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Heat from Hughes
Thursday night 26 year-old right pitcher Jared Hughes put his stamp on the 2011 season. The hard throwing righty inherited two runners in scoring position with only one out in a 1 run game late against the Charlotte Knights. Indians skipper Dean Treanor brought Hughes in to protect the lead for starter Garrett Olson. "We needed outs and Hughes can get us a strikeout or a ground ball and for me it was an easy call to bring him in." The Indians lost the first two games in the series and in the 6th inning the games was on the line. Hughes made it look easy sandwiching two strikeouts around an intentional walk and the Knights left the bases loaded sending the Indians to the win. Where did Hughes come from and will he help the Pittsburgh Pirates this season? His teammates think so.
1B Matt Hague has been a teammate with Hughes for several seasons. "He was incredible tonight and he has incredible stuff. It's a legit 95 miles per hour sinker and he has to be on the Pirates radar." Pirates catcher Ryan Doumit is rehabbing with the Indians and he was able to catch Hughes for the first time in that critical 6th inning. "That was impressive and he has some good (stuff), real good (stuff). It's like Mike Crotta, but it's heavy and he pounded the bottom of the zone. I liked it and it left an impression on me."
Hughes joined the Indians in early June after beginning the season as a starting pitcher for Double-A Altoona. The Indians didn't need a starter so they put Hughes into the bullpen and he immediately opened some eyes. LHP Brian Burres was shocked the first time Hughes pitched in a game. "I'm charting in the stands and his first few sinkers were 91 and 92 and then all of a sudden he pours a fastball in at 96. Where did that come from?" Well, Hughes where did that come from? "I've always had that in my reserve, but didn't use it as a starter. My job as a starter was to go deep into games and out of the bullpen you can run on adrenaline and it's a short stint. I bring a lot of energy out to the mound. I'm always pumped coming out of the 'pen and my adrenaline level gives me a certain edge."
In 19 games for the Indians Hughes is 1-1 with a 2.31 ERA with 27 strikeouts in 23.1 innings of work. Over 60% of the balls put in play against Hughes are on the ground and the young man picked a great year to make a splash in Triple-A. This is his 6th year with the Pirates and Pittsburgh will have to protect him or he will be exposed in the Rule V draft. Each of the past two seasons he has not been protected and been passed over in the Rule V. 19 appearances doesn't guarantee a September call-up or even a spot on the 40 man roster, but if he isn't protected come this December some team may be intrigued by the big right-hander who has 96 miles per hour in reserve.
The MLB trading deadline is fast approaching and for the past 5 seasons the deadline has always affected the Indianapolis Indians. Beginning in 2006 when the Pirates traded Indians LHP Oliver Perez and promoted CF Chris Duffy. The real shocker was back in 2007 when CF Rajai Davis was pulled in the middle of batting practice. I remember Rajai slowly walking back to the dugout and he quietly said, "I think I've been traded." Where? "I don't know, but I was told to stop taking BP." Minutes later we found out he was heading to San Fransisco for veteran RHP Matt Morris.
The biggest deal was back in 2008 when the Pirates, Red Sox, and Dodgers made a deal that sent Jason Bay from Pittsburgh to Boston and Manny Ramirez from the Sox to Hollywood. At the time the Indians were in Toledo and as the 4 o'clock deadline approached work spread in the clubhouse that Bay was heading to Tampa Bay for RHP Jeff Niemann and SS Reid Brignac. I'll be honest, I thought that was going to be a pretty good deal. We had faced Niemann and he was pretty good and when healthy Brignac was the best SS in the IL. Turns out, that was not the deal. At the final minute the three team deal went through and while myself and the players tried to recall remember OF Brandon Moss & RHP Craig Hansen, 3B Neil Walker stewed in the dugout. What I'll remember the most from the '08 trade was Walker's reaction. Less than two months earlier the Pirates drafted 3B Pedro Alvarez and now they acquired a player who plays that exact same position as Walker. Needless to say Walker was not a happy camper. Two years later Walker switched positions for the third time in his career and is now Bucs everyday 2B.
In 2009 the Indians were in Norfolk at the deadline and the Tribe watched two starting pitchers get traded away. The first was LHP Tom Gorzelanny and I was there when he got the phone call. The team had a day game and later that night a group of us went to dinner at Outback. Near the end of dinner Gorzo's phone rang and he was told that he was traded to the Cubs. A week later he was pitching in Wrigley Field and Jose Ascanio was in an Indians uniform making his Pirates debut. Two years later Indians fans would get to see the third player the Pirates received in that deal; Josh Harrison.
The day after Gorzelanny was traded RHP Ian Snell was shipped to Seattle. I snapped this picture of Snell watching ESPN discuss the trade:
In return the Indians received former 1st round pick Jeff Clement. He arrived in Norfolk the next day and Clement made quite a debut hitting a home run to right field in his first at-bat and then hitting one out to left field in his second at -bat. In 2010 the Indians again were in Norfolk, VA and once again the clubhouse was filled with players carrying bags without the Pirates logo. Last year SS Pedro Ciriaco brought in his Arizona bag while RHP Joe Martinez and OF John Bowker brought their Giants bags into the clubhouse.
That's five seasons and five significant moves within the Indians clubhouse. Stick around and see what happens in the next 48 hours.
Ryan Doumit continues to rehab with the Indians. The Pirates catcher landed on the DL back on May 30 and is expected to bus with the team to Gwinnett after tonight's game. The Pirates have mapped out a plan for Doumit and he is required to pinch-hit in at least one game before he can will be activated. For Doumit this is the 3rd consecutive year he has rehabbed with the Indians and looks like the first time he will not play in the OF. This years plan calls for him to only C and DH and he will likely be activated after the weekend.
RHP Ross Ohlendorf will start tonight for the Indians. Like Doumit, Ross the Boss is rehabbing for the Pirates. He pitched on 8.2 innings before landing on the Pirates disabled list on April 9th. He is not expected to have a full 100 pitch count, but the last time out he was allowed to throw 60 pitches. If he is able to pitch 5 or 6 innings then the Indians will use their bullpen the rest of the way. However, if for some reason Ohlendorf has a short outing LHP Rudy Owens will be in the bullpen to pick him up. Ohlendorf faces the Charlotte Knights tonight at 7:15 on Sportsradio 1260 WNDE. You can listen out of the Indianapolis market on your iheartradio app.
37 games remain for the Indians and they are 4.5 games out in the wild card race. After tonight's game with Charlotte the Indians will play 4 against the G-Braves. The Indians are 4 games behind Gwinnett in the wild card race so they will have a chance to jump in the standings.


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Donald Sterling turned a Los Angeles courtroom into his personal stage last week, calling his wife a "pig," telling opposing attorney Bert Fields to "be a man," and vowing to sue the NBA until the day he dies.
What could decide ownership of the Clippers aren't the outbursts that dominated social media and the national news.
Instead, the fate of the Clippers will largely depend on Superior Court Judge Michael Levanas' interpretation of legal niceties, according to Loyola law professor Laurie Levenson.
On Thursday, Judge Levanas said the case's three key issues boil down to whether Shelly Sterling can close a $2 billion sale as part of the "winding down" of the Sterling Family Trust's affairs; if Donald Sterling was properly removed as a trustee; and if, assuming a ruling is in her favor, Shelly Sterling can proceed with a sale while appeals may be pending.
Levenson emphasized the importance of timing, making the third point crucial. In the wake of Donald Sterling's racist comments and his subsequent lifetime ban from the NBA, Shelly Sterling orchestrated a sale of the Clippers to former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. By doing so last May, she gave the NBA leeway to cancel a meeting to terminate the Sterlings' interest in the team and force a sale.
However, if the sale to Ballmer is not completed by Sept. 15, the league could again vote to seize the team and reopen bidding. During his testimony last week, Donald Sterling said he hoped the NBA would reopen the bidding, giving him what he believes would be a stronger case in his $1 billion antitrust lawsuit against the league.
"Timing is everything," Levenson said. "If Don Sterling can draw this out, that might just be part of his game plan. In the end, he'll win de facto."
With the trial resuming July 21 and closing arguments set for July 28, Shelly Sterling and Steve Ballmer still have time to complete the sale.
But even if Levanas rules that Shelly Sterling followed family trust provisions when her husband was declared mentally incapacitated by two neurologists — thereby leaving her as sole trustee with authority to sell — Donald will almost certainly appeal the decision and force a stay of the order.
In that case, the key for Shelly Sterling lies in Section 1310(b) of the California Probate Code, which allows a sale to proceed regardless of the appeals outcome. If Donald Sterling wins the appeal, he would only be entitled to damages.
However, the exception puts the burden on Shelly Sterling to prove "extraordinary circumstances exist involving a risk of imminent injury or loss," said Cari Grieb, chair of the Chicago Bar Association Sports Law Committee.
That could prove difficult. Shelly's attorneys have argued that if the sale does not go through now, the franchise would not command a similar $2 billion price tag. Donald's attorneys called the claim speculative, saying there was no evidence that the team's value would suffer.
"She's not forfeiting the franchise," Grieb added. "She's just forfeiting her ability to sell to the bidder in a rushed process."
During her testimony, Shelly Sterling also said if the team isn't sold soon, she fears that players will strike or sponsors will flee. She claimed too that the Sterling Family Trust had $500 million in bank loans, which were called in when her husband revoked the trust on June 9. She needs pay those loans, she said.
But before sorting out the appeal implications, Levanas must decide if Shelly Sterling has the authority to proceed with the sale if her husband lawfully revoked the trust on June 9, particularly since the deal with Ballmer had already been reached 10 days earlier.
He must also weigh whether or not Donald Sterling was properly removed as trustee when Dr. Meril Platzer and Dr. James Spar diagnosed him with early signs of Alzheimer's.
Donald Sterling's attorneys argue that the examinations were part of a "Secret Plan B" to remove him from the trust, and that the doctors were "hired guns." The tests were not legitimate, they argued, in part because the doctors neglected to inform Donald Sterling that they could result in his removal as trustee. His attorneys also spent the first few days of the trial stressing that, in releasing his results to Shelly Sterling's attorneys, the doctors violated his confidentiality rights under HIPAA.
Shelly Sterling testified that her only concern was her husband's health, and that he had given her full permission to negotiate a sale of the team. She added that she had been unaware of the trust's removal until after he changed his mind and vowed to fight the sale.
Ellen Aprill, a tax law professor at Loyola, said it was "possible, although not particularly likely" that Levanas could interpret the trust language as requiring Donald Sterling to have known about the purpose of his examinations.
Ed McCaffery, a tax law professor at USC, called the HIPAA claims "narrow, nit-picking stuff" that should have been settled in pretrial briefs. But McCaffery also said the judge's "complex decision tree" could come back to hurt Shelly Sterling. Although he said Donald Sterling's legal strategy lacked coherence and consistency, he emphasized that even if a small part of Levanas' ruling goes against Shelly, the sale could be delayed.
"It's human nature to want to give something to the other side," McCaffery said.

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October 6, 2008— -- The SEC gave "preferential treatment" to Wall Street executive John Mack during an insider trading investigation three years ago because Mack was about to become CEO of the Morgan Stanley investment banking firm, the SEC's inspector general concluded in a report obtained by ABC News.
The report recommended disciplinary action against the SEC's chief of enforcement, Linda Thomson, and said the firing of an SEC lawyer was "connected" to his persistent attempts to take Mack's testimony. Read the report's conclusion and recommendations here.
"There's a culture at the SEC that they're not willing to take on the big boys, whether big economically or big politically," said Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA) who requested the inspector general's investigation.
It is a damning indictment of the SEC at a time when it is being asked to step up its enforcement action against Wall Street.
"They ought to be able to challenge anybody regardless of their economic might or regardless of their political might," said Sen. Grassley.
Grassley asked for the investigation after a SEC lawyer who sought to take Mack's testimony, Gary Aguirre, was fired.
"I was told that it would be very difficult to get approval to take his testimony because of his powerful political connections," Aguirre told ABC News in an interview for Good Morning America.
When he says he persisted, he was told to go on vacation and then notified he had been fired.
"We were trying to immediately sit the people down and nail them down to a story, this was the sole exception," Aguirre said.
Aguirre said the inspector general's findings are "about as close to the truth as you can expect from an agency whose mission has been so deeply compromised."
The report concluded, "there was a connection between the decision to terminate Aguirre and his seeking to take Mack's testimony."
"Wall Street has long tentacles," said Aguirre, "and those tentacles reached into the SEC and cost me my job."
The Inspector General found Aguirre's superiors at the SEC provided Mack and his lawyers with information that "could prove very useful in preparing a defense."
The report also said, "the information was provided specifically because John Mack was being considered for a high-level position in a large investment bank, and would not be available to another potential target of lesser means or reputation."
Watch Brian Ross' full report on Good Morning America Tuesday morning.
After Aguirre was fired, the SEC ultimately took Mack's testimony and cleared him of wrongdoing.
A statement issued on his behalf by Morgan Stanley said, "John Mack had nothing to do with the SEC's decision if or when it would seek his testimony in 2005. As soon as he was asked, John Mack immediately agreed to provide his testimony and has cooperated fully with the SEC throughout this matter."
Regarding Mack's testimony, the report says "the OIG investigation did not find sufficient evidence to establish that Mack was given improper referential treatment regarding the taking of his testimony".
Aguirre says Mack hired a former Manhattan US attorney, the former head of the SEC enforcement division and other former SEC officials to pressure his bosses to curtail the investigation.
The SEC says changes have been made since its current chairman, Christopher Cox, took over.
The Inspector General did not find that "cases are generally affected by political decisions or the prominence of the defendants."
Read a statement from the SEC here.
The SEC would not say what, if any, disciplinary action would be taken against Aguirre's superiors, as recommended by the Inspector General.


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Hi there! It's me again. I have a new thing going. I've got a new blog set up, Running With Photos, where I will post pictures of things I see while I'm out running.
"Running?" You ask.
Why yes. This blog, here, the one you are reading, RIGHT NOT, is called, as you know, Running With Books. Because I like running, and I like books (although I realize I've written very little (ahem, mostly NOTHING, about either of those topics here). And anyway, now, I'm kind of in love with my Kindle. Picking up a real book seems, oh, I don't know, like cheating or something. (Rest assured real books, I will hold you again when I go to the beach, because I don't want sand grains to ruin my beloved Kindle! In the mean time, stay on the shelves, I'll see you soon!).
Okay, back to running. I run. Not fast, but fairly long. I like half-marathon distance races, and I'm (gulp!) training for a full marathon, coming up this fall. I'm training now, for the race that's in the fall (in case that wasn't clear). My goal there, for that race, is simply this: to NOT DIE. We'll see…
Anyway, when I run outdoors (because a lot of time I'm on the treadmill), I take pictures with my camera phone. I decided to start a new blog where I will post those photos. Mostly of stuff I see on the roads or trails where I run. Maybe, sometimes, of my treadmill (yeah, won't that be exciting!)
Look, I'm no professional photographer. I'm no elite runner either (I know this because someone scoffed at my most recent half-marathon time and said "That's not marathon time… those guys finish a full marathon in that time…" Okay, whatever. And gosh, thanks for the compliment…
So the photos will be from my camera phone and you can find them, a new one approximately once a week, here.
I do hope you'll stop by!


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Redoing a bathroom is a big project, but going green can make it seem even bigger. With new terms to learn (e.g., VOCs, off-gassing) and new products to consider, it can be hard to know where to start. These tips can help you plan your strategy to ensure that you get the green bathroom you crave.
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Cabinetry and Vanity Tops
Look for cabinets made from wheatboard or other low-VOC materials. Standard cabinets are made with urea-formaldehyde, which can off-gas potentially harmful VOCs for up to 15 years.
Vanity tops are similar to countertops, and engineered stone surfaces — such as DuPont Zodiaq, CaesarStone and Icestone — are popular choices. Recycled tile is often more popular as a vanity top than as a kitchen counter, since cleaning grout in the bathroom is less of an issue than in a food prep area.
Use fluorescent lighting paired with electronic ballasts for maximum efficiency and performance. If a fluorescent bulb over your vanity just doesn't do it for you, look for efficient halogen options. "And try to include a window or skylight," says Sean Ruck, spokesperson for the National Kitchen & Bath Association. "Any natural light you can introduce, even from a tubular skylight, will dramatically lessen your dependence on electric light."
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A vent fan is a must to remove odors, airborne irritants and moisture that can lead to mold problems. To be truly effective, a vent fan should be left on for at least 20 minutes after a shower, so consider a timer that will ensure it runs long enough to remove all the moisture. Look for versions of less than one sone (a sone is the unit of measure for the level of sound put out by a vent fan). If space and design permit, include an operable window for natural ventilation and daylight. Make sure the window is well-insulated.
Tubs and Showers
Choose recycled glass, ceramic or porcelain tile for shower surrounds. Thinner grout lines with unsanded, lightly colored (not white) epoxy grouts are easier to clean and less prone to mold and mildew. Acrylic and fiberglass are easier to maintain, but are less durable and less eco-friendly from a manufacturing standpoint. And maybe your old tub would look great in your new bathroom with some professional refinishing. "Many older tubs are wider and deeper, and while that may not conserve water, a lot of people find them much more comfortable," says Ruck.
Tile and natural linoleum are often your best choices to hold up in a bathroom environment. Cork and bamboo flooring may be an option at least in some areas of your bathroom; just make sure they can stand up to water exposure. Stay away from vinyl sheet and tile products.
Low and No VOC Products
Many caulks, adhesives and sealants made for the bathroom include some sort of mildewcide or other mold-inhibiting compounds. These make it easier to keep your bathroom clean, which means you use less potentially irritating cleaning agents. However, many also include harmful VOCs, so look for the ones labeled "Low VOCs" or "No VOCs."
Going Greener
In addition to the ideas above, there are a host of other options for making your bathroom even greener. While these will add additional cost, they promise a significant return on investment.
Tankless hot water heaters — While these can add several hundred dollars to your bill, tankless water heaters use 20 percent less energy than traditional water heaters, paying for the extra up-front cost in just a few years.
Reclaimed fixtures — While these may cost less than new fixtures, the investment in time spent searching for fixtures to reuse can be significant. If you choose to have old fixtures refinished, ask the refinisher to use chemicals with low VOCs.
Composting toilets/waterless urinals — Not exactly mainstream in U.S. homes, these products are becoming very popular in green commercial buildings because of the water they save. Clivus Multrum manufactures composting toilets for the home and Kohler is now making residential waterless urinals.
Graywater recycling — These systems collect and filter water from sinks, tubs, showers and the laundry (called gray water) and re-use it to irrigate landscapes or even to flush toilets. These systems range from the very simple to the very complex and are not accepted by all code jurisdictions, so do your homework first.


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LAS VEGAS – Pick any cliché about a classic game, and you can safely apply it to this one.
Big play after big play. Missed opportunities in crucial situations. Only one team could win, but neither deserves to lose.
In the first triple-overtime game in Mountain West tournament history — men's or women's — the top-seeded Colorado State women's basketball team advanced to its first tournament final in 13 years with a thrilling 95-92 win over fifth-seeded Wyoming on Friday at the Thomas & Mack Center.
All season the Rams have laid claim to their ability to find different ways to win. They did again in this memorable tournament semifinal, ultimately pulling through after blowing a 12-point halftime lead.
Despite a hobbled foot, junior guard Gritt Ryder led all players with 23 points, 10 of which came in the three overtime periods. Ryder gave the Rams the lead for good with 1:59 left in the third overtime after the game was knotted up at 88, the 15th tie of the contest.
"Honestly I think it's because we love each other," Ryder said of why her team is able to continue to find different ways to win. "We play for each other. We just want to win. We want to play for CSU.
"I think that's what showed up towards the end where we kept making plays when it counted the most. I think we did that for each other and the program."
Colorado State will face second-seeded Fresno State on Saturday at 8 p.m. in the tournament championship. A win would give the Rams their first NCAA Tournament appearance since 2002.
"We've said it all year long that the big strength of this basketball team is its poise, its composure," CSU coach Ryun Williams said. "They find a way. I feel silly that we say that after almost every close win. That's what this group is all about. I think they do trust each other. That brings a poise and a calm to that huddle."
Ryder, who scored seven straight points for the Rams after they had missed 12 straight field goals and went nearly six minutes without a point late in the second half, also made a layup with 11 seconds remaining in triple overtime to give her team a four-point lead, which was necessary to hold on after Wyoming's Kaitlyn Mileto made a 3-pointer to cut it to one with 7 seconds on the clock.
That was Mileto's second clutch 3 after regulation; she also sank a deep ball with 21 seconds left to keep her team alive in the second overtime.
But in the end, the Rams prevailed as sophomore Hanne Mestdagh made a pair of free throws with 4 seconds left in the third overtime to help give CSU just its second-ever MW tournament title appearance.
The free throws by Mestdagh, which were followed by a missed potential game-tying 3 by Chelan Landry at the final buzzer, were the first free throws of Mestdagh's career.
"Coach told me if I would make both of them that I would get a milkshake, so I was like, now I have to make them," said Mestdagh, who had appeared in just 13 games in the regular season and averaged 2.1 points. "I was ready, and I've been ready. I was ready whenever Coach would call my name. Today was the day I got called upon, and I just did what I've been practicing all year. With this result, it's awesome."
Along with Ryder, the Rams had four others in double figures. Elin Gustavsson finished with 18 points, Ellen Nystrom 16, AJ Newton 14 and Sam Martin 13.
Martin was just 1-for-8 from the floor but 11-for-12 from the free-throw line, and the senior forward from Parker was 7-for-8 from the charity stripe in the three overtime periods. Martin had a team-best 11 rebounds and Nystrom 10.
"It was definitely a rollercoaster of emotions, but extremely happy," Martin said of what went through her mind after the near three-hour marathon finally ended with her team celebrating at mid-court. "I mean, what a great win by our team. We found a way to win.
"We're going to the championship game. Nothing gets better than that."
The teams combined for 88 free throw attempts, 61 fouls and had eight players foul out. The Rams lost three of their five starters, with Newton, Nystrom and Gustavsson all watching the end of the game from the bench, along with MW sixth player of the year Caitlin Duffy.
Wyoming's Kayla Woodward led her team with 21 points and played 50 minutes before fouling out in the third overtime. Marquelle Dent, Fallon Lewis, both starters, also fouled out, as did Kaylee Hoffman.
With many of their key contributors in foul trouble, the Cowgirls received a huge lift from Kaylie Rader, a freshman from Thornton. Rader scored eight of her 12 points in the overtime frames, including two layups in the final 10 seconds of the second overtime, the second with the clock showing 2 seconds.
The Cowgirls shot themselves in the foot at the free-throw line, though, where they were just 28-for-45 (62.2 percent), compared to CSU, which was 32-for-43.
"I think when you take a look at a game like this, you think about as a coach all the plays that you left on the floor, whether it's a missed free throw, a missed layup," said Wyoming coach Joe Legerski, whose team fell to 0-6 all-time in the MW semifinals. "But then you start realizing how many plays were made on both sides of the basketball. That part of it was very evident out there."
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No. 1 COLORADO ST. 95, No. 5. Wyoming 92, 3OT
Woodward 6-19 7-8 21, Sibrel 2-5 0-0 4, Dent 3-15 2-5 9, Lewis 0-3 8-12 8, Mileto 5-15 2-2 14, Gordon 0-0 0-0 0, Davis 0-0 0-0 0, Landry 6-13 8-14 21, Hoffman 1-2 1-1 3, Rader 6-10 0-3 12. Totals 29-82, 28-45 92.
Martin 1-8 11-12 13, Newton 5-12 2-2 14, Ryder 8-19 6-8 23, Nystrom 6-15 4-5 16, Gustavsson 6-12 5-9 18, Thompson 0-1 0-2 0, Hesseldal 1-2 0-0 2, Mestdagh 0-0 2-2 2, Nichols 2-5 2-2 7, Duffy 0-1 0-1 0. Totals 29-75 32-43 95.
Halftime – Colorado St. 41-29. 3-point field goals — Wyoming 6-24 (Woodward 2-11, Dent 1-1, Lewis 0-1, Mileto 2-9, Landry 1-2); Colorado St. 5-21 (Martin 0-3, Newton 2-6, Ryder 1-5, Nystrom 0-1, Gustavsson 1-3, Thompson 0-1, Hesseldal 0-1, Nichols 1-1); Rebounding — Wyoming 53 (Lewis 16); Colorado St. 56(Martin, 10). Assists— Wyoming 11(Landry 4); Colorado St. 8 (Duffy 3). Fouls— Wyoming 29, Colorado St. 32.


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The demand for technically skilled workers is growing rapidly. According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Information Technology is the fastest growing industry with a 68% increase, in output growth rate, projected between 2002 and 2012.
Finding an Information Technology School or university can be an overwhelming task with so much on offer.
For a qualification to have any value, it needs to be obtained from a properly accredited and state licensed Technical School or College. Once the credentials are in place, other factors such as technical courses on offer, financial aid, flexibility of courses and other unique features can become qualifying factors.
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Ben and Jerry's Moos Its Support For Protesters
Occupy Wall Street and its satellite movements have their first show of corporate support: Ben and Jerry's, the Vermont-based ice cream purveyor and a subsidiary of the Unilever corporation, posted a statement of solidarity on their website.
Beneath an illustration of a cow holding a sign that says, "Occupy," it reads:
To those who Occupy: We stand with you.
We, the Ben & Jerry's Board of Directors, compelled by our personal convictions and our Company's mission and values, wish to express our deepest admiration to all of you who have initiated the non-violent Occupy Wall Street Movement and to those around the country who have joined in solidarity. The issues raised are of fundamental importance to all of us. These include:
- The inequity that exists between classes in our country is simply immoral.
- We are in an unemployment crisis. Almost 14 million people are unemployed. Nearly 20% of African American men are unemployed. Over 25% of our nation's youth are unemployed.
- Many workers who have jobs have to work 2 or 3 of them just to scrape by.
- Higher education is almost impossible to obtain without going deeply in debt.
- Corporations are permitted to spend unlimited resources to influence elections while stockpiling a trillion dollars rather than hiring people.
The statement goes on to identify the members of its board, link to company positions on key issues, and list its various activist campaigns and pet lobbying causes. But despite all the repeated promises to "demonstrate our support," no specific pledges of air-dropping entire pallets of ice cream onto hot, hungry, Schweddy-balled protesters were specifically made.
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You know what's more fun than the treadmill or elliptical? Most things. And dancing. Luckily, busting a move happens to be one of the best ways to break a sweat.
Need some inspiration? Try the moves below from Jennifer Johnson, a dance cardio genius and one of CosmoBody's finest fitness trainers. Just pick a song you love and move your body to the beat. You can always increase your intensity with a faster song, or slow things down with a lower-key one.
And don't worry if you don't get the moves exactly right. In fact, go ahead and add your own sexy swagger! Remember to keep moving (and don't take yourself too seriously) to get your heart rate up and feel awesome afterward.
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1. Hop, Hop, Kick, Step, Touch. Is there anything sexier than rhythm? No, no there isn't. Warm up with this move:
How to nail it: Begin by standing tall with both feet together, elbows bent about 90 degrees, and downward-facing palms at chest level. Hop to the right with both feet, then hop to the left. Kick your right foot forward. (You can keep your hands in the starting position, or drop and use them to propel your movements.) When you bring the right foot back to its starting position, lift your left foot and step diagonally backward to tap the floor with the front of your left foot. Then, bring both feet together midair as you hop back to the starting position. Repeat on the opposite side: Hop to the left, then right. Kick with your left foot. Tap behind you with your right foot. Then hop back to starting position. Continue alternating sides.
What it works: Your legs and core.
2. Knee Twerk. Unlike Miley's version, you can actually own this:
How to nail it: Start in a wide stance with your toes pointed forward and your elbows by your sides. On the beat, swing your toes out to the sides and lower your butt until your thighs are just about parallel with the floor. Pause, then press into your heels as you pop back up and bring your feet forward.
What it works: Your butt, quads, hamstrings, and calves.
3. Body Rolls. Show off what your mama gave you with this sensual move:
How to nail it: Take a wide sumo stance (basically, a wide squat with your toes pointed out slightly outward. Your thighs should be nearly parallel to the ground, with your arms out to the sides for balance. Staying low to the ground, rotate your pelvis clockwise, using your butt and chest to exaggerate the motion. Continue rotating to the beat, and switch directions at every chorus.
What it works: Your hamstrings, quads, butt, and core.
4. Kennis Pulls. This move engages your entire core. And come on, how cool does it look?
How to nail it: Start with a wide stance with your knees slightly bent. Without lifting your feet off the ground, twist your hips the left and extend both fists in the same direction. Then, bring both fists in toward your waist as you turn your left leg to the side and stick your butt out to the right. Then, reach both fists out to the right side as you simultaneously bring your toes back to center and twist to the right side. Again, bring your fists in toward your waist as you turn your right toes to the right side, and stick your butt out to the left. Continue alternating sides until you're comfortable. Then, try a single-single-double combo. In other words, left-right-left-left, then right-left-right-right (as pictured). Your butt should pop to the beat.
What it works: Your abs, arms, and hips.
Want to see more sexy moves from Jennifer Johnson? Check out her full Hip Hop Dance 101 workout at CosmoBody, a brand new fitness and lifestyle video channel. (You can even score a free 10-day trial here.)
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Armchair Sleuths: The Vidocq Society
Recently I watched a great TV movie called "The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher," (also a book) based on a creepy and scandalous Victorian murder of a young boy in an English manor. In reading up on the case online I stumbled upon an equally fascinating story of a modern-day crime solving group called the Vidocq Society, whose name comes from an 18th century crook-turned-cop who was perhaps the first famous detective. In fact, Vidocq has a host of familiar fictional characters based upon his traits and fabled talents. How is this not already a TV show?
As for Vidocq Society, check out where these so-called "armchair slueths" were recently profiled in an NPR piece, which explains how "Once a month, the members of the 20-year-old club — mostly detectives and forensic experts — meet at an old Victorian dining room in the middle of Philadelphia to eat lunch and solve crimes that have perplexed investigators for decades." How will you spend your lunch hour today?


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Movie review: The new 'Death Wish' puts Bruce Willis in the old Charles Bronson role
It's a given that Hollywood, when not busy producing sequels and offshoots of successful films, is known for dusting off old hits, then shining them up in the form of a remake. Let's just take last year as an example. In 2017, we got "Beauty and the Beast," "The Mummy," "It," "Flatliners," "Murder on the Orient Express," and "Jumanji."
Among the pile of remakes scheduled for this year, which includes "Tomb Raider," "Overboard," "Scarface," Robin Hood," and "A Star Is Born," first up is "Death Wish," based on the 1974 film, which was based on the 1972 novel. The premise, which has remained pretty much the same in all three incarnations, features a happy family man, whose life is disrupted when a robbery gone wrong leaves him both a widower and the single father of a daughter who's now in a coma, and is consumed with guilt over the fact that there's nothing he can do to get the bad guys. The closest he can come to emotional recovery is turning into a vigilante and taking to the streets, rather than waiting for the cops to act.
Set in contemporary Chicago, where news highlights insist that violent crime is at an all-time high, and with Bruce Willis stepping in to the role of Paul Kersey, which originally brought Charles Bronson to mid-career stardom, the film gets a bunch of nastiness out of the way in its first few minutes. Kersey, a top trauma surgeon in this version, is at work when robbers invade his home, come up against his tough and feisty wife and daughter (Elizabeth Shue and Camila Morrone), and commit some vicious acts (off-camera).
Kersey, introduced as a calm and steady man, keeps those traits, but is obviously broken when seen talking with a couple of well-meaning but overworked and frustrated detectives. A conversation with his bitter and fed-up father-in-law gets him thinking about taking the law into his own hands.
Under the direction of horror master Eli Roth, "Death Wish" is at once a timely film, in that it takes a searing look at the gun problem in our country. Though it neither condemns not condones gun ownership, it does point out, in and almost offhand way, how easy it is to get one, whether it's for committing a crime or seeking retribution for one. But it also delves into the risky waters of suggesting that violent payback is a good therapeutic method of dealing with emotional recovery.
Kersey, armed and "trained" via an online shooting course, wearing a hoodie to cover his identity, and taking to the streets to track down the perpetrators of the robbery, finds that he gets a sort of high from breaking up other crimes: A carjacking, the beating of a child by a drug dealer. A video of him in action, but not revealing his face, goes viral, resulting in some of Chicago's population labeling him a "guardian angel," while others — including law enforcement officials -— refer to him as "The Grim Reaper." All anyone really knows is that he's a white guy in a hoodie, and he's eliminating bad guys.
Roth and screenwriter Joe Carnahan cleverly fill the film with clues (a stolen watch) and foreshadowing (a piece of furniture) that, when revealed, add some fun to the generally grim mood. Even when things turn outrageously brutal, they find spots to include violent sight gags that would comfortably fit in a Three Stooges film.
A flare-up of tension in the last act, of the nail-biting variety, leads to even more violence. But, looking at the audience reaction to it at my screening, that kind of thing is either OK, or those viewers have become desensitized. They were giggling and screaming and applauding.
— Ed Symkus writes about movies for More Content Now. He can be reached at email@example.com.
"Death Wish"
Written by Joe Carnahan; directed by Eli Roth
With Bruce Willis, Vincent D'Onofrio, Dean Norris, Camila Morrone, Elisabeth Shue
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Virginia Tech engineers awarded $800,000 to improve radio spectrum usage
Cognitive radios, the "intelligent" cell phones or police radios that help determine the best way to operate in any given situation, are becoming the "radio platform" of the next generation of wireless communications. They are also expected to play a major role in tactical communications for the U.S. Navy and for the Department of Defense," said Thomas Hou, professor of electrical and computer engineering in the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech.
However, a major technical obstacle remains and that is the availability of frequency space on an already crowded wireless array of networks.
Hou and his colleagues Wenjing Lou, of computer science, and Hanif Sherali, of industrial and systems engineering, have proposed some novel solutions for spectrum sharing that may avoid the presence of interference. Both the National Science Foundation and the Office of Naval Research are funding their work on efficient spectrum sharing, although each grant addresses different types of problems and different application domains.
Cognitive radios are valued because they will configure to their environment and their user's needs. The new cognitive radios are similar to living creatures in that they are aware of their surroundings and understand their own and their user's capabilities and the governing social constraints. Under development for more than a decade, cognitive radio transmission still faces challenges.
To address some of these issues, the NSF project, valued at $500,000, is aimed at a much higher efficiency sharing of the spectrum where the networks actually coexist.
"In the wireless networking community the prevailing spectrum-sharing paradigm is that secondary cognitive radio nodes are allowed to use a spectrum band allocated to primary nodes only when the primary nodes are not using the band," Hou, the principal investigator on the projects, said. The Federal Communication Commission requires that secondary nodes should not produce interference that might be harmful to primary nodes.
"But if we can somehow configure secondary nodes not to be felt by the primary nodes, then we can achieve transparent coexistence," Hou added. This is the main research theme of the NSF grant.
Specifically, the team says they plan to explore the potential of the simultaneous activation of a secondary network with the primary network, as along as the interference produced by secondary nodes can be properly controlled (e.g., canceled) by the secondary nodes. That is, secondary users share the spectrum in a much more aggressive manner than the interference-avoidance paradigm.
"Here, secondary nodes are allowed to be active as long as they can cancel their interference to the primary nodes in such a way that the primary nodes do not feel the presence of the secondary nodes. "Activities by the secondary nodes are made in a transparent or invisible way to primary nodes," Hou explained.
Under this paradigm, secondary nodes use powerful physical layer capabilities to handle interference cancellation. "Further, the burden of this interference cancellation will solely rest upon the secondary nodes so as to be truly transparent or invisible to primary nodes. As expected, such a paradigm has the potential of offering much greater spectrum efficiency and network capacity than those under the existing paradigm," Hou added.
The second grant, awarded by the ONR and valued at $300,000, will allow Hou, Lou, and Sherali to look at specific spectrum-sharing methods for tactical communications.
In this project, they will explore a new spectrum-sharing method for DoD and the Navy's cognitive radio ad hoc networks. The proposed method is called cooperative sharing, specifically targeted to the application scenario where the DoD or Navy's ad hoc network, in the role of a secondary network, wishes to access the radio spectrum in a friendly environment where the underlying spectrum is owned by allied coalition forces network.
With this method, a secondary network and the primary network share each other's network resource or nodes in a cooperative and friendly manner. "Although packets from the primary network may still enjoy priority over packets from the secondary network, packets from either network will take advantage of the nodes in the other network on their way to their destinations," Hou explained.
"The proposed cooperative sharing paradigm allows complete sharing of network resources between the primary and secondary networks in a cooperative manner. The priority of traffic from the primary network can be preserved while network connectivity and other network performance metric can be improved for both networks. This new paradigm allows many new possibilities for DoD ad hoc networks to access radio spectrum and significantly enhance the Navy's tactical communications capabilities," Hou added.
Hou is the co-editor of Cognitive Radio Communications and Networks: Principles and Practice, adopted as a textbook by a number of universities around the world. Lou has a NSF CAREER Award based on the study of wireless networks. Sherali, a member of the National Academy of Engineering, is world-renowned for his abilities in designing optimization algorithms.


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By Caitlin Kelly
I attended two schools of higher education, as different from one another — as the British say — as chalk and cheese.
I did four years of undergraduate work at the University of Toronto, Canada's toughest university. Our professors were world-class scholars, some of them terrifying in their capes and bow ties, quoting in Latin or German or Greek.
We didn't dare speak to them outside of class, and rarely during class. They had little idea who most of us were — lost in a sea of 53,000 students across a downtown campus so large it took me 20 minutes to walk from one side to the other.
I later attended the New York School of Interior Design, where I also now teach occasionally, and found a totally different experience: warm, welcoming, demanding but supportive. I love its bright red door on the north side of East 70th., ducking into Neil's Diner down the street for a coffee before or after class.
Our classes were small, our teachers consistently insisting on our excellence. I loved it all. OK, except for drafting.
I decided not to switch careers, but don't regret a minute of the thousands of dollars I spent there. I loved my classes and have developed a strong and solid alternate skill set.
Learning can be fun, exhilarating, inspiring.
And exhausting.
So, too, can teaching.
Not because simply transferring skills and knowledge is pedagogically complex. People learn at different speeds, with different levels and styles of intelligence, aptitude or interest.
Did you see this extraordinary recent story about an American professor who failed his entire class?
After 20 years in the classroom, he lost it.
Last Saturday I attended and spoke at a writers' one-day conference in Bethesda, Maryland; I was on the day's final panel about how to turn a print career into a book.
I've been writing for a living for decades — why bother listening to all the others?
What's left to learn?
Lots. If you're open to it.
I sat beside legendary biographer Kitty Kelley at lunch and heard delicious out-takes from her book about Frank Sinatra as we ate our sandwiches.
I heard a law professor describe her solution to the exact problem I'd just faced in my own classroom and asked her if she'd advise me more in future.
I heard one biographer describe how much — after years of work — she decided she loathed her subject, Harold Ickes — and gave all her materials to another writer. What generosity!
This week I'll teach my two college classes, as usual, on Thursday.
Then, all day Friday and Saturday, I'll sit in stuffy hotel meeting rooms for the American Society of Journalists and Authors' annual conference in New York City, and learn as much as I possibly can — about new markets, about how to do social media better, about how to improve my thinking and writing.
I'll meet old friends from across the country, and make some new ones.
Learning is something we do, ideally, until the day we die.
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Do you love learning (or teaching)?


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Sometimes I feel like Mr.S and the kidlets are Satan's little minions. Like this weekend for example, they "forced" me to go try this new dessert place, The Parlor, that took the place of our beloved Yogurt Monkey. They had gone earlier in the week, had been raving non-stop about it and were eager to revisit. So at 930pm on Friday night, we trek over to The Parlor on Fair Oaks Boulevard. There's a line out the door, a big huge line of teenagers. *Sigh* We stood in line for 20 minutes (listening to the latest high school gossip of who likes who, who's wearing what and the clicking of hundred cell phones taking selfies) and it moved fairly quickly. Once inside, a hyper-happy gentleman with a 1,000-watt smile greeted us and asked our order. For our "ice cream puffs" we had a choice of a regular donut, a glazed donut or an apple fritter. I chose the apple fritter- go big or go home, right? Next it was time to choose the all important ice cream...being lactarded, I should have gone with the mango sorbet but I couldn't help but be drawn to the coffee ice cream with Nutella swirled in (aka the "Midnight in Paris"). Mr. Smiley, sliced my fritter open and slapped a big scoop of ice cream on it and handed my order to his lovely assistant. She scurried off to the back room where...they did something?! I dunno, it was off limits to the public but a few minutes later she handed me my ice cream pressed inside a warm fritter. It was a bit Frankenstein-like as far as desserts go, but it was also flippin' delicious! Since then, I've heard that they started doing ice cream macaron sandwiches as well and plan to do ice creme brulee. Mmmm.....
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Ricky N Scob are back with another part of That Ain't It. In this episode they talk all things Jeremy Meeks and the situation surrounding the women going nuts over his Mug Shot.
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Max Leske
I am a master student with the SCG group, interested in remote debugging techniques. I work with Pharo and the remote communications framework Seamless to enable developers to debug asynchronous remote processes in the context of the original local process. Pharo is particularly well suited for this because (almost) every structure has a reification and can be treated as a first class object. Therefore, processes and method activations can be interacted with without requiring modification of the virtual machine.
In 2011 I completed my Bachelor's project entitled "The Genesis of Pharo: The Complete History of Pharo with Git", also written at the SCG group.


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This film is directed by Brad Bird (The Incredibles, The Iron Giant), so everyone is holding their breath to see what Bird can do with live action. And we have to admit, this is a hell of a trailer. Just try not go get excited when the theme music plays. MI:4 will be in theaters on December 16th.
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Israel suggests responsibility for Syria airstrike
MUNICH - The Associated Press
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak. EPA PhotoIsrael's defense minister indicated today that his country was behind the airstrike on Syria last week, in the first public comments from his government on the attack that U.S. officials said targeted a convoy carrying anti-aircraft weapons bound for the militant group Hezbollah in neighboring Lebanon.
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak brought the issue up at a gathering of the world's top diplomats and defense officials in Germany, initially saying: "I cannot add anything to what you have read in the newspapers about what happened in Syria several days ago."
But, addressing the audience in English, he then added: "I keep telling frankly that we said - and that's proof when we said something we mean it - we say that we don't think it should be allowed to bring advanced weapons systems into Lebanon."
Israel had not previously commented on the strike, but in the days ahead of the attack, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other top officials repeatedly warned of the dangers of Syrian weapons falling into the hands of Hezbollah and other hostile elements in the region.
The Syrian military, meanwhile, said the target of Israeli jets was a scientific research center. The facility is in the area of Jamraya, northwest of Damascus.
Purported images of the targeted site, aired by Syrian state television on Saturday, show destroyed cars, trucks and military vehicles. A building has broken widows and damaged interiors, but no major structural damage.
Following the attack, Syria's ambassador to Lebanon, Ali Abdul-Karim Ali, said Damascus "has the option and the capacity to surprise in retaliation," but that it was up to the relevant authorities to choose the time and place.
Meanwhile, Syrian opposition leaders and rebels on Friday slammed Assad for not responding to the airstrike, calling it proof of his weakness and acquiescence to the Jewish State.
The chief of Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guards said in remarks Sunday that Tehran also hopes Syria will retaliate against Israel for a recent airstrike on its territory.
The report by the official IRNA news agency quotes Gen. Mohammad Ali Jafari as saying, "We are hopeful that Syria gives an appropriate response to the strike in the proper time."
Since the outbreak of the Syrian civil war, Israeli leaders have repeatedly expressed fears that if Syria were to disintegrate, President Bashar Assad could lose control of his chemical weapons and other arms.
On Feb. 2, Netanyahu, who is in the process of forming a new ruling coalition, said his new government would have to deal with weapons "being stockpiled near us and threatening our cities and civilians" - an apparent reference to the deteriorating situation in Syria.
"Hezbollah from Lebanon and the Iranians are the only allies that Assad has left," Barak said.
He said in his view al-Assad's fall "is coming imminently" and when it happens, "this will be a major blow to the Iranians and Hezbollah."
"I think that they will pay the price," he said.


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top ten ways to lead when you don't feel like leading.
I apologise for the blogging irregularity. These days, I've written many drafts but struggled to finish them. August looks demanding – I preach three out of four weeks and facilitate two iJourney sessions. My DYLM cell also coincides with my preaching weekends which leads to a double preparation of teaching materials. It's also the vision-casting, planning and budgeting month. R-AGE @ GII is also growing with some steady momentum… Basically, everything is coming together all at once – I had better spend more time seeking God.
I do delight in developing my gifts though. I'm keeping my fingers crossed (and my hands clasped in prayer) on a potential ministry opportunity; if that takes off, 2011 looks set to be the most defining year of my (ministry) life thus far. I await with bated breath. Oh God, baptise me in wisdom!
You know, it's easy to lead when everything's smooth-sailing. I remember being inspired by DZ's testimony when I (visited Sydney for the first time and) attended Hillsong Conference 2007. She shared about how she continued leading worship despite her miscarriage; it must have been a tough time for her and the church to experience the loss of a life – that's transparent leadership for you.
Needless to say, I believe that all regular leaders and mentors (around me) had to lead through tough times too. I often wondered how much inspiration and perspiration they needed to draw from and produce respectively to pull through a rough patch. Here are the ten things I'd recommend for a leader to do when he doesn't feel like leading, or adequate enough to be a leader, or simply when the chips are down.
1. Share only what's necessary. You don't need to give the details of your drought(s) and disaster(s) if you don't have to. Employ discernment and choose with care whom you share life with. My recommendation – your family, partner, leaders/mentors, cell group, closest friends.
2. Remember that troubles are tempory. Bad times will pass – they usually do not last forever. Often, you end up doubling the pain because you choose to inflict blame on yourself for things beyond your control. Remember, God uses trials and tests to bring out the best in you.
3. Re-create your self-confidence. This is personal because I thrive on confidence. Surround yourself not just with people who love you but also those who desire God's best for you – they usually have the right words. Let them put the pat on your back that pushes out your chest.
4. Do not dramatise. When you go through a terrible season, you don't need to convince yourself that it's worse than what it already is. Healthy pessimism can be helpful, but an overdose could leave you in the trail of destruction. When you are, learn to leave the bad news in the middle.
5. Avoid all loose talk. The last thing you want is to get embroiled in someone else's misfortunes or to gloat about others to make yourself feel good. Don't justify your situation and don't discuss it. Cut off all gossip and secret conversations for they won't improve your situation anyway.
6. Always remain loyal. As a leader, the biggest mistake you can make is to sell out your team of subordinates, peers and superiors. Teams are accepting of a leader who acknowledges his faults and makes a genuine attempt to atone himself. In your failures, they are still your team.
7. Continue to teach high standards. When the going gets tough, don't compromise all that you've held on to and advocated. Conversely speaking, you should persist and insist high moral standards for those around you. Know that they are observing for your integrity in action.
8. Expect people's manipulation. Look, it's a dog-eat-dog world and there will be people who will want to capitalise on your weaknesses to gain an unfair advantage for themselves. Be innocent as doves and shrewd as serpents; don't allow others to use you like a tool.
9. Be mindful of your speech. Know that everything you say can be quoted; the higher your public profile, the more you will be quoted. In times like these you must exercise restraint. Most leaders have an opinion about everything but it doesn't mean they need to share every thought.
10. Raise your own bar. In this recovery period, as you consolidate, ask yourself this question – "Would you be fulfilled if you were to keep following someone like you?" Don't ever shortchange yourself. Your appetite to improve skills and develop character should remain insatiable.
Hope that was helpful for you. For me, I'll try to pick up my blogging momentum.


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Jackie Chan expresses shame over son's drug arrest
BEIJING – Jackie Chan said Wednesday he's ashamed and saddened over his son's detention on drug charges in Beijing, and he apologized to the public.
The Hong Kong film star wrote on his microblog that Jaycee Chan would have to face the consequences of his actions, but they would do so together.
"Regarding this issue with my son Jaycee, I feel very angry and very shocked. As a public figure, I'm very ashamed. As a father, I'm heartbroken," Chan wrote.
Jaycee Chan, 31, was detained last Thursday with Taiwanese movie star Kai Ko, becoming the latest high-profile celebrities to be ensnared in one of China's biggest anti-drug crackdowns in two decades.
Police said both actors tested positive for marijuana and admitted using the drug, and that 100 grams (3.53 ounces) of it were taken from Chan's home.
"Jaycee and I together express our deep apology to society and the public," Chan wrote.
Extending from his fame as an actor and singer, the elder Chan is a high-profile public figure in mainland China and was named by Beijing as an anti-drug ambassador in 2009.
"I hope all young people will learn a lesson from Jaycee and stay far from the harm of drugs," Chan wrote. "I say to Jaycee that you have to accept the consequences when you do something wrong. As your father, I'm going to face the road together with you."
Ko, 23, was part of an anti-drug campaign two years ago, in which he joined other celebrities in a public service announcement declaring: "I don't use drugs."
Chinese President Xi Jinping declared in June that illegal drugs should be wiped out and that offenders should be severely punished. The crackdown has snared more than 7,800 people in Beijing alone, according to police.
Detained previously was Gao Hu, who acted in the 2011 movie "The Flowers of War." And Beijing performing arts associations and theater companies have pledged to not hire any actors connected with drugs.
Chinese state broadcaster CCTV aired footage of a police search of the younger Chan's home in Beijing in which he is shown, his face pixelated, pointing out to officers where he stashed bags of marijuana. Police said they acted on a tipoff from the public.
Chan is accused of aiding and abetting other drug users, an offense that carries a maximum sentence of three years' imprisonment. Two other people detained in the same case were accused of selling drugs while Ko is accused of using drugs.
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Wednesday, 10 January 2007
Review: Nihon Kai Japanese Restaurant
Nihon Kai, ring a bell anyone? Haha I doubt so cos this is a hidden gem to me but who knows you might have been a regular here. Seriously the location of this Japanese restaurant is so obscure but yet this place could really fill up especially on weekends. My brother took us here once and we have returned because the food is good, comparable to many Japanese places we have been. Best of all the price is so reasonable without compromising on its quality.
Below are the upstairs dining area where there are about 3 tatami or private dining rooms and a sample of their offerings. Look at the price... what do you think?
We had a portion of Sake Sashimi (RM20.00) and it's fresh. Absolutely yummy.
I ordered the Beef Sukiyaki (RM19.00) dinner set that came with rice, miso soup and chawan mushi. The price here definitely beat those fast food sushi joints in terms of quality and service!
I've got loads of thinly sliced beef which cooked just right. I slurped the slippery slices up after dipping into the raw egg. In the pot has slices of mushrooms, carrots, cabbage and mung bean noodles (fun si in Cantonese). I wiped up every single morsels that were served to me *wide grin* which is bad cos there is no more room left for dessert. Grrrr...
Hubby ordered Salmon Shioyaki (RM17.00) dinner set which he complained not up to mark. He said that there isn't enough salt being rubbed over the salmon before grilling, hence the fish was rather bland. When he commented to the waitress whilst paying the bill, she told him it was supposed to be dipped in the soy sauce. We took a look and there isn't any sauce served in the platter. Ahhhh so they have forgotten to serve the accompanying sauce but then again from our experience, shioyaki style would have enough salt on it to render it tasty even on its own. Okie so far this is the only boo-boo we have experienced here. Anyway this set also came with the same accompanying condiments, miso soup, rice and chawan mushi like mine.
On other occasions, we absolutely loved their potato salad and the various sushi offered on their menu. At times there are some promotional item where the price could be a steal, so do check out with the waitress.
It's pretty easy to locate Nihon Kai, coming from KL (Mid Valley) side, go towards Old Klang Road. After the underpass, keep left, look out for the Kee Hing Tyre with big Michelin Tyre logo on signage and turn left right there (which is the road just before Shell). You should be able to see Nihon Kai at the double-storey shoplots. Parking is a breeze too unless you come on weekends.
Happy eating folks!
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hehe i coudln't agree more on that this restaurant serves good japanese food. I lovee the raw salmon alot.ReplyDelete
oh wow...da sashimi looks so appetizing and da price, reasonable too! :DReplyDelete
OMG!!!!!!! the sake sashimi so THICK!! and only RM20?? Wow not bad! I definately wanna try.ReplyDelete
Hmmm, it looks like this place is cheaper than San Kichi in Desa Sri Hartamas whereby their salmon sashimi is abt RM35 for 7 thick slices. Another place my friend says is pretty good is Xenri further down at Pearl Pt. Looks like next time we need to head to Old Klang Road for good Jap food. Thxs for the recommendation.ReplyDelete
yeah but yet to check out everything on the menu cos quite extensive stuff they have there huh aliciaReplyDelete
very reasonable indeed meiyen
honeystar, actually got 6 slices i think all together
no problem boo_licious, so this Xenri is inside Pearl Pt?
Even frens staying nearby are surprise & excited when I told them of this place. TQ for such a good recommendation!ReplyDelete
Just ate at San Kichi in Desa Sri Hartamas. It's 10 pcs for RM35, thickly sliced. I think the part is the belly also but not entirely sure. I guess their claim for the cheapest sake sashimi in town is still correct.ReplyDelete
tummythoz, would love some feedback from you or your frensReplyDelete
wahhh then it's soooo cheap at san kichi, boo_licious. just mentioned to hubby when we passed by san kichi on our way to fix our glasses last fri. he thot the name sounded so korean haha... might drop by since the price for sake sashimi is so so so cheap
another japanese place to check out!
but babe jie, this place pork free or not?
not sure lah chocolalat, have you called them?? let me know yaReplyDelete
The photos make me want to go on a feeding frenzy.ReplyDelete
poor you, peter. maybe you can try this place once in a long whileReplyDelete
i been there on monday...there not bad...foods quite nice...ReplyDelete
It's awesome! Everyone should go and try it yourself. The environment is great and romantic (for those manage to get the room seats) And the price is really reasonable. Thanks for the recommendationReplyDelete
One of the cheapest Japanese restaurant in town. Food quality is very good as well. I recommended quite a number of friends to there and they agreed this place is awe...ReplyDelete
- Anonymous30 September 2010 at 19:15:00 GMT+8
thx for review haha. manager's son invited me to dine there. here to check our the price and food hahahaReplyDelete


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Visitors to Renegade South often express interest in where Newt Knight and his band of deserters hid out during the Civil War; there's even an essay devoted to the question on this blog. Recently, Jones County historian Ed Payne pointed out to me that a pretty good description of the location was provided by local citizen Ruby Huff during the 1930s. Huff was an unabashed admirer of the Knight Company, and I quoted liberally from her essay in my book, Free State of Jones, to demonstrate how vividly the story remained seared in the minds of local people.
Ruby Huff's essay was part of the Works Projects Administration's (WPA) historical research on Covington County, Mississippi. My thanks to Ed Payne for suggesting that I reprint it on Renegade South. The section that describes the location of "Deserters' Den" is shaded below in green.
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"A Skirmish – Cavalry versus Deserters – Where in Newt Knights men raid Lowrey's Raiders"
By Mrs. Ruby Huff for the Works Progress Administration (WPA)
After the 20 Negro Act was passed, by the Confederacy, the men, to whom fighting (in so one side a struggle as the Civil War was) was abominable and seemingly very un-called for, became rebellious; therefore, after the damnable siege and slaughter at Vicksburg many officers, privates and younger recruits left the lines of battle to join a rank of men, who dare to rebel; these rebels were termed deserters, at many points in the south these men had haunts suitable for protection; because of this act of their desertion at so critical a period in the struggle enraged higher officers to the extent that orders were given to the cavalry to bring the men back or shoot them dead in their tracks.
Many skirmishes and drives were staged in Jones and Covington Counties because the notorious deserter leader, Newt Knight and his cohorts lived near the boundaries of these counties and the most outstanding hide out or secret haunt intersects the boundary between the two counties; this historical land mark (unorthodox) is known as Deserters' Den Lake and is situated about .5 mile east of Leaf River (Reddoch's Ferry) Bridge south of Highway 84; to the general public this unique natural feature is unknown, but in its course of time many a weird tale, many a heart rending sob and much beautiful bravery has centered around this particular protector. The lake is situated so the entrance faced the old Reddoch's Ferry, another mark of history now so contritely in the background.
While in the reminiscent trend let me retell of a skirmish or drive that marked quite a turning point in General Lowrey's * dare-devil squad of Cavalry men.
In May of '65, the Cavalry under the leadership of General Lowery * decided to break camp at Jimmy Knight's old mill which was located on the Etahoma part of Big Creek above Gitano, to gain trail back toward Raleigh, the County seat of Smith where a Confederate Divisional Headquarter and a hospital (now Harrison Hotel) were located; in order to get to Raleigh from their location in Jones, they had to sallie forth to Reddoch's Ferry, be ferried across Leaf River, then cross Cohay at the old Jackson Trail Ford near Hot Coffee (bridge now in construction at the point on U.S. Highway #35).
The Cavalry had done much harm while encamped at the old mill in the way of robbing helpless widows of their last bit of "grub", chasing down and slaying innocent men who knew nothing of the Deserters, too, of unmercifully hanging and slaying the Deserters without so much as giving them a chance to return to service or make explanation. This had enraged the Deserter Crew, so much that when the signal was given that Lowery's bunch was crossing the ferry about fifty Deserters, who knew the lay of the land quite well, slipped hurriedly through the old Jackie Knight's home field, swam to Cohay and rushed into secreted hiding places in and around the old Ford and when the tramp, tramp of the weary men in uniform about a thousand strong, neared the banks and ventured into the water one brave Deserter hollered "Newt here they air", at which signal the Deserters shook the bushes and dispersed tumultuously into a panic and simultaneously Newt fired a few wild shots, the "rookus" was, so unexpected and so riotous the 1000 strong Cavalry did pretty much like ole' sis' cow in Uncle Remus' tales "dey hist deir tales and away dey flewd."
Sometimes this spirit of the South, gets so unsouthy as to want to clap my hands and say three cheers for the most daring troop that ever tramped the Southern soil—the Deserters
"The Deserters"
The Deserters were men, honest good and true men, who liked to live and let live as well as I or you. Men who were hounded in chase, like creatures of the lower animal race. No home, no church, no school could withhold The Cavalry from those ill-treated pioneers out in the cold. So refuge these much abused citizens did take, in the protecting arms of Mother Nature's (Deserters' Den) Lake.
*Huff was referring to Col. Robert Lowry
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He worked as a substitute teacher for approximately four years in the Van Dyke Public Schools, where employees were stunned by the allegations, according to the district's top-ranking administrator.
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Pius ordered that Brittan be prohibited from substituting. School officials later learned that Warren police began to investigate Brittan.
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Gestation: 29 Weeks
There's a red-headed twenty-seven month-old Love Bully named Scarlet in Clare's Toddler-and-Me class.
Just our luck, she has it in for Clare.
My daughter and I try to enter the classroom discreetly, keeping to the edges of the room, dressing in neutral colors, camouflaging amongst a clamoring crowd of toddlers at the paint easel, but somehow Scarlet sniffs Clare out, like a bloodhound the hare.
A glazed, hypnotic expression enters Scarlet's blueberry eyes. Her lips spread in a crazed gunman leer.
She runs directly at Clare, grabs my child by her irreproachable cheeks and plants a firm kiss on Clare's Cupid's bow lips. Like a flag on a cheese souffle.
I stand immobilized as Scarlet keeps grabbing and kissing a frightened Clare trying to find an appropriate way to intercede as all the other mother's "ooh" and "ahh" over what seems to be a charming spectacle.
But my kid ain't likin' it.
Scarlet's mom, Jenny, sits nearby with a beatific expression on her face as her child mauls mine.
Jenny has cascading corkscrew curls tumbling down her back. She wears diaphanous hippie clothes and is always quoting The Universe i.e. "The Universe sends us messages we need to be aware of."
She has three older kids besides Scarlet; boys with names like Hopper and Doc.
She's a cool mom, laid back, while I'm wound tighter than a gymnast's butt.
Clare's lips begin to tremble and she bursts into tears under the Scarlet onslaught.
The next time Scarlet approaches Clare to mete out her daily mauling, I place two stiff fingers against her tiny birdlike chest. "Clare doesn't like that," I say, sounding eerily like DeNiro circa Taxi Driver.
A hush falls upon the room.
The other mothers quickly look away, as from a mob hit in a gin joint. Jenny quickly scoops Scarlet up in her arms and moves fluidly away from me and my child, the anti-Christ.
I have to give myself a break for my ineptness in the situation, because Scarlet is Jenny's fourth kid and Clare's my first pancake.
And Clare hasn't learned how to stop unwanted advances because she hasn't had three older brothers to battle.
Still. I doubt my ability to intercede successfully on my daughter's behalf, because deep down inside I know the truth.
I'm yellow.
It became apparent just how yellow I was on June 11, 1977.
That was the day in sixth grade that my best friends Cheryl and Alicia finally stood up to girls we'll call Tigerlily and Cheyenne, who'd been bullying all three of us throughout elementary school.
Tigerlily and Cheyenne weren't particularly big or brawny, in fact, I stood a good foot taller than them both, but they totally scared the crap out of me.
One thing they'd do is they'd follow me from homeroom to the bus stop after school describing in great detail how at any moment they were going to "kick my ass!"
And then, I suppose as a trailer to the main event, one of them would deliver a painless, but humiliating flat-footed kick to my ass.
My reaction to this harassment was to pretend it wasn't happening.
I'd keep my face straight forward, heart pounding, palms sweating, walking as quickly as I could, my stride uninterrupted save for the intermittent butt kick I'd yelplessly receive.
Sometimes, the bullying would stop for long periods of time and I'd begin to relax.
But then, for no apparent reason, it would start up again, say in the middle of a round of four-square in the fifth grade.
Tigerlily, now a Hall Monitor, would stop me as I exited Mrs. Babcock's reading hour on my way to first lunch.
She'd make me sit in a small triangle of grass near her beat where she'd force me to eat my bagged lunch.
To add insult to injury, she'd make me hand over my hard-boiled egg.
I got to where I was hiding my hard-boiled egg in my training bra. I'm certain a lot of my former fifth-grade classmates think I have only one breast.
When they were bullying me Tigerlily and Cheyenne would stop bullying Cheryl and Alicia.
When they were done with me they'd start back in on my friends who they seemed to view as a single unit, CherylandAlicia.
My friends had been trapped in bathrooms, on top of slides and spanked on their bottoms with flat, heavy rocks during a particularly gratuitous session of playing "House."
Unbeknownst to me, a fire of outrage had been building inside my friends slowly but surely.
And on that fateful day of June 11, 1977, while I was performing my role as fill-in secretary for Mrs. Wiggins during her lunch break, Cheryl and Alicia had had enough.
The bullies cornered them on the cannonball court and my friends snapped. They whipped combs (which were quite popular at the time) out of their back jeans pockets and, pointing them like switchblades, shrieked in Mickey-Mouse-on-helium voices, "You want a fight? You've got a fight!"
They stood their ground, ready to rumble. And an amazing thing happened.
TigerlilyandCheyenne melted like the Wicked Witch of the West into nice girls. They never bullied me or my friends again. Somehow I was scott free having risked nothing!
Years later, in my twenties, I ran into Tigerlily pregnant with her first child. She sincerely apologized to me for the years of torment she'd caused.
I appreciated the apology and forgave her.
But, I could never quite forgive myself for riding my friends' coattails to safety. I worry I'm still yellow and wonder if I'll be an effective advocate for my kids.
Right now, it's guarding Clare's personal space from the Love Bully.
Next, it'll be asking potential sleepover parents if they've got pitbulls, guns or any strange live-in uncles.
Don't even get me started with dating and drugs (why do these seem to go together? Is it the alliterative "d"?).
It's annoying how being a mom forces me to poke around in all my underdeveloped places and stretch the limits of my comfort zone.
As Scarlet's mom Jenny might say:


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