It?s over 50 degrees and it?s making us want to weep in sheer joy for the fact that it might be spring soon. We (and you) could list all of the reasons why spring and then summer are awesome, but here?s one right now: Neighborhood Foods, a West Philly-based urban farm, is bringing back its CSA program. (Attn. peple who don?t know anything: ?CSA? stands for Community Supported Agriculture; in the standard CSA program, you pay the farmer/organization a flat fee at the beginning of the season and you get a box of fresh produce every week.) Neighborhood Farms have added a Philly twist on the program by collaborating with other local producers such as La Colombe coffee, Four Worlds bread, Green Aisle jam and Philadelphia-produced honey. The program runs from May 24th to October 25th. Pick up points are located across the city. You can sign up and check out the produce here.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Rock band Stone Temple Pilots on Wednesday said they had fired singer Scott Weiland - a decision which appeared to have surprised the band's founding member and the voice behind the its biggest hits of the 1990s.
"Stone Temple Pilots have announced they have officially terminated Scott Weiland," the band, which now consists of bassist Robert DeLeo, guitarist Dean DeLeo and drummer Eric Kretz, said in a statement.
The band declined to give a reason for firing Weiland.
"I learned of my supposed 'termination' from Stone Temple Pilots this morning by reading about it in the press," Weiland said in a statement.
"Not sure how I can be 'terminated' from a band that I founded, fronted and co-wrote many of its biggest hits, but that's something for the lawyers to figure out," he added.
Weiland, 45, whose growling vocals and dyed bright red hair became a symbol of the grunge era in the early 1990s, helped the Stone Temple Pilots score hits with guitar-heavy songs like "Plush" in 1993 and "Interstate Love Song" the following year.
The band broke up in 2003 and reformed in 2008.
During that interval Weiland was in the rock group Velvet Revolver with former members of Guns N' Roses among others.
Weiland, who has admitted to struggling with drug abuse in the past, begins a month-long solo U.S. concert tour on Friday in Flint, Michigan.
(Reporting by Eric Kelsey, Editing by Jill Serjeant and Paul Simao)
Feb. 25, 2013 ? A recombinant Newcastle disease virus kills all kinds of prostate cancer cells, including hormone-resistant cells, but leaves normal cells unscathed, according to a paper published online ahead of print in the Journal of Virology. A treatment for prostate cancer based on this virus would avoid the adverse side effects typically associated with hormonal treatment for prostate cancer, as well as those associated with cancer chemotherapies generally, says corresponding author Subbiah Elankumaran of Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg. The modified virus is now ready to be tested in preclinical animal models, and possibly in phase I human clinical trials.
Newcastle disease virus kills chickens, but does not harm humans. It is an oncolytic virus that hones in on tumors, and has shown promising results in a number of human clinical trials for various forms of cancer. However, successful treatments have required multiple injections of large quantities of virus, because in such trials the virus probably failed to reach solid tumors in sufficient quantities, and spread poorly within the tumors.
The researchers addressed this problem by modifying the virus's fusion protein. Fusion protein fuses the virus envelope to the cell membrane, enabling the virus to enter the host cell. These proteins are activated by being cleaved by any of a number of different cellular proteases. They modified the fusion protein in their construct such that it can be cleaved only by prostate specific antigen (which is a protease). That minimizes off-target losses, because these "retargeted" viruses interact only with prostate cancer cells, thus reducing the amount of virus needed for treatment.
Retargeted Newcastle disease virus has major potential advantages over other cancer therapies, says Elankumaran. First, its specificity for prostate cancer cells means it would not attack normal cells, thereby avoiding the various unpleasant side effects of conventional chemotherapies. In previous clinical trials, even with extremely large doses of naturally occurring strains, "only mild flu-like symptoms were seen in cancer patients," says Elankumaran. Second, it would provide a new treatment for hormone-refractory patients, without the side effects of testosterone suppression that result from hormonal treatments.
About one man in six will be diagnosed with prostate cancer, and one in 36 will die of this disease. Men whose prostate cancer becomes refractory to hormone treatment have a median survival of about 40 months if they have bone metastases, and 68 months if they do not have bone metastases.
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"I'm a very firm believer that a liar is a cheat and a thief and a crook. I don't like liars. I never lie. I always told my own child, "If you murder somebody, tell me. I'll help you hide the body. But don't you lie to me."
"We don't pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes."
Leona Helmsley
"There is not a more perilous or immoral habit of mind than the sanctifying of success.?
Lord Acton
I wish that C-Span would permit their videos to be 'embeddable.'
Greg's talk is excellent, and thanks to C-Span the video quality is good.
Greg Smith Speaking At Stanford on His Experience at Goldman and Reasons for the Corrosive Decline in Business Ethics
Speaking of excellent essays on corruption, Yves Smith has written a wonderful piece titled, Jack Lew?s Grotesque Citi Employment Deal and the Institutionalization of Corruption.
Corruption, facilitated by the credibility trap, is the biggest problem facing?the West?today. That is the real subsidy, the most debilitating entitlement.
It is the belief of the elite that the power of their office is an achievement that?rewards them with the right to lie, cheat and steal, both for themselves and their friends.
Although it is most important to understand that they would be shocked and insulted if?one uses those words, lie, cheat and steal, to describe what they are doing.? They view themselves as exceptionally hard working, as obligated by their natural gifts and superiority.
Through a long indoctrination that starts sometimes in their families, but is most often affirmed in their elite schools and with their circle of privileged friends, they learn to rationalize?selective moral behaviour not as immoral but as 'the entitlement of success.'? And they are supported by a horde of morally ambivalent enablers who will tell them whatever they wish to hear.
There are one set of rules for themselves and their friends, and another set of rules for the rest.
Few who?actually do evil consciously choose to be evil.? They rationalize what they do in any number of ways, but the deceit often hinges on their own natural superiority, and the?objectification and denigration?of the other.? We are makers, and they are takers.?Although many may work hard, they see their own work as having special value and merit, while the actions of the others are inconsequential and?unworthy.
Given enough time, their rationalizations become an ideology, desensitized to the meaning and significance of others outside their own select group.? This supremacy of ideology empties their souls, and opens the door to mass privation and even murder, although rarely done by their own hands.
This is what Glenn Greenwald calls 'justice for some.' Or even earlier what George Orwell captured in the slogan, 'Some animals are more equal than others.'
And just to be clear on this, with regard to the Anglo-American political situation,?the tragedy is not that?just some?are corrupted, which is always the case. The tragedy is that the Democrats and the Labour Party learned that they could become as servilely corrupted by Big Money as the Republicans and the Conservative Party, while maintaining the illusion of serving their traditional political base.
And?it has?rewarded them very well in terms of extraordinarily well-funded political power, and almost unbelievable personal enrichment afterwards.??
In such a climate of corruption,??political discourse?loses the vitality of ideas and compromise?for the general good, and?take on the character of competing?gangs and?crime families, engaged in aggressive schemes?and protracted turf wars, tottering from one pitched battle and crisis to another.
"A credibility trap is a condition wherein the financial, political and informational functions of a society have been compromised by corruption and fraud, so that the leadership cannot effectively reform, or even honestly address, the problems of that system without impairing and implicating, at least incidentally, a broad swath of the power structure, including themselves.
The status quo tolerates the corruption and the fraud because they have profited at least indirectly from it, and would like to continue to do so. Even the impulse to reform within the power structure is susceptible to various forms of soft blackmail and coercion by the system that maintains and rewards.
And so a failed policy and its support system become self-sustaining, long after it is seen by objective observers to have failed. In its failure it is counterproductive, and an impediment to recovery in the real economy. Admitting failure is not an option for the thought leaders who receive their power from that system.
The continuity of the structural hierarchy must therefore be maintained at all costs, even to the point of becoming a painfully obvious hypocrisy.
And you know how I feel about this.
The Banks must be restrained, and the financial system reformed, with balance restored to the economy, before there can be any sustainable recovery.
The problem which the modern world has not yet grappled is how to react to the rise of a?global elite, which considers itself the children of a power which is?above national restraints, and a law unto themselves.
Their?success has been propelled by the dominance of Anglo-American financialization, and the rise of oligarchies in Russia, China, Latin America,?and India.? Countervailing power has been co-opted and subsumed.??Any opposition has become marginalized and isolated.
The new oligarchs?are?supported by their fiat currencies, which together?the increase of insubstantial?'cashlessness' in wealth,? provides the?ability to define and allocate value at will.?
They have a penchant towards globalization and deregulation to support selective justice, to the extreme detriment of local rule, and individual choice and freedom.?? Above all, they are a law unto themselves, above?what they consider subhuman restraint.? ?bermenschen.
?Our light-speed, globally connected economy has led to the rise of a new super-elite that consists, to a notable degree, of first- and second-generation wealth. Its members are hardworking, highly educated, jet-setting meritocrats who feel they are the deserving winners of a tough, worldwide economic competition?and many of them, as a result, have an ambivalent attitude toward those of us who didn't succeed so spectacularly. Perhaps most noteworthy, they are becoming a transglobal community of peers who have more in common with one another than with their countrymen back home. Whether they maintain primary residences in New York or Hong Kong, Moscow or Mumbai, today's super-rich are increasingly a nation unto themselves...
A multibillion-dollar bailout and Wall Street?s swift, subsequent reinstatement of gargantuan bonuses have inspired a narrative of parasitic bankers and other elites rigging the game for their own benefit. And this, in turn, has led to wider?and not unreasonable?fears that we are living in not merely a plutonomy, but a plutocracy, in which the rich display outsize political influence, narrowly self-interested motives, and a casual indifference to anyone outside their own rarefied economic bubble."
Chrystia Freeland, The Rise of the New Global Elite
Of course this tendency is not new in history, as it is a facet of the human heart, and the empires of the past. But the scope of it is something rarely seen before this. And it is supported by technologies for mass action and control that seem terrifyingly powerful and new.
And as hard as it may be to believe, this too shall pass. But as always, we have some work to do in our own time.
?The mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience He stands waiting, with exactness He grinds all.?
You might say the day is never really done in consumer technology news. Your workday, however, hopefully draws to a close at some point. This is the Daily Roundup on Engadget, a quick peek back at the top headlines for the past 24 hours -- all handpicked by the editors here at the site. Click on through the break, and enjoy.
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We've arrived in Catalonia's capital city, where snow, apparently, has marked the start of this year's Mobile World Congress. That's right, the hills surrounding this typically warm Mediterranean metropolis have been blanketed in a thin layer of flurries, but we're nonetheless optimistic about this week's smartphone show in Barcelona. As MWC 2013's massive new venue begins to take shape, we're preparing to deliver the hottest hands-ons, directly from Fira Gran Via. Some manufacturers, such as HTC and LG, have already demoed their latest handsets, and other devices have made an early debut, but there's plenty of excitement still to come, as you'll discover in our show preview. We'll be sharing our liveblog lineup in a few hours -- for now, it's time to bookmark our event page, and check back often throughout the next week.
ReadWrite writes, Frustrated and bitter that laws like SOPA and PIPA have yet to get pushed through Congress without those pesky constituents objecting to turning the U.S. government into muscle for entertainment industry, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is taking out its anger on Google. The music industry lobbying group is accusing the search engine giant of failing to effectively demote search results that lead people to those nasty little download sites. In a blog post on the RIAA site yesterday, Steven M. Marks, EVP & General Counsel, RIAA made it clear that the music copyright?
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) ? A false report of a gunman at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that briefly caused a campus-wide lockdown Saturday stemmed from an electronic message sent to police, authorities said.
Officers searched for a man reported to be carrying a long rifle and wearing body armor but found nothing unusual, Cambridge police said. The report ? that alleged that the gunman was barricaded inside a building on campus ? turned out to be a hoax, and there was no threat to public safety, state police spokesman David Procopio said.
Cambridge police received the tip in an electronic chat message around 7:30 a.m., but witnesses on the scene eventually contradicted it, spokesman Dan Riviello said. Neither police nor MIT specified how the tip was received, though the police department's website says anonymous crime tips may be made via text message or email, in addition to a telephone hotline.
"The MIT community was sent a precautionary text message at 8:52 a.m. asking them to remain indoors and shelter in place," the university said in a statement issued following online criticism over delays in alerting the public that a gunman was possibly on campus.
A room-to-room search by MIT and Cambridge police, along with state police troopers, led officers to declare that the scene was clear at about 10:30 a.m., MIT said.
"No armed suspects were found in the building or on campus and police believe that the event, as reported, did not occur," according to a statement by Cambridge police.
Investigators are trying to identify the prankster and will pursue criminal charges if they do, Riviello said.
He declined to provide additional details or confirm reports that the IP address used by the prankster has been traced to New York, saying the investigation continued.
"At the conclusion of the ongoing investigation, MIT Police and other parts of the MIT administration will, as part of standard operating procedure, conduct an after-action review of MIT's police and communications actions during this event," the university said in its statement.
About 11,000 people attend the prestigious school outside Boston where students are famous for their smarts as well as their stunts, including once putting a police car on top of a domed campus building.
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The Apostolic Nuncio to Singapore, Archbishop Leopoldo Girelli (right), embracing the newly ordinaed Coadjutor Archbishop Monsignor William Goh at Singapore Expo Max Pavillion and Hall 9 of the Singapore Expo. Archbishop William Goh was ordained on the evening of Friday, Feb 22, 2013, in a ceremony attended by more than 14,000 political dignitaries, religious leaders, and Catholics from Singapore and around the region. -- ST PHOTO: RAJ NADARAJAN
The Apostolic Nuncio to Singapore, Archbishop Leopoldo Girelli (left) presenting Coadjutor Archbishop Monsignor William Goh his Mitre at Singapore Expo Max Pavillion and Hall 9 of the Singapore Expo. Archbishop William Goh was ordained on the evening of Friday, Feb 22, 2013, in a ceremony attended by more than 14,000 political dignitaries, religious leaders, and Catholics from Singapore and around the region. -- ST PHOTO: RAJ NADARAJAN
Bishops from around the region praying for the newly ordinaed Coadjutor Archbishop Monsignor William Goh (right), at Singapore Expo Max Pavillion and Hall 9 of the Singapore Expo. Archbishop William Goh was ordained on the evening of Friday, Feb 22, 2013, in a ceremony attended by more than 14,000 political dignitaries, religious leaders, and Catholics from Singapore and around the region. -- ST PHOTO: RAJ NADARAJAN
Coadjutor Archbishop Monsignor William Goh prostrating in front of the alter while the Litany of the Saints were chanted at Singapore Expo Max Pavillion and Hall 9 of the Singapore Expo. Archbishop William Goh was ordained on the evening of Friday, Feb 22, 2013, in a ceremony attended by more than 14,000 political dignitaries, religious leaders, and Catholics from Singapore and around the region. -- ST PHOTO: RAJ NADARAJAN
The newly ordinaed Coadjutor Archbishop Monsignor William Goh (left), embracing bishops from the region at Singapore Expo Max Pavillion and Hall 9 of the Singapore Expo. Archbishop William Goh was ordained on the evening of Friday, Feb 22, 2013, in a ceremony attended by more than 14,000 political dignitaries, religious leaders, and Catholics from Singapore and around the region. -- ST PHOTO: RAJ NADARAJAN
The newly ordinaed Coadjutor Archbishop Monsignor William Goh seated at the cathedra at Singapore Expo Max Pavillion and Hall 9 of the Singapore Expo. Archbishop William Goh was ordained on the evening of Friday, Feb 22, 2013, in a ceremony attended by more than 14,000 political dignitaries, religious leaders, and Catholics from Singapore and around the region. -- ST PHOTO: RAJ NADARAJAN
The newly ordained Coadjutor Archbishop Monsignor William Goh waving to worshippers at Singapore Expo Max Pavillion and Hall 9 of the Singapore Expo. Archbishop William Goh was ordained on the evening of Friday, Feb 22, 2013, in a ceremony attended by more than 14,000 political dignitaries, religious leaders, and Catholics from Singapore and around the region. -- ST PHOTO: RAJ NADARAJAN
Worshippers at the Singapore Expo Max Pavillion this evening singing hymns at the Mass for the Episcopal Ordination of Coadjutor Archbishop Monsignor William Goh. Archbishop William Goh was ordained on the evening of Friday, Feb 22, 2013, in a ceremony attended by more than 14,000 political dignitaries, religious leaders, and Catholics from Singapore and around the region. -- ST PHOTO: RAJ NADARAJAN
The Apostolic Nuncio to Singapore, Archbishop Leopoldo Girelli (right), embracing the newly ordinaed Coadjutor Archbishop Monsignor William Goh at Singapore Expo Max Pavillion and Hall 9 of the Singapore Expo. Archbishop William Goh was ordained on the evening of Friday, Feb 22, 2013, in a ceremony attended by more than 14,000 political dignitaries, religious leaders, and Catholics from Singapore and around the region. -- ST PHOTO: RAJ NADARAJAN
The Apostolic Nuncio to Singapore, Archbishop Leopoldo Girelli (left) presenting Coadjutor Archbishop Monsignor William Goh his Mitre at Singapore Expo Max Pavillion and Hall 9 of the Singapore Expo. Archbishop William Goh was ordained on the evening of Friday, Feb 22, 2013, in a ceremony attended by more than 14,000 political dignitaries, religious leaders, and Catholics from Singapore and around the region. -- ST PHOTO: RAJ NADARAJAN
Bishops from around the region praying for the newly ordinaed Coadjutor Archbishop Monsignor William Goh (right), at Singapore Expo Max Pavillion and Hall 9 of the Singapore Expo. Archbishop William Goh was ordained on the evening of Friday, Feb 22, 2013, in a ceremony attended by more than 14,000 political dignitaries, religious leaders, and Catholics from Singapore and around the region. -- ST PHOTO: RAJ NADARAJAN
Coadjutor Archbishop Monsignor William Goh prostrating in front of the alter while the Litany of the Saints were chanted at Singapore Expo Max Pavillion and Hall 9 of the Singapore Expo. Archbishop William Goh was ordained on the evening of Friday, Feb 22, 2013, in a ceremony attended by more than 14,000 political dignitaries, religious leaders, and Catholics from Singapore and around the region. -- ST PHOTO: RAJ NADARAJAN
The newly ordinaed Coadjutor Archbishop Monsignor William Goh (left), embracing bishops from the region at Singapore Expo Max Pavillion and Hall 9 of the Singapore Expo. Archbishop William Goh was ordained on the evening of Friday, Feb 22, 2013, in a ceremony attended by more than 14,000 political dignitaries, religious leaders, and Catholics from Singapore and around the region. -- ST PHOTO: RAJ NADARAJAN
The newly ordinaed Coadjutor Archbishop Monsignor William Goh seated at the cathedra at Singapore Expo Max Pavillion and Hall 9 of the Singapore Expo. Archbishop William Goh was ordained on the evening of Friday, Feb 22, 2013, in a ceremony attended by more than 14,000 political dignitaries, religious leaders, and Catholics from Singapore and around the region. -- ST PHOTO: RAJ NADARAJAN
The newly ordained Coadjutor Archbishop Monsignor William Goh waving to worshippers at Singapore Expo Max Pavillion and Hall 9 of the Singapore Expo. Archbishop William Goh was ordained on the evening of Friday, Feb 22, 2013, in a ceremony attended by more than 14,000 political dignitaries, religious leaders, and Catholics from Singapore and around the region. -- ST PHOTO: RAJ NADARAJAN
Worshippers at the Singapore Expo Max Pavillion this evening singing hymns at the Mass for the Episcopal Ordination of Coadjutor Archbishop Monsignor William Goh. Archbishop William Goh was ordained on the evening of Friday, Feb 22, 2013, in a ceremony attended by more than 14,000 political dignitaries, religious leaders, and Catholics from Singapore and around the region. -- ST PHOTO: RAJ NADARAJAN
By Jennani Durai
The future Archbishop of the Catholic Church of Singapore was ordained on Friday evening in a ceremony attended by more than 14,000 political dignitaries, religious leaders, and Catholics from Singapore and around the region.
Father William Goh was ordained as the Archbishop Coadjutor of Singapore, meaning he will now be the deputy to Archbishop Nicholas Chia. He will also take over the top post in the local church - made up of around 303,000 Catholics - when the latter retires.
Friday's ceremony at the Singapore Expo was presided over by Archbishop Leopoldo Girelli, the Vatican envoy - or Apostolic Nuncio - to Singapore. He was assisted by Archbishop Chia and Archbishop Murphy Pakiam from Kuala Lumpur.
The ordination was also attended by President Tony Tan Keng Yam, Chief Justice Sundaresh Menon and Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean.
TORONTO, Feb 20 (Reuters) - Canada's Rebecca Marino, a rising star in women's tennis, stepped away from the sport in search of a normal life on Wednesday, weary of battling depression and cyber-bullies. Ranked number 38 in the world two years ago, the 22-year-old admitted she had long suffered from depression and was no longer willing to make the sacrifices necessary to reach the top. "After thinking long and hard, I do not have the passion or enjoyment to drive myself to the level I would like to be at in professional tennis," Marino explained in a conference call. ...
The Republicans point to Bob Woodward's book as evidence it's the 'Obamaquester.' Democrats counter with a Boehner slideshow that just resurfaced. The public is left scratching its head.?
By Linda Feldmann,?Staff writer / February 20, 2013
President Barack Obama speaks about the 'sequester' Tuesday at the White House in Washington, as he stands with emergency responders, a group of workers the White House says could be affected if state and local governments lose federal money as a result of budget cuts.
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Debate is raging in Washington over the origins of the ?sequester? ? the deep, almost-across-the-board federal spending cuts that go into effect March 1 if Congress doesn?t act.
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Exhibit A is Bob Woodward?s book, ?The Price of Politics,? which describes how top aides to President Obama brought the idea to Senate majority leader Harry Reid (D) of Nevada in the summer of 2011, when Congress was grappling with the debt ceiling.
The sequester proposal became part of the agreement that allowed the government to keep borrowing to pay its bills ? and, as has been repeated ad infinitum, it was never meant to go into effect. It was supposed to be so beyond the pale that it would force the White House and Congress to come up with a deficit-reduction deal that was more finely honed.
But Republicans have latched onto Mr. Woodward?s book as the smoking gun.
Aha, they say, the sequester is Mr. Obama?s baby. They?ve tried to get people to call it the ?Obama sequester? or even the ?Obamaquester.? It doesn?t exactly trip off the tongue, but it?s more than the Democrats have devised.
Exhibit B is a July 31, 2011, PowerPoint presentation found by John Avlon of The Daily Beast in an old e-mail, reported on Wednesday. The slideshow was put together by House Speaker John Boehner?s office and the GOP?s House-based think tank, the Republican Policy Committee, and describes a ?new sequestration process? that would cut spending across the board if the cuts weren?t made by other means.
So there, say Democrats, the sequester is really a Republican idea.
The bottom line, concludes FactCheck.org, is that it doesn?t matter. Both parties are responsible for this puppy, the fact-checking site?s report says, because they both voted for it.
?The reality is that the pending cuts would not be possible had both Democrats and Republicans not supported the legislation that included them,? FactCheck says.
The sequester was part of the Budget Control Act (BCA) of 2011, which passed the House with 269 ?yea? votes ? 174 Republicans and 95 Democrats. In the 100-seat Senate, Democrats made up most of the 74 "yea" votes, but there were 28 Republicans in that majority, as well.
5:15 PM: Arkansas football coach Bret Bielema tweets that he spent his weekend fishing in the Bahamas: "caught Wahoo, yellow fin, and a few sharks! Good to be headed home. #WPS"
5:00 PM: Two former Montgomery County, North Carolina coaches - a high school football coach & a middle school wrestling coach - were arrested on charges of having sex with the same high school student on separate occasions.
4:45 PM: Chicago Cubs chairman Tom Ricketts said on Sunday that team will not increase ad signs or add more night games at Wrigley Field for the 2013 season.
4:30 PM: The agent for Oscar Pistorius says he has canceled his client's future races as the double amputee Olympic runner faces charges for the shooting death of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. But agent Peet van Zyl adds that Pistorius' sponsors have been "supportive".
4:15 PM: Tuscaloosa, Alabama held its own Krispy Kreme Challenge on Saturday, where participants would run a mile, eat a dozen doughnuts then run another mile.
4:00 PM: Police are investigating a 15-year-old Tahlequah, Oklahoma boy who supposedly posted a photo on Facebook of a pit bull he claimed to have killed with a bow & arrow. The boy had reportedly received threats after the photo went viral online.
3:45 PM:Danica Patrick has clinched the pole position for the Daytona 500, becoming the first woman to earn the spot in a NASCAR Sprint Cup race.
3:30 PM:Tiger Woods reportedly played some golf with President Obama on Sunday at a private club in Florida owned by Houston Astros owner Jim Crane.
3:15 PM: New York Yankees manager Joe Girardi on if Derek Jeter will be ready to play on Opening Day: "Obviously there's no rush to get him in games. It's not like we don't have a ton of time left .... Knowing Derek, I feel like he'll be ready, but we'll have to go through this to see."
3:00 PM: From The Onion: "Michael Jordan Celebrates 50th Birthday With Last People He Hasn't Completely Alienated Yet"
2:45 PM: Penn State invited children of the Make-A-Wish Foundation to work out at the school's Lasch Building on Saturday with the help of members of the Nittany Lions football team.
2:30 PM: The Salt Lake Tribune reports that members of the Ute tribe feel the University of Utah isn't doing enough for them after they allowed the school to continue using the Utes nickname & logos.
2:15 PM: Two people were arrested as Maryland students took to the streets & lit fires after the Terrapins' 83-81 victory over Duke Saturday night.
2:00 PM: NFL.com's Albert Breer reports the league is adding a second aptitude test at the NFL Combine to be taken along with the Wonderlic test.
1:45 PM:Jay Pharaoh did an impression of Stephen A. Smith during last night's Saturday Night Live. Smith tweeted about it Sunday: "I didn't see it folks. I'm busy in Houston. Missed it. Damn!"
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Russian tanker Marine Alliance, carrying almost 800 tons of fuel oil, was left afloat in the Sea of Japan when its main engine failed, said Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations yesterday. ?The tanker Marine Alliance, which was sailing to the [Russian Pacific] port of Nakhodka, has been disabled due to a failure of its main engine,? according to a statement released by the ministry. No information as to the weather conditions at the area has been given.
The tanker had 20 crew members aboard it, but they did not suffer any injuries as a result of the incident. Apparently, the Marine Alliance had already previously suffered engine failure on February 7 in the rough waters of the Sea of Japan. At the time, it was drifting towards Okushiri Island, north of Tsugaru Strait before a Japanese salvage vessel took the tanker on tow the next day and brought it to Hakodate port, Hokkaido, on February 11, reported Russia?s Maritime Bulletin.
The ministry statement in this recent setback went on to say that the tanker will be towed by another Russian vessel, Georgiy Froier, which, at the time the statement was released, was already on its way to where the Marine Alliance was waiting. It is estimated that the Georgiy Froier should have already gotten the Marine Alliance by now, but no new developments have been reported as of yet.
PITTSFIELD -- Berkshire Hills is keeping its head golf professional job in the family.
A little less than two months after learning that Josh Hillman was leaving, the club has hired his cousin, Mike Hillman, who had served as Josh's assistant professional.
A search committee interviewed other applicants, but in the end made the choice many -- especially the club's members -- expected.
"Mike had the support of a large number of members," said search committee member Tim Breen. "The committee received 40 or 50 letters of recommendation from them supporting Mike. Having worked here for four years, the members know him and what he is capable of."
Breen said the committee would have been comfortable hiring several of the others they interviewed but, "based on Mike's experience at the club, none of them made us feel they were more qualified. Giving his familiarity with us, this should be an easy transition."
The 28-year-old, as one would expect, is thrilled.
"I'm excited to start a new chapter in my career," Mike said. "I'm confident. I know the operation. I've had my hands in everything and have had great preparation for the job."
Josh Hillman, who left to become the head professional at Taconic Golf Club and golf coach at Williams College, prepared his cousin well.
"Josh let me take the reins. I'm grateful to him for coaching me up to be ready for this position," said Mike, who was given more
responsibility than ever last summer at a time when the club's members were aware the job their head professional coveted was coming open and that his departure was a distinct possibility.
"Everyone knew that Josh was going to be one of [Taconic's] top candidates," Breen said. "It was good on Josh's part to get Mike out there with people at our club events and outside tournaments so that everyone could see that he could handle it."
"Josh runs an A-plus operation and I was taking notes," Mike said. "He had Berkshire Hills on the way up and I will work to continue that trend."
With most golf clubs in the Berkshires starving for younger members, Mike's youthful look -- he probably still gets carded if he orders an alcoholic beverage -- and boundless enthusiasm should be a plus.
"He has the youth and personality that can hopefully help us attract more young professionals into our membership," Breen said.
"I hope that knowing I'm a younger guy and will be here for years is a strength," said Mike, who has spent the winter working at the ski school at Vermont's Mount Snow. "I'm not looking to be here for just a few years. I'm looking to make this my home."
Speaking of youth, Mike, who earned his PGA Class A membership in 2008 and spent five winters working as an assistant in South Florida, will continue as the coach of the Taconic High School golf team and is also looking to boost both the club's junior and women's programs.
"There is a lot of potential here to get more women involved and we have a big pool of junior players," said Mike, who is currently close to hiring his assistant pro.
"Mike has run our junior clinics the past few years and our junior membership has increased significantly," Breen said. He's also run a ladies' clinic at night and is probably looking to expand on that."
To contact Richard Lord: rlord@berkshireeagle.com or (413) 496-6236
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Lessons In Flight - the first collaborative project of mr_mark_dollin and chandrika steinhardt.
Numinous Visionary Artist chandrika steinhardt has fulfilled a long held dream of creating songs that resonate with her Art. The Adelaide Fringe Festival has been a great catalyst for rapid growth of her Inspire Art of Bliss Event. In seeking ArtMusic collaboration, her call was heard by Musician/Producer, mr_mark_dollin. Since November 2012, their inspiration has resulted in the creation of four exciting new works. Mark?s songs, Beauty and Meteor Shower have been re-dreamed during the emergence of their new music. Lessons In Flight and Tender Heroic emerged as totally new forms unique to their shared energy. A crystallised short-album saw completion in early February 2013, ready in time for the Fringe Event.
With a common purpose of sharing their ArtMusic and teaching experience to inspire and uplift those who listen, guiding them from the Profane into awareness of The Sacred, these Artist Musicians offer an evolutionary ?way out' by capturing the story of a young man?s soul journey - from boyhood, awe and wonder, youth, questioning authority and formulating self-identity; to adulthood, finding a revolutionary progressive mind insight, then, separation, longing, catharsis and self realization, reconciliation with the feminine, then finally to growth into maturation and a new sense of evolution and peace. This tale is weaved into the notes as love is sewn into mother's garments.
Lessons In Flight is a journey, not for the faint hearted. The rewards are immeasurable.
Composed and produced by: mr_mark_dollin & Chandrika Steinhardt Singing by Chandrika Guitars, synths, programming, editing and mixing by Mark Engineering support and mastering by Simon Floth Album visual design and poetry by Chandrika and Mark Design adapted from Chandrika's painting "The Solitary Tree" (2012)
Track 1 is a redreaming of a song called Meteor Shower that originates from the 3 Smargaird Maerd album. Track 2 is a redreaming of a song called Beauty that originates from the album Smargaid Maerd.
Thank you for your support and interest. Read more about the project here.
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There are some pretty nice gems in there. I'm not fond of all of them but its diverse enough for someone else to like i reckon.
I would say, leave the vocals out and they sound fine (sorry)
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The same network that wondered if Sen. Rubio's sip of water was a "big deal" is now asking just why Republicans are "so fixated on Benghazi" when they asked Defense Secretary nominee Chuck Hagel about the Libya fiasco.
"This, despite testimony on Benghazi from General Petraeus, Hillary Clinton, Admiral Mike Mullen, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, General Martin Dempsey, among others. But it's not enough," an obviously flustered Carol Costello huffed. The CNN headline later flashed, "Why are Republicans so fixated on Benghazi?" [Video below the break. Audio here.]
Then, during the 10 a.m. ET hour, Costello lashed out at the GOP's "partisanship" and contrasted it with President Lincoln's passing the 13th Amendment. So nominating Hagel is akin to abolishing slavery?
"History in the U.S. Senate. Not the Lincoln and the 13th Amendment kind of history, but the partisanship kind," Costello lamented. And she continued her juvenile whining about "partisanship."
"[Y]you get a chance to poke your finger in his [Hagel's] eye, and you take it if you're a senator. That's what they do for a living," GOP strategist Rich Galen explained. Costello replied: "[T]hat's ridiculous. They just did it to poke you in the eye, or poke Democrats in the eye?"
She also asked "what's the most danger? What do they most fear about Chuck Hagel?" as if the GOP has no real reason to oppose him. "[I]t boggles my mind," she insisted on the GOP delaying Hagel's nomination.
A transcript of the segment, which aired on February 15 on CNN Newsroom at 9:32 a.m. EST, is as follows:
CAROL COSTELLO: History on the Senate floor, and in a special "Political Buzz" today, three minutes of hot talk on Benghazi, Chuck Hagel, and of course, partisanship. Playing today, chief congressional correspondent Dana Bash, CNN contributor and ESPN senior writer L.Z. Granderson, and Republican strategist Rich Galen. ? RICH GALEN, GOP strategist: The only person that's being paid on this program.
(Laughter)
COSTELLO: Oh my gosh!
LZ GRANDERSON: Wow, we're starting there already. Boy!
GALEN: I've been sitting here trying to think what to say.
COSTELLO: Before we begin the conversation, a little explanation. Republicans have successfully blocked the confirmation of Chuck Hagel for Defense Secretary in part because of Hagel's controversial remarks on gays and Jews and his terrible performance during his confirmation hearings, but also because five months ago, terrorists attacked the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya.
Sen. LINDSEY GRAHAM (R-S.C.) We will continue pushing and asking questions about Benghazi, not because it's personal, not because we're Republicans and he's a Democrat, but because America needs to learn what happened and we need to learn from our mistakes.
COSTELLO: This, despite testimony on Benghazi from General Petraeus, Hillary Clinton, Admiral Mike Mullen, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, General Martin Dempsey, among others. But it's not enough. Republicans now want to know more about what happened as the attack in Benghazi went down and who changed those talking points. They want more answers from the President. So, let's talk. So Dana, is Chuck, is the blockage of Chuck Hagel's confirmation because of Benghazi, as Lindsey Graham illustrates, or is it because of something else?
DANA BASH: It really is mostly because of Chuck Hagel. Benghazi was, they sort of have been on a crusade to get more answers for Benghazi and like you see many, many times here in the Senate, they saw Chuck Hagel and his nomination as a way to use that as leverage to get answers and they did.
[HEADLINE: "Why are Republicans so fixated on Benghazi?"]
BASH: They got an answer about what the President's role was on that day. But really this is mostly about Chuck Hagel and you know, John McCain is actually the perfect example of why it is about the man himself. And that is he said last night after he had kind of given lots of different explanations, all of them I think are credible from his point of view, that the real fundamental thing that has bothered most of Hagel's fellow Republicans here, former colleagues here, is the way that he defied his party, defied his president, then George W. Bush, on Iraq. And that really did not sit well with many Republicans here, and they remember that. It's a whole bunch of other issues but that at its core is the fundamental problem.
COSTELLO: So Rich, I'll ask you as a Republican strategist, are the concerns over Chuck Hagel serious enough to filibuster and block confirmation? That's the first time this has ever happened in the history of U.S. politics.
GALEN: Well, everybody says that, but that would get two thumbs up in the political fact-checks. John Bolton was blocked and I think at that time, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. was a cabinet level slot. But here's the thing about ? the Republicans, I think Dana, have said that they'll probably let this thing go after the ten-day Presidents' Day holiday. So they're holding it up for another 10 or 12 days. The president only nominated him on January 6th or 7th, whenever that was, so it's not like this thing has been hanging around for six or seven months and the Republicans are dragging their feet, dragging their feet. I suspect Senator Hagel will be the Defense Secretary and from somebody who has to write three days a week, having Hagel at Defense and Kerry at State, that's like manna from heaven.
COSTELLO: Yeah but still, it boggles my mind, L.Z. ? that ? okay so, we're pretty certain that Chuck Hagel's going to be nominated or confirmed anyway, so why waste our time?
GRANDERSON: It makes for good theater. You know, I encourage all of your viewers, you know, when they get done watching us, to just google Chuck Hagel and Senator McCain. And you don't have to go very far before you see quotes from Senator McCain praising Chuck Hagel, calling him an outstanding citizen and someone that he would be proud to serve with had he become president back in 2008. What has changed since when those quotes were given, to today? The only thing I can think that has changed is the fact you have a president they don't like and they want to stick it to him. This is about theater more than anything else. Mitch McConnell praised him as well on the way out, so I'm trying to figure out what has happened over the short period of time. Everything he said about defying W, that happened prior to those comments being made. And ?
GALEN: But L.Z., he has given speeches and written and joined, been on the board of organizations that frankly make me a little uncomfortable, and again I'm on the side of giving a president wide latitude in picking his cabinet. But those things have happened since he left the Senate, so I'm not sure it's fair to compare what McCain said four or eight years ago and what he is saying today.
BASH: And if I could just maybe shed some light on that, it was back in 2000, when Chuck Hagel was actually John McCain's national co-chair of his presidential campaign, that's when McCain said that he personally, he would even have Chuck Hagel as his Defense Secretary. And what did change is what I mentioned before, it really was Iraq that changed, that sent them on their separate ways personally, but much more importantly on a policy level. And that was the fundamental problem at its foundation but there's no question that Republicans see Hagel's positions on Iran as a big problem, and then, yes, of course, that's on top of that is the fact that they don't love the fact that the President nominated him, someone who they think is, for lack of a better way to say it, a political traitor, to be the next Defense Secretary.
GALEN: And Dana you're reporting on the day that ?
(Crosstalk)
GALEN: Let me just get back to this. On the day that ? and I'll stop. On the day that he testified, your reporting was fantastic in the dismal job that he was doing and I believe he used, you used the word "shocked" coming from senators' mouths. So I think for a lot of, for some Republicans that feel like me, that the President should get who he wants, they think that if that's how badly he did in that forum and he's been a member of the Senate, that maybe we need to give this just one more breath before we vote yes.
COSTELLO: Okay. L.Z., wrap it up for us. ? GRANDERSON: I just, well I just wanted to point out that while it's true his initial quotes, John McCain's initial quotes were in 2000, the Associated Press has quotes from him as early as 2008-2009 still praising the man, so it's not as if I'm reaching all the way back for a decade for old quotes. These are still relatively new in the political cycle. And so I agree, Chuck Hagel did a horrible job. I'm just trying to figure out why are these two men who praised him fairly recently in the cycle, why are they trashing him this hard? I think it's personal, in addition to his performance. ?
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