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Money being one of the most versatile pieces of multiple use gear (and it is quite easy to burn, both figuratively and physically), prompted me to ponder about how we approach our gear investments:What is the most you have paid per ounce of weight savings? With that in mind, and assuming negligible performance changes, what do you think is the most you would pay or should prudently pay?For Example, I have a faithful Primus canister stove that functions well and weighs precisely 4 oz. I recently purchased a Snow Peak LiteMax which weighs precisely 2 oz. and cost about $60. Therefore, I paid approximately: $30/oz. to lighten my pack a bit. Of course if I pass on the Primus model on Gear Swap for $30, then I have a net sacrifice of only $15/oz.As an aside: does anyone have a $ column on their gear lists?
"As an aside: does anyone have a $ column on their gear lists?"Yes. I keep an eye on what I spend on gear. Weighing up the worth of a purchase in terms of reliability and weight loss is a subtle business.I paid £150 for a WM Ultralite to replace a bag I got off Canadian ebay for £20. This saved me 8oz and gave me a warmer sleep in winter. Priceless.I have been selling some gear on UK ebay recently. The £20 bag went for £57 Result! This reduced my upgrade from £20/oz to £10/oz.:-)
I don't look at it from the standpoint of $/oz. I look at $/%.In other words, if I shift from a 16-ounce item to a 15-ounce item, that is a saving of only 1 ounce, or 6%. If I shift from a 2-ounce item to a 1-ounce item, that is the same ounce that is saved, but it is a 50% savings for that one item. As a general rule, the big three gear items are the heavy ones that are hard to shave many ounces from without paying through the nose. Sometimes I get the savings from one ounce on several small items.--B.G.--
Yes, I must admit that I have a $ per oz in my gear spreadsheet that includes both the retail price and the price I paid. This is all in turn broken out by classification, ie, Big 4, Kitchen, Clothing worn vs clothing in pack, personal items, and firstaid.Per oz, kitchen items have been the most due primarily to the cost of titanium pieces.
Probably the most significant was the conversion from tarptent to tarp/bivy. That was about a $400 for 1 lb weight savings or $25/ounce. But I also did it for convenience so I can customize my sleep arrangement as conditions dictate.
I guess I am the exception. But my kids are gone, and am at the stage where I can finally afford any gear I want. So I just look at function and weight.
These are exactly the questions and analysis I'm running into in the final phases of unnecessarily tweaking my mostly-CDT gear for the PCT this year. Our sleeping bags (a pair of WM DryLoft Antelopes) are 2lbs 10oz each, but we're not in a position to spend $740 ($370 x2) for a pair of Ultralights anyway. $740 to save 26oz would cost us $28.46/oz. The best we've done so far: replaced our ClikStand proto (3.3oz) with a MYOG hardware cloth pot stand (0.7oz). 2.6oz saved for $3, or $1.15/oz.Almost as good: trusty Tyvek groundsheet: 7oz. Polycryo: 2oz. 5oz saved for $8, or $1.60oz.The other cost-efficient weight savings for this hike was replacing my 8.0oz ZRest (which needed replacing anyway) with a 3.5oz GG TorsoLight. $16/4.5oz saved is $3.55/oz.CDT Marmot Precip: ~12oz. DriDucks: ~6oz.~6oz saved for $15 = $2.50/oz. Also, I was tired of the poor, non-waterproof, non-breathable performance of the Precip so I had to do something about it anyway. As a bonus, the $15 included free pants that I will never use.Replacing my trusty vintage Patagucc Puffball vest (8.1oz) with a BPL Cocoon Vest from the Gear Swap (5.5oz, $60) isn't nearly as good a payoff: $23.07 per oz saved, but the Cocoon is at least 2x as lofty as the packed-out Patty and was cheaper than buying the Montbell UL Parka I was lusting over.ETA: Wife: MHW Down Jacket: 25oz.WM Flight 10.5oz, $140$14.73/oz saved. Hmmm, it seemed so much better than that at the time. Perhaps it was the absolute amount of weight saved, or how much she likes the new jacket.This type of analysis is what keeps me from coughing up $15 for a Ti spoon or $70 for windpants that are 3oz lighter than my $4 thrift-store Nike wind pants. I'll be keeping en eye on this thread for last minute bang-for-the-buck ideas.
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I'm an exception with you Nick. I don't really consider price at all (which is why I have a Raku....), I just get what I want that I believe will make my backpacking more enjoyable. Or, sometimes, I just get something to try it out, then sell it if I don't think it fits with my backpacking style.
"trusty Tyvek groundsheet: 7oz.Polycryo: 2oz.5oz saved for $8, or $1.60oz."I vary groundsheet choice depending on conditions. Sometimes it's a 2.5oz adventure medical heat sheet. Sometimes it's a 7oz poncho which means I leave the 1lb 2oz event jacket at home.
One of my hopes in starting this thread is to see some examples posted, especially for people transitioning to UL, of some of the ways we all think and the decisions ultimately made towards reduction in weight, weighed by funds. @Doug + Nick, you make me want to start a gear shop! Really, I'm somewhere in between. At this stage in life, I have to consider the funds, but for some things, the cost is much less of a factor - especially when your life is on the line while at altitude, etc. To me, less weight + high quality = ability to move more quickly while doing things more efficiently in less time = more safety. @John, it looks like swapping to a lighter sleeping pad can be a very cost-effective weight reduction strategy. Another factor I consider is to whom do I want my money to go to. I often find purchasing used gear a very pleasant and mutually beneficial community building experience. Similarly, if I am able to support local (US) cottage industry entrepreneurs with my purchases, I am willing to pay more for something than I otherwise might. In fact, I think that, although the sum of words in this sentence are perhaps disqualifying this portion of the paragraph from it's own UL status at this point, the simple direct supply chain of maker to end-user is an ideal application of ultralight philosophy implemented in daily life.
One thing I have not seen mentioned is expected lifespan. That can be due to a number of things, such as product quality, deliberate factoring is sturdiness choices, evolving technology will soon obsolete it, etc.I am more willing to pay up for something that I expect to last many years than for something with a very short lifetime.-- MV
Good point, Bob.Another factor that causes me to spend a bit more sometimes, is if I have reason to think the availability of any particularly quality item may become scarce. I think Doug is with me on this one - mr. back-up gear. Also, I like to have gear to lend to friends. I just purchased a sleeping bag today, because it was a great bag, from a fine retailer and a good deal, but had it shipped to my brother because it will save him about 2 lbs and be warmer than his current bag. $5/oz. for sleeping bag seems excellent to me!So far, Roger is the only one who can claim to have saved an ounce for a pound.
My best weigh savings per dollar was buying a Z1 off BPL. I went from a ~37 oz Vapor Trail to a ~3 oz Z1 for about $60 (or whatever it was). Probably less than $2 per ounce, maybe closer to $1.
Especially when there are a number of items on my upgrade list, I use $/oz to help prioritize the purchase order. I also like to flip the question, and find something in the house that equals the weight savings and ask myself if someone paid me $???, would I be willing to carry this backpacking. When money is a bit tighter, sometimes I back off the purchase after doing this.
The most I've paid is ~$40/oz and I only approach this level when:1) The only significant drawback is the cost2) I really want itFor gear that has no significant downside besides cost (ie. 800fp down vs. 600fp down) then I'm willing to pay a lot more per ounce saved than for gear that requires heavy compromise. There are a lot of ways to save weight (durability, multi-use, doing with less, money etc) and spending money for more expensive gear (cuben, 800fp down etc) can be one of the best in the long term. Sacrificing durability never leaves me feeling that great. I pretty much toasted a pair of 4oz BPL Thorofare pants over 3 days in March due to conditions that wouldn't have fazed my 12oz heavier nylon ones. I'm glad I only paid $5 or so per ounce saved for that switch.
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Yep. On my gear list I have a couple of different pages dedicated to different pack set ups. Including a "SUL Goal" pack. On this page I have my current set up with heavier items replaced with lighter items I do not yet own. On the right hand side of the page is the "cost per oz". Which has the dollar amount of each ounce saved over the item currently being used. It has helped a lot. Because of this I know that a Spectralite stuff sack would cost me $90.00 an ounce saved and a Nunatak Shaka Down Sweater would be $97.84 an ounce saved. The best $/oz savings on my list is two pairs of Patagonia Active Sport Briefs at a savings of $29.00 an ounce (money well spent).
"One thing I have not seen mentioned is expected lifespan."Absolutely!! Many UL items like packs are only expected (by the manufacturers) to last a season.
Good point. I use a slightly heavier pack for that reason. But I don't know how I could quantify that into a usable/accurate number. Most manufactures don't have their gears life expectance posted. I could see putting down one year for a SUL pack. But what about Ti tent stakes? I would have no idea; they last forever unless you bend one. If anybody has a system for this I would be interested in looking at it.
Trail miles/$ = lifespan efficiency.My best is probably a pair of my Smartwool Adrenaline Mini crews, which have been with me since early 2008 and each have half of 2,000+ miles of running and my hiking since that time. They're starting to die in select spots, but the padding is still very good.
@Matt - that is impressive sock life! What's your method of longevity? Do you only wash them once a lunar cycle?
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My mother in law died. We co-owned a house. She defaulted. Her bank tried to foreclose on her. Can we do anything?
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We owned a house together in NC. We filed for bankruptcy and the bank tried to foreclose on our portion. The foreclosure never went through. Our bank gave up. My mother in law then became ill and defaulted on her part. Her bank was trying to foreclose on her portion of house. How can they when she only owned a small% of it, per the deed? Is it not a clouded title?
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OK - let me get this straight - you and mother-in-law jointly owned a house - how - as tenants in common or as joint tenants with right of survivorship?
Foreclosure would make sense only if the property was mortgaged - who was liable on the mortgage? You or your mother-in-law or both?
If you filed for protection under the bankruptcy code, bankruptcy acts like a shield around you. It is improper to foreclose while you are in bankruptcy. If the foreclosure was started before you filed, then it would be halted by the bankrutpcy. It could resume or take place after the bankruptcy. The only possible exception to this would be if you filed and intended to discharge your liability for the mortgage in bankruptcy and nobody was paying the mortgage. In that case, the bank would request that the bankruptcy court lift the automatic stay and allow them to foreclose. This scenario might make sense if you filed a chapter 7 bankruptcy but not if you filed a chapter 13 bankruptcy because you would keep paying for the mortgage.
Something else you mention does not make sense. There can be no foreclosure on part of the property. And there cannot be a default on a portion of the mortgage either. If there is one jointly owned piece of realty encumbered by a mortgage, the whole property is included. So who was on the mortgage? Foreclosure by your lender would only make sense if you were solely liable on the mortgage OR if both you and mother-in-law were liable but you filed bankruptcy and mother-in-law stopped paying.
If nobody is paying the mortgage then of course the lender will foreclose. If your liability on the mortgage was discharged by your bankruptcy and if mother-in-law stopped paying then lender will foreclose. The lender must notify all the record owners of the property of the foreclosure. It does not matter how much of the land is owned or the percentage.
I don't know what you mean by a cloud on the title. Partial ownership is not a cloud on the title. A cloud on the title would exist if for example, a common owner owned a big tract of land that got subdivided when the common owner died and parcels sold off. What usually happens in these cases is that people by the different parcels at different times and sometimes the deeds are incorrect such that one person thinks they are buying a certain parcel with so many acres and actually buy a smaller or larger piece as shown by more modern surveying. If another owner of an adjoining parcel claims all or part of the same tract as shown by a survey then a cloud on the title would exist and the parties would have to resolve the boundary by agreement or by a court action to remove the "cloud." This is not your situation.
Since it is not possible to figure out what is going on here, I suggest that you take the deed, mortgage and foreclosure documents to your bankruptcy attorney for review or that your mother-in-law take the documents to a real estate attorney specializing in foreclosure defense to see if anything can be done. The real issue may be whether someone lives in the home and wants to save the home. If the answer is yes, then mother-in-law may need to file a chapter 13 bankruptcy if she can afford to pay the mortgage.


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The administration has been careful to stress that just because they're currently exploring the idea doesn't mean they'll end up leasing rights to drill. In fact, the White House has had to cancel previous planned sales of drilling leases in the area because of a lack of industry interest, so this may be more of a calculated political move in advance of the November election than anything else.
Regardless, the move is troubling to anyone concerned about the expansion of the offshore drilling industry – and particularly upsetting to environmentalists in light of Obama's previous statements that he would not support new exploration of offshore drilling until 2017. As the Gulf Oil Spill showed us, ecological disaster is just accident away. I guess this goes to show that it's easy to break promises and gloss over past mishaps in an election year.
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Nice try. I thought that Obama wouldn't do this. And, I was right. I researched this. I found out that Obama and the White House actually put laws in place BANNING drilling in Alaska. So before you put out ignorant lies about someone, you should do your research.
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You're right, it is a terrible idea and god knows what it would do to the environment up there. But as long as people insist on using oil products like gas for their cars, the oil companies and politicians will deliver it. There's already talk that the election in November could be decided on the price of gas at the pumps.
If that's going to change, then people have to accept that gas will be more expensive and that they need to embrace things like hybrid or electric cars -- which still aren't selling that well. If Americans get pissed off when the price at the pumps goes up a politician defying that will be out on his butt I November. So what do you think Obama or Romney are going to do?
NO this is a VERY bad idea. We can't let Obama or the big oil companies keep drilling. They are destroying everything. This can't keep happening!!!!
I stopped caring about Alaska after the Palin nightmare. Just stop expecting me to rush $$$ to Alaska the next time a major oil spill kills off tourism there.
We should focus on the war against us by the Muslims. We are at war not because we want it but because certain Muslims have declared war on us. They are attacking us from two directions. 1) with violance, such as the WTC bombing and 2) by trying to change our society using our laws against us. By slowy changing our laws to follow Sharia. This war is financed by OIL money. If we become energy independent it would bankrupt the Muslim oil powers and end this war. There is only a slim chance our drilling in out territory for energy will cause damage to the environment. For every Valdez there are 10's of thousand of ships which did not spill oil. For every BP oil rig messup there are thousands which havn't. We are at war and cannot afford to worry about the environment. In countries where Sharia law is governed who much environemental protection is there. If the Muslims win this war all our environmental laws will be removed.
Let us all please concentrate on stopping the drilling in Alska and the Artic. Target those who can veto it on Care2, Twitter and Facebook and if you are in the US, phone them.
Fascinating (as Mr Spock would exclaim) : Election Year, and not only are politicians going crazy with all sorts of false promises, but intelligent, civilized humans like us, Care2 fans, start acting like undisciplined baboons.
Can we please do without the personal attacks and stay focused on the subject at hand, i.e. President Obama's gov. exploring the possibility of leasing drilling rights in Alaska !
Being President, I'm sure, is not exactly a piece of cake. Not one of us will ever know what kind of pressures he must be under every single day. No one can begin to imagine the kind of concessions and deals he must make every single day, or know every time he must step on his personal principles, crush his hopes to resolve a problem.
Being a politician is a dirty job !
He was elected to work for the good of his country, not just fulfill his personal adgenda. Problem is, his country is constantly torn by The People, who can't agree on anything and blame him for everything that goes wrong !!
I do not agree with opening Alaska to drilling companies, I do not agree with a lot of things the Democtats do, BUT I wait, I watch and I do not pass judgment...yet.
President Obama has not dealt all his cards...he may still surprise us all !
Right now, he seems to be the sanest of them all !!
Election year- pure, simple & a dirty shame.
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When I first saw some of the photos for this latest customer submission, I could not wait to share them! Marisa and Mike, new parents to a baby girl, wanted to design a gender neutral nursery since they were planning on the gender of their child being a surprise. They picked the theme of "forest friends," and decided to use our Kids Tree giant wall decals on the walls. But they didn't use just one tree… they used three!
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Since we wanted to be surprised by the gender of our baby, we decided to go with the gender neutral theme of "forest friends." To do so, we painted the room 3/4ths of the way down in a sky blue, and 1/4th of the way up grass green to prepare the foundation for our forest.
We purchased three of the RoomMates "Kids Tree" wall decals and decided to put them throughout the room… each with a 3D element. Since we weren't sure whether the baby was going to be a boy or girl, we put up the trees and left the butterflies aside (for the time being).
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Now let's get a better look at those trees! As Marisa says, each of the tree wall decals was given a special 3D element. Here are her comments about the purpose of each tree:
Tree #1 is what we call the "Family Tree." […] I got a few simple frames at the craft store and voila, family tree! We plan on updating the tree periodically with new photos. Tree #2 has a real birdhouse mounted to the trunk. We were able to fit a tap light in the opening, turning the birdhouse into a fun night light.
Tree #3 we saved to add the baby's initials to the tree. So we cut out a small white heart (from the white liner left over from the decal) and added her initials. We were also able to add a little girl in a swing from one of the branches. The doll was actually mine when I was little so it added a nice touch. I hid the nail by cutting a slit in one of the leaves.
Here are close-up photos of each tree, starting with #1, the "family tree":
Next is #2, with the birdhouse and night light (don't you love the detail of the bird decal sitting on top?):
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All in all, this is an absolutely adorable nursery! The combination of paint, additional "forest friend" wall stickers, and the three unique trees make this a very special place for Marisa and Mike's daughter. I have a feeling she'll love staring at the walls of her nursery as she grows!
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Could you please tell me what the brand name of the "Forest Friends" themed Quilt is in the picture of "Marisa & Mike's" gender-neutral nursery? The quilt is hanging on the chair, and it the colors in it are blue, green, brown and orange, with forest animal imprints. Also, what store it was purchased at? I want to do my baby's nursery in this theme.
I already purchased the decals at Target!!:)
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Hi Phyllis, let me reach out to Marisa and see if she can answer this question for you. Thanks!
Hi Lucy's Mom,
My aunt actually made us that quilt from some fleece fabirc she found at JoAnn's Fabrics. I believe it was called Forest Friends or Forest Critters. I don't see it on their website but maybe someone at the local store could help you find it?


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HELPER - Theresa Ann Halpine Phelps died Aug. 13, 2013 in Salt Lake City.
She was born Jan. 30, 1924 in Omaha, Neb., to Jack and Clare Halpine.
Married O. W. Phelps M.D. at St. Cecilia's Cathedral in Omaha, Neb. He passed away March 10, 2000.
Theresa was a long time resident of Helper, and a member of St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Parish. She attended Mercy Central School of Nursing, graduated as an R.N. Cadet Nurse and would have shipped to World War II but the war ended days before she graduated. She went on to get her BSN. Theresa then taught nursing at Creighton University in Omaha. There she met her future husband O.W. Phelps M.D. They later had seven children, all raised in Helper.
Survived by Walker Phelps, Olivia Phelps, Mary Clare Phelps, Patricia (Phelps)and Leon Erramouspe, Michaela Phelps, Hellen (Phelps) and Keith Fleming. Grandchildren: Nick, Ann and Leon Erramouspe, Mary Sherman-Korver, Philip Sherman, Terry (Phelps) Peddy, Cyrus Nassersaeid, Hellen, Kathleen, Patrick and Kevin Fleming. Great grandchildren: Kiean Sherman, Graciann Theorine, Chloe and Cara Erramouspe and Ava Korver.
She is preceded in death by her parents Jack and Clare Halpine, her husband and lifelong love O.W. Phelps M.D.; daughter Theresa Ann (T'Ann) Phelps-Steele.
Vigil service, Monday, Aug. 19, 2013, 7 p.m. St. Anthony Catholic Church (5 South Main, Helper). Funeral Mass, Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2013, 10 a.m. St. Anthony Catholic Church in Helper. Family will receive friends Monday and Tuesday one hour prior to service at the church in Helper. Committal, Mt. View Cemetery, Helper. Arrangements entrusted to Mitchell Funeral Home of Price where friends are always welcome daily and may share memories of Theresa online at www.mitchellfuneralhome.net.


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Janie Bennett: Hello Secretary Napolitano my name is Janie Bennett.I'm a Supervisory Detention and Deportation Officer in the San Antonio AOR. My question is, 1. What is the next step for the individuals that applied under DACA, once the initial two years has expired? 2. Will Deferred Status automatically be extended? And 3. Was DACA used so that Congress would have time to pass some sort of Dream Act? Thank you.
Secretary Napolitano: Well thank you, Janie, and first, let me begin by saying that the institution of Deferred Action for young people who were brought to this country typically by parents or other family members but who have basically grown up in United States and the ability to grant them Deferred Action with work authorization in appropriate cases has been a major success. We've had over 250,000 applications,50,000 have been granted, the rest are in some sort of adjudication process. In particular USCIS deserves a shout-out for the work done on Deferred Action. It is for two years subject to renewal, and that's how we describe it, an individual adjudication subject to renewal. But the other important thing is that it is time for Congress to address immigration reform at large. From how we handle criminal penalties for employers who consistently and intentionally break the law, to how some of the visa requirements, and the numbers, how they are calculated to how we deal with temporary workers and the need for those in the US economy. Those are all things that the Congress should address. So I am hopeful even as we continue to prioritize enforcement -- and ICE deserves a lot of credit here.You're taking more felons and criminals off the streets than ever before and I'm proud of that. Even as we continue to prioritize the high-priority individuals and set aside some that are low-risk, low-priority like the young childhood arrivals, we still need overall immigration reform.


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Among the juicier dramas surrounding the production of the megahit Despicable Me 2 is Al Pacino's sudden departure from the film. Six weeks before the film's premiere at Annecy, Pacino quit the film as the voice of the antagonist El Macho. Neither side will say what happening, simply citing 'creative differences.'
At that point, the production was nearly finished and the animation had already been locked. This sent Illumination head Chris Meledandri scrambling to find a replacement, which turned out to be Benjamin Bratt. Since no new animation could be created at that late stage, Bratt re-recorded the dialogue by matching the existing animation, and in true Hollywood fashion, they fixed it all in post.
The controversy serves as a perfect case study for one of the long-running debates in the animation world, which is whether celebrities make any box office impact on the success or failure of an animated feature.
Back in the early-1990s, when Robin Williams provided the voice of the Genie in Aladdin, he earned scale pay for his performance, which was less than $100,000, so it hardly mattered whether celebrities affected the bottomline. But today, celebrities demand lucrative fees for their voices and drive film budgets up by tens of millions of dollars. Owen Wilson took home $2.5 million for Cars 2, Cameron Diaz had a $10 million payday for Shrek Forever After and Tom Hanks earned a reported $15 million for Toy Story 3.
What would happen if you took a celebrity out of one of these films? Would audiences still show up? That's exactly what happened with Despicable Me 2. The result? It was the fourth-biggest opening ever for an animated feature in the United States.
Those who create animation know the reality: audiences don't go see animated features because Al Pacino is in it. They go see animated films because they want to be entertained, and the quality of the animation performance and storytelling are far bigger factors than who voices any particular character. The most popular characters in Despicable Me 2, the minions, are voiced by two no-name French actors—Chris Renaud and Pierre Coffin. They're not well known actors because they were the directors of the film.
The celebrity culture of animated features won't change anytime soon. Studios believe that they derive benefits from having A-listers in films because audiences love celebrities. But there's no empirical evidence that audiences are attracted to famous voices in the same way that they are attracted to seeing those actors in the flesh.
Still, celebrities do play one hugely important role in the animation process. They pad the egos of fragile animation executives who would otherwise be embarrassed to tell people they produce animation. At Hollywood parties, these execs can tout to their friends that they, too, are working with A-list Hollywood stars. Because after all, who would want to tell their friends that the stars of their hit film is two French dudes* named Chris Renaud and Pierre Coffin?
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The other day, the Las Vegas Boulevard was the scene of a drive-by shooting that claimed the lives of 3 people, while 2 more were injured. California rapper Kenny Clutch also lost his life.
Above is the ABC report about the grisly incident.
According to reports online, a black SUV pulled by Clutch's Maserati at the light and, mostly because of a dispute of earlier on in the night, the occupants of the car opened fire.
Clutch was driving and he was killed on the spot. His car then went on the other lane and crashed into a taxi, which burst into flames almost instantaneously.
Its two occupants were also killed.
Police are now looking for the occupants of the SUV.
"Out of everyone I know in the rapping industry, there is no way I would have ever, ever expected to find that he was shot on the Las Vegas Strip in such an aggressive manner. He didn't have a [criminal] record or a history. He was just a good kid trying to make it and be a good father," the young rapper's attorney says for The Huffington Post.


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Watertown native Billy Dunn was just three turns away from winning the 150-lap small-block championship Saturday at the New York State Fairgrounds in Syracuse during Super DIRT Week when he ran out of gas on the first turn of the final lap.
Brett Hearn who captured the race for the fifth time, knows how Dunn feels. Hearn ran out of gas with two laps remaining in last years Salute to the Troops championship race.
It was a heartbreaker, Dunn said after finishing the race 26th. I think we had the best car here so we had to gamble to get out front in the clean air. Id rather wreck on the first lap than run out of gas and leading on the last lap.
Dunn said he was aware that Hearn was behind him and that fuel could be a problem.
You just try and save (fuel) as much as you can, Dunn said. You dont go hard coming off the corner.
Edwards native and current Watertown resident Tim Fuller finished second behind Hearn.
My day actually turned out almost perfect, Fuller said. I mean all you do is conserve. I went out after the pit stop and I conserved and conserved. You cant pass anybody anyways you know. I just kept cruising around three-fourth throttle racing the guy behind me and you know I still had a couple of gallons in the end.
Alain Boisvert finished third and Jimmy Horton and Matt Billings finished in the top five. Watertown native Tim McCreadie, last years winner, had car problems early, went to the pits and returned to finish 10th in the race. Carey Terrance of Hogansburg finished 25th, one position ahead of Dunn.
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Long before the current election's draft dodging controversy, Dr. Reuven Gal, former chief psychologist of the IDF and the deputy head of the National Security Agency, ran a project called: "Religion, Politics and the Military in Israel" • The result was a 626-page book titled "Between the Skullcap and the Army Beret."
The religious Zionist revolution in Israel's political arena, which was a point of contention between the Likud and Habayit Hayehudi in the recent elections, has been going on in major areas in the country for some years. It is happening in academia, in the media, in education and, most of all, in the Israel Defense Forces. A new book of articles about the issue was recently published as part of a special project entitled Religion, Politics and the Military in Israel.
It's doubtful whether any other picture illustrates the change in the IDF's command echelon from year to year as much as the photo of the last moment of the graduation ceremony of the officers' course at Training Base 1. As the newly-minted officers throw their berets in the air, the crocheted skullcaps on their heads are visible. Similar pictures can be seen at the graduation ceremonies of the company and brigade commanders' courses.
One doesn't need to look at Naftali Bennett or the fairly high votes that his party, Habayit Hayehudi, garnered among the army to realize that in a manner of speaking, crocheted skullcaps are taking over the IDF. While only 12 percent of the country's general population describes themselves as religiously observant and only 13.7% of army recruits are graduates of the national-religious school system, the percentage of religiously observant people who graduate from infantry officers' courses is now about 35%. The traditional place of the agricultural settlements (the kibbutzim and the moshavim) in the IDF is being taken by the religious Zionist elite.
But the very thing that is a source of pride for the religious-Zionist sector, a common subject of discussion and a reason for high praise from the country's leaders, who frequently mention religious Zionism's significant contribution to the IDF's combat ranks, is making other people in Israel lose sleep at night. The research project entitled "Religion, Politics and the Military in Israel" comes out of this concern.
The fear on the part of broad circles on the Left and in academia — a fear that is stated almost explicitly — is that this is not only a process that results from demography and motivation, but is also the result of a deliberate policy on the part of religious Zionist movement leaders. According to this conspiracy theory, behind this policy lurks a goal: to increase the religious Zionist presence in the IDF's command echelon. This would enable the religious Zionist movement to increase its influence and ability to political decisions — namely the evacuation of settlements, which the religious Zionist movement utterly opposes, as part of a peace settlement.
The 626 pages of this book, entitled "Between the Skullcap and the Army Beret" (published by Modan and the Kinneret Institute for Society, Security and Peace Studies in Israel), will certainly cause an uproar here. The book's editor is Dr. Reuven Gal, former chief psychologist of the IDF and the deputy head of the National Security Agency. He was also the initiator of Religion, Politics and the Military in Israel, which is also a project of the Kinneret Institute, which was named for the 13th chief of staff, the late Dan Shomron.
Gal brought together an impressive group of researchers to discuss the subject, and their work resulted in this collection of essays. The researchers who are concerned over the increasing number of religious Zionist officers in the IDF, who see it as a strengthening of religious fundamentals in the army or in society, are well represented. Those who see such categorization as mistaken, misguided and misleading have a respectable showing as well.
Gal sees the debate that gave rise to the book as a contribution in itself. He does not understand the positions of Chief of General Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz and Chief Education Officer Brig. Gen. Eli Sherameister, who, he says, "deny the potential problem that lies the increasing number of religious officers in the IDF." If it were up to Gal, the chief of staff would redefine the distribution of roles between the chief rabbinate and the chief education officer, "restore the chief rabbinate to its traditional role — to provide religious services," and take from it all pretensions of providing educational or ideological guidance.
Futuristic novels as predictors of the future
Gal would also like to impose limitations on the "educational activity" of the IDF's commanding officers and create what he calls "official pluralism, not sector-based or one-dimensional." He states his vision as follows: "I don't just want the religious soldiers to drink in the statements of their religious commanding officer. I want the Arab soldier, the Druze soldier, the kibbutznik and the moshavnik to do that, too. The commanding officer has to be able to speak to everyone."
Gal is in good company. Professor Asa Kasher, one of the authors of the IDF's Code of Ethics, also calls for "restrictions on the commanders' freedom of action in sharing their educational points of view with their soldiers." Professor Kasher would like to make rules that would limit the subjects that commanders could discuss with their soldiers, the kinds of guest lecturers who spoke to the soldiers and the sites that soldiers visited.
The most radical author in Gal's anthology is undoubtedly Amir Bar-Or, the former head of the Military and Security Studies Program at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Be'er Sheva. Unlike his colleagues Bar-Or, does not shrink from discussing situations that could result from the changes in Israel's future borders. He conducts a "thought experiment" based on literary texts taken from four futuristic novels, all of which describe how the decision to return to the 1967 borders or the establishment of a Palestinian state in Judea and Samaria affect the religious-Zionist population.
The first of these novels, "Avshalom ve-ha-nazir" (in English, "Absalom and the Monk") by Gideon Telpaz, tells the story of an IDF chief of staff who had a religious revelation as a child, kept it secret for years, was behind a military coup that overthrew a government "that never managed to put an end to bloody internal rioting," and concentrated his efforts in preparing for the war that would redeem the Jewish people in their land.
The second story, "Jeremiah's Inn" by Benjamin Tammuz, relates how Jeremiah Abramson copes with the Sanhedrin [the religious supreme court that existed in the time of the Mishna and the Talmud], which has imposed a religiously observant lifestyle on everyone under its jurisdiction after the Jerusalem-based monarchy has been re-established. According to Bar-Or, both stories provide "a glimpse into the processes that take place once the democratic regime is overthrown."
The third story Bar-Or uses to illustrate his point is "Malakhim bi-sheme yehudah" (in English, "Angels in Judea Sky") by Daniel Gelleri. This story describes the situation in Israel after the Six-Day War, ending its tale with a large-scale Jewish rebellion and a blood-soaked war that breaks out between those loyal to the Sanhedrin and the citizens who are loyal to the existing government.
After the army takes control of Jerusalem and the surrounding area, the rebels lay the cornerstone of the Third Temple on the ruins of the Second Temple. They blow up the television building in Romema and expel the Arabs who live in Judea and Samaria across the Jordan River.
The fourth book Bar-Or uses to illustrate his fears is "Code Blue" by Zvika Amit. "Code Blue" tells the story of a bloodless military coup that takes place after the government decides to withdraw from Judea and Samaria and the army, led by a group of both religious and secular officers, seizes power.
The point of departure of the two latter scenarios, according to Bar-Or, is the decisive influence of Jewish religious law on the laws of the country. "The ceding of portions of the Land of Israel is a terrible sin and an act against God's will," he quotes from "Code Blue" — as if the texts that appear there had been taken from posters of the present-day group Union of Rabbis for the Land and People of Israel. "The Torah, which was given by God, is above all orders. Religious law supersedes any law of the state that contravenes it."
Conservatism vs. post-modernism
Gal's group of researchers also has a fairly strong segment that opposes the way researchers such as Bar-Or, Kasher or Yagil Levy view the increasing religious character of the military. Members of this group believe that this increase in the army's religious character is being driven by the religious Zionist leadership, which is competing with secular society and trying to create its own dominance in the IDF's ranks to accomplish its own objectives, including ensuring the future of the settlement enterprise.
Dr. Yoaz Hendel, the former head of the Public Diplomacy Directorate of the Prime Minister's Office and today the head of the Institute of Zionist Strategy, notes, very logically, that most of Israel's citizens do not see the increasing religious presence as a negative thing for one very practical reason: there is no one else to fill the ranks.
Hendel explains: "The State of Israel is dealing with things such as draft evasion, non-enlistment and tendentious criticism of the IDF. As a result, most of the young people have changed their priorities. But the religious population is continuing to join the army out of a wish to excel in military service. The advantage of having them serve is simple and obvious: it's hard to criticize someone who does work for the country with no one to replace him."
In Hendel's view, the process of the army becoming more religiously observant is not so threatening because most of the army hardly feels it. "Outside the field units, the proportion of religious soldiers is the same as the proportion of religious people in the population." In addition, other commanding officers whose units are secular are openly envious of those who "succeeded in getting religious soldiers." For example, Brig. Gen. Agai Yehezkeli, the chief officer of the Armored Corps, told Hendel, "I'd like to see the religious take over the Armored Corps, just like they did in the infantry."
Professor Asher Cohen of Bar-Ilan University, the head of the Education Ministry's committee for civics studies, believes that the situation among the religious Zionist population is varied and much more moderate than its image in the public discourse would suggest. He believes the bundle of stereotypes includes characteristics such as religious and political radicalism, fundamentalism, active messianism, damage to the rule of law, mass disobedience of orders and the organized use of violence on a large scale to the point of endangering democracy in Israel. Cohen is convinced that this is nothing but a misleading generalization.
Professor Cohen recalls that David Grossman describes the settlers in his book "The Yellow Wind" as possessing almost no books other than sacred texts — which is completely untrue. Cohen notes that author Tzvia Greenfeld describes the religious Zionist population after the assassination of former prime minister Yitzhak Rabin as "seeking to take over Israel from within, to take control of education, the military, the media and every possible institution."
A description like Sefi Rachlevsky's in his book "The Messiah's Donkey," which describes all the groups within the Orthodox camp as being swept away by ever-growing messianism, is disconnected from reality. Professor Cohen has many examples of the overgeneralization of the religious Zionist population, not only among authors, but also in academia and the media. Yet, he says, the actual situation is far different.
Religious Zionism has many, often contradicting opinions. Much of its population is open to the general culture, enjoy the same leisure activities that secular people do and engage in the arts. Some of them take a scientific approach toward the Torah, and groups representing religious feminism and "new rabbis" such as the members of Tzohar are constantly being established.
"Be a religious person in your home and an Israeli on the street," says Professor Cohen, adopting the language of researcher Yair Sheleg about the image of the new religious person. He says most religious Zionists do not see rabbis' authority as applying to areas that are not clearly religious in nature. This fact has a great deal of significance as far as the question that arises again and again in Israel about the possibility that soldiers might choose to obey their rabbis' orders rather than the army's.
But the most interesting contribution to the debate over increasing religiosity in the military is made by Udi Lebel and Shoshana Lovish-Omer of Ariel University. Their research deals with the relationship between the military and society, and they claim that something far different from the claimed religious influence is happening. Rather, it is a conservative backlash whose purpose is to bring the army, which is being restrained by "post-modernist" trends, back to its heyday.
Among these trends, Lebel and Lovish-Omer describe the IDF as "a military that engages in non-belligerent activity;" as "an army whose combat soldiers are more and more influenced by the organizations of civilian society, which work to reduce the use of violence and prevent escalation;" as "an army that designs its activity in the spirit of the international rules of warfare;" and as "an army that considers concepts such as 'the image of victory,' 'psychological warfare' and 'virtual victory' much more important than an actual victory on the battlefield."
Lebel and Lovish-Omer continue their description of the IDF's postmodernist traits. "The IDF is today an army that chooses to fight from a distance rather than create contact; an army that prefers aerial and artillery warfare over traditional ground warfare; and an army whose decision-makers are less and less willing to use it in wars because of society's oversensitivity to casualties among the reservists and because of the lack of legitimacy from within for risking soldiers and from without for harming noncombatants in enemy territory. Because of these things, the ones who plan the battles must settle for keeping the conflicts at low intensity and not winning them."
In addition, Lebel and Lovish-Omer note that the army itself has begun proposing territorial withdrawals and political compromises and making battle asymmetrical — to be managed rather than won — a goal that allows them to settle for "the image of victory" rather than victory itself.
Therefore, according to them, the increased influence of the religious Zionist population in the IDF, therefore, does not have the effect of making the army more religious. Rather, their influence can be seen as the desire to see the army return to "what it used to be," to "its glory days," and to work toward that end as a counter-response to the "postmodernism that led to a neoliberal military."
Lebel and Lovish-Omer believe that the religious-Zionist takeover of the military is no different from the takeover of Israel's founders (David Ben-Gurion, Moshe Dayan, Yigal Allon and Ariel Sharon), who laid the groundwork for the IDF's original ethos.
Not only religious Zionism
Reuven Gal's question as to whether the religious Zionist movement's attempt to acquire positions of power and influence in the IDF is not a legitimate one when we consider that traditionally, the IDF's high command stimulated the political echelon and even shaped its positions toward territorial compromise in Judea and Samaria and on the Golan Heights as well.
In other words, can an attempt of this kind be considered not legitimate in light of the fact that when Israel held talks with Arab countries, its negotiating teams were often headed by generals who had shaped the opinions of the politicians? What's the difference? Could the position that many of the IDF's generals hold to this day not also be considered a religion of sorts? Why is it not dangerous or worrisome?
After all, the IDF's high command and the political echelon never kept themselves completely separate from each other. The mixing and mutual influence between politicians and IDF commanders have been part of the Israeli reality for a generation. The two groups influence each other. Why, then, is similar mixing wrong when it is believed that commanding offers from the religious Zionist population might influence the politicians in the opposite direction?
Gal emphasizes that the religious Zionist soldiers and combat personnel are among the best combat soldiers and commanders in the IDF. "The army can't do without them," he says, but adds, "Even if there were a hypothetical situation where a different sector, let's say the kibbutzim or the Russian immigrants, were to become more dominant — then, too, there would be room to discuss the potential danger of one particular sector exerting more influence in the army than its proportion of the population. In the past, similar studies were conducted about the kibbutzim, which once played the same role in the IDF that the religious Zionists play today. David Ben-Gurion dismissed Yigal Allon from the army for that very reason.
"The tendency of movements and world views and their striving for positions of power is legitimate as long as they maintain a multi-ideological framework. The moment there is a danger that one particular ideology is becoming dominant or exclusive — that's when the warning light goes on and the state is in danger."
Chief of Staff Benny Gantz and Chief Education Officer Eli Shermeister are also part of the dialogue. The chief of staff says that the increased religious Zionist presence in the IDF is a reflection of the same trend in all other parts of Israeli society — in the economy, the business world and the media. He feels that this group, with its high ethics and strong Zionist ideals, serves as the basis the IDF's moral strength.
"Officers are not chosen or promoted on the basis of whether or not they wear a skullcap," Lt. Gen. Gantz says. The chief education officer believes that the service of religious and secular soldiers alongside each other, rather than constituting a source of tension, provides a unique opportunity for becoming acquainted and learning about one another.
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Lagasse's Stadium is Sports Book Dining Like You've Never Seen Before
Lagasse's Stadium is a new theme restaurant at The Palazzo on the Las Vegas strip. That's Lagasse as in renowned celebrity chef Emeril Lagasse, and Stadium as in where you go to watch sports. This is the restaurant part of The Palazzo's sports book, and it's like no other sports book in Vegas.
Chef Emeril, a big sports fan, has been heavily involved with every aspect of this restaurant to ensure visitors an enjoyable dining, sports, and gaming experience. The menu choices include stadium classics like nachos, burgers, and beer, but also steaks, seafood, fancy soups, salads, and sides, and delicious desserts. It's the selection and quality you'd expect from a world class chef, but the prices aren't what you might guess. Menu items start at $6, and lots of entrees are under $15. Next week, Lagasse's Stadium will introduce a new menu with expanded vegetarian options.
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Tony's Take on the Browns' 25-15 loss to the Baltimore Ravens
Offense: The good news was Trent Richardson had his second straight 100-yard game (105 yards on 25 carries) and he added six catches (for 31 yards), and Greg Little had five catches (52) yards and no drops. But Brandon Weeden had an awful day throwing (20 of 37, 176 yards, two interceptions). And the effort was victimized by confusion, miscommunication and an alignment penalty that nullified a touchdown. Bottom line: Terribly out of synch.
Defense: It gave up two touchdowns early, then played exceptional for seven consecutive series, then gave up the winning TD drive when Joe Haden capped a rough day by allowing Torrey Smith to saunter 14 yards into the end after a 5-yard catch. T.J. Ward contributed a 15-yard penalty on the winning drive by hitting Joe Flacco above the shoulders on a blitz. In his first game of the year, Phil Taylor had a tackle, but couldn't bring down Bernard Pierce on a 12-yard TD run. Bottom line: Couldn't make the plays at the end.
Special teams: After not attempting a field goal in the past two games, Phil Dawson was 5-for-5 and gave the Browns a 15-14 lead with his 41-yarder with 8:48 to play. Reggie Hodges had a net average of 40.8 on four punts – winning his battle against Sam Koch. Josh Cribbs couldn't muster anything longer than 13 yards on a punt return and 28 on a kickoff return. Bottom line: Aside from Dawson, couldn't make a play of impact.
Coaching: They threw on the first two third-and-1s, then handed off late in the game on third-and-11 from the Ravens' 23 to preserve a field goal. The all-time baffler was going for it on fourth-and-2 from their own 28 with 3:53 to play and two timeouts left with the Ravens ahead, 22-15. The offensive communication problems shouldn't be happening at this stage of the season. The team was flat from the start and dug a 14-0 hole. Bottom line: Not a great game on the resume.
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Daniel's Carley Hoover named national softball player of the year
Stanford-bound star is the daughter of Clemson volleyball coach Jolene Hoover
CENTRAL — Daniel High School's Carley Hoover today was named the Gatorade National Softball Player of the Year.
Hoover received her award from Beijing Olympics Silver Medalist softball player Lauren Lappin in ceremonies at the school.
"It literally can't get much better than this," Hoover said. "I couldn't have written myself a better ending. This is pretty perfect."
Hoover had a 16-4 record and 0.15 ERA as a senior to help Daniel win the Class 3A state championship. She struck out 338 batters in 138 innings.
Offensively, Hoover batted .500 with four home runs and scored 45 runs but frequently was pitched around by opponents.
Hoover, who is headed to Stanford to play softball, was a four-time all-state selection.
Off the field, she maintained a 3.61 grade-point average. She has volunteered in the community to deliver food to the needy and coach youth softball players.
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