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My "final" line up was just an example and a template for what I was talking about. I would try and have a few more kids in the line-up playing wing.Knucklehead wrote:I think the current Canuck lineup would kick the shit out of your ideal lineup, not with physicality but with actual hockey skills.
Once we got back our injured players and it would be no contest, I think you overate the physical side of the game a wee bit!
edit: if you value centers so much where the hell is Crosby or Malkin, or did you just forget about them?
In one of my earlier editions when I created a team, I had Sidney Crosby as my #1 center and David Backes as my #2.
In that last line -up that I posted, I had the 12th overall pick if I recall correctly, and so after weighing age, salary, potential, etc, I chose Anze Kopitar with my first selection, and Jared Staal with my second.
You are probably right that I am overrating the physical side a wee bit. However, with each of those line-ups, speed is definitely not an asset but I don't think it's a liability either. With the exception of Ryan Malone, most of the guys I listed have fairly respectable skating ability.
With that line-up however, it's not just the physical prowess of that team which is solid. The overall defensive savviness of that team ranks quite high as well. In selecting my teams, a player must rank high in BOTH physicality and defensive savviness. The only time I would allow a slight slack in defensive savviness,is if they are off the charts physical (I.e. Chris Neil).


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Thomvest necesitaba un nuevo diseño de camiseta y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 58 diseños de 15 diseñadores freelance.
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This is our third crowd sourcing design, and we have been very happy with the results. Check out our newly launched website http://www.thomvest.com to get a feel for how we look (came from 99designs!).
We are back again for a project that is very dear to our hearts. The design of our company shirt that will be worn by our entire team and given to our portfolio company CEO's, prominent venture capitalists, fortune 500 executives, and social media experts. We would like to find something so good that we can use it for many years and continue to print hundreds of shirts. We have gone back to our crowd-sourced designers in the past with additional work, and often hire them for continued service, so this may lead to a long-term relationship above and beyond the contest. We are trying to get this done in time for our big CEO Summit on December 1st, so the chances are that this contest will not run over a week, meaning a quick turn-around if you submit!
We also will make this contest blind, give quick and candid feedback, and will guarantee the prize as soon as we find a design we feel comfortable with.
Who we are: an early stage venture capital company that funds technology start-ups in Silicon Valley. We recently underwent new branding with a black/orange color scheme, and enjoy having a slightly edgy feel to our website.
We want a shirt that people would actually feel good about wearing rather than another boring company t-shirt. We target a younger crowd of Silicon Valley start-up types, but many of our co-investors and friends in the industry are older as well. Striking a balance between cool and edgy, but not over the top, that would appeal to both groups is ideal.
Our LP is a rally car champion, and as a start some designs it would be great to see the incorporation of his car (see attached images) and our circle logo in whatever form you think works. The joke we have is that we are a "Thomvest Motorsports Division" so you could even include that tag-line somewhere on the shirt. It does not have to be one of the images however, and feel free to take a lot of creative freedom - we encourage altering images or sketching your own.
We also are very open to seeing designs that are completely different from focusing on cars. If you feel that there is something that matches the personality of the firm (http://www.thomvest.com), please feel free to submit something different. At this stage we are open to many types of design, and can iterate with you to find the perfect shirt.
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With the 2016 elections just around the corner, we wondered how many organizations will be using maps and GIS (or location intelligence) to help boost their campaign. If you aren't we will discuss in the article how WebMapSolutions are helping a number of different organizations boost their election campaigns.
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(GIS) can literally take dozens of pages of complex information and make a single, multicolored map that shows factors such as household density, family size, or racial and socioeconomic composition of neighborhoods along with their implied political and social attitudes where available from public opinion data" (Novotny & Jacobs)
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2013 Beaujolais wines earn raves, but drink them fast.
Reviewers are calling this year's Beaujolais Nouveau vintage "The Redemption."
The wine is France's unruly child, which is exactly what it is. It is young and violates every hallowed rule of the vineyard. Beau rocks in what is a stuffy industry steeped in legend. Even the labels are a party fantasy.
French law dictates the third Thursday of each November, starting at 12:01 a.m., as Beaujolais Release Day. The new vintage must be held in bonded warehouses for that hour.
Then the world christens its arrival as it would a baby. There's a lot of coo-cooing and caressing of the infant. Spontaneous parties break out as the new winter wine flies off the shelves.
All this is sharp marketing. Vintner Georges Duboeuf invented the Beaujolais Release Day Festival 40 years ago. It peaked in the early 1980s, then scandal struck in 2001 as the wine world skewered the vintage as not worth uncorking. Some 1.1 million cases were destroyed that year for lack of sales.
Then in 2005, Duboeuf's company was charged with wine fraud, mixing low-grade 2004 wine with Beaujolais.
Then, in 2007, some 100 Beaujolais vintners were charged with using sugar to speed fermentation, a sin. These guys don't take a hint. It's a testament to Beaujolais popularity that it has survived these travails.
Reviewers gush that this year's vintage fully redeems its nasty past. It is more expensive due to a drought in Central France.
But lack of rain concentrated the sugar in the Gamay grapes, causing an exceptionally fruity, soft and flavorful treat.
The wine is similar to a red zinfandel, which among wine snobs is just this side of Kool Aid. It has merry, bright tones and is easy to drink. The unspoken rule is it must be consumed within six months of bottling. It should be chilled on ice for 30 minutes, another red-wine heresy.
Lucky for us, its release is perfect for holiday feasts. Beaujolais is a complement to turkey and ham feasts.
The typical Beaujolais christening party features everything not cherished at a formal wine tasting. The music is loud, the appetizers upbeat and water and club soda are provided to clear the pallet for the next round. And never dress up.
The Gamays, unlike other grapes, are fermented whole without crushing. Some 4,000 growers have 10 weeks to bottle. This rush causes derision among traditional vintners. Beaujolais offers none of the flavor complexities of aged French wines.
In France, the wine without rules has only one rule: savor pas conomiseur (savor, not saver.)
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1 beef tenderloin, about 2 pounds
5 teaspoons minced fresh thyme, divided
1 teaspoon salt
1⁄2 teaspoon coarsely ground pepper
1⁄2 cup dried mushrooms (about 1⁄2 ounce)
1 (750-milliliter) bottle Beaujolais or other light, fruity red wine
1 (141⁄4 -ounce) can beef broth
2 garlic cloves, minced
1 tablespoon water
2 teaspoons cornstarch
Olive oil
Cooking spray
Trim fat from tenderloin. Combine 3 teaspoons thyme, salt, and pepper; rub evenly over tenderloin. Cover and chill 2 hours.
Combine 2 teaspoons thyme, mushrooms, wine, broth, and garlic in a large saucepan, and bring to a boil. Reduce heat, and simmer until reduced to 11⁄2 cups.
Combine water and cornstarch, and stir into wine mixture. Bring to a boil, and cook 1 minute, stirring constantly. Remove wine mixture from heat; set aside, and keep warm.
Heat oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add tenderloin, browning on all sides. Place tenderloin on a broiler pan coated with oil. Insert meat thermometer into thickest portion. Bake at 400 degrees for 20 minutes or until thermometer registers 145 degrees (medium-rare) to 160 degrees (medium). Place tenderloin on a serving platter, and cover with foil.
Mix the pan drippings with the wine sauce. Strain and serve in a gravy boat on the side.
Note: If you have leftover beef, serve it on sandwiches with horseradish cream (combine 3⁄4 cup sour cream and 3 tablespoons prepared horseradish).
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CRESTVIEW � A new saloon on U.S. Highway 90 allows patrons to support 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne) families and help Niemann�Pick disease patients while they wet their whistles.
CRESTVIEW � A new saloon on U.S. Highway 90 allows patrons to support 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne) families and help Niemann�Pick disease patients while they wet their whistles.
The Split Oak Saloon � whose grand opening is Saturday at noon � had its soft opening Thursday evening, but for some patrons, it wasn't soon enough.
"We've had soldiers stopping by for weeks asking when we're opening," manager Cristina Dawson said.
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The saloon is a partnership between Bill Berkey, a 7th Special Forces soldier who will retire from the Army in May, and Okaloosa County native Ian Christiansen.
The bar, licensed as a charity, is expected to donate at least 20 percent of its daily till to the local SFA7 chapter of the Special Forces Association, which supports soldiers' families.
"We'll be doing a lot of benefits for them," Dawson said.
The spacious beer garden, featuring a 60-tap bar, behind the saloon will be a venue for regular live entertainment.
Thursday afternoon, as bar staffers inventoried beer and liquor deliveries, workers outside pieced together pre-fabricated sections of a spacious wooden deck around the outdoor bar.
Four large oak trees shade the area, which will have seating, tables and a large stage for live performances.
Inside, corrugated metal walls, contemporary advertising signs and a textured bar create a clean, relaxed ambience. Indoor music is "customer choice" from the diverse selection on a jukebox that accepts credit cards.
"We didn't want to be a 'rock bar' or a 'country bar,'" Dawson said.
Berkey said he and Christiansen are aware of the shady reputation surrounding some Crestview bars.
"We're trying to change that whole scene," he said. "We're mostly a live music showcase."
"Something we'll work very hard on is our reputation," Dawson said.
Plans call for adding a restaurant featuring organic food, plus offering more than 100 types of craft beer, Verkey said.
Service members like to savor the types of beer they enjoyed while deployed abroad, he said.
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WHEN:12 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 24
WHERE: 892 W. James Lee Boulevard (U.S. Highway 90)
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Two Years Ago
Westward Ho!
Kingsleys lectures and essays
The Cambridge History of English and American Literature in 18 Volumes
Volume XIII. The Victorian Age, Part One.
The Political And Social Novel
§ 10.
Two Years Ago
Two Years Ago
(1857), Kingsley once more returned to contemporary life, dealing with such of its moral difficulties and of its material evils as more particularly came under his cognisance. The main teaching of the book may, perhaps, be said to be that the processes of Providence are to be read by him who runs in both the happiness and the unhappiness of which the world around us is fullin the beauty of nature, and in the power granted to human action to set right much of the wrong wrought by human sloth and self-indulgence, and that, consequently, man is called upon for faith and hope and the self-devotion of love, thus receiving the one answer for which pure and honest spirits are, consciously or unconsciously, in search. Had it not been for the force of some of the characterdrawing in this novel, especially for the figure of the hero of the tale, Tom Thurnall, and for the vivid picturesqueness of the writing, both in passages of pure description and in the highly wrought episode of the storm,
Two Years Ago
would probably not have excited much interest as a story. The main plot, on the whole, is too transparent, and the advent of the cholera has been too fully prepared to tell strongly when it actually breaks out.
The Crimean war has no real bearing on the narrative, though Toms imprisonment forms the turning-point of his inner life. The by-plot of Maries (Cordifiammas) love adventures has, as Kingsley confessed, no organic connection with the story; and the introduction, which dates two years after the action itself, throws no new light upon it. Nor are the lesser characters as interesting as is usual with Kingsley. The poet, Elsley Vavasour, who seems to be intended as a contrast to the downright Tom, is a mere caricature of what is most contemptible in a self-conscious and effeminate man of the pen. The moraliser of the argument, major Campbell, is not the less a shadowy figure because Kingsley drew him from life, and because he shares with at least two other characters in the story that passionate love for nature and the study of nature without which, to its author, life was colourless. Claude and Sabina are, as he told his critic George Brimley,
only two dolls with whom he had been playing, setting them to say and do all the pretty
things anyone else is too respectable to be set about, till I know them as well as I know you.
Kingsleys belief that the true task of the age was self-sacrifice in the cause of suffering humanitynot talk but work, albeit not to be brought home to the national conscience without a great deal of talkand his conviction that sanitary reform and what it implied was the most pressing of its needs, were in harmony with some of the noblest impulses of the era of Florence Nightingale and her contemporaries. But, of the vehemence of his earlier denunciations of existing social evils there is not much to be found in
Two Years Ago.
He has a kindly eye for helpless guardsmen, and even something more than this for well-meaning high-church curates; and the general note of his social philosophy is optimism. To Christianity, he steadfastly looks as to the crowning grace of all, and, in a corner of his heart, there lurks the belief that, in the crises as well as in the general conduct of life, a gentleman is not a gentleman for nothing.
Two Years Ago,
Kingsley but once returned to the novel; for the project which he entertained of writing a story on the subject of the Pilgrimage of Grace was abandoned by him in 1858, after part of the book had been written.
His last completed novel,
Hereward the Wake,
was not published till 1866, with a dedication to Thomas Wright, to whose researches the author warmly acknowledged his indebtedness. It is one of the least read of his historical romances, and there is no reference to it in his biographical memorial. But it is a work of much vigour and freshness, and hardly inferior to
Westward Ho!
in the picturesque vividness of its setting; for the homeliness of much of the scenery (the fens are not all sunsets) finds a compensation in the truthfulness of the picture, familiar to Kingsley in his childhood and in his later days.
Nor is the characterisation less forcible, to whatever extent the reader may feel further removed from the followers of William and Harold than from the lieges of queen Elizabeth. On the other hand, the earlier of the two novels more successfully unites the personal with the historical interest called forth by it, and less encumbers itself by critical references to its sources. Thus, it comes about that the earlier part of the book, which tells of Herewards strange adventures by flood and field as an outlaw before the landing of William, is more attractive than the later, in which the story becomes involved in that of the conquest itself and deals not only with the climax of the heros career, the defence of Ely, but, also, with his rather inglorious exit. In Torfrida, the author of
draws a fine and impressive female character such as is wanting in
Westward Ho!
and the figure of Martin, faithful to her even more than to her wayward hero, is, likewise, admirable. But as with Napoleon and Josephine, so it was with Hereward and Torfrida. This analogy, like the less dignified remark that if tobacco had been known then, Hereward would have smoked all the way to Crowland, fails to impair the historical veracity of the romance; the danger of a professor of history indulging in imaginative literature lay in a different direction.
The causes of the great popularity of Kingsleys novels as a whole, and of the attraction which they exercised upon a very large and diversely composed body of readers, are not far to seek. The strength of his imagination could throw its brilliant light both upon material taken from his own age and scenery with which he was familiar, and upon past periods of history known to him only from books, and lands and seas seen by him only with the minds eye, while his descriptive power enabled him to reproduce them not so much with abundance of detail as with graphic distinctness of touch. These gifts made his fiction real to all who, like himself, were interested in the world and its inhabitants, in the life of nature with all its secrets and in human life with all its longings. But he wrote, as he made no secret that he wrote, for other ends than that of giving pleasure, or of stimulating sympathy with the things with which he sympathised himself; he also meant, not only in those /??/, as he calls them, which go direct from author to reader, but by the whole current of his stories, to enforce certain ideas and principles, or the meaning of certain spiritual tendencies and movements of which those ideas formed part. In the correspondence with George Brimley to which reference has already been made, he observes that, in the modern novel, if it is to be a picture of actual lifeand this was an end which, with his hatred of unreality, he always kept in viewyou must have people talk, as people do in real life, about all manner of irrelevant things, but you must
take care that each mans speech shall show more of his character, and that
the general tone shall be such as never to make the reader forget the main purpose of the book.
There could be no better description of the novel with a purposethe
which artistically conceals its moral, religious, political, or social aims, and gives pleasure without losing sight of its didactic object. It remains not the less a hybrid, even when the artists satisfaction in his work from time to time overpowers the sense of his commission as a teacher. To Kingsley, this commission, as he believed, came from the same authority as that which he obeyed as a minister of religion and which he followed in taking upon himself what he held to be part of his ministerial duty, the task of social reform. All the manifold activities of his lifehis work as a parson, professor, writer, poethe sought to fuse in these works of fiction, together with his memories of the Berkshire chalkstreams and the Devonshire coast, and of the town alleys where he preached his Gospel of godliness and cleanliness, while smoking his pipe with soldiers and navvies.
Apart from his novels and his solitary tragedy, Kingsleys contributions to pure literature were by no means numerous. He wrote a considerable amount of miscellaneous verse
some of it so excellent as to make it intelligible that he should, at times, have thought poetry the branch of composition for which his genius pre-eminently qualified him. Of the larger poems,
tells the familiar myth, with, perhaps, excessive elaboration, in not unharmonious hexametersa metre to the English form of which he gave much consideration; the poet would not have been himself had he not made his poem a tribute to the sea and even to the
>Silvery fish, wreathed shell, and the strange lithe things of the water.
His own favourite poem seems to have been
St. Maura,
which had satisfied Maurice. There are other legends, sages and ballad-romances of slighter pretensions; but the best of all are the quite short ballad-songs, some of them imbedded in his novels, which reveal their depth of feeling in a few words, of which the cadence persistently haunts the earsuch as
The Sands of Dee, The Three Fishers
and may be one or two more.
Note 32
. So far back as 1849, Kingsley had preached at Eversley three remarkable sermons on the cholera, which were published in the same year under the title
Who causes Pestilence?
Note 33
Memories and Letters,
vol. III, p. 44.
Note 34
. See
Memories and Letters,
vol. III, pp. 59-62. The effort could not but have been interesting, since the heroes of the story, Robert and Christopher Aske, were both good Romanists, though, as Kingsley points out, they knew nothing of the Jesuits.
Note 35
. One of Kingsleys
Prose Idylls
(1873), treating of the fens, was a reproduction of his article on the subject in
Good Words,
1 May, 1867.
Note 36
. See Max Müllers preface to the 1875 edition of
The Roman and the Teuton.
Note 37
. Collected in vol. XVI of the 19 vol. edition of his
Life and Works.
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The N95 crowd won't like this...
An IT publication that's willing to call manufacturers on "a fair amount of frankly rather pointless subsidiary functionality"? I applaud you.
When details of the Creative Zen X-Fi PMP began to leak out, many thought it would replace the Zen Vision W. As soon as you get the X-Fi out of the box you realise this is not the case. The Vision W had a 4.3in screen, but the X-Fi makes do with a mere 2.5in panel. So what we have here is an MP3 player with ideas above its …
An IT publication that's willing to call manufacturers on "a fair amount of frankly rather pointless subsidiary functionality"? I applaud you.
It's not just Creative that are going this way, Archos now seem to be buying into the pointless functionality mindset too.
What it does mean is there are some great deals to be had on the "old" models which do exactly what you want them to do at a great price. You can get the 32gig Zen for well under £150 and an Archos 605 for under £100.
The bonus with an older model, aside from the price, is a nice stable and mature firmware too. It's a win/win.
I've bought Creative in the past, but I wont be touching this one. Dont they do any surveys to see what their customers actually want, as opposed to the wet dreams of their marketing munchkins? Its a music/video player, thats ALL I want it to do...
you'd be better off with an archos, and yes i realise you have to buy the plugins separately for wifi and full video support, but its worth it
the creative zen that is in my pocket right now. Except they couldn't afford to paint the whole think one colour and made the buttons worse.
What a pile of cack.
Come on Creative I am losing hope faster than the Republican party.
What they should be doing is working on integrating the XML parser with Last.fm's scrobbler that is a better use of their time.
Why is it only Apple that understand this?
and see if the rumoured new iPod Touch comes out with lower pricing !
The touch is really very nice and a joy to use. I picked an almost new 16Gig one up on eBay for £155 and combine it with a samsung blackjack smartphone for wifi->3g tethering. (hint: posted this from it 8-)
Presumably the "more" part of "more is less" refers to the price of Apple products?
No more Zens for me - I can't lug my laptop to every place I need to recharge mine, especially on holiday with all those language podcasts on it. USB charging from PC only is frankly a gross stupidity
I have a Creative Labs Zen Vision:M 30GB, which for the time was a fantastic player and still is, in fact.
I was waiting with bated breath for the replacement from Creative, hoping for something along the lines of a Zen Vision W 60GB with touch screen and WiFi, but it seems that this is not to be.
The Zen XiFi is a huge step back with a small screen, no more capacity (unless you add badly integrated SD cards) and tons of bloat...
I am now looking at the Archos range, as I do not want to go down the Apple route and get tied into iTunes.
.. with my old and trusted iRiver Clix2. Still, new Audible compatible device will do good to the market
It seems folk are continually experimenting with even worse ways of entering text. Bravo!
It's not a firmware bug, it's the album. My guess is the X-fi prefers Hatebreed or Machine Head!
The MuVo was my first MP3 player - it sounds like they have NOT come very far since then. True, the MuVo lacks the nice big screen, but it also doesn't pretend to be ANYthing it's not.
And at least the MuVo can be powered off cheap Ni-MH or Ni-Cad batteries.
for my missus, as she needed a device with recording ability for her pesky masters degree lectures.
I've got an iPod touch and have to say that although the touch is a far more pleasant experience to use, the sound quality from the X-Fi is superior in everyway. I used Shure E310 headphones, not the standard kit ones with either the creative offering or the touch and it really is that much better.
Shame the touch doesn't have a mic, otherwise I'd give her that and keep the x-fi for myself :)
And for those of you complaining about USB only charging.....iPods are the same, unless you had an old generation iPod that came with a seperate plug in charger, your also stuck with USB only charging or have to buy a seperate charger....so whats the differance (except that a mini usb charger is cheaper to buy than an apple one)
That it was also much better value than in UK/US, cost me 170 quid ($399 SGD) with a free silicon case, for the 32GB model :)


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Former president of the National Lawyers Guild, Marjorie Cohn, commented on recent statements by two GOP presidential candidates who created a stir by defending waterboarding:
[Herman] Cain said, "I don't see it as torture. I see it as an enhanced interrogation technique," which is what the Bush administration used to call its policy of torture and abuse. [Michelle] Bachman declared, "If I were president, I would be willing to use waterboarding. I think it was very effective. It gained information for our country." And after the debate, Mitt Romney's aides told CNN that he does not think waterboarding is torture.
Cohn notes at the end of her article, "Unfortunately, during his hearing to be confirmed as CIA director, David Petraeus told Congress there might be occasions in which we must return to "enhanced interrogation" to get information. Alarmingly, that comment signaled that the Obama administration may return to the use of torture and abuse." Petraeus was confirmed as the new CIA director last August on a 94-0 vote of the U.S. Senate.
Evidence of Torture in the Obama Administration
Despite President Obama's own comments criticizing Cain and Bachman's statements, Cohn points out that Obama's own nominated candidate for CIA director is willing to support waterboarding and the other torture techniques designated "enhanced interrogation" during the Bush/Cheney regime. But there's no "unfortunately" about it. The Obama administration does support torture, but it does so in the old-fashioned U.S. way, through official and/or plausible denial.
But anyone who looks at what the U.S. does, rather than what it says, will know that the torture never ended. Waterboarding may or may not have been ceased, but in the U.S. official Army Field Manual on interrogation, numerous commentators have found clear evidence of the use of torture, including use of debilitating isolation, sleep deprivation, sensory deprivation, manipulation of phobias, use of drugs, and other "techniques." Some of these techniques, such as use of isolation and sleep deprivation are limited to supposed "illegal" combatants, such as those captured in the "war on terror," as discussed in the AFM's Appendix M (PDF).
The use of controlled suffocation, such as in the water torture used in the video below, was documented to be endemic across the field of Defense Department operations in a series of articles published at Truthout.org recently. Also published at Truthout was an analysis of the possible use of "dryboarding", another suffocation torture technique that may have been used by U.S. interrogators and implicated in the deaths of three prisoners at Guantanamo in 2006.
The "dryboarding" hypothesis was developed by Almerindo Ojeda at the University of California at Davis's Center for the Study of Human Rights in the Americas. Ojeda is also principal investigator for the Center's Guantánamo Testimonials Project. He discovered that Ali Saleh Al-Marri, a purported Al Qaeda "sleeper" agent, who was held for years in solitary confinement at the Navy Brig in Charleston, North Carolina, like fellow domestic internee and U.S. citizen Jose Padilla, had been tortured by having a sock shoved stuffed in his mouth and then having his lips taped shut with duct tape. Al-Marri almost suffocated.
Ojeda noted that all of the dead supposed suicides at Guantanamo had socks stuffed in their mouths or down their throats.
Scott Horton, who wrote an award-winning article on the Guantanamo "suicides," noted in a recent review of Ojeda's work that socks were not allowed for prisoners at Guantanamo. He added:
The "dryboarding" disclosures do not resolve the questions about the Guantánamo deaths, but they give rise to important new questions about interrogation practices that may also have been used at Guantánamo. They also further justify the call for a thorough and independent investigation of the three deaths and underscore the severe credibility issues with the government's claims about "suicides."
The investigation of the Guantanamo "suicides" by Horton and Seton Hall University School of Law, Center for Policy and Research (PDF) was the subject of a slur campaign in the media last May, with Horton's article in particular attacked by former Bush Administration officials. Then, strangely, Adweek writer Alex Koppelman and his former Salon.com collaborator Mark Benjamin, jumped in to defend Guantanamo Defense Department authorities' version of events.
Links to the Torturers
The following video was posted at both LiveLeak.com and You Tube, and provides "a glimpse of what went on during interrogations of [Afghan] insurgents by Jonathan Idema," who worked in conjunction with NATO forces in Afghanistan "counterterror" operations.
Idema is a controversial figure. He was arrested by Afghan authorities in July 2004 in Kabul, where according to a New York Times report, he had been holding eight men prisoner. Some of these men "said they were kicked and beaten, had scalding water poured on them, and had their heads repeatedly dunked in a bucket of water." Idema was pardoned by Afghan President Karzai in March 2007. He had claimed all along that he was working at the behest of U.S. authorities. The U.S. denied this, though admittedly he did work with international forces on counterterrorism operations.
In a well-documented examination of his career at Wikipedia, Idema's connections with U.S. Special Forces is dissected. Idema's various disgraces and problems with the military never kept him from working at various times with U.S. Special Forces, and interestingly, he has been connected to private contracting firms associated with the "war on terror," including Star America Aviation Company, Ltd. (SAAC).
One of the latter company's executives is retired Major General Jack Holbein, a former leading commander at U.S. Special Forces Command. SAAC is linked to a shell company, Isabeau Dakota, Inc., that listed Idema's father as president and sole officer, in that both are registered as corporations by the same individual, William L. London, who appears to be an attorney in Sanford, North Carolina. There is some evidence, given the connections noted in his Wikipedia entry, that Idema served as an off-the-record asset or operative of U.S. Special Forces.
Major General Holbein was listed in the 2008 Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) report on detainee abuse (large PDF) as one of the recipients of the Defense Department's interrogation-torture proposal developed by James Mitchell and John "Bruce" Jessen at Joint Personnel Services Agency (JPRA). Holbein was then Chief of Staff at U.S. Joint Forces Command (JFCOM), and JPRA was under command authority of JFCOM at that time. The implication of the SASC report is that Holbein and others helped send the torture proposal up the chain of command.
JFCOM was disbanded last August, "the first time a Defense Department combatant command has been dissolved" one news account explained. According to the article, by Hugh Lessig at The Daily Press:
The military is keeping the core mission of JFCOM: training the military to operate and fight together. But instead of maintaining a separate four-star command and all the overhead it entails, personnel will report directly to the Joint Staff.
The former JFCOM functions remaining in Hampton Roads include those related to joint training, developing new concepts and doctrine, experimentation and what the military calls "lessons learned."
A Tale of Two Videos
The video below is from As Sahab, a supposedly Al Qaeda linked media outlet, though reposted at LiveLink, and apparently was discovered in the raid on Idema's Afghanistan headquarters in Kabul in 2004. (Other As Sahab videos of torture have been aired by ABC news, and posted at You Tube.) Whether or not Idema was working directly for the Americans or not, the video provides a sickeningly vivid display of the kind of water torture during interrogation that has been documented previously as used by U.S. forces. (See here and here.)
The refusal by either the Obama administration or the U.S. Congress to hold torturers accountable, or to eliminate the torture embedded in the Army Field Manual, means that the torture program continues. It may be more hidden, but it operates nevertheless continuously. While the U.S. puts out propaganda about its "humane" treatment of detainees at Guantanamo and elsewhere (see this story by Jason Leopold on the latest video issued in the U.S. propaganda effort), the real truth is hidden as much as possible.
The cozening of torturers, and the successful continuation in one form of the U.S. torture program has found its domestic analogue in the vicious state repression being unleashed upon the reform-minded protesters of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Indeed, the attacks on peaceful protesters demonstrates as much as the history of the torture program that the U.S. government is not an entity to be bargained with, and that new political forms must arise to challenge the social and political status quo. Their first demand must be an end to state violence against peaceful protest.
Jeffrey Kaye, a psychologist living in Northern California and a regular contributor to Truthout and The Public Record, blogs about civil liberties and issues revolving around the US government's torture program at The Dissenter. He can be reached at sfpsych at gmail dot com. Follow Jeff on Twitter: @Jeff_Kaye
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From work to school to the gym to kids' basketball practice to yoga class, the mom of the house is always on the move. All of that back-and-forth travel requires a reliable, safe and well-packaged vehicle that doesn't forgo style or a fun-to-drive spirit. Here is our list of the top seven cars for moms who enjoy a fast-paced, road-running lifestyle.
Buick LaCrosse
Although a great majority of moms go the utility or wagon route, the sedan is still an excellent choice for women who require some driving enjoyment in their daily commutes. The LaCrosse (base price $34,460) is just such a sedan. Athletic and durable, this good-looking 4-door is not only fun to drive, but it also exudes a sporty and luxurious presence. On the practical side, the LaCrosse offers premium convenience features, a spacious back seat for child seats and boosters, and a large trunk to haul luggage, sporting equipment, strollers or whatever you might need.
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Hyundai Santa Fe Sport
For the tech-savvy mom, the Santa Fe (base price $25,825) is the answer. This sporty crossover utility offers a well-integrated Blue Link infotainment system, Bluetooth and steering-wheel-mounted phone controls, resulting in a user-friendly owner experience. For a punch of performance and fuel efficiency, opt for the 2.0-liter turbocharged 4-cylinder engine. It's just the right recipe for quick maneuvers and highway passing.
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Jeep Cherokee
As one of the most recognizable names in the SUV segment, the Cherokee is an on- and off-road phenom. Granted, you may not be taking your family off into the wild, but it's a good feeling to know that your vehicle is tough enough for the trail in case you start taking camping trips. For in-town life, the Cherokee (base price $23,990) brings good cargo room, comfortable seats and reasonable fuel economy.
Toyota Highlander
A recent update to the popular Highlander means that this crossover SUV has room for the whole family, plus it looks and feels contemporary. The Highlander (base price $30,075) isn't the least expensive family car available, but Toyota has packed a lot into the base LE version. A rear parking camera, Bluetooth, iPod connectivity, rear privacy glass and remote keyless entry are all standard. Most buyers will opt for the Highlander XLE and its V6 engine, power rear lift gate, moonroof and roof rails, and that's the version we think provides the best value. It's about $6,000 more than the base-model Highlander LE, however.
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Volvo XC60
The Volvo brand is synonymous with safety, and the XC60 is no exception. The little brother to the XC90 is a tank on wheels and offers Volvo's City Safety program -- a low-speed collision-avoidance system. Aside from making occupants safe and secure, the XC60 (base price $37,125) brings premium amenities, a well-crafted cabin, robust performance, a modern exterior design, and if we didn't already mention it, a lot of safety.
What it means to you: These days, the best cars for moms are not necessarily minivans and wagons. There are plenty of strong choices, ranging from small utilities to premium sedans to urban passenger vehicles that deliver safety, convenience, style and driving enjoyment.


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I'm from Poland and I've never learned Latin. But my girlfriend has been learning it for about half a year and I would like to surprise her with valentine wishes in Latin. Could you help me, please?
I need this text translated:
"Valentine kisses from you-know-who!"
Is it possible to translate it with similar meaning?
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Sexual predators in the police are abusing their power to target victims of crime they are supposed to be helping, as well as fellow officers and female staff, the Guardian can reveal. An investigation into the scale and extent of the problem suggests sexual misconduct could be more widespread than previously believed.
The situation raises questions about the efficacy of the police complaints system, the police's internal whistleblowing procedures, the vetting of officers and a failure to monitor disciplinary offences.
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BOISE, Idaho A former disc golf world champion from Arkansas and creator of a disc dyeing system remains jailed in Idaho after being arrested with 28 pounds of marijuana in his hotel room.
The Idaho Statesman reported that 54-year-old Jeffery Boyd Ash of Fayetteville is being held in lieu of $150,000 bond and his next court appearance is set for Dec. 5.
Ash was arrested Nov. 20 after a woman called police to report a man had shown her a cell-phone picture of his genitals.
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It's been a while for updates, but we're still here. It was quite an effort to get mewithoutyou It's All Crazy!… 2xLPs out and we've been resting a bit. The band took to the road in late June/July and managed to have LPs for most of the dates. I was able to see the band play in Chicago and central PA which made up for not being able to see the record release show in Philadelphia. Thanks to everyone for buying the 2xLPs. The band is out on tour now with more for sale, go see them if you get the chance. In the meantime, our good friends at We Are Lancaster just posted the video for "The Fox, The Crow, and The Cookie" which is the subject of the 4th sided etching on the 2xLP. We'll work on finding the source and embedding it here, but for now, follow the link.
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Years ago, one of our early releases was the LP version of Huntingtons' High School Rock. That long out of print LP is being released digitally as a remastered version including the LP bonus track. Burnt Toast Vinyl also released Rock 'N Roll Habits for the New Wave and a re-mastered version will soon be released digitally, as well. More details to follow.


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Google's App Crackdown Results In Indie Developer Smackdown
from the threatening-innocent-bystanders dept
Wired tells the story of the Cory and Andrew Trese, two brothers who are the very epitome of indie developers, and how they have found themselves under attack by Google as a result of this crackdown. Let's be clear in saying that these guys are not pirates, they're not some mega-corporation, and they don't have time to fend off unnecessary attacks resulting from an overreaction to a non-problem:
"The Trese brothers are so indie, they don't even know it. Their games are marketed through a simple Blogspot blog and unpretentious older brother Cory Trese routes all of his regular email correspondence through the address of his wedding photography business. Trese Brothers titles like Star Traders and Templar Assault might not feature cutting-edge graphics or revolutionary gameplay, but the ambitious scope of their games and steadfast dedication to constantly improving them has won them a small but loyal following. With a growing reputation for floating above the needs and desires of everyday people, Google's relationship with salt-of-the-earth devs like the the Trese Brothers are exactly the sort they ought to be cultivating. Instead, Google is about to chase the Treses off of their platform."
These are the good guys. The small-business types working overtime everyone likes to talk about. But when Google recently brought their app store under more strict control, allowing them to be more heavy-handed in what they allow on the platform, the Trese brothers began getting messages saying that they were somehow in violation and their apps would be dropped from the store.
"Cory Trese started receiving seemingly-automated emails from Google last week, informing him that he and his brother's games were violating the spam provisions of the new developer terms and conditions. Trese was dumbstruck.
"I was terrified, frankly," Trese told me. "I started trying to figure out how we got flagged. Maybe we update too often.""
It should be pointed out that the notion that frequent updates triggered the spam notice from Google is pure speculation...because as Google is now tasked with aggressively policing their app store, they're finding less time to respond to app developers questions via email or the support message board. The Trese brothers have been trying to get a response to no avail as of the time of this writing.
And this is the problem with a shotgun approach in responding to perceived issues with piracy on platforms: you end up taking out innocent bystanders in the process. We saw it with Megaupload, where artists and users used the service legitimately but were caught in the DOJ's ocean-spanning shotgun attack. We see it every time bit torrent technology is attacked, despite artists and users that also use it legitimately. Actions taken against perceived piracy problems need a scalpel approach, so that innocents like the Trese brothers don't have their creative output stifled.
Update: Commentors and Cory Trese himself stepped into the comments section to add some further clarification. It appears that the issue had to do with keywords in the description of Trese's games that still coincide with Google's tightening the ropes on their app store (thanks for the comments, guys!). Bottom line, it would appear that there is still some heavy-handedness and a lack of communication with app developers in this case, though Cory did say that Google reached out to them once news of this had got out.


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Hovering around the 14000 level, the Dow is within a hair's breadth of its all-time high, set in 2007. Andrew Bary of Barron's joins Markets Hub to discuss why the market could hit 15000 this year-or more. Photo: Getty Images.
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Coriolanus (US - BD RA)
Gabe takes up arms with Ralph Fiennes for this unique Shakespearian adaptation
I'm afraid I'm entirely unfamiliar with Shakespeare's original Coriolanus, despite my English professor grandfather's best intensions, so I approach Ralph Fiennes' treatment of the story as a fan of creative adaptation. Fiennes, who has never directed a major motion picture before, and his screenwriter John Logan approach the story of Caius Martius Coriolanus (Fiennes), the politically exiled hero of Rome, and his tentative allying with his greatest enemy, Tullus Aufidius (Gerard Butler), by placing it out of its original time – a popular and often successful practice for filmic Shakespearian adaptations since the days of Kurosawa's jidaigeki variants. Fiennes and Logan don't exactly relocate the action and era like Kurosawa, or like Richard Loncraine and Ian McKellen did for their version of Richard III, and they don't mix many out of time anachronism, as employed by Julie Taymor for Titus. Coriolanus is simply being placed in in a non-specific, fictionalized modern timeline, meant to point to as many contemporary parallels as possible. Such actions are rarely gambles in this day and age, but the concept really works, making for one of the most ambitious and action-packed Shakespearian adaptations I've ever seen.
Again, I don't know this particular play, so I can't speak to the specifics of the adaptation, but, to my undereducated eyes and ears, Logan's screenplay is extremely clever. Even without the efficient pacing and exciting action, this approach would likely place Coriolanus among the most general public accessible of all Shakespearian retellings. It's easy to follow the narrative, despite its scope, and just as easy to track the ensemble of complex characters, even if their names are still impossible to recall (Fiennes himself manages to flub the names a few times on his commentary track). These unwieldy mouthfuls of dialogue are spit (sometimes literally) with clarity of intent, requiring little in the way of interpretation at the risk of the visceral moment. The Bard's words aren't exactly 'natural', but are rarely jarringly unnatural either. Within a matter of few minutes, I had little trouble negotiating the language. Fiennes and Logan are particularly clever to utilize television news and talk shows as narrative shorthand. These gracefully modernize the expositional bits and help keep Shakespeare's story a manageable feature length.
Much of the credit falls upon the actors, of course, and Fiennes' work with them. For all his work, Logan's intended naturalistic tone would be lost if the actors treated the material too much like traditional, period Shakespeare. Fiennes gives himself the meatiest role. As a nearly autistic social misfit, Coriolanus is the one character here that can go off on furious, scenery-chewing rants and still fit well within the film's natural and modern approach, making good use of the excuse to furiously chew plenty of scenery throughout. The second most aggressively melodramatic performance is allotted to Vanessa Redgrave, who plays Coriolanus' mother Volumnia. The entire crux of the climax hinges on Redgrave's final impassioned speech to her son and she delivers something of searing brilliance. Yet neither Fiennes or Redgrave, or even Gerard Butler (who reminds us why he remains more than another throw away action sub-star) compare to the surprisingly understated charms of Brian Cox. Cox is cast against type and his performance is delicate and honest right up to his heartbreaking final scene.
Fiennes surrounds himself with some of the best and most capable craftsmen in Hollywood and the UK, starting with neorealist cinematographer Barry Ackroyd. Often associated with Ken Loach, Ackroyd most recent work includes Paul Greengrass' United 93 and Green Zone, and Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker, for which he was nominated for an Oscar, and won a BAFTA. He also helped Stuart Townsend make the leap from actor to director with Battle in Seattle. At times Fiennes leans a little too hard on Ackroyd's specific talents. The cinéma vérité style works beautifully for the adaptation, but the constant shake of the handheld camera draws a lot of attention to itself, especially since the tight, 2.35:1 framing amplifies any movement. Still, the gritty approach sells the grim realism of the script quite well and I can't imagine the film looking any different.
Coriolanus hits Blu-ray in full 1080p and is presented in 2.35:1 widescreen. This transfer shows off all the benefits of old-fashioned 35mm film stock. Detail and contrast levels are strong, while the format's 'shortcomings' are proudly displayed, including the ebb and flow of grain, and inconsistencies in colour quality, especially on the edges of the frame. Fiennes and cinematographer Barry Ackroyd utilize a whole lot of big facial close-ups, and tend to pull the focus relatively tight on foreground elements. This practice ensures that facial and hair textures benefit the most from the HD-level details (you've got to love Brian Cox's face in HD), but doesn't do a whole lot for the bulk of the backgrounds. The use of mostly natural lighting also doesn't do the transfer any favours in terms of background clarity, and darker scenes feature a lot more grain than the brightly lit ones. There aren't many signs of post-production colour timing, and any hue themes are largely dependent on the production and costume design, which are as generally unstylized as everything else in the film. Colours are largely washed out, and made up of blacks, grays, greens and blues. These are left to contrast only with the occasional warmth of skin tones and rich reds and yellows. None of the colours show major signs of digital compression artefacts outside some minor blooming haloes on the lightest edges and perhaps some minor low level blocking on the warmer, out of focus background elements. I still wouldn't mark the bulk of these as problems based on Fiennes and Ackroyd's supposed intensions. My only real complaint concerns the quality of some of the black levels, which I wish were closer to true black than muddled gray.
This DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 soundtrack is all about the dynamic ranges, constantly building up from whispering silence to massive walls of noise (often in the form of group chant or war noise), then cutting back to dramatic silence only to start the process again. The sound mix is quite naturalistic overall, but definitely drives into the realms of the hyper-real and rarely naturalistic as to not fill the stereo and surround channels with aggression when aggression is called for. Sometimes, the whisper of dialogue is too quiet to fully understand (despite a rather consistent LFE presence on Fiennes' voice in particular), leading the viewer to turn up the volume, only to be attacked when battles and protests pick-up a scene or two later. The battle scenes are the track's shining moments, and continue the dynamic contrast theme, ensuring that the audience doesn't grow numb to the sounds of inefficient gunfire. Bullets sear throughout the channels, and the pop of shots punch the LFE, but these cracks and whizzes are precise, and all the more powerful. Ilan Eshkeri's percussion heavy music bursts from the front channels with real impact and is effectively featured as an natural echo in the rear channels. The stereo effects of the music are quite busy, and the LFE throb is plenty heavy.
The extras begin with a commentary track featuring director/star Ralph (that's a silent 'l') Fiennes solo. Fiennes mumbles through this low energy track, discussing the film's visual themes, technical aspects (he's noticeably excited when referring to the work put into the war sequences) and a bit of the production process. Unfortunately he spends most of his energy narrating the film for us and not nearly enough energy talking about the film outside of the on screen image. At best the track fills in a few of the differences between the original play for those of us unfamiliar with the text, but long pauses and a plodding tone keep this track from being anything less than a chore for anyone other than Fiennes' biggest fans. The only other substantial extra is The Making of Coriolanus (5:40, SD), featuring interviews with Fiennes, actors Jessica Chastain, Brain Cox, Vanessa Redgrave and Gerard Butler, and director of research Steve Hindel, inter-cut with footage from behind the scenes and the finished film.
Ralph Fiennes makes an impressive directorial debut with Coriolanus. Few films have ever placed Shakespeare's language into a contemporary setting with so much ease and even fewer have managed to make the material feel this relevant. I don't imagine many viewers finding cause to rewatch Coriolanus on regular occasions, but I've definitely found it accessible and entertaining enough to recommend it to even those readers that might normally avoid similar experiments. The image and sound qualities of this disc are occasionally a bit rough, but this clearly fits with Fiennes' stylistic intentions. The extras include a relatively dull commentary track with Fiennes, and a brief featurette that covers the basics of production.
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Review by Gabriel Powers
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Ralph Fiennes + Shakespeare? Yes, please.
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His audio book performance of "The English Patient" was equally bad, little more than phoned in.
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Disc Details
Release Date: 29th May 2012
Discs: 2
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 2.35:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 English
Subtitles: English SDH, Spanish
Extras: Director/Star Commentary, The Making Of Coriolanus, DVD Copy
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Ralph Fiennes
Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Gerard Butler, Vanessa Redgrave, Brian Cox, Jessica Chastain, James Nesbit
Genre: Action, Drama and War
Length: 124 minutes
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|Tolkien Studies: Volume 1
|Douglas A. Anderson, Michael D.C. Drout, Verlyn Flieger
|West Virginia University
|30 April 2004
Tolkien Studies: Volume 1 is the first volume of the journal Tolkien Studies.
Carl F. Hostetter's article "Sir Orfeo: A Middle English Version by J.R.R. Tolkien" reprints the 1944 text of Sir Orfeo as edited by Tolkien, together with his editorial note (pp. 85-123).[1]
[edit] Contents
- Editors' Introduction
- Conventions and Abbreviations
- Tom Shippey: "Light-elves, Dark-elves, and Others: Tolkien's Elvish Problem"
- Douglas A. Anderson, Tom Shippey: "J.R.R. Tolkien, A Checklist"
- Gergely Nagy: "The Adapted Text, The Lost Poetry of Beleriand"
- Verlyn Flieger: "Do the Atlantis story and abandon Eriol-Saga"
- Anne C. Petty: "Identifying England's Lönnrot"
- Carl F. Hostetter: "Sir Orfeo: A Middle English Version By J.R.R. Tolkien"
- Mark T. Hooker: "Frodo's Batman"
- Michael D.C. Drout: "Tolkien's Prose Style and its Literary and Rhetorical Effects"
- Olga Markova (translated by Mark T. Hooker): "When Philology Becomes Ideology, The Russian Perspective of J.R.R. Tolkien"
- Thomas M. Honegger: "A Note on Beren and Lúthien's Disguise as Werewolf And Vampire-Bat"
- Dale Nelson: "Possible Echoes of Blackwood and Dunsany in Tolkien's Fantasy"
- Michael D.C. Drout, Laura Kalafarski and Laura Olsen: "Bibliography (in English) for 2001-2002"
[edit] External links
- Official product page
- Tolkien Studies: Volume 1 at Project Muse
- ↑ "Tolkien Studies I. 2004", TolkienBooks.net (accessed 2 January 2012)
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| Volume 1 · Volume 2 · Volume 3 · Volume 4 · Volume 5 · Volume 6 · Volume 7
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GOLETA, Calif. – The San Jose Earthquakes dropped a 1-0 result against the Chicago Fire during a preseason exhibition at UC Santa Barbara's Harder Stadium on Saturday.
The match was played in two 40-minute halves, a shortened format agreed upon by both head coaches before kickoff.
Earthquakes forward Chris Wondolowski and defender Justin Morrow made their first preseason appearances after returning from U.S. Men's National Team camp. The duo started and played 55 minutes. Wondolowski forced Fire goalkeeper Sean Johnson to come up with several saves as San Jose peppered the goal with shots in the first half.
Chicago's lone goal came on a penalty in the 79th minute from offseason acquisition Jeff Larentowicz. The center midfielder slotted his shot to the left post past third-year goalkeeper David Bingham.
The Earthquakes return to action on Tuesday against the Ventura County Fusion at Oxnard Community College (11 a.m. PT). They will return to the Bay Area after the match and depart again on Friday, this time for Portland where the club will play games against the Timbers, FC Dallas and AIK of Sweden.
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Scoring Summary: CHI – Jeff Larentowicz (penalty) 79.
Misconduct Summary: None.
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While attending a charity boxing event yesterday — the cleverly dubbed "Haymakers for Hope" — my roommate and I got into a discussion about what ethnic and geographic backgrounds could be combined to make the "perfect" boxer, or MMA fighter for that matter. It was basically a hypothetical game of Racist Transformers, but is it really racist if it's both hypothetical and rooted in positive stereotypes? I digress.
In any case, we both agreed that a Russian component would have to be in the mix somehow. While my roommate argued that a Russian-born Irishman raised in Brazil would make for a true "Ultimate Fighter" (which, considering what the average trip to the gas station can be like down there, is a sound choice), I believed a Brazilian-born Samoan raised in the desolate, hopeless tundras of Mother Russia would surely become the undefeatable killing machine prophesied in the before times. "All Russians know is despair," I said. "And that makes them stronger."
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