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Misery Index Week 12: Problems in Piscataway
- With a Big Ten move pending%2C Rutgers%27 extensive issues are far from limited to on-field struggles
- Georgia has had so much misery%2C it%27s amazing to think it%27s been contained in one season
- Virginia Tech continues to be one of the nation%27s most confounding college football teams
This is supposed to be the most exciting time in Rutgers history.
In a year, the program is moving to the Big Ten, trading games with South Florida and SMU for annual matchups with Michigan and Ohio State. They've hit it big. Money is about to flow in. Forget the tortured past. Whatever you want to dream for Rutgers in 10, 15, 20 years, go ahead and dream it.
Then again, this is Rutgers. And it will never stop being Rutgers. You can take its athletic department out of the small-time, but can you take the small-time out of its athletic department?
The early returns aren't good. In the last year, Rutgers has suffered through a scandal involving its basketball coach, an athletics director firing that made everyone involved look like bumbling idiots, a controversy surrounding its new athletics director and now claims from a former football player that he had been bullied by an assistant coach.
Never mind what's happening on the field.
Rutgers is a bad football team – really bad football team that just lost at home 52-17 to Cincinnati, three weeks after getting blown out at home by Houston 49-14.
But the story right now is the dysfunction in its athletic department, which just last March had to fire basketball coach Mike Rice over videotapes that documented how he bullied players beyond the boundaries of what anyone would find acceptable. Rutgers then replaced Rice with alum Eddie Jordan, who, it turned out thanks to some digging by Deadspin, didn't actually have his degree from the school.
The way the Rice situation was handled led the school to fire popular athletics director Tim Pernetti. Only Rutgers, though, would fire an athletics director over a bullying scandal and hire one in Julie Hermann who was accused of verbally abusing volleyball players she coached at Tennessee in the 1990s.
Now the school has to deal with a bad football product and more bullying accusations, which came from former cornerback Jevon Tyree against defensive coordinator Dave Cohen. The allegations were serious enough that Rutgers released a statement Friday claiming that the incident in question, which happened in March, had been dealt with immediately and head coach Kyle Flood had reprimanded Cohen. The statement also claimed that Hermann had spoken with Tyree's father recently about the cornerback's role on the team and questioned whether that incident played any role in his playing time.
Now, Tyree's mother is telling nj.com that neither she nor her husband has ever spoken with Hermann and demanding that Rutgers produce phone records.
Ugly, ugly, ugly.
To say the Rutgers athletic program isn't exactly firing on all cylinders as it enters the Big Ten would perhaps be the college athletics understatement of the year. Given all the trouble you've had in the American Athletic Conference this season, the Misery Index sincerely wishes you good luck with Michigan and Ohio State.
(Disclaimer: This isn't a ranking of worst teams, worst losses or coaches whose jobs are in the most jeopardy. This is simply a measurement of a fan base's knee-jerk reaction to what they last saw. The way in which a team won or lost, expectations vis-à-vis program trajectory and traditional inferiority complex of fan base all factor into this ranking)
(Disclaimer No. 2: By virtue of firing their coaches, Connecticut and Southern Cal are hereby excluded from this and future editions of the Misery Index since fans can now look forward to a new regime taking hold in 2014.)
(Disclaimer No. 3: Southern Miss has been granted emeritus status for the Misery Index until it wins another game. At 20 straight losses and counting, putting the Golden Eagles on this list would be cruel.)
1. Rutgers: In addition to the problems on the field (and they're quite obvious by now), Rutgers has recently lost five verbal commitments from a recruiting class that looked pretty good on paper at one point. When high school players see the product on the field and start jumping ship en masse, that's bad. It's especially bad when the whole key for Rutgers over the next few years is recruiting to the level it will need to reach in the Big Ten – a significant step up from the American. Longtime assistant Kyle Flood did a good job last year stepping into Greg Schiano's spot, but this year the program has backslid. The only good news is that Rutgers still has UConn and South Florida on the schedule, so it's looking like 7-5 for the Scarlet Knights. Even that, however, won't satisfy fans who are concerned about the long-term future under Flood.
2. Georgia: There are seasons that go bad, and then there are seasons like this where hope persists in fits and starts, only to be brought back to reality in heartbreaking fashion. Lose to Clemson in the opener? Fine, come back and beat South Carolina and LSU to get back in the national championship race? Lose practically your entire receiving corps and stud running back Todd Gurley to injury, causing your season to unravel? Fine, get healthy, come back and beat Florida, raising the possibility of winning the SEC East. Fall hopelessly behind Auburn in the fourth quarter? Fine, score three touchdowns in a row and storm back to take a 38-37 lead. If only the circle had ended there.
After seeing the inexplicable, amazing 73-yard touchdown that Auburn scored on 4th-and-18 to beat them on Saturday, it's quite clear the Bulldogs are in the midst of a cursed season made worse by the moments of joy mixed in. Sometimes seasons like this are easier for fans to take when they go completely bad. There is no need to second guess, to talk about what-ifs. Instead, Georgia has been just good enough to torment its fan base. If only they hadn't melted down against Vanderbilt. If only they'd been a little healthier against Mizzou. If only their defensive backs hadn't suffered brain cramps on the final play against Auburn, tipping the ball into the air instead of knocking it down or simply letting it go. It could have all been different for Georgia, but the pain of this season is going to linger for awhile.
3. West Virginia: Welcome to rock bottom, Mountaineers. How do we know you've gotten there? Well, Saturday's 31-19 loss at Kansas – yes, Kansas – was a big clue. So was the reaction of head coach Dana Holgorsen, who called it an "all-time low" in his postgame news conference and essentially admitted that his program wasn't ready for its transition from the Big East to the Big 12. "This program's not equipped right now to handle the wear and tear of the Big 12," he said. "You've got to be able to have depth, you've got to be able to handle a lot of snaps, you've got to be able to handle injuries. Right now we're not where we need to be."
Do you buy it? Look, there's definitely something to the idea that a West Virginia is facing a tougher level of competition week in and week out. TCU has experienced the same thing. But West Virginia's program shouldn't be this bad. The Big 12 is tougher than the old Big East, but it's not like the Mountaineers are facing top-25 teams every week. Kansas broke a 27-game losing streak on Saturday for goodness sakes. West Virginia fans have every right to be upset with the team's 4-7 record, but given that it would cost roughly $11 million to buy out Holgorsen, it appears he'll have to be the one to fix it.
4. Northwestern: It has been a long time since something good happened for the Wildcats, and the idea that this team is now 0-6 in the Big Ten is just insane. In the preseason, Northwestern had legitimate hopes of winning the Legends Division. Making a bowl game seemed like a given. At minimum, this was going to be a really fun team to watch. But there's nothing fun about the run Pat Fitzgerald has been on since Oct. 5, when Northwestern held a 23-20 lead over Ohio State entering the fourth quarter. In the last four weeks, the Wildcats have lost two overtime games and two more by a combined six points. Now they're 4-6 and need to beat Michigan State next week to keep postseason hopes alive. After losing to Nebraska on a crazy Hail Mary two weeks ago, Saturday's triple overtime loss to Michigan was another gut-punch. Northwestern led 9-3 in the fourth quarter but came unraveled at the end, allowing Michigan to drive 51 yards for a tying field goal as regulation expired. Northwestern fans don't ever expect to win Big Ten titles, but this run of bad luck is beyond the pale.
5. Texas: A large section of Longhorns fans won't be terribly bothered by Saturday's 38-13 loss to Oklahoma State. After all, if your goal as a fan is to expedite Mack Brown's removal as head coach, the last thing you wanted was for Texas to run the table, win the Big 12 and embolden Brown to hold on for one more season. But that's its own kind of misery, isn't it, to actively root for your team to lose when it's in the middle of a conference title race?
Either way, the Longhorns are now unlikely to fulfill the fantasy scenario that would make it hard for new athletics director Steve Patterson to push through a coaching change. Truth be told, with as many injuries as it has suffered this season, it's kind of remarkable Texas has had this good of a run to get to 7-3. The Longhorns have lost a lot of really talented players, and this market correction was coming sooner or later. The problem for Brown is that those ugly losses to Ole Miss and BYU at the beginning of the season are still part of the resume for this team. This is now officially a disappointing year.
6. Florida: Will Muschamp addressed the misery of his fan base head-on Saturday night following a 19-14 loss at South Carolina, dropping the Gators to 4-6. "To hell with me, I'm worried about the kids," Muschamp told reporters. "These kids have fought their butts off. There's a lot of negativity out there, and some of our fans need to get a grip. They really do. They got a bunch of kids in that locker room fighting their butt off. They can criticize (me) all you want. I'm great with that. They pay me enough money to deal with that."
Muschamp has every reason to defend his program. The Gators have been absolutely turned inside out by injuries, and that's going to be enough of an excuse for Muschamp to keep his job next season. But Florida fans are not the most patient lot. They want results, they don't care about extenuating circumstances and they don't like losing to Steve Spurrier. Honestly, given the situation – Florida was down to its third-string quarterback Saturday – it was a minor miracle they actually had a chance to win the game. Will Gators fans see it that way, however? Not likely.
7. Virginia Tech: For once, quarterback Logan Thomas didn't make a huge mistake or throw an interception – and the Hokies still lost at home to Maryland. This is just not a very good team, and given how its defense has played, this should be a good team. For whatever reason, though, Virginia Tech just isn't getting it done in critical areas of the game. The Hokies are bad on third down (4-of-16), bad running the ball (54 rushing yards) and mediocre on special teams. That's not the recipe Frank Beamer used to dominate the ACC for all those years, and if he doesn't bring back those dynamics, the program will continue to struggle.
8. TCU: If there was one thing you could always count on during the best days of TCU's program, it was Gary Patterson's defense getting a big stop when it needed one. And certainly, after Jaden Oberkrom nailed a 56-yard field goal with 2:13 left on Saturday to pull ahead of Kansas State 31-30, that opportunity was there for the Horned Frogs. Instead, Kansas State marched down the field and set up a 41-yard field goal with three seconds left to win the game 33-31 and eliminate TCU from postseason consideration. It's only the second time in his 16 years at TCU (both as head coach and coordinator) that the Horned Frogs won't make a bowl game.
If TCU is going to become the program it aspires to be in the Big 12, next season is now critical. Patterson can sell the Big 12 and sparkling new facilities, but perception matters. When TCU was dominating the Mountain West and going to the Rose Bowl, skeptics argued it wouldn't be able to do it in a league like the Big 12. Now those skeptics have ammunition, and that could impact the way recruits view TCU if they don't get things turned around. The euphoria of entering the Big 12 has now worn off for TCU fans, and pretty soon the results are going to matter in a big way.
9. Hawaii: Ask around college football, and a number of people wonder about the long-term viability of Hawaii as a Division I athletics program. For a while, Hawaii got by rather well operating on the cheap. But since June Jones decided he'd had enough and bolted for SMU, the foundation has started to crumble. The reality is this: Operating an athletics department in Hawaii is insanely expensive. Recruiting is difficult. And there just isn't a wealthy donor or corporate base in the state to help build facilities or fund competitive salaries. Unless someone can work miracles like Jones did for so long, it can get ugly – and it's ugly right now. Hawaii is 0-10 this season and watched its best chance to get a win slip away Saturday. San Diego State scored a touchdown to tie the game with 2:34 left in regulation, then won it in overtime before an announced crowd of 23,229. Relatively new athletics director Ben Jay has a huge job ahead of him to figure out how to make Hawaii football relevant again – or it may disappear altogether.
10. Indiana: Kevin Wilson is one of the more quirky, intriguing guys in coaching. His background and personality make him a good fit at a place like Indiana, which needs outside-the-box thinking to become relevant in football. But there's no way to spin it: This has been a disappointing season. With the Big Ten once again down, Indiana absolutely had a chance to make a bowl game this year and show significant progress to recruits and fans. Instead, the Hoosiers don't have nearly enough wins to show for an offense that averages 39 points a game. Assuming they lose to Ohio State and beat hapless Purdue, Indiana will end up 5-7, which isn't terrible based on history but certainly qualifies as a lost opportunity considering that they had chances to beat Navy, Michigan and Minnesota. Win any of those games and Wilson is celebrated as a genius and talking contract extension. Instead, Indiana fans have already moved on to basketball season.
Also receiving votes (Miserable, but not quite miserable enough): California, N.C. State, Tulsa, Purdue, Iowa State, Pittsburgh, Illinois, South Florida.
Dan Wolken, a national college football reporter for USA TODAY Sports, is on Twitter @DanWolken.


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I especially like the transparency of the overhead tiles, because if a child is still working on number recognition (and, as I learned while assisting Sydney through the most tedious three games of BINGO ever played at their 4-H club holiday party this week, we ARE still working on number recognition!), then that transparency allows instant self-correction.
During our most recent play with this board, I witnessed Sydney unlock one of the patterns implicit in the number grid. No more random seek-and-find for her--watch this girl go!
Pretty proud kid, right?
We have an old garage sale BINGO set of our own, and I think that we'll be playing a lot of fun at-home BINGO games this week, because not only is Syd clearly ready for number recognition up to 100, but I'm not taking her near another BINGO party game until she has it down--geez Louise, what a nightmare!


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A Treehouse Triumphs In Manhattan
An 18-month court battle over a woman's right to have a backyard treehouse for her kids has ended, and the treehouse won. New York artist Melinda Hackett yesterday beat her cranky neighbor and even won landmark status for the structure.
Hackett's neighbor reported her kids' treehouse to authorities and police showed up to inspect the "suspicious structure" in the backyard of her Greenwich Village home. A legal fight ensued, and Hackett eventually won, according to the AP. And since the home she lives in was built in the 1860s, the treehouse was also granted landmark status as it is considered recreational equipment. That's a nice little f-you to the neighbor. Check it out:
Here's a video tour of Hackett's (well crafted, we might add) treehouse:
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I've had a few people ask where they will be able to watch the event taking place. From people intrested in taking photos and the general public wanting to support.
The family route (39 Riders) Will follow the roads round the Loch to Low Askomil (old shipyard) then return via the same route, carrying on to Kilkerran, where there will be a checkpoint- they are encouraged then to do as little or as much as they want past Kilkerran with a maximum outer point of the bottom of the hill at Kildalloig Bay.
The 33 mile challenge (harder route) exits the town via Kilkerran Road and Kildalloig, then re enters by the A83 West Road, Millknowe and into Longrow, Left at the end and along the Dual Carriageway.
The 20 mile easier challenge leaves via the railway path & Meadows Avenue & Tomaig Road, then back in via the Big Kiln and Main Street, and the Dual Carriageway.
So we hope there are plenty places to observe and cheer the cyclists on, should you wish to do so. Obviously there will be a short length of Kilkerran Road between the Ardshiel and the railway path, that will be used by all riders (though at different times)
As has already been explained elsewhere the Ultimate has had to be suspended until next year, due to poor take up.


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Join the weekly Classic Castle set review discussion. Please post your opinions on the set play ability, piece selection, design, etc. Which sets stand up to our catapult of critique and which ones crumble in shame!
This week's set is 6049 Viking Voyager.
Viking Voyager, a longboat for the King's Men, was released in 1987. This set included the viking inspired boat, a captain, three rowers, a helmsman, treasure chest, and accessories.


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Brendan Ryan Finds His Ironic Legacy: Keeping His Mouth Shut
We learned many things from Jim Joyce, Armando Galarraga and the infamous Imperfect Game of June 2, 2010. We learned that throwing beer bottles at the wall may cause significant DAMAGE (to the beer bottle, possibly the wall too). We learned that styling one's facial hair after the Pringles man cannot disguise MISTAKES. And we also learned that the best way to avoid controversy, is to AVOID controversy.
So when Philip Humber threw that wild 3-2 breaking ball two feet off the plate on Saturday and Brendan Ryan checked his swing, I felt all of the fury, all of the tension, all of the RAGE from the Imperfect Game ALL over again. Except homeplate umpire Brian Runge called it a swing, AJ Pierzynski threw the ball to first and the celebration began.
In my house, I had a hard time celebrating Humber's gem because I was already seeing the asterisk-calling headlines, I could already hear Mariners fans (all three of them) flooding the sports talk shows with vitriol. And as Brendan Ryan argued with Runge about the call, I knew it was time for me to go outside to get some fresh air before my phone started to blow up with imperfect texts.
Except… none of the above actually happened. Brendan Ryan dropped the subject. He tipped his cap and moved on. The networks — as if taken over by an Orwellian machine of greater good (a fantasy in itself) — didn't even show the replays of Ryan's checked swing. The Wizard said "Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain" and I — WE ALL — gleefully obliged, even though it sorta felt dirty doing so.
We owe that guilt-stained dirty feeling to Brendan Ryan. In fact, whether it is a good thing or not, Philip Humber's perfect game will live on unscathed by controversy because Brendan Ryan simply let it go. He shut his mouth. He went about his business. And now we are to forget.
For a guy who was labeled as "a distraction" and a "clubhouse cancer" during his St. Louis Cardinal tenure, it's nice to see Brendan being recognized for something else. Admittedly, I never would have bet it'd be for saying… nothing.
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"Too many students lack access to arts education, and having any experience often becomes a question of privilege or chance," says Anne Gaines, Dean of the School of Art, Media, and Technology at Parsons School of Design. "It's been tremendously rewarding to make the educational resources of Parsons available to our local community through my various roles here."
A native of rural Tennessee, Gaines was a math major as an undergraduate until a contemporary art history course inspired her to become a studio practitioner. After moving to New York City, she worked in a gallery and developed a studio practice, then entered Parsons as an MFA student. "I chose to study fine art in a design school because of the exposure and opportunities it afforded. Through my graduate experience I was able to explore my passion for art and for art and design education."
As a painter, educator, and Parsons alumna, Gaines appreciates Parsons' broad perspective on what it means to be an artist. "When I was an undergraduate, my perception was that your only career option as an artist was to exhibit commercially. However, there are unlimited ways for students to thrive through their creative endeavors in our complex and diverse city in their own unique ways. There are many paths to success."
Today, as Dean of the School of Art, Media, and Technology, Gaines is particularly interested in the role of community and culture in a large urban center like New York City. "My focus on community plays out both in my art and in my work at Parsons." A particularly satisfying part of Gaines' job is her work with Parsons Scholars, a needs-based program for urban youth. The program enables high school students to take classes at Parsons from their sophomore year through graduation. "It's incredibly rewarding to watch these youth grow through their commitment to a really rigorous and challenging extracurricular program. They are making an investment in themselves and their future."
Graduates of the program who go on to study at Parsons as undergraduates often become mentors to the next class of Parsons Scholars. "They're only a few years older, but having just had the experience of choosing a college, they are positive role models and inspire their younger peers."


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Mexico has come up with an inducement for private companies such as Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM) to bid on contracts that would end a 75-year state energy monopoly.
Though the government will retain ownership of oil, President Enrique Pena Nieto plans to lift restrictions on companies registering the value of contracts with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Deputy Energy Minister Enrique Ochoa said in an interview yesterday. Those values could then be converted into volume and recognized on balance sheets.
A ship departs from the Petroleos Mexicanos Bicentennial deep sea crude oil platform in the waters off Tamaulipas, Mexico. Photographer: Susana Gonzalez/Bloomberg
Allowing companies to book some reserves would increase a proposed profit-sharing model's attractiveness by making it easier for them to raise financing, according to Citigroup Inc. The rule change would be secondary to the government's main proposal of changing the constitution to allow private companies to develop fields for the first time since 1938.
"It's very significant," Julio Zamora, an equity strategist at Citigroup, said by telephone from Quintana Roo, Mexico. "Booking reserves is a way for companies to put them on the balance sheet and allow users of financial statements to understand where they are spending and investing and where they are looking for future production to come from."
Pena Nieto, the 47-year-old former governor who returned the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, to power in December, opted for profit-sharing contracts to loosen state-owned Petroleos Mexicanos's grip on the oil industry and help reverse an eight-year crude production decline.
Looking Closely
Mexico's peso was little changed at 12.7276 per U.S. dollar at 9:05 a.m. in Mexico City. The currency weakened 0.3 percent yesterday, paring losses after Ochoa's comments.
Pacific Rubiales Energy Corp. (PRE), Colombia's largest independent crude producer, is "looking very closely at Mexico," Chief Executive Officer Ronald Pantin said in an interview yesterday in Bogota. "We have met with Pemex," he said. "If the contract conditions make sense, we'll be in Mexico."
Under the proposal, companies will be paid a portion of cash generated from fields, rather than from barrels produced, as the government seeks to garner support from the National Action Party, which proposed concessions, and the Democratic Revolution Party, which opposes changing the constitution.
Investment Boost
Mexico has the biggest proven oil reserves in Latin America after Venezuela and Brazil, with 13.87 billion barrels, and shale-gas resources that may be as high as 460 trillion cubic feet, according to data compiled by Pemex. The state-owned company says that with the proper investments and technology, about 27 billion barrels of crude in the deep waters can be added to the nation's proven reserves.
Pena Nieto's measures seek to promote investment that will lift the economy by 2 percentage points by 2025. The energy changes would prompt as much as $50 billion in annual investments, according to Hector Moreira, a Pemex board member.
Pena Nieto's chief of staff, Aurelio Nuno, said Aug. 12 that the government will push to have constitutional and regulatory amendments approved by the end of the year. The proposed contracts are similar to those used in Ecuador and Iran, Energy Minister Pedro Joaquin Coldwell said Aug. 12.
"The plan is that companies will be allowed to register the economic interest of the risk-sharing contracts under SEC rules that allow converting that value into volume while the state maintains full ownership," Ochoa said.
Exxon, Chevron Corp. (CVX), Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA) and Repsol SA (REP) are among major producers that have expressed interest in Mexican oil fields. Spokespeople for all four companies declined to comment on the plan to allow SEC registration.
'Build Agreements'
If the risk-sharing model doesn't mandate a minimum stake for Pemex and allows companies to report some reserves "Mexico has a lot going forward," said Jeremy Martin, an oil specialist at the Institute of the Americas in La Jolla, California. "The Mexico model may be attractive enough because it's country risk."
Oil at all stages of production, refining and distribution has been the legal property of the Mexican people since 1938, when then-President Lazaro Cardenas seized fields from U.S. and British companies and changed the nation's charter. The expropriation is celebrated every March 18 and trumpeted as a point of pride in schoolchildren's textbooks.
"The major oil companies really care about booking reserves," said Tim Samples, a law professor at the University of Georgia. This is the "second-best thing" after production-sharing contracts, he said.
'Real Progress'
The SEC allows companies to register reserve equivalents stating that "under the economic interest method, the company's share of the cost recovery oil revenue and the profit oil revenue is divided by the year-end oil price, which represents the volume entitlement," according toguidelines published by the regulator on 2001.
"It seems like there's real progress in the government's thinking about reserves," George Baker, a Houston-based energy consultant, said in a telephone interview. "The possibility needs to be explicitly shown in the regulatory law."
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Choose a Seat Wedding Sign - Wedding Prints - Bumble Bee Wedding - Wild Flower Theme
This listing is for one A2 wedding sign "Choose a seat not a side. You are loved by both the Groom and Bride." Printed on 3mm Foamex mount board. Perfect for on-the-day wedding signs.
The illustrated pattern was created by making individual lino 'stamps' of the flowers and bees. Then colour was added digitally along with the text.
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Renato Gaúcho, one of the finest Brazilian players of his generation, calls Kaiser "the greatest footballer never to have played football". He had a career spanning more than two decades, during which he was associated with Rio's four biggest clubs – Flamengo, Fluminense, Botafogo and Vasco da Gama – as well as Bangu, América and a number of overseas teams. Yet throughout his career he went out of his way not to play football. "I wanted to be among the other players," Kaiser says. "I just didn't want to play. It's everybody else's problem if they want me to be a footballer. Not even Jesus pleased everybody. Why would I?"
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Thomas Labé plays one of the world's most recognized piano pieces.
To drift quietly into the weekend, smile on face. Youtube here.
Just so we're clear about Rye Patch Gold (RPM.v)
It definitely has run out of cash and it definitely will finance again very soon. So stop mailing me with your stupid guesses about royalty payments being enough, dumbasses. You don't know what the fark you're talking about and if this is the way you go about your mining investment, you'd be much better off sticking your whole wedge in a time deposit and dedicating your time to learning something more productive to your life, such as macrame or competitive trainspotting or coupon swap evenings. Freakin' twats. End of rant.
Barkerville. Eric. Sean.
Regarding mining stocks and humility
We must be humble. We are so easily baffled by appearances
And do not realise that these stones are one with the stars.
It makes no difference to them whether they are high or low,
Mountain peak or ocean floor, palace, or pigsty.
There are plenty of ruined buildings in the world but no ruined stones.
What happens to us
Is irrelevant to the world's geology
But what happens to the world's geology
Is not irrelevant to us.
We must reconcile ourselves to the stones,
Not the stones to us.
Sandstorm Gold (SAND) (SSL.to) in the next edition of The IKN Weekly
By mouthbreather demand: IKN writes nice things about a junior mining stock
Mailbag. Detour. Goldcorp.
If Detour drops by a third, I have to think it would get GG's attention and warrant a bid. Thoughts?
Barkerville Gold (BGM.v): Ah wuz shocked...
UPDATE: And ah wuz shocked when they upsided the bot deal. Shocked.
New Gold (NGD): And for the first quarter in living memory...
...New Gold (NGD) has managed to file its quarterly financials, its MD&A and the accompanying news release without adding to the capex or further delaying the construction timeline of Rainy River.
The IKN theory on the new US government's tax reform plans*
The Paul van Eeden "Better Sleep Principle" and Rye Patch Gold (RPM.v) (from IKN412)
- Good news about the permit arrival
- I'm holding on the numbers and its potential
- But financials and cash position now look tight
- And if they decide to run a placement it will be a bridge too far and I'm out
The other thing about this Sandstorm (SAND) deal is the newco market cap
Sandstorm buys Mariana (UPDATED)
Woah! Here's the chewy bit:
Under the terms of the Combination, Mariana shareholders will receive 28.75 pence in cash and 0.2573 of a Sandstorm share for each one Mariana share held. The Combination values Mariana at approximately 110 pence per Mariana share based on the closing price of US$4.04 per Sandstorm Share on the NYSE MKT and a currency exchange rate of £0.7788 per USD, on April 25, 2017.The terms of the Combination represent a premium of approximately 84% to the closing price of 59.50 pence per Mariana share on April 25, 2017 and a premium of approximately 88% to the 20-day VWAP per Mariana share.If successful, the Combination will result in Mariana shareholders, together, owning approximately 19.0% of the ordinary share capital of the Combined Group.Sandstorm holds 8,980,243 Mariana shares, representing approximately 7.0% of the issued ordinary share capital of Mariana, and Mariana warrants over a further 4,490,122 Mariana shares.
Crapstone Mining (CS.to) 1q17 financials and that "costless" collar
VANCOUVER, Nov. 9, 2016 /PRNewswire/ - Capstone Mining Corp. ("Capstone") (CS.TO) today announced that it has entered into zero-cost collars for 43,000 tonnes of copper with settlements between January and December 2017 at a minimum of US$5,025 and a maximum of US$5,585 per tonne of copper. There was no cost to Capstone to put this protection in place.
"...those of you wondering why all the gross profits have suddenly disappeared from the CS.to 1q17 and 2q17 results will receive a sharp lesson in just how "zero cost" this all is."
The GMO piece on diamonds, De Beers and Stephen Lussier is a bona fide tour de force
Insightful, intelligent and top class prose to boot, Alex W has out-done himself. You have to read this so do so by clicking this link.
Continental Gold (CNL.to) gives us an update
"With the senior secured debt facility in place, the Company remains funded for its 2017 planned activities with approximately $100 million in available cash and liquidity and remains on track for first gold pour in early 2020."
Why is it that nearly all mining stocks are going down...
...except the two I want to buy/add?
"The Clintons are family friends, I just want to leave it at that."
The Copper Mountain (CMMC.to) financial disaster zone
This Angry Geologist piece on Barkerville Gold (BGM.to)...
...isn't just good geology and mathematics, it's damned funny too. Read it here.
Robert M. Pirsig, Sep 6 1928 - April 24 2017. RIP.
UPDATE Tuesday: The Graun has published a decent obituary of the man, here.
Dalradian (DNA.to). Galantas (GAL.v). Northern Ireland Police. Explosives. Mailbag.
"...do you think the GAL news affects Dalradian? They use explosives don't they? Do Northern Ireland not like Canadian miners and are stopping them with this?"
Galantas Gold (GAL.v): Chalk up another success for "The IKN First Law of Mining News Releases"
"The IKN First Law of Mining News Releases: Considering that anything contained in a mining news release is presented in the best possible way for the company in question, any piece of information contained in a NR that comes across in any way negative means the real news and/or events behind it must be very, very bad indeed."
Cut to the wee small hours of this morning and the latest NR out of GAL.v. Read it here and there's plenty in it, but the pay dirt is this:
Galantas Gold Corporation ("Galantas" or the "Company") (TSX VENTURE:GAL)(AIM:GAL) has received notification that the Police Service of Northern Ireland ("PSNI") will not provide its required anti-terrorism cover in regard to blasting operations required for mine development at the Omagh Gold Mine.
The IKN Weekly, out now
Everybody loved it because it was roomy and comfortable and, for the time, had good cruise performance. However the airplane was really quite underpowered and in today's world not many pilots are still comfortable flying them. If you lose an engine right after takeoff you can only manage about 300ft/minute climb rate on the remaining engine, which is not a lot when you consider minimum safe speed is about 120kts. And then only if you were careful about weight and balance, if not get ready to meet your maker.
He has IKN421 reserved, too. What a total propellerhead nerd.
Messi and The Matrix
The simulation hypothesis has entered the culture as an explanatory meme. Writing in the New Yorker earlier this year, the critic Adam Gopnik suggested that the Oscar confusion, in which La La Land was wrongly given the best film award meant for Moonlight, the election of Donald Trump, and the improbable late comeback by the New England Patriots in the Super Bowl showed "that we are living in the matrix, and something has gone wrong with the controllers".


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It's rare that you need to reach a property by boat. It's rare, too, that the property is an entire island. It's even rarer that the island was once owned by John Lennon
When the BBC television series Coast visited Ireland, it wasn't long before they found themselves on Mayo's Atlantic stretch and within sight of Clew Bay. Needless to say, they were impressed:
They told us that local mythology counts the scattering of islands as 365 – one for each day of the year (in truth there are approximately 117). In 1967 and for the sum of £1,700, John Lennon made one of the 117 his own.
It would be nice to think that at the height of Beatlemania, the screaming, the clamouring and the ceaseless touring, Lennon escaped regularly to Dorinish and simply lived. Here, of course, was a man with a mind made for imagining. He was a person who maintained those inherently charming, almost childish ideals of hope, peace and love that defined all that was positive about his generation. Considering the silence of Clew Bay, the soundtrack of lolling surf and the unimaginable greenery of the scattered islands, it would be hard to conjure a vision of a place more suited to 'imagining'.
Did Lennon get that chance? A quote from his wife, Yoko Ono, is a clue:
"We often discussed the idea of building a cottage there. It was so beautiful, so tranquil, yet so isolated, it seemed a perfect place to get away from it all"
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By the time of his death in 1980, Lennon had only visited the island once. Michael Browne, a local who took Lennon to visit Dorinish, said of the visit, "He [Lennon] was constantly panning a cine-camera to get a panoramic of the bay".
Life, and the world's most incredible music phonomenon, got in the way of Lennon's plans to build a home on the island. Even though he had received planning permission to build there, the Liverpudlian simply never found the time to settle. In the meantime, he 'lent' the island to the peace campaigner and journalist Sid Rawle, or as many might know him 'The King of the Hippies'.
Even though the island was sold by Yoko Ono four years after Lennon's death (Ono donated the sale proceeds of £30,000 to an Irish orphanage), to this day, the island is known locally as 'Beatle Island'.
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Deriving Your Sermon Outline from Scripture
Last night I demonstrated Accordance to a bunch of pastors at the Desiring God Pastor's Conference. Since I don't get too many opportunities to preach to pastors about sound exegetical method, I decided not to give a drink-from-the-firehouse-here's-everything-Accordance-can-do demonstration. Instead, I showed how you can use the tools in Accordance to exegete a particular passage. After a brief overview of the interface, I opened 2 Samuel 11—the story of David and Bathsheba—and began unpacking the text using a variety of Accordance tools.
I won't go into everything I did in that session, but my favorite part was showing how you can use Accordance's analysis and highlighting tools to identify repeated words and key themes in a passage. This was my favorite part because there are so many interesting motifs to explore in 2 Samuel 11, and each of those motifs can form the backbone of an expositional sermon.
For example, I began by highlighting all the words in 2 Samuel 11 related to washing. Obviously, David sees Bathsheba "bathing," and the text mentions that she was "purifying" herself from the ceremonial uncleanness resulting from her menstruation. Later in the passage, David tries to cover Bathsheba's pregnancy by enticing her husband to return home and "wash his feet"—that is, enjoy all the comforts of home, including his wife's companionship. Uriah, of course, refuses to return home. This motif of washing introduces a number of ironies. First, Bathsheba's "purification" becomes the stimulus for a far more significant loss of purity. Second, the one person in this story who doesn't "wash"—Uriah—is the only one who remains clean. As we say in the South, "That'll preach!" A good expositional sermon, therefore, could work through the implications of this washing motif in 2 Samuel 11, communicating both the author's literary artistry as well as a whole host of practical applications.
That, of course, is not the only literary motif in 2 Samuel 11. I went on to show how you could search for every word in 2 Samuel 11 (use the asterisk in word mode and define a range for 2 Samuel 11), then choose Analysis from the Details pop-up to get a list of all the words in the passage and the number of times they appear. Change the sort of the Analysis window from Alphabetical to Count Down and you'll see immediately which words are used most often in that passage.
Doing this reveals a number of interesting things:
First, David and Uriah are the two people mentioned most often, while Bathsheba is mentioned only once. Clearly, the author is more interested in contrasting these two men than in focusing on the woman with whom David committed adultery.
Second, the word "house" is repeated ten times in this single chapter. Do a search for "house" in 2 Samuel 11 and you see the contrast between David, who expanded his own house by pillaging Uriah's house, and Uriah, who remained faithful to build up the house of the king who had already betrayed him.
Finally, the word "sent" is also repeated numerous times in this passage. Examine that word, and you find that David, who is a man of action in almost every other passage, is constantly sending people to do his dirty work in 2 Samuel 11. The picture you get is of a man who is repeatedly manipulating things for his own benefit, rather than acting in service to the Lord or for the benefit of his people.
It should be easy to see how each of these motifs could form the outline of a good expositional sermon. For example, one could use the "house" motif in conjunction with Solomon's statement in Psalm 127:1 that "Unless the LORD builds the house, those who build it labor in vain." David resorts to ungodly means to build his own house, and it results in the judgment that "the sword shall never depart" from his house (2 Samuel 12:10). One could also point out that it was David's second son with Bathsheba who makes the observation about the LORD building a house, so that you could end your sermon on a redemptive note.
If an expositional sermon derives its central message and structure from the text itself, exploring the text's literary motifs and central themes provides a solid foundation upon which to build your sermon outline.
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Sharon Jensen
The Key Word Count is awesome! Someday Accordance will probably even be able to pick out the pronouns and synonyms from the text, too! Meanwhile, I am trying to find the Details pop-up in order to choose Analysis and use this cool feature. Can you guide me to it? Thank you so much!
Helen Brown
In version 9 the details button is a small square with a bar graph in light blue. In earlier versions it was a larger button labeled Details. In either case it is to the left of the Add Pane buttons.
Sharon Jensen
Thank you, Helen!


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Molten Chocolate Cake with Strawberry Mousse & Strawberry Tartare
Difficulty: Hard
Servings: 4-6
Preparation Time: 250mins
Cooking Time: 50 mins
For the chocolate cake:
For the strawberry tartare:
|For the mousse:
1. Preparing the Molten Chocolate Cake
- Using the wire whisk attachment, whisk eggs and sugar in the MaxxiMUM stainless-steel mixing bowl for 10 minutes until stiff. In the meantime, chop couverture and melt in a metal bowl over a bain-marie.
- Cut butter into bits and carefully heat in a second bowl over the bain-marie. Stir butter constantly with a mixing spoon until it starts to become creamy – the butter should remain translucent but should not turn completely liquid and clear.
- One after the other, add melted couverture, butter and flour to the eggs and stir vigorously. Let chocolate mixture cool for at least 3 hours, or overnight.
- Preheat oven to 180°C (no Convection). Brush ramekins with a little softened butter and sprinkle with grated walnuts. Pour in chocolate mixture. Bake in the oven for 28 to 30 minutes until small cracks form on the surface of the cakes. Remove cakes from the oven, slide out of the moulds and serve immediately.
- Tip: You can also bake the cakes in stainless-steel rings (6 cm diameter). In this case, the cakes bake in half the time and are exactly cylindrical. Line each ring with a strip of baking parchment 7 cm wide. Place on a piece of baking parchment and roll the edges of the underlying paper inward. Fill rings with the chocolate mixture using a pastry bag, place on the baking sheet and bake for 12 to 14 minutes.
2. Garnish tip
- For the chocolate curls (see photo), chop 200 g dark chocolate couverture. In a bowl, combine chocolate, 65 g glucose and 1 tablespoon water, melt over a bain-marie and stir well. Cover and let cool. Before using, knead thoroughly so the mixture becomes smooth.
- Roll out into a thin sheet with a little cocoa powder. Cut into strips or other shapes using, for example, a pizza or biscuit cutter. Shape the strips and let dry for about an hour. Store the remaining mixture in an airtight container and always knead until smooth before using.
3. Preparing the Strawberry Mousse and Strawberry Tartare:
- Soak gelatine leaves in cold water. Finely grate 2 teaspoons orange peel and squeeze juice from orange using the MaxxiMUM citrus press. Combine 100 ml orange juice, Campari and sugar, bring to a boil and remove from heat. Dissolve gelatine in the juice mixture. Rinse and stem strawberries and purée in the MaxxiMUM mixer attachment. Mix 250 g strawberry purée with orange mixture and grated orange peel. Refrigerate for several hours, just until the mixture begins to gel, stirring occasionally.
- As soon as the mousse starts to gel, beat cream in the MaxxiMUM mixing bowl until stiff using the wire whisk attachment. Fold whipped cream into the mousse. Transfer to a bowl and refrigerate for at least 4 hours.
- In the meantime, rinse and stem strawberries for the tartare. Shred lemon verbena leaves. Let sweet woodruff leaves wilt for one day – this makes them more aromatic – and then shred, saving a few whole leaves for garnish. Purée herb leaves with about a third of the strawberries and the agave syrup in the MaxxiMUM mixer attachment. Finely dice remaining strawberries and stir into strawberry purée.
- Transfer strawberry tartare to plates. Briefly dip a tablespoon into hot water and place small blobs of mousse on the strawberries. Garnish with lemon verbena or sweet woodruff leaves.
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Read the full story here Web Link posted Tuesday, July 31, 2012, 7:03 PM
Town Square
Two-alarm fire blazes through East Palo Alto home
Original post made on Jul 31, 2012
Read the full story here Web Link posted Tuesday, July 31, 2012, 7:03 PM
a resident of another community
on Jul 31, 2012 at 9:24 pm
I was there to witness the fire. What a brave family to go through that horrifying trauma. I am so incredibly relieved and happy to know that the boy had escaped. Hallelujah! My love and support goes out to the family.
Correction---the house address was 132, not 127.
Lisa Lynn
a resident of another community
on Aug 1, 2012 at 9:53 am
I'm glad that everyone escaped relatively unscathed - including the dog. What a disturbing story - thinking your child is in the burning building. And the neighbor's caregiver fleeing, leaving the disabled woman alone? Clearly it all could've ended much more tragically.
a resident of Menlo Park: other
on Aug 1, 2012 at 12:10 pm
If a community organization gets involved in raising funds to help this family, I hope The Almanac will follow up with details for anyone who wants to contribute. Thank heaven they're all alive but I'm sure they are devastated.
a resident of another community
on Aug 1, 2012 at 2:13 pm
What's needed for the family - do you know? I know that finding housing after a fire can be a nightmare.
Isn't there homeowners' insurance? I know that doesn't always kick in as fast as needed.
a resident of another community
on Aug 14, 2012 at 12:43 pm
This Is the story of how your life can change instantly. That was our home. We loved it. I worked so hard to get what we had.
We had been homeless for 2 years, living in homeless shelters and now we are back in this position. I am a single mother trying to make the best of this situation, but it Is truly hard.
I am blessed that I did not lose my son, that was the worst feeling I had ever felt. I would like to thank the nice people who have donated to my family. We are truly in need of everything, still. If you would like to make a donation to my family, there Is a donation account at Stanford credit union. We would really appreciate it.
Thank you for your support. Ishea Ventura
a resident of another community
on Aug 14, 2012 at 2:15 pm
The message below was posted on Palo Alto Online:
Posted by Felicia Ventura, a resident of the Downtown North neighborhood, on Aug 8, 2012 at 3:29 pm
Hi All,
As some of you may know, Tuesday, July 31, 2012 my sister Ishea Ventura and her children (Dominique 15, Precious 11, Jordan 9, Sanaa 1 and Mekayla 3 months) lost their home in a house fire. Not only did they lose their home but they also lost their car, so when I say they lost everything I mean they lost everything. I am reaching out to the community and my friends to see if I can get help for them in this time of need. They are accepting and very appreciative of any kind of donation, clothing, household items and of course money. She is a single parent on a fixed income. Obviously this has been a very tragic event for them, and they have an extremely challenging road ahead of them.
An account has been set up at:
Stanford Federal Credit Union
Relief Fund for Ventura Family Fire
14220434 (member number-please include this number when making donations)
Mail donations to:
P.O. Box 10690
Palo Alto, CA 94303-0843
Walk in locations:
525 University Ave. Suite 21 694 Pampas Lane
Palo Alto, CA 94301 Stanford, CA 94305
If you have any questions or need to contact me my phone number is 408.469.7516 or you can email me at firstname.lastname@example.com
Thank you and God Bless
Felicia Ventura
a resident of another community
on Aug 14, 2012 at 8:17 pm
Felicia- if you join the local FreeCycle, you can ask for items as well as look on the list for items she can use.
Are any of the local churches or nonprofits helping as well?


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Australian Gov't: Not In The Public Interest For The Public To Be Interested In Secret Anti-Piracy Negotiations
from the transparency?-what's-that? dept
Last month Techdirt wrote about yet more secret meetings between the copyright and internet industries, this time in Australia, where the federal government there was "encouraging" them to come up with ways of tackling online copyright infringement.
The public, as usual, was not invited to offer their views on plans that would obviously affect them more than anyone. And so people filed a freedom of information (FOI) request to find out belatedly what was going on. But the answers they received were unsatisfactory, to say the least:
the Attorney-General's Department responded to that Freedom of Information request, providing a series of five documents. However, using a variety of justifications, the department has redacted almost all of the information previously contained in the documents -- including 14 pages of notes taken by a departmental staffer at the event and other four pages of notes taken by a senior staffer from Communications Minister Stephen Conroy's department.
Some of the excuses for not providing the requested information are pretty far-fetched:
the Attorney-General's Department stated in its response to Delimiter's FoI request that it "does not hold" a list of the attendees who actually attended the meeting.
So the Australian government organized a secret meeting, but doesn't know who attended? If that's true, it suggests a stunning level of incompetence that ought to require heads to roll; and if it's not true, then heads should still roll, for being economical with the truth.
But perhaps the most outrageous aspect of the response to the FOI request is the underlying justification for providing a content-free non-reply:
"Disclosure of the documents while the negotiations are still in process, would, in my view, prejudice, hamper and impede those negotiations to an unacceptable degree," wrote [Attorney-General's Department senior legal officer] Purcell. That would, in my view, be contrary to the interests of good government -- which would, in turn, be contrary to the public interest."
What this really means is: "All hell will break loose when the public finds out what is being discussed behind closed doors. So what we're going to do is to come up with an agreement in secret, and then present it as a fait accompli, without offering citizens any options to change anything substantive. By contrast, to release the documents, and allow the public to have a say in how they should be allowed to use a critical 21st-century technology, would be contrary to the interests of this very good government, which by definition is identical with the public interest."
It's really extraordinary that, in 2012, governments can still trot out this nonsense that what is good for the government is by definition good for the public interest. How about letting the public have a say on the matter, by inviting them to join the debate using the means devised by the open government movements around the world during the last few years?
Instead, once the back-room deal finally emerges into the light of day, and is predictably met by a barrage of anger, the Australian government will profess itself stunned by the ingratitude of the public that is rejecting all that hard work done by its faithful public servants. And then perhaps, following in the footsteps of their German colleagues, Australian politicians will use that anger over lack of transparency as an excuse to justify further lack of transparency.
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School kids show Harley riders some Milwaukee hospitality
A big part of the Harley-Davidson's 110th anniversary is hospitality.
The mission of some students from Holy Family School in Whitefish Bay was to welcome Harley riders to town.
"The kids love the opportunity to be hosts for the bike riders," parent Beth Manley said.
But it wasn't easy. Their chants were drowned out as biker after biker sped by on Lake Drive.
"Free tattoos and coffee, free tattoos and coffee," 6-year-old Mara Vollmers said.
He wouldn't give up.
"If you throw leaves at them, then they won't come," Vollmers said.
Minutes turned into hours with no motorcycle guests. Then finally, a biker stopped.
"Got a little coffee opportunity going on," motorcyclist Victor Haman said.
It took almost two hours for that first biker to arrive, but in the end it was worth it. He was from the great state of Texas.
"There's nothing better than kids on a rally showing their spirit," Haman said.
Swarms of bikers soon followed to enjoy some heartfelt Wisconsin hospitality.


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57% Americans would be interested in participating in a clinical trial. However, most clinical studies struggles to recruit sufficient patients. The issue has attracted a number or software as well contract service firms that specialize in clinical trial recruitment, even using social medial tools. Then there is long going debate and efforts for integrating EHR data into clinical trial and identifying potential suitable target population of patients directly from de-identified EHR data
In order to connect patients and researchers, Novartis, Pfizer and Eli Lilly and Company, are partnering in the U.S. to provide a new platform to improve access to information about clinical trials. The platform will enhance clinicaltrials.gov and is expected to be launched by early 2014 with a database of about 50 clinical research studies from the participating companies.
The new platform will provide more detailed and patient-friendly information about the trials, including a machine readable "target health profile" to improve the ability of healthcare software to match individual health profiles to applicable clinical trials.
As part of the project, patients can search for trials using their own Blue Button data. To preserve data privacy de-identified Blue Button data, used only as an "index to search," will not be stored anywhere outside of the patient's application.
Other sponsors of clinical research studies may upload information about their trials, while software companies develop tools to deliver this information to interested patients.
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V.20 No.33 | 8/18/2011
Car Crashes
We can't always blame it on the booze. Sometimes bad drivers are just bad drivers, particularly on Paseo del Norte. A report by UNM's Division of Government Research breaks down the 50 worst intersections in the state based on data from 2007 through 2009. Paseo del Norte at Coors as well as at Jefferson tie for the No. 1 spots with 391 crashes apiece. Coors and Paseo is slightly more dangerous, as 118 of those crashes (or 30 percent) were fatal. (Paseo and Jefferson comes in at 110 fatalities, or 28 percent.) More intersections to steer clear of: bit.ly/abqcarcrashes. (EK)


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The primaries were depressing. Nearly every website I went to for candidates info started off with something about Christian values or where the candidate went to church, or how much we needed God. I…Continue
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The Humanists of the East Alabama Region, or HEAR, is a community of humanists, atheists, agnostics and freethinkers which meets in Auburn, Alabama.Please visit our web site at…Continue
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Hello my fellow Alabama Atheists!I wanted to introduce myself to everyone (several of you already know me). My name is Blair Scott and I am the Alabama State Director for American Atheists. My job is…Continue
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Article: Atheists, agnostics unite in disbelief (The…Continue
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I am looking for the online Alabama Atheists and Freethought Groups. Specifically, I am looking for ones that seemingly only have an online presence or also are not listed in this list…Continue
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This is a recent letter to the editor published in the Dothan Eagle:Letters to the EditorPublished: January 6, 2009Grade school textbooks teach evolution as fact. It is a monstrous lie that harms our…Continue
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I am now the Atheist Examiner for the Birmingham division of Examiner.com. I will be covering atheist/secular related news and events throughout the state.Here is the link:…Continue
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I will be contributing to a new website - www.discoverwestalabama.com. Launch date is April 30th, be sure to check it out.
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The Samford Socratic Club is bringing Christopher Hitchens and Dinesh D'Souza together again for a debate at the Samford University in Birmingham, AL on March 3rd 2009.Blair Scott, National Affiliate…Continue
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I was listening to a Skepticaity podcast from November (episode #90 MP3), a…Continue
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AMERICAN ATHEISTS NATIONAL CONVENTIONAPRIL 9, 10, 11, 12, 2009ATLANTA, GEORGIAEmory Conference Center Hotel/Emory Inn1615 Clifton Road, Atlanta, GA 30329Said to be the "Best Kept Secret" in Georgia…Continue
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I am pleased and excited to announce that as of this week there are two new atheist/agnostic/freethinker groups in Alabama.Montgomery Area Freethought Association (MAFA)…Continue
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I want to announce a new group in Tuscaloosa called Tuscaloosa-West Alabama Freethinkers.If you live near there, please join.Please mention…Continue
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Roy Moore? Elected again? I've got to get the hell out of Alabama!
Before I wrote that paper I hadn't really thought too much about other atheists. But since reading everything I did and writing it, it made me want to find and learn more about being an atheist. I want to learn much more than I know.
Finally finished my research paper for college. It was on the discrimination facing atheists in the southern states.
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Had a wonderful time at Lake Hypatia this year. The food was great, the lectures were great and the people were awesome. I leave this Sunday, 8 July, 2012 for a long distance motorcycle ride to Alaska. Contacted the Anchorage Atheists and look forward to meeting with them while there. See you all next year. Gean
Who wants to have a good old fashioned "Sacred Christian Cross Lighting?"
Hey everyone! Leaving here on Friday afternoon heading to Lake Hypatia so when you see a black man pull up on a black Honda Goldwing, don't trip cause it's just me. Looking forward to meeting everyone and will be camping out.
Excellent, see you there, Grant! As for everyone else, early registration ends in just three days, so get on it. Also, we're in the process of revamping our facebook page, so come check that out as well!
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Awesome, Gean! I'll be there, too. If anyone else is interested, check out the site and be sure to register. There's also a Lake Hypatia thread up above in the group's discussion forum.
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Washington: Growing optimism about the economy and a big turnout of the core Democratic coalition sealed President Barack Obama's re-election victory.
After years of bleak economic news, enough Americans now believe better days lie ahead for the U.S. economy. The coalition of young, female and minority voters that propelled Obama to victory four years ago also turned out again, in huge numbers.
Early exit polls reflected a pro-Obama turnout by minorities and single women so big that in some key states it exceeded numbers seen during his historic election in 2008 as America's first black president.
Although Republican Mitt Romney did much better with independent voters than Obama on Tuesday, that advantage was wiped out in key battleground states by an enthusiasm Obama managed to engender among his core coalition that many analysts were writing off just a few months ago as dispirited and fractured.
In Pennsylvania, for example, African-American turnout exceeded 2008 levels, ABC News said. In Nevada, 18 per cent of the voters were Latino - up from 15 per cent in 2008, according to CNN.
That rapidly growing electoral bloc backed Obama overwhelmingly, as it appeared to be doing in Florida, one of the biggest prizes with its 29 electoral college votes. By Tuesday night, Florida - a state Romney had been confident of winning - was too close to call, but appeared to be heading toward an Obama victory.
Obama also opened up a large gender gap over Romney among women, several exit polls indicated.
"I thought four years ago there was an enduring Obama electorate, and that is what we've seen tonight," said Tad Devine, a veteran Democratic strategist.
"It's made up of African-Americans, Latinos, single women and young people," he said. "You combine that with blue-collar union workers and upper-educated whites, and you have a majority, especially in battleground states."
Devine added: "This coalition has legs. It reflects the demographic reality of America - the country is becoming less white, and there are more minorities and single people."
Romney also appeared to have overplayed his hand when it came to his central campaign argument that the U.S. economy was in dire straits because of Obama's bungled fiscal stewardship.
In politically divided states such as Virginia, Iowa and Ohio, Romney had an edge among voters who believed he would do a better job handling the economy - but only just. It was not enough for a candidate who made the economy central to his campaign.
As the night wore on, Romney's path to victory narrowed and was all but gone by 10 p.m. EST (0300 GMT Wednesday). State after battleground state he needed to win to get to the 270 electoral votes needed for victory fell to Obama: New Hampshire, Iowa, Colorado, Nevada, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. By 11 p.m. EST, Obama had narrowly carried Ohio - and with it re-election.
Obama effectively swept the American Midwest, the county's industrial heartland.
Romney's efforts to convince voters that America's stubbornly high unemployment rate of 7.9 per cent was all Obama's fault appeared to have backfired.
Early national exit polls revealed that about 50 per cent of U.S. voters still blamed former Republican President George W. Bush for the country's economic problems rather than Obama.
Bill Galston, a former domestic policy adviser to Democratic President Bill Clinton, said Obama clinched victory because a range of economic factors improved in the past six months.
Galston said the jobless rate had been ticking downward, the housing market appeared to have stabilized with home prices finally rising, and consumer confidence had been improving.
A Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted in the week before the election reflected how voters' views of the economy had been improving steadily.
In October 2011, several months into Romney's candidacy, only one quarter of the country believed America was heading in the "right direction" - a key metric looked at by pollsters and a grave worry then for Obama's strategists.
By last week, that number had risen to 45 per cent.
"The president's handling of the economy had to be the centrepiece of Romney's campaign," Galston said. "He had no choice. But all sorts of economic signs perked up in the past six months - and just in time for the president."
Yet Obama's victory in the face of such a high unemployment rate was remarkable given the historical winds he faced. No U.S. president has won re-election with an unemployment rate of over 7.2 per cent since Franklin Roosevelt in 1936.
No Republican has ever won the White House without victory in Ohio and the critical swing state was carried by Obama in large part because of his decision early in his presidency to bail out the bankrupt auto industry in neighbouring Michigan.
In Ohio, where one in 8 jobs is tied to the auto industry, an overwhelming 59 per cent of voters approved of the bailout - a move opposed by Romney at the time. Of that 59 per cent, three quarters backed Obama in Ohio on Tuesday.
In Ohio, according to exit polls conducted by CNN, 37 per cent of voters believed the economy was getting better, compared with 33 per cent who thought things were getting worse.
In Virginia, 43 per cent saw things improving, compared with 36 per cent who believed life was going to get worse.
In those battleground states, and in others such as Colorado and Iowa, Obama enjoyed significant leads with voters on the question of who would best fight for the middle class and "people like us."
David Gergen, a political analyst and former adviser to two Democratic and two Republican presidents, said: "There is no doubt the president benefited from his economic policies. His auto bailout may have won Ohio and helped win key votes in the upper Midwest."
Gergen added: "Consumer confidence is also on the rise, inspired in part by cheery White House whisperings that success is just around the corner. Voters may have a rude disappointment, but they bought in during this election season."
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Nilaksh Kothari, general manager of public utilities for Manitowoc, Wis., has assumed the presidency of the American Water Works Association (AWWA) at a Gavel Passing Ceremony during AWWA's Annual Conference and Exposition (ACE07).
"It is a great honor to lead the world's largest and best organization dedicated to public health through the provision of safe water," said Kothari, who has served for many years as a leader in the Wisconsin Section of AWWA and as an AWWA vice president. "This is a privilege and an immense responsibility, and I promise to serve with the same enthusiasm, passion and commitment that define our profession."
During Kothari's career as a water professional, he has been honored with the AWWA George Warren Fuller Award (2002), the Wisconsin Section Research Award (1997), and the Achievement Award in (1996). He also has served as chair of the Diversity & Member Involvement Committee and on the Strategic Planning, Education, Water for People, and Small System and Membrane Process committees.
Kothari succeeds Terry Rolan, director of the City of Durham, N.C., Department of Water Management, as AWWA president. The new president-elect is Mike Leonard, water operations manager for the City of Roswell, Ga.
In accepting the gavel, Kothari told a standing-room-only crowd that he would focus on listening to members, strengthening Section-Association cooperation, encouraging the use of the best available technologies, identifying and engaging strategic partners and continuing succession planning. Among the other speakers were Kothari's son, Anai, a student at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and Mayor Kevin Crawford of Manitowoc.
"It is more important now than ever to plan for the future," Kothari said. "As we face the challenges of the 21st century – aging water infrastructure; increasing pressure on our water resources; stringent water quality standards; climate change questions; a changing workforce; and growing customer expectations-- we need to keep one eye on the present and the other eye on the needs of future generations."


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AT&T's LTE (long term evolution) network is not nearly as broad as Verizon's. And because of that, the debut of an LTE iPhone could put it at a competitive disadvantage.
"As of the end of 2Q12, Verizon's LTE network covered 230 million POPs, more than all the other carriers in the U.S. combined," Jefferies & Co. analyst Thomas Seitz said in a note to clients. "We believe this network advantage could lead to a share shift towards Verizon, primarily at AT&T's expense."
According to Seitz, the debut of an LTE iPhone could cause a modest decline in AT&T's share of U.S. iPhone sales — to 45 percent in the third quarter of 2012, from 47 percent in the second quarter of 2012.
Ironically, that could be further compounded by the company's past success. Seitz notes that AT&T sold nine million iPhones in the third and fourth quarter of 2010, and many of those customers will likely be coming off contract right around the time Apple's next-generation iPhone launches. For them, Verizon's broader LTE coverage could be a compelling reason to switch carriers — assuming the next iPhone supports LTE.
It's important to remember, however, that AT&T does have some measures in place to protect itself against scenarios like these. As Wells Fargo's Jennifer Fritzsche reminds us in a note of her own on the same subject, about 88 percent of AT&T's customers are either signed to a family plan or benefit from a corporate discount. And that will likely make them less inclined to switch carriers.
"We would remind people what we (and others) learned in 2011. In Q2 2011, when Verizon received the iPhone there was much fear that AT&T would lose a significant amount of customers," Fritzsche says. "At the time, the Street had forecasted that AT&T would lose 1MM postpay subscribers in 2011. As we now know, AT&T actually added over 1.4MM postpay subs that year and postpay churn was up only 8 basis points year-over-year."


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Fish to get easier journey on Naugatuck River
SEYMOUR, Conn. (AP) -- The completion of a $4.75 million bypass channel around the Tingue Dam will allow fish once again to migrate to prime spawning areas on the Naugatuck River in Beacon Falls and Naugatuck.
Historically, migratory fish, in particular Atlantic salmon and shad, were able to make their way up the river unrestricted. But the fish were unable to reach their spawning grounds after a number of dams were constructed during the state's industrial development, said Steve Gephard, supervisor of inland fisheries for the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection.
"My program seeks to restore the runs of migratory fish like the American shad, blueback herring and alewives," said Gephard, who will oversee the new fishway.
Part of the plan involves bypassing the Tingue Dam, located in downtown Seymour and a short distance from Town Hall, which is the last barrier fish encounter on their way upstream to waters in Thomaston, he said. That means building a fishway, formerly known as a "fish ladder." The structure can sometimes have the appearance of steps, or a "ladder." A step-like fishway was constructed about a mile from the Tingue Dam in 1999.
The proposed bypass is a channel that will open up another 20 miles of the river to migrating fish, allowing them to make their way to Beacon Falls and Naugatuck.
There are 60 fishways in the state, Gephard said, including the Mianus River dam in Greenwich and the Wood Dam on the Saugatuck River in Westport. Two others are under construction, one in Old Lyme and the other at Glenwood Park on the Pequonnock River in Bridgeport.
Beacon Falls and Naugatuck are two good spawning areas, said Robert Gregorski, president of the Naugatuck River Watershed Association. His group has been closely monitoring the Seymour fishway project for many years.
"It's been a long time coming," he said, adding there have been any number of reasons for its delay.
"There were problems with funding and design," Gregorski said.
There was also a delay because the town had to relocate a skate park on property adjacent to where the fishway would be built. That area is now cordoned off, awaiting construction to begin.
Gregorski said there was also a problem with what to do with the dam.
While the initial idea was to remove it, it's location, under the Route 8 overpass, meant blasting couldn't be done, said Chuck Lee, of the DEEP, who is supervising the construction.
"You can imagine what the DOT would have to say about that," he said.
The Tingue site also has historic significance. It was dammed after the Revolutionary War by Gen. David Humphreys, who was an aide-de-camp to Gen. George Washington.
This led to the end of whatever salmon runs had survived and drastically reduced the number of other species, according to information in the DEEP's operations and maintenance plan for the fishway.
Humphreys, while appointed minister to Spain and Portugal, discovered the Merino breed of sheep and shipped the first Merino sheep to the U.S.
In 1803, he purchased a large piece of property located at the falls, just below the Tingue Dam, and built one of the finest woolen mills in the country, according to information in a Brief History of Seymour on the town's website. That mill has since been torn down, but the dam remains.
As a result of the booming industries in the state, by the 1960s, more than 280 dams had been constructed on the Naugatuck and its tributaries. The river had also become severely polluted by local companies.
These combined factors led to the local extinction of diadromous fish, those that migrate between saltwater and fresh. With this last barrier gone and the river cleaned up, Gephard and others are hoping that the migratory fish will return.
Gephard said the Seymour fishway will be unique because it will be chipped out of bedrock to create a natural stream, allowing fish to swim by with minimal effort.
"It will be smooth sailing," he said.
Despite the optimism, John Waldman, a professor of biology at Queens College, New York, along with six colleagues, recently studied the effectiveness of fishways and found "they don't always work."
In an analysis published April 4 in Yale Environment 360, a publication of the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, Waldman said they "undertook a study of the success -- or, rather, the failure" of fish migrating from the sea to their spawning grounds.
"What's clear is that providing fish passages at a dam is not a panacea," he wrote.
Some fish, like shad, tend not to use them, although herring will, he said.
"Those (fishways) that work out fairly well are those that are close to natural as possible," he said. "They look better and are less off-putting to the fish."
Waldman added he's aware of the Seymour project and said what they are doing there "is a good choice."
Construction on the Seymour fishway, by a Bristol-based contractor, could begin this month and be completed by next spring.
Information from: The Day, http://www.theday.com


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Morality refers to the concept of human ethics which pertains to matters of good and evil — also referred to as "right or wrong". Morality is generally discussed within three contexts:
- matters of individual conscience;
- systems of principles and judgments — sometimes called moral values — shared within a cultural, religious, secular, humanist, or philosophical community; and
- codes of behavior or conduct.
Theistic morality is based on the assumption that there is a god who has absolute understanding of right and wrong, and orders people to obey rules as a condition for goodness.
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Also found in: Dictionary, Thesaurus, Medical, Acronyms, Idioms, Wikipedia.
1. (in painting) the effect of the juxtaposition of different colours, tones, etc.
a. (of a photographic emulsion) the degree of density measured against exposure used
b. the extent to which adjacent areas of an optical image, esp on a television screen or in a photographic negative or print, differ in brightness
3. Psychol the phenomenon that when two different but related stimuli are presented close together in space and/or time they are perceived as being more different than they really are
in psychology, the subjective exaggeration of the differences between perceived objects or between certain sectors of the visual field during their spatial (simultaneous contrast) or temporal (successive contrast) contiguity. Thus, when the color black is placed next to white it seems even blacker. Contrast may also be manifested in color change. For example, a gray square on a red background seems greenish blue; on a blue background it looks orange. The sharpest contrast of two colors is expressed at the boundary of the two areas (boundary contrast). The phenomenon of assimilation is the opposite of contrast. Contrast is widely used in various forms of art and literature.
REFERENCESVudvorts, R. Eksperimental'naia psikhologiia. Moscow, 1950.
Teplov, B. M. "Vzaimodeistvie odnovremennykh svetovykh oschchushchenii." In Zritel'nye oshchushcheniia i vospriiatiia. Moscow-Leningrad, 1935.
The degree of difference in tone between the lightest and darkest areas in a television or facsimile picture.
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In optical character recognition, the difference in color, reflectance, or shading between two areas of a surface, for example,a character and its background.


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