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Playoff pieces fall into place for Woodland and Wolcott; Oxford left out
The real question entering Thanksgiving morning's slate of football games wasn't whether three Naugatuck Valley League teams would make the postseason, but whether two of those teams would meet in Tuesday's quarterfinals.
The answer: no.
Ansonia was a heavy favorite to clinch the No. 1 spot in the Class S field, and the Chargers did just that with a 48-27 win over Naugatuck, which definitely held its own all morning.
That was easy to predict, though. Figuring out where Woodland would finish in the Class S standings wasn't quite so simple.
After the Hawks' 62-26 win over Seymour and Montville's win over St. Bernard (which put Woodland past Stonington) on Wednesday night, Woodland needed a set of events to play out Thursday not just to make the playoffs, but to avoid a third meeting with Ansonia in the opening round.
The Hawks clinched early Thursday when Rocky Hill beat Northwest Catholic, assuring Woodland of no worse than the No. 8 spot.
To move up from the final spot, Woodland either needed to gain more bonus points than Prince Tech or have Trinity Catholic lose to Wilton. The Crusaders pulled out a win to earn the No. 6 spot, but Prince Tech's bonus points fell through and allowed the Hawks to stay ahead.
Woodland's average (118.89) was just better than Prince Tech's (117.00) and can be attributed to several games that broke in the Hawks' favor.
Bonus points are awarded to teams when defeated opponents earn victories. After Prince Tech lost to Capital Prep on Tuesday, Prince had three potential bonus points remaining. It wanted Putnam to beat Killingly, Wolcott Tech to beat Abbott Tech and Cheney Tech to beat East Catholic. None of that happened.
The Hawks earned two bonus points, which counted for a little more than Prince's because Woodland only played nine regular-season games, when Torrington beat Watertown and Kennedy beat Crosby.
Woodland actually could have moved up to No. 6 had Holy Cross held on against Wolcott and one other bonus point worked out against Trinity Catholic, but the Hawks stayed at No. 7 and will face No. 2 Capital Prep on Tuesday night at Hartford's Dillon Stadium.
Ansonia, as expected, is the top seed in Class S and will host Prince Tech on Tuesday night. With a win, the Chargers would face either No. 4 Rocky Hill or No. 5 Hyde in next Saturday's semifinals.
North Branford earned the No. 3 seed with a comeback win over Hyde on Wednesday and could face Woodland in next Saturday's semifinals, provided the Hawks win and the Thunderbirds beat Trinity.
Oxford fell just short of the Class S field, finishing with an average of 113.00. The Wolverines entered Thanksgiving week needing a win over Pomperaug plus losses by three teams (out of Trinity, Woodland, Northwest Catholic and Stonington). The weakness of Oxford's wins (seven of eight against teams with losing records) denied the Wolverines their first postseason berth.
In Class M, Wolcott controlled its own destiny and secured a home quarterfinal, needing a full 48 minutes of effort to knock off Holy Cross for the first time since 2001. The Eagles earned the No. 1 seed in Class M and will face No. 8 Montville in Tuesday night's quarterfinals, but they have a tough draw in the quarterfinals.
Wolcott will face either Hillhouse or St. Joseph, which is probably one of the state's best quarterfinal matchups. The teams moved into the Nos. 4 and 5 spots after Weston beat Joel Barlow and New London lost to Norwich Free Academy on Thursday.
Southington needed a win Thursday over Cheshire to lock up a home quarterfinal and got it. The Blue Knights would have dropped to No. 5 with a loss but earned the No. 2 seed with a win. They will host No. 7 Glastonbury in Tuesday night's quarterfinals, a rematch of a thrilling midseason game Southington won with a second-half comeback.
Class LL is loaded, with Staples at No. 1, Xavier at No. 3, Newtown at No. 4 and Norwich Free Academy at No. 5. Greenwich's loss demoted it to No. 6 and West Haven snuck in at No. 8 with a win over Fairfield Prep.
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Clutch plays send Woodland to 'S' semis
HARTFORD — Ask six people who watched Wednesday night's Class S quarterfinal between No. 7 Woodland and No. 2 Capital Prep what was the biggest play of the football game, and you'll almost assuredly get six different — though correct — answers.
You might hear about any one of Tanner Kingsley's four huge fourth-quarter completions to three different receivers. Some may say it was his two-point conversion run, or Woodland's go-ahead safety on a bad punt snap. Or maybe even Jim Barrett's late on-side kick recovery.
Whatever the play, though, they were all indispensable to the Hawks' come-from-behind 37-35 victory at Dillon Stadium. Woodland advanced to Sunday's semifinals against No. 3 North Branford at a time and site to be determined today.
The Hawks (8-3) had to rally from a 16-point deficit after Kingsley threw an interception in the end zone and had it returned 103 yards by Tashane Walters for a touchdown. That made it 28-12 in favor of Capital Prep (10-1) with 6:38 left in the third quarter.
It didn't faze the record-setting quarterback.
"I just live to see the next play," said Kingsley, whose five touchdown passes gave him 47 on the year to shatter the state's previous single-season mark of 43. "I knew I had to step up and lead the offense down the field again. I have a refuse-to-lose mentality."
He did just that, aided by a resurgent rushing attack that softened the Trailblazers' secondary. Taylor Tucciarone rushed for 71 of his 79 yards in the second half.
"We told them, 'You guys are from the Valley. Play football like it,'" Woodland coach Tim Shea said. "Tucciarone ran the ball great, Scirpo and (Rahmi) Rountree were excellent, Tanner was good and the line blocked well."
Woodland started to chip away by putting together a 10-play drive (including a fourth-and-inches conversion by Kingsley) that ended on a 31-yard touchdown pass to a wide-open Scirpo. Kingsley hit Jack Pinho with a two-point conversion pass to make it 28-20 with 2:48 left in the third.
The Hawks forced a three-and-out on the next series, led by Jim Barrett's stuff of a screen pass to Mike Jones.
"We finally started to connect with each other," Barrett said of Woodland's second-half defense, which allowed 35 yards. "We started playing as a unit. We were getting down on each other in the first half. We gave ourselves a pep talk at halftime, and we came out and played much better."
On a third-and-9 from the 24, Kingsley scrambled to his left and heaved a ball into double coverage at the goal line. Scirpo rose above two defenders for his fourth score of the night, and Kingsley followed with the game-tying two-point conversion run to make it 28-all with 11:50 left.
"This team doesn't quit at all," Kingsley said. "We bring so much heart to the game, and I knew it wasn't over. There was so much time for our offense. We can score on any play of the game."
Woodland made another three-and-out stop on the ensuing drive, but Capital Prep punter Chase Briley saw the snap sail over his head and rest near the 5-yard line. He picked it up and ran out of the end zone for a safety that gave the Hawks a 30-28 lead, their first since early in the second quarter.
On the following series, Woodland put together an 11-play set that ate up nearly seven minutes. Kingsley again found Scirpo in double coverage on a fourth-and-14 from the Capital Prep 38. Scirpo managed to grab the ball and tap a foot in bounds before losing the ball after he hit the grass.
"It was supposed to be a streak route," said Scirpo of the 24-yard catch. "I cut it off and I saw the ball coming at me. I didn't even know I had the ball because I got hit so hard again."
Woodland took a 37-28 lead when Kingsley ended the drive with an 8-yard middle-screen pass to Rountree.
Capital Prep quickly scored on Antwan Byrd's third touchdown run of the night to make it a two-point game, but Barrett secured the ensuing on-side kick to give the Hawks a chance to run out the remaining 2:02.
"I was getting all antsy waiting back there," Barrett said. "Someone told me they were going to pop it high, and I was getting ready for it. Once it went up, I flew to the ball and it ended up in my hands. I made sure I did not let go."
Woodland faced a third-and-8 at its own 47 with a minute left, but instead of running the ball to waste time, the Hawks went to the air. It worked.
Kingsley floated a pass down the right sideline to the 5-foot-6 Pinho, who reeled it in and ran 47 yards to seal the game.
"I give all credit to Coach (Tim) Phipps for the play call," Pinho said. "I ran a wheel route and got open. Tanner placed it perfectly in my hands. It happened so fast. I looked up and realized we were going to the semis."
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Is there any chance of the Mises Institution releasing a spanish edition of Human Action? Perhaps in the nifty paperback version? I know that the Mexican Mexican Institution had it on hardcover, but their version was for about 80$.
"Mexican Mexican Institution"?
Pardons. The Mexican Mises Institute; they've gone defunct in the past year I believe. As I stated in my original post, they were the only ones that I knew of printing the spanish translation of Human Action. Does anyone know if there are any plans for a new printing by the American or other counterparts?
Edit: After some more searching it seems that the Spanish Mises also has a spanish version for 70 euro.
I know you're looking for a hard copy, but does this help?
It does actually, thank you.
There's a Mexican Mises institute?
To paraphrase Marc Faber: We're all doomed, but that doesn't mean that we can't make money in the process.
Rabbi Lapin: "Let's make bricks!"
Stephan Kinsella: "Say you and I both want to make a German chocolate cake."
There was, it's defunct now. They hosted a yearly Milton Friedman Award and dinner. If I remember correctly they were based in Monterey.
Edit: Correction, it was based in the DF and its proper name was The Cultural Institute of Ludwig von Mises. It actually printed several spanish translations of Mises and other Austrian works. Not exactly the best evidence, but below reference the existence of the Institute before it became defunct.
There is also a Mises Institute of Ecuador. You might contact someone there as well. (Mises Global)
I've sent an inquiry to Ecuador. By the look of their website they don't seem to publish any books though.
On the subject of translations, does anyone know which other languages Human Action/Mises' work has been translated into? I know besides the English and Spanish versions there is a Catalan. Czech, Portuguese and Polish version. Is there a german translation of it? Not of the work which Mises based Human Action on, National Economy I believe, but a translation of Human Action.


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Is the mounting screw on tripods always directly on the optical axis? I have a D5000 here and in this particular case it is. But can I trust that it's always there?
I'm assuming you mean the tripod mounting screw thread that's on the camera, not on the tripod. The answer that that is no, not always, although in most cases it will be. I've seen cameras (mainly point and shoot devices) that have the tripod mounting screw located off-center and/or away from the center of the lens.
You can count on it on all currently produced DSLRs.
You cannot count on it in general though.
There three possible positions for the tripod mount:
Last year I also encountered the first modern digital camera not to have a tripod socket.
It is true of all Canon and Nikon DSLR's, but not all cameras, especially compact cameras.
From www.pinnacle-vr.com:
The Camera Plate works with any camera that has its tripod hole in the center of the optical axis. This includes all Canon and Nikon DSLR's
I think you'd be hard-pressed to find a DSLR that doesn't have the tripod mount very close to the optical axis, but when you start getting into smaller-format cameras, you'll occasionally see it moved to one side (ex: Olympus E-P1, Panasonic LX3, LX5). In a DSLR, this would be considered a serious design flaw, but it seems to be generally forgiven in those smaller form factors.
DPReview's detailed review of the E-P1, for instance, notes the location of the tripod mount as being off-center, but doesn't include this as one of their "con" factors for this camera.
No. On Leicas, for example, they could not have put the tripod mount further off the lens axis if they had tried. It is off in the extreme left or right (depending on the exact camera model) corner of the base-plate.


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Local employees join Walmart protests
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Thanks Guy. Tweeted. Recommended.
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Hey John, long time no chat.
This article is light and misleading on facts. What have you hear about outside of the Milwaukee area?
Any actual walk-outs?
You can see the photos on Twitter using the #walmartstrikers hashtag
Monopolies and oligopolies are anti-competitive and anti-capitalism. All the cash get sucked out of the system and demand collapses.
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Hey John, you didn't really answer my question.
Photos will show all the bussed in people - undistinguished from actual employee walk outs. I guess I expected updates too soon. I'm starting to see stories roll in that the Milwaukee experience is representative of the rest of the nation. About one actual walk-out employee per store joining a bussed in crowd.
As to your other points:
"Anti-competetive and anti-capitalism" assumes that as Walmart puts other stores out of business, they jack up prices - which has not been the case.
I agree that is a concern, just as Pick n' Save being the only grocery store left in the Milwaukee area was a concern. But capitalism being what it is, as Pick n' Save started increasing prices due to lack of competition, other stores have started to expand in the area again, seeing an opportunity.
We don't live in a vacuum. If Walmart starts jacking up prices, other stores will start popping up. In that scenario, if Walmart tries to block their entry to the market, that is what anti-trust laws are for.
In other economic terms, Walmart creates the "wealth effect" in America.
Trying to artificially set wages, benefits, and demand collapses entire nations.
Not sure how the Santorum plan backs your point . . .
Hey, I just posted on another Black Friday article wondering why there wasn't an update on this.
The article is a bit misleading though. Based on other news sources the Walmart walk-out protests in the Milwaukee area consisted of the north side of Milwaukee (58th & Capital) and Kenosha. Each with one employee of the store walking out, meeting with a bussed in crowd of protestors. The buses went to other stores, but did not have in store participants.
I will say I have noticed a reduction in staffing at my Walmart over the last 5 years. To the point that shelves aren't kept up well, there is limited help in store, and check out times have gotten painful. I even did a personal boycott of Walmart for about 6 months, but found the frustration of going to multiple stores to find what I needed, and paying more for it, wasn't worth it. Walmart, despite being a poor customer experience still has a superior selection and superior pricing . . . no doubt in large part due to their low employment expenses.
Would you shop there if you had to pay the same or more for products? I think it just is what it is. Walmart provides wealth to all of America by making our dollar go further. It can't do that AND provide middle class wages and benefits to its employees.Hide replies
Because of their policies, treatment of employees, including lack of insurance, while maintaining high profits, I have never, and will never spend a dime in there. I'm living very comfortably, by not supporting China!!!!! Besides, I still prefer to shpr localy!!!!!
Walmart has very small margins, they make their profit on volume.
Walmart abuses China (they tell them how much they will pay, and it is pretty unrealistic), and passes the savings on to us.
I also prefer to shop locally, but I can't afford to pay twice as much for the same thing. Depends on the item. Good for you that you can afford to pay thousands more a year than you need to in order to support local businesses. I appreciate it.
datea11 - insurance at a job is a dying art - get used to it under obamacare. Employers will employee people for less hours so they don't have to pay. Get a clue. A personal boycott? Who are you kidding. Who but even you knew you did it? What were the results? You were frustrated and went back - that's why walmart works. They owe their employees a paycheck for hours worked. How do we know half of these employees even deserve any respect? Are they on time? How is their attitude.? I personally despise almost everyone I encounter in my walmart. They are surely and rude, but guess what? I use the self checkout and save money!! So I don't care. I just go about my business.
So, people without much in terms of marketable job skills want more money? They need to ask themselves "What can I offer an employer? before demanding more of anything. Jobs don't exist so a company can employ people- a job is created because a company needs someone who can do, or be taught to do, specific tasks. Period. If the people available are incapable of doing these, or being taught, or don't want to for any reason, the company needs to look elsewhere for employees. If an employer doesn't want to treat people fairly (as seen from the outside, not just from the employees' perspective), they will never gain a reputation for being a "good employer". It goes both ways- a good employee will make more money and can be promoted but people who complain will be passed by. It's your choice.Hide replies
It comes down to the marginal product of labor equation.
How much does that employee at to the firm?
How unique are those employee's skills?
I wouldn't doubt there is some room for increases, but that jeopardizes the overall Walmart business model - we shop there because it is cheaper. If it is not, Walmart fails.
All of America loses money by having to spend more for the same product. Employees of Walmart lose their crappy jobs if Walmart fails. A crappy job is better than no job. I've been there, working multiple crappy jobs trying to support my family. It didn't occur to me to try to force those crappy jobs to pay me more, but it did occur to me to go back to school.
Sorry, "add" to the firm
So CD HC, you like supporting China?
I don't believe wal-mart has ever been considered a "good employer". And while there are ways to earn promotions/bonuses, if you've read any of the multiple articles on its labor practices the last week, you'd understand how management works as hard as it can to limit advancement, and moreso pay increases.Hide replies
There are only so many management positions.
From what I have heard from a long-time [former] store manager, it is not local management that is limiting advancement. A couple of years ago Wal-mart fired most of the long term local management and replaced them with unqualified kids making $10-15/hour. That has a lot to do with the recent declines in store appearance.
Notice how this article references "protesters" traveling in three school buses from store to store? This jibes with national reports that these "walkouts" are a few Wal-Mart employees here and there joining with crowds of protesters who have no direct connection to the company.
It's supremely ironic how a union has to bus in rabble-rousers to actually create a crowd. Shouldn't these union types be off protesting at Hostess or somewhere?Hide replies
Green shirters responsible for bankruptcy at Hostess. They feel empowered now. WalMart is a diffferent animal not a limping Hostess.
Green shirters should get back to IL where they belong. How much were they getting paid today to rabble-rouse???? Food workers' union has a lot less people paying dues since Hostess closed. Can they afford to pay the green-shirters? They are NOT marching out of principle.
moony, Obamacare allows the insurance company's to bill the middle class for lousy coverage.
This is from Twitter and it's why you should support the strikers: "I work full-time for one of the richest companies in the world, & my kids get state health insurance and food stamps." #Walmartstrike
Try to stay on topic, John. We're debating the merits (or lack thereof) of these Wal-Mart "protests." Your typical liberal "distract and change the subject" tactic is an epic fail. Is Obamacare even mentioned in the article? Uh, no.
We pay for it either way John, either my tax burden is higher, or my household expenses are higher.
Now that I think about it . . . it's not like my tax burden would go down if Walmart got people off of state assistance . . . so I guess there is only one way I'd pay for it.
moony, sorry about your stutter. If you want to use tax dollars to subsidize the most profitable corporations in America, be my guest. Just don't call yourself a conservative.
CD, capitalism is the laws of supply and DEMAND. When the 1% control 40% of the nation's net value, when they use that wealth to buy both parties and export our manufacturing base, DEMAND collapses. That's where we are now. I believe in FAIR trade, not FREE trade. Rick Santorum "Made in America." http://www.ricksantorum.com/made-america
Heck I am all for Wal-Mart unionizing.
Then maybe all those dumps will shut down around here.
Go Brotherhood of Wal-Mart idiots !!!!!!
Squeeze the blood out of the many to please the few who own everything already.
Why is this even news? More workers probably called in sick/hungover than walked out of Wal Mart today!Hide replies
Vern, same old story. It's news because the media chooses to make it news.
But Wal-Mart does appreciate their employees; it's called HIRING YOU and GIVING YOU A PAYCHECK.
You're not getting paid for nothing.
It's interesting that thousands of anti-business, anti-capitalism proponents of today's Democrat Socialist Totaltarian Party are out scouring for cheap goods at Wal-Mart and other stores.
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On my computer I have the following partitions:
/dev/sda1 * 2048 180410359 90204156 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda2 180410368 262330367 40960000 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda3 262330429 599834969 168752270+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda4 599840768 625135615 12647424 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda5 262330431 451089134 94379352 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 451089198 599834969 74372886 83 Linux
sda1 is the Windows Vista partition and is bootable.
sda3 is an extended partition containing two Linux partitions:
sda5 contains my old Linux installation (Ubuntu 10.04) and
sda6 contains my new Linux installation (Ubuntu 12.04). During installation, Ubuntu 12.04 has configured GRUB so that I get all three operating systems in the boot menu, i.e.
Ubuntu 12.04 (/dev/sda6)
Windows Vista (/dev/sda1)
Ubuntu 10.04 (/dev/sda5)
After moving all my files to Ubuntu 12.04, I want to format the Ubuntu 10.04 partition
/dev/sda5) and use it to store data.
My question is: can I run GRUB again after I have deleted Ubuntu 10.04 to regenerate the boot menu and remove all the Ubuntu 10.04 entries? What is the name of the tool I have to use, in case there is one?


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Greetings from Delaware…the fields of New Castle are waving between the blue rocks just across the street from the Charcoal Pit today…all is as it should be. An exciting month of March lay ahead. In a stunning turn of events I'm playing the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC on the 14th of March for the ASCAP Foundation. You can read all about it by clicking here. The evening is hosted by Mountain Stage's Larry Groce who will also interview me for all my top secrets about how to write songs to play at Rockwood Music Hall. I'm very honored to be playing though I'll probably get banned from future performances there for use of profanity and spitting in front of women and children so this may be your only chance to catch me there…
South By Southwest 2013 will prove to be the year of The Bandit. BP Fallon & The Bandits of which I'm a proud member, co-songwriter and co-producer will playing up a storm and I'll do a solo gig or two as well including a great one Saturday at The Whip In with Matt The Electrician, Tim Easton, Bonnie Whitmore and Colin Gilmore all on the bill as well. Check out the shows page for the skinny on all of it.
The new MSGrs record is EP along nicely, as is my new full length. Very excited for both. Ok, I'm going to go work on the usual: professional counseling for Olympic divers with fears of falling from high locations. Remember: fun is to be had by those who've earned it through breaking the rules and never letting their school work get in the way of learning something.
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1. Pennsylvania Town Says Couple Runs Swingers' Club Inside Church
3. Duncanville court postpones trial for 'Cherry Pit' swingers club owners
4. Duncanville police arrest co-owner of Cherry Pit swingers club
5. Tribeca S&M palace raided; owner, 'Domina' held on prostitution raps
National Coalition for Sexual Freedom -- Media Update
September 21, 2008
NCSF Media Updates represent a sampling of recent stories printed in US
newspapers, magazines, and selected websites containing significant
mention of SM-leather-fetish, polyamory, or swing issues and topics.
These stories may be positive, negative, accurate, inaccurate - or
anywhere in between.
NCSF publishes the Updates to provide readers a comprehensive look at what
media outlets are writing about these topics. NCSF permits and encourages
readers to forward these Updates where appropriate.
"Pennsylvania Town Says Couple Runs Swingers' Club Inside Church"
by Todd Connor
Fox News
September 19, 2008
PITTSBURGH - A Pennsylvania couple is fighting to maintain a church they
run from a Huntingdon Township home, which officials say is really a
raunchy swingers club where single men have to pay for access but women
come for free.
John and Kim Ondrik say they worship nature at the Church for Spiritual
Humanism. But midnight mass at the Spiritual Palace is on hold as the Rev.
John and his wife fight for a variance to continue practicing their
religion in a residential area just outside of Pittsburgh.
Opponents of his church, including neighbors and North Huntingdon Township
officials, say what's really behind those closed doors is a club called
the "Swinger's Palace."
Township commissioner Richard Gray said it's been an open secret that a
swingers club has operated out of the two-story house since the 1970s, but
they finally have the evidence to shut it down.
Gray said the dispute is not about church or sex ? it's about having a
business operating in a residentially zoned area.
"The mere fact that they were charging a mandatory fee to get in, in my
opinion, would constitute a business," he said.
An attorney representing John Ondrik told FOX News that members in the
private church give a donation and aren't charged to get inside the
midnight masses, which typically take place on Friday and Saturday nights.
"You have a right to run a church in a residential area not because of
your free exercise rights under the Constitution, but simply because
churches are not primarily commercial," said Bruce Ledewitz, a law
professor at Duquesne University.
Ledewitz said the Ondriks might have a case if they can convince
authorities they're sincere about their religion and that they truly
believe in their church.
But keeping the Palace open might be a tough sell. Its Web site, which was
recently taken offline, showed that couples were charged an admission of
$50 while single men had to pay $75. Single women could attend free of
Self-described swinger "Dave" said he and his partner paid money to get
into the club. "You didn't get in without paying money. If you didn't pay
your money you were going back out the door."
To read this entire article, go to:
"Shrinks: Kinky Sex is a Mental Disorder"
by staff writer
September 19, 2008
According to doctors, people who engage in kinky sex are just plain nuts.
Find out why --- and what's being done about it.
People who engage in adventurous sex are now being labeled with a "mental
health illness," according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of
Mental Disorders or DSM. Yup, that's right, the official handbook of
psychiatry has now added kinky sex to its list of mental disorders.
In other words, if you indulge in role-playing, enjoy the feel of hot
candle wax, or use handcuffs (even the furry kind!) you're considered
someone who has a "mental disorder characterized by a preference for or
obsession with unusual sexual practices." The shame!
This isn't the first time the DSM has stirred controversy: Until 1974,
homosexuality was listed as a mental disorder. And now engaging in "wild"
sex which, for some people, that just means "normal," is a sign one has
lost their marbles.
?A group called the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom has launched a
petition to get "BDSM" (bondage, role-playing, punishment, discipline, and
fetishes, just to name a few) out of the DSM. In fact, they published a
paper on the topic here, and invite people to support their endeavor. They
are also asking that APA to base its conclusions on science, not on the
mainstream idea of what's considered "normal."
Why is this so important? If you meet the criteria for a DSM-approved
disorder, it could affect you at the workplace -- and even in child
custody agreements.
To read this entire article, go to:
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"Duncanville Court Postpones Trial for 'Cherry Pit' Swingers Club Owners"
by Jon Nielsen
The Dallas Morning News (Texas)
September 18, 2008
Duncanville's municipal court postponed a trial date today for the Cherry
Pit owners accused of violating the city's sexually oriented business
The cases will be heard Oct. 27. The original date was set for Monday.
At issue in the municipal court case is about a dozen citations issued to
owners Julie M. Norris, 30, and Jim Trulock, 59, for running the swingers
club out of their home. The city has targeted the home, which sits on a
wooded residential lot on North Cedar Ridge Drive near Interstate 20, for
operating a sexually oriented business without a license and in a
residential neighborhood. City leaders and investigators maintain that the
home is a business because patrons are asked for a donation to attend
weekend and holiday parties.
Further complicating the case are the recent arrests of Mr. Trulock and
Ms. Norris on suspicion of serving alcohol at an unregistered club. The
Class A misdemeanor carries up to a one-year jail sentence or a fine up to
To read this entire article, go to:
Duncanville police arrest co-owner of Cherry Pit swingers club
by Jon Nielsen
The Dallas Morning News (Texas)
September 17, 2008
Duncanville police arrested the co-owner of a swingers club known as the
Cherry Pit on Wednesday.
The arrest of Julie M. Norris, 30, comes a day before a scheduled pretrial
hearing in the case against the notorious Duncanville sex club. Mrs.
Norris was charged with violating the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Code for
operating an unregistered club, a Class A misdemeanor. If convicted, she
can serve up to one year in jail or a fine of up to $4,000.
The co-owner of the Cherry Pit, 59-year-old Jim Trulock, was arrested on
the same charge earlier this month.
Duncanville city officials have said that the couple is illegally
operating an unlicensed club in a residential neighborhood near Interstate
20 and North Cedar Ridge Drive. The City Council issued a ban in November
on sexually oriented businesses, but police documents show parties
continue at the home. City leaders say that patrons to the home are asked
to donate money to get into the home where alcohol is served.
During a pair of July raids at the home, authorities confiscated large
amounts of alcohol and "fun money" used to purchase sex acts.
To read this article, go to:
The Dallas News
"Tribeca S&M Palace raided; owner, 'Domina' Held on Prostitution Raps"
by Barbara Ross, Kerry Burke, and Alison Gendar
The New York Daily News (New York)
September 17, 2008
A Manhattan S&M club that billed itself as the "Leading House of
Domination in NYC" was put out of business Wednesday after the NYPD busted
its manager and seized its business records.
The ladies at the Walker St. club, Rapture, all had "extensive and
rigorous" training in the art of bondage, and customers of the Tribeca
dungeon were whipped and poked by professionals, its advertising claimed.
"Each Domina is uniquely qualified to deliver the fantasy," the club's Web
site boasted.
Rapture promised "immaculately clean" and fully equipped rooms capable of
offering everything from "light play" to "heavy suspension and complex
medical sessions."
The NYPD had received numerous complaints from the club's unamused
neighbors that the third-floor operation was a straight-up house of
prostitution - despite the club's claims to the contrary.
"We do not engage in any form of prostitution whatsoever, so don't even
ask!" the ads claimed.
The NYPD's Manhattan South vice unit busted Collin John Reeve, 35, on
Tuesday for promoting prostitution and collared one of his ladies, Gina
Noto, 21, for prostitution, police said.
Noto, who is studying to become a nurse-practitioner, allegedly offered an
undercover vice cop a "prostate massage" for cash, court records stated.
On the walls of the club were lists of at least 17 dominatrices - and a
list of their special skills.
Whips, chains, hoists and sex toys filled the rooms.
Cops went back to the club Wednesday with a search warrant and seized
Rapture's business and payroll records, said Capt. Steven Braille,
commanding officer for the vice squad.
Braille said the investigation was ongoing and declined to discuss whether
other arrests were pending or whether customers were also under scrutiny.
Reeve's lawyer said his client was no pimp but a war veteran from the 82nd
Airborne Division who was honorably discharged.
"The NYPD does not know the difference between prostitution and freedom of
expression," said Reeve's attorney Salvatore Strazzullo.
"There is nothing on the books that states S&M is illegal," Strazzullo
"The City of New York should know the difference between prostitution and
a perfectly legal S&M dominatrix house," he added.
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By David McGuire
December 19, 2001, Washington, DC -- A small civil liberties group has asked a federal judge in New York to revoke what remains of an Internet pornography law that was gutted by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1997.
In a complaint filed in a New York City Federal Court [http://www.USCourts.gov ] last week, the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom [https://ncsfreedom.org ] argued that the court should overturn the provisions of the Communications Decency Act (CDA) that prohibit Web sites from displaying obscene material online.
"Many people are unaware that one of the most powerful censorship provisions of the Communications Decency Act [http://EPIC.org/cda] is still in place. Even fewer realize the dangerous effect it could have in the hands of an overzealous administration and attorney general,"NCSF spokesperson Susan Wright said in a prepared statement. Passed by Congress and signed into law by President Bill Clinton in 1996, the CDA drew a barrage of criticism from industry groups, publishers and civil-liberties advocates.
In addition to prohibiting online obscenity -- which was already illegal in physical form -- the law called for Web site operators to be held criminally responsible if they allowed children to view constitutionally protected "indecent" material online.
Only the most graphic pornography and sexually explicit material meets the legal standard for obscenity. Milder sexually explicit material -- nude photos, erotic stories and the like -- may be considered indecent. But such material is protected under the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
A broad coalition of public interest groups -- including the American Library Association [http://www.ALA.org], the American Civil Liberties Union [ http://ACLU.org ] and the Center for Democracy and Technology [http://CDT.org ] challenged the indecency provisions of CDA, on grounds that it could crimp the rights of adults to view constitutionally protected speech online.
The groups convinced a lower court to freeze those provisions; that decision eventually was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court.
But the NCSF, which promotes sexual freedom and counts as members many operators of sexually explicit Web sites, maintains that the remaining online obscenity ban in CDA has a chilling effect on Web site operators who want to post sexually explicit materials.
The NCSF specifically argues that the "community standards" test in federal obscenity law is meaningless in global world of the Internet.
The obscenity ban in CDA is based on a decades-old obscenity standard that applies to printed materials, films and photos.
Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) Associate Director Alan Davidson, who was involved with the original CDA challenge said that the obscenity language in CDA was deliberately left out of the first challenge for that very reason. "The concept of prohibiting obscenity speech -- as controversial as it may be -- has been relatively well-settled law for many decades now," Davidson said. "The focus of the original challenge was on the area of greatest threat to free speech, which was the indecency provision."
Most of the original CDA challengers are now in the midst of fighting another law -- the Child Online Protection Act [ http://COPACommission.org ] -- which was passed by Congress shortly following the Supreme Court ruling in CDA. That law has been dubbed "CDA II" by its opponents. The Supreme Court heard arguments on that legislation last month.
Copyright © 2001 The Washington Post Company.
By Julia Scheeres
Wired, December 12, 2001
A national organization that promotes sexual tolerance and an artist who photographs pictures of couples engaged in sadomasochism filed a lawsuit Tuesday seeking to overturn Internet obscenity laws.
The National Coalition for Sexual Freedom and photographer Barbara Nitke argue that the obscenity provision of the Communications Decency Act (CDA) is so broad that it violates free speech.
The suit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, names as plaintiffs Attorney General John Ashcroft and the U.S. government, and aims to blot out the remaining censorship provisions of the CDA, a measure passed to protect minors from online pornography. Violators of the act face fines of up to $250,000 and two years in prison.
The CDA was first attacked in the 1997 case Reno v. ACLU, when the Supreme Court struck down provisions related to indecency, ruling that the law harmed constitutionally protected free speech.
The act's obscenity provisions are targeted by the new challenge.
The murky semantics of the terms "obscenity" and "indecency" have long been the bane of First Amendment lawyers. (For the ACLU's take on the debate, click here).
The CDA defined indecent material as "any comment, request, suggestion, proposal, image, or other communication that, in context, depicts or describes, in terms patently offensive as measured by contemporary community standards, sexual or excretory activities or organs." The Supreme Court ruled in the Reno v. ACLU case that this broad definition unfairly criminalized speech about a variety of benign topics related to sexual health, such as contraception.
The Supreme Court ruled that obscene speech -- which is not protected by the First Amendment -- must meet the following three criteria: 1) it must be prurient in nature, 2) it must be completely devoid of scientific, political, educational or social value, and 3) it must violate local community standards.
The lawsuit filed Tuesday claims that the obscenity provision outlined in Section 502 of the CDA is so vague and arbitrary that it could violate speech that should be protected.
The sticky words here are the so-called "local community standards," said John F. Wirenius, the plaintiffs' legal counsel and an attorney for civil rights firm Leeds, Morelli & Brown.
"Obscenity is unprotected speech, but not all material is obscene from jurisdiction to jurisdiction," said Wirenius. "Material may be considered obscene in Utah, for example, but not in New York. Whose standards are supposed to be applied to the Internet?"
His clients fear that their content will be judged by the most conservative standards, making them vulnerable to obscenity charges.
"Most people don't realize that one of the most strident censorship provisions of the CDA is still in place," said Susan Wright, spokeswoman for the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom. "The CDA is still having a chilling effect on Americans who operate websites -- they either have to resort to self-censorship or risk prosecution."
Wright, who said her coalition has 10,000 members from alternative sexual groups, insisted the material produced by her organization was not obscene but that it could be considered so in certain Bible-banging realms of the country.
Plaintiff Barbara Nitke said the Internet is one of the few places where she can exhibit her controversial photographs and worried that this venue might soon be closed to her.
"I strongly believe that people who want to see my work or the type of work I do by other artists should have the right to do so," said Nitke. "But I feel this act will be used against me eventually and that worries me."
But others said the quest to overturn the CDA is a long shot.
Previous First Amendment challenges to obscenity laws have failed in court, said Miriam More, a legal policy analyst for the conservative Family Research Council, which blames pornography for crimes ranging from rape to assault.
Conservative groups such as the FRC do not see the merit of the content produced by sites such as the coalition, and regard their material as porn, plain and simple.
"Obscenity laws should be upheld on the Internet for the same reason they're upheld elsewhere," said More. "When the pornography industry is left unregulated, it keeps pushing to see how far they can go. They never say 'We've done Anal Gangbang One so we don't need to do Farm Gang Bang.'Â The laws need to be enforced."
By David Steinberg
Spectator Magazine, January 11, 2002
"No matter how we're wired to express love, freedom is having the courage to be who we are." - Photographer/plaintiff Barbara Nitke
On December 11, Barbara Nitke and the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom brought suit in New York City's Federal District Court, seeking to have the last remaining censorship provision of the 1996 Communications Decency Act declared overbroad, vague, and therefore unconstitutional under the First Amendment. The suit, which will be heard this spring by a three-judge panel headed by Judge Richard Berman, is a sequel to the 1997 action by the American Civil Liberties Union, Reno v. ACLU, that resulted in the Supreme Court unanimously striking down the provision of CDA that criminalized indecent, "patently offensive" material broadcast over the Internet. The aim of Nitke v. Ashcroft is to have the ruling extended to CDA's criminalization of obscene material as well.
The Communications Decency Ac was the first Federal statute attempting to regulate sexual material broadcast over the Internet. CDA makes it a Federal crime to transmit any obscene or indecent "comment, request, suggestion, proposal, image, or other communication" over the Internet, if such material can be viewed by people under 18. The question of what is obscenity or indecency has always been a complex one.
The current Federal definition of obscenity, the Miller test, stems from a 1973 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in the case of Miller v. California. Under the Miller test, material is legally obscene only if it is sexually explicit, patently offensive according to "local community standards," and lacks any "serious literary, artistic, social, educational, or scientific value. "Sexually explicit material that does have serious social value, but is still offensive according to local community standards, falls into the legal category of indecency, even though it is not obscene. As a result, it can legally be subjected to some degree of government regulation. The supreme Court has ruled, for example, that the times when indecent material can be broadcast on television can be limited to certain late night hours, when it is presumably less likely to be seen by children.
The community standards provision of the Miller ruling allowed the Supreme Court to acknowledge that material considered obscene or indecent in a small town in rural Kansas may nonetheless be quite acceptable in Manhattan or San Francisco, and to avoid imposing one standard on the entire nation. Indeed, courts have ruled that the local community standards that are applied to questions of obscenity and indecency can vary not only city by city and state by state, but even from one city neighborhood to another.
Under Miller, publishers and distributors of erotic and sexual books, magazines, films, and videos have become accustomed to making complicated decisions about where and how they want to market their products. Many mail-order companies choose not to market products in states like Utah and Alabama that they promote extensively in more sexually progressive parts of the country. Other companies choose not to process mail orders from certain states at all. By restricting their marketing, companies are able to choose which local community standards they want to subject themselves to with regard to potential obscenity or indecency charges. Companies also insure themselves against selling to minors by having potential customers certify that they are over 18 years of age.
On the Internet, however, the possibility of all such geographical and age verification vanishes. When a store, publisher, artist, or writer puts erotic and sexual material up on their website, that material immediately becomes available to people from the most progressive to the most conservative communities in the country and, more broadly, in the world. Furthermore, issues of obscenity and indecency on the Internet extend beyond the sale of products to such simple acts as viewing an artist's work, or reading a writer's short stories. Is there an identifiable Internet community whose "local community values" can be used to define which material is legally obscene and which is not? What might that community be?
The Communications Decency Act says nothing about which community's standards of obscenity are to be applied to the Internet. Because it limited itself to issues of indecency in Reno v. ACLU, the Supreme Court has so far been silent on this issue as well.
Nitke v. Ashcroft seeks to change all that. The complaint claims that, in the absence of a clear definition of which community standards apply to the Internet, CDA has the effect of chilling all Internet expression since questions of the legal obscenity of Internet material might well be judged by the values of the most restrictive communities in the country. This, says John Wirenius, attorney for Nitke and NCSF, makes the obscenity provision of CDA so far-reaching as to be unconstitutional. His hope is that Nitke v. Ashcroft will prompt the Supreme Court to overturn the CAD's obscenity provision, perhaps overturn the CDA entirely, and hopefully define for the first time which community standards are to be used in judging the potential obscenity of online sexual material.
Barbara Nitke is a brilliant, well-known, and widely respected New York fine art photographer. Much of her work comprises powerful, emotionally complex, visually evocative images that depict couples engaged in a wide variety of sexual activities. Many of her images show couples engaged in various forms of consensual sadomasochism. Her photographs are noteworthy both for their exceptional visual beauty and for the depth of the emotional connections she captures in her subjects.
Her website ( http://www.barbaranitke.com/) is the antithesis of the generically garish porn website. It is visually subdued, attractively designed, geared less to selling products (though Nitke's prints are offered for sale) than to providing a showcase for her work.
One image shows a woman looking down tenderly into the eyes of her lover, who lies bound and gagged in her arms. Another shows a woman smilingly listening to instructions from the director on a porn film set, while a man's mouth is hard at work between her thighs. Another shows a woman staring wistfully off into the distance while her woman lover lies helplessly bound and gagged in front of her on the kitchen table. Yet another shows a man concentrating intently as he whips the back of his male lover, who cries out at the pain of the lash.
Other sections of her website provide Nitke with an opportunity to talk about both her work and her personal background. "For many years I shot stills on hardcore porn shoots," she recounts. "I thought it was the most exciting, stomach-turning, heart-warming subject I could ever hope to photograph. I know that sounds crazy. But for me there was a certain feeling of freedom that went with shooting porn which, most of the time, made up for all the other things. [There were moments] when I'd look through the lens into someone's shell-shocked eyes and see a forgotten part of me staring back. That was the shot I wanted for me."
Speaking of her s/m photography, Nitke notes that her goal there is "to capture the bond between [the lovers], and also the intense energy of ritual, passionate s/m. I [want] to photograph deep intimacy and trust, the two main concepts which underlie most s/m practices."
When John Wirenius approached her about being the plaintiff in this lawsuit, Nitke says she knew immediately that she wanted to be part of the effort. "I told John I wanted to sleep on it, but I knew right away that I would do it, which was what I told him the next day." Although she has supported various freedom of expression issues in the past and has been a member of NCSF since the organization was founded, Nitke has never thought of herself as a political activist, not even with regard to free speech issues.
"But you end up being an activist even if you don't want to be," she says pointedly. "If artists as a group don't stand up and do something, the censors are just going to keep going further and further. Most artists don't want to deal with this sort of thing, but we have to."
She recalls a time of showing her work to a gathering of curators and gallery owners in Portland, Oregon, all of whom told her that her photography was excellent, but also said there was no way they could show it, given the current political climate regarding sexual imagery. It was experiences like these, Nitke says, that made her conscious of how impossible it was becoming to show important, sexually controversial work throughout the country.
It wasn't until Nitke decided to put together her own website that she fully realized how heavily the prevailing political climate was weighing on her. Nervous about recent legislation like the Community Decency Act, she called other photographers who were doing erotic and sexual work like hers -- images that were controversial, sometimes sexually explicit, but distinctly artful in intent and style, and distinctly outside the realm of commercial pornography. She also spoke with publishers of erotic magazines equally distant from the production and distribution networks of the porn world. Were these people worried about Ashcroft and how he would apply the laws that Congress was passing related to supposedly obscene material? Did she need to be concerned about being a target for prosecution herself? What kinds of images could she put on her website without risking embroiling herself in legal defenses that could eat up tens of thousands of dollars, not to mention months of time and heartache? And wasn't it horrible that, as a serious artist interested in sexual issues, she had to be distracted by these sorts of issues at all?
"That's why this suit is so important to me," she summarizes. "It's both a practical matter and a matter or principle."
Unlike Barbara Nitke, the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom ( https://ncsfreedom.org/) came to Nitke v. Ashcroft directly from an interest in political advocacy of the sexual civil rights of people who find themselves outside the American sexual mainstream. Founded in 1997 "to help change antiquated and unfair sex laws, and to protect free speech and advance privacy rights," NCSF has drawn its primary support from a broad group of S/M activists, initially in New York, but later from other parts of the country as well. It's 21 voting member groups now span the country from New York to Las Vegas, from Greensboro, North Carolina to Blue Island, Illinois. The groups range from long-standing s/m advocacy and support groups, like the Eulenspeigel Society of New York, to newer groups like St. Louis's Leather and Lace, and Cincinnati's Masters and slaves Together. Member groups like the Lesbian Sex Mafia and Gay Male S/M Activists reflect the broad diversity of sexual orientation that is very much a part of the national s/m-leather-fetish subculture.
NCSF has been increasingly effective in speaking up for the basic civil rights and freedom of speech of people involved in safe, sane, consensual s/m. It has successfully fought selective enforcement of zoning and public indecency laws in San Diego, Baltimore, Attleboro (Massachusetts), and Washington, DC Its Law Enforcement Outreach Program strives both to educate law enforcement officials about s/m communities, and to educate members of the s/m community about how to minimize their risk as potential targets of selective enforcement of zoning, public indecency, and aggravated assault laws.
NCSF spokesperson Susan Wright notes that the organization has very much wanted to take the initiative in challenging antisexual legislation like the Communications Decency Act, rather than waiting to respond to what it saw as inevitable upcoming attacks on sexual expression from the Bush-Ashcroft Administration.
NCSF is sure that new attacks on sexually-oriented materials and entertainment, particularly material available on the Internet, has been high on the priority list of the Ashcroft Justice Department, even if that agenda has been somewhat delayed by the focus on terrorism that followed the events of September 11. They note that on November 14, Ashcroft appointed Andrew G. Osterbaan to head the Justice Department's Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section. Earlier this year, Ashcroft assured various conservative organizations that he intended to vigorously pursue prosecutions under the CDA. On June 9 he also told the House Judiciary Committee that the Justice Department intended to be "especially accommodating to local law enforcement" with regard to helping them put operators of Internet sex sites behind bars.
"Our goal [with the Nitke suit]," says Wright, "is to overturn this unconstitutional provision [of the CDA] before this Administration tries to score political points by attempting to enforce it." Attorney John Wirenius adds that there is much to be gained from seizing the initiative in legal matters, rather than waiting to mount defenses to prosecutions initiated by the Justice Department. "This way we get to choose the test case, not Ashcroft," he emphasizes. "I'd much rather have the obscenity provision of the CDA be decided on the basis of Barbara Nitke's work than on the basis of something like http://www.bestiality.com/"
Wirenius is optimistic about Nitke v. Ashcroft at the Federal District Court level. He notes that Judge Richard Berman, who will preside over the case in Federal District Court this spring, wrote what Wirenius calls a "terrific decision," Swedenburg v. Kelly, in which he ruled that material on the Internet cannot be subjected to geographical community standards in the same way that books or films can. "Judge Berman," says Wirenius, "is a fair-minded judge who understands the posed by the Internet."
Wirenius is also optimistic of the fate of Nitke v. Ashcroft before the U.S. Supreme Court, where the case will ultimately be decided. He sees this case as a logical extension of Reno v. ACLU from issues of indecency to those of obscenity and notes that, despite its general conservative bent, the current Supreme Court has been fairly vigilant on free speech issues.
Whether or not Nitke v. Ashcroft is ultimately successful in overturning the obscenity provision of CDA, the fact that the issue is being raised by NCSF represents a significant new political and legal posture for the s/m community which, until recently, has been more closeted and less inclined to take aggressive political and legal action than more long-standing and well-known sexual minority groups. As NCSF notes, "in the past decade, alternative sexual expression [particularly s/m] has become much more visible to the general public," and people who engage in s/m have therefore become subject to "an increasing number of attacks against our right to freedom of sexual expression." Actions like Nitke v. Ashcroft demonstrate that s/m practitioners have begun to join the ranks of lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgendered people in insisting that non-traditional sexual and gender expression not subject them to anything less than full and equal treatment under the law.
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The Masters Co-Leader Creates Own Highlights
No one from Australia has ever won the Masters. Now Marc Leishman appears to be setting the country up either for the end of its heartache or another dose of disappointment. Leishman went on a birdie run on the back nine on the way to a six-under 66 to take the first-round lead, tied with Sergio Garcia. It's Leishman's second appearance at Augusta National.
"I was a bit of deer in the headlights, looking around a bit too much," Leishman said of his first Masters appearance. On that trip, he said, his mind kept drifting back to Masters moments he'd seen on television.
Leishman also knows there's still three rounds left until the green jacket is awarded. "This course can bite you pretty quickly," he said. "There are a lot of holes left."
—Matthew Futterman
College Teams Are Now Spinning in the Spring
No sooner had college football fans recovered from a wave of Harlem Shake videos than the latest trend arrived: DJs spinning at spring practice.
"We might be the only team in the nation that's got their own DJ at practice," Louisiana-Lafayette football coach Mark Hudspeth said in a video posted on YouTube on March 25. Hardly: Days later, Texas A&M presented a DJ in a parked 18-wheeler and Oregon State had one spinning pink records. Not only have DJs at practice already gone mainstream, they're not even new: The Seattle Seahawks had one in 2011.
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It's a Shifting Rivalry Between Rays, Red Sox
When the Tampa Bay Rays visit Boston this weekend, expect plenty of defensive shifting. The Rays have popularized the realignment of their defense on each play, according to opposing hitter tendencies. Last season, Toronto, where new Red Sox manager John Farrell managed last season, finished second in shifts, behind only Tampa Bay, according to Baseball Info Solutions, who tracks such data.
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We'll be featuring stories now and again written by our local writers group. Stories, poems and art can be found in their Rough-Writers, Ink publication available for check out.
This story was originally untitled by John Hendricks who died November 24, 2007.
Driving through western Colorado - driving west on into Utah - watching the interstate flatten out and the rolling hills rush past - driving alone - I found myself smiling.
I'd been ill the previous summer. Two operations kept me from some of the things I really enjoy - some of the activities eighteen years of retirement have almost conditioned me to: golf, canoeing, fishing, gardening, skiing, driving. A visit to a drive-in three miles from home for a milkshake, required a driver to get me there and back. Now, a year later, I could enjoy the speed, the power, the control of this driving machine.
I pushed the button to turn the radio off and watched the antenna lower and disappear into the cavity near the trunk.
I loved the quiet roar - the feel of the powerful engine pushing me across flat Utah at 80 miles per hour, 2300 RPM's - the hum of the new tires making 1000 revolutions per minute. I gave the cruise control two quick punches - now 82 miles per hour. The car noises raised a few notes.
Nothing in front of me. I lowered the back of the driver's seat and settled down a bit. I hesitated. I wondered how long my journey will last. I adjusted the rear view mirror for a better view. No one behind me. I glanced again - a straight road. Far behind me, behind to the east, was a ridge of mountains. My thoughts drifted to the past as though I was looking into a rear view mirror of my life. Those mountains - now just a blue line stretching along the horizon had appeared far different from the other side. The road, now so straight, had had many turns. That road traveled now so long ago had led into box canyons, dead ends, no forward progress. Back the wagon around - the wagon filled with my wife and three daughters, our home - swing the team around - try new trails, new trades.
The new trails led to new meadows, to new homes, to new ways to provide food and comfort.
I smile - and then laugh - as memories surface. Interestingly, preceding most memories come names - names and faces of friends - friends sailing - friends skiing - friends raising children - friends working - friends carousing - always friends. And behind me, supporting me were those four that shared the wagon with me.
A scene comes to my mind. The scene, an occurrence probably repeated a number of times. A young daughter with a bruised knee comes running to me for help. The tears slow as she climbs into my lap. A young thin arm tight around my neck. The tears change to sobs as the mercurochrome is applied along with some soothing words. The largest band-aid I could find aids the healing and displays the honor. Love between an injured daughter and father is there. Far more important, at that moment, is a little squeeze of trust from the small arm. She slides from my knee and back into the fray, smiling and confident.
And the mountains that are now behind me, perhaps rightfully called hills that seem like mountains with their exciting paths to the crossing, and to the other side.
An analogy with skiing breaks into my philosophical musings. Those paths were not unlike some days of skiing, when the boots are hard to buckle, the weather is raw and cold, the skis seem on the wrong foot, until...until the second or third run. Then that God given Colorado sun bursts through. I can see the whole world - and it is beautiful. Some falls are inevitable as I want to go fast, but the glory of the day remains.
For a short time, it was "Hurry up kids, I'll race you to the cutoff." Then only moments later it became, "Daddy, can we go ahead of you, you are too slow." Moments of closeness and true love with family and friends, moments then and now. Moments that last a lifetime and mean a lifetime.
Then a day came. A dinner. A watch was given. Some handshakes saying goodbye. Some handshakes without words, but with feeling - eye to eye with memories, with a little moisture in our eyes.
The next day the keys to the plant and the Company car no long hang by the back door - the two alarm clocks set for 6:00 a.m. are turned off. The time is late. I've traveled a long way.
Behind me, the mountains have turned gold. The time is late. I've traveled a long way.
I've tipped sailboats and canoes. I've gone fishing without fish, lots of times. I've broken bones, lots of those too. But those memories do not surface, they are insignificant. Psychologists explain that the human mind is forgiving, far more capable and willing to retain positive thoughts than negative.
Alpenglow on the eastern mountains has announced the lateness in the day. Was the other side just as beautiful, the sunrises on lakes; on mountains, the full moon rising out of Lake Michigan; summer storms and rainbows; the happy smile of accomplishment on a child's face; morning fog rising from a stream; a loon's call; a light colored fawn hiding in the dark maples?
But as the Captain of the vessel tells me, I must stay the course. One last glance backward and I turn from the mountains and the path long traveled.
I straighten the car seat. It is almost dark now. The evening fog almost obscures the road ahead. No cures, no mountains, just the deep chilling fog. What lies ahead? How much farther? As a noted artist and writer has stated, "Appreciate the gift of life."
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Grandparents moved here in the early 1950s and soon after, they had my dad.
Add about 30 years to that story when my dad met my mom and – ta da – I came
into this world. Being a Vegas native, let alone a second generation Vegas
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natives do exist, as uncommon as we may be.
Why all this history about me you ask? Well, being born and raised here in Las Vegas, one of the most common questions I get is, "Do you ever plan on leaving?" Great question! Let's talk about it. I have friends who are from all over the world and have lived in many different places. Sometimes I think about what it
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Rock, downtown, great restaurants (I'm a huge foodie), Vegas shows, great
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Zion National Park. But the one thing I definitely cannot leave off of this
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I first started within CLT (Customer Loyalty Team) where I wowed our customers
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This fall, the University of Colorado Boulder is again hosting a large class of National Science Foundation fellows. Twenty-six new graduate researchers have received NSF fellowships, bringing the total number of NSF fellows on campus to 101, a new record for CU-Boulder.
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Does anyone have any stories to tell (good or bad) about attempts to share the costs of data collection among cities/agencies in a metropolitan area?
Aerial imagery is a primary example, but would like to hear other experiences.
How can a small city justify funding a data collection effort when last year they paid for data that was made freely available?
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The Invisible Link takes a close look at the influential trading houses like Misubishi, Misui, and C. Ito which are known as sogo shosha. These uniquely Japanese institutions play a key role in the economy. Numbering nine in all, sogo shosha control about half of Japanese imports and exports, coordinating a vast array of business functions that range from the procurement of raw materials, to the fabrication of manufactured goods, and the sale of finished products both in Japan and abroad.
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Minn Kota Riptide - 55 lb Thrust, 36" Shaft, 12V - Hand Control
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Minn Kota RipTide Saltwater Transom Mount, Hand Control
The Riptide Transom Mount Hand Control from Minn Kota is exclusively designed to enhance your saltwater fishing experience. It features a …
Change depths simply and securely with Riptide Transom's Quick-Lock cam adjuster. Versatile new steering tension control allows you to adjust steering tension to your desired level. Riptide Transom's remarkably simple, one-hand stow mechanism gets the motor in and out of the water in no time.
- New Tilt/Extend Tiller handle can both tilt (up to 45°) and extend (up to 6")
- for maximum control.
- It also features a new ergonomically contoured grip.
- Weedless Wedge 2 prop (Power Prop on 45lb thrust models).
- Composite shaft. Digital Maximizer on variable speed models only.
- Cool, Quiet Power.
- Two year warranty.
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