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|51st state initiative moves forward
|Written by Tony Rayl, The Yuma Pioneer
|Wednesday, 03 July 2013 08:22
The 51st state movement, which already has expanded to 10 counties, is being opened to all interested counties in Colorado and neighboring states.
Washington County hosted a meeting Monday, June 24 at the fairgrounds in Akron and will host another one on July 8 as the new-state movement moves forward.
That includes interested counties going ahead with getting a ballot question certified for November's general election. That would have to be done by August.
Monday's meeting was mostly run by the Weld County commissioners, who began the whole 51st state movement. It was attended by commissioners from those two counties, as well as Yuma, Logan, Morgan, Phillips, Kit Carson, Sedgwick, Lincoln and Cheyenne, along with about 50 interested citizens and media.
Local Phillips County commissioners to attend July 8 meeting
By Darci Tomky
Phillips County commissioners were present at the Monday, June 24 meeting hosted by Washington County in Akron for counties interested in hearing more about breaking off from Colorado to form the 51st state.
Phillips County was one of 10 counties represented at last week's meeting, but they are continually hearing of more counties that may be interested, both in Colorado and in bordering states—something that will be explored at the next meeting Monday, July 8 at 2 p.m.
Commissioners will again be attending this upcoming meeting at the Washington County event center in Akron, and any interested citizens can also attend.
"I'm for looking into it," said Commissioner Joe Kinnie of the idea to form a new state. "I'm for it," he added.
"It has to be driven by the people ... a desire of the people," said Commissioner Harlan Stern, pointing out a consensus of the commissioner board that this must be a decision made by the residents of Phillips County and the other interested counties.
The suggested process is to put the issue on the November ballot this year, explained commissioners. That means official action would need to take place by the Phillips County commissioners in July to meet the August deadline.
Weld County's commissioners—chairmen Bill Garcia and Mike Freeman, Douglas Rademacher, Barbara Kirkmeyer and Sean Conway—spoke about the disconnect felt between rural Colorado and the urban corridor. A list of legislation passed over the past year or more has led to this point, with the renewable energy mandate for rural electric cooperatives, Senate Bill 252, continually referred to as the final straw, along with the gun control legislation passed this past legislative session.
"I think that bill (252) demonstrates the hypocrisy going on in the state legislature," Conway said. "…There is no dialogue. We feel disenfranchised, and it's not getting any better."
Also, legislation concerning oil and gas barely was defeated, and Democrats have promised to bring more oil and gas legislation to the table for the 2014 session.
The state's breakdown of transportation regions has been changed, and now rural leaders are being told "low-volume" roads are being pushed even further down the list. Snow removal on rural highways was cut back a few years ago as a cost-saving measure.
Weld County commissioners also touched on unfunded mandates for education and dissatisfaction with the state funding mechanism.
Kirkmeyer said not only was Weld County and rural Colorado not part of the discussion for SB 252 ("It took them all of a week to slam that through," she said.) but also was left out of the discussion about the oil and gas setbacks. She noted that Weld County has the majority of oil and gas production in the state, but was not even asked to the stakeholders meetings.
Morgan County Commissioner Laura Teague noted, however, that at least the core of Weld County is an urban center along the Front Range and expressed concern about if the Weld County leadership were to change in the future to a more liberal leaning.
Kirkmeyer said Weld County identifies more with the rural counties than it does with Denver, Boulder and Fort Collins areas.
Concerns also were raised about Weld County dominating a new state as it definitely would be the population center. It was stated the state constitution could be set up to avoid that from happening.
Commissioners voice comments
Much of the meeting was spent allowing the various county commissioners voice their own opinions and share what kind of feedback they have heard.
Yuma County Commissioner Trent Bushner said he has not received a negative comment yet. He said he does not think a new state would ever happen, but he likes the idea of the effort at least sending a loud and clear message that rural Colorado has had enough of being ignored.
Commissioner Robin Wiley said he also has not heard a negative comment from constituents. Both he and Bushner expressed a desire to have the effort be a citizens-driven initiative.
Yuma County Commissioner Dean Wingfield, noting he was probably the only Democrat in the room, said he has not heard one positive comment yet. He called the idea of a new state "ridiculous."
Wingfield said he too is not happy with a lot of things going on at the state level, however, "We elect people to represent us. I think that's where we need to go." He noted both parties are reaching to the fringe of their membership. "Until both get back to common sense, we're going to have problems."
Logan County Commissioner Rocky Samber said he hears cautious optimism and is in favor of at least trying to figure something out. Logan County reported hearing some negative and some positive comments.
Most commissioners reported they had heard nothing but support for the movement and were ready to move forward. Some said they were there just to learn more and had not received much feedback from constituents.
Washington County Commissioner David Foy said something needs to be done to let people know rural citizens and leaders are dissatisfied. He noted rural commissioners always are going somewhere for a meeting but that the effort needs to be done to protect rural interests. He touched on efforts to take away local control of child welfare as another example.
"It's vitally important our voices are heard," Foy said.
Boundaries expand
Interest in forming a new state reportedly is coming in from all over.
Weld County commissioners reported hearing from Western Slope counties and even from Otero County in northeast New Mexico. They said they have heard from some Front Range counties, such as El Paso.
Washington County Commissioner Terry Hart said a constituent suggested looking at joining Wyoming, rather than form a new state.
Gene Bauerle of Sedgwick County suggested looking at the panhandle of Nebraska and possibly Wyoming and parts of Kansas to join the new-state effort.
"We could make a viable state here if we do it right," Bauerle said.
Conway asked at the end of the meeting if the counties there were interested in allowing others to join the effort. The general consensus was to expand to whomever is interested, including out-of-state entities.
Ballot question, details explained
Weld County has hired the University of Northern Colorado to do an economic development study.
Weld County's Garcia noted that an immediate criticism of the plan is that there is not enough people and tax base. He said a quick look at the numbers show that the 10 counties represented at Monday's meeting have just under 10-percent of the assessed value in Colorado but only about 7 percent of the population.
Kirkmeyer said that when one adds back in the oil and gas severance tax revenue, the 10 counties give more to the state coffers than they receive in state assistance.
Conway said preliminary numbers look good.
The Weld County commissioners bragged how their county is run on a balanced budget—it has no debt, has a strong reserve and almost is to the point it needs to provide a rebate to its taxpayers. The same business model would be utilized in the operation of a new state.
"At the end of the day, it's a tremendous opportunity to take our business practices and apply it to a state," Conway said.
Weld County attorney Bruce Barker explained there are three basic requirements: The Colorado legislature needs to approve it, the U.S. Congress needs to approve it, and a new state cannot be an island unto itself surrounded by the old state, it needs to have counties on the state's border to participate.
It would require Colorado's voters approving amending the state constitution to change Colorado's boundaries.
Voters in the individual counties also would need to authorize their commissioners to include their county in a new state. This would need to be done first before certifying a constitutional amendment for the state's voters.
If the counties' votes were to be favorable, then it would be up to the state legislature to refer amending the state constitution to change the boundaries to the statewide ballot. If the legislature does not refer it, then it would have to be done through the petition process.
If it got through all of that, then it would go to the U.S. Congress.
There was debate on whether the county level should be citizen initiated. As mentioned above, Bushner and Wiley have said they would rather see it done that way than spend county resources. Bushner noted ballot questions are not free, and more money could be spent if the ballot question is challenged.
Barker recommended not bothering with a citizens initiative but rather just put it on the ballot and let the people vote; that would allow the commissioners to know whether or not their constituents want to move forward with a new state.
"You won't really know what people think until they vote," Conway said.
Barker also supplied two versions of a ballot question. Commissioners would have to get a ballot question approved by their county clerks sometime in August in order to get on November ballot.
All interested parties will meet again July 8 at 2 p.m. at the Events Center on the Washington County Fairgrounds in Akron.
The Holyoke Enterprise July 4, 2013


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Transaxle Manufacturing of America Corp. announced plans Tuesday to invest an additional $7.5 million in its York County operations over the next five years.
The manufacturer of vehicle transaxles plans to add new equipment to increase capacity at its Rock Hill plant in the Waterford Industrial Park.
"We are pleased to move forward with this additional investment which will allow us to meet the needs of customers who manufacture vehicles used in a wide range of applications in the utility vehicle and compact utility tractor markets," said Steven E. Pehowski, president of Transaxle Manufacturing of America.
Transaxle Manufacturing of America was formed in July 2001. It supplies transaxles for vehicles primarily used in the lawn and garden and recreational markets.

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Rafael Nadal received a very personal congratulations by a Rafanatic after his 6-7 (3), 6-3, 6-1, 6-3 fourth round win over Gael Monfils at the US Open last night.
While changing out his shirt a man jumped from the front row, leapt onto the court, planted a *smooch* on the Majorcan Matador, and tried to grab a hug before security pulled him away.
He was asked about the incident in his post-match presser:
Q. What did you think when the man came out of the stands and came up to you?
RAFAEL NADAL: No, for me it wasn't the problem. The guy was really nice (laughter.)
Q. Did he say anything?
RAFAEL NADAL: Yes. He was a great fan. He said, I love you, and he kiss me. (laughter.)
Q. Was he speaking Spanish?
RAFAEL NADAL: No, in English, but I understand that. (laughter.)
Interestingly, a man loudly shouted out "I LOVE YOU RAFA!!!" right before his first serve at the start of the match which caused a sly smile by the 6-time Grand Slammer.
Clearly the security at the US Open needs to be reviewed so something like this is prevented in the future. Rafa kept a good attitude about the entire situation which, luckily, didn't turn out to be dangerous.
And, just for the record, I was NOT at the Open last night so my hands (and lips) are clean.
UPDATE: The man was arrested for "interference with a sporting event". Uh, I'm thinking it was more a "crime of passion" but that's just me.
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Nice idea. I've started such a lake town a while ago but didn't find the motivation to finish it yet. Looking forward to see how this one will turn out!
I'm reading once again The Hobbit, and I got inspired by it to draw a city that wasn't built near a lake, but over it, a city built in big wooden plataforms. To make things a little bit different I also decided to make it a WIP post - my first actual WIP post outside the Challenges forums.
In ancient times it was just a little village, built on the ground next to the lake. But after a several number of years - more than a century - the river started to overflow from time to time, making the life there tough. People would have to rebuild houses, plantations, furnitures, etc., just as they would lose many cows, sheeps, and animals in general. After one of the most terrible overflows in their history - when the lake even covered the houses next to it, killing chlidren, seniors, and taking everything from the poor little village - those who were still alive decided it was time to move to another location, or build a village waterproof. Half of them moved, the rest stayed where they were and started cutting trees and constructing high plataforms so that they wouldn't have to worry with the overflows again.
I haven't done much so far, just the plataforms, the land and the bridge. I'm using torstan's tutorial on making cities, so next step will be probably to draw the main buildings of the city. This time I'll try to make everything - except the painting - by hand (what includes the wirtting), I hope it gets nice.
Any criticism, comments, or anything else is welcome
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Nice idea. I've started such a lake town a while ago but didn't find the motivation to finish it yet. Looking forward to see how this one will turn out!
Small update here as I didn't have much time, class started today.
Update: Just some main buildings, I'm not sure if you can read what I wrote on the paper - It's just to guide myself, not a definitive writing -, but I draw:
1)The great house; 2)Lighthouse; 3)Warehouses; 4)Watchtower; 5)Smith; 6)Inn; 7)Shrine; Barracks; 9)Dockers' Union.
They built it up again very quickly, what does not mean the structure is bad, it is actually pretty good till these days. Where are the barracks now, was, at first, the location of the Great House - where the five leaders live. The first plataform to be built was the one closer to the land, after that the one at the left, then the central (L shape), the top one (where is the new Great House), the top-left, the top-right, the big at right, and last one was that of the lighthouse. As soon as the lighthouse started working, merchant ships and boats - that once had to cross the lake going to the south or north without any place to rest some nights - came like bees on honey. The village then built the docks, which were lower than the plataforms, on the same level as the river, where the ships stayed. In case of overflows the docks are submerged in water, and the ships just stop by the plataforms then.
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Nice idea for a city. I really like your "within the setting" narrative as well. I enjoy reading such WIPs very much.
Bigger update, now with much more buildings. Most of them are just common houses.
But what does the Five Leadres mean? Also known as the Great Five, they are those men who basic rule the city of Arcantis. They are not any man, but they also don't come from a rich or powerfull family - they can, but it is not required -, they are chosen by several challenges, and anyone can compete, as long as the one is: A man (women are not allowed); more than 20 winters old. The number of challenges is not always the same, and it depends on the number of participants. Each Challenge take out five men of the challenge, and it goes on untill there is something between 6 and 10 men, when the final Challenge is done. All challenges have something to do with water, since holding your breath and submerging your head, to fishing with bare hands the biggest fish. The last challenge is to cross swiming the lake, and it could even sound easy, if the lake wasn't 1~2 miles wide. The five who can get to the other side of the lake first are the Great Five. But how often does this competition happnes? It depends, the rules are that it will only have new competitions if two or more of the five die, resigns or are permanently disabled for some reason (to prevent dictatorship). The Five live on the Great House, with their families. They manage to keep the city safe, to control the money waste, to order any repairs needed on the structure, amog other things.
So far I have for interesting buildings:
1)The great house; 2)Lighthouse; 3)Warehouses; 4)Watchtower; 5)Smith; 6)Inn; 7)Shrine; 8-Barracks; 9)Dockers' Union; 10)Stables; 11)Traders/Merchants Guild; 12)General Store; 13)Alchemist;
And I'm still going to place: Backer, Butcher, Jewelry, Tavern, Doctor and fisherman Guild.
I think there are some important buildings I'm missing. Can you guys help me? What do you think the city should have?
PS: It has no plantations, so it does not need any sort of Mill (Windmill, watermill....).
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In my opinion, the city needs some mills. Not for grain, but for the power you can get. I could imagine that the smiths or some other craftsmen would prefer the mill to do the hard work instead of themselves. Also you need some kind of sawmill, as this city is depending on its wooden plataforms, they'll need to renew the old parts to keep it safe.
Beh, my poor english has betrayed me again! I tought mill meant only things for grain prepare . Indeed, smiths might need the mills, and a sawmill is a "must have" on a city like this, I just didn't know how to say it in english - and I forgot to write woodworker on the last post - because yes, the maintenance is more than importante in this city, is a matter of life. Thanks for clarifying it
@Edit: Well... anyone has an tips on how can I darw a sawmill? Also a mill for the smith? I mean, does the smith or the sawmill need water force? Wind force maybe? I'm serching for it on google but all it is said about Blacksmith is that he needs: Anvil, Bellows, hammers, Swages, among other items.
I appreciate any help
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From all maps I have seen, the smith is always drawn as a simple house, with a chimney for the furnace and eventually some area for him to work with the Anvil.
As for the Sawmill I think a big common house would do it, like a Warehouse, with enough space to the workers cut and prepare the wood, as so to stock for future use. I've read some about those techniques and I don't remember anything about using Water or Wind force to do the work. All they used was fire (furnace) and human force, to cut the wood or hammer the iron.
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I think historically, that smiths did not use mechanical hammers until much later, but water powered sawmills were in use in the 1700's, possibly earlier. The reconstructions I've seen did not use a circular blade, but a long vertical blade that moved up and down as the water wheel turned.
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Again, I know of continental prototypes that go back to the 17th Century. But you're correct about the vertical saw blades. If there were circular saws in those days, I've found no historical trace of them yet.but water powered sawmills were in use in the 1700's, possibly earlier. The reconstructions I've seen did not use a circular blade, but a long vertical blade that moved up and down as the water wheel turned.
This photo shows a typical rural sawmill that dates from the 18th Century (1700s). It's called the Schwarzmühle (Black Mill), and it's on the small Weismain (Wise Main) River in Northern Bavarian Upper Franconia.
Unfortunately, I have only one interior photo of an historical, waterwheel-powered sawmill. If you look closely, you'll see the vertical blade in the middle of the photo:
The photo was taken in the Black Forest Open Air Steward's Farm (Schwärzwälder Freilichtmuseum Vogtsbauernhof), an open air museum near Gutach in the Black Forest of German Badinia.
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2010-11 - Sophomore Season: Played in 17 games, totaling 101 minutes...played at least 10 minutes four times...had four points in 11 minutes vs. Ohio Dominican (Nov. 20)...had two points and two rebounds and played nine key minutes late in win at Ball State (Dec. 12)...hit a 3-pointer at Youngstown State (Feb. 10)...scored career-high five points in eight minutes vs. Loyola (Feb. 19)...played season-high 12 minutes vs. Detroit (March 9).
2009-10 - Freshman Season: Appeared in 11 games, playing 45 minutes...saw action in nine Horizon League contests...totaled six points and nine rebounds on the season...scored first collegiate point in win at Youngstown State (Jan. 16)...made first career field goal vs. Detroit (Jan. 23)...played career-high 12 minutes against Youngstown State, scoring a point and grabbing three rebounds (Feb. 11)...had two points at Loyola (March 6).
High School: A McDonald's All-American nominee...named all-conference all four years and all-county three times...named all-state by Hoosier Basketball Magazine...participate in Top 60 workout as a senior and Top 100 workout three times...selected as North/South All-Star and Hoosiers Classic All-Star...selected as team captain for three years...scored more than 1,100 points at Lapel and holds school's all-time assists record...led team to three conference titles and a 62-11 record during her last three seasons...helped Lapel to three straight seasons without a home loss...also played volleyball...holds single-season and career records for kills...high school coach: Kevin Brittain.
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- Hello! My name is Larry Hansen, and I'll be your instructor for this course. I grew up in Milwaukie, Oregon, just south of Portland. I graduated from Oregon State University in 1969 with BA in English Education. After teaching in secondary schools for 2 years, I spent 30 years doing sales and marketing work in the automotive aftermarket. In 1997, I received my MA in Theology, with an emphasis on liturgy and spiritual care at the end of life. I am an ordained clergyman and Board Certified Chaplain (BCC). I also hold an endorsement from my professional organization in hospice and palliative care and hold the Certificate in Thanatology (CT) from the Association for Death Education and Counseling. Since 1987, I have worked in the palliative care and hospice community, first as a volunteer, then as Chaplain and Volunteer Coordinator at Legacy Hopewell House, an inpatient facility for hospice patients, from which I 'retired' in February, 2013. In addition to teaching at PCC, I now serve as a Chaplain at the Kaiser Westside Medical Center in Hillsboro, Oregon. As we know, living itself is terminal. It has a 100% mortality rate. The process of dying and death is a critical time in a human life, impacting family members, friends and one's community--in addition, of course, to oneself. Yet for the most part, our culture doesn't deal well with this universal experience. We live in an age where so much is medically possible that death can often seem like the product of a medical mistake, oversight or accident of some kind. We have come to see death as a disease or the defeat of life, rather than as Dr. Ira Byock has described it, as the 'culmination of human experience.' As we travel this journey together, you will no doubt hear or see a statement that has become a mantra for me: that when we care for chronically- and terminally-ill people, we are not taking care of them. We are taking care of one of us who, as my late father used to say, is 'farther up the mountain.' The words of Dr. Victoria Sweet repeat the point succinctly: 'Whatever our current role, it (is) temporary. With time and the seasons, a host goes traveling and becomes a guest; a guest returns home and becomes a host. That is what the word hospitality encodes. And in a hospital, the meaning of that interchangeability is even more profound, because in the hospital, every host will for sure become a guest; every doctor a patient. . .(A)nyone who knocked at the door. . .could be me. It (is) me' (from Gods Hotel: A Doctor, A Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine. Riverhead Books, 2012, pages 196-197). It is my hope that through this course--and in addition to the theories and practices you learn--you will gain insight into your own, very human responses to the thought of your death and will find in that personal work a sense of solidarity with the people you serve. The more self-knowledge we have, the more the skills we acquire will truly benefit others. Students who successfully complete this course will be able to: 1. Use the tools and insights offered in the course to reflect on their own responses to the awareness of their own mortality. 2. Assist dying persons and their families through basic end-of-life planning and decision making, in coordination with other professionals and support systems 3. Along with other health care professionals, apply palliative care measures to persons approaching the end of life 4. Working with other health care professionals, support the emotional, spiritual and social needs of persons approaching the end of life and their families. 5. Provide basic pre-death grief support to dying persons and basic post-death support to their survivors.
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BOSTON - Tamerlan Tsarnaev ranted at a neighbor about Islam and the United States. His younger brother, Dzhokhar, relished debating people on religion, "then crushing their beliefs with facts."
The older brother sought individual glory in the boxing ring, while the younger excelled as part of a team. Tamerlan "swaggered" through the family home like a "man of the house type," one visitor recalls, while Dzhokhar seemed "very respectful and very obedient" to his mother.
The brothers, now forever linked in the Boston Marathon bombing tragedy, in some ways seemed as different as siblings could be. But whatever drove them to allegedly set off two pressure-cooker bombs, their uncle is certain Dzhokhar was not the one pulling the strings.
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"He's not been understanding anything. He's a 19-year-old boy," Ruslan Tsarni said of his brother's youngest child, who is clinging to life in a Boston hospital after a gun battle with police. "He's been absolutely wasted by his older brother. I mean, he used him. He used him for whatever he's done. For what we see they've done, OK?"
Criminologist James Alan Fox says the uncle's intuition is justified. In cases like this, he says, it is highly unusual for the younger participant - in this case, a sibling - to be the leader.
"I would be surprised," says Fox, the Lipman Professor of Criminology, Law and Public Policy at Boston's Northeastern University. "Very surprised."
Whatever their fraternal pecking order, when the bullets began flying in Watertown on Thursday night and 26-year-old Tamerlan went down, his younger brother ran him over - dragging him for about 30 feet - before ditching the car and fleeing on foot. After a 24-hour manhunt that shut down most of the Boston metropolitan area, police cornered the gravely wounded Dzhokhar hiding in a boat in a backyard only blocks from where his brother bled out.
Officials said Dzhokhar was in serious condition Saturday, unable to communicate. So, at least for now, investigators and the public are left with only enigma.
The ethnic Chechen family came to this country in 2002, after fleeing troubles in Kyrgyzstan and then Dagestan, a predominantly Muslim republic in Russia's North Caucasus. They settled in a working-class part of Cambridge, where father Anzor Tsarnaev opened an auto shop.
He returned to Dagestan about a year ago.
Luis Vasquez, a youth activist and candidate for the Cambridge City Council, went to high school with Tamerlan and later helped coach Dzhokhar's soccer team at Cambridge Rindge and Latin. With the father gone, Vasquez said the older brother assumed a kind of paternal role, at least where the girls in the family were concerned.
"He was very protective of his (younger) sister, Bella," Vasquez said. "He would keep an eye out, making sure she's good, making sure she's not having a hard time."
Vasquez chalked it up to "his culture" and "what his family expected out of him."
David Mijares, who trained in boxing with Tamerlan in high school and later coached the younger brother in soccer, says his friend opened up about his hardships in Russia. He agreed that Tamerlan felt pressure to be the man of the house.
"He had to be a man at a very early age," says Mijares, who himself considered Tamerlan a mentor. "That would be, in my opinion, a huge reason for who he was, all serious and no nonsense."
That said, Dzhokhar was very much his own man. While he would tag along to Tamerlan's boxing practices, the younger brother was into wrestling.
In one of his tweets, he complained that his mother was trying to arrange a marriage for him.


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JD 1976 & LLM Health Law & Policy 2004, University of Houston Law Center;
MPH 2007, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University.
Member, Board of Directors, International Intelligence Ethics Association; International Advisory Board, Research Institute for European and American Studies.
Professor Lunstroth's scholarly interests are linked by the idea of Right. More abstractly he is interested in the relationship between history and law; between positivist science and law; and in sources of law. In the health sector besides being interested in the regulation of human experimentation, he is interested in how the various "ethics" (medical, neuroscientific, research, public health, genetic, etc.) come into existence, how they are maintained, and how they are linked; especially, how are they influenced or structured by scientism. His primary tools for critique are Aristotelianism and history. He integrates human rights into all his work, and is concerned to give his students tools for understanding one of the most profound political problems facing the global community. In a world dominated by neoliberal values, i.e., consumerism & globalization, and characterized by shrinking resources and increased populations, how can we structure political associations such that people are "poor" and yet have the capacity and opportunity to flourish and be happy? He is also interested in the history of medicine and public health, the history of law in the west, and in the history of international law.
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Today I am listing a great assortment of new lots.
- Perhaps the most unusual is Costa Rica RIP Red Honey Coffee. RIP? Roasted In Parchment. This coffee has not been dry-milled, the green bean is still in the outer shell. In perhaps the wackyest moment in Sweet Maria's history, we discovered you can roast coffee in the parchment shell, and it has a very unusual flavor. This is for experts only, since you can't really see the green coffee as it turns brown. See the review and the pictures of the RIP process.
- Not quite as "out there" is our new lot of Kenya Thika Chania - French Mission Cultivar. This is a coffee lot from the original French Bourbon varietal as it was brought to Kenya by French priests in 1893, and it as a unique cup character.
- Some will think I have gone to "the dark side" by offering a Hawaii coffee that is not a small-farm Kona. But we found the Ka'u coffees from south of Kona on the Big Island have greatly improved in recent years, none more than Hawaii Ka'u Wet-Process -Will & Grace Farm. We also got some miniscule lots from them of hand-processed Ka'u Dry-Process and Pulp Natural NanoLot coffees. Yes, NanoLots. Sub-MicroLots. Read the commentary for these...
- For those who must have monsooned coffee in their espresso blend, we have a fine new lot of India Monsooned Malabar AA
- Our Classic Mandheling is gone but we have a really good, traditional Grade One Lot to back it up: Sumatra Gr. 1 Mandheling. The preparation isn't pretty, but the cup has true Mandheling origin character.
- And we have a nice lot of Sumatra Mandheling WP Decaf that scores quite well alongside it's non-decaf counterpart.


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Yes, this has been on here before, but I have never seen a consise answer to the question. Many ISPs block port 25 for our users from home and they use Thunderbird, etc. We are about to migrate over to Zimbra for all 1600 users and I am doing testing before we go to our ownership.
On our existing postfix setup, we have an entry in master.cf:
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The NHL has pulled its latest proposal off the table on Friday as the lockout hit its 41st day.
"The proposal was made on the basis of being able to play a full 82-game season," NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly said by email. "That opportunity is now no longer available to us."
The NHL also is expected to announce another round of canceled games on Friday. It already had canceled games through Nov. 1.
Mathieu Schneider, special assistant to NHL Players' Association executive director Donald Fehr, said players were disappointed by the league's decision to pull the offer.
"I don't think this is something that moves the process forward," he told the NHLPA website. "I think it's something that hinders it. There have been a number of artificial deadlines set throughout these negotiations, and we're going to continue to work through this to try to break the logjam."
The league had held out the possibility of a full 82-game season, starting Nov. 2, but that was based on a deal being reached by Thursday. That day passed without any negotiations as the league rejected the NHL Players' Association's request to hold talks without preconditions.
Last week, the NHL Players Association turned down the league's offer of a 50-50 split in revenues, plus a method to "make whole" lost pay early in the six-year deal by deferring payments. It also came down from its original proposals on contract rules, though nearly all of them are less than what players have now.
The union responded with three proposals designed to safeguard existing contracts while gradually lowering the revenue split to 50-50. The league quickly rejected all three on Oct. 18, the last time that face-to-face talks were held.
"It's been take, take, take on the owners' side and give, give, give from the players' side," Schneider said. "There's got to be a line somewhere and the players have drawn it."


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When I first moved to Majorca I couldn't believe the sheer audacity of cold callers – and con artists – who would besiege my phone line late into the evening usually either trying to sell telephone packages or building services.
Since the recession the calls have become more varied – and desperate – and now there's even a new automated response that is infuriatingly regurgitated as soon as the telephone call is answered. The calls with automated messages are usually from companies selling supposedly cheap rate phone deals and insurance companies looking for easy pickings among expat residents. Now I keep these numbers – all from the mainland – to hand by the telephone and make sure never to answer them when they are automatically redialled.
All the same, about a year ago I decided that there might be sport to be had with cold callers. If you… Read more


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The 6.5 miles of wooded shoreline has 5 earthen fishing piers and a handicap accessible fishing pier. Standing timber was left in the lake basin and it defines the old Indian Creek Bed. 47 fish attractors and 3 major brushpiles were added to the lake basin before it reached pool level on May 3, 1976.
Shabbona Lake opened for fishing on January 1, 1978. The success of the fishery has far exceeded expectations. It has produced 4 State Of Illinois Record Muskies, including the current record Muskie caught April 1, 1997, by Chris Kim, 37 pounds, 13 ounces, 49 1/8 inches long.
Shabbona Lake has been declared the "MUSKIE CAPITAL OF ILLINOIS" and local fishing experts predict that the next State Of Illinois Record Walleye will be caught at Shabbona Lake in the very near future. It also has outstanding catches of Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass, Channel Catfish, Crappie, Bluegill and Perch.
Shabbona Lake State Park is open year-round and the hours of operation are:
8:00 a.m.
Summer hours take effect May 1 and end October 31. Winter hours also apply to the campground.
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Private boats may be launched on the lake. There is a 10 horsepower limit on boat motors. Canoes and inflatable boats are allowed, but must comply with State of Illinois watercraft rules and regulations.
Sailing is allowed from May 1 through October 31, from 10:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., in a 150-acre zone. Maximum length of sailboats allowed in 14'. No sailing competitions are allowed.
Catch and size limits are strictly enforced at Shabbona Lake. The fishing limits are posted throughout the park and on the Shabbona Lakeside Bait, Tackle and Boat Rental Web page.
For information on trails, please obtain the trail fact sheet the park provides at Pokanoka's on the Lake, Shabbona's Lakeside Bait, Tackle and Boat Rental, or the Park Office.
Picnic Areas
The Shabbona Lake site provides three major picnic areas with tables, water fountains, sanitary facilities, picnic shelters, and grills. Groups of 25 or more must secure advance written permission from the Site Superintendent. Shelters may be reserved on a first-come, first-serve basis. There is shelter reservation fee. Contact the park office at 815-824-2106 for more information.
Swimming and/or wading is prohibited at Shabbona Lake. This regulation is strictly enforced.
Pets are allowed but must be kept on a leash of 10' or less. Leased animals shall be at all times under control of a responsible person. It is the responsibility of the pet owner to clean up after their pets.
Dove hunting and Archery Deer hunting are available at Shabbona Lake State Park. A hunter fact sheet containing the rules and regulations is available upon request from the park office. If you have not found the answer to your question, please e-mail me at email@example.com or call:
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Note: If you have an iPod shuffle, find information about the battery charge status icon in this article.
The battery icon on an iPod screen indicates the state of the internal battery. If the iPod is awake, a small version of the icon appears in the upper right hand corner of the display. If the iPod is asleep while being charged, a larger version of the same icon appears in the center of the screen. The images below depict what different iPod models display to indicate that the battery is charging.
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When an iPod is disconnected from the power adapter or from your computer, the black or green bar in the icon indicates how much charge is left. The indicator may take a few moments to accurately reflect the remaining charge after being disconnected. While in use, if iPod's battery is nearly discharged it may display one of the images below
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If iPod's battery has been fully or nearly discharged, one of the screens below may appear when iPod is connected to your computer's USB port. In this state, iPod is not able to connect to your computer or appear in iTunes right away. iPod may need to remain connected for up to 30 minutes before it has enough charge to turn on. Your iPod can be charged more quickly with the optional Apple USB Power Adapter.
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Hello and welcome to the second part of my trip report on Thai Airways Airbus A380 trip to Hong Kong. The first part of the report can be found here THAI's A380 Inaugural: BKK-HKG, October 2012 (by win1290 Oct 6 2012 in Trip Reports). This report will cover the return flight from Hong Kong to Bangkok.
Here are the details for the flight:
Date: 7 October 2012
Airline: Thai Airways International
Flight: TG601
Route: HKG – BKK
Class: Economy
Aircraft: Airbus A380-800
Registration: HS-TUA
To travel to the airport from my hotel in Causeway bay, I took an underground from Causeway bay station (which located opposite my hotel) to Central Station, and from Hong Kong Central Station, I took an Airport Express train to the airport which took around 30 minutes.
A few steps away, I entered the check-in zone in terminal 2, where Thai Airways check-in area locates.
Flight information display
I headed to an empty Business Class/*G counter and asked to be check-in to Bangkok. I also asked whether it was possible to get a window seat on the upper deck and after briefly looking in the system, the check-in lady consulted her supervisor. The check-in supervisor then told me that this flight was quite empty in Economy class and, for this reason, the Economy class on the upper deck will be closed. He then offered me two options: a window seat on the emergency exit row of Economy class (row 31), or non-emergency row but he will guarantee I have three seats on my own. I accepted the latter. Then I got my boarding pass and lounge invitation, I thanked the agent.
Then I proceed to passport control and security check, it was completely empty and I got through in minutes.
Boarded a train ride to the departure hall
Took a few pictures before heading to Thai Airway's lounge
Took an escalator one floor up to the area where some airport lounges are located
First Class designated zone
Computer zone
Food bar: Some very nice Thai dishes!
Spicy fish!
Dim Sums
Seating area
View from my seat in the lounge
Lufthansa 747
Around 15 minutes before boarding time, I left the lounge for the boarding gate
When I got to the gate, a pre-boarding call was being made, so I joined the queue at Royal Silk/*G.
Ground agents then checked my boarding pass and advised me to use the door on the first door on the main deck for boarding.
Our aircraft
And parking next to us was
When boarding started, passengers who required special assistance boarding first, then followed by premium passengers. I was amongst the first passengers in Economy class to board. At the aircraft door, a friendly female FA welcomed us on board. This flight I am seated in the first Economy section
Welcome Screen
I changed for a full screen tail camera
Remote control
Leg room
Looking outside
I overheard the crew saying that on this flight, the load was around 300 passengers in all classes, so that's around 60%. When everyone's seated and the aircraft door closed, a crew made a standard welcome announcement. Then a new version of safety demonstration video was played
Pushed back and taxied
Saw another TG plane
Turning for the runway
Took off
I set the screen on the seat next to me to be this flight map
When the seat belt sign got switched off, I went to the lavatory
The very light load on the first Economy section
Some orchids was a nice touch
Then I got back to my seat, and when the inflight manager came pass, I asked him whether it would be possible to visit the Economy class section on the upper deck. He replied 'Of course' and told me that I could go there anytime during the flight using the rear stairs and that I could only see the Economy section.
I have decided to wait and to visit the upper deck after the meal service. Meanwhile I looked through some options of the inflight screen
On board services
Two options for the meal for this flight. But for me, it was really one option as I am allergic to prawns
Delighted to see the mango pudding as a dessert, one of my favourite sweets!
Drink menu
I then saw the option to view the menu on other THAI's flight. Naturally I wanted to see what's on the menu for my next Thai Airways flight to Oslo. Unfortunately I can only see the menu on these flights
This aircraft is equipped with wifi connectivity, but the service is not yet available.
Duty free on-board catalog, in various categories
Before lunch was served, hot paper towels were distributed.
Mood light during the flight
Main tray
Chicken for the main dish, quite delicious!
Then came the drink cart, where I asked for ginger ale
Very nice mango pudding
I really like the mood light used on this flight
Throughout the meal service, the FA came over at least three times offering to top up drinks and offered also for Chinese tea or coffee. By the time the trays were collected, we were already over Thailand aerospace.
I decided to have a visit of the upper deck.
Very empty Economy section of the main deck
Rear galley, where a female FA offered to take photos of me next to the stairs. She also said to me feel free to have a look at the upper deck, but only in Economy class cabin.
Steps. At the top of the steps, I realised that the section was cordoned off, and I couldn't really enter the cabin.
So I took a few photos
Large galley at the rear of the upper deck
A glimpse of my preferred Economy class section
When a crew member saw me, he rushed to allow me to see this cabin, and offered to take many photos of me in this cabin, to which I gladly accepted, and I thanked him.
Heading down and back to my seats, on the way back, I was stopped and asked by a crew member if I could fill in a comment form, I said 'Absolutely'.
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Family seeks help in finding lost 18-year-old
Published: Wednesday, July 17, 2013 at 6:21 p.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, July 17, 2013 at 6:21 p.m.
An 18-year-old man is missing and members of his family and the Ocala Police Department hope the public can help find him.
Family members said Phillip James Barnes went to a friend's home on Tuesday, left there and may be on his way to Tallahassee to visit his sister. They said Barnes has "the mind of a child."
Barnes was last seen wearing blue jeans, black and white Nike tennis shoes and a gray and white T-shirt with the Florida Gators emblem on the front.
Barnes is 6 feet 2 inches tall and weighs between 105 and 110 pounds.
Anyone with information as to Barnes' whereabouts can call OPD at 369-7000 or text 274637 using the keyword 368STOP or "ocalapd" and TIP411.
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Four games in Baltimore with two wins and two four-run comebacks. Twos are wild. And four as well, we suppose. We had a big sixth inning last night. Seven runs big and it led to a 10-7 win.
After dropping two games in which they had their chances, the Royals bounced back to split the series with the Orioles and take a little momentum to Tampa for their showdown with the first-place Rays. For a look back on the series before we play our first-ever game against the Tampa Bay Rays (they had been the Devil Rays until this season), let's go Around the Horn…
Since we've established that two is the number of the day, the Royals all-around "two guy," the second baseman and typical No. 2 hitter is more than worth mentioning. Mark Grudzielanek posted his second four-hit game in five days. Last night he collected five total bases, Sunday he had six. Grudzielanek's average is up to .315, which is ninth in the American League, and he has a five-game hitting streak, collecting 11 hits in 22 at-bats, a .500 batting average during the streak.
Grudzielanek has three 4-hit games this season and 31 in his career He is dominating lefties and at home (last night's starter was a lefty and Sunday's four-hitter was at home). He's hitting .371 at home this season, good for third best in the A.L. and his .403 average against lefties is second best in the A.L.
Should we remind you, the guy turned 38 on Monday. Like Trey said, he sure isn't playing like a 38-year-old.
So yesterday under Second, we mentioned two guys who are putting together big seasons for the Boys in Blue. Both helped the Royals to victory last night and both are worth mentioning again.
Jose Guillen knocked in three RBI last night and has 64. Emil Brown's team-leading total last season was 62. For the record, Brown held the previous two year's RBI highs with 81 in 2006 and 83 RBI in 2005. For a higher total than 83, you have to go back to 2003 when Carlos Beltran knocked in an even 100. So here's to seeing just how high Guillen can go.
The other guy we mentioned? David DeJesus, who is on a mission at the plate right now. He tied a career high last night by hitting in his 15th straight game. To extend his streak, he knocked in Mark Teahen from third base – yet another hit with runners in scoring position. DeJesus leads the Majors with a .473 batting average with runners in scoring position.
Billy Butler is in the midst of a three-game hitting streak after a double and a home run last night, his second homer of the season and first since April 14 at Seattle…Tony Pena broke a span of 180 at-bats with his solo shot last night…Mark Grudzielanek is eight hits short of 2,000, so he may break that over the weekend with how he's hitting, although with the artificial turf in Tampa, he may get a day or two off…Omaha's Jason Smith was named to the Pacific Coast League's All-Star team, the only O-Royal to make the squad…Joakim Soria is two saves shy of tying the Royals pre All-Star record of 25 set by Jeff Montgomery in 1993.
This is a little way out there, but the Royals were notified today that the August 2 game versus Chicago has been changed from a 6:10 start to a 2:55 start to allow for national coverage by the FOX network. The game will still be Military Appreciation Day with the first 20,000 fans receiving camouflage Royals caps.
Please Vote: Jose Guillen is up for the Pepsi Clutch Award for June. Vote here.
Reminders: The Frank White special on FSN-KC will air after tonight's game. Tomorrow's game is on TV as a makeup for a previous rainout with pre-game starting at 5:30 p.m. CT.
Also: The Royals will sell View Level Infield seats for $12 during two games next weekend, donating $5 from each ticket to the American Red Cross on Friday July 11 and the Salvation Army on Saturday July 12..
Please have a safe and happy 4th of July.
Tonight's Lineup:
DeJesus CF
Grudzielanek 2B
Gordon 3B
Guillen LF
Butler DH
Teahen RF
Gload 1B
Buck C
Aviles SS
Bannister P
Here's today's Official Game Notes.


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The Women's Pebbled Leather Smartphone Wristlet Wallet Fits the iPhone 6/6s
Information is moving at a faster pace than ever and the devices used to obtain that information have been gradually getting larger and larger in size. We listened to our customers and re-created a women's pebbled leather smartphone wristlet wallet that reached bestseller status quickly in its first year.
The women's pebbled leather smartphone wristlet wallet, like the croco leather version, fits the iPhone 6 and other cell phones/smartphones of similar size. It is handcrafted with fine Italian leathers and is designed for durability. It keeps your smartphone safe, but easily accessible. We paid special attention to quality stitching and to the zippers which we've designed with an easy pull feature, lined the sides with stretchable elastic, and installed a flexible easy-close magnetic flap that pulls up and down. An adjustable shoulder strap and wristlet complete the look.
Our smartphone pebbled leather wristlet wallet features a stretchable area on the side for your lip-gloss and a slot for a small pen on the opposite side. There are now two zipper pulls, so you can open it quickly and safely while wearing it cross-body. When worn cross body, you can open it and access everything inside with the cash and cards facing you for added security and convenience. The outer ID is on the back side so it won't be seen until you want it to be. The outer ID also has our famous "hidden curtain" feature so you can place your ID behind the cloth inside the window.
An expanded coin pouch with smart double gusseting gives you the convenience of expansion and convenient accessibility. It comes in a quality gift box, as all of our wallets do.
The leather smartphone wallet is also offered in croco leather.
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Excellent quality, 9.16.2013
Reviewer: V. Madill
Beautiful leather. Fits my Samsung Galaxy S4. Excellent design. Perfect size for going out for a walk & you don't want to carry a regular size purse. Very fast delivery to Canada. I love it!
Reviewer: Robyn Filiaga
I originally bought this wallet through QVC a few years ago as a buy two set. The two wallets lasted me for about 3 years as my only wallet. I have always hated large purses and discovering this was huge. When I went back to QVC for a replacement I was very sad to find they no longer carried the wallet. I found this website, but before I bought my replacement I ended up with a smartphone. Testing the size with my original wallet, I realized it wouldn't fit, so didn't buy. I am so happy find that issue has been changed with a larger sized version. However, I echo the other comments by saying that this needs to have a zipper pocket for coins. The only thing other than that I would like to suggest is to make matching purses for my tablet! While I was waiting for a larger version of the WalletBe I found a similar wallet (but not as great) that had a matching tablet bag and although I had to make some modifications by adding a long leather strap that I could use to make it over-the-body like the wallet, I have enjoyed the matching pieces. This would really be a popular item, I am quite certain. I know I'd be waiting in lone to buy!
Almost perfect!, 5.3.2013
Reviewer: Jo Jones
This purse is almost perfect. It has the ability to carry all of the necessities. I bought this after leaving my old purse in a toilet block as I had keys, phone, purse and 3 kids, and in the confusion of nappy changes and toddlers toileting, I left it behind. This solves all of my problems as everything is together. I have attached one of the clips from the shoulder strap I don't use to my keys so I can clip my keys to my purse too! I frequently get comments from sales staff when I pull out my purse to pay, everyone can see how useful and practical it is. My only issue is the coin purse - a zippered compartment that has a divider in it would make this absolutely perfect. I'd be buying it as a gift for every woman I know!
love this would like to order it but it says it is out of stock, 1.27.2013
Reviewer: Debra Swartz
when will this be back in stock please email me with a date thank you!
I would like to see, 12.31.2012
Reviewer: Barbara Johnson
I would like to see built in protection to keep someone from scanning the information on the credit cards.


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I am somewhat familiar with what you're trying to do as I have do it for my RL job though I only have a couple of years formal experience so there are probably people here who can tell you more. =P I work with indesign though, but I have used scribus on occasion. Couldn't tell you anything about quark.
It's basically a bit arty. As though you were making an old paper or parchment-like thing as the background for a map. That's pretty much it. There are many tutorials out there for making such nice paper backgrounds so I'd take a look at those. They are a good starting point. HOWEVER, there are some important things to consider.
If it's for print it will need to convert OK to CMYK. Most things do but you will get a slightly colour variation if you did it in RGB first. In the past I have worked in RGB before converting it to CMYK and doing colour adjustments later. This is because I mostly do drawing and illustrative stuff for my employer and it's just how I work a lot. It's not optimal but we make it work.
You need to make it at a resolution of at least 300 dpi in either A4 or US Letter. Generally. (you might be doing a different sized book but those are typical) Also you are working on spreads most of the time if it's for print but that just means you'll have a mirrored version of what you're doing. If you don't do it at a high resolution, you will see the pixels when it goes to print. Even if you have a really good printer. Particularly if you do because they will give them more definition.
If you look at that pathfinder page background, you'll note that most of detail is on the edges. The main bit is quite bright and washed out and you can't see a lot of detail at all. They are basically going for black text on a light background so you need to make sure your page isn't actually that dominant, at least for the main content portion of the page. It actually needs to be very subtle and not draw the eye, just make you go "ooo, that's pretty" when someone opens up the book. So apart from your page margins, you will be working in very light colours. Otherwise it is going to look terrible.
I can't really link you to a tutorial though. Most of what I've come across is "in the field" so to speak. But I hope some of those principles help.


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Goodguys Del Mar PHR Street Machine Autocross - The HomestretchWritten by Johnny Hunkins on April 1, 2012 Muscle cars were gunning for all the glory at our fifth and final PHR Street Machine Autocross in Del Mar, California
In 2011, Popular Hot Rodding magazine joined forces with the Goodguys Rod & Custom Association to sponsor five action-filled muscle car autocross events at Fort Worth, Texas; Nashville; Columbus, Ohio; Indianapolis; and Del Mar, California. As you probably know, Goodguys already operates their Street Machine Autocross at most of their events—at least at the venues that are large enough to handle such an activity, but we decided to make a few of them even more special.
For the PHR Street Machine autocross, any domestic car with a domestic powerplant built between 1955 and 1972 can compete as long as they are entered in the Goodguys car show. Most of the autocross circuits are at least 30 seconds in duration, and some of them—like the ones at Indy and Del Mar—can approach a minute in length. The goal is to run the fastest lap through the tight track without knocking over any cones. The competitor with the quickest lap time wins a custom-embroidered PHR Street Machine Autocross winner's jacket.
Goodguys also has separate classes for street rods, trucks, and vendors, but all of them run intermixed during the same sessions. Typically, over the course of a three-day event, there will be five autocross sessions: two on Friday (9 a.m. to noon, 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.), two on Saturday (9 a.m. to noon, 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.), and one long one on Sunday (9 a.m. to 2 p.m.). Another cool thing Goodguys added for 2011, which they plan to continue for 2012, is the Super Sunday Get-Together. This Sunday-only program allows all cars, including late-models of any year, into the car show and autocross. We think it's overdue, and we applaud Goodguys for doing it.
The Fall Del Mar Nationals was held Thanksgiving weekend—November 25-27, 2011—at the Del Mar Fairgrounds in Del Mar, California. It was the last of five PHR-sponsored Goodguys autocross events for 2011, and Mary Pozzi of Salinas, California, won the last PHR jacket by posting the lowest lap time with her LS2-powered '72 Camaro. Pozzi's winning lap of 50.274 seconds had the crowd against the fence as she deftly slid and sliced her way through the cone forest. Pozzi joins Brian Finch (two times), Mike Maier, and Mark Rife as PHR Street Machine Autocross winners in 2011. Congrats to all four winners for their incredible building, tuning, and driving skills!
'69s O' Plenty!
Just so you don't think we've lost our collective minds, we haven't forgotten how much you guys love '69 Camaros. Here's three juicy ones to tide you over. The blue SS/RS was built at home by the owner, Chris Robinson (San Diego), and features a 454ci GM big-block crate motor, a mix of Global West and Hotchkis suspension bits, and a built 200-4R overdrive. The black '69 with white rally stripe was also built by its owner, Doug Renner of Lake Forest, California; it motivates via a 406ci small-block, T56 six-speed, and a combination of Speedtech and Alston suspension. Lastly, the Amethyst Red '69 (which looks almost black) belongs to Mat Alcolo of Escondido, California. Built by Best of Show Coachworks in Escondido, this capable handler has all DSE suspension, an LS2 bullet, T56 six-speed, and Wilwood binders.
Del Mar Goodguys PHR Street Machine Autocross Results
|Best lap:
|Mary Pozzi
|'72 Chevy Camaro
|Mark Rife
|'63 Chevy Corvette
|Brett Campbell
|'67 Chevy Camaro
|John Hotchkis
|'70 Dodge Challenger
|Mike Wright
|'69 Chevy Camaro
|Gerald Lum
|'71 Chevy Camaro
|Brett Voelkel
|'67 Chevy Camaro
|Doug Renner
|'69 Chevy Camaro
|Dick Eytchison
|'65 Chevy Chevelle
|Robert Hall
|'68 Chevy Camaro
|Dan Weishaar
|'68 Plymouth Road Runner
|Chris Robinson
|'69 Chevy Camaro SS/RS
|Troy Borgen
|'69 Chevy Camaro
|Brennan O'Toole
|'69 Chevy Camaro
|Richard Trujillo
|'69 Ford Mustang
|Bill Goldberg
|'70 Chevy Trans Am
|Tom Kamman
|'69 Plymouth Barracuda
|John Wityak
|'65 Ford Mustang
|Joy Wheaton
|'69 Ford Mustang
|Mike Young
|'65 Ford Mustang
|Tim Metz
|'58 Pontiac
|Chris Gonzalez
|'68 Chevy Camaro
|Nick Herrington
|'67 Ford Mustang
|Russ Ryan
|'56 VW Beetle
|Pete Humphrey
|'69 Chevy Camaro
|Ron Scholz
|'66 Ford Mustang
|John Barkley
|'66 Chevy Bel Air
|James Lawrence
|'64 Chevy Chevelle
|2011 PHR Street Machine Winners
|Fort Worth, TX
|Brian Finch
|'71 Camaro
|Nashville, TN
|Brian Finch
|'71 Camaro
|Columbus, OH
|Mike Maier
|'66 Mustang
|Indianapolis, IN
|Mark Rife
|'63 Corvette
|Del Mar, CA
|Mary Pozzi
|'72 Camaro
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This '66 Mustang GT fastback has been in Ron Scholz's family since it was new, but that doesn't mean he's going to pamper it—especially since it's got a 427ci Dart-based Windsor under the hood, coupled to a five-speed Tremec. With a complete Global West suspension on it, the only thing holding it back are those itsy-bitsy BFG 15-inch baloneys.Nicknamed the "crew cab Chevelle" by autocross announcer Chad Reynolds, Dick Eytchison's '65 Malibu has got to be the coolest more-door muscle car on the planet. Loaded with a 383 small-block crate motor, a TKO 600 trans, Hotchkis suspension, and Baer brakes, Eytchison drove the homebuilt A-body all the way from Cortez, Colorado, finished Ninth with a 53.445-second lap, then drove it all the way home.It was refreshing to see so many Mustangs at Del Mar—we hope it's a growing trend for next year. Richard Trujillo (Oceanside, California) is a regular at the Del Mar Goodguys autocross, and his satin black '69 Mustang coupe is always looking good. Trujillo's budget 302-powered notchback finished remarkably well with a 55.094-second lap—besting the mega-dollar Trans Am of TV star Bill Goldberg. The mostly stock pony has a small COMP cam, Edelbrock intake, Holley carb, KYB shocks, an Explorer 8.8-inch rear, Coys 17-inch wheels, Global West subframe connectors, Power Stop rotors, EBC pads, and some cut springs.Pat Donahue brought out this meticulously prepped Penske Trans-Am racer clone. The '69 Z/28 is not an original Penske car, nor is Donahue related to original driver, Mark Donahue, but it sure does make an interesting coincidence. The car was built by Donahue Automotive in Chicago, and ran in the "Fun" exhibition class due to its non-DOT race tires. That high-winding 302 small-block sure got our blood moving!Hotchkis built this Hugger Orange '68 Chevy C10 to compete in autocrosses like this, and it's one of the nicest looking haulers we've seen. We don't normally cover trucks, but this one really put everyone's head on a swivel. Goodies include an LS3 E-Rod crate, 4L65E trans, tons of Hotchkis suspension (natch), and Wilwood binders. Mike Hickman drove it to a best lap of 51.473 in the truck class.Recognize this car? Mark Rife's split-window '63 Corvette was featured on the cover of last month's issue. Rife has owned it since 1972, and he's road raced and autocrossed it almost continuously since then. Rife also won the PHR jacket at our Indy event, and was just edged out in Del Mar by Mary Pozzi. The '63 features an LS7 crate motor, Tremec five-speed, and suspension from a '96 Corvette. Rife swears by RideTech's triple-adjustable coilovers!This '68 Plymouth Road Runner belongs to Dan Weishaar, and was but one of three Mopars attending Del Mar this weekend. Dan was having a bad day; he spent more time under his car than in it, so we didn't bother him for a bunch of details, but it flat-out runs. Even with mechanical woes, it managed a best lap of 54.394—not bad for a beast like this!
Pozzi's '72 Camaro must have gotten sick and tired of hearing her now infamous catchphrase, "Stick, you bitch!" Whipped and otherwise tongue-thrashed over the course of an entire year, the little Chevy finally relented, giving Pozzi the fastest lap of the event—a 50.274. Pozzi's Camaro has the heart of a beast—PHR's ex-Tech Editor Steven Rupp sold Pozzi the LS2 out of the Bad Penny '68 Camaro project after it got an even more potent LS3.Speaking of Bad Penny, Rupp was wheeling Big Orange around the cones in the "Fun Run" category (as the tech editor of Camaro Performers magazine, Rupp was ineligible to run for "The Jacket"). His 52.680 lap would've been good for Sixth Place overall. Rupp tells us his new LS3 is a 461 incher with Mast heads, and now makes 588 hp to the tire.RideTech's Bret Voelkel was having a fun time in the 48Hour Camaro, which we featured in the Nov. '11 issue of PHR. Voelkel won the Vendor class hands down with a sharp 52.883 lap time. This '67 Camaro was built entirely from mail-order parts (many of them RideTech) in a 48-hour period in May of 2011, and has been flogged on autocrosses and road courses steadily ever since.


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The sexual act of sticking one's entire head and neck into a woman's vagina
Jack: Yeah, I giraffed my girlfriend last night. It was great.
Andy: How could you even breath in there?
Andy: How could you even breath in there?
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a female that can take a dick extremely far down the throat.
She has no gag reflex. I bet she's a giraffe!
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a large necked animal that lives primarily in africa. It preys on eagles, hawks, parrots, and other birds. A common misconception is that giraffes use their long necks to eat leaves. However they actually use them to scope out birds nests in the tops of trees. Their horns are used for stabbing hawks out of the air (they are often worn down to stumps from killing hundreds of hawks/eagles.) They are responsible for the endangerment of many birds (most notably bald eagles and the california condors).`
Tourist: There are a lot of eagles in this area.
Park Ranger: Yep, the giraffes have migrated for the season.
Park Ranger: Yep, the giraffes have migrated for the season.
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The most respectable creature in the animal kingdom.
"I wish I was born a giraffe."
by yelyr April 25, 2009
When a girl is getting fucked from behind doggy style and sucking another guys dick. The front guy has a girl in his shoulders who he is eating out. The girl being eaten out is sucking the dick of a man on a ladder who's dick acts like the leaves of a tree. The shape of all the people looks like a giraffe
Noah: did you hear about the giraffe party
Thomas: oh yeah I'm gonna be the tree
Noah: I'm gonna be the neck
Thomas': ah man that's the best part
Thomas: oh yeah I'm gonna be the tree
Noah: I'm gonna be the neck
Thomas': ah man that's the best part
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A blunt that has been laced with some type of syrup, usually liquid hydrocodone. Since small drops of the syrup usually bleed through to the outside of the shell, the blunt becomes spotty, resembling the neck of a giraffe.
Timmy: Yo dog, spark that giraffe!
Mickey: We 'bout to get lifteeddddd!
Mickey: We 'bout to get lifteeddddd!
by the_blunt_burner December 13, 2010
Cockney rhyming slang for 'laugh'.
"I'm telling you it's nine inches."
"Nine inches? That little thing. You're 'avin' a giraffe, mate."
"Nine inches? That little thing. You're 'avin' a giraffe, mate."
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(KSDK Sports) -- The Lance Lynn project will get its official debut tonight in Arizona, as the right hander gets the nod in the final game of Cardinals, three game series with the Diamondbacks.
Lance Lynn, won 18 games for the Cardinals a season ago but struggled following the All-Star break. To combat another mid-season fade, Lynn re-invented himself by changing his eating habits and dropping nearly 50 pounds. There were many questions during spring camp about whether a power pitcher like Lynn could be as effective, minus the weight.
Lynn did struggle during camp, but Manager Mike Matheny repeatedly said that the team had confidence in Lynn's talent and there was no discussion of him not becoming a member of the starting rotation.
In 2012, Lynn went 11-4 with a 3.41 ERA in 17 outings in the first half, but his ERA rose to 4.32 over 18 second-half appearances, including 12 starts. He still went 7-3 in that span, though he was taken out of the rotation for two weeks from late August until early September.
St. Louis is hoping that last year's experience will help Lynn stay strong all season and he gets his 2013 campaign started with his fourth career appearance versus the Diamondbacks.
Only one of those previous meetings was a start and Lynn picked up a victory in that outing on May 7 in Arizona with five scoreless innings. The 25-year-old allowed three hits and four walks while striking out seven and the outing was the final one of a season-opening six- start winning streak.
Lynn will hope to get another winning streak started and pitch the Cardinals to a second victory in a row after they took Tuesday's meeting with the Diamondbacks 6-1.
St. Louis got three home runs in the victory, including Matt Holliday's go- ahead two-run shot in the sixth inning after he drove a low pitch from Arizona starter Trevor Cahill over the fence.
"He went down and golfed that ball out of the air," Cards manager Mike Matheny said. "Typically you're not going to get hurt when you're down in the zone like that, but Matt's got some exceptional ability."
Cardinals starter Jaime Garcia pitched 5 2/3 innings to get the victory, allowing just one run on two hits. However, he also walked four batters, including three straight with two outs in the sixth inning to load the bases. Matheny then opted to go with reliever Edward Mujica, who struck out a pinch- hitting Jason Kubel to end the frame.
but also walked four batters and needed 97 pitches.
Miguel Montero hit a second-inning solo homer for the Diamondbacks, who had only three hits one day after logging 15 in a 6-2 series-opening win.
Cahill fanned seven and gave up three runs on five hits over 5 2/3 innings to take the loss, while reliever Heath Bell gave up a two-run homer to Jon Jay and a solo shot to Pete Kozma in the seventh inning of his Arizona debut.
"He didn't execute his pitches very well tonight," Arizona manager Kirk Gibson said of Bell.
The D-backs dropped five of six games to the Cardinals last season.
With a scary head injury seven months in the rearview mirror, starter Brandon McCarthy will make his Arizona Diamondbacks debut on Wednesday night in the rubber match of a three-game series against the St. Louis Cardinals.
McCarthy will also be making his National League debut after spending his first seven seasons in the American League, including stints with the Chicago White Sox, Texas Rangers and Oakland Athletics. He spent the last two years with the A's, but saw his 2012 campaign end after being struck on the right side of the head on Sept. 5 versus the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim.
The right-hander suffered an epidural hemorrhage, brain contusion and a skull fracture, ending his season after 18 starts with an 8-6 record and 3.24 earned run average. McCarthy underwent surgery that night and was discharged six days later.
The 29-year-old, who had also battled a shoulder injury last season, signed a two-year deal with the Diamondbacks this offseason and will face the Cardinals for the first time in his career.
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|Hinrichs in town for book signing
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Phillips County High School grad Jody Kropp Hinrichs was on hand for a book signing at Phillips County Museum Saturday, July 27. Her recently-released novel, under the pen name JE Freis, is a historical fiction piece about early homesteaders during the pre- and post- Dust Bowl eras of the Great American Desert.
Hinrichs, pictured above, signs copies of "Triumph of the Spirit: land... love... life..." for a crowd at the museum last weekend.
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knowledge is a commodity in our culture. it is also a control mechanism. as readily as i compose this post, people are eager to display their knowledge, sometimes to assist, sometimes to belittle, sometimes between those two points. and sometimes because they are parasitised by an authority and are compelled by the nature of their composition to act out the interests of the authority.
as a culture, we are still new to the paradigm of the internet, and the forces at play haven't necessarily reached equilibrium. using computers allows us to make our maps look like the accredited material we have had handed down to us by precedents established when computers were less available, and realism is a skill we want to be good at, and incisively dictate what realism/skill is and what it isn't, for ourselves and "for others".
i think that the increased diversity we see online in creativity will eventually lead us more towards the individual as the seat of authority, and greater tolerance towards others who diverge from our ideals. as a culture, it is going to be difficult to reach that point since the culture bears many authoritative, counterindividualist entities that may manifest through us as we participate in it.
i'm like totally into people making whatever kind of map they want. the criticism i've seen in this venue is toned waay down to what i've seen in other fields that combine creativity and technique.


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The streets of Shoreditch are roamed by tight-chino'd packs of hip London youth, gyring and gimbling in the wabe like those slithy toves in Lewis Caroll's brilliant work of nonsense, Jabberwocky. Fitting, it will transpire, that cobbly little Rivington Street's Callooh Callay should be named after the poem. I must confess I remember little of my first visit (an ill-fated absinthe tasting some years ago), and thinking up preconceptions at Callooh Callay is nigh-on impossible.
In the main bar there's that kind of Victorian chic thing that a lot of cocktail bars go in for, only, not quite. And then you walk through the wardrobe at the far end (I promised myself I wouldn't use the term "Narnia-esque"), and you'll find a hidden secondary lounge area, replete with gaudy Vegas-style leafy centrepiece, barbershop sign, and bathroom bedecked with old tape cassettes. And then there's the Oyster Card-themed menu, which is something else entirely.
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|This Grilled Chicken with Balsamic Vinegar is a favorite recipe I've made for years.
Here's my second grilled chicken recipe as a follow-up to how to make juicy grilled chicken breasts that are perfect every time. Check out Grilled Fusion Chicken from yesterday if you missed it. Today's recipe has actually been in the chicken section of the recipe archives for nearly two years now, but I first posted it when no one was reading my blog, and I hadn't updated it with a photo until now.
On Monday when I shared my chicken grilling methods, I mentioned that I usually use a 2:1 ration of oil to acidic ingredients in marinades. Here I am already breaking that rule. But this marinade still has a generous amount of oil, which I think is essential to keep the chicken moist. You need to use a high quality balsamic vinegar here, since there's a lot of vinegar in the marinade. I don't mean the $40 a bottle kind you drizzle over little appetizers, but something better than the supermarket kind. I really like Fini brand for salad dressings, but a reader named Sandy recommended I try the Costco brand, Kirkland Balsamic Vinegar of Modena, and it was really excellent for using as an ingredient like this. Thanks, Sandy!
Grilled Chicken with Balsamic Vinegar
(Makes 6-8 servings, recipe can be cut in half. Recipe created by Kalyn many years ago.)
6-8 boneless, skinless chicken breasts
Marinade Ingredients:
2/3 cup balsamic vinegar
1/4 cup Dijon mustard
1/4 cup olive oil
1 T dried parsley
1 T dried shallots (or 2 T minced fresh shallots)
1 tsp. dried thyme
1/2 tsp. coarse ground black pepper
1 T Spike seasoning
1 tsp. garlic powder
(Click for step-by-step photos of how to make juicy and perfect grilled chicken breasts.)
Place chicken in zip loc bag, laying them flat. Mix marinade ingredients and pour over chicken. Marinate in refrigerator 4-6 hours or more.
Preheat gas or charcoal grill to medium-high. (You can only hold your hand there for a few seconds.) Grill chicken on top side first, rotating after 4-5 minutes if you're wanting those criss-cross grill marks. Use a spray bottle of water if flames shoot up from the oil in the marinade when you first put chicken on the grill. Cook until chicken is well browned on both sides and firm, but not hard to the touch, probably not over 15-20 minutes total cooking time. (Actual cooking time will vary depending on chicken temperature and how hot your grill is, so remove it from the heat when the chicken feels firm when pressed with your finger.) Serve hot. I love to use leftover strips of this chicken as a topping for Arugula and Gorgonzola Salad with Balsamic Vinegar.
This chicken could also be cooked in a stove-top grill pan with ridges or a George Foreman Grill with good results.
South Beach Suggestions
This chicken is a perfect main dish for any phase of the South Beach Diet. It would taste great with Crunchy Chopped Salad with Gorgonzola and Radishes and Grilled Asparagus with Parmesan for phase one. For phase two or three, you could replace the salad with Brown Rice with Cashews and Herbs.
More Chicken Seen Hanging Around with Balsamic Vinegar:
(recipes from other blogs may not be South Beach friendly, check ingredients)
Balsamic Chicken and Mushrooms
Rosemary and Balsamic Marinated Miniature Chicken Rolls with Capers from Lucullian Delights
Chicken with Balsamic Barbecue Sauce from Baking Bites
Chicken Skewers with Dukkuh Crust and Balsamic Reduction from Smitten Kitchen
Alex's Favorite Baked Chicken from Gluten-Free Goddess
Sweet and Savory Balsamic Poached Chicken from The Unemployed Cook


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Wait, the Collector was never a Vintage toy? Then why do I have a memory of seeing one? It was the Collector but the cockpit was open much like the Wind Raider or Roton, and the claws extended on strings with a winch feature?
I think the way to do this as a toy is to have that skull "face plate" be removable. You pop it off, and inside is a seat for you to place your Skeletor figure. Pop the skull face plate back on (have the eyes be a translucent yellow plastic)... and there you go! It would be unrealistic to expect this thing to be a proper cartoon accurate scale- but as a one-seater flying vehicle, with no interior? As long as it has the outer features we all know and love... it would be a great vehicle to do next in the line! A first-time-ever vehicle, straight from Filmation, and a nice counterpart to the heroic Wind Raider! It doesn't have to be a monstrous "I have to be able to stand eight figures up inside of it so that they can fight inside of it!" kind of vehicle. That sort of thing is way too day-dreamy. Reel the expectations in a little bit, and Mattel can probably pull off a great smaller-scaled Collector that will please most folks. And "only" cost $40.
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Wait, the Collector was never a Vintage toy? Then why do I have a memory of seeing one? It was the Collector but the cockpit was open much like the Wind Raider or Roton, and the claws extended on strings with a winch feature?
Totally want the Collector. I would expect it to only hold one figure, as the Wind Raider does. I am in the camp that wonders why it was never made in the vintage line.
Honestly, I'd rather get all the Vintage vehicles before this.
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Now that the Filmation rights were acquired, I guess the Collector should be game.
In order for us to be certain, a question about "the cartoons' vehicles being possible to make" should be asked in the next "WTFWTK" questions and answers...
Do I want the Collector now, though ? Hum... to be perfectly honest, I wouldn't mind to see ONE "never made before" vehicle included into the line, but not before vehicles such as Spydor, Roton, Landshark, Bashasaurus or the Battle Ram...
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I'd want one, but I would be disappointed because they would make it a single seat, one figure vehicle. On the show, those things had a large cockpit, cargo doors, an indoor swimming pool, and a banquet hall inside.
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I'd love to have this as a single seater, wind raider sized vehicle. Who has room for a full sized collector ESPECIALLY after we get Castle Grayskull, Snake Mountain, Central Tower and Crystal Castle?
The collector would be awesome but that ship would have to be HUGE to fit those classic figures in it cause thats what I would want it to be. I don't think the cost of something like that would be acceptable for collectors to afford these days cause I am sure it would cost well over 100 for sure.
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An in-scale (more-or-less) Collector or Attack Track are about the largest things they could concievably make. Efforts would be better focused there.
I'd love to see it made, but to echo sentiments above the size and price would be sticking points. The MOTUC Wind Raider is fairly large, but The Collector would dwarf it.
If it turned out to be amazing, I'd buy it...but I don't know where I'd put it.
Yes please, i WANT The Collector, as a kid i wanted that vechile. Damn you filmation BUT know all of my dreams can come true. Hint Hint TG
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I'll take 2 please.
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