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Raider Men's Baksetball to Face SFA
December 5, 1998
Teams: Stephen F. Austin (1-4) at Texas Tech (4-1) Date: Saturday, Dec. 5, 1998 Site: Lubbock Municipal Coliseum (8,174) Series: Stephen F. Austin leads 4-1 Last Meeting: Texas Tech 83, SFA 57, Dec. 30, 1997 in Lubbock Coaches: Texas Tech - James Dickey (Central Arkansas, '76), 136-73 (Eighth Season & Overall); SFA -Derek Allister (Chico State '76), 23-35 (Third Season) Texas Tech Radio: All Sports Radio Network [KCRM-FM (99.5) & KKAM-AM (1340) locally]. Jack Dale, play-by-play Television: NoneSo Far This Season... Texas Tech is 4-1 on the season following Thursday's 90-81 win over former Southwest Conference rival SMU. The Red Raiders shot .600 in the game and committed a season-low 14 turnovers in the game, while limiting the Ponies to just 34 percent from the floor. Rayford Young has moved into the top scoring position for the Red Raiders, averaging 15.6 points per game. Cliff Owens is the rebounding leader with a 9.4 per game average, while scoring at a 14.0 per game clip. Bonewitz is the only Red Raiders to have scored in double-figures in every game this season and is shooting 11-for-21 from the three-point stripe for .524 pct. The Raiders are shooting .560 percent on the season and have surpassed the 50 percent mark in three of the first four games. Eight Red Raiders are shooting over .500 on the season. On the flipside, Texas Tech has committed 93 turnovers in the first four games for an average of 23.3 per game, while forcing 14 per game from its opponents.
Last Week Rayford Young scored a career-high-tying 28points in the 91-80 win over SMU, including nine-for-10 from the free throw line and five-for-10 from the three-point arc. Cliff Owens scored 17 points and grabbed nine rebounds in the game, while Mario Layne chipped-in a season-high 15 points and Stan Bonewitz added 10 points and nine assists. Texas Tech dropped a 60-56 decision at Southwestern Louisiana Saturday in Lafayette. The Raiders shot under 50 percent for the first time this season, making 19-43 field goal attempts for 44.2 percent. Stan Bonewitz led Texas Tech with 13 points and a season-high 10 rebounds, while junior James Ware added a season-high 11 points, including 3-of-5 from the three-point stripe. Forward Reginald Poole led USL to its first win of the season with 27 points.
Head Coach James Dickey Texas Tech men's basketball coach James Dickey is in his eighth season guiding the Red Raiders on the hardwood. A 1976 graduate of Central Arkansas, he has posted a 136-73 record, a winning percentage of .650. Dickey was named Tech's head coach on April 10, 1991 after serving one year for the Red Raiders as an assistant under longtime coach Gerald Myers. Over the last four-plus seasons, Tech is 86-36 for a .704 winning mark. Dickey has earned district coach of the year honors four times and has been conference coach of the year on three occasions. He has guided Tech to two NCAA Tournaments, including the '96 Sweet 16. Before his arrival at Tech as an assistant coach in 1990-91, Dickey previously worked at Kentucky (1986-89) and Arkansas (1982-85) as an assistant under Eddie Sutton.
About SFA The Lumberjacks are 1-4 on the season after dropping their first four games of the year with three of those losses coming on the road. Sophomore forward Patrick Gusters is the team's scoring leader, averaging 18.4 points per game with a season-high 23 points in the season-opener against Texas A&M. Senior center Keith Tate is averaging a team-high 7.5 rebounds per game. Head SFA coach Derek Allister is in his third season at the Nacogdoches, Texas-based school. He is 23-35 in his time as the leader of the Lumberjack program He served as an assistant at Nevada and California prior to moving to SFA.
The Series Surprisingly, Stephen F. Austin owns a commanding 4-1 lead in the all-time series between the two schools. Just as surprising, the two teams have only played five times in history and three of the contests came in the 1939-40 season. Texas Tech won last year's meeting by an 83-57 margin behind a combined 41 points from Cory Carr and Rayford Young. After a close first half, the Raiders outscored Stephen F. Austin by a 47-28 margin in the second-half to clinch the victory. Then-freshman Phillip Clayton led SFA in scoring with 13 points. The first meeting between the two schools was Dec. 28, 1937, a 48-36 SFA win.
Break Out Game for Layne Junior transfer Mario Layne enjoyed a "break-out" game against SMU, scoring a career-high 15 points and making several trademark acrobatic moves to the basket. One of the best leapers in the Big 12 Conference, Layne went 7-for-10 from the field, grabbed five rebounds and dished out five assists against the Ponies. Perhaps more importantly, he was instrumental in limiting SMU's top scorer, Jeryl Sasser, to an 8-for-28 shooting night. A native of Barbados, Layne transferred to Texas Tech from South Plains College last spring.
Veterans Carrying the Load Texas Tech's four returnees this season are carrying the load for the Raiders. The quartet of senior Stan Bonewitz, juniors Cliff Owens and Rayford Young and sophomore Johnny Phillips have accounted for 53.4 percent of the team's 77.6 points and 45.2 percent of the team's 42.0 rebounds per game this season. Owens, Young and Bonewitz are each averaging over 32 minutes of playing time per game and are the only Red Raiders in double figures in scoring.
Quick Start Quick starts have been a trademark of James Dickey-led teams. The Red Raiders have opened the season with a 4-1 record or better in five of Dickey's eight seasons. The only time Dickey has had a losing record in the first five games of the season was a 2-3 start in 1993 and 1997.
Raider Schedule The 1998-99 schedule will require Texas Tech to blend the six newcomers in with the returning players quickly, considering a hefty non-conference schedule is awaiting the Red Raiders. The likes of WAC champion TCU plus improving SMU, Tulsa and Southwestern Louisiana are among the teams Tech will face prior to the 16-game Big 12 Conference slate. The Red Raiders will travel to Hawaii to the BYU-Hawaii Pearl Harbor Classic, where Tech will play Tulsa. The tourney field also includes Alabama, Michigan State, Pepperdine, Oregon State and Weber State. In the third year of the Big 12, Texas Tech will host Colorado, Kansas and Nebraska while visiting Iowa State, Kansas State and Missouri. Texas Tech will play Big 12 South rivals Baylor, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Texas and Texas A&M home and away.
Hot-Shooting Raiders Texas Tech has shot over .600 in four of the first three games of the season before falling short at Southwestern La. The streak of three-straight games over .500 to start the seaon marked the first three-game streak since the George Washington, USL and Southwest Missouri St. games last season. Texas Tech has not surpassed .500 shooting in four-straight games since the 1995-96 season when it accomplished the feat against Montana State, East Tennessee State, TCU and Texas A&M.
On the Tube With the addition of four appearances on FOX Sports Southwest, the Texas Tech men's basketball team is scheduled to play 12 televised games this season. The Red Raiders will play SMU (Dec. 3), TCU (Dec. 8), and Baylor (Jan. 2, Feb. 10) on Fox Sports Southwest. Tech will play one national televised game on ESPN Feb. 20 against Nebraska at 8:30 p.m. Tech will appear seven times on ESPN Regional via the Big 12 television package.
Texas Tech's Television Games
Dec. 3 SMU 7:00 p.m. FOX Sports SW Dec. 8 at TCU 7:00 p.m. FOX Sports SW Jan. 2 BAYLOR 5:00 p.m. FOX Sports SW Jan. 17 OKLAHOMA ST. Noon Big 12 Jan. 23 at Iowa St. 3:00 p.m. Big 12 TV Jan. 30 OKLAHOMA 12:45 p.m. Big 12 Feb. 6 TEXAS 3:00 p.m. Big 12 Feb. 10 at Baylor 6:00 p.m. Big 12 Feb. 13 KANSAS 3:00 p.m. Big 12 Feb. 17 at Texas 8:00 p.m. Big 12 Feb. 20 NEBRASKA 8:30 p.m. ESPN Feb. 27 at Oklahoma St. 12:45 p.m. Big 12Owens Strong Inside Sophomore forward Cliff Owens (Santa Fe, Texas) has led the team in scoring in three of the first five games this season. His 23 points in the season-opener against UTSA was a career-high and his double-double against North Texas was his first of the season. He pulled a season-high 16 rebounds against New Mexico State. Owens recorded a team-high 7.7 rebounds last season to rank in a tie for sixth in the Big 12. He finished third in the league with 5.8 defensive rebounds. In league games, Owens ranked in a tie for second with 8.4 boards and led the league with 6.9 defensive rebounds per game. Owens upped his totals to six double-doubles and eight games with 10 or more rebounds. He notched consecutive double-doubles late in the regular season against Texas A&M and Nebraska.
Young Clutch Performer Point guard Rayford Young tied a career-high with 28 points against SMU. He also made nine-of-10 free throw attempts in the game and went five-for-10 from behind the three-point stripe. Young made eight-straight free throws in the last :54 of the game to seal the victory.
Young under Ray-Ted Young, a starter in all 27 games last season, was named to the All-Underrated squad, selected by a panel of sports writers who regularly cover the Big 12. The 5-11 Pampa, Texas, junior joined Baylor's Patrick Hunter, Texas A&M's Shanne Jones, Oklahoma State's Adrian Peterson and Kansas' Ryan Robertson. He is Texas Tech's top returning scorer (15.4) and led the club last season in assists (116) and steals (46). Young averaged 3.7 rebounds, grabbed three or more boards in 21 games and was third on the team with 11 blocks.
Just Call Him "Bomb-A-Witz" Stan Bonewitz, who hit a team-high 84 three-pointers last season, has made at least three treys in the last 22 of 28 games. He now ranks third all-time at Tech with 186 career 3's. Bonewitz tied the single-game school mark of seven last season against Texas A&M on Feb. 21 in College Station. For the year, Bonewitz ranked second in the Big 12 with a 41.8 three-point percentage and 3.1 3's a game. He led the Big 12 in three-point percentage as a sophomore with a 46.3 mark.
Career Three-Pointers 1. Cory Carr, '95-98 262 2. Koy Smith, '93-96 237 3. Stan Bonewitz, '96-present 186 4. Lance Hughes, '92-95 160 5. Todd Duncan, '87-89 132
HOME TROUBLES Against Texas-San Antonio Texas Tech broke a three-game home losing streak with its 87-78 win at the Lubbock Municipal Coliseum. The Red Raiders dropped their last three home games of 1997-98 to Texas, Oklahoma State and Oklahoma. The three-game losing streak was Tech's first at home since early in the 1993-94 season. The three-game skid was also Tech's first in conference action since the 1990-91 campaign. Texas Tech has won 55 of its last 64 games in Lubbock Municipal Coliseum for an .859 winning percentage. From 1993-94 (against Texas A&M) until the Colorado game in 1996-97, Texas Tech won a school-record 35 consecutive games at home. All-time, Texas Tech is 389-153 in the "Bubble." The Red Raiders own a 71-21 mark under James Dickey at home for a .772 winning percentage.
Youth Movement The Red Raiders have started the same five players in each of the first five games of the season. The lineup of Rayford Young and Stan Bonewitz and the guards, Mario layne and Cliff Owens at the forwards and Johnny Phillips at center accounts for over 72 percent of the team's scoring. Texas Tech utilized four different starting combinations last season, any of which would be among the youngest quintet in James Dickey's seven seasons as head coach. For the first time since the 1993-94 season, Texas Tech started only two upperclassmen. The Red Raiders have started at least two seniors for the majority of the season in all but three of James Dickey's previous seven years as head coach, 1992-93, 1993-94 and 1997-98.
Lineup Breakdown in the Dickey Era 1991-92 2 seniors, 1 junior, 1 sophomore, 1 freshman 1992-93 1 senior, 1 junior, 2 sophomores, 1 freshman 1993-94 2 juniors, 3 sophomores 1994-95 2 seniors, 3 juniors 1995-96 4 seniors, 1 sophomore 1996-97 2 seniors, 2 juniors, 1 sophomore 1997-98 1 senior, 1 junior, 2 sophomores, 1 freshman 1998-99 1 senior, 3 juniors, 1 sophomore
Rookie Help A total of nine true freshmen have started at least one game for Texas Tech during head coach James Dickey's seven previous years. Johnny Phillips started the last 15 games of 1997-98 - the most by a true freshman since Jason Sasser started 19 in 1992-93. Lance Hughes also started 19 during his freshman year in 1991-92.
Player (Season) Starts Jason Sasser (1992-93) 19 Lance Hughes (1991-92) 19 Johnny Phillips (1997-98) 15 Lenny Holly (1992-93) 14 Chad Collins (1991-92) 5 Rayford Young (1996-97) 4 Tony Battie (1994-95) 3 Cory Carr (1994-95) 1 Koy Smith (1992-93) 1YOUNG FROM THE LINE Young's excellent free throw shooting against SMU was no fluke. He tied for second behind teammate Cory Carr in the Big 12 in free throw percentage with an 84.3 clip. Twice last season he provided late-game heroics from the stripe to help Tech win. He made four free throws in the final 10 seconds against Kansas State, each time going to the line with Tech up one point. Young sank two free throws - his first attempts of the game - with four seconds remaining to send the game at Nevada into overtime. He made all eight of his free throw attempts at Nevada, six in the overtime period.
Stan the Rebounder Known for his long-range shooting and uncanny passing ability, Stan Bonewitz added another facet to his game last season - rebounding. And, with his 10-rebound effort at USL and nine-board effort against SMU, he is the team's second-leading rebounder. The San Antonio junior came into the year with a career rebounding average of 2.1. He doubled that mark last year with a 4.9 average and led the team on the boards five games. He helped his average in the Big 12 Tournament against Texas with 10 boards for his first career double-double in the points and rebounds variety. Twice against Iowa State and Prairie View A&M, Bonewitz grabbed a career-high 11 rebounds. For the year, Bonewitz had five or more rebounds in 15 games.
Second Half Comebacks Texas Tech's comeback from a 17-point halftime deficit at Nevada last season was the largest Texas Tech has overcome in James Dickey's seven years as head coach. The largest previous comeback from a halftime deficit came at New Mexico in Dickey's first season on Dec. 27, 1991. The Red Raiders erased a 10-point intermission deficit to win that game, 58-56. Following are the largest halftime deficits Tech has erased and went on to win during Dickey's tenure as head coach:
Date Deficit Final Game 12/27/97 17 99-94 ot at Nevada 2/4/98 14 70-68 at Oklahoma 2/1/98 11 80-71 at Baylor 11/27/91 10 58-56 at New Mexico 2/21/98 9 86-83 at Texas A&M 1/21/98 9 79-76 Kansas State 12/9/97 9 79-71 at Southwest Missouri St. 12/28/95 9 62-58 LaSalle (El Paso) 2/21/98 8 49-41 at Texas A&M 3/1/95 8 84-71 Oral Roberts 2/27/97 7 84-73 at Missouri 3/9/94 6 75-73 Texas (SWC)
RECORD SETTING NIGHT The Texas Tech Red Raiders set an NCAA record with 27 points in one overtime period with their performance at Nevada on Dec. 27, 1997 in the 99-94 win. Combined, the two teams also set a mark with 49 points in the extra period. The previous record of 25 points in one overtime period was held by Texas A&M, Wisconsin-Green Bay and Old Dominion. The previous record for most points in an overtime period for both teams was 40, set by Old Dominion against William & Mary in 1992.
Date Opponent Rank W/L Score 1-24-98 at Kansas 3 L 88-49 12-20-97 at New Mexico 14 L 81-62 3-7-97 at Iowa State 16 L 72-70 1-29-97 Kansas 1 L 86-77 1-25-97 Iowa State 14 L 64-61 12-21-96 Fresno State 21 W 111-101 12-4-96 New Mexico 11 W 77-68 11-30-96 George Washington 25 W 84-75 3-21-96 Georgetown t4 L 98-90 3-17-96 North Carolina 25 W 92-73 12-30-94 at Arizona 10 L 88-82 12-17-94 Kentucky 6 L 83-68 12-3-94 Wisconsin 13 L 70-65 12-11-93 Wisconsin 18 L 91-88 1-26-93 Houston 10 W 78-74 1-18-92 Tulane 19 W 101-98 12-27-91 Indiana 10 L 86-69IRON MEN Last season Stan Bonewitz and Rayford Young were among the top 10 in the Big 12 Conference in average minutes played. Teammate Cory Carr led the league, playing an average of 37.6 minutes per game. Only three of the top 10 players on the list below are return this season, including Bonewitz and Young.
1997-98 BIG 12 MINUTES PLAYED 1. Cory Carr Texas Tech 37.6 2. Stan Bonewitz Texas Tech 35.9 2. Tyronn Lue Nebraska 35.9 4. Brian Skinner Baylor 35.8 5. Corey Brewer Oklahoma 35.4 6. Adrian Peterson Oklahoma St. 35.3 7. Patrick Hunter Baylor 35.0 8. Rayford Young Texas Tech 34.7 9. Brett Robisch Oklahoma St. 33.4 10. Roddrick Miller Baylor 33.3
TEXAS TECH UNDER JAMES DICKEY Under James Dickey 209 games '98-'99 Overall 136-73 3-1 Home 70-21 3-0 Road 43-40 1-1 Netural 23-12 0-0 Conference 63-37 0-0 Big 12 Conference 17-15 0-0 Home 9-7 0-0 Road 8-8 0-0 Non-Conference 61-30 4-1 Home 33-7 3-0 Road 17-17 1-1 Neutral 11-6 0-0 Conference Tournament 11-4 0-0 Big 12 Tournament 1-2 0-0 Southwest Conference Tournament 10-3 0-0 NCAA Tournament 2-2 0-0 Overtime 4-9 0-0 Games Decided by 5 points or less 28-28 0-1 Games Decided by 3 points or less 17-22 0-0 When Scoring 100 points or more 17-4 0-0 When holding opponents under 80 points 106-21 3-1 When shooting better FG% than opponent 112-16 4-1 When shooting worse FG% than opponent 22-54 0-0 When shooting better than 50% FG 67-8 4-0 When outrebounding opponent 94-30 3-1 When leading at the half 106-17 4-1 When trailing at the half 26-52 0-0 When tied at the half 4-4 0-0James Dickey Call-In Show James Dickey conducts a weekly fan call-in radio show each Wednesday (Begins Dec. 2) from 7-8 p.m. live from Jazz Louisiana Kitchen in Lubbock. The flagship station for the show is KKAM-AM (1340) and the host is Jack Dale. Affiliates (beginning in Jan.) include:
Amarillo KGNC-AM (710) Lamesa KPET-AM (690) Lubbock KKAM-AM (1340) Midland KCRS-AM (550) Plainview KKYN-AM (1090)James Dickey Television Show The James Dickey television show airs each Sunday at 10:30 p.m. on KCBD-TV in Lubbock. The host of the show is Bryan Mudd, KCBD-TV sports director.


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by Leslie Morgan Steiner
The day after my mother died in April, the hospice grief counselor came to my house. Hospice workers know what they are talking about, so I listened assiduously to her advice. I clung fiercely to her parting words: "No one is prepared for grief. It's not a competition and no one does it 'right.' Everyone, even in the same family, grieves differently. All the different ways people grieve are okay."
My daughter felt alternatively guilty and explosively emotional, angry I hadn't let her come to the funeral. My youngest worried about a ghost haunting our house. My son said little. I was relieved, heart-broken, shocked – sometimes in the space of the same hour. It was immensely comforting to know we were all following our personal paths through sadness.
A few months after the funeral, my sister spent six weeks in my mother's house, carefully sifting through 75 years of junk and treasures. I could barely handle three days there. My brother didn't come at all. And that was okay. We were all grieving in our own ways.
As Thanksgiving approached, I tried to remember the hospice advice. I even went to a four-hour bereavement workshop at the hospice headquarters, one of the saddest gatherings I've ever attended. One couple had lost a day-old infant. A woman my mother's age had lost her daughter and her daughter-in-law within the same week. A childless woman had nursed her husband through four years of terminal cancer. Although I cried at the table along with everyone else, by comparison my sadness felt bearable.
As we discussed how to celebrate the holidays without our beloveds, hospice reiterated that the "first" holidays are different for everyone. Some people become obsessed with keeping every tradition the same to honor the dead. Others need to go to a hotel or leave the country to distract themselves. All okay.
Thanksgiving was always special to Mom. My mind is filled with countless turkeys eaten around a battered single-plank table that now graces my dining room. She preferred we come to her each year, even though turkey is probably the only meal I make that's better than her cooking. My secret is taking the turkey out of the oven before the cookbooks say it's done: you gotta know your limits.
I decided this year to get out of dodge. For the first time ever, we went to the ocean for Thanksgiving. The beach was cold and windy, the waves ferocious and slate-blue. Along the same streets that are traffic-jammed all summer long, dry leaves scratched and skittered across the empty asphalt.
In exuberant excess, I cooked a 25-pound turkey and mashed three dozen potatoes for six people. The bird was moist and delicious. The mashed potatoes turned an odd gray-brown shade but tasted yummy. We stuffed ourselves for three days. I didn't call my siblings or my mother's relatives, also going through Thanksgiving without Mom for the first time ever.
I imagined the hospice lady telling me that was okay.
Sometimes the highest form of comfort is to admit that holidays may never be the same again, and that the time has come to invent a new way to celebrate and to mourn.

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Cyclonefantic.com/forum comes up when I search Tapatalk, but, I'm "unable to connect" on my Android. Is CF supposed to be on Tapatalk?
Weve got a pretty good football conference, and weve got a pretty good conference overall. Were still walking around with our heads held high and our chest out, about that. Paul Rhoads
It used to be before the upgrade. After the upgrade, I don't think they enabled it. Which is too bad, because Tapatalk is great for browsing forums from my phone.
You don't really need it with the way the mobile site works though. The mobile site is probably my single favorite part of the upgrade.
The downside of the mobile site is that sometimes, something will get posted that pushes the width of the post out past the edge of the screen with no way to slide over to see it. Not an issue with Tapatalk.
Tapatalk is great for the sites I use, but, I agree the CF mobile site is nice.
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On Old sturmey archer hubs you could unscrew the left hand (non cog side) ball ring. Later on they were pressed in. Anyone know if the modern ones are pressed or can be unscrewed?
What i want to do is put an old sturmey FM 4 speed medium ratio internals into a modern alloy shell. I know i could get a whole hub and build it into a wheel but i am afraid of the following:
I am pretty strong so this is a real possibility, especially knowing what i can do to weak wheels... So what i am thinking is buying a modern alloy shell, removing the left hand ball ring, installing the FM one and building it into a new wheel. Any insights or suggestions are highly appreciated. I succesfully converted AW to AM but i do miss the low end.*I think that is why Sturmey made the FM and it was regarded to be the best club gear.
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Shakti Yoga
Awakening the Sacred Feminine
Peel away your self-image to reveal your Goddess Nature…Come play with natural movement and deep stillness, to release, restore and rediscover your uniqueness and unity.
Shakti Yoga is a uniquely feminine way of practicing Yoga. It focuses on moving from the lower belly and hips to awaken creative potential. Special emphasis is given to the pathway between the pelvis and the heart, and how to merge those centers for an integration of body, spirit, and emotion.
We create a sacred space of healing, expressing, and living our authentic self through natural movement. It's an experience of opening gateways deeper into our wild primal and sensual-spiritual self, and stepping into our creative possibilities. Workshops are deigned as a trance-like Journey unlocking a deep creative expression and concluding with nourishing relaxation.
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Your Take: Would You Get Genetic Testing?
Posted By Jim On 08/29/2008 @ 7:01 am In Your Take | 7 Comments
My wife and I once discussed getting genetic testing done to figure out whether our kids would be grow up to become NBA superstars and fund our lavish retirement plans. Anyway, with that plan in mind, I originally planned to spend tens of thousands of dollars to get myself tested by a plethora of different genetic testing companies, but Discover Magazine, with their deep pockets and journalistic pull, beat me to the punch and saved me a bunch of money. (whew!)
Boonsri Dickinson was genetically tested by three different firms [3] (Navigenics [4], 23andMe [5], and deCODE genetics [6]) and the results were… eh, anticlimactic. What I learned in Dickinson's article was that genetic testing was at best still an imperfect science. The data we have on the human genome simply isn't deep enough to give us a clear and accurate picture of even our own future, let alone the future of the children of couples being tested.
One surprising factoid was the importance of race. I had always heard that there was really no genetic difference between any two races [7], that individual variance was a bigger deal than racial variances. This was in direct conflict with the analysis methodology for interpreting the DNA testing results. Dickinson is half-European and half-Asian… and her 23andMe results would wildly fluctuate based on how she classified her ancestry.
While I can see the merits of genetic testing, it still sounds like it's an imperfect science because we simply don't understand it well enough. We often see media stories about how we've discovered the gene for this or that and the reality is that it's just not that simple. I think genetic testing, for now, with its hefty price tag and inaccurate results, is out of any future plans.
How about you? Ever consider it? Too creepy (Gattaca [8], anyone?)? Too expensive? See no point to it?
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Simple Addressing for the Web, Part 1
Addressing is important. It's something that many people have tried to solve.
I'm interested in addressing because it's an important piece of web-scale messaging, and of the federated social networks that are an emergent property of verified cross-site communication. In order to communicate with someone, you need to be able to route your communications to them.
The URL is the thing. Except when it's not.
The URL was supposed to become the way that we negotiated identity. We were supposed to have a "home page," a place on the internet to call our own. It didn't quite work out that way, and at the same time as Geocities is shutting down, we're finally facing the need for a strong conception of identity on the web.
It goes without saying these days that everything we do, everything we interact with, has an associated URL. I can give you my blog URL so that you can read my posts, or my calendar URL so that you can invite me to events. However, for the vast majority of users, URLs aren't a viable option. Fundamentally, it's a lack of consistency (or, put another way, unbridled diversity) that makes URLs unusable as identity markers. Take the following URLs as a proof-by-example:
- twitter.com/blaine
- myspace.com/romeda
- flickr.com/lattice
- search.twitter.com/search?q=%22Swine+Flu%22+OR+Flu
- home.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user
- blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=6135683561277543562
- amazon.com/gp/pdp/profile/A1GUHSGP27QA4W
All of the above are URLs which I see while interacting with sites on the web. Unlike postal addressing, phone numbers, or email, there's no consistency. The path part of the domain may as well be line noise in the latter four examples. By association, the pattern used by Flickr, MySpace, and Twitter is a fluke. Beyond that, my username doesn't match across the three social networking sites, and as such it's nearly impossible for a friend, relative, or co-worker to guess what my URL is, even given a domain.
I don't see a way to fix URLs across the web so that we can encourage people to use them as identifiers. OpenID has tried, and the results are nothing short of abysmal.
Back to the Future
If not URLs, what should our new web addressable identities look like? The simplest answer is "like an email address." They're universally recognizable. Billions of people have email addresses and know how to use them. All the major IM providers have moved towards email-like addresses as identifiers (gone are the integers of ICQ). Most importantly, email addresses are easy to construct and resolve.
The net result of this line of thought is that instead of @blaine for my Twitter address, I'd be firstname.lastname@example.com, and on Identi.ca I'd be email@example.com. I could share my Myspace identity as firstname.lastname@example.com, and on Facebook I could be email@example.com.
The problem is that those addresses conflict with an already-existing namespace, specifically email. Which isn't surprising, but it is problematic. Can you send me an email at email@example.com or email@example.com? What happens when you do? Unfortunately, there aren't clear answers for those questions, and while some social networks might choose to make "Social Network Addresses" work as email addresses, it would be an uphill battle to convince all providers to do so.
Use What's Already There
I've been thinking about this problem a lot lately, and while the approach of re-using email semantics to provide human-readable web addresses/identities is very attractive, the proliferation of addresses (one for each network) and namespace collisions are less than ideal. After having extensive conversations with Alexis Richardson and Tony Garnock-Jones, the general approach for discovery became clear to me, but I didn't have a more generally applicable form for the addresses themselves.
Eventually, talking over the problem with John Panzer and Breno de Medeiros at Social Web Foo, the solution was there, blazing as bright as the California Sun; Google Profiles means that Google is now providing links to all my social network profiles. They're also my email provider.
My email address is firstname.lastname@example.com. If you transform that to http://www.google.com/profiles/romeda, you get my profile data, and away we go. Every email provider these days has a website, and Eran's LRDD, new on the scene, provides a discovery mechanism that everyone (i.e., every mail provider, even if they're only hosting static content) can implement in just a few minutes.
This is an important, exciting transformation. Now, with one identifier, I can share all the social bits of myself to anyone I please.
Where are my photos? email@example.com.
Where's my calendar? firstname.lastname@example.com.
What's my phone number? Look it up with firstname.lastname@example.com, and I'll give you permission to see it and store it in your address book.
They're all the same.
If I want to share a different set of social interactions, say, my work identity, I can give my Osmosoft or BT addresses, firstname.lastname@example.com and firstname.lastname@example.com, respectively. Now just photos of conferences come up, and the calendar that you'll find is my work calendar, not my social calendar.
Talking about this problem with others unearthed a post last year by Brad Fitzpatrick and EAUT, which were both aimed at solving the OpenID problem, but both take the same approach as the one that I outline here. EAUT seems to have been lost in the swamps of XRDS-Simple, and Brad's post was probably too early to the races, in true Brad style (if you want to know what's coming to the internet in five years, just read his blog posts).
With a swift and general agreement-in-principle, there's been some very positive movement towards promoting this concept as a way to bring the power of strong identity that email provides to the web. John has an excellent post on the subject, and it seems like a name for the project has emerged: WebFinger.
Part Two (coming tomorrow) goes in depth about how this all works on the tech side. Bits on the wire, as Tim Bray says.
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I can't explain why, but performances that electrified the live audience occasionally sound flat on record. In person, the RPO's Bolero (Ravel) had me on the edge of my seat, even though I've heard it a thousand times. On tape, though, it seems a bit ragged.
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Camping: Alison RV Park, Shady Acres RV Cottage Community, Sunrise RV Park
Attractions: Mississippi Welcome Center, NASA John C. Stennis Space Center
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(013) Exit 13 – MS43 / MS603, Bay St Louis, Kiln, Picayune
Food: Subway, Waffle House
Gas: Chevron, Exxon, Pure
Lodging: Travelers Choice Motel
Camping: Mcleod Park, Nella's RV Park
Attractions: to Stennis International Airport
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The actual weight of the 45L bag is 3.90 oz, not the advertised 3.3 oz.
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ISO: A late 1980's Giant Iguana MTB frameset (or complete bike) 23" Red with yellow graphics.
"Cycling should be a way of life, not a hobby.
RIDE, YOU FOOL, RIDE!"_Nicodemus
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Which one would you rather have under your butt at 30mph?"_krazygluon
the slippery feeling does decrease a bit with use, but for me, it is one of the pluses of a Brooks, no binding or sticking (or a lot lot less when all sweaty)
For anyone else considering this I thought I'd post my experience.
I had a sagging Swallow which was running out of tension adjustment - it had stretched that much! I bought it secondhand so I've no idea of it's history but it was very (too) pliant.
I boiled it for 2 minutes and it did indeed thicken and shrink. However I stupidly removed the tension bolt and getting that back in place was a real pig of a job. So my advice would be to loosen it right off but don't remove.
Several applications of clear shoe-polish later the saddle looks great, is the perfect shape, and is rock hard - like a new Team Professional. I'll now start breaking it in, adding proofhide as necessary.
Interesting, I wonder if it will be too hard over time, I suspect the boiling process must affect the flexibility permanently of the leather. I guess only time will tell how it is, proofided applying included. Have you ever had a Brooks before, ie are you familiar with one that works for you?
I'd be curious to hear how it turns out over the next x months and x number of kms ridden on it.
I did a warm saddle upside down in 120F oven and it absorbed a Tbs* of Proofide , like a sponge , (a Pro Model)
then the waxes re solidified at normal room temperatures didnt need much after that .. but a plastic bag on it in the rain ..
underside remains waxy ..
* a good % of the tin..
Of the 3, the Swallow, when not sagging is the most comfortable, followed by the Swift. The Team Pro was great on a touring style bike with less handlebar drop but I'm less keen on it now.
Regarding it's hardness, I'm sure Proofhide or oil will soften the leather if need be, but I'm going to be very conservative with any application as the whole point of the exercise was to toughen it up.
I shall report back with updates...
Thanks, then at least you have long term experience with them. Cuz you mentioned oil, Brooks themselves caution about never using oils as they overly soften thel eather all over and cause the sags. This summer I met a young guy training for a touring trip and his b17 that he claimed he bought a few mths earlier was sagging like a banana and was splayed out twice as much as my b17's.
Don't know what he did to it , claimed he put nothing on it, but did say it had gotten wet "a few times" so perhaps he had ridden it after being totally soaked in rain for days...idunno but it was the most saggy splayed out "new" seat I'd seen. Poor guy didn't know better.
You could selectively put small amounts of proofide just where your sit bones go, a really small amount to be safe.
In any case get back with how it goes.
Applying too much Proofide to the underside of the saddle will cause over-softening. Before Brooks was taken over by Selle this was never given as advice. Back then it was small quantities applied only to the top surface, which of course has been "pressure rolled" and the Proofide could not penetrate this and at best could only provide a temporary waterproofing effect.
The advice about applying Proofide to the bottom came about because Selle realised that mudguards (Fenders) were not popular with American cyclists and so wanted to make the underside less vulnerable to wet and spray. The USA was targeted as their largest market and Brooks saddles sold as a retro niche product with a huge hike in price.
That said, a saddle that doesn't take an eternity to break in is not bad also. I do wonder if the first one I bought was of thinner leather, and or I maybe put a bit too much proofide on the underside, its not saggy by any means but it seems more flexible than my other b17 with copper rivets and the leather seems thicker by a bit.
They specifically state the pros have thicker leather so this to me supports my theory of newer saddles maybe havingess thickeather than before, or a different quality, grain direction or whatever.
Bottom line if I were to get another, I'd put less proofide on the underside.
Im still curious to see how it fares, especially as this fellow has a fair amount of experience with leather seats, so will be an informed reviewer of how it feels, splitting or not.
Personally, I wouldn't use Proofide on the underside but rather a coating of leather conditioner such as "Hydrophane" and would pay particular attention to the area around the rivets. Not too much though, as again this would over-soften the leather.
After using these saddles for over forty years I've come to the conclusion that, the thickness of the leather being equal, breaking-in time depends upon the amount of covering over the "sit-bones". I say this after watching an eight-stone female work her way through countless saddles while I struggle to break one in. Now I don't bother as I soak the leather while new, then create the required depressions with my thumb before allowing the saddle to dry to its previous hardness.
But really, what do I know. There is a lot of information on the internet about how to make leather armor, involving boiling water; and G. R. R. Martin's Game of Thrones books often mention armor of boiled leather. Maybe he knows something I don't know (other than when the next book is coming out, that is. Or not. You will know soon enough!
your technique of putting your own depressions in with your thumb coincides with stories I have read of people using a golf ball. Your soaking of it kind of goes along with other stories of riding on a damp facecloth to soften the leather. I'd be more inclined to only want to stretch out the depressions in the specific area, a la technique you describe, but in any case, I'd be very careful about anything that overly softens the main body of the saddle as its clear you dont want that part to sag etc.
Im a light fellow, and was surprised by how the break in period wasnt too bad for my first Brooks, the one that is more flexible than the other, so again, in hindsight, I may have put a bit too much proofide on it, but I ride it often and it is still very comfortable so its not a real issue--Im thinking more in terms of long long term life it might be better to be very sparing with proofide.
And I do like your idea of essentially forming the two depressions gently purposely while leaving the rest of the body of leather alone, I may go along those lines if I ever get another one.
no doubt about it, a leather saddle does require some intuition and observation about getting it into good riding shape and keeping it in good shape. I guess because I have the interest this aspect of it is not a problem for me, and outweighed by the riding comfort compared to previous bike seats I've had, but can understand completely that its not for everyone.
I always maintain that its only a bike seat, whatever seat that works for you is fine.


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Yep we'll do mate. Dunno if Asuka would be keen though, her (then) boyfriend is an advertising exec with a Mercede$ and hou$e in $hukugawa...
I was trying to work out the first time I went drifting and find the pics you took when you were with Terry
anyway, if you come across them could you check the date for me please?
Anyway my car has since been crashed four times and lowered a lot (it had just passed Shakken in
that pic). The Guy from Hong Kong has crashed his car a couple of times and it now has widebody.
Also I need to get Asuka's phone number/email off you for errrr no particular reason
Photo Diary Comeback Special
Posted 10 July 2006 - 11:31 AM
Showing good offset there mate, but the ride height... she's gotta come down
Laurence is in mid-drift here (if you look closely at the front wheels turned op-lock), I only had my little camera that night, so the flash was practically useless.
This probably a better shot, but still bad. Laurence did impressively well for his second time out in a new car in front of some tough onlookers (the local Japanese).
Terry Vahoumis doing what he does best... blowing smoke up ya G'day Terry!
Some random R32 drifter that I didn't see have a run that night.
Posted 10 July 2006 - 09:27 PM
Pics were taken at the top of Rokko Mountain.
If you're wondering why every so often they have groups of highrise apartments then lots of low rise, well where all the high rise buildings are grouped thats where a train station is... it's very convenient to live near a train station, then you can get practically anywhere without a car. I lived near a train station but had a car anyway... just like about 6 million other people in my neighbourhood.
Posted 10 July 2006 - 09:50 PM
Terry's Gloria Gran Turismo not being thrashed...
A Japanese wrecking yard 'somewhere in Amagasaki'. Some people might remember an HPI article about this place about 5 - 6 years ago.
It's not such a big place area-wise, but the place was stacked to the brim with wrecked cars.
Shit cars start their slow painful death here, in the clutches of the evil 'GRAPPLOR'...
... Grapplor then flips the victim over and does some precision work to get the enigine out of the bay...
... then once the engine, exhaust, suspension subframes etc are thrown on the pile behind, Grapplor then deposits the limp and lifeless carcass into....
... 'Hell-ga', the car-eating, metal-cube-shitting compactor. hehehe
Here a pile of Hell-ga's shit she prepared earlier...
Time for a synchronized drink after all that crushing.
If you happen to be in Amagasaki, go to this place! Buggered if I can remember where it is exactly, but with 300 yen pints of lemon chu-hi you can't go wrong. I had about 5 of them and a whole stack of different yakitori and Terry picked up the tab... you're a legend mate
Posted 10 July 2006 - 10:13 PM
Some pretty boring driving shots. All the raised expressways pretty much look like this, with the odd ferris wheel or skyscraper to break the continuous sea of apartment buildings and smog.
Here, theres an expressway deck below me, then a street, so we're already 8 stories up... then this overpass comes out of nowhere. I must say I was very impressed the first time I saw all these expressways rising above the buildings in Osaka/Kobe.
Crossing the Yodo river. See the bridge in the background? Just beyond that is where I was sitting at the end of year fireworks display on the previous page...
This is Nishinomiya, taken about 5 minutes before the pic above. My DJ mate Nao lives in one of those blue apartment blocks.
A bit blurry, but I think you can get more of a feeling of actually being there with a bit of blur and natural light, don't you think?
This is 'Ni-go-sen' (Route 2) between Kobe and Osaka, around the Nishinomiya area.
Posted 10 July 2006 - 10:36 PM
Posted 10 July 2006 - 10:50 PM
Thank you my good man, I see you pay attention to detail... I've got some shots of inside the glovebox if you're interested?
wow that car interior is beautiful
Wink: In the mornings (and especially when it rains) it's just crawling stop/start/stop for 15 - 20km in every direction. The best times to drive are at lunchtime or midnight. I'm not suprised 'Wangan' teams go crazy at night on the expressways doing speed runs between toll gates spending $150 in tolls in a night.
Posted 10 July 2006 - 11:00 PM
A typical suburban street in Ashiya. That orange apartment building is a 'Lion's Mansion', you can see them practically everywhere around Osaka/Kobe (don't know about Tokyo etc) and a particularly popular with the gaijin menace. Did I say menace? Sorry I meant *scurge*...
If you're wondering why that Stagea is parked the way it is, that house is about 70 years old and didn't have a parking space built in, so the city council allowed 1(!) car to park on the corner like that. Aparently that house burnt and was damaged pretty badly in the Hanshin earthquake back in '95.
An Umeda street scene. This was taken from the 4th floor school I used to teach at.
Another Umeda street scene.
The Hilton Hotel in Umeda.
SuperAutobacs 43 Doui. I spent alot of money on incidental car stuff here. Still got my point card too.
The other side of SuperAutobacs 43, where the [email protected] showoff showroom is, they sell Tommy Kaira, ASL and Monocraft modified cars amongst others.
Speaking of Monocraft, here's their 'MM 1' Mazda Roadster. Heres the website: http://www.ab-carssh...ft_mm1/kit.html
Posted 10 July 2006 - 11:18 PM
So you`re heading back to Japan?
Posted 11 July 2006 - 07:14 AM
Is that a Tommy Kaira ZZ in the window of Super Autobacs?
These Japs drive around in some crazy-ass cars
Posted 11 July 2006 - 10:29 AM
Golf .:R32
Hi Christian Yes mate, I'm heading back at the end of the year. This time I've got a proper plan, as opposed to being over there and just wandering around aimlessly. I'm planning on starting my own business there too. NO MORE TEACHING!
Good to see the photos coming back up.
So you`re heading back to Japan?
Topaz: Not sure what you mean by 'dolphin face' mate... can you elaborate? Yes, thats a Tommy ZZ in the window, alongside an ASL Garaiya.
Posted 11 July 2006 - 10:51 AM
Yes, they're very similar in layout, not sure if the main frame of the chassis is shared though. They both run fairly stock late model NA SR20s too if I recall correctly.
Hey Rezz is the TK ZZ2 related to the ASL Guraiya?
Posted 11 July 2006 - 12:36 PM
See a Dolphin
Posted 11 July 2006 - 03:12 PM
Golf .:R32
This leaves me burning....You bastard!
Immerse yourself into the pic... focus on the center, and let the frame encompass your entire field of vision... good. Now step into the pic... walk up to the FD and say to the driver how humid it is today and is he having a good time out on the track... wait for his response - in Japanese - but somehow you understand completely... now walk up to the ladies in the background. Introduce yourself and ask them if they'd like a drink from the kiosk... it's so humid they reply positively... now look around and breath in the curious mix of warm, thick mountain air and racing fuel fumes, all the time wiping sweat from your forehead...
Are you there yet?
...and yet I can't wait for some more pics/commentary from the next trip.
Keep us all posted
Posted 12 July 2006 - 10:49 PM
Topaz: You're a crack up mate... put the bong down haha
On with the pics...
Kei truck with 'Lambo doors'... actually it *does* look like a Lambo now that I think of it
R34 GT-T in the carpark at Intex Osaka.
Vented bonnet? Check. Wider track? Check. Body rigidity improved 500 percent? Check. Front and rear downforce at Touring car levels? Check... This was some guys weekend track car. You can't fathom the millions upon millions of yen that guys spend on their 'hobby' until you actually get out to an event like this one.
Heres the car that belongs to that sexy black headlight on the previous page...
These next 3 shots are some of my absolute best for various reasons:
Feast Power FD3S with my wheels! Yes these exact same offset, diameter and width Racing Hart CP-S10s are going on my S13 Silvia.
I just like this one because of the colours, and the driver gave me the thumbs up for... I dunno.
Little kid out of nowhere! When I took this pic, I had no idea the kid was there... when I got home and loaded all the pics onto my PC, there he was... showing off his belly too! Hahaha it made the pic ten times better IMO with him in the background.
Posted 12 July 2006 - 11:55 PM
Posted 13 July 2006 - 11:50 AM
Golf .:R32
This shot could've been better but I mistakenly took it with 1600 ISO.
Theres that Auto Select strut brace again. Hardcore circuit racing spec
No mucking around here either...
You can see clearly the increased track at this angle. An awesome circuit BNR34 just sitting there, it was the fastest on the day too around Central Circuit. The only real competition came from this car...
The Stillway Evo 7
Set up like a front wheel drive, the front was soft with the rear wheels really stiff so that it would scrape it's nose under brakes and lift the inside rear under hard cornering and braking. They really are an awesome circuit car (the late model Evos) and I would not say no to one if I came across one at the right price.
That ARC radiator is worth $$$$. Not sure how much boost it was making, but power was up around 550hp.
Those rear doors are 100% FRP... including the painted windows.
Posted 13 July 2006 - 09:41 PM
Heres my good friend Akihiro standing next to the J's Racing S2000 circuit car. If it wasn't for Akihiro, I would've benn thrown out of the venue because (little did we know) this was a closed session for Option Magazine and their crew doing features on some of Kansai's finest garages: Nagisa, Auto Select, J's Racing, Stillway and Trial.
I think the only original parts are the tail lights...
Mitsubishi GTOs are a rare sight in Japan nowadays, and even rarer to see them tuned as much as this one.
V35 Skylines *can* look good with the right body kit and wheels.
I'm sure this Civic put in decent times, but when it was out on the track at the same time as the Nagisa GT-R and the Trial/Stillway Evo's, it just couldn't keep up... just made alot of noise.
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Panjshir Embedded Tactical Training Team member, U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Stephen Jennings, a Vergennes, Vt. resident, and an Infantryman assigned to the 86th Infantry Brigade Combat Team teaches the correct way to hold a pistol during advanced police tactics class, May 12. The ETT team is in Panjshir to train the Afghan national police in advanced police tactics such as room clearing and crowd control. They also plan on teaching them mountaineering skills to aid them as first responders for emergencies in the rough terrain of Panjshir province.
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Indiewire has weeded through the films hitting VOD this month to bring you the ten to look out for. You'll find everything from an ensemble globe spanning drama, to a Danish sex comedy, to a documentary that gets to the bottom of what it means to be a man in the 21st century.
Here are the ten films to watch on VOD this July, in alphabetical order:
"2 Days in New York" (July 6)
Julie Delpy's winning follow-up film to "2 Days in Paris," "2 Days in New York," adds Chris Rock to the mix as Delpy's love interest. The result? A sequel that's even funnier than the first entry. The free-wheeling comedy centers on Marion (Delpy) and Mingus (Rock), a happy couple living with two young children from previous relationships. When Marion's father (played by Delpy's real-life dad!), her horny sister and her sister's boyfriend drop in from Paris for a visit, their bond is put to the test.
"360" (July 1)
Inspired by Arthur Schnitzler's "La Ronde," comes the latest drama from acclaimed director Fernando Meirelles ("City of God," "The Constant Gardener") and featuring a scrip penned by Peter Morgan ("The Queen"). With a stellar international cast that includes Rachel Weisz, Anthony Hopkins, Jude Law, Ben Foster, Jamel Debbouze and Moritz Bleibtreu, "360" starts in Vienna, then weaves through Paris, London, Bratislava, Rio, Denver and Phoenix to tell a myriad of modern day love stories.
"Abel" (July 3)
"Y Tu Mama Tambien" star Diego Luna makes a stellar transition into filmmaking with his direcotiral debut "Abel." The coming-of-age drama centers on Abel, a ten-year-old boy who after being released from a two year stay at a mental hospital, returns home to a struggling mother, a younger brother, a sister who is coming of age, and an absent father. To carve out a role for himself in his family, the young Abel decides to become head of the household, but when his father makes an unplanned return, his fantasy caves in.


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March 20, 2013
Movie Review: The Incredible Burt Wonderstone
Another delightful night at the movie theaters with my special lady, and again I had absolutely no plan on how the night was to unfold. With respect, Mary isn't by any means a difficult woman to please. Her desires for cinematic fidelity often surprise me so much that I wonder to myself how I got so lucky. In fact, we often get along quite nicely when the subject of movies is presented at the round table.
Okay, maybe the table is more square than round, but there you have it.
We ultimately decided on watching The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, a hilarious magician-dark comedy about the declining industry of street, television and theatrical magicians. The movie stars everyone's favorite white guy, Steve Carrel, with side performances from Jim Carrey and Steve Bushcemi. The all-star cast of veteran actors encourages us to spend ten bucks of our money, but the hilarity is what kept us glued (and rolling around frantically) in our seat.
The movie begins with a young Burt (Carrell) and Antone (Buschemi) discovering their love, and, hence, friendship for magic and entertainment. Although both youngsters possess little to no hope for a reasonably normal life in their later years, both Burt and Antone forge a friendship that endures for over twenty years.
We fast forward to both men now in their thirties in the beginning stages of their big break when they are presented a ten-year contract to perform their act in Las Vegas. Although Doug Munny insists that Burt ditch Anton for a more favorable audience, in front of Anton no less, Burt insists that the duo is in fact a team. Much like brothers, they stick together and are both offered a contract.
We fast-forward ten more years and the duo are still doing the same boring act with ten plus years of arrogance, money, sex, and excessive amounts of drug use. While their act is still flawless in performance, the material has gotten quite dry as they haven't done anything new so far. Their friendship is put to the test when they meet former street magician Steve Gray (Carrey), and realize that they are old.
Gray is a political allegory for the new era of magician, a dirtier, darker, and raunchier performance artist that does almost anything to get a shock factor out of his audience. It was here that my appreciation for the film's humor began. Rather than push nothing but slapstick humor in our faces, the movie actually makes an attempt to provide us with some emotional and theoretical depth. The relationship between Gray and Wonderstone highlights the culture and demographics difference between age groups of individuals who enjoy the same respective category of entertainment.
In short, The Incredible Burt Wonderstone is a fantastic dark comedy that makes great work of cinematic and comedic styles to provide the audience with a product that still feels fresh. Although there's hardly much sex or adult themes, the political humor is sure to be appreciated by individuals over the age of 25. With respect, I'm only 20 and my girlfriend is 18.
If you're confused about whether or not to drop a little pocket money to see this movie, don't be. The experience will undoubtedly be as good in the movie theater as it is on the DVD release.
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There's a critical need for new materials that can function under extreme temperature, pressure, or radiation environments. Scientists are hoping MaRIE will fill that need by forever changing the way materials are developed.
It's a material world, all right. Materials are the backbone of modern civilization, which wouldn't exist without the metals, plastics, ceramics, semiconductors, and other marvelous solids we've fashioned from the elements. We've made everything from aluminum alloys to Zytel thermoplastics, but truth be told, we don't exactly know what we're doing.
Materials-savvy scientists cannot modify the composition of, say, a steel alloy and be certain of the results, nor can they predict which modifications will produce a desired product. Rather, their approach to material development is largely Edisonian—tinkering with an existing material's recipe until, through trial-and-error and perseverance, something novel is produced. It's a slow process that's always been stunningly successful.
However, at a 2007 Department of Energy workshop,† some of the country's best scientists made it clear that a different approach was needed. They stressed that solving many of our most challenging technical problems will require revolutionary new materials, and the nation can't afford to wait for serendipity to supply them.
Enter MaRIE, a proposed national user complex for materials research that will be Los Alamos National Laboratory's signaturescience center in the 21st century. Intended to hasten the development of materials that must function within extreme temperature, pressure, radiation, or other environments, MaRIE (for Matter-Radiation Interactions in Extremes) will also be part of a general effort to transform materials development from a "try it and see what happens" discipline into a "predict it and control what happens" science.
A Complex Overview
The MaRIE approach to materials research and development will be a science-based methodology. Specific steps will include fabricating a sample, exposing it to an extreme environment, and making measurements in situ that reveal how the sample changes over time. Experimentalists will coordinate their efforts with theorists and modelers to identify parameters or indicators that lend predictability to materials development. Their collective insights will then guide new experiments and new discoveries. The ultimate goal is to create materials that are perfectly suited to any given extreme environment. "We're looking at a very different approach to materials research," says John Sarrao, project lead of the MaRIE effort, "a much more complete integration of experiment, theory, simulation, and fabrication than has ever been done before."
Plans for MaRIE call for a complex of three facilities and two particle accelerators, with the accelerators—the beating hearts of the complex—providing high-energy beams of protons, electrons, or x-rays for experiments. The beams will serve as common links between the facilities, create some of the extreme environments, and most important, provide scientists with state-of-the-art tools, such as proton microscopy and an x-ray free-electron laser (XFEL), for interrogating samples. Initially, MaRIE will focus on materials and environments relevant to national security, with an emphasis on energy security. Each facility will play a role in achieving that focus.
The Making, Measuring, and Modeling Materials Facility (M4) is where new samples will be fabricated as well as characterized before and after they're tested in extreme environments. The facility will also house a cadre of theory, modeling, and computation (TMC) experts who will use MaRIE data to validate computer simulations and inform the next generation of materials models.
The bulk properties of a material, say, plutonium (Pu), are determined by a combination of its crystal structure (atom-scale), microstructure (micron-scale), and defects (atom-to-bulk scale). (A) Plutonium has six distinct solid-state crystal structures, or phases. The complex, room-temperature alpha phase makes the metal brittle. (B) The high-temperature delta phase makes the metal ductile. (C) This micrograph shows several Pu grains. The different colors indicate different orientations. (D) The threadlike lines are dislocation defects that run through the Pu grains. (E) Plutonium decays naturally by emitting helium nuclei (alpha particles), and helium gas slowly accumulates within the metal. The dark bubbles are voids filled with helium gas. Such voids can affect the thermal conductivity of the metal.
The Fission and Fusion Materials Facility (F3) (pronounced "eff cubed") will specialize in creating neutron environments to mimic what's expected in advanced reactors. The Laboratory has already been a pioneer in nuclear-reactor design and safety and has a strong interest in using MaRIE to develop materials for nuclear power. Researchers will be able to interrogate a sample in situ, using the XFEL or other photon sources.
The third facility, the Multi-Probe Diagnostic Hall (MPDH), will be well suited to the study of materials for national security. There, samples will be hit by shock waves or subjected to other dynamic extremes and probed by the XFEL for analysis of the sample's interior with atom-scale resolution (better than one-billionth of a meter). Simultaneously, researchers will be able to use proton microscopy to make images (similar to an x-ray image) of larger features inside the sample and/or do spectroscopy on the sample's surface.
Extreme Matters
Why is MaRIE focused on extreme environments? Because operating at the extremes opens the door to new solutions, especially in energy security.
It is estimated that the already-enormous global need for electric power—approximately 15 billion-billion watts (15 terawatts)—may double within the next 40 years because 2.5 billion people will be added to the planet and because China, India, and other countries will continue their steady industrialization. The immense deficit between the energy we'll need versus the energy we currently produce requires full development of every known energy source, from fossil fuels to renewables to nuclear fission and fusion (although commercial fusion power is still several decades away).
One way to ease the situation is to increase the efficiency with which electricity is generated. The standard coal-fired power plant, for example, uses the heat from urning coal to convert water into high-pressure steam, which spins a steam turbine that turns an electric generator. The plant's efficiency would nearly double if the temperature of the steam were increased to around 750 degrees Celsius and its pressure doubled to about 380 atmospheres, butpressure vessels inside the boiler (where the water-to-steam conversion takes place) would fatigue and burst. Developing stronger high-temperature steel would remove one barrier to making more than 50,000 of the world's coal power plants burn less coal.
Similarly, next-generation nuclear reactors will be designed to achieve higher fuel efficiency and produce far less long-term nuclear waste because they'll run nearly 3 times hotter than today's reactors and produce 10 times the neutron flux. Existing structural materials or nuclear fuel claddings could not survive such extreme conditions but instead would become brittle, swollen, and structurally unsound. Next-generation reactors will require next-generation materials.
Renewable energy resources such as solar and wind power also present some formidable material challenges, with needs for lower-cost, higher-efficiency photovoltaic materials and stronger wind turbine blades. And what's generally not appreciated is that using renewable energy sources is often tied to extreme chemical and electric-field environments.
For example, energy storage is crucial if solar or wind power is to be a reliable source of electricity. For small-scale systems, batteries are often the storage medium of choice. A battery stores energy by changing the oxidation state of a metal electrode through processes that are intrinsically extreme—chemical bonds get ripped apart. Indeed, the electric field near the electrode's surface is more than 10,000 times greater than the field in a lightening bolt. Unfortunately, charging a battery also changes the metal's surface structure, and a battery loses the ability to be recharged because of repeated structural changes.
"Maybe there's a way to build a better battery," says Mark McCleskey, one of MaRIE's technical leads. "With the ability to image the surface structure, scientists at MaRIE could examine the electrochemical interfaces to see microscopically why breakdown occurs, information that can help us build more-durable high-capacity energy-storage devices."
Maintaining the Nuclear Arsenal
MaRIE will also help scientists fulfill the Laboratory's mission of maintaining the nation's nuclear deterrent. Furthermore, on April 6, 2010, the Obama administration released its Nuclear Posture Review, which establishes U.S. nuclear policy for the next 5 to 10 years. In a follow-up commentary, Vice President Joe Biden wrote that "although we will not develop new warheads or add military capabilities as we manage our arsenal for the future, we will pursue needed life-extension programs so the weapons we retain can be sustained."
Los Alamos plays a large role in the life-extension programs, including evaluating the safety and reliability of the weapons. Radiation emitted by plutonium and uranium components in the weapons causes many parts to age at an accelerated pace, so one aspect of life extension involves replacing various weapon parts. Some of the original parts were manufactured more than 30 years ago, so new ones will likely be manufactured differently and be made from different materials. In the extreme environment of an exploding weapon, what guarantee is there that those new parts will function as intended?
Los Alamos' Tim Germann and co-workers recently conducted a simulation of phase transitions in a polycrystalline iron sample. Initially, in a body-centered-cubic crystal phase (gray with yellow boundary), the sample was shocked, resulting in primarily a low-symmetry, hexagonal-close-packed phase (red) with some twinning (green). The challenge is to understand what controls the evolution of these phases.
"In the absence of nuclear testing, such guarantees can come about only through advanced computer simulations that, closely coupled with experiment, can predict the outcome of detonating a weapon," says Deputy Associate Director of Weapons Mary Hockaday. "Those simulations must account for any changes that might happen to a part when it sits for years in a radiation environment. Data from MaRIE could tell us how the microstructure evolves in that environment; if we know that, we know a lot."
A material's microstructure refers to structural features—crystal grains, grain boundaries, defects—that are usually on the order of a millionth of a meter in size micron scale). Explicitly, a metal forms crystals and, under the right conditions, can be a single crystal, its atoms all sitting at precise positions in an imaginary lattice. Normally, however, it will be polycrystalline, its interior composed of millions of micron-scale crystals (or grains) of different sizes and shapes, each randomly oriented. The grains are typically riddled with defects, ranging from point defects—an atom sitting where it shouldn't be (an interstitial) or not sitting where it should be (a vacancy)—to larger defects.
The microstructure is important because, in combination with the crystal grains and defects, it determines the material's macroscopic engineering properties, such as its strength, its stability under heat and pressure, or its elastic properties.
"Much of today's materials research is focused on nanoscience because new phenomena arise when quantum mechanical effects dominate observed behavior," says Sarrao. "So people are trying to understand things on the scale of nanometers. But that understanding isn't enough to translate into actual utility. What matters for doing the materials revolution is a material's microstructure and the micron frontier."
The micron frontier is the evocative name given to the gap that exists between understanding how changes to the microstructure occur and knowing how they result in changes to the bulk material. Conquering the frontier will take more than just making micronscale measurements—materials scientists have been doing that for a long time. Rather, it means knowing where atoms are and are not inside a three-dimensional (3-D), macroscopic solid (as a function of time) and how the atoms move from place to place.
The tool that can perform that minor miracle is the XFEL, a technology that is just now becoming available. The two current XFELs, the Linac Coherent Light Source in California and the European XFEL in Germany, will begin to revolutionize materials sciences because they allow users to watch chemical bonds break and form, but only in highly prepared samples that are often so thin as to be essentially two dimensional (2-D). Such samples are once-only affairs; they vaporize from the heat that's generated when they absorb or scatter too many high-energy x-rays.
Los Alamos scientists are working hard to develop a next-generation XFEL that will produce x-rays with 5 to 20 times higher energy than either the Californian or European machine. Higher-energy x-rays (knownas very-hard x-rays) can penetrate dense, multigranular metal samples that are thick enough to exhibit real-world properties.
Through a technique known as coherent x-ray diffractive imaging, already demonstrated on thin samples, researchers may be able to make 3-D images of the atoms making up the thick sample's microstructure.
"Fewer very-hard x-rays will be absorbed by the sample, and any heat that does get deposited from x-ray interactions will be distributed among more atoms," says Cris Barnes, the MPDH technical lead. "The result is that even thick samples will survive long enough to be probed several times."
Furthermore, because XFELs can take a series of rapid "snapshots" (a couple every billionth of a second), scientists will be in a position to follow transient yet critically important processes such as the introduction and early development of environment-induced damage.
Unfailing Materials
As an example of MaRIE science, consider a metal support structure inside a nuclear reactor and the general sequence of events that occurs after neutron bombardment causes atomic-scale defects in the material.
A neutron penetrates the metal, strikes an atom, and like a cue ball hitting a rack of billiard balls, initiates a cascade of atom displacements. The displacements take place within a volume much smaller than a crystal grain. In nearly no time (about 10 picoseconds) the cascade ends, and most of the displaced atoms find new homes within the grain's crystal structure. But some don't, and the grain harbors a nanoscale cluster of interstitial atoms and vacancies.
The high temperature inside the reactor allows the interstitials to migrate and coalesce into larger defects, while the vacancies merge to become voids. The defect structures continue to merge with others until the damage has grown into micron-scale cracks and voids.
Surprisingly, recent theoretical research at Los Alamos suggests a way to design a material that can "heal" itself before the damage reaches the micron scale. Simulations show that if the initial impact occurs inside a crystal grain close to a grain boundary, the boundary will trap and hold onto some of the homeless atoms. Later it will "unload" these excess atoms into the body of the grain, where they will annihilate vacancies. Thus, nanocrystalline materials with very small crystal grains (and a high grain-boundary to grain-body ratio) may be highly resistant to neutron damage.
The leaders of the MaRIE project (left to right): Mark Bourke (F3), Mark McCleskey (M4), Turab Lookman (TMC), Cris Barnes (MPDH), and John Sarrao (project lead).
Without MaRIE, it would be very difficult to confirm that result experimentally. But once the F3 facility is built, a nanocrystalline alloy can be placed in it and bombarded with fast neutrons. Training the XFEL on the sample while it's being irradiated, researchers could image the atom displacements and then record the exact distribution of defects that remain after localized melting and recrystallization have occurred. A series of images would show how the defects diffuse and coalesce into nanoscale and micron-scale clusters and to what extent the atoms are "loaded" onto the grain boundary. More images would reveal the extent of unloading and self-healing.
The integrated MaRIE facility would then provide the tools to purposely manipulate the sample's microstructure and accelerate materials development. Before long, high-performance computing simulations of the data could be compared in real time with the real thing, and the cycle would repeat until the birth of a new, neutron-resistant material.
The Beginning
Sometime in the rapidly approaching future, a switch will close and coherent x-rays and a highpower proton beam will simultaneously strike a thick sample in the MPDH: MaRIE will be fully operational. Thanks to breakthroughs in experimental characterization, theoretical modeling, and multiscale simulation on ultrafast supercomputers, scientists will then have an unprecedented opportunity to address what were once considered to be impossible materials problems. And although large facilities like MaRIE can take 10 or more years to build, plans for it can be driven by ideas scientists are having now about the future. Currently, the MaRIE design and program remain flexible and will continue to incorporate new research ideas.
—Jay Schecker (contributions from Anthony Mancino)
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Destiny Bundle Gets Glacier White PS4
As if the excitement over the recently released Destiny Alpha wasn't enough, the Destiny Bundle showcased at E3 has many people chomping at the bit to get one. Most notably about the bundle, is that it includes a "Glacier White" PS4 Console. That's right, if you didn't want a plain old black console as is the standard for video game consoles, this PS4 bundle includes the same PS4 we all know and love, but makes it even more exclusive by being entirely white, including the Dual Shock 4 controller.
Also included with the bundle is the game Destiny (duh), the Glacier White DualShock 4 controller, 30 Days of PSPlus, 30 Days of Music Unlimited, a $10 PlayStation Store Voucher code, an HDMI cable, Power cable, Wired mono headset (most likely the same one bundled with your standard PS4 console), and a USB charging cable.
At a price of $449.99 at retail, it's an awesome deal because Destiny on its own is $59.99 AND you get the sweet new Glacier White PS4 to go with it. I think this is a fantastic move by Sony as it puts another exclusive item on the list of reasons Destiny should be your choice for the PS4 and no other console. It's also a very smart move on legacy console users as anyone with a PS3 might see this as the incentive to upgrade to a PS4 since they'll get an exclusive console and the game.
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So what do you think? Will you be trading in your old PS4 for a Glacier White one? If you still haven't jumped to the PS4, is this bundle the boiling point that'll make you break that piggy bank open and pre-order one? Let us know in the comments what you think!
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Julie Saxton, a 2012 Lassiter High school graduate, is one of nine students selected to receive the University of Georgia Ramsey Honors Scholarship. She is the daughter of Tom and Sharon Saxton. UGA Foundation trustees created the scholarship in 2000 to recognize the university's most generous individual benefactor, Bernard Ramsey, a
1937 graduate of UGA's Terry College of Business. He served as chairman of the board for Merrill Lynch for a number of years. The Ramsey Honors Scholars will enroll in UGA's academically rigorous Honors Program. In-state students receive an annual stipend of $5,050 and the HOPE Scholarship. Ramsey Scholars also receive $3,000 travel-study grants.
(Reprinted from the Marietta Daily Journal, July 24, 2012. Read more: The Marietta Daily Journal – Cobb student gets UGA scholarship)


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Photo by Sgt. Angela Parady
Soldiers catch up over coffee and breakfast at the Waffle House. Set in a makeshift kitchen in one of the aviation hangars here on Camp Bondsteel, soldiers volunteer their Sunday mornings to taking orders, making waffles and serving customers from 7am until noon. The donations collected are used to help fund local students taking the Test of English as a Foreign Language exam. First Lt. Jeff Hodish says that besides helping to raise funds for this program, it also eases some of the plainness that comes with deployment. "Instead of everything being so institutionalized, we have the option to go get a waffle, something they could go get 24 hours a day back home," he said. "It helps with morale. A lot of people have said that they enjoy coming here, because it gives them a break from the everyday." (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Angela Parady, 121st Public Affairs Detachment.)
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