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Are Christians Guilty of "Cheap Grace"?A recent report from The Barna Group revealed most Americans believe themselves to be Christians, but few base their moral decisions on the Bible. In fact only a few believe absolute truth exists. Interestingly, even the faith community largely addresses morality in divergent ways. The report said just "six out of ten evangelicals (60%)" rely on the Bible as their main source of moral counsel and "only two out of every ten non-evangelical born again adults (20%) do the same."For several years, Barna has been emphasizing the need for churches to help their members develop a "biblical worldview." The organization defines such a life perspective on the basis of several questions about religious beliefs. The definition requires someone to believe "that absolute moral truth exists; that the source of moral truth is the Bible; that the Bible is accurate in all of the principles it teaches; that eternal spiritual salvation cannot be earned; that Jesus lived a sinless life on earth; that every person has a responsibility to share their religious beliefs with others; that Satan is a living force, not just a symbol of evil; and that God is the all-knowing, all-powerful maker of the universe who still rules creation today."In previous studies, Barna research demonstrated how a biblical worldview radically alters a person's lifestyle choices, causing them to reject matters like cohabitation, drunkenness, gay sex, profanity, pornography, adultery, gambling and abortion.Nevertheless, Barna says despite all the debate in recent years about various moral issues and the effort of thousands of churches to strengthen people's moral convictions, "only 5% of adults have a biblical worldview. The percentage varies among faith groups. About half of all evangelicals have such a perspective. Overall, 8% of Protestants possess that view, compared to less than one half of one percent of Catholics." Furthermore, the vast majority of people without a biblical worldview, 88% to be exact, feel they are "accepted by God."These amazing statistics remind me of a phrase Dietrich Bonhoeffer coined to address the self-delusion of Lutheran Church members in Germany in his day. In The Cost of Discipleship, Bonohoeffer spoke of those who had only experienced "cheap grace." He defined cheap grace as "the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, communion without confession, absolution without personal confession. Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate."Well-known biblical commentator Arthur W. Pink once mused: "Never were there so many millions of nominal Christians on earth as there are today, and never was there such a small percentage of real ones .... We seriously doubt whether there has ever been a time in the history of this Christian era when there were such multitudes of deceived souls within the churches, who verily believe that all is well with their souls when in fact the wrath of God abideth on them."In his book, Now for Something Totally Different, Dr. Stuart Briscoe shared his observations about why many professing Christians today seem to have difficulty translating their profession of faith into practice:"Our modern day is seeing a startling reaction against authority, an intense distaste for obedience. This movement seems to be a natural outgrowth of our democratic philosophy when it gets out of control. Government is to be of the people, for the people, and by the people, according to the democratic principle, and this can be beautiful as long as it is operating ideally. Today, however, we are beginning to see signs of a breakdown in the process .... this kind of thinking can result in what the writer of Judges described: 'In those days there was no King in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes' (Judges 17:6). The democratic system, out of control, can degenerate into anarchy. The erosion of authority can accompany the democratic process when confidence in government declines, as it has in our day .... Obedience is lacking on the family level, in the political realm, on the educational scene, even in the sports arena. And in the church we have a similar situation. People in our churches who profess that God is God and Jesus Christ, the risen Lord, is his Son are also reacting against his authority."Jesus warned, however, "Not everyone that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven" (Matthew 7:21).Obedience is an _expression of a right relationship with God in Christ. It's a relationship of love. Jesus said, "If ye love me, keep my commandments" (John 14:15). If one really knows and loves Christ, it's bound to show in their actions. Where there is essentially no obedience there is every reason to question whether Christ actually resides in the heart. The apostle Paul taught: "For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them" (Ephesians 2:9-10). Without question, we are saved by grace through faith alone in Christ and His finished work of redemption on our behalf, but a genuine conversion experience results in good works -- a characteristic obedience to the Lord's commands -- a dynamic and increasingly growing biblical worldview approach to life.Anything else is just cheap grace. And cheap grace is no grace at all.
_________________Josh Parsley
Well done. We also refer to as "greasy grace." Sorry I'm from the South.Since I'm reading a couple of William Law's books these days here's another quote from him that was appropriate:
"No one can know the truth of salvation by a mere rational consent to that which is historically said of Christ. Only by an inward experience of His cross, death, and resurrection can the saving power of the gospel be known. For the reality of Christs redemption is not in fleshly, finite, outward things - much less in verbal descriptions of them - but is a birth, a life, a spiritual operation."
_________________Ed Pugh
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HARTFORD -- Connecticut is taking some small steps to change land-use regulations on the shoreline to avoid a repeat of the destruction caused by storms that have raked the Northeast.
Sen. Edward Meyer, co-chairman of the legislature's Environment Committee, said lawmakers sidestepped a bigger issue of whether the state should order municipalities to change building code rules or otherwise tangle with local officials over home rule.
"We have ducked that pretty much," he said.
Legislators are considering four bills that would change how property owners and local officials treat Connecticut's shoreline.
One measure would require more stringent water treatment plant design to qualify for state funding. The requirement is intended to make sure that treatment plants can withstand storms and do not spill wastewater into Long Island Sound or other bodies of water.
Another bill would require officials to consider a projected rise in the sea level of 2 inches to 5 inches per decade in planning for emergencies, evacuations and natural disasters. A third measure calls for studying information from federal agencies and other coastal states to establish a guide for Connecticut.
Instead of establishing new rules for construction and other activities, lawmakers are seeking advice on best practices from the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, federal officials and other coastal states, he said.
A fourth bill would require state environmental officials and the University of Connecticut to submit a plan to the legislature establishing a Connecticut Center for Coasts that would collect and analyze data to help protect the environment from future storms and the effect of rising sea levels.
"I would characterize it as a conservative, initial approach," said Meyer, D-Guilford.
About 3,000 homes in Connecticut were damaged by Superstorm Sandy in October. Even before Sandy struck the region, a task force was established in February 2012 in response to Tropical Storm Irene in August 2011 and a freak winter nor'easter the following October. The legislation is based on recommendations by the panel.
Dan Esty, Connecticut's environmental commissioner, told the task force that the state must figure out how to encourage continued use of Long Island Sound while preparing for the impacts of what are likely to be more frequent and severe storms.
In a dire warning, Esty said forecasting models for the Northeast show the sea level may rise between 4 inches and a foot by 2050 and 1 to 2 feet by 2080 or sooner.
"While the range of these numbers reflects scientific uncertainty, that should not be a reason for inaction," he told lawmakers last month.
David Sutherland, director of government relations at the Nature Conservancy, a member of the task force, said the legislation is a "very good start." But Connecticut and other coastal states are hampered by a lack of money that he said could be spent to restore tidal marshes and bolster dune systems.
The proposals to study information gathered by the federal government and other states and establish a center at UConn are important as Connecticut begins to adjust land-use rules, he said.
"We do need to learn a lot more about what techniques work better than others along the shoreline," he said.
Jennifer O'Donnell, a member of the task force and principal engineer at Coastal Ocean Analytics, an environmental consulting firm, said she would have preferred stronger legislation but lawmakers are aware "of what are reasonable laws and what could pass the legislature."
Meyer said state legislators face resistance from local officials who are uneasy with stronger land-use rules they see as a threat to significant property tax revenue.
"I hear town officials in my district saying, 'Don't mandate that we build back because our tax revenue comes from those structures on the coast,'" he said.
Rep. James Albis, the House chairman of the Environment Committee, said the legislation is just a start.
"Our work isn't even close to being finished," he said.

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San Juan Islands
The San Juan Islands[3] are a scattering of forested islands in the serene waters to the north of Puget Sound in Washington state, adjacent to British Columbia. Ferries, private boats, kayaks, and orca (whales) criss-cross the waters, while float planes and bald eagles soar overhead. The islands are largely rural, with a few small towns on some of the islands. The year-round population is small, but swarms of summer visitors come to for the scenery and outdoor life, and a lucky and wealthy few have vacation homes tucked into the islands.
There are about 700 islands and reefs between Vancouver Island to the west and the mainland to the east. The sea border in the Haro Strait divides them into the Southern Gulf Islands of Canada to the west, and the San Juan Islands of the United States to the east. To the south lies the Strait of San Juan de Fuca, and to north is the Strait of Georgia and the US-Canada boundary on the 49th parallel.
176 islands are large enough to be named. The four largest — Orcas, San Juan, Lopez, and Shaw Islands — are served by ferry from the Washington mainland and each other, and are the most heavily visited. The other islands are only accessible by private boat or float plane. Some of them are someone's private property and may require the landowner's permission to access.
For our purposes, this article covers the US islands only, which exactly consist of San Juan County[4], Washington. Fidalgo Island to the east is treated as part of the mainland. It and the Puget Sound islands to the south are covered in the Puget Sound region's article.
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If arriving by ferry into Friday Harbor there are taxi services waiting at each ferry arrival. You can also pre-arrange at Friday Harbor Taxi [(360) 298-4434] or Bob's Taxi [(360) 378-6777] or Classic Cab [360-378-7519] if you want to ride around in a vintage car. Car Rentals are available in Friday Harbor, next to the airport and a 15 minute walk from the Ferry Terminal or Marina, at M&W Auto Sales & Rentals [9]. San Juan Transit [10] offers bus service around the islands. As of this writing services like Uber and Lyft are not available on San Juan Island.
Bicycle and moped rentals are available seasonally, as well as kayak rentals and power boat and sail boat charters for fishing or touring.
You can walk around the town of Friday Harbor, from the ferry landing/marina or the airport.
The San Juan Islands are the most popular sailing charter area in the Pacific Northwest. This is a good chartering area for beginners; the waters are reasonably protected even in storms off the Pacific, although the currents can be very strong and the wind unpredictable. You can find independant information on yacht charters in the San Juan Islands at sBoats.com
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SA orthop. j. vol.8 n.2 Centurion Jan. 2009
Fracture fixation in HIV-positive patients: A literature review
VS Kasipersad
MBChB; Registrar, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, University of KwaZulu-Natal
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2. Cohen B, Piscioneri F, Candido FJ, Rankin KC. Seroprevalence of HIV in orthopaedic patients in Zimbabwe. Journal of Bone & Joint surgery 1994 May;76B. [ Links ]
3. Bowley DM, Cherry R, Snyman T et al. Seroprevalence of the human immunodeficiency virus in major trauma patients in Johannesburg. South African Medical Journal 2002 Oct;92(10):792-3. [ Links ]
4. Hoekman P, van de Perre, Nellisen J et al. Increased frequency of infections after open reduction of fractures in patients who are seropositive for human immunodeficiency virus. Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery [Am] 1991 June;73(5):675-9. [ Links ]
5. Jellis JE. Orthopaedic surgery and HIV disease in Africa. International Orthopaedics 1996;20(4):253-6. [ Links ]
6. Harrison WJ, Lewis CP, Lavy CB. Wound healing after implant surgery in HIV positive patients. Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery [Br] 2002 Aug;84(6):802-6. [ Links ]
7. Harrison WJ. HIV/AIDS in trauma and orthopaedic surgery. Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery [Br] 2005 Sep;87(9):1178-81. [ Links ]
8. Harrison WJ, Lewis CP, Lavy CB. Open fractures of the tibia in HIV positive patients: a prospective controlled single blind study. Injury 2004 Sep;35(9):852-6. [ Links ]
9. Open Fractures: Principles of Management. Mini Symposium. Current Orthopaedics 1999;13:87-91. [ Links ]
10. WHO Guidelines on co-trimoxazole prophylaxis for HIV related infections in children, adolescents and adults. Recommendations for a public health approach. 2006. [ Links ]
11. Richardson J, Hill AM et al. Fracture Healing in HIV-positive populations. Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery 2008;90-B:98-99. [ Links ]
12. Giannoudis P, Tzioupis C, Talal Almiki et al. Fracture healing in osteoporotic fractures: is it really different? - a basic science perspective. Injury Int J Care Injured 2007;38S1:S90-S99. [ Links ]
13. Bongiovanni M, Tincati C. Bone diseases associated with Human Immunodeficiency Virus infection: Pathogenesis, risk factors and clinical management. Curr Mol Med 2006 June;6(4):395-400. [ Links ]
14. Brown P, Crane L. Avascular necrosis of bone in patients with human immunodeficiency virus infection: report of 6 cases and review of the literature. Clinical Infectious Diseases 2001 Apr 15;32(8):1221-6. [ Links ]
15. Govender S, Harrison W J, Lukhele M. Impact of HIV on bone and joint surgery. Best Practice and Clinical Research Clinical Rheumatology 2008;22(4):605-19. [ Links ]
16. Harrison WJ, Lavy CB, Lewis CP. One year follow up of orthopaedic implants in HIV positive patients. International orthopaedics 2004 Dec;28(6):329-32. [ Links ]
17. Brijlall S, Lioma ID and Govender S. Implant sepsis in the HIV infected patient. South African Orthopaedic Journal 2003;2(3):26-30. [ Links ]
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22. Consten EC, van Lanschot JJ et al. A prospective study on the risk of exposure to HIV during surgery in Zambia. AIDS 1995 Jun 9;(6):585-8. [ Links ]
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This series consists of talks in areas where gravity is the main driver behind interesting or peculiar phenomena, from astrophysics to gravity in higher dimensions.
Pulsars are rotating magnetized neutron stars that emit
broadband pulses of radiation. Our ability to model magnetospheres of pulsars has been hampered by the difficulty of solving the self-consistent behavior of strongly magnetized relativistic plasmas. I will describe
recent progress in numerical modeling of magnetically-dominated plasmas and show applications to pulsar magnetospheres in increasing levels of realism, including ideal and resistive force-free,
spin-period radio pulsars provide us with unique astronomical
"laboratories" for exploring fundamental physics in a variety of ways
-- from the physics of matter at super-nuclear density, to experimental tests
of gravity. They have also provided the only experimental evidence so far for
the existence of gravitational waves (GW). A set of millisecond pulsars
acting as precise astronomical clocks may also be used as a direct GW detector,
sensitive to the nanohertz-frequency GW expected to be emitted by supermassive
In this talk I will first review static black holes in
Kaluza-Klein theory. It is well-known that within this theory there exist black
strings which are non-uniform along the Kaluza-Klein circle. Using numerical
methods, I will explain how to construct (for the first time) non-uniform black
strings in D>10, where D is the total number of spacetime dimensions. The
stability of such black objects has not been discussed before, and in the last
part of the talk I will explain how one can study the stability of non-uniform
I will discuss recent work in simulating asymptotically
anti-de Sitter spacetimes, and its relation to heavy ion collider physics. For
this purpose, I intend to focus on a class of oblately deformed black hole
spacetime solutions. For each of these solutions, I will map the gravitational
metric in the spacetime bulk to a stress tensor one-point function of the
conformal field theory defined on the spacetime boundary. During the ring-down
process, wherein the deformed black hole settles down to the AdS analog of the
We study the gravitational collapse of the axion-dilaton
system suggested by type IIB string theory in dimensions ranging from four to
We extend previous analysis concerning the role played by
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different assumptions(cases). We evaluate the Choptuik exponents in the
elliptic case.
Eventually we try to explain some of the open
questions for two other assumptions and future directions.
After giving
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I review the uses of effective field theory (EFT) techniques, originally developed in particle physics, to study gravitational dynamics. I will focus on the EFT approach to gravitational wave (GW) radiation, aka NRGR, and show how it has succeeded in producing the most accurate description of spinning binary systems to date, opening the door to a new era of precise astrophysical & cosmological measurements and tests of General Relativity via GW interferometry. I will also briefly discuss EFT applications for black hole dissipation/absorption, inflationary dynamics and high energy gravi


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English singer and talk show host Lilly Allen was so drunk at a recent charity/awards dinner that she had to be carried out to her car by security.
Ironically the event was for Glamour magazine. Apparently Allen did not feel so galamorous the next morning. She wrote on her blog:
"Last time I wrote here, I was defending my honour and dignity, explaining my innocence and also my outrage at the press for insinuating my behaviour was embarrassing. This time I'm putting my hands up, I got very drunk last night, too drunk. It's not cool getting that drunk, I feel awful and have to thnk my little bro alf for getting me home safely."
Somehow your drunken escapades always seem so much CUTER when you write about them in pink.


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Fundamentals in Industrial Ventilation & Practical Applications of Useful Equations
May 3–7, 2021
Marriott Renaissance Chicago O'Hare Suites Hotel
8500 W Bryn Mawr Ave
Chicago, IL 60631
Fundamentals in Industrial Ventilation
ACGIH®'s Fundamentals in Industrial Ventilation is a course that covers both basic and advanced topics related to industrial ventilation including:
- The behavior of air and chemical contaminants in the air
- Industrial process exhaust system design (including ACGIH® calculation methods)
- Make-up and supply air ventilation systems
- Dilution ventilation systems
- Selection and design of exhaust hoods, ducts, and fittings
- Fans and air cleaners (including Fan Laws)
- Troubleshooting and testing of existing systems
- Hands-on testing and measurements
At the end of this course, participants will be able to:
- Identify and select appropriate ventilation systems for process emission/exposure control
- Measure and evaluate the performance of ventilation systems (flow, pressure, horsepower)
- Design and evaluate dilution ventilation systems
- Design/re-design local exhaust systems using state-of-the-art design procedures
- Design, operate, and modify hoods appropriate to participants' needs
- Critically review ventilation system plans, drawings, and specifications of engineers and architects
Practical Applications of Useful Equations
ACGIH®'s Practical Applications of Useful Equations serves as the perfect complement to Fundamentals in Industrial Ventilation. Practical Applications of Useful Equations closely follows ACGIH®'s Quantitative Industrial Hygiene: A Formula Workbook supplied to participants and includes:
- Calculation and estimation approaches related to airborne contaminants
- TLV® and TWA
- OA for dilution, fans, system testing, sound and noise, heat stress, radiation, ventilation, statistics, chemistry, etc.
- A calculations lab in which participants work in a team environment
At the end of this course, participants will be able to:
- Understand the basic fundamentals, estimation techniques, and calculations related to occupational health and safety
- Understand terms and units used in OH&S related estimations and formulas
- Understand and apply formulas related to OH&S estimations and calculations
- Use dimensional analysis to generate formulas and mathematical relationships
- Prepare for certification exams
"Very informative and useful information. Will definitely help me in my job function." — Chad Anderson, Ormet Primary Aluminum Corp., Hannibal, OH
"This course provided many troubleshooting tips." — Harry Wahra, Mabbett & Associates, Bedford, MA
"Course provided a streamlined approach to ventilation." — Brandon C. Takacs, West Virginia University, Safety & Health,
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Cardi B Says She and Offset Have Broken Up
If love even real anymore?
December 5, 2018
Wow! Really did not see this coming. Cardi B has apparently announced that she and Offset have broken up.
Related: Cardi B Saying "Okurrr" Is 2018's Most Used GIF
While most of us were sleeping, Cardi took to her instagram overnight to break the news to fans that she and Kulture's daddy had split. The "I Like It" rapper took the high road, saying that no one was to blame and that the two just fell out of love.
The announcement comes just days after the couple's adorable Christmas "wrap" battle, and just five months after the birth of their daughter. The rappers secretly wed in October of last year.
Well, while we're devastated, we wish nothing but the best for both Cardi and Offset!


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Redlands Connection is a concoction of sports memories emanating from a city that once numbered less than 20,000 people. From the Super Bowl to the World Series, from the World Cup to golf's U.S. Open, plus NCAA Final Four connections, Tour de France cycling, major tennis, NBA and a little NHL, aquatics and quite a bit more, the sparkling little city that sits around halfway between Los Angeles and Palm Springs on Interstate 10 has its share of sports connections. – Obrey Brown
It's a connection that defies imagination.
In the 2005 Tour de France (TDF) alone, a string of cyclists had Redlands Classic ties.
Floyd Landis and Francisco Mancebo, Cadel Evans and Santiago Botero, plus David Zabriskie – cycling stars who had long lifted themselves into the cycling spotlight. Landis, an eventual winner who had the title stripped for doping, and Evans were eventual champs.
Mancebo was a top 10 finisher a handful of times.
Botero, who later admitted to doping, was good in the TDF mountains.
Zabriskie, a time trial stage winner, was also relegated for doping.
This could be the missing piece that Redlands area fans are missing: The Tour de France (TDF). It's the crown jewel of cycling. Besmirched a bit by the noted drug scandals, notably 7-time champion Lance Armstrong, plenty of other cyclists have clean enough backgrounds.
It's not hard to keep track of the scandalous cyclists.
All evil-doing has largely gone ignored, at least officially, by RBC. The focus is on the roads. To anyone's knowledge, no cyclist has ever failed drug tests at Redlands.
Even back in the earliest days of the Redlands Classic, Team 7-Eleven's Jacque Boyer was the first U.S. cyclist who showed up in the fabled Tour de France.
Phinney's 1986 Redlands Classic victory was only a prelude to a great career. The 7-Eleven cyclist became the first American to win a stage at the TDF.
That doesn't even begin to cover the connections between TDF and RBC.
U.S. Postal Service cyclist Jonathan Vaughters, the 1998 Redlands champion, was a former U.S. national time trials champion. When he won that deadly mountainous climb to snowy Oak Glen in 1998, he sat in a team car musing over his future in Europe.
"This time in a couple of months," said Vaughters, "I'm really hoping I can be one of Lance Armstrong's lieutenants in the mountains of Europe."
A lieutenant's role is simple: To keep a team's race leader fresh for the finish of each stage.
He was trying to pay his dues at places like Redlands.
Christian Vande Velde, who capped U.S. Postal's 4-year streak of winning at Redlands, won in 1999 by 39 seconds. Nine years later, he took fourth in the Tour de France, trailing winner Carlos Sastre by 3:05.
Vande Velde was seventh one year later. In 2011, he was a lieutenant to Tom Danielson – third, RBC 2003 – in a top 10 finish.
Evgeniy Berzin, the 1989 RBC champion, has won a stage at the TDF.
Dmitri Zhadanov, the 1990 RBC champion, rode in four TDF peletons.
The Poland pair: Tomas Brozyna and Dariusz Baranowski raced for world-renowned U.S. Postal, Armstrong's team.
Baranowski, 1995 RBC champion, was a 5-time Tour de France starter with a 12th place finish in 1998.
Brozyna was 22nd at the Tour de France in 2003, winning RBC in 1996.
Botero, for Rock Racing, was Tour de France's fifth best climber in 2005.
At the 2008 RBC, the Colombian rolled to a 54-second win over Chris Baldwin.
Zabriskie, runner-up to 4-time RBC champion Chris Horner in 2000, is a 7-time TDF starter, even capturing a stage in 2011. Like Armstrong, Landis and others, some of Zabriskie's results have been stricken from the records.
Speaking of Horner: Just after winning his fourth Redlands tour, he pronounced himself unlikely to ever get a shot at a berth in the TDF. Eventually, he got seven shots at the fabled Tour de France. He took ninth in 2010.
Then there's Mancebo, one of Spain's all-time greats.
Amid a flurry of top career finishes – Tour of California, Redlands champion, plus a string of European successes – the cyclist known as "Paco" on the peleton has a string of top 10 Tour de France finishes.
Ninth in 2000, seventh in 2001, 10th in 2003, sixth in 2004, his best ride in the French classic was a brilliant fourth place finish in 2005. It could actually be viewed as a second place finish since Armstrong, the winner, along with third place Jan Ullrich, were both eliminated from official results for testing PED positive.
That was evidence some clean cyclists remained on the peleton.
It was in 1998 that Australian 20-year-old Cadel Evans showed up at Redlands. It took the all-out efforts of the mighty U.S. Postal Service squad to keep Evans out of the yellow jersey.
Vaughters, aided by another future Tour de France combatant Tyler Hamilton, barely edged Evans in the chase to Oak Glen. Evans chased Vaughters the remainder of Redlands, losing by just 20 seconds.
In 2011, Evans, a two-time Tour de France runner-up, capped his career by winning the Tour de France. He retired a few years later.
NEXT WEEK: Name the woman and, chances are, she's raced at Redlands.


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A*STAR's Institute of Chemical and Engineering Sciences (ICES) opens its Metabolic Engineering Research Laboratory (MERL) in Biopolis
Singapore: The Institute of Chemical and Engineering Sciences (ICES), a research institute of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), officially opened its Metabolic Engineering Research Laboratory (MERL) in Biopolis. The new laboratory will design and engineer microbial cellular factories capable of cost-effectively producing high value chemicals from agricultural waste.
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The MERL laboratory will work for the benefit of a sustainable chemicals industry, which is looking for green alternatives to traditional petrochemical routes. The technology developments from MERL will provide sustainable routes for the production of chemicals such as acrylic acid, butadiene, and adipic acid from biorenewable sources. The systems biology and metabolic engineering toolbox that the laboratory develops can serve as an enabling platform for the biofuels, pharmaceutical and nutraceutical industries.
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by Manoj Das: The BPM product team is very pleased to announce that BPM Suite 220.127.116.11 Feature Pack is now publicly available. This feature pack includes many significant enhancements and new features. Some of the highlights of this release are:
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Another childhood dream, destroyed.
I assume that you all know the drill when it comes to movie-based games, so I'll skip the soapbox and get right down to the scathing remarks and tasteless jokes. Before that happens, though, I have an announcement to make: Thanks to Iron Man, I have surpassed a historical milestone in my life as a gamer. For the first time ever, I hurled a controller in sheer disgust.
[image1]Actually, it was more like a soft lob to the safety of my couch, but you need to understand something. I'm the guy who goes on seething tirades when friends carelessly imprint my games with their greasy fingers. That gentle toss was the equivalent to ripping out the disc, dousing it with gasoline, lighting it on fire, dumping the ashes onto my hefty business in the toilet, and flushing the whole concoction down the tubes.
Here's the story, in case you haven't been out to see the more worthy cinematic namesake of this fiasco. Tony Stark was your average, happy-go-lucky weapons designer until he was kidnapped by his own customers. Struck by the realization that his armaments aren't making the world a better place, he decides to fight back. With the help of his Mark III battle armor, he's on a mission to right his wrongs and obliterate the criminal empires of his former clients. In short, Iron Man is supposed to be our chance to don the red and yellow armor and blow shit up.
I was primed to hit the skies in heated dogfights and storm the battlefields to the crescendoing orchestra of exploding tanks. Instead, I spent most of my time hovering in place and firing down on equally stationary targets. Except for the screaming jets flying overhead and the end-level bosses, everyone is content holding their ground in a perpetual and literal last stand. I can make exceptions for the legions of turrets that litter every roof and hilltop, but what about the infantries and tanks? Even the agile gunships do nothing more than hold their positions a few meters above the ground.
I suppose that's a valid battle plan when every barrel, magazine, and missile pod is loaded with heat-seeking firepower. No matter where you are, avoiding enemy fire is utterly futile. You would have an easier time playing dodgeball in the Chuck E. Cheese's ball pit. When flying through the air, every machine gun nails you with pinpoint accuracy. When hiding out between buildings or down in the valleys, missiles rain down one after another. Iron Man can grab missiles out of the air and throw them back, but moves like that mean squat when bogeys hit three at a time.
[image2]The best way to survive is by hovering slowly over the terrain and blasting away as your lock-on blips from target to target. Though you won't know what you're hitting half the time, you'll still get shot to hell, but at least you'll have a fighting chance. Then again, caution won't always be an option. One fabulously ill-designed mission pits you against a massive airship and rows of turrets loaded with airburst rounds. The only way to avoid getting hit is through dumb luck, and the fact that you start about twenty seconds out of firing range certainly doesn't help the situation. It took me five attempts to simply reach the ship, and that was only the first of seven steps in bringing it down, with no mid-mission checkpoints.
As unavoidable as the merciless poundings are, Iron Man might be less painful if it didn't feature the worst control scheme in recent memory. On the ground, it's a typical two-stick layout for movement and aiming. It switches over to one stick when flying, and then back again when hovering in place. It's pointlessly disorienting and causes dozens of headfirst crashes. Maybe Secret Level doesn't want us to fly. After all, the camera can barely keep up even though the Mark III has all the maneuverability of a 747.
One of the better concepts to make an appearance in Iron Man is an upgrade system that allows you to customize the performance of the Mark III armor. Swapping out weaponry, trading speed for agility, and improving power outputs are a few modifications at your disposal. But as you might expect by now, the upgrade system has the balance of a one-legged drunkard.
The main problem is power management. Every system of the Mark III consumes rechargeable power, and the benefits of upgrades don't always match the costs. Adding the Gatling upgrade turns the Repulsor, Iron Man's standard weapon, into a weak rapid-fire shooter and quickly drains your power levels to zero, leaving you a sitting duck until they recharge. By contrast, the stronger Meson Repulsor is slower and can be fired non-stop without worry. I could detail issues with every system of the Mark III, but the Unibeam sums them up nicely. The Unibeam – a massive blast from his chest – is supposed to be Iron Man's strongest weapon, but it takes two seconds of motionless charging, depletes all power, and still fails to kill as efficiently as the Repulsor.
[image3]I'm sure that there's a fanboy or two out there still holding on to a shred of hope. You probably even heard about the unlockable suits of armor, like the Extremis and Hulkbuster models. What you need to understand is that getting the additional armor sets pays off like the finale of an Alka-Seltzer enema. You'll have to run through the Army of One mode, which is nothing more than the same levels rehashed with scoreboards and time limits. Even then, you can't even customize the new armors or use them in upcoming missions. All you can do is play the same old missions over and over again, and it doesn't get better the second time through.
It doesn't matter if you're a fan of the movie, comics, or action games in general. Iron Man has little to offer but the pain of aneurysm-inducing frustration and disgust for the greedy underbelly of our lifestyle. If there is one truly good thing that I can say about Iron Man, it's that Robert Downey Jr. did one hell of a bang-up job behind the microphone. He's a stellar actor who can shed a ray of light on the most dismal situation, and I thank him for helping me pull through.


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48 comments:
- Headhunter said...
Are they planning to demolish the building on Lewisham Way with the steps up the front and tall windows? I hope not, I always thought that was a handsome if unoriginal looking building.
- 20 February 2009 at 14:41
- Tressillian James said...
500 hundred homes....500? I wonder how many are proposed for Lewisham Way - time to get those For Sale sign boards up
- 20 February 2009 at 14:44
- Tressilliana said...
Is there spare capacity in the local schools, hospitals, doctors' surgeries etc for all these new residents? That's an awful lot of people.
- 20 February 2009 at 15:16
- Tyrwhitt Michael said...
A quick look on the Stanhope site reveals only 400 homes; 250 in Deptford and 150 on Lewisham Way.
I believe the Tressilian Building which I think is the one HH is aluding to is listed and as such would have to be converted to flats.
The more "massive" concrete Breakspears Building would no doubt be demolished and redeveloped along with the carpark.
The Architects for this are listed, but nothing to do with the project is as yet on their web site.
- 20 February 2009 at 15:44
- Anonymous said...
the tressillian building would make a fine loft-conversion style partment building with those big windows. I doubt the flats will be designed with such aspirations though
- 20 February 2009 at 16:38
- Julian Kingston said...
The size of the college building, plus the density of the residential element behind it, will shadow Deptford Creek on all sides, destroying a fragile and precious eco-system. The spare land should instead be a public park for the benefit of ALL Deptford's community. A quiet space in this already overpopulated borough.
- 20 February 2009 at 19:03
- nobbly brick said...
lets see how long it takes to become a slanging match - god forbid that i should comment on a development.
- 20 February 2009 at 19:17
- Anonymous said...
This is only the half of it. You should see the other 4 tower blocks they are proposing to put up either side of it. They are ugly monsters that will leave the Deptford side of The Creek very drafty, dark and forlorn. There has already been an application to demolish some nice old buildings on Greenwich High Road, I expect they'll start picking on Creekside and Deptford next.
- 20 February 2009 at 20:41
- Brockley Nick said...
Have you got a link please liz?
- 20 February 2009 at 21:17
- Anonymous said...
I like that 'massive' concrete building. The concrete has a rare soft look, like pressed sand.
- 20 February 2009 at 23:17
- Richard Elliot said...
I think the Lewisham Way site is probably deceptive large when you consider the car park and the current college buildings. 150 homes there doesn't sound unreasonable.
I hope they do something inspiring with the development. In keeping with the conservation and something that gives a boost to the parade of shops on Lewisham way that has never really go going.
Will provide some additional customers for the Talbot!
- 21 February 2009 at 02:11
- nobbly brick said...
The plot of land that the college now occupies is not dissimilar, in size, to the site of new housing on Loampit Vale and the Lewisham Gateway - both of these sites have 800 'units' each.
There's probably a developer leaning heavily over a drawing board and gazing fondly at an 'artists impressions' of the 'regenerated' Lewisham College site. These impressions will be of large tower blocks and tiny green spaces set against a blue sky.
This will be the future of this plot of land when, and if, vacated, in a few years time.
have a nice weekend...
- 21 February 2009 at 15:32
- Anonymous said...
Has anyone seen the "Regenerating Lewisham" options for the Core Strategy Consulation? There is not only the 10,000 new homes Thames Gateway Target set for the Council, but their Option 1 (which I gather the council itself is plugging for) gives a 40% increase on this requirement.
Where are these people going to work, receive medical care, cross the river, etc. etc.
- 22 February 2009 at 10:58
- nobbly brick said...
Tamsin, not sure if I've seen that document (may have mistaken it amongst all the other nonsense that Lewisham pump out though), although the Thames Gateway if a slightly different 'housing kettle of fish' than Lewisham itself - have you got a link to that document or website?
- 22 February 2009 at 11:46
- Anonymous said...
There doesn't seem to be a link to an on-line version of the summary document but the full thing is on http://consult.lewisham.gov.uk/ portal and Malcolm has put a piece on the Telegraph Hill Forums http://thehill.proboards2.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=thsoc&thread=660&page=1
It is rather short notice - the document has only just come out - but we will see if a mention can be slotted in to the Telegraph Hill Ward Assembly tomorrow, whichi is being held in the Honor Oak Community Centre, Turnham Road.
- 22 February 2009 at 12:21
- nobbly brick said...
Thanks for that Tamsin, very lengthy document and skimming can only muddy the outlook. However, that's never stopped me in the past:
"Development is resisted on open space, particularly Metropolitan Open Land"
This hasn't stopped the Council losing several acres of MOL in central Lewisham and replacing it, if replaced at all, by paved areas - and this in a flood risk zone that will increase as a risk in the near future.
Regrettably it boils down to one thing: the Council is obliged to produce, and allocate huge amounts of resources and person power (very likely farmed out to external agencies who charge handsomely for the privilege of producing the documents) to the production of these documents, and any point can be overlooked if, at the very least, a trivial reason can be found (often commercial) for it to be overruled.
- 22 February 2009 at 12:47
- Anonymous said...
Quite, the whole thing is a farce. Even the summary document says "Historic buildings protected" but Liz Cooper says there are already applications to demolish them in Greenwich High Street
- 22 February 2009 at 13:24
- Brockley Nick said...
Population growth is a fact Tamsin. Failure to provide sufficient housing can create enormous social problems. Where should these people live? Should Lewisham not provide its fair share of new homes? Is there not a lot of brownfield land in Lewisham (including Brockley), worthy of development?
Are Paris, Barcelona and New York not successful cities? They have population densities many times that of London? Meanwhile, the population of cities like Liverpool and Manchester fell during the 80s - was this a positive benefit for those places do you think?
Of course we need to consider the infrastructure requirements new people bring with them, but you are pretty hostile to any new development in New Cross, Ross has ruled out Catford in case it gentrifies and Nobbly doesn't want the wide open spaces of Lewisham town centre touched. Some residents are bitterly resentful of any attempt to put houses on practically deserted areas of Deptford.
Meanwhile, "One SE8" successfully managed to squeeze a major development in to an unloved part of Lewisham without the world falling apart.
- 22 February 2009 at 15:29
- Brockley Nick said...
Tamsin, still waiting to see that link from Liz.
- 22 February 2009 at 15:30
- Anonymous said...
"Ross has ruled out Catford in case it gentrifies"
you seem to be suggesting that being against gentrification and being for the provision of homes that are accessible to all, not just some, of society are mutually exclusive nick- this couldn't be further from the truth, however don't let that get in the way of lazy/convenient mud slinging
- 22 February 2009 at 15:43
- nobbly brick said...
It's not me who's trying to protect Metropolitan Open Land (MOL), it's enshrined in the London Plan in more than one place, including here:
"Development that involves the
loss of MOL in return for the creation of new open space elsewhere will not be considered appropriate."
it's that bigger picture again...
- 22 February 2009 at 15:52
- Brockley Nick said...
@nobbly - "seeing the bigger picture" doesn't mean pedantically trying to apply the letter of the document, it means honouring its spirit and recognising the demand for housing requires some compromise. Do you think pavement that no one uses because of an unforgiving road system is what the document's author's had in mind when they agreed it was important to protect metropolitan open spaces? Of course not.
@Fred - I wasn't trying to reignite the Catford debate again. Happy to clarify that you are not opposed to development in theory, only to the one that's actually on offer, as it would in your view change the balance and character of the area for the worse.
@Tamsin - can we at least agree that new development can also bring more culture, commerce and fun to an area, as well as longer queuues at the doctor?
The starting point for any debate about development should be recognition that change, compromise and proximity to large numbers of other people are three inevitable characteristics of city life. How can we apply realisitic solutions to improve quality of life for all?
- 22 February 2009 at 16:15
- Anonymous said...
nobbly the london plan is dead. Boris is in charge now and he doesn't believe in it. In fact guys, his plan is to get poorer boroughs to accept an even greater share of the new housing.
- 22 February 2009 at 16:18
- Anonymous said...
oh and by the way nobbly the london plan ain't a legal document, just a strategy. that means that there's plenty of scope for interpretation and blurring the guidelines to meet local need.
- 22 February 2009 at 16:22
- Anonymous said...
This is a very important issue. I love my fellow human beings. However I cannot help being concerned at the prospect of 500 homes when there is no infrastructure improvement package to go with it.
As it will just mean additonal pressure on resources, as already mentioned. Think about Brockley station on a morning as it is?
Purely as a talking point rather than building a warren of flats why not build some elegant large houses in the vacated space, homes that can attract high net worth individuals to the area. Less pressure on resources, maybe attract some glamour and energy to Lewisham.
- 22 February 2009 at 16:24
- Brockley Nick said...
but there is major transport capacity being added to the area already. in 2010, ELL1 will massively increase capacity from Brockley. around the same time, the DLR expansion will increase capacity for Deptford and Lewisham (both convenient for that part of Brockley) by 50% - from two carriages to three per train. Later, we can expect ELL2 and Thameslink to provide some additional options for SE4. All this is likely to be complete before work finishes on the Lewisham College redevelopment.
Bus capacity across London has already increased massively under Ken.
I'm not suggesting that there might not possibly be some issues that need to be debated, but transport infrastructure is possibly the least of them.
- 22 February 2009 at 16:29
- Anonymous said...
"@Fred - I wasn't trying to reignite the Catford debate again. Happy to clarify that you are not opposed to development in theory, only to the one that's actually on offer, as it would in your view change the balance and character of the area for the worse."
again, if you'd taken the time to read anything i'd written about instead of just projecting a view onto me, you would find that my objections were primarily due to it not providing even the minimum amount of affordable housing as set out by the london plan at the time and also for it's failure to ensure appropriate investment was made in the surrounding infrastructure to cope with the demands of transplanting a thousand new people into an area which is already creaking due to a lack of appropriate resources to address the needs of those living there - that is far from wanting to maintain the 'balance' and 'character' of the area - my position is, and always has been, that the area needs change, but change that benefits both those living there and those hoping to live there, change that is accessible to all not just certain layers of society -
- 22 February 2009 at 16:32
- Anonymous said...
Certainly we should take our fair share - just a bit dubious about the council seeking brownie points by going for a 40% increase. But I have not read the 250 pages and don't really intend to do so.
I'm not against any new development and quite agree about brown-land - can't wait for what was planned for the scaffolding yard but it seems to be stalled somewhere. Let's get that moving again (it is on a reasonable scale) and go on from there.
Paris - over-priced in the centre (although quite beautiful) beyond anyone's reasonable reach and riots and racism in the suburbs. (But maybe I'm exaggerating....)
- 22 February 2009 at 16:34
- Brockley Nick said...
@Fred - happy to let your words be the final say, although if you're worried about your views being misinterpreted, you might want to change the title of your blog from "Save Catford from gentrification, crime and anti-social behaviour" ;)
- 22 February 2009 at 16:44
- Anonymous said...
right so having a desire to rid an area of anti-social crime & behaviour translates in your mind into wanting to maintain the 'balance' and 'character' of the area?
having a desire to ensure that the needs & desires of those already living in an area are not ignored during the regeneration process translates in your mind into wanting to maintain the 'balance' and 'character' of the area?
as i said, if you did a little more reading and a little less projecting we wouldn't need to be having this discussion
- 22 February 2009 at 16:51
- nobbly brick said...
Nick, there were/are many areas of MOL in Central Lewisham, not just the one you may have been referencing.
And 'honouring its spirit' does not mean allowing developers to do what they like to raise a profit either.
- 22 February 2009 at 17:37
- Anonymous said...
Are you sure that the ELL is going to increase capacity at Brockley? My recollection is that essentially Brockley gets 4 ELL "overland train things" an hour and that that will reduce the number of "real trains" so in the end any capacity increase will be minimal or non-existant (although I may ave remembered this wrong ...)
- 23 February 2009 at 10:58
- Brockley Nick said...
David, 100% sure.
There will be 8 ELL trains per hour from Brockley and no decrease in mainline services. Click on the East London Line tag for articles and discussion of this topic.
- 23 February 2009 at 11:02
- Anonymous said...
From my understanding of things having read this blog over the months, was that ELL will bring no change to rail services to London Bridge, and that this had to be won following a vigorous campaign from commuters down the line in Forest Hill things because services to London were going to be reduced.
- 23 February 2009 at 11:20
- Brockley Nick said...
In all honesty, I don't think even the Forest Hill campaigners would claim that, Comment.
There was never a reduction planned for Brockley, although there were concerns that there might be reduction in services to Forest Hill (with possible knock on effects at Brockley).
Their campaign resulted in a clarification that this would not be the case.
- 23 February 2009 at 11:23
- The Cat Man said...
Actually, from what I remember reading the services stopping at Brockley to London Bridge/Charing Cross will actually increase from an average of 4 per hr to 6 per hr.
Previously, there were some trains from further down the line south (croydon) that were 'fast tracked' to London Bridge. This will now be a stopping service, and compensates for the deacrease due to the termination of the London Bridge/London Victoria circle train that will cease.
I think I am also correct in thinking that all trains to London Bridge will now go on to Charing Cross.
Does anyone know if the above is correct?
- 23 February 2009 at 13:23
- patrick1971 said...
I don't think you're correct on either count. The London Bridge-London Victoria via Peckham Rye service is going to cease, but I'm not quite sure when. The freed-up paths to Victoria will be taken up by an increased service from Crofton Park. I thought the freed-up paths to London Bridge were going to be used by Thameslink services, which may or may not stop at Brockley which they don't now.
Re the point about all trains going through to Charing Cross, I am 99.9999999% sure this isn't true. Southeastern and Southern, in their various guises throughout the years, have been desperate to stop as many Metro services as possible going through to Charing Cross. The twice-hourly direct service from New Cross was abolished back in 2002, and they tried to change all Greenwich trains to go through to Cannon Street and only backed down after huge opposition.
That London Bridge-Charing Cross stretch of line is the most congested in the country; it's highly unlikely that Southern and Southeastern would be trying to put more trains through it.
- 23 February 2009 at 13:59
- Anonymous said...
Confusion abounds about trasnport, hence why the idea of so many additonal homes is not wholeheartedly welcome.
- 24 February 2009 at 09:44
- Brockley Nick said...
I don't think confusion does abound (at least not until Cat Man wades in ;)). The facts on the East London Line and the DLR are quite clear. The mainline services are being tinkered with and since there are 2-4 different routes serving the stations around SE4, it's reasonably complex to sum up all the changes, but the net effect will be that the train capacity in Brockley will be roughly the same but slightly better.
Hence, I believe that lack of public transport capactity is not really a basis to object to the plans. Which is not to say that there might not be other valid reasons, but we will have to wait and see what is proposed.
- 24 February 2009 at 09:55
- Anonymous said...
During the snow I used the DLR..it seems Canary Wharf is not the main destination for commuters.
The vast majority waited or opted for a Bank train.
- 24 February 2009 at 12:48
- Anonymous said...
I think the College site is idealy suited for a 17 storey residential tower.
- 24 February 2009 at 12:50
- fabhat said...
Anon, it may be that during the snow people were using it to connect with the northern line at Bank, as the trains were not working, rather than it being their usual route to work.
- 24 February 2009 at 13:02
- Anonymous said...
All DLR trains from Lewisham go to Canary Wharf but it was clearly only a minority of people jumping on the first train available.
- 25 February 2009 at 09:55
- Anonymous said...
Way back in 2004 part of Lewisham Gateway was identified for possible use by Lewisham College, looks like that's definately not the case?
- 25 February 2009 at 09:58
- Headhunter said...
Which are the buildings along Greenwich HR of architectural value earmarked for demolition?
I have to say that most of the buildings at the Deptford Broadway end of Greenwich HR seem to be a ramshackle collection of derelict pubs and light industrial buildings. It looks like a good spot for residential development to me.
As Nick points out, there is considerable pressure on London to find accommodation for all its denizens and rather that new build homes are here than crammed along the mews roads in the Brockley cons area, or, as is currently planned, on Crystal Palace park.
I'm all for retaining a sense of history and past architecture but we can't preserve everything.
- 25 February 2009 at 11:17
- silburnl said...
Anonymous, fabhat's point was that you can't use what happened during the snow as a guide to how the DLR is used during more normal times.
I've been getting the DLR a couple or three times a week of late and it was hugely more crowded during the snow because it was virtually the only thing moving reliably. Most of those extra bodies were people who would normally take overland services into the City so it's hardly surprising that the bulk of those additional passengers stayed on to Bank.
On a more normal day I would say about half the train gets off at Canary Wharf.
- 25 February 2009 at 11:21
- max said...
I just stumbled on this rather somber news on this one.
- 29 June 2009 at 21:41
- Anonymous said...
New building plans http://egretwest.com/projects/education-and-culture/lewisham-college/
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It's state fair time in Oklahoma.
About 1 million visitors attend the annual fair, which opens Thursday in Oklahoma City and runs until Sept. 23. Organizers say this year's festivities will feature Disney On Ice, bull riding and concerts from Jake Owen, Air Supply, Neal McCoy, Eddie Money and the Oklahoma Centennial Rodeo Opry.
And the food: organizers say each year, fair visitors consume 60,000 gallons of liquid beverages, 6 miles of hot dogs, more than 45,000 cinnamon rolls and 12 tons of turkey legs.
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SAN ANTONIO >> A couple missed free throws cost the San Antonio Spurs last season's NBA title.
A few more misses — by their two best players — probably cost them a chance for a 2-0 lead in this year's finals as well.
Tony Parker scored 21 points and Tim Duncan added 18, but they went 0 for 4 from the foul line in a critical stretch of the fourth quarter, and those points loomed very large at night's end.
LeBron James scored 35 points, Chris Bosh added 18 and the Miami Heat evened up the NBA Finals with a 98-96 win over the Spurs on Sunday night, sending the series back to South Florida knotted at a game apiece.
Game 3 is Tuesday.
The Spurs had some costly misses by Manu Ginobili and Kawhi Leonard in Game 6 against Miami last season, part of a wild Heat comeback from five points down in the final 28.2 seconds to force overtime and a deciding seventh game.
This stretch wasn't as dramatic, but just as costly.
Even though games are often remembered by one play — Ray Allen's 3-pointer in Game 6 of last year's finals, a prime example — coaches routinely say that winning or losing hardly ever comes down to a singular moment.
But when the Spurs look back on Game 2, it'll be a nine-second stretch that they regret most.
Miami guard Mario Chalmers was driving with 6:43 left when he elbowed Parker in the midsection, getting called for a Flagrant-1 after review. But Parker missed both free throws, and after Duncan was fouled nine seconds later he missed another pair from the line.
Nine seconds, four free throws, two Spurs leaders, zero points.
On the ensuing Miami possession, James made a 3-pointer from the left wing, turned and appeared to have a word or two for those in the expensive courtside seats, and the Heat had an 88-87 lead. Back and forth the teams went, but in the end, just like last season, the Heat simply found a way.
Just like that, San Antonio's run of eight straight home playoff wins — all by 15 or more points — was over.
And so was the Spurs' chances of boarding a plane on Monday halfway to a fifth NBA title.


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Tall order: Prospect Meyer eyes Majors debut in '14
Towering righty, likely to start season in Triple-A, hopes to impress in spring camp
FORT MYERS, Fla. -- With a fastball that sits in the high 90s and a towering 6-foot-9 frame, Twins top pitching prospect Alex Meyer possesses a rare combination for a starting pitcher.
In fact, only eight players 6-foot-9 or taller have made big league starts, with only future Hall of Famer Randy Johnson making more than 170 starts. The list of recent pitchers that tall includes Chris Young, Jeff Niemann and Mark Hendrickson, but none of those pitchers are known for their velocity, and they've had mixed success in the Majors at best.
So Meyer, who is ranked as the No. 28 overall prospect by MLB.com, knows both the advantages and disadvantages that come with his lanky and wiry frame, but believes he has what it takes to be a top-of-the-rotation starter.
He said the key this Spring Training is to continue working on repeating his delivery, while also improving his changeup to go with his 97-mph fastball and wipeout slider.
"That's a big part of it, but I need to just do a better job commanding the zone," Meyer said. "I think I've made good strides with it. I also need to keep progressing with my changeup and throw that when I need to."
Meyer, 24, is in big league camp for the second straight year after being acquired by the Twins in the trade that sent Denard Span to the Nationals.
He's considered a long shot to make the rotation out of Spring Training, as there is just one open spot in the rotation. The top three candidates for that spot are Vance Worley, Samuel Deduno and Scott Diamond, who are all out of Minor League options.
Meyer is still approaching Spring Training as a chance to impress Twins brass, as he's expected to start the year at Triple-A Rochester, but he could be called up early in the season.
"You don't want to come in thinking you don't have a chance, but I know I don't have too much room for error," Meyer said. But it's great to be up here with these guys. The longer you can be up here, the better. I just want to pitch as well as I can. Hopefully, I'll be able to give them confidence that if they need a guy, they'll consider me. So I need to give myself a chance."
Twins manager Ron Gardenhire had a similar take; he wants to see more of Meyer this spring to discern just how close he is to being Major League-ready.
"Whether he's ready for this or not, he'll tell us -- he hasn't pitched in Triple-A yet," Gardenhire said. "I don't want any player coming into Spring Training thinking they don't have a chance. But he's a long shot just because he didn't pitch a lot of innings last year, and we want to make sure we do the right thing. But he has a definite chance sometime throughout the year to pitch [in the Majors]."
His first year in the Twins' organization, Meyer posted a 3.21 ERA with 84 strikeouts, 29 walks and allowed just three homers in 70 innings with Double-A New Britain. It was right in line with his career Minor League totals, as the right-hander has a career 2.91 ERA while striking out 10.4 batters per nine innings and walking 3.3 per nine.
But Meyer landed on the disabled list in early June with a shoulder strain, his first injury as a professional. Meyer, though, was able to end the season healthy in the Arizona Fall League, where he had a 3.12 ERA with 28 strikeouts and seven walks in 26 innings for the Glendale Desert Dogs.
"I'd never been hurt before, so I didn't really know what was going on, but when I went to the Fall League, my velocity was back and I felt fine," Meyer said. "And now it feels even better than last year. After resting in the offseason, I feel just like I did coming in last year coming into camp."
After his Fall League experience, Meyer spent the offseason in his hometown of Greensburg, Ind., working as a substitute teacher for the third straight year while finding time to get ready for the season by throwing inside a gymnasium.
So Meyer, who threw his first round of live batting practice on Sunday, said he's happy to be out in the Florida sun and feels more comfortable with the Twins now that he's in his second year with them.
"I was coming over from a new organization last year, so it's good to be more relaxed," Meyer said. "I know a lot of the guys, so there's not too many nerves right now."
Meyer's easygoing nature helps keep him calm on the mound, but he's hoping to make big league hitters feel uneasy in the batter's box in the near future with the Twins.
"I'd love to," Meyer said of potentially making his debut this season. "That's obviously the goal. If I just go out there and do my job and get guys out, and get myself in that position, that's all I can do. I try not to think about it too much or put too much pressure on myself. I just want to get guys out."


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July 2014 Blog Train: Final List
And the second mini is on my FACEBOOK PAGE - CLICK HERE
Old Brass, now available on my blog: HERE.
(and obviously, the elements aren't 12x12, but they ARE 300 dpi, even if the computer says otherwise, just fyi. also, the shadow is just for the sake of the preview; the elements ARE shadow-free.)
Here is my Contribution.
the mini kit will be on my facebook page under the blog train tab
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NEW: DIRECT DOWNLOAD LINK FROM STORE NO ACCOUNT REQUIRED XOXOX You can access this kit from my blog HERE
Here is my part:) You can grab it HERE on my blog, and subscribers can grab it HERE on Pixel Scrapper on July 1st:)
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I told Leanne who's birthday is July 1st, that I would make my theme Birthday with fireworks for
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Just received a warning that the link to my Patriotic Alphas on DropBox have been suspended. I have copied them to 4Shared as well so you can grab them here DOWNLOAD.
Here is my creation. There are so many great creations of this pallette. Fantastic job everyone!
My link to the frames:
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My link to the embellishments:
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Every time I refresh this page, I get a warning from avast that the pickleberrypie links are malware. Not sure if anyone else is getting this or not...
Here's my part. You can find it on my blog HERE.
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I like to watch my movie collections more than one time. Or sometimes I like to watch certain scenes in few movies. The problem is sometimes my DVD disc is scratched and I have to buy it again. So, I decide to convert all my DVD to ISO file, so I can watch anytime, any selection scenes, easier and without worry have the same problem again. If my DVD disc is broken and I want to play it using my DVD player, I still can burn it.
Yes, you may say the file size will be too big, 3.3GB to 4.4GB per movie, meanwhile you can convert it and get smaller file size. But, you will get lower quality graphic, you can't choose the language and you can't burn it again.
It will consume a lot of hard disc space but with 1 TB or 2TB hard disc capacity available at the market, you can back up any movie that you want.
I choose 'Brasero' because it's very easy to use.
Open your 'Brasero' application. If you don't have it you can install it using '$sudo apt-get install brasero' in your Linux terminal with Internet connection.
Enter your DVD disc, wait until it occur on your desktop then click 'Disc copy' button.
Then select to 'write to image file'.


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Smile, Maggie!
Why does Maggie never want to look directly at the camera? She'll look right at me, I'll pull the camera out and – BAM! – she immediately looks the other direction.
Such a diva! I'll get her smiling face… one day.
Both Maggie and Derek were very excited to wish their mom a very Happy Mother's Day today.
They both went in on the card, but I think Derek is still waiting on Maggie's half. Man, that dog is cheap. Kidding! 🙂
Derek and I spent the afternoon/evening celebrating Mother's Day with his parents and grandparents back on the west coast. It's actually really nice having our parents semi-near each other (approximately 2 hours apart), so we can see both families on any given holiday. We did the same morning-with-my-parents and afternoon-with-his-parents equation over Christmas and it worked out great. As long as we don't move out of state – we're golden. 😉
Derek's mom had purchased a Groupon deal for a local BBQ places ages ago and had been waiting for a crowd of people to feed it with. The deal was for a bbq FEAST that included enough meat, sides, and veggies to feed a family of 8 easily. I can see why she was waiting!
Everything looked and smelled amazing. I don't eat genuine BBQ food often, but when I do, I enjoy it.
(anyone else prefer their corn not on the cob?!)
I also had a rib, some coleslaw, and extra fruit salad that missed the camera. Everything was delicious. 🙂
For dessert, Derek's Dad made homemade angel cake (and, by homemade, I mean he said his secret ingredient was "just adding water to the mix" <- he's a funny one!) with fresh strawberries and cool whip.
Strawberry shortcake for the win!
We stayed late at his parents' place discussing cellphones and data plans. I think we're *this close* to convincing them to go the smartphone route. I'm trying to win them over on features such as photo messaging, GPS (<-big want for them!), and games (also, very important). They both have very basic phones right now and are in the market for something new. We'll just have to wait and see what happens.
On another completely unrelated note…. I've gotten a little deeper into 50 Shades of Grey. Oh me. Oh my. I'm not saying it's the best book ever, but I'm starting to see what all the fuss is about – all of a sudden I'm finding it hard to put down.
And, with that, I'm off to read.
Good Night!
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Dodgers Sign Former Mets Infielder Justin Turner
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Justin Turner and the Los Angeles Dodgers have agreed to a minor league contract.
The 29-year-old infielder hit .280 with two home runs and 16 RBIs in 86 games with the New York Mets last season. He appeared at all four infield positions as well as one game in left field.
Turner has a .260 batting average with eight homers and 89 RBIs in 318 career games over five major league seasons with the Orioles and Mets.
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Nintendo of America's rewards program just got a lot more interesting for those of us not into Nintendo-themed fans, notebooks and patches. Starting today, Club Nintendo loyalists can also earn 3DS and Wii games.
The overhauled Club Nintendo website already has Super Mario Kart (100 coins) and Fluidity (150 coins) listed for the Wii. Other game options include 100 Coins for 3D Classics: Xevious and 150 Coins for Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Minis March Again! for the Nintendo 3DS system. These two games normally sell for $5.99 and $7.99 respectively.
Don't worry, Nintendo didn't get rid of all of that other stuff. They've actually expanded it, adding Nintendo-themed notebooks and pen cases and a set of limited-edition posters honoring the 25th anniversary of The Legend of Zelda.
The current round of downloadable games will be available through Jan. 10 with new offers hitting next month. Future games will be based on members' feedback, Nintendo says.


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Over lunch last week, I asked actor Stephen Ouimette, who is simply extraordinary as Harry Hope in Robert Falls' Goodman Theatre production of "The Iceman Cometh," how many seasons he has performed at the Stratford Festival in Canada, where he is a marquee name.
"Nineteen," he said. "But they are not consecutive. I think that is important to note. It has been important for me to be there, but not just there."
Ouimette is not there this summer; his appearance in "Iceman" in Chicago took him out of the running for the entire Stratford summer season, even though "Iceman" closes June 17. (The prospects for Broadway next season are, I hear, looking very good.) "Stratford will be there," he said. "The chance to do 'Iceman' may not. I am terrified at letting myself be too insular."
There's no question that Ouimette is royalty when it comes to Canadian theater actors. And he's very much a part of the Ontario ecosystem — he has lived outside Stratford for many years in the middle of a 42-acre forest.
He has played many of the major roles in the Shakespearean canon, including Hamlet and Richard III. He has done many new plays in Toronto. And he became known to broader North American audiences when he showed up as the artistic-director character (a dead one, in later seasons) in the Canadian TV show "Slings and Arrows," a satire based on the Stratford Festival that did not go down well with some from the festival.
But over the past few years, Ouimette (who is very much alive at 54) has worked more and more in New York and, especially, in Chicago. It is by design, part of Ouimette's attempt to "get curious" and put himself out there. There was "La Bete" on Broadway, alongside Mark Rylance. There were "Troilus and Cressida" and "The Taming of the Shrew," replete with the infamous Neil LaBute prologue, at Chicago Shakespeare Theater. And now there is "Iceman" at the Goodman. I saw all of the above, and he has excelled on every occasion.
I suggested that he must be a very skilled picker of projects.
"The thing about getting older," he said, "is that you finally realize that the most important thing is who you are working with. None of the rest of it — fame, money — matters at all. If you're unhappy and want to kill your co-star, then you might as well be working in a factory."
Ouimette is in "Iceman," he thinks, largely courtesy of Brian Dennehy, an American actor with a Stratford habit. The two appeared last season in Canada in both "Twelfth Night" and "The Homecoming."
"I think Brian strongly suggested I might be right for this part," Ouimette said. The evidence shows that Dennehy was right: In a sea of extraordinary performances, Ouimette might well be doing the best work of all. Especially for a guy who has never before done anything byEugene O'Neill.
"This is a mammoth endeavor," Ouimette says, even though he's done more than his share of epics. "You don't get out of the theater until midnight, which knocks you off the usual decompression schedule, unless you want to kill the entire next day, which doesn't work. People are starting getting ready around 2 p.m. to mentally prepare to head into the theater. Really, it's incredibly rare to get a group of actors like this together on one project. It's almost unheard of, actually. But this is that project for me."
I asked Ouimette what he was thinking about his character as he sits inside his shoes night after night, for almost five hours. The other characters, after all, are customers of the joint. Harry Hope actually buys and sells the booze that gets poured down their throats.
"I've thought a lot about my grandfather actually," he said, "and what it is like to come to a new country. But for Harry, as for Jimmy Tomorrow, these are men who mostly just want to be able to drink with their friends."
Ah yes, the booze. Ouimette laughed. "I think it is well understood that the people involved in this have a lot of experience with that. Everybody knows what it's like to be drunk. It's been like, we all know that, now move on. But it is a play that makes you want to drink. You want a cocktail but you don't."
I tell Ouimette I have long wanted to stick an errant "l" in the middle of his name; sometimes I have. His family name once included the letter.
"I just saw that boat on the river, 'Ouilmette,'" he said. "That stopped me in the tracks. I'm sure Ouilmette and Wilmette are just the Canadian Ouilmettes, who kept on going to Chicago."
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The week in review
Worst déjà vu: A gunman terrorizes Virginia Tech December 8, a situation that locks down the campus, amid reports two men are dead. Ross Truett Ashley, 22, a Radford University student, walks up to Tech police officer and father of five Deriek Crouse, 39, and shoots him. Ashley's body is found in a nearby parking lot with an apparently self-inflicted wound and gun nearby.
Likeliest opening: The Meadowcreek Parkway– at least Albemarle's portion of it– should be open in January, according to VDOT.
Closer to construction: The low bid for the Ragged Mountain earthen dam comes in at $21.7 million from Thalle Construction out of Hillsborough, North Carolina, but a contract can't be awarded until the city and county come up with a cost-share agreement, Charlottesville Tomorrow reports.
Most missing people: Searchers seek 22-year-old Lauren Susanne Smith December 11, with no luck. She's been missing since November 21 when she was dropped off to clean a house in Madison County. And Earlysville man James Alvin Shifflett, 69, is reported missing December 8 when his Ford F150 is found in the middle of the southbound lane of the 1900 block of Earlysville Road with no keys and the lights on.
Longest seven years: Fluvanna resident Jesse Morgan Hicks was last seen by his family September 1, 2004. Now his family goes to a civil hearing later this month to have him declared legally dead, the Newsplex reports.
Longest planned library: A new and improved Crozet library has been on that community's wish list since the days of master planning. On December 7, the Board of Supervisors unanimously vote to have county staff prepare a request for proposal.
Biggest tax bill: Landmark Hotel developer Halsey Minor owes the city of Charlottesville $128,183.02, and a judge rules that bill must be paid first, the Progress reports. Next on the list of lienholders is Clancy & Theys Construction, owed approximately $2.6 million.
Freakiest accident: Gusty winds topple a tree onto a truck driving by December 7 in Greene County, trapping three females inside, NBC29 reports. Rescuers had to cut the top off the truck to get them out.
Biggest exoneration: Richmond native Thomas Haynesworth spent 27 years in prison for rapes he didn't commit until cleared of one of them by DNA evidence in March. On December 6, the Virginia Court of Appeals vacated two other rape/abduction charges, which means he won't have to register as a sex offender, wear ankle bracelets, and be subject to parole restrictions.
Most surprising Haynesworth advocate: Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli joins in efforts to seek full exoneration and gives Haynesworth a job in the AG's office.
Biggest plea dis-agreement: Albemarle Circuit Court Judge Cheryl Higgins refuses to accept a plea from one of the former Georgetown Farms employees billionaire Edgar Bronfman accused of embezzling. Mike Nemeyer was found not guilty of all counts in October. Joanne Thompson testified against him in hopes of helping with her own five felony counts, but Higgins rejects a plea agreement that would have given Thompson no jail time, according to the DP.
Greenest acquisitions: Charlottesville buys 6.5-acre Davis Field with existing soccer fields and five acres of woods on Marshall Court off Park Street for $750,500. The city also recently acquired 4.5 acres along Meadow Creek off Michie Drive in the Greenbrier neighborhood, which will join other parcels to total about 32 acres for creek restoration. City Council is expected to put that under conservation easement December 19.
Boldest lawsuit: Wilhelm von Himmet, 22, and Robert Payne, 43, after being denied a marriage license, file suit December 12 in Charlottesville Circuit Court, claiming their 14th Amendment right to equal protection under the laws has been violated, Samantha Koon reports in the Progress.


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