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"Jews don't believe in the Trinity. We believe in one God, not three."
"God doesn't have a son."
"Jews don't believe in a suffering Messiah."
In Answering Jewish Objections to Jesus, volume 2, Michael Brown provides real answers to twenty-eight theological objections. He treats these objections seriously and fairly, building answers from the often surprising teachings in Rabbinic literature and the Hebrew Scriptures. As Brown's answers progressively reveal, belief in Yeshua-Jesus-is not something alien to Jewish tradition but is profoundly rooted in that tradition, fulfilling its purpose.
"Michael Brown's thinking is incisive and to the point. His ability to explain so that anyone can understand is amazing. He will surely be acclaimed as the new expert in Jewish Christian apologetics. I would be happy to recommend his much needed book to anyone." -Moishe Rosen, founder, Jews for Jesus
"We desperately need this book!" -Sid Roth, founder and president, Messianic Vision
"Michael Brown's work in the area of Jewish apologetics is the most thorough and penetrating I have seen. . . . This work will make a major contribution to the ongoing discussion and will, in fact, set the standard in the field." -Richard Averbeck, associate professor, Old Testament and Semitic Languages, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
"Michael Brown excels as a true scholar as well as an apologist; his answers to objections are carefully thought out, honest, and well researched. His work provides a useful model for how to do apologetics, not only in dialogue with the traditional Jewish community but for all who are interested in articulating and defending the Christian faith." -Craig Keener, professor of New Testament, Eastern Seminary
Michael L. Brown (Ph.D., Near Eastern Languages and Literature, New York University) is president of the Brownsville Revival School of Ministry in Pensacola, Florida, where he resides. He has also served as a visiting professor at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and Fuller Theological Seminary.
Dr. Michael Brown has offered Jews and non-Jews alike a thorough overview of the reasons most Jewish people have not become, and are not now followers of Jesus. Read morePublished on Aug. 6 2001 by joanne chinkers
I was quite disappointed in this work. It was boring, and quite frankly was filled with errors of logic. Read morePublished on May 30 2001
This book is very, very good. Although I am (sad to say) not used to such thoroughness, I must confess that Brown has done his job very well. Read morePublished on May 24 2001 by Rick Morris
Just the endnotes section at the back of the book makes this one worth the read! - It's packed with insight and information you need to see, know, and understand.
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Has anyone given you contraband to bring into the United States?
He was convicted of perjury, served 30 days, and went back to a swashbuckling career in contraband.
Profiteers of every stripe were involved in the contraband cotton trade, including many army officers.
A CBP dog sniffs around for contraband like drugs, food, weapons, people.
Yazbek says no one takes names, and no one checks for weapons or other contraband.
The servant included in the above pass was a "contraband," picked up in Washington for the trip.
Of this state of things we were informed by a contraband we chanced to meet.
He listened to me with great impatience, and asked if my father still pursued his contraband trade.
He wanted its earrings—they were contraband of war, I suppose.
Third, neutral goods, with the exception of contraband of war, are not liable to capture under an enemy's flag.
1520s, "smuggling;" 1590s, "smuggled goods;" from Middle French contrebande "a smuggling," from older Italian contrabando (modern contrabbando) "unlawful dealing," from Latin contra "against" (see contra) + Medieval Latin bannum, from Frankish *ban "a command" or some other Germanic source (see ban (v.)).
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Chloe was a great host. Caravan was clean and as advertised. Very close to the beach and a short drive to the main street.
Chloe's Airstream was a first time experience and now I'm hooked! We had an amazing weekend at the Mornington cup and Picnic in the Park. Chloe is a friendly, care free host with a worthwhile hobby of restoring Airstream. I'll put an order in for the next one please. Thank you for driving us to that races that afternoon! And thank you for the welcome chocolates. I'd love to do it all again.
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Loved staying amongst the trees in this cute retro airstream! It has everything we needed, was comfortable and lovely. Thanks Chloe for the warm and friendly welcome and the great tips on some things to explore on the peninsula! I think we almost certainly will be back to stay again and have sent some friends your way too! The perfect city escape.
My 58 year old mum loved staying in the airstream, she's never stayed in anything like it! The 2 beds were surprisingly comfortable, the shower was also surprisingly powerful & hot, & there were some thoughtful food stuffs waiting for us like tea, coffee, milk, fruits etc. on arrival! We particularly enjoying eating our breakfast on the little decking in the morning & listening to the radio whilst getting ready! In terms of location it's really close to the beach & town centre & an ideal spot for exploring the peninsula! We arrived after dark & it was easy to find (the only house that had 3 airstreams in its front garden, the other 2 airstreams are still being renovated) Chloe was so friendly, she emailed us when we made the booking & gave us great tips on things to do in the area, she was in Melbourne the night we stayed but her partner had been keeping an eye out for our arrival & showed us around the airstream, Chloe also made a point of coming out in the morning when she heard us leaving to say hello & give us more tips on the area, she really was one of the friendliest people we met on airbnb & we thoroughly enjoyed all her recommendations (particularly the hot springs & Cape Schank!) If you're looking for luxury & space this place isn't for you, but if it's fun, quirkiness, character & great hospitality your after then I highly recommend this airstream!
My friend and I stayed at Chloe's camper for two nights as we attended our friends wedding on the Mornington Penninsula. Chloe was the most incredible, generous, hospitable and utterly amazing host I have met yet on Airbnb and I think she will be tough to beat from now on. The camper itself is delightful and everything that we imagined it to be. The pictures and description encapsulate it completely and we had a brilliant time. It is a little sanctuary where you wake to the sounds of kookaburras in the trees. Chloe's communication from the minute we booked was outstanding. She immediately replied to any questions we had and even offered more than we anticipated from the booking. When we stayed she offered us lifts to our nearby location and helpful suggestions to find everything, even down to the best local coffee house and point to explore for the day and have a picnic. At the end of our stay my friend and I were so impressed by Chloe and her partner that we offered them a bottle of wine with thanks, it was really that memorable. On a final note, to my embarrassment we left an mp3 player in the camper and Chloe even mailed it to us via registered post. She is really a gem. The camper is one of a kind. I cannot more highly recommend this host and experience to anyone who considers it.
Chloe was an excellent host. We were stoked to stay in the Airstream is was such a unique experience. Not only did Chloe stock the bar fridge with fresh OJ she also offered and gave us a lift to the main street. The Airstream easily accommodated 3 adults and Chloe thought of everything inside to make the stay pleasant. We were surprised at how comfortable it actually was sleeping under the trees. The caravan is close to the beach and very affordable.
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Chloe was one of our most independent guests ever! She is clearly an experienced traveller who'd visited Amsterdam often, given the fact that she needed little help in the early stages of her planning the trip. She arrived on time (a bit early even) which, as a host, is extremely pleasant. We were on our holiday during the remainder of her stay, but we didn't lose a night of sleep over it. Chloe is a trustworthy, polite and genuinely appreciative guest, whom we would recommend to every other airbnb host! Sorry we couldn't let you stay another two nights! ;)
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Sting made his long-awaited debut in WWE and helped influence the outcome of the main event!
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Archive for February 19, 2009
Obituaries: Kay Carter, Donna Klump
Kay A. Carter Kay Adele Carter of Berthoud, passed away at McKee Medical Center Hospice Care Center on Feb. 12, 2009. She was 69 years old. Born to Chester Ellenberger and Viola Smith Ellenberger in Grand Island, Neb. on Dec. 18, 1939, she grew up in Fort Collins, graduating from Fort Collins High School in 1958. Carter worked as a secretary/paralegal for over 18 years in Berthoud and served on the planning commission for Larimer County. Besides her love for law, she equally loved her family. ... Full Story
Guest Editorial: The Wayside: An Insider's Look
By PJ DiPentino Special to the Berthoud Recorder In the current state of economic woes, business closures are not uncommon. For me the closing of the Wayside Inn really hit home. I started my relationship with Chef Jeremy and Deb when they first opened the doors. My wife Lexi was on the original team, and I joined the crew about 18 months ago as a prep cook. The excitement of being a part of the Wayside staff and training with Chef was an eye-opening yet gratifying opportunity. I rarely came to ... Full Story
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By Michael Hicks Berthoud Recorder Shirley Gray knows a thing or two about coaching high school wrestling. He did so for 28 years, starting in 1967. But the former Culpeper County (Va.) High School coach said he never had to deal with an incident such as the hazing case now hanging over Berthoud High School. "I never had a case. Number one, I wouldn't have allowed it," said Gray, who coached wrestling until 1993 and is still the school's boys' golf coach. "The kids that I've ... Full Story


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This year, college drinking trends were -- how do we put this delicately? -- troublesome. Alcoholic energy drinks and boozed-up whipped cream seem terrifically moronic, but are they really crazier than some of the things we've seen before? Below, check out ten of the worst drinking trends in recent memory.
21 and over, please. And if you're going to down a dumb drink, have a designated driver.
Did we miss one? Let us know in the comments section.
A can contains the alcohol content of five beers. The question is, do you put on ice cream, pie or just squirt it straight into your mouth? (We just grossed ourselves out.)
There is no faster way to get drunk than to pour a shot of vodka in your eye! But replace "drunk" with "experience blinding pain and potentially cause permanent corneal damage."
A suicide shot is kind of like the Three Stooges version of a tequila shot -- first snort the salt, then take the shot and finally squeeze the lime into your eye. Hilarious, but in a laughing at you way.
Just your average case of bros getting bros to down Smirnoff Ices at inopportune moments (Princeton's president respectfully declined an offer). Check out the instructional video for details.
Maybe you've heard of this crazy new drink. What's it -- Seven Kukoo? Twelve Banana Bonkers? Oh, Four Loko, right, that.
In Louisiana, you don't even need to get out of your car to get drunk. But how are you gonna get home?
Attaching one 40 oz. bottle of malt liquor to each hand is well and good until you have to use the bathroom. Somewhere, Johnny Depp is shaking his head.
A smoker's cough shot is 1/2 ounce of Jagermeister, topped with 1 teaspoon of mayo. Need we say more?
Believe it or not, swallowing live goldfish isn't just an urban legend -- the goldfish shot has been used to haze frat pledges, and (until a few years ago) was even available for purchase at select bars.
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With the other name Democrats out of the race, Attorney General Jerry Brown basically has a lock on his party's primary election. That's good for Brown, who won't have to blow millions of dollars on a primary. But it's only good if Brown can win in November.
Brown is not without baggage. He's so yesteryear. At age 71, Brown hit his political peak decades ago when he was governor in the 1970s and early '80s. When Brown reminds Democrats of those bygone days (as he does frequently), even supporters start to wonder if they're trapped in a Nickelodeon rerun.
Brown earned the nickname "Gov. Moonbeam" because of his eccentricities. In a different year, Democrats might shrug off his Jerryisms as endearing. But after Republican Scott Brown's surprise win in Massachusetts, some partisans have come to believe, as progressive blogger Robert Cruickshank put it, "Jerry Brown IS California's Martha Coakley," referring to the Bay State's Democratic attorney general whose lead in the polls melted as her political opponent's star ascended.
While Republicans Meg Whitman and Steve Poizner have poured millions of their own money into consultants' purses, Brown has been running a mom-and-pop operation. He named his campaign manager last month. There's no phone number on his website. You e-mail staff by typing someone's first name at www.jerrybrown.org.
Gleeful that Brown has yet to announce his candidacy, the state GOP has begun a "Where's Jerry?" campaign. As spokesman Mark Standriff observed, "Democrats are spending millions in special-interest money (on an independent expenditure campaign) trying to motivate a guy who seemingly doesn't have the energy or the interest to walk down the hall and fill out a simple piece of paper."
Brown spokesman Sterling Clifford told me that Brown is reaching out to Democrats, but he's also focusing on doing his job as attorney general.
Besides, some veteran politicos see Brown as a political genius, who can run a quirky shoestring campaign, and still beat Whitman, Inc. Bob Stern, president of the Center for Governmental Studies, described Brown as "probably the smartest politician I ever worked for."
OK, but Brown has not faced a competitive race since 1982 when Pete Wilson beat him in a race for the U.S. Senate. Brown later won races for state Democratic Party chairman, Oakland mayor and state attorney general -- which means he's won more seats than the rest of us chickens -- but running for governor is different. And 2010 is not 1974.
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They rotated my tires and checked the brakes to see why they are squeaking so much. With 72,000 miles on the original equipment, I thought for sure they would tell me I needed a complete 4 wheel brake job ... Just the opposite, told me I still had 40% left on my pads and I should wait to get better use out of them. That is refreshing honesty from a repair facility ... I think anyone else would have easily sold me on ... view moreLike this review?Yes|Flag Abuse
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Nice shot of the VLA!
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Cool effect with the fish eye.
Hi Jessica, a long time you didn't hear from me ! Very nice shot. I would like to experiment such a wonderful thing. Greetings from Yosemite Park, where in vacation. Olivier
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Royal Dutch Shell plc: Buyback of Own Shares PR Newswire LONDON, March 3, 2014 LONDON, March 3, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Royal Dutch Shell plc (NYSE:RDS.A) (NYSE:RDS.B)announces that on 3 March, 2014 it purchased for cancellation 990,000 "B" Shares at a price of 2308.72 pence per share. Following the cancellation of these shares, the remaining number of "A" Shares of Royal Dutch Shell plc will be 3,898,011,213 and the remaining number of "B" Shares of Royal Dutch Shell plc will be 2,446,675,025 Enquiries Shell Media Relations International, UK, European Press: +44-(0)207-934-5550 Shell Investor Relations Europe: +31-70-377-3996 United States: +1-713-241-1042 SOURCE Royal Dutch Shell plc
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MUNCIE - Catherine L. Isenhart, 85, passed away Saturday afternoon, July 28, 2012, at IU Health Ball Memorial Hospital.
She was born on September 7, 1926 in Muncie the daughter of Byron and Ellen (Slane) Pomeroy and graduated from Center High School.
Mrs. Isenhart was employed at Marhoefer Packing and Merchants National Bank, moved to Wolcottville in 1976 and became part owner of Bill and Casey's Landing, which became Coody Brown's in 1983; she stayed there until her retirement in 1997, and moved back to Muncie in 2001.
She was a member of St. Lawrence Catholic Church. She was a mall walker and enjoyed her flowers, birds, ladies luncheon and breakfast bingo at Liberty Village, the NBA especially the playoffs, and while in Wolcottville the Maple Syrup Festival and church socials.
Surviving are her son, Dan Isenhart (wife, Kim), Fairview, TN; her sister, Mary Eileen Pomeroy, Muncie; and fifteen nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Fred E. Isenhart; her granddaughter, Amanda Isenhart; two sisters, Cecile and Lucille Pomeroy; and her brother, Byron J. Pomeroy.
Upon request by Catherine, there will be no calling hours and a graveside service will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Tuesday, July 31, 2012, in Gardens of Memory Cemetery, with Father Dennis Goth officiating.
Memorials may be directed to St. Lawrence Catholic Church, 820 E. Charles St., Muncie, IN 47305.
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On Tap Today: Of silver white winters and other fave things
Come dressed in your playclothes. Because Skylight Music Theatre's production of one of the most delightful musicals of all time, "The Sound of Music," is about to open, and we want you to join in its spirit. You all have permission to sing as you refresh your memories of this beloved musical with our "Sound of Music" primer in Weekend Cue. How many favorite things can you name?
Another question: When you're dealing with an icon like Abraham Lincoln, how do you distill the man from the myth? Spielberg's film "Lincoln" attempts to do just that. But does Spielberg succeed? Find out what movie critic Duane Dudek thinks in his review of this new epic. »Read Full Blog Post
Singing, acting both stellar in 'Figaro'
Actors are taught to act and opera singers are taught to sing - and all too rarely do the twain really meet.
The Florentine Opera Company's production of Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro," directed by Candace Evans, cast that notion aside Friday evening with a spot-on blend of absolutely sterling singing and audience-connected acting. »Read Full Article
Theatre Gigante taps dark, creative energy in 'Electra'
While her father is out of town on business, her mother takes a lover. When her father comes home, Mom and her new consort stab him. She herself is thrown out of the house. Her baby brother now lives in exile.
No wonder Electra has a complex. The question is whether her righteous anger regarding the murder of her father (Agamemnon) can justify plotting with her brother (Orestes) to murder Mom (Clytemnestra) and Mom's new squeeze (Aegisthus). »Read Full Article
UWM work exhibited at Cannes film fest
Fourteen films by students, faculty and alumni of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Department of Film, Video, Animation and New Genres have been accepted into the short-film showcase at this year's Cannes International Film Festival, which kicks off Wednesday on the French Riviera.
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From Tommy Widenflycht, July 31 (see mailing list for discussion):
Today I would like to propose a small change to RTCSessionDescription and RTCIceCandidate which would make the much more flexible:
[Constructor(optional Dictionary description)]
interface RTCSessionDescription {
attribute RTCSdpType type;
attribute DOMString sdp;
In short the single constructor takes an Dictionary which is expected to mimic its members, and the stringifier method is removed.
This has the advantages of being extremely powerful:
sd = new RTCSessionDescription();
sd.sdp = ...;
sd.type = ...;
sd = new RTCSessionDescription({sdp:"..."});
sd.type = ...;
sd = new RTCSessionDescription({type:"answer", sdp:"..."});
sd = new RTCSessionDescription(JSON.parse(some_json_string));
sd2 = new RTCSessionDescription(sd);
and in the other direction
jsonified_sd = JSON.stringify(sd);
There's some precedence in using a constructor like this in some of the base Event classes.
It's nice that the constructor takes an object rather than a string of JSON. I'll go ahead and add this to the spec.
I'm not sure this cloning functionality works though:
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A totally gripping roller-coaster of a story about family secrets, relationships and deceit. It's Jodi Picoult for teens and a wonderfully engaging debut from a talented young author who won the 2008 SCBWI Undiscovered Voices competition.
Someone Else's Life by Katie Dale
How can you face your future when your past it a lie? When Rosie Kenning's mother, Trudie, dies from Huntingdon's disease, her whole world falls apart. Not only does Rosie desperately miss her mum, but now she has to face the fact that she could have inherited the fatal illness herself. Until she discovers that Trudie wasn't her biological mother at all ...Rosie is stunned. Can this be true? Is she grieving for a mother who wasn't even hers to lose? And if Trudie wasn't her mother, who is? But as Rosie delves into her past to discover who she really is, she is faced with a heart-breaking dilemma - to continue living a lie, or to reveal a truth that will shatter the lives of everyone around her...
"Someone Else's Life has a plot which shocks you right to the end. It's a compelling story of family ties tested to breaking point. Katie Dale explores moral dilemmas which haunt the reader, long after they've finished reading. The characters grab your emotions, making you angry, heartbroken and - ultimately - hopeful." Keren David, author of Carnegie nominated When I was Joe
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'Going Green' costs state some green
Has anyone noticed that the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority (RIPTA) bought new buses for 2013 and they did not spend the extra money on the hybrid buses that our General Assembly lobbied successfully to get in 2010? I thought those buses were not only supposed to be more environmentally friendly, but also save Rhode Island thousands of dollars on fuel costs.
First, I tried contacting RIPTA directly to see if they would shed some light on their decision to buy the diesel buses in 2013 as opposed to the hybrids in 2010. Unfortunately, they felt I was asking too many questions and decided to pretend they didn't know any of the answers. I dug a little deeper into the topic and here are the answers I discovered:
* The diesel buses cost $450,000 each while the hybrid buses cost $650,000. Each hybrid gets approximately 6 miles per gallon while the diesel buses get 4.5 miles per gallon. At that rate the buses would need to drive almost 1,000,000 miles to break even in cost. Based on a study done by the State of Washington, which also uses Gillig buses for their public transportation, they estimate the fuel savings is approximately $134,000 for the life of each bus. So why is Rhode Island spending $66,000 extra on each of 53 buses when we continually need to raise taxes to cover shortfalls in our budget? That $3.5 million could have been better served to help small businesses or reduce the tax burden Rhode Islanders feel.
I find it comical that our General Assembly got these wasteful buses that haven't proven to be significantly better with emissions and that cost Rhode Island $3.5 million we don't have.
Matthew A. Guerra
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Even though he has played only two Tests for England in the past three years, it is just about certain that Ravi Bopara will resume his Test career at The Oval on Thursday provided he comes through Sunday's CB40 match for Essex against Gloucestershire unscathed. If it transpires that the selectors have stunned us by looking elsewhere for a No6 batsman when the squad is announced at 9.30am, then you may as well meander off to read about the synchronised swimming.
The Oval match should represent Bopara's fourth attempt to establish himself in the Test team. It is about time he nailed down a spot. In a staccato 12-Test career he has created a strange record. He must be the only man to have scored three consecutive ducks followed by three consecutive hundreds in Test cricket. The ducks were against Sri Lanka in 2007, the hundreds against West Indies in 2009.
Then he was burdened with the task of batting at No3 against the 2009 Australians. After four Tests he had to be dropped before the critical final game at The Oval; the eyes, usually so mischievous, were glazed; his confidence was shredded; he had to go for his own sake as much as the team's. In came Jonathan Trott and the No3 dilemma was resolved. Out went Bopara.
Then there was a little reprieve last summer when he played two Tests against India (Trott was injured) but in the winter the selectors preferred Eoin Morgan in the United Arab Emirates and Samit Patel for Sri Lanka. To cap it all, at the start of this summer, Bopara was not fit enough to play the first Test with West Indies, against whom he has only scored hundreds. This allowed Jonny Bairstow his debut. For Bopara it is just as well that Bairstow, looking fragile against true pace, failed to establish himself.
Many anticipated that Bopara, now 27, would be well established by now. In fact he finds himself in the same position as JP Duminy on the South Africa side (Duminy, 28, averages 34 after 13 Tests; so does Bopara after 12). In a series where the most settled sides in the universe are converging these are the two players wondering if they can finally stay in their Test team. For England the only piece of the jigsaw that does not fit perfectly at the moment is at No6.
Bopara has been through the system. Identified early he played countless games for the England Under-19s (arguably too many) alongside Alastair Cook, Tim Bresnan, Samit Patel, Liam Plunkett, Joe Denly and Luke Wright, all of whom have appeared at full international level. Yet this was a team that were routinely beaten by an Australia side that contained not a single cricketer who would go on to wear the baggy green or indeed the baggy yellow. When Bopara played against the South Africans there was AB de Villiers, JP Duminy and Vernon Philander in opposition, as they will be this week.
Bopara always oozed talent as an 18-year-old. In his favourite Tendulkar-style pads he caressed the ball silkily around the square. But Cook and James Hildreth always seemed to score many more runs. Bopara could bat beautifully but not very productively.
Now there are more signs that he can bat pragmatically as well. He has demonstrated this against a white ball, most recently for England in ODIs, when he has been given the responsibility of batting at No4. In these he has developed the handy habit of being unbeaten at the crease when the match is won. Moreover, in 2009 and 2010 he managed to survive in the Indian Premier League, where he became a rare England player who actually got a game – unlike Eoin Morgan last winter. That requires a certain pragmatism as well.
There remains the final challenge at Test level. Bopara likes to give the impression that everything is cool; that he is unruffled by any situation. Clearly he has not completely convinced the England management that this is the case (why else would they refuse to pick him for any of the Tests in the UAE against Pakistan when the entire middle-order was malfunctioning?). Now is the time to prove that he fits as a Test cricketer because there cannot be too many more chances round the corner.


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Former Iranian Foreign Minister Ardeshir Zahedi was honored at a dinner in Vevey, Switzerland, on May 18, 2013, by the International Strategic Studies Association (ISSA), publisher of the Defense & Foreign Affairs reports. He was presented with the rare ISSA Silver Star for Outstanding Contributions to Strategic Progress for his lifetime of muscular diplomatic activity, which included two periods as Imperial Iranian Ambassador to the US, and one to the Court of St. James's, in London. ISSA President Gregory Copley and ISSA Executive Director Pamela von Gruber presented the medal (made by Garrard, when that company was Crown Jeweler to the British monarch), along with a certificate and life membership of the Association.
The presentation made particular note of Amb. Zahedi's recent and ongoing publication of a series of volumes of memoirs which outline substantial new information on the history of Iran and its region in the 20th Century, essentially transforming many long-held beliefs as to how the counter-coup of 1953 occurred, removing the Mossadegh Administration.
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FEW INDIVIDUALS HAVE the opportunity and privilege to serve their societies in positions of leadership and responsibility. Most who do so pursue careers in politics, the armed forces, or in diplomacy, and are, in return, usually paid well and provided with economic security, healthcare, prestige, and pensions. That some may make sacrifices in material terms and the risk to their lives is also repaid in the security given to them and to their families in life.
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As a result, The International Strategic Studies Association's occasional investiture of the Silver Star for Outstanding Contributions to Strategic Progress is not to honor those who have merely been elected or appointed to high office, prestige, and recognition. Most such individuals, worthy as they may be, are already well-rewarded by the status afforded them by society. These are men and women who, like most men and women, receive a reward commensurate with their service.
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Politico's Jonathan Martin sought comment from Coleman about his potential interest in the job -- now held by embattled RNC chief Michael Steele -- but the Minnesota Republican declined to offer specifics.
"My focus is on the 2010 elections," Coleman wrote in an e-mail message. "We have a huge opportunity to stop the Democrats' out-of-control spending and losing the opportunity would be devastating for the country."
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Katon Dawson finished second to Michael Steele in the 2008 election for RNC chairman. He has been heavily critical of Steele, going as far as to call for his resignation last week. Dawson was the former chair of the South Carolina GOP.
Former Minn. Senator Norm Coleman has been quietly gaging support for a potential run at chairman of the Republican National Committee. Coleman, who lost his re-election bid to Al Franken (D) by just over 300 votes, has been meeting in private with "multiple high-level GOP officials" in the past month, Politico reported.
The former chairman of the Michigan Republican Party, Saul Anuzis finished third in the race for RNC chairman behind Michael Steele and Katon Dawson. Anuzis, who has remained active in the Michigan GOP, supposedly represents a "safe" alternative to Steele. Reid Wilson of the National Journal believes that he "won't rock the boat too much".
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Feb 18, 2002, Vol. 7, No. 22 • By REUEL MARC GERECHT
Many U.S. officials and Iran experts have believed for nearly a decade that the Iranian regime has retired from anti-American terrorism. The Iranian intelligence service might regularly murder expatriates in Europe and the Middle East, and Tehran might send lethal aid to Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad for their attacks against Israelis and Jews, these experts think, but the clerics no longer really want to attack the United States. By the 1990s, Iranian intelligence and the Revolutionary Guard Corps, and their faithful followers in the Lebanese Hezbollah, particularly its voraciously lethal security chief Imad Mughniyah, had stopped blowing up embassies and Marine barracks and kidnapping and killing American citizens and U.S. officials. The clerics were, so the reasoning went, tired of the battle against the "Great Satan." Thermidor had arrived. The mullahs now preferred trade to terrorism. After America's war against Iraq, they were scared of U.S. military power. The Europeans, who were all over Iran trying to find a way to make a profit, kept telling Americans how the country had changed. One just had to ignore the occasional expatriate killing spree, the clerical regime's penchant for supporting radical Palestinians, and its weapons-of-mass-destruction programs, which were justified in any case since Saddam Hussein was still right next door. The mullahs would outgrow their bad habits, we were told, as the regime aged and democratized.
The 1996 bombing at Khobar Towers in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, that killed 19 American soldiers threw a kink into this analysis, but the election of Mohammad Khatami arrived just in time to quiet serious reflection on that bloody episode the summer before. As one think-tanker (now a senior official in the Bush administration) remarked offhandedly, it was not wise to underscore probable Iranian complicity in the Khobar bombing for fear of derailing Khatami's reform movement and the "thaw" in U.S.-Iranian relations. Though this was an absurd and dangerous analysis of Iranian culture and the clerical system--the "be-nice-and-the-moderates-might-win" approach to Middle Eastern power politics--the view was quite widespread in the Clinton administration.
Given the op-eds and think-tank papers written just before and during the Afghan war--essays that carried the signatures of former national security adviser Brent Scowcroft, former secretary of defense James Schlesinger, former congressman Lee Hamilton, and former undersecretary of state for political affairs Thomas Pickering--this d tentist view of commerce and politics still has currency in establishment circles. This perspective, again, is astonishing since Mohammad Khatami--regardless of whatever he believes in his eclectic mullah soul--was a political irrelevancy in Iran even before his reelection in June 2001. The clerical ruling class had coalesced decisively around Khamenei. And the truth be told: Khatami and Khamenei do not in all probability significantly differ on whether the United States, by its very nature, is harmful to the Islamic Republic.
It is also stupefying that anyone, 24 years after the revolution, still believes that trade could have a moderating effect on the clerical regime's behavior. The Middle Eastern mercantile tradition, like the Italian, sees war and commerce as compatible. Rafsanjani and Khamenei, who have probably authorized every Iranian terrorist operation since the early 1980s, have both advocated increasing U.S.-Iranian commerce. Both favored the Conoco oil-and-gas deal cancelled by the Clinton administration in 1995; they both appear to favor Boeing over Airbus if given the choice. They'd love to buy oil-drilling equipment, big electric turbines, and high technology from the United States, not to mention American military equipment, if they could get their hands on it.
The mullahs have been trading with the Western Europeans for 20 years while killing dozens of Iranian expatriates on European soil. If the Americans start to act like Europeans--engage in trade and a "critical dialogue" regardless of clerical behavior--why should the mullahs moderate their comportment? Laissez-faire trade blended with political rationalism inevitably drops you to the lowest common denominator, which is where the clerics, first-rate realpoliticians with a sharp ideological edge, operate against Westerners most effectively.
Nonetheless, it is likely that the State Department, the Europeans, influential voices in the American business and foreign-policy communities, and the American academic crowd specialized in the Middle East will resist the logic of President Bush's "axis of evil" address. A return to non-belligerent dialogue, even if indirect and haphazard, will appear to many as a more reasonable approach.
AFTER ALL, Iran really hasn't changed its spots since September 11. The clerical regime has been seriously seeking nuclear weapons since the end of the Gulf War in 1991. Its ballistic missile program is even older. Tehran has been giving money and weaponry to Palestinian radicals and the Lebanese Hezbollah for years. The capture of the Palestinian Authority's vessel the Karine A, laden with 50 tons of Iranian weaponry, wasn't surprising. It seemed shocking only because of the quantity of arms captured in one raid, not because of the provenance of the weapons. And the Khobar affair recedes in our memory, camouflaged by the quick Saudi decision to behead Saudi Shiites convicted of the crime and now blurred by al Qaeda's successes.
Also, the clerical regime has been brutalizing the Iranian people for two decades, and the oppression today is, in important ways, much lighter than it was 10 years ago. Mohammad Khatami may be a limp reformer, but the reform movement, fueled by the frustration and anger of the Iranian people, stays alive, always inflaming the democratic spirit that is woven into the contradictory political ethos of the Islamic Republic's theocracy. So, then, what's the big deal, some "pragmatists" are already saying. The Europeans can, perhaps, be forgiven for being a bit dismayed that George W. Bush has so abruptly changed the ground rules that they and many Americans had long accepted. They can't really see why September 11 fundamentally changed the status quo. As the French foreign minister Hubert V drine put it, America is again being "simplistic."
Now, Iran's possible relationship with al Qaeda is, of course, an enormous wild card. If the information that the U.S. government has on Iranian assistance to al Qaeda members fleeing Afghanistan is ironclad, the "pragmatic" approach to Tehran will collapse, at least on this side of the Atlantic. In the meantime, however, the "pragmatists" will hope, as Secretary of State Colin Powell does, "that we may be able to talk to Iran, that we may be able to have a reasonable conversation with Iranian leaders."
The al Qaeda link, unfortunately for the "pragmatists," makes a lot of sense. The mullahs have likely perceived that the ally (Osama bin Laden) of my enemy (the Taliban) can be my friend. It is still too early to know how many members of al Qaeda have left Afghanistan. The odds are good that much, if not most, of al Qaeda's leadership has escaped. It will not be surprising for us to learn that the members of al Qaeda who originally came with Ayman az-Zawahiri from the Egyptian Islamic Jihad have found friendly sanctuary in the Islamic Republic. Zawahiri, bin Laden's right-hand man, has long been admired in Tehran, where he has visited on occasion. Al Qaeda, like the Egyptian Islamic Jihad before it, is for Tehran an answer to a 20-year quest to find effective anti-American allies among Sunni Arab Islamic militants. Hamas, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and to a certain extent the Palestine Liberation Organization have all been successful Sunni Arab allies of Shiite Iran's ecumenical, anti-Western foreign policy. The PLO, which gave significant aid to the clerics and their Revolutionary Guard Corps at the dawn of the Islamic revolution, has never lost its contacts with the clerical regime--the Karine A being only the latest proof of the clerics' fidelity to undiluted Palestinian radicalism.
But none of these groups operates explicitly and consistently against the United States. Al Qaeda does. If al Qaeda can survive the Afghan war, then Tehran stands to gain significantly. Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda will continue their propaganda war against the United States and Saudi Arabia. Just a quick read of bin Laden's declarations and interviews reveals that the similarities between his views and those of the ruling clerics in Tehran are far greater than their differences. Al Qaeda, unlike many fundamentalist Sunni groups, has no nasty anti-Shiite overtones. Like clerical Iran, al Qaeda wants Muslims to put aside their sectarian differences for the greater calling against the United States. The more bin Laden and al Qaeda can roil the intellectual environment of the Middle East, the more America's Muslim allies in the region can be kept off balance. In particular, the Saudi royal family, for whom Iran's revolutionary clerics have a special distaste, can be battered internally if its nemesis, Osama bin Laden and his organization, survives. September 11 has obviously and significantly damaged U.S.-Saudi ties. The Iranians probably believe that al Qaeda, if effectively operational, will continue to strain the alliance as it draws further financial and spiritual support from its extensive Saudi network and fan club, which may well include members of the royal family.
Also, when al Qaeda bombs us, the Iranians--unless they're very clumsy--won't get blamed. The Iranian calculation on anti-American terrorism has always been fairly straightforward: Is there a buffer between Tehran and the frontline terrorists sufficient to conceal adequately its involvement? (There is, by the way, absolutely no evidence, not even good gossip, to suggest that the clerical elite has ever engaged in a moral debate about the ethics of terrorism against the enemies of God and state.)
The Iranians aren't cowards; they're just cautious. They don't require invisibility--their patronage of Hezbollah and Imad Mughniyah was no secret when they were blowing us to bits in Lebanon in the 1980s. And the Iranians definitely feared Ronald Reagan, yet were willing to bomb us on his watch. Indeed the Iranians' success at blowing up 241 Marines in Beirut in 1983, and President Reagan's ignominiously rapid retreat, gave birth to modern radical Islamic terrorism against the United States. Bin Laden sometimes dates "Islam's worldwide jihad" against America from the Beirut action. And it is certainly a distressing datum that many key players from Iran's Lebanese terrorist network in the 1980s have found a happy home in the clerical inner circles around Mohammad Khatami. Ali Akbar Mohtashemi-pur, Iran's former ambassador to Syria and Imad Mughniyah's boss, for instance, has settled in comfortably as a clerical reformer. He remains intimately connected to Hezbollah, an adviser on Lebanon to Iranian clerics of all political stripes.
And Iranians are rather good with, as they say in the trade, "cut-outs." The 1996 Khobar bombing in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, which had Tehran's fingerprints all over it, illustrates a classic Iranian technique. Local or rented non-Iranian Shiites are the frontline terrorists--Iran's role is in planning and, if necessary, providing logistical and financial aid. For Tehran, al Qaeda is the best of all possible worlds since its kamikaze terrorists are always Sunni and usually die, thereby enhancing operational security. Al Qaeda would supply the attribute most prized by the clerical regime: plausible deniability, which has usually worked with Westerners, who have never had (the Israelis are the possible exception) the heart and stamina for an unlimited, not particularly fastidious war against terrorism. Al Qaeda's bombing runs also provide Tehran with camouflaging static noise, allowing the clerics more maneuvering room to plan their own unilateral terrorist operations if they so choose.
What would be an acceptable risk for the Iranians in an al Qaeda terrorist operation? Perhaps supplying the organization with approximately 500 pounds of C-4 plastic explosives for its attack against the USS Cole in the port of Aden in October 2000. The first attempt, against the USS The Sullivans in January 2000, failed when the al Qaeda team overloaded the bomb-carrying skiff with conventional charges and it sank, according to official Yemeni sources. Somebody came to the rescue with a large delivery of C-4--not easily available on the arms market in such quantity, and probably not something you'd want to haul quickly from landlocked Afghanistan. Somebody could have delivered the shipment by sea, as the Iranians did when they delivered C-4 and other arms to the Palestinian Authority's freighter Karine A in the Persian Gulf. Or the Iranians could easily have transshipped 500 pounds of plastique via Dubai, where the clerics can move anything and anyone in and out.
Reuel Marc Gerecht is a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.


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The Palazeti family: Maria, 25; Toulla, 54; Niko, 21, and Jeff, 56. / Palazeti family photo
I built a snowman last winter.
As the first flakes fell, I gathered an old MSU green and white scarf and hat, along with several oversized buttons, and stored them in a bag in the hall closet. I made sure to keep a steady supply of long, pointy carrots in the fridge. I was ready. I checked the daily weather forecasts with anticipation.
When there was finally a snow with enough accumulation, I hurried home from work, pulled on my boots and headed out the door. Rolling balls of snow, I was an artist. Molding them, patting them, shaving and carving curves, the lumps of snow were transformed. The proud snowman stood on my front yard as a masterpiece. Passersby might have wondered at the sight of a lone 53-year-old woman playing in the snow. I knew, though, when offered the opportunity, it is always wise to build a snowman.
One year, however, I did not build a snowman. In fact, I let several years pass without doing so. It never mattered to me. Busy, caught up with raising my young family, I did not realize there is a window of opportunity in building snowmen.
Living in Michigan, as we do, you would think there would be ample occasions to build snowmen. Surprisingly, there are few. Michigan snow is quite powdery. Making the snow cooperate to form a nice round ball is a feat. Rolling it on the ground, encouraging it to expand is tricky.
One winter, we had record snow in December. As the snow accumulated, my family and I went sledding and took long walks. The powdery snow gave us a beautiful white Christmas but, alas, no chance to make a snowman.
That January was frigid. The snowfall became less frequent but the ground remained hidden under its white blanket. I thought a cute snowman on the front lawn would make a seasonal statement. The snow, however, would not make a ball much less roll into anything. As the temperature prohibited lengthy outdoor activity, I did not force the issue.
By February, the gray sky stopped manufacturing snow but the December deposit didnt realize it had worn out its welcome. It seemed as if we would never see grass again. Then it happened! We were blessed with three bright, sunny, warm days in a row. The foot and a half of snowy ground cover did not disappear; it just became soft and mushy. It packed into a ball without coaxing. It stuck like Velcro when rolled. It was here. It was now. Our opportunity to make a snowman.
My first afternoon of opportunity was a Monday. Everyone came home from school with mountains of homework. Hurry! I barked. Finish your homework if you want to make a snowman! By the time the last paper was written and the final math problem completed, it was too dark to build our snowman.
On Tuesday we had to run to the grocery store, unload the car and put away the groceries. Suddenly everyone was hungry, and it seemed too late for snowman building. Tomorrow would be the day, I assured them.
Wednesday, I was prepared. I was just putting the finishing touches on dinner when my kids came home from school. Go ahead and get started without me, I instructed, shooing them out the door. Ill just be a minute.
Come out now, they begged. The more they pleaded the more frazzled I became. My soup curdled, the casserole burned, and I was in no mood for snowmen.
That night as I slept, the temperature dropped below zero. And so did my chance to build a snowman. When I woke up the soft, mushy snow was replaced with a hard sheet of ice.
How are we going to build a snowman now? my 8-year-old cried.
Inside, with cotton balls, I sighed.
Soon rainy days replaced snowy days and, before long, the snow turned into mud. Finally, one of our longest and harshest winters gave way to spring. Still, I often thought about my snowman that never was.
What if we had built the snowman on Monday? Everyone might have had to stay up an hour later to finish their homework. What if we hadnt gone grocery shopping on Tuesday? I am sure leftovers shared with our snowman would have tasted delicious. Wednesday, I was angry. I almost always have regrets when I act out of anger.
It wasnt a tragedy that a winter passed without building a snowman. But what if a lifetime goes by without building snowmen because work, errands or anger get in the way?
This winter if there is an opportunity, I will not miss the window. I am building a snowman. Spring, summer and fall, too I will choose to build as many snowmen as possible. I have learned that building snowmen, like most of lifes joys, knows no season.
Toulla Palazeti is a mother of two MSU students and a second grade teacher at Winchester Elementary School, Northville. The childrens book author recently won fourth place in the Childrens Writers Pre-K Concept Fiction contest.


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Buzios is ready to receive the world best bodyboarders to next stop of IBA World Tour.
During five days the Brazilian spot will have all the attentions and the riders promising good battles for world title. On MWT 7 bodyboarders fight to world title and some of them will compete on Buzios Bodyboarding 2009.
Guilherme Tâmega and Mike Stewart are confirmed to event that will distribute U$35.000,00 and 1000 points in World Ranking.
On WWT the Brazilians Neymara Carvalho and Jessica Becker and the Spanish rider Eunate Aguirre will do a very hard dispute to first place in World Tour. Neymara is leading the tour with a minimum difference to second place Eunate.
The expectations to this event are very hugh. A good swell is expected to event and on first day the conditions will be 6feet plus. The conditions on Geribá Beach are perfect on this time of the year and the organizers are very exciting. "Buzios Bodyboarding 2009 will be a historical event. There is a huge swell coming and the conditions will be very good", said Flávio Brito, IBA Brasil technical director.
Luis Villlar from Brazil is in Rio training to event. "The predictions are very good. This is important for us because this help a lot the riders. I will work hard to change my result here", said Luis.
- 22 September 2009 | Bodyboarding
Our second event of the season was a full 2 days event, making this contest the largest Bodyboarding Event in Florida.
Conditions were great on both days. Glassy 3-4 ft waves all day long under sunny skies made this a real nice beach day for Saturday and simlar conditions, but smaller, for Sunday.
Dan Worley took home $500 for the first place in the PRO division.
Devin Ricke took first place in the DK, Steven Tyson took first place in the AM, Alfonso Parodi took first place in MASTERS. For the first time ever, we had a JUNIOR division in the water. The FBA is commited to promote the sport for the youth.
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Flowers are not the only thing worth driving up the West Coast to see in the coming week. The annual South African Bodyboarding Championships hosted by Reef Wetsuits will be taking place in the Lamberts Bay area on the Cape's West Coast from 27th September - 2nd October 2009.
This year's SA Champs has changed in format from previous years. In the past, the hosting province decided at which beach the competition would be run, and the duration of that event would be dedicated to only that beach. This year, Boland Bodyboarding Association, the host, has worked with the Cederberg Municipality to ensure that they have a "roaming venue".
This means that not only one beach has to be used but if conditions are better suited for another surf break, the whole contest can be moved to that beach and contested there. What this also means, is that no one rider, getting accustomed to the surf spot and conditions, gets a "growing" advantage during the competition. This allows for fair competition amongst the riders.
Exciting competitors to look out for from the 6 competing provinces, are Vaughn Harris from Boland, defending junior champ, David Lilienfield, Sacha Specker and Daniel Worsley from Western Province, Derek Footit and David Lee from Southern Natal, Charles Pass from Central Natal and World Tour campaigner and wildcard entry Mark McCarthy from Northern Natal.
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Skipper Chris Nicholson takes a compass bearing of the other boats, onboard Camper with Emirates Team New Zealand during leg 8 of the Volvo Ocean Race 2011-12, from Lisbon, Portugal to Lorient, France.
Telefónica's bid for redemption and the return of their overall lead was well underway on Monday with the Spanish team leading the Leg 8 race to Lorient, France, though the sight of current race frontrunners Groupama on their shoulder are a sobering thought.
At 1300 UTC Iker Martínez and his crew, who won the first three offshore legs but have since slipped, held a narrow 1.1 nautical mile lead over Groupama following the first 24 hours' racing towards the turning mark of São Miguel island in the Azores. Having rounded the island, the fleet will sail directly to Lorient on a course that is more of a passage race than a trans-oceanic leg of a round the world race.
The fleet is sailing at near wind speed, with boatspeeds of around 20kts being recorded, making for a fast trip.
They are expected to slow as the hit the Azores High - currently parked over the islands. They will take 24 hours to traverse the zone, sailing in winds expected to be less than 10kts.
The first boat is expected to round the Azores on Wednesday June 13, 2012 in the early afternoon, UTC based on current wind data. They should finish late on Friday night June 15, 2012.
One of the two weather feeds used by Predictwind, to forecast optimum course and windstrength shows the fleet getting a belting from strong winds from a major depression over the final 36 hours, with average wind strength being over 30kts, which generally means gusting 40kts plus. The other feed shows more moderate winds.
The fleet has made good progress to the Azores as at 1900hrs UTC on June 11, 2012. Leg 8 of the Volvo Ocean Race
On current standings, Puma Ocean Racing were in third place followed by Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing and Camper with Emirates Team New Zealand, while Team Sanya rounded out the fleet on a more southerly course more than 26 nm behind.
Groupama lead Telefónica by eight points with two offshore legs and two in-port races to go in what is turning out to be the closest ever Volvo Ocean Race. Puma are in third, 13 points off the lead, with Camper a further 10 points back. With 30 points going to the winner of each of the remaining offshore legs, there is still plenty of scope for lead changes.
The only real opportunity for the places to swap on a tactical basis would seem to be in a spot of light airs through which the boats will have to pass, just short os Sao Miguel, in the Azores.
Telefónica trimmer and Olympic gold medallist Xabi Fernández said the team were revelling in their return to a position at the front of the pack after a difficult run, but were under no illusion about the battle to come to remain there.
'We are still second overall and everything is still in our hands,' said Fernández. 'The only thing we can think about is to keep pushing, try to do a very nice leg and get back in the lead as soon as possible.'
He said the team had more to worry about than just Groupama, with third overall Puma currently in third place and within sight on the race course.
A couple of course options are available nearing the Azores in a patch of light winds at 1900hrs UTC on June 11, 2012. Leg 8 of the Volvo Ocean Race
Adding to the pressure is the knowledge that the fleet will compress as it nears São Miguel, which is situated in a notoriously windless area in the middle of the Azores High.
'You are always nervous when you go into a zone with no wind,' Fernández said. 'We will have a very hard 24 hours maybe tomorrow or the next day. It's clear that the first one going out of the light air is going to be the winner, or have a lot of chances, so we have to fight hard in the light air conditions.'
Groupama are not only looking to defend their hard fought overall lead, they are also vying for an opportunity to race into their homeport of Lorient in first place.
Groupama Media Crew Member Yann Riou today reported that his team were focused on capitalising on the fast reaching conditions for which his team are famous for being quickest of the fleet.
'Of course it's a bit of a special leg on different levels,' Riou said. 'Its format is a bit different in terms of length, there is a lot at stake and we don't forget that this is bringing us home.'
Belting along at speeds of near 20kts, overall race leader is on second placed Telefonica's shoulder at 1900hrs UTC on June 11, 2012. Leg 8 of the Volvo Ocean Race
The game will change on Tuesday once the teams round São Miguel and switch from reaching to running conditions in a powerful low-pressure system that promises gale force winds in excess of 40 knots.
Abu Dhabi navigator Jules Salter said turning the corner could be likened to a second start and the race would again become wide open.
'It is going to be pretty exciting to see how we play that low and close we go to the centre of it,' he said. 'That will probably decide who wins this leg.'
The latest ETA for the fleet's arrival in Lorient, France is on Friday.
In a later interview with Volvo Ocean Race Media, Camper skipper Chris Nicholson said he would 'sooner smack his thumb with a hammer' than continue leeching miles to his competitors, but with the fleet soon to head into fast running conditions he is preparing to mount a comeback.
Neal McDonald and crew looking out on the rail, onboard Team Telefonica during leg 8 of the Volvo Ocean Race 2011-12, from Lisbon, Portugal to Lorient, France. (Credit: Diego Fructuoso/Team Telefonica/Volvo Ocean Race)
Nicholson said the team have been working hard on the reach to the turning mark at São Miguel island, as they try to hang on to the top three teams who all have Juan Kouyoumdjian designed boats that revel in the conditions.
Nicholson said if his team could remain within 20 miles of the leaders once the fleet reach the islands then they would be in with a shot of reeling the frontrunners in on what is expected to be some fast and furious running.
'I reckon if we can get to the Azores, to the parking-lot as such, within 20 miles of them, that'd be OK,' he said. 'Several days ago I thought it could be worse.'
For now, Nicholson and navigator Will Oxley are focusing on how they can capitalise on the opportunities that are to be had at São Miguel, which is enveloped inside the centre of the Azores High, where there is little to no wind.
'There's big gains and losses to be made getting around the island,'' Nicholson said. 'Then it's a pretty fast trip if you keep it all in one piece.'
The fast trip Nicholson is referring to is the second stage of the race, from São Miguel to Lorient, France, which will be powered by a massive low-pressure system that is packing gale force wind.
Nicholson said 'it would be like open season for any of the boats' once they're on the home run, only it was a question of just how hard each of the teams were prepared to push.
Nicholson is hopeful his team will be contenders in the conditions, which he reckons they're pretty strong in.
'We think we're pretty good in those conditions, but to take these boats into 30 or 40 knots down wind anything can happen there,'' he said.
'You like to say everything will be normal, and we're just going to plod along. But it won't be it will be the full gloves off.'
Team Telefónica and Groupama sailing team continue to fight for the top spot, with the Spanish team narrowly holding an edge.
Puma aren't far behind, and hoping to make gains on the second stage of the race to help bolster their overall score. Abu Dhabi, on a more northern course than Camper, are narrowly in fourth. Team Sanya remain on a more southern course in sixth.


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After watching "All Our Yesterdays" it would appear that the TOS Enterprise has no problem warping away although it was technically called a "nova".
"Generations" is an odd duck alright. They see the explosion first with the flash at the cabin window. Then they confirm a "quantum implosion" that is sending a "level 12 shockwave" at them that will reach them in "4 minutes, 40 seconds". But interestingly, Riker says that the "star is going to collapse in a matter of minutes." This would suggest that the "level 12 shockwave" is not part of a "supernova" and that the supernova will occur a bit afterwards. The initial "light flash" does seem to be FTL though. Perhaps later when the Veridian star exploded the "immediate" light effect is normal in TNG star explosions?
So we have:
DS9 "Second Sight" - escape from a supernova is possible, especially at Warp 9.5 but timing is not specified. Is that before star goes supernova (since they are monitoring the star they could predict a supernova and react to it.)
DS9 "By Inferno's Light" - escape from a supernova not possible, no reason given
VOY "The Q and the Grey" - escape from a supernova at impulse power is possible if at least 66 AU away. Shockwave is FTL. Subspace shockwave from supernova collapses Voyager's warp field preventing warp escape.
TOS "All Our Yesterdays" - escape from a "nova" is possible, at maximum warp
TNG "Generations" - escape from a "level 12" shockwave is possible at warp speed. Unknown if the star went nova or supernova.
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