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Manuel A. Gonzalez captained a schooner that brought supplies and mail to Fort Myers from 1850 to 1858. He fell in love with the area, but inexplicably didn't return to this area until several months after the Civil War ended. He arrived on February 21, 1866 with his 5-year old son, Manuel S. Gonzalez, brother-in-law John A. Weatherford and family friend Joseph D. Vivas to make the old fort his home. Imagine their shock when they sailed up the Caloosahatchee and first laid eyes on the picked-over ruins of the once proud fort.
They pitched a tent on the old hospital grounds and made the decision to stay anyway. While Weatherford and Vivas returned to Key West for the family and supplies, father and son did a patch job on the commanding officer's quarters, which had 8 rooms and a large stone fireplace and chimney.
The work was well along by the time that Vivas returned on March 13 with new bride, 16-year-old Christiana Stirrup, an orphan who'd been raised by the Gonzalez family. Joe and Christiana were Fort Myers' first honeymooners. A gifted carpenter, Joe built a cabin next door not far from the officer's quarters and he and Christiana became the Gonzalez's next door neighbors.
Vivas and Gonzalez replanted the garden that the soldiers had once maintained with sweet potatoes, melons, pumpkins and vegetables and made a living as interpreters for the Spanish cattle buyers who came to Punta Rassa. He also opened a small general store behind his refurbished house.
Capt. Gonzalez eventually moved from town to Manuel's Branch in March of 1872 to establish a 160-acre homestead under the Homestead Act of 1862. Where Cortez Boulevard crosses the stream, the roadway is today supported by the Manuel's Branch Bridge, a memorial honoring Manuel A. Gonzalez. The memorial consists of bridgeworks cast by local sculptor D.J. Wilkins. Wilkins was hired for the project in 2000 by the Fort Myers Beautification Advisory Board, which had commissioned more than 20 other public artworks from the "official sculptor of Fort Myers."
When he did, he sold the house and trading post to F.A. Hendry's father-in-law, Louis Lanier. Joe Vivas remained in town and played an instrumental road in building one of the piers that served the fledgling cow town in the 1880s and in installing concrete sidewalks along First Street in 1906. Sadly, there exists no memorial or public artwork commemorating Vivas' contributions to the town's early development.
True Tours provides a public art walking tour that is designed to familiar the public with the many of the public artworks interspersed throughout the downtown Fort Myers River District. Each artwork tells important stories like the ones above about our early history. For days, times and reservations, please telephone 239-945-0405 or visit www.TrueTours.net.
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- Union soldiers won the Battle of Fort Myers on this day in 1865
- February 20 is the day construction started on Fort Myers in 1850
- On February 20, 1521, Ponce de Leon set out on fateful voyage to SW Florida
- February 20 is one of Fort Myers' most historic dates
- Reflecting on the life of the 'Father of Fort Myers,' Capt. F.A. Hendry


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One of two shooting shirts for the 2013 season.
This sublimated shooting shirt by Elevation matches the official school color crimson. For the first time, we won't have to wear a maroon or cardinal shooting shirt. The lighting in this photo may suggest the shirt is closer to cardinal than crimson. However, we can assure you the final version will be crimson and match our uniforms. In the event of shirt skirting, the shooting shirt won't look like an inner tube on our players.


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Is there a tool to wipe out an entire org's data, in order to get ready to reload the test data?
I am aware of Data Loader and similar tools for loading data - I am tired of using those and am looking for something more efficient.
I am assuming that I would have to follow some sort of CSV or JSON formatting - but before I build my own tools here, I want to see if something similar already exists.


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Everton take on West Bromwich Albion Monday January 20, 2014 and will be looking to jump ahead of both Tottenham and Liverpool and reclaim the rights to fourth place in the Barclay's Premier League. One player in the spotlight remains their current on-loan striker from London side Chelsea.
Since his arrival on Merseyside with Everton, Chelsea youngster Romelu Lukaku has bagged nine goals for the Toffees and has been a major part of their current season's success.
Much like he was last season for West Brom, Lukaku has been a crucial component of making a club achieve more than many had expected from them.
Everton are on the verge of finding a way to make a shock top four finish as the Toffees are only three points from fourth place behind local rivals Liverpool.
With Lukaku known as a big part of the club's success and potential continued success next season, many have linked the on-loan Chelsea star with a permanent move to Goodison Park.
However, Everton boss Roberto Martinez knows that the Blues are not likely to listen to offers for Lukaku at this time according to his comments to Sky Sports, "I know Chelsea are not contemplating listening to any offers and Romelu is highly regarded there."
Having sold Nikica Jelavic to Hull City, Martinez needs a new permanent first team attacker on his squad. Lukaku is the most coveted choice but there is no guarantee that Chelsea would be willing to listen to offers in the summer either.
The Toffees take on West Brom this Monday afternoon as they look to move into the top four and fight for more pull in the transfer market to ensure that they can get two solid replacements for Jelavic and potentially Lukaku if he indeed is recalled to Chelsea for good this summer.
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The SRT Viper GTS-R will make its official re-entry into the fiercely competitive GT class of endurance racing when the American Le Mans Series (ALMS) travels to the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course next month. The GTS-R, developed by SRT Motorsports in partnership with Riley Technologies, will face competitors such as the Corvette C6R, Porsche 911 GT3 RSR, Ferrari F458 Italia and the BMW M3 some 12 years following the last factory supported Viper racing effort.
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"We're thrilled to return to the world-class competition in the American Le Mans Series with our flagship American supercar," said Ralph Gilles, President and CEO – SRT Brand and Motorsports, Chrysler Group LLC. "The new SRT Viper GTS-R represents a rebirth for us on the race track. It epitomizes the best of what our new SRT performance brand represents and showcases the Viper's natural affinity for road courses. Now the time has finally come to go head-to-head with the best sports car teams from around the world."
The Mid-Ohio Sports Car Challenge will be a two hour and 45 minute race around the challenging 2.5 mile course located near Lexington, Ohio. SRT Motorsports will enter two cars at Mid-Ohio and has announced that if all goes well there, the cars will be entered in the subsequent ALMS races at Road America and Virginia International Raceway, each four hours in duration, and the season-ending 10-hour Petite Le Mans race at Road Atlanta.
"The decision to make our debut at Mid-Ohio is a result of the progress made with our testing program," said Gary Johnson, Road Racing Manager – SRT Motorsports. "The car has shown steady performance. Each test has met and more often exceeded our expectations, so we'll see how things go at Mid-Ohio and then make a decision about the rest of the 2012 season."
Big shoes to fill
The new SRT Viper GTS-R has some big shoes to fill to measure up to the racing successes of the previous Viper GTS-R. The GTS-R missed the first two ALMS races of 1999 and then reeled off six straight victories to finish out the season. Viper began the following ALMS season with six more consecutive victories before seeing their 12 race winning streak ended by Corvette Racing. They then proceeded to win the next four races to take the GT-1 and driver's championships.
"I don't think it's possible to overstate the significance of the SRT Viper returning to the top level of professional sports car racing," Scott Atherton, president and CEO of the ALMS said. "The Chrysler Group has a long, storied and very successful history of competing with the American Le Mans Series. The fact that they're coming back concurrently with the introduction of the new production car and doing it simultaneously, we would be hard-pressed to come up with a better-case scenario. What a great way for the SRT Viper to come back to racing."
In addition to success in the ALMS, Viper finished one-two in the GTS class at the 24 Hours of Le Mans three consecutive times between 1998 and 2000.
Tommy Kendall added to driver lineup
Former Trans-Am series champion Tommy Kendall was recently selected to join Marc Goossens, Dominik Farnbacher and Kuno Wittmer as the regular series drivers. Ryan Hunter-Reay and a driver yet to be named will complete the three-driver lineup in each car for the longer endurance races. Kendall won four Trans-Am series championships in the 1990s and brings a wealth of experience to the Viper squad.
"Tommy Kendall is an excellent addition to our team," said Beth Paretta, Director of Marketing and Operations – SRT Brand and Motorsports. "It's fitting that Tommy makes his return to competition as the SRT Viper GTS-R returns to ALMS. His experience as a road racer makes him a strong addition to our team."
There is no doubt that the ALMS GT class is the closest, most exciting racing to be found anywhere. In the four races thus far, Porsche, BMW and Corvette have been winners, with only Corvette being able to win more than once. The top teams are experienced, disciplined and highly competitive. The SRT Viper's addition to this mix can only make it more exciting and even more competitive. Fasten your seat belts and hang on Viper fans – it's time to go racing.
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Gates and Obama's "Bipartisanship" Problem
While Barack Obama's appointments so far have produced some unhappiness among progressives, and some second-guessing from various quarters, it's nothing compared to the criticism that will erupt if he, as is rumored, keeps Defense Secretary Robert Gates in place.
This is obviously a pretty momentous decision. As Chris Bowers points out, aside from questions of war and peace and Iraq and Afghanistan, DoD is far and away the largest federal agency, with vast spending powers. The direction of DoD is also at the heart of the case for "change" that attracted many progressives to Obama in the first place.
Obama could, of course, try to reduce the sting by limiting Gates to a short tenure, giving way in six months or so perhaps to a deputy close to the new administration and its thinking (e.g., Richard Danzig). But making the appointment strictly transitional would also reduce its utility as a symbolic gesture of continuity and bipartisanship. And in any event, Gates is reportedly balking at any deal that would deny him the right to retain his own circle of high-level staff, which definitely includes people antagonistic to significant change in the Pentagon.
Moreover, on a broader front, if Obama demurs on a reappointment of Gates, he'll need to find another way to redeem his frequent campaign pledge to get beyond partisan gridlock in Washington and govern in a bipartisan, or at least post-partisan, manner.
Some Obama supporters never took this talk seriously, and would just as soon see him forget about including any Republicans in his Cabinet.
One option, borrowed from none other than George W. Bush, would be the Mineta Maneuver (in honor of Bush's first Secretary of Transportation): choosing a member of the opposition party to oversee some lower-priority department that doesn't carry a lot of ideological freight. Another, even more purely symbolic, approach would be to tap a nominal Republican who's already on board Team Obama, like former GOP congressman Jim Leach, or a non-political figure with close Republican connections, such as Jim Jones, who's reportedly slotted for National Security Advisor.
You can certainly make the argument that Obama's post-partisan rhetoric cannot be, or should not be, discharged primarily through Cabinet appointments. Again, there's a recent precedent for this dilemma. Lest we forget, George W. Bush took office claiming to be a "uniter, not a divider," touting his reputation for working with Democrats in Texas, amidst general expectations that the circumstances of his, er, ah, elevation to the presidency might make him interested in reaching across party lines.
As it happens, I wrote a piece back in January 2001 that sought to cut through all the sloppy talk on the subject and analyze ten distinct approaches to "bipartisanship." I predicted, accurately, that Bush would pursue "bipartisanship on the cheap" through symbolic gestures and efforts to pick off a few Democrats to support exactly what he wanted.
That approach is fully available to Barack Obama as well, who certainly has an electoral mandate far beyond anything the beneficiary of Gore v. Bush enjoyed. There is, however, one form of "bipartisanship" that Bush never took seriously, and that is very consistent with everything Barack Obama has said on the subject. Back in 2001, I described it as an "ouside-in" coalition:
This variety, typically used by incoming Presidents during their "honeymoon" period, involves the aggressive, direct stimulation of public opinion to push members of the opposing party, especially those from states or districts where the President is popular, to come across the line.
This is essentially bipartisanship (or if you wish, post-partisanship) from the ground up, which reaches out to rank-and-file Republicans and independents to mobilize support for big national initiatives. I contrasted this with the "inside-out" coalition--often known later as High Broderism--which involves deal-cutting in Washington across party lines.
I raise this distinction partly because it's important in and of itself, and also because it provides the essential context for the decisions Obama makes on appointments. It's one thing to appoint Republicans to positions as a signal that the new administration is interested in a broader agenda of bipartisan deal-cutting in Washington. It's another thing altogether to appoint a diverse team of officials who are all pledged to implement a clear progressive agenda.
It would be helpful if the President-elect were to address this issue clearly in the days and weeks ahead, if only to avoid confusion about the relationship of his appointments to his plans for governing the country.
UPDATE: Jason Zengerle at TNR reports that conservatives are already dismissing a possible Gates appointment as an insufficient indicator of bipartisanship, increasing the possibility that this move won't make much of anybody happy.


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"I've never understood that either," says Dave.
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Alfa Romeo returns to the United States and they are trumpeting this return with the North American debut of the 2015 Alfa Romeo 4C. I proclaimed this vehicle was a "Four-cylinder Ferrari" after a brief press-day drive. Granted, the 2015 Alfa Romeo 4C makes a paltry 237 horsepower and 258 lbs-feet of torque - it only weighs 2,465 lbs.
In this quick, first drive video, the 2015 Alfa Romeo is driven around the roads of Sonoma, CA. There will be other videos revolving around the Alfa Romeo 4C from The Fast Lane Car (TFLCar) in the upcoming week. This is a serious sports car and it's seriously fun - especially on video.
Alfa Romeo already has 84 approved dealerships that are opening up throughout the United States starting now. Most are part of FIAT dealerships and a few will be hooked up to Maserati dealerships. Prices start at about $54,000 with the first 1,000 special Alfa Romeos (called the Launch Edition) to start at $68,400.
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Hello Guys\Girls,
There are some annoying problems, that blocks you in progressing the game, but maybe there is a workaround for it until the next patch, but you just don't know about it. Here you can share your findings with the community.
This thread is not instead of reporting bugs and posting workarounds, this thread is to help each other to progress in the game further.
Workaround for the camera panning on farmlands:
You cannot pan camera to the north on farmlands
Pan it to two directions at the same time. (Press Up and a Side button \ Hover your cursor to a top corner)
Workaround for the Machine Gunners cannot jump over fences:
Machine gunners cannot jump over fences.
Crouch before the fence, then give a move command trough it. (You will see your machine gunner slide over it)
Returning to base with low fuel crash:
Sometimes when you keep fighting with low fuel the game crashes.
Whenever the return to base dialog pops up, accept it and flee!
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College Hockey:Gallery: U.S. National Junior Team at Minnesota State
Here are images from Tuesday's exhibition game between the U.S. National Junior Team and Minnesota State in Mankato, Minn.
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Sturm, V; Menke, M N; Töteberg, M; Jaggi, G P; Schoeffler, C (2012). Early onset of acquired comitant non-accommodative esotropia in childhood. Klinische Monatsblätter für Augenheilkunde, 229(4):357-361.
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Background: The aim of this study was to describe the clinical characteristics and surgical outcome of acquired comitant non-accommodative esotropia without obvious cause in children with an early onset ≤ three years of age.
Patients and Methods: 24 consecutive patients (13 females) with acquired comitant non-accommodative esotropia underwent strabismus surgery. Outcome measures included amount of deviation and level of binocularity at last follow-up.
Results: An acute onset of strabismus was observed in 83 % of patients. Accompanying features such as diplopia, covering one eye or stumbling were observed in 40 % of the children. Cycloplegic retinoscopy revealed a mild to moderate hypermetropia in all children (mean hypermetropia + 2.2 diopters). 90.5 % of children were aligned within 8 PD of orthotropia. 81 % regained normal stereovision (Lang I/II).
Conclusions: All children exhibited the typical features of acute acquired comitant esotropia (AACE) type II (Burian-Franceschetti). Collective characteristics of this form of strabismus are a comitant and relatively large deviation, mild hypermetropia, a potential of normal binocular cooperation and absence of an accommodative component and neurological pathology. Time and suddenness of strabismus onset may be less helpful in defining this entity.
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I recently got the opportunity to interview Josh Harvey of StompRomp, a company that sells guitars, effects pedals and all variety of associated accessories for Bitcoin. The result looks less like an interview and more like a three-hour-long rambling conversation between two people with a fair amount in common. I'll apologize in advance for the length of this article, I'm hardly known for brevity but I'm not famous for 5,000+ word posts either. Without further ado…
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First off, thanks for agreeing to the interview, Josh.
No problem, thanks for having me.
So while I do play, I'm not really part of your core demographic. I play mostly acoustic, so I can still use picks and strings and such, but I tend not to need pedals or amps, but it's still nice to know that the next time I need some accessories there's a place to buy them with Bitcoin.
Yeah, we do want to eventually get into acoustics. The story is, we started off in Israel, in Tel Aviv, 5 or 6 years ago and we had a guitar store there and we basically, my brother and I, moved the whole store and ourselves to New Hampshire because the bureaucracy there was just getting to be too much, you couldn't do anything and in the store in Israel we were selling acoustics, mostly an Australian company called Cole Clark but starting off here we're focusing on electric stuff and once we start building that up we'd love to get into acoustics again.
Well it's nice to know you're expanding more into my arena. My current instruments are kind of cheap and one of these days I really do need to buy a nice guitar. You're currently at the top of the list when that day comes, just based on what I've seen so far. So you said you started in Tel Aviv?
Could you tell me more about your history, personally?
Well, my family moved to Israel from Baltimore when I was about 13, so I was there with my family until I got out of the military – you have to do 3 years of manditory service in Israel – so after that I was about 23 or so and I moved to San Diego for a couple years, then I came back to Israel for a bit, went to New York City for about a year and a half, back to Israel and that's when I opened the guitar store with my brother and then we had that for about 5 years and it was going pretty well. I mean, we were definitely doing something exciting in Israel and a lot of people were excited about it, we were bringing in all kinds of stuff they'd never seen before, but it got to the point where we couldn't import amps any more because the bureaucracy was just geared up to shut down anything that wasn't a mainstream electronic item.
Interesting, so the problem wasn't necessarily you or your business model – you'll probably have a hard time finding amps in Israel in general?
Well, everything is going to be really expensive and it's very hard to find more unique stuff, like you'll find really mainstream amps that you can bring in a ton of.
Gotcha, so they'll have your Fenders and your Marshalls and stuff.
Right, and they're very expensive. First there's about a 16% or 17% VAT which is like a sales tax on everything, and on top of that they have a 15% tax just on amplifiers.
That's an oddly specific tax.
Yeah, and then on top of that you have to go through all these electrical safety tests that are specific to Israel, so you've got to pay thousands and thousands of dollars for tests for something that's already been verified safe all over the world.
Do the same restrictions apply if someone from Israel were to order one amp from your store and you were to ship it to them or is it just for larger scale import?
No, it wouldn't need to pass their testing if they're just importing one amp for their own use, so that's how people get interesting amps, they have to order it themselves from outside the country.
Which I would assume is quite expensive.
It's expensive – shipping is expensive, and they can't really order from the U.S. because the electricity is different so they've got to order from Europe and the prices in Europe are usually higher than in the U.S. and then they still have to pay all of the taxes when they get it in the mail.
So what prompted you to start accepting Bitcoin?
We actually started accepting Bitcoin in Israel and then continued it when we came here, the main reason was just because I was crazy about Bitcoin, there wasn't any real practical reason.
So what got you started in the first place?
I was researching alternative currencies in the really early days of Bitcoin, probably 2009, and I think I stumbled upon Bitcoin but at the time it was worth fractions of a cent and I didn't really think too much of it at the time. Then one day I saw somebody posted on my facebook feed that Bitcoin price was 25 cents and I couldn't believe it. From that day on I was shocked and the Bitcoin bug hasn't left my system. I started realizing over the following days and weeks how important this technology was.
Yeah, I think I hopped on board a little bit after you, I showed up just before dollar parity.
Those were crazy days, once it hit 25 cents it didn't take any time at all for it to hit 50 cents then a dollar, 3 dollars, that was just when it was starting that bubble.
That bubble… I'm sure I wasn't the only one that got hit hard by that but… I was a fairly heavy GPU miner at the time and it just wrecked my whole operation. I bounced back and obviously I'm still interested in Bitcoin but I don't think my wife has quite recovered.
I was in a buy and hold pattern back then, but by the time it got down to $2 it really started to panic me so I actually sold most of my holdings at that point but thankfully managed to re-buy them for about the same on the way back up so I got kind of lucky there I guess.
In my experience, Bitcoin tends to attract two kinds of people: economists who pick up a little crypto along the way and cryptographers who pick up a little economics. Which camp would you say you're in?
I guess I'm more in the economic-political camp even though I am a software developer so I was very interested in the way it worked and the white paper and reading the code – that was fascinating to me, but what was more fascinating to me was the economic and the political power behind it and one of those things kind of ties into what I was telling you about the bureaucracy. For me, all this overbearing bureaucracy really affects my life in two big ways. The first way is this kind of idea that in Israel you can't do what you want to do because of this bureaucracy and there's always supposedly a good reason behind it, they're trying to keep people safe from amplifiers blowing up their house and stuff like that, but in the end you just can't do what you want to do.
Because in Israel, amplifiers are what blows up houses, forget the whole "war zone" thing, it's the big scary amplifiers.
Yeah, if you look at the statistics there are actually more injuries from amps falling on people and hurting them that way than any electrical issues. People usually aren't taking their guitar amps into their bathtub.
Right, so let's ban all the heavy things someone could put on a shelf. Let's ban bricks.
Right, if you're really looking to prevent injuries then anything heavy should not be allowed at all. The whole thing about the safety is ridiculous, we're kind of getting off on a tangent but by far the most dangerous product out there are cars on government roads. So that's the most dangerous thing you can do, but nobody thinks anything of it. They're worried about the one person in the world who was electrocuted by a guitar amp last year – and by the way that amp that electrocuted the guy passed all the safety tests.
Getting back to my original point, if you look at what's happening in the financial sector in the U.S. it's way worse than bringing amps into Israel. You can't do anything unless you're a huge bank and finance touches everything, it's money right? So finance touches everything we do and that's controlled by this bureaucracy. I want that set free, I want people to be able to innovate and do their thing and not be shut down by all these heavy-handed regulation.
The second thing is, the U.S. government is doing some horrible things like keeping 2 million people in jail, most of whom aren't dangerous to society or violent people and that is all funded by money, and not necessarily by tax money, by Bernanke-printed money so the idea of putting control of the money back into the hands of ordinary people is pretty compelling.
I love that you were a software developer who came for the economics. I get the feeling that a lot of the people who came in before me had to have had a background in both in order to even understand what they were looking at and see why it was revolutionary. I didn't understand it at all at the beginning. I was fascinated by the idea of using crypto for money but I really had no background in economics before Bitcoin. I actually went out and bought a bunch of books and watched a lot of YouTube videos, took an online class or twelve and taught myself economics just to understand what was going on around me. I'd imagine that a lot of the earlier adopters like you had to have come in with a working knowledge of both.
I honestly consider you to be the lucky ones – I never even had an opportunity to take economics in High School, they didn't even offer the class. I thought nothing of it back then but now it's mind-blowing to me that they would leave out such an important subject.
Interestingly enough, you might be better off not having taken the standard economics courses. They wouldn't really teach you how Bitcoin works, Bitcoin is kind of an alternate economics that most economics professors wouldn't agree to.
Right, I imagine economics professors look at the Austrian school the same way biology professors look at creationism: they think it's nutty but they grudgingly accept that they're forced to teach it. Not that I'm comparing the two, I'm solidly Austrian and I think teaching creationism in biology is nutty as hell, but I imagine the professors' feelings are similar.
That's an interesting analogy.
I think there's a lot of support for the Austrian school starting to come back, not just because of Bitcoin but because of a lot of the economic problems in the world lately. I think people are starting to question a little bit more. When the world is being run by the Keynesians and everything seems to be working there's no incentive for people to question whether those ideologies are right or not. When you have whole markets and economies imploding around you, suddenly the opposition starts to look reasonable.
Yeah, and you bring up an interesting point about programmers coming in and getting excited about Bitcoin because of the code and the cryptography and trying to understand the economics. When a coder looks at economics he's going to look at it from a very analytical point of view, so it has to make sense to him. So they might not buy into all these things the economics professors are saying, it might not make sense to them. Economics never made sense to me when I was taught the Keynesian way, but when you look at it like simple supply and demand, there's nothing fundamentally different about a federal bank or a regular bank or anything else, they're just in the market, supply and demand and suddenly it makes sense, you can grasp the concepts and how they make sense together.
Very true, I think one of the things that resonates with me is that one of the first things I was taught as a new programmer, after they teach you flow control and I/O and the basics, one of the first higher-level concepts I played with were things like Conway's Game of Life where you have these very simple rules and interactions that on the face of them don't seem like they should be capable of creating anything interesting or complex but given the right starting conditions you get these intricate emerging phenomena. It reminds me a lot of the way Austrians view market forces, supply and demand aren't super complicated but you create this big tangled hierarchy of supplies and demands and sometimes-rational sometimes-irrational people making trades and you end up with something very complicated that despite following simple forces does really complicated and often unpredictable things. Maybe if you could control all the starting states and account for every actor you could steer or predict a market but we can't even predict the weather more than a day or two out.
Exactly, and we can see what happens with heavy-handed manipulation. It doesn't matter what kind of complex human interactions you're trying to control whether it's the market or morality, it doesn't really work. Not only that but it's kind of a violation having the government try to tell you what's good for each individual person – if it's not hurting anyone else, why should they get to tell you what to do?
I can't recall the source, but I do recall reading something very recently that resonated with that. It was a big long paper that boiled down to something like "The difference between crime and vice is that vice only hurts me. Don't try to outlaw my vice." I'm probably getting a little more political than I usually do in my articles, but it's an important point.
I agree, I think we should have the minimum possible number of laws to have a functioning society, don't kill anyone, don't steal things, that sort of stuff.
I think it's pretty telling that when the U.S. was founded, one of the first things our founders did was not to pass a bunch of laws prohibiting citizens from doing things, but instead drafted a document limiting what the government could do to the citizens.
Right, and I think that comes out of their contemporary experiences. They were fighting their way out from under this power that they felt was abusing them so it was very much in their minds.
Yeah, the entirety of North America was dominated by European colonies for most of its early life and if you look at the stuff that was happening in Europe in the 16th to 18th centuries… I think there's definitely a truth to history being cyclical – one of the interesting statistics I came across when self-educating on economics was the division of wealth in France at the time of the revolution is approximately what it is in America right now, the only difference being that we're not dying of the plague and we have better agriculture tech so most of us aren't starving. It was enough to behead leaders back then, and today no one really seems to notice.
Well there's some interesting studies about the distribution of wealth, having to do with power laws and the 80/20 law and basically the idea, the theory, is that it doesn't matter what happens you'll always have 20% of the people owning 80% of the wealth, it's not a normal distribution. So that's another thing, maybe fighting that will only lead to disaster, like these other manipulations we were talking about.
That's pretty interesting. It's one of those difficult topics where I sort of fence-sit because part of me wants to take everything the multi-billionaires have and give it to the folks choosing between paying rent and buying food, but part of me also recognizes the right of an individual to amass wealth. Economics, more than any subject I ever had proper schooling on, seems to have the most moral dilemmas. It's such a deep topic and I still can't imagine why it's not a required topic.
That's why Mises called his book "Human Action" which is kind of startling, because you're used to the idea that economics is about money but it's really about humans just interacting with humans.
And any time you have a large number of often-irrational humans interacting with one another you get incredibly complex results, moral dilemmas, drama… It should really be a bigger deal than most people make of it. There's as much philosophy as science and it deserves a lot more study than it gets.
At this point we had to move the conversation from Skype to cellphones – and after the standard niceties, the topic abruptly changed.
I really look forward to any opportunity to talk to other Bitcoiners. There are a few where I live, and I've met some good people, but Vegas doesn't really have the most active Bitcoin culture.
We've got a pretty active Bitcoin community here in New Hampshire. We usually get 15 to 30 people at the meetups. We had one guy at the last meetup who was brand new and he wanted to buy some bitcoins. We had a local exchanger there and they whipped out their phones and tablets, traded cash and the coins showed up on the guy's phone and his face just lit up. He'd done it maybe over the internet before, but it was different in person.
Yeah, there is something about an in-person exchange that makes it feel more real, more tangible.
Absolutely. Once we were at this bar and some guys who had heard about the meetup and wanted to buy some bitcoins came in. So we sat down, opened our computers, they took out some cash and gave it to one of us to do the exchange and then the manager of the bar came over. He must have thought there was a drug deal or something going on and he started being very authoritative, asking what it was all about and saying "there's no soliciting in the restaurant" and stuff like that. We tried to explain it to him and he came back and apologized for his tone and everything. We're going to go talk to him later and see if we can get him to accept Bitcoin at the bar.
That would be an awesome success story if it actually goes down that way.
Yeah, we'll see. We're trying to get everybody that we can. We're trying to copy the success of that neighborhood in Berlin where they have a bunch of shops on the same street accepting Bitcoin. I don't know if you saw that on the forums?
I did, actually, I actually got a lot of information about it when I was doing my Bitcoin Friday article, because I believe that was their big launch date for the whole thing. I honestly feel a little bad for not having included that in the article because it's kind of a big deal.
Well you could still do a whole post on it. I think that's one of the most inspiring things going on right now. It sort of showcases the two big ways Bitcoin grows, because you get these big players like WordPress.com but you also get these local, small, mom-and-pop type places where you can actually speak to the owner. Once you've got a few neighbors accepting Bitcoin you can say "Hey, accept Bitcoins, the whole neighborhood is doing it" and then if that works then it can be scaled across the whole world, and that's just really beautiful, this grassroots thing that can't be stopped.
Yeah, that's basically the definition of geometric growth, you start expanding at a point and the surface area of your local bubble, the number of businesses you touch, increases exponentially. Just pick a place and start expanding outward.
I think they key to that is having the right pitch for these guys and it has to be based more on a community type of thing, maybe a little anti-bank sentiment (nobody likes banks) but more of a community thing. These people don't really understand cryptography or the bigger political messages, but sometimes they do surprise you – I've had a few interesting conversations just asking somebody if they accept Bitcoin – but I think it could work, you can bring examples of how it's worked for other places. I can go to a cupcake store on Elm street in Manchester and say "hey, there's a place in San Francisco that's doing it and it's working great for them."
I think one of the other big pitches, that was supposed to be the big pitch from the beginning but while the infrastructure is still fairly small and young isn't a very realistic pitch, was that… They may not understand cryptography and they may not even understand who's responsible for the problems they're experiencing, but they sure understand fees and chargebacks. Right now, the fees, because your bills are all still in dollars or euros or whatever and there's costs for exchanging back and forth you end up in a scenario where it's still cheaper and you don't have the chargeback risk, but it's still more fees than Bitcoin itself sort of advertises it has. I think that'll change with scale, I mean the more people accept Bitcoin directly the less often you have to exchange, but I think that's a big hurdle for a lot of businesses – it adds another layer of complexity and at the moment it doesn't actually save them as much as they'd like it to.
Right, I think that's right. There's a pitch about "you don't have to pay the 3% credit card fee" – that's not a really winning pitch right now. The chargebacks for e-commerce is huge though, there are a lot of countries I can't even sell to. Even if they buy something on my site and I've got the credit card transaction in my hand, I can't sell to them because I know the charge will get reversed. I have to do detective work sometimes to determine if I should send the guitar or not and all the risk is on me so it's really pretty terrible for business. I always write to them "if you want the guitar send me bitcoins" but of course that never works, but if they do send me bitcoins I have no problem sending the guitar anywhere in the world, so that's a really good point but for the average restaurant, I don't know how much chargebacks really hurt them.
For a restaurant, to use your example, I don't think chargebacks are even the big risk. I'd imagine the big risk is the dine-and-ditch and without getting money up front I can't imagine there's much you can do about that.
Right, so that's not really something that Bitcoin can address.
Actually I had an article a while back about some exotic transaction types you could do with Bitcoin, and I can't recall if this was in there or not but you could so something like a pre/post authorization. That's the kind of transaction they do when you're pumping gas, for example, where they pre-authorize your card for one amount to make sure you have the funds (but don't actually take any money yet) and then post-authorize it for the actual amount you spent.
What happens if you just leave and don't pay, how do they get the money?
It depends a lot on how the transaction is structured, you could write it in such a way that both parties have to sign it or you could write it so the restaurant gets to finalize it for the actual amount, giving them a little more power. They already do it with your credit card anyway to allow for tips.
That's actually a big misconception that drives me nuts. I got a lot of comments on that article from people screaming that we shouldn't be making the protocol more complicated because it could introduce bugs and so on. Nothing in that article actually requires modification of the protocol, Bitcoin can already do it because every single transaction is a script, they just happen to be really simple scripts right now. Making this kind of transaction happen is just a matter of writing a script for it. The only modification you'd need to make is maybe adding a menu option if that kind of transaction became common enough to deserve one.
I'd imagine that's a lot like the chargeback argument, if say 5% of people leave without paying then the restaurant could afford to charge 5% less with a system like that.
That's the idea, BitcoinStore seems to be doing pretty good with that so far. I've got my fingers crossed they'll hit their minimums and stay open. But yeah, less fraud means you can lower prices by however much the fraud was costing you… Or just make that much more profit.
Well if there's competition that would drive down the profit margin, so as long as you can take out the extraneous cost you should get better prices and the market should take care of it all.
And you get to sell to Nigeria again.
Yeah. We've actually had orders from Malaysia and places like that but we couldn't send the product because we knew they'd be charged back. I don't think people who live in places like that even try to order things online because no one will sell to them, there's so much fraud. If Bitcoin were more widespread maybe we'd see more legitimate business from these countries that are sort of blacklisted right now.
We actually got a Bitcoin order from the far north of Canada, like igloo territory, no one lives up there, it was a really remote place – it was a Bitcoin order for strings. We were theorizing that maybe they've got a mining rig up there in the snow getting free geothermal energy or something.
Another thing I wanted to tell you about is this Philly Bitcoin conference we're doing in 2 weeks, December 15th. It looks like it's going to be pretty big, there are about 70 people signed up on facebook already and we haven't really started doing the main promotion yet. I also went to one of these student conferences, this one was in Philly, and there's a guy I met there and we got together for drinks and we talked about starting some kind of Bitcoin thing and it just developed from there. It's looking like it's going to be really nice.
At this point we exchanged contacts for a bit and discussed potential speakers for the conference and once again the topic abruptly changed.
I'm pretty excited about StompRomp, by the way. I mentioned that I'm more of an acoustic player, but I have been meaning to branch out a bit.
Yeah, electric is an entirely different thing. The guitar itself is different, but then you've also got all the pedals and the things they can do are so wildly different, just hooking up a new pedal can be like being handed a completely different instrument.
I'm also very interested in the electronics and engineering and pedals seem like really intriguing projects.
They really do represent some complex systems. A lot of it is, y'know, how waveforms get modified as they go through these old transistors, vacuum tubes, they just do crazy things with these signals that are very very hard to model.
It seems like one of the last places where analog is still the norm, though there is a lot of digital showing up on the marketplace these days. There's some software out there that will provide a pretty convincing simulation of different pedals and amps. You can still hear the difference but it gets more convincing by the day.
I have no doubt it's going to go there, it's exactly the same thing that happened with film. For a long time they had digital cameras, and they were good but they weren't quite there in terms of quality, convenience, ease-of-use, but once it hit a certain point it just overwhelmed film so much that it just left them in the dust and no one is using film any more – except maybe for actual films, movies, some of them are probably still shot the old fashioned way but that's going to go by the wayside too. I think that'll happen with guitars, amps and pedals too. We've already sold some really convincing pedals, delay pedals, echo pedals, you can still tell the difference if you're really looking for it but there's something "dirtier" about the analog, more interesting, but eventually we'll get there, especially with tubes. Vacuum tubes are such a pain in the ass, and there are people just waiting to ditch them.
You made a great analogy there with film going digital. What I'm looking forward to is this threshold, even more than the convenience threshold… I don't know if you knew this or not, it's one of my favorite pieces of trivia, but the original movie "Tron" was disqualified for a Visual Effects Oscar award because computer graphics were considered "cheating" and today obviously computer graphics are the norm. For a long time, computer graphics were just simulating what happened in the real world more and more convincingly, sort of like the digital effects pedals are just simulating analog now. Today, CGI has moved beyond the constraints of reality and can define its own rules – I'm waiting for people to start doing that with digital pedals, break out of the analog box.
There are some effects pedals that are digital and are starting to do crazy things. That's actually what happened in the analog world, the analog pedals in the beginning were just trying to emulate certain kinds of amps and then people started doing crazy things with these pedals that you can't do with any amp. I agree, though, that's when you really know that a technology has arrived is when people are doing new crazy things with it, not just trying to copy the old stuff in a new way. Hopefully the same thing will happen with Bitcoin.
I was just about to draw that parallel.
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Addressing the gathering, Secretary-General of the Ministerial Committee for the Environment Nizar bin Ibrahim Tawfiq praised the efforts of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), and the Kingdom's Meteorology and Environment Protection Agency (MEPA) for their cooperation in organizing this important conference. Environmental issues, he said, are not separate from matters of development, and are affected by the behavior of individual members of society. One participant is Chairman of Iran's Department of the Environment Dr. Ma'asooma Ibtikar; she called for intensive studies to be conducted to eliminate environmental problems through legislation.


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Tonight's Food Network episode of "Rewrapped" gave three chefs a chance to recreate Utz's Pretzel Rods, a snack food nearly everyone in America has tasted. As Joey Fatone hosts the show, he introduces the chefs on this episode titled, "That Makes Two of Utz!"
The chefs competing tonight are; Janice Hardgrove, owner of Peace, Love & Cupcakes in Woodstock, N.Y., Jeremy Noffke, head chef of the New South Restaurant Group and Rachel Crampsey owner and head baker at Montclair Bread Company in Montclair, N.J.
The judges are; head judge and snack food King Marc Summers, Utz's Technical Services Manager, Molly Mancini and host of Food Network's The Kitchen, Jeff Mauro.
For the first round, the chefs had to recreate those delicious pretzels and will be judged on taste and appearance. Rachel scored 21, Jeremy scored 18 and Janice scored 16.
The innovate challenge was based on taste, appearance and creativity using the pretzels. Rachel made a chocolate caramel pretzel tart, Jeremy made pretzel fried chicken with Welsh rarebit sauce, and Janice made pretzel hippie chippers cookie sandwiches.
The judges gave Rachel a score of 14; Jeremy received 18 and Janice received 28 for a total of 44, a year's supply of Utz Pretzel Rods and the title of Rewrapped Champion on this episode of "Rewrapped."
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"With our changing economic climate it's more important than ever for Medicare beneficiaries to make the most of their benefits, enroll in any savings programs for which they qualify, and review their current coverage," said SHINE Director Alexandra Kruse. "Our volunteer counselors throughout the state can help seniors assess their eligibility for prescription savings programs and whether or not changes to coverage or benefits would lower their costs."
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The R J Reynolds Company, the second largest cigarette company in the US, has been handed a $23.6 billion dollar settlement order by a Florida jury. The settlement was on behalf of the smoking husband of Pensacola wife Cynthia Robinson.
We aren't fans of smoking. Indeed, we've wondered off and on through the years whether it's, yes, we mean this, a sinful behavior. Seeing as it does significant damage to your body and that virtually everybody knows it, it's easy to imagine that the practice is ill advised, to say the least.
Yes, we know of the addictive qualities in cigarettes. We know as well that addictions are tough to overcome. Charity alone suggests that we ought to be considerate of anyone dealing with real addictions, as smoking almost certainly is. Still, as they tend to based on chosen behaviors and as the surest way to break them seems to be willpower, we don't want to let the individual entirely off the hook about addictions either.
The bottom line is that Michael Johnson Sr., her husband, was engaging in a legal behavior which he was not forced to do. He chose to smoke; cigarettes weren't lit and nicotine forced into his lungs. As sad as it may be, he did it to himself. It's hard to blame R J Reynolds, a company doing business legally selling a legal product, for his death.
We really don't mean that to sound so harsh. But we don't know what else to say. Unless and until smoking is made illegal, it's the smoker who actually has responsibility for his smoking and the damage which the practice does to him. When all is said and done, awarding $23.6 billion dollars the family of a smoker, for his essentially killing himself, seems absurd.


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It took nearly five hours to play 13 innings of baseball, but the folks that endured the Potomac bullpen woes were rewarded with a pair of one-run victories — 8-7 in the opener, 4-3 in the nightcap as the P-Nats won their ninth and tenth consecutive games.
Ross Detwiler took the hill on a rehab start in Game One and went four innings. Shaking off the rust is the point, of course, and the southpaw scattered seven hits (all singles) over three and 2/3rds innings. Thirty-eight of sixty pitches went for strikes, as the 27-year-old struck out four but walked none.
The offense, which has shown a proclivity for the big inning, got started early with a four-spot in the 1st, highlighted by a triple-double-single sequence from the 4-5-6 batters Jason Martinson, Adrian Nieto, and Kevin Keyes.
Brian Dupra followed Detwiler out of the 'pen, but was lit up for multiple runs for the third time in his last four appearances as Frederick rallied for two in the 5th and two in the 6th to tie the game at five.
Since this unbeaten streak has begun, the dirty little secret is that Potomac has been able to hit their way out of any pitching mistakes. In 11 games, they've scored 74 runs (that's counting the five scored in the suspended game on Thursday), an average of 6.72 runs per game.
That trend continued as the P-Nats rallied for three in the last of the 6th, as Adrian Sanchez singled, took third on an errant pickoff and trotted home on a Billy Burns triple. Michael Taylor sent in Burns with his big fly that went deep into the woods beyond left field to put up Potomac, 8-5.
The rally helped make a winner out of Richie Mirowski, who had blown the save (his 5th) by letting in two runners he had inherited from Greg Holt, though he served up a two-run homer following an error to make things close, 8-7.
Having used three relievers in seven-inning game, the P-Nats needed strong start from A.J. Cole in the second game of the doubleheader… and got one. The 21-year-old put on a show, striking out 11 over six innings with just two walks allowed. He allowed just three hits, but one of them left the yard for a solo shot that gave Frederick a 1-0 lead in the 3rd.
Frederick's Trent Howard, who's mostly been used as a reliever, kept the Potomac bats quiet for four innings before turning over the ball to Matt Price in the 5th. Price let up a double and a walk in the 5th, then walked Martinson to lead off the 6th.
As is so often in single-A ball, one mistake can turn an ordinary inning into something special (or awful, depending on your point of view). A grounder to third that looked like a 5-4-3 DP with the lumbering Keyes was dropped at second. Instead of two out and nobody on, it was two on and nobody out.
The Keys called on David Walters to clean up the mess, but the 25-year-old veteran only made things worse. He got Sanchez out on a tapper to the mound that was hit too slowly for a twin-killing, but then had trouble hitting the backstop (well, the one with the glove) as he let in Martinson with the first of four wild pitches, then gave up an RBI triple to Justin Miller, an RBI double to Cole Leonida.
After Oduber flied out to right for the inning's second out, the second wild pitch moved up Leonida. Billy Burns broke his bat and rolled one to short that never saw the infield dirt, as Burns easily beat it out to cap the four-run binge.
Up 4-1, Derek Self was given the ball in the 7th and struck out the first batter. Then, like last call at a singles bar, things got ugly fast. Self walked three of the next four batters, with a single interrupting the string while throwing a wild pitch. (If you've lost count, that was the seventh of the game between the two teams).
Rob Wort was summoned with the bases loaded and a 4-2 lead and promptly issued the fourth bases on balls to cut the lead to one at 4-3. He narrowly avoided the fifth walk with a strikeout on a full count then got the grounder to short that Martinson gunned across to end it.
With the doubleheader sweep, and a split between Lynchburg and Salem, Potomac's magic number is now six with nine games to play in the first half. Taylor Hill (4-2, 3.78) has the dial and will try to set the amp for 11 with Frederick's Tim Berry (3-3, 4.63) opposing him in the series finale.
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Great stuff, Luke. Sounds like a lot of fun.
Most encouraging of all is the report on Cole. He's still a pup, and it looks like Rizzo did very well in getting him back.
If you look up "pathetic" in the dictionary, you will find a picture of Potomac's bullpen. How this team is winning in spite of the relievers is amazing. There should be some serious wholesale changes made after the first half.
Those who saw Cole pitch- did he have less
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Pleff, MillerTime and McM join Nats!
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College Hockey:A more physical game, but another consistent effort for Union in a season full of them
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. — All season long, Union has been lauded for its consistency — the buzziest of hockey buzzwords.
It's the Holy Grail of team play; the be-all, end-all of what every player, coach and fan is looking for at both the micro and macro levels.
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The Dutchmen skate hard every shift. They make smart first passes. They forecheck like demons and backcheck with desperation regardless of the time, score or opponent. Even their results are consistent: Schenectady's icers are on a 14-game unbeaten streak (13-0-1), won their last three games by 5-2 scores and the three before were all shutouts.
Resident college hockey expert Dave Starman picked Union for the national championship because the Dutchmen can "play any game." That's not because they are versatile; it's because — inevitably — almost any game becomes Union's game.
Whether winning, tied, or losing, it never seems to take long before the game resembles something familiar.
In last weekend's ECAC Hockey championships, Union had a quick response for Cornell and Colgate when the lower seeds threatened to stick around. Each time the opponent scored, Union was there with a decisive counterpunch.
The Dutchmen did it again in Friday's East Regional semifinal game against Vermont after Catamounts captain Chris McCarthy knotted the game at 1-1 midway through the opening period.
Max Novak's power-play strike 69 seconds later extinguished Vermont's momentum and the Catamounts never got it back.
"One thing we've discussed as a team is, take whatever's given," said Dutchmen captain Mat Bodie, one of the team's three goal-scorers Friday afternoon. "The guys did a great job of battling back. … That power-play goal to get that lead back was huge for us."
"I thought they were pretty much what I expected them to be coming in," said McCarthy. "They're a good passing team, they find open guys, their D were moving. They're going to be a tough out for anybody, for sure.
"They're really deep, play tough, good special teams, obviously. They were pretty tough to play against — it's going to be really tough for anybody to beat 'em, I think."
Some pundits have ruminated on Union's vulnerability to physical hockey, but that seems to be fading away as either outdated methodology or outright myth.
Cornell tried to hit the Dutchmen and missed. Colgate hit them but at the expense of responsible defending.
Friday, the Dutchmen hit right along with the elephantine Catamounts, but also managed to outskate and outwork the burly Burlington boys over the course of 60 minutes.
"I thought this was a lot more physical," Union coach Rick Bennett said of Vermont. "They were a lot more physical than what we saw last weekend. You've gotta keep your head up, especially on their forecheck. They force you into spots where you don't want to be, and that's a sign of a good team."
Vermont did that, but couldn't contain.
"They're an excellent team, and they took advantage of their opportunities," Vermont coach Kevin Sneddon said. He was talking about Union's 2-for-7 power play, but he may as well have been talking about the entire evening.
After all, in the end it was just another consistent performance in another familiar Union game.
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Adams-Kilgo Duo Fall In Quarterfinals At All-American
Samantha Adams (pictured) and Kenna Kilgo fell in the quarterfinals of the Riviera/ITA All-American.
October 4, 2013
LOS ANGELES – USC's unseeded duo of Giuliana Olmos and Zoë Scandalis continued their run on Friday with an 8-4 win over the eighth-seeded duo of Samantha Adams and Kenna Kilgo of Texas Tech at the Riviera/ITA All-American Championships at the Riviera Tennis Club.
Olmos and Scandalis, who are ranked No. 54, lost in the first round of pre-qualifying, but were awarded a "lucky loser" bid into the qualifying draw and have not looked back, as the tandem topped the No. 9 team of Adams and Kilgo, 8-4, to advance to the semifinals of the event.
Adams and Kilgo were the last of the eight seeds alive. At the end of play on Friday, all three remaining seeded teams had be eliminated.
Texas Tech's Adams and Kilgo will return to action Oct. 17, when the Lady Raiders travel to Fort Worth for the ITA Texas Regional Championships.


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