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Tee Shepard Notes

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Last week I had heard that Tee Shepard might be visiting on the 17th but couldn’t get confirmation. Yesterday Rob Cassidy from Rivals confirmed it when he tweeted out the following:

As I’ve said before, the 17th is looking like a big time recruiting weekend.

I will tell y’all that I talked to a source (I only have one source on this but he’s usually right when it comes to recruiting stuff) and I asked him where OU stands with Shepard and he said “OU is going to get Shepard”. I said “how do you know?” He just repeated…”OU is going to get Shepard.”

So take it for what ever you feel it’s worth.

I personally hope we do get Shepard. He is an incredible player. Amazing footwork, moves effortlessly and unlike most big kids he’s actually flexible. He’s also physical and plays well in open space. There is a confidence about Tee that makes everything he does look easy. He isn’t in a hurry. That typically comes from a lot of preparation and a mastery of technique.

Tee might even be a great cover safety. In Oklahoma’s scheme there isn’t a huge difference between the FS and SS position. You have to be able to play the deep middle on either side because of way Oklahoma disguises and rotates the coverage. You have to be able to play man. You have to be able to come down and tackle. And you have to be able to play robber. It doesn’t matter what side you play on, you have to be able to do all those things. In my estimation Tee could do all those things. Some might say, “why would you take an elite corner and turn him into a safety?” Well,

1) I’m not saying I would do that. I’m just saying they COULD do that and there is a premium on finding safeties that do what they are required to do in our scheme. I’ll wait till we see the players in the spring but I’m not convinced yet that all of the safeties we have on campus can do everything they’re required to do in order to give Coach Mike the flexibility he wants. There is no such thing as an “in the box” safety in Coach Mike’s scheme. If you’re stiff…you better start lifting because the only way you’re going to see the field on a consistent basis is as an LB.

2) We have quite a few players who I think can more than handle the corner spot. We don’t have as many people that can handle all the rigors of the safety spot. In fact Oklahoma is so dead set on getting Steven Parker because Parker actually plays corner some times. They know they’d have an elite cover safety with size and if you’re going to stop the run in the big 12 you’re not going to be able to protect your corners all the time and you’re also going to force your safeties to basically become unprotected corners. Also, you need guys that can break on the ball and tackle in space.

Anyhow, Tee Shepard would be at the top of my DB board. Juwan Dowels would be second. I’ll make my case for Juwan over the other HS DBs we are recruiting in another post.

Thanks for reading! 🙂

  • Cary Newman

    Is Dowels still scheduled to visit on the 31st?

    • Super K

      It depends. He flipped it to the 31st but Stanford is talking to him bout flipping it back if OU lets him.

      • Super K

        Sorry Stanford isn’t the school Stanford…it’s former FSU CB, Stanford Samuels – he’s Juwan’s trainer/mentor and a friend of mine.

        • Shifty

          Do you think they are afraid we might fill up their spot? Would we take Dowels, Randolph and Shepard? We have to have some attrition because I count at least 62 on scholly next year..that means 3 more ships and I know we’re going after more than 3

        • Cary Newman

          Thanks K. With the momentum we now have, ya think we might be full by the 31st?

        • Texclimber

          What are our chances with adoree Jackson? Sounds like he knows guys on the squad and mixon helps.

  • Drew T

    Appreciate the update! Really appreciate all the information and insight you guys are providing the fans

  • Ed Cotter

    Good stuff K, thanks. Good to know what’s up with Shepard, been awhile.

  • Indy_sooner

    We are also going after very physical DBs and I love that. I also like that these guys have some speed. I agree with Parker being #1 priority, but I find myself preferring Dowels a bit more than Tee.
    We are realistically looking at 4 additional DBs (Quick, Parker, Shepard, Kendall) all of whom we have a great shot of landing. That is an epic predicament to be under and when it’s all said, will probably be the deepest and best backfield class in the country when you consider Windham and Green.

    Edit: Make that 5 DBs. Added Jamoral Graham out of Mississippi to the list

    • SoonerfanTU

      Quick. If we get him, haven’t we told him he’ll get a shot at offense first?

      • Indy_sooner

        Didn’t know this, thanks for the catch.

      • Steve Cooke

    • Shifty

      Make that 6..Dowels

      • Indy_sooner

        Correct. Yikes

    • Daryl

      I don’t think that Quick plays DB for us. I think Quick has a really good chance to be right behind Shepherd as our Slot WR.

      Super K, I am curious what your thoughts are on Dakota Austin. I love his highlights and I have heard that he is a lock down cover guy, but is his size going to keep him off the field since Mike likes the bigger physical corners? Especially with the guys that are coming in this recruiting class?

    • Leroy Jenkins

      And don’t forget about Adoree’ Jackson…

  • SoonerBredCD

    Is this the same source that told you there was no way we would get Mixon?

    • Super K

      That was a guy who’s known mixon for a while. He’s a legit source and really believed mixon wasn’t going to go OUs way until last week. But The guy who told me about Shepard is the same guy who told me we’d get devante bond the week before he committed.

  • pitbull17

    One thing I love about Mike Stoops, the guys he recruits are “rip your head off tough” and OU had been missing that for a while. Sure there have been a few of them, but Mike likes everyone on the defensive side of the ball to be that way and I love a defense that will flat out punch you in the mouth.

  • cjsooner

    Can Cortez Johnson play safety?


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Mittens fights from behind to tie?

Republican Tea Party (GOTP) bride’s maid Willard Mittens Romney won Arizona, and Michigan – or did he? It seems that while he won the popular vote in Michigan’s primary, Mittens will have to split his home state’s convention delegates with second-place finisher Rick Santorum; they each won 15 of the state’s 30 delegates.

And since they’re splitting the delegates, Santorum’s now trying to say it’s a victory; but wait, it gets better, Mittens outspent Santorum more than 2 to 1 in his home state, $4.27 million to $2.3 million and the best he could do was tie! So, let me get this straight, Romney outspent Santorum by almost 2 to 1, in his home state, and the best he could do was tie? Wow, can you feel the love for this guy or what?

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Posted by on February 29, 2012 in 2012 Election

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Santorum’s kidnapping the nomination?

According to the Associated Press (AP) Republican Tea Party (GOTP) bride’s maid Willard Mittens Romney says he’s struggling with the way conservative voters are backing rival Rick Santorum because he’s unwilling to make the “incendiary” comments he said they want. But of course he’s not above lying about Santorum, Gingrich or President Obama.

Reporters have increasingly been asking why Romney’s struggling to win over his party’s right wing in Michigan where he was born and raised, and Mittens mewed it’s because he’s not willing to say “outrageous things” like his opponents.

“It’s very easy to excite the base with incendiary comments. We’ve seen throughout the campaign that if you’re willing to say really outrageous things that are really accusative and attacking of President Obama, you’re going to jump up in the polls,” Romney said. Fielding questions from the national traveling press corps for the first time in nearly three weeks, he said: “I’m not willing to light my hair on fire to try and get support. I am what I am.”

That may be true, but remarks highlighting his wealth – like when he said Sunday he doesn’t follow NASCAR as closely as some but has “great friends who are NASCAR team owners” – are definitely hurting his campaign and Mittens has admitted as much.

Romney’s has also reportedly accused Santorum of trying to “kidnap the primary process” by urging Democrats to come to the polls in Michigan’s open primary and vote against the former Massachusetts governor; of course Mittens has conveniently forgotten how he voted in Democratic primaries in Massachusetts in an effort he says was aimed at picking the weakest opponent for the Republican who was running. He said Tuesday he voted “against Ted Kennedy, Tip O’Neill and Bill Clinton,” and that doing so as a private citizen was different than a presidential campaign paying for phone calls.

Let’s see? No, it’s not any different, what’s good for the goose is indeed good for the gander.

At least Romney’s been honest in one thing (which yes, I admit is hard to believe), he says if he loses in the state where daddy served as governor, and where he was weaned, it would be extremely embarrassing and could possibly deal a devastating blow to his campaign, and he’s been playing catch-up in after losses to Santorum on in Minnesota, Missouri and Colorado.

Losing Michigan would deal a strategic blow against Mittens showing a possible weakness to the voters in future primaries and will considerably lengthen an already tiresome primary process which will not help him because if one thing’s for sure it’s that the more of Romney people see the worse off he is.

What’s truly comical is Mittens shouldn’t be in this spot, he should’ve nailed down the nomination long before now, but he’s not liked, and conservatives aren’t sure he’s really one of them.

If he loses Michigan it quite literally could be the beginning of the end of his presidential quest especially since Santorum’s leading in Ohio and second behind Newton in Georgia; winning Arizona will give him a boost but losing his home state would be a devastating hit.

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Latest 2012 Presidential Polls – (Arizona and Michigan primaries) 28 Feb 12 Edition

Today the four horsemen are doing battle in Arizona and Michigan for the Republican Tea Party (GOTP) presidential nomination while Maine’s primary still has yet to be finalized.

In Arizona’s Winner Take All Primary with 29 delegates the new PPP (D) poll of likely voters conducted 26 Feb 12: Romney 42; Santorum 26; Gingrich 18 and Paul 11 with 3% undecided. Clearly Mittens is going to take Arizona, the only question remaining is, how much?

In Michigan’s Hybrid Primary with 30 Delegates a new PPP (D) poll of likely voters conducted 26 -27 Feb 12: Santorum 38; Romney 37; Paul 14 and Gingrich 9 with 2% undecided. This shouldn’t even be close for Romney, but it’s a clear indicator of how much he’s disliked amongst his own party, even in his home state.

Washington’s Non-Binding Caucus with 43 delegates – 3 Mar 12; a new PPP (D) poll of likely voters conducted 16 – 19 Feb 12: Santorum 38; Romney 27; Paul 15 and Gingrich 12 with 8% undecided.

Super Tuesday (6 Mar 12)

Alaska’s Proportional Caucus with 27 delegates; no polling info …

Georgia Proportional Primary with 76 delegates; SurveyUSA poll of likely voters conducted 23 – 26 Feb 12: Gingrich 39; Romney 24; Santorum 23 and Paul 9 with 5% undecided. Newt is showing a second wind, at least in his home state – for the moment.

Idaho’s Non-Binding Caucus with 32 delegates; no polling info …

Massachusetts Proportional Primary with 41 delegates; Suffolk/7News poll of likely voters conducted 11 – 15 Feb 12: Romney 64; Santorum 16; Paul 7 and Gingrich 6 and with 7% undecided.

North Dakota’s Non-Binding Caucus with 28 delegates; no polling info …

Ohio Proportional Primary with 66 delegates; Quinnipiac poll of likely voters conducted 23 – 26 Feb 12: Santorum 36; Romney 29; Gingrich 17 and Paul 11 with 7% undecided.

Oklahoma Proportional Primary with 43 delegates; Rasmussen Reports of likely voters conducted 21 Feb 12: Santorum 43; Gingrich 22; Romney 18 and Paul 7 with 10% undecided.

Tennessee’s Proportional Primary with 58 delegates; no polling info …

Nothing new with Vermont’s Hybrid Primary with 17 delegates; PPP (D) poll of registered voters conducted 28 – 31 Jul 11: Romney 26; Paul 7 and Gingrich 6 with 61% undecided

Virginia Hybrid Primary (where only Romney and Paul are on the ballot) with 49 delegates; a new CNU/Times-Dispatch poll of likely voters conducted 4 – 13 Feb 12: Romney 53 and Paul 23 with 24% undecided.

Wyoming’s Non-Binding Caucus of 29 delegates; no polling info …

The regular season records for the gallant candidates: Santorum 4; Romney 3; Gingrich 1 and Paul 0 with Maine still unbelievably yet to be determined.

The GOTP Delegate Count to date is: Romney 90; Santorum 44; Gingrich 32 and Paul 13.

The current GOTP Popular Vote Count is:

Romney 1,121,685

Gingrich 838,825

Santorum 431,926

Paul 307,975

Nationally the GOTP Nomination according to the latest Gallup Tracking poll of registered voters conducted 22 – 26 Feb 12: Romney 32; Santorum 28; Gingrich 14 and Paul 12 with 14% undecided.

So, how does each of the Four Horseman of the GOPocalypse stack up against the President? The latest Politico/GWU/Battleground poll of likely voters conducted 19 – 22 Feb 12; if the general election were held today:

President Obama 53/Romney 43

President Obama 53/Santorum 42

If the GOTP clown car had finally stopped spinning, and the general election was held today, Mittens Romney would be the GOTP nominee, and he’d lose to President Obama in the general election.

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Posted by on February 28, 2012 in 2012 Election

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There should be no apology to Afghanistan?

The Associated Press (AP) is reporting that Republican Tea Party (GOTP) presidential hopeful Rick Santorum is busily criticizing President Barack Obama’s apology for the thoughtless and yet accidental burning of Korans in Afghanistan, adding that Afghanistan should apologize to the United States for the deaths of four U.S. soldiers during six days of violence sparked by the incident.

“There was nothing deliberately done wrong here,” Santorum said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week”. “This was something that happened as a mistake. Killing Americans in uniform is not a mistake. It was something that deliberate.”

First, Rick should remember we’re supposedly at war in Afghanistan – for more than 10 years now – and unfortunately, soldiers get killed after you invade and occupy a country. Second, burning someone’s most holy book is wrong, accidental or on purpose, it’s wrong. Following Santorum’s logic it must be OK to assume if one of his kids breaks a neighbor’s window with a baseball there’s no harm done, no apology is needed, no money should be offered to recompense. If something is accidental you never need to apologize in Santorumville.

Reportedly, more than 30 people have been killed in clashes since it was learned copies of the Koran and other religious materials had been thrown into a fire pit used to burn garbage at Bagram Air Field.

“The response needs to be apologized for by (President Hamid) Karzai and the Afghan people for attacking and killing our men and women in uniform and overreacting to this inadvertent mistake,” Santorum said on NBC’s “Meet the Press”. “That is the real crime here, not what our soldiers did.”

Clearly Santorum is as ignorant on foreign relations as he’s always appeared to be; who is Rick Santorum, “Mr. Christian”, to decide what an appropriate response by a Muslim population is to the burning of the Koran?

Santorum is woefully uninformed as to the situation and to the feelings of other religions, and lately he’s bemoaned – as many uber-conservatives have – the so-called “war on religion” by the Obama Administration for requiring non-profit organizations to provide emergency contraception to their employees as part of their health insurance coverage, but burning a Koran is no big deal? How would he feel if the Taliban had been reported to have “accidentally” burned Bibles? He – and the rest of the right-wing world – would be incensed and claim it was no accident.

The president’s apology suggests that there is blame and that the U.S. did something wrong “in the sense of doing a deliberate act,” Santorum said.

Santorum says that rather than saying he was sorry, Obama should have only acknowledged that burning copies of Islam’s holiest book in a trash pit was wrong and taken responsibility for the incident, “but to apologize, I think, lends credibility that somehow or another that it was more than that.”

Well, perhaps if we hadn’t occupied Afghanistan for 10 years, tortured prisoners, murdered civilians, flushed copies of the Koran down toilets, and had ministers in America burning Korans then the President might’ve been able to have taken that or another stance, but since a former President allowed many of those things to occur under his watch, the current President doesn’t have a lot of options.

If anything is learned from this latest spate of violence it’s that we’ve long overstayed our welcome in Afghanistan; we invaded to punish the Taliban and to get Bin Laden. We got the latter, and the former is up for dispute; it’s time to cut bait and come home. It’s time to leave the people of Afghanistan to their own devices, we’ve been there for more than a decade and it’s had little effect, saving the fact we killed Bin Laden. It’s time to bring all of our people home; it’s time to leave.

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Posted by on February 26, 2012 in 2012 Election

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Kit Lange’s Obama Predictions – 37 Months Later

Three years ago – as the conservative world flew into fits of rage due to its having contracted a severe case of Obama Derangement Syndrome (ODS) – I was sent a copy of Kit Lange’s, “My Predictions for the New Obama ‘Presidency’”, well it’s time to revisit Lange’s dire predictions and see if any have come true.

Kit: Israel will understand this election was the end of any type of assistance, military or otherwise, from the U.S., and will stop holding back their defense at the request of the American administration. Look for a first strike on Iran soon, as well as increased activity by the Israeli military in general. Israel is on her own now, and God help us all because of it.

LT: This is still, and always will be, a complete unsubstantiated pile of right-wing speak. Israel’s not only still receiving substantial aid from the United States in the forms of funding, intel and military support President Obama has given our ally what the Bush administration refused to provide – 50, 5,000 pound bunker buster bombs, clearly capable of taking out any underground nuclear facility Iran, or anyone else, may construct. Oh, and by-the-way, we’re still waiting for that “first strike” on Iran, which I will agree will happen the first time they fire up a reactor, but that would occur regardless of who was President. Still 0-1 …

Kit: Look for Iranian retaliation–against American targets. That goes doubly for other terrorist organizations.

LT: Still waiting, and thus far nothing, just the usual we’re going to attack the great American Satan, blah, blah, blah … 0-2

Kit:  Look for far-left justices appointed to the Supreme Court, effectively tying up the entire government in a trifecta of liberal humanism, the buzzwords of which remain empty platitudes like “hope and change,” and the ultimate goal of which is socialism–and soon, sharia law.

LT: Thus far President Obama has appointed two highly qualified women to the Supreme Court, neither of which could be classified as “far left”. And so-far there is no evidence of Sharia law being enacted anywhere in the country as a result of any Obama appointee … While we’re visiting this, what side of the political aisle would expect a Democratic President to appoint justices from? And, by-the-by, it’s called balance having justices from both ends of the political spectrum; a court filled solely from either side would be potentially disastrous to the Republic. Just a thought, but isn’t religious law bad no matter where it comes from, or is it just Islamic law? Funny how uber-conservative Christian nut jobs are scared spit less by so-called Sharia law, but have no issue with the Christian equivalent. 0-3

Kit: Military cases of troops being tried and convicted for killing the enemy in combat will continue to rise – and the conviction/plea – bargain rate will stay at nearly 100%, as the government seeks to use the best men and women this country has to offer as sacrificial lambs on the altar of global appeasement. Those brave and honorable men who currently reside in prison cells across the country, stripped of their rank, their careers, families, and their good name, will not taste free air again for many years. Their sacrifices and their stories will be forgotten by the general public, remembered only by those of us who continue to fight for them.

As for military troops being tried and convicted for doing their jobs…really? You may not be reading the news, but there are currently more than ten troops incarcerated at Leavenworth for just that. Add in the Fort Lewis cases, and you have yourself a true prediction. “Hasn’t happened?” Try again. [In all fairness, Spc Jeremy Morlock, and Spc Adam Winfield did plead guilty to their crimes….however, as someone who has sat in on some of the proceedings in person, I can say with absolute certainty that Spc Michael Wagnon and PFC Andrew Holmes are innocent of their charges, as is SSG Calvin Gibbs.]

LT: If, as you say, SPC Wagnon, PFC Holmes and SSG Gibbs are innocent of the charges then the military court will discover that. The charges being brought against these soldiers are extremely serious, these are not trifling charges lain on the altar of “global appeasement”. These men are charged with committing premeditated murder of civilians in “staged combat” situations. In effect they were “hits”. If the evidence supports the charges then these are hardly “brave and honorable men”. If these soldiers are acquitted,

On 15 Jan 10, in the village of La Mohammad Kalay fifteen year old Gul Mudin was doing farm work for his father. He was unarmed and allegedly murdered “by means of throwing a fragmentary grenade at him and shooting him with a rifle,” an action carried out by SPC Jeremy Morlock and allegedly PFC Andrew Holmes under the direction of Gibbs.

On 22 Feb 10, using thermal imagery, the soldiers discovered Marach Agha curled in a ball by a roadside. Gibbs and SPC Michael S. Wagnon allegedly shot him and placed a Kalashnikov next to the body to justify the killing. SPC Jeremy Morlock pled guilty for his death. The army later said it believed Marach Agha to be deaf or mentally retarded. The soldiers allegedly kept part of his skull. Gibbs was convicted by a military jury on 15 counts including the premeditated murder of Mudin, Agha and Adahdad as well as illegally cutting off pieces of their corpses and planting weapons to make the men appear as if they were Taliban fighters.

In Sep 2011 Holmes pled guilty to murder,and was sentenced to 7 years jail.

In Nov 2011, Gibbs was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 10 years minus the 547 days of pretrial confinement.

In 2011 Wagnon faced the following charges: possessing a human skull fragment, conspiracy to harm Afghans, premeditated murder, assaulting noncombatants, trying to destroy evidence. After pretrial hearings an Army investigating officer twice recommended that prosecutors drop the charges and in Feb 2011, Lewis-McChord senior commander MG Lloyd Miles dismissed them ending the Army’s prosecution.

The so-called, “Military cases of troops being tried and convicted for killing the enemy in combat will continue to rise” has not happened, in fact as shown above the Military Courts have dealt with the charges and where applicable have convicted or dismissed; 0-4 …

Kit: Look for the slow but steady erosion of rights you have enjoyed for your entire lives–all the while being told it’s “for your own good.”

LT: Can’t name a single one my rights that has been eroded in the past two years; 0-5

Kit: Restrictions on gun ownership,

LT: Hasn’t happened. In fact thus far, President Obama has done more to guarantee the free exercise of the Second Amendment than any of his recent predecessors. President Obama has allowed gun owners to carry weapons on Amtrak trains and in federal parks. No other President – not even conservative ones – has ever extended gun rights to that extent; 0-6…

Kit: …“encouraged dependence on the ever-growing federal government” hasn’t happened either? Have you seen the exponential growth of people on welfare assistance since he took office? Or are you going to simply blame that on the “horrible” economy he “inherited” from Bush?

LT: There’s a difference between the President “encouraging dependence” and the fact more people have needed assistance. Unemployment numbers rose after Bush/Cheney left office – due mainly to their administration having tanked the economy. As the President approaches re-election he has to take partial blame now for the fact the economy is still performing badly, and he will be attacked on that. However, when almost every piece of legislation passed by the Democratic House was blocked by a record number of Republican filibusters in the Senate, and since not one jobs bill has been produced by the GOTP House, there’s more than enough blame to go around. President still hasn’t “encouraged dependence”; 0-7 …

Kit: More nanny-state provisions will be put into place to protect the “disadvantaged” and the “poor,” (read: lazy, uneducated, unwilling to better themselves) {Wow! Sounding a bit racist} even while groups like the unborn, the mentally handicapped, elderly, and terminally ill are slowly pushed toward euthanasia. Of course, this will be done with feel-good phrases like “death with dignity,” “not wanting to be a burden,” and “merciful release from suffering,” all of which ignore the basic fact that we are killing people without their consent for the “good of the people.” Before you tell me I’m crazy, let’s just remember that Barack Obama was the ONLY senator in the Illinois state senate to vote against providing medical care for babies who were inconsiderate enough to survive an abortion.

LT: Then Senator Obama voted against the bill because it was a bill that would restrict a woman’s right to choice, not just to provide medical funding to help babies who survived late term abortions.

Unfortunately you chose to make claims that people voted for the President because he was black, not I. In conservative speak, when you refer to the “lazy, uneducated, unwilling to better themselves” that means minorities, specifically blacks and Latinos. It goes back to Reagan’s “welfare queens in Cadillacs” reference. He wasn’t referring to poor Appalachian families. You chose to use the phrase, “We have traded experience for color, freedom for slavery – and the irony is that the average American sheeple thinks their vote somehow righted an ancient wrong, somehow ENDED the specter of slavery and ushered in some beautiful era of liberty”. Those words were meant for the angry whites out there wanting to be angry at a President because of his race, and angry with those who voted for him by believing it was solely because he was black. The idea Bush/Cheney sucked so badly, or had screwed things up so badly, never entered yours or others minds when evaluating McCain/Palin’s loss.

Also, I haven’t seen the “push toward euthanasia” you spoke of … 0-8

Kit: Also, look for taxes to go up. Yes, they’ll go up.

LT: Actually, the majority of Americans got a tax cut shortly after President Obama took office and he supported extending the Bush Tax cuts, as well as recently forcing the GOTP House to continue the payroll tax breaks; 0-9…

Kit: You think the economy is bad now? Just wait. You’ll have the most expensive “free” health care ever. Bread lines aren’t just for Russians anymore.

LT: An economy driven into the ground by the failed policies of the Bush-Cheney Administration; which has given our country the largest expansion of the Federal Government ever, coupled with the largest Federal deficit ever, and in three years the economy is humming and beginning to move into full scale recovery; the Stock Market was at 8077.56 when the President was sworn in, and it’s hovering just below 13000 today; unemployment numbers continue to drop and we’re looking at 23 consecutive months of private sector job growth coupled with the rescuing of the American auto industry;  0-10 …

Kit: We have traded experience for color, freedom for slavery – and the irony is that the average American sheeple thinks their vote somehow righted an ancient wrong, somehow ENDED the specter of slavery and ushered in some beautiful era of liberty.

LT: I’m just a simple guy who happened to grow up in the south hearing racist comments all of the time and this is a racist commentary. I didn’t vote for President Obama because he was black. Or because I felt I needed to somehow correct the “specter of slavery”. I voted for him because I couldn’t continue to support the failed policies of President George W. Bush. I couldn’t continue to support an Administration that had prosecuted an illegal war based on half truths and lies, and that allowed my brothers and sisters in uniform to be used as thugs and bullies. I can no longer say, “American soldiers don’t torture prisoners.” Of course if you’ve never bothered to serve, or to swear an oath to protect and defend (Kit has served her country), or buried buddies who’ve died in combat, or later committed suicide because they couldn’t live with themselves any more, than you couldn’t begin to understand why I voted the way I did. Conservatives just can’t get used to a Black President.

Kit: “…In reality, we are about to be less free than you ever thought possible.”

LT: This has already been addressed …

Kit: I watched the faces of those crowded into the mob (excuse the pun) in Chicago. They stared at Obama like he was a god, an idol, a panacea to their every want and need. We have truly failed as a nation if we are at the point where we feel we must look to one man to take care of us all, to be our father figure and our sugar daddy. We have lost not only the “can-do” attitude of past generations, but the “MUST-do” attitude of our forefathers. We have allowed ourselves to become reduced from Patrick Henry’s proud cry of “liberty or death” to the sniveling, whining idea that we are owed something. We have gone from being the honorable defenders of freedom, to being told we are the problem.

LT: After eight years of President George W. Bush’s administration people were relieved. Pure and simple; here was a chance for America to start over. Unfortunately, Airman Lange’s idea of “the honorable defenders of freedom” has lost its luster because of the Bush administration’s policies. Because of innocent civilians being murdered (see above) and places like GITMO, and Abu Ghraib, places where Jefferson’s ideas of “all men being created equal” were spat upon; where people were tortured and humiliated, in the name of the American Ideal. My father, my father-in-law and others of the “greatest generation” fought against governments who treated prisoners like this. It was difficult to conceive of an America where common decency and honor no longer had a place. Perhaps now it will once again …

Kit: The eyes of Obama and McCain were also telling. McCain acted with class and grace in his concession speech, offering the most honorable response I’ve seen yet. I don’t agree with all of McCain’s positions, but it cannot be denied that the man has served his nation, at permanent and severe detriment to himself, for half a century. His eyes were clear and sincere, honest. His speech underlined the very reasons why, of the two men offered, he was hands down the best choice.

LT: Senator McCain served his country well and faithfully, but he was not the best choice. To continue four more years of failed foreign and domestic policies was not the better choice. To support four more years of torture, and the slow erosion of human liberties that we supposedly “hold to be self evident” was not the better choice. I too watched Senator McCain’s concession speech. He was magnificent. The crowd however, booed and acted shamefully when the Senator mentioned his opponent. Not a reaction I want to be associated with. Senator McCain is a hero. That doesn’t mean he should have been President. His choice of Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate firmly shoved me into President Obama’s camp. She was not only unqualified, but was a pathetically transparent attempt to sway woman voters to vote for McCain. She was the best, most highly qualified, conservative woman Senator McCain could find? This – to me – spoke volumes about his own abilities to be President.

Kit: On the other hand, Obama’s eyes were cold, calculating. His manner was smug and still carried the arrogance he has always had. His facial expression was one of barely disguised disdain for everything people like me believe in. His body language was smooth, polished, too much so. He talked of patriotism as though it is a value he is familiar with, and yet, his horrifying attitude toward the country he now leads is as well-documented as his friendships with those who seek its demise.

LT: Oh no! He pals around with terrorists! Not true; in fact, not only documented, but well-documented as not true. President Obama served on a board with someone who allegedly committed criminal acts during an extremely unpopular war; acts for which, in 1973, the Federal Government requested the dismissal of the charges against him. Note; the charges were dismissed at the request of the Federal Government. I also have watched President Obama speak, as I also watched Senator McCain speak. I also watched each and every debate between the two. I saw nothing of what the author speaks. President Obama didn’t speak in any way that she – or any other veteran, or currently serving member of the military should take as “disdain for everything people like me believe in”. Who exactly are the people like Ms. Lange? I’ve served 21 years in the United States Army, and I felt none of what Airman Lange claims.

Kit: He is charismatic to those who don’t know what to look for …

LT: like an aircraft mechanic knows? Is this standard aircraft mechanic training in the Air Force now? Guess I somehow missed the “anti-charismatic training” …

Kit: And he is inspiring to those who cannot or will not think for themselves.

LT: I made my decision to vote for President Obama not based upon his charisma, nor because – thank you very much – I can’t think for myself; as compared to the legions of “ditto-heads” who make up their minds based on this kind of hate-filled vitriolic prose, filled with half-truths and innuendo from the drug addled brain of the like of Limbaugh.

Kit: However, too many who voted for him are guilty of the most dangerous kind of hypocrisy. You see, we are told daily that we must not see color, just mankind. (We are all family, you know, or so we’re told.)

LT: Again, comments that are sounding more than a little racist, in my opinion.

Kit: And yet Barack Obama was handed the White House on a silver platter by a fawning media, a bevy of foreign donors (who, to this day and in violation of U.S. election laws, remain nameless and unaccounted for), and a populace who voted based on color instead of right and wrong, even in the face of the most damning evidence against a Presidential candidate in many years, perhaps ever.

LT: Voted based on color? Ms. Lange just doesn’t get it. George W. Bush gave Senator Barrack Obama the White House, not the color of President Obama’s skin. Hate-filled, fear mongering, gloom and doom right wing talk radio handed President Obama the White House. President Reagan – a self-proclaimed FDR Democrat – used to say, “I didn’t leave the Democratic Party, the Democratic Party left me.” I feel the same way about my Republican Party. If Limbaugh, Hannity and Lange are the example of the modern Republican Tea Party (GOTP), than all I can say is the GOTP is no longer the party of Ronald Reagan; it’s becoming the party of David Duke.

Kit: It is said that the people receive the government they deserve. Sadly, I fear that’s correct. We have become complacent, unwilling to see the writing on the wall, content to frolic in the warm water without bothering to notice that it’s been getting hotter by the minute. We are two seconds from a rolling boil, and perhaps it is already too late. So, liberals, enjoy your victory. Jump around. Have a party, file for your free grants. Scream “Gimme my handout!” and make fun of those of us who fought to make sure your “messiah” didn’t get access to the most powerful position in the world. Just remember when it all comes crashing down: You own the White House, the Congress, and soon the Supreme Court. You have no one to blame but yourselves for the mess you just created.

LT: It’s strange that only the right-wing “conservative” talk show types have ever referred to President Obama as the “Messiah”. I’ve never thought of him in this way, nor would I. Again, as said above, the GOTP has no one to thank for President Obama’s victory except for President George W. Bush, Vice-President Dick Cheney, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and now it would appear Kit Lange.

Kit: As for me, I’m buying my handguns this week so I have an answer for those who will come try to take them.

LT: What? She didn’t already own any guns?

 What has he done to take away your gun rights? Nothing; there have been no presidential edicts curtailing your right to own guns.

Well, we still have 0-10 on predictions and whole lot of ring-wing hyper-bole. This is the type of nonsense that drove me from the Republican Party, and it’s the same type of hate-filled, fear mongering driving the current GOTP primaries.

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Is the German military capable of defending Europe?

Source: The Local

The election of Donald Trump to President of the US has awoken fears that the US will no longer be the guardian of European security. If Washington steps back, can Berlin fill the void?

After less than a month of life with the Trump administration, it is still far from clear how Washington now sees NATO and the defence of Europe.

On Tuesday US Defence Secretary James Mattis described NATO as “the most successful military alliance in history” on his way to a meeting of defence ministers in Brussels.

But his boss in the White House has repeatedly called the alliance’s continued utility into question and has called on other member states to do more.

On the campaign trail before his election Trump said that if Russia attacked the Baltic states, he would decide whether to come to their aid only after reviewing if those nations have “fulfilled their obligations to us.”

As the largest economy in Europe, and the powerbroker in the EU, Germany is the obvious NATO partner to step into the breach, should the US draw back.

In late January and early February, hundreds of German soldiers landed in Lithuania tohead up a deployment of a 1,200-strong battalion that will include forces from several NATO members.

Germany’s Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen, who was at the base to welcome the troops, said that “it sends a clear and important message to all: NATO stands strong and united.”

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Vanishing on 7th Street[2010]R5 XviD-ExtraTorrentRG
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Vanishing on 7th Street[2010]R5 XviD-ExtraTorrentRG
Theatre Date     : 5 February 2011 (Japan)
IMDB User Ratings: 5.2
Genre            : Horror/Mystery/Thriller
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 Resolution    :  640 X 256
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 Frame Rate    :  25.000 fps
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 Codec ID      :   MP3
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 Duration      :   01h27m
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 Release Date  :   15-03-2011
 Language      :   English
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Hayden Christensen     :   Luke
John Leguizamo         :   Paul
Thandie Newton         :   Rosemary
Jacob Latimore         :   James

When a massive power outage plunges the city of Detroit
into total darkness,a disparate group of individuals find
themselves alone...

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The coloured, the yuppie, the waitress....Whats happens???? Everybody starts searching the fist 30 minutes- Then they start sharing is whos in command??? Some bound and some starting hating. What happens? End of movie and I havent even watch the movie. Thanks for the dl though.
Is the end of the movie cut off or not? Thanks SaM for the upload. Screens look great!
plz tell me, wut the fk is the movie trying to show me? shadows eat everyone in the city, then? why shadow didnt get black kid when lights were out? is it because shadow and the kid were both black like a family?
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Ok,Instead of everyone asking if the movie is cut at the end,Lets do a comparison here. According to IMDB,The movie length is 90mins (Hour and a half for the morons out there) So now, Can somebody that has the file already downloaded list the legnth of THIS movie?
Encoder : SaM
File Size : 700 MiB
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Thank you @ProfligateSoN. The file is 87mins long,So yes,There is indeed 3mins missing from the movie as the film's original length is 90mins. As it appears the 3mins is at the end,I,As well should other,Am gonna avoid this one. Thanks anyways SaM
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Omfg! This movie suckS!!! And I mean it suckS realy bad... I want my 90mins back!!!!!! Ok I will rate this movie, I'll give it 2/10
The main title on the DVD is 1:31:09.
> everyone commenting, stop spoiling the movie damn douchebags

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The Real World, s25e01: “Welcome To Las Vegas”

March 12, 2011

No lies, this episode starts with an in media res fast-cut montage of THE GOOD TIMES and then THE BAD TIMES and THE DRAMA and then cuts to a “TWO MONTHS EARLIER” caption screen like we’re watching Lost or something. I wish. Even Kate was only half as annoying as your average Real World housemate.

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Season 25 – Las Vegas pt2: the Bloodening

March 12, 2011

So I totally failed with the last one, huh. I think I lasted until maybe episode 7 or 8  before I couldn’t handle anymore of those petty man-children bitching at each other over absolutely nothing.

But, NEVER FEAR, the new season is here and I’m back. It’s set in Las Vegas (again) and they’re living in a converted suite at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, just like people in the real world do. Here’s an oh-so-pally MTV promo photo:

They all look so friendly towards each other. I wonder what’s going to happen when things GET REAL?

s24e04 – “Superbrawl 2010”

August 4, 2010

OK, I’m really bad at keeping to a schedule. But don’t worry, I’m not going to write about Jersey Shore, even though the season premiere was triple-A badass. Those people don’t deserve my ire, they don’t know any better. These people, though…

This week, on The Real World:

IT’S SUPER BOWL TIME!!! Also, yes, that’s a dog parade.

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s24e03 – “Jemmye’s White Knight”

July 29, 2010

WOW POOR SCHEDULE. I actually wrote 90% of this post close to a week ago, but I’ve been busy with music festivals and sticking together record sleeves (DIY4LIFE) and having my girlfriend stay with me and apparently writing about The Real World is not a fun activity for my girlfriend to sit and watch me do like WHATEVER, but I’m planning another update over the weekend and then, as of next week, this blog should settle into a regular pattern of updates as the season progresses.

I’m also currently debating writing about the new season of Jersey Shore, which starts TOMORROW in the US. I’M VERY EXCITED.

This week on The Real World:

Mardi Gras! Ryan is a sex pest! Knight is a sex pest! MARDI GRAS!

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s24e02 – “Knight Fights, Love Bites”

July 13, 2010

Drinking! Arguments! Flying cushions! Mankinis! This idiot!

Only on The Real World!

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Archive for July 9th, 2009

The Situation of Information and Meaning-Making

Posted by The Situationist Staff on July 9, 2009

From TED: “Information designer Tom Wujec talks through three areas of the brain that help us understand words, images, feelings, connections. In this short talk from TEDU, he asks: How can we best engage our brains to help us better understand big ideas? (Duration: 6:26):

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Chocolate Filled Crepe

Chocolate Filled Crepe

I usually make my afternoon snack before leaving for work so it’s cold and ready in the fridge when I get home at 3:30. It’s always one of the puddings.

This morning, I was preparing my crepe (one large crepe prepared in omelette pan). While it was cooking, I prepared chocolate pudding and added vanilla flavoring, splenda, and cinnamon. Put that in the fridge.

As I bring my beautiful masterpiece of a crepe to the table, the devil in me took a spoonful of the pudding from the fridge and plopped it right in the middle of the crepe, folded it over, added I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter spray over that and then the WF syrup. OMG!!!!

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European Union Trademark No. 001984434 (Word) Trademark register: EUIPO Status: application withdrawn

Word mark

The European Union Trademark for YESTERDAYLAND (Word) was filed on 04.12.2000 for goods and services in class(es) 9, 35 and 41 at the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO). The current status of the trademark No. 001984434 YESTERDAYLAND is 'application withdrawn'.

Trademark information
RegisterEuropean Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)
Filing date04.12.2000
Nice classes9, 35 and 41
RepresentativeMAGUIRE BOSS
 PE27 5PD St. Ives,, Cambridge, GB
Goods and Services (the trademark is registered for the following goods and services)
Class 9 : Prerecorded audiotape cassettes, videotapes, compact discs and computer programs featuring music and audio from radio and television programs and motion pictures.
Class 35 : Computerized online retail services in the field of nostalgia, popular culture and media provided via a global computer network.
Class 41 : Entertainment services, namely, providing celebrity interviews, articles, information and scenes from or relating to television programs, radio and motion picture films.
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European Union Trademark No. 002702652 (Word) Trademark register: EUIPO Status: registered

Word mark

The European Union Trademark for TRAVELITE (Word) was filed on 20.05.2002 for goods and services in class(es) 35, 41 and 43 at the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO). The current status of the trademark No. 002702652 TRAVELITE is 'registered'.

Trademark information
RegisterEuropean Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)
Filing date20.05.2002
Registration date08.01.2004
Expiry date20.05.2022
Nice classes35, 41 and 43
OwnerSheraton International IP, LLC
 06902 Stamford,, Connecticut,, US
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Class 35 : Advertising; business management; business administration; advertising and marketing services; promotion services; loyalty scheme services; database management services; business information services provided online from a global computer network or the Internet; composing advertisements for use as web pages; market surveys; analysis of advertising response and market research.
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European Union Trademark No. 002778553 (Word) Trademark register: EUIPO Status: registered

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The European Union Trademark for (Word) was filed on 17.07.2002 for goods and services in class(es) 9, 41 and 42 at the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO). The current status of the trademark No. 002778553 is 'registered'.

Trademark information
RegisterEuropean Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)
Filing date17.07.2002
Registration date16.06.2004
Expiry date17.07.2022
Nice classes9, 41 and 42
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Goods and Services (the trademark is registered for the following goods and services)
Class 9 : Customised computers, hardware and software, automatic interactive translation systems.
Class 41 : Translation including on-line and through the Internet.
Class 42 : Research and consultancy in the field of industrial and intellectual property;registration of intellectual and industrial property rights;technical and legal consultation services.
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Version 8 (modified by Tod Jiang, 7 years ago) (diff)

Agilo Ticket Report Plugin

Agilo ( is nice scrum process tools base on trac. Every task ticket has an estimation time(hours), the team manager want to know exactly real working time comparing with estimated time. That's maybe metric of team member's working efficiency., so I developed this plugin for agilo. Thanks to agilo developers' sharing this tool, I just contribute something to open source community.

There is table named "ticket_change" in database make records of every ticket changes. So we can do data mining in current Trac Database.

Real working hours = ticket closed time - ticket accept time - None working time

Working time = from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm (exactly 9 hour including 1 hour lunch time) from Monday to Friday

None working time = from 18 pm to next day 9 am of working days, Sta, Sun, Holidays(Manual configure)

Ticket Work Flow

Add "pending" status for ticket

Why add “pending” status ?

Sometime, we may accepted several tickets at one time in a sprint, we could not resolve tickets at same time, or some tickets may block by our customers.

So, if we want to calculate the exactly working time, we must add the "pending" status.

Although standard process is O-->As-->A-->C-->R-->A-->C, but there are still some tickets do not follow the rule.

line1 = t1

line2 = t2

line3 = t3 + t4 + t5

line4 = t3 + t4 + t6

line5 = t3 + t4 + t7

Bugs/Feature Requests

Existing bugs and feature requests for AgiloTicketReportPlugin are here.

If you have any issues, create a new ticket.

Download the zipped source from [download:agiloticketreportplugin here].

You can check out AgiloTicketReportPlugin from here using Subversion, or browse the source with Trac.

1. Download latest pyExcelerator lib and install it.
     --- pyExcelerator is open source python excel library

2. Configure

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if you use single project
# just left PROJECT_NAME_PREFIX empty
else # use multiple projects
 for example:
# http://[ip]:[port]/projects/[PROJECT_NAME]
  PROJECT_NAME_PREFIX = "projects"

3. working time time set up (optional)
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start time and end time of working day, and holiday configuration

+ pending = new,assigned,accepted,reopened -> pending
+ pending.permissions = TICKET_MODIFY

Web UI

Generated Excel Report

Recent Changes

6587 by todjiang on 2009-09-23 13:27:24
add "pending" status for ticket
6581 by todjiang on 2009-09-22 07:45:06
add milestone add query condition and only show running, closed backlogs
6578 by todjiang on 2009-09-21 19:20:02
move agilo ticket report plugin to trac-hacks

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My daughter Mélanie is eight weeks old today. Hard to believe it’s already been eight weeks (she’s two weeks in the picture above) and at the same time hard to remember there was a time she wasn’t here. As we move into February, my late New Years resolution is to get back to regularly updating this blog (it may take me a bit longer to get the Fraser Correspondence back up to speed). This week’s post is an excerpt from my WIP, The Princess’s Secret, which is set in Paris after the battle of Waterloo (and after my forthcoming Imperial Scandal). I just finished a draft and am starting to revise, so it’s a fun time to be sharing a bit of the book.

The post-Waterloo Paris setting lets me revisit a number of the characters from <em>Vienna Waltz, including Wilhelmine and Dorothée who are in this scene. Let me know what you think and which other characters, real or fictional, you’d like Charles/Malcolm and Mel/Suzanne to cross paths with again. Once again I’ll give away an ARC of Imperial Scandal to a commenter.

“How should I have the least idea what Edmond may or may not know?” Dorothée de Talleyrand-Périgord flung herself down on her chaise-longue. “I’m the last person in Paris he’d confide in. You should have seen the way he was looking at Karl and me at the opera the night before last.”
“I did see. It argues something other than lack of interest,” Mélanie took a sip from the gilt-rimmed cup of coffee Dorothée had given her.
Dorothée grabbed a cushion from the chaise-longue and plucked at the fringe. “Edmond isn’t any more interested in me than he ever was/ His pride was hurt. Stupid honor.”
“I couldn’t agree with you more there.”
Dorothée flung the pillow aside. “I’m sorry, Mélanie, I’m not usually so pettish. It’s being back in Paris. Having Edmond here even if I see next to nothing of him. Facing down the gossip. Worrying about Karl.”
“And then there’s the strain Monsieur Talleyrand is under,” Mélanie said.
“That too.” Dorothée reached for her own cup of coffee and took a careful sip. In Vienna, she had fallen in love with the handsome Austrian Count Karl Clam-Martinitz, who was still her lover. But her relationship with her husband’s uncle, Prince Talleyrand, had also deepened in ways she would not admit even to a close friend like Mélanie. Perhaps not even to herself. “Who is this man who was a friend of Edmond’s?”
“Bertrand Laclos. He died in the Peninsula in 1811.”
Dorothée frowned a moment, then shook her head, her glossy brown ringlets stirring about her fine-boned face. “I’d just married Edmond then [?} and come to Paris. Paris bewildered me, and I tended to want to sink into the shadows. Edmond’s friends were all a blur.”
“What are you looking so serious about?” Dorothée’s eldest sister, Wilhelmine, Duchess of Sagan, swept into the room with a rustle of Pomona green sarcenet and a waft of custom-blended scent. She dropped down in a chair and began to strip off her gloves. “Do pour me out a cup of coffee. I drank too much champagne at the Russian embassy last night.”
“Do you remember a Bertrand Laclos?” Dorothée asked, pouring a cup of coffee for her sister. “A friend of Edmond’s.”
“I make it a point to avoid Edmond’s friends.” Wilhelmine took a grateful sip of coffee. She lowered the cup and looked at Mélanie over the gilt rim. “Is this to do with the Comte de Rivere being killed last night?”
“That’s quick even for you,” Mélanie said. “How did you guess?”
Wilhelmine tugged at the ribbons on her cottage bonnet and lifted the straw and satin from her burnished gold curls. “Someone dies under mysterious circumstances, and you and Charles start asking questions. I’ve learned to put two and two together.”
Dorothée regarded her sister. “Besides, I suspect Lord Stewart told you.”
“Possibly.” Wilhelmine took another sip of coffee., then shrugged her shoulders, fluttering her gauze scarf. “Oh, very well. I was there when he got the message from Castlereagh this morning.”
“I don’t know what you see in him, Willie.” Dorothée made a moue of distaste. “When I remember how he pinched me at the Metternichs’ masquerade—“
“I admit Stewart isn’t always subtle—“
“That’s an understatement if I ever heard one. I think Talleyrand would have struck him at the masquerade if I hadn’t intervened.”
Wilhelmine took another sip of coffee. “Yes, well, we know how protective Talleyrand is when it comes to you.”
Dorothée flushed. “Don’t make this about me, Willie. I liked Alfred—“
“Alfred, if you’ll recall, left me.” Wilhelmine rubbed at the lip rouge smeared on her cup.
Dorothée bit her lip. “I’m sorry, Willie—“
“Don’t be. Every love affair has to end with someone leaving.” Wilhelmine’s mouth curved with customary cynicism. Yet in Vienna last autumn, Mélanie had seen how deep Wilhelmne’s feelings for Alfred von Windischgrätz ran.
“Then there was Fred Lamb,” Dorothée said. “I liked him as well.”
Wilhelmine leaned forward to pour more coffee into her cup. “Agreeable. But not serious.”
“And now Alfred’s in Paris and seems very—“
Wilhelmine clunked the coffee pot down on the silver tray. “Are you saying you think I should come running the moment he crooks his finger?”
“No, course not. But if love him—“
“I don’t believe in love. Or at least I don’t trust it.” Wilhelmine tugged out her handkerchief and wiped at the coffee that had spattered on the tray and the porcelain tiles of the table. “Whatever Alfred may think he feels, within a few years he’ll be married to a nice, respectable girl. It was never going to last—“
“And you think—“ Dorothée stared at her sister. “Willie, are you considering marrying Stewart?”
Wilhelmine lifted her cup, full to the brim, and took a careful sip. “You say that as if marriage was some new form of sin.”
“You’ve sworn you’re never going to marry again.”
Wilhelmine, twice divorced, gave her sister a careless smile. “You’ve known me all your life, Doro. Surely you realize I’m changeable.”
Dorothée shook her head. “I can’t believe you love him.”
“My dear child. You’re nearly two-and-twenty. You can’t still think love has anything to do with marriage.”
“It does for some people.” Dorothée flicked a glance at Mélanie.
“There are always exceptions.” Wilhelmine’s face relaxed into a smile. Then she studied Mélanie. “Though I don’t know that even Mélanie would claim her marriage began with love.”
“It began with necessity,” Mélanie said. Which was the truth. Though as with so much else to do with her marriage, a twisted truth.
Wilhelmine’s gaze held perhaps more understanding than Mélanie would have liked. “There are all sorts of reasons one marries. Necessity. Security. Position.”
Dorothée stared at her sister, as though she were a puzzle with unexpected angles. “And you think Stewart will give you—“
“His brother is the foreign secretary of England. It might be amusing.”
“It sounds beastly.” Dorothée reached for her lace shawl and pulled it tight round her shoulders. “Take it from me, there’s nothing worse than being tied to a man one can’t respect.”
“But then I’m not a romantic, Doro. That makes it easier.” Wilhelmine turned her gaze back to Mélanie. “I don’t know anything about this Bertrand Laclos, but if you want to learn about Rivere, you should talk to Lady Caruthers.”
Mélanie was used to making quick leaps of thought, but this was too much even for her. Gabrielle Caruthers was a French émigrée to England now married to a British officer. “Why?” she asked. “What does she have to do with Rivere?”
Wilhelmine settled back in her chair. “She was his mistress.”
“Gabrielle Caruthers”?” Dorothée said. “That’s a bit of gossip I hadn’t heard.” Her eyes narrowed. “I suppose Stewart told you.”
“No, Annina did. Maids always hear gossip first.”
“Lady Caruthers always seemed so demure.”
“They’re often the most scandalous ones.”
Dorothée shot her a sisterly look. “You’ve never been the least bit demure, Willie.”
“There are always exceptions.” Wilhelmine settled back against the cushions, cradling her coffee cup in one hand. “I expect you want to talk to Lady Caruthers. I understand she’s in the habit of taking coffee in the late morning in the Café Luxembourg. Quite like a Frenchwoman. Which of course she is. Though she hasn’t live here for years.”
“Much like me,” Mélanie said. Which was a truth, caught in the myriad lies she told about her past, even to her closest friends.
““Is that why you’re looking into Rivere’s death?” Dorothée asked. “Because you suspect Lord Caruthers was involved?”
Mélanie took a sip of coffee. “Until two minutes ago I hadn’t the least idea Lady Caruthers was involved with Rivere.”
“According to Annina, Rivere and Lady Caruthers had become quite reckless,” Wilhelmine said. “Though Lord Caruthers doesn’t particularly seem the jealous sort.”
“One never knows.” Dorothée’s face darkened. “I’d have never thought Edmond—“
“Edmond’s just the sort to get his pride hurt. Rupert Caruthers seems more—“ Wilhelmine’s delicate brows drew together as she searched for the right word.
“Temperate?” Mélanie suggested. She pictured Lord Caruthers, well-cut features, an agreeable smile. The sort of man to get a lady lemonade at a military review or return to the carriage for her parasol. And it was all done with sincerity rather than an attempt at flirtation.
“Yes, that’s it precisely.” Wilhelmine nodded. “Too well-bred to fight a duel.”
“That’s all very well,” Dorothée said, “but betrayal can take people the oddest ways.”
Mélanie reached for her coffee, a dozen thoughts tumbling through her brain, not all to do with Antoine de Rivere and the Carutherses. Her fingers closed hard round the delicate porcelain handle. “So it can.”


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The true story of technical troubles that scuttle the Apollo 13 lunar mission in 1971, risking the lives of astronaut Jim Lovell and his crew, with the failed journey turning into a thrilling saga of heroism. Drifting more than 200,000 miles from Earth, the astronauts work furiously with the ground crew to avert tragedy.

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18 08 2007

I had a friend recently ask some advice on how to sort out the thousands of photos that we take these days with the advent of digital cameras. I thought it would make a useful blog post so here’s (roughly!) what I said to him…

[BTW, a huge congrats to Tim & Karen on gettin’ hitched!!!]

Photos can be difficult to organise, I’m still trying to sort out 1000’s of photos spread over around six hard drives. But here’s what I’m heading toward, and what I recommend:

Use a photo management tool (running locally) to sort through all of your photos. This will be the primary means of bringing order to the chaos. I physically put all my photos in folders sorted by year/event. Something like “2007/ColletteLukeWedding”. Then I tag them with more information in my photo management tool – so all of those photos would have “Collette”, “Luke”, “Wedding” tagged on them as well as further tags like “Tom”, “Dick” etc if those people appeared in specific shots. That way it’s easy to find the photos later.

On Windows I’d use Picasa. I’m on the Mac and use iPhoto. There are other alternatives (eg some people swear by Photoshop’s browser) but these are pretty solid products and very popular.

[BTW Picasa calls ‘tags’ ‘keywords’. If you haven’t used any form of tagging before, fire up Picasa, hit Ctrl+K and add a tag to a picture. Then try searching for it; it’s blazingly fast.]

As well as using a local application I often want to put many of my photos online. I use Flickr and wholeheartedly recommend it. You can easily upload photos from within Picasa to Flickr with many tools (I used to use Picasa2Flickr, now I use Flickr Uploadr) and most preserve the tags so you can search easily in Flickr as well. For example, here are all of my photos with the “wedding” tag. And here are all photos from all users tagged with “wedding”.

See how useful tagging can be? 🙂

Although Flickr has a free service I pony up US$25 per year to get unlimited photo storage. I consider it worthwhile.

Picasa also has an online service, called “Picasa Web Albums” that is the other obvious Flickr competitor. It’s more tightly integrated with Picasa (even easier to upload) but it’s perhaps not as powerful. The Flickr folks have been very good about allowing developers to connect to their service too which means that there are dozens of tools to help you use Flickr – few tools exist in the PWA space.

There are also many Flickr/PWA competitors (Zooomr, Smugmug, Photobucket, Snapfish, Shutterfly, Phanfare just to name a few) and although they all have their pros/cons I always found Flickr to be the pick of the bunch.

OK, so you’re cruising, running Picasa locally and using Flickr online. What else do you need to worry about? Backups. Don’t forget to backup! My photos are one of the most precious things I have. I’ve settled on using an online service to backup my photos. I’m using Amazon S3 in conjunction with JungleDisk which, in simple terms, provides me with a drive that gets mounted in my operating system and I simply copy files to it. Those files are encrypted and copied to Amazon’s servers somewhere on the internet. I can access them from any PC with a net connection. I debated using local hard drives, DVD’s or whatnot to backup my files and I’ve been really happy with S3/JungleDisk although I’ve really got to automate it (so I don’t have to manually copy files).

It’s not a free option though. JungleDisk costs US$20 and Amazon charge you for the amount of space you use and how much you transfer back and forth. My typical monthly bill from Amazon is US$1-2 though so it’s not a huge cost!

So there you have it; the basics of how to manage photos in a digital world…

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Mike Malloy is putting bets down that Donald Trump will win the Republican nomination. Trump’s ability to insult broad swathes of the country and emerge practically unscathed in the polls is not to be taken lightly.  It’s a strong indicator that he has activated the absentee portion of the Republican party that normally abstains from politics, and that can make him a real threat to other Republicans.

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Sean Hannity brought Reverend Franklin Graham, son of famous Reverend Dr. Billy Graham, onto Fox News in order to discuss a puff piece about charity work Graham was involved in. In the middle of this promotion, though, Hannity asked Graham about comments he had made arguing that we should bar Muslims from entering the country.

Graham, who says that he and his church are heavily involved with aiding refugees fleeing across the boarder to Greece, claims that “mixed into” the many families leaving Syria, there many able-bodied, military-aged young men. Graham indicates that these men, risking their lives crossing waterways in flimsy boats, are possibly doing so in an effort to infiltrate the U.S. as ISIS soldiers.

Franklin’s father, Dr. Billy Graham was a minister with close ties to many Presidents, holding their religious convictions in the palm of his hand. Graham supported Martin Luther King Junior, bailing him out of jail when he was arrested for protesting. Unlike his son, Graham also urged peace in the middle east, making a clear distinction that America should not be at war with the entirety of Iraq, but rather the extremists in the regime.

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The Origin of Gambling

Gambling has been around for a very long time and every country around the world all have different views on how it should be dealt with. Some countries allow it (under certain restrictions), and some prohibit it entirely. The countries that have made gambling illegal are usually done so because of religious beliefs. The punishment for violating such an act in these countries is sometimes as harsh as to getting your hands cut off. Catholic and Jewish traditions, on the other hand, have set days aside for gambling, for instance, the Jews have Hanukkah. Researchers have discovered that gambling originated from religious beliefs. Primitive gambling tools have been recovered from pre-historic societies indicting that gambling was performed. The gambling done back then had a different meaning to the practice. Objects such as pebbles, sticks, arrows, etc. were thrown to the ground and the distant future was foretold to you. This method was also used to make things comprehensible to the unexplained acts or events that took place. This primitive method was quite simple actually. The outcome was based on a number being “odd” or “even”. If the number of objects came out even, the outcome was good; if the number was odd – not so good.

Gambling eventually evolved into a religious practice. Believers of a certain god or deity would perform rituals and would sacrifice something special or precious to them to ask favors from their god or deity. Sometimes what they asked for came true, meaning it was approved and then granted. When what they asked for wasn’t granted, this meant it was disapproved, and sadly, you still lost your special or precious item. Basically, this tells us that these requests were based merely on chance. Eventually, gambling moved out of the religious community and turned itself into a separate activity all together.

Man started to gamble personal possessions like furs, tools and weapons. Even crops such as cotton, wheat, rice and vegetables were used as collateral. Animals were also used in hope to gain material possessions. There wasn’t anything that was spared that had some value to somebody somehow when it came to gambling. During the cold months and dry seasons, desperation would set in on some. This would drive them into gambling what little they had just so they could eat or stay warm for the duration of their unfortunate status. However, if you were on the losing end, troubled and/or hard times lie ahead. This would cause some to commit heinous crimes within the community or tribe, risking imprisonment, being out casted, losing a limb and even put to death, just to survive another season. This is probably the era when gambling started taking a turn for the worse and compulsive gambling was considered an immoral character trait rather than an addiction.

Gamblers Anonymous

Although gambling was recognized as being a problem, it wasn’t until the 19th century that gambling was considered addictive. A compulsive gambler can have the same addictive symptoms as someone with an alcohol or drug addiction. On September 13, 1957, a group of people realized that they had a gambling problem and formed Gamblers Anonymous in Los Angeles, California, USA. Today, it’s estimated that there are over 100,000 members alone just in the United States. Gamblers Anonymous (aka GA)hold meetings all over the world, including Australia, Brazil, Israel, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, Spain, Uganda, and in the United Kingdom.

Doctors, psychiatrists and psychologists all agree that gambling can lead to a serious diseased addiction. Unlike most other diseases, gambling and other certain kinds of addiction are hard to overcome. Joining group therapy like GA is highly recommended by experts in addictive diseases and they give credit to a “Twelve Step Program”.  The Twelve Step Program consists of twelve steps that the addict has to follow in order to complete the program.  Even though an addict is never really fully recovered from their addiction, the temptation to gamble and fall into a isn’t so great and can be overcome. The Twelve Step Program is recognized as an essential tool to help overcome a gambling addiction, as hundreds of thousands of people all over the world are proof to that. Members of GA know all too well what can happen if a compulsive gambler doesn’t seek and get help. Failed relationships are common in the life of an out of control gambler. Depression is also commonly found in gambling addicts which can lead to suicide. When a problem gambler starts experiencing failed relationships it’s usually caused by financial troubles and a “dynamo effect” can happen. After failed relationships comes a hard time holding down a job and losing them. Then the debts get higher and harder to manage and pay off, losing personal items such as cars and homes, sometimes it’s too much to take for some and the thought of suicide occasionally comes to thought. For some gamblers who don’t seek and get help, they actually believe that suicide is their only way out.

Las Vegas, Nevada – Sin City USA

Probably the most popular city when it comes to gambling in the entire world, Las Vegas, Nevada is a professional gamblers dream. Gambling was legalized in Nevada in 1931 and has been the state’s main source of income which is the backbone to its economy. Gambling is a multibillion dollar business and most of it comes from Las Vegas, legally and illegally (but gambling on the internet has now been the new craze and is slowly taking the number one spot).  Las Vegas is visited by millions of tourists a year from all over the world; another source of income for the state of Nevada – tourists. But gambling isn’t the only thing you can do in Sin City; there are shows, circuses, sporting events, fine dining, carnival rides… it is said that there’s nothing in world you can do that you can’t do in Las Vegas. But the most popular saying that most people agree on is,

 “What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.”

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Gearing Part 2: Chainrings, Gear Ratios and the Steps from One Gear to the Next

RingsThis is the second of a series of posts on gearing for road bikes.  It’s aimed at riders who are seeking a basic understanding of bicycle gearing.

Chainrings for road bikes come in many different sizes and configurations.  Standard two-chainring setups (commonly called doubles) usually feature combinations of either 53 and 39 tooth rings, or 52 and 39 tooth rings.  Compact doubles usually have 50 and 34 tooth rings.  Triples (3 chainring setups) usually have either 53-39-30 tooth combos or 52-42-32 tooth combos.  In addition to these standard sizes, it is possible to combine different size rings into unique combinations.

Cassettes for road bikes also come in a variety of configurations.  For example, Shimano, one of the premier manufacturers of bike gear, lists 6 basic sprocket configurations for their 10-speed cassettes.  As is the case with rings, it is possible to combine sprockets into unique cassette combinations.

I’ll use a basic setup of a 53-39 standard double and a 12-25 cassette to illustrate some basic yet important things about gearing.  All of the main points made here will hold no matter how your bike is geared.

Here are the gears available with a drive train composed of a 53-39 double and a 12-25 cassette in both gear inches and meters of development.  The numbers were calculated using Sheldon Brown’s outstanding online gear calculator which has been used by cyclists for many years .

Gear Inches

12 13 14 15 16 17 19 21 23 25
39 87.8 81 75.2 70.2 65.8 61.9 55.4 50.1 45.8 42.1
53 119.3 110.1 102.2 95.4 89.4 84.2 75.3 68.1 62.2 57.2

Meters of Development

12 13 14 15 16 17 19 21 23 25
39 7.0 6.5 6 5.6 5.3 4.9 4.4 4.0 3.7 3.4
53 9.5 8.8 8.2 7.6 7.1 6.7 6.0 5.4 5.0 4.6

As noted in Gearing Part 1: The Basics, meters of development is a system that is used more commonly in Europe than in the US.  Because it tells you how many meters the bike moves forward every time the pedals go around once it makes it easier to understand how different gear combinations translate into the work you’re doing on the bike.

rear deraileurThere are several important things that can be shown by examining the numbers in these tables.  First, it seems that many people have the mistaken idea that all of the gears on the small (39 tooth) ring are smaller or easier than all of the gears on the big (53 tooth) ring.  Looking at the numbers in the Meters of Development table shows that this isn’t the case and that there is a large amount of overlap in the gears available on the two rings.  53-25 is the easiest gear on the big ring; it moves you forward 4.6 meters every time the pedals go around once.  This gear is bracketed by the 39-19 gear (4.4 meters) and the 39-17 gear (4.9 meters) on the small ring.  Comparing the numbers in the table for the two rings you can see that the gears from 53-16 to 53-25 overlap with the gears from 39-12 to 39-17.  In other words about 60% of the gears available on one ring are, more or less, also available on the other ring.

Does this mean that you’re getting ripped off because so many gears are more or less duplicated on the two rings?  Not at all.  While the big ring gives you a bigger top end and the little ring gives you a smaller bottom end, the main function rings are designed to provide has to do with the size of the steps between one gear and the next when you shift.  Take a look at the amount of change involved between shifting on the big ring into the 53-12 gear from the 53-13 gear.  That shift moves you forward .7 more meters every pedal revolution.  Now look at the same shift on the small ring;  shifting from the 39-13 to the 39-12 gear moves you forward .5 more meters with every pedal revolution.  It’s the same 1-tooth change on the cassette but it has a bigger effect on the big ring than the small ring.

This is true for almost every shift from one gear to the next on the cassette.  The shift on the small ring is smaller and more refined than the same shift on the big ring.  An exception in the table is the shift from the 17 tooth sprocket to the 16 tooth sprocket.  This shift is listed as an increase of .4 meters for both rings.  However, this is a rounding artifact; if we carried the math out to more decimal places it would show that the change on the small ring is smaller than the change on the big ring.

What’s going on here is that gear relationships are nonlinear.  A one-tooth change does not always equal the same amount of effort that has to be expended to increase (or decrease) your speed.  In general, the bigger the gear you’re in, the bigger the change involved in moving up or down 1 tooth on the rear sprocket.   We saw this when looking at the difference in the 1 tooth change from the 13 tooth to the 12 tooth sprocket on the big and small rings.

The same thing is true when you look at what happens when shifting between gears on the rear sprocket while you stay in the same ring.  Take a look at the change involved in shifting from the 53-25 gear which is the easiest gear on the big ring to the next harder gear on the same ring, the 53-23 gear.  That’s a change of two teeth (from 25 to 23) and you have to put out the effort to go .4 meters further with every pedal revolution.  Now look at the change from the 53-13 gear on the big ring to the hardest gear, the 53-12.  That’s a change of only 1 tooth but you have to put out the effort to go .7 meters further for every pedal revolution.  Half as many gear teeth and 75% more effort.

klracing005_crop-300pxAll of this can seem overwhelming at first.  What?  In order to make effective use of your gears you’re supposed to do some math in your head while you ride?  You could do this, but I don’t think it’s a good way to make use of this information.  I think the best way to get comfortable with how to use your gears to best advantage is to ride your bike with two basic ideas in mind.  First, there’s a lot of overlap between rings so you have several ways to solve the gearing problems you encounter.  Second, gearing relationships are nonlinear so that a shift from one gear to the next on the cassette will have a bigger effect if you’re on the big ring than the small ring.

Keep these two things in mind, stay aware of which gear you’re in, and ride your bike.  It won’t take long until you develop an intuitive understanding of how the smaller, more refined changes that you get when you’re in the small ring compare with the larger and less refined changes you get when you’re in the big ring.  Try different approaches on ascents, descents and flats.  When you’re in the overlapping part of the gear ratios, are you more comfortable with the small changes on the small ring or the larger changes on the big ring?  With this basic understanding of how your gears are related, you can begin to develop a more sophisticated and efficient use of your gears on the road.


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Posted by ibleedblue040 on May 16, 2009

It’s been a slow past few days so we thought we would keep it simple and provide some news links from the past week or so.

Cool Website Alert

Every once-in-awhile  I post a new website I have stumbled upon that I think is extremely cool. The other day I found the website

It is not a new site but the idea of it is to allow the average sports fan to write about their favorite teams or sports as if they were a real journalist. They are partners with CBS Sports so sometimes articles get posted onto the actual CBS Sports website. Check out the site.

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