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Thread: Stereo Newb - Kicker Sub and Amp
Here is my first draft of the wiring. I was bored and needed to have a visual Let me know if I missed anything. Have started scoping out the products:
4 Guage Power - 2x (still looking for better deal) http://www.amazon.com/Lanzar-LQ44-Co...7022329&sr=8-2
100 ft 12 AWG speaker wire (thinking 50 wouldn't be enough)- http://www.monoprice.com/products/pr...seq=1&format=2
35 ft RCA - http://www.monoprice.com/products/pr...seq=1&format=2
Remote Wire - http://www.amazon.com/18ga-Remote-Wi...7023065&sr=1-1
Few more questions
1. Power to head unit provided by amp, correct?
2. What is the remote wire, does that just power everything on when the head unit is powered on?
3. I am assuming the 12 awg is good since some of the nicer speakers have those as inputs and you can just add the caps/plugs to them?
Berg- do you run the front bow speakers and right speaker through those holes in the basement? Why 2 cable organizers in that picture? Not enough room, do they run to the same place? Hard to picture where that hole comes up to since I haven't seen our boat in awhile. Does it come up by the drivers feet?
What kind of material did you use to create the mount for the amps? Was the carpet available locally somewhere? Did you just screw the mounted board then to what is there? Have to make sure the screws aren't too long I suppose.
BTW Ian if you read this your PM mailbox is full
Thanks all!
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I've put off building my system now for too long . I have a question refering to the Kicker KM10 sub box mentioned above. Has anyone ,got or using one and how do you like it?My local dealers never carry them and only want to order one in. I want to hear and or compare it to other subs. Its actually the box i'm interested in for simplicity reasons as i'm pretty sure the actual sub could be removed and upgraded,with another 10 inch sub. But is this necessary and or a simple way to go without buiding a custom box? I'm not a real Bass hound so ,not looking for a real hard pounding sub ,just something to compliment the rest of the on board system. Tower is not an issue as well as we are primarily skiers and tunes are on during Rest stops and downtime . Not while skiing.Any comments..07 Outback DD
The drawing looks good. Do you plan on using a perko or just increasing your battery bank size? I think you can do either but I'd verify with someone that you don't need to throw in a perko for some reason. Someone else will have to answer on thickness of run you will have to make. I would typically say 0 awg but maybe you can get away with something smaller since it is such a long run?
1. Power to headunit is off the little block thing under the helm. It will remain the same and untouched. The only thing you will do at the headunit is disconnect all the speaker wires and plug in RCA's. You may want to post up your head unit. I'm not certain if you need multiple RCA runs. I also haven't looked at the amp. The headunit might have a remote wire location?
2. Yes, that's all it does. Real small wire.
3. 12 awg basically future proofs you for future upgrades. If you are going to wire it, might as well do it right once. You would probably be fine with 14 or 16
I can't see burg's pic from this reply screen so this is from memory ... but could those be ballast hoses? If you look at the back of the locker you can see he has run the wiring along the lip. That is how I did mine as well, along the lip of the playpen.
I used birch plywood and sprayed rubber truckbed coating on it. There are other options. I picked up the carpet from Lowe's. I think most people are cutting a small hole in the carpet, wood gluing a post, then screwing to the post. I, personally, would drill into the outside hull. Local shop around here did that for an X2 and the screw went through!!
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Ryan, I think you will find that putting a stereo in a boat is easier than a car, at least in my opinion. You dont have to remove door panel and such. I cant help much with the second battery idea, I only run one battery in my boat.
4 guage power and ground wires-with appropriate fuse holder- Good
35 ft RCA wires- pretty long if you are able to go directly across the boat, might want to measure that prior to ordering, also maybe look for a 4 channel RCA wire. such as http://www.sonicelectronix.com/item_...?from=3-700-53
12 guage speaker wire, in my opinion might be a little overkill, I used 16 gauge in my application but to each their own- just bought local at wally world, I used 100 ft to run 6 speakers, you may be able to use less.
Remote turn on wire- 18 gauge. can buy local at fleet farm or similar place. When powered supplied by HU, tells that amp to turn on.
Bergs pics look like ballast hoses, but if you look behind the hoses you can see the wires.
For mounting, I also used the seat back in the observer storage area. I used a standard peice of 1/2" plywood, painted it, and covered it in marine grade vinyl.
Here is a pic of my setup in my Outback, different boat, different amp, but gives you an idea.
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Berg- do you run the front bow speakers and right speaker through those holes in the basement?
Why 2 cable organizers in that picture? Not enough room, do they run to the same place? Hard to picture where that hole comes up to since I haven't seen our boat in awhile.
Does it come up by the drivers feet?
What kind of material did you use to create the mount for the amps?
Was the carpet available locally somewhere?
Did you just screw the mounted board then to what is there? Have to make sure the screws aren't too long I suppose.
Probably kind of hard to visualize that ^. I'll see if I have any pics floating around. I tell ya though - it's rock solid. Doesn't bounce around at all.The years have been kind, it's the weekends that have done the damage.
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Few of the brackets I mounted on the bottom of the amp racks and then to the floor of the boat. Note these are the brass looking ones - don't use them! Go galvanized if you do something like this.
Can see the hidden power distribution going on there too.
So when the amps are mounted in the compartment against the wall, this is all that sticks out on the bottom and I anchored that into the floor. Screw it down tight into the carpet so it crushes down good so no sharp corners.
Here you can see the top angle bracket in the right corner. Couldn't find a better way to hide that...
On the center amp there, the black bracket mounted by it's top left corner is the sheet metal piece I mentioned. It goes straight up and fastens to the cleat hardware.
There's actually the third amp off to the left that isn't visible unless you stuff your head in there and look back.
I wasn't quite done wiring here but pretty close. One thing I really like about the Kicker amps. Power wires on one end, signal and speaker wires on the other end. Easy to keep them separated and avoid interference.
Does that help some?The years have been kind, it's the weekends that have done the damage.
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Despite my newfound love for international women's water polo, this post will have absolutely no connection to the Olympics. (You're welcome.) It will, however, focus on a little issue that is near and dear to my heart: Research. Or more specifically, how companies misuse it.
Anyone who has read this blog KNOWS that I do love me some research in my area of specialty. By the time the data has been gathered and shuffled into a presentable report form, I'm able to see the numbers and test the theories, developmental work, and campaigns from the last year to see if what I've observed in the millennial market via culture has been reflected in the research. (Turns out, I have a very good track record. Score.) Targeted research is incredibly important to my work as a marketing specialist – and as a sporadic blogger. It tells me what I've been on point about, what I've missed, what the trade is interested in measuring, and how the industry is reacting.
What I'm disappointed* to see, however, is how research – especially (but not limited to) millennial research – seems to be utilized in the beverage industry today. There is an increasingly disturbing knee-jerk reactionary trend among companies developing for millennials. And what I mean is UR DOIN IT WRONG.
Here's an example of what I see being done across the industry:
STEP ONE – Get the numbers.
STEP TWO – See that Product Type X is trending/gaining in sales among target demo.
STEP THREE – Develop a copy of Product Type X.
STEP FOUR – Profit$$$?
That is not innovation. That is embarrassing. This is not proactive. It's reactive. And most importantly, as far as I can see, it's not paying off.
Most consumer research tracks behavior: what is a specific region or demographic purchasing, what are the leading brands in a category, etc. OBVIOUSLY, this is valuable stuff, knowing consumer behavior trends.You know what's even more valuable to know along with the data? WHY consumers are behaving in that way.
Think of it as Consumer Therapy and you're the psychologist – sure, you can address the behavior and hope for the best, or you can dig down a bit to what is driving the behavior and address that. What do you think will be more successful?
This shouldn't be news for anyone, it's basic business. If you can fulfill a need or desire for your market that your competition hasn't, you've got a sound – and most likely profitable – investment. But in order to know what needs or desires aren't currently being filled, you've got to know what those needs and desires are. You've got to respect your consumers and take the time learn about them, not just make assumptions based on Column E.
IT'S LIKE WISHING FOR MORE WISHES, PEOPLE. Dig a little deeper, it will pay off.


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If the city of Ocala decides to help the Yankees move their minor league team here from Tampa, the decision will look at what is best for the city.
If the city of Ocala decides to help the Yankees move their Class A-Advanced minor league team here from Tampa, the decision will likely hinge on whether it is a good deal for the community.
But researchers say Ocala will have to look beyond the team's direct economic impact to make that decision because Minor League Baseball, in itself, does not generate a lot of jobs and doesn't attract millions of fans like a Major League team.
That doesn't mean Minor League Baseball can't be an economic driver, however.
A minor league stadium erected in the right location could revitalize an area or open up undeveloped land, both of which could be catalysts for new homes, businesses and jobs, researchers say.
And having a stadium and a baseball team like the Tampa Yankees could bring some cache to a town and engender civic pride that could be attractive to companies looking to relocate. At the very least, it could provide the community with new, affordable family entertainment and a venue for other events.
It is those ancillary benefits, researchers say, that may make a community's investment in Minor League Baseball worthwhile, even if it is not a big job creator or money-maker.
"You're never going to notice it's there economically," said Roger Knoll, professor emeritus at Stanford University's Department of Economics. "It's too small and too unimportant. A Single A team is lucky if it draws 1,000 (fans) a game. It's not even as big as high school football."
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The Yankees and the city have been tight-lipped about their discussions to bring a farm team here. Ocala officials have said only that the talks are in the early stages. It is not known where a stadium would be built, who would pay for it or what other commitments of public dollars the Yankees would be asking for.
But Steve Densa, Minor League Baseball's executive director of communications, said when all the costs and benefits are calculated, minor league teams have a positive impact on communities.
"A MiLB (Minor League Baseball) club brings money to the area in the form of housing and/or hotel nights for the home club and the visiting one, coaches, scouts, umpires and various Major League personnel who visit each one of their affiliates during the season," Densa wrote in an email. "There's also business generated for restaurants for these people as well. Other businesses may pop up around the ballpark, which may have not done so if there isn't a stadium. The ballpark is a community asset and can be used to attract other events throughout the year, such as concerts, fairs, holiday events, etc., that add to the quality of life of the community."
Attendance at games alone is not a huge money maker, however.
The Tampa Yankees, like other Class-A minor league teams such as the Lakeland Flying Tigers and the Daytona Cubs, belong to the Florida State League. The Flying Tigers won the Florida State League's championship this year. Attendance at the final championship game at Lakeland's Joker Merchant Stadium, which holds 8,500 spectators, was 400 people.
"There were 398 and my wife and I," said Bill Tinsley, the city of Lakeland's liaison to the Tigers and manager of financial resources. "The intent of minor league operations, typically, is that you don't lose money, that you break even and you provide some additional quality of life for your city."
Breaking even, he admits, is no guarantee. There are considerable costs to a community, like the $35 million to $40 million price tag to build a minor league stadium
And Lakeland has an advantage that Ocala would not have if it landed the Tampa Yankees.
"We're so different because we have spring training, which kind of covers the bills," Tinsley said. "Spring training is huge."
The Yankees are not considering moving their Major League New York Yankees' spring training to Ocala.
Tinsley said Lakeland "pretty much" breaks even on Minor League Baseball. He said the team and the city share expenses. Lakeland estimates that each Flying Tigers game costs the city $145 for utilities and field maintenance.
The city receives 15 percent of ticket sales and 15 percent of concessions, or a minimum of $125 a game from the team.
A minor league ticket costs between $5 and $7, although on nights when a business sponsors a game, a ticket could cost as little as $2. And if Tinsley can rent the stadium when there are no games, he receives $150 or more a night. The Flying Tigers' total 2012 attendance was 59,589. It averaged 1,027 fans a game for the 58 games it played.
The Flying Tigers do not pay to use the stadium, but the big league team pays Lakeland $325,000 a year to use the stadium for spring training, which helps offset the costs of the minor league team.
Knoll, of Stanford, said the Lakeland model works because the city uses the stadium for events beyond baseball.
"There's no real return on that investment to the city itself unless it's going to use that facility for lots of other things," Knoll said.
Knoll said that in Stockton, Calif., the stadium is used by the local high schools.
"It's used almost every day," he said. "You don't do it because you think it will make you rich but because it will add to the community."
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Daytona Beach's Jackie Robinson Ballpark is home to the Daytona Cubs, another Class-A team that competes in the Florida State League.
"If you get the right kind of contract for the stadium, from the city's perspective it's a pretty good deal," said James Chisholm, Daytona Beach's city manager. "It's been a pretty positive thing for us."
He said Minor League Baseball creates about 126 jobs throughout the year and has roughly a $4 million economic impact in the community.
"The payroll for the Cubs is about $600,000," Chisholm said. "That's money that gets put right back into Daytona Beach."
The city signed a new 10-year lease with the Daytona Cubs effective Jan. 1, 2013, and plans to do a $3 million renovation of the stadium. The first phase of the renovation will cost $1.2 million, split equally between the city and the team.
Under the new lease, the D-Cubs, as the minor league team is dubbed, will pay the city $55,000 a year to use the stadium, which seats about 4,200 people, with a 1.5 percent annual increase. The city will get 5 percent of the annual gross revenues above $3 million, including ticket sales, concessions, parking fees, advertising, naming rights, subleases or licenses and merchandise sales. The team will pay the stadium expenses, including utilities and maintenance.
Until this year, the city paid the operating expenses, which were more than $100,000, Chisholm said. The city allows the team to rent the stadium during the offseason.
In 2012, the D-Cubs' total attendance was 143,131, or an average of 2,346 for 61 games, the second-highest attendance in the league.
An economic impact study conducted by Daytona officials before they signed the new lease estimated that attendance would increase 8 percent, to 176,023, by 2016. The study also noted that the team contributes to the community through charitable events and numerous programs, such as giving students one free ticket per "A" grade in the third and fourth quarters of the school year.
Yet Allen Sanderson, senior lecturer at the University of Chicago's Department of Economics, concurred with his academic colleagues who downplay the economics of minor league sports in communities.
Sanderson, who recently completed a study of sports economics, said having a Minor League Baseball team could put Ocala on the map but will not make much of an economic impact.
He said having a Minor League Baseball team is not very different from having a giant movie complex.
"The amount of money spent there by Ocala residents is just money they didn't spend elsewhere in your greater community," he said.
One of the reasons the impact is small, he said, is that the baseball team plays there only part of the year, perhaps 70 games out of 365 days.
"A mall can't make it if it's open 20 percent of the time," Sanderson said.
That doesn't mean a team doesn't have value to the community, he added. People like to live in cities because of the entertainment and recreation and other amenities, he said.
"A Minor League Baseball team fits into the fabric of the community," he said. "It's one more thing for people to do on an afternoon."
But claims that a community will make a bundle of money from a Minor League Baseball team are false, Sanderson said.
"A lot of times it's sold this way," he said. "Keep your hands on your wallet."
Arthur T. Johnson, University of Maryland's professor emeritus in the Fishell Department of Bioengineering at the University of Maryland, says Minor League Baseball can be an economic driver for a community if it meets the community's strategic goals.
Johnson, who published his research on Minor League Baseball in 1996, found there are ways a community can benefit economically from Minor League Baseball. He is the author of the book "Minor League Baseball and Local Economic Development."
"If it's going to be a successful economic driver, the location of the stadium is going to be very important," Johnson said. "Communities have used the stadium to bolster a dying downtown or as part of a redevelopment project or to open new lands for development."
He said a stadium could be used as an entry point for residential or retail development. It could also be used to improve the quality of life, by opening it up to amateur sports like high school or college teams, so that the community gets greater use of the facility. He said northern towns have used them for ice rinks. The parking lots can be used for RV shows and the like.
"It becomes a community forum," Johnson said.
He said people may travel distances to see a Major League team's spring training games, but they will not for minor league games.
"So you are not going to get 10,000 people a game. They're not going to spill over to the bars and restaurants. A lot will be families that go to the game and then go home," Johnson said.
He said communities will not get a return dollar-for-dollar on Minor League Baseball.
"That doesn't mean it's not worth it," Johnson said. "Elected officials should be making decisions whether or not, in their strategic vision for the community, this is going to bring something that meets one of their strategic goals."
He said in Harrisburg, Pa., one of the goals was to bring suburbanites into town and it worked. People who came into town for the game would stay in town and visit the restaurants.
"That's the type of thing that can happen, even in a small community," Johnson said.
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...If anyone wants to see the formula I used today for my MMs attempt they can let me know. I can scan it in my printer and then post it as a picture. Norma
Yes Norma, I would appreciate it if you posted the formula for you latest bake here. Looks good.Thanks.
Since I am scheduled to be out of town for a long weekend, I decided to use my latest frozen dough ball today to make a pizza. The dough I used is the one with the KABF and vital wheat gluten, 54% hydration, 0.60% IDY, 3% vegetable oil, 1.75% salt, 7% Grandma's Original molasses, and 4% light brown sugar. But no wheat germ. To speed up the process, rather than defrosting the dough ball in my refrigerator compartment for about 24 hours before using, this time I defrosted the dough ball for about 5 1/2 hours at room temperature. With today's temperature hitting a high of 86 degrees F (there were predictions that another record might be set), that turned out to be too fast a defrost. So, I put the dough back into the refrigerator for a few hours before using to make the pizza. At the point where the dough was put back into the refrigerator, it was softer than usual but still fairly stiff. When used to make the pizza, the dough ball opened up easily and handled beautifully and could be tossed and spun with impunity. For today's bake, I decided to use two pizza stones. One was placed on the lowest oven rack position and the second one was placed on the second from the top oven rack position. The spacing between the two stones was around 7". Both stones were preheated at around 500 degrees F for one hour. The pizza was baked entirely on the bottom stone. The use of the two stones did extend the bake time to around 10 minutes. I believe that using the two stone method with a lower oven temperature should allow me to exceed a bake time of 10 minutes. That is the way that I will bake my next MM clone pizza.The main purpose of the test was to see if I could get the degree of final crust sweetness we have all been striving for. As it turned out, the finished crust was sweet but still too sweet. My thought for the next experiment was to either use the same amount of Grandma's Original molasses or increase it by a percent or two and to reduce the amount of light brown sugar to around 2%. I then recalled that Norma's most recent MM clone dough uses 7% Grandma's Original molasses and 2% light brown sugar. I wouldn't be surprised to find that that is close to what we are looking for in terms of sweetness. So, I will be interested to see the results of Norma's latest MM clone pizza. Peter
Norma,I'm glad to see that your latest pizza appeared to be a good copy of the MM pizza you had in DC. With all my experiments since I had the MM pizza in Florida, my memory of that pizza has pretty much faded.On the matter of the dough changing color, were you comparing the defrosted dough ball with the frozen dough ball?Peter
I did a search in this site for autolyse. I didn't find any thing on this thread. you folks who are making these wonderful crusts; have any of you tried this method?
dwighttsharpe,Thanks for saying the MM's attempted pie looked good! This is the formula I used. I just mixed the dough and then froze it, then let it defrost for one day, then left the dough ball sit at room temperature for 2 hrs, before I started to open the dough ball. Norma
Glad to hear your attempted MMs pie went well today too!
Norma,I felt that we had narrowed the ranges of values of molasses and brown sugar to get "sweet but not too sweet" and that it was just a matter of time before we converged on a solution to the sweetness problem while getting the color of the dough right also. Since I like the flavor of molasses better than the flavor of raw can sugar or brown sugar, the next time I may use more molasses and less brown sugar. Since I have been using King Arthur bread flour and the Hodgson Mill vital wheat gluten, I may also lower the oil back to 2% and maybe add a small amount of wheat germ (maybe 1-2%) in order to get a somewhat more dense rim. You may not need to do this with the KASL. I also thought that defrosting the frozen MM clone dough ball at room temperature was a good idea. When time came to make the pizza and I opened up the dough ball, I found that after getting the skin to around 8" inches (my clones have been 10"), it was possible to slap the skin from hand to hand as was shown in some of the videos. I also had no problem tossing and spinning the skin. I think if one defrosts the dough in the refrigerator for a day, using a longer temper time may yield the same dough condition that makes it easier to handle the skin. I also think that it is possible to lower the hydration even further. I used 54% for my last dough but I think that 53% should work also, especially in my case where I am using the KABF and VWG. Peter
Well, I finally got to taste my first real slice of Mellow Mushroom pizza. It seemed to be all dry and shriveled from being in the fridge too long! Just kidding. It was actually very well preserved. Thank you, Norma for saving it for. I appreciate your kindness and generosity. I thought it very good and maybe just a tiny bit less sweet than most of Normas' attempts. To be totally honest, taste-wise, in a literal "blind" test, I doubt I could tell which was which. Even the sauce, I think, is similar. Visually, Normas' has a larger puffier rim. I think the color is almost perfect as well. Great job, Norma. I think you just about nailed it!
On the matter of the dough ball changing color, the dough ball looked the same color as the dough ball I had made and frozen, until the dough ball heated at room temperature. I checked the dough ball a couple of times today before I made the pizza. The color of the dough ball then changed to a darker color before I went to make the pizza. How can the dough change in the number of hours I was at market. Do you have an explanation for that? Steve saw the dough change colors too. Do you also think this hydration was about the right hydration? I can now only wish I had those other pictures to post to show about the color changing.


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With the fall of 2012 right around the corner and so many people announcing they want to be resident I thought now would be a good time to share my political ambitions. Ready? I have none. I'm not running. I know, I know, there must be disappointment from sea to shining sea but let's be honest I have more baggage than the taxi stand at J.F.K the day before Thanksgiving. Think about it, I've openly admitted on these very pages that I converse with chipmunks and that is just not the type of behavior we associate with Commander in Chief. That said if I was your president there'd be lots of changes coming, many of which I'm certain you'd enjoy.
On my first day in office I'd bring all of our troops home from countries that hate us. Nation building, spreading democracy, putting our best foot forward is just not working. It costs too much in lives lost and money spent so I'd like all our troops home by Christmas.
If Congress won't go along with that I have another request then. We won't send our young men and women to another part of the world to fight for anything unless each member of Congress, the president and his national security advisers all have at least one family member in uniform and ready to go first. Call me crazy but I think these guys would be less likely to put boots on the ground in the desert somewhere if their sons and daughters were the first to go. No question some wars are worth fighting, I just want to make sure the guy pushing the buttons has skin in the game.
If you serve our country overseas in a hostile place for a year or more when you do get home the government will have a job for you. They risked their lives; we can give them a job.
Every elected office has a term limit of eight years. Whether you're running for president, mayor or dog catcher. Eight years and you're out. It should be about serving your neighbors not padding your wallet. Plus a shorter term should cut down on the scandals.
If you are an elected official and do something to humiliate your spouse (i.e. Weiner, Spitzer,) that spouse has the option to take your job. Example -- if you want to send naked pictures of yourself to a college girl who snaps her gum during TV interviews your wife goes to Congress and you can stay home and "tweet" yourself.
No more trips to space. I can't believe how many billions we've spent delivering groceries to the International Space Station. Since we have so many people down here on Earth starving, uneducated and unemployed I think that money could be better spent here.
Any money you spend on your child's education is tax deductible. All of it. Not some percentage or variation depending on how much you make or how much the college costs. Every last dime.
Also, colleges cannot raise tuition more than the rate of inflation and no text book can cost more than $50. If I can get the new Harry Potter novel for $20 at Target I should be able to buy a college text book at a reasonable price.
If you pay property taxes your town has to pick up your garbage and supply you with clean water at no charge. It's the way it used to be, it's the way it should be again.
TV networks and cable channels can only air one reality show per week. So if you want to run the "Real Housewives Of Ravena" on Tuesday nights I don't want to see the "Millionaire Matchmaker" on Thursday. Capiche?
People at those kiosks at the mall can't talk to you if you don't make eye contact with them.
It will be legal to shoot a car salesman with a tranquilizer gun if he approaches you after you just told them, "I'm just browsing."
It will be against the law for the people running the drive-thru window to take your money then ask you to pull forward and wait for your order.
People who get in the "10 items or less" line at the supermarket with 18 or more items have to apologize and carry your bags to the car.
American flags must be made in America.
And last but certainly not least, Nabisco must create an Oreo that tastes exactly like regular Oreos but with zero calories and fat.
I know what you're thinking. My God why isn't this man running!
John Gray can be reached at johngray@fox23news


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Justin Upton, the younger brother of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays' B.J. Upton, was the No. 1 overall pick out of Great Bridge (Va.) High School in the 2005 First-Year Player Draft. He signed with Arizona in January 2006 and spent last season with Single-A South Bend. Justin, who has switched from shortstop to outfield, was recalled by the D-backs on Aug. 2 and made his big-league debut later that night in San Diego. He recently answered some questions from MLBPLAYERS.com:
MLBPLAYERS.com: How did it feel to get your first two Major League hits last Saturday?
Upton: It was awesome. It was nice to get them out of the way and to be able to contribute and score some runs. This is my first time breaking in. Hopefully, I can quickly contribute some more.
MLBPLAYERS.com: Did you talk to your brother, B.J., after the game?
Upton: By the time I got back to the hotel after the game, it was real late where he was. I talked to him the next day, though.
MLBPLAYERS.com: Not only have you been called up to the Majors, but you are also on a first-place team. Does that make this extra special to you?
Upton: It's great to be involved in games when you are playing for something. It makes you want to play that much harder. It will be great if we can come out of this on top.
MLBPLAYERS.com: Describe the transition from shortstop to the outfield?
Upton: At first, it was tough. I went from short to center and only had about a week to prepare for it. That, for the most part, was the toughest. But once you get out there and get some reps under your belt, you're ready to deal with things. I've played in 100 some-odd games out there now, so that's helped me with my comfort level.
MLBPLAYERS.com: What about the transition from center field to left and right field?
Upton: Going from short to center was probably a little tougher than going from center to right or left field. The footwork is almost the same, like when you're going back for balls as an infielder, but you have a lot longer run and you have to read the ball from further away. Going from the infield to the outfield is definitely a bit tougher.
MLBPLAYERS.com: Are you surprised to be in the big leagues after starting the season at Single-A?
Upton: I wasn't really expecting anything in particular. You have things in the back of your mind, but right now, I feel like the club has confidence in me to play at this level. It's on me to go out on the field and play hard.
MLBPLAYERS.com: Did it surprise you that you didn't play in Triple-A en route to reaching this level?
Upton: When I was at Double-A Mobile, I knew that a lot of guys in our organization go right to the big leagues from there. It was something I was prepared for. But I was also prepared to go from Double-A to Triple-A, if that was the decision that was made.
MLBPLAYERS.com: How different are your surroundings now compared to the Minors?
Upton: Way different. Way different. Everything here is first class. I am just taking it all in and enjoying the experience.
MLBPLAYERS.com: You are a key member of a group of talented players who are quickly rising in this organization. What do you see in terms of up-and-coming talent as you look around this clubhouse?
Upton: You have guys like Chris Young, Carlos Quentin and Conor Jackson. Some of them have been here longer than I have, but they're also getting their feet wet in the big picture. Their experience can help me in my transition. It's great to have them around.
MLBPLAYERS.com: At the young age of 19, do you see any negatives of being in the big leagues right now?
Upton: I don't see anything bad about it. I don't see or I can't think of anything that is not good about being here so early. I can learn so much from some of the older guys who have been around for a while.
MLBPLAYERS.com: Do any of those veteran players in particular jump out at you?
Upton: Guys like Orlando Hudson and Tony Clark are two great people in this game. Everybody asks those two guys for advice.
Jeff Moeller, a freelance writer for MLBPLAYERS.com, is based in Los Angeles. MLBPLAYERS.com is the official Web site of the Major League Baseball Players Association. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Intellectual Merit In September of 2011, several of us attended a meeting in Rome called "Milky Way 2011," organized to showcase the plethora of recent surveys of star-forming material in our Galaxy. We were simultaneously excited and disappointed by the meeting: excited by the wealth of new data; and disappointed to see the lack of coordinated analysis of it. We went home determined to create a collaborative project offering a more synthetic understanding of star formation in the Milky Way.
We, and many other astrophysicists, want to know how, where, and when a galaxy like the Milky Way forms stars. Presently, it is easier to answer this question empirically in nearby galaxies, thanks to our "external" vantage point with respect to those systems. But, that vantage point is far away, so our ability make predictive physical models of star formation based on observations of external spiral galaxies is limited, even with new instruments like ALMA.
In the Milky Way, we have tremendously detailed studies of star-forming regions within a few hundred pc of the Sun, but none of these nearby regions contains any massive (O) stars characteristic of the star-forming regions observationally detected in external galaxies. Here, we propose to evaluate the star-forming potential of gas under the full variety of conditions observed the Dame et al. (2001) CO Survey of Molecular Gas in the Milky Way. We will not study only nearby clouds, or only massive star-forming regions, but instead every environment our Galaxy has on offer.
Our work, using hierarchical "dendrogram" trees to deconstruct molecular gas emission, will be distinguished from previous analyses of star-forming clouds in the Milky Way by how it identifies significant structures within the gas. Essentially all previous work has divided up gas along sharp boundaries, without taking into account the obvious hierarchical nature of the gas. By analogy, this non-hiearchical approach is like dividing up whole metro Minneapolis-St. Paul into just two parts defined by a unique boundary between the cities. This approach takes no account of the fact that these two separate cities are surrounded by a combined "metropolitan area," and further surrounded by a state called Minnesota that also contains other cities, like Duluth, each of which has its own identity, likely determined in part by its surroundings. We suspect that environment does matter, and that the artificial division of gas into non-overlapping clumps has masked important physical effects.
By combining the hierarchical decomposition of star-forming material we will create with catalogs of associated dense star-forming "cores" and young stars, we will evaluate which of several potential physical processes is key to the formation of stars. In particular, we will study whether a feature's self-gravity, its internal density or pressure distributions, or external pressure–or a combination of those–is most predictive of fecundity. Our results will clarify our understanding of star-formation in the Milky Way, and offer physical insights into empirical trends measured in other galaxies.
Broader Impact The PI and several Co-Is are known for their work on data visualization, data sharing, and science education. All the products created in this work, including a 3D visualization of star-forming gas in the Milky Way, will be made available online through the universe3d.org, Astronomy Dataverse, Seamless Astronomy, and WorldWide Telescope sites, all of which the PI has had a hand in creating. The Astronomy Dataverse is presently being deployed as an NSF-data-management-plan-compatible solution for short-term distribution and long-term preservation of astronomical data, and this project will serve as a key demonstrator of the Dataverse's utility. The new Milky-Way shaped Haus der Astronomie visualization and outreach facility in Heidelberg will play host to a meeting on "Star-Formation in the Milky Way, in 3D," co-sponsored by the Max-Planck Institute for Astronomy as part of this project.


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Kelly Osbourne's feud with Lady Gaga is long but over.
Last November, Osbourne blasted Lady Gaga's fans for verbally abusing her during an interview with U.K. magazine Fabulous. In the article, Osbourne detailed the criticism she has faced from Gaga's fans.
"I get called fat all the time. A big fat whore. Lady Gaga's fans are the worst. They've said I should kill myself, that they hope I get raped. I mean it's crazy but I've had this all my life and I just try and ignore it," Kelly told the magazine.
When Gaga got wind of this she took to Twitter to share her feelings.
"Dear Kelly, While I wish you had reached out to me personally, as the head of the Born This Way foundation with my mother Cynthia we would like to respond. Everyday, through my music and public voice I choose to be positive and work towards a kinder and braver world with our community of followers," Gaga wrote. "I encourage them to ignore criticism, stand up to bullies, know their own value and see that we are all the same and no one person is worth more than another. I know I'm perceived as a wild child, but in reality I am woman that deeply cares for humanity."
In the July issue of Cosmopolitan, Osbourne shared her take on the matter when asked about calling out Gaga on Fashion Police.
"I loved Lady Gaga. I totally believed in everything she stood for, until I realized she's a great big hypocrite. Don't say, 'When you see bullying, intervene,' while letting your fans send me death threats. If my fans did that, I would not stand for it. You can say whatever you want with your millions of monsters. I know the truth. You[r] bells and whistles mean nothing to me. You're feeding on the freaks and geeks to further your career? Do you really care about the gay community? Because if you did, you'd stand up for it more than you do."
In the issue, which hits newsstands June 4, Osbourne also opens up about love and her fiance Matthew Mosshart.
"He just wants to love me, and I just wanted to be loved by him. Every single other guy I've dated has wanted something from me. They'd call people I know and ask for favors. I'd have to say, 'Trust me. Telling someone you are my boyfriend isn't going to get you very far," she said.


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Music of Fort Frances, Featuring David McMillin '06, is Receiving Buzz
March 7, 2013
Fort Frances, a band featuring 2006 DePauw University graduate David McMillin, has been named a "new and notable artist" on the leading music website, Noisetrade. It offers a download of the band's EP, The Atlas, which was produced by Sam Kassirer (Josh Ritter, Langhorne Slim).
"What initially began as a solo project for singer/songwriter David McMillin gradually transformed into Fort Frances: a three-piece band whose debut album represents more than two years of drawing their own map for musical exploration," notes the site. "With an all-instruments-on-board approach to writing and recording, their heavily textured style introduces you to a band with a Beatles influence that shines through every note."
Learn more here.
Fort Frances will perform this weekend at SXSW at The Outlaw Roadshow, a showcase organized by Adam Duritz of the Counting Crows and Ryan's Smashing Life. Visit the band's website for details.
As a solo artist, McMillin toured with Grant Lee Buffalo, Shelby Lynne and Marc Cohn and was named a 2008 "Reader's Choice Award" winner for best folk, country, or Americana act in the Chicago Reader.Back


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2005 Chevy Silverado - Sic Crew
Gettin' By With Help From Friends
Brian "Shady" Baty, from Ellenwood, Georgia, is a humble guy who was quick to thank his friends for all of their hard work on his ride. With humility like that, you may think that his ride was a mild custom with some do-it-yourself mods-the end. Whereas he did perform much of the work himself, his truck is far from mild. Tucking 24-inch billet wheels, with a two-tone paint scheme, and a snake skin-covered interior, Brian's Chevy Crew Cab is in a league of its own. So how does a daily driver go from a cruiser to full-blown trophy-snagger? All it took was just a little push from his wife, Karen and a little help from his friends.
Building and driving several mini-trucks for years, Brian admits Karen wanted something bigger. In his own words, "She mentioned that I should stop screwing around and build exactly what I've always wanted to build." Besides giving Brian the green light to go buy a fullsize truck, Karen also motivated Brian to go wild and showcase what his friend, Robert Robinson's shop, Auto Extremes, in Conyers, Georgia, could do-sounds like the perfect woman to us. Three years later, Brian has himself a show-winning fullsize and more importantly, a happy wife. As with all good things, his truck build took work, and a great deal of it.
Telling us that "trailers are for horses and drag cars, and there is not a tail or parachute on this truck", Brian needed to have a truck that drove as good as it looked. Starting with the frame and body, Brian teamed with Dennis Ricks and Robert Robinson, his cohorts at Auto Extremes, to perform the 2 1/2-inch body drop. With the body ready to lay low, the frame was notched and custom lower and upper control arms were bolted into place. DJM drop spindles were then bolted to the A-arms and new spring pockets were fabricated and welded up front-a necessary step for the Slam Specialties airbag installation. Even though the front is set up for 26-inch wheels, Brian wanted billet wheels and found his perfect rolling stock in B.A.D. Havoc billet hoops mounted in 295/30R24 Toyo Proxes tires. Braking is handled by an upgraded hydraboost system from a Heavy Duty Chevy, which sends higher brake pressure to a Baer Eradispeed setup, complete with 15-inch rotors. Out back, the Auto Extremes crew had to customize the KP Components six-link kit to get everything perfect, but once the mods were made, the Silverado laid out over the 24s. Using KP shocks and the KP Watts-link, Brian says "the truck is still very street-able and even the wife does not mind riding in it for long periods of time." With that said, the truck may ride closer to a Cadillac than a Chevy.
Inside the four doors, Brian didn't tap out and throw in the towel, but rather he stepped up his customizing game to a whole new level. Getting together the necessary wood and fiberglass components, Brian built a center console to house a JL Audio 8w7 sub. Knowing what color he wanted the interior to have, the dash, pillars, and the freshly-created console all received House of Kolor True Blue. Under the rear passenger seat, a JL Audio 12-inch sub found its way mounted and bumpin' bass from a JL Audio 250x1 amp. Each door houses a multitude of JL Audio mid components powered by a JL 300x4 amp. An Eclipse AVN-6620 double-din controls the sources while an Eclipse 30-band equalizer fine-tunes the audio signal. A matching B.A.D. Havoc billet steering wheel was bolted on, but not before billet A/C vents, billet knobs and switches, and an AVS digital gauge setup was also put into place. Gene Payne stepped in and stitched in the snakeskin seat inserts, door panel inserts, and wrapped the headliner in suede. Seven-inch monitors were placed into each sunvisor and then each eye-protector was wrapped in matching suede. The last remaining pieces of the interior puzzle were the solid billet air freshener hanging from the factory mirror and a large B.A.D. billet skull placed atop the center console.
Looking to further enhance his ride, Brian popped the hood and began work on the stock 5.3L V-8. Already strong from the factory, Brian added some ponies with the installation of a Spectre air filter, Accel 10mm plug wires, and Flowmaster exhaust. Worth noting, the exhaust runs the length of the frame and was wrapped in 1,200-degree header wrap. The end result? A truck that passed the local emissions test with flying colors. Other modifications under the hood included: custom-rolled inner fenders, a painted Escalade engine cover, blue powdercoated 250-amp DB alternator, and an engine-driven air compressor for the 'bags. Now going for a cruise doesn't mean worrying about getting home safely.
Thus far, Auto Extremes had outdone themselves on this '05 Chevy, but the body remained unfinished and a long list of body mods was sure to keep them busy. Brian and Robert started the bodywork by first shaving the door handles, bolt holes in the doorjambs, bed caps, gas door, taillights, and tailgate. Next up, a custom sheetmetal bed was fabricated, the gas door molded inside the bed, and a motorized license plate installed in the bulkhead. A 53-inch tri-color AVS LED strip was flushed into the tailgate and a slim LED was placed where the third brake light once resided. CCS Customs, also in Conyers, provided the expertise to apply a custom paint scheme to make this Chevy a top-notch build. With the body prepped, CCS Custom's owner, Darren Fairey, worked with Tyler, and Adam to apply the two-tone using House of Kolor True Blue and Kandy Red. Intricate flames were masked off and sprayed in beautiful PPG silver and then Hot-Rod Walt stepped in and pinstriped each lick to perfection with PPG yellow and orange. The look is timeless and perfectly goes with the hot-rod yet clean look Brian was going for. Walt also applied his talent to the inner fenders, center console, and inside the bed. Final assembly included the addition of a Street Scene SS bumper cover, Trenz billet grille, and Brian cleared the factory headlights for a trick appearance.
Driving his truck to and from every show, if you're in the Southeast, you'll probably see Brian draggin' the truck at a moment's notice. His "thank you" list was quite long, but we felt convicted to oblige his humility. Brian wanted to thank Robert and Dennis at Auto Extremes, Weezal, Darren at CCS, Adam, Eric, Tommy, Bubba, Jason at B.A.D., Mike at Frontier Wheels, Ron at DB, Karen at East Atlanta Embroidery, Curry Honda, his buddies in Negative Camber, his family, and most of all, his wife Karen. "There is no one that worked on this project that I would not consider a good friend", Brian said. With a truck this nice, good friends who love to wrench, and a loving wife, Brian is most-certainly a blessed man.


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Adjusting to transfer rule is work in progress
By Jane Lee / MLB.com
SEATTLE -- The transfer rule was still a hot topic at Safeco Field on Sunday morning, after the A's and the Mariners witnessed its game-changing effects on two separate occasions in Saturday's game.
Twice, Mariners outfielder Dustin Ackley failed to make the transfer from glove to hand after catching a fly ball, allowing the hitter to be safe. Except twice an A's baserunner was called out because of so much confusion on the play.
The rule was initially meant to clarify replay situations on double-play balls, where dropped transfers are often an issue, but it is quickly influencing outfield calls.
"I know they've said it's a work in progress and there will be times they'll look at things and evaluate whether it's right or wrong and make adjustments accordingly," A's manager Bob Melvin said. "Whether or not this is one, I'm not sure.
"It's been a tough adjustment. We've had it a lot. It was made for the play at second. I don't think when this rule was put into effect, anyone thought it may come into play in the outfield like you're seeing now. So you really have to change the thinking of your baserunner, and it's tough to do that when it's something that's instinctual."
Josh Donaldson said Saturday night that it may lead to less-aggressive baserunning.
"You have to go halfway, and you're going to have to watch it the entire time, and you might see guys get thrown out at the leading base because they can't get too far away from the other bag for the sheer fact they have to watch it the entire time," Donaldson said. "And some of these outfielders have really good arms, so them throwing it 120 feet is no problem."
Lowrie out of lineup for first time this season
SEATTLE -- While his teammates went for the decisive contest of a three-game set in Seattle on Sunday, Jed Lowrie was given his first day off of the season.
Consider it deserved, as the shortstop entered the day as the only Athletic to have played the field in each of the club's first 11 games, including both halves of a day-night doubleheader.
Lowrie was at shortstop for 101 of 104 possible innings entering Sunday, having been sidelined for only three innings after taking a bounced pitch to his leg in the seventh inning in Minnesota on Monday.
But he was back in the starting lineup for the next game and reached base twice, and his .458 on-base percentage ranks second on the team to Alberto Callaspo's .483 mark. It's also fifth in the American League.
Lowrie has drawn walks in six consecutive games for the first time in his career, compiling nine over that span, and his 13 walks on the year rank third in the AL. He has reached base safely in each of his past 10 games, splitting time between the two- and three-holes of the lineup in that time.
"He's been amazing," manager Bob Melvin said. "You look at his average and his on-base, and he's even hit into some tough luck this year, so he's very aware of what he needs to do in a particular at-bat, wherever he hits in the lineup. I've said that often about him.
"Usually when you move guys around in the lineup, you tell them, don't worry about where they're hitting, just do what you normally do, where he really has an understanding of what he needs to do in each spot."
Nick Punto got the start at shortstop in Lowrie's place Sunday, having faced Mariners starter Chris Young more times (3-for-6) than any other player in the A's lineup.
Callaspo's pace at plate keeps him in lineup
SEATTLE -- Alberto Callaspo was in the starting lineup for a sixth straight game Sunday, a nod to the versatile switch-hitter's continued production.
Callaspo played in just two of the club's first six games but has been part of every one since, reaching base in each of them and going 8-for-20 with two walks and two RBIs in that time. Overall, he was 10-for-25 (.400) with a .483 on-base percentage entering Sunday's series finale against the Mariners.
He made the start in Seattle at third base, allowing the A's to rest Josh Donaldson's legs as the designated hitter.
"It's easy to give JD a DH day when you know you can run Callaspo over there," manager Bob Melvin said. "It's tough to get him out of the lineup because he is swinging the bat so well, not that I want to. We have some lefties coming up, too, so it's nice to be able to give him some consistent at-bats and ride the hot hand."
The A's have faced just two left-handed starters in their first 12 games but will be up against two in the next three days in Anaheim. That means Callaspo is likely to draw at least one start at first base in the series.
Worth noting
• Coco Crisp experienced left hamstring tightness in Sunday's game in Seattle and will most likely be rested Monday in Anaheim. That was the plan, anyway, said Melvin, who is expected to start Craig Gentry in center field against lefty Hector Santiago.
Jane Lee is a reporter for MLB.com. Read her blog, Major Lee-ague, and follow her on Twitter @JaneMLB. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Harvey Mason Jr.
Harvey Mason Jr.'s Personal Salute To Whitney Houston
("We Will Always Love You: A GRAMMY Salute To Whitney Houston" will air Nov. 16 at 10 p.m. ET/PT on the CBS Television Network.)
I had a long and memorable history with Whitney. I've been working on her records since 1998. Sometimes we made great music together. Other times in the studio, we didn't get much done but had a lot of fun.
My first meeting with Whitney was at her home in New Jersey where we went to record vocals for her album. We were to work at Whitney's beautiful studio in her guest house and I was excited as I arrived to a meal cooked by her amazing chef. Unfortunately, I didn't see Whitney for the first day or two. However, when she came across the huge lawn, into the guest house, and stepped in the studio, we all knew we were in the presence of greatness. She had an energy and intensity that filled the room; fun but serious, creative but all business. She warmed up for about 30 seconds and quickly told us that we should make sure we had her mic and her sound right because she was only going to sing the song a couple times down. Thinking to myself that there was no way she was going to get this vocal right that quickly, I started the session. Of course, the first time she opened her mouth, I knew she absolutely would nail the perfect vocal and it was going to happen quickly. It took her all of three takes and she was out of the booth and back across the lawn as fast as she had come. Everyone in the studio was left with our mouths open and I remember saying, "That right there, was Whitney Houston!"
There were many other occasions where she did things that surprised me vocally but always consistent was her genuine and generous spirit, her fun-loving attitude and her joie de vive. I will miss her but will always remember how much fun we had together recording music that will live on forever.
(Harvey Mason Jr. has penned and produced songs for artists such as GRAMMY winners Beyoncé, Mary J. Blige, Chris Brown, Aretha Franklin, Whitney Houston, Jennifer Hudson, Justin Timberlake, and Luther Vandross, among others. Mason has received three GRAMMY nominations to date, his most recent coming in 2007 for Best Compilation Soundtrack Album For Motion Picture, Television, Or Other Visual Media for Dreamgirls. He is a current Recording Academy Trustee.)


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Copy of a fumigating torch (1600s), Europe
Fumigating torches were used in the 1600s to protect the carrier from bubonic plague. Sweet smelling herbs burnt in the top of the torch were thought to protect against disease. Both the buboes caused by the disease and the breath of the dying smelt foul and it was thought that disease was spread by rancid smells. Plague seemed to spread quickly from person to person but was later discovered to be spread by the fleas carried on rats. Henry Wellcome did his utmost to acquire objects for his collection. He was not always successful. Undeterred, he would seek permission to have copies made of those objects he could not acquire.
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It started as a swap but in my mind the KSBS project had some more potential Here are all the finished blocks so far. I still have 4 more to embellish. Well, she still needs some arrows in her chest but I have not figured out how to do them properly.
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Check out this awesome review of Adam Lamberts Sleepwalker by Gigi.
Posted on July 4, 2011 at 11:36 am
Gigi (gigimorethanwords.blogspot.com):
A Sleepwalker can be defined as someone who arises from sleep in a state of low consciousness and performs activities that are usually performed in a state of full consciousness.
Have you ever been in love with someone so strongly that it takes over your whole body, your whole sense of self? When it ended you felt like you were a walking zombie, just going through the motions
Outside the rains falling down
Theres not a drop that hits me
You feel like you have no life, no love left inside your entire body and youre just empty
Scream at the sky but no sound
is leaving my lips
You go through everyday feeling like you
cant even feel
After the way you touched me
You are in a constant state of limbo youre
Not asleep but Im not awake
After the way you loved me
You feel like you
Cant turn this around
I keep running into walls that i cant break down
The thing is that while all good things must come to an end, so do the bad. Eventually you regain consciousness and awake from the dream or nightmare that you pass through. But scars remain and memories
And you will always remember what it was like
To Love
To Lose
To Walk around with youre eyes wide shut
You Always remember what its like
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Well, that was kind of intense. Shall we talk about it? Let's.
Day Three is a pivot point. The 456 arrives. A pillar of flame sinks into the glass tank at the top of Thames House (without burning anything in its path, I'd like to note). Something prone to splattering green goo against the walls is inside. We never see all of it, just sense a large, lumbering presence, strange and eerie.
Both Torchwood and the government are forced to open their doors a little bit. The Americans show up, surly about being left out of the loop (but why didn't the aliens want to talk to us, Mom?); the Prime Minister pretends to give the reins to Frobisher. It's decided that he'll be the point person for the 456, which is handy as he's already made a deal with it that it not mention the 1965 visit. At Torchwood's new/old base, Rhys is now in on things, and eventually Gwen brings in Clem, too.
But Day Three, to my mind, is mostly about secrets. It's got some action, and some humor — Jack stalking up in the new vintage military coat Ianto's found for him, saying, "I'm back" with incredible certainty, as if he couldn't be himself without that damn coat — and a moment between Jack and Ianto that's both horribly honest and amusingly frustrated. The two of them going from Jack's admission that he always feels it when he dies to trying to get some alone time (stymied by a pot of beans!) is perfect Torchwood.
Those secrets, though. A bit more comes out about Alice, Jack's daughter, whose attempt to escape from Johnson was admirably competent, if ultimately doomed to fail. There's Frobisher's deal with the 456; there's Rhys, furious that Jack knew Gwen was pregnant before he did. The matter of what the 456 wants with the children is still unclear, but now we know how many they want: Ten percent (did anyone else yell at Frobisher when he asked the 456 to promise to not to use the children for communication anymore? Or did we all just assume he was too specific on purpose?).
But above all there's Jack's secret: his involvement with the last 456 visit. The first time Clem says, "That man," it's pretty clear who he's talking about, but that doesn't make Jack's unconcerned reveal — he gave a dozen children to the 456 as a gift — any less horrible. The knife is twisted just that little bit more by his phone call to Frobisher, in which Frobisher tells Jack he's the better man; he won't go back to Frobisher's house and kidnap his children, like Frobisher had done to Jack's family.
He's a better person now. But who was he in 1965?
A few scattered thoughts:
• Lois continues to be awesome. Her quick thinking about how to get into Thames House, her use of shorthand (Ianto knows shorthand? ANYONE knows shorthand?), her inability to stay behind, to stay quiet, when the right thing needs doing — she's going to make a great member of Torchwood when all this is over.
• The montage of the Torchwood team (and Rhys!) learning the thieving tricks Gwen picked up in her time on the police force? Priceless. (Jack is no waiter.) But it's also very telling, and it ties in to something I can't believe I've forgotten to talk about until now: The way Torchwood's tools are being used against them. In the first season, they make the most of CCTV cameras, public and police and government databases, all kinds of information, especially the kind some of us feel shouldn't be out there. It shocks and horrifies Gwen, at first, and then she gets used to it; after all, it's being used to hunt alien threats, not against the citizens of the U.K. But now, it's Torchwood being hunted by those same cameras; those same databases are being used against their families. And thus they learn new tricks — the same things they would disapprove of under different circumstances. There's a morally grey side to this that it's sometimes easy to forget about, at least in less-serious season one Torchwood, and I think it's interestingly handled.
• One of Day Three's most interesting moments is deeply uncomfortable: The scene in which Clem, using his weird smelling ability, looks at Ianto and asks, "Who's the queer?" It's shocking and unexpected, and Ianto's immediate "Oi!" of indignation is, I think, the reason this scene exists. In the first two days of Children of Earth, Ianto is still outlining his feelings about himself and his relationship with Jack, at least as far as other people are concerned. He knows he's in love, but he's sort of working through what that means, at least where other people (the doctor, his sister) are concerned. (Caveat: Having not seen season two, I don't know how this plays out in the past, or if it does at all.) But the conversation he has with Jack about time — how much of it Jack has, and how little Ianto has in comparison — cements things for him. He knows, absolutely, what he's gotten into, and what it means in the long run, and when he responds to Clem it is with the force of a man who will not have have his relationship insulted, dismissed, belittled. When Ianto follows that, quietly, with "It's not 1965 anymore," it's part explanation — he's tempering his response out of sympathy for what the last 456 visit did to Clem — and part segue, for here comes Jack, for whom it is most definitely not 1965 anymore. We hope.
• I love that the show doesn't forget about Ianto's family, that it goes back to show us that his brother-in-law has taken in all the neighborhood children (school's closed) both out of the goodness of his heart and because it can turn him a profit ("Ten quid a kid!"). He and Rhi are there to represent the rest of the world, the more ordinary folks whose lives are being turned upside down too, even if it's in a less immediate way.
• As is pointed out in the comments to yesterday's post, Gwen has come a long way. She's forceful and smart and beyond competent, and while she can teach the team how to become petty thieves, she's also still the woman who goes to fetch sad, scared Clem from jail. She does all she can for him, not simply because he's key to what's happening, but because it's the right thing to do for Clem. That's been Gwen's job since the beginning: bring Torchwood back to the human side of things. Don't just think about the aliens.
It's never only about the aliens.


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Wasatch Range (Central) > Mount Raymond > Climber's Log
Mount Raymond Climber's Log
[ Sign the Climber's Log ]
|Route Climbed: Porter Fork Date Climbed: June 6, 2001
|Also climbed Mill B route on 5/26/02, 5/24/03 & 4,/1/04.
Beware of Diamondbacks!
|Posted Jun 7, 2005 12:36 pm
|Route Climbed: Alexander Basin Date Climbed: September 03 2004
|I climbed this peak for the first time in '01from Butler Fork in BCC. Circle All Peak was skirted as I had been there before. The second time was from Mill B North Fork in BCC. After hiking 3.89 miles and attaining 9360' we bush whacked up a steep rocky slope and scrambled to the summit along the Southeast ridge. The third time was from Alexander Basin and Baker Pass after summiting Gobbler's Knob. Always an enjoyable hike any time of year. Awsome views of other surrounding peaks. Am I the only one that looks around and recalls when I stood on other surrounding summits?
|Posted Jun 4, 2005 10:42 am
|Route Climbed: Butler Fork/Baker Pass Date Climbed: August 2004
|The little scramble up the last 400' or so is pretty fun. On a clear day the view to SLC is pretty good. Go ahead and bag Gobbler's Knob while you're there.
|Posted May 19, 2005 9:07 pm
|Route Climbed: Butler Fork, Porter Fork, Wildcat Ridge Date Climbed: July 27, 2003, many other times
|Nice mountain with good trail to Baker Pass and then up the ridgeline. I like to hike it in combination with Gobblers Knob. The summit offers great views of the Wasatch mountains.
|Posted Apr 30, 2005 10:41 pm
|Route Climbed: Northeast Ridge via Bulter Fork/Baker Pass Date Climbed: March 26, 2005
|First time on this peak. What incredible views of the Cottonwood Ridge!
|Posted Mar 29, 2005 2:05 am
|Nate D
|Route Climbed: Butler fork to NE ridge Date Climbed: 1984, 85
|One of my favorite peaks in the Wasatch.
|Posted Mar 3, 2005 3:51 pm
|Route Climbed: NE Ridge, descended E Face Date Climbed: January 29th, 2005
|Climbed Mt Raymond after summiting Gobbler's Knob from Butler Fork. After making sure the snowpack was safe, Joe and I glissaded down the E face. Although it was raining in the valley, it was a nice day in the mountains!
|Posted Jan 31, 2005 11:03 am
|Route Climbed: Butler Fork, Mill B Date Climbed: Nov. 1st 2003
|Had knee deep snow near the saddle between Raymonds and Gobblers.
|Posted Nov 3, 2003 6:40 pm
|Route Climbed: All Date Climbed: Various
|I have climbed every route to Raymond's summit in winter and summer. It is a great spring climb from the Hidden Falls approach once the snow has consolidated.
|Posted Oct 27, 2003 5:35 pm
|Route Climbed: Wildcat ridge, Butler, Mill B (Hidden Falls), Bowman Fork Date Climbed: many times
|I climbed it many times.
|Posted Oct 22, 2003 7:02 pm
|Route Climbed: Butler Fork, Mill B North Fork, Bowman Fork Date Climbed: several
|Outstanding peak. Not near as difficult as the higher peaks to the south, yet still very interesting with a bit of scrambling at the end. I prefer the Butler Fork route which allows the option to bag Circle-All Peak as well.
|Posted Oct 19, 2003 11:38 am
|Route Climbed: North East Ridge and South West Ridge Date Climbed: May, 2002 and September 2002
|Great climb any time of year. Did this peak in May with the Wasatch Mountain Club - it was a nice snow hike with a lot of glissading on the descent coming from Mill B.
Came back in the fall to bag Raymond and Gobblers Knob, ascending Bowmans Fork and descending Thayne Canyon
|Posted Oct 17, 2003 6:08 pm


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1994 Custom Toyota Pickup - Kolorblind
Paint Colors? Too Many To List
Simplicity and cleanliness are subtle ways to make a strong statement when it comes to painting your truck. Simplicity lends a classiness that draws an eye towards garnering attention for your creation. And when that fails, a myriad of colors and garish schemes will grab attention like a smack in the face. Either way, you can't lose.
Saying that Gregory King's Toyota is subtle is like saying that Sebastian Janikowski kicking you in the mouth with steel-toe boots would go unnoticed. Gregory's Toy got its start on the road to standoutsville with some suspension reanimation. Rolled into The Drop Shop in Pikeville, Kentucky, the mini was torn down and the rear frame just behind the cab was whacked clean off. The Drop Shop laid up a pair of drop spindles in the front and commenced to fabricate an entire tubular rear frame clip. Firestone 'bags ride in the front and a hand-built aluminum four-link is in place out yonder with another set of Firestones. Motegi 19x8-inch DPKs in chrome reside all the way around with Dunlop 215/35R19 rubber doing traction control. Completing the descent to the pavement is a 2-inch body drop.
With 19-inch wheels and tires and a body drop, the engine compartment is devoid of the inner fender panels, leaving plenty of viewing angles to the crusty 22RE. To remedy the old looks, several of the easily attainable parts, like the valve cover and intake manifold, got a trip through the chrome tank. A chrome Downey header and intake tube were tossed into the mix along with some steel braided hoses and blue colored split loom. Miscellaneous parts were painted blue for added distraction.
Jody Hall at The Drop Shop got silly from nose to back. 4x4 fenders were mated with a 4Runner grille and billet insert, headlights, and bumper/valance combination. The squirters, wipers, door handles, gas door, and tailgate handle were welded up and removed, and finalizing the custom work is a molded-in roll pan. Under the careful supervision of Action Engineering in Denver, North Carolina, Beezer got to work with the '94's body and smoothed out all the rough edges from years of use and Jody Hall's prior weld marathon. On the newly smoothed epidermis Tony Fea of Iron Station, North Carolina, went on a color rampage. Blue Dupont pigment and House of Kolor everything else gave way to swaths of color, striping, and dimension with Tony's masterful airbrush shading work. Once fully clear coated and color sanded to a sheen, it was back at the ranch where Gregory himself along with friend Matt McCall created the polished diamond-plate bed treatment.
Entering the home stretch towards being a custom truck rock god, Gregory left his Toyota's seats with the House of Style in Hickory, North Carolina, for some repair and colorization. While the front buckets were being re-foamed and stitched up, Chris Robbins of Nu Image got crazy with the rest of the interior space.
In the extra cab went a subwoofer enclosure encased in gray tweed and blue Plexiglas, then stuffed with four Ample Audio 12-inch low frequency sound pounders. Chris made the door panels into a blue flame and gray tweed sandwich while smoothing the dash, adding tweed to the dash pad, and building a custom center console. Mid and high notes are reproduced through additional Ample Audio separates mounted in kick panels. A Sony headunit rocks the system, and a Sony Playstation 2 creates visionary fulfillment through three Ample Audio screens. Two monitors reside in the visors, and one is in the dash. A Grant steering wheel finishes things off inside the Toy.
All together, Gregory utilized some talented people in his home area. People that Gregory would like to thank include Matt McCall, Chris Robbins, Wayne Moore, Marv Action, Greg and Tony Fea, Beezer, The Wax Shop, Ample Audio, and Sandi King. Gregory built this truck to drive, and drive it he does. Rain or shine, he finds time to drag his way to a colorful commute from home and work and still manages to garner deserved attention with trophies consisting of Best Paint, Best Interior, and the coveted Best of Show. So forget what we said about subtle and classy and going unnoticed. Just head for the kind of attention that can only come from a kick in the mouth.


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I just finished the second version of a robotic arm prototype - CHORG II - with a third version to follow soon: CHORG II hardware
It's fully equipped with three touch sensors, one slip sensor, a camera and a microphone. It has ten servomotors, six to control the arm and four to control the gripper. All ten servos are digital with metal/titanium gear. The arm's length, from shoulder to the gripper's centre, is about 18 inches or 52 centimetres.It's capable of lifting about 1kg.
I also develop a software package to provide adaptive control for the robotic arm. You can keep a track on my progress at: CHORG II Project


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The complaint — which was filed in Pope County Circuit Court in February by Harold Tate through his attorney, Robert Newcomb of Little Rock — called for a series of firearms allegedly received by DuVall on June 9, 2009, to be retrieved from those who purchased them at an unspecified date, and an injunction be ordered against DuVall to comply with provisions within Arkansas law "in disposing of property that he received through gift and not as part of a criminal case."
The firearms, the complaint stated, were donated to Pope County by Timothy C. Johnson and were therefore not available for the sale outside public auction by DuVall. The recipients of the firearms, who are listed on the case file as John Doe 1, John Doe 2 and John Doe 3, "are reasonably believed to be residents of Pope County," according to the complaint, and were asked in the complaint to return the property purchased.
According to the complaint, 12 firearms were donated as a gift and donated to the Sheriff's Office, which were then traded by DuVall to a local merchant.
"This was very unusual for someone to bring firearms to give as a gift to the Sheriff's Office," DuVall said. "These were firearms that we were not going to use during our patrol units ... these firearms were not in the best condition. They were very rusty, some of them had flaws in them, so they were unsafe to fire."
DuVall said he then consulted with Fifth Judicial District Prosecuting Attorney David Gibbons, who had a court order for the transaction signed by Circuit Judge Bill Pearson. Once approved by Gibbons and Pearson, DuVall said he traded the 12 firearms for 37 pairs of Blackhawk boots from Wilkins Brothers Outdoors.
"I always wanted to be able if I could supply the deputies with their footwear," he said. "Each officer got a pair and it was put on their inventory, and if they ever leave the Sheriff's Office, the footwear stays here. It belongs to the county."
Newcomb contested the trade should have been handled by Pope County Judge Jim Ed Gibson rather than DuVall.
As Newcomb presented in the complaint and to Circuit Judge Dennis Sutterfield on Thursday, Arkansas State Statute 14-16-105 states any property sold by the county must be done by the county judge and through a strict procedure that requires the judge to cause an order to be entered in the county court setting forth a description of the property and the reason for its sale.
The statute later states, however, that its procedures for the sale and conveyance of county property shall not apply "when personal property of the county is traded in on new or used equipment and credit approximating the fair market price of the personal property is given the county toward the purchase price of new equipment."
Matt Wilkins, chief financial officer of Wilkins Brothers Outdoors, said the boots, which were sold at a discounted price to the Sheriff's Office per approval by the footwear's manufacturer, were valued at $6,289.63. He added that several of the guns were auctioned off, and the few guns that didn't sell were appraised.
"What we sold the guns for plus the certified appraisal equal about $3,300 in value," Wilkins said.
DuVall said the county benefited from the trade.
"The county did not lose this one as far as the trade," he said.
Sutterfield ruled because the statute requiring the county judge to sell county property via a public auction, but does not apply to trade transactions, Tate had no cause of action against DuVall in his capacity as Sheriff.
"How the judge interpreted the statute was that the statute's exemption is so broad that it bascially vicerates the rest of the statute," Newcomb said. "So basically if any county person wants to trade in the property of the county, they can."
DuVall said he hopes claims that surfaced in 2010 surrounding the legality of the trade will be silenced by Sutterfield's ruling.
"We're very thankful for the judge's ruling," he said. "We're just glad it's over with."


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Garish and over-the-top productions are not what the Sarasota Opera is known for given artistic director Victor DeRenzi's mission of authenticity. But if you're expecting opulence in this season's production of Puccini's "Turandot" on the order of Franco Zeffirelli, then you will have to go home disappointed.
However, those content to let the lush score, a magnificent orchestra and the strongest cast of singers yet heard on this stage stand on their own with Puccini's tale of the ice princess Turandot and her conquering suitor Calaf will be elated.
In even the most modest circumstances, this is a big production and Sarasota Opera has waited until it had all the forces in place to ensure a more than satisfying performance. The pit accommodated a larger orchestra than has been heard before and with an extensive set of gongs, bells, harp and celeste to color the chinoiserie of the score. With such a small stage, scenic designer Michael Sweikardt wisely chose not to overwhelm us, but rather, walk a line of minimalism, allowing lighting and strategic touches of color and design work their magic.
Set in the palace environs of legendary Peking, China, the story introduces us first to the blind exiled King of Tartary, Timur, and his faithful servant, Liu. Last seen on this stage as the Rigoletto villain Sparafucile, Young Bok Kim was a rock solid, if physically infirm, Timur. The waifish Maria Natale fooled us with a strong and lovely lyric soprano voice for Liu's floating high B-flat as she recounts Calaf's smile and her love for him.
A tenor who can add substantial flesh to Calaf as well as deliver the most famous aria of Italian grand opera to satisfaction is a rare find, especially in regional opera. In his debut with the Sarasota Opera, Jonathan Burton hit the jackpot with his delivery of "Nessun dorma" that could stand confidently next to our worn recordings of Corelli, Domingo and Pavarotti.
This brings us to the ice queen herself, Turandot, a brutally demanding role where the first vocal appearance is the second most famous aria, "In questa reggia." Best served with a chill, this aria calls for a forceful dramatic soprano, which was exactly what Brenda Harris provided. With the story of her ancestress taken and abused by the conquering Tartar king, she explained why no man shall ever have her. Harris never faltered as she ramped up the volume and the pitch with only a bit more edge than was comfortable.
Stephanie Sundine's stage direction throughout resisted the exploitation of elements seen in other productions. Liu's torture to extract Calaf's name is minimized and left to the imagination while the executioner is only a silent, yet fully muscled and bare-chested presence.
As with the set, costumes were comparatively understated. Turandot, of course, stood out with her shining silvery headdress and gown. Lighting director Ken Yunker always on target, subtly created the opera's critical moonrise and sunrise.
Finally, I must point out that this opera would have nothing to stand on if it were not for the exceptionally lush score and a full orchestra able to capitalize on every beautiful moment. Director DeRenzi and his instrumental colleagues were stars on par with Turandot and Calaf. Bravissimo!
A strong cast and orchestra for 'Turandot'
Garish and over-the-top productions are not what the Sarasota Opera is known for given artistic director Victor DeRenzi's mission of authenticity. But if you're expecting opulence in this season's production of Puccini's "Turandot" on the order of Franco Zeffirelli, then you will have to go home disappointed.


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Playing in the NFL is one thing, but competing on The Amazing Race is a whole different beast.
"This might be the most unpredictable season yet," Phil Keoghan, host of the hit CBS reality competition, tells PEOPLE.
"[Teams of] pro athletes, feisty fit couples, people with practical hard-working skills, book smarts and strong friendships make it almost impossible to predict who will have an advantage," he says.
Eleven teams will embark on a race around the world for the 23rd installment of show, which premieres Sept. 29 (8 p.m. ET). Two of them are former NFL teammates.
Former Houston Texans and Seattle Seahawks offensive lineman Chester Pitts II, 33, will compete with his Texans teammate, Ephraim Salaam, 36, who also served as an offensive tackle for the Atlanta Falcons, Denver Broncos, Jacksonville Jaguars and Detroit Lions and now co-hosts Fox Sports Live.
And Pitts II and Salaam will not be the only team familiar with a pro sports environment.
Competing against them will be NHL's L.A. King's Ice Crew Girls Allison Mello, 22, and Ashley Covert, 25, as well as Kim DeJesus, 32, and Nicole Getz, 27, wives of professional baseball players David DeJesus and Chris Getz, respectively.
"It's intense," Keoghan says. "This season will be very exciting to watch unfold."


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North Fork scenes
Sites from across the scenic North Fork of Long Island.
The Jamesport Meeting House was built in 1731 and is the oldest building in the Town of Riverhead. (June 28, 2012)
Jamesport's Iron Pier Beach overlooks the Long Island Sound. (June 28, 2012)
A view of the Mattituck Inlet from Wickham Avenue. (Jan. 3, 2012)
Love Lane is a short commercial block in the heart of Mattituck Village that connects Sound Avenue to Main Road. (Jan. 3, 2012)
Wayside Market is on Main Road in Southold. (Feb. 16, 2011)
The Southold Free Library is on Main Road in Southold. (Feb. 16, 2011)
The Village House, built in 1798 originally as a one story house for Augustus Griffin, is one of six buildings filled with history as part of The Oysterponds Historical Society in Orient on the North Fork. Augustus Griffin was an early town historian. (Sept. 19, 2010)
A view of Dam Pond and the Dam Pond Nature Preserve from the Orient-East Marion Causeway. (Aug. 1, 2012)
A ferry pulls into the dock at Orient Point as another prepares to board passengers for New London, Conn, at the Cross Sound Ferry dock. (Aug. 1, 2012)
Bicyclists on Shelter Island's Grand Avenue. (May 14, 2011)
The South Ferry, which carries cars and trucks, plies its way between Shelter Island and North Haven. Everything must be ferried on to the island -- from pavement for the roads, to provisions for the stores, to supplies, to the mail. (May 7, 2011)


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Skip to comments.Two D.C. Attacks and a Series of Unfortunate Coincidences
Posted on 10/07/2013 7:50:08 AM PDT by rktman
So - what do you think are the odds that within a few weeks of each other, two 34-year-old black people from Brooklyn, New York, with nothing in common so far as is known, begin acting out in the same U.S. city in such a manifestly dangerous manner after claiming to have been exposed to vague, arcane technology that they wind up having to be put down like animals by the local constabulary?
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just because things co-incide doesnt mean they are mere co-incidences....
Was flipping through the channels and heard some newscaster saying how it was evident that the black gal was all out-of-sorts because of the Republicans shutting down the country. I can only imagine that will be his talking point on the guy setting himself on fire too.
Hearing voices and all that. Who held the spoon that fed this information to "journalists"?
In Miriam Carey's case, it was members of her own family.
I think this author should get fitted for a tin foil hat. We joke about NSA surveillance here on FR, but I don't think anyone is planning to commit a violent act over it.
The revelations about NSA surveillance have been in the news for a couple of months, and more is probably forthcoming. If someone is already teetering on the edge of sanity, these bits of news may be the trigger that is pushing them over.
But, I don't think that's a "coincidence". It's simply irrational behavior, and there's no point in trying to attribute it to a rational cause. It's not much different than when we get a cluster of mass shootings. One person does it, and the media coverage appears to trigger others that are already struggling with sanity.
That's not very specific.
Who were these "family members" and who was the first "journalist" they contacted?
In NYC, it was her sister. It was reported by the NY Post.
A few months ago, Carey was visiting her sister, had some sort of breakdown, and was taken away by EMS while restrained on a gurney.
The incident was corroborated by neighbors.
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) The sisters of a Connecticut woman fatally shot by police in Washington after she tried to ram her car through a White House barrier said Monday she wasn't delusional and suggest she may have been fleeing danger.
The two sisters of Miriam Carey, who was killed Thursday with her 13-month-old child in her car, disputed the accounts of officials and their sister's one-time boyfriend that she was under the delusion that President Barack Obama was communicating with her.
"What I do see is that perhaps maybe my sister was a little afraid being surrounded by officers with their guns drawn," Valarie Carey said in an interview on NBC's "Today" show. "My sister was fleeing. She was trying to figure out how to get out of there."
The other sister, Amy Carey-Jones, suggests police overreacted or were negligent.
"I feel that things could have been handled a lot differently," she said. "We still feel that there was maybe another story than what we're being told."
Valarie Carey said officials' descriptions of her sister are "not the Miriam we knew."
"She was not walking around delusional, which is what we really want the public to understand," she said.
UNNAMED law enforcement official.
The dental hygienist had called herself the prophet of Stamford
By whom? The Story doesn't say.
claimed Obama had put the Connecticut city on lockdown and arranged for her to be electronically monitored so her life could be broadcast on TV.
Again. Who is the source for this? The story once again doesn't say.
Stamford cops were twice called to Careys home in December by her boyfriend, Eric Francis, who said she was delusion and irrational and putting their baby daughter, Erica, in danger.
Finally, some semblance of a source. Although some stories refer to Eric as an ex-boyfriend. Baby daddy, yes. Family member? Arguable.
About three months ago, Miriam was taken away in an ambulance, crying and rambling that the world is going to end, said Jamal Hinez, 25, who has lived on Valarie Careys block for 14 years. They wrapped her in something with straps on the gurney. EMS asked what was happening, and [Valarie] whispered in the [EMS] workers ear. Miriam was on the gurney kicking and screaming, The world is going to end. We are all going to die. It is going to happen. They gave her the needle in her buttock, and she quieted down. She was crying, Hinez recalled. Valarie was on the phone complaining about not being able to cope anymore, [saying], I cant keep dealing with this hearing voices and stuff, this spacing out.
A neighbor. Not neighbors.
Miriam Careys mother, Idella, said her daughter suffered from post-partum depression after giving birth to Erica last August.
I don't know the symptoms of PPD but if it includes hearing voices and think the President of the United States is monitoring your every move, that would be awfully coincidental.
On Dec. 21, Francis called police again and said Carey was off her medication. Sources said a state social worker declared her 100 percent back to normal in January. Stamford Police yesterday would not immediately release the official reports of those incidents.
How convenient. Suddenly the cat's got the law enforcement officials' tongues.
Francis who ran a heating and cooling company and recently lost his Hartford-area home to foreclosure did not return calls. He recently opened a restaurant in Hartford, but was not there yesterday.
"Hearing voices and all that."
And the Navy Yard shooter heard voices too.
Exactly. One of the "coincidences" cited in the article. And that info came out awfully quick as well. Yet another coincidence.
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