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Cardinals beat Braves 6-3, to face Nationals
Worried that more debris could fly out of the stands, St. Louis players scrambled off the field and launched a wild-card celebration in the safety of their clubhouse.
Players danced in a happy huddle. Champagne was sprayed. Then someone yelled "Infield fly!"
Those were words that only the Cardinals could celebrate on this night.
Matt Holliday homered and St. Louis rallied from an early deficit, taking advantage of three Atlanta throwing errors - the most crucial of them by the retiring Chipper Jones - to beat Kris Medlen and the Braves 6-3 in a winner-take-all wild-card playoff Friday.
The defending World Series champion Cardinals will open their best-of-five division series against the Washington Nationals on Sunday in St. Louis. The Braves were one and done in this shortest of postseasons.
The Braves outhit the Cardinals 12-6 but stranded 10 baserunners, including three in a crazy eighth inning that included a disputed infield fly call by left field umpire Sam Holbrook.
Holbrook's call sparked immediate outrage from the sellout crowd of 52,631. As if given a go-ahead countdown to litter, fans tossed cans, bottles, cups and other debris from all corners of Turner Field.
The game was halted for 19 minutes while workers cleared up the mess.
"It was crazy," said St. Louis right-hander Kyle Lohse, who gave up two runs on six hits in 5 2-3 innings. "You hate to see the fans lose control like that. Luckily nobody got hurt."
The loss ended the Braves' record streak of 23 straight wins in games started by Medlen.
St. Louis manager Mike Matheny said he decided during the delay if his team could close out the win, it should leave the field as quickly as possible. An on-field celebration before Braves fans would not be a good idea.
"So we made it very clear if we could finish that thing off, let's get inside the dugout as quick as we can, and go up to the clubhouse," Matheny said.
Braves manager Fred Gonzalez argued Holbrook's call on the field, but after the game he also spoke strongly against the fans' actions.
"I think we have very passionate fans here in Atlanta, and I think I'm a little disappointed with the reaction of throwing bottles and beer cans and you name it," Gonzalez said. "For me, that's uncalled for.
"I understand the disappointment. But we can't do that. As Atlanta Braves and people from Georgia, it doesn't look good, and I'm a little disappointed in our fans from that point. You get people injured out there."
The barrage left Holbrook fearing for his safety.
"When cans are flying past your head, yeah, a little bit," Holbrook said.
Braves president John Schuerholz apologized for the actions of the crowd, saying a "small group of those fans acted in a manner that was uncharacteristic and unacceptable."
The Braves played the game under protest. Major League Baseball executive Joe Torre said the protest was denied. Then Braves general manager Frank Wren withdrew the complaint.
It was another heartbreaking loss in the playoffs, especially for the 40-year-old Jones.
He managed an infield hit in his final at-bat but threw away a double play ball in the fourth, which led to a three-run inning that wiped out Atlanta's 2-0 lead behind Medlen.
"Ultimately, I feel I'm the one to blame," Jones said.
But this one-and-done game will be remembered for disputed call in the eighth.
The Braves thought they had the bases loaded with one out after the ball fell between two fielders. But Holbrook called Andrelton Simmons out under the infield fly rule - even though the ball landed at least 50 feet beyond the dirt.
Holbrook defended the call, even after he looked at the replay.
"Once that fielder established himself, he got ordinary effort," he said, referring to shortstop Pete Kozma calling for the ball, then veering away at the last moment as left fielder Holliday drifted in. "That's when the call was made."
The stoppage only delayed the inevitable. When play resumed, Brian McCann walked to load the bases but Michael Bourn struck out to end the threat. Dan Uggla grounded out with two aboard in the ninth to finish it, leading to one more wave of trash throwing as the umps scurried off the field.
The infield fly is a complicated rule, designed to prevent infielders from intentionally dropping a popup with more than one runner on base and perhaps get an extra out.
No one could ever remember it being applied like this. And, after past postseasons dotted by contested calls, this play will certainly lead to another slew of October cries for more instant replay.
"I was under it," Kozma said. "I should have made the play. I took my eyes off it. I was camped under it."
Added Matheny: "Guys could have made the whole thing a lot easier if we made the play."
Holliday homered in the sixth off Medlen, who had been baseball's most dominant starter over the final two months. The Braves had not lost a start by the diminutive right-hander since May 23, 2010 at Pittsburgh.
The Braves haven't won a playoff round since 2001. Since then, they've gone 0 for 7 - including six decisive losses at Turner Field.
David Ross, starting in place of the slumping, ailing McCann hit a two-run homer in the second inning off Lohse.
On the 1-2 pitch before the homer, Ross asked for time just before Lohse's delivery. Ross then swung and missed, but umpire Jeff Kellog granted the timeout.
That call worked out for the Braves. Ross homered on the next pitch.
Carlos Beltran led off the fourth with the first hit of the game off Medlen, a bloop single to right. Holliday followed with a hard shot to third base. Jones made a nice backhanded scoop before making a wild throw over the head of Uggla, winding up in right field. The error put runners on second and third with no outs.
Allen Craig lined a double off the left-field wall, cutting Atlanta's lead to 2-1. Molina followed with a groundout that brought home another run and moved to Craig over to third. He trotted home on a sacrifice fly by David Freese, the hero of last year's postseason.
The Braves totally fell apart in the seventh, and Freese was right in the middle of things again. He led off with a routine grounder to Uggla, who bobbled it briefly, then unnecessarily rushed his throw to first. It wasn't close, the ball sailing off behind home plate while Freese took second. Daniel Descalso bunted pinch-runner Adron Chambers over to third, and Chad Durbin replaced Medlen.
Durbin got what he wanted from Kozma - a grounder to the drawn-in infield. But Simmons bobbled the ball and hurriedly threw it all the way to the backstop as Chambers slid across head first to make it 5-2. Kozma took second on the miscue, and he came all the way around to score on another ball that didn't get out of the infield. Matt Carpenter's bunt down the first-base line was fielded by the third pitcher of the inning, Jonny Venters, who missed a swipe tag and, with his back turned, failed to notice that Kozma kept right on running to make it 6-2.
"We played to win the game," Molina said. "They played to lose the game."
Medlen, who went 10-1 during the regular season, surrendered just three hits and give runs, only two earned, in 6 1-3 innings.
Jason Motte earned a save by getting the final four outs, taking over after the delay.
NOTES: The Braves outhit the Cardinals 12-6 but left 10 runners on base. St. Louis stranded only two. ... Lohse (16-3) and Medlen had a combined record of 26-4 during the regular season. The cumulative win percentage of .867 was the highest ever for opposing postseason starters, edging the .850 mark of California's John Candelaria (10-2) and Boston's Roger Clemens (24-4) in the 1986 AL championship series.


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Jimmy Peña Talks 'PrayFit' Workout Challenge, Healthy Holiday Tips (VIDEO)
Jimmy Peña Talks 'PrayFit' Workout Challenge, Healthy Holiday Tips (VIDEO)
Author of PrayFit Jimmy Peña has released a 33-day workout system offering tips on staying healthy, just in time for the holiday season.
Released earlier this month from Lionsgate, "PrayFit 33-Day Total Body Challenge" is a workout system tailored for creating a fit body and a strong spirit.
Peña acknowledged that for many people, the holidays can be a struggle, considering the amount of food found at parties and gatherings. The fitness expert told The Christian Post that it is important not to fear the holidays or food, and that everyone should absolutely enjoy food as well as family during the season.
"Go into the holidays as fit as you can and have fun with your family," advised Peña. "Enjoy food, embrace food, and obviously pick it back up in January but we can't be afraid of food or the holidays."
But he also strongly suggested keeping a journal for "accountability," and emphasized that documenting progress serves those hoping to lose weight with the motivation they need to continue.
"The body will only change according to the level at which we stress it, so keeping a journal is pretty important otherwise you can't see the change," added the author, who reiterated that keeping a journal will also help people keep their New Year resolutions.
A fitness expert and Christian, Peña merged his faith with his passion for exercise in the book PrayFit: Your Guide to a Healthy Body and a Strong Faith in 28 Days. The book calls on Christians to start living healthier lifestyles, to lead others by example. Following the success of the book, Peña decided to release the "PrayFit" exercise program which emphasizes strength, stamina, and stability.
"We chose 33 days because, scientifically, a month-long program is proven to help establish good habits while also seeing noticeable changes in body composition," said Peña. "But we also chose 33 days to honor the life of Jesus. He could have given us a day or even a week. But because He lived 33 years, we know He can relate our day-to-day issues."
The fitness mogul first realized the benefits of working out in college, but he still believes that Sunday should be a day of rest.
"In college, I went to train and then went to lunch and saw a bunch of kids coming from church," said Peña, who described the conflict he felt about missing Sunday worship that day. It was then that he decided Sundays would a day of rest and worship, and he has not trained on a Sunday since.
"If I don't get it in by Saturday, I don't get it in at all, and pick back up on Monday," added the author.
Nevertheless, Peña does want the church to play a role in fitness – with more emphasis placed on healthy physical activities as well as spiritual activities. Peña, who has trained celebrities such as Mario Lopez and LL Cool J, calls on Christians to demonstrate their obedience to God by staying healthy.
"Health and the body need to be talked about more often in the church," said Peña, who urges pastors to discuss exercise with their congregants. "I think there's a fear that it (exercise) is vanity, but I really believe that somewhere between vanity and gluttony lays abundant health and abundant living and that's where the church needs to be."
Speaking about the weight problems of today's Christian leaders, Peña said, "Pastors are at the mercy of all the different obstacles in life – stress, family … but it's time to embrace the fact that as leaders pastors have to lead as example and add our bodies into the mix of what God mandated."
In addition to Peña's quest to make Americans healthier, he guarantees that PrayFit can change the body while deepening one's spiritual faith.
PrayFit, which combines exercises and a fitness plan with daily devotionals that include Scripture, addresses the overwhelmingly large spectrum of overweight people and focuses on the church to lead the health movement.
"I really believe that it is very important to take care of the body that carries the soul," said Peña. "It doesn't take faith in Jesus to be fit, but if we have faith in Jesus we should strive to be fit. If we have faith, we should at least try to be healthy."

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It's Thanksgiving, so what else do you have to do besides sit around in a tryptophan-induced stupor and peruse the Internet for funny videos? To get you started, here are our favorite clips of the week, including a supercut of Brody's heavy breathing on Homeland, One Direction giving unsuspecting fans the surprise of their lives, and proof that Paul Rudd had a worse week at work than you did. (It involves vomit.)
One Direction Stuns Fans: Those wax figurines seem so... lifelike. Watch what happens when a bunch of British fans think they're posing with replicas of the boy band heartthrobs, only to see them come to life. Even more precious? The whole encounter was organized by the girls' mothers.
Fifty Shades of Lame! Check out TV's unsexiest sex scenes
Surprised Baby Red Panda: Speaking of surprises, this baby red panda at Japan's Maruyama Zoo got quite a shock when a zookeeper stepped off of a ladder into the enclosure shared by 3-month-old panda twins Kin and Gin. We imagine it would be even better in slow-motion.
Brody's Breathing: Check out this TVGuide.com original, a supercut of Brody (Damian Lewis) sighing, panting, or otherwise expelling air noisily on Homeland.
Hayden Panettiere Throws a Snake at Michael Strahan: Okay, not really. But the Nashville star did throw a rubber reptile at Strahan, after saying that she had recently purchased two baby corn snakes. Unfortunately, the former NFL player didn't know the snake was fake, and jumped out of his chair and squealed like a little girl when it hit him.
Losties? Trekkies? Which TV show has the best fans? Vote now!
Paul Rudd's Top 10: Paul Rudd, who's currently starring in the Broadway play Grace, stopped by Late Night with David Letterman this week to deliver the Top 10 list. The topic? Rudd's top 10 thoughts when an audience member recently vomited during a performance. (Yes, it really happened.)
Psy and MC Hammer's AMA Dance-Off: The two dance trendsetters performed a mashup of "Gangnam Style" and "2 Legit 2 Quit" at the American Music Awards. Good luck trying to get this one out of your head!
Colbert on Petraeus: Stephen Colbert finally (and hilariously) weighs in on the David Petraeus affair debacle on The Colbert Report, prefacing the segment with the sarcastic observation that "this sex scandal is all anyone in Washington can talk about. I wonder why the country is in financial ruin?"


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Microsoft said Monday it would test a new way to measure the effectiveness of Internet advertising in a challenge to an industry standard that has helped the likes of Web search leader Google.
Microsoft's "Engagement Mapping" is due to begin in beta form on March 1 and departs from a standard that ties sales, leads and traffic to the last ad that a user clicked on online.
Instead, it attempts to take into account all the Internet interactions that lead a consumer to buy a product.
Microsoft's new ad initiative follows its purchase of online marketing company aQuantive for $6 billion last year in an effort to capitalize on the fast-growing online ad market and better compete against Google .
The software maker is also in the midst of a $41 billion unsolicited takeover attempt of Yahoo Inc.
"The 'last ad clicked' is an outdated and flawed approach because it essentially ignores all prior interactions the consumer has with a marketer's message," said Brian McAndrews, senior vice president of the advertiser and publisher solutions unit at Microsoft.
McAndrews, formerly chief executive of aQuantive, has been charged by Microsoft to take greater responsibilities at the company's loss-making online services unit.
"Our Engagement Mapping approach conveys how each ad exposure -- whether display, rich media or search, seen multiple times on multiple sites and across many channels -- influenced an eventual purchase," McAndrews said in a statement. He was due to unveil the program later on Monday at an Interactive Advertising Bureau conference.
Microsoft advertising clients and partner agencies such as Citi Cards and Initiative Media have signed on for the program. Microsoft bought aQuantive for $6 billion last year. Initial results from the program are expected to be available before the end of the second calendar quarter of 2008.


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Noise is one of the most common causes of hearing loss, and one of the most common occupational illnesses in the United States. A single shot from a shotgun, experienced at close range, may permanently damage your hearing in an instant. Repeated exposures to loud machinery may, over an extended period of time, present serious risks to human hearing.
- Ten million Americans have already suffered irreversible hearing damage from noise; thirty million are exposed to hazardous noise levels each day.
- The risk and harmful effects of noise on hearing are often underestimated because the damage takes place so gradually.
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Excessive noise exposure damages the delicate hair cells in the inner ear, not dissimilar to the effect of age on the ear (accelerated "wear and tear"). This damage often results in permanent, sensorineural hearing loss and tinnitus (ringing of the ears). Hazardous noise exposures can occur on the job, but also in common recreational activities.
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Remember, even though you might have experienced these symptoms temporarily in the past, your hearing might not always "recover," leaving you with a permanent and regrettable hearing problem.
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A Georgia man says he couldn't possibly have raped a woman at a CVS store. He's just so good looking.
That's Darrious Mathis' defense in the second trial of a kidnapping, robbery and rape case out of Cobb County, according to Atlanta's WSB-TV. Mathis used the same defense in September 2013 trial that resulted in a hung jury.
The 24-year-old victim says two and a half years earlier, she was making a quick midnight stop at an Austell CVS store when Mathis kidnapped her at gunpoint and raped her.
"He had told me to get in the car and I actually begged him to take my car. I had pushed my wallet that was in my hand and my keys toward him and I was like 'Please take my car. You can take my cards and everything," she said.
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By Victor Thorn
Is Barack Obama the product of a vast socialist
conspiracy designed to undermine the fundamental tenets established by our
Founding Fathers, all bankrolled and organized by elite financiers? The answer
is unequivocally yes.
To deconstruct this labyrinth-like network, one
must start at the top with global slash and burn speculator George Soros and his
ties to the world's most powerful banking family. Journalist, historian and
economic researcher William Engdahl sets the stage.
"Soros has been
identified as a front man for the Rothschild banking group. Understandably,
neither he nor the Rothschilds wants this important fact to be public." He
continues, "Soros's connection to the ultra-secret international finance circles
of the Rothschilds is not just an ordinary or accidental banking
Finally, in a November 1, 1996 article, Engdahl writes,
"From the very first days when Soros created his own investment fund in 1969, he
owed his success to his relation to the Rothschild family banking network."
Soros, through his Open Society Institute, funnels approximately $300
million a year into various liberal venues, including the influential
MoveOn.org, which he owns. According to veteran researcher Anton Chaitkin, Soros
also hand-picked Barack Obama to challenge Hillary Clinton (and ultimately
defeat GOP nominee John McCain). On Sept. 5, 2008, he wrote, "Barack Obama came
under special Soros sponsorship in the 2004 U.S. Senate race [and] raised
$60,000 for his campaign." After attaining victory, Obama met personally with
Soros, then attended a fundraiser at his home.
Chaitkin elaborates further in
"Soros Runs British Foreign Office Coup Against U.S. Elections," an online
article. "On December 4, 2006, two years after getting into the U.S. Senate,
Barack Obama went to Soros's New York office to be interviewed for higher
office. Soros then took Obama into a conference room for other politically
subordinate billionaires. With money and connections assured, Obama announced
for the presidency soon afterward."
Lets look at the words of Michelle
Obama from a June 19, 2008 speech. She said, "We're going to have to change our
traditions and our history." She explained further on Aug. 25, 2008. "All of us
are driven by a simple belief that the world as it is just won't do. We have an
obligation to fight for the world as it should be."
Who, precisely, will
determine how our world should be? Mrs. Obama's poignant phrase was lifted
directly from Saul Alinsky, a Chicago-based Jewish extremist who penned the
handbook for far-left causes, Rules for Radicals.
To implement
his plans to undermine America, an intricate network needed to be established
that would spread its tentacles throughout every aspect of society. One of the
primary vehicles they utilized was the Tides Foundation, to which Soros
contributed $13 million from 1997-2003. Established by Jewish antiwar activist
Drummond Pike in 1976, this tax-exempt organization serves a very important
function. According to researcher Ben Johnson of Front Page Magazine in
September 2004, they "allow high-profile individuals to fund extremist
organizations by 'laundering' their money through Tides, leaving no paper
In essence, after taking a 10 percent cut, Tides has fed over
$300 million to entities such as cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal, MoveOn.org and
those who advocate abortion-on-demand, all the while assuring contributors
they won't be publicly linked to these causes. One look at the Tide
Foundation's board reveals who calls the shots.
Drummond, senior vice
president Gary Schwartz, and executive vice president Ellen Friedman are all
Jewish. Pike also used his leverage to bail out ACORN's welfare rights leader
Wade Rathke, after he embezzled $948,507. To protect Rathke, ACORN
never contacted law enforcement officials or sought
prosecution. Instead, Stephanie Strom of The New York Times wrote on Aug.
17, 2008, "The organization announced that an anonymous supporter had agreed" to
pay off the debt. That man was Drummond Pike. To cover their tracks, Arthur
Schwartz (also Jewish) now coordinates their slippery public
Of course, Barack Obama began his political career as the
chief national trainer for ACORN, which now faces lawsuits in 14 states for
voter fraud. Obama's mentor as a community organizer in Chicago was Gerald
Kellman, a Saul Alinksy protegé. To begin his meteoric rise toward the White
House, money originated from what Clarice Feldman of American Thinker calls the
"Gang of Four"— Soros, Peter Lewis, Stephen Bing and Herbert & Marion
Sandler. All are Jewish billionaires.
One of Obama's most important
backers was Marilyn Katz (Jewish), who oversaw security for the SDS (Students
for a Democratic Society) and advocated violent guerrilla tactics toward the
police (as did Obama associate William Ayers of the Weather Underground). Katz
became a fundraising bundler for Obama, as well as hosting fundraisers and
serving as an Illinois delegate at the 2008 Democratic National
The Tides Foundation controls the San Francisco-based Apollo
which "absolutely believes that government is the solution to all
social and economic problems."
On July 28, Phil Kerpen of Americans for
Prosperity described how the "Apollo Alliance is designed to bring together the
elements of organized labor with community organizers and green groups." More
importantly, Kerpen revealed that the Apollo Alliance "put out a draft stimulus
bill in 2008 . . . that included almost everything that ended up being in the
final stimulus bill."
Van Jones, Obama's new "green jobs czar," described
the Apollo Alliance as a "grand unified field theory for progressive left
causes." Who exactly is Van Jones? After participating in the 1992 L.A. riots
(for which he was arrested and incarcerated), Jones told the East Bay Express on
November 2, 2005, "I met all these young radical people of color—I mean, really
radical Communists and anarchists. And it was like: this is what I need to be
part of. I spent the next 10 years of my life working with
a lot of these
people I met in jail, trying to be a revolutionary. I was a rowdy black
revolutionary on April 28th, and when the verdicts came down on April 29th, I
was a Communist."
To round out this list, the SEIU (Service Employees
International Union) is primarily responsible for what is contained in Obama's
socialized health care bill. Andy Stern and Anna Burger lead the SEIU, both of
whom are Jewish cronies of George Soros. Their vice president is Gerald Hudson
(Jewish). Pushing this bill and the stimulus package to various media outlets is
Robert Borosage (Jewish) of the Institute for America's Future (also a huge
recipient of Soros's funding). Overseeing the housing and banking industries is
none other than Barney Frank (Jewish), chairman of the House Financial Services
Committee. Last but not least, Key members of Obama's inner circle—David
Axelrod, Lawrence Summers and Rahm Emanuel are Jewish and
Putting this complicated matter into perspective is
educational theorist
and critic David Solway. On July 7, 2009 he wrote, "We
Jews are
a sly and surreptitious people . It pains me to admit this, but
candor compels. . . . [T]he best way to bring America to its knees, to weaken
its will to survive, to cleverly turn it against itself, was to do everything in
our considerable arsenal of means to deliver the White House to Barack
The conspiracy has been completed, and now the Jewish
Rothschild-Soros connection controls voter registration (ACORN), money
laundering (Tides), billions in stimulus spending (Apollo), possibly the future
of health care (SEIU), finance (Franks), and the Oval Office's inner workings
(Emanuel, Axelrod and Summers).


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When I first started my blog I tried to use Jimmy IN Japan as my URL. Unfortunately back then someone else had first dibs on the name so I had to spell it "jimmynjapan". Even to this day that douche way back in 2004 only wrote one post to say he was testing it out and hasn't written since.
Still over time I've come to like my forced title. Not only could it have the generic meaning, but I guess if you said it fast enough it could read as Jimmy AND Japan.
In Japanese "sayonara" is a goodbye that is not often said in reality, but as a final goodbye meaning pretty much the end. That post was intended to be my swan song but I guess my readers, or at least a really persistent one is encouraging me to write on.
So as I sit in a cold sweat in total darkness contemplating my future I stare at that URL thinking what do I have left to write?
Even though I spent close to seven years in Japan I felt like I came back earlier than I really wanted to. My mission statement remains unfulfilled, and I don't think things have changed as I wishfully hoped. The people that asked when I was coming back are now noticeably absent, and some that I left behind in Japan, that at times made me feel forgotten tell me that I am missed!
After the Celta I didn't have trouble getting work. At first I had more offers than I expected. I actually worked at two schools simultaneously, but I am now only working for one. Without getting into too many details, from what I've found most schools are fairly similar. The main differences I've noticed are the choice of textbooks and facilities. Every school so far has only offered casual work and while I don't mind the pay at all, the security of knowing if my work will continue or be "on call" is a bit disconcerting.
I'm happy with the school I'm working for. The staff are really nice and the students are awesome. Speaking of students, there's quite a difference between teaching only Japanese students, and teaching a melting pot of various nationalities. Right now, I think I've finally found my feet but in the beginning it was a real challenge.
One of my greatest strengths is my rapport. I think it has really helped me out. In fact I feel like I have better rapport with foreigners than Australians! Every day makes me feel like I'm not in this country and on a semi-permanent vacation (kind of what Japan was) and for that I am thankful.
I miss Japan terribly for all the good things and I seem to have forgotten most of the bad. This won't be my last post but like everything in life it has to end sometime.
Friday, 29 May 2015
Happy Endings Are Only In Movies
When I first started my blog I tried to use Jimmy IN Japan as my URL. Unfortunately back then someone else had first dibs on the name so I had to spell it "jimmynjapan". Even to this day that douche way back in 2004 only wrote one post to say he was testing it out and hasn't written since.
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Ford 331 Cubic Inch Stroker Engine - Going For 400/400
The Summit Racing/MCE Engines 331 Stealth Small-Block Makes Big-Block Power - With Room for More!
What's the secret to hidden horsepower? Who cares? This engine-building effort is all about torque-street torque-and how to get a lot of it from your small-block Ford V-8 without spending a fortune. It's called making the most of low displacement using the right parts, building technique, and factory iron heads.
Would you like to know more?
The Summit Racing/MCE Engines 331 Stealth small-block is the brainchild of our good friend Marvin McAfee of Marvin's Competition Engines (MCE) in Los Angeles, California. Marvin conceived this engine with his closest associates using a lifetime of experience as an engine builder and craftsman. This vision was to build a rock-solid small-block that would make 350-400 hp, with potential for approximately 100 more, using factory iron cylinder heads. He envisioned the perfect Mustang power package with plenty of power for a 3,200-pound automobile that could, with the right chassis, driveline, and driving technique, crack the quarter-mile in 11-12 seconds at 110-120 mph, yet be docile enough for the street on pump gas. Yes: pump gas, and yes: iron Ford heads.
"We don't like the research and development approach to engine building," he tells us, "We don't like guesswork either. However, we do like going with what we know works from proven experience." Marvin has built a number of 347ci stroker engines in his time. He's also built an untold number of 289 and 302ci small-blocks in this engine's 44-year history. But he is quick to tell us he prefers the underdog: the 331ci stroker package in a 289/302 block.
Marvin used his cache of aftermarket catalogs and visited the Web for inspiration. He focused on Summit Racing Equipment, Comp Cams, Probe Industries, Mustangs Plus, PowerHeads, Edelbrock, MSD Ignition, and Holley. From this list of aftermarket companies and help from a lot of local talent, Marvin became the architect for torque. He came up with the name Stealth to describe his 331ci engine-building effort because it is invisible: that right-cross black eye we weren't expecting from an iron-head small-block. Stealthy performance because it is the unexpected: a small-block with modest displacement that makes big-inch horsepower and torque.
So how does a 331ci mill make 400 hp and 400 lbs-ft of torque? To Marvin's way of thinking, it's simple high school physics. "Our recipe leans toward more go and less show, which is a MCE hallmark. We want to build a kick-ass 331ci street engine with a healthy dose of durability without having to take out a second mortgage on the house and sell one of the kids." He adds that if you are building an engine with the intent of making more power, invest in a strong bottom end to grow with. It costs money but is well-spent if there are big plans for more power later.
If the beer and pretzel budget won't allow a bulletproof bottom end that can take 500-plus horsepower, you can still achieve 400/400 with a nodular iron crank, forged I-beam rods, and hypereutectic pistons for street and Saturday night strip fun. Just remember that 400/400 is the maximum power you can throw at these pieces in a stock block. Anything more is courting catastrophic failure.
Stealthy Formula For Success
"Everybody loves horsepower-the more the better," Marvin tells us. "Producing horsepower isn't a secret. Take torque and rpm, multiply these numbers together, and then divide it by 5,252. If you're going to perform on the racetrack, more horsepower is mandatory. On the street it's unnecessary. You need torque on the street to get respect." So how to get torque from a 331-inch small-block? And how to get even more horsepower and torque later if you decide to go racing? Marvin and the MCE performance team show us how.
Marvin admits there are two approaches to making 400 hp: liberal budget and conservative budget. You can make 400 hp and 400 lbs-ft of torque from a 289/302-based block with a low-buck 331-inch stroker kit and nodular iron crank, I-beam rods, and hypereutectic pistons. However, this is the package's service ceiling. For 100-200 more horsepower and an equal amount of torque, you're going to need a stronger block, steel crank, bulletproof rods, and forged pistons. This is what Marvin has specified to achieve a platform with potential for growth. He is building a powerful 400/400 small-block with a plan for 100/100 more using iron heads. He doesn't want it to break on the dyno because he chose to do it on the cheap. He invested wisely in a strong bottom end he could build on.
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Iron Heads And A Hot Roller Cam
You might be lulled into believing aftermarket aluminum heads are necessary to achieve 400/400, but Marvin proves otherwise. Make 400 honest horsepower and 400 lbs-ft of torque with ported Ford 289/302 cylinder-head iron castings. PowerHeads performs a CNC-port job, along with a five-angle valve job that includes hardened exhaust valve seats, new guides, and new stainless steel 1.94/1.60-inch valves. Comp Cams has provided Marvin with 100 percent of the valvetrain system, which includes dual springs with dampers, steel retainers and keepers, and a hydraulic roller camshaft long on torque. Marvin chose a Milodon dual-roller timing set. Comp Cams 1.7:1-ratio roller rockers were also inspected and blueprinted by Marvin. ARP screw-in rocker-arm studs with guide plates get everything square on top.
Marvin has opted for an aggressive hydraulic roller camshaft that gives him a lot of lift (.544) and enough duration (212 intake, 218 exhaust at .050 lift), with a lobe separation of 112 degrees that provides ample low-speed vacuum for power brakes, and other accessories we need on the street.
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Marvin goes back to basic high-school physics. Engines are air pumps, he tells us. The power made is directly affected by how much air and fuel we can huff and ignite in the combustion chambers. Induction is the all-important beginning of this process. Marvin opted for the new Edelbrock Performer RPM Air Gap intake manifold, which offers all of the same features as the Performer RPM, as well as getting the manifold runners off the engine for a cooler intake charge. Marvin has also chosen a 750-cfm Holley carburetor with vacuum secondaries fed by a Holley 110-gph fuel pump.
MCE Builds The Stealth 331
We've already addressed many of the important elements of power: the recipe that is the 331 Stealth small-block from Summit Racing and MCE. We've shown you the block, the reciprocating internals, the cam and valvetrain, the iron Ford heads, the induction package, and the oiling system. Now, we're going to address the many fundamentals of a spot-on engine build.
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Engine Building 101
These pesky details may seem like overkill, but when reviewing the remains of a failed engine, it's no comfort to realize you should have sweated the details. Detail is of utmost importance in any engine build.
Next month, we'll continue our Summit Racing/MCE Engines 331 Stealth build in Part 2 with more details important to engine integrity, reliability, and power. Then we'll put this engine on Westech's dyno for a polygraphic look at how power is made, and how we can sometimes come up short for reasons not immediately apparent.
Who Is Marvin McAfee?
If you're familiar with the racing world around Los Angeles, you know Marvin McAfee. Marvin is outspoken and extraordinarily-talented with a mindset for engine science. Marvin's Competition Engines has been around since the '60s and has been building engines for a fortunate few ever since. When Boss 302 Mustangs and Z-28 Camaros were tearing up the SCCA Trans Am circuit in 1969-1970, Marvin was there building the powerful engines that made these cars and their drivers legendary. When the jet age was unfolding during the '50s and '60s, Marvin was building, installing, and testing jet engines and the aircraft they powered. His disciplined psyche was born of knowing when to forego the short cut. Marvin has never given in to a clock or a budget in his engine building philosophy. It's logic rooted in his aerospace and racing background. If he can't build it right, he doesn't build it.
Marvin maintains his shop in a quiet Los Angeles neighborhood where he's been building engines since the dawn of the baby boom. There, he passionately burns the midnight oil, learning and practicing everything he can toward engine building excellence. This may sound like a puff job, but Marvin has touched our knowledge of engines like no one else has in 20 years of automotive journalism. He has taught us much in the short time we've known him. Our experiences with him have been extraordinary, and he's become an extraordinary friend. Marvin is the teacher and we are the students. Let class begin. -Jim Smart


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A new company is looking to launch spacecraft to mine asteroids and one day act as an outer space gas station and an oasis for human colonies in space.
Deep Space Industries Inc. announced Tuesday that it hopes to launch a fleet of small spacecraft, dubbed Fireflies, in 2015 to begin taking images of some of the thousands of near-Earth asteroids. Then in 2016, the company is scheduled to launch another round of spacecraft, these dubbed Dragonflies, to grab asteroid samples and return them to Earth.
If all goes as planned, it would begin commercially harvesting resources from asteroids around 2020, according to CEO David Gump. Then it hopes to take those mined resources and turn them into products using space-based 3-D printers. The company also hopes to one day build communications satellites and solar power stations in orbit, possibly as a way to provide fuel, air and water for long-term deep space missions.
While the company's ambitions might sound far-fetched, it has pulled in some notables from the space industry.
Chairman of the Board Rick Tumlinson, for example, led the commercial team that took over the Mir Space Station as a commercial operation. Gump co-founded three commercial space-related companies and was chosen by NASA to advise the agency on technology for a return to the moon. And CTO John Mankins spent 25 years working for NASA on flight projects and space mission operations.
"Using resources harvested in space is the only way to afford permanent space development," said Gump. "More than 900 new asteroids that pass near Earth are discovered every year. They can be like the Iron Range of Minnesota was for the Detroit car industry last century - a key resource located near where it was needed. In this case, metals and fuel from asteroids can expand the in-space industries of this century."
To prospect in space, the company will use technology that already has been developed, according to Mankins.
"You don't see any magic. You don't see space elevators. You don't see warp drive," he said during a news conference today to talk up the company's plans. "You don't see anything that cannot be done with technology research that has already been accomplished all over this planet. It may not have been used in space, but the fundamental technologies already are at hand."
And while he said the company will be testing new NASA technology for the space agency, it's also looking for assistance getting their project off the ground.
"Our planet sits in a sea of resources. It's time someone seized the opportunity," said Mankins. "We're looking for help. We're looking for people with ideas. We're looking for people who want to invest. We're all about moving ahead. It's a risk but that's what life is about."
According to the company, the FireFly spacecraft will only weigh about 55 pounds and is being designed for journeys lasting between two and six months. The larger, 70lb DragonFlies, which are expected to bring back 60 to 150 pounds of asteroid samples, are being built for round-trip journeys of two to four years.
"My smartphone has more computing power than they had on the Apollo moon missions," said Tumlinson. "We can make amazing machines smaller, cheaper, and faster than ever before. Imagine a production line of FireFlies, cocked and loaded and ready to fly out to examine any object that gets near the Earth."
While the idea of prospecting for metals and other resources in space may sound like a sci-fi movie, Deep Space Industries actually already has competition in the asteroid-mining business. A company called Planetary Resources announced in April that it plans to plan mine Near-Earth Asteroids for raw materials such as water and precious metals.
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Blasko Smilevski studied international public law at the University of Skopje in Macedonia. From 1986 he worked as a volunteer for Jeunesses Musicales Macedonia (JMM), coordinated the international summer music academy in Ohrid, Macedonia, from 1988 to 1994, and was manager of the JMM Chamber Orchestra until the JMM appointed him secretary of international relations in 1994.
From 1997 to 2004 he was member of the board of Jeunesses Musicales International (JMI). During this period he assumed the direction of the European project ExTEND (2004) and coordinated one of the largest studies on youth and music. From 2000 to 2006 Smilevski was president of Jeunesses Musicales of Europe, subsequently president of Jeunesses Musicales International (2006–2007).
Smilevski has also been very active in the area of youth work: from 1994 to 1998 he was board member of the Macedonian Youth Council. From 1997 to 2001 he represented Jeunesses Musicales of Europe at the European Youth Forum. He has also served as youth policy advisor to the Macedonian government, as director of the Macedonian "Children and Youth Development Project" (2001–2006), and since 2002 as consultant to the World Bank in the areas of youth policy and youth development. Currently, Smilevski is secretary general of Jeunesses Musicales International, member of the board of the International Music Council, and member of the board of Culture Action Europe.


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Kevin's Reopens in Red Hook
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The flood waters of hurricane Sandy were deceptively cruel to the Red Hook seafood restaurant. "At first, it seemed like all items above the flood line were okay," says chef Kevin Moore. "We thought we'd replace the sheetrock, the wainscoting... but then we noticed the floor tiles were buckled, and the fear of mold became paramount... there was a dull quiet in the place like the life had drained with the sea."
As has been the case with several businesses in the area, Red Hook rallied behind Kevin's. "Restore Red Hook was the first to come through with a check and a sense of hope. Lucky Ant, the community funding site, offered to waive their fee and we set a modest goal... eventually we passed that amount and doubled it and then some."
The reconstruction moved along very quickly thanks in part to Luis Grippi, a local contractor who showed up with a crew and worked alongside him until everything was complete. They used the down time as an opportunity to make improvements; a new bar was built using materials that were donated from the Red Hook Marble company. A new sign was built by Chico MacMurtrie, the artistic director of Red Hook based Amorphic Robot Works.
Business has been slowly picking up since reopening at the end of February, so in the interim, Kevin is the only one cooking in the back of the house. During a recent visit, I peaked into the kitchen as he was managing several saute pans, dressing salads, and grilling squid all by himself. His brother Gene was working as the host, waiter, and dishwasher for the evening. Despite the lack of help, the chef refuses to pare down his menu and even welcomes each guest with an amuse bouche of jumbo shrimp poached in chili oil and then finished on the grill.
"We [Kevin and his wife Caroline] opened the the restaurant in 2008, as a response to the needs of the neighborhood that didn't have any brunch options and surprisingly no seafood options," explains chef Moore. "At first we offered lunch, brunch, and dinner Wednesday to Sunday, but it just wasn't sustainable with the number of lunch customers we had."
In order to stay in the black, Kevin still manages the restaurants hours to take advantage of when Red Hook is busiest; they are open for dinner Thursday through Saturday and brunch during the weekend. The rest of their week is spent catering for large events as well as sourcing ingredients for the restaurant. During the summer, they also run Little Eva's, the outdoor beer garden at Picnic Point on Governor's Island.
Brunch is a considerably more crowded affair at Kevin's; diners sip on their french pressed Stumptown coffee as they work on plates of blueberry pancakes and crab cakes with poached eggs. The scene is reminiscent of the type of family-run seafood restaurant you'd encounter in Cape Cod or on the coast of Maine, where lobster and cod and are more abundant than beef and chicken, and the waiters are on a first name basis with all of the diners.
Check out more of Kevin's dishes in the slideshow.
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ESA's Vega VV02 rocket is now fully assembled on its launch pad, 22 April, 2013. Final preparations are in full swing for the rocket's flight.
Vega VV02 is the first of the five flights scheduled in ESA's Vega Research and Technology Accompaniment – VERTA – programme, which aims to demonstrate the flexibility of the launch system. At a minimum rate of two launches per year, the programme will allow the smooth introduction of Vega for commercial exploitation.
VV02 will loft Proba-V, the first of four ESA missions, into space. Proba-V carries a reduced version of the Vegetation instrument currently flying on the Spot satellites to provide a daily overview of global vegetation growth.
This first VERTA flight will also demonstrate Vega's capability to launch multiple payloads. The second payload is the Vietnam Natural Resources, Environment and Disaster Monitoring Satellite (VNREDSAT) built by Astrium for the Vietnamese government.
Vega VV02 is scheduled for liftoff from the Spaceport on 4 May, 2013 (GMT).


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Dorothy Heffner Voogd was born in St. Louis, Missouri. Her birth certificate shows her father's occupation as "shortstop." Her father, Don Heffner, was then playing for the St. Louis Browns. Don met Dorothy's mother, a St. Petersburg (Florida) beauty, while a New York Yankee rookie. Don spent a lifetime in baseball, playing, coaching and managing in cities such as Baltimore, New York, San Antonio, Kansas City, San Diego, Aberdeen (South Dakota), and Barranquilla (Columbia). Dorothy and her mother travelled with him, returning at the end of each season to their home in Arcadia, California.
Dorothy graduated from Arcadia High School and matriculated at Stanford, where she pursued interests in English, art, and music. She met Tony Voogd, son of an Ojai City Council member, there. Dorothy and Tony were married in the Stanford Chapel on her graduation day. Over the years Dorothy sang with the Stanford Chorale, the San Francisco Chorale, the William Hall Chorale and various church chorales.
Dorothy was enormously supportive of Tony's legal career. She raised her son, Don, to be a strong, competent man. Dorothy's wanted to assure that elementary school students were introduced to great music. She furthered that interest through work with the Coleman Chamber Music Association, Pasadena Symphony Juniors and the Ojai Music Festival. Alzheimer's deprived her of memory and speech, but not her indomitable charm. No services are contemplated, just fond memories of this beautiful woman.


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The final season of Big Love deserved a premiere with panache, and the TV polygamists did not disappoint.
It's like Chloe Sevigny tried to figure out what's the last label Nicky would wear, and the answer was obviously Rodarte.
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Ginnifer Goodwin channels a modern southern belle in what is definitely my favorite look of the evening.
Jeanne Tripplehorn is perhaps the only one to pay sartorial tribute to the spirit of the show.
So far, this shape (as modeled by Branka Katic) is definitely the silhouette of 2011. How does that make you feel?
Is Daveigh Chase wearing a lace romper? Because — as I don't need to tell her — with the notable exception of the miraculous hanky panky thong, lace in crotch region is a recipe for inner-thigh chafing.
There are a few routes you can go with a premiere. Straight red-carpet. Theme (as seen at "Black Swan" opening.) Or "defiant," in which you break out from the dowdy constraints of a character and remind the world you're glam. A la Cassi Thomson.
Nathalia Ramos's dress is like walking on — fine, wearing — broken glass. Which is obviously more awesome in song form than any other medium.
I'd forgotten this, but circa 5th grade and Corrina, Corrina and/or Andre, I thought Tina Majorino was absolutely the coolest. I stand by that.
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The link between cannabis and hunger is pretty well established — but could we reverse that link, and turn it into a way to help lose weight?
Researchers think they've found a way to take how our body reacts to cannabis and hunger, and spin it into a way of controlling weight, according to research published in Cell Metabolism.
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The whole idea traces back to leptin, your body's natural appetite suppressant. People with obesity tend to be resistant to the stuff, so they feel constantly hungry — and just pumping more leptin into their systems unfortunately does little to curb their appetites. What's interesting is that the cannabinoid receptors throughout our body are part of this system, and it's thought their activation may tie to leptin resistance. Previous attempts at blocking cannabinoid receptors have led to drugs like rimonabant, which was pulled from the European market for serious psychiatric side effects.
But now, researchers appear to have succeeded in crafting a drug which manages to block these receptors in a way that is still effective, but doesn't penetrate the brain. This research still only involves mice, but the compound, JD5037, has dramatically improved the health of mice, without evidence of behavioral side effects.
Question to all the biologists in the audience — if the cannabinoid receptors in our body, but not our brain, are blocked, would you still feel the psychoactive effects of marijuana use? Or would this medication have the side effect of rendering you unable to get high?


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The Australian dollar is more than half a US cent higher after it bounced back on the release of business investment figures.
At 1700 AEDT on Thursday, the local unit was trading at 102.76 US cents, up from 102.16 cents on Wednesday.
On Thursday morning, The Australian Bureau of Statistics said capital expenditure (capex) in the December quarter fell 1.2 per cent, which was worse than expectations of a one per cent rise.
However, expected projections for business investment showed that mining investment will still be strong for the current financial year and the next.
Easy Forex senior currency dealer Francisco Solar said the Australian dollar initially fell to 101.92 US cents after the data was released but then bounced back by almost one US cent by the early afternoon.
"There was a knee-jerk reaction, but at the end of the day it seems that whenever the Aussie is a little bit cheap, the buying support is amazing," he said.
"So anytime the Aussie is sold off on a local data event for example, it's just an opportunity to buy more Aussie dollars."
Mr Solar said Australia's interest rate advantage still gave the Australian dollar good support.
Many developed nation's central banks have their interest rates at, or near, zero per cent, while the Reserve Bank of Australia's cash rate stands at three per cent.
He said Standard & Poor's stripping the UK of its triple A credit rating was another factor that still helps the Australian dollar.
Mr Solar said any the market would be interested in any news from Italy about the formation of a government after its elections ended in deadlock.
At 1700 AEDT, the Australian dollar was at 94.92 Japanese yen, up from Wednesday's close of 93.71 yen, and at 78.17 euro cents, almost level with its previous local close of 78.18 euro cents.
Meanwhile, the Australian bond market was weaker.
ANZ head of interest rate research Tony Morriss said the capex figures meant that another interest rate cut by the Reserve Bank of Australia has become less likely.
"The market's initial response to the capital expenditure data was for a small rally because the quarterly numbers were a little bit weak.
"But looking at the first estimate for investment going into 2013/14 shows that mining investment will be strong and allow a bit more time for the focus of growth to go from the mining to the non-mining sectors," he said.
At 1630 AEDT on Thursday, the March 10-year bond futures contract was trading at 96.680 (implying a yield of 3.320 per cent), down from 96.690 (3.310 per cent) on Wednesday.
The March three-year bond futures contract was at 97.260 (2.740 per cent), down from 97.290 (2.710 per cent).


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(Pocket-lint) - Although it's been beaten to the punch as the first manufacturer to release Android-specific headphones (by Klipsch), Philips is, to our knowledge, the first to offer an entire range of, what it calls, Made for Android headsets.
The range includes two sets of ear buds, some earhooks and a pair of cans, all of which coming in at reasonable price points, and all featuring full remote control and in-line microphone for Android devices.
Better still, they each offer full functionality for a large number of Android handsets and tablets, regardless of manufacturer, as they are linked to a free application that will be available on the Android Market. This app can be told which specific device you own, and will therefore ensure that the user can programme their headset with music management capabilities - such as play/pause, previous track, next track, fast forward, fast backward and volume control - while call management features are present too. There will also be the ability to launch the app from the on-cable remote.
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For those who run or go to the gym, the Philips SHE8105A buds are similarly specified but have earhooks to keep them more firmly in place. They also come with a 24k gold-plated plug for an "ultra-reliable" connection, and weigh in at $39.99.
As a step-up model to the SHE7005A pair, the Philips SHE9005A earbuds offer 10mm high performance speakers, a "premium" metal housing to reduce vibration, the company's proprietary Comply foam tips to improve comfort, and an anti-tangle fabric cable. They cost $49.99.
Lastly, the Philips SHL9705A headset is of the headband/can variety, and comes with 40mm speakers, on-ear memory foam cushions, aluminium outer ear shells for durability (and decent aesthetics, from our showing), and they fold flat for easy storage. They come in at $99.99.
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Clinton faces balancing act as she touts unity message in final stretch
Ahead of the 2010 midterm elections, Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said the GOP's top goal was to make Barack Obama a one-term president.
It is with that history in mind, and amid one of the nastiest U.S. elections ever, that Hillary Clinton begins her closing argument to a bitterly divided America.
For all her outreach to progressives on issues like trade and Wall Street regulation since she launched her bid in April 2015, she's ending her campaign with a direct appeal to Republicans by casting her candidacy as not about partisanship but as a referendum on American democracy.
Red blood, blue blood: How do we begin to heal after Clinton vs. Trump?
During a Tuesday speech in Florida, Clinton said Republican Donald Trump poses a threat to the U.S. Constitution with attacks on freedom of speech and the press, the encouragement of violence at rallies and with a proposed religious test for Muslim immigrants. "Now his final target is democracy itself," Clinton said in a speech near Fort Lauderdale, referring to Trump's comments at the recent Las Vegas debate that he may not accept the results of the Nov. 8 election.
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Yet in her stump speeches, Clinton is making clear that her top priority isn't just attacking Trump but also the down-ballot Republicans she'd like to see replaced by Democrats. In recent trips to New Hampshire and North Carolina, Clinton has taken aim at GOP Sens. Kelly Ayotte and Richard Burr for standing by their party's nominee, though some of the most vulnerable Republicans — like Ayotte — have recently sought to distance themselves from the top of the ticket.
With polls showing her with a comfortable lead as the the campaign enters its final stretch, Clinton is looking to run up her margin of victory, anticipating a potentially divisive atmosphere in Congress following the election.
The 2010 McConnell comment about Obama offers a good reminder of the stakes, said Robert Shapiro, a political science professor at Columbia University. "If that's where we were then, the starting point may well be the same thing unless the election outcome is so lopsided the Republicans think they need to be a little bit more conciliatory," he said.
It's an awkward balancing act, as Clinton pivots from attacking incumbent congressional Republicans she might ultimately have to work with to making overt gestures to court their base of independent and GOP voters in order to bolster her own margins. In New Hampshire, for instance, after attacking Ayotte, Clinton pivoted to her message about unifying the country. "I'm proud to see Americans coming together — Democrats, Republicans and independents — to reject hate and division," Clinton said at a Monday rally.
"We are more than our disagreements, we Americans. There is so much more that unites us than divides us. I'm proud to have the support of more than 150 Republican leaders in this state who put country before party," she added.
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This unity message is buttressed by a new round of television ads featuring Republicans and military officials, including John Allen, a retired four-star Marine general who served under both Obama and President Bush. Another series features Republican parents who say they don't agree with Clinton on everything but can't support Trump.
One new spot, titled "A Place for Everyone," looks a lot like the video she began her campaign with that primarily featured the faces of voters instead of her.
"I want us to heal our country and bring it together," Clinton says in the ad, making no mention of Trump. "My vision of America is an America where everyone has a place," she says, as images of Americans of different races, ages and gender appear on screen.
Given her high unfavorable ratings, it is imperative that Clinton makes this case now, according to presidential historians. "This has to be seen as a centrist election for Hillary Clinton, not a progressive wave election," said Douglas Brinkley, a presidential historian at Rice University in Texas.
If Clinton is able to win a traditionally red state like Arizona, where polls show a tight race, that could help pressure Republicans to work with her more than they did with Obama. "Half the Republican Party is not going to accept her as legitimate," said Brinkley. "It's essential that what she does is try to show that, while she may be stiff-arming Trumpians, she's more than willing to work with serious Republicans in Congress," said Brinkley.
"That's her picking sides in the civil war in the Republican Party," he said.
At the beginning of his presidency, Obama said he wanted a "team of rivals" in his Cabinet, borrowing from the title of Doris Kearns Goodwin's best-selling book on Abraham Lincoln.
"Whenever there is a difficult moment in American history, you want to show there's bipartisanship" at the end of the road, said Brinkley. Franklin Roosevelt picked Republicans Frank Knox as secretary of the Navy and Henry Stimson as secretary of war; Obama picked Republican Ray LaHood as Transportation secretary and later Chuck Hagel as Defense secretary.
Clinton, in her speeches, is giving hints as to what she would attempt to advance first as president. In speaking about the biggest investment in jobs since World War II, Clinton stresses an initiative both she and Trump have identified as a priority: infrastructure-related jobs.
Still, Shapiro, the Columbia professor, warned that Clinton's rhetoric about the need for unity is not enough, even if GOP losses are significant.
"Even without Trump, the degree of partisan conflict would have been enormous," he said. "It's the leaders who have to figure out how to make peace" — specifically, he said, "the Republican leadership establishment."


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We recently reported that Liev Schreiber was in the mix for the antagonistic role in director Darren Aronofsky's biblical epic, Noah, but it looks like Ray Winstone (The Departed) may have usurped him. Recent reports suggest that Winstone is in talks to play the villain opposite Russell Crowe's titular character. Previously speculated suitors to the role of antagonist have been Liam Neeson, Val Kilmer, and the aforementioned Schreiber, but Aronofsky reportedly wanted someone with the "grit and size" to go up against Crowe. Winstone has it in spades. Hit the jump for a recap of what else we know about the project, including recent cast additions and the frontrunners for roles as of yet unfilled.
Deadline reports that Winstone is in talks to join Aronofsky's Noah as the central antagonist. Coming off of his performance as a dwarf in Snow White and the Huntsman, I'm more used to seeing Winstone in bigger roles such as those he played in King Arthur, Beowulf, 44 Inch Chest and Sexy Beast. He should do nicely as a physical presence opposite Crowe and I think the persona he brings will be a suitable match.
Emma Watson, of Harry Potter fame, recently joined the cast after Saoirse Ronan (Hanna) had to depart due to a scheduling conflict. Watson is set as a young woman who develops a love interest with one of Noah's sons. The roles of the sons have been cast as Logan Lerman (Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief) and Douglas Booth, but The Perks of Being a Wallflower fans won't get to see a rekindling of Watson and Lerman, as Noah has her character set to fall for Booth's. The main role yet to fill is that of Naameth, Noah's loyal wife. Previously speculated actors for that role include Jennifer Connelly and Julianne Moore. Connelly, of course, starred opposite Crowe in 2001's A Beautiful Mind. Aronofsky plans to start shooting next month in New York before moving on to Iceland. Noah is set to open on March 28th, 2014.


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A woman's mother-in-law has been charged with first-degree murder in her death.
Kerry O'Clair-Jefferson was found dead on Wednesday in her and her husband's home when police searched the home. They were there to arrest someone else when they learned Kerry might be injured inside the house.
They found her dead inside the house when they investigated.
The State Medical Examiner's Office found O'Clair-Jefferson died from sharp force injuries to the neck.
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The doodle is to celebrate the birthday of Gandhi, also known as Gandhi Jayanti which is a national holiday in India.
Mahatma Gandhi was (and is still) known for his non-violence and charisma, and played a big role in achieving independence to India.
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I pity the foolish mugger who attempts to rob David Jones' family with anything less than a grenade launcher.
Jones is a seventh-degree black belt in Shotokan karate. So is his wife. Both of their daughters are black belts as well, and they compete internationally. For the Joneses, karate is a family affair.
And there are good reasons why you should wish to keep up with these Joneses, as karate is an excellent form of exercise that trains both body and mind. At the same time, its practical nature allows parents to punch through their lame justifications like "I don't have time to exercise."
I've read numerous surveys of the reasons people provide for not exercising, and "I don't have time" always takes the No. 1 spot. Karate chops that excuse in two, because it's something that can be done as a family.
Parents often complain they want to spend more time with their children. At the same time, I hear them complain about having to regularly engage in taxi duty to take said children to their various lessons and games. You're probably not allowed to join your kids' Pee Wee football or field hockey team. Instead, you're in the stands watching practice, and possibly consuming some unhealthy junk food.
But karate, a millennia-old martial art, is increasingly catering to families so you can all exercise together. Beyond the time-management aspect, it gives you that quality time you've been seeking.
"The demographics have changed," said Jones, who has been a karate instructor for 35 years. "What used to be a young, male-oriented activity is now far more inclusive. I have so many families training with me. Usually it's the children who've started first, and they loved it, and then the parents get involved." And sometimes, even grandparents.
"We had always planned for our kids doing a sport of some sort," said 46-year-old Craig Fallis. "We tried soccer and baseball, and there wasn't much interest there, so we tried karate and it stuck." Fallis, a project manager who has been practicing karate for almost seven years, joined his dojo just a few months after he put his son in it (and his daughter joined not long after). He said having an organized, scheduled regimen was a powerful motivator for him. "It gives you a personal commitment to go; there are no excuses." Fallis is just one level away from achieving his black belt.
"It's been great for bringing our family together," he told me. "We've definitely bonded over karate and working on goals together, like preparing for tournaments and belt gradings."
Beyond that, Fallis said that the increase in core strength has done wonders for his back problems, and he's noticed rapidly improved hand-eye coordination.
Jones explained that you can have a class with a wide range of individuals who all work at their own pace and gain a variety of benefits from it. And the benefits go beyond what you may realize.
"It's certainly going to make you stronger," Jones told me. "It is good for flexibility and range of motion, as well as great for balance. It's all very functional movement. You're able to use your body in a much more efficient manner, and you develop great core strength."
To learn more about the benefits of karate for people of all ages, I went right to the top, interviewing the chairman and chief instructor for the International Shotokan Karate Federation, Master Teruyuki Okazaki, who is 10th-degree black belt and lives in Philadelphia.
"Karate is good for everyone to practice, regardless of age and/or gender," he told me. He explained that karate is a way of life in Japan, and that his training of students in the U.S. emphasizes that karate is more than just a hobby. "We do not teach just the physical punching and kicking techniques," Okazaki said. "We also teach much of the Japanese culture. This helps to teach the young people self-discipline and respect … after a person practices for a long time they realize that what began as sport has evolved into not only a physical training, but more importantly a philosophical journey. It is that journey that sustains karate practitioners to train for their entire lives … We have members in their 80s and we even have a member 90 years of age."
Karate does have a lot of staying power, and working toward a higher belt level is only part of the motivation. "One motivation is because of the people you're practicing with," Jones said. "My whole social life is geared around the people I've met in karate." I can say similar things of my wife and children.
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Beyond the broad physical training and development of mental discipline, karate also enhances memory, as students are continuously learning and memorizing new movement patterns called katas. There is also the fact that karate is a useful skill that I hope you never have to use in defense. Nevertheless, all of the skills learned via the discipline build self-confidence, which can spill over into everyday life.
"My dojo is in an area with a wide variety of ethnicities," Jones said. "And an extraordinary number (of students) have gone on to do exceptionally well in school. Many have gone on to medical school even though their parents don't come from professional backgrounds."
I know many people whose lives karate has changed in a profoundly positive way. It could change not just yours, but that of your family as well.
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If we need any more evidence that Janet Yellen should be the next Federal Reserve Chairperson, it was the decision by the Fed Governors to continue their easing at the conclusion of their September 18 FOMC meeting, just 3 days after Larry Summers withdrew his candidacy for Fed Chairman. Their action was basically an endorsement of Yellen's policies as the Fed's current Vice Chairperson that confounded the pundits who were sure the Fed would begin it's 'taper' of bond purchases in September.
In a word, Dr. Yellen has always been pro-job creation, and that is the big change in economic policymaking that should make this economic recovery self-sustaining, as opposed to Republican Paul Ryan's latest budget proposal that is in fact anti-jobs. Instead, he wants to focus on reducing the budget deficit by cutting entitlement benefits for the elderly in return for lifting some of the sequester (i.e., Budget Control Act) spending cuts.
But that doesn't reduce the current debt or boost hiring directly, although lifting spending cuts and ending the government shutdown will bring back all those furloughed workers. Labor's share of national income has been steadily falling, which reduces the buying power of consumers who power 70 percent of economic activity, and so the overall demand for goods and services.
Economist Jared Bernstein said as much in a recent New York Times column, illustrated in the Economix graph from 1995 to Q3 2012: "In fact, as many inequality watchers have noticed, profits as a share of income are at or near record highs while the compensation share is around a 50-year low." And as Robert Samuelson also reported in the Washington Post, "…labor's share has plunged in the past decade. In 2013, it's 57 percent (vs. 63 percent in 2000). This shifts about $750 billion annually from labor to capital."
The so-called supply-side policies of smaller government and lower taxes that have favored producers over employees are out of touch with the real economic problems today. It is mainly a lack of demand, rather than the supply of goods and services that has stunted this recovery. We are in fact awash in cheap goods produced globally.
The best sign that we have a demand problem that no longer requires lowest taxes for the producers and corporations is almost no sign of inflation and record low worldwide interest rates. These indicators signal the sluggish circulation of money and so reduced demand. Most of it is being saved, or hoarded. Banks have almost $1 trillion in excess reserves that would normally be loaned out or invested, while corporations have more than $2 trillion in cash and cash ready reserves not being invested.
Why? Because labor has been left out of the recovery as almost everyone knows. Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez have documented that 95 percent of the wealth created since 2009 have gone to the top 1 percent, while household incomes have fallen. That is why debt is even a problem. Simply put, debt can't be paid down unless tax revenues increase. Paul Ryan and the Tea Party stalwarts have it all wrong. Cutting back on government spending directly translates to fewer jobs and less tax revenues, as the current shutdown illustrates.
How to right the imbalance in order to boost growth? Raise the minimum age for starters, as I've said in past columns, and raise some of the tax rates. Or, close those tax loopholes that have the wealthy such as Mitt Romney and Warren Buffet with lower tax rates than their employees. Our policymakers and politicians have enough choices, if they choose to act.
But until such happens, we have only the newly nominated Janet Yellen to rely on to keep interest rates low enough to create a sustainable recovery.
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A bantamweight bout between Chico Camus (12-3 MMA, 1-0 UFC) and undefeated promotional newcomer Dustin Kimura (9-0 MMA, 0-0 UFC) is the newest addition to next month's UFC 156 card.
UFC officials today announced the bout.
UFC 156 takes place Feb. 2 at Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas. The main card airs on pay-per-view following prelims on FX and Facebook.
Camus vs. Kimura will be part of the prelims.
Camus, a Roufusport fighter based out of Wisconsin, recently made his UFC debut and scored a unanimous-decision victory over well-regarded Dustin Pague at UFC 150. It marked his fourth straight victory, all of which have come via decision. However, seven of his first eight wins came via stoppage.
He now takes on Kimura, a Hawaiian submission specialist who turned pro three-and-a-half years ago. After competing for a handful of Hawaiian promotions, Kimura headed to the Philippines in November for PXC 34, where he defeated Guy Delumeau (16-7-3 at the time) with a third-round knockout.
With the new addition, UFC 156 now includes:
- Jose Aldo vs. Frankie Edgar – for featherweight title
- Rashad Evans vs. Antonio Rogerio Nogueira
- Alistair Overeem vs. Antonio Silva
- Jon Fitch vs. Demian Maia
- Evan Dunham vs. Gleison Tibau
- Bobby Green vs. Jacob Volkmann
- Edwin Figueroa vs. Francisco Rivera
- Joseph Benavidez vs. Ian McCall
- Jay Hieron vs. Tyron Woodley
- Yves Edwards vs. Isaac Vallie-Flagg
- Chico Camus vs. Dustin Kimura
For more on UFC 156, stay tuned to the UFC Rumors section of the site.
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The Dickey Center hosts guest lectures, symposia, conferences and other events throughout the year providing opportunities for students, faculty, and the larger Dartmouth community to interact with leaders in a wide range of fields focused on international affairs.
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The former Secretary of State spent the day meeting with faculty, students, postdoctoral fellows and other Dartmouth administrators and participated in a discussion with Dickey Center Director Daniel Benjamin before a crowd of 900 at Spaulding Auditorium.
An Arctic expert talks about the challenges facing one of the world's top predators due to climate change and melting sea ice.
In lectures and panel discussions, a range of experts remembered the accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear facility while discussing the past, present and future of nuclear energy.
The former Israeli Prime Minister met with Dickey Center student groups and spoke before an overflow audience in Cook Auditorium.
While in-residence, the General delivered a public address, met with the Dickey Center's War and Peace Fellows, Great Issues Scholars, postdoctoral fellows and other student groups, and was a guest lecturer in a number of classes.


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