didn't bother with Shyamalan's "The Last Airbender," his previous directing credit. After "The Happening," reports suggested that the filmmaker had lost the intrigue that made his work so attractive in the first place. I couldn't bring myself to confront the change. Even though "The Happening" and, god help us, "Lady in the Water" had their rampant absurdities, they were Shyamalan's absurdities: ideas that existed primarily to set in motion an array of frantic reactions and paranoia.
His penchant for third act twists, though they became derided as clichés, reflected a genuine interest in showmanship that actively defied predictable Hollywood formulas. In "The Sixth Sense," "Unbreakable," "Signs" and even parts of "The Village," nobody shook up familiar genre ingredients in the context of studio filmmaking with more offbeat strangeness than Shyamalan. With the minimalist post-apocalyptic scenario of "After Earth," for all I know Shyamalan has returned to his roots, though a good amount of trustworthy sources suggest otherwise. If the industry adheres to a three-strikes-you're-out philosophy, Shyamalan's rise and fall could mark the final nail in the coffin of a slowly dying career -- or, if he takes the excuse of another flop to shift directions, the start of a new one.
A throwaway line from a recent interview suggests that the director already has the right idea. Talking to MTV last week, Shyamalan called his mysterious next project "a little micro-[budget] film" involving familial discord. With no details announced yet, one can assume this project is in its early stages. Meanwhile, he also recently worked on a television show called "Proof," collaborating with Marti Noxon, a writer "Buffy the Vampire Slayer." While Shyamalan's thinking things through, he may want to use the lull between projects to check out another achievement from the "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" team: Joss Whedon's "Much Ado About Nothing," which hits theaters this Friday.
Like Shyamalan, Whedon has been tethered to storytelling expectations for much of his career, though his rabid fan base has yet to abandon him. Whedon's female-centric supernatural narratives have taken on an epic scope by way of their expansive nature on television, yet they've also maintained a playfulness steeped in old-fashioned wordplay and a comedy of manners that give his characters permanence. That skill carried over surprisingly well into the blockbuster realm with Whedon's "The Avengers," certainly the best mass produced, CGI-laden spectacle released last year. Yet watching "The Avengers," it was hard not to imagine Whedon grasping his integrity for dear life. This had to be the hardest project he ever made.
Which is why, in the immediate aftermath of "The Avengers," Whedon shot a black-and-white, contemporary take on Shakespeare's romantic comedy in his house over the course of 12 days. When I saw "Much Ado About Nothing" at the Toronto International Film Festival, I was mostly underwhelmed by the slightness of the project. Yet Whedon's faithfulness to the still-potent material and the slapstick talents of a dedicated ensemble familiar from his other work elevates the movie's humor and depth; it's a blatantly sincere grasp at Whedon's core appeal, and with its scrappy production values, a downright adorable cleansing of his soul.
Shyamalan could use a hit of that. Prior to "The Happening," none of the director's movies relied on huge, effects-driven set pieces (even the train wreck that set the plot of "Unbreakable" in motion took place off-screen). Instead, his disturbed and perpetually spooked protagonists learned of the threats surrounding them by way of whispered revelations and bizarre rationalizations that were more stabs in the dark than anything else. The most compelling ingredients in Shyamalan's first four movies involved the absence of logic (ghosts, superpowers, God and an antiquated town inexplicably shrouded from civilization) in favor of inexplicable dread. It's that very same element that made them so deeply unsettling and keyed into real life experiences, where the full details of jarring events tend to be obscured by the limitations of how we comprehend them. Shyamalan now has the money and, if "After Earth" has strengthened the bars of the movie jail in which he was already partly incarcerated, probably the time to go back to these low key stories in search of the substance that made him a significant American director.
This is a direction he should have taken long ago. When I interviewed Shyamalan a few years back, I asked him what was keeping him from simply financing his own projects and leaving the studios behind. "I like their points of view for the right movies," he said, shortly before churning out a couple wrong ones. But he added a curious side note: "Independent filmmakers are my heroes, and I look for them for integrity and the bar." Rather than looking at his heroes, Shyamalan has reached a point where he would do better inspecting his own career and taking cues from period that clicked.
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I recently wrote about an idea for a mobile app that could improve the in-store experience of consumers.
eMarketer seems to agree. Not in so many words as suggesting as similar app, but suggesting that in-store m-commerce could be a potential game changer for retail.
The use of mobile in-store is still limited to actually calling and/or texting a friend or acquaintance to get product feedback. With the proliferation of smartphones, and retailers realizing the in-store potential of mobile, this 'primitive' usage would surely shift.
Mobile shopping from in-store is just beginning to achieve its vast potential. The promise for consumers is an interactive and personalized store experience like nothing before. Currently, in- store mobile shoppers can easily retrieve customer product reviews. In the future, they will receive promotions based on their past purchase history and what they are interested in at the moment.
Some of that – the real-time promotions part – I have talked about in my post. And the reasons for retailers to take mobile seriously remain the same. More conversions. More loyalty.
Generation Y consumers, who think of their mobile phone as an extension of themselves, will push development of this market by demanding that retailers offer the interactive experience they expect while shopping in a store.
I do not have paid access to eMarketer. So I haven't read the report in its entirety. It would be interesting to know how mobile could affect the in-store shopping experience of consumers.
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The Labrador Retriever, which is commonly called Lab or Labrador, is among the different types of retrievers, which is a sort of gun dog. This breed of dog is known to be athletic, playful and is the most famous breed of dog in countries such as New Zealand, Australia and Canada, United States and in UK.
A Labrador Retriever is usually trained in order to provide assistance for those people who lost their vision and those who suffer from autism. This breed works like a therapy dog and performs detection and screening work for law enforcement or any other official agency. As you can see, a Labrador Retriever can do a lot of things, provided that you know well the best way to train this breed of dog.
Labrador Retriever Training
Because of its trainability and temperament, more people in America choose to have a Labrador Retriever. The following are helpful tips that could help meet success when trying to train your Labrador:
Puppy Socialization
A Labrador is a natural born people pleaser. As an owner, you have the ability to build on its genetic predisposition to become a good companion through making sure that your puppy is well socialized. What does it mean? Well, it means that you must introduce your pet to as many people or places as possible while your dog is still in the initial phase of its life. Your dog should meet new people and be able to experience upbeat and positive experiences. Through this way, your Labrador will tend to be good and friendly to everyone.
Exercise Daily
A Labrador Retriever is a high energy dog that makes it a great pet for an active family. But, when it is not provided with sufficient exercise, it will instantly become bored. It usually results to a destructive behavior or any other typical behavior concerns like barking, digging and chewing. Give your dog at least one hour or more to exercise daily. A Lab loves long walks and also a game of fetching. These are the best activities that will help to burn off the energy of your dog.
Organize a Fundamental Obedience Program
A Labrador typically loves to learn so you must take advantage on its innate trainability through organizing a fundamental obedience program by the time that you bring you home your puppy. You may start by performing some essential obedience commands alone or you may choose to sign up for a class on dog obedience that is usually conducted with a professional dog trainer. A class on dog obedience is an excellent way to train your Labrador while letting it to socialize.
Since a Labrador is relatively huge and it tends to pull on the leash, you can make walking on the loose leash your top most priority. You must tech your dog by saying words like "drop it", "come" and "fetch" so you could take advantage of the dog's natural tendency to be good in retrieving.
Use Upbeat Reinforcement Training
The willingness of this breed of dog to learn, its playfulness, affectionate natures and its love for treats make this dog a good candidate for upbeat reinforcement dog training. You should rewards its good behavior by giving your dog a simple treat, a game and some hugging time with you. Sooner, you will find your pet offering you the behavior that you want with little prompting from you.
If you choose to use treats in Labrador retriever training, always take into account that a Labrador has the tendency to grow bigger and become overweight. You should use the smallest treats at all times to reward the good behavior of the dog and ensure that you decrease the amount of food that you give to your dog during meal times and increase exercise to keep your dog fit.
Plan on a Lengthy Adolescence
A Labrador remains to be very puppy even when it reached adulthood and it is among the most endearing qualities of a Labrador Retriever. The problem here is its energy level and its tendency to get into disobedience continues until its adulthood. Hence, it requires the best behavior management tools. The following are the management tools that you have to take into account:
• Crate train the dog so he does not need to run of the home when you are not there to watch over him
• Provide your Labrador with different interesting chews and toys to keep your dog from boredom
• Pursue practicing fundamental obedience commands as they reinforce the Labrador Retriever training and they also give mental stimulation
Consider Advanced Training
Most of the Labradors are happy and they behave well if they will be tasked to do something. Consider bringing your dog to any dog sport and train your dog as a pet therapy dog. Keeping the dog active and busy will bring happiness on the dog. You may also consider Labrador Retriever rescue training.
How to Get a Labrador Retriever?
There are two ways to look for Labrador Retriever for sale. You can make use of the internet in finding a Labrador Retriever breeder. You can also shop around and visit the nearest pet shop.


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The boy is back. Arsenal's Aaron Ramsey (right) has returned to action just in time for the club's run-in with a spot in the Champions League yet to be confirmed. - AFP
THE win over Newcastle on Monday has all but booked the Gunners a place in next season's Champions League.
It has given them a four-point cushion over closest contenders Everton. Comfortable enough that even if the Toffees beat Manchester City on Saturday night, it will not be too much of a disaster for Arsenal should they lose their match against West Brom on Saturday night.
After seeing Arsenal spend "128 days in first place in the Premier League" before unceremoniously skidding out of the title race, there is no other club that I'd want to win the Premier League than Liverpool.
Okay, so I'm really more of an ABC (Anything but Chelsea) and ABMC (Asalkan bukan Man City) than a Reds sympathiser, but I sincerely hope Everton can pitch in and at least hold the Citizens.
After all, Arsenal had slipped up against West Brom the two times they met this season: a 1-1 draw at the Hawthorns and again in a League Cup game.
And now that the Baggies are fighting to stay out of the relegation zone, who knows?
At just four points above the relegation zone, West Brom will be in trouble if the top relegation zoner Norwich City can win their last two games. Only a win on Sunday will secure the Baggies' place in the Premier League next season.
They may have been poor on the road lately, but they will be encouraged by their recent record against the Gunners.
It will not be easy though. Arsenal have reignited their firepower with the return of Aaron Ramsey and have been scoring an average of three goals in each of their last three games. Their defence is also re-asserting itself with a tighter cohesion, no less due to the return of Laurent Kolscieny.
And looking at how the Baggies defended against City last week, it is safe to say that the Arsenal boys can have another "exhibition football" game.
There is a worry that Arsene Wenger might rest his players for the FA Cup final next week, but with his key personnel Ramsey and Mesut Ozil in need of game time, that should not make too much of a difference.
It will just be frustrating for most Gooners to see this late spark from their team. If only they had not come unstuck in March ...
One can only hope for an 11th time lucky in the EPL and 17th time lucky in the Champions League, eh? Trophies ahoy!
Hariati predicts a 3-0 win for the Gunners.
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Evolution in Science and Engineering Indicators 2014
Public opinion about evolution, the Big Bang, and teaching evolution in public schools was reviewed in the National Science Board's Science and Engineering Indicators (PDF) 2014.
Aykut Kence dies
The Turkish biologist Aykut Kence died on February 1, 2014, at the age of 67, according to soL Portal (February 1, 2014).
Darwin Day resolution in Congress
House Resolution 467 (PDF), introduced in the United States House of Representatives on January 29, 2014, would, if passed, express the House's support of designating February 12, 2014, as Darwin Day, and its recognition of "Charles Darwin as a worthy symbol on which to celebrate the achievements of reason, science, and the advancement of human knowledge."
Darwin Day approaches
It's time to dust off your Darwin costume again: less than a month remains before Darwin Day 2014!
A new Pew poll on evolution
Six in ten Americans accept human evolution, while a third hold that humans and other living things have existed in their present form since the beginning of time, according to a new report from the Pew Research Center.
Ian Barbour dies
The distinguished scholar of science and religion Ian Barbour died on December 24, 2013, at the age of 90, according to Carleton College (December 27, 2013).
Evolution in a new Harris poll
Edward T. Oakes dies
The Catholic theologian Edward T. Oakes, S.J., died on December 6, 2013, at the age of 65, according to the Catholic News Agency (December 6, 2013).
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Life is good for NASA's "Mohawk Guy." He became world famous after helping NASA's huge Curiosity rover make a dramatic landing on Mars, and now he'll sit with first lady Michelle Obama during Tuesday's State of the Union address.
The Iranian-American Mohawk Guy — whose name is Bobak Ferdowsi — will sit in the first lady's box to highlight President Barack Obama's call for more visas for skilled immigrants in the fields of math, science and engineering, Southern California Public Radio reported Monday (Feb. 11).
A White House official confirmed the news to SPACE.com.
Ferdowsi will be joined in the box by a number of other people from various walks of life, whose presence may help the president drive home points about some of his policy proposals. The speech begins Tuesday at 9 p.m. EST (Feb. 12; 0200 GMT Wednesday). [Gallery: President Obama and NASA]
Ferdowsi's American flag-inspired hairstyle — a red- and blue-streaked mohawk set off by white stars on the side of his head — rocketed the mission flight director to international fame during Curiosity's nail-biting landing on the night of Aug. 5.
In a complex maneuver that had never been tried before on another planet, the 1-ton rover was lowered to the Martian surface on cables by a rocket-powered sky crane, which then flew off and crash-landed intentionally a safe distance away.
The president even gave Ferdowsi a public shout-out shortly after the landing.
"I understand there's a special mohawk guy that's working on the mission," President Obama said in a congratulatory call to Curiosity's handlers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Aug. 13. "He's been one of the many stars of the show last Sunday night. I in the past thought about getting a mohawk myself."


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It's a frustrating thing, to be sure. Like Krugman's shifting and ultimately wrong views on the health care reform issue, getting him to admit he simply hasn't presented a point of view correctly is like pulling teeth.
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Paul Krugman took another shot at Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) today. He began with this claim:
"Regular readers of comments will notice a continual stream of criticism from MMT (modern monetary theory) types, who insist that deficits are never a problem as long as you have your own currency."
This is the third engagement of Paul and MMT, and also the third time that he's offered the above characterization of MMT. After each of his 5 blog posts in the three engagements, he's received multiple comments correcting this characterization. In addition, multiple posts by others have appeared in reply to each post, pointing out his error of characterization and supplying him with links proving that MMT supporters do believe that deficits are problematic under certain conditions, and that they matter. Already, after his latest mis-characterization a large number of comments (at his own blog) and a few long posts have appeared pointing out that he has made the same error again. The conclusion seems inescapable.
Paul is simply not telling the truth about MMT when he says that MMT supporters "insist that deficits are never a problem as long as you have your own currency." So, the question is, what will it take to get him to tell the truth? Comments on his blog providing links don't help. Posts directly addressing his errors at very prominent sites on the web don't help. Even a lunch that at least one MMT supporter had with him hasn't helped. So, what will help? How can we get him to recognize a simple error? Why is it he can't follow a link and read what is there?
When I saw Paul's new post yesterday and found him repeating the same mis-characterization of MMT as before I found myself thinking: When he said this the first time, it was excusable. When he said it the second time it was lamentable. When he said it the third time it was scandalous. But in saying it a fourth or fifth time, I've lost count; it's just fraudulent, on a level with the statements about the President made by the Tea Party that label him "a socialist."
Paul made other comments in his post worth discussing, but I'm going to leave it to others to discuss them. There's already a very good discussion at Cullen Roche's site, and soon enough, I'm sure that Scott Fullwiler and others will weigh in on Paul's views that there is a long-term deficit reduction problem, not because of solvency concerns, but because of concerns about eventual inflation, or even hyper-inflation. Paul has made such claims before, contending that there is an Intertemporal Governmental Budgetary Constraint (IGBC) we must be concerned about. There was an extensive discussion of his claims at the end of March and in April at many sites, and the IGBC idea didn't, in my view, survive the criticism very well. Here's one post refuting it, and another eliciting a very long comment thread, that pretty much dispatched the IGBC claim.
It's a frustrating thing, to be sure. Like Krugman's shifting and ultimately wrong views on the health care reform issue, getting him to admit he simply hasn't presented a point of view correctly is like pulling teeth.
I'm sorry to see that this diary was such a fail over at dailykos. Otherwise intelligent people were posting such stupidity as 'of course Paul Krugman disagrees with Milton Friedman'.
You're really going to have to dumb it down for that crowd. They don't care about esoteric disputes between schools of thought over France in the 1920s. Just spell out to them again and again what MMT is about, that it's not Friedmanism just because it has 'monetary' in the title, and address their usual concerns, i.e. debt, inflation ('Zimbabwe!'), 'free lunch', etc. L. Randall Wray posted a diary yesterday (I saw it posted at pragcap) that could serve as a good template.
that got very good discussion. There are usually some people who show up who don't read the diary. But the comments on this one have been unusually silly.
Here's a thread on someone else's diary that was very good, I think.
Lots of comments there now. Many more favorable.
a great deal of counter pressure on Krugman not to endorse MMT. If he does, that is close to a game changer.
It's entirely ego. He's devoted his whole professional career to Keynesianism. The internal mental pressure to stick with that paradigm must be enormous, especially when he sees that his main opponent, the neo-classical based neo-liberal paradigm, is performing so poorly. Why would he abandon Keynes now when he didn't abandon him in the 1980s and 1990s? The day you'll know he's won over is when he claims that MMT has always agreed with him, he just regrets that MMT is so poorly expressed.
I completely buy your theory here. It's all about ego.
He's been talking lately about how he doesn't like people who try to "pull rank", but I think that's exactly what he's doing RE MMT. He considers himself The Smartest Guy In the Room and doesn't want some professors from the U of Missouri challenging him. He's got a Nobel Prize! How dare they.
That's not the first time. He posted a diary a couple months ago (can't find it right now, think it was in April or May) in which he decried how his conservative critics don't take the time to understand what Keynesians are actually saying before launching into their diatribes against Keynes. I kid you not.
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One dead, one arrested in Oklahoma shooting
CALVIN — A man was shot to death Sunday morning in Hughes County, and authorities said they have made an arrest.
Michael Eric Morris, 21, was found dead when sheriff's deputies were called just after 6 a.m. to 4620 Shady Lane in the Hickory Hills area near Calvin.
Joe Henry Harden, 22, was arrested on a murder complaint and booked into Hughes County jail.
Harden and Morris were both attending a party at the home when the shooting happened, a news release from the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation stated.
The OSBI said Hughes County Sheriff Kenny Snyder requested help in the investigation, and the OSBI is interviewing witnesses.
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Scenes of the City: the Bay Bridge's Final Piece
Last Friday, the final piece of the new Bay Bridge was laid (it weighed two million pounds). It marks the completion of the largest structure of its kind anywhere in the world. The new Bay Bridge is scheduled to open in 2013, so don't start revving your engines just yet.
Photos: Downtown Throwdown Snowboard Series
On Saturday, Civic Center was transformed into a snowboard park complete with ramps, rails and jumps. This was all part of the Downtown Throwdown series where $5,000 was up for grabs.
Pier to Plate: Part 2
The long corridor of Pier 33 is one of the centers of fresh seafood distribution in San Francisco. It is at its most bustling in the early morning hours.
Scenes of the City: 23rd Annual Jimmy's Old Car Picnic
Saturday's sunny afternoon was ideal for hanging out in Golden Gate Park at the 23rd Annual Jimmy's Old Car Picnic. The wide array of vintage cars and BBQ proved to be a great alternative to the crowds at TI Music Fest.
Photos: Box Wars at Dolores Park
Step one: Create cardboard armor and weapons.
Step two: Show up at Dolores park on Saturday afternoon.
Step three: Charge at your fellow cardboard wielding friends and duke it out.
Pier to Plate: Part I
Look down at your plate. Do you know where that food came from? It's the question of the decade, if not the century, and everybody (in the Bay Area anyway) is paying attention. Surrounded by open water, San Francisco has quite an advantage over our landlocked sister cities when it comes to indulging in fresh seafood. We wanted to take a closer look at the journey our local fish takes on its way to the dinner table, so we hung out at Pier 45 to document the process. The first part of our three-part series is all about the pier.
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Scenes of the City: Cal Bears at AT&T Park
This for week's Scenes of the City we hung out inside and outside of AT&T Park for a couple odd events. One was the aforementioned Cal Bears football team playing in the park (they will be playing most of their home games there because of renovations to their home field). The other is the first-ever water polo match in McCovey Cove. As part of effort to garner support for their sport, the UC Berkeley Alumni Water Polo team vs. The Olympic Club Water Polo team played a match in the somewhat frigid waters of the bay.
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Beautiful and delicious. Fun for kids to decorate too! My 4 and 6 year olds loved these cookies.
I can't wait to make these for Christmas!
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Jacques Barzun (who died last year at 104) said that when he was young, Mozart was regarded as a refined Rococo composer compared to the more original and profound Beethoven. Things have certainly turned around; Mozart is now commonly seen not only as one of the greatest composers in the Western tradition, but one of the greatest artists in any field, someone who died young but produced a huge body of work—some 600 compositions—that combines technical perfection with profound emotional depth, a creator in every genre who ideally summarized one era and forecast the next.Mozart is idolized by modern composers, especially in late works such as the piece on this program. In his essay "At the Thought of Mozart," Aaron Copland wrote that Mozart fills composers with "awe and wonder, not unmixed with despair. The wonder we share with everyone; the despair comes from the realization that only this one man at this one moment in musical history could have created works that seem so effortless and close to perfection. The possession of any rare beauty, any perfect love, sets up a similar distress, no doubt."Mozart's final choral-orchestral works, the exquisite choral miniature "Ave verum corpus" and the sublime though incomplete Requiem, represent two aspects of Mozart: One is a model of concision that sums up 18th-century Classicism—the "effortless" aspect cited by Copland; the other is a turbulent masterpiece—all the more moving because Mozart did not live to complete it—that ushers in the Romantic movement, setting the stage for the large-scale Requiems of Berlioz, Brahms, and Verdi.
Mozart died in December 1791 at age 35 in the middle of composing the Requiem. He took a few intermissions in the early stages to write La clemenza di Tito, Die Zauberflöte, and the Clarinet Concerto. There are fabulously dark stories about the composition of the piece, mostly centering on Mozart's supposed recognition that the Requiem would be his own. His wife Constanze maintained that her husband "could not be dissuaded from this idea; he worked, therefore, like Raphael on his Transfiguration, with the omnipresent feeling of his approaching death and delivered, like the latter, his own transfiguration." The most spurious (if entertaining) tale, perpetrated by the film Amadeus, involves Mozart's fear that he was being poisoned by his third-rate rival, Salieri.
Whether or not one buys into these stories, nothing in Mozart's previous masses—not even the operatic (and also incomplete) C-Minor Mass—quite prepares us for this swan song, which combines a terrifying starkness with a Mozartean voluptuousness, a fusion found not so much in his choral pieces as in secular works like Don Giovanni and the Piano Concerto No. 24 in C Minor. As Charles Rosen points out in The Classical Style, Mozart's expressions of grief and finality have "something shockingly voluptuous. Nor does this detract from its power or effectiveness; the grief and the sensuality strengthen each other, and end by becoming indivisible, indistinguishable one from the other."
So much controversy has swirled around Mozart's Requiem that we often forget what an awesome experience it offers simply as music. Forget for a moment the squabbles concerning performance practice, incomplete manuscript, and compositional circumstances: The brooding intensity of the opening, the stark power of the Dies irae and Confutatis, the lyricism of the Recordare, the searing despair of the Lacrimosa, the operatic vocal quartet in the Tuba mirum and Recordare, the spine-tingling trombone in the Tuba mirum, and the emotional charge in even highly contrapuntal sections (such as the double fugue in the Kyrie) indicate a new direction in Mozart's music that surely would have led to Romanticism and beyond had the Requiem not turned out to be the composer's own. (Even the Bachian counterpoint is oddly forward-looking, as the back-to-Bach movement became a Romantic preoccupation when Mendelssohn began reviving Bach's works.)
The problem, of course, is that these sections are Mozart's, at least for the most part, and the rest—the Sanctus, Benedictus, and Agnus Dei—were composed by Mozart's pupil Franz Xaver Süssmayr, who also added voice and string parts to sections Mozart had not completed. Constanze, who had young children to worry about, was distressed that she might lose the commission fee for the Requiem if it were not finished. The family was in dire financial straights; La clemenza di Tito had flopped in Prague, and even Die Zauberflöte, despite good reviews in Vienna, was not proving lucrative. Costanze enlisted the help of Süssmayr, who fortunately had been Mozart's copyist. When Süssmayr finished the score, he recopied it so it would appear to be a single creation, faking Mozart's signature and moving the date up a year.Süssmayr was resourceful and often self-effacing: for the final Cum sanctis tuis (at the end of the Lux aeterna), he cleverly recapitulated Mozart's magnificent Kyrie fugue; also in the Lux aeterna, he reused a Gregorian melody Mozart had adapted in the Te decet hymnus (near the beginning of the Introitus). He certainly had his work cut out for him. Mozart planned 12 movements, but completed only the Kyrie. He did write out the vocal parts for most of the movements, as well as a figured bass line.The orchestration, however, was largely missing, though Mozart was able to indicate his intentions. Mozart had put off the Lacrimosa until the end, but was so ill that he managed only eight bars before succumbing to death. (According to one melodramatic story, he tried to sing the alto vocal part with three theater singers who came to his deathbed, but broke down in tears and died shortly after.) Astonishingly, Süssmayr had to write the final three remaining movements (the Sanctus, Benedictus, and Agnus Dei) in their entirety, as Mozart died before beginning them.Do the Süssmayr sections constitute a comedown or did Mozart's pupil do an elegant job with a near-impossible assignment? Only the listener can decide, but we must be grateful to Süssmayr for completing a treacherous task with high professionalism. Though his cause is not helped by those who say that Mozart regarded him as a second-rate composer, we might not have the Requiem at all were it not for his efforts. In any case, since new parts in Mozart's hand were discovered in 1962, it is not completely clear what Süssmayr contributed and how much authentic Mozart he merely copied. (Constanze originally entrusted the job to court composer Joseph Eybler, a Haydn student and friend of her husband, but he quickly-perhaps wisely-abandoned it.)
As for the Romantic legend of a spectral gray-clad stranger appearing mysteriously to commission a requiem Mozart feared would be his own, it is, alas, a story too good to be true. In the first place, the letter Mozart wrote documenting his terror of the stranger may well be a forgery. ("I cannot remove from my mind the image of the stranger … I thus must finish my funeral song.") In the second, the commissioner turned out to be not a grand Death figure, but Count Franz Walsegg-Stuppach, an amateur composer and frequent plagiarizer who was looking for a Requiem for his recently deceased wife that he could pass off as his own composition. He did just that, copying Süssmayr's copy, ascribing the premiere in December 1793, and later admitting that the work was not really his own. In this shabby case, myth is clearly preferable to reality.
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Helen Mirren recently won a L.A. Fitness "Best Body" poll. Was she aware, asks Vulture? "I couldn't very well avoid it, could I?" she says. She beat out the likes of Jennifer Lopez, and thinks it's a beautiful thing: "I think it was recognition of the fact that you don't have to be perfect." Mirren's youthful attitude can't hurt. She steers clear of cliched older woman characters, preferring "any role that's proactive." That means action roles, as with The Debt and RED. "You get to do stuff. I hate sitting in a corner — I'd much prefer an action role in a popcorn movie rather than pining in a corner not doing anything." And here's 20 male roles Mirren could have rocked. There's a remake or two in that list worth pursuing.
The Telegraph profiles Jane Fonda talking about her upcoming book, Prime Time, in which the actress lays out how "Love, Health, Sex, Fitness and Spirit" are the way to happiness. Fonda clarifies that in her relationships with men she's no longer looking to be validated, that she's fallen in love "five or six" times, and that she did tons of research for her book because she wanted to know, "am I the only person who is 73 and feeling better than she did when she was 23? Am I unique? And if I'm not how come no one is talking about it?" Telegraph's Nigel Farndale determines that Fonda, always wanting to be the best at something, has now:
"set herself the task of being the best at being seventy something – looking better than everyone else, feeling fitter, being happier and more in love. And she seems to think these are all things that have to be worked at. Work, work, work. Not play, play, play. Meet the challenge of old age. Feel the burn. It must be exhausting being her."
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Saving The Environment And Producing Green Jobs Is In Maryland's Blood Stream
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The state of Maryland is serious about the environment – especially green jobs. As editor of The Green Register, I am bombarded daily with information about states and their "green" efforts. But of all the states I have had the pleasure to evaluate, the state of Maryland is the most impressive when it comes to being eco-friendly, pro-sustainability and pro-green jobs.
Their program – "Smart, Green and Growing" is incorporated into almost everything economic development-wise the state of Maryland is implementing. One state economic developer described green jobs as being in the blood stream of all of the state's economic development efforts.
And don't just take my word for it, check out the Department of Economic Development's Energy and Sustainability section of the choosemaryland.org website. Or visit the state's Smart, Green and Growing website. Led by Governor Martin O'Malley, the state is "all in" from working to restore the region's most precious resource, the Chesapeake Bay, to improving transit and creating green jobs.
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Addictive supply chains: Why Nestle can't quit child labor
Multinational corporations can seem like alcoholics--they promise to reform, be responsible and end labor abuse--but in the end, quitting is harder than it appears.
For example, if you've read up on Nestle recently, you might think there are two companies with the same name. One seems to earnestly want to make the world a better place: its massive Creating Shared Value Program includes everything from labor codes to $37.8 million in farming assistance per year (2012 figures), and it is aggressively turning major product lines--like the famed CRUNCH bar--into ethically-sourced products at a cost of $120 million, according to TriplePundit.
The other Nestle is a bit shadier: it scored 61 percent on Oxfam's "Behind the Brands" scorecard this September--highest among multinational food corporations, but low overall. Suppliers routinely fail to implement Nestle's code of conduct or fail to pass on those standards to the farms that sell them cocoa, as a 2012 report by Fair Labor highlighted.
Ultimately, Nestle's programs have failed to satisfy the skeptics. Its plan to improve the CRUNCH bar "falls short of what is actually needed to ensure the chocolate we eat is fair for those who grow and harvest cocoa," Forbes' Beth Hoffman wrote in May. Nestle isn't alone. Oxfam posted a letter in September from 33 major investment funds demanding greater transparency and better labor standards in the supply chains of all major food and beverage brands.
Why do companies like Nestle have so much trouble improving labor standards? Simply put, they're just too complicated.
Organizational design expert Jay Galbraith calls it "concatenation:" When businesses start out, their design is simple and one director can manage the entire production process. Over time, however, the business grows, adding departments and regional divisions. It buys from increasingly large and diverse suppliers, who in turn have to look for more producers to meet demand. More than a century later, no one really knows where its ingredients come from.
Here is a flowchart of Nestle's supply chain from the Fair Labor report.
Only about 15 percent of Nestle's cocoa comes from cooperatives, according to the report, and both cooperatives and large farmers sometimes buy from sharecroppers, leaving auditors confused about where the cocoa comes from. Because of multiple layers of borrowing, the cocoa fetches a price that is too low to pay all the workers along the chain, the report explained, opening the door to child labor.
But it's unclear whether child labor would end even if prices were higher.
Benefit Corporations have confronted this problem by building personal relationships with producers and partnering with auditing services that scrutinize their simplified supply chains. Some of these companies have achieved a modest scale of production--Andean Naturals, for example, claims to control one third of quinoa imports to the United States. In another example, Numi Teas became the largest importer of Fair Trade tea in 2010, according to PR Newswire, while simultaneously pushing through its new set of Fair Labor Practices in partnership with certification company SCS Global Services.
These companies have the advantage of building checks and balances into the supply chain from the beginning, and their smaller size allows them to maintain close relationships with their suppliers. For existing food and beverage multinationals, that task would require expensive restructuring that most corporations are unable or unwilling to take on.
Instead, companies like PepsiCo and Walmart are turning to traceability--protocols and databases that would help big companies follow a food product back along the supply chain to its origin. These firms are backing the Institute of Food Technology's Global Food Traceability Center, which they hope will establish both regulatory standards and tools to help corporations better monitor their supply chains. A global traceability standard would achieve two goals, in theory: help companies eliminate illegal practices like child labor and improve food safety.
One other way Nestle has fought against its own complexity is through its "Prize in Creating Shared Value," which awards up to 500,000 Swiss Francs (USD $547,000) to a local not-for-profit, small enterprise or individual to scale their water, nutrition or rural development project up to a financially-sustainable level, according to a Business Fights Poverty interview with Nestle's public affairs specialist Barbara Wettstein. Nestlé hopes that by supporting these local efforts, it will help farmers improve their revenues and standard of living, reducing incentives for farmers to use child labor.
In the end, however, the best way to break an addiction is to go clean. While steps like Nestle's plan to reform its CRUNCH bar show that multinationals are heeding consumer demands for better practices, more systematic changes are vital to weaning the food and beverage industry off of abusive labor. Restructuring the supply chain may or may not be necessary, but it will take innovation from within corporations like Nestle--not just good intentions--to right the unjust way we get our food.
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MIRANSHAH, North Waziristan Agency, Pakistan - They were described as terrorists only few days ago, but now they have been decorated with garlands of flowers, and a tough-talking Pakistani corps commander even traveled to Wana in South Waziristan Agency to oversee the terms of their release.
In a bid to gain the support of tribal leaders in the search for al-Qaeda operatives, Pakistan at the weekend freed 50 men arrested
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Earlier, authorities pardoned five tribal leaders accused of harboring al-Qaeda fugitives and Afghan resistance figures, and a truce was negotiated between the Pakistani army and tribals.
The million-dollar question remains unanswered, though. How long can the truce last?
"Thank God all matters have settled down very well, but if you ask how long this truce will last, nobody can guarantee it because it is a tribal society and we face this kind of problem off and on," said a member of the National Assembly from North Waziristan, Pir Naik Zaman, while talking to this correspondent in Jamia Ashrafia, Miranshah.
"Our army and our people [are involved]. Initially, the army operated wrongly [by going into the tribal areas] but now they have realized their mistake and the matter has been settled as per tribal traditions and through dialogue [tribal council]," the Mutahidda Majlis-i-Amal's member of parliament, Naik Zaman, added.
Under pressure from the United States, Pakistan deployed many thousands of troops in the tribal areas. Traditionally free of government control, regions like Waziristan are believed to provide sanctuary for anti-Kabul rebels operating in southern and eastern Afghanistan, as well as al-Qaeda remnants and even possibly Osama bin Laden. Many scores of tribals and soldiers have died in fierce fighting in the region over the past weeks.
Despite the confidence of the politicians, though, sentiment among the masses that there will be peace remains low.
There is growing local unrest, especially as additional forces of the Sindh regiment have now joined with Pakistan troops and Frontier Corps forces in North Waziristan, which is being read as a prelude for another operation, this time in North Waziristan.
"You know, when the Pakistan army used to patrol in our area, the local farmers would greet them and provide them with free vegetables, but after the South Waziristan operation, the Pakistani armed forces have lost their goodwill. Now they do not roam in the market in uniform, and even on their patrols they keep local
[a sort of local tribal police] for their security," said a local doctor.
Indigenous factors apart, external factors as well are adding fuel to the fire.
Local tribesmen showed this correspondent a well-written pamphlet in the Urdu language entitled "A message to the Pakistan army". The pamphlet is thought to have been brought to North Waziristan from the capital Islamabad in large numbers and distributed all over North Waziristan and in Frontier Corps offices.
The pamphlet, most likely the work of radical Islamic organizations, urges army soldiers that instead of fighting "for the crusaders", they should give up their jobs and do some other business. The pamphlets have been generally well received.
Local sources told Asia Times Online that even before the tribals decided on their terms of the truce, one of the wanted men from South Waziristan, Mohammed Sharif, was invited to Peshawar Corps headquarters, where he met the corps commander and gave a guarantee that if Pakistani forces pulled out from the area, and give them Rs 100 million (US$1.7 million) in compensation, they would end their insurgency against Pakistani troops in the area. Apparently, the corps commander did not have any alternative but to accept the terms. As a result, the commander went all the way to Wana and hugged and kissed the "terrorists" and announced news of the compensation.
So for the time being, relative peace has returned to the area. But the underlying pressures remain - the US wants Pakistan to take on the Afghan resistance fighters (and foreign elements) taking shelter on Pakistan soil, and the tribals giving them shelter and support - either actively or passively - have to be dealt with.
It is only a matter of time therefore before a new offensive begins. Already, Pakistan troops, under the watchful eye of US Federal Bureau of Investigation members holed up in a vocational training center in the tribal headquarters of Miranshah, are gathering in North Waziristan for the final showdown expected to take place in Shawal, a rugged no-man's land that straddles the Durand Line that divides Pakistan and Afghanistan.
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I could be wrong, but I think Tom Jackson just advocated the physical beating of Randy Moss. I might have missed the first part of the sentence, but he said the right thing for Moss's teammates to do is to givie him a "code red" and just beat the hell out of him. Oddly enough, I'd recommend the same thing for Chris Berman.
Hey, whaddaya know… Kellen Winslow and Joey Porter are jawing at each other during pre-game warmups. Winslow might be the one guy in the league (or on the planet) that I wouldn't side with in an argument with Joey Porter. They're either talking a lot of trash, or getting into a very animated discussion about their favorite Nicholas Sparks novels. Kellen preferred "The Notebook," while Joey is more of a "Message in a Bottle" kind of guy. They'll work it out.
Berman mentions the Grey Cup being played today… for some reason, Berman loves him some Grey Cup. It'll be the BC Lions against the Montreal Alouettes for the title of "Best Canadian Team That Would Also Lose To Any NFL Team By 60 Points."
There's a waitress here with the tiniest little ass you've ever seen, and even tinier little shorts that are barely covering it. There's more fabric in one of Javon Walker's wristbands, and that isn't much of an exaggeration. This place is awesome sometimes.
Ben Troupe snares a slightly-errant Vince Young touchdown pass, and the Titans take an early 7-0 lead on the Eagles. The good news for the Eagles is that the Titans are very prone to blowing these things. Ask the Ravens.
And on a related note, Chad Johnson is the recipient of a Carson Palmer touchdown pass, and the Bengals are leading 7-0. But that's alright, you can spot the Bengals 28 points or so and still be fine.
The Rams are wearing white jerseys and white pants today. I don't think this is a look we've seen before. I'm a little bit hesitant to admit that I kind of like them, because I'm pretty sure that Colonel Jessup wouldn't approve.
At 1:28 Eastern Standard Time, Lee Evans has 180 yards receiving and two touchdowns. If Houston's going with the "Let's just shut down everyone but Lee Evans and make him beat us" strategy, it would probably be the first time in NFL history that's happened, and it is not working.
Apparently, you can go to Burger King and buy a meal of some kind, and get an XBox 360 game featuring The King for $4. My plans for Monday just changed dramatically.
Hey, there's a Ben Roethlisberger interception that Cleveland takes to the house. It was about damn time, we were almost five minutes into the 2nd quarter.
And on the ensuing kickoff, Steelers wide receiver Sean Morey takes it back 76 yards to give the Steelers great field position. I don't know if you've ever noticed this, but the cheers are always just a liiiiiittle bit louder for a white kick returner. I think it's sort of an affirmation for white people… like, "Hey, we can run just as fast!" Regardless, my chant of "WHITE-PEO-PLE!" doesn't gather much steam.
Uh-oh… Donovan McNabb is down, and it is bad. There wasn't anything gruesome-looking about the injury, but that's not always a good thing. The worst injuries are often the ones where it doesn't look like anything happened, but the victim knows immediately that he isn't walking away from this one. I think that's what's happening here.
But the good news is that Jeff Garcia, a quarterback that Colonel Jessup might describe in the same way he describes a white uniform, is in the game for the Eagles. They punt.
Meanwhile, Lady E swears she just saw Donovan McNabb back on the field. That would be truly remarkable, as it would mean that McNabb made an unbelievably fast recovery and also that Andy Reid has decided to use him on defense.
Brett Favre's holding his arm/wrist, and he's going to the locker room. He's flexing his hand, I doubt it's anything too serious. Now's probably also a good time to mention that I did really enjoy the ESPN Countdown feature of Favre earlier in the morning. It was about how Favre is enjoying the game again, and for as much as I've taken shots at Favre over the past year or so… he is still a hell of a likable guy. I lose sight of that sometimes.
Benjamin Roethlisberger throws his third interception of the day, and some Browns d-lineman just wiped him out on the return. Roethlisberger then got up, sort of started walking in the other direction, and the lineman killed him again. Yeah, that's a 15-yard penalty. Fortunately, I can't pick up a 15-yard penalty for chuckling.
Alright, I'm sorry. But Benjamin's fine, I think I'm in the clear. His line on the day, by the way: 4-of-11, 36 yards, 3 INTs. His quarterback rating is 6. It's usually not good to have a passer rating lower than your jersey number, particularly if you're wearing a single digit.
Common is in a commercial for The Gap. I guess I'm happy for him getting the opportunity, but… it doesn't feel good to watch it. It would be like seeing tough guy Mike Ditka in the limp-wang pill commercials… if I ever had any respect for Ditka to begin with.
The Browns are going to try a Hail Mary (should I capitalize that?) before halftime. Before the snap, The Greek says, "this scares me." Hey, with Ike Taylor back there, I don't know why anyone would worry. The ball ends up being batted around and very nearly caught. That was close.
Jeff Garcia rolls to his right and throws a 20-yard laser back across his body for an Eagles first down. Wow. I didn't think Jeff Garcia had that kind of arm in him. I mean, not that anyone has their arm in Jeff Garcia… you know what I mean.
Meanwhile, the update on Donovan McNabb is that he tore his ACL. That is borderline tragic. I'd been putting the Eagles pretty high in my weekly power rankings, and I felt like they'd go on a nice second-half run, and now I'm going to have a chance to be proven right.
Also, it's bad for Donovan McNabb.
Fuck. I really didn't mean to be that self-absorbed. I do feel terrible for Donovan McNabb.
All these injuries today have me thinking about starting a Fantasy Injury League, where you'd draft players and then accumulate points when they're injured and miss time. In-game injuries get you 1-point for play missed (with a maximum of 30), 30 points for a game missed, 50 for any sort of pelvic injury, 100 for a mid-week suicide attempt, 150 points for a season-ender, and if your player actually dies on the field of play, you'd automatically win the league that year. This could catch on.
Braylon Edwards catches a first-down pass and then mocks Joey Porter's little kick thing. I think this has to stop… not the excessive celebration, necessarily, but I think it's pretty lame and played-out to just mockingly copy someone else's celebration. If you're not creative enough to think of your own, just heading back to your huddle is always an option.
There's a female Steelers fan behind me who's really into the game. Every time Benjamin drops back, she repeats "Ben, please don't fuck up, please don't fuck up, please don't fuck up," until he finally gets rid of the ball. It's cracking me up, and I think that pretty well sums up the Steeler fan experience this year.
Oh, Pac-Man Jones… you are magnificent. He fielded a punt at his own four-yard-line (not something that's typically a good idea), and the Eagles coverage had him hemmed up pretty well. He somehow squirms out of a couple of tackles, gets through the first wave, makes a couple of other guys miss, turns on the jets and takes it to the house. An incredible play. And I think it would have been worth the 15-yard penalty for Pac to take off his helmet, get his face in front of a TV camera and scream, "AND THAT'S WHY I'LL SPIT ON WHOEVER THE FUCK I WANT."
Great throw there by Ben Roethlisberger. He was rolling right, heading quickly towards the sideline, throws back against his body to Santonio Holmes for a Steeler first down (and soon after, a touchdown). Some of the great throws he makes make it difficult to believe he's the same guy that makes some of the horrific throws he makes. I dunno. There aren't many guys in the league making that throw. He's a very confusing quarterback right now.
And then Josh Cribbs takes the ensuing kickoff to the house.
Nick Eason, defensive tackle for the Browns, may have just pulled off the weirdest/dumbest play of the year. The Browns had Roethlisberger running for his life. Eason gets his mitts on him, is in the process of hitting him squarely, cleanly, legally in the chest… and he just lets go. He lets go, and holds his hands up, like, "I didn't do anything!" He's right, he didn't do anything, including knocking Roethlisberger to the ground. In the process of trying to defend himself against a penalty, he actually forgot to make the stop. Roethlisberger stayed on his feet and got rid of the football, saving the sack and about 10 yards for the Steelers. He must have thought Roethlisberger had already gotten rid of the ball. Never seen anything like that.
Keyshawn Johnson catches a Jake Delhomme deep ball in the middle of the field, and almost scores… except he felt the need to rip the helmet off of the defensive back who was trying to tackle him.
The Steelers, in the fourth quarter now, look to be rounding into form. They just put together a long, efficient drive that culminated in a Willie Parker touchdown, and they're down now 20-17.
The Eagles, meanwhile, can't do anything right, and they screw up a field goal attempt. They're still down 24-6, and they're displaying very little competency or urgency right now.
And the Steelers are again driving on the Browns. It's sort of amazing what they're doing. They play sloppy, terrible, mistake-filled football for 55 minutes, and at the end of the game here, they clearly believe they're going to win. Cleveland believes no such thing. And Benjamin makes another play, shoveling an improvised pass to Willie Parker for a four-yard touchdown. Steelers lead, 24-20.
The Browns are going to have another shot at a Hail Mary here… Frye unleashes it to the corner of the endzone. Again, it's tipped around, and again, very nearly caught. Steelers escape, 24-20.
I'm predicting a major lapse in my own football concentration level for the late games. There are only three games on, two of them mean absolutely nothing to me, I'm not feeling well, and I'll be looking ahead to the Chargers game this evening. I'd much rather be napping right now.
Mike Nolan, however, is looking fresh to death in his special black custom Reebok suit. I'm disappointed that there's not a Reebok logo visible anywhere on the suit… a huge white Reebok logo would look fantastic across his back.
By the way, it's after 4:00, and I haven't seen the fucking Mellencamp commercial yet today. It'll be nice to leave the bar this afternoon, walk through the parking lot, and not have the urge to climb on top of a Chevrolet and take a dump on the hood.
Ah, there's Nolan's Reebok logo. They've put a pretty big white logo on his black dress shoes. Classy.
CBS shows a shot of Pat Summerall, hanging out in Dallas and enjoying the Colts/Cowboys game. It's Jim Nantz that points him out, and has some nice things to say about him. The nicest thing Nantz could say, in my opinion, is something like, "I'm going to get up now and let Pat Summerall have my seat because, even though he hasn't had a completely lucid throught since 1961, he's still way better at this than I am."
A new group of people sit down at the table next to us, and they're discussing their worst jersey purchases of all time. A Redskins fan not only admits, but seems to be proud of the fact that he still owns a Heath Shuler jersey. Another guy says he's owned both Trent Dilfer and Rick Mirer jerseys. The Greek looks over and tells them I own three Ryan Leaf jerseys (which isn't true), and the guy asks me, "Three? Home, away, and CFL?"
San Francisco has jumped out to a 10-0 lead on Seattle, and every time I look at that game, Frank Gore is going nuts. Over these past two weeks, Gore has looked positively unstoppable. Obviously, we'll need to see it over a longer period of time, but… for the past couple of weeks, he's been performing like an elite back.
And this Dallas/Indianapolis game that was supposed to be the afternoon's saving grace? It's sucked balls. Sloppy play, turnovers… it's looked very Detroit/Arizona-ish.
Peyton Manning has the Colts inside the 10. He throws over the middle to the tight end, who's covered by Roy Williams. Williams employs the seldom-used "shove him in the back and when he falls down, intercept the pass" technique, which is evidently legal now. That was borderline criminal.
I think this is the first time I've seen the Lions in HD… and man, I didn't realize how white Jon Kitna was. I was shopping for a TV the other day, and I asked about the brightness levels on this plasma set, and the guy told me, "Oh, it's very bright. It's fully capable of rendering the blinding white flesh of the back of Jon Kitna's arms in all of their bleached ivory glory."
In the second quarter, Frank Gore has 130 yards against what I believed was a pretty solid Seattle run defense.
CBS is showing an old clip of Phil Simms and Bill Parcells arguing on the sidelines when Parcells was coaching Simms with the Giants. Simms came out of the game, and decided to go yell at Parcells, and you could clearly read Parcells' lips saying, "Settle the fuck down and go sit your ass over there on the bench."
The Juice, and I have no idea how this came up, claims that Dr. James Naismith "learned all his shit from lacrosse," and also invented the 2-3 zone. This sets off a long argument about the relative athletcism of lacrosse players, and… You know what? It's not even worth telling you about. Just know that The Juice believes that the best athletes in lacrosse are on par with the best athletes in the NFL and NBA. The argument lasted about a half hour, and was dumber and a bigger waste of time than just about anything else we've ever discussed here.
Peyton Manning throws an interception that ends up being taken to the house by a Cowboys linebacker of whom I have never heard. Just judging from body language, it looks like the Colts are going to lose this game, and I'm not sure they care. I'm also not sure that they're as good as they think they are.
Frank Gore is up to 180 yards on 15 carries.
Scrolling across the bottom of the screen: Tim Dwight had five catches today. Man, some team is digging deep into the wide receiver depth chart this week.
With 6:00 to play in the Colts/Cowboys game, Marion Barber scores his 2nd touchdown of the day to give the Cowboys a 21-14 lead. If I'm Bill Parcells, and I have to pick between Marion Barber and Julius Jones… I dunno, I've been more impressed with Barber. He hits the hole harder, finishes of runs more aggressively. I'd make him the primary back.
Deion Branch wears really bright green gloves for some reason. They look like miniature Hulk Hands.
The Cardinals, meanwhile, are going to wrap up this victory over the Lions and win 17-10. They're out there in the victory formation, taking knees. That's probably the first time a lot of those guys have been in that situation… I wonder if that's something they had to practice, or Dennis Green was just scrambling around the sideline frantically, screaming, "Victory formation! Victory formation! What? No, I have no idea–You know what, just ask Leinart, he'll show you how to do it."
And the Cowboys game has gone final, too, sparing us all weeks and weeks of worthless "Can the Colts go undefeated?" talk. The downside to that, though, is that the '72 Dolphins douchebags will gather and drink more champagne than their aging bodies can handle. I bet Csonka and Buoniconti are going to do it.


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Addressing the nation on 67th Independence Day, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh touched on a number of key issues from ranging from Uttarakhand disaster to the country's current economic status.
Here is the full text of the Prime Minister's speech:
My dear fellow citizens, Brothers, sisters and dear children, I greet you all on this Independence Day.
Today is certainly a day of joy for us. But on this celebration of independence we also feel pain in our hearts that our brothers and sisters in Uttarakhand had to face devastation about two months back. Our deepest sympathies are with all the families that suffered loss of life or property. I want to assure the people of Uttarakhand today that the whole country stands with them in this moment of crisis. Our government is working with all the resources at its command to rehabilitate those whose houses have been destroyed and rebuild damaged infrastructure.
Our army, paramilitary forces and numerous officers and staff of the Central and State governments worked in difficult conditions in partnership with the common people to perform an outstanding task in providing relief to those who were stranded. We especially pay homage to the officers and men of the Air Force, ITBP and NDRF who sacrificed their lives to save others.
We are also deeply pained that we lost the submarine, INS Sindurakshak in an accident yesterday. Eighteen brave sailors are feared to have lost their lives. The accident is all the more painful because the Navy had recently achieved two major successes in the form of its first nuclear submarine, INS Arihant and the aircraft carrier, INS Vikrant.
We pay homage to the brave hearts we have lost. We also congratulate the Navy on its successes.
Brothers and Sisters, We achieved independence in 1947 under the leadership of Mahatma Gandhi. If we look at our subsequent journey, we would find that our country has seen major changes every ten years.
In the decade beginning 1950, India took its first steps as a democratic republic under the leadership of Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru. We established institutions like the Atomic Energy Commission, Planning Commission and Election Commission, which went on to make a major contribution to the processes of nation building in later years. The first general elections were conducted and a beginning was made towards the formulation of the First Five Year Plan for socio-economic development of the country.
In the sixties, Pandit Nehru


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This bedtime battle has been won (for now)
April 5, 2011 - Betsy Bethel
This is a followup to my last post about the "nameless fear" that was wreaking havoc on bedtime at our house.
First, let me say, the tsunami wasn't the culprit after all. We sat Emma down the night I wrote that last post, and I asked her point blank if she was frightened of the tsunami and assured her no tsunami was ever going to wash us or our house away. "I know that!" she said, totally unfazed. Back to square one.
Things got worse before they got better. It was to the point last Monday night that I was ready to wave the white flag and let our 5-year-old daughter sleep in our bed -- which in turn would have ignited a firestorm from an already smoldering heap of bitterness growing between my husband and me.
But Tuesday I awoke with renewed resolve. I did some research — I found the chapter titled "The ABCs on Getting ZZZss" in Thomas M. Riemer's new book "Help! There's a Toddler in the House!" (BoysTown Press) quite useful. While nothing Dr. Reimers said was completely new information to me, he did galvanize my approach and reminded me of a few useful tips such as the "I'll-check-on-you-in-five-minutes" tactic. I also talked at length on the phone with my mother, who is a child and family counselor and teaches parenting classes. To her credit, she only gives advice when asked, and this time I didn't just ask, I begged, cried and pleaded! She suggested that my husband and I handle the entire bedtime routine together, presenting a united front. Usually, I was the master of bedtime and Daddy popped in briefly to listen to a story and say goodnight. After he left, I would remain to pray and sing songs. During this most recent campaign, Daddy was tagged to tell her a story "from his head" after I left the room. When he finished his story, Emma said she wanted me again — so she was in effect tag-teaming us and the whole brutal process dragged on.
That evening, Tuesday, I set the stage by mentioning matter-of-factly to Emma that all these nights she has been scared but that, guess what? Nothing bad ever happened! Not one bad thing! She paused, looked thoughtful and proclaimed: "Yeah! You're right!" After the bath regimen was complete, I approached bedtime coolly and confidently. I told her exactly what was going to happen. Dave was there the whole time. I read two books, he read one. We turned out the light, prayed, sang three songs and then Daddy and I both kissed her goodnight and left the room. The only concessions I made were to tell her I'd check on her in two minutes and that we'd leave her door open. She barely put up a fight. When I checked on her, she was awake, and I told her I'd come back in five minutes. I never had to; she quickly succumbed to sleep. I did a victory dance and texted my mom: "You're a genius!"
The next night was a little complicated because she bonked her head really hard that day at school, so I was feeling a little less confident and a mite more overprotective. But we followed the same routine. And for the first night in I can't remember how long, the words "I'm scared" never passed Emma's lips. When I checked on her at the two-minute mark, she rolled her eyes at me and said, "Mooommmm, it takes me, like, 15 minutes to fall asleep!" I told her I'd come back in five, and she said: "Come back in 15! Then I'll be asleep!" All-righty then. I never went back that night. The battle was over.
Ever since then, the bedtime drill has been pretty smooth. We have had a hiccup or two — she has gotten out of bed a couple times, for instance, which she NEVER did before. But she also has gone back to bed when told, without me having to come up and tuck her in again, which also is new (and, might I add, glorious!).
A few days later when I was telling my mom all this, she said, "These phases are a real pain, aren't they?" Yes, but all I can say is, thank God they are only phases.
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It looks like Iowa State's Pro Day is March 26 at Noon.
Tuba, Ace, Shaggy, Bret, Todd and Jon Banks are all scheduled to appear.
I removed it.
Shaggy, Bret, and Banks are not going to get drafted, or even signed.
Love the guy, but a pro kicker he is not.
I imagine that scouts call in and say who they would like to see though. I would show up if my name got called.
Exaggeration is a BILLION times worse than understating.
I think alot of the reason Brett is there is to maybe get himself a spot on a practice squad or somewhere else but he will be there mainly to throw to his good friend Todd to make Todd look better
Occam's Razor means 'With all things being equal , the simplest explanation/answer is normally the right one'
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Found this on NFL.com. Has anyone heard who will workout?
Pro Day workout updates
Originally Posted by zumbro clones
Found this on NFL.com. Has anyone heard who will workout?
Pro Day workout updates
Check out this thread...
Thanks! Hope they post details on Cyclones.com like last year.
Has anyone heard if they will have videos and information on Cyclones.com this year?
31 teams showed up for Michigan's Pro day:
Pro Day workout updates
From NFL.COM:
Pro Day workouts
Date Schools
March 24
Appalachian State
Southern Mississippi
March 25
Mississippi State
Wake Forest
March 26
Iowa State
South Carolina
March 27
Northern Iowa
Virginia Tech
March 28
Coastal Carolina
Kansas State
March 31
Arkansas State
April 1
North Carolina
April 2
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Prediction: Shaggy won't get drafted, BUT, will be invited to at least one tryout.
Pro day is tomorrow. Any news on coverage by Cyclones.com or anyone else?
I could envision Bret being invited to a few team camps.
As a Bears fan he couldn't possibly be any worse than what we currently have while being taller and quicker than Grossman/Orton.
Originally Posted by ketelmeister
Prediction: Shaggy won't get drafted, BUT, will be invited to at least one tryout.
I don't like to pick on ISU player but in NO way is Shaggy close to an NFL kicker. He was fair at best in college. Thats not NFL potential.
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Majority in U.S. back legal pot
WASHINGTON - Just five months after Washington state and Colorado voted to legalize marijuana for recreational use, a poll released Thursday found that a majority of Americans now agree and say it should not be illegal to smoke the drug.
And, as Attorney General Eric Holder tries to figure out how to respond to the new legalization laws, the poll had more good news for voters in the two states: Sixty percent of Americans say the U.S. government should not enforce federal drug laws in any state that has voted to legalize pot.
Self-sacrifice all the rage in D.C.
WASHINGTON - The rush started Tuesday when the flush new defense secretary, Chuck Hagel, announced that he would give back a share of his salary for each day that Pentagon employees are furloughed.
By Thursday, the Obama administration's stampede to embrace the politics of self-sacrifice was on.
Secretary of State John Kerry said he would give 5 percent of his $200,000 government salary to charity, and Justice said if its workers were furloughed, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. would give up his pay for however many days his workers go without a paycheck.
DA, wife mourned; search continues
MESQUITE, Texas - A slain North Texas district attorney and his wife were mourned Thursday by a shaken community that recalled the couple's love, warmth and public service as law enforcement continued the search for their killers.
Mike and Cynthia McLelland shared a single, flag-draped casket inside a suburban Dallas church. Cynthia's remains were cremated and placed inside the coffin with the body of her husband, the Kaufman County district attorney.
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If it's some zip, word, PC password I've used www.lostpassword.com
Few years ago I made a page for our gamedev team called Seven Shapes Studios but we sort of had a three year hiatus and during that time the website we had (and to where the e-mail address was linked) closed. So now I don't have the password anywhere and the e-mail doesn't exist.
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