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Al Jazeera? Seriously?

Breaking Now; Doping ring from a Indy Anti Aging clinc was linked to Manning..

If true, he isn't a HOF IMO.

Nobody is clean.

I really need to finally get off my butt and running isn't in the cards. What's a good road bike - not a starter bike but I don't need a Tour-ready Cervelo or anything. Money not a huge issue but I don't need to go crazy. $750-1500 would suffice if that's realistic.

Also, are those stationary trainers that you can attach your bike to a good option? For those times here (Tx) when Id rather be inside or combining exercise with sports watching. Do they allow for you to easily change resistance and such.

Thanks in advance.

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Eakin suspended

http://mobile.philly.com/news/politics/?wss=/philly/news/politics&id=363297461&

Bored? Corporate time thief?

Here you go...

https://geoguessr.com/

Don't download the app, just bypass it...

In an emotional testimony, Eakin said it’s been “terribly frustrating” to be the subject of an ongoing scandal without the opportunity to address the accusations against him.

Read more: http://www.thelegalintelligencer.co...-CJD-in-Bid-to-Avoid-Suspension#ixzz3uzmxNL4s

I plan on having prime rib for Christmas. I've been calling around to get prices and here are some of my options:

Giant Eagle - bone-in, Prime - $19/pound
CostCo/Sam's club & several others - boneless Choice - $9.00/pound

Now I called another grocery store nearby and they told me they have bone-in, Prime for $8/pound.

How could these guys charge $8/pound when choice is more expensive at some other places (and prime is 2x at Giant Eagle)? Would you go with the cheap roast?

LINK TO TRAILER

oh no, the reputable Pulitzer Prize winner gets slightly trashed!!

Just came across this headline on the Web:

Kim Kardashian Reveals Plans to Eat Her Placenta

I could not bear to read the full article, but I'm guessing it is fertile ground for some snarky comments. I'll take the first shot at it: Maybe Frank Fina can work this into an entertaining e-mail.

I've been lurking here for a few years and really enjoy this board, great source for all Penn State news and just about anything else. I don't know how many times I have learned of breaking news on this board.

I'd also like to add that we (my son and I) took our official tour of PSU this weekend. I have to admit, the admissions office does great job. The admissions presentation was OK but the Student ambassadors giving the tour were absolutely great. They were by far the best of any other school tour we had gone on. This includes schools like Penn, Carnegie Mellon, Johns Hopkins etc. They were very knowledgeable and personable, both spoke very well.. Really enjoyed it and made me proud to be a PSU alum. (Kinda like when a PSU athlete gives a coherent, understandable interview, if you know what I mean.)

Not sure yet where he will ultimately go to school but PSU certainly helped its cause after the tour.

Just caught this two hour documentary on cable, I thought it was excellent.

View of various CIA Directors over the last 20 years.

They all have one thing in common, to a man they believe we can't kill our way out of our current war.

I would enjoy reading your view point and opinions of the film.

No politics intended....sorry!

http://brandywine.psu.edu/story/2877/2015/11/19/committee-recommends-approval-abington-and-brandywine-housing-projects


One of today's projects:

Penn State Abington Dorm Project:
- Approx. 100 "apartment style" units.....4-6 students per unit (2 BR, 1 Bath per unit)

Total Costs.....$50 Million.


Ok....take a breath.....and do the math:

That is $500,000 per 2 bedroom apartment.

Now, we know that when Dambly got into the "low income housing" - funded with Federal dollars racket.....his projects typically had a cost of 2-3 times the cost of any other similar "low income housing" projects in the area.

But - even for Dambly - even with ALL the folks he needs to cut in to the graft - $500,000 per 2 Br/1Bath Apartment? Really?

IS ANYONE GOING TO STAND UP TO THIS???

This is before we even get into the necessity of such a project. Even if we assume the project is VITAL.....how can we justify $500,000 per 2 Br/1 Bath apartment?
Where o Where do we think that money will go? LOL



At Brandywine.....its just as bad......$250,000 per 1 Br/1Bath dormitory room.

http://brandywine.psu.edu/story/2877/2015/11/19/committee-recommends-approval-abington-and-brandywine-housing-projects

http://mobile.philly.com/beta?wss=/philly/news/politics&id=361748621 Excerpt:
"I am personally saying mea culpa," Williams said in an Inquirer story published yesterday. "I needed all the evidence, and I didn't have it. And we need all of it, to restore the public's trust across this commonwealth."

Kane, in a letter she's expected to send Williams today, says she has "hundreds of offensive emails circulated in a network that includes" Fina, Costanzo and Blessington. She said she will "immediately release these emails to the public" - as long as Williams assures her that it would not violate a grand-jury protective order tied to a corruption case that Kane dismissed and Williams later prosecuted.

"Had you simply asked for these emails during your investigation, I assure you I would have provided them to you," Kane wrote in a draft of the letter obtained by the Daily News.

The batch of emails that was released in August included images that portrayed blacks as obsessed with fried chicken and a photo of a pants-less woman on her knees performing oral sex on a man, with the caption: "Making your boss happy is your only job."

The emails that have not yet been released are rumored to be quite lewd and include video.
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My comment: This thing has the feel of being on the brink of exploding in a welter of fear, shame and embarrassment for everyone involved in the judicial system of the Commonweath. Naturally, Seth is going to give her his assurances that the GJ protective order will not be violated by the release, right?

The level of duplicity here is not sustainable. Somebody is going to look an awful lot like a hypocrite and a liar (not to mention a racist and a misogynist) very very soon. Who's it gonna be, Seth? You or Frankie? Hmmm?

Sam Katz is partnering on the project with freelance writer Lisa DePaulo, whom Katz first met when she wrote a 1991 profile of him for Philadelphia magazine that he did not like. Maggie Henry Corcoran/For The Inquirer

Molly Eichel, Inquirer Staff Writer
Last updated: Friday, December 11, 2015, 1:08 AM
Posted: Thursday, December 10, 2015, 7:14 PM
image: http://media.philly.com/designimages/partnerIcon-Inquirer-2014.jpg


Sam Katz is turning his lens away from Philadelphia's history to Pennsylvania's present.
The three-time mayoral candidate announced Thursday that his next documentary will focus on the saga of embattled Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen G. Kane. Katz, who is seeking funding for the project, plans to call it The Kane Mutiny.

Unlike his previous regionally focused documentaries with his History Making Productions - such as Philadelphia: The Great Experiment - Katz sees The Kane Mutiny as a story with national appeal because of its uniqueness, and because Kane is "such an unusual character."

Katz is partnering on the project with freelance writer Lisa DePaulo, whom Katz first met when she wrote a 1991 profile of him for Philadelphia magazine that he did not like. They've since found common ground.

DePaulo said she's interested in the Kane saga because it's still unfolding. She also mentioned the gender implications of Kane's story.

"All my friends are saying to me, 'Don't let [Kane] be a disaster for women getting into politics.' I know Sam [Katz] isn't as into the gender thing, but I am. But we don't want our strong and smart, charismatic women to fail," said DePaulo, who like Kane hails from Scranton. "And she may not. She's endured a lot more than I thought she would.

"You can say whatever you want about Kathleen Kane, she is one tough broad."

The first woman and first Democrat elected state attorney general, Kane had a bright political future in front of her after taking office in 2013. There were even rumblings about a potential gubernatorial bid.

But after The Inquirer reported in 2014 that she had quashed a sting operation launched by her predecessors that had ensnared Democratic Philadelphia politicians, her fortunes took a dive:
She has been charged with leaking confidential grand jury information to a newspaper to embarrass a political rival; her law license has been suspended; Gov. Wolf and other top Democrats have called for her resignation; and the state Senate has formally begun a process that could end with her removal from office.
Kane has fought back, saying her troubles have been generated by angry Republican men who resent her crashing the old boys' network.

She has also released hundreds of emails containing racist, sexist, and misogynistic quotes and images that were circulated among judges, prosecutors, and other law enforcement officials using government servers.
"Porngate," as the matter is called, led one state Supreme Court justice to retire early and has placed another in danger of losing his post.

Chuck Ardo, Kane's spokesman, said Thursday he does not believe Kane has heard about The Kane Mutiny.

"But I can tell you without equivocation that she hopes it has a happy ending," Ardo said.
Asked what that would be, he said:
"I think the happy ending would be that she was found to have been innocent of the charges she faces. And that she's given due credit for the problems she has exposed with the judicial system."

meichel@phillynews.com
215-854-5909 @mollyeichel
Inquirer staff writer Angela Couloumbis contributed to this article.
Read more at http://www.philly.com/philly/news/politics/20151211_Sam_Katz_to_produce_documentary_on_Kathleen_Kane.html#e8W85FR1zlqUUWQP.99

anyone use these boys? I have an oppurtunity to buy a brand new, never been used cub cadet 25 ton both vert and horiz cuts....$1300...good price?

Strange days have found us
Strange days have tracked us down
They're going to destroy
Our casual joys
Yeah!

Buongiorno,

We knew your sports people needed dinero.
We had read about the newly hired 'carpetbaggers' and that they were suspect of penn state people.
But, we never realized the situation was so bad, financially.

Until, we called in some favors from happy valley. What they confirmed was very enlightening.

She can't sell.
Her way or the highway.
She is not a good fit for this area and school.
Her fundraising is 'extremely limited at best.'
Some call her tenure a disaster.

Pennsylvania is Pittsburgh and Philadelphia with 'Alabama' in between, said a political pundit.

Where did you say she came from?
*Cali? Berkeley? Quite a difference from happy valley, huh?

Behind an eminence front
An eminence front, it's a put on

The first phase of the Lasch and Holuba renovations? How did that go?

*A fundraising failure that is unable to pay for the first minor phase of renovation.
*It's a massive problem.
*But, 'they think they know it all' ...

Which reminds me of when Russ Buffalino had his falling out with Hoffa.
You see little Jimmy wasn't going to let us use the teamsters pension funds for construction loans.
That was Jimmy's worst mistake.
And I loved Jimmy.
So, Russell asked me for a favor...

The Populous Report should be interesting.

BUT, HOW ARE THEY GOING TO PAY FOR ATHLETICS UPGRADES?

*From what we're hearing it's a wide rebellion.
*Almost no football players have donated.
*Have people heard that there is virtually no reference to Paterno in the Lasch renovation?
*Alumni are suspicious

The clock is ticking.
And no one is buying her b.s.

Ciao

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Man....would I love to hear his take on what's been happening regarding Kane, Fina, Williams, and the Alums getting to access the Freeh rag.

Helen Ubinas is absolutely correct. It's past time for Seth to fire Frank Fina.

http://mobile.philly.com/beta?wss=/philly/hp/news_update&id=361360301

36" splitting axe as a gift, and although I had given up using a maul because I am just too weak, that thing is a joy to use. Light (<7 lbs) but very, very effective. They say you get more one-strike splits. And I have to back them up. It is nice exercise and I am enjoying getting back into it.