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Checking in on… the ACCPosted by Brian Goodman on January 4th, 2011
Matt Patton is the RTC correspondent for the ACC.
A Look Back
Another miserable week of basketball in the ACC. By my count, the ACC notched zero good wins. That said they only had three shots (Wake Forest against Richmond and Gonzaga or Miami at Duke). The conference still managed to finish 15-7 (14-6 discounting the conference game), even against middling competition.
Bizarro Team of the Week: Florida State. Hands down. Unanimous decision. That's what happens when you lose to a team projected to be the worst major conference team in Division I history. The Seminoles handed Auburn its first (and very likely only) victory over a BCS-conference team in a hideous game of basketball. You can blame it on Chris Singleton's horrific free throw shooting (he went 4-12), but this game shouldn't have been within 20. Before this win Auburn had lost at home to UNC-Asheville, Samford, Campbell, Jacksonville and Presbyterian. The only team the Tigers had beaten in the top 300 (out of the 345 total D-I institutions) according to Ken Pomeroy was number 210, Middle Tennessee State. That's epically bad. And the Seminoles played worse. They looked lazy and complacent the entire game, giving up uncharacteristic open threes and making more characteristic possessions of offensive ineptitude. I used to think this team was the second best team in the ACC, but if that's true, the ACC is much worse than anyone thought.
Team of the Week: North Carolina has quietly won six of their last seven with the one loss coming to a very good Texas team (by two). While they didn't face particularly tough competition, the Tar Heels put away Rutgers and St. Francis handily. I covered the St. Francis game, and, while it wasn't perfect, the Tar Heels are better than when they started the season. I'm still perplexed as to why Roy Williams insists on playing Larry Drew II over Kendall Marshall, but I haven't won two national championships, so I won't complain too much. Carolina showed stretches of offensive and defensive brilliance (really the entire second half was a defensive show). While pretty much everyone assumed Reggie Bullock was going to be their sharpshooter, it looks more and more like Leslie McDonald may be stepping up to that role. I'm still not confident McDonald will be an elite scorer at the ACC level, but I think he could be just as solid as Will Graves was last year. I think the other major concern in the backcourt will be developing an identity: last year Texas never really chose one point guard, and they paid the price. That could be why Williams is sticking with Drew. In the frontcourt, there's as much talent as any team in the nation (and probably more), but there's not a whole lot of toughness. Tyler Zeller still allows smaller players to push him around; John Henson is pretty slight himself; and Harrison Barnes has looked much more willing to put up jumpers than take the ball to the basket.
Player of the Week: Nolan Smith takes the honors this week after a dominant performance for Duke against Miami. The Blue Devils were struggling offensively, but Smith scored 28 points with five rebounds and five assists to boot. In the game against UNC Greensboro, Smith finished with 26 points, five rebounds and nine assists. Especially when Kyle Singler isn't having great nights, Smith is going to be crucial for Duke if they want to stay undefeated.
Power Rankings
1. Duke (13-0, 1-0) struggled a lot against Miami. Their offense still hasn't found a real flow since losing Kyrie Irving to a toe injury. They are still running tests to see how long he'll be out, so we'll keep updating you as news surfaces. Kyle Singler and Seth Curry had an off night, but the bigger issue was the Plumlee brothers. Mason and Miles Plumlee looked soft all night against Reggie Johnson and the Miami frontline. They're going to be crucial if Duke wants to cut down the nets again this season. They can't continue to be nonfactors (or worse) on both ends of the floor. Both are athletic–especially Mason–and they're going to have to start reaping the benefits of that athleticism and living up to the hype if Duke is going to reach its potential. As an important aside, Mike Krzyzewski passed Dean Smith for second on the all time wins list with the win over UNC-Greensboro.
2. North Carolina (10-4) took care of business (see above). The most interesting moment from the Saint Francis postgame presser came when a reporter asked Roy Williams if Kendall Marshall's increased minutes were a sign of things to come. Williams responded that Marshall's extra minutes were a product of Larry Drew's defensive intensity (apparently Drew gave the "I'm tired" signal twice during the game). But clearly Williams is not on the "bench Larry Drew" bandwagon. They start conference play at Virginia Saturday.
3. Maryland (9-4, 0-1) is rising largely thanks to losses by much of the conference. The Terrapins throttled North Florida in their only game of the week. The game was highlighted by strong performances from Jordan Williams (who finished with 17 points and 11 boards) and Sean Mosley (15 points, four rebounds and six assists). Although one dark spot was Williams' 1-10 effort from the charity stripe… Still, Maryland fans have to like Mosley starting to look more like last season.
4. Miami (11-4, 0-1) slaughtered Pepperdine before taking a respectable defeat in Cameron Indoor. Reggie Johnson in particular was just terrific, finishing with 22 points on 9-10 shooting. He's starting to look like the third best big man in the ACC behind Williams and Zeller. Assuming Johnson can keep out of foul trouble, the Hurricanes have a very impressive trio in Malcolm Grant (junior), Durand Scott and Johnson (both sophomores). Assuming all three develop, Miami could be a contender next year.
5. Clemson (11-4, 0-1) had the best record for the week (3-0) with dominant wins over Delaware State, Eastern Carolina and Citadel. While none are elite teams, three wins are three wins (especially this week). Jerai Grant has exploded as of late and is 63.9% from the field.
6. Virginia Tech (9-4, 0-1) took care of South Carolina Upstate before absolutely demolishing Mount Saint Mary's. The Hokies still have major injury woes, which will only add pressure to Malcolm Delaney. Dorenzo Hudson may be the toughest of them all, as I expected him to be their number two option this season. It's hard to think of a way the Hokies could live up to their preseason hype between injuries and underperformance, and I still think they're on the wrong side of the bubble.
7. NC State (9-4) got Tracy Smith back, which is huge. They also blew out Alabama A&M and San Diego, which was expected. With Smith I think the Wolfpack can right the ship and at least finish in the top half of the conference. I'm not sure if they'll be able to get the ten conference wins I think will be necessary to garner an at-large bid, but I think they'll make a decent run.
8. Boston College (11-3, 1-0) lost at heartbreaker at Rhode Island and beat South Carolina. I may be punishing Steve Donahue's squad a little too much (Rhode Island is a pretty good team) because I still think this team has a good shot to make the tournament. Would you believe me if I told you the Eagles have the fourth most efficient offense in the country? That's got to get you somewhere, even if you do have a very subpar defense. Now they just need to end their two-year losing streak to Harvard this week…
T9. Georgia Tech (7-6) is 7-6? That's awful. If not for Wake's infamous season, there would be a lot more negative press surrounding Paul Hewitt's squad, but I guess it pays to be not quite the worst. The Yellow Jackets are still shooting horrendously from beyond the arc–although they made over 40% in a crazy double overtime loss to UNC Charlotte. The two big issues with that loss are that Charlotte dismissed their best player earlier this season and the game was in Atlanta.
T9. Florida State (11-4, 1-0) lost to the worst major conference team in the country…see above for more.
T9. Virginia (9-5, 1-0) was blown out by Big 12 (normal) cellar-dweller Iowa State in Charlottesville. Not really a promising outing. Mike Scott is still out with an injury, and it shows: not one Cavalier player scored in double figures. None. KT Harrell (off the bench) led all Virginia scorers with 9.
12. Wake Forest (6-8) got a real boost in the worst major conference team in the country race thanks to wins out of Oregon State and Auburn. Now if DePaul can go on a little run, the Demon Deacons might have it locked up. Seriously. Jeff Bzdelik's squad lost at Richmond and to Gonzaga this week. Both losses were expected, but they were also both red line upsets (for those fans of mid-majors).
A Look Ahead
If you look closely at the power rankings you'll notice that the three teams that lost their first game of conference play are in the top half of the conference, while two of the three winning teams inhabit the lower portion of the rankings. This means one of three things: (1) the rankings are totally off base; (2) the games were not good measurements of the teams' talents; or (3) the conference is bad enough that pretty much every game is a toss-up. I'm hoping the answer is 1 or 2, but I'm worried it's 3. I think Duke and North Carolina are going to rack up a ton of conference wins. Maryland, Miami, Clemson, NC State, Boston College and a healthy Virginia might too, but I think there are much larger flaws on these teams that will lead to more inconsistency. It's looking like a lot of low seeds again this year from the Big Dance, buffered by lots of wins over middling and even plain bad conference opponents. The good news is there's not much place to go but up.


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After yesterday's craptastic run, today was most welcome. Hit the trails behind my house and got in a very pleasant run. The morning calm combined with the chilly air provided an inviting ambience that was really enjoyable. Good mix of technical trails and fire roads, but still kept the pace slow on the easier sections.
Really enjoying the shoes I'm testing out for a certain company. I think it's safe to say they are pretty similar to the New Balance Minimus trail shoes (but no, it's not them). I feel more comfortable with the protection they provide compared to the Vibram Five Fingers, but they still maintain a tremendous amount of flexibility and a low profile. Love the fit also. Great product.
Ran 7.7 miles @ 9:03/mile pace.
Trails and fire roads.
Very hilly.
Upper 20s to around 30, sunny.
X-shoes, long pants, windbreaker, long sleeved shirt, short sleeved shirt, beanie, gloves.

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Click here to see photos of night 1 of the Downtown Music Festival 2013
The Downtown Music festival continued in New York CIty on May 11, 2013. iHipHop was on-hand at Tammany Hall where Ratking, Mr. MFN eXqire, and Black Dave performed. Click through the slideshow to see pictures of all the happenings at the Lower East Side, Manhattan venue. All photos by Lucas Farrar / Far Fetched Future.


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The imaginary webpage!
It's this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjMVsTFVX10 [youtube.com]
I don't think we can slashdot youtube
Anyway, I find if I shift some attention to the dots while looking at the centre dot, even though the whole thing rotates I can still notice that the dots are changing colour.
It is normally more important for the brain to notice that the "whole thing is rotating together" than the dots changing colour. The big picture is more important.
That said, I'm not so sure about how the "loch ness aftereffect " one works
There's no fucking way I'm installing that fucking Apple shit on my PC, no matter how cool the optical illusions are.
Agreed, Quicktime player has to be one of the worst things ever, irrespective of the codec.
Very true for Windows. On a Mac it works fine.
Not that that is at all surprising... but I am a little surprised Apple doesn't make its Windows version better, seeing as Quicktime is the only computer-related Apple product many people come in contact with. It made me think poorly of them for years, until I actually used a Mac and found it to be better.
Yeah but let's be fair, who the heck uses Windows anyway?
Yea man. I am sticking to Adobe flash.
It's at least 100 times better, which says a lot about Quicktime.
Flash? 100 time better? On what planet?
On the one when you're comparing Flash on Windows to Quicktime on Windows. If you're making the comparison on OSX it goes the other way. However, Quicktime literally runs on nothing but Windows and MacOS, so Flash wins big in lots of other places, too since Quicktime doesn't bother to show up. If you want to reach the absolute maximum number of device you use Flash. On Windows it uses acceleration well and on Linux with nVidia we also get acceleration that brings flash into the realm of reason. As a user of contemporary hardware there is no other reasonable choice for Linux unless you don't want to use your GPU for anything.
sticking to Adobe flash
That <video> tag isn't becoming standardized and widely supported fast enough...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAXm0dIuyug [youtube.com]
Oh no you don't. You're trying to trick me into thinking it's not Rick Astley so I will click on it.
here is a better link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ [youtube.com]
Wow. That's pretty awesome, and after getting this year's page to load and seeing how crappy the entries are it's very awesome--only the first 2 of this year's entries were even mildly interesting, while last year's winner is fantastic.
Yesterday I ran across a visual I had to blink a few times to comprehend... Linky... [slashdot.org]
... they were in Florida.
I see a fish carcass being sodomized. Am I missing it?
They do, but it's not called slashdot protection.
Is that intercal in a sig?
That's awesome. Shouldn't it end with PLEASE GIVE UP?
It's a one-liner (the shortest known algorithm to write an addition without using the standard library), not a complete program; it does nothing by itself. (I had to golf it right down to fit it in Slashdot's sig limits). It's not really recommended to do it quite like that in production code, as it uses a rather significant line number (1), and leaks all over your operand overloads without scoping them properly. It works in C-INTERCAL, and I think probably CLC-INTERCAL too, although it makes use of some r
Apparently you need a 'mirror' to view these optical illusions...
Mirrors anyone?
of how the mind will make leaps and conclusion with minimal input.
Optical illusions are a great opportunity to teach people how to think rational about something that on initial view doesn't make sense or breaks reality.
Making old news look new again.
TFA: The Exchange of Features, Textures and Faces - The binding problem is a fundamental issue in neuroscience. The term refers to the fact that the brain processes color, motion, and other visual features separately and in parallel, yet our perception is of a unified world, populated by coherent objects.
I've long marvelled that as I'm speeding down the freeway, a black car followed by a white car in the oncoming lane looks like a police car: a black car with a white door.
I'd rather see these as animated
(yes, the 1990s called, they want their animation back...ha ha)
Wow, that's some optical illusion. It looks like an article on optical illusions when in fact if you look really closely, it's a 502 page.
Third Place Winner is called the "Loch Ness Aftereffect"
Available on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Djd218oWOGQ [youtube.com]
Higher quality version at http://lpp.psycho.univ-paris5.fr/wexlerillusion/ [univ-paris5.fr]
The first place winner is called "Silencing Awareness of Change by Background Motion" and is the blinking-dots-in-a-circle illusion.
Several versions here: http://visionlab.harvard.edu/silencing/ [harvard.edu]
The second place winner is called "Grouping by Contrast"
Mirror here: http://www.moillusions.com/2011/05/grouping-by-contrast.html [moillusions.com]
It's one of the more hideous webpages I've seen since Angelfire died.
The illusions are all linked, and then the videos ARE LOWER ON THE SAME PAGE.
So when you load the page, and wait....and wait....and wait....it's loading a bunch of quicktime (ugh) videos below in large preview screens. be patient, it will eventually come up.
Wow, failsite.
For entry number 8, http://illusionoftheyear.com/2011/the-exchange-of-features-textures-and-faces/ [illusionoftheyear.com] , the Flash thing doesn't display properly. It says to "move the slider" but there is no slider (just a 255 that you can't alter), and there are no "Harry and Dobby" in Demo 1. The others all work fine. Tried in Firefox and IE latest versions. Have latest Flash (10.3).
I love the background image up the sides of that site - that look like domino pieces of something.
Even that is a pretty cool optical illusion!
There's a lot of fail in that series of "illusions". I'm particularly annoyed with #5, the "Mask of Love". Yeah, it's amazing how three people discovered that a blurry, low-res image is ambiguous and might look like some other blurry, low-res image. Welcome to 2400 baud pr0n, dumbasses!
I suppose, when one's career consists of selling optical illusions , after a while you start scraping the bottom of the barrel...
It was fun to look at all these illusions.
It was not fun to read half the comments complain about Quicktime/Flash, whereas a thread regarding the illusions anywhere else would have focused on, I dunno, discussion about the ILLUSIONS.
... though his invention worked superbly -- his theory was a crock of sewage from beginning to end. -- Vernor Vinge, "The Peace War"


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UH Hilo professor Sabry Shehata selected for Spain conferenceUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Hilo
A University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo College of Agriculture, Forestry and Natural Resource Management professor will present his research on Japanese and Hawaiian attitudes toward genetically modified fruit at an international conference, to be held September 22-25, 2008 at the Universidad Politecnica, Spain for the joint ESREL 2008 and the 17th SRA-Europe Conference.
The conference will provide a forum for presentation and discussion of scientific papers covering theory, methods and applications in the fields of risk, safety and reliability to a wide range of sectors and problem areas and will feature speakers and academics from a wide range of risk analysis disciplines.
Dr. Sabry Shehata, professor of agricultural economics, will make a presentation on "The Attitudes of Japanese and Hawaiʻi Consumers Toward Labeling Genetically Modified Fruit." His research is based on a survey conducted in Japan and throughout the State. Shehata's paper discusses whether genetically modified fruit should be labeled, and the role of the government to enforce such law.
"I'm looking forward to this presentation as an opportunity to promote a greater understanding of the issues regarding genetic modification," Shehata said. "This will enable Hawaiʻi to work in collaboration with European and international colleagues to help farmers and consumers throughout the world become more knowledgeable about this topic."


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Our last Fubar radio show was recorded today (it will be on on Thursday night). Even though we've only been together for three months I will miss Loulie Sanders and her somewhat blase attitude towards broadcasting. But we've made the right choice I think. At the very least we don't really have the time to spend a day on these shows with so much to get done. Who needs paid work anyway?
The backroom team have been fun to work with too and they gave us retirement cards and a tiny cactus to mark our passing. Imagine how big a cactus we'd have got if we'd been here for a year or two. Thanks also to the loyal listeners of the show. I don't think there were more than six of you, but you all seem upset that we're going. It's not you, it's us.
We talked about bad break ups (and my all time worst one when I went on holiday with a girlfriend who I didn't know had been proposed to by her ex the day before we left, and then I was bowled over by a wave in the sea and hit my head, which for some reason made one of my testicles swell up to an enormous size) and covered the news that Kate Humble likes to go on naked rambles and that she has to watch out for ticks. In the interview in the paper Humble said that she would leave it to our imagination where the ticks had attached themselves and I got upset because this obviously made me imagine that the ticks were in her vagina. And I wouldn't have imagined that without her making me imagine it. And then I couldn't stop imagining it. And late out of the gates Lou introduced a new feature of improvised raps on any subject, which she approached with gusto and which were so improvised that even she had no idea what she would say. It might be the funniest thing from the whole three month run.
And our guest was Andy Parsons who I had shared a house with briefly in the early 90s and had worked alongside at BBC Light Entertainment Radio (he had written on the great lost topical sitcom, That's Wiggin's Yard, which he recalls getting commissioned, but that we all decided not to take it any further). He recalled us racing up the LE corridor on swivel chairs, which I vaguely recalled and the oddness of the Weekending writers' meeting (and the now legendary story of one of the non-commissioned writers walking into the room and his trousers falling down to reveal his unpanted genitalia). What happy miserably unhappy days those were.
All the time that has passed and our fortunes have gone up and down. But here we are, still going. None of it means a thing.
And then the three hours and the three months were over. I think we've made the right choice, but it felt strange to be leaving the studios, the team and most of all Marion's Motto behind. Lou was on her bike so I had to take her cactus and mine home on the tube. It was quite tricky carrying them and I ended up with lots of tiny cactus spikes in my fingers. Perhaps that's a fitting metaphor for my Fubar experience. I wish the station and the team and whoever replaces us in our time-slot (the rumour is that it's Max Clifford and Josef Mengele - admittedly I started that rumour) all the best. But most of all I wish myself the best of luck. Because I am really going to need it. Unless some magic elves write this play for me.


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The first comprehensive survey of global spending on neglected disease R&D, published in this week's PLoS Medicine, finds that just over $US 2.5 billion was invested into R&D of new products in 2007, with three diseasesHIV/AIDS, TB, and malariareceiving nearly 80% of the total.
However, the survey finds that many neglected diseases, responsible for killing millions of people in developing countries, are significantly underfunded.
Researchers from The George Institute report that while HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria collectively received the majority of R&D funding, other diseases and disease categories each received less than 5% of global funding.
Sleeping sickness, leishmaniasis and Chagas disease collectively received only 4.9% of total global funding; the diarrhoeal illnesses surveyed collectively received 4.5% of global funding; the helminth (worm) infections received 2%; and bacterial pneumonia and meningitis received only 1.3%. Five diseases - leprosy, Buruli ulcer, trachoma, rheumatic fever, and typhoid and paratyphoid fever each received less than $10 million or 0.4% of total global investment. For many of these diseases, funding was not enough to create even one new product.
The need for R&D to develop new drugs and vaccines for preventing and treating neglected tropical infections in developing countries is widely accepted. For example, the creation of a vaccine for HIV/AIDS, more effective tools to diagnose TB, and better drug treatments for leishmaniasis and sleeping sickness would greatly improve health in the developing world. However, there has until now been an "information gap" for funders wishing to invest in this area.
In the new survey by Dr Mary Moran (The George Institute for International Health, Sydney, Australia) and colleagues, commissioned by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the researchers set out to fill this information gap. While specific R&D investment data were previously available for some neglected diseases, these cannot readily be compared since each survey used different methodologies and covered different diseases, products, donors, and countries. Moran and colleagues' survey was designed to include all neglected diseases and all control tools of significance to developing countries, and to gather funding data as consistently and comprehensively as possible.
The survey found that public and philanthropic donors collectively invested $US 2.3 billion (about 90%) of total funding in 2007. The US government represented nearly three quarters of global public spending. The largest organizational donors were the US National Institutes of Health (42% of total funding) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (18% of total funding). About a quarter of donor funding was routed to public-private product development partnerships (PDPs), such as the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative and the Medicines for Malaria Venture.
The survey's findings, say Moran and colleagues, suggests that "investment decisions are not only influenced by scientific or epidemiological considerations, but may also be influenced by factors such as the presence of advocacy and fundraising groups; by funder perceptions or preferences; or by the presence of policy frameworks and funding mechanisms that prioritise specific diseases."
The researchers also note that some of the world's wealthiest countries are "missing in action" from the top 10, top 20, or even top 50 funders of R&D for neglected diseases.
"A broadening of funding efforts," they say, "so that all who are able to contribute do so, and all diseases receive the attention they deserve, would lead to a dramatic positive impact on the health of developing country patients afflicted with these diseases."
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February 10 – Happy Birthday Frank Farrell
Ban Johnson was about to see his wish come true. He had been hoping he could get a team for his infant American Baseball League located in New York City and when the AL's Baltimore Orioles franchise collapsed financially, he saw his chance. The only problem was timing. The 1903 season opener was just months away and not only was Johnson without an owner for a Big Apple franchise, the City didn't even have an available ballpark.
If the self-righteous Johnson had more time to find the right guy to purchase the Orioles there would be no way he'd agree to partner with a saloon-owning, bookmaker with a notorious reputation for bribing Tammany Hall political hacks to look the other way. But Frank Farrell had both the cash and political muscle necessary to overcome the ballpark building obstacles that forces friendly to the National League's New York Giants' ownership were throwing up to block any competitive League or team from putting down roots in their neighborhood.
So Johnson accepted both Farrell's $25,000 certified check and his even more unsavory partner, a former crooked New York City cop named Bill Devery. Together, the two got a 16,000 seat ballpark built in the Washington Heights section of the City in less than six weeks and American League had a foothold in the most important professional baseball market in the world.
Farrell would then spend the next decade fighting with Devery but he also made a sincere attempt to turn his ball club into a World Champion. When he was pretty much forced to sell the club to Jacob Ruppert after the 1914 season, he had no AL Pennants to boast about and little if any profit to show for his efforts. Farrell, Devery and CBS are the only owners of the Yankee franchise who failed to win a Pennant or World Series during their reigns. Frank Farrell died in 1926 at the age of 60.
He shares his February 10th birthday with one Yankee pitcher who made the Hall of Fame, another one who should have and also this current Yankee hurler.


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Offense rallies Worley to first win with Twins
Morneau drives in three and Doumit connects for key two-run homer
By Rhett Bollinger / 5/11/2013 11:40 PM ET
MINNEAPOLIS -- Minnesota's offense scuffled through April, tying for the fourth-fewest runs in the Majors, but it's starting to heat up in May.
With 64 runs in the past 10 games, the Twins rank second in baseball in runs scored this month behind only the Rays, and remained on fire against Baltimore on Saturday night.
Vance Worley continued his struggles, but the offense, led by Joe Mauer, Justin Morneau and Ryan Doumit, picked him up to carry the Twins to an 8-5 win over the Orioles at Target Field. It marked the sixth straight game with at least five runs for the Twins, who improved to 4-2 over that stretch.
"Fortunately for our offense, Joe banged the ball around, Justin had three [hits] and Doumit put one up there by the upper tank," Twins manager Ron Gardenhire said. "So it was a good night for us. Worley battled. He competed and kept us in there. We needed him desperately to get us at least into the sixth inning."
Worley scuffled through 5 1/3 innings, surrendering five runs on 11 hits and a walk with just one strikeout, but still picked up his first win with the Twins in eight starts. Worley gave credit to his teammates for the victory, as he was frustrated by another rough first inning
"I gave up a lot more hits than I wanted to," Worley said. "The first inning was pretty ugly, but overall my team had my back today. There were some really nice plays in the outfield and some big hits. And that saved me."
The Orioles struck in a hurry, scoring three runs in the first inning with four straight hits by Manny Machado, Nick Markakis, Adam Jones and Chris Davis, all with one out.
The Twins got on the board in the third against Orioles right-hander Steve Johnson, when Joe Mauer laced an RBI double before coming around to score on a two-out single from Morneau. Baltimore added another run in the fourth on a solo shot from Matt Wieters off Worley to make it 4-2.
But Minnesota rallied for four runs in the fourth to take a lead they wouldn't relinquish. Brian Dozier brought home two runs with a double before the Orioles elected to walk Mauer intentionally. The decision backfired, as Doumit drew a walk to load the bases before Morneau came through with a two-run single off Johnson to give the Twins a 6-4 lead.
"The off-speed stuff for strikes was a little difficult tonight," Wieters said about Johnson, who gave up six runs on seven hits and four walks over four innings. "It's just [not] quite getting the feel of the off-speed stuff and being able to have that for strikes. The fastball was fine and the changeup came in pieces, but he just couldn't quite get off-speed pitches he could keep them off-balance with and big league hitters will eventually get on-time."
The Orioles made it 6-5 in the sixth with a one-out RBI single by Machado that knocked Worley from the game. But reliever Brian Duensing was able to get out of the jam by getting Markakis to ground into an inning-ending double play.
The Twins then added two insurance runs on one swing of the bat from Doumit in the bottom half. Doumit deposited a 1-2 fastball from left-handed reliever Troy Patton over the fence in left for a two-run blast. The homer scored Mauer, who went 3-for-4 to raise his average to .333 on the season.
"There are have been times this year where I've come up short, so it's nice to come up big tonight," said Doumit, who has three homers over his last five games. "Right now, I feel pretty good in the box."
Relievers Duensing, Casey Fien and Jared Burton combined to preserve the win for the Twins. Duensing was impressive, throwing two scoreless innings, while Burton picked up his first save of the year with closer Glen Perkins unavailable with soreness in his left side. It marked the first time Burton pitched on three straight days since doing so from Oct. 2-4, 2009.
"They're a good offensive team, so that was big," Duensing said about the bullpen's performance. "And Casey and Burton came in and shut the door. I think Burton was pitching three straight days for the first time since 2009, so that was huge, too. Everyone contributed."
Rhett Bollinger is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Bollinger Beat, and follow him on Twitter @RhettBollinger. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Di Bello described the color-splashed works as "abstract expressionism" with "surrealist" methods.
At the most fundamental level, abstract expressionism evokes existential angst for instance, and Pop Art satirizes consumerism.
abstract expressionism defined the artistic climate in which the photographs for The Americans were produced.
"Jasper and I used to start each day by having to move out from abstract expressionism," Rauschenberg once said.
A school of art that flourished primarily from the 1940s to the 1960s, noted for its large-scale, nonrepresentational works by artists such as Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, and Mark Rothko.


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Climate Dome.
Unleash NYC real estate speculators to build Dubai-like artificial reefs, and get foreigners looking for "safe havens" for their money to buy it all up. Given the financial madness of real estate in nyc and new beachfront property, it will pay for itself a thousand times over.
They can absorb like a barrel of water.
This is where it went wrong - if it was still Dutch it would have been properly protected against flooding, and all those electricity lines would have been underground by now. It's absolutely unbelievable that a country that is so technologically advanced still has all those cables hanging in the air. And then those cardboard houses!
Most power lines in the Netherlands aren't underground at all.
The country of the netherlands is below sea level. Without constant and directed interference of a huge structure the Netherlands, and large parts of Belgium would flood in a matter of months. The reason this doesn't happen is that close to the entire coastline is dammed, both in Belgium and Holland, in several layers. The most important structure that helps doing this is called the delta works [wikipedia.org]. Those dams open during ebb and close during flood, which causes the inland groundwater level to drop to about 10 cm over the lowest point the seawater reaches. The Delta works are extremely impressive, and they're just the first of 3 lines of defense against the water. This is sort of weird as the second and especially the third lines are dams which have no water on either side of the actual dam.
There are negative aspects to this. The Dutch "Ministry of water" (it's called Rijkswaterstaat, which translates to Countrywatergovernment) has a huge amount of power. They can stop any and cancel construction project, a source of great frustration in the Netherlands, they can evict large amounts of people and flood their houses without any compensation (which they sometimes do, so if you're wondering "why is this coastal house so very cheap" in Holland or Belgium, it might be that it floods 2-3 times yearly, even inland there are "emergency flood zones" with houses in them*), everybody building almost anywhere in the Netherlands needs their approval, they can arrest people and hold them I believe for a month before charging them with anything (and interfering with the ministry of water is a crime that carries stiff penalties). This is done because the alternative is much worse than in New York [wikipedia.org] it takes months to years for the floods to recede, so if someone screws up, they're in for a long ride.
* there is even a law that if your house is surrounded by more than 20cms of water, you have to let it flood. Because the alternative is that it starts floating and collapses with everyone in it, or damages someone else's property.
One of the emergency flood zones in the harbour of Antwerp is kinda fun. There is this huge parking shortage, and they couldn't use that flood zone for anything anyway, so they built a road into it. And many days, a lot of cars get parked in there. Some days, usually at around 15pm, a warning goes out "we're going to flood it" and by 15h30 they will flood this parking, cars out or not (because the alternative is flooding the city). You never fail to see a few cars floating around at 17h during those days. It only happens 3-4 times yearly of course, but it's very weird that they deliberately did that. To add to the problem, that parking is written in as an exception for pretty much every car insurance.
Why didn't they just build the car park on stilts? Or put some deep trench reservoirs in place to contain all the water?
So you're suggesting that a country that is below sea level digs deep holes to contain excess water?
It's easy to say that, but it's expensive as hell to modernize even just NYC, much less the entire state. Nobody is ever going to finance something like that, when the current infrastructure works tolerably well (most of the time). It used to really bug me (losing power whenever there's a moderately powerful storm really sucks), but I guess I've gotten used to it, as well. Nowadays, I too laugh at the naive fools who think they're going to change anything in New York. Politics in NY are more complicated
You would have about $100bn to spend each year, if only the US could decide that it was enough for their "defense" to constitute 45% instead of 54% of the worlds military spending. ($600bn instead of $700bn
Except that that's Federal money, and can't be spent on city infrastructure like that. City infrastructure is a local/municipal and/or state problem only. It doesn't matter if the city is of critical importance to the nation as a whole, it's not going to happen with the way the government is now.
Think outside the box, damn it.
If it were still British it would be protected against flooding, and all the electricity lines would be underground.
The thames Barrier is a flood barrier protecting London: http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/homeandleisure/floods/38353.aspx [environmen...ncy.gov.uk] and electricity wires on poles are very rare -- only seen in remote rural areas.
The only idea that's sure to work is to move the city to a safer location. Or at least the parts of it most suseptible to flooding. That's what they had to do in New Orleans. Or, perhaps it's because we're talking about rich white guys now instead of poor black people that we should expend many billions fortifying and rebuilding those neighborhoods? Oh, and yes, this comment will probably be flamed into oblivion and modded every which way, but it does have the benefit of being the truth.
So where do you move a port besides next to the ocean?
Serious question.
So where do you move a port besides next to the ocean?
You don't move the port. You move the city. The port can stay where it is; Just run rail and road lines out to it. It's a lot easier to restore power and services to an area that's easily evacuated, has no residential housing, etc., and limited infrastructure.
You have to be trolling. You have to.
So you're going to move the city inland by what, 60 miles? Move everyone off Manhattan and Long Island? All 8+Million of them? What draconian government ministry are you going to appoint (because you've made yourself emperor) to forcibly move people off the land they're on? You have to pay them to resettle too, enough to replace the homes and land they're in.
Your "simple" solution is infeasible and would be hated by everyone.
People like to live next to work. They ha
What draconian government ministry are you going to appoint (because you've made yourself emperor) to forcibly move people off the land they're on?
The department of no money for rebuilding coastal cities. That's the easy solution. Just declare that they can go fuck themselves. It does require forcing the bankers to move though, which is why it will never happen.
People like to live next to work. They hate commuting. They'll build houses and offices near the port and then you're right back to where you started.
That's their problem then. The solution is to make any and all insurance and/or government money covering the damage contingent on declaring the property unfit for rebuilding. It's nice not to cut them off, but it's also unfair to subsidize people who insist on building in hazardous areas. The compromise then is to cover it ONCE. Besides, if you did collect a
Your class envy rhetoric is idiotic. Manhattan has both rich and poor neighborhoods; flooding hurts both. Damaging business districts (which are interspersed throughout the island) hurts everyone.
Like New Orleans, New York City has a location which is important as an inherent part of its geography. Unlike New Orleans, it is not feasible to move it. It is surrounded by water (duh, that's what island means) and those areas on the other side of the water are already densely populated. There's nowhere to go.
Your class envy rhetoric is idiotic. Manhattan has both rich and poor neighborhoods; flooding hurts both. Damaging business districts (which are interspersed throughout the island) hurts everyone.
It has Wall St. on it. Stop whining about idiocy; If there ever was a rich neighborhood in the United States, that would be it. And all of New York has exorbinantly high cost of living, apartments are tiny, real estate is at a premium -- I could go on. All of that is because that's where the financial businesses are. And that's the reason why these areas haven't been reinforced or evacuated. And for the record -- New Orleans also has a location which is important as an "inherent part of its geography"
Like New Orleans, New York City has a location which is important as an inherent part of its geography
It's important to its identity, but I'm at a loss as to why the rest of the nation should pay to maintain that.
Unlike New Orleans, it is not feasible to move it
you don't move the city, you recycle the city, you move the people.
There's nowhere to go
Except the rest of the country, which is less densely populated than anywhere else in the world not covered over more or less entirely with ice or sand or rock. Except maybe Canada, of course.
Nuke it from the orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
The only idea that's sure to work is to move the city to a safer location. Or at least the parts of it most suseptible to flooding. perhaps it's because we're talking about rich white guys now instead of poor black people that we should expend billions fortifying and rebuilding those neighborhoods?
You do know that Harlem is Uptown Manhattan, right? North of Central Park?
That Manhattan Island alone has a population of 1.6 million, Long Island 7.6 million and metro New York City as a whole, 22 million?
Naming the roads 'Canal St', 'Water St.', etc. 1821 to 2012 is too long a period for oral history to be effective.
Has this ever happened before?
What are the odds of it happening again?
Its like terrorism... we need to use it as an excuse to spend lots of taxpayer money.
Wasn't there another recent article on how climate change is an act of terrorism?
People could start taking climate change seriously and reduce CO2 emissions.
Then care to explain why NYC was hit by regular cat 3 hurricanes all the way through the little ice age? Since the killer 1938 hurricane we haven't had a single strong storm
Sandy was barely a cat 1 storm. It hit at high tide And with the full moon which is what caused the flooding.
Here in NYC the flooding didn't start until it made landfall and the wind died down
Since the killer 1938 hurricane we haven't had a single strong storm
Care to make a statement that isn't easily refuted [wikipedia.org] by 20 seconds of searching on wikipedia? The 1938 storm may have been the strongest but it wasn't even close to the only strong storm to hit NYC.
Best allow research for LFTR's.
All the necessary research was done in the 1960s and '70s. Just let someone build the damn things already.
I really don't see what's the deal, besides an oil industry investing in a massive PR program to convince us all that their oil is the only source of power. If all the oil and coal in the world disappeared tomorrow, I'm sure lots of power sources would be built at record speeds. Power of any kind needed, clean or any other, The whole debate just relegated to the history books. Once necessity hits the fan, the creative juices will create self-powering airplanes that run infinetely. Oh wait, that's done alr
Crack it loose, and tug boat it to north Africa... no storms!, at the same time you can just let the depressed neighborhoods break off (wink,nod) and there's your urban renewal all in one shot!
Protecting Manhattan isn't that difficult. It's clear that the Con Ed station on 14th St needs to be raised; that's too important to be flooded out again. The subway system needs flood gates at several points. The London and Singapore systems have flood gates. The old Pennsylvania Railroad North Tunnels have flood gates, which Amtrak didn't maintain and were supposed to be fixed after 2001 as an anti-terrorism measure.
Some of the subway stations need extra protection, especially South Ferry. They need strong emergency flood barriers. Sandbags didn't work because a big piece of wood (about 1' x 1' by 15') from a construction site crashed through them and ended up in the booking hall. They need steel barriers that are raised out of the ground when necessary. Extra pumping capacity with backup power is indicated, too.
Those are no-brainers. After major hurricanes two years in a row, there's no question that those basic fixes are needed. Beyond that, it might be worthwhile to raise the ground level of the parks in the Battery Park area by a few meters. FDR Drive may need a flood wall south of the Brooklyn Bridge. Those are less urgent.
Barrier islands like Fire Island and the Rockaways, and the Jersey shore, are too low to fix. Just make sure everybody evacuates in time. (About 140 people refused to evacuate Fire Island, and getting them off after the island had been cut in two by the storm risked the lives of emergency personnel. The first group of rescuers had to be rescued.) Require Florida-level hurricane protection in house construction. Require paid-up private insurance for anyone who wants to build in the flood zone. Put in hurricane-resistant solar panel powered street lights (a commercially available product), so there's some light no matter what happens. A strict "no tall trees near power lines" policy may be necessary in the coastal zone.
New York State has a valuable resource - big rocks. Where roads and railroad tracks need to be protected against washouts, big rocks, too big for a storm to move (granite boulders the size of a SUV) should be used extensively.
(Forget the "balloon tunnel plug" idea. Something like that was used at the Penn Station yards, and it burst when hit by something.)
(Forget the "balloon tunnel plug" idea. Something like that was used at the Penn Station yards, and it burst when hit by something.)
Balloon tunnel plug plus a wall.
Or use bigelow's technology for sealing in the event of micrometeorite impact
Tokyo is sheltered from the sea in an inlet. NYC sticks right out into the Atlantic seaboard. What they do in Tokyo won't work in NYC.
Tokyo is sheltered from the sea in an inlet. NYC sticks right out into the Atlantic seaboard. What they do in Tokyo won't work in NYC.
Oh, I dunno about that. I have two Google Maps windows on my screen right now, one of the New York area, the other of the Tokyo area, at the same scale. True, the details are different, but overall they don't seem to be very different in their exposure to the nearby oceans.
If anything, it looks like New York is better protected, especially Manhattan Island. It's at the north end of the 8-mile-lond Upper Bay, which has a rather narrow (~1 mile) opening into the Lower Bay, which in turn has a couple of barrier islands and a lot of continental shelf between Manhattan and the deep ocean.
Tokyo is on the much larger Tokyo Bay, which is rather serpentine, and connected to the Inland Sea by the Uraga channel, around 6 miles wide. But the city area is near the eastern end of the Inland Sea, with no significant continental shelf. So if anything, Tokyo is more exposed, by the closeness of the open ocean and deep water, with wider channels to the central city area.
But overall, they don't look all that different. And Tokyo has the extra problem of being in an active volcanic zone, while New York's geological underpinnings are much older and stabler.
I'd guess that, all things considered, New York's geological, hydrographic and meteorological environment is somewhat safer than Tokyo's, though probably not by much. The general cost of protecting them isn't really all that different.
The difference is that the Japanese are well aware of the dangers inherent in their natural environment, while New Yorkers are either oblivious or arrogantly sure that God/Nature/whatever is on their side. The Japanese weren't all that surprised by the recent epic earthquake and tsunami. New Yorkers seem surprised and offended that the natural world could do something catastrophic to them.
If anything, it looks like New York is better protected, especially Manhattan Island. It's at the north end of the 8-mile-lond Upper Bay, which has a rather narrow (~1 mile) opening into the Lower Bay, which in turn has a couple of barrier islands and a lot of continental shelf between Manhattan and the deep ocean.
Everyone seems to forget that, when looking at a map of New York City, Brooklyn is part of it. Brooklyn sits *right* on the Atlantic ocean. See Rockaway and Long Beach? That's NYC. Now see that narrow gap protecting Manhattan? Half of the gap is Brooklyn and half is Staten Island, which sits across the opening of the lower bay, and is also part of NYC. Staten Island bore the brunt of the last hurricane, along with the outer coastal areas of Brooklyn. You also have the Hudson river and long island sounds dra
NYC is where it is mostly because of shipping, harbors, and the merchants that got rich on that. Those made it a favorable place to live despite the costs of coastal living. These days, that location makes little sense. There is still shipping, of course, but not much reason why our financial center should be there.
So, leave it up to New Yorkers: as long as they want to pay and are able to pay for defending the city against the elements, let them. Once it doesn't make economic sense anymore, people will stop building there and people will move elsewhere. This has happened time and again to cities in human history, it's a natural process.
So, leave it up to New Yorkers: as long as they want to pay and are able to pay for defending the city against the elements, let them.
Most people will agree with that statement. However, they are just like you, too narrow minded to realize that those costs would not come 100% from "within" as you suggest.
Most people will agree with that statement. However, they are just like you, too narrow minded to realize that those costs would not come 100% from "within" as you suggest.
As long as they pay for it through city taxes, it comes "from within". Those taxes are accounted for by a higher cost of doing business in NYC, and that will eventually make other places more competitive. It only becomes a problem if state and federal taxes are used to pay for this, directly or indirectly, because then people outside NY
Fill the skyscrapers with helium to lift Manhattan Island!!!
Artificial islands or reefs (including ones made of recycled glass) to make the shoreline more absorptive and break the waves."
Clearly the author has never been to the NJ/NY shoreline... It's already coated in "recycled" glass.
but when you get the cost estimates back people will shut up really quick. everyone wants to talk big but no one will want to pay for it.
James Blish had the solution in his "Cities in Flight" books fifty years ago. Fit a suitable number of spindizzies and fly New York off into the galaxy to look for work.
You can do all sorts of improvements both on land, under the streets and on the bulkheads and with infill outside the bulkheads, but you can't stop the eventual storm that overfloods everything with 30 foot hurricane waves which will come sooner or later. The 1938 hurricane which hit Rhode Island was proof if you need to have reason to believe.
The simple truth is that building on waterfront barely above sea level is not rational for the long term. Eventually the costs exceed the value of the buildings and
Just call the Dutch already, make proper dykes.
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i got another subaru dl 5sp white fwd , no rust at all good glass ,good interior , tinted glass, rear hitch, owner says bent valves , new battery, the owner spent 500 bucks on timming belts water pump, and was told it has bent valves , the timming is off real bad or the belt slipped off , any case got it real cheap
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Posted 11 March 2004 - 07:54 AM
What year?
Posted 11 March 2004 - 09:58 AM
If you hadn't mentioned that you got it real cheap (which implies there may be a profit mitive involved) you could have qualified for a humanitarian award.
Posted 11 March 2004 - 10:54 PM
i got something like that too...the DL in the sig. There is no way there is bent valves. The t belts must be off. That was the case on mine.....great score tho.
Posted 11 March 2004 - 11:31 PM
trashwagon candidate? hey, i saw the car and it is SOLID, no rusty framerails on this one.
jim, try your hand at removing the outer t-belt covers, and checking it out
jim, try your hand at removing the outer t-belt covers, and checking it out
Posted 12 March 2004 - 07:24 AM
it is a 88 w/ 219,000 mi ,but i think it was towed around alot ,because there is a tow hook up on the front ,and the motor is pretty clean , the owner spent 500 bucks on repairs and the shop told her it had bent valves
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The Alaska Senate declared its support for a pair of Southeast Alaska mining ventures Wednesday with the unanimous passage of an Anchorage Republican's bill.
Sen. Lesil McGuire, R-Anchorage and a lieutenant governor hopeful, is the primary sponsor of SB99, which allows the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority to dole out more money for new development, she said.
"One of the No. 1 issues we have is we don't have enough energy infrastructure in the state, and one of the No. 1 challenges cited to reaching that level of infrastructure that we need is access to capital," McGuire said shortly after the Senate approved the measure.
The legislation was intended to clarify a section of law passed two years ago — also championed by McGuire — but amendments from Sitka Republican Sen. Bert Stedman refocused the legislation on the Bokan-Dotson Ridge rare earth mine and the Niblack project, both in Southeast.
The first amendment allows AIDEA to issue bonds to help finance Bokan-Dotson, located about 40 miles southwest of Ketchikan, on Prince of Wales Island.
The second amendment does the same for the Niblack mine project — also on Prince of Wales — and the Gravina Island Industrial Complex near Ketchikan.
"Bokan represents an unsurpassed opportunity for Alaska to furnish materials of critical importance to American national defense, energy consumption and competitiveness in high tech applications at a world level, and Alaska lawmakers have recognized this," Jim McKenzie, President & CEO of Ucore, the company behind the Bokan project, said in a press release issued last month, when Stedman's amendment was introduced.
The amendment for the Bokan project authorizes AIDEA to issue up to $145 million in long-term bonds. Representatives from the Niblack project did not respond before deadline.
Currently, China controls about 95 percent of the development and export market of rare earth elements, McGuire said.
"If we can begin the process of exploring and developing rare earth minerals, that is a huge opportunity for the state of Alaska," McGuire said.
She added that the projects could bring as many as 300 year-round jobs to the region.
Still, "the bigger issue is the revenue that can come back to the state in the rare earth minerals, and what we can contribute to national economy," she said.


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This program will feature Brahms' colorful Zigeunerlieder and Schumann's lighthearted Zigeunerleben. Brahms wrote Zigeunerlieder (Gypsy Songs) based on a collection of 25 Hungarian tunes, which fueled the appeal of all things Gypsy at the time. The descriptive poetry, translated from the Hungarian, depicts journeys of love lost and regained and of scenes in the life of these wandering people. They are definitely the more exotic counterparts to the Liebeslieder Waltzes, first performed by Cantabile in 2010. Schumann's Zigeunerleben (Gypsy Life) on the other hand depicts a gathering of gypsies around a campfire, with a great sense of curiosity and enchantment.
Cantabile will also perform well-loved works by Lauridsen, Duruflé, Vaughan Williams and Billings, among others, and will feature Stella Rabb Pradeau and Gmez-Guillén playing Brahms' slow movement to his third Sonata, a piece written by Brahms at the time of his Gypsy songs. You will also hear the famous Czardas by Monti in its virtuosic version for violin and piano.
The Cantabile Singers, directed by Gmez-Guillén, is an auditioned choral ensemble in Boulder County dedicated to performing a wide range of music from classical to jazz, gospel and folk.
Gmez-Guillén has been Cantabile's music director since late 2010. He was exposed to a wide spectrum of music and musical styles while growing up singing in choirs and playing the violin in his native Colombia. Currently, Gmez-Guillén is finishing a dual master's degree in violin performance and conducting at the University of Colorado at Boulder. In addition to his work with Cantabile, Gmez-Guillén directs the Mountain View Methodist Church Chancel Choir, and the Colorado Youth Philharmonia, and is associate conductor of the University of Colorado at Boulder Campus Orchestra.
Rabb Pradeau has been performing with The Cantabile Singers since 1999. She graduated from the University of Colorado with a Master's degree in piano performance in 1998. During her studies at CU, Rabb Pradeau was a teaching assistant and a winner of the Norris Piano Award. Studying under Angela Cheng, Rabb Pradeau was selected as a semi-finalist in the Hilton Head International Piano Competition in 1997. As an undergraduate, Rabb Pradeau was a scholarship recipient of Rotary International and studied music in Paris.
Attend the Nov. 4 concert and welcome this most popular and exciting group as they open the Estes Park Music Festival Winter Series. Be sure to come early for best parking and seating as the Cantabile Singers will be sure to fill the house.
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Nov. 11 features the Boulder Bassoon Jazz Quartet. The Quartet has impressed a wide audience through substantive, engaging performances since 2006. Having performed in diverse venues from Boulder's Pearl Street Mall to Arizona State University to Denver's Gothic Theater, the quartet is dedicated to expanding the repertoire for the bassoon quartet in a variety of genres. This is a new and exciting group to the Music Festival and provides the audience with an opportunity to listen to the warm, dark, reedy voice of the bassoon as they play selections from Beatles to Bach.
Music festival officials thank the Stanley Hotel, weekly sponsors and winter season major benefactors: Daniel and Stephanie Rauk, Ron and Vivian Gordon, Chevron Corporation and the Estes Park Community Thrift Shop.
For more information, contact the music festival business office at 970-586-9519 or visit their web site: estesparkmusicfestival.org . Please note the slight increase in ticket prices. Children and students are still admitted for free.
Where: Stanley Hotel Concert Hall
What: Winter Series opening concert
When: Sunday, Nov. 4, 2 p.m.
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — NASCAR raises the curtain on its 2013 season Saturday night at Daytona International Speedway with The Sprint Unlimited.
While the three-segment, 75-lap race among the previous season's pole winners will kick off Speedweeks, the race will mark the debut of NASCAR's next-generation car, which has promised to return the "stock'' to stock car racing.
Judging from the reviews following preseason testing, it appears the new car — the Gen-6 — has delivered on that promise.
Unlike its uglier predecessor unveiled in 2007, the Car of Tomorrow, which was a homogeneous, rear-winged tank with a spatula-like splitter on the lower front end, the Gen-6 has been widely embraced as a success by manufacturers, fans, and drivers, largely because of its aesthetic appeal.
The sleeker and faster Gen-6 was deemed a hit because it incorporated contours and characteristics that made it resemble the production cars rolling off the assembly lines at Toyota (Camry), Ford (Fusion), and Chevrolet (SS).
"I did not like the way the COT car looked and I think most of the garage would say that,'' said Brad Keselowski, the reigning Sprint Cup champion. Keselowski won his title driving a Dodge but will make his defense behind the wheel of the No. 2 Ford Fusion fielded by owner Roger Penske.
So, does the look of the new car matter?
"It does matter,'' Keselowski said. "It matters because that is the image we portray. I wear a fire suit with a helmet and a full seat around me. You can't see me.
"What you are seeing is this car going around the racetrack and the sponsors and the car construction, styling, etc. So, that is what you see as a fan.
"So, as an ambassador of the sport, yeah, absolutely it matters.''
NASCAR helped manufacturers achieve greater brand identity by incorporating several cosmetic changes to the Gen-6, which at 3,300 pounds is 150 lighter than last year's model.
"We have been working on this car for nearly two years,'' said Robin Pemberton, NASCAR's vice president of competition. "We have been at the track on and off for well over a year in different stages and forms and configurations of the car.
"Because of the depth of everybody, throughout our entire industry, we were able to take these things and put a long lead time in them and develop a better product.''
Race teams were tasked with building 2013 cars that had unique body panels and distinctly stylized front grills, with hood and deck lids constructed from carbon fiber. At 196.2 inches, the Gen-6 is 2.3 shorter than its predecessor, most notably on the rear deck lid.
Paint scheme changes will include the driver's last name across the top of the windshield.
"When you look at the enormity of the project . . . and basically putting three brand-new models of racecars out on a racetrack . . . and put speeds up that are within a 10th of a second of each other — it is an incredible, incredible effort,'' said Sprint Cup director John Darby.
"I truly believe there is not another racing series in the world that could accomplish what these guys did since we left Homestead [following the 2012 season finale].''
Now, for the first time since NASCAR campaigned truly stock cars in the 1960s, the racecars on the speedway will look more like the production cars in the showroom, thus returning the sport to the days where manufacturers could win on Sunday and sell on Monday.
"I think it's something that's hurt the sport in the last few years,'' said Martin Truex Jr., driver of the No. 56 Toyota fielded by Michael Waltrip Racing.
"When I was a kid, half the reason I pulled for a few of my favorites was because of what kind of car they drove,'' said Truex, whose father campaigned Chevrolets on the old Busch North Series. "I'd be like, 'My dad drives that kind of car, so does he, that's awesome.' We get that back.
"Our Camry looks just like the Camry that we saw being built last week in Kentucky. It's amazing. The fans can really relate to that and they can say, 'Man, look, this guy's out there winning in the car that I'm driving to work tomorrow.' That's awesome. That's part of the sport that's been gone for the last few years and I think it's important that we get it back.''
Drivers will have to work through some issues with the Gen-6, particularly how it handles in traffic and bump-drafts at Daytona's high-banked, 2½-mile tri-oval, where a Jan. 11 test session was marred by a multicar crash.
Dale Earnhardt Jr. triggered the accident when he attempted to bump-draft Marcos Ambrose. Because the cars no longer share bodies and chassis, they are no longer capable of linking up nose-to-tail. As a result, Earnhardt turned Ambrose when he bumped him from behind, and lifted his rear end and "wheel-barreled'' Ambrose down the backstretch.
The crash collected the cars of Aric Almirola, Jamie McMurray, and Keselowski, along with those belonging to Jeff Gordon, Carl Edwards, Regan Smith, Kyle Busch, and Kasey Kahne.
"This car demands you to drive it,'' Truex said. "It wants you to be aggressive. It likes to be pushed. The car we've been running the last few years was the opposite — it was always telling you to slow down and wait and be patient and be smooth. I don't like that. I like to attack. I like to drive the car.
"It's so much fun to drive this new car because of that.''
On Friday, nine minutes into the first practice session for the Feb. 24 Daytona 500, Matt Kenseth turned into Kurt Busch exiting Turn 4 and triggered a five-car mishap.
The Gen-6, evidently, has virtually eliminated bump-drafting at Daytona.
"The sport is rewinding,'' Keselowski said. "That's an important thing to say, because the sport advanced to where we got the two-car tandem about three or four years ago. There were certain things that you do to them that you could never do in the past without wrecking.
"Now the rule package has changed back to where we were in the early 2000s, where I think the fans and everybody else enjoyed the racing a little better.
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Ellsworth Waterfront Concerts
The Free Summer Waterfront Concert series in Ellsworth, put on by The Grand, is starting up again.
There will be a variety of music styles playing, with a little bit of something for everyone, from rock to blues and even a little island funk.
Every Friday evening this summer, rain or shine, there will be a performance at the Ellsworth Harbor Park. The concerts will all start at 6 pm, and the series will begin on July 5th and the final one on August 23rd.
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Chippewa Falls, WI – Gordy's County Market has announced that it will be opening its 10th location in Rice Lake, WI. The new 61,000-square-foot store will take over the majority of the former K-Mart store space and bring new life to 2601 South Main Street. Construction is estimated to take 4-5 months and the store will open in early summer.
President Jeff Schafer is excited about being able to bring great value and high quality meat, produce, deli and bakery departments to Rice Lake. "We are honored to have the opportunity to serve the customers of Rice Lake," Schafer said. "We plan on offering our high quality products at the bottom line prices we have become known for."
When completed, the new Gordy's County Market location will bring an estimated 100 jobs to the community of Rice Lake. Customers can expect the same great quality and features as other Gordy's locations.
Customers can look forward to a full-service Deli, Gordy's homemade Smokehouse Meats, Bakery, Grocery, Produce and Meat departments. The new location will also feature a Gordy's Valley Spirits liquor department offering the same bottom line pricing and value that customers have come to expect. "The new location has a lot to offer, but our dedication to customer service will remain the same," says Schafer. "This expansion will allow us to serve the citizens of Rice Lake and the surrounding communities with quality products, friendly employees, and community involvement."


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'Hope Springs,'' a funny and perceptive comedy-drama starring a very fine Meryl Streep and Tommy Lee Jones as a long-married couple trying to revive their dormant sex life, achieves a significant cinematic landmark.
It's the first movie I've seen in which Viagra isn't just a joke.
Jones' Omaha accountant, Arnold, has been dragged by his sexually frustrated wife, Kay (Streep), to Maine for a week of intensive counseling sessions.
These are conducted by a psychiatrist named Dr. Feld (a winningly low-key Steve Carell), whose polite but insistent questioning determines that erectile dysfunction is an obstacle to the couple's intimacy.
So there will be no quick fix.
According to Kay, her husband hasn't even touched her since he moved into the spare bedroom five years ago because of a back injury. He's long since healed, and devotes his evenings primarily to watching golf videos until he falls asleep. But her emotional scars are still raw.
Though things stay on the side of PG-13- rated good taste (except for an unfortunate movie-theater sex scene that belongs in another film), this is relatively unusual subject matter for an American movie, especially a mainstream one.
Credit Streep's midcareer box-office clout and, possibly, Sony's desire to provide an incentive for Jones' limited participation in "Men in Black 3."
As wonderful as Streep is, it's Jones — with whom she has great chemistry — who owns "Hope Springs" as the magnificently grumpy Arnold, complaining that the money Kay's blown for this retreat would be better spent on a hot-water heater.
People in this age group are typically portrayed as either Walmart-loving boobs or stock figures in real-estate porn com-edies like "It's Complicated.''
Instead, screenwriter Vanessa Taylor (HBO's "Tell Me You Love Me") and director David Frankel ("The Devil Wears Prada") offer a rare, dead-on portrait of middle-class middle Americans, despite a few missteps — the on-the-nose, pop-oriented score and a passing reference to a fantasy about a threesome that's prominently featured in the trailer.
Costumes are credited to the legendary Ann Roth, but Kay's clothes could have come straight off the rack at Coldwater Creek, the mall chain where the character works.
Streep does a beautiful job conveying Kay's quiet desperation at the spouse she still loves, and Carell demonstrates his acting chops in a basically straight role with a little bit of humor.
It's Jones who does the heavy lifting. He is great at sketching out the oblivious Arnold's difficult journey to acknowledging his wife's pain.
His fumbling, sometimes humorous and ultimately touching efforts to change and reach out to her finally include dinner and a night at a local inn that's far more conducive to romance than the EconoLodge where they've been staying.
"Hope Springs'' could have been unbearably schmaltzy or crude. Instead, in the hands of these expert actors and filmmakers, it's a warm and wryly affecting mid-summer treat.


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Gamer's Nite on June 14 at Eva's Restaurant on 3rd Street in Jacksonville Beach was the first in a series of Family Fun Events planned by Ponte Vedra's newest nonprofit Foundation, HUN (Healthy UNow). More than 120 people attended Gamer's Nite, many of them young patients of Julie A. Buckley, M.D., of Pediatric Partners of Ponte Vedra Beach, P.A. A nationally recognized authority on autism, having written a book titled "Healing Our Autistic Children," Buckley recently founded HUN with the goal of building a physical facility in Ponte Vedra Beach where children on the autism spectrum and their families can gather for both fellowship and healing. "We need a place that understands what autism really is - an environmentally-induced, treatable, reversible, preventable medical disease," said Buckley, as she spoke to the gathering at Eva's Restaurant. "We need a place that helps our children to function at their healthiest, their very best, and for them to be able to share their gifts and their talents with the world."
Supporting the first event sponsored by HUN were several NFL football players, including the Jaguars' Eugene Monroe, Derek Cox and Rashad Jennings and former Jaguar player Tony Pashos. Also on hand to lend their support for the new nonprofit were Alan Pickert, president of the HEAL board (Healing Every Autistic Life), and Michelle Dunham, founder and executive director of the Jacksonville School for Autism. An attorney who has filed numerous vaccine injury cases in Washington, D.C., before the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, Pickert applauded Buckley's founding of HUN, noting that the more the public is educated on the lack of programs for the ever-rising number of children on the autism spectrum, the better it will be for everyone. "I am a big believer in a rising tide lifts all boats," Pickert said, "and, candidly, we need more boats in the harbor." Buckley agreed, emphasizing that autism now affects one in 88 children and is truly a family condition. She considered the first Family Fun Gamer's event a phenomenal success. "The kids had a blast playing games like Madden and Wii Bowling with the Jaguars players. The families were able to eat together, enjoy some fellowship, and not have to worry about their children. We'll be having more events like this coming up." To keep abreast of upcoming HUN happenings, please visit www.healthyUNow.org. With both HUN and HEAL in Ponte Vedra Beach, families of children on the autism spectrum will now have a wider array of resources and events available to them. The next big event sponsored by the HEAL Foundation will be The Great Ponte Vedra Paddle on Labor Day, Sept. 3. For details on that event, go to www.healautismnow.org.
Are you looking for a way to give back to your community? If you are retired and relaxing in Ponte Vedra Beach, this is a great opportunity to put your left-over energy to good use and join other caring citizens to help heal the economy. With tax season finally behind us and summer still in full swing, this is actually the best time of the year to get involved with United Way's Real$ense Prosperity Campaign which offers free financial education classes, special matched savings programs and, when the time comes, free tax preparation throughout North Florida. Currently, Real$ense needs Outreach Specialists to spread the word about the great free benefits available. A two hour training session is required, but public speaking experience is not necessary. "You just need a smile and a willing heart," says Kim Ouellette, Special Projects Coordinator for Real$ense. "Use the buddy system and bring a friend to volunteer as a guest speaker, present to small groups or staff an information table at a community event. Classes will take place from 4 to 6 p.m. on Aug. 1, and from 2 to 4 p.m. Aug. 3, at the United Way Offices, 1301 Riverplace Blvd., Gate Riverplace Building, 4th Floor, Jacksonville.
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It seems like a lot of guys on here run Castle motors and escs on here, but not so much Tekin. I've heard that a Tekin Pro4 with an RX8 esc will walk all over Castle set ups, but it kinda seems like Castle set ups are the big name in power. So what's better?
I was wondering the same thing, I can't even fiqure out which Castle system is best for the Slash 4x4? Everyone has a different suggestion or opinion of what is the BEST system.
1)Castle escs can be waterproofed.
tekin's cannot because their sensored and sensored motors cannot be waterproofed.
2)Castle software is more user friendly imo and costs less
a tekin hardwire at my lhs is $40...the castle link is $25
3) the Castle motors imo run cooler and have more power
i've had 3 tekin combos..a truggy combo the SC on the rx8 and a 2650 buggy combo. my tekin motors always ran hotter than my castle motors
4) Tekin motors are much much smoother imo.
5)both places have good customer service
to me it comes down to practicality. i race tekin. i bash Castle, imo Castle is more durable. Tekin is incredibly smooth and has more fine tuning ability on their esc. that comes in handy with very technical tracks. just my 2 cents...both are EXCELLENT companies
One mans garbage is another mans ungarbage" -Ricky
Castle 2400 sct combo is what I run. The castle mamba monster/2200 is also becoming very popular, but unless you plan on running 6s it's overkill. 4s on the mmp/2400 combo is a handful, plenty powerful enough and can be ran on 3s for bashing and its much more tame.
Im with Rocket for the most part.
On most systems the castles are cheaper and unsensored. When you get up into the larger applications they are dollar for dollar.
Comparison...The MMM/2650 is the same price as the RX8/T8 2650.
Tekin can be run unsensored if you want and will run cooler and more effiecient unsensored.
The Tekin walks off from the caslte on smoothness when run as sensored, cant even compare there
The Tekin RX8 has a more powerful onboard BEC than castle. If you run a high torque servo with a castle you have to get an external BEC as the castle just cant handle the load. I added a Savox 1258TG to a MMM and a MMP and it didnt glitch, it flat blacked out every time I moved the servo. RX8 doesnt even flinch with an even higher torque Hitech I just put in.
Im way over powered so the motor doesnt get hot sensored. I just switched over from castle MMM/1512 2650 to Tekin RX8/T8 2650 for two reasons. Firsty the Servo issue and secondly the smoothness factor. With the Castle combo the throttle control on the lower end after I got it geared where I wanted went from 0 to 20% and cogged like crazy. No matter how I set the throttle curves and other setting in the ESC still got the same result. Added throttle curves and exponential to Futaba 4Pks, same story. Switched to Tekin sensored, smooth as silk and the throttle curves and exponential actually works. The Tekin also is much quieter, no high pitched ESC whining going on. The only thing I can hear are the pinion and spur gears and then the tires on the road as I blast the truck past me at 70mph.
They are both good setups and good service from both compaines. Just have to figure out which provides what you are after.
Last edited by JustinThyme; 10-03-2012 at 09:16 PM.
I like the castle sound. Lol
1)do i want to stick with 2 and 3s only and not mod my drivetrain? Get the 3800 combo
2)do i want more torque,less heat and i'm wiling to mod the drivetrain...i also will need to gear up to get the same speed as the 3800.
Get the 2400 combo
3)have i lost my mind and have more cash than common sense? Because now i gotta mod the drivetrain..probably wheel adapters....revo diff locker and run 4s packs at a minimum. I also gotta switch to a revo spur and change pinions. Then the 2200 or 2650 is your combo. Which is better? The 2200 runs cooler and haz more torque...but at this point it's all relative because you' ll never go above 130 degrees with either.
hope that helps
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One mans garbage is another mans ungarbage" -Ricky
this is with all do respect to everyone i might offend i have run alot of different thing off of a castle bec light winch dual servos and never had a problem and when i say dual servos im not talking about traxxas either .the only people that seem to have problem is people with savox and other nock off servos . yes i run over priced servos in some of my truck (aka jr and spectrum ) but i have tons of power and no glitching or black ,brown or blue outs . back to the topic best motor really depends on you im a basher and a show off i run all castle . but for racing hands down tekin is the way to go . alot of racer come into the store and not one has anything bad to say about there tekin stuff
I kinda have my heart set on the Tekin Pro4/RX8 combo at the moment and I'm 99.99% sure that's what I'm going to get. My bank account doesn't really like that, but it can just go ahead and shut right on up. Where I'm at there's really no tracks, except for one little almost makeshift track at the Kawasaki/oh hey we got Traxxas too shop, so I don't really think I'm going to be actually racing with it, but I'd like to show my friend's E-Revo that it ain't so big and bad.
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Last edited by ksb51rl; 10-04-2012 at 09:05 PM. Reason: merge
i had a summit with 2 jr 8711 and 24 led all off of a mmp with a 2400 out of one of my slashes it actually ran really well on 4s we all have different experiences that what bring us all here
i have the 2200 in my Revo-E...and...the stock diff got shredded...ERBE diff will NEVER be able to handle the power of the 2200...
don't know how strong the slash diffs are...but...i would not recommend that motor with any other diff other than the mods that are mentioned in the ERBE forum (Losi LST diffs)...
do u really need that much power in a slash?
Last edited by ksb51rl; 10-04-2012 at 09:08 PM. Reason: merge
One mans garbage is another mans ungarbage" -Ricky
One mans garbage is another mans ungarbage" -Ricky
I just installed the LRP SCT sensored and LOOOOOOVE it! Buttery smooth and just as fast as the Castle I pulled out of it. Since Tekin is also sensored I vote for the Tek. I would have gotten the tek,..but it was about $60 more.
My son has a Tekin RS 17.5 in his stadium truck and that thing is sweet for the track... But it was also $250 and limited to 3s. The RX8 can power a 1/8 truck, but costs $50 more than the MMM.
I can get a MMM/3800 for well less than $200, and the MMM can be used to power up to a 1/8 vehicle if you choose. I'd say if you race (and can solder like a madman) get a Tekin, if you bash, go Castle.
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Water pump: $99.99 +$2 gaskets
Oil pump$197.99 +$ 3.30 gaskets
They had no "kit" for T-belts. $ 50 For EACH belt + $67 for one single pulley.
Cam seals :$2.27 each.
So I think Ill try to source a Gates T belt kit locally
When it comes to the crank pulley can I just get it off with an electric impact? Then impact it back on?
Do I need to replace the crank seal?
How likely is it I can get away with just oil pump seals? Depends on pump?
I might as well do the water pump seal.
It looks like it will be 100 times easier to work without the Big clunky A/C compressor there. How do I make it safe to remove the lines?
Im just trying to make sure I will have EVERYTHING and Know everything I need to do this job right the FIRST TIME
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Batman Cookie Cutter
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Cameron Wake's improbable rise from undrafted and unwanted to CFL castoff to CFL star to the Miami Dolphins has taken a wonderful turn to Hawaii.
"It's truly an honor," Wake said.
Wake has just been named a starting outside linebacker on the 2011 AFC Pro Bowl team. He starts alongside Pittsburgh's James Harrison.
Jake Long, a Pro Bowl selection his first two NFL seasons, has turned the hat trick. He is in his third Pro Bowl and also was named the starter.
The interesting thing is Long made the Pro Bowl despite dealing with knee and shoulder injuries. He said he must consider those before playing the game, but "definitely" wants to play in the game.
"I had some up and down games and haven't played at my best sometimes," Long said. "...But I kept my high level of play even with some bumps and bruises."
No other Miami Dolphin is in the Pro Bowl.
Kicker Dan Carpenter, the Dolphins offense most of the year, is not in. Neither is receiver Brandon Marshall or punter Brandon Fields.
I asked Wake how he celebrates his first Pro Bowl selection -- for a game that will be played on his birthday.
"I'm a diet so I don't know if a steak is going to happen tonight. I don't drink so that's out of the question. And we got practice tomorrow early so I don't know what I'll do outside of take a deep breath for a minute and let it soak in. I'm going to be early and be back at the facility at 6 a.m. tomorrow. We still got a game to play so my concentration is going there."
The Patriots, with the NFL's best record at 13-2, led all teams with six Pro Bowl picks. They have six picks in the first three rounds of next year's NFL draft and three picks in the first 33 selections.


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A 14-year-old girl in Baltimore was recently videotaped performing a sexual act on a teen boy. The tape sparked heated debates about explicit online content, teen sexuality and social media. Host Michel Martin discusses the story with Laura Sessions Stepp, author of Unhooked; Malika Saada Saar, head of the Rebecca Project for Human Rights; and Brenda Joy Bernstein, a criminal attorney in private practice. ADVISORY: This conversation may not be comfortable for some listeners.
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