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Dr. Ian Lustick, professor of political science
• Author of "Trapped in the War on Terror"
• Consultant on Middle East affairs and national security for every administration since President Carter's
"President Obama displayed excellent strategic and tactical leadership in his use of the full spectrum of U.S. power to end the threatening and embarrassingly long career of Osama bin Laden. We must now brace for revenge attacks by bin Laden wannabes in Europe, Africa and Asia. But the approach to this problem should mirror the president's policy: Carry on our national life normally, make our goals clear, avoid unnecessary dramatics and rhetorical hype but act ruthlessly when the targets have been clearly and unquestionably established. The most important impact of this killing in Afghanistan will be a function of Pakistan's reaction. We do not yet know enough about how the U.S. got the information it needed to carry out this operation to speculate about whether this will lead to an improvement in U.S.-Pakistani cooperation with respect to Afghanistan, or the opposite."
Dr. Jamal Elias, professor and chair of religious studies
• Teaches courses on the history of Islamic civilization, Islamic ethics and Islamic metaphysics
"It's against Islamic tradition to bury someone at sea. There's a very strong encouragement saying that if at all possible, even if someone dies at sea, that their body should be recovered, that they should be put in the ground." (from KYW Radio interview, May 2, 2011)
Dr. Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet, associate professor of history, director of the Middle East Center at Penn
- Author of "Frontier Fictions: Shaping the Iranian Nation" and the forthcoming "The Making of the Great Satan: A History of U.S.-Iranian Relations" and "Conceiving Citizens: Women, Sexuality and Religion in Modern Iran"
- Expert in Iranian history and politics, Iran-Iraq relations, U.S.-Iranian relations and gender politics in the Middle East
"The death of Osama bin Laden undoubtedly marks a meaningful and decisive victory for the United States; however, bin Laden's demise does not end the war on terror nor does it in any way mitigate the anti-American sentiments prevalent among extremist groups. The attacks on Libya, combined with the news of bin Laden's death, will likely fuel future terrorist attacks. Still, it must be conceded that U.S. policies in and pressures on Pakistan and Afghanistan have resulted in the long-awaited capture of America's most inglorious enemy."
Dr. Christopher Nichols, postdoctoral fellow in U.S. history at Penn
- Specializes in the history of the United States' role in the world, with expertise in American intellectual, cultural, political and foreign-policy history, international relations, diplomacy, isolationism and internationalism.
- Author of the just published book "Promise and Peril: America at the Dawn of a Global Age" and co-author of "Prophesies of Godlessness: Predictions of America's Imminent Secularization from the Puritans to the Present Day"
"The special operations mission that killed Osama bin Laden signifies a decisive achievement in American intelligence and tactical military action. These efforts are crucial to what President Obama has recently recast as a multilateral global conflict not simply against Al Qaeda but in support of humanitarian ends such as in Libya. Perhaps the new Obama policy now can move out from under the shadow of the Bush era and shift further away from unilateralism.
"Some of the ardent displays of American nationalistic hubris are a mistake. This moment should be a solemn rather than triumphant time if the nation seeks to more fully embody its ideals of justice rather than vengeance. Indeed, this is a 'victory' as much or more for the world as for the United States. As a matter of historical context, however, this remarkable moment likely will not signal a sea change. The future remains very much uncertain as to what will happen with the burgeoning democratic revolutions across the Middle East and with continued American military engagement in Afghanistan, Iraq and now in Libya. We also should be mindful that the tactics and threats of terrorism against the United States, the West and citizens of the world preceded bin Laden's most heinous acts by decades and unfortunately are likely long outlive him."


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Monique Rathbun's harassment lawsuit against Scientology and its leader, David Miscavige, resumes today at the Comal County courthouse in New Braunfels, Texas, and we have someone on the scene.
Local reporter Nick Rogers, who has done fine work for the Texas Citizen, will be sending us updates as today's events unfold.
At issue this time is Scientology's anti-SLAPP motion, which is trying to portray Monique's lawsuit as a cynical and groundless effort that is actually intended to shut down the church's free speech rights. Monique's attorneys have filed for a continuance, and hope to get Judge Dib Waldrip to delay Scientology's motion so she can gather more evidence in discovery.
If Waldrip doesn't grant the continuance, Ray Jeffrey says his side is prepared to argue the anti-SLAPP motion itself.
We had earlier pointed out some of the flaws in Scientology's motion, which is attempting to cast one of the most litigious, bullying organizations in human history as an outgunned underdog.
We'll be looking to see if Monique's motion for sanctions also comes up, as well as wrestling over setting up a deposition of Miscavige.
Ray Jeffrey tells us that yesterday he entered a formal notice for Miscavige's deposition, but we have to assume the church is going to continue to do what it can to keep a deposition from happening.
We'll post updates as soon as we can get them.
The Scientology-Mormonism moment
One of our readers has put together a really interesting video which suggests that as each is hitting hard times, Scientology and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (a/k/a Mormons) have each turned to very similar methods to stave off irrelevancy. It's a hoot!
Karen de la Carriere on the RPF's RPF
Another interesting video from Karen de la Carriere, J. Swift, and Angry Gay Pope…
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We've heard from Nick Rogers and Mike Bennitt, who are getting into position at the courthouse. Bennitt tells us that Joe Childs of the Tampa Bay Times is also on the scene, as well as TV reporters. Bennitt hopes to get us some photos before too long.
Nick says there's a line to get into the building, but the reason quickly became clear — one of the two elevators is out. Meanwhile, Mike Bennitt tells us he has spotted Wallace Jefferson, who recently stepped down as the chief justice of the Texas Supreme Court. He's joined his brother, Lamont, as a member of Scientology's huge team of expensive lawyers.
Judge Dib Waldrip is now in the courtroom, but Nick tells us he's dealing with other matters first.
Yesterday, we asked Ray Jeffrey if Scientology had filed a response to Monique's motion for sanctions. He said they hadn't. But this morning, Nick tells us he spoke to Ray, who told him the church has filed an answer — but did not question the validity of the 2007 texts submitted by Mike Rinder. We'll try to get our hands on that filing by the church as soon as we can!
Some side drama developing: Monique apparently pulled "Lone Star" — a local ex-Scientologist — aside to witness for her that a local OSA member was keeping watch on her. When Monique said there was a temporary restraining order preventing surveillance, the female OSA member reportedly said they were in a public place. Trying to get more detail about this.
Nick reports that Judge Waldrip has cleared his morning docket, and after a break, we'll finally be getting to the matter at hand.
From Lone Star over at ESMB: [Scientology attorney Ricardo] Cedillo is saying [Ray] Jeffrey's motion to continue the anti SLAPP motion by the CSI is defective. Ray got pretty hot. Ray wants more discovery. Cedillo says requested discovery is not warranted for anti-SLAPP…Cedillo is bulldogging his way around the court today. Trying to filibuster and at times succeeding. CSI and RTC still haven't produced documents.
Getting an update from Nick by phone right now. Details coming soon…
Just talked to Nick Rogers, who was out of the courtroom on the lunch break.
He says that Scientology lawyer Ricardo Cedillo and Monique's attorney Ray Jeffrey really battled back and forth this morning, and once again things got heated.
At issue: Cedillo wanted to present his opening statement and arguments for the church's anti-SLAPP motion. Jeffrey wanted a delay so Monique can get more discovery — the same request for information that she has for the jurisdictional question that Waldrip has already granted.
So Waldrip at this point has come up with an interesting way to address both requests…
Judge Waldrip decided that Cedillo could make his opening statement and arguments, and at the end of the day, the Judge will then decide whether to recess until February 16 so Monique's side could continue to get discovery before they present their side.
So this morning, Cedillo made his big play for how this lawsuit is really all about Marty Rathbun trying to destroy David Miscavige, which is essentially a religious argument, and therefore protected by the First Amendment and not a matter for the courts.
Nick tells us that Cedillo's argument was that Marty Rathbun has declared himself a new Martin Luther, and he's out to get the church. It was a religious argument and so should be thrown out on First Amendment grounds.
And we're hearing from several people that the highlight of Cedillo's morning presentation was an ostentatious video showing what a colossal big deal David Miscavige is. Nick thought it was put together just for this hearing, and recently — it had footage of the recent New Year's Eve event.
Once again, Miscavige has found a way to get his testimony directly into court, not trusting his attorneys to make his arguments for him — and, without allowing himself to be cross-examined.
Those who saw it, however, are telling us the video was par for the course for Scientology and actually gives the opposite effect than it's going for.
Nick says that for his part, Ray Jeffrey has been in a feisty mood. He called the Church of Scientology filing an anti-SLAPP motion — which is usually used by outgunned opponents against big bullies who sue to silence critics — like something out of 'Alice in Wonderland.'
Nick said that a lot of what Cedillo presented in his opening was what we already saw in the church's filing. That it's a religious dispute that the court shouldn't be involved in. That it's protected by First Amendment.
Cedillo showed numerous video clips of Marty, and they were generally the same YouTube videos we'd seen before in the courtroom.
Ray Jeffrey pointed out that the lawsuit was filed by Monique Rathbun, not her husband Marty.
Cedillo said he'd show her role this afternoon.
Cedillo on Marty: "He used his blog to impugn the reputation of the leader of the church, Mr. Miscavige."
Also, Cedillo denied that Marty was the second in command of the church.
At one point, Nick said, Cedillo showed an image of L. Ron Hubbard's books and said that Marty was trying to "bust" their copyrights.
"I could see Marty laughing during the video," Nick said.
A short video of Ray Jeffrey shot by Mike Bennitt
Maybe it's not all Cedillo this afternoon. Nick just texted that Ray Jeffrey is now arguing that what he wants in discovery are texts, e-mails and phone records about the harassment operations against Monique and Marty.
While we're waiting for the next update, we'll just put in another plug here for Jason Beghe's show, Chicago PD, which starts tonight on NBC at 10 pm. Check your local listings.
Still waiting to hear from Nick or Bennitt. It's almost 5:30 in New Braunfels, and pretty late for them still to be in the courtroom…
They're out! Nick Rogers calling me in a moment…
The upshot: No decision tonight. Tomorrow Ray will file a request for more discovery. Then Scientology can respond by noon Friday and Waldrip will then decide whether they can proceed with that discovery.
Details in a minute.
Nick says that Ricardo Cedillo presented a decent case during the early part of the afternoon, trying to convince Judge Waldrip that the case should be thrown out because this was a religious dispute. Then other attorneys began chiming in. The attorney for private investigator Monty Drake chimed in, for example, saying that the Rathbuns had to prove that Drake had actually harmed the Rathbuns.
But the most interesting thing that emerged about Monty Drake (the Dallas PI), Nick says, was that we found out he had been sent to Marty's house in 2007 to make sure he was still alive.
(Marty had defected in 2004, but by 2007 he was so underground there were rumors online that he had died. He didn't resurface until he began seeing other former members in 2008, and then started blogging in 2009. Only then, we thought, did the surveillance begin. Now we learn it started two years earlier.)
Nick said that numerous times, Judge Waldrip made it clear he was fed up with Scientology's delaying tactics and refusal to turn over evidence.
At one point, when Monty Drake's attorney started talking about being in court tomorrow, and Ricardo Cedillo complained that he'd in court next week, Waldrip said that made his decision pretty easy, "because I'm not going to play gotcha with dates."
"At that point, they backed off," Nick says about the Scientology attorneys.
Another interesting exchange, Nick says, occurred when Ray Jeffrey said one of the discovery requests he was making were for all of the photos that Scientology had taken of the Rathbuns from 2009 to 2013.
Waldrip said that seemed like a very broad request, and asked Ray if he might narrow it down.
So Ray said they definitely wanted the photos that Monty Drake had taken of the Rathbun home. If you remember from our previous reporting, Marty and Monique discovered in September 2012 that a house down the block from the Ingleside home was set up with cameras to watch them. Marty eventually learned that the house had been leased by Drake.
Ray said he believed those cameras had taken photos of what was going on INSIDE the Rathbun home.
Ricardo Cedillo then objected, saying there were no photos of inside the Rathbun home, just the outside and the driveway area.
Jeffrey then said he wanted Cedillo to go on the record and say that he had looked at every photo taken by the private investigators.
"Then they started haggling over photos that Monique was entitled to," Nick says. And it was then the biggest mistake of the day was made.
"Lamont Jefferson stood up to speak."
Lamont Jefferson represents David Miscavige and RTC, the entity that Miscavige is the chairman of. It's been their contention that the court has no jurisdiction over Miscavige and RTC because they are separate from the Church of Scientology International, which has admitted to doing the surveillance.
(Former church officials assure us that this is just a legal tactic, and Miscavige actually runs all of Scientology through the Sea Org.)
Anyway, Lamont Jefferson began objecting to the request for photographs, but then Waldrip interrupted him.
Waldrip: What I don't understand is why RTC is making objections in a court that they say has no jurisdiction over them.
Nick says Lamont fumbled out an answer, saying something about his client having a vested interest in the photos.
"So Waldrip said it looks like the jurisdictional and First Amendment issues seem to be overlapping, so you better get your client ready to be deposed next week then."
Then Lamont backed off. "No, I'm just talking about the photos," Jefferson said, perhaps understanding that once again he'd walked into a trap of his own making.
Jefferson then brought up the motion for reconsideration that the church had filed, hoping to get Waldrip to change his mind about deposing Miscavige.
Nick says a hearing on that motion — and on Monique's motion for sanctions — has been scheduled for January 24.
We asked Nick about Cedillo's statement that he was going to talk about Monique's involvement with Marty's "religious battle" in the afternoon.
"Cedillo just said the same thing as always — that Monique edits his blog, that she made comments on his blog," Nick said.
Then, at some point, Cedillo began to show a video which was designed to show how Marty and Monique had been waging a war on Scientology — and it was obvious that it was a full-blown documentary, complete with narration!
Ray Jeffrey rose and objected, and Waldrip sustained! No, he was not going to allow that, Waldrip said.
So an entire documentary prepared by Scientology went down in flames. Oh my.
It gets even better.
Waldrip did allow the church to show a collection of videos of Marty's altercations with the Squirrel Busters. But then Ray Jeffrey asked, do you have DATES for these altercations? Did they happen on day 9 or day 90 of the 199-day Squirrel Busters action? In other words, were these altercations happening right after the intimidation squad showed up, or months later after they'd been following the Rathbuns wherever they went for weeks and weeks?
Waldrip agreed and sustained the objection. Cedillo said they would get the dates.
And more: Cedillo responded to the objection by saying that the videos were useful because they reflected what was in the depositions taken so far.
Nick says Waldrip then warned him: He would allow the videos of the altercations, but he said it opened the door to allowing the plaintiffs more evidence, including extra discovery.
In other words, Waldrip was telling them they were giving him the justification to grant Monique's continuance for additional discovery. Was showing this video footage really worth that?
But Cedillo wanted to show the footage (and we can guess why, because a certain client wants it shown), and so Cedillo went ahead even after that warning from the judge.
So at this point, we think tomorrow Ray will file a list of discovery that he wants before his side can be given to counter Cedillo. The church then has until Friday at noon to answer it, and then Judge Waldrip will make his decision Friday afternoon.
But after what Nick told us Waldrip said in court today, we'd be very surprised if he didn't grant Monique the ability to gather that evidence, and then give her answer to the anti-SLAPP on February 16.
On January 24, the church's motion for reconsideration (to convince Waldrip not to order Miscavige's deposition) and Monique's motion for sanctions will be heard.
And while Waldrip threatened Lamont Jefferson that Miscavige better be ready to be deposed next week, we think it was just a way of delivering the message that Lamont's argument was really stupid.
Now we'll call Ray Jeffrey and see if we can get his version of what happened. We may or may not start up a separate story.
Another thing from Nick: After Waldrip was telling Jefferson he better have his client Miscavige ready next week, Jefferson then brought up the motion to reconsider.
Nick says at that point Waldrip said that "unless there's something new, I don't need to hear it." (Meaning the motion.) "These competing First Amendment and jurisdictional issues are bogging down the litigation."
Spoke with Ray. It's worth a story on its own. Look for a new post in another half hour or so.


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An anchor from what's believed to be the wreck of the pirate Blackbeard's flagship has been raised from the ocean floor off the North Carolina coast.
Archaeologists believe the anchor recovered Friday is from the Queen Anne's Revenge, which sank in 1718. That was five months before Blackbeard was killed in a battle.
The artifact is the second-largest item at the shipwreck, outsized only by another anchor.
Researchers retrieved the anchor from the shipwreck about 20 feet under water and were bringing it to shore. The work to retrieve it began last week. The anchor is about 13 feet long and 8 feet across.
The recovery coincides with the release this month of "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides." The movie features both Blackbeard and the Queen Anne's Revenge.
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An anchor from what's believed to be the wreck of the pirate Blackbeard's flagship may see daylight again for the first time in almost 300 years.
Archaeologists hope to recover an anchor from what's presumed to be Queen Anne's Revenge on Friday morning in the waters off the coast of Beaufort, where the ship sank in 1718, just five months before Blackbeard was killed in a battle at Ocracoke Inlet. The artifact is the second-largest item at the shipwreck, outsized only by another anchor.
Researchers will go out on two boats to retrieve the anchor from the shipwreck that's about 20 feet underwater, then bring it ashore. The work to retrieve the anchor began last week. It's about 13 feet long with arms that are 8 feet across.
Researchers and divers will soon be looking for pirate treasure off the North Carolina coast.
The treasure in this case is historical knowledge, in the form of artifacts salvaged from a shipwreck believed to be the pirate Blackbeard's flagship.
A news conference to discuss the expedition is scheduled for Wednesday at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.
The plan is for divers to work from May 23 to June 3 at the site of the wrecked Queen Anne's Revenge, which is near Beaufort. The ship ran aground in 1718.
Researchers aren't sure what they'll be able to salvage, but they'll be looking for large artifacts, including the ship's anchor.
Previous expeditions at the site have turned up a window pane, brass weights and a brass buckle.


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Baseball always comes back around to Ruth, the Bambino who built the Yankees, who restored the game's credibility through his incredible exploits on the field and whose incredible exploits off the field branded an eternal mythology.
Ruth is no god, but he's Moses or Noah, without whom the rest of the story could not have been told. Baseball's first compensatory hero at the dawn of mass culture in the 1920s, he is, was and always will be the standard, regardless of how time weathers his records.
Many who love baseball wonder how the game would have survived without Ruth because his power hitting made the game matter when it might have died from the 1919 Black Sox scandal. Baseball lives because of Babe Ruth, so Babe Ruth lives for as long as the game.
Ruth is part man, part myth, part magic and a lot of institutional memory. No one ever wants to lose him, not even when it's really time for him to go, like right now, as Bonds is about to match and exceed 714 career homers. That number, 714, is not the record for career home runs -- but it's the number Ruth hit, which alone makes it historic if not sacred.
When Roger Maris broke Ruth's single-season home run record in 1961, not even the commissioner's office wanted to recognize the new standard. Fans were indignant. The tension made Maris' hair fall out.
When Henry Aaron approached Ruth's career home run record in the early 1970s, hundreds of death threats and racist hate letters every day were his reward.
Dissolute and debauched though he was, the public loved and still loves Ruth for the good will and pure, dumb fun he attached to stardom. Back before America went completely perverse and tricked itself into thinking that men playing boys' games are supposed to be moral exemplars, Ruth tickled hearts as America's Biggest Boy.
The country was rapidly urbanizing in the 1920s, by the end of which half the population lived in cities. A city boy through and through, Ruth emblemized urban life all the way from the penthouse to the gutter and back. If his carousing rankled the farm folk, it's not like they expected more from a ball player.
For all his determination, the public mostly disinherited Bonds before the steroid allegations because he made stardom too unpleasant even as he bloated himself in interviews, performances and training sessions. Strong allegations of steroid use have intensified the friction between baseball's best player and its fans, especially now that Ruth is in sight.
From among the dissenters as Bonds approaches 714, there is to be heard a convincing argument as to why the contemporary slugger is no match for the ancient. To wit, Bonds isn't really a human performance example or a natural athlete. He hatched himself in a laboratory, and we laugh at him the way we chuckled at the Soviet bloc Olympians 30 years ago.
Barry Bonds is a monster, no more man than man-made, a Frankenstein with eyes fixed on Babe Ruth. Ruth worked out a bit, but he also trained on prohibition liquor, cigars, hot dogs and women and probably placed a wager here and there.
If John Daly were a great golf pro, he might be Ruth. If Albert Pujols were also a free-wheeling street runner, he might be Ruth. And if Bonds were a gregarious lover of his gifts and the people who love them, he might be Ruth. But he isn't.
The man who's forgotten in all this is the true Home Run Champion, Henry Aaron, who bashed 755. Bonds and Ruth have one element in common that Aaron doesn't share. Aaron's home run feats are more legitimate by far, while both Bonds' and Ruth's are tainted. If Aaron needed more at-bats than Bonds or Ruth, he also worked under the least favorable conditions for one hitter to dominate.
The prevalence of steroid use in recent years created a sub-class of players who didn't use them. We'll spend the next several years trying to piece together how steroids influenced baseball records, and almost everyone who played the meat of his career in the past 10 years will be under question as he comes up for the Hall of Fame. Even if Bonds was a Hall of Famer before 2000, it won't spare him the inquisitor.
Ruth has never endured that kind of scrutiny. When statisticians analyze his career, they end up finding that he might have hit an extra 400 home runs if he played today because the parks are smaller, the outfield fences are lower, he would have faced more raggedy pitchers and those balls that used to be called foul because they landed foul in the seats now would be home runs if they left the park fair.
But if we're going to say that Ruth is out 400 homers through no fault of his own, we also have to say, through no fault of his own, that he didn't compete against championship talent from the African-American population. A good number of historians believe Negro Leaguer Josh Gibson would have hit more homers than Ruth. We'll never know.
As we try to place the past 10 years in historic context because of steroids, we should remember that the career and single-season records are equally suspect before about 1950, when African-Americans began competing in numbers three years after Jackie Robinson's debut. If we're going to be purists about records, we might decide that the only records to really count were established by fellows playing between about 1950 to about 1990, after African Americans began playing and before steroids took hold.
Aaron played in the major leagues from 1954 through 1976. Before he retired, he was the last Negro League player still going in the big leagues.
Because he played when all races were allowed, only Aaron's home run mark is fully human. Because he played before steroids, only his home run mark is truly human.
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CycleOps PowerCal delivers an ANT+ power reading based on heart rate. The company is quite cognizant of the variance between heart-rate readings and actual power output — the company's main products are power meters — but this entry-level product is aimed at riders toying with the idea of tracking wattage for the first time.


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Where to Cash in on Soft-Shell Crab Season
Despite what year-round "spider" crab sushi rolls might tell you, soft shell crabs are a highly seasonal item, available in very limited quantity, especially on the West Coast. Supplies of these freshly molted crabs, a product of Chesapeake Bay shellfish, are usually exhausted by July, so order them up anywhere you see them. We recommend you take this list of Bay Area restaurants serving soft shells, and squeeze in as many dishes as humanely possible in the next few weeks.
Date Night: Owning It in the Valencia Corridor
If you want to have a successful excursion in this town, you need a plan—and it better be a good one. Since it's not always easy to strike that perfect balance between "pre-game" drink, food and a show, we bring you the Date Night series — a block-by-block guide to weekend itineraries that only require one parking space. Today, a night on the town in the Valencia Corridor.
Oldies But Goodies: 7 Stand-By Restaurants Doing Very Good Things
It's Fall. And with Fall, restaurant openings go haywire. Charles Phan's Wo Hing General Store, three new BBQ/Southern-inspired restaurants (in the Mission and the Marina) and the first of three Bay Area Umami Burgers should be opening in the next few months. And that's just off the top of my head. With soft-opening this, and grand opening that, firing off left and right, sometimes it's nice—necessary, even—to step back and relish the gems that've been sitting here, right underneath our noses, for years: the Chez Papas, Canteens, and Outerlands of our city. This post is dedicated to the San Francisco fixtures that haven't just survived for three, five, maybe even 20 years, in our cutthroat restaurant-scape; they've flourished. And you better believe they've got something good in the works for the next few months.


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May 4, 2013
REDWOOD SHORES, Calif. - No. 10 Stanford women's rowing dropped all four of its races at The Big Row Saturday as California claimed the Lambert Cup for the fourth straight year.
The Cardinal will get another crack at California in two weeks at the Pac-12 Championships, set for May 19 at Lake Natoma.
"Cal earned the day today and gave us a good gauge for where we are at this moment," said Stanford head coach Yasmin Farooq. "Our second varsity eight had a good start and led to the 1,000 meter mark, but Cal had a stronger back half of the race. I had hoped the varsity eights race would be more of a battle, but Cal owned the race from the start. Conditions were excellent and the racing was fast. Several course records went down including the men's and women's varsity eights."
In the I Eight main event, the Cardinal's final time of 6:20.7 came in six seconds back of California's 6:14.7, a new course record.
The II Eight came in just under five seconds behind California, the Cardinal's 6:28.0 behind the 6:23.2 of the Golden Bears. California would go on to an open-water win in the Four race, its time of 7:11.6 coming in 19 seconds ahead of Stanford's 7:30.8.
The teams raced two additional races, with California taking both the Novice Eight and II Four competitions. In the Novice Eight race, California's 6:48.0 bested Stanford's 7:07.8 while in the II Four California's 7:39.7 was nearly 14 seconds ahead of Stanford's 7:53.4.
Stanford and California raced in honor of Jill Costello, Cal's I Eight coxswain who succumbed to lung cancer in 2010. California raced as "Team Jill" in `sea foam green,' Jill's favorite color, and Stanford raced in pink "Block S" tank tops with a sea foam green ribbon. Stanford also unveiled the "Bill Kolker Memorial Trophy" for the winner of the women's II Eight race. Kolker, the quintessential "team dad" for Stanford teams in the early 2000s, passed away this past December. He was the father of Pac-10 Champ and two-time Olympian Sabrina Kolker '03. Sabrina presented the trophy to the winning boat from California.
"We will always be proud to race in honor of Jill at this race. Her memory inspires us all and she will never be forgotten," Farooq said. "Likewise, being able to remember Bill every year by awarding his trophy to the winner of the second varsity eight is a reminder of his incredible support of this team. It's a symbol of the support that both of our teams receive from our wonderful network of parents."
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Naomi Cornman (coxswain)
Lindsay Meyer
Anna Dawson
Daphne Martschenko
Caitlin Byrnes
Amanda Lorei
Sarah Bolmer
Kristy Wentzel
Christina Bax
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Liza Gurtin (coxswain)
Alison Fauci
Simone Jacobs
Julianna Kapjian-Pitt
Claire Grover
Filippa Karrfelt
Katie Toothman
Nancy Miles
Chierika Ukogu
Katie Lopez (coxswain)
Courtney Carrabino
Alix Chrumka
Meredith Fischer
Kay Rusher
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Autumn Turpin (coxswain)
McKayla Taaffe
Katerina Gregoriou
Taylor Burdge
Ellie Parker
Lilly Smith
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Thank you Jacoby for putting my son Gage up on stage with your lil boy. He hasn't stopped talking about it since and carries the drumsticks around everywhere. He woke up and first thing he asked is where his drumsticks were, lol. Your lil boy is so adorable and very talented. Tell your son Gage said hi. I cant say thank you enough for making one of sons dreams come true by meeting you, he will always remember last night. Much love, Gage and Lisa.
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A very interesting game in LA took pace between Manchester United and The Galaxy. We can't remember a more emphatic performance for a first preseason game.
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We have said it before and we will say it again – this guy is made for Manchester United. He seemed absolutely made up with the performance in his post match interview after the LA Galaxy game and called Manchester United 'my team'.
We think he's going to absolutely thrive at Manchester United and we will see a very strong league campaign from The Reds.
Jones, Smalling and Evens started the game as a three in the defence and all of them looked comfortable. This will give LVG confidence that the situation at the back isn't all that bad despite the massive departures this summer.
We imagine at least one of Hummels, De Vrij and Vermaelen will come in to offer more depth.
Scored a brilliant goal, looked very sharp and generally seems to have improved his technique since last season. This is a sort of lad who could really blossom under the guidance of Louis van Gaal.
Herrera is already proving to be a sensational signing and he was easily man of the match against Galaxy. The other thing we noticed as his link up play with Mata which seems telepathic already. These two are dead certs to play in front of a holding midfielder.
It seems so obvious now that Louis van Gaal is using the right formation for Manchester United considering the players that they have at their disposal.
Mata and Kagawa clearly didn't enjoy playing wide for David Moyes and a 5-3-2 allows them all to enjoy a more central role. It also gives Welbeck the central position he craves.
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Judgment day
National | CALIFORNIA: Voters toss aside an unpopular Democratic governor, but at what cost? Liberal Republicans are delighted, but conservatives who chose Schwarzenegger as the lesser of two evils-and those who backed a rival Republican-take a wait-and-see attitude
In a quiet moment before Arnold Schwarzenegger's Election Night gathering in Los Angeles, Bob White, the candidate's chief of staff, wrapped up a cell phone call. Standing alone in the center of a palm-studded, concrete mall at the Century Plaza Hotel, Mr. White smiled down at the ground as he chatted genially with a caller 3,000 miles away. "Thanks, Karl," Mr. White said, signing off: "Give the president my best."
A "best of luck" call from George W. Bush's right-hand man, Karl Rove? "More than that, probably," Mr. White told WORLD. The White House "is feeling pretty good about it."
As well they should have. At the instant polls closed in California's historic recall election, cable news networks CNN and MSNBC declared Gov. Gray Davis vanquished and named Mr. Schwarzenegger governor-elect. Official tallies would eventually show that the action-film star had won almost 50 percent of the vote.
Former state Republican Party chairman Shawn Steel, the man who originally tossed out the recall idea on San Francisco talk radio last December, signed the first line on the first petition for recall. Ten months later, standing in a Century Plaza ballroom, he declared Tuesday's election "the most dramatic political upset in California history, and one of the most important in American history."
Many of the candidate's most fervent supporters missed the sweetest moment of the evening. Exit polls throughout the day were so lopsided that the news media called the election before a single Schwarzenegger supporter had been allowed into the hotel ballroom. Only the press corps, surrounding an empty floor festooned expectantly with patriotic balloons, was there to receive the news.
The press corps may have been news in itself. Mr. Schwarzenegger's combination of celebrity and bipartisan political connections (ranging from Bush I to the Kennedy-Shriver clan) attracted reporters from near and far. Hours before the ballroom doors opened to the candidate's supporters, CNN personalities Tucker Carlson and Judy Woodruff nabbed prime broadcast spots directly across from the stage, while Entertainment Tonight reporter Jan Carl had to settle for a less desirable spot off stage right. Technicians and "talent" from the shows and networks including the TV Guide Channel, Inside Edition, Fox News, and BBC, crowded onto risers crammed with cameras and microphones. So intense was the fight for broadcast space that a fistfight erupted between cameramen from two media outlets, scattering equipment and prompting L.A.P.D. intervention.
Meanwhile, representatives from media outlets with less clout crowded into a room upstairs to dicker for the coveted green arm- bands that would allow access to the party. "I am only press from Korea!" a female reporter cried plaintively above the clamor of representatives from Italy, China, Australia, Canada, Germany, and Japan. A British reporter, taller and more persuasive than his competitors, reached over the Korean's head to secure his arm-band before she could. But campaign handlers eventually found space in the ballroom for each of hundreds of reporters, even though it meant moving big-bucks campaign contributors to an overflow room next door.
Not that the press room was completely emptied. Monrovia resident Robert Lee Bell, a truck driver, was still there. Driving -and sometimes sleeping in-his 1995 Geo Metro, Mr. Bell had for four days followed Mr. Schwarzenegger's "Join Arnold" bus tour in its 950-mile, 11th-hour dash up and down the state. Clad in a sport coat and slacks, Mr. Bell had tagged along to L.A. for the election-night event, mingling with reporters in hopes of slipping into the ballroom among them. But security was too tight and space was too precious. Despite his credentials as a perhaps over-ardent fan, Mr. Bell never made it to the main event.
Not everyone at the party was drawn by the Schwarzenegger star power, of course. The actor's big-tent appeal also helped to attract liberal Republicans who couldn't bring themselves to support the party's more conservative nominees.
"For years we felt abandoned by the Republican Party," said Rae Emmett of Santa Monica, the wife of Dan Emmett, an environmental consultant to the Schwarzenegger campaign. "The party has gone so far to the right that it's never going to collect the average human being back into the political arena. Finally, we have a candidate who is a social moderate and a fiscal conservative."
Sue McNiel Corry and Ray Chafe felt the same way. Both are officers in Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC), a national group representing 23,000 "merit shop," or nonunion, construction companies. During five years under the notoriously pro-union Davis administration (unions contributed millions to Mr. Davis's effort to survive the recall), merit shop workers felt shut out.
"We're looking for a reprieve," Mrs. Corry said.
"It's a breath of fresh air!" Mr. Chafe proclaimed, raising his wine glass in a small toast. "Arnold is just what the GOP needed. We can't be the staunch right-wingers of the past. We needed a moderate, electable governor. We needed someone who could win."
Many conservatives across California held their noses and voted for Mr. Schwarzenegger, even though they believed State Sen. Tom McClintock was the better man for the job. Mr. McClintock was endorsed by pro-life groups and by evangelical leaders such as James Dobson and Gary Bauer. But he also touted his 20 years' experience handling state budget issues, pledging to rescind the hated triple car tax, overhaul worker's compensation, and slash deficit spending.
But despite his long career and high name recognition, Mr. McClintock remained mired in the mid-teens throughout the abbreviated recall campaign. It didn't help that the Republican Party officially endorsed Mr. Schwarzenegger a week before the election. In the end, voters who disagreed with Mr. Schwarzenegger's views on abortion and special rights for homosexuals (he's for both) judged it more important to oust Mr. Davis and ward off Mr. Bustamante than to cast conscience-votes for Mr. McClintock.
Not so for Lorraine Mabbett, a former crisis pregnancy center director from the San Fernando Valley who had attended the party "because my sister wanted to come." The notion of voters abandoning Mr. McClintock in favor of political pragmatism angered Ms. Mabbett. "God gave us in McClintock what we wanted in a candidate ... what would [pragmatists] do if Jesus came? Say, 'We're not going to hang around with Him, because He's not going to win'?"
Ms. Mabbett said she had spoken with many who work in the pro-life trenches. Such conservatives, she said, "will not compromise. I feel I'd be wasting my vote to vote for someone who is not pro-life."
And so Ms. Mabbett looked on skeptically as the rest of the crowd erupted in cheers. When Mr. Schwarzenegger finally took the stage surrounded by celebrities, politicians, and Kennedy in-laws, it felt oddly like the feel-good ending of a Hollywood blockbuster.
Amid the blizzard of balloons and confetti and goodwill, it was easy to forget that this was not an ending at all, but merely the opening credits. With bare weeks to assemble a transition team and with a hostile state legislature lying in wait, Mr. Schwarzenegger was taking on his toughest role yet.
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Erik Cole knew it was coming.
With two years remaining on his contract after this season at a salary cap hit of $4.5 million a year, Cole knew the Montreal Canadiens would one day need to trade him with some of their younger players up for new deals before his expired.
But it was also the length of his deal that made Cole so attractive to the Dallas Stars.
Canadiens general manager Marc Bergevin swung his first major trade Tuesday when he sent Cole to the Stars in exchange for former Canadien Michael Ryder and Dallas' third-round pick at the 2013 NHL Draft.
Cole had to waive his limited no-trade clause in order for the deal to happen, and after discussing it with his wife, he decided Dallas was a situation that was a good fit for him under the circumstances.
"It seemed to me it was kind of a situation where if it's not this trade, then over the next few years they were going to have to find a way to move that money," Cole said in a conference call with reporters Tuesday evening. "Marc [Bergevin] and I had a discussion about it. It was either going to happen now, or it would be this summer or next season or whenever. There's a great opportunity for me in Dallas and there's a player there that I played with for many years in Carolina in Ray Whitney."
Stars GM Joe Nieuwendyk said the term left on Cole's contract and the fact he plays more of a north-south, banging style than Ryder does made the trade appetizing to him, especially since the Stars had three third round picks in the upcoming draft so parting with one was less painful than usual.
"We want to be in a position to transition our younger players and put them in roles where they can be successful and comfortable and then expand into more prominent roles," Nieuwendyk said. "I think the two-year term with Erik allows us to put some of our younger players in better positions where they can be successful and help that transition."
Bergevin did mention that Cole's contract and the money left on it was a factor in acquiring Ryder, who is in the final year of a two-year contract with a cap hit of $3.5 million. But Bergevin also insisted that this was a "hockey decision" and that he expects Ryder to help a Canadiens power play that has been struggling of late.
"Nothing against Erik," Bergevin said, "but this is a guy who fills a need."
Cole was coming off a career season after being signed to a four-year, $18 million contract as an unrestricted free agent in the summer of 2011 by the Canadiens previous GM Pierre Gauthier. He scored a career-high 35 goals last season with 61 points, which also matched a career-best. He formed one of the NHL's most potent lines with David Desharnais and Max Pacioretty, but this season did not get off to a good start offensively for him.
Cole had recently been split from Desharnais and Pacioretty and removed from the top two power play units by Canadiens coach Michel Therrien, and when he scored a goal and an assist on Saturday night against the New York Rangers it snapped a nine-game pointless streak.
However, when Cole is at his best, he is a big body with above average speed who can create turnovers off the forecheck and force defenders into taking penalties by driving the net with the puck.
"They are similar players statistically, but a different style of player," Nieuwendyk said. "[Cole] has a style that will be more beneficial to our team with how we want to play moving forward, a big body attacking the opponent."
When Nieuwendyk said statistically similar, he wasn't kidding.
Ryder had 62 points last season – one more than Cole in the same number of games – but this season he's been much more productive with 14 points in 19 games to tie for the team lead with Jamie Benn, who has played five fewer games. While Ryder actually had fewer power plays goals than Cole did last season with seven to Cole's 11, Ryder has been a consistent scorer on the power play who Bergevin described as a "sniper."
Ryder was originally drafted by the Canadiens in the eighth round in 1998 and spent the first four seasons of his career with Montreal before departing as a free agent to sign with the Boston Bruins in 2008. His final season with the Canadiens, Ryder was a healthy scratch in the playoffs after falling out of favor with then-coach Guy Carbonneau.
Few Canadiens fans were sad to see him leave at the time, even though he had scored 99 goals in 314 games with the club, but Bergevin is not the least bit concerned by that. Considering he did much the same thing in hiring Therrien as his coach, that shouldn't come as much of a surprise.
"I wasn't here when he left," Bergevin said. "But he has had success in Montreal, he had success in Boston and he had success in Dallas. I don't see why he wouldn't have success back in Montreal."
Trading away Cole's contract could allow Bergevin the leeway to re-sign Desharnais and perhaps Ryan White, who will both become restricted free agents in July. Looking ahead to this summer, Bergevin will have an additional $4.5 million to spend with the cap dropping to $64.3 million next season, leaving him with approximately $12.7 million in cap space, according to capgeek.com.
The third-round pick acquired by Bergevin improves an already rich coffer of 2013 selections left behind by Gauthier, who added second-round picks from Calgary and Nashville in trades last season. When added to the Canadiens' own picks, that gives amateur scouting director Trevor Timmins six picks in the top 90 come June.
There are only five players on the Canadiens who played with Ryder in Montreal – Carey Price, Josh Gorges, Francis Bouillon, Tomas Plekanec and Andrei Markov – and at least two of them were excited by the news of his return.
"Welcome back Ryds!" Price (@CP0031) wrote on Twitter, echoing a similar message from Gorges.
However, Cole was also a popular teammate who should help those young players Nieuwendyk was talking about with the Stars.
"Good luck in Dallas," Desharnais (@DavidDesha) wrote on Twitter, "and thank you Erik."
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Hello Jolene,
I agree with you entirely that this appears to be a clear cut case of retaliation, as they are suspending for a nonsensical reason so soon after you met with the tribe's attorney.
As what you were disciplined for happens on a regular basis and you were just subject to discipline for it (and have never been disciplined in the past), you definitely have a great case for retaliation for reporting the sexual harassment you experienced to HR. (I also agree that it makes no sense for you to have been disciplined for this, as you were doing the right thing here, and it is something that other floor managers would also do on a regular basis out of necessity).
I would definitely suggest that you file a complaint with the EEOC regarding the sexual harassment you were forced to endure and the retaliation that you suffered once the complaint was made to HR (even though you didn't initiate it yourself).
Due to the time frame between when you spoke to the tribe's attorney and when you were unfairly disciplined for this 'violation,' you have a great case for retaliation on top of your case for sexual harassment against the casino.
You can and should file a charge with the EEOC for sexual harassment and retaliation. You can do so using the information available online here: http://www.eeoc.gov/employees/charge.cfm
The EEOC will investigate your complaint on your behalf and either file suit on your behalf or issue you a right to sue letter so you can pursue your case against your employer through a private attorney.
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Charles P. Pierce was born December 28, 1953 in Worcester, Mass. Six months earlier, his mother hid in the basement as a massive tornado leveled his future hometown of Shrewsbury, Mass. The effect of prenatal imprinting is still being debated in medical circles, but a connection does not seem implausible.
He is a 1975 graduate of Marquette University, where he majored in journalism and brewery tours. He was delighted to combine his vocation and his avocation once again when he returned to Milwaukee to cover the trial of Jeffrey Dahmer.
He attended graduate school at Boston College for two days. He is a former forest ranger for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and still ponders the question of what possesses people to go into the woods and throw disposable diapers up into trees.
He began his journalism career writing bowling agate for the Milwaukee papers and remains justly proud of his ability to spell multi-syllabic, vowel-free Eastern European names. He has written for the alternative press, including Worcester Magazine and the Boston Phoenix and was a sports columnist for the Boston Herald. He was a feature writer and columnist for the late, lamented sports daily, The National. He has been a writer-at-large for a men's fashion magazine, and his work has appeared in the Boston Globe, the New York Times Magazine, the LA Times Magazine and the Chicago Tribune, among others. He appears weekly on National Public Radio's sports program "Only A Game," is a regular panelist on NPR's game show, "Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me" and is a frequent host on ESPN Radio. Since July, 1997 he has been a writer at large at Esquire, covering everything from John McCain to the Hubble telescope, with more than a few shooting stars thrown in between. In April 2002, he joined the staff of the Boston Globe Sunday Magazine.
Charles Pierce is the recipient of numerous professional awards and honors. On several occasions, he was named a finalist for the Associated Press Sports Editor's award for best column writing, and it has been suggested that if only he would wear a tie, they might have let him win. He was a 1996 National Magazine Award finalist for his piece on Alzheimer's disease, "In the Country of My Disease," and has expanded the piece into a book, "Hard to Forget: An Alzheimer's Story" for Random House. Charlie Pierce has appeared in Best American Sportswriting more times than any other writer, and his work has been anthologized in "Sports Guy: In Search of Corkball, Warroad Hockey, Hooters Golf, Tiger Woods, and the Big, Big Game." He was awarded third place in the PBWAA Dan S. Blumenthal Memorial Writing Contest. When he won Phone Jeopardy!, Alex Trebek sent him a plaque.
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What can I do with my course in Chinese?
Careers for graduates of Chinese
Your communication skills in Mandarin Chinese and your contextual knowledge of China's history, culture and society will benefit you in a career in international relations, social sciences, immigration, education or human services.
When combined with other qualifications, your fluency in Mandarin Chinese may enhance your employment opportunities with the large number of Australian businesses that trade products and services with China or with Chinese community groups around the world.
You could look for opportunities in agriculture, tourism, minerals, building materials, manufacturing, environmental technologies, banking and finance, food and beverage, and infrastructure and construction.
Skills and attributes
Graduates of Chinese need to demonstrate the following skills and attributes:
- Ability to confidently code switch between Mandarin Chinese and English
- Ability to work with a culturally diverse range of social groups across age groups
- Strong written and oral communication skills
- Critical thinking skills through analytical and conceptual thought
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Spinal muscular atrophy 1
Other Names for this Disease
- Werdnig-Hoffmann disease
- Werdnig Hoffmann disease
- Muscular atrophy, infantile
- SMA, infantile acute form
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spinal muscular atrophy. Symptoms of SMA1 become apparent before 6 months of age and include worsening muscle weakness and poor muscle tone (hypotonia) due to loss of the lower motor neurons in the spinal cord and brain stem.[1] Feeding and breathing problems are also present.[2] SMA1 is caused by changes (mutations) in the SMN1 gene and is typically inherited in an autosomal recessive manner.[3] Around 2% of cases are not inherited and are due to new mutations in the affected person. Treatment is symptomatic and aims to improve quality of life.[1]Spinal muscular atrophy 1 (SMA1), also known as Werdnig Hoffmann disease, is a severe type of
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- Haluk Topaloglu. Proximal spinal muscular atrophy type 1. Orphanet. July, 2009; http://www.orpha.net/consor/cgi-bin/OC_Exp.php?lng=en&Expert=83330.
- Kaneshiro NK, Hoch DB. Spinal muscular atrophy. MedlinePlus. 2008; http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000996.htm. Accessed 10/21/2009.
- Spinal muscular atrophy. Genetics Home Reference (GHR). January 2013; http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/condition=spinalmuscularatrophy. Accessed 4/6/2015.
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- Families of SMA has created a booklet entitled Understanding SMA that is intended to serve as a source of information and support for children and adults with Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA).
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- Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM) is a catalog of human genes and genetic disorders. Each entry has a summary of related medical articles. It is meant for health care professionals and researchers. OMIM is maintained by Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
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- Werdnig-Hoffmann disease
- Werdnig Hoffmann disease
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That's a pretty interesting way to think of it hardstalk. I wouldn't get a thrill or be proud of myself for killing an animal at anything over 400 yards (I would prefer 30 yards or less to get my heart pumping), but I do push the limits in other aspects of my life and I don't want people giving me grief over it. Personally I feel the same as coloradocowboy on the subject, but I guess all we can do is raise our own children the way we think they aught to be.
I would have to disagree. I think the hardest thing to do as a parent is let your kid do what THEY want to do and be who THEY want to be. If you raise your kids the way we think it aught to be its a hindrance that retards their full potential. And society. Embrance change and learn with them. But always guide. I think this is a whole nother forum in itself though.
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She Wanted a Younger Man Ch. 01byjeffrey214©
Jeffrey opened the door to see Nissa, Susan's best buddy from college days. "Hi, Jeffrey," she said gaily, walking past him into the room. Nissa was brown haired and certainly voluptuous, if on a slightly wider frame than Susan. She was pretty, but not gorgeous. She had always been nice to Jeffrey, but treated him as what he was – Susan's stay-at-home husband – and therefore not a real man. Jeffrey thought Nissa was a very big part of the reason Susan was going out on a 'date'. She was providing the opportunity, through her beau's friend, and Jeffrey was sure Nissa had been pressuring and cajoling Susan about the virtues of young men since her divorce almost a year ago.
"Is Suzy ready?" Nissa asked.
"Yes, I think so," said Jeffrey, just in time to see Susan come into the entry hall wearing the long mink coat to stay warm with such a skimpy dress on underneath. The girls hugged and gave air-kisses, and headed for the door.
Susan looked over her shoulder, "Jeffrey, be a dear and clean the bathrooms while I'm out. Ok honey? And do stay near the phone so you can pick up quickly when I call."
He was just saying, "Yes, dear," as the door shut and the two women were gone. Gone out on a date – his wife was going out on a date – with another man. Oh, my, he thought. He felt a strange combination of emptiness and exhilaration in his belly; he was defeated and excited at the same time. On the one hand it was humiliating that his wife had convinced him that she should date other men, to 'spice things up'. But he couldn't help noting that this very humiliation was keeping his penis just a little stiff and just a little throbbing. On the edge of becoming fully erect.
Jeffrey got his cleaning supplies and began with the master bedroom, keeping one of the cordless phones with him wherever he went. He was determined to answer on the first ring whenever Susan called him. After he finished cleaning the bathtub, shower, toilet, sinks, counter, and floor, he went to empty the trash can. There was a small empty condom box in the trash. It wasn't there an hour ago. Oh, my, he thought.
An hour and a half later, all three bathrooms were sparkling clean and Jeffrey sat on the sofa watching a repeat of an old super bowl from the 80's on the NFL replay channel. The phone rang, nearly stopping Jeffrey's heart, which had been steadily increasing in tempo for the last half hour. He quickly picked it up and tentatively said, "Hello?"
There was a lot of background noise. Electronic music was blaring and there were many people talking nearby, so it was hard to make out Susan's voice as she said, "Hi, honey, how's it going?"
"All fine here," he said, wanting to ask a million questions. Instead he said, "How is your date going?"
"Really wonderful, I'm having so much fun dancing with the boys. My date's name is Randy and he's really a good dancer."
Jeffrey detected a slight slurring in her voice, probably from having several drinks. "Are you ok?" he asked, not knowing what else to say.
"Oh yes, I'm fine. I've been dancing mostly with Randy, but also with Stewart and Ben, they're some friends of Randy's. Boy can Randy dance, it's really hard to keep up with him. Thank goodness they have a slow song between each fast song or I'd never be able to catch my breath."
Jeffrey's heart went to his throat as he thought of Susan slow-dancing in that skimpy dress, pressing her braless breasts against this 'Randy' person. No wonder the young man was 'randy', he thought. He couldn't help himself. He had to ask, "Do you like to slow-dance, uh, with your date?"
"Oh yes, very much, he's tall and so strong. He has big shoulders. He really knows how to hold a girl tight and make her feel petite and sexy. Honestly, his hands have a tendency to roam a bit, but a girl can't blame a young man – you know hormones and all that." She slurred a giggle, revealing just how intoxicated she really was. The music got quieter in the background and Jeffrey could hear a softer, slower beat. "Oops, gotta go for now, dear, I promised Randy to dance the next slow dance with him. And Jeffrey, this time, when he tries to feel my breasts, I'm going to let him do it."
The line went dead, and Jeffrey's penis was fully erect in his cotton gym shorts.
It was almost midnight when the phone rang again. Jeffrey had watched more football to try to keep his mind off of his wife's date, but it really wasn't working.
"Hello?" he said.
"Hi honey," said Susan, now clearly three sheets to the wind. "I just wanted to let you know that we've decided to go over to Nissa's house for a nightcap, so it'll be a while before I get home."
"Who's 'we'?" asked Jeffrey.
"Well, there's me, and Nissa, and her boyfriend John, and my lovely date Randy." She paused a minute, "And maybe Ben too, but we're not sure..."
"So, all of you are going to Nissa's house? Do you want me to pick you up there?"
"No, silly," she slurred, "Randy will drive me home after we all have our nightcap, so I won't need you to pick me up." She hiccupped and giggled, then she spoke away from the phone and he could hear her just barely as she said to someone else, "stop that, you're incorrigible."
She came back to the phone giggling like a school tipsy school girl. "Honey, I have to go, the natives are getting impatient." Just before she hung up the phone, Jeffrey heard her say to someone near her, "Stop it, people will see..." and then the line was dead.
Jeffrey imagined Randy was there, touching her body. Maybe feeling her up, and she was giggling and pretending to protest, but he knew her voice well enough to know she didn't want it to stop. She just wanted to move the action out of the public view. They were going to Nissa's house; two women in their forties, and two, maybe three, men in their late twenties.
Jeffrey knew full well what the young men had on their minds. And he knew that Susan was flattered by their attention, was on the verge of being debilitated by drink, and she had condoms in her purse. That was pretty much the formula that boys in their 20's have always used to get into a girl's panties - in this case, his wife's panties.
Nissa would only encourage 'Suzy' to let Randy have what he wanted, since she was getting it from John he was sure, and they were going to Nissa's house. Jeffrey took a deep breath and resigned himself to the fact that his wife was going to have sex with another man. He felt his penis harden. Oh, my, he thought.
There were no more phone calls.
At 3am, Jeffrey saw a black Shelby cobra pull into his driveway. A man whose face he couldn't see got out of the driver's side and opened the passenger door. He helped Susan out of the car and held her arm as he walked her to the door. She fumbled with the keys in her purse and "Randy" helped her get the key into the door before he quickly went back to his car, fired up, and left.
Susan came through the door wearing her mink, and holding her purse and keys. She saw Jeffrey and opened her arms to hug him and kiss him on the cheek. "Wow, what a night. I'm exhausted," she said. "How about you put me to bed and we can talk about my date in the morning."
"It is the morning, dear," he said, wiping fatigue from his eyes. He helped her to their bedroom and took he coat as she kicked off her heels. Jeffrey helped her shimmy out of the slinky black dress in the low light coming in from the nearby bathroom. He noticed two things. First, she had somewhere lost her panties, as they were nowhere in sight. Secondly, he saw that her neck and breasts had round red marks on them; hickeys.
He helped her to lie down under the sheets. It was then that he noticed her vulva was swollen and red, and that her thighs seemed sticky. It took him a moment to register the reason in his foggy brain. He touched her thigh and his hand came away with some goo. He looked at it in the light of the bathroom and sniffed his finger. It was semen. His wife had semen on her thighs. She had had intercourse with another man. From the look of her, she had had a lot of intercourse, and maybe with a lot of men.
He covered her up. She was already asleep. He stripped off his shorts and tee shirt and climbed into bed next to her falling quickly into a fitful sleep as he thought over and over, "My wife had sex with another man, maybe two or three other men."
Oh, my, he thought.
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Tour: British and American History Paintings of the 1700s« back to gallery
Sophisticated Europeans from the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries deemed "history painting" to be the supreme achievement in the visual arts. In addition to imaginatively re-creating actual events from the past, history paintings also illustrated heroic or moralizing episodes from religion, mythology, and literature.
The central challenge of history painting lay in selecting a particular subject that could engage the heart and instruct the mind. In devising appropriate figures, the painter demonstrated his mastery of anatomy and expression. Grand settings and symbolic accessories proved the artist's grasp of perspective depth and still-life draftsmanship. Compositions and color schemes had to be carefully conceived to accentuate the principal characters and to clarify the meanings of the incidents.
In depicting significant events that appealed to the conscience, history painting deserved its reputation as the most demanding and rewarding form of art—both for the creator and the viewer. The same desire for profundity in narrative pictures often invested portraits and landscapes with allegorical meanings and poetic overtones.
Idealism versus Realism in History Painting
Sir Joshua Reynolds, first president of London's Royal Academy of art, delivered these words in a speech in 1774: "Invention is one of the great marks of genius; but if we consult experience, we shall find, that it is by being conversant with the inventions of others, that we learn to invent; as by reading the thoughts of others we learn to think…. It is vain for poets or painters to endeavour to invent with material on which the mind may work, and from which invention must originate. Nothing can come of nothing.'
For his own history paintings, Reynolds declared he would "sometimes deviate from vulgar and strict historical truth, in pursuing the grandeur of his design." Thus, regardless of when and where the events occurred, Reynolds clothed his figures in classical robes and placed them before idealized scenery. In 1771, though, the American artist Benjamin West, who was to succeed Reynolds as the Royal Academy's president, produced a startling shift in convention. West depicted a recent incident, set against a recognizable location, with figures in contemporary dress.
Defending his novel idea of conveying history plainly rather than allegorically, West stated, "The same truth that guides the pen of the historian should govern the pencil of the artist…. I want mark the date, the place, and the parties engaged in the event; and if I am not able to dispose of the circumstances in a picturesque manner, no academical distribution of Greek or Roman costume will enable me to do justice to the subject." Reynolds graciously acknowledged that West's straightforward approach gave a new, more realistic, direction to history painting.« back to gallery


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During my time with the Vienna Philharmonic and Vienna State Opera, I decided to establish and maintain three performance records which would show detailed info about the works I performed with those orchestras. Only after a few years did it occur to me that other people might be interested in seeing those data. I published them on my personal blog, and now I thought it might be of interest (especially to prospective students) to see the body of work which I was fortunate enough to perform with two of the world's great orchestras. I've also added a fourth list to the database which shows the solo recitals I've given as a professional.
By no means do I wish to reduce the incredible musical experiences I've had over the years to numbers and statistics. This is simply my way of recording and organizing hundreds of performances into an easily-viewed 'digital CV' that is live-updating. After following the link below, you can navigate between the four lists using the tabs at the bottom of the window. Hope you find it interesting!


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First Knight
|Release Date: July 07, 1995
|Running Time: 112 mins.
|MPAA Rating: PG 13
|Box Office: $36,653,938.00
|Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Period, Romance
Sean Connery
Richard Gere
Julia Ormond
Ben Cross
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Summary:With no ties, no enemies and no fear, Lancelot is the perfect warrior. He comes to Camelot not for glory or knighthood, although he finds both, but for the love of the one woman he cannot have, the beautiful and honorable Lady Guinevere of Leonesse. Guinevere has promised to marry King Arthur not only because his army will protect her country, but because she truly loves him for his wise and gentle ways. As she prepares to enter Camelot as its new queen, a chance encounter with Lancelot awakens conflicting and powerful emotions within her. For Arthur, she represents a once-in-a-lifetime chance at true love and a beloved queen for his kingdom. Likewise, the king comes to see Lancelot as posse... Full Summary >>


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CORNELIUS – It's not as easy as it looks, folks.
The Hough High girls' soccer team is powerfully rolling along for the third straight spring. The Huskies (13-0-1) are crushing I-MECK 4A conference opponents and are North Carolina's top-ranked Class 4A team.
A year ago, they advanced to the 4A title game, but lost.
Two years ago, they were state champions.
"I think it starts with the foundation we laid when (Hough) opened," Hough coach David Smith said. "It's what we expect every year. This bunch is self-motivated."
They're also wicked talented. Five Huskies are college-bound next fall – Marnie Merritt and Courtney Carroll (to Mississippi), Sarah Moon (Appalachian State), Nicole Duncan (Catawba College) and Nicole Ferren (nickname: "Spud"), who'll play at Belmont Abbey.
The rest of the lineup is filled with talent and experience. Hough has outscored opponents 72-6, including a 60-1 margin in conference games.
"I like our chemistry," Smith said. "I like our togetherness. I like how they tend to work for each other really well. Very unselfish."
In a 9-0 win against Kannapolis Brown, eight Hough players had an assist and six different players scored goals. All three goals in a 3-1 win against Raleigh Millbrook came on corner kicks. Hough scored twice on free kicks against Lake Norman.
Carroll, a midfielder, leads with 19 goals. She's tied with Duncan, another midfielder, for the team lead in assists (11). Alex Denny has scored 10 goals. Ashley Johnson has nine assists. Brooke Sawyer, Anna Roach and Moon have five goals apiece.
"Everything is starting to click and we're finally realizing what we're capable of," said Merritt, an all-state goalkeeper the past two years. "We realize what we have and how to use it to be successful. We're playing for each other more and realizing what's at stake."
Merritt and back-up Katie Easley have combined for 10 shutouts, including zeroes the past six games.
Merritt said another key is each Husky being able to offer constructive criticism.
"We get on each other, but in a positive way," she said. "We all have the same goal, what's different in how we go about it. We've talked about it. We stress it's not about an individual player."
Hough's defense has improved. Emma Cangalosi, a sophomore, has shined as the sweeper. Ferren and Blair Timberlake are solid defenders adept at moving the ball out quickly.
"Marnie in the back is huge," Smith said. "The defenders have more than held their own. The biggest thing is they were timid the first few games and didn't get in there as much as we wanted. That's changed in the past month."
Carroll, the offensive leader, has more room to work as a midfielder, Smith said. He credited junior Emmily Cowie's ability to "win so many balls in the air," as a key to Hough's performance. Anna Roach, a sophomore transfer from Northwest Guilford, rounds out the potent midfield. Olivia DeMarcus, a senior, offers versatility as a defender and midfielder.
The forwards – Moon, Duncan and Denny – each bring something different to the dynamic.
"Nicole (Duncan) is fantastic out wide and makes nice crosses," Smith said. "Alex (Denny) is more of our back-to-the-goal forward. She's real strong. Sarah (Moon) loves to run up and down the field. She has speed."
Hough has a deep bench, too. Smith filled the schedule with strong non-conference opponents. Hough opened the season with a 2-2 tie against Providence (14-0-1 record) and has since beaten Myers Park (9-1), Lake Norman (12-2-1), Millbrook (9-3-1) and Mooresville (11-4-2).
The playoffs loom, a time of year that won't spook Hough.
"Each game is its own beast," Smith said. "I tell the girls you can't win the state championship in the second round, but you can lose it."