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The Orioles desperately needed to go through a game like the one that played out Friday night against the Indians at Camden Yards — one that helps a sputtering offense regain life.
During the hottest day of the season so far — the game-time temperature at Camden Yards was a sweltering 100 degrees — the Orioles' bats finally started to heat up.
In their 9-8 win over the Indians, a game that included five lead changes, the Orioles enjoyed an offensive performance not seen in two weeks. Their nine runs Friday before an announced 24,779 matched the team's combined run total over the previous five games. It was also the most runs the Orioles have scored in 13 games since completing their three-game sweep of the Pirates on June 14.
"It's a nice way to win a game because it just wasn't ho-hum," said catcher Matt Wieters, who hit a huge three-run homer in the sixth inning. "To be able to battle for that and see that if you get behind early you still have a chance to come back and win games, that something we haven't been doing."
Rookie leftfielder Xavier Avery hit his first major league home run in the eighth inning — a solo shot to left off Chris Perez that proved to be the winning run. It came after fellow rookie Ryan Flaherty's two-out RBI single in the seventh against reliever Joe Smith and gave the Orioles a 8-7 lead.
But the biggest blow of the night — the one that seemed to put a much-needed charge in the Orioles' beleaguered offense — was Wieters' towering homer in the sixth that gave the Orioles a 7-5 lead.
"A lot of mental toughness showed itself in this game tonight," Orioles manager Buck Showalter said. "Guys didn't give in, and I'm real proud of them. [They] never got into a 'Woe is me, here we go again.' They just kept grinding it and found a way."
Snapping a three-game losing streak with the win, the Orioles (42-34) move to four games behind the division-leading Yankees. As part of the celebration, Avery took a shaving cream pie to the face from teammate Adam Jones while he did a postgame TV interview.
"I didn't even see it coming, looking out for it," Avery said. "But it felt good to get. I can still taste the shaving cream on my lips. I've got to say it tastes good, too."
The Orioles entered the night having scored just 14 runs in their last nine games and were hitting .058 (3-for-52) with runners in scoring position in that span.
Wieters helped reverse that trend, taking a first-pitch from Cleveland sinkerballer Derek Lowe deep to right and onto Eutaw Street.
"I hit it pretty good," Wieters said. "I was just looking for something to get in the air. He did a good job of keeping it on the ground the other two ABs. I was just trying to get something in the air to get the run in."
Indians shortstop Asdrubal Cabrera also launched a homer onto Eutaw Street, marking just the second time in the history of Camden Yards that two balls landed there in the same game. Rafael Palmeiro hit two homers onto Eutaw Street on April 11, 1997.
Orioles starter Jake Arrieta lasted just 3 2/3 innings, tying his shortest start of the season and allowing five runs on eight hits with two strikeouts and two walks. The Orioles defense didn't help him in the fourth inning, when Lonnie Chisenhall's fly ball to right-center fell in between Jones and Flaherty to put two on with no outs.
Arrieta later issued a bases-loaded walk to Shin-Soo Choo to tie the game at 3, and Jason Kipnis' two-out single to center that gave the Indians a 5-3 lead and chased Arrieta from the game.
"Yeah, I mean several things just didn't go our way," Arrieta said. "A few borderline calls could have gone either way — thought I executed quite a few good pitches to get guys out and the calls didn't go my way — but that happens. Just a tough night. They hit some good pitches."
Long relief work by left-hander Troy Patton, who got the Orioles into the seventh inning without further damage, kept the Orioles in the game and allowed them to take a 7-5 lead on Wieters' homer.
Pedro Strop threw a perfect eighth for his 13th hold and, despite allowing a run in the ninth, closer Jim Johnson converted his 23rd save in 24 opportunities.
The Orioles desperately needed to go through a game like the one that played out Friday night against the Indians at Camden Yards — one that helps a sputtering offense regain life.


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When the Chargers selected linebacker Jonas Mouton in the second round of the 2011 draft, it is hard to believe they expected to wait more than 18 months to see him play in a regular season game.
That's been the case, however. Mouton lost his entire rookie season because of a summer shoulder injury that landed him on injured reserve and he has been a healthy scratch in each of the team's 11 games this season. With Donald Butler battling a groin injury that's expected to keep him out of Sunday's game against the Bengals, Mouton is in line to get on the field for the first non-exhibition game since leaving the University of Michigan.
"When you play football you're whole life and then you can't play and it takes a while for you to come back, that's hard," Mouton said, via the team's website. "You always get a little frustrated. But I've been preparing and getting ready for my opportunity. And I feel healthy. I feel pretty good. I'm looking forward to this chance. I've been preparing my whole year and it's here now."
While you can't do anything about the season-ending injury, it's not a promising sign that your second-round pick from last year hasn't been able to find a way to one of the 46 jerseys handed out on gameday. One of the problems in San Diego in recent years has been talent going out without getting replaced by the young players brought in via the draft.
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"Hope" is the thing with feathers –That perches in the soul –And sings the tune without the words –And never stops – at all –
Two things come to my mind when I hear the word "Hope." The first is this poem by Emily Dickinson, of which I give the first stanza above. The second is HaTikva, "The Hope," the national anthem of Israel:
As long as the Jewish spirit is yearning deep in the heart,With eyes turned toward the East, looking toward Zion,Then our hope – the 2,000 year old hope – will not be lost:To be a free people in our land, the land of Zion and Jerusalem.
Miss Emily did a marvelous job of portraying the ridiculousness of hope: "a thing with feathers." For over a thousand years, Jews finished each Passover seder with the words, "Next year in Jerusalem!" and it might as well have been "Next year on the Moon!" And yet our ancestors refused to give up on the idea, the hope, that someday we'd return to the land of Abraham, of King David, and of Rabbi Akiva. At the very end of the 19th century, Zionism became a worldwide movement, and in 1948, the modern State of Israel was born.
As individuals, we also have hopes, visions of the selves we might be, stronger, better, more whole than we are today. If at this moment, your life feels flimsy, messed-up, and incomplete, don't despair. Remember Emily Dickinson's "thing with feathers." Feed that little bird your best efforts, your good resolutions, and a willingness to ask for help and accept it. Change is possible, if we are willing to maintain our hope.


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At first blush, Google's self-manufactured Chromecast streaming device sounds irresistible. It will let you use your smartphone, tablet or computer to stream music and video to your television ... and it costs just $35.
So that may seem liked a great bargain when compared to the $50 you would shell out for Roku or $100 for an Apple TV box.
But a closer look at Chromecast reveals that its capabilities are much more limited than its competitors.
Chromecast currently only works with four streaming services-- Netflix (NFLX), Pandora (P), Google-owned YouTube and Google Play. It also lets you stream whatever is open in a Chrome browser.
While you can stream certain types of locally-stored media files on your laptop by dropping it in a Chrome tab and broadcasting that tab, the device isn't otherwise designed for the easy playback of local media. Nor can it push content from other apps on your phone or tablet unless they have already built in support for Chromecast.
Related: YouTube's boost from a cable TV boss
That means whatever device you're using with Chromecast essentially becomes a remote control. You use the app for one of these services to find what you want to watch, and then Chromecast pulls the media directly from that service's cloud. The only thing you need the device for is playback control.
Having Chromecast pull directly from a service's cloud is a smarter, more efficient way of streaming in theory, but its success is contingent upon every content service going out of their way to support the feature. It's a risky strategy for Google (GOOG).
And while we stream more content than ever and upload more of our own files to the cloud, most people still store a lot of photos and videos locally on their own devices. Failing to create a simple-to-use interface for streaming these files isn't just shortsighted. It's perplexing.
Related: Google's Chromecast vs. Apple's AirPlay
There are other issues too. Only a small number of TVs are capable of powering the Chromecast stick through their HDMI port alone. That means you still need an extra USB port or power outlet to deliver juice to the Chromecast.
Using Chromecast with an Android or Apple (AAPL) iOS based phone or tablet is a must. There's no standalone remote or user interface for Chromecast. You could break out a laptop every time you want to watch something on Chromecast. But that's clunky.
Simply put, Google Chromecast is just too limited to appeal to the general population.
The device's biggest selling point is the Chrome streaming feature. In theory, any media your browser can handle, Chromecast (and by proxy, your TV) will be able to handle as well. The goal is to not have to worry about compatible file formats and app availability.
Still, it feels more like a temporary solution in the face of fickle restrictions by content owners. In practice, video quality is noticeably choppier than streaming directly from a service like Netflix. And there is a lag between the video and its accompanying audio.
Yes, it's nice that you can access the free version Hulu or login to HBO Go without much fuss. (HBO is owned by Time Warner (TWX), the parent company of CNNMoney.) But why like this?
It's true that the existing crop of media streamers-- including ones powered by Google's existing software-- haven't proven to be the saviors of TV in the internet age. But Chromecast seems more like an apology for the previous shortcomings of the entire product category as opposed to an innovative way to seamlessly watch online content on a big screen.
It's hard to be too disappointed with a gadget that costs $35, but unless you really want a way to watch what's on your browser window on a TV, there are better options for a few extra dollars.
Furthermore, what this means for the future of Google's struggling, Android-based Google TV platform is anyone's guess. Chromecast essentially runs a stripped-down version of the Google TV software, but does not provide the support or on-screen programming guides that its more robust sibling does.
Google's official line is that they're excited about both devices and that they even want to integrate Chromecast into Google TV products
But if Chromecast does attract tons of third-party support from streaming services and proves commercially successful, there's almost no incentive for those services to develop a Google TV-specific app. They'll just tweak their existing mobile app to work with Chromecast.
Google also risks further alienating the hardware companies that manufacture its Google TV products, which includes the likes of Asus, LG, Sony (SNE) and Vizio. The introduction of Chromecast could eat into sales of Google TV products.
It's no secret that Google has ambitious plans for its own hardware business. So if Chromecast winds up being more than just a niche device for early adopters, it could make Google's partners even more hesitant to keep working with it.


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- MyPlate
MyPlate, the USDA's new symbol of dietary correctness, was unveiled on June 2. It replaces the agency's Eating Right Pyramid (est. 1992), which succeeded the Four Basic Food Groups (1956). Those four in turn represented a consolidation of the seven food groups the agency pushed in the 1940s, pared down from 12 during the Great Depression, when many people would have been happy to find even a single food group on their plates.
The USDA's first nutrition guide was published in 1916, a year after the National Dairy Council was founded. The dairy industry has worked tirelessly with (and on) the USDA ever since, an investment that has paid many dividends, including dairy's privileged perch as one of only four basic food groups. And despite zero scientific basis that a healthy diet requires dairy, the stuff has managed to maintain its position as a key dietary recommendation on each successive symbol du jour, through the pyramid days and on to today's MyPlate graphic.
In fact, the MyPlate paradigm is practically a repeat of the Four Food Groups, with only three discernible tweaks.
The "meat and fish" group has been generalized to "protein." This is barely even a change, and more of a semantic adjustment to reality given how many ways there are to get your fill of essential amino acids without meat.
The grain group made the transition to MyPlate relatively unscathed, with an added piece of advice to eat more whole grains. It's worth mentioning that plenty of "Paleo diet" followers, not to mention the Atkins crowd, seem to do fine without grains as well. And if you avoid grains and sugars, it's practically impossible to get fat.
The most substantial change to the dietary recommendations is the "fruit and vegetable" category, which has been split in two. Fully half of the USDA's new plate consists of fruit and vegetables. This is an audacious goal considering how few Americans currently come close to consuming that ratio. If taken to heart by enough people, this change alone could have profound effects on public health.
By including recommendations against oversized portions, and generalizing the protein group, the USDA has managed to distance itself from the influence of special interests like the meat and fast-food industries. But it remains clearly beholden to dairy.
This brings us to the third discernible difference from the four food groups: The MyPlate symbol includes a little circle next to the plate that looks like a glass of milk. Labeled "Dairy," it stands for three daily servings of dairy, including cheese, yogurt, milk and other processed secretions of mammary glands, usually bovine.
In response to MyPlate's debut the dairy industry took a victory lap, with press releases from various dairy-oriented think tanks and trade groups praising the new symbol.
"USDA's new MyPlate, the simple visual metaphor of a serving of dairy products alongside a plate, says it's vital to consume three servings of low-fat and fat-free dairy foods every day," gloated Jerry Kozak, president of the National Milk Producers Federation, as he tacitly reveals how the new guidelines seem tailored to encourage maximum dairy industry profitability.
Three servings of dairy per day would be an increase for most Americans, who currently consume an average of two. Encouraging Americans to eat low-fat and nonfat milk products means even more profit, because the fat skimmed off is then processed into butter and other marketable products. The more items you can sell from a single gallon of milk, the more money you make, which is why as far as the dairy industry is concerned the MyPlate cup might as well be full of Champagne: The industry has convinced USDA to recommend increased consumption of a product that's not only unnecessary, but is actually bad for most people.
Lactose intolerance, by some estimates, affects 75 percent of the world's population. Caucasians have one of the lowest rates of intolerance, at only 12 percent. These numbers don't include people like me, who may not get diarrhea and other classic effects of lactose intolerance, but don't do well on dairy, with results including phlegm, heartburn, and upset stomach. And if 75 percent or more of the world's humans can't handle dairy, it's hard to argue it being necessary for optimal human health.
Here is USDA's obsequiously dairy-centric advice to the lactose-averse: "If you avoid milk because of lactose intolerance, the most reliable way to get the health benefits of dairy products is to choose lactose-free alternatives within the Dairy Group, such as cheese, yogurt, lactose-free milk, or calcium-fortified soymilk (soy beverage), or to consume the enzyme lactase before consuming milk."
Calcium is the primary justification for the importance of dairy, but many green vegetables offer just as much calcium as milk, and in a more absorbable form. With the exception of soymilk, all other calcium sources, including almond milk -- which contains twice the calcium of dairy milk -- are cautioned against: "[Non-soy, non-dairy calcium sources] may provide calcium, but may not provide the other nutrients found in dairy products."
If science and health were calling the shots, then milk products would simply be absorbed into the protein category as one of many ways to get your essential amino acids, or perhaps into a "calcium" group that would also include dark-green leafy vegetables and fortified dairy alternatives.
Much of the positive health hype about dairy is perpetuated by the National Dairy Council, which has a history of exaggerating dairy's positives and downplaying its negatives. In 2007 the Federal Trade Commission forced the NDC to retract its claim that dairy consumption encourages weight loss.
The NDC is "the nutrition research, education and communications arm of Dairy Management Inc." whose website makes its intentions clear -- and improving public health isn't one of them. "DMI helps build demand for dairy on behalf of dairy producers and is dedicated to the success of the dairy industry."
Consuming dairy products is a choice that we (at least the lactose tolerant among us) have. But to spin the consumption of milk as a thrice-daily necessity is yet another scary reminder of the power the dairy industry wields on USDA policy.
At least with food we have the option to think for ourselves. But if USDA policy is so clearly shaped by industry, it makes you wonder about compromises the agency might make in other areas of its purview. USDA regularly makes decisions on things like pesticide regulation, forest policy and approval or disapproval of genetically modified crops. And those decisions, unlike a plate symbol, aren't so easily ignored.


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Then I wore the pants to work, and none of my coworkers said anything. I was really expecting some sort of commentary, but no. I guess after six years of my fashion they are all just used to it.
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I'm loving them as skinnies- they look so good on you!ReplyDelete
You did a great sewing job! The look great! I was expecting my boss to say something years ago when I had pink in my hair but nothing! Must have been all the wacky tights I was already wearing! And 6 years! Wow!ReplyDelete
Oh, Lyddie, you shouldn't doubt your fashion choices! These pants really are fabulous, and that is that. I've actually been searching for a pair of leopard leggings myself. :)
I'm glad your co-workers didn't make fun, though. ;) Surely they wouldn't dare, or else Ali would have to come to town and lay down the law.
I love how people can completely become desensitized to things, even leopard print pants!
Chic 'n Cheap Living
I would never have been able to have those in my closet for three months without wearing them - they're so fabulous! And the sewing job looks great.
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You are rockin' those pants lady! So very you!ReplyDelete
I love that you made them into skinnies! You now not only have a fab leopard coat but also fab leopard pants. HeatherReplyDelete
You definitely refashioned these pants for the better!! I'm sure you'll definitely get more wear out of them now that you changed them to skinnies from the bootleg/flares. Still definitely a great buy! Can't wait for the next shopping trip!ReplyDelete
I think it was a good decision to "skinnify" those pants - they look great! Now if only I could be so lucky to find a pair like that while thrifting...ReplyDelete
Lovely as skinnies- I bet they get worn a whole lot more now! XReplyDelete
Aw man! I hate when that happens! I love these pants as skinnies! And the sweater is great too! And the hat! I'm going to have to copy you on this one Lydia!ReplyDelete
These "new" skinnies look fabulous on you! Do wear them often!!
Lady of Style
I am loving them so much more now. Masterful!!
LOVE those pants! Seriously - so cute :)
The Other Side of Gray
that scalloped hat is gorgeous!
I love how the pants look, and they are so much fun!ReplyDelete
they are AWESOME as skinnies! good fix!
dash dot dotty
What an awesome outfit! You look great as usual!ReplyDelete
Haha what ere you expecting them to say? I love that you re-did your pants!
This only convinces me more: I need to learn how to sew...
Woohoo!!!! That definitely did the trick! Now you'll never take them off ;)
I like them even more now !
Well played --- oh co workers, I could show up naked and they would never notice.
LOVE these pants as skinnies now- great idea! I'm jealous of your sewing skills!
Ummmmm, let's be best friends! I will comment on these pants until my face turns blue! As a huge fan of all things cheetah printed AND crazy skinnies, I wholeheartedly endorse this look!
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I like the pants as skinnies. They fit perfectly!ReplyDelete
Wow, you did a great job, Lydia! Those pants look fabulous on you!
Juneli from Fashionably Yours
I love the pants. How lucky you are that you can do alterations yourself!
I would have liked to see how the pants looked before the transformation; however, they look perfect as skinnies!
oops....ok, now I see them as flares. I agree, they are much better as skinnies!ReplyDelete
You are always so lovely, my dear Lydia.
Isn't it funny how silhouettes change? 5 years ago if you told me I would be all about the tapered, skinny leg now, I have denied it, but now that's all we wear!
Great sewing job! Love the print.
Ok, I'm obsessed with this outfit and want to be wearing it right NOW! I love how the pants turned out, they look soooo chic on you!
Your hat is amazing!
Oooo love your skinny leopard pants!!! You look amazing girl with the hat too. :)
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I much prefer these pants as skinnies. You did a great job.ReplyDelete
Ooo..good choice to "skinnify" them! I think they look great as skinnies! And what a great deal on those pants! I would suggest maybe hemming the pants a little? That way they would look even more streamlined and wouldn't bunch at the ankles. Just a suggestion though :-) They don't look bad as they are! I love the wide brimmed hat too.
Jeans and a Teacup
Maybe they've just become inured to leopard pants?
These look great! I love them with the slouchy sweater, very California cool.
Oh man! I guess I'm the only one who liked them flared better! I admire your sewing skills, though :)ReplyDelete
I love your pants! Gorgeous print too xReplyDelete
Very nice outfit. Your white sweater is so cozy and it fits perfectly with your leopard print pants. Intresting combination!
Grettings from Sweden!
You did a fabulous job - I have to say I think that these pants are much more flattering as a slim fit. I liked them wider but LOVE them slimmer! You'll get so much wear out of them now, I am sure!ReplyDelete


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Monday, 31 January 2005
New Electric 12-String from Depinto Guitars with a strong Mosrite influence!
Move over, boys. Girls with guitars are leading the new rock revolution: article from The Independent.
Who's Guitar? Gibson recreate Pete Townshend's "No.1" Les Paul Deluxe guitar complete with the added middle pickup and 2 mini toggle switches to tap it and put it out of phase.
Guitar Karaoke from Fender: Fender announce the World's first guitar digital entertainment centre with built-in effects and instrument backing with drum beats and bass lines.
Synth Guitar For Less Than $800: Godin break the price barrier with the Godin Freeway SA.
No More Rusty Guitar Strings: Elixir introduce longer lasting anti-rust strings.
Zombie joins the BC Rich family of unique body styles: Guess what? It's pointy!!!
Saturday, 29 January 2005
Schecter Banshee 'Modern Vintage' Electric Guitar: I like the styling of this one. It looks familiar but different at the same time.
Friday, 28 January 2005
Gibson Montana introducess Traveling Songwriter Guitar: Gibson's first travel acoustic.
New Scarab XT Model Guitar from Hamer: it looks like a malnourished Explorer.
LGM launches Leviathan Series Electric Guitars: it's just the ticket u=if you like 'em pointy pointy pointy!
Deep Purple's legendary guitarist and his wife craft ancient melodies: Ritchie Blackmore swaps Stratocaster for a hurdy-gurdy.
Thursday, 27 January 2005
Ibanez AEF20CSNERLG Nylon Acoustic-Electric: Nice name... Sorry, that's me being sarcastic. I hate these awkward model numbers and codes. Give it a name that everyone can remember! Having said that, it looks to be an instrument that I wouldn't mind having in my collection: nylon-electric with a slim neck, medium-sized body. Sounds great!
Slammer T5 Series Guitars: cheapo Tele copies, courtesy of Hamer (I do believe).
Archtop P90 Goldtop Added to Hamer's XT Series: reminiscent of a Les Paul double cutaway, and nicely priced too!
Takamine's LTD2005 Model Unveiled at NAMM: just what we've all been waiting for... a guitar with a picture of a bullrush embedded in the top. Weird. It's probably a nice guitar though.
New "Truckster" James Hetfield Signature Model from ESP: personally I can't see why anyone would want a guitar with a crappy finish like this, but I suppose the Metallica fans will like it.
Dave Mustaine Axxion Joins ESP Signature Line: New signature series guitar recognizes 20 years of Megadeth. Another weird shape from ESP.
ESP Introduces New Guitars for 2005: there's a spiky one, there's a knobbly-looking one, and there's a lop-sided looking acoustic. All in black.
Guitar Wolf Receives Signature Epiphone G-310: available in Japan only!
Epiphone and Nick Valensi Team Up for Signature Riviera: he's the guitarist for The Strokes apparently. Nice guitars though!
DigiTech Introdudes GNX2000 Guitar Workstation: Allows guitarists total creative freedom for stage and studio, with features like XLR outputs for plugging directly into PA systems, and a USB interface for hard disk recording applications.
Epiphone Announces Guitar Of The Month Program For 2005: I've linked to a news story about this already, but here we get the low down on each of the models from Epiphone themselves!
Wednesday, 26 January 2005
Nuno Bettencourt and Washburn launch N5 and N6 guitars: I've not heard that name for a fair few years!
Epiphone recreates Hendrix's Psychedelic Flying V guitar: where's the photo? I wanna see what it looks like!
New Michael Schenker Electric and Acoustic Models from Dean: I'm disappointed that the acoustic isn't Flying V shaped.
New AU756 Rock Deluxe Guitar from Austin: Oh, another generic superstrat. Nothing new there.
Tuesday, 25 January 2005
Guitars gently weep: Sale of rare guitar and amp collection in Toronto aids cancer research.
No More foxx Hunting: Furry 70s stompboxes stage a comeback.
The Plexi is back: Marshall expands the handwired series with 100W classic.
Thin Lizzy guitarist Scott Gorham - "The D Word (Death) Never Came Up": Scott Gorham talks about Phil Lynott and the final days of Thin Lizzy.
H.R. Giger Limited Edition Guitars from Ibanez: limited edition guitars feature graphic designs by the influential modern painter and sculptor (and creator of the Alien in the Alien series of movies).
Washburn Pilsen Idol Series Electric Guitars: I always liked their Idol guitars. This "Pilsen" version seems to be more beefed up, something along the lines of a Les Paul.
Ani DiFranco Gets Signature Alvarez Model: Streuth! I'm not sure about that scratchplate.
Fender speed-e Keychain Tuner: the world's first fully functioning keychain guitar tuner!
Fender Time Machine '66 Stratocaster: the new Time Machine series 1966 Stratocaster guitar is an exact reproduction of one of the most rapidly collectable Stratocaster guitars around, right down to its nitrocellulose-lacquered alder body with a WLS undercoat.
Monday, 24 January 2005
A Guitar A Month: Epiphone launch a new series of limited edition electrics - one for each month of 2005.
Yamaha RGX320FZ and RGX520FZ Electric Guitars: Yamaha Guitars announces its first true double cutaway set-neck guitar at Winter NAMM.
New T5 Thinline 5-Way Guitar from Taylor: There are electric guitars, there are acoustic guitars, and now, there is the new Taylor "T5" - a little bit of both, and a whole lot more. Allegedly.
New Artcore Semi-Hollow Guitar from Ibanez: First-ever semi-acoustic with tremolo but no backplate tremolo cavity (not including guitars with Bigsby style trems, obviously).
Ibanez Gets Exotic with New Acoustic Guitars: exotic woods and affordable too! Ooh-errr!
Ibanez Debuts First SZ Prestige Guitar: Ooh, it looks to be quite nice. I've never liked Ibanez guitars before.
Washburn debuts Timbercraft Solid Wood Acoustic Guitars: The five models have solid spruce tops with solid wood backs and sides, as well as one piece mahogany necks.
Sunday, 23 January 2005
Saturday, 22 January 2005
Ultra Bass Joins Schecter's Diamond Series: shades of the Thunderbird bass, I think.
RKS Shows Unique Hollow Body Electric Guitars and Basses: it's a hollow body, Jim, but not as we know it.
Brian Moore Guitars debuts iGuitar.USB at Winter NAMM: "The iGuitar.USB is the first guitar to offer on-board, Class Compliant USB audio to streamline the guitar to computer connection eliminating the need for an external audio interface."
Peavey Unveils Jerry Donahue Signature Omniac Guitar: another mutant Telecaster design.
New Southern NiteFly Guitar from Parker: it looks like a Parker Fly crossed with a Telecaster!
Lucida Introduces Guitarron Mexican Bass: just what you need for your mariachi band!
Friday, 21 January 2005
Canvas Guitars and Basses: I quite like these simple but fresh designs.
Blackmachine: super thin, hand-built, paint-free guitars from London.
The G7th Performance Capo: the capo redesigned!
New Squier Master Series Electric Guitars: although these include some new non-Fender bodyshapes, I still like the Thinline Tele.
Eric Johnson Signature Stratocaster: A long time coming for some, Fender has officially announced an Eric Johnson signature model, constructed with a contoured 2-piece Alder body, maple neck, and custom pickups.
Thursday, 20 January 2005
ToneSmith Guitars: these look quite tasty! (Link via Guitar Bizarre).
Schecter redesigns TSH-1 and TSH-12 semi-hollow guitars: is it just me or do these have a Danelectro vibe about them?
Luna Guitars ... Engaging, Passionate & Uniquely Feminine: Armadillo Enterprises proudly introduces Luna Guitars, a line of guitars and basses designed uniquely for females of all ages. See: www.lunaguitars.com
Wednesday, 19 January 2005
Tuesday, 18 January 2005
Ex-Bread guitarist Jimmy Griffin dies: Former guitarist for 1970s pop group Bread and Academy Award-winning songwriter Jimmy Griffin has died. Griffin co-founded Bread who were responsible for hits such as "Make It With You", "Everything I Own" and "Baby I'm-A Want You".
Reissue Hagstrom Guitars Start Shipping: The legendary Hagstrom line will be officially relaunched at the 2005 Winter NAMM Show. The classic brand, now being manufactured and distributed by American Music & Sound (AM&S) under license from AB Albin Hagstrom, has just begun shipping. See also the new website: www.hagstromguitars.com
Guitar Chord Library: Look up Guitar Chords - Illustrated Pages of Guitar Chords.
Monday, 17 January 2005
Statue unveiled to Johnny Ramone (includes a photo).
Guitarists Continue To Rock: Guitar virtuosos use talents to create a thriving niche market.
Statue of punk guitarist unveiled: A bronze statue honouring late punk guitarist Johnny Ramone was unveiled before hundreds of celebrities and cheering fans at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery.
Mike Lull announces TX model guitar: does the world need another Tele?
Friday, 14 January 2005
Lennon 'almost gave up on guitar': John Lennon almost gave up playing guitar after just two lessons, one of his early bandmates reveals.
Thursday, 13 January 2005
Elvis Guitar: Gibson signature model honours the King
Wednesday, 12 January 2005
Electric Guitar Signed by More Than 30 Music Superstars Goes Up for Auction on eBay: Bruce Springsteen, Sheryl Crow, Rod Stewart, Tim McGraw, Lenny Kravitz and others sign 'Today' show Toyota concert series guitar to raise money for the Mr. Holland's Opus Foundation. See the guitar here.
Damageplan guitar up for auction: The Blitz WBZX 99.7 (www.wbzx.com) are auctioning off a Washburn Dime V guitar (signed by all members of Damageplan, including late guitarist "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott).
Switch guitars: these guitars are interesting. They claim to feature Vibracell technology. I believe this refers to the stuff they're actually built from, that is, some kind of plastic resin. Interesting they have both electric and acoustic models in their catalogue. I like the ones that look as if they've been styled after the Burns Flyte guitar.
10-ft. guitars: Valley on a Fender bender: more about Arizona's Stratocaster sculptures.
Monday, 10 January 2005
This is completely bonkers! The motorcycle guitar from MJ Guitars.
Peavey to Introduce 6505 Amplifiers and Carina Guitars at NAMM: there is life after their association with Eddie Van Halen!
MacMice Simplifies Connecting Guitars and Mics to Computers: now this is a bloody good idea!
Guitar man's tsunami aid plan stalled: A man tries to sell Garth Brooks signed guitar on eBay to raise money for the tsunami survivors, but is it real or is it a fake?
If that guitar could talk ... Burton Harris reflects on his adventures on stage and off.
Sunday, 9 January 2005
Saturday, 8 January 2005
Jimi Hendrix Best Guitar Face: Didn't they do this "guitar face" crap last year?
This Gibson Les Paul Standard signed by Slash is being auctioned on eBay as part of The Sun's Tsunami Appeal Auction. Update: the winning bid was for £6,900.
Thursday, 6 January 2005
Wednesday, 5 January 2005
Jay Jay French: A Twisted Interview...And Les Paul (and a nice PINK one at that!)
GuitarResources.net: A wealth of guitar tablature and chords.
Tuesday, 4 January 2005
Legendary guitarist Hank Garland dies at the age of 74: He performed with Elvis Presley, Roy Orbison, the Everly Brothers and Patsy Cline among others.
Gibson Debuts Americana Series with Chambered Body Design: Gibson USA's new Americana Series features the Pioneer, a round-shouldered, cutaway dreadnought, and the Ranger, reminiscent of the L-00 design. The guitars are based on the Chet Atkins SST solidbody acoustic concept and have a new body chambering process for extra resonance.
Les Paul Standard Gets Faded Finishes: these look great. It's a pity that they aren't in the same budget price range as Gibson's 2004 Faded series.
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The 2012 NFL Draft is almost upon us. Many NFL fans discuss the draft even more than regular season and it is easy to see why. The draft represents the future of the league. It can push a team to ultimate victory or leave them looking to next year's draft. Each pick symbolizes an opportunity for improvement. Success takes a team that much closer to the title, while failure leaves them that much farther away. The gravity of the situation is difficult to overstate.
Understandably, many of us don't like following such an event with our eyes closed. We've learned about the prospects and developed opinions for who we want our team to select. With opinion comes debate and intrigue. The sea of scouting fosters a sense of competition based on the desire to predict the outcome of the draft. However, until now there's never been a platform to give that sense of competition meaning. This year that changes. It's time to put your armchair GM skills to the test.
In a nutshell, the challenge is to predict the draft picks for your team of choice. You will rank the twenty prospects most likely to be selected by your team in the order you feel is likeliest. If your top player is picked then you score 20 points. If your second player is picked - 19 points. Third player -18 points, etc. Whoever accumulates the most points by the end of the draft is the winner. We will discuss tie breaking and the finer details of the rules in the competition after the jump, and this will be running concurrently at Mocking the Draft.
As with any good competition, there will be a prize for all the winners. Money it is not, but it does capture exactly what you demonstrate by winning. By winning this competition you will have shown a particular acuity for predicting the actions of your team in the draft. Whether through profound knowledge, dumb luck, or the ever mysterious inside source, the cause your victory is irrelevant.
By winning, you've earned the right to play the GM for your team in a mock draft to be conducted next year (2013). This mock draft will be akin to the one that Mocking the Draft conducts every year with the head writers from each SBN site, except will include all of the winners instead - theoretically pitting the people that have the best grasp on their team's needs and preferences against each other.
This competition is easy to participate in and it gives you the ability to quantify your opinions on the draft. Even if you don't win, it can still be something to hang your hat on down the line once we start finding out how successful these players become at the next level. So step off the sidelines and into the war room and show us your armchair GM chops.
What do you get if you combine the vastness of mock drafting, the narrow devotion of fans, and the competition of fantasy football? The answer is the first annual Armchair GM Championship. It's time to put your knowledge of the draft and commitment to your team to the test. The challenge is simple.
-- In the order you feel is likeliest, rank the 20 prospects most likely to be drafted by your team.
-- If your top prospect is selected, you score 20 points for that pick. If your second ranked prospect is selected - 19 points, etc. How you weight your predictions to players projected in first few rounds to those likely to be chosen in the later rounds is up to you.
-- Whoever accumulates the most points by the end of the draft is the winner.
Tie Breaking (3 tiers)
- Who predicted the most picks.
- Who scored highest for the highest round.
- Who scored highest for any signed undrafted free agents.
Simply post your list in the comment section below and you will have given yourself a shot. To borrow thoughts from yet another arena, almost nobody shoots 100% at their NCAA bracket, but winning your pool is awfully satisfying. In order to prevent the comment section from becoming a mile long, please post your list in a horizontal manner, such as:
1) Andrew Luck 2) RG3 3) Burt Reynolds, etc.
The best part is the winners reap what they sow. Next year the winners from each NFL SBN site can represent their team in a comprehensive mock draft hosted by Mocking the Draft. So access your inner GM, pick your prospects, and become your team's champion.


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I'm honored to present to you, the citizens of Belvidere, this revised and information filled web site. As you review this information and consider the accomplishments of the Belvidere Police Department, I hope you will also consider the community's involvement in those accomplishments also.
As the understanding of community policing increases, both in the department and the community, we have developed stronger citizen—police partnerships. We know we cannot reduce crime without cooperation between officers and the citizens we serve.
We are striving to put more officers on the street in an effort to reduce police response time and increase officer safety. We are grateful for the support of Mayor Clinton Morris, the City Council and for officers that are funded in part by the Federal Government.
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We publish our annual reports on this web site. I hope you will take the time to read this report and find out more about the Belvidere Police Department. We are working hard, not only to reduce crime, but to help you feel safe within the community. Of course, we always welcome comments and suggestions from you, our partners in the fight against crime.
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Aug 23, 2013
Big brands race to secure luxury supplies from reptiles to roses
Aug 23, 2013
PARIS, France - From crocodile farms to rose fields, suppliers of luxury material have become top acquisition targets for names like LVMH and Gucci owner Kering as they race to lock in rare skills and ingredients vital to their brands' survival.
Having invested heavily in recent years to open shops around the world, notably in emerging markets, luxury leaders are now competing to control the supply lines behind their sales.
"We are ready to make the necessary investments when the know-how or raw materials associated with the quality of our objects are threatened," said Guillaume de Seynes, head of manufacturing and equity investments at Hermes.
Illustrating that thinking is LVMH's deal last month to pay 2 billion euros ($2.7 billion) for 80 percent of Italy's Loro Piana, one of the world's top cashmere makers, which herds its own Andean llama-like vicunas, prized for their fine, tawny hair.
Analysts expect Loro Piana will, over time, focus solely on supplying LVMH's stable of fashion brands such as Fendi and Celine, and stop supplying rivals. With one Loro Piana overcoat requiring the fleeces of 25-30 animals and retailing for around 14,000 euros in Milan, that's a precious resource to own.
Meanwhile, in the watch industry, Cartier owner Richemont and Kering, among others, have been stepping up their investments in parts providers as a response to a move by Swatch Group to cut back on third-party deals and focus instead on its own brands.
The latest acquisitions add to luxury's trend towards vertical integration - controlling everything from the cutting room up to the shop rail. This, says Bernstein luxury goods analyst Mario Ortelli, "gives you a competitive advantage, raises barriers to entry and underscores the image of your high-quality products."
Most supply chain investments so far hover around 20-50 million euros. In 2011, LVMH spent 60 million euros to buy watch dial maker ArteCad and another 47 million euros for 51 percent of Singapore-based Heng Long, a crocodile leather tannery.
Analysts and bankers expect big brands to keep up the pace of these size of acquisitions; the 1.9 billion in cash on LVMH's balance sheet at end-June shows ample funds for continued spending.
In the cosmetics world, Dior, Chanel and Hermes have been forging exclusive partnerships with plant growers to guarantee raw material supplies.
Dior has struck deals with farmers in Switzerland and Africa to ensure supplies of ingredients vital to new perfumes and creams it plans to launch in 2014. It has also bought land near Grasse, France's perfume capital with thousands of acres of flower farming, to grow its own jasmine and roses.
"Our concern is ensuring continuity in the quality of the products we use and being able to trace them," said Edouard Mauvais-Jarvis, scientific communications director at Parfums Christian Dior.
Chanel, which also grows jasmine and roses near Grasse for its No.5 perfume, is so concerned with preserving the quality of its materials that it has built extraction machines in the middle of the fields to avoid the flowers being bruised in transport.
The privately-owned company recently re-introduced Florentine Iris, which yields an expensive and rare extract after several years, to Grasse for its No. 19 perfume and has set up a partnership with a sandalwood grower in New Caledonia.
The trend to secure materials stretches to clothing too: Chanel bought Scottish cashmere maker Barrie Knitwear last year and also owns embroiderer Lesage and feather specialist Lemarié. Christian Dior bought Paris-based embroiderer Vermont last year.
Handbag makers Hermes and LVMH have bought up live supplies - the former now owns an alligator farm in Louisiana and two crocodile farms in Australia while the latter purchased the Johnstone River crocodile farm in Australia early this year to compliment its 2012 purchase of France's Roux tannery.
A high-grade crocodile skin can cost several thousand euros and it takes belly skin from three porosus crocodiles - the most sought-after because of their regular scales - to make one Hermes Kelly bag, originally designed for 50s actress Grace Kelly and still loved by celebrities. The bags fetch around 30,000 euros each at Hermes' Paris shops.
Industry sources say Kering, formerly known as PPR, may invest in python farms after acquiring exotic skin tannery France Croco earlier this year. Kering declined to comment.
There are, however, limits to the kinds of businesses luxury goods companies can bring in-house, which has forced them to find alternative ways of securing supplies.
Hermes is faced with a dwindling supply of calf leather - its No.1 raw material - because supply is driven by meat traders who are responding to a drop in consumer demand for veal and thus rearing and slaughtering fewer animals. Meanwhile, demand for luxury leather goods is still growing and forcing the price of quality hides up by 20-30 percent a year.
But raising its own calves makes little sense for Hermes as 80 percent of the animal's value lies in its meat and only one or two skins out of 10 are good enough for its handbags.
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Angelina Jolie made her first public appearance since announcing her double mastectomy on Sunday, joining fiance Brad Pitt on the red carpet in London where she welcomed the debate on women's health that the surgery had sparked.
The Oscar-winning actress has stayed out of the spotlight since announcing her operation in a New York Times column last month, saying the decision was made after finding she carried a gene giving her an 87 percent chance of getting breast cancer.
The 37-year-old mother of six, praised for her courage in publicly announcing her surgery, is now reported to be planning another operation to remove her ovaries as the BRCA1 gene also gives her a 50 percent chance of ovarian cancer.
Jolie disclosed she has the BRCA-1 gene mutation that leads to higher rates of breast cancer.
The mutation is more prevalent among European Jewish women than the general public.
Many doctors and Jewish breast cancer advocates cheered her decision to have the surgery, and to discuss it publically. Some have warned that preventive surgery may not always be the best option for every woman.
On the red carpet for the world premiere of Pitt's latest movie, zombie blockbuster "World War Z", Jolie praised her partner as being "a wonderful man and a wonderful father.
"I'm very, very grateful for all the support … and I have been very happy just to see the discussion of women's health expanded and that means the world to me," she told reporters.
"After losing my mom to these issues, I am very grateful for it," added the American actress, wearing a long black, backless Yves Saint Laurent dress.
Jolie's mother, actress Marcheline Bertrand, died from ovarian cancer in 2007 at the age of 56 and her aunt, 61-year-old Debbie Martin, died last week as a result of breast cancer.
Jolie missed her aunt's funeral to accompany Pitt to London for the premiere of "World War Z", an adaptation of Max Brooks' 2006 apocalyptic novel.
Pitt's production company Plan B Entertainment bought the screen rights to the novel about six years ago and it is one of the big box office releases this summer, but it is under pressure to perform before even opening.
It was due to be released late last year but suffered setbacks amid reports that the budget had ballooned above $200 million and Pitt clashed with director Marc Forster.
In "World War Z", Pitt plays United Nations representative Gerry Lane who is enlisted to help stop a zombie pandemic that is toppling armies and governments and threatening to destroy mankind.
Pitt said he was proud of the film and also of Jolie for her decision to have a mastectomy for the sake of their family and to share that experience.
"When she's faced with a problem – and we have known this was coming for some time – she takes it by the horns," Pitt, 49, also dressed in black, told reporters. "I'm super proud of her. She's a bad ass."
Asked how important it was to have her on the red carpet with him, Pitt said: "It's just more fun to do these things with each other. More fun when she's around and same for her."
"World War Z" marks Pitt's first foray as the star and producer of his own potential franchise.
Pitt said his own children's reaction to the book sparked the project which ultimately was about survival and family.
"The boys love a zombie," he said.


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[257 U.S. 516, 517] Messrs. Thomas F. Green, of Athens, Ga., George M. Napier, of Atlanta, Ga., Clifford Walker, of Monroe, Ga., and Graham Wright, of Rome, Ga., for complainant.
Messrs. Samuel M. Wolfe, Atty. Gen., and A. M. Lumpkin, of Columbia, S. C., for defendant.
Mr. Justice CLARKE delivered the opinion of the Court.
The parties to this case agree: That the boundary line between the states of Georgia and South Carolina is the river Savannah from the sea to the junction of the Seneca (formerly Keowee) and the Tugaloo (formerly spelled Tugalo) rivers; that it continues thence northwesterly by the Tugaloo river to the junction of the Tallulah and Chattooga rivers, and thence by the Chattooga river to the 35th parallel of north latitude, which is the south boundary of North Carolina. But they differ as to the location of the boundary line in these three rivers, and the state of Georgia, by original bill, prays that the controversy be settled by a decree of this court.
The state of Georgia contends: That where there are no islands in the rivers, the line between the two states is midway between the river banks, when the water is at its ordinary stage; that where there are islands, this line deflects and follows the middle line of the most northerly branch or stream, where it runs between any island and the South Carolina shore; and it claims jurisdiction over all islands in all three boundary rivers.
South Carolina, on the other hand, admits in its answer that where there are no islands the line between the states is the 'middle thread of the stream where the rivers flow [257 U.S. 516, 518] in one stream or volume,' but at the bar and in its brief it is argued, strenuously, that the true line is the low-water mark on the southerly or Georgia bank of each river. It also claims that where there are islands the line is at low-water mark on the southerly bank of the most northerly stream or branch of the river, and, while conceding all the islands in the rivers Savannah and Tugaloo to Georgia, it denies the jurisdiction of that state over those in the Chattooga river.
Thus it will be seen that the controversy is limited to the determination: (1) Whether the boundary line shall be located midway between the banks of each river where there are no islands, or at low- water mark on the Georgia shore; (2) whether the location of the boundary line where there are islands in the rivers, is in the middle of the stream running between any island and the South Carolina shore, or at low-water mark on the southern or island shore of such stream; and (3) whether any islands there may be in the Chattooga river are within the territorial jurisdiction of Georgia.
The taxation of dams and hydroelectric plants, already constructed and hereafter to be constructed, in the boundary rivers, renders the decision of the questions involved of importance to the two states.
It is not necessary to recite or discuss the historic origin of the titles which the two contending states have to the territory comprised within their present boundaries, for it is stipulated that the rights of the parties are to be determined by the construction of the terms of a written convention or treaty, entered into on April 28, 1787, by commissioners appointed by the two states. This convention, entered into pursuant to the provisions of the Articles of Confederation of 1778, under which the states were then united for the purposes of government, having been executed at Beaufort, S. C., is designated in the record as the Beaufort Convention. [257 U.S. 516, 519] Only two articles of this convention need be considered, and they are as follows:
First. As to the location of the line where there are no islands. While the admission quoted from the answer of [257 U.S. 516, 520] South Carolina would be sufficient to justify locating the line, where there are no islands, in the 'middle thread of the stream where the river flows in one stream or volume,' nevertheless the earnestness with which the contention for the low-water mark on the Georgia shore is argued constrains us to consider the question further.
That the admission in the answer was not made inadvertently is conclusively shown by the fact that the General Assembly of South Carolina, in 1852, by resolution, appearing in the record, declared: That the Beaufort Convention defines the boundary between the two states; that the terms of the first article of that convention 'construed by the undisputed principles of international and common law, fix as the limit of the respective jurisdictions of the two states ... the thread or middle of the most northern branch or stream of the rivers Savannah and Tugaloo, where these rivers have more than one branch or stream, and the thread or middle of these rivers where there is but one branch or stream,' and that the courts, the legislature and the departments of the government of the state have uniformly given to and acquiesced in this construction of the convention.
A like declaration appears in the 'Code of the State Laws of the State of South Carolina,' adopted in 1861, in which the line where there are no islands is described as located at the 'middle thread of the stream where the river flows in one stream or volume.'
With this construction of article I of the convention, by the courts, General Assembly, and heads of departments of South Carolina, we fully agree.
The express reservation of the islands to Georgia and the placing of the boundary line in the most northerly branch of the Savannah and then of the Tugaloo river up to the 'northern boundary of South Carolina,' makes it clear that where there are islands in the river the line must be between them and the South Carolina shore, for [257 U.S. 516, 521] otherwise the Georgia islands would be within the state of South Carolina. While it is true that the line, where there are no islands, is not specifically located by the convention at the 'thread or middle of the stream,' neither is it, in terms, placed at the low-water mark on the Georgia bank. However, the general rule is that where a river, navigable or nonnavigable, is the boundary between two states and the navigable channel is not involved, in the absence of convention or controlling circumstances to the contrary, each takes to the middle of the stream ( Handly's Lessee v. Anthony, 5 Wheat. 374, 379; Hall, International Law [6th Ed.] 123; Creasy First Platform of International Law, 231), and therefore in this case the conclusion of the General Assembly of South Carolina in 1852 and in 1861, as we have quoted it, was clearly the correct one.
We conclude that where, in any of the boundary rivers here involved, there are no islands the location of the boundary line between the two states is the thread of the river-the middle line of the stream-regardless of the channel of navigation, the precise location to be determined when the water is at its ordinary stage, 'neither swollen by freshets nor shrunk by drought.' Trustees of Hopkins Academy v. Dickinson, 9 Cush. ( Mass.) 544, 552.
Second. As to the location of the boundary line 'where the most northern branch or stream' flows between an island or islands and the South Carolina shore.
Obviously such a stream may be wide and deep and may contain the navigable channel of the river, or it may be narrow and shallow and insignificant in comparison with the adjacent parts of the river. But such variety of conditions cannot affect the location of the boundary line in this case, because, by article II of the convention, equal and unrestricted right to navigate the boundary rivers is secured to the citizens of each state, irrespective of the location of the navigable channel with respect to the boundary line. [257 U.S. 516, 522] Thus, article II takes out of the case any influence which the thalweg, or main navigable channel, doctrine (Iowa v. Illinois, 147 U.S. 1 , 13 Sup. Ct. 239; Arkansas v. Tennessee, 246 U.S. 158, 169 , 170 S., 171, 38 Sup. Ct. 301, L. R. A. 1918D, 258) might otherwise have had upon the interpretation to be placed on article I, by which the location of the line must be determined, and leaves the uncomplicated case of a boundary stream between two states quite unaffected by other considerations.
Thus again we have the case of a stream for a boundary between two states and with the precise location of the boundary line unaffected by the thalweg doctrine, or by other circumstances, and again the rule must be applied that the division line is midway between the banks of the stream-here between the island bank on the one side and the South Carolina bank on the other-its precise position to be determined when the water is at its ordinary stage.
Third. As to the islands in the Chattooga river:
Article I, as quoted, makes it plain that the commissioners executing the Convention of Beaufort intended to provide that the most northern branch of the river which they knew as the Tugaloo, as far northerly as its intersection with the northern boundary of South Carolina, if it extended so far north, should be the boundary line between the two states. It is now known that the most northern branch of that river extends as far north as the south boundary line of North Carolina (the 35th parallel of north latitude) and beyond that the controversy in this case does not extend. The fact that this 'most northerly branch or stream of the Tugalo' has come to be known as the Chattooga in that part of it northerly of the junction of the rivers now know as the Tullulah and Chattooga, neither of which appears by this record to have been known or named at the time the convention was executed, cannot change the rights of the parties to the convention, in the islands in that part of [257 U.S. 516, 523] the stream. The Chattooga is but the extension of the Tugaloo-the northern branch or stream of that river-and the fact that it is called Chattooga cannot affect the jurisdiction of Georgia over 'all of the islands in the said rivers Savannah and Tugaloo,' to which state they are specifically reserved by the convention. The islands in the Chattooga river, as well as those in the Savannah and Tugaloo, were reserved to Georgia by the convention.
Thus we conclude: (1) Where there are no islands in the boundary rivers the location of the line between the two states is on the water midway between the main banks of the river when the water is at ordinary stage; (2) where there are islands the line is midway between the island bank and the South Carolina shore when the water is at ordinary stage; and ( 3) that islands in the Chattooga river are reserved to Georgia as completely as are those in the Savannah or Tugaloo rivers.
Counsel may present a decree, within 30 days, to carry into effect these conclusions of the court, with or without a commission to locate and monument the boundary line as they may be advised. The costs of suit will be equally divided between the two states.
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Trent Cole said that he was fined $7,500 for his take down of Russell Okung, which tore the Seattle tackle's triceps and ended his season.
The Eagles defensive end said that he intended to appeal the fine.
"I'm not a dirty player," Cole said Wednesday. "At the time, all the stuff that led up to that, there was a lot of stuff that happened in that game. ... Watch that game closely and key on Okung and key on me and you'll see what I'm talking about."
Seahawks coach Pete Carroll called Cole's flip of Okung "out of line" last week and asked the NFL to look into the matter. On the play, which occurred near the end of the game, Okung blocked Cole for several seconds before Cole flipped him over his back WWF-style.
"He got grabbed under the arm and thrown down to the ground. It had nothing to do with the play. It wasn't a late hit," Carroll said. "It might look like he was trying to disengage and that might be what they say and all, but it was really late and it was really out of line unfortunately."
"I heard his comments," Cole said of Carroll. "You all seen what happened. The guy was on my back after the whistle. He was holding me the whole game. If you look at that play he had me hooked. I'm running to the ball and he had me hooked."
Okung went after Cole after he was tossed to the ground and had to be restrained. Cole said that he was being compared to Detroit defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh, who was recently suspended two games for stepping on a player and who has been labeled by some to be a dirty player.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A blowout at a Los Angeles natural gas well in 2015 that led to the largest-known release of methane in U.S. history was the result of a corroded pipe casing, safety failures by a utility and inadequate regulations, according to an investigation report released Friday.
Southern California Gas Co. failed to investigate previous well failures at the Aliso Canyon storage field and didn't adequately assess its aging wells for disaster potential before the Oct. 23, 2015, blowout, the report released by the California Public Utilities Commission said.
The disaster led to stricter state regulations and improved policies that would have addressed most of the causes, the report found.
Robert Bea, an engineering professor at the University of California, Berkeley, said the report shows the blowout was a "predictable and preventable disaster" and likened it to oil spills, a dam spillway collapse and deadly wildfires he said were due in part to failures by regulators.
"Collectively, we seem to be using 'reactive risk mismanagement': Patch and Pray, Watch it Fail, Fix it Fast, Return to Business As Usual As Soon As Possible," Bea said. "Several of my colleagues who live in other countries have called this approach as 'stuck in stupid.'"
The blowout lasted nearly four months and was blamed for sickening thousands of Los Angeles residents, who moved out of their Porter Ranch homes to escape a sulfurous stench and a medley of maladies including headaches, nausea and nose bleeds.
Blade Energy Partners, which conducted the yearslong investigation, said the company should have been able to plug the leak sooner.
SoCalGas has spent more than $1 billion on the blowout with the majority going to temporarily relocate 8,000 families, according to filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The utility still faces more than 390 lawsuits on behalf of approximately 48,500 people.
Residents who live nearby the gas storage field continue to complain about health problems and many, along with some environmental groups, want the facility shut down.
"This root cause analysis highlights gross negligence by SoCalGas and the failure to conduct basic inspections to determine safety of a highly dangerous operation," Alexandra Nagy, director of Food & Water Watch California, said in a statement. "Nothing short of the immediate shut down of Aliso Canyon will protect residents from harm."
The field — the largest of its kind in the West at the time of the blowout — stores natural gas in retired oil wells, some dating to the 1940s. It injects gas more than a mile underground into the porous reservoir where crude was once found.
The report criticized inadequate regulations at the time, which allowed the company to inject and withdraw gas into the field through an internal pipe and the casing that surrounded it.
The casing was originally designed as a safety barrier for oil production, but was being used to pump greater volumes of gas in and out of the field under high pressure.
It was that type of casing that ultimately ruptured due to corrosion from water and microbes. Gas seeped up through the earth and eventually blew a gaping crater around the well.
Seven attempts to plug the well were tried over weeks, but none worked. The report said workers failed to conduct proper modeling tests in advance of the so-called kill attempts and didn't use dense enough fluid and at a high enough rate to accomplish the task.
The report also said the company lacked systems to protect wells from corrosion and surveillance to monitor them in real time.
Investigators found there had been 60 casing leaks before the incident that presented risks to safety and the environment but investigations into their causes were never conducted.
"Furthermore, external corrosion on production casing had been identified in several wells," the report said. "Based on the data reviewed by Blade, no investigation of the causes was performed, and, therefore, the extent and consequences of the corrosion in the other wells was not understood."
Regulations also failed to require inspections of the thickness of casing walls and those tests were not routinely conducted by the utility.
The well that ruptured was on a list of 20 old wells the company identified in 1988 to determine their condition. Over a two-year period, however, the well was not among the seven tested, which found corrosion on five had worn away 20% to 60% of the wall thickness of their casings.
SoCalGas in a press release said the report showed it was in compliance with state regulations at the time of the blowout and it touted its safety enhancements since.
New requirements put into place by state regulators after the blowout led to many of the wells being overhauled and updated and many being sealed. The field is also not allowed to operate at full capacity.
Two state regulatory agencies, the CPUC and the Department of Conservation's oil and gas division, will use the findings to produce reports of their own that could lead to fines.
SoCalGas reached a $120 million court settlement with the state attorney general. It was convicted in Los Angeles Superior Court of failing to quickly report the leak to state authorities and agreed to a $4 million settlement with the Los Angeles County district attorney.
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