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Apparel manufacturer The Gap is currently selling a black t-shirt bearing — with no explanation — the words "MANIFEST DESTINY." Manifest Destiny is a polite term for the popular 19th-century belief that the United States — a white, European nation — was destined to expand westward across the continent, by any means necessary. In Indian country, the term Manifest Destiny calls to mind the suffering of previous generations of Natives through forced relocation and genocide.
More than a few American Indians are puzzled, to say the least, as to why The Gap would choose to sell a Manifest Destiny t-shirt.
Renee Roman Nose, an activist, actress, and ICTMN contributor, sent the following note to The Gap when she got wind of the shirt:
Dear Management, It is with great sadness that I notify you I will not be shopping at your store until you remove the "Manifest Destiny" t-shirts available at your stores. Manifest Destiny was the catch phrase which led to the genocide of millions of my people, millions of Indigenous people throughout this country. I am also inviting the more than 1700 people on my Facebook page to boycott your stores and inviting them to shop with their conscience. In the past Gap has been known for inclusion, rather than exclusion. I am disappointed to see that your marketing and sales strategies have changed so dramatically.
Renee Roman Nose
Descendant of the Sand Creek Massacre Survivors
Descendant of the Battle of the Washita Survivors
Enrolled Member of the Cheyenne & Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma
Artist and filmmaker Steven Paul Judd put the following image on his Facebook page, along with the comments that follow it:
The GAP is selling a black t-shirt that reads "MANIFEST DESTINY". (this IS NOT the shirt they made, but something i made to show what i see) Manifest Destiny resulted in the mass genocide of Indigenous people, through expansion, occupation and annexation of Indigenous land. I'm pretty pragmatic when it comes to most things. But I think this is a good opportunity educate the folks over at the Gap. I doubt there was malicious intent, in fact, I think it was just ignorance. So I hope they discontinue this shirt, I don't need the "formal apology", instead I hope they use their vast marketing presence to help to educate others on the ugly history of how this continent was colonized. See, what they see as a clever little shirt on "how the west was won" or maybe a "YOLO, make your own destiny" type of shirt – Is not what I see. I'm sadden to think about what my ancestors went through because of the "manifest destiny" mindset, and even more sadden to know that the effects of it can still be felt to day. So I make this image, in hopes that the Gap people will look at their shirt in a new light.
William S. Yellowrobe, a Native poet and playwright, has posted this response to the t-shirt:
Let me get this straight? The Gap wants to sell T-shirts that read; "Manifest Destiny"? "The Only Good Indian is a Dead Indian" was taken? "Kill the Indian save the Man" is going to be used in their back to school designs for next year? I know this sounds blunt and harsh, but we have to remember. People, thousands of people, Native people, who were not even considered human beings, died during this arrogant and pompous proclamation. This is another episode of American history where an idea, or arrogant statement, lead to the demise of Native people. This isn't racism, this is a part of the racism that lead to genocide. Maybe a friend of mine is right. GAP should come out with a "Final Solution" T-shirt, or a "Got Slaves," t-shirt. Because this issue involves Native people specifically maybe the GAP hopes there will be no one to call them on it…Just one of those Indin Thinkin' thoughts by me…
A petition created by a UCLA student at Change.org has (at this writing) just passed 1,500 signatures, leaving 8,500 to go to reach its goal. You can participate, if so inclined, at change.org/petitions/gap-discontinue-the-manifest-destiny-tshirt-and-issue-a-formal-apology


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On October 1, 2012, it became legal to shoot, trap and gas Wyoming's 328 wolves throughout most of the state. Already more than 40 wolves have been killed. Please write an e-mail to Wyoming Governor Matt Mead asking for an end to the slaughter of Wyoming's gray wolves, and end this brutal extermination policy taking place in nearly 85 percent of the state. Wyoming's new law threatens the gray wolf recovery that is under way in the Northern Rockies—and even includes a dangerous loophole that would make it legal to kill wolves no matter how few remain.
Below is a sample letter for you to copy/paste into an e-mail; or you can write your own. Thank you again for your support.
Governor Matt Mead's e-mail address is [email protected].
Dear Governor Mead,
I am writing to you today because I oppose Wyoming's wolf
management plan, including the wolf extermination policy in the predator zone.
I support wolf restoration in the Northern Rockies. The federal
government has spent 17 years and millions of dollars to return wolves to the
West, but Wyoming's new law combined with the delisting and hunting of wolves
in Idaho and Montana threatens to undo the recovery that is under way.
I urge you to develop a better plan for wolves that allows for
their full recovery in the region, without the threat of shoot-on-sight killing
in most of the state.
Thank you.

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So Evander Holyfield is broke. His $10 million house (featuring 17 bathrooms and a bowling alley) is in foreclosure, he's behind in child support payments, and things are generally looking bleak. And people, it's your fault. You just aren't buying enough Real Deal Grills! Why not? Dual temperature controls, 1800 watts of power, adjustable floating hinges so you can cook on two sides at once ... it's like having an entire restaurant in your house! I have no idea how a man with his own grill could be so in arrears. I'll never understand boxing.
A legal notice that ran Wednesday in a small local newspaper said Holyfield's estate will be auctioned off "at public outcry to the highest bidder for cash" at the Fayette County courthouse on July 1. The 54,000-square-foot home — located on Evander Holyfield Highway — has 109 rooms, including 17 bathrooms, three kitchens and a bowling alley. Meanwhile, Holyfield's handlers allegedly told the mother of one of his children that he will no longer be able to make his $3,000-a-month support payment. Toi Irvin claims the boxer has already missed two payments, so she has gone to court seeking restitution.
What is it about being a great boxer that automatically makes you bad with money? Here's one problem Joe Louis never had, however: On top of all his other woes, Holyfield reportedly owes $500,000 for landscaping.
Why do mansion owners who are facing foreclosure never take my advice? One word, fellas: Roommates.
For real: Holyfield Must Deal With Being Broke [NBC Sports]
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It all began - at least for me - on April 6, 2009, when MOH and I were driving toward Susanville on Highway 36. Note the shovel hiding behind the tree.
The entire roadcut was barricaded off, and fearing the worst, we pulled over so I could take some in-progress pictures.
I climbed over the barricade...
...and quickly grabbed a few close-up photos, just in case they were planning to take out the entire exposure...
...and just in case all my other close-up photos of the roadcut might be non-digital, which is what I suspect.
On May 18, 2009 - the 29th anniversary of the eruption of Mt. St. Helens - the destruction of this fine roadcut had continued, and it was clear that it would be wiped out.
On July 29, 2009, we pulled over again. Roadwork had moved farther westward on Highway 36, and the roadcut with the excellent baked zone (among many other great geologic features) was in its now current form.
There's really not that much to see anymore, especially when compared to what one could see before.
I didn't even walk over to the other side of the road.
Does anyone knows what basalt this is - possibly the Miocene Lovejoy Basalt or the Pleistocene basalt of Susanville Peak?
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Susanville Roadcut Before and After
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Wednesday, April 7, 2010
The Way it Went Down
Posted by Silver Fox at 4:30 AMLocation: Highway 36 just west of Susanville, CA, USA
Labels: california, geology, highway 36, photos, roadside, volcanic rocks
4 comments:
- Gaelyn said...
I hate what they did.
- Wednesday, April 7, 2010 at 12:33:00 PM PDT
- Silver Fox said...
Nasty nasty people.
- Friday, April 9, 2010 at 4:32:00 AM PDT
- Alaska Al said...
I hope the road folks don't destroy the triple dike on State 139. Many years ago when I-80 was under construction the Californian Highway Department remove the best example I have ever seen of a chevron fold. I think it was near Vacaville. But not all road improvements are bad. If it wasn't for the highway system we probably wouldn't even know of the Goshen flora.
- Sunday, April 18, 2010 at 1:08:00 PM PDT
- Silver Fox said...
Triple dike photo is here. I hope it stays, too. And how could I forget about the Goshen flora?
- Sunday, April 18, 2010 at 1:35:00 PM PDT
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After a winter spent in a tropical paradise, Cali and Layla are ready to put all of the drama behind them and find some meaning in life. Along with Calvin and Michael, they return to their remote property, only to find more troubles hidden away in the bucolic wilderness.
The two Cals settle in happily, but Layla and Michael struggle with their sense of identity, each one seeking out a different coping mechanism. Just when things are starting to look up, Layla's need to recreate the past leads her back to a dangerous place, opening the door for for evil to return.
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|Winnebago County Sheriff's PoliceNews Media Release
|News Release Number2013-026
|Information: Shooting/ 5988 Heidi Dr, Rockford, Illinois
|Date: July 27,2013
|Time: 3:56a.m.
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On Saturday July 27, 2013, Winnebago County Sheriff's Deputies were sent to 5988 Heidi Dr. in reference to a shooting. Upon arrival they found a shooting victim. He was transported to the hospital. Two additional victims showed up at Rockford Hospitals. Derrick D. Jacobs (20yrs old) had a gunshot wound to his side. Tevin J.D. Gray (17yrs old) had gunshot wounds to his legs. Austin A. Richardson (19yrs old) had a gunshot wound to his arm. He was treated and released. He was taken into custody on an un-related warrant and lodged in the Winnebago County Jail. None of the victims live at the Heidi Dr. location but all are Rockford residents. Information developed at the scene by Winnebago County Sheriff's Detectives was that a large party had taken place and a dispute arose between rival groups and gunshots were exchanged. Multiple shell casings were located, both inside and outside of the house. At this point no one is in custody for the shooting and the investigation is on-going. Anyone with information is asked to call the Winnebago County Sheriff's Department (815/319-6300) or CrimeStoppers (815/963-7867). The charge against Richardson is merely an accusation. He is presumed innocent unless proven guilty in court.


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South Africa enjoys high solar irradiation and has 24% of the world's best area for winter sunshine. The most populated province receives annual global irradiation of around 2,000 kWh/m² per year, while the range for the country is form 1,600 kWh/m² on the coast, reaching 2,400 kWh/m² in the sunny interior. This potential is not used. This is largely due to historically low electricity tariffs, high upfront capital costs of the technologies and limited implementation of national policies. However, this paradigm is quickly changing as tariffs have increased by over 300% in the last 7 years, technology prices are decreasing and government programmes to grow the green economy are being implemented.
The main focus of solar thermal applications in South Africa, is on solar water heating (SWH) for the domestic sector. The most recent scientific market survey of SWH in South Africa was published in 2005. The only reliable statistics available in the market since 2005, are from the Eskom rebate programme – please refer to next section. Suppliers also sell SWH outside of the rebate programme and although the volumes are not known it can be reasonably assumed that they do not exceed the rebate programme volumes. By March 2015, the total number of units installed under the national SWH rebate programme are:
High Pressure - 102,498
Low Pressure - 292,956
Total (2008-2015) - 395,454
There are about 220 industrial / commercial (large) SWH installations in the country covering a surface area of approximately 10,635m²
Since 2013 the country has seen exponential growth in rooftop PV installations but these are off a very low base. The absence of formalized feed in tariff programmes for grid tied systems with the major electricity distributors means that most installations are not recorded. An analysis of known rooftop PV installations undertaken by the Centre for Renewable and Sustainable Energy Study at the University of Stellenbosch found that in Q2 there were 285 installations -- minimum of 1,2 kWp and max of 1 200 kWp -- giving a total of 29.3 MWp installed (excluding REIPPP and off grid). Currently, there is an invitation for comments on the the rules for registration of small scale generators (<1MW), closing on the 31 May 2018. This is to be able to regurate and also sight on the number of systems installed.
A relatively small market for solar thermal applications has traditionally existed in Solar Water Heating (SWH) for the residential sector. Annually approximately 450,000 electric water heaters are sold in the country to service a housing stock of 7 million, this excludes government subsidized and informal housing. The South African domestic SWH market can be divided in two distinct sectors – 1) Replacing predominantly resistance elements with high pressure SWH, where there is competition with heat pumps; and 2) Providing hot water with low pressure SWH to low income households who otherwise would have used a kettle or paraffin stove to heat their water. High pressure systems have an electric resistance element to offset any energy shortages whilst low pressure systems do not. In 2008 Eskom, the national utility, was mandated by the Department of Energy to administer a SWH incentive programme to stimulate uptake. In 2010 the SA President and Minister of Energy set a target of 1 million installations by 2015. The Eskom rebate programme was later expanded to include low pressure systems for subsidised housing. Only South African Bureau of Standard (SABS) approved systems are eligible to participate in the rebate programme to ensure that SWHs meet pre-determined minimum requirements for quality, performance and safety.
High Pressure SWH: Found in middle and high income residential homes, where the typical tank size is between 200-300 litres. In South Africa both flat plate and evacuated tube technology is available with no outright market domination. Suppliers also offer thermosyphon and split systems. Although this offers consumers more options it does create confusion about which is more effective and makes it difficult for either technology to create the economies of scale which would reduce installation costs. In 2014 it is estimated that there are 150,000 HP SWH units installed with an average area of 4m². This equates to 600,000m² of installation area.
Another SWH technology used in South Africa, is unglazed plastic water heating for swimming pools. It is estimated that there approximately 800,000 swimming pools in South Africa, the majority of which are not heated by solar or electricity. In 2014 it was estimated that there were 4,335 installations with an average of 20m² / installation, implying that there is 86,700m² of unglazed water heating in the country.
Low Pressure SWH: These systems have a storage capacity of between 80-100 litres and are installed on government subsided housing which is a free-standing single family house of 50m² or less. The vast majority of units make use of vacuum tubes as these are imported for less than flat plate collectors can be locally manufactured or imported.
There has not been any installations since the cancellation of the Eskom rebate program but there has been a growing interest in the Solar Heat for Industrial Processes.
In South Africa, water is almost exclusively heated by horizontal electric resistance water heaters placed in the uninsulated roof space of buildings and connected with unlagged pipe systems. The national standard allows for as much as 2.59 kWh of daily standing losses for a 150 litre water heater which is the tank size that dominates the market. Manufacturers of these horizontal electric resistance water heaters have no incentive to improve on these inefficiencies as water heaters are a homogenous product, which competes on price.
To stimulate the market in SWH, a rebate scheme (detailed above) and new building regulations were introduced. The National Building Regulations, to which all new building being erected must comply, were amended in 2010 to make provision for sustainability. To support these amendments SANS 10400-XA was developed and in November 2011 the SANS 10400-XA regulations came into effect. 10400-XA regulates the maximum allowable energy consumption for all new buildings as well as any additions to existing buildings. The amended South African National Building 10400–XA Regulations now require the following:
By the beginning of 2015, the policies in place for HP SWH, had failed to stimulate the market to the extent that was expected and the rebate programme was suspended by the Department of Energy, who took over the management the programme from Eskom, pending a review. It is not clear whether the rebate programme will be re-introduced or whether it will be terminated.
The LP SWH programme was successful as about 300,000 systems were installed across the country over a two year period. This programme delivered additional benefits as it trained locals to undertake the installations (training and jobs); operated on very low profit margins; undertook installations to low quality houses; and provided free warm to hot water on tap for the first time to many households.
To continue funding the programme Government would require suppliers to meet a specified local content requirement to qualify (local manufacturing and jobs). The programme was suspended in 2013 as almost no suppliers could meet the new local content requirements that were introduced for specific components, which became a mandatory requirement. The impasse is currently being discussed between national government and suppliers.
In summary, the key barriers and their statusses are summarized:
High Pressure SWH: A reasonably strong, but small, SWH manufacturing sector for high pressure units existed in South Africa for more than fifty years. Before the SWH rebate was introduced, the HP SWH market was shared by imported products, from Australia and Europe, and local manufacturers. Of the local manufacturers, some produced flat plate collectors only, others tanks and the rest tanks and collectors. There was, and continues to be, no evacuated tube manufacturers in South Africa.
With the introduction of the rebate scheme in 2008, the supply side of the market was stimulated, with many new companies (mostly importers) entering the market. The demand for SWH did not grow to the extent required to support the number of suppliers resulting in many of the local manufacturing companies going out of business.
Low Pressure SWH: There was no low pressure SWH market to speak of until the rebate was introduced. The industry grew quickly due to the volumes and the market was dominated by Chinese imports, which used evacuated tubes. With the new requirements for local manufacturing of components, some industry players have come to the fore and have committed to building local manufacturing plants. It is expected that the manufacturing industry will be able to supply enough units for the low pressure market as soon as the new low pressure SWH contracting scheme commences. These units will, however have flat plate collectors and not evacuated tubes as it is unlikely that evacuated tubes will be manufactured in South Africa in the short term.
As at Q2 2015 the structure is still being negotiated between government and the market participants, so it cannot be stated with certainty what form the low pressure SWH market will ultimately take.
In South Africa SWH creates 5.9 direct work places per MW installed. Most of the value creation is downstream in the value chain, after manufacturing.
By comparison, a study undertaken by United States Department of Energy found that the jobs created to operate power plants (per MW) are 0.5 nuclear; 0.2 coal; wind 0.1; and gas 0.06 (Source: www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2012/08/21/what-do-energy-sector-jobs-do-for-us/)
A 2011 study conducted by Eskom found that the average electricity consumption of a middle income home is 850 kWh per month, of which 39% is attributed to heating water. The performance of a SWH is subject to many variables, such as: geographic location of the house, orientation of the collector of the SWH, quality of the product, quality of the installation; and also the behaviour and effective usage by the household. In broad terms it is reasonable to expect a saving of at least 50% of your yearly electricity usage for heating water after a SWH is installed. Under these conditions, for the average middle income home this equates to 330 kWh / month or R528 (2015 tariff = R1.60 incl 14% VAT). Assuming an average purchase price of R15,000, a straight payback period is less than 3 years. This calculation is simplistic as it excludes rebates, time value of money and other relevant variables. It does illustrate however that it is financially attractive to install a SWH.
The Solar Thermal Roadmap identifies the following roles to grow the SWH market
Awareness and marketing:
Institutional roles:
South Africa is a partner in the Soltrain project which is a regional capicity bulding and demonstrataion project that started in 2009. The project is now in its 3rd phase, the focus for phase 1 was training on solar thermal technologies and awareness raising; phase 2 focused on installation of demonstration systems for various applications at social institutions and SMMEs and also roadmaps for the Solar Thermal Technologies in the participating counties. Phase 3, whiich started in 2016 focuses on M&V of the installed systems and supporting to the implemenattion of the raodmaps and the growing industry.
Soltrain, together with the SHC Solar Academy conducted an onsite training course for Solar Heat for Industrial Processes in November 2017.
Solar passive design is the art and science of using the natural forces of a given climate and a building's orientation, size, disposition and management of its elements in order to achieve indoor comfort, while using a minimum of imported energies. Energies flow naturally while the building is in a passive mode -- hence passive design.
In South Africa, heating and cooling accounts for 38.5% of the total final energy consumed in buildings (DAH 2007). In all new buildings, this percentage has to be reduced gradually to near zero by the year 2030: ..."Progressively strengthen the energy efficiency criteria set out in the South African National Standard 204 to achieve a zero carbon building standard by 2030..." (NDP, p. 288, Ch. 8 - Transforming Human Settlements). The assumption is that the existing building stock will be upgraded at a rate of 9% per year (R Milford 2009. Greenhouse Gas Emission Baseline and Reduction Potential from Buildings in South Africa. UNEP SBCI, Paris).
Solar thermal buildings include at least one day's integral thermal storage as a result of the prescribed interior thermal mass (SANS10400-XA).
In addition to the mandatory requirements imposed by SANS 10400-XA as described previously there is a more stringent voluntary certification. The Green Building Council of South Africa (GBCSA) provides certification to buildings, which are designed, built and operated in an environmentally sustainable manner. Although energy is a major component there are other considerations such as materials, water, waste and transport. GBCSA accreditation can be compared to LEED certification from the US Green Building Council and BREEAM from the UK.
The GBC (www.gbcsa.org.za) was established in 2007 and the first green certification was awarded in 2009. In April 2014 50 buildings had been certified and by May 2015 this number had doubled to 100.
Interest in solar houses is still in its infancy in South Africa and there is no market to speak other than enthusiasts. However this may start to change in the near future as a larger percentage of the country's corporations choose to certify their buildings with the GBC (as detailed in the previous section) to demonstrate their environmental credentials. An additional factor is the country's precarious electricity supply which is in short supply resulting in frequent blackouts. This is impacting heavily on business and many companies are making large investments in energy security. This may take the form of diesel generators but for many the long term option is to invest in energy efficiency and renewable energy.
The employment figures for solar thermal have been given above. It is too soon to quantify the employment opportunities in solar thermal buildings due to the very early stages the industry finds itself in. However, the Ministry of Economic Development in its New Growth Path Policy has targeted "300 000 additional direct jobs by 2020 to green the economy, with 80,000 in manufacturing and the rest in construction, operations and maintenance of new environmentally friendly infrastructure"
Common perception has been that a GBC certified building comes at a large premium. However this has changed as the demand for certified buildings has increased and it has been reported that 4 Star rated (entry level) GBC buildings have been built with no additional premium being levied by the contractors. This has prompted companies a greater number of companies to consider and commission that new buildings become accredited.
The favourable climatic conditions means that solar buildings will perform better in South Africa but to date there are few, or no, statistics or a database of buildings that can be reliably drawn upon to provide estimates.
After several false starts the move towards a more sustainable energy mix is now firmly in place. The Government's Renewable Energy Independent Power Producers Procurement Programme (REI4P) has received global recognition. The programme has procured 4,322 MW in just 4 years and the Minister of Energy announced in April 2015 a new determination for an additional 6,300 MW.
Provincial and local government have followed the example set by national government and have set up various programmes to support RE industry. For example the Western Cape has the established GreenCape, a sector development agency that supports the green economy, the Eastern Cape has set up the Coega Industrial Development Zone to support the renewable industry, the City of Cape Town has set up the Energy and Climate Change Unit to support the city in renewable energy, energy efficiency and climate mitigation projects and eThekwini municipality has set up the KZN Energy Office to facilitate the development of sustainable energy in the province. These, and other projects, have already started to yield results, which will inevitably include solar thermal technologies.
There is a new SWH program since the DOE took over the programme from Eskom in 2014; the outline of the program and its structure can be found on https://solarwaterheating-programme.co.za/. The DOE has entered into an Agreement with the Government Technical Advisory Centre, at the National Treasury for joint implementation of the programme. It shouldl be noted that there is no intention to achieve masssive energy savings under the social programme given the limited electricty consumption by the beneficiaries in this low end market. Eskom has done the previous M&V for the past installations and this will be done by the DOE for the current programme but there will be no M&V done under the social programme.
Many universities are undertaking R&D activities, examples include:
It is worth noting that SWH is a mature technology which limits R&D requirements. Activities are now focusing on tracking performance and collecting data to improve the service offering.
A major telecommunications company installed Africa's first concentrated solar cooling plant at one of its new buildings to reduce its carbon footprint[1]. The plant has a peak cooling capacity of 330 kW and compromises of 242 mirrors taking up an area of 484 m². Such projects are highly visible and serve as demonstration projects.
[1] http://www.engineeringnews.co.za/article/mtn-unveils-first-concentrated-solar-plant-2014-07-10
Several national targets exist to achieve a more sustainable energy future in South Africa. Some are broad targets while others are focused on a specific intervention or technology. Ultimately all of them are relevant and contribute to the end objective. The main ones are listed below:
Financial support has been through South African Development Financial Institutions (DFI) who have supported the national REI4P, EE projects and provided financing to SWH installers. Eskom introduced a SWH rebate scheme in 2008.
Key actors include:
The New SANS Buildings Regulations are modelled on the Nordic Structure, which allows a choice between the Prescriptive (Deemed-to-satisfy) or the Performance Based compliance method. The regulations apply to new buildings or substantial renovations/alterations.
Many international development organisations, such as ADA (Soltrain), AFD, GIZ, DFID, DANIDA support renewable energies.


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March 29, 2010
Complete Release in PDF Format
The Schedule
Tuesday, March 30, 2010 at Campus Diamond, 12 & 2 pm
UC Santa Barbara (9-20) vs. Fresno State (21-12)
All-time series record vs. Bulldogs: 12-52
Last win: Apr. 6, 2009 (1-0)
Last loss: Apr. 6, 2009 (3-1)
Both games available on Gametracker
Game two broadcast live on 91.9 FM and KCSB.org
Friday, April 2, 2010 at Anderson Family Field, 4 & 6 pm
Saturday, April 3, 2010 at Anderson Family Field, 12 pm
UCSB at Cal State Fullerton (5-26)
All-time series record vs. Titans: 9-92
Last win: May 10, 2008 (11-7)
Last loss: May 9, 2009 (6-5)
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The Week Ahead
UC Santa Barbara will host Fresno State in a doubleheader on Tuesday for the Gauchos' final non-conference games of the 2010 regular season. On Friday, UCSB will kick-off Big West Conference action at Cal State Fullerton. The Gauchos will play a doubleheader on Friday evening and a single game on Saturday.
Last Time Out
UCSB stayed busy during its spring break with a doubleheader at San Diego last Tuesday followed by four games at the Stanford Invitational. The Gauchos split the twin bill with the Toreros, as each team picked up a 6-1 victory. At the Stanford tourney, UCSB opened with an 11-inning victory over Cal State Bakersfield - avenging a doubleheader sweep at the hands of the Roadrunners earlier in the month - but were unable to keep the momentum going. The Gauchos dropped the next three games, falling to BYU, Santa Clara and No. 9 Stanford.
For The Record
UCSB enters this week with a 9-20 overall record, which is its slowest start to a season since 2001 when the team posted an identical record in its first 29 games. The Gauchos are currently amidst a three-game skid and have won just two of their last 10 games. UCSB has posted a 1-6 record at home and are 1-5 on opponent's diamonds.
Bulldog Banter
Fresno State enters Tuesday's doubleheader with a 21-12 overall record and the Bulldogs have won five of their last six. Haley Gilleland leads the squad batting .400 on the season and is second on the team with 21 runs scored. As a team, the Bulldogs are hitting an impressive .295 on the year. Morgan Melloh has handled the bulk of the work in the circle and has posted a 2.90 ERA, 148 strikeouts and a 9-8 record in her 22 appearances. The Gauchos and Bulldogs last met on April 6, 2009 in Fresno when the teams split a doubleheader. Fresno State took the first game, 3-1, and UCSB captured the second game, 1-0.
Taking On The Titans
Cal State Fullerton enters the week with a 5-26 record and will play San Diego State at home on Wednesday before hosting the Gauchos later in the week. Torrie Anderson leads the Titans batting .264 on the year and is tied with a team-leading 14 runs and 18 RBI. Fullerton is batting just .203 as a team this season. In the circle, Ari Cervantes has made a team-leading 21 appearances and her 5.73 ERA is the Titan staff's lowest. During last season's Big West series, Fullerton swept the Gauchos in three tight games, picking up 4-2, 2-1 and 6-5 victories. UCSB has only recorded series wins over the Titans on two occasions during the teams' all-time history: 2008 (2-1) and 2004 (2-1). The Gauchos have never swept Fullerton during a season series.
Take Me To Your Leader
Though UCSB has struggled offensively, senior Jessica Ziegler has been a bright spot in the Gaucho lineup throughout the season. The first baseman leads UCSB and the Big West for hits (33), ranks second in the conference with her team-leading 13 stolen bases, ranks fourth for batting (.351) and ninth for runs scored (15). She accounts for 20% of the Gauchos' runs, 19% of their hits and 54% of the stolen bases. Ziegler also leads the squad with 11 multiple hit games under her belt, including a season-high three hits against Bakersfield last Friday.
Making History
Speaking of Jessica Ziegler, she is currently solidifying her place in the UCSB record books. The senior tallied four stolen bases - including two against Bakersfield - during last week's six games bringing her career count to 42, which moves her from ninth to fifth all-time in the Gaucho top-10. She needs one more to tie fourth-ranked Lori Sanchez (1982-83). Ziegler needs just five more hits - she has 140 - to crack the career hits top-10 list. She also ranks sixth all-time for runs (90).
Jessica's Top-10 Lists
Junior Jessica Beristianos is another Gaucho climbing through the all-time top-10 lists. The infielder recently cracked the RBI all-time list and is seven away from tying ninth-ranked Lindsey Herrin's career output of 70 (2004-05). She is also just two doubles (28) away from tying Tonya Dias (1997-2000) for sixth all-time. Beristianos had one of her best performances of the season in the win over San Diego, going 3-for-4 with a double, an RBI and two runs scored. She is currently tied for fourth in the conference with her six doubles and is tied for eighth for walks with 13.
Brooke's Bat
Across last week's six games, sophomore Brooke Putich continued to be one of the most reliable bats in the Gaucho lineup. The outfielder hit safely in five of the six games including a 2-for-3 showing at USD with an RBI, double, two runs, a walk and a stolen base in the 6-1 victory over the Toreros. She also accounted for one of just four Gaucho hits against No. 9 Stanford on Sunday. Putich is hitting .302 on the season, second on the team, and is also second with her 19 hits, 11 runs and three stolen bases.
Mixing It Up
Katie McWhirter and Allison Taylor - whose playing time had been limited to the occasional pinch hitting this season - were both incorporated into the starting lineups last week. McWhirter batted a solid .263 while Taylor hit .250 in her 12 at-bats and the twosome accounted for the Gauchos' three hits vs. BYU with Taylor recording her first multi-hit performance of the year.
Highlights From The Circle
Senior MeLinda Matsumoto handled the bulk of the Gauchos' work in the circle last week, tossing 23.2 innings across five appearances. She recorded a 2.37 ERA and a 1-1 record during the week, defeating USD and falling to BYU. Matsumoto is currently second on the squad with her 4.43 ERA and has made a team-leading 17 appearances. Her season record is 4-6. Matsumoto needs one complete game to match tenth-ranked Tracy Witherell's (1982-83) 29 complete games and is now ranked eighth all-time for innings pitched in a career (399.2)
Coach's Corner
Head coach Brie Galicinao, who is now in her third season at the helm of the UCSB softball program, recorded her 60th win when the Gauchos defeated Utah Valley on Feb. 13. Galicinao has coached the Gauchos to a 65-69 cumulative record for a .485 winning percentage, the second best by a UCSB coach since the softball program went Division I in 1982. Galicinao has coached three players to All-Region honors, two players to Big West Field Player of the Year accolades, one Big West Freshman Pitcher of the Year and 12 All-Big West Conference selections. In 2008, Galicinao was named the Big West Co-Coach of the Year after her first season leading the Gauchos.
Preseason Predictions
In the Big West Preseason Coaches' Poll that was released prior to the start of the season, UCSB was picked to repeat as the conference's fourth place team this year. The Gauchos garnered 43 points in the poll, 13 points behind first-place Cal Poly. Long Beach State (51 points) and Cal State Fullerton (50 points) were ranked second and third, respectively.
Tweet, Tweet
Head coach Brie Galicinao is on Twitter. To get her insights and updates throughout the season (and the rest of the year), follow her here.
The Gaucho softball team has entered the blogsphere. Several members of the team are contributing regularly to "Gauchos.360" filling in UCSB fans on their student-athlete experience. To check it out click, here.
Looking Ahead
UCSB will return to Campus Diamond to take on Cal Poly on April 10-11 in a three-game Big West Conference series. The games will count towards the Blue-Green Rivalry between Cal Poly and UCSB. For more information on the series, click here.
Get Your Tickets
Tickets for all of the Gauchos' home contests this season are now available. To purchase tickets, please call (805) 893-UCSB, visit the Ticket Office located inside the Intercollegiate Athletics building on campus or click here.


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By Matt Goldstein
A unique blend of three of Speyside's finest Single Malts, Monkey Shoulder is matured in first fill Bourbon casks hand selected by iconic Malt Master Brian Kinsman. Released in the UK in 2006, Monkey Shoulder already has a history of accolades and awards including a Gold award at the 2011 International Wine & Spirit Competition, a Master distinction in the Speyside Blended Malt category at the 2011 Scotch Whisky Masters and a Gold award in the 2011 International Spirits Challenge. Of course there are a lot of gold medals for whiskeys these days but the Monkey Shoulder lives up to the hype, especially for its price. Available for about $35-40, the Monkey Shoulder blend includes Balvenie, Glenfiddich and Kininvie single malts.
The Monkey Shoulder Tasting Notes:
Thick for a blend and light gold in color with a slightly red tint, Monkey Shoulder has a sweet scent of honey and syrup. With a sweet flavor, this is a solid blended scotch whiskey in whish the slightly spicy flavor and finish provide a very proficient complexity. The triple malted blend works very well and for the price, the Monkey Shoulder Blended Scotch Whisky is a straight up stud!
"Most Coveted Spirit" Makes Long-Awaited Stateside Debut
NEW YORK – IWSC Distiller of the Year William Grant & Sons announces the arrival of the ground-breaking blended malt Scotch whisky, Monkey Shoulder, on American shores! Often referred to as one of the "most coveted" spirits in the U.S. due to its popularity among the bartending community and whisky connoisseurs, Monkey Shoulder has just landed exclusively in Illinois!
An irreverent nod to the traditional distillery malt-men who painstakingly turn malt barley by hand and wooden schiel, the "MonkeyShoulder" moniker refers to the colloquial term of a once common temporary injury, when after a long day's work, a maltman would feel as though he had a monkey on his shoulder. While the injury is fortunately a thing of the past, the dedication to quality and craftsmanship involved in the hand turning of barley lives on in the Monkey Shoulder distillation process and the name today.
Since first appearing in bars across the United Kingdom in 2006, Monkey Shoulder has redefined whisky drinking for a new generation of Scotch whisky drinkers looking for an upgrade. What sets Monkey Shoulder apart from other whiskies is its unique combination of provenance and personality. By marrying five generations of award-winning distilling experience with a uniquely cheeky contemporary style and commitment to innovation within the Scotch category, Monkey Shoulder represents the ideal pairing of style and substance. A unique blend of three of Speyside's finest Single Malts, Monkey Shoulder is matured in first fill Bourbon casks hand selected by iconic Malt Master Brian Kinsman, to ensure its signature smooth flavor.
"Monkey Shoulder is a new style of Scotch whisky – one rooted in heritage and tradition but firmly grounded in the contemporary world. Connoisseurs appreciate that Monkey Shoulder is a new style of Speyside whisky from a known world class distiller, while whisky newcomers are drawn to the mixability of the quality liquid and the irreverent and cheeky personality Monkey Shoulder presents to the category," said Cindy Wang, Senior Brand Manager, Monkey Shoulder.
Under the scrutiny of William Grant & Sons award-winning distillers in Dufftown, Scotland, Monkey Shoulder is crafted in small batches of only 27 cases and offers a beautifully sweet and rich vanilla flavor, with brown sugar and creamy toffee notes balanced with oak and just a hint of spice. Monkey Shoulder already has a history of accolades and awards including a Gold award at the 2011 International Wine & Spirit Competition, a Master distinction in the Speyside Blended Malt category at the 2011 Scotch Whisky Masters and a Gold award in the 2011 International Spirits Challenge.
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To the Editor
Is Estherville truly that opposed to expansion and modernization?
I will try in vain to keep this brief but already know that I'll fail in doing so. Late last fall, my sister Chelsea and I volunteered our services to the Emmet County Animal Shelter. I myself became one of the photographers that goes and obtains photos of all the foster dogs which in turn are posted to the shelter's official facebook page and website. My sister, on the other hand, helps maintain the kennels and often aides in transporting some of the sicker animals to their appointments with the vet.
While I can honestly say that my sister does twice as much work as I have if not more, it has nonetheless been an exceedingly rewarding experience working along side these animals, learning the stories behind their rescues and getting to know the other volunteers. But despite this, from day one I was aware that in time the shelter would eventually need to relocate to allow their current animal residents more adequate space and perhaps allow for more rescues in the future.
The care these animals receive is second to none; they are well stimulated, both physically and mentally, and the volunteers pour their hearts and souls into the work they do. Take this from experience for I've seen it first hand on numerous occasions.
The fact that the Estherville City Council would deny a request from the shelter to relocate to an area downtown is in itself appalling. This is a group willing to take over and refurbish a 100+ year old building and turn it into something that would benefit the community as a whole, and yet they were turned down. In my opinion, the reasons as to why they were turned down (odor, noise issues), are completely irrelevant. Volunteers come in twice a day if not more to ensure the kennels are properly cleaned and sanitized. I find this ironic and even hypocritical, has anyone ever stepped outside in the middle of the night and taken in the sweet smell of the local rendering plants. Why not address that issue???? That and issue of "noise" is equally irrelevant given the fact that the property is already located next to a train yard. The animals would be housed safely indoors and would thus pose no nuisance to any of the neighbors (the number of which I may add is very few in that corner of town).
To sum things up, I have to ask the Estherville City Council, just how wise was your decision? I've lived in Estherville for the past 11 years and have seen little to no growth, now we have an extremely well run and well-meaning organization hoping to change that and you shot them down without even thinking twice.
Brittney Kroenke
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(The following first appeared in my interview with Performance Conditioning for Cycling Newsletter.)
Old athletes are old for many diverse reasons. But the primary one is due to their relatively slow rate of recovery following stressful workouts. Someone can be "old" at age 35 due to a poor rate of recovery. On the other hand, I've coached athletes in their 60s who recovered very quickly and so by this definition were still "young." In fact, recovery is probably the key to performance at all ages, but especially so for aging athletes who appear to have the deck stacked against them. But there are also other reasons for declining performance with aging.
For the purpose of this discussion let's say that one is "old" over age 50. By this age it is usually apparent that an athlete is experiencing several life- and performance-altering physical changes: lower levels of testosterone, lost muscle mass, increased risk of osteopenia and osteoporosis (especially in cyclists and swimmers), an increased tendency for acid-base imbalance further contributing to bone and muscle loss, a greater propensity for weight gain, lost soft tissue elasticity with an increased likelihood of injury, reduced enzyme activity, less tolerance for heat, and more. It isn't pretty.
So it appears that aging athletes are fighting an uphill battle. But for most I don't believe the issue is aging so much as it is detraining, misuse and disuse. We simply fail to adequately and appropriately change our lifestyles and training regimens as we get older. When younger one can make more mistakes in lifestyle and training without significant negative consequences for performance. As we age there is less latitude for mistakes. For example, temporarily cutting back on training only exacerbates the problems when the aging athlete once again trains seriously. When younger the same athlete may well have bounced back quickly from a break in training. So one example of a critical issue as we get older is training consistency.
For the aging athlete training and lifestyle must adapt. Something has to change to maintain or even improve performance. My experiences as a coach and as an athlete in my seventh decade of life tell me that the focus for the aging athlete must be in four areas:
• Workout intensity. There are only three elements of training for a given sport that can be manipulated to produce fitness: workout duration, workout intensity and workout frequency. As we age there is a tendency to increase duration at the expense of intensity. Workouts become longer and slower as weekly volume becomes the focus of training. The aging athlete needs to do just the opposite if he or she is to perform at a high level despite the aging process. Workouts above 80% intensity factor (just below and above anaerobic/lactate threshold) with an emphasis on muscular endurance, anaerobic endurance and sprint power (see my Training Bible books for details) should be the basis of their training two or three times each week - not lots of long, slow distance This change typically results in shorter training sessions but higher weekly average intensity. Such change stimulates testosterone release and helps to maintain muscle mass.
• Strength training. Lifting weights is one of the best ways the aging athlete can build bone density while also stimulating testosterone release to maintain muscle mass. The use of heavy loads with traditional strength training is what is needed to accomplish these goals. Such training should include loading the legs which requires a great deal of planning so as not to impact sport-specific training in the build period (this is not necessary for runners to maintain leg and hip bone density). An alternative for the cyclist or swimmer who prefers not to load the legs in the weight room is walking or running several miles each week. I suspect that body-weight only exercises such as squats, step ups or lunges are not as effective as lifting heavy loads or the impact loading of walking and especially running when the purpose is bone density. Such training should be done frequently and regularly but vary with the season. Research suggests that this will maintain or even improve the aging athlete's bone and muscle health. You can rebuild bone and muscle despite how old you are.
• Sleep. Younger athletes can make many mistakes in training and still perform at a high level. Aging athletes can't. This is certainly true when it comes to recovery. As we get older adequate sleep is especially important. If you follow my suggested guidelines above, training will become more intense and serious strength training (or walking or running) adds to the accumulating physical stress. Sleep regularity, quantity and quality are necessary to allow the body to cope with this stress for it's during sleep that the body releases testosterone. Aging athletes must be very careful not to compromise sleep in order to fit more activities into their daily lives. The standard I use to determine if an athlete is getting enough sleep is this: If you have to use an alarm clock to wake up in the morning then you didn't get enough sleep. Go to bed earlier.
• Nutrition. After sleep, the second most effective modality for improving recovery is nutrition. There are two primary areas of concern: adequate macronutrients, especially carbohydrate and protein, in the recovery period immediately following a high-stress workout, and a micronutrient-dense (vitamins and minerals) diet for the remainder of the day. The first requires taking sugar during a long and intense workout (water is all that is needed during short workouts) with starch consumed in the recovery window. These during-exercise and recovery foods are micronutrient-poor but necessary for restocking glycogen (stored carbohydrate) for the serious athlete (note that if you work out an hour or less a day then you don't need to be concerned with restocking glycogen). Once short-term recovery is achieved the athlete should greatly reduce the intake of starch and sugar. The emphasis should then be on micronutrients. The most micronutrient-dense foods are vegetables, fruits and animal protein. Akaline foods (fruits and vegs) have also been shown to improve acid-base balance. (As repeatedly demonstrated in research, an acidic diet due to a high consumption of cheese, grains and legumes escalates the loss of bone minerals and muscle mass. This is explained in Dr. Loren Cordain's and my book, The Paleo Diet for Athletes.)


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Using RADIUS For WLAN Authentication, Part I
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As described in my last primer,
WLAN security can be significantly strengthened by using 802.1X to control access
point (AP) "port" access and deliver dynamic keys to authenticated
users. Authentication Servers based on the RADIUS
Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting
The Remote Authentication Dial In User Service (RADIUS) protocol (RFC 2865) was originally defined to enable centralized authentication, authorization, and access control (AAA) for SLIP and PPP dial-up sessions -- like those made to a dial-up ISP. Instead of requiring every Network Access Server (NAS) to maintain a list of authorized usernames and passwords, RADIUS Access-Requests were forwarded to an Authentication Server, commonly referred to as an AAA Server (AAA stands for authentication, authorization, and accounting). This architecture (illustrated here) made it possible to create a central user database, consolidating decision-making at a single point, while allowing calls to be supported by a large, physically distributed set of NASs.
When a user connects, the NAS sends a RADIUS Access-Request message to the AAA Server, relaying information like the user's name and password, type of connection (port), NAS identity, and a message Authenticator.
Upon receipt, the AAA Server uses the packet source, NAS identity, and Authenticator to determine whether the NAS is permitted to send requests. If so, the AAA Server tries to find the user's name in its database. It then applies the password and perhaps other attributes carried in the Access-Request to decide whether access should be granted to this user.
Depending upon the authentication method being used, the AAA Server may return a RADIUS Access-Challenge message that carries a random number. The NAS relays the challenge to the remote user (for example, using CHAP). The user must respond with the correct value to prove its asserted identity (for example, encrypting the challenge with its password), which the NAS relays to the AAA Server inside another RADIUS Access-Request message.
If the AAA Server is satisfied that the user is authentic and authorized to use the requested service, it returns a RADIUS Access-Accept message. If not, the AAA Server returns a RADIUS Access-Reject message and the NAS disconnects the user.
When an Access-Accept message is received and RADIUS Accounting is enabled, the NAS sends a RADIUS Accounting-Request (Start) message to the AAA Server. The Server adds an accounting record to its log and acknowledges the request, whereupon the NAS activates the user's session. At the end of the session, a similar RADIUS Accounting-Request (Stop) message is exchanged so that accounting records will reflect the actual session duration and disconnect reason.
Security and Extensibility
All of these RADIUS messages are carried by UDP datagrams which consist of a message type, sequence number, length, Authenticator, and series of Attribute-Value pairs.
Authenticator: The purpose of the Authenticator is to provide a modest bit of security. The NAS and AAA Server use the Authenticator to demonstrate that both know the same secret password. The Authenticator also helps the NAS detect forgery of RADIUS responses. Finally, the Authenticator is used to obscure the user's password, inhibiting disclosure to the NAS or anyone else who might eavesdrop on the RADIUS messages.
The Authenticator sent in the Access-Request is a random number. An MD5 hash of this random number is exclusive OR'ed with the user's password and sent in the Access-Request User-Password attribute. All RADIUS response messages thereafter carry an MD5 hash of the shared secret, the request Authenticator, and other response values.
The Authenticator helps to deter passive eavesdropping, but an attacker who captures both RADIUS Access-Request and Access-Response messages can perform a dictionary attack to learn the shared secret. For this reason, it is best to use long random shared secrets and (when possible) use a secure medium to relay RADIUS protocol. Known vulnerabilities and usage guidelines to reduce risk are documented in RFC 3580.
Attribute-Value Pairs: Information carried by RADIUS is represented in the form of Attribute-Value pairs to facilitate extension to support a wide variety of access technologies and authentication methods. The original standard defined several common Attribute-Value pairs, including User-Name, User-Password, NAS-IP-Address, NAS-Port, and Service-Type. Vendors can also define new Attribute-Value pairs to carry vendor-specific extensions -- for example, RFC 2548 defines Microsoft Attribute-Value pairs associated with MS-CHAP.
In addition, many standard Attribute-Value pairs were defined several years ago to support the Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP), an alternative to the older PAP and CHAP dial-up protocols. See RFC 3579 for the latest version of RADIUS support for EAP. This is of particular interest for WLAN authentication, since EAP is used by the 802.1X Port Access Control framework to carry out wireless station authentication.


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|the new sun, is still the same sun
1. nutrition
2. physical performance
3. lifestyle
|the new sun, is still the same sun
1: Stay consistent with my eating and really pay attention to how it is affecting my performance.
2:Conqure my old shoulder problems so I have SOLID internal rotation and can do dips... eventually get a muscle-up. Also continue being dedicated to learning and becoming a better coach!
3:Try to stay off Facebook more and to decide if grad. school is the best next step for me!
1. 90/10 Paleo
2. 300 lb C&J
3. Prioritize family, workouts, and work. In that order.
1. Drink less beer and eat less sugars.
2. Row faster, lift heavier, do first handstand push-up and first muscle-up.
3. Read more books, watch less TV.
1: cook more so I cheat less
2: back squat 300
3: get atleast 8 hrs of sleep 4 days a week(bady steps)
1: Help my family move towards a paleoish diet.
2: 250# C&J, BW press - I know, not 1 but both are important to me :)
3: Be more social (less of a loner haha)
Flight simulator this AM in beautiful cancun! 13:21. Around a 5 minute PR. Forearms smoked!
1: Continue to build my awareness and relationship with food through daily tracking and reflection, working towards transcendence over the next years.
2: Compete in the 2011 Games.
3: Develop balance between training/ leisure and recreation/ business/ relationship/ spiritual and be able to focus on what I'm doing presently without regard for yesterday or tomorrow.
1. Figure out if Paleo/IF are right for me. Just figuring out what diet maximizes my performance.
2. C&J 300# and make it to regionals.
3. Find a job closer to family and gf so that I can do more than work and workout on weekdays.
1: Become more sensitive to stimulus/response relationships in my diet.
2: Surprise myself in the cardio/mental endurance domain. (ex. sub 7 2k row, 6 minute mile.)
3: Whenever and wherever I can, I want to leave people thinking "That guy's great," and never "That guy sure THINKS he's great."
1. Cook more in creative healthy ways
2. Have fun through hard work
3. Spend more time than ever in pursuit of my career
1. Eat as few MRE's as possible while in Afcrackerstan
2. Make a serious commitment to working on weaknesses to prep for the 2012 games
3. Mitigate all the negative crap that the Army throws at me
1. Find a balance of a longevity-ideal diet and one that allows me to enjoy food
2. Get strong, get mobile, and work towards longevity and being "able" in life.
3. Find a balance between work, workouts, and people.
1. improve weekend/holiday habits, meaning less late nights, alcohol and poor diet
2. muscle up
3. continue to maintain a healthy work/life balance
1. read and take in as much knowledge as I can handle on nutrition....then take that new found knowledge and put it into practice.
2. Really focus on increasing work capacity....get stronger and faster.
3. Get my career in order so that by 2012 I am a gym owner.
Overall Goal is Balance
1) Build a better relationship with food.. get away from emotional eating and think in terms of fuel for performace.
2) Get stronger - squats, press and deadlifts- overall strength!
3) To focus more on my family
(they all live North, so I need to make a better effort to stay in touch)
1. Customize post-WOD fueling more effectively to aid recovery instead of a one size fits all approach
2. Deal with two major goats: DUs & Cleans
3. Stop doing work, family, other outside stuff @80-90% and commit fully to those things that are truly important.
Dial in and understand exactly what I need to run at full strength. Especially PWO.
Get real strength and balance it with my speed. I will be squatting.
Take another small step toward mastery in being a father, husband, coach, athlete, operator, business owner, friend and human being.
1. Nutrition: Do a better job at dinner on shift. Whether that means skipping a portion of the shift dinner and supplementing with food I bring or finding another solution such as doing my own meals. Bottom line, no grains at shift dinners.
2. Strength gains while maintaining work capacity. Strength is biggest weakness. I have specific numbers I'd like to see that I believe are achievable.
3. Lifestyle: Be smart about implementing the program (BD) for me and not trying to make up missed work, or do multiples when my young ones and wife need/want my attention (weekends). Keep the multiples to weekdays that I am off shift to positively affect my family (experiences, time etc...) life, work life, AND recovery.
This is Nate.
1: Spend more time studying it and making appropriate changes.
2. Place top 5 at the 2011 Crossfit Games
3. Do well at school and hone in on what God has for me. Continue developing personal business ideas and plans. Continually grow closer with my wife.
1. no sugar or gluten
2. snatch 110, cj 135, run 2 miles sub 12
3. wife first
1. Continue my 90/10 primal and edge toward 95/5.
2. String together more MUs and get strict HSPU.
3. Stop stressing over the things I can't change and sleep more.
1. nutrition
Improve Paleo Diet through the use of new recipes, decrease cheat moments to < 2 per week.
2. physical performance
Be able to perform competitively with the big dogs on this website.
3. lifestyle
Be the best father and husband I can be to my family
Little delayed in my posts 1/1- cgbp-255....215/255; .84, flight sim 10:49; 1/2 17:39; 1. Less artificial sugar 2. Improve Olympic lifts 3. Work towards finding out what I want to do with my life
1 - less alcohol. a lot less.
2 - continue to work on my back squat, as the improvements that i make there continue to benefit other areas as well.
3 - less procrastination. more proactive. more organized with daily things.
1. Hit my target weight of 177 and stay there, currently at 183.
2. I have a list of goals to hit this year but the most rewarding will be to hit a bw snatch.
3. Reduce my overall sense of stress. I don't have a stressful job, my family is great so why do I let the little shit bother me?
1) Continue to build consistency not for myself but my family as well without crossing the fanatical line while juggling a hectic life of work, family, kids activities, crossfit.
2) Add some diversity this year and include do more of the sports that are so enjoyable for me, camping, rock climbing, mountain biking, hiking, etc. I've shunned some of that because of time and risk of injury. I have finally come to terms that Crossfit has fully consumed my lifelong 23 year old passion for the Martial Arts. The entire family is doing Crossfit consistently now, that is one passion I had to let go of.
3) Learn how to become a better father and husband. My kids are 10 and 13, we have so little time. I don't want to live a life of regrets once they are gone.
Who am I kidding? I am gluten and sugar dependent. I am recanting statement one. New statement on nutrition: Find balance between eating as a pleasurable and communal experience and fueling performance and longevity.
1. Take a packed lunch that meets my current nutritional needs to work every day with 1-2 cheat days per month. This will require me planning out my week and prepping food on Sunday evenings. Weekend nutrition will also be good.
2. Compete in the 2011 CrossFit Games
3. Learn to balance my family, work, training and leisure so that I don't miss a training session up until the CrossFit Games
Nutrition- Spread the word to as many people as I can about proper nutrition. Continue building my army of primal eaters through blog posts, college discussions and possible public speaking.
Physical- Continue to monitor the 3 H's, even if that means training less and continue to hammer my flexability and mobility while understanding how that relates to specific lifts and longevity for this brutal sport.
Lifestyle- Continue to focus all my POSITIVE energy (i will never forget that convo james) on my gym and continually LEARN.
1) maintain 80/20 paleo(less cheats)
2) devote time DAILY to mobility exercises. flexibility an issue for me.
3) Reduce the amount of stress and clutter in my life.
Hey Coach,
I have a competition in indianapolis january 15th (the great lakes invitational). They released the movements for the comp, but not the workouts. What I was wondering is should I focus on those movements the next 2 weeks or just keep following the blog strictly? Hopefully I'll make a good showing for you all. Thanks!
1. Learn more about why I'm eating paleo, get to an OPT cert.
2. "Push through the suck", so I make it to regionals....or further.
3. Spend more QT with Mrs. Heavy Evy.
1. track foods and how they make me feel and perform, rather than just eat his because it's good for you. ---hope this makes
2. unbroken 2.0 in sub 10. I absolutely loved this WOD and want to improve on it.
3. be a good example for all athletes at my gym. be a good father.
last year we posted 3 training goals. I hit 2 of them early in the year and just missed the last towards the end of this year. 2010 was a good year in training.
1. Be more consistent with my diet, I have a tendency to eat really clean then slack off at times.
2. Continue to grow as a crossfitter, improving my strength and technique for all movements.
3. Grow as a husband, father, friend and maintaining balance in all aspects of life.
1. Master meal planning. Efficiency = best success here for me.
2. Regionals: top 20 as individual /qualify for Games as team member
3. More quiet time - unplug, turn everything off - just be (Mary not Martha)
1. Even less alcohol than last year, limit it to special events only.
2. 210lb snatch
3. Do other enjoyable things more often, like karting, rock climbing, hiking etc. It doesn't have to be barbells and rowers all the time.
1.Find out what works best for my performance and health.
2.Give a 100% during every training session.
3.Create a good balance with family,training, and school.
At the hotel gym, no free weight bench, but did CGBP on the smith machine, 265#. Doesn't really give any insight into anything(i don't think) but figured I'd post anways.
so PC was 190/265 = 72%
1. Cook more for myself and others
2. Conquer my back/hip dysfunction
3. Stay balanced in my family and relationship life while opening up a new gym this year
1. The most important thing for me would become very In-tuned with the rhythms of my body and hunger and eat based on that and to intelligently feed my body based on my training(type) and the amount of rest I get.To Eat with Positive Intent and give thanks. I love eating paleo and don't desire cheats but I can get a bit obsessive with the grams per day of each Macro.
2.To Improve my olympic lifts. The Snatch. I feel that as my snatch goes up all other things I do in my training will have no choice but to improve and it is such a beautiful movement when done fluidly.
3.I will set aside 30-45 minutes every day to meditate and visualize. I strongly believe that meditation(any form) is key to creativity and after all we create our lives. Also I have never had a negative experience after visualizing it first... such a PRICELESS skill to own.
I want to wish the entire community a Happy New Year and I look forward to all of our posts becoming reality. This community is very positive and determined. It's quite remarkable to have a group with such focused energy. Love it!
Dead Lift;
Set 1 @ 139kg x 5
Set 2 @ 157kg x 3
Set 3 @ 176kg x 1+ (+7)
Set 1 @ 61kg x 5
Set 2 @ 69kg x 3
Set 3 @ 78kg x 1+ (+1)
From Dec 26th
A. All unbroken
B1. All unbroken
B2: All unbroken
Rowing: 6,408m
*skipped clean dl and ring hspu's
*subbed rowing for airdyne
Yesterdays WOD Part 1:
Took way to much time between Squat Cleans and PU. Really want to do this one again.
1. Keep better track and records of what I eat and how I feel. Have not done a very good job with this in the past.
2. Where to start. To keep this short I will just say that my main goal for this year is to work on increasing my lactic threshold and pushing through the pain. It seems every year I set goals for strength and that is what I will tend to lean towards. So this year I want to focusing more on my conditioning goals.
3. Studying for CSCS exam right now and would like to start doing some Sport Specific training with, at the very least, the local Rugby Club here in town.
1. nutrition:
I want to stop feeling guilty if I don't happen to eat 100% clean 100% of the time.
I became obsessive about weighing and measuring and knowing how many grams of fat were in one avocado. I began to feel that I had sabotaged my entire month's worth of training after eating a corn flake.
I need to be more comfortable with the choices I make and not freak out when I'm only 99%.
2. physical performance
I need to be more "present" during training and believe in the system I follow and my skills.
I've lost my perspective about CrossFit; about what it is and isn't, and I need to study other fitness systems and understand how it can spice up my training versus it being my main course.
3. lifestyle
Nap more.
1. When those treats come out, like home made cookies... I will still always try one... but my goal is to keep it just one and not turn into five.
2. 400# Deadlift and working on competing in the World police fire Games this year in new york.... so training for that.
3. Find ways to include my girlfriend and new dog into my athletic lifestyle. I'm as happy as can be when I get to the gym when I want... now to make it better I want the important people in my life with me.
Dec. 28 workout:
Part 1: 10:39...all sets UB except 1 break in DUs in 3rd round (44/6)...first time doing this workout so nothing to compare to
Rest 30 min
Part 2:
221 reps...ring dips slowed me the most
Nutrition: greater discipline with regards to following a strict paleo diet (less cheating)
Performance: 300 cals on 300fy
Lifestyle: greater consistency with regards to sleep habits...8-10 hours/night on a regular basis
1. experiment with more variety of vegetables.
2. compete in World's Master's Track and Field Championships
3. take a vacation.
On Holidays in San Diego and went in to Invictus to get in yesterday's Unbroken 2.0 and who did I see?
None other than OPT himself working out some DB squats, row sprints and HSPU on paralettes. Nice work coach. Looking strong.
Unbroken 2.0
1. Be creative and have fun with what I'm eating. I love to cook and eat paleo, just need to add variety.
2. Olympic lifts!!!!
3. Sleep.
unbroken 2.0- 8:57
5 min rest
30min run- ~3.8mi... relaxing
1. fewer bars... more real food
2. CF games... and represent OPT
3. more time with my son, family and soul mate
1. 90/10 paleo
2. Give 100% when I'm in the gym
3. Have more fun with all parts of my life
1. Consume >0 vegetables each and every day.
2. Achieve balance as outlined by OPT between DL/BS/FS/BP/PC/PU/PS/scapular movements.
3. Develop and implement business systems for my gym to allow for greater free time throughout the week and at least 2 full weeks of vacation.
1. Figure out my PWO diet.
2. 2 parter: 300lb C&J and a Sub 12:00 two mile
3. 8 hours of sleep a night for once.
1. Continue to stay 21st century HG
2. Place at the 2011 crossfit games representing OPT
3. Finish credits and prep for GRE
1. Prepare and pack MORE food to eat after training sessions to refuel more efficiently.
2. 30 consec HSPU. PR currently 10.
3. Presence and efficiency. Being present in each area of life at the appropriate times: family, friends, work, practice, business, etc.
1. continue to track food responses
2. 300# back squat
3. implement better wind down strategies at end of day
yesterdays training:
part 1. ub2.0 27:40
some changes due to travel
rest 30min
part 2. @ 5min/km
1. Eat clean whole foods day to day.
2. Represent OPT at the 2011 Crossfit Games
3. Connect more with family and friends
These are certainly not the goals I thought I would have had, but here they are!
1. Assess a different nutritional focus each month. This will be an intuitive process based on fluctuating needs. One focus each month.
2. Follow OPT consistently :)
Also, prioritize the fluidity of my muscles, my recovery, and my flexibility. Stay internally focused and calm... have a good balance between my crossfit and yoga/meditation practices.
Individual competition is not really my goal this year. I would much rather participate in a team effort.
3. I am currently in the process of answering a specific battery of questions about myself and my goals/aspirations/desires. I plan to use the next 3-4 months to answer those, and then start taking steps to actualize them. This will involve a deepening in my relationships with important people in my life; at the same time, it will be a highly internal process, centered around maximizing self care.
Oops, that wasn't one goal per area.
1. Find MY diet. Whether or not that includes non-paleo foods.
2. Mile run = Deadlift.
For example, 5.5 mins & 550lbs
3. My wife is due with our second child in March. I will commit every day to become smarter, healthier, stronger, and happier so that I can provide all the care, love, and time my children need for as long as they need.
Oh, and I as well plan to spend more time with Mrs. Heavy Evy this year.
1. Full Paleo + raw dairy - fewer cheats
2. Compete in (and be competitive in) the OPT-palooza coming in fall of 2011
3. Move towards identifying and integrating my "bliss" with my career (i.e figuring out what that would look like).
I already live by the 90/10 rule of clean paleo eating however my goal here is to dial into individualized eating for performance and recovery, being more thoughtful about nutrient timing and quantities and above all wellness as well as a leaner body to compete with!
2. Muscle ups and HSPU....they are on my horizon
3.Spend more time with all the people I love.
1. Drink at least 64oz of water every day. Current status = 0oz = bad.
2. Sub 27min 5K. I'm very slow and I would like to be less slow.
3. Journal more. I feel more peace when I put pen to paper.
1. Continue to educate myself, to be able to help others and fine tune my diet as well as my families.
2. Continue improving on all aspects of training.
3. Spend more quality time with family. Get gym set up and start training clients.
1. Eat more whole foods, more often. Cook more, buy more grass fed-organic.
2. Work on holes, correcting imbalance, improve mobility, trigger point therapy. Work out less. huh? Better recovery practice. Educate myself daily.
3. More sleep, turn off computer earlier.
1. Maintain a daily food log to be more aware of how nutrition effects my recovery, energy etc.
2. Compete in the 2011 CF Games
3. To have my friends/family over to my house for a yummy paleo meal at least once a month.
Unbroken 2.0
the squat cleans were the worst part of the entire workout. just learning to breathe correctly to go right into unbroken is a new concept for me. loving it though.
rest 75 min then
Half Cindy:
13 rounds+ 8 pushups
pushups were broken up in round 11.
heartrate was back up very quickly.
1. Make nutrition work to a more sustainable revenue
We eat pretty clean, know what i can handle and not. Might do a few experiments
2. Getting as close to 100% as possible
3. Start my own OPT inspired gym!
1. Make nutrition work to a more sustainable revenue
We eat pretty clean, know what i can handle and not. Might do a few experiments
2. Getting as close to 100% as possible
3. Start my own OPT inspired gym!
1. Eat dessert less often, and eat more veggies.
2. Continue to improve my mobility in my torso, shoulders, and hips.
3. Spend more time reading and time for myself, family and friends
1. Eat Primal all but 1 day a week
2. Complete King Kong in under 8min
3. Recognize that there are more important things in life besides competing at the Games. *though it would be nice*


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Fox Helps Rewrite History Of Texas Voter ID Law
Fox is promoting the falsehood that the Justice Department concluded that Texas' voter ID law was discriminatory and blocked the law based solely on the research of "a liberal group that promotes progressive ideas." In fact, DOJ stated that the law was discriminatory based on data compiled by the state of Texas itself.
Fox News is now promoting the falsehood that the Justice Department concluded that Texas' voter ID law was discriminatory and blocked the law based solely on the research of "a liberal group that promotes progressive ideas." In fact, as FoxNews.com itself has reported, DOJ stated that the law was discriminatory based on data compiled by the state of Texas itself, and only later submitted a paper by a Harvard political science professor who used data from an award-winning political data firm to bolster their case.
That later report found that nearly two million Texas residents who are registered to vote lack state IDs and thus could be barred from voting under the state's new voter ID statute, and that minorities are more likely to be members of that group.
Fox's coverage is in step with their consistent [1], often fact-free [2] promotion [3] of voter ID laws in Texas and elsewhere [4] and their assault [5] on the administration's criticism of those laws.
During an interview on the July 6 edition of Fox & Friends, Rep. Ted Poe (R-TX) had this exchange with guest host Dave Briggs:
BRIGGS: Congressman, tell us what the problem is with the particular firm the Department of Justice hired.
POE: Well the Department of Justice is, with all their battery of lawyers and investigators, they can't find any evidence to support their lawsuit against Texas -- allegedly discriminating, so they go to an outside group, it is a partisan group, it is a liberal group that promotes progressive ideas and they're trying to get information, evidence if we can use that phrase, in this case to use against Texas in the lawsuit. They're not objective. And so they have already got their mind made up. And we're not sure if the facts or the evidence that they're presenting have any credibility at all.
At no point in the segment did the hosts dispute Poe's claim that DOJ had based their statement that the Texas voter ID law is discriminatory solely on data provided by Catalist, the "liberal group" to which Poe referred. But a July 5 FoxNews.com article pointed out [6] that Catalist's data was used by Harvard's Stephen Ansolabehere for a report DOJ submitted to "bolster" the case the administration had already made using "the state's own data":
According to [Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division Tom] Perez's letter, the Justice Department based its decision to block the law on "the state's own data" -- data handed over by Texas months earlier after the department requested more information. But hoping to bolster its upcoming case in court, the Justice Department recently submitted a report from Harvard University political science professor Stephen Ansolabehere - who used the Washington-based firm Catalist for information.
Indeed, in his March 12 letter blocking the Texas voter ID law under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, Perez explained [7] that the decision had been made based on "two sets of registered-voter data" provided by the state "which were matched with two different data sources maintained by the state's Department of Public Safety." DOJ's analysis concluded that "a Hispanic voter is 46.5 percent more likely than a non-Hispanic voter to lack these forms of identification," and thus declined to pre-clear the law citing its discriminatory effect.
FoxNews.com describes Ansolabehere's report as follows:
In his report, Ansolabehere determined that of registered voters in Texas, 11 percent of those without a state ID are white, 18 percent are Hispanic, and 21 percent are black. He came to that conclusion by first matching voter registration lists with names of those registered for a driver's license or firearms license. He found that 1.9 million people are registered to vote but don't have those state IDs, so he then turned to Catalist to determine the likely races of those 1.9 million people.
"The voter identification requirement will affect Whites and Minorities differently, and the difference is substantial," Ansolabehere wrote.
Ansolabehere has testified that he chose to use [8] Catalist to determine the races of those registered to vote but lacking state IDs because the firm has won awards in the field of using computer algorithms to determine the race of individuals based on their names, the method used for the report. Indeed, FoxNews.com reported that an aide to Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX), who objected to the report's use of Catalist data, acknowledged that their data "is 'more in-depth' and 'more refined' than what the Justice Department was likely looking at when it first objected to the voter ID law."
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Taxes fund environmental suits
Taxes fund environmental suits
Environmental law firms reap billions in fees to fund lawsuits
By MITCH LIES
Capital Press
The federal government has paid out billions of dollars to environmental groups for attorney fees and costs, according to data assembled by a Cheyenne, Wyo., lawyer.
Karen Budd-Falen of Budd-Falen Law Offices said the government between 2003 and 2007 paid more than $4.7 billion in taxpayer money to environmental law firms -- and that's just in the lawsuits she tracked.
The actual figure, she said, is far greater.
"I think we only found that the iceberg exists," she said. "I don't think we have any idea how much money is being spent. But I think it's huge."
In some cases, Budd-Falen said, intervening ranchers and farmers are paying for the defense of their farm and ranch practices and -- through their taxes -- paying for the opposing lawyers' attorney fees.
"That money is not going into programs to protect people, wildlife, plants and animals," Budd-Falen said, "but to fund more lawsuits."
Budd-Falen, whose firm regularly represents farms and ranches, for years was aware that nonprofit, tax-exempt environmental law firms were generating sizable revenue from attorney fees paid by the federal government. In June, she submitted a formal request asking the Department of Justice for information on just how much was being spent.
"They said they don't track that information," she said.
After the response, Budd-Falen sat down with a paralegal and started what she said was a time-consuming process of uncovering and compiling the data.
"The numbers were just shocking," she said.
"Somewhere this has to stop, and the government has to be held accountable for the money it's spending," she said.
Budd-Falen documented that between 2000 and 2009, three tax-exempt, non-profit environmental groups -- Western Watersheds Project, Forest Guardians and Center for Biological Diversity -- filed more than 700 cases against the federal government.
"Ranchers and other citizens are being forced to expend millions of their own money to intervene or participate in these lawsuits to protect their way of life when they have no chance of the same attorney-fee recovery if they prevail," Budd-Falen said.
Budd-Falen found in one 15-month-long case that Earthjustice Legal Foundation and the Western Environmental Law Center filed for $479,242 in attorneys' fees.
Brian Smith, a spokesman for Earthjustice, said the foundation counts on those fees in part because it represents groups free of charge. He said the foundation bases its fees on the going rates for attorneys.
Also, he said, if the government was doing its job, the foundation wouldn't be so active.
"If the government had been enforcing the laws during the Bush administration," he said, "there would be no jobs for nonprofit environmental lawyers.
"The environmental movement would love to retire and know that everything is safe, but that is not happening," he said.
Smith said he is confident President Barack Obama's administration will reduce the need for environmental lawsuits.
"The (Environmental Protection Agency) has been very active in the new administration," he said. "That has been encouraging to see how they are stepping in and enforcing the laws."
Budd-Falen, however, said she doubts the steady stream of lawsuits will stop, or even slow.
"Why would you stop filing litigation when you can get that kind of money?" she asked.
"They are not filing these suits to try and protect the environment," she said. "They are filing these suits to make money."
Environmental groups, she said, are eligible for government funds under the Equal Access to Justice Act, which provides for the award of attorney fees to "prevailing parties" in cases against the government.
In order to prevail, under the act, all a group has to do is show a government body changed some policy or program as a result of the suit.
The firms also are accessing government funds through the Judgment Fund, Budd-Falen said,. The fund is a line-item appropriation in the federal budget used for paying claims against the government.
Much of the funds to pay the attorney fees, she said, are being pulled from the budgets of cash-strapped regional offices of natural resource agencies.
"Those budget items ought to be used for range improvement projects, trails or campgrounds, whatever the agency is supposed to be doing," she said.
Budd-Falen in her research also documented salaries paid to top environmental executives. On top of that list was the $446,072 salary paid the president of the Environmental Defense Fund. Second was the $439,327 salary paid the president of the World Wildlife Fund.
Budd-Falen said it is important to bring to light the cost of environmental litigation in the hope Congress might scale it back.
Also, she said, it is important for the public to realize just how much taxpayer money is being spent on these cases.
"We are going to get back to this again and track some more of these dollars," she said, "because I think we ought to know (how much we're spending on this). And if Congress or the Justice Department won't do it, I think somebody has to."
Staff writer Mitch Lies is based in Salem. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Been happening for years at U of O in Eugene. Law school works on their stuff all the time.
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It's a Scout thing
That was 20 some odd years ago. They were getting free time from the college students (who were getting credits) and turning around and billing the time as cots on their settlements with the gov't. Pretty good stink about it when it came out.
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This exclusive collection of interactive panoramic pictures lets you explore the hospitality venues at Pittsburgh's PNC Park with full 360-degree views.
One of our largest venues, the Jim Beam Left Field Lounge & Jim Beam Porch is located in left field and features a large dining area, a full-service bar complete with 25 embroidered Pirates stools, a lounge chair seating area and 20 flat screen HD televisions, including two 52-inch flat screens. It accommodates 250 for a seated function and 400 for a reception-style function (no formal seating).
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PHILADELPHIA – The Yale heavyweight crew team defended the Blackwell Cup for the fourth consecutive year with wins against Columbia and Penn in the varsity eight on Saturday. The cup went to the winner of the varsity eight race, where the Bulldogs finished first by a margin of more than six seconds. Yale's four also won its race, defeating Penn's four by more than 11 seconds. Yale's second and third varsity eights each finished in second place by narrow margins.
"It is exciting to return to campus again this year in possession of the Blackwell Cup," said captain Jon Morgan. "This is not only a magnificent and historic trophy but always marks fierce racing by all three schools."
The morning started with the running of the third varsity eight race, an event that pitted Yale's 3V against Columbia's 3V, Penn's 1F and Penn's 2F. Yale started a few seats down on the stagger in lane three but quickly started taking back seats. The Bulldogs had difficulty keeping a straight line through the body of the race and ultimately finished second behind Penn's 1F by just 0.7 seconds.
In the second varsity race Yale was in lane one, starting up this time to account for the stagger. The Bulldogs had Columbia on their starboard side and fell back on the Lions by about a boat length in the middle thousand of the race. Yale took a few seats back with 750 meters to go and a few more during the sprint. At the finish, however, Yale had a few seats left to make up and would cross the line exactly one second behind the Lions.
The varsity eight race for the Blackwell Cup started somewhat similar to the second varsity race, an early back-and-forth between Columbia and Yale. The Bulldogs raced the Lions through the first 1000 meters, pulling away from Penn. Yale came through Columbia approaching the last 500 meters with a decisive move, eventually breaking open on the Lions while the Quakers launched a dramatic comeback. Yale sprinted to the line, extending its lead while Penn continued to close. At the finish is was Yale in first by 6.2 seconds over Columbia, with another 1.5 seconds back to Penn in third place.
Yale's four wrapped things up for the Bulldogs in Philadelphia with a big win. Yale took a lead right from the start and cruised to the finish, coming in 11.4 seconds ahead of Penn's four. Columbia did not field a boat in this category.
Yale will race at home next week against Cornell and Princeton for the Carnegie Cup, the last dual race before the Eastern Sprints.
Third Varsity/Freshman Eight:
Penn 1F 5:33.7
Yale 3V 5:34.4
Columbia 3V 5:40.8
Penn 2F 5:49.1
Second Varsity Eight:
Columbia 5:29.4
Yale 5:30.4
Penn 5:36.0
Varsity Eight:
Yale 5:23.4
Columbia 5:29.6
Penn 5:31.1
Varsity Four:
Yale 6:06.2
Penn 6:17.6
Report filed by Yale Sports Publicity