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A Craft-Beer Tour Down California's Coast
California is home to an eclectic mix of almost 400 craft-breweries. The Golden State's many breweries are increasingly as much of a draw as the stunning scenery along the Pacific Coast Highway.
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very poor form road.c.c - your own rider without a helmet!
If you're an urban rider in the market to make a serious style statement of the Italian variety and you likes your bikes in steel, the Wilier Ponte Vecchio could be for you. That said, this is Italian style of the full bore, unrestrained variety, Versace rather than Armani so it won't appeal to everybody. Unusually for a piece of Italian style it's very competitively priced too.
Wilier is best known for its road bikes but 2012 will be the second year it's touting a 'Weekend' range of more relaxed bikes, which includes two urban-oriented fixed-wheel or singlespeed beasts one of which is the 'classic with a modern twist' Ponte Vecchio.
Both of Wilier's fixed/singlespeed offereings are themed around Toni Bevilacqua, an Italian track racer from Wilier's home Veneto region, who was track world champion in the individual pursuit in 1950 and '51 ... on a Wilier, you'd imagine. Look at the decals on the rims and you'll see the dates, plus some world champ stripes.
Quite why this model is named after an old bridge in Wilier's original home town, Bassano (if my non-existent Italian serves me correctly, ponte vecchio means 'old bridge'), is anybody's guess. Presumably it's because it's less racy than the Bevilacqua, which has drop bars of a sort - well, Major Taylor bars, more sweep than drop, plus other assorted retro bits, and a quieter paintjob. The Ponte Vecchio is designed, so the company says, for the stylish urban rider.
However. Stylish isn't the word I'd use. I found the lime green and bright red jarring, as are the matching red bars and chain. Add white tyres and white grips and the ensemble says dog's dinner... to me although it also had plenty of fans on the road.cc team. It's also got to be said that the Italians like a colourful bike. Let's not mark it down for this, though. You're plenty able to make your own mind up whether you like the styling or not.
The frame itself is chunky, the welds pretty neat and the whole thing is quite low-slung. It looks a lot longer than it is high, with a short head tube. The test model was billed as a 53 x 53.5cm (seat tube x top tube) 'Medium' frame, but the seat-tube measurement is taken centre-to-top. Given the seat tube extends a good couple of centimetres above the top tube, this makes the bike more squat than the figures would suggest. Geometry-wise, it's relaxed, with large clearances between the wheels and the frame: all in all, it resembles an old British road/path frame more than anything. That said, the fork is a straight-bladed affair an Eighties innovation - something which good old Toni wouldn't have recognised.
The decals are retro-Italian in style, and there's a retro tubing sticker that says 'inodissable'. Apparently, this means it's had some sort of anti rust treatment. The frame is made from CroMo, and is TIG welded in Taiwan. Pretty standard, then, for this sort of bike in this price range. The test model tipped the scales at a nudge over 10Kg, without pedals.
That the looks, what about the ride? Even with a fair bit of seatpost sticking out, the position is relaxed. The reach, for me, was just right, and the setup pretty comfortable. Except for the plastic saddle. Yup, that's right, a plastic saddle: a nod to the Cinelli Unicanitor, maybe, but it just looks and feels like a cheap BMX saddle. This was, it has to be said, pretty uncomfortable. For about 20 minutes, things were OK; any more than that, and they weren't. One day, I did about 35 miles, and next day getting on the bike wasn't pretty. OK, it's super easy to swap to a better saddle, but why spec a £575 bike with a plastic saddle? Likewise, the grips seem a bit cheap.
Aside from the saddle, the bike is great to ride. It's not the lightest singlespeed ever, but it's comparable with many other off-the-peg models. Accordingly, acceleration is not super sharp but, once you get it up to speed, it zips along and keeps its momentum. The wheels roll very nicely, and are sturdy enough to take a pothole or two, and the FSA bottom bracket is also very smooth. Both the fixed and singlespeed cogs are 16 tooth (it's a flip-flop hub, so you turn the back wheel over to choose between the two), which, paired with the 42-tooth chainring, give a reasonably quick town gear that is comfortable on small hills. If you live somewhere with fierce inclines, it'd be easy to swap for something more spinny.
Around town, the Pontevecchio is very steady and stable, dependable rather than incisive through the corners and you're upright enough to keep an eye on what's going on. The wide bars are comfy, if not great for dodging through small spaces in traffic, and the Tektro brake levers give a reassuring amount of bite, with a nice, old-school action.
All in all, it's a good bike, which is let down a bit by some odd choices - that saddle, and for me at least the colour scheme. Price-wise, I was expecting a premium for the Italian name, but place it up against the other quality branded 2012 singlespeeds currently in the shops and it actually looks rather competitive - though doubtless there'll be cheaper options later.
However, if you like the idea of buying a singlespeed Wilier, the sportier Toni Bevilacqua looks, in my eyes, a better bet. For £25 quid more, you get a sharper retro look, a nicer colour scheme, shiny silver componentry (albeit with a quill stem rather than A-head, as here) and what looks to be exactly the same frame. The faux-Brooks sprung saddle would be worth the extra dosh on its own.
If you love the paintjob you'll love this capable urban bike… you'll still probably hate the saddle though
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road.cc test report
Make and model: Wilier Triestina Ponte Vecchio
Size tested: Lime Green, medium
About the bike
State the frame and fork material and method of construction. List the components used to build up the bike.
Colour - lime green, red forks
Frame - CroMo, TIG welded
Fork - CroMo, TIG welded
Headset - FSA TH-857
Rear Hub - flip-flop, Alu, silver 32H
Front Hub - Alu, silver 32H
Spokes - St. Steel
Rims - Alu 32H
Tyre - 700 x 23c Black/white
Cassette - Freewheel Sprocket 16T / Fixed Sprocket 16T
Chain - KMC Z410, Red
Crankset - Alu. 44Tx1/8'
Bottom Bracket - FSA 7420 ST
Seatpost - Alu. 27.2'
Seat - VL-117 Black
Front Brakes - Tektro R510A, Silver
Rear Brakes - Tektro R510A, Silver
Brake Levers - Flat Bar, Silver
Pedals - not supplied
Tell us what the bike is for, and who it's aimed at. What do the manufacturers say about it? How does that compare to your own feelings about the bike?
"A stylish, quality town singlespeed."
Frame and fork
Tell us about the build quality and finish of the frame and fork?
Well finished, certainly comparable with other similar level SS or fixed frames.
Riding the bike
Was the bike comfortable to ride? Tell us how you felt about the ride quality.
Nice and dependable. Not a racehorse, but not meant to be.
Did the bike feel stiff in the right places? Did any part of the bike feel too stiff or too flexible?
It's not a performance machine. It felt good to ride, comfy, but it's not going to win prizes for stiffness and power transfer.
Was there any toe-clip overlap with the front wheel? If so, was it a problem?
How would you describe the steering? Was it lively, neutral or unresponsive? A little slow and steady
Which components had the most effect (good or bad) on the bike's comfort? would you recommend any changes?
The saddle was awful.
Which components had the most effect (good or bad) on the bike's efficiency? would you recommend any changes?
I was impressed by the smoothness of the BB and wheels
Doesn't have a great turn of speed.
Not for this bike.
Didn't really get up to high speeds, but it's well planted on the road.
The drivetrain
Wheels and tyres
Your summary
Did you enjoy riding the bike? Yes, I warmed to it
Would you consider buying the bike? It's not for me, but it's a decent bike
Would you recommend the bike to a friend? My friends prefer a more restrained colour palette
Anything further to say about the bike in conclusion?
I'd thought it was on the expensive side, first off, but look at quality singlespeeds (not your Creates and the like), and it's competitive.
About the tester
Age: 31 Height: 1.78m Weight: 65kg
I usually ride: Cinelli Strato road or fixed commuter hack. My best bike is:
I've been riding for: 10-20 years I ride: Every day I would class myself as: Expert
I regularly do the following types of riding: commuting, club rides, sportives, fixed/singlespeed,
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very poor form road.c.c - your own rider without a helmet!
That's cos generally I don't wear one spindoctore and it's not my job to tell other people to wear them either. My feeling is that road.cc users are quite capable of making their own minds up as to whether the riding conditions, weather, or whatever means they would feel safer wearing a helmet.
very poor form road.c.c - your own rider without a helmet!
That's cos generally I don't wear one spindoctore and it's not my job to tell other people to wear them either. My feeling is that road.cc users are quite capable of making their own minds up as to whether the riding conditions, weather, or whatever means they would feel safer wearing a helmet.
er fair play for your determination to protect your personal freedom but how can you *predict* when you're going to need one? I wont be riding again until March at the earliest with the agreement of the consultant who operated, and I've been off the bike since August bank holiday when it happened. Conditions were excellent, didn't prevent me having one hell of a crash though, and believe me I had long enough as I hit the road at 25mph to thank God I had a helmet on.
Let's not, eh. go to a helmet story if you want to discuss helmets.
CS Lewis once wrote this:
"A tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than omnipotent moral busybodies.
"The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep; his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their conscience"
Just sayin'
He probably couldn't find one to match.
I'm a fan of Wilier but I can't decide if I like the colour scheme or not.
The only thing I can think of off the top of my mind that matches is the new Yodel Sprints jersey at this year's Tour of Britain.
Maybe Pieter Ghyllebert of An Post, who won that, could treat himself to the bike for Christmas
Oh my word. if they had given it a matching fork and silver chain this bike might have looked half decent. Instead it looks like every other disgusting 'fixie' that's coming from Europe....orbea, cinelli etc. ( apart from those new alu bianchis) it pains me to say it but i would rather have a langster or even worse a Charge!


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The ruling came down in a brief, late-night email, 15 words that slammed the yearslong effort of a Texas landowner to prevent a Canadian company from occupying part of her family's 65-year-old farm to run an oil pipeline from Alberta to Gulf Coast refineries.
As shocking as the ruling was, Julia Trigg Crawford, the third-generation manager of the Red'Arc farm in Direct, Texas, vowed Thursday to fight on, just hours after Lamar County Court-at-Law Judge Bill Harris ruled TransCanada could be considered a "common carrier" and use eminent domain to condemn a section of her land for the Keystone XL pipeline.
"It's kind of like there's a bully in the playground and until someone gets their nose bloodied they will keep going," said Crawford, already on her way to Washington.
TransCanada welcomed the judge's decision.
"This ruling reaffirms that TransCanada has — and continues — to follow all state and federal laws and regulations as we move forward with the construction of the Gulf Coast Project," spokesman Shawn Howard said in the statement.
The ruling is the latest legal victory for TransCanada, whose plan to transport heavy tar sands crude through a 1,179-mile pipeline across the United States to Texas Gulf Coast refineries has been mired in controversy nearly every step of the way.
Environmental groups insist the tar sands crude is dirty and argue that the U.S. government should reject the project. The proposed pipeline requires State Department approval because it crosses international boundaries.
The Keystone project took a political tone when Republicans in Congress forced a two-month deadline on President Barack Obama to sign off on the international pipeline. Obama rejected TransCanada's proposed route earlier this year, suggesting it direct the pipeline around a sensitive aquifer in Nebraska's Sandhills region. But he encouraged the company to pursue in the meantime a shorter project from Oklahoma to the Gulf Coast.
That shorter project, which would eventually tie into the Keystone XL, doesn't require presidential approval. Construction on that pipeline began earlier this month.
The Crawford family battle began in 2008, when TransCanada asked for permission to run the pipeline through the farm. As they had done in the past when other oil companies asked to do the same, the family refused, assuming that like the others, TransCanada would simply reroute the line a few hundred yards to a more willing neighbor's property.
Instead, TransCanada used eminent domain to condemn a piece of Crawford land.
The court's ruling late Wednesday, however, will not stop the Crawfords, who remain determined to prevent TransCanada from using their land. The family hopes its fight will stop other powerful oil and gas companies from taking similar steps in the future.
The Texas Railroad Commission, which approves pipeline projects, allows companies to simply check a box on a form stating they are a "common carrier," meaning the project is for the good of the public, Crawford said. This designation gives the company the right to condemn private property.
Crawford, who is considering appealing to a higher court while also taking her fight to the state Legislature and Washington, argues that TransCanada — a foreign company that will profit from transporting the crude — is not a common carrier.
"You lose control of a piece of land, they can tell you what you can and can't do, they can sell your property ... for $20,000," Crawford said, noting TransCanada eventually upped an initial monetary offer of $5,000 to $21,000 for the tract that they want.
"But it was never about the money," she said, noting the family farm is littered with pottery, arrowheads and other archaeological items of historic value.
"It was always about the protections we wanted for our land, the protections we wanted for our water, the protections we wanted for our artifacts," she said.


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PITTSBURGH (AP) Matt Moulson scored a goal and assisted on another, Evgeni Nabokov stopped 37 shots and the New York Islanders dominated the listless Pittsburgh Penguins 4-1 on Tuesday night.
John Tavares scored for the second straight game for New York while Michael Grabner collected his fourth goal of the season and Casey Cizikas found the net for the first time in his career.
It was more than enough to send the Penguins to their third loss in four games. Pascal Dupuis scored with just over a minute remaining to avoid the shutout.
Marc-Andre Fleury stopped 13 shots before being pulled after the second period. The Penguins gave it away 11 times, with two of the turnovers leading to New York goals.
Pittsburgh has dominated the series over the past five seasons but dropped its third straight to the Islanders, its longest losing skid against New York since 2007.


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A yellow taxi clipped "Twilight" star Robert Pattinson today as he ran from hysterical fans who mobbed him outside the Strand bookstore in the Village, according to a celebrity Web site.
The 23-year-old actor got bumped by a cab around noon near 12th Street and Broadway, said RadarOnline.com quoting eyewitnesses.
He was not injured, the Web site said. The NYPD could not confirm the report.
"If it happened, maybe he didn't report it because nobody has anything on it," a department spokesperson said.
The London-born actor is in New York filming scenes from his new movie "Remember Me."
As it poured rain in Manhattan, Pattinson emerged from the Strand bookstore this morning with a team of five bodyguards who tried to hustle him to his trailer, RadarOnline reported.
The screaming fans rushed the road -- apparently forcing Pattinson to make a break for it, RadarOnline reported. The actor was not hurt.


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The film that just jumped to my most anticipated of the year: The Fall. I don't know what it means for David Fincher and Spike Jonze to (both) be presenting this film buuut it looks incredible. Directed by Tarsem (who also directed the The Cell).
I see one shot in there that is straight up jacked from Baraka but if you're going to steal you might as well steal from the best.


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New York, NY -- Today Governor Andrew Cuomo signed legislation requiring primary care providers and hospitals to offer hepatitis C screening to all baby boomers. Baby boomers (born between 1945 and 1965) account for over 70 percent of the estimated 3 to 4 million Americans living with hepatitis C and are at the greatest risk of developing advanced liver disease. The hepatitis C baby boomer screening bill was sponsored by Assemblyman Kenneth Zebrowski (D-New City) and Senate Health Committee Chair Kemp Hannon (R-Nassau), and passed in June unanimously in the Senate and by a 138-1 vote in the Assembly.
Hepatitis C is a leading cause of liver disease, and deaths from hepatitis C-related liver disease now exceed HIV mortality. Yet the vast majority of people with chronic hepatitis C have never been diagnosed. Both the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) now recommend that all persons born during 1945-1965 receive one-time screening for hepatitis C. With the passage of this legislation, New York State leads the nation in implementing these guidelines and closing the hepatitis C diagnosis gap.
"We commend Governor Cuomo, Assemblyman Zebrowski and Senator Hannon for their leadership and vision in addressing a serious public health threat to New Yorkers," said Hadiyah Charles, Hepatitis C Advocacy Manager for the Harm Reduction Coalition. "Hepatitis C is curable -- but you can't be treated if you've never been diagnosed. We hope that within a few years, we'll be able to say that this legislation -- along with the New York City Department of Health's new Hepatitis C Action Plan -- marked the beginning of the end of the hepatitis C epidemic in New York."
The Harm Reduction Coalition will monitor and support the implementation of this bill, in parallel with other hepatitis C advocacy priorities: preventing a new wave of infections among young opioid injectors, supporting community-based testing and patient navigation programs, addressing health disparities in African American communities, and ensuring access to quality care and effective treatment for all.
"This legislation is a testament to the passion and hard work of a growing and diverse hepatitis C advocacy movement in New York," stated Hadiyah Charles. "We look forward to working with our advocacy partners to build on this momentum to prevent new infections, save lives, and ensure New York's place in history as a national leader in ending the hepatitis C epidemic."


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350 pounds of marijuana seized in Orange County
Breaking news from the Orange County Sheriff's Office:
Deputies seized close to 350 pounds of marijuana after a high-speed pursuit, the Orange County Sheriff's Office reports.
On Wednesday, May 28, at about 12:30 p.m., Orange County Sheriff's Office deputies were eastbound on Interstate 10 near Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. in Orange when they observed a black passenger van also traveling eastbound. The driver of the van failed to signal a lane change and abruptly exited the Interstate near Adams Bayou. The Deputies activated their emergency lights and siren behind the van, but the driver accelerated and reached a speed of about 90 mph while on the eastbound service road. The van then proceeded onto North 16th Street, next turning westbound on the Interstate 10 service road. The driver of the van continued without stopping and entered Interstate 10 westbound traveling at speeds near 115 mph. As the van approached the area of Interstate 10 at the Womack overpass, other deputies were arriving in the area ahead of the van. As the suspect driver observed the deputies ahead, he pulled the van over on Interstate 10 at the Highway 62 exit.
The driver was the lone occupant in the vehicle and was taken into custody for Evading Arrest. Once the suspect was detained, approximately 350 pounds of marijuana was found in the back of the passenger van wrapped in black garbage bags, several layers of plastic wrap, packaging tape, and aluminum foil. The suspect was later identified as 30-year-old Luis Cendejas of Fort Pierce, Florida. Cendejas was taken to the Orange County Jail where he was booked for Evading Arrest, a State Jail Felony, and Possession of Marijuana, a 2nd Degree Felony.
Cendejas remained in custody awaiting arraignment as of May 28 at 4 p.m.


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Oracle Corporation renamed the latest version of their database management system from Oracle 10i to Oracle10G to illustrate their commitment to Grid computing and the GGG (Great Global Grid). Oracle's Chairman and CEO, Larry Ellison, will release Oracle10G at the OracleWorld conference in San Francisco on the 9th of September 2003.
Oracle Managed Files (OMF), a new feature introduced in Oracle9i, enables the Oracle Server to automatically create and delete database files using standard operating system interfaces. This
feature hugely simplifies the job of the DBA, as the DBA doesn't need to interact with the underlying operating system to create and delete files.
When an Oracle Instance is started, the characteristics of the Instance are established by parameters specified within the initialization parameter file. These initialization parameters are either stored in a PFILE or SPFILE. SPFILEs are available in Oracle 9i and above. All prior releases of Oracle are using PFILEs.
Tables can be reorganized and redefined (evolved) on-line with the DBMS_REDEFINITION package. The process is similar to on-line rebuilds of indexes, in that the original table is left on-line, while a new copy of the table is built. However, an index index-rebuild is a singular operation, while table redefinition is a multi-step process.
When Oracle allocates space to a segment (like a table or index), a group of contiguous free blocks, called an extent, is added to the segment. Metadata regarding extent allocation and unallocated extents are either stored in the data dictionary, or in the tablespace itself. Tablespaces that record extent allocation in the dictionary, are called dictionary managed tablespaces, and tablespaces that record extent allocation in the tablespace header, are called locally managed tablespaces.
What are Temporary Tablespaces:
Temporary tablespaces are used to manage space for database sort operations and for storing global temporary tables. For example, if you join two large tables, and Oracle cannot do the sort in memory (see SORT_AREA_SIZE initialisation parameter), space will be allocated in a temporary tablespace for doing the sort operation. Other SQL operations that might require disk sorting are: CREATE INDEX, ANALYZE, Select DISTINCT, ORDER BY, GROUP BY, UNION, INTERSECT, MINUS, Sort-Merge joins, etc.
The DBA should assign a temporary tablespace to each user in the database to prevent them from allocating sort space in the SYSTEM tablespace. This can be done with one of the following commands:
In Oracle 8i and below, Rollback Segments provide read consistency and the ability to rollback transactions. In Oracle 9i, Undo segments can be used to provide this functionality. The advantage of using Automatic Undo Management is that it relieves the DBA of manually creating, sizing and monitoring the rollback segments in the database.
Both "db file sequential read" and "db file scattered read" events signify time waited for I/O read requests to complete. Time is reported in 100's of a second for Oracle 8i releases and below, and 1000's of a second for Oracle 9i and above. Most people confuse these events with each other as they think of how data is read from disk. Instead they should think of how data is read into the SGA buffer cache or user PGA memory.
db file sequential read:
A sequential read operation reads data into contiguous memory (usually a single-block read with p3=1, but can be multiple blocks). Single block I/Os are usually the result of using indexes. This event is also used for rebuilding the controlfile and reading datafile headers (P2=1). In general, this event is indicative of disk contention on index reads.
Execute the following commands to protect Oracle executables on Unix from unauthorized access:
cd $ORACLE_HOME/bin
chmod 750 lsnrctl
chmod 750 svrmgrl
chmod 750 orapwd
chmod 750 tnslsnr
chmod 750 dbshut
chmod 750 dbstart
chmod 750 tstshm
chmod 750 runInsaller
Also, change file permissions for all you Oracle database files:
Controlfiles = chmod 640 rw-r
Below is an example of how to setup a REF CURSOR and how to call it from a PL/SQL block.
Why would you want to use REF CURSOR's? REF CURSORs can often provide greater performance when working with data. Much of these comes from the fact that packages are stored into the SHARED POOL of the Oracle database or otherwise known as PINNED to memory.
What I did find interesting was that the process that executes this procedure never needs to know what tables the view touches or even be able to see the view. The procedure simply returns the requested columns.
Also: It would be entirely feasible, using REF CURSOR design, to have queries stored in a LONG column in a table. Remembering that the length of the data cannot exceed 32K. These queries can then be retrieved at package execution time. This could often reduce the number of production moves regarding packages. You could further enhance it by versioning your queries, so that only the most recent would be retrieved.


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This country is the greatest country in the history of the world. An experiment in small-d democracy - "of the people, by the people, and for the people."
One of our freedoms is the opportunity to speak freely and honestly. I take the freedom to express my views and opinions very seriously.
These pages will offer cutting edge opinions and views on politics and the economy, an honest look at the two areas that are currently having the most affect on the American people.
As we are all painfully aware, the economy is currently in a paralyzing downward spiral and there are no clear indications when it will end and how far it will decline.
We face enormous economic challenges unseen since 1929, the precursor of the Great Depression.
Over the next several months I will introduce cutting edge views, opinions and solutions designed to inspire thought and elicit discourse on the most pressing economic issues of the day.
Today's political climate is not what our forefather's envisioned when, at great sacrifice, they formed the United States of America
Our elected representatives no longer care about what we, their constituents, think. They have become inept; blinded and addicted by power and by greed. They are out of touch with what this country needs. They have skewed the intent of the architects of our sacred and greatly admired Consitution.
The views and opinions presented here-in will elicit the discourse that we need to heal our great country.
• CuttingEdge 11/12: "About Yesterday"
• HuffPost 6/25: "Mike Trout's Amazing Ascension"
• CuttingEdge 6/11: "A Sinkhole In Virginia"
• CuttingEdge 5/30: "The Hidden Costs of War"
• CuttingEdge 3/3: "Snorting Koch"
• CuttingEdge 2/3: "The Fairer Sex In the Senate"
• CuttingEdge 1/30: "Cereally Intolerant"
• CuttingEdge 1/30: "World According To Huelskamp"
• CuttingEdge 1/21: "Subversive Radio In L.A."
• CuttingEdge 12/29: "Growing Social Insecurity"
• HuffPost 12/6: "Here We Go Again"
• HuffPost 12/4: "Republicans Cry Fraud"
• HuffPost 11/14: "100 and Counting"
• HuffPost 11/7: "A Delusional Freshman Senator"
• HuffPost 10/24: "The Summers of Our Discontent"
• HuffPost 10/14: "A View From the Trout Farm"
• CuttingEdge 9/16: "The South Will Fall Again"
• HuffPost 9/4: "This Is Not Iraq: This Is Syri...us"
• HuffPost 8/29: "Milk, Honey, or Hemlock?"
• HuffPost 8/20: "Corporate Loopholes"
• CuttingEdge 8/8: "UnReasonable Doubt"
• HuffPost 7/24: "Right-Wing Wars"
• CuttingEdge 7/10: "The Company You Keep"
• HuffPost 7/2: "Still Ascending"
• CuttingEdge 6/27: "SNAP Judgement"
• HuffPost 6/20: "Sour Apples"
• HuffPost 5/30: "Scandalous"
• HuffPost 5/19: "In Our Sights"
• CuttingEdge 5/7: "Terror In Two States"
• CuttingEdge 4/22: "A Message From Newtown"
• HuffPost 4/10: "The Ugly States of the Union"
• CuttingEdge 3/28: "Empty Chamber"
• CuttingEdge 3/18: "Diminishing Returns"
• HuffPost 3/15: "By All Appearances"


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Angels Spring Training News is a Mixed Bag…of Surgeon's Tools?
Spring Training is but a few days old and the MLB reporters, probably just as bored and jonesing for real baseball news during the winter as the lot of us, are eagerly taking in every detail and flooding the newspapers and websites with articles, much to my delight. The only downside to this? All of the dire Kendry Morales speculation. It was pretty much a given it would start as soon as he reported to Spring Training. According to reports throughout the winter, he resumed light baseball activities in December and began light jogging about a month ago. This is excellent, hopeful progress but it never sounded like Kendry would show up in perfect, healed condition ready to go full bore on day one of Spring Training. Depending on how quickly the doctors clear him to start running at full speed again, it sounds to me like he could make the Opening Day roster but this isn't a definite.
Suffice to say, I was prepared to have this news confirmed, and it has been in several articles now, but even when expected, it's still disappointing. The about face in the reporters' tone from a cheerful one midway through the post season to extremely cautious now just tells me that on some level they're big baseball fans too. They were hopeful and rooting for the guy over the winter and are little disheartened now and all of that comes through in the tone of the prose, even when they don't intend it to. In the articles, Kendry himself sounds a little down about it but reading between the lines, I think things still sound hopeful. He's hitting very well and feeling no pain (yay!) but says it still feels tight and unflexible and he can't run with more than 1/2 speed right now. I actually know that one, to a much lesser extent. I have spent the last year finally properly rehabbing a knee I damaged repeatedly in my youth and again as an adult (the last time racing up hills on my bike with clips on my shoes – it was great…until it wasn't) and I remember the stiffness and inflexibility seeming insurmountable until all of the sudden, and quicker than I would have thought, things improved by leaps and bounds. I hope the experience is comparable because, if so, Kendry could be in playing shape by Opening Day or soon after.
If not, well, I don't really want to think about that right now, with our best first base substitute reporting for Spring Training in Surprise, AZ, this week instead of Tempe. Howie Kendrick was not my favorite substitute first baseman last season by a long shot, but I think he's the best temporary option, unless Mark Trumbo has improved a lot over the winter and this I doubt. Then Callaspo could play third and Maicer could play second, as long as he stays healthy. It could work, but I hate to start out the season with a duct taped infield, even if it's only for the first month.
Reading the rest of the news, several other Angels apparently spent the winter in various forms of surgery and rehabilitation. I was aware Erick Aybar had surgery to repair the knee damaged when Casey McGee busted up the double play back in June. He sounds excited by his progress and I hope that between fixing the knee and no longer dealing with the pressure of batting leadoff, he is able to return to his 2009 form. But Matt Palmer was a surprise. While continuing conditioning workouts this winter after the surgery on his clavicle last season, he discovered he would need knee surgery as well. Apparently they rebuilt him. Better. Stronger. Faster. And Palmer feels the end result has improved his range and delivery considerably. Yay! That's the kind of news I like to hear! Pitching Coach Mike Butcher was another surprise but, again, with a positive ending. He had surgery to remove a cancerous tumor from his thyroid gland over the winter. All reports say the surgery was successful and Butcher is on the mend, though not attending the first few days of Spring Training. I wish him a full and speedy recovery.
So, do all of the winter improvements and repairs mean a stronger Angels team or another season of duct tape solutions and cobbled together Franken-infields? Time will tell but I actually believe it's the former. One thing is for certain, one way or the other I'm in for a lot of news about it in the coming days and that is already a huge improvement over the offseason.
Of course, if the baseball PTB happen to be listening and in a favorable mood, it is my birthday tomorrow (Wednesday), so when I return from an evening of pints and pub trivia, I would really like some good Kendry news from Wednesday's workouts…and, you know, a long stream of Kendry improvement news through the rest of Spring Training leading to a strong Opening Day start? Okay. I'm asking a lot. But you have to admit, as wishes go, it's pretty unselfish for being just a tiny bit selfish. That should count for something…right? 😉


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Former Lady Saint Lands Heach Coaching Job at Tech
KSCB News - May 20, 2013 1:05 pm
Former letterwinner becomes the program's sixth all-time head coach
LUBBOCK, Texas – Candace Whitaker, a two-year letterwinner at Texas Tech
and the point guard for a pair of Sweet 16 teams, returns to her alma
mater to become the sixth head coach in Lady Raider basketball history.
Texas Tech will hold a news conference to formally introduce Coach
Whitaker at 11 a.m. on Wed., May 22, in the City Bank Room at United
Spirit Arena.
"I am excited to welcome Candi back to Texas Tech," Director of
Athletics Kirby Hocutt stated. "It is indeed special to have a former
student-athlete return to lead a program that they were a significant
part of. Her leadership characteristics as a starting point guard and
coach, her ties to West Texas, her experience as a Division I head
coach, as well as the fact that she is a Red Raider makes her the
perfect fit to lead the Lady Raider Basketball into the future."
Whitaker comes home to Texas Tech after spending last season as the
associate head coach at Oklahoma State under Jim Littell. Prior to her
time in Stillwater, she served as head coach at the University of
Missouri-Kansas City for six seasons (2006-2012).
Whitaker's move to the Big 12 Conference and Oklahoma State was preceded
by a five-year tenure in Kansas City where she became the school's
second-winningest head coach.
"I think Candi Whitaker is a great fit for Texas Tech and Texas Tech is
a great fit for her," former Lady Raider Head Coach and Hall of Famer
Marsha Sharp said. "Her basketball IQ and work ethic are incredible.
She came out of one of the best high school programs in the country and
was a great point guard at the collegiate level. She made moves early
in her career that prepared her for this opportunity."
In 2011-12, she guided the `Roos to one of the most successful seasons
in school history, finishing with a 22-12 record. UMKC advanced to the
Summit League Tournament title game for the first time since 2005.
Whitaker's squad capped the campaign with the program's first-ever
appearance in the WNIT.
Additionally, UMKC's win total marked the first time the program
eclipsed the 20-win mark since the 1991-92 season.
The 2009-10 campaign saw the `Roos post a 16-16 mark and earn their
first-ever postseason berth with a trip to the inaugural Women's
Basketball Invitational. Whitaker produced three first-team all-league
picks during her time at UMKC and also had 36 student-athletes receive
academic all-conference recognition.
The Canyon, Texas native began her coaching career at Valparaiso, where
she spent two seasons before joining the staff at UMKC as an assistant
coach in 2004. Whitaker took over the program in March of 2007, becoming
one of the youngest head coaches in the nation at 26.
Her players followed Whitaker's toughness on the court and in the
classroom. All student athletes who completed eligibility under Whitaker
at UMKC went on to graduate. Whitaker coached 36 Summit League Academic
all-League selections and 14 Distinguished Scholars during her time in
Kansas City.
Whitaker's move to Stillwater also marks her return to the Big 12
Conference where she spent two years as a player at Texas Tech under
legendary coach Marsha Sharp.
As the Lady Raiders' starting point guard, she directed the team to a
pair of Sweet 16 appearances. Prior to her stint in Lubbock, Whitaker
played two seasons for current OSU head coach Jim Littell at Seward
County (Kan.) Community College. She led the nation in assists during
the 1999-2000 season and was also named an honorable mention NJCAA
Whitaker received her degree in exercise sports science from Texas Tech
and also holds a master's degree in sports administration from
Valparaiso. She and her husband, Matt, have one child, Westin.


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Raspberry Gluten Free Crepe Recipe
Last summer I found myself living in a weekly mansion (hotel/apartment) in Yokohama, Japan. I had decent cooking facilities, considering it was a hotel- a mini dorm fridge (a foot high at the most), one hot plate burner, a rice cooker, a sink, one cupboard for storing cooking supplies, and one shelf. There were no counters, so I used a desk for a table and food prep counter. It was an extremely small room, sometimes giving me the feeling that I was living in a shoe box, but it was efficient. Except for one rather alarming incident involving a pile of dishes, a knife, and the sink (I almost cut off my finger), I managed to create some pretty decent little meals in that kitchen. Unfortunately, the one thing absent from my apartment was an oven. As the weeks went by, I found myself starting to long for some kind of baked good. A gluten free muffin… a slice of gluten free toast… a gluten free cookie… anything. Unfortunately none of these things were available in any of the Japanese grocery stores. I started to do creative things with mochi (pounded rice cakes) and gluten free corn cereal that I had brought with me. But still, I was unsatisfied. Muffins were out of the realm of possibility, but some things like pancakes or crepes could be prepared in a pan. I only had sweet rice flour (mochiko) at my disposal, so I didn't think pancakes would work well- but crepes, with their reliance on eggs and milk would surely be tasty even with this single flour.
I found a crepe recipe by Rachel Ray and adapted it to be gluten free and suitable for my Japanese style pantry ingredients. Thus, I substituted mirin for brandy, and used sweet rice flour as the starch for my recipe. It turned out to be one of the most delicious things I had all summer- and enjoying crepes with butter and raspberry jam became one of my favorite Saturday morning rituals. After I returned from Japan, I used my oven and bread maker almost every day for two weeks, and I didn't have much occasion to make my little crepe recipe. I made pancakes and waffles, hash browns and muffins instead. But this weekend I remembered that recipe- and whisked together the ingredients, chilling the batter for thirty minutes before preparing it in a non-stick pan. I basted the surface with a little melted margarine for the first few crepes. The first crepe I made fell apart because the surface of the pan wasn't hot enough. But after that, I was able to remove each crispy, thin crepe easily from the pans and layer them on a plate interspersed with wax paper. I whipped some cream, adding generous amounts of vanilla and a little powdered sugar, and washed some fresh, organic raspberries from the Farmer's Market. I filled some crepes with mixed berry jam, and others with butter or margarine and powdered sugar and served them garnished with mint, the vanilla cream, and fresh berries. Delicious! DH's analysis was simple- "They're yummy!" They are a fairly eggy crepe, so it's not a good recipe for those allergic to eggs, but I suspect that non dairy margarine and soy or rice milk could be substituted fairly easily for the dairy ingredients. So why not try some easy, decadent crepes for breakfast? With all the wonderful berries and fruits in season right now, it's the perfect time for a fresh fruit garnished crepe.
Want more recipes for Gluten Free Crepes? Try the artistic Gluten Free Apple Crepes over at the Art of Gluten Free Cooking!
Gluten Free Crepe Recipe
1/2 cup white rice flour (mochiko)
1/2 teaspoon salt
3 eggs, beaten
3/4 cups milk
1/8 cup mirin (brandy or sherry would also be fine)
2 tablespoons melted butter
For the crepe batter, combine flour and salt in a bowl and make a
well in the center. Add eggs milk and brandy to the well and whisk
to combine. Stir in melted butter. Cover batter and set aside for 25
Crepes should be made in a nonstick skillet over medium heat.
I halved the recipe for a 2 person breakfast, but
Perfect for a kitchen, hotel room, or dorm room with limited facilities. All you need is a burner!
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May 20, 2013
Welcome to Summer Semester!
Columbus State will embark on its first Summer Semester ever—a shortened 10-week term—today with around 18,400 students taking advantage of the chance to get ahead or catch up on their Program of Study.
Numerous four-year-college students home for the summer from other institutions will also spend some time taking a summer class at Columbus State. The new semester schedule adopted by all Ohio colleges and universities allows more students than ever to take classes while on break from their home campus. Summer Semester ends August 3 and the fall term begins on August 21.
Employees honored as Men of the Year
Columbus State's Male Access Network (MAN) Initiative honored six male students, employees and community leaders at its Man of the Year Awards at a ceremony earlier this month.
The awards honor men who have set a great example, employees who go out of their way to help students, and students who show leadership and character. The awards honored two employees and two students, as well as three others who aided the MAN Initiative and advocated for social change.
Jason Woltja
Jeffrey Akers
Winners were nominated by the campus community. The employees winners were: Jason Woltja, training specialist at the Testing Center, who wrote "My goal from the moment I wake, till I lay down again, is to work towards being a man of integrity and character." Also named was Jeffrey Akers, coordinator of the Gahanna Regional Learning Center, who wrote "My definition of a man is found in a contemporized version of Micah 6:8, 'He announced to you mankind what is good. And what does the Lord seek from you? Indeed, if only to make justice, and love kindness and be humble to walk with your God.'"
Two students were also honored; Kenneth Jackson and Paul Saltz. Both students graduated at the May 10 commencement.
The MAN Initiative also honored two more students and one community member, including student Johnathan Nwabunike, who was recognized for serving as program assistant for the MAN Initiative; student William "Beau" Foshee, who received the inaugural "Drum Major for Justice" award for advocacy for fellow brethren impacted by societal or systemic injustices; and Stephen Francis, manager of diversity relations with Honda of America Mfg. Inc. in Marysville, who received the Napoleon Bell award.
The MAN Initiative is a mentorship program that helps build character and leadership skills for Columbus State students. It's currently seeking members and mentors: Man Initiative.
Academic professional development classes offered this summer
Two open online classes will be offered summer semester: "Assessing Learning" will run June 3-28. We will engage each other in the complex issues surrounding assessing student learning. Course content includes Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs), providing feedback and developing rubrics.
"Teaching Effectively with PowerPoint" will run June 24 to July 19. We will explore, discuss and apply key principles of presentation design and delivery that best support learning. Topics include use of visuals, organization and design, supporting note-taking, and more.
For both classes, participants will identify topics, or "puzzles," to explore and to solve with peers. A "Certificate of Completion" is available for each by completing several required activities.
Visit the event registration site for more information and to sign up. For more information contact Rich James at ext. 2175.
Bike rentals coming to campus in July
A Columbus Bike Share rental rack will soon be installed on city property near the Bookstore on Mt. Vernon Ave. The racks have been placed around the city, with a total of approximately 300 bicycles available for rental. The bike share rental rack next to our campus will be installed in the first week of July, and will have approximately 10 available bikes!
Bike Sharing is an innovative transportation program providing ideal short distance, point-to-point, simple-to-use bikes for moving around the city. It allows users to pick up a bicycle at any self-serve bike station and return it to any bike station in the system's service area. In Columbus, these stations are located throughout downtown in relative close proximity to each other (about 1/3 mile apart), allowing for easy access and maximum use.
"This is a fun, healthy, affordable and green way for our residents to get around Columbus," says Mayor Michael Coleman. "We've already made Columbus one of the best biking cities in the nation, and this is another big step toward making us even better."
Using a swipe card, the automated system will feature yearly memberships, single-day uses, and 3-day passes, all of which can be easily purchased at a station or online. Each time a member uses a bike, the first 30 minutes are free, followed by incremental charges each half hour thereafter. Long and short term memberships will be available to fit the daily, occasional, or visiting user. You can choose from yearly memberships, a weekend, or even just a day. Annual members get a small key fob device that unlocks the bike at any station. Walk-up users will be able sign up with a credit card at any kiosk and given a code for every use of a bike. Then you can use the bike for as many trips as you want within the limit of your membership. It's ideal for short trips that are 30 minutes or less.
The bikes will be an aluminum step-through frame that is light, strong and durable. Easily adjustable seating, active lighting, front mounted luggage carrier, fenders, and puncture resistant tires making the bikes efficient and easy to use.
Cougar golfer to compete at nationals
Ash Alstadt
Ash Alstadt finished in 4th place at the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) Region XII Tournament held May 11-12 in Battle Creek, Mich. Alstadt finished six over par after three rounds, only four shots back from two Owens Community College players who tied for first. Columbus State's team placed fourth overall. By placing fourth individually, Alstadt qualified for the NJCAA Division II National Championships to be held May 21-24 in Scottsboro, Ala. at the Goose Pond Colony Golf Club. Alstadt, a native of Little Rock, Ark., is a returning NJCAA Division II All-American, and he has been signed by Southeastern Oklahoma State University to transfer and play golf next year.
Service Awards to be given in June
The Human Resources Department has released a list of employees who have reached service milestones of 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30 and 35 years at Columbus State as of December 31, 2012, as well as part-time employees and adjunct faculty with equivalent service converted to semesters. View the list here.


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Former vice president Lien Chan (連戰) once told former American Institute in Taiwan director Stephen Young that Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) was a rigid legalist and that if one wanted to understand the president's behavior and actions, all they needed do is look at what the law says. However, this gives Ma too much credit — the only law he lives by is: "I am the law."
The president focuses only on his own interests and interprets the law selectively to suit his purposes.
As such, it is only natural that he would shamelessly interpret the law to justify the embezzlement of public funds in the abuse of special allowance case against him when he was Taipei mayor, as well as ignore the Supreme Court's decision by refusing to pay the Taipei City Government's debt to the National Health Insurance — also during his term as Taipei mayor.
Ma has also reinterpreted the law to claim that his US green card had been automatically invalidated and to bring about political chaos by violating the Constitution while conspiring to unseat Legislative Speaker Wang Jin-pyng (王金平) during late-night meetings in his official residence.
His interpretation of the Republic of China (ROC) Constitution — a constitution for a government-in-exile — is even more arbitrary.
During the debates over constitutional changes that took place in the 1990s, the president went against the mainstream to claim that instituting direct presidential elections would be tantamount to bringing about Taiwanese independence. However, after being elected president in direct polls, Ma has interpreted the Constitution to mean that the territory of the ROC includes China and that cross-strait relations constitute neither state-to-state relations, nor international relations.
The rotten ROC Constitution does not itemize the country's territories and when it was written, Taiwan proper and the Penghu archipelago were still occupied by the Allied forces.
Yet Ma is still talking in his sleep about the ROC's territory extending not only to Taiwan proper and the Penghu archipelago, but to all China. What kind of legalist interpretation is that? How many Taiwanese would agree with that view?
The Chinese are just as preposterous as Ma. Just like the ROC Constitution, the Constitution of the People's Republic of China (PRC) does not itemize the country's territories, but despite that, the preamble names Taiwan as part of China's "sacred territory."
However, if China's territory is so sacred, one wonders how former Chinese president Jiang Zemin (江澤民) could sign away 1.6 million km2 of territory in with the stroke of a pen in the 1991 Sino-Soviet Border Agreement.
Neither of these constitutions defines their countries' respective territories, but they do define what it means to be a "citizen" of that nation.
Article 3 of the ROC Constitution states that: "Persons possessing the nationality of the Republic of China shall be citizens of the Republic of China," while Article 33 of the PRC Constitution stipulates that: "All persons holding the nationality of the People's Republic of China are citizens of the People's Republic of China."
This makes it clear that the citizens of the two countries are independent of one other.
If Ma really is a legal dogmatic, he cannot ignore Article 2 of the ROC Constitution, which says: "The sovereignty of the Republic of China shall reside in the whole body of citizens."


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I've eventually found time to finish writing and editing a full version of the conference paper I presented at the Caught in the Frame conference at the University of Leicester last month.
You can see the presentation that accompanies this paper in the post below, but this fuller paper give a more detailed overview of the context in which I'm seeking to develop the notion of frames-as-assemblages. It also draws attention to a number of specific features within assemblages that might offer potentially powerful routes for analysing mediated communications in networked environments.


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by Tom Utescher
Last week Germantown Friends battled past Shipley School, 18-16, in Monday's quarterfinal round in the PA Independent Schools girls lacrosse championships, then the Tigers wrapped up their 2012 season the following afternoon, when they fell to the Academy of Notre Dame, 17-10.
GFS, which went undefeated in Friends Schools League regular-season games and then was runner-up in the league tournament, stowed away its sticks with an overall record of 18-4. In the tourney finals on Thursday, Notre Dame met fellow Girls Inter-Ac co-champion Episcopal Academy for the third time this spring, and the Irish lost, 9-7, to finish at 20-3 overall.
Germantown's scoring in the PAIS semifinals was led by a four-goal effort from senior Annie Morrissey, who will play college lacrosse at Dartmouth. Her classmate Iris Williamson, a Penn recruit, had a hat trick in her final high school appearance.
The Indy Schools tournament began on May 18, with Penn Charter battling Hill School for a spot in the quarterfinals. PC won this lone play-in match, 15-5, as junior Emma Ebert, with four goals, topped a list of eight scorers for the Quakers. On Monday PC put up a good fight against Notre Dame before succumbing, 11-9. In the final outing of her freshman season, Avery Shoemaker fired four goals for Charter.
The same afternoon, GFS was hosting Shipley. Germantown's 7-0 regular-season record in the FSL had included a 14-13 thriller against the Gators, and Shipley gave the Tigers another good run in the Indy quarterfinals, succumbing by two goals this time.
Yet another quarterfinal last Monday matched up Germantown Academy with Friends Central, the team that had knocked off GFS in the Friends League championship game on May 18. GA was the third-place team in the Girls Inter-Ac this spring, with the Patriots' 8-4 record positioning them behind Notre Dame and Episcopal (each 11-1) and ahead of fourth-place PC (5-7).
Against Friends Central, GA prevailed 15-11 while marking down six goals for senior Brooke Kiley, who will be playing with GFS's Williamson at Penn. Kiley cranked out another six goals in a Tuesday semifinal against Episcopal, but the Patriots lost the match, 12-9.
After a strong quarterfinal showing against Shipley on Monday, Germantown Friends kept pace with Notre Dame for about seven minutes in their Tuesday tilt, then began to fall behind as it had against Friends Central four days earlier. The teams had clashed in a regular-season bout on May 11, when the Irish pulled out a 14-12 win.
After their second encounter last Tuesday, Notre Dame coach Erin Cleary Cook said, "Germantown Friends is a really solid team. They have two or three girls who definitely will go to goal every time they have the ball, and today we were more prepared for that."
Because the possibility of a thundershower was in the weather forecast, the higher-seeded Irish hosted the game off-campus on the artificial turf field at Haverford Reserve. At the outset, Morrissey and fellow senior Isabella Didio gave the visiting Tigers leads of 1-0 and 2-1. After the Irish scored back-to-back, Williamson leveled the count at 3-3 off of a free position with 18:11 still remaining in the first half.
Notre Dame senior Kristen Bandos, who will play for Georgetown University, had not been heard from up to this point, but now she started in on the visitors. She would penetrate the Tigers' cage five times before the intermission as her club closed out the first period with an 8-1 outburst.
"We were a little bit slow in the first half," remarked Williamson, whose GFS squad trailed 11-4 at the interlude. "We wanted to come out in the second half and work as hard as we could to get the win – to be recognized as competitors and not just some team from the Friends League. I think we showed our fire and fight in the second half."
Germantown took the draw to begin the second half and quickly got a goal from Williamson, who drove through the right side of the arc. The future Penn Quaker saw another shot deflect off the crossbar, but the Tigers scored soon after that as Morrissey converted from a free position just two-and-a-half minutes into the new period.
After Megan McGurk broke the ice for the Irish in the second half, the Tigers responded with markers by freshman Annie Tyson and by Morrissey. They were now back within four points of the leaders, 12-8, with 16:10 left to play.
"We knew they were going to come out really strong in the second half, and they put in a couple goals pretty quickly," said Notre Dame's Cook. "We needed to come back and refocus on our game plan, which was making sure the double-teams were there early, taking away the strong side, and stopping their driving girls before they got up a lot of momentum."
The Irish regrouped and, as the clock dropped from 15:37 to 11:26, they notched three goals to lead 15-8. The gap never fell below six goals the rest of the way. Bandos added a sixth goal in the second half and junior Nora McCallion finished the game with four.
"No regrets – everybody left it on the field," Williamson said afterwards. "We worked our hardest and I'm really proud of everybody; the only sadness I'm feeling now is because I'll miss the girls. I'm definitely glad I'm going on to play at Penn, so this isn't the last you'll see of me."


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Twentieth Century Fox
George Lucas says fans can forget about any more "Star Wars" movies.
Are you a "Star Wars" fan who still holds out hope that Episodes VII, VIII and IX will someday hit theater screens? Don't count on it.
On Wednesday, George Lucas blasted away any chance of ever seeing a new birth of the "Star Wars" franchise when TMZ briefly caught him leaving a Hollywood restaurant.
Asked when the newest installment of "Star Wars" would be, Lucas was blunt: "Never," he said, adding "I'm retired."
It appears to be Lucas' latest film venture that turned the prolific filmmaker off moviemaking. After spending 23 years developing and fighting studios to produce "Red Tails," the first all-black action film, which hit theaters in January, Lucas told the New York Times he was done making action movies.
"I'm retiring," Lucas said. "I'm moving away from the business, from the company, from all this kind of stuff."
Times reporter Bryan Curtis did point out, however, that Lucas was "careful to leave himself an out clause for a fifth 'Indiana Jones' film."
Talk of three more "Star Wars" films has been floating around almost since the first film came out in 1977. Unlike the prequel trilogy, these films, it was said, would take up the action after the end of "Return of the Jedi," with a sixtysomething Luke Skywalker included. Lucas told "Star Wars Insider" in 1997, " I really don't have any notion other than, 'Gee, it would be interesting to do Luke Skywalker later on.' It wouldn't be part of the main story, but a sequel to this thing."
Of course, "Star Wars" fans can look forward to the re-release of all six original films in 3D -- one per year. "Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace" came to theaters in the extra dimension this February, to fairly negative reviews. "No movie that has cost so much to make should be so hard to see," wrote a Newsday critic, complaining about the 3-D film's darkness.
But to fans, the series will live on even if another big-screen film never appears. A TMZ reader writes, ""Star Wars" will never be dead ... Look at the original "Star Trek" franchise: It was on television in the late 60s and early 70s and there are still people who love those shows. ... Some shows will never die."
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Imagine this: A chemical spill and potential fire forces a sudden evacuation order in your area. You have ten minutes max to grab your kids, pets, keys, wallet, and emergency supplies and be on your way. What's likely to get left behind?
One item often forgotten in the rush of any crisis is information. You may need such info as immunization records (Bill cut his foot: when was his last tetanus shot?), homeowners' insurance policy and contact numbers, or health insurance cards.
Keeping copies of important documents and info in a form that's handy to grab along with your emergency kit is a smart step in your preparation efforts. During any emergency, you won't have the time or presence of mind to rush around gathering up birth certificates, documents, and important phone numbers. Why not prepare copies ahead of time and tuck them into a pocket of your kit?
Follow these simple steps to add to your peace of mind and readiness:
- Make a list of documents, certificates, and papers you wouldn't want to lose in any emergency situation. Consider the following:
- Birth certificates
- Marriage certificate
- Social Security cards
- Driver licenses
- Life insurance policy numbers and phone information
- Homeowners insurance policy numbers and contact information
- Health insurance cards
- Auto insurance cards
- Passports
- Up-to-date immunization records
- Account information for all your credit cards and bills
- Copies of prescriptions
- Pet documentation (license and medical records)
- Precious photographs, including a recent one of your whole family for ID purposes. Perhaps a picture with your pet(s) as well, for ID and proof of ownership.
- Flash drives containing any computerized material you want to save—family history, creative works, correspondence, financial records, work files, etc.
- Make a list of phone numbers and email addresses you'd want to have with you. Don't depend upon numbers that are programmed into your cell phone, as phones can be lost or destroyed. Don't forget to include employers, employees, relatives, close friends, out-of-state contacts, doctors, poison control center, clergymen, and business contacts.
- Make a list of all your accounts, with numbers and phone information.
- Gather up those documents from step 1 and make copies of them. Except for your driver license, put the originals in a safe, lockbox, or safety-deposit box at your bank. Consider making two or three copies instead of just one. You might want to leave one packet of copies with a trusted relative to keep for you. Think how grateful you'd be if (perish the thought!) your home had burned to have Grandma hand you a packet of all your most important documents and photos! Some people also tuck a packet into their car emergency kit or somewhere else in the car in case it's needed when they don't have their emergency kit on hand.
Seal your packet in a plastic bag to protect it from moisture and soil, and have only blank paper showing through the plastic to avoid advertising contents to would-be ID thieves. If you're concerned about wrinkling or tearing, enclose a piece of stiff cardboard. Some people prefer to enclose each document in a plastic sheet protector and put them all into a binder, but while this would be perfect to hand to Grandma for safekeeping, it makes a more cumbersome package to tuck into your supplies. Your choice!
- Put your packets together and place them where they need to be. Take a deep breath and put your feet up. You've done well!
For additional information, check out the "Emergency Financial First Aid Kit"
What other documents do you think are important to include in your information packet?


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Thursday, June 3, 2010
What A Grand Loss!
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joe, very nice work as usual; i'm a big fan. if you didn't give up drawing and/or being a mets fan after last night, you never will. i've never been so angry with them...couldn't sleep!ReplyDelete
Listening to the fly-ball clear the fence last night, the silver lining was knowing you'd have a good cartoon up in the morning.ReplyDelete
Santana said today he'd throw 150-200 pitches if need be. I'd like to see that, right after he plays out the art above.ReplyDelete
Good work..... AGAIN!
Santana should change his name on the back of his jersey to Pelfrey. Maybe then he can trick the Mets into giving him some run support.ReplyDelete
By the way Congrats Joe I see you reached the century mark with followers.ReplyDelete
I would love to see this season of drawings in a full color book... although to be honest, i probably would only want it if the mets won the world series.ReplyDelete
UNBELIEVABLE work.
...and even if the Mets don't win the World Series, I'd want it...ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 3, 2010 at 7:30 PM
If you make it through the year, or most of it, let me know if you want help publishing this. Your work is pretty amazing.ReplyDelete
You can write me here: http://thecoup.org/contact
Folow you everyday Cuz. You better not stop this year. You journal blog is part of my morning routine! Regards to the Fam.ReplyDelete
Hey Casey!ReplyDelete
Thanks for following this. it's amazing. The fans will keep me going I'm sure. Not going to stop!
Give everyone my love cuz.


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The Congressional Budget Office has analyzed tax data for the year 2007; once again, the bottom line is that upper-income taxpayers pay much more than their fair share. This graph shows the percentage of household income paid in federal taxes (payroll, income, etc.) by each income quintile; click to enlarge:
That extreme progressivity comes mostly from the income tax, of course. This graph shows what percentage of household income is paid by each income quintile in each form of federal taxation. The blue line represents personal income taxes. The extreme progressivity of that tax is obvious:
This one shows the total of all federal taxes paid by each quintile, compared to income. Note how upper-income taxpayers subsidize all other groups:
One can argue about whether this sort of progressivity is immoral, but it is certainly bad public policy. As we noted here, the U.S. has the most progressive federal tax system of any developed country. Now President Obama tells us that he intends to get serious about the federal deficit. I don't suppose anyone takes that pledge too seriously, but to the extent the Democrats propose any deficit-reduction measures, they will no doubt consist of higher taxes on those who are already over-taxed.
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Dieter van der Ougstraete is a Belgian comic artist and fine artist. He studied animation at the Kask in Ghent, and initially worked as a DTP operator. He published his drawings, full of horror and filth and references to 80s pop culture, on Flickr and thus gained international fame. He has since published in underground and alternative magazines from all over the world, including the 'Savage Dragon' anthology by Image Comics in the USA.
Bruno, het rotte ei (left) and The Core (right)
In Flanders and Holland, his drawings and comics have appearedd in magazines like Zone 5300, Plots, Nrc.Next, Quest and Zizo. Van der Ougstraete calls his influences the work of Francis Bacon, Neo Rauch, Hieronymus Bosch, Pieter Bruegel, Basil Wolverton, Simon Bisley and Winshluss.


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Wandering around the Festival of Good Beer outside the football stadium in Wrocław, southern Poland last weekend with the Welsh beer blogger Simon Martin, it was quickly clear I was in the presence of a genuine superstar. A stream of young Poles – mostly male, but including the occasional female – were rushing up to Simon, greeting him by name, shaking his hand warmly and asking if they could have their picture taken with him. During a break in the flood of fandom, Simon wryly told me that he wished he was half as famous back in the UK as he is in Poland. His YouTube video blog, Real Ale Craft Beer, has just under 10,000 subscribers and gets around a thousand views a day – respectable numbers. But while, clearly, many of those viewers come from the UK – after all, Simon is based in this country, and speaking in English – a surprising number come from Poland. The reason seems to be that in the past four years, Poles have developed a growing thirst for craft beer, and an equal thirst for information about the subject, and access to easily digested, enthusiastically delivered knowledge about new craft beers. That is what Simon's beer-reviewing video website brings them, and they love it – and him.
Poland, you may be surprised to learn, is the third largest brewing nation in the EU, and looking to soon overtake the UK and move into second place. It produced around 40 million hectolitres in 2013, from 155 breweries, 96 litres per head per year, up 10.4% in four years, against 42 million hectolitres a year in the UK from 1,490 breweries, 66 litres per head per year, down 7.1% since 2009, and 94.3 million hectolitres a year in Germany, 107 litres per head per year, down 3.8% in four years, from 1,350 or so breweries.
From those figures you would be guessing that the Polish brewing scene is dominated by big concerns, and it is. SAB Miller has around 38% of the market through Kompania Piwowarska, including the Tyskie and Lech brands. Heineken has another 35% through Grupa Żywiec, and Carlsberg has 14% through its Polish subsidiary, which includes Okocim, leaving just 13% for the independent sector. But that independent sector is thriving: Tomasz Kopyra, the Polish beer blogger who invited me to the Wrocław festival (and who is even more of a superstar among Polish craft beer fans than Simon Martin – Tomasz has 50,000 followers on his own video beer blog and could not walk two yards across the festival grounds without being mobbed by people wanting selfies with him) told me that there were 500 new beers launched on the Polish market last year, a number that will certainly be exceeded by a considerable margin in 2015, when 100 new beers were launched in April this year alone.
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Over 475K man hours were spent reading and creating content about Fallout: New Vegas – the equivalent of 58 years!
We have also shattered all the previous Wikia records in terms of daily traffic. The previous record, held by WoWWiki, was around 5 million daily page views, and for the last two weeks, we've been having more traffic than that - up to 8.8 million on Sunday, October 24.
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Nature Connects: Art with LEGO® Bricks
September 1 – December 31, 2018
Nature Connects is an award-winning sculpture exhibition by Brooklyn-based artist Sean Kenney. Created with nearly half a million LEGO® bricks, the thirteen nature-inspired displays at the San Antonio Botanical Garden include a larger-than-life Monarch butterfly and a 6-foot hummingbird on a trumpet flower!
Nature Connects is included with general admission ($12-$9). Members enjoy free admission.
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Dorothy Urfer was the original artist of the 'Annibelle' comic strip. She began the feature on 29 December 1929 as a single panel cartoon in NEA's Everyweek magazine section. It was moved to the colored comic section in 1935, where Urfer illustrated it until the following year. The strip was continued by Virginia Krausmann until 1939.
Urfer was also an illustrator of covers and text stories for magazines and papers like The Times Picayune, Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune, Lima Sunday News and The Sunday Oregonian.


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I am considering the Heisenberg XXZ model at the moment. In the literature it says that (in the $J\Delta\rightarrow\infty$ limit, i.e. the ferromagnetic Ising regime) one can either view low-energy excitations as magnons (single overturned spins), or as domains of consecutive flipped spins, named spinons. The latter is supposed to have spin $S=1$. My question is two-fold:
-How do we easily note the statistics of the introduced particle and what spin it has?
-When do we choose what quasi-particle?


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Sometimes crass is all you need
21 Jump Street is an immature comedy, full of penis references, bodily function humor, comedic violence and drug jokes that appeal to the lowest common denominator.
I laughed through the whole movie.
Sometimes the best humor comes from rude places. But if you dislike strong language and sexual humor, you'll have the vapors before the 20-minute mark.
The movie focuses on two high school kids: insecure nerd Schmidt (Jonah Hill: The Sitter) and cool bully Jenko (Channing Tatum: The Vow). Jenko tortured Schmidt through most of high school, but when both boys join the police academy, the dynamic changes. Jenko is too dumb to score well on the written exams, but he's smart enough to befriend the kid he used to bully. Schmidt leaps at the chance to be buds with the cool kid and, in turn, gets Jenko to act as his personal trainer.
In a frightening turn of events, both are allowed to become gun-toting cops. After their first bust goes spectacularly wrong, their captain assigns them to a new undercover operation, which uses young-looking officers to infiltrate high schools.
The dynamic duo are given teen identities and sent to uncover a narcotics ring that is selling an ecstasy-type synthetic drug that has led to teen deaths.
The boys stupidly mix up their secret identities. Jenko must cope with AP Science nerd classes, and Schmidt must fit in with the cool crowd. In the new world of activist-light high schoolers, Schmidt excels at his assignment, making friends with all the green, progressive popular kids. Jenko, on the other hand is horrified to discover that his bullying cool kid act is now reviled.
Kids today!
As the duo gets closer to the top of the drug ring, cracks form in their relationship. Can Jenko reconcile himself to being a nerd and an outcast? Will Schmidt forego the investigation to relive high school as part of the popular crowd? Will either of them remember that it's kinda illegal to supply alcohol to minors, even if they want to throw a bitchin' house party? Will Johnny Depp make a cameo?
21 Jump Street isn't a new or original take on well-worn cop and comedy genres. They haven't reinvented the wheel, but they've put expensive rims on it. The new comedic premise transforms the source material — a straight teen-cop procedural — into a goofy high school comedy that's superior to the original.
The movie succeeds because directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller know how to exploit clichés for the biggest laugh. The lecherous teacher isn't sexy; she's nuts. Characters comment on how old Jenko and Schmidt look, and indeed these 30-year-olds don't look like pizza-faced teens. When the cops attempt to jump over a moving car they find out that getting struck by a car actually hurts. Who would have thought?
The utter glee of the actors makes this comedy sing. Tatum often plays a dour romantic lead in weepy melodramas and teen dance flicks. He seems thrilled to be unleashed into the world of cursing and violence, with nary a poetically sick love interest in sight. Hill is by now an expert in this genre, having spent his early career under the wing of gross-out king Judd Apatow.
If you're looking for urbane wit or restrained storytelling, this isn't the flick for you. But if you giggle at the thought of drugged-up cops hallucinating a talking, melting, soft-serve cone, 21 Jump Street is well worth the price of admission.


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Alstom will deliver 34 Eco 100 turbine for the Sureste I stage II wind farm in Oaxaca, southern Mexico. It is Alstom's first wind project in the country.
The project will come online at the end of 2014. Alstom said it will generate around 350 gigawatt hours a year, which is based on a wind speed of 8 m/s.
Last year, Mexico's wind market, with some of the strongest winds in the world, ramped up to adding around 600-700MW of new annual capacity.
This rate is predicted to last until 2015 and probably beyond, according to national wind association Amdee and the Global Wind Energy Council.


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Mopar's Latest Top Eliminators
Mopar's 2013 Top Eliminator program — recognizing Mopar enthusiasts who display unmatched skill in modifying or preserving a classic or modern-day Mopar vehicle — hose New Jersey native Bill Mann's '70 Dodge Charger R/T, and Miles Watsko's '64 Plymouth Savoy from Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Both cars were part of the big Mopar display at this year's Woodward Dream Cruise in suburban Detroit.
Mann's Charger was picked at this year's Carlisle All-Chrysler Nationals, while Watsko's Super Stock-look Savoy was honored at Midwest Mopars' huge Midwest Mopars In The Park show in June.
The third Mopar Top Eliminator had yet to be named at press time — Mopar will choose it from the field of Sportsman racers competing at NHRA's U.S. Nationals, and the fourth Top Eliminator will be selected in an online vote.
Blueprinting Made Easy
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That's because it's loaded with over 500 photos (in a 192-page book) that detail how to assemble your next engine so it will produce more horsepower and torque, run cooler, and burn fuel efficiently — and last longer. It covers the block, crank, connecting rods, pistons, cylinder heads, intake manifolds, measuring tools and final assembly techniques.
Why not add blueprinting to your in-the-shop skill set…and Modern Engine Blueprinting Techniques: A Practical guide to Precision Engine Building to your library?
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Detailed instructions, complete with tips, are also included to help solve all of your air source needs.
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Already three times in his young career, de Haan has hit a bump with a shoulder injury. The most recent was earlier this year as he missed a month of action after landing awkwardly during a Sound Tigers game.
"I've hurt it a couple times but at the same time it's motivation to become bigger and stronger," de Haan said on Friday. "[I've] been training, trying to get bigger and stronger. It's kind of cliche I know, but it's an asset for all the players."
De Haan wasn't worried about the shoulder troubling him going into next year.
"[The shoulder] feels fine, it was kind of unfortunate, it was such bad timing. It was right after I got called up. Bad timing, but honestly it feels fine, feels great."
He's going to have to be healthy too, as competition is going to be stiff. There are still a lot of questions to be answered as far as free agency but with the acquisition of Lubomir Visnovsky, the Islanders should have their top four defenders set. Add to that the news that Dylan Reese's contract negotiations are underway, making him likely to be back in the fold and that could leave only one or two spots on the big club for de Haan and his fellow Sound Tiger defenders, Matt Donovan and Aaron Ness. All three saw time with the Islanders last season but de Haan only lasted for one game, December 15th at the Coliseum against Dallas, before getting sent back down.
After three years, de Haan is healthy and hungry to make the team.
"Well, I'd like to think I'll be on the Islanders. That's always been my dream -- to be in the NHL. That's definitely my number one goal. I've been trying for three seasons and hopefully this is the year."
De Haan amassed 16 points in 56 games last year, his first in Bridgeport. He was also elected to the AHL All-Star Game but was unable to compete due to the shoulder injury. De Haan and the rest of the Islanders prospects converge on the Island this week for training and the Blue & White Scrimmage on Thursday night at Iceworks.


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Burning Bushes to Restore Habitat Land and Save Cheetahs.
Most of us know our big cat cousins are struggling to survive in in the wild. You might even know that loss of habitat, human-wildlife conflict, loss of prey and poaching are among the biggest reasons the big cats are fighting for their lives. But did you know the loss of habitat is not just due to the increasing human population but due to another invasive species, the thorn-bush.
The acacia thorn bush overgrowth has claimed thousands of acres of savannah in Namibia where the largest number of wild cheetahs still live. Overgrazing, drought, extirpation of elephants are a few of the reasons for the bush encroachment. As the bush thickens and the sharp thorns of the acacia entwine to form a barrier, not only is the cheetah at risk but so are the prey species that thrive on the savannah.