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The people who claim to have the supposed inside line on "Tongues" are the babbling Pentecostals. They are cult which:1.) Redefines English words to suit their ideologies.2.) Substitutes talk for action.3.) Does not teach maturity in God apart from emotional activity.4.) Uses miniscule parts of The Bible to form vast, broad, complicated, and ineffective ideologies about God.5.) Cannot deliver what they advertise.6.) Is seen by the rest of Christendom as flaky and weak.7.) Has imaginary teaching that strange and "Heavenly" languages can be spontaneously spoken by people, even when such "Heavenly" languages are never recorded in The Bible.
It is considered a spiritual gift, and as such, would mean that not everyone will be able to do it. Some churches would disagree with me on that, but the Bible is pretty clear that it is a special gift. The main story about speaking in tongues is on the day of Pentecost when the Christian church was born/the Holy Spirit came upon the 3000. We see from that story that it takes two to legitimately speak in tongues, a speaker and a translator/one who understands. I have only seen it happen legitimately twice, many people claim to do it, but you soon realize that they are saying the same few phrases over and over.This is probably due to the fact that in some churches they teach that if you don't speak in tounges, you are not really a true believer.As to what language it is, I don't know. The two times I have heard it, it sounded a bit like Hebrew, but since I don't know Hebrew, I can not confirm that. I can confirm that of all four people (two speakers and two translators), none knew Hebrew, both said things relavent to what the pastor was saying, and were said in churches where it is seen like any other gift, not encouraged or discouraged.
And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.2 And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.3 And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them.4 And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.5 And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of every nation under heaven.6 Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language.7 And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all these which speak Galilaeans?8 And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born?
I agree with a couple here.There are striking major differences between Biblical tongues verses Charismatic tongues (a SATANIC counterfeit).Biblically, speaking in "tongues" always involved known, earthly, established languages; and not the unknown jibber-jabber done today. There was no need for a TRANSLATOR because EVERY MAN HEARD THE GOSPEL IN HIS OWN LANGUAGE.
The people who claim to have the supposed inside line on "Tongues" are the babbling Pentecostals. They are cult which:1.) Redefines English words to suit their ideologies.
2.) Substitutes talk for action.
3.) Does not teach maturity in God apart from emotional activity.
4.) Uses miniscule parts of The Bible to form vast, broad, complicated, and ineffective ideologies about God.
5.) Cannot deliver what they advertise.
6.) Is seen by the rest of Christendom as flaky and weak.
7.) Has imaginary teaching that strange and "Heavenly" languages can be spontaneously spoken by people, even when such "Heavenly" languages are never recorded in The Bible.
Bingo, Yawn. Jerusalem was a melting pot of traders, travelers, and various and sundry other visitors. On the Day of Pentecost, immediately after the Ascension of Christ, when the Holy Spirit came upon the Apostles and Disciples, mostly uneducated men conversed with and spoke Jesus unto the multitudes. That was the purpose of the 'tongues'; to preach Jesus. We have the scriptures to guide us now.
Interesting. So when the Apostle Paul commands that every message in tongues in the assembly requires interpretation, he was off his rocker? Or is his first letter to the Corinthian church not included in your Bible?
Yes, read, but also UNDERSTAND. If you have some true "gift", if there is no (HONEST) individual that can interpret your gibberish, then you are to KEEP QUIET. Your gibberish does nothing to edify the body and is nearly always used to build yourself up rather than the Church. When God or His angels come, did they EVER speak to the prophets in a language they could not understand? What would be the point of that? There is no love for the Church in this, only your own vanity.
I know nothing about it. Is it a real language? Is it God? Is it the devil? What are they saying?Anybody have any experiences with it?
Today's version of Pentacostalism (and its attendant speaking-in-tongues) are not related to the Church Age (premil) era. Tongues ended after the Fall of Israel and is not a current spiritual gift.
I was raised in a Pentacostal church and the sheer insanity of the screaming, yelling, tongues, dancing, and collective insanity was enough (as a 13 year old) to steer me away from that and into a church where the Bible, not entertainment, was the key to spiritual growth.
The Bible certainly doesn't say that. When was this "fall of Israel"? 70 A.D.? 135 A.D.?No legitimate Pentecostal would say that entertainment is the key to spiritual growth. In fact, I don't even think Pentecostal doctrine says that spiritual gifts are the key to spiritual growth. Then again, the Bible itself is not the key to spiritual growth.


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Resource guide to snapshots (or point-in-time copies)
Learn what the experts are saying about where and when to use snapshot technology as part of your backup and disaster recovery architecture.
Backups for networked storage have gotten a boost in recent years in the form of services and software that allow you to take rapid "snapshots" of your data at a given point in time. Many systems administrators today rely heavily on snapshot technology or third-party copy vendors to perform this function routinely of their most critical data.
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When is it appropriate to take snapshots of your data via host-based software solutions, such as Veritas' Virtual Replicator or Sun's Instant Image? According to our SAN expert, you also have the option to take snapshots from some firmware-based software performed at the storage subsystem level. Here, you'll learn about the different modes of licensing each type of software, along with the benefits/disadvantages between taking clone copies and metadata snapshots. You'll also learn about the role quiescing your database plays in the snapshot creation process.
Differences between hardware-based and software-based metadata snapshots
Expert Chris Poelker explains how the HDS 9000 storage arrays use a cascaded snapshot approach where writes to the original volume are given an I/O complete back to the application immediately. He also describes how this approach differs from other software-based snapshot functionality.
Differences between image and snapshot
Backup expert W. Curtis Preston contrasts performing an image backup via Unix with the process of producing snapshots. Do you know when a snapshot is considered a true mirror? Learn when Preston thinks this is the case in this expert answer.
Help finding low-cost snapshot products
Expert Chris Poelker evaluates PowerQuest V2i for use as a low-cost snapshot product in an enterprise-class SAN. He also describes other implementations readers may want to look at for third-party snapshot products.
How and where to use snapshot technology
Is there a difference between the terms: snapshot, clone and snapclone? According to expert Christopher Poelker, these are all different terms coined by various vendors, often to mean the same thing. Learn here what Chris says are the two basic methods for creating snapshots of your data.
NetApp's SnapShot/SnapRestore features
NAS expert Randy Kerns explains how Network Appliance's NAS filers currently handle blocks of data written via the products' SnapShot features and how these may compare to other products on the market.
SAN School, Lesson 11: Using point-in-time copies
Lesson 11 in our short SAN learning-related webcasts covers the use of point-in-time copies, which are also referred to as snapshots. Here, you'll learn straight from the coauthor of the book, "Storage area networks for Dummies," what point-in-time copy is and what you need to know about creating snapshots. You'll also learn how to figure out space requirements and the types of software-based copy solutions available. (Note: This lesson may not yet be available for viewing.)
Snapshots in SQL Server 2000
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Three types of snapshot technologies
Storage networking expert Marc Farley claims that snapshot technology comes in three basic flavors: file system-based, subsystem-based, and virtualization-based. Learn the differences of each type in this expert answer.
The truth about synchronous replication
Learn how snapshots can be used successfully in an asynchronous replication scheme to ensure recovery of database data from a known "good" point. Contributor Geoff Barrall, CTO of BlueArc Corporation, also describes here the merits of synchronous vs. asynchronous replication strategies.
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Do you like to sleep in? Slap the snooze button a few times? Is it worth ten dollars for each lazy slap of the snooze button?
The SnuzNLuz gets your butt out of bed with the simple tradeoff of sleep for hatred. With every push of the snooze button, the SnuzNLuz will deduct ten dollars (or more) from your bank account and donate to an organization that you detest. That could be the Republican Party, PETA, ACLU, NRA, anything opposite to your politics.
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Community Leaders Debate Transportation Future At Forum
BRTA Administrator Gary Shepard, BCC President Ellen Kennedy and Chamber of Commerce President Michael Supranowicz held a roundtable discussion at the college on Monday.
PITTSFIELD, Mass. — A proposed $100 million increase in state funding for the Berkshire Regional Transit Authority may not be such a boon.
BRTA Administrator Gary Shepard said on Monday that the increase doesn't include provisions to secure a reoccurring funding source and doesn't give the BRTA its own line item in the state budget.
While an increased focus on transportation funding is appreciated, it really only forward-funds the organization, a move that should have been done years ago, Shepard explained at a transportation forum on Monday at Berkshire Community College.
"The $100 million doesn't represent expansion, it represents forward funding. I can't look you in the eye and say I can do more with this. The $100 million just gets us up back to zero," Shepard said, explaining that the BRTA is retroactively funded each year.
Shepard wants the resources to expand services but this proposal is only one step toward it. Transportation funding is going to be a hot-button issue on Beacon Hill this upcoming session.
The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority is in need of help as it was two years ago, but in order to get the political support to save it, legislators are being asked to provide additional funding for the state's RTAs.
"The MBTA is a deep, dark hole of financial instability," said state Rep. Tricia Farley-Bouvier, D-Pittsfield. "People in the Berkshires shouldn't have to keep bailing out the T."
But Shepard said the conversation wouldn't be happening at all if the MBTA wasn't in trouble.
Farley-Bouvier has introduced a bill that would mandate more equity in public transportation funding, revamp the funding mechanisms and set goals for transportation, as well as making newer projects fit them.
"We are taking money set aside for capital costs and we are using that money to pay for operations," Farley-Bouvier said.
Further investment in public transportation in the "Gateway Cities" was identified as a key to the financial future for the entire state by MassInc, an independent research company.
"The places that have better public transportation have more people working," MassInc Executive Director Ben Forman said, and that's important to the economy statewide.
Forman said Gateway Cities need a "three-legged stool" to succeed: education for future workers, transformative redevelopment of historic buildings and transportation to get the workers to both school and work. Those are the keys to moving the Gateway Cities forward economically.
"It's the RTA piece that we think is overlooked," Forman said.
Ben Forman of MassINC. presented an array of reasons why public transportation is a huge boon for economic development.
He used the proposed rail line from Pittsfield to New York City as a good addition to the transportation system but once the tourists get here, they'll be stuck in the county without adequate public transit. Plus, he said, public transportation makes it worthwhile for teens to work and buses can be part of the county's branding.
Chamber of Commerce President Michael Supranowicz said a survey conducted last year and found nearly every industry indicated increased public transportation would be a benefit.
"When the industry left, we turned into a service industry and we've got places open 24 hours now," Supranowicz said after recalling the days when stores would not be open on weekends or night.
Even the existing manufacturers said public transportation would help their business, Supranowicz said.
BCC President Ellen Kennedy said "you'd be amazed" at how many students rely on public transportation.
"People can't take classes at night if they rely on public transportation," Kennedy said, adding that if students wanted to, they wouldn't have even been able to attend the 4 p.m. forum if they relied on public transportation.
Both Kennedy and Supranowicz advocated for longer service hours, more routes and availability to more people.
In other transportation discussion, Mayor Daniel Bianchi advocated for a greater connection with upstate New York and more predictable Chapter 90 highway funds.
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Weiss calls brief team meeting to regain focus
PHOENIX -- Believing the focus is slipping as the losses accumulate, Rockies manager Walt Weiss called a brief team meeting before Saturday night's game against the D-backs.
Catcher Michael McKenry illustrated the Rockies' lack of attention to detail Friday night when he made a lob throw back to the mound that allowed the D-backs' David Peralta to steal home during a 5-3 defeat. But the Rockies entered Saturday night with 10 losses in the last 12 games, plus 19 in 21 road games. Weiss said Saturday's talk went beyond a specific play.
Weiss noted that he is in front of the club during the scouting meeting before the first game of every series, and usually attempts to give motivational or correction points to the club during those sessions, so it's not as if he's never in front of the entire team.
"Every once in a while, I listen to my gut and say it's time to get them together for the sake of delivering a message," Weiss said.
Weiss has repeatedly praised the club's effort this season, and said effort isn't the problem. Weiss' belief is echoed privately by several players and others familiar with the club. The pitching has been affected by injury and backup position players have been exposed because they've been forced to play more than planned.
The second part -- play the game right -- has been an issue, especially lately. Weiss didn't give any specifics, but the indication was focus was the focus of his words. Awareness in various situations can show up in many ways, such as situational at-bats or pitching and defensive execution.
"My goal is to always lend some perspective, some things I've learned from being around this game," Weiss said. "It's not that I'm smarter than anybody else. Things I know, I either learned the hard way or I was around smart people and I listened every once in a while, paid attention every once in a while."


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August News – Cambridge GrapheneTechDays 2015
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The Cambridge Graphene Tech Days 2015 is a leading festival of events over two days for networking and learning more about the latest advances in commercialising Graphene and related materials in sectors such as electronics, displays, energy storage, composites, packaging, aerospace & defence and automotive.
Airbus & BP will give new presentations on the challenges for Graphene Solutions Providers in their set of industries and will be joined also by other global conglomerates.
The special programme of events will be held mainly in Cambridge's newly-opening Graphene Building: with an exhibition of technology and tours of new labs as well as a media event, conference and a fine Hall dinner. The expert-led MasterClass covering the value network srtructure and barriers & application prioritisation offer enormous added value to corporate executive leaders.
Introduction from Dr Justin Hayward, CEO of CIR and Co-Director of Cambridge Graphene Days 2015
It is an honour to have the chance to bring together such excellent industrial and entrepreneurial growth companies in the graphene and GRM sector with Cambridge University and its new Graphene Centre Building Hub. Cambridge is perhaps the top global university across all key measures such as teaching and research. It is also home to a burgeoning technology cluster. Great companies have been born & grown to billions in the 25 years that I've lived here, but now multinationals also regularly come to have a base in Cambridge to find excellent research, engineering & coding staff, partnerships with top academics and other outsourcing and learning with many other players offering services in the tech cluster. I look forward to an inspiring couple of days of events.
Ray Gibbs, CEO of Haydale commented "The Cambridge hub is one of the pre-eminent places to go for the highest quality science and application skills. As a leading technological solution provider to this rapidly evolving market sector it made great sense to support this centre of excellence covering graphene and related nano materials, . We believe the conferences and workshops at the Cambridge Graphene Days will showcase the adoption and use of the graphene materials in real products. Haydale's functionalised graphene technology already is providing ground breaking benefits to organisations involved with composite materials, conductive inks and next generation battery technology".
Chuck Milligan, CEO, FlexEnable commented "The relevance of graphene and graphene-like materials to flexible electronics for displays and sensors is clear, and we are proud to be co-sponsors of the Cambridge Graphene Days event – and the opening of the Graphene Building in Cambridge. We believe that our unique manufacturing processes for flexible electronics, together with the exponential growth expected in the flexible display and IoT sensor markets, provide enormous opportunity for this exciting class of materials."
Professor Andrea Ferrari added "We are very much looking forward to our Cambridge Graphene Technology Day on the 5th of November, when we will showcase industrial applications of graphene and related materials. We are also excited to be hosting high value manufacturing-oriented meetings on the site of the Cambridge Graphene Centre"
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Haydale Ltd., a leader in the development of enhanced graphene and nanoparticulate materials, has announced its decision to sponsor the Cambridge Graphene Days (5-6 November 2015).
The Cambridge Graphene Days is a prime event for networking and learning more about the latest advances in commercialising Graphene and related materials in sectors such as electronics, displays, energy storage, composite, packaging, aerospace & defence and automotive. The festival of events includes a program of events to be held mainly in Cambridge's new Graphene Building, with an exhibition of technology and tours of labs as well as a media event, conference and dinner at King's College.
Ray Gibbs, CEO of Haydale commented "The Cambridge hub is one of the pre-eminent places to go for the highest quality science and application skills. As a leading technological solution provider to this rapidly evolving market sector it made great sense to support this centre of excellence covering graphene and related nano materials, . We believe the conferences and workshops at the Cambridge Graphene Days will showcase the adoption and use of the graphene materials in real products. Haydale's functionalised graphene technology already is providing ground breaking benefits to organisations involved with composite materials, conductive inks and next generation battery technology".
Professor Andrea Ferrari added "We are very much looking forward to our Cambridge Graphene Day on the 5th of November, when we will showcase industrial applications of graphene and related materials. We are also excited to be hosting high value manufacturing-oriented meetings on the site of the Cambridge Graphene Centre"
For further information on leading edge functionalised graphene application solutions please visit www.haydale.com or contact Haydale Ltd. on +44-1269-842946 / email@example.com.
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HVM Graphene Conference Cambridge 2013 Programme Lineup!
Programme for 5 November 2013 HVMG Conference
Opening Session – Introduction & Graphene Basics: Functional Materials
10:00 Mike McCreary, Director, CIR Strategy - Conference introduction
10:05 Professor Peter Dobson, Oxford University Nanomaterials – Chairman's Introduction
10:20 Prof Andrea Ferrari, Cambridge University & Head, Cambridge Graphene Centre
Overview of the Applications of Graphene
10:35 Dr Patrick Frantz, CEO, Cambridge Graphene Platform
Low Cost Graphene & 2D Layered Material Inks for Printed Electronics
10:50 Dr Steve Thomas, CIT Ltd
Conductive materials – market uses & experiences
11:05 Panel with speakers & moderator & Prof Johnny Coleman Trinity College Dublin
11:30 Coffee break
Session 2 – Additive manufacturing, electronics, photonics
11:50 Dr Mike Banach, VP, Plastic Logic
Shaping the next industrial revolution
12:05 Dr David Brown, CTO, Canatu
Scaling of Carbon NanoBud film production for commercial apps in touch and display devices
12:20 Dr Richard van Rijn, CTO, Applied Nanolayers
High volume quality manufacture of graphene
12:30 Dr Kate Stone, Novalia
Creative printed electronics
12:35 Peter Towler, Director, BritonEMS part of OSI Electronics – What to expect from an EMS Supplier
12:40 Panel with Moderator Professor Ferrari & Dr Rob Harvey, AtomJet
13:05 Lunch and Exhibitions
Session 3 – Commercialisation Cases & other materials & applications
14:05 Dr Krzysztof Koziol, Chief Scientist, Cambridge Nanosystems Ltd
14:15 Professor Jonathan Coleman,
Layered materials: from tiny things to advanced applications
14:30 Professor Richard Palmer, Founder, Nanoscale Labs, Birmingham University
Prospects for massive scale-up from nano research in biochips & catalysis
14:50 Dr Nathan Hill, Strategy Director, National Graphene Institute – Commercialisation strategies
15:10 Panel with Moderator Del Stark CEO, Nanopro
15:30 Tea break
Final Session – Strategy for UK HVM & Graphene
16:00 Dr Jani Kivioja, Head, Nokia Research Center
Graphene – What is the commercial viability of short term applications?
16:30 Nick Coutts MA; Former IBM VP, CIR Strategy
Routes to Value for Graphene
16:40 Dr Martin Kemp, NanoKTN
Graphene commercialisation – Summary of industry consultation workshops
16:55 Professor Sir Michael Gregory CBE, Head, IfM
High Value Manufacturing Roadmaps
17:05 Panel with Professor Sir Mike Gregory CBE; Chairman's Summary
17:30 Networking & Drinks Reception
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Graphene: what is the reality?
The HVM Conference Series was founded in 2002, after a market research report led to an early definition of high value manufacturing.
The HVM & Graphene Conference is anchored to the large end markets such as materials, electronics, photonics, energy and biotech and tries to connect these & related markets with graphenes & related functional materials, technologies & processes.
The HVM Conference will run an edition on Graphene (HVMG13) and related functional materials on 5 November 2013 in Cambridge. The Nobel Prize has been awarded in 2010 to Geim and Novoselov for work on Graphene. The conference is interested in commercial applications of the materials. There is no interest at this long-running & grounded UK conference series in hyping the market growth derived from the materials. The interest is in the uses, availability, manufacture, timing of graphene, related materials and their market growth. The wide range of potential applications below of graphene fits well with the range of processes & end-product markets that the HVM Conference has covered over the years, such as additive manufacture & printed electronics.
This conference of the brightest, best and most experienced will take on board the below, and ask & discuss the full suite of commercialisation & opportunity prioritisation questions. The conference is sponsored by the NanoKTN, Plastic Logic & OSI Electronics. There is also participation from Cambridge University, the IfM, Cambridge Graphene Centre, the National Graphene Institute, Manchester University, Oxford University, Birmingham University, Lancaster University, Imperial College, Cambridge Graphene Platform, Cambridge Nanosystems, Applied Nanolayers, CIT, Novalia, KPMG, Heraeus Noblelight, and a number of key commercial, larger players such as Nokia Research.
Here are some of the statements and comments made by academics at a selection of learned institutions in recent years:
Graphene is a sheet of carbon atoms arrayed in a honeycomb pattern, just a single atom thick. It could be a better semiconductor than silicon.
Graphene is a material with outstanding properties that make it an excellent candidate for advanced applications in future electronics and photonics.
…graphene field-effect transistors, FETs, and …graphene monolithically integrated circuits (ICs). These graphene transistors and ICs could become essential elements in the blossoming fields of wireless communications, sensing, and imaging.
…impressive photonic properties of graphene. The light–graphene interaction can be adjusted using an electric field or chemical dopant, making graphene-based photonic devices tunable. (Applications such as)…fast photodetectors, optical modulators, far-infrared filters, polarizers, and electromagnetic wave shields. These graphene photonic devices could find various applications in optical communications, infrared imaging, and national security.
IBM Watson Research Center
Graphene is the thinnest known material in the universe and the strongest ever measured. Graphene can sustain current densities six orders of magnitude higher than that of copper…record thermal conductivity and stiffness, is impermeable to gases, and reconciles such conflicting qualities as brittleness and ductility.
Recent discoveries have provided simple methods for preparing lab-scale samples to study graphene. A number of techniques have emerged that show promise for producing large-scale samples with the ultimate goal of developing devices that take advantage of graphene's unusual properties. As large samples become available, the possibility grows for applications of this material in solar cell technology (as flexible, transparent electrodes), in composites material development, and in electronic devices.
…those properties (of graphene/graphene oxides) can be exploited in several applications such as photo-catalysts (degradation of pollutants)…
Nokia Research
(We study) thermal transport properties of graphene…applications of controlling heat at nanoscale.
The thermal conductivity can be tuned dramatically by the graphene filler concentration.
Graphene-based composites are potentially promising as thermal interface materials (for) modern heat management in many industrial applications.
The HVM Graphene 2013 Conference is co-located with the ARM sponsored Smart Homes & Cleanpower 2013 Conference, in its 8th year, which takes in Heat, Water and Connected devices/IoT Sessions for an excellent set of crossovers around energy, heat, storage, electronics, and data. Delegates of one conference may move freely between both conference rooms for a rich, inspiring and productive experience on the day.
To attend HVM Graphene 2013, simply email (email@example.com) with your name, affiliation & contact details, and the organisers will do the necessary (pricing is on the webpage linked above).
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Shug and fronkey are the guys to hear from I'm thinking..... I think fronkey's last adventure might have taken the record for both cold and wind. Hopefully they reply...interested to hear the details.
Mine was -26ºF......along with kwpapke.
We never even had a fire as it was a backpacking trek.
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My last trip out I endured 50-60mph winds and my thermometer crapped out at around -25f. However, I don't count the temp because the mercury could have easily dipped lower because of the insane windchill. Shug and kwpapke still hold the record at the moment in my opinion. Funny enough, I was only a mile or so away from where they had that cold night.
It was a loooong night of no sleep and constant tarp adjustments. No tarp was meant to hold up against winds that strong and even with a good campsite selection, my tarp didn't stand a chance. But, it was a great learning experience. If I ever came across winds that severe, I would honestly just go to ground and pitch my tarp wide and flat to repel as much wind as possible.
I lost my camera before the night, but I did take some small crappy video with my phone. I kept getting weather alerts that windchill gusts could hit -45f so I threw Tala in the hammock with me.
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MIAMI, Fla. – A beauty magazine poll found that 72 percent of Americans thought people look better tan. But in the search for that perfect glow, some people are becoming sun addicts, a condition known as tanorexia.
"It's bliss, it's my refuge," said Danielle Kirk, who considers the sun her best friend. "It makes me feel good and she's always there, and even when she's not there on a rainy day, I know she'll come out tomorrow."
Kirk is a native New Yorker who moved to South Florida specifically for a daily dose of sunshine to elevate her mood. But her dermatologist is concerned about the effect on Kirk's skin.
"I do get reprimanded on a regular basis because she tells me I'm too tan," Kirk said.
For some, sun exposure can actually stimulate reward centers in the brain that release "feel good" chemicals into the blood stream.
Tanorexics also suffer from a false-self image.
"Some have likened tanning to a form of body dysmorphic disorder where people perceive their complexion as lighter than it is, or they don't accept their skin the color it is," said dermatologist Dr. Shaindy Aber.
People will tan even to the point of harming their own health.
"I have patients who, despite knowing the danger of sun exposure and even those who've had skin cancer, continue to go into the sun on a daily basis," Aber said.
Despite a history of cancer in her family, Kirk might take that risk.
"If a doctor were to say, 'You have pre-cancerous cells on your skin' would I lay off? Sure I would lay off, but would I lay off completely? No," Kirk said.
Since tanorexia can be both psychological as well as physiological, the treatment approach is typically two-fold: Therapy to address the false perceptions of appearance and anti-anxiety medications to ease withdrawal.
Not only does sun exposure increase your risk of skin cancer, but it also leads to pigment changes, wrinkles and sagging, a far cry from a "sexy tan."
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Scotland are likely to appoint an interim successor to Andy Robinson for the 2013 Six Nations, according to Scottish Rugby Union chief executive Mark Dodson.
Robinson left his post in charge of the Scotland team in the aftermath of their shock 21-15 loss to Tonga on November 24. With the Six Nations just under three months away, the SRU is facing a race against time to find a permanent successor for Robinson.
"We have already received a number of applications for the job," Dodson said in The Scotsman. "We are reviewing these as well as looking at home and abroad for the best candidate to take Scotland forward to the Rugby World Cup.
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For centuries this neurologic disease has left veterinarians and scientists scratching their heads.
A jerk, a jump, a hop with the hind legs tucked up high. Similar to the function of strings on a marionette, stringhalt seems to make horses yank their legs up and halt them there momentarily before taking their next step. This uncontrollable exaggerated movement of the digital extensor muscles is the outward sign of neurologic disease, sometimes caused by toxicity, sometimes of unknown origin. If time doesn't cure it, the prognosis is poor. But today researchers are hard at work looking into ways to make horses with this condition safe, happy, and free of clinical signs.
History, Clinical Signs, and Causes
Stringhalt appears to be an age-old disease in horses and other hooved animals. Descriptions of the disease date back to the Renaissance. William Shakespeare has even been credited for the name of the disease (as a variation of the term "springhalt," from Henry VIII).
Stringhalt occurs when the digital extensor muscles contract excessively or when the digital flexor muscles lack sufficient opposition, according to Caroline Hahn, DVM, PhD, MRCVS, Dipl. ECEIM, ECVN, senior lecturer and researcher in the neuromuscular disease laboratory of the University of Edinburgh's Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, in Scotland.
The clinical signs are usually more extreme when the horse is turning or backing up. Some horses have such severe stringhalt they actually kick themselves in the abdomen when trying to walk.
Both hind legs might be equally affected, or one might show more obvious signs than the other. In some cases stringhalt might be apparent in the forelegs. Clinical signs, such as pastern extension when the hock is flexed, can vary from one horse to another, Hahn says. Shivering is another sign of the disease, she adds.
Although stringhalt might look like strictly a muscular problem, neurologic issues are at the root of it. Nerve damage probably causes abnormal activity of certain sensory receptors called spindles, says Hahn. Located in the body of the muscles, spindles are responsible for detecting changes in muscle length. This faulty wiring of the spindles causes certain muscles to contract either too early or too late, or too much or too little, during certain phases of the gait. "Thus, intermittent abduction (movement of the limb away from the body) and caudal (toward the tail) jerking in the hind limb may result from spasticity of the biceps femoris muscle (located along the back of the hindquarter) during the swing phase of the stride," she says.
Veterinarians divide stringhalt into two major categories. "Australian" stringhalt usually is a temporary disease resulting from toxicity, whereas "classic" (or atypical, depending on the geographic region) stringhalt has no known cause and usually does not resolve on its own.
Australian Stringhalt
Stringhalt in outbreaks caused by the ingestion of toxic plants has acquired the common name of Australian stringhalt. It was originally described by veterinarians in Victoria in the late 19th century. However, despite its name, Australian stringhalt can affect horses worldwide and has commonly been reported in the United States and New Zealand, in addition to Australia. Recently, it also has been diagnosed in some South American countries.
Over the past century, false dandelion (Hypochaeris radicata), also known as flatweed, has been considered a major culprit of Australian stringhalt, according to José Allan Soares de Araujo, DVM, PhD, researcher at the veterinary hospital at the Universidade Federal de Campina Grande in Patos, Brazil, and author of a recent study describing two outbreaks of Australian stringhalt on Brazilian Thoroughbred farms. New cases appear most often in late summer or fall, frequently in horses grazing on poor-quality pastures where weeds are abundant.
Australian stringhalt affects the peripheral nervous system (outside the central nervous system, which includes the brain and spinal cord), almost always affecting both hind legs more or less equivalently and sometimes the forelegs, says Hahn.
Horses should be removed from their pasture as soon as clinical signs appear, says Nicholas Kannegieter, PhD, BVSc, DVCS, FACVs, specialist equine clinician based in the Roseville Equine Clinic in New South Wales, Australia. Away from the toxins, the median recovery period for most horses is six to nine months, although for some it takes a few weeks and for others a few years. Horses with signs of stringhalt in their forelegs take the longest to recover.
The horse's largest nerve fibers are the primary targets of Australian stringhalt; these are in the hind leg and the larynx (voice box), which are both usually affected by the disease, Kannegieter says. The hindquarters show the most obvious clinical signs, but some horses also will emit a hoarse "roar" when they whinny. Even when the gait returns to normal, the laryngeal nerves of some Australian stringhalt-affected horses are damaged. Unfortunately, this can leave them with permanent deficiencies in athletic performance (due to airway restriction), he says.
Other plants, including the common dandelion (Taraxacum officinale) and cheeseweed or little mallow (Malva parviflora), also have been linked to Australian stringhalt, but flatweed remains the common indicator plant.
Araujo found that false dandelion was the certain cause of the two Brazilian outbreaks he described. His research group was able to provoke Australian stringhalt in a young horse by feeding him false dandelions picked from a field where an outbreak had occurred. The horse developed clinical signs within three weeks and showed improvement within days of the researchers removing the plants from the diet, Araujo says. (The horse fully recovered 15 days after the experiment ended.)
However, not all false dandelion or other suspect weeds cause stringhalt, and many horses graze in affected paddocks without issue. Toxicity of the same species of plant can vary from one location to another, according to Araujo. Environment might play a role in providing optimum conditions for producing the toxin, says Kannegieter.
Classic Stringhalt
Unlike Australian stringhalt, classic stringhalt does not typically occur in outbreaks and usually has no obvious cause. Clinical signs are similar, although classic stringhalt frequently has stronger effects in a single leg.
Injury to the back, neck, or leg could be the underlying source of the condition. In these cases the stringhalt might improve once the injury heals, Hahn says.
When no injury is obvious, however, the reason a horse develops stringhalt is difficult to determine and might never be known. Arthrosis (degenerative joint disease) and perhaps osteochondritis dissecans (OCD, a cartilage disorder characterized by large flaps of cartilage or loose cartilaginous bodies within a joint) at the joints, primarily in the neck, could be the cause, according to Inge Wijnberg, PhD, DVM, an assistant professor in equine internal medicine at Utrecht University, in the Netherlands. There she focuses on neuromuscular disease in her research.
"We see a lot of young horses in our referral clinic with issues in the C5 to T1 area (certain neck vertebrae)," she says. "Some horses do have problems in the peripheral nerves, but the vast majority of cases in our clinic have lesions in the cervical or upper thoracic (chest) area as opposed to the lumbar (loin) area. These lead to upper motor neuron (connecting the brain stem to spinal cord) abnormalities which seem to be related to the stringhalt."
Frequently the clinical signs progress in these horses, and more intensive work or training might actually make them worse, Wijnberg says. "A lot of times owners will say they noticed something a little funny around age three, but then it gets much worse by the time the horse is five. That's often the age that dressage horses start a lot of the more complex gymnastics activities. So the stringhalt might advance because of age, or training, or both. We don't know yet."
Genetic links are questionable, she says. "But even if there might be some correlation, OCD has so many causative factors that it's difficult to pinpoint genetics."
Diagnosis and Treatment
Horses with stringhalt symptoms should be evaluated by an equine veterinarian with experience in neuromuscular dysfunction, Wijnberg says. However, horses with Australian stringhalt do not require the same extensive diagnostic procedures as those with classic stringhalt, because the cause is more apparent.
Hahn recommends a thorough orthopedic exam, including radiographs (X rays) and ultrasound of the affected leg, to look for potential problems in the lateral (closer to the outside than the midline) digital extensor muscle, tendon, or hock. "Any abnormalities detected often are assumed to initiate abnormal nervous system reflexes, increasing tone in the digital extensor muscles during stride," she says. Vets should consider differential diagnoses such as muscle diseases, including polysaccharide storage myopathy, she adds.
In Wijnberg's clinic, patients with stringhalt symptoms are hospitalized so they can be examined several days in a row, because gait diagnosis is often fairly subjective, she says. She relies on a combination of extensive clinical examinations, which include an orthopedic workup, diagnostic imaging, and electromyographs (EMGs, tests that measure electric signals in the muscles), for accurate diagnoses. "People can have a lot of differences of opinion about the severity or even existence of the disease in certain horses," says Wijnberg, who recently published a report on diagnosing stringhalt via EMG. "The EMG gives us a clear reading of what's going on in the muscle and really takes out the 'I think' part of the diagnosis."
Clinicians must use specific descriptions of the kinds of clinical signs being displayed to reach clear diagnoses, she says. "We try to stay away from fast slang, like 'stringhalt,' when we initially examine a horse," she says. "Is it hypertonia (increased rigidity, tension, and spasticity of the muscles)? Hypermetria (an ataxic muscle disorder characterized by overreaching)? Lateral or parallel? Neurological problems are complicated, so it's important to describe what you see first and foremost."
Muscle relaxants, anticonvulsants, and drugs that work directly on the central nervous system can be helpful for some horses with long-lasting stringhalt, according to Kannegieter.
Unfortunately, these medications might also act as sedatives, and their effects are often temporary, Wijnberg says. Long-term medical treatment is also expensive and risky in competitive situations, as it could result in positive doping tests.
Surgical resection of a part of the tendon running along the hock is another option, but its success rate varies. Many horses do not recover from stringhalt despite these treatments, she says.
New Research
Like many other neurologic diseases, stringhalt is the subject of active, ongoing research. Scientists are seeking new causes as well as treatments, Wijnberg says. Her research unit is collaborating with the University of Bern to deepen their understanding of the origin of stringhalt based on post-mortem examinations. However, lack of cadavers is hindering this research.
The botulinum toxin Botox, commonly used to smooth facial wrinkles in humans, is under investigation at the moment for its use in calming stringhalt symptoms, Wijnberg says. Her recently published results on the subject were promising, showing reduced clinical signs in the affected test horses, and noting Botox might be even more effective in higher doses.
Thus, Wijnberg is now developing new "retraining" protocols, she says. "If it's an upper motor problem based on a vertebral lesion with lots of arthrosis, I can't fix that," she says. "But I can try to retrain the horse to get around the problem."
The goal, she says, is to use Botox temporarily to "get the horse out of his loop" until he has learned to overcome the neurologic issues. It isn't as far-fetched an idea as it might seem: Similar goals are currently being met for people with upper motor neuron disorders.
With a bit of luck, and a lot of skill and patience, equine neurologists might soon know just what it takes to cut the strings of stringhalt horses forever.


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The arrival of Saint-Gaudens to Cornish, New Hampshire, in the summer of 1885 marked the beginning of the Cornish Colony. He brought three assistants to work with him in the barn studio: his brother, Louis Saint-Gaudens, Frederick MacMonnies, and Philip Martiny. They were the first in a long series of helpers, many of whom went on to important careers of their own.
That first summer, a friend and painter, George de Forest Brush, also came to Cornish and camped with his wife near the ravine just below the house. Brush had lived out west among American Indians for many years, and the tepee he built for a summer dwelling greatly amused Saint-Gaudens and his neighbors. The next spring Thomas W. Dewing, another painter, rented a house nearby. As the scenic attractions of Cornish became more widely known, that small group began to grow. Other artists found Cornish a delightful spot in which to spend a rural summer working among congenial spirits.
This circle of talented individuals drew others from moneyed and social circles. Italianate villas rose on hillsides and in abandoned pastures. Embellished with sunken gardens, marble fountains, and artfully developed villas, a farm community turned into what local people sometimes called "Little New York." The swirl of this upper-class Bohemia was lively and elegant, but Thomas Dewing said there were "too many picture hats" and tennis rackets, and left to seek a more secluded spot in the backwoods of Maine.
In 1905 the Cornish Colony celebrated the 20th anniversary of the sculptor's coming to Cornish by holding a masque (a play based on early Greek drama) at the foot of the field below the house. Seventy members of the colony worked together to provide the music, settings, costumes, scripts, and acting for an audience of more than twice that number. A small Greek temple was erected in the grove of large pines that once stood there. Originally made of plaster, it was later reproduced in marble and became the family burial place.
Today the artists who made up the Cornish Colony are gone, and with them a colorful era has passed. But at Saint-Gaudens' home, now preserved as Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site, the well-kept house, carefully designed gardens, and studios still conjure up images of a bygone age--an age that nurtured and enchanted a singular company of artists at Cornish.
Questions for Reading 3
1. Who was the most important member of the Cornish Colony?
2. What type of people made up the Cornish Colony over the years? What attracted them to this New England town?
3. Why do you think all of these artists and writers chose to spend their summers living and working in the same place?
4. How did the presence of the Cornish Colony change the community? What did local residents call the colony? Why?
5. What was the 1905 masque? Why was it held?
Reading 3 was compiled from the National Park Service's visitor's guide for Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site.


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I've been wondering if any of you have experience with this achievement.
My guild started attempting this 2 weeks ago and got pretty close (10 %) to a servers first.
Now we've done this with 3 tanks 6 healers and the rest DPS.
For my own feeling, this is just too much and could be done with 2 tanks and 4 healers.
If any of you guys have experience with this, mind sharing the raid setup you used for this hard mode?
* Asking here cause most of the time you can use more than the normal 'Stratfu' or 'Tankspot' strategies to get him down ^^ *


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Finally the latest version of Ubuntu 11.10 or code name Oneiric Ocelot was release yesterday. Currently I'm downloading from two server which first from local server Bycraft and UK mirror site. Bycraft server very slow maybe of the traffic of local who want to do try or use the new Ubuntu and there only few local repository in Malaysia.
Here the release note taken from Ubuntu wiki:
These release notes for Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) provide an overview of the release and document the known issues with Ubuntu 11.10 and its variants.
Release Overview
Oneiric Ocelot includes new releases of all major flavors of Ubuntu: desktop, server, cloud, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Lubuntu, Edubuntu, Mythbuntu, and Ubuntu Studio. For Ubuntu, this release provides a full Unity experience, even without 3D hardware acceleration, promoting Unity 2D to the primary fallback shell. LightDM steps forward as the login manager for Ubuntu, Edubuntu, Xubuntu, Mythbuntu, and Ubuntu Studio. It also includes a customized Unity greeter. Kubuntu showcases the best and the newest features of the KDE Platform, Plasma Workspaces, and Applications (including the Muon Software Centre). Ubuntu Server introduces a technical preview of Juju – a modern approach to service deployment and orchestration on cloud and bare metal environments, and support for the ARM architecture.
New Features
Lenses and Interface Changes
11.10 includes a new release of compiz and Unity. Highlights of this release are:
- A new Alt+Tab switcher.
- "Places" are renamed to "Lenses". This feature now also integrates multiple sources and advanced filtering options like ratings, range, and categories.
- The Dash has a new music lens, linked to Banshee, that searches your personal and online music collections.
- Better performance of launchers and panel, ported to GTK 3 and GTK 3-based indicator stack.
- Full support for Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and other script languages.
Unity 2D reduces the delta with Unity, shares more code with it, and has an almost completed accessibility support set of features. See known issues for the missing accessibility parts.
The indicators got a visual refresh that includes a refactoring of the session indicator and a new power indicator.
The Ubuntu Font Family, developed under the guidance of the Dalton Maag type foundry and the Canonical design team, has been expanded with Ubuntu Mono and Ubuntu Condensed.
Ubuntu Software Center 5.0
11.10 includes Ubuntu Software Center 5.0, featuring a completely revamped interface that provides a simpler and more enjoyable experience for browsing, searching, and managing your software. The navigation tree view pane from previous Ubuntu Software Center versions has been replaced by a much cleaner toolbar approach for navigating between views. Top-rated applications are now displayed prominently in the main view as well as in category views, leveraging the extensive database of excellent review data that has been provided over the past year by the Ubuntu community.
Application list views can now be dynamically sorted by top-rated, by name, and also by the date the application appeared in the Center. A dynamic banner has been added to the main view that will serve to highlight interesting new applications as well as themed collections. These banners will be updated regularly, and this, along with the dynamic What's New and Top Rated sections, should help to ensure an interesting and fun experience each time you open Software Center.
Last but not least, OneConf is now built in to keep your installed applications in sync between multiple computers. To activate it, use "File → Sync between computers…".
New ARM subarchitectures
Ubuntu 11.10 introduces two new desktop images for ARM subarchitectures: armel+ac100 for the Toshiba ac100 netbook (NVIDIA Tegra 2 SoC), and armel+mx5 targeted at the Freescale i.MX53 Quick Start development board. Both of these images are "best-effort" community-supported images aimed at developer and hobbyist use.
Revised DVD content
In Ubuntu 11.10 there is now a revised, smaller (in size) DVD based on community feedback over the last few cycles. This new DVD has a more manageable size of 1.5G, and is an extension of our current CD image that includes all the language packs and some other useful applications, such as Inkscape, GIMP, Pitivi, and a more complete LibreOffice suite. All the packages that used to be on the DVD are still available from the archive.
New App Developer Site
Coinciding with the Ubuntu 11.10 release, a significant milestone in the ongoing effort of making Ubuntu a target for application developers has also been reached: the Ubuntu App Developer site launch.
developer.ubuntu.com should now be the central point of reference for any topics related to Ubuntu application development, from creation to publication: porting, sharing, contributing, and finding information. This site should grow organically to provide the tools, share knowledge, and act as the springboard for fostering application proliferation and developer community growth.
Read more in the official announcement.
New Localized ISO Tools
Ubuntu now provides a set of tools for Ubuntu LoCo teams to create custom images to provide an experience even closer to the culture of the region they cover. After setting the foundations in Ubuntu 11.10, in the next cycle we plan to work with the community on expanding community usage. Learn more.
Updated Applications
Thunderbird is included as the default email client. This now includes menu and launcher integration via Unity.
Backups are easy in Ubuntu 11.10 now that Déjà Dup is included as the default backup tool. Securely store copies of your important data on a separate hard drive, cloud server, or even Ubuntu One.
The new Gwibber landed in Ubuntu 11.10, bringing improved performance and a new interface using the most recent GNOME technologies.
GNOME 3.2 is included and is a major upgrade from GNOME 2.32 included in Ubuntu 11.04. GNOME Classic is no longer installed by default, but can be enabled after installation completes by installing gnome-panel. Note that the indicator status menus have not yet been ported to the new gnome-panel and the default upstream panel layout is used instead of the heavy Ubuntu customizations. GNOME Shell is also available for install.
Ubuntu now uses the LightDM login manager with the Unity greeter.
Synaptic and Pitivi are no longer included in the default install but are still available in the Ubuntu repositories.
Ubuntu Server
New Features
Juju is available in Ubuntu 11.10 as a technical preview. Juju is a service deployment and orchestration framework developed by Canonical and used to deploy and manage services both on bare-metal and in the cloud. Through the use of what we call charms, juju provides you with shareable, re-usable, and repeatable expressions of DevOps best practices. You can use them unmodified, or easily change and connect them to fit your needs. Deploying a charm is similar to installing a package on Ubuntu: ask for it and it's there, remove it and it's completely gone.
Orchestra is a collection of the best free software services for provisioning, deploying, hosting, managing, and orchestrating datacenter services. Instead of manually setting up a complex network installation environment, users can now leverage Orchestra to rapidly deploy new servers into production. The process is standardized and fully automated, and thus minimizes manual intervention and ensures consistency. This solution is provided as a response to all user requests that we received for making multiple installs and deployments easier. The core component of Orchestra provisioning is Cobbler and Juju.
Ubuntu Server 11.10 is the first release with support for the ARM architecture. In this last cycle, the Ubuntu Server team worked closely with the Ubuntu ARM team to deliver a technical preview of ARM server support in Ubuntu Server 11.10.
Updated Applications
Former UEC components (including Eucalyptus) are no longer part of the CD image and are no longer included in the security-supported main component of the archive. An upgrade path is provided from from 11.04.
The Xen hypervisor has now been reintroduced as an option in Ubuntu Server.
Ubuntu Cloud
Ubuntu 11.10 introduces the new Ubuntu Cloud Infrastructure and Ubuntu Cloud Guest images. The Cloud Infrastructure images are the successor of the Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud and provide a ready to deploy Infrastructure-as-a-Services (IaaS) based on the Openstack Diablo release. Ubuntu Cloud Guest was previously known as JeOS or UEC-image. This Ubuntu Server image is specially tailored for use in a public or private cloud instance. ARM cloud images are also being built. However, currently no cloud infrastructure can consume ARM cloud images properly. Therefore, these images are available on a best effort basis.
More information is available at https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com.
more please visit the wiki.
Now, I'm waiting for the downloading to be completed ETA 4 hour for the DVD ISO.


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Another day, another affecting tale of the pristine image of fans at West Virginia University. At least according to Maryland lineman A.J. Francis, who informed the Washington Post of how deep his family's roots in the Mountain State go before he then shared this heartwarming little story:
An old lady spit on me last year. Me and Ian Davidson, we were walking out of the tunnel, coming out for the game. She had to be every bit 85 years old. Old lady said, 'Hey!' Ian was in front of me. He turns around and bumps me so I turn around. As we both turn around, old lady gives us the finger and spits at us. She is like 85 years old. She was a white lady with short gray hair. She looked like she probably had 15 great-grandkids. She was an old lady, just dressed up casually. I was amazed. I couldn't believe somebody's great-grandmother just spit on me.
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Former Giants owner Lurie receives local honor
Man who kept team in San Francisco elected to Bay Area Sports Hall of Fame
SAN FRANCISCO -- If somebody were to graph Bob Lurie's era as owner of the Giants, the highs and lows alike would stray off the charts.
Through all the tumult, Lurie strove to make the franchise viable, if not downright successful. For his endeavors, Lurie was elected to the Bay Area Sports Hall of Fame on Monday. Now 85, he'll be inducted during a May 7 dinner ceremony along with former manager Tony La Russa, record-setting sprinter Jim Hines, San Jose Sharks star Owen Nolan and ex-high school football coach Bob Ladouceur of national powerhouse De La Salle.
With considerable help from the late George Moscone, then-mayor of San Francisco, Lurie led a bid in early 1976 to prevent the Giants from moving, after Toronto investors appeared certain to buy the franchise from owner Horace Stoneham. The purchase price was $8 million, a pittance by today's standards. Yet the Giants inspired so little faith at that point that Lurie had to scramble to gather enough funds to buy the team. His initial co-investor was Arthur "Bud" Herseth, a Phoenix cattle rancher who admitted knowing little about baseball.
Lurie's eventful acquisition of the Giants set a pattern that continued until the end of his tenure in 1992. Neither triumphs nor failures lasted very long.
Lurie presided over the largest home attendance spike in club history, brought the 1984 All-Star Game to Candlestick Park and hired the shrewd duo of general manager Al Rosen and manager Roger Craig, who ended a 27-year drought by constructing a pennant-winning team in 1989.
But Lurie tried in vain to find the Giants a new Bay Area home to replace reviled Candlestick. Ironically, one of the proposed sites was China Basin, where the Giants' hugely popular AT&T Park stands. Four ballpark ballot measures failed, largely because voters refused to commit tax dollars to any stadium project.
Having exhausted his options, Lurie agreed to sell the Giants to a group that would have moved them to Tampa-St. Petersburg following the 1992 season. Then Peter Magowan, as Lurie did 16 years earlier, guided an effort to keep the Giants in San Francisco.
The Giants' first game under Lurie's ownership seemed charmed. Despite a city strike that shut down Candlestick's concession stands, a crowd of 37,261 -- enormous by that era's standards -- watched the Giants subdue the Dodgers, 4-2, in the '76 opener. But San Francisco finished 74-88. After that season, the Giants' best all-around hitter, Gary Matthews, bolted for Atlanta as a free agent.
Then came a revival. The Giants signed first baseman Willie McCovey as a free agent before the 1977 season and obtained left-hander Vida Blue from the A's for seven players one year later. With the Bay Area's two most popular active baseball players on their roster, the '78 Giants spent 95 days in first place and finished with a home attendance of 1,740,477, an increase of nearly 150 percent from the previous year.
That magic dissolved as the Giants finished below .500 in five of the next six non-strike-shortened seasons. When Rosen and Craig arrived, Lurie wisely gave them free rein over the personnel, which included skilled prospects such as Will Clark, Robby Thompson and Matt Williams. The combination of assertive leadership and overwhelming talent helped the Giants thrive. They captured the National League West title in 1987 and reached the World Series in '89 while recording five consecutive winning seasons.
When Commissioner Peter Ueberroth decided in 1985 to reinstate Willie Mays, who since 1979 had been banned from official Major League-related activities due to his association with an Atlantic City, N.J., casino, Lurie seized the moment. Before the 1986 season, he hired Mays as a special assistant, reuniting the greatest Giant of them all with the team that he ennobled.


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GCH CH Dalarno's Nite Song at Morningstar
Today in Waynesville NC the Western Carolina Dog Fanciers Association held the first of their two shows this weekend. Jerry Watson had the company of the German Wirehaired Pointer, GCH CH Reece Afterhours the Buck Stops Here JH, the Otterhound, GCH CH White River's He's a Keeper!, the Boxer, GCH CH Ho-Pa's Grand Slam, the Norfolk Terrier, GCH CH Bigwig's Mack the Knife, the Pug, GCH CH Caper's Sirius Endeavor, the Standard Poodle, GCH CH Fantastico da Maya, and the Pembroke Welsh Corgi, GCH CH Dalarno's Nite Song at Morningstar.
His BIS was the Corgi, Spencer. It's the third this year for Spencer and handler Frank Murphy.


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