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Clarence and Dorothy Scharbauer, L. William (Bill) and Corinne Heiligbrodt, and Dixie Dot Com will comprise the second class of inductees into the Lone Star Park Hall of Fame, the track announced June 15.
Dixie Dot Com was owned by Don and Carole Chaiken, and Bart and Ronelle Heller.
On July 12, Stars of Texas Day, the newest members of Lone Star Park's Hall of Fame will be honored in a special winner's circle presentation.
"We are extremely pleased to welcome our newest members to the Lone Star Park Hall of Fame," said Drew Shubeck, Lone Star Park's president and general manager . "During the first 12 years of Lone Star Park's existence, they have significantly distinguished themselves at both Lone Star Park and in Texas horse racing."
Clarence and Dorothy Scharbauer owned Thoroughbred Racing Hall of Fame member Alysheba and five Quarter Horse champions.
Scharbauer's family owned both 1959 Kentucky Derby (gr. I) winner Tomy Lee and Alysheba, who won that historic race in 1987 in the colors of his wife, Dorothy. Alysheba went on to win that year's Preakness Stakes (gr. I) and earned an Eclipse Award as the year's champion 3-year-old male. The following season, Alysheba won a number of major stakes, culminating in his victory in the Breeders' Cup Classic (gr. I). Nicknamed "America's Horse," Alysheba was named 1988 Horse of the Year and champion older horse and retired as the world's richest racehorse.
Scharbauer established Valor Farm in 1991 on 393 acres in the rolling hills of Denton County.
Bill and Corinne Heiligbrodt began racing Thoroughbreds in 1988 through various partnerships and today own one of the most prolific stables in the country.
Heiligbrodt Stable races in most of the country for trainer Steve Asmussen. Bill has a particular fondness for 2-year-old racing and breeds and races many juveniles. From 1999 through 2007, the Heiligbrodts have won 11 juvenile stakes at Lone Star Park. The couple has owned all or part of more than 80 stakes winners, of which 35 were graded stakes winners.
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Old Chapel: Game Time
By winning the school's first Directors' Cup last year, Middlebury laid claim to the most successful Division III athletic program in the country. We recently spoke to President Liebowitz about the place of athletics at Middlebury, examining both the benefits and the challenges.
Let's start by talking about the value of athletics.
Sure. I can speak both theoretically and personally. Theoretically, I do believe the cliché that a liberal arts education is about educating the whole self. Broadly speaking, athletics is part of one's education for life. The lessons one learns, the mentoring that takes place, the leadership opportunities, the commitment one must make. All clichés, but true.
Personally, I had the experience of being a varsity athlete in college, and I learned a lot from it: the commitment, the dedication, the teamwork, the focus necessary to compete successfully. And then you learn how to cope with defeat. So there's no doubt in my mind that there's a value. The question is how much emphasis should athletics have within the larger framework of the institution?
How has the athletics landscape changed since you arrived on campus in the early 1980s?
The biggest positive change has been the huge increase in opportunities for women. Title IX has insured that women's athletics get equal funding, which has had a very positive impact on opportunities for women. Women's athletics were strong when I arrived here in 1984—there were some amazing athletes and amazing teams—but the overall excellence of the program has really grown.
During this same time frame, I would say that the place of athletics at Middlebury has changed. Our conference, the New England Small College Athletic Conference, has evolved from something akin to a loose confederation of schools to a highly competitive playing conference whose members compete at the national level; national postseason play for teams did not exist until the mid-1990s. So, along with the increased level of competition for our teams has come, at least in some people's minds, an exaggeration of the role of athletics in the overall scheme of a Middlebury education.
The NESCAC presidents have been discussing these changes, trying to find the best ways to monitor and manage this intensification. But it's a difficult task. We are attracting great student-athletes, who are competing at higher and higher levels and wish to continue to compete at that level in college. The competition within the conference has been ratcheted up, and the expectations of support by students and their families follow suit. So it's no surprise that people are questioning how far this could and should go.
So what is being done within the conference?
Well, on one level, the presidents have been very effective in holding firm to NESCAC's core operating principles designed to support intercollegiate competition in a manner consistent with our commitment to academic excellence. We'd like to call it "balance"—a balance between academics and athletics. For example, unlike in other D-III conferences, clear limits are placed on the number of games teams can play; the length of playing seasons; what coaches and athletes can do in an organized fashion out of season; how recruitment is done, when, and where; plus, other things.
But that's not to say that I'm entirely in concert with the NESCAC approach to how we address these issues of oversight. I do believe the NESCAC is the most outstanding D-III conference in the country—academically and athletically. Yet it does worry me that the way we are trying to define the role of athletics among the 11 member institutions is limiting to each institution's identity and autonomy. How far do we go as a conference before there is an undeniable—and what I would call unfortunate—homogenization of member schools in the conference?
I believe that each school has its own character. Each school has developed its athletic and academic culture over a long period of time; for us, it's been over 213 years, and it reflects our location, our emphasis on the outdoors, on balance, and on the notion that education is of the whole individual. What I fear most is a conference impinging on the College's autonomy when it comes to determining who is admitted or is discounted based on criteria that might not be as inclusive as what we like to use.
In the past, we have taken "so-called" chances on scholar-athletes whose test scores might not have been on par with the bulk of our applicants, but our admissions staff and coaches saw in such candidates personal qualities, such as leadership, initiative, perseverance, and a strong will to learn, and we have been very happy that we did so.
Yet the processes we are putting in place to address concerns of the "representativeness" of our student-athletes, which may be too arcane to describe here, are likely to exclude those types of students we, in the past, have accepted—students who have thrived on the playing fields and in the classroom and have added positively to the educational atmosphere on campus.
While what NESCAC has done has raised the level of academic standing of our accepted student-athletes (which is good, of course), we want to be sure institutions can maintain autonomy where it matters—that is, address at the local level those issues that affect a small number of institutions. If the academic and social gaps are seen to be too great on a campus, that campus, not the conference, should make adjustments to address the issue; conference solutions might be unnecessary on a number of our campuses. Collective action is effective, but, in my view, we need to be more selective in applying conference-wide solutions.
You said this system was created 10 years ago…
Right. This was largely the response to a pair of books (The Game of Life and Reclaiming the Game) coauthored by William Bowen, the former president of Princeton, when he was the president of the Mellon Foundation. Bowen raised two important points: a concern that the Ivies and selective liberal arts colleges were offering admissions slots to too many unqualified or lesser qualified student-athletes at the expense of other students, and, far more important in my view, there was developing a bifurcation of the student body at these schools, a divided culture, between athletes and non-athletes.
I'll address this second issue first. Middlebury has always prided itself as not having a culture in which athletes self-segregated from the rest of the student body. This is largely true, based on my experiences teaching, and my close following of athletics for nearly 30 years. Ironically, and perhaps a result of the increased competitiveness within the conference and nationally, I do see a greater distance between athletes and non-athletes than in the early 1980s. It's something for us to watch, as it relates to what goes on in the classroom and to the overall experience of our students. Some of this may be due to the intensified nature of practice, of out-of-season conditioning (which is done largely within teams), and other aspects of increased competitiveness of our programs. We need to ensure that our student-athletes continue to contribute to the overall educational mission of the institution and enrich the overall class and the classes around them while they are here.
However, I'm also concerned about how we choose to address any of the issues we believe need to be addressed. I would rather "fix" such issues locally than ask our conference for a solution, as offers of admission go beyond test scores and class ranks. When our admissions office brings in a class, they're not looking for the students with the highest test scores or the most extracurricular activities or the most of anything. They are looking for a cohort that will have multiple strengths, that, when combined, will create the best learning environment on campus. Part of the residential liberal arts experience is learning from one another. Athletes represent a broad spectrum of strengths, and we want to be sure some of those positive characteristics are not lost.
We need some system in place to keep our academics and athletics in balance, but we need to retain our autonomy, too. It's been 10 years since we instituted what has become an elaborate scheme for admissions for our conference, and it is time to step back and ask ourselves: Has it served us well, has it gone too far, how might we improve things to the benefit of all our students.
I recall some discussion about whether another NCAA division was necessary to accommodate conferences with stricter guidelines.
A few years ago, I was convinced that we should be looking into a possibility of Division IV. Division III was doubling to 430 schools, and it seemed clear that we'd be at a competitive disadvantage with our shorter seasons, fewer practices, and other important values that set us aside from other conferences. But our student-athletes disagreed and were of one mind. In various discussions, student-athletes, through their captains, claimed they did not feel disadvantaged and, in fact, said "President Liebowitz: Yes, those other conferences have those advantages . . . but we still win. In addition, we have the opportunity to play more than one sport and time to do other things—to attend lectures, lead student organizations, and take advantage of exploring Vermont."
Also, it would be hypocritical for me to sit here and say we're at a disadvantage after we just captured our first Directors' Cup; Williams, another NESCAC school, had won it the prior 14 years. So no, I don't think we're at a disadvantage.
What have we not talked about…?
Well, I think the recruitment game is a big negative in my view. The way recruiting is done is a conundrum to me. I think recruiting has become hard to understand, and, all too often, results in disappointment for student-athletes. Ironically, with more rules in place, there seems to be more suspicion and accusations of violations in recruiting than we used to see. We have very strict rules in the conference about coaches not "making admissions offers" to students—only the Admissions Office can offer admission; and we regulate rather strictly when coaches can send folders to the Admissions Office for consideration. And what we hear is that coaches around the conference somehow misinterpret some of these rules and therefore promise some prospective students that they will be admitted well before any decisions have been made. This creates problems, as you can imagine.
Yet, despite all that we have covered, and all my concerns about institutional autonomy versus a conference approach to regulating athletics, I still see our conference as the best in the country. There is something extremely valuable about being among like-minded institutions that value scholar-athletes, while ensuring that athletics fits within our academic mission.


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Joist Bracing/Blocking Q's
is bracing required between ALL joists? I currently have 2x4 cross bracing midspan, and blocking where 2 joist members meet on a girder (2 joists make up the full with of the house, where the girdir is in the middle). There will be a large duct running the entire width of house through on joist bay, so there will not be room for blocking or bracing.
if running pipes/wiring, are the rules for bores and notches in blocking the same as for joists?
[not a bracing/blocking q] are rules for bores and notches in top/sill plates same as for studs?
batt insulation is not suppose to be compressed. So when installing against cross bracing, the bracing will create a gap in insulation. The other option is to push the insulation tight against the blocking to close the gap, but then of course you'd be compressing a triangle shaped portion of the insulation. Which is the better option? I see my current insulation is installed very loosely and there is a huge gap where the bracing is. Doesn't seem quite right to me.
Cross bridging is often specified on plans if joist span is over 8'. It gets nailed on top, the subfloor is installed, and then the bottom gets secured.
what I have is the 2x4 bracing nailed to the side of the joists like this:
there are already a few that must have been knocked out by an electrician to run wires and were never replaced. I will be replacing those. But my remodel includes running a large duct through a joist bay that would be too large to use bracing. So my question is would that be ok? Maybe I can use strapping instead?
Has anyone tried the IBS2000 bracing systems yet?
From your State Code:
Prevent rotation (blocking or hangers at ends) ________________________ 2308.8.2
Blocking at intermediate supports __________________________________ 2308.8.2
Joists >2X12 blocked or bridged max 8ft O.C. ________________________ 2308.8.5
No notches middle 1/3 of span ____________________________________ 2308.8.2
Bored holes min 2in from top or bottom or other notch or hole ____________ 2308.8.2
Notches and holes, Page 2: http://arch.umd.edu/Tech/Structural_..._Guide_A11.pdf
You don't want a gap. Better to compress some of it with the rest meeting. No gap under floor: http://oikos.com/esb/38/floorinsulation.html
Gap metal or wood cross-bridging or it will squeek……
so is that a no to running ducts in the joist space since bracing is required? This is what was suggested by HVAC sub. He wanted to run cold air return in joist space, or more accurately, use joist space as cold air return plenum and line it with sheet metal.So unless I can install bracing inside the sheet metal?
I understand notch/bore restrictions in joists and studs, but my question is if bores and notches in blocking & top/sill plates fall into these restrictions or if there are separate restrictions.
Actually acerunner I was talking about your second picture.
No problem
"so is that a no to running ducts in the joist space since bracing is required?" ------- Yes, I have seen the block removed and used for HVAC, many, many times. As long as it passes inspection.
"So unless I can install bracing inside the sheet metal?"----- No, that would cause air turbulence.
"I understand notch/bore restrictions in joists and studs, but my question is if bores and notches in blocking & top/sill plates fall into these restrictions or if there are separate restrictions." ------ No restrictions. Some science: http://books.google.com/books?id=DWs...olumns&f=false
Top plates: pp.15: http://www.awc.org/helpoutreach/ecou...seV09-2007.pdf
What we have done and supplied in the past was use a 3 x 2 x 1/4 thick plate with 6 holes either side to except ½ lag bolts and we had no issues as per your reference to page 15.
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I have a few walls that are furred out around footings as shown in drawing below. Would that be a violation?
Are the walls bearing or just to add insulation behind and hide the concrete footing? How wide is the bottom plate?
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Poor Tony Abbott. Here he was trying to defend his honesty by confessing he sometimes didn't tell the truth, when who should come bustling into the confusion but Barnaby Joyce.
''What someone might say to their lover in the heat of passion is entirely different, or should be entirely different, to what you say to the lady checking out your groceries at the supermarket,'' said Joyce.
It didn't seem helpful. ''Of course I'll love you in the morning'' doesn't automatically equate with ''No cash out, thanks''. Unless Joyce and Abbott, who were both schooled by the Jesuits, know something about Jesuitical logic that we don't.
What was Joyce saying? That Tony Abbott couldn't lie straight in or out of bed? Abbott's Labor opponents thought it would be useful to suggest just that.
Hardly had the closing credits on Monday night's 7.30 Report spooled across the nation's screens before the ALP was cranking out a YouTube attack video headlined ''Tony Abbott - You can't trust anything he says''.
''The next time Tony Abbott says anything, ask yourself is he telling the truth,'' invites the voice-over. ''By his own admission, he is probably lying.''
By mid-morning, the entire nation seemed to be arguing with itself over Abbott's admission that he didn't always tell the gospel truth unless it was prepared and scripted.
The airwaves were shrilling with talkback callers who variously expounded that Abbott was stating the obvious about politicians, was a mendacious fraud, had blown his career to smithereens or was proving a breath of fresh air in a fetid swamp. Bloggers were furiously pounding out their positions, Twitter was alive with the debate and it was standing room only at office water-bubblers.
Labor MPs and staffers sweated over a cut-through phrase that would cause ruination to Abbott's reputation, settling on ''Phoney Tony''.
Infrastructure Minister Anthony Albanese took the courageous step of proclaiming that ''I have never consciously said something that was wrong and every time I speak I try to tell the absolute truth''. Albanese, a lifelong warrior in the New South Wales Labor factional wars, was clearly superior to fellow ALP Sydneysider and former senator Graham Richardson, whose literary account of Labor politics, Whatever It Takes, includes the immortal lines: ''You have to lie to keep your job. If you have to lie, it is probably a good system.''
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, possibly relieved that, suddenly, no one was accusing him of abandoning his principles, remained sanguine. It was a matter for Abbott to explain what he meant, said the PM. Liberal staffers obligingly pumped out a 50-page dossier headed ''The Rudd Government's Broken Promises''.
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It feels great being on a training program again. I was feeling a little lost the 4 weeks between my last race and the new training season. And as usual, I need to practice this whole not getting injured thing. Let's start at week 2's long run. It was a hot day, quite dry too. The plan said to run for 90 minutes, and I did....a verryy...slloowww...90 minutes.
The first 3/4s of the run was uphill along the river that divides Oslo. I made it up to the lake that feeds the river and is Oslo's drinking water. Great scenery, quiet, serene - my kind of run. But then I turned around to head back and it was down hill. I started to feel some pain in my left knee around km 9. No good. I took it slow, but that felt like it made it worse. I met the viking at a swimming area midway down the river at the end of my 90 mins (14.4 km) and I took a dip. It felt really good - really cold - but really good.
The next day was my recovery run and I found an area of soccer fields where I now take my intervals and easier runs because it is flat. Some good stuff. I miss running a flat course.
Week 3's long run was this past Saturday. The viking was left to babysit the dog I take care of, so they watched some World Cup games. I ran for 1 hour 45 minutes up through the woods again and around the left side of the lake along a road - an "out-n-back" run. The route I took the week before goes along the right side and in the winter is a place for cross country skiing, so it's fairly hilly. The left side is relatively flatter. I was happy with my 18 kms that I did in that time, although I know that if I pushed myself a little harder I could have done a half-marathon. For hydration, I did a mix of water and coconut water.
The way back was of course downhill....cue the knee pain.
It almost felt the same as ITBS, so I stretched a little bit and made sure to use the foam roller when I got home. Speed seemed to help it. I had a couple good negative splits on the way back to avoid some of that ITBS pain.
When I got back, the viking and I enjoyed sloppy joes and homemade cornbread. I found cornmeal at one of the "ethnic" grocery stores here in Oslo...it was soooo good!
[Oh yeah, baby]
I think it was week 1's long run when I rolled my ankle...well, it's causing trouble. I really need to practice my running form and keep strengthening my legs and ankles because I injure myself way too frequently! I think I pulled some tendons in the top of my foot. There has been a little swelling and pain. I will be the happiest person if I could have an injury-free training season! It only started after I got more competitive with myself with races - so I need to back it down a tiny bit.
This coming week's long run will be my longest ever - 2 hrs 15 mins! I'm sure it will be epic
Are you a World Cup fan? Did you see that USA v. Portugal game?! So many upsets during this tournament! GO USA!
[Yes, Brazil jersey. Have to support the home team too!]
[Storm looming over Oslo at the outdoor World Cup viewing area]


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We finished the season playing more 3-4 than 4-3 I think, typical after I posted my thread on Suggs being a DE he starts playing as a LB more again!
We definitely have the personnel for both though. I'd argue that JJ is a better 4-3 OLB than 3-4 OLB because he's a far better run blocker than pass rusher.


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Lane restrictions will likely impact traffic flow in Hamilton County beginning Tuesday evening.
Local News
Lane Restrictions On I-74 In Hamilton Co. Tuesday Evening
Explosive Device Goes Off In Suspect's Own Home; May Have Been Targeting Others
Prosecutors are suggesting a West Harrison man may have had sinister plans for an explosive device that went off in his own home.
Couple Jailed For "Fake Marijuana"
A Sunday drive ended with a couple's arrest in Franklin County.
Heroin Possession Arrest Made In Brookville
A Franklin County Drug Task Force investigation has resulted in a heroin possession arrest.
Robbery Committed At Night Deposit Box
A business manager was robbed while making a night deposit at a Harrison bank on Saturday night.
Governor Vetoes Bill To Charge For Some Public Records Requests
Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb is saying no to a bill that would've allowed government agencies to charge up to $20 per hour for certain public records requests.
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A local business has earned awards for keeping employees safe on the job.
Indiana Notary Laws Will Change In 2018
The largest group of public officials in the state of Indiana will soon see big changes in how they are commissioned for public office. Indiana is updating its notary laws to provide better protections for notaries and their clients.
Boone Co. Commonwealth's Attorney Sues Whistleblower
Two secret audio recordings are at the center of a lawsuit between the Boone County commonwealth's attorney and a former law clerk.
CVG Had A Great Start To 2017
The Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky International Airport had a historically good first quarter.


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I have been using VoiceThread a lot this year with my students. VoiceThread is a great online tool that lets you link or upload pictures, add video, and audio narration, and leave text comments and "doodles." Many folks end up using it like PowerPoint for final projects, but I like to use it for concept development from the start of a thematic unit. I'm going to go through the steps I used in one Voice Thread as an example. Are we ready campers?
This is an important part of vocabulary and language development, critical when you are working with English Language Learners, or students with a learning disability. We've all used K-W-L (Know, What I want to know, what we Learned) charts. VoiceThread is a great way to make them interactive and visual.
The VoiceThread was for a unit on friendship. Since I have a large number of English language learners, starting with the visual is the best approach. Even if they don't have the vocabulary, they know what friendship looks like. I started by locating Creative-Commons-licensed pictures on flickr with the word "friend" in the title or the tags. I then shared the pictures with the class by showing them on the digital projector, and had them help pick out the pictures they thought showed friendship. In addition to letting them show what they knew about friendship without reading or writing, their choices also let them express their creativity.
These were the first photos I added to the VoiceThread. The important thing is to get the URL for the photo (you can do this by right clicking on the picture in your browser and selecting "copy image location"). The tool in VoiceThread to add flickr photos will only access your photos, not pictures posted by others.
Next, I had students "show" what friendship looked like. This is an important part of vocabulary development because it lets students show what they know, AND it helps them create examples for others to view. Acting out is great way for both language learners and students with social/emotional issues to show what they know, and to practice appropriate social behavior. You can upload pictures to VoiceThread from your computer or memory stick.
This is where I have students add their voices. I had students tell me what people were saying in the pictures showing friendship. This is oral language practice for the students, and another way to show what they know about social skills.
Next, we're ready to work with words. This should be at least a little ways into the unit to get the most interesting questions. For primary, I have them come up with oral questions they have about the concept, and I type it into a PowerPoint in front of the class. You can upload a PowerPoint slideshow directly into VoiceThread, just like you can with a regular picture.
You should be far enough into the unit that they will be able to provide some answers to the questions. This is where students can perform higher-order and deeper thinking. I usually do this by calling the students back in pairs or triads, and asking them to pick a question to answer. I have them go through their answers one time before I hit "record." They then record their thoughts into the VoiceThread, showing what they've learned. All during the process, I have students checking to see new things that are being adding to the VoiceThread, so they can see it building. Voila, your K-W-L is done. -ALICE MERCER
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By Ridge Mahoney
Senior Editor, Soccer America
Already D.C. United and Houston are in the news, both for long-term reasons as well as the here-and-now.
Because of
their qualification for the CONCACAF Champions' Cup, they petitioned the MLS Players' Union for permission to open preseason camp early. Permission was so granted and both teams start camp
Monday, a week earlier than their 11 league rivals.
Early betting - if there is a such a thing regarding MLS - has D.C. and Houston as favorites in their conferences. D.C. posted the
league's best record in 2006 before stumbling in the playoffs for the second straight season, and Houston rolled to the MLS Cup title with a strong playoff run.
In addition to their
league clashes (the MLS schedule has yet to be finalized) they also will meet in the SuperLiga. The venue for their group meeting Aug. 1 has been shifted from RFK to Robertson Stadium as baseball
rears its conflicting head again.
Baseball's Nationals are playing on that date at RFK and so rather than seek an alternate venue close to home, D.C. has agreed to play in Texas.
United plays Morelia and Club America in late July before winding up group play in Houston. Only the top two teams advance and in a tough group, that final match will be decisive.
Dynamo coach Dominic Kinnear has overseen a rather tranquil offseason, though catalytic midfielder Dwayne DeRosario is still the subject of trade/transfer/contract speculation.
The past two months in D.C. have been hectic. A rapid-fire series of coaching changes brought Tommy Soehn, chief assistant to former head coach Peter Nowak, full circle back to
United for his first assignment as the top man. Teen marquee item Freddy Adu was traded to Real Salt Lake, Alecko Eskandarian is now in Toronto, Luciano Emilio is the latest
signing from South America (via Honduras, in this case, for the Brazilian striker).
Soehn had been considered for the recent openings in Kansas City, Dallas, and Chivas USA as well as
other jobs the past few years. Curt Onalfo got the job in Kansas City, Soehn interviewed for the Dallas and Chivas USA jobs but pulled out of those discussions in hope of landing his top
''I've been here the last three years helping to build this team and some of our young guys are ready to take their opportunity and run with it,'' said Soehn,
who played with Nowak on the 1998 Chicago team that won the double and also played in Dallas. ''We've built up some assets to get players who are exciting players and are going to
fit into the structure of our team and they're good people.
''Peter and I, although we're a bit different in personality, we definitely had a chemistry that really worked.
Our philosophies were very similar yet we were very different and challenged each other to get the best out of our guys. For that, we'll be friends for life. We went through a lot the past
three years. On the field, his reading of the game was probably better than anyone I've ever worked with.''
Reading the games and his players will be critical for Soehn.
Last year, D.C. blasted through the first half of the season but cooled off in the final months. Jaime Moreno struggled with fatigue and several other players lost the sharpness that had
overpowered teams earlier in the season.
''Our club is about winning, our club is about the team first, our team is about doing things the right way, about playing the game in the
way that we consider to be the right way,'' said president Kevin Payne, who hired Soehn as the fifth head coach in team history.
''Those things all sound obvious
but you'd be amazed at how many teams are actually not about that stuff. Everybody pays lip service to that stuff but every day is a different equation. I was pretty nervous when Tommy was
talking to other teams but fortunately for us, nobody else made him an offer.''


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Roger Sullivan Named Vice Chancellor for University Advancement
Roger J. Sullivan has been named vice chancellor for advancement at the University of South Carolina Upstate.
Sullivan, who had been serving in this role in an interim capacity, will begin his appointment immediately and will oversee the areas of development, alumni affairs and university communications.
"Roger brings a wealth of experience in development across different sectors including higher education," said Tom Moore, chancellor of USC Upstate. "I look forward to working with him as we advance USC Upstate into its promising, exciting future."
A seasoned development professional, Sullivan came to USC Upstate as a consultant working with Jerold Panas, Linzy and Partners, one of the nation's leading firms in financial resource development.
Sullivan has helped to plan, coach and solicit gifts and grants totaling millions of dollars for clients such as Children's Oncology Group and its Hyundai "Hope on Wheels" program, and the American Association for Cancer Research's StandUp2Cancer program. He also supported two $100 million campaigns for the University of Massachusetts at Boston and the University of Texas at El Paso.
In previous years, Sullivan served as the national resource director for the American Cancer Society Foundation, where he secured the largest-ever individual gifts for cancer research, website sponsorship and cancer awareness initiatives. He also helped establish a network of corporate funders for educational and public awareness projects and assisted in securing corporate funding to expand Relay4Life. He also served as executive director of the Albert B. Sabin Vaccine Foundation, where he developed a case for support that lead to the fulfillment of a $15 million campaign.
"I am thrilled. This University and its leadership hold the keys to economic, educational and cultural future of the Upstate," Sullivan said. "It is an honor to work alongside Chancellor Tom Moore."
Sullivan earned his bachelor's degree in political science at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn. He has received professional training from the Philanthropy Tax Institute, Council for Advancement and Support of Education, and the Institute of Charitable Giving.
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"I knew we would saturate Chris," said Meyer. "Chris is doing really well. I like both our quarterbacks."
Offensive coordinator Dan Mullen, who coaches the quarterbacks, says that Leak has shown plenty of improvement this spring. Leak had a good season in 2005, throwing for 20 touchdowns while only tossing six interceptions, but those numbers are expected to rise tremendously this fall largely due to his familiarity with the offense.
Mullen says instead of teaching Leak the basics of the offense this spring the coaching staff has been able to concentrate on making the offense more efficient.
"We've been able to spend a lot more time on how to attack the defense instead of what he's doing on offense this spring," said Mullen. "Last spring it was all about trying to learn the plays and learn what he's supposed to do. This spring it's about applying those plays to the defense.
"A lot of the improvement is because he's being able to play football without having to think about what he's doing. If you're thinking too much you're not playing. You're seeing a lot more playing this spring."
Tebow is an immense physical talent but he's shown the willingness to put in the time to learn everything he can about the offense.
"He's in our office all day long," said Meyer, who said that you can see the confidence growing in his freshman quarterback. "The element of the game that we don't let him do is peel that [red, no-contact] shirt off and go play ball. We're anxious to let him go do that but it probably won't happen until the first game."
Mullen thinks that Tebow has made exceptional progress.
"For a young guy, he's picking up the offense pretty fast and a lot of it is because he's getting so many reps," said Mullen. "He has no choice but to because we haven't slowed down and we've put it in full speed installation for Tim. He comes to see me every night and he tries to spend as much extra time as he can in there. He wants to learn, learn, learn. Those extra reps are helping him out on the field."
At the end of Friday's practice, which Meyer said was one of the better efforts of the spring, the Gators spent the last 25 minutes bringing the blitz from all angles. Both Leak and Tebow handled the pressure very nicely.
"Today they did a nice job," said Meyer. "That last part was only going to be 10 minutes but it went about 25. It was all blitz and that's the hardest thing for them."
THIN AT LINEBACKER: A growing concern for Meyer is the lack of depth at linebacker. He feels good about starters Brandon Siler and Earl Everett but when it comes to depth and someone to man the strong side, he just shakes his head.
Red-shirt freshmen Ryan Stamper and Eric Sledge are getting plenty of work but they have a long way to go. Senior Brian Crum hasn't had a particularly good spring. Sophomore Jon Demps has been held out this spring while he continues to rehab an ACL that was torn back in the fall.
"I think Stamper is trying but I don't think he's doing enough to earn praise," said Meyer. "Demps is injured, trying to live right and trying to do the right things, he's got a great body on him."
Meyer said that Demps could have been used this spring but he felt that there was no sense in trying to bring him back too early.
"If we pushed him we probably could have done some things but we didn't push it," said Meyer, noting that Demps' rehab has moved along at a good, fast pace. "It's an ACL. We need him. He's going to train hard in the summer and we'll need him ready in August."
Meyer will welcome three freshmen in the fall and they could end up being the depth at the linebacker position.
"They have to be ready to go," said Meyer, who visited with incoming freshman Dustin Doe a couple of days ago. Meyer said he talked to AJ Jones Thursday night and that he's "up to 201 pounds now." The other incoming freshman will be US Army All-American Brandon Spikes.
Until the freshmen get to Gainesville, the coaching staff has to look for possible solutions. In certain situations, safety Tony Joiner could play some strong side linebacker.
"Tony Joiner is really starting to grow," said Meyer. "Maybe we'll look at him in what we call some dollar things where you put him at the SAM linebacker. That's an area of concern."
EXPANDED ROLE FOR LATSKO: Meyer said the coaching staff is expanding the role for Billy Latsko from that of pure fullback to tailback. Latsko, 5-10, 237, spent last spring as a backup linebacker, but he moved to fullback in the fall. He showed the coaching staff last fall that he has sure hands so he can be an effective pass receiver as well as a dependable blocker. This spring, he's showing that he is a tough runner between the tackles.
"Billy Latsko is doing terrific," said Meyer. "We actually moved him to tailback for this spring. If he can run the ball effectively that opens up a lot of things. We'd rather him not be a pure fullback and we'd rather have him catch a shovel, run the ball. He's doing a good job for us. He missed about four practices because of a hamstring, but he's one of our best players."
One of the bright spots at tailback on Friday was sophomore Markus Manson, who had a solid practice for the second straight day.
INJURY UPDATE: Jim Tartt will have arthroscopic surgery on his shoulder on Monday. Meyer said that the surgery will heal quickly and Tartt is expected to be ready to go in the fall.
Freshman tailback Chevon Walker continues to be hobbled by a sprained ankle that is slow to heal.
SLOWING SOME THINGS DOWN: Meyer said that he's deliberately slowing things down for some of the veterans, particularly wide receiver Dallas Baker. Baker has had an excellent spring and Meyer knows he can depend on him. What he's hoping is that the extra reps will help some of the younger receivers.
"Guys like Dallas Baker I'm gonna pull out a little bit and force these young guys to make some plays," said Meyer.
One of the younger receivers that is starting to step up a bit is sophomore Louis Murphy, who had a good practice Friday to follow up a productive Thursday practice.
"Louis Murphy made some plays today," said Meyer. "We did a tackling drill and Earl Bruce (former Ohio State coach and Meyer's former boss at both Ohio state and Colorado State) was out here and he doesn't know so much about football after only coaching for about 50 years. He said 82 (Murphy) is one of your best receivers because we do tackling drills and he was 7-7 making people miss and some of those guys were 0-7. He had a pretty good day today."
SATURDAY SCRIMMAGE: The Gators will scrimmage on the practice field Saturday beginning at 10:15. Meyer said the scrimmage will be one of the important measures of how far the team has come this spring.
"I want them to show up tomorrow at 7:30 [a.m.] so I know they behaved last night and with a great attitude like they've had the last two Saturdays," said Meyer. "I hope they've got the music going, they're jacked up and ready to go play some football. If they do that we've got a chance to be a pretty good football team."
CRIME DOG SIGHTING: One visitor of note at Friday's practice was Fred McGriff, the former All-Star first baseman for several major league baseball teams including the Atlanta Braves. McGriff and Coach Urban Meyer first crossed paths when they were playing minor league baseball. Meyer was in the Braves organization with Plant City and McGriff was with the Yankees organization with Tampa.
"I was at a volleyball tournament in Tampa a couple of weeks ago and someone said Fred McGriff is looking for you," Meyer said after practice. "I didn't even know they call him "Crime Dog." That's how long I've been out of it. I haven't seen him in a long time. It was good to see him today."
McGriff coaches baseball at Tampa Jesuit. His son Erick was with him.


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Trojan 'Safe Ride' Cabs Give Riders Free Condoms
The prophylactic company is promoting safe sex this Valentine's Day with NYC cabs that quiz passengers on sexual health for prizes.
This Valentine's Day, it's going to be 'Cash Cab meets condoms.'
Courtesy of Trojan Brand Condoms, this Valentine's Day weekend will see select NYC taxi cabs transformed into condom-sporting Trojan Safe Ride taxis.
As part of Trojan's National Condom Month campaign coordinate by Edelman, the prophylactic company is using Valentine's Day to promote safe sex among New York City residents with a fun, interactive sex-ed. taxi experience. The Trojan Safe Ride cabs will provide a complimentary cab ride in the Greenwich Village and New York University areas of Manhattan to couples and passengers out on the town, with the twist of quizzing them about sexual health during their ride.
Although unaffiliated with Ben Bailey or the Discovery Channel, the Trojan Safe Ride taxis will work very similarly to the popular game show 'Cash Cab.' Participating riders can answer questions about sexual health, administered by Trojan Brand ambassadors, and earn prizes along their trip. Passengers who correctly answer five or more questions receive a Trojan Brand prize pack, and those 'sex-perts' who manage to answer all of their questions correctly win a year's supply of Trojan Condoms.
The cabs, which will run from 7 PM – 2 AM on February 14th and 15th within this designated area, are part of a campaign created in conjunction with the American Sexual Health Association (ASHA). As Bruce Weiss, VP of Marketing for Trojan, points out:
While using a condom is easy, it is important that people have the facts to ensure they are using them consistently and correctly, and that we continue to dispel the myths associated with condom usage.
The Safe Ride cabs, which will be the most visual 'stunt' aspect of the campaign, are part of a larger campaign initiative by Trojan and the ASHA. The campaign also includes an informational website called 'Condomology' (FactsAboutCondoms.com) and a short film on 'The History of Condoms.'
Drivers of the Safe Ride taxis are all specially selected limousine drivers, and will have an accompanying Trojan representative to administer the quiz.
If taxis with ads shaped like condoms in place of the regular taxi top ads aren't a fun and engaging way to broach a sometimes-sensitive topic, we don't know what is.
Trojan is certainly no stranger to public, in your face marketing tactics. The last big New York City stunt by Trojan, a vibrator giveaway from NYC-style hot-dog carts in August, ran into problems with the city for not having the proper permits and documentation. Mark Gromosaik, a product manager for Trojan parent company Church & Dwight Co., assures that will not be a problem this time around.
The Safe Rides and National Condom Month initiatives are also a good platform to build buzz around the Trojan brand, as they get ready to release Trojan Crazy Sexy Feel lubricants this spring. The sexual lubricant market is roughly half the size of the half-billion dollar condom market, and largely untapped by Trojan.
This Valentine's Day weekend, enjoy a Safe Ride with that specially someone. If you want to brush up on your sexual health knowledge beforehand, you can visit the newly launch Condomology website here.


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CANADA FX DEBT-C$ strengthens vs broadly weaker greenback as oil recovers
* Canadian dollar at C$1.3039, or 76.69 U.S. cents * Bond prices lower across the maturity curve TORONTO, Aug 2 (Reuters) - The Canadian dollar strengthened against its U.S. counterpart on Tuesday as oil prices recovered and as weaker-than-expected U.S. data last week weighed on the greenback. Oil rebounded after falling by up to 10 percent in one week, but investors remained concerned about oversupply weighing on prices. U.S. crude prices were up 1.72 percent at $40.75 a barrel. The U.S. dollar fell to a five-week low against a basket of major currencies. The greenback has been sold steadily since surprisingly weak U.S. second-quarter growth numbers last week. At 9:24 a.m. EDT (1324 GMT), the Canadian dollar was trading at C$1.3039 to the greenback, or 76.69 U.S. cents, stronger than Monday's Reuters close of C$1.3120, or 76.22 U.S. cents. The loonie's official close on Friday before a civic holiday on Monday was C$1.3056, OR 76.59 U.S. cents. The currency's strongest level of the session was C$1.3038, while its weakest was C$1.3143. Speculators increased bullish bets on the Canadian dollar for the fifth straight week, Commodity Futures Trading Commission data showed on Friday. Net long Canadian dollar positions rose to 23,180 contracts in the week ended July 26 from 22,068 contracts in the prior week. Canadian government bond prices were much lower across the maturity curve, with the two-year price down 6.5 Canadian cents to yield 0.573 percent and the benchmark 10-year falling 76 Canadian cents to yield 1.108 percent. On Friday, the 10-year yield hit a two-week low at 1.023 percent. Losses for global bond markets came as Japan's cabinet approved a fiscal stimulus package on Tuesday to revive the country's flagging economy. Last week, the Bank of Japan announced further easing steps which disappointed investors. Canada's international trade data for June and employment report for July are awaited on Friday. A new 15-percent property transfer tax on foreign real estate buyers in Vancouver will take effect today. (Reporting by Fergal Smith; Editing by Bernadette Baum)
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Not to guano the curl pride thread-- I was thinking about curly hair t-shirts and how many people would actually wear them. It seems like the "to hell with straight hair" shirt has people going
even though the thought is cute initally. I'd be afraid that someone would be offended. The only other curly hair shirts in curlmart are nc.com shirts and very small shirts for kids. The Curls shirt posted in the curl pride thread is cute but also makes me go
at second thought.
This got me to thinking, why aren't there more choices for curly hair-themed t-shirts? Would people actually buy them? It makes me half-way want to look into designing and selling curly t-shirts. Am I nuts?
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Tax Deadline Is Today
It's time to pay Uncle Sam! If you haven't gotten yet, today is the day.
It's time to pay Uncle Sam! If you haven't gotten yet, today is the day.
Have you ever heard of anyone getting $94 million on a tax return? Well, you have now! Brigitte Jackson of the Atlanta suburb Cobb County filed a false tax return and was arrested at the bank inside a grocery store where investigators told her she could pick up her check...
When will celebrities learn that it's the law for all American citizens to file taxes, and your celeb status does NOT make you exempt? Case in point: ex-Fugees star Lauryn Hill has failed to pay her taxes for three years stretching back to 2005!
Whether you're due a refund or you gotta pay Uncle Sam, your federal taxes will need to be postmarked by midnight Tuesday, April 17. From past experiences, I've learned that if people are expecting a refund they'll get their taxes done just as soon as that W-2 arrives in the mail, but those thinking they'll have to pay a little or a lot will wait until the deadline to file that tax return (which I don't blame them!).
So, you think you're ready to file your taxes, huh? Well, not so fast.
R&B singer Robin Thicke and his wife, actress Paula Patton are facing issues with the IRS. The IRS filed a $492,583 tax lien against the couple, according to the Los Angeles Recorder of Deeds. The couple claim they had no idea of any taxes owed.
Uh-oh! Bow Wow is all grown up and with his share of grown up trouble. Why is it that the rich and famous always get in trouble with the IRS?
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One of the few joys of tax preparation is making deductions and watching your bill from Uncle Sam get lower and lower.
Here's a list of five expenses that might be tempting to deduct, but are strictly forbidden by the IRS.
Seems as if everything is politicized, even a mother's natural act of feeding her baby -- that is if Michelle Obama happens to endorse it. Recently the first lady said she'd promote breast-feeding, especially among black women, as part of her continuing battle against childhood obesity -- more after the jump.


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I decided to upgrade my 2004 WRX's Turbo, so now I have the stock one up for sale. The thing was puppied and is in great condition. No problems and or issues with the turbo to date. Furthermore I am selling the Stock BOV with the turbo, so its a combo deal.
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For this Combo I am looking for $160.00
Yet, its OBO, so let the bidding being.
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Last week, we reported on state investigations into alleged misconduct by Lake County law enforcement officers going back more than a decade. The Flathead Beacon has been covering the issue as well, and in the last few days it's published two stories worth highlighting.
The first, by Myers Reece, unpacks details of the August 2011 Montana Public Officer Standards and Training Council (POST) meeting in Helena that was briefly mentioned in the Indy story. Lake County Attorney Mitch Young, Polson-Ronan City Attorney James Raymond, Sheriff Jay Doyle, Undersheriff Karey Reynolds, Ronan Police Chief Dan Wadsworth and Polson Police Chief Doug Chase all attended the meeting to decry what they believe is a "smear campaign," to use Raymond's words, against Lake County law enforcement. Beginning last year, POST has opened at least a dozen ethics investigations into Lake County law enforcement officers.
[POST Director Wayne] Ternes said the sheer number of complaints lodged against Lake County law enforcement officers is unprecedented in his experience, as is the fact that every major law agency within a single geographical area is potentially implicated, including the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribal Law and Order, Polson Police Department, Ronan Police Department and Lake County Sheriff's Office.
Ray Murray, who says he is the longest-serving member on the 13-member POST council, has never seen a situation like the one in Lake County.
"I've been on the council since 1996 and I can't recall another collection of complaints of the magnitude that we've seen in Lake County in that time period," Murray told the Beacon last week. "I do not recall ever seeing this number of complaints restricted to a geographical area like that."
And Beacon editor Kellyn Brown weighed in yesterday with an opinion piece focusing on Terry Leonard, a former Lake County Sheriff's deputy. As the Indy reported, Leonard claims he was fired by then-Sheriff Lucky Larson for attempting to expose misconduct within the Lake County Sheriff's Office. Leonard then created websites to disseminate details of the misconduct. Because it was election season, the websites led to a complaint that Leonard was violating election laws by campaigning anonymously. County Attorney Mitch Young obtained a warrant from District Judge C.B. McNeil and deputies raided Leonard's home, seizing his computers, among other things. Leonard's attorney told the Indy that in his 30 years of criminal defense work, "I have never seen a search warrant for investigating a misdemeanor." Last month, the Montana Commissioner of Political Practices exonerated Leonard. Writes Brown:
On its face, it appears that Lake County officials were attempting to silence Leonard to protect themselves from incriminating information, some of which had some merit. But at the least, Leonard, who in many ways was portrayed as a loose cannon and a disgruntled former employee, deserves some vindication.
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China names conservative, older leadership
By Ben Blanchard and Sui-Lee Wee
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's ruling Communist Party unveiled an older, conservative leadership line-up on Thursday that appears unlikely to take the drastic action needed to tackle pressing issues like social unrest, environmental degradation and corruption.
New party chief Xi Jinping, premier-in-waiting Li Keqiang and vice-premier in charge of economic affairs Wang Qishan, all named as expected to the elite decision-making Politburo Standing Committee, are considered cautious reformers. The other four members have the reputation of being conservative.
The line-up belied any hopes that Xi would usher in a leadership that would take bold steps to deal with slowing growth in the world's second-biggest economy, or begin to ease the Communist Party's iron grip on the most populous nation.
"We're not going to see any political reform because too many people in the system see it as a slippery slope to extinction," said David Shambaugh, director of the China Policy Program at George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs.
"They see it entirely through the prism of the Soviet Union, the Arab Spring and the Colour Revolutions in Central Asia, so they're not going to go there."
Vice-Premier Wang, the most reform-minded in the line-up, has been given the role of fighting widespread graft, identified by both Xi and outgoing President Hu Jintao as the biggest danger faced by the party and the state.
The run-up to the handover has been overshadowed by the party's biggest scandal in decades, with former high-flyer Bo Xilai sacked as party boss of southwestern Chongqing city after his wife was accused of murdering a British businessman.
Bo, who has not been seen in public since early this year, faces possible charges of corruption and abuse of power. Continued...


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I hit reply, scathing retort in mind but have just concluded that I can't be bothered.
Surely you are guilty of your own crime by posting this in the M section rather than Forum comments or the members lounge....
If a forum is not for people to air their opinions then you might be right, however, we are a collection of enthusiasts (as stated) not bmw employees and if you prefer the style of another forum then fair play to you!
I don't see other forums as competition, just less suitable to my personal preferences... as this one is to you, obviously.
Maybe you would like to contribute to this forum in the way you suggest and people will be very appreciative. Most people DO contribute in a very useful way, you tend to find that the only people who don't are the ones lacking the depth of knowledge that many others have available to answer questions.
You have a very fair point, but I think what you find here is a more easy-going place to chat about shared interests rather than being all about the info and details.... (that is why this forum kicks ass.) I think another factor in this is that the age of forum member may be a bit lower here than other bmw sites due to the high percentage of US members. (who can drive a lot younger than europeans)
That 'new model' M3 sounds like the a cross between 330 clubsport sold in europe and the styling on the CSL..... doesn't sounds as exciting as the pictures we've seen though.
Hopefully this is a fair reply to your point without being insulting or rude.
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** taking a slight detour from my account of dealing with my depression to talk a little about my mom
Those who have read my blog for a while will know that I am a live-in caregiver for my mother. Two years ago, we were beginning to have serious End of Life discussions and were starting to work on Hospice Care for her. Since then she has made remarkable progress, is very self-sufficient and celebrated her 89th birthday in September.
One day when I got home from work, I saw that she had made 10 or 12 dozen cookies. I knew she had be worried about not being able to send cookies to her three grandsons that are in the military (two of them, brothers, are in Afghanistan this holiday season). I was happy to see that she had been able to make them but she seemed somewhat dejected.
Asking her why, she said that she just couldn't make a batch of cookies like she used to. She's used to a batch being 10 or 12 dozen and she just isn't strong enough to be able to do everything making cookies from scratch requires, especially on that scale.
One of us told her that she didn't have to make them all at once and over the next two or three weeks she ended up cooking 70 dozen cookies. Yes, 840 of them.
She's also been working on making quilts for the grand-kids, so they all can have one. She's been over-achieving a bit lately, showing that she can still do things, just not as quickly as she used to.
She's also decided that she's going to cook Christmas dinner. Cooking is especially tiring for her because she doesn't tolerate the heat of working on a stove top very well. We may have words about her sitting down that day… "Mom, you need to go sit your butt down for a few, we can do this" "I'm your mother, don't.." "Yeah, you're my mother and if you want to stay that way you'll go sit down for a few"
One common theme in all this is that she's worried she won't be able or won't be around to do it next year.
It seems that as people get older and can't get out as much, they seem to have less and less contact with old friends, leaving something of a void. Those friends are also elderly and may have their own health issues to deal with.
And, sadly they pass away. This past weekend, one of my mother's closest friends, whom she had known for over 50 years, passed away. At the visitation last night, it occurred to me that this wonderful woman had been the last of mom's closest friends, everyone who had been in that "inner circle" had already passed away.
I'm wondering how this loss will affect her during the coming year, is that "she won't be able or won't be around" going to become a self-fulfilling prophecy?
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I'm just an old fashioned man who enjoys the delights of eating candy or pretzels and has never become involved in the pursuit of drugs or anything that can get me "high." In my narrow world, getting "high" means shouting for joy when the New York Football Giants pull out a victory or walking through a park as spring just arrives. I have never smoked anything or engaged in alcoholic brews so the great conflict over marijuana is simply for me "much ado about nothing." Ryan Anthony Kevorkian and his wife and two friends inhabit a much different world. They were told that a man who runs a medical marijuana dispensary had made thousands and thousands of dollars, which for some strange reason, he had hidden in the forest rather than sending it to some off shore bank.
Anyway, they kidnapped the man, beat the hell out of him, burned off his penis with a blow torch and finally dumped the guy. They did make away with the penis to ensure it was not reattached. They never did find any money, but they did get a penis. I guess they wanted another prick to go with the pricks they have or-are!


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phongn wrote:Singular Quartet wrote:I thought he went with 6666 standard legions, with Satan's personel 999 legions as a seperate force?
"So, the Armies of Hell have a core elite force of 999 legions with the balance of the 6666 being a sort of local militia type of force. That works really well."
That indicates that the 999 are part of the 6666.
Looking at that quote, I read it the other way around. 999 are the heavily trained Praetorian guard, while the 6666 are the drafted armies (and thereby a seperate force).


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Nabokov's "Pale Fire": The Magic of Artistic Discovery (edition 2001)
by Brian Boyd
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Nabokov's "Pale Fire": The Magic of Artistic Discovery by Brian Boyd
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Boyd's thesis is a compelling one, even for a book that has attracted such diversity of opinion. In 1962, Pale Fire offered a challenging 'faberge egg' of a problem; a novel within a novel, several narrators, a depth of allusion and suggestion. In critical circles, some readers have leaned toward Shade, the book's 'poet', as the sole author of the text. Others have lent toward Kinbote, the text's editor. And sitting behind them of course, is Nabokov himself.
Boyd freely admits that he used to be of a Shadean position (Shade as sole author). In this book, eagerly anticipated, he revises his opinion. Not toward Kinbote, as such, but toward the powerful otherworld of the afterlife as a moving force within the text. Underlining Nabokov's chess-problem structuring of his novels (where problems are positional, and solutions can be come at through different 'spirals' of move and countermove), and drawing attention to the growing critical awareness of Nabokov not as a 'postmodern' author, interested in the fragmentation and aporia of meaning, but of an author searching for harmony and meaning.
Boyd's reading requires that we take a counterstep. His evidence is compelling and, I think, undeniable. In a sense he makes it so clear, that I feel a fool for not having given it a moment before. All readers are re-readers, says Nabokov.
I won't spoil Boyd's precise conclusion, because it's more satisfying to be taken through the 'spiral' of readings within his book.
There are problems with it, however. Boyd can be a little infuriating, repetitive, and oftentimes you can get simply lost in terms of finding where you are, or where you're supposed to be. The book could have been shorter, a bit neater and more apparent, but this didn't stop me from reading it. Boyd's job on Pale Fire is funnily Kinbotean in its own way (in its obsession, not its critical laxity).
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Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 0691089574, Paperback)Brian Boyd has already chronicled the life of Vladimir Nabokov in two superlative volumes, one devoted to the author's silver-age youth in Russia and the other to his American maturity. Now Boyd turns his attention to the great enchanter's trickiest and most unlikely triumph in Nabokov's Pale Fire. With its oddball structure--which shackles an epic poem in heroic couplets to an increasingly loony, enveloping commentary--this 1962 novel has always been a bone of contention among diehard fans. Some consider it less a work of art than a Rube Goldberg contraption, onto which Nabokov has brilliantly bolted his favorite motifs. Others call Pale Fire the author's true masterpiece, and Brian Boyd falls quite emphatically into the latter camp, arguing that the book is no mere satire on literary parasitism:
It is a reflection on the whole history of literature, on the shift from romance to realism, from the old kind of hero with whose glory the reader is invited to identify ... to the modern image of everyman as artist, the suburban Shade, in the modest circumstances of the real, coping with courage and self-control, with imagination, curiosity, tenderness, and kindness, with the fact of his mortality and his losses past and still to come.Boyd's study is at once a shrewd and eloquent guidebook to the intricacies of Pale Fire and a revisionist argument as to its meaning. After all, Nabokovians have spent the last three decades feuding over the ultimate authorship of this double-decker narrative: could the poet, John Shade, have created both the poem and commentary? Or should both be chalked up to that nutty exegete Charles Kinbote? As he wades into this factional war, Boyd can sometimes appear only nominally less insane than Kinbote. ("The prominence of the Shadean or Kinbotean or 'undecidable' readings had not gone unchallenged. D. Barton Johnson, attending to verbal and subverbal detail, stood largely outside the Shade-Kinbote opposition when he focused on the Botkin behind Kinbote." Help!) Yet his hypothesis--which involves a ghost feeding lines to the living like a posthumous Teleprompter--makes perfect sense. And it reminds us that for all Nabokov's vaunted irony and scientific passion, he was fascinated throughout his entire career by the afterlife. Volodya as theologian? Boyd is smart and persuasive enough to make the concept stick, and to send every last one of us back to Pale Fire--immediately. --James Marcus
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Pale Fire is regarded by many as Vladimir Nabokov's masterpiece. The novel has been hailed as one of the most striking early examples of postmodernism and has become a famous test case for theories about reading because of the apparent impossibility of deciding between several radically different interpretations. Does the book have two narrators, as it first appears, or one? How much is fantasy and how much is reality? Whose fantasy and whose reality are they? Brian Boyd, Nabokov's biographer and hitherto the foremost proponent of the idea that Pale Fire has one narrator, John Shade, now rejects this position and presents a new and startlingly different solution that will permanently shift the nature of critical debate on the novel. Boyd argues that the book does indeed have two narrators, Shade and Charles Kinbote, but reveals that Kinbote had some strange and highly surprising help in writing his sections. In light of this interpretation, Pale Fire now looks distinctly less postmodern - and more interesting than ever. In presenting his arguments, Boyd shows how Nabokov designed Pale Fire for readers to make surprising discoveries on a first reading and even more surprising discoveries on subsequent readings by following carefully prepared clues within the novel. Boyd leads the reader step-by-step through the book, gradually revealing the profound relationship between Nabokov's ethics, aesthetics, epistemology, and metaphysics. If Nabokov has generously planned the novel to be accessible on a first reading and yet to incorporate successive vistas of surprise, Boyd argues, it is because he thinks a deep generosity lies behind the inexhaustibility, complexity, and mystery of the world. Boyd also shows how Nabokov's interest in discovery springs in part from his work as a scientist and scholar, and draws comparisons between the processes of readerly and scientific discovery.… (more)
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The last week has witnessed one Republican after another offer explanations as to why the black dude won the presidency. Bill O'Reilly blames it on these new folk who live in America and are not descended from the old time God fearing folk. Of course, he is of Irish descent, you know the folks who were regarded as stupid aliens under control of the Roman Catholic clergy and the Know Nothing party of the 1850s just did not want Irish folk like him in their God fearing country. One can only wonder, given his ignorance, as to whether O'Reilly is really an O'Reilly.
Conservative pundit, Dick Morris, or whatever these days one calls an ignorant fool, predicted a landslide win for Romney. Now, he claims he knew Romney was going to lose but decided to lie in order to bolster his spirits and chances of winning. As I recall, he said: "We're going to win by a landslide"–his exact words. Now, I know when Dick says anything, it is merely a dickhead speaking


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In New Memorial, Have We Remembered Well Enough?
New Yorkers are once again reflecting on the events of September 11th as the 9/11 Memorial Museum officially opens its doors.
We are not a city that has set aside many quiet places for reflection, and sacred is not a word we generally connect to commercial real estate. Yet from the beginning, "sacred" was the term many used to describe the site. "What you have is a very strong sense that in this one place, and at this one time, thousands of people left the secular daily world and in an instant passed over to the spiritual realm," said anthropologist John Forrest when he first spoke with WNYC 6 months after the attacks. "That has to make that place enormously powerful as a sacred place. "
Forrest said that the task of remembering this event was significant for more than historic reasons."There may be a fear that memorializing anguish and suffering and horror is somehow bad and I think we need to get over that, because those things are the ways in which we grow as a city, grow as a nation, grow as a culture."
Now the fences have come down around the memorial fountains. The name of each person who died that day is inscribed in stone. And each and every visitor to the site will decide if we have remembered well enough.
There will be no sharper critics than the family members and colleagues of those who died that day. Some of them are protesting the way remains have been interred. Some have found fault with the gift shop and the $24 ticket price. Some are avoiding the museum all together.
But some have found solace there. On one afternoon last week, I sat with Nancy Yambem in her backyard north of the city. Her husband Jupiter Yambem worked at Windows on the World and she said she had braced herself as she descended into the underground museum for the first time.
"It was difficult. As you went down the escalators, that feeling of pain was coming back. It was a dark space. It was almost like going back to the time when my husband died. As we walked around it was ever present, " she said.
Yambem said that everyone who visits the museum should spend time in the part of the museum where those who died are remembered. There are nearly 3,000 photos of victims displayed and audio of stories and anecdotes. That's the heart of the exhibit, said Yambem, because you can begin to understand in some small way what was lost that day. She spent time there with her son, now a senior in high school, and her husband of seven years.
As she described her visit, the experience appeared to have been cathartic — the kind of feeling you hope for when you enter a sacred space. "Literally when I came up the escalator as I walked out the doors, I told myself this is my life now and it's not that pain and it's not that terrible sorrow that was downstairs, but I had grown. We went to my husband's name on the fountain and there was a real sense of peace in that." She added, "There was such a sense of relief — a real sense of peace in that it's OK, we're OK, we survived it all. And that felt good."