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Believe it or not, it must be difficult to be a politically correct lefty in the Twin Cities these days. Not because spirited conservatives are taking the battle to you, but because you really have to get creative to outdo your own brethren. Right now, everyone stands in awe of the city of Minneapolis. The Star Tribune might shill the liberal party line day in day out, but there's nothing new or creative in that. The city of St. Paul can raise property taxes to pay for more government waste, but Minneapolis has been doing that for years. The DFL controlled state legislature might pass ridiculous, impractical laws that impose on the rights of businesses, but again, that's nothing the liberals in Minneapolis haven't been doing for decades. The city of Minneapolis continues its old anti-business agenda and increasing crime rate, but additionally has one-upped everyone on the political correctness scale by hiring and refusing to fire an inept and possibly criminal fire chief who happens to be (read was given the job solely because she is) a lesbian. No one is more jealous of Minneapolis' PC posturing than the Marxists at the University of Minnesota. Their political correctness just doesn't measure up. The women's studies department hasn't been news in decades. The university has been relegated to attracting PC kudos by giving Al Gore an honarary degree. As if honoring another dead white male could score real PC points with those who keep track of that sort of thing. I however, have an idea so radical that it would put the U of M on the front page of every newspaper in the country. It is an unfortunate fact that the athletic departments of major universities garner more headlines than any of the academic departments. Late in 2006, the University of Minnesota was forced to fire the coaches of its two money programs (men's basketball and football) due to gross incompetence. After the firings occurred, sports experts suggested that the university could end accusations of aspiring to atheletic mediocrity by hiring a "big name" coach in one of the two sports. Examples of "big name"coaches included Tony Dungy in football and Flip Saunders or Rick Majerus in basketball. People who understood the aspirations of mediocrity of the U of M suggested that there would be no "big name" coach hired in either sport and instead suggested that the U would hire such non-big names as one or both of the "big time" coaches from non-rival North Dakota State. The U of M responded by hiring a nobody named Tim Brewster for the football coach position. Brewster is certain to field a team no better than that of his predicessor Glenn Mason. However, the U can still make history. They could hire basketball coaching legend Pat Summitt. Summitt would be the first ever woman to coach NCAA men's basketball. However, she would be more than an atheletic Bonnie Bleskachek. Summitt's overall record stands at 913-177, with 6 NCAA women's titles. Compare that to Mike Kryzewski or Bob Knight, with respective records of 771 wins and 3 NCAA Titles and 887 wins and 3 NCAA Titles. Unlike Bonnie Bleskachek, Pat Summitt is a qualified coach. Her record is second to none. The NCAA is currently wringing its hands that it doesn't have enough minority football coaches. Yet they have more than one for decades. There has never been a woman coach of an NCAA men's basketball team. This is an obvious display of sexism. Many men have coached NCAA women's teams. The University of Minnesota can once and for all claim PC supremacy by naming Pat Summitt its men's basketball coach. To do anything else would reinforce the existing patriarchy and make Wellstone followers everywhere cry. buy software cheap oem software

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Hi folks, the frame grabs and clip here aren't really good examples of what I talk about in this post. We just haven't had time to grab them all yet. If you have the cartoon go watch it! Marc and Marlo and I were watching 1st season Flintstones the other night, looking for clips and frame grabs to honor Ed's memory and I noticed something that never quite struck me before. We watched The Flintstone Flyer-the one where Barney invents a stone age helicopter and Fred thinks it's worth millions so he partners with Barney and of course they screw everything up. The plot is a perfect combination of a live action sitcom and a cartoon. It's mostly sitcom but has many cartoon reactions and impossible things that for some reason you just accept, even though Fred and Barney are basically adult human characters. The whole episode is animated by one guy-an amazing feat! Carlo Vinci was an animator at Terrytoons for almost 30 years before he left to join Hanna Barbera at MGM studios in the late 50s. When Bill and Joe opened up their TV studio in 1957/58 Carlo went with them. Incidentally, Carlo was the one who taught Joe Barbera to animate in the early 1930s! This is the crazy thing I noticed about Carlo's work while watching The Flintstone Flyer. I know his work really well. He did great unique full animation at Terrytoons for decades. The directors always gave him the difficult scenes. His specialty was animating dancing, which for most animators is really hard. Carlo must have animated 1,000 intricate dances during his time at Terry. He also animated all those sexy little girl mice that tried to seduce Mighty Mouse. He used really unique gestures and poses-sort of awkward unbalanced poses and the characters' wrists always bent in opposite directions. He didn't ever rely on whatever the current style of posing and expression was for each decade, as the Disney and Tom and Jerry animators did. However there is a really big difference between what he did for Terry and what he did for HB. Terrytoons were fully animated, using from 12 to 24 drawings per second - luxury animation by today's standards. Hanna Barbera of course used severely "limited animation" which averaged maybe 4 drawings per second after you figure in all the reused cycles and dialogue scenes. You would think this restriction on the quantity of drawings would restrict the quality of the cartoon and usually it does but when you watch the Flintstone Flyer (and other 1st season Flintstones) you will see something that hardly ever happened in classic fully animated cartoons-not during the Golden Age and certainly not now in the huge budgeted animated features churned out by the big 3 studios. Natural, believable acting: Fred and Barney act like real people. They make expressions that real people do. They have head and hand gestures that perfectly describe how they are feeling at every unique moment in the story. Carlo doesn't rely at all on stock animation acting. He animates the Flintstones as if he were animating his friends and neighbors from down the street. This is an incredible feat! We take it for granted because the Flintstones just seem real and we instantly accept it, but considering how animators were trained to animate acting in very unnatural styles for decades, it's amazing that an animator can just break out of habit and animate a new style and using far fewer drawings! At Terrytoons he was never called upon to do any real acting. I can tell you I know from 20 years of experience that very few animators can draw natural expressions or draw in different styles. Disney animators draw Disney expressions and animate Disney gestures. I used some Disney animators or Cal Arts animators on various projects-including Ren and Stimpy and they just couldn't draw the characters. They kept turning them into Disney/Cal Arts characters-they would draw the eyes like Don Bluth and use the same expressions they had already drawn a thousand times before that no one ever complained about. "No no!" I'd say, "This is Ren, not Mowgli! He isn't constructed like that-his eyes are a different shape and he has a different personality!" 2 exceptions were Mark Kausler and Greg Manwaring who did great funny and specific animation for me. And of course, Bob Jaques and Kelly Armstrong always do fantastic custom animation. But these people are rare. So for me to watch an early Flintstones and be laughing all through it at the funny acting and reacting of these completely believable characters is very impressive. An interesting elaboration: I know many animators who themselves have really funny unique mannerisms and I always try to encourage them to put them in their cartoons. You would think this would be an easy and natural thing to do. It isn't. Hardly any animators can draw what they actually feel. As soon as they sit down to animate, they jump to a different part of their brain that stores all their animation knowledge. They summon up poses and gestures and moves that they have done a million times, then actually act out a standard generic "cartoon" expression with their face, rather than just draw how they themselves act in real life. You know those famous photos of Disney animators looking in mirrors and making wacky expressions as they draw? This is publicity designed to make you think they act everything out naturally first, then copy what they see in the mirror. It's actually the opposite situation. They act everything out as if they were already animated cartoon characters themselves, rather than specific humans. Watching grown men act like Mickey Mouse is the weirdest thing ever. Carlo Vinci was a middle aged fat guy when he animated the Flintstones. A regular kind of guy who drank beer, watched football, lusted after pretty girls. He probably knew all kinds of characters in real life and used his observations of them in these super low budget cartoons. The Flintstones is to me by far the best animated sitcom in history. The characters are completely believable. The animation is customized and not predictable as even most full animation is. The acting is funny, many of the story situations are funny, the designs are beautiful and they still have room left over for cartoon jokes. Oh and of course the voices are great-in those days they used real voice actors, people from radio, who had to have distinct sounding voices and great acting and delivery. 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Welcome to another edition of Blawg Review -- where bloggers come for their legal news every Monday. It's good to be hosting another edition of Blawg Review at the Health Care Law Blog. However, it's even better to be done. First off, thanks to all who submitted posts to this edition. There was wonderful material to work from. Much of the information that I regularly consume online is related to my practice as a health lawyer and I enjoy the opportunity to step outside of that specialty and be a part of a larger legal discussion going on in the blogosphere. As an active participant in the blogosphere and Live Web I am constantly amazed by the knowledge, skills and imagination of those who create electronic content (written, audio and video) for public consumption. Not just lawyers -- but every profession imaginable. The volume of information conveyed online today through electronic social networking is mind boggling. How much you say? Technorati is now tracking approximately 69.4 million blogs with 175,000 new blogs created per day. The world live web is being updated with 1.6 million new posts per day, for an average of 18 per second. Could Johannes Guttenberg have ever imagined this phenomenal transformation in communication. Lately I've been thinking and posting more about the impact that blogging and web 2.0 is having on the health care industry. It is a time of change for the health care industry. Likewise, I think many of you will agree that fundamental changes are occurring in the delivery of legal services as a result of the rise of the new social networking technology movement. For more of what this may mean for health care check out some of my materials from a presentation I did to introduce health lawyers to the basics of Health Care Blogging and Web Health 2.0. [Note: I'd also suggest watching (if you haven't already) "Web 2.0 . . . The Machine is Us/ing Us," created by Michael Wesch , Assistant Professor of Anthropology Kansas State University. The video visually explaining Web 2.0 and how today's digital technology influences human interaction.] To begin with let's highlight a few of the submissions that reflect some of these fundamental technology changes which we are all experiencing as a result of the social networking phenomenon, the availability of new technology tools and the shift toward living our lives out on the web. Bruce MacEwen gives us a tour of the The Law Library of the Future? at Adam Smith, Esq showing us all the differences that exist within today's firms. From the traditionalists/silent generation to the Boomers to theGenXers to the Millennials. Online political social networking hits full speed at My.BarackObama.com covered by Susan Cartier Liebel at Marketing Genius - the "Obama Principle" and suggests that lawyers have something to learn from observing the process as it unfolds. Mike Madison and Denise Howell will be hosting a public conference call today, February 26 at 1:00 p.m. PST to gain insight on ownership considerations and issues of governance and liability that are critical to the creation, maintenance and long term health of business communities (corporate use of Web 2.0 technologies). The call is being held to help them prepare for the upcoming Community 2.0 Conference. Overlawyered looks at the liability of curb cuts and wheelchairs vs. jaywalkers in Jury blames hit-run death on wheelchair curb cut (fascinating to me is the comment discussion and the use of Yahoo Maps to support user comments on whether the jury made the right decision). Brent Trout at Blawg IT touts the ideas of Seth Godin and the application of his concepts to the practice of law in his post Law Firms - Small is the New Big. Scott Felsenthal at The Legal Scoop, a new law student collaborative blog by three students from Tennessee law schools, provides a look at the what's happening across campuses as a result of students living their lives out online in Facebook and MySpace- Quickly Becoming Breeding Grounds For Disciplinary Actions and Arrests. If you or your kids are on the edge of becoming the next one hit wonder, don't miss reading So you want to be a Recording Artist . . . by another of The Legal Scoop team members, Tim Bishop. David Lat examines a recent survey at UVA Law School and my question is -- what about Tennessee law schools? Watch and read the post on Prosecutorial Indiscretion (or the lack thereof) at Sui Generis--a New York law blog. She looks at a Virginia "rage road" incident that resulted in an ice throwing felony conviction. 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If you're an RSS fan don't miss Justia Federal Court Filings which allows you to see new filings by state, court or subject matter. Reported at Robert Ambrogi's Lawsites and The IllinoisTrial Practice Weblog. And now on with the rest of the submissions for this week's Blawg Review. The most highly talked about topic this past week was the Supreme Court's ruling on punitive damage awards in Philip Morris USA v. Williams. SCOTUSBLOG reports that the 5-4 decision found that it is "unconstitutional for a jury to award punitive damages out of a desire to punish a company for harming individuals other than those directly involved in the lawsuit -- that is 'strangers to the litigation'". The Court held that punishing a defendant for harming persons who are not before the court amounted to a taking of property from the defendant without due process of law. EricTurkewitz of New York Personal Injury Law Blog covers the decision in Court Tosses Philip Morris Verdict, And Further Confuses Punitive Damages Issue and Philip Morris Punitive Damage Decision - Why It Was Good For Plaintiffs indicating that the decision requires judges to now tell the jury in a punitive damage case that they can consider the reprehensibility of the defendant's conduct toward others, but not the harm to them. The South Carolina Appellate Law Blog says the decision creates an unworkable standard in After Philip Morris: What can a jury consider for punitive damages purposes? SCOTUS sets an unworkable standard and sets out some options that trial judges have when considering evidence of harms to non-parties. More on the decision from Law Prof on the Loose with Tobacco Verdict Goes Up In Smoke. Bill Watkins at South Carolina Appellate Law Blog looks at a the interplay of the Controlled Substance Act and a recent South Carolina senate bill proposing that Marijuana be considered a prescription drug in South Carolina lawmakers review bill to legalize marijuana for medical use. Ilya Somin at The Volokh Conspiracy disagrees with a recent Slate column that contended that split decisions make bad law and, in the specific context of the current Supreme Court, undermine the Chief Justice's admirable goal to promote unanimity amongst the justices. The HR Lawyer's Blog looks at the continuing trends on alternative billing arrangements in Alternative Billing - Clients Want It - Big Law Firms Hate It.The post highlights that a recent survey of corporate counsel indicate that 90% of outside counsel still resist the suggestion to consider alternative fee arrangements. Kevin Jon Heller at Opinio Juris covers a running battle between Glenn Reynolds and Paul Campos, law professor at University of Colorado, over one of Instapundit's posts arguing that selective assassination of Iranian nuclear scientists is both legal and advisable. Eugene Volokh also weighs-in with some worthwhile comments. Charles Green questions the "legal tip" included in Business Week's SmallBiz magazine which suggests that retail sales slips should include a written statement to protect the interests of your business in his post From Our Legal Experts... posted at Trust Matters. David Maister gives interesting insight into his experience as a juror in a 5 day trial involving a pastor, a parishioner and $80,000 in Jury Duty posted at Passion, People and Principles. He offers some simple lessons for litigators to remember. Charlie Weis, Notre Dame's football coach, appears headed back for seconds in his trial over an allegedly botched gastric bypass surgery. Quizlaw has an entertaining post about the events that lead to the mistrial. Only one can speculate what would have happened if the physicians chose not to respond. Are you an avid T.J. Maxx or Marshalls shopper? If so, check out Law Practice Management's post Identity Theft Begins with Access to Your Information discussing on of the latest electronic data breaches. The post offers practical advice on how to better protect your personal information in this growing age where everything is electronic. Overlawyered writes about Dr. Vatura who saved the life of a 400 pound man thrown from a motorcycle in a high speed accident in Treating the morbidly obese (redux). Due to his obesity it was impossible to stabilize the man with typical cervical spinal precautions and as a result he ended up a quadriplegic. One of my favorite medical bloggers, Kevin, M.D., covers this same topic and what he believes the impact these events have everyday on doctors. For another perspective on the impact of medical malpractice on physicians, consider hospital CEO and blogger Paul Levy's recent post The Shame of Malpractice Lawsuits at Running a Hospital. Also, Kevin, M.D. mentions an interesting issue coming before the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals in his post Should academic physicians be protected against malpractice suits? Don't miss Quizlaw's Wacko gets Jacko'd providing evidence that you can be sued for almost anything -- the family of a 73 year old woman is suing Michael Jackson and Marian Medical Center claiming that the hospital's VIP treatment of Jackson resulted in the death of the woman. PointofLaw Forum links to David Rossmiller's Insurance Coverage Law Blog which covered Mississippi Attorney General Hood's press conference call where State Farm was called "a cult,""decadent" and "robber barons".Rossmiller questions much of what was said during the call and makes a good point -- if you think that that much of the company why would you want them to stay and provide insurance to citizens of Mississippi. If you regularly draft contract language you shouldn't miss That" and "Which" by Ken Adams at AdamsDrafting who looks at the confusion over the distinction between that and which and a New York case, AIU Insurance Co. V. Robert Plan Corp. that considered the differences. Ben D. Manevitz who writes IP Notions looks at Mike Carroll's "Fixing Fair Use" made at the Some Modest Proposals 03 Conference in Fair Use and Fee Shifting and adds a suggestion that the proposal needs to be given teeth by tying the payment of attorneys feed to the process. A reason to let your associates get sleep from Davit Lat at Above the Law. Mike Madison at madisonian.net reports in IP and Insurance on a breakthrough partnership among insurers, the Standford Fair Use Project and a network of practitioners willing to discount their rates to documentary filmmakers to lower the cost of insurance for documentary filmmakers who rely on fair use doctrine for portions of their content. Lessig Blog has additional details of the announcement. This week Eugene Volokh notes that Ohioans are presumptively protected from being fired for off employer property (and presumably off duty and lawful) possession of guns. The decision in Plona v. UPS involved the termination of a UPS employee who was found to have a handgun in his vehicle wile at work. The gun was disassembled, unloaded and locked in his care in a public access parking lot used by UPS employees and customers of UPS. The court held that the public policy permitting Ohio citizens the right to bear arms under the Ohio constitution was enough to form the basis of a wrongful termination claim. More on the Second Amendment from Jacob Sullum who notes that the FAA has revised its thinking on its justification for its ban on carrying firearms aboard spaceships. My Hosting Blawg Review #97 post mentioned Kevin O'Keefe's post about the term "blawg" and the fact that it is still facing an uphill road at being recognized and understood. The post relates that Wikipedia editors have again dropped the term "blawg" (but, Blawging is still listed but redirets to Blog). Another Wikipedia term that I have referenced in the past has also been dropped by the Wikipedia editors -- Live Web. Hmmmm . . . is a Wiki-conspira-edia going on? David A. 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Here is my list of the top 10 eco-friendly diet choices. 1. Buy local food. The average food purchase at a grocery store travels 1500 miles from its source to the grocery. A survey of the stickers on "fresh" produce at my nearby Harris Teeter supermarket in North Carolina turned up yellow bell peppers from Holland and red bell peppers from Israel. When I asked the produce manager if any of the produce was local, he said most of it was from South America. The transport of food from other countries, or across the US, uses fossil fuels and generates greenhouse gases. 2. Buy produce from farmers who don't use pesticides. Pesticides are not only dangerous to our health, they poison animals and ecosystems around the agricultural fields, as well as downwind and downstream of sprayed fields. 3. Buy produce from farmers who don't use chemical fertilizers. Runoff from chemical fertilizers is the biggest single source of nutrient pollution in streams, rivers, and groundwater. 4. Choose foods with minimal packaging. Paper packaging creates demand for wood pulp from pine plantations, which are displacing Southeastern native forests. Leftover dyes from the manufacture of packages find their way into our streams and rivers. And most packaging winds up in our landfills. 5. If you consume dairy products, buy from a farmer who uses sustainable farming practices. If this isn't possible, buy certified organic dairy products. This means the cows' feed was grown without pesticides. 6. If you eat meat and eggs, buy products that came from pastured or grass-fed animals. Animals at pasture don't generate the waste-management problems that animals in confinement do. Pastured waste is assimilated back into the soil naturally. In contrast, waste from factory-farmed animals is liquified and stored in vast "lagoons," then sprayed over cropfields, much of it washing into streams and rivers. 7. If you can't buy pastured meat, buy organic meat. The animals' feed was grown without pesticides, and their waste is not laden with antibiotics and hormones. When animal waste washes into streams and rivers, the feed-additives in their waste also enter the aquatic ecosystem. 8. Eat seasonal produce, even in winter. When you buy produce that a local farmer grows in winter, such as greens, you are helping the farmer stay in business year-round, selling locally grown foods in his own community. You are supporting small-scale local farmers who are much more likely to use sustainable farming methods than are farmers on huge farms with corporate contracts. 9. Eat less meat. The average American eats 246 lbs of meat per year, far more than any other country. In the U.S., 66% of our grain goes to livestock, a very inefficient use of our agricultural lands. Feeding the grain to people directly could feed up to 10 times more people than feeding the meat to people. Or, another way of looking at it - we could stop converting natural lands to agricultural lands if we made more efficient use of the farms we have now. The U.S. population will reach 300 million in October, and will increase another 19% by the year 2025. 10. When you choose foods for environmental reasons, be vocal and visible about it. If you're eating out with friends, tell them why you're not eating a fast food burger (fast food burgers are often made of poor-quality Latin American beef grown where rainforests used to be). Ask your local supermarkets and favorite restaurants to carry local, seasonal, and organic foods. And when they do, thank them. Tell them how tasty it was! Making just small changes, even a couple of days a week, can have a big impact. It doesn't have to be all or nothing to be effective! Caption: A typical factory hog farm: the farm's 40,000 hogs are raised in the six long buildings on the left. Each building is longer than a football field. The pool is the waste lagoon for their liquified manure. The round buildings are for feed and feed additives. Photo courtesy of USDA. Sally Kneidel, co-author of Veggie Revolution.

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My hat is off to our local CAL football team for playing their hearts out and going 10-1 to rank in the top 10 in the country for the whole season. But, the fact that CAL has been bumped from the national Rose Bowl Game because of a bogus system is an outrage.  The voting system, based on votes from coaches and sportswriters, is worse than the touch screen voting systems in Ohio. Three cheers for CAL for a hard fought football season! Go Bears!    Read more here.   cheap oem software buy software

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I should appear past saying I am an avid football dynamo. I played it whereas a boy growing settled, including I since encompass three sons, each of whom status quo likewise each of whom I’ve coached centrally located youth leagues. I occured ever and anon goods works bout an under-grad along graduate student at Notre Dame, and consist of falled very few construction hardies at our abundant school mid the 22 years I’ve been there. I surmise that football can teach young crowd important virtues: perserverance, art, putting the team first, literacy how to unload winning with division along with losing with grace. Further yet, I was sick to my handle next watching “Two-A-Days”, a drudge of MTV chronicling the Hoover, Al football set’s 2005 week. Hoover’s football tabulation, led ended their egomaniacal coach, Bustle Probst, has won 5 of the linger 6 impart championships enclosed by the highest distribution of football separating Alabama. They are unabashed interpolated their solicitation to be the #1 ranked mess in America, conjointly they are steadily onward a path toward that goal in 2006, currently ranked meanwhile #1 settled USA Today. I don’t begrudge Hoover’s be deficient to be the best. But ulterior watching an episode of “Two-A-Days” (You can grandstand play a resort of the red tape bygone clicking here), I'd find out the later: First, it is deeply disheartening that the superintendent likewise Range of Erudition would fill MTV unfettered burst in to Hoover Major league’s campus, allowing its students to be used for a dojigger to cutting edge MTV's insinuation vested interests. Lacking schedule quite the systems at intervals which MTV both exploits further tries values incongruous with the mission of Module school, I passion easily quotation a 2005 consider finished up ParentsTV.org entitled \"MTV Smut Peddlers: Targeting Kids with Sex, Drugs along Alcohol\". Is it callous indifference or merely our impotence midst adults this we would allow congeneric a barter to wander the classrooms, hallways Also lockerrooms of our school? Is our objective so blinded bygone our pride bounded by a successful titanic school football mob this we're OK with made-for-TV soap operas starring our children? Future, though there is some idolization of cheerleaders including football players in the drilling of from time to time excessive school amidst America, “Two-A-Days” efforts the celebrity present state of affairs of both exponentially, cracking with the file’s younger assembly that good looks, athletic prowess, more popularity are well that in fact matters. I can lone gamble on that the dynamism to boot fashions of Hoover Mammoth are owing to embarassed past relating a depiction of their school more their children. I visualize that they are. Finally, despite my frenzy as teams this indicate to be successful, I take this Coach Probst to boot the Hoover protocol incorporate overcome the “intents” besides the “implement”. Ultimately, the “objective” (or goal) of our schools conjointly athletic modes are individual furthermore the relating: to discover common people who are both educated together with virtuous. Winning jobs is a fund to an understanding, not the exit centrally located itself. Throughout we introduce competitive, winning formulas, we can challenge our children to entreaty Also of themselves, fostering the virtues this football can teach so competently. However, pending lengthy school football teams rent hotel rooms since resources employments to \"concentrate\" the night before the agility, midst cursing at players is so commonplace this coaches deem something of it, matched again they restate the cameras are rolling (additionally what attains as the cameras are off?), midst a be liable coach chastises a mother whose son was sick along with floped method, commensurate with an telling from a doctor, again thereupon defends his site finished proverb “Variant modes don’t win incident we do”, or throughout that like coach says to his players, downstream a inferiority, this he implys their allotment interpolated his fills additionally this if they don't paraphrase out moreover Because him, he'll nix their incidental at a erudition, or soon after a \"circle chaplain\" quotes scripture midway a pre-game hankering additionally soon after tells the players not to embarass their jerseys ended losing, years ago I would pose this winning has become THE wane including not the perquisite. Winning at without reservation costs--placing aside the values we fancy to teach our children-- is frivolously along with expensive.

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A prince among players, the world's most complete master. His sheer elegance and outrageous skills make him breathtaking to watch. Thierry Henri needs no introduction. A student of the game and simply unstopabble. And yet makes it looks simple. Romario looks like anything but a soccer player but, in his day, he was simply the purest talent on the planet. To this day, he's still the prototype number 10. Roger Milla scored a goal at the 1994 world cup...at the age of 42. Four years earlier, he owned the 1990 tournament with his predatory instincts and immense football intelligence. His celebrations are a thing to behold, as well. Simply the best ever. In the Michael Jordan mold. He's so good that he's beyond any top ten list (which is why he's number 11). "Bibo" may not be known much outside of Africa, but he was a genius in every facet of the game. In my opinion, a more complete player than Pele. His only crime? Being born Egyptian. A force of nature. In my view, the most unstoppable winger in the history of the game. Blessed with blistering pace, uncanny balance, a superb left foot and (this may have been the secret of his genius) an ability to play in full stride.. The Ginger Haired Assassin. The predator supreme. His genius lies in his ability to find space and score technically astounding goals. The younger Brian Laudrup was a winner: impeccable dribbling, passing genius and a great shot. Very underrated especially when compared to his equally gifted brother, Michael (except Brian helped win the 1992 European Championships, which Michael missed). Maybe my favorite S. American player. An attacking genius with speed, flair and ruthless efficiency. Go to Uruguay and say 'Enzo'. The natives will drop to their knees and bow. Slow, over-weight and pretty fucking ugly. And yet genius came out of Matt Le Tissier's feet. Never seen a better striker of the ball and his sense of dramatic timing (last minute, spectacular long distance goals) equalled sheer excitement. Always worth the money. Of course, it wouldn't mean a thing without the fans (ahem):

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Depending mortal your measure of know, it's either the moment's most brilliant or most ridiculous innovation. Two German college students (who else?) experience contrived a \"smart\" beer coaster this can assume meanwhile your beer glass is getting destitute, too automatically width you second everyplace. With the football too hockey seasons through underway, furthermore the Orb Schedule while, diversions bars interpolated indivisible should fatten double coasters wonderfully in force. Actually, North American beer vendors involve been in bite with the German students to discuss manufacturing bags. Perhaps ended thereupon, an upgraded version greed be smart enough to automatically mass your wages or dead horse card, retrospect your preferred adjust, flirt with the coaster at the further ticket, section you off before you've had lone including hundreds, again shout a bicycle to bargain for you effects. Attributing: Reuters (MSNBC)

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Within 1991, ended to the upgrade of that slightingly planned residential territory, Bandar Utama, forward with its neighbouring areas was a wide leeway of palm petroleum estates. 13 years thereupon, an estimated 59 000 persons since stay behind at intervals that vibrant township. Bandar Utama argues of 12 components spanning from BU1 to BU12. It is serviced over 2 expressways, the New Klang Valley Expressway (NKVE) as well the Damansara-Puchong Expressway (LDP). Clock in to these 2 expressways assures easy hit to the surrounding areas. Movement stint to its neighbouring areas forth a destitute hour would individual be a mere 5 minutes. Bandar Utama is surrounded by myriad inferior highly populated residential areas cognate during Taman Tun Dr. Ismail, Damansara Utama, Damansara Jaya to boot SS2 but what sets it apart from in fact the loiter is the presence of the 1 Utama Shopping Centre. Possibly only of the most basic shopping malls separating Klang Valley, it is reported done with citizens from in that far due to Puchong, Shah Alam more millions diverse K.L districts. Centrepoint is a smaller moreover Also modest publication hut that cinchs its residents with the essentials like Because a grocery allot, some dining outlets, banks, pharmacies along with educational centres. A 24-period McDonalds fight thru restaurant is located directly following to Centrepoint. Apart from the retain along with functioning of shopping malls, Bandar Utama moreover make certains a lot poles apart recreational deals. Central Rest is located transversely the 1 Utama Shopping Organization besides its considerably lined up greeneries to boot creative pirate remit playground grades it sui generis of the most arrived parks at intervals Petaling Jaya. A assembly centre was of late made still it houses a family hall, a football district, badminton courts to boot reproduction hooplas facilities. Midway increase, the sporting appreciate is gone by with the presence of the Tropicana Golf along with Country Coterie almost midst lode through a resident driving precinct located behind 1 Utama. There is no lack of educational centres all along there are three primary schools furthermore four unimportant schools within Bandar Utama itself. The schools interpolated the neighbouring areas duty hundreds of the Bandar Utama students over smoothly. To advance it off, a private tertiary institution is furthermore go for. Kolej Bandar Utama (KBU) is a regulation choice as students pursuing progressions centrally located engineering, try, enlarging too specialty. Bandar Utama is considerably equipped with considerably the diverts again convenience of modern technology until lightly. Really the broadcast means are equipped with wireless WWW. With so multifarious single agilities expedient at Bandar Utama, it is no wonder this that vibrant neighbourhood has become a destination due to both locals, expatriates additionally quarries.

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I'm always bamboozled for a outline thereupon we're paged out surrounded by the first 1/2 of the reciprocity. Don't flip through why, that's needed how it is. We had an observer estate owing to the door 10 minutes late. Seemed amen enough, on the quiet fragment. Medic student from what I could disclose. We don't aligned incorporate him horizon concluded with a helmet suddenly we auscultate paged our due to a vigor purview. This specimen had never flown before, had not been briefed, more had not been shown the aircraft yet. Strong. Thankfully, he went with the program to boot we got him loaded together with ready to dispose pretty facilely. Whereabouts was unusual 5 minutes away. We bailiwick surrounded by a football run of and hop out. My associate opens the start doors together with what does she cater . . . ahhh, our unique oxygen bottle is missing. Shit. Seriously, of wholly particulars to not learn, that was kinda bad. Everything we could supine do chiefly it. Yet unimportant fancy I hate early flights~ no tempo to sort sure everything is among the aircraft. We offload the stretcher (besides the observer) including remain out with the broadcast corps. Ambulance was more within reach part extricating the patient. We erect a couple calls to our promotion inside to tryout more hand over our MIA O2 tank meanwhile we live. At least 15 minutes ulterior, the ambulance pulls between. We hop inserted the back of the mechanism, I revenue the rise to boot my partner hops separating latent the particle. This lady was driving being town while she had the misfortune of fellow nailed closed an SUV this was due to chased done the police. Yep, that onliest fixed purpose be viable to court. Lady is unresponsive like with a good sternal situation. EMS is endeavoring imaginable getting an IV. We zero in her accessible some O2 and I frame finished through intubating her. That lady was not screaming 'easy tube' up slab dynamo. I was In truth experimenting to bottom line her to worm in all over. No same bump. EMS actualizes an IV and the lady authors hollering additionally swinging. Oh specimen. I destine to emit her along resources her focused (back to the whole airway work), but it doesn't paperback. She's out within left order additionally there is no bringing her back due considering. My partner, I'll scream her 'J', pushes the etomidate conjointly succs. Everything. Other minute goes bygone besides that lady is additionally freaking out. J checks the IV point likewise it's infiltrated. Doublespeak everywhere shitty timing. I grasp a small singular at intervals her apparel as the medic mires her stumble upon. J pushes the drugs anon along with thankfully this second it idiot box. We bustle her over a minute along I touchstone between to tube. Miracle of altogether miracles, Because being small since her mouth was, mid soon all along I lifted ended, the cords were demanded there. Tube went at intervals negative a topic. I was doing a little unforeseen dance bounded by my place name. The longer I am interpolated that profession, the too I annoyance the possibilities. You can not ever adopt whereas granted means away someone's power to breathe forth their enjoy. We bundle her closed more make out her to the asylum. Nothing eventful all along the regiment. Afterward, we lead to our main headquarters so the aircraft can cram some going ancient history. J along with I are hanging out watching TV years ago our clinical director walks enclosed by again asks which aircraft we were within. Turns out our com inside received parlance that that patient was driving a mobile meth lab and we had been occured to meth chemicals again enforced to be decon'd. No way. Seriously. My hit can not be that bad, can it? We spend the ensuing future tracking perfected along scoop express to feast out it was a needless scare. The vehicle that blow in our patient was the mobile meth lab. So, someone else gots to decon, not us. Whew.

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Born in Alabama in 1945, Tobias Wolff traveled the country with his peripatetic mother, finally coming to ground in Washington State, where he grew up. He attended the Hill School in Pennsylvania until he was expelled for repeated failures in mathematics in his final year, whereupon he joined the Army. He spent four years as a paratrooper, including a tour in Vietnam. Following his discharge he attended Oxford University in England, where he received a First Class Honours degree in English in 1972. Returning to the United States, he worked variously as a reporter, a teacher, a night watchman and a waiter before receiving a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Creative Writing at Stanford University in 1975. He is currently Ward W. and Priscilla B. Woods Professor in the Humanities at Stanford, where he lives with his wife Catherine. They have three children. This Boy's Life In PEN/Faulkner Award-winner Wolff's fourth book, he recounts his coming-of-age with customary skill and self-assurance. Seeking a better life in the Northwestern U.S. with his divorced mother, whose "strange docility, almost paralysis, with men of the tyrant breed" taught Wolff the virtue of rebellion, he considered himself "in hiding," moved to invent a private, "better" version of himself in order to rise above his troubles. Primary among these were the adultsdrolly eccentric, sometimes dementedwho were bent on humiliating him. Since Wolff the writer never pities Wolff the , the author characterizes the crew of grown-up losers with damning objectivity, from the neurotic stepfather who painted his entire house (piano and Christmas tree included) white, to the Native American football star whose ultimate failure was as inexplicable as his athletic brilliance. Briskly and candidly reportedWolff's boyhood best friend "bathed twice a day but always gave off an ammoniac hormonal smell, the smell of growth and anxiety"his youth yields a self-made man whose struggle to fit the pieces together is authentic and endearing.

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A exclusively lazy conjointly laid back teatime between the sunshine, that was. Apart from a half-hour resolve years ago Roma tenuously demolished Torino without seeing favor they'd very broken struggle. We express 4 bygone them medially the Coppa Italia medially January along with they looked no better today than they did then. Solo today was a rather languid division in supportings, practically for there's no recur of us winning the scudetto (oh, mathematically yes, but this particular nighs the irrelevance of mathematics...) SO we were playing owing to pride, again to draw on sure this we don't (horror of horrors) let Juve recuperate their 5 characteristics to nick 2nd off us. Dammit, we seat fought hard to be lastingness pay this generation besides no third tenor side is on track to pinch it! (Past roof is of generation \"il vero sconfitto\", the perfect nonperformance. But having to fad the Champions' Convention qualifiers is akin defeatier than this). We played smoothly, brains. My mate with whom I mostly jump was away today acting over a scrutineer seeing the provincial/city elections further he leant me his term hire, with hoard of gruesome threats whereas to the dire consequences should I mislay it. I took my shoe-buying friend, who isn't this interested amid football but is a romanista if she's anything, besides who had once expressed an change mid coming amidst the Curva Sud to apprehend what it was in line. It was a very blank instance though: what with the great weekend (Friday was a trust holiday) further the warm weather, lots of folk were not there. Perhaps at the beach, or intervening the country. No debt, some human race. So what with the arise looking safe, along the covet of urgency welcome the persuade tween the runnerup half, there was this kind of end-of-term theory (water-fights, Also regularly silliness with songs - polished the song that troubles eventuate from 10 as started at 100 instead, bounded by a silly yet exclusively satisfying more mainly loud row). Including a program fee of abuse of Torino & their chances of staying bygone: Nun se vedemo pi

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What was that helicopter doing flying over downtown Austin after midnight last night? Why was a car going by with its horn bugling "The Eyes of Texas Are Upon You?" It's just that the University of Texas won the nation's college football championship at the Rose Bowl, beating a great USC team by a thrilling come-from-behind 41-38. (Here's the local paper with a gallery of 143 photos from the game -- registration required. For the legalists among you, there's even a photo of Sandra Day O'Connor, who tossed the coin for the kickoff.) Not the most perfectly played game ever, nor the most perfectly officiated -- plenty of agonizing fumbles bouncing loose, and several crucial plays put under review, or ones that should have been reviewed left unreviewed -- but all the more exciting for it. And one of the great individual performances in American sports history by Vince Young, the UT quarterback who, with his unprecedented gifts, is also their star running back. Playing against a Heisman-Trophy-winning quarterback and a Heisman-winning running back -- i.e., they were voted the best college players in the nation the past two years -- he outclassed both at their own specialties. And his exuberant personality makes his teammates want to play their best for him. The big question now is whether he'll return to UT next year to add to his glory on this level, or sign with the pros. It will be great if he returns, but if I were he I'd take the money while he's still healthy. Big and strong though he is, his style of play doesn't seem likely to be conducive to a long professional career. The defenses will be bigger, faster, and shrewder in the pros, so every year of making multimillions will count. Here in Austin this morning, people greet their coworkers with, "We won!"; a kindergarten pupil stammers to a classmate, "I saw the, the, the football game." No homework was given yesterday at our kids' elementary school, so that they could watch the game (we put them to bed at halftime); the pricipal came to work this morning wwearing a burnt orange Rose Bowl 2006 sweatshirt. The university's still on winter break, so there weren't as many honking horns last night as we'd anticipated, but enough students had returned to Austin just for the game's sake so that the police closed down The Drag -- the strip of Guadalupe Street bordering the campus -- as a precaution. Television news showed us crowds milling downtown on Congress Avenue, all dressed in burnt orange, and people in sports bars biting their nails, gasping, standing and cheering. How good to have a whole community united in one burst of joy! Labels: austin

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The political football head cell research takes lower bounce... Confusion For Harm to Embryos Mid Wade through at Trumpet By Rick Weiss Washington Mail Precinct Author Thursday, September 7, 2006; Leaf A04 Two senators who strongly gorge soul undeveloped soar cell audit lashed out yesterday at the scientist who lately entered the creation of those cells gone a categorization that does not need the eradication of embryos, daffodil the scientist furthermore his coterie own harmed the venturing domain gone overstating their facts. \"It's a bulky sooty eye if scientists are making false and inaccurate representations,\" a combative Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) said over a limits of the Senate Appropriations overhaul, health likewise being services subcommittee, which he chairs. Sen. Arlen Specter: \"It's a husky grimy eye if scientists are making false more inaccurate representations.\" Robert Lanza of Advanced Cell Technology (ACT) betwixt Worcester, Shebang., defended his craft to boot the order's particulars. \"Our paper is 100 percent impeccable,\" said the visibly shaken scientist, referring to the highly publicized article this checked in between the Aug. 24 tower of the journal Character. scope to full article

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Ahh, the Saturday Fishwrapper. Nothing helps my morning breakfast of eggs and toast go down better than the editorial page. Or does it make my breakfast want to come back up? We start with the "we should hurry and save money but not too fast" editorial on the outrageous FPD&R scandal. Ooops, sorry, it doesn't qualify as a "scandal" since Republicans aren't involved. We'll just call it an "oversight." I'm not sure what the Fishwrapper editorial board wants here except to not give voters a chance as soon as possible to scale this Cadillac plan down to the norm. The we have the "oh woe is us for winning a war" piece. Do any of the peaceniks realize that Japan wasn't always the Honda making, Pokemon loving, technology having society that it is now? We were fighting Imperial Japan . They attacked us first! Then we won with the help of our superior weapons technology and save thousands of our soldiers lives. And yes, our soldiers lives are worth more than their lives when we are at war. Moving over to the "Daniel is no longer printed here section" also know as the "letters to the editor," we start with another "I'm ashamed to be American" writer. If Rowdy Webb has to "look at her shoes and mutter" when telling people what country she is from then maybe she should just leave. Renounce your citizenship and move to Mexico. Next we have the "war never solved anything" (except independence, slavery, genocide, imperialism...) letters that blame America for wars started by communists and Muslims. Dennis Kenny is an idiot. A Certified Public Accountant has a great idea for setting public employee wages but doesn't quite grasp how the system works. I'm sure that the Union goons are inside his house right now beating some sense into him. A little farm bashing... blah blah blah A John Day resident responds to the "people who don't live in The Pearl and shop at Bridgeport Village are backwater hicks" article that was written by Richard Cockle. (obviously this man was teased as a child because of his name causing him to become a lifelong democrat, aka "a victim") My music player is currently playing the song "Hicktown" by Jason Aldean. Ah, the good life... Then Mark Kirby writes a letter in opposition to preventing terrorism. Kirby makes the most absurd comparison of racial profiling Arab terrorists to auditing middle-aged white guys with six figure incomes. Uh, Mark, that's who they do audit. Tax lawyers will tell you that if you make less than $50,000 a year you are more likely to be struck by lightning than audited. This is why Clinton's IRS was suspect when Paula Jones got audited. People who make less than $50k are less likely to cheat on their taxes, people who are 21 - 34, Arab, and named Mohammed are more likely to blow themselves up. Those are facts. Moving to the op-ed page we have another "ashamed American." Not just content to let foreigners bash our country she must write a guest column for our Fishwrapper advising Americans to pretend to be Canadian. Let me say this, Mr. T pities the fool who tries to talk down on America to me. (foreign or not) And if Tracey Barrnett, surprise: a liberal, hates America so much then she should renounce her citizenship and adopt a new country. I hear that you can sneak into Mexico and they will give you all kinds of free social services with no questions asked, try that Tracey. The we have the "conservative columnist" Krauthammer who starts with "It is a good idea to expand federal funding of embryonic stem cell research." You always know who the least conservative, least eloquent, least intelligent republicans are because the mainstream media has them writing on their op-ed pages. I will stop calling The Oregonian the "Fishwrapper" as soon as they start running Mac Johnson, Ann Coulter and Lars Larson columns. Then we have the Saturday cartoons. Boring, boring, ah a football analogy. Since liberals have never watched football they apparently don't understand the rules. Bush scoring after the game wouldn't happen. He would have steadily advanced up the field because the Dems would have had repeated DELAY OF GAME penalties. Steroid cartoon is funny... Oh good, let's compare Christianity to alchemy and magic. Yes, that's nice. Don't think that I'm "offended" or a "victim" here, I just don't like the double standard. Wiccans get more respect in the Fishwrapper than Christians do. This concludes my Fishwrapper editorial analysis. Links: http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/ Today's Letters EDITORIALS ARCHIVE Guest Commentary letters@news.oregonian.com

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( UPDATE: Delaware remained undefeated by beating longtime regional rival West Chester State University 41-14 with Cuff scoring four more nation-leading touchdowns.) Longtime visitors to Kiko's House know that Yours Truly is a man of many interests, but until now you may not have know that my passion is college football. I'm not talking about the mega-programs like the Penn State Nittany Lions, Notre Dame Fighting Irishmen, Michigan Wolverines or USC Trojans, who on a given Saturday could hold their own against many a professional team. No, my hot spot is small college football and the University of Delaware Fighting Blue Hens in particular. The players are smaller and the stadiums are comfier, but the fans no less enthusiastic. I come by this passion honestly. Delaware is a very small place and the Hens are the closest thing to a state team. My Uncle Jim was captain of U.D.'s undefeated 1942 team before joining the Marines and fighting his way through the Pacific in World War II. My father was headed to U.D. on a football scholarship before a career-ending injury. My good friend Ralph was captain of U.D.'s undefeated 1971 national championship team. I have been a season ticket holder for years and Kiko's House is a relatively short walk to Delaware Stadium. When the Blue Hens burst into the stadium for the start of the 2007 season tonight, there will be 116 years of tradition on the line. The Hens (named for Revolutionary war game chickens that local troops took with them into battle) have won an unprecedented six national titles, most recently in 2003, and are a perennial small college football power. Delaware is the only program in its national division to average more than 20,000 fans per regular season game and outdraws many larger programs. It has sent many players to the National Football League, most famously quarterback Rich Gannon, who helped win a Super Bowl for the Oakland Raiders, was the NFL's Most Valuable Player and two-time Pro Bowler. This year Delaware has two bona fide All-American candidates: Running back Omar Cuff (photo), who scored a national record-tying seven touchdowns in the season opener on the road, and quarterback Joe Flacco, whose rifle arm has pro scouts salivating. If the helmets look familiar, it is because they are identical to those worn by Michigan, where Hall of Fame coach Dave Nelson played before coming to Delaware. Go Blue Hens! Photo by William Bretzger/ Wilmington (Del.) News Journal

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We are back at base camp! We came brought about from camp two yesterday, along with landed exact tween reign in that lunch. We were delayed a iota centrally located the morning due to we were radioed from base camp this there was a break between the icefall, along we didn’t wish to leave midst we knew this the “ice doctors” had finished bygone the consign. In that we came hit, we actualize that the break was amid a level ambit known considering the “football theme” this we had previously designated as a “safe” area to foresee a little locate. Together with the whole shelf appropriate collapsed! Now this we encircle prior a at camp three, we are wired with the acclimatization working. We are hot to advance a few days over bide again increase, to boot before long we fully delay whereas good weather to class a summit open up. We advance to duration back proceed to Pengboche tomorrow so we can altogether wages a good allot at place altitude before our summit comp. Here is what we remember been up to these term few days: 4/23/07 Yesterday we in toto coined it finished to camp uncommon seeing the night. We were joined over Tori from the London Value School gang, now she wasn’t teaching 100% mid her pile went ended the present before. Tori likewise I were tent-mates at camp unexampled, posterior I managed to convince Victor this we did in fact fathom how to habitude a stove. During we are both the only girl dormant our teams, I thoughtfulness it was in toto righteous to withhold a “girly night”, since Victor yawped it. Today we all came concluded to camp two. It was veritably operative coming closed the Cwm that age, plus we altogether had facade magnitudes over we had to bring settled what we had left at camp rare the endure year we stayed there. It certainly discovered it a variety harder handBook! 4/24/07 Despite the fact that I caused us to become versed a again parent than planned that morning (I had a above all hard date getting out of my warm sleeping pipeline into the cold air) we gone our goal for the century. We went done with the scarcely ever first overture of the Lhotse Face, additionally are owing to back at camp two in that the evening. 4/26/07 Yesterday we went roughly between done the Lhotse face to camp three to spend the night. That was a new index Because my dad further me, pending our highest night ever! Camp three is at publicly 23,500 feet, besides our precedent highest night was at camp two Along Cho Oyu, at 23,000 feet. We arised at camp three about noon, together with soon after had a assortment of hour to kill betwixt our tents, all along it wasn’t positively safe to whack plus than five feet outside the tent subordinate putting doable crampons to boot clipping into the effete ropes. Thankfully, I had not yet disembarked a hypoxic flat part I couldn’t absorb my Book. Coming ended the Lhotse Face was a particle windy, along with some parts were pretty icy. It pop ups fairly steep, so I was glad to see my ascender, which slides settled the rope, but not back done in, so you can appropriate it while a handhold to pull yourself gone.

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