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You can't build a birdhouse with bacon, and it's really hard to have fun with your shotgun when the clays are made of cardboard. To best satisfy expectations, you must to start as well as you plan to finish. We're on to our second trail rig buildup (the previous being the Rav4 Trucklet), the second two-track toy and a second run at building a killer backwoods adventure-mobile. This time it'll be with a more adaptable, more modifiable and more capable truck.
1997 Toyota 4Runner: How Good?
The third-generation Toyota 4Runner was manufactured as 1996 through 2002 models. It's a collection of well-designed OEM hardware and stock parts that make this truck enormously effective on the trail right out of the box: it features a live rear axle located with a four-link, coil springs all around, cavernous wheel wells for nice stuff, a torquey straight-four or a relatively smooth V6, well-spaced low-range, decent stock ground clearance, a full-length frame, and it has room for gear (and a sleeping bag) in back. This model 4Runner also has decent drive-up angle, is not as big or heavy as a full-size, and it offers Toyota-grade reliability and durability.
All bone-stock and no one cares. Goodyear Wranglers were the only thing we'd touched at the time this picture was taken, but we didn't have much choice – new rubber was necessary.
But this truck has weaknesses to overcome as well, such as limited droop up front due to the independent front suspension, some historic trans issues with the overdrive slushbox, not quite enough guts from the motor (and a history of floating the heads), crap departure-angle in back with bumpers of dubious strength, plus weak brakes in the front. There're probably more things to address – but we're hoping to remedy them in advance of breaking them. We're still figuring the details out, though, with the help of the huge reservoir of 4Runner information online. What's funny is that lots of it is in conflict – that'll need to be sorted out too. People on YotaTech and other boards are nothing if not vociferous. Expect regular lurks into the Toyota webiverse in the process of this process.
Hello 4Runner, Goodbye Trucklet
Alright, let's get it out of the way: long live the trucklet. Our last project, the indomitable trucklet (a '98 Rav4), was a great piece of fun. It was tongue-in-cheek, sure, but it was also far more successful than anyone expected. It was popular with folks in the scene, too. Not surprisingly, though, to make a car-based and fully-independent grocery-mobile truly capable in the rocks and weird stuff would have been a bigger project than the results could justify, so we moved on.
A $3,000 4Runner with a blown transmission was a good place to start.
Once the trans was rebuilt on the back of a favor owed to us, we shortened the familiarization process to get going on the surface-level shortcomings of this absolutely unmodified 4Runner. First things first – tires. The OEM-style high-mileage weenies were freeway-only slackers called the BFG Long Trail, and outside of paved roads named "trail" they weren't up to the job. To their credit, we took the bone-stock 4Runner to a Thanksgiving weekend in the desert south of Blythe and the BFGs held up (and that is seriously rough country), but off-roading with them devolved into a weekend of pointy-rock paranoia peppered with "Watch it!" and "Dude!" amongst other less savory and more sailor-esque terminology.
About 20 nuts and bolts separated the running boards, mud flaps and a few other useless parts from this truck in about an hour.
We hunted down a set of Goodyears we'd tested earlier in the year – a version of the Wrangler that was full of Kevlar, called the Silent Armor – and put four 265/75/16s on the factory split three-spokes for about $200 a corner. At stock ride-height, they fit without travail and have so far worked admirably in the tough stuff with no issues – they don't touch anything in the wells at full compression. They're also a lot quieter than your standard-issue bogger, though admittedly not as aggro. Once we get the suspension sorted out, we're going to experiment with even more Kevlar and try Goodyear's reputedly bulletproof MT/R Kevlar, wrapped around a set of something steel, like a Pro-Comp Rock Crawler. Some 17-inches would be cool.Doom on Gingerbread
Beyond installing the right shoes on the factory split-three 16-inches (those Wranglers have proven suitable for quality off-roading when aired down, despite being mild enough for regular pavement use), there was the problem of gingerbread. Okay, if you don't get it, "gingerbread" is one of 100 nicknames for the useless stuff the factory or dealer will bolt on to your vehicle to add "style" or "flair," all of which actually means "weight" and "clutter." Loaded down for the sad life of an SUV, this 4Runner had a full suite of running boards and mud flaps and ding bats, excess metal and plastic that would be in the way of rocks close to the trail, and that's when it wasn't busy being in the way of the tires or hitting your shins.
Hey look, 60 pounds of crap. There's a bug deflector in there, too.
Larry Shinoda – the Ford designer responsible for the Boss 302 Mustang – was a lifelong opponent of non-functional crap, ie: gingerbread. If it didn't serve a purpose, he got rid of it, and that was part of the reason the Boss 302 was so cool. When our dust cleared and unbolting was through, we'd peeled about 60 pounds of useless crap off the truck (we actually weighed it!), and Mr. Shinoda would have been proud. The castoffs included the ankle-biting, rock-detecting running boards and the tire-grabbing front and rear mud flaps (nice when you have paint you're worried about, but pointless on a 160,000-mile 4Runner in San Diego). This strip job is the sort of self-inspired simplistic maneuver that all of you Toyoters are supposed to figure out for yourselves: weight reduction (sans strength reduction) is always a good thing.
Impending 4Runner Buildup
Keep your eyes here: more excellent 4Runner things will be happening shortly. We're sorting out the details of the famous Tundra front brake swap, the as-famous Tundra front suspension lift (and what rear hardware to match with it), plus taking a run at renaming this truck a 4Tundra. We'll locate and install a proper locker in back (perhaps the OEM E-Locker?), chase maintenance items left wanting and attack all the other sundry bits necessary to getting this 4Runner right for the rocks. Stay tuned.


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Alberto Aquilani out for a fortnight
Fiorentina's Alberto Aquilani has been ruled out for two weeks with an Achilles injury.
Aquilani, 28, has been restricted to two substitute appearances since joining the Fiorentina from Liverpool over the summer as a result of the niggling injury but had been in line to start this weekend's Serie A match against Catania.
However, Fiorentina have confirmed the problem that has disrupted the start of Aquilani's season will require more time to heal.
A statement on the club's website read: "ACF Fiorentina announces that Alberto Aquilani was visited today in London by Prof. Nicola Maffulli regarding his Achilles tendinopathy.
"The specialist found no significant changes, but suggested, however, treatment for another two weeks.''
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The suspicious fire Wednesday morning at the Platinum Showgirls Club that caused more than $250,000 in damage was deliberately set, Tampa Fire Rescue said.
Investigators from the state Fire Marshal's Office and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives spent the morning combing the scene for what started the fire, which shuttered the club just as Super Bowl week is gearing up.
A fire marshal dog detected a flammable liquid near the start of the blaze, leading investigators to call it arson, according to Capt. Bill Wade of Tampa Fire Rescue.
At 4:51 a.m., firefighters responded to the club's automatic fire alarm. The nude bar, at 4009 W Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., appeared closed but firefighters could see smoke through an open front door, Wade said.
The sprinkler system helped firefighters extinguish the blaze about 30 minutes after it erupted. No injuries were reported.
Wade said investigators have spoken with several club employees as well as the owner. County and state records list the owner as J.O. Properties LLC, which is operated by Keith R. Johnson.
The club is a part of the Drew Park neighborhood, an area notorious for adult businesses.
A club representative told the St. Petersburg Times last month that the business was bringing in 20 percent less money than the previous year because of the struggling economy.


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Discussion in 'Starting a Lawn Care Business' started by rb3771, Aug 1, 2005.
Don't Do It didn't make it on my last reply,sorry.
Now, if you are just considering putting your feet in the water, and doing a little bit on the weekends, then by all means,..I encourage you to. See, you are the type that is ANOTHER reason that I don't have that much trouble with "weekend warriors". I know we all look down on them because they underprice, don't have the direct related expenses like we do, and so forth, but there is plenty of work out there. this is a safe bet, and you are keeping your security. Now, ou are giong to sacrifice some time to do this, and that includes family time, so be prepared, and prepare them if this is something you want to do. Juszt think of it this way, though. You could get something established, have a foothold, and have your foot in the door with a few different places or people. Anything I can do to help, just feel free to ask.
Lots of good advice, on what someone else would do. I don't mean to offend the fellas giving you good & honest feedback, but ultimately its you that needs to answer this question.
I don't care if you desire to open a sliced bread store and it will be the only one in town, it is still a risk.... Business = Risk....
Sure there are many failures we don't always hear about, even the successful business owners more than likely have failed at the very same business they are successful in or some other endeavor, before they realized success. History and every industry/market is full of this.
So far I've been fortunate, this does NOT happen all the time. You need to determine what you are comfortable with (wife on board with the plan, sacrifices to be made, etc.) and your desire level. Someone else mentioned something about another poster forgetting to put in about the 55 hours a week worked. IMO if you want any chance at all at success this number is low. Desire = long hours.
Remember this is your decision, listen to advice, but ultimately it comes down to you, your tolerance for risk, and level of desire.
Good Luck
I was already committed to doing this (turned in res. at work) I felt & still feel the desire, was willing to take the risk. I just remembered something anotherr forum member once posted on this subject, truth is I tink about this particular post now & again. Mac, handle is olderthandirt once posted something to the effect " If you jump in full time, have some debt from equipment purchased, have a family to support, you will bust yur azz to make it work "
The calculation that needs to be made is can you clear more than 27.00/hr plus benefits mowing. I used to mow and could gross 40.00/hr. I was told that was good. Take equipment, fuel, and maintenace out of that and I am sure I was left with less than 27.00/hr. Plus you will not get unemployment during the winter. From a purely financial position I think it is a loss.
That's what I was saying..not to mention the MEDICAL and the retirement packages.
I would think long and hard before giving up your main job, especially the benefits. I am in the kinda the same boat. I started my lawn business for my days off (three days a week), however my business has grown faster than I expected and now I cannot accept new customers (sole operator). My primary job has excellent health and retirement benefits (law enforcement). I would like to do lawn care full time and no longer worry about changing from day shift to night shift and my daughters getting upset when I do night patrol. I could go full time, however I would lose the Bennie's and really need them. Good luck!!!!
This is a little off the subject,but did you notice no one was slamed and put down and all responses were trying to help, with a genuine concern.Think it was Green Pro who said it was great we gave honest opinions and advice...something to that effect and hoped he did not offend anyone while ( might not be along the same lines of thinking)he gave his view and his opinion.....now this has been a positive thread and a thoughtful one at that.
I know what you're saying about it being an "all or nothing" decision. My job is the same way...part time with my hours right now is impossible. But, that will change. I can make it change in time. And in the mean time, I will continue to do research and prep work for when I'm ready to make the leap. I currently have a small retirement pension from the USAF that helps give me a safety net; however, that is cautioned by the fact that my wife is a stay at home mom with my 3 & 4 year old. I'm the sole provider. My overtime and on-call hours net me $28./hr and my normal hourly rate is $18.25/hr, but I won't see any real chance at increasing my income beyond that unless I start my own lawn care business.
And like you, I don't like the thought of busting by butt to making another man richer either. That's one big reason why I want to take this leap too. I see the income potential for the area where I live to be very substantial and in time, double what I currently make and go beyond that. Yes, I'm thinking big, but one should when they're contemplating a business venture like this. I don't want to shoot for the moon and if I fall short, accept as a good attempt and I;m getting by. I'm shooting for the next galaxy. Pipe dream, maybe, but it's my dream and I'm going after it!
It sounds like you have a decision to make. Work for yourself and secure your own financial success or continue to work for someone else and increasing their wealth. I too have never fully enjoyed my job, and love working outdoors and taking care of my lawn. I'm not blind to the fact that it's alot of hard work, but that's what I'm doing already. You said you've begun to build a good reputation in your area. Test that thought. Send surveys out to those you do business with in the winter with snow removal and the new arrivals to the community. Research the market to see if it can support your business venture. If it looks like it can, and can do so comfortably, I'd say start working on a business plan right away and implement it ASAP. You're not getting any younger you know and neither am I. I'm gonna take the plunge, but that's my decision based on my dynamics. It's up to you now.
Butch (Retired USAF Medic)
just skimmed through some of the replies... all great! just a stupid little idea you can try: find one or two other guys just starting out or thinking about starting... and work together! share expenses, grow together. might work, might not. sure beets burger king!
Starting my own business wasn't a financial decision to me, it was a psychological decision. If you are strictly making a decision over numbers, then keep working for someone else. Owning and running your own business has to be generated from a deep desire. Otherwise it will be more work than it's worth if you are merely looking to make better money. Not that you can't make better money, but the time it will take to achieve that and the 24 hour a day job may not always play out in the "dollar per hour" way you had hoped. It's a passion thing, not a money thing. It takes focus at all times. There are no off days or days you don't feel like doing something. There are no sick days, and it will be sometime before you vacation. It's on your mind when you get up at three in the morning to pee, it's on your mind when you eat, talking to friends, in the shower, at a wedding, out to eat, or whenever. You never get away from it, ever! That's what the passion for it is all about. Almost obsessive. It is obsessive.
And that's what makes it rock. Going back to work for someone after five years in business, would be anything but challenging. I can't even imagine how simple things used to be. How mindless day to day activity was. Punching a clock and taking a paycheck.
You want your own business, get ready for a life altering event.


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BEIRUT: Assailants shot dead a senior Iranian official in Syria while he was travelling by road towards the Lebanese capital overnight, the Iranian authorities said on Thursday.
The Iranian embassy in Beirut said "armed terrorists" killed a man it identified as Hessam Khoshnevis, adding that he had been involved in reconstruction work in Lebanon.
The Revolutionary Guards named the slain man as Hassan Shateri, a commander of the elite Iranian military unit, in a statement on its website that said he was killed while travelling from Damascus to Beirut.
"Commander Hassan Shateri was martyred en route from Damascus to Beirut at the hands of Zionist regime mercenaries and backers," the force's spokesman Ramezan Sherif said in the statement.
Sherif said the man was a Revolutionary Guards commander as well as the head of the Iranian Committee for the Reconstruction of Lebanon.
The embassy named him as "Hassan Shateri known as Hessam Khoshnevis".
It said he was in charge of the Iranian Committee for the Reconstruction of Lebanon set up after the devastating war in 2006 between Israel and Lebanon's Shia Hezbollah militia, which is supported by Iran.
The embassy statement did not elaborate on the circumstances or the exact location of his death.
According to Lebanese newspaper Al-Safir, "Khoshnevis was in Syria, specifically in the (northern city of) Aleppo, to study projects to reconstruct the city".
Iran is the main regional backer of Syrian President Bashar al Assad's regime, and has admitted Revolutionary Guards members were present in Syria playing a consultative role.


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Justin Bieber raises funds for Typhoon Haiyan victims
ABOVE: Watch Justin Bieber visits victims of Typhoon Haiyan.
MANILA, Philippines – Canadian teen heartthrob Justin Bieber has arrived in the Philippines, where he has launched a campaign to help victims of last month's killer typhoon.
Immigration officer Jerome Ollet said Bieber arrived on a special flight early Tuesday. Pictures on social media showed fans snapping pictures at Manila's airport.
READ MORE: One month since Typhoon Haiyan, signs of progress and challenges in Philippine disaster zone
In a video posted on the fundraising platform Prizeo, Bieber asked fans to help him help victims of Typhoon Haiyan. The typhoon left nearly 6,000 dead and devastated the eastern Philippines.
He said donors get a chance to win a prize to hang out with him in a studio while he works on his upcoming album.
Bieber said "the moment I heard about the tragedy a few weeks back, I thought I can count on you guys to make a difference."
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A decade after her career as a member of female duo Pooka came to an end, singer Sharon Jones is looking to attract a new generation of West Country fans.
Promoting her new album Roses At The Top, Sharon will be performing at Cheese and Grain, Frome, tomorrow with multi-instrumentalist Fiddes Smith before an intimate solo show at the Cellar Bar in The Bear, Devizes, on Friday, July 18.
Sharon's current musical style aims to weave a rare and compelling spell with delicate vocals and poignant lyrics.
"I would say that people who enjoy listening to music of a more intimate nature would enjoy my songs," she said.
"Lyrics are very important to me and my songs are very open hearted.
"In my songwriting I try to share my experiences of life, no matter how difficult they are. I feel as a songwriter that it is vital to go to those depths. I am influenced by songwriters such as Cat Stevens, Paul Simon, Kate Bush and Neil Young.
"The style of music is a little bit country/folky, sometimes classical with a hint of blues thrown in the pot.
"For the concert in Frome I will be joined by my friend and fellow musician Fiddes Smith. He will be playing banjo, mandolin, guitar and ukulele and also singing back-up harmonies. I will be playing the piano, guitar and ukulele."
She has enjoyed a diverse musical career, after Pooka's early success when her partnership with Natasha Jones led to an album contract, UK and US tours and appearances as support for artists like Everything But The Girl, Al Stewart and The Levellers.
She has also performed as one of the three Fates alongside Ani Difranco and Martin Carthy in Anais Mitchell's folk opera Hadestown.
For more information go to www.sharonlewis.net. Doors at the Cellar Bar open at 8pm with music from 9pm. Entry is £5.


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Would You Let Someone Use a Coupon on the First Date? [POLL]
A new survey from Coupon Cabin says that one in four Americans have used a coupon on a first date. Would you be offended?
12% of people said they'd finish out the date, but they wouldn't go out with the person again. 3% would let their date know they weren't happy about the coupons. Finally 1% said they would walk out.
As a guy I would normally pay for the first date. I could never imagine busting out a coupon on a first date for a girl I am trying to impress. I would think she would take it the wrong way. What is your opinion? Please take the poll below.


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SANTA CRUZ >> Parents often complain that child-rearing is exhausting, but consider the poor sea otter mom. By the time a sea otter pup is weaned, its mother may be so depleted physiologically that she is unable to survive the stress of a minor wound or infection. Sea otter researchers have a term for it — end-lactation syndrome — and believe it accounts for high mortality rates among female sea otters in some areas.
To understand why this happens, UC Santa Cruz biologist Nicole Thometz set out to quantify the energy demands of a growing sea otter pup. Her results, published June 11 in the Journal of Experimental Biology, reveal just how much it costs a sea otter mom to raise her pup.
Even without a pup, adult sea otters have remarkably high energy requirements, eating about a quarter of their body weight in seafood every day. As the smallest marine mammals, living in cold coastal waters with thick fur but no insulating layer of blubber, sea otters need to maintain a high metabolic rate to stay warm. Otters may spend up to half a day foraging for food. For an adult female, a pup adds new demands to an energy budget that is already challenging.
Thometz and her colleagues found that the daily energy demands of a female sea otter jump by 17 percent in the first few weeks after the birth of a pup and grow steadily as the pup gets larger. Eventually, the mother's daily energy demands are 96 percent higher, nearly twice what they are when she doesn't have a pup.
"These fundamentally high energy demands are likely the underlying reason why we see so much mortality among prime age females in the middle of their range, where the density of the sea otter population is highest and resources are limited," Thometz said.
The UCSC researchers teamed up with the Monterey Bay Aquarium to study the energetics of growing sea otter pups. Thometz worked with seven sea otter pups, measuring their oxygen consumption to determine metabolic rates at different activity levels throughout their development.
The researchers also observed sea otter pups in the wild to see how much time they spent each day resting, grooming, foraging, and so on. Combining these "activity budgets" in the wild with the metabolic rates measured in pups at the aquarium enabled Thometz to calculate average daily energy demands for pups at five developmental stages.
It takes about six months for a female sea otter to raise a pup until it's weaned and starting to feed itself. During this time, the pup is highly dependent on its mother for food. "The majority of the pup's calories come from its mother, so we tracked the combined energy demands of mom and pup over time. Given that sea otters have such high baseline energy demands, what these females are doing to raise a pup is really extraordinary," Thometz said.
The findings explain why female sea otters are so often found in poor condition — weak and skinny — at the end of the lactation period. It also helps explain why sea otter mothers may abandon a pup before it is fully grown.
These phenomena — females in poor condition and abandoned pups — are much more common in the center of the sea otter's range along California's central coast than they are at the northern and southern ends of the range. Thometz said there are fewer otters and less competition at the ends of the range, making it easier for a female to find enough food to meet the energy demands of raising a pup.


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Lockheed Martin Corp. said Monday that it furloughed fewer workers nationwide than expected because of a recall of nearly all 400,000 U.S. Department of Defense civilian employees who had been affected by the government shutdown.
The nation's largest defense contractor furloughed about 2,400 workers due to the shutdown, instead of the 3,000 it announced on Friday. The furloughs were spread over 27 states but were mostly in the Washington, D.C., area, said company spokesman Gordon Johndroe.
None of Lockheed's roughly 16,000 workers in the Dallas-Fort Worth area were affected, he said. Many of those workers help build F-35 strike fighter aircraft for the U.S. military.
The government shutdown began last Tuesday because Congress couldn't agree on a budget — and shows no signs of reaching a resolution any time soon. It has resulted in the furloughs of about 800,000 federal employees, including 400,000 Defense Department civilian employees.
On Saturday, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel made a surprise announcement that he would recall most of those 400,000 Defense Department employees starting this week. That move could significantly reduce the impact of the shutdown on federal workers and related defense contractors.
His decision followed last week's new law — the Pay Our Military Act — that let the Pentagon recall workers and contractors deemed as providing direct support to uniformed military members.
Defense and Justice Department lawyers interpreted that law to include more workers who could be recalled — "employees whose responsibilities contribute to the morale, well-being, capabilities and readiness of service members," Hagel said in a statement.
As a result, Lockheed said it reduced its furloughs, Johndroe said. However, some employees still work at a closed government facility, their work requires a government inspection that cannot be completed or the company received a stop work order, he said.
Lockheed employs 116,000 people worldwide, including 110,000 in the United States.
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'The Wire' and the Realism Canard
by Noah Berlatsky
David Simon's The Wire, which is set to soon be re-broadcast in high definition, continues to be hailed, in some corners, as the greatest television show of all time. In an effort to elevate it to the level of high art, many critics (including Simon himself) have reached for comparisons with other, less lumpen forms, from Greek tragedy to Dickens — anything, in short, that isn't a television show. But Linda Williams, a professor of film studies and rhetoric at Berkeley, in her new book, On The Wire, thinks that the show's greatest accomplishment is its use of melodrama. I talked to Williams last month about melodrama and realism, and how they shape people's view of the show.
You argue in your book that The Wire is a melodrama, and that, contrary to popular opinion, melodrama is a form that is tied to, or makes use of, realism.
I liked Isaac Butler's essay on the "realism canard" quite a bit. As he says, many people believe that something is great because it's true or because it's accurate. My point of departure for thinking about The Wire in a different way was precisely when Julius Wilson and some other sociologists published something in Critical Inquiry arguing, I thought kind of solipsistically, that the Wire was great because it was accurate according to their sociology. Yes, that is one of the great things about The Wire. But if we stop there, we fall into what Butler calls the realism canard, which is to say that the best fictional works are those that are the most factual, and that's certainly not the case.
What does that have to do with melodrama?
I tried to define melodrama as that which is very good at absorbing new forms of realism in order to try to make claims for justice and for arguing on the part of those whose voices have not been heard. Melodrama is a machine for the production of new kinds of apparent truth. I know that many people, if they hear me say that The Wire is melodrama, will say, "Oh no! It's great! It's good! It's true! It can't be melodrama!" It's easy to recognize melodrama in old melodrama. It's harder to recognize it in the new, because it always seems so true.
So I wonder what you think of Pam Newton's argument that one of the ways that The Wire is not true to life is that it downplays police corruption?
Truth is always from some subjective point of view. If you read David Simon's Homicide, which is one of the two books of non-fiction which feeds into the lore and the data of The Wire — Simon just loves those cops. He was like a twenty-four-year-old reporter who got to follow the cops around and go drinking with them, and I think that there are ways in which he is blind to things that were wrong with the police. But he knows a lot about the cops and their ways, and he knows a lot about the drug dealers and their ways. Because he did a year long study of both that was ethnography. And then he loves them — more than he loves the politicians, for example.
You referred to David Simon's methods as ethnography, and I was thinking about Christina Sharpe's piece in The New Inquiry, where she talks about Alice Goffman's On the Run and the ethical issues raised by urban ethnography. Sharpe suggests for example that studying black people and policing black people are often part of a single continuum of control. Is The Wire a way of rationalizing and controlling and consuming the lives of certain black communities, in the interest of letting white people say, "I understand them now"?
I understand that criticism. And I certainly understand the criticism of the anthropologist, the journalist, the ethnographer, who goes to the foreign culture and tries to understand it, and then gets praised for their own marvelous understanding of that which would be beyond the pale if we didn't have that mediating white voice to present things. That's precisely what I think is less good about David Simon's journalism, and great about The Wire: The journalism is full of this kind of white interpretive voice that really does see an us and a them. The thing I quote from his early journalism, where he says, "The ants are here. The picnic is us," in that piece called "The Metal Men," there it is: The ants are the people he's studying, the drug addicts, and "the picnic is us" — our houses in Baltimore, we propertied middle-class white people.
I think you're suggesting that there are ways in which The Wire has not totally divested itself of that voice, and you may be right. But it's done it better precisely because we lose David Simon's voice, and we get Bubbles, Colvin, everybody else. I would say that The Wire is more exempt from that criticism than most other works of the imagination that try to get into a culture of the other. There is a criticism of melodrama there that is well-founded, though; melodrama is what we're stuck with here.
We're stuck with melodrama because that's what The Wire is doing?
No. We're stuck with melodrama because it's what the culture does. It is our lingua franca of popular entertaining culture. These are the stories that we tell ourselves, in the broadest sense. Melodrama is limited; all it can do is point out these discrepancies in justice. There is a little democratic impasse that is inherent to melodrama. And yes, you can get ironic in melodrama — there are ways to handle it, but it is a limit. We want to identify and identify with the people to whom injustice is done. The only problem with that is that can end up being the white people in Birth of a Nation. Melodrama does not have a progressive ideology necessarily.
In Birth of a Nation you identify with the Klan as the victims of injustice?
Yes, it's the former slaveowners who are oppressed by the former slaves. So that's the limit of melodrama. But I think it's important to identify the works that move us, and that grab us so well, as melodrama, and then study the way it operates. Rather than to always say, it's not melodrama, it's real, it's true. Or, Simon's way of doing it, which is to say it's tragedy.
So would you identify ethnography as a kind of melodrama?
That's a good question. I think in many cases it is. Why do you become an ethnographer? It's because you want to understand disappearing cultures. I know that's a simplification. But you want to go travel to the Amazon and learn the language of the people who are disappearing because their culture cannot operate in this world. That kind of salvage ethnography is a kind of melodrama — "I'm going to do something to save them" — and that saving comes through a kind of understanding of the meaning and the logic of that culture.
I know you feel The Wire was fairly successful in its treatment of race. I wondered what you thought about Orange Is The New Black, and whether it is as successful in your opinion?
I do gather that Orange Is the New Black is the hot new thing for many of the same reasons that The Wire was valued. It is of course interesting that it begins, and builds around, this white character — the person who would be like the voice of David Simon in his journalism. Its feat is to be able to take her away some of the time and to let everything else run on its own, at which point you do have a story about a very diverse collection of people, representing an underclass that does not normally get represented. I think it's obviously a melodrama, and a pretty good one, although broader, more caricatured, than The Wire ever was.
Finally, I wanted to ask you about the controversy with David Simon. You wrote a piece for the Huffington Post where you said he'd been fired from the Baltimore Sun, and then had to correct after Simon explained that he had not been fired. Could you explain what happened there? How did you make that mistake?
I said that in the blog; I never said it in the book, because in the book I had carefully gone over it. It's my fault in the sense that I didn't take blogs very seriously; I'd never written one. I was invited to by the Huffington Post to write about Dickens and The Wire. I hope this doesn't insult you, but I thought, "Who reads blogs?" So I just sloppily used an old draft, and kind of simplified my thinking. I did think that he had been fired at one point, but then I did more research, and I realized that he wasn't fired. He quit. And he didn't just quit; he took a buyout. Nobody ever impugned his value as a reporter, though the editors did disagree with his way of reporting, I insist.
I'm frankly debating whether I should blog back, about this. Just to say, you know, I'm not some academic out to impugn his reputation. I'm trying to understand the evolution of this great thing called The Wire. But maybe I shouldn't. Blogging doesn't seem to be my medium.
Noah Berlatsky edits the online comics and culture website the Hooded Utilitarian, and his book on the original Wonder Woman comics will be out in early 2015.


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Girls Basketball: Calhoun plays stifling defense in convincing road win over Coosa
The Calhoun girls locked up a state tournament berth with a win on Friday at Pepperell.
So they should've come out and been a little complacent on Tuesday at Coosa, right?
That wasn't the case. The Lady Jackets played stifling defense early to roll to a 30-3 lead at the half before coasting to a 47-21 victory at the Eagle's Nest.
"We wanted to come out and play hard and not be sloppy tonight, and we did that," said Calhoun coach Jerry Pruett. "We had great effort, especially defensively. We were outstanding on the defensive end.
"We took care of business, and that's what we have to continue to do down the stretch."
Bree Walraven led the way with 13 points for Calhoun (19-1, 11-0). Carly Curtis added 10, and Taylor Palmer had eight.
The Lady Jackets held Coosa scoreless in the second quarter.
"We came out in our man pressure which we've been playing well," said Pruett. "We wanted to not give them any good looks, and the girls did that well tonight."
Heather Faust was the lone bright spot for Coosa (5-15, 2-8) with 12 points.
Calhoun, which can finish no worse than the No. 2 seed for the Region 7-AA Tournament, holds a two-game lead over Model in the region standings.
"I know the girls get tired of hearing it, but we've got to continue to come out and do what we're supposed to do no matter what (the region standings say)," said Pruett. "We still need to keep getting better. We want to be playing well come tournament time."
The Lady Jackets host Murray County on Friday; Coosa visits Model.
Calhoun girls 47, Coosa 21
M. Palmer 4, Carney 3, Wright 1, Walraven 13, T. Palmer 8, Parker 6, Curtis 10, Carter 2.
Collins 1, Shumate 4, Faust 12, McClain 2, Masters 2.
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(AFP) – Brazil coach Luiz Felipe Scolari believes the lack of bad blood between his side and Colombia will allow for an attractive spectacle when the two sides clash in their World Cup quarter-final on Friday.
Scolari's men needed penalties after a bruising 120 minutes to overcome Chile in the last 16 which left many of the Brazil squad in tears at the end of the match.
However, the 65-year-old is hoping a less frenetic encounter will allow his players to show their talent in Fortaleza.
"Colombia is a more technical team than Chile," said Scolari.
"Chile have more strength and play with a spirit which makes the game dynamics very different. The rivalry with Colombia is not the same as with Chile, Argentina or Uruguay.
"It was much more difficult against Chile. Colombia are also a great team with some great players, but when we don't have these rivalries our players feel more at ease."
Brazil captain Thiago Silva echoed his coach's words and welcomed the challenge of stopping Colombia's free-scoring attack that has netted 11 times in four games.
"For me what is good is a team that comes to play against us and technically Colombia is different in that sense. They have the skills of wanting to play which helps our team," said the Paris Saint-Germain defender on Thursday.
"It is better to play these games equally than a team that plays very closed at the back. To play in 15 metres is difficult, but when you have 70 or 80 metres there is more room and freedom for our players to play."
Worried that carrying the expectations of 200 million Brazilians is becoming too much for his squad, Scolari called the team's sports psychologist Regina Brandao in for an extra session with the players on Tuesday.
And Brazil's star man Neymar said the sessions were having the desired effect.
"I had never done anything like it before and I am quite enjoying it," added the 22-year-old.
"It is not only us, in football, who are surrounded by emotion every day and need psychologists. I think it could do every person good, to make one more relaxed."
Neymar also insisted he will be fully-fit to face the Colombians despite suffering thigh and knee injuries against Chile.
One of the major concerns for Scolari, though, has been the lack of support for Neymar in attacking areas as he has scored half of his side's eight goals after four games, whilst other forwards Fred, Jo and Hulk have struggled to make an impact.
Scolari is expected to stick by Fred and Hulk, but will be forced into at least one change from the side that faced Chile as Luis Gustavo is suspended.
Tottenham Hotspur's Paulinho is the most obvious candidate to replace Gustavo with Manchester City's Fernandinho dropping into a deeper role in midfield.
However, Scolari admitted he could also switch formation to a 3-5-2 with Napoli's Henrique joining David Luiz and Silva in central defence.
Gustavo's absence is even more critical for the hosts given the sensational form of the tournament's top goalscorer, Colombia's James Rodriguez.
The Monaco playmaker has taken on the mantle of his side's focal point with ease in the absence of the injured Radamel Falcao with five goals in four games.
A fourth consecutive win for Jose Pekerman's men took them into the last eight for the first time and ahead of the biggest game in Colombian football's history, the Argentine coach insisted the need to keep their feet on the ground.
"For Colombia every game is a new challenge and a step up," said the Argentine on Thursday.
"Both Brazil and us cannot think about what has gone before.
"We need to play our own game as we have done up to now and try to impose our play on them. The key is not to believe there is a favourite."
History, though, is against the Colombians as they have only beaten Brazil twice in 25 previous meetings and only once in a competitive fixture at the 1991 Copa America.


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New Zealand archaeologists probe Maori midden
Published on September 29th, 2009 | by Admin0
Archaeologists in New Zealand have begun work on revealing what lies inside a prehistoric midden on land occupied by Maori before the 1850s.
Mr Taylor was able to point out different layers of the prehistoric midden at the bottom, and to a post and an old wooden kerb in an upper layer where the first road was constructed in the 1850s.
Early colonials had probably taken fill from the Putiki Dr area and covered over the midden, where early Whanganui Maori had lived and cooked their food, Mr Taylor said.
"A lot of the day-to-day things have taken place here," he said.


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Neighbor's tree falls on your home? Your insurance responsible
Your neighbor's tree falls on your home and your insurance is responsible for the repairs.
A neighbor's tree crashed onto Mona Angel's home on Winner Road during last week's storm. The tree split the roof.
"It was about 2, 2:30 in the morning and I thought it was an earthquake. I was so horrifying," she recalled Wednesday. "I just froze."
She thought her neighbor's insurance certainly would take care of the repairs.
"If my vehicle hit their house, I'm liable," she said. "That's their tree."
But that's not the case. Her neighbor's insurance will take care of the damage to his home, but not hers.
And Angel didn't have insurance. She moved in four months ago and was refurbishing the residence. She thought she needed to wait until she finished re-wiring it to get insurance.
"I was in the dark about that," Angel explained.
Her home is unstable and it's going to cost her $3,000 to $9,000 to have the tree removed. She broke down crying while talking about the situation Wednesday with KCTV5's Heather Staggers.
"This is my home," she said. "I just need to get this tree off of here."
Her neighbor confirmed that the tree is his but declined comment.
"In general and in most cases, each homeowner's insurance plan takes care of the damages to their own home," said Traci Plemons, a vice president for State Farm. "It's considered an act of God. In other words, you have no control over it."
If Angel discovers that the tree was rotten or diseased and her neighbor failed to take care of it, then Angel can file a counter claim. But she would have to prove negligence.
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Famous Men Weigh In on the Great Flip-flop Debate
It's Beach Week at the Cut, and time to continue the ongoing debate: Should men wear flip-flops? The discussion reawakened last week when Marc Jacobs paired suits with sandals in his spring menswear collection, prompting an in-office divide. As it turns out, there are certain criteria: Is the wearer in need of a pedicure? Is he at the beach? Is he at all concerned with urban hygiene? Here, 17 famous men step in with their thoughts:
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Seth Meyers: "I have been anti-flip-flops for a long time. When I see a person running to catch a plane in flip-flops, I'm cheering for them not to make it. I don't want the people on that flight to have to be on a plane with a guy in flip-flops. I don't like the sound they make. People running in flip-flops haven't planned their life well enough. If you're going to be wearing flip-flops you need to leave early so that you don't have to be in a position where you have to run for anything. In a zombie apocalypse, I'm going to try to stay near a guy in flip-flops just because that's the first guy that's going down. I'm very anti-flip-flops."
Mike Birbiglia: "I'm against it. I'm deeply against it. We need to stop it now, because male foot hygiene is just deplorable, abhorrent."
Wyatt Cenac: "It's good as, like, beach- or poolwear. I don't know, flip-flops in the city just terrify me because you've basically opened yourself up to a foot massage from a rat. I think as long as your feet don't look terrible, I feel like everybody, anybody who wants to put their foot in a flip-flop, go with it. Just make sure your feet don't have any horrible dangling nails and don't be that person on the subway clipping their toenails."
Chris Hardwick: "They're the most uncomfortable shoes to wear. They dig in between your toes. They're only functional for sand. You're supposed to sweat in them and wear them in the sand. I just don't think a shoe that's named after the onomatopoeia of the sound that it makes should really be … That's just me. There are some dudes that can totally pull that off. I would look like a douche bag if I did. There are certain hipster types, I think they can pull it off. I don't think I'm one of those types. I equate flip-flops with Jimmy Buffet. There was a period when mullets were considered rad and chic, or I think it's sort of like how fancy restaurants will try to do a gourmet version of mac 'n' cheese. Like, okay, it's good, but it's still flip-flops."
Ben Schwartz: "I'm fine with it. Is that bad?"
Vince Staples: "See, I'm not really rockin' with the flip-flops. If you rock the flip-flop with the sock, it has to be in the house. Outside in the flip-flop is not a good move. Marc Jacobs is out of his mind. He's trippin' right now. It's not my thing. I gotta see the collection because he has one of those minds — it might work. But I don't know, it does get hot sometimes, you might need to rock the flip-flop in 80-degree weather."


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text: Show Hide image Politics 3 January 2012 Respect our elders? No chance, writes Laurie Penny The government's new youth strategy is nothing but spin. Sign up for our weekly email * Print HTML The government's new youth strategy is nothing but spin. It is some testament to the awfulness of Christmas telly this year that I took time out in between the Queen's message, the Archbishop's sermon and one of the most mawkishly pointless episodes of Doctor Who ever broadcast to read the blurb behind the government's new "Positive For Youth" strategy. After twelve months of devastating cuts to schools, universities and youth services, a million unemployed 18-24 year olds and voiceless, frustrated young people burning and looting in the inner cities, it would be nice to think that someone has finally decided to start taking an interest in the generation currently on the cusp of adulthood. Unfortunately, there's nothing new about this strategy but the spin. Precisely no additional funding is being allocated for youth services - the plan is just an involved way of making it look as though there is. Meanwhile, fresh research has revealed that schools across the country are being forced to cut frontline services, from extra-curricular activities to arts, music and careers services. Thousands of careers advisors have been laid off, and presumably some of them had not yet reached the stage of rocking, crying and inviting young jobseekers to pray with them over the latest unemployment forecasts. Local councils are also slashing their provisions for young people, from youth clubs to special needs grants. At every level of government, youth services are the first to go when cuts are imposed, because they have few measurable outcomes - meaning that by the time the damage done can be properly tallied, the political careers of the current administration will be beyond scrutiny. Instead, the "Positive for Youth" strategy echoes the Queen, the Archbishop and the rest of the Westminster machine in replacing actual ideas with lots of rhetorical flourishes about duty, family and responsibility. There is much talk of "listening to" young people - which is all to the good, as young people in Britain today have some fairly urgent about education and economic policy, some of which have been written on the Treasury wall in spraypaint for the attention of ministers - but no coherent plans to actually take any of their concerns into account. One young participant told me that teenagers who were consulted in drawing up the document had to fight to get phrases like "young people will learn to respect authority and their elders" removed, but the sentiment is still there in the meat of the text. As we move into 2012, with all the old certainties disintegrating into the scurf of yesterday's consensus, the message to young people is simple: please, just don't kick off anymore. We may not have done anything to deserve your respect, but respect us anyway, or we'll send in the police. Sit down and shut up. Sois jeune et tais-toi. There is no strategy here for the future, because there doesn't need to be. Nobody votes for the future anymore. For at least thirty years, politicians have played to a lexicon of temporary, individual self-interest and short-term profit. Even today, those who talk of decreasing the deficit through austerity measures have quietly ceased to speak the language of long-term growth. Nobody is investing in young people, in the environment, in infrastructure, in education, in any of the things that might make us - in an addictive little phrase I picked up at Occupy Wall Street - "good ancestors". Instead, all the current crop of politicians seems to be able to do is beg and bully the young and disenfranchised into giving them respect. The riots were a gift, because they allowed the centre-right to frame social breakdown in terms of delinquency rather than despair. Nonetheless, I can think of few historical moments where respect for our elders has been less appropriate. From government cuts to the Eurozone crisis to the meltdown of the Durban climate talks, the political elite is fairly obviously making a total hash of almost everything they're in charge of. Respecting them at this point would not only be unfitting - it would be downright foolish. › Who is really exploiting Louise Mensch's looks here? Laurie Penny is a contributing editor to the New Statesman. She is the author of five books, most recently Unspeakable Things. Subscribe from just £1 per issue This article first appeared in the 02 January 2012 issue of the New Statesman, And you thought 2011 was bad ... More Related articles Will Corbynites be in charge of the Labour Party forever? Donald Trump's threats give North Korea every reason it needs to keep nuclear weapons Boris Johnson "will resign before weekend" if Theresa May defies his Brexit wishes Subscription offer 12 issues for £12 + FREE book LEARN MORE Close This week's magazine


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Joseph Alaniz is a two-year starter on the offensive line for Harker Heights, which boasts one of the leading rushers in 8-5A in senior Marcus Anderson II. After lining up at right tackle in his first year on varsity, Alaniz now mans the right guard position for Heights and is ready to do everything he can to help the Knights build momentum for a district run.
(Coach Jerry Edwards') system is more I-formations compared to the spread that you were running before. What's blocking in this system like?
It's pretty much the same thing. It's more running (oriented), but it's pretty much the same thing. We've got to do our jobs either way. Whether we're running the ball or throwing the ball, we've got to get our receivers and our quarterbacks what they need, so I feel like we're going to try our best either way.
Marcus (Anderson II) has rushed for more than 100 yards the first two games of district, so do you guys feel like you're doing a good job right now?
We're trying our best, and not all of it's us — it's Marcus, it's the quarterback, the receivers, everybody has to block. And Marcus is a great running back, he tries all that he can do. And we're there to help him out through whatever. But we do practice hard and we try as hard as we can.
What is it like to have a guy like that who can make you look good?
It's great. It's better than having a guy that doesn't put his all into it. Having a guy that makes you look good even the plays you mess up, come back and make you want to work harder the next play.
What is it like playing one of the overlooked positions?
If it gets the team the victory, that's all that we need. We don't need glory, we don't need all the talk, as long as our team gets the victory, whether it be the quarterback throwing for 400 yards or the running back running for (300).
How was it coming up on varsity and, boom, they want you to start on the O-line?
It was something to adapt to. It was exciting. The first couple of games we started out slow, but having four out of the five varsity returning members, it was great. We also had a lot of guidance last year with our senior that was on the line. So, it wasn't too bad.
What happened to your nose? (Alaniz had a gash on the bridge of his nose)
Oh, it was during practice. I tried to block somebody. (I) lifted up and his shoulder pad got me.
You lifted him up and you ended up with the cut?
Yeah (laughs). He came up with his arm, so he cut me in the eye.
Do you feel any similarities between this year and last year?
Unfortunately, we started off slow in both years, but the main thing was, as seniors, trying to get the sophomores and the freshmen and all the other people who were on varsity younger than us to realize that it's going to (take) a little while for it to start, whether it be the fourth or the first game — as long as we win the games that matter most.
You said you were looking up to a senior last year. What's it like being that guy this year?
It feels good. And a lot of the younger people are really mature on our team, so it's not too bad dealing with immaturity, and we all keep our eye on the same goal.
How does it feel coming off a win for the first time this year?
It feels great. It makes us a lot hungrier, and we've been practicing hard since summer when coach Edwards came in, and it hadn't really showed. But now, finally getting our first victory, hopefully, it jump starts something new and brings a streak with it.
What's it like getting (Edwards) his first victory here?
It was great. The energy after he came in, that wasn't something we were used to. It was great when he came in, and he was excited. To put a smile on his face, not only the team, it was great. I feel like we all deserved it.


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Many people find, however, that adverse experiences can leave us more vulnerable to stress and can lead to lower levels of mental health and wellbeing. Research shows this as well, in many cases. For example, traumatic experiences that lead to PTSD can lead to negative effects on parts of the brain and differences in responses to new stressors. (Read more about this from About.com's PTSD site.) Fortunately, a study from the University of Buffalo reconciles these two realities.

This study, which follows 2,398 subjects for a span of three years, found that there is a balance of adverse life experiences: some adversity does seem to make us stronger than those with a life of either no adverse life experiences or many serious struggles.

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I'd like to ask you, what do these three people have in common? Well, you probably recognize the first person. I'm sure you're all avid "American Idol" watchers. But you might not recognize Aydah Al Jahani, who is a contestant, indeed a finalist, in the Poet of the Millions competition, which is broadcast out of Abu Dhabi, and seen throughout the Arab world. In this contest people have to write and recite original poetry, in the Nabati form of poetry, which is the traditional Bedouin form. And Lima Sahar was a finalist in the Afghan Star singing competition.
Now, before I go any further, yes, I know it all began with "Britain's Got Talent." But my point in discussing this is to show you — I hope I'll be able to show you how these merit-based competitions, with equal access to everyone, with the winner selected via voting by SMS, are changing tribal societies. And I'm going to focus on Afghanistan and the Arab world with the UAE, how they're changing tribal societies, not by introducing Western ideas, but by being integrated into the language in those places.
It all begins with enjoyment. Video: We are late to watch "Afghan Star." We are going to watch "Afghan Star." We are late. We are running late. We must go to watch "Afghan Star." Cynthia Schneider: These programs are reaching incredibly deeply into society. In Afghanistan, people go to extraordinary lengths to be able to watch this program. And you don't necessarily have to have your own TV set. People watch it all over the country also in public places. But it goes beyond watching, because also, part of this is campaigning. People become so engaged that they have volunteers, just like political volunteers anyway, who fan out over the countryside, campaigning for their candidate. Contestants also put themselves forward.
Now, of course there is a certain degree of ethnic allegiance, but not entirely. Because each year the winner has come from a different tribal group. This has opened up the door, particularly for women. And in the last season there were two women in the finalists. One of them, Lima Sahar, is a Pashtun from Kandahar, a very conservative part of the country. And here she relates, in the documentary film "Afghan Star," how her friends urged her not to do this and told her that she was leaving them for democracy. But she also confides that she knows that members of the Taliban are actually SMS-ing votes in for her.
Aydah Al Jahnani also took risks and put herself out, to compete in the Poet of the Millions competition. I have to say, her husband backed her from the start. But her tribe and family urged her not to compete and were very much against it. But, once she started to win, then they got behind her again. It turns out that competition and winning is a universal human value. And she's out there. Her poetry is about women, and the life of women in society. So just by presenting herself and being in competition with men — this shows the voting on the program — it sets a very important example for young women — these are young women in the audience of the program — in Abu Dhabi, but also people in the viewing audience.
Now you'd think that "American Idol" would introduce a measure of Americanization. But actually, just the opposite is happening. By using this engaging popular format for traditional, local culture, it actually, in the Gulf, is precipitating a revival of interest in Nabati poetry, also in traditional dress and dance and music. And for Afghanistan, where the Taliban banned music for many years, it is reintroducing their traditional music. They don't sing pop songs, they sing Afghan music. And they also have learned how to lose gracefully, without avenging the winner. (Laughter) No small thing.
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ARMOUR — Fire destroyed a hunting lodge Thursday morning in rural Armour.
James "Doc" Monfore and his employees had recently finished remodeling the lodge, which gave guests at South Dakota Pheasant Acres a place to relax from a long day of hunting. Despite it being insured, Monfore said much of what was inside is irreplaceable.
"We had an antique bar in there from the 1800s," he said. "A lot of blood, sweat and tears went into that place."
"There was also a panorama of wildlife that Doc built," added Donna Jensen, an employee. "It had deer and other animals he and his children and grandchildren got and looked like a habitat."
The lodge provided hunters with a bar, dining room and recreation area, and had a full kitchen.
General Manager Marty Jensen said the owners spent $50,000 to remodel the building. Now it's a complete loss.
Jensen said a group of hunters left the lodge around 2 a.m. Thursday and left the fireplace burning. Although they can't be sure, Jensen said the fireplace could be the source of the fire.
The Corsica Fire Department was on scene first around 5 a.m. Soon afterward, Armour, Geddes, Delmont, Lake Andes and Lakeview Colony fire departments arrived to fight the fire. But it was too late, Jensen said.
Monfore bought his land in 1977 and started the lodge in 1980. Through the years, Monfore has replanted native grasses, trees and bushes to create a preserve. There are about 3,600 acres around the lodge.
It was a sad day for everyone involved in the operation, but Jensen, Monfore and minority owners are already talking about rebuilding.
Chris Coborn, president and CEO of Coborn's grocery stores, is a minority owner and was at the lodge Thursday when the incident occurred.
Monfore said Coborn and other investors love the lodge and have mentioned they want to help rebuild it.
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Games of Tuesday, June 24
Hitter of the Night: Daniel Palka, 1B, Diamondbacks (South Bend, A-): 3-4, 2 R, 2B, 2 HR, K.
Pitcher of the Night: Taijuan Walker, RHP, Mariners (Tacoma, AAA): 9 IP, 4 H, 0 R, BB, 8 K.
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Daniel Norris, LHP, Blue Jays (New Hampshire, AA): 5 2/3 IP, 3 H, R, 3 BB, 10 K. In our #BPTop50 Debate Series, I had the unenviable task of arguing against Norris. Starts like this made that an extremely difficult task.
Dalton Pompey, OF, Blue Jays (Dunedin, A+): 2-5, R, 2B, 3B. Pompey has come back down to Earth a little bit after a scorching hot start to the season and there's still a big gap between his left and right-handed swings, but the tools are all still there and the drop-off hasn't been huge. Even his more reasonable production has been impressive.
Albert Almora, OF, Cubs (Daytona, A+): 3-5, R, HR. I also had the joy of arguing against Almora in our #BPTop50 Debate Series, but at least he gave me a weak performance this season to work with. Unfortunately for me, his ceiling is still through the roof, and he offers a skill set unlike most in the minors. Right now the knock is the approach at the plate, which is currently limiting the hit tool's in-game translation, but when he puts it all together, we'll see more nights like this.
Orlando Arcia, SS, Brewers (Brevard County, A+): 5-5, 2 R, 2 2B, 3B, SB. You know it's a good game when you can raise your batting average 14 points this deep into the season. Being just 19, there is still a ton of time for Arcia's bat to come around, but it's not showing a lot of promising signs, Tuesday night notwithstanding. The player offers little power and only moderate place discipline, leaving all of his value residing in his glove, which is an asset.
Nick Ahmed, SS, Diamondbacks (Reno, AAA) 5-6, 3 R, 2 2B, HR. Every now and then, the Pacific Coast League tosses in a game like this one, where one team scores 18 runs and a few prospects take advantage of the strange alignment of the universe that causes multiple touchdowns to be scored in a baseball game and pad their numbers. Ahmed has never hit the way the Braves expected when they selected him in the second round in 2011 or the way the Diamondbacks did when they traded for him, though his numbers in the PCL this year look good. He's also never impressed me at shortstop, though he remains there. It's a utility profile at best thanks to his speed and athleticism.
Austin Brice, RHP, Marlins (Jupiter, A+): 5 IP, 5 H, 2 R, 2 BB, 9 K. Rainouts have twice prevented me from catching Brice in Jupiter, but reports have him as making progress towards transitioning from thrower to pitcher. He just turned 22 and is throwing more strikes, but that has come with missing fewer bats as well.
Tyler Glasnow, RHP, Pirates (Bradenton, A+): 7 IP, H, R, 2 BB, 6 K. Hitters simply do not square Glasnow up. His combination of velocity and extreme downward plane make his fastball extremely difficult to hit, meaning that if he doesn't put base runners on by himself, he has success. He's doing a better job lately of doing exactly that and as a result, this was his first run allowed in June.
Manuel Margot, OF, Red Sox (Greenville, A-): 2-4, 2 R, 3B, HR, K. Margot may not offer big-time power or have the smoothest hit tool, but he does control the strike zone well, walking almost as often as he strikes out, and he offers the speed and defense profile to offer solid value as he develops.
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Zach Lee, RHP, Dodgers (Albuquerque, AAA): 4 IP, 7 H, 6 R, 4 BB, K. Lee's strikeouts are down by almost two per nine, and those additional balls in play in PCL parks aren't going over well.
Tim Anderson, SS, White Sox (Winston-Salem, A+): 0-4, 2 K. Anderson is immensely talented, but his raw background and extremely aggressive approach at the plate will lead to some days like this.
Notable Pitching Performances
Edwin Escobar, LHP, Giants (Fresno, AAA): 7 IP, 7 H, 2 R, BB, 8 K.
Eduardo Rodriguez, LHP, Orioles (Bowie, AA): 7 IP, 6 H, R, BB, 4 K.
Nick Kingham, RHP, Pirates (Indianapolis, AAA): 6 2/3 IP, 2 H, R (0 ER), 2 BB, 5 K.
Miguel Almonte, RHP, Royals (Wilmington, A+): 5 IP, 3 H, 0 R, BB, 5 K.
...and Kris Bryant homered again. Seriously, I'm not making this up.
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Stats are missing for Dalton Pompey.
Jun 25, 2014 06:27 AM
You missed a pretty awesome night from Phil Ervin: 3-4, 2B, 2 3B, 3 RBI, 2 R, BB
Jun 25, 2014 06:32 AM
Worth noting that Arica has played 2B just as much as SS (35 G at 2B, 34 at SS).
Jun 25, 2014 06:57 AM
That was because Yadiel Rivera wasn't ready for AA to start the year and the Brewers wanted both guys to get playing time at SS. Now that Rivera is in AA, Arcia will get almost all of the starts at SS for Brevard County and Rivera the same for Huntsville.
Jun 25, 2014 11:35 AM
Do we get a Gallo/Sano showdown at some point?
Jun 25, 2014 07:30 AM
Do you see the Pirates bringing up Kingham within the next month? I can't see Cumpton, Locke, Worley, Volquez, Morton, et al., either all staying healthy or pitching lights-out. Maybe Kingham is the Taillon call-up they were counting on?
Jun 25, 2014 08:42 AM
Cole just came back. Locke and Cumpton appear to be fine. Morton is not awful. That only leaves 1 spot for Liriano (hurt), Volquez (usually bad), Worley (probably quad-A but I guess you never know) and Kingham. I wouldn't bet on them burning enough pitchers to get to Kingham.
Jun 25, 2014 09:06 AM
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Domingo Leyba: 4-for-5, HR, 3 R, 2 RBI for Connecticut in the NYPL. Could he be a Guy?
Jun 25, 2014 08:51 AM
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It's not a standout profile for me. I've seen him four times already this season. Nice player; very instinctual; lacks tools; 2B profile all the way....more of a fringe guy for me.
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Splitting Nuclear Parks or Not? The Third Party Liability Role
Starting from the standard analysis of accident theory, this paper shows that determining the first-best level of care of ultra-hazardous activities also involves determining the best industrial structure. The analysis assesses the impact of the civil nuclear liability on the organization of given electro-nuclear parks. The object is to know whether these liability rules induce horizontally concentrating the management of nuclear industry or not. In a model extended from two to n plants, we show that the institutional conditions (cap on the operator's liability and the insurance compensation) play a fundamental role in the inducement to centralize or not this management. Hence, a priori, no organization framework is more efficient than the other one.
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