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Meetings for the Royals FanFest are now a weekly thing as we nail down the details for the Jan. 19, all-day event at the Overland Park Convention Center. The "fan extravaganza" is less than three months away and – like a lot things around Kauffman Stadium lately (i.e. a new manager, new coaches, new scoreboard, big construction craziness, etc…) – the excitement is building.
In addition to what we have already announced on royals.com/fanfest, we also know:
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- Ticket information will be available soon.
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- Season ticket holders will get an exclusive offer.
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Taqqiya: Qur'an Sanctioned Deceit to Promote Islam as a "Religion of Peace"
When Muslims state, "Islam is a religion of peace," they mean something entirely different from that of a Westerner's concept of peace. According to the Qur'an, the world will only be at peace when every country is Shari'a-ruled. Promoting peace means, peace will exist when all non-Muslims are converted or dead.Read More »

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The young student brought the fake weapon onto the bus headed home from Douglas MacArthur Elementary School on Monday afternoon, school officials said.
"It was discovered that the student showed the phony weapon to other students during the bus ride. The incident was reported to the school after normal school hours on Monday evening, and an investigation was launched immediately," police said.
School officials were on site as the student was taken into local police custody on Tuesday morning, school officials said.
"The safety of our students is always our first concern," said Superintendent Morton Sherman. "We appreciate the quick response and action by our police. The student is suspended from school. The school division will complete its investigation in cooperation with the police as we consider further disciplinary action, including expulsion. As always, we encourage direct communication from parents, including personal phone calls."


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Roe v. Wade | The top 10 pro-life stories of 2012
1. Conscience fight
Dozens of Catholic and Protestant organizations and businesses became allies in 2012 while battling a common enemy: the Affordable Care Act's "contraceptive mandate," perhaps the largest threat to religious liberty in U.S. history. Along with eight states, the groups filed 41 lawsuits last year challenging the mandate, adding to two filed in 2011. Under the rules of the healthcare overhaul, employers must provide health insurance plans that cover sterilization, contraceptives, and some abortion-inducing drugs (like Plan B and Ella), or pay heavy fines. A religious exemption to the mandate applies to churches but currently is too narrow to include businesses or many charities.
In February the president announced a "compromise" that would shift the cost of the controversial services onto insurance companies. Religious employers recognized it as budgetary sleight of hand: Insurance companies would ultimately pass the cost back to employers in premium hikes.
Some for-profit businesses objecting to the contraceptive mandate threw their full weight into the fight. According to the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, by year-end nine companies suing the federal government over the insurance rules had obtained injunctions temporarily blocking the mandate. The Greens, the evangelical owners of craft store chain Hobby Lobby, didn't. Denied a request for injunction Dec. 26, they chose to risk fines of up to $1.3 million per day beginning Jan. 1 rather than pay for abortifacient coverage.
2. Legalizing life
Nineteen states enacted 43 restrictions on abortion services last year, making 2012 the second most successful year for pro-life legislative efforts since Roe. (In 2011, states enacted 92 restrictions.) According to the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute, no legislature last year improved access to abortion.
Some states tightened regulation of abortion facilities, placed restrictions on drug-induced abortions, and required women seeking an abortion to listen to the heartbeats of their unborn children. Continuing a national trend begun in 2010, Louisiana, Arizona, and Georgia outlawed abortion at 18 or 20 weeks post-fertilization based on the fetal pain argument, although bans in the latter two states are tied up in court challenges. (See "Lately dead" in this issue.)
The legislative victories led to this complaint on the Jan. 14 cover of Time: "40 years ago, abortion rights activists won an epic victory with Roe v. Wade. They've been losing ever since." (See "Forty years in the wilderness" in this issue.)
3. Forty abortion workers quit
Former Planned Parenthood director Abby Johnson is surprised so many abortion industry employees want to follow her out the door. Johnson left her Planned Parenthood center of Bryan, Texas, in 2009 after witnessing on ultrasound the abortion of a 13-week baby. She went on to write the memoir Unplanned about her conversion to the pro-life perspective. Last June, after abortion workers had begun contacting her for help in leaving their own jobs, Johnson started an organization to support them called And Then There Were None (ATTWN).
By the end of the year, ATTWN had helped 40 workers make their exits. Johnson's ministry provides legal assistance, spiritual counsel, and moral and financial support for workers leaving the industry, and helps them hunt for new jobs. In some cases, a worker leaving an abortion operation has a ripple effect on other employees: Six workers left a facility in Georgia, and five left one in Houston. At that rate of departure, Johnson hopes many of the nation's 660 abortion centers will be forced to close their doors.
Her hopes appear to be coming true already—with some help from local fire codes. In December the fire marshal in Muskegon, Mich., shut down an abortion center while investigating a suspected break-in, citing unsafe conditions. The facility, Women's Medical Services, was the former employer of an abortion worker ATTWN had assisted.
(Read more about Johnson's organization at worldmag.com/2012/12/how_to_quit.)
4. Kill rate decline
In November the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced the number and rate of abortions had fallen 5 percent in 2009, the largest drop in at least a decade. That was good news for the unborn, but the picture was complicated. The CDC's data included only 43 states, and it was unclear which factors besides the sour economy had the greatest influence on the abortion decline.
The factors included the expanding use of emergency contraceptives and long-lasting birth control (like the abortifacient Plan B and intrauterine devices), the growth of the pro-life movement, and shifting attitudes toward unborn children. Last May Gallup found only two out of five Americans describing themselves as "pro-choice" on abortion—the lowest figure since the polling group began asking the question in 1995.
5. Susan G. Komen in crisis
Executives at the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation hoped for a quiet breakup when they told Planned Parenthood not to expect a repeat of the $680,000 in grants Komen had given the abortion provider in 2011. Instead, they endured an orchestrated attack campaign, with Planned Parenthood in January alerting media of Komen's decision and accusing the breast cancer organization of defunding lifesaving screenings for low-income women.
Never mind that Planned Parenthood's role in fighting breast cancer is peripheral, or that $680,000 represents a sliver of the abortion giant's over $1 billion budget. Under pressure from liberal media and pro-abortion activists who raised a ruckus on social networks, the Komen board caved within three days and decided the organization wouldn't rule out future grants to the abortion provider.
The imbroglio carried three benefits. First, many learned Planned Parenthood does not provide mammograms, despite its boasts about preventing breast cancer. Second, although Komen's cave-in damaged its reputation among abortion opponents, the crisis let other organizations know what might happen if they bankrolled Planned Parenthood then tried to back out. Third, after pro-life Karen Handel, Komen's senior vice president of public policy, resigned during the debacle, she wrote Planned Bullyhood, a book exposing the abortion provider's Mafia-style tactics.
6. Pushing euthanasia
Euthanasia figures released in 2012 showed troubling yet predictable trends in the Netherlands and Belgium, the first two nations to legalize the practice. In the Netherlands euthanasia deaths doubled from 2006 to 2011, reaching 3,695 that year. (The actual figure may be 4,500 since doctors don't always report such deaths.)
Euthanasia accounts for nearly 3 percent of deaths in the Netherlands. In March a Dutch organization launched the "End of Life Clinic," intended to send out mobile suicide assistance teams to the sick who cannot find a doctor willing to prescribe lethal drugs.
In Belgium, euthanasia deaths rose to 1,133 in 2011—tripling the country's 2005 total. Apparently not content with that figure, Belgium lawmakers last month proposed legislation that would permit minors and people with Alzheimer's disease to die under the 11-year-old euthanasia law.
The push to do away with the ailing wasn't confined to Europe. In Massachusetts, advocates of assisted suicide placed a referendum on the Nov. 6 election ballot proposing to make the state the third, after Washington and Oregon, to legalize physician-assisted suicide. Voters rejected the measure, but just barely: Forty-nine percent were in support.
7. Defunding abortionists
Ten states since 2011 have passed legislation or taken administrative action to strip abortion providers of tens of millions of dollars in taxpayer funding, according to the Susan B. Anthony List. Last year Planned Parenthood waged courtroom warfare against defunding efforts in Indiana and Texas.
Indiana legislators two years ago barred abortion providers from receiving Medicaid funds, even if the money was earmarked for services other than abortion. Planned Parenthood sued the state, and last October a federal appeals court sided with the abortion provider, blocking the defunding attempt. The three-judge panel ruled that since Planned Parenthood provides services other than abortion, such as medical exams and cancer screenings, complete defunding would interfere with Medicaid recipients' "free choice of providers."
"The state provides low-income women a primary care physician who can do everything Planned Parenthood clinics can and more," said Sue Swayze, the legislative director at Indiana Right to Life. "It is bogus to say that they can't get services elsewhere."
After Texas lawmakers voted to disqualify groups that perform abortions—or their affiliates—from receiving Medicaid funds under the state's Women's Health Program, the Obama administration announced it would withhold federal funding for the program. Gov. Rick Perry pledged to continue paying for women's health services out of state coffers, but Planned Parenthood, in multiple lawsuits filed in 2012 against Texas, urged state and federal judges to restore the organization's ability to receive Medicaid funds. At the end of the year, the Texas Women's Health Program was set to proceed without Planned Parenthood's participation, with another court hearing on the matter scheduled for Jan. 11.
8. Abortion creep in Ireland
Activists pushed abortion in Northern Ireland last year, with its first private abortion center opening amid pro-life protests in October. Abortion in Northern Ireland, a U.K. territory, is illegal unless a doctor declares a pregnancy would cause the mother long-term physical or emotional harm. The new abortion facility in Belfast, run by the Marie Stopes organization, is testing the law's limit by offering drug-induced abortions for women up to nine weeks pregnant.
The adjoining Republic of Ireland took steps to legalize abortion in limited cases after the October death of Savita Halappanavar, a 31-year-old immigrant from India. Halappanavar's husband claimed that after she arrived at a Galway hospital while suffering a miscarriage, doctors refused to abort her 17-week unborn baby for three days while the baby's heart was still beating. (Investigators have not yet confirmed the husband's account.) After the baby died, Halappanavar died of a septicemia infection.
The pro-abortion Irish Choice Network used the woman's death to call for ending the nation's abortion ban. Although the Supreme Court of Ireland said in 1992 that abortion was permissible when the mother faced a "real and substantial risk" to her life, legislators never instituted the ruling in law. In December government officials said they would force a vote in parliament this year on legislation permitting abortion to save a mother's life or prevent her suicide.
9. Math, science, and Plan B
Free birth control and condoms at public high schools: Old news to American parents, yet some were shocked to hear in September that New York City schools hand out abortifacient drugs at taxpayer expense. In a program piloted in 2011 but largely unnoticed, the city began providing girls as young as 14 with Plan B—the morning-after pill. Schools didn't inform the students' parents of the prescriptions, except for a one-time letter allowing them to opt out of the program.
Plan B had been available at city high schools for a few years, but only through privately-run clinics. The new city-sponsored program in its first year prescribed Plan B to 567 girls at five high schools. It expanded to 13 schools last year and in the fall began offering regular Depo-Provera birth control shots. Girls between the ages of 15 and 17 in New York City schools conceive over 7,000 pregnancies annually, with two-thirds ending in abortion.
10. Debate slip-ups
Mishandling of abortion questions contributed to the defeat of Republican candidates for the Senate in Missouri and Indiana. Rep. Todd Akin, running in Missouri, became a household name in August after he claimed pregnancy from rape was rare because during "a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down." Mainstream media pounced. Akin apologized for his remark but ignored calls from some fellow conservatives for him to drop out of the Senate race. On Nov. 6 incumbent Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill trounced Akin by 16 points.
In Indiana, Tea Party-backed candidate Richard Mourdock fell prey to similar criticism after an October debate, when he stated, "Even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that is something that God intended to happen." Although Mourdock said he meant God creates life without condoning evil, he lost his Senate bid to Democrat Joe Donnelly by 6 percentage points. Afterward, Susan B. Anthony List president Marjorie Dannenfelser said her group would begin coaching pro-life candidates on handling the rape question before endorsing them. (See "Doing better on 'hard cases'" in this issue.)


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The Dakota Thunder Comes Up Roses
Wishes can come true, especially when surrounded by family and friends cheering you on and sharing the journey together. Just ask Houston Haugo, owner of the Dakota Thunder Shires six-horse hitch from Sioux Falls, South Dakota. He will tell you to hold onto your dreams and do everything possible to see things through. Perhaps he has the same determination that motivates Jiminy Cricket, the fictional character from the children's book, The Adventures of Pinocchio, with a favorite quote: "If your heart is in your dream, no request is too extreme."
"It began in 1991 at the National Western Stock Show in Denver when I first saw a magnificent hitch of Shires owned by Argonaut Farms," Houston explains. "Watching them in the arena literally took my breath away. I knew immediately that someday I would have my own horses that would dazzle and inspire a crowd.Read more
2015 All-North American Shire Contest
The All-North American contest is an annual competition which provides an historical photo record of the top halter animals shown across the Canada and the U.S. The competition itself is not a show. It is tabulated mathematically, and therefore, may best be described as "the average opinion of the majority of contemporary judges in the U.S. and Canada." Results start on page 40 of the Spring Draft Horse Journal!
Letter to the Editor
I would like to take this opportunity: the Draft Horse Journal's fiftieth year in publication: to acknowledge and bestow gratitude upon, not only the founders of this fine magazine, but the current editor and his team who relentlessly strive to unify our industry through their quality quarterly publication.
The draft horse industry is not a product-driven industry. We do not yield an item that humans willingly wish to consume; like milk, meat, feathers or fur. Except for a rare sliver of history, when naturally-synthesized premarin was of value, the draft horse has contributed little in the last 75 years... Read more


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a2area burst onto the scene and blew us all away. This particular map is so professional-looking that we just had to show it off properly.
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Well I finally finished this one! The WIP thread for this is at http://www.cartographersguild.com/...ead.php?t=8142 but basically, the entire map is built in Adobe Illustrator (CS3) and then pasted into Photoshop in groupings of layers where I apply various filters and layer some subtle effects in to make it look more polished. I especially like the easy mask-ability of Photoshop. I made good use of graphic styles in Illustrator to get train tracks etc and I use some free fonts for some of the little icons. All of the coats of arms are built in Illustrator as well. The globe is taken from the original fractal file of the planet and then shaded.
This is the first in a project of about 4 (maybe more) atlas style maps which will focus on this fictional place. The next will either be a land use, resource, topography and relief map (all wrapped into one if I can manage it) or a large city map of the imperial capital surrounded by some smaller city insets.
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If the radiance of a thousand suns was to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One...I am become Death, the Shatterer of worlds.
-J. Robert Oppenheimer (father of the atom bomb) alluding to The Bhagavad Gita (Chapter 11, Verse 32)
My Maps ~ My Brushes ~ My Tutorials ~ My Challenge Maps
I would like to thank.... (-;
Isn't that the way. An award with my first map on the site. Now I have to live up to expectations.... Really, though.. thanks a whole lot for the acknowledgement. It made my day!
Brian (a2area)
Well deserved. If it wasn't clearly a fictional land I'd accuse you of scanning in a page from an atlas and trying to pass it off as your own! Beautiful map and looking forward to more of the same. Repped.
Un-flippin' believable! Well done!
My Maps
WOW! Looks right out of an Atlas!
Great map and well deseverd a2arena! This is pro-quality indeed!
I wondered how long it would take this to become a choice map.
Very well done. Great stuff.
Royal: I'm very sorry for your loss, your mother was a terribly attractive woman.
My Cartographer's Guild maps: Finished Maps
More maps viewable at my DeviantArt page: Ramah-Palmer DeviantArt
I've always liked these.
Is there a world map of the planet as well? I'd love to see it
Yesterday today was tomorrow.
My deviantart: http://darkaiz.deviantart.com/
Nicely done! well deserved!
My finished maps
"...sometimes the most efficient way to make something look drawn by hand is to simply draw it by hand..."
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With a new year there often comes a renewed focus at work. But how can people maintain that focus and energy throughout the year?
Perhaps the answer is in "strategic movement," a workplace engagement tool advocated by Jack Groppel, co-founder of the Human Performance Institute and vice president of applied science and performance training at Wellness & Prevention Inc., a Johnson & Johnson company.
The principle behind strategic movement is simple: The brain functions better with increased blood flow. It takes only one to two minutes of movement after a period of rest to increase energy and motivation, Groppel says.
"Where have you been when you've had your best ideas?" Groppel asks. "You were most likely standing up and moving."
Aiming to upend the workplace culture of long sit-down meetings and hours spent slumped in cubicles, Groppel started Organizations in MOTION. The project studies what happens to performance, job satisfaction and engagement when workers add small, frequent amounts of exercise to their days.
The program advocates standing up and walking around for one to two minutes every 25 to 30 minutes.
"We're not saying, take a break," Groppel says. Rather, workers would focus their attention on movement, such as going up a flight of stairs or walking around their office floor.
New Balance, the Boston-based athletic-shoe and -apparel company, took up the challenge last year. Some 750 employees at two corporate offices participated in the program for 90 days. The workers received daily emails from Groppel suggesting ideas for frequent and creative movement in the workplace.
Volunteer "movement champions" helped motivate their peers to stick to the program. Participants set reminders on their desktop computers. Leaders were encouraged to remind workers that they needed to move, to get up from their desks frequently and stand up during calls and meetings.
Participants who climbed stairs during these short intervals could collect tokens and cash them in for small rewards, Groppel says.
At the end of the 90-day program, 53 percent said they had increased their physical activity and movement at work, and 89 percent said they would continue with the changes. Some 37 percent reported high levels of energy in the middle of the day, an 11 percent increase before the start of the challenge. And 42 percent reported increased engagement and focus at work.
Notably, the largest increases in responses were seen for self-reported statements such as, "I am enthusiastic about my job," "I find the work that I do full of meaning and purpose," "My job inspires me," "In the morning, I feel like going to work," "At my work, I feel bursting with energy," and "At my job, I feel strong and vigorous."
The footwear manufacturer continues to promote the program along with its other wellness offerings.
"This program enhanced our workplace environment by engaging our associates to collaborate in new ways to increase their energy and focus levels," says Joe Preston, executive vice president, global footwear product and marketing for New Balance.
Groppel says the idea of strategic movement at work has yet to take off.
"We still have a ways to go," he says of the program. "Corporate leaders have to give their employees permission to do this."
Some of his corporate clients are incorporating strategic movement by scheduling meetings for 55 minutes instead of an hour, blocking out the last five minutes to encourage movement, Groppel says.
"We have to look at how do we get the brain to be more engaged?" he says. "We have to teach people energy management, not just time management."
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A look at Hollywood's Nov 29 headlines from years past.
1959: The Record of the Year Grammy Award went to Bobby Darin for "Mack The Knife." Frank Sinatra's "Come Dance With Me" won the Album of the Year award. Sinatra didn't show up to the ceremony, supposedly because he had gotten shut out at the very first Grammys, only six months earlier.
1969: John Lennon was convicted of marijuana possession and was fined.
1976: Jerry Lee Lewis shot his bass player, Norman "Butch" Owens, twice in the chest while trying to hit a soda bottle. Lewis was charged with shooting a firearm within the city limits.
1979: The four original members of Kiss performed together for what they thought was the last time. They reunited in 1996.
1981: Actress Natalie Wood drowned off Santa Catalina Island, California, at age 43. The death was ruled accidental.
1986: Actor Cary Grant died in Davenport, Iowa, at age 82.
1995: Singer Sammy Hagar married Kari Karte on a mountain in northern California.
2001: Musician George Harrison died in Los Angeles after a lengthy battle with cancer. He was 58.
Today's Birthdays: Blues musician John Mayall is 80. Actress Diane Ladd is 78. Musician Chuck Mangione is 73. Country singer Jody Miller is 72. Singer-keyboardist Felix Cavaliere of The Rascals is 71. Comedian Garry Shandling is 64. Director Joel Coen is 59. Actor-comedian Howie Mandel is 58. Actress Cathy Moriarty is 53. Actress Kim Delaney ("NYPD Blue") is 52. Actor Tom Sizemore is 52. Actor Andrew McCarthy is 51. Actor Don Cheadle is 49. Singer Jonathan Knight of New Kids on the Block is 45. Actor Larry Joe Campbell ("According to Jim") is 43. Keyboardist Frank Delgado of Deftones is 43. Actress Paola Turbay ("True Blood") is 43. Actress Gena Lee Nolin is 42. Actor Brian Baumgartner ("The Office") is 41. Actress Anna Faris ("Scary Movie") is 37. Rapper The Game is 34. Drummer Ringo Garza of Los Lonely Boys is 32. Actor-comedian John Milhiser ("Saturday Night Live") is 32. Actor Lucas Black ("Sling Blade," "The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift") is 31.


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I have been a long time owner of Pentax 20x60 PCF WII binoculars, and my father who has a very good view of Casper, Mountain keeps them mounted on a Bogen tripod in the living room facing the mountain where they live. They get used several times a day for their view of the mountain, and on summer nights to take a look at stars, moon, planets and so on. For the price we paid they are excellent, I think something like $180 5 or 6 years ago.
They are actually the 2nd pair of Pentax 20x60's I have owned. My first pair were stolen out of the back of my truck in 1998. I bought them in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates with a cheap bipod, and a bipod mount so I could take a better look at the Red Sea Hills as we transited off the coast in the Red Sea. Looking for ibex from the aircraft carrier. Didn't find any, but I did see some interesting sights on our Suez Canal transit.
I have made the mistake of buying two pairs of Steiner 20x80 and 25x80 Senator binoculars. Image quality is fine but they have Steiners adjustment system that doesn't work. That and the worst part of either story is that the damn things are not binocular. You will see two seperate images, at different angles. Drives me batty. Both were returned to Optics Planet, and instead of sending them back to Steiner I got a refund and a call stating that Steiner customer service isn't worth a crap. The last time I bought a pair was about 7 years ago, so things might have gotten better.
I have also got to use several pairs of ship mounted 20x100 and bigger military binoculars made by several different high end American companies in the 1960s and 70s.
I know Optolyth and Docter make some interesting big eye binoculars, but I have not got a chance to play with them.
BUT! I have always lusted after a pair of Ziess image stabilized 20x60s.
Does anyone on here own any? I talked to a Ziess rep when I was living in Europe and was told they are part of the classic line, like the Klassiker 8x56 and won't ever be discontinued.
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NFPA Members save an additional 10%.
NFPA 8506 covers heat recovery steam generators at any fuel input rate. HRSGs firing natural gas, No. 2 fuel oil, kerosene, JP-4 jet fuel and diesel fuel are covered. Covers HRSGs either with or without supplemental firing. (42 pp., 1998)
NFPA 8506 Standard on Heat Recovery Steam Generator Systems 1998 Edition
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 General
Chapter 3 Definitions
Chapter 4 Project Coordination
Chapter 5 Equipment
Chapter 6 Controls, Monitoring, Alarms, and Interlocks
Chapter 7 Purge, Startup, Operation, and Shutdown of HRSG Systems
Chapter 8 Inspection, Maintenance, Training, and Safety
Chapter 9 Combustion Turbine Exhaust Bypass Systems for Unfired HRSGs
Chapter 10 Fully Fired Systems (Reserved)
Chapter 11 Referenced Publications
Appendix A Explanatory Material
Appendix B Industry Experience (Reserved)
Appendix C Gas Bypass and Alternate Burner Systems
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Exports are still bright spot for California
June 10, 2011
Despite recent signs of a slackening pace of global economic growth, California exporters turned in another impressive performance in April with shipments totaling $12.88 billion, a gain of 14.4 percent over the same month last year, according to an analysis by Beacon Economics of foreign trade data released this week by the U.S. Commerce Department.
The state's manufactured exports rose by 10.7 percent, while non-manufactured exports (chiefly raw materials and agricultural products) were up by 21.3 percent. Re-exports, meanwhile, grew by 22.4 percent.
These findings coincide with anecdotal news being shared at the annual Agriculture Transportation Coalition's (AgTC) meeting in San Francisco this week.
John Slinkard, a supply chain specialist with Sun-Maid Growers of California, said that 35 percent of its business is now "global and growing." Sun-Maid currently exports to more than 60 nations.
"On an inflation-adjusted basis, California's export trade in April nearly equaled the pre-recession high for that month achieved back in 2007," said Jock O'Connell, Beacon Economics' International Trade Adviser.
April marked the 18th consecutive month of impressive year-over-year gains in California's merchandise export trade.
The gains could have implications for the broader economy. "Exports are likely to play an important role in the economic boost we expect to see in the second half of this year," said Beacon Economics' Founding Partner Christopher Thornberg.
On the import side of the ledger, however, business was much less robust as the value of foreign goods entering the U.S. through California's seaports, airports and border crossings increased by just 9.9 percent over last April.
The Beacon Economics analysis expects California's job-generating export trade to continue to expand, albeit at a somewhat more moderate pace through the remainder of the year.
"The economic growth rates of several of our principal trading partners have been decelerating, in some cases like China and India from speeds that were plainly unsustainable over the long-term." O'Connell said. "That's apt to shrink but certainly not stifle their appetite for imported goods."
Still, O'Connell noted, California exporters should continue to enjoy the competitive benefits of a dollar that has been trading at some of the lowest levels in decades.
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Royals Off Day Notes
The Royals are enjoying a rare off day in Kansas City today, following a heartbreaking 11-inning 5-3 loss to the Cleveland Indians Sunday. The team is back in action at Kauffman Tuesday for a three-game set against the Detroit Tigers. Here are some Royals notes to get you through the day…
On the Mound: The pitching match ups for the series against Detroit were announced yesterday.
- Tuesday – LHP Nate Robertson (7-10, 4.80) vs. RHP Brian Bannister (10-7, 3.28)
- Wednesday – LHP Andrew Miller (5-4, 4.97) vs. RHP Zack Greinke (5-5, 4.25)
- Thursday – RHP Jeremy Bonderman (10-7, 4.87) vs. RHP Kyle Davies (1-3, 6.10)
Dayton Signs, Too: Royals General Manager Dayton Moore did an impromptu autograph session Sunday. Needing to talk with a few of his players, Dayton joined the six Royals players, including closer Joakim Soria (seen here), in the Pizza Hut Autograph Afternoon before the game yesterday.
Going Looonnnggg…: The Long Ball Haulers put on a show before the Royals-Indians series finale, launching ball after ball over the Kauffman Stadium outfield wall. The four players took turns hitting homers into the fountains, the bullpens and even up by the SUV that sits behind the left-field wall. Fans were planted in their seats early to catch the slow-pitch softball slugfest…and, apparently, several of the Royals players also couldn't help but come out of the clubhouse and admire the Long Ball Haulers going the distance in our ballpark.
"Family Photo at Home Plate" Reminder: The deadline to register your family for "Family Photo at Home Plate" is this Friday, Aug. 31. As of this morning, there are 11 spots available, so get your family registered today. Details and the online registration form can be found here on royals.com.
Buckner in the Majors: Another rookie named Billy recently made his Major League debut for the Royals. Right-handed pitcher Billy Buckner pitched five innings of one-run ball on Saturday against Cleveland, striking out one while allowing seven hits and two walks to the 22 batters he faced. As of now, Buckner, who held a starter's role in the minor leagues, is pitching out of the bullpen.
Buck T-Shirt: Tickets are still available for every game this homestand including Tuesday, which is a T-Shirt Tuesday at Kauffman. The first 20,000 fans will collect a John Buck T-shirt courtesy of Sprint Wireless. The distribution will run the same as always: fans get XL-sized shirts when they enter the gate and, for those who want a smaller size, we'll have medium-sized shirts available at two exchange tables placed at Gates A and B. After this Tuesday, there is only one more T-Shirt Tuesday promotion this season – Tuesday, Sept. 18.


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Tiara 3600 OpenBy Capt. Bill Pike
Not long after I'd topped off our 400-gallon composite fuel tank, I noticed the slip where I was supposed to dock our Tiara 3600 Open stern-to was configured a little differently. Instead of being perpendicular to the concrete bulkhead that constituted its inner end, the thing was angled toward the mouth of the fairway and the river beyond. If you're old enough to remember diagonal, side-by-side parking for cars, you get the idea.
Anyway, I made my approach with a vague sense of uneasiness, mostly because I was going into what seemed like an oddball lash-up with an unfamiliar boat under conditions that weren't ideal. While the breeze was light, the current was serious—I could see it stacking up against the outboard edges of some nearby pilings and setting quite sportily across the mouth of the slip. A salty-looking sales guy from Allied Richard Bertram Marine Group of Naples, Florida, the Tiara dealer that had made the 3600 available for a couple of days, strolled over to sit on a nearby dock box. He yawned, evincing the maddening composure of linehandlers the world over.
I gave him a smile. Then, to get a feel for the 3600's maneuvering characteristics prior to actually maneuvering her, I stopped the boat short of my destination by pulling her big, silky Teleflex mechanical gear-shift levers into reverse, then returning them to neutral. The effect was smooth and satisfying: The boat simply paused politely, leaving me to wonder exactly what parameters might be at the bottom of such endearing behavior. Sweet balance? Big wheels? A deep gear ratio? Or some combination of all three? As the current pushed the boat ahead, I quickly discovered I could both restrain and play with the 3600 by simply bumping her clutches into and out of gear—a delightful and educational process, like dancing with a gifted partner.
"What a sweetheart!" I told myself, having rapidly achieved the confidence to cooly move on. Doing the necessary twin-screw pirouette at the mouth of the slip was pure, heart-gladdening fun, mostly thanks to the ergonomically savvy setup of the helm station, which let me face aft comfortably while working the dual-lever sticks. The 3600 slid into the slip with a precision that was as gratifying as it was impressive. "Ya' make it look easy," grinned the sales guy as he tossed a line into the cockpit.
I shut the mains down soon after—my dockside-examination time was limited. Once the dealership folks had finished stocking the 3600 with soda, ice, Willie Nelson CDs, and other traveling necessities, we were headed south for a slip at the Galleon Marina in Key West. I was anxious to sea trial the boat in open water, but I was also antsy to take a look at her engine room and interior.
I commenced with the engine room, accessed via a day hatch in the bridge deck between the helm and companion seats or by activating a set of electric rams that elevate the entire bridge deck on hinges.
I chose the latter arrangement, but found it a bit tight. To squeeze my 170-pound, 5'11" frame into the test boat's machinery spaces, I had to first crawl in on all fours, rotate with care on a StarBoard entry step, and then, while keeping my head low, drop down between the engines while facing aft. "You can pull the pins on the actuators," explained the sales guy, "which lets you swing the bridge deck farther back for more head room."
Aspects of engineering I observed from my hard-fought vantage point were solid, although I was a bit surprised to see no soundbox for the Westerbeke genset, which was installed between the mains, under the StarBoard step. Serviceability under tight space constraints was the concern here, a Tiara rep explained by phone after the test. I liked what I could see of the twin gel-cell battery-bank system, however--two for engine start and three for house usage. Lots of battery firepower is always good. I was also pleased to see time-tested mufflers from Centek Industries—they're popular with all sorts of boatbuilders these days—and big, 100-amp alternators.
I toured the interior while the dealership guys were winding up. With a queen-berth stateroom forward and everything else aft, including a dinette that converts to a double berth to starboard and a head and galley area opposite, the layout reminded me of other express-type cruisers I've tested over the years. Moreover, the fit and finish of the teak joinery throughout was precise, stowage spaces beneath the teak-and-holly sole were clean and smoothly gelcoated, and the galley was an eminently workable one, with Corian countertops and a long list of top-of-the-line mainstream standards.
Hitting the trail to Key West entailed transiting the busy Gordon River to get to the Gulf of Mexico. In some spots, I had to put the 3600 on plane to make time. In others, conditions dictated displacement speeds. While the boat ran smoothly between these modes, she evinced a problem I've seen in other express types with engines and fuel tanks well aft to boost interior space: Visibility forward while coming out of the hole was limited, making it occasionally difficult to keep tabs on PWCs in the channel. I noted another problem as well—our running lights were mounted on the bow pulpit. I say, put them on the radar arch, where they'll be higher and easier to see.
Performance was excellent once we entered the Gulf, though. The ride was soft, dry, and speedy (average top hop: 39 mph) in modest, two- to three-foot seas. Sightlines were fine with the bow tabbed down, and the Teleflex steering was as silky-smooth as the engine controls. Additionally, our optional twin 380-hp Cummins diesels ran like rabbits: quiet, vibration-free, and, increasingly important these days, squeaky clean and fuel-efficient. With modern diesels evincing many of the same positive characteristics that once hallmarked only gasoline powerplants, today's boat buyer simply has to consider them.
I completed my long-haul sea trial of Tiara's 3600 Open with a certain symmetry. Backing into the slip at the Galleon was just as much fun—and just as easy—as backing into the slip in Naples.
"Nice-handlin' boat," I exclaimed at last. It's a compliment I never use lightly.
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This article originally appeared in the August 2004 issue of Power & Motoryacht magazine.


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Surface Chemistry Tutorial
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Surface chemistry is often the most important and most overlooked aspect of reacting flow modeling. Surface rate expressions can be hard to find or not even exist at all. Often it is preferable to use sticking coefficients to describe surface reactions because they can be estimated intuitively.
The tutorial model simulates outgassing from a wafer during a chemical vapor deposition (CVD) process. Careful attention is paid to the overall mass balance in the system and the difference between the mass averaged velocity and diffusion velocity is explored.


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Bianca's Escavalier
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This Escavailer is a bug/steel-type Pokémon that used to belong to Professor Juniper when it was a Karrablast. It was traded for Bianca's Shelmet in Evolution Exchange Excitement!.
Escavalier appeared as a Karrablast in Evolution Exchange Excitement! where it was owned by Professor Juniper. Since Bianca wanted to trade her Shelmet for Karrablast, they managed to trade. Karrablast and Shelmet both evolved into Escavalier and Accelgor respectively.
Later, Escavalier started to disobey Bianca and chase her around until prof. Juniper suggested with her Accelgor to have a double battle against Ash's newly evolved Boldore and Cilan's newly evolved Crustle. During the battle Escavalier started to go on its own and ignored orders from Bianca. It ramdomly used attacks that were causing it and Accelgor to lose the match. However, when Escavalier was about to get hit by Boldore's Flash Cannon but was protected by Accelgors Substitute causing a lot a damage to Accelgor. But thanks to this sacrifice, it learned what its partner and trainer would do for it, and started to listen to Bianca. Accelgor recovered, and then they merged their two Hyper Beams to attack Crustle, but Boldore jumped in the way and was knocked out. Cilan and Crustle avenged their fallen teamates and defeated them both with Rock Wrecker.
It reappeared in Mission: Defeat Your Rival! where it was the first Pokémon used by Bianca in the Top 64 of the Unova league against Cameron's Samurott. It dodged two Hydro Cannons and a Razor Shell, used Iron Defense three times to maximize its defense. It was unscathed by a Razor Shell, but Cameron got another one of his brilliant plans and used Razor Shell to cause a shockwave inside of Escavalier's armour, knocking him out.
Known moves
|Evolution Exchange Excitement!
|Take Down
|Evolution Exchange Excitement!
|Fury Attack +
|Evolution Exchange Excitement!
|Quick Guard
|Evolution Exchange Excitement!
|Hyper Beam
|Evolution Exchange Excitement!
|Iron Defense +
|Evolution Exchange Excitement!
|+ indicates this Pokémon used this move recently.*
- indicates this Pokémon normally can't use this move.
Voice actresses and actors
- Chinami Nishimura (Japanese as a Karrablast)
- Kenta Miyake (Japanese as an Excavalier)
- Alyson Leigh Rosenfeld (English as a Karrablast)
- Dan Green (English as an Excavalier)
- Escavalier never actually used Quick Guard, but it was proven to be able to use it in Evolution Exchange Excitement when Ash scanned it with his Pokédex.
- Escavalier is the first Pokémon owned by main character that has evolved in a trade evolution.


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Los Angeles, CA (Sports Network) - Blake Griffin got the Clippers off to a
fast start and the "other franchise" in Los Angeles drained 16 3-pointers in a
resounding 125-101 wire-to-wire victory over the rival Lakers at Staples
The lopsided win clinched the season series for the Clippers for just the
third time in franchise history and first since the 1992-93 campaign. They
have won the first three meetings and head into the All-Star break atop the
Pacific Division -- 13 games ahead of the 16-time NBA champions.
Griffin scored 18 points of his 22 points in the first quarter, while Chris
Paul chipped in 24 points and 13 assists in the club's fourth straight win.
Chauncey Billups accounted for five 3-pointers in a 21-point effort.
Kobe Bryant, coming off a four-point showing in a win over the Suns on
Tuesday, totaled 20 points and 11 assists, while Dwight Howard and Antawn
Jamison checked in with 18 and 17 points, respectively, in defeat.
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Firstly, a huge "THANKS" to Argentinean tennis site Fue buena for voting Down the Line! 2008's Blog of the Year. So cool!
They also sent over this hysterical video of David Nalbandian, his physical trainer Diego Rodriguez, and some naked bodies in a singing + dancing contest at the main carnival in Gualeguaychu, Entre Rios.
Apparently Nalby became friends with the owners of Papelitos, one of the dance groups competing at the carnival, and this video shows him singing and partying all the while wearing a very questionable outfit.
So much for Nalby's off-season training intensive, huh Murray?
(image via fuebuena.com.ar)
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
(NSFW) MEDIA MASHUP: Nalby's off-season training involved singing + dancing, boobs + butts
Labels: David Nalbandian, media, tennis, tennis blogs, video
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Congrats, Rich!ReplyDelete
*looks at Nalby*
*goes back to Rafa photo*
*looks at Nalby again*
No. Just No.
*goes back to Rafa*
- johanneJanuary 6, 2009 at 9:21 AM
BIG CONGRATS, RICH!!ReplyDelete
Will have to check out this crazy video when I'm not at work... sucks to have decency in the office LOL
- Uvijek ArgenJanuary 6, 2009 at 1:01 PM
Congrats Rich, yes Jorge from FueBuena its good guy...I thought that it was pretty cool that he name you best tennis blog.ReplyDelete
CNOGRATS Rich! You def deserve it!ReplyDelete
Same here, Johanne, gotta check out the video at home, too. But the mere picture is hystrerical. The outfit cracks me up so bad!!
WTF is going on with Davido?? Not to mention the disturbing body-painted naked people.
It was supposed to mean: CONGRATS.ReplyDelete
Sorry, was thinking of Raffé Latte.


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383 Block Engine - Here We Go AgainWritten by on October 5, 2013 Building an engine that YOU CAN WIN in 2011
If you have been contemplating whether or not to attend the 2011 Chryslers at Carlisle event, let us help you make up your mind. Once again, we have teamed up with Muscle Motors in Lansing, Michigan, to build an engine that you will never have a chance of winning if you don't show up. How's that for incentive? A few years ago, Mike Ware at Muscle Motors and I came up with this idea to give back to enthusiasts, and when we brought the idea to Ed at Carlisle Events, he was all for it. So what we do is contact manufacturers and get them involved to help us build a complete engine with quality parts that will last a very long time.
This year, it was decided that to be a little different, we would base our build off of a 383 block. You heard correctly. The 383 block is an engine that just about every Mopar guy has lying around, so this build will give you an idea of what you can do with it--unless you win this one, in which case, I could use your old one. The engine we decided to build had to have a respectable amount of power, be able to run on pump gas so it could be enjoyed regularly, and had to have quality parts so it would last a long time.
What Muscle Motors used to fill the block is their 3.9-inch stroke crankshaft, with their 6.700-inch connecting rods swinging from it. The pistons are from Diamond Racing, and are a flat top design with valve reliefs. This keeps the compression ratio at a friendly 10.5:1. With this compression ratio, the winner can fill up at any premium pump-gas pump and keep driving. Keeping with the low-maintenance high-enjoyability theme, a hydraulic roller camshaft from Comp Cams was chosen. Comp calls the part number 23-601-9 camshaft their Big Mutha Thumper, and the engine's idle quality showed us why. This thing sounds great! Anyway, the Big Mutha has lift numbers of .522 and .508 inches, with 50 duration numbers of 235 and 249 degrees.
Without a proper oiling system, your engine--yes, we said your engine in case you win--would not have survived our dyno session. When anyone mentions oiling, Milodon is definitely at the top of the list, and we covered the bottom of the engine with their windage tray and oil pan and pickup.
When it comes to economical cylinder heads, the first thing that comes to mind for many enthusiasts is Edelbrock. So we chose a pair of their cylinder heads. They work well and make power--enough said. It's hard to feed an engine without a carburetor, and if you need carbureted streetability, nothing beats a good dual-plane intake. So underneath our 950 Holley Ultra HP carburetor is an Edelbrock RPM intake. Comp Cams finished off the valvetrain, and Edelbrock finished off the bling with their valve covers and air cleaner.
So how did all of these great parts work together? After a couple of dyno pulls, and some jet and air bleed adjustments, your engine--there we go again--made a grand total of 496 horsepower at 5,500 rpm, and 540 lb-ft of torque at 3,700 rpm. That's enough torque to get any B-Body moving, and enough power to keep it going.
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2a Not only does Muscle Motors assemble engines, but they also have a proprietary line of parts such as this 3.9-inch stroker crankshaft...2b ...The factory 383 had a crankshaft arm that measured 3.375 inches. This new shaft is .525 inches longer.3 Nothing less than forged parts would work when it came to the rods and pistons. The rods are Muscle Motors proprietary with a 6.700-inch length. They also use a 2.200-inch journal size.4 The pistons are from Diamond Racing, who has been building quality pistons for quite some time. The forged slug features two valve reliefs and brings the compression ratio in at 11.7:15 To keep things in place and to keep fluids from leaking out, Muscle Motors used Milodon main cap studs and a billet rear main seal retainer.6 When it comes to oiling, keeping the system filled and controlled is the job of the Milodon oil pan and windage tray.
8a When it comes to bolt-on aftermarket street heads, Edelbrock is a name that usually tops the list. The heads received no porting work, except for the gasket match that Edelbrock gave them...8b ...We did, however, use beehive valvesprings and related parts. The beehive spring does a better job at controlling the valve as opposed to traditional spring, when spinning at 6,000 rpm.9 The focus of this build is streetability, so an Edelbrock dual-plane RPM intake was used. This intake is designed to work between 1,500 and 6,500 rpm.10 Topping off the intake is a Holley 950 Ultra HP carburetor. The Ultra HP might be a little overkill for this engine, since the available tuning possibilities are endless. But the winner can set it up to fit whatever he or she puts it in.11a When it comes to ignitions, Firecore50 is fairly new on the market, but they've made a name for themselves with quality parts. These distributors feature a special compact design that fits into locations where a larger or bulkier distributor simply will not, such as with B1 or aftermarket heads, fabricated or tall valve covers, and with dual 4-bbl intake manifolds...11b ...The housing features a CNC machined 6061-T6 aluminum housing, with a center-less ground shaft that rides on lower sealed roller bearings with an extra long upper bronze Oil-Lite bushing for smooth operation at high rpm. The adjustable mechanical advance is patterned after the race proven Mopar Performance design. It's compatible with and requires your OEM Chrysler, Mopar Performance, or aftermarket ignition control boxes. It even accepts a stock Mopar cap if you ever need to replace it.12 The guys at FireCore ignition wires tell us that their wires have been dyno-tested and racetrack proven to increase power by getting more energy to the plug, enabling you to get more power from your engine. The wires come in various styles depending on the distributor cap you're using and the type of plug boot you need.


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LANDOVER, Md. (WUSA) -- DeAngelo Hall is the NFL's version of Ryan Howard.
The Philadelphia Phillies slugger, who's always swinging for the fences, whiffs about three times as often as he belts a home run.
Hall plays cornerback for Washington with the same swashbuckling style, giving up catches underneath in hopes of later luring opposing quarterbacks into allowing him to jump a route for an interception.
That approach helped the Redskins rank 10th on defense in 2009, Hall's first full season in Washington. The defense plummeted last year, but Hall was chosen for the Pro Bowl after his big-play mentality delivered victories over Dallas (on a fumble by current teammate Tashard Choice which he forced and returned for the winning touchdown) and Chicago (an NFL record-tying four picks, one of which he returned for the clinching score) and helped beat Philadelphia (when he teamed with Kareem Moore to sideline Eagles star quarterback Michael Vick for most of the game with injured ribs).
However, 2011 has been much less productive for Hall, who was the goat on Sunday for the second time in as many games against the archrival Dallas Cowboys, failing to stay with receiver Dez Bryant on the 26-yard catch on third-and-15 in overtime that set up Dan Bailey's 39-yard field goal that beat the Redskins 27-24 three plays later.
Eight weeks earlier with Washington clinging to a late 16-15 edge in Dallas, Hall was burned by Bryant for 30 yards on third-and-21. Choice carried on three straight clock-eating plays before Bailey's 40-yarder provided the winning margin with 1:47 remaining.
In that postgame locker room, Hall ripped defensive coordinator Jim Haslett for calling an all-out blitz and leaving him in single coverage. The next day, Hall, who was so distraught he couldn't sleep, changed his tune, saying, "I might've been a little overzealous. (I'm) passionate about football. ... I was extremely frustrated. That doesn't excuse what I said. ... Definitely thought that was a ballgame we should've won. The Cowboys might actually send me a bill. I broke a couple things down there."
After Sunday's hard-to-swallow defeat, Washington's sixth straight, Hall sat at his locker partly-dressed, checked his texts and emails and declined comment. But then he decided to be a stand-up guy.
"The way I'm playing right now, they need to cut me because I'm definitely not worth what I'm getting," Hall said. "You can't slip. I'm the reason we lost. Second time in a row against Dallas. I'm definitely pissed at myself."
Of course, the Redskins aren't going to cut Hall or even bench him, especially not with fellow starting corner Josh Wilson having left the game in the fourth quarter with a hamstring injury.
But there's no doubt that Hall, who turned 28 on Saturday, six days after his wife Jada gave birth to twins, hasn't been himself this year. After averaging five interceptions over the previous six seasons, Hall has just one in 2011.
So while Hall credited Romo and Bryant for making a good play, he knows he just hasn't been the playmaker that he has always been since Atlanta chose him eighth overall out of Virginia Tech in 2004.
"When an opportunity presents itself ... and I don't go out there and make the play, it's definitely frustrating." Hall said. "We made ... changes from what we did the first Dallas game to put me in a better position to make that play, and to still not make that play ..."
On the first Sunday in six that the offense re-awakened and made plays, Hall didn't when it mattered most. And so the Redskins were swept by the Cowboys for the second time in three years and six defeats in the seven matchups with Dallas since Hall's arrival, five of them coming by a total of just 13 points.
At 3-7, the Redskins are virtually guaranteed of a third straight losing season (1993-95, 2002-04) for just the third time since the late 1960s. And they surely won't be playing when it matters most for the 10th time in the dozen seasons of this millennium.
WUSA-9's Redskins Insider, David Elfin, has covered sports since he was a junior at Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School in 1975. He is the Washington representative on the Pro Football Hall of Fame selection committee and is the author of five books on the Redskins including the new "Washington Redskins: The Complete Illustrated History."


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Reno Tahoe Weather
Lake Tahoe Is looking prime for White Christmas adventures for Locals and Travelers. Our reporters on the front lines are calling in data as we speak: over a foot in the last 24 hours @ Squaw Valley. More coming down!!!"
So you're sitting in your cozy office in East Whereversville USA and want to know if this is the weekend to hike, fly or drive out to Tahoe for some rip roaring skiing or snowboarding. But you're worried that your trip will be ruined by LACK of nasty, cold, stormy weather with HEAVY snow followed by STUNNING bluebird views of the lake…
Well never fear, here are some links to make it easy for you to pick a day when the heavy snow falls, and you can wake up and rip sick powder face-shots in the sun!
- Weather.com: easy to read and lots of good tools.
- Noaa.gov: kinda techy, but you can get storm animations. this is where local TV and most websites get their data.
- Snotel: A network of automated weather and snow monitors around the country. Marlette Lake is a few feet above Tahoe on the East Shore.
- TahoeCam: see current weather conditions all over Tahoe!
- MagnifEYE: Want to SEE the traffic, snowcover (or lack thereof) on I-80 before you head up to the lake? Check out the Kingvale pic…


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I mean, all of them say that you've known some trouble in your time.
(Fun fact: pretty much the only things I drink are champagne and bourbon. I didn't include mixed cocktails in here because if I had to figure out what a Velvet Hammer said about you I'd be here all night and want to smash this computer in with an actual hammer).
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My wife and I currently have two Colorado deer preference points from previous years. We're hoping to make our first mulie hunting trip to CO this fall, and given that this is my wife's first trip west to hunt anything, I'm looking for moderate terrain with reasonable chance of success (I realize that's all very subjective, so please bear with me).
I've been studying the MRS as well as the CO regs. Based upon the number of points we have, it looks like we might have a shot at drawing 2nd rifle season deer tags in either unit 44 or 53.
Does anyone have experience in either unit? How gnarly is the terrain? The MRS lists both as having at least some moderate terrain and good acccess. I believe 53 has had more tags and higher success rates in previous years, so I'm leaning towards it.
Another alternative: Units 75/751 in the third season as another alternative; it appears to have better draw odds still, plus may fall within the rut (hunt is Nov 5-13), but access is listed in the MRS as Fair-Good so I'm not sure how much trouble we'll have finding huntable public terrain?
I'm also curious to hear about elk in those units at that time of year.


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|Mealtime Makeovers
Don't monkey around–make it
By Ashleigh Noyes
It is no secret that I love monkey bread. I am always looking for new recipes or different versions of the same old staple so I can have another reason to make it. While searching the other day, I came across this recipe on the Pillsbury website. I thought it sounded like an awesome little treat to try, especially while we are all still in the mood for pumpkin following Thanksgiving. It is a perfect combination of two of my favorites, monkey bread and pumpkin bread! Who wouldn't love that?
Pumpkin Monkey Bread
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CHARLESTON - Survive and advance.
Class A top seed Wheeling Central did just that, barely, getting two free throws apiece from the least likely of suspects to edge No. 8 seed Parkersburg Catholic, 59-57, in overtime Thursday night in the quarterfinals of the West Virginia state high school boys' basketball tournament at the Charleston Civic Center.
This time, Goliath withstood David's best shot to advance to the semifinals. Central will take on Clay-Battelle, whiched edged Greater Beckley Christian, at 7:15 tonight.
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Photo by JEFF BAUGHN
The Wheeling Central boys' basketball team walks to the end of the court to salute its cheering section after Thursday night's W.Va. Class A quarterfinal victory against Parkersburg Catholic.
An eighth seed has never beaten a No. 1 seed since the tournament went to the seeding process. It nearly did Thursday.
In a game that featured nine ties and eight lead changes, and one that Central never led by more than two, was won at the foul line by Brian Campbell and Thomas Stanley in the final 26.6 seconds. Included in that was a key steal by Chase Harler, who got the ball to Stanley before he was nearly tackled in front of the Maroon Knights bench.
Campbell tied the game at 57-57 with 26.6 seconds left.
"You know I have a lot of confidence in 'Soup,' but I honestly am not even sure he knows what he did," a relieved Wheeling Central coach Mel Stephens said. "He's been in that position before. He hit a couple key ones at (Martins) Ferry that helped us win that game. He is probably a 60-percent shooter, probably, so ... He really came through."
He wasn't the only one
Harler, who surpassed 1,000 career points as just a sophomore, came up with a huge steal and immediately got the ball to Stanley.
"The same thing had happened earlier," Harler said. "I saw my man break open, but I made a hustle play and got it to Thomas. I thought I threw it away for a minute but fortunately Thomas was able to catch it."
Parkersburg Catholic had a chance to tie it or win it, but was unable to get a decent look and Jake Ullman's long 3-point shot wasn't even close.
"I take the blame for what happened at the end," Parkersburg Catholic coach Rob Strcula said. "I did a poor job with my timeouts and with clock management. We had been pretty successful running off screens earlier in the game but they obviously did a better job defending it on that last possession."
Before that it was mass chaos at its finest, as Wheeling Central rallied from 11 down in the second quarter and from five down twice in the fourth.
After rallying from five down once to take a 42-41 lead on a pair of Harler free throws, the Crusaders bounced back with six straight points, starting on a drive by Ullman, then a pair of free throws each from Payton Sturm and Ullman.
The Maroon Knights got a break when, after a missed free throw, the Crusaders appeared to be headed for a run out until David Park came out of nowhere to block the shot.
Sturn also missed to free throws on the next possession, essentially wiping out pair of golden opportunities to score and seal the game.
Boyd Bibey started the comeback with a 3-pointer.
Park and Harler made a pair of free throws around two by Ullman setting up the final 22.4 of regulation.
After a pair of misses by Ullman, the Maroon Knights had the ball with less than 11 seconds to play. After a timeout, Harler got the ball in the backcourt, drove to the basket and dished it underneath to Manns whose shot sent the game to overtime.
"It's a scary moment but I didn't want to let these guys down so I went up strong and scored it," Manns said. "I knew if I missed it these guys would be mad at me."
"I think we did (survive)," Stephens said. "I'm not sure the best team won, but I will say this about our kids: they found a way to get the job done. I'm thrilled to be able to move on right now."
"I do (feel like we gave one away)," Strcula, a former star for the Crusaders said. "You have to give Central a lot of credit but we had so many key turnovers and missed free throws and (the loss) hurts for that."
Wheeling Central (23-3) has won 15 in a row.
Harler led the Maroon Knights with 18 points and eight rebounds. Park had 11 and eight boards and Manns had 10 points, making all five of the field goals he attempted.
"He played a great game," Stephens said. "He didn't get a lot of touches but when he did he made them count."
Ullman led all scorers with 21 points, Joe Padden added 15 and Sturm 11.


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May 31, 2016
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) -- Quarterbacks Aaron Murray and Tyler Bray are co-Southeastern Conference offensive players of the week.
Murray passed for 384 yards and four touchdowns to lead Georgia over Mississippi. Bray led Tennessee past Troy with 530 yards and five touchdowns.
The SEC named Alabama linebacker Adrian Hubbard defensive player of the week on Monday. Hubbard had a career-high 12 tackles and a sack in Alabama's win at LSU. He was in on a fourth-quarter stop on a fourth down play.
Vanderbilt kicker Carey Spear received special teams honors after making two field goals against Kentucky.
LSU's La'el Collins and Vandy's Wesley Johnson shared the offensive line award. Arkansas end Chris Smith and Florida tackle Sharrif Floyd are co-defensive players of the week while Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel claimed freshman honors.
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|Bridge east of Wray to be replaced, detour planned
|Written by Holyoke Enterprise
The Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) is moving forward on the bridge replacement project on US 34 east of Wray near mile marker (MM) 254. The former timber bridge over the North Fork of the Republican River is both functionally obsolete and structurally deficient, requiring replacement.
So far, crews have set girders for the new bridge and have poured the new bridge deck. There will be a two- to four-day closure on US 34 beginning Monday, Oct. 29 at 7 p.m., at which time the existing structure will be demolished and the new one slid into its place.
Local detours will be necessary for motorists, as the closure will be in place 24 hours a day. Motorists who must or prefer to use highway detours will be in place into St. Francis, Kan. and Haigler, Neb. via US 34, US 36, US 385 and Nebraska/Kansas State Highway 27. A detour map is available at www.coloradodot.info/projects/us34wraybridge.
Also during the US 34 closure, CDOT maintenance crews will be making repairs to another bridge structure approximately 4.5 miles east of the Wray bridge at MM 258.9. Crews will be replacing a timber bridge deck with a new steel deck to increase the structural integrity of the bridge and to help increase safety. The maintenance work is being done in conjunction with the closure to minimize the impact to motorists. It will require a one-lane detour and a traffic signal, and overweight and oversize loads will be restricted from driving through this work zone.
Motorists should plan for minor delays on both directions of the highway during normal work days, and are urged to allow for extra travel time. Work will typically take place Mondays through Thursdays from roughly 7 a.m.-7 p.m., but during the closure of US 34 beginning Oct. 30, work will take place 24 hours a day (including Saturday and Sunday) until the work is completed in order to minimize the impact to the traveling public. Motorists are reminded to obey all road signs and flaggers and to drive slow for the cone zone throughout the work zone.
Lawrence Construction is the contractor for the $2.5 million replacement project funded through the Colorado Bridge Enterprise (CBE), a government-owned entity within CDOT. The purpose of the CBE is to complete repair, reconstruct or replace bridges that are in poor condition. To learn more about the CBE, visit www.coloradodot.info/programs/BridgeEnterprise.
Holyoke Enterprise October 18, 2012