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March 1, 2012
Release courtesy USA Hockey
Six WCHA players were named finalists for the 2012 Kazmaier Award
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - The USA Hockey Foundation today announced the 10 finalists for the 2012 Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award, presented by Easton Foundations. The award, annually bestowed upon the top player in NCAA Division I women's ice hockey, will be presented at a brunch ceremony on March 17 at the Greysolon Ballroom in Duluth, Minn., in conjunction with the NCAA Women's Frozen Four (March 16 and 18).
The 10 finalists are (in alphabetical order): senior forward Bailey Bram (Ste. Anne, Man./Mercyhurst College), junior forward Brianna Decker (Dousman, Wis./University of Wisconsin), junior defenseman Laura Fortino (Hamilton, Ont./Cornell University), senior forward Rebecca Johnston (Sudbury, Ont./Cornell University), junior forward Amanda Kessel (Madison, Wis./University of Minnesota), senior forward Hilary Knight (Sun Valley, Idaho/University of Wisconsin), junior forward Jocelyne Lamoureux (Grand Forks, N.D./University of North Dakota), junior forward/defenseman Monique Lamoureux-Kolls (Grand Forks, N.D./University of North Dakota), senior goaltender Florence Schelling (Oberengstringen, Switz./Northeastern University) and senior forward Natalie Spooner (Scarborough, Ont./Ohio State University).
The top-10 class for the 15th annual Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award, presented by Easton Foundations, represents all four women's college conferences - College Hockey America, ECAC Hockey, Hockey East and the Western Collegiate Hockey Association.
The award selection process began in late February, when NCAA Division I women's ice hockey coaches were asked to nominate players for the award. Players who were nominated by two or more coaches were then placed on an official ballot, which was then sent back to the coaches to vote for the top 10 finalists. The independent accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP, tabulated the ballots.
The three finalists, including the recipient of the Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award, will be chosen by a 13-member selection committee comprised of NCAA Division I women's ice hockey coaches, representatives of the print and broadcast media, an at-large member and a representative of USA Hockey, the national governing body for the sport of ice hockey in the United States.
The three finalists for this year's award will be announced on March 8.
NOTES: Seven schools are represented, including two finalists from Cornell University, the University of North Dakota and the University of Wisconsin ... Among the finalists are seven forwards, two defensemen and one goaltender, including five seniors, four juniors and one sophomore. ... Among the 10 finalists are three from last year's top 10: Laura Fortino, Rebecca Johnston and Hilary Knight. Bailey Bram and Florence Schelling were top-10 finalists in 2010 ... Tickets to the ceremony may be purchased by calling 719-538-1169 or by submitting a completed ticket brochure (located at PattyKaz.com). Individual seats are $65, while tables of 10 are available for $600 ... Julie Chu, winner of the award in 2007 and three-time Olympian, will be the keynote speaker for the award brunch and Laura Kennedy, a sports anchor and reporter for WDIO (ABC) in Duluth, Minn., will serve as the master of ceremonies ... The 2012 Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award Ceremony, presented by Easton Foundations, will be broadcast live at USAHockey.FastHockey.com ... USA Hockey and the NCAA will team up once again to put on a free girls' skills clinic in conjunction with the Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award and the NCAA Women's Frozen Four. The event will take place on March 17, at the Mars Lakeview Arena from 4:15-5:15 p.m. CT. A Try Hockey for Free clinic will follow from 5:15-6:15 p.m.
An award of The USA Hockey Foundation, the Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award is annually presented to the top player in NCAA Division I women's ice hockey. Selection criteria includes outstanding individual and team skills, sportsmanship, performance in the clutch, personal character, competitiveness and a love of hockey. Consideration is also given to academic achievement and civic involvement. The Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award is supported, in part, by a grant from the NHL Foundation.
The Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award is named in honor of the late Patty Kazmaier, who was a four-year varsity letter-winner and All-Ivy League defenseman at Princeton University from 1981-86. An accomplished athlete who helped lead the Tigers to the Ivy League Championship in three consecutive seasons (1981-84), Patty Kazmaier-Sandt died on Feb. 15, 1990, at the age of 28 following a long struggle with a rare blood disease.
|2012 Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award Top-10 Finalists
|Bailey Bram
|Mercyhurst College
|Brianna Decker
|University of Wisconsin
|Laura Fortino
|Cornell University
|Rebecca Johnston
|Cornell University
|Amanda Kessel
|University of Minnesota
|Hilary Knight
|University of Wisconsin
|Jocelyne Lamoureux
|University of North Dakota
|Monique Lamoureux-Kolls
|University of North Dakota
|Florence Schelling
|Northeastern University
|Natalie Spooner
|Ohio State University
Bailey Bram
Mercyhurst College - Forward - Senior - Ste. Anne, Man.
Ranks second in the country with 2.28 points per game ... Ranks sixth in the nation with 66 points ... Registered a career-high 66 points, including a career-high 40 assists ... Her 26 goals are three shy of the personal-best 29 goals she scored as a sophomore ... Her 0.90 goals per game ranks sixth in the country, while her 1.38 assists per contest ranks second in the country ... Ranks second in the country with 11 power-play goals and is tied for 11th with two shorthanded goals ... Five-time winner of the College Hockey America Player of the Week award and earned the CHA's Player of the Month award twice ... Had at least one point in 24 of her 29 games played, including 20 multi-point contests ... Had an 11-game point- scoring streak from Oct. 8 through Dec. 3 ... During the streak, she had multi-point games in eight straight and had at least three points in five consecutive contests ... Scored a personal-best seven points against Lindenwood on Oct. 29 and had three games of at least six points this season ... Registered two hat tricks ... Needs three points to become the fourth Mercyhurst player in history to reach 200 points.
Brianna Decker
University of Wisconsin - Forward - Junior - Dousman, Wis.
Leads the nation with 35 goals ... Ranks second in the nation with 77 points ... Ranks third in the nation with 2.14 points per game ... Tied for eighth with five game-winning goals ... Has 33 multi-point games, nine multi-goal games and 12 multi-assist games ... Has four hat tricks ... Member of Wisconsin's Student-Athlete Advisory Committee ... Volunteered with annual Hunger Fight Drive, Bucky's Kid Clinic and "Skate with the Badgers."
Laura Fortino
Cornell University Defenseman Junior Hamilton, Ont.
Ranks second nationally among defensemen in points per game (1.17) and 33rd overall ... Recorded 7-27-34 ... Ranks second in assists in ECAC Hockey ... Ranks first in assists among ECAC Hockey defensemen ... Ranks second in ECAC Hockey in all games at +42 ... Ranks third in conference games with a plus/minus rating of +26 ... Ranks second in Cornell history in plus/minus rating ... Has eight multi-point games ... Scored the game-winning goals at then-No. 6 Mercyhurst on Dec. 2.
Rebecca Johnston
Cornell University - Forward - Senior - Sudbury, Ont.
Ranks fifth in the nation in game-winning goals (six) ... Ranks 11th in the nation in points per game (1.76) and 10th in the nation in goals per game (0.86) ... Ranks 15th in the country in assists per game (0.90) ... Leads ECAC Hockey with 51 points (25-26) ... Ranks second in ECAC Hockey with 25 goals and third with 26 assists ... Tied for second with a plus/minus rating of +42 ... Tops ECAC Hockey in conference-games only with a plus/minus rating of +30 ... Ranks second in conference-only games with 32 points ... Named ECAC Hockey Player of the Month ... Has 16 multi-point games this year including four four-point games ... Moved to fifth all-time in Cornell history for points in a career.
Amanda Kessel
University of Minnesota - Forward - Sophomore - Madison, Wis.
Ranks fourth nationally in points with 71 (29-42), which ranks fourth in the WCHA and leads the Gophers ... Reached 100 career points with an assist in Minnesota's 6-3 win at Minnesota State (Jan. 28), making her the fourth player in Gopher history to reach the 100-point milestone as a sophomore ... Leads the Gophers in plus/minus rating with +49 ... Recorded 22 multi-point games ... Won the WCHA Offensive Player of the Week after scoring eight points in the road series vs. St. Cloud (Feb. 3-4), including a six-point night ... Named Co-Offensive Player of the Week in the WCHA after scoring seven goals, including hat tricks in each game, against New Hampshire (Nov. 18-19) ... Has recorded three hat tricks (Oct. 8 vs. St. Cloud, Nov. 18-19 vs. New Hampshire) ... Scored a career-high four goals in a 11-0 victory over UNH (Nov. 18) ... Has recorded three game-winning goals and five power-play goals ... Has just four penalties for eight minutes this season.
Hilary Knight
University of Wisconsin - Forward - Senior - Sun Valley, Idaho
?Leads the nation with eight game-winning goals ... All-time points leader at UW and fourth all-time in NCAA Division I women's hockey history with 258 career points ... Ranks 17th in the nation with 1.56 points per game, scoring 28 goals and 28 assists in 36 games ... Tied for fourth in the nation and tied for first in the conference with three shorthanded goals ... Had an 11-game point-scoring streak totaling 14 goals and nine assists ... Has 16 multi-point games, six multi-goal games and six multi-assist games ... Has two hat tricks ... Had a six-point game against St. Cloud State (Feb. 11) ... Named WCHA Offensive Player of the Week twice ... WCHA Preseason Player of the Year ... Spoke at the Oxford Women's House on being a student-athlete, helped with a PhysEd unit at a local elementary school and a local Autistic Hockey team, visiting one of the players in the hospital ... Volunteered with the Ronald McDonald House, the annual Hunger Fight Drive, Bucky's Skill Clinic and spoke at the "Skate with the Badgers."
Jocelyne Lamoureux
University of North Dakota - Forward - Junior - Grand Forks, N.D.
Leads the nation in points (82), points per game (2.34) and assists (48) ... Ranks second in goals (34) and assists per game (1.37) Tied for fourth in the nation in power-play goals (11) ... Leads the team with a +45 plus/minus rating ... Leads the WCHA in points (82), assists (48), power-play points (29) and power-play assists (18) ... Has 24 multi-point games ... Has tallied two hat tricks ... Recorded three five-point games ... Had a 17-game point-scoring streak from Oct. 1-Dec. 3, where she averaged 2.59 points per game (16-28-44) ... Ranks second on the team with 187 shots on goal (.182 shooting percentage) ... Broke the school record for goals, assists and points in a season ... Collected her 200th career point in only 105 games ... Named WCHA Offensive Player of the Week twice ... Has won .593 percent of faceoffs (469 of 791) ... Actively involved in reading to elementary students and Special Olympic events.
Monique Lamoureux-Kolls
University of North Dakota - Forward/Defenseman - Junior - Grand Forks, N.D.
Ranks fifth in the nation in points (70) ... Ranks 16th in the nation in goals per game (0.40) ... Ranks second in the nation in assists (44) ... Third in the nation in assists per game (1.26) ... Tied for seventh in the nation in power-play goals (10) ... Tied for fourth in the nation in points (70) by a defenseman ... Third in the WCHA in conference-only points (53), tied for 10th in goals (17), second in assists (26), third in power-play points (19), tied for fourth in game-winning goals (4) and leads all defensemen in points (17-36-53) ... Has collected four hat tricks ... Tallied four unassisted goals ... Registered 18 multi-point games ... Her points, goals and assists are the second best single-season in program history ... Had a four-goal game, three four-assist games and one eight-point game (program record) ... Had 14-game scoring streak from Oct. 1-Nov. 25, where she averaged 2.36 points per game (13-20-33) ... Second on the team with a +43 plus/minus rating ... Leads the team with 203 shots on goal (.128 shooting percentage) ... Named WCHA Offensive Player of the Week once and Defensive Player of the Week once ... Actively involved in reading to elementary students and Special Olympic events.
Florence Schelling
Northeastern University - Goaltender - Senior - Oberengstringen, Switzerland
Ranks fourth in the nation in goals-against average (1.43), second in save percentage (.950), second in shootouts (8), and is first in Hockey East in all of those categories ... Started and finished 29 of Northeastern's 32 games this year, with a record of 20-5-4 ... Posted 12 games with 30 or more saves, including a season-high 43 saves in winning the Women's Beanpot final at Boston University ... Conceded one goal or fewer in 18 of 29 games ... Won Hockey East Goaltender of the Month, the Joe Bertagna Award (Women's Beanpot's top goaltender), and was a seven-time Hockey East Defensive Player of the Week ... Helps organize ?Krebskskranke Kinder, an annual charity golf tournament in her native Switzerland that supports children suffering from cancer ... Helps organize an annual hockey equipment auction for chairty with Swiss NHL players.
Natalie Spooner
Ohio State University - Forward - Senior - Scarborough, Ont.
Ranks among the top-5 nationally with 0.91 goals per game ... Tied for first nationally and tied for first in the WCHA with 12 power-play goals ... Ranks fourth in the WCHA in goal scoring with a team-best 31 goals ... Ranks eighth in the WCHA and leads the team in power-play points with 20 (12-8) ... Leads the team with 50 points (31-19) ... Has 12 power-play, one shorthanded and four game-winning goals ... Set the Ohio State career record in goals on Jan. 7, and has 98 in her four years ... Broke the program record in career goals vs. WCHA opponents on Oct. 14 and has 77 in her career ... Tied the Ohio State record for goals in a season with 29 ... Ohio State record holder with 16 game-winning goals in her career ... Second in program history with 163 career points ... Named WCHA Offensive Player of the Week three times ... Has a team-best 16 multi-point games ... Has three hat tricks, including two four-goal games this season ... Posted nine multi-goal games and four multi-assist games.


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Friday, February 27, 2009
Posted by Eshanvi Smith
Carpets and rugs have come to occupy a coveted place in our lives and homes. Carpets are handmade as well as machine made. Handmade carpets are more beautiful and sophisticated than the other ones. These carpets are given various designs and patterns by weavers through great skill and workmanship. It usually takes several months to complete a carpet of exceptional quality and value.
Two types of handmade carpets are particularly popular worldwide. These are the Persian carpets and the Oriental carpets. Persian carpets generally have two parts- the field or the central part and the borders. Geometrical, floral as well as medallion designs are used extensively in these carpets. They are hand knotted carpets which are tied with a single looping knot. The finest carpets may contain more than 50 knots per square cm. An average Persian carpet too has about 30 knots per sq. cm. Apart from the number of knots, the quality of a Persian carpet also depends on the knot density. The higher the knot density, more fine and expensive the carpet will be.
Carpets made in the Asian countries such as Turkey, India, Tibet, Nepal, Pakistan, China etc. are known as Oriental carpets. These are also hand knotted carpets. The most popular designs found in the oriental carpets include the Persian designs, the Turkoman allover designs, geometric and plain tribal designs. They are mostly made from natural fibers, especially wool. Strands of wool yarn are looped around the warp threads and knotted thereafter. The number of knots range from 20 to 600 per sq inch and can go upto 1,000 in the finest oriental carpets.
Handmade carpets, when categorized by origin, are known as Persian or Oriental Carpets. However, when studying carpets by weaves, they can be categorized into hand knotted, hand tufted, hand woven, braided and felted carpets. All of them can lend a great personality to our homes.

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For a long, long time it's been an accepted practice for baseball video games to be extremely skimpy on features. Sure, developers toss in the Hall of Fame licensed team and Home Run Derby, but little to no innovation has found its way into baseball games over the past decade. Acclaim is changing that with easily the deepest feature set to ever grace a console baseball game.
Not only is Acclaim spending oodles of cash to bring in over 100 legendary players to All-Star Baseball 2004, but they've added some new Hall of Fame-worthy features to this year's rendition. Coming to Xbox, PS2, and GameCube in just a few short weeks, ASB 2004 looks to dominate the contenders (all seven of them!) in terms of features.
The many extras of All-Star Baseball 2004 include:
- Over 100 legendary players including Negro League heroes like Josh Gibson and Cool Papa Bell!
- Future stadiums to be erected as your Franchise progresses into later years
- Pick-up Game
- Scenario Mode
- Trivia
- Batting Practice
- Home Run Derby
- Stadium Tours
- Multimedia (interviews)
- Choose your own player theme music!
- Spanish play-by-play
- Downloadable rosters (Xbox only/tentative)
Theme music
How many times have you played a baseball game and wished you could select music for when a batter walks to the plate. Now you can. Strut to the plate with any of the 20+ different songs in the library. Have Barry Bonds stroll to the batter's box while Mama Said Knock You Out plays from the P.A., or have Torii Hunter slink up to the plate to Stray Cat Strut. Sadly, you can't rip music from your Xbox hard drive. So, all gamers will have to choose from Acclaim's licensed list.
Pick-up Game
Ah, how I yearn for the days as a kid on the ball field. Well, the kids at Acclaim Austin must yearn too, because the new Pick-Up Game mode is entirely reminiscent of life in the schoolyard. You and a buddy (or the computer) choose from twenty random ballplayers. Legends, current players, and special ballers are all in the jumble. Pick sides and then take it to one of four unique fields: Schoolyard, corn field, sandlot, city park.
Players come to the field in jeans and t-shirts or special unis. The relaxed atmosphere is a great change from typical baseball games. Jeff Kent sliding into second in his blue jeans? Oh yes, it is for real and it's a great option for play against your buddy.
Check out these movies showing of the Pick-Up Game:
Selecting your team
Playing in the sandlot
Scenario Mode
By far the coolest addition to ASB is the Scenario Mode. There are 21 scenarios in all, each of them a game situation pulled directly from the 2002 season. Derek Jeter, Steve Lyons, and Cal Ripken introduce the situation and give you your goal before you thrust into the middle of a game, forced to complete your task.
One scenario has you in the ninth inning, playing as the Devil Rays, trying to break up Derek Lowe's no-hitter. You don't have to score a run, all you need to do is get a hit with the bottom of the Tampa Bay order. Another puts you in Mike Cameron's shoes. Having his four homers early in a game, your goal is to get Mike a fifth homer in the last three innings. Easier said than done.
Gamers come into the middle of innings, sometimes, and always in the middle of a game. Some of your bullpen and bench may have been used or may even be completely depleted. This is a test of your managerial skills as well as your hitting and pitching talent. It would have been cool to see some classic instances thrown in. Perhaps a chance to foil Bobby Thompson's shot heard round the world, for example. But, it's a start and a solid addition to ASB 2004.
Check out a couple of scenarios in action:
Break up the no-no
Score a run to save face
All-Star Baseball 2004 does a fine job of teaching some of the history of baseball with their stadium tours and interviews. Listen to Derek Jeter talk about video games (even though he doesn't play them), hear Cal talk about spending his career on the Orioles, and listen to Negro League veteran Buck O'Neil wax poetic on all things baseball. The compression is pretty bad, but the quality of the videos shows in what's said, not in what's seen.
Listen to a small part of Buck O'Neil's interview.
There you have a look at some of the new features in All-Star Baseball 2004. Look for our continuing coverage of every baseball game as we near the start of the season.


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Snake-bitten. Pathetic. Moribund.
They're all phrases that have been used this season to describe the Washington Nationals, the major league team that just can't seem to catch a break.
With the Red Sox in Washington for a three-game series beginning tonight, it seemed like a good idea to run through some of the themes that you will no doubt see presented over the next few days. And with Red Sox Monster based in the Washington area, who better to do it?
To that end, here's a few things to remember:
Murphy's Law always applies
As today's three-game series gets underway, the Nationals are struggling with a basic truth: With a 20-47 record, they have the worst winning percentage in Major League Baseball by more than 100 percentage points (.299, lagging way behind second-worst Cleveland's 29-42 record).
That isn't to say they don't have any talent, however. They do. In fact, their offense is in the middle of the National League pack in many offensive categories, including home runs (9th out of 16 with 67), batting average (9th at .259) and on-base percentage (3rd at .343). By no means is that tearing it up, but when you consider that thumpers like Adam Dunn (18 home runs already) are on the team, it stands to reason they can definitely score runs on occasion.
So why not more wins? As this story points out, earlier in the season, the Nats slugged the ball regularly, but had terrible pitching that consistently destroyed any chance of winning consistently. Now, they're pitching has improved, but the offense has cooled considerably. Bummer, eh?
Julian Tavarez still calls Washington home
Red Sox fans not following closely the career of former Red Sox outfielder Wily Mo Pena will be sad to hear that he's no longer with the Nationals, the team that traded for him after his prospects of ever contributing consistently in Boston had dwindled. In fact, he was waived by the Mets yesterday along with former Red Sox World Series hero Bobby Kielty, who had joined Pena on the Mets' Triple A team, the Buffalo Bisons.
If that all sounds like a bummer to you in the nostalgia department, take heart, Red Sox fans: Julian Tavarez is still around to make life a little bit crazier. After initially comparing joining the Nationals to taking home "a 600-pounder" following a night in the club, he has put together a relatively solid season, posting a 3.81 ERA and 1.31 WHIP for the Nationals. Remarkably, he also hasn't given up a run in his last 11 appearances, which span 10 1/3 innings.
That, of course, brings to mind some of my favorite footage of Tavarez of all-time:
Ah, the good ol' days.
Trade rumors will come up
In the last month, several trade scenarios involving the Nationals and Red Sox have come up, with most centering on Nationals first baseman Nick Johnson and Boston reliever Manny Delcarmen. With the reemergence of David Ortiz this month, it seems less likely the Sox will pull the trigger on that one. But will definitely come up, one can assume.
The Nationals starters could give the Sox problems
Washington is expected to start John Lannan, Craig Stammen and Jordan Zimmermann against Brad Penny, Jon Lester and John Smoltz this week. While those three Nationals starters have hundreds less games pitched in the major leagues than Boston's, they also come into the series on something of a roll.
Take Lannan, 24. A young, crafty lefty with good control, he threw 182 innings and posted a 3.91 ERA and 1.34 WHIP last season for a team that finished 59-102. This season, he has been even better, pitching into the ninth inning and beating the Mets and Yankees in two of his last three starts. Doesn't that sound like the kind of guy who ties up the Sox the first time they meet?
The other two Nationals starters are lesser known quantities, but Stammen, 25, blanked the Yankees over 6 1/3 innings last week during a 3-0 win. Zimmermann, 23, is considered a strong prospect and is a former second-round draft pick who was fast-tracked through the Nationals farm system.
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What do George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt and Thomas Jefferson have in common?
In addition to their standings as former U.S. presidents, they all race nightly during Nationals home games.
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An interview with cycling author Lennard Zinn
Editor's note: This interview originally appeared in Issue #14. You can purchase a copy of this issue in our online store, or order a subscription and you'll never miss an issue.
Interview by Jeff Lockwood, Illustration by Nicholas Rich
Lennard Zinn is an institution in the bicycle world—a legend. Legions of cyclists have learned to repair bikes from him, ridden bicycles he's built, or used his advice as guidance on how to better enjoy the world on two wheels. He grew up in the science hotbed of Los Alamos, New Mexico. After graduating from Colorado College, Zinn immersed himself in the bicycle world. He started his own bicycle company, Zinn Cycles. He became Senior Technical Writer for Velo (formerly VeloNews), and is now the longest-employed writer appearing on the masthead, with 24 years' experience. He's also written a small library of books on bicy- cle maintenance, skills, and performance, most notably Zinn and the Art of Road Bike Maintenance and Zinn and the Art of Mountain Bike Maintenance.
What's the path that led you to bicycles?
I was an alpine ski racer at Colorado College, and freshman year I got a knee injury. I started to ride a bike as a way to strengthen my knee, but started to get into it more and more. By the time I was out of college, I was on the National Cycling Team.
Towards the end of the 1981 season at the Tour of Ireland, I tore my gastrocnemius (calf muscle), and it didn't heal correctly and calcified. It took about a year to heal, and in that time I didn't know what to do with my- self. I had no income other than bike riding.
I couldn't stand to be around Boulder without being able to ride bikes. So I moved out to northern California and started working in geophysics. I got laid off, and ended up working for Tom Ritchey at the end of 1981. I actually lived in his house at the very early part of the mountain bike thing, building Ritchey mountain bikes and Ritchey bull- moose handlebars.
Eventually I came back to Boulder be- cause my knee wasn't getting any better. And then my grandmother died and left me $10,000. I thought, "Well…what the heck am I going to do with myself?" So I figured I'd start a frame-building business.
How did you get involved with writing about bicycles?
The writing came along later be- cause one of my former teammates, Felix McGowan, bought VeloNews in 1987 and moved it to Boulder. VeloNews never had any technical writing—it was all just race reporting—and he wanted to have some.
Another buddy from college had started Rocky Mountain Sports & Fitness magazine. In order to get some bike advertisers, he wanted to have some bike tech stuff. I had written some stuff for him, and Felix had seen it. And being an old teammate, he came to me first.
The book writing…it was sort of two things. One was that I had a customer, Lou Morgan from Chicago, who was really into time trialing, and would meet me at the wind tunnel at Texas A&M where I was working with guys like Greg LeMond, Lance Arm- strong, and all the top triathletes. On one of the trips, Lou said, "You know, I really try and read that shit you write in VeloNews, but it is so boring! What you should do is write a book because it would be great for insomniacs!" The other thing is there is an old classmate of mine from Los Alamos who owned a bookstore here in Boulder, Discount Books. My wife is a teacher, and each time she would go in there, he would tell her, "Lennard needs to write a book, and he needs to call it Zinn and the Art of Mountain Bike Maintenance." One time she came home with a mock cover of the book he made up for her.
All of a sudden it just kind of gelled. I could really visualize doing it. I was aware, in my estimation, there just weren't any decent books that answered the kind of questions people were constantly asking me about how to work on their bikes. So I just decided I could do it.
What's the one piece of advice you have for people looking to learn about maintenance and fixing their own bikes?
I'd say just start doing it! I really think people tend to be scared off by it. They see the bike as a black box. They'll maybe put a little chain lube on there. But they're like, "My God! I took the chain off…how would I route it through all those jockey wheels and all those little tabs on the derailleur?"
If you don't actually just get in there and start taking things apart, you'll never learn. Be willing to make mistakes. You're going to make mistakes the first time trying to work on a bike. You're gonna try and adjust your derailleur and you're going to turn the barrel adjuster the wrong way and make it worse. But that's how you learn.
I'm by no means a master mechanic, but I do like to work on my bike, and see it as part of my cycling experience. Do you see maintenance as part of cycling, or are they completely divorced from one another?
I just don't see how one can have the full enjoyment of riding a bike if they don't [maintain it]. Most of my riding, I do by myself. And I love it! But there is never a nagging thing in the back of my mind like, "Oh boy, I'm way out here. If something breaks, I'll never be able to get back." It just never crosses my mind. And I think you rob yourself of a lot of what's possible if you don't sort of have that underlying confidence of, "I can fix this if anything goes wrong with it."
What's one common fix for people that's generally not known, but that's really simple to possibly fix on their own?
Brakes. People just get all wigged out about it, but it's simple. People are most dependent on the brakes for safety. I've seen some unbelievable things—pads hitting the tire, ready to blow out the tire at the worst time; pads worn out; people not closing the quick-release on their brakes after putting them back on.
What's your general philosophy about bicycles?
My guiding philosophy on the bicycle is that it's a tool. And that's why I never exhibited at the North American Handmade Bicycle Show…maybe it's changed in the last five years, but it sure struck me as a place where the people who went were just looking at eye candy and weren't interested in buying. It's what got pictures in the magazines, and what people wanted to see…the stuff that has nothing to do with riding. The hand-filing of the lugs, the curly Q's, and the curved tubes and the weird chains with half lengths, and all this stuff…$30,000 bicycles that are no more serviceable than a $1,000 one.
Most of the bikes I build are for really tall people. And the reason I do that is because those people…I can identify with them. I'm 6'5", and I never could get a bike to fit right, and it was rare I got one that wouldn't shimmy like crazy at high speeds.
I have a degree in physics, and had actually done my senior seminar on the stability of the bicycle and had written computer models in Fortran for bicycle stability. I had given seminars on it and really had some ideas I wanted to test out. I used to teach jewelry making with the leisure program at Colorado College, so I knew how to silver solder.
Tell me more about your work with bicycles for tall people.
I know they can't get one that's big enough, and any one they get that's even close…by the time they geek out the post and stem and everything…that thing's just going to be scarier than hell going downhill at high speed.
So that's been my mission, to provide bikes for tall people that fit. That involves frame design in terms of making sure their touch points are in the right position.
I was the first one that I know of using 1-1/8" diameter steerer tubes for road bikes, and we had to make our own stems at the time because there weren't any stems avail- able. But as soon as 1-1/8" headsets were available for mountain bikes, I was able to make a bigger head tube and use a bigger down tube and top tube. As soon as people accepted frames that weren't lugged, you could do fillet brazing or TIG welding that allowed the freedom with angles and tube diameters that lugs didn't al- low. Now I'm able to drop the top tube down and angle it… all sorts of things to stiffen up the front triangle.
Then I started making custom cranks that were proportional. Just like the frames were proportional to the size of the rider, I believed the crank ought to be proportional, too. With big people, you end up with cranks that are way outside what anyone else is making. It also allowed me to raise the bottom bracket. By raising the bottom bracket for clearance for those big cranks, it allows me to shorten the seat tube from the bottom as well as shortening it from the top. So I can just tighten up the whole front triangle and make the whole thing stiff enough to not shimmy.
So that's what I think my gift is, if you will, in frame building, in the design aspect of it…making a bike that's re- ally efficient for a [tall] guy, and also in terms of strength and durability and definitely in terms of performance of not shimmying and of being really stable at high speed.
What's one major misconception of bicycles built for taller people, or in the construction of them?
Once you get to be an adult—at least with road bikes—basically everybody has the same length crank: 170-175mm, or even 165-180mm. With certain cranks, you can get that much range, but that's still no kind of range relative to the difference in proportions of people. And then with wheel size, other than a few people riding 650B…smaller people can get away with smaller wheels… there's no bigger wheels. Everyone's got the same wheel size.
Now with mountain bikes you have a big range of wheel sizes, which is wonderful. I'm really happy about that.
One of the problems then, if you take someone as tall as me, and you're going to fit them on a road bike with a 175mm crank, and you want to do the standard knee-over- pedal positioning, the seat has got to be way, way back over the bottom bracket in order to get the knee over the pedal. What you end up with really makes the bike terrible, in my estimation. You have a super-shallow seat angle in order to get the seat back far enough to get the rider's knee over the pedal.
And what you end up with is the rider cantilevered way back over the rear wheel—weight distribution is awful. You have very little weight on the front wheel, and tons on the rear. It tends to wheelie the bike riding up steep climbs, and it doesn't really have good weight distribution for handling on the descent.
And I think those bikes just generally do a disservice to tall riders and tend to discourage them from riding, because most tall bikes are too flimsy and too flexible. They just shimmy. And then with this positioning problem, the rider winds up super folded up at the hip angle because the seat is pushed so far back, and then the handlebars are not far enough forward and way too low. They're just uncomfortable.
And that's for a skinny tall guy! For a tall guy with a beer belly, it's even worse! The shimmy is worse the heavier the rider gets. Those guys are the ones that really need to be riding a bike, and are the ones least comfortable and least safe on the thing.
You mention how mountain bikes have advantages because of the different wheel sizes, and that road bikes don't have that. One of the questions someone posed for this interview is, "Should the road bike industry learn from the mountain bike industry and develop 800c, 900c, or even meter-diameter bigger wheels?"
Oh yeah! I agree entirely. For me, clearly a 29" mountain bike works way better than a 26". There's not even a comparison. On the other hand, I think it's a disservice to make 29ers for five-foot-tall people. What makes sense is to have wheel size that is proportional to the rider.
What happens with tall bikes is that you end up with just more frame [that's likely] to twist around. Say you had an 800c wheel… it would have proportionally larger cranks, proportionally bigger wheels—just like one of my 29" mountain bikes for someone my size—200mm cranks, 29" wheels, XXL size. If you saw that leaned against a house with nothing to compare it to for standard reference, it looks like a normally proportioned bike. Just like if you had a 16" mountain bike there with 26" wheels.
With road bikes, if you could scale up the wheels the same way, there are a number of benefits that would happen. One is that the frames would be quite a bit stiffer because you wouldn't have all these tube lengths…super long head tubes and everything in order to deal with getting the rider's handlebars up enough. You'd have proportionally more gyroscopic stability for the bigger riders. You'd have the more powerful guy—just like with the mountain bike—the bigger, more powerful person has an easier time dealing with the heavier weight of a rotating 29er wheel than the 5-foot, 90-pound person trying to turn it with a 29er. It just doesn't make any sense.
If you go to the length where you scale up cranks and wheels and frames with riders, you end up being able to use the same gearing on all bikes. As the crank gets longer, you can maintain the same foot speed, but it's not realistic to maintain the same cadence.
But more leverage gives you the same kind of advantage that higher cadence does. It allows you to put out the same power output with lower peak loads if you turn your feet around faster. So, you tend to build less blood lactate at the same workload. In a big rider, that makes much more sense.
When Jan Ullrich tried to pedal like Lance Armstrong, he trained and trained to try and figure out this super-high cadence thing that Armstrong was doing and it just wouldn't work for him because he's got these much bigger, heavier legs. It's inefficient to turn big, heavy, long legs around at a really high rate like that. If he had a proportionally longer crank and proportionally bigger wheel and everything, then the whole thing, I think, would have worked a lot better. He would have been able to benefit from the lower peak loads that Armstrong was, except doing so by using more leverage.
If you weren't working around bicycles, what do you think you'd be doing?
Wow. [laughs] You know, really… it was that whole thing with the lifestyle of bikes, and traveling to ride bikes…I grew up in a town where all of my peers got a degree in sciences, and all went on to get advanced degrees. My brother and his wife are both biochemistry professors at Cal Tech, and most of my high school friends are university professors. I suppose I would have done that had I not discovered bikes.


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By Bob Litton
As a "man of letters" I read as much as my drowsy eyelids allow me. However, I do not progress very rapidly in my perusal of a book, regardless of whether the subject is deep or light, improving or escapist. One reason for my slowness, of course, is my inherent turtle's metabolism in all its manifestations, mental or physical; another is, of course, my ancient age: my mind wanders.
A more laudable cause, though, is that I read as much — perhaps more — for detection of style and grammatical quirks in the author. This attribute has contributed plenty to the development of my own style. That is the positive side of the attribute; the negative is that I become annoyed, sometimes even angry, when I note faults in the diction or grammar in other writers. Just this week, for instance, I started reading Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure, his last novel. In Part First, Episode III (or "Section III"— I cannot quite comprehend Hardy's division style), I came upon this paragraph:
The boy (Jude Fawley, the protagonist) had never strayed so far north as this from the hamlet in which he had been deposited by the carrier from a railway station southward, one dark evening some few months earlier, and till now he had had no suspicion that such a wide, flat, low-lying country lay so near at hand, under the very verge of his upland world. The whole northern semicircle between east and west, to a distance of forty or fifty miles, spread itself before him; a bluer, moister atmosphere, evidently, than that he had breathed up here.
It might be a small matter to my readers, but it seems to be that an omniscient author should be more exact in his measurements. The word "some", in particular, irritates me when it is used by either an indifferent or a lazy writer. What does "some" mean here? It could be four months or fourteen months: the word "few" would have been quite adequate if allowed to stand alone, but instead Hardy wants to make us guess. ( The word "somewhat" is often used by other writers in much the same way: I think "somewhat" should be banned from the English dictionary.) The same criticism is pertinent to the other phrase I have emphasized in bold type. If two characters were discussing the area described here, I could accept such a remark from them; but Hardy, the novelist, is supposed to be the omniscient observer, and I expect a bit more decisiveness from him even if, as a real human being, he does not know the precise radius of the semicircle: just let him lie and let us get on with the story.
Now, do not take me wrong and believe that I am judging Hardy harshly or that I do not appreciate his writing; I like his style generally and I especially like his irony. I am just using a sample of his writing to prove a point about the value of clarity (even if it is a fabrication) in getting the pace of a story moving. I see this kind of vagueness almost every day in newspaper reports. It is both funny and aggravating to read a news account in which the reporter has written something like this: There were only about two or three people in the room. My God! Cannot the knucklehead count to three?
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I had a brief but engrossing debate with a friend of mine this morning over how a married woman should be titled. I am as much…well, almost as much…a feminism supporter as he, but I am definitely more conservative in maintaining the conventional standards of our language than he. During our conversation I mentioned that I would like to keep as much of our language conventions as possible, but I realize that language is a live thing in that it evolves just as animals and plants do.
"There just isn't much that can be done about it," I said. "Take 'want to', for instance. The new form — 'wanna' — is already practically standard; and I can't really argue against it, ugly though I view it, because that basically is what we pronounce. In my youth there was a hue and cry over the contraction 'ain't', but have you ever tried to pronounce the logical contraction 'amn't'?"
Then we started in on my objection to the frequent introduction of some woman as "Mrs. Mary Jones".
"It should be 'Mrs. John Jones'!" I declared.
That is when my friend sat bolt upright in his chair.
"And I most strongly disagree with that!" he said. "The woman is not 'John Jones'! That is her husband's name."
"True, but 'Mrs.' denotes a marital connection. Her husband's name is not 'Mary'. And, even if you dispense with the husband's entire name, she still is saddled with a male's last name: her father's."
Our conversation drifted off into a discussion of patriarchal and matriarchal societies — at least to the small degree we were acquainted with them. We never really settled on an answer to the marital name question, although we did agree that it will probably end up in a lengthy title involving several hyphens.
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A more dramatic — and therefore more fascinating to me — bump in the road to good, clear written communication is our use of the word "only". Ponder these sentences for a few minutes:
Only Miss Muffet sat on the tuffet.
Miss Muffet only sat on the tuffet.
Miss Muffet sat only on the tuffet.
Miss Muffet sat on the only tuffet.
Now, Gentle Reader, surely you will agree that each of those sentences says something different from the others, even though the same words, and only those words, are used in each. The example above illustrates how our language is virtually totally dependent upon word order. Such has not always been the case. English has evolved from a state in which each word had several forms, each form indicating how it was to be understood in the sentence. Students of ancient Greek and Latin will immediately grasp my point, for those languages (being dead) retain their various forms. In other words, they are highly inflected. Other readers should grasp some degree of my import when I suggest they consider the few remnants of our older language as apparent in our pronouns: I, me, he, him, she, her, they, them, who, whom, they, theirs, etc. In Standard English those terms still require their unique meanings; but, sadly, one can witness every day the decline in observance of those distinctions. Even in movies and TV shows, one will hear the characters say things like "Him and I went to the ball game" or "Who are you talking to?" I was startled — almost shocked — one day a couple of years ago when I first viewed "The Thin Man" film (1931) and heard Nora Charles' old aunt, discerning a knock at the door, say, "That must be they now!" It was a shocking utterance because it was grammatically correct, something you would not hear in a modern remake of the film.
But I have digressed from the main point I want to make about the four brief sentences above. That is, I constantly see instances in the papers where either a speaker or the reporter places the word "only" in a position which detracts from the clarity of a sentence or may even totally misrepresent it. Sorry, I do not have any real-life examples at hand, but you can find one if you keep a lookout for it. When you notice it, just try mentally relocating that word to a spot closer to the word it is meant to modify.
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Another of my pet peeves is the "feminine so". The word "so" has multiple uses, but the use with which I am concerned here is that of an intensive. The word can logically be used that way, but only if it has an apparent referent or consequent. The problem is that sometimes it is employed as what we might call an "absolute intensive", without any referent. This often occurs in conversations among high-strung teenage girls, as when they exclaim something like "I am soooo depressed!" So what? If the girl had said, "I am so depressed that I am going to get drunk!" then we would have something by which to gauge the intensity of her condition. An alternative intensive is available: "very". The word "very" does not call out for a referent or consequent; we can simply accept its simple measure of degree above normal. I used to teach that a "that clause" should follow the "so" intensive; but I had been overstating the situation. Further study led me to conclude that the referent might be included in part of the paragraph preceding the sentence using "so" and no "that clause" be needed. For instance, somebody might say, "The earth is cracking around here and our cattle are dying from thirst. I'm going to have to give up this farm. This drought is so devastating."
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Finally, I would like to reiterate the perennially pointed to problem of confusing the meanings of "effect" and "affect". Both words can be used as nouns and both can be used as verbs. However, the meanings are different in every instance. I will not bother to take up space explaining those differences here. I will only suggest that those of my readers who wish to render their own writings grammatically logical should go to a large dictionary and compare/contrast "effect" and "affect". (I saw one term used where the other should have been used in The New York Times either yesterday or the day before, so even the masters can goof occasionally.)
I have a similar issue with the terms "attain" and "obtain". I see them as having entirely different meanings, but the Internet dictionary I use allows for some degree of crossover. What can I say? I am a purist!


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Everything good about religion can be acquired some other way.
The only reason people care about religion, the Bible is for the promise of an afterlife. The religions that don't promise don't take center stage. If we knew there was nothing after death people wouldn't give the Bible a second glance. It's all based on fear. Fear of the unknown. Fear of death. No one knows and that's a fact. It freaks people out that they know there going to die so they believe. It selfish in it's essence because you care were you'll end up. Accepting the fact we don't know should really be enough. It will be exactly what it is.
if there was no soul, everybody would do evil things and benefit since there is no punishment. Say if there is only ONE life and no more, why do good then? -----> It is quite obvious that debts have to be repaid if there is. There must be something remaining of you to ensure this payment. Either your body or your soul. You don't get away doing evil things without repayment.
Additionally, religion talks about heaven and hell... do good things, go to heaven. Do bad things, go to hell. Using the soul or body???
How come there is always mention of soul or souls in the bible. Obviously there must be souls.
No need to proof such things via science... For what? They're not the same thing.
I do not see what this question has to do with anything. In Abrahamic religions, the soul is your life; as long as you breath, you have a soul. This is why your soul does not die: because you live on in Heaven or Hell.
People need to believe in something, in order to give their life meaning. No matter what science proves, people will always need something to believe in. Religion is something that people believe in, that is passed down from their elders. If it's not religion, it would be something else that people will believe in.
Religions are all based on fear. Fear of death is the biggest on that is used. Even if it was proved that there is no soul, people would still fear death, and still cling to ideas that make them less fearful of death. Science has proved many things, but religion will always find ways around the proof.
I feel that no matter what religion you belong to, or what level of spirituality you have, you will always have the need to believe in a higher being. Believing in a being higher than yourself gives you hope when there is no one else to provide that for you. I think that even the lack of a soul would not hinder people from sticking firmly to their religious beliefs.
Religion has existed as long as humans have existed. People need to believe in a higher power to give substance or meaning to their lives. Whether it was believing in the sun god or the great chief, their beliefs or religious creed sustained them through the good and the bad times. Scientists have made several discoveries, but for the most part people tend to ignore discoveries unless it benefits the person to grab hold of the new discovery. Proving a soul does not exist would not change a religious person's belief. Religion will always exist in our world.
Science is not an end all in itself. For example, can one validate the scientific method? How could we do so? We certainly couldn't do so with the scientific method itself. And many scientists agree there are multiple universes, so the furthest a scientist could extrapolate is that there is no scientific evidence of a soul in this universe. Furthermore science has yet to answer the question of self awareness, and why we are not just like robots that perform tasks.
Being religious requires blind faith, belief in something that has not been scientifically proved to exist; in this sense science plays an insignificant role in faith. People rely on religion as a moral guide, belief in the soul and afterlife(heaven or hell) serves spiritual needs as opposed to intellectual needs. If anything, proving there is no soul might cause many to cling deeper to religious beliefs.
Religion encompasses more than just satisfying the soul or finding a place for its eternal rest. Most religions set and reinforce basic guidelines for morality and living an ethical lifestyle. Organized religion offers people a time and place to reflect and meditate, either as a group or on their own. It gives them a connection with their Higher Power, whatever they choose to call it. There would still be a place for religion in a world without souls.
Even if, somehow, scientists proved that no souls exist, people would likely be unshaken from their various religious beliefs. Despite mountains of evidence showing the Bible and other holy texts are not books of literal fact, people still take it as such in many cases. People of faith will always exist, though eventually possibly in the minority.


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Tonk is a kind of knock rummy. It's played with a standard 52 card deck. A picture card counts 10 points, ace counts 1 point and other cards count face value. Players take turns to be the dealer. Five cards are dealt to each player. The next card is placed face up on the table to start the discard pile, and the remaining undealt cards are placed face down in a stack beside the discard pile to form the stock. A player whose initial hand contains 50 points must declare "Tonk" immediately and win the game by being paid double of the stake. If your opponent also has 50 points on hand, the hand is a draw and there are no payments. The game then ends and begin the next hand. Otherwise the play continues. A player next the the dealer play first and play according to the following steps: 1) You have an option to "knock" by placing all your cards face up. You win the stake when you have a lower total point in your hand than other players. You lose double of the stake amount when you have a higher total point. The game then ends. 2) If you do not knock, you draw a card either from the stock or the discard pile. If you want to draw a card from the face down card stock and it runs out, the game ends and who has fewer points in the hand win the stake. 3) You have an option to lay down "meld" which consist three or four card of the same rank, or at least three cards with consecutive rank in the same suit. You can also lay down any card which form meld with melds already laid down by all players. If you can get rid of all your cards, you "tonk" and win double of the stake amount and the game ends. 4) If you do not tonk, you end your turn of play by discarding a card face up on to the discard pile. If you have no card in your hand after the discard, you win the stake and the game ends.
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Looking for Passion
In a recent post by Sabrina Henry–one of the photographers I'm mentoring–some questions were raised on what is passion and how to find your passion. As is our usual practice, it became a conversation that I believe is important to many of us. For any art, the search for answers is individual and no one way fits everyone. Discovery of these answers can be guided by what others have done or their experiences in finding them but ultimately the hard work needs to be done by the person seeking them and are very personal. Below is part of my conversation with Anita who first posed these questions to Sabrina.
Do you need passion before you get to work or does getting to work making photographs "wherever you are" help develop/uncover passion and desire?
How do we find/understand what we want to say?
I have thought about these questions for a week and a way to put an answer in writing that makes sense for you. The problem with email or writing something is that it becomes a semi-definitive answer that may not fit everyone. Without feedback or that interaction and the ability to see how the words fall on someone, they become sort of sterile and may not be the right path for that individual. That's much of the problem with books on the arts and photography and the problem with so much of the online jabber. An idea becomes diluted or misdirected when it isn't a conversation. One way doesn't fit everyone. So with all that said, I'll attempt to help or at least try to give you a way to find your own answers because your answers will be yours alone and won't fit anyone else.
Photography as a passion? Is it a passion to just document the world around us? Passions should be about experiencing–to do more than just record what others experience and feel. The idea of just being an observer seems a bit hollow to me and I believe, won't lead to the kinds of images and expression that have lasting impact. Having a passion for expression is fine but what do you have to express?
Passion is discoverable I believe but it isn't through the tools. People love photography and I am never sure if the love of it is for the ability to actually say something of importance with it or for the cool, technical things that go along with it. So when the tools of expression are out of the way–be it painting, music or photography–the true passion is about what you want to say with it. The things and emotions you want to explore and what you have to say about them. It isn't about a specific thing like a certain flower or car or even genre of subject. Long-lasting and real passions are on a "global" level. I love to discover what makes people tick, why they feel the way they do and what makes them unique–the stories that make up their lives and how they became who they are. That may be my passion but it isn't about a single type of individual or single type of people. It is something in all people no matter where in the world they are.
I have heard it said by folks that they are passionate about travel. I am not sure I understand that sort of generalization. What is it about travel they are passionate about? The cultural differences from home, the architecture, the people, etc? I am pretty sure it isn't about the flying or the airport lines. It is through these sorts of questions we ask ourselves that we can find that "thing" we keep heading towards with an idea of expressing our feeling and view of it. This defines our passion. I think passion is, in some ways, the wrong word but it is as close as language can get for that which draws us in and drives us to find a way to say what we feel about it.
As it has been said "Don't show me what you see show me how you see it". It's how you see the world and the parts of the world you are drawn to that will define your passion. Passion finds you as much as you find it. The "how to find it" is to let curiosity rule and to follow it wherever it leads. Ignore the rest and trust that curiosity. Don't worry about defining your passion; let it define your work and to a certain extent, you. Too much is made of the "how" online and not enough of the "why" of photographs. The why is much more interesting and rare. Pretty doesn't make a good photograph; subject and story do.
Passion is good but thinking about it gets in the way of having it. I never thought about mine until I had to help others define theirs so that they felt ok to be in the so-called conversation. The only art I have ever been involved in that talked about it is photography. In the others, the work said it for the maker. Passion never came up in conversation but then neither did the tools that made it.
Photography in some ways is a little too democratic and lets the tools define the work for the beginner. Instead of having a point to what they have to say, photographers tend to make photos and only then look for the meaning in them. Try making photographs that you have defined before you make them. This will tell you what sort of story you are looking for. Make images that express something you feel something about, not just the ones you happen to see around you. Pre-visualize the story and image first, then make it. Do enough of this kind of work and you will know what you want to say and how to say it in your way. Passion will be part of it and not something you search for.


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Generally speaking, when that's not secure enough, people just do more of them. Yeah, it kind of works, but a) it'll still slip given enough of a load and b) good luck untying it.
The second point above is the most relevant, as in 90% of situations you'll want/need to recover your rope after the purpose has been fulfilled. A good knot, when you know what you're doing, can be super secure, not slip and, most importantly, be super easy to untie at the end.
Many people are intimidated by learning knot tying, and while it's true that there are hundreds, if not thousands, of different knots, you only need to know a few to cover you in most situations, and, while they may look complicated at first, they're quite simple. I've hand-picked the most easy to learn to show you here. So grab some cordage of some kind, grab something you can tie to (I hook a large carabiner to something when I'm practicing and use that) Many of you may prefer other knots, and that's fine, but these are the ones I use most commonly.
The Carrick Bend Knot - Used for tying together two cords of the same thickness
This is a classic example of a knot that looks complex but is fairly simple, and you can get quite quick at tying it. When it comes to tying two ropes together, many people resort to a reef knot, however, reef knots are deceptively unsuitable for this task, but a Carrick Bend Knot will serve you well:
If you look closely, it's merely two loops of cord intertwined through each other. The easiest way to tie it is to fold over the end of one cord into a loop, then thread the other cord through it as shown above. Practice it a few times and you'll get it.
The Sheet Bend Knot - Used for tying together two cords of differing thickness
This knot is incredibly straightforward, but if done the wrong way around becomes quite insecure. Here's what the full knot looks like:
In the case above, the red cord would be the thicker cord, and the green would be the thinner. Once tightened, this knot is quite secure, but be aware that if you do it the wrong way around, it won't be. If it looks like this, undo it and start again:
Basically, you want the "tail" that is left of the thinner cord to be facing the tip of the "hook" created by the thicker rope.
The Running Bowline Noose Knot - Used to create a noose-like cord structure for snares
This one is deceptively straightforward. The trick is, to make a small, secure loop in the end of your cord using a bowline knot, like so:
This looks tricky, but is easy to form. Start by creating a loop in the rope:
Feed the other end of the rope through this loop:
Take the end that you fed through the loop and wrap it around the original line:
Feed the end that you wrapped around back through the original loop, and you're done:
Tighten that up and you have a fixed loop. If that fixed loop is nice and small, you can then feed the long end of your line back through this loop to create a noose. While not as strong as a proper hangman's knot, it'll do just fine for snares.
The Clove Hitch Knot - Ideal for attaching weight-bearing cordage to a fixture
This one is great for when you need to attach your cordage securely to a tree limb or a carabiner or anything else that you can wrap the cordage around.
Simply loop the cordage loosely around the fixture, cross over and loop again, tucking the end under the second loop, then tighten. Simple as that!
So hopefully this gets you started on knot-tying. It's a fantastic skill to have, and I highly encourage you to take the time to learn as many different knots as possible!
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Look! A Big Rug Made Out of Small Ones
Last week in LA we kept noticing nice touches in SKGR's mom's house. This one is a rug in her dining room that she made out of smaller, doormat-sized rugs. KG found this shaggy, bright blue item at Crate & Barrel a few years ago and wanted a bigger one, but they only had these. Buying 16 of them for not too much money (@ $240), she just put them on top of a rug pad where they stick fast (they only part a little bit). It's sort of the precursor to FLOR.
She soon realized another good reason for doing this: it makes it easier to clean. Olivia always lies on this one side, so she just takes these up every few weeks and throws them in the machine.
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For maximum impact, each stretching movement is usually held for about 30 seconds. Breathing is relaxed and normal. Keep in mind that stretching to improve flexibility should never be painful. For instance, don't get into a painful situation by trying to do advanced yoga stretches before mastering beginner-level movements.


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At TIAH Blog we mourn the passing of Roger Slifer - perhaps best known as the co-creator of LOBO!
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Do you attend networking events with the intention of collecting all the business cards you can and giving out as many business cards while you're there?
That is a big mistake!
Most folks think if you go to enough events and pass out enough business cards the phone will begin ringing. That is seldom ever true. Even if you do get some business that way, you still have to do what is necessary to build and cultivate that relationship so they continue to do business with you and/or send you referrals.
Handing out your business card to everyone who crosses your path makes only a cardboard connection!
Haven't you emptied your pockets, looked at the cards and wondered why you bothered to bring them back to your office. Instead, pour your conversational energy into finding a real connection, a good, solid business reason to exchange cards.
John, who has just started his own business, is looking for an accountant. You are happy to give him your accountant's name, as well as some tips on record keeping. Ask John for his card and tell him you will call him with the information.
Give him your card, but only after you tell him why he needs it. "I hope that when you need any remodeling, or hear of someone who does, you'll give me a call."
Next, follow up and call him with the accountant's contact information. The follow up is the most important ingredient for effective business networking and will help you solidify the connection. You may want to arrange a time to get together (make an appointment) to get to know each other better.
"Speak to a few people and have genuine conversations rather than rush around the room trying to grab a card from everyone. Show a genuine interest in the other person and engage in conversation rather than trade elevator pitches." ~ Andy Lapata
I rarely go anywhere without have a few business cards with me. I was at a small event recently and after meeting this woman I asked for her card. I saw an immediate possibility that we could help each other, but when I asked I heard, "Oh, I didn't think I was going to need any cards this morning so I didn't bring any with me." Oh, really? I gave her my card and asked her to send me one of hers, but most often that gets forgotten. So… for her, another missed opportunity. Guess what? I never heard from her again.
You never know when you are going to meet someone useful to you or you to them. Always be sure you have several business cards with you. I "always" carry business cards with me. If I am out to eat (and leave a nice tip), I will usually leave my card. Several years ago, I did that and about 6 months later, the waitress called me and hired me to perform her Wedding ceremony.
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I've always had trouble with gvfsd-metadata. Not that I know what it actually is, I just know that once or twice a day my computer will become unresponsive, and the culprit is this little program running around in the background, doing whatever it does, and pegging my CPU up to 100%. I've searched many forums. A lot of people are affected, but there doesn't really seem to be any solution, or any clear reasons why it happens.
So what I usually do is open up a Terminal, run top and see that gvfsd-metadata is at the top of the list redlining my CPU. From there, I press k to kill it (if its the topmost item, its PID will be automatically selected, otherwise enter the PID manually), and then retain the suggested kill signal value of 15. Not a terribly hard process, but as the CPU is maxed out, then opening a Terminal window and top can take a few minutes. Its that sluggish. So, like you do, I whipped up a quick script to handle this automatically, which I run every 5 minutes. So here it is:
#!/bin/bash export DISPLAY=:0 # Find PID of gvfsd GPID=`pidof gvfsd-metadata` # Get the current CPU% of gvfsd GCPU=`top -b -n 1 -p $GPID | tail -n 1 | awk '{print $9}'` # Uncomment the line below to debug # GCPU=7 # Test if CPU is greater than 5%? if [ "$(echo $GCPU '>' 5 | bc -l)" = 1 ] then # Put a line in syslog logger "gvfsd-metadata on PID $GPID is running at $GCPU percent CPU, which is more than 5%. Killing." kill -9 $GPID # Flash a message onscreen /usr/bin/zenity --info --text="Just killed a rampant GVFSD, Sir\!" --title="Gotcha" else exit 0 fi
OK, that's pretty much it. I added it to my crontab (gvfsd runs as the user, so no need for root crontab), and set it to go every 5 minutes.
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What are you doing for your summer vacation? The Parker family went to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, and in �Ridge Runner Rescue� by Mike Graf (illustrated by Marjorie Leggitt), you can read about what Morgan and James and their parents saw.
�Ridge Runner Rescue� by Mike Graf, illustrations by Marjorie Leggitt (Fulcrum Books, 95 pages, $9.95)
What are you doing for your summer vacation?
The Parker family went to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, and in �Ridge Runner Rescue� by Mike Graf (illustrated by Marjorie Leggitt), you can read about what Morgan and James and their parents saw.
Every summer, the Parker family visits a different park in the United States. Mr. and Mrs. Parker make it a fun adventure and 12-year-old twins, Morgan and James, keep journals of what they learn and what they find. But this year, journaling was a little different.
Just after lunch on their first day, as they took a break near Rainbow Falls, Mrs. Parker surprised everyone with a very old journal. Her grandfather � the twins� great-grandfather � worked with the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression, and he lived in the park while he worked. His efforts helped build the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Every day along the trail, Mrs. Parker read from the old journal. The twins picked up a lot of information about the park and about their great-grandfather, and they visited a few places where he had been.
While they were there, James tried very hard to see salamanders. Those creatures are colorful and plentiful in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. James would have liked to pick up a waterdog (which is not anything like your pet dog!) but seeing one was just as good.
Morgan found some lacy, beautiful moths that she photographed. The entire Parker family enjoyed seeing the many waterfalls and rocks in the park, and they liked the challenge of a twenty-six mile hike. Both twins were fascinated by the wide variety of bugs there, and knowing that the park may be home to many species of insects that scientists don�t even know about.
And speaking of bugs, Morgan picked up a bug and gave this book its title.
Not going on vacation this year? Give your child an outdoors experience anyhow by looking for this, or any of the Adventures with the Parkers books.
Author Mike Graf is a self-professed �national park fanatic� who spends his time exploring our country�s parks. Because of his first-hand knowledge, his series are filled with true-life facts, authentic history, places you can really visit and photographs, all wrapped within a story that kids can relate to. If you happen to be going to Great Smoky Mountains National Park this summer, this book will thrill your 7- to 11-year-old. If you�re going elsewhere or not going at all, grab it anyhow and hand it to your adventuresome kid. �Ridge Runner Rescue� is so much fun, it will have your child parked in one spot for hours.


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This Camphor Chalice is made from a local tree and has beautiful grain and coloring. It is made from two pieces that were rough turned, allowed to dry and then finish turned and assembled. This bowl is 7 1/2 inches high by 7 1/4 inches wide and finished with satin lacquer. Normally I remove the pith, but it didn't crack too bad so I left most of it.
The last picture is different lighting and brings out more of the colors in the wood.
The camphor was extremely aromatic during the turning process.
-- Xyloid Curt "Exposing the hidden beauty in wood" www.etsy.com/shop/xyloidcreations
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#1 posted 07-18-2014 03:43 PM
That is a truly beautiful piece! You do great work!
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#2 posted 07-18-2014 08:58 PM
Quite impressive piece.. nice form and beautiful wood!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...............Jim
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1949 Bowman #84 Roy Campanella Rookie - PSA NM-MT 8
Starting Bid - $200, Sold For - $823
Graded NM-MT 8 by PSA. Of the 663 examples graded by PSA, only eighteen cards have been graded higher. Extremely strong and striking high-grade example of Roy Campanella's rookie card from the 1949 Bowman set. 1949 Bowmans are one of the most difficult of all postwar issues to collect in high grade, primarily because they so often have naturally soft corners due to the paper stock on which they are printed. This exceptional example is bright, crisp, and clean, both front and back, with sharp corners, perfect registration, deep, rich colors, and centering slightly towards the top right. The portrait of Campy practically jumps off the flawless bold, orange background. One of the key classics of all postwar baseball-card issues, this is an extremely attractive high-grade example of Campanella's rookie card and one of the key Hall of Famers in the 1949 Bowman set. Reserve $200. Estimate $400/$800.
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