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Want to pick a fight?
Just walk into any bar and proclaim that Barry Bonds deserves to be in baseball's Hall of Fame.
Or, proclaim that he doesn't.
Either way, about half of the crowd will be ready to engage you in vigorous debate. Or invite you to step outside.
Bonds, baseball's all-time home run leader, and 36 other players are eligible for induction into Cooperstown in 2013. We'll find out if he was so honored at 2 p.m. ET Wednesday, when the results of this year's balloting are announced.
To earn induction, a player must be selected on 75 percent of the ballots submitted. The voting is conducted among nearly 600 members of the Baseball Writers' Association of America. Each voter can choose up to 10 players. Craig Biggio, Jack Morris, Curt Schilling, Jeff Bagwell, Tim Raines and Mike Piazza are other top names who could be elected.
There is heightened interest around this year's voting outcome, because the first-time eligibles include Bonds, Roger Clemens and Sammy Sosa - players who, statistically, are no-brainers, but whose careers concluded under a cloud of performance-enhancing drug suspicion.
Most straw polls, including our own survey of 19 BBWAA members who work for Digital First Media properties, indicate that Bonds, Clemens and Sosa will not earn induction - not this year, at least.
Of 19 Hall of Fame voters for Digital First Media properties who reported their ballots, nine voted for Bonds (47 percent), eight voted for Clemens (42 percent) and only two voted for Sosa (11 percent).
While this is a small sampling, it does run roughly in synch with larger surveys. The Associated Press surveyed 112 members of the BBWAA and Bonds received 45 percent support, Clemens 43 percent and Sosa 18 percent. The New York Times survey of 92 voters had Bonds and Clemens at 47 percent, Sosa at 12 percent. And the Baseball Think Factory blog, which had the votes of 125 Hall of Fame voters nationwide as of Tuesday morning, showed Bonds and Clemens both at 45% and Sosa at 15%. (Last year, BBTF correctly forecasted Barry Larkin as the only inductee, based on a sample of 148 ballots.)
The lack of support is traceable to uncertainty over the trio's association, proven or not, with PEDs. And voters can cite the Hall's character clause as a reason to withhold their judgment, at least for now. Players can remain on the ballot for up to 15 years as long as they continue to receive at least 5 percent of the vote.
The character clause says, "Voting shall be based upon the player's record, playing ability, integrity, sportsmanship, character and contribution to the team(s) on which the player played."
Bonds played 22 years for the Pittsburgh Pirates and San Francisco Giants, breaking Hank Aaron's career home run record and finishing with 762. On other all-time leaderboards, Bonds is first in walks (2,558), third in runs scored (2,227), fourth in RBIs (1,996), sixth in on-base percentage (.444) and sixth in slugging (.607).
Clemens and Sosa also have their names in lights on baseball's most treasured lists. Clemens, who pitched 24 years for Boston, Toronto, Houston and the New York Yankees, won seven Cy Young Awards, is ninth all-time in wins (354) and third all-time in strikeouts (4,672). Sosa, who spent most of his 18-year career with the Chicago Cubs, is eighth all-time in homers with 609 and is the only major leaguer ever to have three 60-homer seasons.
But their careers were tarnished in the eyes of many by connections to performance-enhancing drugs that may have given them a competitive advantage.
Bonds said he never knowingly took steroids. He admitted taking substances he says he knew as "the cream" and "the clear," but testified to a U.S. grand jury that his trainer told him they were flaxseed oil and an arthritis pain-reliever.
A former strength and conditioning coach for the Toronto Blue Jays, Brian McNamee, testified before a congressional subcommittee that he injected steroids into Clemens' buttocks during the 1998 season. Clemens denied this and was acquitted on charges of lying to Congress about not taking steroids or human growth hormones.
Sosa was one of 104 players who failed baseball's 2003 drug test, according to The New York Times. But through his lawyer, he testified to a congressional committee in 2005 that he never took illegal performance-enhancing drugs.
Still, for many voters, that's more than enough smoke.
"To me, it is not just smoke, but a raging fire, which set the integrity of the game ablaze," wrote columnist Pat Caputo of the Oakland (Mich.) Press, who said he won't vote for Bonds or Clemens unless they make a full confession. " The truth is often revealed over time. There is a possibility 10 years from now we'll know a lot more than presently. In the meantime, there is no need to hurry to induct players who are under a cloud of possible PED use. If there is an error, it should be on the side of caution, not under the guise of a blind eye, which was a major factor in enabling the 'steroids era' initially."
"I find granting Bonds a pass for his behavior impossible, for now," wrote Denver Post columnist Troy E. Renck. "Perhaps, after tabling it another year, my stance will change. But he was a cheat. As was Roger Clemens, according to eyewitness testimony of his trainer, as well as his former best friend, Andy Pettitte. Understand, Joe DiMaggio wasn't a first-ballot Hall of Famer. I am not banishing Bonds and Clemens from my ballot forever - assuming they don't make it this year - but deferring for perspective."
"Bonds and Clemens have stood trial in federal court after being charged with lying about their use of PEDs," wrote columnist Jay Dunn of The Trentonian, a voter for 31 years. "In Bonds' case, the government's key witness chose to go to jail himself rather than testify at the trial. The case against Clemens collapsed when a former teammate changed his story and said on the witness stand he might have 'misremembered' the facts.
"...But the baseball Hall of Fame vote is not a court of law and legal standards do not apply. The standards will be what every voter thinks they ought to be."
"I'm not voting for any of the steroid social club -- or whatever you want to call the group that includes Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens and Sammy Sosa -- until I have as complete a picture as possible of the Major League Baseball landscape during that time period," wrote columnist Mark Purdy of the San Jose Mercury News. " We still don't know the full story. Fortunately, the Hall of Fame voting process allows for us to be patient and wait for the full story."
If the voters' handling of Mark McGwire is any indication, it's possible Bonds/Clemens/Sosa won't be admitted to the Hall any time soon. McGwire clubbed 583 homers but admitted to using steroids in 2010. He is on the ballot for the seventh time. In his first try, he received just 23.5% of the vote. Last year, he pulled only 19.5% of the vote.
And yet, the "steroid era" players do have supporters, many of whom base their case purely on the statistics, saying it is impossible to determine whose numbers may have been artificially enhanced and whose were not - or whether it's even their job to judge.
"If baseball itself can't decide how to judge the players who dominated the steroid era, why are they dumping this heavy Hall of Fame issue in my lap?" wrote Carl Steward of the Oakland Tribune. "I'm not the commissioner. I'm not the president of the Hall of Fame. I'm just a baseball writer, not a Supreme Court judge.
"I value my Hall of Fame vote, but this situation about which alleged steroid users are Cooperstown-worthy shouldn't be decided by me. So I'm passing the buck. I'm voting for all of the players I deem worthy candidates above and beyond their inflated statistics (which, according to Bud Selig, still count). Yes, that includes Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, Mark McGwire and others. If they get in, then the Hall of Fame can decide how to frame them for history."
Chaz Scoggins of the Lowell (Mass.) Sun has a harsh rebuke for his peers who would keep superstars out of the Hall of Fame based on unproven allegations.
"Whether or not these candidates actually used performance-enhancing drugs is immaterial to a substantial bloc of voters; they're all tainted, every single one of them, and therefore to be shunned," wrote Scoggins. "Not even the fact that Clemens fought the PED charges against him in a court of law and was acquitted is likely to save his candidacy.
"While not everyone who played in the Steroids Era is guilty, and the voters know it, many of them fear their own reputations will suffer if they elect someone who is later discovered to have used PEDs. But this is America, where you're innocent until proven guilty, and you don't prejudge."
But Jon Becker of the Bay Area News Group isn't one of those worried about his own reputation. "By voting for them, I'm not condoning their actions. I'm just saying they belong among baseball's all-time elite," he wrote. "And isn't that what the Hall of Fame is about?"
And so the debate over Bonds/Clemens/Sosa will continue. And with their Hall of Fame election this year looking doubtful, the debate is sure to rage again next year. And probably the year after that. And the year after that


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An energetic, light-hearted romp through the day of a wedding ceremony, Le Nozze di Figaro includes disguises, cross-dressing, mistaken identities, people jumping out of windows, and the lascivious head of a household. Raising the issues of power, privilege, class conflict, love, and friendship, this fully staged eighteenth century comic opera, composed by W. A. Mozart and sung in both English and Italian (with super titles), is presented by the Goshen College music and theater departments and set in 21st century New York City.
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Rehearsals Sunday 4/21— Tuesday 4/23: 6:30-9:30pm
+ Wednesday 4/24, 6:30 p.m. with Performance at 9 p.m.
Center for the Arts—Studio II
Nick Bryson will be on campus for a residency Sunday, April 21—Wednesday, April 24. While he's here, he'll perform, visit classes, and create a new work with students! Plus, another guest artist, Jeff Wallace, will join him a couple days in.
The performance Wednesday at 9:00 p.m. will include a new work, a solo by Nick, and a duet by Nick & Jeff. The new work with students will be made out of the following workshop/rehearsal process. The only requirement for students is that they be able to attend all rehearsals for the full length of time.
"Body Points (of Departure)"
At this point in his work, Nick is pursuing a need for expansiveness with dancers …and waiting.. for expansiveness. This statement is made as a way to delineate the working themes from any sort of limit. The aim is for non-dualism, the making of art in the studio being concerned with discernment rather than judgement, inclusion through group reflection, rather than hierarchical prescription. The process is loosely based on the idea of a question like 'In what way are you capable? (Whereas 'Are you capable?' has a one-word answer). A group space that is expansive leads us from one idea to the next. This will translate into the choreographic space in a process prioritizing deadline-free environment. Specifically … echoing some Nick's early work, yet with a deepened awareness for the sensations in the body, the brief research period will ask 'How does a trained or training dancer come to a space that is a somatic and over-ridingly concerned with the felt sense and attunement to self? Can an intention within such a space still be performative? From where do we find a beginning middle and end? And crafted art piece?
Nick Bryson trained at The Northern School of Contemporary Dance (Leeds) 94-97, The School for New Dance Development (Amsterdam) 98-00 and The University of Limerick 05-06 where he obtained a Masters with First Class Honours in Contemporary Dance Performance. He is currently and for the last 4 years been Co-Artistic Director of Legitimate Bodies Dance Company with Cristina Goletti. Nick also has huge experience of dance, choreography and mixed media improvisation including with dance companies Daghdha (Limerick), Rebus (Cork) and Factotum (Belfast).
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The other night I was doing laundry. At the laundromat. In what is regarded as a sketchy neighborhood. I realize this is regarded as a pathetic state of affairs, but bear with me.
The only other people in the laundromat were a father and son, aged about30 and 8, respectively. They were tossing a football back and forth near the entrance, away from the machines. They were black, or African American, or whatever term the current dogma requires. I mean, fill in the blank, it doesn't matter to me.
Many people would think this activity in a laundromat might be disturbing, but it wasn't, at least not to me. Far from it. The father was very careful not to bother anyone else – which was pretty much me – while he engaged in obviously enjoyable father-son play with his boy. In fact, I was just very impressed with both of them. Their limited interactions with me while all this was going on – that is, me doing my laundry, them doing their laundry but tossing around a football as they waited for the machines to finish – were polite, highly courteous, just very pleasant in every respect.
Their interactions with each other were better than that: inspiring, I would say. The father displayed an easy aptitude for paternal guidance and instruction that seemed to me beyond his years. He was good humored, steady, patient, in charge of his son but encouraging him to also be in charge of himself. He was perfect. They were perfect together. And it was a rather beautiful thing to see.
I see things like this, though maybe not quite so striking, often. And I can't help contrasting these vignettes in my mind with the stories I read in the paper or see on the news coming from the same neighborhoods, where somebody robbed somebody else or somebody shot somebody else, and so on. These stories are not factually false in their particulars, but they are a wild distortion of reality. Reality is a lot more like the father-son interaction I saw than the stories in the newspaper. There's no comparison, really.
Of course, this is hardly a unique insight. There is nothing new under the sun, I suppose. But the same thing comes in variations, and sometimes the variations are too beautiful and meaningful not to notice.


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Fifth round of TIGER funding makes $474 million availableWritten by Jenifer Nunez, assistant editor
The U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) has made $474 million available for the fifth round of the Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) grant program.
"President Obama has challenged us to make sure our nation's transportation infrastructure is up to the job of attracting and supporting businesses and the families that rely on them," said U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood. "TIGER 2013 will contribute to increased mobility for people and freight and economic growth by helping to improve existing and develop new transportation facilities that will strengthen our competitiveness and create jobs."
Projects eligible for TIGER grants include highways and bridges, public transportation, passenger and freight rail transportation and marine port infrastructure investments. Grants may range in size from $10 million to $200 million. Grants to rural areas may be for less than $10 million, but must be more than $1 million. No less than $120 million must be awarded to projects in rural areas.
The four previous rounds of TIGER provided $3.1 billion to support 218 projects in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. Demand for the program has been overwhelming, with more than 4,050 applicants requesting more than $105.2 billion during the previous rounds.
The FY 2013 Appropriations Act requires that TIGER funds be obligated before October 1, 2014. The limited amount of time means the USDOT will give priority to projects that are ready to proceed quickly. In addition to project readiness, primary selection criteria includes improving the condition of existing transportation facilities and systems; contributing to the economic competitiveness of the United States and creating and preserving jobs; increasing transportation choices and access to transportation services for people in communities across the U.S.; improving energy efficiency, reducing dependence on oil and reducing greenhouse gas emissions and improving safety. Applications are due June 3, 2013.


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Hope everyone had a Happy Halloween!
I'm on a brief vacation to Ohio visiting the family.
In the meantime I thought I'd share a great letter I got from my niece which also serves as a terrific step by step furniture makeover tutorial!
You may recall Maggie is the one who, with no previous experience in upholstery took this chair and made this chairThereby proving that she is
a show-off just like my dad wonderfully gifted, generous and talented!
So I'm not sure why she thought she needed advice from me but…….
Dearest Uncle,
I am extremely happy to report on the completion of a project I asked you about almost a year ago.
As you may recall, I had taken it into my head last September to paint my desk. I swiftly contacted you and, after receiving excellent advice, delighted in the endorphin rush that comes from deciding to do a project… and promptly filed it at the back of my to-do list.
Well, procrastination can only take you so far, especially when the item you are procrastinating about is the one piece of furniture you use on a daily basis – stupid utility value. So I embarked on the adventure!
Step One: convince husband to help move heavy piece of furniture to the garage (grudging success) – and bang it on every available door jam you encounter (epic fail.)
Step Two: discover that Mom (Phebe) had a piece of furniture she'd like to paint and pencil in several dates to have a "painting party."
Step Two Point Five: Actually settle on the date and have it arrive. Set up the garage.
Step Three: settle on color – I went with an Antique White since my newly reupholstered chair has an off-white background and I wanted them to somewhat match. Mom chose with a Bright White for a charming little sewing machine table which she's not going to use for sewing at all. Ever.
Step Four: sanding. I had a couple of thoughts at this stage… primarily: "Thanks for bringing your electric sander over, Mom!" and "Why didn't I buy face masks until I was three quarters finished with this stage? Step Five: cleaning using TSP
Step Six: prime everything -followed nearly immediately by realizing that we didn't have enough primer.
Step Seven: fine-grit sanding of first layer of primer and re-application of primer.
Step Eight: watch an episode of "The Tudors" so we don't go out and try to put the first layer of paint on before the primer coats dry.
Step Nine: put first layer of actual paint on. Curse occasionally due to drips.
Step Ten: More "Tudors" – same purpose.
Step Eleven: put second layer of paint on. Acknowledge that it'll be at least a week before I can do anything else. Ugh! This waiting thing sucks.
Now I'll take a mini break from the steps because what happens next was not at all in the plan… but it was pretty inevitable. I realized that I'd chosen "Antique White" for the purposes of matching my chair… but that my dang office was painted Bright White and my "new" desk wasn't gonna look great against that wall color. So I decided to find a color I could use for an accent wall, settled on "mis-mixed" leftover at the paint store and ended up with lovely salmon-y color that was definitely within the realm of matching my chair
Step Twelve: convince husband to help carry desk back inside… AND BASH IT AGAINST EVERY %$*&@ DOOR FRAME WE ENCOUNTERED!!!! (there were a few painting touch-ups needed)
Step Thirteen: hand-paint accent design on the front. This was a Pinterest idea I saw and loved so I chose a bright green and practiced some tree branches on a large sheet of paper Step Fourteen: realize that I'm really happy with the way my desk came out… but that I have absolutely no way of sitting at it (the piece never had a chair and I've been improvising with leftover/extra furniture for years – not my best interior design moment, that's for sure.)
Dash to the awesome Habitat for Humanity ReStore, find a sturdy little chair of the appropriate dimensions with just a bit of carpentry flare (is that a thing? it is now…) to match my desk pop out its seat and painted it and reupholstered it in a nice bright green. Put them all together and whaddya got? A sewing desk I'm not ashamed to show off! The only remaining problem: how to get the primer out of my dog's tail fur… (she was a little overzealous in her attempts to help me out in the garage…)
Thanks for the great advice Uncle David! Everything worked out wonderfully!
PS: Mom reminded me to tell you a bit about my 2-drawer index file cabinets that were a minor part of this painting initiative – they just happened to be the exact width of the bags Mom and I store our DMC Embroidery Floss in so I grabbed three from the pile of stuff they were getting rid of at work, painted the drawers and frames in alternating colors (green & white) and stacked them on top of my filing cabinet with a small swatches of the upholstery fabric slid into the label slot – they came out pretty cute, too!


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While I'm sure there are plenty of unsubstantiated tales as related to Newton County and encounters with old-school Public Enemies, there are few things we do know, or think we know, for sure.
While I'm sure there are plenty of unsubstantiated tales as related to Newton County and encounters with old-school Public Enemies, there are few things we do know, or think we know, for sure.
Most local folks are probably aware that Bonnie and Clyde and friends, while they were holed up in their garage apartment on 34th Street in Joplin, took a nice little drive down to Neosho and robbed the Neosho Milling Company office on today's Baxter Street. The old brick building is still there, now home to Certified Express Inc. trucking company. I might add that the walk-in safe that Clyde Barrow, and probably his brother Buck and gang member WD Jones, once emptied of cash is still there as well. It is now utilized as a storage closet, I believe. I got to walk inside it once. Now that was a neat experience, knowing who had been in there before.
Other Neosho businesses might have been hit as well during the gang's Missouri vacation, but investigation into the Neosho Milling Company robbery is at least partly what prompted law enforcement officers to raid the Joplin apartment (they thought they were only after bootleggers) and cause the now famously bloody shootout there.
On the escape south on what is now Missouri Highway 86, the gangsters sped through Redings Mill, and there we lose track of them, officially anyway. I used to doubt they made it all the way to Racine because they supposedly turned west some point after Redings Mill. However, I was later told a story by an older gentleman about how the gangsters stopped for gas at his folks' store on DD Highway, between today's Y Highway and Missouri Highway 43, late that same night or early the next morning. The family lived at the back and above the store. They hadn't heard of the shootout in Joplin that afternoon, or possibly the day before by that time on the clock, and it was only later that they realized the identities of the mysterious strangers knocking on the door in the middle of the night. According to the story I was told, the strangers asked for directions to Anderson, and that one of the young women, thought to be Bonnie Parker but it could have also been Buck's wife, Blanche, paid for the gas – and short changed them. No one noticed the desperately wounded young man in the back seat, WD Jones, who had been shot in the side during the gunfight.
The gentleman who related the story to me is convinced that this was the Barrow gang. In my mind, there's a strong possibility that it was.
Much less known is the "great Neosho bank robbery," reportedly perpetrated by Leo "Irish" O'Malley and gang. On the early morning of March 2, 1935 seven or eight of O'Malley's "boys" caught janitor Leslie Cooper as he was walking across the Neosho Square to what is now Boulevard Bank but at the time was the First National. According to accounts, O'Malley stood guard outside while the rest of the gang members forced Cooper to open up the safe and then "greeted" employees as they came into work, tying them up. The O'Malley's fled town with supposedly about $8,000 in cash (though authorities often lied about how much was actually taken so as to prevent publicizing tempting targets).
Now all of that is available in several local history books. What you won't find in those books, however, is just who this Leo "Irish" O'Malley was.
Actually, he wasn't even the gang's leader though he may have been the most flamboyant, according to a recent law journal article. It was the newspapers who sensationally dubbed it the "O'Malley Gang," a collection of mostly Missouri ex-convicts operating out of northeast Oklahoma. Before the press turned them into the "O'Malley Gang" the bunch of toughs was known as the Ozark Mountain Boys and they hit banks all over the Four-States, earning a reputation for rather gutsy hold-ups.
It all came to an end less than three months after the Neosho robbery when most of the gang was arrested one-by-one for a Ft. Smith bank job and they all ratted each other out, including Leo "Irish" O'Malley himself who was captured while on the lam in Kansas City. He was extradited to Illinois on a prior kidnapping charge, where he died, insane, in 1944.
In all likelihood, Newton County had many more connections with what I call "old school gangsters" -- some nationally known, others wannabe big names. But besides the old family stories about grandma getting a ride to school one snowy day from a nice man in a well-tailored suit and then later seeing his mug shot in the newspaper beneath sensational headlines in bold letters, we'll probably never know for sure.
But I'd still love to hear some of those stories.
Wes Franklin serves on the Newton County Historical Society Board of Directors. He is also public relations director and events coordinator for the City of Neosho. Contact him at 658-8443.


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To boldly go where no man has gone before…
Star Trek (J.J. Abrams, 2009)
First I'll have to say that I've never been a trekkie. Long term TV-shows and franchises tend to scare me away by their sheer scale. I'm far too changeable to stay with them. Otherwise, the Enterprise and her various Star Trek successors could have become my mental TV-home. In the course of about thirty years I have watched a number of Star Trek-movies and uncounted TV-episodes from several Star Trek incarnations. And I've always liked the Sagittarius-type adventurers, thirsty for knowledge, struggling for tolerance and comprehension, traveling and exploring the endless widths of the universe. I loved the dry sense of humor in their verbal duels just as well as I liked the discourses on science, politics or philosophy, Kirk, McCoy, Spock and all the others found themselves entangled with in the most outlandish situations. But most of all I liked the bottom line – or the "message" if you like to put it that way – of the series: the pleasure in exploring strange new worlds (Sagittarius), the ability not to impose your own ideas and values on everybody else (Sagittarius) and the endlessly big space, which again and again has more astonishing life forms and worlds in store.
J.J. Abrams, who according to his own statement wasn't very familiar with the material so far, builds his own "Star Trek" more after the conventional pattern of a suspense-flick: a racy story where evil powers, embodied in a Romulan out on a personal vendetta, endanger the survival of the whole Earth. It thus emphasizes not Sagittarius, but Aries and Scorpio, and – manifesting in cool characters and nonchalant one-liners as well as in the technobabble and spectacular computer generated special effects – also in Aquarius (which is generally almost inevitable in science-fiction).Nevertheless the story gets really interesting primarily because it provides some insight into the youth of the Enterprise's two main heroes and it shows how the two of them could have gotten together. Since those first encounters with young Kirk and Spock are the main justification for the existence of this new "Star Trek" movie, I'm going to have a look at the archetypes the two of them represent.
James Tiberius Kirk – A cowboy in space
Kirk is born in the midst of a battle that causes his father to sacrifice his own life for the survival of his ship's crew and his wife, who is in labor. The father's heroism is no small weight for the boy, whom we see growing up in the following sequences on a farm in some American desert, as an almost suicidal daredevil. How this hoodlum turns into the courageous but responsible captain of a spaceship is part of the story "Star Trek" is revealing.
It is, of course, the Aries-archetype, that is embodied here in rare clarity by James T. Kirk: born in battle, always searching for it, keen to be the first and the best in everything. Courageous and willing to take risks, to push himself beyond all limits, always in search of new adventures and ready to accept any possible challenge, with an unswerving belief of his own strength.This rampant energy obviously needs direction and maturity to become usable and useful, so young Kirk finds a fatherly friend and mentor in an old acquaintance and admirer of his father, who functions as a Jupiter-character and offers the boy advice and support and dares him to join Starfleet. In this orderly organization, structured by military principles, Kirk's juvenile hotheadedness is met by Saturn's power to make him gain some maturity by reprimanding him, slowing him down and – well, at least a bit – teaching him some discipline.
Spock – A cool-headed observer in two worlds
Growing up on planet Vulcan, Spock appears as a boy with great talent
for science and logic, who, however, is not accepted by his peers because
of his mother being from planet Earth. Spocks's human heritage,
which makes it harder for him to control his emotions than it is for
a full-blood Vulcan, tempts his school mates into picking on him and
provoking him. Since childhood he therefore experiences himself as
different and a stranger – and thus becomes the archetypal Aquarius-character.
Spock feels challenged to improve his control of his emotions, he excels at scientific exams and eventually leaves Vulcan, because he feels discriminated against. But on Earth, due to his Vulcan heritage, he also experiences being considered a stranger, who behaves incomprehensibly and feels different. It becomes obvious very quickly that Spock can't really feel at home in neither of the two worlds. He remains a detached observer, without any true belonging. While as a boy he still rebelled against it, after a while he not only comes to accept his role, but also makes use of the independence from social conventions that goes with it. Thus he becomes the unerring logician and observer, the audience has loved for so long because of his unique perspective and – even more – his deadpan punch lines.
Vesna Ivkovic studied literature and linguistics, sociology, philosophy and history and as well took a profound interest in psychology, mythology and different belief systems. Along the way she also explored various paths of body awareness such as the martial arts of Kung Fu, Dance, Yoga, Qi Gong and several other methods of body work and motion arts. In 1993 she discovered astrology as an instrument of knowledge and graduated in 2004 in Markus Jehle's and Petra Niehaus' master class at the Astrology Center Berlin. You can find out more about the author and her work on her own website www.astrosemiotics.de
The Cinemascope is meant to give an overview of current movies and their main themes from an astrosemiotical perspective (i.e.: regarding film as semiotic system and translating it into the astrological semiotic system). A well made movie not only has a story and a certain theme, it also provides a special atmosphere, a certain feeling and it draws us into its very own world. This basic quality that is contrived through characters, plot, setting and many other components also translates into one or more astrological principles. Quite simply: a fast-paced action-flick confronts us with plain Aries energy, a horror-movie evokes Scorpio-like abysmal depths and fears etc. We step out of the theatre and – if the film succeeded in sucking us in – find ourselves dwelling on and engaging in that special energetic quality.
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This thread is now a piece of AO history and I just had to post and be apart of this in some way. So amazing to get these pieces back into public view. I think there needs to be an Automag museum build around this collection. I know I would fly, drive, walk to it.
That one hyperframe looks like it was connected to the warp. That is an awesome idea.


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BOULDER -- Sheriff's deputies will be on hand at a Thursday afternoon public hearing on oil and gas issues, in case the Boulder County commissioners need to call on them to help maintain order.
The commissioners and their staff have issued a written advisory to anyone intending to attend the hearing, warning against behavior such as yelling, singing, chanting, shouting at the board or other attendees, or other activities that disrupt the hearing.
Uniformed law enforcement officers also were stationed at the commissioners' Dec. 6 and Dec. 13 discussions of oil and gas regulations, after chanting anti-fracking protesters disrupted a Dec. 4 hearing and delayed its start for almost half an hour.
Some of those in that night's standing-room-only crowd later jeered at an oil company spokeswoman when she testified at that hearing. Several followed her out of that Dec. 4 meeting and heckled her as she -- accompanied by courthouse security personnel -- walked to her car.
The Dec. 6 and Dec. 13 oil and gas discussions were public meetings but didn't include public hearings. People wanting the county to ban hydraulic fracturing, the process of injecting a mixture of sand, gravel and chemicals to free up underground oil and gas deposits, were generally civil, although some at the Dec. 13 meeting taped their own mouths shut to signal that they thought the commissioners had imposed a gag order.
In a memo that's been attached to the county staff's online report for this coming Thursday's hearing -- and that's expected to be a handout at that meeting -- the commissioners and their staff state that "Boulder County has a long and storied tradition of protecting First Amendment rights and taking extensive public input on policy and legislative matters. However, we must balance the continued public input with our ability to conduct the business of the county."
The memo says individuals or groups who try to disrupt Thursday's meeting, "or who attempt to thwart the ability of specific speakers to address the board, will be asked to stop their disruption. If further disruption continues, those individuals will be removed from the hearing room and the Courthouse."
The memo adds that "if the disruption makes it impossible for the board to conduct its business, the hearing room will be cleared and the meeting continued."
If board chairwoman Cindy Domenico has to ask an individual or group to leave the room, the memo says, Boulder County officials are asking "that the disrupting party leave the room without incident. Failure to do so will result in legal action."
County officials said in the memo, though, that the Courthouse plaza on downtown Boulder's Pearl Street Mall "has been designated as the public forum for protest activities," and that any protests "should occur outside the Courthouse."
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The ACLU of Oklahoma has filed a complaint with the Oklahoma Council on Judicial Complaints against Muskogee County District Judge Mike Norman for requiring a defendant to attend church for 10 years as a condition of probation.
The complaint states in part that Judge Norman violated Oklahoma's Code of Judicial Conduct which requires judges to "uphold and apply the law". With this sentence, Judge Norman disregarded fundamental principles of religious liberty found in the Establishment Clause and the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment, as well as guarantees of religious liberty found in the Oklahoma Constitution.
"It is shocking that a judge would so blatantly ignore the First Amendment, which at a minimum prevents the government from forcing church attendance and from interfering in deeply personal matters of faith," said Ryan Kiesel, ACLU of Oklahoma Executive Director.
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Housing markets are showing signs of reviving, concludes The State of the Nation's Housing report released last week by the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University. "While still in the early innings of a housing recovery, rental markets have turned the corner, home sales are strengthening, and a floor is beginning to form under home prices," says Eric S. Belsky, Managing Director of the Joint Center for Housing Studies. "With new home inventories at record lows, unless the broader economy goes into a tailspin, stronger sales should further stabilize prices and pave the way for a pickup in single-family housing construction over the course of 2012."
Some key facts found in the homeowner market are as follows:
- By the first quarter of 2012, existing home sales (single family and condos) were 5.2% above year-earlier levels, with single family sales up 6.3%.
- After hitting a record low of just 306,000 units in 2011, sales of newly constructed homes in the first quarter of 2012 stood 16.7% above year-earlier levels.
- Inventories of new single-family homes for sale fell 20% in 2011, sinking to just 143,000 units in March 2012—the lowest level in nearly five decades of recordkeeping.
- The inventory of existing homes for sale shrank by some 23% in 2011, reducing the supply in the first quarter of 2012 to its lowest level since 2006.
- The number of new homes added in 2002–11 was lower than in any other ten-year period since the early 1970s.
- With the uptick in sales, single-family starts picked up significantly in the second half of 2011 and stand fully 16.6% above year-earlier levels in the first quarter of 2012. They were down 8.6% in 2010-11.
- Single-family permitting, a leading indicator of starts, was also up 16.9% in the first quarter of 2012.
- Multifamily starts surged 54% in 2010-11, and in 2012:1 were up 36.1% from year-earlier levels.
- With an increase in residential construction in late 2011 and early 2012, Residential Fixed Investment (RFI) posted two consecutive quarters of solid growth and provided its first significant boost to GDP since the end of the Great Recession.
- According to the Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey, interest rates on a 30-year fixed mortgage slid below 4.0% in early 2012— its lowest level since recordkeeping began in 1971.
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This is not the kind of barrier-breaking people typically cheer: The FBI announced Thursday that it has added the first-ever woman to its list of Most Wanted Terrorists, where she joined the ranks of extremists such as al-Qaida No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahri.
Joanne Chesimard—she may be using the name Assata Shakur—was convicted of several charges, including the murder of a New Jersey state trooper during a May 1973 traffic stop. She was sentenced to life in prison, but escaped and ultimately surfaced in 1984 in Cuba, where she received asylum, the FBI said in a statement.
The FBI has offered a reward of up to $1 million for information leading to her arrest. The state of New Jersey has independently offered another $1 million.
The State Department lists Cuba among state sponsors of terrorism, along with Iran, Sudan and Syria. Critics of the designation, which dates back to 1982, say it reflects Cold War-era opposition to Fidel Castro more than any ongoing support for violent extremism. The State Department says Cuba has harbored members of the Basque separatist group ETA.
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Every year since 1952, the editors of the New York Times Book Review have asked a group of judges to pick the best illustrated children's books of the year. The 2008 list appeared in the NYTBR on Nov. 9, and if you missed it, you can watch a slide show that includes a picture from each of the 10 honorees here
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Manti has moved up to number 2 on kipers board. He undoubtedly will be thrust into the top pick if he wins the Heisman. This is someone who can handle the spotlight and having the weight of a franchise placed on him. We could have a rebirth on the side of football that made number 58 our face of the franchise.
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The Freshwater Biodiversity Unit of IUCN Species Programme organised a workshop bringing together a range of stakeholders to validate Freshwater Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs) in the southern European part (Balkan region) of the Mediterranean Biodiversity Hotspot.
In this workshop, held in Jahorina (Bosnia and Herzegovina) from 11-13 December, experts evaluated, completed and validated the river or lake catchments previously identified and proposed as freshwater KBAs for this part of the Mediterranean. They have also identified priority actions for each catchment. This work aims to provide the foundation for the creation of a representative Protected Areas network for freshwater species, as well as the resources that are essential for guiding decisions on the conservation and sustainable management of freshwater biodiversity in the Mediterranean Basin Biodiversity Hotspot.
Moreover, participants discussed on what kind of general information can be collated for each site for entry into the World Biodiversity Database (WBDB) that currently holds information on the Important Bird Areas, Terrestrial KBAs and Alliance for Zero Extinction (AZE) sites.
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This was the first stakeholder KBA workshop, organised in collaboration with the IUCN Centre for Mediterranean Cooperation. This project is part of the initiative "Mediterranean Biodiversity Assessment II", identification of Important Freshwater Areas, and it was funded by the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund, MAVA Foundation, the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID), BioFresh consortium (EU FP7 project) and FREDIE initiative (Freshwater Diversity Identification for Europe).
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Can makersthose who use tinplate manufactured by steel producers worldwideare fighting a couple of tough battles these days but are having success on several fronts even though the odds seem to be stacked against them.
Among their challenges is pricing power, which rests in the hands of steel producers. ArcelorMittal USA, Chicago, and U.S. Steel Corp., Pittsburgh, are the only two true U.S. manufacturers of the product, while Ohio Coatings Co., Yorkville, Ohio, and USS-Posco Industries Inc., Pittsburg, Calif., apply tin coating to substrate material, so can makers have limited options from where to source material.
Another battle is the freshness challenge. Try, for example, promoting the message that canned food is better than fresh food. That challenge is being taken up by the Can Manufacturers' Institute (CMI), Washington, which has a formidable opponent in none other than the First Lady. "The big battle for the can makers is freshness," CMI president Robert Budway said. "There is a misperception out there that fresh food is better than canned food. That perception is bolstered when you have someone like Michelle Obama with her garden at the White House. But that (fresh food is better than canned food) is not always the case."
The reasons are relatively simple, he said. Can makers usually have operations near the fields where foods such as tomatoes or corn are harvested. The product goes virtually right from the field to the can. "So in the case of corn, for example, it's cut in the field, packed to lock in the freshness and shipped to the store," Budway said. "When you buy an ear of corn at the store, you don't know how long it was sitting on the dock or in the truck before it got there. The ability to lock in freshness quickly is a key selling point for us."
A recent study by Silgan Containers Corp., Woodland Hills, Calif., one of the largest manufacturers of steel and aluminum cans in the country, showed that metal cans were ranked No. 1 by 81 percent of consumers specifying a material preference, compared with 9 percent for plastic, 6 percent for glass, 1 percent for cartons and 1 percent for pouches. The findings also showed that shapes can potentially increase market share, even with a price premium as high as 16 percent, communicating instantly by providing upscale visual clues coupled with memorable and recognizable branding.
One challenge container manufacturers apparently won't have to face in 2010 is a price increase. Several market sourcesservice center buyers of tin products, in particularindicated that it appears contract prices will remain basically flat compared with 2009.
Contract negotiations on tin products usually take place between steel mills and their customers in the fall for the following year. Those negotiations are influenced largely by the food pack, a measurement of the amount of food that will be packed in cans in a given year. The tinplate produced by steelmakers is used mostly for food and aerosol cans, as well as in industrial applications such as oil filters. Beverage cans are made mostly from aluminum.
"Tinplate is sort of immune to recession," a Midwest service center source said. "The consumption of food in cans is not really offset by recession. People still eat."
Silgan, for example, posted third-quarter sales from its metal food containers business of $716.5 million, up 16.1 percent from the same period a year earlier.
Thus, tinplate pricing generally will hold up better in 2010 than prices for its hot-rolled or cold-rolled counterparts. Hot-rolled prices peaked at around $1,100 per ton in summer 2008, which hurt tin mill products being sold under contract at considerably less. "They couldn't even make their margins on tinplate then," the second Midwest service center source said.
But the economic downturn of late 2008 sent steel prices plummeting to the point where market prices for hot rolled went below $400 per ton in spring 2009 before rebounding to around $520 in November, when tinplate was selling for about $900 per ton after customers agreed in 2008 to varying price increases based on disparate contract prices from the previous year. Those who paid small increases in 2007 got hit with larger increases in 2008, while those who paid more in 2007 faced smaller increases in 2008.
"The mills don't do those blanket price increases any more," the service center source said. "But they need to have at least a $300 margin on tinplate (vs. hot-rolled product) to make any money. They've got to be between $300 and $500 higher on tinplate, and I think that's where they are now. It looks like that's where they are going to be (in 2010)."
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I've heard from several places that your sense of smell is the one most closely allied with memory. I think it has something to do with proximity in the brain or something (I'm not a neurologist so that could all be bunk--who knows?) At any rate, here's a list of smells that I just LOVE. Some are pretty normal and will get some agreement and then there are a few that might give too much away and you'll be convinced I'm whacked.
Ah well, I'll take the risk.
1. Real Grapefruit. I love cooking with limes, when I cut them I always pause to take a sniff, and mandarin oranges are Christmas all over but my favorite citrus is grapefruit. I probably like the smell of a tree-ripened grapefruit because it reminds me of visiting my grandparents in Chandler, Arizona when I was younger. They had a tree in their back yard and Grandpa taught me how to eat a grapefruit properly--peeled and salted. They used to store the extras under their bed in boxes and the smell will always connect me to their house.
2. Potting soil. Cracking open a bag of this stuff and getting the familiar whiff of charcoal and peat is like going back to page in a book I've read many times before. It's the rituals of planting and preparing that get me going and somehow that potting soil triggers it. Odd.
3. Rosemary. I have a little rosemary tree that I've trained into a topiary and the piney-woodsy-mediciney smell is addicting. I can't imagine what it's like to live in a place where it grows wild and you brush by it as you walk.
4. Plumeria. While we're on the subject of plants I've got to list plumeria. This flower smells just amazing and it's one of my favorite things about Hawaii. When I smell it I'm in the islands and I even feel warmer--I always take back extra flowers after a vacation just to save in the fridge and sniff at will.
5. Line-dried clothing. Oh I've written about this before so I won't bore you here but this is the essence of summer.
6. Airports. I really get a kick from the smell of airports. It's a funny mix of cigarette smoke, cleaners, and other things I can't name--and it's not that I like those things normally but mixed together in that unique way they are very definitive. There's an "airport" smell just as there is a "new car" smell or a smell to each person's house. I think I like it because whenever I'm at an airport I'm full of anticipation, looking forward to travel or to meeting someone I love--that must be it. Either that or I was a smoker in a former life.
7. Ski resorts. Speaking of cigarettes this next smell is a little harder to define (and a little weirder) but it's a favorite none the less. When it's winter and it's not too cold, still below freezing but not so cold it couldn't snow, and there's a bit of sun and I'm outside sometimes the air smells just right so that it takes me back to days of skiing. Again, it's a touch of cigarette from somebody on the chair lift ahead of you catching a smoke on the way up plus the cold frost of winter and the smells of people that all mix together and creates the smell that reminds me of those fun days on the slopes. I was walking through the parking lot at Costco last week and caught a touch of it in the air and suddenly I was standing in line, waiting for my ride up the mountain.
8. Birch blossoms. Can I switch seasons here for a minute? There's a two or three day period each spring when all the birch trees bloom here. Well bloom isn't quite the right word, they don't have flowers but "leave" certainly isn't the right word so it'll have to do. Whatever, but it's the day when the leaves uncurl and the fresh sap it everywhere in the air and it tells my brain that I've done it--I've made it through another Alaskan winter and have three months of fabulous weather to look forward to. Of course I sneeze like crazy those two or three days but the smell is worth it.
9. Rain. Boy this is a great smell--and I think I like it all the more when it hasn't actually rained yet, it just smells like it's going to rain. Makes me feel like I can tell the future or something--Michelle the Omniscient or something like that.
10. Hospitals. Okay I've led you along for awhile and here's where I get weird--I know most people hate the smell of hospitals but it's all in the memory I suppose. To me, the hospital antiseptic smell reminds me of when my children were born and all the feelings that accompanied those events. Maybe if I'd had more experience with death and prolonged sicknesses hospitals wouldn't make me nostalgic they make me depressed but for now I'll just be glad for the experiences I've had.
11. Crayons. Tell me you don't take a sniff every time you open a box! Yea, I thought so.
12. Tomato plants. Not tomatoes--though, hey I love the smell of a pizza as much as the next pasta-provolone-and-pesto lovin gal--no, the plants themselves are what do it for me. They smell completely different from the fruit and I can't quite put my finger on how to describe them. Minty? No. Piney? No. But though I can't describe it I know it when I smell it and I love it. I'll sit in the sun on my back deck with the potted tomato plants next to me and I'll wrinkle the leaves occasionally just to get the aroma. Yum.
13. My dusty skin. This is probably just the weirdest thing but you know when you've been out in the sun for any length of time it does something to you and makes you smell a certain way? Maybe it's a bit of sweat or maybe the dust in the air or whatever (please don't tell me I'm the only one who smells this way) but if I come in and wash my hands and arms after working in the garden my skin gives off a certain smell, like its been baked. Even if I was outside the day before, when I wake up in the morning and go to take a shower the dusty smell is there when my hair gets wet. Okay that's just too personal but it's the official smell of summer and will always be a favorite.
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Thursday, March 13, 2008
My Favorite Smells
I've heard from several places that your sense of smell is the one most closely allied with memory. I think it has something to do with proximity in the brain or something (I'm not a neurologist so that could all be bunk--who knows?) At any rate, here's a list of smells that I just LOVE. Some are pretty normal and will get some agreement and then there are a few that might give too much away and you'll be convinced I'm whacked.
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- Heather said...
I love the smell of New York City. Specifically (or perhaps not) the smell by the ferry docks. I can sometimes smell it under the bridges in our city.
Takes me back to my childhood I guess.
- Katherine said...
Tomato plants? Really?? I can't stand the smell of tomato leaves, though I put up with it for my love of fresh tomatoes.
I too love rosemary and am lucky enough to have 3 plants in the yard. One is about 3 feet high and maybe 5 feet wide, right on the way to the mailbox. I love to brush past it - my kids sometimes even nibble on it.
- Deb - Mom of 3 Girls said...
What a great idea for a list! I love the smell of lilac, coffee (even though I hate the taste), and am with you on the smell of rain. Especially right after a nice spring shower... :)
- Janet said...
fresh cut lumber
bread factories
the beach - yes, even the dead fish smell
- An Ordinary Mom said...
What about the smell of wonderful chocolate :) ?!? Yum!
- my4kids said...
I agree with you on some. I love the smell of rain, just before it rains when it's been a couple of days or so. Hmm except here that doesn't happen quite so much but it does. I love Plumeria also. I love the smell of clothes dried out on the line. Not very practical here though since it will probably start to rain the moment I walk back into the house.
My favorite smell of all? The ocean..
- mumple said...
My kids' hair. Both smell like my dad--not the *dirty* smell, and not the shampoo smell either. That smell you get at the end of the day when you're not nasty sweaty-or greasy dirty.
It's just his smell--I remember it from when I was little and he'd lay down on the floor after supper and I'd snuggle up next to him to just watch TV.
It's hard to explain, and sometimes it hits me harder than others, but it makes me happy to think that this is proof that my dad "lives on" in my kids.
- Susan from Food Blogga said...
We used to have a plumeria tree outside of our living room in our last apartment. It would perfume the entire side of the house.
I also adore pink jasmine which is currently in bloom here. I used to think there was no better smell than wisteria until I smelled pink jasmine.
And fresh cut grass brings me right back to New England. We have hardly any grass in SoCal, so I really miss that.
- Babystepper said...
I'm with you on most of those, but I actually don't like the smell of line-dried clothing or dusty skin. They both smell very much the same to me, and I don't like that smell at all. Art's Grandma calls that smell "frug" and I have to say that suits it. =)
- Loralee Choate said...
With the exception of the hospital, I LOVE all those smells. I was just thinking the same thing about the ski resorts this weekend.
Tide with Bleach and fabric softeners (I swear I could just sniff the laundry aisle of the grocery store for HOURS).
Sharpie markers.
Rubber cement.
Hmm...It's kind of a wonder I was never a huffer, huh?
- J at www.jellyjules.com said...
I love the smell of tomato plants as well. :) Also rain in the near future is a wonderful smell.
When I was a kid living in Fairbanks, we lived for a time with a couple, and the husband was a roofer. I loved them a great deal (it was mutual...they tried to figure out how to convince my mom to let them adopt me. ;) ) and ever since then, I love the smell of roofing tar. Even though it kinda makes me gag.
And driving along and getting a skunk smell doesn't bother me the way it should, either. Go figure.
- Laura said...
Smells can really pull me in...fresh bread baking, my husband's old cologne, the fresh soft smell of a baby, lavender, coffee, molten chocolate, laundry dried outside!
What a great list! happy T-13!
- Robin said...
Rosemary's definitely very high on my list too - because it's the smell of lice-free kids! Rosemary oil keeps them away - just a drop or two behind each ear and at the nape of the neck is a very effective preventative. My kids don't leave the house without it, and if lice are going around their class (which happens all too often in this hot climate) then they positively marinate in it LOL.
- amber said...
I agree with several of those - so either you're not crazy or we both are. ;)
I would add the smell of marigolds because it takes me back to my childhood, at my grandma's house in CA. Also, because the dirt is different in CA than in TX, the smell of potting soil makes me think of the dirt I played in when I was very young.
Two of my favorite smells are hard to describe and put a finger on. Near the end of winter, you'll find a day with the first smell of 'spring' in the air. It's still cool, tomorrow could be freezing, but that day there is a breeze blowing in that smells...'warm' and 'green' and promises that spring is coming. I love that smell. Same thing for fall at the end of summer.
Thanks for this list - it was fun and brought back some memories! :)
- e-Mom said...
I enjoyed this! A clever post. Plumeria is a favorite of mine too. :~D
Blessings, e-Mom @ Chrysalis
- Kelly @ Love Well said...
Loved the whole list. It just made me smile and be happy.
I guess even the thought of certain smells works on me.
- Life with the Lambs said...
I believe that if your theory is correct about memory sense power being linked to proximity to the brain then eyesight wins by an inch. :)
I know what you mean about smelling when it will rain. My husband makes fun of me because I can smell when it is going to snow.
- Tami said...
Some of my favorites are rain, lime, lilacs and a wierd one for me is asphalt - it reminds me of chocolate milk and kindergarten. I say something to my husband everytime I smell it and he thinks it is wierd.
- grace said...
You can say I'm strange but I love the smell of gasoline. Yikes...something's wrong with me. Great list,as usual.
- WomensDaily said...
I hate the smell of tomato plants. I would have to say my favorite smell is certain mens cologne and sweet pea.
- TAMY & the SGT said...
Eclectic mix of smells and really well described. Coffee, cinnamon, lilacs and rain are some of my favorites.
- Anonymous said...
What a great idea! You got me going right into my favorite smells, many of them tied to some childhood memories:
the earth freshly ploughed
cow manure (yes!)
laundry boiling in my grandmother's huge laundry pot
chicken coop
my mother's perfume
fresh paint
my grandmother's old farmhouse
I could go on and on. This is so powerful!
My favorite one on your list is the line-dried clothes. This is yet another simple sensual pleasure that has almost disappeared from our daily lives. Thanks for re-introducing it here. Such a treat for children. And so much better for the environment. Dryers are some of the biggest polluters and consume tons of gas and electricity.
'Green Drop Project'
- Lilibeth said...
spring smells are my favorite...except for fall smells...and Christmas smells. Summer only smells like sun block to me.
Spring is honeysuckle and lilac...although probably honeysuckle is closer to summer at that. Ah well, the dusty skin I can't really relate to, but the rain and prerain smell is simply my favorite and I also love burying my face in the pages of old books and breathing them in.
- Anonymous said...
what a great list! i have to add freshly cut lawn to it... though its been a while since i've smelt it... waiting for the english summer!
- Shannon said...
I just love this because I am a smell person for sure! I am not so sure about smelling "dusty" after being outside but I love the smell my kids get after spending hours outside. I always tell Jack that he smells like the great outdoors. Oh and I bought basil plant today and I just cannot get over how incredibly fresh basil smells!
- Ter said...
hey there - I just wanted to let you know I featured your blog in my Thursday 13 today! ;)
And yes, you are a very weird "smeller"!
I don't know if it's because of my hearing loss, but I am very sensitive to smell and some smells make me physically ill, including some of the ones you mentioned in your post.
- Anonymous said...
Ok, you had me until #6 & 10. But oddly enough I am with you on 13. SO you're not as weird as you think.
- Phyllis Sommer said...
what a fun list. it's amazing how i could almost smell each of these things as i read them....our senses are such amazing things.
- Look, Mom, Look! said...
Love the smells! I agree on the potting soil, tomato plants, the line dried clothes, rosemary and the dusty skin (especially on my kids). I also love the smell of bar soaps and I have to admit I love the smell of permanent markers more than anything. As for flowers, I can't wait for the Lilac bushes to bloom here in Michigan. My childhood home was completely surrounded by wild lilac bushes, pine trees and blackberries. There were days when you could walk outside and feel enveloped by the smell of lilacs.
- pussreboots said...
Interesting list of smells. I grow rosemary on my balcony and use it much of my cooking. Happy TT.
- Amber M. said...
So with you on plumeria...and tomato plants...I also LOVE the smell of the coffee aisle at the commissary. And I've never actually tasted it.
- jubilee said...
I love the way my kids smell when they've been outside. Not the heat-of-the-summer-over ripe smell, just the I've-been-outside smell.
I also love the smell of a fair or carnival. Probably because as a kid this was one of the most exciting parts of the summer. Is that weird?
- Shelli said...
I love the smell of rosemary too. I always snap off a twig and hold it up to mine and my little boy's nose. He might think I'm crazy, but I think he's catching on. Unfortunately, he is beginning to think he can snap off a bit of every plant in my yard!
- luckyzmom said...
I love all the marvelous stories behind your smells. I have always been very sensitive to smells. Most of my favorites are pretty much run of the mill, not already mentioned, though, is oranges, strawberries, cantaloupe, daphne and the smelll of a pot roast in the oven. My favorite smell though is lilac.
- Lori - Queen of Dirty Laundry said...
I know what you mean about the smell of the airport - I feel the same way about hotel rooms and even casinos!
And the smell of rain...yay!
My weird one is the smell of asphalt in summer time - reminds me of my teenage summers spent at Six Flags over Texas.
Great list!
- LittleRadcliffes said...
One of my favorite smells is the wonderful smell of Disneyland!! You can smell the popcorn, churros, and all the other wonderful treats you find there. Love it. I love your site.
- elena jane said...
oh those are fabulous...i can just imagine those smells by just reading what you wrote!! amazing :)
that airport smell always takes me back to heathrow airport in the 80s...
i love the smell of rain in the summertime. like freshly cut grass, it brings back memories of long ago summers....
what a fantastic post :)


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The 2012 Ford F-150 is a full-size pickup truck available in 2-door, 4-door, regular and extended cab trim levels. Engine options consist of 3.7-liter V6 (302 hp/278 lb-ft of torque), 3.5-liter Ecoboost V6 (365 hp/420 lb-ft of torque), 5.0-liter V8 (360 hp/380 lb-ft of torque), and a 6.2-liter V8 (411 hp/434 lb-ft of torque). Transmission choices include a standard 6-speed automatic and optional 6-speed SelectShift automatic. Fuel mileage for the standard RWD F-150 is an EPA estimated 16 mpg city and 22 mpg highway. Features include best-in-class towing/payload, trailer sway control, fully flat load floor, rear view camera, outboard-mounted rear shocks, in-cab storage, and optional supercrew rear seat. Safety is comprised of advanced airbags, anti-lock braking, safety cage, integrated trailer brake controller, roll stability control, and tire pressure monitoring. The F-150 is backed by a 3-year/36,000-mile warranty.


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Gunslinger, why does you mag have a beavertail?
Gunslinger, why does you mag have a beavertail?
It's a Beavermag.Originally Posted by hockeytown
Originally Posted by hockeytown
It was just laying around in my tool kit so I looked at my Mag and said to myself "Eh why not?" It's nothing to do with Smart Parts and it looks pretty cool to me.
Heres my Tac-One. Im going to be gettng a Warp Left Tac Body soon..but for now it works
i'll update after pneumagging and anno
This is a nice write up! I am looking to see about a spring feed system but for a ule warp body.. still going slow...
Originally Posted by Runamok
Haven't had a chance to play with this yet, but I think it'll be really sweet!
It's really tight even with the 114ci tank...
Just got the cradle and still have to hook up the air (parts in the mail ), but otherwise finished.

First My Automag RT
My Baby , The Automag, im using it as backup but, both never let me down , so i use them randomly to play woodsball and sometimes speedball.
She have an AA custom barrel
But i mostly use The Freak
I hope you pple like it, its my first post and have a nice day
here's my happy little family
"dye mag" mostly dye parts (the ones i could find to put on it anyway), pneumag kit on the way
"T-90" i custom made the body out of a solid piece of walnut
"the backup" nothing special but it gets the job done when needed
all three with & with out tanks & loaders
Last edited by spiked_bad_monkey; 05-18-2008 at 03:13 PM.
Here is my 'dust olive' Tac One warp left
Anno - by the Fool
Intelli and rail ULE'd by Luke
Grips by Dark Seoul
Deadlywind carbon fiber barrel and foregrip
RPG splinter pro trigger
72ci 4500 Flatline
I call this my decepticon.
My second automag, rental valve (modified to accept lvlx), custom center fed stock class feed. Going to add a 12g changer soon.
This is my first and ONLY personal Mag. Most of these parts came from you folks here on AO. Well at least the parts that we're not purchased brand new. This has been a labor of love that still isn't finished.
In the beginning it looked like this:
Then it came back from Cyberave68 where he installed his very best sleeper pneumatics with magmod.
and now... after it came back from LK-13 where he gave it a royal shine (OK, also traded out the rail)
now... (maghog trigger, polished anti-thumb screw and frame screw, swapped orracle tickler for a karni tickler)
Setup: (most recent picture)
Pewter XValve w/lvl10 and ULT
Airwalk v2 (sleeper pneumatic's)
RPG Sub-Zero feedneck
RPG Priah body
Maghog Custom Trigger
Dallara rail
CP Direct Mount on/off
CP Gas Thru foregrip
CP 14" or DW 14" Fibur
Halo B v35
Crossfire 72/45 Peanut
Last edited by chafnerjr; 04-23-2010 at 12:34 PM.
Looking goooooooooood... Loved the pewter X, by the way. Just wanted to make a suggestion, as you said you will change the CA adaprtor. Get a 15* one. That will make it even sweeter.Originally Posted by chafnerjr
Thanks!Originally Posted by mpsd
I was kind of thinking that... I'll probably buy one just try them out...they're cheap anyways. I wasn't sure how the angle on my wrists was going to be like, but since I would never "grip" the trigger frame it might be worth it... There's one for sale right now that I am going to try and pick up.
I'll have more pic's once I figure out the anno and pneu
Here are my Mag children
Boy, what a pair eh? What kind of rail is that on the bottom pneumag? I am not sure I've seen one before... kinda hard to tell from this angle but how far out to the sides does it come? Best of luck on the MOTM submission!
I may be wrong but looks like an unmilled sluggo rail to me. Is that the case?Originally Posted by chafnerjr
It's a ULE AM/MM rail... as for the width, it's on par with an RT rail.
What type of hose is that that you have on the first picture? It doesn't look like macroline.
It looks like steel braided hose with a covering over it, to keep it from scratching up that beauty.Originally Posted by putricio007
Looks like the RPG Sleeper rail to me, RT length in the second pic.Originally Posted by mpsd
Actually, you're right. It is RPG rail; it has the slots that run almost the entire lenght of the rail... I forgot about those!Originally Posted by A-Tach-One
QFT!Originally Posted by pito189
got my pneu-mag kit from cyberave68, here's some pics, i'll add some pics of the internals later
Custom Rt pro rail
Logic UMF frame with custom trigger
Rt pro X valve
CP gas thru grip
CP direct mount Asa
Warp left Ule body
i think wetwrks is the only person on here that's even seen this. just thought i'd post it for all to see. grip and stock were designed by K. Millet and sold on a limited basis in a few shops across utah. the "butt plate" is just a bike grip modified to slide over the end. eventually it will be replaced with something a little less knobby.
The whole collection
MMMmmmmm X-mag
soon to be pneumag #2
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Paul "Larry" Hasting, 63, El Dorado, passed away Wednesday, March 13, 2013.
Paul "Larry" Hasting, 63, El Dorado, passed away Wednesday, March 13, 2013.
Visitation with family will be at 6 p.m. on Sunday, March 17, 2013, at Carlson Funeral Home, El Dorado. Funeral service will be at 2 p.m. on Monday, March 18, 2013, at the First United Methodist Church, El Dorado.
Larry was born on July 19, 1949, Chanute, Kan. He retired from Mel Hambelton Ford as a service writer.
Larry was preceded in death by his parents, Harold and Wanda "June" (Paul) Hasting; brother Gaylord; and sisters Tina, Wanda "Lynn" and Kathy.
Larry is survived by: his wife, Karen; children, Paula (Jim) Schroeder, Warrenton, Mo., Paul Hasting, Beaumont, Texas, Kathryn (Jeffrey) Voyles, El Dorado, Jennafer (Dion) Sevart, Peabody, Kan., Jasen (Erica) Gaines, El Dorado, and Joseph Hasting, El Dorado; brothers, Mike (Ann) Hasting, Harold "Ray" (Connie) Hasting; sister, Laura (Danny) Mohler ; 12 grandchildren and 1 great-grandson; numerous nieces and nephews.
Memorials can be made to Make A Wish Foundation and left at Carlson Funeral Home, 200 S. Star, El Dorado, KS. Condolences to the family can be sent to www.carlsoncolonial.com.


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TRAINING: A typical day of training for this fight is a little bit different from the last one. I am doing two to three workouts a day. Usually, I'll wake at 4am and go run 5-6 miles and do some weights (depends on which day it is - legs or arms). Then it's time to go to work at the gym I work at. I'll get off work about 12:30 and then I'll either go do a light workout or try to incorporate more swimming and do some laps. Nap time afterwards. Night workout starts about 5:30 for me. I'll do some treadmill work, then we start the Bighead MMA cardio class, which will last about an hour, then coach teaches us the kickboxing, boxing, wrestling, BJJ for the day and we'll work it for like 45 minutes. After all that we usually get in as many rounds as we can, no less than six five minute rounds.
When and why did you start training for fighting? Eric Davila got me interested in MMA. I started fighting to test myself and I fell in love with the sport
What ranks and titles have you held? Shark Fights Bantamweight Champion
What does it mean for you to fight in the UFC? It's a dream come true and all this hard work paid off!! It's an honor to fight for the UFC and I don't plan on going anywhere now that I'm here
What was your job before you started fighting? I've had a lot of jobs – I've worked at Sonic Drive in, Bighead MMA, Construction, etc.
Favorite grappling technique: Triangle Choke
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text: This past weekend, Talladega Superspeedway in Anniston, Alabama hosted the Sprint Cup Aaron's 499 and the Nationwide Series Aaron's 312. The Camping World Truck Series will return to action on May 17 with the NC Education Lottery 200 at the Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, North Carolina.NASCAR Sprint Cup SeriesTime Trials: Qualifying was cancelled due to rain. The 43 drivers who made the race were set by the order of practice speeds in the first practice. Carl Edwards had the quickest speed (199.675 mph) and led the field on Sunday. He will not be credited with a pole award. Edwards led five laps and finished the race in third place.Did Not Qualify: Nationwide Series regular Elliott Sadler missed the race since the No. 81 team did not have enough owners points or race attempts to be considered for the top 43 in speeds.Race Winner: David Ragan won the 44th Annual Aaron's 499, his second victory in 228 NSCS races. This is the No. 34 Ford Fusion driver's first victory and first top-10 finish in 2013. This is his first victory and sixth top-10 finish in 13 races at Talladega Superspeedway. Ragan moved up four spots to 26th in the 2013 NSCS point standings.Rookie of the Race: Ricky Stenhouse Jr., the No. 17 Ford Fusion driver started 21st and finished 13th. He was named the "Rookie of the Race". The only other ROTY contender in the event was Danica Patrick (finished 33rd). Stenhouse is currently 16th in the 2013 point standings.Contingency Awards:- Matt Kenseth, the No. 20 Toyota driver, won the 3M Lap Leader Award for leading the most laps (142 of 192). He started sixth and finished eighth.- Roush Yates Engines won the Mahle Clevite Engine Builder of the Race award. They supplied the engine in Ragan's No. 34 Ford Fusion.- David Gilliland won the American Ethanol Green Flag Restart award for recording the fastest average speed on restarts and finishing the race on the lead lap. The driver of the No. 38 Ford Fusion finished second and moved up four spots to 29th in the 2013 Sprint Cup point standings.- Chad Johnston, crew chief on the No. 56 Toyota Camry driven by Martin Truex Jr., won the Moog Problem Solver of the Race award. The award goes to the crew chief that improves the most from first half of the race to the second half utilizing the 40 best lap times (improved 0.010 seconds). Truex started the race in second place and finished in seventh. He moved up two spots to 13th in the 2013 Sprint Cup point standings.- David Ragan won the Mobil 1 Command Performance Driver of the Race award given to the winner of the race or the next-highest finishing driver displaying the Mobil 1 decal.Points Leader: Jimmie Johnson leads the point standings by 41 points over Carl Edwards.NSCS Top 12 (G/L):1. Jimmie Johnson 02. Carl Edwards 03. Dale Earnhardt Jr. +14. Clint Bowyer +15. Brad Keselowski +16. Kasey Kahne -37. Aric Almirola +48. Paul Menard +29. Kyle Busch -210. Greg Biffle -211. Matt Kenseth +212. Kevin Harvick -3Next NSCS Race: Bojangles' Southern 500, Saturday, May 11, at Darlington Raceway. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - NASCAR Nationwide SeriesTime Trials: Travis Pastrana won the Coors Light Pole Award for the 22nd Annual Aaron's 312 with a lap of 54.255 seconds, 176.500 mph. This is the No. 60 Ford Mustang driver's first pole in 17 NNS races. It is his second top-10 start in 2013. This is Pastrana's first start at Talladega Superspeedway. He led four laps and was running in the top five when he was involved in a wreck on lap 71. Pastrana was credited with a 36th place finish and dropped two spots to 15th in the points. Did Not Qualify: No. 15 Stanton Barrett and No. 25 John Wes Townley. Townley's time was disqualified since the No. 25 failed pre-qualifying inspection. His sponsorship was moved to the No. 10 and Townley replaced Jeff Green in that entry. Race Winner: Regan Smith won the 22nd Annual Aaron's 312, his second victory in 111 NNS aces. This is the No. 7 Chevrolet Camaro driver's first victory and sixth top-10 finish in 2013. This is his first victory and first top-10 finish in three races at Talladega Superspeedway.Rookie of the Race: Alex Bowman, the No. 99 Toyota Camry driver started, 14th and finished 13th. This was ahead of the rest of the 2013 Rookie of the Year contenders earning him the Sunoco Rookie of the Race award.Contingency Awards:- Justin Allgaier won the Mobil 1 Driver of the Race award given to the winner of the race or the next-highest finishing driver displaying the Mobil 1 decal. The driver of the No. 31 Chevrolet Camaro earned the award for his fifth place finish.- Kurt Busch led the most laps earning the 3M Lap Leader award. He started ninth in the No. 1 Chevrolet Camaro; led 19 of the 110 laps run and finished the race in fourth place. Busch, a Sprint Cup regular, is ineligible for driver points in this series.- Penske Engines won the Mahle Clevite Engine Builder of the Race award. They built the engine in the second-place finishing No. 22 Ford driven by Sprint Cup regular Joey Logano.Points Leader: Regan Smith leads the point standings by 27 points over Sam Hornish Jr.NNS Top 10 (G/L):1. Regan Smith +12. Sam Hornish Jr. -13. Justin Allgaier +14. Parker Kligerman +45. Elliott Sadler 06. Austin Dillon +17. Brian Scott -48. Brian Vickers -29. Alex Bowman +210. Trevor Bayne -1Next NNS Race: VFW Sport Clips Help a Hero 200, Friday, May 10, at Darlington Raceway. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -NASCAR Camping World Truck SeriesPoints Leader: Matt Crafton leads the standings by 13 points over Johnny Sauter.Next NCWTS Race: N.C. Education Lottery 200, Friday, May 17, at Charlotte Motor Speedway.


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