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Well now thats more like it Schnitz, we fully support the vehicle type you envision with great enthusiam. You are truly a great supporter of the American Dream and realizer of terrific vision.
We have planned for the North American Continent a futuristic vision of hydrogen stations linked by fiber optic network that will automatically charge your credit card and notify you by dashboard graphic of upcoming refueling stations and their in-house sales promotions. By way of telecommunication we will be able to forecast your refueling needs and preplan your refueling stops for you so there is always the proper amount of Hydrogen available to fuel your chicklet sized vehicle. In addition this exciting new vehicle technology will be powered by that most well known and reliable engine powerplant on the planet.
This new powerplant is so efficient and powerful that its output can only be measured in watts not horsepower, an estimated output of over 1000 watts!!!!! is available to propel this exciting new vehicle to speeds of up to 50km/hr inside city limits. With the newly proposed highway speed limits reaching 80kms/hr!!!! our new Corporate designed vehicle will be able to reach that speed and more!
In the interests of economy the engine is designed to be recycled at intervals which makes the most economical use of the capabilities of the engine producer, there is no oil to change or filters to replace. When it is time to replace the engine you will be notified by dashboard graphic of the next refueling stations service capabilities and the powerplant can be replaced in the time it takes to refuel your vehicle! You never have to get your hands dirty, check a fluid or ever even lift your hood again.
I know you will be excited with this new green revolution in automotive technology and we look forward to delivering it to you.
Hydrogen fuel cells, the space shuttle has thre suitcase sized fuel cells that provide it's power.
Thread, no, but I did post this link to poke fun at Government Motors.....
In a while, Chet.
I'm still waiting for my Mr. Fusion machine that will allow me to run off of whatever I can dig out of the nieghbors trash can LOL
I'm with Pigjam, hydrogen costs more to make than it returns, unless we can get over our nuclear phobia and get the whole country running nuclear power, then we would have more electricity than we knew what to do with.
I too cringed every time I heard the guy babble about being soo green. What a crock!
I used to be a proponent of hydrogen. After having looked more into it recently, I've changed my position. I think electricity is preferable as the alternative source of power for vehicles *edit* I mean the MAIN source of power.
Hydrogen vehicles have a short range - less than 100 miles unless the vehicle has an unreasonably large tank. Currently, battery technology allows for a range beyond 300 miles.
Hydrogen is way more expensive than gasoline. These days the cheapest way to get hydrogen is to get it from methane (CH4), not from electrolysis. So hydrogen production today, on top of costing a lot, is not very green.
So why not use electrolysis, some may ask? Using electrolysis to produce hydrogen makes as much sense as melting snow to get water so you can make ice cubes. As much or more energy is needed to break apart H2O as is produced in hydrogen combustion. Might as well use that electricity to directly power the car.
The infrastructure for hydrogen filling stations would have to be built. The filling station for the electric car already exists: Your garage! AND we can adapt our wiring so as to get power from the sun and wind. Fill up for free!
It's been said that battery production or disposal would not be good for the environment. I agree the potential for that exists. But here is the difference I see when compared to fossil fuel production and combustion. In northern Alberta oil production is creating vast pools of toxic waste stored in pools that, if compromised, would create an environmental disaster that would dwarf that of the Exxon Valdez. It should be added that areas that used to be pristine boreal forest are now barren landscapes. As for fossil fuel combustion, gases (greenhouse gases) end up in the atmosphere; they can't be contained. Reminds me of Toronto when I was down there one summer during a Smog alert. The pollutants also end up in the ground when it rains. Now when a battery is toast, parts can be recycled, and the acid contained.
There is a drawback that a couple of Winnipeggers like 4Jaw and myself could surely (surly?) appreciate: climate. Electric cars and hydrogen cars would not perform well in cold weather. Heating would be the bigger problem with the Electric car.
By the way everybody, it's June and yes it's still winter in Winnipeg...or pretty dern close to it anyway.
Gee Chuck, I was kinda liking the idea of something other than gasoline...
I guess I'll tell the guy who wants me to help convert his already running and registered 32 replica roadster to electric to pound sand, electricity is deader than dog crap, and until we can put a plutonium pellet in the fliptop gearshift knob and have it push the car into the 4 second 1/4 mile and do it 2000 times without a fillup i'm not going to even consider an alternate power source. ( I was looking forward to actually getting my hands on some of those cool quick disconnects from the forklift service company)
I wouldn't want to deprive the big dollar guys with the fuel supply infrastructure another chance to monopolize one more aspect of my life.
And I'll just keep asking the guys with the hydrogen powered busses, cars and lawnmowers at the shows like Pacific Coast Dream machines just what exactly is behind the hydrogen power, until they give me a straight answer. (being as for now they can't seem to answer any questions about the technology.)
Is that the answer you were looking for Chuck?
But for now, I'm going back to wrapping the rafters in my shop with all the wire I pulled out of those foreclosed homes, maybe I can save a little on my PG&E bill, or at the very least, be able to get the good Santa Cruz radio station on my shop stereo.
Later, mikey
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So let me get this straight, all you hotrodders think that an 11 second electric car is not slow? C'mon, that $80K Corvette almost had him at the end of the 1/4 there.
On top of that, here is a guy with obviously huge dollars at his disposal to build such a complicated machine...did you have a look at those forklift battery connectors to hookup the batteries. Thats some very expensive high tech stuff there.
Ya know when some crackpot goes out and builds some hyper expensive prototype race car using secret battery technology (didn't he read the sticker on the portable tool battery cases?) to build a car barely capable of hitting high 11's in the 1/4 mile and uses it to beat an american supercar on a race track theres something wrong. Why hasn't this guy been taken out yet? Where is homeland security in all this, obviously he's a danger to everyone around him.
Seems to me that this so called "hotrodding" hobby you folks have been practicing is endangering the security of the huge multinational corporations we hold so dear, I can tell it has not gone un-noticed by those in charge. It will not be tolerated. From this day forward I am going to propose that any battery manufactured here or abroad come with wireless tamper proof transmitters to prevent you "hotrodders" from attempting to embarass and harass the corporate identity of our great nations by utilizing the technology that we let you use on a daily basis to drill your holes and whippersnip your grass for nefarious purposes.
I for one am outraged, did you not get the hint when the GM electric car was destroyed and those who were involved were neutralized and careers wrecked so they could not pollute any more young minds with this foolish battery powered communist technology.
I have one word for you guys, HYDROGEN. We need to keep those filling stations going for the good of mankind, you can get that whole notion of energy independance out of your minds forever. Energy flows out of a nozzle not a wire people!
Stop and desist right now or this hobby of yours will be systemically legislated out of existence.
Mark my words!
Pffft...100% torque at zero rpm....jeez! Thats Stalinism I tells ya!
Or make cars lightning powered cars with a big brass knob on the roof and a metal ground wheel.......Wear your welding helmet when you drive....hahahahahah
Ya gotta start somewhere.
Later, mikey
I kinda like that little car, Brian...so ugly it's cute.
The guys who make that electric dirtbike claim their battery is clean enough to pitch in a landfill.
From waht I gather, the EPA says they are non hazardous waste.
I think there are some other companies use them too.
I talked to a guy who owns a controller company, he uses lead acid golfcart batteries in his cars, mainly because the dollar for mile costs are much lower , and there are recycling facilities for those in place and working now.
I know that one battery for that little bike costs over 3000.00 dollars, so it won't be cheap to be green. ( I know nothing about the manufacturing process, or how hazardous the manufacturing of the circuit board that keeps the Li ion battery from exploding like the early Li Ion battery in a laptop does...there are always those little issues that no one want's to talk about)
later, mikey
I saw one of these at "Dream Machines" (I missed you Mike, Dan and Dewey!, did meet Milo though, HI MILO!) it runs the quarter in the 12's.
Not using foreign oil huh....................just using foreign batteries, probably from China because they are too environmentally nasty to be manufactured in the USA. I just love these dweebs that rave about not using foreign oil, but never mention where the batteries are made or better yet where they are going to be disposed of when they are no longer viable. I heard the other day that the much ballyhooed Toyota Prius has several thousand LiPO batteries, so much for green cars.
I give the guy credit for what he's done, but please do not try and convince me that he is doing the planet a favor.
Here is an electric car that I got to build the body for in 94
Here is an electric car that went 8.91 in the 1/4
Here was the old streetdriven recordholder, in another vid from television.
IMO, Electric power will never replace gas, unless the battery technology gets waaaay better.
I had the opportunity to work on an electric dirtbike, (which won the first 24 hour motocross race for electric bikes, with over 1000 laps on a 1/2 mile track), it was not a slug. It was not the fastest birtbike I've ever ridden, but it was plenty of fun. Considering it would do about 60 mph and get there in about 5 seconds, without shifting, it rides every bit as good as a 250 cc 4 stroke enduro bike. At 140# curb weight that's about 90 pounds less than a 2009 YZ250. A honda crf 230 weighs 267#, almost twice as much.
The downfall is in the recharge time and range..you can get way more hours of fun from 16 or 20 pounds of gas than you can from 40 pounds of battery.
But folks are coming out with better batteries, and better contollers all the time.
A article I read about the Tesla says it does the 1/4 in 12.9 seconds. An expensive 12.9 seconds at over 100K for the car, but an off the shelf 13 second electric car ain't grandpas golfcart.
Now if we could ditch all of the coal fired power plants for nuclear it would be alot cleaner.
Later, mikey
Hey Chuck, 11.50's at 110+ mph in the 1/4 ain't that slow, give the guy his prop's.!!!
At least it ain't a Smart Car. I'd kill myself if that was all there was to drive.
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God help us, another dog slow electric car.
Sure glad we are pushing for hydrogen cars instead of having to drive something like this.
Dog slow electric car racing video
Wasn't there a thread on here that said this is the kind of thing we were going to be driving if Obama had his way?
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I got the idea when i saw Brak's helmet project..
I'm not very good at building things from scratch, nor do i own a hobbyroom, but i do craft things in 3D. This 3D object is my first serious attempt at doing a realistic ESB hero helmet. I have more than enough referance photos so why not try that instead? I'm awaiting some costume parts so i will work on this instead until they get here
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Right now the helmet is a low-polygon mesh, but after i've added everything i'll make the shapes much more smooth
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(Just before I made the post, I received a call allegedly from a higher up in the state. I was assured from now on that their staff will be better trained on ADA rules and that employees will be instructed to give the name and contact information of their superior if it is requested. Though I tentatively consider the matter dropped, I reserve the right to make issue of it again and I feel that there should be a public record of it so the abuses are less likely to happen again.)
My service dog is a 10-year-old GSD that is mellowed out and very well behaved. She is starting to feel her age. She has had G.I. bleeding for several years, just got a diagnosis a few weeks ago. She has polyps and cysts/tumors. I don't know the difference between cysts and tumors and can't remember which one the vet said, but he said for as long as she has been bleeding that it's had a chance to spread, so surgery would probably make things worse and might kill her. She still is in good spirits and is not in pain but she often seems weak and tired probably from old age and bleeding.
I know many people may think that some of the ADA rules are silly and unreasonable. Like not allowing for authorities/businesses to demand certification to prove a dog is a service dog. Put yourself in the position of the disabled. If you are severely disabled there is a higher chance that you are under employed, or unemployed. IE living on social security. There is a good chance that you can't afford to spend $5k-$30K on a service dog that has "certification". There is a good chance that if you have a disability that you don't have the skills to work through the bureaucracy to get a formal certification. Requiring a formal certification process can be cost prohibitive to the poor disabled and overwhelm the abilities of some of the disabled. So requiring formal certification can prevent those that need service dogs the most, from having them. Spending $5k-$30k on a service dog when you are on Social Security is an unreasonable hurdle.
Ok so the situation that you needed to take care of is resolved? Sorry you had to go through all of that!
Some people are just A holes any reasonable "human being" would have been more than willing to accommodate you considering the circumstances.
Maybe the person you were dealing with knew GSD's were smart dogs and he was concerned your dog may have been coaching you on the drive?! :)
I'm sorry this happened and that your dog is not well.
Think of it this way, when people can easily get in anywhere with a dog that is not really a service dog, the dog misbehaves, it actually makes legitimate service dogs look bad.
I talked with a lady at petsmart last summer, she was bragging on how she took her GSD into the Atlanta Aquarium, told everyone it was a service dog even though it is not.
You also have to look at it from the business owners point of view too, they can't have, for instance, fake service dogs coming into their store and damaging merchandise or disrupting other customers.
We have to be fair to everyone concerned.
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Honestly, while I am sorry you were discriminated against, you letter is full of very slanderous statements and disproportionate anger and attacks. I think you called them sociopaths who were enjoying discriminating against you.
Pot-kettle. Say hi.
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So the OP is saying that they agree with the rule of not being allowed to ask for certification of service dog because so people can't afford the certification and appropriate training. Doesn't this also mean the dogs are under trained. There is a point to the certification. Under trained dogs should not be allowed everywhere in public.
This dog and this poster were taking a driver test! People abuse the system all the time, it's what people do.
Had it been me..."I'd" have said, "nice dog, let's get started on the test! Some people do that also! :)
I think it's unreasonable to require certification, for the reasons I mentioned.
I agree that much of the problem is fakers, but I think you're looking at it in the wrong way. Probably because you likely don't have a disability, don't have a service dog and/or are not poor.
I think the fakers are causing a lot of problems not only for the reasons you mentioned, is because they flash so many fake IDs, vests and paperwork that many people think that it is real and required.
It's much like how Hollywood builds up unrealistic expectations on other issues.
Dogs that are a danger/aggressive or a nuisance can be ejected/bared. In some, if not all jurisdictions; fakers can be prosecuted. Though I don't know many that have been prosecuted.
The word sociopath fits their treatment of me.
"Sociopaths are interested only in their personal needs and desires, without concern for the effects of their behavior on others"
Sociopath | Define Sociopath at Dictionary.com
While the leniency does open the window for under trained dogs, that doesn't mean that just because a dog isn't "certified", that it is any less trained.
For some organizations "certification" is about greed. Earning money. Some of the "certified" dogs have a very low level of training.
While opening the window for under trained dogs, can present problems it also can be a benefit. It means a dog can be providing service, at the same time it is being trained to a higher level.
For me and my dog training is really never ending; because my disability and circumstances are always changing. That's one of the good things about service dogs is they can learn and adapt.
Some disabilities and circumstances don't require a highly trained dog.
"There is no legitimate service dog certification or registration in the United States."
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You seem to think the only way to train a dog is to pay someone else to do it? It's much cheaper and sometimes much better for people to train their own dogs.
However any organization or anyone can make their own "certification". "Certification" doesn't prove a dog is a legitimate service dog.
"There is no legitimate service dog certification or registration in the United States."
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There is a good chance if you see someone flashing badges, "certifications", and flaunting vests; that they are fakers.
I will probably get blasted..... won't be the first time :)
Just by observation here, understanding very little of human behavior.. but I have to wonder if the employees were reacting in kind to the behavior they were shown.
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Arizona's proto-secessionist amendment failed.
pity … we could have built a fence around it and walked away … except for the border patrols …
Squeaking ahead in Minnesota, too.
Don't look now but Bachmann just slipped into second in MN-6.
It looks like she slipped back into first. Her and King are the only dark spots from yesterday as far as I can tell.
is it too early to make start haranguing people who voted for all this goodness yesterday to show up at the polls in 2014?
Oh fucking hell no. Finding a way to turn this new demographic reality for Presidential races on the midterms is now project number one for the progressive movement, IMO.
I wouldn't expect the Republicans to give up their own project of voter suppression any time soon. Any progressive project to cement that demographic majority needs to address that issue, starting with an organized campaign by the Democratic party itself to help people secure photographic ID.
Three states affirm marriage equality, we get our first openly gay Senator, and the pro-Adam&Steve President wins handily. Praise Jebus! I can't believe it was only eight years ago that Kerry went down with 13 states voting to ban gay marriage.
Also, two states repudiating the Drug War by popular acclaim is mind bending from the perspective of just a few years ago. Everyone at the DCCC needs to be fired immediately, but other than that this was a hell of a night.
…WHEW. Wings of the angel of death fluttering over our heads, no joke.
Down ballot news is good too, though I'd have liked to take the House back.
This isn't Victory(TM), but your readers know that. Arpaio won, eg, Bachmann and Allen West likely to be re-elected. Not a sea change. But a start.
A lot of good-minded people seemed to think that 1/20/09 was Mission Accomplished or some such shit. Get drunk, recoup and realize tomorrow: years, maybe decades of angry political fights coming up.
I've got your back, cover mine. Keep pushing. The Birchers started 50 years ago and never stopped, and are coming close to ruining the country altogether. Push back like your life depends on it. "Politics" isn't some thing that happens every four years: it is reality. Power, how and whom for it is used. Very real, every damn day. PUSH BACK.
West is behind by 2500 votes with 100% in. Recount, I guess?
Right! Step to, come on, two lines by self-identified gender, c'mon, c'mon, can't get mass gay married unless you get organized, right, look sharp.
Now. Each same-sex dyad will receive one (1) trailer, one (1) copy of Das Kapital, and one (1) adopted child to indoctrinate. Do NOT loose your copy of Das Kapital, it's a bitch to find enough firewood to fire up the boilers that power the printing machines, which we use since the Butlerian Jihad destroyed all technology, to replace it.
You forgot Alinsky. And the New Black Panthers.
My favorite moment of the night–this shocking video of an actual New Black Panther outside a polling place holding the door open for elderly women!!!
And ACORN, you can never forget ACORN. Otherwise what would the squirrels have to eat?
I just can't tell satire from the sad reality anymore.
there's nothing more satirical than reality … w/ apologies to g. morandi …
Poe's law is a harsh mistress.
I thought that we were going to give the couples random children out of the public schools.
Actually, it is "Forward Unto Dawn."
Ifthese exit poll numbers are to be believed, Romney was able to pump up white voters by a fair number over McCain, but ended up losing because Hispanics and young people hate him.
And 18-29 year olds were a larger voting bloc than 65+.
And 18-29 year olds were a larger voting bloc than 65+.
Exit polls. That means people showing up to vote and getting harassed by exit pollsters. No absentee ballots in that count.
And I'm wondering if you can measure the racism in my home state of Ohio by the difference in votes for Romney and votes for Josh Mandel, or if something else in at play there. Brown consistently gets 2-3% more of the vote than Obama did across all age groups. On the other hand, the difference between Obama and Brown's vote totals is only 50K votes – it looks like a whole chunk of people just decided they would vote for Romney and just skip voting for Senator altogether on the Republican side – there's a 200K vote difference between Romney and Mandel's vote totals.
I'm trying to figure out what the heck happened there. Admittedly Josh Mandel is probably one of the smarmiest characters in the Ohio government right now, but that usually isn't a show stopper in this state.
Exit polls. That means people showing up to vote and getting harassed by exit pollsters. No absentee ballots in that count.
I think they changed the way they do exit polls this year to include phone interviews, because so much voting was early/absentee.
In fairness to voters in what is my state too, there's a pretty good argument that Mandel is even less likeable the Romney, and even less qualified for the office he sought.
It is amazing to me that in 2004 Gay Marriage was a stick made to Karl Rove's hand, with which to beat the Democrats by stirring up the bigotry and the fears of his base; that in 2008 Obama felt obligated to run from the subject, and to deny his earlier support for it – and yet in 2012 our party's nominee and our party's official platform embraced the equality of our Gay friends, relatives, and neighbors, and did so proudly, invoking it in big speeches. And they won, and in three or possibly four states the electorate directly embraced the idea. It's a long way to have come in eight years.
That's what 8 years of old bigots dying can do. They got replaced with young people who don't get why gay people shouldn't have equal rights
in 2004 Gay Marriage was a stick made to Karl Rove's hand, with which to beat the Democrats by stirring up the bigotry
Since Nate Silver is the hero of the day, lets follow his lead and listen to the statisticians:
Political scientists believe the exact opposite. In an article by Ansolabehere and Stewart III, appropriately titled, Moral values and the gay-marriage backlash did not help Bush, they argue that, the "Marriage referenda mobilized voters on both sides, not just the conservatives, and the net result may have been to John Kerry's benefit." Here are the facts from Ansolabehere and Stewart III:
The (more logical) conclusion seems to be that "moral values" and the gay-marriage backlash did not help Bush
The data says; "Stand by your values, Liberals!" Also, Thomas Frank is an idiot.
Interesting. Certainly contrary to the conventional wisdom. At the very least, I'd argue that it seems the intention behind the 2004 anti-Gay referenda was to (disproportionately) mobilize the anti-Gay Republican base, even if the data you cite suggest that was not in fact the result.
Certainly contrary to the conventional wisdom.
Well, its bigger than SSM, Warren.
The whole CW about values voters is largely voodoo. You are right that Conservatives are too stupid to realize this. So your description of their motives may very well be correct.
But let them figure that out. The good news is you don't really have to worry about losing elections over your social values. The bad news is the reason you were losing post-64 is because race trumped class b/f that…to the benefit of liberalism.
But I won't continue with that beatdown. For now, you are the party and ideology of civil rights and you can win by being true to thyself.
The bad news is the reason you were losing post-64 is because race trumped class b/f that…to the benefit of liberalism.
And after 1964, race trumped class to the benefit of conservatives, who have very effectively cornered themselves into being the Party of White People. Did you have a point?
Can't we all just be friends today?
And after 1964, race trumped class to the benefit of conservatives
This is largely inaccurate.
I can't do a response that now. On topics this incendiary I need to speak thru left-leaning academics with pristine reputations.
I assure you I can gather quotes and data from them telling you that you are largely wrong. But there is a lot of nuance here so before I do that let me know if you are genuinely interested.
In other words, I'm not interested in hearing about my mother basement (which is spectacular btw) or me being a retarded 14 yr old.
But there is a lot of nuance here so before I do that let me know if you are genuinely interested.
My life will remain incomplete without a 30,000-word comment on Robert Byrd and DW-Nominate.
ok. I won't bother.
I can't do a response that now. On topics this incendiary I need to speak thru left-leaning academics with pristine reputations.
Not really. A good argument would do. I personally don't care about author ideology per se.
I assure you I can gather quotes and data from them telling you that you are largely wrong. But there is a lot of nuance here so before I do that let me know if you are genuinely interested.
And that Bloom is a Good Intellectual Historian as well! :)
I don't see how you can say that race trumped class in the south before 1964 in any broad way. Certainly, rich people in the South, like everybody else, voted Democratic. At the same time, this was already significantly less true in presidential races than it once had been (Eisenhower won 5 of the 11 southern states in 1956, and had support from LBJ's Texas oilman friends, among others).
I don't see how you can say that race trumped class in the south before 1964 in any broad way.
Rich Southern Whites voted against the Bankers Party at a much higher clip than their brethren in the North b/c they hated Blacks more than they loved money.
Poor Southern Whites voted for the Party they are expected to vote for at a much higher rate than their Northern brethren because of that Party's "gentleman's agreement" to maintain Jim Crow.
Race clearly trumped class.
(As I mentioned, I'll do this later with cites from Nate Silverish Political Scientists. But that's the gist)
Certainly contrary to the conventional wisdom.
Ah, conventional wisdom. It's as wise as common sense is common.
Linking to Thomas Frank is like linking to Un Skewed Polls Dot Com.
Except he uses research like history, talking to local politicians, and narrating how a Democratic candidate became the governor of Kansas, rather than abstract election data to draw his conclusions from.
From a recent interview:
BILL MOYERS: And Barack Obama for all of his virtues and intelligence is not a man of the people.
THOMAS FRANK: No, he's not. And he also, he's a man of academia. He's a man who believes in experts and expertise as we've seen in many, many, many, all the different sort of arenas of his presidency whether you're talking about the war in Afghanistan or whether you're talking about the financial crisis.
This is a man who defers to experts, believes in expertise. He does not have much sympathy for, say the labor movement. He can't go out there and tell you why, say the regulatory agencies failed. He can't, it doesn't make sense to him. He can't talk about these things that everybody wants to know about.
Now, on the other side you've got a movement, the conservative movement, a right wing populist movement that talks a very good game, that speaks to people's anger and that offers them a kind of idealism, a kind of hope that perversely draws on a lot of the rhetoric of the 1930s and models itself after a lot of the movements of the 1930s.
And what they offer, this is interesting. What they offer, the dream, the sort of utopia, the vision that they have for the future of our country is pure free markets. And they say this all the time. It's not me making this up. You go to any Tea Party rally–
BILL MOYERS: That's right. We've covered them. You're exactly right.
THOMAS FRANK: –and they talk about this. If we can just get government out of the way and we can reach out, you know, and–
BILL MOYERS: But getting government out of the way is what helped bring down the economy–
THOMAS FRANK: Of course, but they say the only problem is that government, you know, yes, we deregulated all that stuff, we deregulated all through those years, but we didn't go far enough. And so you can say to them, "Well, look at the record of George W. Bush, the champion deregulator. Look at all the amazing things that he did to set Wall Street loose to deregulate."
And they're like, "Well, George W. Bush was not a real conservative." They say this all the time. It's very easy for them to, you know, because they're such purists and such ideologues to excommunicate someone like George W. Bush from their movement and say, "Well, he wasn't pure enough." Ten years ago they had little statues of him on their desks, you know. But how he's thrown out of the movement, "Not pure enough" —
BILL MOYERS: That's their idealism?
THOMAS FRANK: — because of the bailouts.
BILL MOYERS: Their idealism is their unblinking faith in the free market?
THOMAS FRANK: Yes, and this is an idea that when I first started writing about it was something that you only saw from the Jamie Dimons of the world.
I called it market populism. It was something that you saw on CNBC in the early days, in the stock market boom of the '90s. You would see it in, like, personal investment books and I made fun of it. Today it is everywhere. It is epidemic, and it's not just the high and the mighty that believe this stuff now, that believe that markets are both a natural phenomenon and a democratic phenomenon. This is average people all across America that believe this.
BILL MOYERS: But you're a historian. Why has this happened?
THOMAS FRANK: Our anger turned from Wall Street to Washington, and it happened in a very short period of time. If you remember back to 2009 when the bailouts were going on the sort of high point of public anger came when AIG, remember these guys? This is a company that should not exist any longer.
These are the people that invented, they didn't invent the credit default swap, but they sort of took it to its logical extreme. And these guys were not only bailed out, they were handing out bonuses to the executives in the division that had invented the credit default swap and had done all these crazy things. And the public was so angry. This is in March of '09. I remember the feeling.
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This was a telling quip, via Dan Savage's stream:
"The Rape guy lost" "Which one?" Your party has serious issues if people have to ask "Which one?"
Fortunately, the answer to that question was "both of them."
All four of them, actually.
If I had to choose between gay marriage and control in the house, it would be tough. But throw in Tammy Baldwin, legalized pot, Elizabeth Warren, no Allen West, and a supermajority in the CA state senate, and I'd happily take the result we got.
The House originates money bills. And has no Rule 22.
Control of the House is a very big deal, indeed.
Plus the GOP continues to control the Senate ("51 votes? We don't need no stinkin' 51 votes!")
There's plenty the Dems could pass through reconciliation if they really wanted to, had they had the House. Of course, history says that they're much less willing than Republicans to do that
Quite simply, the best election in the history of LGBT America. The ballot initiatives, Tammy Baldwin, retention of Justice Wiggins in Iowa, it appears there will be an open bisexual Congresswoman from Arizona the first gay Congressperson of color from California.
Kind of mindblowing how big it was.
In Minnesota the anti-gay marriage constitutional amendment was put on the ballot by the Republican-controlled legislature with the intent (stated behind closed doors, but it was quite clear) to motivate their base to turn out. It turned out that enough motivated Democratic voters not only defeated the proposed amendment, they flipped control of both houses of the state legislature to the Democrats. The proposed voter ID amendment also was defeated and the GOP lost a seat in the U.S. House, so it was a very good night for Democrats in Minnesota.
so it was a very good night for
Democrats inMinnesota.
Popular rejection of anti-gay marriage and voter ID amendments means you don't need the part I crossed out.
And the moment you find a prominent Minnesota Republican who praises these developments, your bullshit false equivalence won't be bullshit false equivalence. In the meantime, your delusion that both sides are equally bad remains delusional.
That's not what I meant at all.
I mean that you don't have to be a democrat to appreciate that those are good for the state (regardless of what republicans say).
No false equivalence on this one.
Perhaps, but actual Republicans are gnashing their teeth, so I don't think you can say that they find these to be positive developments.
I'm sure. But overall a very good night for several states.
Agreed, but I won't forget how it was the Republican Party that wasn't appealing to the better angles of our nature either.
the better angles of our nature
My nature's better angles are the less obtuse, but more acute ones. Sorry; can't help myself.
Hooray for the good people of Minnesota. Its nice to see one of the most liberal states in the United States returning to good form.
I don't understand Michgian, though. Clearly democratic in presidential and senatorial elections–Republican on everything else (well, except for the emergency manager bs).
The spectre of Detroit, and what They did to that city, is constantly before the eyes of the rest of the state.
To understand Michigan, take a drive up north.
In addition to defeating the emergency manager proposal, Michigan also deserves credit for rejecting proposals 5 & 6 (Maroun is a member of the Evil Billionaires Club, along with the Kochs, Adelson, Singer, et al). However, one of my few big disappointments last night was the defeat of proposal 2.
Co-sign BobS.
Canada can finally build the free bridge.
Still remember how distraught I was post 2004… to lose the election and have 11 states enshrine discrimination in their constitutions was pretty numbing.
I knew we'd eventually come back but I had no idea we'd make this much progress in 8 short years.
I'm feeling good about my home state of Maine. The pro-equality people ran a good campaign, with excellent ads, like this one.
Both Houses flipped R > D.
Two years of angry, red-faced vetoes from the Salvage King….
Lepage used to be mayor of my hometown — just horrible. (Him, not Waterville.)
I'd just like to thank the good people of Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, and Washington for their good, common sense in moving LBGT rights foward. We are close to having marriage equality in a fifth of the Union. Within the coming years, more states are going to get marriage equality, hopefully leading to a country wide victory.
If this is combined with a repeal of DOMA than it would also a great immigrant victory because thousands or tens of thousands of LBGT immigrants could now gain status through petitions filed by their citizen spouses.
Wonderful news. Given the close margins, President Obama's endorsement of gay marriage may actually have made a difference in these ballot initiatives. Particularly in Maryland, with it's huge African-American and Democratic bases. I'll be curious to see whether that intuition holds up when we grind into the exit polls. I know bully-pulpit arguments are generally wrong, but I wonder if they made a difference here in these two democratic states (by solidifying support among the President's supporters, something some data suggests the Bully Pulpit can achieve). Certainly the supporters of Proposition 6 thought they might (a huge number of ads in favor of marriage equality played the clip from his endorsement of gay marriage).
I'd also note that, if so, it's a testament to the constant political pressure the LGBT movement brought on the President. A pressure that consists of both support by organizations (HRC), funders, and activists, and constant demands for more by some of those same people and other, more radical groups. Whenever I worry that the Left has failed to politically organize, I take comfort in the LGBT movement's success here.
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Some good outcomes in California: Prop 36, which revises the three strikes law, passed easily with 69% of the vote. And the odious prop 32, a corporate-backed deception intended to cripple labor unions, didn't fool 56% of the voters, despite the big money propaganda push.
Unfortunately the prop to repeal the death penalty lost, but only by 6% of the vote. The entire night gives me hope of measurable social evolution.
Who's the smartypants that wants to crank out 1000 words om how this outcome affects next week's conferences at SCOTUS about the Prop 8 and DOMA appeals?
I have a lot of back logged work at my day job, so I was hoping that one of you academics who gets paid for that kind of thing might oblige. Kthxbai.
Same sex marriage, a lesbian senator, a pro-SSM and gay equality President … Gay USA will have some celebrating to do. http://www.gayusatv.org/Site/Welcome.html
I wouldn't trade Washington's vote for marriage equality for anything. I might have traded the marijuana vote for the government-wrecking success of Initiative 1185, requiring a two-thirds legislative supermajority or a popular vote majority to raise taxes or repeal existing tax exemptions. Then again, perhaps taxing marijuana sales will be a sufficient source of additional revenue.
Lots of good points on this thread about lots of stuff, but I want to underscore/repeat what the main post says: marriage equality passing is /Biden voice on/ a big fucking deal. It really is.
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I was fortunate to get one of the first of these amazing helmets. I received it last Saturday in hopes of having it ready to wear for a Relay for Life event that my local Fan Force group is making an appearance at tomorrow. The weathering was made to match my current Ep2 clone pilot armor.
This helmet is awesome & was very easy to work with. I modified it slightly by shortening the visor area on the sides to resemble the movie-seen helmet, and trimmed out the correct number of oblong vent holes on the bottoms of the sides. Once I figure out how to install a working stop light, consider it done.
Sorry for the low res cell phone pics. It's all I have for now.
I think it looks 501st acceptible, but hopefully foxbatkllr will chime in with his thoughts on it.
Thanks goes out to stormtrooperguy for such a cool helmet, and going out of his way to make one available to me so quickly.


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Okay, well here's a progress report on where I'm at with my ESB Fett. This was the first test fit I've really done with all of the components I've amassed over the past few months. I'm not really the best build for a Fett, I'm only 5'9" and quite stocky, but I'm currently dieting/exercising to lose the last 25 pounds I feel I need to. All that Guinness is hard to work off!!
This is the FP V3 armour that a board member graciously painted up for me, he did a great job on it! (I'll let him chime in if he wants to take credit!). The bucket is an MR and all of the soft parts are from Bobamaker. The gauntlets I bought off ebay for $100, and reworked myself. I believe they are Ruffkins.
I have a MOW jet pack that I'm working on now and have placed an order with Sidewinder for an EE-3. I mugged my Stormy for his E-11 so I'd have something for the pics! I need to tighten up the elastic on the knees, make up some ankle straps and shorten the gauntlet hose. I also need to work on the toe spikes. I just temporarily glued them together, but one spiked snagged on the carpet and tore off lol. I also had the local Michael's order me in the doll hair used for the Wookiee braids and have to fix those up as well.
Not bad for a few months work I think, but what do you guys think? I'd appreciate any comments/suggestions/feedback you experts might have. Again, this was just a test fit, I still have a few adjustments to make here and there. And I also need to stay away from the beer!


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Lucas: Alums Win First Camp Game
"Hey Coach," Leslie McDonald says as nearly two dozen Tar Heel basketball players mill around on the floor of the Smith Center, "are we playing with our ball or their ball?"
The recipient of his question is Roy Williams, who is standing near the sideline observing the collection of talent for the first edition of the 2013 camp game at his eponymous basketball camp. This particular game, pitting the current players against any Tar Heel alumni players who happen to be in Chapel Hill, is one of the highlights of this week's camp, which runs from Sunday through Thursday.
The equipment question might seem simple, but it's not. College players want to play with the college ball. Pro players want to play with the pro ball. There's a difference, and because the players involved care a little more than you would think about what might appear to be a simple pickup game, the choice of ball matters.
Williams quickly settles the dispute.
"We're playing with our ball," he says. "It's our gym."
And that's how an alumni team stocked with three current NBA players (Kendall Marshall, John Henson, Ed Davis), six other former national champions (Deon Thompson, Marcus Ginyard, Quentin Thomas, Mike Copeland, David Noel, Reyshawn Terry and Jawad Williams) and one of the program's all-time leading three-point shooters (Shammond Williams) came to be the road team in a gymnasium where they've played a major role in hanging some very important banners.
This game, played before approximately 700 campers and any of their parents who can get off work for the rare chance at watching nearly two decades of Tar Heel basketball history, has quietly been an important part of setting the tone for the Roy Williams era. At the very first camp game of his tenure during the summer of 2003, the current team took a desultory loss. Once word reached the head coach, he pointedly informed his new players that if they were going to play a game--even an exhibition pickup game in front of a group of kids, some of whom who weren't old enough to remember when the players involved actually wore the argyle jerseys--they were expected to compete.
The result of his lecture was a much better effort in the summer's second camp game (there are two sessions of camp and two separate camp games), and a pattern being established of the coach demanding that his players compete to the best of their ability any time they took the floor.
That year, players might have thought they could coast because NCAA rules prohibited the coaching staff from observing the offseason games. Since then, NCAA rules changes have permitted two hours of summer instruction, and the staff is choosing to use this week's game as their two hours--which means they can watch.
Williams finishes his traditional afternoon address to the campers by telling them that he has high expectations for the game they are about to watch. "All of these guys will play Carolina Basketball," he says over the PA microphone. "They will move the ball, they will get good shots, and they will do the things we've talked about at camp this week."
That's a little more pressure than your typical have-to-win-by-two pickup game. This game is played in two halves, with halftime coming when the first team reaches 35. The veterans--or, depending on who is telling the story, "the old guys"--are undeniably coasting in the first half, expending the minimum amount of effort necessary to keep the game close. The current team, meanwhile, plays about as close to its potential as it can without the services of James Michael McAdoo, P.J. Hairston and Joel James, all of whom sit out the game for precautionary health reasons or other commitments.
Desmond Hubert slams home a dunk to take the game to halftime with the current team leading, 36-31. As soon as the 60-second halftime break is over, the intensity of the game changes. Spurred by Copeland's constant shouts of, "Yeahhhhhhh!" (even more effective when echoed by seemingly every camper in his group), the alums start cutting into the deficit and have soon taken the lead.
It's not hard to see why--they can make plays such as Marshall whipping the ball one-handed crosscourt to Jawad Williams for a three-pointer, or Henson posting up Hubert and finishing with that familiar half-hook.
Marcus Paige helps keep the current team closer than you might have expected given that they're missing three rotation players, and even punctuates his second half with a pretty driving, arching bank shot over Henson. But when Ginyard hits a three-pointer, it's 69-63 in favor of the former players.
After a miss, the alums try to win the game with Marshall backing Paige down into the paint, but Paige stays strong--Jonas Sahratian would be proud--and forces a miss. But the alums simply have too much firepower, and Shammond Williams swishes a three-pointer for a 72-66 win.
The two squads gather for a complete team photo. Now that the game is over, there's less friendly trash talk than there was before. But everyone involved also has learned from past games that it's better to save any grand pronouncements until later--there's another camp game next week.
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Boy has the political scene in this country been exciting these past few weeks. And if we've learned anything, it's that you need to look at the whole picture. The friends, the family, the finances, the fiascos. All of the components of the candidates.
Which is exactly the point of the SPEC MPI2007 benchmark. SPEC MPI2007 focuses on performance of compute intensive applications using the Message-Passing Interface (MPI). And rather than just emphasizing the processor, SPEC MPI2007 emphasizes many components: the type of computer processor, the number of computer processors, the communication interconnect, the memory architecture, the compilers, and the shared file system.
IBM just published new 32 and 64 core leadership SPEC MPI2007 results on the IBM Power 575.(1)
And no matter what party you belong to, that's best of breed.
(1) A 64-core best of breed SPECmpiM_base2007 result of 11.4 on the IBM Power 575 cluster (2 nodes, InfiniBand, 64 total cores, 128 total threads, 4.7 GHz POWER6 chips, 2 cores/chip, 256 GB total memory). A 32-core best of breed SPECmpiM_base2007 result of 6.57 on the IBM Power 575 (32 cores, 64 threads, 16 4.7 GHz POWER6 chips, 2 cores/chip, 128 GB memory).
Source: http://www.spec.org . Results current as of 9/03/08.
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Presidents, current and former, love "Homeland"!
After taking home the statue for Best Actress in a TV Drama Series at Sunday's Golden Globes, "Homeland" star Claire Danes told Access Hollywood's Billy Bush that former President Bill Clinton requested some face time with her.
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"President Bill Clinton asked if I would come and meet him in some special room, so I just hung out with Bill Clinton," the 33-year-old actress explained.
And Claire wasn't the only actress Clinton - who appeared during the show earlier in the night where he introduced a clip from Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln" - was spending time with.
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"He was talking to Jessica Alba and Rosario Dawson, and I thought, 'Wow,'" the "Homeland" star told Billy. "He's amazing. He's, you know, an icon."
Claire's meeting with Clinton was reminiscent of a scene from her Showtime series.
"[It was in] a room somewhere in this hotel, surrounded by lots of very scary looking men," she told Billy.
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And just like President Obama, who has previously voiced he's a fan of the show, Clinton can't get enough of Carrie, Brody and Abu Nazir.
"He's a fan of the show," the actress explained.
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Adding, "He very sweetly said that he appreciated how the character is kind of shedding light on mental illness, which is still a taboo subject. So, that was very flattering and I was very touched."
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Maroon Bells, Aspen, CO
Popular for a reason: Colorado's most photographed landscape is even better in living color, when the distinctive symmetry of snow-dusted Maroon and North Maroon Peaks are framed by a ribbon of aspens, all reflected on shimmering Maroon Lake. Of course you won't be alone, but still it's worth the crowds. To reach the Maroon Bells–Snowmass Wilderness, head to Maroon Lake Trailhead ($10/vehicle; fs.usda.gov/whiteriver).
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Ashley Greene's Breathtaking "Breaking Dawn - Part 2" Premiere Arrival
Stepping out for the premiere of "Breaking Dawn - Part 2" on Monday (November 12), the lovely Ashley Greene greeted fans and posed for pictures as she made her way into Tinseltown's Nokia Theater.
The 25-year-old, who looked spectacular in a frilly 'n fabulous frock, posted an anticipatory tweet, which read, "Today is the day... I can't believe it's the last Twilight premiere! "
Miss Greene plays the small but feisty Alice Cullen, a vampire who uses her ability to see the future to help Bella when she is in danger.
Sharing a funny moment from the final days of filming the last installment of the vampire drama, Ashley said: "We secretly coordinated a surprise dance-off during a scene! We were all in on it, but [the director] Bill Condon didn't know. [All the vampires] were supposed to charge at each other and destroy each other, and instead we just started dancing! Everyone did it — the Cullen clan and probably 20 vampire extras! It was such an amazing way to end it all."
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If you're a foodie like me, things used in cooking, such as a slow cooker or blender for instance, make great Christmas gifts. In fact, 2011's food processor was one of my favorite gifts.
This past Christmas I got a new cookbook and instantly looked through it for recipe ideas.
The cookbook is "Meet Me at the Garden Gate: An Invitation to Seasonal Traditions and Southern Hospitality."
Recipes in the book are intended to reflect the hospitality and traditions passed down by the cookbook's contributors, the Junior League of Spartanburg, S.C. The Junior League has been in Spartanburg since 1940.
I didn't get past the first page without finding a recipe to try, cheese wafers. The recipe suggests making them to take as a hostess gift by placing them in a decorative tin topped with a bow.
The cookbook is broken up into seasons, with recipes that fit into each one. Since this was the first recipe in the book it was suggested for spring but since it called for Parmesan cheese, which I like and had in the fridge, I decided to give it a try.
Throughout the book symbols mark some recipes. A variety of recipes are from previous cookbooks called "Spartanburg Secrets" and others are from local restaurants.
The cheese wafers were marked with a pineapple which indicates a hospitality recipe meant to be shared as gifts or with friends and family during special occasions.
These treats were simple to make. The recipe called for red pepper, but I didn't have any so I added some Italian seasoning instead.
Including the time it took to bake them, the entire project only took about 30 minutes to complete.
The result was good yet surprising.
After bringing a sample to work, a coworker, reporter Sarah Bennett, described them as a "weird sensation" because she was expecting a cookie but instead it tasted like cheese.
The wafers had a good taste to them but were a little dry and probably are more suited to be served with a tomato based or cheesy dip. Another coworker suggested a bacon or garlic dip.
The cheesy sensations might also be paired well with a tomato or vegetable based soup. Maybe dipping them in a thick and creamy tomato soup would work.
Whether you use them for dipping or pop them in your mouth all on their own, cheese wafers are a treat to your taste buds.
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Discussion in 'The Trash Can' started by kwanlysacek, Jan 30, 2013.
I believed, I'm the only one who thinks Dima can't sing... But the song is great, I like it.
Joubert also had medical issues that season - he spiked his blade into his foot and suffered tendon and ligament damage two and a half months before Vancouver (he missed the GPF and French Nats as a result). Lysacek had a stress fracture that was diagnosed over a year earlier, and yet we heard about it ad nauseam, as if he was facing a huge challenge compared to the other guys.
The achievement of winning an OGM can't be taken from Lysacek, but this is not equivalent to, say, the ladies event in which many skaters were in form, or SLC with Yagudin and Plushenko in their prime.
Finally we are in agreement on something.
Short-lived agreement, though.
Lysacek didnt win Dancing with the Stars too.
It's matter of taste, too.
Well, he should have! I'm not a Lysachek fan-though I don't hate him either-but I was furious he didn't win DWTS that year. What's her face was a ringer! She had it won before the season started. (Nicole Schw...something. Talk about trashy!) I think Evan did a great job and danced very well-and looked very elegant. In fact, I might like him better as a dancer than a skater. I had never watched that show before and will not again. If I'm going to watch ballroom, which I really love, it's going to be the high quality competitions.
I voted for Mr. Lambiel. Love his moves. I wish it could have been multiple choice, however, and more skaters added to the poll. I also love Yagudin, Lysacek and Timothy Goebel ... bronze medalist and bravo with his quad!
Evan was a ringer too. Nicole Scherzinger was freaking awesome and had the best choreographer/partner in Derek Hough. They were the best DWTS pairing ever for me.
Maybe we ought to make a poll ... best performance by a figure skater in DWTS... who else is there besides Lysacek, Yamaguchi, and van der Perren? Navka and Biellman did the Eurovision dance contest but it was a one off.
I didn't see that post, thank you. So, is trolling about being intentionally or unintentionally funny? kwanlysacek probably just wants to amuse people and I can see no harm in that.
Then again, when I come to think of it, who knows what would happen at the Sochi Olympics if Lysacek were serious about returning and could land a quad or two. He scored really high in Vancouver for programs with no quads, especially his SP score stands the test of time. I suspect a clean Lysacek with a quad, the PC boost for the quad and the 10% bonus for jumps done in the second half of the program would be high up there with a clean Hanyu, a clean Chan, a clean Takahashi and most likely a clean Plushenko. And Lysacek's OGM reputation would do the rest.
Does Orser know about this best of the decade poll? How can we get Orser here to vote for Plushenko?
Yes, it does seem like the stars aligned for Lysacek to become an Olympic champion. However, I don't think we should go the ""he was lucky" way in judging a win we are not particularly happy with. Some people are of the opinion that Lambiel wouldn't have won any of his world titles if Plushenko had been around or that Takahashi would have finished third again like in Vancouver if Lysacek and Plushenko had competed at 2010 Worlds in Italy. In which case, none of them would be listed in any best of the decade poll. But I agree with the rest of your post.
How was Evan a ringer? He hadn't ever had any ballroom and Nichole was a trained dancer. That just doesn't seem fair at all not only to Evan but to the rest of the pack that year, whoever they were. I don't remember. I agree she was really good although I can't compare her to any other year's crop. That was the only year I've watched.
Many people consider figure skaters ringers because their sport involves performing choreography to music, spinning, footwork, attention to posture and lines, etc. When Kristi was announced there was definitely a feeling of her being a ringer who was guaranteed to win, which she did. Nicole was more of a ringer than Evan but if she hadn't been there he would've been considered the ringer of the season. His participation could be considered unfair to the others.
Well, I guess we can speculate all night, but I still remember reading/hearing about how hard Evan had to work to get the technique and stylistics of each dance down....but of course hard work is probably his greatest talent. I enjoyed watching him more than watching that hoochie mama. I think I said up thread that I enjoyed his dancing more than his skating. No, he isn't anywhere near the other skaters to me, but I do have a great respect for his work ethic.
It's all PR deals. Nicole was trying to emerge as a serious star at that time and had a lot of publicity elsewhere going on too. I don't see her in the media as much as back then. She is a beautiful girl-I just didn't like the way she packaged herself. Good luck to her.
Takahashi skated much better at Worlds than at the Games. I dont think either Lysacek or Plushenko could have beaten him personally. His winning score was basically a virtual tie with their Vancouver scores too but scoring at Vancouver was ridiculously high so essentialy was higher.
As for Lambiel, I think he would have been alot more motivated if he hadnt won the 05 and 06 Worlds and probably won in the future, especialy as he could have won any of 2007-2009 with his 2006 performances. He admitted to losing motivation after his success in 05-06, and that the last 2 years before his first retirement were a struggle, and the main reason why he left. As far as his Oly Gold chances, not having won Worlds as early as he did might have been better for him anyway, as obviously his chances peaking for 2010 would be 10x higher than peaking for 2006. Anyway Plushenko was not on his way to the gold even had he skated out the 2005 Worlds (granted he was injured while competing, but the record books would have still recorded him as a silver or bronze medalists if he didnt WD, hence why he WD, lol)
I think he withdrew because he was too injured to continue. Even if he could get silver or bronze if he continued, he could risk further injure himself beyond repair for the Olympics. Just saying...
I think so, too. First, Plushy is not oe to give up. Second, I wet back and checked the results after the short. He had a 7 poit differece from Lambiel, and Lambiel was not known as a consistent skater back then. It was quite possible for him to win, unless he was too injured.
Actually I think 2005 was the year he had pnumonia and skated with a massive temperature and had to go to hospital straight after the SP...he collapsed on the ice during the qualifying round and Joubert cattily accused him of faking it.
No, I dont know anything pneumonia. He had breathing problems at Euros 2006.
2005 was the year with hernia problems, he participated in one Gp and didnt want to go the final, to which he qualified as an alternative because Weir withdrew. Then by Worlds 2005 he was a mess and he had double hernia and skated with injections again the Q round without quad and the sp falling flat. There was a lot of fight with RF wanting him to qualify 3 men for Olys, but he was unable to move, had a surgery after Worlds and the rehab took a lot of months. If you remember many discussions had taken place about how he would comeback in less than a year fixed with glue to go to Olys.
the more things change the more they stay the same...
definitely Yag.
His skating is elegant and beautiful.
And he is handsome.
He isn't a great guy, period.
Hardly to understand why you can say such a thing.
All above skaters have been doing much more efforts than general people, so they became Olympic and world champions. All guys are great!
Why don't you respect them? Or can you do efforts as much as they did,even if you replaced joints or lost ligaments?
I respect Alexei Yagudin as a skater, I really think, he is one of the greatest skater, in this forum he is the best. But I don't like him as a person. Sometimes he is a rude man in civil life, I read his tweets, and I was surprised in january. Didn't you read them?
After that @AlexeiNews:
"I will not comment on Alexei's comments lately. Or condemn or condone his thoughts or feelings.i merely translate or choose not to"
You know, I'm angry. Maybe you know the scandal in Russia, between Plush and a journalist. Yag was asked in this matter, and what did he answer?
Alexei Yagudin: Plushenko able to recover faster than normal people
- Nuances of scandal, I do not know, so comment on the situation, I would not want to. I can only say that we live in a free country, where everyone is entitled to their opinion - said Yagudin.
- Chances for gold Games Plushenko is?
- At the Olympics everything can happen. Of course, the chances of Eugene more than an athlete from South Africa or some other exotic country.
You know, Yag always grab every opportunity to be a little bad to say about Plush. Opposite situation this is not true. Plu always speaks with great respect on Alexei. He was invited to Plushy's birthday show, he participated in it, after he said such sentences? Probably a good deal of money received for participation ..
TROLL TIME!!! This should be fun. Thanks, lala, for enlivening my day. I wait with bated breath for the entertaining fallout this should generate.
Le Petit Prince is my favorite, but the best all-around competitor and showman had to be Yagudin. I'm not a big fan of some of the things that he has said, but no one could beat him when he was on. He made the sport of skating a true sport - a competition.
Lysacek won the 2009/2010 Grand Prix Final.
As far as past results, since the 2006 Olympics (where he finished 4th), Lysacek only missed the podium once in a international competition, (5th at 2007 WC). Not too shabby.
Regardless of whether you like his style of skating, there is no denying the fact that Lysacek has had a great career. He has was two-time US champion, two-time 4CC champion, Grand Prix Final winner, World Champion, Olympic champion, and two-time world bronze medalist.
My pleasure...
It's a pity, if you feel anything bad in these words.
Alexei said congratulations to Plushenko and Yana for their baby birth.
As far as I know, Alexei is charming and sweet as a person, and is loved in the world, from children till elder people, by ladies and men very much. And his fans always stand by his side and support him, no matter what happens.
If you ask me, I'm not interested in any scandals. Just respect them as a skater and wish get well soon as a person when they are injured.
You look to like scandals better than support a skater. You are lucky to live in a free country, where everyone is entitled to their opinion
I'm not Russian. But I live in a free country, thank God! I know that Alexei congratulated to them for their newborn baby, because I read his tweets. I'm one of some people who read the Yagudinofficial. But if you read his tweets, you need to know what happened at orthodox Christmas. The girl who talked with Yag closed her twitter account, maybe she was scared
In the free countries everyone is entitled to their opinion, but the defamation or slander aren't free, what the journalist did. I just read from a very smart people:
"1. No one shall be subjected to arbitrary or unlawful interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to unlawful attacks on his honour and reputation.
2. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks. "
And you're not talking about the essence. I think, it would have been elegant, if Yag says: I don't think that Plushenko had no surgery and it was a PR trick. It's impossible. That was a sneaky sentence, what Yag said. And as I said, it wasn't the first time, when Yag says a little bit bad things about the civil and the athlete Plush. And I read many statements of Alexei. Still Plush is very patient, he never says bad opinion about Yag, always praises him.
And I don't understand, why do you think, that I love the scandal? But I don't like the injustice!


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Archives for June 2010
Pysyk's draft journey overshadowed
Sabres make Pysyk first pick
'"We're really proud of the way Mark has developed both as a hockey player and as an outstanding member of the community," Oil Kings General Manager Bob Green said. "He carried our team on his back a lot of nights this winter and the fact that he played on a broken foot for a couple of games before he was forced to end his season early shows how much character he's developed."'
Derek Roy faces off against juvenile diabetes
Derek Roy helped brighten the spirits of a Western New York child with juvenile diabetes, and raise money to try to fight the disease. SkunkPost's Sara Serafin talked to him about that worthwhile cause…and what he expects from the Sabres this season.
Sabres keep their draft options open
'Because of Buffalo's position in the 30-team draft, there is a possibility the player it chooses with its first pick could be traded. "When you're drafting that late, you end up with a list that probably has 10 names on it," Regier said.'
Sabres Are Picky When it Comes to Europeans and Draft
'If the Sabres couldn't grab defenseman Tyler Myers 12th overall in the 2008 NHL Entry Draft, the club planned to draft a European. And if winger Zack Kassian wasn't available at No. 13 last year, the team had another European on its radar, Kevin Devine, the Sabres' amateur scouting director, said.'
Sabres Hope to Draft Two Future NHLers
'"Every team goes in there hoping to get at least two guys," Kevin Devine, the Sabres' director of amateur scouting, told MSG.com earlier this week. "Anything over two guys is a bonus."'
Miller, Myers haul in the hardware
'"I'm looking at all these names, and it's pretty amazing, the history on this trophy," Miller said. "To get my name on there is pretty cool."'
What's in that Kelowna water?
'"I remember going into Buffalo that first month and it was amazing how similar they do things to Kelowna," said Myers, who thanked virtually everyone in the Rockets organization during his acceptance speech. "Playing there helped me so much."'
Miller takes home Vezina Trophy
'He becomes the first Sabres netminder to win the award since Dominik Hasek did so for the final time back in 2001.'
Buffalo's Myers wins Calder trophy
'He became the first Sabres player to take home the award since goaltender Tom Barrasso won for the 1983-84 season.'
Buffalo's Miller tabbed NHL's top goaltender
'Miller won nine of his first 12 games, leading Buffalo to its second Northeast Division title in four years. He ranked fourth among goalies with 41 wins and was nominated for the award for the first time.'
Tyler Myers wins Calder Trophy as NHL's top rookie
'Myers was one of four rookies to play all 82 games. He led the Sabres and all rookies by logging nearly 24 minutes of ice time per game. He was also first among rookies with 137 blocked shots, and third with 48 points.'
Who Deserves the NHL Awards: Part 2 – Vezina, Norris, Byng and Masterton
'Slowly, other sports have caught on in recent years, televising their own trophy presentations. Nothing, however, tops the NHL Awards, the first and best awards show in major sports.'
Who Deserves the NHL Awards: Part 1 – Hart, Calder, Selke and Adams
'There are rumors – nothing real solid at this point, however – the NHL is considering changing its trophy names to honor some of the game's legends.'
A Look at the Sabres 2010-11 Schedule
'An early visit from South Buffalo native Patrick Kane and the Stanley Cup champion Chicago Blackhawks on Oct. 11, a home New Year's Day tilt against the Boston Bruins while the team hosts the world junior championship and a season-long seven-game road trip in March are among the highlights of the Sabres' 2010-11 schedule.'


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'"There can't be any lulls now," Boston forward Mark Recchi said. "The biggest thing is the competitive thing every night. We just haven't been consistent in competing every night, and that's something you can control. If you take care of that, everything else should control itself. I just don't think we were consistent in that effort."'
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Prisoners of War in the farm field, Houlton, 1945
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Prisoners of War, Houlton, 1945
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Mainers have been held prisoners in conflicts fought on Maine and American soil and in those fought overseas. In addition, enemy prisoners from several wars have been brought to Maine soil for the duration of the war.
War Through the Eyes of a Young Sailor
Eager to deal with the "Sesech" [Secessionists], young deepwater sailor John Monroe Dillingham of Freeport enlisted in the U.S. Navy as soon as he returned from a long voyage in 1862. His letters and those of his family offer first-hand insight into how one individual viewed the war.
This Rebellion: Maine and the Civil War
For Mainers like many other people in both the North and the South, the Civil War, which lasted from 1861-1865, had a profound effect on their lives. Letters, artifacts, relics, and other items saved by participants at home and on the battlefield help illuminate the nature of the Civil War experience for Mainers.
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Feb. 25, 2004
Athens, Ga. - The Tennessee men's swimming and diving team posted a win and some good performances after the first day of competition at the SEC Championships Wednesday in Athens, Ga. Defending NCAA champion Phillip Jones walked away with his second SEC victory in the 3-meter in three years, while Raymond Rosal turned in a lifetime best swim to finish sixth.
After the first day of competition the Vols are in fourth place with 86 points. Auburn is currently leading with 233 points.
Junior Phillip Jones brought home a first-place finish on the 3-meter board with 633.75 points. Jones came into the finals in second place behind Caesar Garcia of Auburn but came from behind to edge him in the finals. Freshman Jevon Tarantino barely missed making the finals. His score of 516.25 was three-tenths of a point behind Mario Rodriguez of Kentucky.
"Phillip did an excellent job tonight," UT head diving coach Dave Parrington said. "I was very pleased with the victory. He was a little off in the semifinals, but he came into the evening very relaxed and nailed his last dive for 85 points to put the heat on Garcia and seal the victory."
"I came up short last year, and I was really unhappy," Jones said. "I wanted to redeem myself having not won it since my freshman year. I wanted to show the rest of the field that I was still around."
Rosal led the way for the Vols in the swimming competition when he turned in a lifetime-best swim while competing in a three-way swim off for eighth place in the 50-yard freestyle. Rosal turned in a time of 20.01 seconds. While competing in the finals, Rosal managed to turn in the sixth-fastest time of 20.29 seconds.
Casey Dauw, Andrew Engle and Josh Fulton also scored points for the Vols. Dauw took 11th in the 400-yard individual medley in 3:55.67. Engle finished 10th (49.76), while Fulton finished 15th with a 49.93 in the 100-yard backstroke.
The Vols finished sixth in the 800-yard freestyle relay with a 6:33.45. The relay team consisted of Bryan Goldberg (1:39.01), Tyler Gustafson (1:37.78), Dauw (1:38.42) and Andrew Bree (1:38.24).
"We are very pleased with day one," UT head coach John Trembley said. "Rosal was not shaved and still swam a lifetime best. All of the 50 freestylers had lifetime bests or unshaven lifetime bests. Dauw struggled this morning but came back tonight to have two great swims. Wright and Engle had two outstanding freshmen performances, and the 800 freestyle relay had a solid performance for being unshaved."
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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. - The 17th-ranked Nittany Lion men's lacrosse team scored the game's first nine goals en route to a dominating 9-2 win over CAA rival Saint Joseph's on Saturday afternoon at Penn State Lacrosse Field. Junior goalkeeper Austin Kaut (Morton, Pa.) saved 14 shots, his third straight game with 14 or more saves, as PSU held an opponent to a season-low two goals.
The Nittany Lions (5-3, 2-0 CAA) received two-goal games from Jack Forster (Jenkintown, Pa.), Tom LaCrosse (Canandaigua, N.Y.) and Shane Sturgis (Downingtown, Pa.). Forster led the Penn State offense with four points, pitching in with two assists. In all, Penn State had six different scorers on the afternoon.
Penn State jumped all over Saint Joseph's (4-5, 0-1 CAA) early, opening five-goal lead in the opening 13 minutes. Penn State received two goals from Forster and LaCrosse in the initial onslaught, while TJ Sanders (Orillia, Ont.) scored his 20th of the season as he connected with Forster with 2:13 left in the opening period.
PSU continued the pressure in the second as Sturgis tallied both his markers with 5:25 and 4:23 left in the quarter for a 7-0 lead. The second goal was helped by Forster's second assist. The sixth-year senior upped his point total to 28 for the season behind 19 goals and nine assists.
The Nittany Lions came out of the halftime break with a 7-0 lead and extended the margin to eight on an unassisted Erik Myers (Del Mar, Calif.) snipe past SJU keeper Dustin Keen (nine saves) with 9:18 left in the third quarter.
Defender Jack Donnelly (Toronto, Ont.) forced a turnover 45 seconds later, collected the ground ball and scored his first career goal for the 9-0 Penn State lead.
The Hawks fought back with 7:00 left in the third when Kyle Williams got Saint Joseph's on the board with his fourth tally of the season. SJU would add another through Bryan Garrahan with 7:03 left in the game for the final 9-2 score line.
The defensive effort by Penn State was the best of the season as the Lions allowed two goals in a game for the first time since March 2, 2012 at Ohio State in a 5-2 victory. Penn State improves to 6-0 all-time against Saint Joseph's. The two goals allowed was the lowest output by the Hawks in the series.
Penn State out-shot the Hawks 34-33 including a 19-14 edge in the first half. Penn State dominated the ground ball battler with a 32-18 edge led by Danny Henneghan's (Beverly Hills, Mich.) game-high seven collections. Henneghan also won 10-of-15 faceoffs.
Both teams went 0-for-3 in man-up opportunities, while Penn State's ride forced 10 Hawk turnovers, clearing at 16-for-26. Penn State cleared at 24-for-29. The Nittany Lions forced 14 turnovers led by JP Burnside (Garden City, N.Y.) who had two caused turnovers. SJU had eight caused turnovers with three by Will Farrell.
Penn State's defense has been rock hard over the past three games, allowing just 14 goals. Kaut has 46 saves and 13 goals against in the past three outings for a save percentage of .780 and a goals-against average of 4.40.
The Nittany Lions have another quick turnaround this Tuesday when they travel to No. 15 Bucknell for a 7:30 p.m. matchup. Bucknell moved to 8-1 on Saturday after defeating No. 20 Albany 18-12. The Bison downed No. 2 Cornell this past Tuesday, 9-8.