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With time we come to realize that the only reliable pleasures in life are the smaller ones. The big sources of happiness--success, fame, marriage and religion—often fail us. Among the smaller enjoyments are things like friendship and humour. What is true for individuals can also apply to nations. Instead of nationalism and military grandeur, a modest delight in trade is more dependable, and this was underscored by a happy piece of news on February 29th.
Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani told Pakistani reporters, "People have not understood MFN. It means 'most favoured nation', not 'most favourite friend'.
This beleaguered civilian government in
It is better not to be euphoric when it comes to
Presently India-Pakistan trade is a paltry $2.6 billion, less than one per cent of their respective global trade. It should quickly climb to $ 10 billion by 2015, still modest compared to $ 60 billion trade between
In this case
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A significant step up to the Serfas 500 light is the Serfas 1500 which claims a 1500 lumen output. This light is a high-end head unit with separate battery light which retails for $390.
Beam pattern is great as it has a big center spot with a huge, wide halo around it. The light combines good peripheral beam with a far-reaching center throw. The case and switch ergonomics seem excellent as there is a positive click when activating the switch. There's three light modes and a flashing mode to scroll through before the light shuts off. Another way to shut the light off is be depressing the switch for about 2 seconds. The light dims to shut-off rather than an abrupt cut-off like most lights. This is a nice touch that gives the impression of quality.
One thing we noticed with this light is it stayed cooler than competition during our bench test in front of the fan. That means that it has excellent heat dissipation qualities and it will not only protect the circuits better but it will also stay brighter longer under hot or non-moving conditions. Most lights over 1500 lumen just heat up on High mode even when directly in front of a fan. Serfas seems to manage heat very well and the head unit stays the coolest in our bench test. They seem to have accomplished this with good air flow porting and providing a lot of surface area to dissipate heat. This means that the light is well-suited for high heat conditions or situations where the rider is stopped a lot. This also means that the light will not have to step down in light output to protect the circuits from heat damage.
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This is a very unusual fruit, and I get asked about it all the time. They are seasonal, so something that I don't regularly stock. But when they are in season, I always try to encourage my customers to try one. They are unique to the Caribbean and especially Belize.
The Mamey Sapote (Pouteria sapota) is native to Central American lowlands and Mexico. The flesh is salmon or red colored and has a sweet taste with a texture imilar to custard. Mamey Spote has a very distinctive flavor which blends well with milk, other fruits, and is especially tasty in smoothies.
It takes from 13 to 24 months from flowering to fruit maturity. This large, long fruit has coarse, brown, leathery skin and yields to a gentle squeeze when ripe.
It grows well throughout the Caribbean islands and the lowlands of South America, Central America, and in the West Indies--including the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, and Cuba where it is planted as a dooryard fruit and cultivated commercially for the local market.


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Recipe: Bread 'n' Butta Pickles
Makes about 4 pints
2 1/2 pounds cucumbers, sliced
2 medium yellow onions (about 2/3 pound), julienned
1 large red pepper (about 1/2 pound), julienned
1/2 cup salt
1 quart cider vinegar
4 cups light brown sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons ground turmeric
1/2 teaspoon whole cloves
1 tablespoon celery seeds
1 tablespoon whole allspice
2 tablespoons mustard seed
1 tablespoon coriander seeds
1 1/2 teaspoons nigella seeds (black onion seeds)
1. Place vegetables in a colander set over a bowl. Salt the veggies; let sit at least 3 hours, chilled.
2. Rinse the vegetables; drain well. Transfer to a large, heatproof bowl.
3. In a large pot, mix the vinegar, sugar and turmeric; bring to a boil.
4. In a cast-iron skillet on the stove, toast the cloves, celery seeds, allspice, mustard, coriander and nigella seeds until warm to the touch and fragrant. Use a square of cheesecloth and kitchen twine to bundle the spices into a sachet. Add the sachet to the boiling liquid.
5. Pour the boiling pickle liquid (and sachet) over the vegetables. Weigh down the vegetables with a dinner plate to keep them submerged. Cover and store in the refrigerator for up to 8 weeks.


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Mets sign MVP's, others
The New York Mets today announced the signing of six players to minor league contracts with invitations to major league spring training. The list includes 2008 International League Most Valuable Player and All-Time Toledo Mud Hens Home Run King INF Mike Hessman and 2009 Buffalo Bisons Most Valuable Player, OF Jesus Feliciano.
Two-time International League All-Star INF Mike Cervenak has also been signed by the Mets as well as INF Russ Adams, INF Andy Green and RHP R.A. Dickey.
Hessman, 31, has spent the last five seasons in Detroit's organization, playing 29 games with the Tigers and 591 games with the Triple-A Toledo Mud Hens. The Mud Hens' All-Time Home Run King hit 140 homers in a Toledo uniform, more than twice as many as any other player in the team's 113-year history (Erve Beck, 67, 1896-1900).
Last season, Hessman hit .217 with 30 doubles, 23HR and 77RBI in 131 games with Toledo. In 2008, Hessman was named the International League MVP after hitting .271 with 20 doubles, a league-best 34HR and 72RBI in just 108 games with the Mud Hens. Prior to that, Hessman was an IL All-Star after leading the league with 101RBI in 2007.
Hessman has hit 311 home runs in 1,556 career minor league games. He has also averaged 28 home runs over the past five seasons. In 77 career major league games with Atlanta (2003, 2004) and Detroit (2007, 2008), he has averaged .208 (35-168) with 13HR and 27RBI. Hessman also won a bronze medal while playing for Team USA in the 2009 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China.
Feliciano, 30, spent the entire 2009 season with the Bisons and was named the team's Stan Barron Most Valuable Player. In 130 games, the outfielder collected an International League-best 154 hits. His .311 batting average ranked 5th in the IL. Feliciano also led the Bisons team in runs (57), doubles (30), stolen bases (13) and multi-hit games (38).
Cervenak, 33, has spent the past two seasons with the Triple-A Lehigh Valley IronPigs and was named to the International League All-Star Team in each campaign. He hit .311 with 30 doubles, 10HR and 66RBI in 115 games with Lehigh Valley in 2008 and .305 with 36 doubles, 9HR and 77RBI in 119 games with the IronPigs last season. In 2007, Cervenak led the IL with 157 hits while playing for the Norfolk Tides.
In 1,126 career minor league games, Cervenak has averaged .295 with 142HR and 737RBI.
Adams, 29, split last season between the Toronto Blue Jays' and San Diego Padres' organizations. After hitting .319 with 1HR and 9RBI in 24 games with Triple-A Las Vegas, Adams was promoted to the Blue Jays for eight games (.200, 4-20). He was then claimed off waivers by the Padres in early July and hit .267 with 1HR and 12RBI in 36 games with Triple-A Portland of the Pacific Coast League.
Originally a 1st round draft pick of the Blue Jays in 2002, Adams has a career .247 average with 17HR and 113RBI in 286 games with Toronto. He played a career-high 139 games with the Blue Jays in 2005 and hit .256 with 27 doubles, 8HR and 63RBI that season.
Green, 32, spent the majority of the 2009 season with the Bisons but lost 69 games due two a pair of injuries. He began the year on the disabled list with a left oblique strain and then missed May, June and half of July with a fractured left thumb. While in the lineup, Green hit .259 with 7 doubles, 4HR and 20RBI in 50 games with the Bisons.
Dickey, 35, split last season between the Minnesota Twins and their Triple-A affiliate in Rochester. The knuckleballer spent the first four months of the season at the major league level and was 1-1 with a 4.62ERA in 35 games and one start (64.1IP, 85K). He spent the last month of the year with the Red Wings and was 2-1 with a 5.13ERA in five starts (33.1IP, 40K).
Originally a 1st round draft pick of the Texas Rangers in 1996, Dickey has a career record of 22-28 with a 5.43ERA in 144 games and 48 starts at the major league level with Texas, Seattle and Minnesota. In 2007, he was named the Pacific Coast League Pitcher of the Year after going 13-6 with a 3.72ERA in 31 games and 22 starts with Milwaukee's Triple-A affiliate, the Nashville Sounds.
Dickey is also a former Olympian, having won bronze with Team USA in the 1996 Summer Games in Atlanta.


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With plans including a 50-acre nature preserve, a vocational school, and 1,999 units of housing, L+M Partners director Ron Moelis said the next step is to find fiscal support from the city.
"We don't have funding," Moelis said at a community presentation last week. "We've been spending a lot of our own money to get to this point. We have a lot of support from the council member and we are hoping to get support from the [mayoral] administration."
L+M Development, The Bluestone Organization and Triangle Equities have already spent nearly $250,000 in the FAR ROC competition and are now looking towards the next step. Moelis said now is the time to put this six-year-long plan to work.
"We've put a lot into this site," he said. "The difficulty really is getting the infrastructure done, and there has got to be a will on the part of the government to do the infrastructure."
He added he is confident the city will be interested in financing the site.
"If you're looking for a blank canvas to do something new and innovative, this is it," Moelis said.
Councilman Donovan Richards organized the public forum at Challenge Preparatory Academy in Far Rockaway.
"The administration is looking to build new communities," Richards said of the city's effort to rebuild following Hurricane Sandy. "I think now we have an opportunity to do something great here."
Richards said he has recently been in talks with the Economic Development Corporation (EDC) and mayoral administration to discuss the feasibility under de Blasio's recent $41 billion affordable housing proposal.
"I do see this as part of the plan," he said. "We're going to continue talks with the administration."
Community civic groups like Rockaway Wildfire have led the efforts in drumming up support for the project. Lead organizer Kalin Callaghan said after speaking with nearby residents, most people are interested in finding jobs in building and maintaining the site.
"And not just jobs that are six-month construction jobs, but training that is linked to industry and jobs that lead to careers," Callaghan said. "There are not a lot of jobs to speak of here. We're geographically isolated, so it's difficult to commute."


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Every October, New Mexico Tech (located in Socorro, New Mexico) puts on an alumni reunion called "49ers." As a Tech alumnus myself, my part of 49ers usually involves playing bass at a three-night gig with our alumni bluegrass band, the Vigilantes, at local watering hole the Capitol Bar. In 2009, however, a little something new was added to my 49ers mix. Alumna Kathy McGrade from California attended this year and requested in advance an opportunity to address other alumni on the topic of the causes of the collapse of the World Trade Center towers on September 11, 2001. Soon, McGrade was asking that California architect Richard Gage be allowed to make the bulk of the proposed presentation, which was said to provide convincing evidence that controlled demolitions, not structural failures caused by burning jet fuel, toppled the towers. Gage has produced a voluminous Web site, "Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth", which calls for examination of "the 3 WTC high-rise 'collapses,'" and demands of Congress a "truly independent investigation."
Having developed a reputation for my investigations of the Bible Code, the Roswell UFO incident, and other fringe beliefs, Tech officials asked me to present an opposing view at the upcoming event. The debate was on. I started reviewing numerous articles on Gage's Web site and scoured many other sources for more information. Soon, a picture emerged of a massive pseudoscientific movement based on faulty physics, cherry-picked data, and demonization of opponents as complicit in the "conspiracy." I'd long been dubious of 9/11 "controlled demolition" claims, and my perusal of Gage's site left me even more skeptical of "Truth Movement" arguments.
On October 24, about thirty people assembled in the student union building for the debate. Before things got started, Gage asked for a show of hands on these three questions: "Believe fires brought down buildings" (seventeen raised their hands), "Unsure" (eight), and "Believe in explosive controlled demolition" (six). Then, alumna McGrade made a short presentation that mentioned only things agreed upon by both points of view, such as the width of the Towers, timing between the jet impacts and the collapses, and so forth. Gage followed with his thirty-minute presentation, which focused primarily on World Trade Center building 7 (WTC 7), which collapsed at approximately 5:20
pm on the afternoon of September 11. Gage argued that there are ten reasons WTC 7, which was not hit by an airplane, was intentionally demolished:
- Rapid onset of 'collapse'
- Sounds of explosions at ground floor—a full second prior to collapse
- Symmetrical 'collapse'—through the path of greatest resistance—at free-fall acceleration
- Imploded, collapsing completely, and landed mostly in its own footprint
- Massive volume of expanding pyroclastic dust clouds
- Several tons of molten metal reported by numerous highly-qualified witnesses
- Chemical signature of Thermite (high tech incendiary) found in solidified molten metal, and dust samples by physics professor Steven Jones, PhD
- FEMA finds rapid oxidation and intergranular melting on structural steel samples
- Expert corroboration from the top European Controlled Demolition professional
- Foreknowledge of 'collapse' by media, NYPD, and FDNY
After Gage's presentation, he asked for another show of hands. This time, the results were: "Fires brought down buildings" (seven hands), "Unsure" (twelve), and "Explosive controlled demolition" (nine). Then I spoke for about half an hour. I began by giving a Big Picture of the differences between science and pseudoscience with several examples that I've studied (Bible Codes, UFO conspiracies, Chemtrails, etc.).
None of the 9/11 "Truth" claims really hold up under scrutiny. For example, regarding the Twin Towers' collapse "through the path of greatest resistance—at free-fall acceleration," Gage often uses a demonstration using three cardboard boxes to make his point. He holds two small boxes in either hand, representing the topmost floors of either Twin Tower. He then drops both boxes; one is dropped on top of a thirty-inch-high strong cardboard box that represents the base of the towers (below where the planes struck), and the other is dropped onto empty air, whence it falls the thirty inches to the table top. In his online videos with this demonstration, Gage announces that "The one that had no resistance under it falls at freefall speed…. The one that has 80,000 tons of structural steel on it
—it doesn't even give. It resists. As met by an equal and opposite reaction known as the conservation of momentum. It doesn't fall." Gage then cites the supposed "freefall" speed as evidence that the towers were demolished with explosives. I mentioned this demonstration, citing it as an excellent example of pseudoscience. What's actually relevant here is load vs. structure: the fact that dynamic loads are not the same as static loads. A plate can easily support the weight of a hammer carefully placed on it, but if the hammer is dropped on the plate, the dynamic load is more than it can bear, and it can crack. Once the top floors of the towers fell even one floor's height, the horrifying "piledriver" collapse became inevitable.
I also showed simulations of why the towers fell, focusing on the interlocking structural components that reinforced the towers. I showed how WTC 7 had been severely damaged by debris from Tower 1 and showed evidence (routinely ignored by "Truthers") of the severe fires that burned for many hours in Tower 7. I discussed the claims that thermite was used and showed a test filmed at Tech in which a large quantity of thermite failed to cut a large steel beam.
A twenty-minute question and answer period followed my talk. As the meeting was adjourned and everyone was poised to leave, I asked for one more show of hands. This time, the results were almost the same as when the afternoon began: "Fires brought down buildings" (sixteen hands), "Unsure" (eight), and "Explosive controlled demolition" (six).
A few days after the talks, Gage posted only the first two votes on his Web site, misreporting the second vote severely (making his 56–44 percent margin of victory into an 86–14 percent landslide). After I protested, Gage corrected his numbers and even included the third vote, while dismissing it as "useless" because of the brevity of the presentations and the fact that some audience members arrived late.
Gage wants to debate me again, on Denver public television station KBDI. While I normally prefer not to provide platforms for conspiracy theorists to push their cases, in this instance KBDI has already been running Gage's 9/11 "Truth" documentaries during fundraising specials. No counter-programming has been offered during these showings (the NOVA episode on why the towers fell would have been an excellent antidote). Negotiations for a debate in the spring of 2010 are underway.
Finally, I offer this caution for readers: don't smugly assume this conspiracy is confined to the lunatic fringe. After years of polishing and refinement, 9/11 "Truth" efforts have persuaded many citizens, including some of my relatives and close friends, to consider the attacks of 9/11 an "inside job."


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Fighters loyal to Ivory Coast's internationally recognized President-elect Alassane Ouattara advanced out of their strongholds in the West African nation's main city Monday.
The self-described "Invisible Commandos" are now pressing the escalating battle for the presidency into new neighborhoods and closing in on the presidential palace, which renegade Laurent Gbagbo has refused to vacate since losing the Nov. 28 election.
Automatic weapon fire interspersed with the booms of mortar explosions echoed through the abandoned high rises in the central business district of Abidjan, emptied of its businessmen and street hawkers who fled in fear of the encroaching civil war.
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Irregular fighters, wearing traditional woolen shirts and amulets they claim protect them from harm, had been fighting Mr. Gbagbo's police and military in Abobo and PK-18, two northern districts of Abidjan where Mr. Ouattara is popular. As of last week, they had solidified their control of these neighborhoods, effectively carving out a piece of Ivory Coast's biggest city.
Now they're moving forward.
In the early hours of Monday, the fighters slipped into the Banco forest, a wild green expanse in the center of the city, emerging on the other side and laying siege to the house of the head of Gbagbo's army. The house is located at the edge of Yopougon, a notoriously pro-Gbagbo neighborhood where Ouattara supporters were lynched, and in some cases burned alive, in the past couple of weeks.
It's unclear whether the Invisible Commandos took the house and then abandoned it, as some of them who were contacted by telephone claimed, or whether the attack was successfully repelled, as Gbagbo's government announced on state television. At the end of the day, however, Gbagbo's police were again in control of the neighborhood.
West Africa's gem now a war zone
Abidjan, once known as the "Jewel of West Africa," is starting to look more and more like a war zone.
Bullet holes scar building facades and puncture the doors of parked cars. Roadblocks manned alternatively by police, soldiers, and armed militias proliferate.
"I'm scared to come to work," says one hotelier who asked that his name not be published. "These boys running the roadblocks threaten everyone. They grabbed my bag to search it even though it only contains my work shoes."
The Nov. 28 election was intended to reunite the country after a civil war and protracted peace process had allowed Gbagbo to stay in power five years after his mandate expired.
Instead, it thrust the world's top cocoa producer back to the brink of civil war.
Ouattara, by all measures, won the election, but the country's constitutional council, in a dubiously constitutional move, unilaterally threw out more than half a million votes and overturned the results, declaring Gbagbo the winner. Ouattara has received the near-unanimous support of the international community, and has translated this into financial sanctions in an attempt to starve Gbagbo out of power. Gbagbo, however, maintains control of the state bureaucracy and its security forces, which he has been using to hunt down and execute Ouattara supporters, spreading a campaign of terror that the UN says has killed more than 400 people.
The 'Invisible Commandos'
The mysterious Invisible Commandos rose up after a particularly brutal crackdown two weeks ago when seven women were mowed down by military police with machine guns.
Ouattara's political advisers deny having any control over the irregular fighters, who up until now were simply defending their neighborhoods from police attack. Speculation is rife, however, that the Invisible Commandos are led by members of the New Forces rebels, known as FN for their French acronym, a well-equipped and well-trained professional army loyal to Ouattara.
Monday's advance comes on the heels of yet another failed mediation effort, when the African Union endorsed Ouattara's victory and demanded Gbagbo step down immediately. Gbagbo's camp rejected this, as it has rejected a half-dozen previous international mediation attempts, and Ouattara's ground-level support seems to be taking the situation into their own hands, pushing for a military solution in spite of their leader's reticence.
"We assumed at the beginning that President Gbagbo had a large military force," says local United Nations peacekeeping mission head Choi Young-jin. "But this doesn't at all correspond with the facts since the majority of the military doesn't want to fight."
Out of a total of more than 50,000 police and military forces under Gbagbo's control, Mr. Choi believes that only the 5,000 special forces troops will fight to defend their president.
Standing against them are somewhere between 5,000 to 10,000 New Forces rebels and the small but determined force of invisible commandos.
Rebels take towns in the west
Far from the fighting in Abidjan, the rebels are also pressing forward in the jungle in the west of the country along the border with Liberia. Over the weekend the FN took a fourth town there, attempting to seal the border to prevent Gbagbo from smuggling in weapons and mercenaries. While some analysts speculate that the rebels will push 250 miles south to the country's strategic port of San Pedro to gain a foothold on the coast, others doubt the rebel's ability to sustain such a large offensive.
"That border is 100 percent porous, and would take thousands of soldiers to patrol even quasieffectively," says Christian Bock, senior adviser at the London-based security consulting firm Avascent International. "(The) FN have indeed taken all major crossing arteries, but there is still a very fluid passing of men and materiel."
One Western diplomat, who spoke on a condition of anonymity, says that Ouattara doesn't want to attack because as a legitimately elected leader he doesn't want to be seen to take the country by force. Perhaps more important, the diplomat says, it's because he lacks the munitions to do so – though it's difficult to assess the military capabilities of both sides.
"There is no shortage of small arms and full military conflict could drag on for years using existing stores, regional networks, and other capabilities of smuggling," Mr. Bock says.
UN mission leader Choi, however, holds out hope for a peaceful transition of power.
"I think that the military solution always carries a great danger because it changes the dynamic," he said in a radio interview on Monday. "The current dynamic is democracy, legitimacy, and the elections. If we opt for the military option, the winner will be the winner. So we shouldn't change the dynamic."
Despite the appearance that Gbagbo's forces had regained control of Yopougon by the end of the day Monday, one Invisible Commando who called himself Fofana explained that the attackers weren't beaten back.
"They might have left," he says, "or they might have just melted back into the population."


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It's known as one of the biggest days of the year for Oklahoma hunters – the deer gun season opened November 19th. We live about 11 miles from the nearest town, and for the last couple of days there has been a steady increase in the sound created by black powder rifles and muzzle loaders. I would describe the sound as more of a Boom than the crack one might expect to hear from that of a rifle.
We have 5 outside dogs and 2 inside dogs and the sound of what sounds like bombs bursting in the air frequently throughout the day is very frightening for them. They run and hide and have spent the entire day scared and anxious.
I've been paying close attention to my own reactions as well and I've noticed that every time I hear the boom I have a multitude of experiences that happen within me. Here I am going to investigate what exactly is going on within me and how to assist myself to stop and correct myself.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to experience fear within me when I hear the boom as the sound from those who are shooting the black powder rifles and muzzle loaders and how within that I realize that my fear is existent within the fact that the shooting is coming from an unknown origin, meaning, I have no idea who is actually doing the shooting nor what they are shooting at, thus who I am within hearing the shots fired is left entirely to the imagination of me as my mind which I've accepted to be directed entirely by/as through fear and the experience of negativity.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to have a thought/image within my mind where one of my dogs is ducking for cover to save itself from being hunted and killed by the hunter and within that, I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to imagine myself opening my front door and yelling into the air and toward the sound of the boom – that the hunter might somehow hear me say: 'Stop it, have some consideration for the animals', and within that I forgive myself for imaging that I might come face to face with the hunter to tell him to 'stop being so ignorant, to consider what it would be like to be the animal he hunts' – because when I put myself in the shoes of the hunter, I see myself in how I have existed in fear as the will to survive and how I've used that will to suppress myself to such an extent that I've not stopped to consider anyone except myself.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to not realize that when I hear the sound of the muzzle loader being shot and have internal conversation and back chat that says: 'they're fucking assholes' and/or 'that pisses me off', it's because within myself I am taking a negative experience of myself and using ego to turn it into a positive experience, through judging those who hunt and for believing myself as more superior than them, when in actuality, I feel inferior to them, and instead of investigating why and how it is that I feel inferior/superior, I avoid taking self-responsibility by projecting blame onto them because the fact is, I don't want to see how I have accepted and allowed myself to value myself as more than the animal that's being hunted, and within that I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to ignore the memory I have of an experience I had when I was younger – where on more than one occasion and by different adults I was taught that the value of the human is far more superior that of the animal and how in that moment I made the decision and lived the decision and I accepted and allowed myself to believe that I to was more superior and more important than any animal that exists and for how guilty I have felt within myself for doing so.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to when I hear the boom sound of the muzzle loader/rifle being fired, that within me to the depths of my being for a split second, I become enraged, and as I look deeper within myself, I see that my anger is not with someone 'out there', my anger is within and as me – anger at myself for how I have neglected to take a long hard look at who I am as ego and greed, and for how I have taken pride in being able to buy and have and enjoy pretty much whatever I wanted, and never once within that did I stop to consider who had to suffer in order for me to live and have and exist as I have/do, nor have I ever taken full self-responsibility for who I am and how I have existed as within our world.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to when writing the words: 'The bombs bursting in air', to feel guilt and shame for the fear I felt when I heard gunshots, when the fact is, around our world millions are in threat of losing their life at any moment due to wars where explosives are killing women and children and destroying homes because war is good for economic growth.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to feel ashamed for how as humans we display and parade around the results of our obvious abusive nature, expecting trophy's from one another to represent our desire for prestige for the act of being a murderer of life.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to not realize how through self-interest and greed I overlooked a most important point – the role that money plays in this deadly equation of the hunter and the hunted – that when we follow the trail of money we see that the human is in fact subject to the rules of money in his attempt to survive according to the rules of the system – where the animal to a certain extent is not, because the animal is able to provide for itself without a job and/or a cash advance, thus the animal is closer to being free, aware and far more intelligent than the human is.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to not realize that the overall discomforting feeling of tension within and as my physical body when I hear the firing of the guns are the result of what I accept and allow in that, when I accept and allow the death of another living being as the result of my own gross negligence in and as greed and self-interest, that I am in that moment accepting and allowing who I am as cancer itself to slowly grow within and as me and throughout our world/reality/existence.
When and as I see myself existing in fear when I hear the sound of gunshots I stop, I breathe – I commit myself to if possible investigate who and where the shots are being fired from and to educate myself to the goings on within my physical environment/world/reality.
I commit myself to realize that in every moment of breath I have the ability to direct myself to stop who I am in/as fear and to investigate my world/reality/existence as well as to investigate alternative ways to assist my animals to be comfortable and free from fear.
I commit myself to do everything I can to provide a safe and healthy environment for the animals I have accepted responsibility for.
I commit myself to an awareness of myself breathing thus when and as I see myself become irritated when I hear shots being fired and/or at my neighbor, that I will stop and realize that yelling out at anyone in anger is Not the solution, thus, I will myself through self-corrective application to first forgive myself so that I will see clear of anger and thus be able to assist others as myself.
I commit myself to focus on myself breathing so that I may realize what I've forgotten in that when I'm reACTING I'm hiding.
I commit myself to show that anger is the product of dANGER in how we have accepted and allowed our world to exist where life is a struggle to overcome the dangers of having no money with the results being that of death and starvation to thousands upon thousands.
I commit myself to when I experience myself as feeling ashamed that I stop and breathe and investigate who and what I'm existing as that I have justified as a reason to exist in and as shame.
I commit myself to in every situation where life is lost/starved/murdered to investigate the role that money plays in manifesting and creating it into our very existence.
I commit myself to show that war will Never be the solution for peace because to many have much to profit from war and that the real solution for peace will come with Equal Money.


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I think it's time we addressed this topic. By "we," of course I mean "I," who will write today's column with little or no input from you. And by "this topic," of course I mean how I purchased today's coolest car with today's uncoolest transmission. It's the automotive equivalent of moving to New York City, growing a beard, wearing flannel, riding a fixed-gear bike… and living in Queens.
For those of you who don't know, the car I'm referring to is my Cadillac CTS-V Wagon, which boasts 556 horsepower, rear-wheel drive, a navigation system, and taillights that could double as a Wal-Mart regional distribution center. I'm not sure how you couldn't know at this point, since I write about it all the time, much to the dismay of Jalopnik staff, Gawker Media, and Internet users in general, all of whom say things like: Doug DeMuro… isn't he the guy with that automatic Cadillac?
Well, yes, he is, and he's damn pleased with it.
That's right, ladies and gentlemen. The Cadillac has an automatic. It could've had a sweet six-speed stick with a fuzzy gear lever that I could swap out for one of those skull shift knobs. But it doesn't, and I'm completely OK with that.
Now, before you take up a collection to murder me (I'm listed in the New York City phone book under "Okulski"), I've provided a few reasons why I'm happy with the automatic – so hear me out. They are:
1. We already know the stick shift is good.
I'm not sure if you're aware of this, but every single publication in automotive history has reviewed the stick shift Cadillac CTS-V Wagon. You may think I'm exaggerating, but I'm not. Seriously: go to your local library, pick out a microfilmed 1913 copy of "Horseless Carriage Today" and you will find – sandwiched between articles titled 1914 Duryea To Offer Leather-Wrapped Direction Changing Stick! and Acura Says NSX Replacement Due Next Year – a story where they review the stick shift CTS-V Wagon.
If you want to know how the manual is, I suggest checking out Motor Trend, Car & Driver, Automobile, Road & Track, Autoweek, Autoblog, Edmunds, Business Insider, CNET, The Wall Street Journal, The Truth About Cars, The New York Times, Left Lane News, Motor Week, Wired, The Smoking Tire, cars.com, and even Jalopnik, all of whom tested it and said something to the effect of: THIS IS THE MOST AMAZING CAR EVER TO BE DRIVEN SOLELY BY GM EMPLOYEES!
But here's the thing: the number of CTS-Vs built with an automatic transmission appears to run approximately 127 percent of total production. Shouldn't someone write about the automatic? (You're thinking: No. Now where is my New York City phone book?)
2. Really, there weren't any for sale.
When I wanted to buy a vehicle for the noble, selfless purpose of writing about it (also known as the noble, selfless purpose of taking a large tax deduction), a few of you recommended the CTS-V Wagon. So I went searching. I quickly discovered that, of the 20-odd for sale across the country, not one was a stick shift. Plus, the cheapest one in America was less than 15 miles from my doorstep. I took that as a sign.
3. The automatic is actually pretty good.
So reasons one and two apply to my particular situation. I wanted to review an automatic to provide a different perspective. And I couldn't find any manuals for sale. But what about you, dear reader? Maybe you're considering a CTS-V. Maybe you commute. Maybe you already have a "fun" vehicle with a stick. Maybe your wife drives the car, and you tried to teach her stick once but she fried the clutch in your '86 Fiero. Is the automatic an acceptable choice for you?
The answer is: absolutely.
You see, the interesting thing about the CTS-V's automatic is that it's actually pretty good. Now, for those of you who are used to driving manuals, you might not think it takes much work to make a good automatic. You push the gas, it downshifts. You cruise on the highway, it sits in top gear. How hard is that?
The answer is that's actually really hard. This is proven by the old Cayenne V6, which used a 6-speed noise transmission that produced, instead of acceleration, a loud ruckus. And let's not forget my Range Rover Classic, which made such a loud bang upon being placed in reverse that it was like the car was asking: Do we really have to go backwards AGAIN?
The V's transmission, on the other hand, is excellent. Normal mode shifting is exceptionally smooth. In sport mode, it's a little rougher – but the benefit here is that the car downshifts so quickly you barely have time to tell your passenger about the lease deal you're getting as a GM employee. And the manual mode is great, in that it shifts when you tell it to and always lets you know precisely what gear you're in.
Maybe my only complaint is that Cadillac chose to skip shift paddles, which everyone knows and loves, in favor of what can only be described as computer keys from a mid-1990s desktop PC. I have yet to discover an explanation for this.
So there are really two messages to take away from this. Number one, the V Wagon is still just as V Wagonny with the automatic transmission. It's still fast. It still looks great. And it still handles like a sports car. Yes, the manual is great – but I'd happily recommend either transmission in an instant.
And number two? I'm tired of driving an automatic. The next car will be a stick.
@DougDeMuro is the author of Plays With Cars. He operates PlaysWithCars.com and writes for The Truth About Cars. He owned an E63 AMG wagon and once tried to evade police at the Tail of the Dragon using a pontoon boat. (It didn't work.) He worked as a manager for Porsche Cars North America before quitting to become a writer, largely because it meant he no longer had to wear pants. Also, he wrote this entire bio himself in the third person.


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KANSAS CITY -- Before the start of the season, you could have confidently predicted that the pitching staff of the Kansas City Royals would be one of the best in the American League.
Now, it can be safely suggested that the Royals' pitching may be even better than expected. The variable would be Yordano Ventura, a 22-year-old with dynamic stuff and pitching maturity well beyond his years.
There was nothing wrong with Kansas City's pitching without Ventura. The Royals led the AL in team ERA last season. The club's 43-27 record after the All-Star break established the Royals' potential. And there was relatively little turnover on the staff coming into 2014; Ervin Santana out, Jason Vargas in appeared to be roughly a wash.
But the addition of Ventura to the starting rotation adds an element of electricity to the entire undertaking. Ventura had three late-season starts for the Royals in 2013. In one of them, he threw a pitch at 102.8 mph, the fastest pitch recorded by a starting Major League pitcher last season.
After having his first scheduled start rained out, Ventura made his 2014 debut Tuesday night against the Tampa Bay Rays at Kauffman Stadium. He did not disappoint. In fact, he lived up to the best of his advance billing.
Ventura pitched six scoreless innings, and yes, he reached triple digits with his fastball on occasion. But this pitcher is more than a radar-gun phenomenon.
"The thing that impresses me most is that for a real young guy, he doesn't let the game speed up on him," Royals manager Ned Yost said. "He's got great composure, continues to compete. There are times when he'll fly open, but he's also very quick to make adjustments. That is going to be key for his development at the Major League level."
Ventura's development, even at this early stage, is already impressive. He gave up two hits and no walks against the Rays, while striking out six. But when you looked inside the at-bats, it seemed even better than that.
After a first-inning ground-ball single to Rays leadoff hitter David DeJesus, Ventura threw a 100-mph fastball on a 2-2 pitch to the 2013 AL Rookie of the Year Award winner, Wil Myers. Myers managed to foul it. Ventura then struck out Myers swinging with a pitch at 89. In three at-bats against Ventura, Myers struck out three times.
In the second inning, Ventura threw a 101-mph fastball to Desmond Jennings, then got him to bounce out to third. The heat was impressive, but what was equally impressive was Ventura's ability to put away hitters with offspeed pitches to precise locations.
With one out in the fourth, Ben Zobrist doubled, and the Rays had a runner in scoring position for the first -- and it turned out, last -- time while Ventura was on the mound. Ventura struck out Evan Longoria, the Rays' cleanup hitter, freezing him with a back-door changeup that just picked up the outside corner.
Ventura's only competitive problem was that Tampa Bay's Chris Archer was giving up nothing of value to the Royals, either. So when Ventura departed the game after six innings and 95 pitches, he left a scoreless tie.
The Royals gave up a run in the ninth and lost, 1-0. But a difficult defeat couldn't overshadow the promise that Ventura displayed.
"Ventura was really throwing good fastballs, triple-digits at times," Yost said. "Threw some good breaking balls, but really had a good changeup tonight to keep them off balance.
"What we like about him is that for a young guy, for the most part, he commands three pitches. He's got three outstanding pitches."
Compounding the degree of difficulty for Ventura on Tuesday night was the fact that he had not pitched since an exhibition game on March 29. Plus, it was a chilly, windy night at Kauffman Stadium, and Ventura, from the Dominican Republic, could not have a world of experience with this climate.
"Even though there was a lot of time between pitching, that's my job," Ventura said, in comments that were interpreted by his fellow starting pitcher, Bruce Chen. "No matter how many days I get off, I have to do my job. I'm just glad I was able to do a good job tonight.
"I felt really good and [catcher Salvador Perez] called a really good game, and my defense helped me out a lot."
The radar-gun readings pleasantly amaze the rest of us, but Ventura gets no special kick from velocity. This is another sign of his pitching maturity. When he is asked about whether he is conscious of how hard he is throwing the ball, he indicates that he has other priorities.
"Every time I'm on the mound, I just concentrate on making good pitches," Ventura said. "And every time I throw a pitch, I try to locate it so every pitch is a better quality pitch."
The future -- short term, medium term, long term -- looks extraordinarily bright for Ventura. And because of that, the Royals, a team with strong pitching last season, could be even better in that department this season.


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Weather Hill Homes Ltd. to Robert Hauser Homes Inc., lot in Parkside Village, $51,500.
Belvedere Station Land Trust to Robert Hauser Homes Inc., two lots in Rivercrest, Dunlora, $130,000.
Robert Hauser Homes Inc. to Joshua M. Muir, 350 Pleasant Place, $308,945.
Westwood Associates LLC to Richard F. Gordon, 519 Rolling Valley Court, Foxcroft, $278,500.
Louis and Jessica R. Simons to Ocean Heights Inc., 109 Reynard Drive, Colthurst Farm, $695,000.
Robert S. and Virginia A. Slechta to Michele L. Snead, 5536 Brookwood Road, Three Brooks, $169,500.
Herman C. Meyn to Michael and Caroline Pownall, 6.256 acres at 701 Club Drive, west side of State Route 648, $340,000.
Charles C. and Flora G. Cole to Adolfo L. and Cynthia W. Rojas, 3.493 acres in Ridgefield subdivision, $360,000.
R.D. Wade Builder Inc. to Michael Jones, 2079 Brownstone Lane, Still Meadow, $336,133.
Larry B. and Barbara A. Hall to Ennstone Inc., 2.0 acres in Northside Industrial Park, $1,250,000.
Gertrude H. Smith to Norman V. and Adelina G. Brown, 55 Georgetown Green, $140,000.
Richard S. Warren to Nicholas W. and Christine M. Dubroff, .9867 acre on northwest side of State Route 745, Arrowhead Valley Road, $35,000.
Wendy S. Wesa to Amy T. Louthan, 2540 Kimbrough Circle, Meriwether Hills, $257,000.
Robert H. Harris Jr. and Lyn P. Deane-Harris to Joanne T. and John H. Blakemore IV, 3.458 acres at 2125 Garth Road, $1,080,000.
James E. Duncan to Laura M. Carr, parcel in Sherwood Manor on State Route 780, $120,000.
Thomas B. and Carol C. McIntosh to Leah H. Montgomery, 1/25 acres at 4184 Millington Road, Free Union, $125,000.
Swift Run Inc. to Neven and Josipa Maricic, 1156 Pen Park Lane, $181,900.
Jean C. and Edmund H. Fording Jr. to Sandal Inc., 1367 Thistle Down, Glenmore, $322,587.11.
VanDerLinde Housing Inc. to John Fleuarkis, 2112 Brownstone Lane, Still Meadow, $451,000.
Forest Lakes Associates to Robert Hauser Homes Inc., lot in Springridge, Forest Lakes, $52,596.
Sycamore Creek LLC to Skyline Home Builders LLC, two lots in Beaver Creek, $300,000.
Joel Todd Davidson to James E. Duncan, 1043 Highlands Drive, Highlands at Mechums River, $175,000.
Wallace H. and Diana M. Kennedy to Duane D. and Tracey K. Morris, 2.310 acres at 1730 Craig's Store Road, Afton, gift.
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Pamela B. Humphries to Gordon R. Latter and Dori Hoffman-Latter, 4.0 acres on the south side of State Route 674, $155,000.
Robert Hauser Homes Inc. to Torsarn E. Roebuck, 3275 Turnberry Circle, Springridge, Forest Lakes, $225,950.
Thomas L. and Trudy B. Williams to Michael J. Hallahan, 94.58 acres at Valmont on the James, State Route 726, Scottsville, $297,000.
Eric W. and Michelle W. Amtmann to William and Kristy Davis, 1145 Hunters Ridge Road, Earlysville Forest, $205,000.
Anton N. and Joyce L. Marco to Eric W. and Michelle W. Amtmann, 5058 Old Fox Trail Court, Western Ridge, Crozet, $265,900.
Virginia I. Simnad and David L. Ashlin to Timothy and Celina J. Mills, 1611 Stoney Creek Drive, Mill Creek, $209,900.
Virgil H., Evelyn G., and Virgil H. Marshall Jr. to Church Hill Development Company, 32.42 acres on State Route 640, $200,000.
John F. Baber to James L. and Linda B. Krag, 5/8 acre on State Route 692, 6678 Plank Road, Batesville, $162,000.
Glenmore Associates Ltd. to David S. Campbell Construction Co., 1131 Cambridge Hill, Glenmore, $200,000.
Anthony E. Hackney and Stacey L. Vandyke-Hackney to Peter M. and Christine M. Kelley, 0.218 acres at 2950 Magnolia Road, Chimney Springs, Forest Lakes South, $200,000.
A.M. Nichols, Trustee of Fontana Land Trust, to MGR Development Corporation, lot in Fontana, $62,500.
Forest Lakes Associates to Robert Hauser Homes Inc., lot in Springridge, Forest Lakes, $52,596.
Belvedere Station Land Trust to Robert Hauser Homes Inc., lot in Rivercreek of Dunlora, $73,500.
Weather Hill Homes Ltd. to Robert Hauser Homes Inc., two lots in Parkside Village, $103,000.
Gaylon T. and Linda L. Beights to Laura G. and J. Kirby Farrell Jr., 13.64 acres at 240 Broad Axe Road, Temple Hill, $1,425,000.
Craig Enterprises Inc. to William F. and Judith N. White, 411 Heritage Court, Redfields, $237,027.
VanDerLinde Housing Inc. to Michael A. and Lori B. Woods, 2116 Brownstone Lane, Still Meadow, $417,466.35.
Barry Meade Homes LLC to Nicholas C. and Virginia M. Punsalan, 789 Filly Run, Cory Farm, $254,950.
Hunt Country Properties LLC to Michael F. and Cathy W. Peters, 2512 Brandermill Place, Forest Lakes, $284,500.
Michael and Judith E. Sadler to Elizabeth A. Prins, .678 acres at 590 Hedgerow Lane, $11,000.
Barry Meade Homes LLC to Jerry M. and Mary R. Rainey, 2016 Brownstone Lane, Still Meadow, $356,000.
Virginia D. Correll to Eleanore F. Walker et al., Trustees, 11253 Stonegate Way, Stonegate at Western Ridge, $221,200.
Eleanore F. Walker et al., Trustees, to Nathan S. and Amy C. Brown, 1253 Stonegate Way, Stonegate at Western Ridge, Crozet, $229,900.
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With one-day events in Italy, Sweden, Germany, Poland, France, Spain and the U.K., the Road Show will provide multiple field demonstrations showcasing how farming professionals can enhance their operations and protect the future of their business. Trelleborg's 'Blue Box', the interactive, mobile stand will also be on hand to provide visitors with all they need to know about its range of digital tools.
Taking center stage throughout the Road Show's field demonstrations will be the TM700 ProgressiveTraction™, a new /70 series of radial tires designed to meet the renewed focus of tractor manufacturers on the performance of middle range tractors. Engineered according to the company's BlueTire™ technology, the TM700 optimize the efficiency of farming operations thanks to excellent traction, superior self-cleaning and extra mileage.
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The Trelleborg Road Show will take place from June 5th to September 26th, consisting of seven stops. For details about the dates and locations of the Trelleborg European Road Show 2015 and to register your attendance, visit www.trelleborg-roadshow.com.
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Anyone Hunting Ogle County
I have been out road scouting at dusk and early evening for deer now that the hunting seasons are over. So far it looks like next years deer hunting will be as bad as this year. I have only seen 4 or 5 deer in a nite after looking over a very wide area of the county. My Nite Owl has now gone thru over 8 batteries from use. I have covered most all of the county at least twice where I have seen deer in the past, from Creston clear to Brookville and Ashton to north of Leaf River. Where I used to see close to 30 deer in a nite, now it is down to 4 or 5 a nite. Not looking good for next years hunting.
I agree oldman IDNR has done some sharpshooter in selected areas in ogle county. I haven't killed a deer in 2 yrs. I'm afraid people are still in the "shoot a doe so the herd don't grow" mentality. I choose to let all doeswalk for now. To build somewhat a few deer in are area. It frustrates me they numbers been depleated to what they are now fromthe past 20 yrs
Yes hunting ground is getting hard to get. The one guy that leased the land next to mine said that the 4 of them was hunting in Winnebago county till this year. He said that it was costing them 3,000 apice just to hunt the first season of shotgun there. Thats why they bought the hunting rights next to my property. What is really sad is that where they leased, there is hardly any timber on it.
It is sad when land goes for the high money aspect. Thankfully that hasn't happened my way yet. I hardly heard much shooting during the gun seasons either. Opening day I was expecting it to be WWIII but that simply wasn't the case. Hopefully things will turn for the better next year etc.
I get a headacke when I see how much of the private owned hunting ground has been closed down, or has been leased out to people from other areas. The ground next to mine was closed, till this past year, and now has been bought by forgien investors. The farm manager leased out hunting rights, and some people from the city, an are paying big for it. I do not think that they even seen nor shot a deer.
I agree with you Oldman. Saw some very nice bucks this year bowhunting but never saw the usual numbers of does. Never ended up shooting a deer up here this year because of that reason. This year was more of a scout for years to come. Saw quite a few stud 3.5 year old bucks that will be beautiful in the next few years. Until the does start showing up more, it might be another scout year next year.
I have lived in an hunted Ogle County for over 50 years and never have seen a time as bad as this past year. The deer herd is about gone and people need to be more selective when hunting. I and my son both only shoot older bucks, and for several years have let all the others walk. The taking of unlimited does and small bucks has not helped the deer herd. I am affraid that as long as this happends, that we hunters will just be giving the DNR what I consider a DONATION.


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WASHINGTON (AP) — Five bridges in the nation's capital, including the heavily traveled Frederick Douglass Bridge over the Anacostia River, are categorized by federal highway officials as both "fracture critical" and "structurally deficient," but District of Columbia officials say they've already fixed one and replaced another.
Nearly 7,800 bridges nationwide fall into both categories, according to an Associated Press analysis of the National Bridge Inventory. That combination of red flags is particularly problematic, according to experts. "Fracture critical" means the bridges don't have redundant protections and are at risk of collapse if a single, vital component fails. "Structurally deficient" means at least one major component of the span has advanced deterioration or other problems that lead inspectors to deem its condition "poor" or worse.
The lists fluctuate frequently, as repairs can move a bridge out of the deficient categories while spans that grow more dilapidated can be put on the lists. There are occasional data-entry errors. There also is considerable lag time between when state transportation officials report data to the federal government and when updates are made to the federal National Bridge Inventory.
According to the district Department of Transportation, the two D.C. bridges that are incorrectly categorized are the 11th Street Bridge carrying Interstate 695 over the Anacostia River, which was replaced this year with the help of federal highway dollars, and a bridge on New York Avenue at First Street Northeast which has been repaired.
The other three bridges still fall into both categories.
The heavily traveled Frederick Douglass Bridge carries South Capitol Street over the Anacostia, past the Nationals Park baseball stadium and in the shadow of the Capitol Dome. The Whitney Young Memorial Bridge carries East Capitol Street over the Anacostia toward RFK Stadium. The third span is a ramp on the outbound Theodore Roosevelt Bridge over the Potomac River that connects to the George Washington Memorial Parkway.
District officials say they have taken temporary measures to shore up those bridges. The city has plans to replace the Douglass Bridge, but funding hasn't been secured. Ronaldo Nicholson, the chief bridge engineer for the area, said replacing the bridge could cost up to $450 million if it's required to be able to open to allow large ships to travel the Anacostia, a rare occurrence. Without that requirement, the cost could be as low as $300 million, he said.
In the meantime, the district's transportation department has inserted "catcher beams" underneath the Douglass Bridge's main horizontal beams to prevent it from falling into the river should one of the major components give way.
Temporary measures to shore up the two remaining problem bridges aren't enough to move them out of the "fracture critical" and "structurally deficient" categories. The transportation department hasn't secured funding for permanent repairs.
Because the federal inventory relies on information from state departments of transportation, state officials have the latest records.
(Copyright 2013 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)


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One World was exciting merge IMO?
Looks like the merge buff is black yet again.
Since the jury started at 11, are we going to see a FINAL 2?
RC Oh well. At least she's on the jury. Can't wait to see her at Ponderosa <33
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RockShox's new light trail fork spotted in the wild and we speculate wildly
NOTE: All of what you are about to read is speculative and—other than some fleeting visuals—is not based on any information provided by RockShox. So consider this our educated guess. And when you're done reading, let us know what you think is up.
RockShox trickled out close-ups of their new fork (bottom 4 frames) last week until finally revealing a full shot-but little else.
Suspension maker RockShox teased the bike buying public—and those of us in the media—by trickling out a series of close-up photos of what appeared to be pieces of a new inverted, carbon fiber suspension fork on their Facebook page over the course of last week.
After much speculation and Photoshop hacking that pieced the parts together into a whole, the company confirmed suspicions by revealing a complete photograph of the new fork last Friday. The only accompanying info was the new fork's moniker—RS-1, a revival of RockShox's very first product name.
After pausing for a couple days to release details on the new SRAM Guide hydraulic brakes earlier this week, we got more breadcrumbs yesterday in the form of a sunny RS-1 vibe video. The edit shows the fork in action—albeit fairly tame action, shot mostly from afar—on trails near Palm Springs, Calif. And like the photos, it was just peek—no further details were released on the mysterious fork.
Video: SRAM's build to the official announcement of the RS-1 includes this edit featuring up-and-coming XC racers Kate Courtney and Russell Finsterwald going for a chill ride on the new fork.
These captures from RockShox's intro video are the only images of the RS-1 in the wild we could find.
Evidence points to 100-120mm range
From what Mtbr could piece together from the video, leaked photographs and discussions with bike manufacturers, the fork will likely sport 100-120mm of travel and likely be supplemental to RockShox's current line.
The bikes used in the video are both 29ers–with Courtney on a Specialized Rumor, a women's version of the Camber. The Camber is a 110mm rear travel bike, that's sold with various FOX and RockShox forks in either 110mm or 120mm travel configurations. The two "Evo" versions of the bike are spec'd with 120mm-travel forks.
Photos of the RS-1-equipped Specialized Camber (left) showed up on the Facebook page Mountainbiker Paris, as did a surreptitious photo form the Taipei International Cycle Show (right).
Carbon crown and uppers, unique but not proprietary thru-axel likely
Photographs appear to show an integrated carbon fiber crown and uppers attached to a carbon (?) steerer tube—a configuration that would likely offer light weight, superior rigidity for steering inputs and add stiffness to the arch-less fork uppers.
In the fork dropouts, the photograph shows a hub we suspect uses a 15mm thru-axel and a new end cap with a substantially large contact-area. Increasing the size of this interface with the dropout should in theory help the fork resist twisting forces while bolstering lateral stiffness. Our guess is that it uses some version of a RockShox's Maxle, and that most hub manufacturers will offer conversion end caps for existing wheels.
Though SRAM has an additional horse in the race in the form of its wheel business, we don't think they're going for an exclusivity play. By keeping the interface open source—as they did with their 11-speed XD Driver Body—they stand to gain far more customers than by hemming them in to a SRAM-only design.
One last detail to mention—the photo shows a post-style brake mount on the left fork dropout.
Would you like a Charger with that?
RockShox has been on a roll lately with their redux of the Pike trail/all-mountain fork, garnering "best-ever" praise (see us gush in our Enduro Compare-O here), due in no small part to the Charger Damper they launched on the fork. We've heard rumors they may replace the Mission Control damper on their Boxxer DH fork with Charger next year, why not here too?
RockShox's Charger Damper is by most accounts the primary reason their already-released Pike fork works so well. No telling if it will be on the new RS-1.
29er yes, 27.5 most likely, 26-inch maybe but probably not
The Camber is a 29-inch wheel bike, so 29er compatibility is a given. A 27.5-inch version would seem inevitable, and perhaps have slightly longer travel—say in the 130-140mm range. We wonder if they could pull this off by using the same uppers and just changing the lower stanchions and some internals to adjust for wheel diameter.
RockShox may choose to make a 26-inch wheel version of the fork, but we'd say it's unlikely. Though the "install base" of 26ers is enormous, larger wheel sizes dominate both the XC and trail bike categories in terms of new units. The market to update old bikes with what will likely be a very expensive fork is minimal—unless it could be done by manipulating a fork that already works for one of the other two wheel sizes.
Where would this fit in the line?
Travel-wise the new model overlaps the company's SID XC race and Revelation light trail forks, which already tread on each other's territory to some extent. And while conceptually this new fork could replace them both, we don't see that happening for cost reasons, presuming the RS-1's uppers are carbon—and pricey—as we suspect.
The Kawasaki KX 450F motocross bike, like almost every high-end motorcycle on the market, employs an inverted fork with stanchion protectors. Images courtesy of Kawasaki.
Inverted forks commonplace on motorcycles
Many of the comments to our initial Facebook post on the subject point to a certain amount of trepidation towards the inverted design because fork stanchions appear more vulnerable. From our point-of-view, the issues are more about lateral stability and preventing twist—which RockShox presumably has addressed with the dropout/end cap interface.
In the motorcycle world, all high-end off-road forks are inverted. Motocross forks come with stanchion protectors to fend off kicked-up rocks and debris from roost, which is theoretically less likely in a non-motorized scenario.
That said, some forks currently on the market—X-Fusion's Revel and the DVO Emerald as well as Cannondale's single-legged Lefty—are inverted and ship with plastic stanchion protectors. Perhaps an aftermarket supplier—think Lizard Skins—will come up with similar versions for the RS-1, or even RockShox themselves if necessary.
Why, RockShox why?
Presumably with any new product introduction, the company's goal is to make things better. With a fork that means better weight, performance and lateral rigidity. Though it's hard to imagine a fork in this class being lighter than a SID, buttery like a Pike and as laterally stiff as a Lyric, even getting close to that trifecta could mean a big step forward.
Like we said at the beginning, all this is what we don't know—but we will. We just got the invite to the press launch today—Friday, Aprill 11th at Sea Otter—so stay tuned.


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CULTURE- ART FEATURE- Unblocked color: Sykes is driven to abstraction
Painter Gresham Sykes had me at orange. Some people are suckers for certain colors, and I admit to a weakness for anything falling between red and yellow on the spectrum. The fact that Sykes' current exhibition in the McGuffey Art Center's main gallery also includes intense blues– from cerulean to azure to teal to cobalt– is just an intoxicating bonus.
Following in the footsteps of the Color Field movement– which had its heyday in the mid-20th century and included artists like Jules Olitski, Helen Frankenthaler, and Hans Hofmann– Sykes creates large acrylic abstracts with no detectable references to the real world (although several titles allude to astronomy). Instead, the artist invents relationships by arranging geometric shapes against large swaths of color.
Although at first glance the strength of Sykes' colors suggest he's working with pure pigments, a closer look quickly reveals that every hue is the result of layering– one color brushed on top of another through which earlier layers show. Edges blur, and nothing is exact.
For instance, in "Counting Coup," Sykes places a nearly rectangular shape of blackish teal in the middle of a sea of red-orange. To the upper right, an uneven round of ochre floats, while a spot of black-teal sits left of center. Meanwhile, across the bottom, seven not quite vertical stripes of varying colors are unevenly spaced. All these irregularities interrelate to form an unexpectedly balanced composition.
In fact, Sykes is at his best when he makes counter-intuitive sense from elements that logically shouldn't work together. His "Astronomer's Window" presents a block of cerulean blue scattered with bits of emerald green and a small horizontal area flecked with cobalt, on a background of dried-mud ochre. A larger round of searing orange, juxtaposed with two nearby blots of black, electrifies the left third of the cerulean block. But below, a horizontal band of sickly chartreuse, containing a row of muddy dots, stretches edge to edge. The combination should be hideous, but instead it's riveting.
Not every piece in Sykes' show is as successful. "Agrigento" stands out as a hulking, dull anomaly, its drab yellow-grey architectural shape looming against a lackluster brown background. Also, although the blues and violets in "Kuiper's Belt" are eye-popping, the X-through-the-canvas composition lacks the subtle complexity of Sykes' other works.
Overall, though, Sykes' paintings jump with colorful abstract explorations. I suggest heading to McGuffey to gulp some visual orange juice.
Gresham Sykes' exhibition of acrylic paintings on paper, board, and canvas is on display in the McGuffey Art Center's main gallery through the end of May. 201 Second St. NW. 295-7973.


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That Michelle would take the time out of her incredibly busy schedule to reply to me, essentially a nonentity who's never met her, is a testament to her class and kindness towards her fans.
The great thing is that it is not just Michelle being kind and classy. No matter how big she gets, she still takes a youthful and unaffected delight in these exchanges and interactions. i think she's tickled when fans post off the wall stuff about her and blasts from the past.
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Here is an article on Michelle's speech:
Great news from the article--Clay and Michelle have new real estate in Newport!
"Pell and Kwan bought a home in Newport last December. Pell said the house "is Michelle's project" and "needs a lot of work." They still live in Providence, he said."
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Here is the page I set up in which we can send our donations in as a team/group. You can also donate individually if you wish, but those who would like to do both, or to just under MKF, can send their donations under this link:
Shep has done a lot for the forum in the many years that The Michelle Kwan Forum has been around, particularly in the last decade or so. By donating,


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Police suspect that one man is responsible for two sexual assaults near the Hobby Airport in recent months.
The latest attack occurred Feb. 8 after the man approached a 28-year-old woman who was walking in the 8900 block of Airport, officials said. He asked her to go to a motel with him and she agreed. He pulled into a parking lot of an abandoned warehouse. He hit and choked her as he sexually assaulted her, police said.
She fought off the man, escaped from the car and ran. A citizen saw her partially clothed at a nearby convenience store and helped her.
Another attack
The man is also a suspect in an attack about 8:30 a.m. Dec. 31, officials said.
Officials said the man offered a woman and her friend a ride after they got off a Metro bus on Glencrest near Airport. The women accepted. The man drove one of them to a business at Airport and Monroe, where she got out of the car.
The other woman, 22, asked the man to drop her off at a business at Airport and Hansen.
Instead, the man drove her to an abandoned building in the 8900 block of the Gulf Freeway and parked. He locked the doors so the woman could not get out. Then he hit her in the face and sexually assaulted her as he choked her, police said.
The man is described as being between about 36 and 42. He is about 5 feet 9 inches tall and weighs about 180 pounds. At the time of the assaults, the man had medium-length hair, a mustache and a dark-brown complexion.
What to look for
In the latest attack he was wearing a white T-shirt and light blue jeans. In the first assault he wore a brown plaid shirt and blue jeans.
Officials said he drove a green Ford Mustang that was damaged near the driver's side tail light. Only part of the Texas license plate is known. It is BL714.
Anyone with information is urged to contact Crime Stoppers of Houston at 713 222-TIPS or online at online at www.crime-stoppers.org.
Tips can also be sent by text message. Text TIP610 and tips to CRIMES (274637).
Crime Stoppers will pay up to $5,000 for information that leads to the suspects arrest or felony charges being filed against him.
All tipsters remain anonymous.