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As we reached the halfway point of the festival, I took a step back and reflected a bit. I was dirty, sweaty and sleep-deprived; and yet I could not have been more excited for what was to come. Phish had whet my appetite for their festival-closing performance on Sunday, and who could forget that one of the greatest live acts in the history of music (maybe a little hyperbole), Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, would be rocking the stage this very night. There was a sense that truly magical musical moments were on the horizon and little did I know what those inclinations would bring.
As is always the case, I am both mildly devastated and slightly relieved on the last night of MidPoint. I love the energy of this weekend every year, but my personal energy gets used up fairly quickly as the festival progresses. And the recharging stations that dot the landscape typically involve really delicious food that comes out of a truck window and is eaten while walking, and bars whose life-sustaining water is typically served with gin or hoppy and carbonated from the brewing process (which is, in fact, as it should be).
The beginning of the MidPoint's last night is always exciting; the end is always bittersweet.
First on the docket were the early shows at Washington Park, an almost too-good-to-be true Saturday lineup; new local (and soon global) sensation Tweens, venerable crowd teasers/pleasers Wussy (filling the slot for Foxygen, who cancelled due to either Sam France's broken leg after a stage fall in Minneapolis or a feud with bandmate Jonathan Rado or both) and The Breeders, touring on the 20th anniversary of the release of Last Splash and playing the album in its entirety and in sequence.
Tweens proved to be better than the hype surrounding them, blowing through a fast-paced set that perfectly presented their hyper-caffeinated hybrid of '60s girl-group Doo Wop Pop and blazing Punk. Vocalist/guitarist Bridget Battle attacked her instrument with an unbridled fury while finding the melodic core of every song, particularly in evidence on the band's cover of "I'm Gonna Steal Your Boyfriend" from Cincinnati girl group The Teardrops. Meanwhile, Peyton Copes was charging through his bass runs like John Entwistle on meth and Jerri Queen was doing his best Tommy Ramone impression, his drum kit seemingly jumping off the stage.
Since I interviewed the band in April, Tweens has signed with Frenchkiss Records and Bridget mentioned after their set that they're headed to New York to record their label debut with Girls Against Boys bassist and renowned producer Eli Janney. The album likely won't be out until early next year, and with more shows like their Saturday MidPoint slot, they'll have a legion of slobbering fans clamoring for it.
Next up was Wussy, coming in to save the day for (or perhaps from) the Foxygen situation. There were the requisite number of Wussy moments; after soundcheck, where Chuck Cleaver instructed veteran soundman Steve Girton to go heavy on the vocal reverb ("Make us sound like we're in a cave …"), the set's launch was delayed while Mark Messerly left for what seemed like an epic Tom Hanks League-of-Their-Own piss and Lisa Walker entertained the waiting crowd with an Afternoon Special story about Skinny and Fatty on rope day in gym class. With Messerly sufficiently drained, Wussy offered an amped-up set of favorites — Walker introduced a slinky version of "Airborne" as "an old Curtis Mayfield song," and a stretched out "Yellow Cotton Dress" as their "new Bossa Nova song … you can also do the Pony."
There were a couple of new songs sprinkled in the mix, presumably from the album the band is currently working on, and all of it was accompanied by former Ass Ponys guitarist John Erhardt on pedal steel. What wasn't typical was the absolute brilliant noise emanating from the stage; Wussy has played shows both monumental and desultory that have either been short-circuited or made worse by shitty sound. On Saturday, Wussy sounded like the world-class Rock band we all know them to be.
Finally, it was time for Washington Park's main event for the evening, The Breeders' 20th anniversary presentation of Last Splash. After a soundcheck that included a blistering version of Guided By Voices' "Scalding Creek," which Kelley Deal and the Buffalo Killers had done for the Sing For Your Meat tribute album, The Breeders took a breath before ripping into "New Year," the opening volley on the album that Pitchfork Media cited as the 64th best album of the '90s.
The assembled multitude, and there was a multitude of them, roared their ecstatic approval after each song, particularly the album's avowed hits, "Cannonball" and "Divine Hammer." After finishing up "Flipside," Kim Deal noted, "That was the last song on the first side," to which everyone under 30 in the audience must have noted, "The first side of what?," and after a blazing take on the album's longest song, "Mad Lucas," Kim shouted, "Take that, Symphony!," likely a reference to the fact that the band had to be done by exactly 8 p.m. for the start of the CSO at Music Hall to avoid incurring a hefty fine for MidPoint organizers.
The band was sharp and tight, Carrie Bradley was on hand to provide necessary violin and keyboard accompaniment, Josephine Wiggs laid down her massive bass groove and even switched places with master basher Jim MacPherson to reprise her turn as drummer on "Roi." Wiggs may have provided the sweetest moment of the night; after Kim noted that coming to Cincinnati was like coming home for the band — the Deals and MacPherson both had family contingents in the crowd —U.K. native Wiggs told the faithful that the amount of time she's spent in Ohio was minimal, but the love she felt for and from it made it feel like home for her as well, which resulted in a rousing response from the audience. With the last strains of "Drivin' on 9/Roi (Reprise)" hanging in the air, the call for one more had to go unfulfilled because of the Music Hall start time. But given that this was the second Breeders show here this year, it won't be too long before they'll be back with a complete set and — dare we think it? — maybe some new songs.
After a bit of hanging around, I headed down to Grammer's for the screaming punkmeisters from the Great White North, ETZ. Sweet holy mother — one minute it's three soft-spoken Canadian boys thanking the crowd for their support, the next they're suddenly thrashing out a triple-digit-decibel explosion that buries the needle so far into the red you'd think the meters were broken. If they weren't, they are now. Guitarist/vocalist Alex Edkins plays like he's wearing jeans made of fire ants and sings like Henry Rollins in a bathtub with a live toaster, bassist Chris Slorach does his best impression of a rhythmic jet approaching the sound barrier and drummer Hayden Menzies attacks his kit with samurai ferocity and precision. METZ is Punk reborn, and it's a kicking and screaming breech birth.
Next up was perhaps the weekend's highlight for me, the appearance of Black Rebel Motorcycle Club. Every moment of a BRMC show is an exultant tribute to the power of Rock, a pulsing prayer giving thanks to the heavens for electricity, wood, wires, skins and tubs and the ability to turn those raw elements into some of the most bone-rattling music on the planet. Deftly switching from electric to acoustic guitars without losing a decibel of impact, BRMC varied the pace of the show only slightly, replacing quick tempos with slow, surging power. As Peter Hayes and Robert Levon Been orchestrated the guitar ballet up front, Leah Shapiro offered up a tribal drum clinic at the rear of the stage, pounding out a throbbing beat so primal and palpable that airport traffic should have been rerouted around it.
The band didn't concentrate too much on their excellent new album, Specter at the Feast; less than a third of their set was devoted to it. Certainly one of the high points of the set was the inclusion of The Call's "Let the Day Begin," done up in classic BRMC style as a tribute to Been's late father Michael, The Call's powerful frontman and a producer/live sound engineer/mentor for BRMC until his tragic fatal heart attack in Belgium at the band's 2010 Pukkelpop Festival appearance. Much of Specter at the Feast is melancholy, but the band's live shows now stand as a loud and triumphant affirmation that BRMC is committed to going forward with a vengeance. That stance was more than cemented when the band followed their soaring take on "Let the Day Begin" with a blistering spin on "Rival" from the new album and a razor sharp run through Howl's "Ain't No Easy Way." Black Rebel Motorcycle Club left it all on Grammer's stage Saturday night, and we were only too glad to soak it all up.
In retrospect, it might have been a better course of action to stay with BRMC until the end, but I'd really wanted to hit the end of Cincinnati band The Ready Stance's set and wish Wes Pence a happy birthday, but Randy Cheek's blown bass amp fuse cut their set short by one song. After wishing Wes many happy returns, I drifted up to the MOTR to catch Wild Cub, but the club was absolutely packed and seemed populated with a higher than normally allowable per capita percentage of asshats. I'm clearly getting too old for push-your-way-in-regardless-of-who's-already-there crowds, and I got the fast fuck out of there.
After that, I wandered. I checked out a couple songs by Cincy's Sun Country, who seemed like they were on the way to an exceptional set, but I suddenly found myself a bit on the light-headed side, so I figured a run over to Mr. Hanton's would do me some good. Proof that I was nearing the tipping point came when Mr. Hanton's dog didn't make me week with joy. It wasn't any different than the Smokehouse I'd had the night before, it was just my body starting to rebel.
I ran over to The Drinkery to catch a bit of Nashville's Sol Cat, which was joyfully boistrous and plenty loud to chase away any end-of-MidPoint blues. Their sound mixes groovy Psych Rock with amped up Nashville Soul and it's a powerful and smooth cocktail on a hot Saturday night, and the packed audience they drew howled their appreciation.
I bailed as Sol Cat's last song was ringing in The Drinkery's rafters and headed down to the Know Theater to catch Johnathan Rice's set. I thought it would be a chill way to finish up the evening, thinking that he would be doing a solo acoustic thing. But Rice came loaded with a full band and they proceeded to crank out a sound that seemed reminiscent of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and The Jayhawks in spots, very much in keeping with the vibe of his quite excellent new album, Good Graces. He also cranked out a track from his 2012 Jenny and Johnny release, I'm Having Fun Now (a collaboration with his girlfriend, ex-Rilo Kiley spark plug/successful solo artist Jenny Lewis), and touching on his previous solo albums, 2005's Trouble is Good and 2007's Further North. My personal favorite part of the show was when a woman was desperately trying to drag her guy closer to the stage, presumably to dance, which he was having none of, apparently. Rice noticed the situation and said, "Let the man be. He's fine." Well done, Mr. Rice, just like your all too brief set, which happened to be a perfect end to a perfect weekend.
SATURDAY NOTES:• Washington Park was a crazy scene on Saturday. First up was the not-very-ubiquitous Mike Breen (who was suffering from some mutant military flu, so no Iron John hugs for him), who happens to be my immediate superior (and probably my superior in many other ways) and writer Gil Kaufman; we were quickly joined by former CityBeat mahout John Fox. After a bit of a chat, I offered to buy John one of the several dozen beers I owe him, but he deferred until later.
• Then it was Paul Roberts, Big Jim and Paul's sister, whose name continually escapes me. It's Paul's fault; he constantly refers to her as "my sister." It was the same problem with his buddies; "You know the guys." I'm old and I require constant reinforcement and I'm too embarrassed to ask and I'm usually drunk. That's not true; I'm always stupid and I'm occasionally drunk. Anyway, she's a wonderful person and bought me a beer, so she's in the Hall of Fame on the first ballot, no questions asked. Except the obvious one.
• Then I happened into one of my absolute favorite guys on the planet, Mr. Kip Roe, bassist extraordinaire and truly one of the best human beings you can hope to encounter (at least as far as musicians hanging around Rock shows are concerned). He was squiring his young sons around Washington Park; not surprisingly, Kip's sons are every bit as smart and personable as their dad. We had a good long talk about a whole lot of life, and I can tell you this without hesitation or doubt — my personal existence and the world as a whole is better because Kip Roe is in it.
• John came around for the Wussy show so I fetched him the first down payment on the buckets of brewski that constitute my longstanding debt to him. Of course, if he'd paid me better, I could have gotten a start on this a lot sooner. I'm just saying.
• At some point during The Breeders' set, a woman came up to me and said, "You look like a music writer." Then she smiled really broadly. And I stood there exactly like the enormous dope that I am. First, she had black rimmed glasses and her hair pinned up and she looked like Lisa Loeb, who I did not see on the schedule this year. Second, I have actually gotten that "You look like a music writer" thing from people in the past (typically when I'm listening to music and writing), so I was processing that response. Third, I had only had one beer, so clearly I was not nearly intoxicated enough. It turned out be Amy Firis, boss Breen's super nice squeeze, who is always incredibly lovely to me but who looked nothing like I remembered her in that moment. Maybe it was the glasses (no, I think she had those last time), the hair (hairstyle changes confuse me; I once had carnal thoughts about a woman walking down Clifton Avenue when I realized it was my girlfriend in her newly tinted and shortened do, which was great because I figured I had a slightly better chance with her than with the hot stranger I thought she was) or the question. At any rate, forgive an old dufus, Amy. You disappeared before I could formally extract my hoof from my piehole.
• After Josephine Wiggs' admission that Ohio felt like home for her, the next most Hallmark-y moment came when Breeders guitar tech and uberbooked local producer Mike Montgomery (who performs as R. Ring with Kelley Deal and was nearly unrecognizable in his newly shaven look) gave Kip Roe's son Ben the band's set list from the stage, which Ben and his older brother Kip took backstage and got signed by the whole band. When Ben caught up with Wiggs and violinist Carrie Bradley, he told Bradley that he wanted to play the violin too and that seeing her play with the band was the best part of the show for him. Bradley looked like she was on the verge of tears. Me too.
• Jay Metz was at the METZ show and was trying to scrounge up the scratch to buy a METZ T-shirt, because who wouldn't do that? If a band is ever desperate enough to name themselves Baker, I'm getting that shirt, bet your ass.
• There were a whole lot of humans at the BRMC set. It was asshole-to-elbow under the tent. Almost immediately, I ran into Mark Houk and his lovely girl Jesi and they immediately set about the business of getting a beer in my hand. How do I love thee? Let me count the beers … I mean ways. You're in the Hall, dude. Brian Kitzmiller showed up about the time I was ready to make my move into the tent, and who should I run into but that gauge of all things cool, King Slice, who was clearly digging BRMC. A few songs in, I noticed a rather tall guy in a rather dapper vest trying to navigate his way into the Grammer's sauna tent who turned out to be tall, dapper local singer/songwriter Josh Eagle. See above description of Kip Roe; copy and paste here.
• I ducked out of BRMC to head down to The Ready Stance gig, since it was the effervescent and superlative-worthy Wes Pence's birthday. We had crossed paths at the end of The Breeders' set, but were headed in different directions so I figured to catch up with Wes (copy, paste again) in his less ephemeral state at The Drinkery. I got there in time to see their next to last song, which turned out to be their last song when Randy Cheek blew a fuse in his bass amp. If you've got to blow a fuse, it should be like that, I suppose. Here's a question; can a band of guys as nice as The Ready Stance make it in the cutthroat music business? God, I hope so.
• Ran into CityBeat/MPMF chief Dan Bockrath and his girlfriend Martha on my way down from the Wild Cub debacle. Dan actually apologized for not being in a position to buy me a beer. Apologized. Yet another princely move from a guy who's already seriously Hall of Famed. You don't have to buy me a beer every single time we meet, Dan. Every other time will do just fine.
• Moments later, it was Kelly Thomas on the sidewalk. Is there anyone in the scene right now who cares about it all as much as Kelly? I think not.
• By the end of Johnathan Rice's excellent set, it was 12:30 a.m. and there were a handful of bands I could have stuck around for, but I was done it at that point. My back and knees were screaming at me like Adrienne Barbeau in Swamp Thing so I knew it was time to go. I ran into Big Jim on the sidewalk, who had taken time out from MidPoint to see Sarah Jarosz in Hamilton, and he was headed to Below Zero to catch a shot with Paul. For a fleeting moment, I considered joining him but my brain sent me a message through the normal channels that if I deviated in any direction away from walking straight to the car, I'd drop like Michael Cera in a bar fight with Floyd Mayweather. I bid him well and headed for the car and home.
• Rewind: I crossed paths any number of times with the always incredible local band/event manager Venomous Valdez, and somehow she managed to skate right across my frontal lobe in the previous two postings. There are a handful of people who do some fairly impressive things for the local music scene and bring an almost single-minded passion and drive to the pursuit of exposing local artists to this community and to the world at large. And they'll have to work a hell of a lot harder just to see Venomous disappearing on the horizon ahead of them. Like McCabe, we are lucky to have her in our midst.
• Rewind again: Ran into Jeremy Springer of Cincinnati's The Sundresses at Arnold's on Friday night, doing the Lord's work of making sure that food and drink multiplied onto every table in the courtyard. e noted that The Sundresses were headed to Detroit for a recording session and that the resultant album would be imminent shortly thereafter. It can't come soon enough.
• Once again, apologies to anyone who feels slighted if they didn't see our MidPoint interaction detailed here. The constraints of writing this thing in a timely fashion for posting on the CityBeat website necessarily means some things go in, most things are left out. The better part of my life is on the cutting room floor, so don't feel bad. Maybe next year you'll do something even more outrageous and quotable and you'll wind up in the embarrassing position of my providing written evidence that you actually hung out with me for a proscribed period of time. Then you'll be sorry.
• Another fabulous MidPoint in the books, and while we were without the essential presence of my pal Matthew Fenton, there plenty of absolutely brilliant folk to take his estimable place. First and foremost, as always, A huge tip of an oversized cap to Dan McCabe, the spark plug that fires up this engine year after year. We cannot thank you enough for the superhuman dedication you put into booking this amazing event (you would look smashing in a cape). And to whoever posted the tweet about turning MidPoint into a semi-annual deal, March would probably be a good time. Dan will still be hibernating then, so the author of said tweet should probably get started now on putting that together for all of us. Let us know how your breakdown turns out.
• Endless thanks also to the tireless (but probably extremely tired) volunteers who carry this thing on their capable but seriously overtaxed backs for three days every September. You are the true heroes of MidPoint. And of course, thanks to the venues who host the music, to the bands who make a supreme effort to get here (especially the ones who are already here) and to the mostly cool people who come to support them. See you all in some form or fashion in 2014.
I've had nearly a dozen different people ask me the same question over the last week or so: "What have you been listening to?"
Luckily, it's been a fruitful season for (relatively) new music. Here's my answer:
PJ Harvey —Let England Shake: Harvey's latest gets better and digs deeper with every spin via its textured arrangements and curious, Folk-tinged genre U-turns. I'm still not sure I like her more overtly topical lyrical bent, but her voice is as affecting as ever.
Since her 1994 indie debut, The Honesty Room, Dar Williams has attracted a diverse and pathologically loyal fan base with her quirkily hybridized Folk/Pop ministrations. Like an elegant gene splice of Shawn Colvin and Loudon Wainwright III, Williams can easily triangulate the emotional distance between breezy humor, somber reflection and crystalline heartbreak, on subjects as intimate as family and love and as broad as culture and politics, by finding the commonalities between them and translating them through her muse. Equally relevant is the fact that Williams hasn't shied away from experimenting with her base formula over the past two decades; her desire to extend her reach is a testament to her restless creative spirit and her success in doing just that is a testament to her steadfast audience.
In the Time of Gods is Williams' ninth studio album and, like the majority of her catalog, it is a work that somehow manages to be both spectacular and subtle. In keeping with her need to experiment, Williams conceived In the Time of Gods as a concept album with each song representing a particular Greek mythological archetype, while also weaving contemporary emotional, social and cultural concerns into the narrative. It's an unlikely formula, and one that requires an almost impossible songwriting balance, but Williams was clearly up to the task, because In the Time of Gods stands with the best of her albums to date.
Part of its brilliance is that Williams uses the Greek pantheon as a launch point to create her own dieties and address her unique issues, proving that mythology must be both consistent to be permanent and malleable to be relevent. The element that drives all of this home is Williams' impeccable songwriting skill as she finds the connective tissue between gods and goddesses like Hera ("I Am the One Who Will Remember Everything"), Hermes ("You Will Ride with Me Tonight"), Dionysus ("I Will Free Myself") and Poseidon ("The Light and the Sea") and places their gifted and flawed archetypes in real life situations with real life outcomes.
As always, Williams' musical accompaniment in this endeavor is engaging and beautiful and exactly right, providing the consistency that runs through her estimable canon. With a surgeon's skill, Dar Williams has grafted the wisdom, wonder and humanity of Greece's ancient pantheon onto In the Time of Gods' modern cautionary tales, further evidence of the contention that Williams is among the finest Folk/Pop songwriters of the last half century.
(Dar Williams performs in Cincinnati on June 23 at Mt. Lookout club The Redmoor.)
I haven't done LSD in at least a decade, but Thursday's MidPoint Music Festival sure felt like a psychedelic flashback. My long-ish, strange-ish trip began at 9 a.m., as I drove into downtown and found Central Parkway colorfully dressed up as if an army of elderly women had sneaked in overnight and turned the strip into a Dr. Seussian wonderland. The colorful crocheting that hugged the trees, lampposts and practically everything else sticking out of the ground was actually the work of The BombShells' Yarn, who've dropped similar "yard bombs" on statues downtown (like the William Henry Harrison one in Garfield Park).
Regardless of whence it came, it set the trippy tone for my first day at MPMF.11. And things only got trippier. I'm a big fan of the surreal and bizarre, so it wasn't a bad trip, by any means. And the soundtrack was pretty kick-ass.
Our third and final day on-site at Bonnaroo was no less crazy than the previous two. I took occasional breaks during the day, sometimes in the air-conditioned press tent, and other times back at the campsite where I'd snack, get off my feet for a few minutes and pour water over my head.
The day began with an 11:30 a.m. press-tent panel discussion on changes in the concert industry since Bonnaroo's inception 10 years ago. The panel included Bonnaroo founder Ashley Capps who reminisced about the festival's early days. Capps and crew intentionally booked bands for the inaugural festival who already had direct contact with their fan base via the internet. By tapping into this pre-existing network, they were able to sell out the first Bonnaroo in just 18 days.
Singer/songwriter Eric Falstrom has been performing locally for several years, including with the rockin' Mystery Wagon in the early '90s. Since then, Falstrom has been working the solo route, releasing records on his own off and on since the end of the Wagon.
But Falstrom's latest disc, Love Will Come Through, feels much like a reintroduction, featuring some of the best writing and performing of his career so far. The album is rich and focused, bringing Falstrom's strengths (poetic lyrics, a heartfelt singing voice and beautiful arrangements) to the forefront.


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You're automatically assuming I'm supporting Berlinkski. I'm not taking a position on euthanasia either.
Then you wouldn't have said the following in post #1 of this thread: "This was some time ago, over a decade, so just what is the deal in Holland, and other European countries? Are there other "slippery slopes" we aren't hearing about?"
To state legalised euthanasia as practised in Europe is a "slippery slope" and that there may be others, is to imply that it is inferior to, and has "gone downhill" from, an as yet unidentified higher standard. To label something as being on a slippery slope is making a value judgement, and so yours is not an unbiased position and can be rightly interpreted as being in support of Berlinski - your latest ambiguous protestations about assumptions notwithstanding.
Being out of one's depth, and the urgent commencement of dog paddling comes to mind for some strange reason.


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JACKSON, Tenn. – April 18, 2011 – Ten students from Jackson Central-Merry Academy of Medical Technology became the first group to participate in a new program which introduces students to the nursing profession, thanks to a recent partnership between the high school and Union University's Center for Excellence in Health Care Practice.
Every Friday for 14 weeks this winter and spring, the small group of junior and senior students visit Union's campus to gain practical nursing skills at the Center for Excellence in Health Care Practice, located in Providence Hall.
Tim Smith, dean of the School of Nursing and executive director of the Center for Excellence in Health Care Practice, said many of the students entered the program aspiring to be nursing assistants. After only a few weeks of doing assignments in the hospital simulation rooms at Union, however, many decided they want to apply the extra time, money and effort required to be registered nurses.
"This program gives them hope," Smith said, "because it puts them in the environment to achieve more than they thought they could."
Joy Thomason, assistant professor of nursing and director of undergraduate nursing education for the Center for Excellence in Health Care Practice, administers the Friday classes.
The students receive an assignment each week, which helps them to learn an aspect of the profession. Topics include working in a sterile environment, bed-side care and working in simulation rooms, where simulators are electronically controlled to respond to care-givers in a hospital setting.
Each lesson is designed to teach the students how to administer patient care and how to think critically.
Discussion about creating the program began when the high school received a three-year school improvement grant.
"Since the health science field is the largest employer in this area and is one of the fastest growing industries, we decided to change the high school to a health science magnet school," said Robert Conder, grant facilitator for the school.
Smith, Thomason, Conder and others designed the instructional nursing contract.
The students had to be more than interested in nursing to be chosen as the first to enter the program.
"The girls are selected based on (their teacher's) standards, which require good grades, maturity, behavior and interest in the health care industry," Conder said.
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27 Western Conference Racers Earn Wins Sunday at Buttonwillow
Buttonwillow, Calif. (April 27, 2014) – The SCCA Western Conference Majors Tour leaves Buttonwillow Raceway on Sunday following Round Eight with just four races in the season-long championship remaining, and a number of drivers already thinking about the SCCA National Championship Runoffs in October.
With sunny skies beating down on competitors and grip at a premium, the 27 Majors classes were broken into eight groups, each of who ran 16-lap races on Sunday. Those races went a long way to establishing preliminary contenders for the Runoffs at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca this fall.
Highlights from Sunday's races at the 15-turn, 3.020-mile circuit follow.
Group 1: Rylan Hazelton made it four Super Touring Under wins in a row during Western Conference action in the No. 49 Driving Ambition/BFGoodrich Tires/HPD/Comptech Honda S2000 to open the day, followed by some close battles behind him.
Spencer Trenery collected his second Super Touring Lite win of the weekend after running hard with Mark Drennan's No. 10 NoWifeNoKids/TFB/Riverbed Mazda Miata. The pair ran nose to tail and, after Trenery's No. 8 Fantasy Junction Acura Integra and Drennan went side by side down the front stretch on lap 11, Trenery moved in front for good.
In Touring 4, Matthew Staal qualified his No. 24 Honda Racing/HPD/BFGoodrich Tires Honda Civic Si on the class pole by virtue of his fast lap during Saturday's race, then kept teammate Lee Niffenegger's No. 42 Honda Racing/HPD/BFGoodrich Tires Honda Civic behind him until lap 11. Niffenegger found his way into the lead at that point, and the nearly identical cars stuck close for the distance. Niffenegger held on for the weekend sweep.
Michael Tsay and Derrick Ambrose picked up their B-Spec rivalry again on Sunday, swapping the lead in the early stages. Tsay's No. 45 Honda Racing/HPD Honda Fit worked in front and, despite a mirror full of the silver No. 71 Corksport Mazda/Monarch Inspections/BFG MAZDA2, held on for his second win of the weekend.
Group 2: Thankfully, the chaos from Saturday's start didn't resurface during Sunday's race in the big open-wheel and prototype race, and a number of drivers reaped the rewards on Sunday – Mike Anderson and Randy Cook chief among them.
Anderson swept the Formula Mazda weekend in his No. 42 Formula Mazda, but without Saturday's excitement. At the start on Saturday, Anderson narrowly split two formula cars that had spun and were facing the wrong way in turn one. Sunday, Anderson just walked away from the field to take the win.
Cook's No. 9 Hoosier Tires JDR F1000 wasn't as lucky on Saturday. He was one of the cars collected in the incident, and he and his small crew worked past midnight to repair essentially three corners of the car. The repairs were apparently top notch, and Cook earned his win.
Lee Alexander earned his second straight overall win in Prototype 1, working around Jim Devenport's No. 23 Cranbrook Group, Inc. Norma M20FC on lap six and pulling away in the No. 48 Factory 48/APE Raceparts Stohr WF-Zero/Suzuki. Chris Emanuel inherited the win on Saturday in Formula Atlantic when the No. 43 Damon Racing Mazda PFM of Vince Gaddini's day ended on lap 13. Gaddini, the Saturday winner, appeared to have the field covered when a different class car went off track in front of him. Gaddini, slowing to avoid him, stalled and ended his day, and Emanuel's No. 36 Airguard/Hawn Racing/CER Inc. Swift 016a/Mazda went on to win.
Like Saturday, the Formula Continental battle was nose to tail for most of the race.
Tom Hope's No. 18 H & M Racing Dart Carbir ZTec led early, but saw the gap disappear as the laps counted down. On lap 13, the front wing of Yufeng Luo's No. 61 Van Diemen BP08 hit just inside Hope's right rear wheel, dislodging Luo's wing and leaving him out of contention while Hope swept the weekend.
Behind them, the fight for the final podium spot was just as intense. Coming to the one to go board, the No. 127 Van Diemen RF02 of Andrew Evans and the No. 8 Hoosier/Terri Negron Web Design of Bob Negron went side-by-side into the final corner, coming together and sending both off track. Each continued, with Evans in front at the stripe.
Group 3: Mike Lewis' No. 12 Goodyear/Cyclo/Red Line Oil Jaguar XKR swept the weekend with yet another overall win in GT-1 and Mike Henderson walked away with his second GT-3 win of the weekend in the No. 2 Mazda/Red Line Oil/Goodyear Mazda RX-7 while two of the group's races came down to the wire.
Christopher Qualls led the American Sedan race in the No. 73 Hasa Chemical/B&D Racing/Hoosier Ford Mustang early, chased hard by Saturday winner Aaron Bailey. The two ran nose to tail for 13 laps, and with two to go, Bailey's No. 21 BFGoodrich Tires/RentMyRV.biz/BRE Chevrolet Camaro moved into the lead. The pair continued in order to the finish, with Bailey sweeping the weekend in a hard fought race.
Chuck Matthews was looking for his second consecutive GT-2 win, leading the race but chased closely by Eric Joiner as they crossed the stripe with one lap to go. Going into turn one, however, the motor on Matthews' No. 38 RecreationConnect.com/Esprit Cam Systems Chevrolet Corvette let go in a spectacular display of white smoke.
Joiner, close behind in the No. 31 Tool of North America Porsche GT3, slowed and snuck his way through the fog without contact. The slower-than-normal pace allowed the No. 19 Apartments247.com/RVParks247.com/StorageRentals247.com Viper ACRX of Michael Von Quillich to close his small gap, but Joiner was able to race ahead for the win. Matthews had completed enough laps to hold on to third, a small consolation.
Von Quillich's runner-up finish was the highlight of the weekend that included two separate trips to his home in Pahrump, Nevada. The first trip, on Friday night, was to swap cars after his Viper blew a motor on the test day. He and his crew went back on Saturday night to get parts for the back-up car, and had it ready to race on Sunday morning.
Group 4: Spec Racer Ford was a three horse race almost from the drop of the green flag, with Mike Miserendino, Todd Harris, and TJ Acker out in front of the field. Harris, in the No. 24 Pro Drive Racing/HMS Spec Racer Ford, ultimately won out with a 0.084-second victory.
Each of the three took their turn leading the pack, with Acker's No. 62 MBI Racing/Cindescency Spec Racer Ford leading the opening and fourth laps officially. Miserendino led the most laps in the No. 11 MBI Racing machine, with eight, but Harris' six included the most important lap – the one that ended with the checkered flag.
Group 5: For the second straight day, Elliott Skeer used patience along with his quickness to take the win in Spec Miata driving the No. 77 Rush Motorsports Mazda Miata.
Skeer ran second or third for the early stages of the race behind Mark Drennan's No. 10 No Wife No Kids/TFB/Riverbed Miata and Charlie Hayes' No. 22 TFB/AIM Tires/RM Autosport Miata, who led the first 14 laps, officially. He was solidly second after lap 12, when Drennan pulled off course is a bad rear wheel hub.
By then, Tyler Vance's No. 85 TMG/RM Autosports/Sparco/Carbotech Miata was coming quickly and in the mix. Skeer used the opportunity to pull around Hayes and stretched out two car lengths for the final two laps to take his win. Hayes and Vance completed the podium.
Group 6: Sunday's Group Six was highlighted by battles up front in both Touring 1 and E Production, with repeat winners Kyle Kelley (No. 79 UPR.com/Apex Chevrolet Corvette), Tom Wickersham (No. 4 BFGoodrich Tires/Maine Straight Racing BMW Z4), and Brian Linn (No. 4 Hoosier/Red Line/Carbotech/Steve Hussey Lotus Super Seven) in Touring 2, Touring 3 and F Production.
Ken Davis steered his No. 64 Davis Stone Inc. Chevrolet Corvette around Marc Hoover's No. 98 Hooverspeed/NRA/Nexgen/Red Line Oil Mazda MX-5 on lap eight, as Hoover tires started to slow and the pair caught lapped traffic. Once in front, Davis added almost a second per lap to stretch out at the finish.
The E Production race came down to the three eventual podium finishers duking it out for the win. John Longwell's No. 38 Achilles Motorsports/Hoosier BMW 328is held it early after Saturday winner Aaron Downey pulled his No. 5 RoundPeg.com/Mazdaspeed Motorsports/Carbotech Mazda RX-3 to pit lane with a steering issue.
Longwell was caught, and eventually passed through the last corner of lap 11, by Phillip Royle's No. 2 CureSarcoma.org/Electromotive/Fuel Safe Mazda RX-7, but retook the lead through turn three on the following lap.
Bruce Qvale's No. 44 Jensen Healey joined the fight just a couple of laps later, moving around Royle as the Mazda's tires started to fade. Qvale was close, but had to settle for second as he couldn't find a way around Longwell. Royle, despite cords showing through on his well-worn tires, held on for third.
Group 7: Nikita Lastochkin kept his No. 2 Van Diemen RF02/Honda in front of Thomas Merrill's No. 51 Piper Race Cars/Fast Forward Engineering/Speedbourne/Tracklogic Motorsports Piper DF5/Honda flag to flag to take his first U.S. Majors Tour victory, topping the Saturday race winner. Jeff Jorgenson won Formula 500 in the No. 84 Veskimo Invader QC-1.
After a thrilling Saturday race, Terran Swanson ran away with the Formula Vee race in his No. 76 Toad Hall Enterprises/Swan Tech Graphics Mysterian M4 after Brian McCarthy spun on lap two. McCarthy pulled his No. 05 BRM Engineering Anduril/Volkswagen back to the paddock, and Swanson thought he lost his drafting partner. With that in mind, he put his head down to stay in front, and stayed in front of the challengers for his weekend sweep.
The SCCA Western Conference Majors Tour continues May 24-26 at Pacific Raceways in Kent, Wash., with a Memorial Day doubleheader weekend. The SCCA Majors Tour has two events next weekend, including the Mid-States Conference Rounds Seven and Eight at High Plains Raceway and the Northern Conference opener at Blackhawk Farms Raceway.
Results and more information from this weekend's doubleheader at Buttonwillow Raceway Park is available at SCCA.com/ButtonwillowMajors.
Buttonwillow, Calif. - Provisional race winners for Sunday's Western Conference Majors Tour Round Eight at Buttonwillow Raceway Park. Drivers are listed by Class: name, hometown, and car.
American Sedan: Aaron Bailey, Shasta Lake, Calif., Pontiac Firebird
B-Spec: Michael Tsay, Irvine, Calif., Honda Fit
E Production: John Longwell, Kitteredge, Colo., BMW 328is
F Production: Brian Linn, Hermosa Beach, Calif., Lotus Super Seven
H Production: Jason Isley, Coto de Caza, Calif., Toyota Yaris
Formula 500: Jeff Jorgenson, San Francisco, Calif., Invader QC-1/Rotax
Formula 1000: Randy Cook, Palo Alto, Calif., JDR F1000
Formula Atlantic: Chris Emanuel, Huntington Beach, Calif., Swift 016a/Mazda
Formula Continental: Tom Hope, Downey, Calif., Carbir ZTec
Formula Enterprises: John Yeatman, Newcastle, Calif., Formula Enterprises/Ford
Formula F: Nikita Lastochkin, Russia, Van Diemen RF02/Honda
Formula Mazda: Mike Anderson, Anza, Calif., Formula Mazda
Formula Vee: Terran Swanson, Petaluma, Calif., Mysterian M4/Volkswagen
GT-1: Mike Lewis, Poway, Calif., Jaguar XKR
GT-2: Eric Joiner, Torrance, Calif., Porsche GT3
GT-3: Mike Henderson, Alpine, Calif., Mazda RX-7
GT-Lite: Troy Ermish, Tracy, Calif., Datsun 510
Prototype 1: Lee Alexander, Las Vegas, Nev., Stohr WF-Zero/Suzuki
Prototype 2: David Ferguson, Paso Robles, Calif., Van Diemen RFS-03/Mazda
Super Touring Lite: Spencer Trenery, Berkeley, Calif., Acura Integra
Super Touring Under: Rylan Hazelton, Santa Cruz, Calif., Honda S2000
Spec Miata: Elliott Skeer, Carlsbad, Calif., Mazda Miata
Spec Racer Ford: Mike Miserendino, Bakersfield, Calif., Spec Racer Ford
Touring 1: Ken Davis, Escondido, Calif., Chevrolet Corvette
Touring 2: Kyle Kelley, Huntington Beach, Calif., Chevrolet Corvette
Touring 3: Tom Wickersham, Piedmont, Calif., Honda S2000
Touring 4: Lee Niffenegger, Santa Clarita, Calif., Honda Civic Si
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Fouls and Free Throws Hurt Men's Basketball's Comeback Chances in 136-128 OT Loss to MOC
February 15, 2010
MISENHEIMER, N.C. In a whistle-filled game full of 73 fouls, 113 combined free throws and four players from each team fouling out, it was only fitting that the Conference Carolinas mens basketball game on Monday night between Mount Olive and Pfeiffer head into overtime. The Trojans scored 22 points in the extra session en route to a 136-128 win over the Falcons inside the Merner Gym. Mondays contest at home came exactly one week after the Falcons put up 146 against Barton in a free-throw heavy contest. Mount Olive improves its league-best record to 20-5, 17-1 while Pfeiffer falls to 15-8, 11-6.
Both teams came out in the first 20 minutes of play shooting above 50% from the field. Mount Olive and Pfeiffer each had a pair of players in double-figures at the break including Kendrick Easleys (Norfolk, VA) game-high 18. Craig Hayes (Woodbridge, VA) finished with 10 at the half while the Falcons had 15 from James Crowder (High Point, NC) and 14 from junior Jeff Pettiway (Edgewood, MD). Mount Olive led Pfeiffer 57-52 at the intermission.
The Trojans led by as many as nine throughout the second half, holding the lead until the 4:16 mark of regulation. James Morse (Arundel, ME) brought the Falcons back with a three-ball putting the hosts up 105-104. After an Easley free throw a minute later put Mount Olive up 107-105, Chris Woods (Thomasville, NC) would bounce back with two of his 16 free throws squaring the contest back up at 107.
Tied at 113 with 1:13 to play, Hayes and Pettiway would trade time at the line each making one of their two attempts for a 114-114 contest with 15 ticks left, possession with the Trojans. Out of a Mount Olive time out, Brandon Allen (Dale City, VA) drove into the lane surrounded by three Falcon defenders and clanked the game-winner off the glass sending Monday night into extra basketball.
In OT, Pettiway again brought the lead back to Pfeiffer with a long triple at the 2:02 mark for a 123-122 Falcon lead. After Hayes knocked down a close-range shot to put the Trojans back up one, Mount Olive took advantage of a turnover and three missed shots by Pfeiffer to go back up five. The visitors then made 10-straight free throws to seal the eight point win.
For the game, Mount Olive hit on 48-of-62 free throw attempts going 13-of-14 in the bonus period. Pfeiffer, shooting just two free throws in overtime, went 38-of-51 from the charity stripe shooting 74.5%. Five players from each team finished the night in double-figures as Woods was the only player recording a double-double with 32 points and 17 rebounds.
Pfeiffer now takes the rest of the week off heading into the final home, regular-season contest on Saturday night. In a battle to host a first-round playoff game, the Falcons will host St. Andrews at 7:30 p.m.


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Although I don't believe that an all knowing, all powerfull "God" is involved in the day to day lives of human beings (what incredible ego must accompany that belief), I do see the possiblility that some kind of energy does at times intervene in people's lives. That energy is not all knowing or all powerfull, hence the explanation for human suffering. I think again that ego has allowed us to believe that we are the only ones that are important on this planet and in this universe. I also think that if there is an intelligent force that has incredible power in this universe and is somehow responsible for our existence (God?), that force not having a body would not be saddled with the burden of feelings (love, hate etc.) That force may have a plan that somehow involves the existence of humans to accomplish that plan and I think that plan may involve humans as a group mind. I say this because I find that humans have a longing to connect with something bigger than their individual selves (religions, family groupings, gangs, societies, etc.) People are never more content than when they feel this connection.
I believe that if there is a "God" we as individual humans fall below God's radar but it may be that the human race may have some importance. I don't think of "God" as some spiritual being but rather as a being of vastly more intelligence than any human who for some unknowable reason has a purpose for humanity. We don't have to love or worship this being.


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High Point, NC- Conference Carolinas proudly released the 2013-2014 Academic All-Conference award winners for men's and women's basketball on Thursday, February 27. Pfeiffer placed four members of their basketball programs on the list. Conference member institutions stress the role of "Academics and Athletics Working Together" and each sport's Academic All-Conference award winners exemplify this continued league-wide commitment.
Cade Isley was the representative on the men's side, while Carter Williams, Caressa Samuel and Lauren White made the Academic All-Conference team from the women's side.
The 2013-2014 Conference Carolinas Basketball Academic All-Conference representatives have been awarded to the following junior, senior, and 5-year student-athletes with a cumulative grade point average of 3.25 or higher on a 4.0 scale in all work completed at their member institution that have played in a conference sponsored sport. The GPA is calculated based on the student-athletes cumulative average through the previous semester and each student-athlete must have attended their member institution for at least one academic year.
Each year the Academic All-Conference Team is released while closing out each regular season before starting the tournament championships. The men and women will begin tournament play Saturday, March 1st with quarterfinal games being played at the higher seeded team. The top four men's and women's teams will then travel to the Cabarrus County Arena and Events Center on March 5th and 6th for the Conference Carolinas Basketball Championship Tournament powered by OrthoCarolina. Keep up with all the Conference Carolinas winter tournament action on the league tournament website at:
Men's Basketball Academic All-Conference Team
J.J. Kuhlman, Belmont Abbey
Ryan Conrad, Belmont Abbey
Darko Kankaras, Erskine
Adison Lawrence, Erskine
Nathanael Hughes, King
Logan Lyle, King
Brandon Crompton, King
Ryan Cliff, Limestone
Joshua Greene, Limestone
Cooper Gunter, Limestone
Trevor Hudson, Limestone
David Meikrantz, Limestone
William Raines, Limestone
Caleb Shelley, Limestone
Brady Stafford, Limestone
Cade Isley, Pfeiffer
Women's Basketball Academic All-Conference Team
Jaterra Hurst, Belmont Abbey
Kelsey Long, Belmont Abbey
Melisa Foures, Belmont Abbey
Candace Fox, Belmont Abbey
Nadia Gathers, Converse
Avery Winchester, Converse
Jana Dixon, Erskine
Tara Potter, Erskine
Stephanie Brantley, King
Alexandra Sprouse, King
Bonnie Durrett, King
Tia Keitt, King
Chelsea Bowling, King
Sara Mitchell, King
Kelly Jackson, King
Natalija Cakarevic, Lees-McRae
Layana Desouza, Lees-McRae
Leah Graham, Mount Olive
Katherine Paschal, Mount Olive
Annarose Schoonmaker, Mount Olive
Tyshaundra Wallace, Mount Olive
Ashleigh Edwards, North Greenville
Aliyah Stokes, North Greenville
Caressa Samuel, Pfeiffer
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LUMBERTON — Evan Odum can toe the rubber with his mind at ease this spring at Lumberton High School.
The rising sophomore's already made up his mind on where he'll play college baseball, choosing a nationally-ranked program Odum believes is a few players away from its first national title.
"It's always been a dream of mine to play at the University of North Carolina," Odum said. "The past couple years it seems like their program keeps getting better and better and I love the college baseball atmosphere up there."
Odum became the first player in the defending Atlantic Coast Conference champions' 2016 class on Monday, verbally committing to the Tar Heels alongside associate head coach Scott Forbes and recruiting coordinator Scott Jackson in Chapel Hill. Rated as the fifth-best in-state prospect overall in his class by Perfect Game USA, the nation's premiere baseball scouting service, Odum's projected as a front-end starting pitcher in college.
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"I've been doing this a long time and I haven't seen many high school sophomores hitting 90 on the (radar) gun," said Don Hutchens, coach of the showcase South Charlotte Panthers and the point man in Odum's recruitment. "We made a number of schools aware of his talent and he did the rest. He's performed at a high level in front of a lot of college coaches."
Hutchens coaches three teams with the Panthers, including his strictly-senior 2014 squad featuring 18 players who have already committed, and coordinated multiple unofficial visits for Odum. He says Odum spent several days deciding between North Carolina and Virginia after talking with both programs.
"When they're sophomores like Evan, a lot of times picking a school comes down to who they liked growing up," Hutchens said. "They haven't really done the research, toured the facilities and that sort of thing. We wanted it to be more organized and for him to understand the decision he was making."
Lumberton coach Paul Hodges applauds the work Tar Heel assistants along with Hutchens have done in assessing Odum's potential during weekend travel ball and showcase games with the Panthers.
"I think it was smart for North Carolina to jump on him now because if they waited two years, teams like South Carolina and other big-time programs would be in the mix," Hodges said. "He's 6-foot-2 and will probably be 6-4 and a lot more stronger by the time he graduates. It would've been stupid for them to not try and get Evan to commit."
In limited work as a freshman for the Pirates, Odum fanned 16 batters and walked four in 14 2/3 innings with an ERA just over 6. One of his best outings was a one-hitter over four scoreless innings against annual contender Pinecrest late in the season.
"I'm going to try and throw more first-pitch strikes this season because my (freshman) year I had some problems with that," Odum said. "A couple times I'd have a batter 0-2 or 1-2 then throw a curveball right down the middle. Coach Hodges said he's going to work with me on my location."
Odum is fine tuning a changeup this offseason to go along with two other pitches and is expected to be an everyday starter at Lumberton this spring when he's not on the mound. On his day to pitch, Odum slides into the No. 2 spot in the rotation behind senior Justice Sampson, ahead of veterans Raleigh Forrest and Daniel Oxendine.
"He'll play a position for us usually, probably third base or in the outfield, and we'll try to save his arm as much as possible," Hodges said. "The groundwork's there for him to be a great player and when he learns how to pitch and hit his spots, he'll really be able to tap into his natural ability."
Odum is one of three players coached by Hutchens on the Panthers' 2016 team who has committed to a Division I program. Four athletes on South Charlotte's 2015 squad have already announced their college intentions and of the 18 commits on the 2014 team, nine will play at ACC schools.
Panthers senior standout Alex Destino, a South Carolina commit from North Buncombe High, recently helped the 18U US National Team capture a gold medal over Japan in Taichung, Taiwan.
Following a player like Destino's lead, Hutchens says Odum has a chance at being the next torchbearer for South Charlotte travel ball if he continues his strong work ethic, one of the sophomore's best qualities.
"To be North Carolina's first commit in the 2016 class is a credit to Evan and how much he cares about getting better," Hutchens said. "It's a strong reflection of a young man that's talented off the field. North Carolina's projecting a guy that's going to be a great student also. I think everyone's excited about the future for Evan."
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James May, a British television presenter built a full sized house with working plumping and everything, all out of lego's. It couldn't be sold as part of the agreement with LEGO, but none wanted it even for free cause it had to be moved in one piece... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1214729/James-May-size-Lego-house-wants.html
Did they really just call the Millennium Falcon just a "Spacecraft"??!!
Stop wasting my time. I do not need photos of people attending an event.
as whole brained as it gets, structure, process, creativity and an ability to share what you have built with others maybe there should be more Lego in the corporate world as a development tool for our leaders..it might just help them think as little more holistically and systematically.
Yaaawwwwnn....this doesn't have anything on Legoland in California.
Say no more. *nudge* *nudge*
I think the whiners suck too...but I do have one complaint. How can Image 32 be named "spacecraft"? Thats the Millinium freaking Falcon...all other ships pale in comparison. Other than that...I also liked this post. Keep it up Tech Rep.
Can these guys get together and fix the BP problem???
Wow, some of these were really cool designs. As someone who grew up a LEGO addict, it was really interesting to see people take them to this level. As for the complainers, I'm curious, did you click on the link that said "Amazing LEGO creations from Brickworld 2010" expecting specs on the iPhone 4? No one forced you to read the article/sift through the pics. This isn't a broadcast where you have to sit through everything, you can click on only what you want to see. And last I checked, technology and geekdom frequently go hand in hand (yes I'm including myself in that). I've seen 500 different articles on Star Wars/Star Trek on this site, I don't see how one article on cool LEGO pics is out of place.
Lord Deonast I am with you. Some rather poppas, egotistical comments that I would associate with junior high or lower level of social development. We can only be glad they are not associated with our own place of work. One can only guess at their skill level and success in training and working with fellow employees. Perhaps their parents never mentioned to them ?If you can?t say something positive, SHUT UP!? In addition, if you do not like it do not look. However, they probably looked at all the pictures so they could become increasingly discussed. The scary thing is that they live among us and even worse reproduce.
This is a bit off-topic, but does anyone remember the Erector sets?
Well, each to his/her/its own. Whatever floats yer boat, turns yer crank, lights yer fire, etc., etc. But if you don't have a life, don't have a job, aren't married (or are, but not happily), and do have the emotional age of a 10-year-old --- apparently there's always LEGOs to fall back on. And you certainly have LOTS of company!
I don't really know what I expected to see (something more spectacular, though I'm sure there are intricacies beyond what I'd imagine), but FastestFox definitely came in handy for scrolling through all the pics, as opposed to a bunch of clicking.
Nobody noticed the cylon raider set up over the dropship in "dropship", and I can swear there's a dralthi star fighter (from Wing Commander) in the one called "aircraft"
aw, come on. You looked at it so you must have been slightly interested. Some of it is kinda cool. I couldn't do that....next time don't waste your time by looking at it, silly...
Your "valuable" time. Hey, that should be an article! 5 tips to tell in a short time whether you want to spend time looking at something or not.
As far as I know all of the creations built at Brickworld are done by amateurs who had to acquire all of the LEGOs used on their own. You are correct in saying this doesn't compare to Legoland (I can't speak for the one in CA but I can for the original in Denmark), where they have professional designers with unlimited block resources and the potential for special block designs.
I thought that one seemed a bit out of place too with the amount of kids that must be there...hehe...
lol, I thought the same thing when I saw the picture and title.
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My Dad and I built a ferris wheel and a set of Merry-Go-Round swings. I loved workng with him. He knew how to hook up the motor.
Yes I remember them fondly. I had two I think or maybe 1 and 1/2 I got somewhere. I endlessly built things that never quite looked like the plans they had or the plans I sort of made. I did build a drilling rig that worked and something or other that used the little electric motor and looked like a windmill. I was continually frustrated yet could not stop building failures. I see now it was my prep for working in IT . . . and building cars, fixing my house etc. I learned to not be afraid to take things apart and rebuild them and that those dang little screws are annoying. The same can't be said for my chemistry set, wood burning set, microscopes . . .
I enjoyed relaxing for a few minutes, reliving the past. Nobody says that it has to be one crisis after another every day.
What the H E double toothpick does this have to do with technology? Not even a story behind it...just a bunch of pictures. TechRepublic just got marked as spam.
The snowman on pic #30 is totally a spoof on the Ohio Butter Jesus that got zapped by Zeus recently.
It's too bad that the Indianapolis Motor Speedway (aka the "Brickyard") isn't what it once was. These days, you'll find about 40,000 fewer fans in the stands for "The Greatest Spectacle in Racing" on Memorial Day Sunday. That's what Tony George did to the legacy his grandfather built in the capital of Indiana. Wonder what the Lego conversion ratio is for that? How many Legos need to be removed from those "stands"?
check out http://www.legofussball.eu/ they re-enact World Cup highlights by animating Legos!
That the lid on [b]nick's[/b] box has already closed and we will not see him until next time.
Granted, when I visited Legoland in San Diego my sons were in 1st grade (2001), but BOY-O-BOY! was I impressed! A beautifully landscaped park, clean, rides to accommodate the younger set and parents... and LEGOS! Intricate buildings and projects, a building where you could sit and build stuff. I wholeheartedly recommend it for the younger set, but don't expect your teenagers to be wowed. PS-for years we received the free Lego catalogue. In each monthly issue, they featured creations from Lego users--and they weren't all kids.
As a subscriber, I was happy to see this story/pics and share them with my kids, two of whom are LEGO fanatics. Like any media outlet, we have the ability to skip what might not interest us - recommend those who don't find this interesting to skip and move on and let the rest of us enjoy a healthy distraction!
While the photo gallery was all of static LEGO creations, I suggest you check out thisk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gt4M31qynSI or search on First LEGO League (LEGO FLL). It is a competition for young people where they have to design their own robot (using the LEGO NXT kit) and program it to do different missions. Ok, I do agree with you that a lot of the "gallery" postings are a waste of time..
Ahahah, talking about lack of poetry in techie's souls... :(
While the Indy 500 is down in attendance, as is every other auto race in the country (did you ever think Bristol would have tickets available on race day) Tony did add the Brickyard 400, tried to add the US Grand Prix, and did add the Moto-GP race. The future will be interesting to watch now that the rest of the family has forced him out of the operation.
Especially when one is taking a break from a demanding task. I get epiphanies I tell you, from legos.
agreed, but let's be nice as you say and not use negative comments. Even eloquient ones.
I think seeing these Lego builds was awesome. TechRepublic goes beyond just technology issues and also hits on geek issues since most of us would be considered geeks in some fashion. The level of creativity and planning required to pull of these Lego creations is enormous and should be admired, not bashed. If it's not your thing, that's fine, but don't go so far as to assume that the people building these structures are lonely and without lives. I was happy to go through all of the photos and am glad when TechRepublic breaks away from the norm to do this type of post.
Lord Deonast I am with you. Some rather poppas, egotistical comments that I would associate with junior high or lower level of social development. We can only be glad they are not associated with our own place of work. One can only guess at their skill level and success in training and working with fellow employees. Perhaps their parents never mentioned to them ?If you can?t say something positive, SHUT UP!? In addition, if you do not like it do not look. However, they probably looked at all the pictures so they could become increasingly discussed. The scary thing is that they live among us and even worse reproduce.
Hmm, well in the case of "Heimdall222" one can only assume their partner left them for someone who enjoyed building things out of Lego and having no creativity themselves it must have hurt. Why else would you Troll or make generalisations about people he likely hasn't met. Obviously there is no inner child left in these people, I'd hate to think how they relate to any children they may have. As to why lego is on Tech republic a lot of techies like lego, they remember it from their childhood, it reflects a level of creativity they may no longer get do in adult life and it is harmless. Myself, no I don't play with lego but I remember the joy as a kid building things with it, I find it sad that there are people who seem to have forgotten this part of their childhood or perhaps they were deprived as children and are lashing out now.


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