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The Return of the Giant NYC Dance Club
By Steve Weinstein
July 4, 1976 Was a Ramones-less Weekend in NYC
By Bryan Bierman
LIVE REVIEW: Karen O at McKittrick Hotel
By Lindsey Rhoades
Remembering Dee Dee Ramone's Rap Album
By Chaz Kangas
Meet Lady Casa, America's Most Famous Raver
By Ben Westhoff and Sarah Purkrabek
Ridiculous Kanye West-isms, In Illustrated Form
By Jena Ardell
Casting Martin Scorsese's New Ramones Movie
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A Tour Around Ace Frehley's Bronx
By Katherine Turman
Surprisingly, microhouse isn't (so far) a particularly New York-specific subgenre. While the people making the stuff come from all over (London, Montreal, Chile), the genre's (can't quite call it "scene" 's) capital is Germany's second cities: Cologne (home of the Kompakt and Perlon labels), Hamburg (Poker Flat), and Frankfurt (Force Inc.). Nevertheless, microhouse's sonic strategy, with voluptuous asceticism playing between gummed-up beats and up-top tics'n'timbres, form fits the confines of the smaller spaces that have become the sad face of NYC clubbing post-Giuliani. Imagine lounge music with the seams showing.
Pantytec, a/k/a Cologne duo DJ Zip and Sammy Dee, stitch their music from the seams alone. Pony Slaystation (Perlon import), their debut, is all droll drop-basslines, spine-shivering echo ("Micromission," the first track, opens with a duet between tuned static and hovering vocal blurs), and funked-up glitchbeats. Every track has eight or nine ideas fighting for space, the beat holding steady as everything else flies around the speakers. "Candy Coated Conspiracy" even pays sly homage to the Age of Love's self-titled 1992 single, which helped set trance's templatea neat joke in a song whose slo-mo scratches, slithering synths, flip-flopping multiple basslines, and jumping-jack rhythmic sense do everything but lull.
Pantytec's freneticism stretches house forms as far out of shape as they can pull. Most microhouse, though, is content to ping-pong between the lines. Take Toronto producer Mike Shannon, whose debut, Slight of Hand (Force Inc.), marches its submarine-glub basslines and synth riffs in lockstep with scissoring hi-hats and just-thick-enough clickbeats. The rhythms themselves, though, are eccentric enough to guard against tedium, especially when Shannon grabs a good riff and rides it out. The central figure running through "Unexpected Vengeance" bubbles up from the swamp, then dissolves like a firework when it hits air, while "Sextoy" and "Flaco Blaco Funk" play off the tension between found-noise riffs and narcotic house keyboards.
Shannon's keyboard lines tend toward the cocked-hat jaunty, but Lawrence's are closer to music-box wistful; think Boards of Canada positioning their melodies front and center instead of slightly left of your ear's direct reach, and replacing their shuffling breaks with ye olde boom-tick. But although some of the tracks on Lawrence (Ladomat import) work up a head of steam, its pulse is pokier and its shading too subtle to encourage peak-time club play. Instead, the overall effect is exemplified by the third track (no titles are included), in which a grainy, just-out-of-reach shudder, like house keys absently sliding against a bottle, reaches up three-fourths of the way in and swallows the piece whole.
Such shuffles are all over Thomas Fehlmann's Streets of Blah (Kompakt)people have even called it "shuffle-tech." Fehlmann is a veteran techno producer, but Blah ambles through the brambles instead of powering the plant; where most microhouse, even those show-offs Pantytec, achieves a making-out intimacy, Blah feels like a stroll through a greenhouse. (So hey, why not call the genre that?) His use of aural static is less suggestive of electricity than of water rivulets running over wading-pool stones and/or your mind's eyewhich, right, can be tedious, particularly when the last three songs abjure beat for mood. But his groove, particularly on "Streets of Blah" and "Gratis," has an appealing lope that's friendly even when his ideas fall short.
It's ideas, though, that separate great DJ-mix CDs from this pack, which is probably one reason I have friends who claim to hear God on Immer (Kompakt), the second mix-CD from Cologne DJ and Kompakt label head Michael Mayer. Or maybe ideas isn't the right wordmore like connections, meta-structures, interlockings, feeling-as-meaning. The cut-up cocktail piano on Auch's "Remix Tomorrow Goodbye (Farben Remix)," which opens the disc, is a sly nod to the label's sit-down ethos, but there's a menacing undercurrent as well. By track five, Carsten Jost's "You Don't Need a Weatherman (Superpitcher Remix)," we've reached the dancefloora crowded one, in a warehouse. Ah, memoryeven the bird noises bring us back to early rave anthems like "Pacific State" and "Stella." Only there's something faded and foggy about "Weatherman" 's trance-like glacial synth pads: If Oakenfold et al. make you reach for heaven, this is closer to a disoriented comedown, gorgeous but unsettling. No wonder the disc reaches its climax near the end, when Phantom/Ghostand Selway each slither into near-goth mode. Instead of shifting the parts while maintaining the whole, Mayer's selections are relatively static. But his segues refuse to stand still, even on his brand-new Speicher (Kompakt), which is closer to straight techno.
If Immer isolates microhouse's secretly epic gestures, Friends, a mix by Mayer's Cologne cohort Triple R (a/k/a journalist, producer, and DJ Richard Riley Reinhold), offers something more unassumingly workaday. It's also more vocal-heavy than its fellows. When microhousers play with house's diva idealsee Luomo's 2000 album Vocalcity, or the glitchy parts of Björk's Vespertinethey tend to cut the voices up as much as the rest of the instruments. Not here; for the first hour of Friends, women sing-song or mutter or giggle in relatively straightforward fashion while buried in the mixnot quite understandable, not quite ignorable, not unlike indie rock's celebration of ordinary speech.
No wonder the disc crests with Superpitcher's remix of Dntel's "(This Is) the Dream of Evan and Chan," featuring Ben Gibbard from Seattle's Death Cab for Cutie. It's the only particularly song-like track here (Dntel/ Gibbard's new album as the Postal Service, Give Up, is closer to neo-new wave), but the other tracks' tentative linearity prepare us for its straightforward structure. Likewise, their unusually frisky array of sonic devicesthe scrumptious crackles of Oliver Hacke's remix of Process's "Pelican," the gold-dust paddlewheel ripples of Metaboman's "Easy Woman (Robag Wrhume Mix)," the lipstick-wet rustles of Dialogue's "Gigolistic"get us ready for the head-emptying moment when Gibbard's voice is overtaken by ghost bells shaking in the distance. And when that's over, we get Oxtongue's "Delight," which sounds liketake your pickBoards of Canada covering Daft Punk's "Digital Love" or Daft Punk doing BoC's "1969." Another year for me and you, another year with nothing to do except play with the stuffing pointing out of the couch.
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Lionel Batiste, the vocalist, bass drummer and assistant band leader of the Tremé Brass Band, has died. He was 81.
Band leader Benny Jones Sr. says Batiste died Sunday. He says funeral arrangements are incomplete for Batiste, who was known as "Uncle Lionel."
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Hearing set on beach vote's fate
Judge to decide whether process goes as scheduled
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District Judge Jack Hunter denied on Friday a vehicle ban opponent's request for a temporary restraining order, allowing the ballot to be set as planned. But Hunter is scheduled to hear arguments in two weeks from a lawyer for Mike McCutchon, Beach Access Coalition spokesman, and the city on the ballot wording.
If Hunter grants an injunction against the city, as McCutchon's lawyer Mike Hummell has requested, the issue already would be on the ballot but votes would not be counted, County Attorney Laura Garza Jimenez said. If Hunter finds in favor of the city, the vote would be Nov. 7 as scheduled with the current wording.
The ballot must be set by today and the computer programs locked for ballots to be sent overseas, although the county clerk's office has notified the secretary of state's office that ballots will be finalized Monday because of glitches with the new electronic machines.
McCutchon filed suit Thursday, saying the ballot language misleads voters because it refers to a "public, pedestrian-safe beach" rather than the "vehicle-free beach" wording his group prefers. City officials have defended the language, saying it presents a clear picture for voters.
Carol Bray, senior assistant city attorney, told Hunter the language tracks the wording of a charter amendment that would allow for the ban and in no way misleads voters.
"It's expected voters do research before they vote," Bray said. State law requires ballots to have one sentence describing charter amendments, she said.
She also said she found one case where a judge found language misleading when a city referred to a ballot issue only as an amendment.
Hunter asked Hummell whether the suit is an attempt to postpone the election, which originally was scheduled for April and the City Council voted last month to move up to November.
"It seems the citizens need to vote on this and not have groups fighting," Hunter said.
Hummell and McCutchon both said they have no intention of postponing or stopping an election. McCutchon said he did not file earlier because he switched attorneys and was exploring his options. The council first passed ballot language Aug. 22, then finalized it on second reading Aug. 29.
"It just took us a little while to finalize things," McCutchon said. "There was no particular plot. I wish we could have filed it two weeks ago."
He also pointed out that members of the Beach Access Coalition protested the language at City Council meetings. The council changed a reference to "pedestrian-safe beaches" to "vehicle-free beaches" on another charter amendment, which the coalition forced by petition and which would put all future vehicle bans to a public vote. The city's charter amendment ballot language remained the same, with "public, pedestrian-safe beach."
The proposed vehicle ban covers 7,200 feet of Padre Island beach from the Packery Channel south jetty to Padre Balli Park. Developer Paul Schexnailderc has said banning vehicles from the beach section is necessary for a company to build a $1.5 billion resort.
The Beach Access Coalition is campaigning against the ban and for the charter amendment that would allow residents to vote on all future bans. The group worries that other beaches could be closed to traffic, and it supports the use of wooden posts to separate people and vehicles.
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Re: A question about uniforms looking similar to the TMP ones ???
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Uniforms have nothing to do with technology. Nothing.
Pike wears a uniform that takes some design cues from TMP and the Bennett movies - the green-and-white "dress tunic" and a trapunto collar. However, the only thing about any of the other uniforms in this movie that's actually specifically similar to TMP is a Starfleet badge that Kirk's wearing in some scenes. The other resemblances you describe are just things that many varieties of real-world uniforms have: epaulettes with rank pins, etc.
Good call sir yes uniforms have no reflect on the technology been more advanced now due to Nero's arrival so perhaps starfleet have just decided to update its image a bit quicker IMO
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Instead, it will be kept in an iron cage that will hang from a crane at its original position
In what appears to be a politically expedient decision ahead of the Assembly elections, the government has decided against temporarily shifting the B.R. Ambedkar statue to pave the way for the Vidhana Soudha underground metro station work.
This decision comes even as the Karnataka High Court in its December 12 order directed the State government to shift the statue temporarily to facilitate the work. However, the government's plea for extension of time to shift the statue is pending before the High Court along with a PIL petition by Dalit organisations opposing the removal of the statue and a contempt petition for not shifting the statue.
The government, instead has said the statue may be separated from its pedestal and kept in an iron cage that would remain hanging from a crane at its original position.
In its order dated January 22, 2013, the government also accorded administrative approval to spend Rs. 15 lakh for preparing the cage and for the safekeeping of the statue.
Technical committee
While issuing the order, the government constituted a technical committee, headed by chairman of the Task Force on Quality Control in Public Constructions C.S. Vishwanath and comprising B.R. Sreenivasa Murthy, retired civil engineering professor of the Indian Institute of Science, and A.N. Thyagaraj, Chief Engineer (South), Public Works Department, to suggest modalities for the safekeeping of the statue.
However, Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Ltd. (BMRCL) has been claiming that the delay in shifting of the statue would cause an additional expenditure of Rs. 110 crore and increase the length of the passenger exit from the underground station by about 20 mt.
Work to ensure safety of the statue, which BMRCL managing director N. Sivasailam recently revealed had sunk by about 19 mm, commenced on Friday afternoon by providing cantilever support to the statue as a temporary measure.
Mr. Vishwanath told The Hindu that the committee, after inspecting the site on Thursday, decided to take temporary safety measures from Friday itself. As a short-term measure, a 40-tonne crane has been stationed to provide support for holding the statue through a cantilever boom. Apart from the crane, two metal legs on hard ground have been provided to support the holding. This measure will be in place for about 15 days, Mr. Vishwanath said.
The long-term measure is to keep the statue inside an iron cage, he said, adding that the BMRCL thereafter could continue the work unhindered.
Meanwhile Dalit organisations plan a meeting on Saturday to examine the government's move, said Mavalli Shankar, Dalit Sangharsh Samiti secretary.
He told The Hindu that the government has not given a categorical assurance about relocating the statue in its original position after completion of the Namma Metro work. This is why Dalits are apprehensive about the government's intentions, he said.
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Signs of h Carinae Outburst in
Artifacts of Ancient Bolivia
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Sallie Teames
Worth Astronomical Society, P.O. Box 344, Hurst, TX 76053
at the 91st Spring Meeting of the AAVSO, July 2, 2002
Abstract Recent
HST and X-ray photos of h Carinae reveal the bipolar gaseous lobes-the
Homunculus Nebula-created by the star's "Great Eruption of 1843." From debris gases on the outskirts beyond
the two gaseous lobes, astrophysicists surmise an earlier outburst. The 1999
Chandra X-ray photo of the horseshoe-shaped outer nebula surrounding the
bipolar lobes indicates an earlier outburst occurring over a thousand years
Because h Carinae is
so far south, it is entirely possible that the outburst would not have been
seen by the Chinese and other observers in the northern hemisphere. Researchers
are looking for possible recordings by early southern hemisphere observers.
Pre-Incan artifacts excavated in Bolivia may provide
an answer. In the script and artwork carvings on a monolith stone statue, an
artifact of the Tiahuanacan culture, are signs possibly depicting the earlier
outburst of h Carinae-the recordings of a star that suddenly
brightened in their night sky. Two small stones from the same era and also
found on the south shore of Lake Titicaca may also show depictions related to
this brightening.
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Many car buyers weighing whether they should go all electric to help the planet have at least one new factor to consider before making the switch: geography. Based on a study of a commercially available electric car, scientists report in Environmental Science & Technology that emissions and driving range can vary greatly depending on regional energy sources and climate.
New flow battery to keep big cities lit, green and safeFebruary 25, 2015 10:27 am | by Frances White, PNNL | Videos | Comments
Ensuring the power grid keeps the lights on in large cities could be easier with a new battery design that packs far more energy than any other battery of its kind and size. The new zinc-polyiodide redox flow battery, described in Nature Communications, uses an electrolyte that has more than two times the energy density of the next-best flow battery used to store renewable energy and support the power grid.
Seven reasons to attend the Lab Design ConferenceFebruary 25, 2015 9:38 am | by Lindsay Hock, Editor | News | Comments
The 2015 Laboratory Design Conference is open for registration. Your opportunity to learn, network and participate in discussions about current and future trends in lab design is coming to Atlanta, April 27-29th. The countdown to the conference has begun, and here's a countdown of reasons why you should be there.
Asphaltene analysis takes a giant stepFebruary 24, 2015 7:46 am | by Mike Williams, Rice Univ. | News | Comments
Rice Univ. researchers have developed an easy and accurate technique to detect and quantify the amount of asphaltene precipitated from crude oils, which bedevils the oil industry by clogging wells and flow lines. Asphaltene is a complex of hydrocarbon molecules found in crude. As the name suggests, it has uses as the source of asphalt for road construction and can also be made into waterproofing and roofing materials and other products.
Air Filter Could Help Beijing Breathe EasilyFebruary 19, 2015 2:00 pm | by Stanford Univ. | News | Comments
A professor and his students have turned a material commonly used in surgical gloves into a low-cost, highly efficient air filter. It could be used to improve facemasks and window screens, and maybe even scrub the exhaust from power plants.
THERMal analysis aids in energy efficiencyFebruary 17, 2015 10:08 am | by Lindsay Hock, Editor | Articles | Comments
It's a well-known fact that labs consume four times more energy per square foot than a typical office building. And while ventilation and plug loads account for much of this energy use, proper design and detailing of building envelopes can have a significant impact on the energy demands of lab buildings.
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The design of laboratories for sustainable construction and operation has become a major driver in the A/E/C industry over the past 10 to 15 years. Most large academic, government and corporate laboratory clients are looking for sustainable design approaches at a minimum, and third-party certification, such as LEED, in many cases.
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Flipping the switchFebruary 10, 2015 10:11 am | by Christopher R. Samoray, Oak Ridge National Laboratory | News | Comments
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Direct measurement of key molecule will increase accuracy of combustion modelsFebruary 6, 2015 7:50 am | by Patti Koning, Sandia National Laboratories | News | Comments
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"Smart windows" have potential to keep heat our, save energyJanuary 15, 2015 9:53 am | by American Chemical Society | News | Comments
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N.A. Juniors Game Night: 3/13Submitted by chad on March 14, 2009 - 11:33
Victoria fails to clinch ... Barberio and Moncton don't fail to clinch ... Luca! Luca! Luca! ... Tokarski beats Fadden's Americans to keep pace with Kelowna ... Wright and Vancouver lose again ... CHL playoff race updates.
N.A. Juniors Game Night: 3/11Submitted by chad on March 12, 2009 - 08:15
Victoria one win from moving on ... Barberio in the running for Top Defenseman ... Jung and Tokarski give their teams much-needed victories ... and of course, a Yogi Svejkovsky sighting.
N.A. Juniors Game Night: 3/10Submitted by chad on March 11, 2009 - 08:58
BCHL Playoffs – Island Division Finals – Game 3
Victoria Grizzlies 3 @ Cowichan Valley Capitals 1
Victoria leads Best of 7 series 2-1
W Justin Courtnall, VIC: 0-0-0, 0 PIM
Playoff totals: 3 GP, 0-1-1, 6 PIM
Season totals: 60 GP, 22-41-63, 98 PIM
Top-seeded Victoria takes Game 3 on the Capitals' home ice. Courtnall's got a little work to do here in the post-season. Last season Courtnall was nearly a point-per-game player for Victoria, yet in the playoffs he only managed 5 points in 11 games. Justin is a team leader, and while he'd go through a wall for his teammates, they're going to need him to contribute on the scoresheet, too. Courtnall has just 1 even strength goal (3 total) and 8 points in 26 career BCHL playoff games.
Saint John Sea Dogs 2 @ Moncton Wildcats 5
D Mark Barberio, MCT: 1-1-2, -1, 0 PIM, 3 SOG
Season totals: 64 GP, 14-29-43, +9, 42 PIM
Barberio had his second straight 2-point night and is heating up at the right time. Moncton is now 4 points up on Cape Breton for the Atlantic Division title and both teams have 2 games left, including one against each other to end the regular season.
Montreal Juniors 3 @ Rimouski Oceanic 6
W/C Luca Cunti, RIM: 0-0-0, E, 0 PIM, 1 SOG
Season totals: 54 GP, 14-24-38, +5, 30 PIM
Rimouski is back in the win column after having their 17 game win streak snapped against Drummondville this past weekend. Cunti took a stick to the face resulting in a Rimouski power play less than a minute into the game. Rimouski scored on that power play and never looked back. The Memorial Cup hosts are firmly in second in the Telus Eastern Division with 83 points, 16 fewer than first place Quebec and well ahead of Chicoutimi's 58.
Victoria News: Q & A with Justin CourtnallSubmitted by chad on February 26, 2009 - 12:23
The Victoria News' Travis Patterson recently had the opportunity to sit down with Lightning draft choice and Victoria Grizzlies winger Justin Courtnall.
Q: You've committed to skate with the Boston University Terriers in the NCAA next season. How did that choice come about?
A: Boston had been watching me for the past couple of years. It's a place I always wanted to go to. As a top-rated school, it's a dream for a lot of kids to go there, luckily it came through for me.
Q: What do you plan on studying?
A: I want to get into business education, but I'll just generalize going into next year.
Q: Grizzlies part-owner Len Barrie has since become a part-owner of the Tampa Bay Lightning, the team that drafted you n 2007. Did you know Len before?
A: I met him when I first came to the Grizzlies. I was pleased to hear Len bought the team, but it doesn't change anything, it's just part of hockey. Tampa (ownership) was looking to sell there team and Len was interested, people buy stuff.
For the rest of the interview, click here. (Pictured: Courtnall in the BCHL All-Star game)
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N.A. Juniors Game Night: 2/21Submitted by chad on February 22, 2009 - 13:44
Courtnall finishes regular season with another multi-point night ... Ward vs. Barberio and Tokarski vs. Fadden ... Wright gets on the scoresheet.


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"Tradition, they can keep it," he said. "Asking a black man about the tradition of the Masters is like asking if he enjoyed his forefathers being slaves."
posted by rumple at 02:05 PM on April 29
Oilers as currently built are not really a good fit for Bruins-style hockey. Does Chiarelli know any other kind?
posted by rumple at 04:11 PM on April 24
Not really. It's a little more outrageous that he's being sued for "sexual battery, assault, false imprisonment and "intentional infliction of emotional distress arising out of forcible rape.""
posted by rumple at 04:10 PM on April 24
So NOW will a MLB team sign him?
posted by rumple at 06:41 PM on April 23
The Oilers have also not gotten better on their 3rd and 4th lines, which are increasingly important. Part of it is veteran free agents have been keeping away, scared by the tire fire I guess. That's about to change. Their management is poor, their player development not necessarily poor, and definitely not as bad as people make out.
They completely rebuilt their scouting system in 2010 and there may be good results from their lower rounds on the way. Not many picks below about #20 step right in or even before 2 or 3 years seasoning.
Look how the Islanders took a defence comparable to Edmontons and rebuilt it in 10 minutes by getting Leddy and Boychuk. In the new NHL teams are having to shed their players to keep under the cap. Average players are increasingly available (good news for Edmonton) and good to very good players can also be had fairly routinely. For example, it seems very likely that Seabrook will be available this summer - Toews and Kane are getting 10 million each starting this summer. How long can the Preds afford to keep Josl, Weber and Jones? Etc.
Also, stacked teams can end up with an overflow of prospects and need to make trades to balance the present with the future. Example, Clendenning was arguably Chicago's top non-NHL defensive prospect. Vancouver picked him up for their 2014 5th round pick, Gustav Forsling. Chicago restocks for the future and doesn't have to deal with Clendenning who wouldn't be able to be sent up and down next year without clearing waivers. He's a guy who would right away be solid bottom six for Edmonton with very good potential to go top four and also run the powerplay.
Anyway, Edmonton doesn't even need to trade one of their top 6. New arena, hot talent, strong fan base - there'll be free agents choosing them for sure. They could trade Draisatl, but as likely they'll put him on the wing and turn him into a power forward. Good players on entry level contracts are almost as valuable as great players making 8 million/year.
posted by rumple at 05:32 PM on April 20
This whole meme that the Oilers ruin their prospects is just complete Bullshit. Taylor Hall is an excellent player, elite at his position. RNH just finshed his 2 1/2 year pro and is an excellent two way player on a shitty team. He's maybe one of the most under-rated players in the league. Yakupov has had a slow start on a crappy team but really looked good the last third of the season. Eberle was drafted 22nd overall which makes the Leafs drafting record look pathetic. The Oilers only first round miss recently has been Paajarvi, who did nothing after being traded away. All these players have had multiple coaches with radically different systems as well.
Yakupov and RNH are both second in their draft class for points. RNH has the highest points per game in his draft class. You could make the case that RNH was rushed into the NHL before he was physically ready and thereby hurt his shoulder. Possible. You could say Yakupov has been misused by his coaches and really only has flourished with the new coach and a centre with which he has chemistry. Neither of these are overly damning or even unusual.
It's too early to say, but Draisatl looks very promising and Nurse is almost guaranteed to be top 4 quality defenceman or top 2 more likely.
It's true their lower round draft choices have been pathetic and maybe some of that is bad development, maybe some is bad scouting. Whatever. Lots of teams in the league have lousy lower round records - it's a crapshoot. Those with great pickups often get lucky for a while then regress.
At least the Oilers didn't explicitly tank at the end of the season, they picked up their game a lot and showed real progress and actual pride, which a lot of their bottom-feeding cohort could learn from. They need some defence, and have some good ones ready for next year, and then their goaltending, which is decent but not great, will look a lot better than it does.
Not that I like the Oil, but I look forward to hating them again, and also seeing them stomp on Calgary for the next 10 years.
posted by rumple at 04:07 PM on April 19
Seguin was often misused as well. He shone in skill roles but he got stuck on the 3rd and 4th lines a lot it seems to me.
These "slept with team-mates wife" are almost like a meme now. I wouldn't put a lot of weight on it.
I wonder how Jim Benning feels? He's doing a great job in Vancouver but he probably didn't know the Boston opening would happen so soon.
posted by rumple at 03:08 PM on April 15
They literally made the Chiarelli announcement 15 minutes after the verdict in the Hernandez case. Coincidence?
Chiarelli did a good job overall. Two finals, one cup. In the cap era it is really tough to keep good teams together. The trick is, like the Blackhawks, to have the right people in place when you have to get rid of the high priced guys. Losing Boychuk fits that model, without the replacement part. and the Hawks are going to be finding it tough with Toews and Kane's new contracts.
Losing Seguin, right now looks terrible. If he excels for a few more years it will look almost as bad the Neely trade in reverse. Maybe Brian Burke would be interested in a Lucic for Gaidreau deal?!
I mean, I hate the Bruins almost as much as the Leafs and Flyers, and I sure hope this is a start of a nice long period of mediocrity, but it's hard to objectively say Chiarelli did a poor job.
posted by rumple at 01:51 PM on April 15
Montreal Canadiens defenseman P.K. Subban and Willie O'Ree, the first black man to play in the National Hockey League, sit down with ESPN's John Saunders.
posted by rumple at 02:41 PM on February 23
Serena Williams is to end her 14 year long boycott of Indian Wells, which started because of "racist undertones". Her father said at the time,
"When Venus and I were walking down the stairs to our seats, people kept calling me nigger.' One said, I wish it was 75, we'd skin you alive' I think Indian Wells disgraced America."
"I was cringing when all that stuff was going on. It was unfair for the crowd to do that," tournament director Charlie Pasarell said."
"I was cringing when all that stuff was going on. It was unfair for the crowd to do that," tournament director Charlie Pasarell said."Williams' essay.
posted by rumple at 09:30 PM on February 04
Very large image of all Formula 1 cars 1950 to 2004.
posted by rumple at 04:39 PM on February 03
This was really good, thanks for posting it.
posted by rumple at 04:05 PM on November 21
Alex Rodriguez would have made the Hall of Fame without steroids.
James once developed a long-term career forecast model called Brock2 essentially a very early progenitor of a full-fledged projection system like PECOTA which could produce an expected career stat line for a player based on his career performance through a given age. Feed it Rodriguez's age 20-24 seasons, and it produces an absurd set of projected career totals: 3,573 hits; 668 doubles; 1,075 home runs. As mean projections for anybody, those numbers are silly (Trout through age 22 also generates a forecast of 3,646 hits, 740 doubles, and 826 home runs), but they underscore how incredible Rodriguez's first five full MLB seasons were. (Through 20 seasons, Rodriguez now has 2,939 hits, 519 doubles and 654 home runs.)
All of this, it bears mentioning, matters only if you believe Rodriguez began using PEDs in 2001, and didn't before that.
posted by rumple at 06:19 PM on November 06
One of the better articles on the Washington football team controversy, explaining the general, broader context for the increasing amount of indigenous activism against the name.
posted by rumple at 01:48 PM on November 04
Washington R***kins cleared to continue their lawsuit against Native Americans. /nottheonion
posted by rumple at 12:12 AM on November 03
This was certainly an impressive drive by Seattle, even against the Raiders.
posted by rumple at 06:31 PM on November 02
No surprise, he loved the camera and the camera loved him. As the author points out, this picture is a rarity in that it shows him without self awareness or artifice.
posted by rumple at 03:48 PM on November 02
Bruins go to Boston Children's Hospital, dressed as Elsa, Anna, etc.
posted by rumple at 12:57 AM on October 28
I did the hockey pool draft from a Subway in Campbell River which is not exactly the epicentre of the world, but I could pick up an open wifi from some neighbouring spot. Scarfed a footlong while my travelling companion read a book on the history of the Panama Canal. Made it to our field site on the last ferry.
All of which is to say, lookout suckas, The Hagfish are going to run amok this season.
posted by rumple at 02:39 AM on October 06
The time is fine, my schedule isn't. I'll see if I can find someone and/or break the trip. Do you recall how long the draft took?
posted by rumple at 12:41 PM on October 05
Damn, got up early for the SpoFi hockey pool draft then saw it is at 7.00 PM. When I'll be on the road. Oh well, bring on the computer rankings I guess.
posted by rumple at 11:03 AM on October 05
Highschool newspaper editor suspended for refusing to print the word R--skins
posted by rumple at 05:28 PM on September 22
Thanks, rcade, I'm in.
posted by rumple at 05:11 PM on September 21
Hi. I was the Hagfish, and did not get an invite from ESPN.
posted by rumple at 03:50 PM on September 21
Stuart Broad takes a ball to the facemask for the England cricket team.
posted by rumple at 01:10 PM on August 09
Shakhtar Donetsk's owner has confirmed six players have refused to return to Ukraine for the new season as conflict rages around the club's home city.
Brazilians Douglas Costa, Fred, Dentinho, Alex Teixiera and Ismaily plus Argentine striker Facundo Ferreyra remained in France following a friendly against Lyon on Saturday.
posted by rumple at 01:30 PM on July 21
What if every NHL player "went home", like LeBron James? Here are the 7 Canadian teams - looks like it would be between Vancouver and Winnipeg, with Toronto just needing a better goalie.
posted by rumple at 05:01 PM on July 18
Thanks for doing this rcade. I was actually trying to win, so the Constanza was come by honestly.
Crazy free agency period in the NHL. The Stars look really good. The Central Division is going to be crazy.
The Canucks are trying to retool on the fly which is going to be tricky considering the division they are in, where at the very least Edmonton is going to be a lot better I think from below and it's hard to imagine the Canucks running with the Kings, Sharks and Ducks quite yet. Probably only three teams make it from the Pacific division into the playoffs, too, since the Central is so stacked. Still if there is a Pacific team to slip, it's probably going to be the Sharks, unless the Kings are so casual they fall too far behind. Ducks could take it all this coming year though.
All the same I see the Canucks placing 4th in the Pacific and missing the playoffs, then drafting like 15th overall or something. ugh.
posted by rumple at 03:50 PM on July 03
It's exciting how evenly matched (or equally flawed) the final eight teams are. Brazil has looked disorganized, Holland has struggled at times, Argentina gives up a lot of chances, Belgium has not taken their chances (Howard had a lot to say about that, but really...), Germany has struggled against teams they should completely dominate. Costa Rica has looked very well drilled but may not be able to penetrate the top defences.
The only teams who really look solid front to back and in form are France (who themselves were a little underwhelming against Nigeria) and Colombia (who had the easiest group and then got Uruguay with no Suarez)- and both are in very tough in their quarter final game vs Brazil and Germany respectively.
It'll be a heckuva couple of weeks.
posted by rumple at 10:56 PM on July 01
I couldn't bring myself to root for the USA but I was very impressed with their tenacity. Their final ball was really not there and the skill imbalance was clear - I'm sure Americans are not happy to have these sorts of moral victories or finding comfort in defeat but if they can couple that heart and organization to having just a little more incision on the finish they will be able to hang with anyone in world soccer.
posted by rumple at 07:47 PM on July 01
To be fair, Bergeron stuck his finger in Burrows mouth....
posted by rumple at 08:32 PM on June 24
Don't worry ic23b, I've got the Costanza almost locked up.
posted by rumple at 08:34 PM on June 04
LA in 5 +2
M Staal
posted by rumple at 07:49 PM on June 04
Montreal in 7
Pacioretty as top scorer
Chicago in 5
Hossa as top scorer
winning the Costanza is still winning, right, guys? Right?
posted by rumple at 01:38 PM on May 17
Sorry, I'm in a pretty remote camp right now. My picks:
Montreal in 7 +2
Pittsburgh in 7
Anaheim in 7
in 4 +1
posted by rumple at 01:25 AM on May 02
I'll go against the teams that won or are leading, got in late...
Tampa in 7
CBJ in 7 (as if)
Dallas in 6
in 5 +1
Kings in 7 +2
Flyers (yuk) in 6
Detroit in 7 if there is a god
Avalanche in 5
Total: 3 points
posted by rumple at 12:35 AM on April 17
How much it costs to propose at every MLB stadium.
posted by rumple at 12:02 PM on April 01
Will the Dodgers be any good?
posted by rumple at 08:56 PM on March 31
Some of the players identified themselves here.
Sounds like he is challenging the bench, drunk Bieksa style...
posted by rumple at 06:56 PM on March 31
Comments from two Seahawks: (Does the "light-hearted" comment mean that Sam would be expected to suck up some homophobia, or laugh it off somehow?).
On how it would play out if they play on the same team as Michael Sam: Michael Robinson: "Honestly for me, it's really about what the guy does on the field. If he can help this football team win and he can be a force, that's my teammate. I'm really not concerned with what he does off the field or what he does in his personal life. Now, we may not be at the same bars together, but at the same time if he's a baller, he's my teammate. I'm with him."
Michael Bennett: "I agree. The guy is an explosive playerIf anything, it has to be about his skill level and not about his sexual preference. The guy is a good player and he should get his shot."
On how Seahawks fullback Derrick Coleman being deaf played out in the locker room: Robinson: "I have so much respect for DC and how he goes about his business. But DC, he's deaf a little bit and he makes light of it; we crack jokes, we go back and forth, and I think it got to the point where it's not even an issue anymore. It's going to depend on how [Michael Sam] comes into the locker room and how he sees himself. If he comes in confident and it's light-hearted, he'll be fine."
On Michael Sam: Bennett: "The team that he has to go to has to be built with strong leaders. If it doesn't have strong leaders, this kind of stuff can tear a team apart. But I believe there are a lot of good people in the NFL that understand that times are changing and people are different. I hope that everybody accepts him."
posted by rumple at 07:08 PM on February 12
Has a puck ever split in two? I guess it must have but ......
posted by rumple at 09:49 PM on February 08
What happens when a puck splits in two?
posted by rumple at 07:20 PM on February 06
Someone up thread linked to a site where a geek with too much time documents every score combination ever and yeah according to that 43-8 had never happened before. I don't know if anyone knew that before the game, it'd make a good Vegas bet (odds the final score will be unique for the last 100 years).
I'm not sure about 8-43 though, for some reason the site doesn't list that as a separate outcome. grum, I thought you might have some insight into that?
Denver just really got manhandled, which is a remarkable thing to happen to an elite professional team, but it happened.
posted by rumple at 04:01 PM on February 03
Smith also recovered a fumble, I think. But really a game like this someone on the Seattle defence has to win it, right?
posted by rumple at 12:24 AM on February 03
This was the first game in NFL history to end with a score of 43-8.
posted by rumple at 11:01 PM on February 02
1. Seattle
by 14 +1
Percy Harvin
Russel Wilson
9. 45
posted by rumple at 01:19 AM on February 01
Patriots by 3
by 11 +1
Manning +1
D. Thomas +1
posted by rumple at 11:35 PM on January 17
What seven year (or similar) deals for pitchers have worked out? Obviously he is young and highly accomplished but it seems (anecdata) that pitching is very high risk.
posted by rumple at 08:34 PM on January 15
1. Seattle
by 15 +1
2. Patriots
by 5 +1
Panthers by 3
4. Broncos
by 18 +1
Golden Tate
Golden Tate (because I wish my name was "Golden")
Earl Thomas
Hey I have 1 point, I am pretty sure these selections will guarantee me that Costanza
posted by rumple at 06:56 PM on January 10
Chiefs by 6
Eagles by 3
Bengals by 5
Packers by 9
QB: Rivers
RB: Lacy (GB)
Sack: Jordan (Saints), +1
posted by rumple at 12:33 AM on January 04
Someone so inclined could stream almost any of these matches at a place like crictime dot com, for example.
posted by rumple at 02:12 AM on December 30
That attack by Thornton is quite a bit worse than the Bertuzzi-Moore incident.
posted by rumple at 01:29 AM on December 08
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, no stranger to controversy north of the border, stepped into one of the more contentious issues in the United States Wednesday, declaring that the NFL's Washington Redskins should not change their name.
"To me, that's ridiculous," he told reporters on Wednesday. "What are we going to call the Cleveland Indians? The Cleveland Aboriginals?
I'm so proud to be Canadian
posted by rumple at 12:10 AM on December 06
I remember that series well, the final Murphy/Hawerchuk/Gretzky/Lemieux goal, I'll never forget that. But the 1975 game was the height of my kidly hockey geek and of course at that time there were barely any replays let alone sports shows, youtube, whatever - so it stands kind of pure in my memory and honestly it gave me tingles just watching the first 10 minutes.
posted by rumple at 11:24 PM on December 04
Oh yeah, the tea shoppes out here are abuzz with the scandal. The Hooligans!
posted by rumple at 01:24 AM on November 05
The iPhone App store (in Canada at least) is blocking out the R-word.
Says it all, really.
posted by rumple at 06:35 PM on September 17
"We need aesthetics of violence, because violence is about pain, and pain is something we all need to understand. We need something in our culture that tells stories about it. Inflicting pain, enduring pain, owning pain. Mastering it. Making it- this thing that all humans instinctively fear, this thing that entire moral philosophies have been invented to avoid- yours. This is a fantasy many of us have and a narrative most of us will sometimes need. Maybe it was needed more when hockey players were birthed in mining towns and logging camps and fans came to the games from the factories and docks, when everyone who came to the barn came from a world of grinding, exhausting, injurious physical labor. Once upon a time it may have been easier to empathize with the idea that sometimes you need to take a blow to make a living- or deliver one to protect you and yours.
The kind of aesthetics- the emotional moments- that hockey provides are not exactly flourishing in the modern world, which is perhaps why the defenders of old-time hockey are so terrified of seeing them eroded further. This kind of art is important to them. They need it, and don't want it to be stripped away just because some other fans are unmoved. So they try to pretend it's necessary for winning and losing, because no one will have sympathy if you simply say, "it gives me the sort of feelings I want to feel.""
posted by rumple at 01:46 PM on June 14
As a Canucks fan, this series is going to be a weirdly excruciating schadenfreude sandwich.
I found myself clinging to a single positive hope - that Brad Marchand might have turned out to be the goat on the overtime goal. Nope, but probably more chances of that to come.
posted by rumple at 01:44 PM on June 13
Manchester City's Carlos Tevez apparently lost his paystub. Count the figures to the left of the decimal, and weep. Something about seeing the pay in such a mundane setting is shocking. Not to mention the 24 GBP fine -- I'm sure that hurt.
Hope the server bounced back up gracefully
posted by rumple at 04:43 PM on November 28
Just wondering where the Wednesday huddle is?
posted by rumple at 02:24 PM on November 28


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Supplemental information report to final environmental statement, Wallisville Lake, Texas. Comments on the final environmental statement and responses to comments. (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Galveston District., 1984)No abstract available
Supplemental Report on Fish and Wildlife Resources of the Wallisville Lake Project, Trinity River, Texas (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Southwest Region, 1976)Situated on the delta and extreme lower floodplain of the Trinity River, Wallisville Lake would destroy a rare and unique wetland complex ranging from cypress swamp to brackish marsh. The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department ...
Supplementary bibliography on environmental processes and conditions in the Gulf of Mexico Region. 3 Vols. Prepared for U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management. (Environment Consultants, Incorporated, 1975)Heightened interest in offshore oil exploration and development on the Outer Continental Shelf of the Gulf of Mexico has generated the need for current and expanded information on the area. Volume I is an upgraded and ...
Supporting Models User's Manual for the Galveston Bay Project (Tracor, 1974-04)The manual is intended to provide the user with sufficient information to understand basically the operation, application, and limitations of the following models: 1) Dynamic water quality model for the Galveston Bay system ...
Surface circulation in the Northwestern Gulf of Mexico as deduced from drift bottles. (U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service, 1979)Drift bottles were released monthly at predetermined stations in the northwestern Gulf of Mexico from February 1962 to December 1963. Of the total 7,863 bottles released, 12% (953) were recovered with 30 days after release. ...
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Surveillance of diarrheal disease in Houston, Texas: 1983. (University of Texas, Health Science Center at Houston, School of Public Health., 1985)Surveillance for salmonellosis, shigellosis, and giardiasis was carried out in 10 randomly selected medical laboratories in Houston, Texas during the period January 1 to December 31, 1983. Prospective abstraction of data ...
Surveillance, tracking, and model correlation of the spill from the tanker Burmah Agate (American Petroleum Institute, 1979)The trajectory of the oil spilled from the tanker Burmah Agate passed through the extensively instrumented area of the U.S. Department of Energy Strategic Petroleum Reserve Brine Disposal Site off Freeport, Texas. Because ...
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Penalties prevented a happy ending for Sébastien Loeb Racing.
Loeb and Parente reactions to their first win.
Sébastien Loeb Racing wins debut race in international competition.
Sebastien Loeb, taking part in a full International Series for the first time, starts from 3rd place on the grid with Portuguese team mate Alvaro Parente.
Pit notes from Friday at Nogaro.
Sébastien Loeb, who knows the Nogaro circuit, having won there in Formula France before going on to collect nine World Rally championships, will be starting a new adventure.
Sebastien Loeb to make International GT debut on home ground.
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Sébastien Loeb and Alvaro Parente behind the wheel of a Sébastien Loeb Racing McLaren MP4-12C!
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Growing customer demand for cloud analytics and data visualization in 2014 were among the top drivers for SAS' 39th consecutive year of revenue growth. SAS posted US$3.09 billion, up 5.1 percent in constant currency (2.3 percent US dollars) over 2013.
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Sydney Harbour Cruise and Goat Island Walking Tour
- Sydney Harbour Cruise on board the historic Wangi Queen Ferry
- Guided Goat Island walking tour
- Learn about Australia's convict history
- See the harbor-side mansions of Sydney's rich and famous
- Unique photo opportunities of the Harbour Bridge and famed Sydney Opera House
- Cold buffet lunch served on board the tall ship whilst setting sail on the harbour
Why Our Insiders Chose This Tour
This package is an awesome value -- a guided tour, cruise around Sydney Harbour on a historic 1920's Wangi Queen Ferry, lunch and drinks are all included. On Goat Island, you learn about a fascinating part of Sydney's history, and the views of Sydney Harbour Bridge are superb.
What You Can Expect
Goat Island, which has restricted, limited access, is the largest of the islands in Sydney Harbour. Over the years, Goat Island has served as a quarry, convict stockade, explosives store, police station and fire station. Today the island forms part of the Sydney Harbour National Park.
On a 1-mile (1.5-km) guided walking tour, learn about Goat Island's colorful past and visit some of Australia's most important and intact convict-built structures. Take in the historic surroundings, and visit the early-1800s military gun-powder magazine, the soldiers' barracks complex and Sydney's oldest water police station. You'll learn what convict life was like on Goat Island, from their punishments to their cramped sleeping quarters and food.
After your guided walking tour receive a complimentary drink before re-boarding the ferry. Then it's time to relax and enjoy a cold buffet feast with a complimentary glass of sparkling wine! As you eat, enjoy the surrounding views of Sydney Harbour before returning back to Campbell's Cove.
• Grilled Chorizo Slices (GF)
• Spinach and Feta Cheese Puff Pastry Triangles (V)
Main Buffet:
• Chicken Skewers with Satay Nuts
• Vegetable Skewers (V) (GF)
• Rice Salad (V) (GF)
• Greek Salad (V) (GF)
• Chocolate Brownies
• Cheese and Crackers (V) (GF)
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Brilliant trip. Our driver and guide was excellent, keeping us well informed and happy the whole trip. The penguins were wonderful.


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Tolar Green Beret laid to rest
When he was home on leave from the war in Afghanistan last July, Army Sgt. 1st Class Riley Gene Stephens left a special message for his family – one he surely knew would be read with bleary eyes and felt with crushed hearts.
Stephens, a Green Beret who died on Sept. 28 in a gun battle in Wardak Province, left a letter in a safety deposit box along with his last will and testament.
His father, Michael (Mic) Stephens, shared the gripping words on Sunday with the capacity crowd of about 500 who attended Riley's funeral at Tolar Baptist Church in Tolar. Mic explained that the letter was labeled, "Do not open unless I don't come back."
"Just remember that I died doing what I believed in, and I died with guys I loved," Riley wrote. "I love you dad. Thank you for always being there."
Mic responded out loud to his son's words with a simple, "I tried."
Mic, using his own heartfelt words, then reminded the attendees that it's the men and women in the military who "take the battle to them because they don't want the blood to be on our shores."
Riley – a member of the 1st Battalion, 3rd Special Forces Group (Airborne) would have completed 20 years in the Army in January.
His current stint, which began just 10 days before his death by small arms fire, came while filling in for another Special Forces medic with a different unit. Riley had completed five complete tours in Afghanistan, and this recent one was his second partial tour as a volunteer.
Mic's younger son, Sgt. 1st Class Ken Stephens, an Army MP with 15 years of experience based at Fort Hood, later joined him on stage to honor Riley.
Next, a family friend read a touching poem written about Riley after his death.
Mark Marsh, who played football with Riley in Tolar and who lived near the Stephens family residence east of town, read "Remembering Riley." The heart-tugging poem was penned by his mother, Shirley Marsh. It included the lines, "He is irreplaceable in our hearts and our lives," and "He did not know the meaning of the word quit."
Last Wednesday, Riley was honored with a memorial candlelight vigil at Tolar's old football field, where Riley played and earned second-team all-state as a hard-hitting defensive end. His jersey number, 66, was painted in the end zone of the field.
The vigil included a 21-gun salute along with emotional memories shared by speakers including family friend Jamie Gray, uncle Troy Armstrong and Army Ranger Dwayne Morris from Tolar.
Riley lived with wife Tiffany and daughter Rylee Ann Stephens, 2, in Fayetteville, N.C. Riley's other two children are Morgan Stephens, 7, and Austin Brooks, 17.
Riley was featured in the 2011 book, "Lions of Kandahar: The Story of a Fight Against All Odds," by Army Major Rusty Bradley and Kevin Maurer.
In Chapter 19, in the aftermath of being shot, Bradley wrote about receiving medical treatment from Medic Riley Stephens, who was also a long-range sniper and had a reputation of showing bravery under fire. While their unit was still under enemy attack, Riley "didn't even flinch when several rounds pinged off the truck as he worked," according to Bradley.
The casket arrived at the Cleburne Regional Airport on Saturday morning.
Each of the pallbearers were active Green Berets who had served with Riley at one time or another. The chaplain for the service at Tolar Baptist was with Riley's 3rd Special Forces Group, from Fort Bragg, his home base in North Carolina.
Steve Creed, a lieutenant with the Fort Worth Fire Department, played the bagpipes to start the service.
Christy Sanders of Tolar's Elm Grove Assembly of God, sang, "America, The Beautiful," "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" and "The Star-Spangled Banner."
Members of the Lilly G. Riding Club of Stephenville were among those gathered in Tolar to witness the procession and pay tribute to Riley, about a block east of the church. Among those from the group on horseback was 26-year-old Dusty McCord, who said he just got out of the Texas State Guard in February.
Where Billings and Electric Road intersect with Highway 377 just east of Tolar, the procession passed underneath a giant U.S. flag – 33 feet long and 16 feet wide – draped sideways over the highway, suspended by two volunteer fire ladder trucks. It was donated by the Irving Fire Department.
"It was awesome," Riley's stepmother, JoAnn Stephens, said of the funeral and the procession. "It was way cool.
"From the church, to the people on the side of the road with flags and their hats off and saluting. It's amazing the people who turned out and participated, and who care about our soldiers."
JoAnn Stephens had described Riley as "a wonderful son," as well as "a warrior" and a "hardcore" soldier."
Sheila McCallum, who lives with her husband Bill near Pecan Plantation, was wiping tears from her eyes in the wake of the procession.
"Because my military ties are so strong, I get very emotional when it comes to the military. My dad was a Marine fighter pilot, and my husband was in the Navy," McCallum said as Bill, a Navy veteran who served in Vietnam, visited with another area resident, who also had served in the military.
"I'm heartbroken for the family," McCallum said. "And to look down the street and see fellow Americans honoring (Sgt. Stephens), it's heartwarming. It gives me renewed confidence in America, especially when they have children with them.
"Everywhere you look, there are veterans and you never have any idea they have done anything extraordinary. They stood there (in service) for us."
Bob Huston, 73, of Granbury, expressed the pain he felt watching the procession of the fallen soldier.
"This hurts. It really hurts," said Huston, who served in various places across the globe from 1956-64 as an Army paratrooper. "I tear up. I worry about (our soldiers in combat). God bless him and his family. I can't imagine what it's like to lose a child."
Guy Shelton, a 79-year-old Granbury resident who served in the Army from 1955-58 in Germany, said he thought everyone should have lined the roadways to pay tribute to the fallen soldier.
"Afghanistan is terrible, but somebody has to be there. It got me right there," Shelton said as he patted his left hand against his chest. He said he has a grandson in the 101st Army Airborne who is now at Fort Bragg – which was also the home base for Sgt. Stephens.
The funeral procession was escorted from the Cleburne Regional Airport to Tolar, and then to the cemetery in Dallas by members of the North Texas Patriot Guard. There were an estimated 80 motorcycles representing the Patriot Guard on Sunday, and about 50 on Saturday on the ride from Cleburne. That's according to North Texas Patriot Guard ride captain Rusty McNab of Keller.
"Our mission is to stand and honor our patriots," McNab said. "When we have a soldier killed in action, it is a special honor for us, by invitation of the family. We stand by the flag line at various services to show them the highest level of respect. It is an unbelievable honor and a humbling experience."
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The Sun Keeps Shining on Alice Gerrard
Alice Gerrard's first solo album in ten years is the product of peer pressure and a chocolate addiction.
Produced by Laurie Lewis, Bittersweet, the title of which was inspired by an empty candy wrapper on Gerrard's kitchen table—where she does the vast majority of her songwriting—is another fine addition to the storied, 50-year career of one of bluegrass and old-time's most important singer-songwriters.
"Laurie Lewis first suggested I make a recording, and I was interested, but we both were busy and the idea just laid there," Gerrard says, calling from her North Carolina home. "A couple other people approached me about the same thing, and I said, 'Maybe I should start thinking about this.' So I got in touch with Laurie, then it was another year or two before we got the recording dates set."
Funded through Kickstarter (donation rewards included musical instruments and t-shirts from one of Gerrard's tours with Hazel Dickens), the bulk of Bittersweet was recorded over three days in Nashville with a top-notch band handpicked by Gerrard. "The first musician that occurred to me was Stuart Duncan. I love his fiddle playing and felt like it would work well with these songs; some of them don't automatically fit into an old-time or bluegrass format." Joining Duncan are Rob Ickes on Dobro, guitarist Bryan Sutton, and Todd Phillips, the bassist on Hazel and Alice's "t-shirt tour." The odds and ends of the album—like Rushad Eggleston's cello—were added at Lewis' Berkeley studio.
Bittersweet—composed entirely of Gerrard originals, though she admits she's not "the most prolific" songwriter—includes a lovely pair of tributes to dear friends. "Payday at the Mill," a new version of a song recorded for a Harmony Sisters LP, was written for old-time fiddler Tommy Jarrell's daughter ("a great flatfoot dancer," Gerrard remembers), who worked at a hosiery mill. The swingin' tune celebrates a "weekday workin' woman, weekend queen, a time clock lady with a lazy dream" who lives for Saturday night.
The vivid and heartbreaking "Sweet South Anna River" was written in honor of Elizabeth Cotten, the fingerpicking African-American guitarist Gerrard met through her second husband, Mike Seeger. When Gerrard wrote the liner notes for Cotten's final album, When I'm Gone, the latter mentioned that, after her death, she'd rather be laid out on a river than laid in the ground. Backed by fiddle, cello, and Barbara Higbie's piano, Gerrard pleads, her voice raw with emotion, "Don't lay me down in the cold, dark ground in some lonesome old grave/On the sweet South Anna River, where soft breezes fan the air/Just lay me down in a silvery gown/Wildflowers in my hair…and won't you sing to me as I take my leave? You're going to miss me all the time."
Another woman Gerrard met through Seeger would end up becoming an integral part of her life and career. "Mike was working at a tuberculosis sanatorium near Baltimore where Hazel Dickens' brother was a patient," Gerrard remembers. "They connected musically, then Mike met Hazel and they started playing together." Gerrard's first husband, Jeremy Foster, was a high school friend of Mike Seeger's, which is how he met Dickens. "My husband came home and said, 'There's this little girl with a great big voice,' and he took me to meet her. That was Hazel." The two became friends and musical partners; Hazel and Alice would record multiple albums together, writing and singing about women's rights and labor issues. They—along with Elizabeth Cotten—also took part in the Southern Folk Cultural Revival tours organized by activists Anne Romaine and Bernice Reagon in the 1960s and '70s. "At that time, people were rediscovering a lot of the old musicians and taking them up to New York and the Newport Folk Festival or the Philadelphia Folk Festival, but they weren't really getting a lot of appreciation and exposure in their home territory," Gerrard says. The tour, which traveled through some of the most volatile regions of the Civil Rights era America, was "both a political statement and a musical-cultural statement. We'd go out with Elizabeth, Ola Belle Reed, Dock Boggs, Roscoe Holcomb, and Mable Hillery, bouncing around in a van, playing communities and colleges."
When discussing this, Gerrard makes sure to emphasize one of the tour's credos: integration. "All of us, black and white, had to travel together and eat together in restaurants. We were all out of our comfort zones at times, and we'd get some dirty looks, sometimes some remarks, but we never encountered violence…although in the early days, before we joined, they got chased a couple times by cars or people with guns."
Looking back, Gerrard considers these trips a vital part of her musical career. "In the early days, Hazel and I were kind of clueless," she laughs. "'What's going on? Why are there so many women at this concert?' But going on Anne's tours, getting to talk with people in Eastern Kentucky about how strip mining affected their water supply, how they broke their backs in the mines, it raised my consciousness. With Hazel, I think it gave her permission to express a lot of things that she'd been feeling…it encouraged us both to write more."
Even with those years of practice, one type of song eludes Gerrard's pen: "I've tried to write funny songs in the past, but it never seems to work out very well," she laughs. "'Lighthearted' is the furthest I can get from 'melancholy.'" Though she's drawn to sad songs—and it seems like her expressive alto was made to sing them—the vivacious Gerrard is simply a delight. She recently celebrated her 79th birthday ("it was fantastic!") and talks excitedly about her adopted dog, a pit mix named, in fitting old-time fashion, "Polly," her busy summer—which includes a European tour and various teaching gigs at festivals and camps across the U.S.—and her plans for a new album that's currently in the works. Ssome singer-songwriters of her stature would be content to rest on their laurels, but Gerrard is busy as ever, with a laugh on her lips and a song in her heart. As she sings on the Bittersweet album closer, one of those rare, lighthearted songs, "I've got a good feeling/ Sun, keep shining on me."
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Great interview, Juli. Appreciate the Spotify link – I'm enjoying listening to the album.
"Play Me A Song I Can Cry To" indeed. I appreciated this piece, Juli. For me, Alice always (unfairly) has taken a backseat to Hazel, but I do love her voice, and these songs (and their treatments) are top notch and memorable. Lovely stuff.
Beautiful! I too am enjoying this on Spotify. What a voice! Beautiful production. A must listen!
This is great!
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HDT's Vertigo Recognized by NASA
RIVERSIDE, Calif., Oct. 23 /PRNewswire/ — Vertigo, Inc., a subsidiary of HDT Engineered Technologies (HDT), was recognized by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for its contributions as members of the Mars Phoenix Lander Entry, Descent and Landing Team.
The first in NASA's Scout Program, Phoenix was launched to Mars in 2007 to study the history of water and habitability potential in the Martian arctic's ice-rich soil. Dara Sabahi, Director at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), and Barry Goldstein, Project Manager for the Phoenix Mission, presented awards to the Vertigo engineering team members on October 22 at the company's Lake Elsinore, Calif., office.
Vertigo specializes in testing services for sensors that descend rapidly toward the Earth or other planetary surfaces. This refined method of high-speed, precision descent testing is suitable for a variety of ground or imaging sensors.
Phoenix, like all Mars landers, uses a complex system called the Entry, Descent and Landing (EDL) system to land on Mars. A critical element of this system is the landing radar. The radar works as the eyes of EDL.
Vertigo completed the work under contract with the Phoenix Mars Lander prime contractor, Lockheed Martin, from 2005 to 2008. Vertigo developed the Controlled Descent System (CDS) for testing the Phoenix spacecraft's landing radar in a representative Earth environment. On May 25, 2008, Phoenix successfully landed in the north polar region of Mars. This was the first successful soft landing on Mars in the 32 years since Viking in 1976. The CDS test program was a critical element of the Phoenix mission's overall success.
When asked about related projects in this area, Roy Haggard, Vertigo's Chief Technologist said, "the company is currently in discussions to apply this capability to radar testing of the European Space Agency's ExoMars spacecraft, whose mission is to characterize the biological environment on Mars in preparation for robotic missions and then human exploration."
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PRLog - Aug. 27, 2013 - SEATTLE -- Soon, parents won't need to sift through often skewed information on the Internet to determine if their child is safe in the care of trusted religious leaders. Starting this January, anyone will be able to access Americans United For Safer Religions', "SafeWorship Registry" - an online and phone-based, nationwide directory, which publishes and maintains standardized social safety ratings on every licensed clergy and religious institution in America.
In 2005, CBN.com (http://www.cbn.com/
StopBaptistPredators.org reported that in 2008 the Southern Baptist Convention rejected a similar database proposal. Ranking sixth on Time Magazine's (http://www.time.com/
A few months ago, Exodus International, a mostly Christian funded organization for over the past 30 years, shut down its organization and apologized to humanity for the religious practice of trying to turn gay teenagers straight. Last week, Governor Chris Christie followed California in instituting a statwide banning of gay-conversion therapy in New Jersey. Gov. Christie emphasized what same-gender-
K. Godfrey Easter, a controversial religious writer and seasoned nonprofit business management professsional, recently launched the Americans United For Safer Religions Initiative from his ministry's website, ACTSandBEYOND.org. "Children are the most valuable commodities in human society. The last place parents should ever feel worried for their child's safety is at church," commented Easter. "America and our organized religions should support this much needed safety initiative, yesterday."
The SafeWorship Registry will provide, unbiased, win-win benefits for religious institutions and clergy rated as socially safe. They can upload promotional videos and advertisements that provide printable maps and driving directions to ministry functions. Governments and businesses will feel more confident that their financial investments in a ministry's future was wisely made. Parents can rest easier knowing that their child is safer from preaching predators; women, from religious rapists, and LGBT believers, from the zealous, but mentally hazardous teachings of licensed clergy.
Directory ratings will easily indicate whether organizations or leaders are socially safe, unsafe, or recovering from an unsafe history. Sub indicators will also reflect if key religious organizations and figures have been accused, indicted or convicted of any sexual, civil, or criminal misconduct, with clickable links for more comprehensive research. The registry will also rate each ministry as affirming or non-affirming toward gay and lesbian people, while gauging the social impact it has on the local communities it serves.
Since 2002, Easter's website, ACTSandBEYOND.org, and his Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/
When trusted preachers commit untrustworthy, hypocritical and often harmful sins against humanity, it not only affects them and their shattered congregations. The affects can be far reaching. These acts can injure entire communities or discredit and threaten the demise of the entire fath-based institution.


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Before the crash, he'd been having an affair with a Colombian flight attendant named Patricia Medina.
"I was doing a bad thing," Stansell said. "I was living a double life. I'm not proud of it but it's the truth."
Just before he was taken hostage, Stansell had learned Medina was pregnant with twins, but he told her that while he would support his children, he intended to marry his fiancée in the U.S.
"I was pregnant, we weren't married, so I was alone with the boys," Medina said. "Their father taken by the guerillas, and nobody knows when he's going to come back. So it was very sad."
As the years wore on, it became clear to Stansell that his fiancée had decided to move on, but Medina continued to send messages.
I said, "I love you, I want to be with you, and I want to be a family," she said. "I couldn't forget him. I was having lunch, dinner, and working, and he always was on my mind."
For more than three years, the men were told they might soon be released, only to have their hopes dashed. At times they were chained to each other or to a hammock post for 24 hours a day.
In late 2007, the FARC made a second proof of life video in an effort to force a prisoner exchange. Since the last video in 2003, the men had clearly lost weight, and Stansell's stepmother recalled thinking her son looked "like he's been through hell."
Neither the hostages nor their kidnappers could know that everything was about to change. The Colombian military, with help from the U.S., had cracked the kidnappers' radio codes. As the Colombian army eavesdropped on the terrorists' communications, they hatched an audacious plan to rescue the hostages.
"It's like playing poker," said Juan Manuel Santos, the Colombian minister of defense. "You need to have a bit of luck. You need to know how the other people who are playing think and you must outwit them."
The plan was simple, dangerous and incredibly bold. It was inspired by the release of another group of hostages in early 2008 to aid workers from the Red Cross. The military sent a phony radio message to the terrorists, telling them that the terrorist leader wanted to see the hostages for himself. They said a group of humanitarian aid workers would fly 15 hostages and two terrorists to their leader. In fact, the "aid workers" would actually be Colombian commandos. They would be unarmed during the mission, and to prepare for their roles, they had to take acting classes to work on new identities and foreign accents.
On the morning of July 2, 2008, Gonsalves, Stansell and Howes emerged from the jungle, joined by the other Colombian hostages, including Ingrid Betancourt. All watched nervously as the fake "humanitarian workers" got out of the helicopter, including a phony television crew recording the event. As part of the plan, the commandos moved to tie the hostages' hands, but Howes resisted.
"He said, 'I'm not going to be handcuffed like an animal and put on this helicopter,'" recalled Stansell.
One of the workers introduced himself as an Australian, but his accent seemed off, and Stansell nearly blew his cover.
"He said, 'trust me, I'm going to get you out of here,'" Stansell said. "And I looked at him and I said ... 'I don't need to hear any more than that, we're out of here.'"


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Wolverines photographed in the Teanaway
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Ghost Bears of the North Cascades in Seattle on May 14th
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Hope for a wild Earth
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Changes on the Conservation Northwest team
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