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Confusion is understandable but ideological blindness is unforgivable
Greenland was never called Iceland – even though it is largely surrounded by the ice cap and covered in glaciers. Iceland, which often has brilliantly green places, is also in the Arctic Circle. But Iceland is not connected to the rest of the Arctic sea ice.
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According to the 12th Century oral history "Landnámabók", Iceland got its modern name from the Norwegian Viking Flóki Vilgerðarson when he saw a distant fjord full of sea-ice from a tall mountain.
In the "Icelandic Sagas", Erik the Red, a Norwegian-born Icelander was exiled for murder. He sailed away to Greenland and supposedly gave it a pleasant name to attract more settlers.
Confusion may be understandable but ideological blindness is unforgivable. Increasingly obvious climate disruption will not stop until we make serious attempts to stop causing it. Effectively irreversible, it will soon be unstoppable. End of story (in more ways than one).
If global warming has stopped…
Can someone please explain why…
Arctic ice is still disappearing.
Biodiversity is still reducing.
Coral reefs are still dying.
Deserts are still growing.
Experts are still worrying.
Fisheries are still shrinking.
Glaciers are still retreating.
Heatwaves are still coming.
Ice caps are still melting.
Jungles are still burning.
Koch Brothers are still lobbying.
Lindzen is still obfuscating.
Micheal Mann is still winning.
Non-experts are still losing.
Oceans are still expanding.
Positive feedbacks are still emerging.
Quackery is still appealing.
Risks are still increasing.
Sea levels are still rising.
Temperature records are still breaking.
Uncertainties are still reducing.
Vanuatu is still sinking.
W, X, Y and Z are still missing.
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The carbon cycle and climate change
I have appended below the introduction to an excellent article on this subject, written by John Mason (part of the Skeptical Science team), as posted on the Climate State blog yesterday.
If the link between geology, plate tectonics, and climate change seems obscure to you, I would recommend reading the whole thing. However, if you're busy, let me jump straight to the important bit – what I see as being the implications for humanity today:
Just because it has been much warmer in Earth's distant past does not change the facts that:
(1) All life on Earth is adapted to the relative climate stability that preceded the Industrial Revolution; and
(2) Most life on Earth will not adapt to the unnatural change now underway unless we stop causing it.
Now we know we are in a hole, I think it would be a good idea to stop digging.
For those who think they might have some time to spare, here is how the article begins:
This post delves into the long-term carbon cycle that involves the interactions of the atmosphere with rocks and oceans over many millions of years. Because of its length, I've broken it up into bookmarked sections for easy reference: to come back here click on 'back to contents' in each instance.
Introduction: what is weathering?
Carbon dioxide and rock weathering: the chemistry.
Limitations to the precipitation of calcium carbonate: the Carbonate Compensation Depth.
The significance of weathering as a carbon-sink.
Deep weathering of rocks: an illustrated example from Mid-Wales, UK.
How breaking up minerals affects their weathering-rate: mountain-building as an accelerant.
Picking up signals of major weathering episodes in the geological record.
If this sounds interesting, I hope you will go and read the whole thing:
Understanding the long-term carbon-cycle: weathering of rocks – a vitally important carbon-sink
Stone Age Tsunami! Whatever next?
Tony Robinson is probably best known to most people (over the age of 40 at least) for playing the character of 'Baldrick', alongside Rowan Atkinson, in the Blackadder series of brilliant comedy series in the 1980s. However, since then, he has carved out a niche for himself presenting numerous Time Team programmes about archaeology. They are almost invariably excellent and the latest programme – all about a tsunami that hit the East coast of Britain about eight thousand years ago – was broadcast in the UK last night.
I am very pleased to discover that the broadcaster, Channel 4 Television, has uploaded the programme to YouTube and, therefore, I have embedded the video at the end of this post. I cannot recommend watching it highly enough but, if you need some encouragement, please allow me to summarise its content:
Tony Robinson open's the programme from a helicopter above Flamborough Head in North Yorkshire and – in the course of the programme – visits places up and down the East Coast of England and Scotland. Using computer generated animation, the programme reveals that the tsunami was caused by an enormous underwater landslide on the edge of the continental shelf off the coast of Norway.
The programme also presents an amazing array of artefacts recovered from a site in North Yorkshire, called Star Carr, where peat has preserved all manner of objects – bone, wood, leather, etc – thereby painting a picture of a much more sophisticated and stable society in what is known, in anthropological terms, as the Mesolithic era.
With the help of experts, Robinson demonstrates how, unlike people in the Iron Age who tended (for reasons that will become clear) to live on hill-tops, people in the Mesolithic era lived next to rivers. Far from being hunter-gatherers, they lived in settled communities and, with the exception of fish, allowed their food to come to them. However, in terms of geography, the programme focussed on the fact, because sea level was much lower at the time, the UK was connected to Europe (from Denmark all the way round to Brittany in the northwest of France).
Probably the most fascinating artefacts presented in the programme are those that look very similar to things that, in modern times, early European explorers of Siberia found local Shamen using in their religious ceremonies. However, so as to encourage you to watch the video, I will not say any more than that!
So then, you may well be thinking, what has this got to do with concern for the environment and/or climate change? Well, having watched the programme, I was left feeling that Robinson had, to use a soccer-based analogy, dribbled the football up to an open goal and then, almost inexplicably, managed to fail to score a goal. It left me feeling that, although Robinson clearly accepts that the Earth's climate has changed in the past, he does not believe that humans are the main driver of change today. If he did, he would not have closed the programme by suggesting that we might be heading for another Ice Age!
To me, this was completely at odds with all of the facts about palaeoclimatic changes presented in the programme:
— Sea Level was120m lower than it is today at the end of the last Ice Age (about 12k years ago).
— The tsunami probably resulted in a decision by humans not to live near sea level about 8k years ago.
— The sudden emptying of the enormous, North American, Lake Agassiz about the same time, which resulted in the UK being separated from Europe by the current expanses of water known as the North Sea and the English Channel.
I am quite sure that I cannot have been the only person to watch all this and think: "Holy Cow! We are already in an inter-glacial warm period and we are now moving into temperature conditions not seen since Antarctica first became glaciated in the Eocene era (35 million years ago)". Therefore, although it may take hundreds of years, very significant sea level rise is now inevitable (because Eocene-like levels of atmospheric CO2 are now driving the Earth back towards Eocene-like temperatures).
As I said, the one conclusion I did not reach was: "Oh well, change happens. Ice Ages come and go and, if sea level drops again, travel to Europe will be much easier!"
Tony Robinson, yes, I am talking to you now! You seriously need to wake up! There will never be another Ice Age unless or until humans become extinct. Even if the Earth was to suddenly start to cool down (i.e. because we now understand why it has happened repeatedly in the past million years this is not expected to happen for many thousands of years), if humans were lucky enough to still be around, all they would have to do to stop this happening is release some of the CO2 they had managed to remove from the atmosphere (and buried underground like nuclear waste).
Despite my frustration at all of this, I would, as I said, heartily recommend that you invest the time in watching the video.
So much for global warming being beneficial
Last year, James Hansen (et al), pointed out that extreme weather events of all kinds (hot, cold, wet and dry) are becoming more frequent. In fact, their statistical analysis of historical data (as opposed to computer modelling of future events) demonstrated that extreme events (i.e. more than 3 standard deviation above or below average) are now ten times more likely than they used to be. As the authors put it:
We illustrate variability of seasonal temperature in units of standard deviation (σ), including comparison with the normal distribution ("bell curve") that the lay public may appreciate. The probability distribution (frequency of occurrence) of local summer-mean temperature anomalies was close to the normal distribution in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s in both hemispheres (Fig. 2). However, in each subsequent decade the distribution shifted toward more positive anomalies, with the positive tail (hot outliers) of the distribution shifting the most.
Last year it was the USA and Australia, today it is India that is suffering from a heatwave, with temperatures approaching 50C. Above 50C/120F, in dry air, proteins begin to break down (and plants die). Furthermore, a Wet Bulb temperature of 35C (which causes animals to die because they overheat) is reached at 40% relative humidity.
So much for global warming being beneficial.
If, like me until recently, you struggle with all this meteorological stuff, here is a nice graph from Wikipedia that tells you all you need to know about Wet and Dry Bulb temperatures and Relative Humidity.
I know this chart is complicated but, the important bit is the pale blue line with a "35" next to it. The top right corner of the graph (beyond this line) is therefore what you could call the "death zone" and the higher the Dry Bulb temperature (vertical lines in green) the lower the Relative Humidity (curves in red) required to enter it.
The mother of all hockey sticks
Words are not really necessary to accompany this image but, if you want some, feel free to go and read 'The Last Time CO2 Was This High Humans Did Not Exist" by Andrew Freedman on the Climate Central website.
However, what I would really like to know is how anyone could possibly think that, since the Industrial Revolution, the Earth's climate would not have been impacted by:
– a sevenfold increase in the the human population;
– a similar increase in the number of methane-producing livestock;
– a super-exponential increase in the burning of fossil fuels.
Therefore, those who still dispute the reality of anthropogenic climate disruption have not only picked a fight with history; they have picked a fight with science – the Laws of Conservation of Energy and Mass and the concept of Entropy in particular. Defeat is therefore inevitable. The only question that remains is how bad do things have to get before they are willing to admit they are wrong?
I am afraid this may be the last post on this blog for a while because – what with the all the willful blindness and ideological prejudice that seems to stop people from recognising what an Eff-ing mess humanity is in – and my as yet unresolved employment situation – I am feeling somewhat emotionally drained. However, please don't cancel your subscription (as who knows how quickly I may recover).
Addendum (10:00 hrs BST 4 May 2013)
I would also recommend that reader take a look at this excellent post, 'The "hockey stick" slaps back', on the Skepticblog website. This takes readers on a journey back in time, looking at all the palaeoclimatic reconstructions that have been done for the last million years. Somehow, I managed to be the first person to post a comment on this piece, which reads as follows:
Why not go back even further by looking at sea floor sediments too? As in, for example, Zachos et al. (2001), 'Trends, Rhythms, and Aberrations in Global Climate 65 Ma to Present', Science 292: 686-93.
For those that are really interested, you can get a PDF of the whole paper here. It includes many fascinating diagrams, but one of the more complicated ones has been helpfully simplified by James Hansen in his book, Storms of my Grandchildren. All the figures from the book are available here but, with regard to Zachos et al (2001), Figure 18 is the one to which I refer. This too needs few words to convey its importance:
More freezes will melt climate change doubts
So said Lord (Julian) Hunt, Vice President of GLOBE and a former Director General of the UK's Meteorological Office, in an article published in The Times newspaper on 2 April 2013 (behind paywall). Fortunately (for me and all those without a Times subscription), the text of what appears to be the same article has been released to the media by the British Embassy in Beijing. This is presumably because Lord Hunt refers to China.
However, without further comment from me, here is the article in full:
It was the chilliest Easter Day on record, and last month is the coldest March for at least 50 years. But we are not alone in shivering. Across much of Europe, temperatures have been unseasonably cold. In Germany, this has been called a once in a "100-year winter".
We should not be surprised. It has long been expected that climate change would bring more weird or extreme weather — not just cold but rain, droughts and heat waves — to the UK. So longer spells of colder winter weather are consistent with this. As were drought conditions around this time last year, followed by many months of heavy rain which resulted in the UK experiencing in 2012, the second wettest year on record.
Extreme weather has become more frequent across the world. Australia started 2013 with a record breaking heat wave. Similarly, a heatwave in the US in 2012 (the warmest year on record for mainland America) contributed towards widespread drought which proved devastating for many crops. Russia also experienced its second warmest summer last year. This follows the country's hottest summer on record in 2010 with states of emergency in seven Russian regions as a result of brush fires, while 28 other regions were put under states of emergency due to crop failures caused by drought.
And then there is the steady increase in peak rainfall rates. These have doubled in South East Asia,for instance over 30 years. It is such a problem that the Malaysians have built a huge SMART tunnel (or Stormwater Management And Road Tunnel) in Kuala Lumpur which doubles up as both a motorway and a six-mile long pipe to cope with flash floods. A similar less pronounced trend is occurring in the UK, which help explains the rise in localised, incredibly heavy showers which have brought flooding from Cumbria to Cornwall. This is caused by a change in the atmosphere called "vertical mixing" in which cumulus clouds become stronger and bigger.
In the UK, the trend is likely to be towards colder winters as a large part of Arctic ice melts permanently (as now happens every summer). The winds over the ice-free ocean could then push colder currents up to Iceland and the Arctic ocean. And as a result of colder waters from the North, the northern UK, in particular, may no longer enjoy the same level of warming from the Gulf Stream as it did when the sea ice boundary was further south.
It is these colder oceans which help to rebut one of the more common arguments used by sceptics to argue that "global warming has stopped". They often point to graphs which purport to show that Earth's temperature has not risen in 16 years. But that graph combines land and ocean temperature. Separate the two, and you see that on land temperature is still rising — 0.3℃ over the past decade. More dramatically, in China it has risen by 2℃ over the past 50 years, and 3℃ in the Antarctic over 30 years.
The drop in sea temperature is not just taking place in the Arctic, where the ice is melting, but equally strongly in the eastern Pacific, where winds off the South American coast bring deep, colder waters to the surface. Normally this La Niña phenomenon lasts for three to five years. However, it has been active for more than a decade, caused by easterly trade winds along the equator that have been strengthened by general warming of the atmosphere. When La Niña finally falls away, some time in the next few years, the surface cooling will end. This will increase temperatures over large areas of the globe, disrupting agriculture and fisheries in many countries, and pushing up food prices.
Fortunately, even some sceptics are won round when they experience the problems themselves. The scepticism of some Russian officials has disappeared as they have seen the permafrost melt in the north of the country, and watched the effects of prolonged heatwaves and droughts.
Responsible nations are preparing for the effects of climate change. However, all governments need constant encouragement, in the face of financial austerity and the claims of sceptics, to expand programmes to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
It is critical they do so, otherwise future generations will have more to worry about than a freezing cold Easter Sunday.
For all those people who have not been duped into believing in the fallacy of the marketplace of ideas, Lord Hunt is someone whose opinions should carry weight. Experts are real and so is anthropogenic climate disruption. So, then, I really do hope that climate change denial will founder on the rocks of reality (and the sooner the better it will be for everybody).


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I am making a box out of 3/4 ply and want to use routed joints for the corners.
Are there any issues with lap joints on plywood?
I am making a box out of 3/4 ply and want to use routed joints for the corners.
Are there any issues with lap joints on plywood?
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Hi Bryan; not too sure what your def. of a lap joint is. I recommend a drawer lock bit for routered corners in ply. Depending on the direction of the ply you may have to score the outer layer to minimize tearout, but it makes a real nice mitred corner and is rather easy to set up the bit on a router table.
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lap joints are weak in plywood . try a box joint, It gives you more gluing space,
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Hi Mack,
I should have said half lap.
One concern is that there might be tearout if I cut part way through a layer of the plywood. It seems better to have a joint that limits the depth of cut to one of the ply layers.
If you are making a flat joint, similar to rail/stile or picture frame, then a half lap should be fine. Try to ensure that you route to a depth that hits the lamination between two plies, as close as you can, and doesn't take off any significant portion of a ply.
Also check to make sure that the plywood itself isn't junk like so much of what we get these days. It does no good to do a nice strong glueup on the lap joint if the laminations between the plies above or below are crap or one or more of the plies is just soft punk.
The box 25x50inX8in deep and will have vertical joints. I like the drawer lock bit but since it cost $45 (from Lee valley)I would like to use one of my existing standard bits so a box joint could be done. I want to use the router to build experience using it.
The box will in fact be an apron around the top of a mobile work table. The table top is a loose fit inside the apron so that it can be reversed for different uses.
The appearance is not an issue but since I will be using the apron (box) for clamping on all four sides I want it to be 90 deg to the top.
The legs will be made from scrap 2X's (I have a lot to use up) and there will be a sub deck for power tools underneath and perhaps some shallow drawers under that.
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A good strong corner plywood joint for a box where esthetics is not involved is a half lap joint together with screws. The mating piece is bored for a cross dowel where the screws go. So....you bore for the cross dowels,glue them in and sand both sides smooth, pre-drill for the screws, counter sink for tapered plugs, slap on the glue, run in the screws, viola a very strong plywood corner joint, glue in the tapered plugs, sand smooth & it don't look half bad.
I have always had good luck with a locking rabbet joint. Lots of surface area for the glue to grab on to.
I think a half lap would be best if the ply is glued on the flat and not along the edge.
Here is an example of the rabbet joint...and if you add a small hardwood veneer, then no exposed plywood edges!
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The rules are of such, to attract well governed, well behaved families. Hundreds of people, yet you feel you have the park all to yourself. Very spacious.
Labor Day, is when we look forward to our annual Church picnic there, these 14 years now. {except for the times when the hurricane weather interferred}.
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A is for the Antares. Charlie Evans used his telekinesis powers to tamper with the ship's engine systems and destroyed it.
B is for Bones.
C is for Christopher Pike of Mojave, an Enterprise captain in at least two universes and two different timelines.
D is for Denebian Slime Devil.
E is for the Enterprise-B. May or may not have been commanded by Hikaru Sulu's daughter depending on how official you personally consider the novels set in the years after the opening scenes of Generations.
F is for First Federation, advanced makers of puppets and tranya.
G is for Green. The color of Scotty's unnamed alcoholic secret weapon.
H is for Harriman. Captain of the Enterprise.
I is for Iconians, "the Demons of Air and Darkness".
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Nigeria's Jonathan brushes off scandals to lead 2015 election race
ABUJA (Reuters) – Not many presidents could survive three multi-billion dollar government oil corruption scandals and a wave of cold-blooded killings and kidnappings of civilians by Islamist militants still holding hundreds of schoolgirls after six months.
Nigeria's president Goodluck Jonathan has not only survived, he will seek reelection in February stronger than ever, after five years in a job no one expected him to get.
Nigerians doubtful of girls' release after Boko Haram 'truce' breached
LAGOS (Reuters) – – A wave of violence hours after Nigeria's government announced a truce with Boko Haram raised doubt on Sunday about whether more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by the Islamist militants will really be released, deflating the new hopes of their parents.
Nigeria's armed forces chief Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh announced the ceasefire on Friday to enable the release of the girls, who were abducted from the remote northeastern village of Chiboke in April.
Nigeria's ex-military ruler Buhari declares presidential bid
ABUJA (Reuters) – Nigeria's former military ruler Muhammadu Buhari declared he would run for president on Wednesday, criticising President Goodluck Jonathan's administration for corruption and failing to tackle the Boko Haram Islamist insurgency.
His bid for the opposition ticket, if accepted, would pit him against Jonathan for a second time.
Nigeria's megachurches: a hidden pillar of Africa's top economy
When a guesthouse belonging to one of Nigeria's leading Christian pastors collapsed last month, killing 115 mostly South African pilgrims, attention focused on the multimillion-dollar "megachurches" that form a huge, untaxed sector of Africa's top economy.
Six months after girls abducted, Nigerians protest near president's house
ABUJA (Reuters) – Protesters demanding the release of more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped six months ago by Islamist militants, demonstrated infront of the president's home on Tuesday, urging the government to do more to free them.
Around 60 people in red T-shirts that read "Bring Back Our Girls" marched to the residence of President Goodluck Jonathan in a leafy part of the Nigerian capital, which was guarded by more than 150 armed police.
Insight – Nigeria's 'megachurches': a hidden pillar of Africa's top economy
OTA Nigeria (Reuters) – When a guesthouse belonging to one of Nigeria's leading Christian pastors collapsed last month, killing 115 mostly South African pilgrims, attention focussed on the multimillion-dollar "megachurches" that form a huge, untaxed sector of Africa's top economy.
Hundreds of millions of dollars change hands each year in these popular Pentecostal houses of worship, which are modelled on their counterparts in the United States.
Boko Haram 'leader', killed repeatedly, continues to threaten Nigeria
ABUJA (Reuters) – Nigeria's Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau, or a man claiming to be him, has been killed at least three times so far, according to the military, yet each time he apparently returns in the group's numerous jihadist videos.
Dead or alive, he appears to be fuelling violence which rights groups say is killing more people than at any time during Boko Haram's five-year-old reign of terror in the north of the 175 million-strong state.
One of the girls abducted by Boko Haram in Nigeria's Chibok freed -police
ABUJA (Reuters) – One of more than 200 schoolgirls abducted by Islamist Boko Haram rebels in the northeastern Nigerian village of Chibok was freed this week, police and a parent of some of the other missing girls said on Thursday.
Boko Haram militants took the girls from a secondary school in the village near the Cameroon border in April, sparking a worldwide outcry, and have remained in captivity ever since.
Nigeria ex-VP declares opposition presidential bid as contest heats up
ABUJA (Reuters) – Former Nigerian vice president Atiku Abubakar declared a bid to run for president as the main opposition coalition's candidate on Wednesday, ramping up a contest for the only ticket that stands a chance of unseating President Goodluck Jonathan.
Addressing supporters of the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) in the capital Abuja, Abubakar said Nigeria was more divided than at any time since the 1960s civil war, and pledged to end the insecurity and graft plaguing Africa's top oil producer for decades. The APC holds a primary in December.
For followers of Nigeria's 'Prophet', building collapse was 'Satan's work'
LAGOS (Reuters) – For supporters of "Prophet" TB Joshua, one of Africa's best-known Christian preachers, the death of at least 80 of his congregation under the rubble of a Lagos guesthouse that collapsed a week ago was no construction accident.
"The church views this tragedy as part of an attack on The Synagogue Church Of All Nations," said a statement on his official Facebook page on Thursday.


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| kyoandyuya chapter 1 . 8/25/2013
Hey I wonder who the father is? Some random guy? That's so unlikely unless she was raped which I doubt. Though it should have a sequel.
| alitz chapter 1 . 6/22/2013
this happens in real life. nice story. hope you'll add another chapter. what would aoshi do? will he marry her? will she accept if he proposes? or will she think she' unworthy of him now?
| Lama00 chapter 1 . 9/17/2012
I really love your fic the words you in Aoshi's thought is touching.
| fnioami chapter 1 . 9/16/2012
Love it so much I cried
| BlueBerrY chapter 1 . 4/16/2009
Baby Mama Drama ! I love ur story
| catgrrl chapter 1 . 1/1/2008
i think i've read this before... its pretty good, but maybe before the baby's crying you could have Aoshi resolve to marry her? i like the crying as the end.
| hanna chapter 1 . 12/6/2007
aw...its kindof sad, but its so sweet that aoshi still cares about her.
| Adelaide MacGregor chapter 1 . 10/26/2007
Well written, good job!
| wolfygirl13 chapter 1 . 10/24/2007
That was awesome! You did an excellent job once again! I do so hope that you continue with your writings, my esteemed fellow author.
Loved the emotion and the feel of it; the simple yet subtle contradiction-very nice touch. Once again, a great fic.
| Koishii13 chapter 1 . 10/23/2007
very unique and deep...
I don't know what I would do
if I were Misao!...Good thing Aoshi
finally decided to be there for her.
hope to read more of your awesome stories!
| Edward Houshi chapter 1 . 10/23/2007
Wow. This is one of the best stories I've read in a while. It seems a little out of charachter for her to do someting like that, but you made it seem so natural and real... *Applause*
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^There was a certain character logic to it, though. He'd grown up in a prison that tortured its prisoners with the illusion of hope (a clear path to escape if only they could make the climb/leap) in order to intensify their despair. And like most victims of abuse who become abusers, he imitated his abusers' patterns, playing the same kind of mind games -- giving both Bruce and Gotham a sliver of hope before destroying them both. True, if you think about it, it does fall afoul of the standard "Why don't you just shoot him?" problem, but at least there was a character-based reason for his folly, and that makes it somewhat more acceptable.
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Banks, oil firms control US governance: Scott Rickard
You have easily 85 billion dollars a month going into the banks under Quantitative Easing III, and Quantitative Easing IV. I mean that is highway robbery. We are bailing out a failed system that controls our politicians."A political analyst says the banking and petroleum groups have controlled the US government for years, favoring corporations over American citizens. According to the results of a recent poll released by Pew Research, 53 percent of Americans consider the US government a 'threat' to their personal rights and freedoms, with nearly three-quarters of Americans saying they only sometimes or never trust the federal government. This is the first time that a majority of respondents have described the US government as a threat against their freedoms since Pew began polling on the question in 1995. Press TV has conducted an interview with Scott Rickard, a former US intelligence linguist from Florida, to further discuss the issue. Rickard is joined by Sara Flounders, an activist with International Action Center from New York, and Brent Budowsky, a columnist with The Hill, Washington. The following is a rough transcription of the interview. Press TV: Let us just take a look at one of the comments that is being put up on our Facebook page by one of our viewers on this debate's topic which is the results of the Pew Research Center… The question that we put up on our Facebook page today was that 'The majority of Americans,' according to the Pew Research Center, 'say the Federal government threatens their personal rights. Are American's personal rights under threat, and why?' One of our viewers, Maggie Daves, is saying, "Today's politicians don't belong to America, as they seek every one's interest except their own nation which is Americans." Scott Rickards, let us have your reaction on this. A lot has been said, of course. We just saw our guest talking about corporate America, how basically the interests of corporations are being considered rather than the interests of the people. What is your view? We are seeing these comments and similar comments a lot on our comment page today. Rickard: It is a bit more complicated than that. I think what you are looking at is the banks have really controlled the nation alongside the petroleum industry for at least a century in this country. You have easily 85 billion dollars a month going into the banks under Quantitative Easing III, and Quantitative Easing IV. I mean that is highway robbery. We are bailing out a failed system that controls our politicians. No matter what you do, saying that they are not going to be able to give them money. That is not going to fix the problem. These are criminal banks that have operated criminally in this country especially over the last 30 years, and then they also have gotten alongside a lot of international interests that are not in the best interests of the United States. In fact, it violates the Constitution of the United States when you take interests of other countries and put them over the top of American interests. So, violating that sovereignty is exactly what is going on with the special interests groups.
Those special interests groups are very well tied into the oil and the banking business. The oil business alone is a two to three trillion-dollar business a year. The banking business has obviously got everybody tied up. I mean Goldman Sachs has won the election in this country for over a hundred years. They have been around since 1827. Since 1827, they have been involved in finance.They are half-owned by the Rothschild group and so you have foreign interests that are running over 150 trillion dollars in commercial debt, not just the 16 trillion of national debt, in and out of the Federal Reserve. They are controlling the money because they control the media and they control the minds of the people. Press TV: Let us have your reaction on that. Mr. Budowsky says that not all wars are bad and when there is a known terrorist, it is okay for that terrorist to be targeted. Rickard: Obviously, if someone is doing something extremely bad, you need to resolve that problem. Unfortunately, this whole theory on terrorism around the world and global war on terrorism is nothing more than propaganda to further the imperial colonization and the exploitation of resources around the world. It is the businesses and the banks that are running it. I mean the incredible amount of monitoring and surveillance and all of these things that do violate our privacy; that is part of it. They are trying to protect themselves. There is a massive amount of censorship going on out there. The amount of requests per month going into Google alone are 25,000 requests a month to get information and then half of the information is being removed that they go after. It is being removed for executive purposes not by court order, not by any type of law or justice but basically by edit. So, we are losing not only our privacy but the Fourth Amendment - the Search and Seizure - for the same things that Aaron Swartz was being [prosecuted] for a potential 35 years, you have the courts going to say that the Feds even last weekend, that it is okay for the Feds to snoop through our data. They can snoop all day long but God forbid that we should go into a college to look at some research papers that the college was going to release anyway.
We are not on a fair playing field with our government. Our government is allowed to have massive amounts of equipment, armored personnel carriers, and we cannot even have guns. They are responsible for tens of millions of people dying every year from starvation, because they are wasting their time on multiple wars that are unnecessary.Press TV: Scott Rickard, your concluding remarks on this as well. Rickard: You know, Osama bin Laden - this stinks to all high hell. You have got to look at the history of these guys and how they built up. For almost ten years over from '84 to '89, actually, where the bases that we built with Osama bin Laden, seven different bases, he was running command. He was commanding forces for us against the Russians. The fact is that we had him put under house arrest in Saudi Arabia alongside the Saudis and he got back out. The reason he got back out was because we turned on him. This whole "Zero Dark Thirty" takedown is so dirty that the gentleman that basically broke the story is Nicholas Schmidle. Now, Nicholas Schmidle is the son of the deputy commander for the cyber-warfare division at NSA. He was thrown out of Pakistan for basically espionage. As soon as he came out of espionage, he started to work for a Google think tank. That Google think-tank is called New America Foundation. It is a CIA think tank where this guy goes and he writes a story in the New Yorker on August 8th, 2011, saying "Getting bin Laden." He is getting all of his information from the Pentagon and he is writing. He is the son of the deputy commander for the cyber-warfare division at NSA. This stinks to all high hell to me. I do not trust my government. I am right alongside everyone else and I have got hundreds of stories like this and there is a lot of fact around it. GMA/HSN


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Jalapeños in Escabeche
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Escabeche, which means "pickled" in Spanish, is a popular condiment in Mexico and other Latin American countries. In this escabeche recipe, we also add carrots and onions to the chiles. Jalapeños are traditional, but any small hot chiles, such as serranos, will work. Stored in the refrigerator, the vegetables stay crunchy; if canned they will be softer, but still delicious.
Makes: 6 pints
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- 2 pounds whole fresh red or green jalapeños or serranos
- 1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil, divided
- 2 cups thinly sliced onion
- 1 1/4 cups thinly sliced small carrots
- 6 cloves garlic
- 18 whole black peppercorns
- 1 1/2 teaspoons salt, divided
- 3 cups white vinegar
- 3 cups water
- Poke several small holes in the skin of the chiles with a paring knife. Heat 1 tablespoon oil in a large Dutch oven over medium-high heat. Add half the chiles, cover and cook, stirring occasionally, until the skins start to blister, 3 to 8 minutes; remove to a bowl with a slotted spoon. Add another tablespoon of oil and the remaining chiles to the pot; cook, stirring occasionally, until the skins are starting to blister, 2 to 4 minutes. Remove to the bowl. Add the remaining 2 tablespoons oil, onion and carrots to the pot and cook, stirring, until wilted, 1 to 2 minutes.
- Dividing evenly, pack the chiles, onion and carrots into 6 pint-size jars, leaving about 1/2 inch space between the vegetables and the top of the jar. Add 1 garlic clove, 3 peppercorns and 1/4 teaspoon salt to each jar.
- Bring vinegar and water to a boil in a large saucepan. Carefully pour over the vegetables. Put the lids on the jars. Let cool to room temperature, then refrigerate. Or, to store at room temperature, process the jars in a boiling-water bath. Let the vegetables pickle for 1 month before serving. For step-by-step instructions for water-bath canning, go to eatingwell.com/go/canning.
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Per 1/4-cup serving: 20 calories; 1 g fat (0 g sat, 1 g mono); 0 mg cholesterol; 2 g carbohydrates; 0 g added sugars; 0 g protein; 1 g fiber; 12 mg sodium; 66 mg potassium.
Nutrition Bonus: Vitamin C (3% daily value), Vitamin A (15% dv)
Carbohydrate Servings: 0
Exchanges: 1/2 vegetable
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As long time members of the Education Market Association (EDmarket), Worthington Direct will join fellow dealers and furniture manufacturers for the 2014 Edspaces Conference and Expo for Innovative Learning Environments. This industry event is the most important international conference and expo for professionals who design, supply and manage creative learning environments and is being held in Tampa, Florida between October 29th-31st. The sole purpose of this show is to continually improve the outcome of student success by progressing learning environments for the entire K-12 educational system.
Combination Desks vs. Chair and Desk
Should there really be a combination desk vs chair and desk debate about which configuration works the best in schools?
Perhaps it's already a clear choice for many educators. That's because there's very distinct differences between combination chair desks and using an ordinary chair and table. Much of that has to do with comfort, classroom time, and even the chance of noise prevention.
What Does Greenguard Certified Mean?
If you've shopped for school furniture or educational furniture in the last 5 to 10 years, you've probably noticed the Greenguard Certified logo found on a growing number of furniture products. But do you wonder what that really means? And maybe you even wonder if it's worth worrying about? Well, this segment that recently aired on ABC's Good Morning America show reveals that you really should be concerned with the furniture products that are in your classroom or home.


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Re: apple pro keyboard eject key in response to conspiracy moonHi, conspiracy -
Welcome to Apple's Discussions.
The more recent versions of that keyboard state in the description in the Apple Store that they need OSX.
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There are some additional ways to work around that issue using items provided in the Eject Extras folder on some OS 9.1 and later Install CD. If you can't locate that, you can get that here - Eject Extras
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thanks for your help and reply. I tried the Eject Extras but the application and CS module both did not work. strange thing is that the eject media key DOES work but only when ejecting the tray with a CD or DVD already in the tray. If I just want to open/close the tray with no media in it, the eject media key does not work. And in iTunes, the tray ejects and closes when the eject button within the program is used. I guess it's just picky when it wants to work or not.
B&W G3 400mHz Mac OS 9.1.x
Don Archibald Feb 8, 2006 12:16 PM
Re: apple pro keyboard eject key in response to conspiracy moonHi, conspiracy -
There's a couple of other items that may help with that -
I used Eject Menu for a while - it's handy. It not only provides a menu in the main menubar, it also allows the assignment of unique keyboard commands for all removable-media drives, including the Zip drive.
Haven't seen the connection posted before, but you may be experiencing a side effect of a soft conflict between the Apple CD/DVD Driver and the Iomega Driver extensions.
I disabled the Iomega stuff in Extensions Manager and started using the Iomega Guest utility a few years ago. It works perfectly - even if I forget to activate it before inserting a zip disk.


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September 24, 2007
No Energy Crisis in 1978
Starting off Monday a little under the weather -- a bad thing, given how much work there is to do this week. So for an infusion of raw power, it's time to shift from all the skinhead reggae I've been listening to lately (man, those Trojan boxed sets are addictive as well as cheap) to the Clash.
It seems like a natural progression -- and what better way to charge the batteries than "Tommy Gun"?
From the Wikipedia entry about it:
Joe Strummer said that he got the idea for the song when he was thinking about terrorists, and how they probably enjoy reading about their killings as much as movie stars like seeing their films reviewed. While Topper Headon mimics the sound of gangster movie shootings with quick snare hits and the guitars are full of distortion and feedback, Strummer's sarcastic lyrics (I'm cutting out your picture from page one/I'm gonna get a jacket just like yours/And give my false support to your cause/Whatever you want, you're gonna get it!) condemn rather than condone violence....
In the liner notes of the recently released Singles Box, Carl Barat (frontman of the Dirty Pretty Things and formerly of The Libertines) says [the song is] 'a product of the volatile climate of the late seventies - all those references to terrorist organizations like Baader-Meinhof and The Red Brigade. It's like a punk rock adaptation of The Beatles' "Revolution."
Well, sure, always historicize. But I'm playing it for the charge -- not the context.
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Dr. Jonathan Letterman, MAJ
Dr. Jonathan Letterman, MAJ an Army Surgeon
Hometown: Washington, PA
Age: 39
Category: Army Surgeon
Status: survived
Before Gettysburg: Born on Dec. 10, 1824, in Washington, Pennsylvania, Letterman graduated from Philadelphia's esteemed Jefferson Medical College and joined the Army in 1849. He served as an assistant surgeon with the rank of captain in Florida, Minnesota, and on the frontier in New Mexico. On April 16, 1862, he was promoted to major and full surgeon and assigned to the Army of the Potomac as medical director.
July 1 - 3, 1863: Unlike many of the Soldiers at Gettysburg, Dr. Letterman's contribution cannot be isolated to a particular heroic action—though there was no shortage of those. Rather, his contribution was to beneficial and revolutionary changes throughout the entire Army's field of medicine. The "Letterman System," as it became known, consisted of a rapidly deployable field medical system divided into separate division ambulance trains, each commanded by a lieutenant. The ambulance was a modified wagon which carried stretchers, kettles, lanterns, beef stock, bed sacks, and medical supplies. Letterman's revolutionary changes also included the overhaul of the military medical personnel system, ensuring that doctors were active, efficient and motivated for duty with the Army and were constantly drilled and tested on their medical knowledge.
At Gettysburg, the Union 11th Corps ambulance train consisted of 100 ambulances, nine medical wagons, 270 men, and 260 horses.
Lieutenant John S. Sullivan of the 14th Indiana observed Letterman and other medical personnel during the thick of the action at Gettysburg:
And many a time did I see the stretcher-carriers fired upon and wounded while bearing away the wounded. But they did not desist from their humane work; and many a time did I watch anxiously, fearing every moment to see him fall. He coolly rode all over the field, sometimes in the thickest of the firing, and away to the front even of our pickets on his errand of mercy, not satisfied to leave a single suffering man uncared for on the bloody field. All honor to such noble fellows.


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The latest, deliciously crammed episode (Season 3, Ep. 7) of Call the Midwife skillfully, and poignantly, interwove multiple stories that were, at their center, about creating a home or coming back to one.
They were bringing in the sheaves on Call the Midwife's latest episode (Season Three, Ep. 6). But not to worry.
Years ago, there was a drinking game inspired by The Bob Newhart Show (1972-78). Every time a character on the sitcom greeted its eponymous star with a cheery, "Hi, Bob," viewers had to take a sip from their beers.
Call the Midwife is usually about the happy arrival of new lives into this world, what with a baby or two being born every episode. In the series' latest show (Ep.
Call the Midwife made a blatant play for ratings in its third episode of Season 3, featuring women in prison scenes and girl-on-girl fighting. What's next? Nuns with guns at Nonnatus House?
Let's get the really big news out of the way first: Midwife Trixie Franklin (Helen George) models a new pixie haircut in the second episode of Season 3. She says she was inspired to adopt the 'do after seeing actress Jean Seberg's …
Call the Midwife, the British series about a group of nurse-midwives and nuns who help the poor in London's East End in the late 1950s, got off to a promising start with its season opener on PBS. There was even a royal visit.
They say you can't please everyone, but some things come pretty damn close. Like The Railway Children, an enduring classic of British cinema that is almost impossible not to love.
The cast members of Call the Midwife can do more than just deliver babies.
The hit British series, which airs on BBC in the U.K. and concluded its second season last month on PBS in the U.S., features a large ensemble cast of 11 main players plus Vanessa Redgrave, who is heard only in voiceover.


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Anne George's best-selling Southern Sisters mysteries offer delightful mixtures of offbeat characters, charming humor, and intriguing crimes.
In Murder Gets a Life, middle-aged sisters Mary Alice and Patricia Ann are sleuthing their way through a mystery that is hotter than Alabama in August. Mary Alice's son has married Sunshine, a petite blond who is cute as a button. Her family, however, lives in a junk-filled trailer compound dotted with rusty engines and pit bulls.
When Mary Alice and Patricia Ann pay a call on the family, the sisters hardly have time to meet Sunshine's spirit-channeling grandmother before they stumble over a large corpse on her floor. The local sheriff just can't seem to get moving in the summer heat. So it's up to the Southern Sisters to discover who the dead man is, and why Sunshine has suddenly disappeared.
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Garwood was not wearing a seatbelt and was pronounced dead at the scene by Hopkins County Coroner Dennis Mayfield. Baird was transported to Baptist Health in Madisonville via Med Center Ambulance for treatment to her injuries.The collision was investigated by Trooper Joseph Bartolotti. Sgt. Nick Rice, the Dawson Springs Police Department, the Hopkins County Sheriff's Office, Dawson Springs Fire Rescue and Med Center Ambulance assisted at the scene.
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yeah if my dog ran into health trouble ps3s, HDTVs, and computers getting sold and shit.
YUP. Instantly. No more trolling this thread.
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yeah if my dog ran into health trouble ps3s, HDTVs, and computers getting sold and shit.
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If anyone wants to donate $5 - $10 via Paypal myself, and my family would really appreciate it.
http://rockys-bum-is-broken.tumblr.com/ if you want to know more. Pictures of estimate is up, and Im a long time member of this forum, and would never scam you guys.
Ive already encountered some insensative pricks in the shoutbox, so please, keep the negative comments about putting my dog to sleep to yourself. Ive never had to ask anyone for money in my life, so this obviously is a very serious and sensative matter to me.
Im selling all my designer/favourite items and even an LV purse that was given to me as a gift. And chipping in my savings (I cant seem to find a job at the moment either)
Thank you in advanced to anyone who donates, and all your good wishes are appreciated.
"The clothes don't make the man the man made them clothes."
Sent 100 for the doggie.
take out a loan, ask for payments, or something
I would put some money in if my bank had not been drain from textbooks.
I'll donate tomorrow.
Ronnel, I doubt ronnel will do anything about it. He's a fake.
Originally posted by Inactive UserShut up loser, you can't just believe him?
I fuck with you Ronnel you got a heart in that frail chest my dogs sick too she suffers from obesity help a ♥♥♥♥♥ out with some heartworm pills
Originally posted by Inactive Useri def. did NOT know it was 5K to put a dog down
Thats crazy.
Have you considered doing the old yeller style?
All jokes and bs aside, from one dog lover to another, i donated 50 booboo. Idk what id do if my pup ever got sick :/
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i had a sheltie for 11 years, developed pancreatic cancer and we had to put him down 3 years back. i still get teared up when i think about it, toughest shit i've ever been through and i've lost numerous relatives and friends.
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Dear Gurudev, is it alright if I meditate thinking about you, about how beautiful you appear, how wonderful are your eyes, and that your smile is so lovely? Is it alright to meditate upon your form?
See, if you are able to meditate effortlessly by remembering someone or something, then that is alright.
Maharishi Patanjali has mentioned in the Yoga Sutras (a treatise on the eight limbs of Yoga) that if you are able to meditate by remembering or contemplating upon an image of someone, or something that is very dear to you, then that is alright.
There are many approaches to meditation.
Here (in the Advanced Meditation Course), by saying that everything around you is hollow and empty, we bring the mind that is turned outwards (to the material world) back inwards to its source. When you become aware that everything around you is hollow and empty, then a deep realization dawns within you.
So meditation is that which happens very effortlessly. But if, while you sit for meditation, you make efforts to remember Gurudev's image and how he looks, then meditation will not happen.
There is a tradition in which people are taught to meditate by contemplating upon some form.
In the Yoga Sutras it is said, 'Vitraag vishayam-va chittam'. It means that just by thinking about an enlightened and dispassionate soul, one can go deep into meditation. That is why one goes into meditation just by thinking about the Guru. This really does happen, and it is alright. But you need not strain yourself so much to think of the Guru in order to meditate.
Once you are connected with the Master, when you heart becomes one with the Master, and when love dawns from within you, then meditation happens effortlessly.
It is how it was with the Gopis (the womenfolk of Vrindavan where Lord Krishna spent his early years), who were so totally in love with Lord Krishna. The Gopis never made any effort to meditate. They were so soaked in their love for Lord Krishna that they would effortlessly slip into meditation. The moment there is deep love, meditation just happens.
The other approach is that which was taught by Lord Budhha. For meditation, Lord Buddha would say that 'Everything around you is temporary and transient. Nothing will last forever. Just remember that it will all disappear one day'.
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That has to hurt. Montreal Canadiens goalie Carey Price took a Lars Eller shot to the, well, groin area during warm-ups Wednesday night.
Price was in obvious pain, but did return. He made 23 saves in a 2-1 loss to the Boston Bruins.
That has to hurt. Montreal Canadiens goalie Carey Price took a Lars Eller shot to the, well, groin area during warm-ups Wednesday night.
Price was in obvious pain, but did return. He made 23 saves in a 2-1 loss to the Boston Bruins.
It was a scary sight.
Carlo Colaiacovo fell to his hands and knees after taking a cross-check to the throat from Predators forward Viktor Arvidsson (above).
Arvidsson received a five-minute major and a game misconduct, while Colaiacovo suffered a dented trachea on the play.
After the game, both Dan Bylsma and Peter Laviolette agreed that there was no malicious intent on Arvidsson's part.
"I don't think there was intent there to maliciously cross-check," Bylsma said. "They kind of lose the puck, turn and his stick is right at that level and delivers a blow. When you look at it, it's a pretty stiff cross-check to Carlo's neck."
"It was tough for Arvidsson," said Laviolette. "I don't think he had any bad intentions. He just ran into somebody and the stick got caught a little bit high, but just a tough turn of events."
The Sabres defenseman left the game and was treated at a nearby hospital, but there is some good news to report.
According to the Buffalo News, Colaiacovo was released from hospital and he was able to travel to Detroit with his teammates.
It's unclear how long he'll be out.
There's been a lot of movement between Montreal and Saint John's lately and that continued on Sunday.
This time, it's forward Daniel Carr who'll be getting a stint with the big club.
Carr has no prior NHL experience.
The 24-year-old spent four years at Union College before joining the Canadiens organization as an undrafted free agent.
In his first season as a pro, Carr scored 24 goals (led the team) and 39 points in 76 AHL games with the Hamilton Bulldogs in 2014-15.
This year, Carr has seven goals and 15 points in 20 games.
Montreal is without forwards Torrey Mitchell, Brendan Gallagher and Alexander Semin.
Brian Campbell doesn't score as many points as he used to, but he came up with a huge goal against the Red Wings on Sunday afternoon.
With the game tied, 1-1, in overtime, Campbell skated into the slot and beat Petr Mrazek with a perfect wrister to end the game.
It was also a pretty nice passing play between Jussi Jokinen, Jonathan Huberdeau and Campbell.
Dylan Larkin opened the scoring in the second period before Reilly Smith leveled the score with just over five minutes remaining.
The Wings have blown a lead in three straight games.
Detroit was up 2-0 and 3-2 in their last game, against Edmonton, before they finally closed the game out with an overtime goal by Niklas Kronwall.
They weren't so fortunate against the Bruins on Wednesday, as they lost 3-2 in OT after leading 2-1 with under two minutes remaining in regulation.
This was the first meeting of the season between Detroit and Florida, but they'll see each other three times between Feb. 4 and Mar. 19.
You can't blame Mike Babcock for siding with the relatively unknown when the other option is Jonathan Bernier, a goalie who's 0-8-1 so far in 2015-16.
With that in mind, meet Garret Sparks, the Toronto Maple Leafs' expected starter for Monday's game against the Edmonton Oilers.
Sparks was a seventh-round pick (190th overall) in 2011, a guy who was off to a great start in the AHL. That much wasn't lost on Babcock.
Let's face it, though; this is as much about the Leafs' other two goalies as it is about Sparks (whose name inspired a very obscure reference in this post's headline).
In Bernier's case, there's an "enough's enough" feel:
Meanwhile, James Reimer's not quite healthy enough to play yet, so the window of opportunity is open for Sparks … a little bit.
Sparks will get a chance to make an impression, even if it's just a small one.


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