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Dedication by the Translator from Yiddish to English
These articles were translated by Clarice Gostinsky Horelick as a small act to honor the Jews in Gombin who lost their lives in the Holocaust - including those in her family:
Grandfather Shloime Frenkiel;
Aunt Balchia Frenkiel, wife of Mendel, and their two children including
Cousin Nanek;
Aunt and Uncle Cirl Frenkiel Sanicki and Hersh Sanicki and their son, Cousin Numik;
Aunt and Uncle Laitsche Frenkiel Burstyn and Yossek Burstyn.
The Yizkor Book of Gombin: Jack Zicklin"Gombin the Life and Destruction of a Jewish Town in Poland", NYC the Gombiner Landsmanschaft in America, NYC 1969
Second Part: Between the Two World Wars
The Social and Cultural Life
By M. Guyer
Translated by Clarice Gostinski Horelick
Pages 49-52
In Gombin, during the last few years before the First World War, there dominated a mood of apathy. After the experiences of 1905, in Gombin just as in other cities and little towns, there ruled voices of resignation. In these times of general passivity, only the small Zionist and Bundist groups did any political work.
The start of the First World War brought long months and years of need and hunger. Everything, which we had built and created, immediately in the first days of the war, went up in smoke. On the 2nd of August 1914 the Germans were already in Gombin and with very little interruption stayed there until the end of the war. On the 11th of November they instituted a civil government and they appointed as mayor-burgermeister the owner of a clothing store, Schneider, a German.
Despite both the need for and the shortages of basic material goods, Jewish Gombin striven after knowledge; and the thirst for social and cultural work continually grew. We, before the outbreak of the war, had appealed to the Mefitzey Haskala in St. Petersburg, they should obtain permission from the Czarist power for us to open a legal library. In the meantime, however, the war erupted and contact with St. Petersburg was broken. At the end of the war, the Mayor Schneider, gave this very permission.
Yet, at the time when we received permission we did not have either a place or any money. In the past we had had only a small and half-legal library, which circulated books once a week. Later, during the war, we had packed these books into crates and had hidden them.
Now, after securing permission from Schneider, we found a space in Poznanski's house, a three-storied building which stood in the middle of the town square. We rented the second floor, took apart the walls, and made from the separate rooms a large hall, which could accommodate two hundred people. Inside we made a backdrop with a pretty curtain, which German soldiers painted for us, and Abba Wolman arranged the lighting with gas lamps because there was not yet any electric lighting in Gombin at this time.
From now on we had a place where we could organize lectures and performances. At that time we also created a second facility for a library. The difficulty however was that Gombin had only a small intelligentsia. A number of the wealthier young men and women who could afford a higher education moved away to the bigger cities. However, we made use of a number of them, after they came back from the Gymnasium or the higher learning institutions, to give lectures for organized audiences. There also were created separate Bundist circles, which held scientific and educational courses.
the Bundist Children's Home
teachers: from right, Sonia Cemelinski-Nowogrodska; Channa Celemelinski (left)
The widespread thirst for knowledge of our Gombiner young people made it quite easy to raise money, and we bought almost 2000 books. We numbered and catalogued them and started to lend them out to be read. We elected a multi-party committee of five members- three Bundists and two Zionists, and they recruited a group of young people to check out the books.
The opening of the library brought in a new life. Adults and children came to the library. When the work of setting up the library and the lending of the books was completed and routine, we began to think about the use of the large hall. We organized a "drama society" and we had a number of capable talented directors, for example Weislicz, Domb, and others. With great success we produced Urial Acosta, Chashe the Orphan, and dramas by Sholem Asch, Pshibishevski, Tshechov, and Andreiv. We also from time to time arranged for concerts.
Abig attraction were the open readings, to which we brought famous speakers- like Israel Lichtensztejn, Wiktor Szulman, N. Szafran, M. Kasher, and many others. The young people received the lectures with great enthusiasm. The culture-work was done communally, but besides this the separate organizations also arranged their own political and educational activities. At the end of the 19th year (1919) there already existed in Gombin two separate libraries, a Zionist and a Bundist.
In the time of the First World War we organized a concert garden, and in 1917 we had with us the teacher Sonia Nowogrodzka, (who later was killed by the Nazis.) The political groups during this time grew stronger and involved an even larger number of Gombiner Jews. When the war ended and the Poles had a new and independent Poland they decided to institute city governments. It was decided that also Gombin would have a town council (shtat-rat) with twelve councilmen from the Christian population and twelve from the Jewish. Of the twelve elected Jewish councilmen eight were "citizens" and four Bundists.
Jewish folk-school with the teachers Kalmus, Sztokhammer, 1924
One of the consequences of the war was a shortage of food; and the assignment of the special appropriations committee was to bring from the surrounding larger towns- flour, potatoes, fat, and other foodstuffs. When the war with the Bolshviks broke out the Polish government arrested the four Bundist Councilmen- Melech Tadelis, Sztokhammer, Abraham Tiber, and Icchak Mosze Chaja (Guyer). Because of the growing terror of the Polish might, a number of the leaders were forced to escape. I was one of them and I together with my family ran away to America. On October 17, 1920 we arrived in Detroit to join my brother.
But the groundwork for Jewish cultural and social work in Gombin was already laid and cultivated. During the whole time, until the outbreak of the Second World War, we stayed in constant contact with the colleagues and friends in our town. The political and cultural activities flourished greatly and became more numerous. Yiddish Gombin became one of the points to which prominent Jewish political leaders and speakers were drawn. Lectures and discussions, concerts, and artistic presentations were organized. The young people thirsted for knowledge and the Jewish organizations from all political complexions concerned themselves that this thirst for knowledge and the hunger for social activity would not be stilled. Like all over, as in the hundreds of Yiddish cities and towns in Poland, Gombin was pulled along by the great stream of culture-activities which enriched anyone who wanted intellectual freedom. There were those who called Gombin by the name of "Little-Warsaw" so intense was the Jewish social life.
It lasted this way until the outbreak of the Second World War when over the Jews of all Poland there descended the Nazi Angel of Death.
The teacher Sonia Czemelinska (center) when she was freed from prison in Gombin. Near her sits comrade Emanuel Nowogrodzki.
Translated by Clarice Gostinsky Horelick, granddaughter of Shloime Frenkiel, aka Shloime Meshingiesser, and Tsiviah Haie Frenkiel of Gombin.


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Hey Everyone,Back in the 80's I lived in Roseville Michigan, and we used to order Pizza from "Jimmy's Pizza" My all time Favorite! ! They used to have two locations 24 mile and Romeo Plank, and 16 Mile and Ryan Road. we've been back and apparantly they are long gone!Well were on the pizza quest to make a similiar pie, anyone have any info at all? Thanks!BigD
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Discussion in 'Racing' started by Nemosengineer, Aug 27, 2009.
i had they honor to help in building this bike,had to add weight to make the spec
That was actually around turn 4 or 5, by the pond.
Nonetheless, great times.
The scanner didn't do these photos justice
Pete Johnson not Ron aboard the Guzzi
the tall skinny to Manfred's left is dick
Awesome thread, thanks to all those who have contributed!
I grew up hanging around Sears Point and loved watching the superbike races, these bikes are some of my favorites of all time, along with the 500cc 2T GP bikes that is
Australia and New Zealand had some of the best. I can still watching Graham Grosby going across Skyline at the Easter races at Bathurst in 1976/7 not sure which. He was on the back wheel every time on a Z1. Now Bathurst won't mean much to those from places other than Australia and since there haven't been bike races there since the late 70's or 80's it won't be familar to some Australians either. There is a Youtube clip of a lap of the circuit somewhere. They ran the 750/700 Yamaha and 500 Suzuki's there too. Warren Willing is someone you yanks would know. Gregg Hansford was great on the Kawasaki.
Robbie Phillis still competes in races for 70 superbikes and he is faster now than he ever was. Great to watch at the MotoGP and Supers.
I had a neighbour, lovely bloke, Neil Robinson who raced Doohan in Australia and Doohan never beat him. He gave me a poster which I am going to try to post that you should like. It lives above my bike. Neal is on bike 12 at the front.
Have I posted this before?
Unga, who was this Kal-Gard lubricants team/rider? I remember them fairly well and want to say that they were the U.S. champs for like ten years straight. Anyone remember the names?
no idea, not my pictures. Heck, I was 10 when those were taken...
Great pics. The old Loudon was pretty scruffy. I like the knee sliders...
sorry if they're repeats
This photo triggered a memory. I was at Loudon for a race around about 1989 or so. The scene in the camping area was, um, memorable. Out of control almost to the point that anyone not drunk out of his mind might be a bit worried about things. Crazy.
john woo was tragically killed at a private test at laguna seca on an hrc superbike.thats the chinaman in leathers.he was a gifted rider
A friend, (Pete Homan) racing the bike form the shop, BMW of Denver, back in the 80's at Second Creek in Colorado
Another BMW at the Steamboat races,
Grid at Adams County Fair Grounds in Colorado mid 70's
A 450 Desmo Ducati at the Fair Grounds, The rider was a friend who was the mechanic at one of the last real motorcycle shops in Colorado, Harry's Motors in Denver. Mike could sure turn a bike and ride that desmo.
Waiting to go,
That right there is a cool freakin' pic.
Head down WFO throttle.
It became an 8x10 on his wall at the shop.
Sometime around the summer of 1975.
A year later, I would pick up a 250 scrambler that was destined to have a 450 desmo top, and some other go faster parts bolted on.
Then some guy offered me way too much money for it within ear-shot of my wife the accountant.
Pfft! There went my dreams of roadracing glory.
Ah, well I sold the bike for $250 after paying $20 for it and spending just short of $4 fixing it. Broken throttle cable though the previous owner thought for sure the engine was blown.:huh
Doesn't look like a race bike here,
I had one back in the day just like it.
The first bike I ever had with enough power on the track to teach me what a highside was.......
I think I still hurt!
There is just soooo much history in this photo, it boggles my mind. I was shortly after this season that I bought my 83 Interceptor and got involved in WERA, mostly at Summit Point. Photos like these were always open on the coffee table.
I still remember the sound of the Lawson replica Kawasaki's coming down the straight. But it really only took that one 83 season to make them mostly obsolete. Of course the Interceptors didn't rein for long, as the Yamaha 5-valve arrived the next year and then following that the GSX.
Still have an original copy of Freddie on #43 up on my shop wall. It's falling apart but never fails to bring a smile to my face.
Wish I still had the 83 VF750
Didn't anyone ride a Triumph triple in some of these early "superbike" races?


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The Supreme Court of Arkansas's rejection of a voter approved ballot measure barring gay couples from adopting is a being widely hailed as a victory for equality, but derided by a lone Religious Right outfit as creating a threat to the state's youth.
In Arkansas Department of Human Services v. Cole, a unanimous high court upheld a lower court ruling that concluded the ballot measure, Act 1, violated privacy rights protected by the Arkansas Constitution.
The measure approved by 57 percent of voters in 2008 bars children from being adopted by a parent who is "cohabiting with a sexual partner outside of a marriage that is valid under the Arkansas Constitution and the laws of this state." The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) represented several couples in a lawsuit challenging the measure's constitutionality.
Associate Justice Robert L. Brown cited state court precedent that the "Arkansas Constitution does guarantee citizens certain inherent and inalienable rights, including enjoyment of life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness, and … the right of citizens to be secure in their own homes." Moreover, Brown noted that "privacy is mentioned in more than eighty statutes enacted by the Arkansas General Assembly, thereby establishing 'a public policy of the General Assembly supporting a right to privacy.'"
Brown concluded that Act 1 was indeed a violation of privacy rights. Under the act, "the exercise of one's fundamental right to engage in private, consensual sexual activity is conditioned on foregoing the privilege of adopting or fostering children. The choice imposed on cohabiting sexual partners, whether heterosexual or homosexual, is dramatic. They must choose either to lead a life of private, sexual intimacy with a partner without the opportunity to adopt or foster children or forego sexual cohabitation and, thereby, attain eligibility to adopt of foster."
Christine P. Sun, senior counsel for the ACLU Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender Project, hailed the opinion, saying the "ban did nothing positive. It required the government to intrude into the private lives of Arkansans for no child welfare purpose at all. We are relieved that the court agreed that the law is unconstitutional."
Human Rights Campaign (HRC) President Joe Solmonese said the Arkansas high court had "removed a discriminatory barrier for loving gay and lesbian couples who, child welfare experts agree, are equally able parents."
Jerry Cox head of the Family Council, a Religious Right group that helped push passage of Act 1, complained that the Supreme Court had belittled state voters with the ruling, and said his organization would urge lawmakers to amend the constitution to ban same-sex couples from adopting, the Arkansas Democrat Gazette reported.
The Huffington Post's Amanda Terkel noted that "Mississippi and Utah are now the only two states with an explicit ban on unmarried, co-habitating couples adopting. Other states have implicit bans that don't necessarily outlaw gay adoption but make it very difficult in practice. One such state is Virginia, where Gov. Bob McDonnell (R ) is currently considering whether to derail a proposal, recommended by his Democratic predecessor, that would amend state regulation to allow same-sex couples to adopt."


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Ok, hi! I'm new here though a few of you may have met me at fora about grilling or woodworking. And, yes, these are compatible -- for me, wood for smoking in my grill are easy to come by. Mostly, I'm looking to learn how to make a good crispy cracker crust as soon as I can. I like many kinds of pizza (toppings of import: pepperoni and jalapeno -- all else are extras). The "good crispy cracker crust" has been something my wife and I have pursued for years without personal success. I haven't really started yet, but I'm about to plunge into this forum and do some serious exploration. What kind of commercial pizza do we like? Well, you may want to throw us out, but Pizza Inn and Pizza Hut are our favorites. The spicy sauce (extra sauce!) is the key along with the thin, crispy crust. We like it best when the crust is more like a cracker. How do I fix my pizzas at home? My wife still likes the aluminum pizza sheet in the oven, but this year I finally found a GOOD use for our 30-year-old pizza stone. Over all this time, it has ruined one pizza after another when used in our oven. But this past Spring I got a Weber Genesis LP grill and found that ANY pizza cooked on the grill with this pizza stone is just head and shoulders better than anything else I've found or made. So now I'm in search of my own "perfect pizza" and I want to start with the crust.Rich


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Across the road from the Houses of Parliament, young mixologists Abdulai Kpekawa and Liam Cotter have quietly re-launched Roux at the Pembury.
The smart cocktail bar looks like the kind of place where you might spot a senior member of the House, with leather Chesterfield sofas, Art Deco lampshades and impeccable service.
The bar's located on the first floor above Michel Roux Jr's French fine dining restaurant Roux at Parliament Square, which opened in May last year.
Subtle signage means you can easily walk past the entrance without noticing it, as most tourists and office workers were doing when we visited on Monday evening.
We were warmly welcomed by Cotter, who introduced the list of 12 specialist cocktails, arranged as a menu of hors d'oeuvres, plats principaux and desserts.
I enjoyed the refreshing Three Citrus Ricky (Ketel One Citroen, fino sherry, yuzu, lemon, pineapple and soda), while my friend tried the signature Pembury Cup (Pimm's, Tanqueray gin, watermelon, coriander and champagne).
There's also a range of posh bar snacks including pork scratchings with smoked paprika, peppers stuffed with feta cheese, and beef and ale pie.
Cocktails cost from £8 to £9.25. If you're after a little bit of affordable luxury in Central London, I'd recommend a visit to this hidden gem.
Roux at the Pembury, Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, Parliament Square, London, SW1P 3AD


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Be Ready Next Time: Business Continuity Lessons From Sandy
Sandy was a storm of record proportions. John Miksad, Con Edison senior vice president for electric operations, said it was the largest storm-related outage in their history and resulted in more than 7.5 million businesses and households without power in 15 states and the District of Columbia.
Moody's Analytics put the economic impact in the $50 billion range. There are tons of stories of devastating losses and powerful testimonials of resolve from survivors and victims of the storm.
However, I hope we remember Sandy not merely for these staggering facts and incredible stories, but for the way it improved your organization's resiliency. Something relatively unique to Sandy was lessons to be learned with popular trends in contingency planning: having a work-from-home strategy for employees and a fixed site for workspace recovery.
In Sandy, organizations that relied on a work-from-home strategy as their only recovery strategy encountered many challenges trying to meet the requirements for employees to: have power at home, have Internet at home and have a working phone. Most if not all of these elements have to work in order to your strategy to work effectively and in Sandy that was very difficult.
Power outages were very common and widespread, especially in residential areas which are generally the last areas to get power restored. This allowed for the smallest of windows for employees to work remotely and forced many of them to move where power and Internet service was available. Furthermore, rampant gas shortages limited how far employees would go for their job.
Compounding the situation was the massive Internet and cell phone outages in the tri-state area. Keynote, an Internet and mobile cloud testing and monitoring service, reported that "almost everyone in and around New York City" experienced either full-scale outages of their Internet connectivity or sporadic performance issues.
However a work-from-home strategy can be a good answer for some organizations in certain industries, as long as it is done right; that is, tested in advance of the disaster. "After disaster strikes, it's really too late to devise a telework plan, experts said. "Companies need to start practicing now," said Barbara Goldberg, owner of Back on Track Solutions, a business that helps businesses overcome disasters to better serve customers.
Another common recovery methodology that was challenged during Sandy was the concept for work space recovery at a fixed facility or data center. In regional events the business practice of over-subscribing their service is exposed. That could leave many organizations helpless waiting at the end of the line for space that may never be available.
As with any building, these facilities are exposed to the same conditions when something as big as Sandy strikes. Even though most of these facilities have redundancies built in and backups in place, there is still the potential they can fail, and in the case of Sandy some did.
If you use an offsite data center, co-location or hot site provider for your systems and data make sure it's located far away from your location so it isn't exposed to the same disasters as your organization. If you continue to rely on them for providing workspace for your employees, I would recommend having backup options that provide you flexibility and multiple options for rescuing your staff.
Perhaps the biggest lessons (and hardest) to be learned is understanding what your recovery strategy/strategies are and enacting them sooner rather than later. Too many organizations waited too long to act and found themselves in a precarious position of standing shoulder to shoulder with thousands of other organizations that wanted the exact same thing they did.
There were many factors at play here: some organizations didn't understand their backup strategies or how to execute them, some wanted to defer spending any money towards recovery until after they were confirmed down and others simply were hoping to be lucky.
Regardless of why organizations didn't move, once supply and demand kicked in and there simply wasn't enough resources to meet the demands of the organizations that failed to act early.
The sobering reality is that some of the businesses that failed to act will go out of business while others won't be as big of a business as they were prior to Oct. 30, 2012. Business continuity and disaster recovery is about the survival of your organization – from the employees to the people and businesses that rely on your product or service.
Disasters are here to stay and many have predicted that storms like Sandy will only become more and more frequent. Don't make the mistake of not looking far enough back in the history books to see what disasters may be lurking beneath your floors or outside your door. (There is a great map of historical disasters at Ready.Gov/Today.)
If you don't take action today, your competitors likely will. So make sure your business is here to stay by preparing for when the "what if" becomes "what now?" Remember, the government isn't there and can't be there to keep you in business in business – that's up to us.
Regardless of your recovery strategy, my goal for you is to have more than just one. I'm not saying to spend this year's and next year's budget adding redundancy to everything you do, but a healthy, mature business continuity and disaster recovery program is one that doesn't rely on a single recovery strategy.
Regional events such as Sandy force you to adapt to the conditions and you have to have a recovery strategy that gives you this flexibility. The next disaster could be here before you know it. Just make sure it doesn't happen before you're ready.
Mark Norton is senior continuity planner at Agility Recovery in Charlotte, N.C.


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Ladies and Gentlemen, it is an honor to be invited to address the members of the World Trade Center, and a great pleasure to be back in New Orleans.
In recognition of the fact that today is Teddy Roosevelt's birthday, I thought it might be appropriate to preface my remarks with an observation about that great outdoorsman and former President. It would have seemed strange and highly unlikely if, at the turn of the century, someone had predicted that the Assistant Secretary of the Navy who had advocated war with Spain in 1898, and then organized and helped lead the First U.S. Volunteer Cavalry in that war, would in just a few years become the first American Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
But the dynamics of history are rarely linear and often unpredictable. And that famous "Roughrider," and author of the classic advice to "Speak softly and carry a big stick," was, in 1906, honored with the Peace Prize for helping negotiate a peace treaty between Russia and Japan that ended the Russo-Japanese War in Manchuria and Korea.
Because history so often presents such surprises, anyone who undertakes to offer predictions has good reason to do so with humility. So I will limit my comments today to a few subjects that I think I can address with some confidence. But, mindful of Teddy Roosevelt's achievements, I shall predict softly and carry a few caveats.
My crow's nest in Washington is a 10th floor office a few blocks North West of the Capitol Building, so whenever I scan the horizon, the legislative branch of our national government figures prominently in my view. And that, I believe, is a good thing - since Congress plays, has played, and will play a major role in the transportation topics I'll be commenting on today.
And, as chairman of an independent federal agency, I am also much in contact with representatives of the U.S. executive departments involved with transportation, international trade, and maritime security.
Beyond the various government officials I've had the pleasure to work with, I also have frequent - and often intellectually valuable - contact with representatives of the various industries that offer, use, or provide services to international liner shipping.
Access to all these perspectives - legislative, executive, and private sector - play a part in helping me and my fellow FMC commissioners perform the job Congress assigned to us: Promoting fairness and efficiency in U.S. ocean commerce. Those diverse perspectives also play an important part in shaping my awareness of what may lie ahead on the metaphorical horizon.
Since today's comments are to deal with "the changing maritime scene," it would not be unreasonable if you came expecting to hear statistics on the exploding growth of America's international trade, pronouncements on proposed expansion of the Panama Canal, opinions on the likely consequences of the ever expanding size of new liner vessels, insights on the long-term impact the Dubai Ports episode, or similar well-known and much discussed topics. But instead, I'd like to focus on a couple of less publicized, but nevertheless very important, items.
Two particular topics of growing importance seem to me to be worth highlighting. And a third one, concerning the international regulation of liner shipping - which has been getting press attention in Europe lately - may also merit a brief mention.
The first topic is maritime security - security plans, procedures, and actions pertaining to vessels, to the cargo that moves on those vessels, to the ports at which that cargo is loaded and unloaded, and to our national economy as a whole - which increasingly depends on the free and efficient flow of international trade.
The second topic - less well publicized, but well deserving of greater public attention - is the question of future funding for landside freight infrastructure. And although the phrase, "future funding for freight infrastructure" may be strongly alliterative, it's neither poetic to the ear, nor much in the public eye. Nevertheless, it's an issue that everyone involved with, or even interested in, ocean shipping and logistics understands is of critical and immediate importance.
Closely associated with ocean freight infrastructure issues - especially in our major port cities - is the growing concern with the various environmental impacts of shipping.
These topics overlap, of course. Rapid trade growth presents heightened security challenges and puts ever greater pressure on inland infrastructure - the expansion of which can have local and even regional environmental effects. So, even though I may discuss them separately, it's useful to remember that these topics are linked in ways that are sometimes direct and obvious, sometimes indirect and obscure.
Maritime Security
In the months and years following the attacks of September 11, 2001, the U.S. government, the nation's public ports, US importers and exporters, and the companies providing international shipping services have been working together to identify and address vulnerabilities related to America's maritime trade. And that cooperative effort quickly expanded to include our major trading partners. In particular, America and its international partners have developed a container security initiative for ports - an initiative to establish pre-loading container inspection procedures and protocols. That initiative has been expanded to include some 44 foreign ports from which (collectively) more that 75% of our nation's containerized imports (by volume) are loaded.
With considerable international cooperation and strong public-private support domestically, the basic framework for America's maritime security efforts is, by now, well established. The Coast Guard, for example, oversees security planning and its implementation at U.S. ports and on vessels in the U.S. trade. Other elements of the Department of Homeland Security ("DHS") are responsible for cargo security and personnel security - including the program to develop, test, and put in place a Transport Worker Identification Credential known as TWIC - and for cargo security.
Even to describe our existing maritime security programs, plans and procedures, to say nothing of discussing the details, is a speech in itself - and a long one. So I will limit my remarks to a few words about one aspect of cargo security that I think is likely to be of pressing importance in the next year or two: The need to obtain more accurate, more detailed, and (most important) more relevant cargo shipment data if DHS is to improve its risk assessment and targeting system for containerized cargo.
Currently, Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the arm of DHS that operates its risk assessment and targeting program, makes use of data provided by ocean carriers to help them determine which containers are most likely to pose a security risk - including the importation of chemical, biological, or nuclear devices C and thus require further investigation. Ideally that "further investigation" would be carried out at a foreign port before any high risk container was loaded on a vessel bound for America.
Obviously, the more relevant and accurate the data used in the initial security screening, the more likely that the high risk containers will be timely identified. Better data allows better analysis, and leads to superior risk assessment and targeting.
But cargo risk assessment is a complex and data intensive business. And it has become increasingly clear that, to improve the data used in the analysis, it will be necessary to go to the best available source. In most cases that means to the shippers - and, in particular, U.S. importers. These shippers own the cargo in question and are responsible, directly or indirectly, for the selection of the overseas suppliers that produce the cargo, the cargo consolidators that pack it and make transportation arrangements, and land and ocean transportation providers.
Realizing the importance of improving its cargo risk assessment system, DHS is reportedly engaged in an initiative - sometimes called the "10 plus 2" approach - to acquire better data. The initiative would, if fully adopted, require the U.S. importer of record to supply Customs and Border Protection with 10 key pieces of data about the import cargo 24 hours before that cargo is loaded on a U.S.-bound vessel. It would also require the ocean carrier to provide 2 additional pieces of necessary information.
But an initial, pre-loading cargo risk assessment is not the only value of better, more relevant shipment data. As citizens of New Orleans, where Hurricane Katrina so recently produced a particularly painful object lesson in how important it is to be able to recover quickly from a disaster, you can readily appreciate that the data provided for the pre-shipping cargo risk assessment could well have an important second use. In the event that one or more containers were used in a terrorist attack, a rapid review of the relevant shipment data could be critical for making a post-event evaluation of what happened, and for determining what other cargos to allow into U.S. ports in the aftermath.
In short, data collected for both pre-shipping risk assessment and post- event recovery planning is vital to protecting our nation, while, at the same time, assuring the free flow of America's international ocean commerce. And so, two rather straightforward implications follow: First, that the collection of relevant shipment data, its appropriate use, and its secure maintenance is going to put an increasing - but necessary - burden on U.S. importers to timely collect and provide the key data.
Second, ocean transportation intermediaries, the firms that consolidate and take responsibility for a significant amount of America's import cargo, are going to find themselves under increasing scrutiny as part of this data improvement initiative. It's going to become a national security concern, not just a regulatory legal concern, that we can identify who these intermediaries are, what cargo they're taking responsibility for, and what their legal status is.
So, in scanning this one small (but critical) section of the maritime security horizon, I feel confident in saying that in the not-very-distant future, ocean transportation intermediaries - and the shippers that use them, and the ocean carriers who contract to carry cargo with them - will find it essential to be certain that intermediary licensing and bonding requirements have been fully complied with.
Inland Freight Infrastructure
And beyond assuring that our nation's imports and exports are safe and secure, there is still the issue of being able to get them to and from the vessels on which they cross the seas.
Just last month, President Bush appointed a new secretary of transportation, Mary E. Peters. Secretary Peters brings to her new job over 20 years of experience with difficult transportation challenges, including, in particular, those related to America's highway system. She now commands nearly 60,000 employees, a budget of almost $62 million dollars, and a mission to help maintain and improve the safety, reliability and efficiency of America's transportation system. That's a very tall order.
In the next month or two, Secretary Peters will probably have the opportunity to review a transportation planning document entitled "A National Strategy for the United States Marine Transportation System," which is currently in draft form undergoing final revisions and polishing at the staff level. That document will include a description of the major trends and challenges that our marine transportation system faces - aging infrastructure, productivity constraints, lack of coordinated planning, threats to safety, security and environmental quality, and - perhaps most important - a lack of public awareness of the importance of the maritime transportation system and of the impending crisis we face in maintaining and expanding the system to meet expected future trade growth.
Because political commitment to finding and funding solutions so often depends on a public awareness of the nature and extent of the problem to be addressed, I believe it's important that transportation and international trade experts read the National Strategy for the US Maritime Transportation System when the final version is released. And I'd further urge you to bring it to the attention of your local, state and national political leaders.
In a similar vein, we at the Federal Maritime Commission have noticed new types of agreements - non-traditional in focus and innovative in approach - being filed with our agency. These new style agreements among terminal operators and between neighboring ports, are designed to allow and encourage cooperation on projects to reduce traffic congestion, advance environmental clean-up measures, and investigate ways to fund freight infrastructure improvements.
So far these new style agreements have tended to focus on Southern California - with some interesting innovative agreements covering a broader range of port areas that deal with organizing and running chassis pools. But as these new agreements - aimed, as I said, at increasing transportation efficiency, combating congestion, enhancing the local environment, and improving port-related infrastructure - take off, I expect them to offer a model to other regions facing similar problems.
So, when I see our national strategic planners looking at the maritime transportation system in terms of public-private partnerships, and in my own back yard see the innovative approaches being taken by public port authorities and private sector entities, I conclude that looking to the private sector, rather than just the legislative branch, for planning and investment in maritime transportation, is likely to prove an important new direction in the years ahead.
A major challenge lies ahead, I'm afraid, in translating the broad and somewhat abstract national maritime transportation strategy into specific, concrete projects with adequate funding. So, I'm hoping our new DOT Secretary will take a central role in helping assure that happens. And I hope Congress and the other executive departments will give Secretary Peters the support she needs and deserves.
The International Scene
Finally, let me offer a few, brief observations about my own regulatory realm, international liner shipping. As you may know, the European Union ("EU") recently voted to radically revise the legal treatment of liner shipping in the European trades. Two years from now, in October 2008, the EU will end what they call the "bloc exemption" for liner shipping companies to collectively set and discuss rates. What the precise dimensions of carrier collective activity will be at that point is still under discussion C and open for public comment. The European Commission's Directorate for Competition (their equivalent, roughly speaking, of our Department of Justice Antitrust Division) has promised to offer "guidelines" sometime in 2008.
Since the EU has always approached the regulation of liner shipping in its own distinct way - more legalistic and confrontational than our more pragmatic and consensus-based approach - the decision to remove the existing exemption from standard competition policy was not unexpected. And, as a result, the existence of two distinct regulatory regimes for international liner shipping can be expected after October 2008. So, for the moment, it appears that we may soon see - in the European trades - the beginning of an interesting experiment in the economics of liner shipping.
It appears likely that Europe and the US will both maintain a limited antitrust exemption for operational agreements among carriers; the US will continue to provide a similar exemption for public port authorities and marine terminal operators; but the Europeans will no longer allow immunity for collective trade-lane agreements with authority to discuss rates. It isn't yet clear what such ocean carriers might yet be allowed to discuss - and, I suppose, it won't be until the promised guidelines are issued.
In the U.S. and throughout the rest of the world - including, most notably, our major Asian trading partners - rate discussion agreements likely will remain. In 1998, Congress - following detailed negotiations among U.S. shippers, port authorities, maritime labor and ocean carriers - passed the Ocean Shipping Reform Act ("OSRA") which further limited the immunity granted to ocean carriers, and introduced provisions that essentially eliminated conference contracts in favor of confidential contracts offered by individual lines. The previous problem of delay and bureaucracy associated with the conference contracting process disappeared as well.
So, by enacting OSRA, Congress, in effect, modernized the antitrust provisions of the Shipping Act - introducing efficiency-enhancing regulatory reforms, especially in the areas of contract negotiation and carrier pricing. It also introduced new elements of regulatory flexibility that allowed, and permits, the Commission to introduce further pro-competitive reforms as warranted. And, OSRA's successful implementation reduced tensions between shippers and carriers and helped foster an environment supportive of their cooperation in the areas I mentioned earlier - maritime security and the promotion of a modern and efficient maritime transportation system.
It is going to be interesting to see what happens in the European liner trades in 2009 and 2010. But (and if this is a biased perspective - it's a bias informed by long and diverse experience), it seems to me that OSRA is working well, Congress's goals are being met, and our major Asian trade partners - including China, Japan and Singapore - support U.S. style expert agency regulation over the soon-to-be-tested European approach. So, I believe that, for the foreseeable future the likely course - and frankly the more prudent one -will be to keep OSRA and use its built-in reform process as needed.
Let me conclude these remarks by reiterating how pleased I am to have been invited back to New Orleans, and thanking you for your kind attention.
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An organization that provides therapy and other services to the area's needy families is raising money for the cause.
Manatee Hope will host its fifth annual dinner and silent auction Saturday, Oct. 6, at the Elks Lodge in Palmetto.
Guests are asked to dress in their best Mardi Gras attire for the evening, which will feature dancing, dinner, a silent auction and live music by Rusty Trumpet.
The East County-based nonprofit provides mental-health assistance, case management, speech and physical services, counseling, parent-and-child interaction therapy programs and more for uninsured, homeless or low-income families in need.
Visit manateehope.com for more information.


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Holden helps Bolton edge Birmingham, advance to FA Cup semifinals.
Adu thrives in new home, scores winner for Rizespor of Turkey.
Jones goes the distance for Blackburn, which drops Fulham 3-2.
Edu scores key goal, Glasgow Rangers advance in Europa League.
Dempsey fails on penalty kick, Fulham can only tie Chelsea 0-0.
Edu helps Rangers draw with Celtic, forcing Scottish Cup replay.
Dempsey beats Friedel, allowing Fulham to draw 2-2 with Villa.
Findley, Clark go down for weeks with injuries during training.
Bradley joins Aston Villa from Germany after transfer odyssey.
Onyewu strains back muscle, Twente awaits test results.
Edu tally helps Rangers to easy 4-0 victory over Hamilton.
Spector scores again, helps West Ham blank Barnsley 2-0 in FA Cup.
Onyewu appears headed to Dutch champ FC Twente from AC Milan.
Strange own goal undoes Howard, Everton in 1-1 draw with West Ham.
Clark, Cooper return to action for their clubs in Germany.
Holden drills home winner, lifting Bolton to 2-1 decision over Rovers.
Friedel's future is unclear as Villa searches for replacement.
Howard concedes bad PK, goal; Everton still draws 1-1 with Chelsea.
Friedel considers return to Columbus Crew as player-coach.
Spector's first two goals in six years lead West Ham to shocking rout of Man. U.
Dempsey assumes Fulham lead in goals, provides draw with Birmingham.
Riding the bench in Greece, Adu tries to find home in Denmark.
Holden's scores first EPL goal, adds assist in Bolton triumph.
Edu's goal before early exit gives Rangers 1-1 draw with Inverness.
With Edu in midfield, Rangers down Celtic to stay atop Premier League.
Neck injury to disable Bocanegra for at least three weeks.
Dempsey strike helps Fulham to another draw, 1-1 with West Ham.
Americans Abroad
(Monday, March 21, 2011) -- Stuart Holden, expected to be amidfield starter for the United States men this summer in the CONCACAF Gold Cup, is expected to be out for six months after sustaining a deep gash to his left knee sustained in an English Premier League match Saturday.
In the 75th minute of Bolton Wanderers' 1-0 loss to Manchester United, the Bolton midfielder and United defender Jonny Evans went after a ball on the ground, but Evans' boots were studs up and one bit deeply into the side of Holden's left knee. Teammates frantically waved medics onto the field and Holden was carried off the field on a stretcher before being taken immediately to a hospital. Evans was shown a red card.
Initial X-rays of Holden's knee and leg showed no broken bones. He was kept overnight with 26 stitches needed to close the cut before he was sent home. On Twitter, Holden wrote: "Just got home from hospital and last set of scans, all stitched up and awaiting the results. Thanks again for all your support. . . Not good news."
Today, he explained surgery was imminent: "I can promise you all I will come back stronger and better than before. Have had bad luck in the past and will continue to beat it."
The extent of his injury has not been released, but it is likely he suffered tendon damage. "First and foremost, our main concern is for Stuart and his recovery. He will get all the time and support that he needs," Owen Coyle, the Bolton manager, told the media. "Stuart has been outstanding for me this season and he has shown in his performances that he is one of the best midfielders in the Premier League. He has such desire, strength of character and a winning mentality, and he will draw on all those attributes in his rehabilitation."
Via Twitter, Holden said he did not think Evans tried to injure him. "Just had a sincere phone call from Jonny Evans wishing me the best in my recovery," he revealed, "(Definitely) wasn't intentional."
Two more American defenders playing in Europe will miss the upcoming U.S. friendlies against Argentina and Paraguay. Steve Cherundolo and Zak Whitbread have been dropped from the U.S. roster.
Both played full matches this weekend with their European clubs, but both are carrying minor injuries and will use the international match date weekend to mend further. Cherundolo has a groin strain and Whitbread is bothered by a sore back.
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Longtime GM Cook to represent Tigers at Draft
By Jason Beck / MLB.com
DETROIT -- For the second consecutive year, the Tigers will use the First-Year Player Draft to pay homage to a longtime Major League general manager on their staff.
Once again, Murray Cook will serve as the Tigers' representative for the first night of the First-Year Player Draft on June 6 at MLB Network's Studio 42. Unlike last year, he'll actually have a pick to announce.
The Tigers went three years without a first-round selection, having surrendered them as free-agent compensation. Because of that, their participation in Major League Baseball's new tradition of honoring former legends as draft reps has been pretty much invisible.
This year, they not only kept their first-round pick, but added a sandwich pick at the end of the first round that they acquired from the Marlins in last season's trade for Anibal Sanchez and Omar Infante.
They'll get to honor Cook, who served as general manager of the Yankees, Expos and Reds during the 1980s. Though his highest-profile job was the GM post under George Steinbrenner in New York, he made his name for taking chances to accumulate talent that paid off in three seasons in Montreal.
Some of that came from trading established stars. When the Expos traded Hall of Fame catcher Gary Carter, Cook swung the deal for a package that included Hubie Brooks, who became an All-Star shortstop in Montreal. Cook pounced when the Orioles decided to trade Dennis Martinez, who went on to three All-Star selections, an ERA title and a perfect game as an Expo. Another risky signing, Pascual Perez, posted a 7-0 record in 1987 and threw a rain-shortened no-hitter in 1988.
Cook also made a key pickup for the front office when he hired Dave Dombrowski, who had just been let go by then-White Sox general manager Ken Harrelson, to become the Expos' director of Minor League clubs in December 1986. A year and a half later, Dombrowski became the Expos' general manager, and he now serves as Tigers president, CEO and general manager.
Though Cook became known in Cincinnati as the Reds' general manager during the Pete Rose scandal, he put together several of the pieces that helped lead them to the World Series in 1990. Cook traded for a talented young arm in Jose Rijo soon after his hire, sent Kal Daniels to the Dodgers for Mariano Duncan, and acquired Todd Benzinger in the Nick Esasky trade.
Cook has had a second career as a scout over the past two decades, including stints working for Dombrowski with the Marlins until 2002 and with the Tigers since 2007. He currently scouts central Florida and the Northeast for the Tigers' draft efforts.
Tuiasosopo walks way into rare Tigers company
DETROIT -- Sunday night was a performance to behold for at least one Tiger, even if it was in defeat. As Matt Tuiasosopo stepped to the plate time and again, only to toss his bat and take his base, he was walking his way to a career best.
What, you were thinking about Miguel Cabrera's three-homer performance? Actually, what Tuiasosopo did Sunday -- walking four times in a game without any of them intentional -- is something not even Cabrera has done as a Tiger.
In fact, just three other Tigers have done it since 2000. Austin Jackson did it once in each of the previous two seasons. Brennan Boesch and Gary Sheffield did it once each. All of them were regulars. Tuiasosopo is not, but his at-bats earned him a rare start against a right-hander Tuesday night in Cleveland, which started Corey Kluber.
Tuiasosopo made the team as an aggressive, lefty-pounding power hitter, and he has far exceeded expectations. Yet he had never walked more than twice in a big league game, nor had he walked more than three times in a Minor League game.
Three of those walks Sunday night came after Tuiasosopo worked the count full, one of them battling out of an 0-2 hole.
"He obviously did a pretty good job the other night," manager Jim Leyland said.
Those at-bats, plus a huge reverse split for Kluber, earned Tuiasosopo the start. Right-handed batters entered Tuesday hitting .357 (20-for-56) off Kluber, compared to .256 (14-for-57) for left-handed hitters.
"He's done a good job against left-handers, hitting over .400, so I ran him out there tonight," Leyland said. "He might run into one, I don't know, but he's giving us good at-bats."
Dotel's recovery will require rehab assignment
DETROIT -- Octavio Dotel has resumed throwing on schedule as the Tigers try to work him back slowly from the elbow inflammation that has sidelined him for a month.
Dotel was shut down a little more than a week ago after experiencing more discomfort while throwing. After a second opinion from Dr. James Andrews confirmed no structural damage, Dotel went on a six-day medication cycle. So far, he has come out of that throwing pain-free at the Tigers' Spring Training complex in Florida.
The plan is for Dotel to begin a throwing progression that will eventually lead to a Minor League rehab assignment, meaning it will still be a while before Dotel returns, even if all goes well.
The Tigers have struggled to fill Dotel's right-handed middle relief role. Al Alburquerque is back at Triple-A Toledo now, trying to find his command, while Jose Ortega has taken on a good amount of righty middle work.
Prospect Worth remains shut down with heel injury
DETROIT -- Tigers infield prospect Danny Worth was shut down from baseball activity again last week after suffering a setback with his bruised right heel.
The Triple-A Toledo shortstop, who was one of the Tigers' last cuts out of Spring Training, had resumed running and was taking ground balls, but felt pain in the heel when he tried to pick up his activity while running in spikes with a protective heel pad. It's the same activity that gave him trouble earlier.
Worth is shut down from most activity until he's pain free. He took throws at first base and fielded ground balls hit directly at him during batting practice at Triple-A Toledo this past weekend, but nothing that involves moving around.
The plan, Worth said, is to head to Florida after the Mud Hens' homestand ends Wednesday so that he can work out at extended spring training. Worth said he's hoping he can play in some extended spring games and rejoin the Hens next week during their road series in Charlotte, N.C., though that may be optimistic.
Worth hasn't played since bruising the heel on a play at first base on April 17. The injury is similar to the one that sidelined Avisail Garcia for about a month.
Quick hits
• The Tigers will join other teams across Major League Baseball in wearing camouflage-colored jerseys and caps on Memorial Day, when they host the Pirates in a 1:05 p.m. ET game at Comerica Park.
• As odd as it seems to have an off-day in Cleveland, less than three hours from Detroit, it was a blessing after Sunday night's game in Texas. The team arrived in Cleveland around 4:30 a.m. ET Monday morning.
• Alburquerque, optioned to Triple-A Toledo last Wednesday, has reported to the Mud Hens after missing the weekend. Alburquerque returned home to the Dominican Republic to attend to a personal matter, according to the Tigers, and the team gave him permission to take longer than the usual 72-hour window to report.
• Brayan Villarreal says he feels fine, but is trying to repeat his delivery from one inning to the next as he works through his ups and downs at Triple-A Toledo. Villarreal has tossed back-to-back solid outings since walking the bases loaded last Thursday.
Jason Beck is a reporter for MLB.com. Read Beck's Blog and follow him on Twitter @beckjason. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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September 18, 2009
The shoot that keeps on giving - more EW out-takes!
I spotted the first one on MySpace and tracked the other two on Kristen Stewart Fan - please let us know if you have the original source :)
- Lorabell
Update: I don't think I've seen these before either... I'm losing track ;)
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- SparklesSeptember 18, 2009 at 12:54 AM
Too cute :) xxxReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 18, 2009 at 12:54 AM
Awww! The first one is so adorable. Kristen looks cute :]ReplyDelete
Love these! I miss pre-mullet Kristen.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 18, 2009 at 6:27 AM
Kristen Stewart has the best ass in hollywood.ReplyDelete
I am fed up with Tay tay I need some Rob pleeeease!!!!!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 18, 2009 at 9:54 AM
Robsten is phony.ReplyDelete
punkd_images has outed them as being 100% bs.
there a pap company who work up in vancouver and know the inside of the cast,they work for Lainey as well.
Its all a pr stunt.
@ Anonymous, hey are you bitter much!!! Who cares if Robsten is real it's their private business!!!!ReplyDelete
Lighten up, it isn't the end of the world one way or the other.
Kristen really is gorgeous in these shots but I'm with Dina on this one Tay Tay is really wearing on my nerves!
I say bring on the Tay Tay. His enthusiasm is infectious.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 18, 2009 at 6:30 PM
where are you guys today? I can't live without my twicrack.ReplyDelete
He's so yummy he's like candy.ReplyDelete
- twilightislifeSeptember 19, 2009 at 11:27 AM
OMG these are the best pictures i've ever seen of kristen, gorgeous!!!ReplyDelete
She's beautifulReplyDelete
yeah, you had seen those before:) they were on the cover. it was probably one of the best photoshoots with Kristen, I think. maybe VF last year was better, though.ReplyDelete


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Last week, several hundred people came together to celebrate the kickoff of our local United Way's annual fundraising campaign. Heartfelt speeches inspired us, talented local musicians entertained us and campaign chair Sam McCachern's show-stopping fly-through-the-air entrance amazed us with his sheer guts.
Once safely back on the ground, he announced United Way's $8.8 million fundraising goal.
I always leave United Way campaign kickoffs impressed by the pluck of campaign chairs doing back flips on suspension wires, dressing in costumes and being incredibly good sports in the cause of fundraising for human services needs in our community.
Behind the campaign chairs and helping them to succeed is an army of staffers, volunteers and organizations of all types. They demonstrate throughout the campaign a wholehearted belief in United Way's work to provide funding for local nonprofits that help our community members in need. Sincere thanks to all of you for your committed and generous service.
Last year much of the community held its collective breath when this United Way announced its campaign goal of $8.3 million dollars. That was a bold, brave move in a troubled economy in which both companies and individuals have been closely watching their pennies. But United Way not only reached its goal, but it also surpassed it.
Asked what helps to make a successful campaign, United Way Executive Director Gregg Schroeder touted the importance of recruiting hundreds of highly effective volunteers as "a leveraging factor that makes all the difference."
The "loaned executive" volunteers from local organizations in our area are critically important to raising each year's campaign funds. And other volunteers also play a key role.
"United Way has broad appeal and trust in the community," Schroeder said. "Our project volunteers help us to build that trust. In 2011, we provided over 6,000 volunteers for community projects through the Hands On Savannah network. That's twice the number we recruited in 2010 and shows a dramatic growth in our community's spirit of volunteerism.
"The dedicated Hands On Savannah staff have done a great job in reaching this number. Staffers Shirley Sessions and Kim Fritz have both a high level of professionalism and a true heart for volunteerism."
United Way is also helping nonprofits to better track and demonstrate their programs' impact on the community.
Across the country, United Way organizations are in various stages of transition from, as Schroeder said, "funding good causes to funding good causes doing good work that's measurable and accountable."
These days, that accountability is the foundation of nonprofit credibility with community fund programs like United Way's and with foundation and corporate giving programs.
Whether a small, young nonprofit or more mature one, it can be tough to get your arms around measures for specific goals that show community impact. United Way is front and center in the effort to help nonprofits understand and develop these measures. United Way's due diligence process ensures only nonprofits that demonstrate these measures will be funded and helps to continue to build the public's trust.
So bravo, United Way leaders, staff and volunteers. We are with you. Local Pace Setter organizations started their community fund campaigns early and have already raised over $1 million. To contribute to the community campaign or learn more about the United Way's local community impact goals go to their website at www.uwce.org.
Sarah Todd is executive director of Girls on the Run of Coastal Georgia and founder of Change Pioneers, an information resource on innovative change leadership in the service sector. She can be reached at 912-224-2120 or email@example.com.


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#2 New England Revolution vs. #3 Chicago Fire – Eastern Conference semi-finals (total goals)
Chicago Fire 1, New England Revolution 0 (Game 1)
Toyota Park; Bridgeview, Ill.
October 22, 2006
After finishing the regular season one point shy of second place New England, the Chicago Fire would welcome the Revolution in the first-ever playoff game at Toyota Park.
Despite being outshot 12-8, the Fire would find the game's only goal in the 35th minute when Justin Mapp's placed his left footed free kick over the Revolution wall and inside the right post.
Fire goalkeeper Matt Pickens would come up huge in goal, making eight saves to tie Zach Thornton's record for most in an MLS playoff game.
#2 New England Revolution vs. #3 Chicago Fire – Eastern Conference semi-finals (total goals)
New England Revolution 2 (4), Chicago Fire 1 (2) asdet (Game 2)
Gillette Stadium; Foxboro, Mass.
October 28, 2006
The Fire looked to have command of the series early on when Mapp beat his marker to the end line on the right before centering for Nate Jaqua who touched his effort past Matt Reis at the near post, taking the aggregate score to 2-0.
New England didn't relent though and pulled things level in the 41st minute when Andy Dorman helped put Joey Franchino into the box on the left. The Revolution captain quickly crossed and picked out Taylor Twellman whose shot beat Pickens inside the left post.
The Revolution continued to threaten after the break and would bring things level when Jeff Larentowicz's shot from outside the box was stopped by C.J. Brown but the ball deflected straight to Pat Noonan who calmly finished past Pickens, eventually sending the match to extra time.
Both teams traded blows in the overtime periods but couldn't convert, pushing the game to penalty kicks.
Fire midfielder Thiago would miss the first take while New England converted each of their first four. Ivan Guerrero stepped up and saw his low shot to the left saved by Reis leaving Taylor Twellman to send home the winning penalty and the Fire in the process.
WATCH: 2006 Eastern Conference Semifinal Leg 2


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Net Zero Future
"Net Zero Future" explores the dynamic field of net-zero (NZ) buildings - buildings that produce as much (or more) energy than they consume. What seemed impossible only a few years ago is a reality today, as more and more NZ buildings come online. Jim Young, a veteran technical expert in energy use in buildings, explores such topics as smart buildings, data analytics, energy-efficient lighting systems, lighting and daylighting controls, energy standards (e.g., ASHRAE 90.1), and renewable energy sources (e.g., photovoltaics, solar hot water). With case studies of successful NZ projects, technical reports, new products and technologies, mobile apps, and more.


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text: Did anyone catch Floyd Landis' allegations of doping in a recent Wall Street Journal article? http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704911704575326753200584006.html He says that he doped and Armstrong doped. To which I say: No kidding. I honestly don't think there is a single clean rider in the entire Tour de France, and there is no way Lance Armstrong was clean either. How could someone win all those titles against guys who were doping if he wasn't doping also? Anyway, Landis says the riders used to use EPO, but now there is a test to catch that. So they have gone back to giving themselves transfusions of their own blood. Honestly, I think the rules should allow that. Yeah, it's icky. Yeah, it's doping. But they're going to do it anyway, and I doubt there are any adverse long-term health consequences from repeatedly drawing and taking your own blood.


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The announcements by Yeh and Espinosa could create opportunities for new candidates to jump into the race. The city's most recent council elections, in 2009, attracted 14 candidates, only one of whom (Larry Klein) was an incumbent.
So far, only two new candidates have opted to enter the race. Former Mayor Liz Kniss, who is concluding her final term on the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors, announced her decision in January. She served as mayor in 1994 and in 2000.
Kniss was first elected to the Board of Supervisors in 2000 and was re-elected in 2004 and 2008. Despite her more than decade-long hiatus from the council, she has remained a familiar figure at City Hall, updating the council on various regional issues, most notably Caltrain.
Kniss has twice served as president of the Board of Supervisors (most recently in 2010) and has chaired various committees focused on health and land-use policies.
She also encouraged the city last year to switch the council elections from odd to even years to save money and spur greater voter participation. The council put Measure E on the 2010 ballot, and it passed overwhelmingly.
More recently, attorney Marc Berman declared his candidacy. At 31, he could inject some youth into a council that is about to lose its two youngest members. While he doesn't have Kniss' political experience or name recognition, he has been gradually building a broad base of support through various volunteering efforts. He served in 2010 on the campaign committee for Measure A, the school district's successful parcel-tax proposal. Last year, he was a member of the Infrastructure Blue Ribbon Task Force, a citizens group that surveyed the city's infrastructural needs and recommended ways to pay for the needed repairs.
Berman's fledgling campaign has already received the support of dozens of local attorneys, professionals and residents and more than $22,000 in cash contributions. His list of contributors includes venture capitalist Steve Westly, former Mayor Gary Fazino, former school board member Carolyn Tucher and current Councilwoman Nancy Shepherd.
Yeh's announcement Tuesday came five days after Espinosa said he won't be running again. In announcing his decision, Espinosa called serving on the council "one of the most rewarding experiences of my life." He also encouraged other candidates to run for what he called an "important and rewarding job."
Espinosa, a Microsoft executive who directs the company's philanthropic efforts in Silicon Valley, said he is weighing various opportunities in the private and public sectors and plans to spend some time between now and the end of the year figuring out which of these to pursue.
Yeh, a Gunn High School graduate who in his five years at the dais emerged as the council's leading expert on energy issues, put his own stamp on the largely ceremonial mayoral position this year by launching a series of "Mayor's Challenge" sporting competitions to bring neighborhoods together. Yeh, who previously worked as assistant city auditor for the City of Oakland, has also been a strong supporter of the city's efforts to engage local youth and a leading proponent of the city's aggressive green-energy programs.
In his announcement, Yeh listed issues the city needs to focus on in the coming months: repairing the city's infrastructure, holding "constructive stakeholder dialogues" on tackling the city's long-term financial liabilities, deepening the city's engagement with the innovation community, supporting the city's "Friends" groups and pursuing a carbon-neutral electric portfolio.
Yeh, who is the first Chinese-American mayor in Palo Alto's history, called serving as mayor and councilman "an adventure and honor."
Meanwhile, Burt and Schmid decided to try to keep their respective council adventures going. Schmid, an economist, emerged in recent years as one of the council's most outspoken opponents of regional housing mandates. The soft-spoken and methodical councilman has even authored a white paper challenging the census projections that the Association of Bay Area Governments is using to support these mandates.
Schmid was also a leading force behind the recent colleagues' memo addressing the subject of the city's pension and health care liabilities. The council earlier this month voted to hold a broad and public conversation to address these topics in September.
Burt, who co-authored the recent memo (along with Schmid, Vice Mayor Greg Scharff and Councilwoman Karen Holman), served as Palo Alto's mayor in 2010 and has been a central player in the city's opposition to high-speed rail and the regional effort to improve flood protection near the San Francisquito Creek.
Burt told the Weekly that if re-elected, he plans to pursue his primary goals in transforming the city government into a leaner and more efficient organization; establishing Palo Alto as an environmental leader; and boosting the city's emergency-preparedness efforts.
Burt represents Palo Alto on the Peninsula Cities Consortium, a coalition of cities working on high-speed rail issues, and serves as board chair of the San Francisquito Creek Joint Powers Authority, an agency that aims to improve flood control around the volatile creek in Palo Alto, East Palo Alto and Menlo Park.
Burt called emergency-preparedness a priority that's "not particularly glamorous but extremely important."
In terms of creating a "more efficient and innovative city government," Burt said: "Over the past four years, we've made great progress, but there's more work to do."
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November, and evening is closing in as DI Jack Caffery arrives to interview the victim of a stolen car. The man who's stolen the car has also taken an eleven year-old girl.
And she's still missing. Sergeant Flea Marley has heard about the car-jacker. He's done it before, she tells Caffery. Twice. Only previously he's let the girls go.
A day later the car is found. Inside, there's a letter: "It's started". And Caffery knows that soon the jacker will choose another random car, the only important thing being the girl in the back seat. Caffery's a good and instinctive cop but this time the jacker seems to be ahead of him - every step of the way....
©2010 Mo Hayder (P)2010 Isis Publishing Ltd
"Gone....but not forgotten"
I had previously read all of Mo Hayder's earlier books. ('Birdman' and 'Tokyo' are both brilliant.) This was my first audio version of one of her books. Initially I wasn't too keen on the reader's voice but then I thought that this might be because I already had my version of Jack Caffrey and Flea Marley's voices in my head.
The story is excellent and I raced through it. I came to enjoy the narrator's voice and would thoroughly recommend this book. It's one of those stories you can't get out of your head.
"A Well Constructed Plot"
This is one of the best detective stories I have read (or heard!). It was well-read and the plot was gripping - couldn't put it down. I have pre-selected two more Mo Hayder books for next month. Admittedly the ending was a little 'Hollywood', but I didn't mind as it was so well constructed and I enjoyed the twists in the plot.
"Jackanory narration"
A decent story but a ridiculously purple vocal performance. The plot was decent and my wife is a big fan of the author.
"Atrocious narration kills this thriller."
This is a good story read by unsuitable narrator. The dialogue and accents are acceptable but the narrator seems to emphasise the wrong part of the sentence. His reading style is irritating to the point of making this book an unbearable listen.
Jack Caffery, well structured character with good intentions and plenty of flaws.
The narrator's reading style not suitable for this type of story.
Disappointment. Having read all the Jack Caffery books I think Gone and Skin are the weakest in the series. Gone has a suspenseful plot line but the Flea Marley character is tedious. She argues with everybody, she comes across as a loose canon hell bent on taking ridiculous risks to further the investigation but never reveals her plans to anyone.
If you are still inclined to read Gone buy the print version!
"Excellent police procedural"
Well plotted, not so gory that you think the author is trying too hard.
The main police characters , though flawed, are believable. The story line not too sensational as to be unbelievable. A good all-round read.
"very good read"
I was not sure what to expect from this book but once I started to read it I struggled put it down.
"Not as good as previous books by the same author"
I really enjoyed the two earlier books I read by this author, but this one is not to the same standard. The ending, in particular, was disappointing - especially after the gritty realism of the earlier books - and descriptions are often repetitive (many faces are 'ashen', for example). The narrator, too, as other reviewers have pointed out, is distracting, and more suited to children's books than to an adult thriller. I still recommend the earlier books, though - I thought they were excellent!
Hanging Hill was the first of Mo Hayders books that I experienced so I decided to try some other titles including Gone, which I thought was first rate. My only criticism is that I have noticed that not all Mo Hayder titles are narrated by the same author, which is a shame as I find my images of the characters link to the voice of the narrator (in this case, Andrew Wincott) and it would be an improvement to always hear Inspector Caffrey (for example) keeping the same voice in all the books. However, the plot was superb... I couldnt wait to keep going although I didnt want the book to end.
Dont read this if you are claustrophobic or afraid of the dark. It's quite depressing and a bit far fetched in places but what else do you expect from this author. I'm glad I read the first Jack Caffrey novels though. It meant I knew all about his brother which the story keeps referring to. Good listen although I personally found the narration a bit annoying.
"I'm hooked"
Throughly enjoyed this book couldn't put it down, it was the 2nd mo hayder book i read and can't wait for the next. The reader was excellent love his voice!!
"Winner of Edgar Award for 2012"
This is my introduction to Mo Hayder.
I have just downloaded a second of her books. Interested? Yes I am.
The characters are plausable.
The story is interesting and a little scary,
It is a part of a series and the most recent available on Audible.
So perhaps, in my not being familiar with what has gone before I may
be losing something. Keeping that in mind I also figure a story can
hold its own.
For me though Mo Hayder is good enough to listen to a second of
her books in the series.
In a way she is setting her own style in letting her characters be
themselves and I do find that interesting. While the series does follow
a main character, the story line and plots explores how people do
respond to and react to others and how this influences what happens next.
No super hero as such, but a team with a team leader is viewed in action.
The ideosyncratic motivations and interactions are followed, and so there
are sub plots. It is these that I expect do develop through the series.
"Excellent listening for busy people"
Good British Thriller
Always when they save the victim
When the police arranged the sting which led to the end of the monster
Good book for me as I travel by air a lot, and actually look forward to waiting for take-off etc so that I can catch up.
This is one of those rare books that I couldn't put down and had to listen to at the expense of everything else.
Very emotive especially to anyone who has a child. The narrator was great at the different accents.
I like that the romance didn't take over the novel. It's a crime novel first and foremost.
Highly recommend for anyone who enjoys British crime novels
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LOTRO Update 9: take such friends as are trusty and willing
Lord of the Rings Online: Update 9 – Against the Shadow releases today. Stephany Nunneley saddles her horse and rides forth into Middle-earth to see what's new.
LOTRO: Riders of Rohan expansion launches today
Lord of the Rings Online: Riders of Rohan is the latest expansion to Turbine's MMO, and it's available from today. Check out what the pack involves below.
LOTRO: Riders of Rohan landscape screens prep you for mounted combat
Riders of Rohan, the mounted combat expansion to Lord of the Rings Online, launches on Monday, and to celebrate the release, Turbine has sent over quite a few landscape shots. Enjoy.
LOTRO: Riders of Rohan developer diary focuses on the soundtrack
Riders of Rohan, the expansion for Lord of the Rings Online is out next week, and to get you a bit excited over it, a new developer diary focusing on the sountrack is available below. The music in the MMO has always been one of its strong points, and it sounds as through RoR won't […]
LOTRO: Riders of Rohan developer video delves into the Epic Storyline
Lord of the Rings Online has a new developer diary out for Riders of Rohan, which takes a look at the Epic Storyline. There's information in there on how the team at Turbine brought some of the locations in the book to life, and how deep down, poor Boromir was still a good guy – […]
LOTRO: Riders of Rohan screenshots show very bad men and monsters
Lord of the Rings Online: Riders of Rohan screenshots landed in our inbox this morning, and we thought we'd share them with you. Each shows new landscape creatures and troops from the three major factions that are running rampant over the plains of Rohan: the White Hand, Mordor and the Easterlings.
Lord of the Rings Online's Treasure Hunt is back, time for more Cave-claw hugging
Lord of the Rings Online's Treasure Hunt is back, so if you missed out on hugging all the Cave-claws needed on your list, you're in luck. Players will also be digging for all sorts of cosmetics, a mount, and emotes. New rewards are available this time out as well, as noted in the latest release […]
Riders of Rohan developer diary takes you into Fangorn forest, notes the death of Boromir
Lord of the Rings Online has a new Riders of Rohan developer diary available in which senior producer Aaron Campbell, executive producer Kate Paiz, and other Turbine developers discuss the new expansion which takes players into the gorgeous plains rules by the horse lords. The expansion will see the breaking up of the Fellowship, the […]
Lord of the Rings Online Mac client coming with next expansion - report
Lord of the Rings Online beta testers have revealed that Riders of Rohan, the free-to-play MMORPG's next major expansion, will launch will a full native OS-X client. Although no official announcement has been made, the lifting of the NDA on the expansion's beta testing allowed forumites to get the news out. Mac users had previously […]
Riders of Rohan expansion for LOTRO delayed into October
Riders of Rohan, the upcoming expansion for The Lord of the Rings Online, has been delayed into October according to an announcement from Turbine. However, there's a silver lining to it, as you'll see below.
LotRO: Riders of Rohan dev diary checks out mounted combat
Mounted combat is one of the holy grails of fantasy RPGs because it's so hard to pull off well. Riders of Rohan looks to do a pretty decent job, and in this developer diary, Turbine explains how it's integrated this most delightful of pursuits without disturbing Lord of the Rings Online's combat balance.
LOTRO: Riders of Rohan gets new screens and details
Lord of the Rings Online: Riders of Rohan expansion has received a new batch of screens from developer Turbine, as well as new expansion details.
LOTRO - Turbine provides a history lesson on the steeds of Rohan
Turbine has released a new video for the Riders of Rohan expansion coming to Lord of the Rings Online. It provides a look at the mounts developed for the mounted combat expansion. It's below, along with a nice set of screenshots.
Warner to announce new games at gamescom, one a "major release"
Warner Bros. has announced its gamescom will include two announcements regarding "new games", one of which will be a "major release". Nice. The games coming along in the firm's pack to the event will include: Batman Arkham City: Armoured Edition, Injustice: Gods Among Us, LEGO: Lord of the Rings, Lord of the Rings Online, and […]
Lord of the Rings Online flies you over Rohan
Turbine has released a set of landscape shots for its Lord of the Rings expansion, Riders of Rohan. The shots show the fields of Sutcrofts, Eastwall, the Eaves of Fanghorn, the Wold, and Entwash vale. There's also a flythrough landscape video below as well featuring music from the expansion. RoR releases in September and is […]
LOTRO Update 7 brings new skirmish, scaleable Fornost instances, Moria restructuring
New content is heading to Lord of the Rings Online with Shades of the Past, also known as Update 7. The content will include a new skirmish for levels 70-75 for all group sizes and solo players, and it will be free for VIPs. While a new skirmish is always a welcome addition, Turbine is […]
Lord of the Rings Online Anniversary extended through May 9
Turbine has announced an extension to the ongoing anniversary festivities for Lord of the Rings Online's fifth birthday. On the surface, the main draws are the fireworks, racing and bar brawls, but the celebration has also spawned a number of quests and bonuses which are well worth checking out – especially if you're returning to […]
LOTRO turning five next week, Turbine shows off celebration rewards
Lord of the Rings Online is turning five next week. To celebrate the occasion, Turbine's bringing out the treats. It said today that rewards are given out on how long the player has been an active sub with the game. What they look like can be found out below the break.
Lord of the Rings Online trailer demos Great River areas
This new trailer gives a peek at the environments to be found in the newly-released update for Lord of the Rings Online.
Lord of the Rings and DDO demos coming to Gaikai
Gaikai has announced an agreement with Warner Bros. which incorporates playable, browser-based game demos for the Lord of the Rings Online as well as Dungeons & Dragons Online which will be the first MMOs to surface on the streaming service.
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LOTRO – Turbine provides a history lesson on the steeds of Rohan
Warner to announce new games at gamescom, one a "major release"
LOTRO Update 7 brings new skirmish, scaleable Fornost instances, Moria restructuring
LOTRO turning five next week, Turbine shows off celebration rewards
LOTRO Update 6: Shores of the Great River to contain seven new areas
Turbine: Premium MMOs here to stay, but subscription-only model "probably dying"
LOTRO's fall update to include mounted combat, level cap increase
LotR Online 'pay to win' items to "create solutions" for newbs
Wednesday Shorts: LOTRO, PS Home, EVE, Sideway New York, Panzer Corps
Friday Shorts: Turbine, Stevie Wonder, DW7: Xtreme Legends, Amalur
Mithril Edition of Lord of the Rings Online now up for grabs
Thursday Shorts – Skyrim's "stuff", name that Spicy Horse game, Kojima Tweets
Wednesday Shorts II: Isengard, Dead Island, DDO, Notch, Deathwing
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Discussion in 'Shoes and Apparel' started by mrmo1115, Jan 3, 2009.
yeh it is
My wife's Father's Day/anniversary (tomorrow) gift to me: ASICS Game 3s.
nice one.. is it for USO?
These are mine. Have posted before but have a new addition, the 3.3's. They are the most comfortable shoes I have ever worn, just needed to order half a size bigger!
what are the Vapors like compared to the CB and 2k10?
The Vapors and 2k10 very similar. Low to the ground and very comfortable. The width is regular, so like I said if you go with the CB's they are narrow so I had to go from a 10 to a 10.5. I wish the soles were longer lasting on the 2k10 and the vapors as my uppers are still in pretty good nick but the soles buggered. Just going to use them for coaching now and my CB's for playing. The CB's are new so not too much to comment but they don't need a long break in like so many other comments I have read on this forum. With all this said, you know everyones feet are different so what may be comfortable for one person maybe very uncomfortable for someone else.
Hope that helped.?
thanks B A Y!!! that helped...might buy both
Yeah this guy at my tournament had them!!! So amazed :shock:
Thinking of adding the Green/yellow 3.3's to the collection. Wish I had saved some of my older shoes from when I was younger like my all time favorite the Nike Air Zoompounce.
best color and redesign IMO, i think those colorways are already out on holab*** and soon to be out on midw*** as well. can't wait. hope warehouse is gettin' them soon too.
I loved my Air Zoom Vapor 3s! I had the Black w/ Pacific Blue colorway.
Was never a fan of the Vapor 3's, I had the white, grey, gold/orange version. They look cool though
On another note, nice to crack out the clay shoes again
No shoes will ever look as good as those 2.3's
Hopefully the 3.3's will perform as well though
I see that u hav both the 2.3s and the 3.3s… is the fit very different??? and which do u like better?
Air Flare and the black/white Vapor Tour is the latest edition to my tiny collection.
^do you use your vapors or do the cb 2.3 just get very yellow?
my vapor 8's
What happend with this vapor ?? :O
i was hungry!!! nah i slide a lot when i play
The CB 2.3's do seem to get very yellow. These are getting slick on the toe and maybe ready for the graveyard soon.
there vapors...should i take them back to nike?
my collection....
love the collection!! especially the candy cotton CB's!!! my fav shoe!!
Is that like every color way of the courtballistecs series
sheesh, thats a sneakerhead addiction. no way you've worn through all of those. hes missing the blue 3.3s and the grey 2.3s, not sure about 1.3s
Yeah I missed the blue 3.3 and black/yellow 3.3...coming soon, didnt get the grey too as it was kind of dull. I rotate the shoes every week..
This is still the most beautiful shoe.
Yay, I can finally contribute to this awesome thread.
Here is my modest collection:
That is a vicious collection... :shock:... Love it
I really like the laces on those Grey/Del Sol 2.3's. Do you actually wear all of those shoes regularly, kunzzy?
he said that he has a rotation
you have the sickest collection of shoe lace colors!! where did you get them??
Nike factory stores Get them. Btw do you happen to be bay seller?
If you need those shoe lace colors let me know. I can send them over. it really makes a difference with a matching shoe lace. email me at firstname.lastname@example.com
That is the most awesome collection of shoes ever!
Thanks guys but there are a few guys with a BIGGER collection...
You know you have an awesome shoe collection when women turn green with envy. :shock: I'd love to read ladies' thoughts on your collection.
Totally sweet collection, man.
speaking of shoelaces. what is the correct length for shoelaces for tennis shoes? i know the default nike ones are too short and i had to buy some, but i cant remember the length.
Iwas just replying to the above poster
I seriously envy your collection of VI's Rhino, that's just awesome. I'd kill for any of those, especially those oreos :twisted:
that is a beautiful collection of vapors rhino. i want those oreo vapors!
Love these US Open Vapor VI Limited Edition (top right)... I searched a pair for a long time but never found any...
Where do you find such rare shoes.
Well they are not too rare compared to some others I have seen in this thread!
The only vaguely difficult shoes to find here are the Oreo Vapor VI - a little harder to find with the RF on the back (shown in the photo below) - and the US Open ones. But all these shoes pop up on the Bay.
Obviously the Vapor 8's you can get at TW, and at most Nike Town's.
Thanks, I love the Oreo Vapors too, they are my favorite.
Info on that red shoes?
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Harry Styles May Have Ditched Taylor Swift For Being an Angry Drunk
Taylor Swift seems to be taking a cue from her pal Selena Gomez and getting tipsy — except when she drinks, it makes her feel pain instead of making the pain go away.
Apparently when Swift and Harry Styles split, it was, predictably, because she was a stage five clinger during their Virgin Isles vacation. A drunk stage five clinger.
Us Weekly (via Hollywood Life) reports that Styles wanted a little time alone during the trip, and Swift flipped out — so he did what a lot of men do and hit the bar solo to drown his annoyances.
"He got drunk and left Taylor on their boat for a few hours without telling her where he was going," a source said. Probably because if he told her where he was going, she'd follow him there like a puppy, which is exactly what he was trying to avoid.
The source added that by the time they met again, Swift, who'd been drinking alone, was "crying and furious." The way most people who drink alone are.
In her boozy state, Swift blew up at Styles, who the source maintains didn't actually do anything bad in his hours solo. The source claims that Swift "called him a d— and accused him of running around with girls. He didn't do anything wrong!"
That's when Swift left the island, looking forlorn alone on a boat. "She wanted to teach Harry a lesson; she expected him to call and apologize," the source revealed. "He didn't."
As a result, Swift became a blubbering mess and wouldn't leave him alone.
The source said Swift was "a wreck and torn up" and wouldn't stop texting the One Direction singer, who was too busy in a hot tub with Hermione Way and friends to respond.
Not that he would have anyway. The anonymous source (who has since been unmasked as Captain Obvious) explained, "He thinks she's too emotional."
If Styles is just figuring that out, he may actually be perfect for Swift, who needs someone who can't detect the crazy so quickly. Considering she pretty much wears it on her sleeve, it sounds like she may have a tough time finding a replacement now.
But we do know there's one place she shouldn't look: Michael J. Fox's house.