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Fifty parting thoughts from French Open
PARIS -- Fifty parting thoughts from the French Open, where two legends added to their collections ...
- WERTHEIM: Nadal's career in new realm
- WERTHEIM: 50 parting thoughts from Paris
- ZACCARDI: Nadal's incredible run continues
- WERTHEIM: Serena's personalities win title
- ZACCARDI: Is Serena better than Federer?
- NGUYEN: Serena can't be stopped right now
- WERTHEIM: Nadal remains the King of Clay
- Nadal outlasts Djokovic in five-set marathon
• Serena Williams takes another step into the GOAT pasture, winning major No. 16 in stylish fashion. A full write-up is here. But consider this: When she first won the French Open, it preceded Justine Henin's first title, Rafael Nadal was a chubby-cheeked junior, and there was no Facebook. Apart from her excellence, how about her staying power?
• All hail Rafael Nadal, King of Clay. He held off opponents when playing subpar tennis in the first week. He held off Novak Djokovic's palace raid. He ground down David Ferrer in the (protest-marred) final, 6-3, 6-2, 6-3. You will never see another player dominate a surface the way Nadal does clay. A dozen Slams. Just turned 27. This will get interesting.
• The good news for Maria Sharapova? She returned to the final (and played quite well) after winning two courageous battles in the previous rounds. The less good news: She is now on a 13-match losing streak against Williams. The excellent journalist Matt Cronin recently wrote about Yuri Sharapova's telling his daughter she could not win majors if Williams was in the draw. You wonder how deeply that got lodged in Maria's psyche.
• We can ooh and ahh over the magic of Nadal and Williams and Roger Federer and Djokovic. But most players would do well to fix their gaze on Ferrer and see what happens when a player maximizes his talent.
Ferrer one of 14 athletes most deserving of a title
• Williams' 6-0, 6-1 semifinal win over Sara Errani might well be the most one-sided match I've ever seen. That it occurred in the semifinals of a Grand Slam tournament against a top-five player makes it more remarkable still. I mean, 40 winners in 66 points is a ball-machine ratio. The optimists will marvel at Serena's level. The pessimists will, of course, use it to denigrate women's tennis. So it goes.
• Before the draw came out, many circled the likely semifinal between Djokovic and Nadal as the match of the tournament. They were not disappointed. In a discursive, nonsensical and sensationally entertaining match, Nadal prevailed, of course. A few points here or there and the entire tennis narrative goes in a completely opposite direction.
Let's pause for a moment to praise Djokovic. A) Playing with a heavy heart after the death of his first coach, he still comes with a high level of tennis. B) He nearly beats Nadal at the French Open, the ultimate tennis takedown. C) He's down a set and a break and recovers to level the match. He loses the third set 6-1 and recovers to level the match. He gets the short end of several calls and barely registers a complaint. D) Does anyone still doubt that Novak Djokovic will win the French one day?
• I was literally in the middle of writing about Jo-Wilfried Tsonga's strange tournament, how he wins four matches seamlessly, beats Federer and then is dismissed by Ferrer, when I got this from reader Gavin Spencer of New York. Take it away:
"Funny game, tennis. On Wednesday, Roger Federer, who at 31 is obviously past his prime but who also is considered by many to be the best ever to pick up a racket, and the second-best clay-court player of his era, is administered a sound beating at the hands of one Jo-Willy Tsonga. Not even close. Two days later, David Ferrer, also 31, and a talented and tenacious scrapper, but, with the greatest respect, a player whom no one considers the first- or second-best anything in tennis, administers a similarly dismissive beatdown of the very same Jo-Willy. Difference of style? I don't think so; Ferrer doesn't really have a 'style.' He just hits everything well and never stops running; no high-bouncing topspin there. Why, then, is Tsonga able to trounce the more talented 31-year-old Federer, while losing easily to the 31-year-old less-talented Ferrer?"
Funny game, tennis.
• Bob and Mike Bryan won the men's doubles title. Of course they did; they've now won every major twice, with 14 overall. But spare a thought to the finalists, Michael Llodra and Nicolas Mahut, who were a few points from victory in the third-set tiebreaker. At the trophy presentation, Llodra had to do most of the talking because Mahut was crying inconsolably. Can someone tap karma on the shoulder and explain that Mahut is due for a triumphant moment?
• In a mild upset, Elena Vesnina and Ekaterina Makarova won the women's doubles, beating defending champion Italians Errani and Roberta Vinci.
• Lucie Hradecka and Frantisek Cermak won the mixed doubles title, beating Daniel Nestor and Kristina Mladenovic in the final. Their haul? A combined 105,000 Euros. That's not bad.
• Recently, a reader from Chile told me to keep an eye on a player in the boys draw, Christian Garin, whom Nadal and his uncle Toni spotted at the Vina del Mar event and began to mentor. Of course, the kid goes on to win the juniors. Fame is in the forecast. Belinda Bencic of Switzerland won the girls event. Which is good, because it's been a while since we had a decent Swiss player.
• As for Federer, let's wait until after the grass season before assessing his prospects, shall we? We said that last year and he won Wimbledon.
• The shortest women's match of the tournament? Williams' beatdown of Errani (46 minutes). The next shortest? Serena's first-round defeat of Anna Tatishvili (51). The longest match? Venus Williams' first-round loss to Urszula Radwanska (3:19). As long as we're talking match time, let the record show that the Federer-Gilles Simon five-setter finished in under three hours.
• Tip of the backwards ballcap to Tommy Haas for reaching the quarterfinals. He's 35, you know. (One of you wondered whether, at his age, he is entitled to a 25 percent discount at the players' cafeteria.) Nobody older made it this far in Paris in 42 years.
• So often, the line scores of a match don't begin to tell the narrative. Casual fans see, for instance, that Maria Kirilenko beat Bethanie Mattek-Sands 7-5, 6-4 in the fourth round. Sounds about right. Except Mattek-Sands had a 4-1 lead in the first set before wilting. And in the eighth game of the tight second set -- on consecutive points, no less -- she failed to convert two easy putaways.
To paraphrase a wise man, "Every match tells a story, don't it?" That said, credit Mattek-Sands on her run, a return to the main draw and an upset of Li Na, who remains a mystifying player. Nice to see her back in the upper ranks. Nice to see her acknowledged for more than her fashion sense, such as it is.
• The old glass-empty, glass-full conundrum. Does Jamie Hampton, pride of Alabama, recall this event for her gutty play, her upset of Petra Kvitova (and, crassly, the $132,000 payday that came with it)? Or does she recall it for a flat-as-paillard effort in the fourth round against Jelena Jankovic, a 6-0, 6-2 stinker? Hopefully the former.
• A few of you noticed how often players deferred to each other on line calls, rather than summoning the chair to check the marks. As Dale Stafford of Washington, D.C., wrote after the Serena-Svetlana Kuznetsova match: "These two women, delivering body blows to one another, demonstrated their complete respect for one another by trusting one another to indicate via hand signals. 'Don't waste your time ... that one was 6 inches out.' It was terrific to see how Serena and Sveta regarded one another."
I would add that as Williams walked off the court after the final, Sharapova turned to her and said, "Congratulations again, Serena." Serena's response, "Thanks, Maria." Much as we all like a feud, there seems to be a lot sporting behavior and mutual respect on the WTA these days.
• I'm in something of a compromised position here (having worked for the ace Tennis Channel team), but I agree with so many of you that having three networks at one event is a) problematic for the viewers, b) compounded by erratic streaming options, c) can lead to some unpleasant conflicts among the networks on site and d) is no way to grow a sport. One day we will laugh at this -- as we watch events stream live on our wristwatches while eating Soylent Green in our personal space travel pods. But that does us no good now.
The real problem is that it's a perpetuating cycle. TV is a ratings game and tennis doesn't drive ratings that justify broadcasting matches over Today. Yet, one asks, how does one grow a sport when the most meaningful matches aren't always broadcast live and even hardcore fans are never sure which network has which windows?
• More proof that it's a brave new media world: Word on the rue is the terrestrial rights to the French Open could move from France2 to ... Al Jazeera.
• Sloane Stephens got what she came for. After a dismal spring, she won three matches and then fell to Sharapova. She defends her points from 2012 and now has a real shot of finishing the year close to the top 10.
• The great Martina Navratilova counted up the number of Slavic-born players in the draw. She tallied 50 women and 30 men ("with a couple question marks that I didn't even count.") This is astonishing.
• Haas wasn't the only thirty-something Tommy to make a splash. One of the more heartwarming stories of the tournament was Tommy Robredo, the former No. 5 (in 2006) who was barely in the top 500 a year ago. The 31-year-old stormed to the second week, winning three matches after losing the first two sets, a feat that had never been achieved in the Open Era.
• One of Robredo's stirring comebacks came against Gael Monfils. Great to have him back in the cast. But he still comes with the same ambivalence. You love the showmanship, the athleticism and the personality. You're less fond of the results and tactically absent free swinging. His run here -- wins over Tomas Berdych and Ernests Gulbis and then an inexplicable loss to Robredo after squandering a commanding lead -- is his entire career writ small.
• As many of you happily noted, half the men in the quarterfinals zinged picturesesque one-handed backhands. As we wrote last week ... Wait, what's there a knock on the door? Come in, Tennis Ogre. What is it, Tennis Ogre? "Four things...before you consider this a new trend: 1) if Andy Murray and Juan Martin del Potro had been in the draw -- and Gael Monfils knew how to close a match -- the number would be reduced. 2) All of the one-handers were older than 25. 3) If you walked around the courts during the junior matches, you'd see that the one-hander is an heirloom. 4) By the semis, none were left. Grrrr ... "
• Grigor Dimitrov has undeniable talent. (And revealed himself to be quite charming on the big stage and in the press room.) But he was positively schooled by Djokovic on the middle Saturday. Me thinks all this talk about the Generation Next and the Decline of the Big Four is a tad premature. There's still a canyon dividing the ranks.
Wait, it's Tennis Ogre again. After giving appropriate respect to The Quartet, he wants to put out an APB for New Balls. Milos Raonic (now coached by Ivan Ljubicic) appears to have plateaued. Kei Nishikori is more of a Ferrer type than a world beater. Even the USTA consensus seems to be that Ryan Harrison has been replaced by Jack Sock as the best American prospect. That there was so much argument over this list reinforces how unsettled "Generation Next" is right now.
• Speaking of Sock, he didn't offer Haas a ton of resistance in the second round. But keep in mind that in his first French Open, he not only beat a Spaniard in the first round but also had to qualify just to get there. It's the old equation from math class ... Four wins over ATP Big Boys on clay plus a main-draw win plus Nebraska provenance = fine clay-court tournament. In other words, he earned his burrito bowl.
• After being pitted against the Big Four players in the first round with eerie consistency, Harrison finally received a decent draw. He won a match and was up two sets on John Isner before fading. I'm not sure where Harrison goes. It's not as though he doesn't work hard or competes without sufficient fervor. He is a very good player in an era that demands great.
• The chorus is now deafening. We need a tiebreaker in the decisive set, whether it's at 6-6 or, say, 8-8 or 10-10. Haas-Isner was good fun -- the match of the tournament, at least before the men's semis -- but by the end there was almost something sadistic about watching. Isner, in particular, staggered around the court as though shot with a tranquilizer gun. The human body is not made to play 10 hours of tennis in two days. The human body is not meant to play these 10-8 sets (much less 70-68). Regardless of how many cheap points are coming on serve.
• If you haven't seen Benoit Paire play, do so immediately. The comparisons to Fabrice Santoro are a bit much. But anyone who can execute the match-point drop shot like he did on Marcos Baghdatis in the first round deserves our attention.
• Victor Hanescu made it to the third round without playing a completed match. First, Bernard Tomic retired against him. Then Dmitry Tursunov did. His third-round opponent, Philipp Kohlschreiber could relate. Kohlschreiber advanced by walkover when Yen-Hsun Lu pulled up with an ankle injury. Hanescu lost but emerged $80,000 to the good. On the other side of the draw, let the record reflect that not a single woman -- zero -- retired on account of injury or illness.
• Speaking of Tomic, after his first-round retirement, he made his way to the press room and preempted the inevitable questions about his dad by stating: "Hello, guys. I hope you're well. You know, I'd like to say some things before you guys ask me about them obviously involving my father. He's here right now in Paris, so he's still working with me, he's still my dad, he's still my coach, and, you know, I love him a lot. Involving the incidents that happened, I don't want to talk about it a lot -- or at all, I should say. And it's a very difficult thing for me to put my words into that. If you can respect all I have to say about this, I'm happy to talk about the match."
A few of you asked about this, establishing these kinds of ground rules in advance. I think it's totally legit, especially given the circumstances.
• Speaking of ETDs -- Execrable Tennis Dads -- Aravene Rezai is back with her father, Arsalan, once banned from attending WTA events.
As she said last week, "Our relationship has changed. I think that everybody in this room has problems with their parents. I'm a normal person just like you. We've all got problems with our respective families. I'm in the public eye so this is blown out of proportion a bit."
• Thomas Drouet, the hitting partner allegedly struck by Tomic's dad, was in Paris working with Marion Bartoli (who lost dismally in the middle weekend.) Drouet told L'Equipe, "It's nice be around normal people." Enough said.
• Richard Gasquet lost a 6-7 (5), 4-6, 6-4, 7-5, 8-6 heartbreaker to Stan Wawrinka, a match he, frankly, ought to have won. (It also marked a record 15th fourth-round loss at a major for Gasquet, who has one win in the round of 16.) This caused significant heartbreak but brought out the French existentialists. Gasquet's first question in the post-match interview: "Which pain is worse at the moment: the one in your soul or the one in your body?" (Gasquet's response: "What do you think?")
• We need a term for what Jelena Jankovic did in the second round. She lost the first three games to Garbine Muguruza. Then she won 6-3, 6-0. A double éclair, maybe?
• Nice to see Cara Black, now a mom, back on tour, playing doubles and mixed doubles. One of the best set of hands in the history of the women's game. And she was hardly the oldest player in the draw. Lisa Raymond, 39, had to pull out when her partner, Laura Robson, injured his back. So Janette Husarova, also 39, took seniority honors.
• Watch for Madison Keys at Wimbledon. The 18-year-old American had a bittersweet French Open. Keys won her opener with ease. But she let a big opportunity slip in the second round, playing shaky tennis when it mattered most and falling in a highly winnable match to fellow teen Monica Puig. Big week for the Puig clan, overall.
• I'm in a compromised situation, but strictly from a legal-telecom perspective, the Battle Royale among the FCC, Comcast and Tennis Channel is worth following. Here's an interesting piece from Bloomberg.
• On a less happy note, Russian player Sergei Krotiouk was banned for life and fined $60,000 after he was found guilty of 41 charges relating to match-fixing. On the other hand, the guy is 34 and ranked No. 789.
• Here's something to watch for: Anabel Medina Garrigues during changeovers. In Madrid, she did this. Here, she said this.
• If you are like Gulbis and resent boring players, you are happy to see Jankovic back in the mix. Awfully nice event for the former No.1, getting to the quarterfinals. (Yes, that's a strange sentence to write, given that for certain other former No.1s, a trip to quarterfinals is being seen as grounds for retirement.)
• To repeat: Federer made his 36th straight major quarterfinal. Only five other players in the draw even played in 36 straight majors: Ferrer, Fernando Verdasco, Feliciano Lopez, Berdych and Albert Montanes.
• Weird tournament for 18-year-old Nick Kyrgios of Australia. In the first round of the main draw, he beat 34-year-old veteran Radek Stepanek. Kyrgios then lost his second-round match, entered the junior draw as the top seed and fell to unseeded Karen Khachanov of Russia, who turned 17 last month, in the second round.
• Had the chance to spend some time with Taylor Townsend. Just delightful. I'm ripping this from Jim Caple (who did great work for ESPN here).
Where will you be ranked in five years?
Townsend (with mock disgust): "What kind of question is that? No.1 ! C'mon now! Serena will be a little bit older, and I'll be a little bit older."
• More than half the women's qualifiers won their first match. Speaking of women's qualifying, Sandra Zahlavova qualified and so did Barbora Zahlavova Strycova.
• "No wonder everybody thinks you are garbage." Nice piece from Ben Rothenberg on tennis and gambling.
• More "ova" unders. Props to Zuzana Kucova, who qualified, won a round, lost and promptly retired.
• Lots of quotable lines, but here's Fabio Fognini when asked about whether Nadal had a right to complain about the scheduling. "What are you, from Russia?" (The response: "No, Ukraine.")
• Tweet of the tournament goes to Alize Lim, girlfriend of Jeremy Chardy.
• Not to fluff my own fedora, but I was out of the suicide pool the very first day of play, an all-time low. (Nadia Petrova, I have a bone to pick with you!) Winners, send me your info and I'll see what we have in the swag drawer.
Have a good week, everyone. We'll do it again soon, across the channel.


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For the first time, astronomers can see the black hole at the center of the Milky Way through high-energy X-rays.
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Ca ada Flintridge released images Tuesday from NuSTAR, or the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, an Earth-orbiting telescope that captured unusual activity at the black hole.
Known as Sagittarius A* (pronounced A-star), the black hole was seen in the middle of a flare-up, erupting with extra energy after consuming a nearby star, gas cloud or asteroid.
"We got lucky to have captured an outburst from the black hole during our observing campaign," Caltech astronomer and mission principal investigator Fiona Harrison said in a statement. "These data will help us better understand the gentle giant at the heart of our galaxy and why it sometimes flares up for a few hours and then returns to slumber."
The flares could be from a cloud near Sagittarius A* containing trillions of asteroids and comets, which sometimes get thrown out of their orbit and vaporized by the black hole.
NASA offered that hypothesis in a report earlier this year based on observations from another space telescope, the Chandra X-ray Observatory.
NuSTAR picks up higher levels of X-rays, and therefore has a better view of the activity going on at the center of the Milky Way.
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he had one hell-of-a shiner. He said to his wife, "I
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Old flintlock shooter I met at the range.
In this day and age it is easier to stay stupid than it is to stay ignorant. I have had the misfortune to have encountered many informed idiots
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Norbert Wiener's cybernetic paradigm represents one of the seminal ideas of the 20th century. It has provided a general framework for analyzing communications and control processes in purposeful systems, from genomes to empires. Especially notable are the many important applications in control engineering. Nevertheless, its full potential has yet to be realized. For instance, cybernetics is relatively little used as an analytical tool in the social sciences. One reason, it is argued here, is that Wiener's framework lacks a crucial element -- a functional definition of information. The functional (content and meaning) role of information in cybernetic processes cannot be directly measured with Claude Shannon's statistical approach, which Wiener also adopted. Although so-called Shannon information has made many valuable contributions and has many important uses, it is blind to the functional properties of information. Here a radically different approach to information theory is described. After briefly critiquing the literature in information theory, a new kind of cybernetic information will be proposed which we call "control information." Control information is not a "thing" but an attribute of the relationships between things. It is defined as: the capacity (know how) to control the acquisition, disposition and utilization of matter/energy in purposive (cybernetic) processes. We will briefly elucidate the concept, and we will propose a formalization in terms of a common unit of measurement, namely the quantity of "available energy" that can be controlled by a given unit of information in a given context. However, other metrics are also feasible, from money to allocations of human labor. Some illustrations will be provided and we will also briefly discuss some of the implications.


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MALicious Tales: A M.A. Lachnicht Halloween Anthology
Book by: Mike Lachnicht
Status: Finished
Genre: Horror
Chapter1 (v.1) - MALicious Tales: A M.A. Lachnicht Halloween Anthology
- Sit Down
Sparks dance from the flames of hell
Look upon the bloody gore
It is time for the coming of day
2. I Was There
And get ready to go
Thy form a countenance of despair
A soul that is in need of great repair
Friend to many, but fiend to most
Fanged demons are your holy host
The odor of death clings to thee
I pray the lord you shan't hunt me
But if you try you shall find
I am sharp of wit and protected in mind
Your eyes a glow with demonic lust
I fear your head taketh I must
To stop what evil there I found
Lay your body in the ground
Say a blessing one last time
Thus my tale ends in this rhyme
6. The Birth of an Unknown Killer (unfinished) (C) 2013-Copyright 2013
Jack's mind was on auto-pilot, he knew he was driving but he didn't know to where and for what purpose. His car a red Mustang sped down the black macadam road. His mind fluttered like a butterfly wings but he knew what would soothe his mind. The road was long and winding but his destination was a mile or two away. The small city of Fayville, Dakota was bustling with people. Jack didn't know he had tucked a gun away in his waist band. It was a .44 Magnum which he had bought days ago. Jack cruised the city looking for victims. He saw a lady with a blue and white blouse parked in a secluded lake highway and pulled up next to her. He light up a cigarette, biding his time. The lady thought nothing when Jack's Mustang pulled up next to her and Jack, a twenty-three year old, lit up a cigarette. Jack smoked his cigarette down to the butt and stepped out. He pulled out his .44 Magnum and shot a round. The lady had only one second to register the boom of the revolver before her skull was blown off.
7. Blood Thieves (unfinished) (C) 2013- Copyright 2013
The Key by M.A.L
The dank mausoleum smelled of the musk of a hundred dead men. Inside lied a key. Not a physical key but a key nonetheless. It sat inside the dank mausoleum and waited for its master. The mausoleum lay in a wooded region in a rural land in North Carolina; it was surrounded by brush which obscured it from view. It was by happenstance that Kenny Walters, a junior at the local high school stumbled on the defunct moldering crypt where the key waited. Kenny was a klutzy nerd, unpopular and severely bullied by his fellow students. This the key knew for it had chosen Kenny long before Kenny stumbled on pass the lip of the entrance of that cesspool the key claimed as home. The first waft of breeze sent the wretched smell of the damned, the dead and mold. Kenny felt like gagging but by force of will held it in. He saw many sights on the walk, all implanted by the key. On the dais strewn with detritus from the ravages of the ages was where the key waited. Skulls lined the spirit haunted hallways which lead to the key. The same hallways Kenny now walked. They all grinned at Kenny with some hidden secret of knowledge. Walking towards the room where the key waited on the ruins of the dais Kenny sensed a change in atmosphere. A presence that felt only malice towards him was in this crypt with him.
North Carolina Star
Monday May 14, 1965
Secrets Buried In The Vaults: Reported Millionaire Kenny Walters III Hides Key Said To Hold Power.
Recently deceased millionaire Kenny Walters III, owner of the infamous Cthulu Club in North Carolina has been reported by credible sources within his entourage as having buried a key of ultimate power underneath his families' crypt where he was buried just yesterday. Kenny died yesterday in his sleep according to Dr. Nestor Holmes of DeBusse's Family Practice in Berryville, North Carolina reports the deceased had come into his office complaining of nightmares of torturous diabolical acts unleashed by this key his forefather Nicholas Benji Walters born in 1750 and died 1810 also buried in the crypt the aforementioned key is reported to be buried. All grave robbers are warned only family members of the Walters' bloodline can possess the key.
So it was written of before Kenny Albert Walters, who had stumbled upon what history had written of, was born. It was these chaotic circumstances and environs which Kenny found himself in as he felt the cold breeze hit his neck. He knew it wasn't a natural breeze when he felt the hairs on his neck stand up. A shudder wracked his body and he took an involuntary step forward. He didn't hear the shuffling steps of the freshly dead rising in greeting of their sons. It was the first cold breeze that made Kenny understood that his feelings of someone behind him were true. His blood chilled in his veins. He caught what he thought was a shuffling step but inside the room on the dais the key sent out a psychic tug on Kenny's mind. The key was reeling in the fat plump fish called Kenneth Albert Walters Jr. Somewhere inside his hypnotized mind a small messenger warned Kenny that he should be weary of his surroundings. Kenny didn't know that lurking within this moldy ill neglected crypt his forefathers where pulling themselves out of their coffins in search of him and the key.
The thing that once was Nicholas Benji Walters, shambled and slithered down the hallways, using its nose to find its great-great-great-great-great grandson. The key sensed the thing as it shambled down the long dank hallway. The walls where dripping sweat, Kenny's hand came back black from mold. Many albino spiders crept along the walls, stunted from long exposure to the dark, leaving trails of cobweb in their wake. Behind him lumbered Nicholas smelling the fresh rich blood of his family line. Kenny was glistening with sweat, the atmosphere had intensified and humidity had done its work on him. Kenny fished into his backpack and fished out his water bottle and a small pen light. Nicholas stumbled after Kenny his arms outstretched, his lips trying to form coherent words. The bloated white corpse shambled forward towards the key that would open doors to inner dimensions. Black magic was in the air Kenny smelt the foul stench of aeon dead bodies escaped from the grave. He heard the shambling being behind him. He had read the writing of Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith and others and felt the macabre in this hallway of his family mausoleum. It was the croak that finally made Kenny turn and face what was Nicholas. Death filled his nostrils and he fought his gorge. The key event occurred in that meeting for Nicholas Henri Walters, grandsire of the very boy he faced, was a member of an age old cult worshipping demonic forces and practicing the black magic of the time. He was a necromancer in corpse guise. He spoke in a language long dead marking this moment with spell. He saw the distinguished markings of his family. The corpse was missing parts and his guts spilled from betwixt the gaping wound on his stomach. The stench reeked and Kenny's face blanched of color md yet some alien force pulled at his mind. In his head he heard an antiquated cultured voice say "My grandsire I mark thee as true blood I am the thing you seek I am the Guardian of the Key and you must pass through me to get that which you where pre-destined to seek." Thus said the molding skeleton-white being flung itself at Kenny to kill him where he stood. Kenny felt along the ground and found a cracked bone and just as the being was upon him the bone burst the being like a balloon. The stench made Kenny gag.
After he gagged Kenny felt the keys tug strengthen. It was a frenzied tug on his psyche that made Kenny stumble into the room beyond where the thing that once was Nicholas Benji Walters The room was in shambles but in the room a small lantern blazed. In the light of the room Kenny saw a skull lying white against the shadow strewn room. It was deathly quiet after the encounter with Nicholas who now lay in piece in the doorway. Kenny saw the dais the key had shown him before and under a dome lay a book entitled "The Necronomicon Notes" written by Sir Nicholas Benji Walters. The key lay within the Formulas within the notes. They called Kenny to open and read the formulas, to seek that which is forbidden like Adam and Eve did in Eden. Other molding books lay around and Kenny took off his backpack and filled it with old books. Some he had heard hints of from his Grandma who grew up in Arkham, Massachusetts, the fabled town Lovecraft once wrote of. These books Kenny heard of invited madness to those dark enough to read them. As Kenny walked through the degraded halls of the crypt he snatched a glimpse of the Notes, his forefather and now recently re-animated dead body lying only a few feet away, had wrote. The dead lay thinking black thoughts of this roamer of their halls. One fouler beast than Nicholas crept from out of the coffin he laid dead in minutes ago. This beast was legless so slithered upon the floor pantomiming chase. Kenny didn't hear the slithering until closer to the exit of the crypt. A creature whose head was so deformed with bloat and mold, its skull popping out from festering worm-filled wounds, was repellent. The atmosphere of the crypt changed and more hostile forms formed out of the vast darkness all progenitors of this man facing them. Backpack in hand Kenny opened the flap and read from the blasphemous notes of Nicholas the dark mage of the family. All zombiefied forms ceased to exist. He walked out of the crypt with his findings.
"This is the testimony of all that I have seen, and all that I have learned....For this is the Book of the Dead, the Book of the Black Earth, that I have writ down at the peril of my life,"- "Necronomicon"- Abdul Alhazred
January 1891
"So saith Abdul Alhazred, prophet of Orient, Leader of the Cult of Black Earth. He who holds the key of his book shalt find the darkest of knowledge such that shalt blast thou's mind. Deep down in thy heart lieth the Old Ones whose message is doom…"- " The Necronomicon Notes"- Sir Nicholas B. Walters.
So read Kenny in the room in his family home. The old books he found where various evil and black magic grimoires' of ancient forgotten times. He had poured over these books searching for ultimate power. Among the books he found two of intrest, "The Necronomicon" translated by Olaus Wormius with sections about the "Great Old Ones" underlined, and the "Pkanotic Manuscript." Of these ancient time-worn books Kenny read. His intrigue egged from long abandonment from his father who when he was around berated Kenny about delving into the family tree. The family tree called at him and he read much history in Lovecraft and in the Notes his foresire wrote and in those old cursed books. He learned of another foresire from his wizened old grandmother from near the Miskatonic River. She told him of Charles Le Sorcier, son of Michel Mauvais, both wizards in the blackest of cults like recent era Nicholas recently risen and fallen from living dead to just dead. But Kenny saw a formula of raising the dead through sacrifice and in so learning devised a plan to raise Michel and Charles Mauvais and in making a pact to enslave them to his deed and will.
"So to bringeth the dead back to live a sacrifice of one of pure blood to bringeth them to the realm of Cthulhu and he shalt judgeth them if they be pure they shalt devour the soul and body of ye's sacrifice once devoured sayeth Ia! Ia! Fhthagn R'lyeh Cthulu to invoke Cthulhu who shalt raise ye's dead and bind him to thou's will The Old Ones Doth Watch Remember!!"-Nicholas B. Walters [pg, 12]
He had read in his studies in the notes. He had thus translated something from Lovecrafts fragment "The Book"
"There was a formula--- a sort of list of things to say and do----which I recognized as something black and forbidden; something which I had read before in furtive paragraphs of mixed abhorrence and fascination penned by those strange ancient delvers into the universe guarded secrets whose decaying texts I loved to absorb. It was a key---a guide----to certain gateways and transitions of which mystics have dreamed and whispered since the race was young, and which lead to freedoms and discoveries beyond the three dimensions and realms of life and matter that we know." Kenny knew now that the key Lovecraft wrote of was the notes his grandsire wrote. He knew now to search for a formula to breach the realms Lovecraft wrote of. He slept for an hour then was back to studying. He read twenty pages until he found the passage he wanted
"Of the realm of Dagon and Cthulu Innsmouth bound ye shalt be to find such realms of the people there, strange they be, weird of look and fishy of sent they join their demon spawn in the sea."-Nicholas B. Walters [pg. 32]
Kenny knew of shadowed Innsmouth whence his family tree came from. His grandma told him of it and its half-mutated people of the sea. He knew what horrors he faced and yet he went
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I got Botox 3 months and 3 weeks ago for the first time. My eye lid skin is looser (I can actually see it move very slightly back in place after I blink, looks like there's a tiny bit of fluid there maybe, definitely different than before) and my eyes look sunken in. Is this sunken in look possible from Botox? They most definitely did not look like this before. How much longer do I have to wait to have 'my' face back? Thanks in advance.
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It is possible that depending on how Botox was injected your eyes can appear temporarily heavier or with "more fluid" on the lids. However, it is has been almost 4 months since your injection and that should have resolved by now. I would return to your treating physician to review your procedure so that next time you have the optimal results with this great procedure.
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papa nkrumah says:August 27, 2014 01:55 pmThank you Atsu! GSN paa? Why must you involve players in administrative issues. Even our captain Gyan has no right to get involved with issues concerning which coaches we employ. Can you imagine Gerard or Lahm suggesting whether a coach should go or stay? Did Giggs and co have any say in the Moyes sacking, or the LVG appointment. Aaaaba! What kind of too known wrong focus is that!?


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Just like the real teams, fantasy baseball players are scrambling to fill their lineups after a string of high-profile injuries this week. A couple guys to target who should be available in your leagues are New York Yankees reliever Rafael Soriano and Pittsburgh Pirates third baseman Pedro Alvarez.
The big baseball news last night was that Mariano Rivera has a torn ACL and is done for the season, maybe done for his career. The Yankees have not made an official decision on who his replacement will be, but I'm going to speculate that the team will turn to Soriano.
Previous closing experience seems to always sway managers and front offices. It's as if being a closer in the past means you've been on some mystic vision quest. David Robertson is the better pitcher by a clear margin, but he has yet to earn the closer vision quest patch for his Closer Cub Scouts vest. My gut says the Yanks turn to Soriano, who led the league with 45 saves for the Tampa Bay Rays back in 2010.
One position that was hit particularly hard by injuries is third base. Evan Longoria is out 4-8 weeks, Pablo Sandoval is out 4-6 weeks, Kevin Youkilis was placed on the 15-day disabled list with a bad back and Mat Gamel, who was still third base eligible in most formats, is out for the year.
That means there is going to be a lot of competition for free agent third basemen.
Pedro Alvarez is owned in just 46.5 percent of ESPN leagues and 33 percent on Yahoo. Over his last six games, he's 11-for-23, raising his batting average from .176 to .257. He also has three home runs, eight RBI, eight runs and has struck out just twice over that span.
Alvarez was the Pirates No. 2 overall pick back in 2008 and looked to be a future slugger after an impressive debut in 2010 in which he hit 16 homers in 95 games. He was a popular sleeper pick last year, but completely fell apart, finishing the season with just four home runs and a .191 average.


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Rio Carnival officially ended on Wednesday but piles of rubbish left on the city's streets are still waiting be collected.
Bin men, who are asking for a pay rise, have decided to continue their strike, and some are threatening similar action during the World Cup in just three months' time.
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The Tawil family has a computer-controlled Christmas lights show, matched by a low-power radio broadcast of Christmas songs on 91.9 FM, in the front yard of their home in Oregon.
Oregon is full of beautiful displays of Christmas lights, and Mike Tawil's is up there with the best of them.
The show in front of his home at 6338 Brown Rd. has more than 25,000 LEDs, costs $8,000 to stage, and is a traffic-stopper. Vehicles pull to the side of the road to take in the array of dancing lights.
But the visual effect is only part of the experience. It has an audio component as well.
Motorists near the home from 6 to 11 p.m. can tune their radios to 91.9 FM and receive a low-power broadcast of a selection of seven Christmas songs, including an electronic version of "A Holly Jolly Christmas." A computer control at Mr. Tawil's home turns the lights on and off in sync with the songs.
"It took more than two weeks to set up," said the 33-year-old Mr. Tawil, who works for a finance company. "A lot of people told me my lights are better than the Toledo Zoo's."
The light show draws 10 amps of current and will remain on 28 hours a week through the Christmas season, he said, adding that he doesn't know what the added power consumption is costing him. The electricity cost, whatever it turns out to be, doesn't matter anyway, he said.
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The phishing email received by a reader.
A phishing scam targeting the ANZ Bank this morning is using a common trick of hosting the files used for the scam on what appears to be a legitimate website.
The files are located on the site miltonhealthcentre.com and while the link, which traps user information, is hosted on a sub-directory of this site, other links within the email go to the real ANZ site.
This is a common ploy these days, to attempt to trick users into believing that the email is genuine.
The rather tired text in the email runs:
"For security purposes your account has been randomly chosen for verification. To verify your account information we are asking you to provide us with all the data we are requesting. Otherwise we will not be able to verify your identity and access to your account will be denied. Please fill this form to verify your account details. Thank you."
The ANZ was hit by a similar scam earlier this week. Bank spokeswoman Kate Gore said this morning's scam had been reported to AusCert and the federal police.
Update: One reader said he had received a phishing email targeting the same bank. This email (screenshot above) appears to be either a second one doing the rounds or one of those that went to some people earlier this week.
The reader was irate that the number given to report such scams required one to key in an account number. "Good one, ANZ, if you are not a customer, you cannot do anything," he wrote.
"Needless to say I did not report to the bank. Why doesn't the bank get serious and employ telephone operators with the millions of dollars profit they make?"
Asked how people who did not have accounts at ANZ could inform the bank about phishing emails, Ms Gore said they could call 131314 where they could talk to an operator.
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If you read my piece on Toshiba's press conference yesterday you should have taken away two things: 1) that Toshiba had made a Blu-ray player, which is a very good thing; and 2) its Journ.E Touch media tablet was well...a bit strange.
At the time, however, I was willing to give it the benefit of the doubt - all I'd seen were a few demos and a mildly attractive object from a distance. However, having trekked to the Toshiba stand this morning, some hands-on time with the awkwardly named tablet led to one quick conclusion: it's a turkey, quite a big one in fact.
Admirable though the idea may be 'an idea' appears to be about as far as Toshiba has got with the Journ.E. Immediate appearances are deceiving, its sleek, slim shell and tidy home screen give the Journ.E a veneer of competence, one that's quickly wiped away within seconds.
My first prod of the touchscreen set alarm bells ringing; it's the resistive kind and not "one of the good ones" either. However, it's difficult to tell how much of this 'boggishness' (to make up a word) is down to the display and how much is down to the sluggishness of the Journ.E. Everything just takes a little too long, especially loading the Facebook application, which took an age.
As this is Windows CE it's no surprise, though highly exasperating, to see Internet Explorer 6 as the browser of choice. It performs as well as it ever has, failing to scale pages despite the less than web friendly display and generally making a pigs ear of rendering pages.
Lest this turn into a mauling, I'll leave the recriminations at that and end on a high note, too. While it was mentioned in yesterday's report, I failed to highlight that Toshiba is in fact first to market with putting Dolby Volume into its TVs. As someone who has experienced more than his fair share of Dolby Volume demos, I can unequivocally state this is a very good thing. Dolby Volume is awesome, so Toshiba's new range of TVs - especially its new LED backlit local dimming effort - are just that little bit more awesome by association.


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Coach Jill McIntosh started with her best seven against South Africa, but the team had trouble gelling from the outset.
It took the Australians three quarters to subdue a determined South Africa as passes went astray and balls were dropped.
Sharelle McMahon succeeded with 28 shots from 36 attempts, Catherine Cox 25 from 30 and Cynna Neele, who came on in the last quarter, 11 from 15.
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A report suggesting Rio Tinto has scrapped expansion plans because of a planned resources rent tax is the kind of argy-bargy the government is expecting, Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard says.
The Australian newspaper on Thursday said Rio Tinto had shelved plans to spend $11 billion expanding its iron ore operations in Western Australia because of Labor's proposed 40 per cent tax on super profits.
The government had expected resource companies to push back pretty hard at the tax plan, Ms Gillard said.
"This is all part of the argy-bargy we expected," she told ABC Television.
Any "rational assessment" showed Australia was a great nation in which to invest.
"I think we're going to see a lot of claims and a lot of counter-claims in this debate as we work with the resources industry to develop the details of the tax."


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Tragic accident spurs stricter electric codes for marinas
SULLIVAN COUNTY, Tenn. - An accident that electrocuted two boys in 2012 prompted the Tennessee legislature to pass a bill to tighten regulations on marinas and their use of electric power.
The law creates requirements for boat dock and marina operators in the state. The wording of the laws came from all of the parties involved.
Just by looking at any marina on any Tennessee lake, you wouldn't know just how much electricity is around. In order to provide services for boat owners who use docks and marinas, it's a must. Electric power is needed to run equipment and houseboats moored there.
The electrocution of two boys on July 4, 2012 on Cherokee Lake got the attention of Tennessee legislators and marina groups to take action.
A bill just passed tightens codes and inspections of marinas and docks. "The legislature, as well as the Tennessee Marina Association of which I'm a member, as are most marinas in this area, we want to make sure we have the proper safety regulation guidelines in place that would protect anyone from being hurt," Laurel Marina owner Dale Thomas said.
"When you deal with lake property, it's been a lot more loose regulatory that way. Really we're just saying, 'You need to come up to a certain standard, especially dealing with electricity.' When you deal with electricity and water, those two don't mix," First District State Representative Jon Lunberg says.
Under the plan, each marina or dock must add permanent signs to warn of hazardous risks involving electric shock and saying, 'No swimming within 100 yards of the boat dock.'
The no swimming is already in place on the federal level with the Tennessee Valley Authority.
Not everyone agrees with that aspect of the law. "It's just not reasonable to say you can't swim within 100 yards of the docks. I'd just not have a houseboat if I can't get in the water," houseboat owner Bob Parkerson said.
The legislation does not cover boats, houseboats or boathouses that use electricity.
The new regulations are called the "Noah Dean and Nate Act" after the two boys who were killed. The laws are set to take effect in January 2015.


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Classic Cream and Jam Scones
In my opinion, sandwiches, sausage rolls, cupcakes et al are merely a filler for the true champion of the picnic world which is the classic cream and jam scones. Especially when they are freshly home baked.
So this year, forget popping to your local convenience store to grab your scones and instead try making your own.
Ingredients – Classic Cream and Jam Scones (Makes 8)
- 350g self-raising flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 85g butter, cut into cubes
- ¼ tsp salt
- 3 tbsp caster sugar
- 175ml milk
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- Squeeze lemon juice
- Jam and cream, to serve
Directions – Classic Cream and Jam Scones
- Heat oven to 220C/fan 200C/gas 7.
- Tip the flour, salt and baking powder into a large bowl, then mix well.
- Add the butter to the mix and rub in using your fingers until it looks like breadcrumbs then add the sugar.
- Make some buttermilk by heating the milk for about 30 seconds in the microwave or until warm (not hot). Add the vanilla and lemon juice without stirring, then set aside. Place your BrightSpring Silicone Baking Mat onto a baking sheet and put in the oven to preheat.
- Create a well in the dry mix with your finger, and then add the buttermilk combining it quickly using a spatula. Flour your work surface and tip out the dough.
- Fold the dough over 3-4 times until it becomes a little smoother then shape into a round approximately 4cm deep.
- Use a 5cm smooth-edged cutter (delivers a better rise) to cut out 8 scones. You may need to re-roll out the dough to get allthe scones cut out. Glaze the tops with milk and place on your heated BrightSpring Silicone Baking Mat.
- Bake in the oven for 10 minutes until they have risen and turned golden on top. Enjoy with fresh or clotted cream and jam and a nice cuppa.
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Joltin' Joe is immortalized in song, Babe Ruth in a candy bar, but only Michael Jordan has a gene named after him.
Jordan's legendary leaping ability has inspired two cell biologists at Washington University in St. Louis to name a transposon -- a highly specialized gene -- after the sports and cultural icon. A transposon is a type of gene, common in organisms ranging from algae to humans, that literally jumps from one cell site to another.
While transposons are abundant, controlling them for useful research has been nearly impossible, until David Kirk, Ph.D., professor of biology, and Stephen Miller, Ph.D., research associate in biology in Arts and Sciences, found an environmental control for one kind of transposon. The transposon that Kirk and Miller have discovered in Volvox, a green alga, will jump when it's stressed -- not by a harassing New York Knicks doubleteam but by cold temperatures that the biologists use to grow special Volvox cultures.
When it jumps, Kirk and Miller can recognize where Jordan lands by its characteristic genetic signature, as recognizable to a biologist peering through a microscope as a player's slam dunk is to a fan watching replays. They then use Jordan to isolate genes of interest to understand their form and function. The Jordan jumping gene has helped the developmental biologists discover and analyze two important genes that play key roles in one of life's greatest mysteries: how individual cells reproduce and become specialized.
Kirk and Miller report the sequencing, or genetic analysis, of a key gene necessary for cell division and another "master control" gene that regulates cell type in Volvox in the Feb. 15, 1999, issue of the journal Development. Their research is sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the United States Department of Agriculture.
"Jordan has two special genetic sequences at its ends that permit the gene to cut its way out of a cell at one location and reinsert itself at another," explains Kirk. "That's what's called jumping. We can recognize the Jordan mutation in the gene where it lands, and then extract that gene's pre-existing DNA and study it. Having Jordan in a gene gives us a handle to pull out the DNA of interest. That's how we found these two genes, and their discovery has led to a far deeper understanding of Volvox than we've ever had before."
The finding sheds light on a simple organism that has been studied for 300 years, and has implications for how organisms across species reproduce and develop specialized cells. Also, Kirk and Miller's work advances the understanding of how transposons in general may someday work as vectors, or carriers, of DNA for gene therapy and how transposons may cause cells to become cancerous. It's estimated that 50 percent of all spontaneous mutations are due to transposon insertions into other genes.
The genes Jordan landed in are glsA and regA. Kirk and Miller report that glsA is essential for "asymmetric division" in Volvox, whereby only large cells become germ cells and only small cells become body cells. The glsA gene has a counterpart in humans called MPP11. MPP11 is known to play a role in cell division. And its genetic composition is more than 50 percent identical to that of the glsA gene.
"This was astonishing to us," says Kirk. "The similarity is really close for organisms separated by at least one billion years of evolution." Only five other genes similar to glsA have been found throughout the biosphere, three in mammals and one each in fungi and algae.
RegA, on the other hand, is found to prevent the body cells from becoming germ cells by harnessing the activity of 18 other genes that inhibit the formation of chloroplasts in the body cells. Because Volvox is a green alga, it gets its energy from photosynthesis; without the formation of new chloroplasts, the body cells have just a limited time to carry out their function and then they die. "Volvox interests biologists because it has only two cell types, somatic or body cells that fulfill their functions and die within five days, and germ cells, which reproduce," explains Kirk, whose laboratory is one of only three in the world devoted to Volvox studies. "This is what makes Volvox an important system. We're trying to get a big picture of basic cell development with just two cell types as opposed to trying to understand the basics in mammals where as many as 200 different cell types are developing all at once."
A Cold Jolt
Kirk and his colleagues spent six years developing techniques to find Jordan. Finally in 1994, Miller, then a beginning postdoctoral fellow in Kirk's laboratory, isolated the jumping gene and named it based on its obvious attributes.
So, just how far does Jordan jump? There is no counterpart to a vertical leap in cell biology, but Kirk and Miller found that Jordan jumps half the time to a nearby location and the other half to random locations across the Volvox genome, or collection of genes. There are five families of transposons found in Volvox, but Jordan is the only one that can be made to jump.
Kirk and Miller found that growing Volvox in their laboratory at lower temperatures stresses the organism and forces Jordan to jump.
"We found that simply by growing cultures of Volvox at lower temperatures, we can increase Jordan's jumping 30- to 50-fold," he says. "It's important to have Jordan jumping frequently because for every thousand times it jumps in Volvox, maybe only once will it land in a gene we're interested in."
Meanwhile, Kirk knows when he has a "hot hand." He and Miller plan to use Jordan to help find at least two other genes that they think work with glsA in cell division and to locate other germ cell genes.
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That's a tough one. When I have to go beon field stripping I go to a pro. What's it doing that's got you worried? Ship might be able to help you out.
My PPK/S is developing a problem that may require disassembly beyond field stripping. However, I can't find any information that goes into such detail, on either the Walther America Webb site or the Smith & Wesson Webb site.
Do any of "y'all" out there know where I might find info about how to disassemble and most importantly re-assemble the S&W version of the PPK/S?
That's a tough one. When I have to go beon field stripping I go to a pro. What's it doing that's got you worried? Ship might be able to help you out.
Have U asked at the Walther Forum?
See if someone else can hep ya out. WHile I am a Walther fanatic, it mainly extends to the P99. I'm not into the PPks myself...
Well, I don't have a proper manual, so I don't have the correct nomenclature for these parts. However, I'll give it my best shot (sorry for the pun)!
About half-way through a box of fifty factory rounds I experienced a jam. The slide went fully into battery but the trigger was stuck about half-way forward. Pulling on the trigger didn't release it. The hammer was back, but also was stuck there.
I was able to clear the jam by cycling the slide a few times. I was able to fire the rest of the rounds in the box normally.
Later after cleaning the gun I attempted to re-install the slide and found the trigger once again jammed in the middle. I was unable to get the slide back onto the gun. This was good, because it let me examine the action with the slide off.
I discovered the problem was the pin that goes through the hammer from one side of the frame to the other. On the right side, it is only about a 1/8 inch diameter pin.
On the left side it ends in a flat piece about 3/8 or 1/2 inch in diameter. This flat piece has a semi-circle cut out of it so the piece looks like a 3/4 full moon.
This 3/4 full moon piece had rotated slightly and was blocking what appears to be the sear, keeping it from returning to the correct position. Once I discovered the 3/4 moon had rotated, it was a simple matter to rotate it back into correct position. This allowed the sear to return to correct position, which allowed me to re-install the slide.
Now ever thing appears normal but I haven't had an opportunity to take it back to the range to try it.
So, I need to find out what is supposed to keep that moon shaped piece from rotating and blocking the sear.
Any ideas?
L8'er, THP
I would just contact S&W (Walther USA) - Send them the gun. I have heard that theys ometimes pick up the shipping both ways... So, ask if they will...
Thanks for mentioning the Walther Forums: http://www.waltherforum.com/
I inquired there about the problem and someone gave me a link to a German web site with exploded views of just about all handguns.
It is a very interesting site if you've never been there before as I had not.
RE: my problem. I plan to test it shooting another box of 50 rounds tomorrow or the next day. If I experience another jam caused by the hammer pin not indexing correctly then I guess the only option is to contact S&W and send it back to them for repair. Major BUMMER!
I hate that!
L8'er, THP
If its a S&W call them and let them fix it . That what their for and you paid enough you should get service.
Now here a dumb question I over tightned my ivory grips once and had the same problem I found it on reassembly as I allways dry fire several times after a good cleaning to get all the lube spread. have you check that?
I realize that this is a bit late, but if you haven't solved your problem yet...
You should notice on the flat part of the hammer pin, (the "3/4" moon part) has a small nub protruding from the perimeter that locks it in place against rotation. If I recall correctly, its about at 2 o'clock. Sounds like this has sheared off for some reason.
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ACM Female Vocalist of the Year Nominees
As we gear up for the 48th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards, let's take a look at this year's nominations for Female Vocalist of the Year.
Miranda Lambert
Miranda Lambert is nominated for five ACM Awards this year. 2012 proved to be a fruitful period for Miranda. In addition to covering a slue of magazines and being showered with awards, Miranda hit the road with the On Fire Tour and packed venues with her band The Pistol Annies, who even made their Grand Ole Opry debut. Miranda continued to get traction out of her album Four the Record with the release of the singles "Fastest Girl in Town" and "Over You." The latter is also nominated for Single of the Year and brought Miranda nominations for Song of the Year as both a writer and performer.
Martina McBride
Powered by the success of "I'm Gonna Love You Through It," Martina McBride had an eventful year, packed with sold out concerts and television appearances. In the Spring, she was a highlight on The ACM Presents Lionel Richie and Friends and she continued performing on broadcast TV all the way through Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade on CBS. Martina thrilled audiences on her One Night intimate theater tour and continued on through the end of the year with the Joy of Christmas Tour. Additionally, two Martina compilation albums were released by RCA in early 2012.
Kacey Musgraves
Kacey Musgraves has had a breakout year. This is her first ACM Awards, and she is nominated in three categories. Musgraves had previously released three albums, completely independently, but in 2012, she signed with Mercury Records, released her first single "Merry Go 'Round", and toured in support of Lady Antebellum. Not only that, she wrote Miranda Lambert's "Mama's Broken Heart."
Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift may have had the biggest year of her career in 2012. Taylor and team released Red in October, but it still managed to be the second highest selling album of the year with over 3 million units moved. Swift, along with the Civil Wars, picked up a GRAMMY for "Safe and Sound" from the Hunger Games soundtrack. The past year has taken Taylor to the next level of stardom, and that looks to continue this year with the Red Tour. If you want to see more from Taylor Swift, watch her streaming Live from New York show.
Carrie Underwood
Already a 10-time ACM Award winner, Carrie Underwood is up for two more trophies this year: Female Vocalist of the Year and Album of the Year. Carrie's fourth album Blown Away was released in May and was quickly certified Platinum. The Blown Away Tour was a massive success worldwide, and cemented Carrie as the #1 female country tour in 2012. Recently, "Two Black Cadillacs" hit #1 on the Country charts, making it her 17th career chart topper.
Don't forget to watch the 48th Annual ACM Awards on CBS, April 7 at 8/7c.


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Peyton Manning isn't the only player the Denver Broncos brought in to make things happen. Von Miller got the call from Denver, too, and the second-year linebacker is becoming as big of a headache for Broncos opponents as Manning is. On a day Manning threw three more touchdown passes, Miller added three sacks and two forced fumbles to his tally to make it a miserable afternoon for Philip Rivers and the San Diego Chargers in a 30-23 win on Sunday. The Broncos (7-3) stretched their lead in the AFC West to three games, and Rivers was all but conceding the division. ''They're not losing four of six, I can guarantee you that,'' said the quarterback, whose team fell to 4-6. Not if the Denver defense keeps playing this way. And especially not if Manning stays on the pace he's enjoying in his first season in the Mile High City. He won his 148th regular-season game to tie Hall of Famer John Elway for second on the all-time list for starting quarterbacks. He's 38 behind Brett Favre. Man...
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