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My ship, "The Groomsman's Demure", floats among the rocks and crags, it's old hull of spun night silver over hard iron ribs, cut down, razee to a 24 port sixth rate, 89 souls aboard, but well founded and with sturdy leak free tanks, newly tarred that allow us to cruise long among the shattered crags of the Shardcloud. A letter of mark from Brawl Rock gives us the justification to seize what we will, but more it is a pass to travel where we wish and pick the rich bones of shattered worlds. We seek rare prey, Dread Spindral or Boward's Luck, a bastion world of the 3rd Arcane Integrem, plundered once in a cursory manner 80 years ago by Captain Boward of the "Lark", before retreating again into the deadly cold space of the Licheside. The Spindral is hurtling back now on a long elliptic and with Boward's notes, the services of a Red Sage and the visions bought dearly from the Night Singers, I know where she'll cross the Green Belt.


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TORONTO – Despite filling the net in their previous match just days prior, Canada could not find the answers to Puerto Rico's stingy defense as the teams played to a scoreless draw in 2014 World Cup qualifying on Tuesday night at BMO Field.
The Canadians shelled St. Lucia 7-0 last Friday, but could not replicate the free-flowing offense against the determined Puerto Ricans, who spent much of the game packed behind the ball.
Canada had all of the possession in the opening 45 minutes, with the visitors all too happy to allow the hosts to pass the ball around as they pleased. It didn't matter though, as the final ball seemed to elude the Canadians time and again, with crosses into the Puerto Rican area going wayward or straight to the 'keeper.
Aside from the odd industrious run from Dwayne De Rosario, the Canucks had no ideas in the final third, and when the halftime whistle was blown, the scoreline remained 0-0.
Coach Stephen Hart switched things around to start the second half, swapping wingers Simeon Jackson and Josh Simpson to opposite wings. The strategy added a bit more variation to a stagnant Canadian attack, as both Simpson and Jackson had cracks on goal early into the half.
Simpson had a great opportunity to open the scoring at the hour mark, pouncing on a poor Puerto Rican back pass in the six-yard box. The 28-year-old attacker had his hard shot stopped by charging goalkeeper Brandon Saldana, with both men colliding and the ball falling harmlessly wide.
Canada kept the pressure on the visitors, coming close on a couple more chances as Puerto Rico fell into a defensive shell to try to preserve the scoreless deadlock.
Substitute forwards Olivier Occean and Tosaint Ricketts combined well towards the end of regulation, coming close on a number of occasions and being called offside on a handful of attacks.
The match opened up considerably in the final ten minutes of play, and although the Canadians had the lion's share of offensive forays, Puerto Rico came very close to putting on past Lars Hirschfeld with just seven minutes remaining.
Andrés Pérez broke in alone on the Canadian goal after a quick counterattack, and only Hirschfeld's quick thinking saved Canada from falling behind. The Canuck keeper rushed out towards Pérez and forced the attacker to blast a shot into goalkeeper's chest.
The single point was not enough for Puerto Rico to stay in contention in Group D, while Canada remain atop the table despite dropping points.
Hart's side will take on St. Kitts and Nevis – the second-place team in the group – in back-to-back matches in November to determine which team advances to the semifinal round of CONCACAF's World Cup qualifying tournament.
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PUR -- Andrés Pérez, 60' (Caution)
PUR -- Scott Horta, 68' (Caution)
Canada - Lars Hirschfeld, Ante Jazic, Adam Straith, David Edgar, Nik Ledgerwood, Julian de Guzman, Terry Dunfield, Dwayne De Rosario, Simeon Jackson (Tosaint Ricketts 70'), Josh Simpson, Iain Hume (Olivier Occean 34') ... Subs not used: Kenny Stamatopoulos, Ashtone Morgan, Joseph Di Chiara, Jonathan Beaulieu-Borgault
Puerto Rico - Brandon Saldana, Scott Jones, Scott Horta, Richard Martínez, Andrés Pérez, Cristian Arrieta, Peter Villegas (Marco Vélez 57'), Alexis Rivera, Andrés Cabrero, Tyler Wilson (Chris Megaloudis 78'), Héctor Ramos (Stephan Barea 87') ... Subs not used: Eric Flecha, Noah Delgado, Gadiel Figueroa, Julian Cardona, Juan Vélez
Referee: Stanley Lancaster (GUY)
Assistant Referees: Dionn Inniss (GUY), Venton Mars (GUY)
Fourth Official: Otis James (GUY)
Attendance: 12,178
Canada Held At Home Tuesday
TORONTO – Despite filling the net in their previous match just days prior, Canada could not find the answers to Puerto Rico's stingy defense as the teams played to a scoreless draw in 2014 World Cup qualifying on Tuesday night at BMO Field.


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Topic: my favorite sport
I really love going outside and playing outdoor games. Of the many sports that I have played in high school, I like playing basketball the most, because it is challenging and it requires\takes a lot of teamwork to win a game.
It is not easy to be able to dribble a basketball. It takes many days of practice. I have a good aim and I like to be the person to throw the ball into the hoop. I find that playing a basketball game is very challenging because it is not easy to dribble the ball pass my opponents and getting the ball through the hoop. In my last basketball game, it took more then thirty minutes to score a point. In addition, it takes a lot of teamwork.
Teamwork is very important in a basketball game because it is very difficult to win alone. When playing basketball, I have to pay a lot of attention to what my teammates are doing because they could suddenly pass the ball to me. Two months ago when I was playing basketball with a couple of friends, one of my teammate threw the ball to me and I did not notice it, and tripped over the ball. Thus good communication skills are mandatory.
Basketball is my favorite sport. I would like to play it more often; however most of my friends are always busy. In addition the weather is also a problem because I hate playing in the rain, and I worry about getting a suntan.
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Shaman..DEFINITELY. What a great song.
Shaman..DEFINITELY. What a great song.
The music industry is an odd, greedy beast. Respect and talent means more than airplay, imo. I think things like Kimmel are great though for swooping up as many old, new, and latent fans as possible.
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Now we should all blast Fallon's show with emails to get them on here via the east coast.... letterman? conan? i kinda doubt Leno.... ya never know!
"There can be no tradition without innovation."
- Earle Hitchner, Irish music journalist
Sure, maybe there's no written rule to that, and letters from fans might work. I haven't looked into it to see if any other band plays more than one late night show in a season or so. I was very happy to see they got a second airing & on a FRIDAY of the Kimmel show. It's so good to see them on TV.
I don't know what I just said or why.
From my heart & from my hand
why don't people understand my intention
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I agree with Beached Male that "Anyone Else" is neither a great song nor an appropriate track to garner wider appeal.
For me, the obvious single on Beautiful Friction is "Girl With No Ceiling" and this track should be elevated and celebrated in every possible way.
The world will always turn, with or without your point of view...
Sad but true "Rock n' Roll" is on life support. Steve Jobs killed the music industry. People only buy one song or two on Itunes and never give an album a full listen. There are no more forums for rock Bands. Its all dance **** and rap rubbish. Only music forum is American Idol and that's more rubbish. Whats left are fans who want to go to live shows and hear music they grew up with. So yes, The Fixx must embrace the 80's. I suggest you google 80's music forums & let them now The Fixx are alive and well. Also, join other 80's bands message forums aka Duran Duran and tell them about the fantastic album and tour.
Some one can start with this Website and go from there
We'll know for the first time
If we're evil or divine
We're the last in line
BTW, for those who haven't noticed, there's a vinyl version of Beautiful Friction coming -- if you want something cool to have them sign, or just a bigger format to admire the art, I recommend ordering it - even if you don't have a turntable any more.
And if you are interested in setting up a new vinyl system, feel free to send me a PM, vinyl is hobby of mine and I'd be happy to point people to some reasonably priced high-quality turntables.
First, Follow that Cab rocks. Period. I love Shaman too, but I feel it would be less likely to bring in converts than Cab, but hey, YMMV.
Take a Risk is also catchy. Hell, the whole damn album is great. Wasted was the correct song to cut, though it is fun. Anyone Else isn't the best song, but it may very well have been the best foot forward, considering the attention the video is getting. When it comes to a one-two punch, we can disagree on what "two" should be.
But in thinking about ways to market the album and songs, how about a Fixxture takeover of Jelli? That has not come up (at least in this thread) and it's a decent idea. If it exposes even a few people (and it would be more than that, if not much more, lol) to the new material, mission accomplished! Jelli is listener controlled radio, for those unfamiliar. Some places have an FM station that Jelli plays on, but it also streams online.
It may seem somewhat daunting, at first. The Fixx's music has got to be nominated first, and get enough votes, to be added to the playlist(s). Once it's available, it would have to be voted on and/or "rocketed" to the top of the list. I'm thinking it would take an organized effort, which may be asking a lot, but it is doable. We would need enough people to vote for the band's music to be added, then if successful, dedicate a time and place to organize a takeover of a certain station or channel (Jelli has a lot of categories of streaming channels, like 70's, 80's, etc).
I mention it because it has been done before by hardcore fans of other bands. Are we Fixxtures not even more hardcore in all things The Fixx? I think we are!
And lastly, Jelli has a "Jelli for Artists" tab on it's website, claiming that if a band sends a CD, they will add it. I don't know if that is strictly for startup bands w/o a label or not, but it couldn't hurt if someone representing the band or Kirtland Records got in touch with Jelli about making the songs available for users to choose from. Just getting the songs available to be played is over half the battle...
Sound reasonable?
"this one sign of the cross"
Reviving this old thread--
First: RoboCoaster, your idea has merit, and I recommend looking at my other thread that is similar, about Windows 8 and the Music App that can provide free streaming songs based on a favorite band you input that then results in a random playlist of similar bands.
To follow up on other comments in this old thread, one of my main/lost points in starting this thread was that you have to carefully pick "the song" that you push forward first, whether that song becomes a single or not is irrelevant. The larger/macro point is that "the song" will be the only one you potentially play when you are invited on Jimmy Kimmel or any other show, and it may be the only song you get the capital to cut a video for. I was not trying to dive into the "do singles mean anything anymore" argument, but rather push the issue that there comes a point where you have to pick "the song" that is promoted - in whatever way or method that promotion is done via TV/internet/radio; and I think The Fixx need more/better Outside/3rd party Opinions (two puns in there...).
When the boys played One Thing Leads to Another on Saturday Night Live way back when in the 80s, there were plenty of people in that audience that did not know the song. However, the reaction was quite different...it "resonated" with the audience, and it was this band's biggest hit for good reason.
I still think the title track of this album, Beautiful Friction, has a longer life ahead of it on Muzak or such, great atmospheric tune. I realize not everyone liked Take a Risk or Follow that Cab as much as some of us did -- but the bigger issue there is that the band always needs at least a few rockers on each of their albums. If it is "danceable" -- even better.
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RIP Dad, Forever in my Heart.
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I just talked with my postal service on campus. They said that my package will most likely be sent back because of the address being wrong.
RIP Dad, Forever in my Heart.
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Hi! I kinda have the opposite problem. I received a twitch hoodie without info or notification that I was supposed to get one at all. If I was meant to get one great! The only downside is the size sent was kinda making me self conscious. (I was sent a large, but I'm pretty easily a XXL with my frame alone) If the hoodie was not meant for me and sent by mistake, surprise! I got one sent to me directly from St. Jude's, and they couldn't tell me who sent it. (I assume it was you guys since the only contact I have with St. Jude's is through a single donation of 10$ I made during the Hyrule Vs. Lorule stream. I ended up being the grand prize winner through it.)
Still waiting on Rob's OoT notes. Was kinda hoping to get them this month so I could do a OoT stream using them around New Year's Eve.
Wondering how long I should wait before I check on any issues with Petunia the Substitute (had to reregister because the thing would not send me the password reset, so here I am!)
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January 1, 2005
may it be a light and warm new year
Saturday, January 1
Okay, now it is 2005 in most part of the world...
I am now at my mom's in Nagano, a mountainous area in the middle of Japan. It is coooold here up in the mountains, and we are sitting around a fireplace, blessing its light and warmth.
Happy dazzling & sparkling new year!
13 comments:
- Cat said...
everything looks beautifully presented (the food from the other post) have a wonderful time with your family in Japan! Happy New Year to you & yours :)
- 5:20 AM, January 01, 2005
- Kane said...
Happy New Year!
- 7:23 PM, January 01, 2005
- Estelle said...
Happy new year to you, Chika! Thanks for all these wonderful pictures and this great blog, I wish you many more memorable meals for the year ahead!
- 10:48 AM, January 02, 2005
- Anthony said...
Nagano would be a gorgeous (and much cooler) place to spend the New Year.
- 8:38 PM, January 02, 2005
what's tht pretty thing you're trying to take a pic of?
- 9:14 PM, January 02, 2005
- Santos said...
hi chika--oh, you're the cutest thing :-) happiest of new years to you, him, and your family. stay warm and lovely!
- 6:49 AM, January 03, 2005
- baron said...
Probably a photo of this.
- 12:43 PM, January 04, 2005
- Requia said...
Happy New Year and all the best. I really like you blog. Hope to see lots of posts and lots of nice pictures this year !
- 1:13 PM, January 05, 2005
Hey Chika:
I need your e-mail address.
Sorry to spam your comments...
Hillel from tastingmenu. :)
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- 9:41 PM, January 05, 2005
wow... tht looks really cute! hahhaa.. is it holding a cube of sugar?
Tht would make a really nice gift for HER
- 8:29 AM, January 06, 2005
- chika said...
Thanks and Belated Happy New Year to you all, I wish all the best for 2005!
Cat - yeah it is really nice being back home with family :)
Kane - happy happy new year to you too!
Estelle - Thanks, a lots of great food to you too for the coming 12 months or so!
Anthony - it was coooooool up there! Thinking it might be nice to have a really warm (or more like hot?) new year on the other side of the equator!
ala - as you have already found out, it was a tiny buddy called mentaico-chan. I put the pic on my other blog (here). Cute, isn't it!!
Santos - thanks, same to you! (I know you wouldn't have to try to stay warm in Guam though...)
baron - o good job!
Hillel - thanks for the note, that is great!
- 10:24 AM, January 09, 2005
- Anthony said...
I lived in Japan for 7 years. Mainly in Tokyo but I did a fair bit of travelling, mainly touring by motorcycle. There are some beautiful winding roads around Nagano so I have many happy memories of it. I think I spent my New Years in Tokyo though, it was nice to be able to see Mt Fuji on New Year's Day and then be the only person in Shibuya. I expect everybody else was keeping warm elsewhere.
Oh and of you feel like a New Year on this side of the equator you're more than welcome.
PS just had a warm memory of those little heat pads that you shake and then they become hot. (Or alternatively a hot can of Boss Coffee for my cold biker hands).
- 1:27 AM, January 11, 2005
- chika said...
Hi Anthony,
Now I know why :)
It'd be way cool being the only person in Shibuya (there are usually quite a bit of people all the time you know), let alone seeing Mt Fuji on New Year's Day!
I always had trouble when I got a can of hot coffee or hot chocolate (or tea, whatever) on a cold day; whether to drink it to warm up from inside or to hold it with the both hands to warm up dead cold hands :D
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Louise Aitken-Walker was always described as a shepherdess, I thought. Gwyndaf Evans (of the male persuasion) was - is? - a schoolbus driver in Wales. But I don't know about any milk deliveries....
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Posted 12 February 2001 - 15:07
Once I was on a Jaguar release drive in England and made a detour to go to the Jim Clark Museum in Duns. It had to be a quick visit before they discovered I was missing.
While there I phoned Andrew Cowan, who I know from many rallies from right back to Southern Cross Rally 1969, and he invited me to his home. I said I didn't have time, so he drove out to meet me at a road junction on the shortest route from Duns back to the route I was supposed to be on.
As we stood on the side of the road, having a drink, he told me of how he and Jim Clark used to drive the road I was crossing to go to (Glasgow?) to dances. They used to race back home. "This is a third gear corner," he said, "And you use a little bit of the grass on the apex just there...".
Andrew said he believed it was the challenging roads in the area that bred good drivers. He added, "You just drove past Louise Aitken-Walker's place - back up the road a bit. She learned to drive on these roads also."
I had the pleasure of meeting Mercedes Stermitz when she raced at Bathurst. I was impressed that a lady so attractive and also a factory racing driver was so unpretentious.
A year or so later I bumped into her at the top of an escalator at the Frankfurt Motor Show and spent some more time speaking with her.
Perhaps it was Bathurst the following year, I was talking to a German driver (can't for the life of me remember at the moment who it was - a look through the entry lists would jog the memory) and somehow she came into the conversation (something about drivers new to Bathurst struggling to come to grips with it).
I said to him that I thought Mercedes was a very nice lady. He gave me a funny look and was smiling, almost stifling a laugh. I asked him what was funny about my saying that, but he wouldn't tell me. I never have figured it out.
Posted 12 February 2001 - 15:14
She was telling me how much she loved motor racing, and all that went with it - travel etc. I asked her what if it all came to an end. What would she do for a living then?
She told me, "I have never thought about that. I couldn't bear to think about what life would be like without motor racing. To me that's just unimaginable."
Not long after that, she vanished from the entry lists and I have never heard of her again - until this thread on Atlas F1.
Posted 12 February 2001 - 15:25
Thinking on the above stories, I realised that it was on that same Jaguar trip, in fact I think it was the same day, at a grand lunch with hundreds of people present, I was sat beside a not-so-young lady who obviously had a lot of class.
When we got to talking, she said her name was Jean Denton. She was surprised and impressed to learn that someone from "Down Under" knew of her and her driving career.
A very nice lady indeed.
Posted 12 February 2001 - 15:31
Posted 12 February 2001 - 17:24
I last saw her about Dec 92 on a German TV quizz show(a version of "A Question of Sport"
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Posted 12 February 2001 - 17:42
Modern children education is less an less sex oriented and at least in non muslin countries, the culture pressure is going away.
It is only on the highest categories that physical limits could be a problem for women : accelaration of 4G and more of F1 cars is probably something that need a medical attention before starting a GP but they are already ladies as fighter pilots in many Air Forces (I remember they are a (very) few in the french army) and also astronaut candidates that follow the full training.
So wait and see, but i'm sure we will see more and more ladies and some days in F1 also.
But for the past, I agree with Rob, Elisabeth Junek performance at the Targa Florio is the woman performance that impress me the most. Hum... very close to Michèle Mouton rallying career and of course Pat Moss a few years before...
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Posted 12 February 2001 - 19:52
Davina Gallica, F3000. there was another female about the same time as DG, can't remember the name,
Thank you for the correction on LAW.
Posted 12 February 2001 - 21:09
Posted 12 February 2001 - 22:09
She calls it Daveena Galitsa, with the stress on the second syllable in both cases
Posted 12 February 2001 - 22:16
Posted 12 February 2001 - 23:05
Or is that a silly idea?
PS Davina Galica was British ski champion before going motor racing. She also later proved the biggest thug - even possibly the winner - on an all-women Sporting Superperson TV show some year later.
Posted 13 February 2001 - 06:23
If rallying is included, Pat Moss and Michele Mouton were both able to compete against the best in the world in their respective eras
Posted 13 February 2001 - 08:03
At that time and with the cars in competition, the Bugatti, the Tara Florio in 1928 was perhaps closer to a modern rallye as a F1 GP but on the other hand, probably the best drivers and the fastest sports cars were competing.
What makes Junek's performance unforgetable is that she was opposed to magic names and she was ahead of the great drivers of the time : Campari, Divo and if I remember well other magic names as Nuvolari and Chiron, many of them on the same car (Bugatti T35 ?).
The supercharged Audi Quattro that Michèle Mouton drive during her most successfull years had not the reputation to be "easier" to drive as the Bugatti and the pilots she was opposed to were not amateurs in any sense of the word and her achievements are at least of the same level. Michèle has also been at the top longer as Elisabeth ...
But the fact Junek retired at the death of her husband (could be because she was out of money ...) had a flavor of romantism to her story.
So, after analysis, Michèle Mouton is probably the best feminin palmares (I hate the word female, it's really a hard word on french, used for animals) but I probably have a preference for Elisabeth Junek ...
In a very different area, perhaps you remember the estonishing performance of Françoise Arthaud who won a boat race across the Atlantic against all the best sailor ?
Posted 13 February 2001 - 08:11
Posted 13 February 2001 - 08:21
in 1928 she actually led the race on lap 4,her car's water pump faltered and she finished 5th behind chiron's 4th... only 9 minutes separated the first 5 cars at the finish..the winners time was 7hrs,20 min.....conway;"many authorities consider junek's performance in this race...to be the finest exploit ever made by a woman racing driver."i agree..
hey!! how about brother and sister drivers??here's a chance to get obscure...
Posted 13 February 2001 - 11:23
Posted 13 February 2001 - 12:44
Here is a picture of Ewy Rosqvist in Helsinki 1992.
Question: Can anyone recognize the passenger?
Posted 13 February 2001 - 12:47
Posted 13 February 2001 - 12:52
Originally posted by Darren Galpin
Stig Blomqvist
No, better up
Posted 13 February 2001 - 13:29
I have no picture at hand, and I go by memory.
Donna Maria Antonietta Avanzo was a rather successful driver in the late '10s early '20s. Just found on the net that she was third on a 20/30 ES at the Grand Prix gentleman, Brescia 1921 and DNF with the same car at the 1922 Targa Florio.
Lella Lombardi and Ada Pace have already been mentioned before - Lella won European Touring car Championship on a GTV6 in 1984 or 1985.
In 1991, Alfa put together a feminine team for the italian production cars championship (group N) with Alfa 33 16V. Three young drivers composed the team: Romana Bernardoni, Alexandra Gallo and Tamar Vidali. Tamara won the feminine and the under-25 titles in 1991, and overall group N title in 1992. She was / is pretty nice . She later drove 155s and eventually Audis. Romana Bernardoni is still an Alfa driver, last year in the Euro STC and this one in the new FIA international championship.
Posted 13 February 2001 - 14:31
In a open-top Mercedes? There used to be this five times world champion who owned a bucket load of Mercedes dealerships in Argentina....
Mercedes Stermitz visited Bathurst in 1987 part of the six car strong factory BMW squad which included 4 cars from german Schnitzer team, 1 each from the italian Bigazzi and CiBeEmme teams, under the overall command of Peter Flohr.
The drivers were the likes of Roberto Ravaglia, Johnny Cecotto, Emanuelle Pirro, poor poor Roland Ratzenberger, Olivier Grouillard, Altfrid Heger, Gianfranco Brancatelli, Winni Vogt, Juan Manuel Fangio II, Gary Brabham, Markus Oestrich, and the ladies car of Annette Meuvissen and Mercedes Stermitz.
Barry & Ray - you were there, and on the inside, so you probly know the story better....
There's a fascinating story from qualifying at Bathurst '87. Stermitz crashed her Beemer at Forrest Elbow on the descent down the mountain. She'd locked up and gone in hard on the sharply descending corner at the top of Conrod straight. The car was stuffed. Schnitzer head Charly Lamm wanted to throw the car away. The Daily Telegraph ran a headline "Mercedes Bends BMW"
One of the remarkable things about Bathurst is the TAFE Smash Repair School. One day in the early 80's a former racer, and IIRC TAFE lecturer by the name of Tony Warrener came up with the idea of taking a bunch of TAFE (Techinical And Further Education) student to Bathurst to offer their services. They took a primitive transportable paint both, set up in one of the sheds over the back and the team of apprentice mechanics, fitter & turners, welders, painters etc then offerred their services for free to any teams who crashed their cars. Over the years the achievements of these incredibly enthusiastic apprentices has become legend. They first came to public limelight during the incredible resurrection of Dick Johnson's 1983 Bathurst campaign, after the violent Hardie Hereos shunt at Forrests Elbow. It's a story for another time though, this post is getting long enough.
The TAFE crew were reluctantly given the Beemer and told Lamm 'we'll let you know'. Lamm didn't give it another thought. He believed he'd never see the car again. Stermitz and Meeuvissen started to pick out spectator points to watch the race from. The crash occurred on thursday morning. it was late afternoon before the TAFE crew received the badly mangled car. 8:45 am and the team were asked to collect the completed car - it was taking up room needed for other cars. It had even been painted in the correct colours which Lamm believed were internal to BMW and not known outside the company.
Anways, came friday and the ladies car had not quaified. Meuvissen had but Stermitz had not. She had to find four seconds. Bathurst is a big circuit but not that big. With 10 minutes to go in the last qualifying session Stermitz was picked up by Winni Vogt in the Bigazzi car and Vogt 'towed' her around the circuit, initially with the assistance of some of the other Beemers, but finally just Vogt. It worked. Her second last lap just made it. Her last lap was a second quicker. They would start. They didn't finish though. With 45 laps completed Meuvissen stalled the car behind the pace car at Griffins. The car was stuffed, suspected clutch failure but BMW weren't saying.
Pity.[p][Edited by Falcadore on 02-13-2001]
Posted 13 February 2001 - 14:39
Originally posted by Leif Snellman
Here is a picture of Ewy Rosqvist in Helsinki 1992.
Question: Can anyone recognize the passenger?
Perhaps the Pampa's Bull?
Posted 13 February 2001 - 16:28
Originally posted by jarama
Perhaps the Pampa's Bull? [/B]
No, but we are getting close now!!
Think about the car
Posted 13 February 2001 - 16:36
Originally posted by Falcadore
In a open-top Mercedes? There used to be this five times world champion who owned a bucket load of Mercedes dealerships in Argentina....
That's the correct answer! He was to drive the W196 that day but they never managed to start it so...
Posted 13 February 2001 - 20:25
Was jenny Birrel mentioned in the husband and wife thread, and a Bessie Haig, or Mrs Montgomery-Burton drove a Riley many years ago, might by a friend of the Chumleys. Or so my historian friend tells me.
Posted 13 February 2001 - 20:28
Posted 13 February 2001 - 20:38
Posted 13 February 2001 - 20:43
Michele Mouton is my pick.
Anyone who could keep one of those twitchy 600+
horsepower 4WD Audi Quattros pointed in a relatively
straight line and out of the trees gets my vote!
Posted 18 February 2001 - 14:03
Add Denise McCluggage (USA) to the list.
Did LeMans in a Ferrari SWB and drove OSCAs for NART. Maybe someone else can add more to her racing backround.
She is also an accomplished motorsports journalist and author. Wrote the text for the book AMERICAN RACING with Tom Burnside and a book on her racing experiences.
Posted 18 February 2001 - 17:50
I think that in terms of going head-to-head with the men with no favours given nor asked for, Michelle Mouton looks to be the most competitive.
She just did it again in a London to Sydney Marathon recently. I wanted to go to the finish so I could meet her, but was too busy at the time.
There are some other good women drivers come to mind. In the 1977 London to Sydney Marathon there were a few. Christine Dacremont, who was involved in a freak collision in Australia and broke her pelvis. Also Marianne Hoepfner, who proved to be an excellent driver, navigator and mechanic, and had a ton of class as well. She finished up living with the French actor Trintignant (is it Jean-Louis) the last I heard of her.
Christine and Marianne drove together at Le Mans on at least one occasion.
Also French, Marie-Claude Beaumont, drove at Le Mans a number of times in Chev Corvettes mostly. She won her class at Bathurst and still takes photographs at F1 races. (Has she been mentioned already?)
Less well known, Susanne Kottulinsky, daughter of F3 veteran Freddy Kottulinsky, who rallied Volvos in Sweden and possibly some events outside of Sweden.
I rode with her on a rally stage in a forest in Sweden once - incredibly smooth and with greater mechanical sympathy than most. She said she wanted to come to Australia and I almost had a drive lined up for her (with me as co-driver) in the Australian Safari, but it all fell through unfortunately.
Posted 18 February 2001 - 18:34
During the race, Mlle Dacremont suffered a problem with a door. If I remember correctly, it opened as she was driving on the Mulsanne at 180mph+. Not a pleasant thing to experience for anyone...
Posted 22 February 2001 - 17:07
Milka Duno (US) / races sportscars in USA
Giovanna Amati (ITA) / also a sportscar racer these days.
Shirley Muldowney (US) / former top-fuel dragracer
Sarah Kavanagh (IRL) / Races F1-cars in the British BOSS formula.
Posted 08 July 2002 - 07:00
Then, there was a tragic crash in Brazil 1936 when she collided with Manuel de Teffé and her car get into the crowd killing people. She survived but never resumed her GP carreer, although she participated (circa 1938, archives not checked) in a successful record attempt with the Matford (Mathis & Ford) and in a one-make Touring car series in 1939.
She is said to have gone to Brazil during WWII, where she opened a brothel (!!! — who knows more ?)
Back to France, she died in 1984 in a very poor condition of health & money.
Incidentally, when she was in Brazil, she became a kind of local feminist hero because of her free behaviour. In such a way that her pseudonym was largely used as a forename for baby girls : Ellenice or Hellenice. Still today, if you make a Google research for "Helle-Nice", you can notice that a Brazilian ministress is such named.
Posted 08 July 2002 - 07:08
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Posted 08 July 2002 - 18:29
Can anyone tell more?
Is she still in Sweden??
Posted 08 July 2002 - 21:40
Not about brothels, but.....
Originally posted by Jimmy Piget
"Hellé-Nice" .......She is said to have gone to Brazil during WWII, where she opened a brothel (!!! — who knows more ?).....
.....about her São Paulo crash I found an account in the Allgemeine Automobil Zeitung, Berlin, 1936, No.33, pg. 16 ".....The clock pointed towards 12. The race neared the end. Then, roaring applause surged: the Italian Pintacuda raced as first through the finish. His countryman Marinoni followed him. Further back lay the Brazilian Manoel de Teffé and behind him the 25-year old French woman sport driver Hellé-Nice. Just when both had gained the first victory, the crowd started to become restless and pushed at some places across the barriers onto the track. But that was not all. Just at the moment when the third, Brazilian Teffé, neared the finish, one of the spectators, a soldier, who until now had sat on a hay-bale, jumped into the racetrack and dragged the hay-bale with him. At the same moment, Hellé-Nice came racing down at 150 km/h. She braked, but could not avoid the sudden obstacle and ran over the soldier, who died soon thereafter. But this was only the beginning of the horrible disaster. The car started to skid and raced in wild rebounds along the spectators. The young woman driver was flung out high through the air into the crowd of people and owed her life only through this circumstance. The driverless car on the other hand threw the nearest standing to the ground, ran them over, ripped from them arms and legs and behaved as if it was frantic. Shortly after the finish line it came to a standstill. Five People were immediately dead, while 35 partly serious and partly light injured were brought into the hospitals. At the very onset it was believed that the daring woman driver had become a victim of the accident. First telegrams declared her dead, but she was only unconscious and had solely received some injuries. After 24 hours she regained consciousness, but could not remember the accident. Her condition today is not one to be concerned....."
Posted 09 July 2002 - 05:51
Just a note : she was not "25" at the time, but 36 (born 1900).
A further information about her late years : she survived and escape for true misery thankfully of an association, "la roue tourne", which is a kind of NGO helping ancient artists (from theatre, cinema, music-hall) who paid her the monthly bill of a small flat in Nice and a small amount of money to get some food.
The other question about her is the meaning of her pseudonym.
"Nice" looked obvious only at first glance (that's where she died), but when she wore that name as a dancer, she was a Parisian !
"Hellé" is the name of a second-rate Greek goddess, and was yet used as a pseudonym by another music-hall lady of the '1890s-'1900s.
Some people (this is yet mentioned by Paul Sheldon, with the help of Yves de la Gorce & J-M Gigleux) wonder if there could be a bilingual phonetic joke reading : "Elle est" (she is) nice, the last word in English. Who knows ?
Posted 09 July 2002 - 08:59
http://www.atlasf1.c...=Mlle HelleNice
http://www.atlasf1.c...ice crash photo
I will send you also an old copy of the thread, which contains two missing pictures of her.
Posted 09 July 2002 - 10:51
Posted 09 July 2002 - 11:09
(She got banged up pretty bad driving a Porsche GT class car about twenty years ago).
Posted 09 July 2002 - 19:35
She was married to Ludwig Heimrath jnr, and maybe still is.
Anyone know what happened to German ex-F3 and Gebhardt sportscar ace Beate Nodes?
Posted 09 July 2002 - 20:25
Posted 10 July 2002 - 17:56
By the way talking about CART, I didn't get why they should stop using the Champ Cars name -the Indy Cars is fine since they don't run at Indy- ; and about the IRL being competitive, well yes as much as the VW Eurovan series in Mexico which had 20+ cars in the grid every race and they all crashed and finished in the same lap, but their drivers were mostly cab drivers and normal people recruited for the race. I mean, who was produced by the IRL? Sam? no, he's Atlantic. Buddy, Greg, etc? CART rejects. Thomas? F3 and Jaguar Racing, Felipe and Airton? Sorry, Indy Lights. Even sarah had to run for a CART team (Walker). And let's say that Indy 500 was meaningless until the CART teams came back, unless of course you think Buddy's victory was real neat in 1996, and whomever won later.
Yes they are competitive but they are frustrating, just listen to them hit the rev limiters everytime they have a bit of track available, and watching them go round in circles (under yellow mostly last weekend) is sooooo booooring. Well CART might have won the PR race but the IRL certainly is no racing. Tony George has a lot of money and that doesn't make him intelligent at all, or even simpatico, he's just a big bully with money and power who subsidizes the whole IRL. He can get Toyota and Honda (Illmor) but he could get zillions of people with those crappy engines he runs, hell there are several mechanics here in mexico who can make those engines and there's probably thousands in the US who can too. And racing just in ovals is like so American, "we rule the world and either the world adapts or we'll ignore it" and yes, they have lots of americans winning their races, mostly Americans from South America, like Helio and Gil and Airton, so their goal of bringing up the US drivers through the ranks is nowhere near , and even AJ Foyt uses foreigners (Kenny, Eliseo, Airton, etc) althugh we'll have AJ IV soon. If the IRL is so good how come nobody watches them and even Indy was not full this year (you could buy tickets, plenty, 10 minutes before the race as a few friends of mine did). Hate to contradict my fine friends but I think IRL stands for Indy, Really Lousy. Thanks Tony!
Posted 10 July 2002 - 20:15
All readers of our dear eternal Amon thread already know: Christina edged out all male competitors to win the 2001/02 Steel Trophy, for the most promizing New Zealand driver under 21! More can be expected for next season: after racing this year in Formula First (nee Formula Vee), the country's junior class, she will move in 2002/03 to New Zealand Formula Ford!
What's so exciting about that? She's only 14 (born on 2 November 1987, at Tauranga, according to "New Zealand SpeedSport", April 2002, p. 64) - but apparently waiting impatiently to be 16 and therefore allowed to race also internationally in Australia! Watch out!


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The designers of Co-opoly, a new, locally published board game, hope to prove the point the original, long-forgotten creator of America's favorite game never did.
By Mark Roessler
Illustration by Mark Roessler
Two years ago, Parker Brothers celebrated "75 years of Monopoly" by releasing a new edition that featured a round board.
"The world's favorite family game brand continues to introduce innovative game play in 2010," announced the press release from the game company. Parker Brothers is now owned by Hasbro and has corporate offices in Pawtucket, R.I. and Longmeadow, Mass. The new version of the game was dubbed Monopoly: Revolution Edition.
Ever since Parker Brothers began publishing the game in 1935, Monopoly has been the world's best-selling board game. It's been translated into most major languages, and the design, which features street names from Atlantic City in New Jersey, has been adapted (under license) to localized and themed versions of the game (including a special Northampton edition). Instead of being confined to playing on the streets of the Garden State's seaside city, players around the globe can find versions using their own cities as a frame of reference. Europe alone has over 30 different versions.
Monopoly: Revolution Edition replaces paper money with electronic banking and play credit cards. There are a few other updates, but at its core, it's the classic game you remember from your youth. Simulated capitalism. Every player for himself.
Maybe you're one of the annoyingly lucky (but hopefully affable and charming) creeps who always ends an evening of playing Monopoly with more property, buildings and cash than you can count. Good for you.
By its very design, though, the game, for everyone else at the table, involves hours of long, drawn-out tedium suffering the effects of unrelenting loss. As the rules state, the winner is the player who "become[s] the wealthiest ... through buying, renting and selling property."
Last year, Northampton-based Toolbox for Education and Social Action (TESA) published Co-opoly. Designed by recent Hampshire College graduates and TESA founders Brian Van Slyke and Andrew Stachiw, the game offers an alternate playing experience with a different life lesson.
"Where everyone wins or loses," the box top declares. Instead of trying to drive other players to ruin, all play against the bank and fate together, earning and losing points as they face the challenges of surviving together as a co-op. The game is considered "won" when players have enough points to start a second co-op.
Co-opoly is not the first game to challenge the money-hungry, king-of-the-hill, Lord of the Flies mentality Monopoly seems to celebrate.
Indeed, it may seem beneficent of Parker Brothers' management to allow TESA to promote, print and sell a game that so clearly relies for its success, at least in part, on the fame of the classic trademarked game even while subverting its meaning. After all, Disney execs don't allow Mickey to show up in other cartoons, especially those saying everything Walt stood for is wrong. Preserving name recognition and brand integrity with legal action is a well-established tradition in corporate America.
As it turns out, the multinational game company has tried to eliminate competition before, even going so far as to have copies of Anti-Monopoly sent to a landfill in 1974. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals eventually sided with Ralph Anspach, the author of the offending game, ruling—in part—that as the title of Parker Brothers' game was a generic word, they couldn't prevent others from using it.
In defending his suit, Anspach researched the game's origins and eventually found players who remembered trying the game long before 1935.
Even more surprising, Anspach found the game itself was originally designed by Lizzie J. Magie, who patented a version in 1904 as The Landlord's Game. A Quaker from Virginia, Magie hoped the game would act as a teaching tool to illustrate the lopsided, hopeless nature of capitalism.
The pain you're feeling while losing Monopoly is supposed to make you want radical political reform, not to make you want to submit to another beating by playing again. As far as this game goes, instead of being "innovative," it appears that Parker Brothers has sought for more than three-quarters of a century to hide the not-so-capitalist-adoring origins of its biggest breadwinner.
Even before explaining the rules or objective, the introduction to a typical Monopoly rule book spins the story of its creation like this:
"PARKER BROTHERS Real Estate Trading Game Monopoly ® was invented during the Great Depression by Charles B. Darrow of Germantown, Pennsylvania. Mr. Darrow, like many other Americans, was unemployed at the time and he worked out the details of the game primarily to amuse himself during this period. Prior to the Depression, Darrow and his wife vacationed in the resort town of Atlantic City, New Jersey. When it came to naming streets on the game board, Darrow naturally adopted those of his favorite vacation spot."
The press release for the Revolution Edition elaborates:
"The images, colors and properties of MONOPOLY are now iconic pieces of pop culture thanks to Charles Darrow. In 1933, Charles Darrow created a prototype of a new game using materials from his own home. He used a piece of oilcloth that had been a table covering for the board, made the houses and hotels from scraps of wooden molding and hand wrote the cards."
During a television interview in 1974, as reported in Ralph Anspach's self-published The Billion Dollar Monopoly ® Swindle, a viewer called in with a comment that was to change Anspach's life and the future of his game, Anti-Monopoly, that Parker Brothers was seeking to block from publication.
"First of all, Dr. Anspach," the caller said, "I hate to date myself with a story going back all the way to the mid-'thirties, but I think Parker Brothers has a lot of nerve suing you for getting a free ride on their game when they stole Monopoly in the first place."
Following up on the call, Anspach and his lawyers began to hear from other seniors who had all played variations of a game they knew as "Monopoly" long before Darrow was said to have invented it. Several of these people also had handmade versions of the game.
While many versions were clearly similar to Darrow's creation—down to basic board design and the inclusion of certain items such as Jail and getting paid for circling the board—Anspach couldn't prove that Darrow hadn't made significant modifications to a folk game and made it his own—the modifications that Parker Brothers now calls "iconic." Until Anspach identified an identical, original source version, he really didn't have evidence that Darrow had stolen the game.
Eventually, he did better than finding a source copy: he found witnesses to the crime. Unwitting accomplices, even. Anspach met the people who had taught Darrow and his wife how to play Monopoly.
Charles and Olive Todd had retired to Augusta, Ga. from a life in the hotel trade. They were in their eighties when Anspach met them. Many years before, they had lived in Germantown, Penn. Charles Todd had known Charles Darrow's wife Esther Jones in his youth; both had attended a Quaker boarding school. When he found out his old school friend and her husband had moved to town, he had them over to dinner.
"When I remembered how Esther and I used to play parlor games as kids," Todd told Anspach, "I kind of sweetened the invitation with 'And after dinner, we'll introduce you people to a great new game which we learned from the Raifords.'"
Anspach asked Todd if he was certain he had introduced the game to the Darrows. Could it have been that the Darrows were playing dumb, trying to hustle the Todds and win the game?
"No, no, no. What do you take me for—a fool?" Todd replied. "It was clear from the first moment that there was no question this game was completely new to the Darrows.... During the next few weeks, we got together and played the game five or six times, and once or twice we invited the Raifords to join us to make sure we were getting it right because Darrow kept asking a lot of picky, dumb questions about how to play. He was a real pest about the rules."
The Raifords and Todds were even invited to play the game at the Darrows' house, so he could ask follow-up questions. Eventually, Todd said Darrow simply asked for the written instructions—12 copies of them.
"[H]e also asked me right in the beginning to make up a Monopoly board for him on the same type of oilcloth we were using," Todd said, "and seeing it again as a perfectly innocent request, I was stupid enough to do that, too."
The Todds agreed to testify for Anspach during the trial.
So did Ruth Raiford. Her husband, another Quaker, had learned the game from a brother who lived in Atlantic City. Her version of the game—the one Todd had copied his from—had one property called Marven Gardens, the name of a housing development that straddled two neighborhoods: Margate and Ventor. Darrow changed the name to "Marvin," presumably thinking he was correcting a mistake.
"Later in the Anti-Monopoly v. Parker Brothers 1976 trial, the misspelled Marvin Gardens helped to nail Darrow," Anspach wrote, "since copies of errors are judged to be especially potent evidence of plagiarism."
Lizzie J. Magie's The Landlords Game, patented and published in 1904, has many similarities to Monopoly—board layout, play money, properties and dice—but there is a major difference. To win the game, players were not required to create monopolies by collecting all of a certain kind of property. Streets were not color-coded or given special groupings. Still, the point of The Landlords Game was to travel around the board amassing as much dough as possible and squeezing your competitors dry.
Twenty years after Magie had her game patented, she revised it, attempting to underscore her moral position that the behavior exhibited in the game was reprehensible. By this time, she had more developed views on the subject of ownership, and she'd become an adherent of the works of Henry George, a politician and writer. He believed that land ownership was a key factor in economic inequality. He advocated a "single tax" system to level the playing field, and Magie tried to infuse this wisdom into the game.
But again, the object of the game was to win the most money rather than to learn about the inherent inequalities found in the capitalist system. Her third version of the game attempted to correct this fault. Published in 1932, the new version of the game had a double title: The Landlord's Game and Prosperity. Using the same game board and playing pieces, players were meant to change rules suddenly mid-game. Instead of fighting against one another to the bitter end, competitors were meant to change gears and start working together.
Three years later, Parker Brothers' version of Monopoly was released.
While Anspach had sufficient evidence to prove it wasn't Darrow who had designed Monopoly, it was still a mystery who did. Eventually, researchers for a television documentary on the game tracked down an original draft Magie had created of her Landlord Game. On the same board, overlaid, were the missing Monopoly elements—properties grouped with identifying marks that allowed players to charge more when they had a complete set.
Magie, it appears, had two game designs, but only one got published. The other she shared with friends and colleagues. Anspach was later able to trace the game's lineage down a trail of radical Quaker teachers working across the North East.
"The Landlord Game and Monopoly show players what's wrong with the current economic situation," game designer Brian Van Slyke said in a recent interview with the Advocate. "They're about the problem. We're hoping to offer a solution. Co-opoly provides players something to do about it, an alternative they can try right away."
Andrew Stachiw agrees. Co-founder of Toolbox for Education and Social Action (TESA), he helped Van Slyke design, produce and self-publish the game.
"You can't just tell someone to be democratic, or that they should run their organization like a co-op," Stachiw added. "It works much better if you give them a chance to try themselves. Democracy isn't easy, and a lot of us only practice it maybe once a year, or not at all. I think you need to practice it as often as possible: at home, at work, in the groups you belong with..."
At first glance, Co-opoly shares many features of the other games: players move around a board collecting points, facing challenges read off the cards they collect, landing on "pay days," and every time they run through a cycle of play, there's a year-end reckoning and bonus.
The first obvious difference is that instead of having the option of playing as the top hat, battleship or race car, a single token is used to represent all players. Each player gets a turn rolling the dice and responding to the challenges presented, but his success or failure is shared by everyone.
Money, represented by "points," isn't just for spending on new items to make you more wealthy. Players, acting as co-op members, each come with needs and costs, as well as the talents needed to succeed. Before they can even think of trying to establish a second co-op, the goal of the game, as a group players need to make certain that their current co-op can keep all members afloat. Someone doesn't have enough to feed their kids or gets evicted from their home? You all lose.
Before it was released late last year, Van Slyke and Stachiw had the game tested hundreds of times, often bringing it along to co-op conventions or exhibitions where they watched others play. This afforded them a chance to fine-tune the play and make certain it was fun and engaging. The thing they enjoyed the most about the process, they said, was watching people work together to get through the game.
"We encourage players to imagine what kind of co-op they are and what their goals are," Van Slyke said. "People can spend a lot of time getting very serious about the story setup."
"We watched this one group play," Stachiw said. "They were all business partners, but they weren't organized like a co-op and didn't have much experience with it. The moment they got to the first 'pay day,' though—just minutes into the game—they got into this deep philosophical discussion about how they were going to distribute their meager earnings, what was fair. In the time it took for them to resolve how they were going to pay each other, most people had finished the game."
"We got a letter from this dad with two daughters. One was eight and the other 11," Van Slyke said. "And he wrote that playing the game with them had made them get along better together." It had forced them to explore the give-and-take of their relationship more closely and listen more closely to one another.
"We try to run TESA as a co-op," Van Slyke continued, "and sometimes we face business challenges that are exactly like the ones in the game. When we talk about what to do, I find myself saying, 'Well, this is what we decided during the game, and I think it's a good decision now.'"
Van Slyke came up with the idea for Co-opoly while he was a student at Hampshire College. He wanted to invent a quick participatory exercise that helped show people how co-ops and democratic dialog can work. As he tinkered with it, the 15-minute exercise became a full-blown game capable of lasting an hour or more.
When he and Stachiw graduated and formed TESA, they found themselves working with clients on the same issues the game explores, and decided to publish it themselves.
Another difference between TESA's product and Parker Brothers' is that Co-opoly is manufactured entirely in the United States. Accomplishing this, Van Slyke and Stachiw found, was much more difficult and expensive than they expected. While they were able to find local graphic designer Molly McLeod to design the game's graphics and Collective Copies in Florence printed many of the components, other elements were more challenging to track down domestically.
"Take the dice, for instance," Stachiw said. "They're the tiniest component in the game, but one of the most expensive. You can get about a thousand dice from China for somewhere around $50, but the only place we could find that even made dice in America was this place in Kentucky that was looking for $750 per thousand."
After using fundraising services like Kickstarter (an online site that allows developers to solicit donations to complete their projects), they raised the hefty production costs and began taking orders last fall. The past few months have been intense as they've assembled the millions of components together into sets and shipped them out of their home office. Both emphasize how much the production of the game was made possible by local, co-operative help.
"For weeks, we had groups of friends and local co-op people excited about the game helping us fill the orders," Van Slyke said. "They worked in shifts, and there were often 10 people at a time helping us. Then they'd leave and new people would step in."
Like their professional services, TESA offer its game on a sliding scale (coopolygame.com). Customers can decide what they want to spend, from $38 to $70. Part of the earnings for the game go into a fund to pay for people and organizations who may not be able to afford copies for themselves. Games have been sent to India and New Zealand.
Echoing something that Lizzie J. Magie might have said, Brian Van Slyke explained his guiding principle: "Democratic education will help people realize the world they want."
This story was originally published on Thursday, February 09, 2012
in the Valley Advocate. Used with permission.


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Comet ISON, which was discovered a year ago, is making its first spin around the sun and will come the closest to the super-hot solar surface at 1:37 p.m. EST. It may take a few hours before astronomers know if the comet survived its brush with the sun. If it survives, and maybe even if it doesn't, people in the Northern Hemisphere will have a good chance of seeing the comet ― or its remains ― in the first two weeks of December just before sunrise and after sunset. It won't be visible with the naked eye on Thursday, but NASA has a fleet of telescopes trained on ISON.
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For the six people on board the International Space Station ― including American astronauts Mike Hopkins and Rick Mastracchio ― it's time for a traditional Thanksgiving feast. But don't expect them to be carving a succulent bird. In a video from space, the two astronauts showed off their menu, all in small sealed packets: irradiated smoked turkey, thermostabilized yams, cornbread dressing, potatoes, freeze-dried asparagus, baked beans, bread, cobbler and what Hopkins called his favorite dehydrated green bean casserole. It comes with a view from space that is juicier than any turkey on Earth. "Though we miss our families, it's great to be in space," Hopkins said above Earth in a taped message.
Residents of Florida's Space Coast may get to see a rocket thunder through the sky around dinner time if all goes well. Private firm SpaceX of Hawthorne, California, will try again to launch its Falcon-9 rocket between 5:38 p.m. and 6:44 p.m. EST from Cape Canaveral Air Station. The large rocket didn't launch in a first attempt Monday because of a technical glitch. The rocket is carrying a telecommunications satellite for a Luxembourg firm. This is part of a growing trend of newer rocket firms ― SpaceX is headed by PayPal founder Elon Musk ― launching more often and signing up non-government customers, said Harvard astronomer Jonathan McDowell, who catalogues launches worldwide. Thanksgiving and November are often a quiet time for space, but not this year, he said. It will be the first Cape Canaveral launch attempt on Thanksgiving since 1959 ― that one failed when the rocket exploded seconds after liftoff, according to McDowell.


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Scripps Research Institute and Takeda Pharmaceuticals Announce Expanded Research Collaboration
JUPITER, Fla., March 13, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) and the Takeda Pharmaceutical Company have announced plans to expand their recent research collaboration to search for new drug targets for a variety of diseases.
The new agreement extends an initial collaboration launched in 2010 between scientists on the Florida campus of TSRI and Envoy Therapeutics that led to several breakthroughs in identifying potential new compounds for neurological and psychiatric diseases. Envoy was acquired by Takeda Pharmaceuticals last November.
"We're pleased to expand our partnership with Takeda-Envoy and to push promising drug discovery efforts forward," said Scott Forrest , TSRI's vice president for business development. "The high-throughput screening capability at Scripps Florida campus is in increasing demand—both from other research institutes and from industry."
Scripps Florida's state-of-the art high-throughput screening facility is part of its larger translational research infrastructure. The facility has expertise in transforming slow, labor-intensive biological and biochemical bench-top experiments into high-throughput screening experiments ("screens"). Fully automated robotic screening platforms then rapidly test more than 650,000 drug-like compounds for pharmacologic activity. After completion of the screens, the facility uses other cutting-edge technologies to support the development of clinically relevant compounds.
Stephen Hitchcock , senior vice president of drug discovery at Envoy said, "We originally came to Jupiter because of Scripps Florida and are thrilled that the potential of our original collaboration has been realized. Now we're moving into new therapeutic areas with different biological targets. The first step is to find small molecules that can validate those targets—and Scripps Florida is amongst the very best places to do that."
Hitchcock said that one intangible factor in the expanded research collaboration was the quality of the people at Scripps Florida. "They have been great collaborators and great friends," he said. "The interaction between our scientists and theirs was a huge factor in expanding our research."
Peter Hodder , who directs the high-throughput screening facility at Scripps Florida, has been collaborating with Hitchcock and Envoy scientists since the company's founding in 2010. "This new effort deepens our commitment to validating novel drug discovery targets via screening-based approaches and also underlines Scripps' intrinsic worth to our partners in early-stage drug discovery research."
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The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) is one of the world's largest independent, not-for-profit organizations focusing on research in the biomedical sciences. Over the past decades, TSRI has developed a lengthy track record of major contributions to science and health, including laying the foundation for new treatments for cancer, rheumatoid arthritis, hemophilia, and other diseases. The institute employs about 3,000 people on its campuses in La Jolla, CA, and Jupiter, FL, where its renowned scientists—including three Nobel laureates—work toward their next discoveries. The institute's graduate program, which awards PhD degrees in biology and chemistry, ranks among the top ten of its kind in the nation. For more information, see www.scripps.edu.
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What do you give your best friends for their birthday? A heartfelt card, a nice pair of earrings, maybe a great dinner out? Kim Kardashian has you beat: She just fêted Givenchy's Riccardo Tisci on his birthday with a photo of herself at a wedding dress fitting, in which she's wearing tights, her wedding veil — and nothing else.
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"Happy Birthday @riccardotisci17 I love you soooo much!!! Can't wait to celebrate with you tonight!!!!" the reality star wrote in the Instagram caption as a shout-out to the creative director of the line, who is a longtime friend of Kardashian and her husband Kanye West. And Kardashian and Tisci clearly are close, judging by the photo of her daringly bare, veil-wearing moment (taken during a fitting for her dramatic Givenchy wedding gown) — and the big smile she's got in the snap.
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This is the second intimate picture she's shared from her fittings with Tisci (although the other was fully clothed). We're not sure how the black tights played into the final look (maybe they were part of her ongoing "selfie book" for West?) but they definitely do lend a very boudoir-photo vibe to the whole photo.
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