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"So you can't coast on that?" The question comes up pretty often. My bike is usually out in front of my desk and folks catch on pretty quick that there's something odd about it. No shifters, no corncob, no derailleurs. The question comes up after the explanation, and it almost always boils down to "why?". I know it's been said before many times, many ways – here's my go…
Belt drives are like corduroy and Ska – they come in and out of fashion, like very 15 years or so, and this year belt-drives are back (maybe the Mighty Mighty Bosstones are planning a reunion or we can at least remember what it was like before No Doubt).
So here's Bill Davidson holding a Delta CDrive for a project bike. He's planning on building "a clean, oil-free bike that you can put together in a hotel room, or quickly break it down when the bike racks are full on a bus."
A belt-drive single-speed will debut at Interbike, Ellsworth's Signature Ride is belt-driven, and the Bicycle Design blog is pondering belt-driven design.
As belt-drives come and go, what do you think? For Urban Bikes, seems to make sense, unless it's wet and they slip.
Great news on the future of Seattle's neighborhood transportation– you'll be allowed to bring your bike on when you ride the SLUT (don't worry, the link is work-safe). According to the Seattle DOT, bikes will be allowed in the center of the South Lake Union
Trolleys Streetcars.
The unfortunate acromyn for the new coaches wouldn't be so bad if the coaches themselves were a bit more, erm, attractive. The photos on the SDOT site look faintly like a train of elongated orange daleks. I'm sure that's not their final design though, right?
When I got to Carhaix, the last checkpoint before Brest, I had been awake for 29 hours. I had never been awake that long before, much less ridden 300+ miles at the same time. In spite of latching onto a tandem I was still having a pretty miserable time. At that point I would have told anyone thinking of doing this ride to run screaming and never think of it again. Various scenarios were running through my head, and they all involved abandoning and catching a train back to Paris or cutting the ride short. Can I just turn around here? carry on to Brest and catch a TGV back to Paris from there?
Now that the rain's arrived in the pacific northwest I think it's safe to say Cyclocross season's officially underway. A couple of races went down last weekend. SeattleCyclocross.com has a good run down of local upcoming events on their schedule. Personally, I'm hoping to make it out to Starcrossed next weekend.


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In the File system tab of the Library Browser no elements are shown, only the folders - so how does one select a block to insert?
If one browses alternatively through the pages on the Tags tabs, it shows the icons but goes on allocating memory (GB's!) for ever till the Library Browser eventually hangs (after a few pages).
So what now? Or is my machine sick?
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- Jan 15:
- Niners-Seahawks rivalry: We hate each other because we're so alike
- 49ers-Seahawks game could hinge on turnovers
- Seahawks' Richard Sherman doesn't 'hate' 49ers
- Kawakami: Boldin only seems like he's been here forever
- 49ers cornerback Carlos Rogers returns to practice
- Jim Harbaugh says he has 'great memories' of Seahawks' Richard Sherman
- 49ers' Kaepernick: Protecting football key against Seahawks
- What 49ers' Harbaugh would give up to be playing Sunday
- No denying 49ers-Seahawks rivalry
SANTA CLARA -- Coach Jim Harbaugh said Wednesday that outside linebacker Aldon Smith emerged from a rehab stint for substance abuse earlier this season a changed man, and Smith's play is back to an elite level.
"We all tend to forget that the reason we got smart is because we learned from our mistakes," Harbaugh said. "That's how you get smart, by learning from your mistakes. He's been really good."
Smith recorded two sacks and a season-high nine tackles against the Seattle Seahawks when the 49ers played the Seahawks on Sept. 15. A little more than a week later, Smith entered a rehab facility on the heels of an incident in which he crashed his vehicle into a tree and was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving.
He missed five games while receiving treatment at an undisclosed facility. He returned in time for the 49ers game against the Carolina Panthers on Nov. 10 and played the final eight regular-season games.
Five of Smith's 8 ½ sacks came after his return from the rehab stint. More and more, Smith has regained the form that enabled him to dominate as a pass rusher his first two seasons.
During that time, Smith recorded 33 ½ sacks, the most by any player in his first two seasons in the league.
"On the field, he's been outstanding," Harbaugh said. "Teams that want to block Aldon Smith one-on-one are whistling Dixie. That's the way he's playing right now.
"Therefore, he's getting quite a bit of double-teams, chips, help from the back and tight end. He's really playing well."
Smith was not available for comment Tuesday or Wednesday.


text: The first trailer for the much-anticipated James Deen-Lindsay Lohan bangfest The Canyons is finally here. It's about what you'd expect: lots of violence, sex, and sleazy-looking LA action. The film, written by Paris Hilton-defender Bret Easton Ellis and directed by Taxi Driver scribe Paul Schrader, lacks both a release date and, judging from the trailer, dialogue.


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OAKLAND -- To Ernest Doty, the walls of Mary and Robert Jeffrey's print shop are an artistic and financial opportunity. But to the Jeffreys, they are a costly magnet for graffiti vandals and profiteers.
Their conflicting visions are being played out in neighborhoods throughout the city as street artists such as Doty go door-to-door pitching murals to property owners as insurance against rampant tagging.
"They say the tagging will stop if you let us put a mural on your building," Mary Jeffrey said. "How much more blunt can they be? That is extortion."
In Oakland, the line between extortion and free enterprise has blurred. So has the line between vandalism and art.
The city is enjoying a golden age of murals and street art. But it also is grappling with a graffiti epidemic like none it has ever seen. Nothing is off-limits anymore. Not churches, not the top of the iconic Paramount Theatre, not even murals themselves. Doty's work gets tagged regularly.
And it's difficult to separate the good guys from the villains. Several of Oakland's most prolific taggers are also its most gifted artists.
City leaders hope that subsidizing more street art will reduce tagging, but they are struggling to reconcile the twin phenomenon. This year, the City Council passed a law that criminalized tagging while setting aside up to $400,000 for mural projects.
Meanwhile, property owners in heavily tagged parts of East and West Oakland are trapped in a graffiti no man's land. The city won't protect them from taggers, but still threatens them with fines if they don't clean up quickly after the vandals strike.
The only people offering protection are muralists. Many will paint for free if given creative carte blanche. But if a property owner wants input on the design, they can expect to pay about $1,000. Some murals do the trick; others get tagged.
Doty, a reformed tagger whose slender frame, bald head and tattooed neck give him the look of a punk rock monk, has been turned down many times. But he said the most hostile rejection came earlier this year when he and a friend made their pitch to Robert Jeffrey at his West Oakland print shop.
"He just unleashed a flurry of hatred on us like a tornado," Doty recalled. "He said, 'the next person I catch (tagging), I'm going to shoot them. I don't care how long I'm going to be in prison.'"
Jeffrey, an 82-year-old retired police officer turned small-business man, doesn't recall the encounter. But he said frustration over graffiti is starting to boil over.
There already had been several tagging-related confrontations before a law student ran over an Oakland man with her car while pursuing taggers earlier this month. One tagger, who goes by the name Irot, said a motorist tried to run him over two months ago while he was spray-painting in West Oakland.
"The danger is there are a few people ... who are very upset and if they catch somebody, something bad is going to happen," Robert Jeffrey said. "As a matter of fact, if I catch somebody ... I'm going to commit an act that I'll be sorry for."
Graffiti has been part of Oakland's aesthetic for decades. But in the last couple of years the nature and sheer volume of it has changed dramatically. Gang-related tags that had reigned supreme are harder to find. Stepping into the void are aspiring artists and self-promoters who aren't marking territory so much as marketing themselves.
Their monikers range from mundane scribble and bubble letters to gallery-quality calligraphy that now blanket buildings, utility boxes, freeway signs and even trees across town.
City graffiti removers covered up nearly 60 percent more tags in 2012 than in 2010. The abatement effort cost taxpayers more than $1 million last year.
The rise in vandalism has coincided with Oakland's emergence as a leading center for street art beckoning muralists from all over the country. "This is it," Kristi Holohan said of Oakland, where she organizes mural projects with politicians and taggers alike. "It's like here and Paris and Eastern Europe."
Irot is in many ways the quintessential new breed Oakland street artist. He's a 28-year-old transplant from New Mexico who has a foothold in both the art and tagging worlds.
"(Tagging) is like an adrenaline rush pretty much," he said while contributing to a mural in Oakland's Uptown District. "After awhile the thrill is gone, so you have to keep escalating."
Like Doty, Irot has offered to paint murals for people whose properties get frequently tagged, but he doesn't always take "no" for an answer.
"It's almost like if you don't want me to do it, then I'll just do it when you're asleep," he said. Asked what he would say to property owners whose buildings he's tagged, Irot replied, "Oops. I did it again."
Council members tried to get tough on tagging this year. They approved funds for more graffiti removers and passed a law allowing the city to fine taggers up to $1,500 and seek additional civil penalties. But so far no fines have been levied, primarily because taggers are elusive targets.
Oakland police have little time to chase after 20-something vandals and can't identify masked taggers caught on security cameras. As of September, police had made 116 vandalism-related arrests this year, about 10 percent of which involved graffiti, Sgt. Johnna Watson said.
Muralists have a different solution for tagging: less graffiti abatement and more graffiti art.
"If you're going to invest in continually doing something, invest in something that is beautiful and creative, instead of something that is dull and ugly and guaranteed not to last," street artist Desi Mundo said.
Mundo, who founded the nonprofit Community Rejuvenation Project, is among several leading street artists who double as community leaders spearheading mural projects and working with local kids.
Doty also has contributed his time to volunteer beautification projects, and sees his work as helping the city. "What if every house had a mural on it?" he said. "Can you imagine how exciting it would be to walk across the street?"
The fine line between street art as a public service and street art as a public nuisance can best be seen along the Solano Way alley in East Oakland. The alley was frequented by prostitutes and a haven for illegally dumped trash until several artists, including Doty and Irot, transformed it two years ago into an outdoor gallery that is now a source of neighborhood pride.
Yet, less than one block away, along East 17th Street at 12th Avenue, street artists of a different stripe ran roughshod over Sam Chan's auto shop. Facing threats from the city and hundreds of dollars in annual painting bills, Chan finally said "yes" when two artists stopped by and offered to paint. Sections of his building now look like a 1970s New York City subway car.
"I don't like it, but I have to let them," he said. "They can't be stopped."
For property owners, there is no easy answer when muralists come knocking. Some reported agreeing to murals that got wrecked by taggers; others, such as David Perez, who was paying $6,000 a year to cover graffiti on his West Oakland buildings, say their murals have worked as advertised.
"I think it is wrong for me to pay to support guys tagging the city," Perez said. "But on the flip side, I think that some of this stuff has some kind of meaning and you either give in or it is going to cost you $6,000."
Mary Jeffrey is giving in, too. She recently decided to commission a mural that will honor important people in Oakland history. One of those to be immortalized is none other than Robert Jeffrey, who fought discrimination as a regional director for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission after he left police work.
Jeffrey is not excited about being on the mural. But Doty is excited for him.
"I'd like to think that something I said had an impact in there," he said. "I hope that it brightens his spirit and eases his mind."
Contact Matthew Artz at 510-208-6435.
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3 Americans win economics Nobel
Published: Monday, October 14, 2013 at 7:27 a.m.
Last Modified: Monday, October 14, 2013 at 7:27 a.m.
STOCKHOLM (AP) — Americans Eugene Fama, Lars Peter Hansen and Robert Shiller won the Nobel prize for economics on Monday for developing new methods to study trends in asset markets.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said the three had laid the foundation of the current understanding of asset prices.
While it's hard to predict whether stock or bond prices will go up or down in the short term, it's possible to foresee movements over periods of three years or longer, the academy said.
"These findings, which might seem surprising and contradictory, were made and analyzed by this year's laureates," the academy said.
Fama, 74, and Hansen, 60, are associated with the University of Chicago. Shiller, 67, is a professor at Yale University.
American researchers have dominated the economics awards in recent years; the last time there was no American among the winners was in 1999.
The Nobel committees have now announced all six of the annual $1.2 million awards for 2013.
The economics award is not a Nobel Prize in the same sense as the medicine, chemistry, physics, literature and peace prizes, which were created by Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel in 1895. Sweden's central bank added the economics prize in 1968 as a memorial to Nobel.
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- Mar 7:
- Thousands mourn, celebrate slain Santa Cruz police officers
- Live blog recap: Slain Santa Cruz police officers' funeral service
- Huge turnout, long procession expected for Santa Cruz officers' memorial in San Jose
- Mar 6:
- Hundreds pay respects at casket viewing for Santa Cruz's fallen officers
- Former Portland probation officer feared Santa Cruz cop killer
- Mar 5:
- Man who allegedly stole flowers from fallen officers memorial appears in Santa Cruz courtroom
- Public casket viewing Wednesday for fallen Santa Cruz officers
- 33-mile motorcade for fallen Santa Cruz officer scheduled for Thursday morning
- Mar 4:
- Santa Cruz police shooting: Wearing badge is never routine
- Mar 2:
- Why did Santa Cruz shooter, with so sketchy a background, have registered handguns?
- Mar 1:
- Memorial for slain Santa Cruz police officers moved to HP Pavilion
- Feb 28:
- Santa Cruz Sheriff: Two cops had 'no chance to protect themselves' in shooting
- Getting honest about Santa Cruz's story
- Court martial of Jeremy Goulet following alleged rapes in Hawaii was dropped
- Teacher of Hawaiian healing arts, chanted prayers as Santa Cruz police chased, shot down suspect
- Feb 27:
- Santa Cruz officer slain was mother of two served 'the community in the best way '
- Santa Cruz fallen officer: Sgt. Loran 'Butch' Baker always wore shorts -- and a big smile
- In confronting suspect Jeremy Goulet, Santa Cruz police officers found a troubling history
- Coastal town Santa Cruz reels from shooting deaths of police officers
- Sister says slain Santa Cruz police detective Elizabeth Butler loved her job
- Santa Cruz sheriff: Killer shot two plainclothes officers at his doorstep
- Father of California police shooting suspect says son was 'ticking time bomb'
- From the archives: Santa Cruz Sgt. Loran 'Butch' Baker has hands full patrolling main downtown drag
- Fallen Santa Cruz officer saw policing like parenting, public relations
- Santa Cruz police shootings: Suspect had gun conviction, and had been arrested Friday
- Feb 26:
- Video: Phil Wowak reports two officers killed in Santa Cruz
- Live blog: Two Santa Cruz police officers and suspect dead after shootout
- Two Santa Cruz police officers, suspect shot and killed
SANTA CRUZ -- Even before his sudden death at the hands of a gunman Tuesday, Santa Cruz police Sgt. Loran "Butch" Baker had left a legacy.
In addition to being one of the most veteran and respected officers in town, Baker, a 28-year member of the force who was nearing retirement, passed on the love of policing to his son Adam. The young man was just out of Harbor High School when he started serving as community service officer, a position he still holds.
In 2010, the Sentinel reported Adam Baker had grown up hearing stories from his well-respected father.
"I've grown up around this place," he said. "I've always wanted to work for Santa Cruz."
At the time, Butch Baker said the choice his son made to follow in his footsteps "kind of threw me for a loop."
Their mailboxes were placed side by side at the department.
"I've been inspired by that 'new guy' persona. ... I get glimpses of me when I first started," Butch Baker said at the time.
Police Chief Kevin Vogel was Butch Baker's partner at the time Adam Baker was born.
Baker worked with UCSC Executive Vice Chancellor Alison Galloway, a noted forensic anthropologist, on several notable cases including the still-unsolved case of Pogonip Jane, a woman whose remains were found in Santa Cruz's largest greenbelt in 1994.
Butch Baker said in 2010 that he told his son to work hard for the department.
"It's a great community to be a cop in," he told the Sentinel. "You don't get bored."
Deborah Elston, a co-founder of the advocacy group Santa Cruz Neighbors, has relied on Butch Baker for support and who has been working with Adam Baker recently to help clean up the San Lorenzo River levee.
"It's such an incredible loss of his expertise and just a salt-of-the-earth guy," Elston said, adding that he was "very personable, thoughtful and very approachable."
In addition to his son, Baker leaves behind a wife and two daughters.


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If you ever spend the day at the Silver Lake golf course on the north shore of Staten Island, New York, pay attention. It's not that the greens are particularly speedy or that the course is unusually challenging. What you should keep your eye out for, instead, is a simple stone surrounded by flowers near the clubhouse. A plaque on the stone reads: "The Forgotten Burial Ground: Here lies the unmarked graves of Irish immigrants who fled the famine in search of freedom … They will not be forgotten."
From 1849 – 1858, beneath what is now the golf course, a cemetery was created to bury immigrants who perished at a notorious quarantine hospital nearby, which was eventually torched and destroyed by nativists.
In fact, just last year, former New York Archbishop Edward Cardinal Egan presided over a memorial mass in honor of Irish immigrants who died at the same hospital and were buried in other un-marked graves on Staten Island.
What Was It Like?
This regrettable slice of history sheds light on an easily forgotten aspect of immigration during the Great Hunger. Much time is spent debating why the Famine occurred, what could have been done to prevent it, and the ways it changed not only America, but also Canada, Australia, England and other nations.
Such big-picture questions make it easy to forget what the actual arrival of individual Irish immigrants – those who survived the treacherous journey to North America – was like. What did they experience once they'd crossed the Atlantic and entered the ports of Manhattan or Boston, Quebec or Brooklyn? What kind of entrance process was there – if any? What obstacles did they face when it came to health, housing, and jobs? Or, for that matter, personal safety? The docks, after all, were often rife with criminals who sought to exploit the desperate new arrivals.
The First Illegals
One problem with attempting to understand a Famine immigrant's first experiences in the U.S. is that there are relatively few first-hand accounts from the 1840s. Other traumatic historical horrors, such as the enslavement of African Americans or the Holocaust, are simply better documented. We do, today, commemorate the immigrants who landed at Grosse Île, Canada, where typhus, dysentery and cholera left thousands dead. [See article in this issue on Grosse Île.] In Peter Quinn's landmark historical novel The Banished Children of Eve, one character lands at Grosse Ile after a five-week journey from Ireland that left 48 people dead, "one fifth of those who sailed."
An official in a blue jacket arrived and went about the entire ship poking into every corner. … He said that a boat would be sent to bring the sick to the island, where they would temporarily be held in quarantine, but that the bodies of the dead must be brought immediately…. The flies made a frenzied hum in the air…. [A] woman delirious with fever [was] praying and cursing in Irish.
Of course, not every crossing to North America was so deadly. The famous Jeanie Johnston ship crossed from Ireland to Quebec in relative safety over a dozen times. In addition, not every Irish immigrant who arrived in Canada stayed in Canada. Quite a few (such as the character Jack Mulcahey in The Banished Children of Eve) went to the U.S., making them the first large wave of border-crossing illegal aliens. Indeed, whether they went from Canada to Boston or New York or Chicago (a city which only began to grow in the 1840s), the first thing many Famine immigrants did was move yet again, in search of work, shelter or, at the very least, stability.
Melville, Thoreau and the Irish
By now, we do know a fair amount about conditions aboard the "coffin ships" on which many immigrants traveled.
Books by Famine-era Irish writers such as Mary Anne Sadlier, Peter McCorry and Father Hugh Quigley often included scenes of the "crossing to America," which is "seen as a wrenching rite of passage, the violence of which is often symbolized by a fierce storm at sea," according to acclaimed Irish-American literary scholar Charles Fanning. In addition, some of the greatest American writers of the Famine era have explored the experiences of newly arrived Irish immigrants.
In 1849, Moby Dick author Herman Melville wrote the short novel Redburn, about a journey from Liverpool to New York. The ship's passengers include the O'Briens and O'Regans. Redburn, however, is mainly about the journey of the young American at its center. Melville never follows the O'Briens or O'Regans once the ship docks. As is often the case with the Irish in 19th-century American literature, the immigrants in Redburn are peripheral, not to mention stereotypical. ("Pat, ye divil, hould still while I wash ye," Mother O'Brien says at one point while washing her sons. "Ah! But it's you, Teddy, you rogue. Arrah, now, Mike, ye spalpeen, don't be mixing your legs up with Pat's.")


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Captiv8 wrote: Some of these people do good because of religion. Some do so because of an objective morality, a sense of doing the right thing. Some are well-educated, some are not. Some simply believe that helping others is helping oneself.
Captiv8 wrote: Most people simply don't give a fuck because they are more concerned, and perhaps rightly so, with the shit that is happening in their own lives.
Quote: So I dedicate this thread to the unnecessarily destructive nature of all human activity in general and the state we currently find ourselves in.
Quote: To understand anything, i believe one most have a general overview of everything, and then can details be zoomed in on and taken in connection to the mass of society. That is taking into consideration as many possible facets of our existence.
Quote: If you take the supposition that astrology is founded on to be true, that the planets of the solar system, in relation to the Earth, affects the Earth and thus everything and everyone on it you may be given a clearer picture of our fine mess. Some may or may not agree with this, so I will leave it at just that statement, just as one extra, optional point of consideration.
Quote: In addition to this, you have heredity and environmental influences, particularly at a young age, which form and shape personality. You look at the world and what type of people we are, and you see that any new beings brought into this are only going to perpetuate what happens already, for the most part. Nothing or only iotas have changed. The only change is in the skin. Mass periods of nationwide violence have occured and existed throughout our history, before with swords and catalpults now with guns and bombs. THey are frequent and wide spread. Just cause you or i live in relative "peace", if an invasion was to occur or a very palpable, immediate threat posed, this peace may be shattered abruptly and hysteria ensue. For example, if people become enraged at a petty thing such as a traffic jam, then how would they respond to a band of militia invading the general vinicity of their residence?
Quote: Everything we witness is a by-product of what has been. The advent of and accelerated growth of technology has mostly resulted in disorder, due to our inability to know and understand a great deal in relation to our creations generally and us in particular. It has only bred more problems rather than solving them. However, technology is not bad in itself, it is that we have let it atrophy our selves.
Quote: You have the education system focusing solely on the feeding of the mentality of people. Merely stuffing it with a good deal of nonsense and things of real value to a small extent. There is virtually no focus on development of the emotional side of a human or their physical organism, emotions are almost completely neglected and organic bodies have a little development through PE. The result is people being controlled by their emotions, one example being the impulse to exact revenge regardless of all consequences. Thus people in ordinary life struggle a great deal with emotions. As well as not encouraging critical thinking or creativity, not developing ones own opinions and in a way shunning certain subjects (not encouraging open mindedness).
Quote: People talk of peace, but it seems empty. Everyone exists in his or her own subjective states (resulting from the aforementioned: childhood environment, educational system, influence of parents and perhaps influences issuing from outside sources on a cosmic level). A good deal of words we colour with our own subjective states and cant communicate properly in consequence. What is more significant is that we may not even understand ourselves. If you approach yourself and others with a degree of impartiality you will see a good deal of contradiction, unless you are a person who has struggled against these hypocrisies.
The precept of know thyself is one of tremendous significance. The scientific community has more or less focused on understanding the outside world, but without an understanding of one self this progress becomes imbalanced.
Quote: We dont control technology but it controls us, we have becomes slaves to it. If the federal bank and illuminati arent manipulating the economy and so forth, than I think everything is out of control, and beast that has grown exponentially which we are now unable to subdue. If the economy, societal development, technology etc arent being carefully co-ordinated and controlled than it is in complete disarray.
Quote: Another undeniable problem, to me at least, is a one-size fits all approach, in education, medically and possibly to an extent in the judicial system, people are treated in the mass. For example, it is assumed to an extent, that a medicine will have the same affect on every individual. I believe that everyones body chemistry is different, even if it is very subtly, therefore the affects will not be the same on one individual. Someone of a vegetarian, low-sodium diet will have different effects from a medicine to a carnivorous, medium-high sodium diet. I wonder if such a thing as placebo effect could exist if people were in tune with their bodies and could observe in themselves how substances affected them.
T-Wrex wrote: For some reason, seeing "The Un-United States Of Mankind" made me think of the Zeitgeist Agenda movies and Jacque Fresco's Venus Project. Not sure if you're farmiliar with 'em, but that dude has spend a lot of time blueprinting a more perfect Earth.
T-Wrex wrote: We don't have limbs and green leaves to keep us alive. We're unrooted animals. We've got to be destructive to survive. We need carbs. We need proteins. We need fats. The Earth just hit the 7 billionth human mark two years ago. There will be 8 billion by 2025... and we all need a bare minimum of 1000-1200 calories to survive. More calories if we want to do more than just sit around and do nothing.
T-Wrex wrote: Yeah, you say you see the universe, which consists of the sun moon and star and them planets, that exist in my space. Like man, woman and child. You understand? We got to keep it real with reality and reality will keep it real with us.
I remember them good ol days. Because see, that the child I was is what made me the man I am today. See, cause if you forget where you come from, you're never gonna make it where you're going. Because you lost the reality of yourself. So take one stroll through your mind and see what you will find and you'll see a whole universe all over again and again and again and again and again.
T-Wrex wrote: From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of any particular interest. But for us, it's different. Consider again that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner. How frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity in all this vastness there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
The Earth is the only world known, so far, to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment, the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.
T-Wrex wrote: Everything we witness is art because art is a by-product of human intervention... and we are evolving as artists and we are also evolving as human-beings with the aide of technology and science. Video games are art that lead to atrophy.
T-Wrex wrote: Home-schooling is always an option, right?
T-Wrex wrote: I don't like war... but I like football, hockey and boxing. It's a struggle.
T-Wrex wrote: Commodities control the market and the superpowers control the commodities. Calories and energy.
T-Wrex wrote: Justice is the whim of a judge, dosages are just whims of doctors and education is just whims of teachers. There isn't a right answer to the "human question" because it isn't a math problem, so we all just whim about.
T-Wrex wrote: Fasting helps tune in with a body.
T-Wrex wrote: We got to keep it real with reality and reality will keep it real with us.
tommi teardrop wrote: Yo I feel what you are saying. But think about this. How do we even know if any of this is real? Marinate on that shit. It could be like, we are living in a dog's dream or sumthin. I don't know. You gotta question everything.
You ever seen this movie called the Matrix?
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Pearl L. Rude, 87 of Devils Lake formerly of the Tolna area, North Dakota passed away on Sunday morning, October 27, 2013 at the Good Samaritan Center, Devils Lake with loving family at her side.
Funeral Services for Pearl will be held at the Sigdal Lutheran Church, rural Tolna on Saturday, November 2 at 3 p.m. with Rev. John Monson officiating. Burial will be in the Sigdal Lutheran Cemetery. Visitation will be held at the Gilbertson Funeral Home, Devils Lake on Friday beginning at 4 p.m. until 7 p.m. with a prayer service and time of remembrance at 7 p.m. Visitation on Saturday will be at the church one hour prior to the funeral service.
Gilbertson Funeral Home, Devils Lake, is in charge of arrangements.
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AUSTIN, Texas -- Neil Young has taken on Nixon, racism and the oil industry. Now he's ready to do battle with the digital music business.
The Bay Area rock legend was at the South by Southwest music festival Tuesday to introduce PonoMusic, a new online music store and playback system that he claims offers far better sound quality than what most listeners get from Apple and iTunes and popular music streaming sites like Pandora and Spotify.
"Every part of my body is getting hit with this," Young told a SXSW crowd of a few hundred people, describing his listening experience with Pono. "My soul is feeling it. I am doing what I use to do: I'm listening. I'm feeling. And I'm experiencing. I am living music."
Pono, which reportedly takes its name from the Hawaiian word for "righteous," is centerpieced by an online music store -- www.ponomusic.com -- and a PonoPlayer that Young said has 128 GB of memory and can store from 1,000-2,000 high-resolution digital-music albums. The PonoPlayer will be sold for $399 at ponomusic.com, and will be available for pre-order beginning Saturday at kickstarter.com.
It was not clear when the online music store will be open or how many recordings it will offer, although Young said all three major music labels -- Warner Bros., Universal and Sony -- will be participating.
Warner, which is Young's label, is particularly invested, says Rolling Stone. The magazine reports that Warner has converted its 8,000-plus album catalog to high-resolution album files to adapt to Pono's format.
The Pono site said "high-resolution" digital albums will likely cost between $14.99-$24.99 apiece.
Young said the new music business addresses what to him has been a long-standing problem with digital music -- the poor audio quality offered by compressed MP3 files and the devices and streaming services that play them.
What remains to be seen is whether mainstream digital music listeners will be willing to invest in a new player and a new music library.
Representatives from Apple and other music industry giants have not commented on Young's gambit.
But some of Young's famous friends are on board.
"This is as good as you can get it," fellow Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Tom Petty said in a video message shown at Young's SXSW presentation. David Crosby, Eddie Vedder, Gillian Welch and Norah Jones were among the other stars shown in the video segment, raving about Pono.
It's a project Young has been working on for 2 ½ years (search YouTube and you can find a 2012 clip of the rocker plugging Pono on "Late Night with David Letterman"). And he acknowledges it will be a challenge to make Pono last in a competitive field in which convenience and affordability seem to be at least as important as sound quality.
"It is kind of amazing that it would take 2½ years to get to this point," Young said at the SXSW session. "There's a reason for it -- it's an interesting reason. (It's) because rescuing an art form is not something that really is of a high consideration to too many of the people in the investment community."
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RECORDS: Cal 1-3, 0-1 Pac-12. Washington State 3-2, 1-1.
KICKOFF: 1 p.m., Memorial Stadium, Berkeley.
TV: Fox Sports 1. RADIO: 810.
SERIES HISTORY: Cal leads 44-25-5. The Bears have won eight in a row, including 31-17 last season. Washington State won 48-38 in Berkeley in 2002.
STORYLINES: The Bears hope to kick-start their season after a killer four-game opening stretch that included three games against Top-25 opponents. ... Freshman Jared Goff is back as the starting quarterback after being pulled late in the first quarter of the Bears' 55-16 loss at Oregon when he fumbled twice in the rain. ... Cougars quarterback Connor Halliday was injured against Stanford but practiced all week and is expected to start. ... Senior safety Alex Logan is expected to formally announce Saturday that he is retiring from football due to injuries. ... Cal coach Sonny Dykes spent seven years on WSU coach Mike Leach's staff at Texas Tech. Cal's Bear Raid offense is a descendant of Leach's Air Raid, one of the main differences being the Bears' faster pace.
INJURY UPDATE: Cal -- OG Matt Cochran (ankle), DE Brennan Scarlett (hand) and DT Mustafa Jalil (knee) are out. RB/KOR Khalfani Muhammad (head) and WR Maurice Harris (shoulder) are doubtful. OT Steven Moore (head) and CB Kam Jackson (ankle) are questionable. Washington State -- None reported.
MATCHUP TO WATCH: Cal's offense vs. Washington State's defense. The Bears hope sunny Bay Area skies prompt the revival of the Bear Raid offense after a rainstorm contributed to five turnovers at Oregon. Look for Cal to try revving its ground game. Brendan Bigelow has looked more comfortable in practice this week, and the Cougars rank 10th in the Pac-12 against the run.
STATS THAT MATTER: Cal has been outscored 72-31 in the first quarter, with opponents averaging 9.9 yards per play. ... WSU (13) and Cal (11) have the most turnovers in the Pac-12. Five of the Cougars' giveaways have occurred in the red zone. ... Washington State ranks 121st among 123 teams nationally in rushing offense (60.6 yards per game) and has fewer rush attempts than any team in the country.


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Aiken County deputies discovered a methamphetamine lab in a Burnettown neighborhood.
Around 6:30 yesterday evening, Aiken County investigators searched this home and found meth cooking in every room, from the kitchen to the attic.
And as an added bonus, they found marijuana growing up the street.
It's clear: homeowners here didn't want people to come inside. They told everyone: this is private property, no trespassing.
But in reality, it may have been an effort to keep Aiken County HAZMAT workers away from the meth lab they discovered Monday.
Michael Frank of the Aiken County sheriff's office tells News 12, "Last night's arrest and finding of this meth lab culminated in a two week investigation."
Officers arrested Franklin Farrell, Blake Bratcher and Kristie Bratcher for manufacturing the meth.
During the bust, officers also arrested a neighbor, Rusty Noling, for growing marijuana.
Officers say meth was made in almost every room of this house. If you walk by, you can smell it.
Next door neighbor Tanya Walker says she never smelled suspicion, but saw it.
"They were kind of suspicious because they were always having people in and out over there," Walker says.
The last meth lab bust in Aiken County was in North Augusta in January 2005.
Though Aiken County doesn't have as many meth labs as some counties, law enforcement recognizes its popularity.
North Augusta public safety recently started Meth Watch--where businesses selling ingredients that can be used in the production of meth tell authorities about suspicious purchases.
But businesses can't catch them all, Tanya Walker, mother of three young children, is thankful Aiken County investigators stopped the lab next door before somebody got hurt.
"It was kind of scary to know it could have blown up and we could of been involved in here when it blown up," Walker says.
Police say if you even suspect your neighbor might me making meth, call them and let them investigate.


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Three things I've noticed about the NBA Finals so far . . .
1. Miami's Dwyane Wade is starting to score again after a woeful start offensively vs. San Antonio, but Wade's defense has been outrageously bad -- and lazy -- for the entirety of the series.
How does Danny Green remain wide open time after time? Mainly it's because Wade has been his primary defender, and Wade has pretty much given up chasing Green around the court.
Instead of actually guarding the series' most dangerous shooter, Wade -- especially in Game 5 last night -- has been habitually looking for the easiest way out, either pre-jumping a passing lane or allowing himself to get screened, which means he can point to another Heat player to go run after Green.
Wade also has been awful getting back on defense if he blows a layup, and he has blown more than a few. That's a big deal because HIS GUY IS THE ONE SHOOTING ALL THE THREES.
Wade is doing the Kobe-Carmelo-Stephen Jackson I-don't-want-to-run-back-so-I'll-just-stand-here-and-beg-for-a-foul deal.
And as has become my mini-credo: Bad, lazy defense almost always costs a team more than good offense helps it.
Guard Danny Green at the three-point line. Doesn't seem like a genius strategy. But Wade won't do it. If he's too tired to try, he shouldn't be out there, no matter how many points he scores.
You can say losing this series would put LeBron James behind Michael Jordan forever on the greatness list, and I'd agree.
But this series -- win or lose -- absolutely puts Wade way, way behind Scottie Pippen on the list of great teams' second-best players.
Pippen doesn't get enough credit for what he did for MJ and the Bulls. Wade is showing how crucial that role is.
2. LeBron James hasn't been great, but he's also been stymied by the presence of Tim Duncan and Tiago Splitter inside; you can see James' hesitation every time he starts a drive.
LBJ just can't rely on his mid-range jumper, so he's consumed thinking about the Spurs' shot-blockers; before he ever starts dribbling, he's pre-planning his SECOND move, and that freezes him so that he often can't even get past Green, Kawhi Leonard or even Boris Diaw because he's having to think two moves ahead.
And therefore does zero moves. Then LeBron just passes it and hopes somebody else can do something.
That's what shot-blockers do to even the greatest penetrators.
What would help? LeBron could use a center who can finish with power after he draws Splitter or Duncan, but Miami doesn't have that.
Or he could use another Heat player who can get into the lane reliably, draw the shot-blockers, and then either finish or kick it to LBJ or Wade or whoever, but nope, Miami doesn't have that, either -- not with Wade in his cement-shoe career period.
3. On the defensive side for Miami, it's notable that Tony Parker gets to the lane and doesn't have to worry about the things LBJ is worried about . . . because Miami doesn't have anybody like Duncan or even Splitter.
Well, Chris "Birdman" Andersen can sort of be like Splitter, but Erik Spoelstra isn't playing him much in this series. I'm sure there are reasons for this -- probably because he's committed to going small and Udonis Haslem and Bosh are the two bigs he's going with.
Add this all up, and by the way, Miami could still win the title -- all the Heat has to do is win two home games and it's title No. 2 for the LBJ-Wade-Bosh "dynasty."
Very possible. It would be a big moment for LeBron, for sure, and for Wade and Spoelstra, too.
But Miami isn't quite looking like a two-in-a-row team -- either for back-to-back titles or for tough playoff games. (The Heat hasn't won two in a row since winning five in a row vs. Chicago and Indiana in the last two rounds, from Game 2 of the East semifinals to Game 1 of the East finals.)
It's a perilous situation . . . so perilous that I think it's fairly easy to conclude that even if Miami wins this title, it won't be winning many more in the coming seasons.
And it's interesting that Wade has won as many titles (one) with an aging Shaquille O'Neal (a CENTER) as he has with LeBron and Bosh.
My concluding point, which was supposed to be my main point, but I took so long to get to it:
And Miami doesn't even have average NBA players at point guard or center. They're below average at both spots. And San Antonio is above average at both spots -- actually, they're at Hall of Fame levels at both spots (if you consider Duncan a center, and I do).
The point guard creates and causes havoc, and the center makes it easier to finish on offense and he protects the rim on D. That's the usual recipe for a dynasty.
(Or you have two of the greatest defensive wings of all-time -- including the greatest player of all-time -- which the Bulls had with Jordan and Pippen.)
Some of this, it turns out, was quite wrong (example: Riley dumping Spoelstra? Nope).
But some of it was right -- particularly the point about point guards and centers leading to dynasties and the Heat coming up short in both areas.
The column, from July 11, 2010 . . .
Maybe it wasn't about endless piles of money for LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh.
Probably wasn't entirely about winning, either. I think in May or June 2011, everybody might understand that.
On Friday, we saw what drove the whole cloak-and-dagger lead-up to the fireworks-and-frolic welcome in Miami.
It was about the party -- the high school graduation giddiness, samba sensibility and utter lack of self-control.
That's the party James, Wade and Bosh -- the super team of free agents uniting in South Florida -- surely believe will thump along into February, May and for what they assume will be a championship in June, then another.
"Not one," James told the crowd Friday. "Not two, not three, not four, not five, not six, not seven . . . "
He's confident, and that's the right of any epically blessed 25-year-old who just started a statewide conga line. (And devastated Cleveland, too.)
But championships aren't won by showmanship and name recognition alone. Even the "Showtime" Lakers -- led by once and future Miami coach Pat Riley -- were more about intensity, unity and precision than the party.
I'm saying that the Heat will not win the title next summer and will have trouble winning multiple rings over the six-season life of the three players' contracts.
And I'm going to give six reasons the "Three Kings" will face more difficulties than they expect on their way to an actual championship party.
1. Dynastic teams are often built around centers (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Bill Russell) and point guards (Magic Johnson, Bob Cousy), and the Heat doesn't have enough money to fill either spot comfortably.
Yes, I know that the Bulls won six titles with no pure point guard and with Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen sharing the distribution duties.
Yes, James can serve as a monster distributor any time he wants to, and Wade is capable of getting into the lane and dishing, too.
And I know that Miami is reportedly talking to Zydrunas Ilgauskas, Juwan Howard and Derek Fisher to help fill those spots.
But Miami still will have to go into every playoff series having to cover up talent deficiencies at center and point guard.
2. Even if the Headliners can keep their egos in check with each other, it's tough to see how that will translate to the rest of the players, who will be added on the fly, incorporated into whatever system the Headliners want and needed to fill key roles.
The Lakers had Kobe Bryant, Pau Gasol and Lamar Odom for their back-to-back title runs, but they also had Ron Artest this season, Trevor Ariza the previous season, Andrew Bynum, Fisher and Shannon Brown.
When Boston won it three years ago, they had Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce and Ray Allen at the front, but they also had Rajon Rondo, Kendrick Perkins, Big Baby Davis, Tony Allen, and James Posey.
It looks as if Miami will add Mike Miller . . . but there's not a whole lot else out there.
3. The Lakers haven't indicated that they are forfeiting their shot at a three-peat.
One question: How will the Heat defend Gasol and Bynum?
One point: Artest is the perfect guy to guard James, and Bryant vs. Wade would be tremendous to watch.
Last point: The Lakers have an ingrained system, so it was easy to absorb Gasol three years ago. What's Miami's system? Has LeBron told anybody yet? Does he want a system?
4. How awkward will it get when Riley is ready to make his 100-percent-anticipated move to shove aside current coach Erik Spoelstra?
And does Riley, at 65, still have the energy to ride herd on personalities as large as James/Wade/Bosh?
5. There's too much pressure, and under pressure, massive egos tend to detonate.
That's what we saw with the splintering 2003-04 Lakers, who added Karl Malone and Gary Payton to the Shaq-Kobe duopoly.
That's what we saw with LeBron vs. everybody in Cleveland this past season.
Wade did not help tamp expectations when he said that Miami now has "arguably the best trio to ever play the game of basketball," which would be true if Larry Bird, Kevin McHale and Robert Parish were erased from the NBA history books.
I get the distinct feeling that LeBron, Wade and Bosh are treating this like their free-and-easy 2008 Olympic sprint, which is when they first contemplated uniting in the NBA.
But galloping up and down against Argentina or Spain is not quite the same as grinding it out, possession after possession, against Dwight Howard and Jameer Nelson.
6. They all have the ability to opt out of their deals early and become free agents again in 2014.
Gee, you think James might start wondering aloud about new scenery after one or two restless, nontitle seasons? Yes, he could.
That's the bad thing about wild parties -- they're great until the moment they're not great, and then everybody wants to leave before it's time to clean up the mess.
Read Tim Kawakami's Talking Points blog at blogs.mercurynews.com/kawakami. Contact him at email@example.com.


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POSITION: Left Wing
SHOOTS: Left
BIRTHPLACE: Ste. Foy, QC, CAN
DRAFTED: PHI: 1998-22 overall
First NHL game: Oct. 2, 1999 vs. Ottawa (with Philadelphia)br /> First NHL goal: Oct. 12, 1999 at Washington (with Philadelphia)br /> First NHL assist: Oct. 14, 1999 vs. Montreal (with Philadelphia)br /> Most points, game: 4, 4x's (Last: Dec. 30, 2009 at NY Rangers)br /> Most goals, game: 3, 3x's (Last: Dec. 30, 2009 at NY Rangers)br /> Most assists, game: 3, 4x's (Last: Jan. 14, 2006 vs. Colorado)br /> Longest point streak: 9, Nov. 8 to Nov. 26, 2008: 5-11=16
Longest goal streak: 5, 2x's (Last: Feb. 8 to Feb. 17, 2007: 7g)br /> Longest assist streak: 6, 2x's (Last: March 3 to March 14, 2009: 6a)br /> Career power-play goals: 79, Last: March 25, 2011 vs. Carolina
Career short-handed goals: 11, Last: Nov. 13, 2008 at Pittsburgh
Career game-winning goals: 50, Last: Feb. 25, 2011 vs. New Jersey
Career penalty shots: 3/3, Last: Feb. 14, 2009 vs. NY Islanders (vs. Danis) – Scored
Career overtime goals: 7, Last: Nov. 30, 2010 at Toronto
Career shootout goals/attempts: 6/22 (27 percent)br /> Career plus-minus: +131
|2010-11: Two goals in back-to-back games (March 25, 2011 vs. Carolina and March 26, 2011 at Carolina)…PLAYOFFS: Helped Lightning advance to Eastern Conference Finals…Three assists in Game 2 of CQF at Pittsburgh…Three points (1-2=3) in Game 4 of ECF vs. Boston.
2009-10: Recorded 500th NHL point Jan. 9, 2010 vs. Tampa Bay…Third career hat trick and tied career high with four points (3-1=4) Dec. 30, 2009 at NY Rangers…PLAYOFFS: Helped Flyers advance to Stanley Cup Finals before losing to Chicago…First on club in PPG (5, tied for first in NHL) and tied for second in GWG (2)…Scored OT game-winner in Game 4 of CSF vs Boston.
2008-09: Second on Philadelphia in goals, tied for second in assists (career high), second in PPG (12) and tied for second in SHG (4, tied for fourth in NHL)…Tied career high with assists (6a) in six straight games (March 3-14, 2009)…Points (5-11=16) in career high nine straight games (Nov. 8-26, 2008)…Assists (9a) in career high six straight games (Nov. 15-26, 2008)…Scored two short-handed goals Nov. 13, 2008 at Pittsburgh…Tied career high with four points (2-2=4) Oct. 28, 2008 at Atlanta…Named an alternate captain for Philadelphia on Sept. 17, 2008…PLAYOFFS: Led club in goals.
2007-08: Recorded 200th NHL assist Jan. 20, 2008 vs. Ottawa.
2006-07: Flyers MVP (Bobby Clarke Trophy)…Led Philadelphia in points, goals (ninth in NHL), PPG (13), PPP (21), GWG (4) and tied for second in SHG (2)…18 goals in final 25 games of season (Feb. 3-April 8, 2007)…Played in 500th NHL game April 5, 2007 vs. New Jersey…Recorded 200th NHL goal Feb. 7, 2007 vs. NY Islanders…Tied career high with goals (7g) in five straight games (Feb. 8-17, 2007)…Named to 2007 NHL All-Star Team (second appearance).
2005-06: Flyers MVP (Bobby Clarke Trophy)…Led Philadelphia in points (career high), goals (seventh in NHL, career high) and plus-minus (+31, tied for sixth in NHL, tied career high)…Tied for first on club in GWG (7) and second in PPG (12)…First Quebec-born player to score 40 goals in a season since Mario Lemieux (1996-97)…Tied career high with three assists Jan. 14, 2006 vs. Colorado…Second career hat trick and tied career high with four points (3-1=4) Nov. 5, 2005 vs. Atlanta…Career high four points (2-2=4) Oct. 14, 2005 vs. Pittsburgh…24 points (16-8=24) in first 13 games of season (Oct. 5-Nov. 8, 2005)…Goals (7g) in career-high five-straight games (Oct. 5-15, 2005)…PLAYOFFS: Second on club in goals, tied for second in points.
2003-04: Second on Philadelphia in goals and first in GWG (6)…Scored GWG on penalty shot Feb. 21, 2004 vs. Atlanta (vs. Pasi Nurminen)…Recorded 100th NHL goal Feb. 4, 2004 vs. Washington…PLAYOFFS: Helped Flyers advance to Eastern Conference Finals…Tied for second on club in goals, tied for fifth in NHL in plus-minus (+10)…Three assists in Game 5 of CSF vs. Toronto…Scored OT game-winner in Game 6 of ECF vs. Tampa Bay.
2002-03: Tied for second on Philadelphia in plus-minus (+20)… Recorded 100th NHL assist Nov. 2, 2002 vs. Washington…PLAYOFFS: Helped Flyers advance to Eastern Conference Semifinals...Tied for second on club in goals.
2001-02: Led Philadelphia in goals and GWG (7, tied for ninth in NHL)…Second on club in points and plus-minus (+31, tied for third in NHL, career high)…First career hat trick March 2, 2002 at NY Rangers…Tied career high with three assists Dec. 18, 2001 vs. St. Louis.
2000-01: Shared Pelle Lindbergh Memorial Trophy (most improved Flyers player)…Tied for second on Philadelphia in goals, first in plus-minus (+24) and second in GWG (7)…Tied career high with three assists Jan. 31, 2001 at Pittsburgh…Two goals (including GWG) at 2001 NHL All-Star Game (first appearance)…Career high three assists Oct. 24, 2000 at NY Rangers…PLAYOFFS: Led club in goals and PPG (2).
1999-00: Named to NHL's All-Rookie Team…NHL rankings among rookies were the following: fourth in points, second in goals, third in assists, tied for seventh in plus-minus (+11), tied for first in PPG (8), second in PPA (13), second in PPP (21) and tied for first in GWG (4)…NHL Rookie of the Month for December 1999…PLAYOFFS: Helped Flyers advance to Eastern Conference Finals…NHL rankings among rookies were the following: tied for first in points, tied for first in goals, tied for fourth in assists and first in PPG (2).
LAST AMATEUR CLUB: Quebec (QMJHL)…Had No. 12 retired by Quebec Sept. 14, 2001…QMJHL Second-Team All-Star in 1998-99.
TRANSACTIONS: Selected by Philadelphia in the first round (22nd overall) in the 1998 NHL Entry Draft…Traded to Tampa Bay by Philadelphia for Matt Walker and the Flyers' fourth-round selection in the 2011 NHL Entry Draft on July 19, 2010.
INTERNATIONAL PLAY: Played for Team Canada at the following tournaments: Olympics: (2006, 6 GP, 1-2=3), (2002, 6 GP, 1-3=4, gold medal)…World Championships: (2005, 9 GP, 3-7=10, silver medal)…World Junior Championships: (1999, 7 GP, 7-1=8, gold medal, scored four goals in one game to tie Team Canada record)…Other: (2004 World Cup of Hockey, 6 GP, 1-1=2, gold medal).
PERSONAL: Hosts Simon Gagne Golf Tournament in Ste. Foy, Quebec (proceeds benefit kids with Leukemia).


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About the Book
"Straw is the story of a guy who had two strikes against him in the middle innings of life and hit one out of the park."
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"A riveting and memorable account of one man's pursuit of a meaningful life."
—David Cone
Former New York Met and Yankee slugger Darryl Strawberry has subtitled his autobiography Straw, "Finding My Way"—and his path was never easy. A National League Rookie of the Year, eight-time MLB All Star, and four-time World Series Champion, Strawberry's baseball achievements were often overshadowed by his struggles off the field. In Straw, he tells it all: his boyhood in Crenshaw, Los Angeles; his rise to baseball superstardom; the high life and low life; his brushes with the law; his triumphant battle over cancer; his religious awakening, and his marriage to the love of his life.
Former baseball slugger Darryl Strawberry, whose achievements on the field were often overshadowed by his struggles off the field, recounts the highs, the lows, and the lessons learned along the way that allowed him to survive.
The youngest son of Henry and Ruby Strawberry, Darryl grew up in one of Los Angeles's toughest neighborhoods but channeled his energy into basketball and baseball. The New York Mets drafted him in 1980, and he was voted the National League Rookie of the Year in 1983. Strawberry went on to be the first National League player voted to the All-Star Game in each of his first four full seasons.
Throughout the eighties and nineties, however, Strawberry faced many challenges off the field, including tax evasion, drug use, solicitation, and allegations of domestic assault. His seasons with the Dodgers, Giants, and Yankees were interrupted by suspensions, visits to rehab, treatment for colon cancer, and time in prison. But in 2006, Strawberry's life dramatically changed course. He married and devoted himself to his church and his work with children and adults affected by autism and other developmental disorders.
For the first time, in his own words, Darryl Strawberry delivers his inspirational narrative, the extraordinary story of his life.
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Critical Praise
"STRAW is the story of a guy who had two strikes against him in the middle innings of life and hit one out of the park." — Reggie Jackson
"Darryl Strawberry hit more than 300 homers and shared in four championships, but he will be remembered as much for what he didn't accomplish as for all of the things he accomplished. In STRAW, he tells you why." — Buster Olney, Author of THE LAST NIGHT OF THE YANKEE DYNASTY
"Darryl has written a profound book on the meaning of celebrity, sports and manhood. Reading his story, you follow an incredibly talented ballplayer who fell prey to his demons off the field. This is a riveting and memorable account of one man's pursuit of a meaningful life." — David Cone
"If you're looking for an interesting book about a chaotically interesting life, Straw makes for good reading." — St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Product Details
- Imprint: Ecco
- On Sale: 05/04/2010
- Trimsize: 5.313 in (w) x 8 in (h) x 0.648 in (d)
- Pages: 272
- List Price: 14.99 USD
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FoodFacts.com has been examining a lot of new information on BPA. Bisphenol A has been banned for use in baby bottles and sippy cups here in the U.S., but still remains (unless removed voluntarily) in canned products and other plastics. Regardless of the amount of information being uncovered regarding the negative health impacts of BPA, our country has continued to allow its use in a variety of products.
Today we found more research from the Netherlands that has discovered that the chemical may impact the health of newborn babies.
The study involved the collection of urine samples from pregnant mothers at different stages of their pregnancies. They compared the BPA levels in those samples to their babies growth rate in the womb as well as their developing head circumferences. We know that a small head circumference can imply that a baby's brain isn't developing as quickly as it should. A slow rate of growth can lead to a low-birth-weight baby and low-birth-weight babies are more likely to develop delays than those born at a normal weight.
All the women involved in the study had relatively common levels of BPA. However, it was noted that the women showing the highest BPA levels were carrying babies that grew about 20 percent slower in utero than the women who had the lowest levels. The head circumferences of the babies whose mothers showed the highest levels of exposure were also about 11 percent smaller.
BPA is a known endocrine disruptor. It acts like estrogen in the body. It's been linked to asthma as well as the impairment of neurological development in children. Because its use is so widespread, most people have constant low levels of the chemical in their bodies. Complete avoidance is almost impossible to achieve.
It's true that the FDA has banned BPA from baby bottles and toddler cups, but this study shows that, in fact, those bans are not protecting our children at all. BPA can actually cause damage to babies while they are still in the womb. And because it's so difficult to avoid the chemical, babies are really at risk.
While we can't rid our country of BPA, we can certainly reduce our exposure by eliminating those things we have some control over. FoodFacts.com encourages everyone in our community and those in their networks to purchase canned foods carefully. Manufacturers who have voluntarily eliminated BPA from their canned products are usually very forthcoming about it on their websites and in the news. And when you're storing beverages or foods, find containers that do not contain the chemical. While we may not be able to avoid BPA completely, we can make enough changes in our households to make sure that we keep levels as low as possible to minimize the dangers we learn more about every day.
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After five weeks, 818 teams and well over 15,000 players competed in Marietta, GA at the 2011 WWBA National Championships. A lot of players emerged from the massive field and made strong impressions on talent evaluators. That group is far too large to recognize each one individually, but here are a select few that made some of the strongest impressions on the PG scouting staff at the 2011 WWBA National Championships.
The Breakouts
This is a group of players that have shown flashes of impressive talent in the past but made large jumps this year and are beginning to emerge as big time prospects.
Byron Buxton (2012 OF/RHP, Round Trip Baseball)- From
a town of 4,150 people, Buxton is a player that may have slipped
through the cracks a couple of decades ago. The supremely athletic OF
with plus plus speed is a two sport star for Appling County High School
(also a star QB), preventing him from getting much exposure during the
fall. When PG last saw Buxton he showed flashes of what he would become,
in spite of going 2-for-14 as a RF the scouting notes suggested that he
was capable of much more. In 2011 Buxton announced his presence as a
big time prospect for the 2012 MLB Draft at the 18u and 17u WWBA
National Championships. Buxton hit .393/.500/.675 and went a perfect
6-for-6 on stolen base attempts while also going 2-0 with a Save,
allowing just three runs over 12 innings, striking out 16 and walking
just three. Buxton's fastball topped out at 94 mph, but his impressive
arm strength is eclipsed by his blazing speed. Buxton posted phenomenal
home-to-first times for a right handed hitter, with PG scouts clocking
him between 3.96 and 4.12 seconds. With improving swing mechanics and
quick hands, Buxton has a chance to develop into a legitimate 5-tool
player and after his performance in Marietta, he will be followed very
closely leading up to next year's draft.
Duane Underwood (2012 RHP/OF, East Cobb Astros 16u)- PG was first introduced to Duane Underwood at the 16U National Championship in 2009. Underwood was a primary OF for the Georgia Blue Jays, and he made a mildly positive impression with his bat. The scouting notes on Underwood from that event read: "high hands, late start, athletic, quick hands, spins out on curveball, runs well." The pitching notes were more positive on the secondary RHP who sat 82-84, topping out at 86, throwing all fastballs. Underwood showed enough raw talent to be invited to the 2010 Jr National Showcase, where he touched 89 mph on the radar gun and flashed potential with both his curveball and slider and a much improved swing. In 2011 Underwood absolutely blew us (and opposing hitters) away with his ability on the mound. With significantly improved mechanics Underwood's live arm now routinely generates low-mid 90s velocity, touching 96 on the PG gun with sharp downhill plane. One of the best power arms in the country, Underwood's bat is almost as impressive and he's a big time two-way prospect who will be representing the East team at the PG All-American Game on August 14.
Kolby Copeland (2012 OF, Texas Sun Devils)- Copeland turned some heads at the 2010 Sunshine South Showcase, impressing scouts with his raw hitting tools. But as a primary infielder at the time, he appeared to lack a position. Fast forward a year and Copeland's power has begun to shift from projectable to present, and his improved swing mechanics have allowed him to begin to get more out of his high level hitting tools. A shift to the Outfield has also suited him well, impressing scouts enough with his play in CF this month that some believe he has a chance to stick there. Copeland's breakout performance at the 17u WWBA National Championship included at .476 average with 4 Home Runs, 9 Runs, 11 RBI and 2 stolen bases. He followed that up by capturing 17u BCS Most Valuable Player honors as he led the Sun Devils to the title. Copeland also touched 90 mph with his fastball, suggesting that he will have enough arm for RF should he be force to move off of CF at the some point down the road.
Jamie Jarmon (2012 OF/RHP, Del Mar Va Canes)- Like Buxton, Jarmon is another kid who may not have gotten a lot of attention in spite of his obvious talent. A rare big time baseball prospect from Delaware, Jarmon made a good impression on PG scouts in the past, primarily as a pitcher. Praised for his power arm and overall athleticism, one scout's note on Jarmon from last year bluntly stated "needs lots of work at the plate." This year PG scouts have had a markedly different take on Jarmon as a hitter. Though he has come a long way at the plate, Jarmon still has some work to do to live up to his lofty potential. In spite of hitting .250 at the 17u WWBA National Championship (over a small 6 game sample) Jarmon drew rave reviews for his upside. His lightning quick bat and strong lean athletic body portend for impact power, combined with good speed and a cannon arm (up to 93 on the mound) Jarmon has legimate 5-tool potential…and he has shown progress towards reaching it.
John Kilichowski (2013 LHP, Team Tampa)- Kilichowski made a big splash at this year's Junior National Showcase, topping out at 88 mph with a very projectable left arm. Pitching for Tampa Jesuit High School, he got quite a few looks from scouts who were in attendance to watch high profile teammate Lance McCullers. A report from late this spring had him sitting 82-84 mph with his fastball. Pitching for Team Tampa in the 16u WWBA National Championship Kilichowski ran his fastball up to 90 mph from his deceptive low ¾ arm angle. At 6' 4" 185 pounds with a very quick arm, Klichowski likely has just begun to scratch the surface of his potential. Kilichowski has drawn favorable comparisons to 2010 All-American Henry Owens (36th overall selection of the Boston Red Sox).
Out of Left Field
None of the players in this group are left fielders at present, but all of them came from nowhere to catch the PG scouting staff by (pleasant) surprise with their talent this month
DJ Reader (2012 1B/RHP, Hitting Zone)- Weighing in at over 300 pounds you wouldn't expect Reader to sneak up on many. But the two-sport star did just that, surprising the PG scouting staff with his athleticism and two-way talent. Reader is an elite Offensive Guard prospect being sought after by nearly every ACC and SEC powerhouse. Barton Simmons, National Recruiting Analyst for 247sports said of Reader:
"He's so big and so athletic that he could project all over the line of scrimmage on the next level. At [over] 300 pounds you don't see many high school kids hovering around 5 seconds in the 40 yard dash but that's exactly where you're going to find Reader. At 247Sports we have him rated as the No. 3 offensive guard in the country."
After playing at the 2008 14u and 2009 15u WWBA National Championship events, Reader did not attend a PG event in 2010. It appeared that he had understandably chosen to pursue football full-time, where his future is extremely bright. But in 2011 Reader was back and armed with a fastball that is up 25 mph (up to 91) from the last time we saw him pitch. The improvement is almost as remarkable as how well Reader moves for his size, though the tool that stands out most for Reader is his exceptional bat speed and massive power. Reader has stated that he wants to be a two-sport athlete in college and he certainly has the talent to compete at any level of college baseball.
Trey Wingenter (2012 RHP, Atlanta Blue Jays)- Wingenter is a previously unknown flamethrower from rural Alabama who made a big impression in his PG debut in Marietta this year. Wingenter, a 6' 7" righty sat 87-91 with his fastball with a balanced delivery, sharp downhill plane and good command (62.8% of his 207 pitches for strikes ). Wingenter's long lean frame projects for significant added strength and his loose easy arm action and low effort delivery portend for increased velocity. Wingenter allowed just 2 ER over 13 2/3 innings between the 17u and 18u WWBA National Championship events, a very successful debut to say the least. Wingenter is currently uncommitted (to our knowledge) but we expect that to change soon after his impressive showing this summer.
Tyler Alexander (2013 LHP, DBAT Mustangs-Sharp)- In his PG debut the tall lanky southpaw (appears taller than the 6' 2" he is listed as) was overpowering. Alexander struck out 9 to earn the victory, throwing 66.2% of his 80 pitches for strikes. Alexander sat in the 84-86 mph range with his fastball, with a low effort delivery and a deceptive low ¾ arm angle. His fastball showed good tailing action and good command. His secondary stuff has a ways to go but his curveball showed good depth and has the potential to develop into an out pitch down the road. He also worked in a changeup with excellent fade and dive at 75 mph. While he is a solid pitcher at present, Alexander projects to become much more. We would not be the least bit shocked to see Alexander join The Breakouts group next year.
Nicholas Buckner (2013 OF/LHP, Houston Banditos Black)- Buckner barely qualifies for this group, as he was impressive at the 14u WWBA National Championship last year. One scout wrote of Buckner "going to be a prospect." But that scout was watching the strong athletic lefty pitch, and while the reviews of his hitting were good, scouts were generally more impressed with his arm and his speed. A year later Buckner has gone from potential future pitching prospect to legitimate power hitting prospect. The arm and the speed are still there and Buckner is on the verge of fitting into the legitimate 5-tool category and he put on an impressive display in Marietta this month. Buckner drove in 14 runs and put up one of the best games of the 16u tournament, going 2-for-2 with a walk and a pair of towering Home Runs. The second of which came on a 3-0 pitch after his first base coach instructed him "if you get something you like, hit it out."
Jordan & Justus Sheffield (2013 RHP, 2014 LHP, Knights Baseball-National)- The
Sheffield brothers made a big splash in their PG debuts at the 16u WWBA
National Championship. The elder Sheffield, Jordan, touched 94 mph with
his fastball. The younger, Justus, a southpaw, was up to 88. Jordan
mixes his low 90s heat with a sharp curveball and a late breaking
slider. Justus' repitoire features a curveball and a changeup. Jordan
threw 7 innings, allowing just one run and striking out 11. Justus went 5
innings, allowing 2 runs (both unearned), fanning 3. Both are players
that will be a lot of fun to follow over the next few years.
Big Time Performances
This group is made up of players that have impressed with their tools in the past and put them to use, coming up with a monster performance this year
Kyle Hayes (2010 RHP/3B, San Diego Show)- After graduating high school as a 17 year old in 2010, Hayes enrolled at San Diego State where he appeared in 19 games this spring. After pitching just three (scoreless) innings and 27 at bats Hayes elected to transfer to a junior college. Hayes rejoined the San Diego Show for the 18u WWBA National Championship looking to find a home for the 2011-12 school year. Hayes' performance no doubt generated him a lot of interest from juco programs across the country. Hayes pitched in two games for the Show, both complete game victories (one shutout and one against the East Cobb Braves 17u in the semifinals). Hayes touched 95 mph with his last fastball (though he generally lived at 89-91 with plus command) as part of an impressive three pitch mix. Hayes displayed the kind of advanced pitchability you would expect from a pitcher with Division I experience. Hayes also hit .400 with 3 Home Runs (including the game winner in the semifinals) and piled up 11 RBIs.
Phillip Evans (2011 SS, San Diego Show)- The 23rd ranked player in the PG Class of 2011 player rankings slipped all the way to the 15th round of the 2011 MLB Draft. Most of the time, players with the type of talent that Evans possesses slip this far due to large signing bonus demands. If that is in fact the case, Evans' performance in Marietta will make it very difficult for the New York Mets to let Evans walk away and spend the next three years at San Diego State. Evans hit .409 with 7 RBIs and a pair of stolen bases for the Show. But more importantly, his defensive play at Shortstop was nothing short of spectacular as he led the Show to the 18u title, earning tournament MVP honors.
Jesse Winker (2012 OF, FTB)- Winker has long been seen as a big time up and coming OF prospect by Perfect Game. Over the course of his high school career the notes on Winker have slowly transitioned from "projects for power" to "big present power." Winker's 2011 PG National showing was extremely impressive, leading one scout to note:
"quick hands, good extension, easy bat speed, hits bombs, pull power, good timing, ball jumps, backspin creates good carry, laughing while hitting bombs, confident approach, same in games, can just flat hit."
Hit is exactly what Winker did in FTB's matchup with the Orlando Scorpions in the semifinals of the 17u WWBA National Championship. Playing on yet another big stage with the field narrowed down to just four teams playing at the East Cobb Complex on the final day of the largest amateur baseball tournament in history, Winker went off. With two outs in the first, Winker caught a piece of a fastball off the end of his bat and popped it up…but with his strength the lazy fly ball carried over the wall in right center field, easily. In his second at bat Winker made his only out of the day, a towering fly ball to left. In his third AB Winker hammered a deep home run to center field and was intentionally walked (wisely) in his fourth trip.
Zach Collins (2013 C, South Florida Elite Squad Black)- The strong lean left handed hitting Catcher from Pembroke Pines, FL is no stranger to Perfect Game. Collins attended his first PG event in 2009, showing impressive hitting tools from day one. But in his 10th event, the 2011 16u WWBA National Championship, Collins turned in a monster performance. Collins went 18-for-29 with 2 Home Runs, and most impressively, bashed 7 doubles (in one day) during the South Florida Elite's playoff run to capture tournament MVP honors. The 6' 2" 200 pound rising junior is committed to nearby Miami has always shown the ability to drive the ball to all fields, and this summer he has begun to live up to the power potential that he has shown in the past.
Clinton Hollon (2013 RHP, Kentucky Baseball Club)- While a big increase in fastball velocity might normally make a pitcher a candidate for The Breakouts group, when you were already throwing 91 and ranked in the top 5 of your class, it's a little late to call it a breakout. Hollon was a well known player coming into the WWBA National Championship, having earned a perfect 10 at both the 2010 Ohio Valley Showcase and the 2011 Junior National Showcase while also pitching very well in the playoffs of the 15u WWBA last year. But Hollon surprised PG scouts by unleashing a 96 mph fastball and mixing it with a pair of plus breaking balls (79 mph curveball and 81 mph slider). Hollon was almost unhittable at the 16u WWBA National Championship...almost. He actually gave up one hit in his 7 innings of work, while striking out 9.
Young Guns
The group of underclassmen (2014 and 2015 grads) that made a big impression this year and have a chance to develop into big time prospects over the next few years
Brady Aiken (2014 LHP/OF, East Cobb Astros/San Diego Show)- In Aiken's first season playing at PG events he starred with the East Cobb Astros 14u powerhouse, playing a key role in their title run at the 14u tournament, their run to the semis in the 15u and yet another deep playoff run that included a first round bye in the 16u. Aiken is already a high level two-way prospect, who not only excites scouts with his low-mid 80s fastball (up to 85) and his 70 mph curveball which shows the makings of a quality second offering, but the bat is impressive as well. Aiken showed power potential and good present bat speed, but as a 6' 2" lefty with a quick projectable arm his potential power bat from the left side may ultimately be icing on the cake for a high level LHP prospect. Aiken looks like he could develop into a high level prospect at either position.With the 2014 MLB Draft just under 35 months away there is no great urgency to figure out which one is his future just yet.
Jake Jarvis (2014 MIF/RHP, Houston Banditos)- Jarvis would have easily made this list last year as a significant piece to the Banditos deep run in the 16u tournament (reaching semifinals before falling to eventual champions in extras) and the development he showed from 2010 to this summer put him on the cusp of joining The Breakouts list. Jarvis has already commited to the Texas Longhorns after having just completed his freshman year of high school a couple of months ago. Jarvis ran his fastball up to 90 mph in the 16u semifinals and continued to show improvement at the plate. Jarvis looks like one of the best players in the class of 2014 at this point and the experience he's gained playing against older competition will serve him well in the coming years.
Blake Hennessey (2014 SS/RHP, Marucci Elite 16s)- At 15 years old Hennessey is already a PG veteran. Having made his debut at the 2008 16u WWBA National Championship and beginning his varsity baseball career as an eighth grader (in Florida no less), Hennessey is a very advanced player for a 2014 grad. Having seen him develop over the years it is easy to forget that Hennessey has three more years of high school left to improve, and its scary to think how good he could ultimately become. We look forward to seeing his continued development, he will be a fun prospect to watch over the next few years.
Max Wotell (2015 LHP, East Cobb Astros 14u)- Its impossible not to get excited about Wotell's potential. The 6' 2" lefty sat 81-85 with his fastball and touched 86 mph. That would make a 16 year old player an interesting prospect, but at 14 years old, Wotell has already raised some eyebrows. PG scouts praised Wotell's bulldog mentality on the mound and aggressive pitching approach, traits rare in a pitcher his age. His 76 mph changeup shows a lot of promise. How the changeup and his raw curveball come along will likely be the key to just how effective Wotell can ultimately become. If he continues to work hard to improve the sky is the limit. Stay tuned.
Daz Cameron (2015 OF, East Cobb Astros 14u)- The leadoff hitting CF for the East Cobb Astros turned 14 years old in January and will begin his freshmen year of high school next month. At such a young age Cameron has already made a name for himself as a potential 5-tool player. At 5' 10" 155 pounds Cameron has yet to fill out but already shows flashes of power. Between the 14u-16u tournaments Cameron hit .492 with 27 R, 2 HR, 21 RBI, 5 triples and 9 stolen bases over 23 games. Daz is a chip off the ol' block of his father Mike, a 17-year Major League veteran with three Gold Gloves and an All-Star Game to his credit.


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DALLAS (November 29, 2012)—Texas should consider using $1 billion in the state's Rainy Day Fund to help pay for new reservoirs and other sources of drinkable water, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst said Thursday at an event held by the Dallas Regional Chamber.
Dewhurst said Texas' rising population will require new investments in water and roads and he wants lawmakers to consider establishing a new water infrastructure bank that would pay for environmental studies and planning of new reservoirs.
He said the bank could be repaid through construction budgets.
Dewhurst also said "additional dedicated revenue" is necessary for the Texas Department of Transportation, possibly from the Rainy Day Fund.
The state comptroller's office estimated last month that the Rainy Day Fund would hit $8 billion by the end of this year.


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