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Michael Douglas Gossip
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Smutty Roundup: Julia with a fringe, Michael & CZJ, and Coach Taylor
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Check out Julia Roberts on the set of The Secret In Their Eyes yesterday in Pasadena with her husband, Danny Moder, and a fringe. It's been over a year since we've seen Julia at the movies. August: Osage County was the last time. And by the time this film comes out, it could be another year. Full Story
Michael Douglas: Sexagenarian superhero
Watching the Golden Globes Sunday night, it occurred to me that four out of six Avengers were there. Then I started looking at the tables more closely during cutaways and realized that damn near every film table, and more than a few of the TV tables, had at least one person affiliated with a Marvel project. Full Story
Emmys Best Face Forward: Michael Douglas
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So I guess what I realized is that we don't really give men as much credit, do we? We sort of smile affectionately when their relationships dissemble and wait for them to have new girlfriends. If this was George Clooney or Jake Gyllenhaal or someone, we'd be laughing about who was going to be next. Full Story
Michael and Catherine "working on it"
I found this phrasing pretty interesting, didn't you? I mean, it's not the boilerplate divorce statement: "best for us to part company, we still care, please respect our privacy at this time". They say they're taking time while they 'evaluate and work on their marriage'. Full Story
Dear Gossips,
I can't believe Michael Douglas won't be receiving an Oscar nomination for his work in Behind The Candelabra. Because he is BRILLIANT in Behind The Candelabra. An actor still at the very, very, very top of his game. And Matt Damon too. And Steven Soderbergh.
Behind The Candelabra is so f-cking good, I watched it twice last night, back to back. You know what the word is? It's a word I never, ever, ever use because it's so, so, SO overused:
But how else to say it? Fabulous, and sad, and hysterical. The kind of movie you keep playing, if only to learn the lines. What makes it even more fabulous is that fabulous was not their goal. They played it straight, no pun intended. In playing it straight, the authenticity gave way to the fabulous, organically. Read Full Intro
Behind The Candelabra in Cannes
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Michael Douglas and Matt Damon were in Cannes today to promote Behind The Candelabra, premiering on HBO and HBO Canada on Sunday. Here's where I get spoiled and whiny and wonder about my screener. That said, I also haven't checked the mail in several days. By the way, Game Of Thrones fans, Episode 9 has been pre-empted because of Memorial Day and Candelabra will air in its place so don't be surprised if you tune in on Sunday expecting the Khaleesi and find a lot of rhinestone, marble, and hairspray instead. Full Story
Liberace was Gay Boogyman
The new trailer is out for Behind The Candelabra, HBO's biopic about Liberace (Michael Douglas) and his boyfriend (Matt Damon), and damn if it doesn't look like everything you could want it to be. Douglas playing into his naturally creepy old-man vibe, Matt Damon in a speedo (bonus Rob Lowe bulge!), plus coke, capes, and bathtub drama! A description of this movie reads like a Stefan sketch from SNL ie: Behind The Candelabra's got everything. Full Story
More movie stars at the Emmys
A new teaser trailer has been released for HBO's Behind The Candelabra with Michael Douglas as Liberace and Matt Damon playing his lover Scott Thorson, directed by Steven Soderbergh. Can't wait, can't wait, can't wait to see this. May 26 in Canada and the US but Deadline Full Story
Oscar Lipsynch: Catherine Zeta-Jones
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I couldn't come up with it in 140 words or less on Twitter in time but my point is -- did you have a reaction to the fact that Michael Douglas and Jane Fonda make more sense than Michael Douglas and Catherine-Zeta Jones…? Many of you thought it was damage control that they showed up together just as rumours spread last week that they're in trouble. Full Story
One minute acting
A lot of you have been sending me this today: the New York Times video featuring (mostly) world class actors "acting" for a minute. Let's call this what it is, ok? It's a little pretentious and contrived. Come on now… The black and white, the music, the self involvement disguised as art – this kind of sh-t alienates people. Full Story
Zeta has an LA Face
Do you remember LA Face? Click here if you need a refresher on LA Face. Dude, Catherine Zeta-Jones is walking around with LA Face. A bad case of LA Face. LA Face was on display last night at the Tony Awards where she won Best Actress in a Musical. LA Face and Whitney House sweaty face. Full Story
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
Can a movie be watchable and a mess all at once? Because at no time during Money Never Sleeps was I bored or not entertained but at the same time I can't tell you it's a good movie. What I can say is that there's no sense to it, and it's deeply flawed, and the ending is bullsh-t, and the character development is inconsistent, and it felt rushed with too much sh-t jammed into too little time. Full Story
A united front
She's from that school where they teach you to always stand by and stick it through. Catherine Zeta-Jones was well trained in this respect, especially when there are other sh-tty situations to contend with. The Zetas of the world, they don't crumble in crisis. She steels herself and moves ahead. Full Story
Photo Assumption: Michael & Zeta
It's been a while since they've been officially out together in public despite living in high profile New York. Catherine Zeta-Jones is working on Broadway and Michael Douglas was shooting Wall Street 2 with the terrible title. Last night the couple stepped on a carpet – first time what seems like a long time. Full Story


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UNCW Campus Dining has "come to the table" with a $30,000 challenge gift to encourage young alumni (who graduated between 2002-2012) to give back to UNCW by matching gifts, up to $50. By participating, you could win the unique opportunity to name a sandwich on campus. Just imagine, thousands of students each day could be ordering your famous sandwich at your alma mater.
Here's how it works:
STEP 1: Visit www.uncw.edu/giveonline to make a gift to the area of UNCW most important to you
STEP 2: The area you select will receive twice the funding (up to $50)
Example: You give $50 + $50 match = $100 contribution
STEP 3: You are automatically entered in the contest to name a sandwich at The Landing, UNCW's favorite sandwich shop
Visit www.uncw.edu/hero for challenge terms and contest rules

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I made this quilt top a year ago and with some quick quilting and binding it's ready for use! It's the third or fourth quilt I've made with my Road Trip Tutorial.
The robot fabrics are by my friend Ariel. I love keeping little quilts like this for donating or gifting.
Whales on the back don't really go with robots on the front….but no little boy on the planet will care.
I got the urge to make a lonestar quilt after seeing them on instagram. But after making one block…this might be a mini-quilt instead. :)
After the kids go to bed I bring Pebbles in to get cool while I sew. She's good (quiet) company after a busy, noisy day!
If you haven't found a RSS Reader yet to replace Google Reader…I signed up for The Old Reader and I love it…the interface is almost exactly like the Google Reader…except I don't think it's available for mobile devices yet. I tried them all, and it was my fav…and I read blogs on my computer so it works for me!
And…I'm blogging my first quilt over at AnneMarie's blog today!


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Based on his best-selling memoir, The film tells the extraordinary and epic true story of Eric Lomax, a British Army officer who is tormented as a prisoner of war at a Japanese labour camp during World War II. Decades later, Lomax discovers that the Japanese interpreter he holds responsible for much of his treatment is still alive and sets out to confront him, and his haunting past.
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Harry Lee Smith tried for several years to retire as president of Emerald Coast Federal Credit Union.
He expressed a desire for someone else to have the opportunity to help as he had, to serve as he had, to enjoy and be blessed as he had.
He just couldn't find any takers, not as long as Smith agreed to return to the fold.
So, finally, after 45 years, Smith made the decision easy, formally resigning in a letter to the members of the board of the credit union in order to preempt any attempts to back him down from his decision.
Smith simply thought it time another had the joy and blessing of service.
"I just enjoy helping people," Smith said about why he stayed in the volunteer position for 45 years. "We have great employees and there is really a charitable heart in that place. That kind of stuff I enjoy.
"That is the only bank left that is a hometown bank run by local people. I was lucky before that nobody wanted to take my place. I wanted to let other people have the opportunity to serve that I did. The credit union will go on."
Smith's DNA surely contains a human-assistance chromosome. One nurtured without fanfare or attention, but always with a gentle smile and kind word.
He has long been the familiar face of Uncle Sam during Independence on the Coast celebrations.
He is known for his work with cars, changing oil or other small repairs, for those in need throughout the community.
Emerald Coast Federal Credit Union officials made sure Smith's retirement from the board did not impact his willingness to do minor work on repossessed cars.
He is heavily involved in his First Baptist Church family, leading blood drives and other outreach events. He is a rabid booster for Port St. Joe athletics and the schools.
Smith also serves on a board at Sacred Heart Hospital.
"He never thinks of himself," said Melissa Ramsey. "He is a friend to many and he's a true friend, he walks the walk. His actions speak louder than his words and he would just as soon not speak any words.
"He does those little extra things to bring joy in people's lives and he does it without fanfare, without wanting any attention."
After his retirement from the St. Joe Paper Company after 44 years, Smith and community volunteer have fit as well as his familiar brightly-colored Polo shirts and ramrod-straight carriage.
"It's a real blessing to help people," Smith said. "You never run out of things to do if you volunteer."
That ethos was imbued in Smith as a young child.
His father passed when he was six. He was an only child and his mother worked hard to make ends meet.
He has never forgotten the kindness of Mr. Costin at St. Joe Hardware, who brought his mother in and told her whatever she needed, let him know.
He has also not forgotten the generosity of the folks he worked with and for at the old Dime Store in his youth. They made sure he got meals, had the little things a boy needs.
"I would never have made it except for the people in that dime store," Smith said. "I will never forget Mr. Costin. Today I have sense of loyalty to St. Joe Hardware. I was raised to work."
The credit union, originally the St. Joe Papermakers Credit Union, to be joined by the Gulf County Teachers Association, becoming the Community Credit Union in 1998 and later Emerald Coast, was founded with similar beliefs.
Employees helped customers, who until the teachers joined consisted of St. Joe Paper Company employees and immediate family, balance their checkbooks.
The credit union established a phone exchange, called Timber Chatter and later Sandy Shores, which provided host of services.
Customers called the number, dialed in a password and could check balances, accounts. The exchange spread to Wewahitchka, Mexico Beach and Eastpoint.
The bookkeeping was all single-entry and the bookkeeper typically took the books home with her to finish the daily accounting.
"They know people by name there," Smith said. "You are not a number. We have done it in a small town. We have survived mergers. We have survived."
For a deposit as small as $5, one was a member. The board of directors, all volunteers, decided loans.
"I think it was very tough for him to retire because he wants to help people so much," Ramsey said. "It was a sensitive issue for him. He feels such an obligation to people and to his community.
"What a blessing the community of Port St. Joe has. He is so graceful. He is that caring and compassionate of a man. He always deflects and he is so involved in his community, changing oil for older ladies, putting money in people's accounts when they need it."
But times change.
The credit union has a website and an expanded building and more than 4,000 customers. The credit union must charge federally-mandated fees and data processing has replaced single-entry accounting. There are moves afoot to make other changes in how directors are selected and paid and Smith sees that as the "ruin" of credit unions.
"We strive to offer all the services that all credit unions have," Smith said. "I will continue to help them but I don't want to be involved in the day-to-day operations.
"The credit union was an opportunity to help people. I want to see that hometown (feel) survive."


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Likened to Seiko Matsuda, she won a singing contest and was signed to a Japanese recording company S2S Pte Ltd at only 15.
Ong, along with 2 other Singaporean girls formed the Japanese pop group, Mirai.
Their first single, "Open Up Your Mind", was one of the theme songs in the Japanese anime Gensoumaden Saiyuki.
After taking her O-level examinations in Singapore, Ong moved to Japan to further her studies as well as her career as a solo artist. In Singapore, she became a member of a Japanese pop (J-pop) group called Mirai, before she released her bestselling début, A Girl Meets Bossa Nova at only 19.
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EBRO — No one will be hitting triple sevens on a Ebro Greyhound Park slot machine this year if the Senate Gaming Committee plods its current course.
State Senate President Don Gaetz, R-Niceville, said Friday the Gaming Committee he created will focus on information gathering, not drafting comprehensive legislation this session.
Gaetz said he and House Speaker Will Weatherford, R-Wesley Chapel, will use this year to "fully analyze" gambling, studying how it impacts communities economically and socially. He also wants the public to weigh in at hearings around the state.
Gaetz said the major legislative showdown should come in 2014, likely the same year the Legislature will renegotiate the Seminole Compact, which governs gambling on Seminole territory.
"I would expect that any substantive legislation would come next session. (It) would not come this session," he said Friday.
Gaetz is adamantly opposed to piecemeal legislation, even though it could get slots spinning at the Ebro track. Gaetz's district includes Washington County, which approved slots for the track in January 2012, on a 57 to 43 percent vote.
But an opinion by state Attorney General Pam Bondi has them stalled. The opinion requires that before a countywide referendum is voted on, it must be approved by the Legislature or by a change to the state Constitution.
That means a local bill could pass the Legislature this spring and a new vote could be taken later.
But, Gaetz said, the Bondi opinion should be resolved by an overarching gaming policy, not incremental bills — and he won't support any of them.
"I wouldn't vote for a piecemeal gaming bill, really on any subject," he said.
Montford waits
For State Sen. Bill Montford, D-Tallahassee, the controversial issue hits close to home. He serves on the Gaming Committee and his district includes Gadsden County, which approved slots on a 63 to 47 percent vote last January.
Right now the Legislature is working to get a large-scale gaming study done, and Montford wants to see what it reveals before taking a definitive stance on the issue. Also, like Gaetz, he's looking for public input.
"As far as I'm concerned, the jury's out," he said. "That's why we're doing this analysis."
As far as expanding gambling, Montford said he's "totally uncommitted" and is keeping an open mind.
Montford said has no reservations on moral grounds, though he's not a gambler. He's worried about the impact on law enforcement and families.
"I have some concerns about the expansion of gaming, but I also know that through gaming there's a source of revenue that can be used to help education, help families, help health services, as long as we use those resources wisely," he said. "We've got time to look at it very judiciously."
Holding pattern
Stockton Hess, president and general manager of the Ebro track, said the issue is out of his hands and for now slots are stalled in Washington County.
"We have to abide by the attorney general's opinion," he said, adding, "There's nothing we can do at this point."
Hess said the voters have spoken in Gadsden and Washington counties, and the Legislature needs to consider that.
Last year, the park discussed its plans to add 2,000 slots and transform itself into a $300 million facility with a 300- to 500-room hotel. And there were plans for retail stores, restaurants and an entertainment venue. Now, all that's on the backburner.
"That's down the road somewhere; that's not immediate," Stockton said.
Mark Hess, Stockton's son, told The News Herald last year that Ebro planned to force the issue and pursue a license from the state's Department of Business and Professional Regulation's Division of Pari-mutuel Wagering. If and when it was rejected, he said Ebro would appeal the matter and slug it out in court.
That never happened.
Stockton Hess said they did not pursue the license — and would not "at this time" — so nothing is going to court.
Regardless, the dog track needs the slots, Stockton Hess said. The Gaming Committee heard testimony last week describing the decline of pari-mutuel wagering. Industry experts said slots could act as a Band-Aid, giving dog and horse tracks a shot in the arm.
Hess agreed.
"We can't compete without" them, he said.
Ultimately, Hess said, he's "hopeful and confident" the committee will expand gambling to include slot machines, which would pave the way for a destination casino, for which there's plenty of demand.
"There's no way to measure the hundreds of millions of dollars that leave Northwest Florida every year and go to Biloxi (Miss.). … Our position is, keep the money in Florida," he said.
South Florida opinion
Sen. Maria Sachs, D-Fort Lauderdale, vice chairwoman of the Gaming Committee, believes in countywide referendums. She said residents in every part of the state should decide whether they want gambling and if so, how much and what type.
"What they want in Broward County, they should have. What folks want in Gadsden County or Orange County, should be left up to them and not to the Legislature," she said.
Sachs said the state has had gambling since the 1920s and there have been those for it and against. She said the simple solution is to let residents decide by region.
"I think that's the only way we can do this fairly throughout the state," she said.
Sachs said she is "completely open" to bringing more gambling to the state, but she still wants to know how it could affect the economy and Floridians.
"This is a big game changer … so we really can't say anything until we have a study," she said.
Sen. Oscar Braynon II, D-Miami Gardens, another committee member, said the state doesn't need casinos and card rooms popping up everywhere, but he's not opposed to some gambling expansion.
Braynon said the South Florida casinos are another draw for tourists and bigger and better casinos could attract more vacations, pulling them away from other gambling hotspots.
"Why skip us and go to the Bahamas or … Nevada when they would come here for anything else?" he said.
Braynon added the committee is considering the creation of a gaming board to regulate the industry from Tallahassee, something he supports.
"I think we definitely need to see a department that's over all gaming in Florida," he said.


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There is an important creed that Attorney General Eric Holder and his boss, President Obama, live by...
"It is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles; if you do not know your enemies but do know yourself, you will win one and lose one; if you do not know your enemies nor yourself, you will be imperiled in every single battle."
-Sun Tzu
Oh wait, that's not it, maybe this one?
"The greatest ignorance is to reject something you know nothing about."
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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FORT WALTON BEACH — Community leaders have proposed honoring Bud and Doris Day with a memorial and a quarter-mile walking trail that would start at Uptown Station and tie into Ferry Park.
The Bud & Dorie Day Patriots' Trail is the brainchild of Cissy Wyninegar, the president of the Fort Walton Beach Woman's Club.
"We're really excited about it as a club and just to have it in the heart of Fort Walton Beach," she said. "It's just the perfect setting."
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Wyninegar said the club wanted to honor the Days' many contributions to the community and the country and has received Doris Day's approval of the project. Doris Day has been a member of the club for about 30 years, she added.
Bud Day, a retired Air Force colonel and one of the nation's most decorated veterans, died in July at the age of 88.
The woman's club plans to team with the Greater Fort Walton Beach Chamber of Commerce to raise $100,000 to pay for the walking trail and separate memorial, which will feature a flower garden, a lighted flag pole, benches and brick pavers.
Chamber CEO Ted Corcoran will present the project to the City Council at its meeting at 6 p.m. on Tuesday.
The goal is to have the 8-foot wide concrete walking trail and the memorial completed by Feb. 24, which is Bud Day's birthday, he said.
Flower garden, benches, concrete trail planned in project
The proposed Bud & Dorie Day Patriots' Trail starts with a figure eight-shaped memorial on Nebraska Avenue.
The concept behind the structure is to showcase the Days' contributions, patriotism and service to their community and country, said local architect Jason Floyd, who designed the memorial.
"The first area is going to be a flower garden and that is to represent Doris," Floyd said. "The other space is Bud's ... and that is kind of a reflection area."
The flower garden also would include a wall of mosaic tiles featuring images of the Day family. The second oval would encase a flag pole, a monument to Bud Day surrounded by 5½ benches, one for every year he was imprisoned during the Vietnam War.
Bronze plaques with information about Bud Day's life and career will be embedded in the concrete walkway.
The memorial will have handicapped access ramps and steps leading down from the parking lot behind the Okaloosa County Tax Collector's office.
The project is expected to cost about $100,000 and will be paid for with donations, said Ted Corcoran, CEO and president of the Greater Fort Walton Beach Chamber of Commerce.
Corcoran said the chamber donors will be able to sponsor various amenities at the trail including plaques, brick pavers and benches.
The concrete walking trail will stretch from Nebraska Avenue to Oregon Drive where it will connect to the 1-mile loop at Ferry Park.
If approved by the City Council, the concrete trail will be constructed by city crews, said Jeff Peters, recreation and cultural services director for Fort Walton Beach.
Peters said the trail will be laid parallel to the existing canal.
"I think it would be an exciting addition," he said. "I actually walked the ditch line, and it's absolutely beautiful."
Contact Daily News Staff Writer Kari C. Barlow at 850-315-4438 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow her on Twitter @KariBnwfdn.


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Timbers defeat Baltimore 3-1 behind Dike's brace
TOWSON, Md. – Forward Bright Dike scored two goals and forward Doug DeMartin recorded a pair of assists as the Portland Timbers extended their unbeaten streak to nine games with a 3-1 win over Crystal Palace Baltimore on Saturday afternoon at Paul Angelo Russo Stadium.
With the win, the Timbers clinched a top-four finish in the USSF Division-2 Pro League, with a game left to play on their regular-season schedule.
DeMartin and Dike connected twice in the first half, leading to a pair of goals, to give Portland a 2-0 lead heading into halftime. Crystal Palace Baltimore's Santiago Fusilier was sent off with a straight red card early in the second half after contesting a series of hard fouls. Despite being a player short, Baltimore was able to pull one back on a penalty kick goal by Gary Brooks in the 73rd minute. The Timbers added a late insurance goal as forward George Josten sealed the 3-1 victory.
Dike improved his season goals total to nine, Josten tallied his first goal in league play, defender Josh Cameron logged his first assist of the campaign and midfielder Ryan Pore took a team-high four shots for the Timbers (13-7-9, 48pts). DeMartin recorded the Timbers first multiple-assist performance of the season.
Portland goalkeeper Matt Pyzdrowski recorded two saves in his second start and helped the backline set a new modern-franchise record for consecutive minutes played without allowing a goal. The last goal conceded by the Timbers was in a 1-1 draw against the Austin Aztex on Aug. 26 – a run of 497 minutes. Brooks' goal in the 73rd minute ended Portland's string of four straight shutouts.
Brooks scored his team-leading fourth goal of the season and goalkeeper Mark Murphy recorded six saves in the losing effort for Crystal Palace Baltimore (6-17-6, 24pts). Baltimore has lost its last seven consecutive games.
The Timbers jumped on the board early, with Dike scoring his eighth goal of the season in the third minute. Starting from the back, the ball was played through Savage in the middle of the park and he found DeMartin wide down the right side. DeMartin sliced a cross into the box for Dike on the back post. Dike then headed a shot back across the goal and inside the right post for a 1-0 Timbers lead.
Just before halftime, DeMartin and Dike linked up again to give the Timbers a 2-0 advantage. A one-two combo between defender Scot Thompson and DeMartin set up the forward with the ball inside the box. From the right side, DeMartin sent a short centering pass to Dike 10 yards out from goal. Under pressure, Dike poked a left-footed shot by Murphy into the back of the net.
A hard challenge by Timbers midfielder Kalif Alhassan spurred a heated moment in the 57th minute. Baltimore's Fusilier was ejected with a straight red card, leaving the home side with just 10 men for the final 33 minutes of the contest. Even a man short, Crystal Palace Baltimore gained some life late in the contest, when Brooks was awarded a penalty kick late in the second half.
Murphy played a long ball over the top for Brooks at the top of the box. Brooks got tangled up with Timbers defender Kevin Goldthwaite just inside the top right corner of the box, and drew the foul to earn the penalty kick. Brooks was able to get Pyzdrowski to dive to his right before slotting a shot into the left side of the goal to cut the Timbers lead in half, 2-1.
Portland would find the back of the net for a third time against Baltimore. The ball was pushed down the left side and collected by Cameron deep in the corner. He sent in a well-placed cross to Josten running at the near post. The ball dropped in for Josten, and he flicked a shot into the top near corner in the 86th minute to cap the victory.
The Timbers controlled the run of play for a majority of the match and out-shot Crystal Palace Baltimore 16-9.
Just after Dike's goal in the third minute, Pore set up DeMartin for a dangerous chance from inside the box. Murphy made a diving stop on DeMartin's shot from the right side. In the seventh minute, Alhassan played the ball up field for Dike, who rocketed a shot off the top of the crossbar from 12 yards out.
Murphy made one of his four first-half saves on a blistering shot from Timbers midfielder Keith Savage in the 32nd minute. He was able to leap up and get to Savage's shot aimed at the top corner.
Crystal Palace Baltimore opened the second half with one of its more dangerous scoring opportunities of the match. Forward Neto unloaded a shot from 25 yards out, but Pyzdrowski made a diving save and was able to hold onto the ball to keep the home side off the board.
Timbers sub Ibad Muhamadu provided a spark for the Timbers offense off the bench, recording three shots. In the 64th minute, Muhamadu received the ball in the box, turned and then ripped a shot from a tight angle along the right post towards the far stick. The ball rolled just wide, but Portland had two runners on the far side that were just a step behind the play.
Murphy kept the match in check for Baltimore into the late stages of the match. In the 79th minute, he made two saves point-blank shots by the Timbers. The first came on a one-on-one entcounter with Muhamadu along the left side, which sent the ball back into play. With the ball bouncing around the box, Pore drilled a shot on frame from 10 yards out and Murphy was able to deny the effort on a sliding save.
The Timbers wrap up their regular-season schedule on Saturday, Oct. 2, against Northwest rival the Vancouver Whitecaps in Burnaby, B.C.; kickoff is scheduled for 4 p.m. A live broadcast will be available on Newsradio 750 KXL, with a live video webcast available online at www.portlandtimbers.com/live.
Notes: The Timbers broke the previous modern-franchise record of 469 minutes without allowing a goal set earlier this season … Goldthwaite and goalkeeper Adin Brown made their 2010 Timbers debut in the match against Baltimore … Dike became the second Timbers player this season to score twice in the first half of a league game. Pore accomplished the feat in a victory over AC St. Louis on April 22 … The Timbers split the season series with Baltimore (2-2-0) … Portland has won six of their last nine games ... The Timbers posted a 3-0-1 record in the month of September.
POR: GK Pyzdrowski (Brown, 82), D Thompson, D Danso, D Goldthwaite, D Cameron, M Pore, M Savage (Nimo, 66), M Alhassan (Gaudet, 89), M McManus, F Dike (Josten, 60), F DeMartin (Muhamadu, 60)
BAL: GK Murphy, D Pejic (Mark, 83), D Marshall, D Teixeira (Flores, 89), D Veeder, M Healey, M Mbuta (Bumbut, 43), M Fusilier, F Sanchez, F Neto, F Brooks
Scoring Summary:
POR: Dike (DeMartin), 3
POR: Dike (DeMartin), 41
BAL: Brooks (penalty kick), 73
POR: Josten (Cameron), 86


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By Candace Sindelman
What is your goal for the program?
The film industry is changing so radically our goal is to a put together a program that really reflects the times.
How long have you been teaching for?
On and off for about 20 years.
How has your experience been teaching?
The experience has obviously been pretty good.
What has been your favorite experience about teaching?
Working with filmmakers just starting out makes you realize what an exciting business it can be. It really prevents cynicism and that's a great thing.
How did you get the idea to team up with Stony Brook?
I was originally approached by Magdalene Brandeis. I sat down with Bob Reeves and we started talking about different strategies. We were both frustrated with how film production careers were being taught in a traditional setting. We wanted to do something different.
What are some of the biggest mistakes that film schools tend to make?
Honestly it comes back to film schools are still dealing with the idea that the end goal has to be a theatrical feature film. It needs a radical overhaul in that most people consume media in completely different ways in how we actually tell stories and the stories we actually film; new filmmakers need to be thinking about that in much more innovative ways.
What makes a great film?
Everyone has a different answer. Ultimately, the film takes you to some place you have never been and the experience of watching the film has been directed by a terrific journey in incredibly safe hands. (Pause) Some people's idea of a great film is "Weekend at Bernie's," and that is fine.
What advice would you give to filmmakers just starting out?
Be as open as possible to new opportunities and be as flexible as possible how you tell stories and where people see them and think about who the audience is for your work.
What is something you wished you knew when first starting out in film?
I don't think about stuff like that.
What type of stuff do you think about?
Oh, where I am going to get my next meal.
Where do you see the program in the next five years?
That's a tough one. I don't even think about next week. Ideally we'll create something self-sustaining that's really relevant. I've made over 70 films; I love what I do. I managed to stay in business and listen to the times. I hope that there will be a new generation of filmmakers to tap into and really collaborate with.
What about Stony Brook Southampton's facilities appealed to you?
It's a beautiful campus and a beautiful place with a lot of possibilities that I am just beginning to explore.
How do you stay current in today's industry?
The answer to that question is longer than I have time for. Come to my master class. Ultimately the short answer is to watch as much content as you can. Find the good stuff and support it.


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The Bachelor
Bachelor 2013: Is Tierra LiCausi Engaged?
Tierra LiCausi has been... how do we put this... controversial? Yeah, that's a good word. She has been a controversial character on The Bachelor Season 17 so far, and it seems that her only fan on the show is Sean Lowe. Despite all of her crazy antics, it's possible that she and Sean really do have a connection. So, we were pretty surprised when we spotted this picture on Tierra's Instagram.
What gives? True, the show has wrapped and it's only a few weeks until Sean and his lucky fiancée come out into the world as man and future wife. Is it Tierra? She's never cared much for rules on the show, so we could see her posting pics with no regards to her contract.
Just as easily, she could be telling us that Sean didn't pick her but she doesn't give a f*ck. After all, on Episode 5, she said "If I want to go get engaged, I could easily go get engaged. There's plenty of guys in the world." Did she find one?
What do you think, Bachelor Nation? Did Tierra get engaged to Sean and leak the picture of her, um, super tasteful ring? Does she need some lotion? Did she get some other guy to sign up for a life with her? Or is she just messing with us? We wouldn't put any of those options past her. Weigh in below.
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There are several allotropes of carbon of which the best known are graphite, diamond, and amorphous carbon. The physical properties of carbon vary widely with the allotropic form. For example, diamond is highly transparent, while graphite is opaque and black. Diamond is among the hardest materials known, while graphite is soft enough to form a streak on paper. Diamond has a very low electric conductivity, while graphite is a very good conductor. Also, diamond has the highest thermal conductivity of all known materials under normal conditions. All the allotropic forms are solids under normal conditions but graphite is the most thermodynamically stable.
All forms of carbon are highly stable, requiring high temperature to react even with oxygen. The most common oxidation state of carbon in inorganic compounds is +4, while +2 is found in carbon monoxide and other transition metal carbonyl complexes. The largest sources of inorganic carbon are limestones, dolomites and carbon dioxide, but significant quantities occur in organic deposits of coal, peat, oil and methane clathrates. Carbon forms more compounds than any other element, with almost ten million pure organic compounds described to date, which in turn are a tiny fraction of such compounds that are theoretically possible under standard conditions.
Carbon is the fourth most abundant element in the universe by mass after hydrogen, helium, and oxygen. It is present in all known lifeforms, and in the human body, carbon is the second most abundant element by mass (about 18.5%) after oxygen. This abundance, together with the unique diversity of organic compounds and their unusual polymer-forming ability at the temperatures commonly encountered on Earth, make this element the chemical basis of all known life.
Carbon compounds form the basis of all life on Earth and the carbon-nitrogen cycle provides some of the energy produced by the Sun and other stars. Although it forms an extraordinary variety of compounds, most forms of carbon are comparatively unreactive under normal conditions. At standard temperature and pressure, it resists all but the strongest oxidizers. It does not react with sulfuric acid, hydrochloric acid, chlorine or any alkalis. At elevated temperatures carbon reacts with oxygen to form carbon oxides, and will reduce such metal oxides as iron oxide to the metal. This exothermic reaction is used in the iron and steel industry to control the carbon content of steel:
+ 4C(s) → 3Fe(s) + 4CO(g)
with sulfur to form carbon disulfide and with steam in the coal-gas reaction
C(s) + H2O(g) → CO(g) + H2(g).
Carbon combines with some metals at high temperatures to form metallic carbides, such as the iron carbide cementite in steel, and tungsten carbide, widely used as an abrasive and for making hard tips for cutting tools.
Graphene, which occurs naturally in graphite, is the strongest substance known to man, according to a study released in August 2008 by Columbia University. However, the process of separating it from graphite will require some technological development before it is economical enough to be used in industrial processes.
The system of carbon allotropes spans a range of extremes:
|Synthetic diamond nanorods are the hardest materials known.
|Graphite is one of the softest materials known.
|Diamond is the ultimate abrasive.
|Graphite is a very good lubricant.
|Diamond is an excellent electrical insulator.
|Graphite is a conductor of electricity.
|Diamond is the best known thermal conductor
|Some forms of graphite are used for thermal insulation (i.e. firebreaks and heatshields)
|Diamond is highly transparent.
|Graphite is opaque.
|Diamond crystallizes in the cubic system.
|Graphite crystallizes in the hexagonal system.
|Amorphous carbon is completely isotropic.
|Carbon nanotubes are among the most anisotropic materials ever produced.
Carbon is the fourth most abundant chemical element in the universe by mass after hydrogen, helium, and oxygen. Carbon is abundant in the Sun, stars, comets, and in the atmospheres of most planets. Some meteorites contain microscopic diamonds that were formed when the solar system was still a protoplanetary disk. Microscopic diamonds may also be formed by the intense pressure and high temperature at the sites of meteorite impacts.
In combination with oxygen in carbon dioxide, carbon is found in the Earth's atmosphere (in quantities of approximately 810 gigatonnes) and dissolved in all water bodies (approximately 36000 gigatonnes). Around 1900 gigatonnes are present in the biosphere. Hydrocarbons (such as coal, petroleum, and natural gas) contain carbon as well — coal "reserves" (not "resources") amount to around 900 gigatonnes, and oil reserves around 150 gigatonnes. With smaller amounts of calcium, magnesium, and iron, carbon is a major component of very large masses carbonate rock (limestone, dolomite, marble etc.).
Coal is a significant commercial source of mineral carbon; anthracite containing 92-98% carbon and the largest source (4000 Gt, or 80% of coal, gas and oil reserves) of carbon in a form suitable for use as fuel.
Graphite is found in large quantities in New York and Texas, the United States, Russia, Mexico, Greenland, and India.
Natural diamonds occur in the rock kimberlite, found in ancient volcanic "necks," or "pipes". Most diamond deposits are in Africa, notably in South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, the Republic of the Congo, and Sierra Leone. There are also deposits in Arkansas, Canada, the Russian Arctic, Brazil and in Northern and Western Australia.
Diamonds are now also being recovered from the ocean floor off the Cape of Good Hope. However, though diamonds are found naturally, about 30% of all industrial diamonds used in the U.S. are now made synthetically.
According to studies from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an estimate of the global carbon budget is:
|Biosphere, oceans, atmosphere
|0.45 x 1018 kilograms (3.7 x 1018 moles)
|Organic carbon
|13.2 x 1018 kg
|62.4 x 1018 kg
|1200 x 1018 kg
Carbon-14 is formed in upper layers of the troposphere and the stratosphere, at altitudes of 9–15 km, by a reaction that is precipitated by cosmic rays. Thermal neutrons are produced that collide with the nuclei of nitrogen-14, forming carbon-14 and a proton.
Carbon-14 (14C) is a naturally occurring radioisotope which occurs in trace amounts on Earth of up to 1 part per trillion (0.0000000001%), mostly confined to the atmosphere and superficial deposits, particularly of peat and other organic materials. This isotope decays by 0.158 MeV β- emission. Because of its relatively short half-life of 5730 years, 14C is virtually absent in ancient rocks, but is created in the upper atmosphere (lower stratosphere and upper troposphere) by interaction of nitrogen with cosmic rays. The abundance of 14C in the atmosphere and in living organisms is almost constant, but decreases predictably in their bodies after death. This principle is used in radiocarbon dating, invented in 1949, which has been used extensively to determine the age of carbonaceous materials with ages up to about 40,000 years.
There are 15 known isotopes of carbon and the shortest-lived of these is 8C which decays through proton emission and alpha decay and has a half-life of 1.98739x10-21 s. The exotic 19C exhibits a nuclear halo, which means its radius is appreciably larger than would be expected if the nucleus was a sphere of constant density.
One of the fusion mechanisms powering stars is the carbon-nitrogen cycle.
Rotational transitions of various isotopic forms of carbon monoxide (e.g. 12CO, 13CO, and C18O) are detectable in the submillimeter regime, and are used in the study of newly forming stars in molecular clouds.
Commonly carbon-containing compounds which are associated with minerals or which do not contain hydrogen or fluorine, are treated separately from classical organic compounds; however the definition is not rigid (see reference articles above). Among these are the simple oxides of carbon. The most prominent oxide is carbon dioxide (). This was once the principal constituent of the paleoatmosphere, but is a minor component of the Earth's atmosphere today. Dissolved in water, it forms carbonic acid but as most compounds with multiple single-bonded oxygens on a single carbon it is unstable. Through this intermediate, though, resonance-stabilized carbonate ions are produced. Some important minerals are carbonates, notably calcite. Carbon disulfide is similar.
The other common oxide is carbon monoxide (CO). It is formed by incomplete combustion, and is a colorless, odorless gas. The molecules each contain a triple bond and are fairly polar, resulting in a tendency to bind permanently to hemoglobin molecules, displacing oxygen, which has a lower binding affinity. Cyanide (CN–), has a similar structure, but behaves much like a halide ion (pseudohalogen). For example it can form the nitride cyanogen molecule ((CN)2), similar to diatomic halides. Other uncommon oxides are carbon suboxide the unstable dicarbon monoxide (C2O), and even carbon trioxide (CO3).
With reactive metals, such as tungsten, carbon forms either carbides (C4–), or acetylides (C22–) to form alloys with high melting points. These anions are also associated with methane and acetylene, both very weak acids. With an electronegativity of 2.5, carbon prefers to form covalent bonds. A few carbides are covalent lattices, like carborundum (SiC), which resembles diamond.
The simplest form of an organic molecule is the hydrocarbon—a large family of organic molecules that are composed of hydrogen atoms bonded to a chain of carbon atoms. Chain length, side chains and functional groups all affect the properties of organic molecules. By IUPAC's definition, all the other organic compounds are functionalized compounds of hydrocarbons.
Carbon occurs in all organic life and is the basis of organic chemistry. When united with hydrogen, it forms various flammable compounds called hydrocarbons which are important to industry as chemical feedstock for the manufacture of plastics and petrochemicals and as fossil fuels.
When combined with oxygen and hydrogen, carbon can form many groups of important biological compounds including sugars,lignans, chitins, alcohols, fats, and aromatic esters, carotenoids and terpenes. With nitrogen it forms alkaloids, and with the addition of sulfur also it forms antibiotics, amino acids, and rubber products. With the addition of phosphorus to these other elements, it forms DNA and RNA, the chemical-code carriers of life, and adenosine triphosphate (ATP), the most important energy-transfer molecule in all living cells.
Carbon was discovered in prehistory and was known in the forms of soot and charcoal to the earliest human civilizations. Diamonds were known probably as early as 2500 BCE in China, while carbon in the forms of charcoal was made around Roman times by the same chemistry as it is today, by heating wood in a pyramid covered with clay to exclude air.
In 1722, René A. F. de Réaumur demonstrated that iron was transformed into steel through the absorption of some substance, now known to be carbon. In 1772, Antoine Lavoisier showed that diamonds are a form of carbon, when he burned samples of carbon and diamond then showed that neither produced any water and that both released the same amount of carbon dioxide per gram. Carl Wilhelm Scheele showed that graphite, which had been thought of as a form of lead, was instead a type of carbon. In 1786, the French scientists Claude Louis Berthollet, Gaspard Monge and C. A. Vandermonde then showed that this substance was carbon. In their publication they proposed the name carbone (Latin carbonum) for this element. Antoine Lavoisier listed carbon as an element in his 1789 textbook.
A new allotrope of carbon, fullerene, that was discovered in 1985 includes nanostructured forms such as buckyballs and nanotubes. Their discoverers received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1996. The resulting renewed interest in new forms, lead to the discovery of further exotic allotropes, including glassy carbon, and the realization that "amorphous carbon" is not strictly amorphous.
According to the USGS, world production of natural graphite in 2006 was 1.03 million tonnes and in 2005 was 1.04 million tonnes (revised), of which the following major exporters produced: China produced 720,000 tonnes in both 2006 and 2005, Brazil 75,600 tonnes in 2006 and 75,515 tonnes in 2005 (revised), Canada 28,000 tonnes in both years, and Mexico (amorphous) 12,500 tonnes in 2006 and 12,357 tonnes in 2005 (revised). In addition, there are two specialist producers: Sri Lanka produced 3,200 tonnes in 2006 and 3,000 tonnes in 2005 of lump or vein graphite, and Madagascar produced 15,000 tonnes in both years, a large portion of it "crucible grade" or very large flake graphite. Some other producers produce very small amounts of "crucible grade".
According to the USGS, U.S. (synthetic) graphite electrode production in 2006 was 132,000 tonnes valued at $495 million and in 2005 was 146,000 tonnes valued at $391 million, and high-modulus graphite (carbon) fiber production in 2006 was 8,160 tonnes valued at $172 million and in 2005 was 7,020 tonnes valued at $134 million.
The diamond supply chain is controlled by a limited number of powerful businesses, and is also highly concentrated in a small number of locations around the world.
Only a very small fraction of the diamond ore consists of actual diamonds. The ore is crushed, during which care has to be taken in order to prevent larger diamonds from being destroyed in this process and subsequently the particles are sorted by density. Today, diamonds are located in the diamond-rich density fraction with the help of X-ray fluorescence, after which the final sorting steps are done by hand. Before the use of X-rays became commonplace, the separation was done with grease belts; diamonds have a stronger tendency to stick to grease than the other minerals in the ore.
Historically diamonds were known to be found only in alluvial deposits in southern India. India led the world in diamond production from the time of their discovery in approximately the 9th century BCE to the mid-18th century AD, but the commercial potential of these sources had been exhausted by the late 18th century and at that time India was eclipsed by Brazil where the first non-Indian diamonds were found in 1725.
Diamond production of primary deposits (kimberlites and lamproites) only started in the 1870s after the discovery of the Diamond fields in South Africa. Production has increased over time and now an accumulated total of 4.5 billion carats have been mined since that date. Interestingly 20% of that amount has been mined in the last 5 years alone and during the last ten years 9 new mines have started production while 4 more are waiting to be opened soon. Most of these mines are located in Canada, Zimbabwe, Angola, and one in Russia.
In the US, diamonds have been found in Arkansas, Colorado, and Montana. In 2004, a startling discovery of a microscopic diamond in the US led to the January 2008 bulk-sampling of kimberlite pipes in a remote part of Montana.
Today, most commercially viable diamond deposits are in Russia, Botswana, Australia and the Democratic Republic of Congo. In 2005, Russia produced almost one-fifth of the global diamond output, reports the British Geological Survey. Australia boasts the richest diamondiferous pipe with production reaching peak levels of per year in the 1990s.
There are also commercial deposits being actively mined in the Northwest Territories of Canada, Siberia (mostly in Yakutia territory, for example Mir pipe and Udachnaya pipe), Brazil, and in Northern and Western Australia. Diamond prospectors continue to search the globe for diamond-bearing kimberlite and lamproite pipes.
Carbon is essential to all known living systems, and without it life as we know it could not exist (see alternative biochemistry). The major economic use of carbon other than food and wood is in the form of hydrocarbons, most notably the fossil fuel methane gas and crude oil (petroleum). Crude oil is used by the petrochemical industry to produce, amongst others, gasoline and kerosene, through a distillation process, in refineries. Cellulose is a natural, carbon-containing polymer produced by plants in the form of cotton, linen, hemp. Cellulose is mainly used for maintaining structure in plants. Commercially valuable carbon polymers of animal origin include wool, cashmere and silk. Plastics are made from synthetic carbon polymers, often with oxygen and nitrogen atoms included at regular intervals in the main polymer chain. The raw materials for many of these synthetic substances come from crude oil.
The uses of carbon and its compounds are extremely varied. It can form alloys with iron, of which the most common is carbon steel. Graphite is combined with clays to form the 'lead' used in pencils used for writing and drawing. It is also used as a lubricant and a pigment, as a moulding material in glass manufacture, in electrodes for dry batteries and in electroplating and electroforming, in brushes for electric motors and as a neutron moderator in nuclear reactors.
Charcoal is used as a drawing material in artwork, for grilling, and in many other uses including iron smelting. Wood, coal and oil are used as fuel for production of energy and space heating. Gem quality diamond is used in jewelry, and Industrial diamonds are used in drilling, cutting and polishing tools for machining metals and stone. Plastics are made from fossil hydrocarbons, and carbon fibre, made by pyrolysis of synthetic polyester fibres is used to reinforce plastics to form advanced, lightweight composite materials. Carbon fiber is made by pyrolysis of extruded and stretched filaments of polyacrylonitrile (PAN) and other organic substances. The crystallographic structure and mechanical properties of the fiber depend on the type of starting material, and on the subsequent processing. Carbon fibres made from PAN have structure resembling narrow filaments of graphite, but thermal processing may re-order the structure into a continuous rolled sheet . The result is fibers with higher specific tensile strength than steel.
Carbon black is used as the black pigment in printing ink, artist's oil paint and water colours, carbon paper, automotive finishes, India ink and laser printer toner. Carbon black is also used as a filler in rubber products such as tyres and in plastic compounds. Activated charcoal is used as an absorbent and adsorbent in filter material in applications as diverse as gas masks, water purification and kitchen extractor hoods and in medicine to absorb toxins, poisons, or gases from the digestive system. Carbon is used in chemical reduction at high temperatures. coke is used to reduce iron ore into iron. Case hardening of steel is achieved by heating finished steel components in carbon powder. Carbides of silicon, tungsten, boron and titanium, are among the hardest known materials, and are used as abrasives in cutting and grinding tools. Carbon compounds make up most of the materials used in clothing, such as natural and synthetic textiles and leather, and almost all of the interior surfaces in the built environment other than glass, stone and metal.
A large trade in gem-grade diamonds exists. Unlike precious metals such as gold or platinum, gem diamonds do not trade as a commodity: there is a substantial mark-up in the sale of diamonds, and there is not a very active market for resale of diamonds. One hallmark of the trade in gem-quality diamonds is its remarkable concentration: wholesale trade and diamond cutting is limited to a few locations. 92% of diamond pieces cut in 2003 were in Surat, Gujarat, India. Other important centers of diamond cutting and trading are Antwerp, where the International Gemological Institute is based, London, New York, Tel Aviv, Amsterdam. A single company—De Beers—controls a significant proportion of the trade in diamonds. They are based in Johannesburg, South Africa and London, England.
The production and distribution of diamonds is largely consolidated in the hands of a few key players, and concentrated in traditional diamond trading centers. The most important being Antwerp, where 80% of all rough diamonds, 50% of all cut diamonds and more than 50% of all rough, cut and industrial diamonds combined are handled. This makes Antwerp the de facto 'world diamond capital'. New York, however, along with the rest of the United States, is where almost 80% of the world's diamonds are sold, including auction sales. Also, the largest and most unusually shaped rough diamonds end up in New York. The De Beers owns or controls a significant portion of the world's rough diamond production facilities (mines) and distribution channels for gem-quality diamonds. The company and its subsidiaries own mines that produce some 40 percent of annual world diamond production. At one time it was thought over 80 percent of the world's rough diamonds passed through the Diamond Trading Company (DTC, a subsidiary of De Beers) in London, but presently the figure is estimated at less than 50 percent. The De Beers diamond advertising campaign is acknowledged as one of the most successful and innovative campaigns in history. N. W. Ayer & Son, the advertising firm retained by De Beers in the mid-20th century, succeeded in reviving the American diamond market and opened up new markets, even in countries where no diamond tradition had existed before. N.W. Ayer's multifaceted marketing campaign included product placement, advertising the diamond itself rather than the De Beers brand, and building associations with celebrities and royalty. This coordinated campaign has lasted decades and continues today; it is perhaps best captured by the slogan "a diamond is forever".
The market for industrial-grade diamonds operates much differently from its gem-grade counterpart. Industrial diamonds are valued mostly for their hardness and heat conductivity, making many of the gemological characteristics of diamond, including clarity and color, mostly irrelevant. This helps explain why 80% of mined diamonds (equal to about 100 million carats or 20,000 kg annually), unsuitable for use as gemstones and known as bort, are destined for industrial use. In addition to mined diamonds, synthetic diamonds found industrial applications almost immediately after their invention in the 1950s; another 3 billion carats (600 metric tons) of synthetic diamond is produced annually for industrial use. The dominant industrial use of diamond is in cutting, drilling, grinding, and polishing. Most uses of diamonds in these technologies do not require large diamonds; in fact, most diamonds that are gem-quality except for their small size, can find an industrial use. Diamonds are embedded in drill tips or saw blades, or ground into a powder for use in grinding and polishing applications. Specialized applications include use in laboratories as containment for high pressure experiments (see diamond anvil cell), high-performance bearings, and limited use in specialized windows. With the continuing advances being made in the production of synthetic diamonds, future applications are beginning to become feasible. Garnering much excitement is the possible use of diamond as a semiconductor suitable to build microchips from, or the use of diamond as a heat sink in electronics.
Carbon may also burn vigorously and brightly in the presence of air at high temperatures, as in the Windscale fire, which was caused by sudden release of stored Wigner energy in the graphite core. Large accumulations of coal, which have remained inert for hundred of millions of years in the absence of oxygen, may spontaneously combust when exposed to air, for example in coal mine waste tips. The great variety of carbon compounds include such lethal poisons as tetrodotoxin, the lectin ricin from seeds of the castor oil plant Ricinus communis, cyanide (CN-) and carbon monoxide; and such essentials to life as glucose and protein.


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DAKAR TRAINING REGIME - 3-5 yr plan - anyone have one?
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I have a 25+ yr obsession with the Dakar and am looking for input and suggestions for a 3-5 year training plan with milestones for equipment purchase, physical endurance training, smaller long distance rallies to attend to get some experience all the while moving towards a Dakar event.
End State is to actually race the Dakar on an 4 wheeler ATV (QUAD).
Does anyone having a training plan, recommended training activities, physical workout (what to focus on), also mechanics training (for repairs while on the rally), rally's etc?
Note I am in Ontario Canada.
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Do you have a 3-5 year plan for the money too? Or at least have banks in mind to rob?
Alaska 2006 | South America 2007 | USA coast-to-coast 2008 | 2009, what happened?
2011, We lost fellow PNW adventure rider Ken Morton (DreadPirateKermit)
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Can you provide a little detail of where you are currently at; riding skill, physical condition, any competitive riding?
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Physical Condition - GOOD - currently preparing (again) for a CF (Canadian Forces) Afghan Deployment - I consider myself in GOOD shape for my age however I am NOT a hard core runner - more weights and CrossFit - looking to do a LOT more CrossFit this year
Riding Level - Advanced Amateur - I have 4 ATV's - 2 racing, 2 utility (none are truly equipped for long distance rally distances) - I have NOT done TRACK RACING...going in circles carries little interest to me - neither does going stupid fast for 7-10 minutes on an xtremely tight track. I have taken on multiple 8+ hour riding trails at above a leisurely pace...but hardly at a level I would consider a true rally would be raced at. I DO have access to tracks as well as multiple friends who are North American top 20 racers who I can lean on for assistance (they are motocross track racers - NOT ATV racers...nor rally racers). I am also in touch with several Canadian Dakar racers - have met several and feel there is local support from those individuals if someone was SERIOUS about taking on the DAKAR.
Mechanical Skill: Negligible - I would really have to pick this skill up from the very basics and move forward with it.
Finances - GOOD QUESTION - looking for assistance and direction on this as well. Since this is a 3-5 yr plan - My first year is mostly about using the equipment I already have rather than buying new. Mostly an investment in TIME, off-trail training etc. 2nd yr I'd likely want to INVEST in a more suitable ATV - note that I have used both 2 and 4 wheel QUADS and believe whole heartedly in the utility of 4x4 - therefore I'd likely make this purchase a CAN-AM Utility or CAN-AM Sport Quad (Renegade 4x4 Sport Quad).
My research for the final 18 months prior to a true Dakar entry submission and attempt would be a budget of approx 85K US for a serious attempt - that would include support services from Rally Pan-Am or other such organization as well as 3-5 trips that year down to Rally Pan-Am for 3 day weekend desert training sessions to learn road book and IRITRACK systems in addition to desert / sand riding...we don't have a lot of desert in Canada). Of course 85K now may very well be 110K in 5 years time.....hard to tell. A yearly breakdown of goals and milestones from a on-trail / off-trail perspective as well as finances expected to "invest" each year is also of interest.
Are there other North American DISTANCE rally's that I could use for pure long distance riding skill and stamina development? (Remember..for Quads & ATV's). Yes..very aware of SCORE BAJA series Rally's and am interested. There is a 24 hour rally near Quebec City that is easily drivable in a day.....but looking for others.
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Stick with the CrossFit work out regimen and build up your riding endurance. Your overall workout should be geared more toward endurance than strength. Your riding should concentrate on endurance also. Try to ride 3-4 hours at a fast pace you can maintain. Work on increasing the pace while maintaining it for the entire ride. Your stamina and riding skill will increase.
I'd look at running BITD Vegas to Reno for good desert practice. It will will also give you a gauge of what you need to work on as a rider.
As far as mechanical skill, if you real have no ability and don't have a natural sense on how things work find someone that can help you. Start with basic things like changing the oil and tires, then start disassembling more parts of the quad just to get familiar with how the pieces come apart and go back together.
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CHH - if you check some of the Dakar pre-event you will see a bit of comment on getting into the event, which will be perhaps the biggest challenge, i.e. your rally CV - that is after getting together the $150k that it would probably cost in a few years (always costs more and never less) with full support would be pretty high on the list.
Having said this check out Manuel Lucchese and contact him after the Dakar - Manuel is on his second campaign and is perhaps one of the most resourceful guys around in terms of getting there on a budget, catch up on his blog and Facebook, he is one of the ADvrs when he has time.
There are also a few rumours knocking around over the location of the event in a few years, but I would suggest that as long as it remains on this planet then this is minor.
Good luck and keep at it here and you will get plenty of support along the way - Deadly99 is in your neck of the woods and may also be able to help - check out his book from last year - http://www.graveltravel.ca/index.php...d=71&Itemid=69
PS - there is a guy from Dubai, Sebastian Husseini #265 Quad, entering for the first year, a good friend of Sam Sunderland (an ADVassociate with his fan club of mxmum and myself) but unfortunatley he is out for this year, but that's another story.
Seb runs a small shop here in Dubai called Sebsports and I'm sure after the race is over if you contact him he will have plenty of info, maybe you are even passing through and could catch up with him?
Sam would be able to give you some guidance on fitness training - but you would need to be special forces material to take 50% of it on board and one of the key things for all is stay away from injury!
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Contact Charlie at Rally Management Services. He is a Dakar veteran, and was the team manager for Rally PanAm. He also puts on rally schools for navigation.
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I am on a similar path. 3 years ago I set my sights on Dakar, at the time I planned on doing it in 5 years (2015) but a recent racing injury has set me back at least a year... probably more to be honest since I don't think I was really on track to do it in 5 years. Sounds like you are starting with more riding experience than I did, and most certainly you are starting
from a better level of fitness.
I started a thread back when I started my goal, not it orignally said 10 years as the goal then I later changed it to 5. I suspect the reality will be somewhere in between.
Also I am documenting my journey in my blog: http://www.dakardream.net/
You seem to have a good understanding of the cost, that is important as a lot of people get scared off right away when they realize what it really costs to do this event.
Events I would suggest:
Mexican 1000, (I think they have a quad class, not sure). This is a 4 day rally through Baja. Lost of vintage vehicles but also open to modern vehicles. Fairly lightweight compared to other rallies but a great way to get started.
Australian Safari Rally. I believe they might be doing free shipping from N. America this year as part of the entry fee. Several ADVers have done this in the past so should find plenty of info if you search here.
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From what I saw on the reliability of quads in the Australian safari event I would work towards knowing every single square inch of your machine by the time you reach the start line. Make sure you understand how every piece fits together and know how to take it apart and rebuild it in the desert if you need to....because you may need to.
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I was on a 5+ year plan for Dakar, except I really wasn't. I just kept doing the things that fascinated me and that I enjoyed, and next thing you know, there I was.
Something I think is really important is that you don't view dakar as an end point, but a culmination, just as the last goal was and the next will be. That ensures your heart is pure every step of the way. Reducing it to a bullet point on a bucket list misses not only the point, but also the best way to prepare- it should just be more of what you have been doing.
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I just took another look at the categories for the Mexican 1000 rally and they do indeed have ATV classifications. Last year there were no ATVs so you probably won't have much if any competition in your class but this still would be a good intro to rally for you.
Entries are open now: https://www.norra.com/
I did it last year an had a blast. Being from the northeast part of the US I never knew how amazing the terrain in Baja really was. Seeing bits of TV coverage of the Baja 1000 doesn't do it justice, you gotta go see it for yourself.
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Plus spend some money on entering the Maroc Rally (that's Morocco in North Africa). http://rallyemaroc.npo.fr/?lang=en There is a healthy Quad entry as well as all the bikes, cars and trucks.
The next one is in October later this year and is the closest you will get to the 'Dakar' experience. It is run by the NPO and is six days racing with liason sections and special tests on the Dakar pistes and dunes that were used before it all decamped to South America.
All the top race teams are there including the full factory KTM team, as they do their final shake down tests prior to the Dakar in the following January. You will ride alongside the best in the world. You also use all the navigation and safety equipment you get on the Dakar, which will include the Roadbook, GPS, Iritrack, sentinel warning system, cap repeater and ICO. Navigtion is as equally important as riding ability and bike fitness and will be your main learning, as well as the early starts and just riding as part of a rally in the desert.
You will spend money doing this but it will help you understand the complexity and difficulties of rally raiding and the level of skill/knowledge etc required. It will contribute to your Rally CV which will help you get accepted into the Dakar. Also if you find that you are not up to/get to the required standard or are simply not enjoying it, it is better to find out on this than with the Dakar itself. It is certainly more cost effective.
When I was in the 2009 race, Don Hatton and another Canadian (sorry I cannot remember his name, but I do remember him breaking his leg) were both using it as pre-Dakar training. You also need to hook up with a team - they can take a lot of the pressure off you and will service your bike/quad daily while you sort yourself out, eat, drink, prep your roadbook for the next day and rest.
Being ex military myself, I prided myself on getting the navigation right (to the extent that people were following me in the tricky sections), I just wish I could ride quicker!! Oh and riding up a dune were there is no back and a straight drop hurts
Anyway good luck with your plans, I hope it works out for you.
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Thanks for your thoughts on Morrocco. Been thinking about doing that one myself. Did you use your own bike or rent through someone like Desert Rose?
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