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Morning Light
Morning light skims the pitcher and basin in an the Spanish Colony House in Centennial Village in Greeley, CO
That Old Feeling
The interior of a deserted homestead farm house in the grasslands of north eastern Colorado.
Epiphany Arts
Standing next to the St Francis de Asis church in Taos, NM is the Epiphany Arts store where one can purchase religeous art articles created by local artists.
An old Ford truck waits in the rain on the historic Trevarton Ranch near Estes Park, Colorado
An adobe house in Taos, NM. lies abandoned and deteriorating.
Virginia Dale Grave
A lone Rabbitbrush plant lends color to a turn of the century grave in the historic Virginia Dale Cemetery in Northern colorado.
Jack Slade's Window
The infamous gunslinger Jack Slade founded Virginia Dale, Colorado. His cabin still stands on it's original site.
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The Virginia Dale Church built by area ranchers in Northern Colorado around the turn of the century was destroyed by fire. The historical society has rebuilt it.
Lone Tree School
Built in 1893 Southwest of Loveland, Colorado, Lone Tree School was moved to it's current site in North Lkae Park where it has been restored and is used to teach local history to children.
Paul's Bar
An example of Spanish architecture Paul's bar is in Taos, New Mexico
Music Room, Stevens House
Mr & Ms Stevens, prominent attorneys who practiced water law built this house in Greeley, Colorado in the early 1900's.
The Back Porch
Grace and Beauty
The storage shed at the Timberlane Farm Museum, Loveland, CO
Spring-Sandstone Ranch
Morse Coffin, a St. Vrain Valley pioneer, first homesteaded the Sandstone Ranch site in 1860. Coffin came to the St. Vrain Valley when he was 22 in 1859, from Boon's County, Illinois as part of the Gold Rush. He built the house that currently stands on the site in the early 1880s. The house has been added to over the years, but the original structure still remains. Coffin also founded the first rural public school with David Irwin and Robert Hauck. The house (current Visitors Center) and property are on State and National Historic Registers. Longmont also designated the house as a local landmark in September 2000.
The Broom Room
The broom Room where prisoners made brooms is located in the Wyoming Territorial Prison in Laramie Wyoming. The prison was constructed in 1872, running as a Territorial Prison until 1890 when Wyoming became a state. In 1890, the facility was reorganized as the Wyoming State Penitentiary. For 30 years, the building held notorious outlaws like Butch Cassidy, Dan Parker, Clark "the Kid" Pelton, and Ellijah Canary. Over 1,000 men and 12 women of various nationalities, religious backgrounds and occupations passed through the iron grate doors.

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In the 1950s, Hollywood was focused upon big genre blockbusters, with astronomical budgets shot in exotic locales, and where directing and acting took a back seat to set design and costuming. At the end of that decade, a group of filmmakers in France revolted against this style, and took film back to its basics: with stories based on real life, shot in real places, and with shaky, hand-held cameras. The French New Wave, as they came to be known, made films for a fraction of the budget of Hollywood blockbusters, but they changed the world of cinema forever.
Fifty years later, after a summer dominated by expensive genre films created by computer programmers and special effects maestros, like The Incredible Hulk and The Dark Knight, an American filmmaker has rejected this excessive style: Darren Aronofsky has made a loud statement with his film The Wrestler, just as Godard did in 1959. The power of the film, screened at the Toronto International Film Festival, is in its simplicity: while other modern films start with explosions or costumed crimefighters, this one begins by showing us what appears to be a young, jacked-up muscle man from behind, sitting on a chair. But when the camera spins around to show us his face, we are shocked to see that it is wrinkled and tired. And there begins the story of Randy "The Ram" Robinson, a wrestler in his 50s with a roided-up body to make him seem like he's 30. It is the story of a man who has a choice between living in the illusory world of wrestling and living in the real world -- or to use wrestling terminology, between living a "work" or a "shoot" -- and the constant struggle he has between those two worlds.
The Ram comes to life thanks to the brilliant performance by veteran actor Mickey Rourke. Rourke actually gets in the ring and executes a number of very difficult wrestling maneuvers, including an off-the top turnbuckle head-scissors takedown. A former boxer, Rourke decided to train as a wrestler for this film, going to the school of wrestling legend Wild Samoan Afa's wrestling school in Pennsylvania for a number of months. As anyone who has ever survived Afa's wrestling school will tell you, it is like going to hell and back, if your body can withstand the punishment. Rourke did not wish to be an armchair critic of the pain that wrestlers must endure: he experienced it first hand, spending a few nights in the hospital due to injuries sustained during his wrestling training. Add to this Rourke's own mastery of playing outsiders and anti-heroes, and you have nothing less than an Oscar-worthy performance. If he is denied it, then the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is as fixed as a pro wrestling match; they have a choice this year of rewarding Rourke, who battled his own demons and ultimately defeated them to engage in one of the greatest performances ever seen in American cinema, or the overrated Heath Ledger from an overhyped CGI film wearing clown makeup who decided to throw in the towel against his demons and take the easy way out.
Also memorable in roles are Ernest "The Cat" Miller, who appears in the film only briefly, but steals every scene he's in, calling into question the wisdom of wrestling owners who banished him from their shows; and Dylan Keith Summers, known to the most hardcore of wrestling fans as "The Necro Butcher." As much as Beyond the Mat immortalized Mick Foley, The Wrestler has instantly immortalized The Necro Butcher, an American wrestler whose style involves him doing real damage to his body in the ring, like having his opponents really fire staples into his skin via a staple gun. Some film critics thought that he was invented for the film -- they couldn't believe that he was for real. Because of his vicious style, none of the mainstream wrestling companies have hired him to date, and he might have only been remembered by the most hardcore of wrestling fans, were it not for The Wrestler. It is ironic that it is Hollywood that has given him the credit he so rightly deserves. Fans of wrestling will also recognize many other cameo appearances from stars of Ring of Honor and Combat Zone Wrestling. It pays tribute to them, their athleticism, their fraternity, and the tenderness they show to their fans. Long dismissed by the mainstream media and Hollywood, The Wrestler recognizes that they are real American heroes. Wrestlers are not monsters here.
Amidst these three fantastic portrayals, one might think that Marisa Tomei might be overshadowed, but her role as a stripper and love interest of The Ram is powerfully portrayed. Tomei does the impossible: she takes the role that would have easily been interpreted as something seedy and questionable, and turns it into a role of a female savior. It is no accident that her character praises The Passion of the Christ to the Ram, as Tomei makes her role akin to Mary Magdalene.
At the same time, this film is not a Ready to Rumble lovefest. Screenwriter Robert Siegel deserves much credit for writing The Wrestler, leading to it becoming the best film ever made about professional wrestling. His script also calls into question some of the risks wrestlers take in terms of their physical well being, and the low payoffs they receive from promoters in return for sacrificing their health for them. Researching even the phenomenon of wrestling conventions, in one of the film's most touching scenes, we see old wrestlers sitting at tables hawking their 30-year-old t-shirts and photos of them in their youth. No one visits their tables, and they sit alone in wheelchairs, falling asleep, with wrestling fans flocking to younger wrestlers instead. We see The Ram at his table, still remembered by some fans, who buy his merchandise, while the older wrestlers look on sadly, like dogs at the pound begging to be picked up before being put to sleep. The film then cuts to The Ram, his eyes looking at them as a harbinger of his own future.
No film's component parts can shine unless a master auteur is at the helm, and Aronofsky reveals himself to be worthy of that title. He has not abandoned the visionary power witnessed in Pi and The Fountain: he is as uncompromising as ever, and that takes The Wrestler beyond the category of a merely great film to that of an "Instant Classic," to quote TNA wrestler Christian Cage's catchphrase. It takes a while for the rest of the world to catch up with the wisdom of a genius, and it his critics that have had to eat crow and finally appreciate his filmmaking style. Aronofsky deserves an Oscar for his direction.
He inoculates the film with a passion and energy that makes it awe-inspiring without allowing it to be held hostage by CGI. Everything about this film is real. His camera does the talking and shows us the world through The Ram's eyes. One of these brilliant visual touches occurs when The Ram retires from the world of wrestling to take a job as a butcher in a grocery store. On his first day, Aronofsky's camera tracks him from the grocery dressing room through the long corridors of the warehouse, until he finally steps through the curtains to appear in front of the public; the exact same shot is shown earlier in the film when The Ram is walking to the ring. The Ram is doomed to see the world only through wrestling terms.
Other than his visual style, Aronofsky's most important tool at his disposal in this film is his choice of music. It opens with the rousing '80s Quiet Riot metal anthem, Metal Health, which becomes the theme music of The Ram. Other '80s heavy metal classics, like Balls to the Walls, are also played in the film, mostly used as theme music for the wrestlers, reminiscent of Paul Heyman's use of loud, alternative music for his wrestlers in the original incarnation of ECW. After all that loud music, Aronofsky ends the film with the quiet, elegaic song The Wrestler, written and performed by Bruce Springsteen, specifically for the film.
Like a French New Wave film, the tone of this film is not meant to be a happy one. The Ram chooses to ignore the reality of his situation and overstay his welcome in the imagined world of piledrivers and dropkicks. His daughter (Evan Rachel Wood), his girlfriend, and a medical doctor try to steer him off that path. But The Ram opts for oblivion over salvation. And the sad thing is that this is not simple fiction. There are many Rams in the world of professional wrestling, and unfortunately they outnumber The Rocks. While some would have us forget who they are and erase their existence from their shows and official histories, The Wrestler tells their stories, and forces the world to pay attention to them. This is not a romanticized Chariots of Fire, but instead, to quote Alan Moore, about men who are "Chariots of Wrath, by demons driven."
FILM NOTE: The Wrestler screens one more time at the Toronto International Film Festival, on Saturday, September 13, at 9 a.m. Further details are here. It next screens at the New York Film Festival on October 12. It has been picked up for distribution in the U.S. by Fox Searchlight and is expected to be given wide release in December.
EDITOR'S NOTE: Our writer, Ranjan Chhibber, sat down with Darren Aronofsky and Mickey Rourke for an interview earlier this week. Watch for that story next Tuesday. Be warned -- Aronofsky and Rourke do not hold back!


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The ol' grey lady reports on automakers' Technical Service Bulletins (TSBs), those handy missives sent to dealers (and the NHTSA) to inform service folk of problems auto shops see in its vehicles. What's great about TSBs is consumers can view them via NHTSA's TSB search tool. Though, in highlighting this service, Scott Sturgis of the New York Times either inadvertently (or quite vertently) extends his hand too far in Honda's direction. While Sturgis...
...remained even-spoken in his description of service bulletins for BMW, Buick, Chevrolet, Ford, etc...when it comes to Honda, out come the smooches. His description starts as such:
"Though Hondas are known for trouble-free operation, there are exceptions..."
Yes, well the same holds true for many Buick, BMW, Chevy and Ford models with similar trouble-free operation, despite a few noted exceptions. Let's throw the Honda Accord and Ford Fusion down the gullet of NHTSA's TSB search tool and see what comes out the other end:
Honda Accord: 7 TSB results
Ford Fusion: 3 TSB results
Obviously TSBs can't determine what constitutes "trouble-free operation," but automakers — whether Japanese, American, German or even Swedish — have all improved reliability and increased mean time between failure (with the exception of Chery — who admit some "quality issues"). Is the Times falling back on old stereotypes to advance an argument when, as is the case here, one need not be made? We're just asking.
Service Bulletins Can Explain Repair Mysteries [NYT]
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he waited today
as he had for years
for some nod
pass the corn, dad
which he did without
looking up from his plate.
did the wind do any damage?
his dad grunted.
he remembered
following his dad into the bathroom
before his own whiskers appeared—
watched him shave from the toilet seat.
never looked his way
as he patted on mennen aftershave—
silently headed out to finish dressing.
he knew he'd get the strap
if he came home late
if he back-talked
if he had let the fields flood
if his gopher traps came up empty
if his furrows weren't straight
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With the theme of then next Iron Cupcake London being summer fruits my thoughts turned to what I might enter if I was allowed to, which I'm not. This recipe, while quite simple, is delicious and the combination of strawberry and custard, rather than the more common strawberry and cream, was a big hit with everyone who tasted it.
The original recipe stated that you should glaze the finished cupcakes with melted apricot jam. I can see this would add a nice shiny professional looking finish but when you have something as juicy and delicious as a strawberry I like to taste it; I often find that apricot jam glazes overpower the fruit.
You could of course use any fruit to top these little cupcakes, but what with it being slap bang in the middle of Wimbledon fortnight strawberries seemed appropriate. I have far more interest in Wimbledon this year as I have a lot riding on it – the CCBF (Caked Crusader's Boyfriend) stated (misguidedly if you ask me)that Andy Murray would win the title. I may have been slightly dismissive of this...perhaps suggesting that Roger Federer could beat him with one arm tied behind his back. This resulted in the CCBF challenging me to a bet – whoever of our choices finishes higher wins. The bet has an extremely high stake – a fridge magnet of the winner's choice. Go Roger!!!
For the cupcakes:
185g unsalted butter, at room temperature
170g caster sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
3 eggs
125g self raising flour
60g plain flour
125ml milk
For the filling and topping:
125g thick custard
12 small strawberries
Optional: 160g apricot jam to glaze
How to make:
- Preheat the oven to 180°C/fan oven 160°C/350°F/Gas mark 4.
- Line a cupcake pan with 12 paper cases, have a second tin on standby with paper cases as I found the mix made enough for several more cupcakes.
- Beat the butter, sugar and vanilla together until creamy and light.
- Beat in the eggs one at a time.
- Weigh out the flours and measure out the milk.
- Fold half the flour in, followed by half the milk. Repeat.
- Spoon the mixture into the paper cases. Fill each case about 2/3 full.
- Bake for approximately 15 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out cleanly.
- Leave to cool on a wire rack.
- When cool cut the centre out of each cupcake – don't go right through to the bottom; you're aiming to create a little bowl made of cupcake.
- Fill each cavity with as much custard as possible without it spilling out the top.
- Sit a strawberry on top of the custard.
- If using the glaze, melt the jam and then brush it over the top. I didn't bother.
- Refrigerate until about 20 minutes before you want to serve.
- Bask in glory at the wonderful thing you have made.
- Eat.


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by Tom Utescher
In a day of athletic activities culminating in the 126th annual football game between Germantown Academy and Penn Charter, the PC Quakers clinched the GA/PC Competition Cup last Saturday thanks to a 35-7 triumph on the gridiron at GA's Carey Stadium.
The cup is awarded to the school that is most successful overall in the 10 athletic events contested between the traditional rivals. In the morning and the early afternoon, the host Patriots won both the boys' and girls' cross country races, the girls' water polo match, and the field hockey game. PC picked up victories in boys' water polo and soccer, and in girls tennis, and the Quakers had also posted a 6-2 win in the golf match that was played between the schools four days earlier.
With the schools fighting to a 0-0 standoff in soccer, each side had 4.5 Competition Cup points heading into the football game, and there the Quakers claimed the overall prize. PC had not won the cup outright since 2007.
Earlier in the GA pool, the Penn Charter boys water polo squad completed a perfect 8-0 championship season in the Inter-Ac with a 19-10 victory. Germantown Academy countered by winning the girls' water polo bout, 10-3.
The two cross country races had no impact on the Inter-Ac standings, since the league championships had been held back on October 15. In the girls' championship race at Belmont Plateau, GA finished second and PC was third, and the two schools traded places in the boys' race.
GA senior Ben Ritz was the individual league champion, and last Saturday he led a one-two-three sweep to help the Patriots prevail, 27-30. Senior Max Huang-Hobbs and Ben Ritz's sophomore brother, Sam, took second and third.
The GA girls also won last weekend, 24-31, despite an individual victory by 2012 Pa. Independent Schools champion Catie Skinner, a Penn Charter senior who set a new course record of 19 minutes, 27 seconds on the Patriots' home circuit. GA freshman Paige Kupsky, who was third at the Indy meet, was the runner-up on Saturday and was followed across the line by junior Alyssa Bunim and freshman Maggie Hallahan.
The official Girls Inter-Ac meeting between the tennis teams from the two schools took place back on October 23, when the Patriots prevailed, 5-2. The Quakers avenged that loss last weekend, pulling out a 4-3 win. In the official league standings, Germantown finished 2-4 and PC was 1-5. While PC's victory in the rematch had no effect in the league, it helped the Quakers stay in the running for the Competition Cup last weekend. Junior Margaux Losty was named MVP for the winning side.
In the Germantown Academy Hall of Fame announcements made at halftime of the football game, the host school recognized former tennis standout Caroline Stanislawski ('02), who went undefeated throughout her high school career, losing just a single set along the way.
Both the soccer matches for boys and girls were official Inter-Ac contests, as was the field hockey game. In the first GA-PC field hockey encounter this season, host Penn Charter was a 2-0 winner, and a goal by sophomore Avery Shoemaker gave the Quakers the early lead in last weekend's rematch. A GA 10th-grader, Katie Westrum, tied the game, and her classmate Allie Carrigan then deposited the deciding goal in the Pats' 2-1 victory.
By a slim margin, Charter still finished ahead of GA in the league, coming in fourth with a record of 5-6-1, with the Patriots fifth, at 5-7.
Haverford School had already clinched the Inter-Ac soccer title on the boys' side, but last Saturday GA still had a chance to tie Penn Charter for second place with a victory. On the other hand, a win or even a tie would secure the runner-up spot for the Quakers.
Back in mid-October, the teams had tied one another, 2-2, in their first meeting of the 2012 season, and midway through Saturday's tilt the count was still 0-0. Charter collected the only goal of the day during the second half. Off of a free kick, junior Bradford Jones flicked the ball towards the cage and senior Ted Foley finished the play, earning the game MVP Award for the winners, while fellow upperclassman Jared Whitman was selected for the Patriots.
The 1-0 win gave PC a final record of 6-3-1 in the Inter-Ac, while GA posted a mark of 3-3-4.
Coming into the girls' game, PC was already just out of GA's reach in the league standings, arriving with a record of 9-1-1 while the Pats entered the match with an Inter-Ac mark of 7-3-1. GA was just ahead of Charter in the standings when the teams first squared off on October 5, but at that point the PC booters launched their mid-season surge with a 4-1 triumph.
Germantown was much more stingy on defense last weekend, and Penn Charter didn't give up anything either, with the result being a 0-0 tie. Two seniors, the Quakers' Emma Ebert and the Patriots' Natalie Toner, were named the MVP's.
This was the last game to finish before the football classic, and while the deadlock between the female booters didn't provide any immediate gratification for fans alongside the field, it kept the schools tied overall in the quest for the Competition Cup, so everything would come down to the gridiron clash.
The Germantown Academy – Penn Charter pigskin series shares the distinction of being the nation's oldest continuous scholastic football rivalry with a pair of Massachusetts schools, Boston Latin and Boston English. Both of these high school duels began back in 1887.
After a few morning sprinkles, the weather had been partly sunny leading up to the 126th battle between the two Philly teams, but the outlook for the GA footballers began to grow a little cloudy late in the first quarter. As the final minute approached, Quakers sophomore quarterback Patrick McCain hit senior Daryl Worley for a touchdown pass that put the first points on the board. A second quarter interception return for a score by junior Freddie Perri had Charter up 14-0 at the half.
Playing catch-up now, Germantown was forced to turn to an aerial game that did not go particularly well for the Pats. Twice in the third quarter they were unable to cash in on first-and-goal situations, while the visitors assumed a 28-0 lead thanks to a pair of long TD runs by senior Eric Neefe. GA was at least able to break the shutout, finding the end zone with two seconds left in the third round as QB Hayes Nolte hooked up with fellow junior Kyle Donahue on a 46-yard scoring play.
Completing the scoring in the fourth quarter on a goal-line play, Charter senior Mike McGlinchey leapt over his blockers and broke the plane for his team's fifth TD. Two senior kickers handled the extra points for the teams, Tyler Gottlieb booting all five for the winners, while Bobby Flood made good on his lone opportunity for GA.
Penn Charter underscored its dominance in the longstanding series by raising its record to 82-33-11, while the MVP award, the Joseph Geis Trophy, was shared by the Quakers' McGlinchey and Neefe.


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Become a potter! Learn basics handbuilding and throwing skills. You will learn slab-building, press-moulding and coiling - as well as surface decoration techniques for example texture, slip and glaze application. Please bring an apron to protect your clothing. Short optional projects will allow for ideas and skills to be shared and discussed. Please bring an apron to protect your clothing. There will be a small additional material cost.
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BBC Middle East editor Paul Danahar was on hand in Gaza at the outset of Operation Pillar of Defense, Israel's attempt to suppress the firing of rockets by Hamas on Israeli civilians. Danahar was therefore close to hand around the time that the son of BBC Arabic picture editor Jihad Masharawi's son was killed by a munition that Danahar described as a shell landed in Masharawi's home, which Danahar visited shortly after. He also tweeted photographs of the damage, including the one below.
Danahar's tweeted reaction to young Masharawi's death accused Israel of something like murder: "Quesioned [sic] asked here is: if Israel can kill a man riding on a moving motorbike (as they did last month) how did Jihad's son get killed?" Danahar oversaw the BBC's production of stories related to the young Masharawi's death such as Jon Donisson's plaintive broadcast report "What did my son do to die like this?" and Donisson's "Gaza baby 'only knew how to smile.'"
While Danahar described the munition that killed the young Masharawi as a shell, it was widely described elsewhere as a missile fired during an Israeli airstrike. Donisson, for example, reported: "Most likely is that Omar [Masharawi] died in one of the more than 20 bombings across Gaza that the Israeli military says made up its initial wave of attacks." Donisson added the characteristic BBC fillip: "Omar was not a terrorist."
I tweeted Danahar to ask him on what basis he identified the munition that killed the young Masharawi as Israeli. I wrote at the time on Power Line that I doubted it was. After seeing Danahar's photograph of the damage done to Masharawi's dwelling, I thought it was more likely to have been a Hamas rocket that failed to hit its intended target in Israel. (As I recall, something like 10 percent of the Hamas rockets landed in Gaza.) Danahar failed to respond to my tweet and relentlessly propagated the line that Israeli forces had killed Masharawi's son.
Whatever it was, the munition that killed the young Masharawi almost certainly wasn't an Israeli missile fired in an airstrike like the one depicted below. Nevertheless, this was the contention of mainstream media outlets including the BBC, the Washington Post, and many others, as well as so-called human rights organizations operating on the ground in Gaza.
It should therefore be a matter of some consequence that the advance version of a UN report has weighed in on the events of this past November and raised serious doubt about the line propagated by the BBC. The report suggests that the young Masharawi was most likely the victim of an errant Hamas rocket, which in fact do the kind of damage depicted in Danahar's photo and had done so in Israel without Danahar taking notice or entering any complaint.
I followed Danahar's Twitter feed during Operation Pillar of Defense. These were among my observations:
1. Danahar identifies with the Gaza Arabs.
2. Danahar had no comments about Hamas or its goals and tactics. Hamas is a genocidal terrorist organization. Doesn't Danahar know any Gaza Arabs who have any quibbles with its murderous fanaticism or tyranny? Doesn't Danahar himself? Not so far as I can tell.
3. Danahar expressed no sympathy for the Israelis. None. Zilch. Nada. His observable range of sympathies was remarkably narrow.
4. Gaza City presented many targets for Israelis intent on disabling Hamas's structure of command and control. The Israelis exercised great care to target these sites with precision.
5. Danahar was in the immediate vicinity of Israeli fire, yet he expressed no fear. He was either confident of the care of the Israeli forces or quite brave, or both, but I leaned toward the latter because he simply does not credit the care of the IDF. He attributed all manner of harm to the Israelis, as though they exercise no restraint in their military efforts.
6. Danahar heard the fire of short- and long-range rockets/missiles in his immediate vicinity. For example, Danahar tweeted: "Long range rocket just took off near our bureau in #Gaza." Danahar did not observe, but one could learn from him, that Hamas is embedded in residential neighborhoods and civilian office buildings (including a building in which foreign press offices are maintained).
7. The outgoing fire that Danahar heard was aimed at Israeli civilians with the intent of inflicting maximum damage. Danahar expressed absolutely no feelings about this.
8. Danahar was oblivious, perhaps willfully obtuse, to the possibility that Hamas communications infrastructure was located on buildings in which the press maintained offices. He tweeted, for example: "Question from FPA for @IDFSpokesperson: If targets last night were carefully chosen why were two buildings holding journalists hit in #Gaza." Danahar retweeted the IDF statement that "[t]he sites that we targeted overnight were all positively identified by precise intelligence over the course of months," but somehow it didn't compute for Danahar.
9. Danahar was seemingly unable to put two and two together, responding: "#Israel's IDF last night hit two buildings in #Gaza where local & foreign journalists are operating from injuring several journalists." The IDF has tweeted: "Advice to reporters in #Gaza, just like any person in Gaza. For your own safety, stay away from #Hamas positions and operatives."
10. Danahar's tweets were suffused with feelings of indignation and outrage about the inevitable civilian casualties that result from Hamas's modus operandi of hiding behind civilians, but no indignation or outrage about Hamas's modus operandi.
11. Not all the civilian Gaza casualties were caused by Israel. Danahar does not try to sort out the cause of the particular incidents to which he was witness. He accepted Hamas's modus operandi and assumed that Israel was the cause. One relevant IDF tweet noted: "Fact: 99 rockets fired from #Gaza have crashed back into Gaza in the last 4 days. Hamas fires from civilian areas…and hits its own people."
12. For a good example of the harm perpetrated by Hamas on the Gaza populace — the kind of harm to which Danahar turned a blind eye — see the IsraellyCool post "The kid killed by Hamas" and the related New York Times story "Mistaken lull, simple errand, death in Gaza."
Upon the release of the advance version of the UN report, Danahar tweeted this highly misleading response: "UN disputes details of strike on colleagues house in Gaza. IDF briefed at time it was them & were targeting militant[.]"
One can only infer that neither Danahar nor the BBC will be taking a look any time soon at their participation in the Terrorist Theater in which they are the all too willing players. Reasonable observers would conclude that a serious accounting is warranted, and not just at the BBC.
NOTE: Working on this post, I found the BiasedBBC's "Omar wasn't a terrorist…and he wasn't killed by an Israeli airstrike either" to be of great use.


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One of the first public wave energy testing systems in the United States began operation this week off the Oregon coast near Newport, and will allow private industry or academic researchers to test new technology that may help advance this promising form of sustainable energy.
The Ocean Sentinel is a $1.5 million device developed by the Northwest National Marine Renewable Energy Center, or NNMREC, at Oregon State University. It's a major step forward for the future of wave energy, and should do its first testing within days – a "WetNZ" device developed by private industry.
The creation of this mobile wave energy test facility has been needed for years, experts say, and it will be used by many companies and academic researchers in the quest to develop wave energy technology, measure and understand the wave resource, and study the energy output and other important issues.
"The Ocean Sentinel will provide a standardized, accurate system to compare various wave energy technologies, including systems that may be better for one type of wave situation or another," said Sean Moran, ocean test facilities manager with NNMREC.
"We have to find out more about which technologies work best, in what conditions, and what environmental impacts there may be," Moran said. "We're not assuming anything. We're first trying to answer the question, 'Is this a good idea or not?' And if some technology doesn't work as well, we want to find that out quickly, and cheaply, and the Ocean Sentinel will help us do that."
Experts say that, unlike some alternative energy forms such as wind energy, it's probable that no one technology will dominate the wave energy field. Some systems may work better in low wave settings, others with a more powerful resource. The Ocean Sentinel will be able to measure wave amplitude, device energy output, ocean currents, wind speeds, extremes of wave height and other data.
This initiative was made possible by support from the U.S. Department of Energy, the Oregon Department of Energy, and the Oregon Wave Energy Trust.
The challenges at hand, Moran said, are enormous.
"We're still trying to figure out what will happen when some of these devices have to stand up to 50-foot waves," Moran said. "The ocean environment is very challenging, especially off Oregon where we have such a powerful wave energy resource."
The one-square-mile site where the Ocean Sentinel will operate, about two miles northwest of Yaquina Head, has been carefully studied, both for its physical and biological characteristics. A large part of the NNMREC program is studying potential environmental impacts, whether they might come from electromagnetic fields, changes in acoustics, or other factors. Any changes in sediments, invertebrates or fish will be monitored closely.
And a third part of the program is human dimensions research and public outreach, engagement and education. Toward that goal, three public hearings are being planned in August to discuss the possibility of siting a different test facility – the Pacific Marine Energy Center – in one of four possible locations: Newport, Reedsport, Coos Bay, or Camp Rilea near Warrenton. That $8 million grid-connected center would be a continuation and expansion of the work made possible today by the Ocean Sentinel.
Wave energy is a technology still in its infancy. It can use large buoys that move up and down in ocean swells, or other technologies, to produce large and sustainable supplies of electricity.


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Mythic Sassz'ine finally sleeps with the fishes!
Apparently you guys downed Mistress tonight as I was slacking in the real world, so I can't rly say too mcuh about the kill other than I'm impressed. Great job everyone! I'm looking forward to the video by Ziniq. For now, here's a screenshot.
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Mythic Desolate Host down - less than half left!
Tired tonight, so short post. Yep, five bosses down now and only four remaining. Very nice raid tonight, and a clean good kill of Desolate Host. Thank god the server lag we later noticed in HC didn't hit us in mythic or Im sure Zackie woud have killed himself by now. Now onwards to the real back breakers of ToS. Killshot below along with videos from both the spirit realm and autism-realm. GGWP
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The Mythic Twilight Saga Discontinued
The first real challenge this tier didn't last all too long. With 6 healers and plenty of Prydaz equipped survival was the key to this encounter. On tonight's very epic kill however we didn't do a whole lot of surviving. Good job everyone! Close to half the instance cleared now.
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Benoit Justafort, Computer Engineering TechnologySeptember 17th, 2013 by admin
Benoit Justafort is a 2012 graduate from CFCC's Computer Engineering Technology program. Originally from Haiti, Benoit came to the United States seeking better career opportunities. He went to night school to learn English and complete his GED, and on the day he received his legal residence, he joined the United States Marines. "I wanted to serve my country," he said.
After serving for four years, Benoit left the Marine Corps to spend more time with his family. He worked as a truck driver, a construction worker, an insurance agent, a real estate agent, and a mortgage officer. When the economy collapsed in 2008, Benoit had trouble making ends meet. He decided to come back to school at CFCC. "I believed that opportunity was there," he said, "but I knew I had to make it."
Today, Benoit has a great job as a Flexible Fuel Operator at GE. "CFCC was my bridge to prosperity and stability," he says. "The American dream starts with education."


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The Labor Ministry announced on Monday it had completed nearly four million labor correction cases during the past four months including 1.18 million transfers of services.
"As many as 1.12 million expats corrected their professions until July 6," said Abdullah Abuthnain, deputy minister for inspections and developing work atmosphere.
"We have also issued and renewed more than 1.6 million work permits during the period," he said, adding that 34 percent of correction work took place in the Riyadh region.
A total of 575,800 corrections have been carried out by the construction sector while 220,172 by the trade sector. Over 60,335 expats transferred their services to the food sector, 60,101 to downstream industries and 55,139 to workshops and maintenance sector.
He said a total of 42,836 workers transferred their services to the contracting, cleaning and maintenance sector, 26,566 to individual sponsors, 24,506 to the transport sector, 19,659 to the social services sector and 15,675 to the agricultural and fishing sector.
Abuthnain said foreigners can change their professions free of charge using the ministry's electronic services, without visiting its office.
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Thunder coach Scott Brooks had a big decision to make. With Game 2 of the Western Conference finals on the line, he either had to stick with a lineup of four reserves who were playing well or switch to the group he usually trusts late in the fourth quarter.
He bet on the backups. And now the series is headed back to Oklahoma City all tied up, thanks to his gutsy call.
James Harden, Eric Maynor, Nick Collison and Daequan Cook teamed with Kevin Durant to build a healthy lead late in the fourth quarter, then made it hold up for a 106-100 victory over the Dallas Mavericks on Thursday night.
"We've always felt confident in the bench," Brooks said. "They really did a good job. But it's always a team effort when you win."
All-Star point guard Russell Westbrook sat alongside Brooks as Maynor guided the Thunder's offense down the stretch. Serge Ibaka and Kendrick Perkins cheered on Collison as he tried to slow Dirk Nowitzki. And while Durant was the lone starter mixed in with the backups, he was their offensive liability -- he made 2 of 6 shots, compared to 9 of 11 for the other guys.
"If you tell me they leave Westbrook out in the whole fourth quarter and we don't get stops to win, that would have been tough," Nowitzki said. "But you have to give Maynor credit. ... Their reserves came out swinging and really took it to us."
Harden and Durant are part of Brooks' typical crew of closers. Sometimes Collison. So Maynor and Cook were the exceptions. But there was never really a chance -- or a reason -- for Brooks to make a change.
Oklahoma City went into the fourth quarter leading by one following a four-point play by Harden in the final seconds of the third quarter. The guys who were asked to protect that slim lead never gave it up. They even stretched it to 10 with 3:15 left following a 14-5 spurt capped by a tough jumper from Harden.
Brooks ended up not making a change until he had to -- Collison fouled out with 37 seconds left. Brooks' only other move was taking out Cook for the last 13 seconds.
"You can't mess that chemistry up," Durant said. "Coach made a good decision."
By slowing Nowitzki and the Mavericks down the stretch, the Thunder reserves did something that Kobe Bryant and the Lakers couldn't.
Dallas erased a pair of fourth-quarter deficits during a sweep of the two-time reigning NBA champs last round. Those wins were part of a seven-game streak the Mavs had been riding. They also had been 6-0 at home this postseason.
Like the Eastern Conference finals, this series is essentially starting over. The scene shifts about 200 miles up Interstate 35 for Game 3 on Saturday night, and Game 4 on Monday night. A return trip to Dallas for Game 5 on Wednesday night is guaranteed, too.
"It should be fun back at our place," Durant said.
Mavericks coach Rick Carlisle complained about his defense after Game 1 , but it seemed like coach-speak, something to gripe about for the sake of griping. He's got their attention now, though, after seeing the Thunder make 56 percent of their shots. Dallas came into this series not having allowed more than 97 points in any playoff game, and Oklahoma City has shattered that in both games.
"Scoring 100 points in a playoff game should be enough to win," Carlisle said. "Not if you're giving up 106, 112. Give them credit. They played an attacking, desperate game. Their bench was dominant when they played."
In Game 1, Dallas' reserves outscored Oklahoma City's 53-22. In Game 2, the Thunder won the battle of the backups 50-29.
Harden scored 23 points. In the fourth quarter, he made 4 of 5 shots, including a pair of 3-pointers.
Maynor finished with 13 points, Cook eight and Collison six.
Durant still led the Thunder with 24 points. DeShawn Stevenson and Jason Kidd made things a lot tougher for him than in the opener, when he scored 40, but he was still spectacular at times. He had a first-quarter dunk that's worth going to YouTube to see again and again, and a behind-the-back dribble to clear space for another key basket in the third quarter.
Westbrook scored 18 points, making 7 of 15 shots.
Nowitzki went from scoring 48 in the opener to having only 13 points through three quarters. He didn't even score in the third period, taking just two shots in nearly 9 minutes. He scored 16 in the fourth quarter to finish with 29.
He was still efficient, making 10 of 17 shots, but he had to earn everything, with bodies flying at him before and during every possession. The Thunder also got physical without drawing many fouls. The big German took only 10 free throws, down from 24 in the opener. He even missed one, and it was a biggie -- part of a series of three shots with 36.7 seconds left. It could have pulled the Mavericks within three.
"I think we did a better job of making his catches a little tougher," Collison said. "We didn't use our hands as much. We wanted to challenge his shots and hope he missed them."
Notes: Oklahoma City continued its streak of avoiding consecutive losses this postseason. Counting the regular season and playoffs, the Thunder are 26-6 in the game following a loss. ... Nowitzki's missed free throw ended a stretch of 39 straight makes dating to Game 2 of the second round. ... The Thunder allowed six 30-point quarters through their first 12 playoff games. They did it four times in the first five quarters of this series, but clamped down after that. ... Dallas' last loss was in Game 4 of the first round, when it blew a 23-point lead over the final 14 minutes against Portland. ... This was the first time all season the Mavs lost when Nowitzki took at least 10 free throws. They had been 17-0.


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Florida's GOP should develop Plan B
Florida's "strong cabinet" structure of government is the political reincarnation of the bumblebee.
Long ago, scientists studied the bumblebee, and declared that it was aerodynamically impossible for it to fly. The only proof to the contrary was that the bumblebee pays no attention to scientists, and flies about at will.


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By Rose Donovan Jun 11, 2013 0
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Reilly has a girlfriend, apparently a serious girlfriend. At least they were pretty serious until they parted for the summer. She went back to her home in New York City and he came home to suburban Washington, D.C.
With as little violation of his privacy as I can manage, I am moved to share some of the important issues such a relationship raise, because they are probably not unique to our family. There are lots of questions for which I don't have answers, just worries.
The subject of Reilly's hypothetical future marriage always seemed to crop up at dinner. "When I get married, my wife and I will eat cake for breakfast," he would say, when I told him he had to eat some dinner before dessert. Or when I tried to instill basic table manners, like proper use of a knife, he insisted he didn't need them. "Who will cut up your meat when I'm gone?" I asked, more than once. "My wife," he'd say with a shrug. And I'd have a twinge of sadness. Would he get married?
Well, I learned two important things at his school's alumni/parents/students dinner dance this spring: Reilly might well get married someday. And his wife just might cut his meat for him. Reilly and his girlfriend, Ashley, were seated at different tables that night, so I didn't see if she cut his meat. But another student, Olivia, cheerfully cut the chicken parmesan for two or three other students at our table. She had tied Reilly's tie for him earlier in the evening. Nothing wrong with her fine motor skills, unlike many of her peers. If Reilly finds a girl like Olivia to marry, he might be all set!
But of course, meat cutting is a relatively minor issue. Shortly after I realized the seriousness of Reilly's relationship, I saw an ad in the New York Times Sunday Book Review for an e-book called "Asperger Love: Searching for Romance When You're Not Wired to Connect," by Amy Harmon. I downloaded it immediately. It chronicles a budding relationship between two Aspie college students, Jack Robison (son of John Elder Robison, author of a bestselling memoir about his own Asperger diagnosis at age 39) and his girlfriend, Kristen Lindsmith. (Lindsmith has written several essays for AA16.) It's a frank, fly-on-the-wall view of the perils and pitfalls of a love match between two young people who have trouble with emotional and social cues, as well as sensory issues that complicate physical intimacy. It gave me real insight and a sense of wonder about Reilly's first foray into love/sex.
Like Jack Robison, Reilly isn't usually comfortable with hugs and touch, yet I see pictures of him on Facebook with his arms around Ashley. And the closeness required by those dormitory-style single beds? Yes, I remember college, but I have a hard time imagining Reilly is OK with that kind of closeness. And, remember the previously reported hygiene issues? I'm thrilled, yet shocked, that there's a girl that can overlook them, in such a confined space!
Reilly has had plenty of sex education in school, and as much as he would tolerate at home (which isn't a lot). So, protection? Well, let's just say the fine-motor difficulties cause me some worry. NYIT staff are pretty much on top of the relationship issues. Freshmen take a yearlong, gender-separated health course covering everything from nutrition to pornography. The school nurse has an office in the dorm, and she stocks condoms. The staff is prepared to check in with individual students on their knowledge and use of forms of contraception. Required social psychology class covers communication skills. It's a pretty safe place to experiment.
As I write this, I realize yet again, that much of this situation, and my worries, are normal. Neurotypical college students face many of the same relationship pitfalls and are also at risk for contraception failures and unintended pregnancies. And abusive relationships and the usual misunderstandings and broken hearts and other experiences that prepare us (hopefully) for adult life. But for young people on the spectrum, and their families, all of these perils are heightened.
Will Reilly be independent enough to maintain a marriage and family? I hope so, but we aren't close to knowing that yet. And, if I'm honest, I have to say I wonder about permanent solutions. Could Reilly realistically decide now that he doesn't want children ever? Is that something we should talk to Reilly and his doctor about now? This honestly never crossed my mind until recently. I can't even get Reilly to tell me what he likes about Ashley, though he did admit to having some "communication problems" in the relationship from time to time, refusing to elaborate further. But, how are we going to have THIS way bigger conversation?
Parents of young women with ASD, I imagine, have perhaps even more to fear than I do. How do we protect our children, when they're no longer children, and they're out in the world without us?
When you're raising a child on the spectrum, you tend not to look too far into the future. You're pretty focused on getting through the day, or this week, or this school year. Thinking too far ahead can be overwhelming. Yet, Reilly continues to surprise me with his growth and progress. Who knows what his future will bring?
Let's just hope it isn't a grandchild for me, until we're both developmentally ready.


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Eileen KINNICK
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Week 46 - Nov 9-15
75 yrs ago
Week 46 - Nov 9-15
My mother, Eileen KINNICK (maiden name), kept a diary from 1932 until her death in 1999. In Feb 2005, I created a website of her 1936 diary, the year she graduated from high school, and started dating my dad later in the year. The transcription, week by week, with commentary, notable items, and my comments are sitting there to view, unchanged (a few bad links and all!). . You are welcome to click on the Weekly Index, and go back to read the first half of the year, at your leisure.
My comments - in red
Commentary at the time - in green
Notable items - in blue
Setting: The family lived in a farmhouse a couple of miles out of town (Coon Rapids, Iowa). Older brother, Leo, lived at home; his girl friend, later wife, Ida, visited regularly. Younger brother, Buzzy (she often wrote Bussy) was 8 years old; see photo.
Week 46. A four movie week. Tuesday was especially busy, going to Des Moines shopping - a 150 mile round trip; but back in time for the Bank Nite movie and cash drawing.
I really like the "With Teddy" photo I posted on this week of Eileen and dog on summer lawn.
"Patrolmen & their flash lights!" They were parked by the court house in Carroll. Seemed to be having a lot of fun! ;-)
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Families are Forever! ;-)


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Eighteen of our current representatives had their first taste of public service before they ever graduated high school. They were all part of the Boys State and Girls State program.
In fact, one of our members, Rep. Sabin, went on to Boys Nation and met President Clinton in the White House Rose Garden thirty years to the day that Clinton met President John F. Kennedy as a Boys Nation representative from Arkansas.
This week, we welcomed delegates from the 2013 Boys State and Girls State program to the House Chamber.
The National American Legion established the Boys State program in 1935. The American Legion Auxiliary established Girls State in 1937. Since that time, some of the nation's brightest high school juniors have come together where an invented "state" is established.
The purpose is to educate the students in the duties, privileges, and responsibilities of American citizenship.
In Arkansas, Boys State is held every summer at the UCA campus in Conway. Girls State is held at Harding University in Searcy.
The delegates hold elections for nearly every state office. Near the end of the program, those young men and women who have been elected as state representatives come to the House Chamber to vote on the mock bills they drafted previously during the week.
This year, Arkansas Girls State Representatives drafted and voted on bills concerning eligibility requirements for a hunting license, increasing public transportation, and increasing the fines for texting and driving.
Representatives of Boys State drafted and voted on bills regarding drug testing for unemployment benefits, repealing the state's graduated driver's license requirements, and providing incentives for the use of compressed natural gas in vehicles.
The future of our state and nation depends on the development of capable leadership in education, in business and in government.
Boys State and Girls State provides our students with an opportunity to learn how our government operates without using a text book. It teaches them through a real-life experience they will never forget.
Students who have completed their junior year of high school with outstanding leadership and character are eligible. If you know a young man or woman interested in serving encourage them to visit with their high school guidance counselor.


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IRWINDALE >> Greg Voigt had one wish for his dying mom, Kathy; for her to watch him race.
What Voigt did not expect was for his mother, who had never seen him race, watch him win. He won Irwindale Speedway's Spears SRL Southwest Tour 51-Fifty Energy Drink 100 race in front of 4,682 on Saturday night.
"She just wanted to see me race, so to race and to win is unbelievable," Voigt said. "You couldn't ask for a better day."
Kathy Voigt, 62, is dying of cancer. Her son, who won the Irwindale Super Late Model series title in 2000, said she is in her final days. The family, based in Santa Barbara County, will head to Disneyland for one final time on Sunday.
"She literally has days left," said Voigt, fighting to hold back a tear or two. "We had been planning this for her to come here. It's pretty exciting because that makes it very special to me, having special people watch me win."
Voigt had not won at Irwindale since 2001. He came close in several Southwest Tour events, but did not win until holding off Derek Thorn of Bakersfield in the race's final five laps.
"I've been so close in so many Tour races here," he said. "I was really worried with the last caution because it took my car five laps to come in. At the end it prevailed."
Voigt got the single-file car restart jump on Thorn, who is second in series points by three points.
"I just didn't have quite enough," Thorn said. "When I first got in back of (Voigt) and (Garrett Archer) I had to be careful for my right rear tire. I thought we had a good spot at the end. We did not capitalize on it."
Track regular Toni McCray of Highland finished third in her series debut.
She spun on the opening lap, with a little help, but rallied to get into the Top 5 before the 50-lap mark.
"I knew I had to collect myself and be smart," she said. "It didn't take me long. I'm impressed with myself and my team. I could not ask for anything more."
Voigt took the lead for good on the 79th lap from Archer, who finished fourth.
In the companion feature event, Dylan Cappello of Peoria, Ariz. used a pick on a lapped car to win the Lucas Oil Modified's LoanMart Super Fast 75.
The 18-year-old, who set an Irwindale series track record in qualifying, passed Chris Gerchman of Lake Havasu City, Ariz. on the 60th lap. Gerchman got stuck behind Keegan Walmer of Charlotte, N.C. and Cappello went low for the lead, pulling away.
"It was a hard-fought win," he said. "It is great to beat those guys."
He took over series points lead with three races to go. Austin Barnes, who has won twice at Irwindale and had the lead, was suspended for the race because of rough driving in previous events.
Gerchman has finished second three times and third in the other Lucas Oil race at Irwindale.
"I wanted to win here so bad," he said.
Irwindale Super Late Model series racer Jason Patison was third.
"I tried to make a pass on Lap 40 and used my rear tire too much," he said. "I should have waited."
The 35 cars were the most to have race in Irwindale's history. It led to a nine-car, 25-lap B Main with Daniel Williams of Glendale scoring the race win.
Also pulling its biggest car count was the SRL S2 series, which drew 15 cars. Blaine Perkins of Bakersfield, 14, won his second consecutive race at Irwindale, taking the 35-lap main event. It was his third consecutive victory in the series.
Kenny Smith of El Monte was second and Johnny Butler of Arcadia was third.
Brent Scheidemantle of Alta Loma extended his Legends series points lead, winning the 35-lap race.
"I can't be disappointed," he said of his fourth win this season. "I got out to the lead early and I just had to keep my nose clean."
Ricky Schlick of Claremont was second and Ton Mangini of Benicia was third in his Irwindale debut.
Ryan Vargas of La Mirada scored a weekend Universal Studios Bandoleros sweep, taking the Friday and Saturday 20-lap races. Allison Gay of Lakeside and Levi Jackson of Trabuco Canyon were second and third in both races.
Vargas is undefeated in eight Irwindale races this season.


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Science Fiction / San Francisco
Science Fiction / San Francisco (often referred to as SF/SF) is a Science Fiction fanzine founded by Jack Avery in 2005. It has been hosted on eFanzines.com from issue 1 and is available as a PDF Webzine. He edited it alone for the first nine issues, featuring articles from Chris Garcia, Jean Martin and Dr. Noe. A large chunk of each issue was a Bay Area Fandom Calendar. After issue 9, he announced that he was giving the zine up.
Garcia and Martin then took up editorship of SF while Avery remained doing layout and the calendar section. After issue 20, Avery left the zine and was replaced by Eva Kent. David Moyce came on board as proof-reader and handling the calendar section. That remains the main creative team to present, with Jean Martin as the editor.
Regular contributors include Espana Sheriff, Robert Hole, Howeird, Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Diane Rooney, Andrew Trembley as well as LetterHacks John Purcell (Askance) and Lloyd Penney (Torus).
It was announced the Eva Kent would shortly be leaving SF/SF, leading the editors looking for their third layout editor.


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Lyles does it all for Rockies in win over White Sox
DENVER -- Rockies right-hander Jordan Lyles discovered Monday night, as many pitchers before him, that Coors Field is a great place to hit. He also disproved the theory that you can't throw a breaking ball.
Lyles had three hits, including a double, and held the White Sox to five hits and struck out four in 6 2/3 innings while leading the Rockies to a 8-1 victory at Coors Field in front of 22,550 fans.View Full Game Coverage
DENVER -- Rockies right-hander Jordan Lyles discovered Monday night, as many pitchers before him, that Coors Field is a great place to hit. He also disproved the theory that you can't throw a breaking ball.
Lyles had three hits, including a double, and held the White Sox to five hits and struck out four in 6 2/3 innings while leading the Rockies to a 8-1 victory at Coors Field in front of 22,550 fans.View Full Game Coverage
Lyles (2-0) said he didn't have a feel for his fastball early in the game, but he went to breaking and offspeed pitches early in counts. The sinking fastball -- a pitch he and pitching coach Jim Wright worked on diligently this offseason -- ended up his put-away pitch. He ended with 10 groundouts.
"A lot of people say you can't throw the breaking ball here," Lyles said. "That was my mindset coming into the game. I really wanted to spin it. For the most part, it was pretty good. I got a couple of punchouts later in the game with it."
Lyles, who was supposed to start the year at Triple-A Colorado Springs, will give manager Walt Weiss a tough decision to make on April 13, when Tyler Chatwood returns from the left hamstring strain that gave Lyles his chance.
"It was the Jordan Lyles show tonight. He's been impressive. It was a tough situation he was in at the end of Spring Training. He pitched well this spring. He came right back to us. He's 2-0. It says a lot about the guy."
Lyles wasn't the only reason the Rockies pulled their record to 4-4. The Rockies totaled nine hits and six runs in 4 1/3 innings against former Rockies right-hander Felipe Paulino (0-1). One of the hits was Carlos Gonzalez's third homer, a first-inning, line-drive solo shot. Troy Tulowitzki homered for the first time, off reliever Daniel Webb to open the sixth, and singled, doubled and walked.
Acquired from the Astros in late November, Lyles had thrown just once at Coors. He gave up six hits and five runs -- one on a first-inning leadoff homer by Dexter Fowler, the man for whom he was traded -- and didn't figure in the decision in a 7-6 Rockies victory on May 28, 2012. His first time pitching for the Rockies at Coors was way more memorable.
Lyles doubled in a second-inning run off Paulino, and added singles in the fourth and fifth. The latter hit drove in a run to greet Webb during a three-run frame that pushed the lead to 6-0.
"I was trying to get those fastballs," Lyles said. "I knew Paulino over with the Astros. He came up with them. I know what he likes to do. But he got some balls over the plate and somehow the ball found the bat and the bat hit the ball, and guys weren't there."
As for his main job, Lyles was even better.
Lyles credited catcher Wilin Rosario, who didn't catch him in Spring Training or during his victory in Miami, with "staying with me" through the early innings, when he was searching for his feel. Rosario thought Lyles was better than he believed.
"He might not have had his feeling, but from my standpoint, from what I saw, he had everything tonight," Rosario said. "I had to figure out a way to use it.
"I felt like I knew that guy for a long time. He let me call the game, he executed the pitches and we did a very good job."
White Sox manager Robin Ventura said he wished his hitters had been more patient.
"Early on, we weren't getting him in the strike zone," Ventura said. "So, once you start swinging at stuff out of the strike zone, you're just making a guy better. But he was good."
Lyles erased his first baserunner, when Tyler Fowlers walked in the third, by pouncing on Paulino's bunt and starting a double play with a throw to Tulowitzki covering second. Lyles didn't yield a hit until Marcus Semien's one-out single in the fourth.
The run didn't score until two were out in the seventh, on Alexei Ramirez's double.
Also, Lyles, at 23 but in his fourth Major League season, crossed a couple of thresholds. Through his first 73 career starts, Lyles, known for seeing decent outings ruined by one blow-up inning, carried a 10.12 ERA in the fifth inning and a 6.08 mark in the sixth.
In each of those troublesome innings on Monday, Lyles gave up a leadoff hit. But he struck out two and forced a grounder to end the fifth. After Dayan Viciedo's leadoff double in the sixth, Lyles forced three straight grounders, with Tulowitzki making his patented leaping and twisting throw to beat Jose Abreu for the final out.
After bouncing between the Majors and Minors, Lyles said he has let go of trying to build numbers to justify his presence in the Majors and just pitches to win.
"I think guys in general fall victim to worrying about their numbers, maybe staying up or what their numbers are at the end of their career," Lyles said. "I think I'm turning that corner."
Thomas Harding is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @harding_at_mlb.


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BPL 2012 T20: Bangladesh Premiere League
BPL 2012 (Bangladesh Premiere League) is a T20 cricket tournament, based on the format of Indian IPL. The 1st edition of the tournament will start on February 10, 2012. A total of 33 matches will be played in Dhaka & Chittagong. Final of BLP T20 Season 1 will be held on 29th February, 2012.
The Bangladesh Cricket Board has accepted an offer of approximaely $51million from Indian firm Game On Sports Management for six editions of a Twenty20 competition named BPL 2012, the BCB said on Monday.
The Indian Premier League-style Twenty20 tournament, named the Bangladesh Premier League, BPL 2012, will be launched in February with six franchises.
The BCB picked Game On from three Indians firms who had submitted a financial offer to run the BPL 2012 competition last month.
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October 29, 2010
Wabash swimming coach Steve Barnes was pleased with his teams performance in a 184-114 loss Friday night to one of the top programs in the nation in Kalamazoo College.
"We were really strong top to bottom," Barnes said. "We were definitely very competitive with Kalamazoo this evening. We posted great swims across the board, which was a complete change from last week. We had several season-best times and some personal bests as well, which really says a lot about this team just two weeks into the season."
Wabash opened with a second-place finish in the 200-yard medley relay. Eric Vaughn, Evan Rhinesmith, David Birrer, and Charles Williams posted a time of 1:37.90. Birrer added an individual title in the 200 butterfly (1:59.08). Adam Current was third in the event with a time of 2:04.69. Rhinesmith won the 100 breaststroke with a time of 59.35 in addition to taking second in the 200 breaststroke (2:15.79). David Phillips claimed the 200-yard backstroke title with a time of 1:59.17.
The Little Giants swept the top-three spots in the 100 butterfly. Vaughn won the race (52.66), with Current (53.31) and Birrer (53.63) completing the 1-2-3 finish. Logan Falley was second in the 1000 freestyle (10:33.98) and the 500 free (5:07.68). Logan Rice took third in the 500 free (5:07.68) with Chad Woods finishing fourth (5:13.13). Woods was third (10:39.93) in the 1000 free, with freshman Adam Barnes finishing fourth (10:44.32).
Charles Williams scored a second-place finish in the 100 backstroke with a time of 55.03. Vaughn finished second overall (55.46). Vaughn also took third place in the 50 free with a time of 22.89. William Cheng and Jacob Alter tied for fifth (24.34). Williams was also third in the 100 free (49.27). Phillips was third in the 400-yard individual medley with a time of 4:28.96.
Diver Jake Schild scored two second-place finishes on the boards. The sophomore scored 214.72 points on the three-meter board, while teammate Jacob Anderson was third with 196.87 points. Schild took second in one-meter competition with 204.46 points. Anderson was fourth (161.47).
Wabash closed out the meet with a second-place finish in the 200-yard free relay. The team of Rhinesmith, Birrer, Williams, and Alter combined for a time of 1:31.56.
The Little Giants return to action Saturday afternoon with a dual meet against Rose-Hulman. The meet begins at 1 p.m. in Terre Haute.


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Random thoughts: Does Bochy have water on the brain?
It's Sunday afternoon, it's raining hard in San Francisco and the Giants-Braves game is officially in a rain delay.
Like anyone couldn't see that coming. Anyone, except Bruce Bochy.
Bobby Cox saw it coming. That's why he took his No. 1 pitcher, Derek Lowe, and moved him up to pitch on Saturday. Kenshin Kawakami was slated to pitch Saturday, but with Sunday's rainy forecast, Cox thought it better to throw Lowe on Saturday and keep him on the every-five-day schedule. The theory is it's better to keep your No. 1 starter on schedule and let your No. 5 guy deal with the headaches of rain delays or postponements.
Maybe that's why Bobby Cox is going to the Hall of Fame as a manager one day. Maybe that's why Bruce Bochy won't.
Faced with the same situation, Bochy pitched Wellemeyer on Saturday night, and now Lincecum is the battling the rain. If today's game is rained out, Lincecum will go Monday against the Pirates, on six days rest.
Would it not have been better to pitch Lincecum on Saturday, and let Wellemeyer deal with the rain? If Sunday's game were rained out, then you skip Wellemeyer and have him available in the pen and keep the rest of your rotation on schedule.
Water on the brain, part II .. with a catch
There's another twist with this Lincecum-Wellemeyer-rain weather issue. It involves catcher Bengie Molina.
Molina sat out Saturday's game against the Braves. Bochy said he's was fine health-wise, but wanted to rest his catcher after playing 10 innings on Friday. Also, he wanted Molina to catch Lincecum on Sunday and didn't want Molina to catch Saturday night and then again Sunday afternoon.
All sound logic, if you were paying no mind to the weather forecast!!!!
Given Sunday's forecast, it would have been better to pitch Lincecum Saturday and catch Molina Saturday. Then Bochy could have sit Molina Sunday and start Whiteside, if the game is played. If the game gets rained out, Molina still gets his day off and the Giants don't miss his bat in the lineup.
Yes, Molina played 10 innings Friday, but he had Thursday off with the travel day and he didn't play Wednesday. So we think he could have handled it.
As it was, the Giants definitely missed his bat on Saturday. Whiteside appears lost at the plate. He was 0 for 3 with two strikeouts Saturday and stranded seven runners on base.
The Braves seemed to see this right away, and it looked as if Lowe was pitching around Juan Uribe to get to Whiteside. Need evidence? How about the three walks Uribe had on Saturday. Normally, it takes Uribe two months to amass three walks. The Braves gave him three in one night!
Oh, Buster Posey???
Whiteside's struggles, not only at the plate but behind it (the Giants had four wild pitches Saturday with Whiteside catching), it might make Giant fans wonder what Buster Posey is up to down at Fresno.
Well, in his first three games at Fresno, Buster Posey is 7 for 13 and he's reached safely 10 times. He had a single and triple on Saturday night.
The decision to send Posey to Triple-A was based on the principle that the Giants wanted him to catch every day, instead of getting three starts a week with the Giants.
But if the Giants plan on resting Molina more this season than last season, sending him out to start only two of every three games, can the Giants afford to create another hole in the lineup by starting Whiteside?
More news from Fresno
It may be time to starting worrying about Madison Bumgarner.
The Giants heralded pitching prospect got lit up in his Triple-A debut Friday against the Reno Aces.
Bumgarner gave up four runs on a career-high 11 hits and two walks in just three innings of work. Bumgarner topped out at 88 mph on the stadium radar gun.
Fred Lewis, on a rehab assignment with the Grizzlies, started in center field for Fresno on Saturday.
Fred Lewis? In center field?
More Splash Hits is trying to envision that.
Hmmmmm. Nope! Too scary! Can't do it.