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In life there are some decisions made that "brand" you .
Did you read the press? Even the favorable stuff was quite disgusting. Been to a few parties, that was a scene I didn't recognize.also I do not remember him being found guilty of anything
No one proved that he did . What's the quote "the DA's office tried to frame a guilty person", only know one knows either way. The glove didn't fit, Johnny Cochran regards ...but then again OJ didn't do it either...
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Everyone's friend is No One's friend
Someday your life will flash before your eyes. It's your responsibility to make sure it's worth watching!
The term Redneck is derogatory. The politically correct term is Appalachian Americans. Aaron Rodgers is on fire. Packers will roll.
""President Trump was a chaos candidate and apparently intends to be a chaos president. Stability, it would seem, is out the window. The White House will lie without hesitation when it serves its perceived interest." The American Conservative
Madden 11 picks the Steelers 24-20
Been right 6 out of the last 7?
"It's not that government is inherently stupid, although that's a debatable question."
Rand Paul CPAC speech 2011
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it. Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Stuart, 1791
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Toddlers in Church
How can I get my toddlers (age 1-3) to behave in church, I keep them with me during the service?
Should I always be outside or at the very back to avoid disturbing people?
What are your experiences or opinions regarding this?

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HIV and AIDS |
Should I Go See An HPV Specialist?02/13/2006 |
I have HPV and the doctor said I need to go see a specialist or something. He also said it is not anything to lose sleep over. I am pretty sure I have had it for the last two years. How important is it that I go see another doctor? If I am still with the same guy that I think gave it to me.
Human Papilloma Virus is an infection which causes genital warts, as well as cervical cancer and anal cancer. It is spread sexually. It appears from what you say (you were referred to a specialist) that your physician thinks something needs to be done about your HPV. The two things that could be accomplished by certain specialists are screening for the possibility of cancer, and treatments (medications, surgeries) to control the growth of warts.
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Somali MP Accuses AU of 'Massacre'
A parliamentarian has accused African Union peacekeepers of being responsible for the recent killing of civilians.A Somali girl crosses a street on her way to school while AMISOM soldiers stand guard (file photo).
Government soldiers along with African Union troops have taken control of a strategic city which was a former Al Shabaab stronghold. Read more »
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There is one definite problem with toting your eco-friendly 21st century reusable water bottle around, and that is, eventually it runs out of water. At least if you're me and you drink like a fish all day long. Then I'm stuck toting around an empty aluminum bottle, and having to buy a bottle of water at the nearest deli. Lame.
I have just been introduced to the Fit & Fresh LivPURE filtered water bottle. Yes, "Fit & Fresh" sounds like some kind of low-fat yogurt. But it's not. It's an ergonomic plastic bottle, BPA- and Pthalate-free, with a small filter between the water and the sippy part at top. So fill it with whatever water is around, and as you tilt to drink, it filters out up to 50% of the chlorine, plus other stuff you'd rather not pass through your–or your kids'–lips. The filter is good for about 75 gallons, and after that you just buy some replacement water filters at 4 bucks each.
I wish it had been around in those days I squeezed my eyes closed and mixed formula with tap water in a pinch on the road. Yeah, I know. –Liz
Congratulations to LivPURE water bottle winners Renee F, Bessie G, and Jenny G!


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Dining Guide5280 's Guide to Local Restaurants
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Enjoy house-made pho, the Vietnamese noodle soup, with a wide variety of offerings including pork, shrimp, chicken, and vegetable.
With a menu offering 18 small plates meant for sharing (plus one large format plate meant to feed two to four people), Jeff Osaka's new iteration of his celebrated restaurant is ideal for dining with... READ MORE
Experience innovative, contemporary cuisine featuring local ingredients, plus fresh seafood, steak, and game. Stop by for lunch and try one of their popular burger options.
Boston-born chef Kevin Kidd brings fresh and local products from Oxford Gardens, Isabelle Farm, as well as the restaurant's own farm to this garden-driven restaurant. Customer favorites include the... READ MORE
This upscale, upbeat restaurant serves continental American food, including seafood, pastas, and wood-fired pizzas. Try the chicken fried lobster tail with lemon-chive whipped potatoes and tarragon... READ MORE
Located inside the Streets of London pub, this spot tosses New York-style pies starting at $2.75 a slice. Try a Neapolitan pie with tomato sauce, crispy crust, and your choice of toppings.
All-natural beef, bison, and turkey burgers on fresh buns crafted by an in-house baker. Try the signature 5280 burger, a classic topped with American cheese, lettuce, tomato, onion, and special sauce... READ MORE
This USDA Prime steakhouse also offers seafood options and family-style sides for sharing.
You get more than just sushi at this innovative fusion restaurant. Choose between the American bistro kitchen and the sushi kitchen. Enjoy tapas, chicken, pasta, seafood and sushi while sipping a... READ MORE
This Five-Points eatery serves up both soul food (try the fried pork with mac n' cheese) and traditional Haitian dishes (go for the goat with fried plaintains and rice).


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Movie SummaryMurder! (1939)
Description: Creaky, formative Hitchcock concerns the director's No. 1 cinematic preoccupation: guilt and innocence. A juror (Herbert Marshall) who helped convict a young actress (Norah Baring) of murder has second thoughts and sets out to find the real culprit, The story unfolds in basic '30s whodunit fashion. What's important are the glimpses of Hitch's emerging style: the shadow of a noose on a prison wall, a circus suicide. Movie summaries and listings powered by Cinema-Source
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Benjy Sarlin | Talking Points Memo
President Obama addressed the American public on national television from Kabul, Afghanistan Tuesday on the one-year anniversary of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, describing a plan to "finish the job we started in Afghanistan, and end this war responsibly."
His remarks pointed to a near future in which the two generation-defining wars in Iraq and Afghanistan launched in the wake of the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, were finally over.
"My fellow Americans, we have traveled through more than a decade under the dark cloud of war," he said, standing in front of a pair of desert-camouflaged military vehicles. "Yet here, in the pre-dawn darkness of Afghanistan, we can see the light of a new day on the horizon. The Iraq War is over. The number of our troops in harm's way has been cut in half, and more will be coming home soon. We have a clear path to fulfill our mission in Afghanistan, while delivering justice to al Qaeda."
Obama, who arrived for a surprise visit earlier in the day Tuesday, outlined a newly signed agreement with Afghan President Hamid Karzai that will allow U.S. forces to work in concert with the Afghan military past their scheduled 2014 withdrawal. But Obama assured that "we will not build permanent bases in this country nor will we be patrolling in cities and mountains." American troop levels are currently undergoing a phased drawdown after Obama ordered a surge early in his presidency to help the fledgling Afghan government build up strength.
According to Obama, "the goal that I set to defeat al Qaeda and deny it a chance to rebuild is now within our reach," thanks to a series of operations culminating in Bin Laden's death that devastated the terrorist's leadership. Still, he warned of "difficult days ahead" while the military protects its gains in Afghanistan
Obama described a five-point strategy that he said would ensure a secure Afghanistan with the capability to deny al Qaeda a safe haven from which to plot their attacks. Elements of the plan included a transition to U.S.-trained Afghan forces taking over combat operations and negotiations with Taliban forces in which they would agree to renounce violence and any ties to al Qaeda and accept the legitimacy and laws of the Afghan government.
"As we emerge from a decade of conflict abroad and economic crisis at home, it is time to renew America," Obama said. "An America where our children live free from fear, and have the skills to claim their dreams. A united America of grit and resilience, where sunlight glistens off soaring new towers in downtown Manhattan, and we build our future as one people, as one nation."
Obama's visit and address comes as his re-election campaign is engaged in an effort to claim credit for the raid that killed bin Laden's death and raise doubts about whether Republican rival Mitt Romney would have ordered the mission. Romney insists that "even Jimmy Carter" would have taken out bin Laden if given the opportunity, and Republicans have objected fiercely to the Democratic attacks. Nonetheless, some of his fiercest Republican critics, most notably John McCain, told reporters ahead of his televised speech that they approved of Obama thanking the troops in person on an important date in military history.
A senior administration official swatted down a question from a reporter on whether the Afghan trip represented "craven politics," saying on a conference call before Obama's address that the White House and Afghan President Hamid Karzai had long planned to sign a status agreement ahead of a May 20 NATO summit in Chicago. Doing so in Afghanistan, marking the one-year anniversary of bin Laden's death, was a natural choice, the official said. The official noted that the date was "resonant" not only for Americans, but for Afghans for whom the terrorist leader and his Taliban hosts "brought great suffering."


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Who is here? I can't even find our team thread on RWOL.
July 27 - San Francisco marathon
^ raises hand and quickly ducks back to the quiet safety of listening & learning
< raises hand and quickly ducks back to the quiet safety of listening & learning
Dad on the run.
I'm here!!
My parents said I could be anything when I grew up, so I decided to be Awesome!
I think I also saw Nathan and Phil on other threads here. What do you think, should we move the team thread here or leave it on RWOL?
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Hi team! It's great to see you all here! Julie, I'm usually not on the interwebs between 3:30 and 7:00 PM because that is drive home and run time.
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I think RWOL is kicking themselves for things getting this bad. Seems a crap ton of people have jumped ship!
I actually tried to go over there and post in this thread the other day. I got to page 9 and gave up.
It's pretty bad when using Google search works better than going to the actual forums.
It's pretty bad when using Google search works better than going to the actual forums. http://forums.runnersworld.com/forums/runner-communities/beginners/sole-train-cmon-ride-train-february?plckForumPostOnPage=54
Looks like nobody has posted in that thread since last week. Not surprising, really.
Anyway, I did three miles on the TM last night. Hoping to do another three tonight.
You Rang?
I'm here! I've changed my user name, but kept the same avitar photo. I'd contemplated changing my name on RWOL, but this seemed like the logical time to do it.
PR: 5k 25:01 (10/15) 10k: 57:44 (7/14) HM: 1:57 (5/15) FM: 4:55 (1/15)
hop, hop, hop...
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PRs: 5K - 27:43, 10K - 57:14, HM - 2:06:18, FM - 5:22:42
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I was supposed to run three miles last night, but bailed. My parents are still in town for the Thanksgiving holiday. We went out for dinner, I had a glass of wine, and my motivation just went out the window. We are going out again tonight, so I doubt I will make up the miles today. Argh. Stupid holidays really put a crimp in my running.


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Rupert and Henry Stansall's amalgamation of their forenames to become the Ruen Brothers is the only aspect of their flourishing music career that's going to earn them a Jedward comparison. Otherwise its all Roy Orbison vocals and Walker Brothers turtlenecks.
Their dramatic Sixties wall of sound is nothing new but sounds tremendous. Their debut song Aces is ace, and the new single Walk Like a Man's mix of twanging guitars and savage harmonica is a real thrill.
The pair have been playing around the pubs of Scunthorpe since 2008 but it's only this year, in the wake of the similarly retro Jake Bugg's success, that they've taken off, signing a major label deal with Universal-Island.
Fresh from the BBC Introducing stage at Glastonbury, they've just announced a London show at Electrowerkz on July 15. (0870 264 3333, seetickets.com/event/ruen-brothers/electrowerkz-islington-london/712688)
Hear them on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/ruenbrothers
Buy Walk Like a Man single: itunes.apple.com/gb/album/walk-like-a-man-single/id624726644
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A nice alternative to traditional pie, this layered pumpkin dessert is a big hit during the holidays. I get many requests to bring it to gatherings.
57 Bake Sale Recipes That'll Earn Big Bucks
- 1-3/4 cups graham cracker crumbs
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup butter, melted
- 1 package (8 ounces) cream cheese, softened
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 2 eggs
- 2 cups cold milk
- 2 packages (3.4 ounces each) instant vanilla pudding mix
- 1 can (15 ounces) solid-pack pumpkin
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 carton (8 ounces) frozen whipped topping, thawed, divided
- 1/4 cup chopped pecans, optional
- In a bowl, combine the graham cracker crumbs, sugar and butter. Press into an ungreased 13-in. x 9-in. baking dish. Refrigerate for 30 minutes.
- In a small bowl, beat cream cheese and sugar until smooth. Beat in eggs. Spoon over crust. Bake at 350° for 18-22 minutes or until edges are lightly browned and center is set. Cool completely on a wire rack.
- In a large bowl, beat milk and pudding mixes for 2 minutes. Beat in pumpkin and cinnamon. Fold in 1 cup whipped topping. Spread over filling. Carefully spread with remaining whipped topping. Sprinkle with pecans if desired. Cover and refrigerate for at least 1 hour before serving. Yield: 12-16 servings.
Originally published as Pumpkin Chiffon Dessert in Country Woman Christmas
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Better data allows for better negotiations.
In October 2015, the JOC Inland Distribution Conference will take place in Memphis. Ernest Strickland, Memphis Chamber's Vice President of International and Business Partnerships, discusses the city's access and connectivity — unbeatable road, river rail and runway — and why the area is drawing the commercial/office sector as well as logistics and warehouse distribution operations. |
With existing deep water and infrastructure receiving further investment, The Port of Virginia is ahead of many ports in its readiness to handle larger vessels, notes Chief Sales Officer Tom Capozzi. At TPM 2015 he spoke to JOC about increased traffic to the East Coast, Suez services, truck congestion and plans for attracting new cargo groups. |
"We're seeing a gravitational pull toward railroad-related developments … [what has been] happening at the West Coast ports has been accentuating that even more," says NAI Global Logistics' Director Adam Roth. At TPM 2015, Roth comments on increased pressure on intermodal, evolving needs of the shipping community and expected changes to industrial real estate strategies as a result of this year's labor disruptions at West Coast ports and to combat the driver shortages. |
In July, Jon Slangerup joined California's Port of Long Beach as CEO, bringing more than 30 years of corporate leadership experience in global logistics and environmental technology. At JOC's TPM 2015, he discussed the great opportunity he sees in using emerging technology to radically redesign the fragmented supply chain process, end to end, as well as port congestion and POLB's innovative undertaking in energy generation. |
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The Ballad Of Cynthia Ann
Both grimness and beauty touch this haunting fragment of America's past
April 1956 | Volume 7, Issue 3
The tribe was, in those days, the whirlwind itself, possessed of the greatest horsemen in history. Greater, said old cavalry officers, than Arabs or Bedouins or Cossacks. It was they, perhaps, who were first of the red men to master horses—beasts descended from strayed or stolen mounts of the Spaniards. From the moment that the Comanche leaped to the back of that mustang, he changed from the clumsiest Indian afoot into the "red knight of the plains."
With horses, the Comanches' striking power was fluid as the Llano wind. The West Point style of cavalry charge was useless against a foe who could hang by his heels while galloping, and shoot arrows under the horse's neck so fast that he could keep eight of them in the air all the time. The Texas Ranger could get in at most three shots—one from a rifle and one each from a brace of pistols—before he had to reload. In the sixty seconds needed for that, a Comanche horseman could close in for the kill.
It was in horses that a Comanche counted his wealth; racing he thought the one sport worthy of a man. Squaws, too, rode like wild spirits of the air; they too could hang by their heels, vault up again to the saddle, or spring from one galloping steed to another. The horse lifted the Comanche woman from a beast of burden to a mate, mounted and proud and free, whose bride-price had been paid by her suitor in those very animals that made of him a red half-god, a centaur out of myth. … That was how Peta Nakona, young chief of the Kwahadi band of Comanches, obtained Cynthia Ann from her red foster parents when she would have been about fifteen years old.
In 1851, some Texan travelers fell in with the Kwahadi band along the upper Canadian River. They stared long at the hair of the young chief's wife; it was straight as an Indian's, smelling of the lodge fires, but yellow, yellow. Her skin was tanned to leathery brown; in her eyes, when they questioned her, there was no gleam of recognition. Not even at the name of Cynthia Ann Parker. She was Preloch now (say the ch hard, as in the Scottish loch ). No, she answered in Comanche, she had no desire to return to her white relatives, to leave her two swarthy little sons, and her good husband.
I know, I know. It doesn't fit at all with the tengallon legend. It's right in the script that any white woman would spurn the embrace of a no-account, redhanded, scalp-lifting Indian varmint. And the fairhaired girl is always rescued by the Lone Ranger.
All right. I'll play you the banjo tune for a minute—and I'll be telling the truth. That's just what happened.
The Kwahadi band—so went the Texan tune—had to be punished. They'd been raiding; the frontier was aflame. So, in December of 1860, 47 Rangers, under the command of Captain Sul Ross, took the field in vengeance. Joining them was a handful of settlers and cowboys, and 23 dragoons, fight-loving Irishmen. In all, they made a motley force of some eighty, in every kind of uniform or duds, on every sort of mount.
United in their enmity, these outfits had their own ways of fighting; when it came to a scalp-lifting, you couldn't always tell a Texas settler from a Comanche; the dragoons shot squaws as soon as bucks. (Harsh truth drowns out the banjo.) And the Rangers had at last got Colt six-shooters. They were the first to use the Colt on the Comanches, and with it they turned the whole tide of Indian warfare. Now it was they, not the red centaurs, who charged, and their in-fighting was so close they powder-burned the coppery skins.
Thus, on the morning of December 19, the end was clear in the beginning, when the whites surprised the Kwahadi camp on the desolate banks of the Pease. It was the same end, of course, as that which had come to Fort Parker. The Comanches fled, as the Baptists had fled, larruping their wild-eyed ponies, toppling, under the leaden hail, sideways or backwards with a last crazy salute of upflung hands. Only one figure, crouched low on an iron-gray mount, was pacing the wind. She outraced the Rangers, all but outran the bullets, until at their whine around her ears she reined, plunging, and lifted high above her head a swaddled babe, hostage to surrender, pledge of her womanhood.
So they took her. Took her first to Camp Cooper, where the officers' wives were kindly pitying, and cooed over Tautaijah, the tiny red baby. They improved the Indian syllables into Topsannah, and declared it meant "Prairie Flower." (You know how we make up the Indian's poetry for him, to fit our Longfellow notions.) To poor Cynthia Ann Parker they showed every Christian charity—and met the glare of Preloch, a caged female whose mate and cubs were still out in the wild. Twice she stole a horse and with her babe in her arms streaked as only a Comanche could for the open. But the cavalry did its job; she was always brought back. Everybody concerned was glad when Senator (and Colonel) Isaac Parker came and took his niece and her child away.
He brought her home, to the piny eastern part of Texas, to her younger brother Dan Parker's house in Athens.


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Directs the staff and programs of the cardiology department. Works closely with hospital staff, department directors, and physicians to ensure the highest standards of quality and service are maintained. Writes and updates procedures and manuals and reviews annually to ensure that employees have current information needed to perform tests and procedures. Requires a master's degree in a related area and at least 7 years of experience in the field. Familiar with a variety of the field's concepts, practices, and procedures. Relies on extensive experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals. Performs a variety of complex tasks. Leads and directs the work of others. A wide degree of creativity and latitude is required. Typically reports to an executive. View full job description
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First, we can't do this anonomously. It's unethical. If we contact the media on behalf of Company X, we tell them immediately that we're calling on behalf of that company. Believe it or not, we have been asked to contact the media anonomously with negative things to say about a client's competitor without letting journalists know who is paying us to do it. By the same token, we can't say wonderful things about a client without revealing that we're being paid, either.
There has been a lot of this type of behavior in social media in recent years, since the Internet is thought to provide anonymity. Some unscrupulous agencies and their equally unscrupulous clients have been caught posting fake complimentary reviews as well as fake negative reviews of competitors, naturally not identifying themselves. This is a serious ethical violation and also illegal, and it can be discovered. New York State regulators announced last year that they had caught companies and agencies they hired posting fake reviews and were fining them tens of thousands of dollars each. Read this article in the New York Times if you want to know the sordid details. Consumers need to be skeptical when it comes to online reviews and comments. For tips about how to spot a fake review, take a look at this very good article in Mashable earlier this year.
There are honest companies that openly criticize their competitors, not resorting to fake reviews. But just because they're doing it openly and honestly doesn't mean it works well for them. It usually sounds like sour grapes.It's all about building trust and credibility. The most important thing anyone can do to make a sale is to establish a trusting relationship with the client.
Compare, Don't Criticize
It's natural for customers to compare products. They're looking for the best quality as well as the best value. There's nothing wrong with comparing your products with your competitors'. But there are acceptable and unacceptable ways to do that. It's acceptable to give a side by side comparison of features, for example. This is factual communication, not criticism.
The Business World Can Be a Jungle
Life isn't fair. You may have the best product in the world, but that isn't enough to succeed. You've got to get across the benefits of your product to a wide audience.
One of our clients was the first to market with a great product. The company spent money on marketing for the product's launch, but the budget wasn't exactly generous. While the result wasn't overnight fame and fortune for the founders, for a small startup with a low budget, we were able to generate quite a lot of media coverage. A couple of years went by and all went well until a new company sprang up with a very similar product. The new company had a huge amount of backing, hundreds of millions of dollars, and spent much, much more than our client. There were ads everywhere and the public relations budget must have been quite rich. Our client told us that the new company's product had some significant weaknesses, which most media either overlooked, didn't know or didn't understand. Our client wanted to aggressively attack the new competitor to let potential customrs know about these faults. We advised the CEO and CMO to stay the course and talk about their own product's own strengths. They did this, but they didn't spend anywhere near the money getting their message out as the newcomer did.
Unfortunately for our client, the new company become an overnight sensation.
Our client continued to do OK, but in comparison, the newcomer was minting money. You remember the race between the hare and the tortoise? The moral of that story was, "Slow and steady wins the race." However, in the world of business, the first to market has an opportunity to build a reputation based on the novelty and newsworthiness of the product, but it has to be done fast, before a competitor with deep pockets comes along and steals the limelight.
What if our client had aggressively attacked the new competitor? It wouldn't have been effective in slowing the sales of the competitor. Even though the company was first to market and was making good progress, the marketing budget had been insuffient for the company's product to become well-known. Even if criticism of the competitor did prove to deter people from buying the product, the company's messages about their own product weren't spreading as widely or as quickly as their competitor's product messages. Unless the client greatly increased the marketing budget, there wasn't much that could be done to stop the newcomer from winning the race.
The law of the business jungle: generous backing counts a lot. If you don't care about the other reasons not to attack your competitor, at least think about the above example and assess the resources you'll have to use just to be heard. You're much better off spending your efforts building your products and correcting their weaknesses rather than trying to tear down the competition.By: Lucy Siegel


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The Home of Sebastien Foucan and his Academy
Sebastien Foucan is the founder and pioneer of Freerunning. Sebastien has a deep belief in the philosophies of freerunning and its connection with natural environment and seasons of the year. Well known for being part of the iconic opening scene on top of a crane in James Bond's Casino Royale, Sebastien is also an accomplished inspirational speaker. He is a global ambassador for the Freerunning discipline and has established his own Foucan Freerunning Academy to pass on his ethos and skills.


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I tested the Seagate GoFlex Desk Thunderbolt adapter with a 4TB GoFlex drive-- the two effectively form a GoFlex Desk Thunderbolt drive--and it performed really well.
Similar to other single-volume Thunderbolt drives, such as the Elgato Thunderbolt SSD, the GoFlex Desk Thunderbolt drive was put through two sets of tests. In the first set, I compared its performance with that of internal drives, including traditional hard drives and solid-state drives (SSDs). In the second set, the drive was stacked up against other popular external devices that use USB 3.0, USB 2.0, FireWire, and eSATA connections. All tests were done with a 2011 MacBook Pro running OS X Lion, on a SATA 3 (6Gbps) SSD.
For the first set of tests, I used the Pegasus R6 connected to the GoFlex Desk Thunderbolt drive and benchmarked how fast the portable drive transferred data to and from the Thunderbolt partner. In this test, the GoFlex Desk Thunderbolt drive registered 131MBps, faster than the Elgato, which is based on an SSD. When the R6 was removed from the chain and the Seagate Thunderbolt drive worked by itself, doing both reading and writing at the same time, it scored 69MBps, faster than the 60GB of the LaCie 2big Thunderbolt.
In the second set of tests, where I transferred data back and forth between the Seagate Thunderbolt drive and the test computer, it scored 130MBps and 147MBps for writing and reading, respectively; by far faster than any non-Thunderbolt storage device and on par with other single-volume Thunderbolt devices.
In my anecdotal tests with other internal drives, including hard drives and SSDs, the Seagate Thunderbolt adapter also offered excellent performance.
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M.T. seems like the typical American teenager. She has a guy she's interested, friends, a social life, and gets excellent grades. M.T. also has a big secret -- she's an undocumented immigrant.
Though this huge part of M.T.'s life has been fairly easy to hide through high school, her life as a senior has thrust everything into a tailspin. Her friends don't understand why she won't get her driver's license or why she constantly avoids any talk of applying to colleges, and when her roll in the Honor Society necessitates the planning of a trip abroad, M.T. knows she's in trouble.
I totally saw myself in this girl. She was me in high school. The grades, the friends, Honor Society, etc. Her story completely opened my eyes to a whole new perspective of what some teens are handed and forced to deal with throughout their high school years, due to circumstances beyond their own control. I can't imagine being in M.T.'s position, though I definitely appreciated the author forcing me to feel that way. She's a typical teen...except, she's not.
I was uncomfortable while reading this book and I think that was a necessary feeling to truly grasp the emotional nature of M.T.'s story. I could't put it down once I started reading and needed to know what happened to this girl who reminded me so much of my younger self.
The subject is timely and the character realistic and easy to connect to. Maria Andreu is a debut author and I look forward to whatever she writes next. Highly recommended.
Thanks to Running Press for the review copy.


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Astronaut Chris Hadfield wins over fans back on Earth
23 April 2013 Last updated at 14:19 BST
Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield has been on the International Space Station since December 2012 and in command of the vessel since March. During that time he has built up a loyal fan base back on Earth thanks to his Twitter feed of comments, photos and videos showing what life is like in space.
Stephen Smith reports for Newsnight on a new galactic superstar.


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According to StreetInsider, Barclays (NYSE:BCS) analyst David Gagliano isn't very bullish on the coal sector. In fact, it's almost …. well bearish.
"Our channel checks in recent weeks have led us to conclude the metallurgical coal markets are in worse condition than most investors expect, with risk of yet another round of significant downward estimate revisions increasingly likely … To this end, while underlying prices have collapsed to 'marginal cost' levels, we maintain our view it is still too early to buy the coals in a meaningful way, until prices stabilize and until estimate revisions catch up with the ongoing rapid deterioration in the met coal markets."
As the presidential candidates battle it out trying to outdo one another on how they'll turn the U.S into an "energy independent" powerhouse regarding oil and gas, the coal industry ponders its own dark future, and investors wonder whether to bail on their stock holdings.
And it's no wonder: While energy behemoths like Exxon (NYSE:XOM), Chevron (NYSE:CVX) and Royal Dutch Shell (NYSE:RDS.A, RDS.B) climb ever higher in both profits and stock appreciation, coal shares are sinking lower at every point on the charts.
Consider the percentage stock price losses among industry leaders Consol (NYSE:CNX), Alpha Natural Resources (NYSE:ANR), Peabody Energy (NYSE:BTU) and Arch Coal (NYSE:ACI), which InvestorPlace Editor Jeff Reeves picked as a buy in May, on the theory that Arch was oversold:
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Not a pretty picture.
Avi Salzman in Barron's penned a piece outlining some of the industry's problems: lack of demand as users go to, in some cases, cheaper oil and natural gas. Power plants themselves have switched over to natural gas. Indeed, according to data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration, domestic output will decline by 81 million tons in 2012.
In addition, tougher regulations imposed by the Environmental Protection Agency are making life difficult for the industry.
It's a tough one-two punch, particularly for coal producers that have exposure to what's called metallurgical coal, the type used to make steel, which fits Peabody and Alpha to a tee. Slowing demand for steel in China and Europe exacerbates an already tough position.
It's not going any more easily for Consol, which announced it will temporarily shut down its Buchanan mine in southwestern Virginia and a portion of its Amonate Mining Complex in southern West Virginia. The shutdowns are expected to last between 30 to 60 days.
And on the extreme end of the spectrum, Patriot Coal (PINK:PCXCQ) filed for bankruptcy protection in July.
On the plus side, the industry won a court battle against the EPA earlier this month, as a federal appeals court ruled against the agency's cross-state air pollution rule. According to Marketwire, the court stated that the EPA had overstepped its authority and imposed "massive emissions reduction requirements" that were too strict. That's at least one win for the beaten-down sector.
Make no mistake, however: Coal is still a critical industry. The EIA points out that coal accounts for 42% of all electricity generated in the U.S. Regulatory restraints are consistently under scrutiny and being challenged. And in states like West Virginia, which generates $63 billion in revenues and 63,000 jobs in the industry, coal is THE vital energy program.
But overall the news is not very good, and the wins will come only slowly if at all when it comes to regulations. So, I can't find too much to make a case for jumping into the sector anytime soon, meaning in the foreseeable future.
The industry will survive, but my sense at this point is that Patriot won't be the only canary that doesn't survive. Investors should be very cautious if they want to mine this sector.
Marc Bastow is an assistant editor at InvestorPlace.com. As of this writing he's long XOM.


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Whether your dog is an obedient senior citizen or an unruly adolescent, Family Friend Dog School and Agility Place, LLC helps you develop a positive and effective working partnership. We offer an alternative to forceful training methods, encouraging dogs to perform behaviors because they want to, not because they have to.
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Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Poetry
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The Poet Resigns: Poetry in a Difficult Time. Author. Akron: University of Akron Press, 2013.
Letters of Blood and Other English Works by Göran Printz-Påhlson. Editor. Cambridge: Open Book, 2011.
Laureates and Heretics. Author. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2010.
The &NOW Awards. Co-Editor. Chicago: &NOW Books, 2009.
Home and Variations. Author. Cambridge: Salt, 2004.
Vectors: New Poetics. Editor. Chicago: Samizdat, 2001.
Word Play Place. Editor. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1998.
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My friends at Cisco's TechWiseTV have taken MDM to heart and have offered some keen insight from a geek's POV (point of view) into MDM. Starting with a primer on MDM, Networking 101: MDM, Jimmy Ray answers the questions on what is MDM and what can it do for my organization in his entertaining and educational white board approach.
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Richard Youngs: Making Paper
Richard Youngs' first three-song "full-length" release shone down like a beacon from above. It opened with a chorus of tape hiss and a patently English-sounding piano. Eventually there was a British man pleading in song for mercy, for pardon, or, at the very least, for conviction to a lesser charge. This was ADVENT and it was 1990. Youngs had just introduced himself to the universe at large through his No Fans label.Fast forward to the New Year, 2000. Youngs is back on the stool, this time in Edinburgh, Scotland, with long-time collaborator Brian Lavelle engineering. Youngs has another three songs in him, and they show him to be a much wizened, more patient man. Distilled to only piano and vocals, the album is epic to say the least. Opening with "Warriors", a 19-minute journey the size of Scotland, the song pleads, "Warriors see through battle lines." The second song, "The World Is Silence In Your Head", is vintage Youngs fare, offering further evidence that there is significant kinship between him and the ranks of the late-60's to early-70's progressive rock set such as Peter Hammill and his Van Der Graaf Generator, as well as first wave Yes and King Crimson. The song is as sprawling and imaginative in its mythology as the most inspired of prog's deep canon ever got. Yet it tells the tale in less than three minutes and with only one phrase and one instrument, with unprecedented clarity and precision -- not to mention poesy. Certainly it warrants that Youngs be crowned the king of the progressive minimalists. He preys on the most meditative tendencies in each of us, and he finds the essence in each of his songs (throwing out the rest) which endeavours to put erstwhile listeners in a trance-like state.


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Takeover Bid Adds Up for Diebold
United Technologies (UTX) got tired of being rebuffed by the chairman of Diebold's (DBD) board and on Feb. 29 made an unsolicited offer to purchase all of Diebold's outstanding shares for $40 per share, or about $3.0 billion. Diebold's board met Monday morning and rejected the proposal, saying it significantly undervalues the company and doesn't recognize Diebold's growth potential.
It's fair to assume United Technologies won't be put off so easily and may do an end run around the Board by making a tender offer directly to Diebold shareholders.
A spokesman for United Technologies wouldn't comment on the next move except to say, "We are well advised by Morgan Stanley and we fully understand our options."
The news sent Diebold shares soaring 61% to 38.84 on Mar. 3, while UTC shares finished 1.6% lower at 69.40.
"It's not very often you get a 60% premium," says Paul Nisbet, an analyst at JSA Research in Newport, R.I., referring to the $40-per-share offer. "I can see [Diebold's board] may continue resisting here a bit, but it seems to me a majority of their shareholders are going to be putting pressure on them" to accept the buyout offer.
Shareholders could be tempted by the bid given Diebold's own gloomy outlook for construction of new bank branches and expectations that its ATM and security service revenue will be flat to down 5% in 2008. A U.S. recession would further damage Diebold's near-term prospects. Shareholders may also be growing impatient with Diebold's lack of financial reporting since the first quarter of 2007 due to an ongoing investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) of the company's methods for recognizing revenue.
That seems to have been United Technologies' objective in describing its two-year campaign to meet with Diebold's board and in publishing the last few rounds of communication between the chairmen of the two companies. In the most recent letter, Diebold Chairman John Lauer refused to meet with United Technologies' top management to discuss a possible combination.
After the market close on Mar. 3, Diebold said in a release that it would delay filing its fourth-quarter financial results with the SEC and plans to complete its internal accounting review before it resumes reporting of financial results on a regular basis. The review is expected to be finished by the end of the second quarter of 2008.
In February, Diebold provided a preliminary estimate of its revised 2007 revenue of $2.95 billion, up 0.7% from a revised estimate of $2.93 billion for 2006. The North Canton, Ohio-based company also projected revenue growth of 6% to 8% to around $43.0 billion this year.
Meanwhile, some analysts are wondering how United Technologies would benefit from acquiring Diebold, which generates more than two-thirds of its revenue from ATMs – a business that United Technologies is not in. Most analysts agree that Diebold's security business would help United Technologies expand its fire and security division, which has been built entirely from acquisitions over the past five years.
While there's very little overlap between the two companies' products, there are parallels between the 50%-50% split in Diebold's equipment and service revenues and the mix in United Technologies' Otis elevator unit, Goldman Sachs said in a Mar. 3 research note.
"We see the largest growth prospects in emerging markets, where Diebold is the No. 2 vendor of ATMs in India and China and No. 3 in Russia," Goldman analyst Deane Dray said in the note. She said the size of the bid is consistent with "the company's typical $2 billion annual placeholder for acquisitions." (Goldman Sachs does and seeks to do business with the companies covered in its research reports.)
In a Mar. 3 research note, Credit Suisse Equity Research expressed doubts about the proposed deal, citing the difficulty of accurately valuing Diebold's stock because of the lack of audited financial reports for the past year.
(Credit Suisse does and seeks to do business with companies covered in its research reports.)
Diebold may appear attractive from a cost/margin perspective -- assuming the depressed margins between 6% and 7% can rebound to the 20-year average of 12.1% -- and the revenue mix between equipment and services, Credit Suisse said. Given deterioration in the banking sector, which makes up more than 60% of Diebold's revenue, and the company's focus on the U.S., which is probably entering a recession, Credit Suisse questioned where the growth would come from.
"We weren't expecting incoming CEO Louis Chenevert's first big deal to be a North American-centric manufacturer of ATMs, safe deposit boxes and voting systems with relatively uninspiring growth prospects in the near term," Credit Suisse analyst Nicole Parent wrote in a note. Parent, who has a market weight rating on the stock, said a deal would slightly reduce United Technologies' 2009 profits at the current offer price.
Not everyone was as skeptical, however. To make the offer, United Technologies must be confident that Diebold's operating margin has the potential to return to 10% or more over time, Jefferies & Co. analyst Howard Rubel said in a note on Mar. 3.
Rubel predicted that an acquisition would boost United Technologies' revenue for its Fire and Security business to around $10 billion and an expanded presence in the U.S. While United Technologies' earnings wouldn't get a lift in the first year, they could gain five to 10 cents per share in the second year, he said. Rubel has a buy rating on UTC and analyst Yvonne Varano rates Diebold a buy.
Whatever his doubts about the fit between the companies' product lines, Nisbet at JSA Research said he doesn't question United Technologies' ability to turn around a business and make it much more efficient and profitable. At 21 times Diebold's estimated 2008 earnings of $1.92 per share, the $40-per-share offer is expensive, but it's reasonably priced at about 11 times Diebold's free cash flow, he said. He has a buy rating on United Technologies.
Nisbet adds that it's unlikely United Technologies is considering other acquisitions for now, as "this will keep them busy for a while."
Whether Diebold's board bows to any pressure from shareholders, United Technologies' offer may very well encourage competing bids from other players, and push up the takeover price.


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Lalo Alcaraz, award-winning editorial cartoonist and Latino journalist, captures the essence of the country's changing cultural and political landscape. Alcaraz's work appears in newspapers around the country, including LA Weekly and La Opinion.
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Nick Anderson of the Houston Chronicle is an avowed independent who covers politics and contemporary cultural issues in a way that connects with readers. His loose, idiosyncratic style carries with it an unconventional message that has broad appeal. "I approach my work with a healthy skepticism for the ideological extremists littering our political landscape," explains Anderson.
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Featuring political comics by Michael Andrew.
Michael Andrew
Clever and unpredictable, two-time Pulitzer finalist Robert Ariail skewers politicians on both sides of the ideological fence with award-winning cartoons drawn for the Spartanburg, S.C., Herald-Journal.
Robert Ariail
From Ann Coulter to aspiring Hollywood starlets, to The Da Vinci Code, to President Bush, this comic puts is own spin on current events not limited to the world of politics. Bad reporters like Jayson Blair and Stephen Glass blurring the lines between fact and fiction, Bad Reporter promises to expose "the lies behind the truth, and the truth behind those lies that are behind that truth."
Bad Reporter
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Darrin Bell challenges social, political and cultural assumptions. His award-winning work navigates issues such as civil rights, pop culture, family, science fiction, scriptural wisdom and nihilist philosophy while often casting subjects in roles that are traditionally denied them. According to Darrin, "I cast against type to tell dynamic stories, of people who're bold enough and secure enough to challenge preconceptions. I depict that as the true legacy of America, in everything from its explorers, to its democratic-republican form of government, to its civil rights struggle, to its injection of mankind into space, to its musical innovations. There's nothing more fundamentally all-American than a square peg that insists on filling a round hole." Darrin also creates the comic strips Candorville and Rudy Park.
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A nominated finalist for the Pulitzer 6 times since 1999, Chattanooga Times Free Press cartoonist Clay Bennett won the Prize in 2002. He has also earned just about every other editorial cartoon award there is, including the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, the John Fischetti Editorial Cartoon Competition, the Overseas Press Club's Thomas Nast Award, the National Headliner Award, the Society of Professional Journalists' Sigma Delta Chi Award, the National Journalism Award from the Scripps Howard Foundation, and the National Cartoonists Society Division Award for Best Editorial Cartoons. Bennett was also named Editorial Cartoonist of the Year by Editor & Publisher magazine in 2001.
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Mix a snifter of Bill Mauldin, a dash of Jeff McNelly and a very large dollop of common sense, and you begin to get an idea of Lisa Benson's considerable talent.
Lisa Benson
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning in 1993, Steve Benson has been a lightning rod for more than 20 years as the staff editorial cartoonist for The Arizona Republic. Benson sums up his career best: "I don't aim to please. I just aim."
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The 1980s was a truly classic period in comic strip history. The decade of spiked hair and shoulder pads introduced us to brilliantly off-the-wall The Far Side, the timeless antics of Calvin and Hobbes, and the sociopolitical brilliance of Bloom County. All of these strips were retired at the height of their popularity by their award-winning creators, and fans have hoped ever since to talk them back into syndication with heaps of fan mail and social media begging, all for naught. Until now. Berkeley Breathed has talked himSELF out of retirement after Donald Trump threw his hat into an overpopulated ring of hopefuls for the Republican presidential nomination. Inspired by Trump's promise to "make America great again," Breathed is making the comics page great again with Bloom County 2015. Bloom County's Opus, Milo, Bill the Cat and all of the residents of Bloom House are back and they aren't wasting a minute mocking the Republican campaign's greatest bloviator and a renewed national ridiculousness. Bloom County is the tale of the residents of Bloom House, a boarding house run by the parents of worldly 10-year-old newspaper reporter Milo Bloom. Boarders include Opus, Steve, Bill the Cat, Portnoy, Oliver Wendell Jones and more. Together, these characters parodied presidential campaigns, the Parents Music Resource Center, labor unions, the war on drugs, and The Donald -- no one was off limits. After his 25-year hiatus, "Silliness suddenly seems safe now," said Breathed.
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"Chip" Bok has been the staff editorial cartoonist for the Akron Beacon Journal since 1987. Through Creators Syndicate, his cartoons appear in over 100 publications, including the Chicago Tribune, Washington Post, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Time, and Newsweek. He is also a regular contributing cartoonist for Reason magazine and serves as a member of the steering committee for The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press in Arlington, Virginia.
Chip Bok
Meet Aaron McGruder's The Boondocks: Huey and Riley Freeman, Jazmine DuBois, and Huey's best friend, Caesar. This comic strip reflects the racial diversity and complexity of our world. Combining Huey's childish antics with contemporary political and social satire, the strip explores the terrain where dashikis and Brand Nubian CDs meet The Gap and Hanson.
The Boondocks
Aaron McGruder
From recession woes to social networking, Matt Bors' cartoons dissect and satirize the ways of the world to make readers think and laugh about the real issues affecting them.
Matt Bors
Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Steve Breen is fast developing a reputation for provocative political cartoons that have captured the attention of some of the nation's premier publications. His cartoons regularly appear in The New York Times, USA Today, Newsweek and US News and World Report. His comic strip, Grand Avenue, appears in more than 150 newspapers across the country.
Steve Breen
A self-described liberal, award-winning editorial cartoonist Chris Britt nevertheless delights in skewering deserving politicians of every persuasion. Britt's sardonic, biting cartoons are sometimes controversial, often outrageous and always thought-provoking.
Chris Britt
Darrin Bell's Candorville is an insightful look at family, community and race through the eyes of Lemont Brown, a young black writer. Bell pulls no punches and delves into even the most controversial of issues. The wit and humor of the strip will draw you in.
Darrin Bell
Award-winning editorial cartoons that blend humor and artistry to deliver serious social commentary.
Stuart Carlson
Ken Catalino is a conservative cartoonist who is happiest puncturing balloons filled with the lightweight gas of liberal idealism. This doesn't prevent him from criticizing conservatives on occasion, if reason and rationality are violated
Ken Catalino
Jeff Danziger provides a scathing international take on politics, finance, and everything else you aren't allowed to discuss at the dinner table. Combining spot-on caricatures with razor-sharp writing, this feature will make you listen a little more closely to what they tell you on the news.
Jeff Danziger
A Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist, Davies cuts to the chase on every major issue, deftly penetrating the spin and obfuscation to show readers what's really at the heart. His caustic wit combines with a strong moral sensibility to render the complex comprehensible.
Matt Davies
John Deering has been the editorial cartoonist for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette since 1988. John won the John Fischetti Editorial Cartooning award given by Columbia College Chicago in 1994, and the Clifford K. and James T. Berryman Award from the National Press Foundation in 1996.
John Deering
Articulate, abrasive, political, compassionate, misunderstood, misprinted and outrageous -- never complacent. Garry Trudeau is America's premier social and political satirist.
Garry Trudeau
Tim Eagan's unique style of provocative political satire has won it a loyal following. Using an unusual mini-movie storytelling format, recovering lawyer Tim Eagan punctures pompous personalities, deflates bloviators, and attempts to shine light where it is most needed. This outrageous strip appears in mainstream and alternative West Coast papers and has been described as "Tom the Dancing Bug meets Ted Rall."
Tim Eagan
Since 1983, Bob Gorrell has been an editorial cartoonist in Richmond, Va. first with the Richmond News Leader and then, starting in 1992, with the Richmond Times-Dispatch. On January 1, 1998, he resigned from the Times-Dispatch to concentrate on syndicated editorial cartoons and comic panel features for Creators Syndicate.
Bob Gorrell
Known for his wry sense of humor and thought provoking commentary, nationally syndicated editorial cartoonist Walt Handelsman attacks the pressing issues of the times. His entertaining and insightful cartoons cover topics ranging from national and local politics to social concerns.
Walt Handelsman
Phil Hands is the editorial cartoonist for the Wisconsin State Journal, in Madison, Wis. He draws cartoons on a wide range of topics from state politics to international affairs. A passionate political moderate, Phil creates thoughtful editorial cartoons that attack the partisan hacks and hypocrites on both sides of the aisle. Phil has won a number of state awards for editorial cartooning and was the 2012 recipient of the Society of Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi award for editorial cartooning for circulation under 100,000.
Phil Hands
Joe Heller has been the staff editorial cartoonist for the Green Bay Press-Gazette since 1985. His cartoons appear in more than 350 publications, making him the most self-syndicated cartoonist in the nation.
Joe Heller
Rebecca Hendin's illustrations take a look at current events with a combination of existential anxiety and sheer amazement at the inexplicable beauty of existence, with a cherry of deadpan jibe on top. Her viewpoint reflects her transatlantic residence between the UK and the United States, giving her a unique perspective on situations on all sides of the seas. Blog | Website
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Staff cartoonist for the Boston Herald since 1986, Holbert serves up solid conservative commentary, delivered with a smile.
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A hilarious, enraged, snotty, and smart underground sensation! Hutch Owen's acclaimed, award-winning dregs-of-society adventures skewer the multinational, mega-merging, corporate forces that control our lives. Tom Hart's popular vagrant/rebel Hutch Owen rages while the world around him builds, merges, attends marketing seminars and goes IPO. The streets and alleyways that are his bedroom and study are now invisible beneath a coat of crude and insulting ads. In an #Occupy World, Hutch Owen's long-standing dissenting voice is a rallying cry for the #99%! With three graphic novels to-date, and over a dozen stories, Hutch Owen was Furious When Furious Wasn't Cool! He is the original occupier, fighting The Man to keep to his values and integrity in a cold and commercial world.
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Stephen F. Austin shortstop Hunter Dozier was named a first-team Louisville Slugger All-America selection by Collegiate Baseball on Thursday. The teams were based on performance before this weekend's NCAA regionals and were selected by the staff of Collegiate Baseball.
Dozier, a Denton graduate, was named the Southland Conference player and hitter of the year before last week's Southland tournament, and he is the third Lumberjack to be named to the Louisville Slugger All-America team. He is the first SFA player to be named to the first team.
The junior finished the season leading the Southland in batting average (.396), home runs (17), doubles (25) and slugging percentage (.755), ranking in the top five nationally in those categories.
His 227 career hits and 59 doubles rank him first all-time at SFA. He is projected to go in the first two rounds of baseball's First-Year Player Draft, which begins Thursday.
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The idea of Texan cuisine probably conjures up images of Flintstones-sized steaks and barbecue pits sizzling with slow-roasted meat. But while esurient carnivores can still fill their faces here, the Lone Star State's capital, Austin – widely regarded as Texas's most progressive city – is also serving up an ever-growing menu of adventurous street food.
"Four years ago, we had 400 carts and we're expecting that to rise to about 1,600 by the end of next year," says Mick Vann, senior contributing food writer at the Austin Chronicle. "In the last year and a half, the scene has really exploded. And as it gets bigger, it gets more creative," he adds.
Most Austin carts are bright painted caravans clustered around picnic tables in disused lots. Originally only serving the downtown late-night bar crowd, they now open all day. Encouraged by laissez-faire by-laws, they've spread to locations across the city. And they serve everything from kimchi tacos and fried chicken waffles to shrimp sliders and iced cupcakes.
Eager to see what was on offer, I hit the city for a four-day calorific cart crawl. First up was Torchy's Tacos, a big red trailer in a sunny South First Street pull-off. I was soon perched at a picnic table under a large tree gorging on an early lunch: two lip-smacking soft tacos overflowing with green chilli pork and deep-fried Baja shrimp, each served with little cups of sauce. I washed them down with a Mexican sparkling water.
Naturally, as I was in the area, I also hit the other cart next door. Dessert-focused Holy Cacao is a good complement to its neighbour. I considered that its truffle-like cake balls – soft spheres fused with icing and served on sticks like lollies – might be too rich. So I opted for a thick-shake. Hardly a low-fat alternative, it was an addictive, velvet-textured blend of chocolate cake and vanilla ice cream. I made a mental note to remove my belt when I got back to the car.
"The cake balls were a surprise hit when we introduced them and now they're the most popular item," co-owner John Spillyards says. "The red velvet variety is probably the top seller but my personal favourite are the brass balls: crushed peanut butter cookies mixed with peanut butter and dipped in chocolate. People like them because they can get their sugar fix without over-indulging too much – although we can cover that, too, if you want," he adds with a laugh.
Tacos and fusion wraps dominate Austin's street-food scene. There's lively competition to create the most interesting varieties. I sampled marinated tofu tacos – plus spicy fries topped with cheese, beef and caramelised kimchi – at downtown's Korean-Mexican cart Chi'Lantro. The shared tables that characterise these places make it easy to meet the locals.
"I was away for three years and this whole scene blew up," Austinite Scott Walker tells me. "Ever since I got back, I've been checking them out and trying to catch up," he adds, before reciting a long list of favourites.
Following one of his tips, I headed over to South Congress Avenue and hit the Mighty Cone for a toasted tortilla of almond-and-sesame-crusted shrimp with soft-centred slabs of crunch-covered avocado. It's this kind of experimentation – plus inviting prices typically between $4 (£2.50) and $8 (£5) – that encourages curious taste-tripping. Most vendors open around noon, and many don't close until late evening. Rules on alcohol are relaxed in Austin; most carts have a bring-your-own-booze policy.
Gourdough's is a silver Airstream trailer in a sandy nook on South Lamar Boulevard. The mother clucker doughnut served here is an Austin legend. Traditional cream-filled and fudge-topped varieties are available, but it's hard to resist the signature: a glistening sweet treat topped with a sliced chicken strip and drenched in honey butter. It tastes of guilt.
On an artery-clogging roll, I followed up the next day with a sinful stop at Lucky J's in the city's up-and-coming eastside area. This time, I gorged on spicy deep-fried chicken wrapped in a thick waffle and covered in both hot sauce and maple syrup. Then I added a chaser from the stand next door: a mini-burger known as a "slider", and crammed with coffee-rubbed barbecued pulled pork.
With my stomach now extending several steps ahead of me, I decided to take the afternoon off for health reasons. Austin isn't just about eating. I enjoyed the Native American exhibit at the giant Texas State History Museum and an excellent photography showcase at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center. Then I perused the funky indie stores on South Congress Avenue. But after some free happy-hour music at the nearby Continental Club (live music is another big Austin draw), my appetite slowly re-emerged.
While comfort food defines many of Austin's trailers, some carts push their menus deep into gourmet territory. Among the best is Odd Duck. It serves innovative, restaurant-quality dishes created from locally farmed ingredients for around $4 to $6 a pop. On a warm starlit evening, I tucked into its amazing pork belly and grilled sweet potato slider; a soft-boiled duck egg served over blue cheese grits; and a perfectly seasoned grilled half quail with "Texmati" rice.
"We wanted to provide a fun atmosphere and the kind of plates you wouldn't normally see out of a trailer," owner Bryce Gilmore says. His menu changes seasonally but often includes favourites such as the quail. "People here are really receptive to trying something new. And there's also an entrepreneurial spirit that explains why we have so many carts," he adds. Gilmore is now planning to open a bricks-and-mortar eatery. "The goal of having the trailer was to eventually have a restaurant – the success of the cart has made that a reality."
Before heading to the airport on my last day, there was just time for a final stop that everyone had recommended. To have a chance of eating at Franklin Barbecue you have to join the queue around 10.30am. This is a legendary trailer that usually posts a "Sorry, sold out" sign around 1pm every day. That doesn't perturb the regulars, who patiently line up – sometimes with a Shiner Bock beer from the nearby liquor store – for an hour or so.
It was well worth the wait for a feast of perfect, fancy-free Texas barbecue, served on paper plates with slices of white bread: one of those giant meals that make you believe everything really is bigger in Texas. Along with a juicy arm-sized sausage, mounds of tender pulled pork and glistening pork ribs that slid off the bone like melted ice cream, I rolled my eyes and tucked into thick, butter-soft slabs of beef brisket. A fitting end to my Austin street-food feeding frenzy. And a reminder that a salad was long overdue.
Travel essentials
Getting there
With no direct flights between the UK and Austinm, the usual connections are on American Airlines via Dallas or Continental via Houston, but many other routes and gateways are available.
Eating there
The best overall listing location information for Austin's street-food vendors is www.austinfoodcarts.com. Vendor hours vary. Check the websites below for specific information.
Torchy's Tacos is at 1311 South First Street in the South Austin Trailer Park & Eatery ( www.torchystacos.com).
Holy Cacao is at 1311 South First Street in the South Austin Trailer Park & Eatery ( www.theholycacao.com).
Chi'Lantro is downtown near the corner of Congress Avenue and West Second Street ( www.chilantrobbq.com).
Mighty Cone is at 1600 South Congress Avenue ( www.mightycone.com).
Gourdough's is at 1219 South Lamar Boulevard ( www.gourdoughs.com).
Lucky J's is at the corner of East Sixth Street and Waller ( www.luckyjs.com).
Odd Duck is at 1219 South Lamar Boulevard ( www.oddduckfarmtotrailer.com).
Franklin BBQ is at 3421 North I-35 ( www.franklinbarbecue.com).
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i have so much left to say to you. but you're not worth my time, breath, or inner peace. |
And that's the difference between you and me.
You may hate me, but I don't hate you.
I hate my past, and you just happen to be stuck there.
Past by Pablo Neruda
We have to discard the past
and, as one builds
floor by floor, window by window,
and the building rises,
so do we go on throwing down
first, broken tiles,
then pompous doors,
until out of the past
dust rises
as if to crash
against the floor,
smoke rises
as if to catch fire,
and each new day
it gleams
like an empty
There is nothing, there is always nothing.
It has to be filled with a new, fruitful
then downward
tumbles yesterday
as in a well
falls yesterday's water,
into the cistern
of all still without voice or fire.
It is difficult to teach bones
to disappear,
to teach eyes
to close
we do it
It was alive,
alive, alive, alive
like a scarlet fish
but time
passed over its dark cloth
and the flash of the fish
drowned and disappeared.
Water water water
the past goes on falling
still a tangle
of bones
and of roots;
it has been, it has been, and now
memories mean nothing.
Now the heavy eyelid
covers the light of the eye
and what was once living
now no longer lives;
what we were, we are not.
And with words, although the letters
still have transparency and sound,
they change, and the mouth changes;
the same mouth is now another mouth;
they change, lips, skin, circulation;
another being has occupied our skeleton;
what once was in us now is not.
It has gone, but if the call, we reply;
"I am here," knowing we are not,
that what once was, was and is lost,
is lost in the past, and now will not return.


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samhill wrote: I guess I'm also wrong thinking that the debt limit is to pay the Int. & bills that we have already obligated ourselves to pay.
It's chicken or the egg scenario, e.g. you can't rack up $20K on the credit card if you don't have a $20K credit card....
lsayre wrote:Obama is correct, but he is also very deceptive. Raising the legal debt ceiling does not raise the debt. Raising the debt raises the debt. Raising the debt ceiling only opens the door for the potential of raising the actual debt level. That the ceiling has been raised something like 100 times in the past, and each time the debt level rose to hit and exceed the new ceiling is a good indicator that if we raise the ceiling again the debt level itself will soon rise again. But with the new math, the debt level no longer rises anyway.
But does the President really have to insult "the average person" (as he said) DOESNT understand this ?
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Short reflection on our Wikipedia workshop in Amman
In the next few months, we aim to properly write a lot of this up and hopefully capture the diversity of perspectives, but I just wanted to quickly mention a few of the things that struck me the most. As might be expected, there were a range of ideas and opinions and some significant disagreement in our debates. It was difficult to agree on whether there should be limits to what should go on Wikipedia, what neutrality means in the context of articles about places, and how we agree on truths (both in sources and in the articles themselves).
However, what was inspiring to see was just the shared goals and passion of everyone involved. Everyone genuinely wanted to share knowledge and really make the world better (in their own ways) by editing articles about various parts of our planet. When thinking about the combined contributions that the people in our meeting room created and shared, it is difficult to understate the reach and impact that they have. Wikipedia significantly shapes how tens, if not hundreds, of millions of people create understandings about the world, and these editors play a major role in those processes. In other words, it is simply inspiring to see the difference that a small group of non-professional writers can make to global geographies of knowledge.
p.s. thanks to the IDRC for sponsoring this work and thanks to Bernie Hogan, Heather Ford, Clarence Singleton, Ahmed Medhat, and Ilhem Allagui for making the workshop a success.


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Hugh Jackman stayed silent to rest his voice during Les Miserables shoot
HUGH JACKMAN went to extreme measures to protect his voice while filming LES MISERABLES, often going days at a time without speaking.
The X-Men star would regularly spend up to 10 hours a day singing for his role as Jean Valjean, so he embraced a special diet and exercise regime and went on vocal rest during his days off, much to the annoyance of his family.
He explains, "There's no coffee, there's no dairy. There's eight hours sleep. I drink hot water with lemon all day long. I would go on vocal rest some days where I wouldn't speak at all. I think my family can't wait 'til I have finished this job because it's like 'Who is this monk who is living with us who's going through some kind of vow of silence?'"


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The Numbers Game – April 15, 2013
by Staff Writer / Montréal CanadiensMONTREAL - Here's a numerical look at the Canadiens-Flyers matchup on Monday night at the Bell Centre.
0 – Number of power play goals scored in the two games played by the Flyers and the Canadiens this season heading into Monday night's tilt. Despite both squads getting seven opportunities each with the man-advantage, neither team has managed to light the lamp – a trend that finally came to an end when Max Pacioretty finally scored a power play marker for the Habs in Monday's opening period of action.
14 – Number of times this season in which the Canadiens have failed to light the lamp first in 2012-13 out of their 42 games played to date, with the Flyers accomplishing the rare feat of nabbing the opening goal of the night against the Habs on Monday night.
37 – Total number of penalty minutes assessed to Ryan White and Kurtis Foster in the first period of Monday night's tilt when several rare infractions including "head shot" and "grabbing the visor" were called.
5 – Number of points collected by Max Pacioretty this season against the Flyers – his highest tally versus any team in the NHL in 2012-13, with the Habs forward picking up his 12 goal of the campaign at the end of Monday night's opening frame.
24 – Number of points picked up by P.K. Subban on the power play this season – a high among all NHL players and two points ahead of Alex Ovechkin, Mike Ribeiro and fellow teammate and blue liner, Andrei Markov.
6 – Length in games of P.K. Subban's current point streak, bringing his tally to 6 assists and one goal for seven points in his last six outings thanks to a power play helper on Max Pacioretty's first period marker.
1 – Number of goals scored by Brendan Gallagher on Monday night, with the rookie forward now having scored at least one goal on every day of the week with the exception of Friday.
3 – Number of times this season in which Davis Drewiske has logged points in back-to-back games, with the Habs defenseman scoring the team's only goal against Toronto and then adding an assist Monday night on Alex Galchenyuk's goal.
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The Caves of Chaos
Karl Nykis
Freeside's ranking high priest of Pelor
Str 11(0), Dex 10(0), Con 11(0)
Int 9(0), Wis 12(1), Cha 12(1)
Karl Nykis is Freeside's ranking (read: only) priest of Pelor. The majority of the town's occupants pray routinely to the god of the sun; Freeside's agricultural background providing a large base of parishioners who pay homage to the god's aspect as a bringer of light and prosperity.
Nykis is known as an unusually active adherent of the religion; he routinely provides help to his flock in whatever form he can, be it spiritual counselling, blessing a crop field and helping to plow it should hands be short.
The priest's recent disappearance has caused no small amount of consternation amongst Freeside's population. Concerns have been raised that he has been captured or worse. The brightest light, they say, often casts the darkest shadow…


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hallo! Mon. 6/28/10 6:41am Maestroso:
G'day, mate!
Love the psyche Mon. 6/28/10 6:44am Maestroso:
Or should that be Psych? Mon. 6/28/10 7:27am Toni Baumgartner:
Good Morning Frank, Happy Monday,
I just checked out last week's play list - very cool.
Hope you are cool too in the studio.
You are helping make it a musical day - always a good thing!
Love, toni Mon. 6/28/10 7:30am fxo:
excellent! Hope the gig went well. Mon. 6/28/10 7:32am Toni Baumgartner:
Thanks, I'll let you know when Sirius is going to put it out. Take care. Mon. 6/28/10 7:32am fxo:
Maestroso, as well. Mon. 6/28/10 7:38am ?:
selber hallo. Mon. 6/28/10 7:48am PKNY:
That version of "Rock With You" was dope, thanks for playing! Mon. 6/28/10 8:06am mike tp:
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Got swag for my B-day! Good times and floaty pens. Mon. 6/28/10 8:36am Jack:
The Flock! Frank, after all these years, you continue to blow my mind!
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For example, they're the ones that would say that the glass is half empty. An idealistic pessimist would also complain that the half that's gone was wasted and that the other half isn't going to the people who need it.
Pessimists like myself usually don't like being called that. Realist is a more accurate term. I mean, in reality, chances are that something undesirable will happen. Just look in the newspaper if you don't believe me. Realists are aware of the fact that the deck is stacked against them and don't live in some idealist fantasy world. A realist is always prepared for the worst, and therefore is not disappointed when it happens. If by some off chance something good does happen, a realist truly recognizes and appreciates it a lot more, because it is an unexpected surprise. Remember, "A smile makes a lousy umbrella".
Pes"si*mist (?), n. [L. pessimus worst: cf. F. pessimiste.]
1. Metaph.
One who advocates the doctrine of pessimism; -- opposed to optimist.
One who looks on the dark side of things.
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Pes"si*mist (?), Pes`si*mis"tic (?), a. Metaph.
Of or pertaining to pessimism; characterized by pessimism; gloomy; foreboding.
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Worlds don't so much collide as politely bump into each other in "Three Worlds," a glossy, well-meaning but dramatically listless study of class relations in contemporary Paris.
Worlds don't so much collide as politely bump into each other in "Three Worlds," a glossy, well-meaning but dramatically listless study of class relations in contemporary Paris. Charting the protracted fallout from a hit-and-run accident that links an aspirational working-class car dealer, a bourgeois medical student and a struggling Moldovan immigrant, the thoughtful pic is somehow both plotty and inert, a disappointment from director Catherine Corsini after the tighter melodramatic pleasures of 2009's Kristin Scott Thomas starrer "Leaving." Without an equivalent international star, this one seems unlikely to fulfill the crossover promise of its title, though scattered festival play beckons.
Joyriding through Paris suburbia in a company car, hotshot salesman Al (Raphael Personnaz) hits a construction worker, but is persuaded by his pals to run. Earnest doctor-to-be Juliette (Clotilde Hesme) witnesses the accident from her balcony and calls the medics. Unable to let the tragedy go, she tracks down both Al and the victim's widow (Arta Dobroshi), though her attempts at mediation turn unsurprisingly sour. The humorless, type-bound script doesn't allow the committed actors much leeway; Claire Mathon's widescreen lensing lends the proceedings more style than Gregoire Hetzel's over-reactive score.Three Worlds
A Pyramide Prods. production, in co-production with France 3 Cinema. (International sales: Pyramide Intl., Paris.) Produced by Fabienne Vonier. Directed by Catherine Corsini. Screenplay, Benoit Graffin, Corsini.
Camera (color, widescreen), Claire Mathon; editor, Muriel Breton; music, Gregoire Hetzel; production designer, Mathieu Menut; costume designer, Anne Schotte. Reviewed at Cannes Film Festival (Un Certain Regard), May 24, 2012. Running time: 101 MIN.
Clotilde Hesme, Raphael Personnaz, Arta Dobroshi, Reda Kateb, Alban Aumard, Adele Haenel, Jean-Pierre Malo, Laurent Capelluto, Rasha Bukvic.


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He saw it at Cal Expo this year, a quirky machine sort of like a souped-up lawn mower.
Except this lawn mower, somehow, could fly.
Lee Patterson, a semi-retired Lodi police officer, is deathly afraid of flying.
He tried flying commercial a few times and wound up white-knuckled and queasy. He finally just gave it up.
When he and a group of pals go to Arizona for a golfing vacation each year, they fly. He drives.
Yet there was something about the contraption at Cal Expo that he found, well, comforting.
Now, he has helicopter pilots slow down and stare at Patterson as he soars with them in his unconventional flying machine.
At a field northeast of Lodi, the wind has died down just enough.
Neighbors on adjoining small ranches stop their chores to watch the spectacle.
Patterson, strapped in, helmet on, sits in the machine. It is a scene of odd intensity, a bit like Christopher Lloyd ready to roar back to the future in his DeLorean.
Suddenly, the engine revs thunderously and Patterson starts to rumble across the field. Behind him, the canopy of a parachute blossoms and starts to rise.
The machine bumps its way perhaps 150 feet, its gossamer shroud going higher and higher.
Then, in what seems just seconds, Patterson and his vehicle are up.
After the seeing the display at Cal Expo, both Patterson and his girlfriend, Maria, were intrigued enough to drive to Yuba City to take a closer look at the contraption.
The machines are called, simply, powered parachutes. They are aptly named. Powered carts with engines that pull parachutes, rise into the air, and allow the driver and a passenger to dawdle around at up to 12,500 feet.
They have small but heavy-duty engines that deliver around 65 horsepower and drive a propeller. Sort of like the swamp boats you see in Louisiana and Florida. Most float along at 25 or 30 miles per hour and can stay aloft for three hours.
They are novel and basic enough that the Federal Aviation Administration has no licensing requirements to pilot one, though dealers require purchasers to go through a training regimen. (Jerry Snyder, a spokesman for the FAA in Los Angeles, said regional field offices may apply federal rules regarding either parachuting or ultralight operations to powered parachutes; it is left up to the individual region's office. He added that the FAA has no national requirements and has no safety studies or statistics regarding powered parachutes that he is aware of.)
Patterson agreed to go up with the fellow in Yuba City, an Infinity powered parachute dealer named Brian Henry.
Retired Lodi police Officer Lee Patterson flies his motor-powered parachute. (Jerry R. Tyson/News-Sentinel)
Patterson loved the vast, unobstructed view of the surrounding countryside. He loved the sense of movement.
It was, in a word, thrilling.
And, oddly, there were no white knuckles, no churning in the pit of the stomach.
No fear.
It was the simplicity of the powered parachute that attracted Patterson. And it seemed so safe. Even if the engine dies, you don't drop like a rock, Patterson thought. After all, you have the parachute.
"I figure the only guys who get hurt flying these are the guys who mess around in them. Guys who fly too low and try to go under power lines or whatever," Patterson said. "Otherwise, they are pretty safe."
Patterson decided to plunk down the $15,000 price and buy one. He traveled to Yuba City for his instruction. Having spent years on a motorcycle as an officer, Patterson seemed a natural on the powered parachute, mastering the nuances of balance and speed and control.
Today, he may be the only powered parachutist in the area. His flights are novel enough to cause people to pull their cars over, turn off the engines, get out and gawk.
The first time Patterson roared up from the field outside of Lodi, the horses in a nearby pasture were a bit spooked.
Since then, Patterson has found a different flight path. Plus the horses seem to have grown somewhat accustomed to the commotion.
On this evening, as the sun sets, the horses' tails don't even twitch as Patterson rises toward a lattice of distant clouds.
The machine weighs about 400 pounds. Because it is relatively light, and is suspended by a parachute, it can be jostled by the wind. So Patterson typically flies early in the morning or around dusk, when the winds have died down.
He has explored much of the area around Lodi and Herald by air.
Once, he spied the big dormant towers of the idled Rancho Seco nuclear power plant. He thought it would be fun to fly over them and peer down. Just to see what he could see.
He called the FAA to find out if he could fly that close to the towers. The FAA official said he didn't know, but advised that, "I wouldn't do it if I were you."
Patterson gave up his idea of getting a bird's eye view of the towers.
After 20 minutes or so, Patterson has seen the sights, enjoyed the thrill.
He drops lower, lower, lower. The tires of the machine lightly strike the grass of the field. A bit of dust flies, and the machine is still. The parachute lies crumpled in the field, like a mammoth and colorful used Kleenex.
For the guy who hated to fly, it's a perfect landing.
Richard Hanner is the Lodi News-Sentinel's editor. He can be reached at (209) 369-7035; at 125 N. Church St., or via e-mail.