text:
Longfellow Mountains > Tumbledown Mountain > Climber's Log
Tumbledown Mountain Climber's Log
[ Sign the Climber's Log ]
|Tumbledown Mountain
Date Climbed: Jun 26, 2005
|Climbed several times, a personal favorite and Maine classic.
|Posted Jun 14, 2015 11:09 am
|Blocked by Ice
Date Climbed: Apr 26, 2015
|April 26 2015, up the Loop trail, very icy.
At Fat Man's Misery could not go through as it was 100% choked by ice.
Ascend a 15' vertical face to a level area and go around to the right.
There's a knife edge split, edge across that, and then make a sharp left along a face on a shelf back to the gully & trail.
Not too hard, about a 5.3. Don't fall.
Thankful we found this alternate route, because the trail would have been miserable going down without crampons and rope.
Very rewarding day. Up the Loop, down the Brook in 3.5 hrs.
|Posted Apr 27, 2015 9:37 am
|AMC route
Date Climbed: Nov 16, 2012
|Climbed the AMC 5.6 route up the sw ridge, in a t-shirt...beautiful windless day. Meandered around the AMC route and variation, found lots of great rappel anchors and pitons in weird spots. Beautiful rock, some loose blocks but nothing too bad, lots of shrubberies...tried to veer onto the AMC variation but ended up on an easy exposed knife edge up the last pitch. Comfy belay stations the whole way...descended via the summit and down to the pond and Brook Trail, made a nice 5hr loop. Tons of nice rock faces...the north peak also covered with nice slabs.
|Posted Nov 17, 2012 9:53 am
|First Hike Every
|This was my first hike ever, years ago my father took us up to crater pond on the Brook Trail. I love the views and all of the hikes on this mountain. It truthfully never gets old. Have climbed them many times.
|Posted Aug 12, 2010 7:32 pm
|Great hike, the views from the alpine lake are outstanding.
|Posted Jul 31, 2009 4:16 pm
|Loop Trail to Brook trail
|nice climb
|Posted Mar 2, 2009 1:27 pm
|Snowshoed Brook Trail
Date Climbed: Jan 24, 2009
|Snowshoe trip. Started around 9:30 and got back to the cars at 3. Lots of fun. We had to park a mile from the trailhead and while the road was packed down, the trail was fresh, lots of powder. Absolutely beautiful. Too bad the camera batteries died on top (cold) it was gorgeous. Great mountain.
|Posted Jan 24, 2009 5:49 pm
|loop and brook trail
Date Climbed: Sep 20, 2008
|Everyone says that this in an annual climb...I truly see why!! BEAUTIFUL!! Once we got up there...we spent 2 hrs just sitting at the pond. It was almost sad to leave.
|Posted Sep 20, 2008 10:40 pm
|Tumbledown Mountain
Date Climbed: Jul 4, 2008
|Climbed via the Little Jackson Trail from Bryon Road. A great short hike over some truly stunning terrain. The views of Tumbledown and Little Jackson from Crater Pond were fantastic and even on the fourth of July there was hardly anyone there.
|Posted Aug 12, 2008 9:14 pm
|J Fox
|When I was young
|Climbed this a number of times when I lived in Maine as a kid.
|Posted Nov 1, 2007 6:19 am
|Brook Trail
Date Climbed: Jun 16, 1991
|Climbed up here with some girl I was in love with. That didn't work out. And you don't really care, do you?
|Posted Oct 14, 2007 11:52 pm
|AMC Route
Date Climbed: Oct 8, 2006
|We climb the old AMC route (5.6) every fall. Leaving the car at the base of the Brook Tr., hiking west up the road, up the Loop Tr. to the base of the route, climbing it, reaching and traversing the ridge to the pond, then down, makes a wonderful alpine day- not to be missed. Terrific scenery and really good climbing make for one of the best climbs in Maine.
|Posted Aug 18, 2007 8:56 pm
|Great Hike
Date Climbed: Jul 4, 2007
|Went with a group of friends on the fun, enjoyable Brook Trail to celebrate the 4th. Great company and great views from the top!
|Posted Jul 4, 2007 6:48 pm
|chugach mtn boy
|In Feb of '79 turned back with frost nip in -13 temps plus a howling wind. Have since done it in the summer and it's a nice scramble.
|Posted Jun 28, 2007 5:18 pm
|carry down
Date Climbed: Jun 11, 1990
|I carried an 80-year-old woman part way down the trail, pick-a-back. I think I so scared her, that she found the strength to walk the rest of the way.
|Posted May 15, 2007 11:06 pm
|Too many to count
|I have hiked this many times- beautiful, always worth the 30 minute drive.
|Posted Nov 20, 2006 2:24 am
|All school hike
Date Climbed: Oct 11, 2005
|Every year Gould Academy (a boarding school in Bethel, ME) takes a day off of classes and goes for a hike. I managed to get in both the East and West peaks during the day before we had to leave.
|Posted Oct 16, 2006 1:00 am
|Both peaks, plus 3 Jacksons
Date Climbed: Sep 23, 1978
|Posted Jul 3, 2006 8:25 pm
|Tumbledown via Loop and Brook
|I've climbed this mountain numerous times. It never gets old! A great dayhike I highly recommend.
|Posted May 29, 2006 3:59 am


text:
Habitat & Life Cycle
List View Grid View
per page
9 items
Eggs and Chicks - Usborne Non-Fiction ReaderWhich bird lays the biggest egg in the world? How do tiny chicks learn to fly? In this book children will find the answers! Everything they want to know about eggs and chicks, simply stated and beautifully illustrated. Hardcover, 32 pages. Learn More
Pumpkins - Life Cycles book for early readersDo your children know that without bees there would be no jack-o-lanterns? Child-friendly facts about pumpkins share the pages with vivid close-up photo documentation of the entire life cycle from seed to jack-o-lantern. Paperback, 24 pages. Learn More
Caterpillars and Butterflies - Usborne Non-Fiction ReaderHow do caterpillars turn into butterflies? What do butterflies eat? In this book children will find the answers! Everything they want to know about all kinds of insects is simply stated and beautifully illustrated. Hardcover. Learn More
Sunflowers - Life Cycles book for early readersAfter planting sunflower seeds, offer children a captivating glimpse of sunflowers to come. Early readers will be intrigued by close-up photos of tiny details and new life cycles vocabulary. Picture glossary and index. Learn More
Dandelions - Life Cycles book for early readersClose-up photos of tiny details and a flower children already know make this a particularly captivating title for early readers. Simple text, life cycle vocabulary and diagram, picture glossary, and index. Paperback, 24 pages. Learn More
Worms - Life Cycles book for early readersFollow up observation of live worms with close-up glimpses of these familiar spring visitors and child-friendly facts about their life cycle. Captivating for early readers! Vocabulary, picture glossary, index. Learn More
Bean Sprouting Activity - Seed growing activityWhich side grows upward? What are those little hairs called? Children provide the energy and excitement—we supply enough basic supplies to repeat this favorite activity several times. Learn More
Wiggling Worms at Work - Read-aloud science fact bookConversational text and inviting collage illustrations answer your children's questions about "nature's plows" and explain the worm's role in decomposition. Activities guide included. Paperback, 33 pages. Learn More
A Walk in the Woods ~ Into the Field Guide - A Hands-On Introduction to Cool, Common Critters, Trees, Flowers and RocksBoth you and your child are sure to enjoy outdoor adventures more with this engaging guide, filled with fascinating information and gorgeous photos. This book has our highest recommendation. Paperback, 110 pages. Learn More
per page
9 items

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Chipper's impact on baseball is undeniable
By Richard Justice / MLB.com
And that's where we start.
Here's hoping Chipper pauses a time or two during this final season to appreciate what has happened to the Braves during his 19 seasons.
Bobby Cox, Stan Kasten and John Schuerholz had long since transformed them from losers into winners by the time Chipper played his first game in 1995. They'd taken over a franchise struggling to draw 1 million fans and watched more than 3 million come to see the Braves six times.
Chipper stepped into a great situation and played his way into the hearts and minds of fans. He joined a team with back-to-back playoff appearances and helped extend the streak to 14.
Thanks in part to Chipper, baseball became a cool sport for kids in the South, and it's not difficult to trace a line from his prominence to the abundance of Georgia talent now available in the First-Year Player Draft.
Not many players can leave the game knowing they had a hand in impacting the sport the way Chipper and his Braves have.
Now about the Hall of Fame.
In a word, yes.
Chipper won a National League Most Valuable Player Award in 1999, but was in the Top 10 in the voting five other times.
During his first eight seasons, he finished second in the 1995 NL Rookie of the Year Award voting and then finished fourth, ninth, ninth, first, 11th, eighth and 11th in NL MVP Award voting.
During those eight seasons, Chipper averaged 156 games a year, batted .309 and had a .948 OPS.
At that point, he'd established himself as one of the very best players of his generation, and isn't that the definition of a Hall of Famer?
And the Braves went to the playoffs every single year. Chipper batted .308 when they won the World Series in his rookie season, and his career postseason batting average is .288.
As impressive as those early seasons were, Chipper, 39, has continued to play at a high level for virtually all of his 18 seasons. His career batting average is .304, despite three consecutive seasons below .300.
He played these last few seasons with aching knees, but continued to grind because he absolutely loved it. In that way, he was the ultimate team leader, not because of what he said, but because of what he did.
Chipper will enter this final season 33rd on the all-time home run list (454), 21st in walks (1,455) and 40th in RBIs (1,561). He's 31st all-time in OPS and 53rd in OBP.
His career OBP is higher than Joe DiMaggio's. His career OPS is better than Hank Aaron's. He drew more walks than Al Kaline, hit more home runs than Carl Yastrzemski and Cal Ripken.
Numbers can be twisted to tell virtually any story. In the end, Chipper walks away from the game having long since established himself as one of the best there ever was.
One of the things that made him special is that he always seemed to love his job. Maybe that's why he always seemed to be smiling in so many of those photos taken over the past 18 seasons.
There Chipper would be standing with a dirty uniform on and a bat in his hand. He might be talking to an opposing player or an umpire. But he always seemed to be smiling and having the time of his life.
Chipper engaged fans, signed autographs, did interviews and understood better than almost any player ever that being a Major League player was about more than performing on the field.
It was about representing his sport the right way, about appreciating what he had and giving back. If Chipper Jones ever had a bad day at the ballpark, he never let many people know it.
Cox made the call to use the first pick of the 1990 Draft on Chipper instead of the more popular choice, pitcher Todd Van Poppel. He got him for a $275,000 signing bonus, plus another $68,000 to cover potential college expenses.
Cox later said that he walked away from the meetings remembering that Chipper looked him square in the eye, that Van Poppel seemed to avoid eye contact.
Cox thought that small gesture spoke volumes about Chipper's self-confidence. Cox turned in a lineup card with Jones' name on it 1,656 times during their 17 years together.
Chipper choked up Thursday morning when he reflected on how quickly 18 years had passed. He thanked his younger teammates for keeping him energized. Here's hoping he takes some comfort in knowing he won't miss baseball any more than we'll miss him. What a great run he has had.
Richard Justice is a columnist for MLB.com. Read his blog, Justice4U. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


text:
COLUMBUS –The Columbus Crew today announced its 2014 preseason schedule for the club's first campaign under Sporting Director and Head Coach Gregg Berhalter. The Black & Gold are once again spending the majority of preseason training camp in Florida, with the team heading to the IMG Academy in Bradenton before taking part in the 2014 Walt Disney Pro Soccer Classic in Orlando.
Players report to Columbus on January 24 for the club's initial preseason training sessions and entrance physicals, and they will train in Central Ohio for two days to officially open preseason camp.
On January 26, the team heads to Bradenton, Fla. to train at the IMG Academy for 13 days before returning to Columbus on February 7. At least five MLS teams – including the Black & Gold – are expected to train and compete in a series of friendlies beginning in late January and continuing through the end of February, joining the Chicago Fire, D.C. United, New England Revolution and Toronto FC training in Bradenton.
The team trains in Columbus for one week – from February 8-15 – before making a second trip to Florida, this time to again take part in the fifth annual Disney Pro Soccer Classic, where it will compete against seven other professional teams to prepare for the 2014 MLS Season. The Crew fell 1-0 to the Montreal Impact in the championship match of the tournament last season, as the Black & Gold look to take home the preseason title ahead of the 2014 campaign. Taking place February 19 through March 1 at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., the Crew will make Central Florida its preseason training home for the second phase of camp. Fellow MLS sides Philadelphia Union, Montreal Impact and reigning MLS Cup champion Sporting Kansas City, as well as Orlando City FC (USL PRO) have all committed to participate in the tournament. Three additional teams are expected to be announced in the coming weeks.
Following the Disney Pro Soccer Classic, the Black & Gold will return to Columbus to prepare for their MLS season-opener on March 8 against D.C. United at RFK Stadium in Washington, D.C.
Jan. 24
Preseason camp opens
Jan. 24-25
Team trains in Columbus
Jan. 26
Team departs for Bradenton, Fla.
Feb. 7
Crew returns to Columbus
Feb. 8-15
Team trains in Columbus
Feb. 16
Crew departs for Orlando, Fla.
Feb. 19 - March 1
Disney Pro Soccer Classic
March 2
Crew returns to Columbus
Note: All dates and times are subject to change. Preseason friendlies may be added at any time.


text:
O's add to arms race with prep fireballer
Birds select right-hander Hobgood with fifth pick in Draft
By Spencer Fordin / MLB.com
1 WAS: S. Strasburg
2 SEA: D. Ackley
3 SD: D. Tate
4 PIT: J. Sanchez
5 BAL: M. Hobgood
6 SF: Z. Wheeler
7 ATL: M. Minor
8 CIN: M. Leake
9 DET: J. Turner
10 WAS: D. Storen
11 COL: T. Matzek
12 KC: A. Crow
13 OAK: G. Green
14 TEX: M. Purke
15 CLE: A. White
16 ARI: R. Borchering
17 ARI: A. Pollock
18 FLA: C. James
19 STL: S. Miller
20 TOR: S. Jenkins
21 HOU: J. Mier
22 MIN: K. Gibson
23 CWS: J. Mitchell
24 LAA: R. Grichuk
25 LAA: M Trout
26 MIL: E. Arnett
27 SEA: N. Franklin
28 BOS: R. Fuentes
29 NYY: S. Heathcott
30 TB: L. Washington
31 CHC: B. Jackson
32 COL: T. Wheeler
36 LAD: A. Miller
72 NYM: S. Matz
75 PHI: K. Dugan
Follow Draft on Twitter
New tech helps clubs spot talent
Bodley: Nats must be patient
Baltimore had also considered prep right-hander Zack Wheeler before ultimately settling on Hobgood. Joe Jordan, Baltimore's director of scouting, said the decision went all the way down to the final day.
"I got to about 90 percent of my comfort level the middle of this afternoon. But I was still wrestling with it an hour ago," said Jordan of choosing Hobgood. "It's the right thing. I feel really good about what we did."
Jordan went on to say that he had both Wheeler and Hobgood visit Camden Yards before ultimately making his decision, and he also said that the Draft pick had nothing to do with signability. Baltimore will have until August 17 to reach terms with Hobgood, and Jordan said he expects him to sign relatively quickly.
"This was not a money saver," he said. "I knew I would be asked that because this wasn't a name guy that people kept seeing every day in the paper. We scouted this guy all year long. I saw him for the first time early in February and saw him two times after that. It had nothing to do with money. Look at what we've done lately."
Hobgood, who stands 6-foot-4 and weighs 245 pounds, has been compared to Hall of Fame closer Goose Gossage in terms of his physicality. Jordan said that he reaches the mid 90's with his fastball and features a sharp-breaking curveball. His changeup, on the other hand, is something the Orioles will attempt to re-work.
And from the initial returns, everything else appears to be in working order. Hopgood went 11-1 with a 0.92 ERA as a senior and batted .475 with 21 home runs and 55 RBIs in 30 games. The youngster said he's more than willing to give up the bat and that he was excited to wind up with an up-and-coming team in Baltimore.
"It's been nothing but exciting. I'm still kind of in shock," Hobgood said. "This whole week's been just a dream come true, basically. I couldn't have gone to a better team. That was the team I wanted to go to and the team I was praying I would go to. They pulled the trigger and picked me and I couldn't be happier where I'm at."
From his perspective, Hobgood said that the Orioles had promised to take him if Dustin Ackley wasn't available. So when Ackley went No. 2 overall to Seattle, Hobgood knew where he would wind up. Hobgood said he doesn't know much about Baltimore's farm system but maintained that he's excited to sign and get in the fold.
"I'd like to sign and get out there," he said, "And I'd say the sooner, the better. We'll have to see how the process goes. We haven't talked money or anything. I think the signing process will go smoothly, but we'll have to see."
Opposing hitters batted just .151 off Hobgood this season, and he set school records in career pitching victories, games pitched, innings pitched, shutouts and strikeouts. Hobgood credited his maturity to the untimely passing of his father, Rick, saying that he learned to take responsibility at an earlier age than most kids.
In some respects, Hobgood continues a trend, following the recent Draft selections of Brian Matusz, Jake Arrieta and other highly polished pitchers. Baltimore currently has three homegrown arms -- Brad Bergesen, David Hernandez and Jason Berken -- in the rotation, with several more prized prospects in the upper levels.
Hobgood will likely be brought on at a slower pace, considering his prep status. Hobgood, who was also a highly decorated prep hitter, committed to Cal State Fullerton, but his lofty Draft status may make college an afterthought.
"Any time you draft an 18-year-old, it takes longer to get them to the big leagues," said Jordan. "We scouted college pitchers that threw 165 pitches in a game this year more than once. We're going to be able to handle this guy. We have a good pitching philosophy in our player development [system]. I trust those guys."
Baltimore has had extensive success in recent Drafts, with Matt Wieters ranked as one of the best prospects in baseball and Matusz poised near the top of most pitching lists. Brandon Snyder, the team's top selection in 2005, has gotten off to a fast start at Double-A Bowie and may be positioning himself for a September callup.
The Orioles also added Chris Tillman to the system in the Erik Bedard trade, further fleshing out the team's cadre of top arms. Matusz and Arrieta are at Bowie and may move to Triple-A Norfolk by the end of the season. And by next year, Tillman and that pair may already be challenging for big league rotation slots.
Jordan, who has mostly settled for college arms, said he didn't really like that option this year.
"It was that kind of a Draft for me," he said. "I really have a lot of confidence in Dave Smith, our pitching coordinator. Any of them can get hurt. It can happen at any time. But I just think this guy physically is ready. The delivery, the arm action, everything works good. I think we can do everything possible to keep him healthy."
Round 2, Mychal Givens, RHP, Plant HS:
Givens, a highly athletic player who was also considered as a shortstop, flashes a fastball in the high 90's.
Round 3, Tyler Townsend, 1B, Florida International University:
Townsend, a first-team All-American, batted .426 this season and set a school record with 164 career RBIs.
Spencer Fordin is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


text:
Pirates' Taillon removed from Fall League roster
Pittsburgh's top prospect leaves AFL early due to tweaked groin
By Jonathan Mayo / MLB.com
Jameson Taillon's Arizona Fall League season is over after just one outing, as the Pirates removed him from the Scottsdale Scorpions roster on Monday due to a tweaked groin.
Taillon, the Pirates' No. 1 prospect and ranked No. 10 overall on MLB.com's Top 100 Prospects list, started for Scottsdale on Oct. 8, tossing two innings and allowing just one unearned run on one hit. He walked one and struck out three. But he also aggravated a groin muscle, leading the Pirates to decide to err on the side of caution and send their top prospect home.
The 22-year-old Taillon reached Triple-A during the 2013 season, finishing the year with a combined 3.73 ERA in 26 starts. The right-hander gave up 143 hits in 147 1/3 innings, walking 52 and striking out 143.
"Jameson tweaked his groin in his first Arizona Fall League outing and we decided it was better to err on the side of caution and end his AFL season," Pirates assistant general manager Kyle Stark said. "We're very happy with the season he's had and look forward to seeing him healthy for the start of the 2014 season."
Jameson was replaced on the roster by right-hander Phil Irwin, who missed most of the 2013 season, though he did make his Major League debut in April after an impressive Spring Training.
Irwin started for the Pirates on April 14 against the Reds, allowing four runs on 4 2/3 innings. He had made one start prior to that in Triple-A, then made just one more, on May 2, before being shut down. He eventually had surgery on his ulnar nerve in his elbow -- though it wasn't Tommy John surgery -- in July. He was placed on the 60-day disabled list and will try to make up for lost innings in Arizona.
Jonathan Mayo is a reporter for MLB.com and writes a blog, B3. Follow @JonathanMayoB3 on Twitter. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


text:
© 2010 MLB Advanced Media, L.P. All rights reserved.
Hamels chasing Pettitte's playoff success
After evening NLCS, Phils look for lefty to keep momentum
By Adam McCalvy / MLB.com
PHILADELPHIA -- The National League Championship Series took a break on Monday after the teams moved three time zones west, giving left-hander Cole Hamels a chance to watch another southpaw work an LCS Game 3. Count Hamels as a fan of the Yankees' Andy Pettitte. "I just want to have his postseason career," Hamels said. "That would be great. ... That's something special right there." Hamels has a lot of work to do. After his loss to the Rangers in Game 3 of the American League Championship Series, Pettitte is 19-10 in a remarkable 42 starts. Pettitte already had more playoff wins, starts and innings (263 and counting) than any pitcher in history.But Hamels is at work building his own resume. His Phillies have played into October in four of the five seasons since Hamels debuted in 2006. He'll enter his NLCS Game 3 start on Tuesday (4 p.m. ET, FOX, Postseason.TV) -- with the series tied at 1 following the Phils' 6-1 win in Game 2 -- with a 6-3 record and a 3.36 ERA in 11 playoff starts. He was the MVP of both the 2008 NLCS and World Series. When Hamels starts Tuesday, he will become only the 33rd pitcher in Major League history to make 12 postseason starts. The introduction of the Wild Card, and thus a third postseason round, in 1995, has helped players like Hamels. Twenty of the 32 pitchers who have made at least 12 postseason starts have pitched in the Wild Card era. On the other hand, Hamels is only 26 years old. "Watching what he's done, it's great," Pettitte said on Sunday in New York, where the Yankees and Rangers were working out at Yankee Stadium. "I saw him last year live and I would say he looked twice as good the other day when I saw him pitch in Cincinnati [in the NL Division Series], as far as how crisp his stuff was and stuff like that. "He's doing a great job, he's having a lot of success. Obviously, you can tell he's pitching with a lot of confidence." Hearing those kind words from Pettitte might boost Hamels' confidence even higher, and why not? After an up-and-down 2009 season that saw Hamels' ERA inflate to 4.32 and his strikeout total fall to 168 -- the poorest numbers of his four full seasons -- he rebounded in '10 to lower his ERA to a career-best 3.06 and boost his strikeout count to a career-high 211. "He came back with a mission, and that was to tell everybody, 'Hey, don't forget about me,' " outfielder Shane Victorino said. "He came out with a vengeance." Manager Charlie Manuel figures that Hamels' best years are to come. "I think he's stronger," Manuel said, "and I think he has more [of an] arsenal, more equipment, more pitches. "The other night [in the Phillies' clinching Game 3 of the NL Division Series] if you go back and look, the last out he got on Scott Rolen, you can't pitch a hitter better than that. The way he set him up, the way he went in and out, what he threw him, up and down. I'm sitting in the dugout watching him, and I'm thinking, and all of a sudden, he throws him a high fastball and throws the ball right by him." What did Hamels learn during his relatively trying 2009? "That baseball is a tough game," he said. "Sometimes you think you can master it, but unfortunately [there is the] old saying where it can throw you a curveball, and you have to make the best adjustments. "If it's getting physically stronger or mentally trying to prepare better for a game and my opponent, I think that's really where I've been able to take off. Once you're able to do that, you gain back your confidence. I think in this game, confidence can go a lot further than talent. It's knowing that you can go out there and get the job done no matter what the circumstances are, what the weather is, if you're at home, away, who is in the lineup. That's really what can push people to become even better. I think that's what it's done. I've gained a lot more confidence in myself."
Tale of the Tape: NLCS Game 3
- vs.
- 2010 Regular Season
- Overall: 33 GS, 12-11, 3.06 ERA, 61 BB, 211 Ks
- Overall: 33 GS, 13-11, 3.14 ERA, 61 BB, 177 Ks
- Key stat: 1.82 ERA in final six regular-season starts
- Key stat: Had 2.91 ERA in second half
- Postseason
Career: 11 GS, 6-3, 3.36 ERA
Career: 1 GS, 0-0, 0.00 ERA
- At AT&T PARK
- 2010: 1 GS, 0-0, 6.00 ERA Career: 4 GS, 2-1, 6.12 ERA
- 2010: 17 GS, 8-4, 2.76 ERA Career: 90 GS, 33-30, 3.15 ERA
- Against this opponent
- 2010: 2 GS, 0-1, 7.36 ERA Career: 8 GS, 4-2, 4.67 ERA
- 2010: 1 GS, 0-0 4.50 ERA Career: 5 GS, 0-3, 6.23 ERA
- Loves to face: Aubrey Huff (1-for-7, 5 Ks)
Hates to face: Cody Ross (9-for-30, 4 HRs)
- Loves to face: Shane Victorino (2-for-8)
Hates to face: Chase Utley (7-for-14, 3 HRs)
- Game breakdown
- Why he'll win: Young lefty always steps up in October
- Why he'll win: Feed off frenzied home crowd
- Pitcher beware: Top of Giants order has good number against him
- Pitcher beware: Chase Utley, Ryan Howard have hit him hard in the past
- Bottom line: October ace
- Bottom line: Workhorse
Pettitte has been watching the process from afar. Call it the brotherhood of Major League left-handers."It's fun to watch some young guys coming up in the league," Pettitte said. "I remember being at that stage in my career and just idolizing the guys that were up here, and wanting to be like Jimmy Key when he was with the Yankees and stuff like that. "All it means," Pettitte added with a laugh, "is you're getting old, whenever all the lefties on the other team are coming wanting to talk to you. But it's fun. It's been fun for me." The Phillies and Yankees could meet in the World Series, but first the Phils have to get past the Giants and the Yankees past the Rangers. Philadelphia held Hamels for Game 3 to let Roy Oswalt -- he of a 9-0 lifetime record at Citizens Bank Park -- work at home in Game 2. That means Hamels will work amid a sea of orange-and-black-clad Giants fans. Perhaps he'll channel Pettitte. "He's been able to get the job done, and he hasn't let the postseason faze him," said Hamels, who went 0-1 in two starts against San Francisco this year, allowing nine runs over 11 innings. That's difficult to do sometimes. "It's a big difference trying to adjust to more media attention, interviews, just having more people aware," Hamels said. "The excitement level going around the cities. ... How to prepare to having so many days off. It takes some time to get used to that, and once you do, you want to enjoy it. "That's kind of where we are as a team. We're enjoying it, but we also know we have to get down to business."
Adam McCalvy is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Brew Beat, and follow him on Twitter at @AdamMcCalvy. MLB.com reporter Brittany Ghiroli contributed to this report. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


text:
BERLIN- Despite a short bench caused by the injury and illness of a few key players, Worcester Prep's boys' varsity basketball team routed Greenwood Mennonite, 51-21, on Tuesday to improve to 6-3 on the season.
Missing a few players due to various ailments, the Mallards went with just eight players against the Flames on Tuesday, but the shorter bench had little impact on the outcome. Worcester got out to an early lead, built on it through the contest and cruised to the 30-point win. Tuesday's match-up was a far cry from the first meeting between the two teams.
In the season opener, the Mallards snuffed the Flames, 36-34, in overtime. Senior Alex Maccarri led the Mallards with 16 points and 10 rebounds, while fellow senior Justin Butler pitched in 13 points.


text:
WASHINGTON – House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (MD) and members of the Democratic leadership today blasted the Republican tax cut proposals, which will worsen the Bush job recession and do nothing to aid the economy. The following is Representative Hoyer's statement as prepared for delivery:
"When it comes to the Republican Party's tax proposals, I urge the American people to ask two very simple questions: 'Do I trust Tom DeLay on the economy or do I trust renowned investor Warren Buffett?' And, 'Do I think that Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan might know a thing or two more than President Bush when it comes to the handling of the economy?'
Two years ago, Majority Leader DeLay boldly claimed that the President's mammoth tax cut "is the right medicine for our economy. It is the best way to put people back to work and create jobs." Statements like that should all but exterminate Tom DeLay's credibility when it comes to making economic predictions.
Just look at the facts. Over the last two years, our economy has lost 2.7 million private-sector jobs, including half a million jobs in the last three months. Today, there are nearly 9 million jobless Americans, and the unemployment rate – at 6 percent – is at its highest level since 1994.
Two years ago, President Bush promised the American people: "Tax relief is central to my plan to encourage economic growth and we can proceed with tax relief without fear of budget deficits, even if the economy softens."Again, the facts do not lie.
Economic growth? Today, we have the worst real GDP growth since World War II. No fear of budget deficits? After four years of surpluses, our nation faces a record budget deficit of $400 billion. Given the GOP's abysmal track record, why should the American people possibly believe their claims now?
Last weekend, Warren Buffett charged that the President's proposed tax cut on corporate dividends – an idea incorporated in the House GOP's tax bill – unfairly favors the wealthy and he said there is no guarantee that it will stimulate the economy.
Chairman Greenspan, testifying before Congress, said: "I could be strongly supportive of certain types of tax cuts. If, however, in the process you get significant increases in deficits which induce a rise in long-term interest rates, you will be significantly undercutting the benefits."
The American people need to ask themselves: Who do we believe when it comes to the economy? Tom DeLay, George Bush and the GOP, who are pushing a dividend tax cut that won't create jobs? Or Warren Buffett, Alan Greenspan and Congressional Democrats, who urge fiscal responsibility and job creation?
There is virtually no question that the House GOP's tax bill will throw our economy into a sea of deficit and debt, disproportionately benefit the most affluent citizens, steal from Social Security and pass the costs onto future generations. When it comes to the economy, the GOP has lost all credibility. Their claims have been bold, and boldly wrong."


text:
DETROIT - A judge on Wednesday ordered Detroit Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr and two members of Michigan's Emergency Financial Assistance Loan Board to testify in an Open Meetings Act lawsuit.
The lawsuit, filed by Detroit activist Robert Davis, claims the interview process for the EM position was done behind closed doors, violating the Michigan Open Meeting Act.
Ingham County Judge William Collette approved an order requiring Orr and loan board members John Nixon and Steve Arwood to be deposed.
View: Ingham Co. judge order on Kevyn Orr deposition
Davis had also wanted depositions for Gov. Rick Snyder and Michigan Treasurer Andy Dillon, but Collette hasn't granted them.
Collete did order Orr and the others to disclose any documents, including emails, "from the defendants and Kevyn Orr to any of the defendants, any state official or employee or elected representative, Kevyn Orr, and representatives and/or employees from Jones Day Law Firm from November 2012 to the present pertaining to the interview and search process for the appointment of Kevyn Orr."
Copyright 2013 by ClickOnDetroit.com. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.


text:
Just Sayin: Top 10 Reasons Why We Don't Need Destiny's Child in 2013
That awkward moment when you fall asleep in 2013 and wake up in 2002 to breaking news about Destiny's Child performing at the Super Bowl. Yea, this is really happening along with a comeback album, but let's be real, most of their hoodrat logic-polluted music aged
like white women terribly. "Bootylicious" in 2013? Why?
Here are ten reasons why we don't need Destiny's Child in 2013. Take a look.
Wrath of Beyonce: Publicity Overload –
Now infamous GQ cover, Super Bowl performance, magical pregnancy to compete with KimYe, "Keep Blue Ivy relevant"-campaign, new album AND a Destiny's Child reunion in 2013? Naaaah, the streets don't need an "R&B Aunties tryna prove they still got it"-tour. Nope.
Fanbase Too Grown And Progressive To Relate To Destiny's Child "Classics" –
There was a time when women looked to Destiny's Child for inner-strength and guidance. In 2002, they were Goddesses (in the eyes of believers) who created warfare between sexes with audio pestilence like "Bills Bills Bills." And then their fanbase grew up.
LaTavia, LeToya And Farrah Have Suffered Enough –
At this point, we're sure their Bey Bey-inflicted wounds have healed. LeToya is a somewhat relevant solo artist/actress, LaTavia is manager of a thriving TJ Maxx store and Farrah squeezed the last of her "fame" to be on "Millionaire Matchmaker." Why do THIS to them now? It's just not right.
Reunion Gives Hope To Irrelevant R&B Groups –
If this DC comeback is successful, we'll have to suffer through a never-ending barrage of once popular group comebacks, reboots and Boyz II Men harmonizing over Mike Will beats. Some may disagree, but the world doesn't need a TLC x Trinidad James collab.
"Independent Women, Pt. I" –
There are too many popular real housewives, basketball wives and money-thirsty slores (targeting rappers who believe in hope as birth control) for this stale ladies anthem to make sense in 2013.
Nobody Cares About Michelle Williams –
Michelle's greatest Destiny's Child moment is tripping and crumbling to the ground (in slow motion) during a live 106 & Park performance. Why Bey Bey would risk Michelle tumbling across the stage and down the steps during Super Bowl halftime, NO ONE knows.
Continue Slideshow
"Bootylicious" –
Sing the following words out loud: "I don't think you're ready for this jelly/I don't think you're ready for this/'Cause my body's too bootylicious for ya babe." Feel dumb as hell, don't you?
It's Kelly Rowland's Time (Kinda) –
The world finally started caring about Kelendria's solo career until yesterday when she shrunk back into her chirppity-chirp background vocals in Bey Bey's shadow role. Life's not fair.
"Soldier" –
"If your status ain't hood, I ain't checkin' for him/Betta be street if he lookin' at me/I need a soldier that ain't scared to stand up for me." Why would anyone want to see grown a$$ women perform this?
Everyone Has Their Time, DC's Expired In 2004 –
"Destiny's Fulfilled" was the perfect title for their last album because everyone was ready for them to be over. Michelle slithering onto songs from the shadows was too stressful for most. At some point, artists have to stop trying to squeeze water out of rocks and move on.


text:
Patients & Visitors
Since 1918, we have been part of the Central Florida community, growing from a single community hospital into a family of healthcare facilities with more than 1,780 beds. Today, Orlando Health is a healthcare leader - providing expert care to nearly 2 million Central Florida and 4,500 international patients annually. As a community-owned organization, Orlando Health is dedicated to ensuring that patients, their loved ones and visitors are treated in a caring and compassionate manner.
Whether you are joining us for a hospital stay or visiting a friend or loved one, this section will provide you with the information needed to easily navigate the Orlando Health system. Information on parking and directions, billing questions, health plans and more is just a click away.
Please click here to review our Patient, Family and Patient Representative Information Sheet for important information.
View the left side navigation for the following information:
- 321.8HEALTH - Orlando Health's full medical resource hotline
- Email a Patient
- Health Resources
- Hospitality Homes
- Library Services
- Patient Portal
- Patient Resources
- Road Closures and Detours
- Spiritual Care
- Visitor Information


text:
SEATTLE – This was not for the faint of heart.
The latest chapter in the 49ers-Seahawks blood feud featured vicious tackling, multiple turnovers, 22 penalties, a blocked punt, a safety and a rainstorm that was severe even by Seattle's standards. Eric Reid hit Sidney Rice so hard in the second quarter that the rookie San Francisco safety knocked himself out.
Befitting a game in which points and completed passes were hard to come by – and representative of the style the two coaches prefer – it was the brutish running of Marshawn Lynch that turned the tide the Seahawks' way.
Lynch bulled his way to 98 rushing yards and three total touchdowns as Seattle smacked San Francisco, 29-3, in front of a soggy, boisterous, record crowd of 68,338 at CenturyLink Field.
"What an amazing night," said Seahawks coach Pete Carroll, who celebrated his 62nd birthday with his second consecutive victory over nemesis Jim Harbaugh.
"I've been coaching for a long time. UOP (University of the Pacific, Carroll's alma mater) didn't sound like that. It was so much fun to be in the stadium."
Combined with last December's 42-13 trouncing here, Seattle has outscored San Francisco, 71-16, in their past two meetings. The Seahawks (2-0) also have the early edge in the NFC West, increasing the likelihood of at least one home playoff game. Seattle has won nine in a row at home since losing to San Francisco (1-1) in Week 16 of 2011.
In what has become an increasingly regular occurrence in the NFL, the game was delayed for an hour late in the first quarter because of lightning. It was the second game Sunday to be halted because of weather (Saints-Buccaneers in Tampa) and the third this season (Ravens-Broncos in Denver).
San Francisco is no stranger to stoppages, having endured the 34-minute power outage at Super Bowl XLVII in New Orleans. But unlike that situation, which swung momentum in the 49ers' favor, Sunday's delay seemed to work against them.
On San Francisco's second series after play resumed, fullback Bruce Miller held onrushing Seattle linebacker Malcolm Smith (USC) in the end zone for a safety. Two possessions later, the Seahawks sacked and stripped Colin Kaepernick, leading to a field goal and a 5-0 halftime lead. The advantage swelled to 12 points early in the third quarter when Lynch charged into the end zone from 14 yards out. He also had the game's only receiving touchdown, early in the fourth.
How hard was it to pass against two of the NFL's best defenses in the first half? Rising-star quarterbacks Kaepernick and Russell Wilson combined to go 8 of 22 for 94 yards with two interceptions. Kapernick's first-half passer rating was 21.7. Wilson's was 7.5.
Kaepernick finished 13 of 28 for 127 yards with three interceptions. Wilson was 8 of 19 for 142 yards with one TD and one pick. It wasn't exactly what they had in mind when they filmed that Madden 25 commercial.
In the 49ers' season-opening victory over Green Bay, Kaepernick passed for a career-high 412 yards. More than half of them went to Anquan Boldin. But with Seahawks All-Pro cornerback Richard Sherman smothering him, Boldin couldn't get free and the offense bogged down.
A week after catching 13 passes for 208 yards, Boldin had just one reception for 7 yards in garbage time. His struggles accentuated the 49ers' need to develop a secondary option at wide receiver.
Wilson at least made enough plays to win, helping Carroll improve his record to 3-5 against Harbaugh.
The bad vibes between Carroll and Harbaugh date to their college days, laying the foundation for what has become the NFL's nastiest rivalry.
This week, the verbal battle front shifted to Twitter, where 49ers running back Anthony Dixon referred to the Seahawks as the "She-Hawks." Seahawks linebacker K.J. Wright responded by calling the 49ers "Forty Whiners." Dixon and Wright were teammates at Mississippi State. Both subsequently deleted their tweets.
Contact the writer: firstname.lastname@example.com


text:
Ghost Rider: Travels on the healing road by Neil Peart (drummer for 'Rush') a moving Novel that traces Niel's travels around The Americas on his hex head after the untimely death of both his wife and daughter.
Ghost Rider: Travels on the healing road by Neil Peart (drummer for 'Rush') a moving Novel that traces Niel's travels around The Americas on his hex head after the untimely death of both his wife and daughter.
Ken Dittrick
2008 R1200RT (Biarritz Blau)
Excuses are the rocks upon which our dreams are crushed - Tim Fargo
I'm in the middle of: Lucille & the XXX Road, by Jim Oliver. He & I graduated from Topeka H.S.,class of 61. While we have lived far apart most of our lives , we both have been riders for a long time. Our 50th reunion gave us a chance to talk a lot and he sent me a copy of his book about his trip across Russia on his 1150GS-Lucille. He & a buddy went un-assisted across all of Siberia(unlike the two movie guys they had no nannies) and the rest of Russia in 2004. While not the best bike travel book I've read, I appreciate Jim's candor about himself & it makes for a good short, but interesting read & a chance to dream about a bike trip of your own .
Its a portrait of the Pennsylvania Germans, their history, customs and meeting challenges being Amish or Mennonite.
If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance
Throw Them All Out by Peter Schweizer. Schweizer is a research fellow at Stanford U. and became interested in find out if an elected official's roles as members of committees which write laws put them into a position to benefit form this knowledge. The results were intresting.
From the review,
"This book is a manual on ways to give money legally to elected officials. The Pay-to-Play regime and the flow of insider information can be used by even the most novice traders using an online brokerage account. One big story is how Congressman Spensor Bachus used a private meeting with Fed Chair Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Paulson. Bachus was in the role of Ranking Member on the House Financial Services Committee. He used the dire information presented to him in this meeting to bet heavily that the market would go down, using leveraged trades. Bachus, working with Bernanke and Paulson from July 2008 to November 2008, scalped $50K out of the falling market. The book has lots of war stories like that."
The most freightening thing is that since these are the people who make the laws, all of this is completely legal.
by Sam Keith. The story of Dick Proenneke's cabin buiding adventure was taken from his journal notes, was also the basis for the documentary "Alone in the Wilderness," seen on PBS and available on DVD and video.
Bob Smith
2005 Rocket III
Just started a Neil Peart book Travelling Music, very good so far and I have read 3 other books by him so I'm sure it will be a top 10.
Ambassador BMW MOA Ontario Canada
President Niagara BMW Riders #298
Knights of the Roundel #333
1977 R100RS, (Retired) 1993 R100GS (just getting started)
"Buried Secrets" by Joseph Finder.
Studying to become a USGA golf rules official. Currently reading the Decisions On the Rules of Golf, 2012-2013. 599 pages of absolutely riveting dialog, designed for the insomniac. Highly recommended for the bedside.
Just finished the Hunger Games trilogy; I hope the movie isn't as gory. Before that, Auroa to Ariel - The Motorcycling Life of J. Graham Oates. - adventure touring in the good old days.
Maphead by Ken Jennings.
David Brick
Santa Cruz CA
Game of thrones
Moringa, your body & brain will thank you! PM for discounts Smart Mix at TasteMoringa.com
XM3 Energy, real energy for the body & brain, no sugar high, XM3.Energy
Non Fiction - The Power of Habit , why we do what we do in life and business by Charles Duhigg
Fcition - The Lost Years by Mary Higgins Clark
Pass the mustard and UP THE REVOLUTION!
Wishin' and Hopin' - Wally Lamb, and
When God Was a Rabbit - Sarah Winman


text:
The notice in the Fairfax Station Patch on Tuesday was brief, but to Laurie Jaghlit it felt like a punch in the gut.
At the next meeting of Republican Women of Clifton, a guest speaker would discuss "the treatment of women in Islamic society and how she believes the Hijab is a catalyst for Islamic terrorism."
The Feb. 20 meeting would take place at Fairview Elementary School, five miles from Jaghlit's house.
Jaghlit, a 52-year-old grandmother who raised nine children in Fairfax Station and Herndon, wears the hijab, or Islamic head covering. She had heard about talks like this in other parts of the country but had never confronted the issue so close to home.
"If that's not hateful and inciteful speech, I don't know what is," she said. "This is a diverse area. You'd think that hopefully we'd be beyond this. "
On Thursday, the Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations contacted Fairfax County Public Schools Superintendent Jack D. Dale and asked him to rescind approval for the group to use the school. In an e-mail that CAIR shared with The Washington Post, Dale denied the request, saying, "After school hours, anyone may rent the public facilty."
Republican Women of Clifton, a seven-year-old, 100-member club, meets monthly at the school. In a news release, it said the talk, by Stephanie Reis, founder of the Omaha chapter of ACT! for America, "will focus on the treatment of women in Islamic society and how the Hijab is a catalyst for Islamism because it leads to the mentality of passive terrorism and silent support for Sharia Law in Western societies."
RWC's president, Alice Butler-Short, identified sharia, or Islamic law, in the news release as one of "the forces working to destroy our liberty."
Susan Lider, the group's public relations chairperson, said that while the group often hosts political speakers, she does not recall this kind of controversy before.
"That's why I was so surprised, because we have speakers all the time on lots of topics," she said. Lider said Reis had recently moved to the area and joined the club.
Asked if the hijab or sharia were common concerns for club members, Lider said, "Let's put it this way, it's one of the things that people talk about." She said she had been reading up on the hijab, adding, "I don't know a lot about it other than that I wouldn't ever want to wear one."
Reis declined to comment.
The Omaha ACT! for America Web site quotes her as saying, "Although the Omaha area isn't overrun with militant Islamists, this area is not immune to radical Islamic intimidation. Our chapter seeks to educate local citizens about the war that has been declared on America by jihadists and equip our citizens with peaceful, constructive tools to bring about a positive change in local policy and public opinion."
The census does not identify people by religion, but according to census statistics, only a few hundred people born in predominantly Muslim countries live in Fairfax Station, and few to none live in Clifton.
Ibrahim Hooper, a spokesman for CAIR, said holding the meeting at a school would send the wrong message.
"It's one thing for hatemongers to rent a private facility and spew their bigotry, but it's another for a taxpayer-funded public school to offer it to speakers who will promote bigotry and intolerance," he said. "What does it say to the students who have to go to the school the next day, perhaps wearing hijab or being identified as Muslims, the day after someone has been at the school saying the hijab is a catalyst for terrorism?"
Lisa Clickener, president of Fairview Elementary School's PTA, said the upcoming meeting was not on the radar of the school community. "It hasn't been advertised to our parents," she said.
"When I look at the kids in our school, I think that everyone's really accepting of other cultures," she added.
A spokesman for Fairfax County Public Schools, whose Web site offers information in Arabic, Farsi and Urdu, said the district does not regulate the speech of groups that rent its facilities.
Nationwide, controversies over using school property for non-school-related events are common, said Charles Haynes, a senior scholar at the First Amendment Center. Districts try to avoid problems by adhering to the same standards for everyone, Haynes said.
"Once they allow community groups to come and use the school during non-school hours, they cannot then say to one of the groups, 'We're going to exclude you because we don't like your viewpoint,' " he said.
RWC President Butler-Short, who is listed as a Fairfax and Prince William chapter leader on Act! for America's Web site, declined to be interviewed but said in an e-mail that "those who disagree with the views of any of the speakers at our club are welcome to express those contrary views in the marketplace of ideas."
Jaghlit, who works part-time for CAIR, said that she and half a dozen other Muslim women who wear the hijab plan to attend the meeting to "have our non-terrorist voices heard."
"I'm sure just the presence of hejabi women in the audience will do enough to hopefully get them to realize that this is pure nonsense," she said, adding that some RWC members may turn out to be people she knows.
"Hey, we're your neighbors, for God's sake," she said. "Is that really what you think about your neighbor?"
Jennifer Jenkins contributed to this report.


text:
KMeleonWiki > Documentation > Tutorials > SearchEngineSelection
(Tutorial by Brian (bst82551))
In K-Meleon, it is easy to use a wide array of search engines. It is a simple process to add new search engines and to set the default search engine.
1. Go to (Tools > Web Search > Options > Add Engines...). Two windows should come up and K-Meleon should go to a page in the K-Meleon Wiki with a list of search engines that you can add.
2.If you see the one you're looking for (which you probably will), place the text where it tells you in the files it tells you to. Save your changes and close the files. Restart K-Meleon (if you use the loader, close it and K-Meleon).
3. You have now added a new search engine to your list of search engines.
4. Google is set as the default search engine. You can change this by going to (Tools > Web Search > Options > uncheck "Lock the Search Engine") then choosing the engine you want to be set as default in the list in (Tools > Web Search). Lock the search engine again by rechecking "Lock the Search Engine".
5. If you haven't noticed yet, K-Meleon has a feature called "Keyword Autosearch" which allows you to type a search query directly in the URL bar and search for it if it, so long as it does not have a ".com", ".net", etc. in it.
6. Turn it on by going to (Tools > Keyword Autosearch > Keyword Autosearch).
7. You can customize the Keyword Autosearch string by either selecting one of the ones already listed in (Tools > Keyword Autosearch) or by selecting one of the search engines in Search Engines.
8. On the Search Engines page, you will see lots of lines that you may or may not understand. You will not need to enter all of the information for a search engine, but rather just a small portion. You will see something like this:
Google{ &OldSearch?; $search = "Google"; $eng = "http://www.google.com/search?q="; &SetSearch?; }
9. You see the following line?:
$eng = "http://www.google.com/search?q=";
10. You will need to copy the part between the quotes. Go to (Tools > Keyword Autosearch > Custom...) and in the box, paste the part between the quotes.
11. Give it a try. Type something random like "random" or "cat with nine legs" or "ninety-four pickles" into the URL bar and you will see that after a few seconds of trying to resolve the search query as an address, it will skip along to your search engine and display the results for the search query of what you typed in the URL bar.
If you see the pattern in all of this, you could probably come up with your own URL's to use to do your own customized searches.


text:
The New Pix Magazine is Live!
December 20, 2011
A new digital magazine for all photographers from the pros to the advanced amateurs looking for product guides, tips, resources and more.
The first issue is available now, just in time for the holiday season.
This site is the behind-the-scenes look at the development of this new publication, and we'll rely heavily on reader feedback here and through social media to help shape the magazine. With feedback, contests, photo walks, hangouts and more we'll bring the photographic content you want to PIX.
Click here to view the site
Click here to see a digital version of the new issue.


text:
I just received this error :
"There seems to have been a slight problem with the C Board database.
Please try again by pressing the refresh button in your browser.
An E-Mail has been dispatched to our Technical Staff, who you can also contact if the problem persists.
We apologise for any inconvenience."


text:
Discussion in 'Future of Trek' started by King Daniel Beyond, Mar 6, 2013.
Agreed. Loved the pencil-sketch quality to his art.
I've seen all of the first one, and it's typical of fans who grew up on TNG attempting to do TOS, and delivering TOS-disguised TNG. The only way it hearkens back to The 60's is in the shape of the Aurora's nacelles. It's main characters, however, evoke the 80's (TMNT cartoon) and aughts (ENT). You want to compare them to Harry Mudd? Then they should at least be as orginal and intriguing as Mudd was when he first appeared.
Anyone who thinks that is no one whose taste or opinion I would respect.
You don't have to respect them (I sure as frack don't) but you do have to acknowledge and tolerate them, just as I have to. That said, although I don't agree with them about the 2009 movie, I do share their love (if they know about it) of Star Trek: Aurora, and hope that its style becomes the style of a future Star Trek show, rather than just slavishly imitating Star Wars: The Clone Wars or Green Lantern: The Animated Series.
BTW, there are realistic style CGI cartoons with the art of Star Trek: Aurora that have aired already, and were somewhat successful:
After looking at all of that, can you all then tell me that a Star Trek cartoon animated like that wouldn't be successful?
Most of those examples are dreadful. The final one at least doesn't look like cheap department store mannequins. Other than that, there's a ton of 3D porn on the Internet made by amateurs using Poser that's better on a technical level.
CBS/Paramount can easily go on without "success" on the scale that these examples represent, although it's easy to imagine them hankering after the Clone Wars audience instead.
Let me spell it out: if a studio is going to do 3D animation they ought to do it well. The examples you keep throwing out as "gotchas!" are poor examples of 3D animation and utterly fail to make your point.
Yeah. You don't diss the work that comes from the writers of the first two Transformers movies (I'm directly below the enemy scrotum!) and the guy who rewrote Prometheus (I'm a scientist and all my conclusions are based on blind faith). As a writer you've got to have major thinking power to retell Top Gun in a Star Trek story, and pretty much retell the same story again in it's sequel.
I say we take a step back and cut Shaka Zulu a little slack. Ultimately it is the story which counts, a great new Trek could be made on a flip-book or with macaroni-art and still be moving and exciting.
Lol, I see what you did there
Other people's success makes you this bitter? Guess you better get comfortable with that.
No. If they don't draw an audience sufficient to justify their investment then it's another failure and another reason never to try again. All elements of the production matter, and the story will not overcome serious deficiencies of execution.
Legion, we are talking about two different things. You are speaking of the commercial viability, while I am addressing the success of story as told through various art forms.
Many art forms that you would not perceive as commercially viable have received awards and are hung in museums, praised throughout the world, perhaps not here on the esteemed TrekBBS by critics such as yourself.
If one wanted to tell a Star Trek story, it really doesn't matter what it looks like, or if you like the computer animation used to tell it.
I understand that Shaka is simply a proponent for a more photo-realistic Trek Animated series, and that you are not. That's pretty much it.
I would if that was actually what he was saying. All he keeps saying is "photo-real cgi, that will make Trek a success." And then provide countless examples of drastically less than photo-real cgi.
The movies were a success, but their writing sure wasn't. And I'd hardly call the last Star Trek movie a success if the director declares it to be unimportant.
Yeah, but, commercial success is the point. CBS will not buy it or produce it if they don't have reasonable assurance of some financial success. It doesn't matter how successfully the medium tells the story if nobody is willing to sponsor it. With money.
You're going to tell me that Reboot-which was on for FOUR seasons-sucked? That Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles was crap? The first ones mentioned by me were quite successful and have a big fan base to boot, as does Iron Man: Armoured Adventures. I can't believe that you think that the Pixar style or the Clone Wars style would be better for Star Trek over these (although I'm warming up somewhat to the style of animation used in Rise Of The Guardians for a Star Trek show based on how well Jack Frost was drawn.)
Those last two seasons did...
All the adaptations of Troopers are crap because they're all made by people who didn't friggin read the book.
It's easy to believe, because in every case Pixar and Clone wars characters are capable of doing one thing the others Can't: Show genuine emotion.
What's wrong with multiple interpretations of the source material? Batman has survived multiple interpretations. Heck, Star Trek seems to be doing fine by a director who doesn't even give a crap about the franchise.
Star Trek is commercial entertainment. It's pointless to discuss the future of the Franchise if you pretend that the studio would for one moment consider a project that isn't developed primarily as a means of generating revenue. They've never, ever done that before.
I mean, while we're at it I may as well propose that in three years CBS ought to make Trek available as a holographic choose-your-own-adventure program written by Ernest Hemingway, who they'll retrieve using a time machine that they should fund and develop.
Or, instead, we can talk about future Star Trek projects that might actually have a chance of happening.
Neither of which choices, however, have much to do with Shaka Zulu's proposals. Based on the examples he points to he's not really interested in photo realism so much as in seeing animated examples of 3D puppets that happen to be proportioned like human beings - because none of the examples he points to are good examples of photo realism; most of them are either low-budget or outdated crap that most people with any discrimination won't sit through.
Um..wrong...name me the only ST movie to get a Writer's Guild Award nom....yup ST09.
Also a Nebula nom...scifi pros.
I actually agree with you..but the examples on TV so far have not been great. Some of those are way out of date. Some better examples are shows that use computers to model traditional animation with environments and motion with a realistic fashion without having to be actually real. A good example currently showing in theaters and bluray in Japan is Yamato:2199, possibly the best animated space scenes and battles ever. Ghost in the Shell has used this in the past and of course some other animated shows use it to some degree. Another good space show is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroic_Age_%28anime%29. Much of the hardware is CGI.
Tron:Uprising had the best animation I've ever seen on US TV, stylized though it was.
If they did some animated TV or bluray movies, the style used in the last Starship Troopers movie, or Vexhille, TO:Elliptical Orbit, Planzet, Negadon works because a bigger budget lends itself to full CGI.
Because it doesn't look good?
Separate names with a comma.


text:
A fun custom magnet in the shape of a star, that will be seen over & over again.
Inexpensive yet practical, the soft personalized key tag is a star.
Bolster those young, creative minds while promoting your public school with promotional products from ePromos. Promotional coloring books are a fun way for kids to learn valuable lessons and let others know that your school promotes life lessons to keep kids safe. Custom imprinted magnets are large enough to display names and contacts, perfect for parents in case of emergencies.


text:
Get Caught in a Spiderweb Cookie
I love how Halloween has really become a celebrated holiday of its own. There are a ton of festive ways to decorate your house, lots of pumpkins to carve and best of all, treats to make! If you're looking for a simple cookie for your Halloween party, pot luck or office, then look no further. These simple spiderweb cookies are wonderfully tasty and cute too! To get the how-to,
For an extra bit of fun, use a spiderweb cookie cutter instead of a plain circle.
Spiderweb Cookies
From Gourmet Magazine, November 2007
2 batches decorating icing (recipe follows)
1 batch sugar cookies, cut out using 3 1/3-inch round or octagonal cookie cutter, baked according to directions in recipe, and cooled completely (recipe follows)
Black food coloring, preferably liquid
Special equipment: 3 pastry bags fitted with couplers, 2 #3-size (medium, round) decorating tips, 1 #1-size (small, round) decorating tip, small offset spatula, toothpicks
- Make thin icing: In large bowl, stir together 1 batch icing and 2 tablespoons water. Fit 1 pastry bag with #3-size tip and fill with thin icing.
- Color thicker icing: Divide second batch icing between 2 medium bowls. To icing in 1 bowl, gradually mix in black food coloring until icing is black. Fit second pastry bag with second #3-size tip and fill with black icing.
- Fit third pastry bag with #1-size tip and fill with remaining (thicker) white icing.
- Pipe border: Using pastry bag with #1 tip and thicker white icing, pipe around outer edge of 1 cookie. Repeat with remaining cookies and let set 2 minutes.
- "Flood" to fill center: Using pastry bag with #3 tip and thinner white icing, squirt pool of icing into center of 1 cookie, then spread to edge with small offset spatula. Repeat with second cookie, giving first time to set.
- Pipe circles: Returning to first cookie, using pastry bag with black icing, pipe concentric circles over white icing, beginning in center and ending almost at edge. Repeat with second cookie, giving first time to set.
- Form spiderweb pattern: Returning to first cookie, position tip of toothpick in center and drag through icing out to edge. Wipe tip and repeat 7 more times to make 8 evenly spaced, radiating lines like spokes of wheel.
- Next, position tip at edge, halfway between 2 lines, and drag inward to center to create another line. Wipe tip and repeat 7 more times to make 8 more lines between first 8.
- Repeat process with second iced cookie. Repeat with remaining cookies, working in batches of 2 to allow icing to partially set, but not harden, between steps. Let cookies dry, uncovered, at room temperature 10 hours or overnight. (Once dry, cookies will keep, layered between sheets of wax paper or parchment, in airtight container at room temperature 1 week.)
Decorating Icing
From Gourmet Magazine, December 2005
1 (1-lb) box confectioners sugar
4 teaspoons powdered egg whites (not reconstituted) such as Just Whites
1/3 cup water
1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
1 teaspoon vanilla
- Beat together all ingredients in a large bowl with an electric mixer at medium speed until just combined, about 1 minute.
- Increase speed to high and continue to beat until icing holds stiff peaks, about 3 minutes in a stand mixer or 10 minutes with a handheld. If not using icing immediately, cover surface with a dampened paper towel, then cover bowl with plastic wrap.
Note: Icing can be made 1 day ahead and chilled, its surface covered with dampened paper towel and bowl covered with plastic wrap.
Sugar Cookies
From Gourmet Magazine, December 2005
2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 sticks (3/4 cup) unsalted butter, softened
3/4 cup sugar
1 large egg
1 teaspoon vanilla
- Whisk together flour and salt in a small bowl.
- Beat together butter and sugar in a large bowl with an electric mixer at medium-high until pale and fluffy, about 3 minutes in a stand mixer or 6 minutes with a handheld. Beat in egg and vanilla. Reduce speed to low and add flour mixture, mixing until just combined.
- Form dough into 2 balls and flatten each into a 6-inch disk. Chill disks, wrapped in plastic wrap, until firm, at least 1 hour.
- Put oven rack in middle position and preheat oven to 350°F.
- Roll out 1 disk of dough (keep remaining dough chilled) into an 8 1/2-inch round (1/4 inch thick) on a well-floured surface with a well-floured rolling pin. (If dough becomes too soft to roll out, rewrap in plastic and chill until firm.) Cut out as many cookies as possible from dough with cutters and transfer to 2 ungreased large baking sheets, arranging cookies about 1 inch apart.
- Bake cookies, 1 sheet at a time, until edges are golden, 10 to 12 minutes, then transfer to racks to cool completely.
- Meanwhile, gather scraps and chill until dough is firm enough to reroll, 10 to 15 minutes. Make more cookies with remaining dough and scraps (reroll scraps only once) and bake on cooled baking sheets.


text:
Piper Matrix: A Surprise Top Seller
Along with the solar constant, Hubble's constant and Planck's constant, there's one more universal truth: All aviation journalists are idiots. Or, at the very least, they're smug and self-satisfied malcontents. I'm bringing this up now because about a year ago, when Piper announced its new Matrix six-place cabin class airplane, a few of us sat around the table at AOPA in Hartford and opined how this thing was going to be a huge loser.
Who wants a gutted out Mirage? And after all, didn't Cessna stub its toe on the 335, a downscale, non-pressurized version of the 340? Yes, it did, but that was then�1980--this is now. What Piper realized and we didn't is that the six-place Saratoga series was losing its appeal and there was an entire class of step-up buyers from four-place Cirrus and Columbia models who wanted two more seats but not necessarily pressurization. So Piper trimmed a bunch of weight out of the Mirage and lowered the price by a third and�presto�a new model is born and it's selling well.
It's too soon to say how long the legs on the Matrix sales numbers will stretch, but Piper has a good start, according to Rick Durden, who did a report on this new airplane for Aviation Consumer. You can read a courtesy copy of it here.
Bottom line, after adding everything up, we like the airplane. Losing pressurization saves on weight and complexity and the performance is similar to the Mirage. Although we predicted owners wouldn't want to venture into the mid-teens sucking on a nose hose, it turns out they don't seem to mind it at all.
Aircraft companies, at least recently, haven't proven especially adept at mining niche markets. Or even mainstream markets for that matter, given the failure rate of start-up aircraft ventures. What Piper seems to have done is recognized a niche and realized it could fill it without the kind of over-the-top investment that kills so many aircraft projects. It's nice, for a change, to see the spreadsheet numbers actually come true.
Related Content:
Durden's Aviation Consumer Report


text:
If Park returns, NLCS roster in question
'Pen logjam could be created if rehabbing reliever is ready
By Todd Zolecki / MLB.com
Most of the team flew Monday night from Denver to Philadelphia after they clinched the National League Division Series with a dramatic 5-4 victory over the Rockies at Coors Field. Many players remained in Denver to fly to Los Angeles on their own Tuesday. But the rest of the team is scheduled to fly to Los Angeles from Philadelphia on Tuesday night for a workout on Wednesday at Dodger Stadium.
The Phillies have not announced their Game 1 starter, but it will likely be left-hander Cole Hamels. He is well rested, and has had tremendous success against the Dodgers. He threw a shutout against them at Dodger Stadium on June 4, went 2-0 with a 1.93 ERA in two starts against them in last year's NLCS to earn series Most Valuable Player honors and is 2-0 with a 1.50 ERA in four career regular-season starts against them.
That decision should be easy.
There should more difficult decisions ahead.
Phillies right-hander Chan Ho Park, who is recovering from a strained right hamstring, threw a bullpen session on Monday in Clearwater, Fla. General manager Ruben Amaro Jr. said Tuesday that Park will be traveling with the team to Los Angeles, which means he definitely is in the running for a roster spot.
But to add Park, the Phillies would have to remove someone else.
The bullpen currently includes Brad Lidge, Ryan Madson, Joe Blanton, J.A. Happ, Pedro Martinez, Scott Eyre, Chad Durbin, Brett Myers, Antonio Bastardo and Kyle Kendrick. Blanton, Happ and Martinez are listed as relief pitchers only because Manuel used both Blanton and Happ as relievers in the NLDS and said Martinez also was available in the bullpen.
"I think if we were to advance, we're definitely going to sit and talk about our roster," Manuel said before Game 4 of the NLDS. "If there are things that we feel like we need to change, of course we will. The whole thing about it is we want to get the best 25 guys we possibly can have to help us win. If there's a chance we can change our roster and better our club or something ... then that's what we'll do."
The Phillies also must decide on a Game 2 starter. Left-hander Cliff Lee would be pitching on short rest if he pitched in Game 2, which means the Phillies could lean toward Happ, Blanton or Martinez.
Todd Zolecki is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


text:
Karina Atkinson started Para La Tierra as an environmental organization in Paraguay. Now she has won the 2012 Young Laureates of the Rolex Award for Enterprise. Para La Tierra would be an awesome place for a Kansan to engage in a service learning study abroad volunteer assignment and apply for the Kansas Paraguay Study Abroad Scholarship. Here is the link to the organizations website.
Filed under: Natural Resources, News from Paraguay, Scholarship, Travel Information, University Linkage |


text:
It would be unwise to write off these Red Sox
While it hasn't clicked for Boston like it did in 2013, club could still make run
By Richard Justice / MLB.com
OAKLAND -- If you catch the Boston Red Sox on a day like this one, you might wonder what all the fuss is about.
This one was just like old times. Offensive contributions up and down the lineup. Solid work by left-hander Jon Lester. Throw in some aggressive baserunning and a nice day on defense.
You remember these Red Sox, don't you? In a nightmare of a 2014 season, the Red Sox had themselves a better day at the office on Sunday afternoon.
Maybe it's a day they'll look back at and see it as the one that sparked the run we're expecting. There's still a core of players who've long set a standard for professionalism, for competing and ultimately for winning.
And so, it's easy to read too much into a 7-6, 10-inning victory over the A's on Sunday afternoon. It was a game that showed off the Olde Towne Team at both their best and their worst.
In the end, though, it was a win. Not a pretty win. Not a perfect win. After three straight losses to the A's, it was win.
At 35-41, the Red Sox are remarkably only 6 1/2 games out first in the American League East and five out in the AL Wild Card race.
It's doable, right?
"You've got to continue to play for the out, play for the inning, play for the at-bat," said outfielder Jonny Gomes, who had three of his team's 13 hits. "Things will take care of itself."
Even though a 6-1 lead evaporated in the eighth and ninth innings, even though closer Koji Uehara allowed a pair of home runs, it was at least a day when Boston could leave the ballpark satisfied with the bottom line.
In the end, the Red Sox can thank David Ortiz for again saving their bacon. He led off the top of the 10th inning with the home run that turned a potentially terrible day into a satisfactory one.
"When the last out is made all year, we can truly look ourselves in the mirror and know the hustle and mental focus and all that stuff is there," Gomes said. "We haven't had one guy benched for lack of hustle. We don't have guys making mental mistakes between the lines. We're getting outscored by one. We just have to keep fighting."
Boston had lost the first three games of this series by the combined score of 10-6 and has played nine straight games decided by one or two runs. The defending champs are 4-5 in those games, but with a deep, talented pitching staff, they still might have a run left in them.
The Red Sox knew this season would be different. That is, they understood that everything clicked last season.
Boston led the Majors in runs, 853 in all -- 5.3 per game -- during 2013. The club knew this season would be different, perhaps frustrating.
In counting on rookie center fielder Jackie Bradley Jr. taking over for Jacoby Ellsbury and rookie shortstop Xander Bogaerts stepping in for Stephen Drew, there was an unknown quantity.
What the Red Sox didn't expect was that players up and down the lineup would have a drop in production and that the offense would go silent so many games. They've dropped from first to 23rd in runs, from 5.3 per game to 3.8.
In scoring seven runs on Sunday, Boston got one more than the previous three games combined. Ortiz offered a salute to Oakland's pitching staff, the best in the Majors.
"All the guys they run out there have an ERA of 2.00," he said.
Or so it seems.
Anyway, in a year when at least 25 of 30 teams still have a legitimate shot at the postseason, the Red Sox intend to keep grinding.
Drew is back at shortstop after being re-signed, and the pitching staff might be the deepest in baseball.
So keep on keeping on.
"We've been on the cusp many, many days, and it hasn't always worked out," manager John Farrell said. "We have complete and full trust in the guys that are in our clubhouse. And yet, there's been mounting frustration. Today was a good day to bunch some hits together. That's the biggest thing."
Besides the three by Gomes, Mike Napoli and David Ross had two apiece. Napoli had himself a day to remember by being credited with a steal of home in the third inning and hitting a home run in the fifth. No Red Sox player had done that in 47 years (Rico Petrocelli).
But it's a different kind of year. Even with Drew back, Farrell had three rookies in his starting lineup -- right fielder Brock Holt, third baseman Bogaerts and center fielder Bradley Jr.
Given the inconsistencies, Farrell has had an endless search for a combination that works. He has started six players at first, seven in right field and five apiece at third and in left.
Farrell has used five leadoff hitters, five No. 3 hitters and five cleanup hitters. Dustin Pedroia has hit first, second and third. Daniel Nava has batted in seven of the nine spots, Gomes in five.
So far, it hasn't come close to clicking the way it did last season. But there are just too many players who've accomplished too much and still seem capable of playing at a championship level to write off these Red Sox.
"It's just something that hopefully can get started," Ortiz said. "We haven't been able to produce consistently. We've had a good game, had a good series, then we go back to struggles. Hopefully, everything changes at some point."
Richard Justice is a columnist for MLB.com. Read his blog, Justice4U. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


text:
Bristlecone Pines along the South Loop trail
|[ Sizes: Orig | Small | Thumb ]
Before the sunset on the South Loop trail.
Spring Mountains, Nevada. November 2007.
Bristlecone Pines only live in scattered, arid mountain regions of six western states of America. They grow at and just below the tree line.
[ Post a Comment ]
Rate This Image
Current Score: 93.1%
Log In To Vote
[ View 41 Votes | Post Comment ]
South Loop Trail (Route)
Anya Jingle's Image Gallery
Charleston Peak (Mountain/Rock)
Beautiful Trees (Album)
Flora of Mount Charleston (Album)
Bristlecone Pines (Album)
Dead Trees (Album)
MOUNTAIN TREES AND THE SKY (Album)
Image Data
Image ID: 357357
Hits: 6436
Lat/Lon: 36.27000°N / 115.69°W
Object Title: Bristlecone Pines along the South Loop trail
Image Type(s): Flora


text:
To all posters, new, old, and especially all of you guests that lurk about.
The site's moderators have been discussing how the Knicks' improvement will be the harness for the site's improvement. As the Knicks have now put together their most experienced and rounded squad since the late 90s, the excitement and anticipation generated by this will hopefully propel KO.com in to its zenith year, after nearly 10 years of operation.
As many of you are aware, Bleacher Report recently referred to the site as The Official Knicks Forum.
[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]
Huge exposure for KO. With the momentum on our side, it's only human/clever to be opportunistic in times like these.
☆ The purpose of this thread is to encourage all who use the site to bring in some new faces. Whether it be scouting, recruiting or whatever,
I, on occasion, check out PSD's Knicks board to bring in any new articles they have that we don't, to keep us up to date. I also take the opportunity to talk smack to some of the tools on there too.
After scouting their posters, I've already invited one individual, named DLeethal (as in David Lee), who is a good poster. I'm just about to send him the link for the site per his request, and think it can only be a good idea for us to usher him in nicely, and see if he'll bring along some fellow mutineers.
Get in to it, gents.
We have the credentials here on KO to bring it even more so to the forefront of online Knick fandom. Far less strict and far more fun. And, Rady has something up his sleeve for all of you, that will remain a secret until that time.
This thread isn't a plea for more contributors, it's us doing these potential contributors a favour, by showing them how good being a Knicks fan can be, and how we as a whole can elevate any individual's fandom.
If you know anyone, can entice anyone, whatever.
Do it for their sake, and in turn, do it for knicksonline.com.
There's now also talk of a fortnightly blog written by a KO member. If it gains enough popularity, it can be changed to a weekly blog.
Please tell us your thoughts on the idea.


text:
Veteran newspaperman Larry Peterson of Tybee Island characterizes his recently released mystery novel, "Last Days of the Coastal Empire," as an effort "to spin a good yarn people will enjoy."
Writing the 318-page, soft-cover book also gave him the opportunity to express some thoughts about the current state of the newspaper industry and about politics, said 69-year-old Larry, who's served as the political writer for the Savannah Morning News since 2004 and has worked in journalism for four decades.
"And," he said, while answering my question about his motivation for creating the book, "I had fun just making stuff up."
"Last Days" — his second novel — tells the story of political reporter Mike Taylor, who takes a job with a newspaper in Savannah and becomes entangled in investigating a gruesome murder and an ensuing cover-up involving a congressman.
"Taylor and his colleagues play hide-and-seek with thugs hired to stop them," states promotional material concerning the book. "Tension mounts — and so does the body count — as they scramble for the truth."
The novel — featuring a cover by longtime Morning News photographer Steve Bisson — debuted in August, sells for $15.95 and is available locally at E. Shaver, Bookseller and The Book Lady in downtown Savannah; and at Gallery by the Sea and the T.S. Chu department store on Tybee. It can be ordered online at lastdaysofthecoastalempire.com.
Much of the book is set on Tybee, where protagonist Mike Taylor resides in his family home. "Bits and pieces" of the story, said Larry, take place in the North Beach area and at the island's restaurants and bars.
When asked whether he patterned any of his characters after Tybee residents, especially the more eccentric ones, Larry answered in the negative.
"I didn't want to get sued," he said with a chuckle.
Larry moved to Savannah from Southern California in 1992 after a 19-year stint at the Orange County Register, and he and his wife, Lanie, have owned a house in Tybee's Fort Screven neighborhood since 1993.
Peterson — a California native who holds a degree in political science from California State University, Long Beach — was the metro editor at the Morning News from 1992 to 1995. He left here for five years and worked as an editor at daily newspapers in Oshkosh, Wis., and Olympia and Vancouver in Washington state, then returned to the Morning News in January 2001.
Larry's been writing stories and columns about the local and statewide political scene for the past eight years, and he held a similar job for much of his time at the Orange County Register, where the luminaries he covered included California governors Jerry Brown and Pete Wilson and U.S. senators Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein.
Over the years, Larry said, when I asked him about notable politicians with whom he's dealt, he's had "minor interaction with every president since Nixon, mostly as candidates."
He told me he's been drawn to covering politics by the "run-and-gun adrenaline rush" such work provides and because he "likes contrasting what people have said in the past with what they've done."
"It's a public service," Larry said, "because we owe readers that comparison."
Rich Wittish can be reached via email at email@example.com.


text:
Hello All,
Our local park seems to have a number of interesting non-native tree species planted I believe in the 1930s. I am starting to identify as many as I can, but am stumped(!) by this one. I dub it a "Cotton Tree" as it's seed pods are currently opening up and letting cotton-like coated seeds loose into the wind.
Any thoughts on this and also where I could find some resources and keys to help with identifying non-native species?
Thanks in advance.
This is probably black cottonwood, Populus trichocarpa.
You might check the leaves to confirm it is not P. deltoides, by reference to this photo
P. deltoides is a N. American species, but it had been hybridized with P. trichocarpa, and those hybrids can be found in parks and gardens. So there's a chance your tree may be one of those hybrids. - hence my qualifying my ID above with 'probably'.
This illustration shows the leaves and the 'cotton'
- https://www.arborday.org/trees/whattree/WhatTree.cfm?ItemID=w68E
It also gives a route into some ID keys for N. America (the 'Online Edition' panel on the left).
The NHM has a tree ID key online as part of its urban tree survey (which obviously includes non-native trees)
There will always be particular unusual trees that don't 'key-out', whatever online key you use. There are three main reasons for that:
- it is a hybrid (characters intermediate between its parents)
- it is a cultivar (perhaps a hybrid, but could also have arisen as a 'branch sport' or chance seedling)
- it is a species, but an unusual one
In such cases, be prepared to research using other resources - elsewhere on the internet and in books. The online keys should, hopefully, get you as far as family, if not genus.
Some parks have recorded history, which may include planting plans, including dates and species. You may have to ask in local council offices or town/county library to find documentation.
And you can always come back here and tell us 'I'm stumped...'.
Much of my interest in trees began when I was at Uni. I would walk our lovely German shepherd, Etzel, in Sefton Park, near where I lived in Liverpool. After doing the same routes enough times, I inadvertently began paying more attention to the trees, and was suprised to find how many I could not actually name. Trees in other parks took my interest similarly. Some of the trees turned out to be common species (from various parts of the world) that I simply had not come across before, such as Acer griseum and Morus nigra. Others were, and still are, more unusual, such as Acer monspessulanum. In those days, there was no internet to help with indentification; I bought and used books, many of which I still use today.
I hope your interest with trees flourishes, as did mine.
Thanks, Mike,
Looks to be a hybrid, as a leaf sample I have sits somewhere between P. deltoides and P. trichocarpa.
Today most of the fluff from these has come down and settled. The park looks like it has had a few mms of snow in the blazing July heat, quite surreal. This tree realy makes itself known.
Thanks again for the help. I will yell if I get stuck on another.
Jolly good Stephen.
A similar surreal experience I had was one day when there was just enough (but not too much) breeze to lift the down from the fields full of thistles near where I lived on the Surrey-Hampshire border. I looked out of my window and saw the air filled with these fluffy white 'snowflakes', just gently drifting by. The 'snow' and the uniformity of its motion was bizarre. It was almost as if they were just floating in-place and I was in a railway carriage (say) slowly passing them.


text:
Nearly four months passed since Konami released the Silent Hill HD Collection for PS3 and Xbox 360 and frustrated gamers with dozens of glitches and gameplay problems.
Now Konami has finally introduced a complete patch for the PS3 version, the worse of the two.
Producer Tomm Hulett wrote on the Silent Hill Community forums, saying that a new patch was available on PSN.
The new patch improves the framerate and voice synch, fixes missing sound and music, resolves the fog density issues, and attends other visual/audio problems.
Konami previously admitted that the Collection was ported from an unfinished code.
"We got all the source code that Konami had on file — which it turns out wasn't the final release version of the games!" he told 1UP.
"During debug we didn't just have to deal with the expected 'porting' bugs, but also had to squash some bugs that the original team obviously removed prior to release, but we'd never seen before.
"I think at one point Heather was blue," he said.
Hulett did not announce a patch for the Xbox 360 version.
Follow @wita on Twitter for tales of superheroes, plumbers in overalls, and literary adventures.


text: "I resented my parents deeply for throwing us so unthinkingly into this cultural and political morass. In the years that followed, we were forced to feel our way forward uncertainly, trying to make sense of these contradictions and resolving them in our own different ways." These words, written by Ghada Karmi, a Palestinian who struggles to assimilate into English society, tell us a great deal about why culture matters. Increasingly, culture counts in new and different ways. Cross cultural communication is a course designed to familiarize students with the cultural-ethnic factors that influence the process of human communication. A major goal of the course is to demonstrate how culture is a response to and a reflection of certain dynamics of communication (e.g., ethnicity, roots, values, language, attitudes, globalization, nonverbal elements, gender and social perception). Specific Course Objectives: 1. To provide the student with background theory and research out of which intercultural understandings grow. 2. To encourage in the student appreciation of similarities and differences among cultures. 3. To help the student develop communication skills, assisting him/ her in becoming interculturally competent. Texts: The following books provide the basic reading for the course. Calloway-Thomas, C., Cooper, P.J. & Blake, C. Intercultural Communication: Roots and Routes. Needham Heights, MA: Allyn & Bacon (1999). Fadiman, A. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors and the Collision of Two Cultures. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (1997). Samavor, L. A. & Porter, R. E. Intercultural Communication: A Reader. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Company (2003).


text:
|Track Name
|iTunes Link
|Winding Down (feat. Taj Mahal)
|Not Going Down (feat. Bill Church and Denny Carmassi)
|Personal Jesus (feat. Neal Schon, Michael Anthony and Chad Smith)
|Father Sun (feat. Denny Carmassi and Aaron Hagar)
|Knockdown Dragout (feat. Kid Rock, Joe Satriani and Denny Carmassi)
|Ramblin' Gamblin' Man (feat. David Lauser, Mona Gnader and Vic Johnson)
|Bad On Fords and Chevrolets (feat. Ronnie Dunn)
|Margaritaville (feat. Toby Keith)
|All We Need Is an Island (feat. Nancy Wilson and Mickey Hart)
|Going Down (feat. Neal Schon, Michael Anthony and Chad Smith)
|Space Station #5 (feat. Denny Carmassi Bill Church and Joe Satriani)
Sammy Hagar's recording legacy from the early days of Montrose through his solo career through the Van Halen years have collectively sold in the tens of millions worldwide. The respect of his peers illustrates his ability to draw artists of the highest caliber to collaborate with him, many of whom are featured on this album. This is a career-defining record for Sammy, where he masterfully assembled a diverse selection of songs that delve into rock, country, blues and pop. Featured Guest Appearances: Kid Rock, Neal Schon (Santana, Journey, HSAS), Joe Satriani, Chad Smith, Michael Anthony (ex-Van Halen, Chickenfoot), Taj Mahal, Ronnie Dunn (Brooks & Dunn), Toby Keith, Nancy Wilson (Heart), Bill Church & Denny Carmassi (Montrose), The Wabos and more on a epic collection of 10 new songs! Be sure to visit www.sammyandfriends.com for music videos, behind-the-scenes footage, special merch offers and more!
Learn more about Sammy's new album and his thoughts on performing in Nationals Park here.


text:
- What is best to transport data and power through this interface: conductive fabric, conductive thread or even a really thin wire? - It is important that it could be folded, twisted and very resistant through time.Conductive thread is a good option, though it has a tendency to fray. I would do some tests playing rough with it. Here is a 6-ply that might hold up well: http://www.sparkfun.com/products/10119There are lots of different kinds of conductive fabric, including soft, silky, and stretchy ones. You could very easily incorporate into your design decorative paths of conductive material that join (via conductive thread) with the accelerometer in the centre. Check out the range of materials here: http://lessemf.com/fabric.html- Any ideas of how should I protect the components from damage by rough hand manipulation?In a soft, malleable piece like this, people are going to want to test its limits and play rough with it. Your best bet is to make prototypes and have people do exactly that. Work it hard and see how it holds up. The conductive fabric wouldnt be an issue, I dont think, you are more likely to see issues with the conductive thread, at the point where it meets the accelerometer (because it's stiff), and the battery (for the same reason). You would want to protect the circuit from short-circuits, too.- Will the raw data of the whole schematic (5 accelerometers to lilypad to bluetooth) be fast enough generated? - a frequency of 10 "readings" per second should be enough for what I intend to do with them. *With acclerometers you'll want to do some averaging in order to have smooth data rolling in. write the incoming raw data into an array, and pull every 8th, 10, or 50th number (depending how smooth you want it). That number will be your reading, for you to do whatever you like with it. Are you set on Bluetooth? I've seen quite a few projects done with Bluetooth and there tends to be interference and general instability, imo. I'm a fan of Xbees myself. They are super reliable, and there is a sewable breakout board for the Lilypad Arduino: Lilypad Xbee Breakout: http://www.sparkfun.com/products/8937Xbee Radio: http://www.sparkfun.com/products/8664As for battery, I would recommend using a rechargable Lithium-Polymer battery. They're cheap, relatively small and flat (so great for soft circuits), and reliable. http://www.sparkfun.com/products/9876
Given that you are so far away from Sparkfun, this makes sense