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David's Tent DC 2013 at The White House Ellipse
Friday, 11 October, 2013|
David's Tent 2013: September 24 - November 5
40 Days of Continuous Worship on the White House Ellipse
Last fall, David's Tent DC held a historic 40 days of continuous worship on the White House Ellipse leading up to election day. And this year, we're doing it again! Our theme this year is "He's still worthy!"
We had a miracle moment last fall when the National Park Service invited us back to make David's Tent an annual event. We believe that 40 days of worship annually is a sign of a culture-shifting revolution as America turns back to Jesus. This isn't about a one-year urgency or desperation. This is about setting a culture of presence-centeredness in our nation. It's time to start setting new "normals" in America and in Washington, DC that boldly state: This is just who we are now! We worship Jesus for a 1000 hours, every fall, right by our highest seat of executive power.
We are calling America to joyfully gather, with all hope and trust in our hearts, and express to Jesus that our first love is simply Him! Just Praise for 40 days! The oval altar (the Ellipse) by the oval office! Let's vote for Jesus as Lord by enthroning him on our praise 24-7 for 40 days (Psalm 22:3)! Let's redefine the primary purpose for our Capital to be a gathering place for the nation to praise the name of the Lord (Psalm 122:4)! This is a revolution worth dying for! Only for the Lamb! His Presence must be central in our Nation!
Help us raise the tent again! If you'd like to bring your worship team to the tent, please email firstname.lastname@example.com. From 9pm-7am a city ordinance requires us to go acoustic, but the worship still continues with guitars, drums, our acoustic piano, and our raised voices! Interested in nightwatch? Email firstname.lastname@example.com. We are believing for worshippers to once again come from all 50 states. Make sure your state is represented!
Donations can be made online at www.davidstentdc.org, or by mailing a check made out to "David's Tent USA" to:
David's Tent DC
3855 Massachusetts Avenue NW
Washington, DC
He is still worthy of it all!
Washington, DC 20002
United States
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Hello everyone,
It must have broken your heart leaving Tillie yesterday, Princess. But it sounds like you had no choice. The two dogs would never have been "friends". So happy for you, you found a home you are pleased with. I am sure they won't mind you come visiting. Hope your toe is doing better, and it is not bothering you too much. I broke my big toe once, and I couldn't wear shoes for a week or so. It swelled to it's double size.
Had such a great day at the ranch yesterday. Drove around to look at the animals. They have so may baby animals right now. Tiny goats and calves; so cute. They also have a baby antilope, but we didn't see him. All the animal are roaming around free.
We stopped for picnic. DIL had brought lots of cold cuts, bread, greens and condiments and we made our own sandwitches. Lots of fun. I can't remember, when I have been on a picnic last.
Their cows are so friendly. They would come right up to us. I fed them by hand, and they nuzzled my hair. Quite an experience for a city girl.
I am glad for both you and I, that it is getting warmer up north. I am so spoiled here. Still a couple of days left, before I am heading home. Hope you all have a good day. Take care.

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Greinke and Teahen Ink One-Year Deals
Our Media Relations department just announced that all of the arbitration-eligible guys on the team are now under contract. Here's the release…
Kansas City, MO (Feb. 7, 2008) – The Kansas City Royals have signed right-handed pitcher Zack Greinke and outfielder Mark Teahen to one-year contracts for the 2008 season. Terms of the deals were not disclosed. With the signings, all of the Royals arbitration-eligible players are now under contract for 2008.
Greinke, 24, went 7-7 with a 3.69 ERA in 52 appearances, including 14 starts, in 2007. His 2.42 ERA following the All-Star break was third-best among all Major League pitchers with a minimum of 50 innings pitched.
Teahen, 26, hit .285 with 31 doubles, eight triples, seven homers, 60 RBI and 78 runs scored in 2007. The left-handed hitter made a successful transition from third base to the outfield, equaling Jermaine Dye's franchise record with 17 outfield assists.


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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KTHV) -- Deanna Fleming with Catering Creations shared this recipe.
Apple Honey Drumsticks
• 12 skin-on chicken drumsticks
• Kosher salt and freshly ground pepper
• 2 cups apple juice
• 1/2 cup apple cider vinegar
• 1/4 cup low-sodium soy sauce
• 2 teaspoons honey
• Grated zest of 1 lemon
• 1/8 to 1/4 teaspoon red pepper flakes
• 2 teaspoons sesame seeds (optional)
• 1 tablespoon unsalted butter
Preheat the oven to 450 degrees F. Set a wire rack on a rimmed baking sheet. Put the drumsticks on the rack and season both sides generously with salt and pepper. Bake 30 minutes; flip the drumsticks and continue baking until golden and crisp, about 30 more minutes.
Meanwhile, make the sauce: Bring the apple juice, vinegar, soy sauce, honey, lemon zest, red pepper flakes and a pinch of salt to a high simmer in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Cook until the sauce is syrupy and coats the back of a spoon, 20 to 25 minutes. Set aside until the chicken is done.
Stir the sesame seeds into the sauce, if using, and warm over medium heat, if necessary. Transfer the chicken to a large bowl. Add the sauce and butter and toss to coat. Season with salt and pepper. Transfer the chicken to a platter and drizzle with any remaining sauce from the bowl.
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Batman Returns
|Release Date: June 19, 1992
|Running Time: 126 mins.
|MPAA Rating: PG 13
|Box Office: $160,277,476.00
|Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Fantasy, Sequel
Michael Keaton
Danny DeVito
Michelle Pfeiffer
Christopher Walken
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Summary:Batman is up against the Penguin, a bitter killer obsessed with Gotham's high society. To complicate matters, the mysterious Catwoman seems to be playing the game on both sides.


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In response to BassFishingII's comment:
Bass, I too like Bolden and think he will win the job from Ridley this year. He catvhes the ball better than Ridley , is faster and fumbles less.
In response to rkarp's comment:
In response to Salcon's comment:
Why would you give 6-9 touches to Felix Jones?
What are they supposed to do with Vereen? I was hoping this kid will get more play now that Woody is gone and you want to add Felix Jones into that? No way.
Not unless Vereen gets hurt in camp which for this team is a real possibility.
I think BB wants 5 RB's. I don't think Washington is a RB, and may be on the roster bubble.
I don't think Bolden is the same player we saw pre suspension.
I would like to see Ridley in that 16-20 carry area, Vereen in that 8-12 area. I like Jones as insurance to Vereen, and in the passing game. Jones IMO was very effective getting less touches per game. If he understands his limitations, his potential role, and he commensurate salary I like him as an option
1. Agree they may very well carry 5 RBs for the first time in years, probably since 2007, but I would need to double check that.
2. BB likes Bolden. He tweaked his knee and lost time and Ridley was dominating, so of course he's not going to bench Ridley to cater to Bolden (also he got that suspension). But, per Zolak and I quote "they really like Bolden". RIdley is one concussion away and Bolden is a similar style runner. Finally, BB doesn't really start rookie RBs, and he started Bolden in Week 3 in Baltimore/used him on that opening drive, I believe. That should tell you something, at least for intelligent people who are good at reading between the lines, use strong sources and ignore agenda driven anti-BB rhetoric. lol
Your attempt to imply Bolden only looked good due to Adderrall use is a joke, Mr. Sneaky. Unless you have information on his knee injury that no one else has, nice try. I know what you are trying to do there. Bolden was undrafted and quite the find by BB last year, so you think you can imply that Bolden is not going to make the team to somehow think it will make BB look like a lesser GM. VERY transparent trollish comment, RKrap. You aren't fooling anyone.
3. Agree that Ridley or Bolden or them combined should never see less than 15 carries, preferably leaning closer to 20 every week. That would mean we're establishing a run in the first half of games. If Vereen gets up to 8 or 9, with RIdley or Bolden getting 15+ every week, this means we aren't going to lose games. It would also likely mean that Brady is under Center more frequently, which should be our goal on offense for the rest of the time Brady is here.
In summary, I almost want Bolden to beat out Ridley because I think Ridley is more like a Kevin Faulk than he is a Corey Dillon. If the goal is to consistently hit the holes/seams through the line, Bolden comes off as the better runner in betwee the tackles to me.
1A Bolden (12-15 carries)
1B Ridley (8-10 carries)
2 Vereen (Chang of pace and specialty RB for 2 minute offense, shotgun spread based drives)
3 Washington (back up of Vereen and kick returner)
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Oxford, MS (Sports Network) - Kyle Wiltjer scored a career-high 26 points and
nailed five 3-pointers and Archie Goodwin added 24 points, as Kentucky held
off 16th-ranked Ole Miss, 87-74, Tuesday in an SEC offensive battle.
Nerlens Noel nearly recorded a double-double with a school record 12 blocks
and seven rebounds for the Wildcats (14-6, 5-2 SEC), who picked up their first
win over a ranked opponent this season and now have found victory in four of
their last five contests. Alex Poythress contributed 15 points and seven
rebounds in the win.
LaDarius White led Ole Miss with 22 points and Marshall Henderson added 21
for the Rebels (17-3, 6-1), who shot a mere 32.9 percent from the floor
in ending a nine-game winning streak.
It was the first time the schools had met with the Rebels ranked and Kentucky
outside the Top 25 since January of 2001.
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British rockers Radiohead have launched an interactive cellular phone application designed around their "King of Limbs" song "Bloom."
PolyFauna allows users to navigate through colorful digital landscapes, while the single plays in the background.
Users are also able to change the landscapes by tapping their phone screens, adding various shapes and colors.
A statement from the band, reads, "It comes from an interest in early computer life-experiments and the imagined creatures of our subconscious."
The app was a collaborative effort between the band and designers at Universal Everything, who previously worked on installations for the London 2012 Olympics.


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Japan: Buddhism meets Shintoism in Japan
"Japan: Buddhism meets Shintoism in Japan" Continued...
In the sixth century A.D., Mahayana Buddhism began to dominate Japan alongside an earlier animistic religion, Shinto ("the way of gods"). Shinto apparently began with worship of the environment and of spirits seen as related to mountains, rivers, and other forces of nature. Buddhism, more universal in scope, coexisted with Shinto and along with Shinto became Japan's established doctrine under the powerful leader Shotoku (574Ð622).
Mahayana Buddhists in Japan were aware of another faith that emphasized the work of a savior. Christian missionaries, obeying Christ's command to take the gospel to every nation, may have reached China as early as a.d. 61. There they proclaimed a faith soon known as Keikyo, the "Shining Religion." A few believers set up Keikyo temples in Chinese provinces and hopped the sea as well, perhaps arriving in Japan as early as a.d. 200. Their early base was Kyoto: Old writing found in that city's Uzumasa area contains the same Chinese characters used in China to refer to the Keikyo church there.
According to the late Dr. Yoshiroh Saeki, a professor at Waseda University, a Keikyo priest paid an official visit to Japan's emperor around a.d. 475. Soon after more than 2,000 Keikyo believers, members of the Hata clan, came to Japan. As the Christian concept of a suffering savior apparently influenced Mahayana Buddhism, so the story of Christ's birth may have pushed Japanese legend-making. Current missionary Mark Dominey has translated the birth account of Prince Shotoku: According to the story, while Shotoku's mother was a virgin the Buddha appeared to her and said he wanted to borrow her womb.
Kyoto Christians built a church in a.d. 622, according to a thesis by Mario Marega. Keikyo priests and physicians visited Emperor Shomu in 737, according to the Imperial Chronicles, and talked with family members about Christ. The empress apparently became a believer and put her faith into practice by establishing a hospital and orphanage. But early Christianity never attained anything more than the slightest of footholds. One reason may be that then as now, Christians emphasized Christ's teaching that He is the way, the truth, and the life; they refused to syncretize their beliefs with those of others. Mahayana Buddhists, however, found a place in their religion for Shinto and even Confucian ideas, and became Japan's dominant religious power.
It soon became apparent that Buddhists would misuse power just as others did. Buddhists were not the pacifists most are today. Buddhists of the Mahayana sect known as Tendai believed that they could only take advantage of what bodhisattvas offered by becoming spiritually and physically tough. They made an armed camp of their center of power on Mt. Hiei, which overlooks Kyoto, Japan's capital from 794 until the move to Tokyo in 1868. Enryaku-ji, the mountain's first temple, went up in 788, and Buddhists built 3,000 more temples over the next 700 years. Buddhists in the late 10th century began basing there an army of many thousands that became known for overthrowing emperors at will. Emperor Shirakawa (1056Ð1129) listed as the "three things which I cannot bring under obedience" dice, the waters of a rushing river, and the priests on Mt. Hiei.
The Enryaku-ji Buddhists also burned down temples of competing sects, and even destroyed one temple, Mi-dera, nine times over a 250-year period. One historian of Kyoto, Gouverneur Mosher, noted that "Buddhism did not retard war but rather promoted it." The Tendai were Buddhism's Delta Force, and on Mount Hiei today some Tendai monks do kugyo (in two side-by-side, linked temples) similar to what their predecessors did a millennium ago. One monk at a time spends nine days in the Jogyo-Do (constant walking) and Hokke-Do (sitting meditation) temples: There he fasts, drinks only a little water, and tries hard not to fall asleep.
One monk explained the goal: "If we can remove the desire for food or sleep, we can get closer to the goal of leaving behind all desire." Those who fall asleep are supposed to start all over again, but "it's for the individual to tell what happened to him." Another Mt. Hiei temple, Shyaka-do, is the base for elite monks who are supposed to walk for at least 18 miles a day for 100 days up and down the mountain's steep slopes. Others, wearing straw sandals, try to do 1,000 days of walking 50 miles a day. (The monks I asked were vague on how often this was done over the centuries or how often it's done now.)
Regardless of such impressive goals and fanatical records, many Japanese were unhappy being dominated by Mt. Hiei's Buddhists. They asked why a religion preaching nonattachment was yielding such attachment to power. Reform movements spread through Buddhism, each preaching different ways of fixing the evident problems. Three alternatives to the Tendai attempted to gain adherents.
The monk Kukai founded Shingon Buddhism in 816, only 28 years after the founding of Tendai temples on Mt. Hiei, but Shingon monks generally stayed out of politics. (They located their temples on mountaintops not to cow government officials but to remain independent of them.) Today, Shingon Buddhists pride themselves on having had their doctrine embraced by the imperial family until 1868, and they talk of the amazing things their founder, Kukai, purportedly did. (Believers say he did not die but remains in a meditative trance, able and willing to return to the world when needed.)
Today, Shingon jushoku (chief abbot) Koyu Hosokawa is intensely proud of his "physically severe exercises in cold water, or firewalking [on coals]. Like Tendai, we have exercises for the best." He is proud of helping Yamamoto Maya travel from "the so-called real world in which she was living" to "the truly real world on the temple mountain." He is proud of the training that young men like Takagi Kinho go through, even describing with slapstick glee how trainees whose legs had gone to sleep during four hours of lotus-position chanting had fallen down the lacquered stairs.
Shingon practitioners, like most other Buddhists, do a lot of chanting. "Shingon means 'true word'; we have lots of true words," the jushoku explained, and one Shingon practice is to recite a favorite sutra "20,000 times each day for 50 days." Such effort is not a new idea; Elijah on Mount Carmel taunted the prophets of Baal for chanting for their god hour after hour. But the jushoku, fingering his rosary, insisted that chanting is not in vain for those with the "special power to reach enlightenment ... a special voice that opens us up to the whole universe is speaking, but only those who have the ability to hear will hear it. It takes practice to develop that ability."
Some who were disappointed with Japan's condition but did not want to try extreme and severe ascetic practice headed to zazen (meditation), developed in the 12th and 13th centuries by teachers who had studied in India and China. Zen Buddhists taught that the faithful should pay no attention to rational thought processes. They came up with famous Zen questions-"What is the sound of one hand clapping?"-designed to force thinkers to conclude that rational thought is inadequate and should be abandoned. (The most famous Christian medieval question-"How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?"-was designed to produce the opposite of mysticism: Students were expected to think through the problem and conclude that an infinite number could, since angels are incorporeal spirits.)
The Zen emphasis on paradox applied even to its own methods: Teachers spoke of "sudden enlightenment" that could be gained by long periods of practice in meditation. Zen became hot among the elite, such as among samurai warriors who believed they could enter a Zen zone while swordfighting or shooting arrows. Today, Thomas Kirchner, an American who has lived in Japan for three decades and is now the caretaker of a Zen temple in Kyoto, says other Buddhist ideas are "dumbing down," but he doesn't hold that against them: "Differing abilities are best addressed by differing paths. Some people are more contemplatively inclined, others more devotionally inclined, others more intellectually inclined."
Mr. Kirchner grew up Roman Catholic in New Haven but became "a doubter enthralled by a doubt-based religion, Zen Buddhism." An undergraduate at Duke in the late '60s, he questioned everything until a visiting Zen Buddhist gave a lecture; Mr. Kirchner thought, "I don't know what there is about that guy, but what he has I want." Mr. Kirchner soon went to Japan and adhered to Zen because it struck him as the anti-faith faith: "Zen says, 'You doubt? Great. You haven't doubted enough.'" He still participates in orthodox Buddhist activities like monastic retreats, but he noted when we spoke in Kyoto that often the "last thing you want to do is meditate." He also criticized university life where he "saw people utterly distorting Buddhist spirituality so they could get tenure." But he still carries on university work alongside his temple duties, and emphasizes points of contact between the Buddhist and Christian traditions.
During the 13th-century time of troubles, another tough sect grew out of Tendai and began emphasizing the importance of anger and political involvement. This sect's founder, Nichiren (1222Ð1282), a learned monk, attacked unmercifully "evil" forms of Buddhism, including Shingon and Zen, and developed a political solution based on theology. He thought that Gautama Buddha as he aged had gradually revealed more and more of the true way to live. He argued that the Buddha's final opus, the Lotus Sutra, was the Buddha's only true, inerrant revelation. Therefore, according to Nichiren, Buddhists should all day long repeat the mystic phrase "Namu Myoho Renge Kyo," which means "Hail to the Lotus Sutra." If people all over Japan would only do that, Nichiren proclaimed, Japan would become a wonderful land in which people could more readily ascend spiritually.
Thus, for Nichiren, politics was next to godliness, and crucial for the success of Nichiren's mission: If Nichiren adherents could gain power and command all Japanese to recite the Lotus Sutra, everything would change. Nichiren's anger only intensified as he suffered persecution and then exile for 11 years to a remote island. He attracted those dismayed by Buddhist monks who averted their eyes from problems that could break into their meditative day. Nichiren did not weep as Jesus did when confronted by the death of a friend; instead, when an epidemic occurred, Nichiren raged at government officials, claiming that their bad karma (as well as the misdeeds of other Buddhists) caused the deaths.
Soon, entire villages filled with anger adhered to Nichiren ideas and demonstrated-sometimes fought-against other Buddhist sects. Today, Japan's Sokka Gakkai-"Value-Creation Society"-is a Nichiren group with perhaps 6 million to 8 million well-organized members. Its daily newspaper, Seikyo Shimbun, has a circulation of 3 million. Its political wing, the New Komeito-"Clean Government"-Party has 31 of the 480 seats in the Japanese parliament, thus making it the third-largest party.
I met two Sokka Gakkai leaders, Masaya Tomooka and Shigemi Furukawa, at their Kansai Culture Center in Osaka, and heard Mr. Tomooka's claim that "self-actualization" comes less through meditation than through "constructive engagement in securing the welfare of others." According to this semi-secularized Buddhism, "Nichiren did not teach to eradicate all desires, but to direct desires in the right direction." For Nichiren followers, Buddhism is not an ascetic, reclusive, or passive religion; it is Japan's religious left, pressing for more centralized power that Sokka Gakkai can then use to get all Japanese chanting from the same page.


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May 24
Runner-up Bodine is Back on Top of Truck Series Championship Points Standings
Posted by: lori on May 24, 2010
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Concord, NC (05-22-2010) – After a three hour delay for rain, the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series took to the track for 134 laps of racing at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Germain Racing's Todd Bodine started ninth, worked his way to the lead and after a series of late-race caution flags, finished second to race winner and fellow Tundra driver Kyle Busch. Bodine's second-place effort moved him back to the top of the Truck Series championship standings.
"We had a good run. We were too tight in practice and we fought it all practice. We were still too tight in the race and that's why we just couldn't quite carry the momentum that Kyle (Busch) could. But our Germain.com Tundra was good tonight. For us, as a team, it was a great night because we've struggled all season with this new generation tire that Goodyear's got and the way our trucks are driving with it. The team worked hard looking through notes and looking through data trying to figure out how to get the 30 truck to where I could drive it and they did. They got it fixed. Tonight we ran with the leaders and it was great to have fun and be so competitive tonight," said Bodine.
The Germain.com Tundra crew has delivered fast trucks to the track each week, which is why the team has six top-five finishes in seven races this season. The fast trucks and fast pit work came together at Charlotte for a very strong team effort.
"We were there tonight. With the changes we were able to make for Todd to the truck, the great pit stops – we had the Germain.com Tundra where we needed it to be and we were fighting for the win. When the green flag waved for the green/white/checkered finish, it was anyone's race to win between Kyle, Todd and Ron. This Germain Racing Tundra was in championship form tonight and Todd Bodine drove a great race," said crew chief Mike Hillman Jr.
Bodine explained that his return to the top of the points standings was a team effort.
"We were in the points lead and we came out of Martinsville with the one finish we've had this year outside the top-five and that finish, 30th, cost us the points lead. This Germain Racing team has been working hard. Like at Dover last week, we didn't have a truck to win the race, but we still got a fifth. That's how you win points championships is to take a truck that can't win but still finish in the top-five. Here at Charlotte tonight we had a good truck and finished second. It was a good night," said Bodine, obviously proud of the work he and the Germain.com Tundra crew have put into to return to the top of the Truck Series standings.
The next race on the Truck Series schedule is Friday night, June 4th, at a track where Germain Racing has been to victory lane six times, five with Bodine - Texas Motor Speedway. Watch the exciting action live on SPEED starting at 8:30 PM ET.
When shopping for your new or used car or truck, head directly to Germain.com to find the perfect vehicle or visit your local Germain dealer in Ohio, Florida, or Arkansas. Germain.com is part of Germain Motor Company, a top-25 automotive retail network with 21 dealerships and more than 60 years of experience.
Germain Racing competes in each of NASCAR's three national divisions as well as the K&N Pro Series East. A variety of sponsorship opportunities are available. Visit Germainracing.com for more information. To keep up with team news, follow on Twitter @Germainracing or become a fan on Facebook.


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June 1, 2016
A new report by Alabama health officials says the rate of traffic deaths has fallen drastically since the state established a trauma network in 2007.
WSFA-TV reports the numbers released by the Alabama Department of Public Health and the Alabama Hospital Association show deaths from vehicle crashes dropped from 27.64 per 100,000 people in 2006 to a rate of 18.05 per 100,000 people in 2011.
Dr. John Campbell, the retired state emergency services medical director, says the results show spending on trauma care has paid off for Alabama.
Hospitals designated as trauma centers have specialists on-call around the clock to treat patients with life-threatening injuries. Officials say 80 percent of Alabama's trauma cases come from car crashes, so they give a good snapshot of how the system is working.
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Jersey City, NJ (Sports Network) - Kevin Stadler carded a 7-under 64 on
Thursday to grab a 1-stroke lead with the first round of The Barclays
suspended due to darkness.
There were a pair of weather delays earlier on Thursday to push things back.
The entire morning wave completed their rounds, while the afternoon wave all
started their rounds at Liberty National Golf Club.
Henrik Stenson opened with a 65 and was joined in second place by Ryan Palmer
and Camilo Villegas. Matt Kuchar and Jason Day were one shot back at minus-5
and they share fifth place.
Tiger Woods, the FedExCup leader, posted a 4-under 67 and is tied for seventh
with six others, including Harris English, who is minus-4 through six holes.
Defending champion Nick Watney is one of 11 players at 3-under, as he opened
the first FedExCup Playoff event with a 68.
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Fine print - January 2012
Whats the functional difference between a tax-funded federal stimulus program and Duke Energy Corp.s recent rate-hike request? Not much. Both would take money from our pockets and use it to finance big construction projects and thus create jobs except that the Charlotte-based utility would actually give us something tangible in return, namely electricity. And that electricity is a valuable thing, because the progressive-minded souls among us need it to power their laptops so they can send expressions of outrage to government regulators about being forced to cough up more cash for Dukes job-creating construction projects. Anybody besides me see the irony here?
Let me say right up front that nothing that follows is an argument on behalf of Duke Energy. At the very least, the company has demonstrated an abysmal grasp of the fundamentals of public relations. As you might recall, it is seeking to acquire Raleigh-based Progress Energy Inc. and create the nations largest power company. Its sales pitch to regulators and customers is based on the premise that the combined company will offer financial and operating efficiencies that can be passed along to bill payers. Did it not occur to any of the companys well-compensated executives that asking for a 15% rate hike right after making that pitch might be a tad awkward?
When that thought finally sank in, Duke reduced its request to 7.2%. It says it needs the money for construction projects and pollution-control efforts totaling $4.8 billion. The N.C. Utilities Commission already had approved those projects, and the commissions Public Staff whose job it is to look after the interests of consumers has given its OK to the 7.2% rate increase. But none of that mattered to the parade of objectors who appeared at various hearings to denounce, vigorously and sometimes profanely, the power company and its lying, thieving, greedy, pollution-spewing executives (my paraphrase, exaggerated only slightly).
Ive already made my first point. Everyone generally agrees that the way to economic recovery is through those big shovel-ready projects that President Obama keeps saying we need, which will create jobs and upgrade the infrastructure. Improving Dukes power grid accomplishes both things. Does it really matter in a practical sense to whom, politicians or business executives, we give our money to bring a shovel-ready project into creation?
But there are two other, more elusive points to be unearthed from the rate-hike squabble, both of which speak to the progressive wish for government to have a greater hand in running things. The first point is that the protests against the rate hike shouldnt be seen as anti-corporate. They are, in fact, anti-government.
After all, the relationship between Duke Energy and the state of North Carolina is the closest thing weve got to the progressives utopian ideal of business held captive by government. Its exactly what Elizabeth Warren, Michael Moore, the Occupy Wall Street crowd and such heavyweight philosophers as Kanye West and Roseanne Barr have in mind when they demand that corporations be brought to heel. Duke, like all other major utilities, is so highly regulated and closely supervised by government that about the only decisions over which it has total control are things like the paint color in the executive washroom. It can only ask for rate hikes. The Utilities Commission, an agency of the state, ultimately grants or denies them. If your power bill goes up, its because your government has decreed that it should.
Perhaps you think the problem is that government isnt smart, efficient or even very good at its job. If so, welcome to the club. Thats why Im disinclined to give it even more money.
The other point is that in one notable and significant way, Duke does exactly what politicians do: It uses your money to subsidize sweetheart rate deals in order to attract business. The only difference is that when politicians do it, theyre lauded for their commitment to economic development. When a utility does it, its just another complaint on the progressive bill of particulars.
As The Charlotte Observer reported, objections to the rate-hike request also came from the city of Durham and three advocacy groups, which expressed dismay that the company provides discounted electricity to power-hungry data centers such as Googles server farm in Lenoir. Duke pointed out that discounts on their power bills are one reason high-tech companies come to North Carolina. What went unsaid, however, is that a bargain power rate was a minor reason for Google to locate in Lenoir. The biggest incentive was the promise of almost $100 million in state tax breaks that the General Assembly bestowed.
Its not that Google needed the money. Shortly after negotiating that sweetheart tax break, its two founders bought themselves a Boeing 767, then spent $10 million to install private staterooms outfitted with king-size beds. Commercial air travel is so déclassé, you know. No self-respecting tycoon should have to endure it.
All this boils down to a simple question: If its true, as progressives like to say, that the government is us, why be angry when Duke Energy does exactly what elected officials do on our behalf?


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Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy (Hardcover)
In an era when too many heroes have been toppled from too many pedestals, Sandy Koufax stands apart and alone, a legend who declined his own celebrity. As a pitcher, he was sublime, the ace of baseball lore. As a human being, he aspired to be the one thing his talent and his fame wouldn't allow: a regular guy. A Brooklyn kid, he was the product of the sedate and modest fifties who came to define and dominate baseball in the sixties. In Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy, former award-winning Washington Post sportswriter Jane Leavy delivers an uncommon baseball book, vividly re-creating the Koufax era, when presidents were believed and pitchers aspired to go the distance.
He was only a teenager when Dodgers owner Walter O'Malley proclaimed him "the Great Jewish Hope" of the franchise. But it wasn't until long after the team had abandoned Brooklyn that the man became the myth. Old-fashioned in his willingness to play when he was injured and in his acute sense of responsibility to his team, Koutax answered to an authority higher than manager Walter Alston. When he refused to pitch the opening game of the 1965 World Series because it fell on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar, he inadvertently made himself a religious icon and an irrevocably public figure. A year later, he was gone -- done with baseball at age thirty. No other sports hero had retired so young, so well, or so completely.
Despite Sandy Koufax's best efforts to protect his privacy, his legend has grown larger ever since. Part biography, part cultural history, Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy gets as close to that legend as he will allow. Through meticulous reporting and interviews with five hundred of his friends, teammates, and opponents, Leavy penetrates the mythology to discover a man more than worthy of myth.
About the Author
Jane Leavy is an award-winning former sportswriter and feature writer for the Washington Post. She is the author of Sandy Koufax and the comic novel Squeeze Play, called the best novel ever written about baseball by Entertainment Weekly. She lives in Washington, D.C.
Praise For…
"An exhaustively researched study that paints an intriguing portrait of the famously reclusive Dodger pitcher."
-Sports Illustrated
"A baseball classic; the first in-depth reporting on the life and career of the Dodger icon…a must read."
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Carter Leads Coppin in Win over N.C. Central University
Senior forward Larrisa Carter scored a double-double of 18 points with 14 rebounds to lead the Coppin State University Lady Eagles to a 67-58 win over North Carolina Central University in a Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) game on Jan. 25 in Durham, N.C.
The game marked Carter's seventh double-double of the season and the 17th double-double of her career, according to Coppin State Sports Information Director Rob Knox.
Knox said Carter's leadership on the floor kept her teammates focused during the critical part of the game against N.C. Central.
"This is the heart of the conference play and the affable Carter knows she has precious few games remaining in her college career," Knox wrote on the team's website. "She is the soul of the Coppin State women's basketball team and the 6-foot senior forward from Atlanta is going to do whatever takes to win."
Coppin State improved to 8-10 overall, but is dominant in the MEAC with a 5-1 conference record, good for second place in the standings. Much of their success has come from the play of Carter, who is averaging 13.3 points with 7.8 rebounds.
"I enjoy basketball and I approach every game like it's my last game," said Carter, according to Coppin State Sports Information. "I don't have anything to hold back. I feed off of my teammates so I have to play good in order for my teammates to get the energy from me."
Senior guard Ashle Craig also performed well for Coppin State, scoring 15 points with seven assists against N.C. Central. Senior forward Kyra Coleman added 10 points with six rebounds and six assists. Jessica Freeman led N.C. Central with 18 points in the loss.
Coppin State will try to push their current win streak to three games when they travel to Greensboro, N.C. to take on another MEAC opponent, North Carolina A&T, on Jan. 27.
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A South Georgia police chief is in serious condition today after a single-car accident on I-75 Sunday night.
Justin Rutherford, police chief for Sycamore, was traveling northbound on I-75 in a police car when he approached a car in the left lane going significantly slower. He was in Tift County about a half-mile from the Turner County line.
According to the Georgia State Patrol, he swerved right to avoid hitting the vehicle but then lost control.
Sgt. Stan Stalnaker tells 13WMAZ that Rutherford hit a culvert and his car flipped several times. Rutherford was ejected from the vehicle. He was not believed to have been wearing his seat belt at the time.
He was flown to the Medical Center of Central Georgia, where he was in serious condition Monday morning.
Sycamore, population around 500, is in Turner County, off I-75 in southwest Georgia.


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The 2012-13 New York Knicks would have been an elite team – a true NBA title contender… in the 1990s. I say this not as a snide reference to the age of the players they signed this offseason, as I've done countless times on Twitter and on this website already; I say it as a referendum on the style of basketball they will seemingly play in the coming season. Click your heels together and indulge me in an alternate reality for a second.
Pretend we're in, say, 1996. Consider how the NBA is different. The only defense allowed is man-to-man. Post-defending centers and one-on-one stoppers on the wing carry the best defenses in the league. Slow-it-down, grind-it-out offenses featuring a star scorer doing his work one-on-one are the norm. There is a secondary star, another good scorer, but every other offensive player's responsibility is to support the superstar in his effort to create shots. If that means spotting up and waiting for a kick-out pass while the star isolates and breaks down his man, so be it. If it means hanging outside the lane and waiting for a dump-off pass while the star drives to the basket, that's fine too. The point guard is a caretaker charged with directing the team through the motions described. He occasionally runs pick-and-rolls, but he mostly gets the ball to the star scorer, directs traffic, and waits for spot-up opportunities.
That previous paragraph describes how the 2012-13 New York Knicks will likely function to a T. Tyson Chandler is the post-defending center; Ronnie Brewer and Iman Shumpert the one-on-one wing stoppers. Carmelo Anthony, obviously, is the star scorer, and Amar'e Stoudemire the secondary option. The primary responsibility denoted to Chandler, Brewer, Shumpert, J.R. Smith, Steve Novak and Marcus Camby, offensively, will be to support Anthony – and to a lesser extent, Stoudemire – create shots. Raymond Felton and Jason Kidd are the caretaker point guards, charged with directing the traffic and getting the ball to Carmelo (and Amar'e).
And if we were still in the 1990's, this all would have worked so beautifully. Chandler, Brewer and Shumpert would have the Knicks near the top of the league in defense despite the presence of unwilling defenders like Anthony and Stoudemire, just as happened in the 2011-12 season. Carmelo would make mincemeat of the opposition, using his prodigious one-on-one scoring talent to get to the basket at will, lull defenders to sleep with jab-steps and pull-ups, and draw copious amounts of fouls. Stoudemire would have a field day working off of Melo. His left-elbow based isolation attack would fit perfectly with Carmelo's right-wing heavy game. Chandler and Camby would be available for rebounds, tip-ins and dump-offs. Novak, Smith and Shumpert would see an endless amount of spot-up opportunities, while Felton and Kidd would direct everybody to the right spots at the right times. The Knicks would be a force to be reckoned with; hounding defense combined with two top one-on-one scorers would make them the proverbial "team that nobody wants to play come June." Mayor Bloomberg might even be making reservations for a parade down the Canyon of Heroes.
But here's the thing – and I know I'm not exactly breaking news here, but I'll say it anyway: we're not in
Kansas the 1990's anymore. Rule changes over the past 20 years that have allowed for the institution of zone defense, the implementation of the hybrid, fast-moving, trapping, rotating-and-recovering schemes like the ones employed by Doc Rivers/Tom Thibodeau's Boston Celtics and Thibodeau's current Chicago Bulls, the 2011-12 Knicks themselves and most notably, the Miami Heat, and have effectively cut isolation-style basketball off at the knees, rendering it an inefficient anachronism. Scorers who primarily depend on taking their man one-on-one are met with waves of help defenders cutting off their driving lanes, forcing them into step-back 22-footers. Isolation heroes who excel at creating for themselves are trapped by two or three defenders, forced to make difficult cross-court passes, waiting to be picked off by speedy center-field type rovers. While in the 1990's we would term this kind of space-defending "illegal defense," now we just call it the norm.
The style of offense that punishes these defenses is one that centers on floor-spacing, ball movement and player movement; one that pings the ball around the perimeter and finds the smallest creases in the manic rotations of the opposition. Fast-moving pick-and-rolls and side-to-side ball movement generate the requisite space to fire corner 3's and create lay-ups and open jump shots.
The Knicks, much as they did in the early 2000's, have tried to go against that grain. They've built a throwback team, a 90's team. They will play Mike Woodson's brand of tough, bruising defense on the strength of Chandler, Camby and Brewer (and hopefully by January, Shumpert). And they will run their offense through Carmelo the majority of the time, betting that his ample offensive talent is enough to carry the day. And as we saw against the Heat in the first round of the playoffs last season, it will eventually peter out.
The thing about this is, the Knicks really aren't so far from being unlocked as a true team-of-the-2010's power. They have the requisite defensive intensity, they just need to find a way to open up the offensive attack to deal with the new challenges the defenses of today create. There's a fairly simple solution that presented itself down the stretch of last season: embrace small ball as the new, modern normal and move Anthony to power forward, where he blitzed the opposition to the tune of 29.3 points per-36 minutes and a 29.5 PER last season. But the Knicks can't do it, not while they're paying Stoudemire approximately $65 million over the next three seasons and Woodson is refusing to either bring him off the bench to start the game or play him extended minutes with the second unit while minimizing the time he and Anthony share the court.
So the Knicks are again reaching back to the 1990's to solve this particular problem (h/t Ethan Sherwood Strauss). This offseason, Woodson and Amar'e sought the help of low-post extraordinaire Hakeem Olajuwon to open up a new aspect of Stoudemire's game. Amar'e's faceup isolation attack and dive skills on the pick-and-roll have forever been his greatest strengths, yet here he is calling on an icon to teach him tricks from the past to unlock his present. And while it may work, it's yet another instance of the Knicks being stuck in the 90's while the rest of the league is moving forward. They're a team that, over the next few seasons, will get older, slower and more rigid in a league that is seemingly getting younger, quicker and more versatile with each passing day.
The reality of the situation is that the Knicks would probably be best served by trading Stoudemire for a new-age "three-and-D" wing in the mold of Andre Iguodala, but the stark nature of STAT's injury history and the size of his contract make him nearly impossible to trade – not that James Dolan would dare dangle the man who so boldly declared "the Knicks are back" two years ago anyway (For the record, I'd hate to see him go. Here's hoping you Stand Tall And Talented, STAT). Obtaining a player like – but obviously not exactly like, since Denver just acquired him – Iguodala would give the Knicks three viable perimeter stoppers and add another shooter to their stable that currenty includes just Steve Novak and – provided his percentages bounce back – J.R. Smith.
It would free up Anthony to play power forward full time, just as his draft mate and self-professed rival LeBron James did in the playoffs for the Miami Heat last season and will likely continue to do in the future. There, his deceptive quickness and spectacular faceup game would be unleashed against slower defenders, and his inability to guard players in open space would be minimized against all but a few power forwards, secretly making the Knicks defense even better. It would provide better floor-spacing for Anthony's off-the-dribble attacks and free up lanes for Felton and Kidd to run (probably occasional) pick-and-rolls with Chandler and/or Camby.
These are modern tweaks the Knicks could make, but again they are opting for throwback options, not only sticking with traditional positional designations, but also bringing in multiple backup bigs in Camby (actually, a good acquisition that will stabilize the second unit defense and improve the team rebounding) and Kurt Thomas, while pursuing Kenyon Martin and Birdman Anderson. With all these four and five-men in the mix, you wonder when or if Melo will ever see time at what seems to be – judging by his play late last season and in the Olympics – his new optimal position.
All these moves hearken back to the strategy employed by Isiah Thomas in the early 2000's. Hear me out. I'm not comparing these Knicks to the dreadful teams Thomas assembled, just noting the similar ideas behind them. In The Book of Basketball (I'm about to paraphrase a conversation from a book I read a few years ago), Bill Simmons described a conversation he had with Thomas about the philosophy behind pairing Eddy Curry and Zach Randolph in one of his many roster-construction disasters in New York. Thomas said (again, I'm paraphrasing from memory) that while he saw the rest of the league getting smaller, he wanted to get bigger and more bruising, the better to bully the opposition into submission. That Thomas chose to enact this strategy with Curry and Randolph is where he went wrong. The Lakers bullied the league into submission with that exact strategy in the late 2000's with Andrew Bynum and Pau Gasol, with Kobe Bryant on the wings, and it worked beautifully.
The current Knicks regime seems to be employing the same thinking. While the rest of the league moves away from traditional positions, becomes faster, quicker and more versatile, and emhpasizes space and speed over size and strength, the Knicks are again moving in the opposite direction. They have a bullying 1990's-style small-forward, a power forward learning post moves for the first time in an effort to unlock a new area of the court, a rim-protecting center, caretaker point guards who will be spot-up shooters (despite not being good spot-up shooters) and supporting players whose role is simply to fill in the blanks. Contrast the Knicks with teams like the Heat, Thunder, Celtics and Spurs, teams that can go big or small, play inside-out or outside-in, run you off the floor or pound the ball inside and create open looks through crisp kick-out passing, and you begin to see why the Knicks reside just outside the realm of true title contenders in today's NBA.
The Knicks will be good, maybe even very good. They'll win 45 to 50 games. They may even advance in the playoffs for the first time in over a decade. This will be the best Knick team since I was Bar Mitzvah'd. The Knicks will once again matter on a national stage, and not in the laughingstock way. But they're not a title contender, not in today's NBA. Because they're stuck in the 1990's, and the rest of the league has long since moved on.


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1936 Dodge Roadster Pickup – Goodguys West Coast Nationals Pleasanton – Painless Performance/Street Rodder Top 100Written by on September 13, 2013
1936 Dodge Roadster Pickup
John & Dawn Nissen, Williams, California
The body is original steel, but the rest of this '36 Dodge RPU custom rod is borrowed, such as the '32 DeSoto grille, Jaguar XK120 windshield, and '38 Dodge bed with Ford stake pockets. Speaking of pockets, the tie-down straps are genuine kangaroo. Suspension parts include front and rear quarter-elliptic springs.Fast FI system tops the '42 Merc Flathead with Sharp heads


text: Photo Gallery Pictures: Space Spooks Come Out to Play In space, no one can hear you scream. But you'll try anyway, after seeing this Halloween's spooky space pictures. PUBLISHED October 28, 2011 0 1 / 13 Eerie Fog Like an ominous fog swirling around a street lamp, a nebula 1,499 light-years away in the constellation Orion burns dimly, illuminated by hot, massive stars embedded inside the gas cloud.The Hubble Space Telescope snapped this image of NGC 1999, also known as the Keyhole nebula, back in 1999.The creepy dark shape at the center of the image is actually a dim cloud of gas and dust that astronomers believe is a nursery for newborn stars. Image courtesy NASA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI) Harrowing Escape Dark shadows (at left) appear have flailing arms as they flee some unknown menace in this image of an isolated dark nebula some 1,200 light-years from Earth in the northern constellation Cepheus—the King. Known as Sharpless 2-136, this galactic ghost formation is the site of intense star and planet formation and stretches about two light-years across. Image courtesy Adam Block/NOAO/AURA/NSF Franken Nebula What looks like the legendary Frankenstein's monster, glaring with wild, piercing eyes, is actually a colorful cloud of gas and dust surrounding clusters of young stars.Located some 20,000 light-years from Earth in the southern constellation Puppis, hundreds of hot, massive stars sit huddled together and belch out strong radiation into space. The outbursts ionize the molecules in the surrounding gas clouds and light them up in ghoulish colors. Image courtesy ESO Black Widow Nebula Lying in wait in the constellation Circinus, a cloud of molecular gas takes the form of a deadly spider in an infrared picture from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.Nicknamed the Black Widow Nebula, the cloud is teeming with clusters of massive young stars, seen as yellow specks in the center of this frame. Radiation from the stars is blowing the surrounding gas into two opposing bubbles, forming the bulbous body and spindly legs of the cosmic crawler.The Black Widow is just one of the ghastly bodies littering the heavens that's included in our Halloween round-up of the top ten spooky space objects, as chosen by National Geographic editors.(Related: Find out how you can help National Geographic save big cats by trick-or-treating.) Image courtesy Caltech/U. Wisconsin/NASA Eye of Sauron In 2008 astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope revealed that they had gazed into the Lidless Eye of the Dark Lord Sauron—and found a new planet.Despite its eerie resemblance to the Lord of the Rings icon, the frame above actually shows a Hubble picture of Fomalhaut, a bright southern star about 25 light-years from Earth. The fiery "iris" is a ring of planet-forming material that surrounds the star, and a small bright speck embedded in the ring is the Jupiter-like planet Fomalhaut b.The image was the first visible-light snapshot of a planet orbiting another star. Image courtesy P. Kalas, U.C. Berkeley/ESA/NASA Planet Hell Hot rocks rain from the sky, and oceans of lava ooze across one side while sunlight never shines on the other. Welcome to Hell, aka, the alien planet CoRoT-7b. Initially described in 2009, the weird world was the first rocky planet found outside our solar system.But unlike Earth, CoRoT-7b orbits just 1.5 million miles (2.5 million kilometers) away from its star—about 23 times closer than Mercury is to our sun. The planet is also tidally locked, so that one side always faces the star while the other side lies in constant darkness.Astronomers calculate that the surface of the star-facing side is a broiling 4,220 degrees Fahrenheit (2,327 degrees Celsius). Illustration courtesy L. Calçada, ESO Blood Moon A Blood Moon hangs over an autumn landscape in Sweden on October 11.Also known as the Hunter's Moon, the Blood Moon is the first full moon after the Harvest Moon, which usually appears around the fall equinox. Around this time of year in the Northern Hemisphere, the moon rises a bit earlier than usual. It's thought the monikers arose because the fall full moons provided plentiful light for hunters tracking prey after sunset.(Also see pictures of a lunar eclipse in June that turned the moon blood red.) Photograph courtesy P-M Heden, TWAN Zombie Star When a sunlike star dies, it swells up and eventually sheds its outer layers of gas, leaving behind a corpse known as a white dwarf. But sometimes the stellar dead come back to life by feeding from nearby companions.Such "zombie" stars are known to astronomers as Type Ia supernovae, violent explosions that happen when white dwarfs consume so much material from neighbors that they reach a defined mass limit and explode.The brilliant burst above, dubbed Tycho's supernova remnant, is perhaps one of the most famous examples of a Type Ia supernova. (Also see "'Supernova in a Jar' Offers Peek Inside Star Death.") Image courtesy CXC/NASA/CAS Orion's Bat Last March astronomers with the European Southern Observatory peered into a dark corner of the constellation Orion and snapped a new picture of a cosmic bat, the nebula NGC 1788.Unlike nebulae that shine due to their own heated gases, this cloud gets its ghostly glow because its cold gas and dust are reflecting and scattering light from the young stars hidden inside.This image, taken from ESO's La Silla Observatory in Chile, combines three wavelengths of visible light to reveal the bat's bright face flanked by faint spreading wings. Image courtesy ESO Black Hole Cannibal Deep in the dark heart of the galaxy NGC 3393, two monsters are eating each other in an epic clash of the titans.In August scientists with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory released this composite image of the spiral galaxy that shows not one but two supermassive black holes in its middle, separated by just 490 light-years.Astronomers think NGC 3393 must have consumed a less massive galaxy that had a black hole of its own, and the two supermassive beasts are now battling it out until just one central black hole remains. (Also see "Black Hole Caught Eating a Star, Gamma-Ray Flash Hints.") Image courtesy CXC/SAO/STScI/NASA Little Ghost Nebula Backyard astronomers often make friends with the Little Ghost Nebula, officially known as NGC 6369. The object can be seen from Earth as a faint cloud surrounding the corpse of a dead star in the constellation Ophiuchus.In this 2004 Hubble Space Telescope picture, the nebula can be seen in greater detail, revealing the evolution of gas being ejected from the dying star.As ultraviolet radiation pours from the star, it strips electrons from atoms in the gas, ionizing—electrically charging—the closest regions and creating the bright, blue-green ring. Redder areas on the outer edges of the nebula are places where ionization is less advanced. Image courtesy ESA/NASA The Death Star Despite this small moon's ominous appearance, the Millennium Falcon would have nothing to fear from Mimas, a member of Saturn's family of natural satellites.The huge crater that led to Mimas's Star Wars nickname is called Herschel. At about 80 miles (130 kilometers) across, the crater covers roughly a third of the moon's diameter.In fact, astronomers think the impact that formed the basin must have come close to shattering the 250-mile-wide (400-kilometer-wide) moon.(Also see "The Star Wars Worlds: More Science Than Fiction?") Image courtesy SSI/NASA Vampire Stars Twilight fans take note: Scattered across our Milky Way galaxy are vampires that truly sparkle—so-called blue straggler stars that maintain the appearance of youth by sucking the life from other stars.Blue stragglers are often found in dense star clusters. These tight bundles are thought to contain stars that all formed around the same time, and the majority of the stars in such clusters are among the oldest in the galaxy.But the stragglers have a blue tinge to their light that suggests youth among stellar populations. Scientists think the vampires are stealing gases from their neighbors, allowing the small, aging stars to swell in mass and extend their lives by hundreds of millions of years. Illustration courtesy ESA/NASA and G. Bacon/STScI Related Stories On the Ravaged Trail of Canada's Monster Fire Controversial Railway Splits Kenya's Parks, Threatens Wildlife Why I Am Walking 21,000 Miles Around the World


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With the 79th Map of the Week we continue in the borderlands town of Óðinn's House in the Kingdom of Slovania. This week we take a look at the administrative building of Óðinn's Fortress, above the Outer Town south of the main settlement. Many locations in the Jörðgarð (TM) campaign setting will have certain areas set aside where no official definitions will be published in order to give game masters the opportunity to develop their own material. The two upper stories of the fortress are such locations.
Key to the Floor Plan of the Administrative Building
This is a three-story structure with a cellar. The second and third stories are quarters for visiting guests of the Northern Circle. Such guests usually are members of the circle from elsewhere or envoys from Karelenland. There are no official floor plans for these two upper stories. They are reserved for future custom development by game masters.
A part of the cellar serves as the treasury of the branch of the Northern Circle in Óðinn's Fortress. It holds valuable and magical items with a worth of about 2 million gold pieces. Much of this wealth is in old coinage of the fallen Æsir Empire. The treasury is protected by guards of the Northern Circle on the ground floor and a stone golem and magical traps on the cellar level. Authorized persons bear magical marks that do not set off the traps are activate the golem.
Cellar Level (Ceiling height 20 feet/6m):
1. Storage Room. For the most part, kitchen supplies are kept here.
2. Well and Chimney Shafts.
3. Treasury. A pile of varied magical items is behind the stairway. Strongboxes containing old coins of the fallen Æsir Empire and gold bars are in the southern part of the room.
4. Stone Golem. This magical animation immediately will attack anyone who overcomes the magical traps and comes within 5 feet/150 cm (one square) of the magical treasure. The golem is 18 feet/360 cm high.
Ground Floor (Ceiling height 20 feet/6m):
5. Entrance. The door always is unlocked.
6. Waiting Area. Guests who have no magical pass mark wait here until the reception escorts them to their destinations or places a magical mark upon them. The doors are locked, and warrior guards protect them.
7. Reception Room. Guests are screened here.
8. Spiral Staircase. Leads to the guest rooms on the second and third stories (not mapped).
9. Interview Room. Those who come uninvited to the fortress are taken here to make their purposes known.
10. Kitchen. The room also has a table where commoners who work in the fortress complex can eat.
11. Stairway to the Cellar Storage Area.
12. Dining Room. Members of the Northern Circle dine here.
13. Stairwell. Two Æsir guards always are on duty here. The stairway leads to the treasury in the cellar. The circular shafts are from the jakes on the upper stories.
14. Jakes.
15. Library.
You can get these maps in two versions:
1. The Fractal Mapper (TM) 8 map in FMP format, fully editable, from our Jörðgarð web page (9.1 MB).
2. As 2 JPG flat maps of 2500 Pixels x 1600 Pixels (3.4 MB), available above.
Both versions are released for personal and commercial use under the Open Game License Version 1.0a, which you can read on the Jörðgarð website at:
Next week: Ódhinn's Fortress - Main Palace with Dungeon
Mark Oliva
The Vintyri (TM) Project
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San Antonio, TX (Sports Network) - Tony Parker compiled 22 points and eight
assists as the San Antonio Spurs put an end to their first losing streak of
the season by coming through with a 103-88 triumph over the Boston Celtics at
the AT&T Center.
The Spurs returned home having been handed back-to-back defeats to Utah and
Portland on a 4-game road trip, but outscored the Celtics by a 51-39 margin in
the second half to pull away and get back on track.
Gary Neal helped San Antonio's cause by dropping in 20 points, with Tiago
Splitter adding 16 points to the victory.
The night wasn't all positive for the Spurs, however, as valued guard Manu
Ginobili exited the contest in the first quarter with a bruised left
quadriceps and did not return.
Paul Pierce and Jason Terry each netted 18 points in the loss, Boston's second
in a row following two straight wins.
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Decline in FTR index reflects challenging times for shippers
May 16, 2011
Despite data points that indicate the economy is firming, it may not always feel that way for shippers, especially these days.
That was especially true with the recent release of the Shippers' Condition Index (SCI) from FTR Associates.
FTR reported that the current SCI reading of -11.4 reflects tightening capacity and accelerating transport costs in the form of increasing rates and diesel prices. The firm bases the SCI on "all market influences that affect shippers," with a reading of zero reflecting a solid environment and anything below zero an unfavorable environment.
Among the things representing an unfavorable environment for shippers are the impact of tighter capacity, with base rates for major modes—and their respective fuel surcharges—on the rise, and with fuel surcharge relief possible later in the year, FTR maintains base rates are expected to continue to increase.
"This is the worst SCI reading of this cycle," said Larry Gross, FTR senior consultant. "We are anticipating that going forward over a period of time that it is going to stabilize…at a negative level. It is some comfort to the shipper, but we are not anticipating any improvement. So much of this depends on what is going with the government and the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, regarding Hours-of-Service revisions and can create a source of uncertainty."
FTR also recently reported that its Truckers Conditions Index increased to 13.30 in March, up from February's 9.92, due in large part to carriers getting higher rates as capacity remains tight. An index reading above zero represents an adequate trucking environment, said FTR, with a reading above 10 pointing to a good range for carriers in terms of volume, prices, and margin.
This index, said FTR, as seen consistent growth since October 2010.
FTR President Eric Starks said in a statement that during the first months of 2011, the fundamentals of the balance between the supply and demand for truck transport was obscured by the normal seasonal weakness in demand. He added that demand is expected to hold up, due to continuing strength in the manufacturing sector at a time when GDP growth is waning.
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Fairfax County Board of Zoning Appeals (BZA)
The Fairfax County Board of Zoning Appeals (BZA) was established pursuant to the provisions of Article 7, Chapter 22, Title 15.2 of the Code of Virginia. The BZA's powers, duties and procedures are set forth in broad terms in the State Code and are further detailed in the Fairfax County Zoning Ordinance. Such powers and duties include:
The BZA consists of seven (7) members appointed by the Circuit Court
for staggered terms of five years. All members of the BZA are
private citizens and must be residents of Fairfax County. They
serve only as a Board and not as County employees and, as such, do
not have County office space nor are they available by telephone in
the County government.
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|Fort Collins filmmaker competes for spot in Ron Howard's film festival
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Rapidly making a name for himself in the filmmaking world, Randy Perkins has been an active player in the Fort Collins art scene for years.
Whether he is creating a video to help a local theater stay afloat or introducing a budding art form to the masses, Perkins' passion for artistic expression knows no bounds.
Growing up in Longmont, Perkins had a strong connection to the Holyoke community. As a child he used to spend summers in Holyoke with his grandparents, Vern and Peggy Meusborn. His mother, Sherry Simms, lives in town with her husband Mike, as does Randy's aunt, Penny Dockins.
Perkins has been professionally producing films for about seven years, but he is currently waiting in limbo to receive the results from the Project Imaginat10n film contest, organized and judged by legendary film director, producer and actor Ron Howard.
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Wish I could have seen the game. Especially with such a big win. I'm used to big losses. Or wins that should have been big, but turned into unfortunate messy close games.
Was excellent in the second half(particularly in the third). I should have known Shrek would exploit the Frontcourt advantage. The defense was the best I have seen all year in the third quarter.
Kings went on a 20-0 run.
Quite impressive. The difference was Cousins. He came out and did whatever he wanted. The only negative was Jimmer. He was just awful. Could not handle the backcourt of the Raptors.
Ok, watching the game now.
I would stream it to PackfanMatt_12, but he's either doing a NFL playoffs write-up, or getting his Packers cheesehead dry cleaned.
IowaSacKing93, what the F is this? There has been live play for 10 seconds, and the DJ at the Air Canada Centre has been playing some music with a piano beat and horns.
Through 8:56 in the 2nd, this has not been a good game. Turnovers, bad fouls. The offense looks like a mess. The first 4 minutes of the game were good, but after that, it was not good.
I was not impressed for most of this game. First half, the offense looked random. Kings were committing bad fouls.
3rd quarter, the Kings went on a run, but it was more because the Raptors didn't know how to play offense. They just looked sloppy and confused.
4th quarter was the only time I thought the Kings were playing some defense, which created the Kings offense.
Overall, these offensive sets were not good.
I thought the Boston win was more of a complete win by the team, at both ends of the floor.
I watched the Utah-Phoenix game today, and while both teams are likely lottery teams, their offensive sets are so much better. They're quicker and more decisive. Both teams.
The Kings were just playing an opponent who looked like they were playing in outer space for most of the game.
In the Boston game, the Kings beat a team who looked like they at least knew how to play basketball, and were trying. Today, it looked like the Kings were playing a team that had just been thrown together, except for the 4th, where I did think the Kings defense was legitimate.
When the Kings do something good, it feels like just a bunch of random good plays, rather than teamwork. At least today.
If this had been more of a teamwide win, the Kings would have won by 30-40, for example. When one player is playing like this, you should win by a lot more, unless you're facing a similar star on the other end, in which case it's a close, well-played game.
Toronto also went 25-37 from the foul line, another sign of their poor play, not so much the Kings making them play poorly.
Well they started out with Aaron Gray on Cuz, which was hilarious. Gray actually looked scared out there. 5 minutes later he gets pulled for Amir Johnson who does his best to manup, but is getting into foul trouble quick. Fouled out in 10 minutes work. Casey put Ed Davis on him, but that wasn't working either. Overall Cousins numbers were a little exaggerated, due to the total lack of a Frontcourt by the Raptors. Defensively, Cousins played a nice game.
Yes, the third quarter by Toronto was hideous. Missed layups, Missed wide open threes, clock shot violations, and a lot of standing around. Part of it was Sac being very aggressive on D.
It was a good win and it was on the road. Tonight, should be a better gauge of how much we have improved. The Nets have a solid Frontcourt with Blatche. Humphries, and Lopez. Our bigs were able to come out and do a solid job on Toronto's guards because they didn't have to worry about the Frontcourt too much. Tonight will be different. The Nets are more balanced and obviously more talented.


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Tallahassee, FL - James Godwin lives along the banks of Flint River in Bainbridge Georgia. He says heavy rains like the ones we've seen lately can be a big problem here.
"It gets really bad. It floods everywhere and people have to evacuate and move," said Godwin.
Since Friday, the National Weather Service reports more than six inches of rain has fallen in our area. And it's led to NOAA issuing a flood warning for those who live along the Ochlockonee and Flint Rivers in Florida and Georgia.
The Flint River was about three feet higher than normal on Sunday. And with more rain expected to make its way through the area, there's an increased risk of flooding.
"The Ochlockonee River is expected to rise up to four feet above flood stage so minor to moderate flooding is expected and the Flint River is expected to rise two feet above flood stage so minor flooding is expected," said meteorologist, Lindsey Day.
While Godwin and his family are no stranger to floods. He says the risk of another potential flood here means just one thing for him and his family:
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Local law enforcement say they'll be closely monitoring the storm and could setup road blocks once flooding starts.
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I could be wrong but with the hoof in the picture I'm gathering that is not a kill from your arrow. Good news perhaps is you found an area that holds some bucks .
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Children's book author Maurice Sendak has died at 83, and this is so legitimately sad I cannot find anything witty to say, except that we hope that he's where the wild things are. Though, I will say, this is perhaps my favorite quote of his, but all the following ones are close seconds:
Sendak is in search of what he calls a "yummy death". "William Blake set the standard, jumping up from his death bed at the last minute to start singing. "A happy death," says Sendak. "It can be done." He lifts his eyebrows to two peaks. "If you're William Blake and totally crazy."


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JERUSALEM Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday added his first coalition partner as he works to build a new government, agreeing to bring in a dovish rival to oversee contacts with the Palestinians in what could signal a new approach to peacemaking by the hardline leader.
Under the deal, former Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni will serve as justice minister in the next Israeli government, in charge of peace efforts with the Palestinians. Livni, who led negotiations during the last substantive round of peace talks four years ago, has a good relationship with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and favors a softer line than Netanyahu.
Standing alongside Livni at a news conference Tuesday evening, Netanyahu vowed to make a serious attempt to reach peace under his next government. He said bringing in Livni, who has been a fierce critic, was part of his goal of forming a "wide and stable" government.
"We need a Palestinian partner and I hope we will find a Palestinian partner who will take seriously Israel's security needs and that will be willing to end the conflict once and for all. Today Israel outstretches its hand to peace once again," he said.
Netanyahu, who has come under heavy criticism, both at home and abroad, for the deadlock in peace efforts during his previous term, has promised to take a more aggressive approach under his next government. But he has given no details on whether he is prepared to make any new concessions, and it remained unclear whether Livni's addition to his Cabinet would be enough to lure the Palestinians back to negotiations.
"What is important is the policies that will be adopted and implemented by the incoming Israeli government," said Yasser Abed Rabbo, a top adviser to Abbas. He said that if Netanyahu stuck to his policies of building settlements on occupied land, "it's better for Livni to search for another mission."
As foreign minister, Livni served as the chief negotiator with the Palestinians under former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. While both sides have said they made great progress during that time, the talks collapsed in late 2008 and have remained virtually frozen since Netanyahu took office early the following year.
The Palestinians have refused to negotiate with Netanyahu while he continues to build Jewish settlements in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, areas captured by Israel in the 1967 Mideast war. The Palestinians claim both areas, along with the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, for their future state.
The Palestinians also want negotiations to resume from the point where they broke off under Olmert and Livni. Olmert has said he offered a near total withdrawal from the West Bank and shared control over Jerusalem.
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But after four years of deadlock, the international community has grown impatient with the Israeli leader. In a sign of the international disapproval, the U.N. General Assembly overwhelmingly voted in November in favor of an independent Palestinian state in all of the West Bank, east Jerusalem and Gaza. Although largely symbolic, the vote signified an international endorsement of key Palestinian demands on future borders.
With President Barack Obama scheduled to visit in late March, Netanyahu is eager to present a new face to the international community. Livni's addition to his Cabinet is a step in that direction. In addition to her good working relationship with the Palestinians, Livni is well known and well respected around the world, and has appeared on lists of the world's most influential women compiled by magazines like Forbes and Time.


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|Holyoke High School musical cast amazes audience with 'My Fair Lady'
|Written by Darci Tomky
By George, they've done it! Once again the HHS drama department dazzled the stage in an impressive production of My Fair Lady. Audiences witnessed everything from cheering at horse races and waltzing at a ball to endless speech lessons and even a mock bull fight at the March 27 and 28 performances.
Director Drew Peregoy rose to the challenge with his second shot at directing and his first musical. Countless hours of rehearsal and set construction certainly paid off for the young director.
A seasoned veteran, Pat Wiebers took charge of the music as she directed and accompanied the young performers. Her piano playing and vocal direction certainly completed the wonderfully orchestrated acting as directed by Peregoy. Wiebers also organized the costumes including everything from top hats to ball gowns.
Blake Mari stepped in to do the lighting, and Bob Heldenbrand ran the sound. Along with Peregoy, John Durbin, Brittany Durbin and April Peregoy contributed to the set construction.
My Fair Lady, with books and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe, is an adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's play and Gabriel Pascal's motion picture Pygmalion. A magnificent cast of both high school and junior high students took the stage for this musical set in early 20th Century London.
Playing the arrogant phonetics teacher, Duncan Brandt took full command of the stage as Professor Henry Higgins. The adventure begins as he happens upon a high strung, uneducated flower girl named Eliza Doolittle, played by Ella Stewart. Higgins makes the mighty claim that with six months of his superior speech lessons he could "pass you off as the Queen of Sheeba."
With every "ow" and "gaud," Stewart captured the audience's heart. Her captivating emotions and amazing vocals were the perfect match to Brandt's first-rate acting that demanded the audience's attention from the start.
Taylor Haidle was simply charming in his portrayal of Colonel Pickering, Higgins' new acquaintance. He is a brilliant complement to Brandt as they watch Eliza's transformation. When she finally masters the phrase, "The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain," the trio had the audience rolling in the aisles after dancing the tango, a playful sword fight and Haidle's hilarious rendition of a bull fight.
The always sensible housekeeper Mrs. Pearce, played by Nora Roth, attempts to bring order to Higgins' house. Roth, along with Sarah Heermann and Nicole Brandt, the maids, contribute to the fine singing and acting as Eliza learns how to behave as a lady and as she dreamily sings "I Could Have Danced All Night."
In contrast to the fancy wallpaper and delectible chocolates at Higgins' house, My Fair Lady also gave the audience a look at the lower-class on the streets of London. Cast members Wyatt Bishop, Ryan Parker, Phillip Beck and Brent Vasa used brooms as creative props in intricate choreography for Eliza's song "Wouldn't It Be Loverly."
Complete with an English accent, Brian DeBoer had the audience laughing with his role as Eliza's father, Alfie Doolittle, who was always looking out for number one. DeBoer was joined by Jordan Zeiler (Jamie) and Cody Fricke (Harry) creating a fabulous trio for the songs "With a Little Bit of Luck" and "Get Me to the Church on Time."
Other townspeople joining in on the chorus numbers include Brooke Parker, Megan Colglazier, Briar Bergner, Marci Vasa, Becca Brandt, Whitni Redman, Alex Quintana, Teanna Clark and Mariah Struckmeyer.
Eliza's first test is a public outing to the Ascot Racecourse. She successfully engages in small talk with Mrs. Eynsford-Hill (Brittany Durbin), Mrs. Higgins (LeAnne McWilliams), Freddy Eynsford-Hill (Chris Garcia) and Lord Boxington (Preston King). The cast convincingly portrays the part of the upper class with their fancy hats and snobbish accents.
Even though Eliza has an unfortunate outburst at the conclusion of the horse races, she recovers beautifully at the ball. Here she impresses Zoltan Karpathy, played by Eveliina Rantanen, and even the queen, played by Sydney Nelson. Clad in pearls, top hats and ball gowns, the cast is delightful as they waltz across the stage.
Stewart takes the audience through a range of emotions including anger and rage as she sings "Just You Wait" just before leaving the conceited professor.
Former HHS student, Chris Garcia, rose to the occasion as he took on the character of Freddy Eynsford-Hill. After developing an infatuation with Eliza, he gracefully sings "On the Street where You Live" while he patiently waits for her.
The talented cast was complete with LeAnne McWilliams' role as Mrs. Higgins. With a composed yet witty demeanor, she comforts Eliza saying, "Not only did you dance with the prince, you behaved like a princess."
At the conclusion of the musical, Brandt surprises the audience with stunning vocals in "I've Grown Accustomed to her Face" at his realization that he simply doesn't want to live without Eliza.
All in all, HHS took My Fair Lady to the next level with absolutely superb acting and fantastic singing topped off with impressive costumes, set construction and choreography. Bravo!