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A Super Fly Fishing Event in the Catskills August 6 & 7, 2011 For Immediate Release week of July 25, 2011. Livingston Manor, NY Contact: 845-439-4810 On Sunday, August 7, at 1:30 PM the Catskill Fly Fishing Center and Museum will recognize the birthdays of Joan Wulff who will be 85 years this year, Agnes Van Puts 95th, Doc Frieds 85th and Mary Dette and Mary Fried who will be 80. This is a great day to honor both the First Lady of Fly Casting & Fly Fishing; Joan Wulff and the First Lady of Fly Tying; Mary Dette at the same event. Cake will be served at 1:30 PM on Sunday. This Jubilee Celebration will wrap up a great weekend at the Catskill Fly Fishing Center and Museum, located in Livingston Manor, NY. On Saturday, the 29th annual and largest Anglers Market for classic and contemporary collectible fly tackle and accessories in the USA will be held, this year the addition of the first annual Hardy Bros. Cup bamboo rod casting competition will be held on Saturday August 6 and a complimentary roast pig BBQ to follow at 6:00 PM. Also included will be a kids fishing derby, The Great Willowemoc Fish Race, and a wide variety of local crafts and services (satisfying those not interested in fly fishing) will be on hand. |
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This weekend, I start my 40th circumnavigation of the Sun. To celebrate (in part - still some celebrating to do yet) Jackie and I took the day off work and rode through Golden Gate national recreation area (Marin headlands part) from the visitor center up to the Pelican Inn in Muir beach, had a nice lunch, and then rode back again.
If you haven't been to this amazing area, the mountain bike trails through it are challenging, strenuous and scary in parts, and they are pretty epic. By the end of the day, I was getting pretty good at bunny hopping over smaller ditches (there have been a lot of channels cut by the very wet winter), I must admit that I took the "discretion is the better part of valor" angle with some of the bigger ditches though - I could have probably made it, but failure would have been painful. About half of the ride was on fire roads and half on single track, including a very scenic and pleasant climb back up to the highest point of the ride on the way back from the pub (this particular trail you can only climb, not descend, and when you see it it makes sense why).
The stats on the ride were (for both directions): about 19 miles total, 3300 feet of elevation gain, 3 hours of actual riding time, 4 hours in total out on the trail (yes, we stopped for photo and rest breaks a fair bit).
This was only Jackie's third serious mountain bike ride, and it was pretty tough going (more than I thought it would be) with some downhills that had me a little concerned (it wasn't the hill, it was the huge water runoff channels that had sunk into the trail that made those very steep downhills a bit alarming). The climbs were pretty tough at times as well - 3300 feet is a lot of climbing in one day, at least for us.
For those interested, the pictures taken for this posting were from the Nexus One, which I also used to record the entire trip in both directions using the My Trails application (which worked flawlessly, and the whole 3 hour trail recording used about 25% of the battery in the nexus one, implying to me that I would run out of batteries before the new gizmo did, most likely).
For those interested, the tracks of the ride out and then back again are on my Google maps. If you want to know more about the route, you can download KML files (for Google Earth) right from the trail map pages. We went in and out on the same route for the most part (except from the first climb after lunch at the pub). This was partly because the trails you can bike on are limited in the park (many are hike and/or horse only). In truth, this wasn't really an issue - the trails actually did seem quite different in each direction, perhaps next time we would try and weave Bobcat trail into the return route or something like that though.
The Felt (new mountain bike) performed admirably and demonstrated that the limitation is the rider now and not the bike :-). Jackie did really well considering her husband made her do a pretty serious ride for only her third time really mountain biking. The various devices estimated about 3000 calories burned so we had a damn good meal last night, and a whole bottle of wine between the two of us (plus a couple of glasses at the hotel we stayed at to get the evening going).


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The Hall effect in the organic conductor TTF–TCNQ: choice of geometry for accurate measurements of a highly anisotropic system
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We have measured the Hall effect on recently synthesized single crystals of the quasi-one-dimensional organic conductor TTF–TCNQ (tetrathiafulvalene–tetracyanoquinodimethane), a well known charge transfer complex that has two kinds of conductive stacks: the donor (TTF) and the acceptor (TCNQ) chains. The measurements were performed in the temperature interval 30 K <T <300 K and for several different magnetic field and current directions through the crystal. By applying the equivalent isotropic sample approach, we have demonstrated the importance of the choice of optimal geometry for accurate Hall effect measurements. Our results show, contrary to past belief, that the Hall coefficient does not depend on the geometry of measurements and that the Hall coefficient value is approximately zero in the high temperature region (T > 150 K), implying that there is no dominance of either the TTF or the TCNQ chain. At lower temperatures our measurements clearly prove that all three phase transitions of TTF–TCNQ could be identified from Hall effect measurements.
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Above: "Miami Biltmore Hotel guests took advantage of the six mile gondola excursion to bathe on Tahiti Beach." (APC) Source: The Biltmore Hotel: An Enduring Legacy
Monday, May 28, 2012
Places: The Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables, Florida - a picture tour
The Biltmore Hotel
Builders: John McEntee Bowman, George Merrick
Architect: Schultze and Weaver
You could kinda say I have a soft spot for this old hotel. It's on my way to work, so I drive by it every morning, five days a week, but could never grow tired of its presence. When I was a kid on the Fourth of July my family and I would watch the fireworks show on the golf course surrounding the building. One of my nephews had a birthday celebration there when he was younger (we had told him the rumors of it being haunted and he wanted to check it out). It's among my favorite hotels in Miami and I enjoy its relaxing atmosphere, away from the crowds.
This is a building with a rich history--one that's definitely seen its share of changes throughout its 86-year history. It was built in 1926 and operated as a luxury hotel and golf resort until World War II, when the government took control of the property and transformed it into a hospital for wounded veterans. Then from 1952 to 1968 it served as home to the University of Miami medical school. In 1973 ownership was transferred to the City of Coral Gables, and it was during this period that the once-lively resort became stagnant and unoccupied for almost ten years. It underwent a major face-lift in the early 80's and reopened again as a hotel in 1987. In 1996 it received the honor of a National Historic Landmark designation.
The Biltmore when it was the American Air Force Regional Hospital
When the lobby was renovated in the 80's the designers tried to duplicate the look and atmosphere it had when the hotel opened in "The Jazz Age" 1920s.
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Developer John Bowman, a fox hunting enthusiast, imported English red foxes to the Biltmore for sport in 1926. I found this interesting to learn because I have actually seen foxes in Coral Gables and both times it was after dark and less than a mile away from the hotel. Maybe they really were the descendants of Bowman's foxes!
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The excerpt above mentions that teens used to trespass during the years the hotel was closed up, and it even became a "rite of passage" of sorts. I remember hearing stories from my then junior high-school aged brother and friends about their adventures in the abandoned building and golf course after dark. I think I would have been too scared of getting caught by police to try it...come to think of it, I don't remember ever hearing about any of the girls we knew doing this, but I'm sure there were some who took the risk!
Above is a look at the dilapidated state of the hotel interior prior to its renovation in the early 1980s.
(Photo of p.145 from The Biltmore Hotel: An Enduring Legacy.)
Above: "Miami Biltmore Hotel guests took advantage of the six mile gondola excursion to bathe on Tahiti Beach." (APC) Source: The Biltmore Hotel: An Enduring Legacy
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One of my very favorite features of the hotel are the enchanting finches and nightingales kept in beautiful mahogany birdcages in the lobby. They make the sweetest, soft little song. I am not a bird expert so all I can say is, they are incredibly pretty and colorful, and no trip to the Biltmore would be complete without stopping by to see them!
The photo above shows what was originally the dining lounge of the hotel, but now serves as a space for special events and receptions.
Look at the beautiful ceilings! It was dark inside and I didn't use flash, but you can still see the detail a bit.
I hope you enjoyed this picture tour of the Biltmore. Many of these photos were taken late on a Sunday evening and I was lucky enough to find the place fairly deserted, but the number of visitors varies widely depending on the time of day and whether guests are in the area for special events or conferences. I definitely recommend stopping by for a look if you're ever in town and have an hour or two of free time!
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Credits: All photographs were taken by me with a Canon S100, except for the images of the text, which are pictures I took with a Panasonic Lumix DMC G-1 of pages from the book The Biltmore Hotel: An Enduring Legacy, by Samuel La Roue, Jr. and Ellen Uguccioni.
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I loved this 'places' post. I love how you've captured the old world glamour and lush tropical environment of the Biltmore. The pool looks amazing and I enjoyed the colorful birds as well!
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Best London HotelsWhat a beautiful place! For some reason, some photos make me think of Rome... never been there but thats one of the places I want to visit.
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Naybet, 28, is rated one of the best and toughest defenders in Spain, where he plays for Deportivo La Coruna and is known as "El Loco". His former clubs include Nantes and Sporting Lisbon. Real Madrid have tried to sign him on two occasions, while last week Liverpool were reported to be interested. Sir Alex Ferguson sought his signature after looking round Europe for a new defender when long-term injuries ruled out Ronny Johnsen and Wes Brown.
Naybet will be registered in time to play in Europe, but he must apply for a work permit and that could make him unavailable for a few weeks.
Ferguson is relieved to have signed a leading defender after moves for others - including the veteran Jurgen Kohler - collapsed. That Naybet may be kept on the sidelines for a couple of domestic games while his permit is processed will not be a problem for United.
The deal takes Ferguson's spending to pounds 10m, including the Italian goalkeeper Massimo Taibi, who is joining from Venezia. United are paying more for Naybet than they wanted, but there is interest from other quarters and Ferguson is under pressure to find a quality player quickly.
The transfer activity comes after a summer when United did not spend and following the manager's request for funds that was heeded by the plc board. United could recoup some of the money by swapping their Dutch midfielder, Jordi Cruyff, to Deportivo later in the season. A swap was discussed but the Spanish transfer window has now past and business will go on hold until a later stage of the campaign.
The Sheffield Wednesday manager, Danny Wilson, and chairman, Dave Richards, will meet today in an effort to resolve the Benito Carbone affair. Carbone is currently in Italy, having stormed out of The Dell on Saturday after being told he was among the substitutes for their match with Southampton.
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Wilson said: "I will speak to the chairman tomorrow and we will discuss the future [for Carbone] then."
Carbone, who is on the transfer list at Hillsborough, has been fined two weeks' wages after his vanishing act, according to the club's official Website. The 28-year-old headed back to his native country while his team-mates were being beaten 2-0 by Southampton to remain bottom of the Premiership.
Liverpool's Norwegian international defender, Bjorn-Tore Kvarme, has signed a two-year contract with the French first division side St-Etienne. Kvarme, 27, who has six caps for his country, was transferred for a fee estimated at around Fr10m (pounds 960,000).
The former Rosenborg Trondheim defender became the 11th player to leave Liverpool since the French manager, Gerard Houllier, took sole charge at Anfield in November.
Roy Keane, the Manchester United captain who missed yesterday's Premiership meeting with Newcastle United, should be fit for the Republic of Ireland's European Championships qualifier against Yugoslavia tomorrow despite a minor knee injury.
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La famosa Tia Mirta (The famous Aunt Mirta)
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You must be very proud of your aunt Mirta Pla, she was one of the best ballerinas that I have ever seen. I saw her many times in Cuba, when my parents used to take me to the theatre in Havana. I remember her in Coppelia, Swan Lake and Sleeping Beauty. I recall vividly her debut in Giselle after she became Prima Ballerina. She was also very much loved as a person, for her kindness & thoughtfulness. A beautiful human being. We felt very sad when she passed away, but her memory will remain forever as the the sweetest and the best of all the Cuban ballerinas.
ReplyDeleteMirta fue mi bailarina preferida del BNC. En una oportunidad, al terminar una funcion, siendo yo adolescente, le regale una rosa y un poema escrito por mi. Me fui del pais. Vivo en EE.UU., y me gustaria saber si sus familiare conservan el poema que le escribi. Alguien me dijo que ella lo conservaba, pero no estoy seguro.
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"Theaters are the new Church of the Masses - where people sit huddled in the dark listening to people in the light tell them what it is to be human." -1930's theater critic
Tuesday, November 16, 2004
I finally got myself organized with the folks over at Catholic Exchange such that they will now be posting all my columns from the National Catholic Register. This will provide an on-line archive for me (and reveal in no uncertain terms that I really only have about four and a half original thoughts, but I keep recombining them in endless schticks...). I sent them all the articles from the last year, and they will be posting them over the next several months.
They are running one today called, "Five Things The Church Can Do To Fix the Culture Fast". Enjoy it again - it just gets better!
[Inner, dark whiny Barb self] And when I grow up, I want to be listed on their front page along with their special columnists....RIGHT ABOVE Amy Welborn.
[Cough] Clearly, we have a way to go before growing up...ahem.
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- GregC said...
Hah, so true about original thoughts, but few people are even willing to think, at least you have that?
I was thinking, the battle that you're facing, (against the proclivity of Catholics to denounce art and culture as evil and then rant about it (which is funny cause at least in politics we all seem to agree that you can't complain if you don't participate)), and the struggle to take and sanctify the teaching of art and be on the forefront of its widespread application, doesn't this struggle have parrelels in the realm of sexual education, or rather the Catholic teaching of the theology of the body and the importance of the family?
Sexual revolution seperates emotions and morality from sexuality, Catholics are unsophisticated "prudes", leave themselves out of the debate by letting the opponent define the terms, leave society to it's own sexual "freedom" which invariably leads to the breakdown of the family and the institution of marriage, the acceptance of contraception and abortion, and now euthenasia and stem cell research etc. All seems very coorelary to the de-evolution of art in this country.
Are there lessons in that ongoing battle, (where I think a guy like Chris West is doing awesome work to apply and spread the Church's teaching) that help you? And where is that coorelation? Is it in our own lack of charity to reach out to people when their doing things we don't like?
I appreciate your work, keep it up! - 11:39 PM
Just an "attagirl" to Barbara in the midst of Solemn Critics on your "tone." Thank you for being yourself, pretty much uncensored. You're a treasure. I think people whose Territory (and it may be wonderful, holy, important Territory) is not a lightning mind and the dance of mated incongruities that is art, want to constrain folks like you to be "nice" above All.
Chill, folks, the saints were not all Sunday School teachers who emptied bedpans in their spare time, speaking slowly and in words of one syllable so as not to startle the baby. If you're offended, pass on in peace. Everything can be nit-picked from the fulcrum of one convenient isolated virtue. Ask yourselves whether you want to discourage a charism like Barbara's, to address in her stead these topics, to engage the challenge of inspiring people at the Notre Dame festival.
P.S. I think faithful Christians are not a long way from persecution, either, what with "hate speech" fines or imprisonment. Just a little breathing space in the/my culture, but no guarantees. - 7:11 AM
Shouldn't the title of this blog be "permit myself to repeat...myself"?
Oh dooo behave.
Let me ask you something, and be honest... - 10:06 AM
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While co-teaching a CSM Course with Peter Hundermark, I saw a new estimating technique (well, new for me ;-) 'affinity estimating' as an alternative to planning poker. I thought this would be useful for selecting the talks and tutorials, so we decided to give it a try.
- Everybody read all the submissions (46 pages!)
- For each Submission, I created a card with the title of the submission. I used yellow cards for talks, blue cards for tutorials and green cards for submissions that could go either way. (Next time, I would also put on the page number of the submission in the printout)
- I created column headers (white) Great, Good, Maybe and Questionable.
Affinity estimating is pretty simple: for each story size, one column (e.g. 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 20, Too Big). To estimate a story, put its card down in a column, and anybody can slide it around to another column. If it stops moving, you have an estimate. If not, you need to discuss the story to come to a consensus. It can be very useful for (preliminary) estimates of large backlogs, because it is very fast and requires little discussion.
So we set up our columns, put down 6 cards, and moved them around until they stabilized. If they didn't stabilize, we put them in a 'to be discussed' column to discuss at the end. When all 6 cards were placed, we put down 6 more, et cetera until all cards were placed.
At this point, we put all the 'maybe' and 'questionable' cards aside. We were left with 14 cards.
We discussed the criteria for creating the program. There were a number of points: the mix of management, technical, team and corporate topics as well as Swiss and International speakers. What questions do we think will be important to the participants. We also wanted to ensure a balance of the various consulting companies. It wouldn't do to have one or two companies dominate the proceedings.
Next we set up the 10 Slots (4 Tutorials and 3 x 2 Tracks ) and used the same process to put stories to tracks, looking to create the right balance. Again, moving cards around on the table was an easy way to identify which topics complimented each other, which were overlapping, etc.
Eventually we were happy and the cards stopped moving around. We wrote down the results and also took a picture of the final assignments.
That left four cards left over. We decided that these would be our alternates (and we think we have enough good material for an evening event in October or November).
That was it. Four was a good number of participants in the meeting. We managed to stay in our timebox of 2 hours without really thinking about it.
And looking at the results, I think we have a good balance of interesting talks for the Conference this fall (which I think is really a statement about the speakers and their submissions!)
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Definition of exaggerate
transitive verb
1 : to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth : overstate a friend exaggerates a man's virtues — Joseph Addison
2 : to enlarge or increase especially beyond the normal : overemphasize
intransitive verb
: to make an overstatement
nounExamples of exaggerate in a sentence
The book exaggerates the difficulties he faced in starting his career.
It's impossible to exaggerate the importance of this discovery.
He tends to exaggerate when talking about his accomplishments.
He exaggerated his movements so we could see them more clearly.
Origin and Etymology of exaggerate
Latin exaggeratus, past participle of exaggerare, literally, to heap up, from ex- + agger heap, from aggerere to carry toward, from ad- + gerere to carry
First Known Use: 1613
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: to think of or describe something as larger or greater than it really is
: to make (something) larger or greater than normal
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: to describe as larger or greater than what is true She exaggerated her successes.
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Ok, I promise this is my last post about my vacation. Several people have been asking to see what I brought home with me and I've finally taken the pictures. You might have noticed a reoccurring theme in our vacation - shopping. We did a lot of shopping. So much shopping that I had to bring an extra suitcase home.
The best part? It was guilt free shopping. I had been saving up for this trip for quite awhile, so all the money I spent came from that account. I didn't use my debit card once in those three weeks. It was pretty great.
If I was smart, I would have taken pictures of all the loot we got, not just mine. I just didn't think about it at the time.
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I love this mini pitcher. It makes me wish I drank coffee with milk or creamer or whatever you put in coffee. But, since I don't drink coffee, I'll just use it for something else.
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Bowls everywhere. There were bowls everywhere. Be proud of me, I only came home with four and they are very tiny. I put some washi tape next to them for reference. They are super tiny and cute and I can't wait to use them!
I also got a few small spoons while we were in Taiwan. I can't wait to eat my ice cream with these babies.
More elephants and guess what, they are tiny like everything else I bought. The smallest one is about an inch and a half tall. They are cute and tiny and I have no idea what I'm going to do with them. When I had an apartment, I had a rule - if I didn't know what I was going to do with it I didn't buy it. Surprisingly enough, I actually followed that rule. Yeah, not so much anymore. I don't have my house yet and that rule just doesn't apply. But hey, at least they are tiny.
These are one of my favorite souvenirs. I got them at Muji in Taiwan and I love them. Here's the best part, they were in the holiday clearance section at Muji - we assume they are supposed to make the shape of a Christmas tree. Who knows. Whatever they are, they are mine. Krit made a great suggestion - paint them! I do have that neon spray paint around here somewhere...
I've saved the best for last. This one is my all time favorite souvenir. It's a hand embroidered shawl from Thailand. It was my most expensive souvenir, but the one of I would have regretted the most had I not gotten it.
Shawls aren't my thing, but I don't plan to use it as a shawl. It's large enough that it will make a great table runner and it's washable so it's safe to have it on the table.
When I move into my home, I'll take a picture of it opened up because it's absolutely beautiful.
When I travel, I don't like to get souvenirs that say things like "I love NY" or "Someone in Thailand loves you." As fun as those things are, I want something I can use for years. Something that doesn't scream "souvenir" but leads to a story. I said before I left that I wanted to get one great thing for my future home.
I didn't walk away with one great thing, I walked away with so many great things. Now I just need to move into my house so I can get them out of the boxes and onto the shelves.
That reminds me...I need to buy some shelves. It's BYOF (bring your own friend) day at Ikea on Saturday. Anyone want to join me?


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Evan Turner (82% owned) � I wasn�t expecting much from Turner after his awful summer and preseason performances� but he was very solid in his NBA debut, playing 31 minutes, scoring 16 points on 7-of-10 shooting, and adding seven boards and four assists. If he went undrafted in your league, rectify that situation.
Ramon Sessions (38% owned) � Starting in place of Mo Williams, Sessions was a big part of Cleveland�s shocking win over the Celtics, scoring 14 points with three assists, two steals and two boards in 35 minutes.
Arron Afflalo (25% owned) � It looks like Afflalo has moved up a spot or two in Denver�s shot-attempt pecking order. He scored 22 points on 8-of-11 shooting in the opener, including 3-5 from long range.
Glen Davis (15% owned) � You may be wary of Big Baby because the Celtics� frontcourt is so deep � but through their first two games, Davis is averaging over 30 minutes and seems to be Doc Rivers� primary reserve. Doc will be careful with Shaquille O�Neal and Kevin Garnett�s minutes, so Davis should continue to get near-starter PT, at least until Kendrick Perkins� return further complicates the rotation.
Rasual Butler (14% owned) � Appears he�ll have value this season � especially if you need threes -- as the Clippers� sixth man and designated long-range bomber.
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James Jones (4% owned) � Jones likely would have been an afterthought this season, but Mike Miller�s injury has made him Miami�s designated �stand in the corner and jack threes� guy. With LeBron and D-Wade on the floor, Jones will get an awful lot of open looks � he canned six threes against Philly on Wednesday.
Reggie Evans (3% owned) � Evans continues to be an outstanding rebounder � 14 boards in Toronto�s season-opener � and for now, he seems to be getting the bulk of the playing time at power forward over Amir Johnson. But be aware, Evans is the very definition of specialist � he failed to score a single point in that game.
Shelden Williams (3% owned) � Denver�s temporary starter at power forward pulled down 16 boards in the Nuggets� opener, and added eight points. Like Evans � he�s a specialist � he didn�t have a block or an assist � but he should be able to help in that rebound category.
Landry Fields (2% owned) � Fields won the Knicks� starting shooting guard spot with a strong preseason, and his opening night performance justified Mike D�Antoni�s decision. The second-rounder scored 11 points, hit three three-pointers, grabbed four rebounds and blocked a shot in his first NBA game. Some may worry that he�ll lose the gig to Wilson Chandler, especially after Chandler�s strong performance in the opener � but D�Antoni likes Chandler�s versatility off the bench, Fields� spot may be secure until Kelenna Azubuike is ready to get back on the floor.
Chuck Hayes (2% owned) � Yao Ming�s minutes are going to be limited this season, and he won�t play the second night of back-to-backs. For now, at least, it appears Hayes and not Brad Miller will be called upon to pick up the slack at center � Hayes played 39 minutes in Houston�s second game of the year, Miller just three. But watch the injury report � it�s possible the disparity was due to some unreported issue with Miller.
Sam Young (1% owned) � Memphis went small when Marc Gasol and Zach Randolph got hurt, giving second-year pro Young a chance to show his stuff. He finished the game with an impressive 17 points (8-12 FG, 1-1 3pt, 0-1 FT) to go with five rebounds and three steals, and could be a nice short-term option.


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Monday, October 23, 2006
The End of Commitment
The vast majority of far left types in the West are rich people who ended up on thefar left as an act of rebellion or keeping with familial patters of idiocy. The far left is actually more cult like than a coherent political system. There are semi religious meetings with unconditional purpose with basically useless unstable people.
For many of these dolts it is their entire identity.
Thus a relitively sane person like the Duck has a need to mitigate criminals like Ayers and Dorn. Their crimes had zero to do with the Vietnam war except in their deluded fantasies and those of the followers. Any attempt at peoples justice they are so fond of would have the American people lynching the traitors. Ironically the system they abused is what is keeping them alive. Ayers is not repentant and has no business working in any institution that recieves money from the Federal Government.
All student loans and research grants should be suspended until Ayers is shown the door. Let the University President explain how a convicted unapologetic terrorist was hired.
For people like the Duck their whole identity is tied up in the Vietnam era. Sorry Duck but that legacy includes thirty years of Commie represion, boat people, killing fields, reeducation camps and general misery. There was no achievement by the 60's garbage except to spread misery in SE Asia where it lingers today.
Moreover, their unrelenting assault on President Nixon boomeranged and caused Communisms demise under Reagan. Nixon's crime of Watergate pales in comparison to Filegate. Moreover, there are zero accusations of rape or sexual misconduct on the part of Richard Nixon. Monica Crowley who worked as a student intern will gladly tell you she was treated as a daughter by Nixon who was far more clever than Clinton ever was.
If any of you have doubts that there is an emotional and mental health defect with far left types, this book should be required reading.
Beamish in 08
32 comments:
- Farmer John said...
On the nature of the aforesaid defect...
Nietzsche, "Geneology of Morals"
What do ascetic ideals mean?—Among artists they mean nothing or too many different things; among philosophers and scholars they mean something like having a nose or an instinct for the most auspicious conditions of a higher spirituality; among women, at best, an additional seductive charm, a little morbidezza [small morbidity] on beautiful flesh, the angelic quality of a nice-looking, plump animal; among physiologically impaired and peevish people (that is, among the majority of mortals) they are an attempt to imagine themselves as "too good" for this world, a holy form of orgiastic excess, their chief tool in the fight with their enduring pain and boredom; ...
... However, the fact that generally the ascetic ideal has meant so much to human beings is an expression of the basic fact of the human will, its horror vacui [horror of a vacuum]. It requires a goal—and it will sooner will nothingness than not will. Do you understand me? . . . Have you understood me? . . . "Not in the slightest, my dear sir!" - 9:38:00 AM
- Robert Bayn said...
I can honestly say i have never wondered what makes 167 or Ducky tick, i just don't care.
- Mr. Ducky said...
A yes Farmer John, the will. Human goals.
The Buddha told an itinerant musician that when he broke the 100th string he would achieve enlightenment. When it broke the musician changed strings. - 10:13:00 AM
- Mr. Beamish the Instablepundit said...
Wondering what makes Ducky tick presupposes that there is ticking going on - a direct contradiction of Beamish's Hypothesis [leftists are incapable of rational thought] - and therefore leads to indefensible conclusions.
You're just going to have to enjoy engaging in the full bouts of laughter we'll have coming when Bush is out of office and whoever is President is still maintaining troops in Iraq, and Ducky's handlers don't have a playbook of "Halliburton" excuses to spit out in substitute of recognizable rationality.
Meanwhile, those of us who already know Ducky is dumber that a squirt of goat droppings by virtue of his adherence to leftism can enjoy the foresight we have now. - 10:24:00 AM
- Mr. Ducky said...
"Moreover, their unrelenting assault on President Nixon boomeranged and caused Communisms demise under Reagan. Nixon's crime of Watergate pales in comparison to Filegate."
Ranks with the silliest things you've ever said. A Whit House criminal conspiracy versus an 8 year investigation that turned up nothing but a cheap affair. Beak, you are a partisan ignoramus.
Then attributing the fall of communism to a president who was sitting in the White House while his brain rotted is another example of your neat simpleton world view.
"Moreover, there are zero accusations of rape or sexual misconduct on the part of Richard Nixon."
So that's what counts is accusations? Don't be an ass. And what relevance is Crowley's statement about Nixon. Who cares? Do you understand the term "anecdotal"?
"Thus a relitively sane person like the Duck has a need to mitigate criminals like Ayers and Dorn."
I mitigate nothing. I simply don't have your blood lust and fixations. The 60's are over, get a freakin' clue and focus o what's being done now. Olmert and Bush have commited crimes far worse than Dorn's.
"... that legacy includes thirty years of Commie represion, boat people, killing fields, reeducation camps and general misery."
It was a civil war you moron, continued when Eisenhower took over from the French. There ain't no good guys or bad guys in that sorry mess. Everyone contributed to the massacres. - 10:25:00 AM
- beakerkin said...
Lets start this slowly for deranged Duck. Any look at Filegate shows far more criminal intent by the Clintoons than Watergate. What were the FBI files doing in the Whitehouse. This is far more serious than Watergate. The proven allegations against Bill Clinton Sexual harassment and perjury were far more serious than any charge against Nixon.
The Commie far left types in the press blew Watergate way out of proportion. Their goal was to cripple an honorable President and achieve victory for Commies in Vietnam. There are plenty of witnesses to Brodericks allegations and zero accusations that Nixon was a criminal or a thief.
The anti-semite adds Olmert to a post that has zero to do with Israel. Last I checked both Bush and Olmert were elected and following paths they construe as best for their country. Nobody elected Dorn or Ayers. They were never revolutionaries except in their own minds. Their crimes had zero to do with Vietnam except in the minds of the deluded commie sympathizer. They should have been put to death for treason.
Your statements on Vietnam are absurd as 30 years of repression is your record. Live with the mess you and your kind created. Killing Fields, Boat People and repression is your generations pathetic legacy. Our best and brightest fought and our human garbage was at the Commie led Peace Protests.
The US should place your kind under constant scrutiny. When you break the law off to North Korea or Vietnam. Let your kind live in the messes they created. - 10:42:00 AM
- Mr. Beamish the Instablepundit said...
A Whit House criminal conspiracy versus an 8 year investigation that turned up nothing but a cheap affair.
A cheap affair and:
- Number of individuals and businesses associated with the Clinton machine who have been convicted of or pleaded guilty to crimes: 47
- Number of these convictions during Clinton's presidency: 33
- Number of indictments/misdemeanor charges: 61
- Number of imprisonments: 14
- Number of congressional witnesses who have pled the 5th Amendment, fled the country to avoid testifying, or (in the case of foreign witnesses) refused to be interviewed: 124
Thank God George W. Bush brought integrity back to the White House! - 11:33:00 AM
- Mr. Beamish the Instablepundit said...
But, in fairness, we did manage to get economic growth during the last 6 years of Clinton's lame duck Presidency when Republicans wrested control of economic policy from Clinton by taking Congress.
- Farmer John said...
but ducky...
My string wasn't broken. Why do you want to change it?
I guess you've got nothing better to do.
btw - You must also fancy yourself a more capable musician. - 11:47:00 AM
- Farmer John said...
...you don't still actually like listenning to those atonal Pollack's, do you?
- Farmer John said...
I admit to harbouring a preference for modal music. Atonality can grate on the nerves if carried beyond a flirtation.
- Farmer John said...
If the string ain't broke, why fix it?
- Mr. Ducky said...
Beak proud of Olmert? of course you are.
They used phosphorus
Some consider this a war crime. It's at least as disgusting as their use of cluster munitions but it's just the anti semites holding the IDF to a higher standard.
You use "anti semite" so often Beak it doesn't mean anything. - 12:06:00 PM
- Robert Bayn said...
Left wing or Right wing, nothing beats the political spin of horse menure.
- beakerkin said...
Only left wing Communist anti-semites get worked up about cluster type munitions and phosphorus. You seem to be unconcerned with Hamas munitions that are loaded with plastic ball bearing dipped in rat poison. Spare me your hypocrisy as when your commie bretheren used explosives shapped like toys and chemical weapons in Afghanistan the left said zero.
Nor do the same people say a work when Commie North Vietnamese used flame throwers to kill hundreds of Hmong. Yes, commie crimes are barely even acknowledged and its time that Western supporters of class genocide and sedition were
held accountable.
Lets see an apologist for a system that loaded those troublesome Muslims on cattle cars to die wants to question dem jooos. Sounds like hypocrisy to me, but it gets worse every day. Care to explain the Maoist persecution of homosexuals, Duck. Do not lecture me about Falwell your kind is quite shallow. - 12:30:00 PM
- Mr. Beamish the Instablepundit said...
"White phosphorus (WP) weapons are not forbidden by international law but some human rights groups believe they should be re-classified as chemical weapons and banned"
...Because they kill terrorists. - 12:33:00 PM
- Elmer's Brother said...
White phosphorus is used by the military in various types of ammunition, and to produce smoke for concealing troop movements and identifying targets.
It's used to conceal troop movements and identify targets!
It's used to protect our troops.
Ducky the don't ask don't tell rule is still in effect, stick to s*it you know.
It has been used since the 19th century. - 3:19:00 PM
- Elmer's Brother said...
ducky you know like the cinema and rectal thermometers.
- beakerkin said...
The Duck is am ignoramus on military matters. However is it possible that a person who claimed to be a Brittish Naval Officer would not know this. 167 has made the same stupid comment. - 3:38:00 PM
- Mr. Beamish the Instablepundit said...
If white phosphorous rounds are a "chemical weapon" then so are molotov cocktails.
- nanc said...
the fact that plucky tocks after he ticks has perplexed me for quite awhile, but no, i'm with rob - i've never wondered what makes him tick...other than it's usually a prelude to the tock.
- Warren said...
I'm still waiting for Ducky to say something... anything, intelligent.
They use phosphorous!
- Mr. Beamish the Instablepundit said...
I'm still waiting for Ducky to say something... anything, intelligent.
I'm not that patient. I'd rather wait on being struck by lightning on the way to cashing a $100 million dollar winning lottery ticket, if only for the greater probability of occurance than Ducky saying anything remotely intelligent. - 9:36:00 PM
- Mr. Beamish the Instablepundit said...
It's over when South Park makes fun of Ducky's conspiracy theories.
- JINGOIST said...
Great post Beak! Commmunism's crimes against humanity make ALL other human crimes pale by comparison. Case closed.
David Horowitz's take on these far-left types is as good as I've ever seen. They are adherents to a diseased religion. One that seems to require a class based genocide to bring about a paradise on earth. If only these leftists could get all of those square pegs(humans) to fit in the round holes of their dreams.
The leftist vision is sick to it's core and is based on violating nearly all of the morals that decent people live by. Just look at the Decalogue and tell me which Commandment communists don't violate as a matter of policy!
Here's proof of their religious mindset. Even the smartest lefties routinely get thrashed in argument here on the web. Whether it's here at the Beak Speaks or at FPM they get destroyed by facts and logic. Even after having been proved wrong, they will come back the next day and say THE SAME DAMN THING! It's a similar mindset to a religious mindset, minus the morals.
Morgan - 6:24:00 AM
- Robert Bayn said...
you killed COMMIE!
- beakerkin said...
Mr Beamish that is a hysterical clip.
Morgan I have to get you to sit for an interview as Florian pulled his archives.
Rob, the old avatar rocks.
Forgive me guys, I was up watching the Gmen kick the hell out of the Cowboys. I hate the Cowboys and Eagles. - 10:10:00 AM
- American Crusader said...
ascetic ideal =a young woman with a nice ass
Lefties are easy to identify. They are the ones who campaign to save people like "Tookie" Williams from death row while totally ignoring the reasons that sent him there.
Poor TO...the Cowboys are got an ass-kicking - 3:45:00 PM
- Always On Watch said...
I am not fond of atonal music. "Paul" is, but not to listening to or performing it exclusively. - 3:56:00 PM
- Always On Watch said...
Addendum: I love modal music. Takes me to a higher plane. - 3:59:00 PM
- Elmer's Brother said...
I've seen that video, some one got a raging clue.
- JINGOIST said...
Beaker I'd LOVE to sit for an interview! It would be a distinct honor. Right now I'm going 10-12 hrs./day, but I'd love to sit down on Sabbath Saturday and entertain your questions. Sounds like great fun!
Morgan - 6:15:00 PM


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Hi! Bevo, I wouldn't swear on a stack of bibles but I seem to recall that the koss stats were made under contract by Acoustat for a very short time. They are indeed very rare birds! Do they have dome tweeters? That seems to ring a bell also.
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I've owned both Koss !A's and 2's back in the 70's. The Model 2 originally had a dome tweeter but I replaced them with JVC ribbon leaf tweeter and they blended much better. They were made in WI. I used to run them stacked. I've also owned several Acoustat models, ML CLSII's and others and now use DIY ESLs. Out of all the commercial ESLs I've owned I liked the sound of the Koss ESLs best. The downside was lots and lots of stator problems. About every 6 months you needed to take a heat gun to the diaphrams to retighten them. Koss had a guy that did nothing but rebuild these panels for a few years but then discontinued servicing them at all. The stators are simple and if rebuilt with a more modern diaphram material they would probably be much more reliable. Except for an arc that burned a hole in the HV board I didn't have any other problems. They were also capable of a very respectable SPL level.
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Greetings, I'm glad to see the "Wayback Machine" still works! Any photos? What kind of tweeters? How did the point source tweeters intergrate with the line source midrange?etc.
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I've found them to be high manufacturing quality - no problems with diaphragms either - but a deeply flawed overall concept/design.
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Even tho the Koss factory is near me, they would not give me any info on the 3 old speakers I found, so I traced out the schematic myself.
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Does anyone know what the bias voltages were? I found a 1975 BAS meeting report that says it was only 7.5 kV for the bass panels, whereas about 18kV would be optimal for their very wide air gaps (about 0.3" stator-to-diaphragm), so this would seem to have more than wasted the gain from using multiple diaphragms. The same report also indicated that the diaphragms were of polyethylene, which seems unlikely and contributes to my doubt about the reported voltage.
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As you can see from the schematic I posted, they used a step-up xformer & a 10X voltage multiplier to supply bias from the speaker drive signal. I found this to be inadequate as the 3 sample speakers I tested had weak output from the bass & MF panels making the speakers sound ridiculously bright from the dynamic tweeter. The bias generated peaked at less than 600v. This, coupled with the HF roll-off of multiple-layer panels made for a 'perfect storm' of failed performance.
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Church leaders confident the ban will be made permanent
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The Supreme Court today extended an earlier order stopping the implementation of the controversial Reproductive Health (RH) Law.
A narrow vote of 8-7 ordered the status quo ante ('the way things were before') order to be extended until further notice, effective immediately.
The order, which was due to expire tomorrow, was extended after the justices heard arguments from 14 petitioners, many of them Church-backed groups opposing the law that aims to slow the country's rapid population growth.
Church leaders who supported the petitions said they were confident the Supreme Court will eventually stop the law's implementation.
Reproductive health advocates expressed dismay at the ruling.
Dr Eden Divinagracia, head of the Philippine NGO Council, said she was "saddened by the vote," adding that while the court continues to deliberate on the law, 15 Filipino women die every day from pregnancy and childbirth.
She added that the Church "should not intervene with affairs of state," especially when it concerns the health of constituents.
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I went to Dubai for the first ever Summit on the Global Agenda. The Summit pulled together experts on roughly seventy different topics to discuss the current and future state of major issue areas: areas as varied as water, mining, nanotechnology, governance, economic development, economic meltdown (kidding) and so on.
Obviously, there was a lot of buzz about the financial meltdown, especially in a place like Dubai that has built itself up as a major international business center (Dubai as an emirate has relatively little oil compared to some of the other gulf emirates). I spent the day before the council driving around the United Arab Emirates and a bit in Oman. The UAE are in an incredible state of construction: I don't know of many places on earth (other than China) where so much has been built so fast. Out in the middle of the desert, you would encounter brand-new freeways, or towns that seemed to have been plopped down in the middle of nowhere.
This one small town seemed to have been carved out of the rock in the middle of a mountain range.
Dubai City itself has the world's tallest building (which I only caught in the distance looming out of the smog). The resemblance to Los Angeles was striking: this is another community created in a desert land that tends to haze and smog (lacking rain, I guess). Dubai is constructing giant offshore developments in the shape of a palm, and even a development that will look like the world (an opportunity to buy an entire representational country?). I could see some of this construction off the coast from my hotel room in the distance, with dredges spewing sand onto an artificial shore.
I welcomed the opportunity to check out the country: it's actually not that big and by driving around all day was able to get a quick view of points east of Dubai (on the Gulf) to the Indian Ocean and drive across the border into Oman.
Of course, one of the investments made by the emirates has been in mosques. There were a fair number of striking and reasonably brand-new mosques around the country.
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