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Of Hype And Baseball Cards In The Attic (Updated)
Sometimes – whether you merit it or not – you seed the Publicity Storm Cloud just right with the chemicals and you get eight inches of rain.
Such it was yesterday when a respected memorabilia auction house put out a story about the discovery of some hundred-year old baseball cards in an attic in Ohio. I have a little less than 400,000 followers on Twitter and it feels like half of them sent me a link, wondering if I would be buying what each and every article described as three million dollars worth of cards. As near as I can tell, the story was picked up by ABC, CBS, NBC, ESPN, Fox, AP, Forbes Agence France Presse, TASS, and Pravda. As I washed my face before bed last night and flipped on the radio, the story was on the CBS hourly newscast.
I've dealt with the auctioneers – Heritage – for years with nothing but professional results, and I'm accusing them of nothing but professional success here, but boy oh boy oh boy did they hype this thing.
Now, don't get me wrong. Finding 1909-10 baseball cards in pristine condition in an attic at Defiance, Ohio, is a wonderful story and the cards are worth a lot of money. But comparisons to unique artwork ("It's like finding the Mona Lisa in the attic," said the finder) and the three-million dollar pricetag are ludicrous.
Here are some of the cards, and then I'll explain why the pricetag is nonsensical:
There are 30 cards in the set, issued by an anonymous candy manufacturer during the baseball card craze of 1909-11. Labeled within our hobby for cataloging purposes as "E-98" (the "E" is for "Early Candy and Gum") the cards are scarce compared to other more plentiful issues of the time (yet there are 15 of them available right now, in lesser shape, on eBay). They also just aren't that popular. In an era in which the candy companies produced extraordinarily beautiful lithographs of players stylized to look like Greek Gods with blazing sunsets behind them, E-98's are pretty bland colorized black-and-white images set against one-color backgrounds. The set is also full of careless errors (if you look at the card of "Cy" Young, lower left, you'll notice it shows a lefthanded pitcher. Cy, who only won 511 career games, was a righthander. The photo actually depicts a very obscure contemporary named Irv Young).
Here's what I mean about relative attractiveness. The Mathewson and the Wagner below are from the E-95 set issued by Philadelphia Caramel in 1909. Find me 700 copies of them in superb condition and we're talking.
:Nevertheless, baseball card price guides agree that a full set of all 30 E-98 cards should be valued at about $125,000 in near perfect condition. The 37 cards that the auction house, Heritage, plans to sell next month, are the best of the bunch, real beauties with sharp corners, the kind investors love.
The problem is that there's only one thing that investors react to more than beautifully conditioned old cards. That would be the sudden "find" of a large lot of previously hard-to-find cards.
From the time it came out in 1953 or 1954, a Dormand Postcards issue of Gil Hodges of the Brooklyn Dodgers was wildly scarce. In the days when regular cards from the series fetched a dollar or two and even a Mickey Mantle cost only $5 or $10, Hodges was "worth" $400. Then a few years ago somebody found a stack of them. I mean, like 750 of them. Like, however many they made and didn't distribute for whatever reason back in the '50s. Right now on eBay you can get your average Dormand postcard for $25 to $45. Hodges? Well, you can buy-it-now for $750. That's $750 for 42 copies of the Hodges card (some poor guy, meanwhile, is still trying to sell his one pristine-looking Hodges for $2,000).
If you read the entire story of the "attic find" in Ohio you'll notice that what they discovered wasn't just 37 old cards, but 700 of them. The family and the auction house aren't saying specifically what the rest of them are, but the way these things work, if there weren't a lot more of the E-98 cards (presumably in lesser condition) than they'd be auctioning them off, too. If they were more valuable, or more intriguing, or just from a more collected or beloved set of cards, they'd be publicizing them.
So, congrats to the owners of the "find." The estimate for what an auction next month at the national collectors' gathering in Baltimore – $500,000 – might be a little high, but it's probably in range. Investors will invest in anything, especially if they've read about it in the news. But even some of the news articles indicate that there are less than 700 of these E-98's registered and encased in plastic (as in the illustration) with an unknown larger supply in "raw" (that is, not encapsulated) condition. If you introduce 700 new ones into the market, the price will initially go up, and then way, way down.
The family and the auction house have a stack of 700+ cards from a set nobody really collects and which investors might begin to doubt.
Don't forget to wave to the Gil Hodges Dormand Postcard when you pass it.
UPDATE 5 PM EDT: A tweeter raises an important point. Javier Cepero writes: "Doesn't the guy have a Honus Wagner 10 rated card?"
Yes. But not the Honus Wagner. The Honus Wagner – from the American Tobacco Company 1909 set called "T-206" has been sold for $3,000,000 by itself (in perfect, albeit altered condition) down to the $300,000-$400,000 range for the crappier ones.
"The" Wagner is on the right. "My" Wagner meets baseball historian/Braves pitcher Tim Hudson last year, in the middle. The E-98 Wagner is on the right.
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Like the Commenter above, I too enjoy your writing. I am not the baseball fan you are but you sure do make it interesting. I'm glad I follow you and I eagarly await your next article.
Having a find such as this could be exciting but I think the auction house should not have raised expectations too high. I know they are trying to hype it for the sale and afford themselves some money from it. But to put high emphasis and raise expectations are cruel, especially if the owners are not all familiar with their find and its real worth. If they had been avid collectors this event may not take place.
Collectors, and I mean serious collectors, should know what the cards are worth as you have illustrated in your piece. I doubt if they would go higher in bids than what is realistic. I am glad for the family who found something of value. I don't know the motive for the sale except money. It's is a shame they did not carry on the tradition of their ancestors and keep a collection for generations to come. I guess baseball card collecting is not one of their more popular family hobbies.
I like "your" Wagner better.
Mary, I just wanted to point out that the ancestor of the family who found these cards did not collect baseball cards per se — he ran a market, and the family suspects he was given this set of cards by a candy salesman working the territory, as a kind of promotional item.
And auction houses are more or less in the business of raising expectations. Caveat emptor.
I agree with Keith–those poor schmucks are being used by the auction house and that the large mint find probably will depress prices on cards considered to be rare now. If I were unscrupulous and money hungry in that situation I'd stretch out the auctions to keep the price up so as to make more money. However, I may be full of it because I don't think collectors would be happy with the auction house if they pulled that kind of crap. Ah, well–good luck to the family.
Enjoyed this even though I'm not a baseball fan. One little correction to the bottom update: "The" Honus Wagner card is on the LEFT, not right.
I did not send a Tweet as I figured, rightly as it has turned out, you would be sure to comment on this and I would learn a squidge more about something I know precious little about. Meaning, of course, had i a hankering for card (Cobb would be the one; long story) I would have fit squarely within the target group of the hype machine.
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Same as with Golden Age, Pre Code Comics, Coins, or Movie Posters.. Heritage is Professonal, But they OVER HYPE for sure.. BFowl


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LOS GATOS — Three months after a Santa Cruz motorcyclist was hit by an SUV on Highway 17 and left for dead by a driver who sped off, authorities Monday announced the arrest of a woman who investigators had their eye on since the incident happened.
Joline Faye Cohen, 47, who lives in the Los Gatos area, turned herself in to Santa Clara County authorities Feb. 24 after an arrest warrant was issued in the December collision that killed 36-year-old Michael Schaupp.
Cohen was booked on suspicion of hit-and-run causing death and has since been released from custody pending a court hearing. California Highway Patrol officials said they timed their announcement to coincide with Cohen's arraignment on Tuesday.
According to the CHP, Schaupp was riding his 1996 Honda motorcycle northbound on Highway 17 around 1:25 p.m. Dec. 10 and was approaching Idylwild Road south of the Lexington Reservoir when a black 1994 Ford Explorer registered to Cohen drove into his path.
Schaupp hit the SUV and the impact threw him 20 feet across the roadway, the CHP said. The Ford briefly stopped, then continued traveling north. It was later found abandoned at the Bear Creek Road off-ramp with the driver nowhere to be found.
Schaupp, whom friends said was a father and musician, was declared brain-dead that night and died the next day after his family arranged for his organs to be donated.
Investigators said they suspected Cohen soon after the collision, but a lack of witnesses to the crash and difficulty locating her prevented them from making an arrest sooner. The warrant was obtained after the CHP built a case based on "physical evidence" and "numerous interviews with concerned citizens having knowledge of the investigation," according to a statement.
The CHP deferred additional comment to the Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office, which did not immediately have a comment on the case.
Contact Robert Salonga at 408-920-5002. Follow him at Twitter.com/robertsalonga.

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|Winnebago County Sheriff's PoliceNews Media Release
|News Release Number2011-018
|Information: POSSIBLE DROWNING
|Date: JUNE 4, 2011
|Time: 7:09p.m.
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On Saturday June 4, 2011 at approximately 7:09P.M. Winnebago County Sheriff's Deputies were sent to the 8900 block of South Main (River) in reference to a possible drowning. Fire Department Rescue Units were also sent. Upon arrival the Deputies were told that a pontoon boat had been on the river occupied by four subjects. A twenty year old male went over the side of the pontoon and was seen going under the water and was not found. An extensive search of the river was conducted by the Fire Department's and the victim was not located. The search was called because of darkness and will resume in the morning. Sheriff's Detectives are conducting an investigation as to the circumstances of the male going into the river. Further information will be released as it develops.


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While preparing for a business trip to Louisville, Kentucky, I was surprised to discover that the Sons of the American Revolution Library was just down the street from my hotel. I have recently found some evidence that individuals in my "new" lines of my grandfather's Baldwin and Spaulding ancestors served as Massachusetts Minutemen during the Revolutionary War, and I was eager to see if I could learn more.
The Library
The Library moved two years ago to a location on West Main Street's "Museum Row" – a neighborhood filled with museums, school buses, families, and a surprising amount of statuary. If you are ever looking for the library, it's impossible to miss because it's right across the street from the Louisville Slugger factory and museum and there is a giant, and I mean giant, baseball bat in front of that building. So, look for the giant bat. Eventually, the SAR hopes to fill the rest of the building they're in with a museum of their own. I think that's a wonderful idea.
I emailed the head of the library, Michael Christian, in advance to make sure the library would be open during normal hours that week and to ask him if he would mind if I took some pictures. He said it was fine.
I managed to visit the library on Tuesday afternoon and Friday morning. Admission is $5 for non-members. The receptionist was very nice and showed me a locker for my belongings. I brought in only a notebook and my camera. Inside, I met Mr. Christian and he gave me a tour and we talked about the research I was doing.
The library did not disappoint. It's quite new, of course, but above and beyond that it has a clean, orderly, uncluttered atmosphere unusual in a genealogy library. The collection of books is focused on American history, genealogy, and local history. Many sets of books that I had seen elsewhere just looked better at the SAR Library thanks, I suspect, to a significant amount of re-binding which kept the books in excellent shape. Pretty much all areas of the country are covered but I never ventured past the New England section. There were compiled military indexes, such as the Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War.
There were far more family genealogies than I expected. I welcomed the chance to find something privately published that I may not have seen before; there could be clues in such a book. That didn't really happen, except for one manuscript about the Lampheres that I had previously only seen online.
There were some resources available on the computers, and I looked up SAR applications related to people in my family. I found four that I wanted to see, and the microfilm was brought to me. The microfilm equipment was quite nice, by the way. I paid for the pages I printed.
What I Found
My grandfather Miles Baldwin had a grandfather named Edward Baldwin. The people on the list below are Edward Baldwin's great-grandfathers from northern Middlesex County, Massachusetts. This is what I have seen about my Massachusetts Militia ancestors:
John Emery (1753-1828) of Townsend, Mass. From SAR application #55064:
- Private in Captain James Hosley's company of minute men, Col. William Prescott's regiment, who marched to Cambridge on the alarm of April 19, 1775. Service, 9 days. [note: on that date, the Battles of Lexington and Concord began the Revolutionary War; called by Emerson "the shot heard round the world."]
- Private in Captain Henry Farwell's Company, Col. William Prescott's regiment, enlisted April 25, 1775. Service, 98 days.
- Private in Capt. Zachariah Fitch's company, Col. Samuel Brewer's regiment, enlisted August 23, 1776, discharged September 30, 1776. Service, one month, nine days.
- Corporal in Capt. John Minot's Company, Col Josiah Whitney's regiment; arrived at Rhode Island May 10, 1777; discharged July 9, 1777, service, two months, ten days.
- No address given, but the company was raised in Townsend and nearby towns, Third Corporal in Capt. Aaron Jewett's company, Col. Job Cushing's regiment, enlisted July 27, 1777; discharged August 29, 1777. Service, one month, 10 days.
- Private in Capt. James Hosley's company of volunteers, Col. Jonathan Reed's regiment, enlisted September 26, 1777; discharged November 2, 1777. Service, one month, 15 days.
Benjamin Spaulding (1743-1832) of Townsend, Mass. (page 108 of The Spalding Memorial by Samuel Spalding, the standard Spaulding/Spalding genealogy, mentions that he was a school teacher, and three of his daughters also followed that profession). From Mass. Soldiers & Sailors of the RW, vol. 14, p. 686:
- Sergeant, Capt James Hosley's co of Minutemen, Colonel William Prescott's regt., which marched on the alarm of April 19, 1775, to Cambridge; discharged May 4, 1775; service, 18 days, reported returned home.
David Baldwin (1734-1824) of Billerica, Townsend and Pepperell, Mass. Appears in SAR application #87616:
- Private, Capt. William Greenleaf's co., Col. Job Cushing's Regt.; enlisted Sept 3, 1777, discharged Nov 22, 1777, service, 3 mos. 7 days. Roll dated Lancaster. Private, Mass. Militia.
Reuben Gashet/Gasset/Gaschet (1754-1822) of Hopkinton, Westborough and Townsend, Mass. From Mass. Soldiers & Sailors of the RW, vol. 6, p. 304-5:
- Private, Capt. Seth Morse's co., Major Genl Ward's regt., which marched on the alarm of April 19, 1775; service, 5 1/2 days
- Private, Capt Moses Wheelock's co., Col. Jonathan Ward's regt.; muster roll dated Aug 1, 1775; enlisted April 24, 1775; service 3 mos. 15 days, also, company return [probably Oct. 1775]
Next Steps
- Continue to search and evaluate the Mass. Soldiers and Sailors volumes (which are available online), where most of the data used in these SAR applications is from. Chart the regiments and units mentioned.
- Follow up on another source mentioned in a SAR #15669 concerning John Emery: "Rev. Rolls, Mass. Archives, vol. 12, p. 115, vol. 19, p. 177." The Massachusetts State Archives is located in Dorchester.
- Many pre-1970 SAR applications are now found on Ancestry.com so I can continue to access them.
- Likewise Ancestry.com also houses some Revolutionary War rolls and I will continue to explore them.
- Mr. Christian made a good suggestion about exploring town histories that include military information. One such book that I have used is Sawtelle's History of the Town of Townsend.
- I believe the only soldier mentioned here who got a pension (it went to his widow) was John Emery. I will continue to investigate pension records on Fold3.com and other places.
- Continue reading two books that are throwing a lot of light on this subject: "1776" by David McCullough and "The Minutemen and Their World" by Robert A. Gross.
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Lawsuit takes aim at parking lots proposed, approved by, DEC
In a town awash with thousands of parking spaces, an application for another four might not seem like that big of a deal.
But tucked away on the far side of a private road in Baiting Hollow, abutting land the New York State Department of State has labeled "irreplaceable," four parking spaces the state Department of Environmental Conservation permitted itself last year are creating quite a stir.
A group of Baiting Hollow homeowners have taken the DEC to court over the proposed spaces, claiming the state regulatory authority went out of bounds in granting itself a tidal wetlands permit for the spots "in secret — free from any public awareness and scrutiny," according to court filings.
"If I wanted to build on that DEC piece of property, they would make me go through a full environmental review of the impacts," said Frank Isler, the Riverhead attorney representing the Baiting Hollow Beach Association. "It's surprising to us that they didn't do that themselves. And our argument is that they can't benefit from mishandling a procedure incorrectly."
Last summer, the DEC filed for — and approved — four parking spaces in a .2-acre lot at the west end of Beach Way, a private road at the end of Edwards Avenue overlooking the Long Island Sound. The application calls for the removal of approximately 100 cubic yards of sand to be replaced with pervious material to facilitate car use. In addition, it proposes removing an existing gate on the site and installing guard rails along the perimeter of the parking area.
The .2-acre site abuts a larger, 81-acre parcel also owned by the DEC — land the agency says it wants to open to the public. In 2005, those lands, called the Baiting Hollow Wetlands and Beach, were added to a list of "significant coastal fish and wildlife habitats" by New York State's Department of State.
"Any activity that would disturb or eliminate marsh, natural beach, and duneland plant communities would result in a loss of valuable wildlife species," the designation states. The 81-acre property — one of about 250 such areas statewide — is considered "an important nesting site" for the endangered piping plover and the threatened least tern, according to the DOS.
But members of the Baiting Hollow Beach Association argue that the DEC's application ignored that designation. And because the application was deemed to have a minor impact on the environment, notification otherwise required was not given, and neighbors were unaware of the permit until weeks after it was filed. One homeowner, Roger Schilling, said he heard about the permit in passing as he tried to obtain repair permits for his own property.
But by then, it was too late to challenge the DEC's permit, as a 30-day window had already passed by the time homeowners filed suit.
"As soon as we heard about it, we brought [the legal challenge,]" Mr. Isler said.
Mr. Schilling said the project would require some "major dune bulldozing" to clear land for the parking spaces.
"Part of that dune is what saves the back row of houses [on Beach Way] from flooding," he said. "That's why this is one of the things that infuriates us, by calling it a minor project. It's a major project."


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Tevin Mitchell ran for 162 yards and a touchdown for Hardin-Simmons at Linfield. Can he do something similar against another top five team?
HSU athletics photo by McCorklephoto.com
We talk a lot about the scholar-athletes the Division III level — the ones who skillfully balance sports and study, who are held to the same standard in the classroom as every other student and who don't tweet about being in college for football first and everything else second.
Next week, the National Football Foundation will announce the winners of its National Scholar-Athlete Award, and more than three dozen Division III players are semifinalists. This week in Triple Take, we touch on but three of those many players and their teams, while also giving you prospects for big turnarounds and Top 25 upsets.
With just four weeks of the regular season left to go, here's what Pat Coleman, Keith McMillan and Ryan Tipps have to say.
Game of the week.
Ryan's take: No. 21 Alfred at No. 7 Salisbury. "Pound the rock" will be the mantra of Saturday. Salisbury comes in averaging nearly 284 yards a game on the ground, while Alfred respectably nears that mark with 220. And, predictably, both are great, great, great at stopping a rushing attack. This E8 battle will be won in the trenches, and because each team already has a loss, they're in danger of being on the precarious playoff bubble should they be defeated a second time.
Keith's take: No. 10 UW-Oshkosh at No. 5 UW-Whitewater. Oh snap, I'm choosing before Pat this week, out of the traditional Triple Take order. So at least I didn't have to fight with him over getting to pick this game, because its G.O.T.W. credentials are thick. Best two teams in the strongest conference. The Titans, who have never so much as been to the playoffs, are playing perhaps the biggest game in program history. The three-time defending champions are playing to keep alive their chance to defend: The Warhawks are unlikely to make the playoffs with two losses. It's not like the Warhawks, with the nation's No. 1 rushing defense (29 yards/game) and No. 3 overall and scoring defense (211.5 yards, 7.3 points/game) are even playing poorly. And that rush defense matches up with Oshkosh's strength. The Titans, No. 10 in total offense and No. 12 in total defense, rush for 296 yards per game. We know QB Nate Wara, but maybe we should get familiar with Cole Myhra, Zack Kasuboski and Caleb Voss as well. The best thing for the WIAC is two 9-1 playoff teams, but the Titans don't care, and will probably have a lot of variety-seeking fans from across the land on Saturday.
Pat's take: No. 10 UW-Oshkosh at No. 5 UW-Whitewater. Doesn't matter. Usually we do try to pick three different games but every once in a while the game dictates otherwise. Keith has been down the key battles in this game already so I'll remind people how this game went down last year: At UW-Oshkosh, the Titans went up 17-10 just before halftime after an 80-yard drive. Whitewater answered near the end of the third quarter to tie it up and rode Levell Coppage hard on a fourth-quarter drive, keeping the ball on the ground for all nine plays, six by Coppage and three by quarterback Matt Blanchard. They settled for a 17-yard Eric Kindler field goal to take a 20-17 lead with 1:18 left. Nate Wara drove Oshkosh into Whitewater territory but his fourth-down pass was intercepted in the end zone by Ryan Wenkman, allowing the Warhawks to hold on for the win. Oshkosh fans may remember what happened the next week (although they may have successfully blocked it out): The Titans lost to UW-La Crosse, 30-24, ending any hope of a playoff bid.
Surprisingly close game.
Ryan's take: Susquehanna at Ursinus. The Bears have spent the past couple of weeks beating up on the more winless teams in the Centennnial, so it should be a concern that not only are they going up against a team that is more fundamentally solid than the others but also one that allows an average of just 148 passing yards a game. Ursinus will have to find a way to play without its greatest strength.
Pat's take: Hardin-Simmons at No. 2 Mary Hardin-Baylor. It will be interesting to see what Hardin-Simmons can do against its longtime conference rival. The Cowboys haven't beaten the Cru since 2004, but they have been competitive against two Top 25 teams they've played this year, including No. 3 Linfield. So even though the Cowboys have been on a losing streak against the American Southwest Conference's heavyweight, they shouldn't be intimidated.
Keith's take: Concordia-Moorhead at Augsburg. I'm violating the spirit of the category here, but I wanted to make sure we acknowledge this game. It'll be surprisingly low scoring, as the Auggies put up 470 yards and 38 points a game, but face a Cobbers defense that allows just 259 yards and 17.3. Both teams are 5-1 and need this win, to avoid falling further behind Bethel or St. Thomas.
Most likely Top 25 team to get upset.
Ryan's take: No. 14 Widener. In facing the only other team with an unblemished MAC record, it should be of very little surprise that the Pride will have its hands full. Lycoming biggest strength is its defense, one that has held its past five opponents to 14 or fewer points each outing. That unit is adept at making plays behind the line of scrimmage, which means the Widener offensive line will need to give quarterback Chris Haupt time to make decisions. Doing so will let the team move the ball and, with a win, move up the rankings.
Pat's take: No. 12 Illinois Wesleyan. I admit Wheaton (Ill.) is not as strong as it has been in the past, but I think the jury remains out on Illinois Wesleyan at the moment until this game. The six teams the Titans have played so far are a combined 14-24, while the three other contenders in the CCIW are left on the schedule. And as we pointed out in this week's podcast, IWU hasn't won at Wheaton since 1996. This could well be the year, but until that happens, I'll wait and see.
Keith's take: No. 12 Illinois Wesleyan. I hate to pile on. I very nearly took No. 11 Hobart and No. 17 Rowan here, but I think they each have the defense necessary to hold off high-powered offenses from RPI and Cortland State. Both teams are on the road, making those picks even more intriguing. No. 24 St. John Fisher is on a two-game slide, but so is their opponent, Ithaca. I could have backed Ryan's pick as well, as Lycoming has a shot. Simpson, Gettysburg and Pacific Lutheran will give top 25 teams a game, but in the end, for reasons explained below under 180, this was the pick I felt most comfortable with. IWU has a great defense as well (No. 8 nationally) but Wheaton (No. 10) can match it, plus it can score. And yes I expect we'll hear a lot of chirping from Bloomington if the Titans do what they're supposed to do and play like the No. 12 team in the country. Whatevs. We can dish it out and we can take it.
They'll be on your radar.
Ryan's take: Chapman. All of the hype in the SCIAC goes to Top 10-ranked Cal Lutheran. But the Panthers have quietly plowed their way to a 4-1 season and stand ready to line up against perennial conference threat Redlands this weekend. With four games to go, Chapman has already tied its win total from each of the past three seasons. Things are looking up for this squad.
Pat's take: Lycoming. The Warriors and Widener have played some memorable games in the past, including last year, when the Warriors stormed back from a 31-0 deficit to cute the score to 31-28 with 1:56 before an onside kick attempt failed. Keith and I could each regale you with stories of great Widener-Lycoming games we've covered in the past. Their meetings haven't all been stunners, but many of them have. I look forward to another.
Keith's take: Allegheny. One week they're beating Wabash, the next they're losing at Chicago. Both of the Gators' losses are to UAA teams, which means they're in control of the NCAC, for now, alongside fellow surprise Ohio Wesleyan. They're on my radar because they face a serious challenge, at home against Wittenberg, but also because they're 4-2 with the 229th-best offense in the nation. The Gators, whose defense is top 50 but not putting up carry-the-offense numbers, have somehow managed to keep scores low with a negative turnover margin and an offense that rushes for 115.5 yards a game — and that's the strong suit (The Gators pass for 114.5 yards per). Are they a team that finds ways to win, or one whose luck is about to run out?
Which National Scholar-Athlete Award semifinalist and his team are you seeing walking away with a win this weekend?
Ryan's take: Rowan and Chris Popper. Folks are hard-pressed to find years when the NJAC was a cut-and-dried race to the playoffs. The past two seasons, no team has escaped conference play unscathed. Which makes this weekend's game between Cortland State and Rowan a big one. They represent two of the three teams undefeated in NJAC play, and it would surprise no one if the race to the top got messy. Popper, a senior defensive lineman, will play his role as part of a stout unit that will be called upon to put pressure on the Red Dragons' quarterback and slow their potent run game.
Pat's take: Washington U. and Dan Burkett. Although the Wash U offense has struggled this season and Burkett, a senior quarterback, didn't play in the Bears' last game, against Wabash, I have to give props to the program, which produced the last Division III winner of this award, Brandon Roberts, in the 2002 season. The name of the trophy was different but the mission of the so-called "Academic Heisman" was the same. The Bears will be at Denison on Saturday, which has its own Campbell Trophy semifinalist: defensive lineman Nat Kell.
Keith's take: Mount Union and Nick Driskill. I guess it's a layup, or to stay sport-consistent, a wide-open bomb. We ignore Mount Union so often on the assumption they're going to win, and the Purple Raiders rarely ever let us down. Still we should point out that Otterbein is the first opponent with a winning record the Mount Union is facing this season, so I expect the unscored upon streak to bite the dust. Driskill — as perhaps the best player on the nation's best defense — will have a hand in slowing down Cardinals WR Trey Fairchild, and the Purple Raiders win comfortably.
Which team with two or more losses is worth watching?
Ryan's take: Hardin-Simmons. Count me among the camp always keeping a close eye on the Cowboys. After starting the season with losses against two currently undefeated NWC teams (Willamette and Linfield), HSU has swept through the bottom half of the ASC with ease. But Saturday, with Mary Hardin-Baylor on the docket, marks a return to the caliber of opponent they faced early in the season. The rushing defense probably isn't strong enough to slow UMHB, so the Cowboys will have to rely on their aerial attack and hope they come out on the right side of a shootout.
Keith's take: Sul Ross State. Or Louisiana College. Take your pick, since they play each other in Alpine, Texas, and could be fringe playoff candidates despite their five combined losses. The Lobos lost two a pair of D-II teams, which has a minimal effect on D-III playoff positioning, and both teams got blown out by ASC leader and No. 2 team in the country, Mary Hardin-Baylor. LC also lost by a field goal to No. 6 Wesley in a non-conference clash. The Wildcats have put up gaudy offensive numbers in previous seasons the way Sul Ross State is doing now, and it hasn't served them well enough. Now they've got a top 35 defense, and they'll need it against A.J. Springer, Dominique Carson and the No. 1 offense in the country. The Lobos are a risky bunch though. That top-ranked offense is backed by a defense that ranks dead last — 239th — overall and against the pass. They gain 574 yards per game and allow 575. They surrender more than 50 points more per game than No. 1 defense Mount Union, so LC's offensive stars, led by RB Ryan Montague, have got to be licking their chops.
Pat's take: Delaware Valley. Now, perhaps not this week, but don't write off the Aggies for the MAC title. This week's home game against first-year program Misericordia will be a walk in the park, but it will be a good respite before the Aggies visit Lebanon Valley next week. If Widener beats Lycoming this week and the teams win through to Week 11, Delaware Valley and Widener will have a winner-take-all game for the MAC automatic bid to close the season.
Which team will turn the biggest 180 from last week?
Ryan's take: Christopher Newport. The Captains stumbled to their first conference loss in two years and in the process gave USA South newcomer LaGrange a great big reason to smile. Averett won't be stepping off the field in the same kind of happy mood. Expect CNU to loose some heavy artillery as the conference is logjammed with five teams tied at 2-1.
Keith's take: Wheaton. The Thunder is five points from being unbeaten, but has losses to Albion and Elmhurst. After piling up 596 yards of offense against the Bluejays and turning it over only twice, Wheaton probably still can't figure out how it lost. By now, it's over last week and has its focus on No. 12 Illinois Wesleyan, who has played the Thunder to a close game around the 20s (24-19, 29-19 and 20-17) for three consecutive years, winning twice. This time it's Wheaton's turn to be the underdog and spring the upset, and the stats and standings here probably belie how close these teams are. The Titans have played great defense to date, but haven't seen an offense like Wheaton's.
Pat's take: Louisiana College. The Wildcats are going to go from scoring three points in Week 7 against Mary Hardin-Baylor to somewhere in the 40s … or higher … against Sul Ross State. Regardless of whether Louisiana College wins, the Wildcats should have a lot more success on offense.


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The Barcelona-based practice Capella Garcia Arquitectura led by the architect Juli Capella Samper has realised this 10-storey Hotel Diagonal Barcelona located in the immediate vicinity of Jean Nouvel's iconic Torre Agba. Completed in 2004, the hotel comprises an aquarium-inspired reception area, 240 rooms and a striking panoramic rooftop deck, which apart from encompassing a swimming pool and a cocktail and snack bars, also features an integrated decorative and highly functional pergola-like solar panel structure.
From Capella Garcia Arquitectura:
'The building constitutes a longitudinal prism, forming a screen, with vertical corbels on the façade which stand out like white keys on a black background. The ground floor emulates a great aquarium, with independent sections for the various uses, beneath an undulating ceiling of circumferences.
'The ground floor is inspired by a great aquarium. A glass box houses all the necessary services in organic, free and independent volumes. The undulating ceiling with circumferences is the water surface, and on the floor, like coral reefs, anemones, rocks and sea-shells… lie submerged a series of sections housing the reception area –depicting a sunken boat-: the vertical communications hub –depicting a coral reef; the toilets, bar area, etc. Each of these volumes is coated in different materials: copper, wood, glass mosaic, boulders, .. and adopts sinuous forms enveloping and containing the great pillars supporting the building.'
'The hotel has 240 rooms of different types, which can be divided mainly into two distinct models: glassed-in rooms with direct views, and rooms with "cubes", that is, those with a space that projects outwards from the façade, forming the great white keys seen from the exterior. This space is used to add to the bedroom a small office space and sitting room, as a plus with regard to the standard rooms. The hotel also has 12 suites and 8 special rooms at the corners, with spectacular views.'
'The roof deck is on the 10th storey of the building, where the main hotel facilities are located, and has a great wood-lined terrace, with a solarium swimming pool, showers, and a cocktail and snack bar. On the roof deck, standing out like a pergola, is a light, transparent, metal structure, with ninety solar panels that heat the water for the hotel. This way, they are integrated –not masked- into the harmony of the whole building, overcoming the need to find an independent, and often conflictive, location for this type of structure.'
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So how sustainable can we be when it comes to decreasing our carbon footprint?
Well we can start my maybe buying furniture and doors that where maybe sourced in the United Kingdom. Now I don't have a good list of companies but there are many green blogs out there that can help you out.
Another way in which we can be more sustainable is through the use of construction wood and where it is sourced not to mention the foundations of buildings. There is an absolutely fantastic post on green piling here that I only understand a little bit but maybe there are smarter environmentalists out there than me!
If you want to learn more about energy efficiency and being more green there is an excellent online blog here that covers these needs it is called The Green Animal World and you should check it out!


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To meet goals of reduced emissions, we may need to look no further than our own populace, according to a study published in PNAS. By analyzing a few different data sets and projections for population and emissions growth, a group of researchers found that a concerted effort to slow population growth could contribute as much as 29 percent of the emissions reductions needed to avert dangerous levels of climate change. They also found that a more urban population causes a significant increase in emissions, while an older one lowers emissions.
Most of the ideas being floated to address climate change involve things like renewable energy and greater efficiency, which have a direct impact on carbon emissions. From electric cars to solar power, many of these strategies face significant hurdles before they can have a serious impact on the climate.
Instead of many small changes, one group of scientists decided to take a look at how our emissions would drop if the entire world's population could be swayed into slowing its growth down. They ran population and emissions projects from the UN and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change through an energy and economic growth simulation called the People-Environment-Technology (PET) model.
While investigating a lower population growth scenario sounds simple enough, it's not as easy as just cranking down the "people" knob in the PET session and watching the emissions graph plunge. The authors note that population, as well as how people are distributed and how old they are, directly and indirectly affect a lot of factors, including economic growth, labor supply, and savings and consumption behavior. Combined, all these factors can have a dramatic effect on emissions.
All of the scenarios the authors looked at involve emissions peaking at a higher level than they are at now. However, a modest emissions projection and a reduction in population growth from the UN's "medium" projection to the "low" one (just under 9 billion vs. 5.5 billion by 2100) would drop emissions by 5.1 gigatons of carbon per year.
The simulation also showed that a population that is front-loaded with old people, especially in industrialized regions, resulted in the biggest reduction in emissions. An aging population, because of the reduced labor and resulting slower economic growth, could contribute to as much as a 20 percent reduction in emissions.
An unexpected find was that an increase in urbanization could contribute to a large rise in emissions, by more than 25 percent. Again, this was a result of the relationship between labor and the economy—workers in urban areas are more productive and create more economic growth, and therefore more emissions. While urban area dwellers tend to have smaller carbon footprints in terms of lifestyle, their economic actions turn out to significantly outweigh that benefit.
The authors note that, because of its economic influence, changes in the US's population had some of the most pronounced effects on emissions. The total impact of changes in US demographics didn't outweigh the change that could result from slowed growth in China and India, but the reductions per capita were some of the largest.
While a total possible 29 percent reduction in emissions sounds great, the whole exercise is pretty firmly idealistic. Governments can't order everyone to disband their cities and start getting older faster; at least, the authors note this would not be the wisest of policy choices (though they could always secretly put something in the drinking water).
However, the authors note that a push for family planning may at least help do the trick: many countries have unmet family planning needs, and implementing them could reduce fertility by about 0.2 births per woman in in US, and by 0.6-0.7 births per woman in developing countries.
PNAS, 2010. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1004581107 (About DOIs).
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German design student Christian Susana is shopping around his concept for a dockable and detachable RV concept which makes the family Winnebago look like a leftover from the stone age.
Certainly, this is not the first time the idea of combining towing vehicle with trailer has come around, but this one does offer some pretty snazzy design. Old Susana's concept is dubbed the Colim (Colors of Life in Motion) and its central trick is obviously the little car up front, which does the towing and can pull away for scooting around your destination.
The back half is a cleanly designed, modern interpretation of RV living; it sleeps four, has a kitchenette, and a bathroom, along with fancy storage and seating. By having a detachable car instead of towing one behind, the concept would be considerably more fuel efficient and take up less space at the campsite. At the end of the day though, it's just really neat looking. We're wondering if there are provisions to load up some filthy dirt bikes and tow a blown up CJ-5. [Tuvie, LikeCool]


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It's a marathon, not a sprint
We had to get a "W" before I could talk to you guys again! It's just too hard to write when we hit a rough patch. May was very good to us and June has been very bad, but it's not over yet. It sounds dumb, but we need to finish strong. There is still a lot of baseball to be played. It's usually the goal of most teams to hit the All-Star break with a winning record, or something close to it. The closer we are to that at the break, the better we will feel.
I have said it before many times: This is a marathon, not a sprint. Right now, I'm just glad we are done playing the American League and that we have some divisional opponents coming up. Playing well against the division is the best way to make up some ground quickly.
Guys are starting to swing the bats better. Heath Bell had a rough outing the other night, but we gave him the ball again last night and he got the job done. We have Boni (Emilio Bonifacio) coming back, and when you have a guy like that coming off the DL, it can be just as good as a trade. We are going to need him if we are going to make a run at this thing.
Don't give up on us yet, there are a lot of games left. It's not a sprint, it's a marathon.
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Ozzie I will never give up on My Marlins!!!…pero co #@$%!nooo mi coach, contribuyan con los fans tambien!!! como es posible que se lleven a Anibal y a Omar…si es por tickets no me anima mucho ir a ver a mi equipo ganando para que luego en el ultimo inning perdamos a"CAMPANADAS"…que es eso!!! que tiene eso que ver con Infante o Sanchez, si…ya se lo que me van a decir los "expertos"…que "y que" a ellos se les vence contrato pronto…aja! ok…y entonces que va a decir cuando el ano q viene no tienen fans yendo al stadium…que tristeza…pero bueno, al menos todavia estan Boni,Reyes,Hanley (mi trio DR 🙂 ) con el "buena conducta" de Zambrano jajaja…


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Julian Cope presents JAPROCKSAMPLER.COM
Vodka Collins
Alan Merrill – vocals, guitar
Hiroshi 'Monsieur' Kamayatsu – guitar
Take Yokouchi – bass
Hiroshi Oguchi – drums
Although they were together barely three years, Vodka Collins was Japan's biggest glam rock band of the '70s, and remain legends to this day on account of their songwriter having written Joan Jett's anthem 'I Love Rock'n'roll', and their drummer and lead guitarist both having been superstars of the Group Sounds scene. Formed as a trio in 1971, initially as a side project around ex-Spiders lead guitarist Hiroshi 'Monsieur' Kamayatsu, the two other original members consisted of ex-Tempters drummer Hiroshi Oguchi and ex-Four Leaves guitarist Take Yokouchi. However, whilst searching for a much younger frontman, the trio discovered the talented Eurasian model, TV actor and singer/songwriter Alan Merrill, whose American mother Helen Merrill was a national treasure to the Japanese, being a singer/actress in the Doris Day tradition. Alan Merrill, who had made his first solo LP whilst still in his mid-teens, acted in the TV show Young 720 and sung with Group Sounds act The Lead, delivered the band a whole bunch of T. Rex-styled songs, all of which would make it on to the first Vodka Collins album TOKYO-NEW YORK. The band signed a big deal with Toshiba/EMI Records and the powerful Watanabe Entertainment agency, immediately scoring massive hits with their single 'Billy Mars', 'Automatic Pilot' and 'Sands Of Time'. However, when Merrill's success brought him no increase in paycheck, he quit on the eve of a huge show at Tokyo's Budokan and fled to England, where he signed with Mickey Most's RAK label. Thereafter, Merrill formed the teen phenomenon Arrows, scored a major ITV series and hit the British charts with 'A Touch Too Much' and 'I Love Rock'n'roll'. It was at this time that Joan Jett, while on a British tour with The Runaways, saw the Arrows performance of Merrill's song and decided she should record the anthem for herself.
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Vodka Collins
Vodka Collins reunions took place starting in 1990 with a short tour after the successful award winning reissue of their "Tokyo New York" album on CD, with original founding members Hiroshi Oguchi and Alan Merrill participating. Other players involved in this reunion were The Coconuts (Of Kid Creole), Robin LeMesurier, Donnie Kisselbach, and Shinohara Nobuhiko.
Five years later, in 1995 Vodka Collins reformed, for several years in fact, with a four piece lineup of Hiroshi Oguchi, Alan Merrill, Hiroshi Kamayatsu (ex-Spiders) and Masayoshi Kabe (ex-Golden Cups), recording the albums "Chemical Reaction" (1996), "Pink Soup" (1997), and "Boy's Life" (1998). In 2004 a best of Vodka Collins was released on Polystar Records titled "Boys In The Band."
Sadly, Drummer Hiroshi Oguchi died of cancer on January 27th, 2009.
There was a "Concert For Hiroshi" at Tokyo's Duo Music Exchange, January of 2010, with a videotaped and televised reunion of all former Vodka Collins band members on stage, including original bass player (now on guitar) Take Yokouchi, Masayoshi Kabe, Monsieur Kamayatsu, Alan Merrill, and Shinohara Nobuhiko. Filling in for the late Hiroshi Oguchi on drums was Grico, of the band Tensaw.
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Vodka Collins, reality check.
With all due respect to Mr. Cope, I have so many corrections to this entry I don't know where to start. First and foremost Alan Merrill started the band Vodka Collins. It was his idea from the start. He brought up the idea to drummer Hiroshi Oguchi backstage at the Western Carnival in 1971 when Mr. Oguchi was with the band PYG, who were falling apart.
After that Mr. Oguchi had the short lived band Orange and Mr. Merrill had the short lived band Godzilla (with Haruo Chikada). When both projects floundered the timing was right for the duo to try out the idea they had discussed backstage at the Yurakucho Nichigeki Theater Western Carnival. A glam rock duo, a band like T. Rex, that was the concept.
Alan Merrill wasn't "brought in" to the band Vodka Collins, this is made up, fiction, It's like saying Steve Peregrine-Took started the band Tyrannosaurus Rex and wanted a younger singer but brought in that old folkie Marc Bolan instead.
Yes, Alan Merrill was a model in Japan, but he was hired for those jobs because he was already playing live shows on stage and TV and was recording solo (2 albums, Atlantic records and Denon Columbia) and with the bands The Lead (RCA Victor) and Godzilla prior to Vodka Collins. He looked like a rock musician and was already making records and doing shows, which is what got him the modeling work. The Flower Travelling Band's singer Joe Yamanaka was also a model for example. This was the way it was in Japan in the early 1970s.
Alan Merrill wrote all the songs for Vodka Collins, was their lead guitarist, musical arranger and lead singer (The Spiders' Monsieur Kamayatsu was not a full member of the band at the start, he was a solo artist and he can only play rhythm guitar). With all due respect to Monsieur Kamayatsu, he's a great talent but he can't play lead guitar. By the way, for the sake of accuracy the lead guitarist of The Spiders was Mr. Takayuke Inoue, not Monsieur.
The original Vodka Collins line up was a duo of Oguchi and Merrill, with Take Yokouchi the last member to join.
After Merrill left Japan in anger due to non payment for his work with Vodka Collins a few days before they were to headline a Budokan show. Desperately in need of funds he started the commercial venture the Arrows in the UK in 1974, with Mickie Most as producer. Mr. Most put the band on a cash retainer as soon as the Arrows signed, solving Merrill's fiscal quandary.
This sudden departure at the apex of the band's success certainly angered many of the EMI (Japan) corporate team backing Vodka Collins, who thought of Merrill as a wealthy young American who would have his parents pay his rent and bills and didn't require payment for his music. They were sorely mistaken. He left Japan, not returning for 17 years.
And this is where Mr. Cope gets the story really backward.
After Merrill left, indeed a "younger singer" was brought in to try to replace him. That was Mickey Curtis's son, a teenager. It didn't work out at all. Vodka Collins was Merrill's brainchild and no one could replace him, so the project ended abruptly.
While in England Alan Merrill not only wrote "I Love Rock N Roll" but was the original artist on the first released version of the song with The Arrows, two years after Vodka Collins broke up.
The Arrows also had hits like "Touch Too Much" and "My Last Night With You" in the UK and Europe further angering the Vodka Collins team he had left behind. The song "I Love Rock N Roll" (RAK records) got the band Arrows their own weekly TV series (Arrows show, Granada-ITV 1976) after performing the song on the Muriel Young produced ITV show "45" in 1975 UK. The song served the band very well in that respect. It got them a TV series.
Moving forward 17 years, Vodka Collins' management finally offered Merrill enough of a cash advance to interest him in recording several reunion albums in the 1990s. Once again, as in the past he wrote all the songs, sang and played all the lead guitar parts on the recordings, also overdubbing keyboards and blues harp. It should be noted that Monsieur Kamayatsu never played guitar on any of Vodka Collins records, although he did sing harmony vocals.
I'm sorry, it is not my intention to embarrass Mr. Cope, and I'm sure there are corporate factions in Japan who want to revise the truth about Vodka Collins to save face and Mr. Cope may have been told a lot of lies in his research, but I really need the truth to be known.
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Militant Tipsheet: How to Avoid Drone Strikes
By Dugald McConnell and Brian Todd
February 23, 2013 — Updated 1423 GMT (2223 HKT)
Al Qaeda's Guide to Avoiding Drones
A terrorism analyst says the list has been on the Internet for a couple of years
Militants are advised to stay away from parked cars, avoid using cell phones
Osama bin Laden warned followers to take precautions against drone strikes
(CNN) — A list of 22 techniques for evading drone strikes shows that militants are trying to share their knowledge and reduce the number of casualties that American attacks are costing them.
The tipsheet advises militants to hide under thick trees, stay in the shadows, cover up their vehicles, stay away from their parked cars, hold meetings indoors, and avoid using cell phones. If they hear a drone approaching, they are advised to scatter in multiple directions.
The list also suggests using jamming equipment, and even setting up dummies as decoys to fool the reconnaissance planes.
The Associated Press reported finding a printout of the tipsheet in the African nation of Mali, in the aftermath of recent fighting that pushed back militants there. But the list has been on the Internet www.as-ansar.com/vb/showthread.php?t=41604 for the last couple of years, according to terrorism analyst Jarret Brachman.
Retired Col. Cedric Leighton, a former Air Force intelligence officer who worked on developing the American drone program, said he believes the evasive tactics that militants are attempting to adopt will not tip the balance in their favor.
"They are good for people who are in a desert environment, who are trying to avoid drones — but there are a lot of limitations to them. The drones are fairly effective," he said.
The list, according to CNN terrorism analyst Paul Cruickshank, demonstrates how concerned jihadists are about the toll that the strikes are taking on their ranks.
"It's a matter of life or death for them," he said. "It has induced a high degree of paranoia in their ranks. That has made it more difficult for them to recruit new members."
Judging by interrogation reports and accounts of Westerners, said Cruickshank, "it is extremely stressful, to know that any moment, the droning sound you hear from the sky may well be your death."
Al Qaeda's new strategy revealed
Before he was killed, Osama bin Laden himself warned his followers to take precautions against drone strikes, according to documents seized during the raid on his Pakistan compound
"A warning to the brothers: they should not meet on the road and move in their cars because many of them got targeted while they were meeting on the road," bin Laden wrote. His advice to any militant who was on the move: "He should move only when the clouds are heavy."
Leighton sees the tipsheet as an opportunity to learn how to foil the militants, since they have now tipped their hand.
"They're making it possible to see what their tactics are, and making it possible for us to develop tactics of our own to go against them," he said.
It is unclear how many people have been killed by American drone strikes around the world, but Sen. Lindsay Graham, R-South Carolina, told an audience Tuesday that it is in the neighborhood of 4,700 people. The Bureau of Investigative Journalism gives a similar estimate.
CNN terrorism expert Peter Bergen says that over the course of around 420 drone strikes, some 250 to 370 civilians likely have been killed (plus 200 to 330 unknowns). The strikes have caused public resentment in targeted countries like Pakistan and Yemen.
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If he could speak to us today, he would likely ask that the enthusiasm exhibited during his memorial service be translated into real support for the causes he struggled for -- above all, the abolition of the world's last surviving apartheid system, imposed by Israel on the people of Palestine.
Mandela was a lifelong supporter of the Palestinian struggle for freedom. The Palestinian issue, he said, is "the greatest moral issue of our time" -- and one that has repercussions for oppressed people the world over. As he put it after South Africa threw off the chains of apartheid, "our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians."
I deeply respect that Mandela never shied away from supporting the Palestinian struggle or any other fight for justice, even when he became one of the world's most prominent leaders. On the contrary, he used his status and visibility to advocate for the struggles of others.
Mandela not only gave Palestinians his moral support, but the South African people's struggle against apartheid provided us with the best example for how to combat the Israeli occupation. Their popular, nonviolent struggle is an inspiration for us -- and it evolved, as in the Palestinian struggle, after realizing the limitations of armed resistance.
Palestinian activists have learned from the South African experience in building grassroots organizations and support. They are basing their own Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign around the world on that of the South Africans, which was instrumental in bringing down the apartheid system.
President Barack Obama praised Mandela this week by saying that he "freed not just the prisoner, but the jailer as well." This is exactly what we believe in Palestine, and what we say to the Israeli soldiers who arrest and assault us. We are pushing them to free themselves from a system of discrimination and violence that has no place in the 21st century.
Indeed, the whole Arab world has much to learn from Mandela's legacy. Particularly at a time of great disappointment because of the failure of many Arab democratic revolutions, his experience shows how we can build unity and overcome our differences, and how to accept democracy as the best way of resolving disputes. Mandela represents an exemplary model of how a movement can stage a comeback regardless of numerous obstacles. Just like in South Africa, democratic reform is inevitable if our societies are to move forward.
There are many examples of great leaders who lost their way in the middle of vicious struggles for power. Mandela was not one of them. Power and authority was not his priority. His willingness to cede power led directly to moral authority -- and in turn to his tremendous position of global leadership.
The road to freedom is never an easy one, especially when one encounters a powerful opponent like the apartheid regime of South Africa or the powerful Israeli occupation army, with its formidable backing in Washington from the Israel lobby. What people like Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Mandela proved is that no power in the world can stop progress as long as the people who demand freedom are ready to keep moving. The real challenge is not to give up hope and to live by Mandela's words: "It always seems impossible until it's done."
The suddenness with which Mandela emerged from prison in 1990 and transitioned South Africa to a democracy with equal rights for all is a powerful signal to Palestinians that we, too, can transform the injustice we confront. And it could happen suddenly and dramatically if we all continue to work as diligently as Mandela did.
But one question remains: Is there an Israeli leader willing to see the writing on the wall and work with us to secure Palestinian rights, or will they fight us every step of the way?
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Jose Mourinho believes Manchester City boss Manuel Pellegrini is getting his sums wrong as the war of words between the two managers continues to develop.
After Mourinho had suggested City were the beneficiaries of refereeing decisions his counterpart hit back about the amount of money the Blues had spent in January.
But, with Chelsea moving top of the Barclays Premier League table over the weekend as they easily saw off Newcastle 3-0 while City laboured to a goalless draw at Norwich, Mourinho turned the tables on Pellegrini's comments - hinting that the Chilean should know better given his background as a civil engineer.
"What I would like to say that Pellegrini was talking about the money we've spent," he said.
"I think he's a fantastic coach, and I respect that a lot, and on top of that, outside his football career, he's an engineer by academic formation.
"I don't think an engineer needs a calculator to do (Juan) Mata £37million and (Kevin) De Bruyne £18million, so that's £55million.
"(Nemanja) Matic is £21million and (Mohamed) Salah is £11million. That's £32million. 55 minus 32 is 23. So Chelsea, in this transfer window, generated £23million. It's easy to understand that this is working with financial fair play, fair financial fair play.
"There are no arguments against that. This is what we're doing. Others aren't doing the same. We are building a team for the next decade, if possible. They have a team to win now because they don't have a team for 10 years.
"They have a team for now, for the next three or four. So experience, potential, power, not worried about Financial Fair Play because, in the summer, they just spend... We don't need a calculator for this. It's easy. Plus 23.
"He has a fantastic team, fantastic players, is a good manager. Has lots of experience, so it's not a problem for him. 13 matches are 39 points, and that's an eternity in a league.
"He's been speaking about winning four competitions, so there's no reason to change the speech. But the only thing that is funny that he keeps saying he never responds to Mourinho, he never comments about Mourinho. He said that in Spain, too. So, he's changed."


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Lorenzo Malo Chief Multichannel Information Systems, CaixaBank
CaixaBank has the largest customer base in Spain with over 14 million clients and it employs 32,000 people in 5,000 branches. Because of its focus on innovation, the bank is also widely recognized for its expertise in applying the latest technological advances to enhance customer experience. Its operations are driven by its core corporate values of quality, trust and social commitment. In 2016, CaixaBank was honored by The Banker and Euromoney because of its innovation projects.
In a challenging and competitive retail banking market, CaixaBank is always striving to differentiate itself through technology. It wanted to implement a new customer-oriented digital platform that would enable employees to advise customers while sharing information directly and sign contracts digitally without any loss of security.
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Re: 2 dimensional engineering problem
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- Subject: [mg112151] Re: 2 dimensional engineering problem
- From: Joseph Gwinn <joegwinn at comcast.net>
- Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2010 02:31:44 -0400 (EDT)
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In article <i5l9qg$7ge$1 at smc.vnet.net>, Dave Francis <suilvenassociates at googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a friend in a manufacturing business who, I think, needs > Mathematica to solve a problem. Could anyone here tell me if the > following is possible and perhaps if they would be interested in > taking on the project for a fee? > > Here's the problem... It is purely 2 dimensional cam-follower type > puzzle. > > Imagine a cartoon heart shape rotating about a fixed point at its > centre (x). As the heart shape rotates, a small diameter wheel, which > is attached to an arm of fixed length pivoted at point y, follows the > circumference of the heart (like a cam follower). The distance xy is > greater than the greatest radius of the heart shape. Point y lies at > 12 o'clock to point x and the wheel touches the heart at about 10 > o'clock. > The arm which is pivoted at point y has a 90 degree bend at that point > and this shorter arm caries another wheel at its end (z). This arm > extends downwards from point y at about 4 o'clock. > My friend needs to define a shape that also rotates about x at the > same speed as the heart shape, and is always in contact with the > second wheel on the arm at point z. > The heart shape, or, of course, any closed loop shape, would be > defined by a set of x,y coordinates or polar coors wrt x. The new > shape would need to be defined in the same way. > NB Please don't be misled by the "heart", the profile is such that the > wheel that follows it, only touches the shape at a single point at any > time - so pure cam-following. > > I would love to dive into Mathematica and try this for myself, but > time does not allow that I'm afraid. > > TIA Dave Francis This is a classic problem in the design of cams, the cartoon heart being the cam and the little wheel (roller) being the cam follower. One can certainly use Mathematica for cam design, but unless your friend understands the mathematics of cam design, or wants to learn, he may be happier with commercial cam-design software. Joe Gwinn


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I can't for the life of me see how the two situations are similar. ** -- LeftCoast Pirate 02/17/2017 3:06PM
For the fire Lebo crowd (L) -- ecu91 02/16/2017 6:59PM
Fire Lebo. Keep Lebo. Will it make any difference? ** -- charlie27858 02/17/2017 06:18AM
Hire Gottfried.... how is this not an option? ** -- Teach95 02/17/2017 12:07AM
NC State plays in the shadow as well -- charlie27858 02/17/2017 10:38AM
He gets a $2.5M buyout. ECU? Nah. ** -- TOC72 02/17/2017 10:06AM
I think it might be a little matter of money.** -- charlie27858 02/17/2017 08:21AM
He can't win at NCSU. How can he win here? ** -- LRJ 02/17/2017 06:01AM
He did win at NCSU. Not to mention, have you seen their schedule? ** -- CapnFritz 02/17/2017 08:32AM
I think he was 2-10 against UNC. That will never do at NC State. ** -- charlie27858 02/17/2017 08:38AM
NCSU has won two national championships. They might as well be the Celtics -- CapnFritz 02/17/2017 08:39AM
My gosh. You really think that is analogous? 18 yr. career and no NCAAs?... -- ultraviolet 02/16/2017 9:51PM
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Why would I be offended... -- ecu91 02/16/2017 8:59PM
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Just like talk of UCONN dropping football ** -- charlie27858 02/17/2017 06:49AM
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Yep. a coach who never has been dancing isnt going to magically learn how ** -- ikedog 02/16/2017 7:35PM
We'd be taking a monumental risk dismissing Lebo -- CanePirate 02/16/2017 7:13PM
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That article is more relateable with the fire ruff crowd. Lebo has never... -- ikedog 02/16/2017 7:11PM
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Re: Anyone who knows the true inside facts knows why we fired Ruff. Letgo! -- Graybeardthepirate 02/16/2017 8:35PM
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Apparently I know more, -- Elizabeth City Pirate 02/16/2017 10:45PM
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Right -- Elizabeth City Pirate 02/16/2017 11:05PM
That might be true for most but there are actually some that are... -- Red Shadow 02/17/2017 08:31AM
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Students evacuated briefly after anhydrous accident
An anhydrous ammonia tank accident caused some commotion in Estherville Friday morning. But no leakage occurred and the tank was safely removed from town.
According to Estherville assistant fire chief Greg Langford, a pickup owned by The Andersons Inc., was hauling a trailer carrying an anhydrous ammonia tank when the axle broke and both wheels came off. The incident happened around 8:30 a.m.
Estherville Lincoln Central High School and Middle School students were evacuated to the Regional Wellness Center as a precautionary measure.
Officials gave the all-clear around 9:30 a.m., after a wrecker moved the tank outside of town to Greig's cattle lot.
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The Social Security Administration warned Friday that "drastic funding cuts" proposed by the House would dramatically impact service to seniors and other beneficiaries and "needlessly" waste taxpayer dollars.
In response to an inquiry from Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., Social Security Commissioner Michael Astrue outlined in a letter to Baucus how the House Budget would force the Social Security Administration to scale back operating hours at field offices across the country. The result, Astrue said, would be "long delays and deteriorations in service" to seniors and other Social Security beneficiaries.
"It is critically important that we work to preserve Social Security and protect its beneficiaries and save taxpayer dollars," Baucus said in a statement the same day. "The House's radical plan does nothing more than threaten America's seniors by undermining this critical safety net and severely cuts programs that help the federal budget."
While Baucus noted that a Senate proposal increases SSA funding levels next year, the House bill, he said, cuts $762 million from the agency's current budget. According to SSA, "the cuts in the House bill would increase the average wait time for disability decisions and hearing decisions by as much as two weeks and forgo up to $6 billion in budget savings."
"This severe cut would force us to curtail our service to the public and our program integrity efforts," Astrue writes to Baucus (at left). "The backlog of initial disability claims would continue to increase and our hearings backlog reduction plan would be derailed. There would be long waits in our field offices and on our 800-number because of inadequate staff to address critical public service needs."
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- The House Budget would cut 5,000 jobs at the Social Security Administration.
- The House Budget would cut Social Security field office hours and delay more than 30,000 people with Social Security claims from getting the support they need.
- Compared to the Senate Budget, the House Budget would force thousands with Social Security claims to wait two additional weeks to get the service they need and create a backlog of 100,000 claims and 100,000 hearings.
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Starry eyes: Can rock lotto pick a winner?
Where else but Charlottesville could punkers, pickers, gospel singers, and indie rockers come together in one show? In one band?
Less than one month after eight new bands were created by drawing names out of a bowl, they'll perform at the RockStarr Showdown, a benefit competition at Starr Hill Music Hall.
"I think that the best thing about this," says Nikki Vinci, one of the organizers, "is that musical connections are being made. It's new, it's different, and it's for a good cause."
Which is exactly why local rocker Christian Breeden decided to show up at Starr Hill at an open call "draft party" in late July when the bands were formed.
"I love rock and roll, and this just seemed like an interesting approach," says Breeden, a member and spokesperson for the just-created band American Roulette.
Breeden says he relishes musical risks. "I like the idea of taking and throwing out 'the band' as we know it. I like to laugh at what it is to be a band."
His experience hasn't been hassle-free. Early on, American Roulette lost a member, John Johnson, to scheduling conflicts. And then there are different musical tastes, which in American Roulette include gospel, bluegrass, hard rock, and– egad!– divided opinions on the Dave Matthews Band.
Despite their differences, Breeden says that with only a few more days left to rehearse, the band can't afford to have a spat.
"We still need to fix up the ends of some songs," says Breeden. "It's hard to fit the violin in some places. It's not typical of rock and roll."
Although most of the bands competing at the RockStarr Showdown may sound atypical, American Roulette has a style that will surely set it apart. Which is a requirement for success, considering that each group gets just 15 minutes to impress the judges.
"Our band's sound is like the coolest garage band ever," says Breeden. "It's smolderin', rockin', rockin', rockin', garage band rock. We just took the rockin' rock and roll route."
At the July 24 "draft party," 70 names went into the bowl, but only the first 48 could participate. If no one had any idea of what to expect from their own bands, then they most certainly don't know what to expect from their competition. But not knowing may be part of the thrill.
"I think the rivalry between the bands is good," says Breeden. "You know that you could have been paired up with any other person on that stage."
The Showdown occurs Saturday, August 23, at Starr Hill around 8pm. Admission is $5, with all proceeds benefiting the Music Resource Center, and, if this goes well, Nikki Vinici is hoping that the RockStarr Showdown will become an annual event.
As for Breeden and American Roulette, he says, "It was just something I had been rolling over in my mind. I think it speaks of chance. Like this competition, it's all about taking risks. You spin the wheel and see what you get. It's political, too. It's like Russian roulette, except in America we're not brave enough to play with suicide... we play with bands."


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Small fire reported on USS Miami
Fire quickly doused on sub that previously burned
A small fire was reported Monday aboard the USS Miami just three days after a former shipyard worker was sentenced for setting a fire that caused about $450 million in damage.
A shipyard spokeswoman said the fire was quickly doused Monday afternoon at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. Officials said the fire was sparked by a light fixture damaged when it was hit by grit during sandblasting work.
Meanwhile, officials said the Navy's commitment to repairing the fire-ravaged nuclear submarine is wavering.
The repairs have been postponed because of mandatory budget cuts, and Rear Adm. Rick Breckenridge, commander of Submarine Group Two in Groton, Conn., said the Navy must weigh competing priorities.
The shipyard's 4,700 civilian workers will be forced to take 22 days off without pay between April and Sept. 30 under forced federal budget cuts known as sequestration. Workers plan to rally Wednesday against the mandatory cuts.


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Obama's announcement on November 6 came four years to the day after 350.org, Sierra Club and many other organizations held a major protest against the pipeline at the White House.
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