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The recent interstellar lecture by Executive Director I4IS Kelvin Long, presented at the Tennessee Valley Interstellar Workshop, Huntsville, Alabama, is now available for viewing on You Tube. Enjoy!
The recent interstellar lecture by Executive Director I4IS Kelvin Long, presented at the Tennessee Valley Interstellar Workshop, Huntsville, Alabama, is now available for viewing on You Tube. Enjoy!
The US non-profit foundation Icarus Interstellar has announced a new conference, to take place in Dallas, Texas, 15-18 August 2013. Details about the event can be found on their web site: http://www.icarusinterstellar.org/starship-congress-2013/
The title of this short blog is controversial but it is my claim. Daedalus was the British Interplanetary Society flyby probe design from the 1970s, which attempted to strike a balance between being sufficiently bold and sufficiently credible. For this reason they determined that technological extrapolation beyond a few decades hence was not credible. Because of this balance the design is not perfect and contains some contradictions which are only seen in the light of hindsight, such as the integration of an Artificially Intelligent computer but powered by Vacuum tube technology – this was before the days of microelectronics. In essence, the team set out to see if an interstellar probe could be designed in theory, as a way to address the Fermi Paradox; the apparent contradiction between our theoretical expectations for intelligent life in the Cosmos and our observations that we don't see any. The study was produced over 5 years from 1973 to 1978, and was led by Alan Bond, Tony Martin and Bob Parkinson, among others. The conclusion of the Daedalus study was that "interstellar travel was feasible in theory".
Caption: BIS Daedalus as depicted by Adrian Mann
Anyone who studies aerospace engineering knows that a vehicle design goes through three levels of iteration. First is the concept design phase, which addresses whether it will work, what it looks like, what requirements drive the design, what trade-offs should be considered and what mass should it have and if necessary how much it would cost. The next level is the preliminary design phase, which freezes the configuration, develops any vehicle sizing, creates the analytical basis for the design and moves into experimental demonstrations if appropriate. The final level is the detailed design phase, which identifies the individual pieces to be constructed and this includes any tools required. It involves any critical design tests of the structure and finalizes the vehicle configuration layout and performance specification. Along the way, there is a process of integrating the various systems and sub-systems, today couched in the language of systems engineering. In my opinion the Daedalus was an early preliminary vehicle design for a Starship. The team defined all of the major systems and most of the sub-systems. Full integration was not possible due to the nature of the technological extrapolation. But the vehicle configuration layout, performance specification and mission profile was defined in full where practical to do so.
During my own reading of interstellar concepts, I have come across solar sails driven methods, laser beaming, microwave beaming, fusion, antimatter and exotic concepts, to name a few. All of these studies have been concept papers however, or proposal submissions, or case study analyses – they–do not constitute designs. I argue that at best they are concepts and for most of them even that is not fully justified due to the errors in the calculations or due to the gaping areas of the engineering or physics not addressed. Daedalus is the only one that can be claimed to be a "Starship design" in my view. The only other vehicle that comes close to it is the Project Orion design from the 1950s and 1960s. Orion certainly was a preliminary design, but it was calculated for an interplanetary mission only. Then there were the World Ship studies from the 1980s also by Bond and Martin, but these did not go into the sub-system level of the internal architecture. Daedalus was first, and Daedalus remains the only one.
On a recent trip to the United States I visited both NASA Marshall Spaceflight Centre and NASA Glenn Research Centre. I made this claim at both laboratories and none of the NASA staff disagreed with me. In fact, many indicated that they fully agreed with this assertion. I made the same claim at the Tennessee Valley Interstellar Workshop, Huntsville and on a recent visit to the International Space University in Strasbourg. Again, no one could present an opposing view. It is humbling to think that it has been that little known space organisation, the British Interplanetary Society, which has achieved this remarkable thing of designing the world's first Starship and this will surely go down in its history as an inspirational activity. It's not the first time of course; in the 1930s the BIS also designed a lunar lander decades before Project Apollo was an idea in the mind of President Kennedy. Other projects throughout the society's history demonstrate its ground breaking and visionary pioneering as being "the first" to show the way. This includes manned V2 similar to the later Gemini-Redstone, a Mars probe, orbiting satellite, the list really does go on.
It was in 1952 that Dr Les Shepherd published his now famous paper "Interstellar Flight" in the Journal of the British Interplanetary Society. It amazes me that six decades on and we have only advanced as far as to have derived one Starship design. This is no surprise given the volunteer nature of interstellar studies. But for those who still doubt the plausibility of interstellar flight ask yourself this question: if we have only attempted to design one vehicle, how can you be so sure that interstellar travel is not possible?
Kelvin F.Long
By Alex Storer
Alex Storer, a.k.a The Light Dreams, is a freelance digital artist, illustrator and musician whose latest album, Future Worlds, is out now and is available for download from his Bandcamp page, http://thelightdreams.bandcamp.com/album/future-worlds. Here Alex, who is I4IS' honorary 'Interstellar Musician', discusses his new album and the meaning behind the tracks.
I like the idea of instrumental music being open to listener's own interpretation, but as an artist, I always associate music with images, colours and concepts, so in turn, I like my music to have an idea to drive it as part of the creative process, which listeners can then either take or leave. Each track on Future Worlds has a specific theme or vision in mind, reflected in the title.
Souvenir of Earth is a downbeat and reflective start, taking both its inspiration and title from Karen Thompson Walker's debut novel, The Age of Miracles, which my wife had bought for me last year. The story depicts the impact on society and the environment following the slowing of the Earth's rotation. The destruction or loss of our home world is a regular topic in SF literature, and I wanted to create a piece to match that mood, leaving Earth as just a memory. This was the first track I made and starting point for the whole album.
To the Stars was one of the first tracks I composed after being invited to join the Institute for Interstellar Studies™, and I wanted to reflect the forward thinking goals and ambitions of the Institute. I had recently made a 25-minute evolving soundscape entitled Chrysalis (http://thelightdreams.bandcamp.com/album/chrysalis-2), which was more of an experimental demo, but there was one section I particularly liked, which I adapted as the main melody in "To the Stars".
Utopia – whether it's the city of Diaspar in Arthur C. Clarke's The City and the Stars, H.G. Wells' When the Sleeper Awakes or almost any given Philip K. Dick scenario, beneath the perfect, blissful society and lifestyle there is always a dark undercurrent or conspiracy.
Colony – many space and science fiction artists have painted radical visions of what man's colonies on other planets could be like. "Colony" is one of the more dynamic tracks on the album, starting out as a heavily electronic piece before gradually morphing into a thunderous orchestral score. I first started using symphonic sounds when I created the soundtrack to artist David A. Hardy's English edit of the 1957 Russian film, Road to the Stars. I enjoyed working with these powerful sounds so much, I decided to fuse orchestral and electronic styles together for Future Worlds.
The World Outside – is actually the title to my own digital painting that I used as the album cover. I wanted a sparse sound and cold atmosphere, which could depict either the first sight of a new world outside a freshly-landed spacecraft, or a beautiful yet inhospitable alien terrain beyond the confines of a colony.
Second Sun – I was reading 50 Years in Space by the late Sir Patrick Moore and David A. Hardy, which contains one of my (many) favourite Hardy paintings, Antares. It's one of those pieces that you feel you could step right into, with beautiful cascading waterfalls set against a vibrant double sunset. It's also one of the brighter tracks on the album – thinking to the end of the film, Sunshine, when the dying sun is 'rebooted" and warmth and sunlight returns to the Earth.
Icefall is one of the more orchestral tracks and combines the cold atmosphere of a solar winter with the underlying message of climate change and the melting of the polar ice caps.
Beneath the Surface continues the ecological theme, this time focusing on the endangered life under the sea. This is perhaps the album's most epic track, with a gradual build and mid-point transition with echoes of Vangelis' work and Mike Oldfield's Songs of Distant Earth (which was inspired by the Arthur C. Clarke novel of the same name)
Cities in the Sky goes in a darker, industrial direction with thunderous drums and metallic drones. The concept of the floating city is no stranger to SF, and I wanted to produce a menacing piece that could capture the vast spectacle of enormous, monstrous floating machine-like cities.
Flightpath is about the adventure of space flight, such as the journey between warring worlds as depicted in Joe Haldeman's Forever War or the plight of the Leonora Christine starship in Poul Anderson's Tau Zero.
Earthlight – the partial illumination of a dark part of the surface of the Moon via light reflected from the Earth, and also a term for the appearance of the Earth as seen from the Moon during the lunar night – and an early Arthur C. Clarke novel!
Sea of Flames is an apocalyptic vision of the sun closing in on the Earth and setting alight to everything, including the oceans – a haunting close to the album.
I usually like albums to be around 40-45 minutes in duration – I think that's just the right length to digest. However, I had so many ideas on the go whilst making Future Worlds, even after completing my planned twelve tracks, and there were two pieces that I really liked and decided to include as bonus tracks. In the one sense, the album starts off with man leaving the Earth and taking to the stars – almost like a first act. So for the second act, we're setting foot on a new world for the first time, and starting over there. This was the general thinking behind the two additional tracks, which are only available with the album download on my Bandcamp page (the 12-track version of the album should be available from Amazon and iTunes from mid-March).
First Steps started off as an energetic dance track entitled "Contact", but it wasn't the right style for the rest of the album, so I slowed it right down and changed it from an all-electronic piece to all-orchestral, the final track sounding almost Terminator-like in approach.
Origins is a slow building track, with layer upon layer of music gradually emerging and evolving into a dramatic, but optimistic crescendo. It's also the only track on the album to feature vocal samples.
Sometimes when you start work on an album, it often takes unexpected turns and ends up going in a completely different direction to what you originally set out to. But with Future Worlds, I'd say it has turned out exactly how I intended, as an emotive and thought-provoking soundscape with a mixture of moods and atmospheres through a powerful blend of electronic and symphonic music. I'm certainly proud to associate the album with the Institute for Interstellar Studies.™
You can visit Alex's website at www.thelightdream.net, where you can view his excellent artwork and buy digital downloads of his previous albums, as well as Future Worlds. Alternatively follow him on Facebook here. Alex is kindly donating ten percent of all sales of Future Worlds to I4IS.
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Today was the final day of the US tour. We reported to NASA Glenn Research Centre at 8am and then had a breakfast meeting with NASA management. The Tau Zero President Marc Millis also joined us as well as James Gilland from the Ohio Aerospace Institute. I then gave the lecture to an audience of NASA scientists, engineers and some young graduate students. The presentation was well received and the questions and feedback was all excellent. I was glad to also meet up with Geoffrey Landis, another interstellar pioneer.
We then all broke for lunch and much discussion was had. This included on the future direction of space exploration, national leadership in space, space politics, nuclear propulsion and other subjects. We then proceeded on a wonderful tour of the facilities. This included the Fission Technology Demonstration Unit, the advanced Stirling Radioisotope Generator, Supersonic Propulsive Wind Tunnel, Small Chemical Rocket Propulsion Research, NASA Evolutionary Xenon Thruster NEXT.
Finally, we had a meeting to discuss the Institute and other issues facing the interstellar community. The staff at NASA Glenn were warm, friendly and openly enthusiastic for our efforts. It was an honour and a pleasure to spend some time with the people that are actually doing space. I dare others do better than these amazing space engineers.
Best wishes
Kelvin F.Long
Executive Director I4IS
The evening of the second day at the TVIW was a celebration of the 65th birthday of Claudio Maccone. The local guys arranged for a cake for him (thanks Martha Knowles) and it was very nice. Socials have been a big theme over the past few days and I was up late drinking and chatting about space travel into the early hours every night. It's the best way to make new friends, and get reacquainted with old ones who you may not see again for several years.
The Wednesday was a big highlight for me. I was invited to deliver a lecture at the NASA Marshall Spaceflight Centre. I4IS Director Rob Swinney accompanied me to the event too. I was talking about the rise of interstellar studies as a subject from science fiction, to the Les Shepherd paper in 1952 to the development of initiatives like Daedalus. I then discussed the plans for the pending Institute for Interstellar Studies. Claudio Maccone followed me by talking about the FOCAL mission. Then Robert Kennedy took the stand and talked about his ideas for constructing a "Dyson Dot". Robert has the rare honour of having previously presented at the Russian Academy of Sciences, and in Russian.
Robert Kennedy was one of those rare people that one instantly connects with. He is a talent for sure and has that slightly mad glint in his eye required of all world changers. Another rare talent I met was Eric Hughes. He is an incredibly bright guy who's boundless energy and knowledge is matched by only one other person I have met – my Australian friend Adam Crowl. If only I could get those two together?
The Tennessee Valley Interstellar Workshop had been organised by Robert, Eric and several others, all under the supervision and guidance of Les Johnson. The team did a wonderful job and were excellent hosts. People of Tennessee Valley prepare yourself, we are likely to be back for more.
After our lectures at NASA MSFC we were taken on a tour. and it was a tour to die for. First, we were taken to visit the International Space Station Operations Centre. As we watched through the window we saw a Sunset occur in real time from the ISS on the monitor. For a moment there, we forgot we were on Earth. We were then taken to see some of the original Werner von Braun facilities. This included the observation bunker and an actual Redstone rocket still sitting in position in its stack. Amazing! Then we saw the Saturn V vibration test rig and firing rig. It was designed big enough to test the next rocket von Braun had planned – his huge Mars rocket. We didn't get to see his office, but we stood outside his building. His presence was still there.
The next stop on the tour was the highlight of the entire trip for me. We saw a solar sail identical to Nanosail-D but wound up, also next to a tether. I got to pick them all up. Lots of Saturn V and Space Shuttle main engines. A full shuttle SRB. An X-33 linear aerospike engine……and……a NERVA rocket engine. I recognised it immediately and it was an incredible moment. An actual nuclear thermal rocket engine. It may not be the full Daedalus like fusion engine that I would like to see, but it's enough to keep me going.
Walking around these places I am filled with pride at America's achievements in propulsion and aeronautics. But I am also filled with a huge sense of sadness and a burning question "America: STS, X-33, NERVA…..why did you stop?"
Rocket photos later.
The second day of the Tennessee Valley Interstellar Workshop was again filled with lots of exciting talks exploring the possibilities of interstellar flight.
Claudio Maccone had come all the way over from Italy to deliver his usual excellent talk on mathematical SETI and the FOCAL mission proposal to a gravitational lens point. Interstellar pioneer Al Jackson spoke about the real propulsion options for reaching the stars, so called ultra-Starships, such as laser driven, fusion or antimatter based systems. He also speculated on how an advanced technological civilisation might use the energy around a black hole to propel a starship. Jokingly, I suggested the black hole could be used to grow a TARDIS, to the delight of Dr Who fans.
Sam Lightfoot spoke about the sociological implications of two cultures interacting and how the smallest item or object could have such a dramatic impact on a culture. The subject was similar to one discussed regularly by the Canadian anthropologist Kathryn Denning and I hope those two minds can hook up and share ideas.
Stephanie Osborn gave a rousing talk about the development of a space transport escape system, learning lessons from the Columbia tragedy. She and her team are conducting experiments on a novel system called SPEARED. Its a great shame no agency is funding this inspiring work. Keep going Stephanie.
There was more talks in the afternoon although it was dominated by the post-analysis of the workshop discussions. Myself and Paul Gilster gave feedback specifically and we were both enthusiastic about the 1TW by 2050 concept although expressed cautionary notes in how to build support behind the vision.
I had dinner with Les Johnson and the science fiction author Gerald Driggers. We swapped stories although I think Gerald won with his accounts of meeting Werner von Braun.
The evening was taken up by a panel session at the local Calhoun Community College. Bill Cress and Paul Gilster first set the scene with presentations. Bill talked about the use of video entertainment to inspire people and Paul talked about the various locations for future interstellar precursor missions. This was followed by a panel Q and A with the audience which also included Richard Obousy, myself and Gordon Woodcock. Gordon got my attention when he said "I worked on Project Orion" – wow!
Once again the day was a success followed by a social gathering for the Project Icarus team at the house of NASA engineer Rob Adams – thanks for the beers Rob and Tia.
More thoughts tomorrow.
Kelvin F.Long
Executive Director I4IS
Day one of the Tennessee Valley Interstellar Workshop was a great mix of talks and exciting discussions. It opened with Les Johnson giving a nice introduction to the subject. He said if 1 AU was the equivalent of 1 ft, then the nearest stars were in Nashville, around 50 miles from Huntsville
Jan Davis, former astronaut, then spoke about the difficulties of living and working in space. This was followed by a presentation from 15 year old William Lucas who had achieved received fame by detecting a distance gamma-ray burst from his home Geiger counter. Good job William.
I won't go through all the talks of the day but I will highlight two of them. The first was a presentation from Sam Lightfoot on the sociological implications of cultures meeting. He described how the introduction of various seemingly innocent products had resulted in devastating consequences to a culture and stated that the consequences of an alien culture entering ours were unpredictable and potentially fatal. One of the examples he gave was the introduction of snowmobiles to the Eskimos. This had meant they could handle larger herds and had resulted in over grazing. His presentation was well argued. The other talk I want to highlight was by Gordon Woodcock. He was one of the original members of the L5 society and had many wonderful stories to tell about his long career and meeting Gerard O'Neill. Gordon demonstrated a bunch of calculations on a fusion (magnetic) powered starship. All back of envelope stuff. He was a fine example of an engineer.
I spent the evening having dinner with Les Johnson, SF writer Gerald Driggers and others. Gerald had actually met Werner von Braun and said he had told him that the US could have launched Explorer 1 three months earlier than Sputnik but jurisdiction was with the Navy.
This was followed by the evening workshop to study how to achieve a 1TW facility at the Lagrange point by the year 2050. There are some good people behind the TVIW and I hope to return in future years. Robert Kennedy and Eric Hughes are two particular diamonds on this side of the pond.
Best wishes
Kelvin F Long
Executive Director I4IS


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MOUNT RAINIER, Washington (CNN) -- The man authorities believe was responsible for the New Year's Day shooting death of a national park ranger in Washington State was a former soldier who owned many knives and guns despite an emotionally unstable, vindictive and anger-prone mind-set, the mother of his toddler daughter said in court documents.
Authorities found Benjamin Colton Barnes' body face down in a creek in Mount Rainier National Park Monday.. not far from where investigators believe he fatally shot park ranger Margaret Anderson.
Anderson was a Kansas State University graduate, who also earned her Masters from Fort Hays State, here in Kansas.
Investigators say they believe Barnes shot the ranger after he blew through a checkpoint set up to check vehicles to make sure they had the proper winter gear necessary to travel the park. Anderson and another ranger had set up a second roadblock to stop him when he jumped out of the car and opened fire. She was struck before she was able to get out of her vehicle, authorities said.
Anderson, who was 34, was the first Rainier park employee to be a homicide victim, and the devastated staff needed a few more days to recover before the park reopens Saturday, officials said Tuesday.
While investigators said they had little insight into Barnes' mind-set or motivations, the woman with whom he was in a custody dispute over their young daughter said in court documents filed last year that she was frightened to be in the same state with him.
"The weapons are harmful, and I don't know if he will try to use them against myself or my family," the woman wrote in a filing for a temporary restraining order filed with the Pierce County Superior Court on May 24th.
She wrote in other documents reported by the CNN affiliate in Seattle that Barnes might be suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder after a deployment to Iraq.
Barnes, 24, served as a radio and communications repair specialist with 2nd Squadron, 1st Calvary Regiment, a unit of the 2nd Infantry Division located at Joint Base Lewis-McChord near Seattle, according to Army spokesman Troy Rolan.
He joined the Army in February 2007 and was deployed to Iraq from that year to shortly before his discharge in 2009, Rolan said. Details of his discharge were not immediately available, Rolan said, and Army policy prohibits release of information about a soldier's medical condition.
Despite photos of a muscular Barnes, shirtless, tattooed and brandishing two guns, Barnes wasn't a combat soldier. Instead, he was responsible for fixing radios and other communications equipment, Rolan said.
The weapons in the widely circulated photo didn't appear to be government-issued, Steven Dean, an assistant special agent in charge at the FBI's Seattle office, said Monday.
And he didn't appear to have any special wilderness or survival training, Dean said. Barnes was found face down near a creek in a T-shirt, jeans and one shoe.
Before the shooting at the national park, Barnes was wanted in connection with a shooting early Sunday in the Seattle suburb of Skyway that left four people wounded, two critically, according to the King County Sheriff's Office.
"There was kind of a show-and-tell with guns in the evening at a party," spokeswoman Sgt. Cindi West told CNN.
Shortly before 3 a.m. Sunday, one of the males at the party asked to see a gun belonging to another person, West said. When asked to give the gun back, the male refused.
"A fight ensued, and at one point at least two people pulled guns, and a shootout ensued. Witnesses said that Benjamin Barnes was one of the subjects that pulled a gun and fired," West said in a statement. Barnes left the scene with two others.
"It is unclear at this point who shot first and who was shot by whom," West said.
Authorities contacted Barnes' family after the incident in a bid to have him come in for questioning, according to authorities.
Meanwhile, a woman who said she had spurned Barnes' romantic advances said he visited her on Sunday morning, before Anderson's shooting, to wish her a happy new year, according to CNN affiliate KCPQ.
She told the station that she thought Barnes was a nice guy when they first met, but that he "seemed sketchy" after she got to know him better. That he turned to violence in his final days wasn't shocking to her, she told the station.
"It doesn't surprise me, honestly. He is a loose cannon. If he doesn't get his way or something makes him upset, he goes all the way out of control," she told the station.
The park remained closed Tuesday, as authorities continued to investigate the shooting and Barnes' death.
"We are still dealing with the loss," said Mount Rainier National Park spokesman Kevin Bacher. "Everybody is just devastated and exhausted by this, trying to get back on an even keel."
The last ranger fatalities at the park was in 1995 when two climbing rangers died during a rescue, officials said.
About 125 employees at Rainier are being offered counseling and other measures. "A very large number of our staff are very shook up by this event," said Bacher.
Anderson was one of about a dozen commissioned law enforcement officers at the park. They assist motorists, firefighters, campers and search-and-rescue personnel.
"Our rangers are trained to be prepared for anything," Bacher told CNN.
Condolences continued to pour in Tuesday to the Officer Down Memorial Page; 955 messages had been posted as of Tuesday evening in praise of Anderson's service and offering comfort to her family, including her husband Eric Anderson, who also worked as a ranger at the park, and their two children, 1 and 4.
"Everyone is talking about her," Patty Wrzesien, a waitress at Cruiser's Cafe, told CNN affiliate KING on Monday. "She was such a sweet, sweet lady."
Anderson had always liked the outdoors, and she liked helping people, her father, Paul Kritsch, told KING. And that is why she loved her job as a ranger, he said.


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I was on my front lawn watering the grass on an unusually hot May afternoon when suddenly I heard a loud rumbling clatter coming from down the street. I turned the sprayer off and stared as I saw a horrendous looking 1981 Chevy Nova, with rust spots,a cracked windshield and a sagging tailpipe sputtering into the next-door driveway.
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Tommy, look at my new wheels!" I had often spent a lot of time fantasizing about young Natasha. She was a perky little blonde with a nice tan. She had an innocent and adorable face that was lightly peppered with a few freckles.
She had a gorgeous petite body,with tiny teacup breasts. She sometimes wore a tight little "wife-beater" without a bra, so I knew that her nipples were puffy and pert. Her legs were beautiful as well. She kept them toned and fit with gymnastics and cheer-leading.
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She then turned to face me as I approached. She had on a pair of pink shorts and a light blue bikini top. As I walked up I could see a flash of white cotten panties with little flowers on them peeking from the opening of her shorts next to her delectable looking thigh. My eyes moved upward as she got out of the car and I looked into her swimming green eyes.
She was still beaming and I could tell she was thrilled with her new purchase. "Check it out, Mr. Tommy, I just bought it.What do ya think?" I hesitated a bit and although I was smiling, I'm sure she could see the doubtful look in my eyes.The car was atrocious looking. It had once been green I thought,but wasn't kinky blonde has her gaping asshole drilled. The inside of the car was worse.
The seats were worn out and the lining of the ceiling was hanging down. I noticed all of this as Natasha rattled on about how her boyfriend had told her that if she bought it he would help her fix it up and "pimp it out". They really have their work cut out for them I thought to myself. Natasha told me that she would see me later. She then walked toward her front door. When she turned away I looked down at her nice little ass. Her pink shorts were barely covering her firm ass cheeks.
My dick, now at full attention, twitched again as I read the word "booty-licious" emblazoned onto the back of the shorts. The next afternoon I was outside pruning my shrubs when I saw the white van from the local catholic school pull to a stop in front of Natasha's house. She stepped out of it and she plodded down the driveway with her eyes to the ground. I was about to call out and ask her why she didn't drive her voyeur teen joins old couple in the woods for a threesome pussy fucking and old and young wheels to school, when I realized that she was crying.
I felt a stirring in my groin because she looked so cute with that pouty "I'm trying to keep from crying in front of you" look upon her face. I was also filled with concern. So I walked over and put my arms around her tender shoulders and asked her what was wrong.
She leaned into to me and then she sobbed, "Jimmy broke up with me today. He told me he only went with me so that he could help his uncle sell his car!" I felt very sad for young Natasha. She had been to me as a friendly counselor though the years. She had often came to me for advice and help. We had been close like that since she was around 9 years old. Back then I saw her as a child and had no interest in her sexually. She would come over and help me around the house and do laundry for me from time to time.
She had helped me a great deal right after the divorce from my wife. Now I saw her as a sexy young woman and as she cried, I felt my cock stiffen. I told her that everything would be okay. I told her that she could bring her car over to my garage and that on my evenings and weekends we could work together and fix it up.
She looked up at me with her sweet little tear-streaked face, and said "Oh Mr. Tommy, You are the sweetest man on earth." Then she threw her arms around me and hugged me tightly.
The sensation of her small soft frame pressed against me was exquisite. My cock was rock hard and I know she could feel it throbbing.
It seemed like she responded to that by quickly kissing me on the mouth. In that second I could smell her smampoo and I had a faint after-taste of strawberry lip gloss on my lips. She then broke apart from the hug and ran to get her car keys. Her plaid skirt rustled as she ran toward her driveway. She came over about thirty-minutes later. I had been hurriedly straightening out my garage.
When I heard her hooptie start next door I knew she was on her way. As she teen ebony kendall and riley in a hot some fuck up, I motioned her in.
She stepped out of her car with a pair of blue-jean "Daisy-dukes" on with a tight yellow "wife-Beater". I could tell she didn't have a bra on.
I could vaguely see the outline of her cute puffy nipples. As I was checking her out I noticed she was looking at the crotch of my golfing shorts. She walked around my crowded garage while dreaming aloud about how she wanted to fix the car up. I wanted to open the hood but a large box was in the way. Natasha was right behind me and when I picked up the box to move it, its contents fell out. To my horror, It was a collection of my mens magazines, a package of condoms, a vibrator and other contents of my ex-wife's nightstand.
I could feel myself blushing as Natasha stared at the stuff mesmerized. I expected her to call me a pervert and run home, but instead she picked up a magazine. She opened the magazine while I scurried to pick up everything else. Once I had everything back into the box I put it on a shelf in the far corner and walked back over to her.
I said, "Natasha, I am so sorry that you xxl tits babe alia starr big boobs and pornstar those things. I didn't know they were there." I may as well have been talking to the car, because her teen-age curiousity had her completely engrossed in the girlie mag.
I leaned over to see what she was staring at so intently. On the page there was a young looking blonde in a school-girl out-fit sucking the small 6 inch cock of some muscle bound guy in what appeared to be a locker-room.
She looked up and said, "It's okay Mr. Tommy, I won't tell anyone". She then told me that the girls at school sometimes talked about doing what they were doing in that picture. I asked her if she had ever done anything like that. She replied, "Oh no, I have never even seen a guy's thingie until now, in this book. It looks so big." "Actually that guy's penis is very small compared to some guys", I told her. Then it dawned on me what kind of conversation I was having with a fifteen year old and I tried to turn her attention to the car.
But kelly broox got creamed in the bathroom stared at the book and thumbed through a few more pages. I got into the drivers seat and pretended to fiddle with something while I watched her wiggle her smooth, tanned legs. I could tell she was getting really turned on by what she was looking at. Her nipples were poking out and they looked like pink gum-drops that were barely hidden behind the light yellow fabric of the shirt.
She then looked back at me and asked if I thought she was as pretty as the girl in the magazine. I told her that she was gorgeous, and that if I were 20 years younger I would never break her heart like that Jimmy guy had done. She smiled as I said that and sexily brushed her hair back with her hand. I got out of the car and she asked if she could keep the magazine.
I quickly thought of the trouble I could get in and said, "No, but you are welcome to come over and look at it anytime. She said, Okay, its a deal and then handed me the magazine and hopped down from the hood of her car. We spent the next hour just cleaning the car out and getting a lot of useless junk out of the trunk.
Everytime she would bend over to set something down I would get a great drubbing oriental chicks pussy japanese and hardcore of her young ass.
She my friends hot mom mrs lee mrs jewell and mrs charms also starting to sweat, and the perspiration rolling down the front of her neck toward her almost non-existant cleavage was driving me nuts.
I was trying to conceal my raging boner with bags and boxes, or turning around when she walked toward me. It was really hard to focus on our task with this little teen beauty enticing me with her every innocent move.
Suddenly, out of the blue, she asked me, "Mr. Tommy, has any woman ever done to you what that girl in the magazine was doing to that guy." I thought it was odd for her to ask me that, but I said,"Only a few times, My ex-wife didn't like to do that for me very often." Natasha then kind of laughed and said, " I don't know why she wouldn't do that, It looks kind of fun.
Like eating an ice cream cone or something. Plus, look at how much the guy in that book seemed to like it. If I had been your wife I would have done that to you every night to keep you happy. You are a good man. You are kind, gentle, you make me laugh and I think you are the greatest Mr. Tommy! Besides, I have had like a major crush on you since I was like .um.9 years old." I stood there silently taking in everything she was saying.
My heart was racing with lust and desire. All I could manage to say was, "really?" She then told me about how sometimes she would watch me cut grass in just my shorts, from her bedroom window, and how when she did that her you know what would get wet and that she would fantasize about me and rub herself the entire time as I mowed my lawn.
She said she had never seen a cock, but she could sometimes see the outline of mine in my shorts and that it turned her on. I couldn't believe that Natasha was being so open with me about her feelings, so I decided to tell her my little secret.
I asked her if she remembered laying out on her back deck a couple weeks before trying to get an early summer tan. She giggled and said," Yeah,I had drank a Pina Colada and had a nice buzz". I told her that I had spied on her the entire time and then I looked her in her sparkling green eyes and told her that over the past six months I had developed a crush on her as well.
I told her how I always thought of her and sometimes I would wonder about what it would be like if the two of us did some of the things she had seen in the magazine. I told her that I often bought magazines with young blonde girls because they reminded me of her. I then hesitated a moment, as we stood face to face in my garage sharing our secret desires english 3x sex stories for story each other.
She looked up and me and licked her lips and said, "Mr. Tommy can I .um see your thing." Throwing caution to the wind, I stepped closer and unzipped my shorts. My cock was pulsating with every heart-beat as I pulled my eight-inch member out and since my nuts were straining too, I also hung them out over the waist-band of my underwear. Natasha seemed fascinated with the size and closeness of it as she gazed down upon it.
I saw her flush and then to my amazement I saw a little wet patch forming on the front of her shorts. Her breathing was getting deeper when she asked if she could touch it. I said," Sure Sweetie, You don't even have to ask. Just do what you want with it. She tenentavly reached out and put her small delicate hand around my penis and pulled on it a little.
Precum oozed from the tip as she cooed about how warm and thick my cock felt to her. She then reached down and lightly petted my nut-sack with her pink fingernails. My breathing had also gotten heavy as she stroked my rod. I watched as she removed her left hand from my nuts and starting rubbing the front of her shorts.
She moaned softly,tilted her head back ,and slowly closed her eyes as she continued to rub herself and tug at my cock. Then she let go of my prick and I thought maybe this little game of show and tell was over. It was far from over. She sank to her knees and lightly ran her soft wet tongue from the base to the head of my throbbing tool.
She then looked up at me with her adorable little face and and smiled and said, "See, Its just like eating an ice cream cone, 'cept its a lot hotter!" I just nodded and grinned. She then put her soft succulent young lips around my penis and sucked down about half-way, before coming back up. she then sucked back down again, taking a little more the second time. She swirled her tongue around while my cock was deep inside her mouth.
It felt incredible.
Then she tried to take more and gagged a little. I pulled back a little while she caught her breath. Then I gently caressed her neck under her ear as I guided her slowly back towards my dick.
I told her that she didn't have to try to take it all, she could just go about halfway and then back to the head. I also told her that she looked beautiful sucking my " ice cream cone" and that I loved when she used her tongue.
She went down with her lips around my shaft and started flicking her tongue once again.
It was feeling awesome because in her excitement she was unknowingly scratching my prick with her braces.
She then got into a rythym and as I watched her her lips dance upon my member I could feel my nuts tighten up. I knew I was about to explode. I didn't want to be an ass-hole and cum in her mouth for her first blow-job, so when I felt it coming on I genly pushed her away.
She looked up alarmed, thinking that she may have hurt me. I grunted, "I'm cumming" and after stroking my cock twice more with my hand, I sent a jet of hot cum onto her neck and onto her hard little puffy left nipple.
She stared at my cock looking hot and flushed. Then she licked it from the base to the tip once more. She looked up at me and said, "Next time I wanna taste it." THE END OF PART ONE


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Tottenham Hotspur chairman Daniel Levy was alerted to the talent of West Ham United star Dimitri Payet years before his move to the Premier League, according to ex-Spurs winger David Ginola. Levy was made aware of the talent of Payet during his time with Lille between 2011 and 2013 but was unable to capture the now 28-year-old, who is starring at Upton Park this term.
Payet joined The Hammers from Marseille in the summer of 2015 for a reported £10.7m [according to The Daily Mail] and has been among the stand-out performers in the English top flight this term. Seven goals and six assists have come in 20 starts in all competitions, a contribution which has Slaven Bilic's side on course to qualify for Europe.
Earlier this month Sky Sports understood that an unnamed Chinese club was preparing to launch a £38m ($54m, €49m) bid for Payet while offering the player a wage packet in excess of £7m-a-year. West Ham boss Bilic has regularly refuted speculation regarding his star midfielder and says "no money in the world" could lure the player away from east London. However his path into English football could have been altogether different had Tottenham taken up Ginola's recommendation.
"I had a discussion one night with Spurs players, former players and chairman Daniel Levy about French players coming through and who would be good [or Tottenham]," Ginola told Talksport. "And I said, 'well there's one out there right now, Dimitri Payet.' This was a few years ago when he was still playing at Lille, and I told him Payet would suit English football.
"I'm not surprised to see him being successful at West Ham. He had a good spell at Marseille when he left Lille, but it wasn't the best of Dimitri we saw. He's improved since he signed for West Ham but his very best is yet to come. He could have been a Spurs player.
"I saw in him the flair you associate with Tottenham players, the flair game of Spurs' history. Dimitri Payet was fitting pretty well in that image of what a Spurs player should be. It's amazing to see him playing so well and I'm just pleased to see I wasn't wrong. I was absolutely right to see him as a great asset for English football."


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The area where multi-flower honey from Barycz Valley is obtained, covers the territory of the Barycz Valley Landscape Park, which has been included among the European protected areas Nature 2000.


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H.H. Sayyid Shihab bin Tariq al-Said inaugurates 445 MW Greenfield Salalah 2 IPP project in Oman
H.H. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum breaks ground on Noor Energy 1, the biggest Concentrated Solar Power project in the world
ACWA Power-led consortium signs a number of agreements with Oman Power and Water Procurement Company to establish the Salalah Water Project
His Royal Highness Crown Prince Al Hussein bin Abdullah II inaugurates 2.6 MW solar photovoltaic facility on King's Academy campus
ACWA Power and Energy China sign a memorandum for power and water desalination co-operation across the Middle East and Asia.
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The Public Investment Fund (PIF) of Saudi Arabia acquires 15.2% equity interest in ACWA Power, resulting in a total shareholding directly and indirectly of 24.98%.
ACWA Power, Saudi Aramco, and Air Products sign a Term Sheet to form an over US$8 billion Gasification/Power joint venture in Saudi Arabia
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ACWA Power, ECOHZ, and WOCAN partner to provide companies a tool to mitigate climate change and empower women through projects in Morocco and South Africa.
ACWA Power's Khalladi wind farm is first to qualify for the International Renewable Energy Certificate Standard
ACWA Power-led consortium signs a power purchase agreement (PPA) with the Egyptian Electricity Transmission Company for a gas-fired combined cycle plant in Egypt
Noor Energy 1 expanded to include 250 MW of photovoltaic panels to generate a total of 950 MW
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King Salman bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia breaks ground on Sakaka PV IPP
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The lineup for the second game of the series against the Minnesota Twins
The Yankees will look to win their second consecutive game in the series against the Minnesota Twins. CC Sabathia, who was originally scheduled to start on Monday, will get the start tonight because it was decided that everyone in the rotation would get an extra day of rest.
The Yankees won Monday's game 8-7 in 10 innings as Chase Headley's ground out to the shortstop scored Brendan Ryan for the game-winning run. Carlos Beltran's homer to left that scored Greg Bird in the sixth inning tied the game at seven. That was Beltran's third homer in his last four games and Bird's pinch-hit double was his first hit at Yankee Stadium.
Bryan Mitchell was unfortunately hit in the face by a line drive by Eduardo Nunez in the second inning, which forced the bullpen to pitch the final 8.1 innings. Mitchell walked off the field with the assistance of athletic trainer Steve Donahue, and Mitchell ended up coming away with a nasal fracture, which is better than it could have been given the circumstance. The bullpen will be shorthanded tonight since Chasen Shreve, Justin WIlson, Adam Warren, Dellin Betances and Andrew Miller all pitched during Monday's game.
The Yankees, who are now a game ahead of the Blue Jays since Toronto didn't play last night, will send out a different lineup than normal tonight. Chase Headley will get the night off and Ryan will play third base.
"I just felt Head could use a day," Girardi said. "I gave him that day (in Cleveland) to try to give him two days because his legs were beat up, and I think he played eight innings that day. I just feel that he can use a day." In 119 plate appearances with runners in scoring position this season, Headley has a line of .324/.370/.543 with 43 RBIs.
Mark Teixeira, who fouled a ball off his right leg just below his knee during last night's game, had X-rays last night that were negative. However, his further tests did reveal that he had a deep bone bruise. It could take a few days until he is back in the lineup.
Bird, who has a .200 average in 10 at-bats, has been impressive at the plate so far even though he only has two hits. He has found the holes recently since both of his hits have come in his previous two at-bats. He will get the start tonight for Teixeira and is ready to play the next few games in case Teixeira is not able to.
"At least he's gotten his feet wet, which is helpful," Girardi said. "It's not like we had him called up today and said you're in the lineup. He's done a good job over there. He may be called into duty for a few days."
Here is the lineup for tonight's game against the Twins:
Jacoby Ellsbury CF
Brett Gardner LF
Alex Rodriguez DH
Brian McCann C
Carlos Beltran RF
Greg Bird 1B
Didi Gregorius SS
Stephen Drew 2B
Brendan Ryan 3B
Pitching matchups for the series between the Yankees and Indians in Cleveland
After being swept in the three game series by the Toronto Blue Jays over the weekend, the Yankees will play a three-game series starting tonight in Cleveland against the Indians. The eight consecutive wins by the Blue Jays has reduced the Yankees lead in the American League East to only 1.5 games.
The Yankees offense will need to bounce back as they only scored one run in the three losses to the Blue Jays and in their last five games combined they have only scored a total of four runs. Brett Gardner and Jacoby Ellsbury, who are the table setters at the top of the lineup, are only hitting .182 and .129, respectively, in eight August games. That is part of the reason that the team has gone 3-5 in August after going 10-4 between July 17 and July 31.
The pitching was somewhat surprisingly not the issue against Toronto's high powered offense as the starters only allowed a combined seven runs in the three games. Nathan Evoaldi allowed one run on Friday, Ivan Nova allowed four runs on Saturday and Masahiro Tanaka allowed two solo homers on Sunday. The Yankees need Luis Severino, who will be making his second start tonight, to have the same kind of success that he had in his first start because winning the series in Cleveland is important.
Severino could be even more effective than when he allowed one earned run (two overall) in five innings pitched against the Red Sox last week because he will not be making his MLB debut and he will be facing an office with less firepower. This could lead to him having fewer three ball counts than he did against Boston, which lead to him throwing 94 pitches by the end of the fifth inning.
However, you can't ask for much better than one earned run, two hits allowed and zero walks in five innings pitched in a major league debut. His fastball was electric (usually about 96mph), his changeup was effective and he used his slider as a strikeout pitch.
"I'm trying to work on certain pitches and trying to not make any mistakes," Severino said through a translator. "I feel comfortable. I'm trying to keep my change-up low."
Joe Girardi said that he is hoping for six innings out of Severino tonight. "He's got a pretty good slider — he's got a couple different ones — and he's got a changeup," Girardi said. What stood out to me was, he was able to make pitches in three-ball counts.
It is important that the Yankees win at least two out of three games in this series because the Blue Jays will be playing the Oakland Athletics, who are in last place just like the Indians. Chase Headley will get the night off after playing in the team's previous 24 games and Brendan Ryan will get the start at third. Here are the pitching matchups against the Indians, who are 51-59 and in last place in the AL Central.
RHP Luis Severino (0-1, 1.80)
RHP Carlos Carrasco (11-8, 3.76)
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LHP CC Sabathia (4-8, 5.34)
RHP Danny Salazar (9-6, 3.38)
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RHP Nathan Eovaldi (11-2, 4.15)
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Nathan Eovaldi and the bullpen led the Yankees to a 3-2 win over the Baltimore Orioles
Brendan Ryan hit an RBI double in the sixth inning that ended up giving the Yankees a 3-2 win over the Baltimore Orioles in the series opener. That was Ryan's fifth hit of the season (5-17) and it was a clutch hit after standing four in his first two at-bats. Ryan hit a double to right down the third base line to drive in Didi Gregorius.
"I just tried to get my foot down and get my barrel to the ball," Ryan said. "I had a few opportunities today and couldn't come through, but I was glad I was able to come through to put us up by one."
The Toronto Blue Jays won last night, so the Yankees now have a 4.5 game lead over Toronto for first place and the Orioles and Tampa Bay Rays are five games back. Nathan Eovaldi got the start for the Yankees and he allowed two runs on four hits and three walks in 5.2 innings pitched. He had four strikeouts and has now allowed two earned runs or less in five of his last six starts.
"The split was good early on in the game," Eovaldi said. "Even as the season has progressed it (the split) has been really good for me. I switched my grip on the split a little earlier on the season so it was like a true split. I want to go deep into ballgames, but our bullpen has been great the whole year. The split has been my pitch, I have been able to throw it in any count."
A key out for Eovaldi came in the fifth inning when he got Chris Parmelee to ground out to second with runners on first and third with two outs. After not allowing any hits in the first three innings, Eovaldi wasn't as effective in the fifth and sixth. In the sixth inning, Matt Weiters singled to right off of Eovaldi to score Jimmy Paredes and advance Adam Jones to second. Justin Wilson would then allow an RBI single to JJ Hardy that scored Jones, which was Eovaldi second earned run.
However, Eovaldi did mix his pitches well in addition to throwing 100mph fastballs. Eovaldi helped his own cause in the first inning by picking off Manny Machado at first with an outstanding throw. He has really improved his secondary pitches since allowing eight earned runs to the Marlins on June 16.
The Yankees scored their first run of the game on a sacrifice fly by Alex Rodriguez to left that sent Brett Gardner home. That was A-Rod's 53rd RBI of the season, and he is on target to have his highest RBI total since the 2010 season. In the second inning, Chase Headley hit a double to the wall in left off of Wei-Yin Chen to score Brian McCann to give the Yankees a 2-0 lead.
Mark Teixeira, Chris Young and Headley all had two hits for the Yankees. Young had two hits off of the lefty starter, and now has a .371 average in 89 at-bats with six homers against southpaws. Headley is now on a six-game hitting streak with three doubles and three RBIs in that span. Teixeira now has three consecutive multi-hit games, which has improved his average from .239 to .252.
The Yankees were only 1-10 with runners in scoring position but they got timely hits and excellent pitching from the bullpen once again.
The Yankees are so much better with a healthy Teixeira this year. "You really appreciate it because you see it on a daily basis," Joe Girardi said. "It was tough missing him last year but it is great having him back."
Mark Teixeira made a great scoop on an in between hop on a throw by Gregorius to get the second out of the ninth inning. Jonathan Schoop then struck out swinging on an 84mph slider from Andrew Miller to end the game. Miller now has 21 saves in 21 save opportunities in his first season as a closer.
Including Tuesday's 3.1 scoreless innings, the bullpen has now not allowed a run in their last 11.1 innings. Dellin Betances recorded the last out of the seventh and pitched the eighth and was able to record two strikeouts. He now has 81 strikeouts in 50.1 innings pitched, which proves how his pitches have been nearly un-hittable.
"He is able to give you multiple outs and he is very durable," Girardi said. "He just means a ton to our team. I think he understands that when we get to the seventh that we might use him for multiple outs.
The Yankees have won 19 of their last 26 home games.
After their win on Tuesday, Ivan Nova will get the start for the Yankees in Game 2 of the series on Wednesday. He allowed four runs in 6.2 innings in his previous start.
Lineup for the Yankees for today's matinee game against the Phillies
The Yankees play the Philadelphia Phillies at 1:05 p.m. in the final game of their three game series at Yankee Stadium. The Yankees have allowed an alarmingly high 22 runs in the first two games. Their starters, Michael Pineda and CC Sabathia, have combined to allow 14 runs in the previous two games, which is not a recipe for success.
Ivan Nova will make his first start of the season after missing the first two months of this campaign and the last five months of last season due to Tommy John surgery. He had a 4.02 ERA in three minor-league rehab starts but is feeling healthy and ready to rejoin the rotation. In 2013, Nova pitched much better than he did during his four starts in April of last season as he pitched in 23 games, including 20 starts, and had 3.10 ERA with 116 strikeouts and 44 walks in 139.1 innings.
Nova has been really looking forward to his return to the big league rotation. "This is like another dream," the 28-year-old Nova said, comparing Wednesday's start to his major league debut in 2010. "I can't describe what is going through my mind." His curveball (80mph) is has one of the best in the American League and his 93mph sinker is also effective.
Mark Teixeira, who missed the previous two games due to a sore neck, is back in the lineup today batting cleanup. He adds another power hitter that the Yankees missed the previous two games. Teixeira's 18 homers are tied for fourth in the American League and his 49 RBIs are also fourth in the AL.
Jose Pirela is playing second base once again because Stephen Drew is on the paternity list. Brendan Ryan, who had only played in six games this season, was put on the 15-day DL with a right thoracic strain to make room on the roster for Nova.
The Yankees need to win this game to avoid being swept by the Phillies, who have the worst record in all of baseball. Nova and the relief pitchers will have to contain Maikel Franco because he has driven in 10 runs in the last two games and has a .519 average in the last seven days. This is the lineup for today's game:
Brett Gardner CF
Chase Headley 3B
Alex Rodriguez DH
Mark Teixeira 1B
Carlos Beltran RF
Chris Young LF
John Ryan Murphy C
Didi Gregorius SS
Jose Pirela 2B
Masahiro Tanaka dominated for his second consecutive start since coming off of the DL
On Tuesday night, the Yankees (33-25) beat the Washington Nationals, 6-1, at Yankee Stadium in the first game of the series. The Yankees have won seven games in a row (and eight of their last nine) and their starting pitchers have impressively allowed two runs or less in all seven of those games. That is a recipe for success.
Masahiro Tanaka had his first start at Yankee Stadium since coming off of the disabled list and was able to outpitch Nationals ace Max Scherzer. Tanaka threw seven innings and allowed five hits, one earned run and zero walks. He had six strikeouts and retired the side in order in the first, second and third innings. Scherzer, who had a 1.85 ERA coming into the game, allowed four earned runs and eight hits in 6.2 innings pitched.
The only run that the Nationals scored off of Tanaka was a Bryce Harper homer in the fourth inning. Tanaka has had excellent command since coming off of the DL since he has 15 strikeouts and no walks in his two starts, and he has allowed one run in both of his starts lowering his ERA from 3.22 to 2.48.
Since coming off of the DL, he has pitched like he did during his first 16 starts last season when he had a Cy Young caliber first three months with a 2.10 ERA (11-3). He would later go on the disabled list for 2.5 months due to a partially torn UCL after two ineffective starts. Tanaka and Michael Pineda (3.33 ERA) combine to form a reliable, dominant and elite top of the rotation that could give the team an edge in a playoff series.
Tanaka incredibly threw 63 of his 87 pitches for strikes and proved to not let pitching at Yankee Stadium get to him.
"I think he enjoys the stage," Joe Girardi said. "I do. I think that is one of the reasons he came to New York. I think he likes the competition and the excitement of pitching here. I think he likes it."
The Yankees scored two of their six runs on home runs. Stephen Drew hit a homer in the third to give the team a 1-0 lead and then hit another solo blast in the eighth to make the score 6-1. This was the second time in his last four games that he has hit two homers in a game and he hit a solid .292 in June to improve his average from .143 to .175. Drew's average is still very low for an everyday player, but his nine homers are the second most among second basemen in the American League.
Brian McCann hit a single to right in the seventh to score Brett Gardner and Alex Rodriguez and later in the inning Carlos Beltran singled to left to send Mark Teixeira home to make the score 5-1.
Ramon Flores, who scored a run in the seventh on a fielder's choice by Rodriguez, went 3-4 to raise his average to .269. Flores was sent back down to Triple-A Scranton before Wednesday's game to make room for infielder Brendan Ryan. Flores, who has a strong arm in left field as he has thrown out two runners trying to score at home in his seven games, is arguably more valuable to the Yankee than Ryan while Jacoby Ellsbury in on the DL, but Ryan is back on the roster because he is healthy and they feel they have to use him since they are paying him a lot more.
Ryan is starting Wednesday's 1:05 p.m. game at shortstop giving Didi Gregorius a day off. Nathan Eovaldi will try to get his sixth win of the season and give the Yankees their eighth win in a row.
Gregorio Petit well replace Brendan Ryan as the back-up middle infielder
The Yankees acquired infielder Gregorio Petit from the Houston Astros on Wednesday for cash considerations. Brian Cashman was forced to do this because Brendan Ryan, who was supposed to be the back-up middle infielder going into the regular season, strained his right calf during Wednesday's spring training game against the Tampa Bay Rays. This injury will lead to the light hitting infielder beginning the season on the disabled list.
Rob Refsnyder, who had six errors during spring training, proved that he is not ready yet to play second base at the major-league level. He is definitely a prospect who could help the Yankees at some point this season or in 2016 based on his .357 average and six RBIs in 42 at-bats during spring training, in addition to the .318 average, 14 homers, 63 RBIs and nine steals he had in 60 games at Double-A Trenton and 77 games at Triple-A Scranton last season. However, he has only played second base for the last two seasons, so it makes sense that he needs more improvement defensively.
Petit, who batted .278 with two homers and nine RBIs in 37 games with the Astros last season, is known as a plus defender and can play shortstop, second and third. He hit .297 with 10 homers and 43 RBIs in 85 games for Triple-A Oklahoma City before being called up to the Astros. He played on the Oakland Athletics in 2008 (14 games) and 2009 (11 games) and is a career .278 hitter.
Petit proved that he has some power by hitting 10 homers in at Triple-A, and is an upgrade over Ryan offensively and an upgrade over Refsnyder defensively. His addition makes sense because he can reliably fill-in at multiple positions and will hit for a solid average. He is a solid stop gap until Ryan is healthy and gives the team options.
Petit, who has played in 16 games at second base in his career, could also be a double play combo with Didi Gregorius, which means that there could be a Gregorius to Gregorio start of a double play.
Derek Jeter helped the Yankees beat the Tampa Bay Rays by ending his long hitless streak
The Yankees beat the Tampa Bay Rays 3-2 on Wednesday night during the last game of their three-game series at Tropicana Field. The Yankees got back in the win column after losing their last three games and five of their previous six. The three runs that the Yankees scored were as many as they had scored in their previous three games combined.
Derek Jeter was 0-28 coming into the game but his hit in the sixth inning snapped his second longest hitless streak of his career. He scored what ended up being the game-winning run on Brett Gardner's sacrifice fly to right.
The Yankees scored their first two runs off of Rays starter Alex Cobb in the fifth inning. After being hit during Tuesday's game, Chase Headley hit a double to deep center that scored Chris Young. Then, Brendan Ryan who usually doesn't hit for much power, hit a ground rule double that landed near the foul pole in right to score Headley.
Brandon McCarthy had yet another dominating start for the Yankees. He pitched seven impressive innings, only allowed two runs and picked up four strikeouts. Evan Longoria was the only Ray that did damage off of McCarthy. He hit a solo homer in the first and had a RBI ground out in the sixth.
In the seventh inning, McCarthy wrapped up his start with an "immaculate inning" that included recording three strikeouts on only nine pitches. This feat is very rarely seen in baseball and was a great way to conclude his dominating performance. He has proven that the Yankees should make every effort to bring him back next season. Joe Girardi has been impressed with how McCarthy has been pitching.
"I think his sinker has been really good and I think his curve ball has been really effective," Girardi said. "I think that he gets some strikes with it, he puts some guys away with it and it has been really effective. But I think the command of his sinker has been the most important thing."
McCarthy, who had struggled before being traded to the Yankees but had excelled in 2011 and 2012, has now allowed two runs or less in seven of his last nine starts. He needed only 91 pitches to get through seven innings and had 12 ground ball outs and eight fly ball outs.
The other pitching highlight from this game was that Dellin Betances, the flame throwing set-up man who was born in Washington Heights, recorded his 131st strikeout of his season. In his first full major league season, he set the record for most strikeouts in a season by a Yankee reliever. Future Hall of Famer Mariano Rivera previously set the record with his 130 strikeouts in 1996. His knee buckling slurve and 99 MPH fastball has led him to a dominating 1.33 ERA.
"I got a bunch of text messages (about the record)," Betances said. "I am happy we came out on the winning side. It is pretty incredible to think about the whole year and how everything has gone. I definitely feel honored, especially to be a part of this group and part of this organization. Just to be mentioned around his name (Mariano Rivera), you are talking about the best closer & reliever in the game, just to be around the same breath as him, I take thrill in that."
"You think about the people that he (Betances) has passed in the last few weeks, Goose Gossage and Mariano Rivera, one Hall of Famer and one who has just got to wait his turn basically, it is pretty impressive what he has done," Girardi said. "What he went through, some of the struggles that he went through, those struggles help you. When you struggle and are able to get back up and fight through it, it helps you down the road because it is not always going to be easy in this game."
The Yankees won Derek Jeter's final game at Tropicana Field after David Robertson got Nick Franklin to strike out swinging to end the game. Robertson picked up his 37th save of the season, which is the third best save total in the American League.
Young, who scored the Yankees first run, should be brought back as a fourth outfielder if he is willing to take a discount. His average on the season is .219, but since his first game with the Yankees on September 2, he has hit .324 in 34 at-bats with three homers and eight RBIs.
The Yankees and Blue Jays will begin a four-game series at Yankee Stadium on Thursday night at 7:05 p.m. Rookie Shane Greene (5-3, 3.56 ERA) will get the start for the Yankees and the veteran knuckleballer R.A. Dickey will get the start for Toronto.


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The backyard vertical garden
As Autumn begins, the mixed results in the Vertical Gardening experiment continues. The community garden experiment is finished, as I haven't been there in over a month and I haven't had anyone watering for me. On the whole that experiment was unsuccessful but I was able to try different soil mixes. The straight clay soil became almost a solid, the compost did best and the mix that was mostly lightweight soil did not do well because of the lack of rain and intense heat. The bags are showing signs of fraying and I am guessing that most won't last another season.
Pea sprouts
In my backyard the plants are not producing profusely by any means but cucumbers, tomatoes and hot peppers have borne fruit. In a couple of the bags I replaced dead vines and non productive cauliflower with pea seeds that have sprouted and are growing well. I transplanted a brussels sprouts plant into one of the bags which seems to be doing fine. I tried transplanting a potato which did not survive. There are a few tomatoes still growing. The yellow mini plums seem to be doing the best.
Transplanted brussels sprouts and a lone cucumber flower
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Three Questions: Beverley Nolan
How did you discover restorative yoga?
BEVERLEY: Through my initial Iyengar Teacher training. In addition to the rigours of our 5am asana sessions, we practiced restorative every afternoon to prime us for the work in the evenings. So, I have always had Restorative as an integral part of my practice. What I feel is happening now is that interest in approaches like Restorative, Yin, and Scaravelli, which are perhaps more tamasic in feeling, are helping to restore sattva (harmony or balance) to the yoga world that has seen an explosion of rajasic practices like the dynamic, power, and hot approaches.
What is the best amount of time to spend in a restorative posture?
BEVERLEY: Firstly, like all asana practice, if something is uncomfortable or indeed painful you adjust or let it go. Depending on the pose, the duration could be anything to 5-15mins. The important thing to remember is not to stretch! As odd as that sounds, the practice is designed to deactivate aspects of the nervous system that are primed for action and put them into the back seat. Giving ourselves the permission not to do anything is probably the biggest challenge of the form.
Is yoga historically a men's practice or have women always done it too?
BEVERLEY: We have to remember that surviving documents and archaeological fragments are only a glimpse into the history of humanity's search into the nature of being. It is true to say that many of the images and stories that have survived depict more male than female participants; but it is certainly not exclusive. I would imagine that along with many culture and traditions the Divine Feminine and the role of woman in understanding the nature of being will have at times been revered and encouraged, and at times will have suffered from the rise and dissemination of partriarchal influence. The important thing to remember is that Love is completely unconditional, completely unjudgemental and in fact totally indifferent to gender, and it is Love that lies at the heart of it all.


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This Bahaus meets Gingerbread House mural is located on the outside wall of my studio. Pattern, repetition and geometric forms are prominent in my abstract paintings, so I used these design elements to reference my quilt-making heritage and to draw attention to the premise that this type of artmaking, traditionally deemed women's work, can be easily be re-defined and re-imagined in our contemporary art culture. This project turned out to be great practise for the mural I painted this fall in Graniti, Sicily during my residency with Graniti Murales.
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