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Sunday, July 06, 2008
Epiphanies Delayed
Patient 2: 34 year old female with 4 months of pain from her scleroderma and out of all medicines. "They dropped me from my insurance because I missed so many appointments." Here today for worsening pain and because "they" won't see her in clinic anymore. Was able to provide me with list of twenty medicines she needs to have filled. Has no money. Smokes. Chief complaint? Pain from her fibromyalgia. "I have a port and I can help the nurse access it... really all I need is pain medicine". And oh by the way, she has become blind in her right eye over the past few weeks, but this really doesn't bother her as much as the pain.
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Those patients left your ED and came to mine today. Gave them each one free time machine ticket, so they could go back in time and make completely different choices, including not to burden me with social problems.ReplyDelete
As ER docs we are just lifeguards guarding the shallow end of the gene pool.ReplyDelete
That one eye blind must really help her tunnel vision....ReplyDelete
- Anonymous7:53 AM, July 07, 2008
Cmon, if you had terminal Lung Cancer would you quit smoking? I wouldn't.ReplyDelete
As ER docs we are just lifeguards guarding the shallow end of the gene pool.ReplyDelete
By golly, that's freaking brilliant. I'd toss you a lifeline, but I need one myself.
What really shoves the bamboo under my nails is that I bust my ass to make good choices regarding my health, yet I'm supposed to feel all gushy about the government stealing a growing percentage of my hard-earned royalty money to those who make crap decisions and have no money.
Do you suppose if people knew that no one was going to bail them out that they'd make better choices? Yeah, okay, maybe not. But at least I'd feel better about not being the government's blank check.
Frank, I wouldn't either. What's the point? And, if it's been diagnosed as "terminal," then what's the fuckin' point in running up huge XRT and chemo bills to boot? Palliative? That's what the cigs are for, and they're cheaper.ReplyDelete
actually i agree with you guys... i wouldn't stop smoking either... i would, however, stop going to the ER for 'shortness of breath'.ReplyDelete
Wow, are you guys in my head?ReplyDelete
My father died of primary lung CA or maybe it was the metastatic? primary? brain CA. (More of a frontal/orbital cranial tumor than brain so technically, bone CA?) Not sure, just know he wouldn't quit smoking either. He lied to the docs and told them half a pack a day. I told them the truth, two to three packs a day.I got all indignant with him and wouldn't take him out to smoke when he was hospitalized the second time because I was lining the up the best neurosurgeon I knew to remove his tumor and dammit! I wasn't about to contribute to his demise while others were willing to help try and save him. Of course, none of it mattered and consciously, I knew it wouldn't. Besides, they all quit smoking eventually.
My Step Dad had scleroderma, DMSO topically, IV and PO gave him many many extra years. His pain meds? Daypro. Maybe some vodka. Single worst thing you can do with scleroderma? Smoke. He did. Even set the O2 tubing, and his chair, and some of the carpet on fire once. He never quit either but to his credit he tried several times. Think his record was about three days. When the scleroderma finally went systemic, it got him.
Just like MMT, the docs I work with joke around with the irony that "everybody stops smoking eventually." This post just goes to show that a lot of times it isn't so funny.ReplyDelete
What a crappy way to die.
Lynn - BINGO! A nation of enablers. Our ED just got a bunch of new beds so that we can now accommodate patients up to 700 pounds on each bed. The morbidly obese can now rest easy as they eat their next McBypass Burger knowing that they won't have to lay on the floor while we do CPR on them one day.
What a crappy way to die.ReplyDelete
Well what's the good way? Maybe dying on the operating table while under anesthesia, but the legal profession is working hard at eliminating that. Or a very, very quick heart attack, but the medical profession is working hard to eliminate THAT.
My mom never smoked, was not overweight, did not have any chronic illnesses, ate all the right stuff, and she died a long, drawn out death, full of agonal breathing and other discomforts. Because her heart, which she had kept so healthy for so long, just wouldn't stop beating.
When it comes to dying, there aren't a whole lot of good ways to go. Maybe OD is not so bad, if you do it right. Maybe the drug seekers have a better plan than I do? I dunno.
- Anonymous7:44 AM, July 08, 2008
My Dream Death? Flying my F-18 into the Deathstar with Winona Ryder on my lap, a cigarette in one hand, bottle of scotch in the other, but thats just me.ReplyDelete
My Dream Death? Flying my F-18 into the Deathstar with Winona Ryder on my lap, a cigarette in one hand, bottle of scotch in the other, but thats just me.ReplyDelete
Smoking and drinking are higher priorities than copping a feel?
McBypass BurgerReplyDelete
(slapping knee)Another great line. I can see I need to get permission from you and "ad" to use these in my book.
Go ahead. Can't you just picture the morbidly obese dude eating a McBypass burger while smoking crack sitting on the edge of a rock contemplating a dive into the shallow end of the gene pool?
dear lynn #1,ReplyDelete
i just finished your book, donovan's paradigm, and if you don't make the right thing happen in the sequel i'm gonna get ya! drop me an email and i'll elaborate but i don't want to spoil it for anyone! really enjoyed it... you managed a tricky balance very well and i read it cover to cover.
dear lynn#2,
crack smokers are typically not morbidly obese... it's great weight-loss drug.
- Anonymous11:10 PM, July 08, 2008
You know what would really make me mad?ReplyDelete
If I had a heart attack or some kind of heart ailment that would leave me incapacitated, when I am trying to do the right thing everyday - food and exercise.
I think that in desperation, I'd take up smoking... :-)
i just finished your book, donovan's paradigm, and if you don't make the right thing happen in the sequel i'm gonna get ya!ReplyDelete
(laughing) Yeah, I get that a lot. Tension is good for the soul, don't you think?
Thank you so much for your kind comments. Docs were never a part of my intended demographics but funnily enough, they're my primary readership - despite the subject matter. You guys are great.
Got it; crack = weight loss, not chubby buns.


text: Friday, June 17, 2011 APTA Aims to Make Annual Physical Therapy Exam a Reality Recognizing the daunting task of educating the public on the value of visiting a physical therapist (PT) annually, APTA will support the promotion and implementation of an annual exam by coordinating the development and promulgation of best clinical practice screenings and exams to meet the needs of all individuals. The association also will develop resources and tools to help PTs track individual patient outcomes and a plan to enhance public recognition of the need and benefit of an annual exam.[RC- 24-11] Comments What is the purpose of this exam and how or will it effect licensure? One of the concerns I have is that we continually move in a direction of making the PT license and practice harder and harder to achieve. I believe that this may be leading us to an exclusivity that ultimately leads to the demise of the physical therapy profession. The shortage of therapists is acute. It will likely get worse with higher requirements, cost, etc. In the absense of "qualified" personnel, the job either will not get done or will get done but likely by less qualified people redirecting and redefining what "therapy" means. There are multiple examples of this already happening. We really need to look at the long term impact of the decisions we are making. Posted by Carol Burger on 6/17/2011 3:57 PM It makes incredible sense to advocate for an annual physical wellness exam by a physical therapist, given that individuals are increasing covered for wellness exams under traditional insurance or through health savings plans. We need to learn from the dentist model! Posted by Rick Wickstrom on 6/17/2011 5:30 PM I may be misreading the blurb, but I interpret this as advocating an yearly PT screen or examination of the public, not offering the licansure exam on an annual basis. Posted by Ray Metzger on 6/17/2011 5:37 PM I could not be a stronger advocate for offering the public the opportunity for an annual examination. This exam needs to be consistent with the promotion of the Physical Therapist as the expert in movement analysis or best yet as the professional responsible for the Movement system. That would mean examination of the components of the movement system(muscular, skeletal, neurological, cardiopulmonary, metabolic) as they affect and are effected by movement. The development of such an exam would be the foot in the door to helping the public know that we know the most about exercise and not because we are Pilates teachers but because we know the anatomy and kinesiology and physiology. Unfortunately that is going to involve an extensive education program for most PTs, to revive the memory of things lost for lack of application of the basics of education. Posted by Shirley Sahrmann on 6/17/2011 6:34 PM Mike Voight has a great exam that could be implemented, the Selective Functional Movement Assessment. It doesn't take too long and is comprehensive. Posted by Phil on 6/17/2011 8:44 PM I agree with offering the public an annual exam by a Physical Therapist. This is a great opportunity to establish ourselves with the patient in the case that they do have an issue in the year to come. It is promotional to the profession as a whole, and sets us apart as an integral part of the healthcare system. Posted by Jen Allen on 6/18/2011 12:18 PM Dear Dr Sarhmann, Thank you very much for your valuable input. I am 100% with you on that. Chiropractics heavily promote their "Wellnes model" when people neeed to see a chiropractic from the very early childhood on. However, their manipulations may be harmfull for people with certain conditions, for ex. for pts with ligament laxity or bad OA. In addition, their model lucks in depth postural or exercise approach to health. Nevertheless, public in general sees chiropractics as Doctors, and the last law change that allows them to recommend and sell supplements and vits only adds to that view. Another point that I'd like to make is about personal trainers, various exercise CDs and TV commercials that offer an abandance of different exercise programs/approaches. Many times I saw pts with more or less serious traumas after they tried one of the above. However, people still see all these people as high authorities in exrcise field... This is sad. PTs should become more and more the publically recognized experts in exercise training, postural and correct body mechanics training because this is really who we are. This will allow for an early trauma or a chronic orthopedic condition prevention, save insurances a lot of $$ for prolonged rehab, costly Drs visits, surgeries and tests, not to mention better qualiy of life for those who comes to us too late in the game for a 100% recovery. Therefore, I am all for the annual PT exam. I feel that it will be really important step to a better public health which our country needs badly. Posted by Bella Kavalerchik on 6/18/2011 2:34 PM I do like the positives of this, but I also know that this is a way for the goverment to have access to everyone's personal information. Can you say: Socialist medicine? Posted by Renee Hill, P.T. on 6/20/2011 12:03 PM Often times, the corrective exercises we prescribe and the education we provide on optimal posture and movement mechanics for patients presenting with pain could be applied in response to observable impairments in non-painful patients. This is the crux of the issue with respect to physiotherapy as preventative medicine. When you teach a patient to center the humeral head in the glenoid fossa during arm movement or keep their knees apart during squatting to improve patellofemoral tracking, inevitably they respond, "Why didn't I learn this earlier?" The answer is, "You should have." People should learn this stuff in their youth before they damaged their rotator cuff or develop chondromalacia patella. Everybody thinks it's common sense when you walk them through it. We just need the right ad campaign. It would improve societal health dramatically if people sought physiotherapy preventatively. Posted by Justin Vanderleest on 2/18/2014 6:26 PM

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When I watched President Obama speaking to ABC's Robin Roberts about his position on same-sex marriage, I didn't think about it being another moment in history so much as I thought of another historic figure: Bayard Rustin.
Rustin, who died in 1987, is remembered as the principal organizer of the March on Washington in 1963. As one of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s closest lieutenants, he was one of the primary architects of the civil rights movement, even said to have introduced King to Gandhi's nonviolent-protest philosophies.
But he was also openly gay at a time when the very concept was largely unmentionable. It was all he could do to pursue human rights for African Americans who suffered oppressive discrimination in America, let alone ask for the same rights for people who loved the same gender.
The reaction of the black body politic of the time to men like Rustin, despite what he stood for, wasn't necessarily tarring and feathering, or even outing him. (There were, however, instances where he had to take less-public positions in various campaigns.) Instead, for some black folks of the civil rights years, guided and influenced by the church, there was a de facto "Don't ask, don't tell" policy.
For them, being gay was defined biblically as sin, an abomination. So the best response often was just to shut up about it. Listen to the preacher as he railed against homosexuality (even if he was in the closet himself), and hide behind a clergy-sanctioned veil of secrecy.
But this cultural behavior did not benefit anyone but authors and publishing houses (see J.L. King), because that attitude only served to spawn closeted gay men and women living double lives, the so-called down-low. Eventually it made us afraid to talk about HIV/AIDS, which so far has killed 240,627 blacks in America, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's latest figures.
Enter President Obama. Whether he was forced to say something by Vice President Joe Biden's pronouncement supporting same-sex marriage, whether it was a political ploy or whether he really did the soul-searching he spoke about to come to the conclusion that gay people should be able to marry, his speaking out placed the issue squarely in the faces of African Americans, and it is making us address this whole thing.
This is because African Americans — 96 percent of whom supported President Obama in the 2008 election, but 41 percent of whom are against same-sex marriage — now seem to be presented with a decision: Either continue to support the president and find a way to get past this political issue, or continue to listen to people in our communities, in our churches and in our families who remain focused on gay people as if they were some major ailment for the black community.
Will black Christian voters stick with President Obama, trusting him to steward the country through four more years, as the sluggish but sure economic recovery hits its stride and as the wars that have turned the world's view of America largely negative start to subside? Or will they decide that President Obama has betrayed their religious instruction — something they've been taught most of their lives about homosexuality — and either stay home on Election Day or vote for his presumptive opponent, Mitt Romney? The GOP front-runner has maintained that marriage should be exclusive to people of the opposite sex, and may well do the bidding of what could turn into a right-wing, Republican-controlled Congress.
I can break it down for you. Black people have much, much bigger fish to fry than what two adults do in their own private time or how they choose to spend their lives. Up to 10 percent of young blacks drop out of high school, rendering them largely unable to take advantage of a skilled-worker- and technology-oriented U.S. job market. Meanwhile, black males have a 1-in-3 chance of doing prison time at some point during their lives.
At the same time, we have disproportionately high numbers in far too many negative health statistics, ranging from diabetes to HIV/AIDS to heart disease to gunshots (pdf), which remain the leading cause of death among black adolescents.
So after all this, are we willing to let what people do in their bedrooms influence what we do at the polls? Whatever issue we may have concerning homosexuality is something for us to get over. We should focus instead on the healing that our communities desperately need.
Preventing gay people from getting married is not going to keep a kid in school. It is not going to stop people from using emergency rooms as clinics. It is not going to prevent two young rivals from shooting each other over a dirty look.
President Obama, in essence, has sent this message to African Americans. We can devote our energies to what churches have been preaching about same-sex marriage, or we can focus on solutions. I think Bayard Rustin would partner with Martin Luther King on the solutions part. But that's what they would have done 50 years ago. The choice today is yours.
Madison Gray is a Brooklyn, N.Y.-writer and Web journalist. Follow him on Twitter.


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DOJ efforts to cover up MNAT perjury and Fraud now receives national attention
WARNING – there are rogue elements within the Dept of Justice – seeking to subvert the Constitution of the United States for veiled agendas sake – contrary to Congressional Law! During his tenure at the Delaware Department of Justice, US Attorney Colm Connolly's office repeatedly declined to investigate and prosecute the MNAT law firm.
MNAT had made many confessions to perpetration of intentional deception of the Delaware Federal Bankruptcy Court by the MNAT law firm.
HOWEVER – a serious Conflict of Interest Ethics violations was committed.
Colm Connolly failed to disclose the fact that he was a partner at the MNAT law firm in 2001 – the very year the MNAT perpetrated many civil & criminal code violations – including Perjury, Collusion, Scheme to Fix Fees, SEC violations, Intimidation of Victim/Witnesses, Conspiracy, False Oaths/Declarations, Perjury and Racketeering violate of California, New York and Delaware state/ federal cases.
Please see Colm Connolly's Resume from the Department of Justice
An Organized Criminal element maintains control over the Federal Bankruptcy Courts are the rogue parties within the DOJ US Trustee's Office.
There are only 21 Police – the US Trustee's –
in charge of all 1.5 million on average bankruptcy filings each year.
But there are 338 Bankruptcy Judges (here)
More than 100 felony violations occurred with confessions to 34 false affidavits (Perjury) that accomplished admitted premeditated Fraud on the Court.
Granting the criminals willful blindness allowed Marc Dreier, Tom Petters, Larry Reynolds and others to accomplish an additional $ 4 Billion dollars in fraud.
Cover UPs of MNAT & their clients
Goldman Sachs & Bain Organized Crimes
- DE DOJ removes Irell & Manella firm to make MNAT eToys Debtor counsel
- MNAT law firm petitions and receives ILLEGAL approval to Destroy Books n Records
- MNAT confesses False Affidavits hid relationships to Goldman Sachs
- However, MNAT still continues to Criminally conceal connections to Bain & Mattel
- eToys sold bulk of bankruptcy estate to BAIN/ KB for tens of millions in discounts
- Mattel was eToys largest unsecured Creditor over $10 million
- Goldman Sachs took eToys Public and with MNAT controlled eToys v Goldman Sachs case
- DOJ Collusion helps destroy evidence of Goldman Sachs Breach of Fiduciary Duty
- Destruction of Books n Records permitted MNAT to destroy eToys v Goldman Sachs case
- Laser Haas provides Smoking Gun Proof Barry Gold and Paul Traub are partners
- One part of US Trustee – Motioned to Disgorge Traub's firm $1.9 million ( here )
- Less than 10 days later, another faction of US Trustee gave Traub immunity (here)
- Another $100 million crime transpire during US Trustee attempt to Settle fraud
- US Trustee rogue personnel receive illicit permission to strike & expunge evidence
- Forces Resignation of Washington DC DOJ Deputy Director Friedman
- Removed Region 3 US Trustee is Secretly made General Counsel of US Trustee
- US Trustee submits 3rd Cir Ct brief fraudulently expunging whistle blowers
- Dept of Justice testifies in 1st footnote that General Counsel will not pursue MNAT
- DOJ assists Traub, MNAT & Barry Gold Perjury that Haas "waived" Fees
- Beyond absurdity – no one would waive millions fees – forgery item 11 says NO waiver
- Despite confessions to 34 False affidavits Courts Opinion says NO Perjury (pg 52)
Currently the present US Trustee's Office is
THE Most sophisticated group of white collar criminal activity in the United States.
Our tax paid Police – the 21 US Trustee's handle over $500 Billion dollars annually.
There is no other arm of the Dept of Justice that handles so much money with absolutely no oversight whatsoever!
When the MNAT law firm and the Traub Bonacquist & Fox law firm Confessed to supplication of more than 34 False Affidavits and Deliberately deceiving the Court – the DE Dept of Justice Trial Attorney – Mark Kenney – gave Traub's firm a Stipulation to Settle that granted Paul Traub's firm UNlawful, implied, blanket, immunity and the promise of the DE DEpt of Justice US Trustee's office (the Police of the Bankruptcy Court) gift to Traub of future willful blindness by the US Trustee's office.
You must scroll down the PDF to the WHEREAS clauses proffered by the Dept of Justice Trial Attorney.
UPDATE Dec 19 2008
Some day soon, the DE US Attorney, Colm F Connolly, will have to explain why he declined to investigate or prosecute his former firm (MNAT) and partners for their participation into the $300 million dollar fraud in eToys and the 34 acts of perjury (MNAT confessed to supplication of 15 false affidavits to the Federal Court in DE).
Then again, maybe not – who knows how deep the corruption goes.
The one thing we do know for sure, documented by the Court Docket record of eToys docket item 2201 – is that instead of prosecuting the TBF law firm for confessing to deliberately deceiving the court through more than 17 false affidavits – the Dept of Injustice gave the TBF law firm Unlawful, implied, blanket, immunity.
Then Traub committed another $100 million fraud endeavor in the KB Toys case and the DE DOJ obstructed justice by having the evidence striken and expunged (See KB Toys bankruptcy DE 04-10120 docket item 2228 therein)
Since then, Paul Traub's two other partners have been accused, arrested and are being held without bail for more than $2.3 billion in fraud. Tom Petters for $2 Billion, Marc Dreier for $300 million ( a separate $300 million from eToys)
What are the odds, had the Federal authorities investigated and prosecuted Traub in the beginning, that Dreier and Petters would not have reached to the level of criminality they are documented to have accomplished?
We may never know!
The Law firm of Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnel (MNAT) has confessed to filing multiple, false, Rule 2014 and Rule 2016 affidavits, in order to be paid millions in fees in the eToys case.
.MNAT was the Court approved counsel for the Debtor of eToys. Traub Bonacquist & Fox (TBF) was the court approved counsel for the creditors of eToys.
Barry Gold was the "wind down coordinator" , then President, CEO and now Plan Administrator of eToys.
.The Law firm of TBF also confessed to filing multiple, false, affidavits to the federal court in eToys.
Today we focus on the issue that has gained national attention recently, as can be seen at the WSJ Law Blog here
Where the Wall Street Journal noted that the Wilmington Journal had begun to review the serious issue that Congress is intent upon looking into Delaware Courts bias decisions that disfavor the public shareholders and bless Executive or inner circle elite. ( to see the Wilmington Journal article here )
What is at stake is Delaware's dominance of corporation filings that has blossomed into a Delaware bankruptcy Courts and attorney bonanza at the expense of the public at large by rulings contrary to Congressional mandates and common decency.
It was not my desire to be at odds with rogue personnel within the Dept of Justice. (at least we hope they are a rogue element and not the norm). Nor was it my desire to pick upon powerful, esteemed elites of MNAT, TBF or US Attorney Colm F Connolly.
To the contrary, my desire is that this all go away with proper remedy.
I did not seek their incarceration or demise, however, they cannot steal from a company I was sworn to protect, whether they take away my right to be paid or not, the fiduciary duty Remains!
It is their arrogance and belief that they are Above the Law, that shall either assure their success in the criminality or assure their demise.
However, they, MNAT, TBF, Barry Gold and the rogue personnel within the Justice Dept, choose little ole me (actually I am a big person :0) ) as the enemy worthy of their disdain and efforts for destruction.
My own attorney, Henry Heiman, a former Trustee in Delaware, after I had been offered inducements, warnings and more, where Heiman, feeling no worries, due to the "good ole boys" network in Delaware, Heiman emailed me a threat from Susan Balaschak of TBF. That if I did not back off, not only would HAAS and CLI not be paid, my career would end and they would come after me.
My response was to blow the whistle. While many said I should have found a way to take the $800,000 bribe and adapt my views. Be the silly person I am, I reported the bribes and threats to the Dept of Justice.
This blowing the whistle, initially, resulted in confessions. TBF and MNAT confessed to filing multiple, false, affidavits to the Courts. (more than 35, to be exact).
TBF confessed that Barry Gold was his paid associate, that TBF had paid Barry Gold four (4) separate payments of $30,000 each.
TBF, MNAT and Barry Gold also confessed that they drafted a Barry Gold Hiring Letter.
The Hiring Letter contains language that rewards Barry Gold if he does not apply to the Bankruptcy Court for persmission to be hired.
The reason the parties drafted the clandestine Hiring Letter (the letter remained hidden until Jan 25 2005 even though it was signed in June 2001) where MNAT, TBF were warned by the US Trustee's office not to violate Section 327(a) of the Bankruptcy Code. (the US Trustee testified to this in the Motion to Disgorge TBF for $1.6 million on Feb 15, 2005, eToys docket item 2195) as they were warned not to do a crime, the only chance they had, to get away with crimes, that were already ongoing, was to seize control of the entire estate. The Hiring Letter would have guaranteed their success, if they had not chosen to stiff HAAS and CLI just because they had the power to do so.
The issue at hand for Delaware Courts, MNAT and the US Attorney, Colm F Connolly. Is that, despite the confessions, the Disgorge Motion and Stipulation to Settle, never, Ever, mentions MNAT. This testifies, as prima facie evidence, being an actus reus act in and of its own existence, to the very fact that MNAT is enjoying a spirit of no prosecution.
The Stipulation to Settle is an ILLEGAL document,
where the Dept of Justice in Delaware, apparently in an effort to protect MNAT, has given TBF improper, Illegal, permission to Circumvent the Code. This implies that willful circumvention of a Code or Rule, a crime in any sense of the word, has become systemic in Delaware.
The exact words in the Stipulation to Settle, flagrantly defy the Code/Rule of Law and the Dept of Justice's fiduciary duty to the public and the courts.
"WHEREAS The United States Trustee shall not seek to compel TBF to make additional disclosures"
Every counsel in the world can tell you they would LOVE for such a clause to be legal. In essence that clause and setting the precedent that such is permitted, single handedly, wipes out the statutes and intent of Congress.
We do not have to prove anything else in this case, that clause, documents, by the Dept of Justice own signature, the intent to willfully circumvent the Code.
In re Middleton Arms Ltd Partnership 934 F.2d 723 (6th Cir 1991) has been affirmed by the US Supreme Ct and the 3rd Circuit. "courts cannot disregared the clear and "unambiguous" mandate of Section 327(a)".
When any non disclosure of conflict of interest is discovered, after the fact, the Courts must disqualify. Not is not even within the authority of a Federal Justice to Circumvent the Law. Because that is called, in any public citizens realm, Breaking the LAW!
Bonds, Martha and Clemens are citizens who made a false statement and all are paying through the nose for such self protection efforts.
MNAT, TBF, Barry Gold, Colm Connolly, Mark Kenney, Roberta DeAngelis, Kelly B Stapleton, Andrew Vara and anyone else in this case are "officers of the court" and thereby are held to a higher standard. They are given their esteemed levels of trust and above average pay days, due to the fact that they are required and swear an oath to be of the highest integrity.
When they violate that level of trust, the crimes or heinousness of the highest kind. Again, it is their arrogance and Abuse of power that is the testimony of their character. I am just the messenger.
Now Colm F Connolly is nominated to be a Delaware District Court Judge. Where Connolly's resume became public information. By revealing that Colm F Connolly was a partner at MNAT in 2001, many ethical questions are automatically obvious.
Why has Colm F Connolly's office refused to investigate MNAT?
Why has Colm F Connolly failed to refer the MNAT matter to the Public Integrity Section as is required by Dept of Justice protocol when the US Attorney has any connection, whatsoever, to an issue?
Did Colm F Connolly assign a case number to the issue, as the protocol of the Dept of Justice mandates, when more than one hour of time is expended on an issue?
MNAT, TBF and Barry Gold are utilizing the Stipulation to Settle permission to circumvent the law to keep quiet about the MOST important issue. Barry Gold, TBF and MNAT all have "undisclosed" connections to Bain/KB Toys.
MNAT, TBF and Barry Gold all negotiated the sale of most of eToys assets to Bain/KB. This is Collusion to Defraud an estate.
It breaches their fiduciary duties to their respective clients, it breaches their Oaths, Declarations and Affidavits to the Court and violates Model Rules of Condcut, SarOx, SEC Regulations, Delaware State Corporate Law and many other platforms.
It is THE most serious betrayal of trust that can occur. For MNAT, TBF and Barry Gold "sold out their client for their own benefit".
Colm F Connolly, Mark Kenney, Roberta DeAngelis, Kelly Stapleton, Andrew Vara and everyone else knows the LAW and their fiduciary duties are to the public and the Constitution.
We do not have to prove the benefit that the Dept of Justice personnel received in their efforts of nolle prosequi (refusal to prosecute).
The failure to prosecute obvious criminal acts and the overt manner that the Justice Dept has engaged upon, in order to defend the criminality and punish this whistle blower, speaks for itself.
It is plain dumb, to continue this charade any further. It is obvious that they have reached the end of their power center. If they desire to mitigate their own demise, it would be wise to effort a honorable remedy now, to demonstrate good faith.
All their calls to the WSJ to shut down my statements had to send a message that things are heating up.
Senator Biden was informed of this stuff for years. He is at risk also.
They are the ones who choose to go all or nothing, when they already had it all, they could have given back a little, to everyone and made this issue go away.
Instead, they used their power and influence with the Dept of Justice and the Delaware Courts, going TOO FAR!
They have stolen a public company and even if you toss out Bankruptcy Code and Rules, by Delaware's own Corporate Laws, the sale of eToys.com assets is rescindable, as it fails the "bona fide" requisite.
The push, the hard push, to make Colm Connolly a Judge, is that he then, cannot be removed, unless he is impeached.
If Delaware wants cronyism as the main character trait within its Systems, it will get what it asks for!
However, the fact remains is that this is multiple cases, multiple years, multiple parties, multiple states, involving hundreds of millions of dollars. All being done contrary to the Law.
If this was a powder substance instead of the stroke of a pen, it is obviously Racketeering. Because they are doing such by abuse of power and you have yet to see a body in the streets, some are inclined to permit the leniency.
It is obvious however, that those that desire leniency are not the ones who lost their money in eToys.
When the RICO efforts involve those the country pays salaries of $100,000 or more per year, to defend us from racketeers, then you do not have the law, you have anarchy and cronyism.


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Bill Stenger's turn at the Central Florida Racing Complex Mardi Drift festival this past weekend ended in a decisive, if not totally unimpressive, fashion when his Nissan S14 turned a sick rail grind along the track's outer wall.
Stenger had just done a batch of donuts alongside contest winner Kevin Lawrence's AE86 when he went wide and rode up the wall. The Zenki is clearly going to need major work before its next public appearance. Stenger was unhurt, although his first priority after the incident was allegedly to find a cheeseburger.
Video of the incident has been posted on Facebook and drifthappens.com has pics of the event and aftermath.
Someone get that man a cheeseburger.
(Hat tip to Rob Fleming!)


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Dance for your health
Join Sun City and Beaufort Memorial Hospital for Day of Dance on Feb. 25. Day of Dance is a free community event and part of Beaufort Memorial Hospital's "Spirit of Women" program. The event will include dance lessons and demos. Free health screenings for blood pressure, blood glucose, cholesterol and vascular screenings and more begin at 8 a.m., before the doors open to the public. Meet with cardiologists, gynecologists, orthopedic and vascular surgeons who will be available to answer your questions. You can view the state-of-the-art DaVinci robot, being used for gynecologic procedures, up close and test drive it to get a feel for this minimally invasive surgical system. Day of Dance runs from 9 a.m.-noon, with an advanced preview for Sun City residents from 8-9 a.m. on Feb. 25 at Pinckney Hall. To register call 522-5585 or toll-free 888-522-5585, or visit www.bmhsc.org/spiritofwomen.
Learn to change your habits to lose weight
Sun City Hilton Head's Health and Wellness Department presents Dr. Howard Rankin for a two-part seminar on weight loss. Losing weight can be difficult but keeping it off is impossible — or it seems. Most people regain their weight, so there seems little point in losing it if you can't maintain it. Dr. Rankin is a psychologist with a strong background in wellness, weight loss, addiction and behavior change. He teaches a comprehensive program called Neurobehavioral Training® (NBT) that trains you behaviorally and psychologically so that you don't just lose weight, you keep it off. Weight Loss isn't about diet and exercises it's about you! Unless you reprogram your brain and your old habits, they will return and undo all of the hard work you have invested in losing weight in the first place. Come join Dr. Rankin as he trains you how to make the changes you need to keep the weight off! The seminars will be held from 1-3 p.m. on Feb. 22 and Feb. 29 in the Pinckney Hall Ballroom. Sign up for $125 per person at either Fitness Center .
Free Wi-Fi at Riverbend Lodge
Sun City residents now have free access to a new Wi-Fi network at Riverbend Lodge. The new wireless network identification (SSID) is SCHHCA. To connect to the internet, click on the "Resident" button on the Sun City page that appears when you open your web browser. If your club, group or neighborhood is hosting a speaker or presenter who needs internet access during a meeting, please contact the IT Department at email@example.com to obtain a password. Free Wi-Fi is also available in Hidden Cypress and Pinckney Hall. Contact the IT Department at firstname.lastname@example.com if you have any questions.


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Gov. Rick Scott joined a group of elected officials, community leaders and residents Tuesday as AVEO Engineering announced plans to build a 50,000-square-foot manufacturing facility and 6,000-square foot hangar at the Flagler County Airport and create 300 jobs.
PALM COAST -- The governor joined local elected officials, business leaders and residents Tuesday as AVEO Engineering announced plans to build a 50,000-square-foot manufacturing facility and 6,000-square-foot hangar at the Flagler County Airport, eventually creating 300 jobs.
The project, code-named "Green Dream" during the negotiating phase, brought Gov. Rick Scott to Flagler County for the third time this year. He visited in February to welcome Coastal Cloud LLC, a high-tech firm, and for the local GOP's annual Lincoln Day dinner earlier this month.
"We all want to live the American Dream," Scott said Tuesday, calling AVEO Engineering CEO Christian Nielsen, "a true example of the American Dream." Scott said the company's impact on Flagler County and Florida cannot be understated.
"The most important thing we can do for our families is get to work," he said. "Today we're here to celebrate 300 new jobs in Palm Coast."
The average wage for employees will be $43,000, according to company officials. The company expects to reach the 300-job target over a three-year period, with 50 people hired the first year, 100 the second year and 150 in year three.
Company officials are leasing temporary space at 18 Hargrove Grade, unit 111, and hired their first local employee Tuesday, according to Helga van Eckert, executive director of the Flagler Department of Economic Opportunity.
Those interested in applying for a job can go to the EmployFlorida.com and search under the 32164 Zip code, she said.
AVEO Engineering has facilities around the world, including the United Kingdom, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Malaysia. The company manufactures high-technology LED lighting systems for the aviation industry and is expanding its product line to include commercial, industrial and marine markets, according to Nielsen.
Nielsen said the decision to build a facility in Flagler County was based on the company's client base.
"The majority of our major aerospace customers are U.S.-based," he said. "It became pretty obvious we'd needed to be closer to the market." Nielsen said Flagler County stood out after an extensive search by the company for a U.S. location.
"We looked at several locations in Florida," he said.
After visiting Flagler County and touring the county airport, Nielsen said he was convinced this was the place to build a new facility.
"We thought there was something special going on here," he said.
Flagler County Commissioner Barbara Revels called the company's decision to locate in Flagler County a "game changer" and the jobs created will help to keep the county's graduates from moving away.
"Every community across the country is looking for new job growth," said Revels, who also serves as chair of the county's Economic Opportunity Advisory Council. "To find an employer who is going to be leading that as well as investing their dollars in our community, and a clean industry, that is huge."
Nielsen said the company is also planning to work with Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University to build an engineering and technical operation at its Flagler County site. He said the company plans to use local sources as much as possible.
Company officials are working with a Flagler County architect for design of the airport facility.
That's something Garry Lubi, senior vice president at Prosperity Bank in Palm Coast and a former chairman of the Flagler County Chamber of Commerce & Affiliates, likes to hear.
"What I am excited about is the potential domino effect," he said, referring to other high-tech companies that could follow AVEO Engineering to Flagler County.
Nielsen said the company was not looking for incentive dollars, other than money to train workers for the manufacturing side of the operation. The county agreed to pay $500 for training per job created at the end of each of the three years.
"It's a nice incentive package to help us with training," he said. "It's the kind of economic incentive that means something."
The privately-held company will finance the expansion with its own money, Nielsen said.
"We use our own money," he said. "We're able to make decisions fast."
Flagler County Administrator Craig Coffey said the county airport is a great fit for AVEO Engineering. The county has made the airport a major focus of its economic development efforts.
"Our airport is really geared toward these type of companies," Coffey said. "If we had to go out and look under 'perfect candidate' for the airport, this company would be it." Coffey said with a leading global company like AVEO Engineering, the opportunities for more development are good.
"Anytime you get a leader in the field, the multipliers are endless, beyond what we could even imagine," he said.


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Bahmi goreng
You'll be hard-pressed to refuse seconds of this irresistible stir-fry. Tender Chinese egg noodles, crisp green snow peas, and Chinese long beans mingle with plenty of rich, garlicky sauce. Cubes of tofu and shredded omelet add even more texture.
- Yield
- Makes 4 to 6 servings
- Active Time
- 1 1/4 hour
- Total Time
- 1 1/4 hour
- 3 large shallots (6 ounces)
- 1/2 cup peanut or vegetable oil
- 1 pound fresh flat Chinese stir-fry egg noodles (not cooked)
- 1/2 cup reduced-sodium chicken broth or water
- 3 tablespoons ketjap manis (Indonesian sweet soy sauce)
- 1 1/2 tablespoons Asian fish sauce
- 1 tablespoon sambal oelek or Sriracha (Southeast Asian chile sauce), or to taste
- 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 (14- to 16-ounce) package firm tofu
- 4 large eggs
- 2 large onions, halved lengthwise, then cut crosswise into 1/2-inch slices (4 cups)
- 2 teaspoons finely chopped garlic
- 1/4 teaspoon minced fresh red or green Thai or serrano chile, including seeds
- 6 ounce snow peas, cut diagonally into 1-inch pieces (2 cups)
- 6 ounce Chinese long beans or haricots verts, cut crosswise into 2-inch pieces (1 1/2 cups)
- 2 scallions, cut diagonally into very thin slices
- Garnish: sliced cucumber; sliced tomatoes; lime wedges; sambal oelek or Sriracha (Southeast Asian chile sauce)
- Special Equipment
- an adjustable-blade slicer; a well-seasoned 14-inch flat-bottomed wok
- Cut shallots crosswise into very thin slices (less than 1/8 inch thick) with slicer.
- Heat oil in wok over moderate heat until hot but not smoking. Add shallots and reduce heat to moderately low, then fry, stirring frequently, until golden brown, 8 to 12 minutes. Carefully pour shallot mixture through a fine-mesh sieve set over a heatproof bowl. Transfer shallots to paper towels to drain, reserving shallot oil. (Shallots will crisp as they cool.) Wipe wok clean with paper towels.
- Cook noodles in a 6- to 8-quart pot of boiling unsalted water , stirring to separate, until just tender, 15 seconds to 1 minute. Drain in a colander and rinse under cold water to stop cooking. Shake colander briskly to drain excess water, then drizzle noodles with 2 teaspoons reserved shallot oil and toss to coat.
- Stir together broth, ketjap manis, fish sauce, sambal oelek, pepper, and 1/2 teaspoon salt in a small bowl for sauce.
- Cut tofu into 1-inch cubes and pat dry.
- Beat together eggs and a pinch of salt. Heat 1 tablespoon reserved shallot oil in wok over moderately high heat until hot but not smoking, then add eggs, swirling in wok, and cook until barely set in center, about 2 minutes. Gently slide egg crêpe out onto a cutting board, then roll into a loose cylinder and cut crosswise into 1/2-inch strips (do not unroll). Keep warm, loosely covered with foil.
- Heat 3 tablespoons reserved shallot oil in wok over high heat until hot but not smoking, then stir-fry onions with remaining 1/4 teaspoon salt until deep golden, 8 to 10 minutes. Add garlic and chile and stir-fry 1 minute, then add tofu and stir-fry 3 minutes. Add snow peas and long beans and stir-fry until vegetables are crisp-tender, about 5 minutes. Add sauce and bring to a boil, then add noodles and stir-fry (use 2 spatulas to stir if necessary) until noodles are hot. Transfer to a large platter and arrange egg over noodles. Sprinkle with scallions and half of shallots. Serve remaining shallots on the side.
Cooks' notes:
·Shallots can be fried 1 day ahead and cooled completely, then kept in an airtight container at room temperature.
·Fresh lo mein noodles (not cooked) can be substituted for stir-fry noodles. Boil until just tender, 2 to 3 minutes (or follow package directions), then proceed with recipe.
·Fresh lo mein noodles (not cooked) can be substituted for stir-fry noodles. Boil until just tender, 2 to 3 minutes (or follow package directions), then proceed with recipe.
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Nutritional Info
- Calories676
- Carbohydrates72 g(24%)
- Fat32 g(49%)
- Protein30 g(60%)
- Saturated Fat4 g(21%)
- Sodium983 mg(41%)
- Polyunsaturated Fat8 g
- Fiber8 g(30%)
- Monounsaturated Fat17 g
- Cholesterol188 mg(63%)


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Copyright 2012, CABS for Reflections From the Fence
While on Avery Island we stopped by the visitors center for the Jungle Gardens. It is 170 acres, drive-able, with pull offs and parking spots along the way so you can get out and walk parts of the gardens. It sounded fantastic, but, we all decided that we would pass it by, as it is late fall and much would be sleeping. I did snap off this photo of some beautiful live oaks laden with spanish moss.
Next stop was Konriko Rice Mill and Museum (and of course, a store! WOOT. More fun just like at the Tabasco Store, and yes, they had samples!)
They have been in business for 100 years, it is the oldest rice mill in the United States. They have a nice history, here.
Rice, spilled during the process of weighing the loads. This is rice in the raw.
Rice bag. I really should have purchased some just for the burlap type bag! LOL
After a delightful and informative tour and movie, and a slow walk around the company store and of course, a taste of rice, it was time to go find lunch. We headed to downtown New Iberia, took the first large parking spot we could find for Jolly and walked along the water on a short boardwalk. Friend D insisted I needed this photo, fences and bridges and greenery, all things I love. I agreed with her! A sign nearby said Bayou Teche. I feel some more research coming on! LOL
We found a buffet luncheon place open, but, about to close. We were the last patrons of the day, we were well fed, great southern/cajun cooking, reasonably priced, servings large! A most enjoyable meal!
This is Yolanda, she is a local, a single mom, proud of her children, a delight to listen to. Man asked her for a photo, and she struck the pose! It was too bad they were closing, I am sure Yolanda could have told us stories for hours.
Along the boardwalk we found a number of sculptures and art work.
Peepers, closer.
* That disclaimer thingy: Konriko did not ask us to visit, or write about our visit. They gave us a bit of a taste of cooked rice and entertained us for a small entrance fee.


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We must confess that we can't wait each year for the crunch of shoulder pads; for cleats churning up chunks of turf, and red-faced coaches screaming from the sidelines. But enough about lacrosse. College football season is upon us, and to celebrate, we're going to get back into tiny tidbit mode and present four things you didn't know about each major conference. If you have a little-known fact about your team or conference, strap it to a freshman, point him in our direction and whack him on the ass. Or, mail to firstname.lastname@example.com. Today: The Pac-10.
• 1. Crosstown Rivalry. At 27 years old in 1988, former University of Washington head coach Rick Neuheisel was the quarterbacks coach for UCLA while at the same time, a third-year law student at USC. (He tutored quarterback Troy Aikman, the same year that Todd Marinovich was a "promising USC quarterback prospect"). Neuheisel, currently the quarterbacks coach for the Baltimore Ravens, played his college football at UCLA, beginning his career as a walk-on, holding for placekicks. (Thanks to Patrick Yemenidjian).
• 2. Mind Me Platypus Duck, Bill. Oregon's Duck mascot is, in fact, Donald Duck, the only film character to appear as a mascot for a major college sports team. Walt Disney gave Oregon the rights to use Donald in 1947 (after the University's own design of the mascot began to drift suspiciously close to copyright infringement) ... The Oregon-Oregon State rivalry (the "Civil War") is the sixth oldest college football rivalry and currently has no traveling trophy, but briefly used an abstract maple-carved statue of a platypus (because a platypus looks kind of like a cross between a duck and a beaver). The Platypus Trophy was awarded from 1959 to 1962, after which it disappeared. In 2005, the trophy was found in the back of a closet at Oregon's MacArthur Court and there is a move to revive the Platypus Trophy going forward. (Thanks to Joe Patrice).
• 3. The Play's The Thing. There's an area above Memorial Stadium, Cal's home field, where many fans congregate to watch the game. Because the seats are free, the area is referred to as Tightwad Hill. Those same cheapskates fire off a cannon every time the Bears score.
• 4. Mmmmm, Rowdy Tradition .... The tortilla has been a staple at Arizona State since 1996, when the Sun Devils took an unbeaten record into the Rose Bowl with Jake Plummer at quarterback — losing to Ohio State. Used in celebration and in protest, the student body has taken to tossing tortillas (flour or corn ... the latter getting more distance) onto the field. While the school has tried to crack down on this sacred tradition by requiring the male fans to be searched before games by lifting up their shirts, the females have not been subject to such scrutiny and have been able to sneak in the edible flying disks with impunity. (Thanks to Matt Duarte).


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- Reviews
- What's Included
You arrive home, tired from a long and exhausting day. You stumble your way to your favorite couch, plop down and power up your television hoping to catch the end of your favorite sitcom. It's too dark though and you would prefer more light in the room however, you're just too relaxed and comfortable to muster up the strength to get up and physically turn on the multiple switches required to give you the amount of light you need. Wouldn't it be convenient if your home's lighting system could be adjusted wirelessly? Every product these days seem to come with a type of wireless remote control to interact with; your home's lighting system is of no exception.
Lutron's Pico Wireless Remote integrates into one of the many Lutron lighting and window dressing solutions. The Pico Wireless Remote utilizes Lutron's Clear Connect RF Technology, which operates on a quiet frequency band allowing for a quick and smooth response with signal essentially free of interference. Up to 10 total Lutron Maestro Wireless dimmers and switches can be used with just one Pico Wireless Remote for maximum control of your home's Lutron based lighting system. In addition, the Pico Wireless Remote provides up to 10 year of operation with the included and pre-installed CR2032 battery, up to 30 feet of range, can be wall mounted with a Lutron Pico Wall Mount (sold separate), installed into a car's window visor, placed on to a tabletop with a Lutron Pedestal (sold separate), and adding a new or additional point of control can be done easily without the need for new wires. With so many features, Lutron's versatile Pico Wireless Remote makes for a perfect addition to your home's Lutron based lighting system. It's convenient, provides additional security, and is a great feature for the modern home.
Model: PJ-2BRL-GIV-T01 provides four buttons with different functions:
- The top button brings lights up to their full intensity and the bottom button will dim lights down until they fully turn off. If being used as a wireless remote control for a Lutron window dressing solution, the top button will fully open shades or draperies while the bottom button will fully close the shades or draperies.
- When used with Lutrong's GRAFIK Eye QS system, the top button activates "Scene 1" while the bottom button turns it off.
- The two center buttons control how high or low the lights will dim. If used with a window treatment system, they control the partial closing and opening of drapes or curtains.
Note: The 30 foot range of Lutron's Pico Wireless Remote will vary depending on the construction of your home. Wall materials, distances between components, nearby heavy duty electrical equipment, and the overall general architecture of your home will affect wireless range.
- The top button brings lights up to their full intensity and the bottom button will dim lights down until they fully turn off. If being used as a wireless remote control for a Lutron window dressing solution, the top button will fully open shades or draperies while the bottom button will fully close the shades or draperies.
Specifications Manufacturer Lutron Manufacturer Product No. PJ-2BRL-GIV-T01 UPC 027557865791 Color Ivory Operating Range Up to 30 Feet Number of Buttons Four Battery Type 1x - CR2032 Supports the Lutron Solutions
- Maestro Wireless
- Energi TriPak
- GRAFIK Eye QS
- RadioRA 2
- Homeworks QS
- Energi Savr Node with Softswitch
- EcoSystem
- Quantum
Mounting Options Wall (with a wall mount), Tabletop (with a pedestal), Car (window visor attachment), or Handheld Dimensions 0.31D x 1.30W x 2.6L Inches
- 1x - Lutron PJ-2BRL-GIV-T01 Pico Wireless Remote in Ivory
- 1x - CR2032 Battery (Pre-installed)


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HLCR-080 The Business of Health Care
This course considers the effects of social influences and business practices as they apply to health care professions. Through application of theoretical concepts and use of case examples, this course introduces students to a variety of topics in the business of health care. Possible topics include historical and social influences on health care and its delivery; developments in health insurance, including the rise of HMOs; organizational mission and performance objectives; accounting practices; marketing principles and competitive factors; alternative organizational structures; personnel management, including staffing, training and diversity; and managing for organizational change. 2 SH.


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The Angling Trust represents all game, coarse and sea anglers and angling in England. Fish Legal (formerly the ACA), use the law to fight pollution and other damage to the freshwater and marine environment and to protect the rights of anglers and angling. Together we support the interests of individual anglers, clubs and organisations and ensure that angling's voice is heard at the highest level. Our members play a key role in shaping and funding our activities. Find out about our membership categories, join or renew by visiting the sections listed left and below.


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A displaced Californian composer writes about music made for the long while & the world around that music. ~ The avant-garde is flexibility of mind. — John Cage ~ ...composition is only a very small thing, taken as a part of music as a whole, and it really shouldn't be separated from music making in general. — Douglas Leedy ~ My God, what has sound got to do with music! — Charles Ives
Sunday, July 22, 2012
From a Diary: I:xxviii
Logistics. Spent the last week painting a room and laying a parquet floor in it. Had the vague and hopelessly optimistic idea that patterns of interlocking oak might inspire me much as Anatolian rugs inspired Feldman and all those Feldmanistas. But not to be: this particular room had to be painted and this particular floor had to be cleared of its old covering and set with the new flooring while all of the major pieces of furniture were still in the room; they could be moved about within the room, but they could not exit, for there was no external space available in which to exile them, or, in the case of a large wrought iron bed frame, there was no way to physically remove the frame from the room except out the balcony window, through which it had once entered. Not having a crane available, the bed frame had to stay, but somewhat more compactly, on its side, amply padded so that it might be rotated. Flooring is not supposed to be done this way, it needs to settle in all directions, so it wants a room emptied of everything. That being impossible, it became a logistical game of some complexity, doing the room in three parts and, with each new part, reassigning the bulky furniture parts so that their weight was distributed so as better to assist the settling of the parquet. Too, as the tasks changed, from stage to stage, the tools and supplies required changed as well, and an additional logistical feature was insuring that the required tools were in place and the tools no longer required had been returned to their proper place in the workbench so that they might readily be retrieved. It's all a bit like one of those toy puzzles in which tiles (numbered or lettered) are slid about within a frame, all movement made possible by adjacency to the single empty space in the frame. Composing has logistical dimensions, assigning forces, materials, within a piece, but also more practically, in the organizing ones work ahead, to make a plan that will sustain an environment still ripe for invention. (I admire composers who have their logistics down. Cage and Stockhausen were incredibly disciplined about working to a plan. Henry Brant's "prose reports" were precomposition designs that removed doubt from composition itself. Babbitt, to his credit, was a composer with no logistical anxiety, and could compose to full score without sketching. In his mature output, all he really needed was an array (these being complicated to make, he often reused the same arrays and also used arrays composed by others) and a set of rules about how parameters projected the "lynes" of those arrays. The rest was extemporaneous invention, a bit like playing from a figured bass or a lead sheet. But the real logistical heroes of music-making are the librarians and contractors or personnel managers who make sure that players are in place at the right time and place and with the correct playing materials, and while all musicians have logistical tasks (string and brass players not forgetting to bring mutes, or all the doubling instruments a woodwind player has to bring, whether owned or borrowed), it's the percussionists who have really to have logistics down to an art form, as their entire menagerie of noise makers gets plundered a different way in every piece.
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Will try to be a bit earlier with this in the next rounds, but anyway. Simple format, as known from grand slam competitions. Have at it.
Men's Singles - first round - worth 1 point
Fernando González (CHI)[12] vs Sun Peng (CHN)
Janko Tipsarević (SRB) vs David Ferrer (ESP)[5]
Nikolay Davydenko (RUS)[4] vs Ernests Gulbis (LAT)
Yu Xinyuan (CHN) vs Tomáš Berdych (CZE)[16]
Tommy Robredo (ESP) vs Andreas Seppi (ITA)
Lee Hyung-taik (KOR) vs Rafael Arévalo (ESA)
Gilles Simon (FRA)[10] vs Robin Söderling (SWE)
Paul-Henri Mathieu (FRA) vs Nicolás Lapentti (ECU)
Max Mirnyi (BLR) vs Nicolas Kiefer (GER)[15]
Thomas Bellucci (BRA) vs Dominik Hrbatý (SVK)
Frédéric Niemeyer (CAN) vs Guillermo Cañas (ARG)
Komlavi Loglo (TOG) vs Kevin Anderson (RSA)
Marin Čilić (CRO) vs Juan Mónaco (ARG)
Olivier Rochus (BEL) vs Ivo Minář (CZE)
Chris Guccione (AUS) vs James Blake (USA)[8]
Roger Federer (SUI)[1] vs Dmitry Tursunov (RUS)


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Breaking The Barriers: Former KKK Leader Ordained As A Minister For A Black Church In San Diego!
"The local congregation of one of the nation's largest black churches made history over the holiday season by ordaining a white man who was once an avowed racist and a leader of the Ku Klux Klan. In November, Johnny Lee Clary got down on his knees before the elders of the Church of God in Christ and became a minister. Many of those present at the ceremony considered it a modern miracle." - K news
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Phil Nichol: The Naked Racist
Note: This review is from 2006
Review from the Brighton Comedy festival, October 2006
Phil Nichol isn't the first comic to spin a routine out of a drink and drug-fuelled visit to Amsterdam, and he surely won't be the last.
But he is, perhaps, the only one to be intimidated by a gang of Dutch skinheads as his addled brain tried to take in the monument to the gay people persecuted by the Nazis. And he's certainly the first to try to confront these aggressors by stripping naked and running through the streets after them.
The thing is, it made perfect sense to him at the time - and not just because he was high. He'd previously encountered the Doukhobors, Russian pacifists who diffused aggression by shedding their clothes, many of who emigrated to his native Canada.
Nichol's brilliance as a performer is to get you to believe wholeheartedly in whatever insane theory he's espousing or whatever illogical behaviour he's sanctioning. At his encouragement, people in the audience willingly shed items of clothing after he somehow convinces them that it's a worthwhile act of anti-war protest.
Under cold, detached scrutiny, Nichol's ideas and trains of thoughts barely stand-up – but that's to miss the point. He's an electrifying comic who lives in the moment, and uses every formidable talent at his disposal to make sure every one of those moments is as strange as it is unforgettable.
So, at the time, it makes perfect sense that he performs the last ten minutes of the show butt-naked. Despite the fact he waves his genitals recklessly at the audience, and clambers intimidatingly through the rows, it all seems perfectly logical, rather than uncomfortable or exhibitionist. And that can't be right.
Until we get to this point, Nichol incorporates all manner of incidents and routines into this anecdotal narrative: rows with his girlfriend, heavy metal parodies performed with the aid of his backing band, visits to fetish clubs – it's all grist to his mill that might look relatively standard stand-up fare when listed in print, but is brought to animated life by Nichol's sheer vigour, energy and unflinching commitment to his material.
They are qualities that won him the Perrier – sorry, if.comeddie – at this year's Edinburgh ahead of cleverer, more stringently structured comedy. Although it does have an underlying message of peace and love, this wasn't a show engineered to impress comedy judges, it was just an hour of him having unconstrained fun around a loose narrative - an infectious sentiment given the powerhouse delivery. You will be won over – you have no say in the matter.
Reviewed by: Steve Bennett
Brighton, October, 2006
Original Edinburgh review
Many comics have come to Edinburgh with the intention of highlighting the injustices of the Iraq war, and encouraging audiences to rail against it. But none have done so in quite the same way Nichol does: by encouraging everyone to take their clothes off in protest. This might sound like a typical madcap idea Nichol would dream up but in fact it's based on an historical precedent that he goes through in some detail.
But that's just the end of the show, the other 50 minutes are a whirlwind of stories and anecdotes based around a trip to Amsterdam. We learn about Nichol's break-up with his girlfriend, a sexual encounter with a one-legged girl and his pursuit by a group of neo-Nazis. The material itself is great and Nichol structures it wonderfully, using the framing Amsterdam story to allow for other digressions.
But it's the presentation where Nichol truly shines - his verbal delivery is at such a fast pace he would give Natalie Haynes a run for her money, but the whole thing is peppered with funny voices, sound effects and facial expressions that take the laughter at a punchline to a whole new level.
Nichol has a flair for producing strange voices and odd noises, but, unlike some comics, doesn't dwell on them. It's the lightning-fast nature of these digressions into odd sounds that adds to the humour, as no sooner have you started laughing at the bizarreness of it all, Nichol has moved on to something else, returning to them should the situation require it. Add to this the fact that Nichol seems to be constantly running around (and even off) the stage, physically acting out many of the situations he's describing and you also have a very gifted physical comic who can get laughs from body movements or facial expressions.
Nichol isn't just relating these anecdotes, he's performing them as a one-man show, complete with physical interpretation, different voices and sound effects, all done at such speed as to utterly saturate your visual and auditory senses.
Perhaps the most telling show of Nichol's ability as a comic is when, just before starting a song, his guitar string breaks. Rather than do a poor 4-string performance of the song, Nichol rushes off stage and returns in seconds with a replacement string, changing it live on stage as the audience look on. And he makes it funny. Funny to the point where you wonder if it wasn't all a set up. To get laughs out of something as mundane as that, while keeping up the ridiculously high energy he's created in the room takes a real talent.
This hour-long show flies by and reaches a stunningly bizarre but somewhat fitting end far too quickly, but at the same time Nichol crams so much in it seems like even longer.
Plus there's nudity and deathly serious points about the war in Iraq. At the same time.
Reviewed by: Dean Love
Edinburgh, August, 2006
Review date: 1 Jan 2006
Reviewed by: Steve Bennett


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Here is another tool worth looking at for Image Viewer. Its called F-spot and the description for the same is as below :
F-Spot is an application designed to provide personal photo management
to the GNOME desktop. Features include import, export, printing and advanced
sorting and tagging of digital images.
First we will install the f-spot viewer.
1 sudo yum install f-spot
On a side note there is a f-spot screensaver application also that you can try 🙂
Now once installed, open the application. There are basically two modes for the application, one is the file view and one is folder view. But that is something you can explore on your own, what we will look at is the EXIF data capabilities. So, press F9 or select side pane from View menu and you will see the side pane.
On the side pane as you can see, you can select Folder or Metadata. Select metadata to view the metadata and this is how thiw will look.
As can be seen, the metadata is visible in the side pane. Also you can see that the support for the metadata is much better and you can see both the EXIF and the IPTC metadata. So, this definately this is one viewer that you can use to check your photos with metadata.
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Much has been written about IMAP support here and much has been accomplished by PocoSystems in that area. For this i am very thankful and this was also one of the reasons that have kept me coming back to Poco and upgrade as the years have gone bye bye.
IMHO, the is only one last major hurdle and i was wondering if it was in the works. Will Barca (or Poco) be able to eventually create/delete folders not only locally (as it can now do) but also simultaneously online with the email service?


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Note: I've moved the rest of "The Mac Pundit" articles over to a new site:
Here's the article John Gruber quoted in his "Cutting That Cord" article:
The iPad and other devices are not here to displace the PC (by which I mean all personal computers, whether they're Macs or PCs running Windows).
The thing about the iPad (and if we're being charitable "other devices") is that they will replace the PC for a good number of people who only need to do a few key tasks. The iPad doesn't do everything a MacBook can because of its very design, but it hits the sweet spot of the things people want to do the most on a computer.
The big obstacle to this is the fact you have to sync the iPad to iTunes once to activate it and get your content on it. So if Apple really wanted to make the iPad a device capable of being someone's only computer they would have to fix this.
Of course this assumes that Apple wants to make the iPad capable of operating without a connection to iTunes. (And when people say iTunes they mean "connect it to a computer with the white USB cable")
So what does Apple gain by maintaining that physical connection? For starters it lets them leverage 10 years of training people how to sync and manage mobile (post-PC) devices. Average consumers know how to get all of their stuff onto the device, how to update the software and how to completely erase and restore it if there are issues. (How many people actually know how to do such things on their Mac or PC?)
By maintaining that link Apple gets a lot of capabilities "for free".
Such a tethered existence made total sense for a traditional click wheel iPod. In fact the tight-knit nature between the iPod and iTunes was one of the key selling points in the iPod's favor. (This coming from someone who used a Dell DJ with Microsoft Windows Media Player.)
Skip ahead to 2007 when Apple introduced the iPhone. The fact that you could manage not only media, but your contacts, calendars, email accounts from your computer through iTunes was amazing. Heck, you could even activate the phone and set up your phone plan through iTunes in the comfort of your own house.
Even after the introduction of the App Store, a tethered existence for the iPhone still made sense. After all, no one could actually use an iPhone as their only computer. (Ironically, even though the iPhone was tethered to my MacBook, the iPhone allowed me to be away (untethered) from my MacBook to greater and greater stretches of time)
And with the ability to download and re-download apps over 3G, listen to podcasts over 3G and the introduction of Mobile Me for wireless syncing of my bookmarks, calendar and contacts, Apple was making it easier to exist without the physical tether for longer periods.
Although I should say that I still synced my iPhone everyday day for two simple reasons:
- I subscribe to around 15 podcasts and having iTunes check every hour for new episodes and then just plugging in the USB cable to sync them over to the iPhone is much better than manually checking for new episodes on the iPhone.
- Why not sync, charge, and back it up if my Macbook is in the same room anyway?
And notice that up until this point neither Apple or the tech punditry is talking about how the iPhone heralds the "Post-PC era". (Yes….I know Steve Jobs has used the term "post-PC" in the past talking about the iPod, but in that context it was meant to indicate that the iPod was a "satellite" device to your computer. At no point did he insinuate that the iPod, or even the iPhone could replace your computer)
Which brings us up to the iPad.
In the original iPad introduction Apple pitched the iPad as being between an iPhone and a Mac, something that did a few key things better.
Almost immediately people started asking if the iPad could replace a laptop (despite Apple never claiming that it could or even would).
What Apple did state was that the iPad would be a better experience for few key things:
- browsing
- photos
- video
- music
- games
- ebooks
One can quibble if the iPad is technically better than a laptop at these things, but the experience of doing these things on the iPad isn't a little better, it's a lot better.
So in the first year of the iPad Apple was clearly stating that the iPad did some things better than a laptop. Not everything, but some key things.
Then in the introduction of iPad 2 Apple really pushed the idea of the ipad as "post-PC" device. Add to that Steve Jobs comments that PC's were becoming trucks while things like the iPad were becoming cars and now the chatter really began.
I think that what drives most of this is that the iPad is so tantalizingly close in it's current state to replacing a traditional PC for most people.
And here we come back to the original problem: the iPad needs to be physically connected to a computer running iTunes at least once to get it up and running.
(A lot of people got iPads for Christmas, but if you wanted mom to use it out of the box you had to first open the box and activate it. Not to mention set up an iTunes account, etc…)
For the sake of argument, let's assume that Apple is working on a way for the iPad to exist independently. To "cut the cord" so to speak. (And to clarify, every-time I say "iPad" I mean "any iOS device")
In order for Apple to do this they would have to have an answer for three key iTunes functions:
- getting your stuff onto your new iPad
- updating iOS
- backing up and restoring your iPad
(Most likely, even if Apple decides to go this route and put iTunes in "the cloud" it will still be possible to continue using the iTunes application on your PC/Mac and do all of these things in the exact same way people are today. And even if Apple allows you a way to not have to connect a physical cable, you will still be using an iTunes account to log in and verify. So what we're really talking about is getting rid of the cable, not getting away from the iTunes ecosystem.)
So what would this look like? In the transition Apple would need to provide a way for users to upload their current content up to a server somewhere. Or more likely, because Apple knows what you've purchased, they could offer you a way of accessing a copy from a web browser, thereby eliminating the need to redundantly accept numerous copies of the same file from users. Of course this wouldn't cover songs/movies you've ripped yourself as Apple wouldn't have a record of you buying it.
So once you have an iTunes "locker" you can either buy content from the iTunes app on your computer and sync over the cable, or purchase through a web version of iTunes. So you'll either be downloading a copy onto your hard drive, or simply making a purchase through a web browser.
If you purchased content through a web browser and don't connect it to a cable how would you get it onto your iPad? The iPad is more than capable of wirelessly downloading big files. Apple just needs to figure out how to present a way to the end user of downloading all or parts of their content. My guess is that Apple comes up with a UI where you can see all of your iTunes purchases on your iPad and selectively download them or hit a "download all" button. (You can see fragments of this UI in the App Store when you have updates, just extend that UI to include all previously purchased content) Maybe you would go to the iTunes app to download all your existing media, the App Store to re-download all your apps, iBooks to re-download all your books…etc…
And I do think that you'll be able to stream your content, but that Apple will emphasize downloading content locally given the mobile nature of the iPad. (As opposed to the Apple TV which is always plugged into both power and network access) That and the fact that local media feels much more responsive and snappier than streamed content.
In a completely untethered existence the iPad could update it's own OS on the fly. The Apple TV is the first iOS device capable of doing so. (Although it's still possible to physically plug it into iTunes like an iPod and update it)
Currently when Apple updates iOS it pushes the entire OS as a single file and completely reflashes the device. Apple could move to a model where they "break up" the OS updates like they do in Mac OS X, but that's not likely to happen. It much "cleaner" to update the whole OS at the same time.
The most likely way is that Apple will allow wireless updating like the Apple TV but perhaps require that the iPad be plugged into a power source first. (And of course the wifi only restriction will be there)
The big problem with this is that unlike the Apple TV with a spare 8GB of space that Apple can count on being there, iPads would vary wildly as far as how much free space would be available for downloading an update and installing it. They could always make iPads with built in storage made exclusively for this purpose, but then the cost of the iPad may be affected.
In many ways this problem has already been solved. Email,contacts, calendars are already able to sync and backup to the web while solutions like DropBox (and iDisk) help move files on and off the iPad.
For everything else a user has to plug the iPad into iTunes to back up every setting, app placement, location in a game, and even what apps are currently multi-tasking.
So the question is would Apple offer a background syncing solution that captured all of this data, or rather offer a way for certain pieces of data to selectively sync. In other words, would it be like Time Machine on the Mac where it takes everything about the configuration of the computer (including historical versions of certain files) or more like Mobile Me where it would sync the latest version of data, consider that the canonical version, and then let user selectively resync certain parts of data?
One of the iPad's big failings that I've been harping on is that game data is "locked" into the the iTunes backup file, so that if your iPad is being slow and buggy (which seems to be less of a problem with the iPad 2 than it was with the original) then you have two choices: back up your iPad with all of it's buggy backup data, or completely wipe your iPad and set it up as new. Made it up to level 30 in Angry Birds? Tough…you're back at square one.
This is the sort of problem that Game Center seems to be begging to solve. Imagine getting a brand new iPad, downloading Angry Birds and the first time you launch it the game would ask for your Game Center ID (like it does now) and rather than match you with existing online players it would pull down your backed up game data and you could start the game where you left off (or start a fresh game if it was your choice) Or better yet, play a little on their iPhone and pick up where they left on their iPad. Just think of the huge expansive games that people would be willing to invest their time into playing if they knew they would never lose their place.
So will it ever be the case that you could walk into an Apple Store, turn on your new iPad, give it your iTunes account and then the iPad will be wirelessly restored to the exact configuration your old iPad was? It's possible, but a long way off.
Let's see what Apple has in store for iOS 5.


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Students in the "Instruments and Culture" music course at Wabash College will present a public display of instruments they built from Friday, April 29 until Friday, May 6 in the front lobby of Ball Theater in the Fine Arts Center.
The "Instruments and Culture" course introduces students to world music instrumental cultures with an emphasis on organology. The course culminates in a final course project which requires students to design and build an instrument by constructing either a replica of an existing instrument, a modified traditional/folk instrument, or creating a totally new musical instrument (in design).
This year's final class projects are interestingly varied and include: three chordophones: a Chinese zither, a Latin American vihuela, and an African bow harp; two aerophones: a Pakistani three-pipe flute and a Native American love flute; two idiophones: an American tongue drum and a Ugandan xylophone; and three membranophones: a Mali djembe drum, a Mandinka djembe drum, and a Ghanaian atsimevu drum.
Students and their instruments they are displaying includes: Gabriel Guerrero '08 (Vihuella); Raymond Green '08 (Bow Harp); Zuber Ahmed '07 (Native American Love Flute); Brock Medsker '05 (Tongue Drum); Homer L. Twigg IV '08 (Chinese zither); John Porch '07 (Djembe); Clayton Craig '08 (Djembe); Mohammad Saad Tahir '06 (Bansuri Flute set); Haris Amin '08 (Atsimevu pair); and Josh Levering '05 (Amadinda).
The exhibit is free and open to the public.


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The U.S. government yesterday celebrated its ownership of more than 163,000 homes, holding a nationwide backyard barbecue and telling the country that its achievement is singular proof that the American dream is within the reach of anyone – even an unwieldy federal bureaucracy that is more than a trillion dollars in debt.
The U.S. government yesterday celebrated its ownership of more than 163,000 homes, holding a nationwide backyard barbecue and telling the country that its achievement is singular proof that the American dream is within the reach of anyone – even an unwieldy federal bureaucracy that is more than a trillion dollars in debt.
Calling it "one big step for the government and one small step for mankind," the government said the latest tally of mortgage debt it is holding — some $145.9 billion — shows that it, the government, is not only concerned with doing the people's work, but also living like its citizens as well.
"I can think of no better tribute to democracy and all its ideals than having the government that rules the citizens also live, like them, beyond its means. It's a dream we can all share in," the government said in a statement released just before it was to spend its lunch hour furniture shopping for the thousands of new homes it had just acquired. "The government may be empowered to act as the final law of the land, but it's important to remember now that it is also now just another homeowner, struggling to make ends meet while watching its savings evaporate in the housing bubble."
Real estate analysts say they aren't surprised by how enthusiastically the governments has entered into homeownership.
"We pretty much knew the government was ready back in September 2008, when it seized Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. But you're still anxious until everything is in place. This just has to be such a proud moment for it."
After centuries of dwelling in the founding fathers' home and "living for the moment," the government said in its statement that it had at last decided to take responsibility for its life and step up to the duty of homeownership.
"This is probably the single biggest purchase the government will make — aside from the financial bailout and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan — but at this point in its life, the government is ready to take the plunge and it will, like millions of other Americans, find a way to make homeownership work," it said.
The government noted that it "could hardly wait" to meet its hundreds of thousands of new neighbors and to begin work on furnishing the living rooms, remodeling the kitchens, and repainting the bedrooms in its 163,000 homes.
But, it added, it wasn't taking its purchases lightly.
"The government is well aware of the challenges and potential pitfalls of owning your own homes," it said. "This isn't about making a profit. This is about owning places you can call your own and to make a better life for your family. Homeownership has been, and continues to be, the aspiration of most every American. Why should the American government be any different?"
The government said it takes its responsibility to its new neighbors and new neighborhoods seriously.
"The government is a proud homeowner now and that pride shows in the compulsive way we keep up our tens of thousands of lawns," the government said, noting that it asks contractors to mow lawns twice a month during the summer, and pays them, collectively, $10 million a month.
The Mortgage Bankers Association, which compiles housing data wasn't sure what to make of the government's official status as an indebted homeowner, saying it did not know whether to be optimistic or pessimistic of the government's achievement.
"We may be at a point where the market is changing for the better, but we can't be sure because of the confounding effect of the government's new role as an owner with a mortgage to pay and a lack of means to pay it," said an economist with the group. "But at least it still has a job."
The government, for its part, said it has no plans to shirk its obligation as a new homeowner or quit its job.
"We have a duty not only to our neighbors and lenders, but to an ideal that is as fundamental to our nation as the horseless carriage and the arms length transaction," the government said, noting that its total of outstanding mortgage payments could soon reach $389 billion.
The Mortgage Bankers Association did concede that the data on government homeownership from the first quarter of this year shows "beyond any numerical or philosophical doubt" that the U.S. government is "undeniably living the American dream."
"Any way you look at it," said a spokesman for the Mortgage Bankers Association, "the government homeowner numbers are extraordinary. At least that is what we are hoping."
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Career: Received a degree in biological anthropology and anatomy from Duke in May, 2009 ... four-year letterwinner ... started at quarterback, wide receiver and linebacker during his four seasons ... ended his career on the defensive side of the ball, recording 79 tackles, 4.5 tackles for loss, one sack and one interception in two seasons as a starting linebacker ... as a quarterback he completed 10-of-21 passes for 88 yards ... he also caught 21 passes for 174 yards and one touchdown as a wide receiver ... Jones also lettered as a member of the 2009 Duke baseball team, playing in 17 games with six starts, batting .269 (7-of-26) with one double, one triple, three runs scored and three RBI.
2008: Scheduled to start at strongside linebacker ... enters his second season as a linebacker ... excellent athlete ... named the Most Improved Special Teams Player following spring practice.
2007: Played in all 12 games with five starts at the strongside linebacker position ... ranked 12th on the team with 32 tackles on the season with 2.5 tackles for loss ... recorded first career interception at Navy to go along with four tackles ... recovered a fumble at Virginia ... posted five solo tackles with one tackle for loss at Florida State ... also had five stops against Virginia Tech ... tallied three or more tackles in seven contests ... on the field for a total of 469 snaps, including 337 on defense and 132 on special teams ... registered five games with over 50 plays ... had a season-high 66 snaps at Florida State.
2006: Played in 11 games, missing only the Wake Forest contest ... started the season-opener at quarterback, and later started the Virginia and Boston College games at wide receiver ... hit on eight-of-14 passing attempts for 82 yards ... registered 10 pass receptions for 84 yards.
2005: Played in all 11 games, with four starts at wide receiver ... starting assignments came versus East Carolina, Virginia Tech, Miami and Clemson ... finished tied for fourth on the team in receiving with 11 catches for 90 yards and one touchdown ... was two-of-seven throwing the football for six yards with one interception while picking up 11 rushing yards on nine attempts ... set season-bests of three receptions and 29 yards against Florida State with a long catch of 17 yards ... logged two-catch efforts versus both VMI and Georgia Tech ... lone touchdown grab of the season covered six yards and came against VMI.
Prior to Duke: Lettered his senior season at Southeast Whitfield under Chip Kell ... lettered two seasons at The Baylor School in Chattanooga, Tenn., for David Bibee ... rated as the 19th-best dual threat quarterback in the nation by Rivals.com ... listed as the 28th-top overall prospect in Georgia by Rivals.com ... recipient of the 2005 Male Athlete of the Year Award presented by the Chattanooga Times Free Press ... as a senior, played quarterback, wide receiver, safety, linebacker and punter ... threw for over 1,000 yards while rushing for an additional 500 yards while serving as a team captain ... also caught 40 passes for 550 yards and punted for a 40-yard average ... named to the All-North Georgia Team ... also played baseball and basketball.
Personal: Son of Kathy and Mark Jones ... father played football at Mars Hill College from 1978-81 ... born November 24, 1986.


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Nothing says winter is coming like Madam's birthday coming up on Halloween. We don't celebrate Halloween in Australia, but I still remember chuckling through gritted teeth, as I pushed out a block of apartments, that she would be saying 'trick or treat' her whole life. I am very proud to say that she has been an absolute treat.
Nothing says winter is coming like the enormous groan coming from Sir when he realized that daylight saving time ends next Sunday. As you may remember, Sir is convinced he has SAD – seasonal affective disorder. I am conversely convinced that he sees this as a carte blanche to moan for six months without my being allowed to get overly fraught with him. I think I would have a whole lot more sympathy if he didn't go into pre-moan mode on June 23 when he likes to remind me that the days are getting shorter. I feel a bit of Boy Cried Wolf entering into the agenda, and I will, quite frankly, have none of it.
Nothing says winter is coming like the frantic scrabbling about the closet trying to find clothes that a) still fit; b) you're still vaguely interested in and c) are suitable to wear to work. Thank the Lord and pass the gin that I am not subjected to that particularly hideous Corporate America adage that "business dress must be worn at all times, even to the grocery store, and if you are one of the higher up muckety mucks, to bed." No, thankfully, I now have bosses who don't particular mind what you wear so long as the work gets done. Fancy that, dear reader, bosses who know the value of their staff, no matter if they're not in suit and tie, or severe frocks and blazers.
But nothing says winter is coming more than the onset of football.
A high school coach in Texas led his team out on the field recently, whereupon his team proceeded to cream the opposition to the tune of approximately eight million to nothing. He tried everything – bringing in the bus boys and tea ladies to ease the pain, but to no avail. The opponents could not have scored if no one else was on the field.
Congratulations forthcoming? "We can do better murmurs" from the losing team? Hell no. What came was a parental complaint to the High School Football Tribunal that the winning coach should be charged with bullying. Can you imagine the bullying that will ensue, aimed at the poor benighted son of the charging parents? Oh dear Lord, get a life Mom and Dad. Crud happens.
The best of all football stories though is the one coming from a recently demised coach who was known for his sense of humor. Upon being asked by Bob Costas why his wife always accompanied him to away games, his stony-faced reply rather floored the commentator:
"Because she's too ugly to kiss goodbye."
I never knew him – but I love him to bits.
Happy winter, kids!
Annie Dear lives in Lee's Summit. Email her at anniedearkc @hotmail.com.


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Just in the India-Australia thread and there was some talk about the pecking order of the Australian fast bowlers.
What do you think the selectors current order is and what is your order?
1 Brett Lee
2 Stuart Clark
3 Mitchell Johnson
4 Peter Siddle
5 Ashley Noffke
6 Doug Bollinger
7 Shaun Tait
8 Ben Hilfenhaus ***
9 Nathan Bracken
10 Brett Geeves
11 Steve Magoffin
12 Ryan Harris
*** In the other thread I had Hilfenhaus at 10, but remember they still picked him for the Windies tour originally after a bad year.


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Highly accredited life coach and speaker, Lyman Montgomery, has a new focused-oriented book out. Entitled "Focused Driven Lifestyle: 7 Strategies for Effective Permanent Solutions to Overcome Procrastination and Distractions", the book has just hit the market and is already getting rave reviews.
"I wrote my new book on focus for the same reason I founded Focused Driven Lifestyle Coaching, LLC. I long to help others who need some guidance with focusing," commented Montgomery. "You see, I used to be all over the place. I had so many missed opportunities because I failed to focus. But through a life coach and a number of other sources, I learned to focus, overcome distractions and put an end to procrastination. Now, I teach others how to do the same by learning how to properly and effectively prioritize. Life is too short to miss out on. My new book lays it all out on for readers to follow. I am thrilled to be able to pass the blessings in my life on to others."
Montgomery began Focused Driven Lifestyle Coaching, LLC twelve years ago with the mission of helping professionals, organizations and businesses take their quality of work to a higher level but turning dreams and goals into reality. Within his focus-driven teachings, Montgomery leads others to attain the success he has achieved himself.
Once a bullied boy who was called names, like "retarded", Montgomery found himself in a whirlwind of reasons to fail. He was severely distracted, unfocused and his life was going nowhere. But he overcame the obstacles and through a complete about-face, paradigm shift, his reasons to fail have become his push to succeed. Many who have gleaned from his teaching and counseling have stated that his past misfortunes make him even more approachable.
"The fact that he overcome obstacles to get to where he is today encourages me to do the same," stated a Montgomery follower. "If he can do it…so can I."
Montgomery holds an MBA and is a certified life coach and master-level NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programing) Practitioner. An accomplished speaker, consultant and author, Montgomery has been featured in a number of prestigious magazines such as Business Innovators Magazine. He has also won awards like the Empowered Leader Award and the Speaking Empire Best Presenter Award in 2016.
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