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By Keith Peters
Palo Alto Online Sports
The parade through downtown Palo Alto in January pretty much said it all about the 2010-11 high school sports season. It was as unique as the school year. It was historic, as were the performances of the athletes.
And, it was a one-of-kind (perhaps once-in-a-lifetime) event that mirrored athletic achievement never before seen in these parts.
For the first time in school history, which began when the Vikings played their first football game in 1897, Palo Alto High won two state championships in the same year. Perhaps even more impressive, the historic feats came just two weeks apart in December.
Add to that a second straight CIF Division V state championship won by the Pinewood girls' basketball team in March, and you have a Triple Crown of triumphs in one year that most likely will never be duplicated.
The championships didn't stop there. Menlo School won its second straight CCS Division III baseball title in May and Palo Alto captured its first-ever CCS Division I crown -- the program's first section baseball title since 1927.
Menlo School also won a record-breaking 10th CCS title in tennis and capped a remarkable 28-1 season with its eighth NorCal crown. Sacred Heart Prep, meanwhile, won its first-ever CCS football title and a handful of local water polo teams captured section crowns.
Palo Alto junior swimmer Jasmine Tosky, meanwhile, put the program (and herself) on the national map by setting a national public school record in the 100-yard butterfly in the prelims of the CCS Championships.
It also was a great year for coaches as Paly football coach Earl Hansen, Paly volleyball coach Dave Winn and Menlo baseball coach Craig Schoof all were named state coach of the year by either ESPN Rise Cal-Hi Sports or MaxPreps. Schoof's honor came in the Small Schools division.
There were other great individual and team efforts during the school year, but the state titles by Palo Alto topped them all. That's why the parade made sense and why some 10,000 spectators or more turned out to celebrate.
Palo Alto made history in volleyball when the Vikings captured the CIF Division I state championship with a five-set win over heavily favored Long Beach Poly at San Jose State. Less than two weeks later, on Dec. 17, the Vikings shocked the prep football world by upending nationally No. 4-ranked Centennial-Corona, 15-13, for the Division I state crown.
Palo Alto became only one of two schools in California to win two state titles during the fall, and nearly had two perfect seasons to brag about as the Vikings' volleyball team finished 41-1 while the gridiron guys went 14-0. Both marks are school records for single-season victories.
For the first time in school history, both Paly teams finished the year ranked among the top 20 in the nation. Volleyball finished No. 10, according to prepvolleyball.com while football checked in at No. 13 on MaxPreps.com.
The Vikings, in both sports, achieved success through hard work and teamwork and under the guidance of their knowledgeable coaches.
The Vikings' volleyball team defeated a Long Beach Poly team that was ranked as high as No. 1 in the nation in one poll and was a legitimate No. 7 according to prepvolleyball.com. Paly was nowhere close to either ranking and thus carried the underdog role into the finals.
Despite having only two seniors on its roster -- Megan Coleman and Trina Ohms -- Palo Alto battled the nation's best on even terms and emerged with a well-deserved state crown after junior Maddie Kuppe served back-to-back aces to clinch.
In May, the Paly volleyball team was named the MaxPreps National Female Team of the Year while beating out more than 22,000 other squads nationwide.
The Paly football team also took on one of the nation's finest, a team that became the most prolific offensive squad in state history with more than 8,000 total yards gained. Centennial-Corona, however, had to settle for a 14-1 record after the Vikings' came up with a brilliant defensive effort while holding the Huskies to their lowest point total of the season and 41 points under their season average.
To qualify for its second appearance in the state finals (Paly also made it in 2006), the Vikings swept aside WCAL powerhouses Mitty, Bellarmine and Valley Christian to win the CCS Open Division crown.
Winning state titles wasn't exclusive to the Vikings, however. The Pinewood girls' basketball team claimed the Division V state title in March for a second consecutive year. While the Panthers had won four previous state crowns, this one was special for head coach Doc Scheppler, who had lost his father -- his team's biggest booster -- to cancer earlier in the season.
Led by seniors Hailie Eackles and Miranda Seto, the Panthers capped a sensational season with a 67-56 win over St. Bernard of Playa del Rey. Eackles had 31 points and nine rebounds while Seto added 21 points as Pinewood finished 28-5.
The Panthers finished the year with 346 three-pointers, surpassing their own state record of 338 first accomplished in 2003. Pinewood also became the first Division V girls' team in state history to win five state crowns and the first Division V team to win back-to-back titles twice (2005-06 and 2010-11).
While it just missed out on winning a state title, the Sacred Heart Prep girls' volleyball team had a stellar season that included winning the NorCal Division IV title and advancing to the state finals for the first time since 1998 before losing to nationally ranked La Jolla Country Day (33-3) in three sets to finish 24-11.
The Gators had lost eight seniors to graduation and had only seniors -- Hanna Elmore and Vivian Wu -- on the court in 2010. Despite his youthful team, coach Damien Hardy made it all work.
In a year filled with highlights, here are a few of the best:
In the fall . . .
* A total of 29 local runners qualified for the CIF State Meet in cross country in 2010, with Priory junior Kat Gregory leading the way by successfully defending her Division V title at the CCS championships. She helped the Priory girls qualify as a team while the Priory boys also made it to state, marking the first time in school history that both teams qualified.
* Castilleja finished second at the CCS girls' golf championships and qualified for the NorCal tournament for the first time in school history. Senior Brenna Nelsen led the Gators during their successful season.
* The Menlo boys' water polo team returned to the top by winning the CCS Division II crown with an impressive 11-5 victory over three-time defending champ Sacred Heart Prep.
* The Sacred Heart Prep girls, meanwhile, captured their fourth straight section title with 12-4 victory over Castilleja in the Division II finals to finish 26-3 -- none of the losses coming against CCS teams. The Menlo-Atherton girls also picked up a CCS crown, edging St. Francis, 6-5, in the Division I finale.
* The Sacred Heart Prep football team captured its first ever by defeating No. 1 seed Carmel, 39-32, in the Division IV finals after rallying from a 32-11 deficit in the third quarter. The Gators finished 11-2 while giving Pete Lavorato the highlight of his prep coaching career.
In the winter . . .
* The Palo Alto wrestling team made its mark by winning its first league meet championship in 25 years by capturing the SCVAL finals. Gunn senior Stefan Weidemann won his first CCS individual title with a 5-2 decision at 152 pounds.
* The Palo Alto girls' basketball team won its first-ever SCVAL De Anza Division title and went on to claim the first CCS crown in school history by beating rival Gunn in the Division I finale, 55-44. The Vikings finished 22-5, losing in the NorCal quarterfinals, while compiling the best performance in program history.
* The Sacred Heart Prep boys successfully defended their CCS Division IV championship with a 61-51 win over Santa Cruz while the Pinewood boys captured their first section crown in 15 years by taking the Division V title with a 71-66 win over Mid-Peninsula.
* The Sacred Heart Prep boys' soccer team went 17-1-1 during the regular season while winning the WBAL title, outscoring opponents by 90-11. The Gators, however, couldn't keep the magic going during the CCS playoffs. The SHP girls won their third straight WBAL title while losing only once in league play in three years.
In the spring . . .
* The Menlo boys' lacrosse team captured the SCVAL championships while the Menlo girls successfully defended their West Bay Athletic League crown.
* The Palo Alto boys and girls swept their SCVAL De Anza Division league meet titles with plenty of impressive efforts from young swimmers, while the Sacred Heart Prep boys and girls did the same in the WBAL finals.
* Palo Alto's first CCS baseball title came in a 5-4 victory over San Benito as the Vikings finished 28-9, the second-most victories in school history. The Vikings wound up ranked No. 1 in the state Division II poll and No. 14 overall by Cal-Hi Sports.
* Menlo School won its fifth section title following a 4-0 triumph over Santa Cruz. The Knights wound up ranked No. 2 in the state Division IV listing by Cal-Hi Sports.
* Tosky's national record in the 100 fly was 51.92, set in the prelims. It broke a mark previously held by former Stanford Olympian Misty Hyman. Tosky won the 100 fly final and added the 200 free crown to remain unbeaten in CCS meets. The Vikings, however, lost a chance to win a CCS title after a relay disqualification to open the meet.
* SHP junior Tom Kremer and freshman Ally Howe each won two CCS individual titles while each broke a section record.
* The highlight of the track and field season came when Palo Alto broke a school record in the boys' 400 relay, clocking 42.07 for third place at the CCS Championships. That eclipsed a 31-year-old record. All four relay members started the season on the Paly football team with three of them -- Maurice Williams, Morris Gates-Mouton and Miles Anderson -- earning state championship rings.
Speaking of football, there are only seven weeks before fall practice begins. Palo Alto has a state title to defend and Sacred Heart Prep has a second straight CCS crown to go after.
Water polo teams will be back playing for section crowns and runners will chase after honors in cross country.
The 2011-12 high school season, however, has some very big shoes to fill while following in the footsteps of this past history-making school year.


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Is public ready for a Woodrow Wilson movie?
On Thursday night, we sat around, talking about the lawyer and constitutional expert in the White House, a leader both didactic and charming, peacenik and hawk; the Ivy League academic who improbably ascended to the Oval Office on brains, not beholden to anyone; the Democrat, eager to fight economic inequality and help the 99 percent, who would give a government bailout if he had to; the dapper man with large ears, elegant speeches he wrote himself, a love of golf.
We sat around talking about Woodrow Wilson.
And it turns out that the League of Nations was not the most intriguing thing about Wilson. The love of women was.
A. Scott Berg, the author of "Wilson," was relating the story of how the widowed president wooed Washingtonian Edith Galt with flowers and private romantic meetings reminiscent of the widowed president wooing a Washington lobbyist in the movie "The American President."
"She was widowed very young," Berg said of the buxom Galt. "She had not been in love with her first husband and so along comes Woodrow Wilson, the great lover. I'm telling you, she didn't call him Tiger just because he went to Princeton."
The author, sounding a bit gobsmacked, continued: "Wilson wrote thousands of letters to his first wife, several hundred to his second. These are the most passionate love letters I've ever read. They're not pornographic, so you don't have to run out to look for that, but they are incredibly romantic, often sexual, very emotional, deeply, deeply emotional letters. At a certain point, they get sickening. They're just too much."
After 10 years of marriage to Ellen, his first wife, he wrote her: "Are you prepared for the storm of love making with which you will be assailed?" When he should have been focused on the sinking of the Lusitania, he was addled with gushy courting of the younger Edith. Which may explain why relentless playboy Leonardo DiCaprio, who made waves with Kate Winslet in "Titanic" and made trouble with Carey Mulligan in "Gatsby," is interested in playing Wilson (a name probably more familiar to modern moviegoers as Tom Hanks' volleyball confidant).
The Hollywood Reporter revealed that DiCaprio had optioned Berg's book to produce a movie and star as the 28th president. (Wilson's wife, Edith, who stealthily took the reins after Wilson had a stroke, must count as 28 1/2.)
Before the discussion with Chris Dodd, head of the Motion Picture Association of America, and Jane Harman, president of the Woodrow Wilson Center, Dodd showed some clips from the 1944 movie "Wilson," with Alexander Knox playing the president.
"The picture was a huge bomb," said Berg, who lives in Hollywood. "The film was made by Darryl F. Zanuck, who was one of the greatest producers in Hollywood history. It was the most expensive movie that had been made by Hollywood at that point." Berg said it cost $3 million, which may pay the catering bill now.
Despite the superficial similarities to the other smarty-pants in the White House now, Wilson was better in one way — he haunted the President's Room in the Capitol to keep a sustained dialogue going with members of Congress — and far worse in others.
As one young woman from the Wilson Center put it, "History has judged Wilson as a racist and a sexist."
As the world mourned Nelson Mandela, Berg had to agree that the Virginia-born Wilson was a racist, even if he was "a centrist" for his time.
"He made statements, no matter what age they were uttered in, they are racist in nature," the author said. "More important, he famously brought Jim Crow back to Washington. They were just starting to integrate the Postal Service, the Treasury Department, and it was Wilson's Cabinet members, specifically McAdoo, his Treasury secretary, and Burleson, his postmaster general, who insisted that you can't have integration in federal offices. The truth is, Wilson's Cabinet was largely made up of Southern racists."
And he did not want to cross the block of Southern senators and congressmen he needed to get his progressive "New Freedom" agenda passed. When he was president of Princeton, Wilson worked to curb elitism, trying to get rid of eating clubs, but he did not work to curb racism. When a poor student at a Virginia Baptist college wrote beseeching to come, Wilson answered "that it is altogether inadvisable for a colored man to enter Princeton."
He made jokes in black dialect and felt that interracial marriage would "degrade the white nations."
"For me," Berg said, "the worst thing Woodrow Wilson did as president was what he didn't do. That was in 1919 when the soldiers came home from the war. Many of them were African-Americans. They came home thinking: 'This is our moment. We've lost brothers, we have shed blood, this is the time we have shown we are full-blooded Americans.' But he said nothing on the subject. He had global things on his mind."
Wilson was so consumed with his "New Freedom" agenda, he failed to push for new freedom.


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SEATTLE – Raul Ibanez homered twice to give him 24 this season and the Seattle Mariners set a team home-run record in an 8-3 victory over the Angels on Friday night.
The 41-year-old Ibanez hit a fourth-inning blast 438 feet into the right-field second deck and a 421-foot shot to center in the seventh. He has the fourth-most homers in a season for a 41-year-old player, five shy of tying Ted Williams' record of 29 set in 1960 – his final season.
It was Ibanez' 19th career multiple homer game – third this season. He has 150 home runs with the Mariners.
Kyle Seager and Kendrys Morales added home runs as the Mariners broke the franchise record by homering in their 20th consecutive game. They did it in 19 straight from Sept. 7-27, 1999. The major league record is 27 set by Texas in 2002.
Joe Saunders (8-8) worked seven scoreless innings and allowed five hits. He walked two and struck out five. He is 5-3 with a 2.37 in his last nine starts. In 17 career starts at Safeco Field, he is 11-3 with a 2.62 ERA.
Jerome Williams (5-5), who lasted just 3 1/3 innings, gave up six runs and seven hits. He entered 4-1 with a 2.74 ERA in 10 career appearances against Seattle.
The Angels had back-to-back doubles in the second, but didn't score.
Mark Trumbo hit a one-out double into the right-center gap. Alberto Callaspo then lofted a ball down the right-field line that landed in front of three fielders and just inside the line. Trumbo had to hold up, and couldn't score. Saunders struck out the next two batters.
Seager opened the second with a homer to right, his 15th.
Ibanez started the Mariners' four-run fourth with his first homer of the night.
Mike Zunino, who had a career-high three hits, and Dustin Ackley had RBI singles in the fourth.
Garrett Richards gave up Ibanez's two-out shot in the seventh. On the next pitch, Morales homered over the center-field wall.
With Saunders gone, the Angels had a three-run eighth off three relievers. Mike Trout had a RBI triple, Albert Pujols had a run-scoring single, and Trumbo added an RBI.
Also …
Angels right-hander Tommy Hanson (right forearm strain) will throw a simulated game today. Three others, right-hander Ryan Madson (right elbow), left-hander Sean Burnett (left elbow impingement), and left-hander Jason Vargas (blood clot) are throwing but not close to returning.


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Ludlowe baseball tops New Canaan for 7th straight win
NEW CANAAN -- Looking like a team on a mission, the Fairfield Ludlowe baseball squad continued its late-season surge by hitting the road and picking up its seventh straight win, a 7-4 victory over hard-hitting New Canaan at Mead Park on Monday.
Ludlowe starting pitcher Andrew Salveson wasn't dominant, but he battled his way through six tough innings while giving up four runs (three earned), striking out six, allowing eight hits and walking none. Salveson also went 2-for-4 with a pair of RBIs to help his own cause.
"I knew it was going to be challenging coming in here and pitching; I knew they were a very good offensive team," Salveson said. "I kind of left things over the middle in the second inning, and then in the third inning I started finding it again. In the fourth, I really settled in, found control and was throwing harder."
Ludlowe's Victor D'Ascenzo pitched a 1-2-3 seventh to log the save.
The first two innings were hardly smooth sailing for Salveson. The Rams drew even at 1-1 in the bottom of the first when Casey Oullette singled and later scored an unearned run on a Ludlowe throwing error.
Trailing 5-1 going into the bottom of the second, the Rams opened the inning with a single by Nick Cascione, who stole second, an RBI single by Alex Curto and an RBI double by Henry Lavieri. Two batters later, Oullette's RBI single plated Lavieri to cut the Ludlowe lead to 5-4.
"I definitely tip my cap. He did a great job and battled against a good-hitting team," New Canaan coach Mitch Hoffman said. "But then once again, I say to ourselves that if you've got a pitcher on the ropes, you've got to knock him out. We didn't knock him out, so I give him a lot of credit."
While the Rams were scoring four runs in the first two innings, however, the Falcons were scoring five.
En route to a three-hit day, Ludlowe's Tommy Howell led off the game with a single and scored on a Mike Kochiss RBI single two batters later for the 1-0 lead.
Tied 1-1 going into the top of the second, Ludlowe got the ball rolling with three straight hits to start the frame: A single by Mikey Arman, a single by Kevin Hickey and an RBI double by Salveson. Two batters later, Howell notched an RBI single and Kochiss launched a two-run double to make it 5-1.
"That's the way we've been playing of late after starting 0-4 in the conference. We needed to take things a little slower and not worry about the season at large, but worry about each game as they come," Ludlowe coach Keith O'Rourke said. "That's the approach we've had for the last three weeks and it's been working."
Ludlowe tacked on a run in the third and fifth innings. Arman led off the third with a towering home run over the left field fence to make the score 6-4 Falcons, and Salveson notched his second RBI on a single that plated Arman in the fifth to close out the scoring at 7-4.
New Canaan's JR Anderson went the distance while giving up seven runs (four earned), allowing 10 hits, walking one, hitting a batter and striking out two.
"They outslugged us a little bit. We made a few mental mistakes, two errors that cost us three runs," Hoffman said. "They swung the bats aggressively. They're basically hanging on by a thread, they played that way and it showed. The approach on Ludlowe was very good."
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Fairfield Ludlowe 7, New Canaan 4
Records: Fairfield Ludlowe 9-7, 9-5 FCIAC; New Canaan 14-3, 13-3. Batteries: FL--Andrew Salveson (W), Victor D'Ascenzo (S) and Mike Poudrier; NC--JR Anderson (W) and Casey Oullette. Highlights: FL--Mike Arman went 2-for-4 with a home run, three runs scored, an RBI and a stolen base. Mike Kochiss went 3-for-4 with a double and three RBI. Salveson went 2-for-4 with a double, two RBI and a run scored. NC--Henry Lavieri went 2-for-3 with a double and an RBI. Casey Oullette went 2-for-4 with two stolen bases, an RBI and a run scored. Nick Cascione went 2-for-3 with two stolen bases and a run scored.


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"This is labor" {*Echoes*}
{*Sample cut and scratched*}
Who put the monkey wrench in well-oiled perfectionist emblem
Just to watch these monitors spit white noise through your office space
Automater, I infect jolly gene pool descendant clown-clusters
Brushing dust mites off your starving art revolution sound jugglers
Delinquent friend from brick habitat
Bob, weave, stick, move, fence
And pause somewhere in the middle for slick invention
This years brain crops spread spectacular, I ain't mad at ya
Don't stay mad at the caliber (I twist characters like Twist characters)
Tally up the alley cat aggression in this Doug E. Fresh infested
Mess of bass line lust and automatic b-boy Krylon can combust circuit
Working these war pig cyphers with Ted Striker stability
And kamikaze chivalry
I alone noble in a worm food feud
Walking dead generation
Ain't nobody asking for your patience
The grand opening holding me to face the fact
I knew myself and didn't have to ask nobody else
(Talk about labor)
Fantastic planet urchin putting work in
Searching for pertinent verse minus the murderous diversion
Apologies won't lure me to the communal sob story
Nor will I sacrifice live style to benefit jury temperament
This old Green Goblin web cutter butts up against
Crayola daydream landscape spitting bedlam. Dead 'em
Charge the villagers nickels and nicotine to watch him fed to
One disgruntled kraken at high noon
We'll sell popcorn beer and balloons
I got an inkling this gon' be the one the children bicker over
It's that Warriors vs. Baseball Fury element
To glitch his motor sensory development
I am a star, really
That Big Bang bastard's back with a one-way ticket to beat street
This all is like, relevant to human kind supply/demand ratios, man, learn it
I work past the surface
I work on what I love, I work to service all my burdens
And I'll work until this here little flat line closes the curtains
"Labor," the first track off of Labor Days (2001), the third studio album by Aesop Rock.
This song is generally about Aesop Rock struggling as a reluctant member of the proletariat class. In the first line he contends that the revolutionaries of the industrial age have failed, as automation within the workplace has continued through the 21st century.


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The developing child
HarperCollins College Publishers, Jun 1, 1992 - Psychology - 653 pages
Helen Bee continues to actively engage students with the ninth edition of The Developing Child, which contains her characteristic informal, personal, narrative writing style; students report that they enjoy reading the text! The text, presenting a balance between theory, research, and practical application, allows students to understand how theory and research are interconnected and how they apply to everyday life. The text is not limited to classical studies only, as Bee presents current thinking and research to introduce students to recent trends and topics in child development. The ninth edition continues to have Real World, Research Report, and Cultures and Contexts boxes that allow students to explore research and applications. A new organizational shift is the placement of the chapter on intelligence to after the discussion of cognitive structures, so that the discussion of developmental changes precedes the section on individual differences. Bee has also expanded and updated the Cultures and Contexts boxes and has built on the emphasis on cultural variations introduced in the seventh and eighth editions. Introduce yourself to the practical applications that are in Helen Bee's The Developing Child, Ninth Edition! Book jacket.
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Thanks fushigi, I garaged and covered it , put a float charge and move it every couple of weeks.0
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jaytay4 Posts: 1Ok, so I've been searching around looking for a reliable life expectancy for the 2000 Eclipse and have found a wide range of answers (from 150k-240k). This car I have been looking at for quite some time and tests great on the road. There are no known problems with it and seems to be in great condition. I keep up with my car maintenance and was wondering if it seemed like a good investment for $4000. I don't want to get into a bad investment. However, I realize I'm most likely am not going to get up to 220k+ miles but hope to get quite a bit of mileage. Some guidance would be much appreciated!!0
My last car was a '99 Galant. The Eclipse is basically a Galant Coupe; they use the same underlying platform & have powertrains and lots of non-cosmetic bits in common.
I had the '99 for 10.5 years & 152K miles. I did the routine maintenance, proactively replaced the water pump at 120K, and otherwise had just one actual mechanical repair (leaking gasket) & one other (replaced a blown speaker). Everything from the AC to the power windows & sunroof still worked.
I had no reason to expect it wouldn't be good for another 50-100K miles or even longer, but after 10 years I was simply ready for something else.
It was reliable enough that I bought another Mitsu - an Outlander - to replace it.
As to buying an Eclipse, first I wouldn't call any car purchase an investment unless it's a rare collectible. Cars are expenses. Second, it's hard to judge if $4K is reasonable without more information. Is that a 4 cyl or V6 model? MT or AT? What trim line and major options does it have? How many miles are already on it? Pricing can also vary across regions, so "third", what state/major city are you in/near?
If cost is a concern, you might also check in to what insurance will run. There was a discussion recently about how coupes can be more expensive to insure than their sedan counterparts.2017 Infiniti QX60 (me), 2012 Hyundai Elantra (wife)0


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The economics of solar power are improving. It is a far more cost-competitive power source today than it was in the mid-2000s, when installations and manufacturing were taking off, subsidies were generous, and investors were piling in. Consumption continued rising even as the MAC Global Solar Energy Index fell by 50 percent between 2011 and the end of 2013, a period when dozens of solar companies went bankrupt, shut down, or changed hands at fire-sale prices.
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The UK has just designated the Persian Gulf as a level 3 risk for its ships – the highest level possible threat for British vessel traffic – as the confrontation between Iran with the US and its allies escalated. The strategically-important bit of water - and in particular the narrow Strait of Hormuz – is boiling over, and it seems as if full-blown military confrontation is inevitable.
The risk assessment comes as the British warship HMS Montrose had to escort the BP oil tanker British Heritage out of the Persian Gulf into the Indian Ocean from being blocked by Iranian vessels. The risk is particularly acute as Iran is spoiling for a fight after the Royal Marines seized the Iranian crude supertanker Grace-1 in Gibraltar on suspicions that it was violating sanctions by sending crude to war-torn Syria. Tensions over the Gibraltar seizure kept the British Heritage tanker in 'safe' Saudi Arabian waters for almost a week after making a U-turn from the Basrah oil terminal in Iraq on fears of Iranian reprisals, until the HMW Montrose came to its rescue. Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps have warned of further 'reciprocation' even as it denied the British Heritage incident ever occurred.
This is just the latest in a series of events around Iran that is rattling the oil world. Since the waivers on exports of Iranian crude by the USA expired in early May, there were four sabotage attacks on oil tankers in the region and two additional attacks in June, all near the major bunkering hub of Fujairah. Increased US military presence resulted in Iran downing an American drone, which almost led to a full-blown conflict were it not for a last-minute U-turn by President Donald Trump. Reports suggest that Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps have moved military equipment to its southern coast surrounding the narrow Strait of Hormuz, which is 39km at its narrowest. Up to a third of all seaborne petroleum trade passes through this chokepoint and while Iran would most likely overrun by US-led forces eventually if war breaks out, it could cause a major amount of damage in a little amount of time.
The risk has already driven up oil prices. While a risk premium has already been applied to current oil prices, some analysts are suggesting that further major spikes in crude oil prices could be incoming if Iran manages to close the Strait of Hormuz for an extended period of time. While international crude oil stocks will buffer any short-term impediment, if the Strait is closed for more than two weeks, crude oil prices could jump above US$100/b. If the Strait is closed for an extended period of time – and if the world has run down on its spare crude capacity – then prices could jump as high as US$325/b, according to a study conducted by the King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Centre in Riyadh. This hasn't happened yet, but the impact is already being felt beyond crude prices: insurance premiums for ships sailing to and fro the Persian Gulf rose tenfold in June, while the insurance-advice group Joint War Committee has designated the waters as a 'Listed Area', the highest risk classification on the scale. VLCC rates for trips in the Persian Gulf have also slipped, with traders cagey about sending ships into the potential conflict zone.
This will continue, as there is no end-game in sight for the Iranian issue. With the USA vague on what its eventual goals are and Iran in an aggressive mood at perceived injustice, the situation could explode in war or stay on steady heat for a longer while. Either way, this will have a major impact on the global crude markets. The boiling point has not been reached yet, but the waters of the Strait of Hormuz are certainly simmering.
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Utility-scale battery storage units (units of one megawatt (MW) or greater power capacity) are a newer electric power resource, and their use has been growing in recent years. Operating utility-scale battery storage power capacity has more than quadrupled from the end of 2014 (214 MW) through March 2019 (899 MW). Assuming currently planned additions are completed and no current operating capacity is retired, utility-scale battery storage power capacity could exceed 2,500 MW by 2023.
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Annual Electric Generator Report and the Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
EIA's Annual Electric Generator Report (Form EIA-860) collects data on the status of existing utility-scale battery storage units in the United States, along with proposed utility-scale battery storage projects scheduled for initial commercial operation within the next five years. The monthly version of this survey, the Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory (Form EIA-860M), collects the updated status of any projects scheduled to come online within the next 12 months.
Growth in utility-scale battery installations is the result of supportive state-level energy storage policies and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's Order 841 that directs power system operators to allow utility-scale battery systems to engage in their wholesale energy, capacity, and ancillary services markets. In addition, pairing utility-scale battery storage with intermittent renewable resources, such as wind and solar, has become increasingly competitive compared with traditional generation options.
The two largest operating utility-scale battery storage sites in the United States as of March 2019 provide 40 MW of power capacity each: the Golden Valley Electric Association's battery energy storage system in Alaska and the Vista Energy storage system in California. In the United States, 16 operating battery storage sites have an installed power capacity of 20 MW or greater. Of the 899 MW of installed operating battery storage reported by states as of March 2019, California, Illinois, and Texas account for a little less than half of that storage capacity.
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Annual Electric Generator Report and the Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
In the first quarter of 2019, 60 MW of utility-scale battery storage power capacity came online, and an additional 108 MW of installed capacity will likely become operational by the end of the year. Of these planned 2019 installations, the largest is the Top Gun Energy Storage facility in California with 30 MW of installed capacity.
As of March 2019, the total utility-scale battery storage power capacity planned to come online through 2023 is 1,623 MW. If these planned facilities come online as scheduled, total U.S. utility-scale battery storage power capacity would nearly triple by the end of 2023. Additional capacity beyond what has already been reported may also be added as future operational dates approach.
Of all planned battery storage projects reported on Form EIA-860M, the largest two sites account for 725 MW and are planned to start commercial operation in 2021. The largest of these planned sites is the Manatee Solar Energy Center in Parrish, Florida. With a capacity of 409 MW, this project will be the largest solar-powered battery system in the world and will store energy from a nearby Florida Power and Light solar plant in Manatee County.
The second-largest planned utility-scale battery storage facility is the Helix Ravenswood facility located in Queens, New York. The site is planned to be developed in three stages and will have a total capacity of 316 MW.


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Allegan County sheriff: Man, 27, hunting waterfowl apparently drowns after falling from kayak
November 30, 2014 - 2:58 pm EST
VALLEY TOWNSHIP, Michigan — Authorities in western Michigan say a 27-year-old man apparently drowned after falling from his kayak while hunting waterfowl.
The Allegan County sheriff's department says authorities began searching Saturday night after finding the hunter's boat and kayak rack near a launch area in the Swan Creek Marsh refuge. It's in Valley Township, northwest of Kalamazoo.
The department says it learned that Kyle Shinske of South Haven had gone out to hunt waterfowl and fish.
It says in a statement that searchers found his body about 8 a.m. Sunday.
The department says that Shinske wasn't wearing a flotation device and says an autopsy is planned.
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Now that titles 100-71 have been announced there is enough data to see some interesting trends. Below are some of the observations (and questions) as well as some charts to visually represent said trends.
All but one of the novels on the list have come from the United States or United Kingdom. So far 73% (22) of the novels were originally published in the United States. 33% (7) novels were published first in the UK. Currently Pippi Longstocking (#95) is the only novel on the list not originally published in the English language. The Little Prince is surely a lock for the top 100, but what other non English language titles might we see? Will any Australian books make the cut? (Magic Pudding maybe?)


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Although I have been using creamier cleansers, I still always have a Cleansing Oil on the go. I've pretty much tried them all, from the brands that can be bought in the UK (like Nude, Laura Mercier's, Nars, Shu Uemura, RMK etc.) and the Japanese/Asian releases.
Once you've tried a few cleansing oils, they are all pretty similar. Everyone has different skin so guess what – you'll have to try a few to find yours.
What has happened to my skin is that its growing less tolerant of cleansing oils which is making my skin itch and feel tight. I picked up the DHC cleansing oil a few weeks ago because its an oldie, but goodie.
It doesn't have a nasty smell and is quite a nice, thick texture. Importantly its not breaking me out in any rashes, although I have to say, it struggled a little with getting off my waterproof make up. No biggie – this formula is older than many of the ones mentioned earlier in the post – and I'd rather it struggled with a bit of make up than stripped my face of moisture.
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Olive oil! Long live Olive Oil!
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One of the primary justifications for spending government money on everything from science education to open-ended academic research is that the national economy ultimately depends on bringing innovative ideas and discoveries to market. A new report by the Forrester Research group suggests that there's a big gap between laying the groundwork for innovation and actually selling products based on them, and that no government is doing a good job at making that translation happen.
The report breaks the process of innovation down into four components. Government-funded research does play a significant role in fueling invention, and here the US is recognized as a leader. But different countries are recognized as leaders in the process of developing and marketing products based on these inventions. Ireland is cited as a transformer in that it enables inventions to be put to use via to its access to the European market and other favorable economic factors. Sweden and Finland were cited as financiers for their excellent capital markets. According to Forrester, no single country stood out as a being especially competent at getting their internal inventions into a system that benefits from the competencies available in other countries.
The report criticizes national innovation policies and funding for trying to do too much. It suggests that by attempting to have their country master of each aspect of this four-step process, governments are spending money on things that are unlikely to be achieved. Forrester urges countries to focus on collaborative work with other nations, where each country provides specific competencies. This, according to the report, will create an international "innovation network" that results in more efficient utilization of taxpayer money. It suggests using large international corporations (IBM, Procter & Gamble, and BT are cited) as examples.
Advocating division of labor based on expertise is hardly a novel idea, and may actually work well on an international level. But this report may fall victim to the cliché that all generalizations are generally wrong, in that it's not clear that Forrester's innovation model applies equally well to all industries. For example, nearly every aspect of the biotechnology industry is doing well within the US, while for electronic devices, various aspects of design, manufacture, and integration are performed internationally.
It's also not clear how politically palatable it would be to set a policy that essentially involves giving up on various aspects of innovation. Still, countries have managed to cooperate on the invention portion of things, as projects such as the human genome, ITER, and CERN testify. So, it is possible that a similar cooperative structure can be put in place for other parts of the process. Whether that will lead to the benefits that this report promises is less certain.


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James Dale Braden
James Dale Braden, 69, Nevada, Mo., passed away on Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2011, in Fort Scott. He was born Aug. 15, 1941, in Fort Scott, Kan., to Joseph Dale Braden and Elizabeth Harriet Hyden Braden. He married Judy Gazaway on Nov. 1, 1986, in El Dorado Springs, Mo., and she survives of the home.
Jim grew up on a farm north of Fort Scott, in the Maple Grove area. He joined the Army in 1963 and served until 1966. When returning from the Army, he continued to farm until which time he no longer farmed and went to work for MCI, Joplin, Mo. In 1987, he moved to Texas and went to work for Harris Packing Co. in Haltom City, Texas. In 2003, he moved to Nevada, and worked for the Nevada School District as a bus driver until the time of his death. He was truly loved by his wife Judy.
Survivors include his wife, Judy; three stepsons, Larry Gazaway and his wife, Karen, and their children, Sarah and Caleb, Fort Scott, Kan., Jim Gazaway and his wife, Rona, and their children Jack, Nicholas and Benjamin, Hutchison, Kan., and John Gazaway and his wife, Brenda, and their sons, Joseph and Jacob, Nevada; one sister, Patsy Clubine and her friend, Mike Crowe, Joplin, Mo.; nephew, Dale Johnson and his wife, Amanda, Stark City, Mo.; five great-grandchildren; and several nieces, nephews, and cousins. He was preceded in death by his parents; one niece, Becky Johnson; and two brothers-in-law, Jay Johnson and John Clubine.
The body will be cremated. Visitation services will be held from 6-8 p.m., Tuesday, Jan. 11, at Ferry Funeral Home, Nevada, with Masonic Services at 7 p.m.
The family requests no flowers. Contributions may be made to the Nevada School District for the bus barn.
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You know what makes a Sunday afternoon just about perfect? Three-and-a-half minutes of a hyperbolic sales spiel from Lawrence Welk announcer Lou Crosby: "The newest and finest car to be introduced to the low-priced field for 32 years!"
The '60 Dart was much bigger and heavier than the later A-body Darts, weighing in at around 3,500 pounds, so it's a bit of a challenge to imagine it as an economy car. Sure was pretty, though!


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On Easter Sunday, The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge attended a service at St Andrew's Cathedral, Sydney. Similarly, The Royal Family back in the UK attended a service at St George's Chapel.
William and Catherine arrived to a large crowd waiting outside the Cathedral; they have generally received great support wherever they go. The couple joined locals for the service, who had to apply for tickets to attend alongside the royals.
After the service, they signed the First Fleet Bible brought over to Australia by English settlers in the late 18th century. The precious book has also been signed by Her Majesty The Queen and Prince Philip, Prince Charles and Diana, as well as Prince Andrew and Sarah, who have all visited the Cathedral before.
Easter Sunday service in Sydney for William and Catherine http://t.co/LzaUhuSnAB pic.twitter.com/6Nm14xVg2a
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) April 20, 2014
The Duchess changed out of her grey Alexander McQueen coat into a yellow 'broderie anglaise' dress for the Cambridge's next engagement at Taronga Zoo, where Prince George opened a bilby enclosure. The whole family went to the zoo. Visitors had stopped being admitted about an hour before the young family arrived, as they had already reached capacity.
The Prince George of Cambridge Bilby Enclosure was opened by William, Kate and young George, on this, the eight-month-old's second engagement of the tour, and of his life! Will helped feed the animal, whilst Kate supported her son as he had a look in the enclosure. He seemed enthralled by a bilby which was also named after him – in recognition of his birth last year – and made a grab for the small marsupial in its petting enclosure. However, his parents didn't think it was a good idea letting him get so close to the animal, remarking he has 'quite a grab', and that he 'wouldn't let go' if he did manage to get hold of it.
The Prince was presented with a small cuddly toy of the animal to remember his experience by, and seemed happy with it until he was given something better – what appeared to be a rear-window car sign to chew.
Prince George meets a Bilby, named George, @tarongazoo today. pic.twitter.com/CNyTtgkUMV
— Clarence House (@ClarenceHouse) April 20, 2014
The Duke and Duchess then toured the zoo further, while George was looked after by his nanny. They saw giraffes, tree kangaroos and a koala to name a few. The couple also had a giggle when a bird of prey swooped low over the press pack at the bird of prey display.
The family left the zoo and boarded a flight for Canberra, where they will be based for the rest of the tour. Getting off the plane, the whole family was greeted by local dignitaries.
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CROSS COUNTRY—Morenci's two veteran cross country runners showed improvement over a year ago at the County Preview meet Aug. 16.
Senior Zach Phillips place third in the junior/senior boys run at Tecumseh with a 17:54. Blissfield's Justin Bateson won the race at 16:34, followed by Will Brown of Lenawee Christian School at 17:26.
"That was an improvement from last year," coach Brad Brown said, "but it's not what Zach was after. He has high expectations and that's exactly what I want him to have."
Classmate Jeff Nofziger earned a medal with an 18th place finish at 19:53, his best run ever by 10 seconds.
Morenci had a pair of rookie runners in the girls' race.
Freshman Rachel Sodergren finished 20th for a medal with a time of 28:34 in the freshman/sophomore run.
"This was her first varsity race and she was nervous," Coach Brown said, "but she did well to get a medal and I'm sure she capable of a better time."
Junior Kate Gallup ran her first race ever, also, taking 31st in the junior/senior run at 29:00.
"This was Kate's first cross country experience and she's just starting with distance work."
Brown knows this will make her stronger in her spring track events, and he noted that she's not the first Morenci sprinter to compete in cross country.
Tecumseh's Jordan Harrison turned in the fastest time of the day among the girls with a 20:07.
• The Bulldogs travel Tuesday to Hudson.
MORENCI SPORTS—Fall sports teams in Fayette have all started their seasons now that the volleyball squad played its first match Monday. Morenci's teams follow suit this week, including the first football contest of the season.
Morenci's volleyball team opened the season Tuesday night at Hudson. They'll take a break until Sept. 4 when they make a trip to Madison. The home season opens Sept. 5 against Fayette.
The cross country teams participated in the county preview Aug. 16, but there's nothing on the schedule now until they visit Hudson Sept. 2.
Football opens at 7 p.m. Friday with a home game on the road. What's that?
The game was scheduled at Adrian College when a school maintenance project called for the track to be torn up this summer. Due to impending construction, the game was moved.
That project is now set for next summer, but the decision was made to play on the college field anyway.
Morenci will give Auburn Hills Oakland Christian an introduction to varsity football since this is the Lancers' first season to field a varsity squad in the school's 41 year history.
You might say that Oakland Christian has one secret weapon: the line coach is former Detroit Lions standout defensive lineman Luther Eliss.
Morenci coach Dan Hoffman knows that name well.
"I have one of his posters hanging up in the locker room," Hoffman said. "I should take it down and have him autograph it."
A news article about the team stated that 30 players were expected to join the squad, but it would be a combined varsity/junior varsity team, and freshmen were expected to have the biggest representation.
The Lancers' football program is funded through private donations, including a financial gift from the Lions.
After watching the team scrimmage, Hoffman knows the rookie squad has a long way to go. But the Bulldogs have their own challenges.
Since last spring, five players have either moved out of the district or decided not to play, and four of them would have been two-way starters, Hoffman said.
He expects to have 20 players dressed for Friday's opener.
Morenci's JV team will play visitors from Farwell here Thursday at 6 p.m.
Look for previews of all Morenci and Fayette teams in next week's Observer.
FAYETTE GOLF—After the first three outings of the season, Fayette's golf team boasts a 5-1 record, and two different players have come through with medalist honors.
The Eagles' first loss came at the hands of a sharp Archbold squad that won a quadrangular match-up at Ironwood Aug. 13.
The Blue Streaks had four players in the 30s for a score of 151, ahead of Fayette with 171. Ayersville took third with 176, followed by Pettisville with only three competitors.
Archbold's Steve Kinsman was medalist with 34, followed closely by Caleb Brinegar with a 36. Other Fayette competitors were Austin Hylander, 42; Eliott Richardson, 45; Chase Hookstadt, 48; Jonathon Boesger, 54; and Nelson Barnhiser, 55.
Fayette captured a triangular match at home Sept. 19, scoring 169 to Delta's 172 and Hilltop's 233. Richardson and Delta's John Simon tied for medalist honors with 38 each.
Brinegar was a stroke behind with 39, followed by Hylander, 45; Hookstadt, 47; Kevin Ferguson, 50; and Barnhiser, 51.
Pettisville visited Aug. 21 and went home with a 176-258 loss.
Brinegar came through with a 38 and Richardson was four strokes behind at 42. Hylander and Barnhiser finished at 48, Hookstadt with 52 and Ferguson with 53.
• The Eagles take a break until the Stryker Invitational on Sept. 6.
YOUTH BASKETBALL—The Morenci girls' varsity basketball team will host a weekly basketball program for first and second grade girls from noon to 1:30 p.m. beginning Sept. 13 and ending Oct. 25, at Morenci Bible Fellowship. Coaches and varsity ball players will run the program.
The program costs $25 for one child and $40 for two or more children.
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Convincing Iran and Restraining Israel: Nice Trick If You Can Do It!
January was an intense month for me personally with my daughter's return from Afghanistan as I sorted out some challenging career options associated with the ending of myself imposed sabbatical as an unemployed Navy pensioner, but all that is loose change relative to events impacting the IC during 2012's first month.
The new-year began with Iran threatening to close the Strait of Hormuz if the US persisted with economic sanctions against its nuclear weapons programs. This was followed in rapid succession with new strategic defense guidance pivoting a learner military towards the Asia/Pacific theater, the President's State of the Union Address, the Pentagon outlining budget winners and losers for FY 13, Assad ramping up violence to subdue the breezes of the Arab Spring in Syria, sectarian based violence emerging in Iraq, Secretary Panetta announcing plans to end combat operations in Afghanistan during 2013 – a year earlier than scheduled — and with almost perfect symmetry as January closed Israel publicly saying it was ready to act alone to destroy Iran's nuclear weapons infrastructure. Geez, did I miss something in Pakistan?! And apparently Kim Jung Un is settling in as expected in Pyongyang!
Containing Chinese military power, ensuring allied access to underwater resources in accordance with accepted international principles, and keeping sea lanes open in support of free trade along with the region's economics and demographics explains both the strategic drivers for America's "Asia Pivot" and why it is not surprising. Less clear though to me are the military forces needed for the Pacific oriented AirSea Battle Plan and its operational concept of Assured Access/Area Denial (A2/AD). If this is more than assured access to sea lanes for free trade and maritime resources (which are traditional Navy missions), one has to ask "assured access to do what?" In the past that has often meant inserting ground forces or at least supporting friendly operations ashore. More specifically I am not sure the Navy has yet come to grips with the logistics of Asian/Pacific operations. First there is a limited basing structure, which becomes even more limited if the target of naval presence is China. It would seem that the USN is going to need the large Auxiliary Oil and Replenishment ships (AOR's) it is decommissioning to keep afloat forces fueled, fed and armed in this theater known for its "Tyranny of Distance." It is also worth noting that since the KA-6 was retired in the late 1980s USN carrier air wings have lacked organic long reach "gas in the air" for its aircraft. The range of a carrier air wing is now a function of Air Force KA-10 airborne tanker basing options and their range. Here again Asian countries will be reluctant to allow KA-10s to operate from their airfields to refuel Navy jets "menacing" China.
The Saturday before the Super Bowl, China and Russia vetoed a United Nations (UN) resolution calling for Syrian President Bashar al Assad to end the use of military force to subdue anti-government protesters and seek a peaceful resolution to popular demands for more freedoms. As Assad escalated the use of military force in the wake of the Sino-Russian UN veto, the US and its allies must consider mounting a Libyan like operation without UN backing to force Assad to change or leave. Iran's influence with Syrian based Hezbollah elements certainly makes regime change a dicey course of action in terms of strategic outcomes the US would want to achieve in Syria. Then there is the question of can/should the US insert itself to right the wrongs in an Arab autocratic state?
Elsewhere, I am still looking for the cuts in the FY 2013 Defense Budget overview rolled out on 26 January. Looks like the Pentagon has decided to save money by ending its combat operations in Southwest Asia, cutting the rate of growth in its base budget, and reducing military pay and benefits in advance of the government asking the rest of the nation protected by those in uniform to take any reduction in their entitlement benefits. All this gets serious as the President's FY 13 budget is released.
Surprisingly Secretary Panetta announced that proactive combat operations in Afghanistan would come to an end in the summer of 2013, a year earlier than planned. I am not sure what the rational for this is (presumably it is "facts on the ground" as it has become popular to say in Washington), but I support it because I see active US military involvement having little to no impact in making Afghanistan either more secure, stable, or disposed to support US interests in the region by 2014 or 2024.
The looming issue though right now for the United States is, can diplomatic pressure in combination with economic sanctions cause Iran to terminate its development of nuclear weapons with sufficient transparency to cause Israel not to unilaterally attack Iran's nuclear weapons' infrastructure? Presumably the answer is yes, but as evidence by the 1956 strike on the Suez Canal, the 1981 attack on Iraq's nuclear reactor, various incursions into Lebanon, and the building of settlements in the West Bank Israel will act without US support, or even in the face of US opposition, when it believes its national security is threatened.
Ideally Iran's leadership will be convinced by the obvious impacts of the sanctions on their economy and the increasingly limited ability of Washington to restrain Jerusalem from launching a military attack to accept international verification that its nuclear program is for legitimate civilian uses as it claims. The alternative for persuading the Israelis not to attack unilaterally is for the US to offer to conduct joint or coordinated covert operations with Israel to degrade Iran's ability produce a nuclear weapon. Attractive as US covert operations against Iran might be given the current circumstances, it would be the President again committing the United States to armed conflict if not war. The difference this time, however, would be the action would be aimed at the strategic military capability of a nation state vice targeting terrorists without national affiliation but with the nominal approval of the host nation.
Ironically, what could unknot this political and constitutional concern about the war powers of the President in an election year as well as give Israel reason not to strike on its own is if Iran actually committed an act of war in the Strait of Hormuz (attacking USN ships, laying sea mines, deny innocent passage, etc.). Then the President could go to the Congress to "request" a declaration of war against Iran that would open a myriad of options for the US that could force Iran to negotiate or risk the destruction of the center of Shia power and influence in the Muslim world.
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Bonnell: LeBron James created much of the pressure he now feels
NBA most valuable player LeBron James gave a particularly introspective interview recently to ESPN's Chris Broussard.
James said he frequently watches video of Charlotte Bobcats owner Michael Jordan when Jordan was the best player in the game. Lack of fear is what James observed as Jordan's greatest strength:
"I watch Jordan more than anybody, for sure MJ wasn't perfect. MJ had bad games. He had turnovers. He had games where he felt like he should have been better. But I think the greatest thing about MJ was that he never was afraid to fail," James said.
"And I think that's why he succeeded so much, because he was never afraid of what anybody ever said about him. Never afraid to miss a game-winning shot, never afraid to turn the ball over. Never afraid.
"That's one of my biggest obstacles. I'm afraid of failure. I want to succeed so bad that I become afraid of failing."
I think James is right that Jordan's disinterest in others' expectations of him was a big part of his persona. What wasn't said – and perhaps should be – is that if James feels pressure from others' expectations, he helped bring that on himself.
Jordan, for whatever his flaws, under-promised and over-delivered. The frenzy that surrounded him was seldom of his making. Of course he had/has a huge ego, but he didn't go around broadcasting how great he was. He didn't have to or care to.
Maybe this is a generational thing – no thought sits unstated on Twitter these days – but James has been different. Before he even left high school he accepted this "Chosen One" label.
The hype was justified, but it wasn't necessarily healthy. I remember attending a press conference after one of his high school games in Greensboro, and thinking no one can be packaged this way as a teenager and turn out normal.
So then he decides to leave Cleveland for Miami – an understandable choice no matter what Cavaliers fans think – and he makes the regrettable decision to turn his announcement into a one-hour infomercial. Then he amplifies that mistake by counting off how many rings he'd win at a Heat pep rally.
You can say all that was youthful excess, and you would be right. But when an athlete sets such a high and public bar for himself, is it any wonder James would admit to a fear of failure and envy Jordan's tunnel-vision focus?
I'm not criticizing James. We all make miscalculations, some of them more public than others. I feel bad for him that he's created a perception that any season that doesn't end in a parade means he under-achieved.
• I think the most intriguing team in the NBA this season will be the Brooklyn Nets. General manager Billy King has made a huge bet on how much aging ex-Celtics Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce have left. King was urgent to surround point guard Deron Williams with weapons, and King's owner – a Russian billionaire – clearly isn't the patient sort. Whether by success or failure, this will be a spectacle.
• I realize core players Evan Turner, Spencer Hawes and Thaddeus Young didn't play Thursday morning. But the lack of effort the Philadelphia 76ers expended in that exhibition against the Bobcats should really trouble new coach Brett Brown. I saw a bunch of guys lucky to be in an NBA training camp playing like they couldn't care less.
• Regardless of whether they make it to the regular season, I wouldn't expect any of the three remaining Bobcats with unguaranteed contracts to be cut before the end of the preseason. With Al Jefferson and Brendan Haywood out, the team needs those extra bodies for practice.
• The Cavaliers, the Bobcats' preseason opponent Thursday at Time Warner Cable Arena, should be this season's Golden State Warriors, as far as jumping firmly from the lottery to the playoffs. Cleveland has as much young talent as any team in the league. The open question is how center Andrew Bynum will bounce back from a season-long knee injury when he was with the 76ers.
• Reports out of New York say former N.C. State player C.J. Leslie is iffy to make the Knicks roster after that team gave him a guarantee for this season. I know the Knicks have money to burn, but why offer that guarantee to a player who wasn't drafted?


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(Machias, ME) In a battle for first place in the conference, the Clippers Shutout the Moose of University of Maine at Augusta for a victory and sole rights to first place in the conference. The Clippers cruised to an 8-0 win with eight different players scoring goals on the night. Jenny Guzman, Kylynn Adams, Erin O'Connor, Joslyn Corey, Katie Lewis, Stephanie Wunderley, and Nikki Bennett all contributed goals in the game. Freshman Becca Young earned the shutout win in goal. The Clippers move to 6-1-1 on the season and 3-1 in the conference. They travel to southern Maine and Vermont this weekend for games.


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FRESNO, Calif. (AP) Peter Pappageorge scored a career-high 23 points to lead Long Beach State to a 69-61 win over Fresno State on Saturday.
Pappageorge hit four 3-pointers and was 7 of 7 from the line, as he set a career high in a second consecutive game.
But Fresno State was hot first, taking a 14-6 lead on a dunk by Tyler Johnson, who would score 10 points.
At halftime, Pappageorge had scored 17 points and the 49ers were up 37-34.
Fresno State kept knocking. With just over a minute in the game, they cut the lead to five. But James Ennis tipped in a free throw miss and Pappageorge would make four free throws to secure the win.
Mike Caffey scored 13 points for the 49ers (2-3). Ennis had 11 points, nine rebounds. Dan Jennings added 10.
Allen Huddleston led the Bulldogs (3-2) with 13 points. Kevin Foster had 11 rebounds.


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I decided to give the process a try, but, in searching around, could not find a single 'Choice' grade brisket, so select it was, not my favorite grade of meat to cook. I performed the cook in my UDS, using a mixture of lump charcoal, natural briquettes and apple wood. The temperature was started at 225F for two hours, then ramped to 300F for three hours, two of which were in paper. I then ramped it another time to 350F for one and a half hours. I used standard white, uncoated butcher paper.
The Rub (Bob's Mother Rub sort of)
3 parts Redmond Real Kosher Salt
2 parts Phu Quoc Black Pepper, ground to a medium grind, no fines
1 part each of organic onion granules and garlic granules
1/2 part lime powder
1/4 part Natural sugar, finely ground
The Liquid
2 parts water
1 part Red Boat Fish Sauce
1/2 part Bragg's Amino Acid
I ended up using 2 packers, which is to say, briskets that have both the deckle (aka point) and the flat still attached. They stareted out around 14 pounds, went on to the cooker around 11 to 12 pounces once they were all trimmed up, I like to trim off the excess fat and any meat that looks grayed. One of the things I believe is a good starting point, is if the packer brisket is flexible, I believe this translates to a more tender end product, these were flexible.
One Packer, folded in half, what you want.
From here, both packers were seasoned with the rub, just the ingredients above blended in a shaker and applied over the meat. I changed my ususal process, which was a mistake. Normally, I apply a base coat, let it melt onto the meat, then apply a second coat once the pellicle forms on the meat surface. I didn't do this, and the price was a mediocre bark. Bummer.
My Rub on Brisket
I was also cooking a brisket for my friend Rob, who, with a newborn, doesn't have the chance to fire up his smoker. His rub is more powdery, a much finer texture, which made for a difference in the bark. I prefer a more medium textured rub, which normally gives me more of a textural coating on the meat. I also cooked some whole chuck ribs, I really like these and they are easy to make on a smoker. I hit them with the same rub.
Nice Choice Chuck ribs
Rubbed Up
Sadly, this is the last shot of the ribs, I ran out of time to deliver Rob's share of the cook and no done shots were taken. I assure you, these were tender, juicy and have a great color, a deep mahogany. Anyways, this all went onto the cooker. Chuck ribs on lower rack, briskets on upper rack.
Oops, forgot to change white balance
It was a snug fit. From here, it was just waiting for the color, then wrapped and waiting for the meat to get done. I mentioned the timing above, I do not cook brisket by temperature of the meat. This leads to a lot of bad cooks, judging by internal temperature. I use a method of checking once the meat gets to around 190F internal of poking it with a metal skewer to see if the skewer goes in easy. This often happens at temperatures of 200F to 205F, but, the only way to be sure is to use a probe method. I did have some temperature issues, trying to keep the smoker at 350F, and one of those fancy PID controlled fans would have been nice, but, they are too pricey for me. I do have a small fan and a funnel though, and a BOB controller.
This worked well
Rob's brisket looked like this when it came off the UDS and out of the paper. I have to say, his brisket just about flopped over in half when I pulled it. I am expecting that it will be very tender.
Rob's Brisket (I think)
Mine took a little longer to get done, still working with the whole testing with a probe method. I pulled it after another hour on the cooker and put it to rest in my oven. I prefer to use a cooler, but, it is doing duty as a vessel for bottle conditioning some oatmeal chocolate milk stout. So into the oven for a minimum one hour rest, two or three hours is better. I went with one hour.
The finished brisket flat
The flat turned out terrific, the surface bark was noticeable, firm yet cut easily. The meat was tender and moist, it could maybe have used another 30 minutes. But, it was very good as it is, with great flavor.
Sliced and plated flat
Often referred to as 'lean brisket', the flat can easily dry out and get hard when being cooked. The use of the paper, along with the liquid I added to the paper when it was wrapped seemed to help with the retained moisture. I am very happy with this product, it sure looks good.
Sliced and plated point (or deckle)
Sometimes referred to as the point or deckle, this is the part of the brisket that you would get if you 'fat' instead of 'lean' at a BBQ joint in some parts of the country. Many folks will cook this down in a sauce and call it 'burnt ends', referring to the old practice of stewing down the hard edges of smoked meat in the sauce to make it more palatable. I prefer it sliced when it is properly cooked. This was unctuous, meltingly tender, salty and peppery, everything I think of for a great piece of smoked brisket. You wouldn't want to eat a lot of it, but, like foie gras, it isn't always about volume.
Point and Flat in repose
There is no doubt in my mind, this is an excellent method for cooking brisket, or chuck ribs for that matter. The meat had an excellent bark, great color and the texture and moisture is spot on. I cannot wait to get a nice 'Choice' packer and try this again, see if it is even more tender and moist.


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The benches cleared in the sixth inning of the Rays and Red Sox game after John Lackey appeared to intentionally hit Matt Joyce with a pitch. No punches were thrown and order was quickly restored.
But the ugly situation could have been avoided all together if not for another one of baseball's dumb "unwritten rules."
After hitting a home run earlier in the game, Joyce hit a long foul ball that he thought was another home run. He dropped his bat on the follow-through and this allegedly upset Lackey (see GIF below). The Red Sox studio analysts described the play as "pimping" his home run and said Joyce was in the wrong for doing that.
After the game, Rays manager Joe Maddon said there was no doubt the pitch was on purpose and called Lackey a "bad teammate" suggesting that play could get one of his own teammates hurt later.
There are some important "unwritten rules" in baseball. This is not one of them.
Here is the video of the incident, starting with Joyce's home run earlier in the game. The benches clear at the 0:58 mark...
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Orphaned foals are no picnic to care for, but when Ashley Weems, a Peabody-Burns High School senior, learned about a situation where a newborn colt needed help she did not hesitate to act.
"The person who owned this baby's mother has some medical issues and couldn't care for him," Weems said. "I have a lot of experience with horses and have raised a foal with its mama. I thought this would be good experience for me because some day I want to be an equine vet."
The now two-week-old foal, called Gunner by Weems, is part Quarter Horse, part Friesian.
"His dam was a rescue mare that had been bred by accident," Weems said. "She had the foal OK, but died two days later. Since he was premature, he was in pretty bad shape when I got him."
Weems said Gunner's health problems had a lot to do with mismatched genetics and poor nutrition on the part of his mother.
"He was just skin and bones," she said. "He was born with contracted tendons and couldn't walk right. His eyes were sunken in from dehydration too. He didn't look good."
Weems, under the guidance of Animal Health Center veterinarian Rebecca Erwin, began feeding Gunner goat milk every two hours, except during the night, when she provided a 1 a.m. feeding."
"The nighttime feeding is the hardest," she said. "During the day I have him in town at a barn that is only two blocks from school. My teachers are letting me go take care of him as I need to."
At first, Gunner drank only a few ounces per feeding, but on Monday, he was already up to 20 ounces each time.
"He is really taking off," Weems said. "I have got him to drink from a bucket now, so that is easier, and we are working up to more each feeding."
Weems said Gunner was getting more mobile every day, thanks to the splints on his legs, which she changes with the help of Erwin every other day.
"If we didn't put these splints on he would grow up to always have a bum leg," Erwin said. "It's important to get those legs to grow out at the right angle."
Weems said the colt walks better with the splints on than without.
"They don't bother him at all," she said. "He can even run pretty fast, considering all his problems."
She said one of the more difficult aspects of raising an orphan foal was remembering to treat him as a mare would treat her offspring, not as a human would.
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Weems, who has been accepted into Kansas State University's pre-vet program for this fall, said her experience raising the foal has been a lot of fun.
"He is scheduled to go back to his owner on June 1," she said. "I will be sad to see him go, but happy that I have been able to get him off to a good start. He had a couple of marks against him from the get-go, but he is getting stronger every day and will turn out to be a big, strong horse some day."


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Review: Kula Lodge
Words by Mark Horowitz .::. Photos by Jane Horowitz; Special to Slice .::. I think it's safe to say that most visitors to Maui don't have pizza on their minds. During my own recent visit to Maui, my mind was occupied with exploring its natural beauty, its stunning beaches, snorkeling in its clear reefs, and, from a culinary standpoint, exploring the rich, diverse cultural influences that have created a unique Pacific cuisine.
What has evolved in Hawaii is an interesting melange of styles resulting from the mixture of native Hawaiian food preferences and the various immigrant populations that have arrived during the past century and a half to work on sugar cane and pineapple plantations (Portugese, Filipino, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and others) and to work in the tourism industry (mainlanders and Europeans). My only previous experiences with what might be called contemporary Hawaiian cuisine have been in my infrequent visits to various outposts of Roy Yamaguchi's restaurants in New York and Philadelphia (he has restaurants in other cities as well: roysrestaurant.com). There I have sampled ahi poke, ono, mahi, and opakapaka, the wonderful variety of fish native to Hawaiian waters.
After exploring the breathtaking (literally, at more than 10,000 feet in elevation) summit of Hale'akala volcano, we were hungry for lunch. On the road leading down from the volcano, we passed the Kula Lodge, a restaurant and inn we had heard some good things about.
The restaurant is located in the village of Kula, famous for its fresh greens, included in salads in just about every restaurant on the island. It overlooks a hillside and just about every table has a view. There is a lounge area with a giant stone fireplace. On the menu, we found Asian-influenced items, including spring rolls and local fish. We also found those same fish offered grilled on sandwiches and, to our surprise, choose-your-own-topping pizzas, prepared in stone ovens located just outside the restaurant's seating area. These ovens use a native wood, imparting a mesquitelike flavor. The toppings ran the gamut from meat to fruit to veggies. The young people with us were delighted to have pizza, instead of fish. After placing our orders, we could watch our pizzas being made in the ovens outside. The pizzas were medium-thick crusted, "personal" sized (12-inch) and priced from $10.95 and up, depending upon the number and type of toppings. The wood-fired oven flavor was wonderful, and the sauce was only slightly sweet. Toppings were fresh and generous.
Hand-crafted pizza is a refreshing change for visitors to Maui looking for a departure from the fish and meat fare. Visitors traveling with young children will find that the Kula Lodge pleases all palates.
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