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Until this week, few people in Ohio could have named the president of the State Board of Education, even if Vanna White gave them a sneak peak at all of the vowels and most of the consonants.
Presidents of these kinds of boards don't usually make headlines unless they abscond with the funds or kidnap a baby. Debe Terhar, however, has made headlines with flair. Recently elected to a second term as board president, Terhar decided to leap into the debate about arming teachers. Concerned only about the safety of Ohio's children, Terhar put up a post on her Facebook account, comparing President Barack Obama's positions on gun control to something a crazed Nazi dictator might favor.
When the post came to light, Terhar quickly assured Catherine Candisky, reporting for the Columbus Dispatch,that—oh, no, oh, no—she wasn't comparing Obama to Hitler. She only wanted people to "step back and think about it and look at history" and realize that tyrants always get their start by disarming citizens. So she posted a picture of Hitler and added this nugget of wisdom: "Never forget what this tyrant said: 'To conquer a nation, first disarm its citizens.' — Adolf Hitler."
And you thought the question was "school children."
Let's give Terhar the benefit of the doubt. Maybe she's not a narrow-minded bigot, even if the picture she used to make her point did originate with a Facebook page called "Uncle Sam's Misguided Children," an unfortunate hijacking of a moniker familiar to any Marine. As Candisky explains, the page, "features a variety of anti-Obama, pro-gun posts and photos, such as scantily clad women hoisting large guns, a polar bear with the words 'Holy f*** I'm glad I'm white,' and another saying 'Where's Lee Harvey Oswald when you need him?'"
Visit the site yourself and check out pictures like the one below, with comments from individuals like Preston Durty Jones:
If good mental health is a prerequisite for gun ownership, you have to wonder about some of the folks who post their opinions here on Facebook. Highlights include a link to a story about the coming "gun confiscation" that will result if there are universal background checks for all gun purchases. Apparently, federal agents — or maybe U. N. soldiers — will be knocking on doors demanding weapons. Luckily, reasonable Americans with all kinds of guns at their fingertips are armed and ready:
Brandon Hall Haha there will be a lot of dead mother fuckers at my front door if they are coming for that such reason. Just sayin
Jerry Bruce Stagner thats why i invite the neighbor's we play slay the swat team,turn out is great
Caroline Regalado Civil war in America! I hope the cops nd the military will back up the people instead of the moron.
Bill Crabtree Back when Japan attacked us at Pearl Harbor the reason why they did not invade the other 49 states here in the United States was because they did a survey back then and the citizens of United States had over 2 million guns in their control just imagine how many Guns are here today…
Yeah, just imagine. The number is something like 270 million and still counting … and counting. It might be worth noting, too, that there were only 48 states in 1941 and that the Japanese did hope to invade Hawaii and go from there. Invading the U. S. across thousands of miles of ocean was a daunting task, however, even if all the people waiting on the shore had been armed with no more than can openers. It wasn't so much fear of those two million guns, either, so much as the fact that the U. S. Navy kicked the crap out of the Japanese and sank four of their aircraft carriers at the Battle of Midway.
Anyway, back to "Uncle Sam's Misguided Children." At least one poster, named Noah, tries to explain the math to all the overwrought gun owners—that there aren't nearly enough U. N. soldiers or ATF agents to seize all the weapons.
His comments are swallowed up amid all the howling:
Destany Schexnider Noah no disrespect at all. Just a question what about swat? What about the CIA you can't say the CIA won't follow orders from him they already shot a man because Obama claimed he could be a terrorist! And if he brings over soldiers from the other countries our enemy's that he bows down to? Just wondering what then? I pray we have most soldiers on our side and law enforcements.
Jeremy Bangel Good luck taking em. Civil unrest is only a blink away
Heather Langham Enblom I've got no problom putting a bullet in a Blue helmet from overseas either! Becuz I KNOW 100% OUR TROOPS WONT DO IT! Even THEY know ODUMMER is the DOMESTIC ENEMY!!
Another link, which doesn't seem to have anything to do with gun control, but does considering the views of many visitors to this page, is: "Wisconsin Teacher Teaches White Guilt to Students."
My original intent, when I began considering a story, was going to be to point out again how absurd comparisons of Hitler to Obama have become. Sadly, this entire page turned out to be a cornucopia of paranoid delusion.
One final example should suffice, a link to a story about a shocking claim made by "renowned author and humanitarian Dr. Jim Garrow" on his Facebook page yesterday (these people do seem to love to post screeds in the social media). Garrow fails to name his source but warns terrified readers that it was one of "America's foremost military heroes."
Then he delivers:
"I have just been informed by a former senior military leader that Obama is using a new 'litmus test' in determining who will stay and who must go in his military leaders. Get ready to explode folks. 'The new litmus test of leadership in the military is if they will fire on US citizens or not.' Those who will not are being removed."
One comes away from this Facebook page understanding how hard it's going to be to have any kind of reasonable discussion about gun controls in this country. You find yourself thinking, "These people don't need more guns or ammunition. They need to be placed on powerful medications."

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Even Michelle Williams has had her rough days.
The Destiny's Child singer, who is currently teaming back up with Beyonce and Kelly Rowland for a new album, revealed recently that she was suffering from moderate depression, but thankfully, has surpassed that dark period in recent months thanks to exercise, therapy and positive thinking, according to The Huffington Post.
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"I've dealt with depression," the 32-year-old said, "I had to choose to get out of bed and do whatever I needed to do to be happy.
"We're taught, 'Just go to church and pray about it. The Lord is going to heal you.' Well, in the meantime, I believe God-gifted people, physicians, doctors, therapists--that's your healing. Take advantage of it," she said. "Go see a professional so that they can assess you. It's OK if you're going through something. Depression is not OK, but it is OK to go get help."
The singer shared that she was dealing with depression since she was around 16 years old, and made the decision to speak out about it now in hopes of helping others who are also suffering.
Along with the upcoming Destiny's Child album, Williams is also working on a solo album and starring in a national tour of the Broadway musical Fela!, which kicks off next month.


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Is the X-Pro2 AF Faster?
"The AF is faster"
That is the impression that many users are left with, when they test the new X-Pro2 that are now being displayed in many showrooms and in stores.
It is not hard to imagine that many of those that are eager to test the X-Pro2 are the X-Pro1 users. X-Pro2 has seen a major improvement in AF performance compared to the X-Pro1. So the above impression is in fact "true". But if you are comparing the speed with the X-T1, X-E2 or X-T10 (cameras with phase detection AF), then your impression is "wrong in terms of numbers, but true feeling-wise."
"The fastest AF speed"of the X-Pro2, measurement based on the CIPA guideline, is same as other cameras with the phase detection AF. X-Pro2 is not breaking the record of the AF fastest speed of the X Series.
"The fastest AF speed" is a bit tricky one. This measurement is conducted under a particular environment specified by the guideline. So the shooting scene inevitably gets detached from the real shooting environment. The score of the AF speed isn't necessarily what the users experience in reality. Therefore we say it is "wrong in terms of numbers, but true feeling-wise".
"The fastest AF speed" may be nothing but a talk, but it is good to understand the concept of it, regardless. If the Phase Detection AF is enabled, then the AF speed gets pretty close to the fastest value. If it is driven by the Phase Detection AF, then the focus lens moves by the shortest distance.
So expanding the phase detection area is first item to consider to make the AF "faster".
The X-Trans CMOS III doubled the Phase Detection area when compared with the X-Trans CMOS II. By extending the area as much as possible, most of the subject, scenery can now be covered.
It is also important to cover the weak point of Phase Detection AF. It does not work well for the low contrast subject and high frequency range subject.
The algorithm needs to be brushed up to enhance the performance. But this requires tons of work. Countless patterns, chart and scenery are considered in order to build the improved algorithm for the PD pixels on the X-Trans CMOS III. It is important to improve the accuracy, but if the algorithm pattern requires time to process, then it is meaningless. False recognition should also be avoided. Testing only help algorithm get closer to the perfection. And to process all this, X Processor Pro, which has 4x the power of the previous processor will be in place.
No matter what, there will be some circumstances where the Phase Detection AF will not work. And this is actually the most important point.
If the PDAF isn't working, then stop trying if you are using DSLR. The only solution will be MF. But in case of mirrorless cameras, it will be switched to contrast AF. If the performance of contrast AF is improved, then the AF performance as a whole will be improved.
Conan Doyle once said "A chain is no stronger than its weakest link." In case of AF, it can be said the speed of contrast AF determines the power of the AF, not the fastest Phase Detection AF.
In order to enhance the contrast AF performance of X-Pro2, the system as a whole has been looked over.
First is the X-Trans CMOS III sensor. To read the contrast, it drives at the speed of 384fps. This is double the speed of the X-Trans CMOS II, 4 times faster than the original X-Trans CMOS. And the readout signal are processed, in a timely manner, by the X Processor Pro.
Next are the lenses. In order to work with the readout and the processed signals, the microcomputer of the lenses need to be updated.
The physical parts (optical design and mechanical design) also need to be compatible with the fast readout that are driven from the microcomputer. In essence, the fast and accurate focus lens unit and actuator are required. With all this in place, fast contrast AF is realized.
Unfortunately, there are only 5 XF lenses that can receive the benefit of the fast contrast AF: XF16-55mm, XF50-140mm, XF90mm, XF35mmF2, and the XF100-400mm.
The wide angle lenses such as XF10-24mm and the XF14mm already have fast AF. We can say that the fast AF can be enjoyed through the entire focal range. Use and enjoy switching lenses that are most suitable for each scene.


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Marcelo Lopes-Emar Batalha-10 Years of Design Catalog With Wood Box
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(Excerpt) Interview with MARCELO LOPES : Frank Scott: What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?. MARCELO LOPES : In this catalogue, the wooden box was inspired by the trays generally used by jewelers to display jewelry, as well as by the different phases involved in bringing jewelry to life: creation (designing of the sketches) and production itself. Comprised of two divisions, the box represents these phases: the first tray displays the sketches of ten pieces of jewelry, and the second tray brings the sixty-eight-page book narrating the visual trajectory of the pieces designed in the past ten years. The background of the pages in jewelry books is generally white. All of the pages in our book are colored, in tones inspired by tropicalia. Brazil – a Tropical Country. .Frank Scott: What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?. MARCELO LOPES : The idea behind this job is to present a contemporary view on gems, design and Brazilian jewelry, including the designer's understanding of the perennial nature of artwork. In fifty year or so, this book will be an evidence of what was created in terms of art and design in the first quarter of the of the twenty-first century. Both the book and its wooden case will be in perfect conditions. Much like live witnesses of our time. The exploration of textures, contrasts and materials will provide readers with a true sensorial expression of a timeless feeling that has been materialized – resources that digital production cannot explore. .Frank Scott: What are your future plans for this award winning design?. MARCELO LOPES : I don't have future plans for this project because the main focus was to developed the catalog just for the client. The future plans are only to include the project in my portfolio as one more award-winning project and maybe to get new clients. (smiles). .Frank Scott: How long did it take you to design this particular concept?. MARCELO LOPES : IThis project took almost 4 months. 2 months for the creation and 2 months for the production (printed catalog and wood box) .Frank Scott: Why did you design this particular concept? Was this design commissioned or did you decide to pursuit an inspiration?. MARCELO LOPES : This project was a commissioned design. .Frank Scott: Is your design being produced or used by another company, or do you plan to sell or lease the production rights or do you intent to produce your work yourself?. MARCELO LOPES : This project was created exclusively to commemoration of 10 years of design – emar batalha jewelry .Frank Scott: What made you design this particular type of work?. MARCELO LOPES : The desire to elaborate pieces that touch the emotion and have a positive effect in people's everyday life has always been the essence of my work. .Frank Scott: Where there any other designs and/or designers that helped the influence the design of your work?. MARCELO LOPES : No, I was not influenced by other designs. I just created based on the briefing of the client. .Frank Scott: Who is the target customer for his design?. MARCELO LOPES : The target for this project is the customer and potential customers of emar batalha jewelry store. .Frank Scott: What sets this design apart from other similar or resembling concepts?. MARCELO LOPES : The fusion of esthetics and technology that give life to a style that sells design through emotions. .Frank Scott: How did you come up with the name for this design? What does it mean?. MARCELO LOPES : The name of the catalogue "Narrativa Visual" came because the catalog is not a written history of emar batalha jewelry store. The story is told only using images of the jewelry with their descriptions. .Frank Scott: Which design tools did you use when you were working on this project?. MARCELO LOPES : My work is based on playful, sensorial and interactive concept and in this project in special was possible to include this concept. .Frank Scott: What is the most unique aspect of your design?. MARCELO LOPES : The sensorial, ludic design and the materials. Sensorial cover using special paper and hot-stamping print and some pages with a special dry cut. .Frank Scott: Who did you collaborate with for this design? Did you work with people with technical / specialized skills?. MARCELO LOPES : I used some partners to produce this catalogue. The printer, a company to make the wood box and others. .Frank Scott: What is the role of technology in this particular design?. MARCELO LOPES : I believe that a good creation is when the design project balances technology and design concept. it is difficult create a good design when we don't have good a background in material and technology. For example the logo in relief was made by laser cut out in wood. .Frank Scott: Is your design influenced by data or analytical research in any way? What kind of research did you conduct for making this design?. MARCELO LOPES : No, we made this project respecting the briefing of the client. For us, for this project it was enough. .Frank Scott: What are some of the challenges you faced during the design/realization of your concept?. MARCELO LOPES : The most challenging a.[ End of Excerpt: Read complete interview with MARCELO LOPES on Emar Batalha-10 Years of Design Catalog With Wood Box at design-interviews.com ]
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Sometimes I think in poetry. Don't know what this is, exactly, but it's been floating around in my brain. Thought I'd share. (I found the picture after the writing part, but it's quite appropriate, I'd say…)She stands, knees bent, her cheek to the sky. Such sounds around her, twisting and writhing in the morning bright, a dappled, jeweled splendor. To touch the center of that power, to know the mystery that beats beneath her chest–such ecstasy and agony– is to mark the slippery difference between peace of mind and madness, and forget it. Inspire, expire; and curling fronds of power lift, rise, and fall. She opens her eyes. She sees.
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Ashland residents learn about sewage bond issue
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ASHLAND - Ashland residents learned details about a bond issue that will be on next month's ballot Monday.
The bond issue, worth seven million dollars, will go toward a new water treatment plant. The city currently uses an enhance lagoon system, but needs to upgrade to a mechanical treatment facility to meet Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) criteria.
Residents had a chance to listen to city officials present details on the project's funding and plans.
If the bond issue passes in August, Ashland residents will see an increase in monthly usage rates. However, the bond issue would cost the city and residents 15 to 20 percent less than any possible alternatives that would occur if residents do not vote to approve the bond issue.
"If we don't pass the bond issue, the result will be a higher interest rate from the standpoint of having the listed authority of the voters on the bond issue process. We wouldn't have that with the bond issue," project engineer Chad Sayre said.
The process to program, design and get permit approval will take approximately three to four years.
"Right now we are under a Department of Natural Resources compliant schedule, so that within three or four years we have to have the project designed, permitted, approved, bid out, and constructed. So we're basically on that two to four year timeframe to get it completed and in service," Sayre said.
In that time, user rates would go up from $25 - $28 for an average 5,000 gallon usage customer to $38 - $42.
If the bond issue does not pass on August 5, the issue will be moved to the next local election, or the city will finance the building another way. He said the best option for the city and its residents is to pass the bond issue.
"The Department of Natural Resources and EPA are saying 'you shall make these improvements.' So in our opinion, the smartest thing is to have the bond issue, because it allows more flexibility to have a lower cost financing, which is going to keep our rates lower," Sayre said.
Sayre also said the project will continue even without the bond issue's passage because the city is required to update its water treatment system.


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The Green Bay Packers and Houston Texans clinched their divisions, while the Baltimore Ravens earned a playoff spot despite another lousy loss.
The jumbled NFC East? Well, that will come down to the final week of the season.
The New York Giants were humiliated 34-0 by the Atlanta Falcons on Sunday, falling into a first-place tie with the Dallas Cowboys and Washington Redskins, who both won to improve to 8-6.
The Redskins did it without Robert Griffin III, who sat out with a sprained right knee and wasn't happy about having to stand on the sideline and watch his teammates play. But fellow rookie Kirk Cousins stepped in and threw for 329 yards and two touchdowns, leading Washington to its fifth straight win, 38-21 over the Cleveland Browns.
``We're in first place in our division now, and it was a great business trip for us,'' Griffin said. ``I got healthier by not playing, we won the game and put ourselves in position to control our own destiny.''
Cousins connected with Leonard Hankerson for both TDs in his first career start and the Redskins barely missed a beat without the talented and multi-dimensional RG3. Last week, Cousins came off the bench after Griffin got hurt, and delivered a performance in this one that extended Washington's longest winning streak since 2007.
``I talked to him about being cool, calm and collected and not to freak out,'' Griffin said. ``He did a good job of staying poised and staying confident in there.''
Rookie Trent Richardson had a pair of TD runs for the Browns (5-9).
At Arlington, Texas, Dallas' Brandon Carr intercepted a pass by Ben Roethlisberger in overtime, returned it 36 yards to the 1, and Dan Bailey kicked a 21-yard field goal for a 27-24 win over Pittsburgh.
``Those are the plays you dream about in the backyard, making the game-winning interception or touchdown,'' Carr said.
Bailey's kick - 1:24 into OT - won a game for the second straight week since Dallas practice squad linebacker Jerry Brown was killed in a one-car accident that led to manslaughter charges against teammate Josh Brent. After Carr's interception, Tony Romo took a 2-yard loss to put the kicker in better position for the Cowboys.
The Steelers (7-7) lost for the fourth time in five games and trail AFC North rival Cincinnati by a game for the conference's second wild-card spot. They host the Bengals next week. Roethlisberger is 0-2 since returning from a three-game absence with shoulder and rib injuries.
``There won't be any quit from us, especially from me,'' Roethlisberger said. ``This one is going to sting real bad. It will hopefully make me and make us better.''
At Atlanta, Matt Ryan threw three touchdowns passes in a 34-0 win and the Falcons' defense handed the Giants their first regular-season shutout since 1996.
``We love the haters, man,'' said Falcons cornerback Asante Samuel, who had the first of two interceptions against Eli Manning. ``The haters keep us going. So keep your hate coming. We love it. It makes us play with a chip on our shoulder.''
Julio Jones caught a couple of scoring throws from Ryan, who broke his own franchise records for completions and passing yards in a season. He finished 23 of 28 for 270 yards.
The Falcons (12-2), who have already clinched the NFC South, moved a step closer to home-field advantage throughout the conference playoffs.
Manning had his lowest-rated game since 2007 for New York (8-6), which went 0-for-3 on fourth down and missed a short field goal.
``Atlanta was very, very good. We were very, very bad,'' New York coach Tom Coughlin said. ``There's no excuse for what happened here.''
At Chicago, the Packers clinched their second straight NFC North title with a victory over the archrival Chicago Bears.
James Jones caught all three touchdown passes thrown by the Packers' Aaron Rodgers. Green Bay has now won six straight in the NFL's oldest - and fiercest - rivalry. The Packers (10-4) have won 12 straight against NFC North opponents, the longest streak in the NFL.
Brandon Marshall had a 15-yard TD catch for the Bears (8-6), who have lost five of six and are in danger of missing the playoffs after beginning the year 7-1.
At Houston, Andre Johnson had 151 yards receiving and a touchdown, Bryan Braman scored on a blocked punt and Shayne Graham kicked five field goals to clinch the AFC South for the second straight year.
J.J. Watt had three sacks for the Texans (12-2) as Houston's defense got back on track a week after a 42-14 loss to New England.
The Colts (9-5) had won three straight and needed a win to clinch a playoff berth a year after going 2-14.
At Baltimore, Chris Harris returned an interception 98 yards for a momentum-turning touchdown, and Denver won its ninth straight.
Peyton Manning threw for 204 yards and a score in his ninth consecutive win against Baltimore, the first with the Broncos (11-3).
The Ravens (9-5) were playing their first game under offensive coordinator Jim Caldwell, who replaced the fired Cam Cameron. Baltimore clinched a playoff spot by virtue of Pittsburgh's overtime loss to Dallas.
At Foxborough, Mass., San Francisco earned a playoff berth by withstanding a stunning comeback by Tom Brady and New England from a 28-point deficit to beat the Patriots.
Michael Crabtree took a short pass from Colin Kaepernick and sped around cornerback Kyle Arrington for a 38-yard touchdown with 6:25 to go, then David Akers made a 28-yard field goal to clinch it. San Francisco (10-3-1) owns at least a wild-card spot and plays at Seattle next week with a chance to win the NFC West.
AFC East champion New England (10-4), which had won seven in a row, trailed 31-3 at one point and lost for the first time at home in December in 21 games. The Patriots also had won 21 in a row in the second half of the schedule before San Francisco somehow regrouped late in a game it seemingly had clinched long before.
At St. Louis, Adrian Peterson ran for a season-best 212 yards, including an 82-yard touchdown.
Peterson has 1,812 yards rushing for the Vikings (8-6), leaving him 294 shy of breaking the NFL's single-season record of 2,105 by Eric Dickerson of the Los Angeles Rams in 1984. Peterson, less than a year removed from a serious knee injury, has two games left - at Houston and home against Green Bay - to top Dickerson.
The Rams fell to 6-7-1.
At Toronto, Seattle rookie quarterback Russell Wilson ran for three touchdowns and threw for another in leading the Seahawks to their second straight rout.
Wilson scored on runs of 14, 25 and 4 yards and then hit Zach Miller for a 4-yard touchdown in helping the Seahawks (9-5) score 31 points on their first five possessions. The defense forced three consecutive turnovers to start the second half, including Earl Thomas scoring on 57-yard interception return.
The Bills (5-9) were knocked out of playoff contention for a 13th consecutive season.
At Glendale, Ariz., Greg Toler returned an interception 102 yards for a fourth-quarter touchdown as Arizona ended a nine-game losing streak.
The Cardinals (5-9) intercepted Matthew Stafford three times, returning two for touchdowns and setting up a TD with the other.
The Lions (4-10) lost their sixth straight. Rashad Johnson brought back a pick 53 yards for a touchdown to cap Arizona's 21-point second quarter. Patrick Peterson's interception set up another score.
Detroit's Calvin Johnson became the first player in NFL history with consecutive 1,600-yard receiving seasons and tied an NFL record with his seventh straight 100-yard receiving game.
At San Diego, Mike Tolbert scored twice against his former team and DeAngelo Williams turned a tipped pass from Cam Newton into a 45-yard touchdown reception.
Carolina (5-9) won consecutive games for the first time since last December. The loss knocked the Chargers (5-9) out of playoff contention for the third straight year, and clinched their first losing season since 2003, when they were an NFL-worse 4-12.
At New Orleans, Drew Brees passed for 307 yards and four touchdowns, and New Orleans posted its first shutout since 1995.
Brees connected on his scoring passes with tight end David Thomas, running back Darren Sproles and receivers Lance Moore and Joe Morgan. Mark Ingram added an 11-yard touchdown run for the Saints (6-8).
Josh Freeman endured one of his worst outings of the season for Tampa Bay (6-8), throwing four interceptions and losing a fumble.
At Miami, the Dolphins (6-8) kept former teammate Chad Henne out of the end zone, made three fourth-down stops deep in its own territory and benefited from an odd penalty.
The Dolphins turned back three scoring threats, and a go-ahead touchdown for the Jaguars (2-12) came off the board because of an illegal-substitution penalty.
At Oakland, Calif., Sebastian Janikowski kicked five field goals and Darren McFadden rushed for 110 yards.
The Raiders (4-10) overwhelmed the Chiefs (2-12) to snap a six-game losing streak.
Online:http://pro32.ap.org/poll andhttp://twitter.com/AP-NFL


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Call him Brom.
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Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Abraham Van Brunt
Call him Brom.
Posted by Rot at 9:55 AM
2 comments:
- Black Friday said...
wow that is amazing...I need to make something like that for my haunt. I love the legend of sleepy hollow!
- July 14, 2009 at 1:30 PM
- Rot said...
Yeah, it's such a classic image of Halloween goodness.
- July 14, 2009 at 2:06 PM
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Throughout Holy Week, the Revised Common Lectionary readings for all three years focus on the Gospel of John, and the Servant Songs of Isaiah. The readings are carefully selected to show that Jesus is God's Son, the Anointed One, known and ordained by God from the beginning of time to suffer and die for the sins of humanity, as foretold by the Prophet Isaiah. The writer of John's Gospel intensifies his proof that Jesus is the Christ, the Anointed One, the eternal Logos, the Word of God known from the beginning of time, and the light of the world.
Over the next two weeks, this Holy Week series assumes particular answers to the four questions for the apocalypse, which have defined Liberal Christian Commentary for the past 4 years.
1) What is the nature of God? Violent or non-violent?
2) What is the nature of Jesus' message? Inclusive or exclusive?
3) What is faith? Literal belief, or trust and commitment to the great work of distributive justice-compassion?
4) What is deliverance? Salvation from hell, or liberation from injustice?
"God" here is non-theistic, and "kenotic." Kenosis classically means "emptiness." As a Christian term it has been defined as in Philippians 2:6-7: ". . . although [the Anointed] was born in the image of God, [he] did not regard "being like God" as something to use for his own advantage, but rid himself of such vain pretension and accepted a servant's lot. . . . [H]e was born like all human beings . . ." (Scholars Version, forthcoming from Polebridge Press [October 2010]) In John Dominic Crossan's words, a kenotic god is "the beating heart of the Universe, whose presence is justice and life, and whose absence is injustice and death" (John Dominic Crossan and Jonathan L. Reed, In Search of Paul: How Jesus's Apostle Opposed Rome's Empire with God's Kingdom, Harper SanFrancisco, 2004, pp. 288-291). In these commentaries, that "god" is the creative force that both contains and is contained by the Universe.
In answer to the questions, the nature of that force is nonviolent; Jesus's message is inclusive. Faith is trust in an inclusive, non-violent universe. The context for human personal, social, and political life then becomes a Covenant with justice and life, and commitment to the ongoing struggle for liberation from injustice.
Civilization defines justice as retribution – payback; an eye for an eye. But the deeper meaning of justice is fair distribution. "Distributive justice" usually is narrowly defined as the fair distribution of wealth. But here the meaning is both wider and deeper to include the fair distribution of justice. Far beyond economics, as the rain falls on the good, the bad, and the ugly without partiality, distributive justice shows no partiality for any particular human condition. Human civilizations have not used that definition except in cases where there is clearly injustice if partiality enters the picture. The classic example in the United States is that if you are rich, white, and male your chances of serving jail time for possessing cocaine is an order of magnitude less than if you are poor, black, and female, charged with possessing marijuana. Occasionally there is a reversal of this pattern, as when an over-zealous North Carolina prosecutor trumped up a case of gang rape of a black stripper against a championship team of white LaCrosse players. In either case, distributive justice is at work – although in a negative sense.
The positive understanding of distributive justice is contained in the term distributive justice-compassion. The normal development of civilizations has historically led to systems for assuring safety and security of citizens. But as any reader of Charles Dickens must be aware, those systems often exclude the poor, the uneducated, those who are presumed to have no economic or social power (women, minorities). Members of societies who are denied access to those powers often become ensnared in activities deemed anti-social or criminal in order to survive. Distributive justice-compassion would not demand payback or retribution for such activities, but would provide solutions: reeducation, rehabilitation, redress of grievances.
Distributive justice-compassion holds sway in the Covenant relationship with the non-violent, inclusive, kenotic realm or Kingdom of God. Justice as retribution/pay-back holds sway in the normal march of humanity into civilization. The short-hand term for the seemingly inevitable systems of injustice that are the result of that march is "Empire."
See especially the work of Jesus Seminar scholars John Dominic Crossan and Marcus J. Borg for a thorough discussion of these concepts.
The context for the above four questions of the apocalypse is the post-modern era of the late 20th and early 21st Centuries. Generally, historians speak about time in terms of premodern, modern, and post-modern. Pre-modern refers to the time before the Enlightenment and Descartes. The Modern era (post-Enlightenment) lasted for about 350 years. During that time, God was a separate being or entity, who created the universe, and proclaimed humanity to be the fulfillment of God's creativity. The "post-modern" era might be argued to have actually begun with Charles Darwin. But regardless of the timing, "post-modern" means the time in which humanity began and continues to deal with the nature of the Universe as science has defined it. "God" as a separate being who intervenes in human life from "heaven" somewhere beyond Antares no longer makes intellectual sense.
This leads to another term that has migrated from post-modern science into post-modern spiritual and religious language. Cosmology means the science or theory of the universe. But the term as used by Rev. Dr. Matthew Fox in his ground-breaking theology of original blessing goes beyond the scientific. Cosmology for Fox means humanity's intellectual understanding of the nature of the universe. "Cosmology" as Fox (and this writer, among others) uses the term can describe the mind-set of pre-modern, modern, and post-modern people, as each of these evolutions of human thought has understood our place in and our relationship to the universe, and God.
If, as John Shelby Spong argues, Christianity is to have any relevance at all to post-modern spirituality, changes in focus and metaphor must be made. This series of essays for Holy Week calls for a change in paradigm, and points toward a beginning.


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Cuba must be fair in normalizing US relations
Both Americans and Cubans would benefit from normalization of relations
between our two countries, President Barack Obama vowed two years ago.
Then, despite concerns expressed by many Democrats and Republicans in
Congress, Obama proceeded to lift many of the diplomatic, economic and
social barriers that had been in place for more than half a century.
They were erected after Fidel Castro seized power in Cuba, nationalized
assets owned by many American individuals and businesses, and launched
an ongoing campaign of repression against his own people.
Normalizing relations would help Cubans by improving their economy and
opening channels of commerce between our two countries, the president said.
Well, that might occur — if the Cuban government would allow it.
It is not doing so, as The Associated Press reported this week. Except
for a few airlines, hotel companies and other tourism-related
businesses, Havana continues to keep U.S. businesses from opening up
shop in Cuba.
That country's economy remains under tight government control, with the
communist rulers still determined to limit free enterprise.
It may well be too late to close the Pandora's Box opened by Obama.
Still, Cuba should not be permitted to cherry-pick what U.S. businesses
it will permit, while capitalizing on tourism by Americans and markets
for Cuban goods in this country. The newly-opened street cannot be
limited to one-way traffic.
Source: Cuba must be fair in normalizing US relations | News, Sports,
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I'm having a bit of difficulty in understanding the OpenBSD way of using "ports"......
Actually in all truth and honesty I'm lost
So apart from the standard package tools:
pkg_add, pkg_info etc.....
how do I fetch the Ports collection or Ports tree???
I'm running OpenBSD RELEASE 5.0 x64 under VirtualBox and using it as a learning platform.
What is confusing is that there are no tools such as portsnap or portmanager in order to handle the downloading and building and management of ports.
Currently what I've done in order to get packages is add this line to my .profile:
export PKG_PATH=ftp://ftp.mirrorservice.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.0/packages/`machine -a`/
Unfortunately I'm too new to OpenBSD to know what that means using this OS....
My previous experience I would put the source code into the /usr/ports/distfiles folder; but there isn't a /usr/ports/ directory on OpenBSD so I'm totally lost.
Could anyone help me making sense of this or perhaps help me understanding the different mentality here?
Many thanks.
Sorry wanted to add these as things I've read but couldn't till now (post 5+):
Would I be correct in assuming that in order to build a port I would need to run:
pkg_create <source.tar.gz>
Off. The pkg_create(1) application is normally used under the covers by the porting infrastructure during make(1) with the package target, and almost never by a port developer.
You've missed FAQ 15 -- or you read it and were confused -- it wasn't in your list of documents you've reviewed. There's great guidance there.
In order to "use" the ports tree, you must first obtain a ports tree that is synced to the flavor of the OS you are using. (You can only mix and match -stable and -release, as they use the same underlying libraries.)
For -release, you can download and unpack the ports tarball. For -stable, you must use cvs(1). For -current, there is a daily tarball but cvs may be more convenient.
Note: There is usually little difference between the -release and -stable ports trees; for the last several years there hasn't been sufficient resources to develop -stable ports except when there has been a security issue with some port.
Ooh, I forgot to mention, you'll want to review the ports(7) and bsd.ports.mk(5) man pages; the latter is critical if you are developing your own ports.
Most users of OpenBSD should only be concerned about installing packages which is covered in Section 15 of the project's official FAQ. Rarely should general users need to build from the ports tree.
Repeating, the build process builds packages before installation. These are the same packages available on the mirror sites, so unless there is a specific reason to build, most users should be installing from the mirror sites as opposed to building themselves.
The FAQ is the single best starting point for newcomers to OpenBSD. You will save yourself significant time & aggravation by taking the time now to study its contents.
Ok I checked FAQ15 out.
Got the "ports" tree installed by doing this according to the guide:
{I used /home as there was more space in it then /tmp where the tar.gz wouldn't fit}
cd /home tar -C /usr -xzf ports.tar.gz # chgrp -R wsrc /usr/ports # find /usr/ports -type d -exec chmod g+w {} \; echo "USE_SYSTRACE=Yes" > /etc/mk.conf $ cd /usr/ports $ make search key=rsnapshot
So now it should work like how I'm used to!
However, a quick question is - if I want to install a package not in the ports tree can I still build it as though it was a port?
eg. download the source into /usr/ports dir then run "make install clean" after going to /usr/ports/<source>
No, sparky.
The ports tree contains infrastructure for building ports, not the ports' source code, and each leaf of the tree contains a series of OpenBSD-specific files/folders specific to that port, such as a Makefile, a distinfo file, and packing lists and installation messages in pkg/*, as well as optional patches/* or files/* when needed for OpenBSD uniquely.
Your choice with custom applications is to either:
Please read FAQ 15's sections on ports very carefully.
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Thanks a lot jggimi!
I understand now, at least better how things work.
I kinda had a secret agenda to be able to get LCDproc working in OpenBSD but since I was already running it on **other** platforms I was already signed up to the mailling list meaning that a quick question as to why the software wasn't compiling got me the response that I needed to use the CVS version.
Now all is fine and I have managed to compile my first piece of software without errors on OpenBSD.
Many thanks for the support.
Still a loooooong way to go though as it's a steep learning curve!
Yes, it's a learning curve. But I'll beat the horse once more ... I thought I heard it sigh.
The FAQ is the only official "HOWTO" collection. You'll save yourself lots of time and shorten that learning curve by spending time with it.
As far as LCDProc goes, while I know nothing about it, I know that Edd Barrett was developing a port for it in November:
So finally when I come to buliding my Cisco killer 10GbE router it should be out.
I like LCD panels as they're a good way of getting info without typing and they look pretty in racks/general!
It is already officially available to users of -current.
However, you should note where the OPENBSD_5_1_BASE CVS tag is placed (as this denotes what will be available with OpenBSD 5.1-release). The very latest lcdproc check-in made two weeks ago is newer than the 5.1 CVS tag; thus, this particular check-in is only available to -current users.
Is this check-in important? I don't know as I don't use lcdproc. The point here is that development of the port is actively on-going.
If you are confused by the different flavors of OpenBSD: -release, -stable, & -current, study Section 5.1 of the FAQ.
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Reincarnation of Siesta Key watering hole, now on Phillippi Creek, has been in the works for years.
The sign posted outside Bob's Boathouse on South Tamiami Trail changes week to week as it has for many months: Opening soon.
The reincarnation of what was a staple Siesta Key watering hole has been a long time in the making, and if the 1,700 fans on Bob's Boathouse Facebook page are any indication, there is plenty of interest.
"Sign on 41 says opening week of Halloween!" says a recent post.
Bob's Boathouse, a unique spot many remember on the Intracoastal Waterway at the Siesta Key Bridge, was a popular causal spot for tourists and locals alike before it closed in 2001 to make way for a 38-unit condominium development.
More than a decade later, Tom LeFevre, the man behind Bob's Boathouse, pledges to bring back the restaurant many residents still remember, this time at the cleared site of the former Royal Oldsmobile GMC dealership.
Tucked back on Phillippi Creek, at 5515 S. Tamiami Trail, passersby see the restaurant — but more noticeable are the shells of boats littering the parking lot as if abandoned by a rogue wave.
Those who remember the old Bob's Boathouse have shared their memories on Facebook. People post pictures of the current site or share photos from the old spot from Stickney Point Road near Siesta Key.
The social media banter from these many patrons pose the same question over and over.
Just when is Bob's Boathouse going to open?
"Seriously — WHERE specifically on the web will you announce an actual opening day? (I cannot "drive by" the sign each day on the Trail.) Thanks."
Word is the restaurant will open this week.
"There have been a lot of naysayers over the years that didn't think Bobs would ever come back," said LeFevre. "It's been a long time in the making but we're almost there."
The restaurant
Inside the restaurant are three dining rooms, an indoor and outdoor bar and two patio seating areas. Etched into barrels that hang overhead as lights are the names of Bob's Boathouse's biggest supporters, past to present.
Near the front entrance customers will walk through the hull of a capsized boat and pick up fliers for special events every night of the week.
The goal? LeFevre said it is make Bob's Boathouse a regular pick for everyone in Sarasota.
"It's a place for people who remember Bob's Boathouse, but friendly enough to bring new customers in too," LeFevre said.
Dan Kriwitsky is a longtime Sarasota resident who lived on Siesta Key and frequented the original Bob's often.
"It'll be like getting your old tree fort back," Kriwitsky said. "You knew everybody who came out. The only people who didn't like it were the people who lived out there and didn't like the noise. But Bob's was unlike any other place on Siesta Key. We just don't have beach bars like that."
Boaters will be able to pull up at a dock on Phillippi Creek. On the deck and near the bar, restaurant-goers can stay warm around an enormous fire pit — crafted in the form of a giant diesel car engine, which LeFevre says pays homage to his Motor City roots in Detroit.
Or they can take a dip in the "water feature," a fountain that is temporarily been blocked off by a chain link fence.
Restaurant employees say the water feature is meant to serve as a pool for guests in bikinis and board shorts. Plastic piping riddles the ankle-deep pool, which spouts water like a fountain and less like a wading pool.
Inspections with Sarasota County's planning, development and zoning division prompted the fence, when it was deemed unsafe for patrons to wade in.
A stage will host a disc jockey or live band, and with planned hours of 7 a.m. to 2 a.m. daily, music can play well into early hours of the morning — when Bob's Boathouse opens.
Waiting to open
"At the time Tommy was saying they were going to be open in three months," he said. "I still think it will open. There's always some progress on the ground and it looks like it could open tomorrow. But really, I have no idea when."
Bob's Boathouse's new neighbor, the South Trail Church of Christ is not worried about sharing borders with the late night restaurant.
"There's nothing there that will really affect the church or our community and we're excited about having new neighbors," said Terry Chapman, minister of the church that's operated on Tamiami Trail since 1968. "Our activity is mostly during the day so we don't anticipate any problems. My only hesitancy is they haven't opened yet."
History of delays
Bartenders, cooks and servers have been hired and employee orientations have been held more than once. Some of those early hires were forced to find other jobs because the restaurant's opening continued to be pushed back.
Kriwitsky has photos of when he and friends got together for an unofficial barbecue at the construction site of Bob's Boathouse. That was more than two years ago.
LeFevre says minor permitting issues and routine inspections have stood in the way of Bob's opening.
"Bob's has quite a few permits in the works, all the things you need to get a business open," said Greg Yantorno, building official with Sarasota County's building department. "They've changed contractors so many times over the years."
When the Siesta Key restaurant closed in 2001, LeFevre and his partners planned to redevelop the three-acre site into condominiums.
The Marina Del Sol units sold for $490,000 to $1.4 million each.
In 2005, LeFevre and his former partners with Bob's Boathouse bought a 31-acre parcel near Westfield Sarasota Square Mall on Tamiami Trail, with the hopes to build a new restaurant, retail space and residences.
The land near Vamo Road was purchased for $29.7 million. It remains vacant.
Also in 2005, LeFevre began construction on an upscale condominium development called Harbor Villas in Nokomis on Dona Bay.
The condo project slid into foreclosure in 2009, and was eventually sold at auction.
Last year, the owners of the Tamiami Trail property filed suit to evict LeFevre and his partners, Robert Peebles and Terry Dyer, after they fell behind on their rent.
A lawsuit filed in April 2012 stated Bob's Boathouse owed its landlord more than $99,000 in rent, late fees and property taxes.
The 5-year lease, which was signed in May 2010, was set at a rate of $27,500 a month, which included paying property taxes. LeFevre and his partners have the option to purchase the property by next year.
LeFevre argued that he has had no income for three years, since the restaurant has not opened. His counter claim also stated he dumped $4.3 million in property improvements over three years, including bulldozing the old car dealership.
The suit was settled in August.
LeFevre says he is pushing forward with ambitious development plans for the Tamiami Trail property.
Besides vying to open the restaurant, LeFevre dreams of building townhome residences adjacent to Bob's on Phillippi Creek. The two- to three-story building would be on the water and share a parking lot with the restaurant and bar.
LeFevre welcomes investors and developers interested in pursuing the idea.
At the southeasternmost tip of the leased property, LeFevre has set land for a retail space in the 12,000-square-foot range. He wants to bring a grocery or convenience store chain to the edge of Tamiami Trail.
Gordon Food Service, a grocery chain that caters mostly to the restaurant supply business, at one time considered the space, LeFevre said. But the chain ended up committing to a Benderson Development-owned space down the road at 6307 S. Tamiami Trail, closer to Stickney Point Road.


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RSBS' Biggest Fan!
Congratulations to Kristen from This Is A Very Simple Game (a damn fine blog in its own right!) for winning the RSBS Biggest Fan Contest, sponsored by Crown Royal. Soon Kristen will be enjoying Albert Pujols in the bright SoCal sun with well protected eyes as she is going to receive a pair of sweet Oakley Blender Sunglasses. Hot dang!
And if that's not hot enough, check out her winning entry below. Your taste buds will thank you!
Caramelized Red Onion State, Blue Cheese State, Bacon Lavosh!
This is a quick and dirty weeknight dinner that tastes gourmet and doubles nicely as a game day snack. But, since you can't exactly tell how amazing this smells and tastes from the photo, here is the recipe. I get the impression that Johanna cooks but I don't know if Jeff and Allen do, so the recipe is written for both the well stocked kitchen and the un-stocked kitchen:
Ingredients for 2 Lavosh:
- 5 slices of bacon (because, hello, Bacon? Is there any ingredient more charismatic?)
- 1 Red Onion, cut in half and sliced into thin rings
- 3 cloves fresh crushed garlic (or one teaspoon dried, if that's what you have)
- 2 tablespoons butter or olive oil for cooking
- 2 pieces lavosh (whole wheat works well here too. If you don't have access to lavosh, what the heck kind of Trader Joe's do you have there in Chicago? 😉 And/or you can use pita, tortillas, or even pizza dough instead.)
- 1 cup shredded mozzarella cheese
- Crumbled Blue Cheese (roughly 4 oz. which is to say, basically a palm full. I don't really prescribe to the tyranny of traditional "standard" measurements unless I am baking or performing some other form of chemistry, LOL.) I like Trader Joe's Salem Blue or Point Reyes Blue Cheese if I have it around, but any will work.
- Optional – 1/2 cup of _______ meat. I used leftover roast chicken the evening I took the photo because we roasted chicken-zilla earlier in the week and had it on hand. But diced deli meat works wonderfully too – turkey, roast beef or, if you're feeling especially porcine inclined, ham or prosciutto (yum!).
- Salt and pepper to taste (sea salt and fresh ground pepper if you have it, no worries if you don't)
1. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees.
2. Cook the bacon until it is almost cooked to your preferred level of doneness, then set aside. Chop when cooled.
3. Heat the cooking fat (and use some of the bacon drippings for 1 tablespoon of the cooking fat , if you dare). Add the garlic (if you're using fresh) and sauté for a few seconds before adding the onions.
4. Keep stirring the onions. Season with a little salt and pepper (and the dried garlic if you're using dried) once the onions are coated in the oil. You want to almost fully caramelize the onions – sauté them, stirring from time to time, until they are browned slivers of completely limp, tasty oniony goo.
5. Put the lavosh on cookie sheets (or prep for a pizza stone if you have one and have time to heat it) and cover each of them in half of the mozzarella cheese in a thin layer stretching out to the edges.
6. Sprinkle each evenly with half of the bacon, cooked onions, blue cheese and extra meat (if you are using).
7. Dust both lightly with pepper.
8. Bake for roughly five minutes, turn and then five minutes more (much longer if you are using pizza dough), until the cheese is bubbly and golden in spots and the edges of the meat and lavosh are crisp and browning.
9. Cool slightly, slice and enjoy!
10. Serve with dark beer or red wine (ideally a good, rich Rhone style blend. Feel free to ask if you would enjoy any California-centric suggestions J).
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Special thanks go out to all those who submitted entries! We love you all. Now go make some lavosh and get krunk!
Jeff & Al


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I've made a donation as I thought the "Really Static Templatecopier" would solve my issues with a gazillion CSS files missing (I'm using the plugin to use a subdomain.somedomain.com and then FTP and rename the whole as anotherdomain.com also using the "security option" to handle all the renaming), the issues are :
- my child theme CSS are missing (only the parent theme CSS is tranfered)
- lots of plugins insert their own CSS files in the header, they are ALL missing and I doubt the "Really Static Templatecopier" plugin can do anything for it.
Erik I hope you can help me, I needed this plugin to work but it seems like it doesn't fully work as it should. I wanted to use it for LOTS of installs so manually copying the missing files and folders is not an option.


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Fellow IIN grad Elizabeth Stein has a personality so sweet it's no irony she created a line of baking mixes. But they're not like the other baking mixes. purely elizabeth baking mixes are are all-natural, vegan, made with high quality ingredients and free of gluten and refined sugar. And the ancient grain granola is so addictive that it has become a staple in my home.
Elizabeth and I first met while I was studying at IIN and she was the health coach I had chosen as part of the program curriculum. We had a lot in common, including how we both arrived at IIN. We've kept in touch and watched each others' businesses grow.
Q1. What is the #1 wellness practice you live by? That thing that you do every day without fail because it revs you up from the inside out.
A. Working out. I need to get some form of exercise to feel energized and know that I am doing something good for my body. Lately though I have been trying to carve out time at night for a relaxing soak in the tub. Trying to add in more ME time which has been doing wonders.
Q2. The premise of the blog is that wherever you are in life, is exactly where you need to be. How did you get to where you are today?
A. I was working in a job where I was really unhappy. It was having a big effect on my overall well-being and I started to search for something else. I knew that my job had to be more inline with my passions and values. I couldn't go to work day after day doing something meaningless. Somehow I stumbled upon IIN and knew immediately I had found my calling. I was passionate about health, and holistic living. I worked with clients one-on-one as well as taught cooking classes. One thing lead to another and I had an idea to start a gluten free baking mix product line. This seemed like the perfect combination of my interest in health and business background. In October 2009, I launched purely elizabeth and now absolutely love what I am doing.
Q3. What was your biggest transformation along the way?
A. While at the Omega Institute for an IIN conference, I gained the confidence to go after my dreams, no matter how BIG or far fetched it seemed. That day, a month before starting purely elizabeth, I got the courage to write down my unlikely dream, and toss it in the campfire. Frankly from that day, I've never looked back.
Q4. If you could only own five items, what would they be?
A. laptop, vehicle, my favorite summer dress, vitamix
Q5. What is the theme song for your life right now and why?
A. It's A Beautiful Day by U2.
This is such a happy, uplifting song and feels inline with where my life is right now. I feel really lucky that everything seems to be going in the right direction at this moment.


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What Will Happen at a $64K Dinner with Sarah Palin?
So: journalist, writer, and Sarah Palin critic Joe McGinniss was outfoxed in his attempt to bid on a dinner with Sarah Palin by $3,200, bringing the final bid to $63,500. The winner, please?
Ms. Cathy Maples, who hails from Huntsville, Alabama, come on down! You're the next diner on Iron Chef: Wasilla. Maples put in the final bid on Palin's eBay auction for dinner with her; proceeds will go to Ride2Recovery, an organization helping wounded soldiers get by on their way back to a normal existence after getting FUBAR'd because they didn't have the proper resources or infrastructure for their missions laid out for them, often because that money went to private, non-government defense contractors. Like the one Cathy Maples works for!
Other things Ms. Maples could've bid on in the auction include:
Lunch with former Bush aide Karl Rove (which went for $16,000), a "CSI: New York" set experience and party with star Gary Sinise ($4,150), and a Rob Lowe-autographed baseball jersey ($620).
Hm. Between dinner with Palin, lunch with Rove, a party with Sinise, and Sam Seaborne's baseball jersey (?!), tough call. Maples has apparently met Palin twice before, is a huge fan, and is one of many Americans who would like to see Sarah Palin take the presidency. She has to pay for the ride up to Alaska, but can bring four people to dinner.
She says the plan right now is to bring her two grandchildren, 13 and 18 years old, their mother and the 18-year-old's girlfriend.
Functional! A learning experience for all. Maples will be treated to America's Best View of Russia, while McGinniss will write contritely congratulatory letters where he basically writes, HA, you paid all that money to have dinner with Sarah Palin, sucker:
As one of the underbidders, I salute you and congratulate you on winning the dinner with Sarah Palin. I'm pleased that my bids helped increase the total proceeds that will go to our wounded veterans through Ride2Recovery. I wish you the best for your forthcoming trip to Alaska. Although I would have enjoyed the opportunity for a frank exchange of views with Gov. Palin, I'm pleased that someone with your record of accomplishment will grace her table.
Joe McGinniss
Ah, the menu, though. Might I suggest a Black Truffle Squirrel Soup, served behind a pure Alaskan Mooseburger, topped off by—appropriately—Jeffrey Chodorow's infamous "Baked Alaska" recipe.
The kind of food meant to stimulate an open exchange of ideas about progress, family values, dedication to one's post, and of course, the children of children. $64K well spent, Ms. Maples. It's no entry into Conde Nast's Orangina-barren cafeteria, but it'll do. It'll do.


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Welcome Back
They often say that art imitates life don't they? Well unintentionally the exact thing happened when I painted this.
It started out as a play with texture paste, and my favorite colours of blues and paynes grey which is a lovely grey with blue tones in it. I added layers of paste, and colours and the finished piece was definitely an experimental journey rather than a planned trip! The last 4 years have been tough and this year I've been feeling pretty low thanks to having a lot of pain and little use of my hands to take my mind off things. This piece was one of the early pieces I created, when I finally had enough use of my hands for my first afternoon in the studio this year.
I liked the look the texture pasted gave and just added some quinacridone Nickel azo gold to highlight it. With the 'layer love' style of layers of paint and drips, the finished piece reminded me of a phrase, 'The light at the end of the tunnel.' I've put a second picture in as its so hard to get the real colours of the piece to show in photographs.
Who knows how much use of my hands I'll get back, will I ever be pain free? Its not looking likely any time soon but when the going gets tough I can look at this piece and remind myself that there are better days too, sometimes I get to play, if only for a short time.
Best wishes and thanks for reading, see you soon
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Among the naval forces of the world on guard against Somali pirates, China is conspicuously absent. Today, a Chinese general asks "If China wants to be a world power, how come we are poweless so often?"
A Chinese general has called for the country's navy to join the fight against Somali pirates, saying the mission would boost China's international stature and give its sailors valuable experience in fighting open ocean combat operations far from their home ports.
Chinese ships have been among those seized in a wave of pirate attacks this year, including the fishing vessel Tianyu No. 8, seized in mid-November.
International warships from NATO and countries including Russia patrol the Gulf of Aden and have created a security corridor in the area under a U.S.-led initiative, but attacks have not abated.
Russian Navy warship passes through the Suez canal and goes toward pirate patrol….
"Piracy doesn't just interfere in our country's navigational safety, it also impedes our development and interests," Major General Jin Yinan told state radio.
"I think our navy should send ships to the Gulf of Aden to carry out anti-piracy duties," Jin said, according to a transcript of the interview posted Thursday on the Web site of the official China News Service. The date of the interview was not given.
In this Nov. 11, 2008 file photo made available by Indian Navy, Indian warship INS Tabar, right, escorts the MV Jag Arnav ship to safety after rescuing it from a hijack attempt by Somali pirates. The Indian navy says the INS Tabar dedicated to fighting pirates has successfully fought off an attempted pirate attack in the Gulf of Aden, sparking explosions and a fire on the suspected pirate ship late Tuesday, Nov. 18.(AP Photo/Indian Navy, HO, File)
China's People's Liberation Army Navy has little experience operating at long-range, its primary mission being coastal patrol. However, the service is believed to have major ambitions, possibly including the eventual deployment of an aircraft carrier.
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The French warship Nivose escorts commercial ships in the Gulf of Aden.(AFP/Eric Cabanis)


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450g extra lean mince beef
extra-virgin olive oil
1 large onion, peeled and finely chopped
2 garlic cloves, peeled and crushed
2 fresh red chillies, deseeded and chopped
2 tsp ground cumin
1 tsp ground coriander
1 tsp paprika
pinch of cayenne pepper
400g can chopped tomaotes
1 level tbsp tomato puree
600ml beef stock
freshly ground black pepper
400g can red kidney beans, drained
chopped fresh coriander, to serve
low-fat natural yoghurt or crème fraiche (optional), to serve
In a large, lidded saucepan, dry-fry the minced beef until brown over a hight heat. Drain off any fat. Turn down to a medium-low heat and add a splash of olive oil and then add the onion and garlic and cook gently until softened.
Add the chillies and all the spices and continue frying, stirring occasionally, for 2-3 minutes.
Add the canned tomatoes, tomato puree and stock. Stir well and bring to the boil. Reduce the heat and simmer gently for 15 minutes, or until the liquid is slightly reduced.
Season with pepper and add the drained kidney beans. Cover and heat through gently for another 30 minutes, adding a little extra stock if required.
Serve hot, sprinkled with chopped coriander leaves and a dollop of yoghurt or crème fraiche, and accompanied by basmati rice or a fresh salad.


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Les Saveurs opened in November 1991 to the kind of reviews that would have closed a Broadway play in a matter of days. While the critics were highly appreciative of the star in the kitchen--chef Joel Antunes--they damned the strong emphasis on all things French. The menu and the wines were French. The cloches, lifted simultaneously by French waiters, were straight out of the 16th arrondissement in Paris. More generic flaws included high prices and poor lighting. London in the 1990s did not need any of thesethings, the critics charged.
And for the first seven months it seemed as if the critics were right. Antunes and his brigade--including an enthusiastic front-of-the-house legion led by Emmanuel Menujuzan and a knowledgeable sommelier--waited for customers who never came. The lack of noise and the obviously low turnover must have frightened Les Saveurs' proprietor, K. Ejima, a Japanese millionaire who had made his fortune via the Fujikoshi chain of department stores, but had set his heart on owning a Michelin-starred restaurant.
Then Les Saveurs did something that is common in America but still surprisingly rare in Britain; it hired a consulting firm. Payne and Dagworthy are more attuned to the world of hotels, yet they immediately recognized that the strength of Les Saveurs was the cooking; the exhorbitant pricing and stuffy atmosphere had to go.
Within a month, prices were almost halved, the wine list (cited as one of the most outstanding in London by the Wine Spectator) made accessible and affordable, and the dress code relaxed. The metamorphosis tripled the number of customers, and by necessity the staff became a tightly organized team.
The cooking is distinctive because of the time Antunes has spent outside as well as inside France. Initially Antunes' mother was his primary influence, and later chefs Paul Bocuse (of Paul Bocuse in Lyons) and Michel Troisgros (see Cigar Aficionado, Premier Issue, page 119) shaped his cooking. Then he packed up his kitchen knives and headed East, eventually becoming one of the head chefs of the Oriental Hotel in Bangkok, Thailand. Cooking primarily for discerning Asians, Antunes had to abandon butter and cream, lightening his food to produce a style of cooking that is now appreciated throughout the world.
At Les Saveurs the $28 lunch menu, which includes sales tax but not service, offers four choices at each course. I found it difficult to decide between the tomato tartlet flavored with pesto or the courgette flowers à la niçoise. Then the choices for entrées include salmon with coriander, a skate marinière with tarragon, and roasted guinea fowl with roasted pears. Dessert, possibly Antunes' forte, includes a bitter chocolate soup with pistachio cream, a gratin of strawberries with orange butter and, most originally, a lemon sorbet flavored with Thai spices. And all of this without the traditionally French amuse-gueule or petits fours.
The à la carte dinner menu has now been simplified so that any two courses cost $40 and any three courses are $56, including sales tax and coffee but not service. And there is also a fixed five-course dinner menu at $45. Here Antunes's skills run wider: a minestrone of crayfish; a terrine of eel with baby leeks; lobster basquaise with broad beans; delicious, plump smoked scallops with sautéed potatoes; and a pastilla of veal sweetbreads with red peppers. The lemon soufflé with light acacia honey should not be missed as long as you are with someone prepared to share her fresh fig tart with fig ice cream or the hot chocolate madeleine with almond-flavored cream.
The dramatic reduction in the cost of Antunes' food will allow you to enjoy the wine list and a very well-chosen range of cigars. Although the wine list is peppered with the top châteaux at impressive prices (three vintages of Mouton-Rothschild, four of Latour and three of Lafite Rothschild), there is now a selection of the better value French wines for everyday drinking and a section devoted to vins étrangers or foreign wine from the "exotic" likes of Italy, Germany, Australia and America.
The final section of the wine list is devoted to digestifs and cigars: five Montecristos, two Partagas, two Romeo y Julieta and two from H. Upmann, all of which are stored in an elegant humidor on a large French sideboard that stands impressively in the middle of the dining room. From it you can choose a well-kept cigar that will prove a fitting finale to a grand meal.
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This week the beloved Nintendo Entertainment System turned 30. We're taking a little time to look back at the system and some of the games that made it great. The Mario games, Megaman, Tetris and others all played a hand in making the system a fixture in nearly every living room. So many games on the NES were revolutionary for one reason or another, Metroid is no exception. Its gameplay was different from anything that came before, and its protagonist's identity – only revealed in one of its multiple endings – blew many a young gamer's mind.
Metroid was released in Japan in 1986, making its way to the United States in 1987 and Europe in 1988. Its development was headed up by Nintendo legend, Gunpei Yokoi and Nintendo's Research and Development 1 team, along with Intelligent Systems.
Metroid is the first of many games set in its fictional universe. It follows the adventures of Samus Aran, a great bounty hunter. After Space Pirates steal samples of dangerous organisms, known as Metroids from a Galactic Federation research vessel, Samus is called in to save the day. The Space Pirates plan destroy all who oppose them by mutating the Metroids with Beta Rays. Samus must land on their planet, Zebes and destroy its central computer, Mother Brain before the Pirates' nefarious scheme can be enacted.
No game before allowed players the kind of open, freely explorable platforming as Metroid. Zebes is an expansive, open world of caverns connected by doors and elevators. Samus begins the game with a weak weapon and only a single jump ability. As Samus hunts down the space pirates and battles the metroids that constantly regenerate, the player gains abilities like better weaponry, armor, the famous Double Jump, Screw Attack and Morph Ball. Abilities are granted by power ups and through defeating bosses. Among the power-ups that are included in the game are the Morph Ball, which allows Samus to curl into a ball to roll into tunnels and use the Bomb weapon. Defeating standard enemies gives Samus additional energy or ammunition, while defeating a boss expands Samus's capacity to carry ammunition and opens doors to new areas.
Each skill gained opens up, or makes accessible new areas of the map. Samus must backtrack constantly, finding new paths branching off of areas already visited. The Double Jump ability allows the player to reach higher ledged, for example, and the Morph Ball lets you into tiny passageways you couldn't enter before. There is no linear structure here, just an ever-growing, constant map you'll battle through on your quest to defeat Mother Brain.
Of course, no mention of Metroid would be complete without the earth shattering revelation that the hero, Samus was a woman under her powersuit. While it seems a little ridiculous now, this was some pretty groundbreaking stuff for video games of the time. While the game industry still struggles with a lack of female playable characters and a male centric bias in general, in the 80's there were essentially no female protagonists in game narratives. While nothing about Samus' appearance suggested a gender (being covered in a powersuit, and all), the pronoun "he" was used in the game's manual, and it was generally assumed Samus was male.
So some little brains definitely exploded when one of Metroid's 5 endings offered up a reveal of Samus without the powersuit, and all of a sudden "he" looked like this:
Metroid began a series of excellent titles that has gone on into the modern era. It's truly a classic and after writing this I just want to grab a copy for my Wii's Virtual Console and relive this wonder of game design. Please post your Metroid memories in the comments!
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SCOTT PETERSON - Monday, October 24, 2011
It was an eventful and highly successful week for Americans in the German top-flight, with Steve Cherundolo, Jermaine Jones, Fabian Johnson and Daniel Williams all victorious.
Hannover 96 2 - 1 FC Bayern Munich
Captain Steve Cherundolo had an eventful game for his Hanover squad, as he was involved in the opening goal, before being sent off late for a second bookable offense in the weekend's marquee matchup against first-place Bayern.
The highly anticipated match did not disappoint as both teams attempted to pin the other back in their own half; Hanover employed quick, incisive counter-attacking moves, while Munich moved forward slowly with patient build-up play, predominantly over both wings.
Cherundolo and striker Lars Stindl displayed some fine one-touch passing, with the latter playing the former into the box. Cherundolo controlled, looked up and as he was about to make his move was brought down by Munich captain Phillip Lahm.
Mohammed Abdelloue stepped up to the spot and converted coolly past Manuel Neuer for the 1-0 lead in the 23rd minute.
It was the first goal that Munich had conceded since the first game of the season - a total of 770 goalless minutes.
Things got heated 5 minutes later, after Hanover midfielder Sergio Pinto was fouled by Rafinha a tussle ensued on the sidelines. Munich's central defender Jerome Boateng was adjudged to have engaged in unsportsmanlike conduct, and was sent off by referee Manuel Gräfe.
Neither team, however, changed any tactics and continued to play attractive attacking soccer in a highly-charged atmosphere. In the 33rd minute, Cherundolo himself was cautioned for sliding into Bastian Schweinsteiger from behind.
In the 50th minute Hanover doubled their lead as Christian Pander's shot from 22 yards took a wicked deflection and rolled into the back of the net.
In the 63rd minute, Hanover was reduced to 10 men after Cherundolo tugged on Franck Ribery's jersey, bringing him down.
With just seven minutes to go, Munich finally pulled one back as substitute David Alaba pounced on a loose ball in the box to make it 2-1. But there were no last minute heroics for Munich, as Hanover held on for the victory.
The win leaves Hanover in 4th place with 18 points, just four back of Munich. Hannover has double duty this week as they first take on Mainz in the German cup on Wednesday, before travelling to Gladbach on Saturday.
1899 Hoffenheim 1 - 0 Borussia Mönchengladbach
Daniel Williams got his third start in a row and Fabian Johnson returned to the starting lineup as Hoffenheim got back to winning ways against Gladbach on Saturday.
Hoffenheim head coach Holger Stanislavski paired the two young Americans together in midfield for the first time with Williams going the distance and Johnson logging almost 70 minutes.
The first half of the match was all Hoffenheim as they used patient attacks over the wings to put Gladbach under pressure, generating good scoring chances in the 4th, 17th, 20th and 22nd minutes. In the 34th minute Vedad Ibisevic had the best chance of the opening 45, but just as with the other four, Gladbach's keeper Marc Andre Ter Stegen was the last stop as he thwarted the Bosnian from close range.
In the 56th minute, Johnson fluffed his sliding-effort to get onto a cross 6 yards out and unintentionally dished off for Ibisevic, who fired home past Ter Stegen to give Hoffenheim their first goal of the game, and first in their past 3 matches.
After conceding, Gladbach finally showed some of the attacking prowess that had vaulted them into the top of the standings. Gladbach had more of the ball, but could not garner any clear-cut scoring chances as Hoffenheim's defense refused to let Gladbach get too close.
Hoffenheim held on to pick up their first victory in three matches. They now sit on 16 points and are in 6th place. This week is double duty for Hoffenheim as they host FC Cologne in an all Bundesliga cup affair on Wednesday, before the Bundesliga resumes on Saturday with an away date against Jermaine Jones and Schalke.
Bayer Leverkusen 04 0 - 1 Schalke 04
Jermaine Jones prowled the midfield from the get-go for Schalke 04, as they made the short trip to Leverkusen to take on Bayer 04 in the early Bundesliga match on Sunday.
Huub Stevens handed Jones his first start in midfield since taking over the Königsblauen one month ago; it was just Jones' second start on the season and fourth total appearance after falling out of favor under former Schalke boss Ralf Rangick.
Things got off to a rough start for Jones, as the German-born midfielder picked up an early yellow card for bringing down German striker Stefan Kießling in the 8th minute.
Both teams were determined to play prudent soccer with all attacks emanating from a solid defensive base. The best chance in the first half came in the 15th minute, when Peruvian striker Jefferson Farfan was played into space by young German midfielder Lewis Holtby. The Peruvian, however, just pulled his shot wide of the far post.
Jones, never on to shy away from contact or conflict, drew the ire of former Germany captain on more than one occasion as the two stalwarts in midfield seemed to be constantly involved in fouls and gamesmanship with each other.
In the 69th minute, the two were seen chuckling together reminding us all that it is just a game. After Jones was brought down rudely by Ballack, Schalke coach Stevens began to berate Ballack for what he considered a bookable foul, but both Jones and Ballack were apparently amused by the incoherence of the Dutchman's rant.
Back on the field, German winger Andre Schürrle had an open look on goal, but his shot was stopped point black by keeper Lars Unnerstahl in the 81st minute.
The ensuing corner landed right to Farfan on the edge of the box, after he boxed out Schürrle. The Peruvian was then off to the races on a 3-on-2 down the right flank. Once inside Leverkusen's box, Farfan looked off Lars Bender for an open look, which the Peruvian slotted coolly past Bern Leno in Leverkusen's goal with his right foot capping off an amazing solo run with the game's only goal.
David Yelldell was an unused substitute for Leverkusen.
Schalke is back in action on Wednesday as they take on Karlsruhe in the German cup. Next weekend Schalke and Jones have a Bundesliga date with Daniel Williams and Fabian Johnson in Hoffenheim.
FC Nürnberg 2 - 2 VfB Stuttgart
Timmy Chandler assumed his starting role at right fullback once again for Nürnberg, who had to settle for point in a topsy-turvy and controversial match against the Swabians.
Nürnberg got the better start and took an early lead in the 9th minute, after Belgian midfielder Timmy Simmons thumped home a close-range effort on the backend of a scrum in front of goal.
In the minutes that followed, Stuttgart's was plagued by repeated turnovers in their build-up. Nürnberg too shot themselves repeatedly in the proverbial foot with errant passes and poor crosses.
The game's next dangerous scene did come until the final minute of the first half as Stuttgart's keeper Sven Ulreich had to make an acrobatic save to Nürnberg midfielder Jens Hegeler's well-struck free kick.
After the break, the play on both sides of the ball improved significantly with both teams generating decent chances.
In the 59th minute, Stuttgart midfielder Martin Harnik collected the ball 5 yards out of goal and got off his shot as an onrushing Philip Wollschied closed the Austrian down. Harnik got the shot off, which deflected of the Nürnberg defender's leg and then off of his hand. Referee Markus Wingenbach inexplicably pointed to the spot and Zdravko Kuzmanovic converted to equalize.
Nürnberg needed a few minutes to collect themselves, but did so dramatically as they regained the lead with their next chance on goal. Hard-luck defender Wollscheid of all people got on the end of Marvin Plattenhard's free kick, wrong footing Stuttgart keeper Ulreich to put Nürnberg up 2-1.
Although Stuttgart began pressing for an equalizer as would be expected, Nürnberg, too, kept their foot on the gas.
In the 84th minute, the Swabians got level thanks to Mexican defender Maza. William Kvist's pinpoint cross found the lanky Mexican five yards from the net, and Maza bouced his header past Nürnberg keeper Alexander Stephan.
There were no further late heroics, and both teams had to be content with a point.
For Chandler and Nürnberg, the next week is a busy one with a Wednesday German cup match against Erzgebirge Aue, before travelling to Munich to take on Bayern.
Alemannia Aachen 3 - 1 FC Igolstadt 04
In a battle two bottom dwellers, Aachen got the better of Igolstadt and Edson Buddle, who got his team leading 6th goal in a losing effort.
The action picked up in the 22nd minute as Aachen's captain Benjamin Auer latched onto a corner kick, but his header only made it as far as the post. The ensuing rebound bounced off of Aachen defender Seyi Olajengbesi and over the line.
Aachen added another in the 27th minute as Feisthammel slammed a free kick off the post. The ball then landed at the feet of Auer who tapped home unmolested.
At the break, Igolstadt's head coach Benno Möhlmann brought on Edson Buddle to inject some life into the team.
Buddle repaid his coach just seven minutes later and gave Ingolstadt some belief, when Buddle powerfully headed in Moritz Hartmann's cross.
But try as they might, Igolstadt could not find an equalizer. In second-half stoppage time, Aachen added a third when striker David Odonkor had a free run on an open goal and fired home, after Igolstadt had rolled the dice to equalize and sent keeper Kirschstein into the opposing box in a last-ditch effort.
Things will not be any easier for Igolstadt this week: first they have a German cup match against FC Bayern Munich, before they return to league action on Sunday against Eintracht Frankfurt.
1860 Munich 1 - 1 SC Paderborn
Matt Taylor was a second-substitution for SC Paderborn, who remained unbeaten in their last seven after grabbing a late equalizer against Bobby Wood and 1860 Munich.
Paderborn's head coach Roger Schmidt sent the same 11 players on the field that started in last week's 1-0 home victory against Braunschweig, leaving Taylor on the bench once again; Wood also started the match on the bench.
The match saw both teams come out of the gate determined to defend, which did little for the attacking side of the game. Slowly but surely, Munich began to get more of the ball, but could do precious little in the attacking third against Paderborn's organized backline.
That all changed in the 37th minute for one brief moment, and Munich pounced on the chance. Munich striker Benjamin Lauth played a ball to Daniel Bierofka on the right flank, whose cross flew over Paderborn's central defenders to Lauth's strike parter Kevin Vollend. Vollend then clumsily redirected the ball into the back of the net with a combination of thigh and shoulder.
Replays were inconclusive, but Vollend appeared to have used a bit of elbow too. The referee saw nothing wrong and counted the opening tally, much to the dismay of Paderborn's players and coaches.
Both coaches declined to make any halftime substitutions, and the quality of attacking play continued to suffer.
In the 70th minute, Schmidt subbed on Taylor to help ignite their floundering offense.
The move finally paid off in the 84th minute asTaylor found himself one-on-one with Munich's keeper Gabor Kiraly, who saved Taylor's effort, but only as far as Florian Mohr. The midfield man sank his shot on the open net to give Paderborn a late equalizer and a point.
Wood came on in the 88th minute, but had no time to make an impact before the game's final whistle.
Both teams have a busy week ahead of them with the return of the German Cup in addition to the weekend's league schedule. For Munich, the week sends them first to Düsseldorf to take on Fortuna before travel to Duisburg on Sunday. Paderborn travel to Fürth on Tuesday, before a home league match against Aue.
VfB Stuttgart II 3 - 1 SV Babelsberg 03
Amaechi Igwe found himself back in the starting lineup, but could not help his team to victory as they fell to Stuttgart.
Babelsberg took the lead in the 28th minute as Sergej Evljuskin notched his first goal of the season with a sound right-footed shot.
But once again Babelsberg could not hold onto a lead. Just five minutes later, Stuttgart's Alexander Aschauer was Johnny on the spot to tap home from close range with his left.
Stuttgart took the lead right before the break, and it was Aschauer, who was in the right place at the right time once again, slotting home a left-footed shot for the home team.
After the break, Stuttgart was content to defend, and occasionally venture forward on the counter attack. The plan bore fruit as the hosts struck in the 85th minute. It was Aschauer's day as he got the hat trick.
With the loss Babelsberg are just 3 points clear of the drop zone. Next week Babelsberg and Igwe play host to VfL Osnabrück.
Alfredo Morales was not named to Hertha Berlin's bench as they played a goalless draw against Mainz 05.
Ricardo Clark was not named to the Eintracht Frankfurt's squad that beat Duisburg 3-0.
Luis Robles was on the bench for Karlsruhe's goalless tie against Bochum.
Preston Zimmerman was a late second half substitute as Darmstadt got back on the winning track knocking off Chemnitz 2-1.
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Monday October 24, 2011 4:37 pm
I am surprised there is no mention of Terrence Boyd playing for Borussia Dortmunds first team in midweek, and then was on the bench for this weekends Bundesliga game against Cologne.
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