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Yesterday's Summer Solistice Century ride turned out to be one of the toughest I've ever done. Fortunately, it was also incredibly beautiful, and had much better roads than the Sierra Century I'd done earlier this month.
I thought I was pretty well trained up for the double metric option, but it whipped me good. After the ride, I was so mentally and physically out of it I didn't feel safe behind the wheel...it took a shower, a chicken pasta dinner, an ice cream, 4 cans of Pepsi (I *never* drink sodas!), and a 45 minute nap before I felt safe enough to drive home!
Here are some of the details:
Distance: 135.9 miles (my longest ride ever)
Elevation gain: 13,733 feet
Avg. Speed: 14.2 mph (quite respectable..thanks more to my descending skills than my speed going up!)
Max Speed: 51.3 mph (sorry, Mom!)
Ride Time: 9 hr, 36 minutes
Total Time: 10 hrs, 30 minutes (started at 6 am, finished at 4:30 pm)
Temperature range: 40-96 degrees F
Calories burned: 6,632
Wildflowers: saw dozens of different species, including sweet pea, lupine, bear grass, leopard lily, skunk cabbage, red columbine, and California lilac (aka, blueblossom), buck brush, and many more. It was surprising to see so many, this late in the season, but I think it was due to the heavily forested region we were riding through.
Smooth, trash-free roads, with very little traffic.
The 12-27 cassette I put on the bike on Wednesday really helped by giving me some lower gears to work with on those steep slopes...although I still spent a shocking amount of time in my lowest gear going 4-6 mph. The 39/25 would not have been low enough for some of those leg-breaking steep sections.
Great support - sag vehicles out on course, plenty of rest stops, and friendly volunteers.
Ride notes:
I knew I was going to be in for a tough day when I checked my altimeter at the 17 mile mark...it showed that we had already done 3500 feet of climbing, with extended grades between 12 and 17 percent! And the "century" hadn't even started! Thankfully, the temperatures were still cool, and we had great views of the Feather River canyon.
At the 75 mile mark, while climbing back over the Sierra crest from Lake Oroville (our low point), the temperature was 96 degrees, there was no shade, and heavier traffic due to the nearby lake. We'd been climbing for about 45 minutes, when I came upon rest stop 5a. Normally, I just fill my bottles, grab some food, thank the volunteers, and go. But, this rest stop was different - the organizers had set up a large swamp cooler, powered by a generator on a trailer! So, while the nice volunteer woman filled my water bottles and got me a slice of cold watermelon with salt, I put my head into the outlet of the swamp cooler and tried to drop my core temperature. What a treat that was!
At the 92 mile mark we had 2 miles of dirt road due to construction. Uuugh!
At the 100 mile mark: I was cursing like a sailor, as I tried to weave the bike back and forth, in an attempt to keep the bike moving on a lengthy section of 15% grade.
It took over 30 minutes to go from mile 100 to mile 103...talk about discouraging!
Thankfully, once we hit the crest, we had good roads and tail winds for the last 20 miles.
Bottom line...a really great "first ride of summer", but I'm not sure I want to go back...that was one long hard day in the saddle!


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'Halo' game franchise coming to Microsoft's Windows Phone this summer
Halo, the wildly popular first-person shooter franchise first launched on Microsoft's (NASDAQ:MSFT) Xbox gaming platform in 2001, is finally expanding to its Windows Phone mobile operating system this summer.
Halo: Spartan Assault, a single-player title priced at $6.99, will roll out exclusively to Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8 in July and is the first release in the Halo franchise developed for touchscreen interactions. The game, set in the years between Halo 3 and Halo 4, encompasses 25 missions as well as weekly challenges, leaderboards and more than 40 in-game achievements and medals. Microsoft also will offer in-app purchases like weapons, armor and abilities.
"Playing Spartan Assault can earn you experience points and unlock new achievements and emblems for your Halo 4 Spartan," notes Microsoft editor Michael Stroh. "Another great thing about Halo: Spartan Assault is that it's designed to work hand-in-hand with Windows 8. If you've played Skulls of the Shogun, the cross-platform Xbox hit released this year, you know what I mean: You'll be able to pause Halo: Spartan Assault on the phone and pick up where you left off on your PC or tablet."
Halo was created by Bungie and is now managed by 343 Industries and owned by Microsoft Studios. The series depicts an interstellar war pitting humanity against a theocratic alliance of aliens known as the Covenant. The games have sold more than 50 million copies worldwide, grossing almost $3.4 billion.
Fan enthusiasm for the Halo franchise could attract some gamers to the Windows Phone platform, which has struggled to build up a catalog of mobile applications and games on par with Apple's (NASDAQ:AAPL) iOS and Google's (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android. After looking at the top 50 free and top 50 paid apps featured in the U.S. outposts of Apple's App Store and Google Play based on their aggregated rankings over the first 20 days of May 2013, research firm Canalys reported that Microsoft's Windows Phone Store offers only 16 of the top 50 free iOS applications and 14 of the top 50 paid, along with 22 of the top 50 free Android apps and 13 of the top 50 paid.
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In Mexico, Anti-Drug Leader Is Killed
MEXICO CITY—A top police intelligence official was found dead in his burning armored car in Monterrey, dealing a serious setback to Mexico's attempt to regain control of the country's most prosperous city from warring drug cartels.
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The body of Homero Salcido, the coordinator of the so-called C-5 center, which houses federal police, naval, army, and state and municipal anticrime intelligence officials, was found Monday in his burning Grand Cherokee car in the center of Monterrey, the capital of embattled Nuevo Leon state, officials said.
Mr. Salcido's killing is a major blow to the federal and state governments' efforts to re-establish control over Monterrey, Mexico's business capital, which has been racked by increasing drug violence over the past year.
"We are investigating," said Javier Treviño, Nuevo Leon's lieutenant governor. Mr. Treviño said it was too early to tell whether the killing of Mr. Salcido was the work of the drug cartels which have transformed Monterrey, once a peaceful and bustling city proud of its business prowess and close U.S. ties.
Alberto Islas, a Mexico City-based security consultant, said Mr. Salcido's death was a serious setback due to his crucial job. "The C-5 center is the eyes and ears of the authorities," he said. "It's where all the tips from citizens come in, where the information from cameras goes to, and where ambulances and police assistance is dispatched from."
The government said firemen had responded to reports of a burning car at about 10 p.m. Sunday. A body, found in the car, wasn't identified as Mr. Salcido until Monday morning. He had been shot five times, and the car doused in gasoline and set afire.
Nuevo Leon Governor Rodrigo Medina condemned what he called a "cowardly" deed, and vowed to bring the killers to justice.
The state of Nuevo Leon and the city of Monterrey have been engulfed in a wave of killings as a result of a turf war between the Gulf Cartel and their former enforcers, known as the Zetas, for the past year. Many police officers and prison guards have been gunned down, while cartel gunmen have routinely thrown grenades at police stations, police checkpoints, a local prison and a local newspaper office. Cartel gunmen have frequently commandeered trucks and buses and used them to block traffic in major avenues to stop the military and police from pursuing them.
Kidnappings and extortions in the city have soared, and many businessmen have moved their families to nearby Texas. Last year, after a shootout in front of one of the city's elite schools left two security guards dead, the U.S. pulled out children of embassy officials from the city.
In response, the Mexican government has beefed up its military presence in the state and increased security cooperation with local authorities. A top Nuevo Leon official said that despite the increased violence, authorities were making progress against the criminal groups.
He pointed to the capture earlier this month of Yohir Perez, a leader of the Gulf Cartel, who later confessed to 21 murders and seven grenade attacks. "We have a new head of state security who has strengthened our ties with the military," the official said. "The Zetas and the Gulf Cartel have been significantly weakened."
But U.S. analysts see no evidence the government has succeeded in weakening the drug cartels, in particular the Zetas, a particularly brutal and violent group. "The Zetas are all over Nuevo Leon," said George Grayson, an expert on Mexico and organized crime at the College of William and Mary. "They want to intimidate the business community there in order to enhance their ability to raise funds through kidnapping and extortion."
Bruce Bagley, an expert on Latin America and drug trafficking at the University of Miami said Monterrey continues to be a city under siege. "The claims of progress ring hollow," he said.
Mr. Salcido's killing comes after a particularly bloody weekend. Seven presumed cartel gunmen and an innocent bystander were killed in a shootout with soldiers in Monterrey Saturday. The same day, armed men threw a grenade into a crowded nightclub early Saturday in Guadalajara, Mexico's second largest city, which has until now largely escaped drug violence. Six people were killed and 37 were wounded.
On Sunday, seven people were gunned down in a working class neighborhood of the metropolitan Mexico City, raising fears that the drug violence which afflicts most border cities in the north is beginning to reach the country's capital which has so far been peaceful.
And on Monday, 18 people were killed in shootouts by drug gangs around the town of Padilla, in the state of Tamaulipas, next to Nuevo Leon, according to a statement issued by the government of Tamaulipas.
Since December of 2006, when President Felipe Calderón sent out thousands of soldiers and federal police to reclaim areas of Mexico controlled by powerful drug cartels, more than 34,000 people have been killed, most of them in turf wars between rival cartels fighting over lucrative routes and growing local drug markets. Last year, 15,273 people were killed.


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Restaurants located near by that guests will enjoy
Our Favored Restaurants: May, 2008
We are always pleased to assist, advice, or make recommendations for restaurants. Sometimes it is fun to read the reviews and then the menu. We do keep more up to date than this listing, so please check with us.
These reviews focus on our guest's needs. One day you may want a fine dine and another day, Mexican, so there is a wide range of offerings. The restaurants chosen are reasonably consistent in the quality of their food and in their service. The atmosphere of the restaurants, while varied, are all interesting. You will find that all of the restaurants offer excellent value.
Currently, none of the restaurants in Cheyenne take reservations. However the wait is seldom longer than 20 minutes. We can also call to find if a restaurant is busy.
Please let us know when you are leaving for dinner so that we can provide you with turn-down service.
We try to check out these and other restaurants regularly. Your experience is important to keep us up to date on what our guests are wanting and liking. Please let us know how you enjoy your dining experience.
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The Albany Restaurant
This Café offers very good food in a very casual setting. We call it 1950's food. It is located five blocks from here across the street from the Cheyenne Depot Plaza in an old hotel building that Adolph Coors owned for a while. The atmosphere is simple with booths and old Cheyenne photographs on the walls. The Prime Rib and the Open-Faced Hot Turkey Sandwich are exemplary. Serving lunch and dinner Monday through Saturday. Seating lunch 11 am to 5 pm and dinner 5 pm to 9 pm.
Capitol Grill
The Capitol Grill is located in the Plains Hotel, a three-block walk. The restaurant, restored in 2001, reflects the 1930's lightly noisy businessman's bar and restaurant. The menu is limited upscale with a full bar. Serving lunch and dinner daily from 11:00 am until 9:00 pm.
Haciandia Guadalahara
Mexican food is the flair of this fun well decorated restaurant. Located a block and a half from us on Lincolnway, it is also convenient. The colors and music of Mexico provide the backdrop for a fun and flavorful meal. Serving lunch and dinner daily from 11:00 am to 9:00 pm.
L'Osterio Mondello
Luxury Dinner
The best greasy spoon in five states, this local jewel is housed in an old trolley car with some fun train memorabilia. The menu is just what you imagine. Serving breakfast and lunch seven days a week. 1401 West Lincolnway, right on Lincolnway about 1 1/2 miles on the left.
Morris House Bistro This little upscale bistro offers up great food, service, & ambiance. The menu features a touch of southern low country. Open Thursday, Friday, and Saturday evenings and Sunday Brunch. reservations are suggested and may be made online. It's just 4 and a half blocks north at 2114 Warren Ave. The house has a promanate history.
Nagle Warren Mansion
Poor Richard's Restaurant
2 Doors Down
2 Doors Down is a gourmet hamburger quick service restaurant. After ordering you can be seated and the server delivers your food. It's a comfortable atmosphere and only a block to the right when you go out the front door. Lunch and dinner Monday through Saturday.
Sanford's Pub and Grub
Shadows Brewery Pub
Twin Dragon Restaurant
Hathaway's Restaurant at Little America Hotel
Pizzeria Venti
"America's Only Authentic Sliceria" This Pizzeria offers a casual atmosphier where you can find over 20 kinds of hand -made pizza by the slice, or any of the assorted menu items, not limited to- but including baked pastas, timpanini, salads, soups, and desserts. They have a wine and beer license and you may get the food to go. Easy and only a block away. Monday through Saturday 11:00 AM until 9PM


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McDonalds September Mornings. The ad appeared in heavy rotation nationally in September 2008 and is being reused again in February 2009 (see The Weather Network, Canada.com, GlobeandMail.com, Yahoo.ca etc). McDonalds was so pleased that McDonalds Canada wanted the animation added to the McDonalds Canada website. It received an Applied Arts Award in November 2008. Creative came from Fjord Canada and I was responsible for the execution. The ad was served through the EyeBlaster ad network and was configured using their tools:
General Mills, Lucky Charms. The ad ran on targeted children's websites such as Disney and Nickelodeon. It was part of a larger campaign featuring a micro site. This online ad also received an Applied Arts Award in November 2008. This ad was served via the PointRoll network:
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McDonalds Monopoly. Featured nationally. The ad was served via the MTK network:
Generation of company portfolios for pitches. The flash was created in less than two days and has been reused by the agency a number of times since:
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IBM Knowledge Center @ ibm.com is ready to go!
Today through July 2014 we will be redirecting Information Center pages that you may have bookmarked, or links you may have, directly to the corresponding pages in IBM Knowledge Center.
As we exited our beta phase for this release, we made significant improvements to our user experience and infrastructure based on our recent beta testing. As a result, IBM Knowledge Center will now be the primary home for IBM product content on the web.
A great big thanks goes out to all of the people--inside and outside IBM--who helped bring us here. But our special thanks goes to our beta customers and end-users, who helped us understand how they work with our content and what we needed to do in IBM Knowledge Center to deliver good value with our content.
Bringing together over 900 Information Centers and tens of millions of pages into a single application has been a creatively and technically challenging task. But IBM Knowledge Center now lets you search across all that content, and also lets you customize views of IBM product content. You can even create PDF output from those customized views (which we'll discuss in the next blog post).
We know we still have many things to do in the future to make IBM Knowledge Center even better--more responsive, more compelling, more integrated with our user's application and device context, as well as easier to use. We'll talk about these things as we bring them forward (including our focus, for the next major release of IBM Knowledge Center, on IBM Design principles and practices).
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Greta Gerwig Out Of Noah Baumbach's While We're Young, Cate Blanchett In
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With his While Were Young already in a bit of upheaval after his wife, Jennifer Jason Leigh, filed for divorce and then dropped out, Noah Baumbach has encountered another snafu. Greta Gerwig, probably best known for being in Baumbachs last movie Greenberg or for looking like a less attractive Chloe Sevigny, has now been forced to withdraw because of a scheduling conflict. But with the loss comes a gain, as Cate Blanchett has joined the cast alongside James Franco and Ben Stiller, provided they all remaining on board.
According to Thompson on Hollywood, producer Scott Rudin has also admitted While Were Youngs funding still isnt quite in place, nor is a distributor officially on board, but with numerous Independent Spirit Award Nominations for Greenberg and three quarters of a talented cast already in place, its hard to imagine those issues wont eventually disappear.
While Were Young is the story of a documentary filmmaker (Stiller) and his wife (Blanchett) that are pushed to loosen up a bit by a younger couple (Franco and Not Gerwig). Knowing Baumbach, there will also be pretentiousness and sad eyes thrown in there somewhere.
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A photographic record of an epic three month journey by two young aussies travelling along the infamous Hippie Trail through India,Nepal & Sri Lanka.
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The person called me a monkey in front five other customers. Me being of African descent.
The person called me a monkey. And this situation happened to me on the east end of Havelock NC next to the Food Lion.
The name of the culprit is named Mrs. Debbie she is the manager of the store.
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Whether you have pimples on your forehead that look irritating or any other reasons you have, this wikiHow article has the solution for you to hide that forehead of yours.
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1Wear a head scarf. Tie it around your forehead so that it is hidden. Make sure the head scarf looks fashionable and is worn in a way so that no one will think it looks strange. However, make sure it goes with your outfit and that if follows your school's dress code if your school has one.
2Try out a bandana or headband. If you don't have a head scarf, you could always wear a bandanna or a headband that goes across your forehead and hides it.
3Use bangs to your advantage. Comb or sweep them across your forehead so that your hair hides your forehead. However, keep in mind that if you have oily hair and you want to hide your pimples with it, the oils from your hair will rub off onto the pimples and make them worse. Therefore, it's recommended that if you use your bangs to hide your forehead, keep your hair clean and wash it at least three times a week to prevent it from getting oily.
4Style your hair to help. Even if you don't have bangs, you still could use your hair to hide your forehead. Style your hair in a certain way that will get people to focus on the hairstyle. Also, certain hairstyles - if done correctly - can partially hide your forehead.
5Wear hats, on occasion. A hat could help hide that forehead, but don't wear one too often or people are going to start getting suspicious. Also, if it goes against your school's dress code, you might have to take it off either way.
6Wear jewelry or an amazing outfit. This will take people's attention off of your forehead and onto something else on you. You could also wear a headband or hair clip that will outdo your forehead.
7Be confident. Another option is to just wait for the pimples to go away and to just act normal. If you show plenty of confidence in yourself, no one will notice. Remind yourself that it's all in your head - you may think that everyone will stare at your forehead, but in reality, they don't notice it at all! If you are confident in your appearance, people will focus on that confidence and not even think about your forehead. People love girls with confidence!
8Chill out! Note that the more you stress about your forehead, the worse you will feel and your confidence in yourself will lessen. The bigger you make this situation and the more you do to try to hide that forehead, the more people are going to notice. Take it easy - you were made the way you are, and no one else can be you.
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Shout! Factory // 1984 // 690 Minutes // Not Rated
Reviewed by Judge David Johnson // July 12th, 2010
The man. The machine.
During the heyday of TV-shows-about-kick-ass-conveyances, when attack helicopters and T-top Trans Ams were dishing out worlds of hurt to bad guys, another road warrior entered the picture -- briefly.
He is Street Hawk, the most fearsome motorcycle-riding vigilante the criminal world has ever seen! When stud cop and former motocross pro Jesse Mach (Rex Smith, The Pirates of Penzance) watches his best friend get murdered, he enters a deep, punishing depression that lasts about twelve minutes until Frank Fontana from Murphy Brown shows up and lets him ride a $3 million super-motorcycle that shoots lasers.
As Street Hawk, Mach unsubtly inserts himself into situations that require the attention of a man dressed in a full-body leather jumpsuit riding on a turbo motorcycle. There are more of these instances than you would expect. Specifically, thirteen.
This show was on for such a small window, I'm genuinely surprised that I caught bits of it as a child. I remembered the bike. And the laser. And that's about it. And now having watched the complete series...I pretty much remembered all the good parts.
Street Hawk isn't necessarily bad, it's just extraordinarily dated. I could easily see the show being the cat's meow for the kids into high-tech '80s awesomeness back in the day, but resurrecting it for a contemporary DVD release does the series few favors. Granted, it only ran for a handful of episodes so it wasn't given a chance to discover its footing, but the sampling that made it out of the gate brings an assortment of flat plotlines (Someone's messing around the horse stables! A rock star is involved in a murder case! The neighborhood watch helps Street Hawk battle gold thieves!) and a frustratingly limited arsenal of bad-ass super motorcycle action moves.
That's what it all comes down to, anyway -- the motorcycle. Who tuned into Airwolf to watch Stringfellow Hawk play another somber melody on his cello? Who watched Knight Rider for the Hoff's nuanced performance? Show us the attack vehicle porn!
Unfortunately, Street Hawk is hamstrung with some unimpressive perks:
Particle beam
It sounds awesome, but it wasn't used nearly enough. Plus the engineering didn't make any sense. The laser had two settings: one could stun a human being and the other could vaporize a ten-ton truck. Better be careful with the slider switch Mach, or you'll have a mountain of charred bystander corpses to turbo-jump over.
Turbo jump
It's not called "turbo jump," but I'm too lazy to find out the real name. Basically, the motorcycle can propel itself up with thrusters and fly over whatever obstacle the production designer decided to stick in its way that episode.
Ultra speed
Street Hawk can zoom up to 300 miles per hour, which on a motorcycle has to lead to some kind of violation of a human being's physiological nature, right? Like the G-Forces would turn Jesse's spleen to jelly or something.
The helmet
To ensure that he doesn't bisect an unlucky homeless man while doing 300, Jesse wears a high-tech helmet that gives him zoom capabilities (1.5x magnification!) and some other sexy things that show up on a pea-soup green HUD.
The rubber bullets
Easily, the lamest of Street Hawk's weapons, Jesse's sidearm fires rubber balls at enemies. Terrible for defeating strong opponents, but handy on the playground!
One last thing. For an obscure show that ran for a baker's dozen, Street Hawk managed to land a large number of proto-stars: George Clooney, Dennis Franz, Joanna Kearns, and Christopher Lloyd. Clooney wins the Best Guest Star award, for his turn as Jesse's best friend whose idea of hard partying is air hockey, arm wrestling, and bumper cars.
The DVDs: dated full frame (with a nostalgic feel), 2.0 stereo and a nifty retrospective with Rex Smith and others talking about the series.
It wasn't around long, but Street Hawk still made an impression. A rather dopey impression, sure, but fun nonetheless.
Not Guilty. Just keep that particle beam on stun, okay?
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By Gwen CornwellRemember When
April 16, 2014 | Volume 101 / Number 16
This is for those gracious readers who noticed I did not have an article in last week's issue. I honestly tried. I was out of town, took my laptop with me, had to call my son to figure out how to access the motel internet, thought I sent my article to Jim, and found out technology beat me again.
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i don't think casey had any problems with anyone in the paddock , those were the only ones that made it worthwhile , its the fans and establishment he could stomach i think.
he still loved riding the bikes but if you ever took good notice of the whole picture you will find that everytime he found good harmony with his bikes and tyres the rules would change and stuff up his fun , it happened all through his top class career beginning in 2008 after winning too many races by miles in 07 , dorna couldn't let that go on.
there are no tyres changes this year for the first time since the sole supplier took over and casey just happens to be gone.stoner is a worker , he rides to win for his team and brand , which is why he never showed emotion after winning , the others race for glory and celebrate a win with fanfare , stoner was one of a kind in every way.


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Having established themselves as storytellers for adults, some well-known authors have made the switch to preschoolers, with picture books designed for adults to read aloud.
Interesting stories are the surest way for preschoolers to develop an early thirst for books and pick up some lessons about life. Sometimes the moral of the story is obvious, but other times the author is more subtle. Francis Chan (best known for Crazy Love), illustrates the importance of following the "owner's manual" (the Bible) in The Big Red Tractor. Ronnie Wilson's Gift makes the point that people are more important than possessions. In Halfway Herbert, the title character learns to give his full effort to life's challenges.
Famed football coach and TV sports commentator Tony Dungy pictures himself and his younger brother in the quest for finding a life calling in You Can Do It!
Eric Metaxas has made some big splashes with adults through Amazing Grace, his William Wilberforce biography, and Bonhoeffer. But he also has written historical fiction for preschoolers, notably Squanto and the Miracle of Thanksgiving, about the Native American who helped the Pilgrims survive the early years in Plymouth.
Max Lucado reinforces the theme of God's love with his picture book, Because I Love You, and explores our uniqueness in God's image in You Are Special.
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Why Do "They" Want To Limit Our Sovereignty In Our Own Currency?
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One of the most emotional issues in American politics is the sovereignty of the United States itself, and its independence from foreign powers, interests, other nations and their ruling elites, and emerging globalizing elites who place their own interests against the nation interest of America and its people. The issues of fiscal sustainability and fiscal responsibility should be discussed from the viewpoint of our national interest, not from the viewpoint of abstract financial ratios, or supposedly critical indicators that generate a lot of sound and fury signifying nothing.
When we look at fiscal policy in the United States from the viewpoint of our national interest, among the first things we must consider is maintaining the national sovereignty of the United States. Most Americans want the United States to remain autonomous and independent, and to not be subject to the economic control of any foreign power, whether another nation, an international organization, or an international political grouping of a more informal character.
This desire is a constant throughout our history and it is the basis for the relative unpopularity of the United Nations here. A very important dimension of our national sovereignty is sovereignty in our own currency. The Constitution gives Congress authority: "To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures." That authority, through interpretation by the Supreme Court over the years, has come to mean that it is constitutional for Congress to cause the issuance of fiat money, whose value may be regulated by the government, at will in order to serve the public purpose.
Today the Federal Reserve Bank interprets the power to "print money," as the power to "mark up" accounts in the banking system by computer, in the process of augmenting the money supply or in implementing spending by the Treasury. There is no limit on the power of the Government to create money this way, provided that Congress doesn't set such limits itself.
In addition, to its unlimited power to create fiat money, the United States also has a constitutional obligation that is worth mentioning when talking about economic sovereignty, since the classical notion of sovereignty is also related to obligation. Section 4 of the 14th Amendment states:
". . . .the validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law... shall not be questioned."
Of course, constitutionally, the Government can only spend what Congress has appropriated; but, beyond that, there are other constraints that Congress has set for the Government which are not mandated by the Constitution, and which limit the degree of economic sovereignty of the Government. Here are three:
-- the Treasury is not allowed to run a negative balance at the Federal Reserve,
-- the Treasury must issue debt when it expects to deficit spend, and
-- the Treasury cannot issue debt beyond the statutory debt limit,
The first two constrain the Government by forcing it to remove money from the non-Government sector before it can deficit spend; even when Congress has already appropriated the deficit spending. The last constraint is intended to impose an arbitrary limit on deficit spending by bringing it to a halt, even after it has been appropriated. Its purpose right now seems to be to provide periodic and very public opportunities for political kabuki theater during which the two parties can express their core political values as they apply to fiscal policy, while they dismantle the heritage of the New Deal.
The kabuki opportunities carry a very high cost, however, since the constraints making them possible:
-- cause Government shutdown crises,
-- sometimes create doubt that the Government will voluntarily become insolvent and fail to meet its obligations, and most important of all,
-- are responsible for the existence of the National Debt of $14 Trillion, and for the "welfare" for the rich and foreign nations paid to them every year in the form of interest on Treasury securities, which, except for the Congressional requirement to issue debt, the Government would never have to pay.
Why does the Congress limit the fiscal flexibility of the Government, including its own flexibility, with constraints like the three above?
Why are some in Congress trying to get a balanced budget amendment passed to further limit flexibility in Government spending and fiscal policy?
Why do many in all three branches want to limit the monetary power of the Federal Government and its potential for helping America achieve in public purposes?
Why, in short, are so many politicians so much in favor of limiting the currency and fiscal sovereignty of the United States?
Why are we letting them do it?
Why aren't we as protective about our currency/fiscal sovereignty, as we are about other aspects of sovereignty, such as our territorial integrity, and our political independence?
Before I try to answer these questions, I'll review what fiscal/monetary sovereignty is.
What It means To be Sovereign In Your Own Currency
Deficit hawks in the United States envision a day when the United States Government will go broke, unless we curb government spending on entitlements. Well, governments can go broke in the sense that they can run out of money they need to pay their debts. But not all governments. Only Governments:
-- whose monetary systems are commodity-based, such as those on the gold standard; or
-- those using fiat money, whose official fiat currency is issued by supra-ordinate authorities, or
-- those who owe debts in a fiat currency issued by another governmental authority,
can all "go broke," involuntarily.
Governments issuing their own fiat currency, subordinate to no higher authority, and owing no debt to anyone else in a currency other than their own, can never "go broke," or put another way, become insolvent, due to events in financial markets, or decisions made by other nations. This is true, because all they need to do to spend money is to issue credits to non-government sector accounts in banks, and all they need to do to pay back other Governments who have lent them their own currency, is to credit the accounts of the lender Governments in that currency, an action which they have full authority to do, absent any political constraint they may have placed on themselves preventing them from exercising their full monetary sovereignty.
We call such Governments "sovereign" in their own currency. And because they have this kind of sovereignty, they also have flexibility to facilitate economic activity to accomplish public purposes that Governments without that kind of sovereignty don't have. But with that fiscal flexibility also comes fiscal responsibility – the responsibility to use the operationally unlimited spending power of an economically sovereign government to use that spending power for public purpose and not for private gain.
One of the Governments that fit these criteria and so can never go broke is the US Federal Government. Other common examples are Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada, and the UK. Governments that don't fit these criteria and that can go broke include the nations of the EU, such as Greece, Portugal, Spain, and Italy. Even France and Germany can go broke, since they no longer issue their own currency. Other examples include all those developing nations with loans from the IMF, the World Bank, and other international authorities that must be paid back in US Dollars, or any other currencies they cannot issue; as well as state, local, provincial, and other governments subordinate to a super-ordinate currency-issuing authority such as California.
Most governments that are sovereign in their own currency haven't been fiscally responsible in a very long time. While some have performed better than others in seeking and achieving public purposes, most have continued to act as if they are constrained by the gold standard, and have attempted to either reduce spending at the expense of the less well off, or to fail to pursue programs for full employment, or to fail to make enough investments that will fulfill other pubic purposes. In most of these cases, deficit hawkism and specifically the desire to either reduce deficits, or to balance budgets, has trumped the desire to fulfill public purposes.
In short, governments sovereign in their own currencies have been acting like governments on the gold standard, or those who owe debts in currencies they don't issue. They have been acting in a fiscally irresponsible way given their fiat monetary systems, while at the same time claiming to be fiscally responsible. They can get away with this, because very few people make the distinction between governments sovereign in their own currency and governments that are not. And even fewer go on to recognize that what may be fiscally responsible for gold standard governments, or governments that are not economically sovereign, is most certainly fiscally irresponsible for economically sovereign Governments.
In systems where governments are economically sovereign like the United States, it is a big mistake to measure how well the nation is doing fiscally by using deficit, the national debt, or debt-to-GDP ratios. That mistake is one the United States and most other nations with monetary sovereignty are making right now.
Those measures, in fact, are the wrong things to measure. The government is a scorekeeper that can always credit accounts when it needs to spend or pay what it owes, or even set interest rates by flooding the market with reserves and driving short-term interest rates down to near zero. In such systems, the money is always there for the non-governmental sector, not in the sense that the government has accumulated some physical stock of it, but in the sense that the Government can always spend or pay back by crediting accounts, regardless of any physical stock it may have.
In such systems, fiscal responsibility is not about what the Government has accumulated either in debt or in surpluses, since given its unlimited ability to create new currency, these neither constrain nor support its further ability to spend What it is about, however, is the Government's success in spending on worthwhile things that produce actual value, rather than spending on worthless outcomes.
Why Are We Self-limiting Our Currency Sovereignty?
There are a few contributing reasons. First, most Americans don't understand that the power of Government to help the economy to recover from recessions and to achieve full employment, is dependent on the ability of the Government to deficit spend and to add net financial resources to the private sector. To the extent that the ability to deficit spend is limited by fiscal rules, the fiscal sovereignty of Government is impaired, diluted, or, in the case of balanced budget amendments like the one gathering steam in Congress, largely destroyed.
Second, most Americans don't understand that deficit spending and the resulting deficits and debts, carry no solvency risk. They view the US Government as an analogue to a household, and they think that, like a household, the Government cannot spend more than the revenue it raises through taxing or borrowing without risking insolvency, and that the more it borrows, the more it will need to borrow and the less its ability to borrow will be. Of course, the Government is different from a household in many ways, but most importantly, in that: all money in the United States ultimately derives from Government-issued money, and the Government, of course, can always add more money to the private sector if it chooses to do so.
Third, most Americans don't understand that every dollar of Federal deficit spending adds a dollar of net financial assets to the non-Government sector of the economy. The asset can be base money, if the Treasury is allowed to spend without issuing debt, as it sometimes has been, or it can be in Treasury securities if it is required to continue debt issuance. Many think that when Government deficit spends it impoverishes the private sector, because it competes with it for resources. But this is clearly not the case, when there is an output gap and much of our productive capacity is unused.
Fourth, most Americans don't understand that global elites and corporations don't want the United States to retain its currency/fiscal sovereignty, because they make more risk—free money if the Government's currency power is constrained, and if we must buy/"borrow" our previously created USD, rather than make more. So, long as we issue debt instruments rather than just issue currency, they have a risk--free place to put the money they've previously acquired, and get an interest return besides. Over the next 15 years, the interest paid on the debt will be roughly $12 Trillion. If the Government can and does use its full currency sovereignty, and deficit spends, without issuing further debt, then the global elites can say goodbye to that money.
Fifth, global elites recognize that if Governments use their power to create currency to benefit any other groups other than the global elites themselves, then that potentially harms the elites and makes their USD holdings worth less. Perhaps not immediately, because demand is slack and businesses will try to increase production rather than raise prices for their valued goods. But, eventually when full employment is reached, they fully expect that either the need to regulate inflation will subject them to increased taxes, or, alternatively, the occurrence of inflation will cause the de-evaluation of their own money and Treasury Securities.
Issues about governments sovereign in their own currencies, as well as others having to do with fiscal sustainability and fiscal responsibility have been addressed at the Fiscal Sustainability Teach-In Counter-Conference last April 28th. It provides the answers to the continuing attempts of the deficit hawks and austerity mongers to orchestrate and implement a political process that will result in transferring more wealth from the middle class and the poor to the very well-off and the corporations, and that has already resulted in the failure of many nations, including our own, to end the sufferings of the unemployed and others victimized by the wholly avoidable crash of 2008.
The primary anti-deficit hawk message of the Teach-In was this: Since the United States Government is sovereign in its own currency: We. Are. Not. Running. Out. Of. Money. The. Money. Was. There. All. Along. The. Money. Is. There. Now. The. Money. Will. Be. There. Tomorrow. And. It. Will. Be. There. For. Our. Children. And. Our. Grandchildren. Too.
This is a message that needs to be sent to Congress, to the President, and to Republican budget-cutters like Paul Ryan, Jon Kyl, Mike Pence, and all the tea party folk, whose "pay off the national debt by cutting spending and taxing to get a surplus," austerity nonsense, will ruin the United States, and create the second great depression, if we go along with it. We must not forget that every dollar less of deficit spending translates to at least a dollar subtracted from the dollars available to the non-Government sector, and the amount may well be more than a dollar if the dollar less is in a high fiscal multiplier segment of the economy. The attempts by budget-cutters to cut high-multiplier deficit spending will accelerate the downward spiral of the macro-economy, especially as compared with the impact that increased taxes on the wealthy may have had.
Finally, I have to wonder why the very legislators who are always so quick to wrap themselves in The American Flag, are also the ones who are quickest to put forward and implement fiscal rules that will constrain American currency sovereignty and subject the best interests of the American people and the public purposes of the United States to the interests of globalizing elites, foreign Governments like China, Japan, Middle east oil exporting nations, the Eurozone, Wall Street, the bond markets, and the wealthy like themselves. The fiscal rules Congresspersons have implemented and new ones they are seeking to implement to force the nation to pay off the national debt through economic surpluses, have the effect of subordinating the national interest, which they are elected to uphold, to the interests of multi-national corporations, global elites, and foreign nations.
We must recognize this problem for what it is. It isn't just a technical issue of economics. It's an issue of patriotism. It's an issue of whether our economy will be run for we, the people, or interests both domestic and foreign who place their own needs for more wealth above the interests of most Americans to be able to influence our own economic futures and opportunities.
If you're really worried about your children and your grandchildren, not to mention yourself, then you need to stop the deficit hawks and the deficit doves from destroying the economic sovereignty of the United States with their fiscal rules. You need to insist instead on the freedom and economic independence of the Government from the bond markets and all other elite interests. You need to insist that we act in our own national interest and not in the interest of the global elites. You need to insist that the Government keep its spending/currency creation power intact and use it for the public purpose. You need, in other words, to insist that we remain a Government sovereign in its currency, and to begin to act like one, taking responsibility for the miserable state of the economy within our national borders.
(Cross-posted at All Life Is Problem Solving and Fiscal Sustainability).
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BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) - Nnemkadi Ogwumike had 22 points, nine rebounds and four assists, Toni Kokenis scored 23 points, and No. 2 Stanford capped its third straight unbeaten conference season with an 86-61 victory over rival California on Sunday night.
Chiney Ogwumike added 12 points and 12 rebounds as Stanford (28-1, 18-0 Pac-12) won its 25th in a row overall and eighth straight against the Golden Bears, who came within 74-71 in an overtime loss at Maples Pavilion on Jan. 28 - the Cardinal's closest push in a win all season and lone OT game.
"I really feel people who watch us play would just say, `Hey, they're having a great year,"' coach Tara VanDerveer said. "Our team knows we can play with anyone, we just want the chance."
The Cardinal, who captured the inaugural Pac-12 regular-season crown and the program's 12th straight conference title, ran their winning streak against conference opponents to 75 since losing 57-54 to Cal in Berkeley on Jan. 18, 2009.
Gennifer Brandon scored 11 points and Eliza Pierre had 10 to lead cold-shooting Cal (22-8, 13-5), which couldn't overcome a 19-point halftime deficit and had a four-game winning streak snapped with just the team's third loss in the last 16 games.
"I think we all wanted to win this game but this game doesn't hurt us," Pierre said. "They're a great team. You have to respect them. Are they 25 points better than us? I don't think so."
VanDerveer has called all season for more of her players to get involved on both ends of the floor to take a load off the talented Ogwumike sisters - and the Cardinal's 26th-year coach received several such performances in the regular-season finale.
Kokenis shot 9 for 14 with three 3s and also had six rebounds and four assists. Joslyn Tinkle scored 16 points with two 3s and freshman Bonnie Samuelson hit three first-half 3-pointers on the way to nine points. Stanford went 8 for 20 from long range, with former Stanford stars Jayne Appel and Kayla Pedersen cheering the Cardinal among the crowd of 7,854 at Haas Pavilion. Stanford hasn't lost to a conference opponent since Cal pulled off that win here in 2009.
Stanford was too much for Cal defensively. Layshia Clarendon averaged 19.8 points over her previous four games yet attempted only eight shots Sunday after scoring 17 points in the first meeting with Stanford.
The Cardinal haven't lost since a 68-58 defeat at Connecticut on Nov. 21 and are two victories from matching the longest winning streak in program history. Stanford had 27-game winning streaks in back-to-back seasons: 2009-10 and 2010-11.
"It means a lot to win the Pac-12 and be the first one to win the Pac-12, and to go undefeated. We're not satisfied," Nnemkadi Ogwumike said. "Playing against Cal is always emotional. At this point in time people really need to buy into having fun."
Bears freshman Brittany Boyd scored a career-best 19 points against Stanford the first time out - and it looked like she was headed for another big day early. Boyd had a steal, four rebounds and four points in the opening four minutes, but wound up 1 for 9 in the first half and 3 of 15 overall for eight points after an 8-for-19 performance the last time out against Stanford.
Nnemkadi Ogwumike swatted a shot by Boyd beyond the Stanford bench with 5:21 left in the first half.
Cal shot 1 for 10 from 3-point range, was even on the boards at 41-41 and converted only 10 of 21 free throws to Stanford's 24 for 27 from the line.
Stanford used a 10-0 run late in the first half and held Cal scoreless for 6:15 during that span on the way to a 43-24 lead at the break. The Cardinal finished 18-0 in conference play for the third straight season.
The Pac-12 tournament begins Wednesday at Staples Center in Los Angeles, but Stanford and Cal are the top two seeds and open Thursday. Cal - a likely NCAA tournament team under first-year coach Lindsay Gottlieb - earned the second seed after their fifth 20-win season in six years. The Bears have played a tough schedule and are likely headed for their first NCAA berth since 2009.
"I don't think there's even a question. Would I always feel better to get a couple more wins in the tournament? Absolutely," Gottlieb said. "Hopefully that's not part of the conversation at this point."
The Cardinal began the game 1 for 8 but quickly got in synch from long range. Samuelson knocked down two 3-pointers and Kokenis another as Stanford went ahead 21-11 at the 11:45 mark of the first half, leading to a Cal timeout.
"We got down 4-0 and then we just took off," VanDerveer said.
Stanford, which has reached the last four Final Fours but come home empty since the program's last NCAA title in 1992, has a winning streak of 20 or more games for the fifth straight season. The Cardinal would like to send senior Nnemkadi Ogwumike out with another special March run.
"It's sort of the time you either get with it or you give up," Chiney Ogwumike said. "We really have a challenge ahead of us in the Pac-12 tournament."
The Cardinal are 11-1 on Cal's home court since 2000-01.


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Holiday Open House held at BankWest in Vivian
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Bill Shoop, Vivian, enjoys coffee, cookies and conversation with BankWest employee Terry Severyn Wed., Dec. 19 during the bank's annual holiday open house.
- Lyman Grads proclaim their accomplishment
- Teachers receive raise
- Prairie Futures program guides nontraditional students to nursing degree
- Highway Patrol to Conduct "Move Over" Campaign Friday
- Burglar hits county
- Deadline to file for school board is Friday
- May Day Flowers
- Herald and SUN recognized at Association Convention
- Murder suspect sited in Lyman County, apprehended in Wyoming
- Forum introduces Republican candidates for commission
- Foundation awards $22,000 in 2016.
- 29th annual Band Dinners


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Review on Marco Pierre White, The Horse & Groom Inn
Fronted by a tree-sheltered lawn and surrounded by its own paddock, the sixteenth-century Horse & Groom Inn is currently reaping the benefits of a serious but sympathetic refurbishment and is now part of the Marco Pierre White stable of gastro pubs and restaurants.
The day-to-day cooking is in the capable hands of Mario Masaryk and his team. Locally sourced produce is used to telling effect, and just about everything comes from within a 40-mile radius of the pub. The result is a range of modern dishes embracing gastro-pub classics such as Mr Parson's handmade local sausages with mashed potato, kale and red wine gravy or rack of British lamb, oven roasted and served with gratin potatoes, Spring greens and a mint scented jus together with a great selection of platters, suitable for two to share as a starter or a lighter option for a main course.
The Horse & Groom boasts Wiltshire's only 'outside bar', plus a stunning walled garden and children's play area; its reputation for fine hospitality also extends to stylish accommodation for those wanting to stay a while.
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Tax and Spend (and Spend and Spend and Spend...)
Bragg has announced that he will no longer pay income tax and he's encouraging everyone else to join him in the tax boycott. Bragg wants the government in the UK to step in and limit giant bonus payments to execs at the Royal Bank of Scotland, which is scheduled to pay a reported $2.5 billion in bonuses next month, even while politicians are threatening huge cuts in public spending due to the rising national debt.
Gallantly Streaming?
Music industry pundits are predicting that the massive growth of digital downloads may level off this year, not because of return to older formats like CD or vinyl, but to an even more ephemeral delivery system — streaming audio.
Instead of purchasing MP3s, more and more music listeners are content to listen to music stored on other people's servers, migrating in droves to services like Pandora, LastFM, Spotify and LaLa (which was acquired late last year by Apple, another sign of a probable paradigm shift).
Technological advancements are making "on demand" services more attainable, and the industry, which was so seemingly caught off guard by the download revolution, is already looking at ways to capitalize and stay ahead of the curve (which pretty much means subscription fees for currently-free sites are imminent). So now guys at bars who had to shift pick-up lines from "Hey baby, wanna come back to my place and check out my huge record collection" to "I've got a massive iTunes library back at my pad" will now have to develop personalities or come up with new ways to pick up girls. "I've got the Barry White station on Pandora bookmarked," just doesn't have the same seductive ring to it.
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If the campaign succeeds, look for new UK holidays like "Black Sabbath" (Feb. 13, the date Sabbath's debut album came out), "Metallicamas" (Aug. 3, celebrating the birth of Lord Savior, James Hetfield) and the Metal April Fool's Day, March 2, the day Jethro Tull won the first Hard Rock/Metal Grammy award, in 1988. We're also looking forward to employers' responses to "religious dress" (torn jeans and faded concert T-shirt) and "It's my religion/It's against my religion" excuses (no Muzak in the office, mandatory 4:20 p.m. "smoke breaks").
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Sgt. Patrick Weber, Anderson, Ind., truck commander, illustrates the effects of an improvised explosive device that struck his vehicle during a convoy security mission near Mosul, Iraq. The Indiana National Guard Soldier is providing security for logistical supply convoys in northern Iraq. Weber's unit, A Battery, 163rd Field Artillery, is supporting counterinsurgency missions of Operation Iraqi Freedom along with more than 3,000 Soldiers of the Indiana National Guard 76th Infantry Brigade Combat Team.
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The Utah track & field team was named a USTFCCCA All-Academic Team on Thursday.
Aug. 11, 2011
NEW ORLEANS - The University of Utah women's track & field team was recognized as an All-Academic team for the 2010-11 the track & field seasons by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA).
"On behalf of our team, coaching staff, and academic support staff, I am extremely pleased by this honor," head coach Kyle Kepler said. "We have over 40 young women who work extremely hard in the classroom to achieve at the highest level possible. To be one of about half of the women's track and field teams across the country to qualify for this honor is another step forward for this program and everyone who is associated with it.
"I want to thank our team's athletic academic advisor, Rob Rainey, for all of the hard work and dedication he displayed in helping all of our student-athletes achieve at this level."
To qualify for the award, teams must maintain a cumulative GPA of 3.00 or better. The Utes maintained a 3.29 GPA during the 2010-11 academic year while three individuals, Alyssa Abbott, Angela Kaplar and Amanda Mergaert, were named to the USTFCCCA's All-Academic Team.
A total of 164 schools were tapped as USTFCCCA All-Academic teams.
The Utah cross country team begins training for the 2011 season next Tuesday and its first competition will be Saturday, Sept. 3, at the Utah State Open.


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Twenty-five-year-old Brandon Herpurn is accused of abducting his ex-girlfriend at gunpoint as neighbors watched.
When a woman returned to her High Road apartment Wednesday night she found her ex-boyfriend inside and an argument quickly escalated to much more.
Stewart Clendinen, TPD spokesman, said, "She was confronted by an ex-boyfriend who kidnapped her at gunpoint and took off in his vehicle."
According to arrest records, there were several witnesses who watched it all unfold. They say Hepburn even pointed the gun at them and threatened to shoot.
About an hour and a half later, an officer spotted Hepburn's silver Jeep Cherokee in the back parking lot of the Red Roof Inn.
Hepburn now faces armed kidnapping and assault charges as well as weapons charges. He has spent time in prison for robbery and court records show he was out on bond for counterfeiting and bank fraud when this happened.
Police say the woman was shaken up, but not hurt in the ordeal. Hepburn will make his first court appearance Friday.
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Prohibition Era Cocktail Cruise Aboard the Yacht Manhattan
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We really enjoyed this cruise. The boat and the the cocktails were wonderful. It was comfortable and just the right length. Definately recommend.
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The boat is lovely and the scenery is interesting. The day was beautiful, and even though I am not a drinker it was quite enjoyable to sail around the lower part of Manhattan with friends while having a few sips of various 1920's drinks. My...continued
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This was such a great time. The views were amazing, the staff incredibly nice and accommodating and the cocktails were incredibly delicious. Well worth the money and I can't wait to do it again.
Cocktails may vary from cruise to cruise, but examples of typical drinks include:
* Classic Dry Manhattan with a modern spin
* Gin-based cocktail inspired by one of the famous 1920s literary figures of the Round Table of the Algonquin Hotel.
* Whiskey-based Swizzle made with an infused artisan syrup inspired by Bostonian politics
* Vesper, comprised of Vodka, Gin & Lillet
* Speakeasy Classic – a mixed drink inspired by the creations of infamous bartenders of the underground whiskey culture.
1920s attire is encouraged!
Wendy Crispell: Wendy Crispell is a wine professional who specializes in food pairings and the art of taste. She has successfully completed The Master Class at The Artisanal Cheese Center, Kevin Zralys Windows on the World Wine School, The Deutsche Wine Academy, Bordeaux L'Ecole Du Vin & has received both the Intermediate and Advanced Certificate from The Wine & Spirit Educational Trust with honors.
Cruise Route: You will depart from Chelsea piers and travel south bound on the Hudson River. You will see the World Financial District, Ellis Island, Governors Island, The Statue of Liberty. You will then travel North up the East River seeing the Brooklyn Bridge, and Manhattan Bridge.
Paid parking is available at Chelsea Piers.
About the Ticket Supplier: Classic Harbor Line LLC
Built in 1994 in the Scarano Boat Building of Albany, New York, the Schooner Adirondack is an 80-foot wooden replica of a classic turn-of-the-century pilot schooner.
Heading south from Chelsea Piers and down the Hudson River to Battery Park, the Schooner Adirondack passes by Ellis Island and sails out to the Statue of Liberty. Wind and time permitting, she will head toward Governor's Island, breeze by the Financial District and the Brooklyn Bridge on the East River.
The 1920s-style motor yacht "Manhattan," also built by Scarano Boat Building, is brand new to the New York City harbor as of spring 2006. This 80-foot, wood-trimmed, Gilded Era commuter yacht runs full circumnavigations of Manhattan, dinner cruises and sunset cruises, and is available for private charter.


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Tim Burton to Direct 'Big Eyes' with Amy Adams and Christoph Waltz
Tim Burton has lined up his next project, and it's 'Big Eyes,' the long-in-development biography of Margaret and Walter Keane, who painted those big eyed pictures of children. And for his leads he's got Amy Adams and recent Oscar winner Christoph Waltz.
'White House Down' Trailer: Channing Tatum Must Protect President Jamie Foxx
'White House Down' may look a little familiar -- it is the second "'Die Hard' in the White House" movie of 2013 -- but it's also the bigger budget summer blockbuster version. Channing Tatum and Jamie Foxx star in this Roland Emmerich summer extravaganza, and they waited until just after 'Olympus has Fallen' was released to debut their trailer.
'Beauty and the Beast' to be Reimagined as 'The Beast'
The classic Walt Disney animated films have become ripe fodder for big budget live action remakes. They've already updated 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs' twice, they've filmed a new version of 'Sleeping Beauty' ('Maleficent'), and are working on a re-imaging of 'Cinderella.' But they're far from done mining these classics, as Disney is now looking to do a new gritty version of 'Beauty and the Beast,' called 'The Beast.'
'Oz: The Great and Powerful 2′ — Disney Is Already Prepping a Sequel
When it comes to tentpole studio releases, there's a pressure to get the next one made two or three years after the first, simply so the brand is still in people's heads. The best way to get a jump on that is to start prepping the sequel before the first film is released, and because (at least with these films) the script is often the cheapest part, it's no surprise that Disney has already commissioned someone to pen a sequel to 'Oz: The Great and Powerful.'
'After Earth' Trailer: Jaden and Will Smith Face Off Against Apes and Aliens
A crash landing leaves teenager Kitai Raige and his legendary father Cypher stranded on Earth, 1,000 years after cataclysmic events forced humanity's escape. With Cypher critically injured, Kitai must embark on a perilous journey to signal for help.
Emma Watson Could Slip into 'Cinderella'
Today is a good day for the former cast-mates of 'Harry Potter' as not only is Daniel Radcliffe signing up for 'Frankenstein,' while Emma Watson is now in early talks for 'Cinderella,' which will be directed by her 'Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets' co-star Kenneth Branagh.
'The Hobbit: There and Back Again' Gets Pushed to December 2014
When it was announced that 'The Hobbit' would be turned from two films into three, it seemed possible that Warner Brothers and Peter Jackson could kill themselves trying to deliver an additional three hour movie only seven months after the release of the second. So it's not a big surprise that 'The Hobbit: There and Back Again' has been pushed from July 18 to December 13, 2014.
'Star Wars' Rumor: 'Knights of the Old Republic' Film Could be in the Works
Though we're still waiting for actual casting announcements for 'Star Wars: Episode 7,' another big aspect of the new Disney-run Lucasfilm is the idea of multiple 'Star Wars' films a year. And though we've heard about spin-off movies for some of the characters, the latest rumor is that the popular 'Star Wars' video game 'Knights of the Old Republic' may be brought to the big screen.
'Stoker' Featurette: Nicole Kidman's Family is a Little Unhinged
Often the early months of the year offer few good movies, which made us nervous about Park Chan-wook's 'Stoker.' It's due out in a couple weeks, but word out of Sundance and other screenings has been great (we rather liked it ourselves). Now there's a featurette that talks about the film's Southern Gothic flavor.
'X-Men: Days of Future Past' Gets 'Game of Thrones' Peter Dinklage
Bryan Singer has been very active on Twitter, and has been using the platform to give scoops that normally would come from the trades. Today he's revealed that he's just cast Peter Dinklage in 'X-Men: Days of Future Past.'


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Well thanks to Alan Lee, we managed to turn up to this game with 16 players. In the changing room before hand we decided on positions. We had a proper, first choice front 5 in Kyle, Akers, Big Matt, Dan and Adder. Nate, usually lock or 6, stepped up to play 8, and Joe & I moved from the back line into 7 & 6 respectively. James moved from the wing to 9, and Sam and Weg were join by Callum 13. JP & Paul W made up the back three with Stevie G.
The front five performed superbly throughout the game. Our scrums were always solid, and often had the opposition pack going back at a rate of knots. Even when we lost a few against the head on the put in, the front five as often as not then just pushed Stamford off the ball. It was an impressive display, well done lads. In the lineout Joe went up against the opposition ball and caused them all sorts of bother stealing at least 50% (at a guess) and maybe more. Our own line was secure pretty much the entire game. In the loose Joe was fantastic. He threw himself on every loose ball, despite the pitch being like a concrete car park, and tackled well. The backs combined well for the most part. Occasionally things got a bit congested, and I'd guess that was just a little bit of unfamiliarity, and understandable exuberance.
I would guess we went about 20-25 minutes with no score and the game fairly finely balanced, until we finally broke the dead lock with Sam James running in a well worked try. We scored another when James had nailed their 8 off the back of a scrum, and from there Nate swiped the ball. As he went into contact our blindside flanker took the ball whilst we were still going forward, and popped in to Kyle, who fed Sam. Sam ran right up to the opposition line and drew two players to pop to Weg who took another two over with him. A great team try.
I'm afraid I can't remember who scored the other try in the first half, so can someone else fill that bit in? Thanks
Second half continued the same as the first with us dominating the set pieces. Stamford then dealt themselves a big blow when their No.7 decided to viciously stamp on JP. That saw his came cut short. Kyle had taken exception to it, despite Weg's best efforts to stop him, and had a short break himself but just for 10.
In the meantime, the game continued in a similar vein to the first half, with Callum making several great breaks, and Paul Warman, Weg, & Sam linking well to create some great breaks both sides of the break. In the second half Big Matt found his mo-jo and went on one bulloching run which saw him knock over no less than SIX opposition players, one player flying back literally 4-5 yards before he hit the deck. I think many of us thought he might go all the way, but it was not to be. Great to see him back to the form he showed at the end of last season. The first of our two tries came from good work by the whole team getting us up the pitch, and then James duck, diving, bobbing, and weaving his way to the line. Straight from the ensuing kick off our aged flanker caught the ball and ran it back feeding to Weg on halfway who took 3-4 strides before putting a great inside pop to Callum who ran the remainder of the pitch to score.
We should have scored 2 or 3 more but poor handling denied us, but fair play to Stamford. Despite the enevitablitity of the result they opted for a tap penalty in the last minute and after 2 phases went over in the far corner. The conversion attempt went wide, and the game was done.
We did the decent thing with the Stamford player who had seen red, and saved them having one less available player for their last two games, and the ref having to do a whole load of paperwork, so the game ended well enough for all concerned.
Well played to everyone who played. Everyone put in 100%, the front five were awesome, and Joe really performed well at 7. Well played to Callum, and let's hope we see plenty more of him in the future !!
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About 20 years ago, the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens presented one of the first public exhibitions of video games, placing the violent first-person shooter "Doom" next to the point-and-click island adventure game "Myst."
Today, a new exhibit at the museum paints a far more vivid picture of the video games landscape.
"Indie Essentials: 25 Must-Play Video Games" (which opens this weekend and continues through March 2, 2014) surveys the thriving community of independent game designers that has assembled over a dozen years. Featuring a wide variety of formats that illustrate the endless range of possibilities that define contemporary video games made outside the commercial realm, the exhibit makes a strong case for video games as the most significant postmodern art form to undergo major evolution during the 21st century.
While often discussed in terms of its relationship to cinema, gaming has reached a point where it has no organic connection to any single precedent. It's an art form on its own terms.
This is old news to some people. Gamers who have kept up with these changes may have already encountered several of the titles in the museum's exhibit, which was arranged by the museum's associate digital media curator Jason Eppink with organizers of the IndieCade East festival, a festival of independent games that most recently last took place at the museum in February of this year.
Around half the games featured in the exhibit were previously featured at IndieCade, where they won awards. Others were selected based on widespread acclaim for their impact on discussions about the medium's expansive possibilities.
"I think painting had an era where there was a lot of exciting stuff happening with it," said IndieCade East Chair Aaron Isaksen at the museum earlier this week. "Now is that kind of time for games."
IndieCade CEO Stephanie Barish echoed the sentiment. "The outside world is starting to recognize how meaningful and important these games are," she said. "We're a very young industry. The distinctions between things like blockbusters and independents are just starting to emerge. But we're trying to be part of helping people understand that there is an independent movement. That's something this exhibit is fantastic for doing."
The timing of the exhibit is especially serendipitous, arriving when mainstream gaming is especially ubiquitous. This year's most popular release, Rockstar Games' "Grand Theft Auto V," made $800 million in worldwide sales during the first day of its release.
While far fewer gamers may know about acclaimed indies like "Flower," in which gamers play as a piece of pollen on a journey to full bloom, and "Braid," a side-scrolling puzzle adventure that allows the player to move backward in time, they're well-positioned to discover them.
"I know we're not competing with the triple-A titles, because their distribution channels are very different," said Eppink, who got involved with the indie scene when he started developing mobile games in 2002. "They're huge companies with massive marketing budgets delivering a specific type of product. But there's a lot of room for other types of products. It's OK if these games don't sell as many products as 'Grand Theft Auto.'"
However, he added that the experience that some players may have with a mainstream game could work to the advantage of the indie scene. "As more people play games like 'Grand Theft Auto,' and they want something new, they start looking on the fringes, and they find these sort of games that are being created," he said. "So I'm perfectly happy to have 'Grand Theft Auto' be a blockbuster and create more players."
Indeed, playing through the startlingly vast world of "Grand Theft Auto V" — as I have over the past several months, and remain slightly less than halfway done with the main storyline, without exploring much outside of it — provides a distinct immersion into the incredible possibilities of mass market gaming today. The so-called "sandbox" (the space in which the game takes place), the fictional city of Los Santos, is twice as large as the setting of the previous game. It can often take 10 or 15 minutes to travel between various locations, while the story unfolds in a vast novelistic fashion spread across the experience of three criminals from diverse socioeconomic backgrounds.
Though it has always involved certain crass elements, "Grand Theft Auto" does provide a global showcase for gaming unlike any other. One might complain about the moral ramifications of a series that encourages players to partake in criminal antics, but the reality is that the context of the gaming experience makes all the difference: Forcing your character to do something bad doesn't mean you have to identify with it. This player-character relationship is unique to the gaming process -- but it takes on far subtler dimensions in the countless sophisticated indie games that have been produced outside of marketplace constraints.