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Redskins topple Bulldogs 61-46 in TCC action
The Clinton High School boys basketball team hosted the Bulldogs of Morenci in a Tri-County Conference game Friday night. The Redskins won, 61-46.
Clinton (5-0, 2-0 TCC) started the game with an 8-0 run and later led 16-10 by the end of the first quarter. Morenci's Hayze Wolf nailed a 3-pointer to close the quarter.
Morenci (0-2, 0-2) got going in the second quarter as it went on an 8-2 run to tie the game at 18 with just over four minutes to go in the half. Morenci kept it close and trailed 29-26 at the half. Daiton Lemmon had eight points in the half for the Bulldogs. Hunter Borton hit two important 3-pointers in the first half and finished the game with eight points
"Very proud of our first half," said Morenci coach Jim Bauer. "Especially the way Clinton started the half. We were getting good shots, and at the first timeout I told the guys 'Don't stop doing what you're doing' because the first six possessions we had a good look, just didn't make them. Our screening was good, our spacing was good, our movement was good and they continued that, and we continued to get good shots and they started to fall and we closed the gap."
Clinton has a habit of playing slow in the first half, before cranking it up in the second.
This game was no different.
"That's what we've needed each and every game so far, to start playing," said Clinton coach Mike Ruhl. "It's dangerous. It's something that's going to catch up to you. Once again, we have to go back to the lab, and we got to figure out as coaches and players what we have to do to avoid that kind of slow start."
The Redskins came out on fire in the second half, going on a 14-2 run to take a 43-28 lead half way through the third quarter. Morenci kept fighting, cutting the lead to 13 a few times, but never able to get that lead under 10 and make a game of it.
Lemmon finished the game 7-for-14 from the field and 17 points for the Bulldogs.
Clinton's TJ Baker and Grant Clark both got to the line often in the second half, hitting a combined 10-for-15. The Redskins didn't back down as they were able to expand the lead to 50-23 by the end the third quarter. Baker and Clark both finished the game with 14 points to help Clinton remain undefeated.
"Even though we got up 8-0, we were still struggling," said Ruhl. "We've had our first-half struggles, trust me. But the second half was more like it. It's my job as a coach and their job as competitors to play like that for four quarters."
Wolf had six rebounds and five points for the Bulldogs. Borton added three assists for Morenci.
Clark and Ricky Miller each had 11 rebounds for the Redskins, while Baker added seven. Marco Nunzi had five assists, three blocks and scored 12 points for the Redskins. Luke Schaffner and Cullen Zimmerman each added three assists.


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A Paris criminal court adjourned Friday's hearing after scheduling a new one on May 24, said defense attorney Eric de Caumont. The actor wasn't there because he was in the United States filming a movie about another Frenchman known for run-ins with the law, former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the lawyer said.
The court agreed to the delay because investigators turned up new evidence about the harmless incident in November, when Depardieu toppled over on his scooter in Paris and was charged with drunken driving, the lawyer said. If convicted, Depardieu could face up to two years in prison and a 4,500-euro ($5,700) fine, according to the Paris prosecutor's office.
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This has got potential to be a really good thread.
Let's imagine the following scenario.
One of your Red Hat servers has been compromised. The hacker has got root access. You want to know how did he get in.
What are the steps and methodology that you apply as soon as you are sitted in the console in order to get the big picture as fast as possible? Have you got this scripted?
EDIT: Let's assume this has to be a live analysis, we cannot afford to take it offline as it's a production server and every minute the server is down is worth several thousand dollars in cost.
My steps. Feel free to add yours.
[redhat@linux FC4]# w
[redhat@linux FC4]# who
[redhat@linux FC4]# ps -aux
[redhat@linux FC4]# lsof -i
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Discussion in 'Europe' started by bavarian, Apr 2, 2008.
There are spanish, turkish, UK, etc. etc. members having their thread, so why not us??
Do I still count?
I'm a German member although I live in Texas....
Ich bin auch ein Deutscher, wohne aber auch nicht in D-land sondern in Greer, SC.
What's the point?
Knowing who else is out there if you need bike help, want to meet up for rides or general socialising.
Don't post up if you're not in Germany or are going to be negative.
I´m here, sitting around in the north.
Maybe some more information:
Age: 29
Motorcyle: BMW R1150 GS
Interested in: Football (FC St. Pauli ), motorcycling (ah, surprise) and different outdoor activities (camping, canoeing, fishing...)
Not sure, I just know that British lifestyle is pretty contagious and ruins every decent cultural impulse in a human being. Beans in tomato sauce and greasy sausages for breakfast, porridge, plumpudding for Xmas? Pretty barbaric in my opinion. But then, this thread might save your life and keep you connected to the fatherland.
Or it could be the ruin of her & undo all the hard work I've done in the past years turning Pumpy in to a respectable member of the community, one who can hold her head up in public (by pretending she's Dutch).
It's been a long & difficult task, with plenty of tears, wailing & much woe (mainly on my part) but at last I'm beginning to feel my work is done.
Please delete this thread, I can't go through it all again (mind you, the additional income from the EU "Care in the Community for Disruptive Germans" fund will be useful as always ).
count me in!!!
I´m living in the Sauerland-Region. 110 k´s east of Colonia.
Right coming back from Tunesia
Nice regards
and one more kraut count.
located now South of Munich since some years.
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Okay, that's enough Germans for now, thread closed, we've exceeded the recommended limit.
Ich bin in Ludwigsburg geboren. Does that count?
Hi everybody, I live and work in Ebermannstadt, east of Forchheim during the week, but usually drive/or ride home to Erding for the weekends. The "Fränkische Schweiz" ("Frankonian Switzerland", this region´s nickname because of its scenery) has got some of the best motorcycle roads north of the Alps. Rollercoasters.
totaly agree!! (learned to ride in the "fränkischen")
and the best and cheapest beer in the (franconian) world
Andreas (ex-Bayreuther - Oberfranke)
some franconian english (do you know the german meaning?)
- do left a eagle
- people read a dry egg
- day wise washed is fie diar
There goes incognito. If you visit Berlin, I'll happily advise which bar to go with a leather outfit, or maybe better not to go.
I can't really help with great riding roads around here, no hills means straighter roads.
I also lived in the "Fränkische". Well, at least pretty close (Small village close to Auerbach).
Moved to Munich last November.
Looks like we could organize some little ride for guys from the Munich are. Weekend into the Dolomites or Vogesen/Lothringen?
I totally understand your fears, but to calm you down - we won't take over the forum. At least for now. We make mistakes only once (twice). Zis time vee vill succeede.


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Sun, 01 Sep 2013 13:30:59 -0700
The Cleveland Indians have called up Ps Preston Guilmet, Nick Hagadone and Blake Wood and C Kelly Shoppach from Triple-A Columbus. They have also purchased the contract of INF Jose X. Ramirez from Double-A Akron. In corresponding moves, INF Juan Diaz and OF Tim Fedroff have been designated for assignment.
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The Cleveland Indians have signed C Kelly Shoppach to a minor-league contract, the terms of which were not disclosed. Shoppach was released by Triple-A Indianapolis, the top farm club for the Pittsburgh Pirates, on Wednesday, Aug. 28. He is expected to join Cleveland when rosters expand on Sunday, Sept. 1.
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The Pittsburgh Pirates signed free-agent C Kelly Shoppach (Nationals) to a minor league deal Monday, Aug. 12, and assigned him to Triple-A Indianapolis.
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The St. Louis Cardinals are considering signing free-agent C Kelly Shoppach (Nationals) with C Yadier Molina (knee) on the disabled list. If they don't add Shoppach, Cs Rob Johnson and Tony Cruz will split duties behind the plate until Molina is ready to return.
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The Washington Nationals released C Kelly Shoppach Wednesday, July 31.
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|Nationals | Sign Kelly Shoppach
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The Washington Nationals signed C Kelly Shoppach to a minor league contract. He'll report to Class AAA Syracuse.
Fantasy Tip: He's nothing more than organizational depth that'd land into C2 NL-only value if Wilson Ramos (hamstring) or Kurt Suzuki miss time.
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The Seattle Mariners officially released C Kelly Shoppach Thursday, June 20.
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The Seattle Mariners have designated C Kelly Shoppach for assignment and signed C Henry Blanco.
Fantasy Tip: Shoppach should catch on elsewhere. Neither he nor Blanco would be worth anything more than a boring second backstop in a single-universe format. This makes it seem that Mike Zunino has a long leash for the near future.
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Tue, 11 Jun 2013 14:45:06 -0700
Seattle Mariners C Mike Zunino isn't in the starting lineup Tuesday, June 11.
Fantasy Tip: Kelly Shoppach will start tonight, but if Zunino truly is up for a long stretch, they'll probably split time.
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Seattle Mariners C Mike Zunino has received a call-up to the parent club, according to a person familiar with the team's activities.
Fantasy Tip: This is only a little surprising, but the demotion of Jesus Montero not long ago increased this possibility, and the somewhat disappointing start that the M's have had already prompted them to shake things up in other areas. Zunino is hitting only .238 for Triple-A Tacoma, but he has 11 home runs and a .503 slugging percentage. The move could be temporary given the club's roster makeup at the moment, but Kelly Shoppach has provided little offense since the season's first month or so and isn't everyday material, so Seattle is likely giving Zunino a chance to take the reins. He should be picked up in all two-catcher leagues, but remember that catchers usually have the toughest time transitioning to the majors because of their defensive responsibilities.
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This season has been a forgetable one for Karel Abraham on the race track, but the we reckon it will be a year that the young Czech rider will remember. In a couple weeks, Karel Abraham will graduate from law school (Bachelors level), having passed his exiting exams just a few days after the conclusion of the Czech GP. Studying even during the race-weekend, Abraham says that his academic duties helped provide a distraction from the pressures of his home round.
For those who remember our sit-down interview with the Cardion AB rider, the news of Karel's studying of the law shouldn't be any new information. We imagine the skills he has learned in the classroom will help Abraham with next year's contract negotiations, as there is high-degree of uncertainty surrounding Cardion AB's plans for the 2013 MotoGP Championship. As someone who is using a law degree in a non-traditional capacity, I wish Karel the best in his future endeavors — on and off the track.


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Artist Glen Hansen presents and discusses the more than three dozen drawings and paintings that make up his show opening June 27 in the Library's Guldner Gallery. Subjects range from historic turn-of-the-century structures to the modern TWA Building and the iconic Town Topic Hamburgers.
A teacher at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, Hansen early on became fascinated by the details of ornate Victorian houses. Among his works are many focusing on the architecture of Prague, Paris, and Venice.
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For the second time this year, stocks, bonds, commodities and the dollar posted monthly gains amid optimism central bank stimulus programs are bolstering growth in the world's biggest economies.
Raw materials led, with the Standard & Poor's GSCI Total Return Index rising 1.5 percent. The MSCI All-Country World Index of equities added 1.3 percent, including dividends. Bonds of all types returned 0.53 percent on average for a fifth monthly advance, the longest run of gains since 2010, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch's Global Broad Market Index. Intercontinental Exchange Inc.'s Dollar Index, which tracks the currency against those of six major U.S. trading partners, advanced 0.29 percent, its first increase since July.
The world economy has recovered to its strongest level in 18 months as China's stimulus measures bolster growth and the U.S. seeks to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff, a Bloomberg Global Poll of investors showed Nov. 29. The Federal Reserve has pumped more than $2.3 trillion into the financial system, while the Bank of Japan is providing more than $800 billion. The European Central Bank has made about $1 trillion available in three-year loans to banks.
"With so much monetary stimulus around the world, we've taken the brakes off the global economy," Bruce McCain, chief investment strategist at the private-banking unit of KeyCorp in Cleveland, said in a Nov. 27 phone interview. His firm oversees $20 billion. "It should mean improved growth into next year. Officials in Europe and in the U.S. seem to realize that we're on the precipice of some pretty negative outcomes if they don't do something to find better solutions."
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The last time all four market measures rose in tandem was in July, when drought sent U.S. corn prices to a record and European Central Bank President Mario Draghi's pledge to protect the euro buoyed stocks. Before that, prices hadn't risen together since April 2010, when concerns about Greece's ability to pay debt were heating up and economic reports were showing signs of improvement in the U.S.
While asset prices rose in November, stocks and commodities tumbled earlier in the month after U.S. President Barack Obama won re-election, continuing a conflict in Congress over the fiscal cliff of $600 billion of mandatory spending cuts and tax increases due to begin Jan. 1. The MSCI All-Country World Index slid 1.5 percent Nov. 7 and the S&P GSCI index declined 2.5 percent, the biggest drop since July 23.
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Success, by any measure
Five years is a long time in the computer industry. It is that long since I wrote in this column about a small Australian company called CorVu, formed in 1990 to build software for the business intelligence (BI) market.
CorVu specialises in what today are called business performance management (BPM) tools, an increasingly important subset of BI that quantifies aspects of corporate performance that have long been regarded as unquantifiable. BPM has become popular in recent years, particularly since the widespread introduction of balanced scorecards.
The concept of the balanced scorecard was developed by Robert Kaplan and Daniel Norton at the Harvard Business School in the early 1990s.
CorVu has extended the concept into a range of business activities, including strategic planning and risk management.
I wrote about CorVu in November 1999, not too long before the stockmarket crash we had to have. In the late 1990s the IT industry had been booming for a few years and anything seemed possible. CorVu's exuberant founder, Justin MacIntosh, was about to take his little Australian software company public in the US.
He did this through the clever method of the reverse takeover - by buying a small underperforming public company, renaming it and transferring into it the assets of the software company. The company he chose was a Minneapolis-based company called Minnesota American, which among other things made schoolroom lockers.
At the time MacIntosh had high hopes for CorVu. He was looking at listing on Nasdaq, where most of the glamour tech stocks are, and at continuing CorVu's 100 per cent-plus growth rates.
But then the tech crash hit and most small software companies went backwards, or out of existence entirely. CorVu, like many others, had to cut right back to stay in business. It closed offices it had opened in Europe, reduced its staff numbers and stayed close to its customers and its core products.
Last year CorVu became profitable once more, although its revenues have scarcely grown since 1999. It has now entered a new expansion phase, opening offices in China and elsewhere and hiring new sales people. Investors have put in more cash and MacIntosh is as bullish as he was when I spoke to him a few years ago. It's almost as if the crash never happened - we're all just a little older.
But things are a bit different now. As we have recovered from the crash there has been a significant consolidation in the business intelligence market. The larger players, like Business Objects, Cognos and Hyperion, all now have annual revenues of well over $US500 million ($A685 million) through organic growth and in some cases through significant acquisition. It is likely that this consolidation process will continue, although Larry Ellison's forecast that 90 per cent of Silicon Valley's software companies will disappear within five years is perhaps a little exaggerated.
The leading BI players are looking more and more like each other, with similar product suites and marketing strategies. Most of the innovation is coming from smaller companies like CorVu, that tend to be acquired if they become too successful or if they have a product that fills a void in a larger player's line-up.
CorVu, therefore, is an acquisition target. It has good technology, a great customer list, and it's still small enough to be easily digestible. MacIntosh made his fortune in real estate in the 1980s, and is not beholden to venture capitalists or other investors. He doesn't want to sell but, of course, every man has his price, and he tells me that anything is possible.
But perhaps not yet. CorVu is itself looking to acquire suitable smaller companies and MacIntosh's favoured strategy is to build the company to 10 times its present size, with profits to match, rather than be acquired too early.
Despite its setbacks in recent years, CorVu is a real Australian software success story. It has had its headquarters in the US for 10 years but all development still takes place in Australia. Among its customers it counts the US Army, Toyota, Hilton Hotels, AMP, Australia Post and vendors Sun Microsystems (with whom it has a strategic alliance) and Dell.
The US Army's installation is the company's largest. The army uses CorVu software as the centrepiece of its Strategic Readiness System (SRS), developed to measure and manage its combat-readiness. It is one of the largest such implementations in the world, with more than 400 SRS balanced scorecards and moving towards 40,000 users. Last month CorVu signed a similar deal with the US Air Force.
CorVu is still a small company. It has 125 staff, most of them split between its headquarters in Minneapolis and its development centre in Sydney.
Whether it prospers as an independent vendor or gets snapped up by one of the larger players may well depend on how long Justin MacIntosh wants to keep on doing what he is doing. On current form, that will probably be quite some time.


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The Bristol artist will put out a collection of remastered drum & bass cuts in November.
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Palms Trax, Motor City Drum Ensemble, Marie Davidson and more will play the autumn residency.
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The LP sees the Berlin-based producer deliver 11 new tracks.
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The retrospective album will land in October through R&S.
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The UK venue cited "comprehensive redevelopment" near the club as the reason the team cannot renew or extend their lease.
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The feature is currently only available to invited artists.
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His first LP under this alias since 2014 is out on his label, Sonic Groove, in November.
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SUE021 hit shelves this week.
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It's the drum & bass giant's first solo album in ten years.
The British artist's first record of 2018 is out now on his Woe To The Septic Heart label.
It features one retrospective LP and a disc of new tracks from Flying Lotus, Thundercat and more.
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Abbott Howard "Abbie" Hoffman (30 November 1936 – 12 April 1989) was a social and political activist in the United States, co-founder of the Youth International Party ("Yippies"), and later, a fugitive from the law, who lived under an alias following a conviction for dealing cocaine.
- The first duty of a revolutionist is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain't going.
- Spoken to police immediately prior to his arrest at the Lincoln Hotel Restaurant in Chicago (August 1968), quoting himself in "Creating the Perfect Mess" (1 September 1968) in Revolution for the Hell of It (1968); also quoted in Abbie Hoffman : American Rebel (1992) by Marty Jezer.
- All you kiddies remember to lay off the needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
- "God Bless America — Shoot Nixon", on the spoken word album Wake Up America! (1970).
- In this state, dig it, you get twenty years for sale of dope to a minor. You only get five to ten for manslaughter. So like, the thing is, if you're selling to a kid and cops come, shoot the kid real quick!
- "Chicago", on the spoken word album Wake Up America! (1970).
- I feel like a famous Indian Chief of the Fagowee nations, who led his tribe for 40 years in the desert amidst starvation, hunger, famine, strife, plague — finally staggered up to the top of this mountain, drug crazed, looked out and pounded his chest and said, "Where the fuck are we? Where the fuck are we?"
- Wake Up America! (1970).
- I only regret that I have but one shirt to give for my country.
- Post-trial statement (modeled after a quote by American revolutionary Nathan Hale), after being declared guilty of flag desecration for wearing a shirt that resembled an American flag (1968), quoted in "The Trial of Abbie Hoffman's Shirt" in The Huffington Post (8 June 2005).
- If this guy is God, then this is the God that the United States of America deserves.
- Comment about Maharaji Ji - video (1973).
- For six years, the only consistent thing about our national drug policy has been its inconsistency. Harsher penalties, urine testing, hysteria, budget cuts and the simplistic "Just Say No!' campaign (the equivalent of telling manic depressives to "just cheer up") have returned drug education and treatment to the Reefer Madness era.
- You measure democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
- Tikkun (July-August 1989); also quoted in The Best Liberal Quotes Ever : Why the Left is Right (2004) by William P. Martin, p. 51.
- I see Judaism as a way of life. Sticking up for the underdog. Being an outsider. A critic of society. The kid on the corner who says the emperor has no clothes on. The Prophet.
- Tikkun (July-August 1989).
- In the nineteen-sixties, apartheid was driven out of America. Legal segregation — Jim Crow — ended. We didn't end racism, but we ended legal segregation. We ended the idea that you can send a million soldiers ten thousand miles away to fight in a war that people do not support. We ended the idea that women are second-class citizens. Now, it doesn't matter who sits in the Oval Office. But the big battles that were won in that period of civil war and strife you cannot reverse. We were young, we were reckless, arrogant, silly, headstrong … and we were right! I regret nothing!
- Closing words from his last speech, Vanderbilt University (April 1989).
- Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
- As quoted in The New York Times (20 April 1989), though nuanced by Hoffman, this is probably derived from an anonymous saying recorded in Encyclopedia of Graffiti (1974) by Robert George Reisner and Lorraine Wechsler as "Sacred cows make great hamburgers".
- It's embarrassing when you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller's List.
- On the success of his book, Steal This Book, as quoted in Steal This Book Too! (2004) by Sean Curtis.
- Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.
- The "Steal Yourself Rich" Book (1971), p. v.
- Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
- Bye-Bye Sixties, Hollywood-Style, Square Dancing in the Ice Age (1982).
Revolution for the Hell of It (1968)[edit]
- STRUCTURE IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN CONTENT IN THE TRANSMISSION OF INFORMATION. It is the same as saying "the medium is the message."
- p. 109, quoting the famous statement of Marshall McLuhan.
- p. 135.
- You ask, "What about the innocent bystanders?" But we are in a time of revolution. If you are a bystander, you are not innocent.
- p. 183.
- p. 184.
- The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.
- p. 184.
- I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.
- p. 187.
- The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
- p. 188.
Woodstock Music Festival[edit]
- I think this is a pile of shit, while John Sinclair rots in prison.
Steal This Book (1971)[edit]
- It's perhaps fitting that I write this introduction in jail.
- Introduction.
- To steal from a brother or sister is evil. To not steal from the institutions that are the pillars of the Pig Empire is equally immoral.
- Introduction, p. iv.
- Your body is just one in a mass of cuddly humanity. Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them. The duty of a revolutionary is to make love and that means staying alive and free. That doesn't allow for cop-outs. Smoking dope and hanging up Che's picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps. A revolution in consciousness is an empty high without a revolution in the distribution of power.
- Introduction, p. v.
- Usually when you ask somebody in college why they are there, they'll tell you it's to get an education. The truth of it is, they are there to get the degree so that they can get ahead in the rat race. Too many college radicals are two-timing punks.
- "Free Education".
Soon to be a Major Motion Picture (1980)[edit]
- My critique of democracy begins and ends with this point. Kids must be educated to disrespect authority or else democracy is a farce.
- p. 64.
- A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station, not the factory. It concentrates its energy on infiltrating and changing the image system.
- p. 86
- Free speech is the right to shout "Theater!" in a crowded fire.
- p. 214.
- There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning. I think I've learned that lesson twice now. The essence of successful revolution, be it for an individual, a community of individuals, or a nation, depends on accepting that challenge.
- p. 297.
- Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit. When all today's isms have become yesterday's ancient philosophy, there will still be reactionaries and there will still be revolutionaries. No amount of rationalization can avoid the moment of choice each of us brings to our situation here on the planet. I still believe in the fundamental injustice of the profit system and do not accept the proposition there will be rich and poor for all eternity.
- p. 297.
- I was probably the only revolutionary referred to as cute.
- Cited as being in Soon to be a Major Motion Picture (1980) p. 222, this does not appear accessible for verification in online scans of this book. So someone needs to go to the library.
The quote is "I was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as "cute." It is on the page cited. I have a copy of the book.


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Oh, thank you Matthew! This is my personal fave Chuck Jones cartoon, and so pleased to see it get your commentary treatment. :D
This version is uncut, however. There's another version floating about where the lion is fooled twice by the mouse. First time as an Indian, then as Lion realises, he runs back and sees the mouse as a stereotypic black character, who sends him back the other way, which leads nicely to "Cuddles".
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HARTSVILLE, S.C. – The Coker women's basketball team lost a 54-52 overtime heartbreaker to Wingate University on Wednesday (Feb. 19) night after a last second layup.
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Tanesha Stenson and Jessica Cohen led the Cobras in scoring for the night, with 14 points each. Cohen also added six boards to her stat line, along with one block. Priscilla Fenty had a dominating performance in the paint with 15 rebounds. Fenty was just two points shy of a double-double, as she finished with eight points total.
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Finding reassurance in change: a review of Wild Comfort
Wild Comfort: The Solace of Nature
Kathleen Dean Moore
256 pages,
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Trumpeter Books, 2010.
Writer, editor and activist Kathleen Dean Moore was settling in to write her next book when a series of personal tragedies changed everything. After several people close to her died within a few months, Moore abandoned her plans to create a book about happiness. Instead, she used her keen observations of the natural world to write her way to the knowledge that "sorrow is part of the Earth's great cycles." Her new book became a collection of profound essays titled, Wild Comfort: The Solace of Nature.
Wild Comfort often drifts into vivid poetry. Moore describes the sun "slumped on the water like an egg yolk, peppered by frigate birds" and shares her experience of a night when you'd need "a stone chisel to flake the darkness out of this sky." Poetry is a way to express grief, she notes: Sometimes, she says, "when death comes, only poetry is enough."
Although dark images appear frequently in these essays, threads of insight and joy are stitched in as well. Moore returns briefly to her original intention in "The Happy Basket," a sort of gratitude-journal-in-wicker experiment where she collects notes about what she's doing when she feels happy: "Fresh crab ... Frank and I held hands in bed last night ... A patch of sun and a glass of wine after work." Near the end of the book, an optimistic essay about the abundant life rising from the ashes of the Mount St. Helens eruption reminds us that nature will use the tiniest crack in a rock or patch of scorched ground as a place to start over. Moore posits that "destruction, creation, catastrophe, renewal, sorrow, and joy are merely human ways of seeing" natural events. Ultimately, she says, only change is real. While this is certainly not a new idea, her descriptions of insects under rocks, of snowflakes and fog, of water and tree branches show us fresh ways to value often-unwelcome changes.
Moore does not pretend to have a comprehensive definition of sorrow, or a cure for its pain. What she does have, however, is the skill to weave snippets from the cycles of nature into essays that offer beauty, reassurance and comfort.


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2013-14 SEASON: Appeared in 80 games (79 starts) in his first season in Detroit (fifth in the NBA), averaged 15.5 points, 7.6 assists, 3.1 rebounds and 1.3 steals in 34.1 minutes ... Scored a season-high 35 points vs. Denver (2/8)…Grabbed a season-high 10 rebounds vs. Brooklyn (2/7)…Recorded a season-high two blocks at Miami (2/3)…Dished out his 2,000th career assist at Dallas (1/26)…Dished out a season-high 18 assists vs. Phoenix (1/11)…Tied franchise records for most assists in a quarter (11) and most assists in a half (16) vs. Phoenix (1/11)…Tied a career-high six steals at New Orleans (12/11).
2012-13: Wrapped up his fourth NBA season by appearing in 79 games, with averages of 17.5 points, 3.1 rebounds, a career-high 6.6 assists and 1.6 steals per contest … ranked among the league leaders in scoring (24th), assists (16th) and steals (19th) … had appeared in 182 consecutive games before sitting out the April 12-13 games with a left Achilles injury … scored in double figures 64 times, including 30 games with 20+ points and 10 games with 30+ … named Eastern Conference Player of the Week twice (for weeks ending Nov. 4 and Jan. 13) … recorded 13 double-doubles (12 of the point/assist variety and one point/rebound double-double) … posted his first double-double on opening night when he tallied 21 points and 13 assists, while adding a career-high six steals … hit a game-winning 3-point shot as time expired on Nov. 3 vs. Cleveland … finished November with 39 steals, the most in any month by a Bucks player since Eric Murdock in March 1994 … had two 20-point quarters on the season, both coming in the third frame (1/9 at Chicago and 1/29 at Detroit) … recorded his first two career 30-point/10-assist games this season (2/20 vs. Brooklyn and 3/9 at Golden State) … set career high of 19 assists on March 2 vs. Toronto, and followed it up with 17 vs. Utah on March … is the first Buck to record 15+ assists in consecutive games since Sam Cassell in 1999 … surpassed the 10,000-minute mark for his career on April 9 at Miami.
2011-12: The only Bucks player, and one of just 15 players across the league, to start all 66 games ... averaged a career-high 19.1 points, along with 3.4 rebounds, 5.5 assists and 1.58 steals ... ranked among the NBA's leaders in scoring (16th), assists (17th) and steals (12th) ... led the Bucks in scoring a team-high 32 times, including 59 games in double figures, 31 games with 20+ points and eight games with 30+ ... led the Bucks in assists 35 times and posted six point/assist double-doubles ... hit three or more three-pointers in a game 22 times, the fifth-highest toal in the league ... tied his career high with five steals at Sacramento on 1/5 and vs. Charlotte on 4/6 … scored a season-high 36 points while making 6-of-12 three-pointers in a win at New York on 1/20 ... recorded 31 points, eight assists, four steals and zero turnovers in a win over Miami on 2/1, becoming just the fourth player in the last decade to hit those marks for points, assists and steals in a game without committing a single turnover (joining Allen Iverson, Kobe Bryant and Stephon Marbury) ... also connected on a season-best seven three-pointers against Miami ... scored 25+ points in four straight games from April 18-23, the longest such streak of his career.
2010-11: Appeared in 63 games with 61 starts and averaged a career-high and team-leading 16.2 points, 4.8 assists and 3.7 rebounds in 34.4 minutes per game … recorded his first career triple-double (20 points, 10 assists, 10 rebounds) against Charlotte on 10/30 … became one of just two NBA players (along with Elgin Baylor) to score 50+ points and have a triple-double in their first 100 NBA games … recorded a personal and Bucks season-high 37 points, six rebounds and three assists at New York on 3/25 … tallied 32 points including six 3-pointers and seven assists against Charlotte on 11/27 … hit 13-21 from the field for 31 points as well as four assists and three steals at Detroit on 4/8 … scored 31 points and dished out six assists against the Los Angeles Lakers on 11/16 … had a career-high 11 rebounds to go along with 19 points and six assists against Golden State on 11/13 … tied his career-high with 11 boards as well as 14 points and nine assists against New York on 3/20 … had 10+ assists on four occasions, earning double-doubles in three of those four games and a triple-double in the fourth … led the Bucks in points 20 times, assists 32 times and steals 23 times … recorded six double-doubles … tallied 10+ points in 48 games, 20+ points in 21 games and 30+ points in four games … with 98 3-pointers this season added to 145 last season, passed Lee Mayberry and Toni Kukoc (231) for 10th place in franchise history … played in his 100th career game on 12/1 at Denver … missed 19 games from 12/20 through 1/28 after undergoing surgery to repair a fracture of the fifth metatarsal of his left foot.
2009-10: Finished his rookie season with averages of 15.5 points, 5.7 assists and 3.4 rebounds in 82 games (only Bucks player to start all 82 games) ... won the NBA's Eastern Conference Rookie of the Month Award in October/November, December, January and March ... was the first Eastern Conference rookie to ever win the award four times in one season ... appeared in the NBA's Rookie Challenge at the 2010 All-Star Weekend and recorded 22 points, eight assists and six rebounds to help the rookies to a 140-128 win over the sophomores ... also took part in the Skills Challenge along with Steve Nash, Russell Westbrook and Deron Williams ... broke the franchise's rookie single-game scoring record (55 points) and three-pointers made mark (eight) ... set franchise rookie season bests in assists (470) and three pointers (145) ... led the Bucks in scoring 23 times, rebounds once, assists 51 times and steals 31 times ... became the sixth Bucks player since 1998 to play in all 82 games ... made his NBA debut at Philadelphia on 10/30 and nearly recorded a triple-double with 17 points, nine rebounds and nine assists, all team highs ... would've become just the second player in NBA history (Oscar Robertson in 1960) to produce a triple-double in his first career game ... became the first player in 35 years to lead his team in points, rebounds and assists in his first game (John Drew of the Hawks last accomplished it on 10/18/74 - 32 points, 12 rebounds and three assists) ... recorded 32 points, nine assists and four rebounds against Denver on 11/11 ... scored an NBA season-best 55 points (21-34 FG and 7-8 3FG) against Golden State on 11/14 ... it's the franchise rookie record and was two off the franchise record, the most by an NBA rookie since Earl Monroe had 56 on 2/13/68, the fastest (seven games, previously Wilt Chamberlain: eight games) and youngest (20 years and 52 days) player to top 50 points (previously LeBron James: 20 years and 80 days) ... 45 second half points were the most since Kobe Bryant's 55 on 1/22/06 ... scored 29 points with seven assists and four boards against Charlotte on 11/20 ... produced his first career double-double with 18 points and 11 assists against Portland on 12/12 ... blocked a career-best three shots on 1/8 against Chicago ... dished 11 dimes along with two steals at Utah on 1/16 ... handed out a career-best 13 assists and added 18 points and three steals against Minnesota on 1/23 ... tallied 35 points, with a Bucks rookie record eight three-pointers, eight assists, five rebounds and two steals at Sacramento on 3/19 ... registered 29 points, eight assists, seven rebounds and four steals against Memphis on 3/28 ... swiped a career-high five steals to go with 16 points, seven assists and two boards at Philadelphia on 4/9.
2008-09: Averaged 5.5 points, 1.6 rebounds, 2.3 assists and 1.6 steals in 17.0 minutes in 27 Italian League games with Lottomatica Virtus Roma ... scored in double figures four times, including 14 points vs. Fortitudo, 13 vs. Angelico, 12 vs. Carife and 11 vs. Banca Tercas ... had seven assists vs. Snaidero and six steals vs. Angelico ... in Euroleague competition, averaged 7.6 points, 1.6 rebounds, 1.6 assists and 1.2 steals in 19.0 minutes over 16 appearances ... scored a season-high 17 points vs. Unicaja ... registered 14 points in 18 minutes vs. Union Olimpija and 13 points twice vs. Tau Ceramica.
Drafted by the Milwaukee Bucks with the 10th overall pick in the first round of the 2009 NBA Draft … signed with the Bucks on 7/28/09 ... had the third-year option on his contract picked up by the Bucks on 10/25/10.
Donated $50,000 to the National Italian American Foundation's (NIAF)/Abruzzo Relief Fund after an earthquake in the town of L'Aquila and other small towns in central Italy in the region of Abruzzo left 298 dead and 65,000 homeless ... the 2008 Naismith and Parade Magazine Player of the Year as a high school senior at Oak Hill Academy ... won the NBA Cares Community Assist Award for the month of February for his charitable efforts while in his home state of California for the 2011 All-Star Weekend ... provided refurbishments to his preschool, Double Rock Learning Center in Compton, CA, and partnered with Under Armour to refurbish his childhood basketball court of Rowley Park in Gardena, Calif. ... leveraged his Under Armour relationship and a partnership with the Good Tidings Foundation to renovate a second Compton, Calif., court this summer.


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Details are beginning to emerge, as the denizens of the interwebs are talking of how French gaming magazine Joypad has at last broken the silence on Bizarre's new game. Entitled Blur, and having absolutely nothing to do with Damon Albarn's '90s band, the game is said to feature extremely fast cars, high-speed racing, exotic and unusual locations, and, wait for it, weapons.
Inevitably the attention has now turned to Bizarre's plan to make a successful racing game that features weapons. Surely multiplayer sessions will feature heavily, so naturally comparisons (and knee-jerk reactions) are suggesting that Blur might well end up being some kind of mature-rated version of Nintendo's dominant Mario Kart franchise.
McCartney right, Albarn left: both excited about Blur the band, and now, Blur the racing game.
We're not suggesting for a minute that it'll feature haggard booze-swilling Italian blue-collar workers or steroid-abusing apes; rather, we're guessing it'll have more in common with the likes of Sega's Full Auto. E3 2009 is being pegged by us (and others) as the time we can expect to see what the heck is actually up with Blur.
Bryn says: I like Blur a lot. Song 2 played in my brain for years after it was released. Mr. Albarn's also got a penchant for all things James Bond, just like myself. Can't say Sir Paul McCartney has ever offered to light a ciggy for me, either. Wait, what? This isn't a game starring one of the dudes from Gorillaz?
A mature-rated Mario Kart clone? Sounds sketchy too me. I suppose we can give it the benefit of doubt considering, y'know, we know nothing about the game yet. Sheesh.


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A group of U.S. Army Special Operations soldiers from Fort Campbell, Ky., serving as mentors to some of the nation's top high school football players found out there are a lot of similarities between the young athletes and the combat-experienced troops.
The soldiers were matched up with high school students selected to play in this Saturday's U.S. Army All-American Bowl in San Antonio, an annual all-star game for the nation's top high school recruits. The soldiers spent the last couple of days with the players while they prepared for the game in Texas.
The bowl game is sponsored by the U.S. Army and players get matched up with soldiers from around the country. Many of these players were top recruits for major college football teams and primed for success, which made them a good match for the Special Operations soldiers, who all have been given valor medals for their actions under fire.
Master Sgt. Peter Sims, of the 5th Special Forces Group, said in a phone interview Friday that the student he was mentoring, quarterback Hayden Rettig, from Pasadena, Calif., was curious about the role of Special Forces in the Army and what they do. Sims was the senior medic and assault team leader during a deployment to Iraq in 2003 when he helped pull two injured soldiers to safety during a firefight. He received a Bronze Star with Valor.
"He would definitely fit in," Sims said of Rettig. "He's the kind of individual where he is not only physical, but there's also the mental aspect behind it. When you are in Special Operations, when we are doing our training, we have to stay focused."
Staff Sgt. Marshall Brown, of the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, offered some advice to Tre'Davious White, of Shreveport, La., who is playing tight end in Saturday's game. Brown said White is very close to his family in Louisiana and was unsure about the transition to college.
"We discussed that and I told him that the best thing he could do for himself is just trust his instinct, stay close to his family, keep those bonds, because that is the biggest thing that makes a person," Brown said.
Brown said his job working on one of the Army's most elite helicopter units is mostly normal, except for the times when they are given the opportunity to do something very special and important. Brown received an Air Medal with Valor device for his actions in Afghanistan when his helicopter came under attack. Brown gave cover fire for other helicopters that were picking up troops on the ground.
Staff Sgt. Aaron Eichhorn, also of the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, said he was very impressed with the level of training and skill of the young high school players and said it was pretty similar to the training that he's experienced in the Army.
"For example, they work long hours, hard training. They are out there hungry, cold, wet, and we are the same way. We work long hours, and the training for us is very intense," Eichhorn said.
Eichhorn was awarded the Air Medal with Valor device for his actions in Afghanistan. While serving as the door gunner and crew chief on a Black Hawk helicopter, Eichhorn used a machine gun to allow his helicopter to land under fire so a crew could evacuate a casualty.
He was mentoring Al-Quadine Muhammad, a defensive end from Newark, N.J., who plans to study criminal justice in college. Eichhorn said he hoped to stay in touch with Muhammad through his college career.
"The first thing he wanted to do when we met was take a picture and he uploaded it on Facebook," Eichhorn said. "I am sure that we will stay in contact via email."
On the Web:
U.S. Army All-American Bowl: http://www.usarmyallamericanbowl.com/
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Twenty-seven years ago tonight
This is republished from seven years ago;
Twenty years ago, Task Force 1-41 Infantry attached to the Third Brigade of the 1st Infantry Division (detached from the Third Brigade of the 2d Armored Division (Forward)), was the only US unit in Iraq. We were fifteen clicks from the Saudi border, screening for the sweep west of Schwartzkopf's "Hail Mary" strategy. For two days we had been watched by Iraqis and had a little contact. with some reconnaissance elements. However on February 17th, my gunner spotted 5 T-55s about 1500 meters in front of our defilade position and I called for indirect fire. The first response came from an Apache unit. The pilot ignored his instruments and fired the wrong grid coordinate, directly to my east, striking two vehicles in our own Scout platoon anchoring our far eastern flank.
COB6 was the platoon leader of the platoon between my platoon and the Scout elements. Despite the orders of our company commander (a phrase that I use in several other stories involving COB6 and our commander), COB6 pulled his vehicle off the line and rushed to the burning vehicles (An M3 and and an M113 from the GSR unit). COB6 and his crew pulled the broken bodies from the vehicles with burning ammunition exploding around him and shielded the injured Scouts with his own body. Two of those scouts were dead, but three others owe their lives to COB6 and his crew.
Needless to say we stopped calling for Apaches and after slamming two TOWs into a berm about a hundred meters in front of us, we used artillery fire. My first ever call for indirect fire in total darkness. The following morning, M1s found the T-55s 5000 meters north of the spot my gunner had spotted them.
These are the names of the members of 1/41 we lost throughout the war;
Tony R. Applegate
David R. Crumby
Manuel M. Davila
Anthony W. Kidd
David W. Kramer
Jeffery T. Middleton
James C. Murray, Jr.
Robert D. Talley
Talley and Middleton were killed that night.
We had the highest casualty rate of any other infantry unit in the war, I say it's because both sides were shooting at us.
And, oh, yeah, my granddaughter celebrates her 27th birthday today, too.
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On March 23rd, 2013, Thomas H. Beeby became the 11th recipient of the Richard H. Driehaus Prize. The award, established by the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture in 2003, honors lifetime contributions to traditional, Classical and sustainable architecture and urbanism in the modern world. According to the current dean, Michael Lykoudis, Beeby was an obvious choice. "Tom Beeby has had a transformational role in modern architecture's return to Classical and traditional design principles," he said. "Beeby's recent design of the Tuscaloosa Courthouse is a great example of how the rigor and richness of Classicism can be used to achieve a sense of place and purpose that will be relevant well into the future."
Among the many hats worn by Beeby over the years are member of the "Chicago Seven," a group of architects who challenged the architectural orthodoxy of the late seventies; dean of the Yale School of Architecture; and founding principal, design director and now chairman emeritus of Hammond Beeby Rupert Ainge (HBRA) Architects. The firm was founded in 1961 by James Wright Hammond, formerly of Skidmore Owings and Merrill, on the principle that close collaboration with clients through all phases of design and construction produced the finest buildings.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The defending Sprint Cup champion is winless through the first 16 races of the season, and he's clinging to a spot inside the top-10 in points.
But Brad Keselowski isn't concerned about the fate of the No. 2 Penske Racing team.
"It's human nature to worry when you don't have all the facts," Keselowski said. "I know where we're at as a team, that we could flip a light switch here and be just as strong, if not stronger than ever."
He could be proven right this weekend at Kentucky Speedway, where Keselowski is scheduled to run in all three national series events. He'll race in the Truck Series, Nationwide event and then attempt to defend last year's Sprint Cup Series win.
Keselowski's victory at Kentucky last year was his third of the season, but it opened the gates on a run of 17 top-10 finishes in the final 20 races. In 2011, Keselowski finished seventh at Kentucky in a string of nine top-10 finishes in 11 races that helped him make the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship for the first time in his career.
So Keselowski thinks Kentucky could again be the catapult to his season.
"I think we have some strong tracks for us," he said. "We've got a really good package for (Watkins) Glen, really good package for Kentucky, there's Bristol in August. Indy, I think we're going to be great at."
He's also quick to point there's been a drop-off in performance since NASCAR seized suspension parts from the Penske Racing entries at Texas in April. Before that race, Keselowski was second in points with four top-four finishes in the first six races.
NASCAR docked the team 25 points, took the parts in question, and suspended seven team members for three races. In the time since the Texas infraction, Keselowski has three finishes in the 30s, and seven of nine finishes outside the top-13.
"We haven't executed and I could sit here and bitch and moan about it, that last year this time we had two wins," Keselowski said. "Yes, but we weren't any higher in the standings. I think if you look at our race team's history, July and August are our strong months and we seem to really perform then. We need to keep that trend going."
RAHAL RECOVERS: Graham Rahal had quite the eventful weekend in Iowa.
After irking the owners of the Iowa Speedway by bringing up supposed rumors that IndyCar wouldn't return there in 2014, Rahal nearly earned his second podium finish of the season.
Rahal stormed to the front to win a qualifying heat race on Saturday, then earned a starting spot of sixth through the final heat event. He pushed and even momentarily overtook eventual winner James Hinchcliffe two-thirds of the way through Sunday's race before salvaging a fifth-place finish.
Though Rahal lost some grip at the end of the race to fall shy of the podium, it was nonetheless a satisfying effort after a string of disappointing finishes.
Rahal was 16th or worse in four of his last six races prior to Iowa.
"I'm really proud of the engineering staff and everyone. For everybody to keep coming back week after week with their chins up means a lot to me. I felt like I could have won the race," Rahal said.
About the only thing Rahal got wrong in Iowa was his belief that IndyCar and Iowa are parting ways.
CEO Mark Miles gathered reporters for an impromptu chat Sunday morning to reiterate IndyCar's support of Iowa. In fact, Miles said that the series and the track are hoping to agree to a multiyear contract before next season.
BIG BOOST: Jeff Gordon never got a chance to see how strong his car was at Michigan because he was collected in Bobby Labonte's early accident six laps into the race.
The four-time champion finished 39th and dropped to 16th in the Sprint Cup standings.
So his runner-up finish at Sonoma on Sunday was a much-needed shot in the arm for a team that knows it's better than what the results have been showing.
"I'm kind of glad that we came to a road course and broke up the ovals because we sort of needed that," Gordon said. "This will definitely give us a boost, and, hopefully, we can start putting some races together and find that win or two."
Sonoma was Gordon's best finish of the season, and he's gone 19 races without a consecutive top-10. But it helped him gain three spots in the standings, to 13th, where he's trying to either race his way into the top-10 or pick up some wins to make himself eligible for the Chase.
But Gordon doesn't want to hear about the Chase.
"One of the things we need to do more of, me personally, is stop looking at the points," said Gordon. "It seems like every time we get close to the top 10, something happens. I'm going to stop thinking about the points. If we live up to our potential and we don't get caught in some of these silly things that we have been caught up in this year, there's no doubt in my mind we can work our way into the top 10."
Next up is Kentucky, the only active track on the Cup schedule where Gordon has never won.
But he's made progress at Kentucky, finishing fifth last year, and thinks if he can have a solid qualifying effort he might have a shot Saturday night.
"Prior to last year's race, I might have considered this to be one of my worst tracks," said Gordon. "But we had a good car and a good run here last year — one that we want to improve upon. Of course, we have the Generation-6 car here for the first time. We're learning every single week with the new Chevrolet SS, and we're learning every single trip to Kentucky.
"Hopefully, we can put it all together so we can check this one off the list."
NBC SPORTS-ARCA: NBC Sports Network is adding more racing to its programming with the addition of four ARCA events in August that will give the second-tier series a greater television presence.
"We couldn't be more excited than to have the opportunity to secure additional exposure of the ARCA Racing Series on NBC Sports Network," said Mark Gundrum, ARCA Vice President for Business Development and Corporate Partnerships. "This opportunity is great for the teams, sponsors and fans of the series."
Three of the four NBC Sports Network events are scheduled to air on Thursday nights, with one event slated for Friday night. The coverage premieres Aug. 1 with an 11 p.m. airing of the Winchester Speedway race.
The race from Berlin Raceway will air Aug. 15 at 11 p.m., and the Madison International Speedway event will air Aug. 29 at 11 p.m.
The event from the one-mile dirt oval at the Illinois State Fairgrounds will air Aug. 23 at 11 p.m.
"We look forward to presenting the excitement of the ARCA Racing Series to motorsports fans on NBC Sports Network for the first time," said Mike Perman, Vice President, Programming, NBC Sports Group.
AP Sports Writer Luke Meredith in Iowa contributed to this report.


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Edward Purcell, 91 - November 28, 2007
Edward Gordon Purcell, 91, of Arnold died Friday, Nov. 23, 2007.
Services will be held on Thursday, Nov. 29, at 11 a.m. at the Tallin Church south of Arnold. Burial will take place at the Arnold Cemetery at 3 p.m.
Visitation will be held Wednesday from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. at the Arnold Funeral Home and will continue from 4-8 p.m. at the Tallin Church.
Purcell was born on July 21, 1916, the first of five children to Ernest and Cora (Kilmer) Purcell, in a sod house built from the grassy prairie of Kilmer Valley in Western Lincoln County.
He attended Prairie View Country School in Kilmer Valley and in 1934 graduated from Arnold High School.
During the Depression, he farmed and ranched with his family. He had traveled as far away as Iowa to pick corn and seek work of any kind.
In the late 1930's, he moved to Lusk, WY, and worked at the Kilmer Dairy & Creamery, then in the early 1940s returned to Nebraska.
Purcell was united in marriage to Barbara Lindholm of Arnold on Oct. 28, 1945. To this union, four children were born.
He and his wife moved to a small farm just south of the Table Store, and in 1947 purchased his uncle's farm, where he continued to reside. His wife preceded him in death.
Purcell had farmed and ranched his entire life, but he most enjoyed working with livestock, raising cattle and occasionally hogs, according to family members. He was known for providing fresh eggs to area neighbors. He also worked and clerked at the Arnold Sale Barn from the late 1950's until its closure in the 1990's.
After his children were grown, he traveled to places such as the Philippines, Mexico, Hawaii and Arizona, and enjoyed seeing how other cultures live, said family members. In 1988, he met and formed a relationship with Lucille Ritz. The couple attended many dances and traveled to numerous places including Puerto Rico, Alaska, Canada, Washington, D.C., and the Panama Canal.
Purcell also enjoyed country and gospel music and dancing. He taught himself how to play a guitar by correspondence, according to family members. Together with his cousins, Butch and Mike Kilmer, he often played for family and friends as well as local barn dances.
He was preceded in death by: his parents, Ernest and Cora; his wife, Barbara; brother, Wilbur; step-sister, Zolmia Horn; brother-in-law, Wayne Maline; daughter-in-law, Martha Purcell; two great-grandchildren.
Survivors include: companion, Lucille Ritz of North Platte; two daughters—Linda Zoucha of Phoenix, AZ, and Debbie (Fudge) Fajardo of Mililani Town, Hawaii; two sons—Gene of Arnold and Lane (Patty) of Rexford, KS; brother, Duane (Eliene) of Phoenix; two sisters—Betty (LeLand) Larreau of Hershey and Bonnie Maline of Gothenburg; sister-in-law, Carmen Purcell of Mexico; 12 grandchildren, 13 great-grandchildren; numerous nieces, nephews, cousins and friends.
Memorials are suggested to the Tallin Church building fund.
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I have 3 here all in size J in hopes the larger size is easier to see.
Left to right is Boye, Clover Amour, and Tulip.
Let's start with the head and throat:
The heads on these three are similar. The Boye (left) is a bit more rounded than the other two. The hook I have a problem with on this score is the Tulip (right). If you look closely at the head, it is leaning back a bit. It might be hard to see in the pic. What is happening by this is that the "chin" is less angular, and the throat less defined, which for my hands creates a snagging problem when I am exiting the loops on my hook.
The tapering of the throat is about the same on these 3. Clover might have more of a taper.
Shaft: The shaft length is about the same. Tulip just a smidgen longer.
Handle and Grip:
- Stickiness: I'm not talking about ewww gross sticky yucky, but about how strongly the soft handle stays in contact with your fingers, how grippy it is. Boye is the stickiest, followed by Tulip. Both Boye and Tulip have a bit of a slant for the thumb to rest on. You can really see it on the Tulip. Clover Amour is flat on this portion of the handle and is least stickiest. That being said, it still has good grip. Just not as good as the other 2.
- Size: Clearly in the pics Boye is the big beefy one, with a nice bulbous action going on at the tail end. Not only is it larger in diameter but also it is longer than the others. Clover Amour and Tulip taper down towards the tail end and are shorter. This is where Boye captured my heart. This beefy shape and extra length is the most comfortable for my thumb, fingers, and hand. When the tail ends are thinner/shorter, the area around the outside of my hand - down the pinkie side - gets crampy, so the fatter/longer the handle, the better for me.
- Markings: Clover Amour has markings for size that are engraved into the handle. I cannot imagine it wearing down to the point where you can't see it, but though it probably won't ever wear off, it isn't actually the easiest to see. The Amour hooks are in different colors according to size, so that helps. The Tulip has a printed label that is extremely easy to read, but I wonder if it'll wear off eventually. I cannot say. There is no color coding here. The whole set is grey (or pink if you get the special set). The Boye is a fail on this front. I have been using the size K (not shown) for a couple days and the printed size is already getting rubbed off. Like the Amour, these Boye hooks are all in different colors according to size, so that is beneficial, but it is still not ideal in terms of knowing what hook is what size.
Just a side note: These are all J, but Boye's J is 5.75mm, whereas Clover's and Tulips J's are 6mm, so there are some sizing differences within brands.
Final Feelings:
Clover Amour had been my favorite for ages UNTIL i needed a larger hook recently, which led me to buy the Boye at Michael's. After using for about 5 minutes, I immediately ordered a whole bunch of other sizes from Walmart online where they were on sale at $2-3 apiece. They are my new favorite though the size markings will all probably wear off quickly. I'll probably make a little chart of what color is what size that I can refer to in future.
Hope thats helpful to someone! Tell me your experience if you like!


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Carcharhinus brevipinna
|Scope: Global
Language: English
|Scientific Name:
|Carcharhinus brevipinna (Müller & Henle, 1839)
|Infra-specific Taxa Assessed:
Common Name(s):
Aprion brevipinna (Müller & Henle, 1839)
Aprionodon brevipinna (Müller & Henle, 1839)
Aprionodon caparti Poll, 1951
Carcharhinus johnsoni Smith, 1951
Carcharhinus maculipinnis (Poey, 1865)
Carcharias brevipinna Müller & Henle, 1839
Isogomphodon maculipinnis Poey, 1865
Longmania calamaria Whitley, 1944
Squalus brevipinna (Müller & Henle, 1839)
Uranga nasuta Whitley, 1943
|Taxonomic Source(s):
|Müller, J. and Henle, F.G.J. 1838. Systematische Beschreibung der Plagiostomen. Veit und Comp, Berlin.
|Red List Category & Criteria:
|Near Threatened ver 3.1
|Year Published:
|Date Assessed:
Needs updating
|Burgess, G.H.
|Musick, J.A. & Fowler, S.L. (Shark Red List Authority)
This assessment is based on the information published in the 2005 shark status survey (Fowler et al. 2005).
The Spinner Shark (Carcharhinus brevipinna) is an active, schooling species that often leaps spinning out of the water. This common coastal-pelagic warm-temperate and tropical shark frequently is captured in recreational and commercial fisheries. It is a species that frequents nearshore waters as adults and has inshore nursery areas, making it highly vulnerable to fishing pressure and human-induced habitat alteration.
|Previously published Red List assessments:
|Range Description:
|The Spinner Shark is cosmopolitan in warm temperate, subtropical and tropical continental and insular shelf waters. It is known from off Cape Cod, Massachusetts (USA), to southern Brazil in the western Atlantic. It is found from the Mediterranean Sea southward to central Africa in the eastern Atlantic; the species is widespread in the Indian Ocean from South Africa to western Australia, including the Red Sea and Gulf of Oman; and in the western Pacific Ocean it is recorded from throughout the Indo-Australian Archipelago, the China Sea and the north and east coasts of Australia (Compagno in prep. b).
|Countries occurrence:
Native:Albania; Algeria; Australia; Belize; Benin; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Brazil; China; Colombia; Costa Rica; Côte d'Ivoire; Croatia; Cyprus; Djibouti; Egypt; Eritrea; France; Gambia; Ghana; Greece; Guatemala; Guinea; Guinea-Bissau; Guyana; Honduras; Iran, Islamic Republic of; Israel; Italy; Liberia; Libya; Mauritania; Mexico; Montenegro; Morocco; Nicaragua; Nigeria; Oman; Pakistan; Panama; Saudi Arabia; Senegal; Serbia; Sierra Leone; Slovenia; South Africa; Spain; Sudan; Suriname; Syrian Arab Republic; Taiwan, Province of China; Togo; Tunisia; Turkey; United Arab Emirates; United States (Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, North Carolina, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Virginia); Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of; Yemen
|FAO Marine Fishing Areas:
Atlantic – southeast; Atlantic – eastern central; Atlantic – western central; Atlantic – southwest; Indian Ocean – western; Indian Ocean – eastern; Mediterranean and Black Sea; Pacific – western central; Pacific – southwest; Pacific – northeast
|Additional data:
|Range Map:
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|Current Population Trend:
|Additional data:
|Habitat and Ecology:
|The Spinner Shark is common in nearshore waters off beaches, in bays and off river mouths and also occurs pelagically offshore. It is common year round in southern areas of the United States and occasionally migrates north in the summer into the Middle Atlantic Bight.
This shark has an unusual habit of leaping from the water, rotating as many as three times and falling back in the water, usually on its back. Spinner Sharks are often found in schools that may include large numbers of individuals (Compagno in prep. b). The species has an 11-15 month gestation period and is placentally viviparous, producing 3-20 pups (usually 7-11). The reproductive cycle is two years (Castro 1993). In the western North Atlantic, ovulation occurs in late June and mating occurs in late June through early July; pups are born in late May-July at 60-75 cm total length (TL). In South Africa newborns of 60-80 cm TL have been reported, with parturition in April-May. Pregnant females have been caught in February-March in southeastern Australia, with parturition occurring in March-April; pup lengths of 66-77 cm TL are reported. Young are also born in the summer off the north-west coast of Africa and in the eastern Mediterranean and Red seas. The Spinner Shark uses nearshore beaches and bays, and higher saline portions of estuaries throughout the south-east United States as nursery grounds, but parturition probably takes place in waters deeper than 5 m.
Compared to many shark species, the Spinner Shark grows at a relatively fast rate, although only one growth study exists for this species, that addressing a north-west Atlantic population. Since other populations differ greatly in many life history characteristics and maximum sizes, the values reported here may not be applicable to those regions. For the northwest Atlantic, neonates born at 60-75 cm TL increase by as much as 30 cm in length by the onset of winter (circa six months). One-year olds continue to grow at about 25 cm/year, with the growth rate slowly declining to about 10 cm/year through adolescence. Males mature at ~130 cm TL, or at 4-5 years of age, females at 150-155 cm TL or 7-8 years of age. Maximum recorded age is 11 years (a 208 cm TL female) but the species attains a much larger size (225-250 cm TL). Age at the largest known sizes (assuming a continued 5 cm annual growth) would be 15-20 years, although as the sharks get older, incremental growth should decline, thus age at maximum size may be substantially greater (Branstetter 1987a).
The species is primarily a fish-eater, with diet including 10-pounders (Elops), sardines and herring, anchovies, sea catfish, lizardfish, mullets, bluefish, tunas, bonito, croakers, jacks, mojarras, grunts, tongue-soles, stingrays, cuttlefish, squid and octopuses. It frequently uses an unusual method of feeding on schools of small, bony fishes that gives this shark its common name; it swims rapidly upwards through the schools with open mouth, spinning along its long axis and snapping in all directions, and then shoots out of the water after its feeding run. Off Madagascar this species is associated with and probably feeds on migrating schools of scombrids and jacks. As with C. limbatus, this shark will congregate to eat trash fish dumped off shrimp trawlers and no doubt participates in feeding frenzies like its smaller relative (Compagno in prep. b).
|Use and Trade:
|This species is part of recreational fisheries and is targeted by directed commercial fisheries. Spinner Shark meat is sold under the name "Blacktip Shark" because of wide consumer preference for the product. Fins are dried and shipped to the Far East where they are used in shark fin soup. In some areas the hides are likely to be utilised in preparing leather and the livers are used to extract oil.
|Major Threat(s):
|In the northwest Atlantic this species is part of the recreational fishery and is one of a suite of carcharhinids targeted by the directed commercial fishery operating along the southeast coast from North Carolina to Florida and throughout the Gulf of Mexico. It is a common component of the commercial catch in the north-central Gulf of Mexico, but is less often caught in the fisheries along the eastern seaboard of the United States. As with most carcharhinid species, the Spinner Shark meat is sold under the name "Blacktip Shark" because of wide consumer preference for the product. It is a constituent of the substantial Mexican Gulf of Mexico shark catch. Probably it is represented in the shark catches in most areas within its range, but owing to confusion with the Blacktip Shark, it is likely that the species is not recorded in landings data. Fins are dried and shipped to the Far East where they are used in shark fin soup. In some areas the hides are likely to be utilized in preparing leather and the livers are used to extract oil.
|Conservation Actions:
|There are no conservation measures in place for this species.
|Burgess, G.H. 2009. Carcharhinus brevipinna. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2009: e.T39368A10182758. . Downloaded on 20 September 2018.
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