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Back in January, Detroit's return to the playoffs was a bit of a thud, getting blown out in the second half by the once-and-future dome offense in New Orleans. But it wasn't for lack of trying, especially on the part of Shawn Payton, from Jackson, Mich. Payton was watching the game at home, and he didn't like what he was seeing. So he did what any reasonable fan might: he googled a phone number for the Superdome, called it, and told them to stop winning or he'd detonate a bomb.
The first call came in the third quarter, after Jimmy Graham scored to put the Saints up 24-14. Payton rung up the reception desk at one of the entrance gates, said he was on the premises, and declared "I will blow up your building."
The Saints didn't stop winning. About an hour later, Payton called back after a failed onside kick all but put the game out of reach. This time, he had message for his namesake, the Saints coach. (He couldn't google that phone number, I guess.)
"Hi, I want you to relay a message to the sideline: If your stupid Southern team keeps winning, there will be reper...severe consequences, OK?"
Payton had called from his home phone, so it wasn't much for the FBI to track him down. He was arrested, pleaded guilty to a felony count of threatening interstate communications, and yesterday was sentenced to three years' probation and two months' home confinement.
Federal judge sentences Jackson Lions fan to three years probation for calling Superdome, making threats [MLive]

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How Healthy are Your School Lunches?
Help make your kids' school chemical free, allergy-friendly, and part of the forward-thinking AllergyKids community. …
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Submitted by Douglas Abrams
1. Educate yourself about endocrine disruptors, and educate your family and friends. Read the novel or other books (like Our Stolen Future: www.ourstolenfuture.com) and share them with others. I wrote a fact-based eco-thriller, because I wanted to share these issues with people in a way that was entertaining as well as informative and that allows readers to experience the reality we face emotionally and not just factually. My goal was to help us understand the real threats and find an inspiring way back into a relationship with the natural world that will allow our children to inherit a healthy world.www.douglascarltonabrams.com
2. Buy organic food and eat as low on the food chain as possible since pesticides concentrate as animals eat other animals.
3. Avoid using pesticides in your home or yard, or on your pet — use baits or traps instead, keep your home especially clean to prevent ant or roach infestations.
4. Find out if pesticides are used in your child's school or day care center and campaign for non-toxic alternatives.
5. Avoid fatty foods such as cheese and meat whenever possible, since chemicals concentrate in animal fat.
6. Eat small, low mercury fish. If the entire fish fits on your plate (like tilapia), it is generally healthier. Also check out the safe fish eating guide put out by the Monterey Bay Aquarium (http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/cr/cr_seafoodwatch/sfw_whatsnew.aspx).
7. Avoid heating food in plastic containers, or storing fatty foods in plastic containers or plastic wrap.
8. Use cast iron pans or enamel coated cast iron pans instead of non-stick, which has lots of chemicals that leach into your cooked food.
9. Do not give young children soft plastic teethers or toys, since these also leach potential endocrine disrupting chemicals.
10. The most important thing is to work with other parents and non-profits to get strong government regulation of and increased research on endocrine disrupting chemicals. I provide a list of excellent non-profits on my website. In the end, we cannot shop our way or lifestyle our way out of chemical exposure. Toxins are so ubiquitous in our environment that the only true solution is working together to change chemical regulation. In fact, there are some very exciting new developments. The EPA has just come out with its principles for chemical reform, and it is likely that a bill entitled the Kid Safe Chemical Act will be introduced into Congress this year. But the only way it will pass is if we make our representatives do the right thing. There will be very strong forces of opposition working against it.
I start out every novel I write with a question, not an answer. The day I was sitting by the fire reading to my daughters, I asked myself a question that was both deeply personal and universal. It is a question that many of us are increasingly asking ourselves: Given the ecological challenges we face, can we survive as species, and what might be stronger than our greed, our fear, and our denial? I needed an answer to this question, and there is no better place to ask questions about human nature than in the fictional world. I got an answer to my question.
What I learned from the scientists is that in our species, and in fact all mammals, there is nothing stronger than the maternal instinct. Yes, mothers are the secret, and fathers, too. Today, we can speak of the parental instinct. In other words, it is our love for our children that is our greatest hope for survival. But we cannot protect our children without protecting all children. We have to realize that all children are in our care, even if they are not in our family.
For more information about endocrine disruption, the research mentioned in this blog post, and about Doug's fact-based eco-thriller, Eye of the Whale, please visit www.DouglasCarltonAbrams.com.


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I have over 100 pictures in my camera but haven't had a second to download them so today's post will highlight one of my all time favorite photos.
I took this picture on July 4, 2007. It was a gorgeous afternoon. I was lounging on my couch when my weather radio went off with a tornado warning. I grabbed my camera and headed outside. I immediately saw a storm forming to the southeast. In just a few minutes, a small tornado formed and I started snapping pictures.
This is the first (and only) tornado I've ever seen in person. It was small, but it was very cool. I was insanely excited to have captured pictures of the tornado. I immediately emailed them to family and friends. They did not share my excitement. The most common response was "What the hell were you doing out in the yard? Why didn't you take cover?"
Thankfully, my local meteorologist understood my excitement and featured my photo on the evening news.


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Eileen Sheridan – "This Girl Can"
On a February evening in 1951, 7,000 people packed the Royal Albert Hall for a celebration of 60 years of Cycling, the house journal of the sport in Britain.
Despite the post-war austerity, no expense was spared. There was an orchestra, roller racing, acrobats, trapeze artists and dancing girls. In a highlight of the evening, Fausto Coppi, on his first visit to Britain, took to the stage for a demonstration. Dressed in the celeste and blue of his Bianchi team and under dimmed lights, Il Campionissimo rode a snow white track bike on a special set of red, white and green rollers.
The rollers were mounted on a slowly revolving platform to ensure everyone got a complete view of the world's most complete cyclist, with moving spotlights of continually changing colours illuminating his graceful figure. The crowd roared its appreciation.
Coppi's show was followed by the finale of the evening: the presentation of prizes to the 12 fastest racers of the season just gone. A photograph shows them lined up in front of the orchestra, trophies in hand.
Standing out among the men in suits was a woman in a strapless fuscia ballgown with matching lace gloves and shoes. She was a shade under five feet tall with brown wavy hair, dimpled cheeks, and a toothy smile. She was Eileen Sheridan of the Coventry Cycling Club.
Sixty one years later, near enough to the day, Rouleur photographer Wig Worland and I are at the door of a pastel pink terraced house on the banks of the Thames in west London. It's a sunny winter morning. A small model bicycle stands in the net curtained front window, next to a couple of pot plants. I ring the bell.
Now 85 [note: she is now 95 – ed] – and still with something of that charming, toothy smile – Eileen Sheridan opens the door and invites us in. We greet her husband Ken, who is standing just behind, and follow the pair into their small sitting room. It's unseasonably warm outside but warmer still inside. The two bar electric fire is putting out some serious heat and the low winter sunshine streams in through full length windows that open onto a lovingly kept garden extending right up to the river.
Water has been a constant in their long life together. Eileen Shaw met Ken Sheridan at an open air swimming pool in Coventry during the Second World War. She had grown up in the city and Ken, from Richmond in south west London, was working there as an engineer. In her autobiography Eileen recalls noticing a "dark eyed black haired young man who swam like an otter".
When the swimming pool closed for the winter they took to their bicycles and toured the rolling countryside south of Coventry. Weekend youth hostel runs took them to the Malvern Hills and into Herefordshire. They were made for each other and were soon married. As members of the Cyclists' Touring Club, they didn't do any racing, though they did take part in the CTC's 'standard rides' such as the '140 in 12' (the closest English equivalent of the audax rides devised by Tour de France founder Henri Desgrange).
The Thrill of the Chase
In 1944 Ken bought Eileen her first lightweight bicycle and, somewhat tentatively, they began riding with the Coventry Cycling Club. In that first season Eileen raced just once, in the club's own ten mile time trial, turning up at the start without the regulation black jersey and shorts. A fellow club member lent her his black alpaca jacket and Eileen rode to victory, setting a new women's club record.
"I enjoyed racing," she says now. "I loved the thrill of chasing. I just had to try hard and win. It was just in me to chase; I think you're born with that." In 1945, her first full season as an amateur, she won the national 25 mile time trial championship. The following year her son Clive was born but she was back training within seven weeks.
More successes came at 50 and 100 mile distances. She raced on the track and not owning "a posh track bike" she just rode up on her road bike. She recalls Reg Harris, the burly sprinter from Manchester, helping to remove her mudguards. The race that gave the clearest sign of things to come was the Yorkshire Cycling Federation's 12 hour time trial in 1949.
Ken was initially wary about his wife riding a 'twelve'. It was far further than she had ever raced and anyway the couple were saving to buy a house. Money was tight and there were expenses involved in travelling up to Yorkshire with a team of helpers. In the end, a small handful of Coventry CC club-mates, desperate to see what 'their Eileen' could achieve, offered to help get her to the start line. Ken was placated.
Riding a 79.7 inch fixed wheel, she covered 237.32 miles, breaking the previous record by 17 miles. In the men's race she would have placed fifth out of 80, having covered just six miles less than the winner.
Fresh as a daisy
Coventry was one of the cities which ultimately drove the motor boom that virtually eradicated cycling from British society. But in the early post-war years the roads were empty of motor traffic and there were more miles travelled by bicycle than by car. No road was out of bounds. At weekends Eileen and Ken would ride the 100 miles from Coventry down to Richmond-on-Thames where his family lived.
On these longer riders Ken found it hard to match Eileen's pace. He sweated so much that his top tube became corroded while Eileen would arrive at her in-laws as fresh as a daisy.
In what sounds like a real life version of the famous scene in 1970s American bicycling teen flick Breaking Away, Eileen laughs as she recalls how she would draft lorries for miles on end on her training runs. "I must have been breathing all the black smoke coming out of the back but the drivers were helpful in those days. They seemed to know you were there."
As a racer, Eileen showed the same fearlessness that had seen her ride her aunt's bicycle into the centre of Coventry as a seven-year-old. The saddle was far too high for her so she bobbed up and down on the pedals peering over the handlebars to see where she was going. She was spotted riding in between the tram tracks down Broadgate, the city's main thoroughfare. When her parents found out they told her in no uncertain terms that this was an adventure not to be repeated.
"I didn't see that there was anything wrong with it," she says. "I suppose I just loved the excitement of riding a bicycle."
Eileen had an office job in a Coventry car dealership and this meant many of her training runs were done at night. Night riding is a thrill I know well myself. There's a weightless feeling and a sense of still concentration. These days, it's really also the only way to experience something of the empty roads of the post-war years.
Once, having ridden through the night, I found myself on the course of an early morning time trial. I watched as serious looking racers bombed up and down a dual carriageway, hoping that the drivers of the articulated lorries were sufficiently alert not to run them down. To me, it looked less a form of sporting recreation and more a form of penance for crimes unknown.
The Race of Truth
Today, time trialling possesses something of the secret society atmosphere it had in its early days in the late 19th century. It is now relegated to a minority pursuit, something for the traditionalists; the purists some might say.
Yet for many years time trialling was simply the way British people raced their bicycles on the road. If ever the country has enjoyed an era of mass participation in cycle sport it was the late 1940s and '50s. On any weekend, across the country, it was not uncommon for as many as 150,000 people to be taking part in a time trial.
The bigger races were held on major roads to ensure fast times, the most important among them the Bath Road (now the A4), the Portsmouth Road (now the A3) and the Great North Road (now the A1). They were a far cry from the hostile dual carriageways they have since become.
The iron grip of the time trial was in large part down to the National Cyclists' Union, which was vehemently opposed to continental style bunch racing. The Road Time Trials Council issued a 3,500 word statement entitled The Council's Statement on the Menace of Mass Start Racing on the Highway, and asserted that "road races violate every one of the principles of clean amateurism, authenticity, and regard for public safety."
It shows how wide was the gulf between Britain and continental Europe, which had embraced bunch racing from the beginning and had turned it into one of the world's great sporting spectacles. Percy Stallard's breakaway British League of Racing Cyclists was founded in 1942 and did hold bunch races but participation meant instant excommunication from the NCU (and most likely from your local club). And it offered no racing for women.
In any case the 'race of truth' suited Eileen, who says she was never faster than when she had someone to chase. "No-one ever passed me in time trials, I used to chase and catch. It was a great thrill, it really was." She confesses a lack of guile on the track, never quite getting her positioning right for the finishing sprint. But combining obvious athletic prowess with a winning personality, it was only a matter of time before she was offered commercial sponsorship deals.
A few months after watching Fausto Coppi ride the rollers at the Royal Albert Hall, Eileen joined him among the ranks of professional cyclists, thanks to a three year contract with the Hercules Cycle and Motor Company. At the time Hercules was one of the biggest cycle manufacturers in the country, selling cheap, mass produced bikes to the British market but also exporting two million overseas. The firm wanted Eileen to promote their products with a series of attempts on the professional distance records held by Marguerite Wilson, a pre-war rider who had also ridden for the company.
Eileen was signed along with Ken Joy of Medway Wheelers but in Hercules' advertising they are given equal billing – something that is difficult to imagine happening today. The public was fascinated by Eileen's diminutive, girlish appearance, which was at quite at odds with what many thought a strong endurance athlete should look like.
Newspapers dubbed her 'The Mighty Atom' and Sir Adolphe Abrahams, the founder of British sports medicine, wrote a feature in Cycling detailing her lung capacity, heart rate, musculature, psychological profile and other factors that combined to make "a human machine of the highest grade capable of superlative performance".
For Eileen, the Hercules contract represented the big time. It didn't put her in the same financial league as today's sporting stars but it was enough for her and Ken to buy their riverside home, a car, and to guarantee a degree of security. She still smarts at the thought of the tax she paid in those three lucrative years but, ever the hard worker, she not only paid those but also repaid her sponsors handsomely.
She broke every one of the 21 professional long distance and place-to-place records on the books of the Womens' Road Records Association. In fact, her performances took her within touching distance of many of the men's records, sparking quite a debate in the newspapers about women in sport. Throughout her career, she was subjected to a casual sexism that would have been demoralising had it not been for her carefree attitude. At a sporting panel event one of the questions asked whether a woman's proper place was "at the kitchen sink and not in sport".
In a Pathé newsreel from 1956, the narrator remarks on how "in addition to her household duties she finds the time to be a champion professional cyclist" and concludes, "no wonder she wins races. She has to – to get back in time to catch up with the housework".
These attitudes go a long way to explaining why women's cycling was so slow to develop on the world stage. The first UCI Women's Road Race World Championship wasn't held until 1958 and there was no women's time trial event until 1994. Women's cycling didn't become an Olympic sport until 1984 and it still rarely features on television, denying it crucial sponsorship money.
Herculean Efforts
This lingering sexism, which afflicts cycling more severely than it does many other sports, serves to make the achievements of pioneers such as Eileen all the more impressive. Of course, and as ever in professional cycling, there were some commercial imperatives at work.
Hercules were selling bikes to men but also to women (for the most part, touring and utility models) and wanted a record breaking woman to front their campaigns aimed at the female market. The fact that Eileen looked like an 'ordinary woman' and not some kind of Amazonian powerhouse must have been part of her attraction to her sponsors. "They were so pleased about me because I looked feminine," she says.
One of the more zany of the Hercules promotional campaigns features what must be a very early 3D pamphlet, complete with a pair of green and red lensed cardboard spectacles with which to look at it. The advertisement proclaims that when Eileen breaks records she is "testing a Hercules for you". Yet the reality was that she never raced on a real Hercules, but on a lightweight machine badged up as a Hercules.
The advertisement is one of many now preserved with the rest of Eileen's papers at the Coventry Transport Museum: carefully compiled scrapbooks filled with photographs, yellowing newspaper clippings and other ephemera. Besides the scrapbooks there is a box of trophies and medals and a pair of leather racing shoes, so tiny they look more like ballet shoes than anything made for cycling.
The Museum also holds her record breaking bicycle, in metallic purple with the deep drop handlebars that gave Eileen a low position on the bike. "They all laughed at my handlebars, my great big handlebars. But I got into a lovely flat position when I was on that bike. And I used to lie almost on the tip of the saddle. And all the fast men now, when you see their position, they are down, very flat and they are right on the tip of their saddle. It's incredible. But that's how I found I was doing the fastest times. I hated it when Frank or any of the others messed around with my bicycle."
Frank is Frank Southall, who had been hired by Hercules to manage Eileen's record attempts. A former racer from renowned London club Norwood Paragon, he had won Olympic medals on both the road and on the track before turning professional and setting nine distance records in the 1930s.
Eileen's papers show how meticulously her own record attempts were planned, with detailed time schedules, hand drawn maps of the turns and other tricky route sections, and elaborate systems for time keeping and certification that she had covered the distance.
Telegrams conveyed news of her successes back to the Hercules head office. The rules of the day strictly forbade any advance publicity of a record attempt so there was little in the way of support and encouragement out on the road, other than what was organised by her own team of helpers. Local cycling clubs would sometimes be tipped off so they could marshall her runs through larger towns and sympathetic policemen would hold up the traffic.
Of all the record attempts, the greatest was surely her ride from Land's End to John O'Groats. It began at 10am on a blustery, overcast day in June, 1954. She rode the 470 miles to Carlisle without taking a break, stopping only to attach lights and wet weather clothing when it started to rain. From Penrith onwards her entourage was joined by a very strange vehicle: a customised caravan equipped with beds, a gas fire, a kitchen and a separate toilet hut, all mounted on a large lorry.
The weather was terrible, with high winds and torrential rain slowing her progress through the Scottish borders. Wearing no gloves and with no padding on her handlebars, Eileen's hands became so blistered that she could only grip the bars using the heel of her hands and her thumb, formed into a primitive claw. The final miles to John O'Groats dragged on and on, with each hill giving way to another.
In the event she broke both the professional record of Marguerite Wilson and the (faster) amateur record set by fellow Coventrian Edith Atkins the previous year. She was more than 11 hours faster than Wilson and just under seven hours faster than Atkins. Reaching John O'Groats wasn't the end of the ride, for Hercules wanted her to set a new record for 1,000 miles. And so after an hour and three quarters' rest she was back on the bike for another 130 miles.
At one point Southall told her that if she could increase her speed by just a third of a mile per hour she'd beat the men's 1,000 mile record. But she was already at her limit, hallucinating freely, greeting imaginary people on the road and struggling against an overpowering urge to ride off the road and into the verge.
She could manage only 60 miles before being forced to take another hour's rest. Then another 30 miles. With just 40 miles to go and Eileen feeling desperately hungry, Southall proposed another rest and a meal – of fried eggs and bacon. Eileen was incapable of holding a knife and fork and so Southall cut up her food and fed her as her head lolled forward into sleep.
But the meal had the desired effect. In those final miles she picked up speed and wound up having ridden the 1,000 miles in three days and one hour, demolishing the women's record and coming within two hours 20 minutes of the best men's time. It still stands as one of the greatest ever rides by a British endurance athlete and it was a record that stood for 48 years until it was broken by Lynne Taylor in 2002.
Super Tough: Cyclo-cross 1962 style featuring Beryl Burton
Five of Eileen's place-to-place records are yet to be broken, including London to Edinburgh (20 hours 11 minutes and 35 seconds), London to Liverpool (9 hours 39 minutes) and London to Bath and back (10 hours 41 minutes and 22 seconds). At 25 miles, her final record breaking ride as a professional was the shortest. It was a distance she never favoured, saying it usually took her that long just to get warmed up.
It took two attempts to break the record and with that, her racing career was over. There were no records left to break and, having signed as a pro, nobody to race.
Hercules offered to extend her contract if she would take on a purely promotional role but she declined saying it would take her away from home for too long. In any case, there was little fun in an endless series of public appearances and photo shoots. In 1955 the birth of a daughter required a second caesarean section and Eileen gives this as the reason she was never able to regain her best form on the bike.
She just got on and did it
What happens when a successful bike racer stops racing? Too often the answer is an overwhelming feeling of emptiness and loss. Worse still, a nosedive into deep depression. Unfortunately, there is no shortage of sad tales of athletes who have not been able to handle the transition from exceptional human machine to ordinary human being. It is an issue I am keen to put to Eileen, especially since she gives every impression of having dealt with the change extremely well.
"If you have no other interests it must be very upsetting, very frustrating," she says. "But I had so many other interests – drawing, swimming, canoeing, and then I took up glass engraving. I've had so many things I can do, I've never had time to feel down."
I have more cycling I want to talk about but Eileen has pulled out two hefty albums filled with photographs of the innumerable glasses she has engraved. It's difficult to take them all in. Some were made to commemorate great moments in cycling. There is something inescapably kitsch about a portrait of Chris Boardman with his futuristic Lotus pursuit bike elaborately engraved on a large, lead crystal goblet.
No matter, the glass engraving gave Eileen an outlet for her innate enthusiasm, a new – and infinite – set of tasks to complete. Something to chase. She seems every bit as proud of her glass engraving as she is of her record breaking. Both represented something to do and she just got on and did it.
Others were not so fortunate, including Marguerite Wilson, Eileen's record breaking predecessor. "She was really marvellous, 'the great Marguerite Wilson' as far as I was concerned. Beautiful, with lovely blond hair, and very tall. A very powerful rider. I think if she'd have been riding when I was riding she'd have got everything. But she got depressed and then she suddenly committed suicide. A lovely, lovely girl. So very sad."
For the first time in two hours Eileen falls silent and I can see the beginnings of tears welling in her eyes. I try to move the conversation on but soon enough we come to the subject of Beryl Burton, the seven time world champion whose dominance of pursuit and road racing puts her among the very greatest athletes Britain has ever produced.
Burton won the British Best All-Rounder Competition for 25 consecutive years from 1959 to 1983. She died of heart failure while out on a social ride delivering invitations to her 59th birthday. Eileen recalls Beryl complaining about feeling unwell and urging her to take it easier, to have a break from competition.
"But she murmured about having just this race and just that race to do and I suppose in the end she just overdid it." Eileen gave the eulogy at Beryl's funeral.
It is impossible to look at Eileen Sheridan's racing career as anything other than a shaft of brilliant light that brightened what was already the golden age of British cycling. As is always the way, it wasn't what she achieved but how she did it.
Her feats of speed and endurance were achieved with a strong determination leavened by the innocent pleasure of the chase. She was an amateur at heart but took to the life of a professional quite naturally.
Cycle sport has long revelled in its manufactured images of heroic, hyper-virile male physical prowess, emphasising pain and suffering as the price of glory. The memory of a youthful, ever-smiling Eileen Sheridan – at less than five foot tall with a furious cadence and indomitable fighting spirit – reminds us of the possibility of a lighter side to the sport. No less talented, no less determined, no less committed, but hers is a more joyful vision of cycling.
"We've been very lucky and had some wonderful times, haven't we, Ken?" says Eileen as she looks over to her husband, now into his 90s, who was once the black haired young man who swam and dived like an otter.
Throughout the interview, Ken has been sitting quietly in his armchair, watching his wife with the affection, quiet admiration and love which I sense is the foundation of a shared happiness that began with those long days at the pool and the long rides out the open road.
As he has been listening to our conversation, perhaps he has been wondering what exactly it is that I find so interesting in a bygone time; in what was, after all, just an early part of their lives that passed into history so many years ago.
He has some justification in wondering. Time passes. Things change. As a society we have made a succession of choices that, taken together, have fundamentally altered the texture of our everyday lives. Is it sentimentality that makes me want to hear about those times and to mourn that they will never come back? Is it futile to rage against the monopolisation of our roads by motor vehicles at the expense of cyclists?
Has every bicycle boom in my lifetime been nothing more than a giant marketing opportunity hitched to a severe case of wishful thinking? Is this boom any different from the others? I've spent the morning asking Eileen questions, but those are questions for my own generation to answer.
Originally published in issue 33 of Rouleur.
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Welcome to Bubba does business. A couple of words of introduction are in order. First, let me explain that this is not a business book written for corporate suits. It also isn't a business book written in academic voice for professors and students in business school. This is a book that was written for Bubba and all the other business people who are out standing in their field where you get mud on your boots and dirt in your eye. This is a book of practical tips and techniques for the business owner operators who are the heart of any economy. In short, this is a book for you.
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I need front, back, and spine for a 100-150 page book. Space should be available on the back for an ISBN and a blurb. I do not want it to look like a corporate business book or textbook.
There needs to be space on the front cover near the bottom for "Forward by Brad Sugars" and his picture. Of course the title and author needs to be on the cover and spine.
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The BBA's Public Service blog, Beyond the Billable is your one stop shop for everything Public Service at the BBA. Check it out here.
On a cold December night more than 100 lawyers -- many of whom had only earlier this month been admitted to the bar -- turned out for the Boston Bar Association's annual "Mistakes New Lawyers Make." There a panel of six lawyers of different backgrounds shared professional advice useful to attorneys of all experience levels -- including legal tips, networking and how to keep clients happy.
Panelists included Moderator David E. Wilson (Corwin & Corwin LLP),Marie E Giraud (Morrison Mahoney LLP), Von Bryant (Foley Hoag LLP), Jessica A. Massey (Massachusetts Office of the Attorney General), Gabriel Cheong (Infinity Law Group LLC), and Adrienne Penta ( Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.)
We will be running all of the tips in a four part series in BBA Week. Our first week will focus on Professional Pitfalls:
• Don't guess when someone asks you a question. Saying something along the lines of, "I don't know the answer, but I will get back to you," is much better than giving the wrong answer.
• Seek out a mentor early on. Have a person of whom you can ask questions. Get out of your office and get your questions answered.
• Never press "send" after 1:00AM. If there is no need to send something late, then don't. It is better to wake up early and reread a piece of work. The extra polish and shine on a person's work is important to his or her personal brand.
• Don't feel the need to be more combative or aggressive than necessary. You can always get more aggressive. It is not as easy to "unannoy" someone on the other side of a deal.
• The BBO has a hotline you can call to tell them about a mistake you made and they will inform you of the possible consequences of your mistakes.
• Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers deals with alcohol abuse among lawyers. Don't let the stress associated with work overwhelm you.
• Learn to say "no," in a tactful way. In order to please multiple bosses, you must get work done in a timely manner and manage bosses' expectations about time management.
• Don't commit to something and then not get it done. Be realistic. Be honest.
• When you make a mistake, be honest with yourself that you made a mistake. Accept it. Own it. Decide how bad is the mistake is. Try to come up with a solution to propose when bringing a mistake to the attention of a supervisor.
• Don't try to fix your mistakes too quickly. Acting to quickly can lead to another mistake.
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Last Friday's James Montgomery show jam packed Cape Ann Marina's Waterfront Pavilion (the BIG tent next to Mile Marker One) and VIP was sold out. The photo on the right shows how close the VIP seats are to the stage.
Wouldn't you like to be this close to Henri Smith and his band New Orleans Friends & Flavours featuring Grammy-winning sax & flute player Amadee Castenell?
You can still get VIP seats (right here), but they won't last long. Plus you'll be supporting Cape Ann YMCA Camp & Teen Services.
Don't be one of those people who comes at the last minute and then complains that all the best seats are taken. DO IT NOW!
Here's a shot of the VIP section from behind the last row of VIP.
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T, apparently this is an issue out here as well.On the local Sacto news, they are warning people in the Capital to be on the lookout for roving bands of raccoons.There have been several attacks on people and pets, packs of 5 raccoons or more have been reported around the city.I grew up there, and in all those years, I only saw one, so you are correct, this is a banner year for the critters. :o :o :o http://www.sacbee.com/2011/09/08/3892747/latest-raccoon-attack-raises-question.html
The worst part of a racoon attack would be all the rabies shots you had to take afterwards.
If this was happening to me, I'd nail the little fuckers on a stake, so his little buddies can see what happens when they start eating my shit!
Two words, Claymore mines, they do wonders. :D If I was facing this problem, I'd put up an electrified fence.I was raised to believe anything you kill you must consume, but Raccoon?I doubt I'd garner a taste for rats with masks.
Coon is better than possum. Possum is fatty as hell. Ya gotta boil that thing forever.
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One second, you're playing with your kids.
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It could happen to you if it happened to Wired reporter Mat Honan, who details the ease with which hackers stole his passwords and personal information in an article released this week.
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A hacker claiming to be a teenager went after Honan's personal information in an attempt to gain control of his Twitter handle, Honan reported. The hacker was able to secure passwords crosslinked to Apple and Amazon.com by providing to tech support Honan's billing address and the last four digits of his credit card -- all information publicly available, according to reports.
Had Honan locked down his Gmail account using a two-step verification process, it might have been avoided, he wrote. Had he also had different passwords for his different accounts, hackers would not have been able to wipe his laptop and iPhone remotely, he wrote. But there's also security breakdowns at Apple and Amazon, where security technicians apparently gave hackers sensitive account information over the the phone, he wrote.
"I'm angry that Amazon makes it so remarkably easy to allow someone into your account, which has obvious financial consequences. And then there's Apple. I bought into the Apple account system originally to buy songs at 99 cents a pop, and over the years that same ID has evolved into a single point of entry that controls my phones, tablets, computers and data-driven life. With this AppleID, someone can make thousands of dollars of purchases in an instant, or do damage at a cost that you can't put a price on."


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When my sister in law mentioned that I should bake raspberry mascarpone cheesecake, I just said "I've never made it before", without thinking. She wasn't even thinking either when she said that, but then I thought how brilliant that idea sounds. The creamy mascarpone and the fragrant raspberries. For a second there, I thought she was genius to mention this combo, even if she didn't really mean it in the first place :). I've never been such a big fan of cheesecake, but I absolutely adore mascarpone cheese. I love the smooth and very creamy taste of it. Everything that has mascarpone in it must be good.
Then, I began my search on raspberry mascarpone cheesecake online as a start, but I found nothing. Very weird, as I would think that other people must have tried this before, but I couldn't find any recipe. So, What I did is just take the existing mascarpone cheesecake as a start point and go from there. I modified the recipe quite a bit to suit my taste, and also so that it would go great with raspberries. It's quite pricey making this cheesecake though. Everybody knows how expensive mascarpone can be, and I need more than one for this. It also has almond base, as I'm also not a fan of the plain and old graham cracker crumb base. Not to mention the raspberries and the cream cheese. But as long as it gives me the result I want, it doesn't matter anymore :).
Making cheesecake is pretty straightforward. Unlike layered cakes, where you have to bake thin sponge cakes, for cheesecake, you just mix the ingredients for the base and bake it for a few minutes. no beating or folding necessary. The filling was also quick to whip up. Just dump everything in the mixer, let it run until it smooth and add the eggs one after another, that's it. I also added a couple tablespoons of framboise, but I think the flavor got lost somewhere between the cream cheese and mascarpone. I scattered some fresh raspberries in the middle of the cheesecake. Everything went well until it comes for decoration, one of my weaknesses. I do have lots of ideas though, but I'm just to lazy to go that far just for decoration, although yes, I admit that it's one of the most important part of a cake. It's what make the cake art-y (???). Making the glaze took the longest time. The first one was a fail and I wasted my whole frozen raspberry to make the puree. So, had to run to the grocery store and bought another one. Thawing, pureeing, straining the seeds, can be very time-consuming. I'm not completely satisfied either with the result of the glaze. Gotta think to make it better next time.
I didn't go the extra mile for the decoration though. I let the side just as it is because I want it to look like a cheesecake. If I cover it with something, it would have looked just like a mousse cake. I think it looks acceptable, not the best decoration in the world but it's the best I can do with the leftover ingredients and the time I had. I should have smoothen the side with a warm metal spatula, but I didn't :(.
I haven't cut the cake yet, but I tasted the one that was stuck in the cake ring and pan and I loved it. My sis in law can't wait to eat it for the past two days, but I wouldn't let her because I haven't fully decorated it :P. I'll make sure she gets her portion of the cheesecake tomorrow. It doesn't have that "heavy" feeling you get with the regular NY cheesecake, and you can definitely tell that there is mascarpone in it. The raspberry just brightens the flavor, making it refreshing, fruity, and light at the same time. Definitely a keeper. I mean, when you heard or saw a cake with a name like this, who can resist?
Another cake I made the weekend before, a classic Indonesian cheese cake (not cheesecake) for a friend's birthday cake. I made it so often that I don't want to make a separate post over and over again, so I just shared the picture. And every single time I make it, it makes my mouth water (a little hyperbolic here) and it gives me craving for it. I'll just have to find the time to make it again one of these days :)


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In the video below, a former decorated undercover FBI agent, Mike German, explains how the national security state, in league with local law enforcement, is secretly targeting Americans for political views and activities perceived as a threat to the political establishment.
German concentrates on the constitutional abuses of fusion centers and cites the Missouri Information Analysis Center report targeting Ron Paul and Chuck Baldwin as rightwing terrorists and the 2009 Virginia Terrorism Threat Assessment, produced by the Virginia Fusion Center, that singled out political groups as terrorist threats. Both reports were leaked to the media and covered extensively by Alex Jones and Infowars.com.
German notes that local law enforcement is now used as a weapon against anti-establishment politicians, activists and political organizations – in short, state and local law enforcement is now fully integrated into a larger political secret police apparatus. Efforts by the Department of Homeland Security, the FBI, military intelligence and other agencies, including the CIA, in league with private sector contractors, have produced a surveillance state culture and foundation that rivals that created by East Germany's Stasi.
"We've moved away from surveillance based on individualized suspicion, the Fourth Amendment standard of probable cause and a warrant has basically evaporated," German told Reason.tv last year. "And the government can now collect information about people it doesn't even suspect of wrongdoing."
For the establishment and its political elite, traditional criminal "wrongdoing" comes in a distant second to political "wrongdoing" perceived as threatening the political status quo. Fusion centers established by the Department of Homeland Security are not designed to respond to bank robbery and illegal drug trafficking, but work proactively to seek out, identify and "neutralize" (as the FBI described in the 1960s under COINTELPRO) political opposition to the state and the corporate and financial interests it serves.
Government surveillance of political activity considered aberrant by the state has reached a phenomenal level. Earlier this month, we reported on Trapwire, a sophisticated high-tech surveillance software put in place nearly a decade ago.
Earlier this year, NSA employee William Binney said the agency has a dossier on virtually every American and is currently building a mega-spy center in Bluffdale, Utah, that "will contain near-bottomless databases to store all forms of communication collected by the agency, including private emails, cellphone calls, Google searches and other personal data."
The all-encompassing security state – designed to destroy political opposition and not prevent mundane criminal activity – is the most portentous threat we face as a nation established as a constitutional republic. If meaningful and effective political activity is subtracted from the equation, we will have no option other than abject submission to the state and the fascist corporate and financial interest it serves.
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At first I wasn't sure which is more important – that it was April Fool's Day this week, or that today is 04/04/04. But I realized April Fool's Day is more important because it is way more fun to be horribly mean to someone and get away with it than it is to type a cool date.
I have always loved pranks. Not hurtful pranks - the kind of pranks where the prankee says, "you know what? That was good." April Fool's Day is my Christmas. Since I'm Jewish, the actual Christmas is just my day after December 24th. So it's nice I have something else to celebrate.
I didn't get a chance to prank anyone this April Fool's Day because I was stuck in the Cleveland airport for most of it. ("Your plane is broken and you're delayed many hours! April Fools! Except the part about the plane being broken and the delay! That's really happening!")
Instead, I will recount the best pranks I've ever pulled off, April Fools or otherwise. I'm going to be telling these to my grandkids eventually, I may as well tell you now.
While my friends were busy unscrewing the tops of salt shakers and saran wrapping the toilet bowl, a seven-year-old Steve went for more personal gags. My sister Sharon was obsessed with a ballet tape she had. I took it, dubbed it, and used my Star Studio to karaoke my voice over the original.
There was a hot summer night that we only had one working air conditioner, so three of us huddled in Sharon's room. I shared the floor with my other sister, who somehow took up most of it, repeatedly kicking me in her sleep. She woke up that morning and got dressed in my empty room while I finally slept. Of course, she left her dirty clothes strewn all over the floor and knocked over a pile of newly sorted baseball cards. Awakening to this with only two hours of solid sleep, I calmly collected her garments and left a trail of them towards the front door of our house, which I had to open in order to hang her bra from a tree in our front lawn.
Then came summer camp. I already wrote about the time I dressed a mannequin like me and threw it off a roof. That same summer, we took every tray table from the dining hall and packed our director's office so tight he couldn't get in the door. And after a girl a year older told my friend that she didn't want to hang out with him because he was such a kid, we convinced her that he was older than all of us, but suffered from a rare form of dwarfism that made him look younger and came with a learning disability so that he'd be back a few years in school. Mean? Yes. An appropriate punishment? Of course.
The two funniest parts of that story are the name of the disease and who the friend is. We called it Polyponesia – if you used to watch "Just the Ten of Us" you might get that reference, because that's the name of the fake disease that Doozler had. And the friend was comedian Josh Jacobs, who I'm now on tour with. That summer in 1995 is how we met – I guess it's no surprise that we both now make fun of people for a living.
College was the pinnacle of my pranking, especially after I wrote an anonymous e-mail program (see extra credit, comp sci). I forged one from my dean to a friend the day grades came in that said "You fail. That's right, fail faily faily fail fail." I posted a girl on Hot or Not and emailed her sorority about it - from her own email address. And when one friend sent a disgustingly tasteless note to the published email of Daniel Pearl's kidnappers, I used the program to send a reply.
But my all-time favorite will always be the Thirsty Prank. A week before April Fool's, a few friends and I printed up 300 pictures of one of our fraternity brothers with random words on the bottom of them. They read, "Thirsty?", "Gondola?", and "Cleveland?" Then we plastered campus every day that week, concentrating especially on areas we knew he'd be. You've never seen someone freak out until they find 300 posters of themselves that they never hung.
Being stuck in the Cleveland airport this Thursday wasn't as bad you'd think because every time I hear the word Cleveland I remember that prank. Especially if it happens to be Christmas in April.
Now excuse me while I go set all the clocks in my mom's apartment to 4:04.


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It probably would've been enough of a draw just to call it by name: Thursday Night in the Monday Club Bar. But the folks at Upstairs on the Square in Cambridge have a few more crowd-attracting tricks up their sleeves for their monthly dinner dances.
It probably would've been enough of a draw just to call it by name: Thursday Night in the Monday Club Bar. But the folks at Upstairs on the Square in Cambridge have a few more crowd-attracting tricks up their sleeves for their monthly dinner dances.
There's the room itself: pink and green walls, with a zebra pattern carpet, an undulating pink bar, lighting by Ingo Maurer, and the centerpiece: a bright, lacquered lavender piano.
But more important, there's the band: the Bo and Bill Winiker Orchestra, the seven-piece group headed up by longtime Boston legends, and Brookline residents, the Winiker brothers — Bo on trumpet and vocals, Bill on drums.
"I'm living my dream," says Bo. "At age 10 I became a member of the Winiker Family Band, with Bill on drums, my dad on piano and my mom on bass, and I've been a professional musician ever since. I've been able to do something that I love as well as entertain people. We love to take people on a little journey with us."
The journey into the Harvard Square restaurant began when Bo was at a business meeting lunch there about a year and a half ago.
"I remember saying to myself, 'This is such a fun place, I would like to perform here,' " recalls Bo.
Bill remembers Bo telling him that he spoke with co-owner Mary-Catherine Deibel about the possibility of bringing in the band, and that she said, "You should. Let's try a dinner dance."
Deibel, who co-owns Upstairs with Deborah Hughes, thinks back and says, "We'd always heard of the Winikers, and one day Bo came in and was chatting with Deborah and myself and said they were looking for a place to kind of reinstitute a tradition that they had done at the Parker House for many years — the dinner dance concept. We thought that would be great."
All three recall that the first night they tried it out, soon after that discussion, the place was packed, and has been ever since on the fourth Thursday of each month.
"They move the tables out of the way, we play, and people dance," says Bo. "The place is like going down the rabbit hole in 'Alice in Wonderland. The colors are great, the atmosphere is great, the vibes are just phenomenal. For me, it's like being in Manhattan."
Bill brings up their Parker House gig, where they held sway for 14 years.
"That was different from this one," he says. "At the Parker House we played swing music. At this dance we play every kind of American dance music, from swing to Latin to foxtrot. And by the end of the evening, we end up playing rock 'n' roll and very contemporary music from the radio."Bo follows up on that.
"It's a dinner dance, but it's also something different. I always listen to Ryan Seacrest doing Top-40 radio, so in addition to the Gershwin and Cole Porter and Sinatra and Nat King Cole and Great American Songbook, we're sprinkling in some 2008 tunes as well. We're taking people on a trip through a panorama of American popular music from the '30s and '40s on up.
"I love all kinds of music," he adds. "So we do some Michael Buble, some Harry Connick, and even some hip-hop. We're not doing the violent stuff or anything that has words that are inappropriate, just the fun stuff. We're even doing some Justin Timberlake with four-part harmony. We're in Cambridge, it's an eclectic audience, and the music matches the eclecticism. We're definitely keeping the old stuff alive. But we can go from the old to the new with great authenticity."
Bill mentions that he loves the Cambridge crowd as much as the music.
"It's so mixed," he says, almost incredulously. "We get an older crowd — people in their 70s and 80s — and we get the crowd that's our age — in their 40s and 50s – and we get some of the young Harvard students. It's a real melting pot. It's really a fun scene."
Deibel is thrilled that the one-night experiment has turned into such a popular night at the restaurant, that it's become what she likes to call a "classic dinner dance.
"We clean out the tables in front of the bar, but there are still lots of people sitting around the perimeter, having dinner," she says. "Then the band comes in and sets up in front of the fireplace, and they play from 9 till 11.
"It's turned out to be one of our best events," she adds. "They have a huge following, and it's always busy."
The Winikers are certainly no strangers to Cambridge, as it's been something of a stomping ground for them over the years. They used to play tea dances at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, had a dozen shows at the Regattabar, and still regularly perform at Harvard Faculty Club dinner dances.
But the brothers rarely get to play together. Because there are so many bookings for the wedding and corporate crowds, they each head up their own band. When it comes to their Upstairs on the Square gigs or their ongoing Sunday brunches at Skipjack's in Boston, both brothers usually share the stage.
But, they're asked, when that happens, who's the leader — big brother Bill or little brother Bo? The answers are slightly different.
"It's sort of a co-op kind of thing," says Bo. "I might turn to Bill during the set and say, 'What do you think we should do next?' And he'll say something, but I might overrule him, then he might say, 'Well, what do you want to do next? Bill lets me make the calls a lot of the time. But it's a team effort."
"We do kind of co-lead," says Bill. "He'll come over to me and say, 'What do you think we should play next?' And I'll give him an idea. And he usually listens."
Thursday night dinner dances with the Bo and Bill Winiker Orchestra are at Upstairs on the Square, 91 Winthrop St., Cambridge, on the fourth Thursday of every month, starting at 9 p.m. The next dance is on Aug. 28. For dinner reservations and additional information, call 617-864-1933.
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Indians' offense denied by Buehrle, Blue Jays
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CLEVELAND -- Indians manager Terry Francona does not go overboard when it comes to calling a team meeting. Francona picks his spots to gather his players for a group session, understanding that only so much can be accomplished within the confines of a closed clubhouse.
Following a 5-0 loss to the Blue Jays on Saturday afternoon, Francona decided it was the right time to speak to his team. Toronto lefty Mark Buehrle handcuffed the Tribe's lineup, Cleveland endured a sloppy first inning in the field and the Indians limped to their seventh loss in a nine-game span.
Frustration has started to infiltrate Progressive Field.
"Sure. There's a lot of it," Francona said. "The good part from where I sit is that I know they will fight through it. We really believe in this group a lot. It's not always easy and fun, but we believe in them. That's what I hang my hat on every day; we will figure it out."
To this point in the season, it is fair to say the Indians have fallen short of expectations.
It is still early in the calendar, but Cleveland's rotation has been inconsistent, the defense has piled up an uncharacteristic amount of errors and the club's situational hitting (.208 overall with runners in scoring position) has been lacking. That combination of missteps has saddled the Tribe with a 7-10 record.
The club has hardly resembled the group that rattled off 92 wins last season en route to the American League Wild Card Game. That postseason affair was held at Progressive Field, which featured plenty of boos from a discouraged crowd during Saturday's tilt against Toronto.
"I think we're just kind of playing a little sloppy right now," Indians starter Corey Kluber said. "I don't think we're really playing the game we need to play. We're walking too many guys as a staff. When the offense goes out and scores, we're not really doing a good job picking them up and going back out and having a shutdown inning.
"Our defense hasn't been great. We're not really moving runners over, or doing the little things that we need to do to be a good team. I think [Francona] says it a lot, we're not the kind of team that can just roll out of bed and win games. We need to play the game the right way. We're just not quite doing enough of that consistently right now, and it's costing us some games."
Indians first baseman Nick Swisher, who went 0-for-4 and is batting .174 on the season, was quick to note that Cleveland opened last season with a 5-10 record. To Swisher's point, the Indians had an identical 7-10 record through 17 games before heating up later in the summer.
"We feel good," Swisher said. "It's not time to jump off the bridge just yet. We feel good about where we are. We haven't gotten that huge hit when we've needed it. But hey, that's going to happen sometimes. I feel like we're facing some good pitchers right now. We have to go out there and do a better job."
Buehrle improved to 4-0 with a 0.64 ERA on the season by blanking the Indians over seven-plus innings, ending with three strikeouts, three walks and four scattered singles. No Cleveland baserunner advanced beyond second in the loss and the Indians finished the afternoon 0-for-5 with runners in scoring position, making the club 0-for-14 in such situations in the past two games.
Buehrle collected 12 outs via ground balls on the day.
"He gets the lead and he kind of puts you in a rocking chair," Francona said. "A little fastball, cuts it in to keep you honest, expands the plate and takes something off of it. Throws a lot of changeups. You hit a ball hard to someone, you get a guy on and he'll get you to roll over. He's really good at that.
"He's obviously feeling pretty good about himself. He's throwing the ball real well right now."
The Blue Jays struck for three runs in the first two innings against Kluber, who was charged with five runs (four earned) on nine hits in 6 2/3 innings.
In the first, Melky Cabrera tripled to right (outfielder David Murphy stumbled at the wall on the play) and then scored on a bloop single from Jose Bautista, who lofted a pitch just beyond Swisher's grasp in shallow right field. Bautista then advanced to second on a passed ball and came around to score when Dioner Navarro laced a pitch from Kluber off Swisher's glove for a single.
Navarro came through again in the seventh, delivering a two-run single to center field off Kluber. Prior to that breakthrough, the Cleveland right-hander issued a two-out walk to Bautista and surrendered a double off the wall in left field to Edwin Encarnacion. Both runners came around to score.
"There were some unfortunate things in the first inning that happened," Kluber said. "Aside from a few walks on my part that led to a couple runs also, I think for the most part I did a good job of settling down and kind of holding them there until those last few hitters. I just didn't execute pitches very well."
It was undoubtedly a frustrating day for the Indians.
Swisher does not expect it to last for long.
"This team fights. We grind and we fight," Swisher said. "We're going to come back and grind it out tomorrow. Lace them up and tomorrow is all we're worried about. We can't win seven in a row. We have to start off by winning one."


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Rather than finish the magazine I've been working on for months*, I edited the premiere episode of paleofuture.tv yesterday. As you can see, it has the the production values of amateur porn, but with 37% less nudity.**
The first episode is about food, and as I learn a bit more about how to properly put these kinds of videos together, the quality of the episodes will hopefully improve. I hope it's not a complete waste of your time, and I'll get back to blogging more regularly as my move from Minneapolis to Full Bladerunner, CA has been achieved. Enjoy.
*Sorry that it's taken so long. It really will be done soon.
**You can't tell, but I'm naked from the waist down.
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- Just Imagine (1930)
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The problem with the Lamborghini Murcielago is that with its four wheel drive, you can keep pushing the car faster and faster until BAM you fly off the road and crash into a highway sign, like this old guy in Colorado.
A Jalopnik reader saw the crash Wednesday morning and described how it looked to have gone down.
It appears the driver tried taking the southbound I-70 on ramp off of eastbound Hwy 58 with a little too much speed and ended up sliding in the grass until they came to a rest against a street sign. He managed to hit hard enough to completely break off the front driver's-side wheel, but at least he left his scissor door open to show off the Italian red leather.
The rich old guy looked dazed, but unhurt. He was probably just glad his car didn't burn to a crisp, which isn't uncommon for these crashes.
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Uganda Radio Clampdown Denounced
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Police in Uganda should respect a court ruling that lifts a ban on two live radio programs, the Committee to Protect Journalists said this week.
The court decision today allows two live political shows on Life FM in Fort Portal to resume broadcasting, but the station has since received a warning from police about its future programming.
On January 8, Regional Police Commander Martin Abil arrested the moderator and five panelists from Life FM's only two live political debate programs, "Tweraneho" (Let's Fight for Ourselves) and "Ensonga Ha Nsonga" (Reason Upon Reason) and ordered both programs off the air, station manager Patrick Nyakahuma told CPJ. The moderator and panelists have been charged with defamation and incitement of violence.
In a packed courtroom filled with Life FM listeners, Fort Portal High Court Judge Lougabya Atwooki ruled that the police commander's actions contravened the Ugandan constitution and media laws. The regional police ordered the station manager to end the broadcasts and made the arrests claiming that the program encouraged violence against Fort Portal MP Stephen Kaliba, according to defense lawyer Musana Johnson and local journalists.
Despite the court order, the regional police commander telephoned Nyakahuma today, warning him not to invite the same group of "contentious" panelists back on the program, Nyakahuma said. Nyakahuma told the regional police commander to put his warning in a written statement and told CPJ that the two political debate programs will air regardless of the warning.
"Time and again ruling party officials misuse the police to silence the press in Uganda," said CPJ Executive Director Joel Simon. "While CPJ welcomes the re-instatement of the two programs to Life FM, we call on the police to drop their case against moderator Gonza Williams and the five panelists immediately."
Gonza Williams and the five panelists—Steven Rwagweri, Prosper Businge, Gerald Kankya, Joram Bintamanya, and David Rudomodora—were detained for two days after their January arrests. The arrested panelists are featured frequently on the political debate programs as prominent members in the Fort Portal community who are critical of the ruling party, the National Resistance Movement (NRM), according to local news reports. They were released on bond and charged with inciting violence and defamation, Nyakahuma said. On January 14, the six were charged in court but released on bail. Their trial is set to resume March 26, 2008.
NRM supporters Kenneth Bajenja and Bala Kahuma, who were also featured on the two programs, were neither questioned nor arrested, Nyakahuma and local news reports said.
One of the panelists, Steven Rwageri, has been accused by local officials of using the radio program to launch his own political platform, a district NRM official told CPJ. According to Uganda's private daily The Monitor, Rwagweri contested and lost a district election to ruling party member Michael Mugisa and used the radio programs to criticize the government. The programs have also criticized the royal family in Tooro, who hold largely ceremonial powers in western Uganda, for living an affluent lifestyle, engaging in partisan politics and alleged irregular land sales, Nyakahuma said.
Ugandan authorities have previously harassed Life FM, one of only two radio stations in Fort Portal. Last October, two guards allegedly working for prominent royal family member Best Kemigisa, destroyed the station's transmitter in Oruha Hill with acid in broad daylight, Life FM's owner Pastor K.L. Dickson reported. When the five panelists complained about the delay of the police probe into the acid attack, they were arrested by the regional police commander, The Monitor reported.
In January, five journalists and editors of The Monitor were charged with criminal defamation after writing articles critical of the police. The journalists are appealing the decision and have a court hearing scheduled for April.
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The departure of Hosni Mubarak generates fear in Western capitals, and for good reasons. Egypt has been a steadfast ally of the West for decades, as it maintained peace with Israel and worked against Iranian influence in the region. Many Western leaders are frightened to realize that all this may evaporate if anti-Western forces, including the Muslim Brotherhood, gain power in a new government. But a new reality in Egypt may also present opportunities for peacemaking in the region that would have been unthinkable only weeks ago. One of these opportunities is to return Gaza to Egyptian control.
Egypt controlled the Gaza Strip in 1948, but lost it to Israel during the Six-Day War in 1967. While Egypt and Israel ultimately made peace in 1979, Gaza's fate remained unresolved, to the detriment of Israel and the Gazan people. The consensus view among parties trying to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian dispute has been that Gaza must be part of a future Palestinian state, along with the West Bank. However, this consensus view makes little sense.
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Gaza and the West Bank are not contiguous territories. And Gaza is controlled by Hamas, a radical Islamic movement opposed to peace with Israel, while the West Bank is controlled by the secular, moderate Palestinian Authority. Making peace between Israel and Palestine would be easier to accomplish if the only territory in dispute was the West Bank. In addition, while many Gazans view themselves as Palestinians, in many ways, they are more culturally and economically connected to Egypt than the West Bank. Increasing these ties could benefit Gazans and move the region closer to peace.
A new Egypt is ripe for returning Gaza
But the idea of returning Gaza to Egyptian control has always been rejected out of hand, mainly by Egypt itself. The rationale for this has always been that Mubarak's regime would be threatened because the radicalism from Gaza would strengthen the Muslim Brotherhood movement in Egypt. However, this rationale might not apply in a post-Mubarak Egypt, especially one in which the Muslim Brotherhood played a role.
Returning Gaza to Egyptian control could allow political and cultural influence to flow north instead of south. Specifically, a Muslim Brotherhood with relatively moderate positions necessary for competing in national elections could have a constructive influence on Hamas. Finally, a pluralistic Egypt may be more willing to accept the return of Gaza, and the people of Gaza may similarly be more inclined to accept some form of Egyptian control if they had allies in its government.
Of course, returning Gaza to Egyptian control would present serious challenges as well. A new Egyptian government may not be inclined to do Israel any favors, and it may not want the added responsibility of controlling this volatile territory. Israel also will likely be reluctant to accept an Egyptian presence so close to its main population centers, especially if it is concerned about the new government's allegiances. And the Palestinian Authority and Arab League would have to be persuaded as well. All this will be difficult because it goes strongly against the conventional wisdom that informed all peace negotiations to date.
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In this light, the notion of returning Gaza to an Egypt that might ally with Islamists may seem ludicrous. But it actually makes more sense than continuing to push for a noncontiguous Palestinian state. Also, Hamas will probably prove to be a headache for the new Egyptian government and Israel regardless. Returning Gaza to Egyptian control could help keep calm on the border between Hamas and Israel, and limit Iran's ability to import weapons and extremism into Gaza.
Challenges aren't insurmountable
Furthermore, none of the potential problems are insurmountable. The West could provide substantial financial aid and logistical support for a new Egyptian government as it assumes control of Gaza. The process could provide a context for the United States to develop positive diplomatic relations in a new Middle East. And all parties involved could sell the change to their peoples as a strategic and humanitarian success. This may provide a particularly valuable legitimacy boost to a new Egyptian government.
Egyptian control would not necessarily mean the obliteration of Gaza's Palestinian identity, as self-rule could be allowed, and Gaza could still pursue the "right of return" of refugees to Israel. While Israel may not be inclined to relinquish its claims to Gaza without any agreement on the "right of return," in a sense it already did so by unilaterally disengaging from its Gaza settlements in 2005, getting nothing in return but persistent rocket attacks. Egyptian control over Gaza could offer Israel additional security, and at the same time provide Gazans with a legitimate foreign backer that they have needed and lacked for some time.
Even if Egypt does not assume control of Gaza, there are other ways it could be more active in Gazan affairs and regional issues. For example, Egypt could take an expanded role in the work being done by the Middle East Desalination Research Center, which has involved Gazans, Jordanians, and West Bank Palestinians in efforts to improve water management in cooperation with Israel. Hamas may be more comfortable working with a new Egyptian government on regional issues, and Egypt could be given a valuable role as an honest broker between Hamas and Israel, a role that Mubarak was unable to fulfill.
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The Obama administration and other Western governments will soon be searching desperately for some way to engage with a new Egyptian government and ensure the survival of the Egypt-Israel peace treaty. Arranging for the return of Gaza to Egyptian control may present just such an opportunity, and could help bring much needed peace to the region.
Dashiell Shapiro is a tax lawyer who has worked in the Middle East.


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daymark necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 523 diseños de 141 diseñadores freelance.
We are in need of a logo that reflects the company's abstract approach to marketing, but is also clean and can stand alone in icon form without the "Daymark" (if necessary) so that it can be used in conjunction with our partner companies' logos. See full description for pertinent creative information. This is an opportunity to do some really nice work! We will NOT hold you back! This contest will be guaranteed. Also, you may want to read the comments section as we'll be posting additional information for you as it comes up and the individual submissions on which we'll be commenting and giving some direction that may help clarify our needs. Thanks again and good luck!
Daymark Ltd
Daymark Ltd is a consortium of several creative companies whose primary focus is non-traditional marketing fused with exceptional creative and messaging. We've recently made the decision to let outside designers work on the brand to hopefully inspire a fresh, new feel. The Daymark brand (that you're creating) will be used with our partner companies' logo-type (possible with only the icon present) so it needs to be clean, but it also needs to reflect a very high-end creative culture. Our clients are very savvy and appreciate sophisticated yet unique, warm and creative brands. They range from the entertainment industries (i.e. MTV and CMT) to high-profile non-profits (i.e. Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, National Center for Missing and Exploited Children). We're not going to limit you at all - we're looking for visually stunning, meaningful work! Just FYI, here is a link to the Wikipedia definition of "daymark." (Edit: see comment regarding the use of actual daymark imagery - it isn't necessary and may be too expected) We are excited to see your work! (Use only "Daymark" in the design - the "Ltd" is not necessary)
We will use the following general rating system when evaluating preliminary work:
2 star and below: not really what we are after;
3 star: getting closer but need revisions or a different take on your design;
4 star: design is being considered - nice work;
5 star: we really like the design and will make our final selections from these.
We'll give additional feedback as we're able in order to help more clearly explain our vision and guide you to a potential win! If you have any questions or comments at all, please don't hesitate to let us know! Thanks for your interest!
- clean design
- great use of color
- works well in 1-color
- is versatile for many applications (i.e. all identity, collateral, t-shirts, with sponsorships, with other logos, etc)
- needs to be an icon
- unique design - feel free to be creative!
- needs to be unexpected - not a lighthouse on a cliff
- needs to be encapsulated (i.e. in a circle, square, etc.)
- we like the clean web 2.0 look - but it's certainly not required!
- simple - complex is not necessarily better (but it may be)
- sophisticated and high-end
- what's expected - again, not a lighthouse on a hill
- circa 1980 design feel
- a lot of colors - we love color, but we need to stick to 2-3 max
- a design that will look like an ink blob on a fax or t-shirt - again, needs to work in 1-color
- whimsical or cartoon-like
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The U.S. State Department said Monday that arrest warrants and the investigation of a popular Egyptian satirist and other critics of Egypt's Islamist president highlight a "disturbing trend" of growing restrictions on freedom of expression in the country.
The strongly worded statement by U.S. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland Monday came a day after Bassem Youssef, who criticizes President Mohammed Morsi and hard-line clerics on his Jon Stewart-style show, was released on bail following an interrogation into accusations he insulted Morsi and Islam.
Youssef is the most prominent critic of Morsi to be called in for questioning in recent weeks, in what the opposition says is a campaign to intimidate critics amid wave after wave of political unrest in the deeply polarized country. Prosecutors deny launching a political crackdown, saying they are only implementing the law.
Youssef's questioning followed arrest warrants against five prominent anti-government activists accused of inciting violence. Nuland said the administration is also concerned that the Egyptian government has "been slow" or didn't "adequately" investigate cases of attacks against anti-Morsi protesters, journalists and police brutality.
"So there does not seem to be an even handed application of justice here," she said. A spokesman for the Egyptian presidency had no immediate comment on the statement.
The arrest warrants, Nuland added, show "evidence of a disturbing trend of growing restrictions on the freedom of expression."
On Monday, Egypt's top prosecutor forwarded a new complaint against the chief executive officer of the private TV station that airs Youssef's program to the country's state security prosecutor for investigation. The complaint accuses him and the satirist of helping spread sedition and disturbing the peace by airing the political satire program, a judicial official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to brief the media.