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#RSL Tweets of the Day (@RealSaltLake)
Love that @SteveNash is gonna wear #10 for the @Lakers . #futbolheart
Kwame Watson-Siriboe @Kwamekazi
Just had Chipotle for lunch and it was so good. Utah's amenities are starting to remind me of southern cali a small bit.
Went to buy @RealSaltLake tickets @ San Jose for this weekend and the entire #rsl section was sold out. #theprideisrepresenting
I've been spoiled with two straight weeks of Wednesday #RSL matches. Now what am I supposed to do tomorrow evening?
Christopher Alder @Chriscarguy
@jonnysteele22 Steele your such a stud, only pro athletes who makes me want to be you on and off the field. Way to live it up! #RSL #Realfan
Matt Montgomery @TheCrossbarRSL
No player to this point in the season has had as many successful passes (1,039) as @KyleBeckerman. He also leads in attempted (1,194.) #rsl
RSL News Stand "A/V Club"
(AUDIO) ESPN700Sports: RSL Head Coach Jason Kreis – Interview – July 10, 2012
(VIDEO) MLSsoccer.com: The Daily 7/10 - Spencer out in PDX, Cameron to Stoke heats up
(VIDEO) MLSsoccer.com: Save of the Week Nominees: Week 18
(VIDEO) MLSsoccer.com: Instant Replay - Protection Policy
(VIDEO) MLSsoccer.com: The Daily 7/10 - Spencer out in PDX, Cameron to Stoke heats up
(PHOTO) Real Nation: Portland Timbers July 07, 2012
RSL News & Notes
The Salt Lake Tribune: Soccer: Timbers coach's downfall reminds Real Salt Lake that this is a tough business
Real Nation: Big Problem, Easy Solution
RSL Soapbox: Has Real Salt Lake turned a corner? Did they really need to?
MLS News and Notes
MLSsoccer.com: Team of the Week (Wk 18): Union youth lead the charge
MLSsoccer.com: Rookie Rankings: Hoppenot's substitute exploits rewarded
MLSsoccer.com: With Moreno out, Quakes have cap space to play with
NBC Sports: ProSoccerTalk: The Top Ten in ProSoccerTalk's weekly MLS rankings
NBC Sports: ProSoccerTalk: ProSoccerTalk's weekly MLS rankings (in two parts)
Soccer America: MLS Power Rankings: Heavy schedule takes toll
Soccer America: Hiring an MLS coach: What's the formula?
Soccer By Ives: SBI MLS Best XI: Week 18
Soccer By Ives: SBI Mid-Season MLS Best XI
Soccer By Ives: Rowe suspended for collision with Meara
Prost Amerika: Kosuke Kimura: 'We have the talent, but we just need something clicking'
The Shin Guardian: On Carlos Bocanegra: Time for MLS Corporate To Show Its Maturity
The Shin Guardian: TSG's MLS Preseason Prediction Midseason Review: Not Pretty (Part I)
SBNation: MLS Power Rankings, Week 17: Earthquakes Hold Onto Top Spot
RSL Soapbox: Why Geoff Cameron matters to Real Salt Lake and every team in MLS
FutbolMLS.com: Webeando Fútbol: ¿Qué tan seria es la lesión de Blas Pérez?
US and International Soccer News and Notes
NBC Sports: ProSoccerTalk: While you were sleeping: Look who landed in England
NBC Sports: ProSoccerTalk: Hope Solo denies failing the drug test she failed
USsoccer.com: Q & A with U-20 WNT Head Coach Steve Swanson
Soccer By Ives: U.S. women arrive in England looking to defend Olympic gold


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Craig Strong, executive chef at Studio at Montage Laguna Beach, is known for his irresistible modern French cuisine with California twists. And there are hints of Spanish influence in his dishes, as well, a reflection of the two years he spent working at the Newport Room, a fine-dining restaurant in Barcelona.
When I asked him to prepare an easy-to-make dish on video, something cooks at home could make, he was quick to suggest paella.
"Paella is so versatile; every Spanish mother has her own paella recipe, some with rabbit, some with seafood or chicken or vegetables," he said, adding that his version is often accompanied with aioli spiked with pureed piquillo peppers. "And it can be a one-dish meal that is great for entertaining."
He decided on vegetable-themed paella, a colorful version that showcases a wide assortment of fresh vegetables: red bell peppers, fava beans, baby zucchini and tomatoes. Growing up as one of eight children in San Diego, he was inspired by his mother and grandmother to experiment with tomatoes and zucchini from the family's vegetable garden.
Today, he and his wife live in Laguna Beach and are enthusiastic home gardeners. I imagine that the vibrant hues of his delectable paella might be the catalyst to inspire other cooks to plant veggies, as well.
Recipe: Craig Strong's Vegetable Paella
Yield: 10 servings
- Sofrito, see cook's notes
- 2 large white onions, finely chopped
- 1 head garlic, finely chopped
- 1/4 cup olive oil
- 5 Roma tomatoes, peeled and chopped, see cook's notes
- 4 bay leaves
- Generous pinch of saffron
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 tablespoon Spanish smoked paprika
- 2 cups (1 pound) uncooked Bomba rice, see cook's notes
- 2 quarts chicken broth (or vegetable broth for a vegetarian version)
- 6 red bell peppers, cored, seeded, cut into 1-inch squares, sautéed in olive oil until tender
- 2 cups fava beans, shelled, see cook's notes
- 1 cup green olives, pitted
- 20 baby zucchini, trimmed, diagonally cut into 1/4-inch long pieces, sautéed in olive oil until tender-crisp
- 2 cups cherry or teardrop tomatoes, halved, or whole if tiny
- Garnish: 1/4 cup Italian parsley, chopped
Cook's notes: To peel tomatoes, submerge in boiling water for about 30 seconds. Refresh under cold water and peel. To make sofrito, peel 10 Roma tomatoes and finely dice; set aside. Heat 1 1/4 cups extra-virgin olive oil in medium-size saucepan on low heat. Add 4 cups finely chopped yellow onions, 1 teaspoon sugar and 1 teaspoon salt; cook, stirring occasionally, about 30 minutes or until onions are nicely caramelized, adding a little water if pan gets dry. Add tomatoes and 2 bay leaves; cook 15 minutes or until tomatoes cook down to a thick mixture. Extra sofrito will keep in refrigerator up to five days or can be frozen in small batches. Use in sauces, soups or with cooked vegetables. Bomba rice is a Spanish rice that is preferred for paella (it is sold at Surfas in Costa Mesa); if desired, substitute Arborio rice (sold at most supermarkets). To prep fava beans, remove beans from pods, then boil for 1 minute; refresh with cold water and use thumbnail to break skin and squeeze to pop beans from skin (yes, it's a lot of work, so often I substitute cooked edamame – not quite as good but still delicious).
1. Prepare sofrito (see cook's notes). For paella, in paella pan or large deep skillet, cook onion and garlic on medium-high heat in oil until very tender and lightly browned, about 20 minutes (reduce heat if they start to brown too much). Add Roma tomatoes, bay leaves, saffron, salt and paprika; cook until liquid from tomatoes evaporates, stirring occasionally.
2. Stir in rice. Add 1 quart of broth. Increase heat to high and cook, stirring frequently, for 10 minutes. Add remaining broth, bell peppers and 2/3 cup sofrito. When broth comes to a vigorous simmer, reduce heat to medium; cook 10 to 15 minutes longer and do not stir (move pan around if there are hotspots on your stove). You want a crust to form on the bottom (called socarrat).
3. Place vegetables on top. Sprinkle with parsley. Cover with slightly moist towel until ready to serve. If desired accompany with aioli.
Source: Craig Strong, executive chef at Studio at Montage Laguna Beach

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RICHMOND HEIGHTS, Fla. - Annette Larkins looks decades younger than her true age and she credits a raw food diet and daily exercise with her youthful appearance and vitality.
"My diet consists of fruits, nuts, vegetables and seeds, nothing cooked. Everything is raw and has been for 27 years," said 70-year-old Larkins. "I have this energy that if we could bottle and sell it, millions could be made from it because I have more than I need."
Every day, Larkins drinks a homemade vegetable or fruit juice often made from things grown in her garden.
Larkins' husband Amos recently began following the diet and said he felt the difference almost immediately.
"It's just the sad thing about me. I wish I'd been eating like she has," said Amos.
Click here for more about Larkins' diet.
Raw Foods Revolution
Kristina Carrillo-Bucaram leads a Houston raw foods revolution at fullyraw.com.
She has a YouTube channel that teaches raw food recipes and tips. Her weekly Rawfully Organic co-operative sells fruits and vegetables to families across Houston.
Carrillo-Bucaram is convinced people can dramatically improve their health by eating raw.
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Chandler prolly isn't quite as skilled as Gay, nor the "leader".
But that could almost be a good thing. The butter of Chandler s game is perfectly suited to be a to side kick on this team. And his non-need to be a dominant personality and forc e is kinda good these days w stat, raymondo, and possibly melo.
Chandler Might not have the demeanor of Gay but he sure has a similar game I think if Chandler was the go to guy on that struggling Memphis team he would average 20-22pts 6-8rbs and 1.5blks and 1stl. We have seen flashes of how he can straight up ball when he wants to by taking it to the rack finishing and hitting that smooth midrange. If he gets his head on tight he is a great 3rd option
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Of course they are lol. they lost to the team he wants to go 2..
But how'd you think Cleveland took it when they knew Lebron was pretty much history?
Its clear he doesn't want to be there and he still put up 31 and that team isn't doing that bad but i understand where your coming from.
People might start thinking ima Melo nut hugger but im not if we could get another all star player i'd be all for it but it's not going to happen so Im trying to say what my sig says again...
Dont let what happened to Pat happen 2 Stat


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P.F. Chang's Entrees Listed as "Vegetarian" Contain No Animal Ingredients
by Jeanne Yacoubou, MS
VRG Research Director
A VRG member from Minnesota recently told us about an experience she had at P.F. Chang's China Bistro in Edina, MN in September 2010. She was told that the sauce in their entrees listed as "vegetarian," including Buddha Feast; Coconut Curry Vegetables; Stir-Fried Eggplant; Vegetarian Ma Po Tofu; and Vegetable Chow Fun, contained milk. The reader asked The VRG to look into this because we had reported in 2008 that P.F. Chang's "vegetarian" entrees contain no animal products.
The VRG contacted P.F. Chang's about this issue. Stephanie in Customer Relations at P.F. Chang's assured us that all of their vegetarian plates are dairy-free. These include the following: Buddha's Feast: Steamed (vegetable medley with five-spice tofu served steamed); Buddha's Feast: Stir-fried (vegetable medley with five-spice tofu served stir-fried); Coconut Curry Vegetables (stir-fried mixed vegetables, crispy silken tofu and peanuts in a vegetarian coconut curry sauce); Ma Po Tofu (sichuan's famous dish of crispy silken tofu in a vegetarian sauce with steamed broccoli); Stir-Fried Eggplant (tossed with scallions in a savory chili pepper sauce); Vegetarian Fried Rice (fried rice in a savory vegetarian sauce); and Vegetable Chow Fun (soft, wide rice noodles and vegetables in a vegetarian sauce).
Stephanie told The VRG: "I am unsure where your source received their information and maybe they were confusing the coconut milk we use in the Coconut Curry Vegetables but I can assure you there is no milk in our vegetarian recipes."
Because some coconut milk powder may contain casein or other dairy product, we confirmed with PF Chang's and they said there was no casein in their dish.
When The VRG asked Stephanie if there were any eggs, egg products, or honey in the vegetarian dishes, she stated that "We do not use eggs, egg products or honey in the dishes listed."


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Scented Candle Collection – Cedar Wood, Black Amber, Dewy Grass
€82.00 €82.00
- A giftable set of three candles, each made in the United Kingdom and fragranced with woody and herbal scents, uniquely capturing the British countryside. Each expertly crafted 70-gram candle is presented in a glass holder and a honey-coloured twill paper gift box – inspired by the unique gabardine texture of the Burberry Heritage Trench Coat.
- Black Amber: A luxuriously relaxing fragrance, reminiscent of a sweet, flower-filled courtyard on a warm evening. Enveloping notes of vanilla and patchouli blend with the evocative scent of white musk.
- Dewy Grass: Crisp, leafy notes capture the fragrance of freshly cut grass on a summer's morning. A scent reminiscent of a dewy lawn that refreshes and awakens the day ahead.
- Cedar Wood: Complex layers of warmth complement this refined candle blend. Burn to discover a rich mix of unusual, invigorating and intense precious wood.
- 3 x 70g/2.5oz
- Made in the United Kingdom


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Everybody thought the Church of England general synod was going to vote for women bishops. But they voted against it. I am not surprised. Don't we already know that religionists are against women's equality?
But anyway, what is so revolutionary about women bishops!
The truth is I am not very excited about women becoming priests or bishops, imams or monks. I do not think women should believe in anti-women religions.
I have recently learned about ordination of women. [Read more…]


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Officials said a select group of about 80 customers will test the mobile app starting on Monday on the Kingston/Plymouth, Middleborough/Lakeville and Greenbush regional rail lines.
The app, which allows riders to display tickets on their screens when they board trains, is expected to fully launch later this fall. MBTA said it will be available to iPhone, Android and Blackberry users.
MBTA hopes to reduce the need for additional vending machines at stations, and also to cut cash handling costs.


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The Volcom team stopped in San Diego yesterday for the final day of their GPS SoCal Tranny Check tour. The demo went of at Sun Diego's Plaza Bonita location. Check Volcom's site for previous tour stops and scroll down to see all the sequences and slideshow. Prop it, leave comments, let us know what you think!
All photos by Blair Alley.
Collin Provost might be one of the best ams out. Lien to over-rotated nosepick!
Collin Provost, 360 ollie kickflip.
Louie Lopez, nollie back biggie heel back D.
Louie Lopez, backlip.
Darrell Stanton, front feebz.
Brandon Westgate, five-0.
Brandon Westgate, ollie, ollie and a bro approves!


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In The Showroom: Rachel Rachel Roy Fall 2009
This week we had the opportunity to check out designer Rachel Roy's bridge line for Macy's, Rachel Rachel Roy. Alongside our Network Partners from M.I.S.S. Crew and Trend Doll and the gals from Second City Style, Nitrolicious and WhereDidUGetThat.com, we got to meet Roy in person and talk with her about the collection. Poised to start delivering in August, the line includes clothing as well as footwear, handbags and accessories and calls up Roy's favorite pieces, such as easy men's cardigans and one-shoulder tops, as well as her favorite style mantras, such as using jewelry to toughen-up an outfit. We'll be bringing you more on Rachel Rachel Roy as the clothing hits shelves but, for now, check out our many snapshots of the collection along with a few look book images in the gallery below.


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Sept. 26 RAINN Day events raise awareness about sexual violence
Sept. 26 RAINN Day events raise awareness about sexual violence
Penn State Harrisburg will hold several events as a part of RAINN Day, an annual campaign sponsored by the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network (RAINN) to raise awareness of and fight against sexual violence on college campuses.
-- Noon to 1:15 p.m. Sept. 26, Olmsted Building Gallery Lounge - The Bystander Role
What is your role as a bystander in preventing sexual violence? Do you feel scared, alone and afraid to say or do something in the face of violence? The bystander intervention approach recognizes that saying or doing something is not necessarily a single event by a single hero. Instead, in many situations there are a variety of opportunities and numerous people who can choose to intervene. The bystander approach offers the chance to build communities and a society that does not allow sexual violence. It gives everyone a specific role in preventing the community's problem of sexual violence. Lunch will be provided.
-- 6 to 8 p.m. Sept. 26, Rooms 219 & 219A – Capital Union Building (CUB) – S.A.F.E., Self-Defense for Women
S.A.F.E. is an initiative to stop violence against teenage and adult women. It is an acronym for Self-defense Awareness & Familiarization Exchange and is an educational awareness and crime-victim prevention program – encompassing Strategies, Techniques, Options and Prevention. It provides teenage and adult women with information that may reduce their risk of exposure to violence and introduces them to the physical aspects of self-defense. Refreshments will be provided. This event is open to females only.
Participants can pre-register for the event by signing up on the First Year Seminar (FYS) program list or contacting Jennifer Allshouse at firstname.lastname@example.com or Toni Chainey at firstname.lastname@example.com. Pre-registration is preferred but not required.
Both programs are a part of the FYS program list.
Students are also invited to take the Hand Pledge in which they sign their name to a hand that states, "I pledge that I am against sexual violence." The hands will be hung throughout campus.
RAINN is the nation's largest anti-sexual violence organization. Each year, RAINN Day reaches more than 1,000,000 students in all 50 states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and Canada with information on how to reduce the risk of sexual violence and what to do if they or a friend have been assaulted. For more information, visit www.rainn.org.


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that ass is incredible, would love to shaft that anus, cunt and mouth
was this filmed on the 5d lol!!
I love it!!!!
hahaha. i wonder how much the extra to her right got paid to lounge around and show her legs and feet?
Any know the name of the song?
Damn leila you're freaking hot
Too hot.. hmmmm
Whats the name of the song? Anyone knows??
lovely pussy..her asshole looks like she may have had a few cocks in it ~~
realy a great movie!!!
Generally I am a BIG tit fan. However, those go perfectly on her body. Watching her ram two fingers in her lovely pussy with a very horny look on her face and I can't explain how I didn't paint the screen !! Top notch babe ................
wooooov so hot n beauty
that orgasm looked pretty darn fake. she didn't let go. you just can't keep that level of control during a quivering, throbbing orgasm. shame as x-art is normally awesome
That orgasm looked pretty real to me. I mean, I'd have a hard time keeping my eyes open that long, but the twitching and thrusting is familiar.
HAHAHAHA, the guy that mentioned the person next to her, couldn't keep my eyes off them, that was fucking hilarious. Now time to fap.
There are many words I could use to describe this beauty but which ones? I'll just have to settle on AWESOME All thats missing is a big cock for her to enjoy.
SHE IS FN GORGEOUS I WISH I COULD FUCK THAT SWEET ASS is there any girl that wanna be fucked in her ass let me knw i will do it gladly
Damn Hot! I wante her! Any1 know the name of the song?
Want to fuck these gorls
the video "sex with pasion" is also the same girl.
fuck me so hard
God!....would come back down to earth to have sex with her!!!
At the person who posted as omg the foot wiggled earlier on in the video keep an eye out for it also delicious looking girl.
So Cute...
Blue Angel
so very good ferformance i will met u
OMG!!! I was dirted my iPad!!!
she is best
gotta love that music at the end.. Makes it seem like you are coming in an island bar in Hawaii with a band playing and everyone watching you having a laugh haha
omfg!!!!!! a1+++++++++++++
very natural and .. special nipples
i stopped breathing for 10 secs
The girl of dreams.. She is stunning, that's all I can say. 12/10. =)
Want to see more? Type in Leila in YouPorn search, X-Art Sex On The Beach !, She fucks rather well !
Wow, she's everything. Closest thing to perfection I've ever seen, and I've seen quite a few! :)
Dead body next to her? Didn't move once..
Reggae + porn? Hmmm... oh wait
that girl is tooooooo hot!
This girl scores highly because she is so gorgeous, sexy and a perfect love.
omg mmmmmmmmmmmm
her ass its calling my cock
I'd crawl a 100 miles over broken glass, just to sniff the fingers that finger fucked her (in this her gorgeous fingers, dripping wet). Be tough not to lick that pussy inside and out
X-Art know exactly what they do!
Any guy that didnt get rock hard over her must be gay or dead
Any guy that didnt get hard over her is either gay or dead shes gorgeous
There are no words. That was absolutely amazing.
Our maid caught me while i was watching this video XD FTW
such a great n so hot physic, leila plz take my kayla
Beautiful ass.. Hot girlie!
those eyes...
Did anyone notice the foot in the background? or was it just me?
Her nipples are PERFECT!
X Art is the best shit ever
occhi azzurri bellissimi :) )
I want her !
This Girl is the Hottest what I see.In German ein richtig heisses häschen sowas muss mann haben alter schwede macht die mich geil auf so ein heisses fötzchen.
Leave a comment...Hermosa mujer en un paraiso
Wow.. She is unbelivable! 5 stars for sure.
the music at the end makes you feel refreshed about coming. dont think about and just do it...and it'l be a pleasant surprise
Very sexy, sensual clip, with a model equal to the task. The X-Art series is very tasteful and classy! Well done.
esta bien buena esa wuera
leila - blue is one of the best i would love to lick every inch of her body she is stunning her nipples drive me crazy 100%
Great body...beautiful face...great orgasm... ...but I would had liked to see her orgasm from a different angle...
If I had a penis I would impregnate her. Fuck her until she couldn#t walk.
she gets fucked on the video "X-Art Sex on the Beach" ^^
shes beautiful!
She is PERFECT.
Wow, is she gorgeous. I especially loved the shy little smile in the middle. Made me cum...
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Project AWARE Executive Director Dives Against Debris in Koh Tao, Thailand
We know marine debris is preventable. Together, we can stop it by taking local action and supporting policy change. I did exactly that by Diving Against Debris for the first time since becoming the Executive Director of Project AWARE during a visit to the beautiful island of Koh Tao. My visit followed AWARE's successful campaign efforts for vulnerable sharks and rays at CITES in March 2013 and it was exciting to share recent victory with our supporters. On Koh Tao, I met with the people behind the 100% AWARE dive centers - Ban's Diving Resort, Coral Grand Resort, Crystal Dive Resort, Sunshine Divers - to thank them for their critical support. I also spent time with Save Koh Tao, one of AWARE's Ocean Action Project recipients in 2012.
Giovanni Cacchione, Coral Grand Resort Lead Instructor and newly minted PADI Course Director, led the Dive Against Debris. About 25 PADI Professionals and dive students dove off Sairee Beach with Project AWARE Dive Against Debris bags in hand. It did not take long to find marine debris. After a 50 minute dive we came back to shore with several large bags full of trash, a plastic beach umbrella and paint can in tow. Next, the entire team dove into the pile to separate, record and report online the debris we've found. Among our finds were bottles, plastic bags, intact fluorescent light bulbs, a large degrading plastic beach umbrella, a rusting paint can, nylon fishing line, batteries and even a bra!
Dive Against Debris is the only global, underwater, volunteer debris program that combines cleanup with a survey. Your efforts to remove and report debris you've found matter. To support the necessary policy change to prevent debris, we need information that gives the underwater perspective to the problem. Scuba divers are uniquely positioned to take action against debris – we are the first to see the devastating effects of debris underwater, we have the skills needed to cleanup underwater, and we have the platform – the Dive Against Debris database- to report it.
Special thanks go to Coral Grand Resort, a 100% AWARE dive center for hosting me on Koh Tao. Without their generosity, my visit would not have been possible. And to Vijit, Jonas, and Giovanni of Coral Grand Resort for giving me the opportunity to be on the front lines of marine debris by taking part in a Dive Against Debris.
Meeting the AWARE's grassroots base and being able to thank them personally for all that they do for marine conservation was amazing. I extend the same thank you to all of you! We couldn't deliver world-class marine conservation programs and campaigns without your support.


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The Best Star Wars Day Art on the Web
This Saturday is basically every geek's dream come true. Not only is it Free Comic Book Day (!!!!!!), it is also Star Wars Day. (Get it?? "May the fourth be with you.") Here are some of our favorite ways people have expressed their excitement over Star Wars Day, because if there's one thing geeks are good at, it's making stuff on a computer. Check it out.


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Keep in mind this a cell phone recorded video so it is not the best quality. That said, the GT3 is going to sound even more amazing than it already does once uncorked with an aftermarket exhaust.
Here is a preview of what the Porsche 991 GT3 will sound like with an aftermarket exhaustSome Porsche purists are worried that the switch from the GT1 race inspired flat-6 block in the GT3 will take away from the sound quality of the GT3. Porsche is using the same facility to produce all the direct injected blocks and is sharing them among 911 models (the GT3 also sharing the timing chains, head bolts, AC compressor, and alternator from the 991 Carrera) to cut down on costs leading to speculation that the aural quality of the GT3 would be impacted. The video below shows that there is no need to fret as the GT3 sounds as great if not better than ever.
Keep in mind this a cell phone recorded video so it is not the best quality. That said, the GT3 is going to sound even more amazing than it already does once uncorked with an aftermarket exhaust.
This article was originally published in forum thread: Here is a preview of what the Porsche 991 GT3 will sound like with an aftermarket exhaust started by Sticky View original post24 Comments
leveraged sellout - 01-05-2014, 08:16 PM
Beautiful. I love these cars so damn much. Anybody complaining about the new engine just doesn't know what they are talking about.
leveraged sellout - 01-05-2014, 08:26 PM
Considering what the 4.0 liter GT3 put out I'd have to disagree with you strongly.
leveraged sellout - 01-05-2014, 08:36 PM
I didn't necessarily mean that it would have been impossible in absolute terms, but given the way emissions and fuel economy regulations are going...it would have been very difficult. Even Porsche has to give in to the politicians at some point, I guess.
leveraged sellout - 01-06-2014, 08:02 PM
AlexQuattro - 01-06-2014, 08:24 PM
It sounds like the car is farting when it changes gears, I love it.
The displacement limitations I think are pretty similar.
leveraged sellout - 01-06-2014, 11:40 PM
- Billet Stoker Crank
- PAUTER Forged 4340 Con-rods (over 0.200" smaller rod journals to reduce weight and allow use of better rod bearings. This will also help with the oil pump clearance with added stroke!)
- CLEVITE Highperformance Race Series rod bearings (modified to work with the billet crank, sized to give the proper clearance specific to each crank)
- Porsche main bearings (modified grooved for oil delivery, oil holes enlarged, coating available for an additional $200)
- JE FSR Pistons (light weight pistons, light weight but stronger wrist pins)
(coating of the skirts and the piston top is available and advised for )
- Total Seal Piston Ring Set. Slightly different combination for NA vs. Forced Induction.
- Ductile Iron Sleeves (max bore 4.100")
- Multi Layer Metal Head Gasket to suit each individual bore size you will pick and thickness. You will be able to pick thicker or thinner gaskets to further adjust your compression slightly.
- Head stud kit. 205 tensile strength. Good for 1000+hp and 30 psi.
Up to 5 kits (1-4) the price for the complete stroker kit including all of the above is $11,528.
5 Kits and up the price drops another $500 to $11,028.
10 Kits and up drops another $500 to $10,528. I will be very surprised if we can get this many but I would love the additional savings
Available options:
- Titanium Connecting Rods: +$4500 (I have been told 6 titanium rods weigh close to 4 steel ones) Big weigh difference for you GT3 guys. Not recommended for Turbo applications due to boost.
- Piston Coating: +$250 (Skirt coating and Thermal Barrier Crown piston top coating) I highly recommend doing this! It will be worth every penny in my opinion to have the added benefit; especially when you are doing a build like this. I know I will go definitely go for it myself)
- Main bearing coating: +$200
- Rod bearing coating: +$100
- Lightening of CrankShaft: $850
There is also a super light weight Crankshaft option for the GT3s where the Cranks are gun\barrell drilled, and further knife edged but it costs $1500 more instead of $850 cost of lightening.
Engine size choices:
- 80 x 104.1 = 4085cc
- 80.4 x 104.1 = 4106cc
- 81 x 104.1 = 4136cc
- 81.4 x 104.1 = 4157cc
- 82 x 104.1 = 4186cc
- 82.4 x 104.1 = 4208cc 4.2
- 83 x 104.1 = 4238cc
- 83.4 x 104.1 = 4259cc
- 84 x 104.1 = 4289cc (MAX recommended)
- 80.4 x 102.6 = 3988cc
- 81 x 102.6 = 4018cc 4.0
- 81.4 x 102.6 = 4038cc
- 82 x 102.6 = 4068cc
- 82.4 x 102.6 = 4088cc
SpeedLimit? - 01-07-2014, 12:35 AM
leveraged sellout - 01-07-2014, 01:18 AM
I think one of the main things that some people are saying is that either way, the new engine seems to be at least able to support pretty decent power on its internals, I know Switzer is doing a lot of work with them right now. However, not as much as the Mezger. However, on either engine, once you get past 750 whp, you're going to want to open things up and start making substitutions regardless. I mean, you don't really have to on the Mezger, we don't really know what the limits of the 9A1 are yet. Mechanically, the Mezger is definitely the superior engine in terms of strength. But, the strength of the 9A1 is likely more than adequate for any uses its likely to encounter. I must admit I haven't followed TT Mezger builds too much but I have a feeling (and have picked up over time) that most builds at or approaching 750 whp are using built internals anyway. So, maybe the end result is that you simply don't have as much headroom on boost. So far, I don't think anyone has popped a 9A1 though, so that's something to consider. Not sure how much boost has been run through one either, but it will be interesting to see what its ceiling is on stock internals.
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FLC: Native American tuition waiver
Editor's note: This is the fourth and final story in a series about the Native American tuition waiver at Fort Lewis College.
By Emery Cowan
Herald Staff Writer
An aging wooden sign marks the entrance to Fort Lewis College's former campus. Many of the century-old buildings have crumbling stone exteriors, broken windows or slouching roofs.
Besides summertime, the campus lies quiet for much of the year.
Since the college moved to Durango in 1956, the 6,279-acre property near Hesperus, known as the Old Fort, has been put to a mishmash of uses. Sustainable agriculture projects, a landing pad for firefighting helicopters and crew-training sessions for nonprofit land-conservation projects have started up on the land. Until 2010, Colorado State University operated an agricultural experiment station on the property.
But since the university pulled out of its lease two years ago, FLC and the state of Colorado have been looking to turn a new page on use and management of the land. The college's challenge is to put the land to use in a way that is economically sustainable and aligns with the century-old agreement that created FLC and the Native American tuition waiver.
The roots of the tuition waiver, which grants native students free tuition at FLC, date back to 1911 when the federal government granted Colorado ownership of the land. In return, Colorado promised to maintain the land and buildings, then serving as a Native American boarding school, as an institution of learning that would admit Native American students tuition free.
With CSU's departure, the Colorado State Board of Land Commissioners, which holds the land in trust, is giving the college the most influence in decisions about how the Old Fort property is used.
That arrangement will last until 2017 when two leases on the land, one a grazing lease and the other held by the nonprofit Elk Research Institute, will end. After that, the college and the state land board will collaborate on a new plan for the land.
The college already has received several suggestions for use of the property, from renewable-energy development to fieldwork classes to animal husbandry education through a buffalo herd.
But ambitious, creative proposals for the next five years have so far been pushed aside as the college works to untangle financial and legal issues.
Colorado State University left a complicated property ownership and building maintenance situation when it exited the property.
It is still unclear who has responsibility to fix up the dilapidated infrastructure.
The cost to repair and replace the buildings and water and sewage systems was estimated to cost about $1.5 million, according to a 2011 report by a campus committee tasked with evaluating the financial status of the land.
Though sustainable agriculture, hay and cattle operations generate about $60,000, that money goes into maintaining those operations.
The land that many believe was supposed to generate revenue to support Native American education was, and still is, losing money. In fiscal year 2011, the college had to transfer $96,500 from its general fund to the Old Fort budget in order for classes and agricultural activities on the land to continue operating.
An Old Fort Steering Committee, formed last year, has focused most of its work on creating a memorandum of understanding with the Colorado State Board of Land Commissioners.
The group also established a set of requirements that must be met by future proposals for the land. Projects must be revenue-generating or cost-neutral, have long-term sustainability and an educational value. But so far the committee hasn't considered any major proposals.
With declining state funding, the college doesn't have extra resources to dedicate to the Old Fort property, said Mitch Davis, the college's spokesman.
"It's a wonderful opportunity that came to us at the worst possible time," he said.


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Enter cloud storage--network-accessible storage infrastructure that evangelists promise will prevent the apocalyptic scenario envisioned above by IDC in its "Exploding Data Universe" report (sponsored by EMC). Proffering largely untested claims about huge capacity cost reductions, the elimination of labor required for storage administration and maintenance, and just-in-time provisioning of capacity on a pennies-per-terabyte basis, cloud storage providers are getting the attention of businesses large and small.
To storage industry veterans, cloud storage doesn't feel like a brand-new model. The core concepts are derivative of service bureau computing paradigms advanced by IBM and others in the 1970s, of Sun Microsystems' "the network is the computer," and of application service providers and storage service providers of the 1990s.
What's different this time? The economy, of course. With on-premises storage costs already high and growing in many IT departments, interest in alternatives is strong. Storage-as-a-service vendors say they can lower costs by taking on the burden of storage management and insulating customers from related costs like hardware upgrades. If cloud providers can capture economies of scale by using the same pool of storage capacity to meet the needs of many customers and pass along the cost savings, the price of spindle capacity should be well below what companies would otherwise pay for their own storage.
The earlier-generation application and storage service providers made a similar argument, but they ran into problems that contributed to their undoing, including the networking costs of connecting users and applications, and customer concerns over sharing infrastructure with other companies. Once customers started demanding that their services be provided using physically separate components, ASPs and SSPs were forced to violate their own economies of scale by deploying infrastructure on a one-off basis for each customer.
Cloud storage vendors say they've gotten past those obstacles. Network connectivity is faster, cheaper, and more secure, and virtualization technology is being used in corporate data centers to provide segregated storage environments, minimizing concerns over data infection and demands for dedicated infrastructure.
Cloud storage folk point to the high cost of storing data that's retained for business or compliance reasons, yet rarely re-referenced by the organization. This data, they say, is ideal for cloud-based storage, and doing so will free up the spindles that companies now use for primary or live data. This argument has some merit and will likely become a mantra: the cloud as a low-cost repository for compliance and archive data.
To better understand the cloud storage options available to businesses, InformationWeek issued a request for information and invited all storage-as-a-service vendors to participate. We did so under the auspices of a hypothetical midsize company called DIY Marketing Services, with nearly 100 TB of data in its storage infrastructure and volume growing quickly.
Five vendors--Caringo, IBM, Iron Mountain Digital, Nirvanix, and Zetta--participated, and our analysis of their proposed solutions is included in this report. The RFI can be downloaded in its entirety here.


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ATLANTA -- Sunday, Tim Henderson sits as an immortal in the annals of Louisville basketball, a character from Hoosiers transposed into Bluegress reality by virtue of his back-to-back three-pointers that helped the Cardinals rally past Wichita State and make the national title game.
The subject of a week's worth of "Can he play?" speculation as a sidebar to national coverage of teammate Kevin Ware's gruesome leg fracture, Henderson lived out the consummate athlete dream. On the biggest stage of his life, given the biggest opportunity of his life, he splashed the two biggest shots of his life and emerged a hero.
His sudden star turn cast a fresh light on the role of walk-ons, especially at major basketball programs. As unlikely a story as Henderson has authored in the Georgia Dome, his path to this point is pretty well-traveled. A local who gave up lower-division options elsewhere to be any part of the team he's loved since he was a young kid, Henderson has paid his own way for three years of school. His journey as a Cardinal started in much the same anonymous way as every walk-on you've never heard of.
"I actually didn't know I was on the team until Elisha Justice -- 'The Bullet' -- was in there," Henderson said. "I knew he was a recruit and he came in. I was sitting there playing open gym with the guys. ... Coach P called me over, and goes 'Tim, this is Elijah.' I said 'How's it going?' He said, 'this is your roommate.' That's how I found out. I was like 'So wait, am I on the team now?'"
That was late summer of 2010, and yes, Henderson was now part of the Cardinals.
In an ironic twist, Henderson's ascension to Commonwealth folklore may never have happened had Justice not left the program after last season. Justice's grandfather, to whom Elisha had grown up next door, had taken ill. Justice, a prep hero in his hometown, elected to transfer to NAIA Pikeville to be closer to family. The exit of Justice, who played more than 10 minutes a game as a freshman before having his playing time trimmed in half last season (albeit still making 25 appearances), moved Henderson up a spot in the pecking order, so when Ware went down, Henderson was the next body standing.
The reaction to a walk-on co-headlining the Final Four marquee has been profound. Henderson has tried to be as humble as possible, but his teammates are reveling in his attention. Henderson said Logan Baumann, a fellow walk-on, gave him a huge hug when he walked into their hotel room last night. In Saturday's media session, starting forward Chane Behanan said Henderson was now "being carried on thrones, by beautiful women." When asked whether Henderson would share those perks with his fellow walk-ons, freshman Jordan Bond laughed and said "Tim's a selfish guy. He's going to keep that all to himself," before adding "No, he deserves it. He's earned all of that for himself."
Henderson's shots even resonated with at least one of the players he helped beat. In the quiet Wichita State locker room after Saturday's tough loss, Ron Baker -- who paid his own way as a redshirt last season before moving onto scholarship this year -- took a minute to describe the impact of Henderson's shots for a player in his position.
"It's a pretty special feeling," Baker said. "I mean, it was on the Final Four stage. I feel it a little bit, too. Couple years back, no one thought I would be in this position, so I know what that kid's feeling like. He hit some big-time shots. You gotta give him credit. He toed the line and knocked them in."
With two days of unexpected media swarms around his locker in Louisville's dressing room, Henderson tried his best to deflect praise while answering even the most bizarre inquiries about his marksmanship. He even allowed that as a kid, he had an outdoor basket at his family's home, which was located on 10 acres of property, so maybe the vast backdrop he shot into day after day made the Dome environment easier. Of course, there's almost no way that had any effect, but it's a good story and adds to his legend.
What Henderson really has done, though, is provide tangible proof for any walk-on that the seemingly impossible is possible. All most of these kids want is a chance simply to be on the team they love, and help the starters and rotation guys improve and prosper. Maybe as a younger kid, they dreamed of things like what Henderson did Saturday, but in actuality? Walk-ons basically know their role. They are to practice hard, cheerlead harder and enjoy the ride.
After Henderson's threes and Louisville's comeback, college basketball's ultimate dreamers now have something on which to cling, a sliver of hope they, too, can one day be Tim Henderson. They can be a hero in a big game, maybe a Final Four. But through all this attention, Henderson remains the humble walk-on he is.
"Mike [Baffour] was just over there all excited for me, but if Mike was called into the game, he would have done the same thing, I think," Henderson said. "I don't know. I've been here for three years. I've gotten to guard all the best players. I've guarded Russ for two years. I've guarded Preston Knowles. So I've been through it all. I've been here lifting for three years, so I'm ahead of him because this is [the freshmen's] first year. But if they were here for three years, I could see them doing the same."
Henderson's moment is a win for walk-ons everywhere. He'll always have this memory, even if he thinks it could have been anyone else's. And everyone else can believe they can have one of their own.


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MANATEE COUNTY — On a piece of property off Fruitville road, horses graze in wide-open pastures.
But spaces such as these are few and far between.
Alan Napier, who runs Napier's Log Cabin Horse & Animal Sanctuary with his wife, Sheree, and their children, is in desperate need of more land.
The Napiers are pleading for donations of land or at least the use of it so that they can rescue more horses.
"We want to do more, but we can't do more," Alan Napier said. "We have the people. We just don't have the funds or the facilities to help them."
The sanctuary already is caring for more than 30 horses on several properties. Because of space limitations, they can't take any more in, but the need is worse than ever.
Napier said he's heard reports of horse owners leaving their animals in state parks or even loading them in other people's horse trailers while they are out on trail rides, although none of those incidents were local.
The rescue gets at least two calls a week from horse owners who can no longer afford to care for their animals.
"(People) just can't take care of their horses anymore," Napier said. "We hear stories all the time."
In addition to allowing for more animals, having good quality grazing pasture will help reduce feed costs, which already run in excess of $2,000 a month just for the horses.
"If you've got the acreage, you've got the grazing," Napier said.
To help offset the costs of feeding so many horses, the rescue began offering horseback riding in May.
The rescue acquired six horses from the Sarasota Family YMCA after the organization lost funding for a facility that provided a permanent residence for about 20 youth. The property also included horseback riding for the children, Alan Napier said.
The sanctuary agreed to take responsibility for the horses in exchange for use of the land when the facility closed, Napier said.
Horseback riding lessons cost $25 per hour and are available by appointment only.
For more information about the rescue or to donate land, visit its Web site at www.napierfamilyfarm.com or call 750-8185. Donations also can be made at Bank of America in care of the Horse and Animal Sanctuary.
Contact Pam McTeer at [email protected].
MANATEE COUNTY — On a piece of property off Fruitville road, horses graze in wide-open pastures.


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Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis is a rare disease in which a type of protein builds up in the air sacs (alveoli) of the lungs, making breathing difficult.
Alveolar proteinosis; Pulmonary alveolar phospholipoproteinosis
In some cases, the cause of pulmonary alveolar proteinosis is unknown. In others, it occurs with lung infection or an immune problem. It also can occur with cancers of the blood system, and after exposure to high levels of environmental substances, such as silica or aluminum dust.
This rare disorder generally affects people ages 30 - 50 and is seen in men more often than in women. A form of the disorder is present at birth (congenital).
There may be no symptoms.
The doctor may hear crackles ("rales") in the lungs. Often, the physical examination is normal.
The following tests may be done:
Treatment involves washing out the protein substance from the lung (whole-lung lavage) from time to time. Certain patients with this disease may need to have a lung transplant.
Research has shown some benefit to an experimental treatment that uses a blood-stimulating medication called granulocyte-macrophage colony stimulating factor (GM-CSF), which is known to be lacking in some patients with alveolar proteinosis.
Some people with this condition go into remission. Others have respiratory failure that gets worse, and they may need a lung transplant. Up to 25% of people with this condition die within 5 years of being diagnosed.
Call your health care provider if you develop serious breathing symptoms. Shortness of breath that gets worse over time may signal that your condition is developing into a more serious medical emergency.
Levine SM. Alveolar filling disorders. In: Goldman L, Ausiello D, eds. Cecil Medicine. 23rd ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier;2007:chap 91.
Trapnell BC, Nakata K, Kavuru MS. Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis syndrome. In: Mason RJ, Broaddus VC, Martin TR, et al, eds. Murray and Nadel's Textbook of Respiratory Medicine. 5th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2010:chap 63.
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By Annie Reuter
Carrie Underwood recently teamed up with Nicole By OPI to create her very own collection of nail polish. With 14 shades of colors with names like Lips are Dripping Honey, Southern Charm and Sweet Daisy the six-time GRAMMY winner is clearly infusing her Southern charm into every color.
"As far as my nails, I like being dramatic onstage and having fun and doing something that I might not do in my everyday life. It's all about playing a character. I would definitely throw on my shade, my signature shade, for something a little darker," Underwood said.
Underwood worked with OPI & Nicole by OPI Executive VP & Artistic Director, Suzi Weiss-Fischmann, to develop the 14 new nail lacquers. The collection features a colorful mosaic of hues ranging from soft pastels to dark sultry shades to playful glitters as well as the country singer's signature shade: a gold textured lacquer called Carrie'd Away.
"This is the first time Nicole by OPI has ever designed a signature shade for one of our celebrity partners. We are excited to share this news with both music and nail fans," Weiss-Fischmann said.
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With this series of hand drumming DVDs, anyone can learn to drumand without having to read music. Simply watch the rhythm being played with the "players-eye view" camera and sing along with the rhythm as it appears on your video screen. Then play along as each part is demonstrated slowly and clearly on the drum. Each rhythm pattern is performed by Paulo Mattioli, whose "Rhythm Journey" Drumming and Dance workshops have been held at virtually every major city in the U.S. One of the nation's top drum instructors, Mattioli has performed with superstars Kenny Loggins, Lenny Kravitz, and Sting, and has worked with such African master drummers as Babatunde Olatunji, Mamady Keïta, Kemoko Sano, and Yaya Diallo.
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I have problems with two Windows 7 x64 machines - every few days they lose internet/network connection, though my Windows XP x32 and Linux x64 machines do not have any such problems. Since I had problems with ZoneAlarm on the Windows 7 machines initially (screen kept freezing every day or so), until I updated to 9.3.037.000, I wonder whether ZoneAlarm may be causing this issue (note all the Win XP and Win 7 machines are using ZA Internet Security 9.3.037.000).
Notes: The router is a Billion 7800N. The network is CAT6 wired throughout (no wireless use). The 7800N is linked to a Netgear GS724T smart switch along with all the PCs and other devices on the network.
When the issue occurs, the Windows 7 machine cannot see the internet via IE8, local VNC does not work, yet I can ping other machines on the network and various websites(?). If I let Windows 7 try to troubleshoot the problem, I get the following message; "Your computer appears to be configured correctly ......".
If I disable the network adapter and re-enable, the problem is not rectified.
The only way I have been able to get round the problem so far is to reboot the PCs this is not acceptable as the machines are all required for 24/7 use.
Any help gratefully recieved.


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Wong returns to Majors with improved swing
By Jenifer Langosch / MLB.com
ST. LOUIS -- Feeling improved after dealing with a day-long stomach illness that struck him immediately upon returning to St. Louis, Kolten Wong returned to Busch Stadium on Thursday eager to show that the work he did to right his swing in Triple-A will translate into continued success in the Majors.
Wong, however, will have to wait one more day before getting back onto the field.
Citing a desire to give Wong until Friday to get healthy, manager Mike Matheny chose to start Mark Ellis in Thursday's series finale against the Cubs. Wong was expected to be available as a pinch-hitter, if needed.
"You're always worried about dehydration," Matheny said. "I think we've all been there. Trying to get your legs back under yourself the next day isn't necessarily the best way to jump back into what we're doing here. Hopefully give him a day to get himself feeling strong again. Hopefully we'll have him back out there soon."
Though Wong only spent two weeks away from the big league club, he described his work with Triple-A hitting coach Mark Budaska as fruitful. Wong dedicated time to watching video, from which he determined that a much-exaggerated leg kick was one of the reasons why he was fouling so many balls back and swinging at pitches he normally would have laid off.
He worked to reduce that leg kick and went on to hit .344/.382/.484 with 14 runs scored, 10 RBIs and five stolen bases in 15 games.
"Now that [the leg kick] is shorter and my base is wider, it's so much easier to see the ball, because there are not so many things moving," Wong said. "It's real small, real compact, where it needs to be."
It helped, too, that Wong was able to play daily. At the time of this demotion, he was not getting those needed repetitions with the Cardinals.
"It got me right back into where I need to be," Wong said. "I'm the kind of player that I need to play as much as possible. I love being in every game. When I got the amount of repetitions that I got down there, it just makes me always on time with everything I'm doing."
Wong said he focused also on his defense, particularly aiming to improve his reads on balls hit to his right side. He also began to journal, using the writing exercise as a way to keep track of his progress, thought process and adjustments. It was a suggestion first offered by Matheny back in Spring Training.
Wong's ability to make the necessary adjustments as quickly as he did earned him a short Triple-A stay and another chance to prove himself a capable everyday Major League second baseman.
"I looked at it as, 'This is a chance for me to get better, get my defense where it needs to be and my offense especially where it needs to be,'" Wong said. "That was the big thing -- I wanted to go in there and not be down about being sent down, but to try and see how fast I can get back up. The first couple days I was still a little down in the fact that I got sent down, but I knew I was there for a reason. I knew I didn't want to be there. I wanted to make sure I put my best foot forward so I could get back up here."
Yadi voices displeasure over pitches near head
ST. LOUIS -- Catcher Yadier Molina kept it no secret that he took exception to seeing several pitches thrown up and in at him on Thursday, and it led to both the Cubs and Cardinals having their benches warned in the eighth inning of the Redbirds' 5-3 win.
Molina, having already had to get out of the way of two high-and-inside pitches earlier in the afternoon, was brushed back in the eighth inning on another by reliever Neil Ramirez. He turned to the Cubs' dugout and appeared to exchange words with Chicago manager Rick Renteria. As Molina barked, he also demonstratively gestured at his head.
That led home-plate umpire Will Little to warn both dugouts.
"You get one mistake that sails and flies up by your head, you're not happy about it," manager Mike Matheny said. "But when you see a number of them happen that way, you start to take it pretty personal, and I don't blame him. We're not trying to pitch anybody up and in like that, and then you start talking about around the head. Nobody else should, either. Guys need to stand up for themselves and we need to stand up for them."
Matheny said he did not think the inside pitches to Molina were related to any leftover animosity from Monday's game, during which Cardinals reliever Eric Fornataro hit Cubs pitcher Travis Wood after Wood had already hit two batters in the game.
Molina was unavailable for comment after Thursday's game.
"Whether they were trying to go in on him or not, it's just one of those things where you [the Cubs] have to make an adjustment," Matt Carpenter said. "If it happened to anybody, we would have been mad about it, not just Yadi. You try to go in and the ball runs up by someone's face once, you're upset. But three times?"
Adams not showing power, results vs. lefties
ST. LOUIS -- Matt Adams entered Thursday second on the Cardinals with a .307 batting average yet still lacking production in two key areas. He's struggling against lefties, and perhaps most concerning for a player who has batted cleanup in 27 of the team's 41 games, he's not driving in runs.
The latter is tied to Adams' decrease in power, something that he has sacrificed with his willingness to hit outside pitches to the opposite field. Clubs have been aggressive in pitching him that way, seemingly willing to take a single to left over the threat of Adams pulling a ball for an extra-base hit.
Adams has exploited the shift in this way, but he's also tallied just two home runs in 150 at-bats. He had 17 as a part-time player in 296 at-bats a year ago. Needing Adams to provide middle-of-the-order production, the Cardinals have encouraged him to lay off some of those outside pitches -- even if the pitch is a strike -- to wait for another pitch that he can hit with more authority.
"Early in the count, [I need to] try to get more of a pitch that I can drive in the gaps and do damage with," said Adams, who has 11 RBIs in 39 games. "I think it's just my being maybe too aggressive early in the count, instead of letting it come to me and getting a pitch that I know I can drive."
With outfielder Oscar Taveras seemingly knocking on the big league door, the Cardinals will need to see more run-producing hits from Adams in order to justify his stay as an everyday hitter. They'd also like improved results against lefties, who have limited Adams to five hits (two for extra bases) in 34 at-bats this season. He has stuck out in 10 of those at-bats.
Adams said a recent tweak with his stance setup helped him feel more comfortable against lefty Travis Wood on Monday. Nevertheless, he admitted that the production so far is "not as good as what I'd like to do."
"I felt comfortable in spring, and a couple nights ago against Wood I felt real comfortable," Adams said. "I made a few adjustments, and I think that's going to help me big time. Now I've lowered my front shoulder a little bit and am seeing the ball middle-away better from the lefty."
Worth noting
• Left-hander Jaime Garcia threw a bullpen session on Thursday, and he remains scheduled to come off the disabled list and start for St. Louis on Sunday. With Wednesday's rainout, the Cardinals have pushed everyone in their rotation back. That will give Garcia an extra day and Adam Wainwright two extra days' rest because of Monday's scheduled off-day.
• Cardinals principal owner Bill DeWitt Jr. has been named chairman of a seven-member committee charged with overseeing the selection of Bud Selig's successor as Major League Baseball Commissioner. Selig has already announced that he will retire at the end of his term on January 24, 2015.
Joining DeWitt on this committee will be owners Dick Monfort (Rockies), David Montgomery (Phillies), Arte Moreno (Angels), Bob Nutting (Pirates), Jim Pohlad (Twins) and Jerry Reinsdorf (White Sox).
• The Cardinals announced game times of 1:15 p.m. CT and 7:15 p.m. for the Aug. 30 split-doubleheader between the Cubs and Cardinals.
• Left-hander Marco Gonzales, the team's top pick in the 2013 First-Year Player Draft, has been promoted to Double-A Springfield after going 2-2 with a 1.43 ERA in six starts for Class A Advanced Palm Beach. In those 37 2/3 innings, Gonzales allowed eight runs (six earned) on 34 hits and eight walks. He struck out 32.
• The Cardinals announced that they have made 400 more tickets available for the Pooches in the Ballpark event on June 14. The owner and dog will be required to purchase separate tickets ($40 each) and will be able to participate in a pregame parade around the field. Tickets can be purchased at cardinals.com/pooches.
• The Braves have announced that they will start the following pitchers in their upcoming visit to Busch Stadium: Ervin Santana (4-0, 1.99 ERA) on Friday, Aaron Harang (4-3, 2.98 ERA) on Saturday and Gavin Floyd (0-1, 2.70 ERA) on Sunday.
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Hagel survives; opponents make nice
They beat him up for months — in TV ads, in op-ed pages and in Congress, with delay after delay before his confirmation on Tuesday.
But now that Chuck Hagel is set to take the top job at the Pentagon on Wednesday, many of his Senate opponents seemed ready to mend fences just hours after trying to derail him. As Hagel's confirmation cleared the Senate floor 58 to 41, key Republican opponents who tried to wreck his nomination were already engaged in the Washington ritual of trying to make nice with their opponent after spending weeks opposing him.
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"I like Chuck," said Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama — who once said he had "dramatic concern" about Hagel's opposition to nuclear weapons and voted against him on Tuesday. "I've been reluctant to criticize him, but I did disagree with some of his policy positions. He went through a tough confirmation, was asked appropriate questions … I would think that personalities won't be a problem."
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Sen. Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire, a member of the Armed Services Committee who voted against Hagel in committee and then in the full Senate, said she looked forward to meeting with the new defense secretary to tackle what she called common challenges.
"It is my hope … that he will sit down with everyone on the committee, and that we do what's best for our Department of Defense going forward," Ayotte said.
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And Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, who signed a letter urging Hagel to withdraw, and said Hagel might embolden Iran and endanger the U.S.'s relationship with Israel, said he hoped Hagel would prove him wrong.
"I hope he exceeds expectations," Graham said. "It would be great for the country. Sen. Hagel has a challenge to prove to people that he's up for the job."
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For his part, Hagel pledged cooperation after his grueling battle for confirmation.
"I will work closely with Congress to ensure that we maintain the strongest military in the world and continue to protect this great nation," he said in a statement.
Still, not everyone was eager to bury the hatchet.
Arizona Sen. John McCain, who faulted Hagel and joined his Republican colleagues in their delay tactics, said the responsibility for mending fences belongs solely with Hagel. Asked about whether the relationship across the Potomac would improve, McCain answered, "It depends on what he does."
And freshman Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said the end of the Hagel battle is not necessarily a happy ending for the country.
"Chuck Hagel will be confirmed because Senate Democrats stood united behind President [Barack] Obama's nomination of the most controversial secretary of defense in modern times," Cruz said. "I fervently hope that this confirmation does not embolden Iran to accelerate their nuclear weapons development; I fervently hope that this confirmation does not undermine our vital alliance with Israel."
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McCain and Cruz appeared to be outliers in their unwillingness to begin building a relationship now that Hagel will run the Pentagon.
Hagel's opponents outside Congress — led by Bill Kristol, the conservative editor of The Weekly Standard and the chairman of the Emergency Committee for Israel — framed the drawn-out process as a success for their cause.
"We are heartened that the overwhelming majority of senators from one of the two major parties voted against confirming Mr. Hagel," Kristol said in a statement after the vote. "[We] do believe that, as a result of this battle, Mr. Hagel will be less free to pursue dangerous policies at the Defense Department and less inclined to advocate them within the administration."


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Arsenal shareholder Alisher Usmanov believes Thierry Henry has an 'important' role to play at the Emirates Stadium.
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Henry is reportedly set to rejoin Arsenal on loan from New York Red Bulls in January and it will be his third stint as a player with Arsene Wenger's side.
However, Usmanov wants the striker to have an influence at Arsenal once he retires from playing and does not want to see Henry follow the same path as his old team-mate Patrick Vieira.
Former Gunners captain Vieira is the football development executive at Manchester City and Usmanov feels it is important Henry is part of Arsenal's long-term future.
"I don't have any powers in terms of decisions at the club but there are a few players with whom I am in contact, including Thierry Henry," said Usmanov.
"Thierry should be involved at the club but not as a player. He has another role to play, a more important role.
"Look at Patrick Vieira at Manchester City. He is also a symbol of Arsenal but he is helping another club. We have to avoid that with Thierry."
Meanwhile, Santi Cazorla is confident Arsenal can still enjoy a positive season, despite the embarrassing Capital One Cup defeat by Bradford City in midweek and trailing Premier League leaders Manchester United by 15 points.
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I was puzzled to read Master Hsuan Hua's enumeration of the 5 Actions of Immediate Retribution (sometimes given as 5 Heinous Crimes) here: http://www.dharmasite.net/ContributionsofVM.htm#2b
In the Tibetan tradition they are given in this way:http://www.rigpawiki.org/index.php?titl ... etributionFor instance, in The Buddha Speaks the Dharani Sutra of Long Life and the Protection of Pure Youths there is a passage: "There are five things in the world that are difficult to erase, even through repentance and reform. What are the five?
1) Killing one's father; 2) killing one's mother; 3) killing an unborn child; 4) shedding the Buddhas' blood; and 5) breaking up the harmony of the Sangha. If one creates this evil karma, the offenses are hard to eradicate.
I am wondering if it is standard in the Chinese and broader Mahayana traditions to give number 3 as 'killing an unborn child' rather than 'killing an arahant'.Five crimes with immediate retribution (Wyl. mtshams med pa lnga):
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After a bit of time I've started realizing that, since I have to plug it and unplug it time and time again because my desk is pretty much my only space to study, work and have some leisure, the DIN-9 cables could seriously damage themselves over time. Also, I somehow feel like the steering wheel is a bit too... "little": maybe it's because I'm used to the real cars' ones, but I'm feeling a bit cramped when driving.
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State Association/League: California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) Central Coast Section Division 1/West Catholic Baseball League
Head Coach: Mike Oakland (8th season as head coach)
2013 Results: 29-4 overall record; West Catholic Baseball League co-Champion; CIF Central Coast Section Division 1 Champion
Key Losses: SS/RHP Michael Strem (Boston College); OF Hunter Simmons (Utah); INF Chris Baker (Washington); OF Austin Guiber (Fresno State); OF Kort Peterson (UCLA); OF Eric Peterson (Cal Berkeley)
Top Returning Players: Sr. LHP John Gavin (Cal State Fullerton); Sr. C Tim Susnara (Oregon); Sr. OF Ryan McSwain (Arkansas-Little Rock); Sr. 1B/RHP Blake Billinger (Florida International); Sr. RHP Richard Boe (Arizona State); Sr. RHP/3B Tyler Deason
Notable Matchups: May 14-17 vs. Boros Baseball Classic at Sacramento; April 22-24 vs. Elite 8 Tournament at Mountain View, Calif.; April 29 vs. Bellarmine College Prep; May 2 at Valley Christian; May 6 at Archbishop Riordan; May 9 vs. Archbishop Mitty
THE BASEBALL PROGRAM AT SAINT FRANCIS HIGH SCHOOL in Northern California's famed Silicon Valley has taken the "next man in" concept to a new level. When head coach Mike Oakland's championship caliber program produced six 2013 graduates that moved on to play at prestigious NCAA Division I universities this season, five more D-I commits are on hand to try to replace them.
The word "try" is operative in this instance. As indicated in the "Key Losses" listed above, the 2013 Saint Francis alumni have departed for such premier college baseball programs as Boston College, Utah, Washington, Fresno State, UCLA and the University of California at Berkeley.
And the departed are the guys that experienced more than just a taste of success in 2013. They led the Lancers to a third straight West Catholic Baseball League championship and their first CIF Central Coast Section Division 1 championship in 12 years. Today, the Lancers enter the 2014 Perfect Game Preseason National High School Rankings in the No. 5 position.
"You're talking about replacing some really quality players that did a lot for us last year," Oakland told Perfect Game last week. "It's not easy, and you just hope that you have some guys that are going to step up and fill their shoes the best they can. I don't think there's any secret ingredient. You just hope that guys continue to develop and get better and are able to do some of the things that the guys that left ahead of them were able to do.
"Maybe by watching last year and playing behind them they got a better feel for what it is they need to do in order to reach that level."
2013 was indeed a memorable season for the Lancers. They won their first 12 games and 24 of their first 25 before losing three out of their last four regular season games, and limped into the postseason.
They regrouped in the CSS Division 1 playoffs and won four straight by a combined score of 23-3, including a 10-0, five-inning rout of league rival Junipero Serra High School in the championship game. It is now up to this 2014 group to build on that momentum and produce a second straight championship season.
"I think the mindset is that we want to compete for our (CIF) Section championship; that's the ultimate goal every year," Oakland said. "I think that's the goal of the majority of the teams in our league. It's definitely something we talk about at the beginning of the year and it's pretty much the same every year – we're always striving to be in a position to win our Section championship."
The Lancers hit .346 and blasted 13 home runs as a team in 2013 but graduated their seven top hitters for average and 11 of those home runs. They also compiled a 1.57 team ERA with 226 strikeouts in 231 1/3 innings.
Saint Francis graduated Michael Strem, a shortstop and right-handed pitcher who hit .417 with 13 doubles and 22 RBI at the plate, and was 11-1 with a 1.30 ERA and 79 strikeouts in 80 2/3 innings on the mound.
Strem, named the San Jose Mercury's Player of the Year, is now at Boston College. Also gone is slugger Kort Peterson (UCLA), an outfielder who hit .367 with five home runs, three doubles and two triples while driving in 22 runs and scoring a team-high 42.
But the Lancers do return senior John Gavin, a 6-foot-5, 240-pound lefty who also finished 11-1 with a 1.28 ERA and 90 strikeouts in 76 1/3 innings last season.
Gavin, a Cal State Fullerton recruit, has been to seven Perfect Game events – including last summer's PG National Showcase –and is ranked 266th nationally in the class of 2014. He threw a complete-game one-hitter in the Lancers' CSS championship win over Serra.
"With Gavin, the left-hander that's going to Fullerton, he threw a lot of high-pressure innings for us last year," Oakland said.
Other top arms returning include 6-foot-6, 225-pound senior right-hander Richard Boe, and Arizona State recruit ranked 474th and PG National Showcase alumnus; 6-foot-4, 225-pound senior right-hander and first baseman Blake Billinger, another PG National alumnus who is the No. 1-ranked first prospect in California and a Florida International recruit who is coming off Tommy John surgery; and 6-foot-4, 210-pound senior righty and third baseman Tyler Deason, who is the Lancers' top returning hitter (.315, 1 home run, 14 RBI).
Deason and Boe combined to pitch 38 1/3 innings last season, and gave up 10 earned runs (2.10 ERA) on 17 hits while striking out 29 and walking 27.
Their top returning prospect is senior catcher Tim Susnara, a 6-foot-1, 195-pounder who also attended last summer's PG National Showcase and is ranked 110th nationally. The Oregon recruit is coming off a junior season in which he hit .310 (27-for-87) with a home run, four doubles and 27 RBI. Oakland is also looking for some contribution from senior Ryan McSwain, an Arkansas-Little Rock recruit that played in only 15 games last year.
"We're going to have to stay healthy and the guys are going to have to peak at the right time," Oakland said. "Some guys are going to have to really step up and play to their capabilities and maybe even beyond and we're going to need contributions from one or two guys that we weren't really counting on. There always seems to be a guy or two that at the beginning of the season you weren't really sure if you were going to get much out of them and they end up having a really good year for you.
"We're going to have to have some young guys at the sophomore level make the jump from freshman ball to varsity and be able to contribute at a high level in order for us to be successful."
Oakland has once again put together a challenging regular season schedule that not only includes home-and-away dates with the other seven members of the West Catholic Baseball League but several top-end games against non-league opponents.
The Lancers will also play at the 2nd annual Boros Baseball Classic, an elite tournament in mid-April that includes 32 of the top teams from both northern and southern California.
"What I try to do with our schedule is to try to find the teams that I know are the most competitive from out area and try to schedule them because I think in the end it's going to make us better," Oakland said. "… Our league is really tough, there's no question about it, but there are also some really good teams out there outside of our league that we like to play to help us get better."
The goal, as previously stated, is to win a second straight CIF Section championship. Oakland believes the student-athletes that are drawn to the culture that defines Saint Francis will enable him to continue to put a product on the field that has that capability.
"The reputation of the school itself as an athletic and academic institution really helps a lot," he said. "You get a good group of kids coming in every year that can really play, and I think we benefit from the other sports like football, as well. Some of my best players are football players and we have a really good football program with a great tradition. That accompanied with a really good academic piece of the puzzle makes it an attractive school to a lot of kids."
Note: Saint Francis earned another distinction when the 2013 World Series paired the St. Louis Cardinals against the Boston Red Sox in late October. Alumni Daniel Descalso (class of 2004) played in four games for the Cardinals during the Series and his Saint Francis classmate, Daniel Nava (also class of 2004) got into five games for the victorious Red Sox. Saint Francis was the only high school in the country that had two alumni on 2013 World Series rosters.


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SAN FRANCISCO — Chips inside a package ought to talk wirelessly, eliminating costly wired links engineers are crafting for 3D stacks. ThruChip Communications has an inductive coupling link it says could save 40% of the costs of through-silicon vias (TSVs) now in development.
The technology-licensing startup recently hired Dave Ditzel as its chief executive. The veteran microprocessor designer says the technology pioneered by Professor Tadahiro Kuroda of Keio University in Japan has potential for broad impact, especially for stacks of DRAM and flash chips.
Kuroda is "one of the most famous circuit-design professors in the world, and I've kept in touch with him over the years as a consultant and hired his students," said Ditzel who led CPU design teams at Intel, startup Transmeta, and the former Sun Microsystems.
Today a growing group of companies is developing so-called 2.5D stacks that lay dies side-by-side, connected through wired links on a silicon interposer beneath them. Engineers are working on the next big leap, drilling tiny TSVs through dies stacked vertically, but so far the technique is mainly in a prototype phase, hampered by issues of cost and complexity.
ThruChip's wireless approach is simpler, uses less power, and is cheaper than using TSVs, says Ditzel who joined the company in December. He aims to hire a Silicon Valley support team to help companies design the coupling coils in their chips.
The startup, founded in 2007, has designed 10 test chips over the decade Kuroda has published on the technique. It has shown signals going through 128 dies using repeaters in one test that packed a thousand 50-100 micron coils to create a terabit/second link. The links only carry data, relying on traditional wired links for power and ground signals.
Besides memory stacks, the technique could be used in other applications where engineers are currently working with TSVs. Uses including linking to memory chips a variety of mobile and cloud processors as well as camera backside imagers, Ditzel says.
One 3D stacking specialist expressed some skepticism. The wireless approach eliminates difficult steps needed for TSVs, such as extreme thinning of wafers, however it opens up new issues about aligning coils and eliminating interference between them, says Herb Reiter, principal of EDA2ASIC Consulting in Los Gatos, Calif.
The size of coils is another issue. "I question if these coils can be made small enough to compete in die area with TSVs -- even including the TSV keep-out zone," says Reiter.
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The Memorial is located on Shooters Hill in the tidewater region of Virginia. The building is 168 feet wide, 248 feet long and 333 feet high. It is but six miles from the nation's capitol, Washington, D.C. The cornerstone for the building was laid November 1, 1923 at a special communication of the Grand Lodge of Virginia. More than 25,000 persons participated in the procession to the Memorial where the cornerstone was laid using the same trowel employed by Washington in laying the cornerstone of the United States Capitol. Assisting in the ceremonies were President Calvin Coolidge, Chief Justice William H. Taft and the Grand Masters of all the Grand Jurisdictions in the nation. In 1932, the Washington bi-centennial year, the building was officially dedicated. President Herbert Hoover assisted in the dedication ceremonies.
As visitors enter the Memorial, they are confronted with two large murals of George Washington. One depicting the laying of the cornerstone of the United States Capitol in September of 1793 with President Washington officiating at the ceremony and the other showing General Washington attending a religious service on St. John's Day in 1788 in Christ Church, Philadelphia, PA. There is also a large bronze statue of President Washington measuring 17 feet 3 inches high and weighing nearly 8 tons. President Harry S Truman, who was a Past Grand Master of Missouri, assisted in the unveiling ceremonies of the statue.
The Memorial features displays of other Masonic Bodies. They include the George Washington Museum, a gift of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry; the Memorial Library, provided by the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania; the Grotto Archives Room; the Royal Arch Room; the Cryptic Room; the Knights Templar Chapel; the Replica Lodge Room; and the Alexandria - Washington Lodge Room. The George Washington Museum which contains the most outstanding Washington memorabilia to be displayed to the public was dedicated in 1966. Its central item is the Washington Family Bible donated to the Memorial by collateral descendants in 1965. Indeed, the George Washington Masonic National Memorial stands as an inspiring reminder of the wisdom, strength and beauty given the United States in its infancy by the Father of our Country and a fitting tribute to the man who said, "A good moral character is the first essential in a man. It is, therefore, highly important to endeavor not only to be learned but to be virtuous."
This is the view of the George Washington Masonic National Memorial as you ascend the stairs from the west end of King Street. Airplanes landing at D.C. airports can see the giant Square and Compasses in front of the building 20 miles away.
This is the view looking down at the front of the building from the catwalk.
This is the cornerstone laid in 1923 at the Northeast Corner of the George Washington Masonic National Memorial.
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