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Like the thread title says, I'd like to start a conversation about taking steps to defend a large multi-acreage homestead. In this case, a relative's you have recently arrived at that is NOT fortified nor otherwise upgraded other than having a good roof on it, a well, and in a sparsely populated area.
If you were expecting small raiding parties at some point? Night attacks?
If you had a few weeks and up to 1 month....where would you start?
How would you determine the best/better place to defend the property and your group?
The way I figure, if you're shootin from your windows, you've already lost!!
Wooded lot backing up to the mountains
> Expect the grid to be offline and sheriff/fire/EMT response to be ZERO.
> Expect there might be SOME kind of neighbor mutual assistance going on but unknown what kind of (shootin) background these folks have.
> No earthmovers (ie backhoe) available; only heavy duty pickup trucks with full tanks
My initial thought process:
A) Quick Inventory
B) Quick Secure (ie locking fences)
C) Detailed Secure (ie fixing fences)
D) Time consuming clearing/fortification tasks
E) Everything else that is time consuming
First 1-3 days
1) Inventory all defensive items & munitions; clean and lube, load magazines, properly secure from children/prying eyes. Start a simple logbook with description & function of each item.
2) Quick inventory of all food items, medical supplies & equipment. Check the water situation.
3) Quick evaluation / minor adjustments to all vehicles noting fuel level, tires, problems, etc. Top off fluids, air up tires, spare tires. Park in a defensive position such as pointing toward the road.
4) Examine local maps noting roads, streams, lakes, other notable locations.
5) Survey the property noting natural boundaries, obstacles, wooded features, natural defensive positions.
> Take ranges and create range cards from shooting from designated positions
> Repair downed fences and gates if possible
> Chain & lock lockable gates
> Repair and/or install flood lighting (if applicable)
> Scan the property from tentative defensive locations
> Establish a simple procedure of locking doors and securing windows at nite
5) Create some kind of 'master butcherpaper' tasksheet detailing
"Need to do (now)
Need to do (soon, sooner, later)"
"Current Tactical Situation or SWOT analysis: Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats (including wild animals)". Something like that.
Days 4-7
1) Begin to establish a nighttime or 24 hour watch depending on the situation
2) Detailed sitdown conversation / evaluation with all family members (kids included) of the neighbors and other likely avenues of threats (ie 100k city 2 hours away). Put those thoughts onto paper.
3) Gun safety refresher sessions
4) Do's and don't's of the current situation
5) Figure out communications....FRS radios? Something else?
6) Start to dig a forward observation post ????
I know the concept is to create a path that "steams" raiders into firing lanes.....???
By the way, I have started to read the tactical classic Defense of Duffer's Drift
This is also a useful article from the fictional viewpoint of a raider:
Last edited by Exocet5; 02-23-2013 at 1:17 AM..
#1 on days 4 through seven should be immediate.
Don't know exactly where to look, but frontier farms/ranches in the US West of the 1800s had that set of problems.
ETA - 'watchman' article published Friday, by happy chance: http://www.survivalblog.com/retreat-security/
No one will really understand politics until they understand that politicians are not trying to solve our problems. They are trying to solve their own problems - of which getting elected and re-elected are number one and number two. Whatever is number three is far behind.I've been saying that for years ...
There is no value at all complaining or analyzing or reading tea leaves to decide what these bills really mean or actually do; any bill with a chance to pass will be bad for gun owners.
The details only count after the Governor signs the bills.
Not a lawyer, just Some Guy On The Interwebs.
Last edited by Librarian; 02-23-2013 at 4:36 AM..
You might also want to look at attacks on farmers in present day South Africa & Zimbabwe.
I thought this was a decent book if you haven't already seen it:
He recommends Night Vision as a game changer. I'm considering on of these as a starter. http://www.opticsplanet.com/atn-nigh...eneration.html
I'd also add the radios and communications into the picture much earlier - from an inventory standpoint. You'll want to start assessing how many and of what kind of radios the entire area has, to facilitate some kind of mesh network to provide early warning and mutual assistance.
The union creek journal was a pretty good read and had some examples of exactly this situation. Use the chronological listing if you are catching up.
I have also thought about how to build a defensible retreat starting from scratch that is very strategic yet doesn't look like a bunker. How to make your bunker seem like a resort.
Last edited by wheels; 02-23-2013 at 11:19 AM..
Great thread.
I suggest a dog attack at night. Learn to train a pack, they are great sentries.
Ive heard of geese, but have no idea how they'd hold up in the mountains.
I also suggest lots of wood that's dried. You'll be off line so fires to cook and warmth, but smoke travels for miles. Solar cooker if possible.
Concealment is your first line of defense.
Wild animals suddenly acting different would be long distance alarms. Plant vegetation to keep game and birds around.
Ill be subscribing to this thread.
I've been alerted in the past by doves suddenly flushing out of the front yard. If you can maintain habitat for doves, house finches, pheasant, quail and any other year-round resident birds then you have a very inconspicuous early warning system that unlike a camera or a dog, cannot be easily shot, poisoned or lasered out. Avoid using chemical pesticides and you'll have food that keeps the insect eating stuff like warblers and whatnot around.
In the 1700s, a band of natives on the coast of Belize or Honduras or whereabouts was alerted to marauders by the resident parrots (conures of some sort) raising a ruckus.
Maintain the idea of always having a BOB accessible with known (& practiced) escape routes.
Maintain a good relationship with your neighbors.
Have roaming centuries (even outside of your controlled area, neighbor contact is important here) that do not follow a set path/time but can report back immediately.
I love the canine idea.
Someone else in one of the other forums listed the idea of an IR camera on a black ballon linked with a black rope for survalance. If that's up during the day it will give your position away.
I live in the foothills on acreage. We live down a long gated road and we know all our neighbors. We all have dogs. We are all like minded. We all help each other now doing everything. Our common bond is family and religion.
We just need to keep vehicles from getting close to us. This has been taken care of. The rest is just distance and being able to defend it.
We know our area perfectly and know how to defend it and flank anyone. Remember it takes a 10 to 1 force to take a dug in defended position and most forces will withdraw with about 15 % casualties.
Don't own a bug out bag, don't need one. We are completely self sufficient.
If things get real bad we will keep any traffic from getting within 4 miles by closing one bridge.
In todays world of electronic motion detectors I will say they beat a live sentry who is holed up because of weather or dozing off. Many ways to perform this including remote driveway alarms etc. Leave the fences unrepaired. Just shows somebody is working on them. Fences only keep honest people honest.
Pile up some rocks and dirt 80 yards out that can be shot from several locations. When you see intruder and start shooting the first thing they are going to do is look for cover. When they get behind the rocks have second shooter take them out from secondary position. Of course pre-positioned explosives buried behind the ricks ends all problems for the bad guys.
If you have plenty of warning vacate the premisses and move to firing positions and wait for bad guys to get in to killing box and take them out. Then again throwing your hands up and running around and crying may work also.
That last paragraph sums it up for me. Move just off the property into prepared firing positions. have your vehicles and other items set up as a "funnel" to bring the BGs into the preferred killing zone. If they don't meet initial resistance when moving onto the property they will not suspect that you are there at all. Fire coming at them from multiple angles is a must.
Knowing they are on their way is key to this.
When considering this I think it's important not to forget the analog systems that have been in use for thousands of years.
The idea that you can be tipped off, bail on your camp and set up a crossfire - all without tipping anyone off - is a bigger feat than it sounds, and it relies on EVERYONE being in their right place. It also counts on a silent alarm, and the intruders finding no clues that tip them off to such a situation. Again - highly unlikely.
Get the shovels out, pile dirt and rocks against the outside walls, establish fields of fire. This can't be done with gasoline, it's backbreaking work and like anything else, the investment will make a huge difference.
This goes without saying, but it's critical to have your firebreak maintained, or everything is for naught.
As far as alertness, get into the mindset of would-be raiders. Would you attack midday or in low-light or night conditions? Like a previous poster mentioned, you would strike when the long odds were most tilted in your favor. Expect organized and experienced raiders, by the time they get to you, this isn't their first rodeo.
Use the low-light to your advantage. Simple noisemakers and fishing line could be surprisingly effective. Check out Ragnar Benson's Mantrapping. Put a guy on spikes and morale fades fast.
Be a smart monkey, and work with what you got.
If you have nightvision, you have a great advantage.
You need more people to be alert. An attack could come from anywhere at night. If you can build up fortifications then do that. Every deterrent is good. You can kill them while they are trying to get through the deterrent. Chokepoints are good. If there is only one way to enter that makes it easier to and you can have less people defending it. That's what the spartans did at Thermopylae. The only reason they lost was because a traitor told the persians about a path that went around the mountain.
I talk about this in detail during my SHTF seminars.
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Guys you've got some really great responses and I thank you. I have the idea I will turn these thread into a living document with the intent to have something that can be a "crib sheet" to print out as a reference.
I will summarize this in the top thread as we go along
Question for you guys:
Let's say the site has a 5k watt generator that we will encase in sandbags and a hut (to deaden the sound) and attach a muffler to (to deaden the sound). And a few hundred gallons of fuel (300) and 8-10 Sears-type 1000watt tripod arrays.
Let's say we are NOT running the generator on a normal basis to conserve precious fuel as well as maintain OPSEC.
The question is: what would be the best response to DUSK or NIGHT contact at 1) hearing intense gunfire at the adjacent neighbors property or 2) at our own perimeter?
Fire the genset and light the perimeter? Or hold off????
What would be the best tactical location for these light arrays? Some hidden up in a tree? Lets say there was unlimited extension cordage available.
I figure once we fire up the light arrays, they become targets themselves.
LED outdoors now even tho they're still expensive and don't make the 500 to 1000W output yet. I can use thin gauge extension cords.
Another option might be to try car headlights with an inverter or car batteries at various points.
Also, how long does it take to fire the genset and throw the switch? That can be a serious time lag. I prefer to have current ready to flow and lights that come on instantly the minute something is detected. I base this concern on experience with compact fluorescent replacements for the old incandescents and halogens in outdoor fixtures. I could run by and trip the lights and be long gone before they came up to full power. Sometimes I'd trip them on purpose because I needed to do chores outside at night and the things took forever to get bright enough so that I could see what I was doing.
As far as placement of the lights goes, since they'll be lead magnets, don't place them too close to where your firing position will be. Lots of smaller lights will take longer to shoot out than fewer bigger lights. You might even hang them on swinging and/or spring loaded mounts so that they'll jiggle and swing and be harder to hit while still blinding the enemy, or have someone who's job it is to yank a cord at irregular tempo to get the lights swinging unpredictably.
Several years ago when I was travelling on business and the scaredy-cat wife was left at home alone, I rigged about 300 watts of motion detector lights in the front yard so that anyone approaching would be lit up like crazy from multiple angles. They would be staring blinded and blinking into a literal wall of light from behind which, my wife could draw a nice bead on their center of mass. With LED lamps, those same units and more could be switched on by a remote switch used for the outdoor Xmas lights while connected to much cheaper, longer and thinner extension cords.
Now I just have several IR illuminators up on the roof, in trees and against walls blasting 850nm into the area so that that it lights up like a prison yard with the cameras and NOD but the human eye only perceives dull red glows from the street. If you have NOD, preferably PVS-14 variants of some sort, IR might be a good option as well, or perhaps a good backup, the scenario being that your visible spectrum lamps get shot out pretty quickly and you have to fall back to IR.
There's a lot of things to consider. Once you get it all set up, it's time for wargames to test it all out in realistic conditions.
Last edited by Chaparral; 02-24-2013 at 1:47 PM..
Guinea fowl.
Those are tree-roosting alarm systems, and they work for chicken feed.
Used to live on a farm in Florida when I was a kid; we'd come home late at night and wow! what a racket!
No one will really understand politics until they understand that politicians are not trying to solve our problems. They are trying to solve their own problems - of which getting elected and re-elected are number one and number two. Whatever is number three is far behind.I've been saying that for years ...
There is no value at all complaining or analyzing or reading tea leaves to decide what these bills really mean or actually do; any bill with a chance to pass will be bad for gun owners.
The details only count after the Governor signs the bills.
Not a lawyer, just Some Guy On The Interwebs.
Peacocks work also, and scream loudly.
"The California matrix of gun control laws is among the harshest in the nation and are filled with criminal law traps for people of common intelligence who desire to obey the law." - U.S. District Judge Roger T. Benitez
The trouble with birds and fowl is they squawk and make noise at everything. A owl hoots and they raise heck, a cat walks in the general area and it's a bird emergency. I have had them, not worth a spit and you cannot keep them out of a garden and they poop everywhere. Peacock does taste better than turkey if you are curious.
When my dogs alert, something is amiss. Cross the line and you get get attacked.
Have any of the posters with all these tactical ideas ever lived in the country, it sure doesn't seem like it.
Fire breaks are a way of life every year. People watch too much TV and read too many books written by people that live in the city and give advice they think they know about.
Drones, that is funny, flood lights work both ways, wild animals acting differently is beyond belief.
I wish all of you good luck.
Last edited by KevinB; 02-25-2013 at 8:19 PM..
In your scenario above communications are going to be extremely important as well as pre-planning with the neighbors. Identifying your avenue to support this adjacent property without drawing fire and getting killed by the neighbors should be a big concern.
As far as lighting up the perimeter I'm torn, maybe the combat arms guys will weigh in.
I know I've been looking far and wide for a little battery (+solar would be cool) powered motion sensor that would light up a small IR light and maybe send a short audio warning over RF ala the MURS sensors. Ring a property about 50 meters out and have the watch with night vision. Then you could make a decision about the threat and engage appropriately.
Prior planning of mutual assistance in a neighborhood would help avoid blue on blue as well. Communications will be very important.
step 1 is a rifle ready to rock slung up in front of your armor that you are wearing. then procede with your plans.
ah yes, and if you are really trying to prepare large property defense (and that means night ops), you need to put a an/pvs unit as minimum equip on your roster. civ legal IR pointers and ilu's are cheap as well (tnvc.com has those). otherwise you are just gonna get over run in your theorized situations as the **** will happen at night.
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My advice: get out.
Based on the modern day experience of ethnic cleansing of white landowners in South Africa, "defending the homestead" is a bad strategic move. When the bad guys make their move they will have done some homework beforehand. They'll know you have cameras and your specific security arrangements, they'll know your daily patterns, and most crucially: those of your family and loved ones.
As such, any protracted engagement without backup won't end well for the defenders. Unless you know an outside party can arrive to back you up, the bad guys will win;because they can come and go. You can't. They can evacuate wounded and substitute/rotate personell. You can't. They can resupply their ammo and food sources. You cannot.
Against a temporary threat like the Katrina situation, bugging in makes sense. When all bets are off and no government assistance is forthcoming, you're an isolated target. Sure, a huge stash of ammo and determined resistance will stop a poorly armed and desperate raiding party. It won't stop a crew of well equipped and motivated thugs who won't stop until you and yours are dead because of your race, creed, religion, etc.
The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be.
The more subsidies you have, the less self reliant people will be.
-Lao-Tzu, Tau Te Ching. 479 BCE
The 1911 may have been in wars for 100 years, but Masetro Bartolomeo Beretta was arming the world 400 years before John Browning was ever a wet dream.
I think it's reasonable to assume a temporary disruption. A long term problem - years - gives lots of time for both raiders and defenders to evolve (losing the weakest, probably) and consolidate.
No one will really understand politics until they understand that politicians are not trying to solve our problems. They are trying to solve their own problems - of which getting elected and re-elected are number one and number two. Whatever is number three is far behind.I've been saying that for years ...
There is no value at all complaining or analyzing or reading tea leaves to decide what these bills really mean or actually do; any bill with a chance to pass will be bad for gun owners.
The details only count after the Governor signs the bills.
Not a lawyer, just Some Guy On The Interwebs.
South Africa is a bad example. Much more murder and violence in the urban areas. The farmers who take even mild approach to their security are rarely attacked. The bad guys are hunted down and killed.
Distance is always going to be friend of the rural land dweller just as it is now. Far more bad things happen in the city because they are close to you. Out here in the sticks, everybody knows everybody and their business. A band of marauding thugs won't last long. Remember they have to get here first and bring everything they shoot, drink and eat. This is a daunting task even of a supported military force.
Nope I'm staying put, time and distance is my friend.
One thing that was pretty reliable in the "UP" was whitetails grazing stupidly at the edge of fields at regular times and places from the first growth in spring to a few weeks after the killing frosts. They were pretty darn reliable indicators that someone or something was approaching. Of course they always disappeared 24 hours before opening day...just like the damn lobsters here when bug season starts.
Our little Hamlet has the 2 bigest above gound water storage units of their type in North America. The topography is quite naturally defesible with little work. We're an ag community so there's lot of equipment available, we would muster for sure, and then still grow crops. PAX
You need a crew
"A free people should be armed and disciplined" (George Washington),
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.~John Adams 1798
It a NOT a felony to steal a gun, but it IS a felony not to register a gun you already legally own
Now, the classical response to this problem is the feudal system - the interpersonal obligation and acceptance of rank and status included - with castles or other strong-points for the low-level productive types to retreat into in times of danger, and the parasitic soldier types to patrol, respond to some incursions, and defend the strong points.
This coincided with walled cities; castles and walled cities were pretty good answers (barring the occasional traitor who might open a gate) until effective artillery could knock holes in the walls.
That level of defensive prep and capability is a couple of steps higher than the OP.
No one will really understand politics until they understand that politicians are not trying to solve our problems. They are trying to solve their own problems - of which getting elected and re-elected are number one and number two. Whatever is number three is far behind.I've been saying that for years ...
There is no value at all complaining or analyzing or reading tea leaves to decide what these bills really mean or actually do; any bill with a chance to pass will be bad for gun owners.
The details only count after the Governor signs the bills.
Not a lawyer, just Some Guy On The Interwebs.
Some techniques here: http://ebookbrowse.com/msl-201-l07b-...-pdf-d54759783 (part of FM 3-21-8)
Don't know how much can be used - aimed at an infantry platoon.
Then, there's chapter 5 of FM 3-06.11(FM 90-10-1) (Combined Arms ops in Urban Terrain) and MCWP 3-35 (Military Operations on Urbanized Terrain (MOUT))
No one will really understand politics until they understand that politicians are not trying to solve our problems. They are trying to solve their own problems - of which getting elected and re-elected are number one and number two. Whatever is number three is far behind.I've been saying that for years ...
There is no value at all complaining or analyzing or reading tea leaves to decide what these bills really mean or actually do; any bill with a chance to pass will be bad for gun owners.
The details only count after the Governor signs the bills.
Not a lawyer, just Some Guy On The Interwebs.
A simple plan is boobie traps. A nice spike pit works great as an early warning sign. You can hear the blood curtialin screams for miles when they impalile themselves. It is also a great demoralizer to raiders to see your buddy impailed. snare traps that are made out of barb wires. I can go on. I do not enjoy killing others but If it comes between my family dying and you dying I chose the later. If we learned anything from nam its that boobie traps are deadly.
Solar charged motion detectors with IR lights would be a good solution for early warning without letting potential invaders know they have been spotted. Have your sentry wear NV, the IR lights in the distance should be clearly visable and allow for identification and potential targeting if needed. For monitoring roads and trails further away from the homestead, IR lasers could be used in place of IR lights. Have the laser pointed straight up in the air, the beam should be visable with NV from quite a distance. Having them set up along a trail at specified intervals could also allow some estimate of the size of an opposing force. If the sensors light off one at a time, probably a small group. If more than one sensor is popping at once, potentially a larger force could be moving along the trail.
Using IR illumination and lasers in conjunction with NV is one method, but the same concept could be applied to sensors using other types of remote indication. Sensors wired to send a radio signal might actually be a better idea, as they would work equally well at night or during the day.
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I forgot to mention the best way to defend a position is to harden the position. Make a multlayered defensive structure. If one position is compramised or close to it fall back to the next spot. Make sure that all the entrances to it are chock points. One way the Japanise were able to defend from invasion so well was how their castles were desigend this way from invading sameri. You could have ports to shoot out of for your cover but as you retreat close them so they cant use them. This forces the raiders to get slaugtered. I also recomend getting dragons teeth. These are used to stop tanks. This will prevent them from being able to use any vehicles or tanks they have gotten along their way from raiding partys. A good way to make them cheep is rebar them with your own homemade cement. A good minumum size is four feet high and at least three feet wide. If you want to go over kill with the dragonsteeth use a fence post to have it ancored in the ground. If you want a hardned structure you need to think castle and make sure everything is fire proof otherwise a well places maltove cocktail ends it all.
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Each Labor Day weekend, the American Music Festival brings a variety of big-name acts to the Virginia Beach oceanfront. We learned this week that the 2012 edition will feature Train, Stanley Clarke, Cheap Trick and .38 Special.
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The opening bands are Soul Asylum and Southern Culture on The Skids.
Tickets for Saturday are $15 advance, $20 day of show.
Train headlines the Rock 'n' Roll Virginia Beach Half-Marathon concert beginning at 7 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 2. Train is Pat Monahan (vocals), Jimmy Stafford (guitar) and Scott Underwood (drums). ";Drops of Jupiter (Tell Me)"; was the band's first international hit and won two Grammy Awards in 2002. The album was certified double platinum. "My Private Nation" continued the band's success, and was certified platinum with the hit ";Calling All Angels."; "Save Me San Francisco" produced three singles— the RIAA 5x Platinum international hit ";Hey, Soul Sister,"; ";If It's Love"; and ";Marry Me"; reached #3, #34, and #34 respectively. The album itself has been certified Gold. "Hey Soul Sister" was the #1 most downloaded song of 2010, and earned another Grammy Award.
Train recently released its sixth CD, "California 37," which is rapidly rising on the charts. The first single "Drive By" reached #11 on Billboard.
The opening band will be announced soon.
Tickets for Sunday are $25 advance, $30 day of show.
For the third year, 300 VIP Experience tickets will be available to the general public for Friday and Saturday Main Stage concerts. Sunday's concert is not included in the offer.
"The limited VIP passes are the true music fans' ideal way to see a concert," says Bobby Melatti, director of Beach Events that produces the Festival. "These passes provide concert viewing in an exclusive area directly in front of the stage on Friday and Saturday. VIP holders also enjoy heavy hors d'oeuvres, VIP-only port-a-johns, two free beers or wine, and one ticket to both Friday and Saturday concerts, for just $125 per person."
VIP Experience tickets are available only through Ticketmaster.
Headliners on the 5th Street Main Stage are world-class artists who collectively have sold almost 300 million records and will appeal to music lovers of all types.
Friday, Aug. 31 – O.A.R, with special opening band The Wailers. Tickets are $15 advance, $20 day of show.
Saturday, Sept. 1 – Cheap trick, with opening bands Soul Asylum and Southern Culture on the Skids. Tickets are $15 advance, $20 day of show.
Sunday, Sept. 2 – Train, with opening band to be announced, presented by the Rock 'n' Roll Virginia Beach Half-Marathon. Tickets are $25 advance, $30 day of show.
A Passport Pin, at $35, provides admission to all three Main Stage concerts. Passport Pins are discounted at half-price through Ticketmaster and the Virginia Beach Visitor Center from May 25 through July 4.
Tickets, Passport Pins, and VIP Experience Passes go onsale at 10 a.m., Friday, May 25 through all Ticketmaster outlets, including online (www.ticketmaster.com) or by phone at 800.745.3000. Children younger than 12 are free with a paid adult, not including the VIP Experience offer.
"The Verizon Wireless American Music Festival features 20 national recording bands who will perform free on 17th Street, 24th Street, and 31st Street stages," says Mike Hilton, director of marketing for Beach Events.
"In the next few weeks, all other bands will be announced. Already confirmed on the free stages for this year are Stanley Clarke/George Duke, The ZAPP Band, Family Stone, .38 Special, and The Coasters/Platters/Marvelettes. Clearly AMF this year will have music for almost every preference of style," Hilton adds.
The 19th Annual Verizon Wireless American Music Festival is sponsored by Verizon Wireless and City of Virginia Beach.
Friday, Aug. 31
5th Street Main Stage $15 advance/$20 day of show
(9:15-10:45 p.m.)
The Wailers
(7:30-8:45 p.m.)
Doors Open: 6:30 p.m.
Saturday, Sept. 1
5th Street Main Stage $15 advance/$20 day of show
Cheap Trick
4:30-6 p.m.
Soul Asylum
3-4 p.m.
Southern Culture on the Skids
1:30-2:30 p.m.
Doors Open: 12:30 p.m.
Sunday, Sept. 2
5th Street Main Stage, presented by Rock 'n' Roll Virginia Beach Half-Marathon, $25 advance/$30 day of show
9-10:30 p.m.
Rock 'N' Roll Virginia Beach Half-Marathon Awards
8-9 p.m.
To be announced
7-8 p.m.
Doors Open: 6 p.m.
The 19th Verizon Wireless American Music Festival is produced by Integrated Management Group. For additional and current information, go online to www.BeachStreetUSA.com.
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"Live It Up" At Chesapeake Jubilee's "BIG 30" Party
Event Scheduled May 17-20 at City Park in Chesapeake
(Chesapeake, VA) – Happy Birthday Chesapeake! That's how it began in 1983 when Chesapeake Mayor Marion Whitehurst suggested that this relatively young city celebrate its 20th anniversary with a birthday party.
And so the Chesapeake Jubilee was born.
It's the best deal in town. The cost for admission is $2, parking is $5 on site and the concerts are free.
In 2012, the Jubilee continues to generate excitement throughout Hampton Roads. As in the past, this year's musical headliners are a diverse lineup, including southern rocker and 9th season American Idol second place winner Casey James, as well as popular local artists.
The Chesapeake Jubilee is known for its food, and there is plenty of it. Get ready for the scrumptious Chesapeake Kiwanis Shrimp Fest, and the Annual BBQ Cook Off, sanctioned by the Kansas City Barbecue Society. Also on hand will be plenty of "festival food"—everything from funnel cakes to turkey legs.
Fireworks are an integral part of the Jubilee, and Zambelli Fireworks Internationale promises to put on a spectacular fireworks display reaching new creative heights.
Amusements of America, the largest traveling amusement park in the world, will be on site with rides and games guaranteed to thrill. Individual tickets will be sold for the rides and games Kids Corner is a fun free zone for children and families, with hands on crafts, face painting, musicians, jugglers and other entertainers. The Chesapeake 4-H livestock show and sale have always been an integral part of the Jubilee, and the tradition continues.
Event Chairman Louis J. Tayon, Chesapeake Deputy Chief of Police (retired after 41 years), says the Chesapeake Jubilee is a true citywide effort. "As always, the show couldn't go on without the help of volunteers, community groups, city staff, and the police, fire, and sheriff's departments."
Jubilee Hours of Operation:
- 4:30-7 p.m., Thursday, May 17 Kiwanis Shrimp Feast
- 6-10 p.m., Thursday, May 17 Rides Only Open
- 5-10 p.m., Friday, May 18 Chesapeake Jubilee
- 10 a.m. -11 p.m, Saturday, May 19 Chesapeake Jubilee
- 9 p.m., Saturday, May 19 Fireworks
- Noon-7 p.m., Sunday, May 20 Chesapeake Jubilee
For more information check out our website at www.chesapeakejubilee.org and see how to follow the Jubilee on Facebook and Twitter. Or call us at 757-482-4848.
The City of Chesapeake, BB&;T, Cub Cadet, CSX Transportation, Coca Cola, The Shopper, and Zambelli Fireworks are the 2012 Platinum Sponsors. Priority Automotive and Foster Farms, LLC are the Gold Sponsors, and East Coast Equipment and Harris Landscaping are the 2012 Bronze Sponsors.
The Chesapeake Jubilee is a not-for-profit organization governed by an Executive Committee composed of community volunteers. Its objective is to celebrate the City of Chesapeake's history while building community spirit and unity.
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It was amazing to hear Randolph say the Mets hadn't consulted the physicians of the Giants, Jets or Rangers, teams that deal with that injury all the time.
Clearly, the Mets didn't handle Church's concussion properly, flying him from Atlanta to Denver, then pinch-hitting him, then shuffling him in and out of the lineup. Post Concussion Syndrome he had, and was never right the rest of the season. Hey, truth is, he hasn't been right since.
Let's hope the Mets learned from Church last season, but one has to wonder why he isn't on the disabled list this morning. He might not play any time soon and with him on the disabled list there's no temptation to push him. Leave it up to Wright and he'll say he wants to play, but that's his personality. Don't given him the option.
Learn from the past and just let him rest and recover. He should be on the DL already.
Here's today's line-up behind Mike Pelfrey (8-8. 4.88):
Angel Pagan, CF
Luis Castillo, 2B
Gary Sheffield, LF
Jeff Francoeur, RF
Fernando Tatis, 3B
Daniel Murphy, 1B
Omir Santos, C
Anderson Hernandez, SS
Mike Pelfrey, RP
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C-class Coupe nearing completion - January unveil - AMG model comingWe are close to a full reveal of the new C-class coupe. What we are wondering is if any of the TT V8's will find their way under the hood and what the curb weight will be. An AMG version of this car will no doubt make for an excellent rival for the E92 M3 if not potentially eclipse it if Mercedes decides to give it one of the newer powerplants. It would be a safer bet to say it will get the M156 V8 which would be shared with the C63. We will know more in January when it is officially unveiled at the Detroit Auto Show.
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I saw a white test mule on Sunset Blvd a couple of weeks ago.
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maberi wrote:How in the hell do antibiotics cost $53.00?
maberi wrote:BTW - Can I use Metacam instead of Rimydal? I have almost an entire bottle of Metacam at home but they prescribed Rimydal for Earl for an anti-inflammtory
PoodleMaMaKat wrote:Well which one did you get?? Trust me when I say there are more expensive ones!!!
They are both NSAID's that work slightly different. I think you should be fine. Have you used Rimadyl or Metacam with Earl before? Sometimes one works better than the other.
maberi wrote:I just saw the bill on my lunch break
How in the hell do antibiotics cost $53.00?
maberi wrote:Earl has actually done better on Metacam vs Rimadyl in the past (Rimadyl gave him the sh!ts). Just wanted to make sure... Thanks for the info
amazincc wrote:Damn... I thought $40 for two weeks worth of Prednisone AND Cephalexin for Faust was expensive...
Ino wrote:How is Earl healing up? That looks painful- I don't know how they tolerate injuries so well!!!
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BRYANT, Ark.—Police say former Arkansas and NFL running back Cedric Cobbs has been arrested on suspicion of trying to obtain narcotic painkillers by using a fraudulent prescription.
Bryant police say Cobbs was arrested Tuesday after a pharmacy worker reported that two men were trying to obtain 180 Roxicodone painkillers with a forged prescription.
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flowselling necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 162 diseños de 36 diseñadores freelance.
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Alpine Vet Clinic needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 136 designs submitted by 27 freelance designers.
We are having a new sign made for the front of the building of our small animal veterinary practice and need a new logo
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We are a small animal veterinary practice in northern california. We primarily see dogs and cats. We are trying to update the look of our building and attract new clients. We need a sign that is easy to read from the road, identifies the clinic, and attracts potential clients to our practice.
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This post will be the spot for all things Musa Sadr, but especially in connection with the allegation he was arrested in Libya in 1978, held secretly for decades until dying in the 1990s, buried somewhere for a decade, dug up and charred alongside the other unidentifiable victims of the August 2011 massacre as Tripoli was falling.
Sheikh Sayyid Musa Al Sadr, the Lebanese Shiite cleric, is widely believed to have been killed in 1978 after disappearing, allegedly, inside Libya. This rumor has been promoted down through the years and kept Lebanon unhappy with the Gaddafi regime, who always denied any such crime. The Lebanese didn't believe it, and this clearly helped motivate them to be the nation that first tabled a no-fly zone against Libya at the Arab League. This first move by non-European imperialists was ostensibly "to stop the violence" and "protect the civilians there," and/or done in the "belief that finally, in the wake of the chaos in Libya, the Lebanese can learn the fate of Imam Musa al-Sadr."[ Guardian] Thus the allegation against Gaddafi, along with so many others, contributed directly to the government's eventual destruction, a whole lot of chaos and mayhem and a nationwide purge, and protection for the militants no one is now able to protect Libyans from.
It took the conquest of Tripoli at least and a mass bloodletting before the Lebanese started getting their pay-off - totally true news about al-Sadr. In October, it was reported that he might have been held and tortured at the Yarmouk shed prison south of Tripoli, and perhaps even buried there. The source is rebel commander and terrorist LIFG founder Abdelhakim Belhaj. [LBC]
Journalist Feras Kilani, photographer Goktay Koraltan, and security man Chris Cobb-Smith of BBC Arabic reported being arrested by the Libyan military near Az Zawiya, accused of being spies. [BBC4] They were taken to a base with an eagle on the gate, Cobb-Smith said at the time, and finally to a "dirty scruffy little compound" behind the base. There they were held in a cage, then a room. Kilani was beaten and his Palestinian people were insulted. Cobb-Smith reported a mock execution they were subjected to shortly before release, and seeing other prisoners shackled, terrified, and speaking of torture. [CNN5]
Another more confusing report suggests Kilani and his team were detained in March after visiting the Yarmouk base itself, to film a documentary about the death of Sheikh al-Sadr. By this, Kilani was surprised to see a man come in with "dogs and special equipment to detect burials," along with explanations that they were looking for buried bodies. But the newsman investigating the Sheikh's burial there was threatened not to tell anyone about this, and was arrested, beaten, and released. [LBC]
Cobb-Smith at least returned to the massacre shed after the rebel victory, and verified it as the same spot that they were held. [CTV]
There was a November 8 interview with "Gaddafi's right hand," Ahmad Ramadan, who was now a rebel (judging by his talking and his shirt) and who "names killers of Moussa Sadr" [video, and thanks to Felix] "Of course I witnessed that he arrived in Libya..." the man started. Even that part needs special corroboration-no one knows whether he was even in Libya at the time. From this pressurised captive's comments, we can be fairly sure he did not arrive in Libya. But that can't be. Consider the amazing(!) news announcement by the NTC's chief Abdul Jalil: Sadr Remains could be Confirmed Soon, Tripoli Post, April 13, 2012
Tripoli-- Mustafa Abdul Jalil, head of Libya's ruling National Transitional Council (TNC), said on Friday Libyan authorities have obtained "semi-confirmed information" about the presence of Lebanese Imam Moussa Sadr's body in a recently discovered mass grave in Tripoli. "Imam Sadr's case was not on the front burner during this period, but some reports have suggested that the imam's body might be among the bodies buried in a mass grave during the liberation of Tripoli" in August 2011. Abdul Jalil said in an interview on France 24 television.Ah! I have a hunch it's this one.
He noted that investigators from the office of the public prosecutor in Tripoli were probing the case and that Lebanon had assigned a judge to follow up on the issue, following several visits by Lebanese officials to Libya. "The office of the public prosecutor in Tripoli is in contact with this judge, and God willing these bodies will not be removed from the grave except in the presence of a representative of the Lebanese government, so that the Lebanese can realize that we are serious in this endeavor," Abdul Jalil added.What a strange promise. They'll say "no, that's okay. We'll take your word for it." The NTC will take that as a blank check.
Also, they haven't dug up a single body still? Where exactly is this grave, and what ever happened to all the family members who wanted their loved ones' remains identified and sent home? Went away for good as soon as the news cameras left, I presume, with the real families too terrified or dead to ask after their own...
But Lebanon, you did the right thing. Truth is VERY important to you guys, huh?
Update May 1: a video I've never seen shows Kilani already re-visiting the place on or before October 20, in a report that was eclipsed by the lynching of Muammar Gaddafi and many of his top loyalists. It can be seen here, BBC Arabic, posted the 21st: http://www.bbc.co.uk/arabic/middleeast/2011/10/111020_libya_sadr_farm.shtml or below. It's mostly about Sheikh Al-Sadr, and has an interview with the terrorist warlord of Tripoli Belhaj. So this is the BBC Arabic report cited by the LBC where Belhaj "explains" how this scene of one of his allies' war crimes was in fact the place Al-Sadr was buried and/or dug up and burnt.


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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — Marathon Oil Corp. led gains among energy stocks on Thursday as the sector drew strength from the broad equities market, while BP and Statoil caught attention after Islamist militants took over the companies' natural gas plant in Algeria.
Energy stocks moved up while the S&P 500 SPX, +0.18% touched a five-year high as healthy housing starts and unemployment claims data boosted optimism.
The sector also drew strength from rising crude oil prices after the Algerian attack. See Futures Movers.
Among movers in the energy sector, Marathon Oil MRO, +0.29% rose 2.7% as one of the biggest gainers among components of the S&P 500. The company drew bullish comments from analysts after recent investor meetings.
On Wednesday, Oppenheimer analyst Fadel Gheit raised his price target on the stock to $40 from $35 a share and said the new level may be conservative given the company's "attractive valuation and business outlook."
Southwestern Energy Co. SWN, +3.84% jumped 2.8% after a bullish weekly natural gas supply report and Nabors Industries NBR, +3.11% jumped 2.6%.
Kinder Morgan Inc. KMI, +0.10% rose 1.6%. Analysts at RBC Capital Markets reiterated their outperform rating, raised their price target to $44 a share and issued bullish comment on the company's El Paso deal.
"We believe the El Paso acquisition provides…highly visible cash-flow growth," analysts said.
On the down side, Cameron International US:CAM fell 1.2% and Spectra Energy SE, -1.00% dipped 0.8%.
Among the major energy sector benchmarks, the NYSE Arca Oil Index XOI, +0.53% rose 0.9%, the NYSE Arca Natural Gas Index XNG, +0.92% gained 1.2% and the Philadelphia Oil Service Index OSX, +0.61% moved up by 0.9%.
The Energy Select Sector Fund XLE, +0.42% which includes energy stocks in the S&P 500, rose 0.1%.
Statoil dips after attack on natural gas plant in Algeria
Statoil ASA US:STO rose 0.4% and BP PLC BP, +0.24% advanced by 0.6%.
Militants attacked a natural gas facility operated by the companies in Algeria. Some Americans were among the 40 people taken hostage, according to reports.
Reports surfaced Thursday that 35 foreigners and 15 kidnappers had been killed in a helicopter attack by the Algerian military at the complex, according to the Associated Press. See story about Algerian rescue operations.
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Has corruption in M'sia really gone down?
It is arguable whether Malaysia has really done better in the latest Corruption Perception Index (CPI) report released by Transparency International-Malaysia, on behalf of Transparency International in Berlin.
As the report states clearly, the scoring system this year has been upgraded. Hence it cannot be accurately compared to last year's scoring.
Thus it can be misleading to highlight the claim that Malaysia has moved up six places to number 54 this year, compared to the ranking of 60 last year.
Furthermore Malaysia scored 49 out of 100 marks for this year. This is below the half mark of 50 thus placing Malaysia amongst the two-thirds of the 176 countries surveyed, that have serious corruption problems.
So how can we say that we have improved? If at all we have improved, it is a very insignificant improvement, which does not deserve all the praise bestowed on this dubious success.
Indeed it is disappointing that after so many government initiatives through MACC and Pemandu to combat corruption, we are not making much headway to improve the universal perception that we have a high level of corruption in Malaysia.
More disturbing is the TI Bribes Payers Survey which indicates that we scored the worst score at 50 percent of respondents who said they had 'failed to win a contract or gain new business because a competitor has paid a bribe' in the last 12 months!
This is very damaging to our image especially to the foreign and domestic investors and our overall perception of well-being and the new Happiness Index that we plan to introduce in the national budget.
All this begs the question as to why we should go so far to pat ourselves on the back for perceived success when we should be ringing our hands in concern and do much more to fight corruption?
Being unduly optimistic can in fact become counter-productive as we can become unnecessarily complacent and lose the war against corruption.
But perhaps there could be some misconception or misunderstanding on the part of TI Berlin in their analysis of our corruption?
It may be that local and foreign contractors fail so badly to get contracts and new businesses, because of the official preferential treatment that we widely practise in the award of government contracts for goods and services?
Therefore I would urge Pemandu and TI-Malaysia therefore to take this matter up with TI in Berlin to set this bad record straight.
Could also our low scores in combatting corruption, be due to our relative lack in our success to fight grand corruption, which includes the big fish that get away?
We seem to be more successful in catching the small fish and this is most unfortunate, as it sends the wrong signals to the public.
But there are lessons to be learnt. Now that we know how poorly we are assessed by TI Berlin, even with the new revised CPI, we need to introduce much stronger measures to fight grand corruption.
We need to raise our sense of urgency and political will, to go all out to fight corruption or we will surely lose out in improving our quality of governance, our quality of Life and happiness and also our prospects to achieve Industrial status by 2020.
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Test Plan Charlie Unplugged: An Interview with David Boyes
Meet David Boyes
Anyone who works with Linux on IBM's System/390 mainframes has certainly heard of David Boyes. He made history early in the project by running no less than 41,400 Linux images on a single mainframe, all of them doing real work under simulated load as web servers. More recently, David has been involved in helping application service providers and other companies deploy Linux on System/390 hardware in the real world.
David Boyes is 34 years old and lives in Ashburn, Virginia, just a few miles west of Washington D.C. He is newly married to Margarete, a native of the former East Germany whom he met when she was in the U.S. as an exchange student. Together they run Sine Nomine (Latin for "Without Name") Associates and take care of their nine (!) Persian cats, all rescued from animal shelters.
This interview took place on March 20, 2001, between David Boyes and Internet.com Technical Editor Scott Courtney.
LinuxPlanet: How did you get interested in computers?
Boyes: I started out interested in English and History. I'm not really a computer geek at all, but am a person who gets interested in interesting problems. I started out at University of Oregon in 1983 as a biology major, but that didn't work out for me. I switched to History and English and graduated with an MA in History in 1988. I also have dual bachelors degrees in English and Roman History.
The approach [in college] was to study something interesting and then find out if there was a way to get paid for it. I started my computing career in college as a night operator on a IBM 360/50 running card decks through the machine and batching print back out to users. It was a great job as an English/History major. I got paid to do my homework, get up every hour or two, run some cards, collect some output, go back to homework.
When the university got a 370/155, that was a big upgrade, a big deal. Three months later they went to a 4341. IBM suggested that we bring in this thing called VM. We didn't want to break all the OS/360 stuff we were running. They brought in VM as a migration tool. It was VM/370 Release 6. It was love at first sight. No more coming in at 3 am to test system stuff! I've always had a soft spot for VM as an environment -- a long love/hate relationship with CMS, but CP -- that's beautiful. The sheer idea of being able to simulate whatever hardware you want within the architecture of the machine is an unbelievable idea. I got involved with it as a systems programmer because I had the time to do it.
The University went through a period of hard times...and a lot of positions simply disappeared. That was the main reason I left the University, because the job disappeared. That ended up transferring me to Rice University down in Texas. It's very small, right in the heart of downtown Houston. It's a fairly wealthy school, and very much an engineering school. They have a long relationship with IBM. Over the six years that were there, a lot of the players that are now part of the Linux 390 story had some connection with Rice. Myself, Rick Troth, Adam Thornton, and others. The thing that was particularly interesting at Rice was that the mainframe was relatively central to the Rice community. That was beginning to decline, and our interest was basically to preserve the platform that we were working on. Gopher and other internet tools were survival tools for us. Rick Troth wrote Webshare [the first web server for VM] and I wrote the IP sockets piece of it. It was based on work by us and by Serge Goldstein at Princeton.
So you were involved with VM quite early. What was it like working in that environment?
A lot of this stuff has really evolved as 'Can we do this?'
How much can we compress these things? How much of the data can be shared? One of the interesting things about VM is that it really is the first personal computer. We wondered if you could have a virtual machine with everyone running a private copy of the operating system. Rick had been thinking about what was involved in a personal UNIX workstation. Sun had just come out with the Sun 3. Rick had been playing with what he called VNIX, and the idea was that everyone had a personal virtual machine.
Since Rice was an engineering school, the tools ran on UNIX, mostly on Suns. The [mainframe] team dispersed, and I left for Notre Dame. Not much happened there. I was teaching economics at that point. After the experience at Notre Dame, I left that and went to the consulting business. I hooked up with Dimension Enterprises. The company had about four people. We were building fairly large-scale IP infrastructure at that point, taking advantages of different skill sets. I got stuck with the one-off machines that weren't necessarily mainstream. I got to work with a whole lot of weird hardware. You've got this one Sequent in the corner and an experimental DEC machine that DEC never manufactured [in quantity], and an Intel Hypercube. I had to glue that kind of stuff together. You come up with automation tools so you have to do as little work as possible.
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The Gulf of Mexico oil spill has proved to be a multifaceted disaster, with simultaneous developments on the surface of the water and at the wellhead 5,000 feet below, at the site of the Deepwater Horizon explosion and on shorelines from Texas to Florida, affecting wildlife, oil workers, tourism workers, and everyone who cares about the wealth of natural resources along the Gulf Coast.
In this Times-Picayune interactive graphic chronicling the first 100 days of the disaster, Ryan Smith and Dan Swenson bring together many of those threads, presenting the story of what happened day by day. It maps the spread of oil on the surface of the Gulf, fishing restrictions, and the areas of shoreline that have been affected. It also points up BP's various efforts to cap the Macondo well.
Incorporated in the graphic are video vignette of the stories of six people deeply affected by the oil spill:
- Pam Patrick, a Bucktown seafood vendor who asks, "How much more can we get knocked down?"
- Thomas "Uptown T" Stewart, an Uptown oyster shucker who boasts of his "tasty oysters, but they are from Florida at the moment."
- Mari Darr~Welch, a beach portrait photographer whose summer business is a quarter of what she would have expected without the spill.
- Nick Collins, a fourth-generation oyster harvester from Golden Meadow facing "grim realities."
- Chief Albert Naquin, leader of the Biloxi-Chitimacha community on Isle de Jean Charles, whose fears have not been realized.
- Kevin Vanderbrook a recreational fisher from Covington who finds renewal on the water.


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The starting role for the All-Star Game is Matt Harvey's for the taking. With three more starts for the New York Mets, including an audition for San Francisco and National League manager Bruce Bochy, should Harvey run the table and go into the break at 10-1 with an ERA close to 2.00, it is totally realistic.
Unless Harvey tanks, he should get the ball.
"We've still got a long way to go," Harvey told reporters Sunday in Philadelphia. " … Hopefully, the performance will take care of itself.''
Meanwhile, speaking on SiriusXM, Bochy said with all things being equal, letting Harvey start in his home city could be the deal breaker. Based on record, Harvey trails Washington's Jordan Zimmerman (10-3), St. Louis' Adam Wainwright (10-4), Arizona's Patrick Corbin (9-0) and Philadelphia's Cliff Lee (9-2), especially should they continue to win their remaining starts.
However, if any of them pitch on Sunday preceding the July 16 All-Star Game, they would not be able to pitch in the game. Of course, the same applies to Harvey, but Mets manager Terry Collins won't let that happen.
Because of how well Harvey has performed, it would not be a token gesture by Bochy, but a decision based on merit. Bochy, one of the best managers in the game, understands the rarity of starting the All-Star Game in one's home park, and would not deny Harvey the privilege if the numbers were equal.
And, from a strategic point of view, why would Bochy do anything to alienate Harvey or the Mets? Why make an enemy?
It wouldn't make sense.
Prior to Sunday's victory over the Phillies – Harvey only worked six innings because of rain – I wrote how other pitchers were having better statistical seasons and stand by that feeling. However, that doesn't mean Harvey isn't having his own special year, even if he isn't the "best pitcher on the planet.''
Harvey's window is less than a full year with 26 career starts, but he's demonstrated he definitely is a cornerstone pitcher, an ace to build around. He puts the odds in the Mets' favor every five days, something that can't be underestimated.
While he has his share of special numbers, what I like best about Harvey is his 24-hour rule, which is win or lose, he won't dwell on a game for longer than a day. It demonstrates focus and his head is in the right place.
However, physically the right place for Harvey on July 16 will be on Citi Field's mound.
It feels right.
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The Avatar wrote:I can't host this one, but I think you should also randomize a non-vicious dungeon and shut out vets like me, Darvin, etc.
Well, if no one else steps up then I'll host it.
The problem with having two divisions is that we've had a very low turn-out rate even after the shout-out in the news post. I don't think we have enough people to do a division, and it's about time we gave the vicious dungeons a whirl.
I think for the next round we'll just try moving Miser to 2 points and leave it at that.


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