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Empire Falls (original 2001; edition 2002)
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I realized after I started this that I had seen the TV movie of this so certain twists to the plot were not a surprise to me. However, the book is even better than the dramatization, in part because of the amount of detail and background given.
Coming from New England, there was a lot about the town of Empire Falls to which I could relate. I wonder if the shirt factory was modelled on the Hathaway Shirt company... I remember visiting one of their outlet stores in Maine every summer during our vacation growing up.
Enjoyable with moments of clever insight. Characters seem overly exaggerated. Perhaps Russo always intended this as a screenplay? Even if I found it silly and predictable, I couldn't help but enjoy myself reading this novel.
Miles Roby, who has been managing the Empire Grill in the small New England town of Empire Falls for decades, is dying of mediocrity. For as long as he's been working the Grill, he has hoped to eventually inherit it, on the good graces of Francine Whiting – a savvy, manipulative, and very wealthy widow (I expect the last was the result of good planning rather than misfortune). Francine owns most of the businesses and many of the people in Empire Falls, and has a lengthy history with the Roby family – a history has nothing to do with good graces and everything to do with retribution. Grace, Miles' long deceased mother, had an affair with C.B. Whiting, Francine's husband, after which Francine took Grace into her
And so life for Miles drones on in Empire Falls – complete with hard knocks, hilarity, and pains in the ass. He is embroiled in a divorce he doesn't want from Janine – a walking irony who likes to "piss and moan and rant and rave and sob her heart out" (426) – and is intent on marrying the "banty rooster" and gym-rat, Walt Comeau. Miles is having difficulty with Jimmy Minty, too, the local on-the-take cop, who is "sneaky and mean and envious and dangerous" (99). And his father, Max, who "smelled rancid and was a pain in the ass" (123), has him nearly to the point of distraction. The only bright light in Miles' existence is his adolescent daughter, Tick: precocious and full of teenage angst, and totally disgusted with her mother for making Walt Comeau her stepfather. The novel takes a gut-wrenching turn I didn't see coming when tragedy lambasts Empire Falls – and Miles might easily have lost her …
One of the accolades – one-liners and so often cliché – on the back cover of Empire Falls notes, Richard Russo can write small town like no other. That he can! This a story and a cast of characters that is not to be missed!
Favourite Moment of Hilarity:
Max and senile elderly priest make off with the church's tithes and Crown Victoria and hit up the Florida Keys for some sun: "His father wasn't too bad a driver when he was sober, but of course he wouldn't besober until their money ran out. Father Tom hadn't been too bad a driver when he still had his mind, but now he was easily confused, and Miles doubted he had much experience at freeway driving, or any driving, really, outside of rural mid-Maine ... In the keys, once the money ran out, Max would tire of the old priest's company and probably call St. Cat's and tell Father Mark where to come and pick him up. Miles just hoped Father Tom would not return with an ass full of obscene tattoos." (341)
Empire Falls by Richard Russo; (4 1/2*)
Richard Russo surprises me in Empire Falls with the trials & life of Miles Roby, a restaurant manager, who's worried that the town dowager, Francine Whitney, will go back on her promise to leave him the restaurant when she dies. Empire Falls is a dying mill town and Francine owns everything including most of the people.
Things get complicated when the reader learns that Miles's mother had an affair with Francine's husband who owns the dying mills and he thinks that she is taking her angst out on him.
Miles has a daughter, Tick, who is the epitome of teenage angst & is having difficulty dealing with her father's looming divorce. We also have Miles's younger brother, David, who may or may not be the dead mill owner's son. Miles's naughty father, Max, steals from his son every chance he gets, there is the gay priest (who acts as Miles's confidant), a town police officer who suffers a low self esteem, Janine, Miles's ex and her fiancé, Walt, who owns a gym & is always trying to get Miles to arm wrestle with him. You know, prove who the better man is.
The reader is treated to most of these characters through each ones POV. Russo gets inside their heads and stays there for pages on end, telling us what they are thinking but just when we get interested in one of them he switches perspectives. This is not a short nor exceptionally easy book to read.
But this reader took no issue with that. Russo had me from the start. The book can be quite nostalgic and yet hysterically funny at times. Consider Miles' father. Max is very funny & I caught myself laughing out loud more than once. He has always wanted to go to the Florida Keys but this would take money, of which he has none. He gets the parish priest to help him steal money from the church's collection plate. Whoah! Dad is a hoot!
The ending of Empire Falls is one that I must admit I was not prepared for. Neither were the characters. I found this to be a very well written slice of life in small town America. I know I will eventually return for seconds. I highly recommend it.
I could not finish because this author bores me. Therefore, no star rating. This is not a review; I did not read all of it. This is only a comment on what I did read.
Russo's command of his story is unerring, but his manner is so unassuming that his mastery is easy to miss. He satisfies every expectation without lapsing into predictability, and the last section of the book explodes with surprises that also seem, in retrospect, like inevitabilities. As the pace quickens and the disparate threads of the narrative draw tighter, you find yourself torn between the desire to rush ahead and the impulse to slow down.
Empire Falls, situated at a fictitious and unlovely bend of the Knox River, is the kind of place tourists from Boston or New York speed through en route to the mini-Martha's Vineyards of the Maine coast, perhaps stopping for lunch at a place like the Empire Grill and eavesdropping on the taciturn, wisecracking regulars. By the end of this novel, you'll know the town's geography like a native, and its tattered landmarks -- the Empire Grill, the old Whiting shirt factory, the architectural folly C. B. Whiting built across the river -- will be as vivid and as charged with metaphor as Salem's house of seven gables or the mansions of East Egg. You will also have had the good fortune to tour this unremarkable geography in the company of an amiable, witty raconteur who knows all the gossip and the local history as well as some pretty good jokes. Only after you've bought him a beer, shaken his hand and said goodbye will it occur to you that he's also one of the best novelists around.
Russo's command of his story is unerring, but his manner is so unassuming that his mastery is easy to miss. He satisfies every expectation without lapsing into predictability, and the last section of the book explodes with surprises that also seem, in retrospect, like inevitabilities. As the pace quickens and the disparate threads of the narrative draw tighter, you find yourself torn between the desire to rush ahead and the impulse to slow down.
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Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 0375726403, Paperback)Like most of Richard Russo's earlier novels, Empire Falls is a tale of blue-collar life, which itself increasingly resembles a kind of high-wire act performed without the benefit of any middle-class safety nets. This time, though, the author has widened his scope, producing a comic and compelling ensemble piece. There is, to be sure, a protagonist: fortysomething Miles Roby, proprietor of the local greasy spoon and the recently divorced father of a teenage daughter. But Russo sets in motion a large cast of secondary characters, drawn from every social stratum of his depressed New England mill town. We meet his ex-wife Janine, his father Max (another of Russo's cantankerous layabouts), and a host of Empire Grill regulars. We're also introduced to Francine Whiting, a manipulative widow who owns half the town--and who takes a perverse pleasure in pointing out Miles's psychological defects.
Miles does indeed have a tendency to take it on the chin. (At one point he alludes to his own "natural propensity for shit-eating.") And his role as Mr. Nice Guy thrusts him into all sorts of clashes with his not-so-nice contemporaries, even as the reader patiently waits for him to blow his top. It would be impossible to summarize Russo's multiple plot lines here. Suffice it to say that he touches on love and marriage, lust and loss and small-town economics, with more than a soupçon of class resentment stirred into the broth. This is, in a sense, an epic of small and large frustrations: "After all, what was the whole wide world but a place for people to yearn for their heart's impossible desires, for those desires to become entrenched in defiance of logic, plausibility, and even the passage of time, as eternal as polished marble." Yet Russo's comedic timing keeps the novel from collapsing into an orgy of breast-beating, and his dialogue alone--snappy and natural and efficiently poignant--is sufficient cause to put Empire Falls on the map. --Bob Brandeis
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Miles Roby has been slinging burgers at the Empire Grill for 20 years, a job that cost him his college education and much of his self-respect. What keeps him there? It could be his bright, sensitive daughter Tick, who needs all his help surviving the local high school. Or maybe it's Janine, Miles' soon-to-be ex-wife, who's taken up with a noxiously vain health-club proprietor. Or perhaps it's the imperious Francine Whiting, who owns everything in town-and seems to believe that "everything" includes Miles himself. In Empire Falls Richard Russo delves deep into the blue-collar heart of America . . .… (more)
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Greetings Bob and I live in Savannah and are preparing our Finnsailer 35, "Cornucopia" for a trip back up the ICW.
We sold the car and moved to Georgia via boat in 2007. Now that we are retired, we are preparing to return to New England waters.
This trip up we are planning on taking Long Island on the seaward side. This will avoid Hell's gate which we have done 4 times already.
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WanderingStar, thank you for the information. I am not familiar with the "State Boat Channel" but will look into it.
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What a dream car collection, although I didn't think Smoke would keep his 2001 Daytona 500 #20 Home Depot car that he wrecked on the back straightaway, but it doesn't surprise me that he has a 1957 Chevy, a 1979 Pontiac Transam (I perfer the 1977 Pontiac Transam), a GTO and if you are looking for a picture of his Unique hearse, check out the one above. Last year at the 2008 Speedway Expo is Springfield, MA, I took this picture, believe me when I say it. the picture doesn't do this hearse justice.


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|I was persuaded into cosplaying Integra as part of a Hellsing photoshoot at Amecon in August ^_^' I was semi-reluctant at first as I'd already got costume plans and I'd never really seen the appeal to Integra before... but now I take it all back! As I put her costume together and investigated her further, I came to realise what a strong and sensual female icon she really is! Helps too that my boyfriend at the time had a bit of a thing for her ;-) And cosplays Alucard ^_^
So many people have helped me put this costume together! Thank you to all of them :-) I had so much to do with my other costumes for Amecon that I don't know if I could have done it all without you ^_^
And since Amecon I can honestly say that Integra has swiftly become one of my faveourite cosplays and I really am looking forward to cosplaying her again ^_^ Not to mention it is my simplest and easiest costume to date hehe, but really I had such an amazing time in this costume, and had the most fantastic Hellsing group to be a part of also ^_^
Can't wait to see this finished. Yiu will look amazing! Our photoshoot will be made of epic win!
Having seen you in the glasses and wig...I'm already well past sold.
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Looking forward to seeing this. It was a costume sugguested to me a while back but I've never seen the series. It will be nice to see other cosplayers do it before I decide.
Thanks everyone! I hope I do Integra justice ^_^ She's a lady that very much deserves it lol
And Sephirayne, I hope I manage to give you a good impression of her!
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This is crazy you look just like integra *if they ever brought a movie out* if your at fuyu 09 might i triffle you for a picture? *i will be Alucard*
Thank you to everyone for such wonderful comments and compliments! =^_^= It really is lovely of you all, and does masses for my ego and confidence lol
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I fear not my lady :( even alchemists short of money ^^ one blowout con a year usually, until more prosperous times :)
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Lethem residents petitioning for withdrawal of power tariff hike
Over 300 residents of Lethem have signed a petition calling on the Lethem Power Company (LPC) to immediately rescind its decision to raise electricity tariffs from this month.
The petition was presented to APNU's Region Nine parliamentarian Sydney Allicock, who told Stabroek News that it will be transmitted to the National Assembly via the coalition.
Electricity tariffs for Lethem were recently increased by $20 and this has left residents disturbed and they want the rate revisited.
From this month, residents will have to pay $75 per kilowatt hour (kWh) having previously paid $55/kWh. According to resident Carl Parker, the increase means that residents will now be paying the highest electricity tariff in Guyana. However, Stabroek News has been told that Mahdia residents pay approximately $100/kWh.
The petition, which was organised by Parker, calls on the LPC to rescind its decision in relation to the tariff increase immediately. It also called on the company to meet with residents to determine what is affordable and that the tariffs reflect the various categories of consumers' ability and capacity to pay. It also said that the Public Utilities Commission should be arbitrators in the impasse. The petition urged that a suitably qualified professional be employed to head the board of the LPC.
It called on the National Assembly to instruct Prime Minister Samuel Hinds to take all the steps necessary to minimise waste and theft at LPC and to make the entity maximise on the resources availed to it.
Daniel Gajie, the acting Chief Executive Officer of the Lethem Power Com-pany (LPC), had told Stabroek News that the tariff increase is due to the high production cost of electricity in the area. At $75/kWh, residents will only be paying for the cost of fuel to produce a kilowatt hour of electricity with additional factory expenses, human resources and other overheads being subsidised by the government, he had said.
Parker, however, had pointed out that residents and businesses are required to pay the same amount for electricity. "It is unfair, people who work as public servants and earn $43,000 per month should not have to pay the same cost like business people who earn $10 million a week," he had said. Prior to the increase in the electricity cost, residents were supposed to be consulted by the LPC and informed of the pending move but this was not done, he added.
About 305 residents signed the petition, which noted that when prior tariff increases were instituted, residents were consulted and the people were respectful in accepting those increases despite their economic difficulties because of their participation in the consultation process.
The petition said that for this latest increase, residents and other stakeholders were not consulted. It further noted that the increase represented a 54.6% hike over the original, sanctioned tariff of $45/kWh "even though there has not been any recent, (dramatic) increase in the cost of fuel or maintenance."
It stated that residents view the imposition as disrespectful, a departure from the norm and a scheme to have them pay for assumed potential benefits beforehand. The petition said that the imposition will put the residents of Lethem and its environs at an increased disadvantage in relation to communities in Guyana which benefit from subsidised electricity and who pay between $55 and $58 per kWh.
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One interesting decision that Ed Miliband made this week was to appoint Karen Buck as his PPS, following the long-planned departure of John Denham. Tory MPs have told me they were very quickly given 'lines to take' on how this represented a big 'lurch to the left' on the Labour leader's part.
CCHQ is right that Karen Buck is on the left of her party: as a shadow welfare minister she pushed for the party to oppose the £26,000 benefit cap when Liam Byrne's official line was to leave it be (one he later reversed). But the line to take conveniently forgets that one of the principal purposes of a PPS is to act as a conduit between a leader or minister and the opposite side of the party. So a minister on the right of their party should in theory appoint a PPS on the left.
Now it doesn't always work out that way: Owen Paterson, for instance, seems to be pretty good at appointing PPSs who occupy the same ground that he does in the Conservative spectrum (and indeed PPSs who like resigning, or at least threatening to). But Buck might well be a useful conduit between Miliband and the left of his party on issues such as welfare when the thermometer is rising on this policy issue. She has established herself as an expert on this area in parliament to the extent that even her greatest critics on other parts of the political spectrum praise her knowledge and passion for the subject, while insisting that she's totally wrong.
This could well come in handy for Miliband, but party sources insist to me that she was picked not because she'd be strategically useful on specific policy areas, but because she is popular and well-respected in the party and works hard on campaigning. Indeed, she became something of a celebrity in the party in 2010 for beating Joanne Cash in her Westminster North constituency: I saw young party activists approaching her to sign their conference agendas at that year's Labour conference, so great was their admiration.
That as may be, but it's worth watching how the leader deploys Buck when the welfare debates in his party start up again.
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The Dark Secret is the fourth book of the New York Times bestselling Wings of Fire series, the fourth book in the first arc, and features a NightWing named Starflight, the NightWing dragonet of the prophecy as the main protagonist. It follows The Hidden Kingdom and precedes The Brightest Night. It was published on October 29, 2013.
The title refers to the secret plan created by Queen Battlewinner and Morrowseer to invade and take over the Rainforest Kingdom, and alluding to the fact that the Dragonet Prophecy is fake.
The Wings of Fire saga continues with a visit to the mysterious volcanic island of the NightWings, where Starflight must face a terrible choice... his home, or his friends?
The Dragonets of Destiny are on their way to see the NightWings and Starflight doesn't need psychic powers to know it isn't going to go well for him and the other dragonets.
Starflight knows it's his duty as a NightWing to convince the other dragonets to choose Blister as Queen. But he can't help feeling that there's something Morrowseer and the other NightWings aren't telling him, something that could put his friends in grave danger. While other NightWings have their powers to help them, Starflight has to rely on his brain - and with SkyWings chasing them and Blister and Burn on their tails, that might not be enough.
The prologue shows Reed and his siblings in a battle between the IceWings and the MudWings, where Marsh becomes terrified, after he saw his sister Crane die in front of him during their first battle. After the battle is over, Umber claims to have noticed a scavenger den the IceWings were after. Reed takes note but does not ponder on it any more. He then thinks about joining the Talons of Peace with his siblings. The prologue ends with him not wanting to lose anyone else in the war, having already lost their sister Crane.
Part One: The Secret PlanEdit
The book begins with Starflight unconscious and worrying where Sunny is. He remembers that when Clay left and was chasing a boar, NightWings came up out of the tunnel and abducted him. Starflight is awoken by his half-sister, Fierceteeth, who dumped salt water on him. He is introduced to all of the NightWing dragonets, however, the introduction is cut short when Morrowseer storms into the room, demanding that Starflight join him at the council. Starflight nervously comes along.
At the council, Starflight watches as they debate on attacking the RainWings. They ask Starflight what he knows and Morrowseer threatens to kill him if he didn't say anything, so he says that he thinks they are attacking. He witnesses Vengeance's death because he endangers the tribe for letting Glory escape so the guards throw him in the lava. When he tries to come up, the guards push him down. Deathbringer thanks the queen but Greatness orders him to the dungeon and plans to execute him for his crimes.
Morrowseer takes Starflight to an island to hunt, and, after listening to Starflight rant on and on about the strange hunting habits of NightWings, confirms who his father is. Morrowseer takes Starflight to the labs, but on the way, they meet Fatespeaker. Morrowseer agrees to take her to the labs if she promises to be quiet, and she happily agrees. When they meet Mastermind, Morrowseer goes away, leaving them for a father-son bonding moment.
At first, when Starflight meets his father, Mastermind, he is filled with elation at the prospect of having such a smart father, but when he is given a tour by Mastermind around the labs, he is sickened by the fact that his father is abducting and torturing RainWings without even caring. He says that they were doing it for "science" because he doesn't want his son to know the real reason. When Mastermind shows him a RainWing test subject - which turns out to be Orchid - Starflight says reassuring things to her, turning her a pink color. Mastermind marvels at this, wondering why and how she turned colors. When Starflight realizes that Fatespeaker is reading his mind, he momentarily panics, but then relaxes when Fatespeaker gives him a look that says, "We'll be talking about this later."
Morrowseer then comes back, saying that Starflight must be introduced to the "others". However, Starflight is not paying attention, but instead pondering why the NightWings would be abducting the RainWings. He figures out their plan, and part one ends with him thinking, "I've figured out the NightWings' plan. But now, what do I do about it?"
Part Two: The Queen's SecretEdit
Starflight is brought to meet the false dragonets, and almost immediately afterward, Morrowseer orders the dragonets to kill him. He runs away and hides in the RainWing prisons, where Fatespeaker finds him and brings him back. The other False Dragonets fail in killing him and they all soon go to sleep.
Fatespeaker wakes Starflight to explore the volcano. They find the old treasury and Starflight discovers a dreamvisitor. He attempts to contact the real dragonets with it but enters Kinkajou's dreams instead.
However, he successfully contacts Glory. He wakes and Morrowseer brings them to the mainland to try to convince the SkyWings to switch alliances to Blister. They fail and Morrowseer kills the SkyWings. Squid then says he doesn't want to do this any more and Morrowseer sends him away, saying he hopes Squid would die.
The next night Fatespeaker and Starflight wander off to meet the Queen. They meet her and find out she is forced to stay in a tub of lava because an IceWing shot its breath into her throat. The lava and ice cancel each other out. If she left the lava, the ice breath would finish its work and kill her. Starflight returns to his bed and manages to contact Glory with the dreamvisitor and tells her about everything.
The next day Morrowseer instructs them to do battle training and while attempting to kill Fatespeaker, Viper falls into the lava, but manages to accidentally scratch Flame with her venomous tail. Morrowseer attempts to save Flame and leaves Viper for dead. Starflight decides to escape with Fatespeaker and Flame to the rainforest, while Flame becomes very ill from the venom.
Part Three: The TruthEdit
Using Flame's scratch as an excuse, Starflight tricks the guards into letting them into the rainforest, claiming that they would find the antidote for the venom. The guards decide to let them in. Immediately after they come in, RainWings pin them down, as ordered by Tsunami. Starflight and Tsunami spot each other and Tsunami explains a bit and brings them to Glory, Sunny and Clay. Fatespeaker demands who Sunny is, and soon after finds they're a lot alike. They plan how they're going to do the battle and decide they will go in within a few hours. Sunny suggests a new way of fighting for RainWings: Sleeping darts. Soon all the RainWings are armed with their tranquilizer darts.
Starflight believes he might die in the fight, so he confesses to Sunny that he loves her. She says she loves him back but she doesn't share the same kind of affection for him. Starflight then goes into battle. Glory frees Orchid first and tells Liana and Grandeur how to free the RainWings with the spear. They then go to speak to Queen Battlewinner. As they are entering her chamber, Starflight notices the ground shaking, and realized the volcano is about to erupt. Glory demands that Battlewinner stop the battle but the NightWing Queen refuses. Starflight comes up with the idea for letting the NightWings come to the rainforest, as long as they accept Glory as their queen. Queen Battlewinner attempts to attack them, but having jumped out of her lava bath, the ice freezes her insides and kills her in a matter of seconds.
Then they free Splendor and Deathbringer and tell the NightWings their plan. Almost all the dragons enter the rainforest, except for Morrowseer. As they are about to leave, Morrowseer tells them the prophecy is false and made up, as part of an elaborate plan he and Battlewinner orchestrated to take over the rainforest. When the volcano erupts, the dragons race through the tunnel to the rainforest as the explosion consumes Morrowseer. Starflight then feels the blast on his scales and feels a stab of pain through his eyes (he is blinded by it). Clay brings him to the rainforest and Fatespeaker comes up to him (he was unsure whether or not it was Fatespeaker or Sunny at first) and he was then jabbed in the neck by a sleeping dart and is knocked unconscious.
Blaze is with Glacier, telling her about the dragonets. Glacier confirms that she only is supporting Blaze for the land. Glacier allows Blaze to go inside and thinks to herself about killing the dragonets if they don't choose Blaze.
Blister is with Nautilus and Squid who was found by the mountains after Morrowseer left him to fend for himself. Both Nautilus and Blister are wondering about Morrowseer's disappearance and why he sent Blister to a scavenger den. She realizes that the dragonets may be the reason of his disappearance and vows to kill them.
Burn is outside of her stronghold, with her brother, Smolder. They are talking about their prisoner, Ex-Queen Scarlet. Burn then tells him about how much a bore Queen Ruby is, and how she won't enter battle while her kingdom is in turmoil. Burn then states she will destroy the prophecy by killing the dragonets.
- The Dark Secret is the only book where the dragonet featured on the cover is fully depicted on the front panel, without part of the dragonet's wing or tail on the spine of the book.
- It was following the release of this book that Wings of Fire made the New York Times bestseller list.
- The Dark Secret, Winter Turning, and Darkness of Dragons are the only covers to have the main dragonet not flying, but sitting/standing on a rock.
- The Dark Secret and Winter Turning have the same number of pages: 295.
- It's the only book in the first series where the POV doesn't encounter a scavenger.
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The Texas Tech women's basketball team played some of its best offensive basketball of the season right out of the gate in its eventual 66-59 victory at Texas.
Seven Longhorn turnovers led to 19 Lady Raider points in the first eight minutes, 48 second of the contest, and Tech looked like it might run away with the game up 23-9.
However, the Longhorns started getting players back on transition defense, and the fast-break points stopped coming along at such a rapid pace.
But that's when the Lady Raiders employed some of its smoothest basketball of the season and prevented the Texas offense from using the same technique against them.
Tech's ability to hit the midrange jumper against the Texas man-to-man defense proved paramount in its victory against the Longhorns — especially from Casey Morris and Chynna Brown.
"That's good," Tech coach Kristy Curry said about the two senior's combined 40-point outburst. "I mean it's really good when they can both come out and be aggressive and have some success early. That's what we wanted to do. We're always talking about hands and feet, ready to shoot. And I thought (Wednesday night) they did a great job of making plays."
Brown and Morris each hit several jump shots, but they weren't the only Lady Raiders recognizing their room to shoot.
Jackie Patterson, who has shown high success with her short jumpers, and Kelsi Baker each elevated to hit buckets from about 18 feet.
Hitting the jumpers also helped free up some driving lanes.
Baker, who only went 2 of 7 from the field, used nice pump fakes to clear up room in the middle, which led to extra passes for easier baskets and trips to the free-throw line.
The Lady Longhorns, on the other hand, struggled to find any kind of success other than inside, which led to a 30-24 Longhorn advantage in the paint.
When Texas needed jump shots late in the game when they were trailing by three, Brown and Morris helped collapse on Texas' shooters along the outside.
Texas didn't really have many open looks from beyond 10 feet.
Curry said Brown's defensive play was stellar down the stretch, as was Morris' along the perimeter.
Coupled with good decisions on the inside, coach Curry lauded her team's cohesiveness in one of Tech's most complete wins of the season.
"Our kids really did a great job of being on the same page," Curry said.
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Over the past thirty years, forensic anthropologist Mary H. Manhein has helped authorities to identify hundreds of deceased persons throughout Louisiana and beyond. In Bone Remains, she offers details of twenty riveting cases from her files -- many of them involving facial reconstructions where only bones offered clues to an individual's story.
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PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. -- The University of Michigan baseball team fell to the New York Mets 5-2 in an exhibition game Sunday afternoon (Feb. 24) at Tradition Field. U-M outhit the Mets 8-7 and scored two runs in the game's first three innings, but the Mets had single runs in five different frames to earn the win.
Michigan struck first in the top of the first. Junior Michael O'Neill (Powell, Ohio/Olentangy Liberty) and freshman Travis Maezes (Ann Arbor, Mich./Pioneer) both singled to center to put runners on the corners with one out. O'Neill trotted home on a Jonathon Niese wild pitch to give U-M a 1-0 lead. The Mets plated a run in the bottom of the first as Justin Turner walked with the bases loaded. Senior Ben Ballantine (Napa, Calif./Napa) escaped further damage by striking out Brandon Hicks and getting Anthony Recker to pop out.
Marlon Byrd's RBI single put the Mets up 2-1 in the second, but the Wolverines answered with a run in the top of the third. Senior Patrick Biondi (Woodhaven, Mich./Divine Child) opened the inning with a ground-rule double. He stole second and scored on freshman Jacob Cronenworth's (St. Clair, Mich./St. Clair) triple. New York scored a run in the bottom of the third as Matt den Dekker's grounder to short scored Hicks.
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Biondi led the U-M offensive attack, going 2-for-4 with a run scored. Hicks went 2-for-3 with two runs scored for the Mets. Ballantine was tagged with the loss, allowing five hits and three runs with four strikeouts in three innings. Freshman Alex Daar (Clinton Twp., Mich./University Liggett) pitched 2.1 innings, allowing two hits and two runs. Sophomore Donnie Eaton (Ann Arbor, Mich./Father Gabriel Richard) and Cronenworth each pitched hitless and scoreless relief for the Wolverines.
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Syria Impacts the Markets How?
Late Monday, August 26, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry alerted Syria that it would be held accountable for using chemical weapons. Subsequent price action for the S&P 500® Index (SPX) (Figure 1) has reversed the market's attempt to restore July's bullish momentum. Apparent "safe havens" such as U.S. Treasuries (Figure 2) and the Japanese yen (Figure 3) are pricing counter to their 2013 trends with modest appreciation.
By no means would I consider myself a political analyst, nor should any of you. The reality of this unfortunate situation is that very few have a clear understanding of the path that will be followed. What is known is that geopolitical tensions, the ultimate enemy for risk assets, are now present.
I expect this will place the SPX in a vulnerable near-term position that investors should not ignore. The 100-day moving average rests below the market at 1636.78 and will be used as a critical point of reference for algorithmic trading models to reduce exposure. A sustained sell-off below 1636.78 positions the SPX for a deeper decline below 1600. As a point of reference, the 200-day moving average rests at 1557.06.
Prior to the Syrian development, I had expected overweight exposure to risk assets should be maintained heading into September, as an uptick in U.S. growth would likely continue to unfold and the FOMC would acknowledge that with the initiation of its asset purchase tapering. Syria's geopolitical tensions should not impede expectations for U.S. growth; however, given the uncertainty of the situation and the accompanying increased volatility that is expected, reducing exposure on a tactical basis is presently warranted.
Those currently maintaining overweight exposure to risk assets should consider modest reallocations toward the safety of select corporate balance sheets via the taxable fixed income markets (Figure 4). Those balance sheets will prove relatively immune to the expected increase in Syrian-related volatility over the long run.
Over the past few months, I have suggested exposure to the energy sector should be increased. The Syrian tensions do not alter that view. The overall energy sector (Figure 5) should continue to have the ability to outperform its SPX peers. The sector has been re-rating higher in the past few months despite the significant weakness from mega-cap companies Exxon Mobil (XOM) and Chevron (CVX) (Figure 6). Geopolitical tensions in the Persian Gulf will increase pricing power and accelerate the re-rating higher. However, investors should resist the urge to position portfolios based on a spike in the spot price of oil (Figure 7). Exposure to energy should be allocated in a highly diversified capacity.
Yesterday I put out a brief commentary highlighting the cyclical challenges that are in place for the emerging markets for the remainder of 2013. Syria's geopolitical tensions are a near-term headwind for the emerging markets. However, investors should view the weakness of the currency, in particular, as a necessary evil for future growth. Growth will reaccelerate for those emerging market economies that do not carry large current account deficits in the second half of 2014. South Korea (Figure 8), whose economy is largely tied to the U.S. and carries a current account surplus, would be one such example.
For the third quarter of 2013, the price of gold has appreciated 15%, and the price of silver has appreciated 24% (Figure 9). That appreciation has shaved the year-to-date decline for gold to -16%, and for silver to -20%. The geopolitical tensions surrounding Syria will place a supportive price floor for both gold and silver. However, near-term challenges facing emerging market central banks and expectations for U.S. growth and FOMC tapering at its September meeting suggest that investors should resist the urge to increase precious metal portfolio holdings at this time.
Overall, this is not a call to raise cash or offer any sort of apocalyptic view. Rather, this is a prudent acknowledgement that a variable has been introduced into the capital markets whose outcome is unknown to most, if not all. Therefore, to maintain significant overweight risk exposure does not incorporate proper portfolio risk management. Hopefully, the Syrian storm clouds lift quickly, and investors can once again focus on the improving fundamentals for the economies of the United States and eurozone.
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Troutfest is a fundraiser and fly fishing exposition conceived by the Little River Chapter of Trout Unlimited. The intent and goal of Troutfest is to raise money to support fisheries programs in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. This will be the 5th event and it will be held May 15th, 16th & 17th, 2009. Troutfest has raised $60,000 in the past four years for brook trout restoration in the Park. Troutfest will be held at the Townsend Visitors Center. You can get more information by visiting our website, www.troutfest.org.
Troutfest planning is moving along well. We have an Executive Committee that meets every month. We started planning in July of 2008 for the May 2009 event. Several committees have been formed and everyone is on track to make Troutfest the largest ever.
Banquet and Auction tickets are available at Little River Outfitters. You can call toll free 877-448-3474. They are $50 each. Within a week your tickets will be mailed to you or you can pick them up at the shop. You may also buy them online. This link will take you to the Little River Outfitters online catalog. We are using this catalog because your credit card information is safe on the secure server. Your information is encrypted. If you buy tickets online you may only use Mastercard or Visa. You will have other options at checkout but they won't work. The reason for this is we will process your order through the Little River Chapter of Trout Unlimited's account. The Chapter is not set up to accept other forms of payment. We are only going to sell 400 tickets. Many have been purchased early.
We will have three famous fly fisherman headliners at Troutfest. They are Lefty Kreh, Joe Humphreys and Bob Clouser. These guys will attend the banquet and be at the Fly Fishing Exposition performing and giving seminars throughout the weekend.
There will be a fly tying tent. Over 10 fly tyers will be demonstrating at one time. To date we have 41 fly tyers signed up to demonstrate. As is this a fundraiser for the Smokies we will charge $10 for a weekend pass to the Fly Tyers Tent.
Sponsorship is essential to the success of this event. Sponsors donate cash to be used to pay for overhead such as tents. Also sponsors are paying the costs to have Lefty Kreh, Joe Humpreys and Bob Clouser here. We are working on a sponsor drive now.
The marketing committee will become more active in February. We have identified over 130 fly shops and sporting goods stores in a 7 state area. We will mail out a small poster and some business cards to drive people to the Troutfest.org website. As an example of the depth of this effort we had 23,000 full color business cards printed. The website is getting a lot of activity. Many visitors are linked there from the Little River Outfitters website.
We already have over 70 volunteers. A few more will be needed. But overall we are very happy with the response from people who are willing to help.
This year is the 75th Anniversary of Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Troutfest is a sanctioned event by the Park. We have available some new Troutfest T-Shirts that are specifically designed and printed with the anniversary in mind. They will be made available to you online within a week or so.
So, overall the planning of Troutfest at this point is probably considered by most of us as "running smooth".
If you plan to attend it would be advisable to buy your banquet tickets early and book your reservations at one of our many lodges, cabin rental, motels and campgrounds. On the Troutfest Website there is a complete list of our accommodations and links to their websites.
We hope to see you here in May.
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Around 2000 rounds of .45 acp fmj and 500 rounds of Ranger SXT. I never get down to my last case before I restock.
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Around 2000 rounds of .45 acp fmj and 500 rounds of Ranger SXT. I never get down to my last case before I restock.
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One needs at least 500 rounds for each caliber handgun you have. I still need to buy more ammo for some of my handguns but I have at least 2000 rounds now.
At least 600 .45 ACP in a long term storage can. 300 in my BOB. The rifle ammo will be easier since they can be bought in battle packs that are set up for storage. I plan to have at least 1000 rounds of that as well.
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Normally have well over 1,000, but the last range trip with my daughter depleted my stock.
I have enough in various calibers...more than enough...I keep way ahead of the game...way ahead.
For the Brady Bunch who may be monitoring this forum...I have exactly 1/2 box of 22LR bird shot...
Stay armed...build a stockpile...stay safe!
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I keep about four boxes of factory HP to keep my defensive guns loaded, along with a box of #4 and box of 000 buck for my Mossy.
I seldom have practice ammo around, because I shoot it up quickly.
I don't hoard ammo, although with the world going the way it is, I might start.
Indeed--you can never have too much. If a range session includes at least 200 rounds for pistol practice in any particular caliber, I'd hate to look at it in terms of a 10% loss in my operational plan. I like to keep those expenditures down in the single digit range as much as possible. This lessens the immediate impact for re-supply.
That's just too funnyFor the Brady Bunch who may be monitoring this forum...I have exactly 1/2 box of 22LR bird shot
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I'm sure that I'm on the low side compared to the rest of you. Couple of hundred max.....and that's spread out over 4 calibers.
Enough for anything other than the zombie invasion......but I'd prob do better to buy range ammo in bulk.
Right now about 1700 or so. I havent been buying lately so it's coming back around time to start stocking back up. I usually keep well over 2,000 rounds in case the zombies invade.
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Enough to last me the rest of my life, and I keep on reloading more--go figure.