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Accidents reported
K-15 south of 190th Road
Glen Diener, 52, 117 Madison St., Hillsboro, struck a deer while driving south on K-15 at 7:30 a.m. Sept. 27. He was driving his 2006 Pontiac sedan. No injuries were reported.
U.S. 56 north of 250th Road
Betty Ehlers, 61, 211 E. Maple St., Marion, was struck by a deer while driving north on U.S. 56 at 7:15 a.m. Sept. 23. She was driving her 2007 Ford sedan. No injuries were reported.
K-15 and 120th Road
Victoria Anne Hines, 16, 920 N. K-15, Newton, tried to turn west onto 120th Road in front of Christopher D. Stauffer, 42, of 1120 29th Ave., Canton, and Stauffer struck Hines at 7:40 a.m. Sept. 17. Hines was driving her 1994 Pontiac sedan, and Stauffer was driving his 1994 Ford pickup. No injuries were reported.
Indigo Road north of 240th Road
Sean Paul McDougal, 20, 709 Abilene, Durham, lost control, overcorrected, and rolled his vehicle while driving north on Indigo Road at 4:40 p.m. Sept. 22. He was driving his 1989 Dodge pickup. Zion Pauline Santeo, 20, same address, was a passenger in the pickup.
330th Road west of Eagle Road
Chelsea Marie Molgren, 28, 513 S. Lincoln St., Hillsboro, was driving east on 330th Road when she struck a deer at 6:30 a.m. Sept. 24. She was driving her 2011 Chevrolet sedan. No injuries were reported.
U.S. 50 east of Pawnee Road
Steven Jay Geiger, 49, 3506 Seneca, St. Joseph, Mo., was driving west on U.S. 50 when he struck a deer at 9 p.m. Sept. 24. He was driving a 2011 Ford sedan registered to International Paper ARI Fleet, same address. No injuries were reported.
300th Road west of Timber Road
Larry E. McCarty, 48, 317 W. Third St., Tampa, lost control on loose gravel, went into the ditch, and overturned partially on the roadway while driving west on 300th Road at 12:30 a.m. Sept. 23. He was driving his 1999 Ford SUV. No injuries were reported.
K-15 south of 270th Road
A 1995 Oldsmobile Sedan registered to Cynthia D. Matthews, 901 W. Burns, Herington, was reported in a ditch along K-15 at 3 p.m. Sept. 23. No driver was at the scene when reported to Marion County Sheriff's Office.
K-150 west of Xavier Road
Molese Hernandez Tavarez, 46, 111 S. Merchant, Emporia, was driving west on K-150 when he struck one heifer out of a group of 12 to 15 cattle that came out of the ditch onto the roadway at 6:15 a.m. Sept. 20. The heifer, owned by Ray Helmer, 2467 K-150, Marion, was killed. Tavarez was driving his 2008 Nissan sedan. Efrain Lewis, 32, 1601 W. South Ave., Dustin L. Fields, 28, 1753 Road E., and Edilberto Rodriguez, 32, 405 Union St., all Emporia, were passengers in the car. No injuries were reported.
90th Road west of Holly Road
Richard W. Hiebert, 54, 1630 Holly Road, Hillsboro, was driving west on 90th Road when he struck a deer at 6:35 a.m. Sept. 20. He was driving his 1991 Chevrolet pickup. No injuries were reported.
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Study shows nitrogen fertigation can enhance corn yields
Sand-laden soils dominate many of the corn fields Stamp Farms owns or manages across six counties in southwest Michigan. The coarse ground contains low organic matter and absorbs irrigation water like a parched sponge.
Some of the center pivots carry more than just moisture. Taking a cue from farmers in the Texas Panhandle, Stamp Farms has started to spoon-feed nitrogen, in a technique known as fertigation, to some of its corn-on-corn acres via pivots. Based on results from a first-year study conducted by Farm Journal Field Agronomist Missy Bauer in 2011, yields on Stamp Farms averaged 10 bu. to 15 bu. more per acre on fertigated ground when compared with the same nitrogen rate on nonfertigated ground.
"The take-home message is that we have much lower nitrogen levels in the plant where we sidedressed only, versus on the side where we fertigated, which correlates with our NDVI images as well," Bauer reports.
"I've found that the amount of nitrogen in an ear leaf sample correlates highly to yield results," she adds.
Stamp Farms' fertigation study was conducted in a 60-acre corn field under a half-circle pivot. A total of 235 lb. per acre of nitrogen was applied across the field during the season, using a number of application methods at various growth stages.
Starting out, the entire field received a baseline amount of 115 lb. per acre of nitrogen from a combination of preplant AMS, starter ferti-lizer and pre-emergent weed-and-feed. Once the baseline amount of nitrogen was applied, Bauer divided the field in half. On one half, she made a 120 lb. per acre nitrogen application at the V4 corn growth stage with a sidedress coulter cart applicator. On the other half of the field, Bauer split the 120 lb. of nitrogen into three applications: she sidedressed 75 lb. per acre at V4, then used fertigation at V10 to apply 30 lb. per acre of nitrogen and again at V15 to apply 15 lb. per acre of nitrogen.
"We were in essence spoon-feeding nitrogen to all of the corn to begin with, so we wondered whether additional timely applications through the pivot would enhance yield further. We determined they would," she says.
At harvest, Bauer found that corn yields averaged 226.2 bu. per acre on the side of the field where the crop had been spoon-fed the three nitrogen applications via sidedressing and fertigation. On the side that received a single in-season nitrogen application at V4, the crop yielded 216.4 bu. per acre.
Bauer also evaluated the field by soil management zone and found that when comparing yields within soil types, the response to fertigation ranged from 8.5 bu. to 22.5 bu. per acre.
The crop calls. The improved yield results from fertigation do not surprise Lyndon Kelley, irrigation educator for Michigan State and Purdue universities.
"You can apply nitrogen right when the maximum amounts are used by the crop, with low labor and fuel use and no compaction of the soil," Kelley says.
Nitrogen can be applied through the pivot with just a tenth of an inch if the field doesn't need more water at that time, Bauer adds. Application costs are minimal compared with making a trip across the field, as long as pivots are already in use.
"Start-up costs include an injection pump and nurse wagon, but that's it," Bauer notes.
Aaron Spicer, Stamp Farms foreman, was encouraged by the yield impact of fertigation. For that reason, among others, Stamp Farms is in the process of adding 30 to 40 center pivots to its operation annually.
"Plant health always seemed really good where we used fertigation," Spicer explains. "The crop was nice and dark green, and it never looked stressed."
Bauer plans to repeat the fertigation study with Stamp Farms this summer. "The question we want to answer is, when we sidedress 120 lb. per acre of nitrogen at one time, is that too much nitrogen in sandy soils, allowing leaching to occur?" she says. In addition, she plans to evaluate a late-season nitrogen application based on tissue tests pulled at tasselling.
Leaching is a concern, Kelley says, as farmers often make a late-season nitrogen application via fertigation when corn prices are high and nitrogen prices are low.
He prefers to see farmers make split applications of nitrogen and complete them by tasselling to maximize plant uptake and minimize leaching. For example, for a 180 bu. per acre corn crop in Michigan, Kelley recommends a total of 200 lb. of nitrogen: 50 lb. applied at planting, 75 lb. sidedressed and the balance through the pivot prior to tasselling.
"These split applications provide corn with nitrogen when it's most needed, and there's little concern that leaching will occur," he says.
In the process of using the pivot to apply nitrogen, Kelley encourages farmers to make sure their system application is uniform and that correct backflow safety valves and safety shutdowns are in place to protect the primary water supply.

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2019 Medicare Advantage Plans Otero County, Colorado
5 Top Selling MA & MAPD Plans in Otero County, CO
Here are the 5 best selling 2019 Medicare Advantage plans in Otero County, Colorado by current enrollments (click for details):
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The 11 Medicare Part C plans listed on this page are available to Medicare beneficiaries, enrolled in both Part A and Part B, living in Cheraw, Fowler, La Junta, Manzanola, Rocky Ford, Swink, and all other locations in Otero County, CO. MMP plans are only available to individuals who qualify for both Medicare and Medicaid benefits (aka, Dual Eligible or Medi-Medi).
Otero County, Colorado MA & MAPD Plan Carriers
The following table shows the top MA and MAPD insurance carriers in the County.
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Top 4 ePub Readers You Must Know About
ePub (also written as EPUB or EPub) stands for Electronic Publishing and is a standard e-book format which is used by all popular e-book readers out there, including Barnes & Noble Nook, Sony Reader, iPhone/iPod Touch (using various e-book apps), and more. ePub files have .epub extension.
There are various online as well as desktop tools which allow users to read .epub formats. We have covered four ePub readers which we believe you all should know about.
Bookworm (Online Service)
Bookworm is an online service that aims to be become a leading free platform for reading ePub books online. It is part of O'Reilly Media. It takes only three steps, create an account, upload an ePub book or magazine, and start reading.
The benefit of this service is that you can read the e-book online no matter where you are located and which device you are using.
EPUB Reader Firefox Add-On (Windows/Linux/Mac)
EPUBReader is a handy add-on for Firefox that can directly open any ePub format quickly. It is indeed faster and quicker than desktop software and shows the graphics far better than bookworm service.
This add-on opens the ePub file just like you can open PDF file in Firefox browser. Just hit the download link of any ePub book and select Open. If you have already downloaded the ePub book, then you can open it with Firefox.
The interface is customizable, which means you can change the background colors, etc to your own liking. The navigations buttons are given at the bottom along with the option to change the fonts.
Stanza (Mac)
Stanza is a desktop ePub reader and converter that is fast, light-weight, and simple. It can be used to save bookmarks and quick conversions. You can convert .epub format into tens of different other document formats including doc and pdf formats. If you want to read the ePub file in Amazon Kindle, there is an option for that as well.
The only downside is formatting and navigation, the two most important aspects. For formatting it can be compared with Bookworm service but is not as great as EpubReader add-on for Firefox.
MobiPocket Reader (Windows)
MobiPocket Reader is not only an advanced ePub books reader but is also a great professional books organizer. You can import books in PDF, ePub, or Office formats and organize them quickly. Just double-click a book and start reading.
The formatting of MobiPocket is better than the above mentioned tools and has an option to zoom into the book, useful for those who want to read the tiny text on the book. Also there is an advanced search box given on the top-right side which can drastically help in saving time.
Update: Also check out FBReader, which is an outstanding eBook reader, manager, and downloader.
Update 2: As a side note, you will also be interested in PaperCrop. A free tool that allows optimization of PDF file so that it takes less space and opens faster on mobile devices.
For quicker distraction-free reading, I found EPUBReader add-on to be the best. For traveling, I would prefer using Bookworm since all uploaded books can be accessed from anywhere in the world. For converting ePub books and reading them without worrying about Firefox crash, I would prefer Stanza. Lastly, if I am looking to organize all the books in one place, then MobiPocket Reader is the app to of choice.
All the above mentioned tools are great but the final selection would depend entirely on the user. Choose your app and let us know which one you like the best. If you know of any other app, do let us know. We love to try out new tools and services. Enjoy!


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FWIW, I looked at Padre season results from 1976-1986, and I think he was referring to 27 April 1982. That year the Padres opened 12-4 and were tied for first. They lost the next night and never got back atop the division. I assumed that after 1984 being in first place wouldn't have been that novel a thing.
Well, for a franchise that's lost
I've been thinking about doing game summaries here, similar to what USS Mariner does, but Geoff over at Ducksnorts already does a real good job of it, and he has the added benefit of attending the games. I, on the other hand, chase small children around the house at night when I'm not standing in the drizzle on a softball diamond.
It didn't rain hard enough to stop the game, but it did rain enough to be annoying. AND we had a double header last night. AND I pitched. Suffice it to say, from the neck down I looked like a drowned rat. It was a good night to wear multiple layers of clothing.
However I will make a couple of points:
1. One hit? That's all we got? During the post game on XX 1090, this little factoid came up: the Padres had only won one other time when they got a single hit. (July 19, 1975). They scored their runs on two bases-loaded walks in the sixth inning. Last night was the first game in franchise history won 1-0 on only one hit. It's not just a rare event for the Padres, it's a rare event in baseball. Since 1974 there's been only 9 other games decided 1-0 with the winner having a single hit. In 7 of those 9 games the single hit was a solo HR. The other two:
- 7 Sept 86: Giants beat Montreal on a hit by pitch, stolen base, wild pitch, and double (the lone hit). Run scored in the top of the first.
- 27 April 02: Seattle beats the Yankees on a walk, wild pitch, and single (the lone hit).
3. How many times can you say the key play of the game involved the first baseman falling into the camera well? That's just ridiculous. Consider that if Aubrey Huff could have somehow kept his balance Headley wouldn't have been able to advance. They might still be playing.
4. Jonathan Sanchez is a beast. You probably already knew that, seeing as he no-hit the Padres last year. He has also posted back-to-back 10 strikeout games. First time in his career he's done that. Thirty-four pitchers have also done this (since 2006). Only 7 of them had a third game of 10+ strikeouts, and it's a who's who of pitching studs the last 5 years (Peavy, Sabathia, Lester, Johan Santana, Verlander, Harden, Lackey).
Padres go for the sweep this afternoon. Clip and Save.


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Uncommon Descent Question 12 winner announced: Can Darwinism beat the Odds?
For Uncommon Descent Question 12: Can Darwinism beat the odds?, we have declared a winner, and it is Philip W at 11.
Philip W must provide me with a valid postal address* via firstname.lastname@example.com, in order to receive the prize, a free copy of the Privileged Planet DVD.
Philip W tells me that he is a pilot, and I liked his analysis of issues around flight:
Darwinian evolution can not possibly explain the life which we find on this planet. Let's explore one of these methods by asking the question "How, and why, did flight originate?" Before any creature took to the air there was nothing there to eat and so why would any creature, even an intelligent creature, want to fly. There could have been no powerful survival benefit in flight beyond perhaps escaping a predator to recommend it. Also, there are many other and far simpler ways to escape a predator. Flight is perhaps the most complicated and sophisticated activity that any creature possesses which means that it would have taken an extraordinary number of attempts by random evolutionary methods to make it a reality. There is another and even more fundamental question which underlies biological flight. Did nature, completely unguided by intelligence, just somehow know that flight was even possible or achievable? Humans, with their intelligence, were able to make gliders and toy airplanes long ago but they had an objective and they also had the model of the birds to follow. Even at that it took a long time to achieve human flight despite the huge cost in time, effort, and treasure which they were willing to expend. No amount of tinkering, especially without a conscious objective, could possibly account for biological flight. There are simply too many things which would have had to happen all at once for that to be possible. Remember that nature had no way of knowing that flight was possible and it certainly had no previous conception of flight. Without having an objective how can random tinkering achieve anything?
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QString hostname("kde.org");
QString hostname("kde.org");
QDBusInterface interface = new QDBusInterface("org.foo.bar", "/network",
QDBusInterface interface = new QDBusInterface("org.foo.bar", "/network",
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|Tutorial Series
|Introduction To D-Bus
|What's Next
|Creating D-Bus Interfaces
|Further Reading
D-Bus allows applications to expose internal API to the outside world. These APIs can then be accessed at run-time via the D-Bus protocol using command line applications or D-Bus libraries and bindings themselves. This tutorial looks at the latter method with examples that you can use in your applications.
Using QDBusMessage
QDBusMessage represents a D-Bus messages that can be sent or has been received over a given bus. Each message is one of five types, depending on the purpose of the message:
- method call
- signal
- reply
- error
- invalid
An enumeration covering each of these possibilities is defined in QDBusMessage. A message's type can be access via the QDBusMessage::type() method.
Calling a D-Bus Method
A QDBusMessage can be used directly to call methods in D-Bus services using the QDbusMessage::createMethod( const QString & service, const QString & path, const QString & interface, const QString & method ) static method. It returns a QDBusMessage object that you can then use to make the call.
The interface parameter is optional and only necessary if the method to be called is not unique in the accessed object address by the path. This can happen with the object implements multiple interfaces and those interfaces have methods with the same name. In such (rare) cases, if you do not define the interface to use there is not guarantee as to which method will actually get called. However, usually you can simply pass an empty string (e.g. "") as the argument for interface.
By way of example, to access the (fictional) ping method on the /network object in the org.foo.bar service, one might do this:
QDBusMessage m = QDBusMessage::createMessage("org.foo.bar",
bool queued = QDBusConnection::sessionBus()->send(m);
In line 5 of the above example we queue the message for sending on the current session bus. We get a bool returned letting us know if the queuing was successful or not.
This leaves us with two questions, however:
- How can one set parameters for a method call?
- How can one get a return message in the case of D-Bus methods that have a return value?
Setting Parameters
Sending arguments along with the method call is quite straight forward. First we need to create a QList of QVariant objects and then add those to our dbus message. So if the ping method in the above took a hostname as a parameter, we might alter the code in this way (note lines 5 through 7):
QDBusMessage m = QDBusMessage::createMessage("org.foo.bar",
QList<QVariant> args;
bool queued = QDBusConnection::sessionBus()->send(m);
Getting Replies
If we wish to actually receive information back from the D-Bus method, we use the QDBusConnect::call method instead. It will block until there is a reply or the call times out. If our ping method returned information on the host we provided in the arguments above, we might alter our code to look like this:
QDBusMessage m = QDBusMessage::createMessage("org.foo.bar",
QList<QVariant> args;
QDBusMessage response = QDBusConnection::sessionBus()->call(m);
The response will be either of type QDBusMessage::ReplyMessage or QDBusMessage::ErrorMessage depending on whether it was successful or not. We can look through the values returned by retreving the arguments with the QDBusMessage::arguments() method which returns a QList<QVariant>.
Is This The Best Way?
Using QDBusMessage directly in this way to invoke remote D-Bus methods is not the easiest, best or even recommend way of doing things. Next we will look at the more convnient QDBusInterface class and then look at accessing remote D-Bus interfaces as if they were local methods using a class auto-generated from the XML D-Bus interface description.
Using QDBusInterface
QDBusInterface provides a simple and direct method to make D-Bus calls and connect to D-Bus signals.
A QDBusInterface object represents a given D-Bus interface. The constructor accepts as parameters (in order) a service name, an object path, an optional interface and optionally which bus (e.g. system or session) to use. If no bus is explicitly define, it defaults to the session bus.
As QDBusInterface is a QObject, you can also pass it a parent object. This helps simplify the bookkeeping associated with creating new QDBusInterface objects by letting Qt clean up for you when the parent object is deleted.
Here is an example of QDBusInterface usage which we will then step through line by line:
QString hostname("kde.org");
QDBusInterface interface = new QDBusInterface("org.foo.bar", "/network",
interface->call("ping", hostname);
QDBusReply<int> reply = interface->call("ping", hostname);
if (reply.isValid())
i18n("Ping response time to %1 was %2")
i18n("Pinging %1").arg(hostname));
QList<QVariant> args;
interface->callWithArgumentList("ping", args);
interface->callWithCallback("listInterfaces", args,
this, SLOT(interfaceList(QDBusReply));
connect(interface, SIGNAL(interfaceUp(QString)),
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Program Adaptation: Horton Senses Something Small
The "Horton Senses Something Small" activity
While I was talking to Betty Jones at Milton J. Rubenstein Museum of Science and Technology (MOST) a few weeks ago about their summer camp program, she described an interesting adaptation to the "Horton Senses Something Small" activity that we recently posted to the catalog.
She wanted to take the idea that nano is very, very small and use it in an activity around some of the societal and ethical implications of nano.
"Horton Senses Something Small" is a story time program for young visitors. Educators read the Dr. Seuss book, Horton Hears a Who, then guide visitors (or campers!) through looking at small things using lenses and using their sense of smell to detect things that are too small to see. At MOST, Betty followed the Horton activity with the "Exploring Size - Scented Balloons" activity. Campers would smell balloons that contain a flavored extract, try to identify the extract, and consider why they could smell the extracts through the balloon. (Answer: scent molecules are so small they can travel through the balloon membrane.)
MOST educators followed those activities with an activity they created to demonstrate some challenges in getting nano waste products out of our water supply. Campers scrunched up a piece of paper and placed it into a water tray to create a topography form. They then sprinkled glitter, a few drops of motor oil, and Kool-Aid crystals over the form to represent different kinds of pollutants. They wet the surface with a spray bottle of water to simulate rain. Next, the campers used pipettes to remove some of the "polluted" water that had accumulated in the valleys.
To try to get a sense of how easily different pollutants might be filtered out of groundwater, the campers made filters from sand, activated charcoal and cotton batting. They filtered the water they collected from the valleys and looked to see what kinds of things came out. The glitter came out easily and the motor oil eventually got filtered out. However, when they finished, even when the water looked really, really clean, the campers could still smell the Kool Aid. They easily made the connection that the Kool Aid smell was due to nano particles that were not filtered out in our systems. The campers and educators had a conversation about some of the societal and ethical implications of nanotechnologies.
And as soon as they were finished with the activity, they wrote about it in their journals. At the end of our second camp, a camper, Nina, sang a song she had written in her journal.
Nano! Nano! Nano! NANO!
Nano is a…, nano is a…., nano is a… billionth of a meter!
It's teeny weeny, teeny weeny, super small.
It's nano, nano, nano, nano, nano, nano SMALL!
You can't see'em and neither can I, but you can smell'em and feel'em too!
It's NANO!!!!


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Recruiters, Managers Recognize the Value Military Veterans Bring to the Corporate Workforce
This post was written by Steve Vann, a military recruiter at Cisco
Vernon Bennett is a shining example of Cisco's initiative to hire military veterans. Vernon spent more than 20 years in the U.S. Air Force and Air National Guard and also has years of experience in the civilian sector: a combination that is desirable to Cisco's recruiters and hiring managers.
As a military recruiter for Cisco, I work with veterans across the United States, helping them find job opportunities at our company. I typically cater to two types of veterans: those just transitioning out of the military who are a great fit for many entry-level roles, and those who have been out of the military for a while and have developed civilian skills.
A few weeks ago, a flurry of emails crossed my desk. Vernon's résumé was attached and he was looking for a role with Cisco in our Research Triangle Park, North Carolina office. Recruiters, hiring managers, veteran employees, and members of our Veterans Enablement and Troop Support Employee Resource Group all wanted to contact him – both because he had just the right combination of civilian and military skills and because our veteran employees are always looking for opportunities to support our veterans.
The situation gave me the chance to perfect a process for handling such highly qualified and desirable applicants in the future. At the request of my boss, William Blackstorm, Cisco HR manager and Mike Quinn, vice president of technical support and a military veteran, I reached out to Vernon personally to coordinate everyone's interest in him. He applied to seven openings; I made sure to screen him for others to see his responses and I coordinated interviews for him.
Judy Ann Frank, a human resources manager in Cisco Customer Solutions, recognized Vernon as an ideal candidate for a role she was seeking to fill. He was hired a week later as a project manager in Advanced Services Customer Advocacy.
Not only did Cisco benefit by hiring a highly qualified veteran, I was able to help Vernon embark on a new career path and streamline my own process for placing more veterans in jobs at Cisco. I have to say, it felt good.
Vernon is one of 150 veterans hired at Cisco in the last 18 months. This weekend, other veterans and transitioning military personnel will have the chance to learn about job opportunities at Cisco. We are participating in two virtual job fairs and an in-person hiring event in Bethesda, Maryland hosted by the 100,000 Jobs Mission. Learn more below.
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During the recent NAMM Show held in Anaheim, CA, USA, SONOR honored MG Music, long time distribution partner from Jakarta, Indonesia.
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THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. - Golf's governing bodies, worried that players will turn to long putters as an advantage, proposed a new rule yesterday that would ban the putting stroke used by three of the last five major champions.
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. � Golf�s governing bodies, worried that players will turn to long putters as an advantage, proposed a new rule yesterday that would ban the putting stroke used by three of the last five major champions.
The Royal & Ancient Golf Club and the U.S. Golf Association said the rule would not outlaw belly putter or broom-handle putters, only the way they are currently used. The proposed rule would make it illegal for golfers to anchor the club while making a stroke and not take effect until 2016.
�More players are using it, and instructors are saying this is a more efficient way to putt because you don�t have to control the whole stroke,� USGA executive director Mike Davis said. �The game has been around for 600 years. Fundamentally, we don�t think this is the right way to go.�
Orville Moody won the 1989 U.S. Senior Open using a long putter that he held against his chest, allowing for a pendulum motion. Paul Azinger won the 2000 Sony Open with a putter that he pressed into his belly. Long putters began getting serious attention last year when Keegan Bradley became the first player to win a major with a belly putter at the PGA Championship. This year, Webb Simpson won the U.S. Open and Ernie Els won the British Open using belly putters.
Davis and Dawson said the catalyst for the new rule was not who was winning tournaments, but the number of players switching to long putters.
Their research showed no more than 4 percent of golfers used the clubs for several years. It went to 6 percent in 2006, and then to 11 percent in 2011, with some PGA Tour events having as much as 20 percent of the players using the long clubs. There was no empirical data to suggest a long putter made golf easier. Carl Pettersson (No. 21) and Bradley (No. 27) were the only players among the top 30 in putting this year on the PGA Tour who used long putters. The R&A and USGA will take comments for three months on the proposed rule before it is approved. Because the Rules of Golf are updated every four years, any ban on the anchored stroke would not take effect for another four years.
Tiger Woods is among those who have been outspoken about anchored putters , saying it takes away from the nerves in the hands in trying to make putts.
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AcelRx Secures $40 Million Credit Facility with Hercules Technology Growth Capital
Dec 19, 2013, 07:30 ET
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Dec. 19, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- AcelRx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: ACRX), a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of innovative therapies for the treatment of acute and breakthrough pain, today announced that it has entered into a new amended and restated credit facility with Hercules Technology Growth Capital, Inc. (NYSE: HTGC) that extends AcelRx's current relationship with Hercules, which was established in June 2011. The new Hercules credit facility provides for up to $40 million of new loans.
"The proceeds from this credit facility provide AcelRx with additional operating capital and contingency funding for our commercialization activities as we continue to prepare for the launch, if approved, of Zalviso™," stated Richard King, president and CEO of AcelRx. "These proceeds also provide the financial flexibility to fund additional pipeline development programs should we decide to advance any of our pipeline opportunities forward. We appreciate the support of Hercules, and its confidence in ZalvisoTM and the AcelRx management team."
AcelRx drew the first tranche of $15 million at the closing of the new credit facility. AcelRx applied approximately $8.5 million of the proceeds to repay its outstanding obligations under the prior credit facility with Hercules. This repayment eliminated approximately $8.5 million of remaining scheduled principal payments in 2014. The second tranche of up to $10 million can be drawn, at AcelRx's option, at any time prior to June 30, 2014. The third tranche of up to $15 million is conditioned upon the approval of Zalviso by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and if approved, can be drawn at AcelRx's option, at any time between December 15, 2014 and March 15, 2015. AcelRx plans to use the proceeds of the remaining tranches to provide additional funding for the commercialization of Zalviso and as a potential source of funding for clinical trials for other development programs in its pipeline, and for general corporate purposes.
General terms of the loan agreement include interest-only payments for 15 months until April 1, 2015, with the possibility of extending the interest-only period to two years until January 1, 2016, if the FDA approves Zalviso on or prior to April 1, 2015. Following the interest-only period, AcelRx will repay the loans in equal monthly payments of principal and interest through the scheduled maturity date on October 1, 2017 (which would be extended until January 1, 2018 if the Company obtains FDA approval of Zalviso on or prior to April 1, 2015). Further information with respect to the loan arrangement with Hercules, is contained in a Current Report on Form 8-K to be filed on December 19, 2013 by AcelRx with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
About AcelRx Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
AcelRx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of innovative therapies for the treatment of acute and breakthrough pain. AcelRx's lead product candidate, Zalviso™, is designed to solve the problems associated with post-operative intravenous patient-controlled analgesia which has been shown to cause harm to patients following surgery because of the side effects of morphine, the invasive IV route of delivery and the complexity of infusion pumps. AcelRx has announced positive results from each of the three completed Phase 3 clinical trials for Zalviso, and has submitted an NDA to the FDA seeking approval for Zalviso in the treatment of moderate-to-severe acute pain in adult patients in the hospital setting. AcelRx has also announced positive top-line results for a Phase 2 trial for ARX-04, a product candidate for the treatment of moderate-to-severe acute pain in a medically supervised setting, funded through a grant from the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command. The company has two additional pain treatment product candidates, ARX-02 and ARX-03, which have completed Phase 2 clinical development. For additional information about AcelRx's clinical programs, please visit www.acelrx.com.
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This press release contains forward-looking statements, including, but not limited to, statements related to AcelRx Pharmaceuticals' financial viability, the sufficiency of funds to support its clinical and development program and operations, planned or anticipated future clinical development of AcelRx Pharmaceuticals' product candidates, the therapeutic and commercial potential of Zalviso and the anticipated timing, therapeutic and commercial potential of other AcelRx product candidates, and statements related to future events under the credit facility with Hercules, including its ability to access the third tranche funds under such facility. These forward-looking statements are based on AcelRx's current expectations and inherently involve significant risks and uncertainties. AcelRx's actual results and the timing of events could differ materially from those anticipated in such forward-looking statements as a result of these risks and uncertainties, which include, without limitation, risks related to: AcelRx's ability to receive regulatory approval for Zalviso; any delays or inability to obtain and maintain regulatory approval of its product candidates, including Zalviso, in the United States and Europe; its ability to attract funding partners or collaborators with development, regulatory and commercialization expertise; its ability to obtain sufficient financing to commercialize Zalviso; the market potential for its product candidates; the accuracy of AcelRx's estimates regarding expenses, capital requirements and needs for financing; AcelRx's ability to satisfy the conditions required to access the third tranche funds under the credit facility with Hercules, extend the interest-only period or maturity date under such facility; and other risks detailed in the "Risk Factors" and elsewhere in AcelRx's U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filings and reports, including its Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed with the SEC on November 5, 2013. AcelRx undertakes no duty or obligation to update any forward-looking statements contained in this release as a result of new information, future events or changes in its expectations.
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RICHMOND, Va. – Sixth-seeded Massachusetts netted five straight penalty kicks to advance to the Atlantic 10 Conference Women's Soccer Championship semifinals over third-seeded Saint Louis after 110 minutes of scoreless play forced the shootout in Thursday's second quarterfinal. The Minutewomen will face second-seeded La Salle at 5:00 pm Friday for a chance to play in Sunday's finale.
The Minutewomen scored on all five penalty kicks from Alyssa Fratarcangeli, Jen Coppola, Megan Burke, Brittany Moore and Julia Weithofer against Billiken goalkeeper, Hanna Benben. Mary Wright, Lindsay Elking, and Abbey Stock each found the back of the net, while Saint Louis'' second shot from Shaney Sakamoto went off the left post.
While each team had plenty of opportunities, the majority of the game was a battle for possession in the midfield. UMass registered 18 shots, including three on goal, while Saint Louis finished with nine total shots and one goal.
Saint Louis' best chance came in the first overtime on a shot on goal by Cristina Rodriguez, but it was handled by UMass goalkeeper, Danielle Kriscenski.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge, (October 21, 1772-July 25, 1834) a leader of the British Romantic movement, was born on in Devonshire, England. His father, a vicar of a parish and master of a grammar school, married twice and had fourteen children.
The youngest child in the family, Coleridge was a student at his father's school and an avid reader. After his father died in 1781, Coleridge attended Christ's Hospital School in London, where he met lifelong friend Charles Lamb. While in London, he also befriended a classmate named Tom Evans, who introduced Coleridge to his family. Coleridge fell in love with Tom's older sister, Mary.
Coleridge's father had always wanted his son to be a clergyman, so when Coleridge entered Jesus College, University of Cambridge in 1791, he focused on a future in the Church of England. Coleridge's views, however, began to change over the course of his first year at Cambridge. He became a supporter of William Frend, a Fellow at the college whose Unitarian beliefs made him a controversial figure. While at Cambridge, Coleridge also accumulated a large debt, which his brothers eventually had to pay off. Financial problems continued to plague him throughout his life, and he constantly depended on the support of others.
En route to Wales in June 1794, Coleridge met a student named Robert Southey. Striking an instant friendship, Coleridge postponed his trip for several weeks, and the men shared their philosophical ideas. Influenced by Plato's Republic, they constructed a vision of Pantisocracy (equal government by all), which involved emigrating to the New World with ten other families to set up a commune on the banks of the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania. Coleridge and Southey envisioned the men sharing the workload, a great library, philosophical discussions, and freedom of religious and political beliefs.
After finally visiting Wales, Coleridge returned to England to find that Southey had become engaged to a woman named Edith Fricker. As marriage was an integral part of the plan for communal living in the New World, Coleridge decided to marry another Fricker daughter, Sarah. Coleridge wed in 1795, in spite of the fact that he still loved Mary Evans, who was engaged to another man. Coleridge's marriage was unhappy and he spent much of it apart from his wife.
During that period, Coleridge and Southey collaborated on a play titled The Fall of Robespierre (1795). While the pantisocracy was still in the planning stages, Southey abandoned the project to pursue his legacy in law. Left without an alternative plan, Coleridge spent the next few years beginning his career as a writer. He never returned to Cambridge to finish his degree.
In 1795, Coleridge befriended William Wordsworth, who greatly influenced Coleridge's verse. Coleridge, whose early work was celebratory and conventional, began writing in a more natural style. In his 'conversation poems,' such as The Eolian Harp and This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison, Coleridge used his intimate friends and their experiences as subjects.
The following year, Coleridge published his first volume of poetry, Poems on Various Subjects, and began the first of ten issues of a liberal political publication entitled The Watchman. From 1797 to 1798 he lived near Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy, in Somersetshire. In 1798, the two men collaborated on a joint volume of poetry entitled Lyrical Ballads. The collection is considered the first great work of the Romantic school of poetry and contains Coleridge's famous poem, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
That autumn the two poets traveled to the Continent together. Coleridge spent most of the trip in Germany, studying the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, Jakob Boehme, and G E Lessing. While there he mastered the German language and began translating. When he returned to England in 1800, he settled with family and friends at Keswick.
Over the next two decades Coleridge lectured on literature and philosophy, wrote about religious and political theory, spent two years on the island of Malta as a Secretary to the Governor in an effort to overcome his poor health and his opium addiction, and lived off of financial donations and grants. He moved in with the physician James Gillman in 1816. In 1817, he published Biographia Literaria, which contained his finest literary criticism. He continued to publish poetry and prose, notably Sibylline Leaves (1817), Aids to Reflection (1825), and Church and State (1830).
He breathed his last in London on July 25 in 1834.
Selected Bibliography: Poetry: Arch (1798), Arch (1800), Biographia Literaria (1907), Christabel: Kubla Khan, a Vision; The Pains of Sleep (1816), Fears in Solitude (1798), Lyrical Ballads, with a few Other Poems (1798), Poems (1803).
Poems on Various Subjects (1796), Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Oxford Authors (1985), Selections from the Sybilline Leaves of S T Coleridge (1827).
Sibylline Leaves: A Collection of Poems (1817), Sonnets from various authors (1796), The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1969), The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1912).
The Devil's Walk: A Poem (1830), The Literary Remains in Prose and Verse of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1839), The Poetical Works of S T Coleridge (1828).
Prose: A Moral and Political Lecture (1795), Aids to Reflection in the Formation of a Manly Character (1825), Biographia Literaria, or Biographical Sketches of my Literary Life and Opinions (1817), Collected Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1973), Conciones ad Populum, or Addresses to the People (1795).
Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit (1841), Essays on His Own Times; forming a second series of The Friend, (1850), Hints towards the Formation of a more Comprehensive Theory of Life (1848), On the Constitution of Church and State (1830), Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Selected Letters (1987), Seven Lectures upon Shakespeare and Milton (1856), Specimens of the Table Talk of the late Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1835), The Friend: A Literary, Moral, and Political Weekly Paper (1810), The Friend; A Series of Essays (1812), The Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1895), The Notebooks of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1957), The Philosophical Lectures of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1949), The Plot Discovered, or an Address to the People Against Ministerial Treason (1795), The Statesman's Manual, or The Bible the Best Guide to Political Skill and Foresight: A Lay Sermon (1816), Unpublished Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1932), Zapolya: A Christmas Tale (1817)
Drama: Remorse, A Tragedy, in Five Acts (1813), The Fall of Robespierre. An Historic Drama (1794).
Periodicals: The Watchman: A Periodical Publication (1796). n
Source: poets.org/poet/samuel-taylor-coleridge


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Texas Republian State Representative Larry Taylor has apologized for using the phrase "Jew them down" during a legislative hearing.
The mustachioed compadre of Rick Perry invoked anti-Semitic stereotypes and your most embarrassing great uncle in a discussion of insurance claim payouts to victims of natural disasters. Taylor was concerned that the companies would try to avoid paying their full obligation to claimants, and warned the companies against pulling any stunts. Talking Points Memo reports that he said,
"Don't nitpick, don't try to Jew them down." He quickly added: "That's probably a bad term."
Why yes, sir. It is indeed a bad term.
To his credit, the politician apologized for the Jew-related comment, saying he regrets his choice of words and sincerely apologizes for any harm or offense he caused.
What's the opposite of Yee-haw? Yee-hawn't? This was definitely a yee-hawn't.
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|Battle of the Plains
|Conflict: Wainrider/Balchoth War
|Date: T.A. 1856
|Place: Plains south of Mirkwood
|Outcome: Victory for the Wainriders
Gondor, Northmen, Éothéod
Unknown number of Gondorians, Unknown number of Northmen
Unknown number of Wainriders
Probably moderate
The Battle of the Plains was a battle fought in T.A. 1856, in which the armies of Gondor and their allies the Northmen faced the invading Wainriders.
Prior to the Battle
Twenty one years prior to the battle, the Great Plague had killed thousands of people from the east to the west of Middle-earth. The heaviest plague impact afflicted the kingdoms of Rhovanion, which lost half of its people, and Gondor, who lost many thousands of its people as well. They were slow to recover; but fortunately, their weaknesses were not tested for decades. The Easterlings had been equally afflicted, so that the enemies of Gondor struck mainly from the south, or were maritime raiders. But when the Wainriders invasions began, it involved Gondor in wars that lasted for nearly a hundred years. In these conflicts, the Northmen bore the brunt of the first assaults.
The Battle
Though we know few details, it appears that that King Narmacil II took a great army north to the plains south of Mirkwood, and gathered together all he could of the scattered remnants of the Northmen; but he was defeated, and he himself was slain in the battle as well as Marhari leader of the Northmen, who died fighting in the rearguard. The remnant of his army retreated over Dagorlad into Ithilien.
Aftermath and Repercussions
The battle was a disaster for Gondor. The king was slain, and the lands east of the river Anduin were abandoned, save Ithilien. Narmacil was succeeded by his son Calimehtar.
As for the Northmen, a few fled over the river Celduin and merged with the People of Dale (with whom they were akin), some took refuge in Gondor, and others were gathering under the leadership of Marhwini son of Marhari. They headed north and eventually settled east of Anduin in the Vales of Anduin. They were joined by many fugitives who came through Mirkwood. This was the birth of the Éothéod, though no news of this reached Gondor for many years. Most of the Northmen were reduced to servitude, and all their former lands were occupied by the Wainriders.


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so I don't forget:
boyd's paper sets the stage with basic ideas about constructed nature of the self, the way individuality emerges from social embeddedness and so on. I am speculating that this self is less likely to be read/experienced as inherent, as the revelation of one's true inner nature, as the ultimate expression of unique individuality — as "authentic. Instead it is postauthentic: the values of consumerist authenticity are being changed by "prosumerism" and the ease of broadcastability of consumer behavior and identity/status signifiers and so on. Social media feeding back an identity to users may prompt those users to eschew the idea of being true to a static inner self in favor of a more dynamic form of identity, as something we have reported to us and then try to live up to. The data self reported to us is kind of status update from ourselves that surprises us as novel, allows us to consume our own personality as novelty.
boyd notes that teens' "efforts to achieve privacy without relying on the control of information are still an important signal" that they have not given up on privacy altogether. In my "Hi Haters" essay, I try to get at something similar, what sort of practices of seeking control over identity and representations of self people turn to when networked society has taken it away or made it feel out of control. I argue that the subjective feeling of this condition is a kind of "cruel optimism" a la Lauren Berlant. We accommodate an immiserating condition rather than remove ourselves from the network.
I think that latching on to the post-hoc data self is another way of trying to evade the misery that can come from the loss of control over self-representation. It's not giving up on identity, but on the personal control and autonomy implicit in the individualistic ideal version of identity. (Maybe not the worst thing. As boyd writes, "In order to address networked privacy, we need to let go of our cultural fetishization with the individual as the unit of analysis.")
It's protective to embrace the data self, not the vulnerable inner-conjured self, which is conditioned/determined/interpreted inescapably anyway by all sorts of outside influences and always has been. We were just able to blind ourselves to that much more easily before. (This is why Simondon's idea of preindividuality — or at least what little I understand of it at this point — seems more relevant to me. Need to read something like this.) Looking to data is a defense mechanism, masquerading perhaps as a gesture of curiosity or discovery, or a kind of self-tracker yearning to know the real objective truth of the self. (Actually, looking to data self for "truth" prohibits or suspends the formation of a "true self" as we used to think of it, as the result of self-actualization, as an expression of emerging and uniquely personal will.)
Basically I'm trying to sketch out the subjective experience of having an alienated identity: When you know you can't control how you will be seen and that much of what you do is open to reinterpretation, how does one build narratives of identity, if at all? The contours of this subjectivity are not determined by some notion of inner "true self" or the search for it; instead it is dictated by the ongoing search for the represented self: now the true self is how others/machines see us and interpret our data, which we seek to have reported back to us.
We redefine the "true self" on the basis of ideological conditions and affective needs. We accept a true self that makes those conditions tolerable. But building walls around self with privacy no longer viable way of protecting ideology of individualism. Consumerism and capitalism seeking ways to move beyond individualism as ideological pillar, into subsumption of everyday life.
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Posted 28 August 2012 - 11:29
He ran Datsun 1600s and Holdens of a number of different types as well as Fords. A very competent co-driver in endurance events, not one to do anything outlandish, but to get on with the job and keep the car in one piece.
Posted 28 August 2012 - 22:51
And my condolences to their respective familys.
Posted 03 September 2012 - 00:13
He is probably the last of the old original brigade who started their racing careers on the airstrip circuits in Tas.
He built his first racing car in 1933 at the age of 17.
He raced well into his 70's .
He also raced speed boats.
Inducted into the Tasmanian Motoring Hall of Fame in 1996
Posted 03 September 2012 - 01:14
Thanks for the memories Dick and thanks for sharing my world all those years ago and the memories are mine to keep. Farewell old friend!
Tasmanian R "Dicky" Crawford passed away yesterday.....1916-2012
He is probably the last of the old original brigade who started their racing careers on the airstrip circuits in Tas.
He built his first racing car in 1933 at the age of 17.
He raced well into his 70's .
He also raced speed boats.
Inducted into the Tasmanian Motoring Hall of Fame in 1996
Posted 03 September 2012 - 13:42
A gift to our sport, he will be sorely missed. It was his great privilege to live through better times than we know, undoubtedly his disappointment to see how far things got off the rails.
Posted 03 September 2012 - 14:24
So true, Ray.
Ninety-six... an incredible man...
A gift to our sport, he will be sorely missed. It was his great privilege to live through better times than we know, undoubtedly his disappointment to see how far things got off the rails.
His passing is not unexpected, but still difficult to believe. Dick is remembered by many of us who frequented Tasmanian meetings in 1960s and 70s as a fairly eccentric chain smoker who raced purely for fun in his various JMW and similar devices with 246cc Yamaha twin engines, and later a formula vee, but in earlier years he was a fairly quick driver who had benefitted from his long friendship with Don Gorringe. Don could afford some fairly good cars, including the MM Holden and the ex Scuderia Veloce /Geoghegan Lola Climax - it was his mate Crawford who maintained these cars, tuned them and drove them to several successes. Crawford was apparently quite a bit faster than Gorringe in the Lola.
In Tasmania in the 1950s and early 1960s, Dick Crawford was regarded, along with Jack Barker, as being one of the best tuners in the state, and many competition cars from Hobart benefitted from his breathing upon them.
Dick Crawford was a larger than life prescence in Tasmanian racing for a very long time, and his passing leaves only Mick Watt left of that band of amateurs who got road racing up and running in Tasmanian after WW2.
I have fond memories of, on many occasions, being signalled by Dick to give his vee a push start in the pits at Baskerville, because he was usually on his own and would rope in whoever was nearby to assist with unloading and starting.
Vale Dickie.
Rob Saward
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Posted 16 September 2012 - 12:14
Juliette SLAUGHTER 1945-2012
Fernand TSAROPOULOS aka "Lee Banner"
Edited by Haine Kane, 16 September 2012 - 12:14.
Posted 16 September 2012 - 20:55
Such a sad loss; David was a top bloke, as anyone who knew him will testify.
You'll be greatly missed fella. The man who educated me re the ADL.
Posted 16 September 2012 - 21:03
Posted 18 September 2012 - 03:32
Originally posted by Wirra
Very pleased to say both Dave and Owen assisted with my 250 GTO project.....
If you're on the net while you're in England, Peter, and if you open this thread and see this post...
I think this will nearly bring a tear to your eye:
Owen Wuillemin and David Levy in happier days.
Norm Smith found this pic in a pile of 'missing' photos the other day, he simply had to show it to me. I simply had to copy it. And post it in memory of a great bloke...
That's the Owen I remember so well.
Edited by Ray Bell, 18 September 2012 - 03:35.
Posted 18 September 2012 - 14:32
I am afraid so. See Gordon Kirby's remembrance at:
Oh No, the longtime Formula Ford driver?
Posted 19 September 2012 - 02:08
Thanks too for posting Gordon's article.
Posted 19 September 2012 - 03:17
It was through my friendship with GK that I met DL. For that I will be forever grateful. We quickly became friends, he was a delight to be around--on or off the track.
Although she got to meet him only once, when she was young, my daughter--who is now in her 30s--immedately liked GK's funny friend.
When I informed her of the sad news yesterday she put it very bluntly...."that really sucks".
Indeed it does.
But what would have been worse was never to have met and enjoyed this fine man.
I will miss him
Posted 19 September 2012 - 08:07
Posted 20 September 2012 - 01:21
His best finish was a 2nd place at Dover in 1975 (7 laps down to winner David Pearson) and was a regular presence on the circuit from 1969 to 1983 with a one off for the Sacks team at Richmond in the spring of 1985.
Even though never a star he was a compentant competitor who was often among the best of the "independants" who raced in that era.
Edited by Lemnpiper, 20 September 2012 - 01:22.
Posted 21 September 2012 - 03:45
RIP Cecil Gordon
Posted 01 October 2012 - 00:07
He was disabled from birth with a stiff right leg which later in life caused him some real problems as the rest of his back and body succumbed to compenesating for the severe limp.
He was a Sand and Metal conracter plus earthmover. As well as a vingeron and general small farmer.
He was born, grew up and lived in Happy Valley SA all his life and in recent years has been very active in keeping the areas name as well as being a local historian.
In recent years he has been a active member of the veteran motorcycle club here in SA of which he thouroughly enjoyed.And reconnected with blokes he competed against as well as others from the era.
He was also a very good district cricketer, as a medium pace bowler and close in fields man.
Survived by partner Wendy, plus sons Lee and Cleve and daughter Bernice.
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Please accept my condolences, Lee, and believe that I have the utmost respect for someone who clung so long to that vital thread.
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Posted 02 October 2012 - 14:18
The same issued carried a story on R.H.(Dick) Crawford, and gave his birth and death dates as 2/11/1916 and 31/8/2012.
Rob Saward
Posted 02 October 2012 - 19:53
These dates have long been put online here.
The same issued carried a story on R.H.(Dick) Crawford, and gave his birth and death dates as 2/11/1916 and 31/8/2012.
According to his obituary his initials were not R.H. because his full name was Richard Maxwell Anderson Crawford.
Posted 02 October 2012 - 22:44
Thankyou guys. Much appreciated.
Condolences to you, your family and your Dad's friends, Lee.
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Posted 09 November 2012 - 04:00
He had a lot of fun playing with his Triumphs, didn't care too much whether he was first or last as long as he played the game.
Posted 10 November 2012 - 09:45
At present regarding Bob Kennedy.
Similarly with John Davies, John Stranger, Don Wright, Tim Garratt, Alan Munday, Graham Slater, Matt Harrison, Warren Blomfield, Lloyd Hirst, Bob Curran, Ken Mitchell, John Brooks, Norm Bice, Mal Simpson, Stace Hopper, Eric Barnes, Ron Haylen, Kevin Shearer, Ted Jordan, Dave Brown, John Budgen, Phil Ornstien, Vic Hodson, John Youl, Bob Annear, Llynden Riethmuller, George Reed, Brian Tracey, Austin Tauranac, Dorothy Smith, Bert Flood, Ian Fergusson, Noel Goodwin, Neil Marsden, Johnny Riley, Jack Bono, Bill Ford, Bill Shiells, Barry Sharp, Pete Kerr, Anthony Trevean, Alan Barrow, Ken Ward (since 2006).
Posted 16 November 2012 - 00:18
Probably best known for his exploits in both the Fisher Ford L88 powered 'Suddenly' Super Modified no 88 and the Alec Rowe midgets in the late 60s until the early 80s which really made him a legend. But he started racing solos in the late 40s. According to Speed Cafe he competed at the first and last Rowley Pk events! I saw the final night where he starred in both the then current Sprinter then later brought out Suddenly. First a couple of laps with Glen Dix riding shotgun on the nerfs with the chequer, then he dropped off Glen and proceeded with several full bore laps very crossed up laps with the left front hiking 6" plus.
He raced up until the late 80s, then helped son Terry and late his grandsons with V8 Dirt Modifieds and recently Wingless Sprints where Todd [in 88 what else] is current Aust 1.
In recent years Murray Bridge Speedways opening Sprint Car show is the Bill Wigzell cup and always is well contested.
Bill was a salesman at South Rd Marine for many years until he retired and still worked part time after to raise a few dollars for Terrys racing. He lived at Cherry Gardens in the Adelaide Hills.
He was a fellow member of the Veteran Motorcycle Competitors Club with my father, who also died recently.
Posted 16 November 2012 - 06:53
Vince H.
Posted 19 November 2012 - 09:41
Tom and the Motorlab team (his wife Raelene and several others raced cars he had prepared) were big on the Mini scene back in the day - whenever when we took our cars in his office wall was still littered with curled photos of race Minis.
Our thoughts are with Raelene and his family and staff.
Edited by 275 GTB-4, 20 November 2012 - 21:30.
Posted 21 November 2012 - 07:49
Both of those cars are Bob Collinson, aka 2bob on this forum. Motorlab have sponsored Jim Doig for a very long time. His car is well known as the Motorlab Asp.
Tom Galbraith, proprietor of Motorlab here in Unley SA passed away Saturday 27th Oct 2012.
Tom and the Motorlab team (his wife Raelene and several others raced cars he had prepared) were big on the Mini scene back in the day - whenever when we took our cars in his office wall was still littered with curled photos of race Minis.
Our thoughts are with Raelene and his family and staff.
My condolences to his family and friends.
Posted 21 November 2012 - 07:52
Posted 21 November 2012 - 08:41
Our sincere condolences to Ian's family and to Wayne Hocking and family who made up the TAD racing team.
His enthusiasm and great sense of humour will be sadly missed in the Mallala pits.
Posted 21 November 2012 - 11:02
Very sad. I saw the aftermath on the news of that accident. And watched one of those handicap races on Saturday.
Further Sad news from SA. On Monday Ian Ashford was killed in a motorbike accident in the Adelaide Hills. Ian had run very successfully on the Saturday in the TAD, scoring 2 handicap wins. He laughed with me saying that he had worked out who and how much the bribe was to win the handicaps.
Our sincere condolences to Ian's family and to Wayne Hocking and family who made up the TAD racing team.
His enthusiasm and great sense of humour will be sadly missed in the Mallala pits.
Again my condolences to family and friends.
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Tony was very well known as a great cricket player and later on as a commentator but also competed on 4 wheels.
Posted 16 February 2013 - 07:10
In 1961, Bob owned and drove what I believe was the ex-Emil Pardee Porsche 718 RSK #018 (anyone know where that car is now?)
Here are a couple of photos from Martin Rudow's 2005 reunion at Pacific Raceways, Kent, Washington. The first photo shows Bob, on the left, with former Lotus XI driver Ron Lee. The second shows Bob with a laughing Jerry Grant, while George Keck looks on from the left of the photo. Ron and Jerry are also no longer with us.
I also found this link. Please click on the photo:
Vince H.
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Posted 11 March 2013 - 12:24
Loch was well known in the sport in the fifties and sixties. He was a key man with the ARDC and also was a photographer and/or cinematographer, in which capacity he worked for Alec Mildren filming his racing activities in the sixties. He is survived by his wife, for whose sake, I gather, he moved into a nursing home last year.
Posted 11 March 2013 - 12:48
Graham gave me my first break in writing for a magazine and was keen to see me succeed in motor sport journalism. That was in his days with Yaffa, and the article I wrote for him led directly to Max Stahl asking me to do some work for Racing Car News.
He also gave me my first taste of driving a competition car, letting me loose in the Lotus 6 at a Warwick Farm AARC Club Practice Day. That's not strictly true, actually, as I had driven the AMRD Lotus 18 at Oran Park prior to that for a few short and high-priced laps. I remember him telling me of the Lotus that it was the ultimate constant speed machine, but to me it was pretty accelerative and I had a great time putting just a little more wear on it's skinny Michelin XAS tyres.
As a keen historian and someone with a wealth of knowledge about the sport in the fifties and sixties in particular, Graham will be sorely missed. It was he who commenced the work that led to the production in 1986 of The Official 50-race History of the Australian Grand Prix. But, as with many who seek perfection, he was never going to get it finished on his own and several people, including myself, were called upon to help bring it to completion.
Best known today for his long-standing connection with Auto Action and his Historical column in that, Graham has lived on the western side of the Blue Mountains for over a decade. His wife of many years, Maria, and their children now have to continue their lives without his physical presence, but I suspect that his influence on them will never wane and if the youngsters grow up with his attributes they will be very worthy members of whatever part of society they grace.
That Auto Action column he's put forth for over thirty years has only just lost his byline, ironically to someone who employed him back in the sixties, Max Stahl.
I'm not sure how old Graham was, but it was way too young to fall victim to the cancer that has taken him. He was one of those people who, when one wanted to know or recall something about a particular phase of the sport, you might think was indispensable. Unfortunately he has become one who has proved he was not.
To Maria and his family I offer my sincere condolences. Our own life experiences confirm within us the pain you are feeling.
Posted 11 March 2013 - 13:18
Correct me if I'm wrong, Ray, but didn't he do a column on car movements in RCN? I'm sure that's where I first saw his name
In this digital age, he was always most helpful to me personally with various aspects of Australian racing and car history
A good friend who, sadly, I never met
Posted 11 March 2013 - 13:34
Too young...
Posted 11 March 2013 - 13:40
But he was an employee of Max's at RCN for a couple of years in the sixties. Prior to the Rob Luck era.
Graham was interested in the sport at all levels, but he really shone and knowing what was going on in the 'Division 2' stuff at places like Hume Weir, Oran Park and so on. He moved easily among people such as Brian Rawlings and Team Party House and second-string Formula Ford entrants, taking note of what they were doing with their cars.
Of course, this was often conveyed in his commentary on the circuit PA, or perhaps on ABC radio or TV, but a lot was merely stored away as precious knowledge.


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I've never had the lucky knack of being able to catch Z's on the run. Sleeping on a plane is difficult for me and afternoon power naps that perk up some people leave me feeling drowsy.
Well, I must have been tired Thursday of Schweizer Fest Week because I fell asleep on a concrete patio watching for meteors.
I came home that night just before midnight and instead of turning in as I should have, I decided to catch the Perseid meteor show happens each August. Staring up into the heavens isn't a regular practice of mine, but I saw a "shooting star" overhead as I walked out of the garage. I wanted to see more.
I went inside, fixed a sandwich, changed clothes, opened a beer and grabbed a pillow off of the sofa. I seldom use the patio on the west side of the house, which bakes in the sun during summer afternoons. I'm not sure how long I watched the sky but don't remember seeing any more shooting stars. I do remember jolting up a few hours later at the sound of yapping coyotes.
After a few discombobulated moments, I realized where I was and why I was flat on my back on a concrete slab. My elbow knocked over the half-full bottle of beer. Dawn was breaking, though it was dark enough my neighbors wouldn't have seen me. Next time I'll invest in a lounge chair.
Schweizer Fest Success
Schweizer Fest was a blast of fun and hot air. The week was the hottest I can remember as far as consecutive days of temperatures in the mid- to high-90s.
For the second straight year, I bartended Saturday night in the beer garden. It was five hours of trading beer for tickets, though it was fun. Schweizer Fest has a talented group of people who keep the taps open, quite literally.
I saw no spats among guests, despite the heat and relatively close quarters. The only incident I had came from a woman who grabbed a beer and ran off without paying a ticket. I don't know who she was and probably wouldn't recognize her again. She bellied up to the bar and asked for a beer. I don't take customers' tickets until I give them the beer, preventing the "Hey, buddy, I already gave you a ticket" scam.
"Where's the ticket?" I asked the tipsy darling after she took a sip from the cup I'd just handed her. She gave me a sheepish look, shrugged her shoulders, giggled loudly and walked away.
I watched her weave her way through the crowd. I didn't give chase, honked off but slightly bemused by someone who thought a giggle and smile were worth a cup of beer. To the lady, whoever you are, you owe Schweizer Fest $2.75.
Thanks to everyone who made this year's event a success. It takes the efforts of many for it even to happen and a lot of work takes place behind the scenes.
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