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Via the Metro (the Poissonnière stop is 100 m from the hotel), all of the charm and romanticism of the City of Light is within your reach: Tuileries Palace, the Musée d'Orsay, the Louvre, Notre Dame, boat rides on the Seine, Saint Germain, the Luxembourg gardens, the Bois de Boulogne, the Champ de Mars, the Eiffel Tower, the Arc de Triomphe, l'Étoile... a symphony of attractions means you never run out of things to do in Paris.
TRAIN: You can access Orlyval from arrivals, which has a direct connection to Antony, from where you can catch the RER B to central Paris. The nearest stop to the hotel is the Gare du Nord, which is a five-minute walk away.
The train journey takes approximately 35 min.
BUS: Also from arrivals, you can access the Orlybus option, whose end is stop is Denfert-Rochereau. The journey takes 30 min, and there is a bus every 10-20 min.
This stop is in south Paris, which is some distance from the hotel, meaning you then have to catch the Metro.
TAXIS: Taxis are available at either of the two airport terminals, and cost approximately €45-55.
Beauvais airport is 80 km from Paris. This airport provides a direct bus for every flight of the day. The journey takes approximately 1 hour 15 min, and buses depart from Parking Pershing at Porte Maillot. (Metro line 1).
A single ticket costs €17 and there is a bus for every flight.
TAXI: A taxi from Beauvais costs approximately €90.
ROISSYBUS: Bus that connects Opéra to Charles de Gaulle airport, with a frequency of 15-30 min depending on the day of the week. The journey takes approximately one hour and a single ticket costs €10.50.
The Place d'Opéra is a 15-min walk from the hotel, down Rue Lafayette.
TAXI: Like Orly airport, it takes 35-40 min to get to CDG, and the price is approximately €45-50.
TRAIN: From the Gare du Nord station, you can catch the RER B3, which has a direct connection to CDG airport. It costs €9.50 and comes every 15-20 min. The journey takes about 25 min from the Gare du Nord.


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Dinner was only 30 minutes away and once again I forgot to thaw out meat so I was looking for egg recipes. Breakfast for dinner is fun, right! Yes, that was my plan all along (hee, hee).
So I must confess I was too chicken to make them poached so I just made sunny side up eggs. It sounds really easy but I kept having visions of the movie Julie and Julie and her messing up the poached eggs so I didn't try it. My husband doesn't like runny eggs so I had to cook both sides. What do you call sunny side up eggs that have no sun. I found this recipe and picture at Closet Cooking . The flavor combinations were fabulous and it was a big hit in our home.
4 eggs
4 slices bread, lightly toasted (I used multigrain)
1/4 cup chipotle lime mayo (see below)
2 avocados, sliced
8 slices bacon, cooked
1.Bring a large pot of water to a boil and reduce the heat to medium.
2.Crack an egg into a bowl, swirl the water in the pot and pour the egg from the bowl into the water and repeat for another egg.
3.Let the eggs cook until the whites are set but the yolks are not, about 2-3 minutes and fish them out.
4.Repeat for the remaining 2 eggs.
5.Assemble sandwiches and enjoy.
Chipotle Lime Mayo
Spicy hot and smoky chipotle peppers mixed with creamy mayo and a hint of lime.
1/2 cup mayonnaise
1 chipotle chili in adobo sauce or to taste, chopped
1 teaspoon adobo sauce
1/2 lime, juice
1.Mix everything.

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From: thomas ness <user654308@w...>
Date: Sat Feb 5, 2000 9:04 pm
Subject: Wonder Board
I have read that "mass is king" when it comes to stopping sound
transfer. In that vein, has anyone used wonder board to add to a wall or
floor sandwich? Wonder board is a cement over fiberglas cloth board that
is used for backing tile and other materials. It costs about US$0.75
/sq. ft. and is quite heavy. It is also waterproof. My builder did not
approve of using sheet rock in the floor sandwich, because if the
basement ever got wet the sheet rock would disintegrate. Wonder board
won't, so I have thought about using it.
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Who are you? Are you that spectacular?Show some of your artwork.rock_dash wrote:bob281 wrote:my anatomy is not that screwed up
Dude, it really is. Get over it and improve.
bob281 wrote:You need to do your research.Im not the one who runs to the moderators to get people banned.
bob281 wrote:BS even when Im quiet and say nothing Neko comes after me.That dude is sick he has some hang up about a beef he wasnt even involved in.I dont give a damn if I am a Liefeld fan my anatomy is not that screwed up.Believe me Burne Hogarth does not post on this site or George Bridgman.This is just mean spirited trolling.The a$$hole has some snotty remark to every post I make!
Another a$$hole who cant draw superheroes at all.ryclaude wrote:bob281 wrote:I dont give a damn if I am a Liefeld fan my anatomy is not that screwed up.Believe me Burne Hogarth does not post on this site or George Bridgman.
If they did, they'd be facepalming right now.
legostargalactica wrote:Col wrote:I probably shouldn't post these right now, but oh well... Doodles I did with a "watercolor brush pen."
is that second one... a xenomorph?
bob281 wrote:Who are you? Are you that spectacular?Show some of your artwork.
Noise Monkey wrote:<-----is not in the medical profession
Sorry I posted that before I read your post.Noise Monkey wrote:bob281 wrote:Who are you? Are you that spectacular?Show some of your artwork.
This is not what we in the medical profession refer to as "helpful".
<-----is not in the medical profession
Noise Monkey wrote:I am so disappointed in you for not knowing who Darkseid is, by the way.
cute doodle, though.
Laemkral wrote:I actually think it came out pretty well, Col. First thing I thought was: "Spiffy Alien". Despite the messiness of the medium, it's recognizeable. Bravo.
Col wrote:Yep! I wasn't sure if that would be understandable or not, due to the messiness of it.
Edit: I never knew those had a name besides "aliens." Good to know.
Col wrote:Noise Monkey wrote:<-----is not in the medical profession
So we can't start calling you Dr. Monkey?
Okay Ill stop.Lets see what happens.legostargalactica wrote:okay, i'm sick of this, i'm sick and tired of every other thread on here being a flame war between bob(numbers here) and everyone else. I'm tired of reading it, nothing new has been said. Let bob(look! numbers!) draw whatever he likes, and post whatever he likes and just leave it at that, there's no need to criticize his anatomy every time because he obviously doesn't want our input on it, and there's certainly no need to just throw out hate posts at him, cause if you do that, he retaliates and it just devolves into this in every frickin thread. so please, for those of us who come to read threads and see art and read just stop this crap.
KWill wrote:Meh, not my fault really. The military left West Berlin in '94 and my American mailing address with it. And I can hardly be bothered to get up early on a Saturday to catch Justice League Unlimited. I'm not even sure if I would have recognized him if I did watch JLU, not knowing what his name would be in German and all.
Killbert-Robby wrote:I thought the messiness in the Xenomorph picture actually worked well in its favor, I liked it.
legostargalactica wrote:Killbert-Robby wrote:I thought the messiness in the Xenomorph picture actually worked well in its favor, I liked it.
it almost looks like a chibixenomorph
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Photo Forensics
Hany Farid, Professor of Computer Science, Dartmouth College
Friday, May 3, 2013, 3:30pm
Spanos Auditorium
This seminar is part of the Jones Seminars on Science, Technology, and Society series.
From the tabloid magazines to main-stream media outlets, political campaigns, courtrooms, and the photo hoaxes that land in our email, doctored photographs are appearing with a growing frequency and sophistication. The resulting lack of trust is impacting law enforcement, national security, the media, e-commerce, and more. The field of digital photo forensics has emerged to help return some trust in digital photographs. In the absence of any digital watermark or signature, we work on the assumption that most forms of tampering will disturb some statistical, physical, or geometric property of an image. To the extent that these perturbations can be quantified and detected, they can be used to invalidate or authenticate a photo. I will provide a broad overview of our work in this area.
About the Speaker
Hany Farid received his undergraduate degree in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics from the University of Rochester in 1989. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania in 1997. Following a two year post-doctoral position in Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT, he joined the faculty at Dartmouth in 1999, where he is currently a Professor of Computer Science. Hany is also the Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of Fourandsix Technologies, Inc. Hany is the recipient of an NSF CAREER award, a Sloan Fellowship, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.


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Doctor Who: Nuclear Time
'My watch is running backwards.' Colorado, 1981. The Doctor, Amy, and Rory arrive in Appletown - an idyllic village in the remote American desert where the townsfolk go peacefully about their suburban routines. But when two more strangers arrive, things begin to change. The first is a mad scientist - whose warnings are cut short by an untimely and brutal death. The second is the Doctor....
As death falls from the sky, the Doctor is trapped. The TARDIS is damaged, and the Doctor finds he is living backwards through time. With Amy and Rory being hunted through the suburban streets of the Doctor's own future and getting farther away with every passing second, he must unravel the secrets of Appletown before time runs out....
A thrilling, all-new adventure featuring the Doctor, Amy, and Rory, as played by Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, and Arthur Darvill in the spectacular hit series from BBC Television.
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- Andy
- 18/01/2012
What A FInd!
You first need to know this comes from someone who has followed the Doctor's adventures from the Seventies until today. I especially enjoy the narrator, Nicholas Briggs, as producer of a whole line of audio adventures made and distributed by Big Finish Productions. I may have been a bit predisposed to like this, but I still was amazed at what a find this particular story is.
For me, it was like getting an extra episode of the T.V. series. The story was brilliant. Even though you know the characters are going to make it out, there were at least two... maybe three times when you could have believed they may not. The plot twist that has the Doctor going backward through time was amazingly well done and must have been a very complicated thing to write. The personalities of the characters were all in place. One little gem has the Doctor acquiring a new toy with a "Happy Christmas, me!", which one could totally hear Matt Smith's character saying.
Nicholas Briggs is simply jaw dropping. I cannot fathom how he goes seamlessly from the Doctor to Amy's Scottish accent to the other Americans. It was an inspired performance that married itself to this incredible story to produce a five star wonder that I hope Doctor Who fans will enjoy as much as I did.
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- Dan
- 10/04/2015
very..timey wimey
I liked it, good time travel situations? eight words left for the review now two.
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- britishbob
- 07/03/2011
Broken Don't Buy
This is a fairly good book, if you forgive the fact that they haven't managed to get the 11th Doctor's personality.
However I would not recommend that anyone buy it until it is fixed!
The final chapter is marred by the fact that the theme music ends the book over the top of the finale.
Just as you're waiting to find out what happens to the villains in come the music drowning out the last of the book.
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- Darkangel
- 05/12/2011
Not really my style and storyline.
Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?
I would not
What was your reaction to the ending? (No spoilers please!)
I was not really involved in the outcome as I struggled to maintain much interest in the storyline. It may be because I hate any war type story where armed forces are involved especially as I feel counties would utilise this kind of science for gain and world domination which could end in catastrophic results. It is kind of how one feels toward the scientist's that discovered the atom bomb.
What does Nicholas Briggs bring to the story that you wouldn't experience if you just read the book?
Nicholas Briggs was a good narrator and it was through no fault of his that the story did not really engage me. It is very rare that I have not really loved a DW audio book.
If this book were a movie would you go see it?
Of course I would see the movie if this book was turned into a DW movie, things change when you start casting actor's, actress's in the roles and you identify with them and of course you hopefully have your regular beloved cast members of DW. There is no way in the world I would ever say
Any additional comments?
Don't be turned off by my review read the book for yourself because as I mentioned there could be a number of reasons for feeling the way I did about the book, it could be as simple as my mood on the day. Everyone is entitled to have a different view of the book so jump in and do your review so you can have your chance to tell our community of DW readers and Audible your own take on the book.
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- Georgia
- 02/04/2012
poor story
A shame, as I like any of the doctor who audios narrated by nicholas briggs, but this was just a really bad story. It skipped around everywhere and barely made any sense. I found I really didn't care about any of the characters, and the companions seemed like an after thought. I have bought one other oli smith story which I didn't like either. I must remember to give him a miss next time.
- Careena
- 15/06/2015
So confusing!
This story was ridiculously confusing. It was one of those that go back and rewrite themselves at the very end to change history, similar to Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS in season 7. You have a whole story developed, then that one thing that "changes the course of history" goes back and erases everything and nobody remembers or it never happened. I had no idea what was going on most of the time, and then at that crucial moment, I almost lost it. It was very odd, and I'm not sure if it fits with the Doctor Who canon laws of time and all that.
Nick Briggs, however was absolutely fantastic, as always, and he's one of the only reasons I stuck through to the end. I wished there had been more Amy and Rory as well, there's very little of them in this story at all.


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In trying to understand the tension Carl de Keyzer seeks to present in his images of European coastlines, look to the World War II bunkers, tank traps and crumbling walls still present by the shore for starting points.
The decaying fortifications, much like the human response to rising ocean tides as examined by de Keyzer in his new book, Moments Before The Flood, are telling. They anticipate a massive threat, but cannot hope to prevent it: rising sea levels that would submerge entire countries in Europe present an overwhelming challenge to which most solutions are futile.
"Once it happens, not one system is going to stop it," de Keyzer says of the potential results of global warming, which inspired him to begin the project as the media covered climate change with greater frequency. "How high can you build the walls, how much money can you spend on it?"
Although de Keyzer admits that the immediacy of the threat is debatable, the photographer's compulsion to document what has amounted to more than 80,000 miles of European coastline stems from several motives: to observe life on the coast before it is swept away, examine what is being done to preserve it and underscore the tension that arises from an impending threat that overwhelms even the most ambitious attempts to stop it. Each individual picture displays a different mood and aspect of life by the sea—some desolate, some bucolic, but all foreboding when viewed together.
The project is remarkably thorough; de Keyzer describes working for several years with two assistants who would recommend seaside locations he should photograph, "pinning" thousands of different locations to Google Earth in each country, which the photographer would narrow down and enter into his GPS each time he arrived at a new location. He has been working on the project since 2007 and, to date, the project has taken him to more than 20 countries.
The book includes 200 images with nursery rhymes collected from children across Europe printed alongside the pictures to underscore the traditional notion of the shore as an enjoyable place, and thus one less prepared for the substantial danger of rising tides. De Keyzer's approach to the project was inspired by the maritime paintings of the 18th century, which showed intense beauty paired with violent subject matter. Though the shipwrecks and sea battles are graphic and expressive, it is the context in which they are displayed that de Keyzer highlights for its dramatic tension. Often, the fearsome scenes hung in a placid living room, above a mantelpiece, or in a quiet museum gallery.
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Time-pressed and points-stressed, the Cardiac Crew were sock-blessed as Justin Meram scored an 89th minute winner that lifted Columbus to a 1-0 victory over Chivas USA on Wednesday night. When told by the referee that he had to remove the black rubber Kirk Urso memorial wristband from his arm, Meram tucked the bracelet into his sock and then booted home the winning goal.
"I played a couple minutes already with my wristband on my arm, as I always have it on," Meram said. "We get a corner kick and the ref looks at me and tells me I have to take it off. I wasn't going take it off and run to the sidelines, and he kind of knew that, so he told me, like, put it in my sock or something. So I did that and literally a couple minutes later I got free and scored. Kirk was watching over me."
As has been the case with the Crew over the last month and a half, you couldn't make this stuff up if you tried.
Meram cleaned up a nice attacking sequence from the Crew. Tony Tchani slotted a diagonal ball that beat three Chivas defenders and found Federico Higuain in stride on the left side of the box. Higuain rolled a one-time pass across the six yard box, finding the foot of a sliding Jairo Arrieta. Chivas goalie Dan Kennedy made the initial stop, but when the rebound popped into the air, Arrieta launched himself backward from a seated position, propelling the ball away from the goal and into Meram's path. Meram bounced a left-footed half-volley into the net and ripped off his shirt in celebration.
Arrieta's second effort and seal-like ball-bopping made for a memorable assist.
"I practiced that," Arrieta joked through translator Ricardo Iribarren. "It was a good cross from Federico. I got on the end of the ball and tried to score. The goalkeeper made a great save and the ball was there, so I went again to try to score, but luckily the rebound went right to Justin and he made a great finish. I was trying to score. I tried to throw myself to the ball, and luckily Justin was there."
"He's a helluva player," Meram said of Arrieta's effort. "I was off-balance and just wanted to get the ball on-frame and hit it with pace. Luckily that's what happened and we came away with the win."
Meram's 89th minute goal means that each of the Crew's last four game-winning goals have occurred in the 86th minute or later, although it snapped a streak of two consecutive game-winners scored in stoppage time.
"We might have let some people down," quipped defender Josh Williams. "We scored the game-winner too early."
On a more serious note, Williams has noticed the team's confidence soar in those close and late situations.
"With this team, it seems like we're never out of it," he said. "I kept looking up at the scoreboard to make sure we still had enough time, and when it got to the 85th minute, I still didn't feel worried. I just felt like we were going to get one. The beat goes on here. We keep banging late. I don't care if it comes in the first minute or the 90th minute, as long as we're winning, I don't care."
Meram said the coaches would undoubtedly prefer to not have to sweat out results until the final moments, but that's how it's been going of late. One thing is certain— the team has plenty of inspiration to keep fighting until the end. It's in each player's head, heart, and, if fate intervenes, socks.
"We're going to battle hard for 90 minutes," Meram said. "We have Kirk with us every day, and that's who we're playing for this season, and next season, and I will play my career for him."
The shutout victory snapped a streak of 10 straight games in which the Crew had conceded a goal. Their last shutout had been a 1-0 victory over D.C. United on July 21. Sure, in the 2012 season, Chivas USA as a team has scored exactly as many goals as San Jose's Chris Wondolowski has scored all by himself, but in a way, that made keeping the zero even more important. The players were happy to see a goose egg on the board.
"It feels amazing," Williams said. "Everyone's been making a big deal out of it, and it's a big deal to us. Before every game, I make sure to go around and tell everyone we need a clean sheet, so to have it happen at home and to get a late goal like that, it lifts up and gives us the push we need toward the playoffs. Being a defender, the clean she\et means a lot."
"It was definitely something we talked about and something we wanted to get back to," said Gruenebaum, who picked up his 8th shutout of the year. "For us, keeping zeroes is the most important thing, and if you get one goal on the other end, that's all you need. It would have been a shame to waste a shutout on a tie, especially when we needed three points. Justin's finish was all the more important to us."
The Crew has been a few different teams over the course of the year, and now with the final roster in place, Gruenebaum would like to see the best of both worlds.
"I think early on, we weren't conceding many goals and we weren't scoring many goals," he said. "Then we had a stretch where we were scoring goals and conceding too many. Hopefully now we can get on an even keel where we are that sharp, strong defensive squad that we know we can be, with a potent offense on the other side as well. I think that is going to be the key for this playoff run.
"Having said that," he added, "it would be nice to go into the second half with a 3-0 lead."
Sometimes it is fun to look at the sequence of events that leads up to a goal, especially when a good play eventually backfires. In this instance, the epoch was a play that Chivas defender Danny Califf made on his own end line. He barely saved a ball from going out for a corner kick, which prompted howls of protest from the crowd. Alas, the ruling on the field was that at least one molecule of the ball was still on the white line, so the flag stayed down and play continued.
"That's a BIG play right there," said Chivas USA color analyst Allen Hopkins on the California broadcast. Nobody could have known at that precise moment, but Hopkins was right for all the wrong reasons.
Califf played the ball to a teammate on the right sideline, and Chad Marshall won the subsequent long pass in the center circle, getting wiped out in the process by Jose Correa. (Since the ball went to Tony Tchani, the referee played advantage and issued a yellow card to Correa after the goal.) As Marshall lay on the turf behind the play, Tchani dribbled around one defender and then had an attempted through ball to Arrieta blocked. The rebound came right back to Tchani, who then dribbled to his left and found Higuain on the left side. Higuain quickly played the ball back to Tchani in the center. Tchani turned to move the ball to the right side of the field, but immediately ran into a wall of two Chivas defenders, so he spun back around, and then saw the perfect diagonal passing lane for Higuain's run, which started the actual goal sequence.
"I was trying to go toward the goal and it was kind of crowded," Tchani said, recapping the endeavor. "I looked to my left and I saw Federico. When I played him the ball, I opened myself to sit back. Two guys were on him, so he gave me the ball back. I saw a guy coming from my right, so I thought, 'I have to go back to where I came from.' I just kind of cut back, and when I cut back, I saw Federico behind the guy, so I played a through ball. I just expected Federico to be there to cross it."
And it never would have happened if Danny Califf didn't ever-so-barely keep that ball in play. Soccer can be a cruel game. Califf made a fantastic hustle play to prevent a dangerous corner kick opportunity, and then 24 seconds later, as an indirect result of that, the game-winning goal zipped right past his head.
Adam Jardy of the Columbus Dispatch has been diligently trumpeting Jairo Arrieta's ascension to the pinnacle of the league's offside chart. Whistled four times on Wednesday, Arrieta now has 38 offside violations in 13 games. Dwayne DeRosario and Alvaro Saborio are two behind with 36, but they have played in 26 and 28 games, respectively.
But here's an even more amazing stat. In just 13 games, Arrieta is within two flags of equaling Jeff Cunningham's single-season Crew record of 40 offside violations, set in 2002. Even more astonishing, Arrieta is 31.4% of the way to Cunningham's all-time Crew career record of 121 offside calls, despite making just 6.4% of Cunningham's career Crew appearances. (13 appearances vs. 203.)
On the bright side, Arrieta doesn't waste chances with lazy offside violations, where he lollygags behind the play and gets caught in transition. Arrieta's offside calls are almost always the aggressive kind, where the timing of a run is off by a split second. It's part of his high-pressure attacking style, which has proven successful thus far. Still, he wants to reduce that number to make his attacks even more effective.
"I need to do a better job," he said, "I need the confidence to not be so desperate to get there, and that's the reason I am so offside so much. I am going to keep working on it. I've only played 13 games in this league, so I am still learning the league. I am working on it. The calls are being made and I need to improve my runs."
On Saturday night against the Red Bulls, Matt Lampson replaced Gruenebaum in goal after the Hebrew Hammer hammered his face off of the goalpost. Lampson later surrendered an incredible goal to Thierry Henry, who sent a high, bending corner kick that dipped down at the last second, hit the top of the far post, and caromed into the goal. After the final whistle, in a perfect example of the good humor and self-deprecating deadpan that is his trademark, Lampson personally asked Henry why he made him "look like an idiot."
As he walked off the field on Wednesday, Lampson came over and said that he undoubtedly generated a lot of material for the Notebook with his New York escapade, and, naturally, I was quite excited to pick Lampson's brain about the matter. Here is our conversation…
SS: "So Andy smashes his face into the goalpost…"
ML: "On purpose, I might add. He did it on purpose."
SS: "So that you would unexpectedly have to go into the game cold for the second time this year?"
ML: "That's exactly why he did it."
SS: "Okay, but here's my theory. Gbaum smashes his face into the goalpost, and then I see a new goalie coming in. But I look, and I'm like, 'Who the (bleep) is this guy? He has no beard!' So I think the lack of beard got you. Eddie Gaven didn't shave his beard, and he did not allow any corner kick goals in New York."
ML: "Okay, a few things. First, I'm trying to get some sponsorship dollars from Barbasol. Unfortunately, they haven't contacted me yet, and I don't think that they will. Second of all, I kind of feel like…are you familiar with Sampson and Delilah in the Bible? He cuts his hair and loses all of his power. Possible. I really won't know until I get thrown in again. I think that's what happened though. I lost power when I shaved my pseudo-beard. It wasn't really as full as I'd like it to be, but that's another topic all together."
SS: "So the beard theory is possible."
ML: "I got scored on by the same type of goal that eight-year-olds get scored on. It's like, 'Yeah, they're not tall enough to make that save, so it happens.' But on a professional level, I've never really seen that before. Granted, it was against one of the best players in the world, and he hit it pretty much as perfectly as you could, but he still made me look like a jackass. I'm in great company though, because Andy has had way more embarrassing things happen to him." [New York goalie Danny Cepero (in)famously scored an 80-yard turf-bounce goal against Gruenebaum in 2008.]
SS: "Yeah, at least Henry isn't a goalie."
ML: "Henry's not a goalie, and at least it was on our half of the field."
SS: "You seem to be handling it in stride."
ML: "I haven't turned on the TV or gone on the interweb for, like, a week, because I don't want to see or hear someone telling me how terrible I am. Unfortunately, I have people coming to me all the time in person and telling me how terrible I am. And Danny mentions every day that, allegedly—I haven't turned on the TV—but allegedly, I was the number one top play on Sportscenter, but obviously for the wrong reasons. I've had about 20 other people tell me that too, so that's great. I'm just going with the punches. I don't even care at this point. I'm over it, but then people keep coming up to me—people like you—you keep bringing it up. But I'm past it. I'm making strides in training. I take about 10 or 20 reps of the exact same shot. Nobody hits it quite as good, but I still make sure they don't go in the goal."
Upon learning that Lampson claimed that Gruenebaum intentionally face-butted the goalpost so that Lampson would have to go in cold, the Hebrew Hammer expressed disappointed astonishment.
"Lampson's also not the brightest kid that you or I have ever met," he said. "That makes zero sense for me to do that on purpose. Think about how ridiculous that statement is. It just goes to show that Matt has a lot to learn. He's a young kid who doesn't really say the brightest things."
But Gruenebaum was steadfast in support of Lampson, reiterating that it was a unique and improbably magnificent goal.
"It sounds bad if a goalie gives up a goal on a corner kick, but if you see it, you realize that it wasn't a terrible goal to give up," Gruenebaum said. "It was a class finish, and I don't think (Henry) could do it again if he tried 50 more times. But it happened, and you move on. We can laugh about it, like the thing that happened with me. It's one of those things where it takes a few days to get over it, but if you're not mentally strong, you're not going to make it at this level. I know Matt is mentally strong."
It is often said that the goalpost is the goalkeeper's best friend. After Gruenebaum smashed his face off the goalpost last Saturday in New York, that could be up for debate. Lampson certainly thinks so.
"That's an oxymoron, and it's an urban legend, really," Lampson said. "It's not that we appreciate it when the ball hits the post, because most of the time when it hits the post, you're thinking, 'Oh, well, at least it didn't go in.' I mean, the posts and the crossbar really have no personality. They're inanimate objects, so they can't really be friends to begin with."
But despite the visible damage that still exists on his face from his goalpost encounter, Gruenebaum still believes that he and goalposts are on good terms, continuing a historically good 29-year friendship.
"The post is my friend, trying to help me out so I can get a nose job," Gruenebaum said. "I can make my nose smaller, and while I'm at it, I can get this thing in my chin filled in (with the leftover nose parts.) So that IS being a friend and looking out for me."
It turns out that Jardy and I were each working on a story about William Hesmer's internship with local wealth management firm Budros, Ruhlin & Roe. Adam's went public first, and you can read his story over at the Columbus Dispatch.
Although I was beaten to the punch, it would seem pointless to exile some of the source material to The Eternal Purgatory of Scooped Stories. Adam and I were both drawn to this story for the same reason—it's the story of an intensely driven individual always seeking to get better, including life after athletics.
It's all too common to read about a high-profile ex-athlete totally adrift after the applause and adulation have faded, the fortune has been squandered, and his life's vocation has been rendered purposeless by the inevitability of physical decline. MLS players don't live in the same isolated bubble of B.S. that houses many top athletes. For the short span that is an athlete's career, many MLS players now do well for themselves in a real world sense, but they are they are still real world people with real world concerns. Very few are potentially set for life when they retire.
For many professional athletes, life after athletics is a concern for another day. For Hesmer, the natural downtime that comes with being a professional athlete was an ideal incubator for the next phase of his life.
"This internship came about because I was sick of wasting so much time during the day outside of soccer," he said. "As you know, I have to always be busy doing something or improving and growing or I start to become unhappy. As you know firsthand from after winning the MLS Cup in 2008, I have a hard time staying in the moment, and for whatever reason, I always find myself trying to see around the next corner."
On that sunny Sunday afternoon in Carson, California, Hesmer and I spoke on the field as everyone celebrated the Crew's MLS Cup triumph. I was astounded to hear him tell me, with confetti in the air, the SoCal Nordecke rocking, teammates whooping it up, and a big shiny trophy being passed all around us, that he was a little bit sad. He knew that life marches on and that the special magic of that specific Massive Season could never be recaptured due to the inevitability of change. But that's the thing with Hesmer—he knows he has to adapt to the inevitability of change, and as he approached 30, it led him to his internship.
"I sought out the best way possible to make as smooth of a transition as possible after soccer," he said. "I met with a professor at Ohio State about potentially enrolling in the part-time MBA program. With my soccer schedule, we realized that it would not work, so we discussed my interests. I told him that I enjoy finance and asset management, and would like to use those avenues to serve others. He set me up with an interview at BRR with John Schuman. John and I met with no intentions of me working at the firm, but simply as an opportunity to discuss the business with someone local. John told me during the meeting that they have an intern program that is geared for college kids, and I told him that I would love to do anything, anyway, anyhow, to be more immersed in the business. So I became a 29-year-old intern!"
When he started his internship in March of 2011, Hesmer was entrenched as the Crew's starting goalkeeper. Firm ground rules had to be established. The Crew came first, and he would help at BRR as time would allow, which usually meant in the post-practice afternoons when he was in town.
"At any point, if there was ever anything-- appearances, autographs, interviews, board meetings, union responsibilities, sleep, meetings, travel, food, rest, or anything else that conflicted with my ability to perform at my best on the field, then the Crew and my teammates always came first. The people that I work for at BRR understood this going into it and they have been incredible in letting me come and go on my own schedule. They really are not only a collection of super smart individuals, but an incredibly kind group who have taken a ton of time to teach me the business. I could go on and on about how awesome everyone in our office is."
In his first six months, during the 2011 season, Hesmer was an office utility player with no obligations. When he could spare time to be in the office, he would help anyone with whatever work needed to be done. He'd show up, offer assistance, and walk out of the door with a completely clean slate until he could help out again
During the offseason, he was assigned to help a team that is responsible for comprehensive financial planning and wealth management for mostly high net-worth individuals. After microfracture hip surgery sidelined him for the 2012 season, he joined a three-person team that has given him more work and responsibilities relating to the main pillars of comprehensive wealth management: estate, insurance, tax, retirement, and investment planning. Hesmer rehabs his hip for three hours every day, then spends the other five hours of his work day at the office.
"It's been a lot of fun and has helped to keep me sane while being away from the field," he said. "So far, so good."
The Cleveland Browns need all the help that they can get, and their worldwide support network of passionate fans has increased by one New Zealander. At long last, Duncan Oughton has made the conversion to the NFL, and he has rightfully chosen the Cleveland Browns as his team.
"This is my 12th year in Columbus, Ohio," Oughton said of his nascent interest in America's most popular sport. "Last year, some of my friends were asking me if I watched football. I'd say, 'American football? No. Football football? Yes. I watch real football.' But then they were like, 'Choose a team. We'll go to these bars, we'll support our team, we'll talk bad to people who don't support our team,' and it sounded like kind of a good time."
Once he decided that American football was for him, he began the task of choosing a team. In the end, loyalty to his friends and his adopted home led him to pledge allegiance to Ohio's traditional football team.
"A majority of these people, as well as yourself, Sirk, happen to be Browns fans," he said. "Mario, who used to be Crew Cat, he's a Browns fan. And Jimmy from Jimmy V's, his place is a Browns Backer, so that's great. John and Grant from the Hudson Street Hooligans, they're Browns guys, and down at Ruby's they have a little Browns establishment. So between all of those people, and Frankie's wife being a Bengals fan and me wanting to go against her for yelling at me too many times for doing stupid stuff…yelling in a nice way, I should add…so it was like, well, I could go back to the west coast and pick the Raiders or the Chargers. Or I could have gone outside the box and been the bandwagon fan like Danny O'Rourke, and whoever won the year before, buy that shirt.
"OR….I could pick one of the worst teams in football and just have a good time, and if they ever win something, I can say, 'Hey, I did that. I made them do that. I helped with that.' So what better team to choose than the Cleveland Browns? I didn't want to start with the best team and say, 'Screw all of you, I'm a fan of the best team.' I would rather lose by one point each week and have a lot of crap to talk about it on Monday morning. I mean, I know they'll never play on Monday night, right? I don't know too much about football, but I think I know this, right? I mean, national TV isn't kind to places from Ohio…ARE they MLS?"
So did Oughton realize the full consequences of what it means to be a Browns fan before swearing his allegiance?
"I'm educated when it comes to making my choices," he said, indicating that he is fully aware of the perpetual heartbreak and despair. "See, I look at the bright side of all of it. I can go, I can have a good time, and then it gives us a lot to gripe about on Monday morning. The positive about being a Browns fan is, not only the bonding, obviously, but also that on Monday morning, I don't have to worry about talking poorly about everything else in my life. I'll have enough to (complain) about with the Browns, so I won't really feel too bad."
Here is a picture of Duncan sporting a brown and orange Cleveland-themed t-shirt on game day before the Browns battled (and, naturally, lost to) their in-state foe, the Cincinnati Bengals.
Duncan says his wardrobe will soon be expanding.
"Homage has a long-sleeve, but I think they are making it into a regular t-shirt soon, and I as soon as they do, I am going to get it," he said. "It's an orange shirt, and all it says is, 'If you ain't a Cleveland fan, you ain't (bleep).' I'm looking forward to wearing that one about town on many a Sunday afternoon."
Meram's socks stole the headlines, but after the game, there was a silly sock-related incident. Former Crew forward Alejandro Moreno, a popular Massive Champion, took great care to sign autographs and to interact with the Columbus fans. Two of those fans actually requested his game socks. Moreno untied his shoes, peeled off his socks, and signed one apiece for the lucky fans.
That had to be one of the strangest autograph requests, right?
"No, that's not the weirdest," Moreno said. "There have been other ones that perhaps I can't talk about. But of the ones I can talk about, yes. Actually, one time when I was here, I left in my sliders. I was here for the last game of the 2010 season with Philadelphia, and I gave a way my jersey, my shorts, and my socks. It's great though, because these people remember some of the things I did here, and I truly appreciate it and the relationship that we've had. Columbus will always be special to me."
But seriously, asking for sweaty stinky game socks is pretty weird, right?
Moreno cracked a smile and said, "They ask for it, and I don't ask questions. I just please people."
As a wise man once said, do what you do.
Questions? Comments? Have a sweaty, smelly collection of autographed soccer socks that you care to share a picture of? Feel free to write at email@example.com
Sirk's Notebook: Late Winner... again
Time-pressed and points-stressed, the Cardiac Crew were sock-blessed as Justin Meram scored an 89th minute winner that lifted Columbus to a 1-0 victory over Chivas USA on Wednesday night. When told by the referee that he had to remove the black rubber Kirk Urso memorial wristband from his arm, Meram tucked the bracelet into his sock and then booted home the winning goal.


text: Jump to post...GENERAL* Master mode dungeons now reset on Sunday at 4:00am server time, instead of Saturday at 4:00am server time, for their second weekly reset. Wednesday reset day remains the same.* The new Keepers crafting daily quests now turn in at Keeper Ambassador NPCs located at the Travel Stones outside of Meridian and Sanctum, so that characters below level 40 can complete these quests.* Raid Assistants can once again directly invite players into their groups.* Adjusted the audio of Razorbeast pets so they make noise less frequently.* PvP Quests may now flag you for PvP while being progressed. Quests that do so will warn you in the quest accept and quest log windows.* King's Breach: Hunter Suleng should no longer be killstolen by the friendly NPCs at the start and leave you unable to complete the zone quest.* 'Speed Clears' now only begin when players physically leave the zone entrance area. They will no longer start incorrectly by a player disconnect or teleport.* Fixed a combat case where beneficial abilities could apply to friendly faction characters as if you were in PvP against each other. * Trial players can no longer attempt to withdraw more coin than they can carry from guild banks.WORLD EVENT* Rifts now open more reliably for the Infernal Awakening and Unlikely Alliances zone events.* Gold! Glorious Gold! now contributes properly to the weekly mount token quests.* Brass Brutes now spawn more regularly.* Ascended Fury objective text should be more clear.* Shimmersand: Dunes of Akala Earth Rifts now properly drop Invasion Orders while on the Investigation quest.FISHING AND SURVIVAL* Rate of Fishing skillups has been slightly lowered at low levels, and slightly increased at higher levels. * The zone-specific Fishing Achievements (such as Shimmersand Fisherman) have been updated to include all possible fish per zone, including fish that appear in more than one. Completion or progress toward these achievements will not be lost, but previously catching the newly-added fish will not count toward the updated achievement. * Improved description on Fishing Lures. Made the Greedy Lure more greedy. * Moved some unfishable schools.* Feasts now last for 3 minutes before disappearing. * Survival food buffs can no longer be purged.INFERNAL DAWN* Ember Conclave: Several abilities will no longer target player pets.* Ember Conclave: Reduced health of Packmaster Nahoth's Ember Novas.* Ituziel: Added 5 seconds before Ituziel's Enrage timer goes off.* Addressed issue causing the Infernal Dawn minibosses to not respawn on instance resets.SOULSBARD* Coda of Restoration: Fixed a tooltip bug where it showed Coda healing '0' raid members.RANGER* Blood Raptor: Rend can now be stacked up to 3 times per Blood Raptor attacking the target.SABOTEUR* Time Bomb: Fixed a bug so that only 1 Time Bomb per player can be attached to a target.* Improved Entangling Trap: Now only requires 15 points spent in Saboteur to acquire instead of 20.UI/SETTINGS* Fixed an issue where some Guild Bank tabs would not show their items the first time the tab was selected after accessing the Bank.* Seals, Fish, Hammerknell and Infernal Dawn-dropped crafting materials, and Infernal Dawn crafted items now appear under the correct Auction House categories.* Survivalist gear and fishing poles have been moved to the Misc category on the Auction House.* Fixed a case where you could sometimes see chat from a guild you had already left.* Currency icons should no longer overlap on faction and planar merchant windows.* Incorrect Faction loading screens should no longer appear when loading into zones.


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UH Manoa College of Education professor selected for prestigious American Issues Forum FellowshipUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
College of Education
HONOLULU —Yuri Wellington, assistant professor of Multicultural Education and English Language Arts at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa College of Education, has been selected for an esteemed position as a Fellow of the 2006 American Issues Forum.
The American Issues Forum (AIF) is an initiative of Leadership America, a nonprofit leadership organization that recognizes and develops leadership skills in women worldwide. Selection as a fellow of the AIF is highly competitive.
The program selects a diverse group of 100 women annually, who participate in a yearlong agenda in which they engage in a wide range of activities, such as lectures and site visits, to raise awareness of critical national and international issues. Women gain global references and networking opportunities with high-profile leaders, and return with leadership skills to further their careers and community outreach.
The 2006 American Issues Forum will commence in April and conclude in September, with sessions in Washington D.C., Boston, and Houston. Wellington will attend as a Fellow with hopes to hone networking skills and gain contacts through which issues in public education can be brought to light.
"Many issues in education are dealt with "in isolation" due to lack of awareness and involvement," said Wellington. "Being part of AIF is an opportunity for women such as myself to connect and work towards proactive solutions in the educational arena."
Yuri Wellington represents one of the few selected Fellows of the AIF from Hawaiʻi—a noteworthy achievement, as she has faced considerable challenges in her career. Despite financial and personal hardships, she successfully completed her Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Arizona at Tucson. She identifies with the difficulties many people are forced to contend with: "Even the mythic ʻmiddle class' are only one paycheck, one illness, one catastrophe away from homelessness," she states. Wellington recognizes the difficulties of many people in the lower socio-economic class, particularly in Hawaiʻi, and lists the conditions of education, health care, and homelessness in the United States as critical issues in need of capable leadership.
For more information on the 2006 American Issues Forum and Leadership America, visit their website at: http://www.leadershipamerica.com.


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Home Page Chess Life Online 2010 August The August Check is in the Mail
|The August Check is in the Mail
|By Alex Dunne
|August 5, 2010
Second and Third Finishers in 2003 GK
Laurence Bonsack of North Highlands, CA is a 58-year-old retired chemical engineer. Laurence plays CC because he finds it a great way to experiment with different openings and an excellent way to develop analytical abilities.
Laurence out analyzes Jiri Kovats when White's board-wide activities can't find a coordinating point.
1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Bf4 c5 4.e3 Nc6 5.Nc3
Violating a basic rule of double d-Pawn games -- the c-Pawn should not be blocked by the Knight. The present position is rare in CC play, but Black scores well.
5...Bg4 6.Be2 e6 7.0-0 Be7 8.Ne5 Bxe2 9.Qxe2 cxd4 10.Nxc6 bxc6 11.exd4 Qb6 12.Rad1
Perhaps Kovats is playing to improve on 12. Qd3 as in Rakic-Abramovic, Kladovo 1991, as after 12...00 13. a3 a5 14. b3 Nd7 the position was even. But this is a real Pawn sacrifice and Bonsack correctly evaluates that he can take the offered Pawn.
12...Qxb2! 13.Rd3 Qb6
White was threatening 14. Rb1 Qa3 15. Nxd5! but now White will have to prove he has enough for the Pawn.
14.Rb1 Qa6 15.Be5 0-0 16.Rg3 Qxe2 17.Nxe2 Rfe8 18.Rb7 Kf8 19.Rh3 h6 20.Nf4 Ne4! 21.Rhb3 c5 22.Rf3 Kg8 23.Ne2 f6 24.Bc7 cxd4 25.Nxd4 Nc5 26.Rb2 Rec8 27.Ba5
White's forces are simply too disorganized to offer any real resistance.
27...Kf7 28.Bb4 Rab8 29.a3 a5 30.Bc3 Rxb2 31.Bxb2 Rb8 32.Bc1 Rb1 33.Ne2 d4 34.Kf1 d3! 35.cxd3 Nb3 36.d4 Nxc1 37.Nc3 Ra1 0-1
Thomas Connelly - Third place
Thomas Connelly placed third in the 2003 Golden Knights. Thomas is a retired attorney living in Newport News, VA. He mentions that he and his wife are proud servants to four demanding cats.
When White essays an unusual treatment of the Sicilian, Black takes advantage of an exposed kingside.
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 d6 4.0-0 Nf6 5.Nc3 Bg4 6.h3 Bh5 7.Bb5
So far this has been Cotton-Allen, IECC 1999 when White could have won a piece after 7. d3 Ne5? 8. Nxe5 ! Bxd1 9. Bb5+
7...Nd7 8.g4 Bg6 9.d4 a6 10.Be2 cxd4 11.Nxd4 Nc5 12.Nxc6 bxc6 13.f4 Qb6!?
This is more bravery than bluff -- after 14. f5! Nb3+ 15. Kg2 Nxa1 16. fxg6 hxg6 17. b3 e6 18. Bb2 Nxc2 19. Qxc2 Black has two Pawns for the piece and White's King is a bit shaky. Still, this was White's best bet.
14.Kh2 f6 15.Bf3 Nd7 16.a4 e5 17.g5
White fights to open lines -- but it is his King at the end of those open lines. Better was 17. f5 to keep the kingside closed.
17...Be7 18.a5 Qb7 19.f5 Bf7 20.gxf6 Nxf6 21.Rg1 g6 22.Bg5 Qc7 23.Bxf6
After this, Black takes over. Worth taking a look was 23. Qe1.
23...Bxf6 24.fxg6 hxg6
Two Bishops, open h-file, better center, unstable White King -- Black finishes up quickly.
25.Na4 Rd8 26.Nb6 Bg7 27.Kg2 Bh6 28.Qd3 Bf4 29.Rh1 Qe7 30.Bg4 Qg5 31.Qxa6 Be6 32.Qe2 Rh4 33.Kf2 Bxg4 34.hxg4 Ke7 35.Rxh4 Qxh4+ 0-1
ERRATA: Last month I mistakenly listed John Menke's (considerable) achievements as including first or second places in the 1997-2001 Golden Knights. These wins were recorded by John Burton. John Menke scored in the 2003 Golden Knights and the 2004 and 2005 Electronic Knights.
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Swift Quad
Harold Brown 09SQ13 6-0
John Collins
Thomas Lynd 09C04 5-1
Jim Humphrey 09C04 5-1
Stephen Fairbairn 07C57 5 ½-½
Kenneth Douglas 09C27 6-0
Brian Lafferty 07C56 6-0
Thomas Chromczak 09C39 6-0
James Ward 08C01 4 ½-1 ½
Bradley Boyd 08C33 3 ½-2 ½
Gene Brown 08C33 3 ½-2 ½
Tim McGill 08C13 5-1
Trophy Quad
Lee Keebler 08Q14 3 ½-2 ½
Wilfred Ching 08Q14 3 ½-2 ½
Jill Jaris 09Q03 5 ½- ½
Daniel Walker-Elias 09Q12 6-0
LeRoy Sims 09Q09 4-2
Alphonse Zenoh 09Q09 4-2
Ramon Abreu 09Q09 4-2
Walter Muir
Thomas Manney 10W11 5-1
John Thomson 09W30 5 ½-½
Inoel Cardenas 10W13 4 ½-1 ½
Wilbur Tseng 09W21 5-1
S Roychoudhury 09W08 5 ½- ½
David Wright 10W21 4 ½-1 ½
Palciauskas Tournament
Eugene Bedard 09P01 6-0
Using Twitter to play correspondence chess has become common. Here is the first game I have seen on Twitter .
But more than just a medium for playing chess, twitter is conducting an interactive program called Chess Tweets. Chess Tweets is an experiment to create an automated and objective combination of mind and machine. The idea is to play a CC game with participants of any strength sending in moves. Anyone may participate and Tweet gives a weighted value to each participant's suggested move (more than just ELO rating). Computer usage is discouraged. Interested twits (is that the right word?) can contact [email protected]
Although the response was small, it was quite clear what postal players prefer if the post office decides to no longer deliver on Saturdays. By a clear majority the preference is that the reflection time should not be counted when the post office is closed, and that meant Saturdays, Sundays, and Federal holidays. This will probably become the rule when the post office cuts back, but is not yet official.
The winner of the contest for the best Russian CC game played between 2006-2009 was announced at http://chesspro.ru where the following game and others may be found. The game notes say that this game improved on Kasimdzhanov-Ivanchuk, Turin 2006. (19. hxg4) The end position features a winning attack by White.
Due to the generosity of one of our correspondents who prefers to remain anonymous, two beauty prizes have been established to be awarded to the best Master game and the best non-Master game appearing in "The Check Is in the Mail". These awards will be announced yearly, probably in January. So, if you have a game you would like to see properly recognized, send it in to me for possible publication and possible winning of the $100 prize offered in each category. I will be the sole judge of the entries. For now, I am calling the prize the USA Beauty Prize. Perhaps you can suggest a better name?
The US Post Office has applied for a rate increase effective January 2, 2011, if approved. The cost of a first class letter would be 46 cents (up two cents) and a US post card stamp would also increase by two cents to 30 cents. The postal increases reflect a steady drop in US mail volume since 2007. If you disapprove of the postal increase, quick, send an email to the Postmaster General -- oh, wait. That may be the root cause of the post office projected 7 billion dollar loss for 2011.
Quote: My advice, which has always worked for me is: never get involved in unfriendly or even rude arguments with your opponents! If any discussion is getting unpleasant, then cut back the discussion, or drop it completely. Usually it does not even get that far, as one can tell early on which way the wind is blowing. == Kon Grivainis
Ken Koepplin shows off some powerful attacking Pawns.
CC Fact: The North American Correspondence Chess League tournament of 1934 offered unusual prizes to its finishing participants -- a prize of an individual chess piece from the men used at the Pasadena tournament of 1932 -- the pieces used by Alekhine, Reshevsky, Fine, Kashdan, and Reinfeld et al.
Two Bishops dominate two Knights in this example from an Express tournament.
Steve Fairbairn writes of this game, "...it's not very spectacular, an endgame grind, but it was an example of a perhaps unsung facet of how correspondence chess can benefit those of us who play over the board as well, developing endgame skills. I've had a couple of cases where endings I've had in CC have come up in over the board games, and I'm so much better equipped to deal with them".
When White mistakenly goes hunting two Pawns on the queenside, he didn't foresee losing two pieces chasing them.
Brian Wood's final words to his opponent: "Well done, sir!" are a fitting caption to this match game.
KING'S INDIAN ATTACK (A08) White: Tom Morrell (1700)
Check out an archive of Alex Dunne's postal chess columns here and also read his article from the July 2010 Chess Life Magazine on the 2008 USCF Absolute Championship.


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Monday, November 30, 2009
How to stop the affair: Respect yourself...and demand others do, too
The thing about betrayal, though, is that the details rarely matter. They're eclipsed by the overwhelming feelings of loss, shock, rejection, abandonment that all betrayed wives share. All those primal emotions that strip us of our defenses and reduce us to feeling like infants.
That, however, is where we lose sight of our own power.
No we can't control another's feelings or actions. But – and here's the important part – we can control our own. We can refuse to participate in another's manipulation of us. Abuse of us. We can state our needs clearly. Then, if they're not met, we can decide to walk away. If you haven't figured out what your needs are yet, having spent a lifetime denying you have any, start with this: You need to feel safe.
We owe it to ourselves. We owe it to our children. To insist on being treated respectfully.
It's not easy, especially if we've never behaved that way before. It can be terrifying. But, in the end, all we have is ourselves. And if we let ourselves down, how can we expect others not to do the same?
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- AnonymousApril 18, 2010 at 11:30 PM
sending my kids off to be with my ex and his affair turned girlfriend 3 days a week is excruciating! I don't want him back, never again, after 8 affairs (that I know about) and all of the emotional abuse-- but it still hurts so bad!ReplyDelete
Annie, one of the BWC members, had the hardest time with sending her son to be with her ex...and his OW-turned-girlfriend. It drove her crazy that the woman who had caused such pain was spending time with her son.ReplyDelete
However, that's the reality of it. The pain, from what I'm told, does get less with time. And kids need a relationship with their dad, even if he is a total weenie.
The best thing you can do for your kids and yourself is to use the time to take care of you and get yourself feeling good. Spend time with people who support you and boost you, have some quiet to work through all the pain and anger, read, exercise, watch a good movie...
But yes, life does sometimes suck. The good news is that it never stays that way forever.
- AnonymousJuly 4, 2013 at 10:40 PM
E - it seems we have very much the same type of infidelity from our spouses - well, I mean, it sounds like your H was not in it for the emotions. I too also do not know any of the above. Plus, you did not mention in this post, but in past posts, the surprise child. I don't know what "real" affairs are like.ReplyDelete
I do not call one night or one day stands expressed in 20 minute intervals (or so) which my husband participated/paid for, affairs. Some people call them affairs, for some strange reason. But to me, affairs are of the heart - they are a replacement wife or additional wife. But to this day, I still don't know, like I said, what an actual affair - infidelity feels like and if it is worse or better but is certainly different than one night/day f*cks.
I guess to tell you the truth, I'm confused. At first I wanted the women to be real women, not sex objects. Real women were something I could at least compare myself to - get into the head of my husband, the understanding of his actions. Affairs, to me are solid and REAL. Sex objects? The prostitutes - they are something so foreign, I'd understand an alien from space quicker than understanding a man who purchases a f*ck from a woman who then leaves 20 minutes later. Like my cheating husband so callously said after D-day, "What do you pay a prostitute for? To leave."Replies
Yes, I think you're right in that sexual encounters aren't really "affairs". But, as I write above, the details don't really matter. It's the lying and deception that, I think, ultimately mess with our heads. And that make it so hard to get back to a place of safety within the marriage.Delete
Why did your husband seek sex outside of the marriage? What was missing that a 20-minute encounter with a prostitute was worth risking his family?
- AnonymousJuly 5, 2013 at 11:20 AM
He thought he'd never get caught and it wasn't hurting anyone. He has always been into porn - secretly. He has always been obsessed with sex objects in some form or another - again, secretly. I am a feminist and I do not know why someone like him would be so attached to someone like me. I know why I was attached to him - he lied, pretended he was something he wasn't. I didn't. I was an open book, someone with integrity. There are some people who lie so well, no one knows who they really are, as in my husband. Every one would tell me - his family, friends, co-workers - how lucky I was. That my husband was such a good man. He never went to strip joints or had affairs or did anything the other men did. That's how good my husband was - he was worse. He lied to everyone. He did it during the work day - he was always driving from one place to another. That's what he does. He is well respected in his industry. He is trusted beyond limits with everyone. He is the go to person. So how easy it was to drive to massage parlors and get the whole deal. On the way to the next job, have a quickie, and go on.ReplyDelete
Again, he says that nothing was missing. So I'm not sure why you would think something was missing. All the men in his therapy group say the same thing - nothing was wrong with the marriage or the family. It was them. He was all screwed up. Over sexualized at an early age - porn by 12 and being obsessed with naked women. Then the internet porn drove him to pay for sex from the sex objects. It has nothing to do with me. What was missing was in him: integrity, character, and will.Replies
Oh I certainly didn't mean that anything was missing with you or with your family. I meant what was missing in HIM that he would risk what he had for a 20-minute quickie. It's absolutely about him.Delete
And yes, porn, especially at a young age, changes the brain's wiring. It changes the way those who routinely view porn "see" women, as objects not as people


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So there have been any number of stories recently about Steve Jobs, due to his recent retirement. Here, for instance, PZ talks about some of what Jobs did so incredibly well. Me, I'm just going to take advantage of the current situation to repost a recent comment on a neurological finding.
Mac-ily crack-ily
Apple Enthusiasts
Think about gadgets, and
Light up their brains,
Piquing the interest of
Glad to discuss what
The picture explains:
Sexily, vexily,
Newest technology
Shows an analysis
Just a touch odd;
Macheads don't suffer from
Rather, their brains see the
Gadgets as God.
Apple-ish, Chapel-ish
Came to conclusions
A bit front-to-back;
God was their yardstick, but
Truth is, Jehovah is
Merely a Mac.
So, yeah, CNN is reporting about a Beeb documentary on the Secrets of the Superbrands. The big news that CNN takes from it is that Mac devotees' brains (as measured by MRI) light up when they are viewing Apple gadgets the same way that religious devotees' brains light up when they see images of their god.
But of course, the interpretation is all wrong. They say that iPads, for instance, benefit from MacHeads' "god-like devotion"… No, actually. God (whichever god you choose) inspires Mac-like devotion. I doubt very much that an area of the brain evolved to deal with stuff that is not there. I suspect, rather, that it developed to deal with stuff that is actually there, and was hijacked by a fiction.
I have often wondered whether the areas of the brain that light up for religious devotion, might light up for pop stars, movie idols, favorite authors, or the like. It would surprise me greatly if the feeling of awe inspired by a god and the feeling of awe inspired by a Van Gogh are differentially located in the brain. Evolution is a notorious tinkerer, and re-uses stuff all the time: "Love, pain, money, cocaine light up same area of brain", suggests one title. So, no surprise that iPads and gods are similarly wired.
What would have been extraordinary would be if god-perception was utterly unique. That would be remarkable, actually. But that, I suspect, would require intelligent design. No such luck.


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In case anyone has missed the dueling budget proposals out this week from Rep. Paul Ryan on the Republican side and Sen. Patty Murray for the Democrats, don't fret. You could easily have slept through the last four months and missed nothing. They are pretty much where the two sides have been for even longer than that.
And that pretty well sums up where Washington stands on the issue of federal spending, taxes and the deficit. Both parties have won approval to some degree from voters for taking these stands, and so the incentive for actually coming up with a compromise is clearly too small for either to go out on a limb — at least for the moment. President Barack Obama acknowledged as much before his meeting today with House Republicans, saying in an interview on ABC News that the differences between the parties may be "just too wide."
We would place a pox on both their houses — and remind them, for instance, that public opinion survey after public opinion survey shows Americans want to see a compromise on this and other major issues — but Mr. Ryan's budget plan is simply too egregious to somehow equate it with what Senate Democrats are talking about.
The GOP plan is not identical to what Mr. Ryan has offered in the past (opposition to which helped President Obama get re-elected not too long ago). In many ways, it's worse. For instance, it sets an arbitrary 10-year time frame to balance the budget, instead of the 25-year calendar he's offered in the past.
Reducing tax rates for the wealthy, gutting safety-net programs like Medicaid and food stamps; repealing Obamacare coverage for millions of Americans; turning Medicare into a voucher program and thereby putting the elderly at risk; tossing out Wall Street reforms; and drastically shrinking federal spending on such vital needs as education, transportation and other forms of domestic spending: These are the chief features of the Ryan plan.
The document is nothing short of a testament to the consequences of gerrymandering and the perverse incentive House Republicans face to toe the line with the tea party extremists — in order to stave off a potential primary threat in 2014 — rather than propose something that might actually pass. How else to explain a budget plan that assumes Democrats would blithely agree to turn back the clock on health care reform? What, they are going to reverse themselves now after surviving a Supreme Court challenge and seeing Mr. Obama run on it and win?
Republican-held congressional districts are now drawn in such a way that Democrats have little chance of capturing a House majority no matter how unpopular the Ryan budget may be with most of the country. So the more extreme the GOP budget plan, the better — for the incumbents. The shock is only that it merely reduces the top income tax bracket from 39.6 percent to 25 percent. Surely, someone fell asleep there.
Senate Democrats would trim the budget by about $1 trillion and increase revenue through raising taxes and closing tax loopholes by roughly the same amount. That, too, seems a shout-out to their base. But at least that basic approach — a mix of new revenue and budget cuts — is a more reasonable agenda that allows all Americans to share in the required sacrifice.
The question on the Democratic side has always been: When push comes to shove, will members actually be willing to trim popular entitlement programs like Medicare? Ironically, the Ryan budget gives them cover, and that's what is so maddening about it (or should be to GOP voters). Democrats find it far preferable to present themselves to voters as opponents of extremist GOP austerity plans than as authors of a balanced deficit-reduction proposal.
President Obama can spend his days wooing Mr. Ryan and House Republicans all he wants. It's difficult to believe he'll make much headway there. His best chance to take a serious whack at the deficit will likely start in the Senate, but only if he can win over enough Republicans to avoid a filibuster. From there, it's on to the House and the possibility, albeit remote, that sufficient pressure can be brought to bear to win over enough GOP votes to build a coalition.
That's a lot of ifs, particularly as the U.S. economy continues to show some encouraging signs and the deficit shrinks, however modestly, on its own. The nation doesn't need a balanced budget within 10 years; it needs a bipartisan approach to taxes and spending that will put Washington back on a sustainable path. But as long as members of Congress face such a strong incentive not to compromise, it's difficult to believe any reconciliation of two such opposite visions of the future is even possible.


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Sen. Edward Kennedy
Chappaquiddick was a bonanza for the Kennedy-hating Nixon, who tried many tactics to catch Ted Kennedy in an extra-marital affair in order to derail his anticipated 1972 presidential bid.
by Don Fulsom
In the summer of 1969, President Richard Nixon was licking his chops to discover just what had really happened to Edward Kennedy and Mary Jo Kopechne at Chappaquiddick, Massachusetts. He speedily dispatched two undercover White House investigators to the scene of the suspicious watery car crash that took the life of Kopechne, Kennedy's companion. Nixon told top aide Bob Haldeman he didn't want Kennedy to get away with anything. Haldeman wrote a diary entry saying the President believed Kennedy "was drunk, escaped from the car, let (Mary Jo) drown, said nothing until police got to him. Shows fatal flaw in his character, cheated at school (Kennedy was expelled from Harvard for cheating), ran from accident"
When the senator went on TV to tell his version of what happened, Nixon privately noted many "gaps and contradictions," adding: "I could not help thinking if anyone other than a Kennedy had been involved and had given such a patently unacceptable explanation, the media and the public would not have allowed him to survive in public life."
Two ex-New York cops, Jack Caulfield and Anthony Ulasewicz, who posed as newspaper reporters, carried out the Nixon-ordered sleuthing in Massachusetts. They turned up nothing of consequence. Their probe took six months and cost $100,000.
Kennedy pled guilty to leaving the scene of an accident and was handed a suspended sentence of two months. His driver's license was revoked for one year.
Caulfield and Ulasewicz were busy, if not all that productive, in Massachusetts. In a memo from Caulfield, released in 2009, the snooper reported to the White House that Robert Kennedy Jr. was discreetly observed going to see the car that his uncle had driven off the Chappaquiddick Bridge two weeks earlier. And, more important, Caulfield suggested a Kennedy family bodyguard could become a useful source of information for the Nixon forces.
Caulfield and Ulasewicz pressed on. They eventually rented and furnished an expensive wiretapped Manhattan apartment with the improbable aim of hiring handsome young men to seduce some of the young women who had attended the Chappaquiddick party that preceded Kennedy's fatal accident. The plan, according to Nixon aide John Dean, would result in the women volunteering "details of Kennedy's conduct in a moment of tenderness, or under fear of extortion."
Dean actually stayed in the planned undercover apartment one night when he was in New York. "I was aghast. (Dean's blind date) had one quick drink and left. The apartment looked like a Chicago whorehouse—red velvet wallpaper, black lace curtains, white Salvation Army furniture, and a fake fur rug."
In April 1971, Nixon told Haldeman they should find some way to "cover Kennedy … I'd really like to get Kennedy taped." (More than taping, what Nixon wanted most of all, according to Haldeman in The Haldeman Diaries, was to photograph Ted Kennedy in compromising positions, then leak the photos to the press."
In June, Nixon listened with rapt attention as aide Henry Kissinger, who sometimes traveled in the same social circles as Kennedy, passed along gossip that EMK had now become "a total (sexual) animal."
In July, Nixon spoke to several aides about the possible need for a special $2-million dollar "Nixon discretionary fund" to keep tabs on Kennedy and for other clandestine pursuits.
On September 8,1971, the President ordered aide John Ehrlichman to have the IRS investigate Kennedy's taxes—and those of other prospective Democratic presidential candidates. And Nixon was given an update on surveillance that was already being carried out on Senator Kennedy.
Ehrlichman reported EMK was being "covered" by an unnamed informant (the Kennedy bodyguard Caulfield suggested could be used as an informant?) during the senator's vacations. And, as Nixon's tape recorders rolled, he filled in the President on an inspection trip Ehrlichman himself had made to Chappaquiddick:
Ehrlichman: And (Kennedy) was in Hawaii on his own. He was staying at some guy's villa. And we had a guy on him every night (unclear interjection by Nixon). And he was just as nice as he could be the whole time.
President Nixon: The thing to do is just watch him, because what happens to fellows like that, who have that kind of (sexual addiction) problem, is that they go for quite a while and then they go (unclear).
Ehrlichman: Yeah. Yeah. That's what I'm hoping for.
President Nixon: I don't think he would break really while he was, you know, trying for the big thing. Generally, they don't. Although Jack [Kennedy] was damn careless.
Ehrlichman: This time between now and convention time may be the time to get him.
President Nixon: You mean that he would be under great pressure?
Ehrlichman: He would be under pressure, but he will also be out of the limelight somewhat. Now, he was in Hawaii very much incognito. Very little staff. And played tennis, moved around, visited with people and socialized and so on. So you would expect that at a time like that you might catch him. And then he went up to Hyannis. And we've got an arrangement--
President Nixon: How about (Senator Edmund) Muskie? (Unclear.) What kind of a life is he living?
Ehrlichman: Very cloistered. Very monkish.
President Nixon: (Unclear.)
Ehrlichman: Yeah, big time. He's got six kids. And very ordinary (unclear). Teddy . . . I-we were over on Martha's Vineyard last week.
President Nixon: Yeah--
Ehrlichman: I had never seen that site before, that Chappaquiddick-Edgartown ferry. That is a very short swim. Having seen it now, I would bet he swam it that night. It's--I don't see why--you know, they could build a bridge across there. It's a very short distance.
President Nixon: Hmm.
Ehrlichman: And it's no farther than from here to the West Wing. And not a bad tide, the time we were there. So it was quite interesting. I took some pictures of it because it amazed me how short a distance it really was. But we do cover him when he goes to Hyannis.
President Nixon: He will never live that down.
Ehrlichman: No. I don't think he will.
President Nixon: Not that one.
Ehrlichman: I think that will be around his neck forever.
In October 1971, Ehrlichman induced a chuckle in Nixon when he suggested that placards be made showing Ted Kennedy's picture and asking "Would you ride in a car with this man."
In September 1972, Nixon's continued political fear, personal loathing, and jealously of Kennedy led him to plant a spy in Kennedy's Secret Service detail.
The mole Nixon selected for the Kennedy camp was already being groomed. He was a former agent from his Nixon's vice presidential detail, Robert Newbrand—a man so loyal he once pledged he would do anything—even kill—for Nixon.
The President was most interested in learning about the Sen. Kennedy's sex life. He wanted, more than anything, stated Haldeman in The Ends of Power, to "catch (Kennedy) in the sack with one of his babes."
In a recently transcribed tape of a September 8, 1972 talk among the President and aides Bob Haldeman and Alexander Butterfield, Nixon asks whether Secret Service chief James Rowley would appoint Newbrand to head Kennedy's detail:
Haldeman: He's to assign Newbrand.
President Nixon: Does he understand that he's to do that?
Butterfield: He's effectively already done it. And we have a full force assigned, 40 men.
Haldeman: I told them to put a big detail on him (unclear).
President Nixon: A big detail is correct. One that can cover him around the clock, every place he goes.
(Laughter obscures mixed voices.)
President Nixon: Right. No, that's really true. He has got to have the same coverage that we give the others, because we're concerned about security and we will not assume the responsibility unless we're with him all the time.
Haldeman: And Amanda Burden (one of Kennedy's alleged girlfriends) can't be trusted. (Unclear.) You never know what she might do. (Unclear.)
Haldeman then assures the President that Newbrand "will do anything that I tell him to … He really will. And he has come to me twice and absolutely, sincerely said, "With what you've done for me and what the President's done for me, I just want you to know, if you want someone killed, if you want anything else done, any way, any direction …"
President Nixon: The thing that I (unclear) is this: We just might get lucky and catch this son-of-a-bitch and ruin him for '76.
Haldeman: That's right.
President Nixon: He doesn't know what he's really getting into. We're going to cover him, and we are not going to take "no" for an answer. He can't say "no." The Kennedys are arrogant as hell with these Secret Service. He says, "Fine," and (Newbrand) should pick the detail, too.
Toward the end of this conversation, Nixon exclaims that Newbrand's spying "(is) going to be fun," and Haldeman responds: "Newbrand will just love it."
Nixon also had a surveillance tip for Haldeman for his spy-to-be: "I want you to tell Newbrand if you will that (unclear) because he's a Catholic, sort of play it, he was for Jack Kennedy all the time. Play up to Kennedy, that "I'm a great admirer of Jack Kennedy." He's a member of the Holy Name Society. He wears a St. Christopher (unclear)." Haldeman laughs heartily at the President's curious advice.
Despite the enthusiasm of Nixon and Haldeman, Newbrand apparently never produced anything of great value. When this particular round of Nixon's spying on Kennedy was uncovered in 1997, The Washington Post quoted Butterfield as saying periodic reports on Kennedy's activities were delivered to Haldeman, but that Butterfield did not think any potentially damaging information was ever dug up.
Were Nixon's men more than just spying on Edward Kennedy? In 1974, William Gilday of Boston told investigative reporter Anthony Summers, among others, that presidential aides had asked him, as early as 1970, to take part in dirty tricks that included the assassinations of both Edward Kennedy and George Wallace.
Wallace was convinced, to his dying days, that Nixon was behind a conspiracy to assassinate him. Supporting this view, when Nixon was told of Wallace's shooting he asked Colson whether one of "our" men was responsible. And he joked with Colson that he had only "finished half the job" (paralyzing the governor from only the waist down) on Wallace.
In a newly released Nixon tape, Colson informs the President that anti-Kennedy efforts did indeed extend beyond surveillance: "I did things out of Boston. We did some blackmail and … my God, uh, uh, uh, I'll go to my grave before I ever disclose it. But, uh, we did a hell of a lot of things and never got caught …(E. Howard Hunt, Nixon's chief spy) ran 15 or 20 black projects in Boston, and that'll never be traced. No way."
The world will never know just what Hunt and his cohorts had gathered on Kennedy. The former CIA spymaster kept his ultra-sensitive reports on Chappaquiddick and other Kennedy-related intelligence (as well as his pistol, which prompted Dean to shout, "Holy shit!") in his White House safe, which was cleaned out after Hunt was connected to the Watergate burglary of June 1972. Those secret files were eventually turned over by presidential aides John Dean and John Ehrlichman to acting FBI Director L. Patrick Gray. They came with instructions from Dean, "These should never see the light of day." He added: "They are of a very, very, very secretive nature." Gray subsequently burned the Hunt files, he said.
William Gilday, the Boston man who claims he was instructed by the White House to kill Edward Kennedy and George Wallace was later convicted of murdering a Massachusetts policeman. In his biography of Nixon, The Arrogance of Power, Summers declines "for legal reasons" to name the Nixon aides identified by Gilday. But the author says Gilday "has appeared to have knowledge of corroborating details—their nicknames, for example—and has provided reconnaissance photographs he said were taken with Kennedy's murder in view."
Was Richard Nixon capable of ordering a political enemy's assassination? That is a definite possibility. He was a violence-prone paranoid who ran the White House in much the same way as a godfather ruled a Mafia "family." Nixon believed that the means, any means, justified the end.
Aside from pistol-packing staffers such as E. Howard Hunt, G. Gordon Liddy, Jack Caulfield and Anthony Ulasewicz, Nixon could depend on a group of real godfathers to do his bidding. After all, he had been doing them big favors—and they had been secretly financing his political rise—ever since he was first elected to Congress in 1946. Organized crime expert Dan Moldea has quoted an anonymous Justice Department source as saying: "The whole goddamn thing is too frightening to think about. We're talking about the president of the United States … a man who pardoned organized crime figures after millions were spent by the government putting them away … I guess the real shame is that we'll never know the full story, it'll never come out."
As Nixon's White House tapes continue to be released, more of the "full story" will emerge.
Sources: Aside from those cited in the text, sources include President Nixon by Richard Reeves; In Nixon's Web by L. Patrick Gray; Blind Ambition by John Dean; Edward M. Kennedy by Adam Clymer; Kennedy and Nixon by Christopher Matthews; tape transcripts from the Miller Center of Public Affairs and Nixontapes.org; Crossfire by Jim Marrs, and The Haldeman Diaries by Bob Haldeman.


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Robert James "Bob" Ritchie (born January 17, 1971), known by his stage name Kid Rock, is an American singer-songwriter and rapper with five Grammy Award nominations. Kid Rock released several studio albums that mostly went unnoticed before his 1998 record Devil Without a Cause, released with Atlantic Records, sold 11 million albums behind the hits, "Bawitdaba", "Cowboy", and "Only God Knows Why". In 2000, he released The History of Rock which was a compilation of remixed and remastered versions of songs from his previous albums as well as the hit single, "American Bad Ass". In 2001, he released the follow up, Cocky.
After a slow start, his country-flavored hit "Picture" with Sheryl Crow resurrected the album and it went gold as a single and pushed the album's sales to more than 5 million. It was followed by 2003's self-titled release, which failed to chart a major hit. In 2006 he released Live Trucker, a live album. In 2007 Kid Rock released Rock n Roll Jesus, which produced a hit in "All Summer Long". It was his first worldwide smash hit, charting #1 in eight countries across Europe and Australia. Rock N Roll Jesus would go on to sell 5 million albums worldwide including being certified triple platinum in the US. He released Born Free on November 16, 2010.
Robert Ritchie was born on January 17, 1971 in Romeo, Michigan to William "Bill" Ritchie, a car dealer, and Susan Ritchie. His family owned a six-acre orchard and Ritchie regularly helped pick apples and cared for the family's horses. He has three siblings: two are older, brother William "Billy" Ritchie and sister Carol Ritchie; and one is younger, sister Jill Ritchie who is an actress. Ritchie found small-town life to be dull; he became interested in rap music, learning how to breakdance and participating in talent shows in the Detroit area. At age eleven he joined a breakdance crew called the Furious Funkers, teaching himself how to work a cheap belt-driven turntable. In high school, Ritchie DJed at parties for beer. He eventually joined Bo Wisdom of Groove Time Productions, in Mt. Clemens, Michigan to perform basement parties for thirty dollars a night. It was then that he was given his stage name; club goers dubbed him "Kid Stone" after they had enjoyed watching "that white kid rock."