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How To Conquer The Accessory Navicular Bone
In my experience, the Modified Kidner procedure is one of the most reliable operations for reducing arch pain associated with an accessory navicular bone (a.k.a. os tibial externum). You can also use this procedure to treat a prominence at the inner aspect of the arch, which has been caused by an enlarged navicular bone. The most common patients to visit our office with these problems are between the ages of 8 and 15 and are involved in activities like ice skating, ballet and soccer.
What precipitates the pain? It will usually be caused by rubbing of the skate or other footwear against the prominence. You'll commonly see blisters or a red irritated area. Other symptoms to look for, especially when you're treating an older child or adult, include an area of pain along the posterior tibial tendon of the arch and fatigue of the legs. Typically, these patients are not able to participate in sports for a lengthy period of time or you'll hear them complain of pain and/or soreness after extended activities. Most individuals with a prominent navicular area will have tried accommodating this area with a doughnut pad or adjustments to their skate.
During your clinical exam, you may note erythema to the navicular prominence area and a foot that collapses in stance. While it's common to see flat feet with these patients, this may not always be the case. You will note a significant difference in the off-weightbearing arch compared to the foot in stance, which is lower. These patients will always have pain to the navicular bone, especially at the major insertion of the posterior tibial tendon just proximal and also inferior to the navicular bone. You may also find they have pain on resisted adduction.
It is important to examine the posterior tibial tendon and measure the extent of pain to this tendon proximal to the navicular bone. You can clinically determine the amount of posterior tibial tendon involvement by assessing the degree of swelling, pain on palpation and strength. To evaluate the patient's strength, have the patient stand and balance on one foot along with rising up on his or her toes.
Usually, you will only need an X-ray to determine the size or type of the accessory navicular bone or the amount of medial navicular tuberosity hypertrophy. Be cognizant of stress fractures which may be duplicated as a hairline fracture or increased calcification. When treating children, always look for avascular necrosis of the navicular (Kohler's disease). An X-ray of this condition will reveal a flattening of the navicular along with increased bone density.
Keep in mind there are two different types of accessory navicular bones, which you can distinguish by getting a weightbearing AP X-ray of the foot. Dwight has classified type I as a small, round and discreet accessory bone just proximal to the main navicular bone. Geist described the type II accessory bone, which is closely related to the body of the navicular but separated by an irregular plate of dense fibro-cartilage.
What Causes The Painful Arch?
Perhaps the most common of the extra bones in the foot, the accessory navicular bone is estimated to be present in 7 to 19 percent of the population. Zadek and Gold maintained that the bone persisted as a distinct, separate bone in 2 percent of the population. Also be aware that the accessory bone normally fuses completely or incompletely to the navicular. It is this incomplete fusion which allows for micromotion, which, in turn, may cause degenerative changes that can also contribute to the pain.
Looking at the pathomechanics of the enlarged or accessory navicular bone area, it is commonly believed that the posterior tibial tendon loses its vector of pull to heighten the arch. As the posterior muscle contracts, the tendon is no longer pulling straight up on the navicular but must course around the prominence of bone and first pull medially before pulling upward.
In addition, the enlarged bones may irritate and damage the insertional area of the posterior tibial tendon, making it less functional. Therefore, the presence of the accessory navicular bone does contribute to posterior tibial dysfunction.
Know The Differences
Between The Procedures
The original procedure advocated by Kidner involved shelling out of the accessory navicular bone from within the insertional area of the posterior tibial tendon and rerouting this tendon under the navicular bone in hopes of restoring a normal pull of this tendon. When treating younger children, history has shown us that simply shelling out of the accessory navicular bone from within the tendon and remodeling the tuberosity of the navicular bone can give you satisfactory results.
In general, you want to reserve advancement of the posterior tibial tendon for adults or those who have a more significant flatfoot deformity. You may also use this approach after determining that quality custom orthotics are only resulting in a slight decrease of symptoms.
Surgical Pointers
Apply a well-padded ankle tourniquet. After the patient is under IV sedation or general anesthesia, perform a posterior tibial nerve block along with local infiltration in a diamond shape around the navicular bone. Mark the most prominent aspect of the navicular bone and outline the course of the posterior tibial tendon.
Make a linear longitudinal incision along the horizontal midline of the navicular bone, extending approximately 2 cm distal and 5 cm proximal. Mildly angle the proximal cut upward following the course of the posterior tibial tendon. Look out for the great saphenous vein and saphenous nerve, which should be dorsal to the surgical area.
Proceed to use a Metzenbaum scissor to dissect subcutaneous tissues away from the capsule of the talar navicular area. Then make a horizontal incision through the capsule directly over the midline of the navicular down to bone. Reflect the navicular joint capsule both superiorly and inferiorly. You should retract the abductor hallucis plantarly and it may be necessary to use a key periosteal elevator to reflect the capsular tissues from the navicular bone. During the deeper dissection, it also is important to avoid incizing through the posterior tibial tendon.
Using an osteotome and mallet, proceed to resect the hypertrophied portion of the navicular tubercle (which is prominent medially) from distal to proximal. (Getting pre-operative measurements from the AP X-ray will help you determine how much bone you'll need to remove.) At this time, you can more easily identify the accessory navicular bone proximal to the navicular by its articulation or separation from the larger navicular bone. You can sharply excise the accessory bone with a scalpel or crown and collar scissors.
Examine the posterior tibial tendon by performing a tenolysis proximally until the tendon appears normal in size, continuity and color. Excise any areas of degenerated or abnormal posterior tendon prior to performing tubularization. Then tubularize the frayed or thinned areas distally with 3-0 non-absorbable suture.
When You Should Perform
The Modified Kinder Procedure
If you've removed a large portion of hypertrophied navicular bone, you may notice redundant posterior tibial tendon. In addition, when you're treating severe flatfoot cases or patients with inherent ligamentous laxity, be aware of excessive laxity of the posterior tibial tendon. It is important to check the redundancy or laxity of the tendon with the foot held in subtalar joint (STJ) neutral position.
In these cases, you should perform tendon advancement.
Before you begin, be sure to free the under surface of the navicular bone of soft tissues and rasp the area smooth. Doing so will help facilitate the tenodesis. I prefer to use the Mitek super anchor to assist in a tenodesis. When using the Mitek drill with a measured stop, you drill from medial to lateral directly into the middle of the navicular body. Use the non-absorbable suture attached to the anchor to advance and tack down the posterior tibial tendon plantarly and medially to the navicular bone. While performing the advancement tenodesis, it is important to maintain the foot in STJ neutral or a mildly inverted position.
Be aware that the two-drill hole method is an alternative to using an anchor to tenodese the posterior tibial tendon to the navicular bone. Employing a .062 K-wire or small drill bit, make a hole from dorsal to plantar at the medial edge of the navicular bone. Create a second drill hole just proximal to this drill hole. Then thread a 2-0 non-absorbable suture through the proximal drill hole from plantar to dorsal with a Swanson wire passer loop or similar instrument.
The free end of the suture is now on the dorsal aspect of the navicular bone and the needle is at the plantar aspect of the navicular bone. Pass a Bunnell type suture repeatedly through the posterior tibial tendon from distal to proximal and then back proximally. Then cut the needle from the suture. Again, using the Swanson wire passer loop, thread the free end up through the distal hole from plantar to dorsal.
Then pull the suture and tendon tight towards the distal hole. Tie the ends of the suture dorsally by hand while holding the foot in subtalar joint neutral or a mildly inverted position. You may perform additional reinforcing sutures with a 2-0 absorbable, tightening the posterior tibial tendon to plantar soft tissues, including the plantar talo-navicular spring ligament.
Final Notes
Closure includes realigning the periosteum over the navicular bone and suturing with a 3-0 dexon. Reunite the tendon sheath and close with a 5-0 absorbable suture in a continuous baseball suturing technique. Close subcutaneous tissues with a 4-0 absorbable suture. Perform skin closure with a 5-0 absorbable suture in subcuticular suturing technique. Dress the surgical site in typical fashion.
Proceed to apply a well-padded, below knee fiberglass cast with the foot held in STJ neutral or a mildly inverted position. You should have the patient wear the non-weightbearing cast for approximately three weeks and then progress to partial weightbearing with a cast boot walker. In about four weeks, your patient should start physical rehabilitation and be ambulatory in sneakers. In about three months, he or she should be able to resume exercise activities.
1. Macnicol, M.F., Voutsinas S.; Surgical Treatment of the Symptomatic Accessory Navicular, J.B.J.S. Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Volume 66-B, Pp. 218-226 March 1984.


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Just before I had my abortion, in the abortion-place waiting room, filled with the other quiet women and quieter men, Papa Don't Preach came on over the radio.
'…I'm in trouble deep
Papa don't preach
I been loooosin' sleep'
The friend who had come with me, tense and full of care, muttered blackly, 'Oh, for fuck's sake.'
'But I MADEUPMAMIND
I'm KEEPIN MA BABYYYY…'
And, bloody hell, it was perfect.
'I would have been fine with some soft jazz,' I said, quite loudly.
Another ruined woman next to me started laughing, and then stopped, because this isn't funny. Except it was. I madeupmamind. Ahhhm keepinmababy. Thank you, Madonna. Thank you for cutting to the core of it all.
Life is absurd a lot. And thankfully, it's often absurd just when you need it to be. Of course, the absurdity works both ways. You can't have an absolute diamond, like Papa-Don't-Preach-at-your-abortion, fall into your lap without understanding that you'll need to pay for it.
Picketers outside the clinic, for instance, trying their best to emotionally scalp vulnerable teenagers and women who have made a decision about their own bodies and are simply getting on with it, at 8am on a Tuesday. A middle-aged woman in a blue coat, with leaflets that are angry, yellow and red, and knowing with a jolt that she thinks she has some right over your body. What is happening inside your body. Yours. Mine. Absurd.
And to be honest, picketing outside the clinic itself seems cutting it pretty fine. A bit like planting billboards against the dangers of drowning at the top of the water-slide. If we've come this far, chances are we're taking the plunge.
Unsurprisingly, it's fairly easy to get caught up in the drama of an abortion. After years of hearing tear-misted screen lovelies whisper the words, 'I'm pregnant', putting into motion a series of increasingly exciting and narratively satisfying events, it's strange and surreal to suck on those words yourself.
As a human, and (perhaps especially) as a writer, you can't help but step back and examine the things that happen to you from a descriptive perspective, to put into words the murky mists that travel in and around your brain. Sad, self-indulgent, not always helpful, but true. And I knew that when I said the words 'I'm pregnant', I said them as a character in a drama, and nothing else. For me, there was an instant separated-ness from the phrase: I was simply speaking the lines that let me know this wasn't going to de-rail the course I had set for my life.
For others, they speak those words, and they fit. Fine. For some, there is an attachment to and repulsion from the words that make a definite course of action difficult and traumatic. It's them I feel genuine pain for. But for me, it felt like I'd accidentally come off the motorway into a fairly pleasant village. It's not that I couldn't appreciate the view, it's just that I was already running late, and traffic's always a nightmare in similes.
And it's funny how much guilt is still associated with it. Because when I found out I was pregnant, when the little stick did its little thing, and I felt that lifted bubble of serene horror, it popped with an, 'OK, so who can I get some advice from about this?' And the answer was: no-one.
No-one I knew had had an abortion, to the best of my knowledge. Because, although it's OK now, it's not, really. Although in my head – riddled with the cold logic of the North – this was as morally taxing as wondering whether having a flu jab is murdering innocent bits of virus, I was aware that I still had to tread carefully. Be careful who I told. Be careful how I went about this with work. And I was so cross with myself about that that I instantly told almost all of my friends, in much the way that I would tell you, if the subject ever came up. I am not ashamed that I had an abortion. The only, ONLY thing that kept me (and keeps me) from full, (read: non-anonymous internet) disclosure on the topic is the fact that I think if my parents knew, they would be sad. And I don't want to make them sad. And that's my choice.
I recently told a very old, very dear friend (I had the abortion in January, just for your records, Lady In Blue), and her immediate reaction summed up my feelings about the whole thing.
'Oh BLOODY HELL, that is SO ANNOYING.'
And it really was. But, in all honesty, I don't feel like it was much more than that. Of course it was painful, of course it was depressing – it's a medical procedure and you're sick, and you cramp and you're literally bleeding FOR AGES OUT OF A HOLE IN YOUR BODY – and of course there is that part of you, that tiny, irrational part that whispers, 'What if this is your only chance? This is it, and you've missed it? What if tomorrow, your torso gets blown off by an angry mechanical horse, and you have to live the rest of your life in a barrel with wheels, knowing that you'll never have a spawn of your own to push you around?'
And yes, that is a possibility. But I didn't want to have a child. And I really, truly don't think children should be born to people who don't want them. There are already too many people here. It's full. Have you been on the Tube? It's awful. And also, when I think about that, I think about being forever haunted by butIMADEUPMAMIIIIND, I'MMMKEEPINMABABYYY, and I laugh. Thank you, universe.
So, to any other guilt-lackers out there, I'd like to impart some Practical Abortion Advice. I didn't really have any because of the whole hush hush wink wink sin sin etc, and now that I've got through it, I'd like to share some stuff with every potential womb-ruiner who needs it.
1. Go to a specialised clinic, if you can, not a hospital. It's still free. I know, right? I ended up having TWO abortion attempts (because of an admin error, not because of any last minute panic on my part) and first time around, I was sent to a massive hospital where the abortion centre was ON THE SAME WARD as the antenatal clinic. HEY, CAN WE GET SOME BABIES OVER HERE? It was only because of the amazing quick-thinking and patient persistence of the friends I took with me that I didn't melt into a horrified grey puddle of ooze.
2. I had a medical abortion rather than a surgical one because I didn't fancy the idea of being under anaesthetic. It hurts like absolute balls, but only for about half an hour. Also, I was phenomenally sick, and the entire bleeding process took about two and a half weeks in total. Your call. If I was to do it again (which I'm obviously gunning for), I would probably go surgical. But that's just me. I'm a pansy.
3. So the medical abortion takes place over two days – you go in and you have the pre-abortion tablets (where the mites just do a general sweep of your womb for debris, look, I don't know, I'm not a doctor), and then 24 hours later you go back and have the proper embryo-blasting stuff. You need to have someone drive you home. Do not get a taxi. Get someone to drive you home, and stay with you FOR THE REST OF THE DAY. Trust me on that one, and make sure it's someone who can a) make you laugh and b) make you cheese on toast.
4. People will be shocked if and when you tell them. They will be shocked that you have told them. It is how we know to react to this news, from films and such. But, if they are kind, their first and most pressing objective will be to see if you are OK. And if you are, they will be too. They will relax. It will become a thing that is OK To Talk About, Actually. This is your body, it is your call. If you don't want to tell anyone, fuck everyone. It's your body. If – like me – you're actually, fundamentally, really not that emotionally caught-up in the whole thing, I kind of think it's important to talk about that too. Don't feel pressured into jaccuzzing in your own non-existent guilt. No, of course we don't want girls everywhere to think HEY, ABORTIONS ARE AWESOME NOW! They're not. They hurt and they're shit and they make you feel afraid and sick and stupid. But, for me at least, it wasn't a moral wrench. So I'm not going to pretend like it was.
5. After you have had an abortion, you will greet every period like it's the final shot of The Shawshank Redemption. A beautiful crimson hug. You will also be paranoid about birth control, probably for a long time. So will everyone who went through it with you. But frankly, there's not a lot of harm in that.
'I'm in trouuuble deep…'
Except I didn't feel that way, not really. And to pretend otherwise would make me a hypocrite. To my friends, the people who helped me through this hot-topic medical procedure, thank you. Sorry it was a bit of a pain. To the woman in the blue coat, what you do comes from a place of true belief, and I understand that. But to those of us who draw strength from logic, from reason, from science, it's not enough. I madeupmamiiiind, and, fundamentally, it's none of your business.

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Gingrich Calls Romney's 'Gift' Comments 'Insulting'
The former House Speaker slammed Romney's "gifts" remark
Nov. 19, 2012 -- Former Republican presidential contender Newt Gingrich has joined a growing number of Republicans in criticizing Mitt Romney for saying he lost the election because President Obama gave "gifts" to minorities such as African-Americans and Latinos.
"I just think it's nuts," Gingrich told Martha Raddatz on Sunday on ABC's This Week. "I mean, first of all, it's insulting."
"This would be like Wal-Mart having a bad week and going, 'The customers have really been unruly,'" he continued. "I mean, the job of a political leader in part is to understand the people. If we can't offer a better future that is believable to more people, we're not going to win."
It's not the first time Gingrich, the former House Speaker, has expressed his displeasure with Romney's remarks. He told NBC's Today Show earlier that Republicans "owe [Obama] the respect of trying to understand what they did and how they did it."
He added that he would have been "dumfounded" before the election at the idea of Romney getting fewer votes than John McCain.
Gingrich also slammed Romney during an interview with KLRU-TV in Austin, Texas.
"I'm very disappointed with Governor Romney's analysis, which I believe is insulting and profoundly wrong," he said. "First of all, we didn't lose Asian-Americans because they got any gifts. He did worse with Asian-Americans than he did with Latinos. This is the hardest-working and most successful ethnic group in America, okay, they ain't into gifts."
"If it had been that simple, my question would be, 'Why didn't you outbid him?' He had enough billionaire supporters, if buying the electorate was the key, he could have got all his super PAC friends together and said, don't buy ads, give gifts," Gingrich continued. "Be like the northwest Indians who have gift-giving ceremonies….Go town-by-town and say, 'Come here, let me give you gifts. Here are Republican gifts.' They could have an elephant coming in with gifts on it."


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Jun 9, 2011
Kiehl to receive Distinguished Insurance Service honor from PIANY, PIANJ and PIACT
The Professional Insurance Agents of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut announced that Ellen D. Kiehl, Ph.D, Senior Research Analyst for the association , will be recognized for Distinguished Insurance Service Monday, June 13, 2011, at the associations annual conference held at the Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort in Atlantic City.
This Distinguished Insurance Service award is a unique honor, being given to Dr. Kiehl by the three associations for her unparalleled history of service, dedicated leadership and attention to the concerns of independent agents and their clients.
"No matter how hard you looked, you would be hard pressed to find anyone in the insurance industry anywhere in this country who is more knowledgeable about the insurance business," said Donna Chiapperino, PIANY president. "We have truly been blessed to have her on our side for the last 35 years, and we wish her many years of happiness after her retirement at the end of this year."
Dr. Kiehl joined PIA in 1976, as a member of PIAs communications and government affairs departments. In 1984, she was named to head PIAs Government and Industry Affairs unit, responsible for all aspects of the associations efforts in these areas. Among her many notable accomplishments, Kiehl was instrumental in the creation of PIAs Industry Resource Center in 1995, which is now one of PIAs most widely used member benefits, providing critical information and responding to thousands of member inquiries each year. More recently, as PIAs Senior Research Analyst, she has used her expertise and technical knowledge to create resource materials, special publications and education programs, not only for PIA members in the region but nationally as well.
Kiehl has delivered and prepared testimony on numerous subjects for the state legislatures and insurance departments in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut; represented PIA at meetings with heads of the industry; personally answered member inquiries on insurance law, regulation, processes and coverages by the thousands; and has mentored many of the insurance professionals who now work for PIA.
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New York's Nate Robinson is the NBA's first three-time slam dunk champion.
Robinson barely won another title during Saturday night's All-Star festivities, garnering 51 percent of the fan vote to hold off Toronto rookie DeMar DeRozan, who advanced to the final round after getting a perfect score of 50 on his second dunk of the first round.
The final dunk for the 5-foot-9 Robinson came when he threw the ball off the backboard, grabbed it and turned midair for a two-handed backward slam.
Robinson was joined on the court for the final round by several Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders, though they weren't used as props for any of his dunks.
"They're way too beautiful for that," Robinson said. "I just wanted them to stand over there and cheer."
After his final slam, Robinson celebrated by grabbing a pair of silver and blue pompoms from one of them and waving them in the air.
DeRozan got a spot in the competition by winning the first-ever All-Star Slam Dunk-In, beating Los Angeles Clippers guard Eric Gordon at halftime of the rookie challenge on Friday night.
Charlotte's Gerald Wallace and Shannon Brown of the Los Angeles Lakers were eliminated after the first round in Saturday night's marquee event.
DeRozan got into the final round after recording a 50 when he caught a pass off the side of the backboard and slammed it with his right hand on the other side of the hoop.
The five 10s came from a judging panel that included former dunk champions Spud Webb and Dominique Wilkins. The 5-foot-7 Webb, a Dallas native, won the event the only other time it was held in his hometown in 1986.
Fan voting determined the winner after Robinson and DeRozan both dunked twice in the final round.
Robinson won the dunk title as a rookie in 2006, then beat Dwight Howard to win again last year.
While Robinson reigned again, Boston's Paul Pierce arrived for All-Star weekend wanting to make up for an embarrassing performance.
Consider it done.
Pierce won the 3-Point Shootout, proving his lackluster performance the last time he was in the competition was an aberration.
"I wanted this really bad," Pierce said after celebrating with teammate Kevin Garnett, who was sitting courtside. "They don't look at me as a shooter, but more of a scorer."
Pierce had 20 points in the final round, making all five of the 2-point money balls, to beat Golden State's Stephen Curry (17) and Denver's Chauncey Billups (14).
When Pierce last competed in the Shootout in 2002, he scored only eight points -- what he called leading into this week's competition "almost a record low."
Defending 3-point champion Daequan Cook of Miami was eliminated after the first round. His 15 points were the same as Phoenix's Channing Frye and New York's Danilo Gallinari. Curry had 18 points in the first round, while Pierce and Billups had 17.
Phoenix Suns guard Steve Nash also was a winner Saturday night, beating the young guys to capture another Skills Challenge title.
Nash, who turned 36 last Sunday, became a two-time Skills champion when he beat a trio of 20-somethings.
It's been quite a run this weekend for the Canadian, who helped light the Olympic cauldron at Friday's opening ceremonies in Vancouver, British Columbia. He also will be on the court Sunday for the All-Star game in the same area where he played from 1998-2004.
With a time of 29.9 seconds in the final round, Nash beat Dallas native and 2008 champion Deron Williams of Utah, who is 11 years younger.
"I got my second wind," said Nash, who jokingly asked his younger opponents before the competition if he could start from the second station instead of doing the entire obstacle course.
Nash, whose other Skills Challenge title came in 2005, didn't have any practice on the course before the competition.
"I tried my best without my warmup," Nash said. "I missed the run-through because I was a little disjointed from the trip. ... I was kind of hoping for the best."
Milwaukee rookie guard Brandon Jennings and Oklahoma City's Russell Westbrook, who is 21, were eliminated after the first round. Westbrook replaced defending champion Derrick Rose of Chicago, who sat out with a bruised right hip.
In Saturday night's opening event, hometown favorite and former Nash teammate Dirk Nowitzki hit a shot from midcourt to cap Team Texas' victory in the Shooting Stars competition.
Texas, which also consisted of San Antonio Silver Stars player Becky Hammon and former Houston guard Kenny Smith, beat Team Los Angeles with a time of 34.3 in the finals. The Texas trio needed 13 shots to complete the final round.
Lakers All-Star Pau Gasol, former NBA player Brent Barry and Marie Ferdinand-Harris of the Los Angeles Sparks came in second, finishing in 55.2 seconds.
Los Angeles hit its first five shots in the finals in less than 30 seconds, but only had a couple of chances from midcourt to beat Texas' time.
Atlanta (Joe Johnson, former Hawks guard Steve Smith and Angel McCoughtry of the Atlanta Dream) and Sacramento (Tyreke Evans, former All-Star Chris Webber and former Sacramento Monarchs player Nicole Powell) were eliminated in the first round.
Texas completed the first round in 1:28 and Los Angeles finished in 1 minute.
Three-person teams have to hit a total of six shots from different locations on the floor, culminating with a shot from midcourt.
In the skills competition, the course started with a layup or a dunk, then a weave through pylons before having to complete a chest pass, a bounce pass and a jumper from the top of the key. Then they have to make an outlet pass, go through more pylons and end with another layup or dunk.
Nash completed every obstacle in the final round in one try -- save for a second shot from the top of the key. Williams was perfect until needing five shots at the outlet pass, when he had already exceeded Nash's winning time.
Saturday night's events were at the American Airlines Center, but Sunday's All-Star game will be at Cowboys Stadium, where more than 90,000 people are expected to attend.
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Poster for David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust Debut Sells for $2,200
On Jan. 29, 1972, David Bowie took the stage at the Borough Assembly Hall in Aylesbury, England, on what might have been an otherwise unremarkable night as he warmed up for his first major tour in four years. Except this was the night that Ziggy Stardust began to take shape.
Bowie appeared with freshly cut bright red hair, wearing a bomber jacket and red plastic boots. His band, though not yet called the Spiders from Mars, was also moving toward a more outrageous look by sporting matching gold suits.
Bowie's vision for glam rock's most popular figure was almost complete, making this concert -- and any memorabilia from it -- a signature moment in music history.
It's no surprise then that 37 eBay bidders drove the price up to $2,200 when the son of the concert's promoter offered an authentic poster from the date. Sold with a signed letter of authenticity from David Stopps, the post included photocopies of other archival items from the concert.


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The avatar we create or image we post is the profile we portray for the masses that learn and process information visually. Why are we not be more mindful of that when we post? Of course, this is logical, and we hear over an over that images are more interesting to look at than text. Our mothers advised that you never get a second chance to make a first impression. When was the last time you looked at your profile picture? Is your logo up to date? Does it say anything about your business, or is it just a fancy way of writing the name? "A picture speaks a thousand words." Imagine that. A thousand words is certainly more than 140 characters or 100 word profile.


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What do you think of the ban on assault weapons due to expire Monday at midnight?
The NRA is against the ban...I hear President Bush has said he is for it. However, he has done nothing to renew the ban. Speculation is he is waiting to get an endorsement from the NRA before taking any action.


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WACO (AP) – Reggie Hearn had 17 points with 10 rebounds before fouling out and Northwestern snapped a two-game losing streak with a 74-70 win Tuesday night at Baylor, which was coming off a win at Kentucky.
Hearn made two layups for the Wildcats when they opened the second half with an 11-1 run. Northwestern (7-2) barely hung on after building an 18-point lead.
Baylor (5-3) was within 70-67 when Pierre Jackson made two free throws with 23 seconds left after a midcourt turnover by Dave Sobolewski following an inbound pass. But Sobolewski made a free throw with 17 seconds left, after Northwestern had missed six free throws in a row.
Jackson had 18 points and A.J. Walton had 11 for Baylor.
Drew Crawford had 19 points for Northwestern, which had five players in double-figure scoring. Sobolewski had 13 points, Jared Swopshire had 12 and Alex Olah scored 10.
It was Baylor's second consecutive home loss, with its big win at Kentucky in between.
The Bears had won 29 consecutive non-conference home games over a nearly four-year span before a 63-59 loss to College of Charleston on Nov. 24. In their only other game since, they won 64-55 at then-No. 8 Kentucky 64-55 on Saturday to snap the Wildcats' 55-game winning streak at Rupp Arena.
Northwestern had a 54-36 lead with 11 minutes left on a 3-pointer by Sobolewski.
The Wildcats were up 66-55 with 3:10 left when Olah, who went into the game shooting only 27 percent from the free throw line, made two free throws. But a minute later, right after Hearn fouled out, Olah missed two attempts to start Northwestern's stretch of six consecutive misses.
Swopshire's reverse layup with 1:03 left made it 70-63, and his key free throw with 9 seconds put the Wildcats up 72-67.
Isaiah Austin, Baylor's 7-foot freshman, made a 3-pointer with 2 seconds left when he quickly regained control after Sobolweski deflected the ball on his first chance.
Northwestern had lost its previous two games at home, a 20-point loss to Maryland before being upset 50-44 by Illinois-Chicago on Saturday.
The Wildcats will play only three of their first 15 games away from home, all in Texas. They won both games played in the South Padre Island Invitational on Thanksgiving weekend.
This was only the second meeting between Baylor and Northwestern, and came exactly a year after the Bears won 69-41 at Evanston.
Northwestern took a 35-32 halftime lead when Sobolweski hit a 3-pointer from the corner in front of the Baylor bench with 2 seconds left.
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Ryan Lochte's bonehead 'GameDay' moment
Having guest analysts on ESPN College GameDay is a good idea most of the time.
Unless it's Ryan Lochte, Olympic gold medal-winning swimmer and creator of the dumbest catch phrase ever.
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The ESPN GameDay crew was in Gainesville, Fla., for the Saturday's Florida-South Carolina matchup and Lochte, a Florida alum, was a guest picker.
As expected, his analysis was nothing special.
Also expected, he said something really dumb.
When asked to pick who'd win between Texas A&M and LSU, he nonchalantly answered "Auburn."
Enter awkward pause for GameDay crew.
They calmly reminded Lochte they weren't picking the Auburn game and pointed to some notes he had on set.
Lochte even tried to sound smart in his answer, by saying, "I think they're going to end their six-game losing streak in the SEC so I'm going to have to go with Auburn."
The is he serious? look on Lee Corso's face was priceless.
To recap, Lochte was asked to choose between A or B. He picked C.
It was a true bonehead moment, like this. Here's the footage of Lochte's gaffe below. Thanks Big Lead Sports for the video assist.


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By Tom VanderbiltPosted Wednesday, July 13, 2011, at 7:35 AM ET
"Having a great time," reads the archetypical postcard. "Wish you were here." But what about when the "here" is the blasted, irradiated wastes of Frenchman's Flat, in the Nevada desert? Or the site of America's worst nuclear disaster? John O'Brian and Jeremy Borsos' new book, Atomic Postcards, fuses the almost inherently banal form of the canned tourist dispatch with the incipient peril, and nervously giddy promise, of the nuclear age. Collected within are two-sided curios spanning the vast range of the military-industrial complex—"radioactive messages from the Cold War," as the book promises. They depict everything from haunting afterimages of atomic incineration on the Nagasaki streets to achingly prosaic sales materials from atomic suppliers to a gauzy homage to the "first atomic research reactor in Israel," a concrete monolith jutting from the sand, looking at once futuristic and ancient. Taken as a whole, the postcards form a kind of de facto and largely cheery dissemination campaign for the wonder of atomic power (and weapons). And who's to mind if that sunny tropical beach is flecked with radionuclides?
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Service Broker Dialog Security
Dialog security provides encryption, remote authentication, and remote authorization for a specific conversation. When a conversation uses dialog security, Service Broker encrypts all messages sent outside a SQL Server instance. Service Broker conversations use dialog security by default.
Dialog Security Basics
Service Broker dialog security lets your application use authentication, authorization, or encryption for an individual dialog conversation (or dialog). By default, all dialog conversations use dialog security. When you begin a dialog, you can explicitly allow a dialog to proceed without dialog security by including the ENCRYPTION = OFF clause on the BEGIN DIALOG CONVERSATION statement. However, if a remote service binding exists for the service that the conversation targets, the dialog uses security even when ENCRYPTION = OFF.
For a dialog that uses security, Service Broker encrypts all messages sent outside a SQL Server instance. Messages that remain within a SQL Server instance are never encrypted. In dialog security, only the database that hosts the initiating service and the database that hosts the target service need to have access to the certificates used for security. That is, an instance that performs message forwarding is not required to have the capability to decrypt the messages that the instance forwards.
Service Broker provides two types of dialog security, full security and anonymous security. For conversations that use dialog security, Service Broker provides remote authorization to map the remote side of the conversation to a local user.
Messages are encrypted on the network when the conversation uses either full security or anonymous security. However, the effective rights in the target database and the strategy used for message encryption differ slightly between the two approaches.
Whether the conversation uses full security or anonymous security, the message body is encrypted with a symmetric session key that is generated for the specific conversation. Only the keys are encrypted with private key encryption using the certificate supplied for Dialog Security. Service Broker also performs a message integrity check to help detect message corruption or tampering.
SQL Server creates a session key for a conversation that uses dialog security. To protect the session key while it is stored in the database, Service Broker encrypts the session key with the master key for the database. If a database master key is not available, messages for the conversation remain in the transmission_status with an error until a database master key is created, or until the conversation times out. Therefore, both databases that participate in the conversation must contain master keys, even when the databases are hosted in the same instance. If the initiating database does not contain a master key, the dialog will fail. If the target database does not contain a master key, messages remain in the transmission queue of the initiating database. The last transmission error for these messages indicates the reason that the messages cannot be delivered. Either use the
ENCRYPTION = OFFparameter to create an unencrypted dialog, or use the following command to create a database master key:
CREATE MASTER KEY ENCRYPTION BY PASSWORD = '<password>'
For convenience, Service Broker allows secure conversations that remain within a single database to proceed regardless of whether the database contains a master key. While two different databases can be moved to different SQL Server instances during the lifetime of a conversation, a conversation within a single database always remains within that database. Therefore, the conversation can proceed.
Full Security
Full security helps to protect the initiating service from sending messages to an untrusted database and helps protect the target service from receiving messages from an untrusted database. Service Broker encrypts messages transmitted over the network when the conversation uses full security.
Full security provides identification for both the initiating service and the target service. Full security requires that the initiating service trust the target service and also requires that the target service trust the initiating service. For example, a service that orders parts from a vendor may require the ordering application to trust the vendor service and the vendor service to trust the ordering application.
Database administrators establish trust by exchanging certificates that contain public keys. For full dialog security, each side of the conversation contains a private key for a local user and a public key for a remote user. The database that hosts the initiating service contains a remote service binding. This remote service binding specifies the local user that owns the certificate that corresponds to the private key in the remote database. Therefore, operations on behalf of the initiating service run as the designated user in the target database.
The target database contains a user. This user owns a certificate that corresponds to a private key that is owned by the user that owns the initiating service. Therefore, operations on behalf of the target service run in the initiating database as the user who owns the initiating service.
For dialogs that use full security, each side of the conversation generates a session key. The first message in each direction contains the session key, encrypted with a key exchange key, as described in Certificates and Service Broker.
Anonymous Security
Anonymous security helps protect the initiating service against sending messages to an untrusted database. Service Broker encrypts messages transmitted over the network when the conversation uses anonymous security.
Anonymous security identifies the target service to the initiating service, but does not identify the initiating service to the target service.
For example, an application that submits work orders may need to guarantee that the recipient of the work order is the intended target, but the target database may not need to provide any special privileges for a service that submits work orders. In this case, the database that contains the initiating service must contain a remote service binding for the target service.
Because the target service cannot verify the identity of the initiating service, operations on behalf of the initiating service run as a member of the fixed database role public in the target database. The target database receives no information about the user that initiated the conversation. The target database does not need to contain a certificate for the user that initiates the conversation.
For dialogs that use anonymous security, both sides of the conversation use the session key generated by the initiating database. The target database does not return a session key to the initiating database.
Security Contexts for Dialog Security
Service Broker remote authorization controls remote access to an individual service. Remote authorization determines the security context within which the incoming messages to a SQL Server instance are sent to a service.
Service Broker always uses remote authorization for a secure conversation that does not take place entirely within a SQL Server instance. The dialog security that is configured for the conversation determines the security context that Service Broker uses for remote authorization.
Service Broker does not use remote authorization when the conversation remains within a SQL Server instance, even if remote authorization is configured. For a conversation within an instance, the SQL Server security principals are already available to SQL Server, so there is no need to use remote authorization to determine the correct security context for Service Broker operations. However, as described earlier in this topic, Service Broker creates a session key so that the conversation can proceed if one of the databases is moved to another instance during the conversation.
For a conversation that uses anonymous security, the connection runs as a member of the fixed database role public in the target database. In this case, the fixed database role public must have permission to send a message to the service. However, the role needs no other permissions in the database.
For a conversation that uses full security, the connection on each side of the conversation acts with the permissions of the user that is specified in the remote service binding. For example, if a remote service binding associates the service name InventoryService with the user InventoryServiceRemoteUser, SQL Server uses the security context for InventoryServiceRemoteUser to put messages for the InventoryService application on the queue for the destination service.
For better security, the user that owns the private key for a service is typically a different user than the user specified for activation. A user that owns a private key only needs permission to add a message to the queue — that is, SEND permission for the service that uses the queue. In contrast, the user that is specified for activation has the permissions that are required to accomplish the requested work and send a response. In the preceding example, InventoryServiceRemoteUser does not require permissions to query the inventory table or send a return message. The user only needs permissions to send a message to the queue that InventoryService uses. Stored procedure activation occurs in a different session with the credentials that the queue specifies. No credentials need to be shared between the session that enqueues the message and the session that processes the message.
Creating a Secure Dialog
When Service Broker establishes a dialog between two databases, the initiating service must establish a user context in the target database so it can put messages in the target queue. This user context determines whether the initiating service has permission to open a dialog to the target.
The most flexible way to do this is to create a certificate and remote service binding. For more information about creating a certificate, see CREATE CERTIFICATE (Transact-SQL). For more information about creating a remote service binding see, CREATE REMOTE SERVICE BINDING (Transact-SQL).
An alternative to creating a certificate and a remote service binding is to use SQL Server security to establish a trust relationship between the two databases. The owner of the initiating service impersonates a user in the target service. This may require setting the TRUSTWORTHY database property on the initiating database to ON and granting authenticate permission to a user in the target database. For more information, see Extending Database Impersonation by Using EXECUTE AS.
If the security context is not set up correctly, messages sent on the dialog will stay in the sys.transmission_queue on the initiating service with the following error message in the transmission_status column: The server principal '%.*ls' is not able to access the database '%.*ls' under the current security context.
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Earthwatchers investigated how harvesting regulations and marine reserves protect the Caribbean queen conch.
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The queen conch is an important Caribbean resource; new regulations may help protect it from overharvesting.
The queen conch is an important cultural and economic resource for Caribbean countries, but populations are in decline due primarily to overfishing. Countries have enacted management plans to protect the conch that include harvesting regulations and marine reserves. But do these measures work?
The goal of this project was to determine if the Sapodilla Cayes Marine Reserve, located at the southern tip of the Mesoamerican barrier reef, is protecting and replenishing queen conch populations. With enforcement starting in the spring of 2010, Earthwatch scientists were able to compare pre- and post-enforcement data to determine the effectiveness of the reserve.
Most studies to determine the effectiveness of a reserve in protecting marine species are done well after the reserve has been established and rely on comparison of the status of the species inside and outside the reserve. A more rigorous approach is to compare conditions in the same area before and after the reserve is established. Any differences in the status of the species will likely be due to the reserve.
More than 3,000 conch have been tagged since 2006, helping to answer critical questions about the success of Belize's resource management plan.
Researchers explored the reef to determine the impact of Belize's management plan for queen conch.
A staple of the Caribbean diet, queen conch are nutritious and tasty. They are also crucial to the health of a reef ecosystem. As grazers, they keep grasses and algae in check; hermit crabs, octopuses, and other creatures find refuge in their shells; and they are important prey for many species, such as spotted eagle rays and southern stingrays.
In much of the Caribbean, the queen conch has been overfished to the point of commercial extinction, but the fishery in Belize remains viable. Belize has been developing marine reserves to protect juveniles and breeding-age adults. If these reserves are successful, individuals from these protected populations will grow and spill over into neighboring areas where fishing is permitted.
Queen conch is an important resource; new regulations may help protect it from overharvesting.
With the assistance of Earthwatch volunteers, this project has been monitoring queen conch in the Sapodilla Cayes Marine Reserve since 2006; data collected helped us determine if the reserve is succeeding.
Teams worked in the Sapaodilla Cayes Marine Reserve, seven islands on the southern end of the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef. They were designated a marine reserve and a UNESCO World Heritage Site because of their extraordinary natural value and socioeconomic significance.
Researchers and volunteers stayed near the town of Punta Gorda, the southernmost town in Belize and the capital of the Toledo District. With its cool sea breezes and friendly people, Punta Gorda is a pleasant and interesting place. The pace of life is slow and relaxed, and traffic is minimal. People hang out on street corners chatting while children play tag in the schoolyards. The town springs to life on holidays and market days—Friday, Saturday, and Wednesday mornings—when the villagers pour in to town to buy and sell homegrown produce and simple household goods around the clock tower.
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The team was in Punta Gorda for the first day of the expedition. Over dinner and coffee, volunteers and staff members got to know each other and went over the general daily plans of the expedition. On the morning of day 2, the team went by boat to Lime Caye, where they ate lunch and were given an introduction to the site, a talk about safety, and a description of the background of the project and data recording techniques. The team then practiced the field techniques on land and in shallow water until all volunteers felt comfortable with them. That evening, they discussed the day's activities and clarified any confusion about research techniques. The rest of the expedition was devoted to data collection and entry. Each night after dinner, the team reviewed the day's activities, recorded data, and discussed the next day's schedule.
Throughout the expedition, the project staff led discussions on marine conservation, focusing on tropical marine reserves and the need to build capacity in local stakeholders. Colleagues from the University of Belize, SEA Belize, the Toledo Institute for Development and Environment, and the Belize Department of Fisheries were invited to discuss local culture and conservation-related issues. Project staff also took volunteers on island walks and led snorkeling trips to the barrier reef. In addition to scheduled discussions, the staff encouraged discussions during breaks, meals, and all other periods of down time.
Volunteers helped to survey, monitor, and tag queen conch.
Earthwatchers scuba diving at the Belize Barrier Reef.
Earthwatch scientist Dr. John Cigliano is a marine ecologist with a special interest in the conservation of marine fisheries in the face of climate change.
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A young man about to be married discovers the two aunts who raised him have been poisoning lonely old men.
After overcoming an attack of pre-nuptial nerves, Mortimer Brewster, New York theatrical critic, confirmed bachelor and author of millions of words against marriage, weds Elaine Harper, a minister's daughter, on Halloween Day. On their way to their Niagara Falls honeymoon, Mortimer and Elaine stop in Brooklyn, where Elaine's father lives next to Mortimer's two maiden aunts and uncle. While Elaine breaks the news of her marriage to her conservative father, Mortimer drops in on his aunts, Abby and Martha. In his aunts' living room, Mortimer searches for notes on his latest book, Mind Over Matrimony , and discovers a corpse in his aunts' window seat. Immediately Mortimer assumes that his deranged uncle, who believes himself to be Teddy Roosevelt, is responsible. To his horror, however, Abby and Martha calmly take credit for murdering Mr. Hoskins and later confess to killing not only Mr. Hoskins but eleven other men, all of whom are now buried in the cellar. Stricken by the story of his aunts' murderous past, which began when an elderly visitor suffered a fatal heart attack in their parlor and inspired them with his peaceful repose, Mortimer tries to point out the error of their killing ways. Instead, Abby and Martha insist that luring lonely men into their home with a "room for rent" sign and serving them elderberry wine laced with arsenic and other poisons is a charitable service. While Mortimer frantically tries to have his uncle, whose lunacy is well-known in Brooklyn, committed to a sanitarium as a means of clearing his aunts of any future blame, Gibbs, another would-be renter, arrives at the house. After preventing Gibbs from taking the fatal sip of elderberry wine, Mortimer leaves to see Judge Cullman, whose signature he needs for "Teddy's" commitment papers. In his absence, Mortimer's criminally insane brother Jonathan, recently escaped from an Indiana asylum, and Dr. Einstein, a drunken underworld plastic surgeon, show up unexpectedly at the house. Unknown to the aunts, Jonathan, whose face Dr. Einstein accidentally altered to resemble Boris Karloff's, has brought along his own murder victim, Mr. Spenalzo. Against his sisters' wishes, Teddy, who has been told by Abby and Martha that Mr. Hoskins, like their other victims, is a yellow fever casualty and must be buried immediately in a "lock" of the "Panama Canal," invites Dr. Einstein to inspect his newly dug hole in the cellar. Dr. Einstein concludes that the "lock" would be an ideal resting place for Mr. Spenalzo, and after Jonathan forces his aunts to retire early, the two criminals move Mr. Spenalzo into the living room, just as Teddy carries Mr. Hoskins to the cellar. Before Jonathan and Dr. Einstein are able to get Mr. Spenalzo into the basement, however, Elaine shows up, forcing them to deposit the corpse in the now vacant window seat. The ever paranoid Jonathan then tries to drag Elaine to the cellar but is stopped by the return of Mortimer. Oblivious to Elaine's distress over Jonathan, Mortimer sends her back home, then after failing to intimidate Jonathan into leaving, finds Mr. Spenalzo's body in the window seat. Although Mortimer first accuses Abby of the deed, Jonathan reveals himself as the culprit when he rushes to sit on the window seat as his aunts are about to open it. Before Mortimer is able to act on his discovery, O'Hara, the new neighborhood policeman, arrives at the door. On the promise that he will discuss O'Hara's autobiographical play with him later that night, Mortimer rids himself of the policeman, but then is confronted by Dr. Einstein, who, while disposing of Mr. Spenalzo's body, stumbled on Mr. Hoskins' corpse in his cellar grave. After Jonathan and his aunts argue about who has the more impressive murder record, Mortimer obtains the second needed signature for Teddy's commitment papers from Dr. Gilchrist and confesses to a confused Elaine about his family's insanity. Determined to do away with his brother, Jonathan ties up and gags Mortimer and is about to kill him when O'Hara returns, having received complaints about Teddy's noisy bugle calls. Seeing Mortimer bound and gagged, O'Hara proceeds to recite the action of his play, while Jonathan lies behind him, unconscious from an accidental blow by Dr. Einstein. When Jonathan revives, he assumes that O'Hara and his partner Brophy are after him and unwittingly reveals that he is a fugitive. Eventually O'Hara's superior, Lieutenant Rooney, shows up and listens in disbelief as Jonathan and his aunts tell him matter-of-factly about the thirteen dead men in the cellar. After Jonathan is arrested and Dr. Einstein slips away, Mr. Witherspoon of the Happy Dale Sanitarium comes for Teddy, only to hear that Martha and Abby, who are anxious to stay near their brother, want to go, too. Just before parting, Abby reveals to Mortimer that he is not really their next of kin but is the adopted son of a sea cook. Overjoyed, Mortimer rushes to tell Elaine, who has since discovered Mr. Spenalzo and Mr. Hoskins for herself, the good news about his parentage and to resume at last their honeymoon plans.
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François Cevert
Posted 25 March 2004 - 10:46
I was also lucky enough to be given the autograph book of former Cooper mechanic Douggie Johnson. In there was Fangio, McLaren, Graham Hill, Pedro Rodriguez, Ginther, Rindt, Brabham, Bonnier, Gurney etc.
I also have numerous autographs that I have been able to collect more on photographs mostly supplied by Ted Walker. I have got these at places such as Goodwood, and various Grand Prix. Unfortunately unless you have a paddock pass at a Grand Prix, it is far harder to collect.
My favourite autograph is that of Ayrton Senna. He was my hero from since i can remember. He was staying at the Barcley Hotel in London while testing in (I think) March 1994. We knew the manager (Stefano Sebastiani- who raced Tiga's at Le Mans) and this enabled my brother and I to get signed photos.
Autographs I really need are now getting to be the expensive ones.....To complete a World Champions collection I need Farina, Ascari, Hawthorn and Clark, and other drivers that appeal are people such as Cevert, Nuvolari, Collins etc.
I am very wary of buying such expensive items, because although they would enhance my collection, would they depreciate in ten years time if I ever needed to sell them for whatever reason...
P.s the prices on the autograph gallery are fair, but they never seem to pay half as much if you are selling to them!
Posted 25 March 2004 - 22:34
Posted 26 March 2004 - 05:45
Posted 26 March 2004 - 08:27
When he opened it, he noticed it had some autographs in it. I envy him. The book has autographs of:
Jack Brabham
Jackie Stewart
Jim Clark
Ian Geoghegan
Bib Stillwell
Frank Gardner
Graham Hill
Funny thing is that his parents didn't even notice the autographs
Posted 26 March 2004 - 14:13
I personally would never do this photo away because of sentimental value, I personally think that a signature means nothing unless it was signed when U were personally there, this way it becomes a nostalgic memory. I've also got photo's signed by Mika Salo, marc Goossens, Mika Häkkinen, David Brabham, Marc Duez, Thierry Boutsen and Jacky Ickx.
Posted 27 March 2004 - 05:25
Posted 31 March 2004 - 22:52
I also appreciate the motor racing autographs that my mother collected for me one day at Goodwood. It must have been about 1955 at the Easter Monday meeting. My mother stopped going to motor races when I was very young and I suppose tickets got expensive, or maybe she thought she should take my sisters somewhere when Dad and I went to Goodwood, so Dad and I went on our own from about then. Anyway, I did not want to miss any of the action so Dad and I went to the outside of the track while Mum volunteered to go to the paddock and get some autographs for me. Perhaps it was because she had bought me an autograph book and it was absolutely empty!
It's been many years since I heard her tell the story, but I think the key points were that the first driver she asked took her round to all the other important people and made them sign too. The first name in the book is Mike Hawthorn so I am sure it was he who was so helpful. My mother must have been about 41 in 1955 but she was still an attractive woman. When they got to Colin Chapman, my mother said she had never heard of him, so Chapman wrote TEAM LOTUS in brackets underneath! As well as Hawthorn and Chapman, she got;
Roy Salvadori
Ron Flockhart
Duncan Hamilton
Ninian Sanderson.
A very brief list compared to Buford's, but not bad for a morning's work!
The only other entry in the book is Innes Ireland from 20th December 1960.
It may be my memory playing tricks on me but (looking at the autograph book for the first time in many years) I was surprised not to find Ken Wharton there, because I am sure my mother used to complain for years afterwards that Ken Wharton had spoilt her fountain pen by pressing too hard.
Perhaps it was Duncan Hamilton, as his signature looks a bit heavy-handed.
Posted 01 April 2004 - 00:03
Posted 02 April 2004 - 12:23
Posted 02 April 2004 - 19:32
I collected these autographs in the days prior to the British GP at Silverstone 1973. Autographs are from :
Graham Hill, Roger Williamson, Denis Hulme, John Watson, Peter Revson, David Purley (2x), Niki Lauda, Mike Hailwood, Carlos Reutemann, Chris Amon, Jochen Mass, Mike Beuttler, Carlos Pace, Jackie Stewart, Emerson & Wilson Fittipaldi, Howden Ganley, George Follmer, Clay Regazzoni, François Cevert, James Hunt, John Surtees, Jacky Ickx, Jody Scheckter and Derek Bell.
My brother and I are collecting autographs since 1968 and by now, our collection must be worth a fortune.....
Posted 02 April 2004 - 21:30
Was George Follmer at the British Grand Prix in 1973 or did you get his before that? If he was at the Grand Prix what was he doing there? I was not aware he had raced in the UK.
Posted 02 April 2004 - 21:44
He was racing his Shadow DN1 in the GP - he qualified 25th but was involved in the 'Scheckter' pile-up and didn't take the restart.
Originally posted by Ian McKean
Was George Follmer at the British Grand Prix in 1973 or did you get his before that? If he was at the Grand Prix what was he doing there? I was not aware he had raced in the UK.
Posted 03 April 2004 - 07:36
Posted 03 April 2004 - 21:22
About Follmer : here he is during practice waiting for some adjustments made on his Shadow. Alan Rees is second from left :
Posted 04 April 2004 - 15:53
Posted 14 April 2004 - 15:44
Posted 14 April 2004 - 17:09
However, for various reasons I have ended up with autographs in most of the few remaining programs I have. In almost every case, I was asked if they could autograph it since I had not any obvious interest in such things. Naturally, I was peering for chassis numbers, quizzing mechanics, and generally keeping an Eye on things, especially later on during the 1960's & 1970's. I was a bit surprised the other day to realize that in one program from an F5000 event that I have Gurney, Posey, Hobbs, Lunger, and others from that event. I guess I have seen them many times, but just paid any attention to them.
As the years have advanced, I have relented a bit is one area -- books. It was great fun to have DCN come up with a few creative things to say when he signed a few of his books for me. Generally, I will get a book signed only if the author is someone I know or like. Any notions of "enhancing" the value of the books makes me ill. Somewhere before it got lost or is still in the debris at my Mom's, I got Mickey Mantle to sign a baseball he fouled at Yankee Stadium. I had read somewhere where the ball became worthless if the player places a personal greeting on the ball. So, I had him put a "To Don..." sort of thing on it. He was a bit surprised. So I also got Roger Maris and Yogi Berra's signatures as well, all with a personal note. Someone I knew who collected baseball "stuff" heard about the ball from my brother and took a look at it. He was shocked that I had tanked the "value" of the ball by having the personal greetings on the ball.
I have always had serious doubts about assigning "value" to things such as autographs. The only true "value" that an autograph could really have is one often mentioned here -- the personal or sentimental value from the experience the autograph reminds us of having.
Or am I still a being from the Second Cohort of the Baby Boomer Generation who just never quite made the transition to Gordon Gekko Group member?
Oh, I do have an autographed picture of Jody Scheckter on the wall -- from 1979 -- which is the only such photograph I have that survived over the years. Sadly, we lost the Alan Kulwicki ones (one in the No. 35 Quincys car and the other in the No. 7 Hooters Underbird)....
Posted 14 April 2004 - 23:43
As a result, I only ever asked for, and received, one such. Do I regret it? Not really: I treasure the memories of those conversations much more than a scrap of paper.
I have no argument with those who feel otherwise, but it's just one of those things which never floated my boat...
Posted 14 April 2004 - 23:55
I stopped buying official Indy photos from the photo shop and getting them autographed after 1964 when the only two I bought were Eddie Sachs for myself and Dave Mac Donald for a friend. I thought that was just too erie to ever try again. I did get some my father took autographed after that but we usually gave the drivers photos too and they were happy to autograph ours.
The exception though is I did get some autographs on the program of the Riverside reunion a few months ago. To good to pass up guys like Phil Hill and Dan Gurney and Chuck Daigh etc even though I had gotten their autographs originally 30 years before!
Posted 15 April 2004 - 12:29
... as testified by the photo three or four posts earlier.
Posted 15 April 2004 - 16:36
I've a really nice original color pen artwork with M. Schumacher autograph (beneton area)
Two books one about J. Brabham and the other about J. Surtees. Both are signed.
These books are in French (ma native language, that why my english is so poor!)
and a L. Bandini autograph on a small paper piece.
If someone can be interested, he can contact me to receve more informations and picture.
I also have a G.Hill postcard, a A.Jones and a C. Reggazoni pictures (made by myself) but the three autographs are made with a light blue pencil.
I also have a large selection of pictures I've taken between 1968 and 1980. I hope I can post them soon ( the fotos are on color slide and I need time to transfert them to a computer format)
Posted 09 July 2004 - 10:43
Posted 01 August 2004 - 02:27
Rich Martin
Posted 01 August 2004 - 08:42
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Posted 01 August 2004 - 21:55
I too was at The Glen that day - also 18 years old, with my brother in the Pit Roof seats, and had been at the '71 USGP (my first GP) to see Francois Cevert's win.
After that fateful session had ended at noon, we were not certain exactly what had happened. After leaving our seats, while walking through the paddock, we overheard Carlos Pace (then driving for Surtees) telling the person walking with him in a mix of Portugese and English that "Francois was probably dead". His matter-of-fact manner illustrated to me the reality which the drivers of that time had to face virtually every time they went out in a car.
Sadly, Carlos was also lost a few years later (albeit in a plane accident).
Posted 02 August 2004 - 01:23
BTW, please don't use some of the forum members as a barometer for the forum in general. Some comments are uncalled for, as well as in bad taste...Sometimes they can be rather pompous too.
Welcome and enjoy the wonderful people here,you might be quite shocked to see who drops in!
Posted 06 October 2004 - 19:37
Originally posted by tyrrellp34
It was today 30 years ago, when a young guy from Paris apeared at the Glen to drive the last race of the 1973 F1 season. He thought, that the following year would be HIS year even with a team-mate he didn't want to have.
So, in October 6th, 1973 we lost Francois Cevert "le petit prince de la vitesse"
Today is one year more since Francois' last day; the same as for Helmuth Koinigg
Bad day ...
Posted 06 October 2004 - 20:52
When I think of that fateful day, I'm a 7 year old boy again and I mourn for my lost hero.
At least, I see in TNF that he's still alive for many people and that's a comforting thought.
Posted 06 October 2004 - 21:13
How time flies....
Posted 06 October 2004 - 21:15
Posted 06 October 2004 - 21:37
Posted 07 October 2004 - 00:55
Posted 07 October 2004 - 04:54
Motor racing's very own Prince Charming will never be forgotten.
Posted 11 October 2004 - 17:59
Posted 12 October 2004 - 10:37
Originally posted by dolomite
OK, this is the one I was on about. I've also seen a large colour print of it at some point, which looked stunning. From Autosport 16 December 1976:
Can you try to remember where did you saw that colour print - please ;)
The pic looks absolutely stunning, and I would like to check a better copy.
btw - the pic caption is also wonderful...
Posted 12 October 2004 - 11:34
I had spent the morning in the Kendall Garage with my Father, leaning on the chest-high chainlink fence watching the mechanics working on the cars and hoping for a glimpse of the drivers. I was pressed by the crowd against the Tyrrell fence and was not about to give up my space. I was riveted trying to commit every curve, every bolt of the 006 to my memory. There was "Uncle Ken" in the corner studying a clipboard chatting with the mechanics and then up walked this tall elegant and very charismatic young man with a beaming smile. I cannot explain his presence other than to say that he was one of those people with that certain glow that made everyone around him a mere mortal. He leaned over to hear Ken above the din and looking up, just a few feet from me shot a smile, a silent, "Hey. Kid"
As practise started, we moved out onto the new loop and sat on the hillside watching the cars stream past, and then a few motored by slowly and then silence. The PA address made the awfull announcement that Cevert had crashed. We wandered slowly back toward our campsite beyond the old Start-Finish Straight and came upon the accident site at the top of the Esses. The wreckage had been cleared, and the crews were franticly trying to repair the Armco. As we watched, the PA announcement was made, "Cevert had died, may we have a moment of silence".
Francois est Mort, and silent tears streamed down my face.
The next morning, we walked along the track to the top of the hill and saw the simple memorial in the dusty gravel behind the rail that had cost his life. A large cross had been laid out on the ground from the largest stones in in the gravel and rain had not yet washed away the blood and the motor oil from the spot. I wept again amid the silent crowd that had gathered and continued to come to say goodbye.
Thanks to everyone who has posted such lovely memories of that star who shot across the heavens all too briefly.
Posted 12 October 2004 - 16:37
Originally posted by tonicco
Can you try to remember where did you saw that colour print - please ;)
The pic looks absolutely stunning, and I would like to check a better copy.
btw - the pic caption is also wonderful...
I think I saw it on display in public somewhere, possibly at a motor show or something. I don't think that helps you much, sorry!
Perhaps you could try asking the Guild of Motoring Writers or Kodak UK if they still have a copy?
Posted 12 October 2004 - 16:58
Originally posted by dolomite
I think I saw it on display in public somewhere, possibly at a motor show or something. I don't think that helps you much, sorry!
Perhaps you could try asking the Guild of Motoring Writers or Kodak UK if they still have a copy?
Thanks for the reply, Dolomite.
I'll try to follow your tips. I'll also get in contact with a Swiss pal of mine, to see if he can reach Carl Imber. I've used Google, but I didn't get to understand if Imber is still alive... on the other hand, I've found a interesting Seppi page that I wasn't aware of...
Posted 12 October 2004 - 17:22
I was unable to attend the 73 GP, cell phones and the like were not yet on the horizon, so I couldn't speak with my friends who were attending the race, so I called Mal Currie, who gave me the bad news. I was so in shock that I asked if anyone else had been injured, Mal, being the professional, asked me to keep the news to myself. I did.
Later that evening I spoke with Chris Amon, who gave me a clue as to the probable cause of the accident. Chris , Jackie and Ken Tyrrell met later on to discuss the probabilty of racing the next day and promptly decided to withdraw.
My feelings being very abstract are that Cevert was in a position where he deeply had something to prove. Jackie was being very careful that weekend as his retirement loomed directly after the race. Chris was driving the 005 Tyrrell with bits and pieces of the 006 suspension bolted on and the car had been hastily coverted back from a side rad configuration that he drove in Canada, so he wasn't about to push the limits of a racecar that didn't suit his style.
That left Francois as the spearhead of the Tyrrell effort and I just think he was pushing it a bit too far and he paid the ultimate price.
It was and still remains a sad day!
Posted 12 October 2004 - 19:36
Carl Imber
Wahlstr. 119
4247 Grindel
Tel. 0041 61 761 56 36
Cel. 0041 79 322 38 74
Posted 12 October 2004 - 20:37
Originally posted by bschenker
I think this is his address:
Carl Imber
Wahlstr. 119
4247 Grindel
Tel. 0041 61 761 56 36
Cel. 0041 79 322 38 74
I had come to that same info in one of the my searches (http://www.visarte-s...n/F_Imber_C.htm), but I somehow ignored it...
Next - get a nice pic copy...
Posted 13 October 2004 - 14:14
Posted 13 October 2004 - 16:37
Thanks for the post.
Posted 26 October 2004 - 18:03
This is all you need to know:
CevertInBlue1973 last visit : 2004-10-25 20:46:10
FrancoisAce join date : 2004-10-25 21:04:08
Please - no more posts on the matter on this, or any other, TNF thread. Should you wish to comment on such behaviour (or whatever you want to call it) may I direct you to The Paddock Club.
Posted 20 November 2004 - 17:40
Does one of you can help me to find it?
Posted 20 November 2004 - 17:51
Stunning image isn't it?
Posted 20 November 2004 - 18:00
Posted 20 November 2004 - 18:13
Originally posted by AAA-Eagle
Yes, Spain 1973
... I seem to recall a colour image being posted as well somewhere.
Posted 20 November 2004 - 18:16
Is it also available in color?


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nicola yoon.
Publisher Delacorte Books.
Publication Date: September 1,2015.
Genre: YA Contemporary Romance.
Format|Pages: Hardcover|310.
Source: Goodreads|Library.
My disease is as rare as it is famous. Basically, I'm allergic to the world. I don't leave my house, have not left my house in seventeen years. The only people I ever see are my mom and my nurse, Carla.
But then one day, a moving truck arrives next door. I look out my window, and I see him. He's tall, lean and wearing all black—black T-shirt, black jeans, black sneakers, and a black knit cap that covers his hair completely. He catches me looking and stares at me. I stare right back. His name is Olly.
Maybe we can't predict the future, but we can predict some things. For example, I am certainly going to fall in love with Olly. It's almost certainly going to be a disaster.
Did that actually happen? That ending, it wasn't what I expected it to be. It was far from how I though the book would end. Talk about an unexpected twist to the story. I believe that I was in as much shock like Madeline was.
A lot of emotions went through me while reading the book, but especially the ending. Be sure you prepare some tissues while reading EVERYTHING, EVERYTHING because you will cry and I did, multiple times. Several times I found myself that my lunch break at work was longer so I could keep on reading. I couldn't get enough of Madeline and Olly's adventure and I was eager to see how it would end. I wanted to see if there is possibility that Ollly and Madison's relationship could survive. Considering her condition I wasn't sure how it could. Me being me, I found myself hoping for best. I can't even begin to imagine how it must felt like to be stuck inside house for that long. I would get bored if it were me, I don't think I would been able to handle for years like Maddie had, I would want get out way before Maddie did.
Maddie and Olly's relationship was different, it mostly started through chats considering that she couldn't go out. Then turned to meetings, thanks to Maddie's nurse, Carla. I knew that it couldn't end well, with her hiding it from her mother. It couldn't end well for neither of them, not for Madeline, not for Olly and not for Carla. Olly and Madeline had an instant bond, a connection that turned into love. I didn't think it could last due to fact that they couldn't touch. The two of them went through so much. They went all way to Hawaii because Madeline wanted to see. They finally found a way to be together. Despite their small separation, in the end they found a way to each other. How could that not be love? When they are willing to do anything for each other. The way the two of them were anytime, it had me smiling, every single time. Two of them belonged with each other.
I loved the illustrations through the book, it made the book even more fascinating. Now that I have read it, I know why a lot people were talking about it. A astonish, heartbreaking story. Now that I have read it, I can't wait to go see the movie with my friends next month. I am blown away. It was magical.