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Japanese Covered Bridge (Chua Cau)
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The Citadel (Dai Noi)
Constructed in 1804, this massive fortress designed for the Gia Long Emperor, is surrounded by a zigzag moat and defensive barrier that's 21 meters thick. But ... Read more
Forbidden Purple City
This royal structure, which sits at the center of Hue's Imperial Enclosure, was once reserved for exclusive use by the emperor of the Nguyen Dynasty. Only ... Read more
Cham Island (Cu Lao Cham)
Clustered around 13 miles (21 kilometers) from Hoi An's Cua Dai harbor, Vietnam's eight Cham Islands are known as Cham Island or Cu Lao Cham. They offer ... Read more
Perfume River (Song Huong River)
The Perfume River may have gotten its fame from the film Full Metal Jacket, but visitors to Hue traveled on this scenic body of water even before the movie's ... Read more
Hoi An Ancient Town
History lovers flock to this 2,000-year-old UNESCO World Heritage Site, where Hindu, Arab and Chinese influences are reflected in breathtaking architecture, ... Read more
Ho Chi Minh Museum
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Quan Cong Temple
The Chinese general, Quan Cong, was known for his loyalty, sense of justice, integrity and compassion. So it makes sense that one of Hoi An's most magnificent ... Read more
Vinh Moc Tunnels
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Red Bridge Cooking School
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Bao Quoc Pagoda
On Hàm Long hill by the Perfume River in Hue, Bao Quoc Pagoda is a Buddhist temple that dates back to the Nguyen Dynasty, when it was commissioned in ... Read more
Dong Ba Market
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Hoi An Silk Village
The Hoi An Silk Village is an attraction that opened in 2012 based on the ancient silk weaving traditions of the Quang Nam province, which used Hoi An as a ... Read more
Tomb of Khai Dinh
Built as a monument and mausoleum for the Nguyen Emperor, Khai Dinh, this impressive tomb is located on a steep slope at the foot of Mount Chau Chu near Hue. ... Read more
Phuc Kien Assembly Hall (Fujian Assembly Hall)
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Southern New Hampshire University's baseball team has a NH connectionBy ROGER BROWN
New Hampshire Union Leader
March 26. 2014 10:09PM
Through 20 games, the Southern New Hampshire University baseball team appears to be as advertised.
The Penmen, who were picked second (behind Franklin Pierce) in the Northeast Division of the Northeast-10 Conference's preseason coaches' poll, have a 15-5 record entering today's game against St. Michael's College. Teams in the Northeast-10 have yet to begin league play, but SNHU's overall record is the best in the conference.
So far this season the Penmen have received significant contributions from two New Hampshire residents who transferred into the program: Franklin's Derrick Sylvester and Goffstown's Riley Palmer.
"Both have been very good for us," SNHU coach Scott Loiseau said. "Both are playing well, and they're both good leaders."
Sylvester, a starting pitcher who came to SNHU via Boston College, is 3-1 with a team-best 2.81 ERA in five appearances (all starts). He has 21 strikeouts in 32 innings.Palmer began his career as a pitcher/shortstop at Franklin Pierce, but became a corner infielder after he transferred to SNHU following his freshman season. He's batting .254 with two home runs, 10 RBIs and nine stolen bases this season.
Palmer will carry an eight-game hitting streak into today's game against St. Michael's, which is SNHU's first conference contest.
"Derrick has the things you can't teach," Loiseau said. "He's 6-6, he throws hard and he's an intelligent pitcher.
"I think Riley got off to a slow start, but he's come on lately. He's separated himself as an everyday third baseman. He's made himself a plus defender."
Much was expected of Sylvester this season after he went 6-2 with a 1.34 ERA in 11 starts as a junior. His ERA was sixth among Division II pitchers in 2013. He posted those numbers after battling numerous injuries in 2011 and 2012. He redshirted the 2012 season following elbow surgery.
Before his senior season began, Sylvester was one of 125 players nationwide named to the Tino Martinez Watch List. The Tino Martinez Award is presented to the top Division II player each year.
"My sophomore season and then 2012 were super frustrating," Sylvester said. "Because I hadn't pitched much in the previous two years, there was a big turnaround from beginning to end last season. I pitched better as I gained arm strength.
"I'm lucky enough to be 6-6, so one of my strengths is being able to throw downhill. I've been fortunate enough to get some run support early in the season."
Sylvester was a three-sport athlete (baseball, basketball and golf) at Franklin High School. He was a four-year starter in baseball, and was named the Class M (now Division III) Player of the Year in 2009.
He arrived at SNHU after spending one season at Boston College. He was named to the Northeast-10 All-Rookie Team after his freshman season, when he posted a 4-2 record with a team-best 2.72 ERA in nine appearances.
Palmer, who is also a senior, was a standout in both baseball and hockey at Goffstown High School. He helped the Grizzlies win the Class L championship in baseball when he was a sophomore, and was named the Class L (now Division I) Player of the Year as a senior, when he hit .462 with seven home runs.
Palmer has Improved every season since arriving at SNHU. He hit .202 with a 12 RBIs in 40 games (35 starts) as a sophomore, and batted .254 with five home runs and 38 RBIs last season. He's hitting fourth in the batting order this year.
"Every year I look forward to doing better than I did the year before, but I don't believe in batting average — I think it's evil," Palmer said. "I feel if I hit the ball hard then I've beaten the pitcher. Getting a hit is a bonus.
"I would say I have a lot of pop. I'll drive the ball in the gaps more than I'll hit home runs.
"I feel a big season coming from this team, and I'm real excited about it."
Today's game against St. Michael's will be played at Franklin Pierce. SNHU will enter that contest having won five of its last six, and 11 of its last 13.
"We are off to a pretty good start, but it's early," Loiseau said. "The one thing I like about this group is they love to play baseball, and they play hard every day.
"Derrick has been really good for us so far, but I really think the best has yet to come for him this year — and for Riley too."

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The Discover Disney ticket puts Floridians in Disney World's theme parks for three days for $119. The passes are not park-hoppers, meaning ticket holders are limited to one park per day. The Discover Disney deal must be purchased by June 3 and all three days used by June 7. They cannot be used on the designated blackout dates between March 23 and April 5.


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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama and the Senate returned Thursday, Dec. 27, to Washington to revive stalled negotiations to avert a potentially devastating series of tax increases and spending cuts — but both parties remained pessimistic they would find a solution before a crucial end-of-the-year deadline.
"I have to be very honest," said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. "I don't know time-wise how it can happen now."
The president cut short his family vacation in Hawaii to fly back to Washington on Thursday. The Democratic-controlled Senate also returned. But House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, on Thursday instructed members not to come back to the Capitol for votes until 6:30 p.m. EST Sunday, less than 30 hours before the New Year.
Obama will meet at the White House with Republican and Democratic congressional leaders Friday afternoon, according to the White House.
Obama is calling for a scaled-back package that would raise taxes for individual income above $200,000 and family income above $250,000 — his original proposal that he campaigned on — and an extension of jobless benefits for 2 million unemployed workers.
His latest proposal on taxes is less palatable to anti-tax Republicans than his earlier offer to raise taxes only on income above $400,000 — and much less popular than a fallback plan that Boehner floated but could not get past his own Republican House. And it no longer includes proposed cuts in projected spending Obama had offered before the holidays, all part of a plan the Republicans rejected.
The president made a fresh round of calls to congressional leaders — Boehner, Reid, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. — late Wednesday in the hopes of jumpstarting the talks. The White House declined to release details of the conversations.
"I told the president that we're all happy to look at whatever he proposes," McConnell said. "But the truth is, we're coming up against a hard deadline here and, as I said, this is a conversation we should have had months ago. And Republicans aren't about to write a blank check for anything Senate Democrats put forward just because we find ourselves at the edge of the cliff. It's not fair to the American people."
Obama and Boehner had been working on a compromise in the weeks after the election. After a possible solution fell apart, the speaker insisted the Senate first pass a bill.
The House previously had passed legislation to extend all the George W. Bush-era tax cuts that expire Tuesday and prevent $109 billion in automatic spending cuts that will take effect Wednesday. The Senate this summer passed a measure to extend only tax cuts for individuals earning less than $200,000 and families making less than $250,000.
Reid opened the Senate session Thursday with a full-throated blast against the House for its failure to be in Washington working to solve the so-called fiscal cliff that could thrust the nation back into a recession. He accused Boehner of not wanting to bring a viable solution to his caucus until after the New Year because of concerns about alienating some House Republicans before he is re-elected speaker Jan. 3 at the start of the new Congress.
"We are here in Washington working," Reid said. "While the members of the House of Representatives are out watching movies and watching their kids play soccer and basketball and doing all kinds of things. They should be here."
The Senate was working on unrelated foreign intelligence legislation, not on the budget crisis.
In response, Boehner spokesman Brendan Buck said Reid "should talk less and legislate more."
"The House has already passed legislation to avoid the entire fiscal cliff," he said. "Senate Democrats have not."
House Republicans were told that the chamber will come back into session Sunday with votes expected after 6:30 p.m., according to the office of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va.
Failure to reach a deadline by the end of the year would mean that $500 billion in tax increases take effect early next year, coupled with $109 billion in spending reductions, the first installment toward $1.2 trillion in cuts over two years. Combating the problem, Congress learned this week that the government will reach the $16.4 trillion debt limit Monday.
Obama and Boehner had been debating a plan that would raise taxes for households with annual incomes of more than $400,000, cut spending $2.1 billion and apply a less-generous measure of inflation to Social Security and other programs to lower cost-of-living adjustments. But Republicans were skeptical of the White House's calculations on budget cuts.
House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, D-Md., took his frustration of lack of progress on fiscal cliff talks to the House floor Thursday.
"Some of us are here in this chamber today, but very frankly, all of us ought to be here in this chamber today — all the Republicans and all the Democrats — working so that our people have confidence that although our challenges are tough, that we are at least here trying to reach a consensus on solutions to those challenges," he said.


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By burdastyle
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Gail is a more fitted version of the original Malissa pattern, however, you do not need the Malissa pattern to create the Gail.
For the glitzy set in we used a Guipure, but you can be as creative as you want here. Instead of Guipure just use any kind of lace or sheer material. Also, instead of making a full inset, you can add a wide trim to the neckline of the dress. We even thought about just adding a trim of feathers around the neckline and leaving it wide open over the shoulders.
In any event, there is lots of room to add your own party glitz to this version. We are so curious here, so please make sure to share your ideas and final creations!
Material Notes
silk charmeuse, guipure
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Alexandra at Atelier Management
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Nov 6, 2014, 11.22 AMby Sumaira Azeemi
Aug 27, 2009, 09.04 PMby onefishtwofish101
did anyone else have trouble printing the pattern? i bought it and printed the instructions, but the pattern just prints on one sheet of paper. any wise words?
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Sep 11, 2009, 10.18 PMby orange-blossom
I've just had the same problem!!!
Jul 6, 2010, 02.34 AMby semacnair
Hello; this might be a bit late, but you can print a large sheet by selecting the tile pages box when you print the pdf. Hope this helps.
Nov 24, 2008, 02.10 PMby enero
This is gorgeous!
Nov 24, 2008, 01.57 PMby easbrooke
Nov 24, 2008, 02.55 AMby carottesauvage
Very inspiring, crocheted or knitted implements here we go!!!!!
Nov 23, 2008, 10.47 PMby loren-rat
Spectacular. So old style fabulous. Another absolutely beautiful model
Nov 23, 2008, 01.35 PMby maychan99
I love the Hat accessory that she's wearing, what do you call that? Are there any step by step pictures, it is absolutely gorgeous !!!
Nov 21, 2008, 10.16 AMby the-gilded-bee
I am loving these malissa variations. I really didn't like the original pattern, but these creations have shown me what a little creativity can do. I had the same initial reaction to the anda pattern, until I tried it in a mini challenge, now it is one of my favorite patterns. Keep up the good work, these are great dresses.
Nov 21, 2008, 09.30 AMby benedikta
Hey Everybody, the pattern is up! Click on buy pattern pdf right underneath the creation. Much fun!
Nov 21, 2008, 05.53 AMby bola
oooooh nice – another one to put on my to do list!
Nov 21, 2008, 03.25 AMby lybu
absolutely beautiful
Nov 21, 2008, 02.54 AMby wasklywabbit
You can't tease us with such a fantastic dress and not tell us how you made it…. bring on the pattern…. PLEASE! My dream Christmas dress.
Nov 21, 2008, 02.05 AMby christine-1
wow, this is lovely, I especially like the buttons on the back of the inset! A how-to for it would be great….
Nov 21, 2008, 01.48 AMby justmica
Awesome… So simple and charming!! It's adorable!!!
Nov 21, 2008, 12.12 AMby ghainskom
Somehow it looks like a mix of Anda and Malissa. Not unappealing at all, not at all. I like the fascinator as well.
Nov 20, 2008, 09.08 PMby erdronen
I LOVE this version of Malissa! The set-in is beautiful! So creative :)
Nov 20, 2008, 08.42 PMby lunatepetal
a perfect holiday or any special occasion dress!
numbers of possibilities for the neck line!!
hmmmmmm, fun!!!!!!!
Nov 20, 2008, 06.28 PMby nehmah
It is a lovely frock. I can't find the pattern; is it a How-to project? Nehmah
Nov 20, 2008, 05.47 PMby rubberduckie
This dress is so beautiful! A pattern would be more than lovely. :)
Nov 20, 2008, 05.09 PMby ktuck79
I love love love this dress!!! I wish I could even dream of making this. It is SO pretty!
Nov 20, 2008, 04.41 PMby kjbunny1
I am in love with this dress and wonder will it become a pattern for Burdastyle members to download???? Please tell me it will. ( I have already drooled over it and have pictured many fabrics made up in this dress)
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Miller has twice won the Raiders player of the year award in 2005 (joint winner with Troy Thompson) and in 2009 (joint winner with Josh Dugan) and has only ever played for the Green Machine.
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Replacements used: Ailis Egan (Old Belvedere/Leinster) for Bourke (50 mins), Paula Fitzpatrick (St. Mary's/Leinster) for Fleming, Larissa Muldoon (Bristol/Exile) for Davis (both 60), Jenny Murphy (Old Belvedere/Leinster) for Cantwell (63), Hannah Casey (Saracens/Exiles) for Miller, Jackie Shiels (Richmond/Exile) for Briggs (both 69), Fiona Hayes (UL Bohemians/Munster) for Kennedy, Kerrie-Ann Craddock (Saracens/Exile) for Coghlan (both 76).
Replacements used: Sofia Stefan (Rennes) for Veronese (61 mins), Lucia Cammarano (Rugby Monza) for Ferrari (64), Debora Ballarini (Sitam Riviera del Brenta) for Coulibaly, Elisa Giordano (Valsugana Padova) for Arrighetti (both 69), Maria Magatti (Rugby Monza) for Sillari (70), Irene Campanini (Rugby Colorno) for Bettoni, Alessia Pantarotto (Sitam Riviera del Brenta) for Trevisan, Monica Bruno (CUS Torino Rugby) for Rigoni (all 77).
That St. Patrick's Day fixture in Parabiago, Milan was played in extremely hazardous conditions and following a dogged display from the visitors, a first ever title was won with three points to spare over the Italians (6-3).
The weather was far more favourable at Lansdowne Road for the latest meeting of the teams however, and having seen a seven-game winning run come to an end against England at Twickenham, Ireland were eager to avoid a second straight defeat in this year's tournament.
Though expectations were high ahead of a massive occasion for the hosts, Andrea di Giandomenico's outfit were not to be dismissed lightly and like Ireland, they had two wins against Wales and Scotland under their belts prior to this historic clash which was played out in front of just over 5,500 supporters.
Playing in the immediate aftermath of Brian O'Driscoll's emotional final home appearance in an Ireland shirt, the Fiona Coghlan-led Women's side started the game with plenty of intent.
With just five minutes on the clock, full-back Niamh Briggs made no mistake with a well-struck penalty goal.
The score settled some early Irish nerves but there was no reason for the Italians to panic and they started to apply some pressure of their own inside the Irish half.
Indeed, a smart cross-field move almost resulted in a try for Benetton Treviso's Manuela Furlan, but the final pass by out-half Veronica Schiavon did not reach its intended target.
As the first quarter developed, Italy continued to display plenty of industry, but the watertight Irish defence eventually weathered this particular storm.
Good work on the ball by Connacht's Alison Miller set a second penalty attempt for Briggs, but this time her effort came crashing back off the woodwork and away to safety.
It was only temporary respite for the Italians though and after Briggs added to her account with a 28th minute penalty, Ireland inevitably crossed for the contest's opening try.
Nora Stapleton and lively prop Gillian Bourke did the spade work and having evaded a number of forlorn tackles, quick-witted flanker Claire Molloy picked a great line to touch down in spectacular fashion.
With Briggs comfortably converting from close range, Ireland were now firmly in command.
Just two minutes before the interval, a second converted try from Lynne Cantwell left Italy with an even greater task on their hands. The 82-times capped centre's diagonal burst took her over the line along with a neat dummy.
That gave the girls in green a 20-0 half-time lead and the final outcome was put beyond any doubt nine minutes into the second half.
Miller had been outstanding for Ireland on the left wing during the opening period, posing a constant threat for the Italian defence. She got the try that her performance deserved at the end of a typical surging dash towards the line.
In adding to her already impressive international scoring record, Miller, who is a daughter of former Laois GAA star Bobby, showcased an abundance of physical strength by shaking off a series of attempted Italian tackles.
Shortly after the third try, head coach Doyle opted to dip into his replacements with next week's crunch encounter with France no doubt in the back of his mind.
This should have given Italy an incentive to finally open their account for the evening, but it only served to re-energise their ever-improving hosts.
Ireland's fourth try of the night came from an Italian scrum inside their 22 and after Ireland had forced a turnover, number 8 Heather O'Brien picked up the loose ball and drove over the whitewash - as she had done earlier in the campaign against Wales.
By this point, the Italians were completely deflated and starved of territory. Ireland duly put the icing on the cake with a try from replacement Jenny Murphy right at the death.
Nora Stapleton, taking over the kicking duties from the departed Briggs, expertly slotted the conversion with Irish thoughts already turning to next Friday's concluding game in Pau.
Ireland are currently top of the table on scoring difference from England - +99 compared to +90 - although France, who have three wins from three, will go two points clear if they beat Scotland away tomorrow.
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Does anybody know of a reel that is comparable to the okuma SLV in terms of price, dependability, durability, and drag. I have the SLV on my 7 wt that I use mainly for silver and red salmon an some of the huge Alaska rainbows and dollies. Where I live in Alaska the rugged terrain tends to take it's toll on tackle and the occasional dunking in the water and silty mud is inevitable. I know that some of the higher end reels are very delicate and are meant to be pampered. I am looking for a reel to put on my 5wt scott A2 that I will mainly use for still water trout and grayling. Would it be wise to stick with the SLV if I plan to be hard on my gear or is something else out there that will hold up under these conditions that won't break my bank account.
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It's done.
Mark Murphy reports that the Kevin Garnett deal has been finalized. Boston.com has the press release from the Celtics.
FSN will be airing the Celtics press conference at 6:00 and Garnett, Paul Pierce and Ray Allen are all expected to be in attendance.
This trade process had plenty of bumps in the media process, as Murphy's original report omitted Gerald Green as part of the deal, which was later corrected. Yesterday of course, Shira Springer had a report for an hour on Boston.com that Al Jefferson was not a part of the deal.
As of early this afternoon, several national outlets are reporting that the Red Sox are the favorites to acquire Rangers closer Eric Gagne. (done deal) Boston was also connected with White Sox outfielder Jermaine Dye, but those talks have seemingly broken down. It was being reported that the Dye and the White Sox were now working on an extension…sounds just like the Mark Buehrle deal a few weeks back.
And we thought yesterday was insane.
On Patriots Daily, we know of at least two Patriots who must be pleased with the Garnett trade.
Ken Rosenthal says that the Red Sox might allow Gagne to share the closing duties with Jonathan Papelbon.
Gordon Edes had a Boston.com chat this noontime.
Jon Heyman looks at the Red Sox staying busy on deadline day.
Chris Mannix says that Kevin Garnett is a huge plus for the Celtics, but that they still have plenty of holes on their team.
Michael Ventre says that the Celtics are relevant again with Garnett.
Adrian Wojnarowski says that Garnett to the Celtics is just what the NBA needed.
Jim Armstrong says that Randy Moss and the Patriots will be a disappointment this season.
7:00pm, NESN – Orioles @ Red Sox
10:00pm, ESPN2 – Giants @ Dodgers
It's a longshot, but there could be three huge baseball milestones tonight. Tom Glavine is going for his 300th win. Barry Bonds could tie or break the all time home run record, and Alex Rodriguez could hit his 500th career home run.
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Now THAT is scary.....what seems scarier if FSU actually appears to be giving Clowney something to think about.
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Rumors swirling that Aaron Lynch is re-opening his recruitment AGAIN.
http://www.irishsportsdaily.com/recr...en-recruitmentLast edited by BigJohn98; 01-07-2011, 10:09 AM.
Originally posted by BigJohn98 View PostRumors swirling that Aaron Lynch is re-opening his recruitment AGAIN.
What we know right now:
- The talented defensive end's mother told Irish Sports Daily that he is re-opening his recruitment will take a visit to Notre Dame this weekend. Lynch was committed to Notre Dame before flipping to Florida State.
- Lynch's mother has been quite vocal about her preference for Aaron to attend Notre Dame. I don't believe any report about him de-committing until Aaron, and not his mother, says it.
- Lynch has pulled his Facebook page down.
- Lynch is still set to enroll at Florida State on Monday. It is believed that he cannot early-enroll at Notre Dame (different academic standards) like he could at Florida State.
- I think Lynch turns 18 on February 8th, and am not sure what effect that has on him signing a LOI.
- As of Noon Friday, FSU should still be considered the leader for Lynch's services.
Just bored at work, and since Lynch was at one time an Iowa target, just felt like keeping up on his drama (or more, his mother's).
But I think at the very least a LOI is treated like any other contract and if a kid is under 18 his parent/guardian must sign with/for him. So if Lynch wants to sign on signing day, his mom or dad would need to sign. Not sure that matters if he's already going to class at FSU by that time, he might as well just wait to turn 18 a little while later and sign himself.
Yea, his mom sounds like she wants to be Sean Henderson-light.
But yea, if he's going to be already in school and turns 18 that week, it really doesn't matter.
Moms need to stay the **** out of recruiting. She's not the one going to college the next four years or playing college football.
Anyway, Lynch hasn't decommited, but he's feeling unsure about how bad the coaches want him. He's supposed to call the coached later. This per Warchant.
Is Demar Dorsey to FSU official yet?
I'm really hoping he get get himself together.
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The most important thing, however, is how strong their swagger factors are.
South of the Mason Dixon +10 swagger
Barely literate +5 swagger
Thief +15 swagger
Kicked off of a team of thugs +20 swagger
Big, average speed -3 swagger
Hasn't done jacksquat on the field +15 swagger
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I'm told by an excellent source that Aaron Lynch has been told a few un-true rumors.
It started 3 or 4 days ago with the word that Jimbo would be leaving to take the LSU job.
Lynch and his mom have been told that his High School coach has been paid in order to get Lynch to FSU. That is 100% false.
Another fact that I can confirm is that Lynch was a borderline qualifier. He is NCAA qualified, but he even had to go in front of the review board at FSU. Not sure how Notre Dame could get him in if he's borderline at Florida State.
Basically Notre Dame can't recruit like a real team so they need to slander FSU to try and get a kid to waste his future.
Originally posted by MassNole View PostPer Josh Newberg of FSU 24/7
Basically Notre Dame can't recruit like a real team so they need to slander FSU to try and get a kid to waste his future.Chinese Democracy starts on November 23rd 2008!!!
He barely got into FSU, even as a football player. I think questioning his ability to make it academically at Notre Dame is legitimate, but as for that falsity, the play of FSU's DL and the programs overall success compared to that of Notre Dame was the reason he switched, same with Jordan Prestwood. Can't blame kids for not wanting to lose at home to Tulsa.


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Like our customer service updates, the ecommerce update examines the ecommerce market and the customer growth, product activity, and company performance of the leading ecommerce platform suppliers. The leaders are (alphabetically) ATG, Demandware, Elastic Path, hybris, IBM, and Venda. It's a diverse set of companies with a diverse set of ecommerce platform offerings. There are some similarities. For example, both Elastic Path and hybris offer platforms designed for heavy customization and deep integration. Coincidentally, both also make great use of open source components, and both offer on-premise and hosted deployment. Demandware and Venda are also similar. Both target retailers with a hundred million or so in online revenue. Both offer hosted multi-tenant deployments. The platforms are reasonably similar in functionality, too. ATG and IBM are the graybeards of the space. Both have offered ecommerce platforms since the mid-1990s.
Come to think of it, I'm a graybeard, too. My first product reviews of ATG Dynamo Commerce and IBM Net.Commerce were published in 1996 and 1997. Yikes! That makes me an analyst and an historian.
2009 was a very good year for ecommerce and for all these suppliers across all three dimensions of customer growth, product activity, and company performance. Get the details in the report.On the topic of those details, I am so appreciative of the ecommerce suppliers' willingness to share sensitive data about customer growth and company performance. The publicly held suppliers, ATG and IBM, don't disclose this level of information in their regulatory filings. The privately held suppliers don't typically disclose any of it. Perhaps all of them wanted to "strut their stuff" after a very good year. Whatever the reason, thanks to all of them. We now have a benchmark to help calibrate ecommerce performance in the future.
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A recent survey of app users has troubling implications for mobile devices in the workplace: Developers and users are paying little attention to the security of the applications that populate so many privately owned devices.
It isn't that users are not picky and demanding. They are. According to the study conducted for Apigee, an Application Programming Interface platform vendor, 96 percent of users surveyed said they would write a bad review for a poorly performing app, and almost half were willing to delete it if it failed to perform as expected. Thirty-eight percent said they would delete an app that froze up for more than 30 seconds, and 18 percent would give it just five seconds before deleting.
However, no respondents said they cared about what services or processes an application accessed or whether it contained vulnerabilities.
As with many company-sponsored studies, you might want to take the specific numbers in this one with a grain of salt. It was based on just 502 respondents. But the problem is real, says Ed Anuff, Apigee VP of developer platform.
It is the result of an "unrestrained need to extend your user base through whatever mechanism you have available," which puts a premium on interfaces and image quality rather than security, he said. This focus on customers has made the uploading of contact lists a common feature in many apps, he explained.
Anuff hesitates to characterize this as malicious. It's a gray area, he said, and it does threaten to open a Pandora's Box. But, he added, "This is an industry that is still in its infancy and is growing up."
The user base apparently is not any more mature. "One of the lessons learned in the industry is that a lot of consumers are willing to pay for free applications with their confidential information," Anuff said. "They continually vote with their wallets for the free app."
The result is a proliferation of applications for mobile devices that have not been vetted for security, and if not outright malicious might well be buggy. The issue is not being ignored. The National Institute of Standards and Technology has revised its guidance for securely managing mobile devices, but effective management is complicated by the lack of hardware-based protections in the devices because of size and power restrictions. So NIST is developing guidelines for building a more secure next generation of the devices.
In the meantime, in the absence of serious incentives for developers and users to clean up their acts (and apps), it is up to IT administrators to ensure that mobile devices used in the enterprise are secure, Anuff said.
"They are going to have to be agents of education and enforcement," he said. "If it's not them, it's not going to be anyone else."
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Not to diminish the weight of these concerns (because they are very real and very dangerous), but I think if a concern is to be expressed, a positive counterpoint should also be made. And while the spread of mobile malware is getting out of hand )especially in the Android realm), proactive steps are being taken to stop this trend. And I think it will be contained before it gets out of hand. Just this week, Airpush - which is still the second biggest Android ad network in the world - partnered with Appthority specifically for this reason, to prevent the problems talked about above. So there's good news out there too :) http://www.dailydealmedia.com/789why-mobile-app-security-needs-to-be-a-higher-priority-for-mobile-ad-networks/
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Development of Prey 2 has shifted from Human Head Studios to Arkane Austin, according to a new report.
Kotaku claims that the troubled title is set to be "rebooted" by the Dishonored developer after Bethesda 'shopped' the game around multiple studios, including Obsidian and Rebellion.
Arkane is rumoured to be "scrapping all the work that Human Head has done and starting from scratch", with the title said to be targeting a late 2016 release.
Rumours of Prey 2's cancellation began circulating last year after Human Head was asked to cancel presentations linked to the title. Bethesda later said that the game hadn't been cancelled but that it wouldn't hit its original 2012 release date.
Three months later the game was removed from Bethesda's website and, six months after that, Human Head began staffing up for a mystery open world title.
There was clearly more to the story than was being let on.
But Kotaku reports that Human Head was removed from the project in late 2011, tying in with a previous rumour suggesting the developer deliberately stopped working on the title over contract issues, with Bethesda approaching both Obsidian and Rebellion before settling on Arkane.
The site says that Rebellion "turned down" the opportunity to develop the title, and there are "at least some of the folks at Arkane [who] don't want to make the game".
"Some people at Arkane Austin are upset about this decision," Kotaku's 'tipster' says, "but higher-ups at the company are telling the team to forget that it's called Prey 2 and just treat it like a new System Shock-the first-person PC series that inspired games like Bioshock and Arkane's last project, Dishonored."
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On Monday, November 9th, HelloBeautiful hosted a private all ladies listening event for R. Kelly's new "Black Panties" album. And let me tell you, it was a blast. We listened to the ultimate R. Kelly playlist in anticipation of his arrival, had signature cocktails called "Cookies" and "Black Panty Droppers", gave out black panties as party favors and waited with anticipation and excited for two hours until Robert arrived in all his glory to play and discuss his twelfth album, which was released on Tuesday. Over 80 plus, well dressed, professional women of diverse ethnic backgrounds were in attendance. I played hostess, encouraging attendees to participate in our R. Kelly trivia game and shout out song requests to keep the energy high. This highly educated and sophisticated room had gathered together in joy for one reason: we all love R. Kelly. And for that, many might judge us, but here's why I won't be shamed.
READ: R. Kelly Debuts Poem 'Poetic Sex' At HelloBeautiful 'Press Play' Album Listening [EXCLUSIVE]
I'm from Chicago. I grew up on R. Kelly in a way that only people from Chicago will understand. I was one of those people who bought "Loveland" on bootleg and helped turn in to the massively successful "Chocolate Factory" album. I get as hype for "Love Letter" as most people do for "12 Play," hell, I sang "I Believe I Can Fly" for my 8th grade graduation. I'm a legitimate fan of his music, from the raunchiest (Half On A Baby) to the obscure (Ghetto Queen ft. Crucial Conflict), and I always will be. I understand that a lot of his music is completely outrageous: the sexual metaphors, the extended adlibs, the uber dramatic love triangle videos, all of "Trapped in the Closet," is next level out there. But here's the thing, I truly believe Robert Kelly is laughing at himself and after listening to "Black Panties" and Monday's chat, I'm even further convinced. "Black Panties" is an exercise is sexual musical foolishness, and either you will find it funny or repulsive.
READ: R. Kelly: Trey Songz 'Needs To Continue With The Hits & Less Beef' [EXCLUSIVE]
Robert Kelly is a musical genius. His compositional ability, his perfectionism, his range and vocal ability all give him that undeniable distinction. R. Kelly may also be a freak-a-leak, but that's not really any of my business. I never watched the sex-tape because I don't watch celebrity sex tapes (Kim Kardashian's included). Robert Kelly was acquitted in a court-of-law by jurors who did watch the sex-tape. That's pretty much the end of that story for me. I'm not pretending to be dumb to the suspicion that he may have a proclivity for younger women. And as Akiba Solomon writers for "Colorlines":
"when you temporarily ignore and devalue the young girls whom Kelly has assaulted, or call them liars, or insist that they tempted him, or claim it was his brother, or allow the jagged memory of those vile scenes to go soft. If that's what we're doing—and that is what we're doing when we bump R. Kelly—we should at least be real about it."
So let's get real. If R. Kelly is to every be proven guilty of assaulting underage women, a whole lot of people (including myself) are going to have to eat their google-searchable-internet-published words and condemn his behavior and separate from his music. I won't be above having to have a personal reckoning if that day comes and take the criticism that will follow. But that hasn't happened yet. Does R. Kelly like sex? Is he a freak-a-leak? From his music catalog, one can only assume the answer to both of those questions is overwhelming yes. You know who else likes sex? EVERYBODY. That's why people love R. Kelly's music, and why I was able to invite 80 professional self-respecting women to an R. Kelly party and every single one of them showed up, and trust me, they had a really good time. If you're not interested in listening to the raunchiness that is "Black Panties," don't listen to it. But I'm willing to tread through the murky waters of R. Kelly's music, the same way I find a way to be fair-minded about Kanye West, and try to understand the ills that plague Chris Brown.
Never in the history of our time has great art been separated from vices, indulgences and deviancy. I'm pretty much as pro-Black, pro-woman as you can get, but I'm also tired of being asked to be simple. There is no blueprint for what kind of music you can like, what kind of dancing you can participate in or what type of consumption pattern makes you a "respectable Woman." Our HelloBeautiful mission statement has always reinforced this notion, as we say, this is the place "where Black women come to talk about themselves shamelessly." At HelloBeautiful we believe that Black women are diverse and dynamic. We know that the woman who works tirelessly for women's right and the woman who's rocking the latest trends are not mutually exclusive. We believe that Black women are smart and fun, ambitious and caring, determined and loving. At HelloBeautiful we do it all and 'we make it look good'. That's the brand I'm leading, and I am fine with that. Perhaps one day that will change. And I'll be fine with that too.
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I get very excited to talk to people about presentations. But I suffer from knowing too much, and being just a little too excited about the topic. This is a problem. Editing is hard. It helps to have a partner in crime who can help. I'm grateful to Carl Kwan (www.carlkwan.com), a presentations, video and marketing consultant based in Korea, who interviewed me on Skype recently and edited my long discourse. He asked some thoughtful questions, like, How do I start a presentation? What are the big mistakes people make? What is a presentation? What are the building blocks of building a presentation? What's the right way to structure presentations?
Having seen myself on camera, I'm either going on a diet or buying the opposite of a fish eye lens, whatever that is.
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A peppermint themed party that may or may not disappoint a number of well intentioned party goers whose intention was neither clear nor specifically interesting.
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a party consisting of peppermint flavored products... usually an orgy
His peppermint party was so wild, there must have been 20 guys there fucking.
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I keep forgetting to post that I am seeing random figures from this wave popping up at walgreen's. first I saw Merumeru a few days ago and then Vizam today. Only Time i have ever seen either figure anywhere.
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The state's new Commission to Investigate Public Corruption has the potential to finally address, in an organized and effective manner, the illegal and unethical practices of too many elected public officials in New York.
The 25-member commission, appointed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo last week under the Moreland Act, has the authority to investigate crimes and recommend new election and campaign-funding laws.
The commission joins the fight already in progress with the Joint Commission on Public Ethics, which just announced that legislators' financial disclosure forms are now available online at jcope.ny.gov. The public ethics commission was created after passage of the Public Integrity Reform Act of 2011 to "restore public trust in government by ensuring compliance with the State's ethics and lobbying laws, regulations, and guidance."
JCOPE notwithstanding, the State Legislature has for years been seen as a pit of scandal and a stronghold of abuse of power. Its public attempts at cleaning house have proved to be more talk than action. The Senate and Assembly, having shown that they have no intention to police themselves, continue to gerrymander districts to enshrine their fiefdoms, and some have spat on the public trust by acting not just unethically, but unlawfully.
We know that the true public servants in Albany, the ones who are there for the right reasons, want to improve the government's reputation and root out their corrupt colleagues. But cleaning house from within isn't working. If it weren't for the U.S. attorney, none of the recent indictments and arrests would have happened.
The new commission is populated mostly by district attorneys, prosecutors, defense lawyers and criminal-justice scholars and guided by enforcement practitioners like New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, and these men and women know what needs to be done and have the experience to know how to do it.
We think that the caliber of the appointees, such as Co-chair Kathleen Rice, Nassau County's district attorney, bodes well for the independence, toughness and smarts that will be necessary to accomplish what previous anti-corruption efforts have failed to do.


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Mazzaglia cellmate testifies escape plan involved, guns, cars, boatBy MIKE LAWRENCE
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June 02. 2014 8:51PM
DOVER — A former cellmate of accused murderer Seth Mazzaglia testified Monday that Mazzaglia formed an elaborate escape plan while in Strafford County jail and offered him money to hurt or kill witnesses.
Mazzaglia, charged in the Oct. 9, 2012, death of 19-year-old UNH student Elizabeth "Lizzi" Marriott, sat impassively as Ryan Bachman of Westbrook, Maine, testified.
The admitted former heroin addict with a lengthy criminal record told the court that while he and Mazzaglia, 31, shared a cell for about a week in December 2012, Mazzaglia detailed a "meticulous" plan to use small explosives to blow open doors, shoot his way out of jail and use at least two escape cars to "find a boat" and flee with girlfriend Kathryn "Kat" McDonough, to a country with no extradition to the United States.
"He said he had close to $1,000 in his account, and he wanted me to take that $1,000, buy or sell drugs, turn it into $5,000 or $10,000, and use that money to fund the escape plan," Bachman testified in Strafford County Superior Court, adding that Mazzaglia told him the guns could be bought at Kittery Trading Post in Maine and materials for small pipe bombs could be found at a Home Depot.
"He wanted disguise changes, he wanted Kathryn and he wanted the cars waiting for him," Bachman said.
Assistant Attorney General Peter Hinckley projected, on a large screen, a photo of a handwritten letter that Mazzaglia allegedly penned for Bachman to give to McDonough. The letter used several chess-based code names. Bachman said Mazzaglia referred to himself as "Bishop," to Bachman as "Castle" or "Murphy" — for the colloquial Murphy's Law, Bachman said — and to McDonough as "Queen."
Bachman said Mazzaglia, with whom he played chess in jail, referred to the escape plan as "Bishop's Vacation."
Prosecutors also showed evidence of two deposits of about $50 each into Bachman's commissary account at the jail, one in December 2012 and another in January 2013. Prosecutors said the first deposit was made by an outside party, who Bachman said was McDonough. Prosecutors said the second deposit was made by Heather Mazzaglia, Seth Mazzaglia's mother. Public defender Melissa Davis hammered Bachman about his criminal record and heroin addiction during cross-examination, challenging his credibility and accusing him of encouraging or even inciting Mazzaglia's plan to get money for drugs.
"I was a heroin addict. I've done extensive work to change that," Bachman said. "I used it for about, almost a year."
Under questioning from Hinckley, Bachman also said that Mazzaglia offered him money to hurt or kill witnesses in the murder case. Bachman said he had forgotten their names, but they were likely a couple.
Bachman said Mazzaglia talked in jail about how if the two witnesses were killed, "there wouldn't be much of a case against him," and gave Bachman a home address for the couple, which Bachman said he also has since forgotten.
"He told me that if I knew some people who could be paid off to go there and hurt or kill those witnesses, it would help his case tremendously," Bachman said.
Bachman said before his release on Dec. 24, 2012, Mazzaglia gave him the PIN for his bank card and contact information for McDonough. Bachman said after his release, he used Mazzaglia's card and PIN to empty Mazzaglia's account, with no intention of following any part of the escape plan.
"I got rid of (the card). Threw it down the sewer drain," Bachman said. "At the time I had a drug habit, and that's what I did. I spent all that money and bought drugs."
Bachman insisted that he "didn't encourage anything," calling the escape plan "a financial opportunity" that "literally fell into my lap."
"I went (along) with no intentions of doing any of it, and I took the money," Bachman said, adding that he also went along out of concern for his personal safety as a cellmate of Mazzaglia, whom he called "clearly psychopathic."
Bachman said he was Mazzaglia's cellmate a second time for a few days in January 2013, after Bachman was arrested again and put "of all places," in the same cell.
Bachman said he told Mazzaglia the plan hadn't worked and the money had been stolen.
Rochester resident Roberta Gerkin, a former psychic and tarot card reader, was on the stand prior to Bachman Monday.
Gerkin had testified she had an informal sexual relationship with Mazzaglia for several months before Marriott's death and spoke frequently afterward with McDonough, now 20. On the night of Marriott's death, McDonough called Gerkin and Gerkin's boyfriend, Paul Hickok, to the Sawyer Mills home that McDonough and Mazzaglia shared. Gerkin and Hickok saw Marriott's body lying on the floor of the Dover apartment.
McDonough is expected to take the stand later this week. She's serving a 1½- to three-year prison term after pleading guilty last July to charges including witness tampering and hindering the investigation.
In last Wednesday's opening statements, defense attorney Joachim Barth told jurors it was McDonough, not Mazzaglia, who killed Marriott that night during sexual acts involving bondage and erotic asphyxiation. Prosecutors have said Mazzaglia strangled Marriott while raping her limp body.
Much of Monday morning's questioning of Gerkin focused on her recollections of conversations and interactions with McDonough. Gerkin was wearing a wire and working with police for some of those conversations.
Gerkin also testified early Monday afternoon that Mazzaglia used to give her tarot readings, and often used different personalities, with names including "Darkheart," "Cyrus" and others.
"I've had at least one reading from each individual, spirit, persona, however you want to call them," Gerkin said.
Gerkin said Mazzaglia was "very serious" about adopting the different personalities.
The trial continues Tuesday at 9 a.m.


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Gallery: Here's What LIFE Considers Their Sexiest Pictures Ever Taken
LIFE magazine is celebrating its 75th anniversary, and in doing so, they've compiled a list of what they're calling their sexiest photos of all time. Here's their own description of the collection:
LIFE's photographers always had an eye for the provocative and alluring. Sometimes they spotted it on movie sets, where the most beautiful people in the world are hard at work being beautiful. Sometimes it was on fashion runways, where their cameras capture what the young and chic are wearing (or barely wearing). And sometimes, it was just wherever sun and spray prompted revealing displays of well-toned flesh, as in this shot from Co Rentmeester's 1970 photo essay about California beach girls.
Let me translate that for you: "Sometimes LIFE photographers have lucked into being around women with very little clothes on. Here are some of the pictures they took in those circumstances."
And indeed, the collection of 32 photos contains mostly pictures of young, naked or nearly naked girls, and one or two guys thrown in there for good measure.
So, sure, these pictures are sexy, if not very creative. But let's go ahead and give them a more accurate title: LIFE's pictures of naked or otherwise alluring women. Also, just so you know, LIFE, there are magazines out there that, like, do this whole "naked lady" thing exclusively. They might give you a run for your money.
[Some images in the gallery are NSFW due to nipple.]


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What details would you include in a home built to the highest environmental standards? The answer to this question is always changing, but one new Canadian home I know about could be the closest thing to state of the art.
It's designed by visionary architect Bill Dewsen and incorporates more than four dozen technical features that work together to reduce overall environmental impact, with one particular detail poised to make a difference in a growing number of Canadian homes.
The owners have asked for privacy as far as location of their house is concerned, but they have been open about the details that make their place green, including one detail in particular that we're seeing on more and more houses.
Photovoltaics (PV) is the direct conversion of light to electricity, and though it's an effect first recognized by French physicist Edmund Bequerel in 1839, it's just now emerging as a mainstream option for power generation.
More than two dozen PV panels on the roof of this eco-home generate 4.6 kilowatts of electricity on a sunny day. That's equal to the output of a medium-sized gasoline generator, but without any mess, noise or pollution. Manufactured by Sanyo, these particular panels incorporate two design features that extract more power from a given area than most other panels.
The array generates electricity from the light hitting the top surface of the panels, as well as on the underside, from reflected light coming off the bright-coloured roof. Besides boosting the amount of electricity generated from a given space, two-sided generation makes it unnecessary to install complicated and expensive equipment used to constantly orient PV panels so they're facing the sun.
The economics of photovoltaic electricity still require hefty government subsidies to make financial sense, but this is changing. The cost of PV power is on the decline, while the market price of conventionally generated electricity is rising. The Sanyo PV cells used here are hybrids that combine two types of materials formerly used separately in older-style PV hardware. This leading technology converts anywhere from 15 to 20 per cent of the solar energy hitting the panels directly into electricity, with no moving parts.
Photovoltaics isn't the only thing that makes this home special. More than 80 per cent of the demolition waste from the original house on the urban site was recycled, with only 10 per cent going to landfill. Walls are insulated to R35 standards, and the geothermal heating and cooling system delivers 300 per cent more energy than the electricity required to operate it.
Exposed timbers are reclaimed Douglas fir from a Canadian military hangar, with new wood certified by the Forest Stewardship Council. The reclaimed brick on the exterior of the home is sourced from a dismantled industrial warehouse, and hinged partition walls swivel open to boost natural ventilation during warm weather. LED strip lighting, drought-tolerant native landscape plants, waterpermeable parking pads, continuous vertical drainage planes behind exterior wall surfaces and a beeswax finish applied to exposed steel beams and columns are just some of the features that make this home ultra-green.
In more than 20 years of writing about home construction, I've never seen the level of interest in green home design that's cropping up all over the place right now. And even though much of this technology is currently more than most of us can afford, costs will drop.
Leading-edge technology is always pricey, but if it proves useful, prices come down. Big, looming realities are catching up with us, making change even more necessary. And though outdated Canadian attitudes have been slower to change than in other parts of the world, houses like this one show we're on our way.
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David Gelernter is professor of computer science at Yale and the author, most recently, of America-Lite: How Imperial Academia Dismantled Our Culture (and Ushered in the Obamacrats), just published by Encounter Books. He wrote "Why do we live in America-Lite?" for us, briefly summarizing the themes of his new book.
Professor Gelernter returned to expand on the themes of his book in "What keeps this failed president above water?" and in "A modest proposal." Most recently he offered timely thoughts on the presidential contest that also bear on the themes of his new book. This morning he turns to our corrupt media:
Of course the press is corrupt, but why? And what to do?
Pat Caddell's recent talk at Accuracy in Media has been making the rounds–the former Democratic political operator accuses the mainstream media of slanting so grossly left that it has betrayed the nation and become an enemy of the people and of democracy itself. We all know it's true, and has been for decades. Caddell puts the case vividly and well but never reaches the main questions: why? And what to do?
Younger people assume that fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly and the press gotta promote wacko-leftist causes and candidates. But before the Second World War the press was mainly conservative; in New York, the liberal Times balanced the conservative Herald Tribune, and everyone read both. Conservatives of all ages say that we have already responded to press bias by creating new media–fine as far as it goes, but every citizen (this is Caddell's point) must be able to count on an honest mainstream press that harasses politicians of all types in search of truth.
Caddell tells us that the press went left in the 1980s; why did it happen then? Look to the elite US colleges: the post-WW2 cultural revolution that put them in charge of US culture was complete by the 1970s, and its effects started to blossom like ragweed throughout America in the '80s. Nowhere is it written that the fanciest newspapers should get their reporters from the fanciest J-schools or straight out of Yale, Harvard or Princeton; newspapering used to be a low-life career, many top reporters had no college degrees, and did fine without them.
Nowhere is it written that teachers need Ed-school degrees, that businessmen need MBAs or that lawyers are in charge of bossing the country. These are developments of the cultural revolution, which hugely increased the power of the Columbias and Harvards via their swarming alumni and their influence on every other college in the country.
Elite colleges were always more liberal than mainstream America, but here too the post-WW2 cultural revolution made a huge difference: the tolerance boom of the late '40s, '50s and '60s opened elite college doors to smart people who were not WASPs, and the result was a takeover by professional smart people, a/k/a the intelligentsia. Intellectuals took over the colleges while the colleges were taking over American culture.
Intellectuals, in or out of power, have never hidden their dislike for America, dislike of art done by artists (correct art must be done by and for intellectuals), contempt for the middle-class family, hatred of Judeo-Christian religion. But before WW2 and the post-war cultural revolution, American intellectuals labored over their book reviews and little journals and obscure tracts and no-one paid any attention; now we are all paying attention, because they are running our top colleges and are therefore in command of American culture.
That's my answer in the book America-Lite, and if you have a better one let's hear it, but don't (please!) ignore the question WHY? Don't just shrug your shoulders, or you are helping to institutionalize corruption. And once we decide why this awful thing happened to America's once half-way-serious mainstream press, we know what we have to do. Everyone already knows that the US press is intellectually corrupt, that America has a third-world press that has been bought off not by bribes but by pats on the head by the right people, the smart people–the professional smarts.
What to do? Conservatives need to wade in and change the schools now. The internet is right there in front of you, offering a way forward. What are we waiting for? Why (why, why?) don't we stop fretting and start doing something?


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Stunt coordinator Steven Ho dropped by "Conan" on Tuesday night to show host Conan O'Brien how killings with samurai swords are done in the movies. But the result definitely pushed O'Brien's show into PG-13 territory.
O'Brien got fitted with a clear tube that was used to pump fake blood through his shirt when the retractable sword was pushed into him. Ho, who knows a thing or two about samurai swords (he was a stunt performer on "The Last Samurai"), cautioned O'Brien that, even though the prop sword was retractable, there was still a little pain involved.
"It doesn't hurt too much," Ho said as he pressed the sword into the floor of the studio.
O'Brien had a protective cover over his stomach, where the sword was to appear to pierce him, but he was still nervous. Especially after Ho told him that if he moved and the sword missed the pad, it would puncture him.
"So no one would come to my rescue because blood would shoot out, you would think the effect is going perfectly and I would die," O'Brien said.
"Possibly," Ho said.
But trouper that he is, O'Brien went ahead with the stunt. And when it came time for the blood to flow, it really flowed. Buckets of blood. Blood all over the stage (all fake, of course). But much credit goes to O'Brien, who really sold the effect with his screaming and writhing.
Perhaps dying on screen could be a whole new career chapter for him?