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It was this day so many years ago on the 4th of Neth 4535 that Ekat Kassen left to fight the mercenaries of Asar Vergas and rid them of this town forever. It's a huge honor being selected to retrieve the Everflame for this year's celebration. After all, it's only every couple years that the Mayor bestows the privilege among a few hand selected individuals rather than undertake the task himself. Over the years the ritual has grown quite a bit more elaborate and when the task is granted to persons other than the Mayor and his Dignitaries, a few of the townsfolk set out a days in advance to setup traps and puzzles for the young adventurers. Although most everyone in the town plays along at the hint of danger, everybody knows that they are nothing more than tricks and illusions. Every adult knows that the "Solemn" ceremony is really just for show. Children tell wild tales to one another about what happens during the quest. Some even claim that there have been a number of deaths over the years which is untrue. There have been injuries but never a death.
It is early in the day. You have been instructed to rendezvous in the centre of town and meet your fellow adventurers. "Pack light" said Mayor Uptal when he delivered the news to you personally. "Bring only what is absolutely needed. Weapons, Armor, Spell Books etc… We will meet at midday in town square. You should probably show up early."
Arriving early, I fiddle with my armour and feel a bit awkward at all of the other people standing around. I start chatting to Harn, who I know collected the everflame when he was younger, but he just grins and starts making up stories about monsters in the woods and how someone lost an arm a few years back...
|Pip Nimblefinger
Pip casually strides into the town centre and heads towards who he assumes is another of the "chosen" to get the Everflame. With a yawn, ugh drank too much last night he thinks to himself, Pip extends his hand to the human and says "Greetings! Names Pip Nimblefinger, I take it from your pack and garb that you are one of the chosen to get the Everflame? I was chosen too."
I smile, relieved to see a friendly fellow traveller: Hello, Pip, it's good to see a friendly face.
I run my fingers through my hair and fiddle with the holy symbol hanging on my chest: Any idea what's meant to happen now? Do we just hang around?
|Lorant Pelus
"Hey Vastar, did you get picked for this too?" Lorant comes around the corner of the candlemaker's shop. He's a dark-haired young man with a solid build to him. Today, however, he seems even bigger as he is decked out in an old chain shirt and a polished shield. A longsword hangs at his hip. Lorant tugs at the collar of the armor and flexes his shield arm. "This shirt is going to rub my skin raw in less than a day." He sighs. "But better to have it than not. You know me, always worrying about what will happen next."
Arriving early, I fiddle with my armour and feel a bit awkward at all of the other people standing around. I start chatting to Harn, who I know collected the everflame when he was younger, but he just grins and starts making up stories about monsters in the woods and how someone lost an arm a few years back...
You notice that as soon as the chosen start to gather in the town square anybody else that is there is quick to finish their business and leave.
Harn: I bid you farewell Vastar. The ceremony will begin soon. I will leave you to make introductions. Try to come back alive, all of you.
With that Harn hurries off with the other villagers. Before long it is just the 3 of you standing there. The large clock tower in the town center indicates that it almost midday.
|Kerret Malconnen
Kerret strolls into the town square, whistling a jaunty tune in between bites of a crisp, red apple. He holds a longspear in his other hand with a bit of unfamiliarity. A few stray wisps of straw are caught in his hair and there is a blemish on his neck as if it had been kissed overmuch. When he sees the three already gathered in the square his eyes light up and he smiles as he makes his way over to them.
Vastar! Lorent! Mr. Nimblefinger! Oh this will be fun! I had a feeling the mayor would pick me, but I'm glad to see all of you. Can you believe my Dad insisted I carry this thing? He gestures tentatively with the spear. It's just a trek through the woods to the flame. We'll be back and dancing with the girls before we know it, right? But you know him. Runs the biggest caravan guard consortium in the country for a few years, and once he retired, he had to fill his days with something, usually telling me what to do! Anyway, is it just us?
Kerret's sorcery is not common knowledge in Kassen, but there have been a few small fires in the countryside near his father's estate the past few years.
|Pip Nimblefinger
|Lorant Pelus
|Kerret Malconnen
Kerret gives a guilty grin at Pip's comment and hastily fishes a handkerchief out of his pocket and ties it around his neck, hiding the blemish.
Whoops! He chuckles at the halfling's deft display. I shouldn't advertise, wouldn't want anyone to get upset, or caught up in a rumor. He then turns to Lorant. Well of course I was! Who else but us would they trust to bring back the flame? Anyway, I suppose we might run into a wolf, or gods forfend a bear. That's why it's good you're here! We'll just stay behind that big shield of yours!
Kerret nods to himself as if the matter were settled, as it is in his mind.
Good to see we've a proper gang. I grin broadly at my companions: I can't wait to see Kerret face off with a boar or something in the woods.
I give him a friendly pat on the shoulder: Don't worry, I'll ask Old Deadeye to close your wounds.
Then I give Lorant a mock-critical gaze: And don't worry about the shirt, it suits you.
|Pip Nimblefinger
"Well if it's traps and snares we come across, I think I can take care of those." Pip flicks the blade in the air, does a hand stand and catches the blade with one hand before it hits the ground.
"But bears?!?! Wolves?!?! gulp..I'll leave those to you my friends. I like my hide right where it is! Besides, wolves and bears aren't known to carry much for coinpurses." he says as he does a back flip and makes his dagger disappear into his traveling cloak.
Pip then starts to check that his gear is all in place.
|Lorant Pelus
|Kerret Malconnen
Kerret gives Pip his best reassuring grin. Hear that Pip? If we run across any ferocious beasts, Lorant will nobly sacrifice himself to save us, and Vastar will heal our wounds! Besides, it's not like anything dangerous will actually happen. Kerret lowers his voice conspiratorialy. I have it on good authority that any difficulties we encounter will be purely for the entertainment of the townsfolk. Nothing to worry about, we'll be back quaffing ale before you can say "Abadar's ancient eyeball"!
Just as Vastar finishes his sentence the bells atop the Temple of Erastil toll their midday song, echoing throughout the quiet town of Kassen. As the peals begin to fade, the first of the townsfolk make their way into the square, dressed in black, as if attending a funeral. They slowly fill the square, moving quietly across the cold, hard ground, their eyes downcast and mournful. After a few moments, a murmur passes through the crowd as it slowly parts to let Mayor Uptal through. He leads the way with a tarnished silver lantern. Behind him, an old pony drags a cart laden with backpacks and supplies. Once he reaches the center of the crowd, Mayor Uptal stops and calls out to the assembled townsfolk.
Mayor Uptal: "Once again the winter winds blow through the Fangwood, marking the end of another harvest. There are wolves in the woods, howling at our walls, and serpents in our shadows, waiting to strike. Just as it was one hundred and seventy-four years ago, when Kassen himself left these walls to protect us, so it is today. Where are the heroes? Where are the brave folk that will venture out to Kassen's tomb and retrieve the flame to keep this community safe for another winter?"
|Pip Nimblefinger
|Lorant Pelus
|Kerret Malconnen
Kerret steps forward and spreads his arms, seemingly to encompass the rest of the group and the town as a whole. His voice is loud and clear, carrying through the square. I, Kerret Malconnen am here! My brave companions and I shall brave the dangers of the Fangwood! We are your sons, your brothers, your cousins and your friends! We shall carry the hopes and prayers of Kassen with us, and we shall return with the flame! His voice crescendos as he speaks, rising into a triumphant shout at the end.
Perform(Oratory) (Untrained): 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (19) + 4 = 23
Kerret steps forward and spreads his arms, seemingly to encompass the rest of the group and the town as a whole. His voice is loud and clear, carrying through the square. I, Kerret Malconnen am here! My brave companions and I shall brave the dangers of the Fangwood! We are your sons, your brothers, your cousins and your friends! We shall carry the hopes and prayers of Kassen with us, and we shall return with the flame! His voice crescendos as he speaks, rising into a triumphant shout at the end.
[Dice=Perform(Oratory) (Untrained)]1d20+4
Very nice. You also get a +10 bonus since the crowd already believes in your success. A cheer would rise from the crowd except the ceremony doesn't call for it.
Mayor Uptal:"Retrieving the Everflame from Kassen's toomb is a special honor that is not handed out to just anyone. You have all been selected because of your talents, your strengths and your dedication to the town of Kassen and preserving its legacy. This venture is not without its perils and the town of Kassen has placed its faith in you to come back victorious."
With that the Mayor takes a step back to the wagon of supplies. He reaches deep and recovers an old weathered lantern. The Mayor looks at the party and extends his arm to hold the lantern out while he paces a line in front of you.
"Even though there are 4 of you, only 1 will have the privilege of carrying the lantern and lighting it from the Everflame. Which one of you will have the honor of carrying the lantern on your journey?"
|Kerret Malconnen
Kerret turns to the others and lowers his voice so as not to be overheard by the crowd. Well friends, shall I carry it? Lorant will need his hands for sword and shield, Vastar his for the healing arts, and I would not dream of burdening Pip's nimble fingers. Are we agreed?
|Pip Nimblefinger
|Kerret Malconnen
Kerret nods to the others and turns back to Mayor Uptal. I shall carry the lantern for our group, Mayor Uptal, but the honor belongs to all of us. With that said, Kerret steps forward to the mayor while shouldering his spear and accepts the lantern into his hand.
|Lorant Pelus
I shall carry the lantern for our group, Mayor Uptal, but the honor belongs to all of us.
The Mayor hands the Lantern over to Karret. With a smile on his face he replies.
Mayor Uptal: "That is exactly the kind of attitude I want to see from the group charged with this task. In addition to the lantern we have some extra gifts and supplies for your journey."
The Mayor hands each of you a backpack from the cart. He leans in close and notes.
"The rest you are free to divide amongst yourselves."
Mayor Uptal turns around and addresses the crowd.
"I present to you the brave heroes who will follow in Kassen's footsteps to retrieve the Everflame! Some of them may not return, but I say to you that their sacrifice shall not be forgotten. Go, brave heroes, and do not return until you have the eternal fire."
With that, the mayor points to the south, the direction of Kassen's tomb. The townsfolk begin waving goodbye with cold, solemn looks on most of their faces.
Each Masterwork Backpack contains 5 days trail rations, a small tent, a winter blanket and a full waterskin.
In addition the cart contains a trail map to the Crypt of the Everflame, 50ft. silk rope, a box containing 3 tindertwigs, a potion labeled Cure Light Wounds, 3 torches, a grappling hook and a bottle of local Brandy.
*Items are linked for quick reference
|Kerret Malconnen
Kerret picks up one of the backpacks and says, Oh, this is much nicer than mine. He swiftly transfers over the items from his old pack to the new, and then hefts it all on his back, carelessly discarding the old backpack in the cart without a thought. After a few, tentative steps he realizes that there is a proverbial straw about to break his camel's back, and with a shrug places his whetstone and a sack full of caltrops in the cart.
Updated equipment in alias. Whoo hoo, just barely inside medium encumbrance.
Yes Vastar, to the glade. Let's waste no time!
|Kerret Malconnen
Looking back, Kerret pauses for a moment and says, Mayor Uptal, does 'the rest' include the pony and the cart? He fixes the man with his best winning smile. They would certainly help speed us on our way!
Diplomacy: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (11) + 4 = 15
|Lorant Pelus
Lorant picks up the new backpack and smiles. He begins transferring his other items into the new backpack, and like Kerret, he discards the old one too.
"I'm ready when you are!" he exclaims, the excitement of the moment finally getting to him.
|Pip Nimblefinger
"I will take the torches and the box of tindertwigs. Vastar, you might want the grappling hook to go with the rope, unless you'd like someone of a smaller and lighter stature to handle the climbing?" Pip says with a wink. "On second thought, maybe someone who plans on walking in the front should take the torches?" Pip says sheepishly as he puts the torches and box back and picks up the potion and the brandy. "Now THIS I can keep safe!" Pip too starts to transfer his belongings into the new pack, careful to place the two flasks of acid and the sunrod into places where they won't jostle around too much.
Looking back, Kerret pauses for a moment and says, Mayor Uptal, does 'the rest' include the pony and the cart? He fixes the man with his best winning smile. They would certainly help speed us on our way!
The Mayor strokes his mustache while he ponders Kerret's request.
Mayor Uptal: Normally no... Although I can see a few of you are a bit encumbered with your supplies. With the best interests of the town in mind, I would want to ensure you are back before the festivities begin. I will allow you to take it on the promise that you return everything in the same condition you were lent it. Tha,t and it appears you have already started loading it with your supplies.
|Lorant Pelus
Lorant takes the torches from Pip as he puts them back. "Anyone want else want another torch?" He slides one of them into his pack and then dumps the tent into the cart. Lastly, he walks over and picks up the potion. "If you are planning to 'hide behind my shield', then perhaps I should take this too."
Without that tent, I can carry anything else. Any objections to me taking the potion?
|Kerret Malconnen
Excellent! We'll have it all back before you know we were gone! He turns back to the group and begins unloading the tent and the blanket from the pack into the cart. Vastar, you're good with animals. Do you want to take the reins?
I'm going to create a 'Stuff in the Cart' doc for the Skydrive
|Kerret Malconnen
Just make sure we know where it is whichever one of you takes it. It wouldn't do to need to pour it down your throat and waste valuable time hunting around for it. Kerret gives Lorant a sly wink and takes a place beside the cart. Shall we go?
|Lorant Pelus
|Pip Nimblefinger
Pip jumps into the back of the cart and makes himself comfortable among a pile of the old packs. Settled in his "nest" he starts to play a game with coin. Holding it between his thumb and pointer finger in one hand, covering it up with the other and making it "disappear" from both hands, then appearing to pull it out of his ear. "Heh, been working on this one for awhile now." he says to no one in particular.
"Let's be off."
With that Vastar tugs on the reins and the pony starts moving jerking the cart into motion. The town's folk watch in silence as the party leaves town and fades off into the distance.
Just 2 hours outside of Kassen the narrow path winds through the raking claws of the trees, now bereft of their leaves, which crunch loudly underfoot. Up ahead, a fallen tree trunk blocks the path. It almost looks as if the tree had exploded. Suddenly a trio of snarling humanoids leaps up from behind the log, all greenish skin and fearsome tusks, bellowing vulgar challenges.
Our first battle everyone, are you ready?
3 Orcs stand on the other side of the shattered tree ready to attack. The pony, startled begins stepping over its own hooves trying to back away from the threat.
Initiative Rolls:
Pony: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 = 2
Pip: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (12) + 4 = 16
Vastar: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (6) + 3 = 9
Lorant: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (13) + 2 = 15
Kerret: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (19) + 4 = 23
Orc 1: 1d20 ⇒ 11
Orc 2: 1d20 ⇒ 19
Orc 3: 1d20 ⇒ 10
Combat Order:
- Kerret
- Orc 2
- Pip
- Lorant
- Orc 1
- Orc 3
- Vastar
- Pony
The map is posted to the Party folder in Skydrive. Since vision doesn't come into effect for this encounter there is no point in individually keeping track of separate maps for all of you. That will happen in future encounters. I have taken the liberty of rolling everybody's initiative to speed things up. Post your turn as soon as possible and I will resolve things as they happen in order. If you want to add contingencies (E.x. I attack Orc 1 but if it dies before I can I will attack Orc 2) go for it. I'm still new to this so we may need to work some kinks out as we go along.
|Kerret Malconnen
Those aren't townsfolk... Kerret whispers nervously, then visibly steels himself. He drops the spear and lantern into the cart and takes a step back and to the right as he raises his crossbow to his shoulder and sights at the orc closest to him. He whispers a quick prayer and depresses the lever, sending the bolt towards the foul humanoid.
Drop Longspear and lantern as free action (into the cart if that's ok, if not, into Y 16. Draw Crossbow as a move action. 5' step to Z 15. Fire at Orc at M 15
Ranged Crossbow: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (18) + 2 = 20 vs. flat-footed AC
Damage: 1d8 ⇒ 2
|Lorant Pelus
|Pip Nimblefinger
Round 1:
- Kerret hastily drops his Longspear and the Lantern into the cart and onto Pip. He then moves, draws his ranged crossbow and shoots at Orc 3. He hits Orc 3 for 2 damage.
- Orc 2 moves up and throws a Javelin at Vastar.
Attack: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (14) + 1 = 15 (Miss)
Damage: 1d6 + 3 ⇒ (5) + 3 = 8
- Pip is rudely awakened by the cart coming to an abrupt stop and then having Kerret dropping a Longspear and Lantern on him. He jumps up and jumps out the back of the cart. Crouching down he loads his crossbow.
- Lorant draws his Shortbow and fires at Orc 1 but misses his target.
- Orc 1 races up and throws a Javelin at Lorant.
Attack: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (10) + 1 = 11 (Miss)
Damage: 1d6 + 3 ⇒ (1) + 3 = 4
- Orc 3, realizing he'd been shot by Kerret draws a javelin and moves to S-14 and returns fire at Kerret.
Attack: 1d20 + 1 - 2 ⇒ (11) + 1 - 2 = 10 (Miss)
Damage: 1d6 + 3 ⇒ (3) + 3 = 6
- Vastar holds the Pony's reins as best he can but as the horse struggles he cant keep a good enough grip and they slip.
- The Pony jerks backwards and jackknife's the cart nearly running over Pip. The resulting motion forces Vastar to move backward along with the pony but he manages to keep a hand on the reins.
Reposition Attempt CMB: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (15) + 2 = 17
Suddenly, up the trail comes running a young woman. You all recognize her from town. Its Kaylee Pruitt. What could she be doing here though?
Kaylee's Initiative: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (13) + 2 = 15
1. Kerret
2. Orc 2
3. Pip
4. Lorant
5. Kaylee
6. Orc 1
7. Orc 3
8. Vastar
9. Pony
New map added to Party folder on Skydrive
This encounter also calls for a Will Save. I was going to do it in secret but I just found out that the dice roller doesn't work in PM's so I guess I'll have to give open results to everyone. >:(
Kerret Will Save: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (19) + 3 = 22
Lorant Will Save: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (14) + 1 = 15
Pip Will Save: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (8) + 4 = 12
Vastar Will Save: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (6) + 5 = 11
If you've succedded on the DC I will PM you the results.
Round 2 begins now.
|Lorant Pelus
"Kaylee, what are you do-? Nevermind! Get back!" Lorant whips his head around as Kerret yells his warning. He peers at the orcs again. "Are you sure?" He lifts his bow again and fires another arrow, this time at the right-most orc which Kerret had hurt. Then, he drops the bow and steps forward in front of the pony, drawing his sword at the same time.
|Kaylee Pruitt
"I'm not letting you boys have all the fun!" Kaylee smiles at Lorant. "Besides, they may not even be real." Her eyes begin to glow faintly as she whispers to herself, gazing intently at the orcs, trying to see through them. Just in case... she thinks to herself as she pulls out her sling and grabs a bullet, ducking close to the cart for cover.
|Valak Steelspike
|Lorant Pelus
Lorant squints at the orcs from over his shield as he steps in front of the others. "I...I think Kerret is right. There's something...wrong about the way their shadows fall." Still, the young man keeps his sword and shield up, ready to defend against an attack.


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Marco Lang 1st at Pannonia Windsurf Cup
Another great victory of Austrian Hot Shot and NorthSails International Slalom Team Racer Marco Lang (AUT-66).
On his WARP F2014 Marco left behind all competitors at the 2014 Pannonia Windsurf Cup. Followed by his austrain team mate Matthias Höller (AUT-154).
Well done boys!

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On sensitivity: Part I
All of these methods are philosophically equivalent. There is a 'model' which has a certain sensitivity to 2xCO2 (that is either explicitly set in the formulation or emergent), and observations to which it can be compared (in various experimental setups) and, if the data are relevant, models with different sensitivities can be judged more or less realistic (or explicitly fit to the data). This is true whether the model is a simple 1-D energy balance, an intermediate-complexity model or a fully coupled GCM – but note that there is always a model involved. This formulation highlights a couple of important issues – that the observational data doesn't need to be direct (and the more complex the model, the wider range of possible constraints there are) and that the relationship between the observations and the sensitivity needs to be demonstrated (rather than simply assumed). The last point is important – while in a 1-D model there might be an easy relationship between the measured metric and climate sensitivity, that relationship might be much more complicated or non-existent in a GCM. This way of looking at things lends itself quite neatly into a Bayesian framework (as we shall see).
There are two recent papers on paleo constraints: the already mentioned PALAEOSENS (2012) paper which gives a good survey of existing estimates from paleo-climate and the hierarchy of different definitions of sensitivity. Their survey gives a range for the fast-feedback CS of 2.2-4.8ºC. Another new paper, taking a more explicitly Bayesian approach, from Hargreaves et al. suggests a mean 2.3°C and a 90% range of 0.5–4.0°C (with minor variations dependent on methodology). This can be compared to an earlier estimate from Köhler et al. (2010) who gave a range of 1.4-5.2ºC, with a mean value near 2.4ºC.
One reason why these estimates keep getting revised is that there is a continual updating of the observational analyses that are used – as new data are included, as non-climatic factors get corrected for, and models include more processes. For instance, Köhler et al used an estimate of the cooling at the Last Glacial Maximum of 5.8±1.4ºC, but a recent update from Annan and Hargreaves and used in the Hargreaves et al estimate is 4.0±0.8ºC which would translate into a lower CS value in the Köhler et al calculation (roughly 1.1 – 3.3ºC, with a most likely value near 2.0ºC). A paper last year by Schmittner et al estimated an even smaller cooling, and consequently lower sensitivity (around 2ºC on a level comparison), but the latest estimates are more credible. Note however, that these temperature estimates are strongly dependent on still unresolved issues with different proxies – particularly in the tropics – and may change again as further information comes in.
There was also a recent paper based on a climatological constraint from Fasullo and Trenberth (see Karen Shell's commentary for more details). The basic idea is that across the CMIP3 models there was a strong correlation of mid-tropospheric humidity variations with the model sensitivity, and combined with observations of the real world variations, this gives a way to suggest which models are most realistic, and by extension, what sensitivities are more likely. This paper suggests that models with sensitivity around 4ºC did the best, though they didn't give a formal estimation of the range of uncertainty.
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- J.C. Hargreaves, J.D. Annan, M. Yoshimori, and A. Abe-Ouchi, "Can the Last Glacial Maximum constrain climate sensitivity?", Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 39, pp. n/a-n/a, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2012GL053872
- P. Köhler, R. Bintanja, H. Fischer, F. Joos, R. Knutti, G. Lohmann, and V. Masson-Delmotte, "What caused Earth's temperature variations during the last 800,000 years? Data-based evidence on radiative forcing and constraints on climate sensitivity", Quaternary Science Reviews, vol. 29, pp. 129-145, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2009.09.026
- J.D. Annan, and J.C. Hargreaves, "A new global reconstruction of temperature changes at the Last Glacial Maximum", Climate of the Past Discussions, vol. 8, pp. 5029-5051, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/cpd-8-5029-2012
- A. Schmittner, N.M. Urban, J.D. Shakun, N.M. Mahowald, P.U. Clark, P.J. Bartlein, A.C. Mix, and A. Rosell-Mele, "Climate Sensitivity Estimated from Temperature Reconstructions of the Last Glacial Maximum", Science, vol. 334, pp. 1385-1388, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1203513
- J.T. Fasullo, and K.E. Trenberth, "A Less Cloudy Future: The Role of Subtropical Subsidence in Climate Sensitivity", Science, vol. 338, pp. 792-794, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1227465


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'"Going into an off-season with so many guys having to sign, I don't think anyone knew, as far as the players, who was going to be here and who wasn't," Drury said last week. "But, obviously, they kept a lot of guys and signed a lot of contracts this summer, and it's certainly working out."'
Archives for October 2006
Sabres are at 10-0 and counting
Sabres look sharp, but Cup is no sure thing
'They may not hoist the Cup in June. But in a league dominated by parity, it'll be fun to see just how dominant they can be in their quest to do so.'
Sabres have league spooked
'And what should worry the Panthers, who visit Buffalo on Nov.'10, is that Sabres coach Lindy Ruff doesn't feel his team has played its best hockey, with the exception of its 9-1 dismantling of Philadelphia on Oct.'16.
"We're in search of the perfect game," Ruff said. "The coaching staff is, anyway. We've got to continue to create good habits, not get careless and not get sloppy. We need to … make smarter plays."'
Streak Ends In A Shootout; Thrashers Win 5-4
'Buffalo would choose to go first in the shootout as Briere would miss the net on the glove side of Atlanta goalie Kari Lehtonen. The Thrashers would take the shootout lead on a shot from forward Vyachelsav Kozlov. Maxim Afinogenov and Marian Hossa would respectively get stopped on their attempts, as it all came down to Thomas Vanek. Vanek's wrist shot would glance off Lehtonen's glove then off the crossbar and fly over the net as the Sabres would lose their first game of the season.'
Sabres Streak Ends
'The Sabres received a standing ovation immediately following the game.'
Winning streak ends at 10
'"We just didn't win."'
Game # 11: Thrashers 5, Sabres 4 (SO)
'Leave the turnovers at the bakery. After superlative defensive efforts in Boston and Montreal, the Sabres, to a man, admitted guilt to an overload of careless and sloppy turnovers in their win on Long Island. While a talented foe like the Thrashers can intimidate any team, Buffalo's demise in this loss was, in large part, due to more of the same kinds of turnovers that indirectly led to goals being deposited in the back of their own net.'
Hotlanta cools off Sabres to end The Streak
'The end could very well have been much happier. The Sabres outskated and outchanced the Thrashers by far but were undone by a tight grip on their sticks, a costly turnover, a faceoff loss and a very average performance by Miller.'
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Atlanta 5, Buffalo 4 (SO)
'"We don't have one (in the loss column), we have a shootout loss," said Miller. "We still feel like we're on a roll here. I thought the guys did a great job, gave us some chances. It was a team that was on a roll. It came down to the wire."'
Atlanta 5, Buffalo 4, OT
'Former Sabres player, Vyachelsav Kozlov, scored the only shootout goal the Thrashers needed, beating Ryan Miller with a snap shot inside the left post.'
Sabres D Tallinder out with broken arm
'"It's tough," Sabres coach Lindy Ruff said. "I'm disappointed for him because he was playing real well for us, and now the same thing happened. I know how frustrating it is."'
Paetsch replaces Tallinder; Roy and Hecht to play
'It is believed that Tallinder has re-aggrevated his broken arm from last playoffs, to the extent of possibly re-breaking it.'
As Sabres go for 11, it's hottest show on ice
'Since Buffalo News readers learned Thursday that the Sabres expect to sell out their season, the team has sold more than 11,000 tickets for its remaining games.'
Sabres take aim at league history
'National media outlets that wouldn't otherwise step foot in Buffalo until late in the postseason are here to cover a game before Halloween.'


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The main dome and lower cheeks do look bluish green.
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2) left ear... light grey slighly weatherd.
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4) 18-19 orange (same color as ROTJ) kill marks on helmet.
5) Rabbit ears (eyes)... same color as cheecks
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7) visor area... same red as ESB, just not weatherd so dark.
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For most, spring break brings to mind images of friends, sun and surf. For University of St. Thomas' Brenda Guzman, a junior biology major and pre-med student, spring break looks like Washington D.C. Guzman was accepted into Greenpeace's Semester Spring Break program, a competitive program that teaches students environmental advocacy, strategic campaigning, communication, and grassroots organizing for the betterment of the planet. Greenpeace is the largest independent direct-action environmental organization in the world. Their mission is to defend the natural world and promote peace by investigating, exposing and confronting environmental abuse, and championing environmentally responsible solutions. The five-day program provides a series of workshops where students receive first hand experience in recruiting, non-violent activism and congressional visits. "I am hoping to improve my leadership skills," Guzman said. "I want the confidence to be able to inspire others to act." Guzman's interest in environmental advocacy stemmed from her background in yoga. Traditionally, the yoga community has played an active role in environmental advocacy. Through practicing yoga, Guzman developed a strong feeling that she should act to protect the earth, animal and human rights. As an aspiring surgical oncologist, Guzman realizes how interconnected our environment and health are. "I think it is all related," Guzman said. "There are so many environmental issues that are affecting us. Genetically engineered food and water pollution are just a few issues. With no clean water, everyone will get sick. By protecting the environment you are protecting your health." Greenpeace expects students to continue the trend of community development and environmental advocacy even after they return. For Guzman, that means reviving UST's on campus recycling program. Currently the recycling initiative is supported by clubs who receive grant money if they recycle. However, Guzman doesn't think there should be a need to incentivize. "I hope that people want to protect the environment as a good citizen, Guzman said. "It should be because we care about our school, we care about Houston, we care about our community and because we care about our future generations. It is not all work and no play though. Guzman plans on arriving three days early to see the sights. "This is my spring break," Guzman said. "This is exactly what I want to do. I'm sure the beach would be fun, but this is going to be a learning experience. It is something that will help the future."
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Gen. Jones Scoffs at Afghanistan "Surge" – Just Like Failed Iraq "Surge!"
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I had forgotten this, but President Barack H. Obama's National Security Advisor, former Marine Corps Gen. Jim Jones, in Fall, 2007, called for an early abandonment of Gen. David Petraeus' counterinsurgency (COIN) strategy in Iraq — just before it began to show significant progress that led, less than a year later, to a widely acknowledged victory:
In September 2007, Mr. Jones led a study that called for withdrawing forces, effectively ending President Bush's troop surge. "Significant reductions, consolidations, and realignments would appear to be possible and prudent," that report concluded.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Democrat Nevada, cited the Jones report as evidence that the troop surge had failed.
"It is discouraging that the president stubbornly claims his failed policy is working even as this latest report describes many Iraqi security forces as focused more on fostering civil war than on suppressing it," he said.
Jones was doing the bidding of the anti-war Left then, and he appears to be doing the same now; in fact, like other lefties, he dismisses Gen. Stanley McChrystal's own COIN recommendation for Afghanistan as nothing more than a troop increase, as opposed to a complete change of strategy:
In an interview with The Washington Times, the former Marine general and NATO commander acknowledged his views on Afghanistan have soured in the three years since he left the military. He said security in Afghanistan had deteriorated "because of the [U.S.] failure to see the interaction of security, development, and governance and rule of law." [Darn that previous administration!]
"I think that is coming clear in spades now, that the failure — the tendency to focus so much on troop strength and not enough on the other factors, the development of the national Afghan police, for example which was on life support for so many years, the development of the Afghan National Army, which has never really gone fast enough – those are things that as we developed a strategy that was released in March were clearly highlighted. And now everybody is turning full-scale attention to them," Mr. Jones said….
Mr. Jones told CNN on Sunday, "I think the end is much more complex than just about adding 'X' number of troops. Afghanistan is a country that's quite large and that swallows up a lot of people."
Despite his earlier study group's warning that the war effort was in danger of faltering, he said on CNN, " I don't foresee the return of the Taliban and I want to be very clear that Afghanistan is not in imminent danger of falling."
In 2006-7, the cry from the Left was that Iraq was unwinnable. It was the wrong war anyway; we should just declare defeat and yank out the troops, let Iraq go to hell in a handmaiden, and shift all those troops to Afghanistan — the war we should be fighting! As many have noted, to a liberal, whichever war we're currently fighting is the wrong war; the only good war is the one we're not fighting yet, or which ranks lower on the threat table.
Jones led a war-study group then that concluded the Afghanistan war (the one we should be fighting) was in danger of "faltering" and required many more troops; he opined that the Iraq "surge" had clearly failed, and we should pull troops out of Iraq and send them to Afghanistan… just what then Sen. Obama was saying, among many other liberal Democrats.
But now the Left (except for Cindy Sheehan) has largely abandoned opposition to the Iraq war — since we inconveniently won it — and instead focused its ire on Afghanistan… which has become the new "wrong war;" we should be focusing on Pakistan! Behold, Gen. Jones turns on a dime and clearly signals that we thinks we should not "surge" 40,000 troops, we should not switch to the previously successful COIN strategy, and we should not accept Gen. McChrystal's recommendation.
Gone is "the interaction of security, development, and governance and rule of law;" it's time to abandon the failed Afghanistan war and MoveOn.
Do we detect a pattern here?
It's not clear whether Jones is himself an anti-war leftist, but it's not uncommon for top generals to drift left as they progress up the heirarchy. It often seems that the bigger the command, the more the commandant "grows in office;" cf. Eric Shinseki, Anthony Zinni, and of course the ultimate recent example, Colin Powell. It's not hard to explain; at the highest levels of command, a general or admiral is less like a military leader and more like a cabinet secretary. Those who head up gargantuan bureaucracies tend to believe in big-bureaucracy solutions to all problems… witness Powell insisting that we could not depose Saddam Hussein without a buildup of half a million troops.
Powell must have known that was impossible; thus, had his advice been accepted, we could not have invaded Iraq at all — which would have suited Powell (and Shinseki and Zinni, and probably Jones) just fine.
Does that make such a general a leftist? In the limited sense of having a more Eurocentric (or even more European) viewpoint, yes it does. The reason that European armies typically refuse to fight is that they can't risk their soldiers' lives on anything smaller than the tank battles of the North-Africa campaign. This fits well with the so-called Powell Doctrine: Never send troops unless it's worth refighting World War II… which of course it never seems to be.
Too, James Jones became quite chummy with two senators in 2007: Hillary Clinton and Lindsey Graham (R-SC, 82%). Both follow the liberal line on war; Graham, for example, is further to the left on questions of terrorism intelligence than Sen. John McCain (R-AZ, 63%) (Graham's higher ACU rating comes from policies unrelated to the war against the Iran/al-Qaeda axis). And of course, he twice refused Condoleezza Rice's offer to become Deputy Secretary of State in the Bush administration but appears to have jumped at the chance to be National Security Advisor in the Obama Administration. Perhaps he just found being NSA more attractive than being a deputy secretary… but it's hard not to conclude he found the current administration more congenial politically, as well.
I believe that the One chose Jim Jones as National Security Advisor precisely because of his willingness to accomodate the anti-war Left's party line, no matter how many knots he must tie himself into; and if Jones wants to keep his job, he knows his duty: Rather than advise the president, he must echo whatever flippant argument Obama invokes against the war we're actually fighting, preferring some hypothetical martial struggle somewhere else, at some future time (and preferably on some other president's watch).
I believe Gen. Jones has already decided to keep his job.
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Key facts:
- In 2013, only about 1% of all trip stages were made by cycle, but cyclists represented around 6% of fatalities and 15% of serious injuries.
- Around 88% of cyclists' road fatalities reported by the police happen in crashes involving a motor vehicle.
- Between 2009 and 2013, the number of drivers being disqualified dropped by 37.6%, even though there was only a 17% fall in road casualties.
- For dangerous driving with a fatal outcome, the maximum sentence is 14 years; for both dangerous driving that causes a serious injury, and causing death by 'careless' driving, the maximum prison sentence is five years.
- In 2013, only 80% of motorists convicted of killing another road user had their licence taken away, compared to 94% ten years beforehand. In May 2013, 7,842 of the 12,470 (63%) drivers who had more than 12 points on their licence were not disqualified.
- Around three quarters of motoring offences are penalised by fines. Bans are given for just over one in 12 offences, most (65%) for less than six months.
Cycling UK View (formal statement of Cycling UK's policy):
Legal framework
- The legal framework should reflect the fact that it is unacceptable to endanger and intimidate other road users, not least cyclists and pedestrians who are disproportionately affected by road crashes.
- The law states that driving is 'dangerous' when "… it would be obvious to a competent and careful driver that driving in that way would be dangerous." All too often, however, prosecutors and courts dismiss such driving merely as 'careless' offences.
- In the first instance, prosecutors and courts should understand and apply the current definitions of 'dangerous' and 'careless' correctly. Prosecution policy and guidelines should provide accurate advice on these charges and be drafted accordingly. If this does not improve the situation, changes to primary legislation may be needed to end the use of the word 'careless' altogether for driving offences that can maim or kill.
Sentencing policy
- The underlying principle of sentencing must be that offending drivers should not be treated more leniently than those who kill or injure through non-traffic crime.
- Whether a seriously injured victim happens to survive or die makes too much difference to the sentences available, even though the driving in question may have been equally bad. Sentencing should be consistent and reflect the standard of driving and not its outcome.
- Sentencing should reflect whether the driver has created danger through willful aggression or obvious risk-taking, or whether it happened as a result of a simple lapse of attention.
- For the protection of the public, long driving bans should be more widely used to penalise drivers who have caused serious dangers, but not recklessly or intentionally. Pleas of 'hardship' should not be accepted.
- When drivers have caused danger intentionally or recklessly, or if they have a history of breaching driving bans, long custodial sentences are more appropriate.
- Professional drivers whose licence has been revoked and other disqualified drivers should be required to undergo remedial training and re-testing, as a mandatory step to recovering a licence.
- The courts should avoid relying solely on fines where a victim has been seriously or fatally injured as this can trivialise the seriousness of the offence, particularly when the fine is small.
- The courts should be given the power to impose driver re-training as a sanction for convicted offenders.
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Junior forward Asani Samuels of the Canisius College men's soccer team collected all-region accolades for the second-straight season, earning National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) All-North Atlantic Second Team honors.
Samuels, who was named to the NSCAA All-North Atlantic Region Third Team as a sophomore, is just the second player in the program's history to earn all-region honors twice in his career. Former standout Alan McGreal also accomplished the feat, collecting second-team accolades in 2006 and third-team honors in 2009.
The Savanna la Mar, Jamaica native matched a career high with eight points on three goals and two assists in his junior campaign, stretching the opponent's defense as the team's lead forward. He also became just the second Griff in the program's history to net two overtime goals in the same season, leading Canisius to wins against Bucknell and Siena.
During his career, Samuels has totaled 19 points, eight goals and three assists in 54 career games. He was also named to the All-MAAC Second Team following the 2013 season.
The Griffs finished the 2013 campaign with a 7-9-2 overall record, placing sixth in the MAAC with 10 points during conference play. Canisius' 15 wins in the last two seasons are tied for the most in any two-year span in the program's history.


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White visits new national netball tournament
Ninety-two girls took part in the inaugural Premier League 4 Sport National Netball Tournament at the Sobell Leisure Centre in Islington on Thursday May 31.
The youngsters competed for the PL4S national title at U14 and U16 level, with sides from Arsenal and Hull City claiming the honours in the respective age categories.
Away from the competition, participants were treated to a visit from Arsenal Ladies star Ellen White and England netball sisters Sasha and Kadeen Corbin. The VIP trio got stuck into the action, cheering the teams on, posing for pictures and trying their hand at a 'Beat the Star' contest in which the youngsters challenged them to a shoot off.
Ellen was thoroughly impressed by what she saw. "It's brilliant to see so many youngsters passionate about sport," she said. "Everyone was having a great time, and with the Olympics weeks away now events like this are a great advert for the impact that sport can have. It was a real privilege to be a part of."
Beth Jones, children and young people manager at England Netball, said: "The tournament was a great success. This achievement is testament to Arsenal's outstanding partnership work with Islington Netball club as well as with the other Premier League clubs. We hope to continue to build upon this success with next year's tournament, continuing to inspire more young netballers to continue playing the game."
The tournament was conducted in partnership with Arsenal in the Community, England Netball, the Islington Netball Club, the Liverpool Foundation, the West Brom Foundation, the Hull Tigers Community Trust and Aquaterra Leisure Islington.
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Hannity, Interior secretary presented misleading claims on ANWR drilling as "fact"
Under the guise of putting "a few facts on the table," Fox News host Sean Hannity presented a series of misleading claims to advance the Bush administration's efforts [1] to permit oil drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). There is ample evidence to refute each of these "facts," but no opponent of drilling appeared on the March 8 edition of Fox News' Hannity & Colmes.
During an appearance by Secretary of the Interior Gale Norton, a leading supporter of ANWR drilling, Hannity suggested three such "facts": 1) that only "about 2,000 acres out of 19 million acres" of the refuge would be affected by drilling; 2) that since the caribou herd has "quadrupled" at Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, despite oil drilling there, caribou at ANWR would be similarly unaffected by drilling; and 3) that the oil gained would be "the equivalent of everything we import from Saudi Arabia" over a 30-year period. Norton explicitly agreed with Hannity's first two claims.
Regarding Hannity's first claim, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer noted [2] on February 28 that while drilling supporters have pushed the 2,000-acre figure in an effort to minimize the potential environmental impact, "[o]pponents counter that far more area would be affected by roads and pipelines connecting drilling pads." The Los Angeles Times reported [3] on March 30, 2002, that "the Sierra Club says a 2,000-acre footprint could still support a broad level of development," and Sierra Club executive director Carl Pope noted that "one scenario that was consistent with the 2,000-acre footprint ... would sustain 53 drilling pads and 250 miles of roads and pipelines." These roads and pipelines would extend well outside the 2,000 acres that Hannity mentioned.
Hannity's attempt to minimize the impact of drilling on caribou populations is also misleading. "[T]he same predictions were made ... when we were going to drill in Prudhoe Bay, and I believe we quadrupled the herd size of the caribou," he said. But the 2002 Los Angeles Times report noted that while the Prudhoe Bay caribou's "numbers have been robust," the article cited a U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) report warning that, as the Times put it, "oil development would 'most likely' restrict the area available for caribou calving, leading to impaired reproduction and calf survival for the 123,000 caribou" in ANWR. The Times also noted that "[a] further problem ... is the relative weakness of the Porcupine herd, which has been in a steady cyclical decline" and which "could reach the lowest levels ever recorded between 2005 to 2010 -- just when oil development would be getting under way." Similarly, the Anchorage Daily News reported [4] on March 6 that "[t]he plain, which runs across most of the North Slope, slims to a relatively narrow stretch in the so-called '1002 Area,' leading some biologists to worry that oil development would have a much greater impact there on caribou and other wildlife than in the Prudhoe Bay area or the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, both further west."
Scientific estimates of the likely oil production from ANWR contradict Hannity's claim that ANWR could provide as much oil as "we import from Saudi Arabia." Hannity based his assertion on the USGS estimate of 10.4 billion barrels of oil from ANWR, but that figure includes [5] the "entire assessment area," or large portions of ANWR that lie outside the coastal plain and contain smaller amounts of oil. Because oil from these areas is too costly to be economically viable, the proposal currently before Congress would not permit drilling in these areas. Further, unless the amount of oil the U.S. imports from Saudi Arabia decreases dramatically in the coming years -- the U.S. Department of Energy projects [6] that the share of U.S. oil consumption that will come from imports will increase from 58 percent to 70 percent by 2025 -- ANWR would not produce nearly as much oil as the United States is likely to import from Saudi Arabia. According to the Department of Energy, drilling in ANWR would reduce U.S. dependence on foreign oil by between 3 and 6 percent, whereas the United States currently imports about 9 percent of its oil from Saudi Arabia, as Media Matters for America has previously noted [7].
Hannity also denied co-host Alan Colmes's assertion that according to the USGS, ANWR would produce in total "less than a year's worth of recoverable oil." But Colmes's claim was accurate: According to the USGS report [5], the mean estimated amount of recoverable oil is in fact approximately equal to the amount of oil the United States consumes in one year. As the report notes, the "[t]echnically recoverable oil within the ANWR 1002 area [the 1.5-million-acre coastal plain targeted for drilling] (excluding State and Native areas) is estimated to be between 4.3 and 11.8 billion barrels, with a mean value of 7.7 billion barrels." According to the U.S. Department of Energy's Energy Information Agency [8], the U.S. currently consumes about 20 million barrels of oil and petroleum products per day, or about 7.3 billion barrels per year.
From the March 8 edition of Fox News' Hannity & Colmes:
HANNITY: Let me get a few facts on the table. We now import 60 percent of our oil in this country, is that correct?
NORTON: That's correct.
HANNITY: We're more dependent on foreign oil than we have ever been. If we were to drill in ANWR, we would only use 0.01 percent of their total acres, about 2,000 acres out of 19 million acres, isn't that correct?
NORTON: That's correct. And that restriction would be put in place by law so that we could be sure that the footprint of development would be limited.
HANNITY: And what we're really looking at here is the frozen tundra. Isn't one of the major reasons liberals don't want us to drill in this frozen tundra is because they're concerned about the mating habits of the Porcupine caribou?
NORTON: Actually, the coastal plain is an area the caribou migrate through. That is something we would have to be very careful about, as we would regulate to make sure that the caribou are protected. But actually most of the work would take place in the wintertime. The caribou are there in the summertime.
HANNITY: Well, the same predictions were made, and correct me if I'm wrong, when we were going to drill in Prudhoe Bay, and I believe we quadrupled the herd size of the caribou, correct?
NORTON: That's right. It's a much larger herd than it was when the drilling first began in Prudhoe Bay.
HANNITY: All right. I want people to understand here. So here we have a vast wildness, empty tundra, and we have the second largest oil find in U.S. history. According to the [U.S.] Geological Society [sic: Survey], their estimate of 10.4 billion barrels, with new recovery technology, peak production, that the amount of oil that we could pull out of there, over a million barrels a day for roughly 30 years, and correct me if I'm wrong, madam secretary, that would be the equivalent of everything we import from Saudi Arabia for that period of time, right?
NORTON: Well, we have -- we produce for ourselves about 5.7 million barrels a day. This would be a million barrels a day that would be added to the domestic production. The amount we import from Saudi Arabia varies, but it at least is larger than what we import from almost any other country.
COLMES: Why does the U.S. Geological Survey say less than a year's worth of recoverable oil?
HANNITY: It's not what they said.
COLMES: That's what they said.
NORTON: That would be if you used the lowest estimate and if you used everything all at once and there was no places in the world we were getting any energy.
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Matisyahu was born Matthew Miller on June 30, 1979, in West Chester, Pennsylvania. His family moved to Berkeley, California, which they eventually ditched for White Plains, New York. Miller initially rebelled against his traditional Jewish upbringing, considering himself a Deadhead and a hippie by his early teens. But at the age of 14, during a camping trip in Colorado, he reconciled himself to Judaism and visited Israel shortly thereafter. After returning to White Plains, he dropped out of high school and traveled the country to attend Phish concerts. Back at home again, he agreed to let his parents send him to a wilderness school in Bend, Oregon, where he became enamored of reggae and hip-hop, and began rapping at open-mike competitions. He returned to New York at 19 to attend the New School for Social Research in Manhattan, but also joined the Carlebach Shul, a synagogue where his musical interests were encouraged. Meeting a Lubavitch rabbi, he became interested in the strict Lubavitch Hasidic sect of Judaism and renamed himself Matisyahu.
Continuing to perform, Matisyahu assembled a backing band consisting of guitarist Aaron Dugan, bassist Josh Werner, and drummer Jonah David. The group recorded Shake Off the Dust...Arise, which was released by JDub Records in 2004. While touring in support of the album, Matisyahu recorded one of his February 2005 concerts and released the material as Live at Stubb's, which was issued in April courtesy of Or Music before getting picked up for national distribution by Epic Records. Epic reissued it on August 23, 2005, as Matisyahu toured around the country and prepared a second studio album with producer Bill Laswell. The final product, Youth, appeared in March 2006 and was nominated for a Grammy in the category of Best Reggae Album. A simultaneously released dub version of the album was made available to mail-order customers.
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|July 12th, 2013, 05:23 PM
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Fresh fluids, charged battery and some clean fuel and it fired right up. Moved it around a bit to get some oil to all the seals and it's still having issues with the transfer case being stuck in 4wd.
Last shots of it before I got a hold of it for cleaning/paint.
|July 12th, 2013, 05:28 PM
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This front clip has irritated me for years, and finally I had enough time to work on it. Specifically since I finally found my lost Craftsman Orbital Sander Yesterday morning!
This is only a rust preventative paint that is going to act as a primer for now until I get the panels to patch the major rust in the floor and put on the new doors/seals I have in the shed. Then the whole body and all panels will get media blasted and I'll use my compressor and gun to give it a proper coat of paint. :)
Unfortunately most of this fender I had to sand by hand due to the bends. (I didn't want flat spots I'd have to fill later)
The hood wasn't so bad. There are a few small dents and I had to keep from denting it further by pushing too hard, but since I'll be putting a cowl hood on it later anyway, this is the last coat of paint it will see till it's pulled off, replaced and sold. [eventually]
Believe it or not, there is some original blue under all that rust and white [obviously spray painted] topcoat.
|July 12th, 2013, 05:33 PM
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So this part really aggravated me.
I had several cans of Rust preventative satin black paint, and out of all four of them, only ONE worked. NEW CANS! I can't find the receipt for them so I can't take them back. At almost $3 a can I had to use one can and use instead a couple white cans of the same paint I had for our old 97 1500 pickup.
I was hoping to keep the truck primered in black so I would have at least a somewhat matching body (new doors are black too) BUT, I guess it'll have to be multi-color for a while.
Again, this paint is just temporary and to prevent further rust on good metal until it can be media blasted for a final paintjob.
|July 12th, 2013, 05:46 PM
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After the paint dried overnight I got to tear into it again this morning.
I know the timing chain is stretched because even at full adjustment the timing is still off on the truck. It's running fine for now, but still not perfect. It wreaked of raw fuel and since I had assumed it was loading up on fuel at the carb I didn't notice a small crack in the rubber line that slowly leaked under pressure until I took it to the gas station to get some more fresh gas on a second tuning run since I fired it up.
SO, I replaced both lines this morning and boy did that make a difference. Low fuel pressure was most likely causing my idle issues and it wanting to die without constant pedal fiddling. The smell also disappeared. It looks like the timing can be done later, and even though it needs to be done, the fuel mileage and performance of the engine should go up.
After fixing the fuel lines I decided to take the brand new B&M Z-Gate shifter that I had bought a few years ago to put in my Cutlass and put it in the truck since I would have to modify the factory linkage anyway to accommodate the body lift.
It mounted up perfectly beside the Transfer Case shifter and is at the perfect arm's reach with the factory bench seat. (which at the request of my wife we are keeping - Sorry for all you bucket seat fans) The black housing will require a bit of modification to fit the factory hump and the mounting plate for the TC shifter boot. However being that I have experience working with ABS plastic (former Certified Mobile Audio Tech), it shouldn't be that hard to make it look like it was factory installed.
Shifts nice and smooth, locks into gear nicely and feels much more secure than the old sloppy column shifter.
I also grabbed my Auto Meter Tach that I had for my Cutlass and Threw it in the truck as well; I'll wire in the tach later, for now it's just mounted in a comfortable location.I plan on replacing the factory gauges with matching Silver faced Auto Meter gauges using the factory dash plates. I would like some suggestions however on this because I would like to know if anyone has converted their factory plastic housing to auto meter gauges without having them stick out. (I'd like the gauges to fit in same locations but flush with the dash, not sticking out)
|July 12th, 2013, 05:57 PM
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After I finished the shifter install I decided to take it on another road test to check for any further leaks and took it up to the local gas station. Even in it's multi-colored broken down condition I still had a few people looking.
Makes the hard work worth it, little by little.
I traded my factory grille to the neighbor who has a 74 mud truck with a 9" lift because he hated the narrow openings trying to open the hood. So now I have a tube grille to fill it out instead of the egg crate.
My wife has a co-worker that has his own chroming business out of his home that can get me a hell of a deal on re-chroming parts. So eventually I'll have him dip my front trim and grille to get it all shiny and new considering LMC no longer sells metal front trim, only plastic.
It's coming along. I still need to find a steering shaft extension before I can put the rest of the body lift on.
Digging through my parts stash I still have quite a few spare parts to put on and new stuff to install.
Next up on the list are:
*New front Driveshaft U-Joints
*LED tail lights and brackets
*Rear Brakes (when the rotors are machined to fit the appropriate ID)
*New 4-core radiator from my old '74 dually to replace the 3 core currently in it. + New thermostat
*Pete Jackson Gear Drive
*New Accel Header Plugs and Wires
*New Edelbrock Cam & Lifters [if necessary] We'll see when the timing is being done
*New Doors, Seals and outer rockers (waiting on purchase of floor pans and inner rockers first
I'm sure there's more, but now that I'm putting my '71 Cutlass up for sale, the wife knows that this has taken place of my restoration project instead of just fixing it to drive it.
More updates in the future as I get things done.....
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|July 15th, 2013, 05:51 AM
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|July 18th, 2013, 05:23 PM
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About a year ago I did a valve adjustment on it and a tuneup with new distributor parts. While I had it apart I re-set the timing and the marks are still a bit off. Even at full adjustment they are still not lining up where they should.
The dampener looks fine and the tabs are still on the cover, but it still has hesitation when you really step on it.
In any case i've had a Pete Jackson Gear Drive in my tool box for about seven years that was supposed to go in a seperate truck I built for my dad long ago but he decided to go bigger with the heads, cam and compression, so gear drives aren't a good idea on H/C motors.
My motor isn't that H/O yet, so for now a Gear drive will suit it nicely as a tuneup when I put all new plugs, wires, valve cover gaskets and a new radiator in it.
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|August 5th, 2013, 03:12 AM
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Well I got another couple days to work on the truck when I wasn't working on three other vehicles. I just finished putting a new brake hardline down the whole frame for the rear brakes and a new gasket for the transfer case on our Yukon. It's running great now.
As far as the '77, well I got my taillights installed but haven't wired them up yet. I stripped down the paint and shot some gloss black over it just for now, the whole bed will be stripped down and re-done at a later date. For now this will have to do so I can be road legal. This is just a mockup pic, I haven't taken a picture of the lenses mounted and Backup lights installed yet. Will get that later; I must have forgot.
I also decided to do a little work under the hood since I had a few extra hours to spend. I dug through my toolbox and shelves and pulled every new part for this body style truck that I had available and decided to use it. I've been holding on to most of them for years because our family has built so many of these trucks.
I put in a new carb spacer, new plug wires and new header plugs. Changed up and put a new chrome air cleaner and filter in it, and figured while I was at it I would clean my valve covers and replace the gaskets for those as well with spares I had laying around. (One was leaking anyway)
I tore it down once before and already knew this, but someone has done some work to this motor and I'm curious to see just how far they went. These aren't stock:
Now I intended to just clean off my valve covers and put them back on, but seeing how much rust had accumulated after sitting for years (probably not being cleaned by previous owner) I decided to grab my super fine #0000 pack of steel wool and see what I could do about it. Here is what I started with:
And after quite a bit of elbow grease this is what I ended up with:
Having seen such improvement in the engine bay (even though the rest still looks like crap) I decided to keep the momentum moving forward and work on the rest of the truck.
|August 5th, 2013, 03:23 AM
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I decided to tackle the grille and trim pieces. Most of them I had figured to be a lost cause due to the amount of rust on them, but to my surprise, chrome is amazingly resilient!
Here is what I started with; a used tube grille and 36 year old chrome parts:
And after a lot of elbow grease, steel wool and soap and water:
The chrome is still not perfect and honestly it needs to be re-done because of pitting and flaking in parts, but for now this is a HUGE improvement. I can actually see my reflection in it!
It makes quite the difference from a distance, even if it's not perfect up close. I did the mirror bases and the rain guards/drip rails too. I need neverdull to shine up the aluminum side mirrors, but for now it's the little things that count. Since I put the matching set of tires and trim rings back on the truck, I'll take some time to clean them up as well and even get all the hubs back on when I get a new set of lug nuts for it.
A friend of mine is coming by tomorrow and we are going to install the body lift on the cab now that my steering shaft extension came in from Summit.
When the rest of the lift is done then I get to tear farther down into the engine to do some major work and degrease the crap out of it!
Up next:
Exchange 3 core radiator for 4 core
Install Gear Drive
Clean/paint engine and accessories (what I can)
New timing cover
New cam? Maybe....depends on the old one.
New pan gaskets and filters.
I need to tear the back half of the transfer case off and re seal it, it's leaking a bit where the tailshaft bolts on. I think some permatex should fix it for now until I do a complete and thorough cleaning/chain replacement later.
Will get more pics of the truck tomorrow.
It's getting there, piece by piece.
|August 13th, 2013, 01:00 PM
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Well it took forever but i finally got rid of my go-kart and was able to pick up a decent set of used mud tires and rims from forum member jbeemer. (Nice guy btw)
Got them mounted this morning and put on the truck with brand new lugs.
I have to admit it looks pretty beefy now; i like it. It's about time it's got some decent size meat on it.
|August 13th, 2013, 01:02 PM
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I also got the taillights on it a week ago or so and forgot to upload pics of it. Still need to wire them in, but they don't look too bad. I still need to bolt on the backup lights, but I'll do that after I get the wiring done.
|August 29th, 2013, 11:42 PM
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Well, i finally got the biggest hurdle out of my way. (almost)
I had a friend with a welder put on the brackets for my rear brakes, finally. I had to modify the calipers a bit so they would clear the 15" wheels and also put in new longer studs to offset the thickness of the rotors. Unfortunately he welded them on top of the axle instead of behind like I wanted, but I guess it doesn't matter, they will still function the same.
Wouldn't you know it, I got 11 of 12 lugs in with no problem, and on the very last lug, It snapped after being pulled only half way through. I must have gotten a weak cast; better now than when the wheels are turning.
Old vs. New:
2004 Chevy pickup rotors machined out to fit the ID of the axle flange. Looks factory now.
Got them all bolted up and started the plumbing....
All new fittings, steel lines and braided flex lines. The only stock lines left on the truck are the ones from the MC to the back of the truck and to each braided flex on the front of the frame. I'll probably replace these later as well with new lines and make them a little more short and direct instead of swirling all over the whole engine bay, maybe dump them along the firewall instead.
Wouldn't you know it, just when I thought my trouble was over and I was just about to get the truck back on the road 100%, the damn booster blows up as I was trying to bleed the system. I don't know if it was just its time to go or it was faulty and couldn't handle the pressure, but it sure as hell is leaking air now. Luckily my neighbor's k5 blazer parts truck has a donor I'll swap out and try to get it up and running this weekend. If it's not one thing it's another.
On a lighter note, I just finished up wiring the new LED taillights tonight. I just finished making my own new harness for the bed and wiring it all up. Luckily I think the flasher has been replaced from the original solid state that the truck came with because the turn signals and brakes worked without issue. Normally the LED's run a lower resistance and need to have a non-solid state flasher installed so that they will work. Looks like I lucked out on that one. I even got my markers in the fenders wired up and found a pack of new bulbs in my misc. stuff in the toolbox. Sweet.
|August 29th, 2013, 11:44 PM
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I'm hoping it was just the booster going out on me, but I noticed that i didn't have as much pressure to the rear calipers as I do the fronts. I assume this is the proportioning valve correct?
I don't plan on doing any towing with this truck any time soon if I can help it, so I was told that it didn't have to be changed, but will that affect the ability of the caliper to clamp down properly? I thought drum brakes used a higher psi for stopping force than discs.
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I may be wrong but the way you put the bracket and caliper will never work correctly, the bleeder need's to point up you will never get the all the air out of the line.
|August 30th, 2013, 06:33 AM
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you might be able to get away with it by taking the caliper off, and sticking it on the side of the rotor and bleed it while it isn't bolted to the caliper bracket. gotta watch for fingers though.
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|August 31st, 2013, 10:17 PM
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I was hoping that might be the case. I told him I wanted them on the back of the axle so that I could plumb the lines along the back and route them through the factory retainers but he ended up doing it "the easy way" where he didn't have to hold it.
I wasn't around when he did it so he had already put them on by the time I got there to check and see how it was going.
I did change out the booster with a spare because I was getting a lot of air passing through by the firewall, but it went from compressing the RR caliper to starting to compress the LR and then it just dropped.
I lost almost all pressure. I pulled the cap on the MC and tried to get the rest of the air out of the system by giving it a high point, but still it has absolutely no brakes now. I'm kind of dumbfounded at this point. I'll try to pull the calipers and move them like you guys suggested to bleed them, but I just don't see it getting pressure.
I'm so annoyed because this is supposed to be the last thing i need to do so I can drive the truck. I've already fixed the wiring, so this is all that's left, and the bastard won't stop. Ugh.
|September 2nd, 2013, 06:42 PM
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Pull off one caliper and either put on the side of the rotor so the bleeder is pointing up or clamp the piston in the cylinder. Then you can crack the bleeder and pump away once you have the bleeder as the highest point of the reservior. Close the bleeder and reattach. repeat process for other side.
It shouldn't be a problem once they are bled unless you ever have to bleed them again.
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|September 14th, 2013, 08:12 PM
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Still haven't had a chance to work on the truck due to packing, but I love the speed bleeder idea. I'm going to hook up my vaccuum bleeder and try to pull all the air out. It does have to be driven 2300 miles after all.
I unfortunately won't be able to go wheeling with any of you guys, but thanks for the tips and help while i've been here in Michigan.
I'm moving to Washington state in a few days and it's been fun, so I may or may not update the thread from there...we'll see.
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Over the years, Chris Mennuto (B.F.A., Motion Media) watched his dad struggle to tell the story of how he escaped Tower 2 during the 9/11 terrorist attacks. While interning in New York last year, Chris visited the 9/11 Memorial for the first time. Touching the names of his dad's fallen co-workers he was inspired to create a visual presentation of his father's escape. And so was born "18 Minutes," a powerful two-minute short, which brought his father and his professor tears.
Chris's hand-drawn sketches capture his father's ordeal with such precision and imbue seemingly cold and impersonal technical tools with a vibrant breadth of emotion. "18 Minutes," the amount of time it took Stan Mennuto to exit the burning building, is a testament to a son's love for his father and to the fact that digital art and storytelling are as evocative as traditional mediums.
To memorialize 9/11, Chris and his dad will show "I8 minutes" today at Indian River State College in Florida. Winner of several awards, "18 Minutes" has also been shown at animation and film festivals around the country.


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