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>This very nice old SCT has been badly rated over the years and most of the bad complaints are because of user error and not understanding how to use the scope. The fiber type of tube takes a long time to acclimate to the outside temperatures, much longer then an aluminum tube SCT. Thus most people think the optics are bad when they were excellent and air currents in the tube are the problem there. Just allow an hour to cool down and you will find the optics quite good. The other problem is collimination of the secondary mirror it is critical and must be exact. You see when these scopes first arrived amatuers didnt know SCT's need exact alignment of the mirrors so they blamed quality control. I dont how many of these olld scopes were tossed away as garbage because of ignorance. The mount and tripod are heavy and operate silky smooth. Meade and Celestron copied there golden pyramid design mount and are still using it. If you can get one of these scopes you will be fortunate and probably get a bargain because of all the underseved bad feedback.
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China has plans to continue its 'clean revolution' over the next five years, with significant targets for low-carbon energy, energy efficiency and clean technology. The policy framework, for this as contained in the 12th Five Year Plan covering 2011-2015, will be more sophisticated, with phasing in of market mechanisms and 'bottom-up' action in provinces and cities.
The report concludes that China's low-carbon ambitions are accelerating and will bend the nation's carbon emissions growth curve in the next five years. At the same time the country's energy supply is incorporating more non-fossil fuel sources and low-carbon technologies will continue to develop rapidly. The Chinese market for low-carbon technology is gradually opening to foreign owned enterprises, but competition is intensifying.
Finally, China's approach to energy management is evolving to include market mechanisms,but challenges remain.


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The Occupy protest in Davos, known as Occupy WEF, has not drawn the same numbers as the original movement in New York's Zuccotti Park, but it's easy to understand why. It has been snowing for days, and at night temperatures in this mountain hamlet plummet far below zero. These hearty protesters have had no choice but to build igloos and yurts to protect them from the elements. A steady fire is burning to keep the protesters warm. Nearly 50 people gathered on Wednesday, but only half of them planned to spend the night. The security at the entrance to Davos is so tight they can't get anywhere near the congress center, meaning the elite "1 percent" they are protesting against probably have no idea they are even there. Still, Fabien Molina, head of the Swiss Socialist Youth Party, says it's worth it. "We are here as the 99 percent because we have to stand up to what the one percent are doing," he says. "You can tell by the agenda inside that even they are second-guessing their chosen path."
Indeed, the topic of Wednesday's opening panels effectively put capitalism on trial. German Chancellor Angela Merkel officially opened the meeting Wednesday night with what amounted to a mea culpa. "Let us take a moment to reflect on what lessons we have learned from the global financial and economic crisis. Is what we have learned sufficient?" she asked. "There's still room for improvement."


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ROCKFORD — Rockford Baseball Academy will hold tryouts July 29 and Aug. 2 for its 2015 season.
Divisions 11U through 14U will try out at 4:30 p.m. July 29 at Forest Hills Diamonds, 7742 Forest Hills Road, Loves Park. 11U through 14U tryouts will also be held at 8:30 a.m. Aug. 2 at Rock Valley College, 3301 N. Mulford Road. Divisions 15U through 18U will host tryouts at 1 p.m. Aug. 2 at Rock Valley College.
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With WonderCon next week, let's take a stroll down memory lane and check out some retro tableaus from the 1988 WonderCon.
This footage — which includes such comic luminaries as Stan Lee, Tom DeFalco, and Will Eisner — was cataloged by YouTube user Joe Field, who has several more videos of the 1988 WonderCon. For more looks at fandom before the internet, here are some scenes from the New York Anime Club in the 1980s and a snapshot of the 1973 New York Star Trek convention.
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I own a new 07 Escape Hybrid. One month ago it suddenly and with no warning just cut out while I was driving on the highway. The RPMs shot up then dropped off completely. The warnings ''stop safely now'' and then ''service soon'' came on. I pulled over and had to restart as the vehicle had no acceleration power. In other words the engine was off. Radio, console lights, etc. were still on. After restarting I continued driving and it happened again after about a minute. This continued with increasing frequency until I was about four km from the garage where I could no longer get the car to start. It was towed to the garage and has been in ever since! I did get it back for one day though, but it was not fixed and had to go back. The mechanics have no idea what's wrong and are giving me the run around. Anyone experience this or know the solution?


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Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2013
Opponent: Ohio Bobcats (2-1)
Site: Hill Field House, Baltimore, Maryland
Game Time: 7:30 p.m. (ET)
MSU Coach: Todd Bozeman (128-103 – 8th yr)
BALTIMORE, Md. — Morgan State continues the 2013-14 campaign at home against the Bobcats of Ohio University. It will mark the second basketball meeting between the teams. The Bobcats posted a 61-53 win during the teams first meeting in Athens (OH) on Dec. 3, 2011. Tip-off at Hill Field House is scheduled for 7:30 p.m.
The Bobcats welcomed back eight veterans, including two starters, from a squad that posted a 24-10 overall record, finished captured in the Mid-American Conference title with a 14-2 ledger. Ohio guards Nick Kellogg (4.7 rpg) along with Maurice Ndour (6.7 rpg) are the Bobcats' leading scorers averaging 17.7 points apiece. Jim Christian (Rhode Island, '88) enters his second season as Ohio's head men's basketball coach where he currently holds a 26-11 record and is 92-31 overall. Maurice Ndour recorded career-bests in points (23), blocks (5) and steals (4) while adding six rebounds to lead Ohio to a 76-72 home win over Valparaiso inside the Convocation Center. Ohio forced 19 turnovers aided by 12 steals and scored 25 points off of those turnovers in the contest.
Dec. 3, 2011 — The Morgan State Bears gave it their all, but were unable to pull out the victory and lost to the Ohio Bobcats 61-53 on Saturday at the OU Convocation Center. This one was in doubt until the final minute. Morgan State held a two-point lead following a technical foul call against OU head coach with under 5 minutes to play before the Bobcats made a final push. Ivo Baltic hit baseline layup, and made a reverse layup that gave Ohio a 54-51 lead with 3:27 left. MSU point guard Larry Bastfield split a pair of free throws to pull the Bears to cut it to 54-52, but a long 3-point miss by DeWayne Jackson led to a fastbreak and a basket on the other end by Baltic. The Bobcats salted the game away from the free throw line to help improve their home record to 4-0 this season.
Morgan State will face La Salle in the first round of the 2013 Ezybonds Global Payments U.S. Virgin Islands Paradise Jam. The Paradise Jam will take place Nov. 22-25, with the games set to be televised by CBS Sports Network.The first game of the event pits Northern Iowa vs. Loyola Marymount at 2:30 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 22, with Maryland and Marist following at approximately 5 p.m. The evening session includes Providence vs. Vanderbilt and Morgan State vs. La Salle.The losing teams in the first round will move to the consolation bracket and play on Saturday, Nov. 23, while the winners will play on Sunday, Nov. 24. The championship game is scheduled for 10 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 25.
Morgan State was picked to finish second in the 2013-14 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference men's basketball preseason poll behind defending regular season champion Norfolk State.
Morgan State senior Justin Black was selected to the Preseason All-MEAC First Team by the conference head coaches and sports information directors. Redshirt-senior center Ian Chiles was selected to the Second Team and Anthony Hubbard to the Third Team.
For three of the last seven seasons, all as head coach, Todd Bozeman has guided teams to at least 20 victories. Bozeman set the Morgan State record for consecutive 20-win campaigns in 2007-08 with a 22-11 record and extended it with a 23-12 campaign in 2008-09, followed by a Division I school record 27-11 record in 2009-10. The previous record was back-to-back 20-win seasons under coach Nathaniel Frazier when he guided the Bears to a 20-8 record in 1972-73, followed by 28-5 in 1973-74.
Todd Bozeman has won at least 10 home games in three of his seven seasons in Baltimore. The 2007-08 (12-1) and 2009-10 (11-1) squads finished with just a single loss, while the 2010-11 squad went 10-2. Bozeman has led the Bears to a 59-22 overall home record at Hill Field House.
Bozeman Era Home Records (59-22)
2006-07 9-4
2007-08 12-1
2008-09 8-2
2009-10 11-1
2010-11 10-2
2011-12 4-7
2012-13 5-4
2013-14 0-1
Senior guard Justin Black has been one of the most consistent players for Todd Bozeman's Bears. Last season, the 6-foot-2 guard, was among the MEAC's leading scorers a season ago (14.2 ppg – No. 5) and scored double-figures 24 of 32 games, including 18 of the last 22 contests. The Dunbar HS product scored 20 or more points eight times last season, and posted a season-high 23 points at Coppin State on Feb. 9, 2013. Black will enter the Ohio contest averaging 21 points thru the Bears first three games, including a career-high 28-point performance at Towson.
Morgan State will face La Salle in the first round of the 2013 Ezybonds Global Payments U.S. Virgin Islands Paradise Jam. The Paradise Jam will take place Nov. 22-25, with the games set to be televised by CBS Sports Network.
The 2013-2014 basketball tickets are now available for sale at all Ticketmaster locations, the MSU box office, and Murphy Fine Arts box office.


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The image at the top of this post is the Arabic letter "n". It has become known worldwide in the last week. The violent fanatics who have formed what they call the "Islamic State" in northern Iraq and eastern Syria left this mark on the doorways of Christians who were living in areas they under their control to show where the "Nazarenes" — the Christians — were living. This was significant because the Islamic State leaders had decreed that all Christians had to convert to Islam, pay a ruinous tax and live as serfs, or be killed.
This is the latest terrible development in the destruction of historic Christian communities in the Middle East, particularly in areas of Syria and Iraq that have been ruined by warfare. The Iraqi city of Mosul, which stands on the site of ancient Nineveh, has been a focus of the oppression. Christians have been killed, churches have been burned, and the Archbishop and thousands of his flock have been forced to flee as refugees.
Around the world this week, Christians have been expressing their solidarity with our oppressed brethren in the Middle East, by posting the "n" symbol, and by spreading the Twitter hashtag #WeAreN.
The blood of martyrs is the seed of the Church. I am awed by the witness and courage of my brothers and sisters in Christ. There is little that I can do to help them or to relieve their suffering. But I pray for them, and I humbly stand with them.
I, too, am a Nazarene.
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Comanches bounce back with big win over Sunray
West Texas High's boys opened District play with a sloppy loss in Booker Tuesday and evidently it tasted really bad. The team came out to play in their first home loop game last night. They took care of the Sunray Bobcats 39-29 in a low scoring game. The Tribe played like a team possessed, jumping out to an 11-0 lead before the Bobcats could get on the scoreboard. The full court press by the Comanches was stifling.Sunray had a goose egg on the scoreboard until 2:28 in the first period. WT fed the ball inside to big Ty Lay for back to back buckets to open the game. Chase Elliott hit a sweet trey from the corner to make it 7-0. Alex Ramirez made a sweet lay up in traffic to make it 9-0. Justin Holmberg added a nice jumper off the glass for an 11-0 lead with 3:08 to go. The Tribe led 11-2 after one, and had just one turnover in the quarter.The Bobcats got an early bucket in the second but WT's press didn't let up for a second. Chase Elliott swiped the ball and got it to an open Carlos Juarez for two. Ramirez added back to back lay ups in the midst of lots of blue and gold jerseys. Nathan Forrest popped a sweet little three pointer at the buzzer to give the Comanches a 20-6 edge at halftime.Elliott fed the ball inside to an open Holmberg for a basket to start the third. The Bobcats must have taken a rear end chewing at the half, because they were a different team in the second half. After the initial WT score, they scored seven unanswered to close the gap to ten points. Forrest swooshed another trey to put WT up 25-13. Elliott added a jump shot in the paint for a 27-13 score with 4:10 in the third. Ramirez fed the ball inside to Spencer St. Charles for two, and the Tribe led 29-17 after three.The fourth quarter began with Juarez to Holmberg combo for back to back buckets. Juarez added a lay up to make the score 35-24 with 5:08 remaining. The Comanches started to run time off the clock with each possession after that score. With a little less than four left in the game, the Tribe had everyone spread out to work for a wide open shot a tick off valuable time. Holmberg made the next bucket after he grabbed an offensive board. Ramirez hit Holmberg under the hoop for another basket and the score was 39-24 with 1:30 remaining. Sunray added five points to their total, but posed a threat to the WT lead.Holmberg was top Comanche with 12 points and 4 rebounds. Ramirez had 6 points and 10 boards. Forrest had two treys for 6 points, a rebound, a steal, and a block at the end of the game. Elliott scored 5 points and had 4 rebounds. Lay had 4 points, 5 boards, and a block. St. Charles had 2 points.The Tribe is now 16-6 overall and 1-1 in District.


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Catholics plan vigil over gay marriage communion stance
- Detroit Archbishop Allen Vigneron said backers of gay marriage should abstain from receiving communion
- Vigneron likened receiving Communion while advocating gay marriage to committing perjury
- Vigil planned in front of Archdiocese of Detroit headquarters
DETROIT -- Tom Nelson and Linda Karle-Nelson, lifelong Catholics, are the parents of gay adult children who are in committed relationships.
At mass Sunday, Nelson and Karle-Nelson received communion.
And they intend to do so again this weekend, even after Detroit Archbishop Allen Vigneron's statements in April that Catholics who support gay unions or marriage should abstain from receiving communion.
"He's not going to keep me from the Eucharist," said Nelson, 83, a retired engineer from Farmington Hills, Mich. "Somebody's got to stand up and say, 'Enough.' "
So they, along with other Catholics who belong to a lesbian, bisexual, gay and transgender support group called Fortunate Families, plan to conduct a prayer vigil at 4 p.m. Thursday in front of the Archdiocese of Detroit headquarters downtown.
"We're not going to change churches," said Karle-Nelson, 72, a speech pathologist. "We can plant seeds. Our theme has been sharing stories, and sharing stories is a way of changing hearts."
Karle-Nelson, who was a widow with three children, married Nelson, who was a widower with six children, seven years ago. They are members of St. Alexander Catholic Parish in Farmington Hills.
In an April 8 Free Press article, Vigneron said those who receive communion while supporting gay marriage "logically bring shame for a double-dealing that is not unlike perjury." A Detroit seminary professor and legal adviser to the Vatican, canon lawyer Edward Peters, also said Catholics who promote gay marriage should abstain from communion.
Those comments drew widespread attention and fueled an online debate. The first openly gay Episcopal bishop in the U.S., recently retired New Hampshire Episcopal Bishop Gene Robinson, rebuked Vigneron's stance in a Washington Post essay last week.
Vigneron has declined to make further comments on the subject.
Retired Detroit Auxiliary Bishop Thomas Gumbleton, a longtime peace and social activist who went public 20 years ago with his family's own story about a brother who was gay, said this week that Vigneron's remarks were "legalistic."
Gumbleton said he has had discussions with more than a dozen concerned Catholics who have gay relatives in relationships and fear being ostracized by the church.
"Nobody knows your relationship with God except you," Gumbleton said. "Whoever is distributing communion has no knowledge of what you have in your heart and has no business trying to find out."
The Rev. Norman Thomas, who is a pastor of Detroit parishes Sacred Heart and St. Elizabeth, said Vigneron's statement "was kind of insensitive."
"Are people expected to exempt themselves, or is there going to be a check-off right there at the (communion) line?" Thomas said.
Archdiocese spokesman Ned McGrath said Wednesday that Vigneron's comments were not "anything new or different."
"It was not an anti-anyone answer. It was a response regarding a Catholic's proper disposition when presenting themselves for communion," McGrath said.


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TALLAHASSEE - Since a new set of state voting laws went into effect more than a year ago, the number of new Democrats registering in Florida has all but disappeared, according to a Times-Union review.
During the 13 months beginning July 1 the year before elections in 2004 and 2008, registered Democrats increased by an average of 209,425 voters. From 2011 to this year, that number was 11,365. In Duval County alone, there were about 13,000 new Democrats, meaning the rest of the state lost them.
Over that same time, the number of registered Republicans increased by 128,039, topping the average of 103,555 during the past two presidential cycles.
Overall, Democrats still hold a 445,794 statewide registration advantage.
On July 1, 2011, a sweeping election law overhaul passed by the Legislature put new restrictions on groups that hold voter registration drives. Among the changes, groups were required to file new voter registration applications with election officials within 48 hours, instead of the old 10 days, or face a penalty.
Groups said the new rules made it impossible to comply. As a result, many got out of the registration game until a federal judge ruled in their favor at the end of May, 11 months later.
"It has without a doubt hurt registration numbers," said Deirdre Macnab, president of the nonpartisan League of Women Voters of Florida. "It really gummed up the works and made it harder for Floridians to get registered."
Macnab said Democrats may have seen a bigger impact because registration groups often target areas that lean Democratic.
"We try to get to areas that don't have easy access to traditional means of getting registered," she said. "That's places like college campuses, senior centers and low-income communities."
Proponents argued the rules were needed to root out voter fraud.
"Increasing the accountability of those who collect voter registrations helps protect the rights of new voter registrants," said Secretary of State Ken Detzner, even though local election officials say that hasn't been a problem.
After the judge blocked enforcement of the third-party restrictions, some groups again began to organize registration drives. Not surprisingly, June and July registration numbers were the highest of the year.
St. Johns Supervisor Vicky Oakes said she filed a complaint with the state in 2000 over a third-party registration but has had no issues since.
Her county has seen an uptick this cycle of 67 Democrats and 4,008 Republicans. Those numbers were 2,204 and 3,733 during the last presidential election cycle.


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Gov't Liquor Store - Bella Coola
NOTICE: Liquor stores are not accepting liquor, beer, or other refundable alcohol containers for refunds at this time. As an alternative, please check our location map at https://www.return-it.ca/locations/ to find the nearest open Return-It Depot.
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Beverage ContainersEncorp Pacific (Canada)
Beverage container volumes collected through our province-wide network of Return-It Depots continues to grow creating excellent Business and Career opportunities.
Beer ContainersBrewers Distributors Ltd.
Refillable glass beer, cider & cooler bottles and metal beverage alcohol cans.
Beverage containers accepted:
Liquor PlasticCaps on, labels on
Size CRF Fee Deposit / Refund 0 – 1L 3¢ 10¢ Over 1L 6¢ 20¢
The familiar plastic bottles, including coolers and some spirits.
Recycled intoOver 75% of the plastic bottles sold are returned. The bottles are power-washed, then shredded, then power-washed again. From there, the shredded material is sold to companies who pull, stretch and meld the shreds into fibre for new bottles and buckets. Recycling plastics uses about 1/3 less energy than manufacturing new plastic.
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The wine, spirits, imported beer and coolers in glass bottles.
Recycled intoOf all the glass bottles sold in BC, 93% are returned. These bottles are ground down into small pieces called "cullet" and used in the manufacturing of a variety of things such as fibreglass insulation, sandblasting material and even sand for golf-course sandtraps. Ground glass can also be added to asphalt in the making of new roads.
Bag-in-a-BoxAlcohol - Leave Bag in Box
Size CRF Fee Deposit / Refund Over 1L 7¢ 20¢
Large "bags" of wine in a cardboard carton, usually with a spigot for in-fridge use.
Recycled intoThe plastic in these containers is separated out and can be mixed with other types of plastic to make park benches, bins and other sturdy products.
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I find the 4th of July a time for reflection on some of my people who had a hand in it seeing it to a successful end.
Two of my Moore ancestors, for example, signed the Oath of Fidelity and Support during the American Revolution, and provided the cause with, as I understand it, a fair amount of tobacco (better than any colonial money, at the time) produced on their plantations in Prince Georges County, Maryland. Meanwhile, other kin, in the Shenandoah Valley, offered a number of things ranging from beeves to civilian service with personal wagons and teams.
Others took up the musket…
When 5th great-grandfather Reuben Cave applied for his pension, at the ripe age of 94 (November 1832), he even mentioned the Chesapeake Affair of 1812 [though he remembered it as 1812, it actually occurred in 1807], and though he was too old to enlist stated "we ought to fought the British then." Cave was a resident of Spotsylvania County, Virginia during the 1770s, and was working as an overseer when he was recruited in 1776, by a recruiting party at "Captain Roland Thomas' in Orange Co.", about 12 miles from where he lived. Under the command of Capt. George Stubblefield in the State Regulars (though actual military records show him under the command of Captain Peter Bernard, in the 2nd Virginia State Regiment, under Col. Gregory Smith & John McElbeny), Cave served three years. Not long after being recruited, he was sent with the other soldiers, under Sgt. Bob Plumer, to Williamsburg, to be trained under a French Captain named William Clummer(?), who commanded the artillery. After this, his company marched to Yorktown where they remained 2 months, and then to Valley Forge under command of Col. Charles Dabney, of the Virginia State 2nd Regiment [December 1777]. After this, he fell under the command of Capt. Muehlhany, from Loudoun, Lt. John Helins, and Ensign Edmondson, and Major Lee, the whole, as he recalled, being under General John Peter Gabriel Muhlenburg. He was then marched to New Windsor, and "were pursued from that place by the British." After this, his command retreated to the top of New Windsor Mountain where it camped two months before moving to "Remaps" where "we were took winter quarters." In the spring of 1777, Cave's command moved near a place called the Red House, where it remained for six months, then down the forks of the East and North River to White Plains, N.Y. While there, they received word that Hessians were taken at Phillips' Mills. Ordered again to Remaps, the command went into winter quarters, and were placed on half allowance (ration quantity). For the next year, the command seemed to consistently be retreating and advancing "in that neighborhood". Cave was at the storming of Mud Point Fort (Fort Mifflin?) under Capt. Muehlhaney, and took possession of the fort "at the point of bayonet". Sometime after this, the regiment was ordered to Virginia to reinforce General "Mad" Anthony Wayne against Lord Cornwallis; and then to Guilford Courthouse, N.C. At this point, Cave's term of enlistment having expired, he received a discharge.
At the age of 78, my 5th great grandfather Henry P. Aleshite/Aleshire appeared before the court in Page County, Virginia, in September 1832, to make his oath and declaration for pension. The following is an exact transcription of that declaration:
That he entered the service of the United States and served as herein stated. He was born in the valley of Powell's Fort in the County of Shenandoah on the 19. February 1754, and was consequently 78 years old in Feb. last past. He enlisted for 18 months in the county of Shenandoah in Capt. John Steeds company of Regulars in the year 1778, and marched to Valley Forge Pennsylvania and joined the 8th Regiment commanded by Col Abraham Bowman. The 8th and the 4th Regiments were afterwards put together and then commanded by Col. John Nevill, in Gen Scott's Brigade Va. Line. From Valley Forge we marched in pursuit of the British into the Jerseys, and overtook them at Monmouth, in which battle I fought, on Sunday the 28th day of June 1778. From Monmouth we marched into the state of Connecticut, and finally laid at West Point. We reached West Point in July and remained until fall, when we returned into Jersey, and laid between Middlebrook and Boundbrook, where we remained through the winter and until late into the spring, when my term of service having expired, I was regularly discharged. Tho' that discharge has long since been lost, and I reached home just in the beginning of harvest.
In the spring of 1781, he was drafted into the militia for a tour of 3 months, under Capt. Jacob Pennywit, and marched with some other companies to Petersburg Va. and was engaged in the skirmish or battle which was fought at that place in May 1781 [aka "Battle of Blandford"]. His regiment was commanded by Col. John Slaughter, and the Brigade commanded by Brigadier Gen. Edmond Stevens. From Petersburg we marched to what was called Mebbin Hills 18 miles below Richmond, at this place he was discharged, and returned home, but only remained at home four days, when he was again drafted for 3 months more, under Capt. George Prince, and marched to Newcastle on the Pamunkey River, where for some cause Capt. Prince was discharged from the service and our company was then commanded by Captain Lynchfield Sharp during the remainder of the tour. We then marched to Ruffin's Ferry, and from thence to Williamsburg, and from thence to the siege of York, and he was engaged in that siege. After Cornwallis and his army were taken, he was detailed and marched in guarding the prisoners to Lahewtown in the County of Frederick, (now Front Royal ) where his term of service expired and he was again regularly discharged. His Regiment, during this last tour was commanded by Col. Elias Edmonds, and the Brigade was still under the command of Genl. Stevens.
5th great-grandfather Thomas Purdom/Purdham recalled in his claim for pension that he enlisted in late June, 1780, for a period of 18 months, in Capt. Harrison's Company from Culpeper County, Virginia. Organizationally, the company fell under the command of Colonel John Green, also of Culpeper, and served "in the line of the state of Va. and second Va. Regiment." From Culpeper, the company march toward Richmond and Petersburg, eventually joining Gen. Nathanael Greene's Army, participating first at the Battle of Guilford Court House, and then, on June 18, in the assault on the Star Fort (Ninety-Six), in South Carolina, in which he was severely wounded by a "bayonet through the body". Considering the severity of the wound, I don't quite know if he participated in any further actions. He received his discharge on January 18, 1782, in the town of Salisbury, N.C.
Lastly, I know a little about 6th great grandfather Robert Quigley, a lieutenant from the Cumberland (Pennsylvania) Militia, and that his company was called out on a number of occasions between 1777 and 1783.
Again, today's a perfect opportunity to reflect on what they did, in the 1770s and 1780s, to make this day possible.
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How do we explain the heritage of Tennesseans?
At first blush it may appear that to explain our heritage would be overwhelming, possible only by the application of computer programs not yet developed. But consciously or not, we base our daily lives very much on our understanding of what previous generations have bequeathed to us.
If you and I were to brief a newcomer on the state's heritage, what could, what should we say?
First, Tennesseans inherit a frontier legacy, a fearless willingness to face the unknown that grew out of the arrival of new waves of immigrants on the East Coast in the eighteenth century and their subsequent migration inland. It is a legacy of the leveling effects of the frontier. Neither the weather nor rugged mountains nor raging streams nor the resistance by Native American Indians was a respecter of persons. To overcome such obstacles, settlers learned early that they could best succeed by banding together. They employed the strength of numbers, but used that power to protect their personal freedom. This contributed mightily to a legacy of individualism.
Tennessee heritage of the nineteenth century includes broad public support for dreams of national expansion. Tennesseans of the period cannot be faulted for thinking small. Some moved into the Louisiana Purchase area, but it was their involvement in the annexation of Texas and the Mexican cession that validated their optimism and expansionist dreams. Taking leadership roles as they pushed the frontier westward, Tennesseans generated excitement that further encouraged expansionist dreams throughout the nineteenth century. Behind the acquisition of new territory, there was greed aplenty, but it was countered by the belief that there was more than land enough for all.
The frontier experiences and expansive optimism must surely have led to the spirit of volunteerism that caused Tennessee to be known as the Volunteer State. This readiness of young men to volunteer received nationwide recognition in the Mexican War when President James K. Polk called upon the governor of Tennessee for 2,800 volunteer soldiers and ten times that number stepped forward. That spirit has been kept alive by the countless number of Tennesseans, both men and women, who have volunteered in prior and more recent wars and those who have contributed millions of hours of volunteer civil service.
State lawmakers have left us the legacy of three states in one--Tennessee divided into three grand divisions. East Tennessee is the part lying between the western boundary of North Carolina and the middle of the Cumberland Plateau. From that point Middle Tennessee extends westward to the north-flowing Tennessee River. And West Tennessee is that part of the state between the Tennessee and Mississippi Rivers.
The grand division distinction is more geographical and cultural than political, and in each division the culture changes with the geography. Laced by numerous small streams and valleys, East is known for the mountain grandeur of the Appalachians and the rugged ranges of the eastern Cumberland Plateau. The Middle Division displays a gently rolling landscape, reasonably fertile, and well watered with low hills north and south. Largely a vast plain sloping from the Tennessee River to the Mississippi, West Tennessee has supported large-scale agricultural operations in cotton and soybeans and the production of hardwood lumber.
We must explain to the newcomer that by heritage we are a warring people. Many of us are descendants of American soldiers who won our freedom from the British Crown in 1783 and maintained that freedom in the War of 1812. We are descended from veterans of the Seminole War of 1836, the Mexican War, the Civil War, the Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II, the Korean War, the conflict in Vietnam, and the first and second wars in Iraq. In addition, we intervened with force in Haiti, Panama, Lebanon, the Sudan, the Balkans, and Afghanistan. With the exception of the wars with Great Britain, Mexico, and Spain, we have not gained territory by conquest but have responded to what we regarded as greater threats to our own security and world peace. The preemptive nature of the second war with Iraq is an exception to our traditional role of taking military action only after it has been initiated by others.
We must warn, also, that the legacy of the Civil War, the only occasion in our history when Tennesseans fought each other on Tennessee battlefields, still challenges us to find further meaning from that desperate conflict within the American family. We know that two critically important results of the war were the abolition of human bondage and the final invalidation of the right of states to secede from the Union. Tennesseans, both Confederate and Union, conducted themselves courageously on the many battlefields of the war within the state. Almost anywhere in loyal East Tennessee, there were rebels, and similarly in the larger Confederate sections in Middle and West, there were Union sympathizers. A tragic aspect of this war was the estrangement of family members by their divided loyalties.
Prior to and after the war, many Tennesseans tried to hold the middle ground. Our state left the Union only after Tennesseans had led in organizing the Constitutional Union Party, furnished its candidate for President, and taken other last minute but unavailing steps to avoid the conflict. At war's end, Tennessee was the first state to return to the Union, again showing its respect for the concept of nationhood and our willingness to take the middle ground. Although we supplied by far a greater number to the Confederacy, we were the only southern state to supply a significant number of soldiers to the Union, approximately 30,000. Combining the two, Tennessee had more men in uniform than any other state, north or south.
A strong sense of personal responsibility has been a Tennessee characteristic since the earliest times. As the state was settled, community leaders organized local and state governments, encouraged the worship of God, and sought to provide schooling for the young.
Schooling was part of the ministry of the early Protestant Christian preachers who founded and taught in some of the first schools including institutions of higher learning. No one contributed more to nurturing education in those frontier days than the ministers--Presbyterian, Methodist, and Baptist. Later to arrive on the scene, the Catholic Church and other Protestant denominations today operate a number of elementary and secondary schools across the state. Nineteenth-century Protestant teachings contributed much to Tennessee's becoming a strong link in the Bible belt.
Embracing responsibilities at the national level, Tennesseans appeared as leaders in both houses of Congress and beginning with Andrew Jackson's election in 1828, Tennessee supplied three presidents of the United States within a period of forty years. In the immediate post World War II period, Tennessee furnished the secretary of state who won a Nobel Peace Prize for his leadership in creating the United Nations.
During the next quarter century, Tennessee elected four United States senators who achieved national prominence, one later losing his bid for vice president. Another, elected in 1984, won the vice presidency in 1992 and served two terms in that office. Nominated by his party for president, he won the popular vote but lost in the electoral college in 2000.
The tradition of providing political leadership led to a legacy of partisan political activism. The Democratic Party has been dominant much of the time since 1828, although the Whigs controlled the General Assembly and the governor's office from time to time during the ensuing quarter century. After the Civil War, the Republican Party entered the state in East Tennessee but had little political clout outside the region. During the latter years of the twentieth century, the party increased its number of seats in the General Assembly and in Congress and elected three governors and three United States senators.
Like their counterparts in other states, Tennessee men were less than enthusiastic about extending the right to vote to women until the legislature ratified the nineteenth (women's suffrage) amendment to the United States Constitution in 1920. Added to the prior 35 ratifications, Tennessee's vote raised the count to the minimum number required to ensconce the amendment firmly in the Constitution. The right to vote further opened public office to women and prepared the way for them to become formidable players in Tennessee politics.
A slowness, even reluctance, to acknowledge the rights of persons different from our majority European heritage has been a downside of our legacy. Most Tennesseans of the early period found it impossible to recognize the inherent rights of the Native American Indians who were here when our ancestors arrived. Even after the Civil War, most Tennesseans could not agree to recognize the civil rights of African Americans who themselves or their ancestors had been brought here against their wills.
Nonviolent courage was the order of the day during the 1960s for the young Tennessee African Americans who initiated public demonstrations to challenge racial segregation. One of the first and most effective of their efforts was the lunch counter sit-ins at Nashville. Black students sat at lunch counters where formerly they had been denied service because of their race. Waiting patiently day after day, they offered no resistance to threats or periodic violent attacks upon them. Their courage and restraint encouraged the mayor of the city to abolish segregation in public facilities and to go on record against the Jim Crow laws that had prevailed for the previous seventy-five years.
Perhaps the most popular Tennessee legacy for both present and future generations is the diversity of its vocal and instrumental music. It all began with "country." Originating early in the hills of East and Middle Tennessee as a folk art, country music appropriated tunes from county singing conventions and brought in elements of African-American rhythm, blues, and spirituals from West Tennessee. It was first sung and played with fiddles, guitars, and banjos, but as it evolved other instruments often were included. Beginning in 1927, country music became a nationally recognized art form through radio broadcasts of the Grand Ole Opry from Nashville.
The more recent mixing of country, blues, and emphatic rhythm patterns gave rise to the music known as rockabilly with Memphis as its center. Essentially a mixture of country and rock, rockabilly offered driving rhythms that appealed to new audiences as it pushed country ever closer to "pop" or popular music. More recently, country has edged into the world of classical music.
From frontier living in the eighteenth century to the lifestyles of the twenty-first, Tennesseans have left a heritage sprinkled with accomplishments and failures. But altogether it is ours; what will we do with it?
We can bask in the glory of its independent frontier spirit, its tradition of volunteerism and bravery, its emphasis on education and religion, its optimism and political activism and the diversity of its music. Also, we can respond to the challenges, especially those implicit in our many wars.
How can one state be a force for peace? Tens of thousands of Tennesseans have fought and died to bring about peace in a distraught world, but how can we live for peace? We have already furnished the father of the United Nations and we can do more. Drawing on the experiences of the frontier people, we should seek a new vision for tomorrow. We can advance the quality and reach of public education; we can work for and in good government; and we can do whatever is necessary to be certain that the spirit of volunteerism and individual responsibility is alive and well today.
What a heritage! What a challenge!
(This article originally appeared in The Courier, Tennessee Historical Commission, June, 2005.)


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Cocktail Trend: More Than A Dash of Bitters
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When asked about current cocktail trends, Theo Lieberman of Lantern's Keep and Milk & Honey offered a few we expected—the return to a focus on simple, great cocktails, and the end of twelve-ingredient drinks, for one. "I hope people will start to explore the simple things behind the bar more deeply," he said. He also noted the rise of sherry cocktails, particularly cobblers, citing an especially delicious one at The Beagle in New York's East Village. "Sherry is killing it," said Lieberman. But Lieberman also said that he's been seeing a rise of drinks that call for more than just a dash of bitters. Cocktails with bitters so prominent they can be measured in ounces are starting to pop up around the country.
Bitters are often thought of as the salt and pepper of the cocktail world, adding just a touch of spice to focus and deepen the flavors of a drink. It makes sense to use them sparingly—a 4-ounce bottle of Angostura can sell for $9 or more, and it's potent stuff, so a drop or two goes a long way. "But we're living in an age of extreme ingredients," says Lieberman, "everywhere you look, there's pork belly." So perhaps the time for the extreme use of bitters has come.
Like most trends in the cocktail world today, there's a historical precedent for bitters-centric cocktails. Charles H. Baker included an Angostura Fizz in his Gentleman's Companion (according to Brad Thomas Parsons, the cocktail also appeared in the 1908 Dr. Siegert's Angostura Bitters Recipe Booklet.) And the Angostura Fizz sounds pretty good: an ounce each of Angostura and fresh lime, a quarter ounce each of simple syrup and grenadine, half an ounce of cream, shaken with an eggwhite until frothy and topped off with seltzer.
Drinks based on bitters need something to balance their intensity: in the case of Giuseppe Gonzales of Clover Club's Trinidad Sour, 1.5 ounces of Angostura are offset by an equal amount of orgeat, an ounce of lemon, and a half-ounce of rye. Kirk Estopinal of Cure in New Orleans makes a Peychaud's-based cocktail called the Gunshop Fizz, which tames the bitters with lemon, simple syrup, orange and grapefruit peel, plus muddled strawberries and cucumber.
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Theo Lieberman's been playing around with the idea, too. The result: The Dutchess, an Angostura based drink made rich with malty genever, orgeat, and pineapple, with freshly squeezed lemon for brightness. The flavors come together beautifully, and it's deceptively rich—upon first sip, you'll guess that there's eggwhite involved.
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EWG's Guide to Safer Cell Phone Use: Cell phone radiation alters brain activity
Brain activity accelerates near cell phone antenna
Volunteer's brain scans, normal (LEFT) and after 50 minutes with an active cell phone on right ear, (RIGHT) show increased metabolic activity near phone's antenna. (ARROW) A team led by Dr. Nora Volkow, head of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, used advanced imaging technology to monitor glucose consumed in the brain. Conclusion: weak cell phone emissions visibly changed brain activity. More studies are needed to determine health implications. Image source: JAMA
Washington, D.C. – A team led by Dr. Nora D. Volkow, a pioneering brain imaging scientist who heads the National Institute on Drug Abuse,has reported that cell phone radiofrequency radiation alters brain activity in human subjects.
The study, published by the prestigious Journal of the American Medical Association, is the first investigation to document changes in brain glucose metabolism after cell phone use. In a video accompanying the report, Volkow said the team focused on how the brain consumes glucose because "It's a very sensitive marker to indicate if there are changes in brain activity that may be driven by a given stimulus, which in this case was the cell phone."
The conclusion, according to Volkow: "Even though the radio frequencies that are emitted from current cell phone technologies are very weak they are able to activate the human brain to have an effect."
"This research offers an important insight into potential effects of cell phone radiation on the human brain," Renee Sharp, director of the Environmental Working Group California office said. "It joins the growing list of studies that have raised concerns about cell phone use and the brain."
Cell phone radiation can change brain activity
Video produced by the Journal of the American Medical Association features Dr. Nora Volkow, a pioneer in the field of brain imaging, explaining how she and a team from the National Institutes of Health and Brookhaven National Laboratory investigated the impact of cell phone radiofrequency emissions on the brain. "We really know relatively little about the potential effects that cell phone technologies may have on how the brain works," Volkow says. To find out, researchers fixed cell phones to 47 volunteers' heads, then made PET scans of metabolic shifts in their brains. See the experiment here. Video source: JAMA
The study's authors, who are affiliated with the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism and Brookhaven National Laboratory, wrote that "these results provide evidence that the human brain is sensitive to the effects of RF-EMF [radiofrequency-modulated electromagnetic fields] from acute cell phone exposures." Volkow is recognized for using imaging to explore changes in the brain linked to addictive drugs, obesity, attention-deficit disorder and aging.
The research team explored the impact of cell radiation on the brain by placing cell phones on both ears of 47 healthy volunteers. The volunteers, seated in a darkened room, were directed to keep their eyes closed and remain still for 50 minutes. On the first day, both phones were turned off. On the second day, one was turned on.
The volunteers' brains were subjected to positron emission tomography, commonly known as PET scans, a medical imaging technology, to measure glucose metabolism. "Compared with no exposure, 50-minute cell phone exposure was associated with increased brain glucose metabolism in the region closest to the antenna," the study said.
The exact mechanism underlying these metabolic effects and their human health significance are still under investigation. Volkow and her colleagues theorized that the changes they observed could be due to "cell membrane permeability, calcium efflux, cell excitability, and/or neurotransmitter release." Significantly, they rejected the hypothesis that the changes were caused by tissue heating. This finding places them at odds with the cell phone industry, which acknowledges no effects but heating when the brain absorbs cell phone radiation.
While scientists continue investigating the question, EWG recommends cell phone users limit their exposure to cell phone radiation by taking easy steps such as getting a headset, using speaker-phone mode, keeping the phone away from their body, and looking for low-radiation phone models. Click for more tips https://www.ewg.org/cellphoneradiation/8-Safety-Tips
Link to full study: http://jama.ama-assn.org/content/305/8/808.short Volkow ND, Tomasi D, Wang GJ, Vaska P, Fowler JS, Telang F, Alexoff D, Logan J, Wong C. 2011. Effects of cell phone radiofrequency signal exposure on brain glucose metabolism. Journal of the American Medical Association 305 (8), in press.
Listen to a press interview with brain imaging pioneer Dr. Nora Volkow.


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Rabbits were long-eared, furry animals, also called 'coneys'. On 7 March T.A. 3019 in northern Ithilien, Samwise Gamgee asked Gollum to bring him some food. Gollum brought him two small rabbits which Sam proceeded to cook, to Gollum's intense displeasure.[1]
[edit] Etymology
In a linguistic manuscript dating from the 1930s, appears the Qenya gloss lopo ("rabbit").[2]
[edit] Portrayal in adaptations
|Rabbits in adaptations
2012-14: The Hobbit (film series):
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, The Two Towers, "Of Herbs and Stewed Rabbit"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, "Qenya Noun Structure", in Parma Eldalamberon XXI (edited by Christopher Gilson, Patrick H. Wynne and Arden R. Smith), pp. 8, 31
- ↑ "Radagast's Racing Rhosgobel Rabbits: A Recreational Musher Looks at the Realities of Bunny Sledding" dated 3 January 2013, TheOneRing.net (accessed 11 March 2013)


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Walton Moves On
From Brian Walton:
It is with disappointment and joy that I am announcing my stepping down as Director of Team Snow Valley. The past three years were filled with pride as the blue-green machine developed into one of the best teams in North America. Watching the juniors develop into a nationally recognized "Center for Excellence", the club coming together and pulling off another successful Snow Valley Grand Prix of Bethesda, being named the #1 US amateur team, and witnessing Mike Voigt claim the National Championship victory under perfect team sacrifices are all memories that will stay with me for a lifetime.
The highlight for me was the joy that all team members showed when Mike was the victor. Russ Langley was the first to greet Mike with a big bear hug after his 6th place finish. He was sincerely proud of Mike's victory. Ryan McKinney, who couldn't race due to an achilles injury, was there from the early morning helping me with water bottles, feeding riders and taking pictures. Then there was Mr. Snow Valley, Jon Wirsing sacrificing his wheel and any chances he had of winning the race after Josh Frick had already done so the lap before. A few tears were shed as Mike went on the podium and not just from Mike's Mom and Dad! I realized right then that it was more than a team, but a family. That same pride and kinship was demonstrated by our club members, who though not there physically, kept TSV and the National competition on their minds and heralded the victory to others knowing that by sharing the same team colors, they too, played a part in the victory. Arch McKown has instilled this into the program since he took over as club president back in 1992. His leadership and self sacrifice has helped nurture this program into something very special.
I have been given the opportunity to develop a training center in Philadelphia. Cadence Performance Cycling Center will be located in downtown Manayunk, on Main Street, about a block from the famous "Wall". At Cadence, I will be in charge of the performance side of the business, physiological testing, coaching and training. The training and coaching will be run under the Chris Carmichael training philosophy - CTS (you know, Lance's coach) but I'll give it that personalized Canadian touch!
Ontario Staff for Canada Summer Games and 2004 HP Projects
Applications are now being accepted for staff for the next Canada Summer Games. One male coach, one female coach and a manager are required for the 2005 Team. It will be a two year commitment, with activities in 2004 and 2005, including training sessions, camps, meetings, team selection, and attendance at the Games in Regina in August 2005. You must be fully NCCP certified, and be a level 3 coach by March 2005.
If you are interested in applying for a position, please submit a letter of interest and your coaching resume to the HP Coordinator at firstname.lastname@example.com by December 23, 2003.
The High Performance Committee is also accepting applications for project managers or mentored coaches for all High Performance projects in 2004, including the National Championships. If you would like to work on a project next year, send a letter outlining your interests, what projects you would like to be involved with to the HP Coordinator, at email@example.com. Again, managers must be fully NCCP certified, at least at Level 1.
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The Canadian Centre for Ethics is Sports distributes articles regarding ethical issue in sport. We occasionally reprint articles that are of interest. Below are three articles, and their original sources.
Italian Cyclist Suspended for Two Years
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MILAN, Italy (AP) -- Cyclist Fabio Testi was suspended for two years Monday, and he and his team were fined a total of $4,500 after he tested positive for banned substances.
The Italian Cycling Federation said in a statement that Testi tested positive for EPT and aminoglutetimide on Aug. 8 during the Giro del Veneto.
He was fined $1,500 and his Mercatone Uno team was given a $3,000 penalty.
Italy's most popular cycling race, the Giro d'Italia, was free of any doping charges this year although previous years have been marred by doping scandals.
Helping the athletes - Campaign to aid Athens competitors
Organization seeking to raise $5 million
Jane Roos may rival Santa for the amount of mail she's getting.
And the letters directed to her Queen St. E. office are filled with requests, too - for everything from sports equipment to gas cards and groceries.
They've been sent by more than 200 Canadian Olympic hopefuls, all of whom want to be beneficiaries of the See You in Athens fund.
The cash-strapped include most of Canada's top medal contenders for the Summer Olympics - including rowing's world champion eights and fours crews, double world gymnastics medallist Kyle Shewfelt of Calgary, diver Blythe Hartley of Vancouver and world kayak bronze medallist Adam van Koeverden of Oakville.
Roos has raised about $1.7 million for Canadian athletes since 1997, but she is nearing the finish on her most ambitious project to date. It's called The Big Ask, a campaign to raise $5 million that wraps up Thursday.
Roos is a former track and field athlete turned tireless fundraiser whose biggest coup to date was a recent $500,000 donation from MasterCard.
"If you saw some of these applications, it's sad," Roos said. "The net income for many of the athletes is minus $5,000. Some of them, like the men's rowing team, are living six or seven in a house. The parents of one of the Olympians are talking about mortgaging their home.
"Sport is one of the few things that bring an entire country together and when they do do well, we embrace them and we think, 'Wow, they're ours,' and we put the Canada flag right on them and parade them up on Parliament Hill. We need to invest in people who have dreams and want to better themselves."
Roos said the campaign has received donations from Canadians living in London and New York, as well as across the country. Contributions have ranged from a $75,000 cheque from Beachcomber Hot Tubs in Vancouver to the efforts of individuals like Vlad Knope of Toronto, who raised about $2,000 in a door-to-door campaign.
Roos, who says about 85 cents on the dollar goes directly to the athletes, says they're also able to inform people and companies which athlete received their money. The not-for-profit fund also recently received charitable status, and she said that their Web site (www.seeyouinathens.com) issues tax receipts within three minutes of a donation being made.
"People assume it's got to be big dollars," Roos said. "But $25 goes a long way. The whole idea of The Big Ask is to bring 31 million Canadians together. And you'll know who your $25 went to help. How cool would that be? Watching the Olympics and being able to say, 'That's the athlete I gave money to.' "
Among Roos' mementos in her modest east end office is a postcard sent to her by wrestler Daniel Igali one day after he won his gold medal at the Sydney Olympics in 2000. Igali, who turned down the chance to apply this time because he feels there are other athletes in greater need, received $5,000 from the See You in Sydney fund.
"I am walking on clouds, nothing seems real to me," he wrote. "It is at such times that people like you come to mind. Your 'See You in Sydney' fund was instrumental to my performance."
It was signed "Daniel Igali, Olympic champion!"
Just say yes to pro sports drugs?
By Sandy Grady
USA Today
NEW YORK- The commissioners of Major League Baseball and the National Football League today announced a new "Just Say Yes" policy on drugs.
From now on, they said, players would no longer be tested for drugs. Instead, they would be free to use any drug that enhances their performance, no questions asked.
"This new 'Freedom of Choice' drug policy is for the benefit of our fans," they said in a joint statement. "Our fans deserve the best entertainment on the field and TV screen. If that requires players taking steroids or other drugs, so be it. We're sure spectators, coaches and players will applaud our drug tolerance, which will bring even more excitement to sports."
Critics said the leagues were jolted by a 2004 epidemic of superstars suspended for using drugs. "They can't control it so they're surrendering to the druggies," said a sports lawyer.
The MLB and NFL player unions saluted the "Just Say Yes" policy as leading to more record performances, higher television ratings and larger-than-ever salaries.
OK, it's clearly a fantasy to assume that the pro sports leagues are only a couple of years away from flinging the door wide open for players to use performance-enhancing drugs.
But why not?
After all, who would care?
Certainly not most fans, who don't seem troubled about star athletes artificially blown up with drugs - as long as superfreak hitters keep belting homers on SportsCenter and 320-pound linemen play smash-mouth on Sundays.
Fans and the media went bonkers when Sammy Sosa was caught corking a bat. But drugs? Don't ask, don't tell. Fans shrugged when a mid-November USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup Poll asked what the effect would be if no big leaguers used drugs: 43% said better, 42% said no change, 13% said worse. And a Denver Post survey of younger fans (ages 18-34) - found that they were bothered "little or none at all" by drugs in sports.
Maybe in a culture where we use Viagra to help sex, Prozac to brighten our days and Ritalin to calm our kids - and TV is cluttered with ads for wonder drugs - there's not much outrage if an athlete uses a needle to balloon his biceps. The current investigation of the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative (BALCO), which created the new "designer" steroid called tetrahydrogestrinone, or THG, doesn't seem to be generating a lot of reaction, even though a Thursday hearing will involve the Giants' Barry Bonds and Yankees' Jason Giambi. And pro football is hardly drug-proof; four players for the Oakland Raiders have been accused of using THG.
Heck, players, even if most were clean, probably would vote for a "Just Say Yes" drug policy. No more threats of suspensions. There would be more 0.250 hitters who'd risk their health to boom a few more taters. Yeah, let the guys with the best pharmacists drive the Rolls-Royces.
And owners? They give lip service to cleaning up sports. Don't tell me they didn't love the attendance jump - and stifle their suspicions - when homer records were trashed in the late 1990s. Only now have baseball's nabobs been embarrassed into tougher drug testing. And experts say it's still a farce.
Face it. Professional sports are rushing toward a time when they'll have to confront the truth: either clamp down hard on performance drugs or admit they're uncontrollable. Go ahead, guys, swallow a pill, stick yourself with a needle; anything for the Grand Old Game.
Selig brags about the tough policing of drugs coming up in 2004. Really? A player has to fail five times before being suspended a year. There's no testing during the off-season, when players bulk up. No wonder Dick Pound of the World Anti-Doping Agency calls baseball's drug gimmick "an insult to the American public."
Are we in the middle of a Steroid Era? My eyes tell me yes. When I covered baseball in the 1960s, baseball players had normal, athletic bodies. When I came back to playoff or World Series games in the 1990s or watch TV, I see outfielders built like NFL linebackers, biceps bulging the size of 500-pound bombs. Bonds was a sleek gazelle with the Pittsburgh Pirates; now, he's a hulking mastodon. Mark McGwire, gulping then-unbanned androstenedione, bloomed into a dreadnought. NFL linemen look like sumo wrestlers in pads. Don't tell me it's all done with Nautilus machines.
And I can see the statistics. It took 122 years of organized baseball until McGwire and Bonds smashed the 70-homer mark. Ten players since 1994 have had 50-homer seasons. I don't believe it's pure living and lousy pitching.
With growth hormones, designer drugs and masking agents, it's going to get harder to catch cheaters. Why not stop the hypocrisy? Just admit pro sports lost the drug war. Take what you want, guys. Pump up those deltoids. As long as fans buy tickets, who cares?
I do. I say it does matter whether pro sports are clean or drug dirty. Here's why:
* You'll never know what's real or fake if you suspect a big percentage of players is on the juice. Spectator sports are built on the belief that the games aren't rigged. Otherwise, switch the dial to pro wrestling.
* The pro drug plague leaches down to high school and college players. Coaches say that's already happening. You think a 180-pound kid lineman won't be tempted to try the same chemicals as Joe Superstar?
* Athletes who think they're immortal are playing Russian roulette with their health by toying with drugs. Experts warn of heart disease and tumors. Ask the friends of former NFL stud Lyle Alzado, who blamed his death from cancer at 43 on steroids.
* Baseball especially is built on nostalgia, sentiment, past greatness. If 21st century homers are propelled by steroids, it makes a mockery of Babe Ruth, who trained on beer and hot dogs. The careers of Joe DiMaggio, Ted Williams and Mickey Mantle may be laughed away by modern sports junkies.
What next? An icon of a pill and syringe by every record since 1995? Or maybe have two Hall of Fames: one for the old fogies who were clean and another as a Hall of Cheaters?
Yes, the drug epidemic matters. If pro sports don't react hard - real tests, real penalties - the crisis could turn Sosa's corked bat and Pete Rose's gambling into bush-league stuff. And if we learn that the 1998-2003 home-run boom was a Big Lie juiced up by chemicals, baseball may be jolted by a scandal in a class with the Black Sox attempt to fix the 1919 World Series.
Say it ain't so, Bud.
Sandy Grady, a former sports and political columnist for The Philadelphia Daily News, is a member of USA TODAY's board of contributors.
Tyler Hamilton Foundation Kick Off
You are cordially invited to THE PROLOGUE - TheTyler Hamilton Foundation Kick-Off Gala
Join World Class Cyclist and Tour de France hero, Tyler Hamilton as he kicks off his foundation dedicated to providing opportunity and access to individuals with multiple sclerosis and aspiring young cyclists
Thursday, January 8, 2004
5:00 PM - 11:30 PM (Entry time depends on ticket level)
Cyclorama, 539 Tremont Street, Boston, MA
Food, Music, Live & Silent Auction, and Tyler!
Auctioneer: Tom Gross
Music by the Chad Hollister Band
Peloton Tickets $50 7 PM
Green Jersey $100 7 PM - 1 Complimentary drink ticket and Tyler Hamilton Foundation Lapel Pin
Polka Dot Jersey $250 6 PM Limited to 100 - Above benefits plus VIP reception, Tyler Hamilton Baseball Hat, Program Listing, Entry to Podium Raffle, 2 complimentary drink tickets
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The Chinese government has taken swift steps to deal with teenagers that are addicted to online games and the internet. One step has been the creation of boot camps.
Sixteen-year-old Chen Shi was apparently beaten to death at a boot camp in the capital of Hunan province only two days after enrolling in the camp. His mother had told him that he would be attending a school to study IT.
The school's director had advised the mother to lie, saying that 90 per cent of all students were lied to before enrolling. The remaining 10 per cent were "kidnapped" by either parents or instructors.
Witness say that after Shi refused to run, an instructor with the help of two others beat the teenager with a plastic pipe, handcuffs and a wooden baton. The school has since be closed as disciplinary measures are being enacted.
In August 2009, another teenager was beaten to death at an internet addiction camp. The incident caused national outrage in China.
Chinese teen allegedly beaten to death at camp [Breitbart via TG Daily via CIO via Gizmodo]


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Whole-Home Safety: Room-by-Room Safety Fixes for the Entire House
If you're a parent, chances are you have no problem relating to the saying, "You can't be everywhere at once." Juggling a career with my kids' countless homework assignments, sporting events, performances and other after-school activities makes for a busy schedule.
This saying also applies to home safety. You might not be able to have an eye on all the rooms of your home at once, but with a bit of prudence and the help of innovative safety technologies, you can still make sure each area of the home is safe and protected.
Here is a home safety checklist that might help:
Basement Safety
Depending on where you live, you may or may not have a basement – but for those of us who do, we know basements are susceptible to water damage. Install a water alarm to alert your family to a leak before it can cause some serious damage.
Kitchen Safety
The National Fire Protection Association reports that cooking is the leading cause of home fires. Keeping a fire extinguisher on hand can allow you to put out small cooking fires before they blaze out of control. I also recommend fire extinguisher aerosol sprays, which fit under a kitchen cabinet and are as simple to use as a canister of hairspray.
Living Area Safety
Install interconnected smoke alarms. These alarms "talk" to each other and, when one alarm sounds, they all sound. These systems can also verbally alert your family to the type of danger (smoke or carbon monoxide) and the location (the kitchen, for instance). By knowing the location of the fire or carbon monoxide leak, you can adjust your escape plan to safely exit the home.
Bedroom Safety
If you live in a two-story house, be sure to store fire escape ladders in the upstairs bedrooms. You also should install alarms – both smoke and carbon monoxide – inside each room of the home.
Garage Safety
Avoid hazardous trips and falls by storing seasonal products off the floor. Hanging bike racks or storage devices for out-of-use gardening tools or sporting goods can be a real organizational help in your garage.
Guest blogger Debbie Hanson is director of external affairs for First Alert, a trusted brand in home safety products.


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Microsoft Releases Utterly Bizarre And Confusing Anti-Piracy Video
from the fear,-uncertainty-and-disorder dept
Boo! You didn't see me there, did you? That's because I'm one insidious sonofabitch. My name's piracy, and I'm everywhere. I will do things like disguise myself as a photocopier and infiltrate your business via identity theft. Or, umm, something. Here, I'll let this dramatic PSA from Microsoft fail to explain it to you:
Understand? No? Good! We want you confused and bewildered! If you're not careful, I will steal your external hard drives and stalk your attractive female employees. I even contribute to littering. And I do it all to the ominous notes of pizzicato strings, like Elmer Fudd hunting wabbits. Learn more at Microsoft's anti-piracy website, which is so poorly designed as to look like a knockoff itself—that is, if I don't run off with your computer first. Muahahaha! Piracy!


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The RobCo facility is a factory owned by RobCo Industries. It is located slightly northeast of Tenpenny Tower and south west of Fort Independence. The many protectrons scattered across the D.C. area were once manufactured here.
Tinker Joe can be found in the parking lot outside the facility along with his robots, including potential companion Sergeant RL-3. The parking lot is also a random encounter location.
Inhabitants include mole rats, radroaches and protectrons. There are a number of unused protectrons which remain in their charging stations and a few Nuka-Cola vending machines on the various levels.
After installing the mainframe processor, the option to reconfigure the mainframe to stop all the protectrons in the facility from attacking presents itself, as long as the Lone Wanderer has at least 50 Science skill.
Once hacked, the mainframe will have a few options:
- Basic Operation: * Error*
- Pest Extermination: Kill radroaches and mole rats
- Total Liquidation: on/off attack humans
- Stress Testing: Causes robots and turrets to attack each other. This is applied to on top of any other command (i.e. if you did not turn off liquidation, robots will still attack you). However, turrets will be hostile regardless of other settings (Turrets remain non-hostile as long as the "Total Liquidation" function has been ceased).
RobCo factory floor
The first room has five protectrons on display in various positions. Two will be more specialized and in the spotlights: a Nuka-Cola protectron and a military-issued protectron. The other three are standard protectrons. Two rooms on the left are restrooms. To the northwest there's a small room with two storage closets with minor loot and ammunition. To the right of the entrance are two paths. The left path going to a room with a few lockers and shelves that then leads to a larger room which seems to be a small part of the assembly line for the robots. To the right from coming through the entrance is a much smaller room with a workbench. After this room are some stairs that lead to overlooking the previous large room. The right path is simply a winding flight of stairs that also leads to overlooking the large room.
Offices and cafeteria
When entering this room, there will be two pool tables, with the right one having a couch on top of it. There are two Nuka-Cola fridges, and one regular refrigerator to the right. If heading to the left from this room, there will be a long hallway. Going through the hallway there should be a mannequin, along with three ammunition boxes. A little further down, there's a gate with a leaf blower and two lawn mower blades. Right before the hallway ends there is a room to the left. In there is a first aid box and not much else. Going straight from the first room is a small cafeteria with four tables on the right. Continuing from this room one can go straight or turn left. To the left and another left there is a small room where the first hallway ended and past that there is another room with minor caps and loot. Turning left and then going straight leads upstairs. If heading right from the original room, there will be a short hallway with restrooms on either side. Past that there is the office with four office spaces with minor loot. From there there's a hallway with three rooms on the sides. The first looks like an office/storage area. The second room is a larger office with four desks and file cabinets. The last room is again an office/storage area with several boxes and a first aid box. Now continuing upstairs it makes like a trident pattern. The left path there's a storage closet and past that is a small monitor room with two lockers. The right path is the same but a bit more destroyed. The storage closet is caved in and the monitor room messed up. Lastly, continuing straight from the stairs is the main computer room for the whole building. There's a first aid box, a pre-War book, and a Stealth Boy in there.
Notable loot
Factory floor
- Lying, Congressional Style, on the reception desk at the back of the foyer where you enter.
- Big Book of Science, by the protectron pod area to northeast, on the console.
- 2 pre-War book; 1 on the shelf behind the reception desk, and 1 next to the Big Book of Science in the control room.
- A bottlecap mine on a work bench in a small room to the east (see local map).
- A Stealth Boy, in the office ahead of first entering the factory. It is located on a desk in the cubicle to the left when entering the room past the reception desk.
- A camera in the southern bathroom next to the reception. You have to close the door behind you.
Offices and cafeteria
- Nikola Tesla and You - After entering Offices and Cafeteria, go right, head straight (past the washrooms) and look on the table (next to the desk) in the third cubicle on the right.
- D.C. Journal of Internal Medicine - Offices and Cafeteria first floor, southernmost room, left before the stairs going up. On a desk in the most north west cubicle, next to a Jet and a first aid box. This room also contains one of the Stealth Boys, on the desk closest to the Protectron charging station.
- 1 pre-War book - in the mainframe area (second floor), on a desk.
- 3 Stealth Boys (see local map)
- 52 dinner plates and 47 drinking glasses, the highest amount of both in a single section in the game.
Related quest
- Inside the restrooms next to the main reception, is a broken protectron seated on a toilet, with scrap metal inside the toilet below. Similar to this, there is also a skeleton with a camera and pre-War money looking underneath a bathroom stall.
- The factory floor and cafeteria/offices have a total of 31 radroaches running about, the highest number in the game.
RobCo facility appears only in Fallout 3.
PC Playstation 3 Xbox 360 Immediately after entering the door to the cafeteria area from the factory floor, you'll notice, in the pod to the left, that the protectron's arms slowly move down to its sides, even though it's supposed to be deactivated. [verified]


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The PHY IP is engineered for quick and easy integration into system-on-chips (SoC), and is verified with the Denali DDR Controller IP as part of a complete memory subsystem solution. The PHY IP provides a DFI-compliant memory controller interface.The PHY IP is validated with multiple hardware platforms for reduced risk and is designed to be interoperable with various supplier memory chips.
The PHY IP is part of the comprehensive Cadence Design IP portfolio comprised of interface, Denali memory interface, analog, and systems and peripherals IP.
- LPDDR3/LPDDR2/DDR3 training with write-leveling and data-eye training
- Optional clock gating available for low-power control
- Memory controller interface complies with DFI standards 3.0 or 3.1
- Internal and external datapath loop-back modes
- I/O pads with impedance calibration logic and data retention capability
- Multiple PLLs for maximum system margin
- Programmable clock delay (PVT compensated) on read
- and write datapaths for DQS alignment
- Per-bit deskew on read and write datapath
- Wide data-valid-eye
- Expanded functional testing
- Low-power control
- GDS II macros with abstract in LEF
- Verilog post-layout netlist
- STA scripts for use at chip or standalone PHY levels
- Liberty Timing model
- SDF for back-annotated timing verification
- Verilog models of I/O pads, and RTL for all PHY modules
- Verilog testbench with memory model, configuration files, and sample tests
- Documentation—integration and user guide, release notes
- Verification IP set up files
- Networking
- Cloud computing
- Wireless communication equipment
- Mobile devices
- Consumer products
- Automotive Infotainment
- Internet of Things Products
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School will soon be out and parents will be looking for things to do with their kids. While trips to Hawaii and Disney World are grand, many families can't afford lavish vacations. Plus, there's so much to see and do right here in our Golden State—and so I've put together a list of 20 places every California kid should visit before growing up.
The list is meant to spark discourse and spur locals to share memories of places they visited as a kid—so please share your favorite family spots in the comments.


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Police: Wife, husband dead in murder-suicide in North Versailles
Victims identified as Mark and Erin Hoey
Allegheny County homicide detectives are investigating the deaths of a North Versailles couple in an apparent murder-suicide Tuesday morning.
The victims have been identified as Mark Hoey, 48, and Erin Hoey, 45.
SLIDESHOW: Photos of the crime scene
County police said local officers found the bodies inside the home on Thomas Avenue, a side road off Route 30, when they went to the house to do a welfare check after one of the people did not show up for work in the morning.
"We came over to check and see if the person was here, and had to force our way in, made forced entry into the house," said North Versailles Police Chief Vincent Dicenzo Jr.
Police are still investigating the deaths and have not yet released an official cause. Autopsies have been scheduled for Wednesday.
Neighbor Jacky Orrick described the couple as people you could count on.
"Mark was the first one to come over and welcome us when we moved into the neighborhood about five years ago," Orrick said. "(It's) shocking, shocking. You just wouldn't expect it."
The couple is survived by a daughter.
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In conservative circles, manifestos are all the rage.
On Wednesday, it was the Mount Vernon Statement, an affirmation of "constitutional conservatism," as the organizers styled it, focused on limited government and individual liberty. Signers included many familiar names from old-time conservative circles – Reagan-era Attorney General Ed Meese, direct mail guru Richard Viguerie, antitax activist Grover Norquist, to name a few.
Tea party activists are working up their own manifesto, to be called the Contract From America – a play on former GOP House Speaker Newt Gingrich's Contract With America, from the breakthrough midterms of 1994.
On Thursday, at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, the group Tea Party Patriots will unveil its website, where activists can select 10 out of 21 priorities to go into the Contract From America.
Options include a constitutional amendment requiring a balanced federal budget, a repeal of all tax hikes scheduled to begin in 2011, and no regulation or tax on the Internet.
Newt Gingrich is back with a new 'contract'
Mr. Gingrich is talking about crafting a Contract With America II, and has laid out themes, starting with jobs, balanced budget, and energy. Rep. Paul Ryan (R) of Wisconsin, one of the party's rising stars, has put out a "Roadmap for America's Future." Rep. John Boehner (R) of Ohio, the House minority leader, says he's drafting a Republican campaign platform.
And Sen. John McCain of Arizona, the GOP presidential nominee in 2008, says Senate Republicans will lay out a 10-point election year agenda this spring – the 10 things the Republican Party would seek to enact within 60 days upon retaking control of Congress.
Then, of course, there's the manifesto (of sorts) by Michael Steele, the chairman of the Republican National Committee, who released a book last month called "Right Now: A 12-Step Program for Defeating the Obama Agenda."
"Republicans see themselves as reliving 1993-'94," says Cal Jillson, a political scientist at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. "They're the out-party, [with] big Democratic majorities that have taken the country in a policy direction that makes people nervous. They feel they're about to mount a huge comeback."
In fact, the 1994 Contract With America was released just six weeks before the midterm elections, and most voters had never heard of it.
"But in Republican lore, it bulks very large," says Mr. Jillson. "It probably did define and hold together the Republican minority as it launched into that campaign, and they felt empowered by it, even though the voters were going about their lives and never even noticed."
Tea partiers like the cacophony of voices
In today's cacophony of conservative and Republican activism, it may be difficult to settle on one common blueprint to present to the public. But for tea partiers, who relish the lack of central authority over their movement, that's exactly how it should be.
On Tuesday, some 50 tea party leaders from around the country met with Chairman Steele in Washington to discuss how party and conservative grass-roots activists, many of them vociferously not Republicans, can find common cause in the fall elections. They agreed to meet again.
On Capitol Hill, Republican Study Committee chairman Tom Price (R) of Georgia applauded the Mount Vernon Statement, saying it "reminds us that the change we really need is a renewed empowerment of self-governance and a turn away from unbridled government expansion."
The liberal People for the American Way put out its own reaction, calling the Mount Vernon Statement "the same old talking points.
"Anyone who was expecting a new direction for the conservative movement will be disappointed," said Michael Keegan, president of People For the American Way. "The Mount Vernon Statement appears to be yet another recitation of the same tired dogma we've seen for decades."
The Mount Vernon Statement is named for George Washington's home in Virginia. The drafters gathered nearby on Wednesday for the signing. It is meant to be an updated version of the 1960 Sharon Statement, a manifesto by the group Young Americans for Freedom, which held its inaugural meeting at conservative godfather William F. Buckley Jr.'s estate in Sharon, Conn.
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GFAR is the unique multi-stakeholder global forum on agricultural research and innovation. GFAR is an open, voluntary forum and a movement for change.
GFAR's six Work Streams:
GFAR's focus is to ensure that agricultural innovation systems, encompassing research, extension, education and enterprise - deliver the best development outcomes to resource-poor farmers and rural communities.
The GCARD Roadmap describes the broad transformative changes needed in national systems, as articulated by the sector, while GFAR's Medium Term Plan sets out how we will get there, specifying the practical actions we need to take collectively through six Work Streams:


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The 2013 RMG Seminar reinforces principles of the ReadersFirst initiative to improve e-book access and services for public library users. As of today 179 library systems representing 166 million readers have signed up to become ReadersFirst Coalition Partners.
Rob McGee, convener of the seminar, along with Marshall Breeding invite Industry players – vendors, librarians, customers of libraries -- to submit comments in advance about the RMG Challenge and vision statements to this blog posting and to report in person on progress, issues, and concerns during town hall discussions at RMG's 25 January 2013 Seminar at the American Library Association Midwinter Meeting in Seattle.
Vision Statements for Public Library Customer Services and Content Delivery
(from RMG's RFIs, RFPs, and Market Research Requests)
The Library provides its readers, viewers, listeners, gamers, and tactile users with the content they want in the languages and formats they prefer: print, electronic, audio, multimedia, interactive, tactile.
- Single-search discovery of relevant content in all formats (print, electronic, audio, multimedia, interactive, tactile) and languages to granular levels, e.g. . article . chapter . quotation . verse . image
- Library-owned, licensed, rented, and borrowed content
- State-library provided databases and other e-resources
- Government documents
- Open e-content from curated sources, including
- Curated web sites
- Digital Public Library of America
- Internet Archive
- Project Gutenberg
- Others
- Commercially provided content available through pay-on-demand arrangements between suppliers and libraries for purchase and rental of:
- e- and p- books available through arrangements for Patron Driven Acquisitions (PDA) and Demand Driven Acquisitions (DDA)
- Articles and chapters available through PDA/DDA
- Fulfillment of Customer's one-click request to
- Hold p- and other physical items for pick-up at the Library, or delivery
- Download e-content to customer's designated devices
- Including Library owned and rented content acquired and delivered on demand (PDA/DDA)
- Schedule reading, viewing, listening, and customer support sessions with needed devices, facilities, and staff at the Library
- Request fulfillment through Interlibrary Loan
- Options for Customers' demand-purchase/rental and download/delivery of e- and p- resources not otherwise available from the Library
- Customer relations management and services that maintain profiles and alert users about new resources, library events and programs, etc.; and seamlessly manage customers' use, borrowing, purchase, and rental of content.
Marshall Breeding Sep 12, 2012 14:42:09
Link to Posting: Town Hall Discussions at RMG's Annual Presidents' Seminar on ReadersFirst initiative


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Device Joined by In This Moment's Maria Brink for 'Close My Eyes Forever' at Rock on the Range
At this weekend's Rock on the Range festival, Device's David Draiman brought up a special guest to sing 'Close My Eyes Forever.' He was joined by Maria Brink of In This Moment to sing the duet from Device's self-titled debut album (watch video above).
Originally recording by Ozzy Osbourne and Lita Ford, the version on Device's self-titled band features Lzzy Hale from Halestorm. A couple of weeks ago at Carolina Rebellion, Lzzy joined Device onstage as she and Draiman sang the song together live for the first time.
Halestorm were also part of Rock on the Range, but they played on Saturday. Device and In This Moment were on Sunday's bill, prompting the collaboration between Draiman and Brink.
After countless hits with Disturbed, Draiman topped the rock singles chart 10 with Device's debut single 'Vilify.' Their self-titled debut arrived at No. 11 on the Billboard 200 Album Chart, selling 35,000 copies.
Device have been announced as one of the bands on Gigantour later this summer along with Megadeth, Hellyeah, Death Division and Newsted.
Watch Device with Maria Brink - 'Close My Eyes Forever'