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This is the online home of Arachne, the Whole Genome Shotgun Assembler developed at the Broad Institute.
Quick Links
Arachne Reference
- Nightly Build: The current state of Arachne - updated within the last 24 hours.
- Stable Build: The latest stable, trustworthy version of Arachne.
- Sample Projects: Ready-made examples of Arachne input.
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- Arachne's lore
External links
Batzoglou S, Jaffe DB, Stanley K, Butler J, Gnerre S, Mauceli E, Berger B, Mesirov JP, Lander ES. January, 2002. ARACHNE: a whole-genome shotgun assembler. Genome Research 12: 177 - 189.
Jaffe DB, Butler J, Gnerre S, Mauceli E, Lindblad-Toh K, Mesirov JP, Zody MC, Lander ES. January, 2003. Whole-genome sequence assembly for mammalian genomes: Arachne 2. Genome Research 13: 91 - 96.


text: Watchdog Group Cautions BrewDog for 'Offensive' Ad The Scottish craft brewery BrewDog has been cautioned by a watchdog for a "highly offensive" advert on its website. On Wednesday, the Advertising Standards Agency issued its decision on the Aberdeenshire-based brewery's use of the term "mother f*****" on its website. The watchdog said an internet user had challenged whether the language used in the advert on the BrewDog site was "likely to cause serious offence." (STV News) Visit the source article See all headline news

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Prepared a recommendation for both Reserve and Roastery merchandise brand visions and presented mood boards with brand guardrails for materials and finishes. These boards also helped to differentiate the different merchandise collections.
Created the look-and-feel for Reserve retail and Reserve Roastery-exclusive mugs and tumblers. Designed the for-here mugs and wood trays. Presented detailed concepts and collaborated with vendors to execute the designs.
Participated in early ideation for the Reserve coffee bag redesign. Developed and pitched concepts for the rollstock redesign, Roastery hand-scooped coffee bags with a clip, and a refillable canister.
Creative Direction, Graphic Design, Product Design2015
The design challenge was to unify the VIA product line and reposition VIA as the most premium instant coffee. My redesign of the VIA line-up was selected from among several others. In consumer testing of my concept, "improvements were demonstrated among all attributes evaluated." Consumer insights revealed the importance of connecting with instant coffee consumers who prefer the convenience and price of instant coffee.
One challenge was to increase consumer awareness of the brand. Many consumers had no idea what VIA was. On current VIA packaging the sub-brands each had their own visual language, which increased consumer confusion and diluted the brand. To resolves these issues we isolated the wordmark from the brown tab device and incorporated "Instant" into the lockup.
Bold typography and a consistent visual experience unifies the entire VIA Instant lineup. A warm, bright background increases shelf presence, and color-blocking on the sides of the package improves shopability by sub-category. This creates a clean, ownable look that is more easily seen from a distance in both CPG and retail environments.
Playful watercolor illustrations provide a human touch and a flexible way to highlight both flavor cues and roast profiles. My hand-painted illustrations were used as reference for the package illustrations, providing a clear guide for art style. Bold photography captures the at-home experience and beverage variety in a consistent manner. This photoshoot was a delight to art direct, requiring a keen eye for detail to subtly differentiate the unique qualities of each beverage.
Creative Direction, Graphic Design, Packaging2015
The Starbucks Casi Cielo coffee bag artwork was reimagined for 2015, necessitating a redesign of the single-serve packaging as well. The rollstock artwork and the Verismo and K-Cups packaging were designed in parallel, so close communication with the rollstock designer was imperative.
Elements of the rollstock artwork were reinterpreted for the Verismo and K-Cups package designs. The iconic gold badge was highlighted on the K-Cups cartons, while the delicate flower designs and gold filigree took center stage on the Verismo cartons. In this way the designs create a harmonious suite without resorting to scaling the same artwork onto different packaging forms.
Graphic Design, Packaging2015
Starbucks True North Blend is a mellow blonde roast coffee available exclusively in Canada. After a successful launch the artwork needed to be updated to incorporate it into the new retail coffee packaging lineup.
After many rounds exploring a multitude of different icons, we ultimately decided that the majestic mountain peaks and sweeping landscapes would be the perfect icon for True North Blend. Elements of the original LTO artwork were incorporated to create a subtle pattern and layering effect. A few playful maple leaves float gently down the bag as a fun detail.
Graphic Design, Icon Design, Packaging2015
Starbucks City Cards are available exclusively in retail stores in the city represented on the card. They provide tourists with a souvenir of their visit and are also loved by locals who want to show their hometown pride.
This Los Angeles card is inspired by the glitz and glamour of the "City of Angels." The theater marquee is lit and spotlights punctuate the skyline – no doubt the red carpet has been rolled out for a movie premiere.Graphic Design, Illustration2015
Starbucks hosted the Specialty Coffee Association of America (SCAA) Conference in Seattle in 2014. Perú Chonti was was selected to be served at the conference and at select Starbucks Reserve retail stores.
Perú Chonti is a beautiful, floral coffee that comes from two farms in the Cajamarca region of Perú.
The Perú Chonti icon design was inspired by the graceful arches of the elaborate gold helmets, nose rings, and necklaces worn by the leaders of the ancient Moche civilization. The Moche are particularly noted for their metal working techniques like gilding and early forms of soldering. The teal and turquoise color scheme for the icon design was also derived from this intricate gold jewelry, which was often heavily inlaid with turquoise and other precious stones.Graphic Design, Illustration, Packaging2015
Holiday 2013 packaging lineup for Starbucks.Graphic Design, Packaging2015
Represented the Starbucks Global Creative Studio as the Project Lead at an off-site brainstorming and problem-solving session for a highly confidential project. Collaborated with a cross-functional team of product designers, packaging engineers, business managers, and manufacturers to develop and refine innovative concepts for primary and secondary packaging forms and materials. Acted as brand steward to ensure that designs were on-brand and on-brief.
The product details and target audience were ambiguous. I utilized the elements I did have at my disposal to determine a course of action and collaborated with a multi-disciplined team to develop a recommendation. This required flexibility to be able to respond to last-minute changes and time constraints.
Once a concept was selected, I collaborated with a Seattle-based packaging engineer to develop packaging prototypes that featured a proprietary closure and locking mechanism.
Garnered recognition from leadership for the fact that the recent round of concepts were developed in-house.
Performed exhaustive research into existing designs, patents, and inspiration for a game-changing packaging innovation. Provided detailed concept sketches and feedback to vendors for 3D-printed prototypes.
Developed multiple concepts for the Starbucks "It's a Wonderful Card" campaign. Ten winners received a custom Starbucks Card that will provide them with one Starbucks beverage every day for life. This warranted a truly innovative and premium design for both the card and the card carrier. My concepts utilized innovative materials and finishes, transforming the card into a dimensional, interactive keepsake.
Collaborated with team to brainstorm additional prizes and experiences.
Packaging concept for premium ready-to-serve cocktails for Junípero Gin and Genevieve Genever. Inspired by oil and vinegar cruets, the bottle-within-a-bottle design pours a perfectly proportioned cocktail every time, eliminating the hassle of measuring and mixing ingredients. Junípero Gin and dry white vermouth blend to create a classic dry Martini, while Genevieve Genever combines to create a Martinez, the predecessor to the modern Martini.
The bottle design draws inspiration from the asymmetrical form of the male body and bespoke Savile Row suits, blending elegant, tailored details with structural cues from antique taper gin bottles. Bold typography emphasizes the confidence, class, and polish of the brand.
From the bottle's asymmetrical posture and tailored "lapel," to the juniper berry inspired punt, each element brings a sense of luxury to the high-demand ready-to-serve cocktail market, which currently lacks a premium alternative.
This project was featured in Creative Quarterly 30.
Course: Independent Study
Instructor: Gerardo Herrera
Rendering: Paul Sherstobitoff
Objet Printed Prototype: Solid ConceptsBranding, Graphic Design, Packaging2012
This Hustler redesign provides discreet, hygienic storage for intimate adult products and celebrates the union and compatibility between sexual partners. The curves of the packaging subtly evoke beautiful, sexual forms, while the coiled condoms reference a blooming flower. Masculine, neutral greys frame sensual red accents. The redesign also emphasizes hygiene and storage, with clean foaming pumps and a condom dispenser. The packaging and revealing outlines of the logo seductively play with hidden and exposed elements, like a sexy striptease.
This approachable and elegant design engages with a wider audience, specifically couples, by encouraging interaction and play.
This project was featured in Creative Quarterly 25.
Course: Package Design II
Instructor: Ania Borysiewicz
Prototypes: Laurel Geddes
Photographed by: James ChouPackaging2011
"Bloodstock" explores the myths and origins of horse racing in America. The more I researched, the more I felt compelled to tell the story of the darker side of the Sport of Kings.
This book investigates the sport's connection with crooked politicians, affluent businessmen, and explores how breeding rights and rivalries have affected Thoroughbred stock. It considers how the rise of Racinos – combined race track and casino – and simulcast races have changed the sport and affected the health of the horses. Much like their human counterparts, these athletes are frequently given illegal drugs to boost their performance. The narrative also provides a glimpse into the community of bettors and race enthusiasts.
The challenge of this project was to emphasize the visual impact of a printed book by focusing on its filmic qualities. The photographs were taken on location at Santa Anita Park and Betfair Hollywood Park. During the project I even placed my very first bet, on the Belmont Stakes!
Course: Advanced Graphics Studio
Instructor: Brad Bartlett
Location Photography: Laurel Geddes, Andrew Dale
Printing, Binding: Laurel GeddesEditorial Design, Graphic Design, Photography2012
Sportline fitness monitors and accessories provide consumers with accurate, customized feedback to encourage and motivate them by tracking their progress toward personal fitness goals. The proprietary package form can be easily recognized from a distance, providing brand recognition and graphic consistency.
A system of 3 color-coded categories helps consumers quickly find the product that is right for them based on their personal goals. The brand voice is that of an encouraging coach who provides consumers with an emotional connection to the brand.
I thoroughly enjoyed the process of developing proprietary packaging forms, working with materials, and hand crafting the prototypes for this project.
Course: Packaging 3
Instructor: Gerardo Herrera
Prototypes: Laurel Geddes
Photographed By: Andrew DaleGraphic Design, Packaging2012
Editorial design for Qualia magazine, featuring articles related to sensory deficiencies. Qualia are subjective, perceptual experiences, such as seeing red, smelling a rose, or feeling pain. They cannot be communicated by any means other than direct experience; everyone has their own subjective lens through which they see the world.
The magazine content relates to perception and the senses. Scholarly research and individual experiences are presented in a clear and approachable manner. The design responds to the content, providing context and helping readers get a sense of how a person with unique sensory deficiencies might perceive the world.
Course: Editorial Design
Instructor: Annie Huang-Luck
Photographed By: Andrew DaleEditorial Design2012
"Good Death" is the Greek root of the word euthanasia.
The goal of this project was to organize a massive quantity of data in a compelling and memorable way that impacts readers and affects their everyday decisions. The sheer heft of this book, which weighs 10 pounds, makes a lasting impression.
This book contains the descriptions of 19,710 individual dogs and cats that were euthanatized in Los Angeles animal shelters in one year. Pit Bulls and Pit Bull mixes comprised 55 percent of the total dogs euthanatized, while neo-natal kittens comprised 15 percent of the cats euthanatized. The data is presented in a clinical, dispassionate way.
The first section includes different euphemisms for euthanasia, the agents used, the process, and the most common reasons owners surrender their pets. The forms in the pink section are a handwritten log of the personal data for each of the 54 animals euthanatized each day, from January 01 through December 31. The last section proposes a solution to the dilemma by encouraging readers to adopt a pet.
Course: Information Graphics
Instructor: Sean Donahue
Printing, Binding, Illustration: Laurel Geddes
Photographed By: Andrew Dale
Dog Tag on Cover: PetsmartInformation Architecture2011
The Pageant of Living Art is a festival in which classical and contemporary works of art are faithfully recreated on stage using real people. The acronym, PLA, is nimble and memorable and the brand nomenclature makes use of compound words that start with "play."
The wordmark is a visual representation of the juxtaposition of old and new that makes the Pageant so unique. Customized blackletter references the rich history of "tableaux vivant," which was first performed in Medieval times. Printed materials utilize windows to frame variations of the logo, frozen in time like the performers in the festival.
Course: Type 4
Instructor: Brad BartlettBranding2011
Brand identity guideline book and collateral for 3C, an international conference on Cloud Computing.
The logo references community, the gathering of data in one location, the Earth and sky, and the present and future. The imagery is all taken by satellite, showcasing the intricate patterns of the clouds and landscape below.
The identity system was then applied to different media, including posters, street banners, a website, and signage. Brand integrity is maintained across multiple platforms using the linework from the logo and a specific photographic style.
Course: Identity Systems
Instructor: Simon JohnstonBranding, Graphic Design, Print Design2012
I designed and cast this chess set as a thank you gift for my dear friend who inspired me to learn to scuba dive. Each piece was first modelled in Sculpey and individual molds were made from these forms. I then cast each piece in low-temp metal.
The pieces include: an octopus, a fiddler crab, an old-fashioned dive helmet, tanks, two types of fins, a starfish and a variety of shells.
Course: Materials of Art and Design
Instructor: Randall WilsonSculpting2012
A collection of my logo designs.Branding2012
All works © Laurel Geddes 2015.
Please do not reproduce without the expressed written consent of Laurel Geddes.
Please do not reproduce without the expressed written consent of Laurel Geddes.


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Lenovo ThinkPad Edge E530 Review and Ratings
Our Verdict: This under-$700 laptop is a classic get-what-you-pay-for proposition. It performs well, but many business users will prefer the better-looking screens and richer-sounding speakers of higher-end ThinkPad models. Read More…
- What We Liked…
- Attractive price
- Good performance
- Fingerprint reader
- Comfortable keyboard
- Accurate touch pad and pointing stick
- What We Didn't…
- Display, Webcam, speakers are all subpar
- Insufficient graphics processing for gaming
Lenovo ThinkPad Edge E530 Review
By September 13, 2012reviewed
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We're open-minded about our laptops here at Computer Shopper. That said, when we're offered a Lenovo ThinkPad for review, our mind can't help but shift to a specific preconception: "relatively expensive business laptop." Most of the time, that image fits—unless it's one of the many iterations of the company's small-business-friendly ThinkPad Edge models.
The Edge family includes multiple, highly customizable configurations of models with a 14-inch screen (the Edge E430) or a 15.6-incher (the Edge E530 or E535). When you take advantage of the "Customize & Buy" option on Lenovo's Web site, you can end up with a ThinkPad Edge for a bit under $500, well above $1,000, or anywhere between, depending on the options you choose.
Indeed, the Edge models are bit tricky to categorize, since they're so configurable. Depending on your budget, for instance, you can equip your Edge with any number of processors, ranging from the somewhat dated and slow second-generation ("Sandy Bridge") Intel Core i3 all the way up to the speedy third-generation ("Ivy Bridge") Core i7 chip. In all, Lenovo offers more than half a dozen CPU options, as well as several memory (4GB to 16GB) and hard drive size and speed (5,400rpm or 7,200rpm) configurations, for these models. You can even specify that your ThinkPad Edge come with or without a built-in Webcam.
For our review, Lenovo sent us a moderately equipped ThinkPad Edge E530. As we wrote this, early in September 2012, the model we tested listed for $729, with an instant "eCoupon" discount on Lenovo's site that reduced the price to $656. It featured a second-generation Intel Core i5-2450M processor (smack-dab in the middle of Lenovo's CPU choices for this model), 4GB of RAM, and a 500GB hard drive, as well as a Webcam. Overall, while the hot-rodder in us was disappointed to find a Sandy Bridge rather than Ivy Bridge processor here, the realist in us was pleased that it wasn't the Pentium or Celeron you can find in some bargain 15-inch laptops. Indeed, the Edge E530's scores on our suite of benchmark tests were on target, with no notable surprises for a laptop in this price range.
We weren't thrilled with our test unit's mediocre display panel, however, and its Webcam and sound system both left us wanting more. In comparison, we liked the sound reproduction on a few other entry-level systems, such as the recently reviewed 14-inch Acer Aspire V5-471-6569 and Lenovo's own $729 IdeaPad Z580, better.
Granted, you can get a faster, better-performing ThinkPad Edge by spending a little more money to uptick the CPU and RAM, but Lenovo doesn't offer upgrades to the Webcam and sound system. You do, though, get a metal lid and deck with this model (the one we tested, anyway—it's an option), which is unusual for an under-$700 notebook. The IdeaPad Edge E530 is attractive and well-built, but it's also a bit thick and heavy for our liking.
Still, the Lenovo proved both sturdy and serviceable, and it comes with a strong complement of expansion ports and security options, including a fingerprint reader for keeping intruders out. All in all, while the ThinkPad Edge E530 offers little to thrill small-business shoppers, it's as safe a buy for them as the company's more costly ThinkPads are for corporate IT departments.
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As public school districts across the country try to stretch insufficient funding as far as possible, the sad reality is that valuable programs such as arts and music will be sacrificed. But the story doesn't have to end there, at least not if people like David Wish are around.
Ten years ago, Wish was a first-grade teacher in the San Francisco Bay Area. Upset that his school didn't offer music education, he decided to do something about it. "I took matters into my own hands and started giving free classes after school for my class," said Wish. "I just wanted to bring music into the lives of 30 first graders." Soon, more kids wanted to take the lessons, and eventually, Wish needed to enlist the help of fellow teachers just to keep up with the demand. "I could see the impact immediately in the way the kids carried themselves, the ways that they expressed themselves, and the ways they connected to school," said Wish. "That's what motivated me."
Those first classes inspired Wish to expand his idea even further, and the result was a grassroots organization called Little Kids Rock, which offers free lesson plans and instruments to schools with low income students. Ten years in, more than 1,300 public school teachers have used the program in their schools, reaching more than 200,000 kids who otherwise would not have received music education.
The key to Little Kids Rock's success is its approach. "We teach kids to play the music that interests them, and we approach it non-notationally, at least at first," said Wish. "When you teach people to play by reading music, it is a mathematical approach. In math, there is usually one right answer and an infinite number of wrong answers. However, when you teach music as a language, there are many, many right answers, and making music becomes easier and less intimidating."
And the key to the program's longevity has been the gracious support of celebrity sponsors including music icons Bonnie Raitt, Paul Simon, Slash, B.B. King, Ziggy Marley, and many others. "Upon hearing our kids, people wanted to get involved," said Wish. "I know that sounds so simple, but it's true. Once artists come out to see our kids, once they got to see the joy in their faces first hand, and once they get to play with them and make music, they tell their other musician friends. Our artist outreach is all word of mouth."
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ALMO sees tenant satisfaction rise
Published by Anonymous for 24dash.com in Housing and also in Communities
Birmingham City Council teams up with HSE to prevent chimney collapses
Colchester Borough Homes (CBH) has seen overall satisfaction among its tenants rise by 5%, according to a recent survey.
CBH, which was set up by Colchester Borough Council in 2003 to manage its housing stock, now has an 83% satisfaction amongst its tenants, with 43% of tenants saying they are 'very satisfied'.
Independent company ARP Research quizzed 878 CBH tenants in January and February this year,
Cllr Tina Bourne said "I'm really pleased to see that tenants' overall satisfaction with the service
provided by Colchester Borough Homes has improved by five percentage points since 2010. CBH continue to demonstrate a strong track record in managing the Council's housing properties and I'd like to thank all the residents who took the time to complete the survey.
"We're already working with our colleagues at CBH to address those areas highlighted in the survey that need further improvement."
There was a significant improvement since 2010 in the satisfaction levels of Colchester's neighbourhoods as a place to live with overall satisfaction improving to 87% (from 82%) raising it above the benchmark average.
Anne Grahamslaw, CBH board chair, said: "This report has given us an up-to-date picture of tenant and leaseholder satisfaction with their homes and the services we provide. This information is incredibly important to us and we'll be using the results to help us improve our services in the future."
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The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
by T.S. Eliot
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Love Quotes
How we cite our quotes: (line)
Quote #4
And I have known the eyes already, known them all –
The eyes that fix you in a formulated phrase,
And when I am formulated, sprawling on a pin,
When I am pinned and wriggling on the wall,
Then how should I begin
To spit out all the butt-ends of my days and ways? (lines 55-60)
We don't know whose "eyes" he means, but it's likely they belong to one or several of the women he has loved. They intimidate him and make him feel like he is being examined like a scientist examines an insect specimen. He doesn't want to have to tell the truth about himself ("my days and ways") to anyone, even someone he thinks he loves.
Quote #5
And I have known the arms already, known them all –
Arms that are braceleted and white and bare
[But in the lamplight, downed with light brown hair!]
It is perfume from a dress
That makes me so digress? (lines 62-66)
Prufrock sounds really jaded, like a kid who has been on an amusement ride too many times. He's seen so many arms it makes his head spin. But wait! Look at that arm over there, in the lamplight. That's a mighty nice arm, "downed with light brown hair." And the "perfume" is making him ramble on and on. Here for about two seconds, he actually sounds like a man who might be in love, or at least lust. At this point, we would take lust over nothing.
Quote #6
I do not think that they will sing to me. (line 125)
Prufrock has already realized that his best days over, but now he finally comes to terms with the fact that no one will love him. And it's all his own fault for not doing anything about it. He sees the beautiful mermaids singing in the water, but he has no confidence that they would even turn his way. Still, he doesn't drop his guard and sounds pretty matter-of-fact about his total undesirability.


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Alan Norman
2013 SUMMER LEAGUE: Competed for the Xenia Scouts in the Great Lakes Summer Collegiate League ... Appeared in 14 games (four starts), going 1-1 with a 3.58 ERA and struck out 17 in 32.2 innings.
2013/FRESHMAN: Made one appearance as a freshman ... Made collegiate debut against Seton Hall (3/10) ... Tossed 0.1 innings, allowing two runs off three hits.
HIGH SCHOOL: Graduated from Houston Christian High School in 2012 ... Played three years under head coaches Joe Rodden and Ron Mathis ... Two time Perfect Game All-American ... Under Armour Pre-Season All-American.
CLUB: Played for a multitude of teams highlighted by the Rawlings Prospects in 2011 and the Under Armour Pre-Season All American Pacific Team in 2012.
PERSONAL: Given name is Alan Kyle Norman ... Plans to major in Sports Medicine ... Son of Wayne and Patricia Norman.
FAVORITES: Steven Strasburg (pro baseball player); Washington Nationals (pro baseball team); The Bullpen Gospels (book); Act of Valor (movie); NCIS (TV show); Kenny Chesney (musical artist); Ribeye Steak (food); Paintball (sport other than baseball) ... Has 11 screws and two titanium in glove hand.


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Golf Live Blog: Masters Final Round
The Journal provides analysis of the Masters golf tournament. Tim Carroll, a WSJ news editor, and his middle son, Brian, who played No. 1 on his high-school golf team the past three years, blog today's final round. Or, as Brian would say it, Brian and his dad blog the final round.
Hate should never be discounted in sports. Sure, you love the teams you follow, but hate…sometimes it's easier to hate your enemy. Ask anyone in the Florida-Florida State rivalry. Red Sox-Yankees. Cowboys, just the Cowboys.
Golf isn't like that. Look at the leaderboard. How can anyone hate Bubba Watson, the teddy bear of golfers? Jordan Spieth? He's 20, says "Yes, sir," and "No, sir." A stroke back, Matt Kuchar is one of many players who everyone will tell you is "the nicest guy on Tour." Unless you struggle with IKEA directions, well, then you don't know enough about Jonas Blixt to hate him. Likewise any of the other players under par. Westwood, Fowler, Furyk, Bjorn, Rose and the rest. Heck, Rickie Fowler finally got a haircut. The orange wouldn't look great with the green jacket, but it would look good enough.
Of course, there are golfers people hate. Check the comments section of any online article that mentions the golfer who is recovering from the back surgery. (He won't be mentioned today; he's not in Georgia.) And some people hate Augusta National, although with women and minority members, we're thinking these haters are just habitual haters, looking for any reason to justify their hate.
There is lots to love today. The major tournament that signals spring is finally here is living up to the hype, even if the ice storms of winter took out some trees at Augusta National. Golf is back.
And for today, let's love the wide-open leaderboard. There are a dozen or so men who could, given the right amount of skill, derring-do, and courage, don a green jacket as dusk falls. The men, and now women, who wear the green jackets as a sign of their membership in their exclusive club know how to find a worthy candidate. Par is not going to get it done today. Someone is going to win this one, rather than everyone else losing it.
As a test, before looking at the pin sheet online, we tried to name the Sunday hole locations; we were probably successful on about three-fourths. A few years back, the green jackets tried to make this a U.S. Open in April. No one liked that. So holes went from near-impossible areas and back to spots where we will see eagles, or, if the golfers fail to pull off the required shot, then double bogeys, all with a different sound.
Fasten your seat belts. Let the loving begin.
With the leaders still waiting to tee off, Gary Woodland shot a 6-under 30 on the front nine.
Caroline Wozniacki is following Rory McIlroy today. Yesterday, McIlroy finished a shot behind Jeff Knox, an Augusta club member, playing as a non-competing marker.
Wozniacki no longer has pink hair.
Fore, please. Now driving, the WSJ Masters bloggers.
Rickie Fowler birdied one, then had a three-putt sweaty bogey at the very easy second hole. Fred Couples has birdied the first two holes, missing a third straight by a blade or two.
But as we come online, the leaderboard looks pretty much like it did overnight.
Bubba Watson and Jordan Spieth still lead. That would be the Bubba Watson, who probably innocently, but perhaps playing mind games on the practice green, was following around his co-leader, talking all the time.
The leaders are still playing two, but with both Watson and Spieth laying up, that means the second hole, site of the albatross two years ago to Louis Oosthuizen, gave up only one eagle today.
The club gives crystal for eagles. The budget won't be big this year.
Kooooooooooooooochar birdies the second hole. We have three leaders.
As we get the ANGC message to enjoy the golf with limited commercial interruption, I'm reminded of a story a caddie there once told me.
The club called the local Ford dealership, asking for the large vans, painted green, of course. The dealership said they no longer carried that color. The club representative repeated: This is Augusta National. We like that green color. The local Ford dealership said, We understand, but Ford no longer carries that shade of green.
The club hung up.
A couple of days later, the dealership received a special order from headquarters. The van, with the shade of green.
There is a Ford or two in the club's membership.
No crystal, but Spieth birdied the second. Watson parred. We have a single leader.
Lurking at even-par, six shots behind is Ian Poultier, who at least wins for best pants/shoes combination in today's final round.
The roars are roaring. Kuchar chips in for birdie on three. He and Spieth share the lead at minus 6.
Fred Couples misses the sixth green, hits his chip short, then makes a bomb. Roar. Roar. Roar.
This is fun.
Lee Westwood, who gets a reported two million pound bonus from his apparel company if he wins any major, is falling back. He's three-over today.
From the guys going out early, Stewart Cink needs a par on 18 for 68.
Larry Mize, one of Greg Norman's Masters headaches, shot a 79.
So far, those are the parameters.
I like the green shirt on Jordan Spieth.
But his sponsor Under Armour does remind us on their web site: the green jacket isn't won, it's earned.
As the leaders get to five, can I say that when I played the course a couple of years ago, I stood in the middle of the fifth fairway, about 170 out as I remember it, and realized I had nowhere to hit the ball. The slope on that green is steeper than some ski slopes. Now, it's not as long, of course, but standing in the fifth fairway, it seems like it is.
Playing short wasn't really an option. And long is dead. I realized I didn't have the game for that shot.
And, of course, I didn't.
Bubba bogeyed the shortest par three on the course. Longest hitter on tour.
Kuchar and Spieth are two ahead.
And how quickly things change. Matt Kuchar just doubled the fourth. Jordan Spieth is alone on top. By two.
Bubba looks mad. Serious. He just put his tee shot on 4 to about five feet. And most importantly, below the hole.
Jordan Spieth just holed out from the bunker in front of four. He leads by three.
Of course, the Golf Gods are fickle. Who knows what they will say on the second nine.
Bubba made his five footer. Spieth's lead is back to two.
There were four birdies on the par three fourth today. Two in the final pairing.
For all the fireworks by Bubba and Jordan, the rest of the chasers are remarkably tame. Fred Couples is two under for the day. Thomas Bjorn is one under today.
Maybe they're saving it up for the second nine. Everyone knows the Masters doesn't start until ….
Kuchar two putts the fifth from the front of the green. He's better than I am.
Joost Luiten had a 67 today. (Earlier, I said Cink's 68 was best so far.) So that's the low round among the early starters.
Jonas Blixt starts with six straight pars. Think he's taken more than six straight deep breaths?
Jordan Spieth bogeyed five, running his second shot over the green into the back bunker. The lead is one over Bubba Watson.
The Golf Gods are whispering amongst themselves.
Spieth and caddie have a confab on the sixth tee, trying to decide which way the wind is blowing. He then put the tee shot about 3-4 feet below the hole. I think they figured it out right.
It's not in yet, but how about 2-2 on the front nine's par threes. Wow.
Bubba and his caddie have a confab on the sixth green on which way his 8-10 footer is going to break. They picked right. The ball dropped into the hole from the side.
Bubba went 2-2 on the front side par threes today.
They were tied. Then Spieth made his putt. And is back ahead by one.
An aside, Bubba just rolls off the tongue. And there is a second, or first, Watson who won the Masters. (And the U.S. Open, and a British or two or five.) So it's easy to call Bubba, "Bubba."
Jordan Spieth is a bit tougher. Who can't read "Jordan" and not think of a certain basketball player.
Bubba, from the left rough, puts it in the front bunker on 7. Jordan, from the middle of the fairway, hits it to 10 feet. Above the hole. So not an easy putt.
Peter Kostis just praised Bubba for using gravity. When has he not used gravity? That I want to see.
Jordan Spieth just used gravity to drop his putt six inches into the bottom of the cup on the seventh. He leads by two.
The club's caddies all hate the eighth hole. You can't imagine how uphill it is until you see it for yourself in person. And you can't believe how heavy a bag can be until you're caddying for a group that starts on 10 (meaning this is your 17th hole of the day).
Spieth shot 71-70-70 the first three days. Very consistent. But I'm thinking his game plan today was for something in the 60s, knowing that 70 might get him run over.
Watson had a 74 yesterday, but 69-68 the first two days, showing more firepower. At least in theory.
Here's a photo from one of the pivotal moments of the front-nine: Spieth holing a shot from the bunker on the fourth hole.
Over the eighth green in two, Jonas Blixt makes a nice birdie putt. He's four back.
Bubba just bounded over the eighth green. He's about where Blixt was a minute ago.
The Masters is the start of the golf season, especially to us in the Northeast who suffered through such a brutal winter. The players are starting to get that summer look–sunburned, dried out.
Couples bogeyed the 10th hole, and found the pond on 11, and seems to realize his chances to be the oldest major winner ever are about over. That's another look we in the Northeast know as we get our golf games back in shape.
This was my favorite golf story this winter: Stewart Cink's tan line.
Bubba nearly chipped in for the eighth's first eagle of the day. Spieth came up short on his third.
If the Golf Gods were speaking before, youth and inexperience are talking now.
Bubba birdied. And we have a tie.
Youth and inexperience speak again. Spieth comes up short on 9 and falls victim to the false front. Bubba lands on the correct level.
If Bubba wins today, they will show the putt he just made on 9 forever. Twelve-fifteen feet. A right-to-left break. Away from as a lefthander.
And Spieth just bogeyed. He was two strokes up 20 minutes ago. Now, he's two down, going to the second nine.
As the final pairing gets to the 10th tee, let's take stock.
There are eight men under par. That's it. Bubba Watson has a two-stroke lead on Jordan Spieth. Jonas Blixt is two more back, and Matt Kuchar is one more. Your Masters winner is going to be one of those four men. Unless the Golf Gods have even more fun than usual in store for us.
Rory McIlroy, one of the pre-tourney favorites, was three under today to finish at even par, even with bogeys on the two par fives on the back.
In a year that slow play has been such an issue, a year after the Masters handed out a slow-play penalty, it can't be fun for the final pairing to be waiting on every shot. I think Bubba sent out for sandwiches on the 10th fairway.
After waiting, neither hit a good shot into 10 green. Spieth made better contact when he slammed his club into the turf after his approach shot found the bunker.
He might be saying "Yes, sir" and "No, sir" to someone in a green jacket after the round.
Bubba took five strokes on the 10th hole. Spieth took five too, but only four counted. (The slam into the ground didn't count.)
Bubba up one.
Tim: Do you think it's a two person battle for the title or will it be a year where someone who has barely been on TV birdies the last 3 holes and steals the jacket?
On Thursday we started the tournament with almost 100 golfers. On Friday we cut that to 51.
By now, that number who can win the green jacket is down to two. Essentially.
I'm not sure about Jonas Blixt's green golf glove. I also could have lived a full life without knowing that Nick Faldo wore green boxers in 1996 when he beat a self-immolating Greg Norman.
I like the cups and napkins and whatever are green, so should any of them escape the maintenance folks for a couple of minutes they don't show up on TV.
But the obsession with green can go too far. Even for a Masters fan.
And as we get to 12…The 12th green was the first to get its own heating system. The tall trees around the green don't allow sunlight to grow the grass enough, so they bring out sunlamps, I've read.
When I was lucky enough to play the course, the green was noticeably harder than any of the other greens. It was like walking on a soft concrete. I assume that with the bank on Rae's Creek so close, the green needs help staying in place. A horticultural facelift, if you will.
So, who knows, there might be concrete beams under there.
If there is such a thing as ho-hum fours on 11, Spieth and Watson just made them. (Spieth just missing a birdie bythismuch.)
The fans, OK, patrons, around the 12th hole are the smartest golf fans, OK, patrons, in the world. There were murmurs as that ball was in the air. And I want credit for shouting Jack Nicklaus's advice–always aim over that bunker, NEVER go for that sucker pin–even before Spieth took the club back.
Spieth is in the water.
Bubba no great shakes long, however.
Jordan Spieth is back to even par for the day, after bogeying 12. But he's made just four pars through 12 holes. Up and down and down and up.
Bubba by two, with two par fives in the next three holes.
That's not fair. Bubba will have wedge to the par five 13th.
Yes. Wedge.
Miguel Angel Jimenez just birdied 14. Why do I see him finishing 18, strapping his clubs to the back of a Harley, and doing a wheelie down Magnolia Lane?
Bubba had to work, after that fantastic drive, he hit an ehhhh wedge and an awful eagle putt, he made about an 8 footer for birdie.
Spieth missed his.
Bubba by 3 with five holes to go. He's got one arm in his second jacket.
The 14th green at Augusta has its own area code. Unfortunately, Spieth, who is, in fact, still on the green, is outside that area code. Bubba is not worried by that approach.
Par is Bubba's friend. Both Spieth and Bubba made par on 14.
Three up. Four holes to go.
This is not what we expected with so many players close to the lead to start the day, with the hole locations set up for scoring, and even not much wind.
The U.S. Open did break out today.
Double eagle, anyone?
The 15th hole is pivotal. Since 2009, every Masters champion has birdied No. 15 during each of the final two rounds. Bubba parred 15 yesterday.
Just wondering: What time does the Red Sox-Yankees game start?
Bubba, meet your latest friend, a par at 15.
Spieth also made par. That's not his friend.
Not seeing many birdie opportunities on the last 3 holes. Spieth will have to get lucky, or is he playing against Blixt for second? Looks like Blixt is in trouble on 17.
There have been times that people play for second here at the Masters. Some of those times are just whispered about on the Tour. Some of them have been written about in books.
But I don't think this is one of those times. Jordan Spieth doesn't seem like the kind of guy who is going to be happy with second.
Both men are on board the 16th green. And yes, with no more water ahead, the time for a large number is about over. Jim Nantz is warming up his catchphrase for Bubba's second win.
Me? Even though we haven't talked about the golfer(s) not here this week, I wouldn't mind if it CBS showed us a chip-in on 16. It might liven up the telecast. And don't think they haven't thought of that.
Here's the chip in that Tim is referring to by the guy in the red shirt.
Jimenez finishes at minus four. We finally have a credible number for the clubhouse leader.
Now, time to get on that Harley.
Just to make sure the spectators on the course are still paying attention, Spieth hits his drive way left on 17, his approach shot way right.
Bubba was right next to him off the tee; hits his second shot just to the front of the green.
Spieth almost chips in for birdie. He'll make par. But that's not his friend.
Bubba. Par. Friend.
And a surprising fist pump
Three up on the 18th tee. He's not Jean Van de Velde. And there is no water.
Bubba crushes the tee shot that he says he doesn't like here. Middle of the fairway.
Bubba may finish in time to catch "60 Minutes."
Four hours ago, Dad said he wouldn't let me stay home from school tomorrow in case of a long playoff that ran until Monday.
I guess it was never an issue.
A three-stroke lead. Bubba's enjoying the walk. He's fighting back tears.
Congratulations, Bubba.
"Bad Masters" seems like an oxymoron, but this might have been one. Bubba Watson is a fine champion, a two-time champion now. We're not fans of the one-off major winners, where the Golf Gods favor one guy with all his golfing luck in one tournament, only to be never heard of again.
The debate for worst golfer to win a major is a much better debate than best never to have won one.
But Bubba has two of these now. He's elevated himself out of that category. And good for him.
We won't watch the green jacket ceremony. We never have, not since Seve was asked how tall he was.
For us? The best thing about this Masters is that it signals the golf season is upon us (snow in the forecast for tomorrow night notwithstanding). It's time for us to see how good we can get. And we wouldn't mind a bit of luck from the Golfing Gods. Not that we're begging, mind you.


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Re: Yoshinkan and "aiki"
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No argument there, but don't the Chinese say that someone "has" jin or doesn't "have" it? Since I've read that jin = li (muscular force) + qi (ki), it seems to me that it's something one has to create within oneself. Those who haven't done that work (or who don't even know of it) don't "have" jin, wouldn't you say? And since you pretty much equate jin with aiki, it seems reasonable to say someone "has" or "does not have" aiki.
Well, I understand what you're saying and I've understood it from the start. But you can't have 'aiki' without the basic jin force manifested via intention. Jin is a "specialized strength skill", not really li + qi in every case. There are a number of ways to manifest jin and some of them are pretty interesting; "aiki" is just one of those subsets.
What I'd really like is your comments on the tai chi ruler thread.
It's just an exercise, mainly for jin/qi. There are many exercises that will do the same thing. If someone has "done Tai Chi Chih for years" and done it correctly, you should be able to feel their jin/qi immediately. I.e., any exercise done correctly, particularly 'internal' exercises, should have demonstrable results. For instance, once I pushed hands with a guy in a park in London and I knew immediately that he had no jin/qi skills because they were absent. Later he asked me to watch his form and to offer some corrections for the postures. I declined. It was obvious that he'd been doing his forms wrong for years or I would have felt his jin/qi skills if he'd been doing them correctly, right? So everything he was practicing was simply wrong, but I didn't want to say such a thing to him since I'd only just met him.
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This is a fascinating topic to me, in part because it runs into what feels
to me like a sort of knee-jerk resistance.
In the first place, let me say that I think it would be much better if
designers (and everybody else) got on top of the challenge of designing
products that are not energy hogs, to obviate the need to teach people how
to use their stuff so it doesn't waste energy doing nothing or to use it
more sparingly, or whatever. But in general terms designing products and
information resources in such a way that they encourage consumers to reduce
their footprint does seem like a laudable enterprise.
What's more, it seems to me to be in line with the general outlook of the
discipline to create things that modify behavior. Whether we design social
shopping experiences, or phones that are actually rich internet devices, or
online FAQs or complaint systems, or online communities, we are in the
business of changing behavior, even though we don't normally use the words.
Except that we do it, pretty much, without regard to footprint. On the
whole, the upshot of our work tends to be to get people to start doing
things they didn't use to do or to do the same things in a different way, or
the same things using a different provider.
So then what makes us jerk those knees? Is it just the words, "changing
behavior"? Oh, my god, sounds like communism! But that's social engineering,
my students said with an offended sneer seven years ago (as if Apple doesn't
dirty its hands with that kind of thing).
The creator of the website Dave pointed us to says, "placing others' welfare
above ones own desires [is] widely perceived to signify a reduction in
lifestyle quality or choice," which may well be the common perception--I
don't really know. But it is in conflict with the preponderance of
psychological research on what makes people happy, which suggests that above
a certain level of material well-being, happiness doesn't go up very much
with further increases in material wealth, whereas happiness does increase
progressively as people have more positive experiences involving friends,
family, and community.
This applies the notion that we adopt behavior changes for sustainability
for "ourselves" (as Alex pointed out) not only to the hoped-for outcome, but
to the process of engaging in the behaviors itself. If you do things for and
with a community of people you care for (and I'm going to assume for the
moment that green behaviors qualify), you are likely to experience an
enhancement of lifestyle quality. That is, you can do it for yourself.
All in all, it seems to me, if we get an opportunity to design a phone with
more "manageable" energy consumption, we'd be fools to turn up our noses at
it. Same thing if we get the chance to design the information resources that
have the purpose of modifying individual behavior to increase the longevity
of the species (and many other species besides). We'd be fools not to try to
translate to online experiences those findings in social psychology about
what is effective in motivating individuals to change their behavior
offline. In my understanding of it, that is very much the province of
interaction design.
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Alex said:
A couple of days ago somebody wrote something very wise:
"The grand myth of environmentalism is that it's all about saving the Earth.
It's not. The Earth will be just fine. Environmentalism is all about saving
There was this really interesting article at UX Matters about
sustainable interaction design
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incorporate sustainability into our professional and personal thinking
and make it the basis of the actions we take in our daily lives. If
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must effect broad cultural changes as well.
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The U.S. veteran, in his fifth Winter Games at the age of 36, sped down the Rosa Khutor piste with a time of two minutes 07.75 seconds on a brilliant sunny afternoon in the mountains above Sochi.
"My confidence is never really my issue," he grinned as he spoke to reporters. "Unfortunately they don't give any medals for training because if they did I'd be psyched today.
"But it certainly doesn't hurt. To come out here and ski hard, ski well, first run, is great," added the five-times Olympic medallist, who aims to become the oldest man to win an Alpine gold.
Switzerland's Patrick Kueng was second fastest, a mere 0.03 slower, with Austrian Matthias Mayer third, 0.17 slower than Miller in a session in which all the top contenders skied well within their limits.
Norwegian Aksel Lund Svindal, the Olympic super-G champion and 2010 downhill silver medallist, was eighth on the timesheets.
"It was a bad run, to be honest," said Svindal, the World Cup downhill leader and an early favourite.
"I was 1.2 (seconds) behind. I would definitely like to be faster but I have some big things I need to change so I'm not too worried here."
The downhill opens the Alpine programme on Sunday as the marquee event, with the piste winning immediate plaudits for the quality of the snow and degree of difficulty.
"It's good. They didn't dumb it down much, which is nice," said Miller, the 2010 super combined gold medallist. "After the way we ran it a couple of years ago (on the World Cup circuit), everyone was complaining that everyone got hurt or was sore afterwards."
"They didn't ice the top, which is understandable," he continued, on a day when the women's training on a separate piste was halted for alterations to one of the jumps due to safety fears.
The men's course had no such problems and training proceeded without incident.
"The turns are huge up there and the swing in the turns on the top would make it very tough for guys if it was icy. It would be better for me but that's fine," said Miller.
"I still feel I have the ability to ski that top and put time on guys.
"Once you come out of the chute and all the way down, they didn't take anything away. The speeds are up, the terrain is challenging and the jumps are big. There's a lot of different places where you can make mistakes."
Miller said he had 'challenged the line' in places, going out into the soft snow on the flats, and had plenty of room for improvement.
While he had gone hard, he took it easy in places without taking too many risks: "I wasn't pushing for every ounce of speed but in the turns, I'm giving everything I've got," said the American.
Olympic champion Didier Defago, a super-G winner in Kitzbuehel last month after a lacklustre season, was 26th.
"It could suit me from the point of view of the terrain...It's physically very hard, I think everyone is feeling it a bit in their legs. We need to keep something in reserve for Sunday," said the Swiss.
Italian Christof Innerhofer, seeking to revive his 'Winnerhofer' nickname, was fifth fastest and delighted with both his performance and the conditions.
"All this season I have dreamed of finding these conditions and finally I find it," he beamed. "It's really a cool downhill. I think it will be the best of this season."
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Garda gets community service and fines for harassment and sexual assaultMonday 03 February 2014 17.13
A Donegal-based garda who was found guilty of harassing two female colleagues and sexually assaulting one of them is to carry out 240 hours of community service and pay fines totalling €10,000.
Kevin Corby, 33, stood trial at Letterkenny Circuit Court last year.
He was convicted on three charges, and not guilty of five other charges of sexual assault. A sixth charge of sexual assault was withdrawn by the judge.
At his sentencing hearing in Letterkenny today, Judge John O'Hagan described Corby's actions as persistent and consistent and said he must have realised the impact his harassment was having on his two colleagues.
The judge said, however, that the probation report into Corby was positive and to ask the court for the "pound of flesh would be extreme".
He sentenced him to six months in prison but substituted that with 240 hours of community service and fined him €5,000 on each of the two harassment charges.
The court was told that Corby is currently suspended from the force and on 75% of his pay.
A separate internal inquiry will now be carried out.


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Occupy Oakland activists accused the county's district attorney on Tuesday of abusing her power through "trumped-up prosecutions" in an effort to squash their movement.
Using a recent robbery and hate crime case charged against three protesters as an example, protesters and their attorneys said Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O'Malley is purposely prosecuting Occupy Oakland members for serious felonies even though their cases warrant, at most, misdemeanor charges.
"We would not be here if this wasn't about Occupy," said Joe Rogoway, an attorney representing Randolph Wilkins, 24, against a charge of second-degree robbery with a hate crime enhancement.
Wilkins, along with Michael Davis, 32, and Nneka Crawford, 23, were each charged with second-degree robbery and a hate crime in connection with a February confrontation the trio had with a woman on Piedmont Avenue.
According to the defendants' attorneys, the confrontation began when the woman yelled at the protesters who had gathered in front of an ice-cream store to plan a protest in front of a Wells Fargo Bank branch.
During the argument the protesters called the woman a "dyke" and the woman called the protesters a racial slur, the attorneys said. The woman denies using a racial slur.
When police arrived, the woman said her wallet had been stolen.
Police never recovered the wallet, and the defendants' attorneys said the woman admitted during a preliminary hearing last month that she had used a racial slur during the argument and shoved the protesters.
Nevertheless, an Alameda County judge ruled there was enough evidence in the case to move it toward a jury trial, and all three defendants were arraigned Tuesday.
At a news conference after the arraignment, protesters and attorneys said the case against the self-named "Ice Cream 3" was one of several examples of O'Malley's decision to aggressively prosecute Occupy Oakland members.
Other examples they cited were numerous stay-away orders O'Malley's office has successfully placed on other Occupy Oakland protesters who were arrested.
"It's a very heavy-handed approach that does not improve the lives of residents," said Yolanda Huang, an attorney representing Davis. "They've invested a huge amount of resources to prosecute at a time when crime is rising and court resources are limited."
Teresa Drenick, spokeswoman for O'Malley's office, said the District Attorney's Office only prosecutes cases based on the evidence presented and denied that charges were "trumped-up" against members of the Occupy movement.
"We charged what we thought was appropriate," she said about the robbery and hate crime case. "We made the charging decision based on the evidence we have."
Drenick also pointed to the district attorney's decision Monday to drop stay-away orders against four UC Berkeley Occupy protesters as an example of how evidence drives prosecution, not politics.
In that case, Drenick said, the four defendants had not violated the stay-away order or any law, so as a result the office asked for the stay-away order to be lifted.


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FRANKLIN COUNTY, Ky. (WKYT) - It's more than just a problem to Franklin County Sheriff Pat Melton and his deputies.
"[It's] what I would call an epidemic. It's, there's a large portion of vehicles you pull over day to day that are intoxicated on narcotics, for prescription use, not from alcohol," said Franklin County Deputy Jeff Farmer, as he patrolled the county.
WKYT's Sean Evans rode along with Deputy Jeff Farmer, who's been in law enforcement for more than a decade.
Within the first half hour, he pulled over a driver, he found out had a variety of pills on her. They were all prescribed legally, but when driving a car, they can prove to be dangerous.
"Impaired driving can be from alcohol, to marijuana, any drugs, that's impaired driving. It's not just alcohol anymore," said Franklin County Sheriff Pat Melton.
Sheriff Melton says his office has seen a spike in impaired driving crashes in Franklin County.
According to the Kentucky Office of Highway Safety, several counties in our viewing area are in the top 25 counties in the state for most impaired driving crashes between 2010 and 2012.
Fayette County tops the local list at number 2, Madison County comes in at number 9, Franklin County is 15th, Jessamine County is 16th, Laurel County is 18th, Pulaski County is 21st, Scott County is 22nd, and Perry County rounds out the list at 25th.
Sheriff Melton says increased efforts to curb impaired drivers are coming, all over his coverage area.
Melton said, "We're a geographically diverse community, our county is. We've got 211 square miles. You're liable to see a deputy sheriff or trooper anywhere in this county. And Frankfort City Police as well, they're getting aggressive too. You're liable to see us anywhere."
Melton says the bottom line is, too many people are put at risk by impaired drivers, and it's time to put a stop to it.
"We have a zero tolerance on it. And if we catch you, you're gonna go to jail," said Melton.
The increased effort to curb impaired driving crashes is possible in part due to two grants; one from the Kentucky Office of Highway Safety, the other through the Kentucky Sheriff's Association.


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*as your car flies off a cliff* OH BILLY!
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Posted: Dec 12 2006, 07:08 PM
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I personally have seen exactly two Abbott and Costello movies (Meet Frankenstein and In The Navy), which I suppose isn't terribly impressive (heh), but I thought I'd ask anyway.
I like A&C Meet Frankenstein quite a bit, largely due to the Universal monsters (Lugosi Dracula, Chaney Jr. Wolf Man, Frankenstein's Monster).
Talbot: "Every night when the moon is full, I turn into a wolf."
Wilbur: "You and twenty million other guys!"
Watching In the Navy had a lot to do with the Andrews Sisters... Should watch Buck Privates some time; they're in that one too.
So what Abbott and Costello movies do you like?
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Posted: Dec 13 2006, 11:20 AM
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One of my favs is Buck Privates. I remember when I was starting to become a fan and trying to decide what movie I should buy first, and I decided on BP, one major reason was the Andrews Sisters were on it, lol So you're not the only one . I loved Boogie Woogie Boy of Company B...great number.
My other favorite is The Time of Their Lives. I guess because it was different from their other films, and I liked the story.
For some odd reason I don't like A&C Meet Frankenstein as much as other people. I like it of course, I think I got spoiled when I bought the script... I thought the script was funnier that the finished product. But I do love that line you qouted... that is a hoot!
Naughty Nineties is great because they do Who's on First.
I better stop now otherwise I'd end up naming all of them! LOL
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Posted: Dec 14 2006, 03:51 AM
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I actually watched Buck Privates today... Abbott and Costello's routines are largely good, but I must say that I care about Mr. Rich Playboy and girl and other guy about as much as I care whether Allan Jones and Maureen O'Sullivan get all of their problems resolved in A Day at the Races. Lol.
Yeah, "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" is a swell song. The Andrews Sisters I AM interested in.
"Who's on First?" I've seen a few times via YouTube. Definitely a great routine.
You know, I should take advantage of the fact that my parents have the A&C box sets and watch yet a few more. Now if only my parents would take advantage of the fact that I have the Marx Brothers box sets... Lol.
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Posted: Dec 22 2006, 05:49 PM
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here take your pick.
no thats the shovel take your pick.
rofl can anyone remember that whole thing?
Posted: Mar 8 2007, 12:16 PM
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My favourite is probably "In the Navy" . "Buck Privates" is an excellent movie too.
I am a huge Andrews Sisters fan, so that is the only reason why I've watched any A&C movies! lol!
Posted: Mar 10 2007, 04:40 AM
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Haha, I would've watched a couple Abbott & Costello movies anyway, just because as a good little classic movie fan I feel I should know something about A&C. But Universal monsters and the Andrews Sisters made me much more interested in seeing them, lol.
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Posted: Apr 5 2007, 04:41 AM
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Hello im new here and the site has just allowed me to send a reply, im not sure what happened anyway, Hello all!
My fav film has to be Africa Screams, are you fans of this one?
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Posted: Aug 30 2007, 05:12 PM
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So I've watched a few more A&C movies recently... I really liked, for the most part, Who Done It? and The Time of Their Lives. I would have to say that those two and Meet Frankenstein are my favorite three of the ones I've seen.
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Posted: Nov 15 2007, 08:52 PM
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I only saw one A&C film and that is "Here comes the co-eds" nice movie, I liked it...