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An optoelectronic laser module, in particular for dense wavelength division multiplex systems, is described. The laser module has a laser diode with an active region, an optical resonator containing a highly silvered reflecting surface and a Bragg interference grating which provides frequency-selective feedback, and a housing which accommodates the laser diode and has a holder for coupling an optical conductor. The Bragg interference grating is configured as a fiber Bragg grating in an optical conductor and the optical conductor is connected to the housing via the holder. As a result, it is possible with the use of standard components to provide a laser having an external resonator whose emission wavelength can be set in a simple way by suitable selection of the fiber Bragg grating.
1. A modulated optoelectronic laser module for transferring a signal, comprising:
a laser diode having an active region, a rear facet coated with a highly reflective layer forming a highly reflective surface and a front facet coated with an antireflection layer;
a single-mode glass fiber having an end face and a Bragg interference grating, disposed directly downstream of said end face, providing frequency-selective feedback, said highly reflective surface and said Bragg interference grating forming an optical resonator, said Bragg interference grating functioning as a fiber Bragg grating in said optical fiber, light being sent to said fiber Bragg grating or received from said fiber Bragg grating via said front facet of said laser diode;
a coupling lens system disposed between said laser diode and said glass fiber for coupling the light, said coupling lens system having a high-index coupling lens with a focal length of less than two millimeters; and
a standard TO housing accommodating said laser diode, said standard TO housing having a fiber plug connector for attaching said glass fiber to said housing, said fiber Bragg grating being formed in a region of said glass fiber within said fiber plug connector as an optical waveguide.
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This application is a continuation of copending International Application No. PCT/DE01/02262, filed May 15, 2001, which designated the United States.
The invention relates to an optoelectronic laser module having a laser diode with an active region, an optical resonator with a highly silvered reflecting surface and a Bragg interference grating that provides frequency-selective feedback. In addition, a housing accommodates the laser diode and has a holder for coupling an optical conductor. Such a laser module is suitable, in particular, for use in dense wavelength division multiplex (DWDM) systems.
Laser diodes having what is termed distributed feedback are known which, because of frequency-selective feedback, unlike laser diodes with a Fabry-Perot resonator emit not in a multimode fashion but in a single-mode fashion. In particular, there are known in this regard distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) lasers in the case of which a Bragg reflector is disposed outside the normal lasing zone. This is a structure with a periodic disturbance, the Bragg interference grating, which reflects an electromagnetic wave in a frequency-selective fashion, compare the reference by Reinhold Paul, titled "optoelektronische Halbleiterbauelemente), [Opto-electronic semiconductor components], Stuttgart 1992, pages 203-204.
It is also known to inscribe what is termed a fiber Bragg grating into an optical fiber. In order to generate a grating structure in this case, a reflective index is increased in specific regions of the fiber core of an optical fiber, for example by punctiform illumination of the fiber or by using a phase mask that generates an interference fringe pattern in the optical fiber. Current methods for generating a fiber Bragg grating are described in a reference by K. O. Hill et al. titled "Fiber Bragg Grating Technology Fundamentals and Overview", Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol. 15, No. 8, August 1997, pages 1263-1276.
It is accordingly an object of the invention to provide an optoelectronic laser module which overcomes the above-mentioned disadvantages of the prior art devices of this general type, in which the wavelength of a laser diode can be stabilized in a simple way by a bragg interference grating, and can be set in the process to a desired value.
With the foregoing and other objects in view there is provided, in accordance with the invention, an optoelectronic laser module. The laser module contains a laser diode having an active region and a highly silvered reflecting surface, and an optical conductor having a Bragg interference grating providing frequency-selective feedback. The highly silvered reflecting surface and the Bragg interference grating form an optical resonator, the Bragg interference grating functioning as a fiber Bragg grating in the optical conductor. A housing is provided for accommodating the laser diode, the housing has a holder coupling the optical conductor.
Accordingly, the invention is distinguished in that the Bragg interference grating in the optical conductor is configured as a fiber Bragg grating, and the optical conductor is connected to the housing containing the laser diode via a holder. Because of the construction of the interference grating in the optical conductor to be coupled to the laser diode, the invention provides a laser having an external resonator, an external cavity laser (ECL). In this case, a desired wavelength of the laser diode can be set precisely by suitable selection of the grating period of the fiber Bragg grating.
In particular, by changing the pluggable optical conductor it is possible to provide a fiber Bragg grating having a different desired grating period which leads to a changed emission wavelength of the laser diode. The invention therefore permits in a simple way a setting or a selection of the emission wavelength of a laser diode, without the need to change the actual configuration of the laser diode.
Moreover, the structure according to the invention has the advantage that a very stable single-mode operation of the semiconductor laser is ensured in the case of use of quartz glass as the optical conductor material. Thus, by comparison with a semiconductor material in which the Bragg grating is constructed in the case of a DBR laser, in quartz glass the change in wavelength per Kelvin is approximately ten times smaller. Again, a larger effective wavelength is present because of the use of an external resonator. The module is therefore rendered more insensitive to temperature changes and to changes in the optical properties of the laser diode.
In a preferred refinement of the invention, the module has a coupling optical system between the optical conductor and the laser diode. The coupling optical system preferably contains a high-index coupling lens with a focal length of preferably less than one millimeter. The coupling lens is, in particular, a spherical or aspherical silicon lens, GaP lens, SiC lens or a lens made from another suitable high-index optical material. Again, use can be made of a glass lens with a particularly short focal length, in particular a glass aspheric.
The laser diode advantageously has a rear facet that is coated with a highly reflecting layer and constitutes the highly silvered reflecting surface of the resonator. A front facet of the laser diode is, by contrast, preferably coated with an antireflection layer which has a residual reflection of less than 0.1%, such that parasitic resonances of the optical resonator are suppressed. Light is emitted to the fiber Bragg grating or received thereby via the front facet, and so reflection at this facet is not desired.
In a preferred refinement of the invention, it is provided that the front facet is aligned slightly inclined to the optical axis of the laser diode, in particular at an angle of approximately 1� to 5�. This reduces undesired feedback owing to back reflections at other structures than the fiber Bragg grating.
The optical conductor is preferably embedded in a cylindrical ferrule that can be plugged into the holder of the housing. In this case, the ferrule can be part of a fiber plug connector that can be pluggably connected to the housing.
Again, the optical conductor can be connected to a fiber plug connector in another way than via a ferrule. The ferrule or the fiber plug connector can preferably be detachably connected to the housing such that the emission wavelength of the module can be changed by simply changing the optical conductor and providing an optical conductor with a different grating period.
The housing preferably has a cylindrical holder for an optical conductor. The cylindrical holder serves to hold and couple a cylindrical ferrule that contains the optical conductor with fiber Bragg grating. Furthermore, the housing preferably has a coaxial geometry, and is preferably a TO housing. An external cavity laser with a stabilized wavelength is provided in a very cost-effective way by the use of a standard component such as a TO housing into which there is preferably plugged as a pigtail a standard fiber plug connector which only additionally has one fiber Bragg grating.
The optical conductor is preferably a single-mode glass fiber, the fiber Bragg grating being located in the glass fiber directly downstream of the end face or facet of the glass fiber. As a result, the light launched into the glass fiber immediately strikes the Bragg reflector and is consequently immediately fed back in a wavelength-selective fashion. It is possible in this case to use standard glass fibers and glass fiber plug connectors for connecting the glass fiber to the housing of the laser module, a fiber Bragg grating being inscribed into the standard glass fiber.
The end face of the glass fiber is preferably chamfered in order to avoid undesired feedback to other structures than the fiber Bragg grating.
The length of the optical resonator is preferably so short that the circulation frequency of the light is above a desired modulation frequency of the module. Otherwise, it would not be possible to transmit information on the optical information channel provided by the laser. In particular, the length of the optical resonator is preferably less than ten millimeters.
In a preferred refinement, the module according to the invention has a plurality of laser diodes, optical resonators and fiber Bragg gratings which are respectively constructed in an optical conductor, the spatial grating period of the individual fiber Bragg gratings differing for each optical conductor in such a way that light of a different wavelength is launched in each case. This provides a module with a multiplicity of optical channels such as is applied in DWDM systems, in particular. In this case, typically more than 40 channels with channel spacings of 100 GHz are implemented in a dense wavelength division multiplex.
Other features which are considered as characteristic for the invention are set forth in the appended claims.
Although the invention is illustrated and described herein as embodied in an optoelectronic laser module it is nevertheless not intended to be limited to the details shown, since various modifications and structural changes may be made therein without departing from the spirit of the invention and within the scope and range of equivalents of the claims.
The construction and method of operation of the invention, however, together with additional objects and advantages thereof will be best understood from the following description of specific embodiments when read in connection with the accompanying drawings.
FIG. 1 is a diagrammatic, sectional view of a laser module according to the invention;
FIG. 2 is a sectional view of a second embodiment of the laser module;
FIG. 3 is a sectional view of a third embodiment of the laser module;
FIG. 4 is a perspective view of a laser diode of the laser module; and
FIG. 5 is a sectional view of a module according to the invention with a plurality of laser diodes and TO housings.
In all the figures of the drawing, sub-features and integral parts that correspond to one another bear the same reference symbol in each case. Referring now to the figures of the drawing in detail and first, particularly, to FIG. 1 thereof, there is shown a laser module according to the invention that has a laser chip 1 which is disposed on a TO base 2 of a TO housing 5. The TO housing 5 has a cylindrical coaxial geometry and forms a holder 51 into which it is possible to plug a glass fiber 8 surrounded by a ferrule 6 for the purpose of optical coupling.
The TO base 2 or the laser chip 1 disposed thereon is driven and supplied electrically via electric connections 3 which lead away from the TO base 2.
TO housings are standard housings, known in the prior art, for optical transmit or receive modules, the form of which resembles the housing of a standard transistor, but which have an opening on the topside for the entry or exit of light. A TO laser module, in the case of which a glass fiber is coupled to the TO laser module, is also designated as a coaxial module. The coupled glass fiber is also designated as a pigtail.
A facet or end face 81 of the glass fiber 8 is located in accordance with FIG. 1 in the interior of the housing 5, and is coupled optically to the laser chip 1 via a coupling optical system. The coupling optical system has a deflecting mirror 9 and a lens 4 located in a holder, which deflect light emitted by the laser chip 1 onto the end face of the glass fiber 8, or vice versa, and thereby couple the laser light from the laser diode 1 into the glass fiber 8.
The laser chip 1 is a Fabry-Perot semiconductor laser chip and is illustrated schematically in FIG. 4. Accordingly, the chip 1 has in a way known per se a cuboid crystal volume with an active laser region 15 which is bounded by two plane-parallel crystal faces or facets 12, 13. The rear facet 12 of the laser chip 1 is provided with a highly reflecting layer, and constitutes a reflecting surface. The rear facet 12 can be assigned a monitor diode in this case (not illustrated).
By contrast, in a departure from conventional Fabry-Perot interferometers, the front facet 13 is antireflection-coated, and so laser light 14 passes the front facet 13 without reflections and is launched into the glass fiber 8 via the coupling optical system 9, 4 (compare FIG. 1). The residual reflections reach values below 0.1% in this case.
In an alternative refinement, the front and the rear facets of the laser chip 1 are slightly tilted with respect to the laser axis, in order to avoid undesired reflections and resonances.
According to FIG. 1, a fiber Bragg grating 7 is constructed in the region of the core of the glass fiber 8 (which is preferably a single-mode fiber) adjoining the end face 81. The fiber Bragg grating 7 is permanently inscribed into the fiber core of the single-made fiber 8, for example by lateral UV irradiation. A conventional single-mode glass fiber or a specifically doped UV-photosensitive fiber can be used in this case.
The grating period of the grating 7 is selected in such a way that only a desired wavelength λ is retroreflected. The relationship holds in this case that the grating period is equal to λ/2 n, n being the refractive index of the glass fiber. A typical spatial grating period is approximately 0.5 μm.
The optical resonator of the laser is formed by the rear, silvered facet 12 of the laser chip 1 and the fiber grating 7 of the optical conductor 8. In this configuration, the fiber grating 7 provides frequency-selective feedback of the light emitted by the active region 15 of the laser chip 1, such that only the reflected frequency is amplified and emitted as laser light. A portion of the laser light is transmitted in this case into the optical fiber 8 through the fiber Bragg grating 7.
A second exemplary embodiment of the invention is illustrated in FIG. 2. Identical elements are denoted in this case with identical reference numerals.
In the exemplary embodiment of FIG. 2, the ferrule 6, which surrounds the optical conductor 8, is permanently connected to the housing 5 of the optoelectronic module. A plastic sleeve 10 bearing against the holder 51 of the housing 5 ensures in this case that the optical conductor 8 cannot be bent too strongly.
The lens 4 is a silicon lens with a short focal length of preferably less than two, in particular less than one millimeter. The numerical aperture of the lens 4 is sufficiently large and is typically above the value of 0.4. The silicon lens was produced, for example, from a planar substrate via etched structures. Alternatively, it is also possible to use other spherical or aspherical lenses made from a suitable optical material for the respective wavelength region, for example made from glass, plastic, GaP or SiC. The refractive index of the lens is preferably greater than 2 in this case.
Only a specific, desired wavelength is reflected given appropriate selection of the grating period of the fiber Bragg grating 7, and so the laser starts up only for this wavelength. The remaining wavelengths are destroyed by interference.
An end face 81′ of the glass fiber 8 is slightly chamfered in order to avoid undesired back reflections. The chamfering is typically 8�, it also being possible for larger or smaller angles, in particular between 5� and 25�, to be implemented, depending on the application.
FIG. 3 shows the module according to the invention, in the case of which the optical conductor 8 can be pluggably coupled to the housing 5 of the laser module. The holder of the housing 5 is constructed in this case cylindrically and in such a way that the ferrule 6 need only be pushed into the opening with the optical conductor 8. A screwable fixing element 11 serves a purpose of connecting the ferrule 6 and the glass fiber 8 permanently to the housing 5.
It is possible in this case for another fiber Bragg grating 7 to be provided in a simple way by exchanging the ferrule 6 with the glass fiber 8 and plugging in another glass fiber with a fiber grating of another grating period. Since a different grating period leads to a change in the frequency fed back, the emission wavelength of the laser module can be changed by changing the optical conductor 8 or the fiber grating 7. Experiments have shown that it is possible in this way to use only one laser to generate more than ten different channel wavelengths that, for example, respectively have a spacing of 100 MHz. This is particularly advantageous for providing replacement laser modules in systems with many WDM channels.
In the exemplary embodiments of FIGS. 2 and 3, the resonator length of the laser module is selected to be short in such a way that the circulation frequency of the light in the resonator is higher than the desired modulation frequency of the module. In this case, the resonant frequency is at bit rates of the modulated signal of up to 10 Gbit/s in conjunction with approximately 15 GHz.
FIG. 5 shows an exemplary embodiment of the module according to the invention in the case of which a multiplicity of laser diodes are disposed in TO housings 5, and coupled optical fibers 8, 8′, 8″ with fiber Bragg gratings in accordance with FIGS. 1 to 3 are disposed in an array on a carrier plate 16. In this configuration, the spatial grating period of the fiber Bragg grating differs for each optical fiber 8, 8′, 8″, and so the respective laser in each case has a somewhat different emission wavelength, and consequently light of a different wavelength is respectively launched into the individual optical fibers 8, 8′, 8″. The result is that through the use of similar laser diodes a module with a multiplicity of optical channels is provided such as is used, in particular, in DWDM systems. The individual optical channels in this case preferably have a fixed channel spacing of, for example, 100 GHz.
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PT Lapindo Brantas said it was ready to pay Rp 49 billion ($4.1 million) in outstanding compensation payments to people displaced by the Sidoarjo mudflow disaster by today as demanded by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.
If the payments are made, it would help bring to a close a saga that has played out daily since May 29, 2006, when mud began gushing uncontrollably from near a Lapindo-operated gas exploration well in Sidoarjo, East Java Province.
Lapindo is owned by the family of business tycoon and chief welfare minister Aburizal Bakrie.
The mudflow has inundated hundreds of hectares of villages, industrial areas and agricultural land, leaving more than 15,000 people homeless .
A presidential decree issued last year ordered Lapindo to pay victims in cash for 20 percent of the value of their property up front and the remaining 80 percent by May.
Under the decree, PT Minarak Lapindo Jaya, a subsidiary of Lapindo, was appointed to handle the compensation claims process, which has been marred by numerous street protests from the displaced victims.
However, Lapindo had refused to make payments to victims who did not have legal land certificates, and it later refused to abide by an agreement drafted by four government agencies and ministries to pay full compensation to victims who could not produce land
Upon hearing that the dispute was still raging, Yudhoyono last Thursday demanded the company's chief executive, Nirwan Bakrie, pay the outstanding compensation by today.
"We will carry out what the government demanded according to the deadline given," Yuniwati Teryana, Lapindo's vice president for external relations, said over the weekend.
Asked how Lapindo would settle the payment, Yuniwati said the company would follow the same mechanism that had been implemented previously.
Under that mechanism, victims had to submit their land documents to the Management Agency of the Sidoarjo Mudflow for verification, and after the process was completed, the money would be transferred to their accounts.
That means the same dispute could erupt all over again because Lapindo had refused to pay compensation to victims who did not have official land certificates.
Syafruddin Ngulma Simeulu, who leads a team dealing with mudflow victims at the National Commission for Human Rights, said the government had been weak in supervising the compensation payment scheme, resulting in Lapindo's failure to pay compensation in a timely manner.
"The government must be active in monitoring [the payment process] based on the agreement in the presidential decree. This should not be changed arbitrarily," Syafruddin said.
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 25, 2006 President Bush praised Iraqi Prime Minister Mouri al-Maliki's leadership today and said he reminds Maliki regularly that "we're with him so long as he continues to make tough decisions" for Iraq to succeed.
Speaking at a White House news conference, Bush called Maliki "the right man to achieve the goal in Iraq."
"He's got a hard job," confronting internal pressures ranging from sectarian violence to criminals to al Qaeda and other terrorist groups, the president said. "And he wants to achieve the same objective that I want to achieve."
Bush said he's impressed by Maliki's efforts in getting Sunni and Shiite religious leaders to begin working together and by the prime minister's firm stand against militias. Both leaders recognize that militias operating within Iraq threaten its stability, he said.
The president dismissed questioning about a rift between the two countries following a military operation yesterday in Iraq's Sadr City neighborhood and discussions about benchmarks toward U.S. troop withdrawals. Coordination between the two leaders is important, but with so many operations taking place, sometimes those communications "may not be as good as they should be," Bush conceded. "And we will continue to work very closely with the government to make sure that communications are solid."
Meanwhile, Bush said the United States has assured Maliki that the United States stands firmly with the Iraqi government as it takes the difficult steps required for it to succeed.
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Jul 7, 2008, Vol. 13, No. 41 • By JUDY BACHRACH
White House Ghosts
Is there any creature in the world lower or more pitiful than a White House ghostwriter? I mean, yes, maybe a Hollywood scriptwriter. But at least they can strike. And in some instances their bosses are talented.
Imagine you are working for George Herbert Walker Bush, who gave his writers three rules. The first was that he did not like the word "I," as in "I want a bill that's going to stop crime" because that would be insulting to the police who were trying their best. The second Bush decree: His writers shouldn't pen speeches that were too emotional because he wasn't. And the third was that he wanted his speeches packed with a lot of Yogi Berra quotations. "I would rather quote Yogi Berra than Thomas Jefferson," the leader of the free world, as he was then called, told staffers.
Whatever happened to the proposed era of Berra-isms, one wonders? Why wasn't Yogi offered a few bad meals at the White House mess in return for a few mauvais mots? "I know Texas has a lot of electrical votes"--Yogi's neat political observation to Bush Sr. would not, perhaps, have guaranteed him a landslide victory in 1992. But it might have provided a nice plebeian counterpoint to barcode gaffes at the checkout line.
Alas, White House Ghosts tends to pick up this and other topics and then, without examination or elaboration, toss them, the total effect being like looking at the underside of a tapestry. Lots of threads, no pattern.
In fact, even on completion of this 592-page volume, the reader will remain ignorant of any number of things about presidents and what they are scripted to say. For example: What did these unhappy writers going into the job actually think would be expected of them? Four more years of "a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky" (a disturbing Peggy Noonan landscape, no longer hanging on living room walls). A reprise of "Read my lips: No new taxes" (Noonan as portraitist). A national plague of damp eyes and constricted throats on listening to, "I did not have sex with that woman--Miss Lewinsky"? Come to think of it, the author of that last phrase never is identified in this book.
Startling omissions, however, are only part of the problem. Schlesinger, who is the son of Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., speechwriter to John F. Kennedy and famous historian, is a laborious and dutiful chronicler. The early portions of White House Ghosts, devoted to the likes of Warren G. Harding, FDR, Harry Truman, and Ike, are earnest and just a bit dull. The chapter on JFK's speeches and speechwriters, a slight improvement, may indeed be fertile territory; but it is territory that, by now, is pretty well ploughed, and the original ploughers long ago wrote their own books.
It is worth noting that the best passages in White House Ghosts come from the author's own father. Schlesinger the Elder's caustic 45-year-old recipe for State Department policy statements could have been written this morning:
Take a handful of clichés . . . repeat at five-minute intervals (lest the argument become clear or interesting), stir in the dough of the passive voice (the active voice assigns responsibility and was therefore hazardous) and garnish with self-serving rhetoric (Congress was unhappy unless we constantly proclaimed the rectitude of American motives).
In a similar vein: When speechwriter Jeff Shesol was debating whether or not to take a job in the Clinton White House at the precise moment that Kenneth Starr seemed poised to sink it, it was once again Schlesinger the Elder who offered some acerbic suggestions. Why not grab such an opportunity? he said. Either way, a speechwriter couldn't lose: "You'll either see a White House fighting for its life or a White House in a state of dissolution, both of which would be very interesting." Besides, he added, the job being dangled wasn't exactly brain surgery: "Have you ever written political speeches before? It's a particularly low form of rhetoric."


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WASHINGTON, Oct. 7, 2002 This week, we marked the first anniversary of the start of our combat operations against terrorism. The foundation for our success is no secret. The credit belongs to you who serve as part of our armed forces: our sailors, soldiers, airmen, Marines, Coast Guardsmen, DoD civilians and our military families.
Over the past year, I've visited hundreds of you overseas and around the United States. You are dedicated and determined. You have left your homes, your families and, in the case of our Guard and Reserve personnel, you left your jobs. Your service is an example of selflessness and sacrifice.
Those of you that I've met are no different from the hundreds of thousands of others nobly serving -- at home and abroad. All are doing the extraordinary.
Over this past year, our Nation's armed forces have achieved a significant measure of success in the War on Terrorism. A year ago at this time, few predicted the speed or the effectiveness with which we would eliminate the major terrorist haven in Afghanistan. It was a land-locked country. We had no military bases in the vicinity. We had no major war plan to remove the Taliban from power.
Then, twenty-seven days after the terrorists struck our nation, this joint team unleashed a powerful and lethal campaign. Two months later, our men and women, in concert with our allies and friends, freed Afghanistan. With the help of the international community, we also helped avert a massive famine.
This campaign has been one for the record books. It included the deepest amphibious operation in our Marine Corps history -- over 400 miles into hostile territory. It included the highest elevation that our soldiers fought a pitched battle -- at 10,000 feet above sea level. It included the longest combat sortie on record for our Air Force -- 44 hours in length. Most significant of all, it entailed the fewest war-combatant injuries and the least collateral damage of any major military operation in history.
It was the first time we employed the C-17 in a medium threat environment to airdrop supplies. It was the first time we shared simultaneously a video picture from an unmanned aerial vehicle with the headquarters and the aircrew over the target. No other nation can operate such advanced technology as our armed forces.
While these examples reflect how technology has changed, the most important factor remains the incredible talent and dedication of our men and women in uniform. You who serve -- your adaptability and agility, your courage and character, your discipline and determination, are legendary.
You tackle unpredictable challenges in innovative ways. You make things happen in a dynamic environment. Many of you are 19 and 20 years old. Yet you display the maturity and competence usually associated with much more seasoned troops. You're the driving force in our success.
Our families serve superbly. They provide incredible strength for us all. They endure with patience and grace through extended hours and long periods of separation. Our families deserve our deepest gratitude.
In this war on terrorism, there is more ahead of us than behind us. Three things remain constant.
First, the survival of our nation, our liberties and our way of life will continue to be at risk. Second, our nation will continue to call upon your talents and professionalism. Third, I am confident that you are up to the task. You'll respond as our Armed Forces always have, with courage, honor and sacrifice.
I am privileged to serve with you. May God bless you and your families. And may God bless America.
Gen. Richard B. Myers, USAF


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All you'll need to make your own is a wood pallet (skid), and two 48inch long, 1 1/2 wide, (1/8th inch thick) steel flat rod from Home Depot, some screws and glue; and of course the know how to put it all together.
This project took about a total of 2 days to compete and I still have to paint the legs, and varnish the table (with the weather getting colder those things are probably not going to happen till next spring/summer). All in all this table proved to be well worth the time and effort I put in and it really adds to my gaming room.
If you want to build your own, I'd refer you to keremulu's excellent instructable (see link above) as thats what I did, and mine turned out pretty good.
I'm also very fond of wood used together with wrought iron. In fact, I had seen some tables at a local Starbucks shop which had crude yet simple frames of L section steel and table tops of reclaimed wood. Yours remind me a little bit of those.
I'm also impressed that you have an oxyacetylene torch in your garage, I worked a lot with iron myself, but since I didn't have a furnace or torch, the hammering was quite difficult.
The table looks very solid and robust all in all, congratulations...
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You may have noticed that among the many and varied topics touched upon by COMMENTARY writers in recent weeks, none of us chose to weigh in on the Bundy Ranch controversy that attracted so much notice on cable news, talk radio, and the blogosphere. The reason was that none of us considered the standoff between a Nevada tax scofflaw and the federal government over grazing rights fees to rise to the level of an issue of national interest. The government may own too much land in the West and may have acted in a heavy-handed manner in this case but anyone with sense realized that stiffing the feds is likely to end badly for those who play that game, something that even a bomb-thrower like Glenn Beck appeared to be able to understand. Moreover, there was something slightly absurd about the same people who froth at the mouth when "amnesty" for illegal immigrants is mentioned demanding that Cliven Bundy be let off the hook for what he owed Uncle Sam.
Unfortunately some other conservatives liked the imagery of a rancher and his supporters opposing the arrogant power of the federal government and Bundy became, albeit briefly, the flavor of the month in some libertarian circles. So when he was caught uttering some utterly repulsive racist sentiments by the New York Times earlier this week some of the same pundits that had embraced him were sent running for cover. As they have fled, they have found themselves being pursued by jubilant liberals who have attempted to use Bundy's lunatic rants to brand all of conservatives and Tea Partiers as racists. This was a popular theme today taken up by left-wingers at the New York Times, Salon, and New York magazine who all claimed that Bundy exposed the dark underside of libertarianism in general and conservative media in particular. While Jonathan Chait may consider to be an Onion-like coincidence that libertarian sympathizers are all crackpot racists, that is about as cogent an observation as an attempt to argue that most liberals are unwashed socialist/anti-Semitic lawbreakers just because many of the Occupy Wall Street protesters they embraced fell into those categories.
But there is another moral to this story that should give some on the right pause. In their enthusiasm to embrace anyone who sings from the same "agin the government" hymnal, some libertarians have proved themselves willing to lionize people that were liable to besmirch the causes they cherish. As our Pete Wehner pointed out recently, that some figures identified with conservatism have embraced sympathizers with the Confederacy as well as open racists and anti-Semites is a matter of record.
That the liberal attempt to tar all Tea Partiers as racists is unfair is beside the point. It is one thing to believe in small government, federalism, and to fear the willingness of liberals to undermine the rule of law. It is quite another to treat the government as not just a problem but as the enemy. The U.S. government is not the enemy. When run by responsible patriots it is, as it was designed to be, the best defense of our liberty, not its foe. As Charles Krauthammer ably stated on Fox News earlier this week:
First of all, it isn't enough to say I don't agree with what he [Bundy] said. This is a despicable statement. It's not the statement, you have to disassociate yourself entirely from the man. It's not like the words exist here and the man exists here. And why conservatives, some conservatives, end up in bed with people who, you know, — he makes an anti-government statement, he takes an anti-government stand, he wears a nice big hat and he rides a horse and all of the sudden he is a champion of democracy. This is a man who said that he doesn't recognize the authority of the United States of America. That makes him a patriot?
I love this country and I love the constitution and it's the constitution that established a government that all of us have to recognize. And for him to reject it was the beginning of all of this. And now what he said today is just the end of this. And I think it is truly appalling that as Chuck [Lane] says, there are times when somehow simply because somebody takes an opposition, he becomes a conservative hero. You've you got to wait, you've got to watch, you have got to think about. And look, do I have the right to go graze sheep in Central Park? I think not. You have to have some respect for the federal government, some respect for our system, and to say you don't and you don't recognize it and that makes you a conservative hero, to me, is completely contradictory and rather appalling. And he has now proved it.
The Bundy ranch standoff is a teachable moment for libertarians and conservatives. We don't need to waste much time debunking the claim that a belief in limited government and calls for an end to the orgy of taxing and spending in Washington are racist. These are risible, lame arguments that fail on their own. But like liberals who need to draw a distinction between their positions and those of the anti-American, anti-capitalist far left, those on the right do need to draw equally bright lines between themselves and the likes of Cliven Bundy. If they don't, spectacles such as the one we witnessed this week are inevitable.


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As we've been working to reduce our expenses, I am noticing that many things that we are saving money on are also helping the planet. We are producing less waste and being more purposeful with our spending. Whether you are looking to cut expenses or reduce your impact, here are twenty-five things you can do right now that will help you do both.
Install a low flow showerhead – a typical shower can run 5 gallons a minute. If you install a low flow showerhead, you can cut that to 1.5 gallons a minute.
Turn off the water when brushing your teeth or washing dishes – If you aren't actively using the water flow, turn it off in between uses and save some water.
Install CFL bulbs – CFL bulbs use about 75 percent less energy than standard incandescent bulbs and last up to 10 times longer.
Vary your cooking methods a little – Certain kitchen appliances use less energy than others (for a great list of costs for food prep, visit the City of College Station). Instead of using the oven, which costs over 85 cents/hr, can you use a crock pot which costs about a penny per hour?
Unplug unused electronics and appliances – That TV that is turned off may still be drawing power in standby mode. So is that microwave with the clock. Unplug those devices when not in use to save some electricity.
Plant trees – Depending on where it is planted, a single tree can block the wind in the winter, saving on heating costs. It can also provide shade in summer, saving on cooling costs. Trees are great for absorbing carbon dioxide.
Turn your thermostat down in the winter – There's no golden rule that says a home must be at 70 all the time. In the winter, set your thermostat a little lower during the day and wear a sweatshirt around the house. In the summer, turn the thermostat up a little and wear lighter clothing around the house.
Caulk around doorways and use weather stripping to seal drafts. – A single draft in a room can make you feel a lot colder. Seal up the drafts and feel warmer in your home so you can keep the heat lower overall.
Use cold water for washing laundry – Did you know that 90% of the energy used for washing clothes is for heating the water? Give cold water a try when washing your clothes and also use cold-water detergents. As long as your clothes aren't too soiled, they can come clean in cold water.
Hang dry your clothes – Dry your clothes on a clothes line outside or find a rack for drying your clothes inside. Save the electricity or gas that would be used by your dryer. Note: Sometimes clothes can get pretty stiff with air drying. What you can do is let them air dry most of the way, then pop into the dryer for a little bit to help them soften up.
Turn off your lights – When you aren't using a light in a room, turn it off. That holds true even if you might be returning a few minutes later. The power surge of turning on that light only equals a few seconds of having that light on.
Around the House
Use natural cleaners – Avoid the harsh chemicals and save some money at the same time. Being Frugal has some easy cleaner recipes.
Give reusable coffee filters a try – Instead of loading your coffee maker every morning with a new filter, try a reusable one. They aren't very expensive, but can reduce waste and save you money over the long run.
Use rechargeable batteries – It's sometimes hard to fork over the money for rechargeable batteries. But they quickly pay for their cost in money saved if you are using electronics that drain batteries quickly (like cameras).
Forgo the plastic baggies in lunches – Instead of using plastic bags, use reusable containers if possible. The same goes for storing all types of food at home. If you need to use a plastic bag, try to reuse it if it held dry goods.
Get a reel mower – Go back in time with a reel mower that is updated for this century. They can do the job, you get some exercise and you don't need fuel to run it.
Use both sides of paper when printing – If you are printing something for reading later, see if it would work to print on both sides of the paper. Some programs offer the option of printing even or odd pages, so you can try to match the pages up correctly. If the ink is too dark, try printing in draft.
Buy used furniture or find some for free – Instead of buying new, you may be able to find a perfect end table (or another piece of furniture) for low cost or maybe even for free on freecycle.org. A piece of furniture doesn't end up in a landfill and you have the furniture you need. It's a win-win!
Reduce junk mail – Save some paper and possibly prevent id theft by visiting the Federal Trade commission site that details how you can reduce unsolicited mail.
Switch to online bill payments – Many banks are offering online bill pay and some have it for free! Save a stamp and save on paper usage.
Mend anything that you can – If an article of clothing needs mending, don't throw it out. Try to do it yourself by learning some basic sewing techniques.
Out and About
Carpool whenever possible – Not everyone can do this, but if it's a possibility then jump on the chance to save some money and reduce carbon emission.
Ease up on the gas pedal – Drive moderately (not aggressively) and lower your speed to save some big bucks and help the environment at the same time.
Skip the bottled water and refill your own – Save on plastic waste by filling a reusable water with your tap water. Don't like the taste of your tap water? Try a filter.
Instead of spending the day inside, go outside – Get everyone out of the house and head outside for a fun day outdoors. Make sure you turn off everything when you leave the house. Go for a walk/bike ride or maybe plant a few flowers. Enjoy some time outdoors.
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The Charleston RiverDogs open up a seven-game homestand beginning with a three-game series tonight at Riley Park against the West Virginia Power.
West Virginia Power vs. Charleston RiverDogs
Tonight, 7:05 p.m.Wednesday: 11:05 a.m.Thursday: 7:05 p.m.Where: Riley ParkAffiliations: West Virginia – Pittsburgh Pirates; Charleston– New York YankeesRecords: West Virginia 8-10; Charleston 8-9.Tickets: 577-3647
The RiverDogs will conclude the homestand with a four-game series against the Kannapolis Intimidators, which is set to start on Friday.
The RiverDogs are tied for fourth in the South Atlantic League's Southern Division at 8-9, while the Power (8-10) are in fifth place in the North Division.
The Power are led by first baseman Stetson Allie, a second-round pick of the Pittsburgh Pirates in 2010. Allie is sixth in the SAL in hitting with a .380 average and second in home runs (6) and RBIs (20). West Virginia outfielder Josh Bell leads the league in RBIs with 21. Bell, a second-round pick of the Pirates in 2011, received a $5 million signing bonus. The 19-year-old is hitting .288 with two homers.
The RiverDogs are led at the plate by catcher Peter O'Brien, a second-round pick of the New York Yankees in 2012. The former University of Miami star is hitting a team-high .300 with two homers and eight RBIs.
RiverDogs right-handed starter Gabriel Encinas, a sixth-round pick in the 2010 draft by the Yankees, is second in the SAL with a 0.53 ERA. In three starts, Encinas has given up just one earned run and seven hits in 17 innings pitched. Teams are hitting just .123 against him this season.
This week's promotions will be highlighted by the RiverDogs Zero-K "Race to the Bar" run.
The so-called race will be held on Thursday at 6 p.m. before the first pitch against West Virginia.
"This event is for the out-of-shape, uncommitted track star in all of us that just want to have fun," joked Melissa Azevedo, the RiverDogs' special events director.
The event, which is open to all participants 21 and over, has a $25 entry fee that includes a race packet, T-shirt, race bib, postrace dinner and a ticket to the game.
As with all RiverDogs' wacky special events, awards will be presented to the best beer belly, most in need of new running shoes and best costume. The top prize will be awarded to the "most excited to start drinking."
There will also be several fun contests that include beer trivia and a beer pong tournament.
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This Friday, Oct. 4, Romeo High School (RHS) student athletes will again raise awareness and money to battle cancer and at the same time honor survivors, those currently undergoing treatment or those who have passed.
Barnabo Stadium will be filled Friday at 7 p.m. for the 5th annual Watchdog football game where the Bulldogs will not only be fighting to win against the Port Huron High School team, but fighting also against cancer.
Players will wear special pink jerseys with an honorary cancer survivor/victim name on the back. The Watchdog halftime program will be dedicated especially to them.
Those attending the game will purchase a T-shirt for the admission price of the game, on sale for $15 at the RHS Athletic office or at FAMS in downtown Romeo. The money will go to the American Cancer Society, the Romeo Relay For Life spring event and to the Four County Community Foundation.
The foundation has set up an endowment fund and starting next year will give any RHS graduate who has had cancer or is currently undergoing treatment, a scholarship to continue their education.
Jason Couch, co-head coach for the RHS football team is proud of his players.
"Throughout the game, when a play is made, instead of the team member's name being announced it will be the name of the person he is playing for on his jersey," said Couch.
"Special printed programs created for the day will have a write-up of who they are playing in honor of or in memory of."
These programs will be available for a donation at the game.
After the game is over the "Filling in the Ribbon" ceremony will take place and a group photo will be taken on the field.
"This ceremony concludes with the team taking off the jersey and presenting it to the person they wore it for," said Couch.
Some team members talk about who they are playing for.
"Some say they are playing for parents or they have lost a family member or friend," said Couch. "Some are playing for children with cancer."
Through the years, this special football game has turned into a week of many events. Greg Brynaert, RHS athletic director, said several other student groups have stepped up to the plate to help.
"Every year it gets better, we see the cheerleaders, soccer team, volleyball team, the dance team and the swim team as well as the band all supporting this along with the football players," said Brynaert, who has been the athletic director for 16 years. "The efforts of our players, coaches and their parents from all of our sport teams have found a way to contribute towards this cause is tremendous. We are so proud of our kids and community."
The local middle schools and elementary schools all get together and have a "Quarter Day" where each student brings in a quarter to donate toward the Watchdog game as well.
The RHS swim team has a fun "Splash Out Cancer" pool night for families and there will be other Watchdog team events scheduled including: A volleyball match on Oct. 3 in the gym with ninth grade starting at 4 p.m., junior varsity at 5 p.m. and the varsity game is at 6:30 p.m.
Then, on Oct. 2 at 4 p.m., the players at a soccer game will be wearing pink jerseys to support the cause.
"The kids can see that there is something more important than the sports or themselves," said Brynaert. "The hearts of our students are growing and they are learning that we need to give to others."
Just before the Watchdog football game starts on Friday night a special song will be sung before the National Anthem and then the game begins.
For information on the game, how to support the students or donate call the Romeo High School at (586) 752-0300 and ask for the athletic department.
To get a T-shirt that is good for admission for the Watchdog game on Friday night, go to FAMS Printing at 104 W. St. Clair Street in downtown Romeo. For any other questions about the 2013 Watchdog football game, call (586) 281-1145.


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August 22, 2006
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
Reviewer: James Van Maanen
Rating (out of 5): ****½
I find it hard to believe that any movie buff out there has not yet seen Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls, the late Russ Meyer's jaw-dropping non-sequel to the equally jaw-dropping (for different reasons) Valley of the Dolls, Mark Robson's "go" at the Jacqueline Susann novel. Erin Donovan's review captures the camp of the earlier film, but Meyer's movie (made three years later) is camp of a very different order. Although classy dames like Dorothy Kingsley and Helen Deutsch did the screenplay for the original Valley (hoping somehow to have their cake and eat it, too), the Beyond script comes from Roger Ebert (yes, him), and he wants to stuff the entire meal down our throat. This was his first attempt at a screenplay and, though by decade's close he'd written two more for Meyer, nothing - from him or anybody else, before or since - has ever come close to the entertaining lunacy of this wild film. Here is the world of 1970 in all its garish colors, costumes, hairstyles and expanding sexual habits plus "Gee, kids, let's put on a rock band," transgender, decapitation, lesbian allure, crossing the color barrier and finally - I kid you not - a denouement in which Ebert and Meyer try to take us all to church.
The movie manages to exist both inside and outside of its own reality. If you say, "Please, nobody ever looked liked that," if you're old enough, just dust off the photo album and - uh-oh: you did. Granted you may not have been as busty as Edy Williams (Meyer's main squeeze), nor as doe-eyed-pretty as romantic lead David Gurian (who never made another movie, under that name at least), nor have the sculpted body of Michael Blodgett. Yet Ebert and Meyer capture something so bizarre, so simultaneously on- and off-target, that they delight and shock us in equal measure. When I bought my first DVD player, the only film I wanted to own was this one, and it wasn't available. Now, it is, and I do. And whenever I want to really go nuts, I stick this in the player and fast-forward to The Carrie Nations song, "Come a Rainy Day." It's a perfect period piece: great music and lyrics so ditzy and of their time that they drift me back there quickly. (By the way, if you think you've seen this film in the shamefully bowdlerized version shown by the despicable American Movie Classics, you have not come close.) If ever a film deserved its "X" rating and a "G" rating at the same time, it's this one.
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A Not-So-Fond Farewell to Jason Smith
Categories: Aaron Schafer, Rams
Poor performance has been very much an issue for Smith, who has never lived up to his billing in really any way, but the health side of things has really been even worse. In the three seasons he has spent with the Rams, Smith has played in just 29 games, 26 of which were starts. His problems all seemed to start his rookie campaign, when he suffered a severe concussion midseason. Since then, things just haven't gone the way they were supposed to for the Baylor product, who came out of the draft with some of the most impressive measurables anyone had ever seen.
In return for Jason Smith, the Rams will receive, well, basically Jason Smith. Wayne Hunter is the name on the contract, but he could very well be the exact same player. Both are right tackles (though Smith was originally supposed to be a left tackle), both are hugely gifted physically, both have massively underachieved, both recently lost their starting jobs with their respective teams, and both have seen more than their fair share of backlash from fans and media. Hunter of course has played in the fishbowl of New York, so the scrutiny has been on another level entirely, but the fact is, these are basically interchangeable players.
The main reason the Rams seem to want Hunter rather than Smith is that Brian Schottenheimer, the Rams' current offensive coordinator, likes him. Schottenheimer coached Hunter in New York and is apparently fond of him, which seems a little puzzling considering the level of play he had to have seen. Oh, well. It could be worse, I suppose.
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The traditional English pudding goes equatorial with mangos, bananas and a sprinkling of crushed ginger biscuits. The best part—no cooking is involved.
Serves 4 to 6
Difficulty: Easy
Preparation time:2 hours 20 mins
Cooking time: no cooking
2 mangos, peeled, pitted and chopped
2 bananas, peeled and chopped
1 cup heavy or whipping cream
4 ginger snaps, crushed
1. Place mangos and bananas into a blender or food processor and blitz until smooth. Set aside.
2. Whip cream to soft peaks, then gently fold in three-quarters of the fruit puree until just blended.
3. To assemble, spoon a layer of the cream mixture into individual glasses or a large serving bowl, then top with a thin layer of fruit puree.
4. Repeat with the rest of the cream mixture and fruit puree, ending with a layer of cream mixture.
5. Refrigerate for at least 2 hours before serving.
6. To serve, top with crushed ginger snaps.
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I like John Montenieri's bottom series. I like the angles and the cover change.
I might have moved the line for the marks a bit more towards the bottom and run pretty much in the same direction....
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This was forwarded to a person in our club with the following message.
I received it with the following as part of the message.....
"I received this from a person in XX (state) that has been in...
From what I understand, what I posted here are under consideration for submission.
I have not checked the AKC site to see if the rules that went into effect this year are posted yet.
Our club is discussing this now.
These are my feelings as I believe we are going to regulate the rules to death for many reasons. Including the judges who do not truly underrstand dog work and...
Climate wise, how restrictive is training in Arizona - Phoenix?
A job may bring me there.
As a handler.
I agree with you. If you knew for sure this was the big paw. Or as a handler it was a continuing saga you are seeing in training. Pick the dog up and thank the judges.
Sorry you have to endure all of the cynicism Evan.
So Evan hasn't done what is needed to earn some of your respect?
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I think how Denver does will depend on the offense that is used.
They need to go back to more of an option style running game that spreads the field more than they have in the recent couple of...
Not running a dog at the level to be judged in the new amount of time eliminates good and bad judges. This should be up to the clubs to decide who to invite. Supposedly they do their due diligence...
And add to this the seven year rule that will remove some good judges as well as some bad. In our area the MH judges want to run their dogs in the limited MH tests in our area.
RHTAC/AKC have...
Sit or sit whistle then reheel if needed once all birds are down. Dog will most likely not miss what is going on.
As opposed to no or no here where the dog will most likely turn its back on the...
And just to think I moved back from hot humid KY to be here.
You can train almost 365 days a yr. Rain, snowstorms, sub zero temps, and High winds are about the only time you might not want to...
Another one.
Section 6. Judges Eligibility cont.
(4) Must Remain An Active Handler: An individual must have handled a
qualifying dog at the level he is being asked to judge or higher within...
If, you read the dog as it does the work,
and assuming a well hidden gun station in bushes with no holding blind - no influence or help to the dog....
Which dog does a better job in...
Angie said all handles are not the same. So you think "hearly all of them" do not judge what they see and treat a handle as a handle. Hmmm.
If you think that way, should they do as you believe...
CaptainJack said "Judge what you see the dog do...... Dog has shown a good mark in my mind, whether or not he saw the bird."
So Dman, you think the dog that had to be lined to the bird and goes to...
OK so here is one.
Memory bird. Dog is sent. Takes a terrible line. Whistle. Handler casts dog.
Dogs ears and tail go up and syas I got this and goes right to the bird.
Did the dog mark the...
Amen Betsy.
Maybe these types of points should be included in the regs.
Was it a marking test? Or a test where a handle might be expected?
So maybe the dog did not pick up a triple cleanly. Why? Did they show marks before being handled? There is so much a judge...
The scarry thing is, you look good in the ears, hair, etc.....
The split is there too. Two types of labs. My "shooting" experience over there a few years ago saw a mixture of both types of labs. Both of which performed well.
Going to Navajo Dam too.
There are 4 or 5 Chessies running in CO.
I know of some that will be there.
All other things being fine. I carry the dog unless.
Decoys being checked out, or carrying had been a problem in other series.
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I think we can all agree that some incredibly lame shit is circulating out there in the world today thanks to the meddling efforts of oblivious, well-do-to goons who don't know the first thing about skateboarding. There's a reason the fundamental design of a skateboard has not been largely changed or improved in the 50-some years that skateboards have actually existed — it is essentially perfect already. No amount of added wheels, or snaking, segmented sections, or hand-breaking mechanisms will ever make a significant positive impact on your skateboarding experience. In fact, most attempts to update the tried-and-true formula result in little more than laugh-worthy new ways to hurt yourself and look stupid while doing it.
Then, on the other side of the spectrum, there's also no shortage of people trying to find new, fashionable applications for skateboards. Rather than reinvent the skateboard, these intrepid innovators have tried to reinvent other things using skateboards — be it furniture, platform heels, and now even work-out routines, if there's a way to incorporate a skateboard into something that already exists, chances are good somebody has tried it, because people are greedy and oblivious. Case in point:
Why you should try it
Because you're alone, desperate, and have never done a single cool thing in your entire life.
Now, maybe I'm just biased here, but I kind of tend to think, you know, actually skateboarding would be a much better way to improve your image using a skateboard, as opposed to using a board for some emasculating work-out routine in order to attain "skateboard abs." Doing doggy-style reps, bent over on your brand new cruiser as if you're a brand new cruiser just doesn't seem to exude quite the same sexiness. Maybe I'm wrong.
Nick Boserio is The Skateboarding Jesus
This clip from a little Nike SB trip to China is just more proof, as far as I'm concerned.
The YouTube Goon Squad agrees, too:
It's an interesting trio to take — on the one hand you've got Zigram23, the most technically advanced skateboarding Terminator ever designed. Then you've got, as I said, the skateboarding Jesus, and finally, Alex Campbell, a… uh… skateboarding… skateboarder? What does it all mean? What's the common thread? Well, they're all Australian, of course. The Aussies Take China Tour. I'm not sure if that's what the name of the tour actually was, but in any case… it should have been.
The most important thing to take away from this clip, though, I think, is every one of Nick Boserio's tricks. Dude is just fucking killing it. That bomb he throws over the corner in that paradise of a skate spot at 3:32 is just unreal. What ever it is about his maniac, seconds-from-death style really tickles my skateboarding bone.
Big Pants, Little Tires
If you haven't watched John Cardiel's SOTY part in a while, you buggin'. And if you've never seen it in the first place, you really buggin' hard. Like Starship Troopers level buggin' up in this bitch.
Keep in mind this part is originally from 1992. 20 years ago, and if you saw this shit go down today you'd still be blown out of your pot leaf all-over-print socks.
Basically, it's a succinct, and often breathtaking reminder of why John Cardiel is now recognized as a true god of skateboarding. And not some kind of demigod either, because we've got plenty of those too. But outside of Cardiel, there is a very short list of names that could be comfortably compared at the same level and I think almost all of them are "Mark Gonzales."
Skateboard Smash Up
I didn't catch any of these videos Thrasher's been putting up of their tour with Spitfire from the mag this month. But having a backlog of them to go through was a pretty good way to start my day. The section at the stair spot that the latter half of the clip resides in features some of the most insane skreet skateboarding I think I've ever seen. I'm serious. The level of talent on these motherfuckers is just absurd. If Ishod wasn't so damn stylish, I'd swear he was a Terminator.
That weird, green snakey bowl complex they skate earlier on is pretty wacko, too. Who built that thing?! It's total madness. The whole thing looks like a hallucination.
In other skateboarding video news, Polar put out an edit from their Bum Rush The Spot day at the BQE. Some pretty fucking heavy skateboarding went down, to say the least, especially if you know how hard all that shit actually is to skate.
One clip on the big quarter in the back… hah, go figure.
Hell is a Halfpipe
There's a lot to be learned from this.
Like, every trick in it, for starters. Sheeit. Seriously, this is some of the best pool skating I've seen. Maybe it's just because I haven't been skating enough and I'm really jonesing for it, so this clip is kind of doing that thing to me that happens in cartoons where a starving guy's friend starts looking like a turkey dinner. I don't know. But whatever it is, I like it, and like Anthony Bourdain, I'm hungry for more.
Nose Candy
Saw this on the Bronze tumblr and pretty much had to post it as I'm compiling a list of tricks I'll never do on the new bank to ledge under the BQE. I think Billy McFeely's switch nosegrind here pretty much completes the list. Yep, I think that's all of 'em. All the skateboard tricks, I mean. Every trick, ever, is on that list.
Wowzers. The dude's good.
Other amazing feats, nay, nearly miraculous events, captured in this photo? The fact that the new bank to ledge is even still there in the first place!
For better or for worrest
More proof stacking up for my "Skaters With Tattoos Are Just Better" thesis thanks to this part from Bobby Worrest, Daniel Kim and Tim McDermott from Stop Fakin' 2. The evidence is staggering, it's just a matter of rounding it all up in one place that can subsequently be reblogged into oblivion by teenaged girls and other grown men with crushes on other grown men, you know? Anyway, I'll be working on that essay right after I finish my fabled "The Essential Skaters With Casts Compendium."
That last line alone is just… the stuff of legend. Love the way that shove-it out of the noseslide kind of just floats down to his feet. The whole thing is a magnum opus of style and control. Holy MC-in-Modus level, amiright?
Could you point me to the do-it-yourself section?
Shiver me timbers, this is the type of shit I love! 5BORO took a trip out to the faraway land of Newark, New Jersey with Willy Akers and Rob Gonyon to skate a pretty incredible DIY spot hidden away in what appears to be an abandoned warehouse or airplane hanger or some shit. There's definitely gotta be some paranormal activity going on by night, what with all the paranormal skateboarding going on by day.
Somebody, like me, only with much more money, should do this in Brooklyn. Get a warehouse, build something crusty and homemade and cool… like this. Like the BQE spot on steroids, or balt salts, or whatever's crazier. Something that looks a little different from the warehouse TFs of the greater Los Angeles area with loads of charm. Only key holders (and, obviously, whatever dirt bags they choose to occasionally bring along) would have access, and to be a key holder you'd have to pitch in, build something, bring some shit in… stock the fridge with beer… something. In some ideal world, every key holder would pay some small amount of dues that could help cover rent and you'd have a paradise where you could hang out, drink beers while you skate, perhaps even take part in other more illicit activities while you skate, all in the comfort and privacy of a cold, dusty warehouse. Hey, a boy can dream.
If you build it, they will come
As the 2012 Presidential Election draws near, much of the population is captivated by the country's political climate. Me, on the other hand, I stay focused on the skateboarding landscape. In fact, I consider it my personal civic duty to inform my audience, such that it is, of developments in the current skateboarding landscape, like the new bank to ledge under the BQE in Brooklyn, for example. Big thanks to the Polar Skate Co crew, along with KCDC Skate Shop and all the local, bridge-lurking talent that came together to improve one of Brooklyn's best spots / places to stealthily take a leak if you're in the neighborhood and really can't hold it anymore.
And speaking of… all inquiries regarding the precise volume of piss and shit that is now encased within this concrete masterpiece should be directed to the aforementioned parties.
For years, the BQE Lot has been a mainstay DIY spot in the heart of Williamsburg. It remains one of the few places in the city where transitionally-inclined dudes wrapped in flannel and high-water Dickies can shred really, really rough concrete, powerslide through human fecal matter, or get broke off on a 2 foot wide disintegrating quarterpipe. The considerable difficulty that comes in skating obstacles that cars have repeatedly backed over is obviously part of the place's charm, but something tells me this absolutely pristine bank to ledge will quickly become the spot's main attraction. Until the city tears it out, anyway. Hopefully that doesn't happen… I mean, bums have probably died there without anybody noticing.
There was talk from one Fred Gall that they might bowl out the corner… but let's not get ahead of ourselves. As it is, the recent addition is far and away better than the entire McCarren Skate Park mere blocks away. Plus there are fewer bikers. Actually, fuck the bank to ledge. There are fewer bikers. What else do you even need to hear?
I took these shots with my phone, so the quality is even crappier than my night shots usually turn out. Crappiness is an appropriate theme to be working under whenever you're talking about the BQE Lot, though, considering it recently stole the "King of Filth" crown from the LES park, following that particular under-the-bridge spot's total overhaul this summer.
Anyway, if you'ved skated the BQE Lot, you'll know that everything attached to your body will quickly become covered in sand, unidentifiable grime, or worse, identifiable dead bird parts. Accordingly, some speck of shit found its way onto my phone's camera lens. After it manifested itself into a monstrous lens flare in my first shot, I attempted to clean the lens, only making it even dirtier in the process, as mandated by BQE Lot law. So it goes. Skateboarding, like anything worth doing, really, involves getting a little dirty.
In any case, Polar, KCDC, and Converse are putting on a "bum rush the spot" style contest / mob scene / cop magnet there today at 4pm so all the hometown heroes can sample the new terrain. Be there, or be somewhere less crowded. Once the tweens thin out, there's an after party at KCDC's new location (85 N. Third Street) at 7pm, where you won't have to hide your beer behind a pillar amongst a bunch of trash and cinderblocks.
This seems like it would be an unpleasant experience.
Better get those breaks tuned up, kid.
Probably should have at least tried to speed float it. There's a reason late-term abortions are illegal in 36 states, and I think this is a good example of what that reason is. The poor boy waited to bail until it was much too late… or too early perhaps, but either way, it was the wrong time to change his mind. You couldn't make this set of stairs, now you have to lie on them? I don't know.
Skateboarding: I be lovin' you
Here's a quick clip from the Ride Channel, featuring Lance Mountain and some of the Flip young bloods killing Tony Hawk's pool. Tony's still got it, by the way, and Riley Hawk is there as well, ripping, obviously, because he grew up in that thing for fuck's sake. Oh, and Arto Saari kinda chills in the background documenting the proceedings. Basically, it's an afternoon with the gods.
It also features a very compelling argument for the viability of those goddamn plastic banana boards that are so popular right now. Not that I have any interest in skating one considering I don't have any particular need to make this skateboarding shit harder for myself, but if you're incredible or whatever, apparently it can be done.
Maybe it's dorky, but videos like this really warm the blackened, charred remains of my heart. There might even be an ember glowing in there now. For one thing, that setup the Birdman's got in his backyard is nothing short of dream-worthy (not to mention drool-worthy… drooling over it while dreaming about it, waking up stuck to the pillow, even). And I ain't talkin' about the pool, either — you dudes catch a glimpse of that play place? Damn son, you know I'd be doing backflips off the swings, hitting that slide up, all that shit. Fuckin'… party at my house, ya dig?
Okay, jokes, the pool's obviously fucking insane. I guess that's video game money for you. Bagel Bites didn't pay for that, I'll tell you that much.


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I already pay to license & register my vehicle--why should I have to pay AGAIN to license & register my BIKE? A large number of bikers in Portland also own a car have already paid those fees.
And by that rationale, should we be charging for parking at the park & ride lots as well? TRIMET is providing an additional service to the consumer.
I used to live in Atlanta and the rail system there (MARTA) charges car commuters a small parking fee to leave their car at park & ride lots. The closer you parked your car to downtown the more you paid to park. If you left your car at a park & ride way outside the city limits, the fee was $1-2/day; closer to downtown was more like $4/day.
Guess what? The park & ride lots are almost always at capacity.
When designed properly, charging for park & ride isn't a dis-incentive.
And therein lies the problem--this mosque and the people in it have no idea why they're being profiled or placed on the no fly list. And to date, there have been no arrests.
You're right, I'm not satisfied with mutual respect.
I want equal rights under the law.
I want separation of church and State.
I want you to continue to have the right to practice your Christian values as you see fit.
But your right to religious freedom should not impose on my right for equal protection under the law.
So now us gays are commies too? Awesome.
Marriage is a RELIGIOUS institution, a contract between two consenting adults and GOD. Along the way, states got involved with issuing marriage licenses to serve the purpose of creating a legal contract for tax & property purposes. So marriage, as it stands today, is a hybrid between a religious contract and a secular legal contract. Contrary to some of the comments, it has not been that way throughout history.
In a country that was founded on principles of religious freedom, the best solution is to revert back to the way it was. Separate the religious institution of marriage from the secular contract with the state.
All unions should be civil unions, or a contract with the state.
If you choose to take the additional step of having your commitment recognized as a contract between you and your God (i.e. marriage) by the religious entity of your choice, you may choose to do so.
Some religious institutions will choose to offer the additional step of marriage to gay couples.
Some will not.
All gays & lesbians are asking for is separation of church and state and equal rights under the law.
I agree that a good job is a blessing but let me help you understand how this plays out in large companies like mine. We've laid off 1/3 of our workforce in the past year so now instead of doing my job, I'm doing my previous job, the work of the person let go last year, and now the work of the person we let go in March. So as you say, I do my best for 8-10 hour a day. Ten hours into my day, I might take a break to spend an hour with my family. And then I return to working for another 4 hours. 14 hours into my day, I can tell you that my "best" looks way different than my "best" 1 hour into the day. And even working 14 hours/day, I'm woefully behind.
My company was getting better results when 3 people were sharing my workload but they've decided that 1 person working 14 hours/day at 80% productivity is better than 3 working 8-10 hours/day at 100% productivity.
Irregardless.Not a word.
In the past, I've given up aisle or window seats multiple times to assist families traveling together but now that I have to pay an extra $25/per flight for that premium seat, I'm a lot less willing to help out. A family doesn't want to pay extra to sit together but I should give up the premium seat I paid for out of the kindness of my heart?
I have an older sibling who had severe ADHD growing up in the late 70s early 80s. Our family was sugar free, dye free and we ate minimally processed food. This approach was probably very healthy but it did little to improve my brother's symptoms.
I think it's wise to acknowledge that while we are a country that waaaay over-prescribes medications, there are some children who do have an underlying neurological condition that is impacting their behavior and without help those children fail to succeed in the community. Research like this will allow us to identify the kids who "have a lot of energy" who might benefit from non-pharmaceutical interventions vs. those who truly require advanced treatment.
Grow up? They said he tested positives for explosives so he's supposed to let them arrest him on that baseless charge and then get taken to a back room where they would probably.....strip him down. Kudos to you Mr. Brennan!
I would argue that other businesses (certainly not all) use water to create products that serve a larger good/purpose in the economy. If we look at agriculture, they're using water to produce food we can consume. Yes, I realize that other business use water to produce harmful chemicals, etc but Nestle is using water to produce.....water. We have an abundant supply of water right now but who's to say what things will look like in 50 years? Nestle has gone into other communities (Northern MI) and completely drained the aquifers with their bottled water operations. And when the water runs out, they take the jobs with them.
So the police are 2/3 for the year---2 justified officer involved shootings where the target waived a realistic (but fake) gun. I believe there will be charges filed in the Flores-Haro shooting--you bring in a SWAT team to take the intended target by surprise but claim a bystander should have known you were cops before you shot him for trying to defend his family against unknown assailants.
So the police are 2/3 for the year---2 justified officer involved shootings where the target waived a realistic (but fake) gun. I believe there will be charges filed in the Flores-Haro shooting--you bring in a SWAT team to take the intended target by surprise but claim a bystander should have known you were cops before you shot him for trying to defend his family against unknown assailants.
Hmmmm....I wonder what the average response time is for the PPD to this area? If you live in an area with gangs, being prepared to protect yourself seems very rationale to me.
You're making a big assumption that all that was visible to the victim! If he all he saw was men in his yard, it seems reasonable that he would retrieve a weapon to protect himself and his family. If the information here tells the whole story, I find it very concerning that he wasn't even ordered to drop his weapon BEFORE he was shot.
Exaaaactly! The content of the cartoon is graphic and offensive because the legislation itself is graphic and offensive.