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The debate that began with Gus Malzahn and Bret Bielema at SEC Media Days has shown no signs of slowing down over the past week as the rest of college football's conferences hold their own media day appearances.
And it should come as no surprise that Malzahn had to deal with the topic multiple times during his tour of ESPN shows during the network's annual "Car Wash" for SEC coaches Tuesday.
Malzahn, one of the early proponents of the offense, once again cited his experience with the offense in saying that the no-huddle presents no safety issues.
"I've been running this type of offense since 1997 and hadn't seen any effects as far as player safety and all that," Malzahn said. "I really believe in what we do."
Bielema, for his part, danced around a question from ESPN anchor Chris Fowler about the effect of his big, powerful offensive linemen and whether or not they could cause more injuries, while reiterating his points from his SEC Media Days missive.
Malzahn also correctly pointed out that the offense is on the rise.
And not only across college football. Several NFL teams have used pace over the past couple of seasons, most notably the New England Patriots and at times the Green Bay Packers, and there are no rules changes on the horizon that would change it.
"If you look at college football, you're really seeing more and more of it, and even in pro football," Malzahn said. "Now that Chip Kelly's there, I think you'll see even more, and I think fans like it, players like, and I feel good about it moving forward."
Malzahn has gotten plenty of support from other college football coaches in recent days, particularly at Big 12 SEC Media Days, where Oklahoma State's Mike Gundy defended the scheme on Monday and West Virginia's Dana Holgorsen offered another strong rebuttal Tuesday.
"I'd tell him to get over it because it's not going to change. It's going into the NFL, for crying out loud," Holgorsen said. "Don't see it changing any time soon. So you'd better learn to adapt to it."
Malzahn did have at least one suggestion for defensive coordinators trying to get substitutions in the game and give their players a rest.
"You do have three timeouts too if your guys, if your guys feel like you need to take a break, Malzahn said.


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Paris police arrest 2 men for synthetic marijuana, other drugs
Paris police officers made apparently unrelated narcotics arrests Thursday afternoon after finding synthetic marijuana and other prohibited drugs on two individuals, police spokesman Curtis Garrett said.
Taken into custody were Bradley Cornelius Frazier, 28, of Detroit and Rodney Skyler Allen, 17, of Paris.
Frazier was arrested after police stopped a vehicle about 12:15 p.m. in the 500 block of East Grove Street for a vehicle registration violation, Garrett said. Upon further investigation, it was discovered that Frazier was in possession of cocaine.
During an inventory of Frazier's vehicle, officers located a medicine bottle that contained crack cocaine, numerous baggies of marijuana, packages of synthetic marijuana and empty baggies used in the packaging and sale of narcotics.
Because of the amount of narcotics found, Frazier was charged with two counts of manufacturing or delivering a controlled substance, possession of marijuana, and expired motor vehicle registration.
Bond was set at $30,000 for manufacture or delivery of a controlled substance and $3,000 for possession of a controlled substance (more than 3 grams but less than 28 grams).
Allen was arrested shortly before 2 p.m., Garrett said, as a result of a call to an apartment in the 800 block of Lamar Avenue.
Officers were told Allen had been smoking synthetic marijuana at an apartment but had left before officers arrived.
Officers located Allen three or four blocks away at his residence in the 700 block of East Price Street, Garrett said.
When police asked Allen if he had any synthetic marijuana in his possession, he removed five packages from his pocket.
Officers subsequently located numerous pills in his pocket, resulting in a charge of one count of misdemeanor possession of a controlled substance.
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User talk:Orion Blastar
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edit Archived Talk Page
I have decided to time travel again, see you later. --Lt. Sir Orion Blastar (talk) 01:48, 1 October 2068 (UTC)
edit Happy Hanukkah
edit A FESTIVUS FOR THE RESTOFUS!
|Happy Festivus, from The Led Balloon and Jerry Stiller. Put up your Festivus Pole, air your grievances, and prepare for the feats of strength, for festivus cannot continue until I am pinned! Oh, and merry Christmas if you're into that sort of thing.
|It's a Festivus miracle!
- P.M., WotM, & GUN, Sir Led Balloon (Tick Tock) (Contribs) 20:20, Dec 21
edit Orion!
I'm so glad to see you're still here! How are you? --T. (talk) 22:44, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
- I am still disabled and sick, but I am still alive and still here. Sorry for not being too active, but life is hard for me these past few years. I've had friends and family die, and I've gotten sick and I am trying to limit my Internet use because it is an addiction I am trying to break. I am trying to be more mindfull of others and try not to let my mental illness take control of what I write and say. For example, I am trying to learn meditation to improve myself. I have a lot of work to do. But every once in a while I check in here and see my watchlist and remove those "x is gay" and other vandalism that happens on the articles and revert them. --Lt. Sir Orion Blastar (talk) 23:09, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
- I am sorry to hear things have been rough, but encouraged that you are still actively working at it. Meditation can be very useful. Are you familiar with the concept of mindfulness? It can be a very helpful exercise for staying in the present moment and not getting wrapped up in thoughts and feelings that are harmful. Let's keep in touch. --T. (talk) 23:25, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
- Thank you I will consider it. I have had thoughts and feelings that were harmful to myself and others in the past, so it is something I do need to work on. I tried channeling it into my sense of humor but that didn't work and all I did was upset people. Because I am mentally ill it is hard to learn meditation and mindfullness and I will try. I heard a Buddhist Monk say it took him six years to learn it, for me it might take more as I am not a Monk and I have mental illnesses. Thank you for thinking of me, you've been a good friend since I first joined Uncyclopedia and started to work with others to be funnier and get along as well. --Lt. Sir Orion Blastar (talk) 23:46, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
- I am your friend. I've always found you extremely approachable and likable. :) The fact that you own your mental illness is admirable, so long as you don't start mistaking everyone around you for sane people. Mental health is continuum, and varies for everyone over their lives. Me, for example: I had to learn to understand myself from the inside out some time ago. I've struggled with depression on and off since before I understood what it was... Since before I understood that the way I was feeling wasn't 'normal'. On a couple of occasions as a younger person I can recall being behind the wheel of a car and realizing: "I have the power of my own death in my hands. Do I want to make it home today, or do I want this pain to just... stop?" For long periods of time it was hard to get out of bed in the morning. But you keep waking up and thinking: "I'm alive. I've chosen to keep living. Now, I'm going to go live." Wake up in the morning with a plan: I'm reading that book today, I'm writing that story, I'm volunteering at..., I'm walking the dog to... wherever. And so long as you're trying each day — with purpose and structure shaping your day — that's all you can do.
- And remember you're important to other people. I may have been busy with life for the last while, but you still crossed my mind more often than you know. ^_^ --T. (talk) 01:16, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
- Well thank you for thinking about me, I think about you as well some times. I know you had it rough for a while and had to take a break from Uncyclopedia. I try to make it one day at a time, and each day is a challenge. I have a wife and son that needs me as well as other family members and friends. Most of what I can do for them is fix their computers for free or train them how to use the computer better. I need to learn how to develop my skills and abilities to start up a small business with friends and family members as I have a problem holding jobs because people don't understand my mental illness and you are right not everyone is sane either and might be struggling with their own problems or mental illnesses as well. But I feel that coming out and admitting to having a mental illness and trying to own it and own up to it not only helps me but other people as well. I need to work on my physical health as well and lose some weight and try to get rid of this high blood pressure and maybe work out an exercise program. I haven't done that yet and when I get sick it is hard to do. Every time I do diet and exercise and lose weight I tend to gain it back. Some people say it is because I don't eat organic or natural food, and that is something I had pondered to change. But I am not sure how to do that. --Lt. Sir Orion Blastar (talk) 01:34, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
- Thank you I will consider it. I have had thoughts and feelings that were harmful to myself and others in the past, so it is something I do need to work on. I tried channeling it into my sense of humor but that didn't work and all I did was upset people. Because I am mentally ill it is hard to learn meditation and mindfullness and I will try. I heard a Buddhist Monk say it took him six years to learn it, for me it might take more as I am not a Monk and I have mental illnesses. Thank you for thinking of me, you've been a good friend since I first joined Uncyclopedia and started to work with others to be funnier and get along as well. --Lt. Sir Orion Blastar (talk) 23:46, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
- I am sorry to hear things have been rough, but encouraged that you are still actively working at it. Meditation can be very useful. Are you familiar with the concept of mindfulness? It can be a very helpful exercise for staying in the present moment and not getting wrapped up in thoughts and feelings that are harmful. Let's keep in touch. --T. (talk) 23:25, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
edit Well done
I liked your take on my idea to have FOX link Health Care and Celebrity Deaths. You took it in a much better direction that I could think of. Keep up the good work!--<<>> 01:54, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
- Thank you, I always try to do my best. Sometimes it ends up in VFD, other times it ends up a lot better. I think I was channeling Glenn Beck in that Unnews piece for Fox News. --Lt. Sir Orion Blastar (talk) 02:37, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
edit CONGRATULATIONS FROM THE GOA TSE CLAN!
Your company have been listed in the Uncyclopedia Stock Exchange! |Si Plebius Dato' (Sir) Joe ang Man on Fire CUN|IC Kill | 09:04, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
edit Approved
Job and account approved at central bank! Central Bank
edit Central Bank
I'm giving you a promotion. Your security guard. Whenever we get robbed, you find the money. Your salary has gone up.HAPPY 02:08, 19 July 2009!
- I guess that means I just pirate back the money from the robbers? --Lt. Sir Orion Blastar (talk) 02:34, 19 July 2009 (UTC)
- Sure. HAPPY 05:38, 19 July 2009!
I hate to say this, but your dividends have been reduced because the shares have went down dramatically. The reason for the drop in SPSD shares is because no one liked to buy your products and you haven't distributed your products to your stores. So unless you start having your company producing and marketing the products, the enitre stock market will drop dramatically, and we will have a stock market crash like in 1929.
Your shares are now worth: $12,692,221. |Si Plebius Dato' (Sir) Joe ang Man on Fire CUN|IC Kill | 08:06, 22 July 2009 (UTC)
- OK so how do I do all of that? --Lt. Sir Orion Blastar (talk) 16:10, 22 July 2009 (UTC)
- Just make pictures of your products. |Si Plebius Dato' (Sir) Joe ang Man on Fire CUN|IC Kill | 07:10, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
- I am not that skilled with paint programs to make my own pictures. --Lt. Sir Orion Blastar (talk) 19:13, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
- I am trying to add them from images off the Internet. Not all products will be available until I can get a picture or paint a picture for them. This is hard because I am disabled. --Lt. Sir Orion Blastar (talk) 21:08, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
- Good news, Orion Blastar. Your stocks have now increased to $87,215,692. |Si Plebius Dato' (Sir) Joe ang Man on Fire CUN|IC Kill | 09:20, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
- I am trying to add them from images off the Internet. Not all products will be available until I can get a picture or paint a picture for them. This is hard because I am disabled. --Lt. Sir Orion Blastar (talk) 21:08, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
- I am not that skilled with paint programs to make my own pictures. --Lt. Sir Orion Blastar (talk) 19:13, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
- Just make pictures of your products. |Si Plebius Dato' (Sir) Joe ang Man on Fire CUN|IC Kill | 07:10, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
edit Channel 360
Come check out Channel 360 we got lots of interesting stuff there! While you're there be sure to check it's news station too! HAPPY 00:36, 24 July 2009!
edit Award from UN:REQ
| This user created Rambo, an article originally requested on Uncyclopedia:Requested Articles. Good for
(If awarding yourself please update the award statistics)
| This user created Holy Bible: Revised Neocon Edition, an article originally requested on Uncyclopedia:Requested Articles. Good for
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MadMax 18:19, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
edit From Zim's talk page
- A little unsolicited advice from myself here as well. It doesn't read like a news article, and misses out on a couple of potential style points that could make a major difference. Spelling and grammar are not too bad, but it feels clumsy, for the want of a better word. And formatting leaves a little to be desired.
- I've copied a version of it and put it here as a temporary thing to show you what I would change with the formatting.
- The first issue is the graphic in the bottom left was not animated on my browser, which is not completely up-to-date, but is less than a year out of date, which means that it's a fairly good example of an "average" browser experience. Now this can be fixed by editing the graphic and changing the size of the original file so it fits in with what you are planning. This is probably my preferred method of dealing with this, but that may not be the only issue with it. The second issue is that you've put your images in there as [[Image:File name.ext|thumb|align|caption]] which means that you are allowing the Wikimedia rules to determine the size of the image, rather than controlling it yourself. Here I have determined the sized of both images, and they cover the same area, meaning that they are the same "size". (Area of image = width in pixels * height in pixels.) One of the issues with this image though is that it is an animation. While I do use animations, I try to use them sparingly, as the star should be the text, not the graphics. The left and right motion of this one is distracting and effectively nauseating while I'm trying to read. You may want to re-think the use of this one.
- Second thing in the formatting is having the image hanging into the next section, forcing the header of the section to be pushed to the right of the screen. {{-}} is a really handy template to stop this sort of thing happening.
- Next thing is the writing style. A news article has a couple of things that it tries to do. The first is to convey as much meaning as possible with as few words as possible. The other thing that a tabloid article tries to do is use powerful, emotive words to give as much punch as possible. Your opening is:
|Recently Bill Gates had Steve Ballmer had their kids meet together over at Gate's mansion. The kids got together and went into one of the many rooms in the house that had computers in it, and they locked the doors and took some laptops and other things from out of their bags. This made Gates and Ballmer upset.
- Okay, that first sentence is grammatically incorrect to start with. Secondly the word Recently is redundant and unspecific. The second sentence is very wordy and clumsy, and doesn't roll comfortably off the tongue. The last sentence of the three is a very soft sentence for something that should pack punch. This reads like a short story, rather than a news item.
- So cutting this and mixing it up a little, let's try this as an option.
| Microsoft founder Bill Gates and CEO Steve Ballmer have uncovered the use of products made by arch-rival Apple by their children.
According to inside sources, during a recent get together in the Gates mansion, the children secreted themselves into one of the many rooms. Gates, using his CCTV monitoring system, uncovered their use of forbidden laptops and software. Both men became irate upon discovery.
- Okay, I've rushed that a little, but it conveys the same meaning, gives a little more information about the two men (so that the unenlightened reader can access the story), gets rid of a few of the weaker words and phrases (recently, some things, upset) while using a few more emotive words to generate a reaction from the reader (arch-rival, secreted, irate).
- And I'm going back to my original suggestion above - get this PEE reviewed. If you are worried that it's going to be huffed, copy it to your user-space and get the version there reviewed. I would probably then ask that the original be huffed, as you'd be better off people reading this the first time when it's polished and ready rather than half done but with potential.
Sorry that I've indented the above, but I started to put it on Zim's talk page and then thought to move it here, and I can't be buggered fixing it. Pup
edit Martians
Thanks for writing an article based on my Minitrue suggestion! I hope you don't mind that I cleaned it up a little bit. -- Kip > Talk • Works • • 05:58, Dec. 21, 2009
- That is what a Community Open Source CC-BY-NC-SA 2.0 Wiki is all about. I don't mind other people cleaning up my articles. In fact I encourage it. Thanks for the suggestion for the UnNews story, I ran with it and did what I could. The cleanup was great. --Lt. Sir Orion Blastar (talk) 16:17, December 21, 2009 (UTC)
edit IWETHEY
I moved it per your request and the VFD vote. It's here, so I didn't have to huff the existing copy of the page you already have in your userspace. Have fun! --UU - natter 11:50, Dec 24
edit Orion are you alright?
You last email yesterday didn't make sense but I got one today about making that Buddha stuff for you. Did you want me to make it an article or unbook? I wasn't able to make out your schizophrenic typing enough to figure out what you wanted. I rewrote the IWETHEY page as you reqeusted using the rewrite version in your User Sandbox you linked to for me. Now I joined Uncyclopedia long ago because of you. I am being nice Orion, but I don't really understand if this is your last article before you quit or something else happens. I am sad to hear about your father having a brain tumor and lung cancer. I'll call you on your phone but it appears disconnected. When those trolls from Kuro5hin pranked called you and your wife and son for a week at 3am claiming to be a Dr. Menliogis or whatever when you had your colon cancer problem I think you changed your number and forgot to give me the new one. If I had it I could check up on you and see if you are alright. I think you still check your talk page, but I am unsure of that. I hope and pray everything is alright with you and your family and you must be going through a rough time. I also got that Classic Manager stuff you wrote at Kuro5hin and they trolled you for it, you wanted me to make an article out of that as well, right? While I cannot join Kuro5hin, I'll write here as it is a much better environment to write in. Take care Orion, I hope you are just sleeping or something and not in the hospital again. Your friend Loke. Loke 16:36, March 15, 2010 (UTC)
- Loke I am alright just very very sick. I've been sleeping most of the day, but yes I did get your emails. My father is getting sicker and may need an at home nurse or be moved to a nursing home. I am trying out a theory about music therapy or movies stimulating the speech center in his brain that the tumor is located at. This is our family illness based on my theory that causes these mental and physical illnesses. I don't have a lot of time to talk, but did want to say thank you for helping me fix and restore and rewrite the IWETHEY article you are a great friend for that. If I don't answer via email, please don't panic you will only make yourself upset. Remember that I am a space pirate ninja from the future and can survive anything thrown at me. :) Good luck Loke, please tell the others hello for me. Yes please develop the Buddha article into an uBook using deadpan and dada humor. The other one can be an Unbook as well, but that is your choice. I gotta go, my blood pressure is 192/94 and I need to clam down now which is why I am not on the computer often enough to answer email. --Lt. Sir Orion Blastar (talk) 22:44, March 15, 2010 (UTC)
- Yikes Orion those are serious issues. But I guess you get used to them as you said to me you had then since 2002 is that correct? I am clearly not as good a writer as you nor as imaginative but you do give me good ideas I can run with later. You take care of yourself Orion, I'll write this stuff for you eventually. Loke 13:43, March 16, 2010 (UTC)
- Orion I know you don't come here much. But I heard about your friends bailing on you after they heard how sick your father was and how sick you where. They were not your true friends and only used you until you were of no more use to them. You are a good and supportive friend to me and others. I read what others wrote about you here, and you are a valuable member here. Get better and come back when you are healed up. I know some of them you considered your best friends, but when it came time for them to finally support you they showed their true colors, yellow that of a coward. True friends do not bail on you like that and you are better off without them. But you can easily replace them with better friends. I fully support you and your family and hope you come back here and write better. Loke 23:50, March 17, 2010 (UTC)
- Loke man, settle down. I ain't dying or nothing. I just got a bad case of the flu that is making my schizoaffective disorder worse. Having my father in the hospital with his brain bleeding and a brain tumor and lung cancer isn't helping, nor are the trolls on Kuro5hin who pick on me and Crawford and others who are clearly mentally ill. Now take your time and work with others here to write those articles. When and if I get well I will gladly take over and rejoin Uncyclopedia and make a comeback. But too soon to say when and if that would happen. --Lt. Sir Orion Blastar (talk) 21:40, March 18, 2010 (UTC)
Orion are you alright? I hear you had a brain tumor or something. How is your father doing, I hope and pray you both are alright. Just ignore the trolls that are after you, they cannot do anything to you that cannot be traced by the police or FBI but stay low for a bit off the Internet. Sorry for not being able to help you as I caught the flu and got busy at work to make up for my sick days. I'll help you out with your articles later. Kuro5hin and IWETHEY users are stalking you because they are jealous of your abilities, even when sick you still write and program better than they ever could hope to do. Which is why they target Michael Crawford and others as well. Loke 01:36, April 23, 2010 (UTC)
- Like Arnold said in "Kindergarten Cop" It is not a tumar! Just popped a blood vessel and needed some surgery to fix it. I also still have bronchitis my flu turned into bronchitis. I was worried for a while there as they thought it might be swine flu, but I got to the hospital ER before I died. If I died, I wouldn't be typing this now would I? My father is getting worse, the chemotherapy doesn't seem to be working well and he is not his usual self and it is making me depressed and worried and hard to think or concentrate. So I'll put off those articles for a while and see what else I can do. The VHL gave my father the brain tumor and popped a blood vessle for me. But otherwise it is hard for a member of my family to die. I learned that the VHL blood clots caused a fast healing factor and stops any blood by clogging it up, so I am like Wolverine but my healing factor is not as fast and doesn't regrow body parts. I do have his anger issues though but no claws and adamtium skeleton. Thanks for working on my articles for me and reverting vandalism and such. Let me see what I can do for your articles. --Lt. Sir Orion Blastar (talk) 20:33, May 4, 2010 (UTC)
Anyway we had a death in the family recently and my father is in the hospital and really sick, and I am soon to go into a hospital myself yet again. Sorry I cannot spend more time here to help everyone out. I hope I could have at least fixed a few articles and made them funnier. But my time is limited in this life and I might die soon myself unless I find a way to get healthier. I am better off dead anyway even if I am not suicidal. This is a crazy world that makes no sense to me anymore. --Lt. Sir Orion Blastar (talk) 11:56, May 16, 2010 (UTC)
My father passed away due to a brain tumor, stroke, and lung cancer complications. I got through my own illness and lost a lot of weight. I'll try to write here more often if I can. Orion Blastar (talk) 02:12, June 16, 2015 (UTC)
edit HowTo:Be a conservative
Just read your rant on the talk page and almost suffocated laughing. Genius. Hope you are well. :) --Lucifuge Rofacale (talk) 13:34, October 19, 2012 (UTC)
- I am still recovering from my mental and physical illnesses. I am working on a few ebooks and keeping busy. Thanks for the praise, I hope you didn't laugh too much. My conservative rants even fool Poe's Law and people think they are real. One time at Uncyclopedia we invaded Conservapedia to insert jokes into their articles. Many went with the liberal rant or mocking conservatives and they got banned. I did a few conservative rants and said the opposite of what news sites I cited like the conservative blogs did, I thought I would get banned, instead I was nominated for some award and told to "keep up the good work" on the articles. I quit Conservapedia after that as I got too scared to use it. Orion Blastar (talk) 22:26, December 21, 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks for dropping by OB to let us know how you doing. Some may think this website is a cold and heartless place and they would be...wrong. --RomArtus*Imperator ITRA (Orate) ® 11:47, December 31, 2012 (UTC)
- This is a very warm and heartfelt place. Thanks for thinking about me. Orion Blastar (talk) 15:11, December 31, 2012 (UTC)
- Seriously? I thought you meant every word. I was laughing at how well you skewered the liberals. So to speak. --Lucifuge Rofacale (talk) 13:25, May 8, 2013 (UTC)
- This is a very warm and heartfelt place. Thanks for thinking about me. Orion Blastar (talk) 15:11, December 31, 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks for dropping by OB to let us know how you doing. Some may think this website is a cold and heartless place and they would be...wrong. --RomArtus*Imperator ITRA (Orate) ® 11:47, December 31, 2012 (UTC)
edit Hi
Long time, no see! Welcome back to the wiki (at least one of them). You see, some of our community decided Uncyclopedia would be better off if it went to independent hosting, and the wiki forked January 5th 2013. But some of us still hang out here, and your contributions are welcome both here and at the fork. Check out Wikipedia's entry on Uncyclopedia for the new URL if you want to know where they forked off to. I hope you decide to help out both places like I do. I'm an admin here now, and so is SPIKE. -- Simsilikesims(♀GUN) Talk here. 02:58, February 20, 2013 (UTC)
- Congratulations on the promotion. I'm trying to get back into writing after being sick for a long time. My father passed away in 2010 and I've been in a big depression over it. I am trying to cheer myself up and go back to my roots here at Uncyclopedia or the fork that I can use to eat a pie with or something. My Kindle ebook flopped but I am rewriting it, and taking my time. But I can do some writing for Uncyclopedia or the fork to better sharpen my skills. Orion Blastar (talk) 00:34, February 21, 2013 (UTC)
- A welcome return Orion. All Uncyclopedians are free to contribute to either site, one site or none at all. --RomArtus*Imperator ITRA (Orate) ® 13:50, February 21, 2013 (UTC)
- Or at the mirror... (they always seem to forget.) • Puppy's talk page • 02:38 21 Feb 2013
- I cannot forget the mirror, I am always trapped on the wrong side of the mirror. On the right side of the mirror are my car keys, TV remote control, missing socks and other stuff I cannot get to from my side of the mirror. It is sort of like being trapped in a 1970's "KANSAS" album or something. Orion Blastar (talk) 03:10, February 26, 2013 (UTC)
- Or at the mirror... (they always seem to forget.) • Puppy's talk page • 02:38 21 Feb 2013
- A welcome return Orion. All Uncyclopedians are free to contribute to either site, one site or none at all. --RomArtus*Imperator ITRA (Orate) ® 13:50, February 21, 2013 (UTC)
edit Hillary Clinton
Hi! I saw your request on this article's talk page, and your improvement to the article based on the book Clinton Cash. Only thing is, there were also three previous decades of similar scandals. You might not have lived through them but I did (well, I wasn't paying attention to what was going on in Arkansas), and have now told the whole story on the page.
I deleted some of your contribution once I had told the whole story in proper chronological order. But I left some of it, although it is zany rather than real-world topical like mine, because you did it very well. So is the self-reference in the article's final section (to which I even added a paragraph of it). It is now up on VFH — we are in an era in which self-nominations are permitted — but I suspect some voters will not like the frequent changes in tone. Spıke Ѧ 16:33 11-May-15
- I'm tone-deaf but I try to keep the same tone if I can. I added in the Civil War, WWI, and WWII references are jokes on her age. Orion Blastar (talk) 22:47, May 25, 2015 (UTC)
I didn't see this, given the segue into superheroes. For the sake of keeping the same tone, I'll delete this, then, as senility is brought up in the very next section. Spıke Ѧ 23:11 25-May-15
- Marvel had an mini-series called Civil War between Iron Man and Captain America that I sort of did the US Civil War spin on. They created a Thor clone when Thor wouldn't participate and the clone murdered Goliath. Tony stark kept Thor's DNA on hand in case he needed to make a Thor clone. Disney will make a Civil War movie I hear. It might be relevant then. Orion Blastar (talk) 23:23, May 25, 2015 (UTC)
I don't know: using the Civil War to stress Hillary's age, and relying on the reader knowing the Marvel Comics alternate universe? I cut this — including my addition of morphing Thor to Thror (The Hobbit), but returned to Jar Jar Binks (I was thinking Jabba the Hutt, as it now reads) to make another fat-thighs joke. Spıke Ѧ 23:41 25-May-15
- Well I guess you know better than men that it doesn't flow with the tone of the rest of the article. I gave it my best shot, but it wasn't good enough and needed to be deleted. At least it got the ball rolling in the right direction for where the article is going to go. Orion Blastar (talk) 02:30, May 26, 2015 (UTC)
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Here it is--including all 404 edits, so you can revert to your last edit. It needs real repair to justify overriding a vote of VFD, not just cataloguing stock ridicule of liberals from around the web, but original funny writing! Spıke Ѧ 03:04 27-May-15
Now its talk page is back as well. Spıke Ѧ 03:21 27-May-15
- Thank you I am rewriting it already. I hope to do a better job than the original writers did. I am also updating it with modern stuff. Orion Blastar (talk) 04:51, May 27, 2015 (UTC)
- This is a lot harder than I thought it would be. There are a lot of citations in this article that criticize liberals and trying to come up with funny original stuff is very hard. I'm trying hard not to be Fox News or Glenn Beck, but sometimes I channel them and have to delete what I wrote. The communist angle is a funny one, but I hope I can be original enough to pull it off. Orion Blastar (talk) 03:46, May 31, 2015 (UTC)
Yes, sometimes I channel them too. Rush Limbaugh's motif is to "illustrate absurdity by being absurd" and I often base an UnNews on the absurdity he worked from, though it is always possible to pull it in different directions. (On that, see my recommendations at CoW#Extremists and Poe's Law; a few zingers so as to say "conservatives are just as bad, in a different way" would be helpful.) I complained to Miley Spears that her recent UnNews on Letterman went in few new directions from Limbaugh's own, and EStop stepped in and poked it a bit. It is important that the reader (left or right) not get the feeling he is reading Fox News; the key is to take the things that Glenn Beck is reacting to and give us your own reaction to them.
And ScottPat hates being called either a Commie or a liberal!!! Actually, relying on the American definition of liberal (except in the page name, which is unavoidable) will throw up a roadblock to our readers in the Empire, where it still means libertarian. Spıke Ѧ 12:55 31-May-15
- I see the Wiki no longer allows new external links. So I can't continue the link citations anymore. Should I remove all of the other external links as well? Does looking like a cited Wikipedia article make it less funny or something? It seems the original authors wanted it to look like a scholar Wikipedia cited article. I'll have to add in a warning for people outside the USA that American Liberals have different beliefs than Liberals in other nations. I got a lot of work to do to clean up this article. Orion Blastar (talk) 01:47, June 16, 2015 (UTC)
The wiki allows external links, but I try to discourage them, and wrote that Abuse Filter to make authors think twice about adding new ones. A lot of external links are either (1) Hey, come visit my website instead of this one (which is called an advertisement), or (2) Hey, if you think I am making this celebrity seem like a fool, come see how he does so with his own utterances (which is called having original comedy writing that doesn't stand on its own, and is maybe called overt advocacy). Wikipedia uses citations because people use Wikipedia as a catalog to material, readers click on the citations, and Admins want them to make sure that authors are independently corroborated and not just stating their own opinions. Uncyclopedia just wants to make people laugh. Yes, we do so by imitating Wikipedia, but the superficial resemblance doesn't have to be exact.
So, it is not vital nor dictated by a rule that you remove the other external links; but if you could substitute references to liberals being stupid offsite with original clever writing that makes the point on this website, that would be a good thing. Spıke Ѧ 02:51 16-Jun-15
- OK I will have to consider new links for comedic values. Focus on clever writing. I noticed original authors sort of made a list and added citations to it. Something to do with hypocrisy of liberals. I think it needs more clever writing added to it. Orion Blastar (talk) 03:00, June 16, 2015 (UTC)
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Thanks for the inspiration! I hope it works for you. EStop ⚓ 10:08, July 23, 2016 (UTC)
- Your are most welcome, thanks for writing it. Orion Blastar (talk) 00:41, August 4, 2016 (UTC)
edit Rollbacker
You know have rollbacker rights. Handy tool for combatting vandal/bell-ender edits but also lets you move pages around if required. --RomArtus*Imperator ITRA (Orate) ® 15:05, July 26, 2016 (UTC)


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Former Kitsap County Deputy Coroner Jane Jermy died of a self-inflicted gunshot to the head, according to a report completed by the Thurston County Coroners office earlier this month.
Deputy Coroner Gary Warnock said the manner of Jermys death was determined using a combination of evidence gathered at the scene of her death and information gathered by law enforcement officers.
Jermy, 47, was found dead in her home by Kitsap County Sheriffs deputies responding to a 911 call the afternoon of Sept. 23.
The only other occupant of the home at the time was her husband, Frank Jermy, 45, who was later transported to the hospital. His medical condition was not released.
Shortly after Jermys body was discovered, the Washington State Patrol took over the investigation at the request of the Sheriffs Office, which spokesman Deputy Scott Wilson said was to avoid any conflict of interest due to both the deceased and her husband being employed in the past by the county.
Lt. Clint Casebolt of the WSP said its not uncommon for the WSP to take over death investigations. However, it usually only does so on the specific request of another agency.
Jane Jermy served as chief deputy coroner for Kitsap County for more than 10 years before her dismissal in 1999. Frank Jermy was hired as a deputy in 1983, but was placed on administrative leave after his arrest in a domestic violence incident between he and his wife involving a firearm in October of 2000, according to Wilson.
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June 9, 2010
1:30 p.m.
Harris Hall Main Floor
Commissioner Bill Fleenor presided with Commissioners Bill Dwyer, Rob Handy and Pete Sorenson present. Faye Stewart was excused. County Administrator Jeff Spartz, Assistant County Counsel Andy Clark and Recording Secretary Melissa Zimmer were also present.
a. PUBLIC HEARING AND POSSIBLE ACTION/ORDER 10-6-9-15/In the Matter of Dissolution of the Lane County Metropolitan Wastewater Service District and Liquidation of Assets to the Lane County General Fund.
Clark explained this is the second hearing on the dissolution of the Metropolitan Wastewater Service District. He said because of the statute, it requires a proposed order of dissolution and findings of fact to be filed with the County. He indicated that no one has submitted any response to viewing the documents.
Christine Moody, Budget and Finance Manager, stated that nothing has come up since the last meeting. She indicated she filed the information with the clerk for the public to review. She said they have full budget authority as long it is completed by June 30.
Fleenor asked if they could change the exhibit to state it is under $5,000
Clark said these are the findings of the district board, not the Board of Commissioners. He said to change the findings of fact in any substantive way would require the Board to convene again and redo it. He said they could add language to the Board of Commissioners' order specifying that was the estimate at the time the district Board looked at the matter and it was adequate at $5,000.
Commissioner Fleenor opened the Public Hearing. There being no one signed up to speak, he closed the Public Hearing.
MOTION: to approve ORDER 10-6-9-15 with the added language in the board order.
Dwyer MOVED Handy SECONDED.
b. SECOND READING, PUBLIC HEARING AND POSSIBLE ACTION/ Ordinance No. 2-10/In the Matter of Amending Chapter 9 of Lane Code to Adopt City of Springfield Regulations Pertaining to Erosion Prevention for Application by the City of Springfield to the Urbanizable Lands Within the Springfield Urban Growth Boundary; and Adopting Savings and Severability Clauses (LC 9.945) (NBA & PM 5/19/2010).
Dwyer recalled that Handy asked if they had received any other information. He said when they tabled something they can't talk about it. He would be willing to make a motion to remove it from the table if they have substantive information. He asked if they have any substantive answers.
Dan Hurley, Public Works, responded that they have done a scoping on what it would cost at the County to take on the services that are required without adopting an IGA for the city of Springfield. He said the ordinances have no meaning without an IGA
Hurley gave a power point presentation. (Copy in file).
Dwyer commented that it boils down to control. He said they are thinking about sending a letter telling the city they want to take back the things that they have given them. He wanted to look at the larger picture.
Hurley said that due to time constraints, his preference is to do an IGA, transfer authority, develop their program and then when they are ready, go back for land use permits.
Dwyer wanted to abide by state mandates. He said if they decide to take back the planning, the argument would have a different outcome.
Sorenson asked if they could give a 30 day notice. He asked what the cost would be to County government if they were to provide those services as opposed to the costs of the city to provide those services.
Hurley indicated that it is more cost effective for the cities than for the County to take it back.
Clark stated that they would need to add staff to undertake the duties and getting someone to do it could take six months. He stated that 30 days notice was impractical for the County and for the city.
Spartz said if the Board plans at some point to manage these functions, then they should direct staff to put together a timeline and work plan so they can take these functions back so all the functions are managed properly and no one is harmed because of a gap in transition.
Hurley explained that Lane County will be adopting Springfield's erosion prevention rules and their illicit discharge rules. He said they could go through a work plan that is more stringent than the city.
Handy wanted to acknowledge the changing times. He added that part of the challenge is that the County wants to control what is going on with the County's lands. He stated that he was ready to give notice on the 190 agreements involving those issues. He said it was time for the County to come up with comprehensive programs to address the needs that are being missed with overarching planning responsibilities. He thought it was an opportunity to do something better.
Fleenor wasn't sure they had the resources to take on another project. He wanted to move this forward . He thought next year the Board could proceed to move this process forward. He thought the Metro Plan should be resolved with individual comp plans. He added that if they want to add this, they will dilute the effectiveness of all plans they are planning on doing.
MOTION: to adopt Ordinance No. 2-10.
Sorenson MOVED, Dwyer SECONDED.
Clark noted they had not had the Public Hearing yet.
Sorenson withdrew his motion. Dwyer withdrew his second.
Commissioner Fleenor opened the Public Hearing. There being no one signed up to speak, he closed the Public Hearing.
MOTION: to adopt Ordinance No. 2-10.
Sorenson MOVED, Dwyer SECONDED.
c. SECOND READING, PUBLIC HEARING AND POSSIBLE ACTION/ Ordinance No. 3-10/In the Matter of Amending Chapter 5 of Lane Code to Adopt City of Springfield Regulations Pertaining to Illicit Discharge for Application by the City of Springfield to the Urbanizable Lands Within the Springfield Urban Growth Boundary; and Adopting Savings and Severability Clauses (LC 5.747) (NBA & PM 5/19/2010).
MOTION: to remove Ordinance NO. 3-10 from the table.
Dwyer MOVED, Handy SECONDED.
MOTION: to adopt Ordinance No. 3-10.
Sorenson MOVED, Dwyer SECONDED.
Sorenson wanted to have a 180 day notice to terminate.
Clark indicated the Board could act on the IGA's but they haven't had their public hearing yet.
Sorenson withdrew his motion. Dwyer withdrew the second.
Commissioner Fleenor opened the Public Hearing. There being no further business, he closed the Public Hearing.
MOTION: to adopt Ordinance No. 3-10.
Sorenson MOVED, Dwyer SECONDED.
Dwyer was willing to support this if they take a dual track. He said they need to give notice and to start working on delivery of services to see what it is they will have to add if they assumed all services and what money would flow from that. He wanted to see all IGA's that change hands between the County that relates to an IGA with the Metro Plan and HB3337.
Fleenor wanted to have a work session on September 21 for a discussion of giving notice of the 190 agreements.
Sorenson announced a Town Hall meeting on June 22 at the Amazon Community Center.
12. EXECUTIVE SESSION as per ORS 192.660
There being no further business, Commissioner Fleenor adjourned the meeting at 3:25 p.m.
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Eillis, who will fill the seat left vacant after Lori DeRemer started as mayor in January, was all smiles as he took his oath and joined the council in front of the room.
Council narrowed down an initial list of 15 applicants to three finalists who all answered on-the-spot questions at the last regular meeting Feb. 1. The three -- Ellis, Sydney Ovist and Brett Sherman -- also answered additional questions via e-mail this week.
In addition to the interviews, councilors received many unsolicited e-mails in support of Ellis and took into consideration his six years serving on the planning commission.
During the question-and-answer session Feb. 1, Ellis expressed interest in creating a focus group dedicated to bringing new business to the city and expanding the city through annexation.
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"I am so happy to be doing this and I look forward to doing the best job serving this community as possible," he said.


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Change, so far, is not a good thing
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Should I tell my boss that I'm planning to move on?
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My boss sometimes talks about me finding a different job. I never suggest that I would do such a thing. Is she trying to give me a hint? My boss is the sort of passive-aggressive type who might say things in a snide or underhanded way. She also might care enough about me to give me a hint if my position was going to be eliminated (I'm broke and she knows it). Help? [more inside]
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TAIPEI, Taiwan -- On April 24 the Philippines deported 44 Taiwanese suspects accused of online and phone scams, the Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB) said.
The suspects were from two rings busted by Manila police authorities last August and early this month, the CIB said in a statement.
They were escorted back to Taiwan by four Filipino immigration officials on two separate flights that arrived in Taiwan on the same day.
The two cases are being separately investigated by Kaohsiung and Taichung prosecutors' offices, the CIB said.
Giving an example of one scam, the CIB said a cashier working at a school in China's eastern province of Shandong had been targeted.
The scam ring members pretended to be post office or police and asked the cashier to wire money to a bank account after they claimed the victim's existing account had been frozen by local authorities.
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Hey cmjeff, what type of hull???
I never seen any difference in growth from hulls where they used cyan pepper mixed in paint, my theroy is it gets dilluted in the biga$$ body of water it's in.
The "ablative" paints, in theroy, gradually wear while under way, and inhibit the barnacles from "seeding" to the boat. Well it only takes 24 hours for a barnacle to do this and be seen with the naked eye. So running the boat often would be best for that option.
I don't remember anything about Tin in paints that we used at the ship yard 100 or so years ago.
If he can make it/ or not to clear waters, I would just get used to taking it out and diving the bottom frequently to maintain.
I like to check all intakes frequently.
Interlux and petit make a clear antifouling paint he can use on the sea strainers.
I'm not up with the industry like I used to be, but I would contact the manufacturer, they don't spend millions on research to have thier product fail.
Some paints require a pesticide certification and license for application. Thats where the small boat yards stick ya.
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Chaplain Steve Johnson takes a small boom box out of his office, places it on a chair and pops in a CD of hymns.
It's what passes for a choir at this church, a converted tractor-trailer in the parking lot of the Travel Centers of America truck stop in Whitsett, N.C.
Temptations are many on the road, but the Mobile Chapel provides a spiritual oasis amid the diesel pumps. The house of worship is one of about 40 operated for the benefit of truckers by the Pennsylvania ministry Transport for Christ.
"A lot of guys come in and just want to talk because they're alone all day," said Tony Pierzchala, lead chaplain at the Whitsett chapel. "It's hard for them to be involved in their local churches, their local communities when they're gone so much from home."
The chapel is open around the clock, though usually staffed only during the day and early evening. Inside are Bibles, in both English and Spanish, free for the taking, as well as a trucking newsletter, bumper stickers that say "Christ is the Answer" and bottled water with Bible verses printed on the label.
A donation box sits on a table, and a plastic coin bank shaped like a parking meter stands nearby. The ministry gets much of its funding from trucker donations as well as local churches that the chaplains attend.
Services are nondenominational and held Sundays at 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. and most other days of the week at 7 p.m. if a chaplain is available.
Transport for Christ was founded in 1951 in Canada by truck driver Jim Keyes. For its first few decades, the ministry truly was a mobile one, in that it hauled its chapels from truck stop to truck stop, via semi. It established its first stationary chapel in Harrisburg, Pa., in 1986.
It is one of several similar ministries that operate on America's highways, including Truckstop Ministries, which has chapels in Mebane and Charlotte, and Trucking for Jesus, which has a chapel in Linwood.
Transport for Christ missionaries came to Whitsett in 2004 and conducted services in the truckers lounge before getting a chapel put on site the following year.
Born in Buffalo, N.Y., Pierzchala moved to North Carolina 14 years ago, hearing the economy was booming in the Tar Heel state, and worked awhile selling cars. He got involved with TFC in 2005 after his wife spotted a newspaper article about the ministry. He had previously been involved in some coffeehouse ministries and, like many of TFC's chaplains, had a background in the trucking industry. He's an independent courier.
A large, friendly man with a goatee and a thick Northeastern accent, the 60-year-old likes to reminisce about his hometown's industrial glory days. He had been a steelworker himself before getting laid off in the 1980s.
"Back then, if your wife worked, you could get a house where the doctors and dentists lived," he said over lunch in Burlington. "But now, Bethlehem Steel tore down their plants, and you can actually see deer a mile from downtown Buffalo."
He is one of about a half-dozen pastors who work at the Mobile Chapel, and his role is similar to that of a pastor in a typical church in that he's there to raise funds, give spiritual advice and, if need be, tell someone where he can get professional counseling.
Steve Johnson, who has been with Transport for Christ for four years, begins his Sunday by making an announcement over the truck stop's PA system that church will begin in about an hour. He then starts walking the lot.
Many drivers have their hoods up; others are cleaning out their cabs. The chaplains usually don't bother anyone who is sleeping or has the shades drawn, but if they see someone sitting behind the wheel, they'll approach. Many drivers say they'll try to make it if they have time and take the TFC newsletter that Johnson hands out.
A typical day for a trucker can entail 11 hours sitting behind the wheel, says chaplain Jim Harkless, who helped found the Whitsett chapel.
"A driver likes to get 500 to 600 miles under his belt in a day's time," Harkless said in a telephone interview from his home in Aiken, S.C. "If he gets tied up in an accident, in bad weather, in a breakdown, he may only get 50 miles. And a lot of drivers, they get paid by the mile -- not dollars, but cents, like 20 to 50 cents a mile."
They may also be away from home for two to three months at a time. Some are on the road so much that they just use their trucking company's address as their home address.
Add to that the nation's economic woes, and the stress becomes immense.
"You can make a lot of money doing this," Pierzchala said. "But if you're an independent driver, your bills are huge. One wheel will cost you $300 to $400. Then they got a lease (on a truck). Whether or not they have the work, they still have to pay that lease. Company drivers are faring a little bit better, but overall tonnage is down. The freight just ain't there."
Aside from monetary concerns, the biggest challenge for truckers, both drivers and chaplains say, is dealing with the loneliness of being on the road.
"You don't have the type of person-to-person contact that most of us enjoy on a regular basis," Scott Weidner, president and CEO of Transport for Christ, said. "These folks are isolated from the people they know and love. And when they're lonely and they're away from home and unaccountable, to some degree, for a period of time, the temptation, it gets pretty tough for them."
Those temptations might include prostitution, drinking and drugs.
"I've talked to truckers that have let strange women into their truck, and now they're ashamed to go home," Harkless, a former truck driver himself, said. "In a time of weakness, we do some strange and dumb things. There are a lot of sad cases out there."
Hubert Johnson, 62, a driver from Statesboro, Ga., was the first to arrive at Steve Johnson's Sunday service (the two Johnsons are no relation to each other). He took off his ballcap and grabbed a Bible.
"I'm on the road all the time, but I still need to get fed somehow," he said. "I need to go do my worship some place. I go to these chapels every Sunday morning if I'm where they have one."
Eventually two more truckers showed up. Steve Johnson turned on the CD player, and the congregants followed along to standards such as "Amazing Grace" and "Nearer, My God, to Thee." Steve Johnson asked if anyone had any prayer requests, then started reading from Psalm 99.
After the service, the drivers dropped a few dollars into the donation box and stuck around for a while to talk with the chaplain.
Steve Johnson and Pierzchala said they've had services where no one showed up and some where 20 people came and there was standing room only. Typical attendance for a Sunday, though, is seven to 10. The services during the week will usually attract a handful of drivers.
But many truckers will just want to chat one on one.
"It's not unusual to have coffee with them after the service at the restaurant," Pierzchala said. "A lot of truckers won't say nothing when there's a crowd. But sometimes they'll wander in individually late at night, and they'll share. They'll say, 'Pray for my wife who has cancer.' One Easter I had a lady show up who had just lost her daughter, and she just wanted to talk about her."


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KALAMAZOO -- As they waited to board their 1:50 p.m. flight from Grand Rapids to Minneapolis on Thursday, members of Western Michigan's hockey team crowded into a restaurant at the Gerald R. Ford International Airport to catch the beginning of the NHL Winter Classic.
Last week, a horrendous series of canceled flights and bad weather stranded the Broncos in Alaska until Christmas Day -- and left them plenty of time for watching television.
Thursday, however, with much clearer skies outside, the team had only a few minutes to check out the Red Wings and Blackhawks before taking off for this weekend's Dodge Holiday Classic at Mariucci Arena.
"We're just happy the weather was cooperating with us," goaltender Riley Gill said by phone following the team's evening practice in Minnesota.
"At least it's only a 10-hour drive if we get stuck in Minneapolis. We can make that in a day."
Jokes about the Alaska debacle will wear off eventually, but coach Jim Culhane -- despite saying Thursday, "It doesn't do any good" to look back on it -- admitted he's still unwinding from his role last week as cell phone-melting travel agent.
"I'm kind of still going through that whole process, to tell you the truth," he said. "I can't be any more proud of the way these guys handled it. As athletes and coaches, we're control freaks, but when you're dealing with Mother Nature and airplanes, there's nothing you can do.
"Everyone was wonderful, they were positive, and it made my job coordinating the travel much easier."
This week's journey leads the Broncos into a clash with No. 6 Northeastern today. The Huskies have sunk their teeth into first place in Hockey East, but haven't played since a Dec. 5 victory against Maine.
"I think you could probably look at it both ways," Culhane said. "One angle, you could look at it game speed-wise, game sharpness and wonder if that's going to be a factor. The other angle is they could be excited and anxious and ready to play."
The winner of the WMU-Northeastern game faces either Brown or No. 4 Minnesota, the tournament host, in Saturday's final.
Gill, who was in net for both games at Fairbanks last weekend, is a Minnesota native. He flew from Alaska to Minneapolis to spend Christmas with his family last weekend, returned to Kalamazoo for three days early this week, then turned around and jumped on Thursday's flight back to his home state.
If anything, he said, being stranded in the Anchorage Marriott with his teammates for a few days worked wonders for the team's chemistry.
"Everyone let loose, opened up a bit and got to know each other more," Gill said. "We had a little time off the ice and the edge and the pressure of the hockey games was lifted off of us, so I think it brought us closer in a different way because we had a little break and we were able to spend it together."


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ENFIELD - Dianne Bilyak, of Stafford Springs, and Elizabeth Szewczyk, of Enfield, will read from their recently published poetry collections in the Coffee House in Café II at Asnuntuck Community College, 170 Elm St. on Nov. 7 from 7 to 9 p.m.
Bilyak served as poetry editor of Peregrine from 2007 through this year. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and her poems and interviews have appeared in the Massachusetts Review, Memoir, Freshwater, the Drunken Boat and Tampa Review. She is a graduate of Yale Divinity School and the Institute of Sacred Music and works as a free-lance editor.
Her first collection of poetry, "Against the Turning," which grapples with what happens when we fail to love or when love fails us, was published by Amherst Writers and Artists Press. Poet Li-Young Lee says of Bilyak's book, "Dianne Bilyak's poems are truly wonderful. She is writing from an incredible place of imagination and knowledge."
Szewczyk is a recipient of the Connecticut Celebration of Excellence Award for writing, winner of the Manchester Community College poetry award, and the author of two books, the memoir, "My Bags Were Always Packed: A Mother's Journey Through Her Son's Cancer Treatment And Remission," published in 2006, and "This Becoming," a poetry chapbook published in 2009.
She has published in Sanskrit, Chantarelle's Notebook, Shapes, Freshwater, Pulse, and Westward Quarterly, as well as other periodicals. Most recently, her poem "Listening" was accepted for publication in a medical anthology published by Radcliffe Press.
Her first full-length poetry book, "On Burying Moths and Calendars," was recently published by Wasteland Press. A review in Boston Literary Magazine says of Szewczyk's new book, "Powerful, funny, insightful and filled with warmth, these poems prove that Szewczyk has earned the right to advise readers, 'Be ready. Breathe.'"
Szewczyk teaches English literature and composition at Asnuntuck, where she is also a senior editor of the poetry journal Freshwater.
The coffee house is free and open to the public, and refreshments will be served.


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Report Hails Impact of Indian Pharmas on Global Health
It's difficult to overestimate the impact India's private sector has had on global health. That was one of the messages of a new report on emerging economies and healthcare.
In fact, India's private sector arguably has played a bigger role in reshaping global health than has financial assistance from national governments, argued David Gold, head of Global Health Strategies initiatives, a New York-based nonprofit that launched the report in New Delhi on Monday.


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Recently, there was a high-profile example of religion being used as a bludgeon against a group of people. Or should I say, another example, since such occurrences are about as common as having a Pope who's Catholic. And some folks are even suspicious of that nowadays.
The words of "Duck Dynasty" star Phil Robertson, taken from a feature story in the January issue of GQ magazine, are now probably more famous than anything that's actually occurred on the show itself. Being that I've never watched a minute of it, I can't be sure, though I don't recall hearing anything about the show or the Robertsons making national headlines before. He wouldn't be the first television personality named Robertson to say something ugly wrapped in biblical verse.
I've no special prejudice against "Duck Dynasty," by the way. I don't watch any reality television at all, and make it a point to avoid shows involving pawn shops, wedding shops and car dealerships, cake bosses and undercover bosses, people who think they can dance (or sing or cook), survivors, truckers or real housewives, redneck families, rich families, fat families or Kardashians, apprentices (celebrity and otherwise), or anybody else willing to make fools of themselves when a camera is pointed at them.
That pretty much limits my viewing choices to PBS and Turner Classic Movies, but I survive.
At any rate, the Robertson quote is merely the latest instance of someone using words from the Bible as dehumanizing slander against a minority group. Those who defend his words point out that he was merely espousing the biblical principals that he lives by.
I have no argument with that statement. But let's be clear about one thing: Whenever someone says that they live according to biblical principals, what they really mean is that they follow the parts of the Bible that suit them and disregard those parts that don't.
Critics refer to this as "cafeteria-style" Christianity, the practice of picking those parts of scripture that we like and passing up those that we're less fond of. Some call it hypocritical; I call it being religious.
This tendency is hardly limited to Christians. The Quran explicitly outlaws both the taking of innocent life and the taking of one's own life. The most extreme example is the radical Islamist suicide bomber who walks into a crowded building with explosives strapped to himself. When he presses the detonator, he has not only committed a heinous crime: He has also been deluded in the most tragic manner possible.
Phil Robertson did not error when he paraphrased the sixth chapter of Paul's first letter to the Corinthians on the matter of sexual morality. Most people prefer to cite Leviticus 18:22 and 20:13, where homosexuality is declared to be full-on "detestable."
However, that same word is used to describe shellfish in Leviticus 11:19. Banned elsewhere in that book are eating pork, working on the sabbath day, having tattoos, wearing clothes made from blended fabrics, consulting horoscopes, and the buying and selling of real estate.
I count myself among the many Christians out there who enjoy eating pork and shrimp, have lots of cotton/polyester blends in the closet and regularly work on Sundays. I've even gone so far as to buy a house, though I did not commemorate that occasion (or any other) with a tattoo.
I'm also not a homosexual, so why do I care what Mr. Robertson or anyone else has to say about it? Because I'm a big believer in treating everyone with kindness, dignity and respect.
It's something that I learned from reading the Bible.
Jesus suggests that we not bother people about the speck of dust in one of their eyes when we have a two-by-four sticking out of our own eye. He also directs us to treat others the way we'd like to be treated. Comparing the relationship between two loving, committed adults to people who have sex with animals doesn't bespeak much in the way of kindness or respect.
There isn't enough room here to address all the contradictions found within the Bible, or in the ways people choose what within it to uphold and what to ignore. All I can say is that as a Catholic, I realize the Bible is a work of literature. This means that it was written down by someone – or rather, lots of someones – over the course of thousands of years. At no point did a lightning bolt strike the ground, and in the smoldering crater appeared a leather-bound King James edition.
Before that, what would eventually become the Bible was passed along in the oral traditions of storytelling, song and by other spoken means. Then it was written and translated several times over, and then it was edited, both within the various books themselves and in the decisions of which books to include and which to exclude.
Sounds familiar, doesn't it?
So, should Mr. Robertson have been suspended from "Duck Dynasty" by A&E for his comments about homosexuality, or for his equally insulting comments about blacks? As many critics of the network have stated, the Constitution doesn't protect us from being offended by what people say. What the First Amendment does promise is freedom of speech.
But it doesn't guarantee freedom from the consequences of that speech. Personally, I am no fan of the outrage industry that goes looking for things to be disgusted by and then demands a public flogging for the guilty party. There are those that do, however, on both sides of the political divide.
It was not ideology but the fear of a costly boycott that prompted A&E to suspend Robertson. The fans spoke out en masse, however, and the fear of lost viewership tipped the scales in Robertson's favor.
The irony of the phrase "reality television" comes into very sharp focus through incidents like this one. Anytime a reality show star says something unsavory on camera, it can be edited out so that the "reality" we see is sanitized for our viewing pleasure. In the actual real world, however, there's no telling what that star might say or do, leaving a network to awkwardly handle the resulting messes when they occur.
It's an ongoing mess I shall gladly continue to avoid, thanks to the new season of "Downton Abbey" on PBS.
(Richard Sberna is a reporter for The Review. Reach him at firstname.lastname@example.com)


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|4 Apr 1989
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|1 Sep 1987
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|6 Sep 1986
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|Klaus Albien, Gunter Maurer
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|Rhodia Ag
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|Patent Citations (6), Referenced by (37), Classifications (28), Legal Events (8)
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The invention relates to a process for producing consolidated nonwoven fabrics for the absorption of water and/or substances with oleophilic and/or lipophilic properties by blow-spinning a melt or a solution of a spinnable polymeric material by means of a spinneret, having one or more nozzle orifices, to form textile fibers and/or filaments, converting these textile fibers and/or filaments to a nonwoven fabric by depositing them on a receiving means, consolidating this nonwoven fabric, and applying a wetting agent to the nonwoven fabric. The invention also relates to the consolidated nonwoven fabrics for the absorption of water and/or substances with oleophilic and/or lipophilic properties made by the inventive process.
It is known to produce consolidated nonwoven fabrics for the absorption of water and/or oil by blow-spinning molten polypropylene to form fiber webs whose fibers have an average diameter of up to 10μm, pattern-binding the fiber webs with pins, and spraying an anionic or nonionic surface-active substance onto the fiber webs as described in German Patent No. DE 28 45 551.
The known nonwoven fabrics of this kind, however, have the following disadvantages:
Pattern-binding with pins considerably reduces the surface of the nonwovens that is active in the absorption of water and/or oil.
Since pattern-binding with pins cannot be performed on the entire surface area, since otherwise the fabric surface active in the absorption of water and/or oil is completely lost, such partially pattern-bound nonwovens have but relatively low strengths, such as maximum tensile strength, initial tearing resistance and tear growth resistance, as well as a relatively high raveling loss (i.e., abrasion).
The pattern-binding cannot change the original bidimensional arrangement of the fibers in the fabric, i.e., the arrangement of the fibers in the lengthwise and transverse directions. Consequently, not only is no improvement of the fabrics possible in regard to the textile drape and feel and the softness, but a decided impairment occurs in this regard.
The invention is addressed to the problem of creating a process of the kind described above, whereby nonwoven fabrics can be obtained, which
will have a greater effective surface area than known nonwovens of this kind for the absorption of water and/or oils, fats and the like,
will have improved strengths, such as improved maximum tensile strength, improved initial tearing resistance and improved tear growth resistance, as well as a lesser raveling loss (i.e., abrasion), in comparison to the known nonwovens of this kind, and
will have a better textile drape, feel and improved softness, in comparison to the known nonwovens of this kind.
This problem is solved according to the inventive process by producing consolidated nonwoven fabrics by blow-spinning a melt or a solution of a spinnable polymeric materials by a spinneret means having one or a plurality of nozzle orifices to form textile fibers and/or filaments having a diameter of 0.1 to 6 μm, preferably 0.5 to 3μm. These fibers and filaments are then transformed into a nonwoven fabric by spun depositing them on a receiving means. The nonwoven fabric is consolidated by means of water jets, and during or immediately after this water-jet consolidation a zwitterionic or cationic surfactant is applied as a wetting agent in a wet-in-wet procedure and the nonwoven fabric is subsequently dried.
Spinnable polymeric materials preferably employed in the process are polyesters or polyamides and most preferably polyethylene terephthalate is the polyester used and the polyamide used is polyamide-66 (i.e., polyhexamethyleneadipamide).
Wetting agents preferably employed include 1-alkoylamino-3-dimethylamino-propane-3-N-oxide, cocamidopropyl-betaine, or 1-alkoylamino-3-dimethylammoniopropane-3-carboxymethylbetaine, and alkyl-dimethyl-benzylammonium chlorides are used.
Polyesters and polyamides are preferably used in the inventive process as spinnable polymeric materials because:
The nonwoven fabrics obtained can be dried at high temperatures, e.g., decidedly above 150� C, and are usable even at such high temperatures for the absorption of water and substances with oleophilic and/or lipophilic properties, and
The nonwoven fabrics obtained have very high strengths, especially a high maximum tensile strength, initial tearing resistance and tear growth resistance.
The textile fibers and/or filaments obtained in the process preferably have a diameter of 0.5 to 3μm because this fineness of the textile fibers and filaments, i.e., on account of their small diameter and thus great specific surface area, produce nonwovens having a very large active surface for the absorption of water and/or substances with oleophilic and/or lipophilic properties.
The preferred wetting agents, namely, 1-alkoylamino-3-dimethylamino-propane-3-N-oxide, cocamidopropyl-betaine, or 1-alkoylamino-3-dimethylammonio-propane-3-carboxymethylbetaine address special problems, for example in the treatment of metals, where anticorrosive protection and rapid drying are important.
The other preferred wetting agents, namely, alkyldimethyl-benryl-ammonium chlorides, offer the advantage that they are biodegradable and tolerant (harmless) to the skin.
It is also the object of the invention to make available consolidated nonwoven fabrics of the kind described, which
in comparison to the known nonwovens of this kind, have a larger active area for the absorption of water and/or oils, fats and the like,
in comparison to the known nonwovens of this kind, have improved strength characteristics, such as improved maximum tensile strength, initial tearing resistance and tear growth resistance, as well as reduced raveling loss (abrasion), and
in comparison to the known nonwovens of this kind, have a better textile drape, feel and an improved softness.
This problem is addressed according to the invention, in that the consolidated nonwoven fabrics referred to above are produced by the inventive method described in more detail below.
For the purposes of the invention, although any materials known in the art which can be fabricated by melt spinning or solution spinning (dry spinning) can be used in the inventive process, it is preferable that polyesters such as polyethylene terephthalate, polyamides such as polyamide-66, polyolefins such as polyethylene and polypropylene, cellulose esters such as cellulose-2,5-acetate and -triacetate, and acrylic polymers such as polyacrylonitrile are used.
By the process according to the invention, a melt or a solution of a spinnable polymeric material is blow-spun to form textile fibers and/or filaments. Blow spinning employed in this inventive process is described, for example, in "Industrial and Engineering Chemistry", vol. 48, No. 8 (1956), pages 1342 to 1346, and in German Pat. No. 19 64 060, which are herein incorporated by reference.
Substances with oleophilic and/or lipophilic properties which are absorbable by the inventive nonwoven fabrics include, for example, oils, such as mineral oils or silicone oils, and fats or their mixtures.
According to the invention, the consolidation of the nonwoven fabric is performed by water jets. A preferred water jet consolidation method is described in German Offenlegungsschrift 17 10 989 and in German Auslegeschrift 16 35 577, herein incorporated by reference.
Water-jet consolidation entangles and post-stretches the spun fibers and/or filaments within the nonwoven fabric producing additional active surface for the absorption of water and/or substances with oleophilic and/or lipophilic properties, improving strength properties of the nonwoven fabric while at the same time reducing raveling loss (abrasion) and improving textile drape, feel and softness in the final form of the fabric.
According to the invention, a zwitterionic or cationic surfactant is placed on the fabric as a wetting agent. Preferable zwitterionic surfactants are aminoxides and betaines, as well as imidazoline carboxylates and aminocarboxylic acids. Cationic surfactants which are preferably employed are, for example, primary, secondary, tertiary or quaternary ammonium salts, benzylammonium salts, alkanolammonium salts, pyridinium salts, imidazolinium salts, oxazolinium salts, thiazolinium salts, sulfonium salts, quinolinium salts, salts of aminoxides, tropylium salts, and isoquinolinium salts or mixtures thereof.
The nonwoven fabrics according to the invention can be used as roll goods or cut in measured pieces for cleaning purposes in industrial or nonindustrial applications; it is important that both water and substances with oleophilic and/or lipophilic properties can be absorbed by the nonwoven fabrics.
It will be understood that the specification and examples are illustrative but not limitative of the present invention and that other embodiments within the spirit and scope of the invention will suggest themselves to those skilled in the art.
Polyethylene terephthalate with an intrinsic viscosity of 0.67 (measured in tetrachloroethane-phenol 1:1), a melt viscosity of 2,400 dPa.s and a moisture content of 0.1 weight-percent was melted at 323� C. and melt-blow-spun by means of a spinning head (spinneret) similar to the one according to German Patent 25 50 463 to form textile fibers and filaments having an average diameter of 1.8 μm. The textile fibers and filaments were made into a nonwoven fabric with a basis weight of 100 g/m2 by deposition onto a receiving means which consisted of a rotating drum. The spinneret was situated above the rotating drum and the spinning was performed vertically downwardly.
The nonwoven fabric, which had a width of 200 mm was guided over rollers onto a circulating endless screen belt which was part of a water jet consolidating apparatus based on the principle of the one described in German Auslegeschrift No. 16 35 577.
The water jet consolidating apparatus had eight rows of water jets disposed above the fabric at an angle of 90� to the direction of movement of the fabric. Each row of water jets had a length (effective jet width) of 200 mm and had 100 nozzle holes. The distance of the nozzles from the fabric was 10 mm and a water pressure of 120 bar prevailed ahead of each nozzle. The water jets formed an angle of 90� with the fabric.
By then passing the fabric through wringer rolls the process water was removed down to a residual moisture content of 100% in the fabric.
This was immediately followed by the application of the wetting agent by passing the fabric over a patterned wetting roll. The wetting agent was 1-alkoylamino-3-dimethylaminopropane-3-N-oxide. The liquid absorption of the fabric amounted to 100% of the initial dry weight of this fabric. The bath of the wetting agent had a concentration of 0.5 weight-percent of the above-named wetting agent; the fabric thus received a content of 0.5 weight-percent of wetting agent, with respect to the dry weight of the fabric.
From the wetting roll, the fabric was carried through a drying oven where it was dried down to a residual moisture content of about 1% and then wound on tubes.
The process speed, i.e., the speed with which the fabric ran continuously through the above-described steps, amounted to 2 meters per minute. The consolidated fabric obtained had a maximum tensile strength (measured according to DIN 53857) in the lengthwise direction of 8.3 daN and of 4.5 daN in the transverse direction.
The specific textile fiber and filament surface area of this fabric that was active for the absorption of water and/or oils and/or fats and the like amounted to 1.6m2 /g (measured by the BET method), corresponding to 160 m2 of surface per square meter of fabric. The oil absorption of this fabric (measured according to the oil binder guideline of the Federal Ministry of the Interior in the text of 31 December 1985) amounted to 4.3 grams of oil per gram of fabric.
The ability of this fabric to absorb water (measured by adapting the oil binder guideline mentioned above) amounted to 5.8 g of water per gram of fabric. Furthermore, the consolidated fabric obtained had a pleasant, soft textile feel and good draping quality.
Example 1 was repeated except that
the application of the wetting agent was performed not by guiding the fabric over a patterned wetting roll but by applying to the fabric this agent, contained in an 0.3 weight-percent solution in the process water, through the water-jet consolidating apparatus,
Instead of the wetting agent named in Example 1, a mixture of alkyl-dimethylbenzylammonium chlorides was used, which is sold by Hoechst AG, Frankfurt-on-the-Main, Federal Republic of Germany, under the trademark DODIGEN 226,
The process water was removed after the water-jet consolidation by passing the fabric through wringer rolls to a residual moisture content in the fabric of 200%, the fabric thus receiving a content of 0.6 weight-percent of wetting agent, with respect to the dry weight of the fabric,
Immediately after removal of the process water the fabric was dried by passing it through a drying oven down to a residual moisture content of about 1%.
In the rest of its properties the consolidated fabric obtained was the same as the fabric of Example 1.
The invention has the following advantages:
The consolidated nonwoven fabrics produced according to the invention have
a greater active surface for the absorption of water and/or oils, fats and the like,
improved strength characteristics and less loss by raveling (abrasion), and
a better textile drape and feel and improved softness
in comparison to known consolidated nonwoven fabrics for the absorption of water and substances with oleophilic and/or lipophilic properties.
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|Absorbent textile product
|U.S. Classification
|442/121, 15/104.93, 264/129, 442/168, 264/518, 428/913, 442/164
|International Classification
|Cooperative Classification
|European Classification
|1 Sep 1987
Owner name: RHODIA AG, ENGESSERSTRASSE 8, 7800 FREIBURG GERMAN
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Owner name: RHODIA AG, ENGESSERSTRASSE 8, 7800 FREIBURG GERMAN
Free format text: ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNORS INTEREST;ASSIGNORS:ALBIEN, KLAUS;MAURER, GUNTER;SIGNING DATES FROM 19870817TO 19870818;REEL/FRAME:004790/0008
|5 Dec 1989
|Certificate of correction
|22 Feb 1991
Owner name: RHONE-POULENC RHODIA AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
Free format text: CHANGE OF NAME;ASSIGNOR:RHODIA AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT (CHANGED TO);REEL/FRAME:005634/0046
Effective date: 19900921
|21 Sep 1992
|Fee payment
Year of fee payment: 4
|25 Sep 1996
|Fee payment
Year of fee payment: 8
|24 Oct 2000
|Maintenance fee reminder mailed
|1 Apr 2001
|Lapse for failure to pay maintenance fees
|5 Jun 2001
|Expired due to failure to pay maintenance fee
Effective date: 20010404