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I mentioned in the last blog that it has been 20 years that I attempted art; try more like 30 years; and I have to look at that; thats a whole life span career; and yet; it doesn't register to me; Its the dissociative disorder; anyway; I may be able to do something about that now; as I was diagnosed correctly 12 years ago; and got the therapeutic help I needed.
Im writing this because Ive gotten better very quickly; I was laying in my bed a few hours ago; and realized; Im getting better; part of me is feeling more like a therapist then a patient or client; However, Im so very weak; my identity; its forming back to normal but can hardly stand any traumatic experiences; anything; its extremely sensitive; cant describe it. In good conditions I would become a Doctor; in bad conditions I would have become a psychopath. Because I had a mixed of situations; I become extremely mentally ill. I guess thats the third choice. I become or formed as a human being; and then I was broken beyond remedy.
Anyway; Im getting better; it gets lonely tho; my world has been very small; an apartment, mountain biking and meetings; ive tried to play the piano and make songs or do art; but it has not gotten very far. for a while in 2006, I was writing music; I wrote allot of music; but could not settle down and write stuff I could perform; same problem with art; could not settle down and make art that could be put ina progressive coffee shop; Im attempting to change that now; Im different now.
So; Im getting better; what does it mean; It means im not in fight or flight like before; or freeze. I am, but I dont have to be; Im starting to stand back and make decisions before that happens.
I truly feel like ive put in my time in this area and no longer need to be here; where I would go; I have no idea; I will have to write about it.
There is nothing here; only meetings for me to attend for my mental and recovery health; not much more; no friends; not really. But I wanted it that way.
I have allot of work do to in order to get better; I have to keep writing scripts about my future life.
Ill write stories about where Im suppose to go or who Im suppose to be around.
locked in an apartment sucks; its lonely and isolated reality; However, I can see myself making new art and doing something with it; Id have to get good at it. Id have to practice and learn to feel safe doing it; to the point of getting good at it.
meeting women would be nice; not sure how as of yet; I guess that will come with time as my higher brain kicks in.


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Find Vasili Sevchenko's GPL Device
Video Walkthrough
Escape the Construction Site
After the hard landing you'll be thrust into battle and be faced with a hard decision: Sneak past the troups while they're occupied by the downed aircraft, or take all of them out before they destroy the transport along with Malik. If you want to save Malik, you'll have to bust out your entire arsenal to beat back the enemy troups in time. However, the enemies mostly ignore you and focus on Malik, so you can sprint around and take them down nonlethally one at a time without all that much trouble.
To defeat the ambush you should start off by equipping your most powerful weapon. For us it was our revolver that has been upgraded with explosive rounds -- essentially a one hit kill for each of the goons in this area. The other thing to take advantage of are the numerous red fuel barrells that these soldiers love getting in cover behind.
Continue to move through the area, concentrating your fire on the heavies who are firing the most on Malik's ship. Sweep under the platforms and up the stairs, tracing back the bullet fire back to the soldier's location, and paying attention to your radar to find any of the stragglers. When the mech arrives toss an EMP grenade at it to destroy it. Once you defeat the last soldier Malik will fly away to safety. Now take the time to loot every body laying about the construction yard before you move on to the elevator up to the streets of Hengsha.
For extra XP, from the starting point, look to your left and you will see an area that lead down. It goes no where but if you have the EMP shielding (under the Dermal Armor Aug, at least level 2), you can walk through the electrified water and into a pipe on your left for a FRAG and EMP grenage and Pathfinder 400xp.
Secondary: Get a New Biochip at the LIMB Clinic
This is a purely optional quest. Still getting those electric headaches? Well, if you haven't been hacking computers you would have no idea what the implications are with upgrading your chip. It's recommended you DO NOT get this upgrade because if you do, it will make a boss fight later in the game that much more difficult. If you do take the upgrade, make sure you start taking the time now to start upgrading a weapon of your choice.
Find Vasili Sevhenko's GPL Device
Note: It's recommended you have a proficiency in hacking turrets and the ability to lift heavy objects for this chapter.
There are a variety of routes into Harvester Territory, but the best one we found was using an adjacent rooftop that gives you a great view of the guards (the same rooftop where you may have picked up the Corporate Warfare Achievement/Trophy earlier during that side quest). Our approach was to use this rooftop as a staging ground, shooting tranquilizer darts at the guards below, using a gas grenade to stun the others, and then suppress any remaining troops through melee combat. Once the guards have been taken out, hack the nearby level 1 security door, and proceed inside.
As you enter the hallway there is a single door to your right that leads to a parking garage. Continue down this ramp and immediately go into cover by the cement blocks -- this will block you from the turrets line of sight. Continue to move from cover to cover until your map your way into the office with the sleeping guard. -- Upgraded to Recoil Compensation 1
Knock out the sleeping guard, hack the security hub on the desk, and switch the turret's recognition to that of enemies. Walk over to the turrets location, pick it up, and carry it half-way down the parking ramp until you come in range of enemy soldiers. Put the turret down and go into cover by the car. Stay here and let the turret defeat the nearby enemies before continuing down to the next level with the turret.
Again, place the turret on the parking ramp and have it take out the guards below, repeating your pattern from earlier. Continue with it to the next room, placing it just after the wall so it's blocking the entryway and stay in cover while it eliminates any enemy resistance.
Now that all of the enemies have been dealt with, take the time to loot the bodies and hack terminals to gain XP and items. Once you've cleaned the place out, proceed to the doorway marked on your HUD to start a cut-scene. After the cut-scene is complete, make sure you pick up the large laser rifle next to the desk before walking out of this room to start the next mission.
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Chapter 3: Starting Virgance
In which Carrotmob becomes part of an incubator company called Virgance.
Once it was clear that Carrotmob had legs and wasn't going to be a fluke, I knew that I was going to quit my other job and run with it. The problem was, I needed help. I didn't know anything about how to start and grow an organization. I started having lots of conversations, and soon I was introduced to Steve Newcomb. He had been thinking about some related concepts and started pitching me on the concept of Virgance. The idea was essentially to create an incubator company that would build projects which were at the intersection of business and sustainability. Steve and I each represented the two roads that led to that intersection. Steve was a business savvy serial entrepreneur (his prior company was about to be sold to Microsoft for many millions of dollars), who had recently become interested in sustainability, and I was a long-time advocate who had recently become interested in entrepreneurship. We each complemented each other in the areas where the other person was clueless. It became clear to me that if Steve was involved, Carrotmob would be able to go places much faster than if I tried to do it on my own. But his idea was also very new and different from what I had imagined. I had sort of assumed that Carrotmob would be a non-profit. Not for any good reason, but just because I had a simple-minded perspective that organizations that did good were non-profits. Steve was proposing a for-profit, and that was a new idea for me. To help evaluate the opportunity, I took it to the mob. I wrote a blog post in which I laid out the rationale for making Carrotmob a part of Virgance, along with all the potential downsides of that path. I asked everyone to consider what would be best for the Carrotmob movement and vote by commenting in the blog post. The comments streamed in, and over 2/3rds recommended becoming a for-profit. That made the decision for me, and Steve and I co-founded Virgance in late Spring 2008. I left my other job shortly thereafter.
We began building a team and crafting the plan. In mid-August 2008, we collected a check from our first angel investor. In the next few weeks as we got excited to raise more money and hit the ground running, Lehman Brothers collapsed, and the entire economy began to fall apart. Somehow, amidst this turmoil, we managed to acquire 2 other startups, and we finally finished raising about $750k at the beginning of 2009. All this was the thrilling beginning to a year and a half of incredible education on how to start a company.
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From KOAA.com (Bill Folsom):
For the Arkansas River Basin, which is a big water contributor to southern Colorado, the snowpack is more than 40% behind where it needs to be. "Right now everything looks pretty bleak. Everybody is seeing the really low numbers, the really low snowpack and expecting very low run-off," said [Abby Ortega].
Water managers with Colorado Springs Utilities are scheduled to present a water restriction plan next week. It is up to the Colorado Springs City Council to make a decision.
From The Mountain Mail (James Redmond):
Typically this time of year the mountains receive an inch of moisture a week, yet weekly totals through Jan. 23 mostly ranged from 0.1 to 1 inch along the Western Slope, with a few isolated pockets receiving 1 to 2 inches, the Water Availability Task Force's January drought update reported…
Despite beneficial moisture in December that boosted snowpack to 70 percent of normal, a very dry January has resulted in snowpack declines in all of the state's major river basins since Jan. 1. In Salida January yielded only 0.01 inch of precipitation throughout the entire month. January usually has an average precipitation of 0.33 inch, historical Mountain Mail records show…
If the Chaffee County area has a drought this year similar to last year's conditions, "that would be a record," Terry Scanga, Upper Arkansas Water Conservancy District manager, said Jan. 31. This area has never seen two back-to-back drought years of last year's severity, he said. If the drought continues, irrigation rights will see the impact first, probably near July…
For the first time in 9 years, ENSO-neutral conditions are likely to dominate through the winter months, which means neither El Niño nor La Niña is influencing weather patterns. Without their influence, it is difficult to determine when the current drought regime will be broken in Colorado, the Water Availability Task Force report said. While a strong intraseasonal event could help transition back to El Niño by spring, it could also bring additional moisture before then, Klaus Wolter reported Jan. 23 to the Colorado Water Conservation Board Water Availability Task Force. "There is currently no capability to predict such an event more than a week or two in advance. There is nothing on the horizon for now, despite one brief flicker of hope earlier this month," he said…
Positive AMO and negative PDO values go a long way toward explaining our dry fall and early winter. Given the continuing PDO-AMO setup for drought, pessimism remains justified for at least the next few months, he reported.
From the Summit County Citizens Voice (Bob Berwyn):
January 2012 will go down as one of the driest Januaries on record at the official National Weather Service site in town, where long-time observer Rick Bly measured just 6.55 inches of snow for the month. Bly said that total was one of the five lowest January readings in the books. Going back more than 100 years, the average January snowfall in town is nearly two feet. The little bit of snow that did fall during the month was also excruciatingly dry. Bly said the snow-water equivalent was just 0.11 inches, compared to the historic average of 1.53 inches. That means precipitation for the water year to-date (starting Oct. 1) is just 60 percent of average.
Snowfall for the year to-date is also lagging well behind last year, at 43.85 inches. Normal for this time of year is 78 inches. Last winter, Bly had tallied 62 inches by this time of year…
The best hope of getting out of the current drought conditions is for a super-wet February or a March miracle, which isn't out of the question — the early 2000s drought was at least partly busted by a mid-March storm that dropped more than seven feet of snow on some parts of the Colorado mountains. But an average February (23.5 inches in Breckenridge) wouldn't even bring the snowpack back to normal, and have there's no guarantee that late winter will deliver relief.
Meanwhile, New Mexico snowpack is in very bad shape. Here's a report from John Fleck writing for the Albuquerque Journal. Here's an excerpt:
Farmers who depend on the state's rivers for their irrigation water are preparing for the worst after new forecast numbers call for abysmal runoff for a third year in a row. "The bottom line is, that sucks," said Phil King, a New Mexico State University professor who serves as an adviser to the Elephant Butte Irrigation District, after seeing the latest forecast for runoff headed his way. The agency provides water for farmers in Doña Ana County, New Mexico's largest agricultural producer.
While there is still uncertainty about how wet or dry the next few months will be, the mostly likely runoff, if we get normal precipitation through spring, is 39 percent of the long-term average flowing into Elephant Butte Reservoir, according to forecasters at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. In a normal year, the Elephant Butte Irrigation District begins running that water through its system as early as late February, with an irrigation season that runs through October. This year, farmers shouldn't expect to see any irrigation water until the first of June, and the district could run out by the end of July, King said Wednesday.
@cprpanoka reports snowpack along Front Range is 54% of average. That's the fourth lowest in 32 years. #colorado #frontrange
— Pat Mack (@CPRMack) February 8, 2013
From The Grand Junction Sentinel (Dennis Webb):
Late-January precipitation in Colorado salvaged the month, but statewide snowpack budged little from where it was at the year's start, the Natural Resources Conservation Service said this week.
Mostly dry, high-pressure weather systems persisted for much of the month before the arrival of a storm that particularly benefited southwest Colorado, the agency said. As of the start of this month, the statewide snowpack was 72 percent of normal and 90 percent of the same time last year, which ended with snowpack well below average.
Statewide snowpack had been 70 percent of average Jan. 1.
The recent moisture boosted snowpack in the combined San Miguel, Dolores, Animas and San Juan basins to 88 percent of normal, up from 70 percent a month earlier. The Rio Grande and Arkansas basins also saw gains in snowpack. "With the storms focused mainly in the south, the northern portion of the state saw snowpack percentages remain constant or decline during January," the NRCS said.
The South Platte fared the worst, dropping 13 percent, to 54 percent of normal, the state's lowest. The Colorado basin was at 67 percent at the month's start, which is 89 percent of the same time last year. The Gunnison started the month at 75 percent of average.
"This recent snowpack data directly reflects what the state can expect for surface water supplies this coming spring and summer," the NRCS said in its release. "Current streamflow forecasts continue to point towards well below normal runoff volumes in all the major river basins in Colorado. Adding to this bleak water supply outlook, reservoir storage across the state remains below average. Unless Colorado sees weather patterns that bring above average snowfall and precipitation to the state over these next few months, it is not likely that there will be much relief from the current drought conditions."
Statewide reservoir storage is at 70 percent of average, and 63 percent of the same time last year. The Colorado basin's storage is at 67 percent of average and 59 percent of last year. For the Gunnison, those figures are 72 and 61 percent, respectively. The San Miguel, Dolores, Animas and San Juan basins are still at just two-thirds of average.
The National Integrated Drought Information System said in its weekly report, "Though recent beneficial snowfall has accumulated in the higher elevations of southwest (Colorado), benefits may only be short term. These areas are still running large precipitation deficits from last year."
From The Delta County Independent (Hank Lohmeyer):
Surface Creek Valley water managers began looking ahead during last year's dry spell and made plans to help ensure there will be supplies of water available for domestic providers if a second low-snowpack year is in store for 2013.
During last week's water forums in Orchard City and Cedaredge, Austin Keiser, president of the Grand Mesa Water Conservancy District board, announced that the district had held back reservoir water for domestic use this year if needed. Keiser explained to the Delta County Independent that a survey of domestic providers last year determined they might expect to draw 480 acre feet from their reservoir reserves on Grand Mesa during 2013. So, to provide an additional backstop for that use, the district has held 500 acre feet in reservoir storage as a down payment against the chance reservoirs may not fill with snowpack runoff this year.
The announcement may help quell any concerns the valley's domestic water users have about available supply during the coming summer months.
From the Glenwood Springs Post Independent (Scott Condon):
As of Wednesday, the snowpack at the headwaters of the Roaring Fork River east of Aspen was at 50 percent of average, the conservation service reported. For the Roaring Fork River basin as a whole, which includes the Fryingpan and Crystal river drainages, the snowpack is 68 percent of average. The highest snowpack within the Roaring Fork drainage is at McClure Pass and North Lost Trail outside of Marble, according to the conservation service. The snowpack at McClure Pass is 83 percent of average while it is 80 percent at North Lost Trail. This winter is starting to make last winter look good, at least at the headwaters of the Roaring Fork River. The snowpack east of Aspen on Wednesday was only 71 percent of the level on the same date last year…
Two of the traditionally snowiest months for Colorado are still to come, but time is running out. Colorado's mountains usually accumulate about 60 percent of their snowpack by Feb. 1, Mage Hultstrand, assistant snow survey supervisor for the conservation service, said Wednesday. Another 20 percent of the snowpack usually accumulates in February and 20 percent in March. The below average snowpack produces a "bleak" water supply outlook, the conservation service said. "Current streamflow forecasts continue to point towards well below normal runoff volumes in all the major river basins in Colorado," according to the agency. Reservoir storage across the state is below average, the agency noted. Ruedi Reservoir was 61 percent full Wednesday and Fryingpan Valley has weak snowpack levels.
From The Greeley Tribune (Eric Brown):
A federal agency this week released statistics detailing the low reservoir levels in the South Platte basin, but one regional water expert had a simpler way of getting the point across. "Compared to how much water we had in storage at this time last year, we're now short two entire Horsetooth reservoirs," said Brian Werner, public information officer at the Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District in Berthoud, referring to the 157,000acrefeet bucket near Fort Collins.
Werner then used a simple adjective to describe the region's water supplies. "It's ugly," he said of the situation facing many, including the Northern Water district, whose ColoradoBig Thompson Project provides supplemental water to more than 640,000 acres of irrigated farm and ranch land and about 850,000 people in northeastern Colorado, including Greeley residents. Werner made those remarks Wednesday — a day after the Natural Resources Conservation Service released statewide reservoirstorage numbers and snowpack figures for Feb. 1. According to the numbers, the South Platte River basin's collective reservoir storage was 82 percent of the historic average for Feb. 1, and just 67 percent of what it was a year earlier.
While the situation isn't great, it's not dire, some local water officials say. Eric Reckentine, deputy director of water resources for the city of Greeley, said Greeley's water storage is still "adequate to meet demand this year."
But without abundant snowfall in the mountains in the near future, there will be challenges. The region's reservoirs filled to high levels following the historic snow year of 2011, but much of those supplies were used up last year as northern Colorado, like much of the U.S., went into drought. With Mother Nature offering little moisture, cities and farmers relied on stored water. Now — in addition to having the equivalent of two less reservoirs to work with compared to last year — snowfall in the mountains isn't on pace to replenish the area's reservoirs when spring runoff rolls around.
NRCS reports showed that snowpack in the South Platte basin — which melts in the spring to refill northern Colorado cities' reservoirs and farmers' irrigation ditches — was 54 percent of the historic average, and 58 percent of where it was at this time last year. In the Colorado River basin, where the Front Range and other northern Coloradans also get some of their water supplies, snowpack was 67 percent of average, and reservoir storage, too, was 67 percent of historic average.
Werner, with Northern Water for more than 30 years, said if snowfall is limited for the remainder of the winter and spring, Northern Water officials — who will set a quota in April to determine how much of their water can be used — will be in a tough spot. Spring planting for farmers begins in April, and if it's dry then and looking to stay that way, farmers will likely want a high quota set, Werner noted, to ensure they have enough water for the growing season.
At the same time, though, Werner said Northern Water officials will have to keep an eye on the future, and make sure some of their stored water will still be around the next year if drought persists. "Bottom line; we just can't take many more 2012s" Werner said.
Like Werner, other water officials — like Harold Evans, chairman for the city of Greeley Water and Sewer
Board, and Lynn Fagerberg, a farmer near Eaton who serves as board president for a pair of irrigation ditch companies — are in waitandsee mode until April. "After March, you really have a good idea of what you're going to be dealing with the rest of the year," Evans said. "Right now, we're hoping for big snowstorms that can get us back up to normal."
From The Chaffee County Times (Casey Kelly):
From January through December last year, Chaffee County only recorded a total of 16.7 inches of snow. That isn't even half of the 44.9 inches the area receives on average each year.


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If you played a bodybuilder whose steroid use caused size and performance issues in the downstairs region, you'd expect people to ask about that. But still.
"This [female journalist] asked me, 'I've never seen a crooked, small penis. So can I see yours?' " recalls Anthony Mackie, whose role as steroid-induced impotence sufferer Adrian in "Pain and Gain" has him co-headlining alongside Mark Wahlberg and Dwayne Johnson. "I basically looked at her and said, 'You know, the problem with that is, once you start the launch sequence, there's no abort. So you can't push the fire missile if you're not ready for that missile to go off.' "
Mackie notes—seriously, I think—that before shooting the film, opening Friday, he obtained written proof that his sexual capabilities are A-OK. Viewers are more likely to focus on one of Hollywood's most reliable young supporting actors ("The Hurt Locker," "The Adjustment Bureau") getting big exposure in the Michael Bay-directed action-comedy.
"Pain and Gain" is based on the true story of a pair of buff, hapless Miami guys (Wahlberg and Mackie) who recruit an even buffer, born-again ex-con (Johnson) to help them kidnap and rip off a wealthy businessman (Tony Shalhoub). Spoiler alert: The real victim, Mark Schiller, survived and isn't thrilled about a movie that seems to draw laughs from his near-death situation.
By phone from Miami, the 33-year-old Mackie, who lives in his native New Orleans and soon will play the Falcon in "Captain America: The Winter Soldier," talked about bulking up for "Pain and Gain," why the film's abundance of scantily clad Miami girls doesn't do it for him, and who in Hollywood might want to take a likability steroid.
When you signed on to "Pain and Gain," what were the terms of how large you had to get, and how were you feeling about that process?
We never talked about size. Basically what happened was I signed on [and] I told Michael [Bay] I'm committed to putting on muscle and working out and getting started on this project. I only had three weeks before I started shooting, so I did a pretty intensive work-out.
I was in L.A. for the Oscars, I guess it was about a year and a half ago, and I bumped into Dwayne. I have this thing about me, it's really weird: Whenever I see a dude over 6-foot, I instantly want to fight him. If a dude's 5-11 or under, I'm cool—shake hands, talk [bleep], have a good time. But if you're over six-foot, I instantly want to fight you. Not sure why.
So I see Dwayne, I go up to him, I'm like, "What's up, man?" He goes, "Yo, what's up." I'm like, "I just signed onto 'Pain and Gain.' " He's like, "Oh, good for you." "Oh, good for me? Good for you." [Laughs.] He looks at me and I was like, "Yeah, I'm hitting the gym, kid, I'm going to be bigger than you when I show up to set, so get ready." And he goes, "All right, man, good luck with that." [Laughs.] I'm like, "I'm going to give this dude the business!"
So instantly I went back home, started training the next day and changed my diet and put on about 17 pounds of muscle.
You did that all in the next day.
I started my workout the next day. Dwayne is one of the biggest people I've ever come across that wasn't a professional football player or a rugby player—just an average dude walking around. He's the biggest average dude I've ever been around. He was training for WrestleMania so he put on a lot more size than he normally is. So he was massive, man. I got up to 213 pounds. I show up to set and dude is like 250.
You, Mark and Dwayne all look pretty huge in the movie. How would you describe all of you standing next to each other—medium, large and extra large?
[Laughs.] Put it this way: Standing next to Dwayne, a friend and I made a joke. If he's the Rock, my nickname is the Pebble.
And you're OK with that?
[Laughs.] [All of us together] was kinda small, medium and grande.
Why do you think there are so many dumb criminal stories out there?
[Laughs.] It's funny. You ever watch the show "The First 48"?
I haven't.
OK, it's an A&E; crime show, and it shows the detectives going through the first 48 hours after a murder, and you realize that most people [who] commit crimes commit them because they're not smart enough to think their way out of a situation. You want people to feel like criminals are dumb because it makes them feel good about not being a criminal.
Well, I can't speak from experience, but I imagine all criminals have that moment of, "We've plotted the perfect crime; this will go excellently."
The great thing about this movie is, and how it works, if you look at these guys, they got away with the crime. They got away with the first one. So if they were idiots, they never--how many people you know can get away with a crime?
I'd have to ask my friends; I'll get back to you on that.
How many crimes have you gotten away with?
Like, six?
[Laughs.] Stealing candy bars don't count. I'm talking about real, full-fledged crimes.
OK, then two.
[Laughs.] Well, that means you're super highly intelligent. I think you have to be pretty smart to get away with a crime, and I think you see it with these guys as well.
I've seen a bit about Mark Schiller complaining about the movie making the criminals seem likable and the victims seem unlikable. Any movie that's a true story takes some creative license, but what do you think about this guy being alive and seeing the guys who tortured him on screen coming off as fun?
Well, I definitely understand that because he was a victim and it makes sense. The sad part about it is he's reacting to a commercial and not a movie. I would like him to see the movie before he passes judgments on a promotional commercial. But I definitely understand his reaction; if it was me, I'd be smacking somebody as well.
On another note: Can a movie ever have too many girls in bikinis?
Not a Michael Bay movie. I don't think women are allowed to shop anywhere other than a bikini shop in Michael Bay's movies.
It saves money on material.
It's definitely eco-friendly.
How difficult was that for you to stay focused?
It was Miami girls; they don't really do it for me. If we were in New York or Atlanta or Chicago, there would be consequences and repercussions.
Why don't Miami girls do it for you?
I like more of the natural, down-to-Earth, cool chick. The pin-up doll is not my thing. If you look at my girl, she's a beautiful girl, but she's just a regular chick. I kinda like normal chicks.
For years you've been widely known but on the cusp of "big stardom." With your roles in "Pain and Gain" and the new "Captain America," how much do you feel like that is now on the horizon, despite the challenge of there not being many great, big parts out there for black actors?
One of the most frustrating things about being an actor is everyone's summation or view of where you are as an actor as far as celebrity-wise. The funny thing about it is I enjoy what I do. I enjoy my position in the business right now. I'm not so much looking for stardom or celebrity, to be invited to parties and stuff like that. With "Pain and Gain" coming out, with "Captain America," I'm not sure how much it'll aid the process of me being the next big guy, but I feel like as long as I continue to do good work and work with quality people like Dwayne, Mark and Michael, sooner or later that type of thing'll happen. So I'm just riding the wave, man, enjoying it. Enjoying my anonymity.
Steroids are such a big thing in sports, but you never hear about them in Hollywood. If actors were going to take steroids, what would they be trying to enhance?
[Laughs.] Their likability. Their ability to do bonehead things and then get in the press for it. I think with actors you don't hear too much about steroids just because it's not so present in the acting world because they can make you buff. They can airbrush you, they can do whatever they need to do to make you look like what they want you to look like. And we're paid to stay in shape. So we really don't need that. We don't need those shortcuts because it's part of our day-to-day lives. But they would definitely try to enhance their likability.
Who would be most likely to take that magic pill?
Me. [Laughs.]
I think you're likable enough.
[Laughs.] No, I would say Anne Hathaway.
I don't know, dude. She's a sweet girl, but I was reading online. It was the cover of AOL: "Why people don't like Anne Hathaway."
So you think that gets to her and she needs to take a likability steroid just in case?
I don't know if it gets to her, but it's definitely something that ... [even if it didn't] help, it wouldn't hurt.
On Chicago: "First of all, I love Chicago. Taste of Chicago is one of my favorite festivals outside of New Orleans. One of my favorite bars in the country is Buddha Bar in the West Loop. I love Chicago. But that being said, O'Hare is the worst airport in America. I've slept in that airport more than I've slept in a hotel in Chicago."
Why he doesn't like hotels, other than his favorite, the Kempinski Hotel in Zanzibar: "It annoys me thinking someone else has slept on my couch, and someone else has slept in my bed. Stuff like that. The early morning noise in the hallway with the hotel staff. Thirty dollars for some scrambled eggs."
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A trio of UFC and Strikeforce fighters will be throwing out ceremonial first pitches at MLB games today.
To help promote next week's "Strikeforce Grand Prix: Barnett vs. Kharitonov" event, Ohio fighters Rich Franklin and Jorge Gurgel throw out first pitches at tonight's Reds-Phillies game in Cincinnati.
Additionally, following his recently announced retirement, UFC vet Chris Lytle throws out a first pitch at today's Dodgers-Padres game in Los Angeles.
The Reds game takes place at 7:10 p.m. ET at Great American Ball Park. The Dodgers game begins at 12:10 p.m. PT at Dodger Stadium.
Franklin and Gurgel don't fight at the Sept. 10 Strikeforce event, which takes place at Cincinnati's U.S. Bank Arena. However, as the region's two highest-profile fighters, they're doing the local media rounds this week. Today, they also visit the Cincinnati Bengals practice at Paul Brown Stadium.
Lytle, meanwhile, recently concluded a memorable MMA and UFC career with a UFC on Versus 5 main-event victory over Dan Hardy. The fan favorite, who won a record 10 UFC fight-night bonuses during a 13-year career, retired with five wins in his final six fights and now focuses on fatherhood, his firefighting career and a possible move into politics.
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So we're back from ATP and shattered, physically and mentally: what better time could there possibly be for a trawl through the ups and downs of the last seven days in the UK singles and albums charts?
Take That stay at number one in the singles chart – 'Patience' stays atop the heap for a third (third? Yeah…) week, while Booty Luv's 'Boogie 2Nite' moves up from three to two (we heard it in the cat on the way back from Minehead) and Akon's also-heard-on-the-ride-home 'Smack That' slips from two to three. They've swapped around, see? Lazy Town's kiddie-friendly novelty hit 'Bing Bang (Time To Dance)' is a new entry at four, and Nelly Furtado rounds off the top five with 'All Good Things (Come To An End)'.
On the new entry front, Gwen Stefani's absolutely awful 'Wind It Up' is straight in at eight (better than we expected, at least), Audioslave singer Chris Cornell goes solo with Bond theme 'You Know My Name' at 12, and Morrissey's 'I Just Want To See The Boy Happy' is new at 16. Lil' Chris's not-shit 'Getting' Enough' debuts at 33, on downloads alone.
Further down, Lily Allen's sweet 'Littlest Things' is new at 53, Katie Price and Peter Andre's 'A Whole New World' is at 56, and The Rapture's 'Way Uh (People Don't Dance No More' can only reach the 65 mark.
Take That also sit pretty at the top of the albums chart with Beautiful World; directly below the reformed quartet are Oasis, whose Stop The Clocks best-of moves up from three to two, and Westlife's The Love Album's up from four to three. At four is Il Divo with Siempre and U2's U218 Singles is at five.
The highest new entry on the albums chart is Gewn Stefani, whose second solo LP The Sweet Escape debuts at 26. Lil' Chris's self-titled debut is new at 54, and Babyshambles's The Blinding EP is new at 62.
Beyond that, it's all lame R'n'B, commercial 'indie' and best-of after best-of. Roll on January.
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Kentucky: Building a Bumpy Road From K-12 Through College
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Kentucky is widely seen as a model of how K-12 and higher education can work together to make sure teenagers are prepared to succeed in college. Folks are pretty happy about that distinction here, and they're putting on a forum to celebrate their work and respond to other states' clamoring for clues and guidance.
And many interesting examples of K-12 partnerships with higher ed. are being discussed, especially those with an eye toward implementing the common standards. They're being discussed in equal measure, though, with the very heavy lift involved in making the common standards more than a set of bound documents.
Before we get into examples, though, a quick refresher:
Kentucky was the first state to adopt the Common Core State Standards, and it made a more-than-symbolic move when it did so: It had top officials of precollegiate and postsecondary education pledge their commitment to the common-standards vision.
When it made that move in February 2010, it already had a fire at its back, because the state legislature had passed a sweeping education reform measure, Senate Bill 1, which required, among other things, that higher ed. and K-12 work together to prime students for success in college. That requirement, and the Commonwealth Commitment in the fall of that year, sparked dozens of pacts across the state between school districts and universities in response to the law's new demand for what the wonks like to call "intersegmental collaboration."
And there has been lots of buzz of the intersegmental-collaboration type in Kentucky. It has, for instance, created a common set of college-readiness indicators and outcomes that students can meet to skip over remedial work in the state's college and university system. What this means is that beginning this year, students who meet certain reading, writing, and mathematics cutoff scores on the ACT, SAT, ACT's Compass exam, or Kentucky's own online placement exam can enroll in credit-bearing courses once they are admitted to state colleges and universities.
There are knots of cooperative K-12/higher ed. activity all over the state, too. Western Kentucky University, for instance, showcased its partnership with the Shelby County school district, in which it trained district teachers to run a monthlong summer reading academy for rising 8th and 10th graders who were weak on their reading skills. Sixty percent of the students who took it improved by the equivalent of three months to a full year of instruction, and teachers who were trained to teach in it took many encouraging new ideas back to their own classrooms, said Kerry Fannin, the district's assistant superintendent.
Murray State University has created a program in which its faculty members team up with high school teachers from three local districts to discuss college-level expectations and share student work, said the university's Debbie Bell English.
In clusters of sessions all day long, however, participants in the forum kept identifying the challenges of getting students—and teachers—to the place envisioned by the common standards. The biggest single obstacle that participants in a session about the math standards identified was teachers' skills and content knowledge.
"The sheer quantity of stuff teachers have to teach [with the new standards] is a big change, and they're going to have to brush up on stuff they might not have been doing," said Michael Shires, a former math teacher who is now an elementary school principal in the Erlanger district. Several other participants in the workshop said that since some math topics have been moved into lower grades than they've typically been taught in, many teachers are now faced with teaching topics in which their own content knowledge isn't up to par.
Yes, said Jonathan Thomas, an assistant professor of mathematics education at Northern Kentucky University who was co-facilitating that session, "there's a lot of mathematical growth that has to happen very quickly, and I'm not even sure it's manageable." He noted the "mathematical fragility" of many candidates in teacher-preparation programs, who "go off the rail" when they reach fractions. "We're talking about doing fractions, not even teaching them," Thomas said. And yet gearing professional development for in-service teachers to content instead of instructional strategy might meet with resistance, he said.
In other sessions, participants identified yet another challenge to the common standards: getting statewide agreement on what college readiness means. While Kentucky is proceeding with an agreement that hangs on the scores and descriptions in its college-readiness indicators and outcomes, state department of education official Karen Kidwell acknowledged that getting widespread agreement on the interpretation of the common standards is a work in progress.
As one former higher education official said in one of the sessions: "We have multiple deans, departments, people, department chairs that all have their own ideas of what college readiness means."


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Top decision makers in South Korea's 8.3 trillion won ($7.64 billion) fighter jet tender have briefed the president on the outcome of an assessment process and told her that Boeing Co's F-15 Silent Eagle was the sole eligible bid, a source with knowledge of the process told Reuters.
The country's defence minister, the head of the Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) and the air force chief of staff were at the briefing on Friday, said the source, who was briefed on the meeting.
The source could not be identified due to the sensitivity of the closed-door meeting. A spokesman for DAPA confirmed the meeting had taken place, but declined to comment on what was discussed.
Boeing's F-15SE fighter was the only one of three bids that came in under budget. Rivals Lockheed Martin Corp's costlier F-35 stealth fighter and the Eurofighter consortium's Typhoon were both over budget.
The closely fought tender will be scrutinised by a final decision-making committee chaired by the defence minister. The committee meeting is expected to be held next week, the DAPA spokesman said, but a date had not been set.
The new jets are being acquired to partially replace ageing F-4 and F-5 jets.
Debate has intensified as the tender decision has drawn closer and 15 South Korean former air force chiefs signed a petition in late August opposing the selection of the F-15SE, saying it lacked the stealth capabilities of more modern aircraft.
While it is still possible that the tender could be made void by President Park Geun-hye, she has more pressing budgetary issues to address and needs to fund ambitious social spending pledges that helped her win a presidential election last year.
"Unlike the last administration, the Park administration has comparatively little interest in this programme," said Yang Uk, a senior research fellow at the Korea Defence and Security Forum.
"With this year's tax revenue expected to be several trillion won short of target, the government is likely to stick with the current tender instead of possibly increasing the budget down the line," he said.
On Friday, Finance Minister Hyun Oh-seok told a parliamentary hearing that South Korea faced a 2013 revenue shortfall of up to 8 trillion won ($7.37 billon).
Lockheed Martin and Eurofighter declined to comment on the status of the tender while Boeing said in a written statement that it was waiting for the tender process to be completed.
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This week I'm at Acanthus Workshop LLC teaching a class in which we are building the cover project from the June issue of Popular Woodworking Magazine, the Hannah Darlington Chest. Tuesday morning started out great: Breakfast at Annamarie's; pancakes to die for. Then it was off to the Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library in Winterthur, Del., to get a close-up look at the chest.
Let me say right from the start that I am thrilled with how my rendition of the Darlington chest turned out. When compared to the original photo I had in hand at the outset, I think – aside from 200 years of age and the fact that I used mahogany and the antique was built from walnut – the two small chests are close in most respects.
As I began the drawings for this chest, I had only a straight-on view of the piece. Generally this is great because I can bring the image into SketchUp and get a close approximation of the sizes. However, I wasn't able to see all that I was missing.
Standing in front of the antique original (I would share pictures of what I am about to describe, but there is some question as to whether I'm able to do so without violating Winterthur rules…) I was immediately able to see things that were not apparent from the photo, such as the corners of the box being mitered at the top. The miter then transitioned into dovetails which is similar to the way Christopher Schwarz built the Jefferson Bookcase corners.
As we moved further into our examination and drawers were pulled from the case, I discovered that the area behind the drawer's arched top was also cut away. Not knowing this as I began, I elected to rabbet the top edge of the drawer front and to not cut away the arcs in order to add depth inside the box storage area. (The arched cutaway also meant that the drawer fronts were lipped around the arched tops.)
The biggest shocker I found dealt with the inlay on the drawer front. The string inlay is not symmetrical, as I believed it was from looking at the photo. (It is symmetrical from side to side, but not from top to bottom, as evidenced by the bottom arcs extending nearly a 1/2″ farther than those at the top which terminated at the thumbnail edge.) In fact, it is believed that the inlay on the drawer fronts was not scratched using a compass, as in compass inlay. Thoughts are that the string work on the drawer fronts was set in using a carving gouge as shown in the photo, then the grooves were completed with a small chisel prior to the inlay being fitted.
Also, if you look at the photo, you can see that these drawers have bottoms that slide into grooves cut in the front and sides. While this is the common practice in 18th-century work, often drawers this small in size have applied bottoms, as I did in my build.
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Fifty years ago this summer, the New York Road Runners Club was founded by "a bunch of skinny white guys." Now, having evolved into perhaps the preeminent running organization in America — if not the world — the organization enters its second half-century under the leadership of Mary Wittenberg, whose vision and energy has lifted it to even greater prominence during her first four years as president.
With an impressive list of running "firsts" — big city marathon, all-women's race, road mile, even skyscraper run-up — it would seem easy for NYRR to rest on its laurels and hard to top its past achievements. But like a runner who is constantly seeking to run faster and faster, Wittenberg and her team seem to keep setting organizational PRs year after year.
The most recent example is the men's U.S. Olympic trials marathon, which NYRR hosted last November the day before its signature event, the ING New York City Marathon. "Eight years ago, when American distance running was at its low point, it needed something to get it back to the level it should be at," Wittenberg says. "I knew we could do it better than anybody, and I'm not saying that in a boastful way. It's just a fact; we had the media, the marketing, the logistical know-how to make it the experience of a lifetime for these young athletes. And in the end, we succeeded, and it was one of the best things we ever did."
The trials marathon was perhaps the brightest highlight, albeit an intermediate one, of a steady progression of boosting the profile of the sport and its athletes that NYRR has undertaken in recent years. In 2006, it hosted the USATF cross country championships at storied Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx and added the world-class NYC Half Marathon Presented by NIKE, fulfilling a long-time dream to get Ethiopian legend Haile Gebrselassie to race in New York.
But the races — both the high-profile events and the smaller, weekly events in Central Park — are only part of what NYRR does for the sport on a more local, perhaps less glamorous, but no less important level. Wittenberg is equally engaged about the New York Road Runners Foundation, which has developed a focus on providing guidance and opportunity for youngsters to pull themselves away from the video games and junk food in order to get a few critical hours of outdoor exercise each week.
In her grand vision for the future, Wittenberg sees this as an interrelated tripartite mission and duty for NYRR, on a local, national and international level. "Our vision is absolutely to be a global leader in running," she emphatically states,"to influence others in the sport worldwide to achieve goals for the whole sport."
Wittenberg divides this mission into three areas — Competitive, Sport for Life, and Youth — and believes her organization can serve each of them at all levels. But while she sees NYRR as being a leader, and often a trendsetting role model, she has no designs on morphing it into a do-all, hegemonic running Roman Empire, as message board critics have sometimes postulated. "In all cases we're best served by working with others," she maintains. Rather, she thinks they have a duty to use their enormous prestige and power — and make no mistake, NYRR is as profitable a non-profit as you will find — to raise the bar in many areas, then let others follow and meet or exceed that performance level.
In the competitive segment, that means making the ING-NYCM the best race in the world, both for itself and as a member of the World Marathon Majors. Nationally, it comes by staging events like the trials marathon and cross country champs, and supporting groups like USATF and Running USA and its affiliated training groups. And locally, it's by providing not only close to 50 races each year, but by supporting clubs and training groups and nurturing the hundreds of post-collegiate runners who move to New York to begin their careers. "There's no reason we can't have a Team USA training group here like there is in Mammoth or Minnesota," Wittenberg maintains.
But realizing that the serious competitor, whether local or professional, makes up only a small portion of the running population, Wittenberg believes that Sport for Life may be an even more important area of activity. "We take it very seriously," she says. "We care about every single runner out there, getting them started, helping them get better.
"The service side is where we're going to explode," she continues. "The marathon is a tremendous hook for us; its challenge gets people motivated, but it goes way beyond the marathon. It does not serve our purpose to have people run the marathon, then disappear, and I think that having them do nine races for a guaranteed marathon entry is a way to show them that there's more to the sport than just the marathon. It's more important for people to run regularly than to run a marathon. "We all know how good running makes us feel, not just physically, but emotionally and mentally, too. That's the secret we've learned. It's not a stretch to say that the more people move on a regular basis, the better off the community and society in general will be — I really believe that."
Wittenberg, mother of two young boys, is equally evangelistic when it comes to bringing running to the youth of New York and America.
"I absolutely believe there's no reason obesity and diabetes has to become an epidemic among the current generation of kids," she says. "We need to get kids away from the video games and the Snickers bars, get them moving at a young age. But it goes well beyond the physical — running is like a secret equivalent of an antidepressant. It assists the function in the front of the brain, and we all know what it does in terms of teaching you life lessons, how to goal set, persevere against setbacks. It teaches you to dream, and how to deal with success and disappointment."
To accomplish all these goals, NYRR must continue to innovate and push the boundaries, but Wittenberg believes that's inherent in its history and organizational DNA. "What's so impressive is the people who came before us launched something that would have been totally foreign to imagine would become so accepted and understood today. Back then it was like, 'Who are these crazy runners?' I believe we have to appreciate our past to see our future. We're reuniting with our history," she says, citing a current plan for an International Running Center in Harlem that she recently discovered was being discussed as part of NYRR's 25th anniversary in 1994.
Indeed, Wittenberg and NYRR's philosophy might best be embodied by Bobby Kennedy's quote, "There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask, 'Why?' … I dream of things that never were and ask, 'Why not?'
"We see something that needs to be done, then figure out how we can do it, rather than not attempting things because they're hard to do," Wittenberg says. "What we do here is say, 'How do we achieve the dream?'"
In its first 50 years, New York Road Runners has made plenty of dreams, some of them seemingly crazy, come true, and for the next half century, that track record shows little sign of abatement.


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Canucks make 'statement,' Kings just win
Vancouver Canucks right winger Darren Archibald (49) and a Los Angeles Kings defenceman grapple.
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LOS ANGELES — Once more with feeling.
Unfortunately, that will have to wait until April 5 at Rogers Arena, when the Vancouver Canucks and Los Angeles Kings renew acquaintances for the fifth and final time this season.
Circle your calendars. That should be a game worth watching. So was Monday night's at the Staples Center, which the Kings won 1-0.
That really didn't seem to matter as much as you might think. This game was more about settling scores and the Canucks went hard after the Kings right from the opening faceoff.
Vancouver played more than half of the first period short-handed and there was a parade to the penalty box all night long as two teams that clearly don't like one another left it all on the ice.
Move over Chicago Blackhawks, the Canucks have a new team they hate even more than you.
The Canucks likely won some new fans by showing considerable jam. They left this building Jan. 4 with a bad taste in their mouths, angry at how badly the Kings dominated them in the final two periods of that 3-1 loss. Then there was the little matter of Dustin Brown crashing into Roberto Luongo and injuring the Vancouver goalie.
The Canucks clearly wanted to send a message and they did.
"I thought we did a really good job as far as deciding that ice is ours also," said Vancouver coach John Tortorella. "It's something that has been minus from our game a little bit here. That was a big part of our game tonight. We got squat for points. But I think we crossed a couple of bridges in what needs to be done."
"For us we were coming out and we were going to make a statement whether they liked it or not," added defenceman Kevin Bieksa. "After the first period or so a lot of their guys were skating around saying 'what's up with you guys tonight?' So we obviously got their attention. We 'd like to play like this every night."
Bizarre. That's really the only way to describe the first period.
Zack Kassian got a holding minor nine seconds into the game after he tried to engage Brown, who appeared to take a dive on the play.
Then shortly after Jordan Nolan ran Vancouver captain Henrik Sedin on the side boards, referees Paul Devorski and Francois St. Laurent threw the book at Vancouver winger Tom Sestito.
Sestito went after Nolan on the ensuing faceoff. Nolan refused to engage Sestito, who threw several punches. Sestito was handed a minor for instigating, a major for fighting, 10 minutes for instigating and a game misconduct. Nolan got nothing, so the Kings got a seven-minute power play.
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They also had themselves a 5-on-3 for 48 seconds after Henrik Sedin was sent off for hooking at the 8:46 mark.
Somehow the Canucks managed to outshoot the Kings 8-7 in the opening 20 minutes.
"We were going to come out and play hard and play Brown hard and play some of their other guys hard," Bieksa said. "And we did it and I have no problems killing off a penalty when Kassian is doing his job out there. No problems killing off a penalty when Tom does his job out there. I think we'll kill those most of the time. If we don't, so be it, the hockey gods aren't on our side. If anything it galvanized us."
The fun continued in the second, when Ryan Kesler and Brown fought just six seconds into the period. Later, Bieksa tangled with Matt Greene, Kassian got his second misconduct, Dale Weise got away with a slew-foot on Drew Doughty and there seemed to be a scrum after every whistle.
By the time the second period was over the teams had combined for 103 penalty minutes and no goals.
It didn't matter. The game was wildly entertaining.
"I thought that is a big statement by our team," Kesler said. "In the past that team tries to bully you and instill physical play. I thought we out-hit them, out-battled them. We were good all game. We played the right way tonight."
Brown, of all people, scored the winner 24 seconds into the third period when he finished off a 3-on-1 rush with Anze Kopitar and Jeff Carter.
The Kings had a goal disallowed at 10:06 of the third when it was ruled Mike Richards had deflected a Justin Williams shot in with a high stick.
The Canucks left the building with their heads held high.
"We had a bunch of guys who wanted to answer the bell for the last game in here and obviously what happened to Roberto and everything," Bieksa said. "Everyone stepped up and played hard. . .It was one of the most positive losses I think you can have."
There was a lot more emotion than goals in this game. And penalty minutes. The two teams combined for 109 penalty minutes and Dustin Brown's goal 24 seconds into the third period gave the Kings a 1-0 win. Brown finished off a 3-on-1 rush with Anze Kopitar and Jeff Carter. Kings goalie Jonathan Quick stopped 28 shots to earn the shutout, the first against the Canucks this season. The Kings have won all four meetings with the Canucks this season.
Ryan Kesler won all eight of his faceoffs in the first period and finished the night 14-for-20 for 70 per cent ... Winger David Booth and Roberto Luongo were Vancouver's scratches . . .Defenceman Alex Edler logged 21:54 of ice time as he returned after missing 16 games with a knee injury. . . Vancouver prospect Nicklas Jensen scored both goals as the Utica Comets fell 3-2 to the San Antonio Rampage on Monday night. It was the second time in the last three games that Jensen has potted two goals. . .
Zack Kassian hit the ice in sweats before Monday's game-day skate to try out a new pair of skates. After a couple of laps, he returned to the dressing room area at the Staples Center to grab a stick. "I feel like a figure skater out there without one," Kassian said. The Canuck winger said he goes through about three pairs of skates a season. "It changes for every person, but I like them pretty stiff," Kassian said.
The Canucks hopped on the bus and headed down the I-5 to the Anaheim area after the game. They are scheduled to practise Tuesday afternoon at the Honda Center, where on Wednesday night they meet the Ducks. Anaheim has yet to lose in regulation at home this season (19-0-2) and goalie Jonas Hiller has won 14 straight games. The Canucks close out their three-game road trip Thursday night in Phoenix against the Coyotes.


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If a baseball player blesses himself before stepping into the batter's box, or gestures to heaven after hitting a home run, that's fine — it's a personal expression of faith.
But if the team manager orders all the players to bless themselves, that is wrong because it imposes an expression of Christian belief on players who might not be Christian.
This is the essence of the "Jesus in the huddle" controversy at the University of Connecticut. And while many clearly think it's OK for the world of sports to play by a different set of rules, it's time to challenge that thinking.
In an interview over the weekend, assistant football coach Ernest Jones suggested the school's football program would have a Christian orientation: "We're going to make sure [players] understand that Jesus Christ should be in the center of our huddle."
Rena Epstein of West Hartford spoke for many when she said in a letter to The Courant published Tuesday: "It sounds like football players who are not Christian might not feel a part of that huddle." University President Susan Herbst agreed wholeheartedly, saying in a letter published Wednesday that employees of the public university "cannot appear to endorse or advocate for a particular religion or spiritual philosophy."
Good for both women. They risked incurring the wrath of those who feel differently. WFSB sports director Joe Zone, for example, attacked Ms. Epstein for even bringing this up, "with all of the problems on campuses today, drug abuse, gun violence, sexual assault," and said Jesus "should be in every huddle, in every locker room, on every bench."
Well, the same First Amendment that protects Mr. Zone's opinion, however poorly informed we might believe it to be, also protects non-Christian student athletes from having another religion imposed on them. That is totally inappropriate at a public university. Ms. Epstein and Ms. Herbst got it right.


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I have just discovered a blog called The Hidden Wardrobe, which focuses on the costume collection assembled by Charles Paget Wade (1883-1956) which is now housed at Berrington Hall.
Charles Wade was an eccentric collector who amassed a huge variety of historic artefacts at his Cotswold home, Snowshill Manor. He was fascinated by the aura of old, beautiful and well-made objects, and Snowshill is still an extraordinarily evocative place to visit.
After the National Trust acquired Wade's collections the costumes were taken to Berrington to improve their storage conditions. The Hidden Wardrobe now provides a glimpse of some of the 2,203 eighteenth- and nineteenth-century costume items in the collection.
I was particularly struck by these sumptuous men's waistcoats from the late eighteenth century. I suppose these represented the style that the Regency dandy Beau Brummell was reacting against when he crafted the minimalist look that is still influencing men's suits today.
These pre-Brummell waistcoats, by contrast, project a more exuberant kind of masculinity – more Versace than Armani, perhaps.
I am also fascinated by the interaction between the floral motifs, the colours and the background textures of the fabrics. They hint at the artistry of the anonymous tailors and embroiderers who created these items, now once again being brought to public attention through digital means.


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In the past you would give the name of the minister who answered the question. Why is this no longer done?
Greetings in the Name of our Lord.
You indicate that you remember that we have previously given the names of the ministers who answered our questions. Actually, we used to attach only the initials of those men.
We ceased doing so for a simple, but basic, reason. In the preparation of a question and answer for posting on the Internet, the answer is regularly altered. We remove personal references, often add Scripture references or quotes from some source, and sometimes expand on a portion. All of this is intended to make the answer more profitable to those who visit our Web site. But the result is that the original work has been changed, and it would not be honest to represent it as though it were what the original minister had written.
Since that minister did not write exactly what was posted, we do not reveal the name of the man whose answer was the genesis of the answer you see. It would be unkind to expose him publicly to praise or criticism for something that may not have been what he himself wrote!
We do, however, offer to forward any inquiries to these men so that they may respond to the questioner if they wish. If you have further questions you would like to ask the original author of the answer for a particular "Q and A" or if you wish to express some viewpoint to him regarding what you read, please send it to us and we will send it on to him. If he wishes to correspond with you, he will email you directly.
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The questions come from individuals like yourself. If you have questions about biblical and theological matters, you are invited to send them by e-mail by using the "Pose a Question" link on the OPC home page or by clicking here.
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MySpace's Travis Katz Speaks!
While BoomTown was abroad recently, we did video interviews with lots of folks, like Facebook's Owen Van Natta. We also talked with MySpace's SVP and GM of international, Travis Katz, but did not get around to posting it.
So here's the video, where we talk about key trends abroad, the markets that will really matter going forward in terms of growth for dominant players like MySpace and Facebook.
Both face a plethora of competitors, especially homegrown ones, as well as the challenge of creating meaningful social-networking experiences in a variety of languages.
For example, according to stats released in October by comScore, the European social-networking scene had 127.3 million unique visitors in August, 56% of the population. More than three-quarters of the U.K. were online with almost 25 million unique visitors in the same time period.
Bebo was slightly ahead of MySpace in the U.K., followed by a fast-growing Facebook and also Hi5.com.
That kind of competition abroad should be one of the more interesting stories for social networks going forward.
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Another day, another attack by hackers intent on stealing financial and personal information about the customers of banks and retailers. Even ATMs are vulnerable, it turns out.
What's a consumer supposed to do?
When we did our 8 Massive Hack Attacks Aimed at Financial Data, we got a few tips from security expert Gary Raphael, senior vice president, risk consulting for ACE Private Risk Services.
Vigilance is key, it seems. Changing passwords, not divulging personal information unless there's a real need to do so and using encryption can all help.
The fact is that we all live online now. Because of that, we are vulnerable. In a large measure, our fate is being left up to companies and institutions large and small. Hopefully, they are paying attention and making sure they keep up with the increasingly sophisticated hackers.
We've assembled a list of 6 Big Hack Attacks Targeting Financial Data. They're listed in ascending order from fewest to most people affected.
6. Chicago Taxis, unknown number affected
In March, the First American Bank of Illinois warned its customers (and anyone else listening) that they were the target of what seems to be an unusual hack attack. The thieves set their sights on the city's taxi payment system. It didn't matter which of several Chicago taxi companies a rider used, their data was put at risk if payment was made with plastic. The bank said it stumbled onto the scheme when it heard from several customers about fraudulent transactions in their accounts. The bank First American said it was able to trace the problem back to the taxi system. So far, officials have not reported finding any proof of a data breach beyond the initial reports.
5. Neiman Marcus, 2,400 affected
In January, the upscale retailer reported that the data associated with 1.1 million credit cards had been put at risk of being stolen through point-of-sale malware. The retailer didn't know about the problem for months, and even after learning of it in October waited to announce it. In all, credit card companies notified 2,400 Neiman Marcus customers that their cards might have been used illicitly.
4. Michaels, 3 million affected
As the year dawned, the arts and crafts giant let it be known that it was looking into a possible breach of its security measures. In April, it confirmed that credit card data had indeed been pilfered. The store said as many as 2.6 million cards were affected, plus another 400,000 at its subsidiary, Aaron Brothers. Customers were offered credit monitoring and fraud protection for their cards.
3. Target, 110 million affected
The mother of all credit card breaches (at least at the time) was the attack on Target during last year's holiday shopping season. The giant retailer let it be known that the data for 40 million credit cards and the personal data of 70 million customers were stolen from its nearly 1,800 stores. The thieves used malware to collect the information at the point of sale.
Bloomberg Businessweek reported that Target had installed elaborate security measures to detect just such an attack, but for unknown reasons alarms were ignored by Target's security team. (Target is installing new security measures in the wake of the attack.)
The store, according to the website, has spent at least $61 million responding to the problem and faces about 100 lawsuits. It probably isn't much consolation to Target or its customers, but it's been reported that at least six other stores have faced similar attacks. Target offered customers a year of fraud protection, credit monitoring and other help.
2. eBay, 145 million affected
As often happens, this hack attack was kept from the public for what seems to be too long. In this case it was three months. Not to worry, though, eBay assured its users the hackers did not access any financial data. OK, maybe you should worry. The company says the hackers were able to copy a large portion of the 145 million records they accessed. Those records included encrypted passwords. Although eBay said it would be difficult to decode the passwords, the online auction house recommended that its customer change them. The hackers also made off with email addresses and other personal information, but did not get any credit card numbers, according to eBay.
1. ATM Hacks, hundreds of millions worldwide
In April, the Secret Service warned that hackers had wormed their way into ATMs to the extent they could schedule withdrawals of just about any amount they desired. The hackers are sophisticated. They have the ability, the Secret Service said, to wait until ATMs were loaded with cash before striking. An alert sent out by the Federal Financial Institutions Council said the thieves had netted $40 million using just a dozen debit cards. The alert advised small and medium size banks to upgrade their security systems because they are most vulnerable. A report on zdnet.com said the ATMs were vulnerable because they run on Windows XP, which is no longer being supported by Microsoft.
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Today, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and DC Entertainment peeled back a layer of detail regarding the story for Injustice: Gods Among Us with the release of the newest trailer from the game. Showcasing a variety of DC Comics heroes and villains, fans for the first time will witness the high stakes drama that unfolds through the narrative.
To download the trailer, please visit:
Injustice: Gods Among Us is an all-new game in development by award-winning NetherRealm Studios. The title debuts a bold new fighting game franchise that introduces a deep, original story featuring a large cast of favorite DC Comics icons such as Batman, Bane, Lex Luthor, Green Arrow, Cyborg, Harley Quinn, Nightwing, Solomon Grundy, Superman, The Flash, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern and many others. Set in a world where the lines between good and evil are blurred, players will experience heroes and villains engaging in epic battles on a massive scale.
For more information on the game, visit www.injustice.com.


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Dear Hostesses,
As most of our best kosher recipes slide out of the steamy oven just before candles are lighting on a Friday evening, the LAST thing that a Jewish Hostess is thinking about is, "Wait! let me just snap a picture!" The truth is, what's on MY mind is, "How can I lay down and escape for a couple of minutes before my husband comes home from shul?"
So ladies, here I present the Friday morning pics. The ones that I took hours before the Friday afternoon rush of, "OMG the kids are home from school and my potatoes are not even CHOPPED yet!!!!!"
Lately I've been avoiding red meat roasts for all of the high cholesterol heart rescuing reasons that you must have read about. This is an organic chicken roast that many butchers offer without the bone, and pre-tied with twine, so that when it's time to slice, the roast really looks like a roast, and not just like a sliced whole chicken. I like to use the Soy Vay brand marinades because they don't have the extra preservatives, yet they marinate my roasts to yummy Shabbat perfection. I prepared 2 chicken roasts and froze one so that I could just defrost, warm, and serve with brown rice for the next Shabbat. And if I feel like it, MAYBE I will have time to run out and get a last minute manicure too. Enjoy!
This is my recipe for:
Honey Mustard Hoisin Friday Night Chicken Roast Marinated with Potatoes
- 1 cup Soy Vay Hoisin Marinade
- 1/2 cup dijon mustard
- 1/2 cup honey
- garlic salt
- freshly ground black pepper-
- 2 chicken roasts
- 2 large spanish onions sliced
- 12 yukon potatoes cubed
- Place sliced onions in roaster over the 2 chicken roasts.
- Season chicken roasts with garlic salt and pepper.
- Mix Dijon mustard, honey, hioisin sauce and pouur over chicken roasts.
- With kitchen gloves massage roasts with the marinade while taking sliced onions and squeezing them over the chickens.
- Cook in oven at 350 degrees for an hour.
- In the meantime cube potatoes.
- Put in a bowl and mix with olive oil. salt and pepper.
- Roast in the oven at 350 till the edges of potatoes are light brown and patties are cooked.
- When chicken is cooked, and smells great, take it out, cool and slice.
- Pour the chicken juices over the potatoes and then add the juicy potatoes to the sliced chicken.
- Cook for about 45 minutes at 350 covered.
- Check for doneness and uncover and cook for another 20 minutes to brown.
- You can freeze half for next week, or serve with brown rice for a crowd of 20- 25.
- One roast serves 5-10 with enough to spare to serve leftovers on Sunday or Monday night.
- Enjoy!