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Racing has been AutoWeek's life blood longer than any other automotive subject matter. The magazine was founded by two advertising execs who wanted the latest competition news long before the Internet existed. AW has employed the world's finest motorsports journalists from the jump. To help celebrate our 50th anniversary, we asked as many as we could find to recall the most memorable races they ever attended. With more than 1000 years of combined experience and even more races witnessed, there was no shortage of answers. Enjoy.
Nothing stirs me more than each Indianapolis 500--the prerace chatting with teams on pit road, the fighter-jet flyover, Jim Nabors singing "Back Home Again in Indiana" and the balloon release. But I judge all Indys by 1985, when I sat in turn one as a fan and witnessed Danny Sullivan's spin, miraculous recovery and winning pass of Mario Andretti (main photo).
As a journalist, I consider the 1995 Indy 500 the most competitive, but I've never heard a roar like the one that washed over the Speedway when Danica Patrick took the lead late in the 2005 race.
CURT CAVIN, 1997-present, is AutoWeek's IndyCar correspondent and covers auto racing for the Indianapolis Star.
The FIA 1982 Group B rules superseded those that led Porsche to use weight-saving balsa shift knobs for 917s and spawned 959 supercars (concept name: Grüppe B).
Rallying embraced the formula with the physics-defying Lancia 037 and Delta S4 (a street-legal car that Henri Toivonen drove at the Grand Prix track in Estoril, Portugal, fast enough to qualify sixth for the 1986 Formula One race there), Peugeot 205 T16, Renault 5 Turbo, Ford RS200 and Audi Sport Quattro. The penalty for violating laws of physics was multiple deaths in Por-tugal and the loss of Toivonen in Corsica, a cost that ended Group B after the four-day 800-mile Olympus Rally in Washington in 1986. There, Markku Alen and Juha Kank-kunen decided the world title on the very last mile of wet gravel, hooking wheels inside ditches, sliding, spinning and banging the 200-foot-tall-pine-blanketed earth, witnessed by almost nobody. I was there.
PHIL BERG, 1981-89, is a freelance journalist who lives in Michigan.
One race flat-out stands above the rest: Pikes Peak, 1993. I arrived in Colorado Springs with a windbreaker and a 14-pound laptop and left with a headache that still lingers.
I bought a bag of Munchos and a Mr. Pibb and headed to the finish line. From the perch, I witnessed a classic battle that saw the mountain's legends--Donners, Unsers Millens--eclipsed by the Suzuki of the not-exactly-legendary Tajima Nobuhiro, who white-knuckled his way to an overall record.
As we surrounded Nobuhiro, Paul Dal-lenbach was manhandling the course below us. When he crossed the line, he had taken the mountain back by less than a second. We migrated over to his Chevy-powered sled like a group of crabs on the seabed. By the time the hiss of the modem signaled a successful transmission back to Detroit, I was certain that my body would be discovered by the Sheraton's cleaning crew. I wouldn't trade this one for the world.
CURT CATALLO, 1989-94, is a crea-tive director at BBDO Worldwide adver-tising and the owner of the Clarkston Union and Clarkston Café restaurants in Michigan.
In 1993, I was living in Japan and covering the domestic racing scene, when my Tokyo drinking buddy Eddie Irvine got the chance to make his Formula One debut with the Jordan team. I traveled with him to Suzuka by train, and, as usual, we shared a hotel room. Thus, I was at the center of the action when he finished sixth--and got into a postrace argument with Ayr-ton Senna that ended with an assault by the Brazilian.
I not only witnessed their "debate," but I also recorded it. After I played my tape to now-under-fire FIA president Max Mosley, it became Exhibit A when the FIA called Senna to account in Paris. An unforgettable weekend!
ADAM COOPER, 1996-present, is a freelance Formula One journalist who lives in Belgium.
For the 1965 Milwaukee 200, A.J. Foyt arrived the night before the race, towing the dirt car he used to win at Springfield, Illinois, that afternoon. Early Sunday morning, he learned his rear-engined Lotus-Ford would not arrive from Indianapolis in time. Unfazed, he unloaded the dirt car, hosed it off and proceeded to qualify on the pole. The crowd went nuts.
After Dan Gurney and Mario Andretti fell by the wayside, Gordon Johncock won in his first-ever outing in a rear-engined car. Foyt placed second ahead of Lloyd Ruby, Roger McCluskey, Joe Leonard, Jim McElreath and Al Unser, all in rear-engined cars. Nobody wanted to go home.
DONALD DAVIDSON, 1965-present, is the Indianapolis Motor Speedway's official historian.
I tagged along to be part of the Associated Press photo crew at Michigan International Speedway for the inaugural CART Michigan 500 in late July 1981, I was assigned to stand in turn four and wait for "something to happen"--in other words, a crash. Instead, rain postponed the race a week. I showed up again and, because fewer freelancers could attend, got a new assignment: on top of the grandstand press box opposite pit lane.
The previous May had seen a pit-lane fire at Indianapolis that burned Rick Mears and several of his crew, at the MIS pits were dotted with buckets of water in case of recurrence. Early in the race, Herm Johnson pitted, and, sure enough, fire broke out and engulfed him, his car and the pit box. A safety worker doused Johnson with a bucket of water, extinguishing the invisible menthol flames. I had "the" photo from the event, and I was officially a "race photographer."
ROGER HART, 2000-present, is AutoWeek's managing editor.
The inaugural Brickyard 400 in 1994 was memorable for the contrast it provided with the Indy 500. The NASCAR fans, contrary to conventional wisdom, were unfailingly polite and orderly, lining up to enter the gates. It was the antithesis of 500 fans' herdlike behavior.
Even the racers seemed in awe of the place. There wasn't much action through the first half--some lead changes but none of the rough stuff seen at Bristol or Dover. Somewhere past mid-distance, a switch flipped on, and the boys went racing, two and three wide in some of the corners. Jeff Gordon and Ernie Irvan swapped the lead in the closing laps before a flat tire took Irvan out of the hunt and delivered the race to Gordon. Indy is a NASCAR staple now, but that day, you saw the power of place, even on NASCAR's best.
MATT DELORENZO, 1989-98, is dep-uty editor of Road & Track and lives in California.
To the surprise of everyone, it was an orange-and-green, diamond-painted, rotary-powered Mazda that won the 1991 24 Hours of Le Mans, not a purple Jaguar or a silver Mercedes.
This was a year of transition at Le Mans. A new starship-style building towering over pit lane, and a pair of chicanes sliced into the famed Mulsanne Straight. What I remember most were the magazine's cover photo--a shot I took! (Editor's note: It was a bad, grainy shot, but our pro shooters all missed it entirely)--and that Mercedes entered a car for a "junior team" with three young German drivers. Although he was not considered the best of the bunch (most picked Heinz-Harald Frentzen), a kid named Michael Schu-macher impressed me. I wonder if he lived up to that potential.
LARRY EDSALL, 1987-99, contributes to AutoWeek as a freelance journalist while writing books in Arizona.
I will never forget the 2006 NHRA Finals, when Tony Schumacher needed a world record in the final round and a win for enough points to rip the Top Fuel championship from perpetual runner-up Doug Kalitta. Kalitta lost in the semi-finals and was standing next to me when Schumacher faced Melanie Troxel in the money round. The conditions were not necessarily ideal for a world record, but Schumacher got it done with a stunning 4.428-second pass that hit Kalitta like a punch in the stomach. Unbelievable.
ROB GEIGER, 2008-present, is a freelance journalist and AutoWeek's NHRA correspondent; he lives in Texas.
Robby Gordon was running late for the NASCAR drivers' meeting at Sears Point, so he suggested we talk while riding in his golf cart. A half-dozen friends jumped on as we started toward the paddock. The cart nearly tipped into a gully as Gordon, answering questions, negotiated against three lanes of oncoming traffic. He leapfrogged two lanes before trying to shoot a gap across the third-all while talking about his race car and maintaining eye contact.
He didn't see the chopper roaring up the hill until it was too late. Suddenly, I was face-to-face with a snaggle-toothed biker wearing a red bandanna as his front wheel halted inches from my thigh.
I thought it was all worth it when I learned from Gordon that he had a trick Chevy built by Brad Francis where the engine functioned as a stressed member. He then led in his only Cup appearance of 1998 thanks to better tire wear, until an errant pit call 32 laps from the finish. Jeff Gordon won, and there went my scoop.
JONATHAN INGRAM, 1995-2001, is an author who lives in Georgia.
I've covered almost 800 races, and it's tough to pick just one. I'm partial to a 1977 Atlantic race at Mosport, where Gilles Villeneuve and Keke Rosberg banged wheels through the first turn, and also to the Atlantic championship decider that year in Quebec City, when Gilles crashed two cars in practice and qualifying before coming through to take his second Atlantic title on the same weekend he wrapped up his F1 contract with Ferrari. And there's the '76 Daytona 500 . . .
But the race that always stands out is the 1982 Indy 500, when Gordon Johncock held off a swooping attack from Rick Mears. The incredible thing was that as Mears closed on Johncock and made his unsuccessful move going into the last lap, the shrieking sound from the cars' turbo engines was entirely drowned by a sustained roar from the crowd like I've never experienced, before or since.
GORDON KIRBY, 1974-76, 1985-89, is Motor Sport's U.S. editor; he lives in New Hampshire.
I will forever remember the Champ Car event at Mid-Ohio, Labor Day weekend, 1984. I was there on a whim, as my dad had whisked me up at the Detroit airport in a black Jag XJS for a guys' weekend. We were going to visit Danny Sullivan, whome I hadn't seen for several years. Sullivan was driving for Doug Shierson. I went to the garage to see Sully and Leon, and--wham!--I ran smack into the most beautiful thing in the world, Becky Brown of Lousiville, Kentucky. Becky, it turned out, was friends with Danny's cousin, and her visit to the track had been as much a a whim as mine. Little more than a year later, in Northern California for the Laguna Seca race, I proposed. We're coming up on 22 years and many great races together.
DUTCH MANDEL, 1984-present, is AutoWeek's editor in chief.
The 1000 kilometers of Spa, Sept. 13, 1987. Fog. Chill wind. Six hours of rain. Roostertails through Eau Rouge. But it was not the on-track action that makes it stand out in my memory. It was the sight of the chairman of a major automotive company manning the pit boards. John Egan, chairman of Jaguar--the real Jaguar, post-Leyland Captivity, pre-Ford Fiefdom--did exactly that. For the entire race distance. I never saw anything like it before or since. And oh, yes, the race ended in a Jaguar 1-2 and the World Sportscar Championship.
BILL LOVELL, 1984-1992, is Internet sales manager for a Honda dealership in California.
I first reported from Le Mans in 1973, but I don't recall the race as much as I do what happened the next day. I was back in the London flat of fellow journo Mike Doodson, who hadn't been in France. "Tell me all about it," he commanded. So I began at the beginning: "Arturo Merzario drove his Ferrari into an early lead . . . "
"No, no," my host interrupted. "Tell me what I'll always want to remember about this year's Le Mans." I let my mind go empty. An image welled up. In the dark of night, colleague Robert Fearnall had ushered me to his favorite secret location, a place deep in the woods at the fastest part of the Mulsanne Straight. Crouching behind the guardrail, shivering with delicious fear, we heard a V12 Matra coming.
That Monday evening, on Dood's dinner table, I began typing my story for Competition Press & AutoWeek: "It starts far down through the forest, just a thin shapeless noise, a shrill cry broken by a million tree trunks into 'white noise' . . . "
PETE LYONS, 1972-present, is an AutoWeek contributing editor who lives California.
The 1958 Grand Prix of France at Rouen (Reims) was a skein of dramatic stories.
Five-time champion Juan Manuel Fangio had decided to quit and thus made this his last F1 race. A future champion, Phil Hill, drove his first F1 race despite threats from the Ferrari team that to drive Jo Bonnier's Maserati meant he would "never drive another Ferrari." For Indy 500 champion Troy Ruttman, this was his first and last F1 race. The '58 champion-to-be, Mike Hawthorn, had a transcendent drive and won. And Luigi Musso, striving to uphold the honor of Italy on an increasingly English Ferrari team, ran off the course and died in a ditch.
DENISE MCCLUGGAGE has been affiliated with AutoWeek since day one in 1958; she is a contributing editor who lives in New Mexico.
On the last lap of the 1976 Daytona 500, David Pearson passed Richard Petty to lead. Petty drove back under him in turn three, slid up, and the began banging fenders, all the way through turn four. Petty's Dodge kissed the wall four times and spun down to the apron within a shout of the finish, while Pearson's Mercury hit the wall head-on and was clipped by another car. But Pearson kept his car running while Petty stalled, and he chugged across the line to win.
Petty was push-started and finished second; he jumped out, stuck his head in Pearson's window and apologized.
Covering my first 500 for Sports Illustrated, I suggest to Petty that it was a pretty sloppy way for the sport's two best drivers to finish. "Yeah, I guess it was," he replied with a smile. "But there will be 100,000 more people here next year."
Little did he know.
SAM MOSES, 1993-98, is a freelance journalist and author who lives in Washington State.
Pairing Dan Gurney with Mike Mosley seemed like the perfect storm to take on Indy-car racing in 1981. The All-American racer and builder, driven by creativity, hiring a laid-back Californian whose oval-track talents were masked by years in inferior equipment.
"If Mosley ever gets in a McLaren, we're all running for second place," Gary Betten-hausen said in the early 1970s.
Well, by '81, he was in Gurney's zoomy, space-age-looking Pepsi Challenger, designed by John Ward, and after starting from the front row at Indianapolis, Mosley finished last after overheating.
The next week at Milwaukee's Mile wasn't going any better, because the engine seized before qualifying, so Mosley lined up 25th. On a track that favors aggressive driving and dealing with traffic, Mose was masterful as he charged to the lead by halfway. He lapped the field by the checkered flag.
As they celebrated in victory lane, nobody could have envisioned that it would be the final Indy-car win for Mosley, Gurney and the normally aspirated stock-block engine. But it was a memorable day--a red, white and blew-'em-in-the-weeds moment.
ROBIN MILLER, 1978-85, is the open-wheel racing analyst and reporter for Speed TV and Speedtv.com; he lives in Indiana.
Everyone's first Indy 500 is special. Mine was in 1994, and I stayed in a mobile home parked on George-town Road across from the Speedway, a bad place if you want to sleep.
Friends bet our cash on race morning, and I put mine on pole sitter Al Unser Jr., with a little-known rookie named Jacques Villeneuve as my backup choice. Team Penske had its infamous pushrod "Mer-cedes" (actually Ilmor) engines, and Emer-son Fittipaldi and Junior checked out on the field, with Emmo on cruise until he smacked the wall and stopped directly in front of me, clapping his hands in frustration. Junior won, Villeneuve finished second, and I cleaned up in our betting pool. Oh, and Dennis Vitolo somehow managed to land on top of Nigel Mansell while exiting the pits. That alone was worth the trip.
MAC MORRISON, 2002-present, is the motorsports editor of AutoWeek.
At the 1969 Italian Grand Prix, the historic old Monza Autodrome seemed like vast, long straights stretching away into hazy distance between tall parkland trees. It was all about sheer slipstreaming speed and power, engines on full throttle for minutes on end. You could tell who lifted for the Curva Grande and who did not.
An eight-car slipstreaming battle saw the lead change among Jackie Stewart, Jochen Rindt and Denny Hulme, with Piers Courage, Graham Hill, Bruce Mc-Laren, Jean-Pierre Beltoise and Jo Siffert right with them. Hulme developed brake trouble, and Siffert had engine problems. With 10 laps to run, Courage fell back with problems. With five laps to go, Hill broke a driveshaft. On the last lap, Rindt nosed by Stewart, who then repassed. Beltoise surged by them both into the Parabolica but drifted wide. Rindt's rev limiter cut in on the charge to the line, and Stewart--geared better--won by a nose. Just 0.19 second covered the first four finishers--and JYS was the world champion.
DOUG NYE, 1968-72, is an author and cofounder of the Goodwood Festival of Speed; he lives in England.
During the Acropolis Rally in 2001, a Citroën hatchback skipped its way around rocks that sometimes towered over its roofline, thumping manically through deep ruts left by the top World Rally Championship cars that were long gone. Most of the spectators were gone, too, but the reason I stayed and sweated was to watch this young man in action, a name tipped as one to watch.
Sebastien Loeb was special. Never having seen the stages, he bent the laws of physics in a machine that should not have been capable of the speeds it reached on that dusty Greek mountain. Loeb, then 26, would win the Junior title a few months later-before the record four world titles and 40 wins that followed. I didn't know that I was watching the most successful rally driver of all time for the first time.
ANTHONY PEACOCK, 2005-present, is AutoWeek's World Rally Champion-ship correspondent and a freelance journalist who lives in England.
For a couple of hours on Sept. 15, 2001, I actually enjoyed a respite from the shock that follwed the World Trade Center attacks, thanks largely to Alex Zanardi. He was running an inspired and uplifting CART race at the EuroSpeedway Lausitz, and in the closing laps, as he pitted from the lead for a splash-and-go, there was actually cheering in the press room. Then he spun on pit-out, and a tragic week turned sickeningly worse when he lost his legs in a horrifying and infamous accident.
I'd attended dozens of races as a fan but had never covered one until closed airspace dictated that I report from the EuroSpeedway.
I've never covered one since.
NATALIE NEFF, 1999-present, is AutoWeek's road test editor.
Dover, Delaware, in July 1969 was the first race I ever covered. After lying to get a newspaper job-I told the staff I was a NASCAR expert--I knew I was in trouble the minute I got to Dover. That race remains a vivid memory. Early leaders David Pearson and Lee-Roy Yarbrough crashed out, opening the door for Richard Petty to win by six laps, which led to my first winner's interview question.
"Mr. Petty," I asked earnestly, "why did you crawl out the driver's window instead of just opening the door?"
The King looked at me as if I'd grown a second head. "Boy," he said after a long pause, "you don't know much, do you?"
"No, sir," I said, "but I expect to learn."
AL PEARCE, 1972-present, is the AutoWeek NASCAR correspondent; he lives in Virginia. He managed to learn enough in the 35-plus years following the Dover race described above to win the prestigious Henry T. McLemore Award in 2004 and a place in the media wing of the International Motorsports Hall of Fame at Talladega, Ala.
I'm not sure where to begin when recalling the 1995 Indianapolis 500. With mighty Penske Racing's Al Unser Jr. and Emerson Fittipaldi failing to qualify for a race they dominated the previous year? With Honda first flexing the muscles that would come to dominate Indy-car racing? With Scott Goodyear snatching defeat from the jaws of victory by passing the pace car on the final restart? Or with Jacques Villeneuve coming through to win the "Indy 505" after two one-lap penalties? I do know where to end, as '95 marked the final 500 before the IRL-CART split wreaked havoc on the sport.
DAVID PHILLIPS, 1990-95, is a senior writer for Racer and a regular contributor to Speedtv.com; he lives in Pennsylvania.
Before TV brought every race into the press room, road-racing writers didn't see much of what happened on the track and had to seek out drivers afterward to get the story. In the paddock after IMSA's 1981 fall race at Road Atlanta, I watched a young racer throw a tantrum. A former ad-agency employee, he'd never quite grabbed the brass ring in Atlantic or Can-Am. His 1981 started with a win at the 24 Hours of Daytona but went downhill from there. I thought to myself, "You'll be back in the ad biz by January, kid." Instead, during the winter, Jim Trueman bought two Cosworth engines and one March 82C chassis, and in 1982, Bobby Rahal won three races with it as a CART rookie.
STEVE POTTER, 1980-83, is director of communications for iRacing.com Motor-sport Simulations and splits time between Massachusetts and Connecticut.
It wasn't the spectacular speeds, the side-by-side racing or Bobby Rahal's ballsy pass at the restart with two laps to go on his way to winning the fastest and closest three-car finish in Indianapolis history on fumes.
Nope! You need more than that to make the race memorable for those who knew and respected Rahal's team owner, Jim Treuman. It was clear that the 1986 Indy 500 would be the final chance for Trueman, one of the last gentleman-racers, to visit victory circle at the Speedway.
That day, Rahal and the entire Truesports team dug deep within themselves for their boss and friend and presented him with the win he so richly deserved.
"This one's for Jim Trueman," said an emotional Rahal as he climbed out of his car. "The one thing I can give him is this."
Trueman died of cancer 11 days later.
RENEE ROGERS, 1982-86, is American Axle's manager of communications and media relations; she lives in Michigan.
Little did I know what I was stepping into while covering CART's 1993 race at Michigan Internation-al Speedway. Nigel Mansell, 1992 Formula One world champion, CART rookie and well-known whiner, got into a war of words with track and team owner Roger Penske over the track's condition. Mansell said it was too bumpy, and somebody was going to die, and an irate Penske offered to cancel the race immediately if that's how Mansell really felt.
The beauty was that it all unfolded exclusively in AutoWeek's pages. I had simply asked Mansell how he liked CART so far, and he went off on the track conditions. Holding these MIS-sized quotes close to my vest at a social function that night, I asked Penske what he thought of Mansell's comments.
And so a war of words began and lasted the rest of the weekend. It gave readers a look behind the scenes of a big-time race-a look they could only get in AutoWeek.
WES RAYNAL, 1989-present, is executive editor of AutoWeek.
My most memorable race was the 1986 Australian Grand Prix, a Formula One championship decider that actually produced more than it promised. Of the three drivers involved, Alain Prost had the least chance of winning the title, for his McLaren-TAG was considerably outpowered by the Williams-Hondas of Nelson Piquet and Nigel Man-sell, and although there were convincing demonstrations of his driving superiority, he was usually hard-pressed to stay with Piquet and Mansell.
Prost, however, was the best driver of the time. He got the maximum from his car, his race craft was unequaled, and he made fewer mistakes than anyone else. In Adelaide, he was at his greatest and won both race and the championship. It was unforgettable.
NIGEL ROEBUCK, 1987-present, is AutoWeek's Formula One correspondent and the editor of Motor Sport; he lives in England.
I await a sports-car match as manic as the Los Angeles Examiner Grand Prix in the spring of 1959.
Before World War II, William Randolph Hearst and his favorite newspaper persecuted racing as "legalized murder!" After the war, they embraced it with this legendary GP at Pomona, a round of the USAC Road Racing Championship, to counter Otis Chandler's L.A. Times GP at Riverside.
All varieties of mania occurred. Travel-ing at top speed, one Sadler entered the packed pits driverless (beltless, Bruce Kessler was ejected from the machine). Ken Miles won in a Porsche. Males went home with hormonal aches for a week, thanks to Jayne Mansfield. Semifitting inside her see-through frock, eschewing underwear, Lady Jayne went on a hypnotically slow tour of L.A.'s county fairgrounds, undulating on the deck of an Elva Courier.
JOE SCALZO, 1965-67, is a freelancer journalist and author who lives in California.
The first NASCAR race I attended was also the first one I covered, and it ran the gamut--from the thrill of victory to the agony of defeat, plus another agony that went far deeper than losing a race.
It was the 1989 season finale at Atlanta Motor Speedway. Rusty Wallace had to finish 18th or better to clinch the championship if Dale Earnhardt won. And Earnhardt did, dominating the race, while Wallace limped home 15th after a miserable outing.
Walking the pits before the race, I was awed by Earnhardt and others taking part--Darrell Waltrip, Davey Allison, Richard Petty, Bill Elliott, even A.J. Foyt. And I spent a few minutes hanging around a journeyman driver named Grant Adcox, whose family owned some General Motors dealerships.
On lap 202, Adcox, age 39, hit the wall and was killed, and I learned what a press room is like when a fatality happens--and how trivial a checkered flag can suddenly seem.
STEVEN COLE SMITH, 1986-present, is a freelance journalist and the automotive editor for the Orlando Sentinel.
Vern Schuppan led at Le Mans in 1983 by more than a lap when the door flew off his Porsche 956, disrupting airflow to one cylinder bank of its turbo flat-six.
With the door replaced, Al Holbert took over as the left-side temperature gauge climbed. When it reached boiling point, the right-side gauge did the same. Holbert slowed as much as he dared, and the second-place Porsche unlapped itself. Holbert tried to reach the finish line a few seconds after the 4 p.m. finish time, but he failed and had to begin one more lap.
The engine coughed a cloud of smoke and seized. Holbert selected first gear and tried to bump-start the car; incredibly, it fired. He set off crawling but mindful of a minimum last-lap time rule.
Against all odds, he brought the car home and parked it just across the line. A minute later, Derek Bell arrived with the second factory car, out of fuel and also stopping just past the line.
That's how close Mario Andretti, in third with a Kremer Porsche, came to winning the race.
QUENTIN SPURRING, 1983-present, is a freelance Formula One journalist and author who lives in England.
The last race I covered for Compe-tition Press & AutoWeek was the Trans-Am finale at Riverside Raceway, Oct. 4, 1970, and it was nothing if not memorable. There were 35 starters, it was the last Trans-Am event to draw factory entries from all of the pony car-makers--AMC, Chevy, Ford, Dodge and Plymouth--and the championship was incredibly close.
Parnelli Jones won the race for Ford in a Bud Moore Mustang, with his teammate George Follmer second and Mark Dono-hue third in a Penske AMC Javelin.
Finishing third cost Donohue the drivers' title by a single point. It was also Dan Gurney's last professional race. He finished fifth.
TONY SWAN, 1970-71, is senior editor at Car and Driver and lives in Michigan.
I will always remember the 2001 U.S. Nationals in Indianapolis. Two of drag racing's most hallowed names, "Big Daddy" Don Garlits and Shirley Muldowney, met at the sport's biggest event for the first time in many years. It would also be the last time they would ever line up against each other.
The beloved NHRA starter, the late Buster Couch, and the eternal queen of motorsports, Linda Vaughn, stood together at the starting line as Big Daddy and Shirley rolled up. It didn't matter to anyone who was going to win. That single moment of simply watching them slowly approach the Christmas tree provided enough magic to last a lifetime.
BILL STEPHENS, 2001-07, is a television host for ESPN, Ion and Speed TV; he lives in Massachusetts.
I covered Formula One, the World Sports Prototype Championship and German Touring Cars in the late '80s in Europe and many series here in the United States when I started with AutoWeek. But the best race I ever saw was the 1990 Marlboro 500 at Michigan Inter-national Speedway.
I stood on the roof of some creaky wooden infield building and spun around and around for the last 100 laps as Bobby Rahal tried desperately to catch Al Unser Jr. He never did, but those two champions were in a race of their own, weaving up and down the track, passing everybody else. Apart from them, there were only backmarkers that day. At almost 190 mph average speed, it was the fastest 500-mile race ever.
I eventually told Rahal what a thrill it had been to watch him and Little Al that day. He smiled and, even though it was years later, he said, "Yeah, but I didn't win!"
MARK VAUGHN, 1989-present, is the West Coast editor of AutoWeek.
If you can't see the wheels, it's rubbin', not racin'." I am fond of this adage, so it's strange that I have selected a 2005 NASCAR race, my first ever at Talladega.
Watching near the tunnel entrance, looking up six stories into turns one and two, I wasn't amped, I was mesmerized, by the bangs and bravery and craziness, to the point where I forgot to do my job for long stretches. There were two big ones that day--1000-pound shells of angry, repercussive energy.
Dale Jarrett led two laps: the third and the most important. In the green-white-checkered dash to the finish, he pushed Tony Stewart into the lead from fourth and then kept going. It was Jarrett's first win in 98 starts and most assuredly his last. It was Ford's first win at Talladega in seven years. A week before, Ford Racing boss Dan Davis predicted that his gracefully aging champion would win the race, on a track where Ford had about as much success as Saab. I still wonder about that one.
J.P. VETTRAINO, 1990-present, is senior editor at large for AutoWeek.
At the 1984 Indianapolis 500, during the era that timing and scoring legend Judy Stropus calls B.C. (Before Computers), I was doing a lap chart for Truesports driver Bobby Rahal. On lap 104, Gordon Johncock crashed in turn four, sliding out of control into pit lane. My crew, gun-shy from a pit disaster at Phoenix, evaporated, leaving me perched in my timing roost. Johncock's car smacked the wall at my feet, depositing fiberglass pieces on my stand before it ricocheted into the wall where a pit-board man had stood. He, too, had evaporated, over the wall and onto the track where it was safe.
During the ensuing caution period, I looked at my lap chart and discovered that I had entered Johncock's No. 20 with a circle around it, erroneously indicating that he had made a pit stop. That night, I flew home to California and watched the race on TV, seeing how close I had come to being a racing statistic myself.
SYLVIA WILKINSON, 1983-87, is an author who lives in Nevada and is working on her seventh novel.
I was 15 when I attended the 1967 Monaco Grand Prix and therefore impressionable in every department. I can still remember the smell of the glossy, Michael Turner-covered race program. I still have the tickets for the Station Hairpin grandstand from which my dad and I watched on Sunday.
It was the only F1 race in which I saw Jim Clark drive, even though I saw him do wondrous things at Warwick Farm, Sydney, in 1965, '66, '67 and '68. He was magnificent in Monaco, flicking his little 2.0-liter Lotus 33-Climax around the streets in a way that made the 3.0-liter Ferraris look like trucks. He had no luck, of course--Jim never had any luck at Monte Carlo--but I didn't care. I had seen perfection. Jim would die less than a year later, and I have never forgotten the standard he set.
PETER WINDSOR, 1972-80, reports from Formula One races for Speed TV and is F1 Racing's Grand Prix editor; he splits time among England, Australia and Columbia.
Before the start of the first Detroit Grand Prix in 1982, someone asked, "Who do you like? I think this Alain Prost kid in the Renault is going to run away." I said John Watson was strong on streets. Scoffs and guffaws. Prost's turbo-mobile was on the pole, Wat-son's McLaren-Cosworth gridded 17th.
In the race, Williams' Keke Rosberg passed Prost in one of the street circuit's "you can't pass there" 90-degree turns. Meanwhile, Watson charged. He dusted Bruno Giacomelli's Alfa in sixth, then the trio of Eddie Cheever's Ligier-Matra, Niki Lauda's McLaren and Didier Pironi's Ferrari, all in a single lap to move into second. (Prost dropped back with an ailing car.) Watson swallowed Rosberg's lead and passed in a few laps, on his way to the win. Rosberg used up his tires and had no third gear, fading to fourth. This is the race I remember when people say that Formula One is just a boring parade.
KEVIN A. WILSON, 1986-present, is AutoWeek senior editor for special projects.
My first racing summer in Europe was in 1961, traveling the For-mula Junior series with Denny Hulme, towing his Cooper-Ford behind a Ford Zodiac. We pitched up at Monza and unloaded the Cooper. Denny went to sign in but ran back to announce that we were supposed to be at Rheims in France! We drove all day and all night, arriving at dawn and having no francs for gas. Denny scrabbled around in an old shoebox containing every kind of European coin, getting enough funds to fuel us.
The only hotel room available was a dump. Denny finished 10th in the flat-out FJ race on the long straights of the triangular road course. As we left our room on Sunday morning, a handsome guy in Dun-lop blue racing gear was coming out of the next door. I asked Denny who it was. "Never seen him before."
It was young Italian Giancarlo Baghetti, and he won the French Grand Prix for Ferrari that afternoon, beating Dan Gur-ney's Porsche across the line for his one and only Formula One championship win.
EOIN YOUNG, 1967-69, is a retired journalist, columnist and author who still writes racing columns from his home in New Zealand.
My first AutoWeek assignment was the 1986 Pikes Peak Hill Climb, where I stopped on my cross-country drive from California after accepting Leon Mandel's offer to become AutoWeek's motorsports editor. That was the year of Bobby Unser's record-breaking return to the mountain with Audi, the focus of our coverage by contributing editor Gordon Kirby. Hanging out with the Unsers, we learned about the area and its signature event, and Bobby Jr. introduced me to sopapillas, which remain a favorite treat. The best part, though, was riding down the hill with Uncle Bobby and listening to him pontificate all the way down.
JOHN ZIMMERMANN, 1986-87, is a freelance journalist who lives in California.


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Wiggins' choice to attend KU has fans revved up
Nation's top recruit plans to be a Jayhawk
After landing the nation's top basketball recruit Andrew Wiggins, University of Kansas students and fans said they have high hopes for next year.
Wiggins signed a letter of intent Tuesday, choosing KU over his parents' alma mater, Florida State. ESPN ranked him above all other recruits and he had been a long-sought prize by many top programs.
"I just got out of a final and one of my friends was, like, 'We got Wiggins,' and I didn't believe him," said student Jake Bruce.
"(I'm) super-excited because I can't wait for what next year brings," said student Karleen Walters.
"I was definitely excited and thinking about next year all day," said Bruce.
During radio interviews, coach Bill Self was careful when speaking about what other players Wiggins reminded him of. He did mention NBA star Tracy McGrady but also said Wiggins needed to work on his shooting a bit more.
Students said they can't wait for next season, especially after losing all five starting players -- including projected NBA lottery pick Ben McLemore.
"I think that we have a great team for next year, and we have good recruits coming in," said Walters.
"I expect them to win another Big 12 Conference championship, and hopefully a national championship," said Bruce.

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So, I have been procrastinating a bit on blogging about my weekend. It was SO busy, I need to relax for the rest of the week! Who can blame me!? My most favoritest cousin, Ashley, her daughter Athena, and my other cousin Jennifer came to visit from Little Rock. We had a blast!
We took the kids swimming Sunday morning before the thunderstorms started. Let me tell you, Ryan is a complete water baby! That kid took to the water, splashing, wading, playing with the ball, etc! He also thought it was hilarious when the other 2 kids would swim and kick their feet. Apparently, it's funny. I don't get it. lol
We also went bowling that afternoon. My butt and my thighs are a testament to how much fun we had! lol I don't think they could possibly be more sore! Other than that, we sat around playing guitar hero and teaching Athena and Dalton to play!
In NO particular order, some pics below, just so I can show off my adorable kids, and my adorable cousin Athena! Honestly, I just didn't want to straighten them out in order of occurence. See? I'm STILL being lazy!
Can't blame me for the blurriness in this one! See, I'm IN the picture; therefore, I cannot be taking the picture and be blamed for the horridness! lol
Yes, I know my..ahem...chest area was about to pop out. No, it's not just a bra. It's a shirt.
I LOVE this picture!!!
Ashley and Jennifer. Jennifer actually was wearing rainbow colored sneakers to match the bow in her hair. I wish I had her shoes. lol


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Edinburgh Napier's strategy is to be an enterprising and innovative community renowned internationally, with an unrivalled student learning experience.
The three main campuses are in Edinburgh at Merchiston, Sighthill and Craiglockhart.
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The university offers more than 300 undergraduate and postgraduate degrees combined. These are delivered through the following six schools:
Many courses are offered on a part time or flexible learning basis. This includes distance learning and courses available completely online.
The university offers a number of unique study opportunities, including Scotland's only undergraduate degree in financial services. Also, the Advanced Security and Digital Forensics Masters programme is one of only a very small number to be accredited by the UK Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ).
The university is one of the largest HE institutions in Scotland with nearly 20,000 students from over 140 countries. It has over 9,000 international students as well as almost 3,000 students studying its programmes overseas in Hong Kong.
According to HESA, 96.2% of students from the 2016/17 academic year went into employment or further study within six months of graduating.
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Each campus has its own facilities to suit the needs of students there. Craiglockhart has language labs and three digital multimedia labs. Sighthill has a clinical skills simulation suite, hospital wards, high dependency unit, sports science labs, the [EN]GAGE sports centre and new BT Sport Scottish Rugby Academy. Merchiston has a computer games lab, newsroom, film and photography studios and soundproofed, state-of-the-art music studios.
The university is internationally recognised: in the 2019 QS Stars international university rankings, the quality of our teaching, internationalisation and employability were all officially recognised, with the University scoring five stars in each category and four stars overall.
More than half of research carried out at Edinburgh Napier is rated 'world class' or 'internationally excellent'.
In the 2020 Guardian University Guide the university is in the top 10 for Media and Film Studies and the top 20 for Film Production and Photography.
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text: With the reopening of the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, tourists and locals alike are now spoilt with a new café on level 4 run by Fresh Catering which has spectacular views overlooking the harbour towards the Sydney Harbour Bridge and Opera House. I chose the Crispy School Prawns, Garlic Aioli ($16) which were crispy as hoped, tasty and quite decently sized. I left most of the prawn heads which could have been eaten but I didn't want to run the risk of being spiked in the gum by their pointy heads. The ones I've had at District Dining were probably just a bit more crispier and tasty. The White Anchovies, Bruschetta with Salsa Verde ($10) was a nice size for one and well-flavoured without being too salty. When ordering I was told The Juice Guys on the drinks menu wasn't available so they suggested orange juice instead. I ended up with The Juice Guys Mango & Passionfruit ($5) anyway which I think was actually $6 on the menu. I wasn't sure if the lady serving me couldn't find the item on the register or if orange juice didn't exist because it didn't seem to be listed on the drinks menu when I looked.


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It was a steamy weekend last July when Hollywood producers and executives behind the FX series Fargo began a tour through Alberta in an old RV.
At the time Alberta was neck-and-neck in Manitoba in the race to lure the high-profile TV production, a highly-anticipated reimagining of the classic 1996 dark comedy from the Coen Brothers that will air in Canada on FXX. But the province's elements were not co-operating. At least not at first.
For one, the scouting trip had already been postponed. It was scheduled for a few weeks earlier and was to include High River, which was being pitched as a suitable stand-in for the town of Bemidji, Minnesota.
But Mother Nature intervened. The massive summer flooding hit on the day that Hollywood producers were to visit, virtually wiping out the town.
When the out-of-town guests did arrive, Calgary producer Chad Oakes of Nomadic Pictures had to improvise. Since so many people had been displaced by the flood, rental RVs were scarce. He had to borrow a late-1980s model with a dodgy clutch from "a friend of a friend of a friend" for the journey, resulting in a less-than-luxurious ride.
But as the "Diplomat" rumbled out of Strathmore towards Drumheller, they faced another problem. How do you convince someone that Alberta is the perfect spot to shoot a jet-black comedy set in a bleak winter wasteland while driving past field after field of lush green and canola yellow?
"It was a challenge," says Oakes with a laugh, sitting on Fargo's interior sets in Bridgeland in mid-March. "When we were going on our location scout, we kept saying as we got off the bus: 'Just imagine freezing your ass off and standing in a foot of snow ...' That was my constant: 'Just imagine ...'"
But north of Strathmore, Mother Nature intervened again. In the distance, the visiting producers were treated to spectacular show as a violent hailstorm hammered down on the prairies.
"It was a mile wide and five-miles long," Oakes says. "It dumped six inches of hail on both sides of the highway."
Nobody is saying that this was the moment that Alberta beat Manitoba for Fargo. But eight months later, Fargo's L.A.-based producer, Warren Littlefield, still delights in telling the tale.
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"We thought Chad Oakes produced that," says Littlefield, the one-time president of NBC who Bob Balaban based his character on for Seinfeld. "We're way outside the city. We're seeing acre after acre of these vibrant, lush canola fields; a green base and an explosion of yellow. We happened to be in a conversation of winter climate and how that would support us and what we were dealing with. The next thing we know Chad said 'Turn your head to the right ...' It seemed as though we were transformed onto a set and this was some sort of special effect. It was 'Stop the Diplomat!'"
Cold was good. A frozen landscape was even better. After all, when talking about the original film, Joel Coen once described Minnesota and North Dakota as "Siberia with family restaurants."
Still, those who flew in from milder climes for the November to April shoot may not have been entirely prepared for Alberta's coldest winter in 20 years. It got so bitter in December, in fact, that shooting was cancelled on the final day of the first block as temperatures dipped below -30 C.
For Colin Hanks, who plays sad-sack Duluth police officer Gus Grimly, the icy feel, while perhaps unpleasant, helped set the mood.
"I think if you talk with the majority of people about Fargo, the things they remember is the snow, the accents and the woodchipper," Hanks says. "I can't comment if we have the woodchipper in this or not, but we definitely have the snow and the accents. It's part of it. You can't have one without the other. You can't have Fargo without them. The snow has been a challenge to work with for sure. I don't necessarily recommend shooting a television series in -30 degrees in the middle of the night in the dead of winter. But it seeps into everything the show is. It seeps into everything we do."
Of course, freezing temperatures were far from the only reason that Alberta became the locale. While the high-profile cast — which also includes Billy Bob Thornton, Martin Freeman, Bob Odenkirk, Oliver Platt and Keith Carradine — might suggest the series had a sky-high budget, the reality of television is that it has to shot quickly and efficiently.
So producers were impressed that Alberta not only had a recent history shooting high-quality television drama but doing it all in less-than-ideal conditions.
"Nomadic Pictures is based here and have done four years of outstanding work in premium cable for AMC with Hell on Wheels," says Littlefield. "We needed to blink our eyes, get a crew that was up to speed, ready to go and has a shorthand of working together. Those are all critical elements because we do have a finite period where we have to deliver episodes. In films, if you go a few weeks beyond in a film schedule, that usually is not a crisis. In television we are scheduled right to the minute.
"What we found is a very experienced crew, many of whom resided in Calgary, who could deliver the quality and excellence that we demand but also work at the speed of light."
To play Bemidji, Duluth, Minneapolis-Saint Paul and the town of Fargo, various parts of southern Alberta were used. In Calgary, that included store fronts in Inglewood and Bowness, Broasters Smokehouse on Ogden Road and the abandoned CareWest facility in Bridgeland (which, incidentally, did not have any running water). Areas of High River, Strathmore, Balzac, Drumheller, Bragg Creek and "many a farmer's field in between" were used. Puzzlingly, even the mountains near Canmore will find their way into the series, although no one from the spoiler-paranoid set wanted to elaborate on how exactly.
"It's about piecing that stuff together," said Noah Hawley, Fargo's showrunner and writer. "You've just go to know where to look. And I think everyone here was excited about the challenge of not making another Western."
There were other considerations. Alberta's incentives and funding for film productions was a draw, as was the fact that flights from the city to New York or Los Angeles are frequent.
"We were trying to attract a calibre of actor who is not really going to be interested in the two or three flights it's going to take them to get to Winnipeg," Hawley says.
And, by all reports, the stars seemed to enjoy their lengthy stays in the city. Granted, the cold took some getting used to.
"The cold is interesting," jokes British actor Martin Freeman, who plays henpecked insurance salesman Lester Nygaard. "I've never been in -37 before. That was something I wanted to experience. And I have. But I'm glad it's thawed out."
As with other cast members, Freeman became a common sight at local bars and restaurants, particularly along 17th Avenue.
Billy Bob Thornton, who plays manipulative drifter Lorne Malvo, goes so far as to call Calgary his favourite city in Canada.
"The people here are so nice," he says. "It's a big city with a small-town feel. I run into people I've met before all the time. I was just in a record store the other day and here's the guy I saw at the hat store at the mall."
Thornton said he wasn't scared of the cold either, pointing out that the conditions were actually even colder for the Wisconsin shoot of the 1998 film A Simple Plan.
"But I didn't factor in the fact that I was 17 years younger when we did Simple Plan," he says with a laugh "That was the one thing I didn't think about."
The first episode of Fargo will air April 15 on FX Canada. Subsequent episodes will air on FXX. As of now, only Rogers subscribers can get FXX, but negotiations are underway with Telus and Shaw in Alberta.


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June 11 marks 3 weeks until election day. This year up to 40% of Australian voters will cast their ballot before election day, with early voting opening on June 14. So it's more important than ever that we hit the streets and have conversations with voters before the polls open.
This needs to be the biggest weekend we've had so far. Can you help us talk to undecided voters in Melbourne before voting begins?
Join us on June 11 to Get out the Vote before voting starts. We will be doorknocking all day, with sessions in the morning and afternoon. We know the most important thing we can do to re-elect Adam is to have conversations with voters of Melbourne.
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[ThrowBack Video] Method Man (Feat. Busta Rhymes) - What's Happening & Blooper/Slip-Up
The video was released in 2004. Method Man Featuring Busta Rhymes. "What's Happenin". A classic old school video. One of our readers told us about this story and for some reason the media never picked it up. Some how the director forgot to edit a scene where Method Man shows his carrot at the 0:36 second mark of the video. *Warning* If you easily offended dont watch. No HOMO!
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Meet the Designers: Williamsburg Fashion Weekend
This article made possible by a donation to our Writer's FundRaffle by Selamat Pagi.
There are few better signs that you picked the right thing to wear to an event than walking in and finding that the designer of your clothes went with the same choice. While normally finding your twin out in public is an annoyance, at Williamsburg Fashion Weekend it's a sign of maturity: styles incubated in their most intense forms on the stage here bleed onto the bodies in the crowd and out the doors towards the street.
In the most recent occurrence of the biannual show this past Friday and Saturday, the scene opened with terse, politically pointed words from charismatic frontman Arthur Arbit: it's simply not possible to come home from H&M or Bloomingdale's with a $29 blouse without slave-like labor being involved in some stage of that supply chain. He then quickly stepped aside to show us several dreams and a couple nightmares of the alternative. Selected photos are below, but you can find my full gallery from the first night here.
The first showing of the night was Uta Brauser (photos in gallery) with her Got Armor? collection. Meant to be a critique of modern gun violence, the stylish vests and shields of this collection are perhaps too plausible, and I loved the image of models pantomiming classic runway moves as they deflected the on-stage barrage of (soft foam) bullets. Continue reading


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Illustrator and interior designer. As an illustrator, Keith's illustrations have appeared in such publications as, The New York Times, Conde Nast House and Garden, Gourmet , Real Simple Magazine and has done illustrations for UNICEF and E-Map Media and Microsoft Sun. In addition to his work as an illustrator Keith is also an interior designer, furniture designer and interior and architectural renderer. As a freelance designer and renderer, Keith has worked for a variety of interior design and architecture firms though out New York City and the United States. Keith has also worked as a design producer on the HGTV program 'Freestyle'. Lastly, Keith teaches drafting and rendering for interior design at Parsons The New School for Design, from where he is also a graduate. Keith holds two degrees from Parsons, one in illustration and a second in interior design.
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Sanctuary for Families via Crowdrise
November 05, 2010
BENEFITING: Sanctuary for Families
EVENT: 2010 ING New York City Marathon
EVENT DATE: Nov 07, 2010
Sanctuary for Families is the leading nonprofit agency in New York State dedicated exclusively to serving domestic violence victims, sex trafficking victims, and their children. Each year, we help thousands of victims and their children build safe lives through a range of high quality services.
For the second consecutive year, Sanctuary is a proud Bronze Charity Partner of the ING NYC Marathon. This world class running event is an unparalleled way for Sanctuary to raise awareness and support for our work providing life-saving services to domestic violence victims and their children.
If you are running in the ING NYC Marathon 2010, and would like to dedicate your training to a worthwhile cause, Sanctuary for Families is asking you to sign up to fundraise for our work.
Every dollar you raise through your marathon fundraising campaign will help to end domestic violence in our communities by ensuring that victims and their children receive the needed services to achieve safety, and move forward with their lives.
We hope you will join us as you train for 26.2 miles on November 7, 2010.
With your help, we can continue to transform lives.
The Team: $100,120 TOTAL RAISED SO FAR
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text: If you haven't been following Meep the Bird's tweets, you might not know what's been going on in Puppy Bowl VIII. The short answer is a lot of stuff, way too much for me to recap here. I heard the good-natured announcer call out "Aberdeen" a lot so I'm going to guess that Aberdeen had a big day. If you tuned in late and missed part of the broadcast because you were under the impression that the Puppy Bowl actually was the antidote for people who don't give a damn about the Super Bowl, don't worry: we're bringing you, for the sake of parity, the Bissell Kitty Halftime Show, during which dazed-looking kittens frolic in a toy-filled enclosure built by somebody who'd clearly been huffing paint during construction.


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The decade of the 850s BCE transformed into years of great agricultural harvests, the warm summers that always brought the good rains in the end. Some empires were on the move during this time too, such as the powerful Olmec city states, the Zhou Chinese feudal kingdoms, the military advances of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, and the growing naval power of the Phoenician city states along the Mediterranean.
Another city was growing too. They called themselves, Thebes, and many of the original warrior-nobles descended from some of the great pharaohs of Egypt, such as Ramses, and the great king of the rich city of Mycenae, called Midas. At least, those elites said this was true. The city also had strong fortified walls and had a high and central place on a thin strip of southern Hellas, or Greece. Its aristocrats possessed good reputations for fierce fighting – since many of them were also sexually involved with each other.
This city was also well-known for its peculiar sacraments in honor of its patron god, called Dionysus, or in the Roman name, Bacchus. The ceremonies for this god were not the typical devotions for the Greek gods, such as Apollo, Athena, Zeus, Ares-Mars and Hermes-Mercury. The supposed solemn religious services of Dionysus-Bacchus often transcended into furies of wild drinking, erotic dancing, rough eating and other sensual explorations.
His festival was during the late summer recollection of the wine fruit, the grapes, and their magical transformations into fermented joy. Men and women of public dignity could transcend into crazy barbarians. And they didn't seem to care if these sensual transformations took place among the darkened frenzies.
Alcohol represents the most powerful and fastest working drug for personal transformation. This very strong fermented concoction contains the power to let go of mind shackles, which can lead into simple and beautiful joyousness. Alcohol's peculiar pharmacological power explains its might and cultural influence in all world cultures and throughout world history, and even in world cultures that supposedly hate it, such as the Amerikan empire, Evangelical Christianity and Islamic fundamentalism.
But like any drug, it has its very own shackles and snares. The drug of alcohol must go with three important spirits in order for the drinker to reach his or her personal transformations towards letting go and simple joy. Alcohol has to coincide with the wonderful company of family and friends, the practices of celebration and carnival, and always have some good food to soak up the toxins that coexist with the tangy tastes of fermentation.
Around the year 405 BCE, a famous Greek tragedian, or playwright, wrote a piece called 'The Bacchae.' The work tells the story of King Pentheus of Thebes that tried to confront the God Dionysus who had visited his city and initiated the crazy worship dedicated to the sweet wine of excess. Pentheus tried to ban, repress, control and survey the decadence of alcohol, yet he ended up getting killed by his own mother, (while he was dressed in a woman's costume), during the sacred rituals of overindulgence, violence and sensuality. Other ancient Greek rulers tried to ban Bacchus and his holy rites of alcohol drinking, such as King Perseus of Argos and King Lycurgus of Thracia. Like Pentheus, they all failed miserably trying to prohibit the sacred rituals associated with magical wine.
The moral of the theatrical story was clear: leave Bacchus alone, let the people enjoy themselves, don't try to control and destroy the party – for partying represented a celebration of life, a celebration of the Dionysian spirit that has existed inside all of us.
The Roman Empire would also learn this hard historical lesson. Around the year 186 BCE, the Roman Senate, representing the Roman Republic, had enough of the night-time ceremonies, the secret initiates of drinking societies, and the excessive wildness of the Bacchanalia rites. Bacchus was one of the major Roman gods and there were statues and temples of him everywhere – but the rituals went too far.
Roman slaves acted like military commanders, and Roman women took on the roles of Roman dignitaries. The alcohol consumed during the festival flew beyond indulgence. The secretive initiation rites in order to enter the drinking societies possessed suspicious motivations. The sexual indiscretions after some hot dancing were often quite notorious. The ecstatic music of pipes and drums often brought young women into frenzies of lust and screaming. Every Bacchic celebratory season, there were always violent deaths and other nefarious acts reported. There even existed worshippers, called Bacchants, which only served Bacchus – and they even they dedicated their lives to the god through living in continual drunkenness and dissolution.
Eventually, the Senate had the Roman army exterminate the hard cores that fully lived their existences in Bacchic ecstasies. Bacchus represented an imported god from Greece, and supposedly had its origins from the Egyptians anyway. The Roman Republic destroyed some temples lest some Bacchanalia fanatics try to hide inside them under the protection of the god. New Roman laws prohibited the annual night-time conclaves of secret societies meeting outside of the city.
The Romans did value pragmatism, so they eventually allowed the annual Bacchic celebrations, but they had to support the normal rituals for the gods: sacred oblations and ceremonies in public view at the temple doors, while the rituals and music were open to the full community. The priests and musicians performed the rites both during the day and at night. About fifty years later however, the Roman Republic would disintegrate through its own orgies of violence called the Civil Wars.
And to this very actual day, world ideologies, world religions and world empires have waged a most horrible war against Bacchus. Evangelical Christianity, Psychobabble, Mormon Christianity and fundamentalist Islam still rail against the demonic drink.
But more ominously, since the beginning of the 20th century, the early 1900s, the Amerikan empire has continually waged a holy war against Bacchus and his magical fruits. Some of the more notorious examples have included, a National Prohibition Amendment against alcohol, (1920-1933), state liquor stores and liquor control boards, alcohol sin taxes, dry counties, bar closing hours, Sunday bans on selling beverages, maximum alcohol content laws for beer, banning the importation of Absinthe or the domestic production of corn liquor, raising the minimum wage to imbibe alcohol from 18 to 21, the restrictive Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, or the infamous ATF, and Surgeon Generals that continually fulminate against the drug. Finally, there is the maximum police action against alcohol, or supposedly against drunk drivers, called Mothers Against Drunk Driving, or really, the nation-wide police prohibition action against any drivers that happen to have any alcohol in their blood streams.
Millions of American citizens have lost their lives, both socially and physically, through such state institutional violence. During Prohibition, both the US and state governments purposefully poisoned sections of the 'illegal' alcohol supply in order to destroy lives and murder 'disobedient and degenerate drinkers.' The US government and state government's war on DUIs has only helped extort great quantities of citizens' personal finances and increase the bloated prison population, which is now the largest in the world in both real numbers and in percentage of prisoners to the general population.
Yet it is still quite dangerous to drive on the roads, and deadly accidents still happen regularly in the States. Like Pentheus and the Roman Senate of ancient history, the twisted state cycles versus alcohol are still flexing their muscles of control and legalized violence. But the six truths of history never change, so the same historical cycle has fallen upon the Amerikan empire. Violence is now endemic in American society. A few crazies even prefer the public acts of willful mass murder to any partying whatsoever.
One extreme often follows its opposite extreme. This historical truth has generally explained the attraction of some Communists for suddenly changing over to Fascist movements.
Millions of unfortunate people around the world have taken that other extreme with alcohol. They regularly drink the sacred and fermented juices into the private realms of slow and painful deaths. They drink when they rise, when bored, when they use the toilet, the shower, during work, watching TV, and even before they go to bed. Alcohol helps them pass through their pathetic lives that they truly hate. If they only were dead; instead they exist as alcoholics. Bacchus has given up on them too.
The joyful and liberating spirits of alcohol only flourish under the marvelous company of family and friends, the sensual delights of festivities and carnival, and the delightful tastes of good food. All three of these wonders of life taken together, will transform the Bacchic liquefied gift.
Alcohol opens doors into treasure lands of mental wonder and sensual adventure, and yet when easily overindulged, it is also an intoxication breathing poison, all of which drowns the mind of awareness.


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I know how to make the random numbers, JRadioButton, JButton, BorderLayout and all the beginner stuff but what do i need to know more.
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[February 22, 2013]
CHAMPAIGN -- In a game where the
basketball was colder and at times more miserable than the weather,
the Illinois Fighting Illini pulled out a 64-59 victory over the
Nittany Lions on Thursday night in Champaign. And while it's always
great to beat Penn State in anything, they have to be the best 0-14
league team that I've ever seen! With the win, their fifth in a row,
the Illini move to 20-8 and even their record in league play to 7-7.
I don't
know if other teams are not reading the scouting reports or what,
but D. J. Richardson led the way again with 18 points. Brandon Paul
somehow had 16 points, but his shooting was sometimes as wayward as
the weather. The game was also disconcerting in that those two were
the only ones in double figures for Illinois.
The Illini were manhandled on the boards 34-25, but they did
force the Lions into 16 turnovers. Illinois had only 11 turnovers,
and they have really improved this season in that category. The
shooting percentages were not stellar for either team.
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I don't know if the weather outside made things ominous inside,
but this game unraveled into a free-throw shooting contest. It
brought back nightmares of the game (I think it was 2001) on the
Riverwalk in San Antonio, where something like 60 fouls were called
in a game between Arizona and the beloved. In retrospect, I think it
was the only way that those Wildcats could beat us!
At any rate, the poor free-throw shooting was displayed by both
teams. And it kept the Illini from gaining any comfort zone in this
contest. A loss in this one could have really damaged Illinois' NCAA
hopes, or at least dropped them down a seed line or two.
The Illini play at Michigan on Sunday.
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Intussusception: Infolding (prolapse) of a portion of the intestine within another immediately adjacent portion of intestine, which predominantly affects children. Intussusception decreases the supply of blood to the affected part of the intestine and frequently leads to intestinal obstruction. The pressure created by the two walls of the intestine pressing together causes inflammation and swelling, and it reduces the blood flow. Death of bowel tissue can occur, with significant bleeding, perforation, abdominal infection, and shock occurring very rapidly.


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Located in Chula Vista, California, Southwestern College (SWC) hosts a Guest Writers Series [3]. Francisco Bustos, poet, musician, member of the spoken word/music collective Frontera Drum Fusion [4], and professor of English composition at SWC blogs about the P&W-supported reading series.
Every month SWC [3] invites California-based writers to share their work. We have one bilingual reading and several Spanish language readings each semester. Many writers hail from San Diego County as well as the border cities of Tijuana, Baja, and California, Mexico. Being so close to the U.S.-Mexico border gives us a unique environment, rich in culture and aesthetic diversity. Our invited writers read in various styles, from English to Spanish and from Spanish to Spanglish (a mix of Spanish and English). It is not uncommon to hear audience members switch between languages in the middle of a conversation with a writer.
On occasion, I participate as a poet/musician in literary and cultural events on both sides of the border. This gives me opportunities to network with writers from North County, San Diego, (the U.S. side of the border) as well as writers from Mexicali (the Mexican side of the border). Because of festivals like the Tijuana Book Fair and other festivals sponsored by the Tijuana Cultural Center [5], I also get to meet (and subsequently invite) writers who live far from our border region. We've had writers from as far as Mexico City!
This fall we are working on a reading that will involve Uberto Stabile, Spanish editor of the poetry anthology "Tan Lejos de Dios/So Far From God," a compilation of poetry from the Mexican side of the border region. Stabile will be presenting his book across the Mexican border region this November—hopefully, if all works out, with a pit stop at our very own SWC Guest Writer Series.
Photo: Francisco Busto. Credit: Gerardo Navarro.
Major support for Readings and Workshops events in California is provided by The James Irvine Foundation [6]. Additional support comes fromt the Friends of Poets & Writers [7].


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The summers of my childhood were filled with days spent exploring the woods across the street from our house, riding bikes, roller skating on the back patio in those little adjustable skates that fit over tennis shoes, swimming in our little three-foot-high pool and trying to get my cats to participate in tea parties under the shade of the huge trees in our backyard. The evening was for catching fireflies in the front yard, rolling down the hill between our house and our neighbor's until our clothes were covered in grass stains, and complaining about being sent to bed before it was completely dark out.
And growing up in the South, there was plenty of sweet tea. We probably made a fresh gallon of sugary, lemon iced tea every single day in the summer.
When we sold our house in South Carolina to prepare to move to Colorado, we lived temporarily in an old, white house, which we refer to as "the white house". The white house was divided into oddly proportioned sections to create five separate apartments. We got a section on the first floor, leading onto the wide, wrap-around porch. We lived there with infestations of mice and ants, and fortunately we weren't there for long, but I loved the dinners we shared on that porch at night.
Dinner was often a big salad with lots of vegetables, cubes of ham and cheese, gobs of ranch dressing and crumbled cheese crackers. Slices of soft bread and butter. And sweet tea, of course.
And when it rained, we'd eat dinner on the porch anyway, with the rain misting all around us. Sometimes, the rain would cool the evening down, and sometimes, it would create a warm, humid steam which curled my hair up even more and made every bit of my skin sticky.
Last month, Jamie and I flew to Baltimore, MD for his cousin's wedding, and when we left the airport to head to our hotel, the humidity wrapped around me like a damp blanket. I instantly recalled those summer days and nights of my childhood.
When we got home, I suddenly craved sweet tea, but instead of dissolving just sugar into tea, I used some of the blackberry syrup I made for Italian Cream Sodas. With my cold glass of tea, sweetened from the blackberry syrup, fresh blackberries and mint, I sipped tea from the balcony in our condo, longing for the day when we have a house, and dreaming of a big, Southern wrap-around porch to relax on summer nights and warm early fall evenings...
Blackberry and Mint Iced Tea
printable recipe
- 6 Lipton "cold brew" tea bags
- 3/4 gallon cold water
- 3/4 cup Blackberry Syrup (click for recipe in previous post)
- juice of 2 lemons
- 2 lemons, thinly sliced
- 6 ounces fresh blackberries
- handful of mint leaves
- ice
Place the tea bags in a gallon pitcher and add water. Let steep, stirring occasionally, for 15 minutes. Remove the tea bags, pressing to extract as much flavor as possible. Add the blackberry syrup, lemon juice, lemon slices, blackberries and mint, and fill the pitcher the rest of the way with ice.
Refrigerate for 30 minutes to an hour, to let the flavors infuse into the tea, then serve.
Yields 1 gallon.
Recipe from Curly Girl Kitchen


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Connection Stems give students the language (and a reminder) to support their understanding by tying new learning to what they know about themselves and their world.
This printout has been reproduced from the following book: McLaughlin, M. (2010). Guided comprehension in the primary grades. Newark, DE: International Reading Asssociation.
Making connectionsto background knowledge, past experiences, earlier moments in a textis a significant way that readers make sense of and find enjoyment in text. Younger students need to see, hear, and construct those relationships explicitly to gain control of the process.
- Begin by including connections in a read-aloud with a story that students will have plenty of access to, either from similar life experiences or from content theyve studied in class.
- As you model connections, use language from the printout to help students see how connections support engagement and understanding.
- Invite students to begin making connections with the whole class or in pairs.
- As students gain confidence with making connections and using the Connection Stems printout to record them, explain that there are a variety of connections readers maketext to text, text to world, and text to self. Help readers understand that Connection Stems allow them relate to something that occurred in another book or story, an experience theyve heard or know about, or an experience theyve had themselves.
- Use completed Connection Stems to make a visible record of active comprehension throughout the classroom. After students write a connection, ask them to draw the moment in the text that triggered the connection as well as the event or experience theyre connecting it to. Post their work throughout the room.
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Boars and Baseball: Making Connections
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Family Ties: Making Connections to Improve Reading Comprehension
Families are all about connections between people. In this lesson, students read three books about different families and make text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections to those texts.
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Making Personal and Cultural Connections Using A Girl Named Disaster
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Teaching Student Annotation: Constructing Meaning Through Connections
Students examine text closely and create annotations to make personal and meaningful connections with the work.
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Using Personal Connections to Build an Understanding of Emotions
What makes you happy? What makes you sad? Connecting words to feelings enriches vocabulary and helps with concept development.


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Property TypeResidential – Duplex
SubdivisionEagle-vail 1
Listing Date11/29/18
Year Built1978
Lot Size0.12 Acres (5,227 SqFt)
Parking1 Car Garage, See Remarks
Property Description
An idyllic setting on Trout pond, this beautifully remodeled and turnkey 3 bedroom home sits on a quiet street. Huge decks, a spacious kitchen and dining area, and an oversized garage with plenty of toy storage. A private driveway provides privacy and additional parking.
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At first glance, what you might see is an armorial binding: a binding in which an owner has stamped his arms in gold tooling. No big deal, really; there are plenty of books like those in libraries. But this one is more complicated: there are TWO coats of arms, one stamped on top of the other. Here's a close-up of the center of the binding, where the arms are:
And the supporter on the left looks like a horse:
I can't make out the details of the arms themselves, but you can see the motto on which the supporters are standing:
My student deciphered it as "fidei coticula crux" and that looks right to me.
If you look closely at that last picture, you can see that the arms with the supporters and motto was done second: its lines cross on top of the other arms. And if you look at the original arms, you might recognize them as James I's arms: there's the harp on the bottom left of the shield, the lions and fleur-de-lis quartering the right, and the motto "honi soit qui mal y pense" circling the shield. (This gives you some sense of the arms, though that harp is a bit excessive.) (And I should point out, although it's surely obvious by this point, that I'm not particularly knowledgeable about arms and that my vocabulary choices might not be quite precise. But this is why we need help.)
So whose coat of arms is on top of James's? Is it possible it's James's favorite, George Villiers, aka the first Duke of Buckingham? According to the Burke I was looking at, not only was the family's motto "Fidei coticula crux", but he used the supporters of "a dapple grey horse" and a stag. But, as I said, I'm not super confident of my ability to deal with armorial and geneological crap, so does someone want to confirm or deny this? I'm drawn to it because if someone WAS going to stamp their arms on top of the king's, wouldn't it be great if it was him? (If you're not familiar with this period, you might want to know more about Villiers; this link should, I hope, get you into the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography's article on him for the next few days [though April 27th]. If it no longer works, well, this would be a good time for you to do some scouting about on your own! If you know of some reliable open access information about him, please leave it in the comments. Or go edit the Wikipedia page, which could use improvement!)
I should say something about what book this is, I suppose. It's John Smith's 1624 The generall historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles. It's a very interesting book, and there's some great marginalia in it, but that will have to wait until another post, especially since my student is still in the middle of her research! But the arms thing is tricky to decipher and the Folger catalog record identifies only one of the two crests (James's, of course), so I wanted to lend her a hand in getting it sorted out. And I certainly didn't want to lead her astray with my desire for it to be Buckingham! So please leave me a note telling me what you think and I'll pass it on to her.


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