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Wednesday is the day when the weekly Fort Atkinson Hay Auction is held in beautiful downtown Fort Atkinson, Iowa. Forage producers from near and far bring in loads of the leafy green stuff looking for anxious buyers with hungry livestock. As The Hay Dude, it is my responsibility to attend the auction as regularly as possible to rid myself of excess hay supplies…and to meet as many characters as possible.
Every Wednesday I attend seems to be entertaining, and this day was no exception. The entertainment began while I was waiting for the auction to start. I looked off to one side and saw a wagonload of small square bales being pulled to the auction by a pickup. This was nothing out of the ordinary…until the driver turned the corner and part of his load decided to keep going straight. He splattered about 30 bales, or one-third of the entire load, all over the street corner.
Okay, Rule No. 1 of hay sales is: Make sure your load is secure. Rule No. 2 is: Tighten it down some more because you can never be too careful. So the lucky soul who brought this particular load to town had the privilege of not only loading all the bales at home, but also loading part of them AGAIN when he got to town.
Once the auction was over, I discovered the destination where I would be headed with my load of 10 large round bales of hay. The buyer looked familiar, but I didn't know his name. I'd seen him at the auction almost every week, but he had never bought any of my hay. All I knew was that he was from Hawkeye, Iowa, and that was NOT on the way home from Fort to Cresco. It was pretty much in the opposite direction of home.
The buyers and sellers congregated in the office to collect their checks and/or write their checks for the hay bought and sold that day. I collected my check and waited for my buyer to finish his paperwork. Then it was time to hit the road for Hawkeye. My buyer told me that he had purchased two other loads of hay that day and he would be hooking the two wagons together and pulling them back to Hawkeye behind his pickup. He gave me directions to his farm and told me to head out and not wait around for him. He would get home just a couple minutes after I got there.
I began the 16-mile journey. Within two or three miles after leaving Fort, I came upon a familiar sight. Lo and behold, it was the load of hay that had been splattered all over the intersection in downtown Fort Atkinson. It had been reloaded and purchased by someone south of Fort Atkinson. However, it had NOT been secured any better than it was the first time. After following it for a couple miles, I noticed that the square load was taking on somewhat of a trapezoid shape. It seemed to be leaning toward the shoulder, just like it had on its way into Fort. At first, all I could see was the load in front of me. Pretty soon I could see a little of the roof of the truck pulling it. After a couple more miles, I could make out the driver's side mirror of the truck. I figured once I could see the driver's head it wouldn't be long before the whole load would fall off into the ditch.
No such luck. Just a mile or two before getting to Hawkeye, the driver and his accomplice pulled up to a stop sign and jumped out of the truck. They motioned me to go around them, but I waited to see what would happen. These two guys then proceeded to have what could only be described as a Chinese fire drill for hay. They climbed on top of the wagon and began stacking and restacking nearly the entire load! In a flash, they had it squared up and road-ready once again. In less than two minutes, they did the work of an Indy pit crew. They drove off and all I could see once again was the load of hay in front of me. There was no sign of a truck pulling it.
I arrived at my destination and didn't find my buyer behind me. After waiting for a few minutes, he finally showed up. His two loads of smaller round bales looked kind of odd, though. Nearly all round bales get stacked like pop cans lying horizontally. This load had a lot of those, but it also had one bale in the back lying vertically. The buyer parked his truck and came over to help me unload my load. He apologized for taking so long to get there. He looked back at his load, stopped for a second, and then scratched his head.
"Seven, eight, nine…HUH! I woulda sworn I bought 10 bales. No, I KNOW I bought 10 bales! I musta lost one somewhere. There was this one hill and the wagons kinda started to whip back and forth…."
Alright, class, let's review Rules No. 1 and 2 of hay sales: SECURE THE LOAD AND DOUBLE CHECK IT!!! Violators will be humiliated according to their degree of carelessness.
We unloaded my load and then it was time for me to head home. There was a much better route to get back to Cresco than the route I just took to get to Hawkeye, but I HAD TO go back through Fort just to find the missing bale. I kept watching the shoulder of the road for signs of a chaff trail heading into a ditch. I know from experience that this is what you look for in this situation. Alas, there was no chaff trail to be found. Just as I got back to St. Lucas and its steep blacktop on the south side of town, I saw a sign. It was an actual sign — a road sign that was leaning badly. It looked as though it had been steam rolled — as though a large package of forage had rolled over it. It was right at the edge of a huge, cavernous ditch on the way into town.
I drove around downtown St. Lucas and looked for a stray bale at the bottom of the ditch but didn't find it. If a bale had gone over the edge of the cliff in St. Lucas, it kept right on rolling and didn't stop until it got to West Union.
Just two miles outside of Fort, I found what I was looking for. There in the ditch was a round bale of hay looking like it had seen its better days. The sad part was that this particular stretch of road was almost perfectly straight and flat — virtually unheard of in Winneshiek County. How you could lose a bale there is beyond me. Even The Hay Dude on his worst day could hold his load together on that kind of terrain.
This is one that the team of bale physicists at ISU will be working on for ages.
So remember, if it's Wednesday and it's Winneshiek County, come on over to Fort and join in the fun! Who knew that hungry ruminants could be the source of so much entertainment?
The Hay Dude
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Wednesday is the day when the weekly Fort Atkinson Hay Auction is held in beautiful downtown Fort Atkinson, Iowa. Forage producers from near and far bring in loads of the leafy green stuff looking for anxious buyers with hungry livestock. As The Hay Dude, it is my responsibility to attend the auction as regularly as possible to rid myself of excess hay supplies…and to meet as many characters as possible.


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Pop quiz time: You're driving south on Highway 880 near Westfield Valley Fair Shopping Mall. As Highway 280 approaches, you see an LED sign the size of a three-car garage near the top of a 60-foot tower. Do you:
A) Marvel at the colors while your spouse yells at you to watch the road.
B) Shrug. But remind yourself to get to the Cheesecake Factory soon.
C) Call Councilman Pierluigi Oliverio to complain about the vapid look of Gap models on the sign.
Admittedly, the choices are skewed. The big bright sign, however, is a likelihood. And while it would not be the first LED sign at a San Jose shopping center — a smaller one was built recently at the @First Shopping Center off Highway 237 — the Valley Fair sign promises to be the most visible and controversial.
After years of planning, the shopping center is asking Planning Director Joe Horwedel for a permit to erect a double-sided super-bright sign. It will be 101/2 feet tall and 36 feet wide.
The reason? Please. It's advertising, next to a busy freeway. With the images set to change periodically, it's like pulling a viewer into a high-def telecast.
Two years ago, the San Jose City Council changed its policy to allow precisely such "freeway signs." The city has its own interest: More customers mean more sales tax for the city.
"As you drive around any cities in California, you see lots of enticement to get off the freeway and shop," says Councilman Pete Constant, the council's most stalwart defender of big signs. "You get to San Jose and there's this dearth of signs. We need to be able to give our businesses that tool so that people know they're there."
That doesn't mean that the big sign is without opponents. In the nearby Cory School neighborhood, one longtime resident, Frank Wolsfeld, has circulated a petition against the sign's placement that he says has already gathered 260 signatures.
Wolsfeld's beef centers on safety. He says southbound drivers who use the Bascom Avenue onramp to get onto 880 already struggle to move to the left to avoid the Valley Fair traffic. "To distract drivers right at that critical point is a terrible idea," he told me.
Wolsfeld suggests that the shopping center move the tower 600 or 700 feet southward from its planned location near Forest Avenue and 880, a move that would also spare Cory residents from its glare.
But a two-story garage would interfere with that placement. And defenders of big signs say there's no evidence that bright LED screens cause traffic accidents. (LED stands for "light-emitting diode.")
"I haven't seen any studies that show increased crashes," says Constant, a former cop. "We have these kind of signs right on 101 at Great America. Residents and drivers are used to seeing these things."'
Westfield officials have said the new sign will not be as bright as the big LED screen next to Highway 101 at the Redwood City-San Carlos border. The Valley Fair sign does, however, appear to have higher resolution than the smaller electronic sign outside HP Pavilion. Like all new LED signs in San Jose, it can be dimmed at night.
For once, I don't have a strong point of view on this one. I do think, however, that the debate says something about changing aesthetics in San Jose — and about the power of economics and technology to alter our thinking.
"These big tall signs are invariably ugly and add clutter to a commercial area," says former Planning Director Gary Schoennauer. "You have to ask why. Valley Fair is one of the most successful shopping centers in the country with the current signage."
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Friday night I went to a Chinese restaurant and had dinner by myself. My mother always tells me how strange it is that I like to eat out or go to the movies by myself. As I sat there eating and reading on Friday, I thought about why I like to do these things by myself. I also happen to be reading "The Knife of Never Letting Go" at this time and I recognized a parallel between myself and the concept of "Noise" in the book. All the men in the book have Noise. What this essentially means is that their thoughts are open to everyone all the time, therefore no one ever experiences peace and quiet from the Noise of men. Yes, this has the potential to be sexist, but that is definitely not the focus.
On a daily basis I am surrounded by Noise. Some good and some bad, but Noise nonetheless. Within my job the day is a constant interruption, jumping from one task to the next. Sometimes my schedule for the day is totally defunct, and my goals for the day are constantly changing. Those are the days that I feel like I have worked all day and accomplished nothing, but I guess I really need to change my perspective and ask myself if I helped someone else with their goals of the day. This time of year it is easy to fall into that abyss of negativity, especially with all those tasks that this time of year brings and that I dread so much: AMTR, fixed assets inventory, book inventory, getting all students to turn in their books (if anyone has the perfect solution to this problem, I would love to hear it), and so much more.
You are probably reading this and asking yourself how this all ties together. Well, those times when I go to dinner or a movie by myself is a time that I can totally revel in the peace and quiet. It lets me escape the Noise and do something just for me. So many of us are consumed with work that we forget to take time for ourselves. Well, I say you will only be better at your job by taking time just for you. Try it, I promise all the Noise will be there when you come back to reality.
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- AnonymousJune 12, 2011 at 10:22 PM
I used to love going to dinner/a movie/a play by myself. I have definitely struggled with setting time aside for my needs this year. However, it is summer and time to regroup. Thanks for your post!ReplyDelete
Awesome book, isn't it?? So glad you're reading it. I swear I could have written this post because this is exactly what is going on in my life!ReplyDelete
It actually is a pretty good book. I thought I was going to have a hard time with it at first because of the dialect. For some reason books with strong dialect really put me off these days. It's some type of weird phase. Glad to know I am not the only one who is feeling a little overwhelmed. Definitely time for a break.ReplyDelete
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Like many American car makers that founded in the early 1900s, Pontiac had some rough moments in the beginning. Pontiac Buggy Company founder Edward Murphy wanted to take his company into the new era and start manufacturing automobiles. Many carriage and buggy makers were considering the same thing. Murphy needed a design to get started with, and found what he needed from engineer Alanson Brush, whose two-cylinder automobile design had been turned down by several noted industry leaders, including Cadillac.
As it turns out, Cadillac was right to reject the design, and the new Pontiac car company didn't sell many of its first cars. The company's luck changed on the second attempt. Brush designed a four-cylinder car that did appeal to the masses and Pontiac's business future suddenly became more secure. Unfortunately, Edward Murphy unexpectedly died during the production phase of the four-cylinder and didn't live to see the success his company became.
Pontiac is well known for its attention to detail and performance vehicles ever since. Due to economic pressures, the company went out of business in 2008, but not before offering a long list of notable vehicles, including the Trans Sport.
The Pontiac Trans Sport was a minivan model offered from 1990 through 1999. These vans were a part of a new wave of minivans with dramatic and modern body styles than some of the earlier renditions. These stylish accents made the Trans Sport popular with young families looking for comfort and space as well as good looks. The idea was to offer a modern, almost sporty look while providing all the practical benefits of the minivan class.
The Trans Sport minivans were popular and well received in part thanks to the design's many technological advances. Rave reviews hit the media when the concept of the Trans Sport was first released to the public in 1986. Consumers were excited by some of the extra features of the Trans Sport, in addition to its stylish and innovative body style. When the Trans Sport went into production, it offered a mid-ranged price option, along with the Lumina APV, for the budget crowd, and the Oldsmobile Silhouette for higher-end consumers.
There were some drastic changes made to the minivan for its final model year in 1999. While the Trans Sport was always known as a modern take on the minivan, Pontiac decided to create a more traditional and conservative body style for this model. There were fewer plastic panels and sleek design elements. The 1999 Trans Sport took on a new look with a conservative steel body construction that more closely resembled some of its competitors in the minivan class.
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The first generation of the Pontiac Trans Sport was produced from 1990 to 1996. These minivans are most well known for its dramatic, modern appearance that was so different from other vans of its class at the time. Each year in the generation, there were changes made to the appearance of the Trans Sport. Body color options were improved and more features were available as standard and on specific trim levels. Items like tinted windows and remote control options for the van's sliding door became popular.
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Alicia Keys and Demi Moore sandwich in Jennifer Aniston while appearing on Good Morning America on Thursday (October 6) in NYC.
The three entertainers, who taped the interview last week, promoted their new Lifetime project Five, which centers around people affected by breast cancer.
Alicia also shared a cute anecdote about her almost 1-year-old son Egypt.
"He's actually Jennifer's boyfriend," she joked. "He kissed her and I was like [gasp]. It was kind of tender."
FYI: Demi is wearing a Band of Outsiders blazer and Vhernier's Camuration Grande ring.
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Hispavox/Music Hall MH-12.653 (1967)
Altho' listed as a solo effort this LP features the Argentine band Los Waldos which was formed by and included Waldo de los Rios. Based in Spain they appear to have disbanded in the late sixties when Waldo started his solo career.
Waldo de los Rios (arranger, piano)
Cecar Gentili (keyboards)
Willy Rubio (guitars)
Roberto Stella (drums)
Alberto Carbia (Bass)
Not entirely sure what compels me to listen to this occasionally 'cos it's a strange beast. Modal jazz meets easy exotica, avant-garde meets lounge... all peppered with groovy electronics. Definitely a curiosity.
1) El Hacha Y El Quebracho
2) Zamba En Nueva York
3) Tero Tero
4) El Algarrobo Que Hablará Con Los Pájaros
5) Metamorfósis Folkórica Sobre...
6) Así Nació El Carnaval
7) De Dónde Vienen Las Guitarras
8) Fuera De Ritmo
9) El Último De Los Matacos
10) Tertulia


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The euro hit a 14-month high against the dollar on Wednesday, and according to a number of analysts, the recent rally is set to continue as improved sentiment for the euro bloc takes hold.
Geoffrey Yu, foreign exchange strategist at UBS told CNBC that the euro will retain its strength over the next month as investors wait to see if the European Central Bank (ECB) will activate its bond buying program, called the OMT, or outright monetary transactions.
"Our month-long forecast is for $1.37, more real money from asset managers being squeezed into euro zone. We might run into a wall if we get a difficult auction, but the real opportunity will be when the OMT is activated by any country, things falling into place. Then you sell into that spike and that will be the real opportunity," Yu said.
The euro crossed $1.35 on Wednesday, hitting a session high of $1.3557 – as improved sentiment in the euro zone and disappointing U.S. fourth-quarter gross domestic product (GDP) data boost the currency.
Ashraf Laidi, chief global strategist at City Index, said the euro could rise even higher, suggesting it could hit $1.40 by the end of this quarter.
"We're going up because of [Mario] Draghi's desire to inject liquidity and his statement stabilized sentiment. It is also higher because central banks have been injecting liquidity and this all helps risk appetite.It's a result of improved expectation and stabilization in the euro zone."
He added that the euro was now a sentiment trade but the economic troubles in the euro zone had not disappeared but stability had returned in the core.
Earlier on Wednesday, Lloyds predicted the currency would break through the $1.35 barrier.
(Read More: How to Play a Rising Euro)
"Only if we see a change to a risk negative mood should there be any risk of EUR/USD reversing lower. Even then, the reversal may well not come, given that the rise in EUR yields has been based on a reduction of tail risks," Lloyds said in a research note.
But Derek Halpenny, European head of global markets research,warned that a strong euro could derail the fragile economic stability within the euro zone.
"The euro-zone may have restored stability in periphery debt markets but a strengthening currency and rising short-term interest rates is not what the economy needs and this move above the 1.3500 level versus the dollar will prove temporary," Halpenny said, pointing to another contraction in Spain's GDP.
(Read More: Investors Throw Spain a Lifeline as Economy Shrinks)
Data from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission show that traders increased bets last week that the euro would rise against the dollar. Net long positions on the euro were the highest since July 2011.
"Politically and from the ECB level things are being kept forward moving towards ever closer union. That reduces a lot of tail-risk." Yu of UBS said. "That has been the fundamental change in perception over the euro zone, that's the first step. Now people are talking about deficit reduction and whether austerity is working. We'll have to see."
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WrestleMania has grown to be the biggest annual pay-per-view anywhere, but the inaugural event seemed just like another big card, albeit with much added pizazz, according to David Sammartino.
"It was no big deal -- I mean, we knew we had a big show, it was at Madison Square Garden and anytime you wrestled there it was a big show," Sammartino told SLAM! Wrestling from his home near Atlanta, Georgia. "But there was no pay-per-view then, it was closed circuit, it was just a big loaded card. The only difference was they had brought more of an entertainment aspect to it: they had Cyndi Lauper, Muhammad Ali as a referee, for the intermission time they had Liberace with dancing girls. [Liberace was accompanied by The Rockettes.] But we didn't know there was going to be a WrestleMania 2 or if it was going to be this phenomenon."
He said he'd been on big cards before, but never with anything involving so many show business people.
Sammartino, accompanied by his father Bruno, fought Brutus Beefcake to a double disqualification in the fourth match of 1985's WrestleMania I. Father and son would team up thereafter to take on Beefcake and his manager Johnny Valiant.
About six months before his WrestleMania match, Sammartino joined WWF and felt upbeat about his career.
"It was exciting at first. It was a transition time when most of the territories were closing up and [Vince] McMahon was... basically destroying the wrestling world and bringing it all to his federation. So you had tons and tons of talent, because all the other wrestling territories were closing up."
Seemingly an ideal place to be, especially seeing as how his father packed WWWF houses for decades. Sammartino had longed to follow in Bruno's footsteps, and started training in earnest in 1979. Bruno, however, preferred his son going to college and initially disapproved of David's career choice.
"I never worked out with my dad, not once. I used to work out a lot with Larry Zbyszko, Baron Mikel Scicluna, a lot of local guys from Pittsburgh," he said. "When I went to Texas, I worked out a little bit with Dory Funk Jr., Larry Lane, Dennis Stamp."
After he left Texas, he would visit a training facility in Puerto Rico that was run by Jose Gonzales and Carlos Colon.
But all that experience and his name wouldn't be enough in WWF. There, he wasn't getting the push he thought he deserved, and he became embittered, later leaving WWF on more than one occasion.
"I was very frustrated. I was very young and I was very ambitious, and I always looked at the time that I was going to come into the WWF as when I was going to become a superstar. And that was the point of going to all the other territories beforehand, to learn, get experience, to be an asset to the business somehow... And when I went in there, I was no different than just an up-and-down guy; not a main eventer. And when you're in your early twenties, and you've sacrificed, and you know you have the talent and nobody's helping you showcase it, I had a temper, I was upset and I wasn't happy, and I guess I showed it."
He demonstrated his dissatisfaction one night in November 1985 in Philadelphia when Sammartino chose to lose to enhancement talent.
"They would never do anything with me -- here I am, I'm David Sammartino, I'm the son of Bruno Sammartino, I had this talent -- when I say talent, not only was I a strong man, I was a good wrestling technician, which made me a little different than other guys... I felt like I had really something to offer."
But instead of giving him angles, they had him working preliminaries.
"In a sellout crowd at the Philadelphia Spectrum, they booked me with a guy, his name was Ron Shaw, and he was basically a jobber. And I had wrestled him on TV I don't know how many times and squashed him. And when I found out that's who I'm with at the Spectrum, I was angry. I was young and immature, and I said I'm going to cause a little hell tonight. So I went up to him and I told him, 'You're going to win the match tonight.' And I just made it into a ridiculous situation where I had him attack me, bodyslam me like 15 times in a row, throw me in and give me the bearhug, and I gave up. If they didn't care about how they were going to groom me, then I didn't care."
McMahon's reasoning over Sammartino back then seems odd especially in light of how he's pushing today's second and third generation talent.
"As far as second generation wrestlers, I look at myself as the least successful. Every other second generation guy was tremendously successful. I'm the only one that wasn't, just about."
Sammartino too seemed baffled by McMahon's motives.
"I don't even know him, nor do I even care to know him. He always came across as a very arrogant person. I don't know what his thinking was... it's bizarre to me. When he changed this whole thing to WWE and I used to see him using his family, like having his wife [Linda] go up there and kicking guys in the groin... It's so bizarre to me, I can't explain it."
Sammartino believed Bruno also should share some of the blame for him not getting higher up the roster.
"My dad was more of a control guy. And I think he wanted me to be kept at a certain level and not to prosper from it, because then maybe there would have been comparisons with me and him. I could be wrong, but it's what my gut tells me... I would complain to him all the time, 'Why don't they do this, why don't they do that?'"
Sammartino felt Bruno's response boiled down to telling him to be quiet.
In 1986, Sammartino joined the AWA, but only for a handful of matches.
"I went there because I was looking for stardom, I was looking to be a top guy. But all they did was use me and abuse me -- they put me on a couple world championship matches with Stan Hansen and beat me."
He believed the reason AWA brought him in was because of his name and to make their organization look stronger.
"They're competing against WWF. Well, they have a Sammartino to beat. That makes them look better. I didn't realize any of that at the time. When common sense set in, then I left there, because all they did was beat me there."
Sammartino would return to WWF but got fired in 1988 after an altercation with a fan. He and Bruno have speculated the fan was actually planted in the audience by McMahon himself, possibly as retaliation over Bruno quitting a week earlier.
"I got beat and I'm walking back. This is before people knew what wrestling terminology was. So as I was walking my way back to the dressing room, this guy screams, 'What do you expect? He's just a jobber.' That's where my dad thought that maybe this guy's from the inside, he was planted there, knowing that David has a short fuse, etc. So when the guy said it to me, I just had this electricity go up through my spine and I went after him -- I didn't hurt him, all I did to him was I grabbed him by the back of the hair and threw him backwards off his chair. And I said, 'Well, look who's doing the job now.'
"My dad was saying that they used that as an excuse to can me because he quit a week before -- 'You quit on us, well we're going to get rid of him too.'"
Besides getting fired over it, Sammartino said WWE has used the incident to never pay him any royalties.
Just as the Monday Night Wars were heating up, Sammartino returned to the main stage, albeit briefly. In December 1996, he had a cruiserweight title match against Dean Malenko. After putting Malenko over in their Nitro contest, Sammartino said Eric Bischoff praised him and told him to get in touch so they could work out a contract. It never happened.
Sammartino, who has worked as a personal trainer for 20 years, never officially retired and it seems that now the call of the ring is luring him back. On April 10, he'll face Zbyszko at the "Night of Legends" show in Franklin, PA, and again May 2 at "Deaf Wrestlefest" in Pittsburgh (Edgewood).
"Him and my dad had this big blow off years ago [Showdown at Shea] and they continued it with me. And we worked well together, so it was good to put it on the card," Sammartino said, adding that he'd like to do more shows this summer. "I'm 50 years old, I'm in great shape, I just want to have a little bit of fun and go out there and do something."
TNA has its share of elder statesmen, and Sammartino said if they phoned tomorrow, he'd welcome the call.
"I would see what they had to offer and why they were calling. I'd be willing to talk to anyone."


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Three times was not a charm for the Fort Lewis College softball team.
The Skyhawks lost all three games of their rare tripleheader against UC-Colorado Springs on Saturday 11-3, 8-3 and 17-9 in Colorado Springs.
It just wasnt our day, FLC head coach Kira Zeiter said. It seemed like whatever they did worked ... and things didnt really fall into place for us all day.
It took the Skyhawks a couple of games to wake up their bats; their Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference opponent Mountain Lions came out swinging.
In Game 1, UCCS wasted little time in mercy-ruling the Skyhawks in five innings.
Kassie Haubert took the loss from the circle.
The Skyhawks batters, meanwhile, had some trouble finding the ball.
FLC (2-6, 0-3 RMAC) had four players pick up hits, including Chelsea Rodriguez, who hit her second home run of the year.
It took a little while to get the bats rolling around, Zeiter said.
Game 2 was more of the same.
FLC freshman Victoria Johnson took the loss.
The Skyhawks batters, however, did see some improvement.
Nikki Klepfer had the hit of the game, staring down two outs with runners on second and third, Zeiter said. Klepfers double scored both of them.
The Mountain Lions jumped to a 10-1 start after two innings in Game 3 before the bats really came to life.
UCCS scored five more runs in the third for a 15-3 lead after three innings, but the Skyhawks finished with six runs in the final two innings for the 17-9 score.
FLC tallied 13 hits. Rodriguez had three of them for two RBIs.
We really showed the true colors of what our team is capable of, Zeiter said. Thats the desire you have to have to compete in the RMAC.
Katie Watkins took the loss for the Skyhawks after giving up nine hits for 10 earned runs in the third and final game.
Zeiter said FLC has plenty to work on at practice between now and then, the first being getting the snow off the (FLC) field.
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Christy Altomare is having quite the special week. The morning after opening in the new Broadway musical Anastasia, she woke up to an Outer Critics Circle Award nomination for her performance in the enchanting musical's title role. And the next morning the bright-eyed Altomare took part in the annual Broadway Week on NBC's Today. Watch the video below to see why audiences are flocking to the Broadhurst Theatre to see this star in the making introduce a classic role to Broadway audiences.
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Stewart Lee, writer/clown, Stoke Newington, November 2009
When Today was first reissued in 1997, nine years after it was recorded, Byron Coley's illuminating sleeve notes compared Galaxie 500's astonishing and all but unprecedented land-grab of the margins of late 80s mainstream rock culture to the post-Nirvana landscape, where previously alternative combos were suddenly hobnobbing with Hollywood stars and hogging the headlines. And it must be difficult for the cultural consumers of today, hardwired into a worldwide web of culture from their bedroom laptops, to imagine how shocking Galaxie 500's unexpected debut album sounded when the band first hovered over the horizon, and how comforting it was to have found them -- how we all felt just a little bit less alone. But there's more to the magic of the short-lived Boston trio than the fact that their velvety pop-drones somehow snuck into the fringes of a world that appeared to have no need for them. There's that all but indefinable extra ingredient, that can somehow make yet another combination of bass, guitar, drums and vox timeless and precious.
Today, which I took a punt on when its blurred foliage sleeve loomed out from the racks of Avalanche records in Edinburgh's West Nicholson Street in August 1989, was an amazing record. The opening track, 'Flowers,' deceptively defeats expectations and leaves the listener bewildered and susceptible. The jangly strummed guitar seems predictable enough, but the drums are playing jazzy off-beats, the bass is charting its own wayward path, and then, minutes in, there's a guitar solo so audacious and unwarranted that it's immediately clear all bets are off. Then a harmony vocal joins in, echoing with toilet cubicle mysticism, and the start of the second solo is fumbled, drums clattering through uncertain clusters of notes. 'Pictures' stumbles into being, audibly finding its feet for the first minute. 'Parking Lot' begins at a gallop it can barely sustain. And 'Instrumental' is the sound of a band racing excitedly ahead of itself towards an unknown future.
Dean Wareham, Damon Krukowski and Naomi Yang were New York high school friends, transplanted to Harvard, who decided to form a band after graduation and started recording the following year. Today had precedents, sure, hip signature sounds drawn from the canon of cool: the minimal melodies of the Velvet Underground's relentlessly strummed riffs, expanded by way of the Dream Syndicate's extended workouts. Damon's fluttering and pounding percussion suggests Mo Tucker shuffling into Kind Of Blue's narcoleptic haze; Dean's heretically overlong guitar solos, like Television's, combine visionary psychedelic stretches with sloppy punk mess; Naomi's yearning, aching bass, carries the melodies high up the frets, like Kendra Smith's collaborations with David Roback; and those reedy indie-boy vocals, already a default setting for floppy fringed C86 shamblers this side of the Atlantic, were dignified and made distant and holy by the band's genius producer Kramer, as he shifted them to the extreme corners of the mix, and kept the mistakes in.
I was instantly smitten, in time to make Galaxie 500's introductory Institute Of Contemporary Arts appearance in London in September 1989. I had a new life in a shared flat way out west, and a walkman primed with a tape of Today soundtracked a year of snowy winters, data input jobs in offices on industrial estates, and cigarettes smoked on night bus journeys back from unpaid open-mike stand-up gigs in far flung corners of the city. I saw Galaxie 500 three times in 1990, every gig a transcendental experience, and I clocked the back of my own head bobbing on live TV footage of a show in Ladbroke Grove. Soon, previously hardcore strummers the world over had taken note, slowed down and blissed out, but Codeine, Low, Bedhead, Bay, and the rest of the slowcore scene never packed the punch implicit in the fuzzy felt-wrapped fist of Galaxie 500. And maybe it's only now, decades on, that it's possible to hazard a guess as to why the whole of Today seemed so much greater than the sum of its parts.
Since their split not quite three years later, the two factions of Galaxie 500 have pursued subtly different paths. With Luna, Dean Wareham scrubbed and polished those Lou Reed-style licks until they shone, searching for a holy grail of indie-pop perfection, with chiming solos and gently chugging riffs. But on Today's cover of Jonathan Richman's 'Don't Let Our Youth Go To Waste' you can hear the younger man playing at the edge of his wits, as the gap between his hopes and his abilities fills with imperfect synaptic cascades of notes, redolent of late period Coltrane or the Byrds' attempts to ape free-jazz solos with fuzzed guitars on 'Eight Miles High.' And this flawed ambition is utterly irresistible. Meanwhile, Damon & Naomi's post-Galaxie career has seen them foster their own, hushed and wondrous, global avant-folk sound as a low-key duo; explore the absolute limits of psychedelic hard rock jamming as the rhythm section of Magic Hour; and set up a Surrealist publishing company, Exact Change. In Galaxie 500, even as Dean Wareham pulled towards pure shimmering pop, Damon & Naomi couldn't help but complicate the results.
And perhaps it's this sheer incompatibility that makes Today a once-in-a- lifetime, never-to-be-repeated classic. Lucky for us, Kramer, an uncommonly sensitive producer, had the sense to capture Galaxie 500 for posterity, like insects in amber, as they really were, rather than how they might have imagined themselves to be. In the twenty years since the album's release, various alternative rock trends have withered on the vine, shrivelled and become meaningless. Trip-hop makes me think of dinner parties hosted by young professionals, chilled to fuck on half an e. Nickleback's wholesale robbery of grunge tropes, for example, means no one can ever listen to the sound of Seattle ever again without vomiting into a hat. And the Britpop era, it is now clear, was just 1967 with bigger amps, worse tunes and nastier drugs. But Today, …. well Today still sounds like it was recorded today. Those crazy kids! What were they thinking?


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Hi everyone,
Twenty-five years ago, on May 17, 1989, I drove over to the tiny little Kinko's copy shop at Golf and Roselle in Schaumburg, and printed 18 copies of my new zine, King-Cat Comics #1. So happy birthday, King-Cat!
I just want to take a moment and thank everyone who's helped me through these 25 years-- all the friends, family, and readers that have made this possible. I couldn't, and I wouldn't, have done it without you.
Today I'm in Fort Wayne, Indiana, standing behind my table at the Appleseed Con, an appropriate place to be all these years later, I think. There are few things I love more than comics, and it's been a privilege to be a part of this world. Thanks!
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SOCHI, Russia -- Russia's Evgeny Plushenko withdrew, and a chunk of the crowd at the Iceberg Skating Palace left with him.
Four-time U.S.champion Jeremy Abbott crashed and burned with a will that drove him to fight off pain, get up and continue.
And 19 skaters still were left in Thursday's Olympic short program after all that drama.
One, Japan's Yuzuru Hanyu, simply brought down the remainder of the house with a barrier-breaking performance so brilliant it will be numbered among the greatest short programs ever, no matter what judging system is used to assess it.
Energetic, powerful and sure-footed on his massive jumps, Hanyu, 19, became the first to pass the century mark, the score of 101.45 topping the 99.84 he earned three months ago. It gave him a lead of nearly four points over favored Patrick Chan of Canada going into Friday's free skate.
"I really haven't hit the peak yet," Hanyu said. "I was performing at 90 percent of my best."
With a misstep on the landing of his triple axel jump, Chan had 97.52. More significantly, he had an edge of just 0.57 over Hanyu in the component marks, where judges often have applied "Chanflation" to his scores.
"I like the chase," Chan said. "I can enjoy the Olympics during the free skate while Hanyu has a target on his back. At the Olympics, that target is bigger."
Javier Fernandez of Spain received generous scores and was third at 86.98. Three other skaters — including Highland Park's Jason Brown, in sixth place with a personal-best 86.00 — are less than a point behind Fernandez.
Brown was splendid in his Olympic debut. He showed that only the lack of a quadruple jump, which he has yet to master, keeps him from being an even stronger medal contender.
"In every competition this year, I have gotten a personal best with that program," he said. "I didn't want to stop at the Olympics."
By the end of the night, more than three hours after Plushenko's pullout, the arena was barely one-third full.
After awkwardly landing a triple axel jump in the warm-up just before he was to skate, Plushenko clutched his back as he bent over in obvious discomfort. A couple of minutes later, after consulting with coach Alexei Mishin, Plushenko went to the referee and dropped out.
Plushenko, 31, has had back problems for several years. The 2006 Olympic champion and four-time medalist complained of pain in his spine after helping Russia win the team event Sunday night, and it seemed unlikely that he would do singles.
Czech skater Tomas Verner, 13th in the short program, thought Plushenko did his compatriots a disservice by not withdrawing earlier. In a directive sent Jan. 10, the International Skating Union said if an entered skater were injured, a replacement could be named until Monday.
"I'm sorry for the other Russian guys who couldn't take his place," Verner said. "I think (Plushenko) is a great athlete, but today it was more expected that he wouldn't be able to compete. It's a shame he couldn't say, 'Guys, I'm tired, put someone else in the game instead of me.' "
The team event gold had tied him with Sweden's Gillis Grafstrom as the only figure skater to win four Olympic medals. Plushenko also won 2002 and 2010 silvers in singles.
"I know how sad and frustrating it is for him," Brown said. "You could see in his eyes how much he wanted to skate."
Plushenko skated well in both parts of the team event, finishing second in the short program and winning the long. He had delighted the Russian crowds with his showmanship, and NBC had been heavily promoting his Thursday appearance.
"I almost cried out there," Plushenko said. "I'm sorry for my fans and everybody, but I tried."
Abbott fell hard on the landing of his opening quadruple jump, slid into the boards and lay on his back, with a hand on his side. After some 15 seconds on the ice, Abbott stood, resumed the 2-minute-50-second program and finished 15th.
"I was in a big jumble and a lot of pain," said Abbott, 28, who also fell on the quad during his short program in the team event. "When I heard the crowd cheering, I got up and said I had to finish this for them.
"At first, it was like I was in shock. Then the adrenaline kicked in."
Abbott has said he is retiring from competition after the Olympics. He finished ninth at Vancouver in 2010.
"I think my personal story is about perseverance and getting up when you fall," he said.
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Lincoln Mayor Don Wesely today announced that students at Southeast High School will assist in the construction and fund raising for Lincoln's second skate park to be built in Tierra Park. Money has already been raised for the first facility for skateboarders and in-line skaters at Peter Pan Park, and the students will also help to build it this fall. Each facility will include a concrete base with modular equipment.
"The Southeast Student Council spearheaded the effort to build the new accessible playground for children of all abilities in Antelope Park, and this project continues that successful partnership with the city's Parks and Recreation Department," Wesely said. "The city needs to provide a safe and legal place for this popular activity, and we are very pleased the students of Southeast are again helping to meet a recreational need in our community."
The skate park concept was approved by the Lincoln Parks and Recreation Board and endorsed by the City Council in 1999. In July of that year, the city designated $50,000 from the Neighborhood Self-Help Improvement Program and $14,000 for a concrete pad for a proposed skating facility at Van Dorn Park. Another $6,000 was raised for that project, but that fell far short of the $225,000 cost.
Plans were revised, and the $70,000 on hand for the project will be used for the modular skate park at Peter Pan Park, 32nd and "W" streets. The modular equipment is scheduled to arrive in mid-October, and Southeast students plan to assist with the installation.
The Southeast High students also plan to raise $70,000 for the second modular skate park at Tierra Park, which runs from 27th and Tierra to 37th and Carnelian. They hope to build it next spring. A kick-off event for the fund-raising campaign is scheduled for 2 p.m. Sunday, October 14, at Tierra Park. Southeast also has a partnership with Saratoga Elementary, and students from that school will also be involved in the skate park projects.
Donations for the skate park can be sent to the Lincoln Parks and Recreation Foundation, 2740 "A" Street, Box 204, Lincoln, NE 68502 and to the Lincoln Rollerpark Association, c/o The Nebraska Community Foundation, 1200 "N" Street, Suite 610, Lincoln, NE 68509. Donors should include a note that the donation is for the skate park. All donations are tax deductible.
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In late 1999, two years before the 9/11 terrorist attacks, which killed nearly 3,000 people, a group of Afghan agents loyal to an anti-Taliban guerrilla leader proposed assassinating Osama bin Laden. All they wanted was the $5 million reward the Clinton administration had offered for bin Laden's capture, says a former Polish spy who was the Afghans' go-between on the plot.
The CIA rejected the plan, however, saying, "We do not have a license to kill."
The story, the centerpiece of "Ferreting out bin Laden," a book by former spy Alexander Makowski that was published in Poland in June but isn't yet available in English, offers previously unknown details about how the United States missed warning signs of the deadliest foreign attack ever on U.S. soil. It's told from the perspective of an allied intelligence service whose specialty is human intelligence – recruiting and running agents – not the technological monitoring that's considered the U.S.'s strength.
"They gave us the exact location of the houses where bin Laden would be staying in Kandahar, the route he would be taking between his living quarters, his meeting place, and what kind of transportation he would be using," Makowski told McClatchy in a recent interview, referring to the city in southern Afghanistan that was the Taliban's seat of power. The Afghans planned to use car bombs to kill the Saudi-born leader of al Qaida.
But on Oct. 14, 1999, a CIA officer whom Makowski identified as "Jim" flew to Warsaw with a response. "I would like everyone here to be absolutely clear on one thing: We do not have a license to kill," "Jim" told top officials at the headquarters of Polish intelligence. Makowski, at the time a businessman, said he was at the meeting.
"We have to capture bin Laden safe and sound so that he can stand trial and be sentenced legally," Makowski quotes the officer as saying. "Any other solution is out of the question. CIA operates within the American legal order."
According to Makowski, the intelligence proved accurate: Bin Laden arrived in Kandahar as planned and stayed in the house as had been predicted. Could the Afghans have killed him? "I have no doubt," he said.
Bin Laden's death in 1999 could have changed the American role in the world today, particularly if his death had demoralized al Qaida enough that it abandoned its 9/11 plans. Both the war in Afghanistan, which continues to this day, and the war in Iraq, which claimed nearly 4,500 American troops, were outgrowths of the 9/11 attacks, as was the increase in anti-Americanism in much of the Muslim world.
But Makowski's book isn't about the world that might have been. Instead, he uses the aborted bin Laden assassination plot as the basis for a much broader criticism: that the U.S. government, including the CIA, faced with a choice between a fundamentalist Taliban regime that had taken power in 1996 and the Taliban's main rival, guerrilla leader Ahmed Shah Massoud, sided with the Taliban.
The bin Laden mission was not the only missed opportunity that Makowski highlights. He also blames the CIA for the attack on the USS Cole in Yemen in October 2000, which claimed the lives of 17 American sailors.
"Beginning in 1999, for almost a year, we started giving information that bin Laden had made a decision to prepare an operation to attack U.S. warships in the Gulf," Makowski told McClatchy.
"We started supplying details. There was a 27-person team, the command was divided and it was based in Dubai. We told them who its leader was, his passport number, his Dubai identity card and that they were preparing to attack a U.S. warship," he said.
At first the CIA asked for more information. But after seven or eight months of reporting, the agency wrote back that the information is interesting "but they think such an attack is impossible," Makowski said. Three months later, the Cole was attacked as it was in port in Yemen.
"To me, the most appalling thing is that after we supplied all this information about an attack on a warship in the Gulf, the Cole wasn't protected in any way," Makowski said.
The CIA had no comment on the book or on Makowski's assertions. A former senior U.S. intelligence official said he'd never heard of Makowski, but he declined to speak on the record. Michael Scheuer, who from 1996 to 1999 headed the CIA's special "Alec station," which monitored bin Laden, said he was unaware of Polish intelligence on the terrorist leader.
Makowski's former colleague, Gromoslaw Czempinski, who's a legend at the CIA for having led the rescue of six U.S. intelligence officers from Iraq in 1990, vouches for his story, however.
"The Americans didn't believe us. They said, 'We have better sources than you do,' " Czempinski told McClatchy. "We offered them bin Laden, but they refused."
Makowski's credentials are many. The son of a spy, he speaks fluent English, attended primary school in Great Britain and high school in the United States, and received a postgraduate law degree from Harvard. He graduated from the Polish military intelligence academy at Stare Kiejkuty, also the location of one of the so-called "black sites" where the CIA interrogated – and some say tortured – suspected terrorists, including the alleged mastermind of the Cole attack, Abd al Rahim al Nashiri, who now faces trial before a military commission at Guantanamo.
Makowski spent 20 years in the Polish espionage service under the communist regime, rising to the rank of colonel, in charge of spying on the democratic opposition and tracking its finances. When the communist government collapsed, he was mustered out in 1990 and went into private business, though he never left the world of espionage behind.
He gave McClatchy this account of his conversations with Massoud:
Massoud was desperate for arms, financial support and a relationship with the United States when he reached out to Makowski in 1997. At the time, Makowski was selling arms manufactured by the Polish state arms industry.
Arriving at Massoud's Panjshir valley redoubt in northern Afghanistan, Makowski introduced himself as a former spy. Massoud wanted to purchase three things: $150 million in Polish arms, equipment to mine emeralds and an arrangement to print Afghan currency in Poland. A high Polish intelligence official checked first with the CIA.
"The CIA isn't interested in Massoud. He's not on their agenda. They don't want us to sell him any arms," the Polish official reported after a visit to Langley, Va., where the CIA's headquarters are. The CIA did say it had no objection to selling the mining equipment or printing money in Poland.
Massoud and Makowski's relationship deepened, and eventually Massoud offered Makowski access to the extensive intelligence network he'd built while fighting Soviet occupation in the 1980s and carried on after the Taliban ousted the regime of Burhanuddin Rabbani, in which Massoud was the defense minister.
Soon Makowski was focused on bin Laden.
"There was a period of 12 months when we were tracking bin Laden basically day to day," he told McClatchy. He said he'd supplied the Polish intelligence services with "everything Massoud's service had on al Qaida, on bin Laden and on the Taliban structures." The Polish service passed the information to the CIA, which sent "tons" of follow-up questions, Makowski said.
Makowski thinks that was why Massoud granted him the access to his network in the first place.
But the CIA didn't warm to Massoud, Makowski said, and it's unclear whether the information reached all the CIA analysts who were monitoring bin Laden. Scheuer, for one, said he couldn't recall "hearing of any information from a Polish government source on al Qaida." He added, "I know that period pretty well."
Makowski now thinks that Massoud held back intelligence about bin Laden and the 9/11 plot because of the CIA's lack of interest. "I am aware of the fact that the development of modern Afghanistan doesn't matter to the Americans," Makowski recalls Massoud telling him in August 1999.
He knew, however, that the United States was interested in bin Laden, and he feared that if bin Laden were killed, the U.S. would reach an accommodation with the Taliban. He decided to play it coy, Makowski says. "I will stall for time until I make sure they had stopped supporting the Taliban and are ready to support me instead," Makowski said Massoud had concluded.
In mid-June 2000, Massoud practically ordered his commanders not to cooperate with the CIA in hunting down bin Laden. Makowski thinks Massoud also avoided telling the Americans of bin Laden's plan for the 9/11 strikes.
"I think there is a very good case that he allowed this to happen," Makowski told McClatchy, speaking of 9/11.
Unfortunately, Massoud missed a key part of bin Laden's 9/11 planning: Massoud's own assassination, which took place on the eve of the Sept. 11 attack.
"If it were not for his death days before, all the pieces would have fallen into place, and Massoud would have been returned to power," Makowski says, referring to the U.S.-led post-9/11 campaign that swept the Taliban from power.
How did Massoud, the master of intelligence in Afghanistan, fail to spot the assassination plot against him?
"Intelligence failure," Makowski said. "You have those things even in the best intelligence service."
Jonathan S. Landay in Washington and McClatchy special correspondent Barbara Dziedzic in Warsaw contributed to this report.


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