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When choreographer Rafael Bonachela gathered a varied group of creatives to make his new work, Emergence, for the Sydney Dance Company, he didn't know what he might end up with. He still doesn't. For Bonachela, the process of creating a new dance work continues until the last moments before the curtain goes up.
''I don't know where this is taking me,'' he confides mid-rehearsals. ''But I know it will be different from anything I've done lately and that's what keeps me going, that's what keeps me alive.''
Spectrum sat in on the process from start to (almost) finish. By the final weeks of rehearsal, singer Sarah Blasko and composer Nick Wales have co-written a lush, dark score filled with urgent beats, swelling strings, the cries of bats and the sounds of the dancers hitting the floor.
Fashion designer Dion Lee's tailored costumes are still being fitted. Bonachela's intricate choreography is taking shape and stage designer Benjamin Cisterne's silver reflective floor and overhead sculpture design are under construction. What can audiences expect? ''Something unexpected,'' Bonachela says. ''Something mysterious.''
Beginning: last May
''I never know what might trigger an idea,'' Bonachela says. ''It might be a piece of music or an exhibition. But in this case, I was feeling like I wanted a connection with pop culture. Ten years ago I made a work with Kylie Minogue and it was sublime. This time, I wanted a contemporary singer or a rock band.''
Bonachela has lunch with Wales, who composed and curated the music for Bonachela's 2 One Another and worked on Blasko's album I Awake. ''I can't remember who said the words 'Sarah Blasko' first but I asked him to ask her. When she said yes, I thought, perfect. That was the beginning.''
Instagram connection
Bonachela follows Lee on Instagram. ''Every photo he puts up, I LIKE,'' he says in June. ''I'd put any of his clothes on stage, they are so beautifully structured.''
It's a happy accident that Wales has previously worked on Lee's fashion shows and the designer attends Sydney Dance Company opening nights, although he has never met Bonachela.
Turns out, Lee is a fan. ''I called him, we had a coffee and he's in,'' Bonachela says. ''I have a good feeling about him.''
Improvising and moving
In August, Blasko and Wales present two pieces of music and the dancers improvise to it in the studio. ''I've never worked with dancers before so it's quite illuminating to see them move,'' Blasko says.
Dancer Charmene Yap improvises with Blasko one-on-one while the others leave the room. Bonachela and Wales record them. ''Sarah would sing a note and then I'd move and we'd feed off each other,'' Yap says after the session. ''It was like I was dancing with a singer and there was an imaginary thread between us. At one point it got quite tribal. Sarah picked up a heavy rhythm and my movement got heavy. It was really interesting and raw.'' Later, Wales asks the dancers to scream at the top of their lungs while he records them.
''We'd take a breath and then scream again,'' Yap says. ''People in the building must have been thinking what are those dancers doing? Nick also asked us to sit in a circle and make sounds with our body parts. We were all slapping our legs and hitting the floor. That felt pretty tribal, too.''
After two days of improvising, Blasko tells her father over dinner about everyone coming together to work on the dance. ''He mentioned the word 'emergence' and it just seemed so perfect,'' she says. ''He jokingly said maybe we could use that word and we have.
''When we started looking up the meaning of the word on our phones, it made so much sense. It means a combination of things coming together to form something unexpected or very mysterious.'' Creativity often moves in mysterious ways.
The look and feel
By October, Bonachela and Cisterne are researching the word ''emergence''. Google searches lead them down a path of fractals and tessellation, and the idea of one shape multiplying over and over into a single new idea.
''It is incredibly fertile ground for inspiration,'' Bonachela says. ''One thing that I love is the idea that complexity has elegance. ''It doesn't have to be complicated, but I do need it to be complex.''
Over the next three months, Cisterne and Bonachela email thousands of images to each other: architecture, lighting designs, patterns found in nature or computer-generated tessellations. They look bizarrely beautiful. Swirls. Geometric patterns. Spirals. ''Did you know snowflakes are emergent?'' Bonachela says.
''In nature, hurricanes are emergent and sand dunes. This word is opening up so many ideas for movement.''
The costumes
The sewing machines are buzzing in Lee's workshop in Chippendale. Early mock-ups hang on racks. They look like '50s swing jackets attached to flesh-toned bodysuits. ''They will look very different on the body,'' Lee says quietly. ''I've never designed costumes before, so this is exciting for me.''
Lee is interpreting ''emergence'' in a biological way. ''I'm thinking about cell division and cellular growth, how one thing becomes two and multiplies,'' he says, holding a costume that looks like half a tailored jacket. ''Two dancers might each wear one half of a design. They might come together and separate like cells.''
Bonachela is famous for his dislike of strong colours on stage and has only once allowed a colour (red) in a costume. Nevertheless, Lee and Cisterne are talking about using the kind of reflective fabrics used in safety garments and road markings.
''Ben is thinking of a really metallic reflective floor and I like the idea of iridescent fabrics on stage,'' Lee says. ''It's a boldness in visibility but also in texture. It might be more about starkness than colour. It depends if that suits the choreography.''
Recording the score
''I hope you're a dog person,'' says Wales, barefoot, wearing shorts and a T-shirt, opening the door to his tiny Pyrmont recording studio before Christmas. A bouncy Italian greyhound named Hutch rushes at me before retiring to the sofa. Blasko bends down to rub the dog's ears.
Yesterday, a nine-piece string orchestra recorded their section of the score and Wales and Blasko experimented with vocal processing. ''We're using the voice as a texture,'' Blasko says. ''Some of it sounds a bit spacey.''
Neither of them wants the music to sound like a pop concert. ''We need to strike a balance so the dancing sings over the music,'' Wales says. ''We might give the audience something expected, like a song, then cross it with something totally unexpected. It might end up sounding more like a film soundtrack.''
Wales hits a button. The music sounds dirty and rock'n'roll, like Nick Cave or PJ Harvey - but with bat calls and electronic beats. ''We're aiming for f---ed-up beauty,'' Wales says. Blasko nods. ''Or painful beauty,'' she says.
Blasko hasn't written any lyrics. Instead she uses her voice to make sounds. ''At the moment it's about the feeling of mystery,'' she says. ''The lyrics often come last for me. I want the words to be very sparing but also evocative.''
One of the tracks is all voice, layered and processed. ''I'm trying to make my voice sound like different characters with different flavours,'' she says. ''I'm really aware that this is theatre and not a Sarah Blasko album.''
Wales says Bonachela is pushing them to be braver. ''He keeps saying, 'It's not surprising enough' or 'It's not mysterious enough,''' Wales says. ''Raf loves the passion. It's in his Spanish blood. He loves strings. He's obsessed with the cello. But he also loves cold electronic music. We have so much freedom it can be shit-scary.''
Rehearsals start
After a four-week holiday, Bonachela knows he can't push his dancers too hard when they start rehearsals in January. Instead he gives them complex tasks. ''Emergence is about two elements coming together to make something unexpected,'' he says. ''So I am putting the dancers in pairs, working with someone they haven't worked with before.''
Each pair makes a short phrase using small, isolated movements. An elbow lifts, a knee bends. An ear reaches towards a shoulder. Then he disrupts the phrase by putting two phrases together. Now four dancers are working together.
''It's quite stationary and awkward at first,'' Yap says. ''But when we were put in groups, we started making small, fast, awkward shapes. It's an interesting energy.''
Bonachela gives the dancers words to think about. Chaos. Pattern. Concealment. Complexity. Unexpectedness. Next, the dancers are creating a walking pattern around the perimeter of the studio.
One group is given large photocopies of the images Bonachela and Cisterne have been swapping, of endlessly repeating patterns. The dancers are asked to individually respond in movement. Others are writing down their first phrase before passing the instructions to another dancer to interpret.
''I'm hoping the drawings will encourage a different sort of flow into the piece,'' Bonachela says.
Introducing the cube
Cisterne has made a cube criss-crossed with white elastic for the dancers to ''play in''. When they get in, the elastic pulls and stretches. The idea is to create a movement, get out of the cube and re-create it on the studio floor.
Yap moves inside the space, sometimes holding the elastic between her teeth or stamping a piece of elastic down with her heel.
''It helps me escape from the body,'' she says. ''I can get in there and work with the elastic rather than thinking too much. It is about detail for me; it makes shapes but it is less fluid.''
Bonachela says he's always looking for new ways to create movement. ''The cube has really worked for us,'' he says. ''The dancers are creating a pulling feeling. But at the end of the day, you can have all these wacky ideas but it still needs to make sense in the choreography. I haven't used any of the cube ideas yet. But I'm not finished.''
Costume presentation
Lee is running late with the costumes because he is also working on his designs for the International Woolmark Award and Paris Fashion Week. But when he presents the ''half and half'' costumes to Bonachela, the choreographer is ''totally, totally excited''.
''They are like nothing I've ever seen in dance before,'' he says. ''It is so clever.'' He's even thinking of allowing one costume to be industrial blue instead of black. ''But I need to see that colour and touch it before I commit.''
The dance run
Dressed in singlets, shorts and socks, the dancers are running through the first 15 minutes of Emergence early this month. Bonachela crouches on the floor, a finger to his lips, watching intensely. The movements are simultaneously fast, jerky and staccato, and flowing continuously like water interrupted.
One dancer is raising a foot to her forehead until it becomes unbearable and she snaps into another shape, her wrists circumnavigating her body, again and again.
Blasko's voice rises in the music: a cry, a wail. In another section, the music is trance-like and two male dancers unfold and curl around each other like a fast-growing vine. The music suddenly stops and the dancers walk off. ''We have more to do,'' Bonachela says.
Mixing the music
''When I first saw the dancers dancing to the music, I got shivers,'' Wales says. ''It is so humbling.'' Blasko agrees. ''It was really quite emotional seeing the dancers respond to the music,'' she says. ''It was such a bizarre feeling.''
Now in the mixing stage, the bat cries have gone and experimental guitarist Kirin J. Callinan has added some intense sounds to the score. ''He came in and recorded hours of wildness,'' Blasko says. ''We had a lot of beauty in there and he cut across that and contradicted it. We really got into the ugliness.''
Blasko's lyrics are now in. ''They are mostly about pain and rising above the suffering,'' she says. ''Like embracing heaviness until you release it. But I might still change a few words at the last minute.'' Wales raises his eyebrows and they both laugh.
The end is in sight
''I can't lie, this last week has been intense and stressful,'' Bonachela says. The dancers will learn the two other works on the triple bill, as well as rehearsing the 37-minute Emergence. Cisterne is watching and taking notes for the lighting design. The dancers are yet to encounter the silver mirrored floor, which may bring sight problems.
''They might complain if they can't see the floor to land,'' he says. ''So I'll have to adjust the lighting for them.''
In the coming weeks, Blasko will take Wales on her national tour, performing with a different orchestra in each city. Lee will head to London for the Woolmark Award. Bonachela will finish and polish his work.
''I will never relax until opening night,'' he says. ''But I have learnt so much from this collaboration. I've learnt about the importance of really connecting with each other so we're all on the same page and then having everyone - including me - willing to push each other. I don't know who has influenced who exactly, but it has been an amazing, unexpected journey for all of us.''
Emergence will be performed as part of Sydney Dance Company's triple bill De Novo at Sydney Theatre from March 1.


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By Modesto Nuts | August 27, 2013 9:17 PM ET
MODESTO, CA (August 27th, 2013) -- The Nuts continued their home dominance in the final month of the season as they put together a strong 8-0 win over Inland Empire on Tuesday night at John Thurman Field.
Modesto has now won eight straight at home to improve to 11-2 at John Thurman during the month of August. The club has won 13 of the last 15 overall. Visalia was able to defeat the Giants in San Jose to extend Modesto's second-half lead in the North Division to three games with six to play.
Behind a terrific defensive effort, Nuts starter Tyler Gagnon (11-9, 5.49) was able to work his first shutout of the season, limiting the 66ers to only seven hits (six singles). He picked up his 12th win of the season, joining teammates Ben Alsup and Dan Winkler for the league-lead in victories.
With Taylor Featherston back at the top of the order, the Nuts put together a relentless offensive attack early in the game against 66ers starter Kramer Sneed, who allowed all eight runs in the first four innings.
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Families with living grandparents are especially blessed. Each grandparent fills a unique role in a child's development, providing both love and a window into family history. Honor the elders in your family this Grandparents Day (September 11, 2011), and all through the year. Spend time together as an extended family, but balance it with one-on-one time between each grandchild and grandparent. Try these suggestions to help build and maintain these special relationships.
Like all relationships worth having, those between children and their grandparents take time and attention. Do your part by providing plenty of opportunities for interaction, both in person and otherwise. Even if you are divorced, the value your child can obtain from a grandparent is worth putting aside any disputes you may have with former in-laws.
Many grandparents will follow your parenting example and enforce your rules with the children. To the few who try to impose their own child-rearing methods, explain that this undermines your authority and confuses the children. Ask for their cooperation, stressing how much you value their relationships with your child.
Grandparents who live far away require more creativity to maintain strong contact. Besides visits, use telephone calls, email, regular mail, and Internet video communication to keep ties strong. The more consistent and frequent the distant contact, the easier it will be to make the most of in-person visits.
Your children will outlive your parents, so it's important to build memories that can sustain your children in the future. Encourage activities that will result in concrete reminders of time spent together. For suggestions, click to see some Activity Ideas.
Help your children to understand that Grandma may tire more easily than they do, and that Grandpa may need assistance with walking or other basic skills. Don't burden grandparents with child care beyond their physical or emotional limits.
A child who develops an especially close relationship to a grandparent may seem, at times, to prefer that grandparent to her actual parents. Be assured that your child still loves you as much as ever, just as your love for one child is undiminished by the birth of another.
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Sea Lions Rescued from Domoic Acid Poisoning
By Peter Wallerstein
LOS ANGELES COUNTY In the spring of 2002 a crisis fell upon hundreds, if not thousands, of pregnant California sea lions, dolphins and pelicans along the Pacific coast of the United States. Domoic acid, a naturally occurring marine biotoxin, produced by marine diatoms which are members of the genus Pseudo-nitzschia, forced pregnant sea lions to beach themselves suffering major seizures, foaming from their mouths, the whites of their eyes bloody red and many of the sea lions, paralyzed from the toxin had blood excreting from their nipples.
The sea lions were completely disoriented from the neurotoxin. Dozens of Common dolphins and pelicans also suffered from attacks on their brains and nervous systems by the rapid reproduction of the toxic single-cell plankton. The Marine Mammal Care Center at Fort MacArthur in San Pedro, California accepts mammals for rehabilitation from Los Angeles County and parts of Orange and Ventura Counties. The Center's staff and volunteers did an excellent job during the domoic crisis, but Fort MacArthur was overloaded for weeks which prompted the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) to enact a 48 hour monitoring period before an animal may be rescued. Only "non-responsive" animals could be assisted before the 48 hour period expired. NMFS policy caused members of Marine Animal Rescue (MAR) to have to triage dozens of sea lions daily leaving them unassisted on the beach.
It was very difficult to leave a suffering animal on the beach that we would normally rescue immediately. From 7 o'clock in the morning to 10 o'clock at night we located the animals, gave each of them multiple evaluations throughout the day, rescued as many of the animals as possible and evaluated the new ones that arrived daily. The MAR hotline was receiving over 60 calls a day. We would receive calls at 2 o'clock in the morning from irate citizens wanting to know why we weren't helping the animal they were calling us about. But most citizens after hearing what was truly going on, understood and were sympathetic. Some citizens even assisted with the safer parts of our rescues.
Almost all of the sea lions suffering from the domoic acid would arrive at the beach very hyperactive. The first day they would stay at shores edge, up on the fore flippers, rocking their heads back and forth, over and over again. After 24 hours, many much sooner, the sea lions were forced to their bellies, paralyzed by the toxin. When the domoic crisis began we observed some of the victims having seizures in the surf, looking as if they would not make it to the beach alive. We began pulling some of the sea lions from the surf to a safe place on the beach. Although very dangerous, this would at least give them another chance.
As the numbers increased, we couldn't possibly pull all the sea lions from the surf, we had to observe and hope for the best. We did see that the vast majority made it to the beach on their own. Others swam off, only to attempt beaching somewhere else. More than once we were called to assist a domoic sea lion that had gotten stuck, deep into a rock jetty. The poor sea lions couldn't move in any direction and at the same time they were suffering from seizures. In one incident, County Lifeguard, Dave Estey, a citizen and myself worked for close to an hour, using cargo straps, shovels and our hands and feet to finally free and then rescue the suffering sea lion.
In April, some of the sea lions began birthing their pups prematurely. Some were stillborn, others alive. We were advised that at this point the pups lungs were so under developed that they wouldn't survive no matter what anyone did. We decided to keep those pups with their moms for the few hours they had to live. It was heartbreaking. We did observe that many of the pregnant sea lions that gave birth prematurely, were gaining strength and returning to the water with added vigor on their own.
The mis-education people receive from captive display facilities was very obvious during this crisis. A sea lion beached on a busy day in Venice, California and was quickly surrounded by 200 people trying to pet the frightened and distressed sea lion. I am amazed that more people weren't bitten. Luckily for the citizens the domoic caused most of the sea lions to be very incoherent to their surroundings. We saw people attempting to bounce balls off a sea lions nose or take family photos next to the suffering and unpredictable sea lions. Other well intentioned, but misguided citizens tried to pull the sea lions back into the water not knowing how dangerous this could be and also that their actions might cause death to the sea lion. Some people would even hold the head of a sea lion while it was suffering a seizure. One out of ten sea lions awoke from their seizures looking for something to attack. In one incident, in Venice Beach, a women got too close to a sea lion as it awoke from a seizure. She got bit severely and the sea lion, up on all fours charged at anything near it. It was very sad to see these normally non-aggressive animals act so violently and out of control. They were scared and sick. The sea lion charged the Lifeguards upon their arrival and also charged MAR volunteers when we arrived. Due to her aggressiveness and her location we received permission to rescue her. With assistance from County Lifeguards we rescued the sea lion and brought her in for treatment at Fort McArthur.
With the Federal policies, the public safety issues and the enormous number of stranding it took the cooperative efforts of many agencies that allowed MAR to successfully rescue over 100 animals, including 68, 200 plus pound sea lions and dolphins. We triaged hundreds of other animals. The City of Los Angeles Animal Control was very supportive, backing MAR up by handling many of the pelican calls. Special thanks to the Los Angeles County Animal Control along with some other Animal Control agencies like Manhattan and Redondo Beach for their support and cooperation. Thanks to the Police and Fire Departments throughout the County who cooperated and assisted MAR during the domoic crisis. Special acknowledgment and thanks must go to the Los Angeles County Lifeguards. Their professionalism, physical conditioning, cooperation and their participation in just about every MAR rescue allowed MAR volunteers to assist as many of the suffering animals as we did.
The official numbers provided by the Federal government are considerably lower than the actual numbers. Many dead sea lions are still washing on shore daily. We all agree that the suffering was intense. Fifty percent of the domoic cases we rescued have a chance for survival and have another chance to give birth again. No one knows to what level the sea lion population has suffered from the domoic Acid. Considering the numbers we saw on our local beaches it is a great concern of ours. Domoic acid effected much of the Pacific coast. The rookeries on the Channel Islands of the coast of California must be strewn with dead bodies. Why did this toxic bloom happen so early in the year? Domoic blooms are usually seen in the summer months, after the pupping season. The bloom seemed to single out pregnant California sea lions who still had a couple of months to go before the pupping season and male Common dolphins. All of the sea lions MAR rescued or triaged were pregnant. We do know the domoic acid caused lesions on the brains of the animals. But, with so little experience with these kind of cases, much needs to be learned about the long term effect domoic acid will have on the survivors.
During the El Niño season of 1997-98 we saw hundreds of pups starve to death due to the lack of available food and a place to care for all of them. We've seen and rescued many animals suffering from gill net entanglement and gun shot wounds. But, in 20 years of Southern California rescue experience, I have never seen anything on our local beaches that compares to the horrific and heartbreaking suffering caused by the toxic algae bloom in the spring of 2002.
MAR volunteers gave each and every animal our very best efforts.


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Sunday, April 27, 1958
|WALLACE: This is Dr. Reinhold Niebuhr. A protestant minister, one of the most important and challenging religious thinkers in the world. Dr. Niebuhr is a critic of America's religious revival and he says that religion will not necessarily vanquish injustice or communism. We'll find out why in just a moment.
|ANNOUNCER: The Mike Wallace Interview presented by the American Broadcasting Company in association with the Fund For The Republic, brings you a special television series discussing the problems of survival and freedom in America.
|WALLACE: Good evening, I'm Mike Wallace. It's been said of tonight's guest, "No man has had as much influence as a preacher in this generation. No preacher has had as much influence outside the church." Reinhold Niebuhr is the vice-president of Union Theological Seminary in New York, currently on leave to the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. Through his writing, Dr. Niebuhr has helped mold the world's thinking in religion, morality and politics.
|WALLACE: Dr. Niebuhr, the first question I'd like to put to you is perhaps a very obvious one, but I would like a kind of a capsulized answer, if I may. We hear about the necessity for a separation between church and state. If religion is good, why should our society be based upon a separation between the church and the state?
|NIEBUHR: Your "if" is a very big one -- if religion is good, it may be very good and it may be bad. The separation of church and state is necessary partly because if religion is good then the state shouldn't interfere with the religious vision or with the religious prophet.
|NIEBUHR: There must be a realm of truth beyond political competence, that's why there must be a separation of churches, but if religion is bad and a bad religion is one that gives an ultimate sanctity to some particular cause. Then religion mustn't interfere with the state -- so one of the basic Democratic principles as we know it in America is the separation of church and state.
|WALLACE: Well, now this brings us to the issue of possible religious infringements on freedom here in the United States. I'm going to talk about several. First-off: The Roman Catholic Church opposes birth control and divorce and there is no doubt that this opposition has blocked the spread of birth control and easier divorce laws; not merely for Catholics, but for non-Catholics as well. Do you consider such measures an infringement on the rights and liberties of non-Catholics?
|NIEBUHR: When you say not merely for Catholics that is the crux of the matter. A church has the right to set its own standards within its community. I don't think it has a right to prohibit birth control or to enforce upon a secular society its conception of divorce and the indissolubility of the marriage tie.
|WALLACE: When you say enforce upon a society how does the Catholic Church enforce? It suggests and enforces for Catholics.
|NIEBUHR: No, that's the point. Whenever a church does anything for its own group, it has that right.
|WALLACE: Surely.
|NIEBUHR: But when it reaches up beyond its group and tries to enforce its standards upon a society that doesn't accept these standards, and perhaps for good reason, perhaps for bad reason, but anyway this is the problem we face in pluralistic society, that not necessarily every standard that every church tries to enforce upon the society is from the society's standpoint a good standard.
|WALLACE: Tell me this, sir, would you vote for a devout Catholic as president of the United States?
|NIEBUHR: Well I have a simple answer to that. I voted for one in 1928.
|WALLACE: Then obviously you feel that a man can be a devout Catholic without in any sense owing his first allegiance as an American to the Pope rather than to --
|NIEBUHR: Well that is one of the flagrant misconceptions about Catholicism in America that if a man is a Catholic he owes allegiance to what they say a foreign sovereign, or something like that. I think that in our study in The Fund for the Republic on religion in pluralistic society we're dealing with both the policies and the attitudes, and one of the things that we have to deal with is the attitudes of Protestants to Catholics, Catholics to Protestants and Catholics and Protestants to Jews.
|NIEBUHR: Now the ordinary Protestant, Jew or Secularist has a stereotype about Catholicism. It consists of Spanish Catholicism, Latin-American Catholicism and, let us say, a Catholicism of O'Connor's "Great Hurrah." Now there are types of Catholicism like that but this doesn't -- this doesn't do justice to the genuine relation that Catholicism has had to Democratic Society. Not only in our country but in Germany, in France since the war, in Germany after the First World War, the Germany of Adenauer, these are the creative relationships of Catholicism to a free society that the average American doesn't fully appreciate.
|WALLACE: You feel then, are you saying that we do not properly understand our Catholic brothers? That there is ...
|NIEBUHR: We don't properly discriminate. We never discriminate properly when we're dealing with another group and one of the big problems about religion is that religious people don't know that they are probably as flagrant in these misjudgments as irreligious people.
|WALLACE: We don't discriminate sufficiently. We discriminate against occasionally too much.
|NIEBUHR: Yes, that's right.
|WALLACE: Let's turn to some criticisms of the Protestant Church. You've admitted in your writings that the Catholics have been far more successful than the Protestants in abolishing racial segregation in their churches. How come?
|NIEBUHR: Well, how come? I tried to analyze in my article in a rather heretical way and I said that the churches that are most obviously democratic are most obviously given to race prejudice. I mean the churches that have absolute congregational control. Now, in the 17th and 18th centuries there was a kind of Protestantism that said, "If you could only get rid of the Bishop, then you'd be a true Christian".
|NIEBUHR: Well, you might get rid of the Bishop and get to the local Ku Klux Klan leader. That, on the whole, has been the fate of certain types of Protestantism. They get under the control of a White Citizens Council while the Catholic Church has an authoritarian system, yes, in which the Bishop expresses the conscience of the whole Christian community and they say there are some things that you can't do on this matter. There must be equality of all men before God and in a democratic society. Now that's one of the great achievements. I think that the achievements of Catholicism on race are very, very impressive.
|WALLACE: And I imagine that you deplore then the comparative impotence on the part of certain Protestant Churches in this respect?
|NIEBUHR: I certainly do. I said in my article that I thought it was that we Protestants ought to humbly confess that the theater and the sports have done more for race amity, for race understanding than, on the whole, the Protestant Church in certain type, in certain parts of the nation.
|WALLACE: I'll ask you a question now about which we could talk for many hours and ask you for a simple and straightforward answer. Doctor Niebuhr, how do you account for Christian anti-semitism toward Jews in the United States? Do we sufficiently appreciate our Jewish population here?
|NIEBUHR: I don't think we do. I account for it I'd say I'd account for it, first on the basis of the general human failing. We misjudge anybody who's different from us and the Jews diverge from our type, ethnically and religiously. That's their chief offense, but there are particular causes. I've long ago felt, I have many Jewish friends and I very I think creative Jewish friends, and I've long felt that the average Christian didn't realize the tremendous capacity for civic righteousness among our Jewish people. Now.....
|WALLACE: What do you mean by that by civic righteousness?
|NIEBUHR: Well, let me mention Stanley Issacs here in New York. People that have a concern for the public good, Senator Lehman, Frank Altschul oh I can mention. Now I know there are Christians that also have this but there is not a sufficient appreciation in the Christian community of this particular quality of Jewish life.
|WALLACE: Well why does the Jewish stereotype unhappily survive?
|NIEBUHR: Well that's a long story. He came out of the Middle Ages, was transferred here, according to our American historians, through populism. The Jews were the money-lenders of the Middle Ages so there's a stereotype of the slightly or more than slightly dishonest business man and this stereotype covers and obscures all the facts.
|WALLACE: It would look, Doctor Niebuhr, as though all of our major religions are becoming more influential. I say it would look that way because we hear so much about religious revivals with church attendance increasing, college students returning to religion, the apparent success of the evangelists. Yet, in large measure you have criticized this revival. Why?
|NIEBUHR: Well, that's a long story, too. I wouldn't criticize the whole revival. I've criticized - the revival wherever it gives petty and trivial answers to very great and ultimate questions about the meaning of our life. There has been a religious revival because -- let me put it like this, the people that weren't traditionally religious, conventionally religious, had a religion of their own in my youth. These were liberals who believed in the idea of progress or they were Marxists. Both of these secular religions have broken down. The nuclear age has refuted the idea of progress and Marxism has been refuted by Stalinism. Therefore people have returned to the historic religion.
|NIEBUHR: But now when the historic religions give trivial answers to these very tragic questions of our day, when an evangelist says, for instance, we mustn't hope for a summit meeting, we must hope in Christ without spelling out what this could mean in our particular nuclear age. This is the irrelevant answer, when another Evangelist says if America doesn't stop being selfish, it will be doomed. This is also a childish answer because nations are selfish and the question about America isn't whether we will be selfish or unselfish, but will we be sufficiently imaginative to pass the Reciprocal Trade Acts.
|WALLACE: In other words, translate religion into a kind of active morality.
|NIEBUHR: Yes, a morality of justice and reciprocity.
|WALLACE: Well, let me ask you this: Now, we're constantly being told, Dr. Niebuhr, by our political and by our church leaders, that in our fight against Communism, we are on God's side that we're God-fearing people, they are atheists - the Russians, the Communists are atheists - and therefore we must ultimately win. What about that?
|NIEBUHR: I don't know whether any religious leader would say that we must ultimately win, because we're on God's side. If they do say that, it's bad religion, because....
|WALLACE: Well, haven't we heard from the the Old Testament that "right is might"?
|NIEBUHR: No, no - well, that right is might ... but in the Old Testament, the God of the Prophets never was completely on Israel's side. There was a primitive national religion, but it was always a transcendent God who had judgment first in the House of God. This is the true religion. It has a sense of a transcendent majesty and a transcendent meaning so that that puts myself and the foe under the same judgment. "Judge not that ye be not judged." Why do we judge each other...
|WALLACE: But we do, we do!
|NIEBUHR: That's true religion.
|WALLACE: We do here, sir, do we not? For instance, we're told by many of our leaders, including President Eisenhower, that we will help strengthen ourselves as a nation through religion and going to church. And it is perhaps I infer from what I hear that our political and our religious leaders say, "If we can find a religious revival, this will give us strength to fight godless Communism." We do hear that.
|NIEBUHR: You may hear that. I wouldn't agree with that. I tell you, among other reasons why: I know that the Communists are atheistic and godless, but I don't think that that's what's primarily the matter with them. What's primarily the matter with them is that they worship a false god. That's much more dangerous than when people don't believe anything; they may be confused, they may not have a sense of the meaning of life, but they're not dangerous.
|NIEBUHR: The fanatic is dangerous. The Communists do have a god, the Dialectic of History, which guarantees everything that they're going to do and guarantees them victory; that's why they're fanatic. So, all this talk about atheistic materialism and God-fearing American I think is beside the point; it's a rather vapid form of religion.
|WALLACE: Well, what is ...In a sense, I feel unavailing in asking these questions, because obviously, you, Reinhold Niebuhr, cannot sit here and give definitive answers to these questions. But all of us want - are searching for - answers to these questions. What is our way out? You have said when I say our way out, what is our solution? You have said that not only can't religion solve our problems, you have said our reason can't, our intelligence can't, science can't... Why can't they, and what can?
|NIEBUHR: Well, that brings us to the ultimate question, about the Biblical and the Christian and the Jewish interpretation of the meaning of human existence. When I say these can't, I won't say that they don't contribute; that you don't have to have a lot of science, a lot of rational approach to the problems of life. The more complex the world situation becomes, the more scientific and rational analysis you have to have, the less you can do with simple good will and sentiment.
|NIEBUHR: Nonetheless, the human situation is so, and this is why I think that the Christian faith is right as against simple forms of secularism. That it believes that there is in man a radical freedom, and this freedom is creative but it is also destructive. And there's nothing that prevents this from being both creative and destructive. That's why history is not an answer to our problem, because history complicates, enlarges every problem of human existence. Now, the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries didn't believe this.
|NIEBUHR: Now we're living in a nuclear age, and the science that was supposed to be automatically for human welfare has become a nuclear-- a science that gives us nuclear weapons. This is the ironic character of human history, and of human existence, which I can only explain, if I say so, in Biblical terms. Now I don't mean by this reason that I will accept every interpretation of Christianity that's derived from the Bible as many people wouldn't accept my interpretation. But that's what it means for me.
|NIEBUHR: And this is why I think there is and ultimate answer in a true religious faith, but it doesn't give you any immediate answers, it doesn't... Now, one of the young physicists at the Institute asked me, he said, "I know that there's a general religious frame which I accept" - I wouldn't say that they all accept, but he says he accepts - "but does it give you a particular answer?" And I said, "No, it doesn't give us a particular answer." You can't say that religion or irreligion will give us a particular answer to the nuclear dilemma.
|NIEBUHR: I think I have one answer, that is partly religious and partly secular; and that is to say, we ought to at least recognize that we and the Russians are in a common predicament. That would be religious in the sense, "Judge not lest you be judged." We judge the Russians because they're living under despotism and we don't like it, but we've gotten into a fix now where we're living in a common predicament, and we ought to recognize this common predicament. That doesn't mean that the Summit Conference ought to be held, or that it would succeed, but we ought to really at least recognize the common predicament of Communists and democrats - or Americans, whatever.
|WALLACE: Let me ask you this: I think it was Bertrand Russell who fairly recently said - and other people have said it along with him - that if it came to Communism or nuclear war, Communism or possible incineration, they'd choose to live under Communism. How do you feel about that?
|NIEBUHR: Well, about Bertrand Russell, I know that he's a great philosopher, or logical mathematician, but I think my friend Sidney Hook is right about him. He said, "All the achievements in this field are no substitute for common sense." Now what Bertrand Russell is saying is that capitulation to Communism is better than a nuclear war. But that isn't the point.
|NIEBUHR: We have to risk a nuclear war in order to escape capitulation to Communism. For all I know, we may stumble into this terrible war. But no nation can say, 'We will capitulate to tyranny rather than accept a speculative fate - to accept an absolute fate in alternative to a speculative one - no nation can do that.
|WALLACE: But people say - people who believe that chances are say, "I would rather 'live and fight another day than give it all up right now. I would even rather live under a totalitarian government, without freedom, momentarily, in order that I may live to fight for my freedom at a later time,"
|NIEBUHR: Well, I can see that individuals would say that. I would simply say that in terms of collective destiny that's not a live option. A nation will not say that, and a complex of nations will not say that. And I think that the people that say that are really too rationalistic. Politics deals with a common-sense approach to the imponderables of history, that I think are obscured by a certain kind of rationalism.
|WALLACE: Dr. Niebuhr, tell me this: Is freedom necessary? The Russians, we are told, do not have freedom, and yet they have a productive society. Is freedom necessary for our society?
|NIEBUHR: Well, I should think it was, but that's a rather searching question that I couldn't answer very simply. The answer is simply, I'd say, freedom is necessary for two reasons. It's necessary for the individual, because the individual, no matter how good the society is, every individual has hopes, fears, ambitions, creative urges, that transcend the purposes of his society.
|NIEBUHR: Therefore we have a long history of freedom, where people try to extricate themselves from tyranny for the sake of art, for the sake of science, for the sake of religion, for the sake of the conscience of the individual this freedom is necessary for the individual. But secondly, you see, ultimately it's necessary for a society, because every despotic society - for instance, the Russian society - lives on the basis of a rather implausible dogma - the Marxist dogma of world redemption through Communism.
|WALLACE: Implausible to whom?
|NIEBUHR: To us.
|WALLACE: Yes. All right. But obviously not implausible to hundreds of millions of people.
|NIEBUHR: No, one of the great perplexities about this is that it's implausible to the whole of European society because we have our own history, but the predicament is that - as you quite rightly point out - it's not so implausible in Asia and Africa. That's our predicament, that this despotism, which we regard with abhorrence, is rather too plausible in decaying feudal, agrarian, pastoral societies. That's why we must expect to have many a defeat before we'll have an ultimate victory in this contest with Communism.
|WALLACE: But you believe in an ultimate victory? Why are you so sure of an ultimate victory?
|NIEBUHR: I'm not so sure. I hope for an ultimate victory, but I think that when we believe that something is right, there's a serious ambivalence about it. On one hand, you say, because it's right, it must be victorious. On the other hand, you say, it's right whether it's victorious or not. And this is what I believe about a free society.
|WALLACE: What is your personal attitude about atheism? We've heard from certain atheists that the whole conception of God is unworthy of free men. They say - the atheists do - that it's almost, in a sense, contemptible for man to fall on his knees before God. What is your personal attitude toward atheists?
|NIEBUHR: Well, you are asking two questions there. My personal attitude toward atheists is the same attitude that I have toward Christians, and would be governed by a very orthodox text: "By their fruits shall ye know them."
|NIEBUHR: I wouldn't judge a man by the presuppositions of his life, but only by the fruits of his life. And the fruits - the relevant fruits - are, I'd say, a sense of charity, a sense of proportion, a sense of justice. And whether the man is an atheist or a Christian, I would judge him by his fruits, and I have therefore many agnostic friends. That's an answer to one question.
|NIEBUHR: I might say that the debate between atheists and Christians is rather stale to me, because the Christians say, "You must be a Christian, or you must be a religious man, in order to be good," and the atheists will say - as you quoted one of these atheists as saying - "It's beneath the dignity of a free man to bow his knee to a god, as if he were a sinner," or something like that;
|NIEBUHR: well, that is the truth about man - that he has a curious kind of dignity, but also a curious kind of misery, and that these forms of agnosticism don't understand. And the idea that the eighteenth century always talked about the dignity of man, but I rather like Pascal's phrase, "The philosophers talk to you about the dignity of man, and they tempt you to pride, or they talk to you about the misery of man, and they tempt you to despair," and then, says Pascal - this was written in the Cartesian age - "Where, but in the simplicity of the Gospel, can you hear about both the dignity of man and the misery of man?"
|NIEBUHR: That's what I say to the atheists. But on the other hand, I also say, it is significant we always start arguing with each other, because it is significant that it is as difficult to get charity out of piety as to get reasonableness out of rationalism.
|WALLACE: Final question. One minute to answer it. Do you think that because you're a Christian you're a more valuable man in our society, or more worthy in the eyes of God, than an atheist like Bertrand Russell?
|NIEBUHR: I think I've already answered that, Mr. Wallace. Certainly, anybody who says, "in the eyes of God," is pretentious. How do I know about God's judgment? One of the fundamental points about religious humility is you say you don't know about the ultimate judgment. It's beyond your judgment. And if you equate God's judgment with your judgment, you have a wrong religion.
|WALLACE: Dr. Niebuhr, I surely thank you for coming and spending this half-hour with us. God speed to you, sir. Reinhold Niebuhr is a man of God, but a man of the world as well. Dr. Niebuhr would seem to be saying that if a nation would survive and remain free, its citizens must use religion as a source of self-criticism, not as a source of self-righteousness.
|WALLACE: Next week, we go after the story of how the cold war with Communism threatens to put our own individual freedoms into a deep freeze. Our guest - you see him behind me - will be Cyrus Eaton, one of the country's industrial giants, a capitalist, a multi-millionaire, a man who has gotten the most out of the American way of life.
|WALLACE: And now, to protect it, he seeks harmony - what he calls an "honorable peace" - between us and international Communism. And as a first step, despite some considerable criticism, he has sponsored controversial meetings between Soviet and American scientists and intellectuals. If you're curious to know what Cyrus Eaton thinks of our government's restrictions on cultural exchanges between us and Russia, his views on our military budget, our security programs, and their effect on our individual freedoms, we'll go after those stories next week. Till then, Mike Wallace, good night.
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An open letter to Wave president Sue Black
February 12, 2013
Sue Black
President and CEO
The Milwaukee Wave
510 W. Kilbourn Ave.
Suite B
Milwaukee, WI 53203
Dear Madam President (I love saying that),
As you know, my admiration for you knows almost no bounds. From the first time I met you in Madison years ago, I was convinced of your extraordinary abilities to run and build incredible support for your organization.
You clearly accomplished that during your time heading Milwaukee County Parks and I did not agree when you were fired.
To avoid any problems in your new job, I want to take a moment of your time to point out a few areas where there will be differences between your new job and the old one.
In your old job you had nearly 1,000 employees to call on for all sorts of tasks. As near as I can tell, except for the players and coaches, you've got fewer than 10 available at the Wave. That's going to take a little getting used to.
One thing the Wave wants is for you to use your impressive experience getting community partners for the parks to grow the partnerships for the Wave. The problem I see is that according to the website, the Wave already have 158 community partners. I don't know how many more are available.
The parks in Milwaukee are incredibly popular. I don't know what the statistics are, but I'd be willing to bet that more than three-quarters of the residents in Milwaukee use the parks – at least. The Wave has a clear attendance problem. Despite having a winning team, the percent of people who fill the 9,600-seat U. S. Cellular Arena has been spotty at best.
Last year it was 50 percent filled. The previous three years were 41 percent, 47 percent and 41 percent. With no sustained growth, they seem to have reached a level that doesn't have much potential for major growth.
When you were with the Parks you had to keep a bunch of bosses happy. The County Executive and all of those petty supervisors who loved nothing more than popping off about the parks, both good and bad. With the Wave I assume you only have one boss, the guy who owns the team. That's probably a much better situation, but it will take some getting used to.
One thing that won't change much is media attention. The media didn't care much about the parks and it doesn't seem to care much about the Wave. If you can figure out how to get more coverage for the Wave, it might help those attendance figures above.
The final thing I want to caution about is to not be fooled by the most consistent rumor you hear about professional soccer. People keep saying that given all those kids soccer teams you see during the summer and fall it's only a matter of time before they all flock to the pro game. Well, that rumor has been around for more than three decades and it hasn't happened yet. That's probably a pretty good indication it's not going to happen.
I want to wish you a lot of luck. I am a fairly recent convert to watching and caring about soccer. I was crushed when the U.S. lost to Honduras.
I hope you find great success and happiness as Madam President.
Best always,
Dave Begel
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The Late Carboniferous, also known as the Pennsylvanian period, is is an epoch in the geologic timescale or a series in the stratigraphic column. It is a subdivision of the Carboniferous period lasting from roughly 318.1± 1.3 to 299± 0.8 Ma (million years ago). As with most other geochronologic units, the rock beds that define the Pennsylvanian are well identified, but the exact date of the start and end are uncertain by a few million years. The Pennsylvanian is named after the state of Pennsylvania, where rocks from this epoch are widespread.
The division between Pennsylvanian and Mississippian comes from North American stratigraphy. In North America, where the early Carboniferous beds are primarily marine limestones, the Pennsylvanian was in the past treated as a full fledged geologic period between the Mississippian and the Permian. In Europe, the Mississippian and Pennsylvanian are one more-or-less continuous sequence of lowland continental deposits and are grouped together as the Carboniferous period. The current internationally used geologic timescale of the ICS gives the Mississippian and Pennsylvanian the rank of epochs, subdivisions of the Carboniferous period.
All modern classes of fungi were present in the Late Carboniferous (Pennsylvanian epoch).[1]
The Pennsylvanian has been variously subdivided. The international timescale of the ICS follows the Russian subdivision into four stages:
- Bashkirian (oldest)
- Moscovian
- Kasimovian
- Gzhelian (youngest)
North American subdivision is also into four stages, but not precisely the same, with additional (older) Appalachian series names following:
- Morrowan stage, corresponding with the middle and lower part of the Pottsville Group (oldest)
- Atokan stage, corresponding with the upper part of the Pottsville group
- Desmoinesian stage, corresponding with the Allegheny Group
- Missourian stage, corresponding with the Conemaugh Group
- Virgilian stage, corresponding with the Monongahela Group (youngest)
The Virgilian or Conemaugh corresponds to the Gzhelian plus the uppermost Kasimovian. The Missourian or Monongahela corresponds to the rest of the Kasimovian. The Desmoinesian or Allegheny corresponds to the upper half of the Moscovian. The Atokan or upper Pottsville corresponds to the lower half of the Moscovian. The Morrowan corresponds to the Bashkirian.
In the European subdivision, the Carboniferous is divided into two epochs: Dinantian (early) and Silesian (late). The Silesian starts earlier than the Pennsylvanian and is divided in three ages:
- Namurian (corresponding to Serpukhovian and early Bashkirian)
- Westphalian (corresponding to late Bashkirian, Moskovian and Kasimovian)
- Stephanian (corresponding to Gzelian).
References Edit
- ^ Blackwell, Meredith, Vilgalys, Rytas, James, Timothy Y., and Taylor, John W. 2008. Fungi. Eumycota: mushrooms, sac fungi, yeast, molds, rusts, smuts, etc.. Version 21 February 2008. http://tolweb.org/Fungi/2377/2008.02.21 in The Tree of Life Web Project, http://tolweb.org/
External links Edit
- The Late Carboniferous a Time of Great Coal Swamps, Paleomap project. World map from this time period.
- The Carboniferous - 354 to 290 Million Years Ago, University of California Museum of Paleontology. Information on stratigraphies, localities, tectonics, and life.
- The Pennsylvanian Epoch of the Carboniferous Period: 318 to 299 Mya, Paleos.com
- US Geological Survey comparison of time scales
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I think this whole situation should put to rest all the hand-wringing about what the "Tea Party" is. Whatever diverse shit people are saying on the ground, people who are taking leadership roles are religious fanatics with very small minds who would rather burn this country down to the ground rather than share power with the kind of folks who would vote for Barack Obama. Or, to put it another way, the teabagger relationship to the country is like a wife-beater to his wife: what they call "love" is actually a desire to exert control and complete ownership. And now the wife-country has run off with a handsome and charming black man.
Of course they're going to pull the trigger.
The religious fanaticism angle is fascinating to me, and I think goes a long way towards explaining why the Tea Party types are going to tank any deal. Basically, once you start saying that god is telling you what to do, what you mean is you're making 100% of your decisions based on knee-jerk emotions. And not just any emotions, but fundamentalist Christian ones---i.e. paranoia, grandiosity, etc.
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Michael Shank Racing fought back from a crash early in the weekend with one car, led the race convincingly with the sister machine, and then went on to take a podium finish at the checkered flag.
Kansas City, Kan. – Michael Shank Racing experienced the highs and lows of racing this weekend as GRAND-AM made a debut appearance at the Kansas Speedway.
The team fought back from a crash early in the weekend with one car, led the race convincingly with the sister machine, and then went on to take a podium finish at the checkered flag.
"Obviously it was really nice to lead almost two stints," said Yacaman. "The car was great! There was a little too much understeer at the beginning of the stint but as the fuel load went off it came back to me. The car was really fast and I managed traffic pretty well and stayed ahead of my competitors. It was really nice to be in the lead with no pressure."
Unfortunately, as Wilson took to the track he was under a lot of pressure fighting through the pack. The rough and tumble racing that has long characterized GRAND-AM action was taken a little too far though on the night, as the No. 6 machine first suffered a big hit from behind from the No. 4 8Star entry. The damage slowed Wilson's pace as the hit was so severe that it bent the exhaust on the Ford motor, choking the free flow of air.
A quick stop for repairs saw Wilson back out and in the fight once again. Unfortunately, the hits kept coming as the No. 8 Starworks Riley made repeated contact with Wilson, ultimately breaking the steering column on the car and ending the day early.
"It was a shame," said Wilson. "We got drilled from behind going into Turn 1 and that bent the exhaust and the car just wouldn't go in a straight line. We went to the back after the guys tried to fix it and we were trying to come back through and passing cars. But then we got sideswiped pretty hard a couple of times.
But it's just one of those things, it's racing. It's frustrating not to get a half-decent result, but that's how it goes and we will come back at Laguna Seca. Everyone did a great job, it just wasn't our day."
"I'm really gutted for the finish we got, I think the team and all the guys from Michael Shank Racing really deserved a win or a podium that I know we could have pulled off," added Yacaman. "But what can we do? At least the No. 60 car was able to have a strong run and come home with a podium result."
The No. 60 Michael Shank Racing Ford-Riley entry of John Pew and Ozz Negri had a roller coaster of a weekend, with the team once again showing the never give up attitude that it has long held. A practice session accident saw the No. 60 Ford-Riley need extensive repairs.
But the team rebuilt the car well enough and quickly enough that Pew was able set a strong qualifying time. That converted into a strong race run for the 2012 Rolex 24 Champion as Pew moved up to run sixth before turning the car over to Negri.
Negri fought hard to the finish, and was able to move up to run third in the closing laps after fast pit work from the team while taking just two tires gave him good track position while still having a car he could keep a pace with. A long green flag run to the checkered flag saw Negri and Pew extend the respective long streaks of earning podiums in GRAND-AM competition, year after year.
"After the crash in practice and the guys working from the minute after the practice up until I went out to qualify was awesome," said Pew. "The setup was good, the engineers did a great job and it was great. The car was very good. It was very exciting, a really good stint. I could have driven it all day like that! Ozz did a great job as well, holding off Joao (Barbosa) was fantastic."
"It was a solid run," said Negri. "I had nothing for the No. 10 or the No. 01 car, but we just kept hitting our marks. The car was pretty good on the first stint, I was very aggressive in the beginning and passing cars while they had cold tires. Once I got to my good track position it was okay.
Our car turned out to be a third position car just like it seemed and the No. 10 and No. 01 car were just in a different league tonight. But in the end I am glad with the result. I think the team really deserves this, especially with the hard work they did putting this car together. So I am going home very happy and looking forward to spending a few days with my family."
"Gus did a great job for us, leading all those laps tonight and being so consistent up front," said team owner Mike Shank. "He handed the car over to Justin and we were I think on our way to a very good finish. So that was a really frustrating result after we got banged around there enough to end the day.
On the other hand, with the 60 car, I'm not only happy about the podium, but I'm probably even more proud of the effort from the whole team through the last few days to get to this point. Hopefully at Laguna we can be celebrating big results with both of these cars."
Michael Shank Racing will be back in action at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca September 7-8. Big congratulations to Michael Shank Racing drivers AJ Allmendinger, Michael McDowell, and Sam Hornish Jr. for finishing 1-2-3 in today's NASCAR Nationwide Series race at Mid-Ohio.
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