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1998 Car Craft Summer Cruise - Bigger Better Faster LouderWritten by David Freiburger on December 1, 1998 Contributors: The Car Craft Staff Car Craft's Summer Cruise '98
When you only have one show a year, it better be good-so what a relief that the July 17-19, 1998 Summer Cruise in St. Paul, Minnesota, was great. It was bigger, with 1,500 entries; better, thanks to more varied and creative cars; faster for the fairground cruise loop; and louder, with the first ever two-at-a-time burnout show.
With sponsorship from BFGoodrich and Chevrolet, plus invaluable help from the Minnesota Street Machine Association, we pulled it off with nary a hitch.
It was such a success that we've been in talks with our Special Events department for even more Car Craft events than ever for 1999. That means even more covers and car features shot at events, more burnout smoke, perhaps some drag racing, and definitely more places to hook up with the Car Craft staff and bend our ear a while. '99's gonna make this year's Summer Cruise look like Wednesday night at your local Dairy Queen. Keep an eye peeled for the latest Car Craft event info in the monthly Straight Scoop department, or contact APG Special Events, 6420 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90048, 800/732-4227.
Second Opinion
This year's Cruise was fun, but after cruising Cheap Street Chevelle from L.A. to Minnesota, I was ready for even more intense action. I scratched my itchiness by flogging the Chevelle in the burnout contest, but Freiburger gave strict orders not to blow the hoops. Bummer. Then, when the staff piled into the Chevelle for some late-night cruising, we were stymied by a sour battery. Twice bummer.
Next year I wanna see some real action, and have a few ideas listed below. Whatta you think?
•Forget the nose-to-nose burnouts. Let's go back to singles and let the driver decide what generates the best smoke-show action.
•How about a burnout contest that lets the driver do donuts if he wants to?
•Let's buy three beaters-a Chevy, a Ford, and a Mopar. Drain all the oil and coolant, fire 'em up, and do a burnout. Once the meats pop, throw 'em in Park and rev 'em till the valves float and see how long they'll go before they blow. Will the Chevy, Ford, or Mopar last longest? Let fate decide.
•How 'bout a hard-launch contest? Use a timer to test participants' cars to see who can launch, accelerate hard, then come screeching to a hault the quickest within a 100-foot mini dragstrip.
•Impose a new rule: In order for your car to be shot for a feature in Car Craft, you've gotta drive it in (no trailers), cruise it at the event, and enter the burnout contest. We'll decide when the story will run depending on if the car is seen cruising Porky's drive-in or hibernating in the hotel parking lot. -John Kiewicz
Third Opinion
After four years of attending the St. Paul Summer Cruise, I can truly say I have special memories of each year. This year, getting tossed off the golf cart while Dave and JK did a little four-wheelin' in the "executive" chairs was something that'll go down in the annals for a while. I also got stung by a wasp while shooting a car feature, but aside from these minor snafus, the Minnesota State Fairgrounds has always been a place where I've had a good time.
Since the first show in 1995 I've noticed that resto cars are popular with this upper Midwest crowd. Mix them in with a whole lot of tricked-out street machines and you've got what Car Craft is really about. While often it seems like people only want to read about parts and pieces on a purely technical level, I find myself on the same side of the fence as many of the participants at the Summer Cruise. My interest is in whole cars such as LS6 Chevelles, 427 Vettes, cool Hemi Mopars, or Boss Mustangs-not in big-block Chevy valvesprings or some other insignificant technical trivia that has nothing to do with a car as a whole. And while I like the fact that there are lots of well-preserved resto cars out there, let's not forget the importance of modified and tastefully upgraded street machines.
I also like the idea of the St. Paul show being CC's one big blowout deal. While some might be bummed out that we didn't return to Sedalia, Missouri, or Lincoln, Nebraska, St. Paul carries the spirit of those shows onward. Even if we have more shows next year, St. Paul will still be the biggie. So mark your calendars for July 1999, get wrenchin' on those street machine buildups, and we'll see 'ya in Minnesota. -Miles Cook
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Lance Isenberg of Zabrota, Minnesota, caught our eye and ripped it out with his Go Mango-looking '67 Coronet sedan. The two-door post was powered by a DC-cammed 440, a 2,800-stall Torqueflite, and a 3.55:1 Sure-Gripped 8 3/4 sings the quarter to the tune of 12.90s. For a mere $16,500 it could have been yours.Mopar was the featured marque of the weekend, and in addition to special deals for Mope owners, there was a mondo Chrysler-only fairground cruise on Saturday. Man, did it sound wicked! These things were made to throw revs.Ken Madden and his whacked-out cronies from New Hope, Minnesota, dragged out their creative retro machines including Ken's own '71 Cutlass with the wide whites, '57 Chevy quarter panels, and funkadelic flames. The Monte Carlo in the background has a '70 Chevelle nosejob, a '59 Impala dash, and a kinky double-carb'd small-blockThey've helped out since the first St. Paul event four years ago, so it's arguable that the Summer Cruise wouldn't be the same without the enthusiasm of the Minnesota Street Machine Association-or without their free labor. Between traffic handling, parking, and burnout-contest wrangling, they handle all the thankless jobs. So now we're thanking them. Thanks.We were stoked at the number of Buicks, Olds, and Pontiacs that showed. That's Randy Gauthier's '72 442 convert flaring its nostrils.Phil Lokken trounced all comers in the Saturday burnout contest using all 460 inches of big-block in his Flamingo Pink '69 Chevelle. His advice to would-be smokers? "Drive it like you don't have a dime in it!" He did, neglecting to remove a sheet of radiator-blocking cardboard (for winter warm-ups) and puking the motor. With a TH400 and 3.73:1 gears, the car normally runs 12.70s on street tires when it's not overheating.Crowning the elite Mopar Midway was the Mayflower V, a '64 Plymouth Hemi lightweight car that was an NHRA record holder in 1964.Mike Anderson made Summer Cruise history as the first burnout contestant ever to blow tires on both ends of the car when his nastified '70 Chubelle blammed a rear Goodyear slick, then popped a Frontrunner after running over one of the spikes holding the steel burnout plates in place. He was back for Sunday competition and took runner-up.
Ever seen a huffed 455 Buick in a '73 Riv? We wondered how David Severson of Blaine, Minnesota, kept the crank in place with the blower cramming all that Holley juice at it. And when was the last time you saw R3 air conditioning next to a 6-71? He scored the Engine Award of Excellence plaque for his trouble.Wagons finally got crowd acceptance at the Cruise, and several took home trophies. This 389-powered '62 Pontiac Safari was recently revived from a 20-year coma in a Minnesota barn.We had to give a pity-pick award to Dale Hanson of Forest Lake, Minnesota who showed up with his '68 Chevelle SS396 convertible despite the big ol' F-150 print in the side. He was T-boned a few months prior to the show, but wasn't gonna miss the Summer Cruise for anything.We were crabby because all the Summer Cruise AMCs were dead-stockers, but Ade and Kathy Blachfelner's 40,000-mile original '70 Rebel Machine made us realize there's nothing wrong with gennie AMCs. They claim the car is one of 596 that wasn't factory red, white, and blue. It's a 390 with a T-10 and a 3.54:1 Twin Grip.Readers have demanded more A- and G-body coverage, but the Cruise wasn't exactly flocked with Montes and such. However, we were stopped cold by Chad Raskovich's '86 SS powered by a Tuned Port and pulchritudified with GM Raspberry, a '96 S-10 color.Proving that enginuity lives, Bob Bendtsen brought his '60 El Camino that hauls with a 409 with a totally homebuilt multipoint EFI system using parts from both LT1 and TPI engines.We tried desperately to con the owner of this seafaring Ford XL (extra large?) into selling us his set of mondo-retro-cool 15x7 Motor Wheel Spyders. We offered five bills, but he'd obviously suffered some smoke inhalation and said no gracias.
Late-models are a tad scarce at the Cruise, but one like Gary and Debbie Ostberg's '93 Cobra "R" demand to be dealt with. There were only 107 "R" model racers in '93, and they had all the factory speed stuff minus all the factory niceties. This one's also been treated to Kenne-Bell ram air, SVO headers, High Flo cats, Borla exhaust, and '95 Cobra "R" wheels. Sweet!We said all beaters were welcome, and this guy took us up on it. No amount of Oil of Olay was gonna hide the wrinkles in this tongue-in-sheetmetal '63 Pro Street Nova.


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Fried Mozzarella Panini
Categories: Comfort Foods, Cooking with Kids, Kid-friendly, Lunchbox, Quick to fix, Vegetarian
Type: Sandwiches
Type: Sandwiches
Served hot, this is a truly indulgent snack
Prep Time: 10M
Cooking Time: 6M
Serves: makes 4 servings
- 8 slices of sourdough bread
- 2 tbsp olive oil, plus more as needed
- 5oz ( 150g) thinly sliced mozzarella
- 12 sun-dried tomatoes, coarsely chopped
- 16 large basil leaves, torn
- salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 4oz ( 112g) arugula leaves, to serve
- 1 tbsp balsamic vinegar
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- Preheat the oven to 200°F (95°C). Drizzle the bread on both sides with the oil.
- Top four bread slices with the mozzarella, tomatoes, and basil. Season with salt and pepper.
- Top with the remaining bread and compress with your hands, making sure none of the filling is sticking out.
- Heat a heavy frying pan over high heat. Add 1 tbsp oil and tilt to coat the bottom of the pan. Carefully add 2 sandwiches. Cook, turning once, about 5 minutes, until golden on both sides. Transfer to a baking sheet and keep warm while frying the remaining sandwiches in the remaining 1 tbsp oil.
- Toss the arugula with the vinegar in a medium bowl. Slice each sandwich in half and transfer each to a plate. Add equal amounts of the salad, and serve immediately.
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By LARRY NEUMEISTER
Associated Press Writer, July 25, 2005, 7:58 PM EDT
NEW YORK -- A special three-judge federal panel on Monday refused to find unconstitutional a law making it a crime to send obscenity over the Internet to children.
The Communications Decency Act of 1996 had been challenged by Barbara Nitke, a photographer who specializes in pictures of sadomasochistic sexual behavior, and by the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom, a Baltimore-based advocacy organization.
They contended in a December 2001 lawsuit brought in U.S. District Court in Manhattan that the law was so broad and vague in its scope that it violated the First Amendment, making it impossible for them to publish to the Internet because they cannot control the forum.
A judge from the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals and two district judges heard the facts of the case and issued a written decision saying the plaintiffs had provided insufficient evidence to prove the law was unconstitutional.
The panel noted that evidence was offered to indicate there are at least 1.4 million Web sites that mention bondage, discipline and sadomasochism but that evidence was insufficient to decide how many sites might be considered obscene.
The judges said the evidence also was insufficient for them to determine how much the standards for obscenity differ in communities across the United States.
The court said it was necessary to know how much the standards vary to decide if those creating Web sites would be graded for obscenity unfairly when compared with those who market traditional pornography and can control how they distribute the material.
As the law stands, a communication is obscene if according to each community's standards it appeals to the prurient interest, depicts or describes sexual conduct in an offensive way and lacks serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value.
The law requires that those sending the communications take reasonable actions to restrict or prevent access by children to obscenity, sometimes by using a verified credit card, debit account or adult access code as proof of age.
Nitke, who has exhibited her work for more than 20 years, said she will appeal the ruling.
"I'm appalled," she said. "I think it's vitally important to keep the Internet free for education, the arts and open discussion on sexual targets."
The National Coalition for Sexual Freedom also was disappointed with the ruling, spokeswoman Susan Wright said.
"Personal Web sites and chat groups that include discussions and images of explicit sexuality are at risk of prosecution," she said. "Basically, we proved we're at risk of prosecution, and speech has been chilled because people are afraid to put anything sexual on their Web sites."
Group lawyer John Wirenius said in a statement that the court declined to find the law unconstitutional "by setting a standard so high that no plaintiff could have met it."
"They required us to prove facts that the government has refrained from making a paper trail on for 30 years," he said.
The National Coalition for Sexual Freedom works to change antiquated laws, oppose censorship of consensual sexual expression and help people who are facing the threat of prosecution or legal action, its Web site says.
by Veronica Vera
New York Daily News, July 15, 2002
Photographer Barbara Nitke is used to being behind the lens, but if legal matters heat up, she may soon find the government focusing on her.
Nitke is ready to step into the foreground as the chief plantiff in Barbara Nitke and the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom vs. John Ashcroft and the US Government in a challenge to the Communications Decency Act, which governs obscenity on the Internet.
The lawsuit was filed on Dec. 11 in Manhattan Federal Court of New York; the government moved to dismiss, and the plaintiffs have moved for an injunction.
The case continues to make its way through the courts.
Nitke, whose photo show "20 Years" opened on Friday at the Art at Large Studio in Manhattan, began her career in 1982 as a still photographer on movie sets.
But since 1994, her emphasis has been on chronicling the intimate lives of couples. She has gained a considerable reputation as a fine-art photographer and is on the faculty of the School of Visual Arts.
Photojournalist Mark Peterson, who attended the packed opening, commented, "There is a beauty and ethereal quality to her work that forces people to look at it in a different way than they might have when they walked into the room." He compared her work with that of Robert Mapplethorpe, who stirred controversy with his erotic photos.
Nitke's involvement in the civil liberties lawsuit began when she decided to create a website on which to show and sell her work. Aware that her photographs are highly provocative, she consulted several lawyers regarding obscenity laws, only to discover that under the Communications Decency Act, obscenity is a gray area determined by community standards.
A 1997 Supreme Court ruling struck down half of the act, the "indecency" section, when it determined that if a work is indecent but still can be found to have redeeming social value, it can be displayed in public. But the "obscenity" portion of the act still stands. Among the lawyers Nitke consulted was John Wirenius, legal counsel for the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom.
The members of the coalition, "a national organization committed to protecting freedom of expression among consenting adults," were also concerned about obscenity statutes and decided to pursue a proactive stance and challenge the law. They asked Nitke to be the plaintiff because, as Wirenius said, "We wanted to make clear that under the current law, a serious artist whose work is sexually explicit and controversial could be prosecuted."
The tactic proposed by the coalition to sue the government to either define or eliminate the obscenity law appealed to Nitke, who said she believed, "Why wait to respond to trouble if you can nip trouble in the bud?"
Barbara Nitke's "20 years" can be seen through August 3 at Art at Large, located in the Film Center, 630 Ninth Ave. Hours are Tuesday through Friday, 1pm to 6pm and Saturday and Sunday by appointment.
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December 11, 2001
Photographer Barbara Nitke and the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom (NCSF) filed a lawsuit today, claiming the Internet censorship provision of the Communications Decency Act (CDA) violates the First Amendment right to free speech.
The provision stipulates that "local community standards" will judge whether or not something is indecent. Yet attorney John Wirenius argues that "By allowing the most restrictive jurisdiction to define what speech can be banned as obscene from the Internet, the CDA allows one community to limit what the entire nation is allowed to discuss, to read or to view. The First Amendment does not allow any one locality to impose its morality on the nation."
Artists like Barbara Nitke fear that their artwork could be targeted by John Ashcroft, who has promised to enforce obscenity laws.
By Mark Kernes
Adult Video News, February Issue
Washington, DC
The National Coalition for Sexual Freedom may not be a household name, even in the adult entertainment industry, but if their recently-filed lawsuit succeeds, they may go down in history as the first group to secure Americans' core constitutional speech rights.
NCSF is based in the nation's capital [~] in fact, only a few blocks northwest of the Capitol itself [~] and their objective is to protect freedom of expression among consenting adults, which for them includes a large number of citizens who practice "alternative sexual lifestyles."
The group, and one of its members, Barbara Nitke, filed suit on December 10 to challenge one portion of the 1996 Communications Decency Act (CDA) that the ACLU never got around to [~] some would say, "didn't have the balls to consider" [~] challenging when they filed their suit in 1997, which suit resulted in the term "indecent" being struck from the law as an unconstitutional restriction on Internet free speech.
But the CDA also criminalized Internet "obscenity," and that taboo remains in the law. And as far as plaintiffs' attorney John F. Wirenius is concerned, that's equally unconstitutional.
"Obscenity is unprotected speech, but not all material is obscene from jurisdiction to jurisdiction," Wirenius told Wired News. "Material may be considered obscene in Utah, for example, but not in New York. Whose standards are supposed to be applied to the Internet?"
The problem is the Supreme Court's Miller test for obscenity, which may or may not be implicated in the Child Pornography Prevention Act (COPA) case which was argued by the ACLU before the high court in late November. In order for a work to be obscene, it must appeal to the prurient interest of the average citizen; be completely devoid of any literary, artistic, political or scientific value; and must offend the standards of the community in which the work is being prosecuted, which for most jurisdictions is the state in which the charges are brought.
The trouble with the test is, the Internet has no "community" [~] or, to put it another way, it is its own worldwide community, a "problem" faced by every country whose government finds offensive some material on some Website based abroad and out of that government's control. For instance, it is universally agreed among adult webmasters that no matter what laws are passed to limit the adult content of American Websites, the same or harder material can easily be found on (and downloaded from) Websites based in Europe or the Far East.
"The Internet is not a physical or tangible entity, but is rather a giant network which interconnects innumerable smaller groups of computer networks," argues the lawsuit. "It is thus a network of networks, linked up for communications and data-sharing purposes. The Internet links networks of computers from around the world, forming what is in essence a global network of private and public computers, not regulated by the government of any nation or other central governing body.
"Through devices such as links, or more formally by explicit affiliation, Users of the Internet commonly form 'virtual communities,' loose associations of individuals or groups of similar value systems and/or interests to promote discussions of various topics."
What Nitke and the NCSF are concerned about is maintaining their abilities to engage in frank sexual discussions and to view and exchange "erotic content whether fictional, reminiscence or pictorial" on the Web.
"The websites of various NCSF members, both organizational and affiliate, and associates and affiliates of NCSF Foundation, are strongly sexual in content, but observe the mores of the communities in which they serve [~] that is, they respect the notion that sexual conduct between consenting adults should be 'safe, sane and consensual.' While they may be graphic in a manner that might be offensive to more traditionally-minded communities, members' websites are not patently offensive to the communities they serve. Moreover, members' websites uniformly require a declaration that any person accessing their content is of legal age, and provide advisories as to the nature of the matters discussed therein that are clear without being themselves explicit."
Moreover, "Plaintiff Nitke, as the proprietor of the website www.barbaranitke.com, publishes an array of erotically-oriented and themed images. Such images, while potentially offensive to members of more traditionally-minded communities, are not offensive to the members of the community to which plaintiff Nitke belongs."
That "community," according to the suit, is the group of voluntary Internet users who choose to access adult material on the Web. However, "The CDA does not provide any definition of 'local community standards' as an element of obscenity," argues the lawsuit. "Because of the indeterminate nature of what community standards would be employed to judge speech employing the medium of the Internet, plaintiff Nitke, members of plaintiff NCSF, and associates affiliates and board members of plaintiff NCSF Foundation have been chilled in their expression... By subjecting all speech on the Internet to potential liability under the local community standards of the most restrictive jurisdiction in the nation, the CDA is unconstitutionally overbroad."
The NCSF and Nitke aren't seeking any monetary damages through the suit. They are, however, asking the high court to define what the "community" of the Internet is.
"All the laws that we have on obscenity are based on local geographical standards," Wirenius notes. "It's a pre cyber-law world. The very definition of obscenity assumes the content provider can control where the content is viewed, and by limiting distribution he or she can limit the content's exposure. That's no longer true in an Internet age."
It's a case [~] Nitke v. Ashcroft [~] that adult webmasters should be watching at least as closely as ACLU v. Ashcroft, since both cases have the potential to enable free speech, even sexual speech, to the extent contemplated by an unfettered reading of the First Amendment [~] or, alternatively, to mire the Internet in such a morass of regulation that purveyors of adult material may have no choice but to relocate their servers offshore or in Europe.
The case, by virtue of provisions in the CDA itself, is on a "fast track," which means that once the Southern District of New York rules on its merits, any appeal will be taken directly to the U.S. Supreme Court. Still, the timetable of such action is currently indeterminable, but there's a better-than-even chance that an opinion in this case may come down even before COPA's. In any case, the whole adult community will be watching.
By Dean Schabner
ABCnews.com, July 29, 2002
When Barbara Nitke wanted to put her photographs of loving couples on the Internet, she thought she should check into the laws first.
That's because Nitke's recent photographs have been focused on how some couples express their love through sado-masochism.
What Nitke found after reading up on Internet law and talking to lawyers was that the remnants of the Communications Decency Act of 1996, much of which was declared unconstitutional in 1997, could conceivably put her in hot water if her work was considered obscene in some communities. She feared she could be charged with a crime and be forced to take the work down.
So Nitke, along with the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom, a group described on its Web site as "committed to protecting freedom of expression among consenting adults", filed suit against Attorney General John Ashcroft and the U.S. government, challenging the CDA's use of "local community standards" to define what can be considered obscene on the Internet.
NCSF has an active media committee which provides interviews for print, radio, and television. We creates press releases, action alerts, and entertainment media updates. The Media committee also provides media training and coaching to coalition partners, advocacy groups and responds to hundreds of media related queries. With the action around the CDA lawsuit as well as other media events, this has been a busy year. This report details NCSF media activities over the last twelve months.
NCSF Media Activity Report - 2007
NCSF Media Activity Report - 2006
September 2005 - September 2006
The NCSF Media Committee reviews, edits, and refines the documents that NCSF publicly distributes. The media committee consists of Susan Wright, Allena Gabosch, Anita Wagner, Lisa Vandever, Lolita Wolf, Howie Z., and Keith, who creates and distributes the NCSF Media Updates.
Susan Wright gave 57 interviews with most of the media outlets contacting NCSF, indicating that NCSF has much higher profile than before the CDA lawsuit. These interviews were given to the New York Times (multiple reporters), Chicago Tribune (multiple reporters), Baltimore Sun (multiple reporters), Boston Herald, Esquire, Daily News, Inside Edition, Montell Williams Show, Maxim, Hustler, Bitch Magazine, and Las Vegas City Life, among others.
Press Releases, Action Alerts and Entertainment Media Updates
NCSF broadcast a press release about the Supreme Court decision on Nitke & NCSF v. Gonzales in March, 2006, which was carried in full or part in dozens of media outlets around the country. Reporters continue to call regarding the case to be the most recent. Salon.com requested an interview with Susan and John Wirenius in mid-August regarding ongoing obscenity prosecutions.
NCSF broadcast a press release in October, 2005, when Attorney General Alberto Gonzales announced that his office intended to target "bestiality, urination, defecation, as well as sadistic and masochistic behavior" in pursuing new obscenity prosecutions. NCSF also sent out a press release in January, 2006, supporting Google when the U.S. Justice Department subpoenaed them to compel the Internet search engine to turn over records on millions of its users' search queries.
NCSF sent out an Action Alert in September, 2005, when an evangelical Christian group that targeted Southern Decadence, a world-famous LGBT event, stating "Hurricane Katrina has put an end to the annual celebration of sin."
Lisa Vandever created three Entertainment Media Updates in the last year. Regarding the Montel Williams Show entitled "Multiple Love: Polyamory" airing November 29, 2005, Lisa stated: "The episode did present a good and articulate range of people involved in various polyamorous relationships and a positive understanding of why someone might choose polyamory over monogamy." Regarding Big Love on HBO, Lisa stated: "As a "water cooler show," the series will warrant our continued notice for its ability to coalesce discussion around topics of great relevance to sexual freedom, providing opportunities to interject our experiences and viewpoints through letters to the editor, participation on message boards and even casual conversation. Regarding Dr. Phil's "Twisted Love" which aired on February 2, 2006, Lisa stated: "All in all, the show should be critiqued for its dismissive stance towards polyamory and encouraged to understand that many people are able to enjoy healthy and supportive polyamorous relationships."
Media Incidents
The major media incident of the year involved the New Year's Eve Ball at the Orlando Crowne Plaza Hotel Airport on New Year's Eve, 2006. A number of false press reports were published nationally regarding the conduct of attendees. The producers of this lifestyle event along with Bob Hannaford of the International Lifestyle Association, alerted NCSF and we immediately broadcast a press release correcting the false and inflammatory statements made by "soccer parents." NCSF's press release killed the story and the soccer parents who had been scheduled for a Florida radio show cancelled their appearance and ceased to give interviews to reporters.
NCSF was subsequently informed by two event producers that their contracts with InterContinental hotels to host alternative sexual events had been placed on hold pending InterContinental's investigation of the Orlando Ball incident. NCSF sent a letter to Kevin Kowalski, President, InterContinental Hotel Group Brand, giving them the correct information and protesting their arbitrary hold on the contracts. In subsequent conversations, Stephanie Yudin, PR Manager for the Brand, confirmed that InterContinental found no wrong-doing by the producers or attendees of the Orlando New Year's Eve Ball. Yudin stated that as long as alternative sexual events follow local and state laws, and abide by InterContinental's morality clause which prohibits nudity and sexual activity in the public areas of the hotel, it's up to each hotel's discretion whether or not they host alternative lifestyle events.
Another media incident took place in April, 2006, involving Club Tabu (now an NCSF Coalition Partner). Club Tabu is a lifestyle club in Greater Baltimore county which was targeted by the president of a local neighborhood association. Susan gave a dozen media interviews with print, radio and television reporters emphasizing that Club Tabu had established their club legally and that adults have the right to gather in private. The media publicity died within a week and the club continues to operate normally.
Requests for Media Help from Constituents
Susan receives hundreds of emails from constituents who send news articles about alt sex issues, ask questions about dealing with the media, or comment on NCSF's Media Outreach Project, press releases, Media Updates and Action Alerts.
Susan worked with 26 people (more than double last year) giving them media assistance and in assessing group and event websites. Susan was also contacted by three other sexual advocacy groups for help with their media messaging and for training their spokespeople and board members.
For confidentiality reasons, NCSF can't give the names of the groups or individuals we've helped. Some individuals who were publicized in the media include: Miss Kitty, owner of Kokomo Kinksters; Georgia, a pro-Domme and author who appeared on the O-Reilly Factor; and another pro-Domme, Mistress Jezebel, who gave an interview to a NY Times reporter in July, 2006.
NCSF is here to help you – the SM, swing, and polyamory communities. If you have a problem with the media because of your sexual expression, please call NCSF for assistance. You can visit our Web site on www.ncsfreedom.org or call our media hotline at 917-848-6544.
Please support NCSF in our effort to change the political, legal, and social environment in the United States. We are committed to making a difference.
Join NCSF as a member or please hold a fund-raiser and donate to NCSF!
You don't have to answer the interviewer's exact question.
The National Coalition for Sexual Freedom does media advocacy for the millions of Americans who suffer discrimination and persecution because of their normal interest in some form of alternative sexual expression, such as SM, fetishes, polyamory, and swinging. A great deal of the bigotry against sexual minorities occurs because of a lack of information and the resulting negative depiction by the media. We offer resources for both the media and the alternative sexual expression communities.
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League: IFK Goteborg 2-0 Tord
A very disappointing result, the performance was there but the finishing was not. Goteborg went 2-0 up after 30 mins but almost immediately after scoring the 2nd they got a man sent off. This was our chance as we piled on the pressure to get the breakthrough and give us a way back into the match. However we just coudn't score, so frustrating especially as it's a top of the table 6 pointer.
League: Tord 3-0 Syrianska FC
We bounced back well, Rickard Persson (YP81), Axel Nordgren (YP71) and Karl Jawo (YP80) all on target as we eased to victory over Syrianska.
League: Malmo FF 1-0 Tord
Another frustrating day as again we missed chances in a match we should have at least drawn. We had the much better 1st half but couldn't get the opening goal. Right after the break Malmo scored and I knew it was going to be one of those games. We had 2 or 3 more golden opportunities to level things up but they were all squandered.
League: Tord 2-0 Hammarby Fotboll
A pretty poor performance but we did win it and that's all that matters. We left it very late, Axel Nordgren (YP71) scoring in he 87th min and then Eddie Rubin (YP72) added a 2nd in injury time as they looked for an equaliser.
This season for some reason we were put straight into the Group Stage. We were given a tough group which contained the holders Lyon.
The other Swedish teams didn't fare too well in Europe this season:
Firstly Atvidaberg fell at the 1st hurdle, disappointingly losing to Kaposvar of Hungary in the Euro Cup 2nd Qualifying Round.
IK Sirius were put into the Champions League Best Placed 3rd Qualifying Round where they only narrowly lost 2-1 to sc Heerenveen of the Netherlands. They then unluckily got Stade Rennais in the Euro Cup 4th Qualifying Round where they got thrashed 5-0 away but got a respectable 1-1 draw at home.
Malmo managed to beat Icelandic team FH 5-1 on aggregate in the 3rd Qualifying Round but then lost 2-0 on aggregate to Basel in the next round.
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Ballet cinema broadcasts in Canada 2012-13
Posted 24 June 2012 - 06:00 PM
2012 September, Sunday 30th : BOLSHOI: LA SYLPHIDE(Live) (Lacotte version after Taglioni)
2012 October, Sunday 21st : ROYAL BALLET: LA FILLE MAL GARDEE (Recorded)
2012 November, Sunday 25th: BOLSHOI: THE PHARAOH'S DAUGHTER (Live)
2012 December, Thursday 13th : ROYAL BALLET: NUTCRACKER
2012 December, Saturday 22nd : ROYAL BALLET: NUTCRACKER
2013 January, Sunday 27th : BOLSHOI: LA BAYADERE (Live)
2013 March, Thursday 28th: ROYAL BALLET: ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND
2013 March, Sunday 31st : BOLSHOI: THE RITE OF SPRING (Live): new version by Wayne McGregor
2013 April, Sunday 7th: ROYAL BALLET: ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND
2013 May, Sunday 12th : BOLSHOI: ROMEO AND JULIET (Live)
PLUS! Three broadcasts of Nederlands Dans Theater, dates to be confirmed but possibly 15 November, 20 December, and 7 February.
If you would like a "ballet buddy" to attend these broadcasts with in Toronto, please get in touch:
Posted 24 June 2012 - 08:07 PM
Thanks for the info.
p.s. I could really have a ballet buddy, I'm in Ottawa though...
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Posted 10 August 2012 - 07:45 PM
By the way, I don't find any live broadcast performance available from Emerging Pictures in Ottawa or Toronto area yet, where did you find the information above?
Posted 11 August 2012 - 05:07 AM
I wrote to the NAC to complain about late start times and no matinees (I think they're the only theatre in N America showing ballet that DOESN'T have matinees) and they were very dismissive, told me there was no demand. I find this mysterious since NBOC has THREE matinees out of 7 performances in Toronto for any given ballet. 8pm starts mean it's almost impossible for children or seniors to go to the ballet... or people who would like to come in to Ottawa from Kingston or Belleville, which would be quite doable on the train if there were a matinee.
kbarber, indeed, only if they would start the performances earlier. Movies starts at 6:30pm, 7pm, no one seems to have trouble showing up on time, I found it rather inconvenient when the show starts at 8pm. I got my season subscription nonetheless, if you decide to go to the Houston Ballet, message me, I can exchange my ticket to any date or seat available.
By the way, I don't find any live broadcast performance available from Emerging Pictures in Ottawa or Toronto area yet, where did you find the information above?
I got the dates for the Cineplex broadcasts from a sheet that was handed out at Raymonda in June. I don't know why Cineplex is taking so long to post it to their website.
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Posted 04 October 2012 - 02:04 PM
Vyacheslav Lopatin was born for the role of James. He was amazing, I liked both his acting and his dancing.
Krysanova was nice, but didn't blow me away like I think Evgenia Obraztsova would have done.
They do seem to focus a lot on 'loose arms' in this production (if you compare videos of Obraztsova at the Mariinsky vs in this production, she clearly changed this), and I don't really like it. But that is a matter of taste, I'm sure some people think that fits the sylphs/romantic style better..
Overall, an enjoyable performance. Not as impressive as their broadcast of Esmeralda and Corsaire were (to me).
edit: and also I saw Yelena Pankova in the audience at my cinema, she was looking truly gorgeous...
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Posted 05 October 2012 - 07:58 AM
My biggest complaint was with the camera work, which was conspicuously worse than in previous relays. Much of the ballet was shot far too close, which meant not only that toes and hands were cut off on occasion, but more importantly, that it was difficult to gauge how dancers were moving through space, much the same way that close-ups of speed skaters give television viewers a very poor idea of just how quickly they're moving. Frankly, when your leads aren't especially photogenic, the close-ups don't do them any favors either. Some important moments in the mime were also missed by the camera.
Krysanova's Sylph was certainly airy, but she gusted rather than floated. I also think she generally raises her arms much too high, especially the one that crosses her body. I seem to recall that on the DVD of the POB's Sylphide, Aurelie Dupont related how Pierre Lacotte pointed out to her that the off-the-shoulder design of Romantic dresses would have prevented ballerinas from lifting their arms especially high. Today the sleeves on Sylph costumes tend to be purely symbolic, so this posture is frequently lost.
Perhaps because of his build--with his short, bandy legs--Lopatin, a beautiful dancer, tends to jump horizontally rather than vertically, and I found this disconcerting in Bournonville. I was disappointed by his first act solo, primarily because I couldn't make heads or tails of what he was doing musically, but his second-act variations were excellent.
Where I think the performance failed was dramatically, and this was primarily the fault of Irina Zibrova as Madge. Lord knows there are countless ways to play the part and make it unforgettable, but for whatever reason she opted for an indistinct "let the audience decide" approach that gutted the drama. The grainy footage of Johan Kobborg's Madge that exists suggests that Moscow has seen much more compelling performances of the part. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qz1mR1_41Iw At the end I also found Lopatin lacking in the dramatic aspect. Perhaps he was hobbled by the fact that he doesn't have experience dancing parts like Albrecht, Solor or Siegfried.
There was a giggle from an audience member then the Sylph floated up to the heavens because the wires were all too visible on the movie screen. This was a design flaw that could have been prevented if she didn't have to pass over a patch of open "sky" at an inopportune moment. And I really have to lodge a complaint about the poor quality of Bolshoi wigs. There's nothing remotely unreasonable about a Scottish witch with red, curly hair, but it would have been nice if Zibrova's ringlets didn't look as though they were made of cotton batting.
Denis Savin as Gurn was delightful, as always, Anna Rebetskaya was was well cast as Effie, Marianna Ryzhkina's son Klim Yefimov jumped impressively in the pas de six, and Yevgeny Golovin was vivid as one of James' friends. In the second act I was very pleased with Anna Tikhomirova, along with Yulia Lunkina and Chinara Alizade.
The Muscovite audience, it has to be said, loved it and kept calling back Krysanova and Lopatin again and again. For me, though, it did nothing to erase memories of the London Festival Ballet telecast with Eva Evdokimova and Peter Schaufuss, a performance that shouldn't be languishing in the BBC vaults.
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The dancing was good, but I think the Mariinsky corps dances this ballet much better.
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Say I'm hiking outdoors and I get a scrape. I've forgotten my first aid pack, or already used up the appropriate supplies. Is there anything in the wilderness I can use to sterilize and perhaps cover it?
There are many folk and wild remedies you could learn, depending on what you're carrying & where you're hiking. Some examples:
Honey will protect from infection.
Spider webs will stop bleeding (for small cuts).
Common plantain soothes burns, scrapes, etc. Chew it up to make a salve.
Wilderness medicine protocols taught by the major Wilderness First Aid / First Responder training companies (and subsequently adopted by most outdoor organizations) are fairly standard and quite clear about wound management in the back-country.
The standard accepted practice for treating a wound is:
Simple, straight forward. And you can do it without any specialized medical kit.
All bandages provide you is a sterile method for doing the last - but in lieu of sterile dressing, any clean barrier from dirt will do. (ie, a clean shirt)
Adding any kind of substance (ie, honey, plant poultice) is generally frowned upon in wilderness settings as these can introduce sources of infection, become breeding grounds for bacteria, or at the very least make it difficult to monitor what is going on with the wound.
If you are far enough away from higher care that infection is a concern, then these "home remedies" are generally considered more risky than helpful, and add one more thing you have to clean out of the wound later.
I keep a few wet naps (like you get to wipe your fingers at a chicken & ribs joint) mainly to wash my hands (do you know how hard it is to wash your hands in the bush?), and have used them to wipe some pretty serious scratched (they are also excellent fire starters). Hand sanitizer would be another option.
As yucky as it sounds, if you dont have ANY water or anything to clean the wound, assuming your healthy and dont have any "plumbing problems"(instructions from an ER doctor / paramedic) urine is 100% clean right out of the body.
These are the words straight from the doctor: "pee on it."
Might be a good idea to re-wash it out as soon as you can.
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I want to estimate the parameters $\mu_i$ and $\sigma^2_i $ of a countable mixture of Gaussians with assumed equal weights, variance and identically spaced means. I intially thought that the Fourier transforms of an iid sample from the mixture mentioned would give above another Gaussian in phase space, but when computed in matlab I get a sharp peak spectral distribution. I used a Gaussian windows function, so I don't understand why the power spectral density tends to be unbounded at zero phase.
If the Gaussians are constrained to be of equal shapes and distances, then you have a scaled theta function or the convolution of a Gaussian with a sha (Ш) function or scaled Dirac comb. Ш is a sum of equally spaced delta functions, and the Fourier transform of Ш is another Ш function, usually with different spacings and amplitudes depending on your conventions. Since the Fourier transform of a Gaussian is a Gaussian, the Fourier transform of your function is a sum of equally spaced delta functions whose amplitudes sample a Gaussian density, something like $$\beta \sum_{n=-\infty}^\infty e^{-\pi^2 z^2/\sigma - 2 \pi i x_0 z}\delta(z-n/\alpha)$$
where the parameters $\alpha, \beta, \sigma,$ and $x_0$ are determined by the parameters of your distribution and your Fourier conventions.
In particular, there is a delta function at $0$. You should expect this to happen when you have a periodic function whose average over a period isn't $0$.
You can read off the spacing of the Gaussians from the reciprocal of the spacing between the delta functions of the Fourier transform, and the way the amplitude drops off determines the shape of the Gaussian.
That said, finding the parameters of a finite Gaussian mixture is an extremely common problem when the components are not contrained to have the same shapes and spacings. This is because Gaussian mixtures are one of the standard models used in machine learning. Gaussians are localized, so there isn't a big difference between the sum of the Guassians with nearby centers and the whole function. So, in practice, if you have (noisy) values from your function then instead of taking the Fourier transform, you may want to use some of these tools, and then project the best fit onto the space of scaled theta functions. The EM (expectation maximization) algorithm is one common method, and you should be able to find many Matlab implementations.


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7 Mar 2013 9:42 AM #1
Unanswered: IO and hasMany Association
I have a two stores that are linked by a hasMany association. With out IO it works perfectly with the foreign key from one in the other. When I use IO with the same configuration I'm loosing the association.
I'm using Architect and overriding both stores to work with IO and syncStore. I'm also removing the original proxy name.
Any help would be appreciated, thanks.
If I get the store in console it does show that there is an association, however it's using id's with 'ext-record' format not the IO syncstore id format. Also it's not saving the store to localstorage that has the belongsTo association.
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This is a limitation of the sync stores. It does not currently offer support for model relationships.
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Good to know I'm not crazy. I read in a forum post that 'the sync store does the exact same thing as the normal store'. I really hope there will be support in the future. Thanks.


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At the stroke of midnight the new Windows 8 operating system is set to release, but with it comes a new gaming app developed right here in Bowling Green.
"Tonight at midnight we are going to hit the button, and hopefully the downloads are going to start flowing in," said Draw a Stickman Epic Designer Phil Williams.
The Draw a Stickman Epic app all started with a website version that took off, getting nearly a million hits within the first 24 hours of its release.
"You draw a stickman, and he would come to life and you take him through this adventure, and you draw things to help him along the way. So I can draw an ax, and my stickman can use that ax to chop down items that might be in its path," said Williams.
The site had so much success, it led Hitcents to expand into a whole new realm of gaming development.
"We actually expanded the company, and hired a whole new department just to start doing game development," said Williams.
Those new members of the hitcents team have been busy.
"We've had over nine people over the last seven months working on this project," said Hitcents President Chris Mills.
"I was hired on specifically to work on this project," said Hitcents 2D Animator Jeff Dehut.
Each member of the team has left their own mark on the program.
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Attorneys suing the city cited a New York Police Department memo and said the NYPD had changed how officers document stop-and-frisk encounters, requiring them to describe in writing what prompts them to initiate the contact with the people they stop.
The alleged change was detailed Wednesday in a memo city lawyers sought to use as evidence during a trial stemming from a civil-rights lawsuit challenging the practice.
Attorneys representing the city, however, said the memo was reinforcing rules already in place in the NYPD patrol guide and didn't represent a new policy.
The March 5 memo instructs patrol officers they must now elaborate on "the circumstances or factors of suspicion" that lead them to conduct a stop.
The memo lists several items the officer must document when doing a stop-and-frisk, including the stop's date, location and "explanation of suspicion"— all to be logged on a form known as UF250.
It also says "the circumstances or factors of suspicion must be elaborated on...." To cite one example, if officers choose "furtive movements" as the determining factor, they must also provide a written description of the "movement," the memo states.
In the past, such additional description was done on a voluntary basis, according to police officers who have testified at the trial, which is in its second week in Manhattan federal court.
The memo, issued and signed by NYPD Chief of Patrol James Hall, states that the alleged change would be effective immediately.
U.S. District Court Shira Scheindlin declined Wednesday to admit the memo into evidence until Chief Hall appears for testimony in the coming weeks.
In a news release, attorneys for the Center for Constitutional Rights, the New York group that brought the class-action lawsuit against the NYPD and the city, said "the change amounts to an admission that the system in place is inadequate."
"The NYPD has now apparently recognized the need for one piece of the necessary reform we've been insisting on for years and specifically requested in this case," said the organization's legal director, Baher Azmy, in the release. The center's attorneys said the documentation change was among those sought through its 2008 lawsuit.
Paul Browne, the chief spokesman for the NYPD, didn't respond to requests for comment.
Plaintiffs in the case argue the stop-and-frisk policy is unconstitutional and are seeking a federal monitor to ensure the NYPD complies with any court-ordered changes made to the policy. The Center for Constitutional Rights claims the stop-and-frisk policy violates the Constitution's Fourth Amendment, which prohibits illegal searches and seizures as well as the equal-protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, which is often invoked to fight laws seen as racially discriminatory.
Stop-and-frisk has been the target of criticism because since 2002 more than 85% of those stopped were either black or Latino, and nearly 90% of those stopped were released without being charged.
Attorneys representing the city and the police have argued that stop-and-frisk focuses on areas where crime is highest and that the percentage of minorities stopped is consistent with the percentage of crime suspects who are minorities. The NYPD and Mayor Michael Bloomberg have cited the policy as an important factor in falling crime citywide.
So far, the trial has featured testimony from people who have been stopped, as well as police officers who have said they were pressured to conduct stops because of an unwritten—and illegal—quota system. NYPD officials deny quotas exists.
Several top NYPD administrators are expected to testify in the coming weeks. The trial is expected to last four to six weeks
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I prefer my bread freshly baked (who doesn't?), but my mixer prefers kneading two loaves at a time to just kneading one. I have tried to freeze the second loaf before baking it, but when I thaw it, it does not rise well before baking. I've tried thawing it entirely in the refrigerator and then letting it rise on the counter, but that did not seem to work. Does anyone have a good technique or suggestion for this?
Traditional dough will not freeze well. You have to par-bake it.
In the US, the "freshly baked" bread sold in most supermarkets is par-baked dough. This is risen dough, which is then baked for 70 to 80% of the usual baking time, cooled, frozen, and shipped to the supermarket, where it is baked again until golden. You could do the same.
A par-baked baugette is a bit denser than a traditional one. Freezing the dough before baking it kills most of the yeast preventing it from working during the first stages of baking.
All the time the dough stays under room temperature is lost time for the yeast that didn't die on freezing - you can't count on it being "instant" anymore.
Thaw it outside or even in a warmer place 35-40C if room temperature is low.
In my experience, if you have to freeze raw dough at all the best results are with already risen ready-to-bake dough.
I've never done it for bread, so I can't be sure it'll work, but for pizza dough, I freeze it in smaller balls, so there's a higher surface to mass ratio when thawing it (in the fridge, takes a day for ~2" / 5cm balls.) It's worked fine, but I admit I'm not entering any competitions with it.
My understanding is that many of the "rising crust" frozen pizzas use a mix of yeast and chemical leaveners, so they can be sure it'll rise after having been frozen, so this might be a possible additive to try. You'll want a double-acting baking powder, as it'll act when heated, not just when it first gets wet.


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On the biggest stage of their high school football careers, St. Clairsville's two Division I recruits shined the brightest.
With a berth to the Division IV state championship game on the line last Friday at Massillon's Paul Brown Tiger Stadium, Dan Monteroso (Boston College) and Michael Ferns (Michigan) played their best games of the season.
As a result, the Red Devils (14-0) punched their ticket to Canton's Fawcett Stadium with a 40-27, victory over defending state titlist Creston Norwayne. They will face Clarksville Clinton-Massie (14-0) in the title tilt Friday at 3 o'clock.
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THE ST. Clairsville duo of Dan Monteroso (left)?and Michael Ferns (right) have been instrumental in the Red Devils' success all season. Both will be playing at the major college level. Monteroso is committed to Boston College, while Ferns, just a junior, is headed to Michigan in 2014. Both were named first-team all-Ohio earlier this week.
So, did giving their early verbals take some, or a lot of, pressure off of them this season?
"It took a little bit, but not much," the 6-3 Monteroso said earlier this week prior to a practice session. "I still focused on this season and went out and did what I had to do to help the team win."
Ferns, only a junior, added, "Yes, it did. The plan going into the recruiting process was to get it out of the way as soon as possible so that I had time to focus on my team this season."
Monteroso caught a career-high 10 passes for 264 yards and two touchdowns.
"Like I said after the (semifinal) game, I went to a final four game in basketball last season and I didn't play well," Monteroso recalled of that fateful day last March in Columbus against Elida.
"I didn't live up to expectations. I wasn't going to let that ever happen again, to me or my teammates. I wanted to go out and play my best, and I did."
Included in those totals were nearly 200 yards in the first half alone when the Bobcats only utilized one defender on him.
"Sometimes it matters to me," he said of getting the ball thrown his way. "Sometimes Jaylon (Brown) gets rolling when they double cover me. It's easier for him to run like that, but we tried to pick on a couple of kids the other night.
"We executed the game plan."
Ferns was among the mainstays of the Red Devils' defensive unit. He charted eight tackles, but most of the season he has been pursuing ballcarriers as teams have run away from the 6-3, 220 pounder.
"It was a team effort the other night," Ferns said before practice Monday. "I'm not one to care about stats. It's all about winning. I do what I have to to help the team. As long as we keep rolling, I'll be happy."
One aspect of Monteroso's game that fans rarely see is his punting. He's averaged nearly 40 yards when he has been called upon to kick, which hasn't been too often.
"That's probably my favorite thing to do in football," he said with a huge smile. "I love to punt, but we don't do it that much. But that is okay, too."
Both players have younger brothers on the team.
Michael Monteroso and Brendan Ferns, who are a sophomore and freshman, respectively, had fine seasons with the JV squad.
"It would mean a lot to all of us," Monteroso advised.
"This is one chance, maybe the only one, that St. Clairsville could have to win a state football title, and it would be nice to have our names etched in the record books together."
Ferns added, "It would be great to win a state title with my brother. Opportunities to get this far are very seldom. To make this happen would be a great thing for our team and Belmont County."


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"Yes, we shot it, and yes, it sank in that battle, but they were probably two very separate events."
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Among the enemy planes were wood and canvas bombers -- there was so little metal on the Japanese planes that they easily slipped past radar. So when this one plane aimed for a ship near the Porter, the Porter took evasive maneuvers. YAY! SUCCESS! FINALLY! The plane crashed into the ocean without exploding, and the high-five party began.
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The halacha we have today is mostly sourced in Talmud Bavli(the Babylonian Talmud),Medrash and Zohar. I would like to know what Halachot in which we rule according to the Yerushalmi (the Jerusalem Talmud) versus the Bavli (the Babylonian Talmud)?
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Basar Shenitalem Min Ha'ayin would be an example of this:
The Gemara Bavli in Hullin 95a and 95b, rules that the thing we are worried about is an animal (according to rashi a raven, according to the rambam "a wild animal or vermin" (my rough translation)) switching the meat. The gemara holds that this doesn't apply if it was in the hands of a non-Jew -- meat left with a non-Jew is not considered a problem according to the Bavli.
The Shulchan Aruch (63:1) rules, unlike the gemara referenced above, that we are also worried about non-Jews in terms of basar shenitalem min ha'ayin. The GR"A (S"K 1) says that this is based on the Rambam in Ma'achalot Assurot 8:10, who rules like the Yerushalmi in Shekalim 7:2 ( "כדרכו ברוב מקומות" - "as is his way in most places" - GR"A), NOT like the Bavli I quoted above.
Tosfot in Menachot 33b sv. U'mai quotes a Yerushalmi that he says argues on the Bavli regarding how high to put a mezuzah on an extremely tall doorway. The Bavli rules that it should be in the top third of the doorway regardless, while the Yerushalmi rules that in this case the mezuzah should be hung around shoulder height.
According to Rav Yisroel Belsky (and other sources all quoted here, footnote 22) the custom follows the Yerushalmi.
According to Rabbi David Bar Hayim, and Rabbi Yehoshua Buch and Rav Chaim Wasserman, whenever the Yerushalmi and Bavli contradict eachother, Jews today living in Israel, should follow the Yerushalmi. The three of them have set up a Beit Din to make such a position on specific customs official, and hallachically legally binding to those who accept the beit din.
Since Jews living in Israel and who feel the beginnings of Geulah no longer live or feel as if they live in Galut, then Jewish practice must follow that of Geulah Judaism and follow in the ways of Israel, instead of the Bavli, which was constructed and recorded for Galut Judaism.
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This is for advanced/experienced players. This would include TheHayleyDoll, Spirit_Queen, Miranda_, Silent_Wolf, and Sarah_K_O_M. If you still wish to join and your name is not on here, please PM me before posting along with charrie form and first para.
The Ruttle family has just moved into a new house. It is located in present-day PA, along a historic street called Franklin Avenue (not real as far as I know). The Ruttle family consists of the couple Daniel and Lynn, yn's two daughters of a previous marriage, Kaitlyn and Samatha and Daniel's son, Tyler. Kaitlynn, Sam, and Tyler are all around the ages of 13-17.
The house that they have just moved into a house with some scary history. Supposedly, people have died in this house--And never left. Sam, Kaitlyn, and Tyler all find out about this. They all have different reactions. Now, when There are unusual noises, frightening voices, and other scary phenonmens(sp?). Who are these ghost or what is behind these strange noises and what lives ahead for this newly found family. Will you be one of the ghosts or a family member?
*Obviously, all RPG rules apply. (Duh -.-)
*Experienced players only (Another duh)
*After 50 pages, NO ONE is allowed to join. Period.
Charrie Forms:
*Personality-brief, give a couple strengths/weaknesses. They can be fully determined as we go along. Easier too! XD*
*Short Bio- If a ghost, tell why you are still here and how you died. If human, tell if you are excited about the move or not. Also, how the younger kids feel about their house being filled with Spirits.*
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My Charries:
Name: Lyn Ruttle
Human/Ghost: Human
Age: 39
Personality: She is intelligent, organized, and determined but can be a bit bossy, perfectionist, and stubborn.
Short Bio: Lyn was married for 9 years before getting a divorce. She has two daughter, Kaitlyn and Sam. She met Daniel during her marriage and they fell in love. She can also be a slight workaholic and not come home til very late. She is a lawyer.
Name: Samantha "Sam or Sammi" Mills
Human/Ghost: Human
Age: 16
Apperence: click
Personality: She is most of the time patient, always loyal to her friends, and can be driven to do things when she wants to be. She always likes to prove herself. However, she can definitely be just as stubborn as her mother, have a bad atitude, and be quite sarcastic.
Short Bio: Sammi doesn't like Daniel. She blames him for the move and for other things but she doesn't know what they are. Its something her gut tells her. She hates the move because she has to leave her best friend and her boyfriend behind. Her mother promised her a car but Sam doubts it'll happen. She hates moving to the small town because even though the internet said it was haunted, she doubts its anyways because nothing ever happens in a small town.
Name: Phoebe James
Human/Ghost: Ghost
Age: 15
Apperence: Not needed?
Personality: Not Needed?
Short Bio: Phoebe was living in this house back in 1995. Her mother was a druggie who always went out at night to bars and dressed quite provocative. Phoebe was always home alone and expected to be good. She was never allowed to have friends over because she never had friends. Everyone thought she was just like her mother. One night, after her mother had left, Phoebe took a handful of drugs. Realizing that death wasn't the answer, Phoebe immediately called 911. The police, however, got there too late to save her.
Lyn sat in the front seat of the car as Daniel drove them out to the house. The moving van was following them.
"Isn't this exciting? We get to make new lives for ourselves and everything!"
"I had a perfectly good life back in Philly." Sammi grumbled.
"Oh, Samantha, get over it. Here in Gettysburg you get to make a whole new group of friends and maybe even a new bf." Her mother continued.
"God. Please kill me. Now."
"Sammi!" Lyn snapped.
"Mother, we are moving to the middle of nowhere! All these small town hicks probably have never even left there stupid little town. Hell, if you wanted to move to the middle of nowhere, why the hell didn't you just ask the Amish people to take you!"
"Watch your mouth, Samantha."
"Hell. Hell. Hell."
"Do you want to be grounded?"
"Wouldn't make a difference." She muttered.
Lyn gave up and looked out the window, still excited.
Sammi, however, was still sulking as she watched all the fields go by, including all the cows. She sighed. "You know, all these cows probably outnumber the humans."
"Oh stop with all the stupid drama!"
Sammi stuck her tongue out and pulled her IPOD out.
"Oh, real mature."
Being single doesn't make you weak, it means that you are strong enough to be on your own; Being alone could be a good thing, because there is no drama involved in your life, no pain, and free to do what ever you want. Life is too short to be chasing those who aren't even worth fighting for, you are worth more than that.
Name: Darin Blake
Human/Ghost: Ghost
Age: 17
Appearence: Takes the form of a black dog in ghost form
Personality: Quick to anger; is a poltergeist as well as a visible spirit
Short Bio: Darin lived around 150 years ago, and didn't actually live in the house; he was having an affair with the wife of the house's owner. After she gave birth to Darin's child, her husband guessed of her affair, due to having red hair and his wife being blonde; the child had dark hair. He got his revenge on Darin by lying in wait for him and then killing him in front of his wife, claiming afterwards to the law that he'd acted in self defence.
The owner got away with the crime, due to being rich and influential in the town; Darin on the other hand was a boy from the wrong side of the tracks and his mother was unmarried. The house owner settled down, satisfied he'd punished both his wife and her lover for their transgessions... until one day, his mutilated corpse was found in the cellar. It seemed as tho it had been savaged by a dog, but no dog was found. The murder became an unsolved mystery and still remains so today. However, there were reported sightings of a ghostly black dog in the cellar, and around the house.
Darin roamed around the empty house, too restless to remain in one spot for long. He still felt a sense of satisfaction at helping to drive out the people who'd lived in the house; thanks to him and the other ghosts in the house, no-one ever remained there for long. He was determined to drive out the new people too; he felt that he'd earned the right to stay in this house, and stay there alone.
Darin was full of anger still at how he had died; despite it having happened over 150 years ago, he remembered the injustice as tho it had happened yesterday. Despite having had his revenge on his murderer, vengence and the desire to cause hurt still flowed within him, seemingly unendingly.
Name: Kaitlyn Mills
Human/Ghost: Human
Age: 17
Apperence: pink by ~Lady-Godiva on deviantART
Personality: Hyper and loud. She doesn't know when to shut up, and she's a bad lier. Can be a snob.
Short Bio: Kate dropped out of school the previous year after being suspended countless times for talking out in class. Her boyfriend cheated on her, and she left without telling him. However, the next day, she knew she'd get over it. Things didn't linger in her mind when they were over and done with. Like her mother and Daniel. She just didn't care anymore. She's never had a job, and usually just begs her mother for money.
Name: Cassandra 'Cassie' Rowe
Human/Ghost: Ghost
Age: 18
Appearence: click - when she was alive... XD
Personality: Quiet and shy.
Short Bio: Cassie had always had problems back when she lived in the house in 1988. She started engaging in self-harm and drugs. She hung herself from a pipe line going across the basement after finding out her father was cheating on her mother that very same summer. She left behind one black haired, grey eyed daughter of 3 years, Bella Rowe. She became pregnant after being raped by her 'friends' back in the 9th grade.
Kate looked up at the house as she exited the car. "Wow, this place is OLD." She said, thinking it had to be at least 200 years ago that it was built. Sure it wasn't falling apart, but you could tell it wasn't new. Especially since she knew of the deaths in the house had been occurring for many generations. Kate combed her fingers through her dyed pink hair. "I guess it's not awful. It's got quite a bit of room." She said, trying to be positive.
Cassie moaned as she watched out the window. New people. New suffering. She wished no one had came here. She wished her family had never came here. Cassandra wished a lot of things, but nothing ever changed the way she wanted them to. It was too late though. A new family was moving in and getting on a ride they'll never forget.
Phoebe came up behind Cassie. "Not again." She groaned. "Do these people ever get a hint?"
Sammi groaned. "Great! Not another stupid old house."
Being single doesn't make you weak, it means that you are strong enough to be on your own; Being alone could be a good thing, because there is no drama involved in your life, no pain, and free to do what ever you want. Life is too short to be chasing those who aren't even worth fighting for, you are worth more than that.
Cassie shrugged, then turned to Pheobe. "Maybe they'll be alright. Unlike us."
Kate smiled, "Old houses can be fun I guess."
Darin materialised behind the girls. "Apparently not. I'll have to try out all my best tricks on them to get them out. Wonder how long it'll take for these people to get the hint that they don't belong here, and never will?"
"They don't want to. I'd give anything to take back coming here, myself. My daughter... I still don't know what's become of her. She must be an adult by now." Cassie sighed and floated over to the stairs, seemingly sitting on them.
"Cassie, I'm sure everything will be alright. Maybe we can even get answers out of them."
Sam grabbed her bags. "How long do we have to stay here."
Lyn looked at her. "Why can't you be more like Kate? At least she is excited."
Being single doesn't make you weak, it means that you are strong enough to be on your own; Being alone could be a good thing, because there is no drama involved in your life, no pain, and free to do what ever you want. Life is too short to be chasing those who aren't even worth fighting for, you are worth more than that.
Darin shrugged indifferently. "My son died decades ago; I never found out what became of him after I revenged myself on the guy who murdered me." In the cellar, there was still a bloodstain from where the body had been found; it was immovable, and could not be cleaned off, whatever a person used on it.
"Like they know my daughter. And how are we supposed to get answers from the living? If we were to talk, there would be little chance of being heard, and if we are, they'd think they were loony." Cassie put some 'hair' behind her ear.
Of course, Kaitlyn was always excited. Life was an adventure, and if you didn't take risks, you weren't living at all in her opinion.
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