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The secrets behind baseball's walk-up music
Because he was in a slump last June, Giants shortstop Brandon Crawford made some adjustments to his approach at the plate. Namely, he switched his walk-up music to Kelly Clarkson's "Stronger." His batting average jumped 20 points in the second half.
Brandon Moss was also thinking strategically when he selected "Homeboy" by Eric Church as his walk-up song. "I probably shouldn't say," the A's first baseman said, "but there's somebody back home, and I'd like them to hear that song and catch their attention."
Outfielder Hunter Pence, meanwhile, recently sought the wise counsel of his Giants teammates. "I just wanted something country and something positive, so I asked Buster Posey and Madison Bumgarner to give me some hillbilly stuff," he explained.
Like it or not, walk-up music -- and its pitchin' cousin, entrance music -- is now the unofficial soundtrack of any baseball season. This marks year 20, give or take, that teams have dispatched batters to the plate with their own personal anthem.
Modern players now select their songs with the same kind of care as they do their bats and gloves. Every hitter is a disc jockey; Casey Kasem at the bat. And if a player can't find just the right song from the musical oeuvre, one can be created for him.
"I have a buddy who is into music, and before my first start last year he said, 'Let me do your warm-up song,' " A's left-hander Tommy Milone said. "It's just computer program sounds and
beats. It's pretty cool."
Baseball purists can rail all they want about turning down that dang music, but resistance seems futile. Roll over, Ty Cobb, and dig those rhythm and blues.
"When walk-up music started, the older generation thought it was total baloney," said Mike Krukow, 61, who didn't actually say baloney. "It was an 'I' thing that separated the individual from the team."
The Giants broadcaster pitched in the majors from 1976-89 and envisioned himself fuming on the mound if he had to wait for some disco diva to make his way to the plate. Krukow acknowledges that Bob Gibson or Don Drysdale might have treated such an act with a little chin music.
"That said, when that music comes on, every kid in the stands gets excited and everybody knows the song," Krukow said. "Therefore, if the fans are into it, then it's good. The game has changed in lots of ways over the years, and it's still the greatest game in the world."
When did the batter's box become a jukebox?
Pomp and circumstance
The origins of walk-up music are difficult to pinpoint. There is no "aha moment." Or even an "A-ha" moment.
Loosely defined, the concept has been around for decades. St. Louis Cardinals leadoff hitter Lou Brock, to name one example, used to ask Busch Stadium organist Ernie Hays to play the "Theme From Shaft" for his trips to the plate in the early 1970s.
Sparky Lyle of the Yankees was also an early pioneer of baseball as musical theater. In 1972, his first season in New York, the left-handed reliever would enter to the strains of "Pomp and Circumstance." If manager Ralph Houk summoned Lyle, the word would get to organist Toby Wright, who would begin playing what was known familiarly as the graduation march.
Fans loved it, but Lyle wanted to focus more on the circumstance and less on the pomp. He told the Yankees to give it a rest.
A's shortstop Jed Lowrie is with Lyle; he doesn't love it.
"The (song) I have in Oakland, I think it's Rush. I didn't even pick it, somebody else did for me," Lowrie said. "It doesn't matter to me. I'm so focused on what I'm trying to do before I get up there that a song doesn't really change my mood. .... I don't need a song to kind of get in the zone."
Many teams, including the Giants and A's, dabbled with variations of walk-up music in the 1980s. The movement turned it up a notch with the 1989 movie "Major League," which featured scenes of Ricky Vaughn, played by Charlie Sheen, sending the home crowd into delirium by entering games to "Wild Thing."
Those were baby steps in the walk-up evolution. The big leap came at some point during the 1990s. One industry source pointed to the 1993 Seattle Mariners as the first team to do it as a ritual for every hitter in the lineup. If that's true, that would make this an anniversary season: It was roughly 20 years ago today that the Mariners told the band to play.
Kevin Martinez, Seattle's vice president of marketing, can confirm only that '93 was indeed the first year Seattle played walk-up music for each hitter. He does not know whether the Mariners were the first MLB team to do so.
In the least, Seattle had been experimenting with signature songs for the action on the field as early as 1990. Michael Jackson's "Thriller" was played when closer Mike Jackson strode in from the bullpen (wearing just one glove), and Paul Simon's "You Can Call Me Al" was played for Alvin Davis.
Alas, there is no record of whether the team ever played Frank Sinatra for Matt Sinatro. "We might have slipped 'Summer Wind' in there a time or two," Martinez said.
Rockin' in Oakland
In many ways, though, the big change can be traced back to the Bay Area. In a move akin to Dylan going electric, the A's became the first team to play rock music at a major league ballpark in 1981. The Haas family had just bought the team and was looking for ways to lure back fans turned off by the end of the Charlie Finley era. Executive Andy Dolich hired Roger Inman, who had just graduated from the broadcast school at San Francisco State.
"I was the first baseball disc jockey," Inman says now.
Inman's previous job was at the dearly departed Marine World Africa USA, where he guided tour boats past dolphins and elephants, an experience that shaped his future work with Tigers and Blue Jays.
"Basically, it was, 'The dolphin jumps up in the air and there's a piece of music that happens.' If the dolphin flips twice, there's a different piece of music," he said. "(With the A's) I sort of employed those sensibilities to the situation on the field."
Now, in the walk-up wonderland of the Oakland Coliseum, there's a signature song for every batter, every key reliever and, since the early '80s, every victory. As the Kool & the Gang song so presciently foretold, "it's a celebration to last throughout the years."
One pitcher even has exit music. It seems that Jerry Blevins, the situational left-hander with a funky delivery, objected to the playing of Metallica when he entered games. "You can't play that for me," Blevins told the music crew, "I don't throw hard enough."
Instead, the P.A. booth now waits to see if Blevins does his job. If Blevins succeeds, Metallica's "Sanitarium" blares as he walks off the mound.
These days, the Coliseum can feel like a music festival where a game broke out. There's a reason for that. David Don, the A's senior director of multimedia services, and Troy Smith, the team's senior director of marketing, oversee the action like conductors.
"We try to score the game as if it's a movie soundtrack," Don said. "It might be a few subtle things early, but late in the game, we might select something to create a sense of impending doom for an opposing pitcher.
"If there are two on and two out and the A's best hitter is coming up, we might use something from 'Pirates of the Caribbean.' "
From Mozart to metal
There are rules for this kind of thing. Major League Baseball has only so much patience for musical interludes and orders teams to keep things moving. The MLB office decrees:
Any musical clip used to introduce a batter should start immediately after the public address announcement and should stop when the batter reaches the dirt cut-out surrounding home plate. Music clips between pitches should be limited in order not to encourage the hitter to leave the batter's box.
And as with any new rules, there are those who figure out how to get around them, such as former Giants outfielder Kenny Lofton. "The rule came out that the music was supposed to fade out the instant a player stepped into the box, but Kenny Lofton would take extra long just because that was part of his ritual," Giants social media director Bryan Srabian recalled with a laugh. "It was almost a choreographed dance. One of his songs was a Missy Elliott song, and he'd kind of be bobbing his head and do a little head shake.
"He timed it perfectly so that when he walked into the box, the song ended where he wanted it to."
Other musical miscreants don't always get away with it. While with Boston in 2002, outfielder Manny Ramirez asked a clubhouse employee to help him change his tune at the last second. His new song, the profanity-laced and drug-themed "Good Times (I Get High)" by Styles P, prompted the Red Sox to change their policy: No more spontaneous requests.
Less threatening is this year's choice by Tigers first baseman Prince Fielder, who chose Mozart's 1791 piece Requiem.
That makes sense, considering that classical compositions are the original walk-up music. In opera, as in baseball, you can tell a lot about a character simply by the auditory cues.
"Well-composed music can conjure feeling, location and circumstances in the flash of several seconds by virtue of what we remember from the past," said David Gockley, the general director at San Francisco Opera and a former high school third baseman.
"Music can also express hope and unleash a kind of power. The listener's head is clear. That might be what a batter is looking for."
Pence, who leads the Giants with 10 home runs, prefers a little pop at the plate. While with the Houston Astros years ago, he selected a Katy Perry song because "we tried to get the cheesiest songs possible. Everyone did it. A lot of people were like 'Did you lose a bet?' But we were playing well in the second half of that year, so I kept it."
Most players, though, go for a harder edge, especially those who bring the show to a close: All-time saves leader Mariano Rivera of the Yankees comes in for the ninth to "Enter Sandman" by Metallica, and San Diego Padres closer Trevor Hoffman's slow walk to "Hells Bells" by AC/DC was one of baseball's memorable spectacles.
"Even though, when you heard it, it meant you had to go face them," former Giants infielder Shawon Dunston said, "it was still nice to hear the music when they came out."
During a visit to AT&T Park earlier this year, Metallica lead singer James Hetfield reflected on the band's unofficial place among baseball's all-time hit leaders.
"It's been great," Hetfield said. "We love that it can inspire others to another level."


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Historic Ohio River town
Last Friday, I took a road trip with my daughter Keely and her fiance Taurus. One of our destinations was Golconda, the little town in southern Illinois where Taurus grew up. Golconda is located on the Ohio River, about 20 miles across the map (36 highway miles) northeast from Paducah, KY.
A bit of Golconda's history
I photographed a few paragraphs about Golconda's history on the Dari-Barr menu (image below). The Dari-Barr is a great little cafe along Highway 146 in Golconda where you can get a good plate lunch for under $5.
Golconda was one of the first towns of southern Illinois, and it remained an important river crossing and river port for many years. It was the starting-point (or end-point) of several early trails and roads through this part of the country, including the Dover, TN-Golconda stagecoach road.
As the 1800s progressed, Golconda and other settlements along the river grew and became civilized towns. One feature of life along the Ohio was a daily packet that ran back and forth from Evansville, Indiana, to Cairo, Illinois. It carried goods, freight, mail, newspapers, and travelers to and from Golconda and the other little towns on the route. (Here is an account of a river traveler's half-hour stop in Golconda, published in 1919.)
In 1902, a railroad spur was completed that connected Golconda to the Illinois Central line from Paducah to Carbondale. The rail connection multiplied the economic activity of Golconda's docks and warehouses. Because of the railroad, Golconda became an important link in the shipment of ore from the fluorspar mines of southern Illinois. (Fluorspar is the source of fluorine.) One mine regularly brought loaded boxcars by barge to Golconda and put them on the railroad. Empty boxcars were loaded onto the barges for the return trip to the mine.
In the 1920s, the construction of Lock and Dam 51 on the Ohio at Golconda brought about five years of extra jobs and bountiful income to the community. The lock and dam continued to be a substantial employer in the town until it was finally replaced by a new lock at Smithland, KY, in 1979. Taurus can remember when the old Lock and Dam 51 were dynamited.
A few things remain at the site of Lock and Dam 51 -- the "Golconda Tower" that once stood at the end of the lock, a long flight of steps leading down to the river, three houses where the lock's supervisors lived, and the building that housed the offices. The Lockmaster Homes, which have an unobstructed, close-up view of the river, have been restored by the City of Golconda and are available for short-term rental.
We stopped at the cemetery where Taurus's grandparents and other family members are buried, on top of a bluff that overlooks the Ohio River. Taurus said that the tower, steps, houses, etc. of the old lock and dam are over the edge of the bluff, a hundred feet or so below the cemetery. (I didn't try to look over the edge to see if he was right!)
Taurus's old neighborhood
Taurus also took us to see the pioneer cemetery, located on a knoll near Lusk Creek. This graveyard of the 1800s was only a block away from the house where Taurus lived with his grandparents. He told us some fearsome stories about boy-play on top of the tall concrete flood walls at the cemetery's edge.
We also stopped to see an extremely large pecan tree that grows in the neighborhood. Taurus has fond memories of this tree, and he was sad to see that some of its branches have been cut back recently. Unfortunately, English ivy has been permitted to grow up the trunk, and it is deeply rooted into the bark. (Click here to see this tree before it was trimmed (on Google Maps street view), and click here to see the house where Taurus lived.)
More to see at Golconda
Golconda has its share of fine old mansions on the bluffs overlooking the river. Some have slipped into disrepair, while others are well-maintained. Something similar could be said of the entire town. The railroad is gone, and the shipping and warehouse business is not what it used to be. Golconda is not as wealthy as it once was, but it is developing its tourist industry. New ways are being found to use the river to Golconda's benefit.
I suspect that Golconda has at least one historic marker somewhere -- probably at the courthouse. I'd like to see and explore more of this little river town.
Unfortunately, my eyesight was not at its best when we were there. I nearly put out my right eye early that morning by opening the car door into it, just before I left to meet Keely and Taurus. I didn't take as many photos as I would have ordinarily, and I even let Taurus drive my car all day. (My eye is fine now.)
This summer, I'm hoping to go back to Golconda. I also want to visit Cave In Rock, a historic site a little farther upstream on the Ohio River.

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For years, Carl Kirby's deep orange Vanagon was a mobile landmark around Lewisburg. The vehicle got its unique color from a paint he created from "yellow boy," a pollutant that can smother creeks downstream of old mines. The geology professor has since traded the Vanagon for a more recent Eurovan, but his research on acid mine drainage continues.
Modern mines are required by law to treat their runoff, but thousands of abandoned mines across the country continue to contaminate streams as the subsurface rock exposed by mining is weathered by air and water. For example, pyrite, or iron-sulfide, is associated with coal. Long after the coal has been removed and the mine has closed, the pyrite continues to oxidize, producing sulfuric acid and dissolved iron ions. As these pollutants are washed downstream, if the water becomes less acidic, the iron precipitates out as iron hydroxide, or yellow boy. This by-product of acid mine drainage treatment systems is usually considered a waste product, but Kirby has found several potential commercial applications for it, including pigment, sewage treatment, and others. Replacing the chemicals currently used in these applications, which have to be mined themselves, could reduce the need for more mines.
"I'm promoting the idea of solving one environmental problem and utilizing the waste from that to avoid causing another," Kirby says. || Learn about Kirby's newest research area -- Ask the Experts: Carl Kirby on Marcellus Shale
Much of Kirby's research has focused on the speed at which iron oxidizes under different conditions. This chemical reaction is the limiting step in treatment systems. "How fast you can do the oxidation limits how fast you can do anything else," he says. Knowing the oxidation rates under different pH levels and different microbial communities allows one to size treatment facilities appropriately.
Acid also finds its way into streams from rain and other forms of precipitation that carry emissions from coal-burning power plants. The ability of a stream to neutralize acid depends in part on the surrounding geology. Kirby and his students have discovered that some sandstone formations are better at neutralizing acid than others. In areas that are more susceptible to acidification, the team gathers water chemistry data and documents the presence or absence of brook trout and other fish. "Where the chemistry looked bad, there were no fish," Kirby says. The project has catalogued a number of streams that state officials have not yet registered as impaired.
Just as mining and burning coal have left their imprint on Pennsylvania's streams, modern methods of tapping deep reserves of natural gas are leaving another legacy. Hydrofracturing involves shooting large quantities of salty water mixed with organic chemicals deep into gas wells. Kirby is studying the geochemical behavior of the water as it makes its way back to the surface, information that will be vital for formulating treatment techniques. Using what he is finding in the field, Kirby and his students are discovering that environmental problems sometimes hold their solutions.
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Anime Boston NEEDS a change. This is getting completely ridiculous, and whats more is I am APALLED that it took them THREE HOURS to tell us that signups were delayed, so now, not only did I waste my entire afternoon, but I am going to waste likely my entire evening.
It's not news that the AA signups will crash the site, it does every year. if you're not prepared to deal with that, then maybe you should change your method even just for your own sanity.
Here's the thing though-- I love contributing to AB's AA. Anime Boston is my hometown con and I've been attending the con since 2005. (granted I have not tabled most of those years)
The AA staff is generally wonderful and I've never had an issue with how the AA is run itself, but this FCFS method is downright irritating and disrespectful of people's time considering the fact they don't give you any sort of an idea of what time it'll even go UP.
Like so many others, I called out of work to try for the AA today. I'm lucky in that I am in a position where asking for time off is not an issue, but this not at all the case for so many others.
I know I've personally been in situations where asking for time off could mean forfeiting time off on a holiday or for a con. Weekend days off is a luxury so many can't afford to take and this system's lack of even giving a ballpark time is so disrespectful of that.
I understand that the AA gets so many apps that juried would be difficult, and that lottery isn't ideal either, but you know what? those are better than this.
Worried about the amount of apps? Cap it. Cap it at 500 like other cons do, give us a TIME the apps will go up like every other con, and then do FCFS juried, regular juried or lottery.
that would be better than this and cut down on your work.
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A promdi and jologs at heart, Hector Bryant L. Macale works for the Manila-based media NGO Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR) as senior staffwriter. He is now the managing editor of the Philippine Journalism Review Reports (PJR Reports), CMFR's flagship media-monitoring publication. All his posts are solely his rants, raves, and musings, unless stated otherwise.


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WUSA9 Shutdown Soapbox | Politics
HERNDON, Va. (WUSA9) -- About two dozen people came out to protest the shutdown outside the Herndon office of Congressman Frank Wolf.
"Congress is messing with my family and I'm not taking it lightly," said Danja Roberts, a Leesburg mother of two. She agreed to step up and give her opinion on the WUSA9 soapbox.
"If people think this isn't affecting regular people, they are sorely mistaken," she said. Her husband is a federal government worker, deemed essential and still working, but not receiving a paycheck.
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The protest is one of many across the county. Organized by Fairshare and Organizing for Action, they are targeting republicans including four in Virginia.
Clinical Psychologist Virginia Lindahl helped organize the protest. She's angry at Republicans who want to defund the Affordable Care Act. "Its incomprehensible to me," she said explaining that she waited nine years to be able to afford comprehensive health insurance.
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Nov. 19, 2012 -- The quest for six-pack abs and a ripped physique may be leading some teens -- especially boys -- in an unhealthy direction, a new study suggests.
Nearly 2,800 middle school and high school students answered questions about what they did to build muscle size or tone. Exercise was, far and away, the most common thing boys and girls reported doing.
However, some teens reported a risky behavior: Almost 6% of boys and 4.6% of girls said they had used steroids.
Media images of muscle-bound, "ripped" guys may be giving teen boys unrealistic ideas about how their bodies should look, in the same way ultra-thin fashion models do for teen girls, says researcher Marla Eisenberg, ScD, MPH, of the University of Minnesota.
"If you look back to the '70s or even the '80s it was pretty unusual to see a man without a shirt on in an ad or on TV," she says. "Now they are everywhere and they all emphasize the muscular look."
Eisenberg recommends that pediatricians and other health professionals ask their teen patients about what they're doing to build muscle to check if their strategies are healthy or not.
"Of course, exercise is a good thing," she says. "But when the emphasis shifts away from health and toward getting a particular look or body type, this might point to body image concerns."
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The risks are real. It's not uncommon for teens to show up in the ER as a result of over-training or using steroids to build muscle, says ER doctor Robert Glatter, MD, of New York's Lenox Hill Hospital.
The new survey, published online today and appearing in the December issue of Pediatrics, is the first to examine muscle-building behaviors among teens.
'Proof Not Necessarily in the Mirror'
Just as with adults, there are healthy and unhealthy ways for teens to build muscle, says pediatric sports doctor Chris G. Koutures, MD, of Anaheim, Calif.
Koutures recommends eating a balanced diet with plenty of fruits and vegetables, as well as protein for building muscle and strength.
The American Academy of Pediatrics discourages the use of sports supplements.
And, as with any supplement, it is not always clear if what is listed on the label is really what is in the bottle or jar.
"I tell my patients the focus should be on how they feel, not how they look," he says. "If they are getting faster and stronger, and they are able to work harder, then what they are doing is working. The proof isn't necessarily in the mirror."


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The Virgins contains multiple flowers, which add to the theme: evolution into womanhood. While sketching for the painting, Klimt wanted his models to make larger than life physical poses. There are six women in the painting (or one woman with four sides to her persona) and all of them seem to be intertwined. The lines are clear and the human themes of love, sexuality and regeneration are obvious in the circular cyclical shape of the work. In painting The Virgins the different life stages are represented by the same woman. Dislocated body parts in outrageous poses move as if under water. The empty shell of a woman's dress at the bottom gives birth to a child (the next generation) via a cascading waterfall of colour.
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Dead Markets
This is the archive of marketplaces who got shut down from some reason or turned out to be scam marketplaces:
Exit scammed after a security leak – TradeRoute is a traditional & Multisig escrow marketplace
Alphabay seized by law enforcment, along with Hansa market – Proceed with caution
Uses Multisig (guide here) & Normal Escrow – Quoted from the market: AlphaBay Market is a marketplace founded by alpha02, reputable member on most carding forums and experienced carders. After some time helping others on carding forums, he decided to start his own marketplace and allow sellers from around the world to sell goods to buyers worldwide. Here is an interview we conducted with its owner.
- Marketplace Guide: How To Buy From AlphaBay Market?
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Claimed hacked – Probably exit scammed – Traditional escrow & Multisig market, we conducted an interview with admin of the site, you can read it here
Hacked – Brazillian Market in portugese
Down from unknown reason – REMOVED – Donât recognize the market link you see here?  READ THIS NOW
Libertas is a market for long standing reputable vendors. Offering transactions only in Monero
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Market with Multisg and support for BTC and Monero.
Down from unknown reason – Multisig market
Hacked and removed – A Multisig market & forum
Hacked and removed – Market and vendor shops hosting service with dedicated domains, direct BTC deposits (no wallets) and low commissions.
Down from unknown Reason – New Escrow market, direct deposits (no wallet)
Removed due to being down for prolonged period of time (not long after being launched) – General market, offers multisig transactions.
Down from unknown reason – Vendor shop of the vendor DeepStatus from Alphabay, Dream Market, Hansa Market, Outlaw Market, Silk Road 3.0 & Valhalla – Selling Coke and MDMA
Down from unknown reason – French marketplac, formerly known as "Leboncoin" and rebranded, has an englisg version here: blackdeal6o3uta5.onion.market
Down from unknown reason – General market offering 2-of-3 Multi-signature, Multi-Currency, Bip32 public keys and other features
Down from unknown Reason –MUSHBUD that had been servicing the DNM Scene since the original Silk Road, as well as SR2, Sheep, BMR, Agora & briefly at Abraxas.You can verify the PGPÂ (as well as read hundreds of my positive reviews) at GRAMS info Desk. Selling weed and psychedelics
Down from unknown reason –Â Escrow and multisig market, according to the admin, based on an improved version of the Evolution clone script
Was taken down due to some security issue – Traditional escrow market.
Down from unknown Reason – "Yourdrug is consisted of a small team of experienced individuals who have been in this business for years, to continue our growth we have decided to expand our business on the Darknet Markets. We have always been providing our local customers with the best quality at a fair market price, we only sell what the customer wants and expects. Privacy and discretion has always been our number one priority and this will remain like this. We deliver products to personal users and resellers, both will have the same priority in regard of shipping time, packaging methods and privacy."
Vending on Alphabay and Dream
Removed to owner request – Market for buying and selling access to hacked sites (webshells) PekarMarket. The service works as a market for buying and selling access to sites (webshells) with a choice of a large number of parameters. Market is in Russian and English version.
Down from unknown reason – REMOVED –Â Zion market, 100% multisig with no user wallets. Buyers can choose 2-of-2 (server & vendor have the keys) or 2-of-3 (buyer also has a key). 2FA, automated PGP, and Bitmessage alerts. Accept Monero (XMR) by immediately converting it and sending it to your BTC
Down from unknown reason – Multisig & Escrow market – Another one based on the Evolution clone script.
Shutting down – "Hacked" – Escrow market & Autoshop
Down from unknown reason – Escrow market
Removed due to being down for prolonged period of time – Vendor from IDC & SR3 Selling Coke, MDMA, Hash & Ketamine
Down from unknown reason – Vendor from Alphabay, Dream and previous markets – selling cannabis products
Down – French market (not forum, actual market).
Down from unknown Reason –Vendor from Dream, Alphabay & Outlaw – Selling  Speed,Ecstasy, Hash, MDMA, Sildenafil, Weed.
Down from unknown reason –Â Dark net market vendor since 2013 operated on Silk Road, BMR, Sheep, Atlantis, SR2, TorMarket, Evo, Agora, Pandora, Cloud 9, Blue Sky, Utopia, Middle Earth, Abraxas, Black Bank, Nucleus, Alphabay, Hansa, Dream, and Valhalla.
Selling: Coke, Mdma, Meth, K, Ambien, LSD etc…
Down from unknown reason –Multisig market, allowing fraud and weapons. In time the market owner hopes to make changes as needed to accommodate your buying experience.
Down from unknown reason – Crypto market vendor previously operated on Nucleus and Evolution, Selling Bud & Concentrates.
Down from unknown reason – REMOVED –Â French DNM forum – also host an English section (Requires JS)
Down from unknown reason – Traditional escrow market – aiming to be primarily for cannabis. Uses invites/ referral system.
Down from unknown reason – Another Multisig market, Based on the Evolution market UI clone.
Down from unknown reason – House Of Lions Market, formerly known as LEO market, another traditional escrow market using the familiar Agora layout (Abraxas V2?…)
Down – A new discussion forum similar to The HUB, for markets and OPSEC discussion.
Down from unknown reason – Apple market is a darknet market dedicated to the sale of all things on the tor network. Offers Multisig Transactions.
The direct deals page of HashishMaster, vendor from Abraxas / Valhalla – 30+ years organic Cannabis farmer & Hashish maker, selling hashish / cannabis products.
Down -Vendor from Alphabay, Dream & Nucleus – UK's leading Xanax vendor providing the cheapest prices on the darknet.
Down from unknown Reason –Â Vendor L33ter from most of the important darknet marketplaces since Evolution. Selling digital and physical products, with automatic dispatch on digital goods and customers ticket system. Vendor shop of digital products with auto dispatch mode and other varieties of products from l33ter vendor.
Down – SpeedBall – Vending cannabis products on Darknet. Operating on AlphaBay , Dr.D and Vallhala .
Down from unknown reason (exit scam?) – 2 of 3 Multisig market – No fees (Donations only, vendors and buyers don't pay any fee to place/complete/cancel orders)
Down – Vendor from Agora, Abraxas & Alphabay – Selling psychedelics.
Withdrawals disabled – From the owner of another onion Autoshop, Offer Multisig transactions.
Down from unknown reason – Seller from Agora, Evo, Middle Earth, Abraxas, Alphabay – Selling Pharma
Down from unknown reason – Team of sellers and coders who sell Pure MDMA. Have been active on SR1 and EVO before they went down and are active on Alphabay.
Down from unknown reason – English / Chinese market – Using traditional escrow.
Shut down gracefully – Acropolis Market employs a user friendly multi sig escrow payment system. The Market is a referral only market. invite / referral link can be found above.
SCAM, AVOID – Multisig & Traditional Escrow market – Registration is using referral link only. One is available here (Marketplace URL).
Down from unknown reason – Crypto Market vendor – Selling pollen Ketama Hash
The vendor shop of vendor Sexyhomer from Abraxas Market – selling replica watches.
Down from unknown reason – Provides a secure market place for buyers and vendors with focus on digital goods. Traditional Escrow.
Down from unknown Reason –Â Seller from Silkkitie, Dream, Abraxas, Alphabay, Nucleus, Middle Earth, Crypto – Selling digital documents to pass verifications such as: driver licenses, utility bills, id's etc..
Gone from unknown reason – Multisig Marketplace – Based on a patched new version of bitwasp – related article.
Down from unknown reason, marked as dead until / if back – Agora vendor who opened his own shop – selling cocaine.
Down – Vendor From SR2, Pandora, BMR, EVO, Agora, Silkkitie, Dream Market – Selling: GBL and DEXAMPHETAMINE.
Down from unknown Reason –Private vendor shop of Europills – Vendor from Agora, Alphabay, Abraxas & Middle Earth. Selling Meds.
Down from unknown reason, marked as dead until / if back – Private vendor shop of Abraxas vendor Korova – Selling Meth.
Down from unknown reason –Â The Vendor shop of the vendor Darkmarket – selling digital items.
Down from unknown reason, marked as dead until / if back – Vendor shop of MonkeyMeds who operating/operated on Agora, Abraxas, Crypto Market, Dream Market, Alpha Bay, Middle Earth, Nucleus draknet markets. Providing benzos, ED meds, pain meds and Steroids out of India, China,Thailand, Argentina to customers all over world.
Down –
Agora vendor selling Chinese Ice/Meth Vendor in Australia
Down from unknown reason – UK domestic vendor selling alprazolam blotters, liquid, Tabs – Operating on several markets
Down – Agora vendor Quantik, from their profile: "We sell high-quality Xanax bars and steroids from Canada. We are the manufacturers and not just resellers, so we can guarantee you get the best quality at the best price."
Now opened his own vendor shop.
Down – Agora vendor Monfort – Selling Mostly RC's, opened his own vendor shop.
Down – Darkweb Coffeeshop – Operating in the UK only.
Down from unknown reason – Site Offers Multisig. 2-Factor-Authentication (2FA). Low commission. Referrals.
Down from unknown reason –Â Vendor shop of the digital items vendors Darkmarket & Megatazz & Fake – offering a magapack of digital items for a fixed price + updates.
Down – Russian forum / market operating since 2013
Seems to have exit scammed – Multisig / Escrow market – Amazon Dark has been designed to mimic the aesthetics and functions of Amazon.
Multiple Scam reports – Escrow market
Down after hacked and IP exposed – Escrow market – Collection of old time vendors who were invited to sell on this market.
Down from unknown reason – Escrow market
Busted by Italian Police – Italian forum
Russian forum – "Anonymous automatic trading platform"
Site was hacked and DB leaked – Polish Darknet forum
Down – One of the admin arrested (according to the main admin who decided to take the forum down) – French forum.
Gone from unknown reason – Regular escrow, English & French Market
Hacked and dead – French forum / Market
Hacked – French Forum
Down from unknown reason – French Dark Place 3.0 Forum – La grotte noire avec sélection lors de l'admission.
Down – MDMA, Speed, Cocaine, Ritalin and XTC Vendor from Agora who opened his own shop.
Agora Drugs Vendor who opened his own shop (Agora Profile: agorahooawayyfoe.onion.market/vendor/PharmaPhil)
Down – Agora, BlackBank, Middle Earth & Nucleus Vendor who opened his own shop – Grams profile: grams7enufi7jmdl.onion.market/infodesk/vendor/0xE964D77725A3262A
Down – Vendor from Agora, AlphaBay, Nucleous, BlackBank, Abraxas, and a 5 Level vendor from EVO – opened a private shop.
Down from unknown reason – Multisig Marketplace
Assumed as exit scammed – Mutisig Marketplace – Uses 2-of-3, timelock transactions to allow easy release if our market goes offline. East India Company is a full featured marketplace originally created for the European region – went international.
Market as Dead, Down for too long – Multisig marketplace from the same creators of Havana marketplace
Shut Down from unknown reason – New Multisig Market:Â "Our mission is to make it as safe and easy as possible for all adults to buy or sell drugs."
Site Gone – Old time vendor from SR1 – Opened his own shop.
Market as Dead, Down for too long – Cannabis & Psychedelics market – Uses Multisig.
Hacked and gone – Regular Escrow Market.
Down – Veterant vendor offering Id`s, Passports, Driving licenses and Steroids
Down from unknown reason – A Multisig marketplace originally for private exploits, source code, hardware, services and more. Also lists drugs and traditional DNM products – We conducted a short interview with the admin and it can be found here. Later the market was shutdown from unknown reason and re-launched at 1.12.15.
Down from unknown reason, marked as dead until / if back – GlassWerkz – Agora Vendor who opened his own Shop.
Hacked – The private vendor shop of Chris carter –Â a french weed vendor from French Dark Net and French Market Place
Down for too long – HonestCocaine – An Agora & Blackbank vendor opened his own shop
The Personal shop of Gotmilk – Veteran Vendor, selling pharmaceuticals.
Down – Cocaine specialists – providing Excellent product and service, to customers throughout Europe. started vending on Agora and Evolution in 2014. Now opened their own onion shop.
Down from unknown reason – Regular Escrow market, from the same team who created Diabolus Market / Silk Road 3
Down from unknown reason -Escrow & Multisig Market – Rebrand of Mr Nice guy marketplace.
Down from unknown reason – Market started as the vendor shop of the vendor "Biocanna" / Thcsupport (Note – Using Bitwasp) and later expanded to server other vendors. Offers Multisig transactions and low fees.


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I love, love, love this series and the Ireland location is a marvelous new setting with all sorts of ways for Darcy and Georgie to get in and out of trouble. Such a wonderful cozy and a terrific mystery with lots of new characters to add a little spice and excitement.
I found this to be one of the most enjoyable titles in the series to date. Bowen's introduction of Darcy's Irish family is long-overdue and filled a big gap in his backstory. All the secondary characters (including the exotic Princess Zou Zou) were very entertaining. The ebullient Lady Georgie remains a delightful narrator as she shows signs of greater maturity... while fans of her Cockney maid Queenie will not be disappointed.
This is the tenth installment in the delightfully frothy Her Royal Spyness mystery series. Lady Georgiana Rannoch is a minor member of the British Royal Family with a penchant for getting embroiled in murders. The 1930's setting is charmingly and convincingly used with real-life characters regularly popping in for cameo appearances. This series is fun, light and bubbly and the tenth book was true to form, with the Irish setting for this one providing a lovely variation. As mysteries, I find these books not very complex, but I love the characters and the setting and I appreciate the fact that these books occasionally make me laugh out loud. If you loved Downton Abbey, you might want to check out this series.
I am so glad Georgie did not marry Darcy in the latest adventure. She was being spirited away to a hasty wedding by playboy Darcy when he gets word of his father's involvement in a murder. Darcy leaves Georgie in the middle of nowhere to rush to his father's assistance. She decides to follow him against his wishes. They are soon joined by one of Darcy's rich girlfriends. This installment seems hasty and not thought out like the previous adventures. I hope Georgie does not marry this guy, she will end up with endless childbearing while he goes off in his own private adventures, just like he always has! One good thing is that Queenie is finally starting to find her place in life as a lady's maid. I liked the previous adventures much more.
This is another tasty slice of the British upper crust, as delightful and mannered as all the books that went before. The ongoing adventures of Georgiana Rannoch and the murders she seems to fall into make for a great read. Keep them coming please Rhys Bowen.
This is the tenth installment in the Royal Spyness mystery series, but apparently I'm not sick of these books yet, because this was one of my favorites of the lot. The whodunnit was satisfying (I also totally thought I had it figured out, and was completely wrong, so points to Bowen for that -- I'm not A+ at guessing culprits, though, so make of that what you will) and there were, as usual, lots of colorful minor characters who made this a thoroughly entertaining read. Most satisfying to me as a reader were continuing developments in Georgie's and Darcy's relationship -- slowly but surely, it feels like Bowen is moving towards something, rather than merely treading water, and I'll be eagerly awaiting the next book to see what happens to Georgie next.
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BRIDGEWATER, MA-The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth's swimming team swept host Bridgewater State in a dual meet at the Moriarty Pool Tuesday evening. The Corsair women won, 139-92, and the Corsair men were victorious, 134-86. UMass Dartmouth won 18 of the 26 events. .
Women's winners for UMD included senior Kim Moore (Billerica, MA/Billerica HS), who won the 1000 freestyle in 11:54.30 and the 500 freestyle in 5:46.86, sophomore Katelyn Kidney (Lynn, MA/Lynn Classical HS/Bryant), who won the 100 butterfly in 1:06.04, sophomore Morgan Cooper (Sunderland, MA/Frontier Regional HS), who won the 200 freestyle in 2:06.21 and the 100 freestyle in 57.84, senior Meredith Maki (Holden, MA/Wachusett regional HS) who won the 100 backstroke in 1:07.14, and junior Maggie Conlon (Methuen, MA/Methuen HS), who won the 200 individual medley in 2:23.19.
The 400 freestyle relay team of Maki, freshman Leslie Martin (Pittsfield, MA/Pittsfield HS), Kidney and Conlon finished first in 3:59.05, while the 200 medley relay team of Conlon, Cooper, Kidney and Maki was victorious in 2:01.03.
For the men, freshman Edward Olean (Seekonk, MA/Seekonk HS) won the 1000 freestyle in 10:52,76, sophomore Eric Frohman (Woodbridge, CT/Amity HS) won the 200 freestyle in 2:01.53 and the 100 butterfly in 1:00.03, senior Nick Poliseno (Brockton, MA/Brockton HS) won the 50 freestyle in 25.22 seconds, sophomore Matthew Lee (Chelmsford, MA/Chelmsford HS) won the 200 individual medley in 2;17.29 and the 100 backstroke in 1:02.68, junior Josh Potcner (Holbrook, MA/Cardinal Spellman HS), who won the 500 freestyle in 5:59.19, sophomore Christian Francia (Hampton, NH/Winnacunnet HS), who won the one meter diving with 278 points and the three meter diving with 298.30 points, and junior Kevin Janofsky (Brookfield, CT/Brookfield HS), who won the 100 freestyle in 54.79.
"We had a great meet tonight at Bridgewater," said UMass Dartmouth Head Coach Cathy Motta. "We qualified multiple athletes for the championships."
UMass Dartmouth's women are now 1-2, while the UMD men are 1-1. Bridgewater State's women are now 1-3, while the men are now 0-4.
The Corsairs will return to action when they host the UMass Dartmouth Invitational Saturday.


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Rapids roll over Columbus
Columbus, OH – The Colorado Rapids continued their winning ways as the club secured a 2-0 victory at the Columbus Crew on Saturday with goals from Edson Buddle and Dillon Powers.
The Rapids have now claimed four win from their last six games, while Columbus continues to struggle having picked up one victory from its last six matches.
Colorado got off to a good start through Buddle, who put the club on top inside the opening 10 minutes.
Atiba Harris held up the ball inside the area after taking a pass from Danny Mwanga, and he laid it off for Buddle to fire past goalkeeper Andy Gruenebaum.
Jairo Arrieta had the best chance for the home side in the first half when he turned away from a defender and shot just over the crossbar.
But it was not to be the Crew's night as Colorado doubled its advantage with 20 minutes to play under fortunate circumstances.
Powers fired a shot toward goal from outside the box and it took a wicked deflection off of Columbus defender Josh Williams, leaving Gruenebaum stranded.
Arrieta had another good chance to get his team on the scoreboard in the 86th minute, but his powerful shot crashed off the post with goalkeeper Clint Irwin beaten.


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There are times - but they're few and far between for most of us - when everything just seems to fall into place, and you find yourself thinking there's nowhere you'd rather be than where you are at that particular moment in time. Sitting in the VIP Lounge on the 22nd floor of the Asahi Headquarters, a stone's throw from the Sky Tree, overlooking the Sumida river and the metropolis getting ready to call it a day, I had the distinct feeling that for most people there it was such a moment.
The occasion was the celebration of the first bottlings of Japanese whisky in over 2 years for the Scotch Malt Whisky Society. It was billed as "The Return of Japanese Whisky", and it was in more than one sense. As most of you will know, the SMWS bottles all its whiskies - including those not produced in the homeland - in Edinburgh, and so these particular casks (2 Yoichi's and 1 Miyagikyo) were first sent to Scotland and then shipped back, bottled, to Japan. If it was a return in that narrow sense of the word, it was also a homecoming in the sense that in the decade since Japanese whisky really burst onto the world scene (after winning the Best of the Best at the Whisky Magazine Awards in 2001), whisky enthusiasts in Japan have become fully aware of the incredibly high quality of the whiskies produced domestically. That this return was welcomed with open arms was obvious the day these 3 single cask bottlings were offered to members of the SMWS's Japan chapter. Limited to one bottle of each cask per member, the entire allocation sold out in less than a day.
The official launch event today was sold out, too: those lucky people who had managed to get their hands on a set earlier this month no doubt wanted to see just how lucky they'd been, and for those unfortunate souls who had missed the train, this was the first and last chance to taste these amazing single casks. And amazing they were. The youngest one [124.3] was a (non-peated) 13yo Miyagikyo (1999/2012), matured in a refill butt. The nose is wonderfully estery, with notes of white peaches, pear drops, cherry jelly and lychees - all of this on a bed of freshly-cut grass. After a while, you get hints of apple-carrot juice, banana fritters and cotton candy. The palate develops the sweetness of the nose: honey, coconut milk, white chocolate mousse... a feast for the taste buds. With water, a ginger ale note emerges and a hint of dried pineapple as well. The finish is long and lingering, concluding the procession of fruity notes with a bit of lemon tart. Delicious.
The two other offerings were lightly-peated Yoichi's, one an 18yo [116.18] matured in a refill butt; the other a 25yo [116.17] matured in virgin oak. Let's start off with the 18yo. On the nose, the first impression is milk-chocolate, loads of it, then marzipan bread, dried figs - one moment, you're in a cigar humidor; the next, it's a library filled with old books. After a while, sweet notes come through: vanilla, kirsch liqueur, apricot jam, ... With water, you get even more milk chocolate and some soft caramel (生キャラメル), followed by a lovely propolis throat candy note. The palate is equally complex and mesmerizing: pear-syrup, library notes again, pepper, stamp gum, and with water: honeydew melon wrapped in prosciutto ham. The finish is long with peppery overtones, the chocolate keeps going but there's a hint of tobacco as well.
Its older brother - the 25yo - is similarly intense and complex. On the nose, the thing that hit me first was that dirty sweetness of unrefined cane sugar - but it doesn't stop there. There's cinnamon, chocolate-coated coffee beans, amarettini, furniture polish and blood sausages with cherry sauce. What an incredible amalgam of aromas. Water adds a bergamot tea note and kind of "cleans up" the nose, pushing sweeter notes to the fore (honey and vanilla). The palate is oh-so lush: loads of tea, rhubarb tart, dates, candied orange peel and pencil shavings, which you often get with virgin oak. Water brings out some honey-on-toast, macadamia nuts and a bit of smoked duck. The finish is medium-long and is kind of ... mmm, temple-like, for want of a better word!
I think it's clear that the people at Nikka and the noses at the SMWS were pretty sharp the day they picked these casks. They're absolute stunners. There's just one thing one can say, really: let's hope it won't take another 2 years and a half before we get to try more treats from the Yoichi and/or Miyagikyo warehouses, courtesy of the SMWS. The Society will be celebrating its 30th anniversary next year, and the Japan chapter its 20th anniversary, so it wouldn't surprise me if they're already working on some surprises for its members.
I didn't tell you about the incredible chocolates created by Toshi Yoroizuka (designed to go with the whiskies), the smoked foods of Yokohama Kunsei (I loved the smoked daikon - these people are geniuses, seriously) and the insightful comments of Nikka master blender Tadashi Sakuma ... but you get the picture: the people at the SMWS here know how to celebrate in style. One more thing. If you feel it's a bit cruel of me to rave about whiskies that are no longer available, there are two glimmers of hope: (1) these bottlings will be available from other chapters of the Society around the world, and (2) Nikka released two single casks under its own label yesterday (a 1994 Yoichi and a 2002 Miyagikyo) and they're still available (but only in Japan, unfortunately) from the online Asahi-shop.


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Great Lake Trail Mountainbiking Adventures
Mountainbike the new Great Lake Trail from Whangamata Road to Kinloch.
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What: Great Lake Trail (Whangamata Road – Kawakawa Bay – Kinloch)
Starts: Whangamata Road, approx 800m past Kawakaka Rd turnoff
Distance: approx 20km one way
Ride Time: 2-3 hours
Grade: 2 - 3
Something big has happened in Taupo, something exciting, something quite fantastic! The first stage of the Great Lake Trail that is being constructed under the National Cycleways project is complete, and it has opened up a whole new world of mountainbiking in Taupo. The first 10km stretch of new trail from Whangamata Rd down to Kawakawa Bay is a dream to ride and boasts some stunning scenery and native birdlife.
A trail for the whole family
The first time we experienced the Great Lake Trail, when they were about 1.8km into construction, we had a blast. We took a risk and decided the kids should be OK to ride it. The 2 and 3 year olds were on their trusty runner bikes, the 4 and 6 year olds on their pedal bikes, and mums with pushchairs were running to keep up with the little tearaways!
It was a risk worth taking as the kids had one of those epic days to remember. We made it most of the way to the trail end and back without losing anyone or having any major mishaps, and the kids left with happy memories of fun downhills and rollercoaster riding, the waterfall by the boardwalk, the little cave, the 'holes where the bunnies live', and lunch on the bridge in the sun.
I was blown away
Now that the trail is completed right through to Kawakaka Bay, I've finally had the chance to ride it without kids in tow. Shorty and I set out on a spectacularly sunny Sunday afternoon from Whangamata Rd and rode the 20km through to Kinloch.
I'm not sure exactly what I was expecting, but to say I was blown away is an understatement. The trail is a series of beautifully laid out corners and berms that flow through mainly regenerating native bush down to the lakeside.
At one point, on the way down to Kawakawa Bay, I thought about how this trail ticks off most of my mountainbike trail wish list; a steady gradient, stunning scenery, superbly crafted corners and a destination. I always think if I have a destination, if I'm riding to somewhere (in this case the rather beautiful Kawakawa Bay), it makes the ride feel like more of an adventure.
Birdlife and scenery
On the way along the trail we crossed plenty of boardwalks and bridges, the few climbs were so short I barely noticed them, and we rode alongside a native wetland full of birdlife. I was amazed at the number of fantail around the trail and if we stopped to listen, we could hear all manner of other birds – tuis and bellbirds particularly – singing away in the sunshine.
The absolutely stunning views have to be mentioned, and seats have been constructed at some of the best spots so you can take in the panorama while you rest your legs.
As we neared the beach we crossed two bridges that span some really deep ravines. It's worth stopping and peering over the sides of the bridges as the ravines are quite spectacular, but don't drop your camera, it's a long way down to retrieve it! We knew we were nearing Kawakaka Bay when we hit a sandy patch on the trail and had to put in a bit more legwork to power through.
Kawakawa Bay
When we emerged out of the bush onto the beach at the Bay it was like walking into paradise. The mountains of Tongariro National Park lay in all their splendour before us, and the lake water was so incredibly clear it made us want to jump right in.
Although Kawakawa Bay is frequented by boaties during summer and often visited by walkers who have come over from Kinloch, there was not a soul in sight the day we were there. We checked out the gorgeous beach before riding the last 10km up and over the headland to Kinloch.
Uphill to the lookout and on to Kinloch
From Kawakaka Bay, it's a bit of a grind riding up the hill to the lookout at the top, but let's face it, you haven't had to do much climbing on this ride yet, so it's not too much of a hardship! Our efforts were rewarded by magnificent views (once again!) from the top and a pretty sweet 8km downhill ride into Kinloch. The great thing about finishing your ride in Kinloch is you can head straight to the Tipsy Trout for a beer, coffee or burger, or treat yourself to the great fish and chips from the general store.
Where to from Kinloch?
If you haven't arranged transport from Kinloch you can, of course, turn round at Kawakawa Bay and ride back the same way to Whangamata Rd. There's also a further 24.2km of trail between Kinloch and Whakaipo Bay, making for a classic one day mountainbike adventure for those wanting a scenic 44.2km challenge.
Great Lake Shuttles, a new service starting from Saturday 26th May, will pick you up from Taupo or Kinloch and drop you at the trail start of your choice, then pick you up again when you're finished. Contact Peter Hart for more details on 021 656 424 or email email@example.com.


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Lancaster Super Speedway featured one of the most exciting nights for the 2013 season.
The Lancaster Super Speedway racing card for Saturday, June 1 includes five divisions of racing at the half-mile dirt oval.
Timbo Mangum, Jeffrey McGuirt and Josh Langley each captured $1000 wins to highlight action at Lancaster Super Speedway on Saturday, May 25.
The Lancaster Super Speedway is set to host the Coca-Cola Shootout at Sundown on Saturday, May 25.
This stacks up to be one of the best nights of racing on the 2013 LSS season.
Steve "Burn "Em Down" Hinson captured the win in the Cauthen Motors Pure Street main event for his first win of the 2013 racing season.
One of Lancaster Super Speedway's special nights of the season is set for Saturday, May 18.
LSS will hosts its annual Driving for the Dream, a fundraiser for the Lancaster Dream Team.
Lancaster Super Speedway featured some top-notch dirt track racing Saturday, May 12.
The LSS track was smooth as glass Saturday night when the track crew had it in top shape.
Lancaster Super Speedway will host six divisions of racing action Saturday, May 11.
Josh Langley and Marty Spittle will have to start in the rear of the field after winning three straight races in their respected divisions.
Langley will have to start in the rear of the field in a stout Pure Street Division, and Spittle will have to start in the rear of the field in a very competitive Vintage Division.
Pure Street Division driver Josh Langley captured his third win in a row Saturday, May 4 at Lancaster Super Speedway.
Langley was on the front row with Matthew Cauthen. When the green flag dropped, it was Langley, Cauthen, Jesse Carson and Steve Hinson roaring into turn one battling for the lead.
Exiting turn two, the Langley Rocket Ship took command and never looked back for his seventh win this season.
Lancaster Super Speedway will feature the Limited Late Model Division Saturday, May 4 at the half-mile dirt overall.
NDRA Crate Late Models and the Vintage Division have an off night.
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For 62 years, Tom Clark was the man behind Park News, a landmark shop in downtown Taunton and a go-to source for a broad range of print media.
For 62 years, Tom Clark was the man behind Park News, a landmark shop in downtown Taunton and a go-to source for a broad range of print media.
"I loved my business," said Clark, during an interview at his Taunton home on Wednesday. "We never got rich there, but we always made a good living. I always loved my business. It kept me coming back every day. Meeting people every day was the best part."
Clark and his family sold Park News to new ownership last week, leaving a store that provided newspapers, magazines, lottery tickets, snacks and cigars to generations of Taunton residents.
Clark sold Park News once he became too ill to continue running the shop, after developing bone cancer. Park News will remain open, retaining its name and business model, according to the new owner, who was a regular customer of the store.
Clark started the business at the tender age of 18. Park News was originally located under the marquee of the now extinct Park Theatre — the store's namesake — before relocating to its present location in 1964, Clark said.
"It was a good location, right next to the theatres and near the old high school," Clark said. "We got a lot of business from people walking by. My father worked at the old telephone company across the street from the library, and his workers would stop by. There were no parking lots or meters back then. People would just go up and get a paper."
While national events and local stories were making headlines of the magazines and broadsheets he sold at the store, Park News was a place where Clark and his family were making memories. In fact, Clark met his wife Anna there, when she frequented the store as a nursing student, before he decided to ask her out.
"I started going there when I was in high school, and on the way up to school, we always would go in there, me and my friends," Anna Clark said. "After I went back in, when I was in nurses training, he asked me out. … Later on, I enjoyed working there. You never could get away from it."
The new owner of Park News, Jim O'Donnell, pledged to retain the character of the store, which he referred to as "an institution" in Taunton. Although, O'Donnell said, he can't replace Clark.
"I just hope that I can live up to half the reputation he had," said O'Donnell, who also owns a pool repair business.
Clark said he met a lot of characters while working the newsstand, and said it was always a treat to see someone return who hasn't been around in a while.
"The best part is meeting people you see from yesterday, people that used to come in here 20 years ago, 30 years ago, 40 years ago," said Clark, who was often called "Clarkie" among pals. "They come from California, they come from Boston. They say, 'You're still here?' … It became a social thing. A lot of laughs. A lot of friendly times. When a lot of crazy guys came in there, it was even better."
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"New" WW1 veteran discovered.
108-year-old, Ned Hughes, from Accrington has emerged as a possible fourth surviving British veteran of the First World War. He was conscripted into the 51st Battalion of the Manchester Regiment and training as an infantryman less than six months before the war ended.
His personal files have been destroyed which is hampering authorities proving beyond doubt he is a surviving veteran, and although it seems he didnt actually see combat in this war at least, he has been recognised by the World War One Veteran's Society.
To read the full story in the Telegraph click here
Amazing story, I wonder how many more 'missing' veterans there are? It seems to me that any male that is 108 or older is a candidate, any ideas how we can get a list of all those people? There must be more than 4 of them…
the list of current survivors.


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January 31, 2014
Legislators convened in Springfield for the second spring session of the 98th Illinois General Assembly on January 28, 2014. This Springfield Update discusses the Governor's State of the State address and CMAP's state legislative agenda and framework.
State of the State
Governor Quinn's address focused on the economy, including recent efforts to improve fiscal stability through spending cuts and Medicaid and pension reforms. Despite these measures, a recent University of Illinois study indicates that the state's annual budget deficit could increase from $1 billion to $14 billion between 2014-25.
Several themes from the address affect GO TO 2040 priorities for infrastructure and human capital. Over the past five years, the state built or repaired over 7,500 miles of road and 1,300 bridges through its Illinois Jobs Now! Program. While the capital program has allowed metropolitan Chicago to make substantial improvements, revenue shortfalls jeopardize its future ability to fund infrastructure projects. The Governor also highlighted business incubators with potential to spur innovation in the Chicago region, including digital-start-up 1871 and the newly announced BioHub, which will focus on medical devices, medical IT, biotech, and pharmaceuticals. Governor Quinn also described the state's ongoing investments in workforce through college scholarships, community college training programs, and college preparatory programs.
CMAP's State Legislative Framework and Agenda
The State of Illinois is key to the successful implementation of GO TO 2040. It allocates nearly $50 billion annually across various program areas and plays a significant role in operating and maintaining the transportation system, promoting economic development, and maintaining and preserving our natural resources. Each year, CMAP shares its agenda of legislative issues with potential regional and statewide impacts with the Governor, legislators, and other state policy makers. This year's priorities include:
- Sustainable funding for comprehensive regional planning
- Steady and reliable capital investments for transportation
- Performance-based transportation funding
- Innovative strategies to manage congestion and to fund capital projects
- Comprehensive reforms to state tax policy
- Water supply planning and management
- Transparency and accountability
CMAP also updated its legislative framework, which guides agency responses to legislation using the principles set forth in GO TO 2040. Contact Gordon Smith to learn more about CMAP's state legislative priorities.


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Center Point residents still fighting new bridge plan
A Center Point community meeting hasn't dampened residents' criticism of plans for the state to spend $550,000 to replace an 85-year-old crossing over the Guadalupe River.
In fact, some of the 80 people who attended the session last week left even more upset over what they deem an unnecessary bridge project undertaken by the Texas Department of Transportation and Kerr County.
Resident Julie Ottaway called the gathering ?a sham,? saying county leaders were merely ?going through the motions of giving us a voice.?
It was the second town meeting on the fate of the Crossing Street Bridge ? a low-profile, narrow span that lacks railings ? that TxDOT Engineer Mike Coward says has been identified as unsafe.
He's proceeding with plans to replace the 61-foot crossing, as called for in a 2007 agreement with the county covering the replacement of six low-water bridges there.
?It kind of boils down to this,? Coward said Friday. ?You've got a bridge that is deficient, both structurally and functionally.?
Canceling the project would require the county to repay the state for the expenses incurred so far ? $127,000, he said.
County Judge Pat Tinley said the county has an obligation to provide safe crossings, and a chance to do so in Center Point at no cost to local taxpayers.
?The bridge needs to be replaced,? he said Friday. ?I think we're fiscally irresponsible to not do that.?
Canceling the project also would make it ineligible for state funding again until 2020, leaving the county with the bill if the bridge failed before then.
Because the bridge has been deemed unsafe, County Commissioner Bill Williams plans to call a public hearing on whether or not to close the road.
?My concerns are the county's exposure with respect to public safety if the bridge is not replaced, and paying TxDOT the money we owe,? he said Friday.
Coward said each day about 700 vehicles cross the span, which is just downstream from a river dam and just upstream from a high bridge on Texas 480, and beside a poorly maintained county park.
Talks by county officials Tuesday on upgrading the park were viewed with suspicion by some.
?This was to be the ?carrot' so we would accept the new bridge,? said resident Julie Leonard. ?It was very insulting to all.?
Residents were invited to form advisory panels to work with the county on the park plan, and to make design suggestions to TxDOT on the bridge.
?We want to give folks the bridge that they want,? Coward said.
That promises to be a challenge.


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My favorite hosts have toyed with the idea of doing The Wire, but they never have. I might see if I can find a series podcast, but it will be hard listening to anyone but Jim and A.Ron. Wilkins, are you going to listen to a show?
Here are two that I found
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/uns ... 16431?mt=2
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the ... 94388?mt=2
Incomplete though. Looks like they stopped mid-series the start of the year
Podcast for The Wire
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I started the Unspoiled! one yesterday. Seems like it's the first viewing for one host and a 3rd for the other.
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