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text: This was an odd week with a lot of blowouts, scores pretty much unchanged during the week, and no 5-4 results. We're now at a point where 5 teams are separated by 1 win, and only 5 wins separate the 1st through 10th place teams. Even the professor isn't that far behind, so it's still anyone's game. Week 4 Results: Warthog's Wackjobs (3), Aurora Kimmie Lights (6) Lesson: never take anything for granted. Warthog expected to 'handily' win in 3-pointers, points, rebounds, and blocks, and only took rebounds. His strategy to use all forwards backfired as Aurora dominated in 3-pointers and then got 12 blocks from Biedrins in 2 games while Okafor and Bosh forgot to put their hands up on D. Then his Team Toronto underachieved as the Raptors were up by 23 points early Sunday and played their bench. He watched his FG% category also slip away on the final day, watching ESPN GameCast and consistently seeing things like "Chris Bosh missed uncontested dunk" and "Tony Parker's shot blocked by Nate Robinson's 2 year old son", while Biedrins showed off his uncontested layup skills to the tune of 31 points. Aurora would have won 8-1, except Diaw ate too many butterfingers, turned into one, and continually turned it over 10 times per game. Add around 17 steals the final day for the Wackjobs and you end up with a 6-3 Aurora victory. Along with the MoPete trade discussion and 5 Raptors players, PF.com members are starting to discuss if Warthog is really Brian Colangelo in disguise, or if he just likes to reference himself in the 3rd person 50 times per post. Slippys Sandbaggers (7), sprockets (2) Well the S^2 advantage held while S^1 decided to stick with their injured players rather than add/drop and get burned by the waiver wire later this year, like Aurora will when Gasol gets healthy again. But hey, it's a good way to win in turnovers and percentage categories. Dba jabbed at Slippy while clinging to a 4-5 record, but Slippy got the last laugh taking a game Saturday and a game Sunday for the 7-2 victory. The Sandbaggers leaped into 2nd place and have been exposed. Now everyone will be gunning for them starting with Tater this week, and it won't be pretty. Dba was last seen playing Basketball for the Intellivision and wondering if simplification might be the best strategy, but overthinks that as well and falls into a coma after wondering why the game has no 3-point line and players turn blue when they have the ball. Awesomeness...I hope (7), Promise not to quit (2) Promise not to quit did not disappoint this week! Professor assumed defeat, and defeat is what he got. Apparently hope trumps despair in a fight...who knew? Either that or Linwood just took Professor to the Lin-woodshed for a good old-fashioned beatdown. Besides, he's still sandbagging under the former owner's team name and getting away with it, but not for long. Linwood it's time to change your team name to something more personal, like theLinwoods or LINWOODS TEAM or Linwood Kimmie Lights. Tater's Terrors (6), bball_future (3) I'm running out of potato jokes after only 4 weeks, but let's give it another go. Tater peeled the skin off the Darko-huggers and poured salt in the wounds. That wasn't that spectacular I know. Jay survived more injuries and couldn't win despite Darko's league-leading 5.4 rebounds a game. It's too bad he's so unselfish that he shares rebounds with Dwight Howard, or makes other players get rebounds by altering shots. It's also too bad he's so unselfish that he won't make free throws and embarass the other team by making them look bad. It's even more difficult for Darko to do well when he's getting every NBA rookie their first points, because every day there's just soooo many players with 0 NBA points on the same team who are looking to score for the first time. Score is Darko 1, Malcontent 0 as of last season. Can you say Malc-owned-tent? 16 MIle (1.5), ChipsOnPistons (7.5) 16 Mile reappeared this week, only to get trounced by America's team, our boys in blue, the Pistons. 16 Mile hasn't made any moves all year, keeping with his ChipsOnLakers strategy, which might work out better if his Chips weren't on players like Jordan Farmar and Sasha Vujacic. Chips' Sunday strategy bit him in the butt, as he benched all of his players to try and win the turnovers category since 16 Mile had 10 guys playing and only had to turn it over 9 times among them. Chips, however, forgot that half of 16 Mile's lineup routinely get DNPs (four players on Sunday), so only 8 turnovers were committed and Chips tied in that category. Apparently the strategy there is "if they don't play, they can't hurt you." If he had just played his guys, he would have lost turnovers completely but won in blocks - instead 16 Mile took that over as well, costing Chips 0.5 games. That could be huge down the stretch. theRalphies (3), HIMATS TEAM (6) I successfully predicted Himat pulling out the victory. Antoine Walker hit one 3-pointer for the entire week, while JR Smith beat that in half a quarter. So far Ralphies has played well, but just one level below the league's elite teams like Warthog's Wackjobs and Warthog's Wackjobs, along with Warthog's Wackjobs. Himat could be the team to beat this year, as his lineup is ridiculously stacked but also has a very short bench. Bonzi isn't getting playing time, Roy has been hurt, Williams is hurt, and Brendan Haywood is well, Brendan Haywaood. If his starters are tired by the playoffs he could be in trouble. Good thing this is a 12-team league with very few good players on waivers so Himat can't shore up his bench and dominate. If Baron Davis continues to be hurt and Namby Pamby Camby stubs another pinky toe, Himat may underachieve this season. Week 5 Preview: Warthog's Raptors (19-14-3) vs. HIMATS TEAM (20-16-0) #3 and #4 duking it out. Himat is upset that he has more wins but is half a game back, while Warthog is amazed he's still in 3rd place after getting embarassed by Aurora. Warthog went up against #2 before and barely won, so he decided to look at other teams for help. Seeing ChipsOnPistons on top of the league, he decided to follow suit and put 5 Toronto Raptors on his team. This may backfire when they only play 2 games in a week, but luckily this week they play 4. Or it may backfire because Wart is trusting a team based in Canada. Although they do have BBQ Doritos going for them. Himat's squad is loaded if he plays all of them (Pierce, Garnett, Martin, Randolph, Bibby), but Warthog finally has more games this week, not even counting Gasol. Look for him to sacrifice his usual victory in Turnovers and use those extra games to his advantage. Slippys Sandbaggers (22-14-0) vs. Tater's Terrors (17-18-1) Oooooh this is a hot one!! Two of the stronger personalities go head-to-head. Both recently stripped of their Darth status, look for Tater and Slippy to trade heavy punches and take their anger out on each other. I've heard rumors of both hiring hitmen to take out the knees and ACLs of the opposing players. Slippy and Tater are both very strong in points and steals, while weak in blocks, and neither has lost in assists. Look for these 4 categories to determine the winner. Tater has been terrorizing, Slippy hasn't been sandbagging, so I'll go to the team that's true to its name and pick Tater to win. Of course there are other rumors of the two teams merging into one super team. Frankly, the thought of a SlippyTater frightens me. I've experienced slippy things like white castle, but a slippy potato could be more than anyone here can handle. Awesomeness...I hope (18-16-2) vs. sprockets (20-16-0) I wanted to give out the namby-pamby award to 16 Mile for the 3rd straight week, but I couldn't ignore sprockets' China dolls. Someone tell dba's team that Jay is supposed to have the injury-prone players. Or maybe dba forget to include "wussy namby pamby" as a category in his statistical analysis. Either way, congrats on the award. Awesomeness also takes over Slippy as the biggest Sandbagger, appearing harmless to start the season but going 13-5 in the last 2 weeks. One more week of that and you'll be exposed to everyone. Awesome gets a head start this week, but sprockets get healthy later on and claw back to a 5-4 victory. Aurora Kimmie Lights (17-19-0) vs. Promise not to quit (12-23-1) Earlier I said that Professor was still in the hunt to win this league, but probably not after Aurora is done with him. Her team shocked Warthog in Week 4 by beating him in almost every category he thought was a done deal. Professor's team reverted back from its Promise Not To Suck mantra from Week 3 to its original Promise To Suck mantra from Weeks 1 and 2. These teams actually match up really well on paper, but that's before Raja Bell started hitting 7 threes a game and Biedrins started blocking 7 shots a game. No, not Ray Allen and AK47, Bell and Biedrins. Sounds more like a slip & fall law firm than a dominating duo. Look for them both to come back down to earth this week and for the Professor to eek out 2-3 games. 16 MIle (8-27-1) vs. bball_future (17-19-0) The match of the week!! We get to test my theory that 16 Mile and bball jay are the same person!! Jay has a much better opportunity to win the league, so if he wins 9-0 this week while 16 Mile benches everyone, then there's some Da Vinci Code going on. Of course if it's 8-1 or 7-2 that could prove my theory too, with Jay dropping a few games so he doesn't look suspicious. Of course, if it's 0-9 or 2-7 or a score like that, it would be to throw us off his trail so that could prove my theory as well. Basically whatever statistics come out this week, (good, bad, high, low, etc.) I will spin them to prove my convictions as 100% fact...just like Jay does when talking about Darko. theRalphies (18-16-2) vs. ChipsOnPistons (22-12-2) Even though Ralphi has lost 2 weeks in a row and Chips is now in 1st place, Ralphi pulls off the upset. Chips moved into 1st after beating up on perennial doormat 16 Mile, while Ralphi had close matches against the #3 and #4 teams. As we've all learned from the Darko-huggers, stats can be misleading. Unless the stats favor your conviction...then they count. But if the stats aren't what you expect, they don't count. Just remember, according to Lee you must forget the stats. But according to JackAttaq you must look at the stats. Keep that in mind.


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– Despite UConn's lofty record, Geno Auriemma admitted something has been missing from his team. The Huskies may have finally found it.
UConn turned a two-point halftime lead into a rout playing a nearly flawless second half.
"The last 20 minutes of the game was as much fun as I've had in a long, long time," Auriemma said.
A fiery halftime speech from the Hall of Fame coach seemed to have sparked his team.
"Tonight the frustration came out of me in the locker room," Auriemma said. "Kelly (Faris) turned all that frustration into concentration and aggressiveness that helped us find a little bit of what was missing. ... Now the key is holding on to it and adding to it."
Kelly Faris was everywhere. She finished with 18 points, 12 rebounds and six assists in No. 3 UConn's 79-49 victory over the fourth-ranked Blue Devils on Monday night. It was the first loss of the season for Duke.
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"There have been some legends wearing that Connecticut uniform," Auriemma said. "I don't know if anyone represented that uniform, herself, her family the way that kid did tonight. I know there are a lot of players out there that are really good. I know there are a lot of All-Americans who have played here. That was one for the ages right there."
Auriemma gave Faris a giant hug when he took her out of the game with 1:36 left. Usually that show of emotion is saved for the end of the season.
The Blue Devils were the last unbeaten team in men's or women's Division I basketball. The last time the Blue Devils came up to Connecticut two years ago they were also unbeaten and the Huskies had one loss. UConn won that game 87-51.
For 20 minutes the Blue Devils hung tough with UConn. That quickly changed in the second half. UConn (17-1) held a two-point lead at halftime and jumped right out on Duke in the second half. After trading baskets, the Huskies scored 20 of the next 25 points to take over led by Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis, who finished with 21 points, and Faris.
The Blue Devils (16-1) never could recover.
"Coach was pretty mad at halftime," Faris said. "The most he's been mad in a while. When we came out in the second half, we brought the energy and all fed off each other. That's what makes us a good team when we all feed off each other."
Duke, which hadn't had a team come within single digits all season, was able to stay with UConn in the first half because of the Huskies' sloppiness with the ball. UConn had 12 turnovers at the break. Associate head coach Chris Dailey implored the crowd at halftime when she was interviewed to yell "No more turnovers." The Huskies listened, finishing the game with only three more.
The Blue Devils also contained Stefanie Dolson in the first half.
Dolson, who was scoreless in the first 20 minutes, had six points during the decisive run before picking up her fourth foul with 16:16 left in the game. That call drew the ire of Auriemma who stopped just short of picking up a technical foul.
It also fired up his team as UConn continued its spurt. After
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Williams finally ended a 5 1/2 minute drought for Duke with a hook shot with 10:41 left in the game. That only brought Duke within 17.
It didn't get any closer from there.
"It was a tale of two halves for us," McCallie said. "It's consistent for us, how we've been playing all year. We played some great 20-minute ball, but have been non-existent for 40 minutes. Give credit to Connecticut. They played well in the second half. There are some great lessons for us to learn from. It will allow us to become a better team."
With the victory, UConn kept alive its streak of 20 years without consecutive home losses at Gampel Pavilion. This was the first game played on campus since UConn lost to Notre Dame by a point on Jan. 5.
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helped Duke stay in the game in the first half, scoring 12 points. The freshman didn't seem intimidated, hitting 3-pointers and taking it right at the Huskies. UConn led 11-6 early before Jones hit consecutive 3-pointers. Neither team could get more than a four-point lead the rest of the half as the lead changed seven times.
Mosqueda-Lewis' 3-pointer with 54 seconds left gave the Huskies a 31-27 advantage but Williams came right back with a three-point play of her own. UConn led 32-30 at halftime.
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CDC moves to keep new resistant gonorrhea at bay
Federal health officials took steps Thursday to head off the emergence of a new gonorrhea "superbug" that's resistant to standard antibiotics.
Gonorrhea, a sexually transmitted disease that infects 700,000 Americans a year, already has become resistant to all but one class of antibiotics and could soon become untreatable, federal health officials warned. Doctors at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued new treatment guidelines, hoping to delay the inevitable day when standard drugs no longer work. The guidelines call for withholding a potent oral antibiotic now commonly used to treat the infection. Instead, doctors should use an injectable form to which the gonorrhea bacteria seems less likely to develop resistance, along with a second type of antibiotic pills.
"Gonorrhea for years has developed resistance to every antibiotic we've thrown at it," says Kimberly Workowski, an infectious-disease expert at the Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta.
Now, "we're at the end of the line on standard therapies," says P. Frederick Sparling, a professor of medicine at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
Gonorrhea is a major cause of infertility among women. It increases the risk that people will be infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, and that they will spread it to their partners, according to the CDC.
As recently as 2007, doctors could treat gonorrhea with a class of antibiotics called fluoroquinolones, which include the drug Ciprofloxacin, or Cipro. Now, those drugs no longer work for gonorrhea. Instead, doctors have turned to a class of drugs called cephalosporins, also used to treat serious conditions such as bacterial meningitis and salmonella poisoning, says Sparling.
Yet even these antibiotics may not be useful for long, he says.
Doctors reported their first possible treatment failure in Japan in 2003 and detected a highly resistant "superbug" form of gonorrhea there in 2009. That superbug — which resisted treatment with an antibiotic called ceftriaxone — has also been detected twice in France and once in Spain, Sparling says.
While the superbug hasn't yet been detected in the USA, "it is likely a matter of time" before drug-resistant gonorrhea spreads here as well, says Susan Philip, director of STD prevention and control services at the San Francisco Department of Public Health. Doctors are already seeing the beginnings of drug resistance on the West Coast, especially in gay and bisexual men, Philip says.
In a February report in The New England Journal of Medicine, Sparling wrote that nearly 2% of gonorrhea samples showed reduced susceptibility to cefixime, an oral drug commonly used for initial treatment.
In the western USA, 4% of samples showed reduced susceptibility to cefixime; in men who have sex with men, nearly 5% showed reduced susceptibility to that drug, Sparling wrote.
Once resistance to gonorrhea develops, patients won't have good options, Sparling says. Only one new antibiotic against gonorrhea is currently in development, although researchers are also testing combinations of currently available drugs.
Patients who become infected with a resistant strain of gonorrhea would have to be treated with alternative medications that aren't proven to work and which could cause more toxic side effects, Sparling says. For now, he says, experts are advising doctors to test patients who aren't helped by current treatments, and test them for resistance. Because gonorrhea tends to be especially common among the poor, doctors typically try to treat patients with a single dose of medication on the same day they arrive at the clinic, along with treating their sexual partners, Sparling says. The CDC is now urging that initial treatment of gonorrhea be with a single injection of ceftriaxone, which still is usually effective.
In some ways, gonorrhea has always been a "canary in the coal mine," for doctors, because "it picks up resistance very easily," says Carlos del Rio, a physician on the board of directors for the Infectious Diseases Society of America, and an author of the new CDC treatment guidelines. Gonorrhea became resistant to the first antimicrobial drugs used against it, as early as the 1930s. Doctors began using penicillin, one of the first antibiotics, in the 1940s. But the bacteria eventually mutated to become resistant to penicillin, too.
Doctors have been concerned about the rise of resistant strains of all kinds of bacteria for years, as antibiotics are overused both in medicine and agriculture.
Antibiotic resistance is so common that doctors now have to think carefully about the drugs they prescribe for common conditions, such as ear infections, sinus infections and urinary tract infections, says Judith O'Donnell, head of infectious diseases at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center in Philadelphia.
More ominously, doctors are now combating antibiotic-resistant tuberculosis and staph infections, says Sparling, director of the North Carolina Sexually Transmitted Diseases Cooperative Research Center.
"People are dying in hospitals with pneumonias and other diseases that we aren't able to treat anymore, because we don't have effective drugs," del Rio says.
In April, the Food and Drug Administration banned certain agricultural uses of cephalorosporins, such as to prevent disease in turkeys, chicken, cattle and pigs. The agency cited the need to make sure that cephalosporins remain potent weapons against human disease.
"We desperately need new antibiotics to fight infections," del Rio says. "The pharmaceutical industry has very little incentive to do the research and development for an antibiotic that you take for five to 10 days, though, compared to something like a cholesterol drug, that you take for the rest of you life."
Del Rio notes that the infectious disease society supports federal legislation that would provide financial incentives to drugmakers who create new antibiotics.
In the age of an incurable and often fatal disease such as AIDS, some people no longer take gonorrhea seriously.
But Philip says gonorrhea — spread through vaginal, oral and anal sex — can cause a variety of serious problems, especially in women, who often have no symptoms.
Gonorrhea increases the risk of a dangerous condition called ectopic pregnancy, when a fertilized egg implants in the fallopian tubes, rather than the uterus. It also can cause pelvic inflammatory disease, which can lead to infertility. Gonorrhea also can harm newborn children of untreated mothers, although this rarely happens in developed countries such as the USA, where women and babies receive preventive screening and care, Workowski says. People can protect themselves by being monogamous and using condoms.
The concentration of gonorrhea cases among the poor is especially evident in African Americans in the South, with infection rates 30 times higher in Mississippi than in Wyoming, according to the CDC.
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Also here this weekend…
The President's Health secretary Kathleen Sebelius trying to ease fears over Obamacare.The official news announcement says Sebelius will be discussing implementation of the Affordable Care Act with Kansas City Mayor Sly James and Wyandotte County Mayor Mark Holland. But what role do they play in any of that?
Brownback draws an opponent
Kansas House Minority Leader Paul Davis makes it official this week. The Lawrence Democrat throws his hat in the ring as he announces he will run against Sam Brownback in the race for Governor.
Urban Crime Summit
For two whole days this week, the region's most important law enforcement officials and some of the nation's top crime fighters and criminologists were holed up in Kansas City as part of an Urban Crime Summit at UMKC convened by the Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster. After all the talking here and two days more in St. Louis, what did we learn from their deliberations?
Teens Pepper Sprayed on Plaza
We've heard about this issue of teens congregating on the Country Club Plaza before. But police pepper spraying the youngsters to disperse the crowds? Was last weekend so much worse than what we've experienced in the past? And are the solutions being offered by law enforcement and city officials any different?
Overland Park grabbing the headlines
That pesky topless statue at the Overland Park Arboretum is making news again. A fresh effort is underway to bring criminal charges over the bare-breasted bronze. This time, the push is empowered with a new law giving citizen groups more influence in the process. And why is Johnson County's largest city thumbing its nose at Google?
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I'm an airbrush artist in London and would like to start painting my helmet(ESB).
But I'm having trouble finding someone that stocks Floquil here in the U.K and if they do stock it, don't stock certain colours. eg(German Field Gray or Panzer Olive Green).
i know that the German Field Gray is no longer made.
would anyone know the pantone numbers for them.
these would be use as a colour reference for me to be able to mix the colours myself.
Also if possibly the rest of the colours on the helmet.
I'd like to use liqutex to paint it.
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|Radin's Six Goals Lift Men's Lacrosse Over Marquette, 16-12
POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. – The Marist men's lacrosse team (2-2, 0-0 MAAC) defeated Marquette (1-3, 0-0 Big East) in its home opener on Saturday afternoon, 16-12. Sophomore Joseph Radin (Long Beach, N.Y.) led the Red Foxes with a career-high six goals and one assist, giving him a career-high seven points. Freshman J.D. Recor (Lancaster, N.Y.) tallied two goals and a career-high five assists.
Juniors Mike Begley (Brookeville, Md.) and Colin Joka (Conshohocken, Pa.) posted two goals and one assist each. Junior Drew Nesmith (Montclair, N.J.) netted two goals for Marist as well. Junior Patrick Eaker (Redding, Conn.) and sophomore Tommy Celmer (Summit, N.J.) notched one goal each while sophomore Dillon Walker (Wawa, Pa.) added an assist.
Junior goalkeeper Dave Scarcello (Buffalo, N.Y.) had an exceptional performance in goal with a career-high 14 saves. Sophomore Dominic Montemurro (Kings Park, N.Y.) bested his opponent in 17-of-30 face-offs.
Marquette opened up the first quarter with one goal each from Blaine Fleming and Tyler Melnyk to take an early 2-0 lead with 8:43 remaining in the opening period. The Golden Eagles' lead was short lived as Marist netted four goals to close out the first quarter to take a 4-2 lead heading into the second quarter.
Celmer put the Red Foxes on the board at the 6:10 mark to cut Marquette's lead to one. Radin would score three consecutive goals in one minute, all assisted by Recor to give Marist its 4-2 lead.
Begley opened up the second quarter with a goal for Marist off a pass from Radin to push the Red Foxes ahead 5-2 with 14:18 left in the second period. Eaker scored his lone goal of the game, unassisted, less than 10 seconds later to earn the Red Foxes a four goal lead.
Marquette responded with two goals, one from Bryan Badolato and another by Fleming, to cut Marist's lead, 6-4. The Red Foxes closed the second quarter with three straight goals in the final 10 minutes to take a 9-4 lead heading into the locker room.
Nesmith scored at the 9:58 mark off an assist from Begley to take a 7-4 lead. After five scoreless minutes, Radin notched his fourth goal of the game followed by Recor's first goal of the afternoon to post the 9-4 edge.
The Golden Eagles opened up the third quarter with back-to-back goals by Badolato and Melnyk to cut the Marist lead 9-6 with 9:32 to play in the period. Two more Marist goals by Nesmith and Recor, assisted by Walker, pushed Marist back up, 11-6 with 7:16 left in the third.
Badolato netted two more for Marquette to trail the Red Foxes by three but Joka scored 30 seconds later to give Marist a 12-8 advantage heading into the final quarter of play.
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Yep... kooks (like Trump) think the sky might fall.
It's $3.79 here in central PA.
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Went from 3.56 to 3.86 in one week here in Vt and this morning it was anouther .03 higher!!!! The Buick just might not get as much of a workout this summer after all, damn!!! Lets see 32 gal tank @ $4.00 per gal, $128 for regular to fill up, and she don't like regular so add 3-4 gals of Blue Streak to zest it up a bit at last years prices of 8.36per gal ,especally with around 15-16 mpg hwy taking it easy and on a good day, OUCH. Cost a case of ammo every time I fill it!!!! Better keep outa the 4bbl this year as much as possible I guess. Awfull hard to do though, to damn much fun. I may have to trade it off for something that I'll be able to afford to drive, like a Camaro or a Vette. Hell no, everyones got those. Damn, these fun hobbies cost so much now days!!! You can bet once they get the price up it won't come back down as fast as it went up!! There trying to get every one into those electric cars I guess. Not for me unless they come with a big block sound effects package!!! VROOOOMMMMM! VRRROOOOOOMMM! I'll keep Lucielle thank you very much!!
No Matter How Much Food Youve Got Stored, It Will Eventually Run Out in a Full-Blown Collapse
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To Survive, How Much Land?
Have you ever wondered how likely it is that youll be able to produce all the calories youll need on that piece of land you have? How much land for livestock? How about those solar panels you were thinking about? How many square feet of panels will provide you with the electricity youll need? There are ways to figure this out, and the answers may surprise you.
Lets start by talking power. In a collapse situation, youll probably be able to rely on the sun and wind and not much else, unless youve built a watermill. The best answer might be installing some solar panels on your roof. This is a commonly available option that many people are considering nowadays. Lets say part of your roof is facing south (the best place for a solar panel) and you get 7 hours or so of sunlight, on average. To get the amount of power that an average home uses in a year, youll need 375 square feet of panels. These things arent cheap, and that much hardware is going to be beyond the average familys financial reach. This means that youll have to make decisions regarding how to ration the power you ARE able to produce. Look around the house, and youll probably see lots of things that are plugged in that you can eliminate if the stuff ever hits the fan. This is part of the planning youll need to do now, so that youll be better prepared for times of trouble.
How about food? If you have a family of four, youll want to provide at least 2000 or so calories per adult, more if youre a big guy, maybe a little less for kids. The formula is simple: At least 30 calories per kilogram of body weight. One kilogram equals 2.2 pounds, so an 80 kilogram adult would weigh 176 pounds. 30 x 80 = 2400 calories/day. Less for kids, of course. All in all, youll need to provide 8000-9000 calories a day to maintain your family of fours weight.
So, lets talk about some hard realities. No matter how much food youve got stored, it will eventually run out in a full-blown collapse. For your future success, better get that garden growing. Anyone whos done it will tell you that theres a learning curve, and you sure dont want to plant that first seed in the midst of the Zombie Apocalypse.
Now, lets separate your garden out into three categories: fruits, berries, and vegetables, then wheat, then corn. If you went totally vegetarian, you would need a little less than half an acre per person to provide all of those calories. That means a family of 4 needs almost 2 acres of farmable land!
The majority of this land will go to fruits, berries, and veggies. Youll get the most nutrients in terms of vitamins and minerals from these. To decrease the amount of land youll need, consider companion planting. Some organic farmers will plant sunflowers, and then plant peas that will grow up the long stalks. The same goes with corn, squash, and pole beans. Squash will grow low to the ground, pole beans will take the intermediate area, and corn up high. Make sure you dont put plants in the same family together, such as dill and carrots. They will share the same pests and diseases, which could possibly spread from one crop to the other.
If you stock up on wheatberries and use your handy dandy Wondermill, you can cut the land requirement down a bit. A mix of prepared food storage and gardening will keep you healthy and fed for a longer time. Corn isnt a very land-efficient crop, but you might need it for your livestock. An alternative if you need to trim that acreage down a bit more is to stock up on bushels of corn feed; thats about 55 pounds of feed for about $9-10. This is a good idea, but youll use a lot of it. It takes 10 bushels of corn to get a hog from weaning to slaughter. Btw, corn prices are going higher; they were less than 5 dollars a couple of years ago.
Dont forget, youll need some land for hog wallows, goats, rabbits and chickens. All of these animals can be raised in relatively small amounts of space, and provide important protein. Youll need a good 200 square feet for 3 hogs, more if they have piglets. You can get away with less for each of the other animals.
You might have to forget about cows; they arent land-efficient. If you want milk, think about goats, especially Nubian Goats. This variety can produce 1800 lbs. of milk a year, according to various sources. Thats a lot of milk! How about eggs? The average family of four will eat 1000 eggs or so a year. To reliably get this quantity, youll need about 10-15 birds in your henhouse, depends a lot on the breed and the ingenuity of the local foxes and raccoons.
You could probably squeeze this all in with an acre and a half of land. If you dont have that much property, now you know youll need that much more food storage to make up the difference. This is information I thought was important for me to know, and now you know it too.
Joe Alton, M.D.,aka Dr. Bones, is a medical doctor and a certified Master Gardener for his state. Hes a regular contributor to Survivalist Magazine and the author of The Doom and Bloom(tm) Survival Medicine Handbook, due out early next year. His blog at Survival Medicine with Dr Bones & Nurse Amy | Doom and Bloom (TM) is all about medical preparedness, survival gardening, and figuring out strategies to keep you healthy in a collapse.
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Black Blade: I have food storage but also raw undeveloped rural land next to National Forests. There is plenty of native fish and game so the plan is to supplement my stored food with fresh meat. Hopefully things will return to normal soon within 10-15 years after a SHTF scenario.
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Sorry for the necro, but I figured this out. It has to do with two factors, how I was shifting and the throttle response time. A simple adjustment to my shifting has resolved this.
From stop to first I would often times start the shift rev'ed a little high. Then drop the throttle down to rev match my rolling speed, fully engage and then hit the throttle.
It seems there is about a 2 second lag between dropping the throttle and having the engine actually rev down, so what was happening is just as I fully engaged the engine (sometimes still in first, sometimes I've made it to second before this hits) the revs finally drop, and because I overcompensated my throttle release due to lack of response, I'm way too low and wind up in very low torque territory.
I'm assuming this is normal and can reproduce the lag pretty regularly in second by accelerating and then popping my foot off of the throttle and counting the seconds until the engine break kicks in.
All in all it seems to boil down to me getting used to my new car.
What Elizabeth said
Theres little to no torque that low in the rev band. I shift as early as you -- 1800 rpm or so. The car inches forward. At least I'm "winning" the ECOmode though :/.
As well, there just isnt much punch in 2nd until at LEAST 5000-5500. I recall having to merge into a 80km/h intersection from a standstill and that was the time I truly punched it. I actually was surprised at the surge of torque and wheelspin I got in 2, but that was with the gas fully pressed to the floor. That brought a smile to my face too. However, the torque is nowhere near that even at 4000.
However, on the highway, downshifting to 4 and letting the revs climb to 4000-4500, the car accelerates smartly (as Elizabeth puts it). Closer to the surge at 5500 in second, and certainly enough to pass slower traffic.
Yeah, my previous car (for 10 years) was a severely underpowered honda del sol, but I did not notice this. It's really feeling like something is catching on late (even at sub 2k RPM) that the shift is complete, almost feels like turbo lag if that makes any sense.
On a side note I have noticed a significant increase in power at about 2.25k RPM which is right inline with your 2.2k, but this is not just about that, I'm really talking about the 0.5-1sec after shifting.
There is not much torque until over 2,200 RPM.
I usually shift at 2,000rpm 1,2,3.. and if at 25mph stay in 4. at 30 speed limit I cheat to 32 mph so i can go into 5th. This is wanting max fuel economy and not any even staying with traffic accelerating..
You may be used to a bigger engine where you can expect a bit of torque at 1,500 to 1,800 or so. NOT on the Mk3 Focus!!
I would say what you experience is totally normal for so small an engine.
When I am wanting to go in a bit more hurry... (driving like the rest of traffic does acceleration-wise) I will rev her up to 3,000 so it has some torque available.
When I want to REALLY go fast I wind her out to 6,500 before shifting.. that is when you can see this car can actually move fast (enough).
Most of the time at 1,500rpm or under 2,000 there is no 'step on the gas and go (anywhere faster..) You have to actually downshift if you want to move smartly.
So, from another lifetime manual driver (47 years driving)
It is not a problem with the engine/clutch.
You just expect way too much at the low RPM you are shifting at!!!
If you ever drove a typical, historical Honda engine?.. This car engine is way more like a typical Honda. no torque, needs revs to move.. Not like a Mustang.
It IS good enough to be a MPG miser using low RPM like you are.. But it cannot accelerate much more them a crawl using low RPM shifts.. Great for MPG.. bad for getting anywhere fast.
So i say rev her up to minimum 2,000 RPM to shift from 1,2,3 and only if stuck in a 25mph zone go to 4th.. for 30 mph it is pretty iffy to stay in fifth.. unless you can be on a flat road, no need to accelerate at all. 32 is minimum for 5th for me.. (I have a mile long flat bridge i can do 5th at 30mph.. but that is zero traffic.. and no headwind either..)
Hope this helps..
Power drop just after shift (MK3 manual)
Driving a new 2013 focus SE hatch (near 2k miles) I have noticed that at launch and the 1st-2nd shift that often times I get a noticeable power drop after fully releasing the clutch pedal.
To be specific, while shifting from 1st to 2nd gears, I have (the feel of) more power with the clutch partially/mostly engaged, but once fully engaged, power to the wheels seems to momentarily dip.
There is no traction control light coming on, and I'm not doing anything silly with the throttle.
I have a few ideas, but I'd like to get some thoughts as to the cause, or if others see this as well. I'm thinking it's:
a) User failure (hope not after 14 years driving standards).
b) Traction control doing something 'minor' without lighting up.
c) Valve timing at the lower end of RPMs (shift usually happens to put 2nd at 1.5-1.75k or so).
d) Just bad torque at my shifting points which translates to a momentary blip until the engine revs up a bit (does not quite explain everything unless I always over-rev and slip the clutch at shift, which my previous 160k+ mile clutch would disagree with).
e) A problem that needs to be looked at.
So I guess I just need to know it's not e) (so we can avoid all the votes for user failure!). As a bit of background, the car previous to this was a 105hp 1993 del sol.
I have searched here and google for related threads, there was one that sounded similar regarding off the line starting, but was for 2012 models specifically and had a TSB issued, so as a 2013 model year, that would not be applicable.
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Are you bored by loose "no topic" style threads in the Hotrodders' Lounge?
Do you want to see an end to drinking/drug threads?
Sick and tired of lewd and demeaning "babe" threads?
Do you want a Lounge filled with interesting discussions on hotrodding news and events, new advancements in racing and engineering, automotive history, and hot rod culture?
Or, do you want a Lounge filled with threads like "How many times did you pick your nose today?"
The solution is simple. Not easy, but simple. If you, like me, want a better Lounge, then I have 1 simple suggestion for you. Here it is:
Start high-quality threads in the Lounge. Find a news article related to hotrodding, and start a discussion about it. Are you involved in the engineering/racing fields? Post something of interest that relates to these professions. Or a discussion about a general engineering principle. Or find a "this day in automotive history" webpage, and post something from it. Or a story about your old-time hotrodding adventures, a lot of our younger members love hearing those. If just 10 members started threads like this, it would overpower all other discussion in the Lounge.
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You want us to go through the trouble to find interesting things to talk about rather than what we would normally discus if we were all in the same room?
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does it matter?
I would love to see a lounge like the one that you described, but I would also like a place where I can gripe about something if need be, a place where I can get to know people from all over the country, a place that I like to come to because the people are great and the topic is interesting.
I agree with you that "no topic" wasn't always interesting or mentally stimulating, but that is why it was great! We could just chat with friends, make comments about our days, ask questions, whatever we felt like...in moderation.
The tech forums are great for getting questions answered if you have them, but in the lounge....conversations really center around a whole lot of nothing for the most part. Threads like, "what did you do this weekend" or the latest current event is what the majority of the lounge is.
not to me
i pretty much thought the General Rodding forum was for that.
bowtiebabe (just replied to your post in another thread too) -- I pretty much agree with all that you're saying. However, I can see the tech decline as a result of the increase in chattiness. I also want us to be UNIQUE! There are tons of places on the net where you can go and shoot the breeze. The younger members are attracted by a lax attitude, but the older members are repelled by it. It's tough to strike the proper balance.
The point you mentioned about things "in moderation" seems very accurate to me. I believe that we are no longer in moderation, and we need to take action to move back into balance.
bullheimer -- I agree that it is potentially confusing. I have just changed the Lounge description from "A place to hang out and discuss non-automotive stuff." to "A place to hang out and discuss non-tech stuff." This allows for automotive discussion of a non-specific technical nature. We can further clarify down the line, if necessary. Let me know if you get an idea as to how to better describe the similarity without confusion.
Ghetto Jet -- we'll start the bidding at 17 cents .
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I'll bid a buck. ok...2 bucks.
Jon...I see where you are coming from and I know that a nice medium would be great, but really hard to achieve.
I support your efforts....
My mood has really changed in the last 1/2 hour...when my boss leaves for lunch, I am renewed and happy again. Sorry for the crabbiness, although I did mean what I said.
Sounds good to me
A happy medium should be possible to achieve.
Discussions of projects have always been popular in the lounge.
Check out Willys posts about the "Mysterion" " It's great. Shoot, I got the idea to do my instrument cluster bezel from that thread.
But a thread like "No Topic" is still a good idea because it's a place to just drop in and shoot the breeze.
BowTieBabe, I'm glad to see you reconsidered somewhat. Saves me having to write a rant :-)
But I have to say, I agree with you, there needs to be a semi-continuing thread where the point is just to fun around. As far as "Soap Opera" is concerned, I must point out that "Soap Operas" are rarely as bizzarre as real life. This site and the lounge are a part of "Real Life" or we wouldn't be posting here.
(See My previous post on the "No Topic")
I don't think everyone wants to be "Straight Faced" ALL the time.
I think you're pretty much hitting the nail right on the head meanroy. Those "no topic" threads aren't so bad -- they're kinda fun, and they do take the edge off. I wouldn't mind seeing them pop up occasionally. It's just the over-abundance that gets to me. When we have a "no topic" thread dominating the Lounge, plus a similar "association thread", I figure it's time to close them up for a little while.
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If you want to limit the boards to specific automotive discussion only - do so - it probably won't be recieved well by everyone, but since when can you please everyone.
I belong and have belonged to several boards - invariably, there are friendships made (net-friends, netships?) and people begin to open up more and discuss their 'real' lives. Once this occurs, the 'casual' boards begin to get much busier and the tech boards will slow down.
Another aspect of this, is the intimidation factor. No one wants to post something in a tech forum and get called out for saying something incorrect - but in an open forum, you can be free to post your opinions at will.
Finally, this being a hot rod site there is not going to be a real frequent development of new material. After all, what is the average time to finish a project car - few years to a decade sound about right....
The reason people come to this site to discuss politics, religion, drugs etc - is because they want to discuss these topics with the members of THIS board, whom they know, trust, like, dislike, whatever.
Why not have an experiment - make 2 new boards:
1. Car related non-tech only
2. PG off topic open discussion
See which one accumulates the most posts in 30 days.
Also, I don't see what the big deal is regarding off-topic posts - no one is forced to go into any board or any specific post. Are they agitated by the mere existence of these threads? Does the very sight of an OT thread threaten the very fabric of HR.com?
As a final note, if a thread is getting overly large - 10 or more pages - just lock it and delete any posts that are out of line with board standards.
Kudos Jon !
A thought just popped into my head (Talk about a needle in a haystack). Perhaps a compromise of sorts. (?) In "The Dump" pinned to the top (or bottom), an open thread or two perhaps to allow the "refuse" that is not desired in public view? You would have to be "in the know" to navigate to it, if you really felt the need. A little more lax in moderating (R) to satisfy the needs of some? Again, just 1 or 2 threads that could be added to. And you'd have to look to find it. This way no one sees it from casual viewing. Just a thought. Personally, I like what you have have done up until the Sway era. (not blaming her, just identifying the time frame) Its just a glitch. Glad to see we got "a patch"!
I suspect that this is not worth the trouble but it's an idea.
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Brown rushed for 35 yards on five carries, including a 40-yard burst, in their 31-6 loss last week to the Washington Redskins. He also returned three kickoffs for 66 yards.
ôIt was the first time ever doing it,ö Brown said. ôIt was an opportunity to get the ball in my hand. I liked it and asked if I could do it again but in the situation weĺre in now they have to pull me off because Iĺll be taking more of the load.ö
Eagles head coach Andy Reid also is going to take a look at running back Dion Lewis, albeit in a backup role. Reid is anxious to see Brown, who seems to get better each week, take another step.
ôIt looks like heĺs more comfortable in the offense every week,ö Reid said. ôHeĺs done a nice job in pass protection. That wasnĺt his thing when he first came here. So heĺs doing better there. He has better recognition of the blitzes. And then heĺs a patient runner. When he goes, he goes. And he goes hard. Heĺs a big body. A physical player.ö
Brown intends to watch football again this Thanksgiving. His head will be much less cluttered with what-ifs. That was then. Starting Monday is the now.
ôI donĺt look back at anything,ö Brown said. ôI donĺt wish that anything would be different. I may not be here.ö


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Prairie and native grasslands are disappearing rapidly, taking soil and habitat as well as hunting, ranching and other economic opportunities with them. Congress should ensure that federal farm and crop insurance subsidies dont exacerbate the loss of these vital natural resources.
The Protect Our Prairies Act would prohibit federal payments and reduce crop insurance premium subsidies by 50 percent on newly broken native sod.
The Act also closes loopholes by requiring that newly broken sod be isolated from other crop acres when calculating insurable yields. And, operators would be required to take a percentage of the county average yield for any newly broken native sod until they are able to show a multi-year yield history.
These two provisions are crucial to removing the federally subsidized incentive to bust up native grassland.
The Congressional Budget Office estimates that Protect Our Prairies will save nearly $200 million over the next ten years, tax dollars that will otherwise be spent to destroy remaining prairies and grasslands.
Sen. John Thune (R-SD) secured the same provision in the Senate Farm Bill last year, and it is expected to remain in the Senate bill this year.
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By: Ryan Hartwig (@RyanHartwig)
AVON, Ind. (GreenBayPhoenix.com) – Paced by sophomore Tom Boockmeier's (Green Bay, Wis.) first-place finish, the Green Bay men's golf team won the rain-shortened Butler Spring Invitational on Thursday at Prestwick Country Club. The Phoenix posted an opening-round score of 296 – 10 shots ahead of second-place IUPUI (306) – but heavy rains overnight made the course unplayable for Friday's final round.
Boockmeier was the only player in the field to finish under par, firing a 1-under score of 71. He finished two strokes ahead of Ball State's James Blackwell, who shot a 1-over par 73. It marked Boockmeier's first individual tournament title this season.
A pair of Phoenix teammates ended the first 18 holes tied for third, as senior Cam Fuller (Sturgeon Bay, Wis.) and junior Dan Ozga (Edgerton, Wis.) both carded 74s. Senior Chad Ebert (Kenosha, Wis.) and freshman Gene Kiela (Plymouth, Wis.) rounded out the Phoenix five by tying for 12th, both finishing with scores of 77.
The Butler Spring Invite served as Green Bay's final regular season tune-up prior to the 2013 Horizon League Championships, which will be held April 26-28 at Howey-in-the-Hills, Fla.
Team Scores
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3. Butler, 309
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Some guys would rather challenge Dwayne Johnson to a cage match than watch romantic comedies. Others are butter-soft and can't mess with horror flicks. But there's one film genre that every man, woman, and child can agree upon, and that's comedy. Who doesn't want to laugh every now and then?
Just because a movie has the "comedy" tag, however, doesn't guarantee that it'll actually make you laugh. The last time we checked, some of Tyler Perry's unendurable flicks fall under this category, as do Pauly Shore's movies and Carrot Top's punishing Chairman of the Board. So, yeah, picking the right comedy entails some discretion. That's where we come in, fam. A few years back, Complex put together our 50 favorite funny movies; since then, though, a bunch of great comedies have blessed cinemas and made us re-evaluate our list.
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James S.A. Corey delivers compelling SF that ranks with the best in the field. In Leviathan Wakes, ice miner Jim Holden is making a haul from the rings of Saturn when he and his crew encounter an abandoned ship, the Scopuli. Uncovering a terrifying secret, Jim bears the weight of impending catastrophe. At the same time, a detective has been hired by well-heeled parents to find a missing girl, and the investigator's search leads him right to the Scopuli.
©2011 Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck (P)2011 Recorded Books, LLC
"… kickass space opera." (George R.R. Martin)
On Audible since the late 1990s, mostly science fiction, fantasy, history & science. I rarely review 1-2 star books that I can't get through
"Fun hard SF action with a blue collar bent"
This was really modern science fiction, if not quite up there with the best-of-the-best, it was close. Unusually for hard science fiction, the characters were compelling on their own, and had some nice depth to them. Also somewhat unusually, the characters were not scientists or space marines, but rather a mediocre detective and an intra-stellar freight hauler who get pulled deeper and deeper into the solar-system spanning plot of the book.
Though it is revealed in the very start of the story (so, no spoiler here!) that there is a first contact element in the book, for the vast majority of the novel, the action is much more human in nature - politics (both interplanetary and interoffice) and lots of action predominate.
The novel is not the deepest, and I am not entirely sure it adds to the genre or sheds vital insight into the human condition, but there is a lot of fun: murder mysteries, ship-to-ship combat, witty banter, and even old-school horror all make appearances. I'll certainly listen to the next, and I wouldn't hesitate to recommend it while you wait for more Peter Hamilton, Alastair Reynolds, or Iain M. Banks novels to be added to Audible.
My taste differs from kid books to gory horror books.
"News at 11:00"
Actually, that would be 10:00 Central Time where I live. All my life I have listened to the news (local and National). Even when I was a kid. I like to know what is going on in the world. Since it is a real world that I live in.
This book is not terrible, it is not even that badly written. To me it reads like a news cast. I find that I am not that interested in a news cast of a made up future universe. I also find that this is the sort of thing that happens when you have two authors. It seems to take the personal touch out of it. As you probably know, James S.A. Corey is Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck.
This is not as hard as most Alastair Reynolds books, and not as simple as B.V. Larson. It is sort of in the middle. Many have given it a good review and most ratings are four or five stars, but for me to be honest, I have to say I could not get in to it.
Narrator sounds like any average newscaster.
Say something about yourself!
"Really solid old-school science fiction"
This is a typical first contact story in many ways, although the mysteries surrounding the alien unfold with interesting twists and turns right up to the end. There are lots of space battles, political intrigue, clever detective work, and solid scientific speculation, all generally well handled. The science is believable, and the social/political backdrop for the story is complex, interesting, and plays an important role in the story. The two authors (Corey is a pseudonym) have crafted two characters each with a point of view on the action as it unfolds (perhaps each author took one of the characters as his alter ego?). They've done this in a way that allows some thoughtful exploration of individual differences in moral perspective on how we might respond to the discovery that there is a vastly older, vastly more sophisticated intelligence out there in the universe. I couldn't quite see my way to giving it five stars because (1) many of the minor characters are indistinguishable in voice and action, (2) too many story elements are cliches -- the evil corporation, navy captain who has a problem with authority, depressive cop traumatized by too many years of seeing the worst of humanity, women who are more manly than the men around them, etc., etc. Nevertheless, the authors manage to bring something original even to many of these cliches, and the overall effect is clever and thoughtful. Even though this is the first book of a planned series, it stands on its own quite well. I will definitely watch for the next book in the series.
Two great passions - dogs and books! Sci-fi/fantasy novels are my go-to favorites, but I love good writing across all genres.
"Just didn't engage"
I found Leviathan Wakes interesting and worth a credit, but just not engaging enough that I will buy the sequels. As much as I like sci-fi, I only LOVE it when the other aspects of good fiction are in play - great characters, plot, setting, and strong prose and LW is a little lacking. The plot is pretty interesting and there is a good mystery incorporated into it; the settings are quite vivid. But the strong plot/setting didn't quite make up for the stereotype characters (brash, young rebel and world weary detective), wooden dialog, and rather pedestrian prose for me. Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck working as James S. A. Corey have produced a work that is creditable and reasonably cohesive, but maybe damped them both down a bit; both can actually write with more flare than you see in LW.
The narration and pacing is good, but I still found myself anxious to get to the end because I just didn't care much what happened to these characters. If you enjoy a lot of action sequences (the book includes many scenes of physical fights and spaceship battles), you might find the mundane characters and the stolid prose less problematic.
"Better Start Binge Listening,The Videos are coming"
I've almost finished book two and so far this is an excellent SF series. The three major powers in this space opera are from Earth, Mars and the outer belt. The Earth/Luna United Nations comprise over 30 billion people. Mars which is in the process of terraforming, has less people but can boast of having the most advanced naval fleet. Finally those in the Outer Planet Alliance are tough adaptable survivors living in a harsh unforgiving environment and they are resentful about being pushed around by their more powerful inner planet cousins.
Our main protagonists are George Millar, a belter policeman and Jim Holden, an officer on an ice freighter. Miller, who has seen better days is given a task to find the runaway daughter of a powerful earther family who is somewhere out in the belt. Holden and a couple of colorful characters survive the destruction of their ship. It is possible the Martian navy had something to do with it and the righteous Holden goes public with accusations that stir up the three major players into a warlike footing.
Things go sideways when the Holden and Millar storylines intersect and they discover the missing girl out on Ceres station. It is here where something quite alien and terrifying is thrown into the mix.
I'm very curious if the video adaptation will do justice to the nightmare my imagination was prodded into producing when experiencing my first taste of the alien replicator molecule. It is being ruthlessly developed by an Earth based company. This life form may have been sent to our solar system in an attempt to hijack our evolution thousands of years ago.... but they missed. Unfortunately we developed space traveling technology and found it
Maybe mankind shouldn't be experimenting with toys he doesn't understand.
Sy Fy has committed to ten episodes and the first one is already available as part of the Expanse digital series going straight to TV. If you are like me, you will want to first listen to this book and then move on to the see if a TV series is up to the challenge. Personally I'm happy this is not going to be all crammed into a two hour movie.
Go ahead - get the first book and step out into the Expanse.
Gen-Xer, software engineer, and lifelong avid reader. Soft spots for sci-fi, fantasy, and history, but I'll read anything good.
"A solid science fiction beach read"
An entertainingly old-fashioned space thriller, which I might describe as "Alien meets Firefly meets Richard K. Morgan". As in the classic Ridley Scott movie, the authors create a lively sense of regular Joe and Jane humans living in the grimy, mechanical confines of spaceships and stations. Throw in some hard-boiled cop story elements and a charismatic, obedience-averse young ship captain and his rag-tag crew, and you get the Richard K. Morgan and Firefly similarities.
While there's little in this book that isn't a well-worn science fiction trope, the technological stuff feels realistic and the familiar human characters might appeal to readers weary of the powered-up post-human protagonists that populate other hard SF novels these days. Add some cracklingly good space battles, a mystery, and characters caught up in politics larger than themselves, and you have a science fiction thriller that is, if not exactly innovative, more readable than Alastair Reynolds.
Tell us about yourself!
"Interesting debut"
It was a nice listen. I did like the world that the authors evoked (For those who don't know, James S.A. Corey is a pseudonym for 2 authors), and the characters were decent. I don't know that I really cared deeply about them at the end, but the action is so non stop that you get pulled along regardless.
My favorite character is the one who is seen the least amount - Julie
Blockbuster deep space adventure!
I'll definitely download the sequel when it comes out - I hear it's planned for late spring 2012.
I value intelligent stories with characters I can relate to. I can appreciate good prose, but a captivating plot is way more important.
"A Mixed Bag"
The good:
The quality of the writing was very good; dialog was realistic and natural and the descriptions were thorough without being overwhelming. The author generated suspense nicely (though not what I would call masterfully), and the plot was engaging throughout- with only a couple of dry spots towards the beginning.
The bad:
Corey (the author) has created a universe and backstory that suggest an epic scope- but unfortunately his relatively small cast of characters are not enough to populate the a story of the size he wants to fill. So rather than SHOWING us the various aspects of life in his futuristic solar system, he TELLS us about the back story in an encyclopedic fashion that feels like a dry history lesson. I suggest that he examine George R.R. Martin's Game of Thrones to see how a vast and rich backstory can be doled out at appropriate times, by making sure that all the history shared is relevant to the story and in such a way that the readers have a vested interest in knowing that backstory at the time it is being shared.
One writing device which bothered me a lot was the detective constantly seeing/talking to a girl who wasn't there. This is not an uncommon device, and a cringe whenever I read it, because I wonder if the author is implying that the character is literally hallucinating or if we're just getting a weird view of their imagination. It is a weak crutch to show us the inner thoughts of one of the main characters, and I wish the author had made a different choice.
Lack of scientific progress was also a major problem in this novel. We are set in the distant future, but Corey doesn't dazzle us with any time-appropriate technology outside of the genre cliches.
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The plot itself is interesting, but suffers from a common problem: The bad guys are too evil. They're also too stupid for words. It's the same old sci-fi cliche where a powerful organization tries to harness a weapon that OBVIOUSLY defies human control. We've seen this in the Alien movies, in the Fifth Element, the Fly II, etc, etc.
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I am left with mixed feelings about this book. I don't feel that it was a waste of time... but I also don't feel terribly compelled to continue with the rest of the series as it comes out.
"Superb first story"
This is the first in a series of books and it is excellent! Corey has done a superb job and the narration is spot on. The story includes mystery, intrigue, futuristic thinking, and psychological hooks that keep you coming back for more. You will not want to stop listening once you start this book and that is one of the key qualities I look for in any audio experience. I highly recommend this book. I can'
t wait for the next installment.
"Works for you if you are into two Tropes"
The plot has intrigue and mystery to it, but it lumbers on slower than I anticipated. I have had a hard time getting invested in the characters or in the mystery.
The two main characters from which almost all of the book is told fall into two tropes. One is a tenacious gum shoe detective, the other is a brave and noble ship captain. These characters so far (I'm 2/3 way through) do not deviate much from their type, and it makes them fall flat. They are too 2-dimensional, and I'm not very invested in either.
The first chapter of the book is quite the hook.
Holden, unfortunately.
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. - No. 4 Notre Dame ended the game on a 7-2 run en route to a 13-8 win over Providence in BIG EAST men's lacrosse action on Sunday afternoon at Lennon Family Field. Senior attackman Sean Rogers paced the Fighting Irish offense with four goals and one assist.
Notre Dame (8-2, 2-1) led 5-4 at halftime, but Providence tied the contest on an Andrew Barton goal with 13:17 left in the third quarter. Fighting Irish sophomore Nick Ossello won the ensuing faceoff and fellow sophomore Conor Doyle scored one of his three goals in the game to give the Irish a 6-5 advantage. Ossello won 17 of his 21 faceoff attempts on the afternoon, while freshman Trevor Brosco was 3-of-3 in faceoffs for the Irish.
"Nick Ossello was terrific today," Notre Dame head coach Kevin Corrigan said. "Not only was he winning faceoffs, but he also gave us some fastbreak opportunities."
Providence (7-5, 1-3) responded with a Sean Wright tally, which tied the game (6-6) midway through the third quarter. Doyle put the Irish up for good just 25 seconds after Wright's equalizer. The goal from Doyle ignited a 4-0 Fighting Irish run.
A man-up goal from sophomore midfielder Will Corrigan, who also had two assists in the game, gave Notre Dame a two-goal edge (8-6) at the 5:55 mark of the third period. Rogers then deposited his third goal of the day to put the Irish up by three (9-6) by the end of the third quarter.
"Sean Rogers finds a way to make the plays that we need on a week-to-week basis. That is what you expect from a leader and a fifth-year senior," Corrigan said.
The Fighting Irish run continued when freshman attackman Matt Kavanagh converted on a man-up opportunity to make it a four-goal affair (10-6). Providence's JT Weber stopped the surge momentarily as he cut the Irish lead back to three (10-7) with 5:45 remaining in the game.
Rogers' fourth goal of the contest put the Irish back up by four (11-7) and junior midfielder Jim Marlatt increased the advantage to five with 2:30 left in the game. Doyle completed his hat trick to give Notre Dame a six-goal cushion (13-7), which was its largest of the day. Weber netted the game's final goal.
The Friars claimed an early 2-0 lead in the contest on goals from Jake Newman and Brendon McGuire. Notre Dame responded with four unanswered goals to hold a 4-2 lead by the end of the first quarter. Rogers scored the first and last goals of the run, while juniors Westy Hopkins and John Scioscia had goals just six seconds apart.
Providence sliced the Irish lead to one (4-3) on a Kevin Blair tally less than a minute into the second quarter. Marlatt, who had two goals and two assists on the day, put the Irish back up by two (5-3) at the 7:07 mark of the period. A goal from Wright made it a one-goal game at the intermission.
"We had problems turning the ball over in the clearing game in the first half and that allowed them to have sustained possessions," Corrigan said. "It's an uphill battle when you're turning the ball over like that and giving them a second chance. We weren't able to pull away and get separation because of that and they were able to grind the game out."
Notre Dame outshot Providence 46-29 for the game. Senior goalie John Kemp made nine saves for the Irish, while Jack Connelly had 13 stops for the Friars. Notre Dame's defense forced 11 shot-clock warnings on Providence. The Irish were 2-of-3 in man-up chances, while the Friars were 0-of-3.
The Fighting Irish combined to score 30 goals in their two wins this week (Notre Dame topped Marquette 17-5 on Tuesday). The 30 goals are the most for the Irish in consecutive games since the 2009 season when they combined for 32 in wins over Penn State (13-8) and Dartmouth (19-7).
Notre Dame will play host to Georgetown on Sunday. The BIG EAST clash is slated for 11 a.m. (ET) at Arlotta Stadium. The game will be broadcast live on ESPNU and WatchESPN.com.


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The banana smell is their alarm pheromone and I would think it might upset them to constantly have that smell on top of them.
Sorry I don't get the joke.
I guess the results would depend on if it was an organically grown banana fertilized with all natural monkey poo or one of those wretched Monsanto chemical laden ones :evil:
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I think that the 1-0 win over Villarreal was a good result - as long as you don't concede goals in Europe you are happy.
We will know for sure after the second leg of course, and we are going to have to play the same sort of game over there. What I think might suit us though is that they will have to come out and attack more than they did at Highbury. They didn't want to do that in the first leg, and everyone knows what we can do when a team has a go at us. I would like to see them come out because that will give us space.
I'm sure they can play better than they did on Wednesday in terms of going forward. They kept the ball really well, and they managed to kill the rhythm of the game at times, but they will have to change on Tuesday. I also think having Jose Reyes back for the second leg could help us too.
Perhaps in the second half we were caught between going for the second goal and preserving the clean sheet. It was the same against Real Madrid, but as I said, we won't know how important Kolo's goal was until after the game in Spain. I can say however, that once again we have shown that we are able to keep a clean sheet.
I was proud of the way we managed to concentrate on the game throughout the 90 minutes. They were trying things to waste time but the ref did well because he was asking them to get up, and he booked a couple of them. However I thought that the guy who tackled me round my waist should have been sent off, because if he doesn't stop me then I am through on goal. They could have had a penalty in the first-half too, but we had a definite goal in the first 20 minutes ruled out for offside, so perhaps it evened up.
It was our last ever European night at Highbury, but we were in between emotions, because we are only half way through the tie.
You can't do a lap of honour when the game isn't over, so let's make it special over there, to ensure that we have great memories of our last game in Europe at Highbury.
Once again we have put ourselves in the position that we are leading after the first leg. Last year against Bayern Munich that wasn't the case. After the first Real Madrid game this year everyone was saying is 1-0 enough? Then we beat Juventus 2-0 in the first leg and still everyone was saying is it enough? You never know but in this kind of competition it's very rare that you see a 4-0 or 5-0.
We will forget about the semi-final for a few days though while we concentrate on this Tottenham game.
Tottenham are having a better season than they have had for a very long time but they got knocked out of the Carling Cup early, and they got knocked out of the FA Cup early. They weren't in Europe of course so they have just had the league to play for all season.
Tottenham are building a good side at the moment, but more than any other team in the division, they can concentrate purely on the league. They have some very good players, and would have been aiming for a top four position, so they will be disappointed if they don't achieve that.
They have held fourth position for much of the season, but if we win today it is in our hands - we have the chance to catch them.
We are right between two massive games in our history, but an Arsenal v Tottenham game will always be special too.
We are at home, and I'm sure we will be up for it. We did lose a bit of energy on Wednesday, but we will be ready for it. I know all the fans are really looking forward to it.
It's the last north London derby at Highbury, but to be honest, we are not thinking about that. Because of the situation we are in, and because of the game, you don't really take that on board. I think against Wigan that will be the really special one. The last ever game at Highbury, the last ever, so that is the one. Today though, we are just thinking about getting the points.
We have a good record against Tottenham since I joined Arsenal, and there have been a few highlights for me. My goal here in 2002 was a good moment for me, but winning the league at Tottenham was great - really special. To celebrate on their ground - you can't ask for more. Obviously you need the circumstances for it all to come together and for it to become mathematically possible to do it, and that happened that season. To celebrate the title on their ground is something I will always, always remember, as I'm sure will all of us there that day.
As I said, today's match is sandwiched between two massive games for us, but that's what you have to deal with when you are a big club like Arsenal. We have had that season after season, and you have to manage it. You always get a surprise team, Everton did it last season, and Tottenham are ahead of us this season, but you have to be there all the time, like Arsenal, Manchester United, Chelsea, who are there year after year.
Thanks for your magnificent support on Wednesday, I'm sure you'll be there for us again this afternoon.
Thierry Henry
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I have been teaching Oral English in China for the past 10 years and am getting tired of what seems to be a crippling habit that foreign teachers have. That habit is of assigning presentation assignments to the class, i.e. prepare a lesson for the class, make an advertisement for a product, etc. They will respond "but the students are still speaking English" when i question them as to why they are doing it. However, they are not learning the mechanics of discussion, interchange, dialogue, etc. They also have a one year course in presentation in their sophomore year, and do nothing more in their writing, listening, reading classes than parrot back answers to their teachers. As a result, my sophomore students cannot communicate well with others in English :(
I have 5 weeks off now. I would like to spend some time online researching this question, but I first need help in phrasing the question. What are the right words to search on to answer this question? I have tried basic words "teaching english as a foreign language", "tefl teacher training" but I get such a broad array of hits that the search is useless. What search words would be more useful?
Secondly, I am also interested in practical ideas, lesson plan, links, articles, etc that you have used that were successful - or even clearly unsuccessful.