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Join us for our ever-popular All-Star Review and learn techniques from many of this year's instructors. Each instructor will give a 10-minute demonstration to all participants from 5:00 to 6:30 p.m. After 6:30 p.m., meet the instructors and purchase their books, patterns, and tools. You can even get an autograph or two. A booklet with printed handouts is provided to each participant. This event always sells out fast, so hurry and get your tickets today!

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Twilio Taps Say Media Vet Kirkpatrick as CFO
Something is going on at the telephony software start-up Twilio, and I guess the word to use is "growth."
Barely two weeks after hiring former Jive exec Lynda Smith as its chief marketing officer, today it will announce that it has a new CFO. It's Lee Kirkpatrick, and he's leaving Say Media, where he had the same title. He started his new job on May 7.
Twilio is growing so fast that it's a little hard to keep track of all the news coming out of it. In his new role, Kirkpatrick will be responsible for Twilio's finances and worldwide strategy. The company recently added Belgium, Finland, the Netherlands and Sweden to the steadily growing stable of countries where it is operating. It also recently struck a deal with Microsoft to add telephony features to its Azure cloud computing platform, so, yeah, maybe now might be the time to add a CFO.
What's Job One? Well, here's a funny tradition at Twilio: Every employee, no matter their level or level of technical ability, is required to build a Twilio application in order to become familiar with how the service works. So, part of this week will be devoted to that. Companies like eBay unit StubHub, Salesforce.com and Airbnb have used it to create some custom apps that include the use of a phone.
It's a very Twilio sort of thing to do. When the company was in the process of raising its most recent funding round — a $17 million series C led by Bessemer Venture Partners and Union Square Ventures — Bessemer partner Byron Deeter created a Twilio-connected number and asked CEO Jeff Lawson to call it. As VentureBeat reported at the time, when Lawson called, he heard an automated voice message asking him to press 1 for $5 million, press 2 for $10 million and press 3 for $15 million.
It turned out that C round topped out at $17 million late last year, bringing its total capital raised to about $34 million, so there's a decent-sized pile of money to look after. Before Say Media, Kirkpatrick held executive jobs at Ofoto, the Kodak Gallery and Reuters.


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Prospect of the Week: 11.14.11
This season Bolt Prospects introduced our Prospect of the Week award, an honor (virtually) given to one Tampa Bay Lightning prospect for their on-ice contributions. There are no trophies or plaques or Ginsu knife sets involved, but we're fairly certain this will satisfy all needs of attention and self-worth.
Quite simply, we wanted to highlight prospects throughout the year to help fans get better acquainted with the next round of Lightning stars while recognizing the prospect's achievement on the ice.
This week's BP Prospect of the Week award goes to … Vladislav Namestnikov, London Knights (OHL).
Namestnikov has been on fire lately with five multi-point games in his last eight matches. He has 14 points in those eight games.
This past Friday he scored twice in a 4-3 loss to Sault Ste. Marie, then scored another two the following night in a win against Erie. He added an assist in the Otters game to give him five points for the weekend. He was also named First Star in both games. In addition, Vladdy added an assist with Team Russia vs. Team OHL in the Subway Canada-Russia Superseries Thursday in Ottawa.
He has at least a point in nine of his last 10 games and has five goals in his last three contests.
Namestnikov is one point shy of Seth Griffith – a member of the Lightning for the Coral Springs Prospect Tournament this summer – for the Knights lead in scoring. His 26 points this season are good enough for 15th in the league and his 14 goals are fourth most in the OHL.
Namestnikov, the Lightning's surprise first round pick in 2011, is a do-it-all center with elite level speed and hands to go with an aggressive approach to his game. Where he needs to grow is in his weight (he's listed at 175) as he's very light for his age and he needs bulk to play the way he does against older competition. Vladdy projects to be a strong No.2 center down the road – likely behind Steven Stamkos someday on the Lightning – but that road must be filled with patience. It's unlikely he'll be physically mature enough to make the Bolts next fall, even if he did use Brett Connolly's physical trainer in Toronto next summer. It's not uncommon by any means for late first rounders to play out their junior eligibility, which is what we expect Namestnikov to do in a development-rich environment in London.
Previous BP Prospects of the Week:
Dustin Tokarski, Norfolk Admirals - November 6, 2011
Riku Helenius, JYP (Finland) - October 30, 2011
Matthew Peca, Quinnipiac Bobcats - October 23, 2011
Radko Gudas, Norfolk Admirals - October 16, 2011
Carter Ashton, Norfolk Admirals - October 9, 2011
Brett Connolly, Tampa Bay Lightning - October 2, 2011
Mattias Ritola, Tampa Bay Lightning - September 25, 2011
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Sports Online
Do you need to watch the big game no matter where you are? Then as long as you have an Internet connection, we've got your covered. We tell you where you can find the games online streaming live as well as sites that offer replays of the games – just in case you missed it. Plus there are plenty of pitfalls to avoid when watching sports online. Not all online sports streams are free. These posts will help you navigate through the fine print and let you know what you can expect if you do sign-up for an online sports video package.
No sport is too big or too small. Baseball lovers will be interested to find out where to watch and listen to MLB games (even spring training) online. While Basketball fans will appreciate how to watch everything from the NBA finals to March Madness online. For those who crave speed, we tell you how to stay on top of all the NASCAR coverage available online including videos of the race car drivers. If you're looking for something a bit slower paced, not to worry we've got the 411 on watching the PGA tour online. That's just a taste, there are even more sporting events that can be watched online in this section.


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For many anglers, the 2012 coastal fishing season has been one of guessing and wondering. Mother Nature continues to have a sack full of tricks to outsmart the smartest, most of the time giving no logical explanation as to the outcome.
Take spotted sea trout, historically at the top of the list in popularity with inshore and near-shore fishermen. Earlier in the year there was concern the fishery may have had a setback, and there definitely were weeks after weeks when reports indicated catchable-size trout were hard to find.
That all changed as September made its debut. Suddenly there were trout everywhere, and the catch numbers showed it.
And the bite still continues, although the traffic was expectedly slow this weekend and into the current week with observance of Christmas.
And when 2013 makes its debut Tuesday, the 2012 fall trout season may go down in history as an excellent one.
About shrimp
Then there is the fishery that many anglers depend on to catch their favorite fish, and even more look forward to for their table - white shrimp. They haven't fared as well.
What started out as a promising year has suddenly turned changed both for those who depend on them for live bait, and those who depend on the harvest for food.
Historically from the first weeks in July through the remainder of the year, the rivers and creeks along the Georgia coast hold an abundance of white shrimp in all stages of development.
That didn't happen this year and no one yet knows the reason or reasons why. The problem relative to the food shrimp harvest is so severe that the DNR has elected not to extend the season as it often does when there is evidence the fishery can support such a move.
As for bait shrimp fishermen, finding adequate concentrations to take care of the demand for many has been an ongoing problem in some areas. Many of the rivers and creeks where dragging is allowed each year have been nearly barren of developing white shrimp.
When contacted a couple of weeks ago concerning the problem, the DNR biologist in Brunswick were quick to agree there were shortages of developing shrimp in many areas along the coast, even though some areas continued to show normal productivity.
Black gill the culprit?
Some are suggesting that black gill may be the problem. Black gill is a protozoan that attaches itself to the lungs of shrimp and weakens them, has been highly evident in both bait and food shrimp this year along both the Georgia and South Carolina coasts.
Bait shrimp fishermen and shrimp trawler operators have noted the black gill problem since mid-summer, and there is one unconfirmed report coming out of South Carolina that biologists found large numbers of mature white shrimp dead, apparently affected by black gill, when examining a deep-water area where cast nets are used.
And for those who might have some concerns about eating shrimp, black gill in no way poses any danger relative to human consumption.
Blue crabs, too, have altered their traditional haunts, leaving many recreational harvesters finding their traditional hot spots for catching them no longer productive - again no known reasons.
The bright side
But on the bright side there is good reason to be optimistic 2013 will again be a good fishing year. Like spotted sea trout which seemed to have exploded on the scene this year, the red drum fishery continues to thrive and the catch numbers of the many other species, both local and migratory have been strong.
As noted, not many reports have been received this week, but there were a couple of impressive accounts given.
David Maxwell, whom we occasionally hear from, headed out this past Monday to the St. Catherines Sound area along with Buddy Lee, and quickly noted "it was a great day."
"The water was clear as a bell and the fish were biting," he wrote in an email, adding that the two also landed a couple of red drum along with two black drum and seven large sheepshead,
The two were fishing out of Kilkenny Marina.
More on trout
Another account came from David Wood, who has been a weekly regular for this report since the cobia season began this past spring.
Wood fished both this past Saturday and Sunday, and like Maxwell, made note that the action was "excellent," with the target fish being spotted sea trout.
On Saturday while fishing with Herman Lee, he said they were fishing deep around a structure.
"We landed several nice trout including a couple in the 20-inch range. Jigging artificial baits in 20 feet of water paid off."
Checking out another favorite area on Sunday while fishing with Sarah Zuchuwitz, he found the trout action even more intense.
"We easily landed over 60 fish," he wrote, noting that most were in the 13 to 14 1/2-inch range, apparently releasing the majority, and noting that they managed to land 11 measuring 16 to 18 inches. He said Zuchuwitz was using live bait, while he continued to stay with the artificial lures.
Another report of action taking place late last week came from Rayburn Goodman at Yellow Bluff in Liberty County, who said one group of anglers returned with an excellent catch of trout, and like some others, the group released far more than they kept.
With only a few days left in the current year, the final days of 2013 show relatively good fishing tides. Unless weather temps alter conditions, the action should continue at the same pace.
As noted with the bait shrimp problems, we continue to urge fishermen to check with their suppliers prior to any trip.
Both Kilkenny Marina (912-727-2215) in Bryan County and Raburn Goodman at Yellow Bluff in Liberty County (912-663-5070), the only two locations we were able to contact by phone Wednesday concerning live bait shrimp, reported having ample supplies to take care of the current demand.
Bass tourney results
The Super Bass Tournament Trail held its second event of the 2012-13 trail Dec. 16, again out of Stokes Bluff Landing on the Savannah River.
Barry Durden, who heads up the group, reports the winning team was Mouse Mosakowski and Justin Lanier, who lead the 20 participating teams with a total of five bass weighing 13.41 pounds.
Second place honors went to Victor Bellagorska and Alan summer with five weighing 11.99 pounds, and in third was the team of David Poe and Try Strickland with five totaling 8.88 pounds.
The big fish honors went to Mosakowski with one weighing 5.25 pounds.
According to Durden, the winning team was fishing downstream of Stokes Bluff and caught their bass while using plastic lures. The total number of bass brought to the scales was 85.
Format for the pro bass event is catch and release. The next event will be held Jan. 19 out of Stokes Landing. For more information on the tournament, contact Durden at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Official complaint filed over use of students for personal political campaign
Steve Watson
April 10, 2013
A professor at Midwestern State University is under investigation following an official complaint logged by a student who claimed that the class was forced to create anti-gun material and photographed doing so in order to make it appear that they were behind a campaign opposing firearms on campus.
Professor Jennifer Yucus is said to have coerced the students of her graphic design class into creating signs and posters for her own personal campaign against concealed carry rules on campus.
Yucus is then said to have used the material on websites and Facebook to publicize the campaign, as well as to encourage support for opposition to pro-gun legislation currently making its way through the Texas state legislature.
Campus Reform reports that the complaint reads:
"On Monday, April 1, around 7 PM (class was 5:30 – 8:20), Jennifer Yucus, Assistant Professor of Graphic Art/Design, compelled students from her Computers For Artists class to advocate in favor of a political petition opposing firearms on campus, in opposition to a pair of bills currently before the Texas legislature, using personal art materials and MSU resources,"
"Several of my classmates were uncomfortable with the assignment and either quietly or openly expressed this," it continues. "Professor Yucus asked students to rationalize objections by thinking of it as a job from an employer (or words to that effect)."
The complaint also indicates that the students were required to include the url of Yucas' petition in the work, and were also extensively photographed at work, with the intention of making it appear that they were fully supportive of the campaign.
"Professor Yucus took photos of her students in the process of drafting and creating the posters, but did not say how these would be used," says the complaint. "The posters were then hung in the hallways of the Fain Arts building, giving the impression of student support."
It appears that some of the photographs were used by Yucas on a now deleted Facebook page:
It is against the law in Texas for teachers, professors or any other state representative to use their positions to mandate that others participate in political campaigns.
A spokesperson for the University told Campus Reform that although Yucas has not been suspended, they are taking the case very seriously.
"It is a serious offense," said Betty Stewart, Vice President for Academic Affairs at the university."My first step is to speak with students directly after reading the report that I received. Then I will speak with the professor." she added.
Steve Watson is the London based writer and editor for Alex Jones' Infowars.com, and Prisonplanet.com. He has a Masters Degree in International Relations from the School of Politics at The University of Nottingham, and a Bachelor Of Arts Degree in Literature and Creative Writing from Nottingham Trent University.
This article was posted: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 at 11:54 am
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Maryland Announces Changes to Basketball Roster
Terps sign Cekovsky, Pack; Mitchell leaves to tend to ill grandmother
COLLEGE PARK, Md. – Maryland men's basketball head coach Mark Turgeon has announced the signing of center Michal Cekovsky (7-0, 225) to the class of 2014 as well as fifth-year senior Richaud Pack (6-3, 185). Pack will be eligible to play immediately. In addition, Charles Mitchell has been granted permission to transfer for his junior season to tend to his ill grandmother.
A native of Slovakia, Cekovsky (pronounced Michael Chi-kov-skee) spent the past season with Canarias Academy in Spain. He is rated on multiple national websites as a four-star recruit.
"We're excited to welcome Michal to the University of Maryland," Turgeon said. "He has a special skillset for someone of his size and ability. Michal has great speed, athleticism and agility. He's a versatile player who can play either the four of five positions for us. The combination of both his perimeter play and strong interior game will add a new dimension to our frontcourt."
"I'm excited to be coming to the University of Maryland," Cekovsky said. "I've followed Maryland and have enjoyed getting to know Coach Turgeon and Coach Clark. I first took notice of Maryland when Alex Len played there and I watched how he developed into an NBA player. The opportunity for early playing time was something that excited me and I'm looking forward to being a part of a great program and university."
"First and foremost, Michal is a very high character person with a great work ethic on the court and in the classroom," said Rob Orellana, director of the Canarias Basketball Academy. "His combination of size, skill, and athleticism makes him a very unique player. Offensively he can shoot the three, score with his back to the basket, and make plays for others. Defensively his mobility is a great asset. Coach Turgeon did a great job selling Michal on the University of Maryland. "
Cekovsky joins the ninth-ranked recruiting class in the nation according to ESPN.com for the 2014-15 season. The class includes McDonald's All-American Melo Trimble, Dion Wiley, Jared Nickens and fellow seven-footer Trayvon Reed.
A recent graduate of North Carolina A&T, Pack (6'3", 183 pounds) averaged 17.0 points per game on 44.1 percent shooting from the field in 2013-14. In addition, Pack led the Aggies in free throw percentage (.804) and added 4.6 rebounds per game. He poured in a season-high 30 points against NJIT on January 18. Pack also spent two seasons at FIU.
"We're excited to welcome Richaud to the University of Maryland," Turgeon said. "He comes from a great family and I really enjoyed getting to know Richaud and his mother, Kaija, during this process. Richaud is a great shooter and scorer and will fit in well with our team and system. He will have an opportunity to further his education in business administration, a field he is very passionate about."
"Maryland is a great university with an outstanding reputation for its academics and athletic facilities," Pack said. "I really believe in Coach Turgeon and I feel I can be a part of something special. I did a lot of research on the business school and I'm excited to pursue my MBA in business administration."
A native of Detroit, Mich., Pack plans to pursue a master's degree in business administration with a focus in international relations.
Mitchell (6-8, 260) averaged 6.0 points and 5.8 rebounds in 70 career games (17 starts) over two seasons at Maryland.
"Recently, Charles shared with us that his grandmother had become ill," Turgeon said. "I feel terrible for Charles and his family. Although we will miss Charles, we understand and support his decision to move closer to his home so he can help support and be there for his family. I appreciate Charles' commitment to our program and he will always be a part of our family."
"I want to especially thank Coach Turgeon for his support and compassion during my family's time of need," Mitchell said. "I loved playing for Coach. He is a great man and great coach. The reason I decided to leave Maryland is to be near my grandmother who has been ill over the past year. Knowing that she raised me and is still a very big part of my life, I decided to move closer to home. It's important for me to be there for my grandmother and to help support my family. I didn't want to leave, but I have to put my family first. I really enjoyed playing with my teammates and I've had a lot of great memories over the last two seasons. I'm grateful for the experiences I've had and wish Maryland nothing but success in the future."


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Notice Number: NOT-DA-13-020
Key Dates
Release Date: April 2, 2013
Estimated Publication Date of Announcement: Summer 2013
First Estimated Application Due Date: Fall 2013
Earliest Estimated Award Date: Spring 2014
Earliest Estimated Start Date: Spring 2014
Issued by
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
The National Institute on Drug Abuse intends to promote a new initiative by publishing a Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) to solicit applications for research on new ways to counteract prescription drug diversion and abuse.
This Notice is being provided to allow potential applicants sufficient time to develop meaningful collaborations and responsive projects.
NIDA also welcomes and strongly encourages all inquiries concerning this Notice from potential applicants. Early communication with Program Staff will provide an opportunity to clarify specific characteristics of the SBIR program goals and guidelines, and hone the scope of projects that are likely to be judged responsive.
The FOA is expected to be published in Summer 2013 with an expected application due date in Fall 2013.
This FOA will utilize the R43/44 activity code. Details of the planned Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) are provided below.
Prescription drug diversion and abuse represent a continuing problem for the United States. This problem increasingly stems from the abuse of opioid drugs, such as hydrocodone, oxycodone, and codeine, prescribed by physicians to treat pain. Medications like these have a high potential for abuse, and abuse rates have more than quadrupled since 1990. Prescription drug diversion involves the unlawful channeling of regulated pharmaceuticals from legitimate sources to the illicit marketplace for the use different from prescribed, and can occur along all points in the drug delivery process, from the original manufacturing site to the wholesale distributor, the office of prescribing physician, the retail pharmacy, or the patient.
Opioid diversion and abuse varies significantly across different populations (e.g., experienced prescription opioid abusers, polydrug abusers, pain patient abusers, recreational users, etc.), indicating a variety of products is needed to more comprehensively counteract drug diversion and abuse. Accordingly, the impending FOA is intended to provide support to Small Business Concerns (SBCs) for the development of commercializable products that would serve to diminish (or eliminate) prescription drug diversion and abuse. For example, NIDA and US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have been charged to "expedite research, through grants…on the development of abuse-deterrent formulations (ADF) of opioid medications and other drugs with abuse potential." While ADFs represent one way to address the problem, any technology that will mitigate diversion and abuse would be responsive to the forthcoming FOA.
Please direct all inquiries to:
Elena Koustova, PhD, MBA
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National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
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• leviathan •Pronunciation: lê-vay-ê-thên • Hear it!
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: 1. A huge sea monster mentioned in the Bible (Old Testament). 2. Anything of monstrous size: ship, whale, government out of control. 3. A titan, a person of gigantic, formidable wealth and power.
Notes: Today's Good Word is known mostly through the title of Thomas Hobbes' famous political treatise, The Leviathan (1660), a term he uses to refer to the state. Hobbes argues in favor of a large government so long as it rests on a social contract among all those it protects. The adjective is leviathanic "huge, monstrous in size and/or power".
In Play: English speakers share a long tradition of referring to large ships as leviathans: "The Titanic was a leviathan who lost its battle with an even more leviathanic iceberg." Today's word is also reserved for the biggest of the big-shots" "Les Cheatham thinks he is a leviathan of industry but he is just a wealthy snake."
Word History: Today's Good Word comes from Hebrew livyathan, an enormous Biblical sea creature. This word is based on the verb root *l-w-y "to wind, twist, circle, encircle", akin to Ugaritic *l-t-n "sea monster". It is also related to Arabic laway "to twist" and liwyah "wreath", not to mention Akkadian lamu "to surround, encircle".


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Myron S. Augsburger Endowed Chair of Theology
Mission and purpose
The Myron S. Augsburger Endowed Chair of Theology extends the vision of Myron S. Augsburger to equip church leaders through evangelical Anabaptist theological reflection and ministry practice. Eastern Mennonite Seminary equips men and women to proclaim the good news of Christ in word and deed.
Myron S. Augsburger's ministry has extended from the local church to international evangelistic preaching missions, including ecumenical efforts across the United States and Canada. He has served as an evangelist, church planter and pastor, as well as the moderator of his denomination—the Mennonite Church. He has five earned degrees, including a Th.D. from Union Theological Seminary. He served as President of EMU from 1965-1980, as Professor of Theology at EMU, and as President of the Council of Christian Colleges and Universities, 1988-1995. He is the author of numerous articles and more than twenty books.
In a postmodern world filled with confusion and hopelessness, we envision:
Theological clarity
Ecumenical ministry
Academic integrity
Confident witness
Healthy churches
Elements of the chair
The financial goal for the Myron S. Augsburger Chair of Theology is $3 million to fund the following elements:
Financial Assistance to students ($1 million): The chair will provide financial aid to students in ministry training who demonstrate particular need. Many students decide to pursue ministry studies in midlife, so they have families to support. Their savings can quickly be depleted. Others need assistance because they come from congregations and communities with fewer resources. We want all of our students to complete their ministry training with little or no educational debt.
Church Partnership Programs ($1 million): The chair will enable us to provide important theological resources beyond the walls of the seminary. Through its cultivation of church partnerships, the seminary stays in close in touch with our constituent churches. We design innovative ministry programs to meet their stated needs. A few examples follow:
- Distance Learning – a way for students from all over the world to link up with their instructors and classmates through computer technology. Pastors and church workers not able to attend traditional graduate-level classes because of career, family or geographic limitations are able to study through the EMS Distance Learning Program.
- Creating a Culture of Call – a program that cooperates with district church conferences to call forth leaders from within congregations. It also trains mentors to equip newly emerging leaders in congregational settings.
Theological Faculty ($1 million): The chair will enable the seminary to support highly qualified theological faculty who equip men and women to do careful theological reflection. To minister effectively, they must be grounded in a relationship with Jesus Christ and have the ability to apply biblical and theological insights in an increasingly multicultural, inter-religious society.
Making a difference
Ministry training makes a difference, as the following people attest:
"In my pastoral work, I continually draw from the wells that were dug at EMS."
Andrew Dyck – King Road Mennonite Brethren Church; Abbotsford, BC
"The Preaching Institute has just given me a wealth of tools. I knew I wanted to take
my preaching to a higher level, but I wasn't clear on what that was or how to get
there. The institute helped me to crystallize where I wanted to go and then provided
some practical tools that I can use immediately."
Chester Yoder – Glade Mennonite Church; Accident, MD
"I am more conscious of how I physically present myself preaching. I believe that
I stand straighter, and gesture more naturally. My study of the Bible text that I
am preparing to preach from has deepened. I seek to understand and experience that
text personally much more thoroughly before going to the commentaries. Previously,
I began with commentaries after settling on a text. I believe that this personalizing
of the text has made my preaching more personal and relevant."
Lee Martin – Mt. Clinton Mennonite Church; Harrisonburg, VA
You are invited to consider a one-time, tax-deductible gift or multi-year commitment to this chair. You can make your gift via check, a secure online form, or a transfer of securities.
Call the EMU Development Office for more information or assistance at 800-368-3383. Checks may be mailed to EMU Office of Development, 1200 Park Road, Harrisonburg VA 22802


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Update: Just received that - Nikon product names start with the quarter in which they are/will be released (Q1-Q4) followed by a sequence number counting all Nikon DSLR starting from the D1. For the D3s I came up with Q242. Nikon have confirmed in an email to a reader that this was the code name for the D3s.
NPS members in the UK have received the following email:
"....We'll email you more details about booking your place, and NPS member preferential allocation of the new FX format Q660 soon..."
Is Q660 the code name for the new Nikon D3s?


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Powell Park Camping Resort and Marina is situated in a spectacular pine forest on beautiful Lake Sam Rayburn. The campground has thousands of feet of sugar sand lake front and beaches that have an ocean like feel! With Lake Sam Rayburn being a prized fishing and recreation lake we have created a resort to take full advantage of it.
The resort consists of a large marina complex, a top notch restaurant and a full service store and bait shop. We have cabins, overnight RV sites and seasonal sites to meet your needs... more
• Floor-plans sleep up to 19
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There's an odd phenomenon that crops up now and then. Every once in a while, an old thread is revived and the discussion gets lively again…and often it's because yet another deluded fanatical creationist has been searching the web using the magic phrase "Kent Hovind" and found my site. And then they're all offended because I point out that Hovind is a deeply ignorant fraud and tax cheat who was sentenced to 10 years in prison (currently serving his time in Florence, Colorado; expected release in 2015).
By the way, you should listen to his phone calls from jail. Criminal mastermind, he is not.
Anyway, it's happened again. Some creationist dufus has hurled himself into a three-year old thread. So what I'm going to do is close that thread, and send the conversation here, where everyone can join in and have fun.


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Icy roads send cars to body shops
Mechanics and law enforcement have been in overdrive because of the icy road conditions.
First thing Monday, mechanics at Quality Auto Body near Sixth Street and Layton Avenue started working on vehicles towed in Sunday.
"There were a lot of wrecked vehicles laying around in the parking lot, and I believe it's from the recent ice storm and freezing rain and drizzle," owner Steve Stys said.
After more than 20 years in the auto repair business, he's used to the crushed bumpers and banged up driver's side doors.
"It seems people drive a little bit too fast for the conditions and when you have a mild winter, it's a little bit deceiving because it's nice out, but as soon as the sun goes down it gets slippery in a hurry and people aren't prepared for that," Stys said.
It was no easy task trying to remove ice off cars parked outside.
Mechanics weren't the only ones busy because of the ice.
The Milwaukee County Sheriff's Office said deputies responded to 25 crashes on the highway from Saturday night, into Sunday morning.
They usually see no more than six crashes a day.
"We are prepared because of the high volume to work overtime and weekends," Stys said.
A busy auto body shop is one sign real January weather has arrived.
Three of the crashes in Milwaukee County also involved drunken driving, the Sheriff's Office said.


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Discussion in 'Some Assembly Required' started by SouthWest Roamer, Jan 13, 2006.
Would any one be interested in a trailer you can pull behind your dual sport????
I might be. I've been trying to design a trailer hitch for my TransAlp so I can trailer my kayak with me. I already have a bike rack I built for the back so I can take my mountain bike on trips.
Details on the trailer?
Oh yes, and a good trailler hitch set-up too. an unexploted niche market.
Please post details if you are fabricating!
Have you seen all of the pictures of overloaded bikes with gear hanging all over them!?! I would think that those folks are in need of a trailer. Of course, with their more is better thinking, I am invisioning a bike pulling a trailer, and there is still stuff hung all over the bike, and the trailer to boot. The trailer would give them several more square feet of area to hang stuff from, and to take things that they can't possibly live without but will never use.
All tounge in cheek of course. I think that for a support or sweep rig it could be great.
Somehow, pulling a trailer with a motorcycle on loose gravel just doesn't sound like a good idea to me.
I think the trailer wheels had a large diameter, and wide enough, might work fine. I wouldn't want to be going down any steep hills with loose traction though....might get interesting.
Actually, I think it would be cool to have a single bike trailer, something small, so you could pull a small dirtbike behind your pig. Then, I could ride to Death Valley in relative comfort, park the pig, and go play. It wouldn't have to hold the whole bike, just grab the front wheel and keep it upright. The rear could roll on the pavement. I guess you could even throw some bags on it like a pack mule.
Very interested in a little trailer rig to haul a KLX110 or other small bike behind my dualsport.
I am currently finalizing the design of my trailers. . I will give a few of the details.They are light weight(under 35lbs.) with very high ground clearence and feature thin wall 4130 crmo tubing and 6061 aluminum. They do have a single wheel and track amazing well. . They are awesome on dirt roads even really bad ones and we have also been taking them on single track!!! Weight capacity is yet to be determined, but we have been pulling as much as 120lbs to try and find any weakness in the design.
I would like to see how this thread develops!
I think 'the cheat' is on to something.
The following pics are not an attempt to piss on your fireworks.
For amusement some of my friends have made feeble attempts at this!
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Saw this in Daytona in 04 and it's got some clearance.. I didn't see how it looked loaded but this weight is almost too high for my likings.
They even have a little vid of it on a DR .. I would have liked to seen them drive it up and down the steps though ..
Looks really top heavy. Why does it have a windshield? He doesn't put his kid in there, does he? :huh
Something along the lines of a Bobyak, but beefed up for higher speeds and impacts would work well for many folks. Not sure what you could patent, but one never knows... Some existing pannier hardware would probably be strong enough as a tow bar, given some use limits. Show us what you've got!
That trailer davorallyfan pictured looks like quite the gear hauler!! My trailers are mush smaller and look simaler to the BOB trailer. The only thing I was trying to patent was the hinge desingn, but I am nearly at a dead end there. Everything really was thought of by somebody else first anyway.
I am going to take some pictures of the latest trailer I built today and post them tonight!!!!!
Well here are a few pics of a prototype trailer in action!!!!!
and another one!
And another(how in the hell do you post multiple pics???)
It's hard to tell in the photo, but this section has a bunch of 2ft. deep whoops!!!
In This one I have all three wheels in the air( Just a little, but it still counts)
Thanks Cheater ...but it looks a bit ....flimsy?
S'pose its not really designed for highway work as well?
Is that a push bike wheel?
Is there any damping/spring or does it rely on the tyre only?
Here is a question. How does it back up? Many times (per day) while riding in the back country I need to back my pig of a Tiger up and turn it around on a tight two track because I ran into a dead end.


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We live in an era of blogs, tweets, aggregators, and Fox News. It's quite easy to exist in an ideological/cultural/sociological/psychographic bubble of your own making–one that entirely reinforces your existing systems of belief. That's why I start every morning with the Wall Street Journal. If you are on the liberal side of the spectrum like myself; if you cast a skeptical eye at capitalism; well, then Karl Rove's columns will do a better job of waking you up in the morning than a cup of strong coffee and a smack in the face.
I was quite pleased, then, when I tripped across this most excellent review of Andrew Potter's The Authenticity Hoax by one Paul Beston who, if the internet is to be trusted, has affiliations with the conservative American Spectator and the foggier "individual responsibility" mandate of the Manhattan Institute. (In other words, he's the kind of dude I wouldn't seek out to add to my reading list.)
Here's an extended excerpt–about half the review. It crystallizes a lot of the devil's advocate notions I've developed while living here in Brooklyn (aka authenticity ground zero) the past several years, then advances them several yards down the ideological football field:
Authenticity, Mr. Potter writes, is "a positional good, which is valuable precisely because not everyone can have it." By competing against one another to see who is more authentic, he says, we just become bigger phonies than we were before. The local-food trend illustrates what Mr. Potter calls "conspicuous authenticity," by which the well-heeled embark on a "perpetual coolhunt," whether it is for authentic jeans, pristine vacation spots or mud flooring, part of the "natural building" movement. The overarching goal is less to possess the thing itself than to make a claim to refined taste and moral superiority.
But the authenticity fixation, according to Mr. Potter, goes deeper than consumer choices. It is the culprit, for instance, behind "a debased political culture dominated by negative advertising and character assassination." Political candidates are always selling their own sincerity, so that any crack in the facade (never too hard to find) launches a hundred attack ads. Taken to its darkest extremes, obsessive authenticity can become deadly, as in the case of Islamic fundamentalism or the hyper-nationalist authenticity of fascism. Less toxic, but more common, is the craving for authenticity among those in the West who see a market economy and consumer culture as sterile and false — inauthentic, in other words — and who defend the world's most repressive cultures, looking past their brutality to admire their resistance to modernity.
It is the disillusionment with modernity, Mr. Potter maintains that underlines the authenticity quest. When man was preoccupied with finding food and appeasing capricious gods, he didn't have the time or inclination to ask whether he had "sold out" for an easy paycheck or failed to align himself with some abstract ideal of the "authentic" life. But then science made the formerly mystical cosmos explainable, and a spread of democratic ideas, in politics and markets alike, made food and freedom more broadly shared. The result was "a new kind of society and, inevitably, a new kind of person," Mr. Potter writes, one more given to looking within for meaning and not liking what he found there. The individual's own self-definition filled the gap left by faith and authority.
Mr. Potter anoints Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the 18th-century philosopher, as the godfather of the authenticity quest. His famous "state of nature" was a fantasy of authenticity, an idea of man's existence before society. Mr. Potter argues that Rousseau used the state-of-nature concept as a "regulative ideal" by which to measure how far we had strayed from a lost harmony.
Rousseau's "antimodern tunnel vision," Mr. Potter says, can be found in various modern forms: in the views of the American Transcendentalists of the 19th century and the counterculture heroes of the 1960s, for instance; or in such gloomy social critics as Al Gore and Prince Charles and alarmists like James Howard Kunstler. [Don't be intimidated, I had to look this one up too.-ed] These antimodern voices, and others, represent what Mr. Potter calls "the authenticity hoax in full throat: a dopey nostalgia for a non-existent past, a one-sided suspicion of the modern world, and a stagnant and reactionary politics masquerading as something personally meaningful and socially progressive."
In other words, ouch, say the locavores.
I agree, though, the guy has a point. What's authentic is a Cambodian child wearing a Spider-Man t-shirt because those are the cast offs sent from the west and available to be worn. Image via Osmosus.
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Summer has arrived, bringing along mobs of tourists, those who have escaped the heat in Arizona to enjoy their second homes here, and, specifically this past weekend, thousands of other San Diegans who simply love our village and beaches, Fourth of July Parade, and fireworks vantage points. If you live in Coronado this time of year, leave the car at home and walk or bike to your destination.
Trapper wasn't overly enthused when we adorned him with an extra bunting for his morning walk to Starbucks, but he amused those who were out at the crack of dawn snatching up the prime parade spots.
Following coffee, we deposited the pup back into the safety of his yard and set off to Pete and Julie's annual Pre-Parade Bloody Mary Breakfast. This year's parade theme was America's People. Here are a few photos...the full album is posted on Newf in My Soup's Facebook page.
The parade was followed by more cocktails, of course, and wonderful food at Jim and Carmen's Post-Parade Open House - pork chile verde, spicy beans and rice, guacamole and chips, and banana pudding. Then it was time for a long afternoon nap, in order to refresh for the evening festivities.
Over the weekend, I finally got around to making these Plum Sorbet Sandwiches with Molasses Cookies, a recipe that had called out to me every time I flipped through Sunday Suppers at Lucques. I have loved the few recipes I've tried from Suzanne Goin's, James Beard award-winning, cookbook and really do need to cook from it more often! It has about 130 recipes, arranged into 32, three-course menus (4 courses with dessert), and organized by season. This dessert is included in the summer chapter, menu 9, designed to be served following green goddess salad with romaine, cucumbers, and avocado; soft-shell crabs with lima bean salad, grilled bacon, and cornbread; and veal scaloppine with fresh corn polenta and salsa verde-brown butter. If you enjoy throwing intimate, gourmet dinner parties, this should be one of your go-to cookbooks.
Plum Sorbet Sandwiches with Mary Jones from Cleveland's Molasses Cookies
From Suzanne Goin's Sunday Suppers at Lucques, Seasonal Recipes from Market to Table
(Makes 1 quart)
1 pound ripe plums
1/2 cup granulated sugar
2 tablespoons honey
1/2 lemon, for juicing
Molasses cookies (recipe follows)
Cut the plums in half, remove the pits, and cut the halves in quarters.
Toss the plums with the sugar and honey, and let sit for 30 minutes. Transfer the fruit to a blender, and puree until very smooth. Season with lemon juice, to taste.
Chill at least 1 hour in the refrigerator.
Process the puree in an ice cream maker according to the manufacturer's instructions (about 20 minutes).
To make each plum sorbet sandwich, scoop about 1/4 cup of the sorbet and place it on the bottom side of one of the cookies. Then place the bottom side of a second cookie over the ice cream and gently press to make a sandwich. Wrap in plastic wrap and freeze.
Mary Jones from Cleveland's Molasses Cookies
(Makes about 24 cookies)
2 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
1/4 cup molasses
1 cup granulated sugar, plus extra for sprinkling
3/4 cup vegetable shortening, melted to equal 1/2 cup, cooled
1 large egg
Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.
Sift together the flour, baking soda, cinnamon, cloves, and ginger. Stir in the salt.
In a stand mixer fitted with a whisk attachment, beat the molasses, sugar, melted shortening, and egg at medium speed for 3 minutes.
Turn off the mixer and add half the dry ingredients to the bowl. Turn the mixer to medium-low and mix to incorporate, scraping down the sides of the bowl as needed. Add the remaining dry ingredients and mix to combine. Chill the dough for about 15 minutes to make it easier to work with.
On a lightly floured surface, roll half the dough out to 1/8-inch thickness. Use a 3-inch round cutter to cut out the cookies. Place them on a parchment-lined or lightly buttered baking sheet, spaced about 1 inch apart. Sprinkle a little sugar over the tops of the cookies, and bake about 12 minutes, until they puff up slightly and are starting to crack in the middle. The cookies will be crisp on the outside and chewy in the center.
Newf Notes: Chef Goin uses Santa Rosa Plums which may be difficult to find outside of a few California Farmers' Markets. I substituted "Raspberry" pluots. I may have over-baked the cookies, waiting for them to start to "crack" in the middle. They were more like gingersnaps, and lost all chewiness. However, they did soften up a bit after the sandwiches were assembled and stored in the freezer. The sorbet was pretty soft just following churning, so you may want to allow it to firm up overnight in the freezer before assembling the cookies.
You can also skip the sandwiching step and serve the sorbet in bowls with the cookies on the side.
"Few chefs in America have won more acclaim than Suzanne Goin, owner of Lucques restaurant. A chef of impeccable pedigree, she got her start cooking at some of the best restaurants in the world–L'Arpège. Olives, and Chez Panisse, to name a few–places where she acquired top-notch skills to match her already flawless culinary instincts. "A great many cooks have come through the kitchen at Chez Panisse," observes the legendary Alice Waters, "But Suzanne Goin was a stand-out. We all knew immediately that one day she would have a restaurant of her own, and that other cooks would be coming to her for kitchen wisdom and a warm welcome."
And come they have, in droves. Since opening her L.A. restaurant, Lucques, in 1998, Goin's cooking has garnered extraordinary accolades. Lucques is now recognized as one of the best restaurants in the country, and she is widely acknowledged as one of the most talented chefs around. Goin's gospel is her commitment to the freshest ingredients available; her way of combining those ingredients in novel but impeccably appropriate ways continues to awe those who dine at her restaurant.
Her Sunday Supper menus at Lucques–ever changing and always tied to the produce of the season–have drawn raves from all quarters: critics, fellow chefs, and Lucques's devoted clientele. Now, in her long-awaited cookbook, Sunday Suppers at Lucques, Goin offers the general public, for the first time, the menus that have made her famous."


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Rajatesh Nath Barbhuiya Illustrates The Bio-Inspired Fabric Textile
Rajatesh Nath Barbhuiya, the author of the awarded design Textile by Rajatesh Nath Barbhuiya points out, Uniqueness :The textile can coil and uncoil upon human touch, can absorb carbon form from atmosphere based on the features of leaves and artificial photosynthesis and chances of providing water at locations where oxygen is less but exposure to sunlight is possible. Inspiration: memosa-pudica plant (bio-inspiration). Challenge: To deduce features of memosa pudica, artificial photosynthesis and incorporate into textile fabrication. Production : Two methods; First by compression rolling and second by edgebinding. Team Members: Pradeep Yammiyavar & Rajatesh Nath Barbhuiya..
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Manuel OK with Marlins' spitting incident
MIAMI -- The Phillies did not seem terribly bothered that Marlins pitcher Alex Sanabia spit on a baseball after allowing a home run Monday to Domonic Brown.
"He did?" Phillies manager Charlie Manuel said. "That's good. I didn't see it."
So that doesn't bother him?
"Not really," he said. "It happens all the time."
Crew chief Joe West, who was the first-base umpire, said he didn't see Sanabia spit on the ball, and therefore it was used in the game. But later in the game, West did order Sanabia to discard another ball for improperly going to his mouth.
"Honestly, I think it was unintentional," Marlins manager Mike Redmond said. "He did it probably without even knowing and Joe saw it and threw the ball out."
Baseball rule 8.02 (a) (2) states "the pitcher shall not expectorate on the ball, either hand or glove." The umpire has the discretion to eject the pitcher immediately or warn the pitcher against doing this again, if he does not see any intent to do anything sinister with the baseball. Sanabia rubbed the ball profusely after spitting on it, indicating he was not trying anything malicious.


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Amazing performance
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Last night, I attended the representation of The Hiding Place given by the dancers of Ballet Magnificat! Omega. I went with my mother-in-law and we had fun. I was very moving.
The Hiding Place is the story of Cory ten Boom and her sister, Betsie. Honestly, I am lost at words on how to express my feelings about it. I recommend everyone to take the time to go see this if it comes to a place near you. The dancers were very good and you can sense that they are dancing for the Lord.
Simply beautiful and amazing!
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A while back, someone asked me about the estate records of Benjamin Odell. I've made partial indexes of many of the early probate books for Rabun County, so I was able to quickly go to the right pages in two of those books to find information recorded on Benjamin's estate. I'm not going to post the entire estate proceedings here (that would take a lot of room), but I did want to point out a few interesting items that could be used to answer the questions many researchers might have about this family.
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Windows users who need a command line connection to another system via telnet or SSH are big fans of PuTTY. It's free, it has every feature you need, and it's reliable.
One thing many people would like to do is use PuTTY as a component in their program. Apparently this comes up so often enough that there is a FAQ entry dedicated to the topic. Alas, PuTTY does not have any sort of automation interface, so this goal has always been out of reach.
In this article, I will show you how to work around this minor shortcoming. Creating a version of PuTTY that can be driven from a Windows program turns out to be an easy task. I'll demonstrate this with a small C++ program that shows exactly how to get this versatile program to do your bidding. My solution works for C++, but the changes I make should work well with any Windows software that can properly process a few messages.
Putting Together the Project
I'm using Visual Studio 2010 to build both my program and the modified version of Putty. I created the basic outline as follows:
Use the File|New|Project menu item to bring up the list of available project wizards.
Select MFC project, and enter a project name (I used the uninspired name PuttyDriver.)
I don't want the default MFC settings, so in the MFC App Wizard, select the Next button.
On the Application Type page of the wizard, change the Application Type to Dialog Based.
The project is ready to go at this point, you can click the Finish button and then build your initial project.
My driver program is only going to do one thing: direct putty to connect to the host of my choice, then log in using canned credentials. The resulting UI is shown below, and I am going to leave the very minor details of creating it up to the reader.
Adding Putty to the Project
The next step in this process is to add the Putty components to the project. I downloaded version 0.61 of the PuTTY source from the download page and extracted it to a separate folder. I then used Visual Studio's File|Add|Existing Project to add the compatible project file,
Putty.dsp, found in
/Windows/MSVC/Putty. Visual Studio has to convert this project to a version 10 project file, but it should do so with no problems.
I then right-clicked on the Putty project in Solution Explorer and renamed it to AutoPutty. Since this version of PuTTY will have some slightly different behavior, I don't want to confuse the executable I am creating with the real thing.
From Project|Project Dependencies, I set the PuttyDriver project to depend on AutoPutty this insures that both projects get built when I build the entire solution.
My final change to the project is to modify the output directory for both Debug and Release versions of AutoPutty. I set the project to build the executable in the root directory of my PuttyDriver project - this will make it easy to find the executable when I need to launch it. I had to make this change in two places: Properties|Configuration Properties|General|Output Directory and Properties|Linker|Outuput File.
When you finally build the project, you'll find that current version of Microsoft's C++ compiler complain quite a bit about the use of functions like
strcpy - Microsoft would like you to use safer replacement functions. You may choose to turn those errors off by defining
_CRT_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS in the project file. While you are there, you should define
SECURITY_WIN32 as well - it is required by Windows header
After a successful build you should find a copy of
AutoPutty.exe in the root directory of your project, and it should run on your system and behave just like PuTTY.
Launching AutoPutty
If I'm going to have a PuTTY component in my PuttyDriver program, one of the first things I need is to be able to start and stop AutoPutty. So my first step in this project is to create the code that launches the program from PuttyDriver. The code below is inserted into the handler for the Start button:
UpdateData( true ); char path[MAX_PATH]; GetCurrentDirectory(MAX_PATH, path); if ( path[ strlen(path) - 1 ] != '\\' ) strcat_s( path, MAX_PATH, "\\" ); strcat_s( path, MAX_PATH, "AutoPutty.exe -ssh " ); strcat_s( path, MAX_PATH, m_HostName.GetBuffer() ); PROCESS_INFORMATION pi; ZeroMemory(&pi, sizeof(pi) ); STARTUPINFO si; ZeroMemory(&si, sizeof(si) ); si.cb = sizeof(si); if ( CreateProcess( NULL, path, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, &si, &pi ) ) { Sleep( 1000 ); BringWindowToTop(); }
This code assumes that
AutoPutty.exe is in the current directory, and launches it with a command line telling it to connect to the host named in the dialog using ssh. Assuming that you have the project set up properly, pushing the start button should now start an independent copy of AutoPutty, which will behave identically to classic PuTTY.


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LETTER- Check out the Anchorage Farm tenants
[Re: December 4 cover story: "On the trail: Harrington's body creates new mysteries, angles"]
I would hope the cottage where the [farm owner's] adult daughter now lives will be investigated in regard to what University students lived there previously. Even as long ago as 10 to 20 years. This might have been an older pervert.
Kathy Ayers
Ballwin, Missouri


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TL;DR version – "The 99" is basically a Hell House that happens in Not October. There's nothing on their website, anywhere, about it being a religious thing. They convince tweens and teens to come and then scare and shame them into Jesus.
My friend Carly and I were the tamest college students imaginable. In the course of our college careers we never drank, never tried any kind of drug, didn't party, and liked to do things like run children's book clubs at the local library, talk about church, and watch old episodes of Little House on the Prairie. After we graduated in 2010 she began her teaching career in Connecticut and I started seminary a couple years later in Boston. We see each other somewhat regularly and get overly excited about things like book fairs and laugh about church politics – she's a life-long member of a United Church of Christ congregation and I'm in school to be a Unitarian Universalist minister.
When Carly texted me to ask if I wanted to hang out on Friday I said sure, and later as we were talking about what we wanted to do she asked if I could take the commuter rail out to Providence so we could to go "this thing about the common causes of death for young adults." I figured it was just another weird thing Carly had discovered somewhere on the internet. Usually our rule with what we attend is that it either has to be good or it has to be so absurdly bad that it's good.
We showed up to the Swansea Mall parking lot, I saw the tent, and I immediately said "Carly, this looks like a 'Come to Jesus' thing. While she ran into the mall to find a bathroom I tried running a few searches using my phone but wasn't seeing anything about it being overtly religious. Searching was complicated by the fact that this production is called "The 99" and entering that phrase, in any way, into search engines brings up a lot of stuff about the occupy movement.
The other thing to know here is that I'm transgender; I was born female but now identify as male. I "pass," meaning people see me as male, about half the time but I look very, very young. I was raised in an evangelical church and was kicked out or left (depending on who you ask) when I came out as gay years ago. Though I'm clearly fine with religion at this point and have no vendetta against Christianity I'm definitely not a fan of the brow-beating Evangelical Christianity that tries to do things like scare tweens into accepting Jesus.
We stood in line for this event, held in a giant tent, as they slowly let in groups of about twenty people. As soon as we got to the people with handheld metal detectors and started separating us into lines of men and women I got worried. I was directed to the male line, so I went, got wanded and waited for Carly. We approached a table where we had to sign a "release" which was actually a way to get out contact information. I put down my name, a fake email address, left the phone number part blank, checked adult, and got reprimanded by the woman at the table for not filling it out "correctly."
We waited some more, and were finally allowed inside the tent. We paid our $3 admission price and were showing to a roped off area with a TV that told us the rules after showing a few PSAs about not doing meth or texting while driving. It was one of those faux-edgy productions – lots of messy handwriting, jump cuts, and a supposedly creepy voice reading them out loud. No video, no cameras, no loud conversations, no touching the actors "even if they touch you" and if you are disruptive you will be removed and required to wait for your party at the end.
The entire event is set up in a giant tent with "rooms" that you get in via people in safety vests lifting flaps of tent tarps. The first "room" has an empty chain-link cage in the middle. The lights go completely dark and when they come back on a grim-reaper like person has appeared in the cage. The grim-reaper is your "guide" and shows you through each of the rooms. Carly says she heard the guide referred to as a spiritual guide at some point but I didn't catch that.
The 99 purports to show the 5 most common causes of death for teens and young adults. According to them these are; gang violence, drunk driving, drug overdose, suicide, and texting while driving. There were not statistics or cited studies anywhere so, sure, let's go with that for the premise of this whole thing. It was emphasized over and over that these were bad choices, you had a choice, everything is a choice.
Our spiritual guide first showed us into the gang violence room. Two kids, a boy and a girl, are beaten up by four other teens. The acting was hilariously bad with phrases like "oh man that was so cool!" and "we really beat them up!" and lots of high fiving and fist bumping. Then a backlight comes on, highlighting a car behind a mesh screen and one of the "gang member" girls is shot and killed. Her friends unceremoniously pick up her body and walk out with it. As our guide leads us into the next room we walk past her lifeless body dumped on a fake park bench.
Our next room is a car crash. One girl is covered in blood and splayed on the hood of the car, the girl in the driver's seat is gasping and sobbing and crying and covered in blood. There's another lifeless body in the back seat. The other car has a man and a woman, also both seriously injured, and an audio track of a baby screaming starts up. I still have no idea if this was supposed to be drunk driving or not wearing seatbelts or just car wrecks in general.
Next up was a crack den. We were given chairs to sit in for this long and memorable scene in which Nothing Happens. A pregnant woman sits on a bed in the corner sobbing for "Steven." There's a filthy toilet bowl off at one side and people sit around pretending to do every form of drug you have ever heard of. There's a bong being passed around, somebody cutting up what looks like a cup of crack cocaine on the table (seriously, it was a giant pile), someone making meth in a corner, a guy in an arm chair with a needle in his arm. This man was apparently injecting into a giant open wound. One of the women on the couch beats her daughter with a stick of some kind, and at one point "Steven" lumbers over and slaps the pregnant woman.
We walked from there into a teenagers bedroom where we were told to look up at a television screen. A jumpy, scratchy suicide note-video comes on that starts "mom, dad? By the time you watch this I'll already be dead." While dramatically pulling her hair she talks about how she was never the perfect daughter and was tired of being unhappy and how everyone would be happy now that she was dead. The screen goes black, a light comes on in the corner behind us, and there's the girl laying there, dead from what appeared to be a chestburster alien but was, we were informed, a self-inflicted gunshot to the chest.
Next room! Two coffins and a large projected video that was a replay of three news stories. An 11 year old girl who hanged herself because of bullying, a college student who died in a car accident because her brother was driving drunk, and a group of people who started an anti-texting while driving campaign because a boy had died when a girl was distracted while texting.
Then things got really weird. We were led into what we dubbed pre-hell. A comparatively older woman, in her forties or so when most of the actors had been teens, was chained to a wall and wailing. She was then taken by a demon away as she struggled. Carly and I both later confirmed we'd had the same thought, that this was sex trafficking or something, but it was just showing people who made bad choices being led to hell.
And then WE, too, entered hell. A man dressed as "the devil" walked back and forth and badly lip-synced to us about how hell was a real place and he was the devil. We'd seen people making bad choices and now all those people were in hell. While this is going on caged people dressed, basically, as zombies are wailing and reaching out toward us asking us to take them out. And then a beam of light comes through and the devil screams "no, they're mine, don't take them!" and other such things.
The next scene takes place on mount Golgotha. I remember this mostly for the line "COME ON JESUS, MOVE!" as he's led out, lugging his cross, covered in hilariously fake wounds. Next room is the crucifixion. There are three crosses – two of them have televisions mounted on the crosses and the third, tallest, has a ridiculously gory Jesus on it, facing away from us. The televisions come to life, showing scenes from a passion movie of Jesus being beaten, and then the middle cross begins to rotate so we see Jesus full on, heaving and bloody and wearing a pair of ripped up LL Bean shorts.
We're led into a final room with a TV screen where we watch "The Bridge." This is a dramatic depiction of the quandary that I thought was used to diagnose psychopaths. A man who apparently has the job of flipping a lever to move a train track so a train doesn't derail realizes his child is playing on the mechanism. If he flips the lever his son will be crushed to death. If he doesn't the whole train load of people will die. He flips the lever.
This version was further complicated because an attractive, perky young woman is on that train and about to shoot up the heroin she's heating up on a spoon in the main cabin. As the train goes past the distraught man she catches sight of him and decides not to shoot up. You then see her, holding her young daughter, see the man and they smile at each other for a long time.
The movie ends and a man stands up and talks about how God also chose to let his son die so we could have life. He goes on for a bit and then asks us to bow our heads and close our eyes for a prayer "just out of respect" and raise our hands if we want to accept Jesus. Then he says "I see those hands." and we're led into the final room which has maybe around 100 small tables set up with people at each. The person says "gentlemen to the left ladies to the right" and Carly and I ended up separated. As I walked toward the men's side with no exit visible anywhere one of the security people points and me and says "what is that?" trying to figure out if I'm male or female. I caught sight of the exit and got the hell out of there.
Carly sat down with one of the counselor people and had a conversation in which she was told she wasn't a real Christian because she'd been baptized as an infant, not as an adult, and that being confirmed in the church was not salvation. While that was going on I made a pissed off Facebook post and left a ranting message on a friends answering machine. Finally Carly came out and we left kind of angry about the really terrible theology and how they had duped people into this.
If you look at their website there is nothing about religion anywhere to be found unless you already know what you're looking for. Is that the only way they think they'll be able to save people? By lying to them about what they're going to and scaring, pressuring and forcing them into hearing a poorly translated message of salvation? It's some seriously flawed theology they're working from.


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In a free market, there are only three ways of acquiring property (that is, in a non-aggressive way): homesteading (which actually denotes the "first-user-first-owner principle"), production, and voluntary contracting. In reality, however, things may be somewhat different. Franz Oppenheimer pointed out that "There are two fundamentally opposed means whereby man, requiring sustenance, is impelled to obtain the necessary means for satisfying his desires. These are work and robbery, one's own labor and the forcible appropriation of the labor of others." [7] The logic of human action tells us that there is – in fact, there must be – for the individual an economic incentive to aggress against other peoples' property. Two interrelated praxeological insights explain this. First, we know for sure that an earlier satisfaction is preferred over a later satisfaction of wants; we also know for sure that a satisfaction of wants associated with low costs is preferred over a satisfaction of wants associated with high costs. In other words, individuals try to achieve their ends with as little input as possible and in the shortest period of time. Second, the process to civilization does not extirpate man's inclination to aggression. Individual A can be expected to aggress against B (that is against B's property) if and when he gets away with it—that is, if the (expected) benefits for A from aggressing against B will be higher than the (expected) costs he has to bear by doing so. It is the individual's economic incentive to aggress against other peoples' property that is at the heart of the emergence of what is typically called "government."
That is a great article. It also says a lot of human minimal intelligence, as to why libs are clueless on monetary and economic matters.
Basically, the social engineer separates economics from the concept of human action. Actually, social engineers separate everything from human action, which is why they're surprised when people react in a way opposite to what they would have assumed.
Excellent point, one I apparently I didn't get across to TL, he is under the assumption all people think like him and will act accordingly.It's not a slam, it's an observation, if we were all malleable, there would be no wars, but .....
These people come up with some great analysis.TowardLiberty associates himself with them. Apparently he's chosen to take libertarianism to the extreme, which is anarchism.
Why would you need to get that across to me?As a student of praxeology, is not this something that is rather foundational to my world view?
It is not just me. The Mises Institute is a hotbed of anarchists.
Back to theory again I see.
That's unfortunate.
Perhaps there is something those anarchists may have to say that you hadn't thought of?Or are you completely certain that the state is necessary?
I am just wondering why you said what you did, knowing that this is something foundational to my world view..That central planners discount human nature is undeniably the center of economic theory.Without such an understanding, the explanation for how price controls leads to shortages, would be impossible.Ditto on Austrian business cycle theory.So I am just trying to make sense of your post..
Your world view is that of an inexperienced individual, all you know is what you've read as in the form of other peoples opinion.Give yourself 10 years of real actual world experience, and I guarantee your views will completely change.
So you have given up trying to debate the issue and have concocted a fallacious argument from authority.I will change as I grow, we all do.But my knowledge of the nature of human action is pretty well grounded. I don't see that changing without at the same time over turning the entire corpus of economic theory.And I dont see that happening...A more likely scenario is that I will further refine my arguments and understanding, and hopefully share some of it with you in the process.So far, I have clearly failed in that endeavor.Our conversations are down right nonsensical and pointless, at this point. Hopefully that changes.


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Toshiba was showing off a video player at CEATEC in Japan that's a hybrid DVD and personal media player (PMP), and it also supports the DivX video codec and 1seg digital TV.
If you're not familiar with 1seg, it's an HD mobile digital video broadcasting service in Japan that was officially launched in April of this year, and uses the H.264 video codec.
Although this Toshiba unit does have a widescreen, there was no info available about its resolution, nor was there any word about its ship date and availability. But if it can't handle at least 720p, well, that would be just dumb.
CEATEC - Toshiba 1Seg DVD-PMP player [Akihabara News]


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Human rights and creed: emerging issues (backgrounder)
September 2013 - The OHRC is currently updating its 1996 Policy on creed. The goal is to clarify the OHRC's interpretation of human rights based on creed under the Ontario Human Rights Code (the Code) and advance human rights understanding and good practice in this area. The update, which began in 2011, will take two to three years to finish. It will involve extensive research and consultation, and will draw on lessons learned from the OHRC's recent work on the Policy on competing human rights.


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I haven't run the Afton 50K races since 2011 and that year the State Parks were closed so John had the races at the Afton Alps Ski Area. It was brutal, I was 6 months post hysterectomy and I was in the midst of herniated disc pain. I was so damn happy to be running, although it took me 8:30 to compete!
Fast forward to 2014 Afton 50K races at Afton State Park. A beautiful breezy warm July morning, tons of friends, my best friends and new friends. Just a perfect place to be.
I left home at 445 AM so I would arrive with time to pick up my number and head out. I don't like hanging about waiting for the race to begin. I arrived at 610 for 630 start time. Because the parking lots were full I was directed to park right on the road, a few feet from the start line. Sweet!
Making sure that I had my watch, my iPod, 12 gels and a cooler with a RedBull, Ultragen and Protein Powder I headed out to the start, dropped my cooler and mosied over to pick up my number. Lucky 13. I was ready.
I hung with Arika and Maria while we listened to John give us the details. He asked how many were running their first ultra-many hands went up. It was so awesome to see so many beginning their ultra adventure. He asked how many were running their 5th Afton, many more hands went up..mine included.
He sent us on our way and off we went. I figured I could finish in 7 hours. The course is a double loop. I wanted to run the first loop hard, in 3 hours or less, then let up a bit on the second loop. That was the plan.
The morning was spectacular. Bright sunshine, real nice stiff breeze, not many bugs. I felt great! No ankle pain, no nervousness, just happy to be out there to do what I love.
Aid Station 1 came up quickly. I refilled with water and ate a gel. I have really been having great luck with my race nutrition since I have begun to use only gels, water and ecaps. I'm still shocked at the simplicity and how well this works. No more decision making at the tables, easy to carry and HammerNutrition sponsors most races so their gels are on most tables. The only downside is the stickiness of the product. My hands become sticky and my clothing is eventually sticky as well. Oh well. No stomach upset and continuous energy..well worth the stickiness.
I made sure to have a gel every 30 minutes. This would be the first test at running a faster pace, in the heat, with only gels. They were doing the job.
I ran into many friends along the course, at aid stations and running the race. So much fun!
As I came into the 25K mark I looked at the time clock: 2:53. I was right on. Wow! I ran hard, kept hydrated, energized and in good shape. As I went over to my cooler I saw Don holding it, handing to me. How nice! We chatted, I saw Jim Wilson and chatted with him as I guzzled down a RedBull. Thanks to Ryan for showing me the RedBull way at Savage 100! I grew my wings and headed out to loop 2.
I began to feel the heat, the fatigue in my legs from the hills. Afton has many climbs and many areas of open prairie, although much of the course is shaded, thankfully. I made a mental note that I did not want to DNF a training run so made sure to hold back on the next 25K. I reminded myself that 7 was my plan and it looked like 630 was going to happen regardless. I was happy with this.
As I ran along the river I saw Steve Quick walking toward me. I haven't seen him in a long time. A quick hug and hello and off I went with a smile.
At the final aid station I saw Jeff, Al, Nancy, Kris, Tom and John all working the aid station. Hugs all around, big smiles and it's time to finish this party up. I come around the corner and who do I see? RD John. Awesome! Another hug, a laugh, a 'look at us' and I'm off with smiles galore. Good friends, this is what it is all about.
I ran into the finish at 618. Very happy with that time, not to mention how great I felt. I sure have the heat training in now. Voyaguer 50 is a few weeks away and it is usually really warm. Hopefully not really wet this year.
If you haven't run a RockSteady Race you really need to give it a try. John and Cheri really have the RDing down to a science. They do a fabulous job. Great organization and great fun. Thank you!
After hanging out at the finish, cheering in others and visiting with friends it was time to move on to more fun. I was meeting Bonnie and Marie after the race. We had such a blast! We made sushi, spring rolls, soaked in the hot tub, went for a pontoon ride-what an amazing day!
On Friday I'm going up to Lutsen to run the Superior Sawtooth 100 course. Time to get some technical running in. Superior scares me. Although I've finished it 2x I've also DNFd 2x, my first and my last. I finally entered Friday. I am in. This whole year is all about finishing Superior.
In other news: We had Troy's graduation party last Sunday. We had so much fun. Many friends and family shared the day with us. I can't believe the time has come. He was awarded a Merit Scholarship as well as other scholarships to help with his tuition at the U of M. I'm so proud of him. We'll be empty nesters by the end of August.
With all of the changes at home taking place I chose to make another. After 11 years at the Big Lake High School I am now moving to the Big Lake Middle School. I'm taking a position that contains two classification increases as well as a pay raise, more hours. I will still have July off but no longer 8 weeks. I'm so excited for this new challenge!
Next up: Voyageur 50 Mile. Woohoo! It's been 5 years since I've run the Voyageur. Looking forward to it.
Sunday, July 06, 2014
Afton 50K Race Report: Love
Labels: Afton 50K, Superior Sawtooth 100, Voyager
5 comments:
- Londell said...
SUPER... Congrats on the position and becoming empty nester after great success in raising the boys! I will not be at Superior this year, which is a bummer. Conflict with a family event.
- Londell said...
SUPER... Congrats on the position and becoming empty nester after great success in raising the boys! I will not be at Superior this year, which is a bummer. Conflict with a family event.
- Robyn said...
Congratulations on a great run! Your joy at the finish line was infectious. Voyageur is going to be exciting!
- Olga said...
Must feel good to be fully back!! Congrats!
- Julie B said...
Thanks, Londell! We'll miss you at Superior this year. Maybe next year!
Thanks Olga, it sure does. You know the feeling!!
Robyn, you were right. Voyageur was exciting!
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