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OTTAWA – The Harper government's new point man on aboriginal energy concerns in Western Canada is disappointed that some First Nations leaders are already criticizing his appointment and questioning his credibility.
Just one day after the government announced Vancouver lawyer Doug Eyford as its special representative on West Coast energy infrastructure, some First Nations leaders slammed the move.
In my belief, he probably has no credibility when it comes to dealing with First Nation issues
Chief Allan Adam of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation in Alberta said he feels the appointment is an attempt to "deal with" First Nations in an effort to push pipeline projects toward approval.
[np_storybar title="With First Nations envoy, Tories aim to divide and conquer on energy projects" link="https://business.financialpost.com/2013/03/19/tories-aim-to-divide-conquer-with-envoy-who-will-canvas-first-nations-on-energy-projects/?__lsa=62d2-4972″%5DThere is no deadlier combination for resources developers than opposition from a joint front of environmentalists and First Nations.
In what appears to be a divide-and-conquer strategy, Prime Minister Stephen Harper named a special representative Tuesday to investigate first hand why First Nations in British Columbia are so opposed to energy infrastructure projects, including the controversial Northern Gateway pipeline.
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"I think it's just another ploy that the government is using to get the First Nations away from the table," he told a news conference. "Saying 'you don't have a voice at the public hearings, but we will deal with you … and make backdoor arrangements.'"
"In my belief, he probably has no credibility when it comes to dealing with First Nation issues, because we've been negotiating with Canada on other issues for the last 20 years and he's supposed to be chief negotiator to settle all these claims," he added.
Eyford has been the government's chief negotiator on comprehensive land claims since 2007 and has also acted for First Nations in other talks. He recently acted for the federal government in reaching agreements with five First Nations communities on expanded container terminal facilities in Prince Rupert, B.C.
Told of the criticisms, Eyford said it would be "a shame" if some First Nations leaders decline to meet with him.
"I think it's a shame for them to be expressing that point of view," Eyford told Postmedia News. "I hope that the people that I interact with will be open-minded about my role and what I have been retained to do in terms of reporting back to the prime minister."
Eyford will speak with various stakeholders in projects in Alberta and B.C., looking at aboriginal participation in environmental protection, economic development and rights to natural resource wealth. He will submit a first report directly to Prime Minister Stephen Harper by the end of June, and a final report by the end of November.
"I haven't been retained to go out and sell the pipeline to anyone," Eyford said, saying his role is to engage First Nations and other parties to provide "an objective assessment of the factors that may affect First Nations participation in the various projects."
Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver said part of Eyford's role will be to generate ideas to advance aboriginal interests in the context of resource development.
"If someone is totally opposed, then it doesn't matter what we do. But I hope people will be open-minded and be willing to talk with him," he said, adding that Eyford is credible and well-respected.
The Assembly of First Nations expressed cautious optimism about the appointment, saying it's a "promising development."
"Mr. Eyford has his work cut out for him," AFN B.C. Regional Chief Jody Wilson-Raybould said in a statement. "We look forward to reading his report assuming it will be made public. Ultimately, accommodating our Nations can only occur with recognition of our rights followed by reconciliation with the Crown."
However, Oliver said Eyford's reports won't be made public, because he will sometimes need to guarantee confidentiality to get "the unvarnished story."
"He needs to guard the confidentiality of those conversations, or people are not going to open up," Oliver said, adding he has heard, but can't verify, that some aboriginal communities "are onside, but the temper of the times is such that they don't want to declare that they're onside."
A decision on the contentious Keystone XL pipeline, which would carry bitumen from Canada's oilsands to the U.S. Gulf Coast, is expected from the U.S. State Department in the coming months. Enbridge's Northern Gateway pipeline, which would run from the oilsands to the B.C. coast, is under review.
Aboriginal groups concerned about the potential environmental impact and a lack of consultation have criticized the proposed projects, which the government says are important for Canada's economic well-being.
Chief Adam and nine other First Nations leaders from Canada and the United States held a news conference in Ottawa on Wednesday to express their resolute opposition to both pipelines.
Chief Phil Lane Jr. of Ihanktonwan Dakota Nation in North Dakota said indigenous peoples and their allies planned to stop the pipelines "one way or the other." Opposition to the projects is expected to involve action in the courts and elsewhere.
On Wednesday, when the leaders were asked what else could be done, Adam simply replied: "It's going to be a long, hot summer."


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Farm Bureau Concerned Over Water Rules, College Ag Ambassadors
- The American Farm Bureau Federation has carefully reviewed EPA's proposed waters of the U.S. rule and AFBF President Bob Stallman says the results of the review are dismaying.
Stallman says the EPA proposal poses a serious threat to farmers, ranchers and other landowners. Waters, even ditches, are regulated even if they are miles from the nearest navigable waters even if they are not wet most of the time under the proposed rule.
The EPA says the new rule will reduce uncertainty, and Stallman says that is true, since most every feature where water flows or stands after a rainfall is federally regulated.
- The National FFA Organization has developed the National Collegiate Agriculture Ambassadors program sponsored in part by Syngenta.
The FFA Ag Ambassador program helps educate a broad audience on food production.
Every year 20 college students across the U.S. are selected to participate in this program. They serve as ambassadors for one year speaking at local schools, colleges, FFA Chapters, civic organizations and Farm Bureau groups on the importance of sustainable agriculture.


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The Periodic Table of Irrational Nonsense Ver 3.0
Following the success of the Periodic Table of Irrational Nonsense a few years back, I produced an all new updated version of the table which was exclusively available as a 4 page pull-out poster inside Vol. 24 No. 1 of the Skeptic Magazine. You can still get a copy of the poster by ordering a back issue of the Skeptic Magazine, but here, for the first time, is the updated table. (now with pan and zoom)
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By DOUG FERGUSON, AP Golf Writer 3 hours, 34 minutes ago
FARMINGDALE, N.Y. (AP)—Ricky Barnes flashed a smile as big as his six-shot lead.
He was double digits under par, only the fourth player in U.S. Open history to get that low. He had a six-shot lead over his closest rival, while the stars struggled to make up ground. Phil Mickelson was making as many bogeys as birdies. Tiger Woods fell 15 shots behind.
It all changed in a New York minute.
When darkness settled over Bethpage Black as the final round was still young, Barnes was tied for the lead with Lucas Glover. Both of them were at 7-under par, five shots clear of anyone else. Neither has ever faced the nerves of contending in a major.
What once appeared to be a two-man race suddenly had endless possibilities:
— Mickelson made two long birdie putts on his last three holes for a 69 in the third round, and after pars on the two holes he played in the final round, he was only five shots behind.
— David Duval, a former British Open champion without a victory in eight years, kept coming back from sluggish starts and found himself very much in the hunt at 2 under with 16 holes to play.
— Woods finished a frustrating day on the greens with an eight-foot birdie putt on the 489-yard seventh hole, putting him at even par in the tournament for the first time since the 14th hole of the opening round. He was seven shots behind with 11 to play.
Barnes, who finished the third round of this rain-delayed U.S. Open with a one-shot lead at 8-under 202, chopped his way to bogey on the opening hole of the final round to lose his lead. Then he hooked his tee shot into gnarly clumps of the grass along a hillside left of the fairway on No. 2.
When the horn sounded to stop play, he quickly marked his position and walked briskly off the course.
"It's going to be pressure-packed tomorrow," Glover said. "I'll sleep fine. If not, I guess I'll be tired."
Mickelson, determined to bring a fairy-tale finish to a U.S. Open career filled with disappointment, was on the third tee and had plenty of golf left. He has been the runner-up four times in the U.S. Open—three times in New York— and is desperate to bring a silver trophy of cheer home to a wife who is battling breast cancer.
"I'm one good round away," Mickelson said, excited at the possibilities.
Hunter Mahan and Ross Fisher of England were also at 2 under. Former Masters champion Mike Weir was at 1 under.
Woods at least left Bethpage Black in good spirits.
"It was nice to end the day with a birdie on one of the most difficult holes of the week," Woods said.
The USGA felt good enough about the forecast Monday to resume the final round at 9 a.m., leaving enough time for an 18-hole playoff if it comes to that.
It will be the first time a U.S. Open ended in regulation on Monday since Larry Nelson won at Oakmont in 1983.
And if the 2 1/2 hours of golf played in the final round were any indication, it could be as much about survival as a big charge. The third round ended with 11 players under par. When play was suspended, only seven remained.
Tiger Woods reacts after his chip shot to the fifth green during the final round of the U.S. Open Golf Championship at Bethpage State Park's Black Course in Farmingdale, N.Y., Sunday, June 21, 2009.
Barnes looked as though he might blow this major wide open after rolling in a 25-foot eagle putt on No. 4 in the third round to reach 11 under, joining Gil Morgan (1992), Woods (2000) and Jim Furyk (2003) as the only players to reach double digits under par in a U.S. Open. When he reached the 10th tee, he was six shots clear of Glover.
What looked like a breeze turned into a struggle, however.
Barnes hit only three fairways on the back nine, and after steadying himself with a 35-foot birdie putt on the 17th, he failed to save par on the 18th by missing a four-foot putt that never touched the hole. He wound up with a 70 to finish 54 holes at 8-under 202.
Glover rallied behind flawless golf that included three birdies and a 32 on the back nine and also shot 70 to stay one behind.
"I knew it was going to be wet and tough, and I knew my nerves would be tested," Barnes said. "I wouldn't have liked to bogey the last hole and end it that way. But I've got to go back, take my shoes off and think, 'Hey, I shot even par on Saturday with the lead.' If I go out and do the same thing, someone is going to have to really come back low … to catch me."
Tiger Woods reacts after his tee shot on the fourth hole during the final round of the U.S. Open Golf Championship at Bethpage State Park's Black Course in Farmingdale, N.Y., Sunday, June 21, 2009.
The finish might be as unpredictable as the weather that has otherwise made a mess of this U.S. Open.
Mickelson could be the one player to make the misery of slogging through the mud over five days easy to forget. He already is a crowd favorite in New York, and the affection for him has become even more tangible since disclosing that his wife, Amy, has breast cancer.
Lefty made his share of mistakes, as always, but he countered with seven birdies in the third round to give himself a chance. Not even a six-shot deficit bothered him.
"I feel like if I can get a hot round going, I can make up the difference," he said.
For the second straight round, Duval was on the verge of falling away until he picked himself back up. Right when he was about to fall back to par, Duval hit a shot out of trampled rough and around a tree to 10 feet for birdie on the 16th, and he hit a 7-iron to 7 feet on the final hole for another birdie and a 70.
He again started sluggishly in the final round, taking bogey from the rough on No. 1 and having to save par from thick grass short of the green at No. 2. Duval has not won in eight years, and he has not finished in the top 10 since 2002.
Retief Goosen, left, of South Africa, chats with Mike Weir, of Canada, on the second green during the final round of the U.S. Open Golf Championship at Bethpage State Park's Black Course in Farmingdale, N.Y., Sunday, June 21, 2009.
Woods made only one mistake in the third round—taking two hacks with the wedge to escape knee-high grass around the 14th green—but more troubling was that he made only three birdies after giving himself so many chances inside 15 feet. He had to settle for a 68 and was nine shots behind. He has never won a tournament trailing by more than eight going into the final round.
"Obviously, it's not totally in my control," Woods said. "Only thing I can control is whether I can play a good one or not."
Most players had a hard time remembering what day it was in this on-again, off-again Open in which no round has been completed on the day it started. There was another 4 1/2 -hour delay Sunday morning because of nearly an inch of rain overnight.
Mickelson has a tropical vacation planned with his wife and their three children before her July 1 surgery for breast cancer, although he was in no hurry to get home now. He has been runner-up four times in this major—already tied for the record—and talked earlier this week about Amy leaving him messages to bring home the trophy.
The largest final-round U.S. Open comeback is seven shots in 1960. Mickelson was one closer than that, and he could practically taste it.
"Anything can happen in a U.S. Open," he said.
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Bush administration officials are voicing increasing anger at what they say has been Saudi Arabia's counterproductive role in the Iraq war. They say that beyond regarding Mr. Maliki as an Iranian agent, the Saudis have offered financial support to Sunni groups in Iraq. Of an estimated 60 to 80 foreign fighters who enter Iraq each month, American military and intelligence officials say that nearly half are coming from Saudi Arabia and that the Saudis have not done enough to stem the flow.The Saudis are delivering on a promise they made late last November. Writing in the Washington Post, senior security adviser to Saudi Arabia said his government was considering three options:
• providing Sunni military leaders (ex-Iraqi officer corps, now the backbone of the insurgency) with funding and arms.The first two are already occurring. Obaid's tone indicated the kingdom's seriousness in writing that "Saudi Arabia will intervene to prevent Iranian-backed Shiite militias from massacring Iraqi Sunni Muslims once the United States begins pulling out of Iraq."
• establishing new Sunni brigades to combat the Iranian-backed Shiite militias.
• choking off Iran's ability to fund the militias by flooding the oil market.
The royal family has historically been keen on providing indirect support through transporting weapons and bankrolling groups engaged in the actual fighting, rather than assuming a direct role. This was the case during the Soviet War in Afghanistan and the coming to power of the Taliban in Afghanistan.
But the situation in Iraq hits close to home. Prior to the US-led invasion in 2003, Iraq used to be the Muslim world's Sunni-Shia faultline. By knocking out the Baathists, the Shia majority, backed by Iran, has steadily been increasing its control of Iraq. And so the line has shifted westward, perhaps inside of Saudi Arabia, along the oil-rich Persian Gulf coast, home to many of the kingdom's minority Shias.
It's little wonder that Saudi Arabia is attempting to undermine Shia dominance in Iraq:
During a high-level meeting in Riyadh in January, Saudi officials confronted a top American envoy with documents that seemed to suggest that Iraq's prime minister could not be trusted.The vulpine King Abdullah scoffed at US envoy Khalizad's protestations about the evidence of a strong tie between Iraq PM al-Maliki and Muqtada al-Sadr, which the US believes to be forged. I wouldn't doubt that it was. It doesn't really matter, though, as Saudi Arabia is intent on shoring up support for Sunnis in Iraq in any case:
One purported to be an early alert from the prime minister, Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, to the radical Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr warning him to lie low during the coming American troop increase, which was aimed in part at Mr. Sadr's militia. Another document purported to offer proof that Mr. Maliki was an agent of Iran.
Saudi Arabia months ago made a pitch to enlist other Persian Gulf countries to take a direct role in supporting Sunni tribal groups in Iraq, said one former American ambassador with close ties to officials in the Middle East. The former ambassador, Edward W. Gnehm, who has served in Kuwait and Jordan, said that during a recent trip to the region he was told that Saudi Arabia had pressed other members of the Gulf Cooperation Council — which includes Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Bahrain and Oman — to give financial support to Sunnis in Iraq. The Saudis made this effort last December, Mr. Gnehm said.The foundations for a proxy war between the Sunni Middle East and Shiites in Iraq and Iran are being laid. The US troop increase is merely delaying the conflict from its inevitable explosion into the open. The Iraqi parliament has just begun a month-long vacation, ostensibly oblivious to the US' sense of urgency in getting the federal government to 'stand up'. In reality, the Shia-dominated parliament is happy to see the US leave anytime now, so the real power consolidation can begin.
While complaining about Saudi Arabia's increasing influence in Iraq, we're giving them the goods to combat Iran on the very same battlefield of Iraq:
The United States on Monday announced military aid packages worth more than $43 billion for Egypt, Israel, Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states in an effort to bolster Mideast allies against Iran and others.If it weren't the US government dealing with Middle Eastern power politics, I'd be stultified.
The war in Iraq has been disastrous. Iran, our putative arch-antagonist in the region, has benefitted more than any other country from our actions. The execution of the man who slaughtered half a million Iranians in the eighties and the removal of the Saudi-supported, Sunni Taliban in Afghanistan eradicated the pincered position Iran had been in. Unease over security in oil production and sub-optimal outputs in Iraq following the American invasion provided Persia with greater oil revenues than it'd enjoyed in decades.
We have to get out of the Middle East. The British and the French both had to before us. We should, in exiting, work to guarantee that no other power feels compelled to get sucked into the desert miasma by working to separate the West from the Islamic world as thoroughly as is possible.


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Posting Wine Education Wednesday on a Thursday… because I'm a day late and because I wanted it to coincide with the great deal Wine.com has on a fantastic Côte-Rôtie wine –the Domaine Duclaux 2004. Delicious stuff, usually $50 and on sale for $24.99. But first, a bit about the region:
Region: Côte-Rôtie
Appellation & Country: Northern Rhône region of France, near the town of Ampuis, a bit south of the larger city of Lyon.
Grapes: Syrah is the only red grape permitted, but up to 20% of Viognier can be blended in during fermentation.
Climate & Soils: Côte Rôtie translates into "roasted slope," which accurately describes where the grapes are grown for these wines. The steep, terraced hills of Côte-Rôtie are indeed roasted during the summer due to their facing south. The soil is primarily schist, and picking grapes can be a challenge due to the steepness and the rocky terrain. I've climbed these slopes before trying to get some good shots of vines, and trust me, it's tricky. Can't imagine trying to pick grapes from each vine. So, while most pickers are more adept than I, other options like pulleys and such are occasionally used.
The main two slopes are the Côte Blonde and the Côte Brune. Aptly named as the slope of the Côte Blonde has mainly granite, with a limestone element that makes the soils more white. On the other hand, the Cote Brune has more schist and an iron content that darkens the soils making them more brown in color.
How does the wine taste? Since the grape is Syrah, you're going to get some concentrated dark fruits and a definite element of spice. But, Côte Rôtie is known for being one of the more elegant appellations of the Northern Rhône. Unlike Hermitage or Cornas, Côte Rôtie wines carry descriptors like "finesse" and "feminine." These characteristics have some to do with the soil and climate, but also with that small percentage of Viognier that is added during fermentation. The co-fermentation of Viognier with Syrah increases the aromatics of the wine, while deepening its color and softening the texture. Though up to 20% is permitted, most producers include about 3% – 5%. Typical notes for a Côte Rôtie include raspberry & blackberry, violet & other floral notes and a touch of spice. Tannins are refined, texture is soft but also rich and round. Wines from the Côte Blonde are described as more elegant, while the wines of the Côte Brune are known for a bit more power and backbone. Age-worthy, wines are also often approachable while young. Not to say these wines are lightweights! They can be quite powerful in their seductiveness. And quite addictive, too.
Notable Producers: Guigal is by far the most well-known producer in Côte Rôtie. Established in the 1940's, Guigal owns many vineyards in the appellation and makes some of the most sought-after wines of the region – the "La-Las" – which are La Mouline, La Landonne & La Turque. Get a hold of these three wines to experience the powerful finesse Côte Rôtie can offer. Other producers to note include: Vidal-Fleury (which is owned by Guigal), Chapoutier, Jaboulet and Duclaux. If you can find them, Ogier, Clusel-Roch and Jean-Michel Stéphan are quite delicious examples of what Côte Rôtie offers.
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Happy Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge pre-order day UK residents! If you've been anxiously fiddling and waiting for Samsung's new flagship to land in your hands, you are now one step closer to fulfilling that goal. Many UK carriers and sellers have started today their pre-orders for the devices, with various offers, bundles, colors, and configurations to choose from. Here are the details.
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An Excerpt from John Main, "Being Present Now," DOOR TO SILENCE: An Anthology for Christian Meditation (London: Canterbury Press, 2008), pp. 82-83.
If we are truly attentive to the mantra we cannot image God. We cannot construct any idea or icon of God. In the context of this pure attention, pure faith, we learn that all images, ideas, memories and words fall short of the reality we are paying attention to.
They are unreal. They are illusion. So in meditation we realize that God is not an absent memory or an abstract dream. God is.
In the simplicity and faithfulness of the practice God is known not as [an entity] we think about or imagine or talk to or analyse, but as all reality. To go forward to meet God in pure attention is to know and to be known by God. To know is to love. To be loved is to be known. To be loved by God is to love God. We need to divest ourselves of all the intermediary processes. All images, thoughts and language must go.
The simplifying practice of saying the mantra teaches us to pay full attention to what is directly. To pay full attention to the One who is personally. To prepare for this we learn the discipline of mindfulness. We learn the discipline of selflessness, not to be thinking of ourselves. Not to be caught up in a web of our own self-reflective weaving. Not to be snared by external circumstances. But to live from the depth of our own being, from the depth of being itself.
Meditation is a discipline of presence. By stillness of body and spirit we learn to be wholly present to ourselves, to our situation, to our place. It is not running away. By staying rooted in our own being we become present to its source. We become rooted in being itself. Through all the changing circumstances of life, nothing can shake us.
The process is gradual. It requires patience. And faithfulness. And discipline. And humility.
The humility of meditation is to put aside all self-important questioning. To put aside self-importance means to experience ourselves poor, divested of ego, as we learn how to be. To be present to the presence. We learn, not out of our own cleverness, but from the source of wisdom itself, the Spirit of God.
After meditation: from TALKS WITH RAMANA MAHARSHI: On Realizing Abiding Peace and Happiness (Carlsbad, CA: Inner Directions, 2001), pp. 70-71.
The ultimate Truth is so simple. It is nothing more than being in the pristine state. This is all that need be said. Still it is a wonder that to teach this simple Truth there should come into being so many religions, creeds, methods, and disputes among them. . Oh, the pity!. . . .[Because people] want something elaborate and attractive and puzzling, so many religions have come into existence and each of them is so complex, and each creed in each religion has its own adherents and antagonists.
For example, an ordinary Christian will not be satisfied unless he is told that God is somewhere in the far-off Heavens not to be reached by us unaided. . . .If told the simple truth—"The Kingdom of Heaven is within you"---he is not satisfied and will read complex and farfetched meanings into such statements. Mature minds alone can grasp the simple Truth in all its nakedness.
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It was not a good weekend on the scoreboard watching front. Washington beat Boston and Toronto in back-to-back efforts, Buffalo picked up two points in one of those dreaded three-point games against Ottawa, and Florida shutout Carolina on Sunday.
Those unfavourable results, coupled with the Jets' pair of road losses in western Canada last week, have the local team sitting four points behind eighth-place Washington, and a full five points behind Florida for the Southeast Division lead.
Considering the Jets have deceptively held a spot over the last few weeks based on the number of additional games they had played over their conference rivals, the fact they are on the outside looking in now that things have evened up shouldn't come as a surprise to many.
By the time the Jets return to the ice for their next game Wednesday against Dallas at the MTS Centre, they will have one game in hand on Washington, Buffalo and Toronto, and will have played the same number of games as Tampa and Florida.
They'll know what's in front of them for a change and can better determine what it'll take to get there, but it's quite a simple formula for success at this point: Just win, baby.
And a three-game sweep of this brief homestand, against red-hot Dallas and divisional opponents' Washington and Carolina, would go a long way towards fulfilling their playoff aspirations.
As of today, Sports Club Stats has the Jets' odds of making the playoffs at 21 per cent. It doesn't look favourable, but all hope is not lost yet. A record of 8-3-2 improves their odds to 90 per cent. Of their remaining 13, the Jets have two games apiece against the Capitals, Hurricanes and Lightning, and one against the division leading Panthers. If they can pick up 11 of a possible 14 points in those and manage a 3-2-1 record in their remaining games against Pittsburgh, Nashville, Ottawa, NYR, and NYI, that 8-3-2 record will become reality. Probable? Maybe not, but it's not impossible, either.
The schedule looks daunting at a glance, but may have more winnable games on it than meets the eye. A home game against Ottawa and a road matchup versus the hapless Islanders should account for two victories. The New York Rangers and Pittsburgh Penguins will be jockeying for their division lead, but do have playoff spots all but locked up. Some complacency may creep into their games. The same could be said for Nashville, who sits comfortably in fifth in the West but is a whole 10 points back of the division leading St. Louis Blues. It could be argued they'd be better off falling to sixth to face the Pacific Division champion rather than Detroit in the 4v5 game. I'm not suggesting they'll throw games in that pursuit, but they shouldn't be able to match the Jets' desperation because they aren't in a life-or-death scenario. A 1-2-1 mark against those four looks managable, but that's enough speculation on my part. One game at a time will have to be the Jets mantra, and I'm sure Claude Noel will preach that exact message.
The next biggest game of the year comes Wednesday, and we can expect to hear that phrase repeated ad nauseum over the next three weeks. Here's hoping we do hear it a lot.


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CALIFORNIA COMPUTER STOLEN http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_22123362/computer-stolen-from-watsonville-elementary-school
Computer stolen from Watsonville elementary school
Posted: 12/04/2012 02:30:55 PM PST
Updated: 12/04/2012 02:32:58 PM PST
WATSONVILLE - A computer was stolen from Starlight Elementary in a burglary early Monday morning. Police said they were unsure if it was related to three other school burglaries in late November that targeted computers in Corralitos, Aptos and Live Oak.
About 4:35 a.m. Monday, someone broke in to a classroom through a window at the school at 225 Hammer Drive, said Watsonville police Sgt. Saul Gonzalez. An alarm tripped and a computer was taken.
Police said there was no suspect information.
The night of Nov. 26 or early Nov. 27, Bradley Elementary School in Corralitos, Mar Vista Elementary School in Aptos and Live Oak Elementary School were burglarized.
Someone tried to steal computers at all the schools but were only successful in Live Oak. Equipment was secured to furniture at the other schools.
Watsonville police ask anyone with information to call investigations at 768-3350 or leave an anonymous tip on the tipline at 768-3544.


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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The Lipscomb men's and women's tennis teams play host to ETSU and USC Upstate this weekend at the Huston-Marsh-Griffith Tennis Center.
Both the Bison and Lady Bison are coming off of a two-match trip through Georgia. Both teams picked up a win over Mercer but fell to Kennesaw State.
As the men enter their matchups this weekend, head coach Andrew Harris said mental preparation is key.
"The big idea that we have been working on this week is staying focused on what we can control," Harris said. "Not worrying about external factors but understanding the importance of home court advantage is important. If you can take ownership of the fact that you have an obligation to protect your home courts, then that is a huge part of it.
"Individually, we need to stay focused in our doubles and make sure that in singles we get out to strong starts and come with the mentality that we will not give an inch. Once we are able to do that then we can begin to move on from there. We are looking forward to the weekend and getting back on track."
The Bison head into this weekend with a 1-2 Atlantic Sun record, while No. 72 ETSU leads the conference with a 4-0 record. USC Upstate, on the other hand, holds a 1-3 record heading into the matchup.
The Lady Bison also enter this weekend with a 1-2 A-Sun record. The ETSU women hold a 3-1 record, while USC Upstate only boasts a 1-3 record.
Harris said for the women to come out on top this weekend, they need to focus on execution.
"After splitting the road matches against KSU and Mercer, one thing that will be evident is that we are in every match," Harris said. "It's a matter of whether or not our execution is at the level it needs to be to win the match. Our success needs to be determined by our decision making and understanding of our game identity.
"Once we are able to come back to that in crucial areas and begin to master that end of things, then we will be solid moving forward. Our biggest challenge is understanding our identity during those situations."
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CHICAS on the WATER
Richard Harrold has led quite a few kayak and canoeing trips along the Tualatin River over the years, but the Beaverton resident thinks the group from Forest Grove that came to paddle at Rood Bridge Park last Friday was the liveliest and the loudest of them all.
This is one of my favorite groups because of all the excitement, said Harrold. Youve never seen so many smiles, or heard so many screams.
The paddlers were part of a summer camp of 70 girls sponsored by Adelantes Chicas, a year-round youth development program run by the Forest Grove-based nonprofit Adelante Mujeres. Adelante Chicas empowers Latina girls by helping them get good grades, learn life skills and adopt healthy lifestyles, as well as how to apply to college. Field trips like the one to Rood Bridge Park expose the girls to careers in science, arts and the environment.
I just love paddling into the water and splashing each other! said Itziel, a 9-year-old from Cornelius.
Or you could just get a little wet when you raise the paddle over your head, added her equally young friend, Danitza. Then you can lean back and relax for a little.
Water and giggles sprayed through the air over the calm, shaded river along with shouts and laughter in Spanish, English and sheer gibberish as second-graders, middle-schoolers and even high-schoolers floated and collided into each other and the river banks in a happy chaos.
This camp is a great resource for these kids, said Chicas leader and parent Patricia Alvarado. Otherwise, most of them would be at home with a babysitter, and one of our girls would be at a migrant worker camp picking berries.
Alvarado knows how helpful Chicas can be from the experience of her own daughter.
Briana was very shy, with heart conditions and asthma, but when she got home from this camp she was amazed. She said, Mom, these girls have black hair and brown eyes like me and speak Spanish like me! She was very excited; it was a big thing for her identity as a Latina.
Adelantes Chicas is not just supportive of the task of building identity its also effective in helping Latina girls support themselves through education. According to Cristina Delgado, the site facilitator for Adelante Mujeres, all eight of the senior Chicas girls who were enrolled at Forest Grove High School and high schools in Hillsboro graduated and are now college-bound to schools as close as Portland Community College or as far away as Cottey College in Missouri.
Though most of the 350 Chicas come from low-income migrant families, Adelante Mujeres helps pay for college with an individual development accounts program that matches every dollar a girl saves with three dollars from Sherwood-based Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) of Oregon. The maximum a girl can save is $3,000. With the funds match of $9,000, that makes a total of $12,000 that can be spent on tuition fees, textbooks and computers.
The week leading up to Fridays river trip was themed Healthy Lifestyles. The girls learned about healthy nutrition and about their impact on nature. Leading them through the week was Isabel LaCourse, environmental education coordinator for the Tualatin Riverkeepers, a nonprofit tasked with taking care of the Tualatin watershed.
The focus is to connect to a natural area and find out how our choices affect the world around us ... and therefore, us, said LaCourse.
Earlier in the week, LaCourse and her young pupils made salves and lip balm out of beeswax and olive oil, and they also went out to the B Street Trail in Forest Grove to study macro-invertebrates, tiny organisms that are key indicators of the health of an ecosystem.
Even on Wednesday when it was really hot out, the third- and fourth-graders were still excited to go out and count mayflies, said LaCourse.
The river lessons have piqued already-inquisitive minds.
The girls parents call me and ask, What is my daughter talking about macro-invertebrates? said Alvarado. Theyre really proud of what theyve learned. The girls walk through a park and say thats a Japanese tree, or thats an elm. Then they say I wont use anything chemical, and they go to safecosmetics.org to figure out which products have bad chemicals in them.
After a quick lunch break on Friday, the girls learned safe fishing techniques from an Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife volunteer. But instead of fish, it was the girls who were caught hook, line and sinker by the experience.
I just like looking at nature, hanging out with each other, and helping each other out when we get confused or lost, said Joselyn, a 10-year-old from Cornelius. Mother Nature didnt make electronics, she made plants and trees and flowers.
Its such a beautiful experience being outside in nature instead of being inside playing video games, said Joselyns friend, Amalia.
We also found out that microbeads in face soap are really bad, Joselyn explained. They get flushed down into the water supply where a fish might confuse it with plankton. Then as the chemicals go up the food chain we eventually get a big dose of it.
While the Chicas have this week off, next week will be Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) week, where the girls will explore the right side of their brains by shooting off bottle rockets and meeting with Latina engineers at the Intel campus in Hillsboro.
When the girls go to places like Intel and meet with Latina engineers they discover new role models for themselves, said Alvarado. Those are challenging jobs, but theyre very inspiring.


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Fate of hanging Mini Cooper is up in the air
The moral of this story: Get a permit before you attach what looks like a compact car to the side of a building.
A fiberglass shell of a Mini Cooper hangs in the balance in a tussle between Houston public works officials and the owners of a building on Kirby where the ersatz car is affixed above a public sidewalk.
City officials have ordered the sidewalk cordoned off and twice cited the "car" - not for parking violations, but for code issues.
"You can't just put up a sign without a permit," said public works spokesman Alvin Wright.
Workers at Internum, a furniture store that occupies the building at 3303 Kirby, referred questions to a spokesman, Patrick Chiu, who did not return phone messages Tuesday.
Regardless of its appearance, Wright said the city considers the car just like any other large display or sign. Installation requires city approval when such objects hang over a public sidewalk or can adversely affect traffic around the building, he explained.
"If this was an ordinary sign, it follows the same process," Wright said.
Of course, a fake Mini Cooper isn't a neon sign. Supporters and gawkers lined up Tuesday to get a look at the car, which has been mounted on the front of the building since mid-December.
"I don't see what the problem is; it's not going to fall," said David Webber, 25, who drives a Mini and swung by on his way to lunch Tuesday.
Others cheered the whimsy of this bit of urban design.
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Baruch College Incubates Next Generation of Student Entrepreneurs and Partners With Corporations to Host SmartPitch Competition
NEW YORK, NY � January 9, 2013�This spring a diverse set of young entrepreneurs from U.S. colleges and universities will compete in the 11th Annual SmartPitch Challenge, hosted by Baruch College and IBM. The competition, which celebrates New York City as a center for innovation and new business development, gives student entrepreneurs an opportunity to create and validate a business concept, pitch their idea and follow a business plan to ultimately launch their business.
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The SmartPitch Challenge is a partnership of the CUNY Institute for Virtual Enterprise (IVE), the Lawrence N. Field Center for Entrepreneurship at Baruch College and IBM. SmartPitch is the culmination of a Virtual Incubation process that invites student entrepreneurs to develop, pitch, validate and launch business ideas in a social networking environment.
The CUNY Institute for Virtual Enterprise (IVE) was a pioneer when it launched a social networking platform to provide virtual mentoring and resources for student entrepreneurs in 2007.� During the SmartPitch Competition, this platform will serve as the� virtual co-working space to engage mentors, ask experts and find peer support. In addition,� there will be a series of face-to-face support events, workshops, and roundtables leading �to the SmartPitch Challenge competition on June 6, where student entrepreneurs will make their presentations "pitches" and compete against other U.S. universities and colleges. The best teams will be invited to present their concepts at the SmartPitch Event on June 6, 2013 and compete for $8,500 in prizes. The 1st Place team receives $5,000; 2nd Place receives $2,500 and 3rd Place receives $1,000. The top five winning teams will be selected to participate in a virtual business incubator ending with the launch of their concepts. The incubator includes: entrepreneurship boot camp, incubator space, expert IBM mentorships, access to the entrepreneurship network in virtual and real space, and access to stipends and angel investors. The winners will also present their new businesses in the fall, 2013 and be recognized as IVE Fellows in a continuing support network.
"SmartPitch is an opportunity for young entrepreneurs to explore their creativity, innovate and create a business. This competition is a celebration of entrepreneurship and an opportunity to realize the American dream of launching a business. Baruch is creating the next generation of innovative business leaders," said Dr. Stuart Schulman, Professor of Management and Executive Director, CUNY Institute for Virtual Enterprise.
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Baruch College is a senior college in the City University of New York (CUNY) with a total enrollment of more than 17,000 students, who represent 160 countries and speak more than 100 languages. Ranked among the top 15% of U.S. colleges and the No. 5 public regional university, Baruch College is regularly recognized as among the most ethnically diverse colleges in the country. As a public institution with a tradition of academic excellence, Baruch College offers accessibility and opportunity for students from every corner of New York City and from around the world.� For more about Baruch College, go to http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/.
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So, then if I don't answer...Bryan is right? What if I answer and he's wrong? Have I fought in a ring? Yes. Have I fought in the street? Yes. Did I win or lose? Both. Hey guys, anybody that wants to know a little bit about me....just give a call @ 916-514-0100 or drop an email to me at firstname.lastname@example.com. I'm more than happy to answer any questions you may have, if you are thinking about coming and training at our facility. Don't listen to goofs with vendettas on the internet...come down and try out our place for yourself...then you can judge if we know what we are doing or not. BTW: 3rd Dan Unarmed Combatives, under Hock; 1st Dan Knife/Counter Knife, under Hock; Black Belt in Xtreme Freestyle under Jim McCann; Certified JKD Instructor under Tim Tackett....You want to know what I'm capable of doing? Just call these prominent instructors for a reference.
Wow...speaking of chuckles...
Well, Bryan, you show me yours and I'll show you mine. What makes you any kind of expert?Kent
Very well, where do I begin? My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a fifteen year old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet. My father would womanize, he would drink, he would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Some times he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy, the sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. My childhood was typical, summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When I was insolent I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds, pretty standard really. At the age of 12 I received my first scribe. At the age of fourteen, a Zoroastrian named Vilma ritualistically shaved my testicles. There really is nothing like a shorn scrotum, it's breathtaking, I suggest you try it.
To hear a verbal narration of Keith's history, see the last 40% of this video clip, spoken by his brother...the one...Dr Evil...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVaz8ZZxoxoHock
He is actually making a joke about HIS past.But if you are a hyper-sensitive little lilly, you might think it was about you.Dr Evil is hysterical. I love those speeches!You must be having a bad night. Why don't you take the rest of the night off.Hock
Bryan-take a break man-every one gets razzed on the forum at one time or another-even me the old white wolf (with no certificate) When i get razzed or even worse i just call the grand master of the wolf clan and he says to me- Look-wolfie- you is a Jersey boy who grew up getting your ass kicked and kicking some also-now you is 72 -still breathing and panting when it gets hot like a wolfie should-and wolfie you need another tatoo-quickly- which i fully intend to do.........and with that i will say to you and all reading this -Goodnight Chesty- whereever you are-semper fucking fi...WW (ELB) speed of light
Have I fought in a ring? Yes. Have I fought in the street? Yes. Did I win or lose? Both.
LOL!I'm just fuckin' with you Bryan. I did answer your questions, though. Quote from: Keith Miller on October 09, 2010, 11:48:31 AMHave I fought in a ring? Yes. Have I fought in the street? Yes. Did I win or lose? Both. Had quite a few fights growing up, as I was the skinny nerdy kid and had to defend my self. As an adult, I've walked away from more than my fair share. Had a few amateur kickboxing matches...just local stuff, and I never did too good. Worked security a few times, and decided it was a dick job, cleaning up empties and mopping the bathroom after work was not that glamorous (it sure ain't "Roadhouse"). But I do train and spar with Professional and Amateur MMA fighters every day. What I am able to do is limited, these days due to a heart problem...but I can hold my own with them until their conditioning takes over. They know this, and I think they might take it easy on "The Old Man" sometimes...but at least they make me feel like they are trying to beat me. As far as my grappling skills go...I have 3 NAGA Gold Medal Winners (one repeat winner) on my Fight Team. Imagine what we could do if we knew Brazilian Jiu Jitsu!But, back to business. Who wants to hear the continuing Chronicles of Milldog?
I would like to say that I laughed my ass off. Starting with Bryan's post implying that he is a BAMF, and then even more with Keith's post....maybe this should get moved to Arnold's Bus?Seriously...funny stuff to read after a good night at the bar.Kent
Keith--one thought though- you look almost as old as me-
Good enough, I was just curious about your background.
Being on board the USS Arizona in the 1920's does not have anything to do with being on the USS Arizona on Dec 7,1942.
Being on the USS Arizona in 1920 was like being on any other Battle ship in peace time.
While your grandfather had an exciting life ,what does it have to do with you,aside from he made you into a person who could negotiate the woods?
I like the Lineage to WWII combatives because your Grand Father was in the Navy in the Pacific in the 1920's.
Was he working with Fairbairn in the 1926 when Fairbairn started to develop tactics for what was the Chinese version of a SWAT team ?
WWII combatives were developed for use with the British,Canadian and US Militaries, Commando and Rangers in WWII,1940's,so claiming some kind of lineage to it is hard to do with some one in the Navy in China in the 1920's.Nice try though.
Other than Bouncing in a Tough Bar in Florida and some bar/street fights in Asia,some hunting skills from grandad,what makes you an expert ?A white belt in Judo ?
Before you self admitted Zero skills ,just some bits and pieces ,and now you have a Bio with a History and lineage,lol.
As I have said before Put up your skills.Put up Combinations used in your training,don't tell us about Grandad being a Bad Ass sailor.
My Grandad was Tough and he showed me some Hunting skills and now I am Tough ,LOL,LOL
Again you are back on here spewing your BS about nothing as you know nothing and contribute nothing to any Martial forum.
At leats Keith and Kent put up their method of training.
I asked you before to put up a skill and you said you relied on Bitting the Achillies,and then defended its use,yet you try to run down Keith who has training ,skill and experience ?
Another thread screwed because ole Bryan is back,lol.Keith that is some funny stuff.
Quote from: Bryan on October 10, 2010, 10:51:08 AMGood enough, I was just curious about your background.Cool, let's squash it then. I was just having a little fun at your expense...no hard feelings?I am curious however about your own training lineage. I hope you would take the time to answer the following. Short answers are fine...yes or no. I don't need you to go into detail.1. Do you have any Black Belts?2. What prominent/named instructors have you trained with?3. Do you have an certificates of completion for any martial courses?4. If so, in what system?5. Other than street fighting and training with your grandfather...what else could you produce to show expertise in the martial arts?Once again, this is not meant as a witch hunt. I simply would like to know where we stand on one another. I told my story...some of it verifiable and some not so verifiable. However, I do have a paper trail of my accomplishments in the martial arts. Just curious about your accomplishments.Thanks, Ashtowan


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December 08, 2013, 01:04:24 PM »
I have been accepted to Hawaii and UNLV law school, but I am not sure which school I want to attend.
My plan is to practice law in Hawaii, but it would be ideal to study law in UNLV, which is located in my home state. However, I know UNLV Boyd is a regional school and its employment prospects are higher in Nevada than anywhere else.
I'm aware of the high cost of living in Hawaii, and I am not concerned about living in luxury or working with a high wage. My goal is to live a simple life. What is of main concern to me is finding employment after I leave law school and I made practicing law in Hawaii as one of my goals. I have family who are close to me that are planning to live in Hawaii within the next decade, and I want to live near them. Apparently, UNLV has better employment prospects, yet unfortunately there is a chance I will be geographically limited to where I can find legal work.
So, this is a tough decision. Would studying at UNLV, building my career as a lawyer in Nevada or in the Pacific states, and then practicing in Hawaii be a wiser decision than studying in Hawaii while hoping I'll land a job somewhere in Hawaii?
Please advise me on this. I really appreciate your help.
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December 16, 2013, 10:48:58 PM »
When choosing a law school I think any 0L should consider the following factors in this order (1) Location (2) Cost (3) Personal Feelings about the School (4) Understanding the Reality of Legal Education (5) Last and Least rankings.
Each Factor is analyzed and applied to your situation below.
1. Location
This is always a huge factor and particularly in your situation. I am sure you are aware Las Vegas and Hawaii are two very different places and you will spend a minimum of three years at either school and likely the rest of your legal career.
If you attend Hawaii you are going to take the Hawaii Bar and if you attend UNLY you will take the Nevada Bar. If attend law school at UNLV your internships etc will be in Las Vegas and if your in Hawaii your internships will be in Hawaii. A Hawaii law firm or government agency will not go out of their way to recruit from UNLV and vice versa.
If your ultimate goal is to end up in Hawaii then attend law school in Hawaii, but be sure you actually familiar with Hawaii. It is a great place to vacation, but Hawaii can be very isolating and if your from Nevada you may want to consider staying there. Law school is difficult and from your post I can't tell if you actually know anyone in Hawaii. If your waiting on friends possibily move to Hawaii they likely will not end up there and accessing friends, family, etc from Hawaii will be difficult and the combined with acclimated with the stress of law school could be very difficult.
2. Cost
Both Hawaii and UNLV offer in-state tuition and it will be 24k per year if your a Nevada Resident. However, if you can get residency in Hawaii you will only pay 17k per year, but if residency cannot be obtained Hawaii will be 35k x 3= 105,000 in tuition.
24k x 3= 72,000 in UNLV tuition so $33,000 in tuition plus if you have family in the Vegas area you will save money possibly getting free meals from family etc.
3. Personal Feelings about School
Each school has a culture to it and make sure the school you attend fits what your style. You should visit both schools talk to professors, admins, students and walk around the campus see what school feels right to you.
4. Reality of Legal Education
Any law school will teach you essentially the same thing your first year will consist of Torts, Contracts, Civil Procedure etc and you will read Supreme Court cases. As an FYI the Supreme Court does not write seperate opinions for different law school.
With that said Hawaii is rumored to provide blatant tips to Hawaii law students to pass the Hawaii Bar exam the only state rumored to do that and it is only a rumor.
5. Rankings
U.S. News is nothing more than a for-profit unregulated magazine offering an opinion, but if you really can't decide it may be worth using as a tiebreaker.
Whatever school you choose will be a life altering decision and there is no RIGHT answer, but if your goal really is to end up practicing law in Hawaii then attend Hawaii, but if you never actually been to Hawaii and do not know anybody there and simply think living there would be cool you may want to think twice about moving to such an isolated location for law school.
Good luck whatever you decide.
17,000 per resident and 32,000 non-resident
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Personally I would go with Hawaii as it might get tough trying to break into the market with a UNLV degree. Maybe try and get residency by moving there first and working for a year but that is also risky as Hawaii is expensive. But if Hawaii is where you want to be then go! Best of luck!
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February 17, 2014, 01:13:16 PM »
I think both of these schools will open doors in their local market. Hawaii has no competition in Hawaii and UNLV has no competition in Las Vegas, but Vegas and Hawaii are very different places and it really depends on what you want.
Good luck
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March 20, 2014, 10:34:21 AM »
Hands down, go to UH.
Hawaii is such a small community that the networking you do in law school will be your most valuable tool when looking for a job after graduating.
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Starting the evening session for MIT in the consolation final of the 200-yard backstroke was junior Christy Rogers (Bend, Ore.). Her time of 2:02.50 earned her a fourth place finish and her fourth All-America performance for the week. She narrowly missed breaking her own record of 2:02.18 from the 2011-12 season, but easily earned a season-best time by over two seconds. She came 12th overall in the event.
The 400-yard freestyle relay that was composed of junior Joanna Yeh (Frederick, Md.), senior Elina Hu (Oshkosh, Wis.), junior Katelyn Rossick (Middletown, Md.) and senior Anna Kokensparger (Omaha, Neb.) swam in the consolation final, finishing 15th with a 3:29.75. Their time of 3:27.46 from this morning broke the MIT school record of 3:27.80 from 2011-12.
At prelims this morning, freshman Lena Yang (East Stroudsburg, Pa.) and Hu competed in the 100-yard freestyle. Yang finished in 34th place with a time of 52.56 and Hu was 39th in 52.83. Freshman Kristen Finney (Lake Orion, Mich.) swam the 200-yard breaststroke, finishing 29th with a time of 2:29.76.
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A Dramatic Day In Palma As Douglass' Goombay Smash Steals The Lead
24 September 2011
Palma de Mallorca, Spain - The 2011 Melges 32 World Championship, hosted by Real Club Nautico de Palma (RCNP), delivered yet another day of spectacular one-design performance racing with William Douglass' Goombay Smash and tactician Chris Larson taking an aggressive lead by one single point. Needless to say, the championship is far from over, and what is in store for the final day of racing will undoubtedly be exciting. Slipping a notch to second overall is John Kilroy on Samba Pa Ti with tactician Vasco Vascotto, tied in points with Lanfranco Cirillo and tactician Michele Paoletti on Fantastica in third.
"This is amazing. The top three boats are separated by one point," said an overly-excited Cirillo."Tomorrow will be fantastic and I'm sure, very enjoyable. We did not expect to be so close to the top, so for us this is just great. We are confident and look forward to some incredible competition."
The first race of the day was delayed by almost an hour or so before boats were off the line and on their way to completing Race Seven in a series of ten. Vincenzo Onorato's Mascalzone Latino and tactician Francesco Bruni launched an all-out assault on the fleet, not just winning the first race with a massive lead, but took success another step further to win race two of the day as well. Onorato's remarkable day on the water has catapulted him to sixth place, up from twelfth overall.
"We hit the lucky lanes today. The first start was pretty good and all the shifts went our way. The fact that we were not the boat always in the corner this time played to our best advantage," said Bruni. "Upwind we were super fast. Our guys were really good. Downwind, we can do better, but we've certainly improved since we started the regatta."
The second race of the day made all the difference for both Onorato and Douglass. Both with great starts, Onorato pulled to the front almost immediately, challenged by Edoardo Lupi's Torpyone and Branko Brcin on tactics, Mauro Mocchegiani's Rush Diletta and tactician Matteo Ivaldi, Marc de Antonio's Bribon-Movistar and tactician Hugo Rocha, Joe Woods and tactician Paul Goodison on Red and Douglass rounded the top mark respectively. Lupi was super fast downwind trumping Onorato at the left-hand gate, the two were followed closely by Douglass. Back upwind, Douglass picked up a few more positions, rounding second behind Onorato, putting down a great chase to the finish. Onorato took the win, Douglass was second, while Mocchegiani scored a nice third.
"We had the start of a lifetime in the second race today. There were several key teams that looked to be drifting backwards. We got off the pin, then hit the perfect layline. That was huge," said Larson. "It made all the difference. It was a tough day for sure."
With one point separating the top three boats, the excitement leading up to the final races will most certainly mark it as one of the memorable moments in Melges 32 Class history. All three boats possess the desire and killer instinct to win.
Kilroy is an honorable competitor with instinct for success and very well armed with one of the strongest teams ever assembled. Until today, he led the championship, proving that his Samba Pa Ti ensemble is first class.
Cirillo is one of the class' most treasured class members, warmly and affectionately known to all as 'MoMo.' He and his Fantastica team are destined for an amazing result no matter what and long-overdue to win a marquee international title.
Douglass is no slouch. He has proven many times over that he works well under pressure, and the same goes for his team. As one of the most colorful and unpredictable Melges 32 class members, Douglass surely will deliver a performance on the water and off.
Weather predictions for the final day of racing possibly call for some rain, however racing is on schedule. Friend the class on Facebook and tune in for the dramatic conclusion of the championship.
Top Ten Results (After 8 Races, 1 Discard)
1.) William Douglass/Chris Larson, Goombay Smash; [28]-3-12-6-1-7-10-2 = 41
2.) John Kilroy/Vasco Vascotto, Samba Pa Ti; 5-1-10-1-13-2-[28]-10 = 42
3.) Lanfranco Cirillo/Michele Paoletti, Fantastica; 10-9-3-2-2-[23]-3-13 = 42
4.) Yukihiro Ishida/Hamish Pepper, Yasha Samurai; 1-[24]-2-13-7-4-7-18 = 52
5.) Edoardo Lupi/Branko Brcin, Torpyone; [18]-18-6-3-18-1-6-4 = 56
6.) Vincenzo Onorato/Francesco Bruni, Mascalzone Latino; 2-5-20-12-[21]-1-1 = 59
7.) Jason Carroll/Cameron Appleton, ARGO; 3-12-13-4-[22]-3-21-6 = 62
8.) Joe Woods/ Paul Goodison, Red; [15]-10-15-8-12-14-5-5 = 69
9.) Filippo Pacinotti/Danielle Cassinari, Brontolo HH; 13-11-1-[17]-17-9-4-16 = 71
10.) John Porter/Jonathan McKee, Full Throttle; 7-[15]-5-15-15-8-13-8 = 71
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Bicyclists upset over newly laid rumble strips on a section of U.S. 17 near Pollocksville may or may not get a resolution for their problem � but at least they�re being heard.
Bicyclists upset over newly laid rumble strips on a section of U.S. 17 near Pollocksville may or may not get a resolution for their problem � but at least they�re being heard.
John Rouse, division engineer for N.C. Department of Transportation Division 2, which includes Jones and Craven counties, said he has received an email from bicyclist Joanne Somerday, who had also sent emails to other officials and the press to point out her issues.
He has read Sun Journal accounts on the issue, and he has forwarded the information he has received on to Lauren Blackburn, director of DOT�s bike-pedestrian division, for consideration and suggestions.
In the meantime, �as I told Mrs. Somerday, the cyclists have the full right to use the travel lane,� he said, although he added that he realizes some bicyclists don�t want to do that, considering the heavy traffic this section of road often has.
�As you�re obviously hearing, cyclists are not fans of rumble strips,� Blackburn told the Sun Journal. �What this speaks to is the increased need of coordination between local authorities and DOT.�
One part of that communication includes local governments being able to inform DOT of popular bicycle routes when new projects are being considered.
According to Rouse, the rumble strips were made on Aug. 14 as part of a highway project involving a mile-and-a-half strip of road that begins one half mile north of Ten Mile Fork Road.
�In 2009, this location was identified as a high-hazard location, due to a high number of crashes along this section,� he said. �In a five-year period from February 2005 to January 2010, there were 48 crashes. Twenty-seven of those were run off the road crashes, and one of those was a fatality.�
In 2010, he said, a project was developed to address the issue, and the milled rumble strips � basically rumble strips carved into of the road surface � were only part of the solution.
�The project consisted of improving the super elevation of the curve,� he said, in which one side of the curve was paved to a higher elevation, giving it a slope that is easier for cars to maneuver. An open graded friction course pavement was laid. This kind of pavement, Rouse said, is porous to aid in rain drainage.
He said he is somewhat familiar with the �Botts� Dots� pavement markers that one bicyclist, Mac Flynn, had suggested would be a good alternative to both alert drivers and make the shoulder usable for cyclists.
�They use them some in Raleigh,� Rouse said. �The only reason I can say this treatment was not looked at earlier is that this section of highway is not a designated bicycle route.�
New Bern does have an officially designated bicycle route running through it. Known as the �Ports of Call� route and officially designated by the state as Bicycle Route 3, it is a 300-mile stretch of road going from Virginia to South Carolina. The route roughly follows the coast, taking cyclists through a number of historic port towns � New Bern included.
Part of that route makes a glancing blow off historic New Bern, traveling along U.S. 17 through Bridgeton, crossing the Neuse River Bridge and then directing riders down Brices Creek Road and Island Creek Road.
The road jogs onto U.S. 17 at the southern end of Pollocksville then splits off a short distance later onto N.C. 58, connecting briefly again with U.S. 17 in Maysville.
While not directly addressing the issue with U.S. 17 at Ten Mile Fork Road, Blackburn did say the state is working on improving roads for bicycling, which is a growing sport � especially with the presence of New Bern�s annual MS bike ride.
Robert Mosher, planning program manager of the Division of Bicycle and Pedestrian Transportation, said in an email that North Carolina has an official standard practice for �facilities where bicycles are used.�
This practice includes providing 4 feet of usable lane between the rumble strip and the edge of pavement, and gaps in the milling pattern, every 6 to 12 feet, to allow bicyclists to move between the through lane and the shoulder in case of obstacles they may come upon.
In the meantime, a larger plan to accommodate bicycles in Craven, Carteret, Pamlico, Jones and Onslow counties are in the works.
Titled the Croatan Regional Bicycle Plan, Mosher said, the program has been in the planning stages for the last few years, working in conjunction with the East Carolina Council of Governments and other organizations.
�We are about to review the final draft.... [and it] should be available on line, sometime over the next couple of weeks,� he said.