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Reborn dot-bomb: Boxerjam Media's got game
In a large multi-desk office overlooking the Downtown Mall, four people stare intently at computer screens as their fingers fly across the keyboards. The room is silent except for the clatter of furious typing, punctuated by the occasional "Got it!" or "I'm still not done..."
This is the world of Boxerjam Media, where employees are weeding out glitches in a new set of online tournament puzzles by playing them over and over (and over). It may not seem like work, but as Boxerjam Media prepares to launch its latest pay-to-play enterprise into cyberspace, it's serious business.
The original Boxerjam was the competitive brainchild of Temple Fennell, Allen Cunningham, Julann Griffin (ex-wife of Jeopardy! creator Merv Griffin), and Griffin's sister, Maureen Roberts.
In 1995 the foursome convinced a young company called America On-Line to give their interactive gaming idea a go. A few years later, and Boxerjam was providing 80 percent of the content for AOL's wildly popular games channel.
But like so many dot-com booms, Boxerjam went bust in early 2001, its once 70-strong staff dwindling to zero. What happened?
"I think it was a combination of a lot of really ugly marketing factors," says Evan Cooper, vice president of operations for Boxerjam Media, who was hired by the original Boxerjam in 1999 and laid off in May 2001.
"Advertising was really drying up... We took a lot of venture capital on really quickly... It was really hard to grow in that environment."
Nevertheless, Richmond-based newspaper and broadcast behemoth Media General saw revenue potential in Boxerjam. As Media General's interest heated up, Boxerjam rehired Cooper in October 2001 to devise a scheme for how the formerly advertising-dependent game site might profit from its proven ability to attract devoted players.
Now, a year after Media General inked the deal for Boxerjam (adding "Media" to its name), Cooper and his lean team of six full-time employees and six contract workers are spearheading boxerjam.com's new three-pronged approach to generating revenue: 1) Skill-based games, in which competitors vie for a cumulative kitty. A player puts in a dollar, and 75 cents goes into the pot, 25 cents into Boxerjam's pocket; 2) Downloadable games, available for $19.95 each (no, they don't come with a set of ginsu knives); and 3) Puzzle subscriptions that allow solo play as well as participation in tournaments. Still in beta-testing, the puzzles are currently free, but eventually a subscription will run $3.95 a month or $24.95 a year.
Cooper estimates developing a game costs the company $10,000-20,000– but a successful one will recoup the outlay in three to four months.
"Distribution is a huge thing," Cooper says. "We're already on wireless phones, and we are very soon to be on interactive television." Plus Media General-owned newspapers syndicate print versions of three of Boxerjam's most popular online puzzles: Elvis=Lives, Flexicon, and Clink!
The company's games are "platform-agnostic," Cooper points out, hi-tech lingo for adaptable (Virgin Atlantic even offers in-flight gaming).
Back at the office, screen-name "lowrentslumlord," a.k.a. graphic designer Lawren Spera, has again made it to the finals of the Clink! Tournament. Suddenly, the "start" button for her last round begins to flicker. As she desperately clicks it, she's booted back to boxerjam.com's homepage. She sighs, realizing she's been DQ'd– gamer slang for "disqualified." Another day of beta-testing, another bug detected.Read more on: boxerjam


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Hi Chris,
My VST baskets are on the way, and I may yet order the EP ones too. I've been thinking about your post for a few days now, and I'm unclear as to what you mean by coffees that respond best to up- or down-dosing in this context. My previous understanding of these terms was that coffees that respond best to updosing (Hairbender, for example) only start to taste really great when pulled using 18-19+ grams for a double, therefore 'updosed' from the 14ish gram 'traditional' double dose. Down-dosing I think of mainly as a relative term, eg. "I'm going to down-dose the next shot" (drop the dose a bit), as I don't believe anyone really uses much less than 14 grams in a double basket. What most people would consider a down-dose is really basically a traditional dose, which is only a down-dose when compared to the common 'Third Wave' 18+ gram updose. Or like I said, that's how I was thinking of it.
Now, the two sizes of VST baskets supposedly hold 17-19 and 21-23 grams. Meaning, I believe, that if dosed relatively neutrally (not particularly overfilled, no tapping down when dosing or afterwards, some form of non-packing distribution and then leveling off) they will hold those respective amounts, with the +-1 gram variance accounted for by the grind setting, density of the particular coffee used, etc. (I believe this is not a particularly standard way to dose in quality coffee these days, which is why you mention that these baskets require a slight decrease in dosing method from your usual style, and thus also grind size.) Based on my previous assumptions, I would assume that neutrally dosing either of these baskets would still be an updosed shot, in that they will still be much more than the 14 gram 'traditional' dose. I would have also assumed then that Hairbender (for example) would taste fine using the 17-19 gram basket, neutrally dosed.
But based on your comments, now I'm wondering if by 'coffees that work better with updosing,' you mean those coffees work best if you try to increase the dose in the basket above neutral (by overfilling the basket, tapping during and after dosing to settle, using a compressive distribution method like Stockfleth's, etc.), and coffees that work better with down-dosing mean coffees that taste great with a neutral (or even slightly less, by using a scoop-shaped tool to level with) dose. So it's not necessarily that Hairbender requires an 18+ gram dose, it's that it requires you to attempt to increase the dose in the basket you're using above neutral.
Do I understand you correctly here?
- chris said...
Yes. "up-dose" meaning use a dose that is above par (or neutral) for the specific basket and "down-dose" meaning a dose this is below par (or neutral) for that basket.
- Unknown said...
Interesting -- so perhaps we need to stop recommending doses for coffees, and start recommending headroom. :-)
Thanks very much,

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A small history of flying
Lufthansa captain Robert Löffler is a passionate collector and has miniature aircraft in every – really every – possible shape and color!
The man in the pilot uniform picks up the red plastic airplane with the tiny propeller and the short wings, winds it up, sets it on the floor, and lets go. It zigzags wildly across the tiles, even performing somersaults and back flips. Robert Löffler, a distinguished airline captain with four golden stripes on his sleeve, laughs out loud and slaps his thighs in boyish delight.
Flashback: Robert Löffler was born in 1955 and raised in Kulmbach, in Germany's Upper Franconia region, near to the East German border. One day, he was lying in a meadow, looking up at the sky, watching planes come and go overhead. "There wasn't much else going on in my town," he recalls. So he dreamed about the planes that traced white lines across the blue before vanishing. One such lazy day, young Robert decided to become a pilot. He obtained his private pilot's license even before learning to drive a car. In 1974, he passed the Lufthansa exam and has since notched up more than 20 000 flying hours.
In front of Löffler now on the big dining table in his living room in Frankfurt lie the objects of another passion, all carefully set out: a winged alarm clock and winged cufflinks; picture frames and reading lamps with propellers; key rings and brooches in the shape of a Boeing; stamps and egg cups with landing gears; candlesticks, piggy banks, penknives. In fact, almost everything has a connection to flying or is adorned with aircraft. "It all started with these bookends," he says, pointing to the shelf holding a fluffy porcelain cloud, split into two, with a small propeller plane plunging through it. There's a giraffe in the cockpit and a hippo sitting on the tail. The piece cost 30 dollars when he bought it back in 1980 at Pier 39 in San Francisco, Robert Löffler recalls. It's still his favorite piece.
Löffler gives us a tour, pointing out the highlights: the Martini glass with a single-engine plane on the stem that he picked up in Vancouver; the teapot in British racing green from Harrods; the pink jet with gold accents and pictures of the Vatican that's really an ashtray… Crazy stuff. "People often make fun of my hobby," says Löffler dismissively. For him, a man with a PhD in historical science, it's far more than a collection of knick-knacks and curiosities. "To me, it's an expression of people's historical response to aviation, of what they see and have seen in flying."
The collection is an expression of people's historical response to aviation
Everyday objects, curious and useful things, kitsch – over the years, a lot has come together. Take the Christmas decorations, for instance: a rainbow-colored jumbo jet with palms on the bodywork that hangs on the Christmas tree each year, and all of the traditional German articles sold at the Käthe Wohlfahrt Christmas store in Rothenburg ob der Tauber created solely for the purpose of spreading Christmas cheer. The smoking manikin chick with aviator glasses that comes out every year before Christmas is "very important" to Löffler. His latest acquisition is a reindeer in a blue airplane; clap, and it flashes a crazy, mixed-up red and green and white, and while the propeller spins faster and faster, tiny LED lamps tirelessly wish a "Merry Christmas." Even now, months after the holiday is over, this masterpiece is still standing on the bookshelf. Over time, Löffler tells us, even friends and family started helping him to collect. Instead of shirts, ties and socks, they now give him dainty Limoges porcelain jewelry boxes with teddies in the pilot seat, USB airplanes with slots in the propeller positions or cuddly cushions shaped like fighter jets. So far, Löffller tells us, he has spent a four-digit sum (euros) on his collection. He never buys things on eBay. Instead, Löffler, 63, prefers to browse flea and antiques markets all over the world and scour souvenir and gift shops. And he always considers carefully before he buys anything. "Just because something is old, it doesn't mean I have to have it. It has to be a bit unusual – and best of all, somehow have something useful about it." He has only very few scale model aircraft because "they just stand around gathering dust."
Löffler's collection now numbers 150 pieces, maybe more. And there's a special memory associated with each one. He still clearly remembers how the china plane with Micky and Minnie Mouse caught his eye a few hours before he was due to fly home from Toronto. He even had to figure out which T-shirts he should leave behind to make space in his case. The captain and collector brings out his Coca-Cola aquaplane from Florida. It reminds him of the modified light aircraft Piper Cub, with which he sometimes flies before plowing himself a runway – splish, splash – on a lake. He talks about the teapot from Stockholm with the badly fitting lid, for which he had himself detailed to the next flight to the Swedish capital. You could sit for hours, days even, listening to one story after another.
Löffler would love to compile a catalogue of his collection and exhibit it, but to him, it isn't yet complete. There's a model of the legendary Ju 52 propeller plane in a store window at the Main-Taunus-Center that he would really like to get his hands on, and he is also still looking to replace the Swarowski plane that fell on the floor and shattered. But the most important piece that's still missing is a plane with a woman in the cockpit: "The history of aviation would not be complete without it."


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Feb. 14, 2008
KALAMAZOO--A visiting professor from Israel will speak about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict during a Wednesday, Feb. 27, talk at Western Michigan University. The free public lecture by Dr. Neve Gordon of Ben-Gurion University will be at 7:30 p.m. at the Fetzer Center.
The author of a new book, "Israel's Occupation," about to be published by the University of California Press, Gordon will address the prospects for peace and explore the impact of a number of recent developments and their impact on the daily lives of Israelis and Palestinians. Those events include Israel's withdrawal from the Gaza Strip in 2005, Hamas' landslide victory in 2006 elections, ongoing missile fire on Israeli towns and a siege imposed on Gaza.
Gordon, a lecturer at Ben-Gurion since 1999, will also speak earlier in the day. He will discuss "Human Rights Non-Government Organization Work in Theory and Practice" at 2 p.m. in Room 3502 of Knauss Hall and "From Colonization to Separation: Making Sense of Israel's Occupation" at 3:30 p.m. in Room 3301 of Friedmann Hall. Both events are free and open to the public, but the earlier talk is geared toward undergraduate students and the later seminar to graduate students and faculty.
Gordon is an Israeli and U.S. citizen and the former executive director of Physicians for Human Rights in Israel. He has been a visiting scholar at Brown University and the University of California-Berkley. He earned doctoral and master's degrees in political science from the University of Notre Dame and his bachelor's degree in philosophy from Hebrew University.
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Kalakaua Avenue a Top 10 Great Street0
HONOLULU (Oct. 3, 2013) — The American Planning Association (APA) today announced the designation of Kalakaua Avenue as one of 10 Great Streets for 2013.
Each year during National Community Planning Month, APA's Great Places in America program names 30 exemplary streets, neighborhoods and public spaces to highlight the role planning and planners play in adding value to communities, including fostering economic growth and jobs.
APA singled out Kalakaua Avenue for its significant contributions to both local and state economies, the use of plans and planning to guide a years-long redevelopment of the street making it more pedestrian-friendly, the connections to Hawaii's rich cultural heritage, and preliminary steps by the state enabling localities to begin adapting to inevitable sea-level changes that will take place during the next 40 to 90 years.
"What other street takes you from a Tiffany store to a world-class beach along wide sidewalks with an ocean breeze," said Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell. "Kalakaua Avenue is the face of Hawaii for millions of tourists from around the world.
"Former Mayor Jeremy Harris's vision turned this urban thoroughfare into the lovely tropical island stroll lined with coconut and shower trees that our visitors and residents deserve," he added. "Our city crews work hard every day to keep it looking great. I thank APA for recognizing Kalakaua Avenue as one of the classic public streets in the United States."
"Three things define Waikiki — its white-sand beaches, the Diamond Head volcanic tuff cone, and Kalakaua Avenue," said APA Chief Executive Officer Paul Farmer, FAICP. "Based on tourism-only revenue generated along the avenue, few if any other streets in the country can compare. As an economic dynamo, Kalakaua Avenue and Waikiki present planners and others in Hawaii a major challenge in terms of adapting to sea level rise without sacrificing the area's beauty or appeal to visitors," he added.
Setting the stage for Kalakaua Avenue's tremendous and long-term success was construction of the Ala Wai Canal. Completed in 1928, it allowed the area's rice paddies and wetlands to be drained, which made Waikiki's developable.
The high-rise hotel building boom along Kalakaua Avenue and Waikiki reached its peak during the late 1960s and early 1970s, leading the city and county of Honolulu to adopt the Waikiki Special Design District Ordinance in 1974 to control building heights, prevent overbuilding and manage development.
Subsequently the city developed a plan in the early 1990s aimed to make the experience of walking along Kalakaua Avenue "feel more like being in a park" rather than on a densely urbanized street, according to former Honolulu Mayor Jeremy Harris. Between 1994 and 2004, the city and county spent more than $100 million on Kalakaua Avenue including new sidewalks, landscaping, walkways, historic-style street lighting, street furnishings and plazas. Also added was the Waikiki Historic Trail with 23 sites, many of which are located on or within steps of Kalakaua Avenue.
Shaping Kalakaua's future will be how the city, county and state address flooding in the Ala Wai watershed and sea level rise as a result of climate change. A plan under development by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is evaluating various options to protect Waikiki and Kalakaua Avenue from a 100-year flood.
Meanwhile, the city and state are in the early stages of planning for adaptation to sea level rise in the Waikiki area including Kalakaua Avenue. Last year Governor Neil Abercrombie signed into law Senate Bill 2745 that amends the Hawaii State Planning Act to include priority guidelines addressing adaptation to climate change. The amendment recognizes that sea level rise in Hawaii will occur and that adaptation strategies must be adopted.
APA's Great Streets, Great Neighborhoods and Great Public Spaces feature unique and authentic characteristics that have evolved from years of thoughtful and deliberate planning by residents, community leaders and planners. The 2013 Great Places have many things Americans say are important to their "ideal community" including locally owned businesses, transit, neighborhood parks, and sidewalks. They illustrate how the foresight of planning fosters communities of lasting value.
The nine other APA 2013 Great Streets are North and South Walnut Street, Milford, DE; Palafox Street, Pensacola, FL; Bridge Street, Las Vegas, NM; C Street, Virginia City, NV; Market Street, Corning, NY; Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, PA; Broadway, Jim Thorpe, PA; The Strand, Galveston, TX; and West Beverley Street, Staunton, VA.
For more information about these streets, as well as APA's top 10 Great Neighborhoods and top 10 Great Public Spaces for 2013 and previous years, visit www.planning.org/greatplaces. For more about National Community Planning Month taking place throughout October visit www.planning.org/ncpm.


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Every time my family has PCS'ed, we were assigned a sponsor. You know, that voluntold servicemember or volunteer spouse who cheerfully sends you informational packets detailing the ins and outs of your next duty station, the person who willingly sacrifices personal time to welcome you aboard and introduce you to an area you're unfamiliar with solely for the unselfish purpose of making your family as comfortable as possible on the tail end of your move.
Isn't that what your sponsors did?
Yeah, our's didn't do any of that either.
It sure is swell to read articles like this one about the Army's efforts to improve its Total Army Sponsorship Program, but I'm not overly optimistic that they are effective or even enforceable.
A MilSpouse friend of mine recently PCS'ed to Europe. She knew nothing about the country that would be her new home and was relying on the information her sponsor gave her. However, not only did her sponsor put little effort into providing guidance, but the sponsor was also doling out information that wasn't even correct. So my friend arrived in a foreign country with virtually no knowledge about the area or what her family needed to do upon arrival.
"We were lucky that we did research and asked around," my friend said. "We didn't even have anyone at the airport for us, and we were going nearly 30 miles to our destination. Two kids, overnight journey, foreign country. Not even an email. Nothing."
My family experienced similar difficulties when we moved to Japan. Our sponsor put forth a decent effort to pass along information, including where we needed to go to learn the procedure for transporting a pet overseas, but she didn't offer us everything we were hoping to know before getting off the plane in a foreign country. Was it because she was single with no kids and we were a family of 3 people and 1 canine -- and therefore her definition of necessary information was different than ours? Or was it because being a sponsor is a collateral duty and she didn't feel like making the effort?
Another MilSpouse I met OCONUS was so fed up with the lacking sponsorship program that she jump-started a Welcome Basket Program. The volunteers were given information about each incoming family and their needs and then put together welcome baskets. The baskets, which cost about $20 and included items such as food, information from the base's Fleet and Family Support Center, a magazine from ITT (Information, Tickets and Travel) and a welcome letter from the new command, were waiting in the Navy Lodge rooms for all new families upon their arrival. (Unfortunately, this program was started after I got there, but wow, would that have made a difference in my attitude if I walked into my hotel room and saw that!)
We all hope and pray to the PCS gods that our transition to a new duty station will be as smooth as possible. So what can a military PCS sponsor do to help make that happen?
1. Reach out to the incoming family. Find out what they need and research accordingly. Does the new family have kids? Then gather up info about local schools and child care. Is the new family interested in living on base? Then make a visit to the housing office. Does the new family have a pet? Then find contact info for on- and off-base vets. Tailor your information to the family's specific needs.
2. Be organized. Take that big pile of information you compiled and make packets or folders or scan them into emails or whatever method makes it easiest for the family to read through and store it.
3. Be prompt. Don't wait until a week before the family's arrival to send out those packets or folders or emails. That's way too late. Get to work as soon as you learn who you're sponsoring to allow them plenty of time to plan and prepare themselves.
4. Greet the family in person. It's no fun getting off an airplane, especially in a foreign country, having no one to greet you and point you in the right direction. If you can't be there, make arrangements for someone else to be the personal welcome party.
5. Make the effort. Okay, so maybe you're not thrilled about having to be a sponsor. But think about how you felt moving to a new place. Wouldn't you have appreciated being handed a folder filled with the best resources the community has to offer? And who knows, maybe you'll stumble upon some new and exciting tidbits about your area that you wish you had known about when you first moved there.
What is your experience with sponsors? If you had a fabulous sponsor, what made him or her so fabulous? What kinds of things would you want in a sponsor before a PCS move?


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Okay, so I am a little behind! LOL! I am catching up now!
Tonight for dinner I made these amazing Butternut Squash Fries. I love Sweet Potato Fries, so I figured these would be right up my alley, and they were. Best part? Only 65 calories!!!! We had them along with our pulled pork sammies and salad.
Backing up one day to my GF Salad Challenge for Day 6. I had a wonderful salad last night with dinner. For dinner I had Honey Baked Lentils over buckwheat that I had steamed the other day and topped with a bit of Sriracha! YUM! The salad was excellent, with (gasp…hope you are sitting down Mom & Kelly) another fruit addition! I loved this combo!
~arugula & mixed baby greens
~ 1 Roma tomato
~ 1/2 zucchini
~ 1/4 cucumber
~ 1 TBSP chopped walnuts
~ 1/4 Cara Cara Navel Orange
~ Drizzle of Balsamic Vinaigrette
Now, onto the salad from day 7 (today). Tonight I needed to find some new & exciting things for my salad. Enter: Honey Baked Lentils (leftover from last night).
~ arugula & mixed greens
~ 2 TBSP HB Lentils (YUM)
~ 1 TBSP sliced almonds
~ 1 Roma Tomato
~ 1/2 zucchini
~ 1/4 cucumber
~ Chopped Broccoli
~ 1 TBSP Goat Cheese
~ Drizzle of Balsamic Vinaigrette
Perfect salad! Loved the lentils in this! 🙂
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The Research Centers: Barth, Kuyper, and Scottish Philosophy - Issue 2 (Spring 2014)
The library serves as a hub to three research centers, each of which connects scholars and pastors with collections and conferences of international importance:The Center for Barth Studies, Center for the Study of Scottish Philosophy, and Abraham Kuyper Center for Public Theology.
The Center for Barth Studies
The Center for Barth Studies (CBS), founded in 1997, exists to promote scholarship, conferences, and events related to the theology of Karl Barth. CBS includes a special Karl Barth Research Collection, which is housed in the library and is the largest Barth collection in North America. The goal of the Center is to eventually obtain a copy of every piece of literature written by or about Karl Barth. Each June, CBS facilitates the annual Karl Barth Conference, which places Barth's theology in constructive and historical conversation with a variety of topics and figures. CBS also supports domestic and international visiting scholars by assisting them with research projects.
CBS is led by Dr. Bruce L. McCormack, director, along with an advisory board comprised of current and previous Princeton Seminary professors. The daily operations of the Center are managed by Kait Dugan, curator of the Barth collection and Nathan Maddox, assistant to the curator as well as two student workers, Tyler Davis and Michael Toy.
The annual 2014 Karl Barth Conference titled "Karl Barth, the Jews, and Judaism" will take place on June 15–18. Plenary speakers will include Victoria Barnett, Eberhard Busch, Ellen Charry, George Hunsinger, Mark Lindsay, David Novak, and Peter Ochs. The conference will also host the first-ever concurrent speaker sessions, which will include a variety of papers to be given by professors and graduate students throughout the world. The conference is free for PTS students. To learn more about the conference, please visit barth.ptsem.edu/. CBS exists to assist with practical and introductory tips for demonstrating how to navigate and understand Barth's theology as well as to provide a wealth of primary and secondary resources for academic research projects. If you have any questions about Barth's theology or need help locating Barth materials, stop by CBS during Seminary business hours or email [email protected]
Center for the Study of Scottish Philosophy
Throughout the year, the Center for the Study of Scottish Philosophy (CSSP) manages and edits the Journal of Scottish Philosophy (JSP), published by Edinburgh University Press. Now in its twelfth volume, the JSP has established a reputation for innovative scholarship, often from younger scholars, on all aspects, authors, and periods of Scottish philosophy, from the 17th to 20th centuries. In addition, the CSSP edits the Library of Scottish Philosophy, a book series published by Imprint Academic. The purpose of the series is to make expertly edited selections affordable and easily accessible to teachers and students. Recent volumes include selections from Thomas Reid, whose philosophical writings greatly influenced The College of New Jersey in the early years of the 19th century, and Scottish Philosophy in America, which documents much of that influence. The fifteenth volume in the series, The Scottish Philosophy of Rhetoric, was published on February 1, 2014.
In the spring of each year, the CSSP organizes a small conference, which attracts participants from all over the world. The March 2014 conference drew presenters from Singapore, Switzerland, Germany and Belgium, as well as Scotland and the United States. In addition, there have been three larger conferences organized in collaboration with other learned societies. The CSSP's first conference in 2007 led to a long-term project—a two-volume, multiauthored history of Scottish philosophy. That project is nearing completion and the two volumes will be published by Oxford University Press in 2015. More information about CSSP can be found at http://www.ptsem.edu/library/cssp/.
Abraham Kuyper Center for Public Theology
Abraham Kuyper, a hugely influential theologian, church leader, and politician in 19th century Holland, gave the Stone Lectures at Princeton in 1898. Titled "Lectures on Calvinism," they brought to the English speaking world Kuyper's brilliant renewal of Calvin's theological vision, and thereby created "Neo-Calvinism" as a powerful Christian voice. The Abraham Kuyper Center for Public Theology arose out of the centenary celebrations of those lectures organized at Princeton Seminary in 1998. Its work is now greatly assisted by an advisory board that includes Seminary faculty and external experts.
The Center's most well-known event is the Abraham Kuyper Lecture and Prize, delivered by the recipient of the Kuyper Prize. This prize is awarded to someone who has excelled in his or her chosen sphere, and as a result won recognition for the continuing cultural relevance of the Reformed tradition. The Abraham Kuyper Lecture and Prize opens the annual conference on a theme related to the winner's work.
The Kuyper Center Conference has steadily become a major event in the neo-Calvinist calendar and attracts participants from many parts of the world. Generous donations by Dr. Rimmer de Vries have made it possible to support participation by a new generation of scholars. Since 2010, revised and edited versions of a selection of the conference papers have appeared in the Kuyper Center Review.
The library now possesses a very extensive Kuyper Collection of primary and secondary material. Additions are regularly added to the collection, which promises to be the finest in the world. A Kuyper Center visiting scholar scheme has recently been inaugurated to facilitate the use of this collection.


text: Ernest Edward Lightcap headstone at Mount Calvary Cemetery (Catholic Cemetery) in Dubuque, Iowa. This is my great-grandfather. His first wife, Blanche (Payne), is buried in Pioneer Cemetery in North Judson, Indiana. His second wife, my grandmother Henrietta (Doose), died in South Dakota. I think she is buried in Isabel, but do not know the cemetery. His son, Albert "Wally" Lightcap, is my grandfather. His son Paul is buried in Linwood Cemetery, Dubuque, Iowa.


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Brain Teasers
Word Grid 7
Arrange 25 five letter words in a 5 by 5 grid. The five words in each row and each column and each diagonal share a common letter. There are 12 different common letters. The grid cells are identified by row (1 to 5, top to bottom) and column (1 to 5, left to right). Example: Cell 3.2 identifies Row 3 Column 2.
The words are: anvil, boast, brake, cable, chose, globe, hound, joust, ounce, phase, plumb, prove, quash, rabid, ripen, rough, spawn, suave, tepid, topic, trunk, venom, voice, wheat, yearn.
One letter of each word is provided in the grid.
Row 1: h k l n b
Row 2: a u s d o
Row 3: o i e r t
Row 4: w g m e i
Row 5: s c v u p
The words are: anvil, boast, brake, cable, chose, globe, hound, joust, ounce, phase, plumb, prove, quash, rabid, ripen, rough, spawn, suave, tepid, topic, trunk, venom, voice, wheat, yearn.
One letter of each word is provided in the grid.
Row 1: h k l n b
Row 2: a u s d o
Row 3: o i e r t
Row 4: w g m e i
Row 5: s c v u p
Answerphase brake anvil spawn boast
quash plumb suave hound joust
rough rabid prove yearn trunk
wheat globe venom ripen tepid
chose cable voice ounce topic
Common Letters
Rows 1 to 5: a, u, r, e, c
Columns 1 to 5: h, b, v, n, t
Diagonals 1 and 2: p, o
1) Cell 4.1 contains "w", so it must be either "spawn" or "wheat". Cell 4.2 contains "g", so it must be either "globe" or "rough". Cell 4.3 contains "m", so it must be either "plumb" or "venom". Only one combination of those words share a common letter. Cell 4.1 is "wheat", Cell 4.2 is "globe", and Cell 4.3 is "venom". The words in Row 4 must share "e".
2) Cell 1.2 is "brake", since that is the only word with a "k" that shares a letter with "globe". Since "e" has already been assigned, the words in Column 2 must share "b". Cell 2.2 contains "u", so it is "plumb". Cell 3.2 contains "i", so it is "rabid". Cell 5.2 contains "c", so it is "cable".
3) There is only one unused word that contains "l", so Cell 1.3 is "anvil". For a similar reason, Cell 1.5 is "boast". The words in Row 1 must share "a".
4) Cell 2.4 is "hound", since that is the only unused word that contains "d" and also shares a letter with "boast" and "globe". The words in Diagonal 2 must share "o".
5) The words in Column 3 must share either "n" or "v". Cell 5.3 contains "v". There is no other word that has both "n" and "v", so the words in Column 3 must share "v". Cell 2.3 is "suave".
6) The words in Row 2 must share "u". Cell 2.1 is "quash".
7) Cell 1.1 contains "h" and must share "a", so it is "phase".
8) The words in Diagonal 1 must share "p". Cell 3.3 contains "e" and must share "p" and "v", so it is "prove". Cell 5.3 is "voice".
9) The words in Row 3 must share "r". Cell 3.1 is "rough". Cell 3.5 is "trunk".
10) The words in Column 1 must share "h". Cell 5.1 is "chose".
11) The words in Column 5 must share "t". Cell 2.5 must also contain "o" and "u", so it is "joust". Cell 4.5 must also contain "i" and "e", so it is "tepid". Cell 5.5 is "topic".
12) The words in Row 5 must share "c". Cell 5.4 is "ounce".
13) The words in Column 4 must share "n" ("o" and "u" are already assigned). Cell 4.4 must also contain "e" and "p", so it is "ripen". Cell 3.4 is "yearn". Cell 1.4 is "spawn".
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Police Blotter of the Day: Kaboom! Oddly named man's walking stick leads to evacuation
An aluminum pipe with the word "Kaboom" written on it led to the evacuation of Akron City Hall on Wednesday. Turns out it was a walking stick, and "Kaboom" was the owner's name. Really.
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How Stanford Doctors Use Rodin Art for Diagnosis
Dr. James Chang from the Stanford School of Medicine uses sculptures from 19th-century French artist Auguste Rodin to teach his students the diagnostic process. Stanford's Cantor Arts Center now shows in an exhibition how that works. WSJ's Monika Vosough reports.
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Is Gender Bias an Issue in Loan Applications?
March 15, 2013
Initial findings from a Woodstock Institute study of 257,000 purchase loans and refinancings originated in the Chicago area in 2010 indicate that gender bias may play a role in denials.
Based on 2010 Home Mortgage Disclosure Act data, researchers found that purchase applications with a woman as the primary borrower and a man as the co-borrower were 24 percent less likely to be approved than if a man applied as the primary borrower. The figure rises to 39 percent for refinancing applications.
Purchase and refinance applications with an African-American woman as the primary borrower and a black man as the co-borrower were 34 percent and 44 percent, respectively, less likely to be approved than applications with an African-American man as the primary borrower. Moreover, applications with African-American women as primary borrowers were less likely to be approved than those headed by women of other ethnic backgrounds.
"It's unlikely that there isn't some element of discrimination," concedes Woodstock vice president of research Spencer Cowan. "It may be totally unconscious."
Consumer advocates, too, suspect gender bias. "There are lots of different things that could be contributing to it," acknowledges Diane Thompson of the National Consumer Law Center, "but it suggests to me that it's part of the long-established tradition of discriminating against women."
Reserving judgment for now, the researchers say the findings underscore the need for additional loan data -- such as age, credit scores, and appraised property values -- to be reported to the federal government to provide a more complete picture of lending patterns.
Source: "Woodstock Institute Finds Gender Bias in Joint Home Loan, Refinancing Approvals," Chicago Tribune (03/12/13)
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WESTERN KENTUCKY (1/1/14) — Honeybees produce a miraculous rich golden liquid that is not only delicious but can be used as an alternative to white sugar. In addition, research has found that the composition of honey can be used to help with reducing seasonal allergies, as an antimicrobial agent, an antioxidant and, perhaps, in losing weight.
The fascinating process of making honey begins when honeybees feast on flowers, where they collect nectar in their mouths that mixes in with special enzymes in their saliva. That, in turn, turns nectar into honey. The bees then carry the honey back to the hive where they deposit the honey into cells on the walls of the hive. The fluttering of their wings provides ventilation to help reduce the moisture that makes it ready for consumption.
According to the North Dallas Honey Company, some seasonal allergy suffers have found relief in raw honey. In studies, it has shown that raw honey has the potential to help clear and ease allergies triggered by pollen. Raw honey contains natural vitamins, enzymes and antioxidants. It also has anti-viral, anti-fungal and anti-bacterial properties that help promote the body and digestive system, strengthens the immune system, and is an excellent remedy for skin wounds and different types of infections.
"Honey can benefit certain people, not everyone, but certain people," said Larry Stone, president of Audubon Beekeepers Association. "It's like taking certain medicines. How it affects one person may not affect another person the same way. That goes for honey, too."
Raw honey naturally contains traces of pollen, which exposes allergy sufferers to the substance that might otherwise cause flare-ups. Yet, with a little honey a day, it can help with desensitizing the effects.
"Those who have seasonal allergies may benefit from a little honey a day," said Stone. "It can also help with reducing the frequency of coughing."
Raw honey has also been known to stabilize blood pressure, balance sugar levels, calm nerves, relieve pain and treat ulcers. Raw honey is also an expectorant and anti-inflammatory that has been known to treat respiratory conditions.
Honey has been used for medicinal purposes since ancient Egyptians were making offerings to their gods, they also used it as an embalming fluid when dressing wounds. It wasn't until the 19th century researchers discovered that honey had the natural quality.
Honey is used as a protectant against damage and has been proven to hamper the growth effect of food-borne pathogens such as E. coli and salmonella. Honey is also known to fight against certain bacteria, including staphylococcus aureus and pseudomonas, which can be found in hospital settings.
It is also important to remember that not all humans can consume honey, if they have an allergy or under the age of 12 months. Due to the spores of the botulism bacteria found in honey, infants do not have the developed immune system to defend against such an infection.
But, not all honey is the same, and depends on how it was harvested in determining the antibacterial quality. Some types of honey may be 100 times more potent than another.
There are different types of honey produced, which in general, the darker the honey, the better antibacterial and antioxidant components it contains.
"Depending what flower the bee got its nectar from will determine if the honey is light or dark," said Stone. "For example, if it got it from a lotus, the honey will be lighter. If it got it from a blackberry, the honey will be darker. But you can't say that one honey is 100 percent of one type of flower. With bees you never know what nectar they are feeling that day."
Research has also shown that adding honey to your diet can burn more fats and increase stamina levels. Honey acts as a fuel to make glucose in the liver, which keeps the brain sugar levels high and forces the release of fat burning hormones. Most people, who struggle to lose weight usually consume too much sugar and processed foods. However, consuming honey before bed, the body begins to burn more fat during the early hours of sleep. When taking a further step by eliminating all sugars and replacing them with honey, it helps rebalance the brain signal that compels one to consume more sweets.
Today, people enjoy the properties of honey for antibacterial and anti-inflammatory uses along with reducing allergies and losing weight. Holistic practitioners consider honey to be an all-around remedy.
"People can use honey as a natural sweetener in their coffee and tea. It is also a great substitute while baking," said Stone. "It gives food and drinks a better taste, too."
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As readers of AutoRacing1.com
know, we have been following the murder trial of Mickey Thompson closely.
We don't know what you actually know about the background to the murders so we
contacted Jan Golab, a west coast writer, who wrote about the lead up to the
murders right after they took place. This article was published in the July,
1988 issue of Los Angeles Magazine. Jan gave us permission to reproduce
the article.
When worlds collide:
(L) Stadium-motocross
promoter Mike Goodwin (R) world-renowned racer Mickey Thompson.
Mickey had been talking about death
threats to anyone who would listen for months. So he probably knew from the moment
he walked out the side door of his garage in the early morning of this past March
16. Before his brain could even process the fear, a strange black man, lurking in
the bushes, leveled a high-caliber handgun at him and fired. Thompson took four
quick shots to the gut, charging forward and screaming, "Just don't hurt my wife!
Just don't hurt my wife!" Yeah, he knew it was all over, except for the shouting.
He clutched his arms in front of him, covering his wounds as he struggled toward
his assailant and continued to plead for Trudy's life. It was the last thing he
could do. Two more rounds hit him, and he tumbled to the pavement.
His pleas fell on cold, deaf ears.
Trudy Thompson, sitting in the driver's seat of the couple's Toyota van, cried,
"Don't shoot! Don't shoot!" while a second gunman fired one round at her through
the windshield. The van rolled to the bottom of the drive, and Trudy thrown to the
ground. The killer shoved his gun to her head and pulled the trigger. Meanwhile
the other hit man administered a similar coup de grace to Mickey. The gunmen then
mounted bicycles and slipped silently out of the quiet hillside community of
Bradbury (most likely to a vehicle waiting at the entrance to the nearby 210
Freeway), leaving the world-famous racing legend belly down on the driveway in a
pool of blood.
Thompson's body immediately
following his brutal murder outside his Bradbury home in March.
That it was a planned "assassination"
by professional hit men the police have no doubt. The killers, apparently aware of
the Thompsons' rigid work schedule, were lying in wait when the couple was exiting
their exquisite home at 6 am, to head for the offices of the Mickey Thompson
Entertainment Group (MTEG) at Anaheim Stadium. Trudy was wearing $70,000 worth of
jewelry, none of it touched. The big sparkly diamond on her wedding ring alone was
worth 30 grand. The heart-shaped gold-and-diamond pendant with "10,, in its
center—a gift from Mickey and her prized possession--was around her neck. She was
also carrying $4,000 cash.
A number of witnesses saw the killers
drive away. Composite drawings were made: two black males, 20 to 30 years of age,
five-foot- 10 to six feet tall, 180 to 200 pounds. A third man, white, with
shoulder-length hair and a mustache, who was seen abandoning a bicycle a few miles
from the scene, was described as "suspicious" but "not a suspect."
The racing world, indeed anyone who
knew the 59-year-old, renowned race promoter and legendary speedster—the first to
break the 400-miles-per-hour barrier at the Bonneville Salt Flats—was shocked. Who
would want to kill Mickey Thompson? Indeed, many of the 1,000 plus who attended
Mickey and Trudy's funeral could be overheard voicing testimonials they owed
everything, their inspiration, their careers, to Mickey Thompson.
"If it wasn't for Mickey," says
off-road racer Roger Mears, "we'd all still be bouncin' around out in the desert.
Mickey and I didn't always get along, we had some real verbal, knockdown dragouts,
but if it weren't for him, I probably wouldn't be racing for a living."
"I had a lot of problems with Mickey,"
says one of the granddaddies of off-road racing, Parnelli Jones, "yet if I ever
felt I needed help I could go to Mickey, and he'd give it to me.
But not everyone loved Mickey. And
speculation grew among his closest associates over who would want to kill him. The
millionaire racing entrepreneur was a shrewd businessman who created and sold some
27 businesses over the years. It could have been a disgruntled ex-partner,
associates said, or even some racer or independent contractor he'd alienated while
promoting his Off-Road Championship Grand Prix events. Mickey could be abrasive
and pigheaded. "He'd run over anybody if they got in his way," attests one friend.
Those who knew him best invariably
describe him as a crusty coot with a marshmallow interior, a generous, big-hearted
man. A fair man. "Mickey always expected everybody to live up to their deal," says
Smokey Yunick, a top race-car builder and friend of Mickey's since the '50s. "I
never heard of a deal where he was unscrupulous. His word was bond. Of course, he
insisted on getting what he bargained for—and what he bargained for might fall
into dispute."
"Mickey always expected everybody
to live up to a
deal; he insisted on getting what he bargained for—and
what he bargained for might fall into dispute"
Initial rumors in the press about a
suggested drug connection were soon dismissed. Thompson had testified at the 1985
trial of one of two drug dealers who'd murdered his nephew, Scott Campbell. "There
were no threats made to any witnesses in that case," says Sergeant Mike Griggs,
the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department's lead investigator on the case.
"Mickey was not even a key witness. And both of Scott Campbell's killers were out
on bail for a long time. If they had felt any need to kill witnesses before they
testified, they certainly had the opportunity. At this point, we do not see any
But the one topic everyone inevitably
came back to was the Feud, a long and protracted battle between two racing-world
czars, Mickey Thompson and flamboyant stadium-motocross promoter Mike Goodwin,
that has been called the most bitter in the history of motor-sport racing. The
ongoing legal battle, which was played out in high profile, in public, in the
courts for four years, had driven Goodwin into bankruptcy and left him virtually
ruined. Numerous friends neighbors, relatives and business associates of
Thompson's informed authorities that Mickey had recently told them of receiving
death threats—often mentioning Goodwin. Sports Illustrated quoted Deke Houlgate, a
public-relations consultant and longtime acquaintance of Mickey's, as saying, "He
[Mickey] has told anyone who would stand still for 15 seconds that Mike Goodwin
had threatened his life." The Orange County Register even ran a front-page report
headlined "Mickey Thompson and Wife Assassinated" and beneath it a story headlined
"Promoters Involved in Lengthy Legal Feud."
But despite the obvious media
attention, Mike Goodwin, according to police, is under investigation but is not a
suspect. "Mickey and Trudy told family, friends, beauty operators, business
associates and everyone else about alleged threats," says Griggs, "and in some
cases they did mention Goodwin. But none of these alleged threats has been
documented. Nobody can back it up with any evidence."
For now, the two bicyclists remain the
only suspects in the murders. "We are investigating various people with possible
motives—and one of these is Mike Goodwin," says Griggs. "But the investigation is
not just centered on Goodwin. We are exploring all areas of Thompson's life."
For his part, Goodwin has remained
tight-lipped with the press and investigators, to whom he has refused to speak.
"It's just common sense," says Ronald Coulombe, one of Goodwin's
attorneys, pointing out that certain aspects of the litigation nightmare between
his client and Thompson—now, Thompson's estate—remain unresolved. "Considerations
weigh more favorably for not talking," he says.
However, the Feud itself—and the
continuing litigation—remains a fascinating topic, a fateful story of two willful,
driven men. For big-time promoters, live stadium motor sports are the toughest,
most demanding events to stage, far more complex than the simple presentation of a
rock star. It requires the delicate and often troublesome blend of sport and
old fashioned, whoop-de-do show biz. Contracts with venues and dozens of racers,
dirt haulers, track builders, security personnel and medivacs all have to be
negotiated, sanctioning groups must be coddled and mollified, sponsors must be
courted and sold, class distinctions determined and policed, courses laid out,
race schedules delicately choreographed and, of course, you have to bring the
crowds into your tent.
Mickey Thompson and Mike Goodwin both
spent over a decade establishing their names as tops in their fields. They were
both competitive, ambitious, at times difficult, at once opposites and mirror
images. Having conceived their respective events (Thompson's were cars and trucks,
Goodwin's was motorcycles), both weathered years of struggle and red ink to
establish audiences at each new venue they tackled. Few would understand why these
two titans would ever attempt to merge and, inevitably, say friends, collide.
"The ongoing legal battle with
Thompson, played out
in high profile, in public, drove Goodwin into bankruptcy
and left him virtually ruined"
After Thompson's murder, the media
duly extolled the Speed King's many accomplishments. But much of Thompson's
greatness, his importance, slipped by those who merely scoured the record books or
his long list of inventions and innovations. Thompson's greatest claim to fame was
being the first man to break the 400-miles-per-hour speed barrier on the
Bonneville Salt Flats in 1960. But the Fastest Man Alive represented far more than
a record to those who admired and followed him. He was a shade-tree mechanic, a
can-opener engineer with barely a high-school education, a wild-eyed boy without a
buck, a hot rodder who nonetheless beat the pants off all those rich British
playboys and smug, factory-bankrolled R & D guys in Detroit. His accomplishments
with his famed, backyard-built, four-engine Challenger I proved that talent and
determination could go wheel-to-wheel with "proper" training and almighty dollars.
President Kennedy didn't invite him to the White House just because he managed to
hit 406.6 mph. Thompson was the guy who single-handedly laid to rest the hot
rodder's ID media image, who made them respectable.
As an inspirational figure, he was
unmatched in the world of motor sports. He was a believer who did what "couldn't
be done," a prototype, an original. His "stand on the gas" attitude was revered
and emulated by anyone who ever chose to race a vehicle. In many ways, Thompson
was to racers what Chuck Yeager is to test pilots—the template at the top of the
Thompson was also an extraordinary
promoter—not just of racing events but of a whole culture as well. Back in the
early days of drag racing, in the '50s and early '60s, Deke Houlgate recalls,
"Mickey was the guy who really took the sport uptown. He made drag racing. He's
remembered as the guy who first went 200 mph in the quarter mile, as the inventor
of the sling-shot dragster, but he's also the guy who put drag racing into
everybody's car radio—the announcers screaming, 'The killer cars are coming to
Lions! Be there!'"
Thompson brought this same flair and
dogged determination to off-road racing. He often claimed he spent more than $3
million over the past 10 years to build his stadium races into a viable, big-time
spectator sport.
At the time of his death, his long-term investment was finally paying off. But it
was a seemingly insurmountable struggle, as Mickey had to virtually create the
sport to build his business.
"Mickey pissed some people off," says
Ivan ("Ironman") Stewart, a top off-road racer, "but by God, he got the job done.
He was a mover and a shaker. Whenever something had to be done, you went to
Thompson's son, Danny, aged 37,
himself an off-road racer, points across the pits at the recent Mickey Thompson
Off-Road Championship Grand Prix course at the Rose Bowl, noting, "Look at these
trucks, these cars, these jobs—my dad did all that. A lot of top manufacturers
told him that stadium off-road racing would never work. Whenever you start a new
venture, I guess you're going to have lots of people bucking you."
As a promoter, Mike Goodwin's roots
were not in racing. He was a top rock-concert promoter on the West Coast in 1969
and 1970, presenting the likes of Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and the Rolling
Stones. He conceived the idea of stadium motocross (dirt-track motorcycle racing)
and presented his first Supercross event at the L.A. Coliseum in 1971, drawing
27,000 fans. Attendance grew every year, and he expanded to new venues, including
Jack Murphy Stadium in San Diego and Anaheim Stadium. His 1979 Coliseum Supercross
drew 74,000, one of the biggest money events ever at that venue, and in 1982 he
set an all-time attendance record at Anaheim with 70,205. He often boasted in
interviews of being the nation's biggest promoter of stadium motocross, with an
average gate of 57,000 at his events, placing them behind only the Indy 500,
Daytona and Watkins Glen in the world of spectator racing.
Over the years, Goodwin's flamboyant,
full-throttle style garnered as much attention as his success as a promoter. He
sported full-length mink coats, drove fancy Lincoln Clenets, threw promo parties
on rented yachts and, until recently, wheeled and dealed from an office in his
million-dollar ocean-view Laguna Beach home. Said to be a gifted salesman and
financial wizard, he often bragged of millions made in real estate—his primary
source of income—and dabbled as well in oil wells, art and antiques.
Thompson and partner-wife
Trudy: "I'll believe anything. But my wife, she knew, she knew."
An athletic 43; at six-foot-three, 200
pounds, Goodwin is also known to relax fast. He's an accomplished professional
underwater photographer who holds awards for shots taken off Australia's Great
Barrier Reef and in the Red Sea, the South Pacific and the Sea of Cortés. He holds
world records for spear fishing—without an air tank—for the likes of stingray (114
pounds) and amberjack (127 pounds), a sport from which he has twice ruptured a
lung. He also holds big-game records, hunts Kodiak bears in Alaska with a
.44-caliber handgun and spears wild boar in Tennessee—adventures chronicled on the
sports pages. He races expensive sports cars, motorcycles, off-road racers and has
blown thousands to wreck vehicles. After one 130-mph motorcycle crash that ground
his butt into hamburger, he ran one of his Super Bowl of Motocross events while
barking orders from a stadium control booth, lying facedown on a stretcher. "He's
a real Rambo kind of guy," says his attorney, Ronald Coulombe. "He's really quite
a character. He's a genius, no doubt about it. A multitalented, incredible guy."
Goodwin also has a reputation for
conducting his business in a style gleaned from the pages of Winning Through
Intimidation: He's a voluminous and irate corresponder, litigious and acrimonious.
Invariably, he's described by those who've dealt with him as "a compulsive
overachiever" with an "overwhelming" and frequently insufferable ego. "Half the
people I hire are gone in three days," he stated in one interview. "I must be a
bastard to work for."
Goodwin once told Dirt Rider magazine,
"I have an absolute passion for being the best. Maybe it's an affliction. I can't
stand to be second. It's an all-encompassing attitude of mine. I just can't stand
the concept of not being the best."
Early in 1984, Thompson became
concerned over problems Trudy was having with an inflammation in her knee.
Orthoscopic surgery provided no relief, and doctors advised she had to spend less
time on her feet or risk a crippling disability. Mickey practically worshiped
Trudy, his second wife, whom he married in 1971. He had good reason. Life with
Thompson could be a harrowing adventure, and it took a special woman to ride with
him. Trudy was an ever-faithful sidekick who protected Mickey from himself when
necessary. He could be quick-tempered, always a battler, and Trudy helped him
maintain his perspective. Thompson was a whirlwind who hardly ever slept. "My
father was the type of guy who belonged in one of those think tanks," recalls son
Danny. "He needed about 100 people to carry out the ideas he came up with."
The Thompsons were inseparable,
working from the early morning to late at night at the MTEG offices or flying off
in their Cessna to mark a race course, check out a new stadium or compete in some
desert race. (Trudy would often ride with Mickey in his pre-runs). They flew a
lot, as Mickey was constitutionally incapable of observing the speed limit. His
driving record read as long as Gone With the Wind. Thompson was as rough on planes
as he was on vehicles, and his airborne adventures were infamous. Once, he bounced
one off a cliff down in Baja. Another time, he had to stick Trudy in the pilot's
seat while he crawled outside the plane to fix a malfunctioning landing gear.
"A lot of people warned Mickey
about Goodwin, but he
was so concerned about Trudy's health it was worth the gamble
to go into business with the guy"
Trudy didn't like the fact that
Thompson refused to quit the grueling off-road desert races, even though he was
twice the age of most competitors. But she accepted it and did what she could to
keep him alive. She smiled and tried not to worry too much when he broke down and
got lost for two days in the middle of nowhere during the Parker 400 in Arizona,
weathering a dust storm and a freezing cold night in a rusty trash can before
walking50 miles back to civilization, or when he had an altercation at Baja
with a 14-foot saguaro cactus and
wandered wild-eyed back to town with hundreds of stickers embedded in his flesh.
And then there was the time in the Baja 1,000, which he won in 1982, when he found
himself stuck in a muddy tide pool with the engine flooded. So he poured gasoline
on the engine and set it afire to dry it off. Then he jumped in the car and got it
up to 100 mph to blow out the flames. He figured he'd either get the ignition dry
or blow up the car—and himself. "It was kind of a desperate thing to do," Thompson
later told Shav Glick of the Los Angeles Times, "but that's how you survive in
Back in 1984, Trudy's involvement in
MTEG was all consuming. She was an MTEG linchpin, a forever calm and smiling
organizer who kept everything stable amid perpetual crises. But her knee kept
getting worse and worse. Thompson decided it was time to phase out their taxing
involvement in staging MTEG's stadium shows and get Trudy off her feet.
That's when Thompson began talking
with Mike Goodwin about a possible merger. It seemed to make sense. Goodwin dealt
with a lot of the same variables-—only with motorcycles instead of cars and
trucks. He knew all the complexities involved in building a dirt track inside a
stadium—which is no mean feat. Many of those close to Thompson, however, warned
him it would be a marriage made in hell.
"I told Mickey, 'There's no way. You
guys are going to eat each other alive!'" recalls Sal Fish, who had been Mickey's
partner for 13 years in SCORE (Short-Course Off-Road Racing), an organization that
promotes desert races. Fish explains that while the Wildman and the Playboy had
radically different styles, he feared they were also too much alike. "Mickey was
the type of guy you'd run into, and his clothes would be a mess, he'd be spitting
a hot dog out of his mouth, excitedly telling you about how he'd been up for 48
hours and gone through fire doing some project and had just lost a million
dollars—but he didn't care and was going to do it again! Goodwin, on the other
hand, would be wearing his fur coal, driving his Clenet, telling you about the new
Rembrandts in his art collection, about how he'd just made a few million on his
latest deal. But they both were the type who wanted things to go their own way.
You can't merge two immovable forces. Later, I knew Mickey wouldn't quit until he
had everything—and neither would Goodwin. But Mickey could always outlive the
other guy."
Bill Marcel, production vice president
for MTEG, recalls, "Mickey told me a lot of people warned him about Goodwin, but
he was so concerned about Trudy's health. He felt it was worth a gamble to go into
business with the guy."
Thompson and Goodwin entered into an
agreement, effective April 1, 1984, to merge Goodwin's company, Stadium
Motorsports Corporation (SMC) with MTEG. The contract called for the two parties
to split ownership—and expenses—of both companies, 70 percent to Goodwin, 30
percent to Thompson. Although the companies would be dually owned and operated,
each would retain its respective name and events. Few were surprised when just a
few months later the deal nose-dived into a labyrinth of litigation.
In July 1984, MTEG ran off-road races
at the Indiana Hoosierdome and the Pontiac Silverdome. While preparing the Indiana
event, SMC told Thompson it needed $60,000 to pay some bills. Thompson complied,
assuming Goodwin would put up his 70 percent. Then, at Pontiac, SMC again put the
touch on Thompson for $107,000. Thompson talked to Goodwin about it, but Goodwin
allegedly refused to come up with any money. Concerned about his people getting
paid, Thompson put up the cash. Then he contacted his lawyers.
Thompson's attorneys urged Goodwin either to live up to his agreement or unwind
the merger. Goodwin refused, claiming the contract did not call for the two
parties to split expenses until after the end of an 18-month trial period—which
was not at all the Thompson camp's understanding of the deal. Goodwin also argued
that he had begged Thompson to cancel both the Michigan and Indiana events,
predicting that they would lose money—which they did. In September 1984, Thompson
filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court. Goodwin quickly filed a
countersuit. The war was on.
"I'm not a people person—all I
care about is results,
and if somebody has a contract with me and doesn't perform,
I'll take their legs off to get them to perform"
The following month, a court order
returned control of MTEG to Thompson, even though the company was still saddled
with debts acquired during the merger. According to a noncompetition provision in
their merger contract, MTEG had agreed not to run motorcycles at future events,
while SMC had agreed not to run cars. But Goodwin would start running cars during
halftime at a Supercross in an apparent breach of the agreement. Thompson
countered by running cycles at an Off-Road Championship Grand Prix, which led
Goodwin to try to torpedo the event with press releases. Thompson, in turn, filed
for and won an injunction.
In December '85, both sides agreed to
refer the original suit to Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Pro Tem Lester E.
Olson. In May of the following year, the court entered a verdict against Goodwin
and SMC for $514,000 plus costs and attorneys' fees, which brought the total
judgment to $750,000. Goodwin filed an appeal and began making efforts to post a
bond in order to prevent Thompson from collecting. But rather than going to a
bonding company, Goodwin sought to put up personal pledges of $1 million from his
wife and friends. In August '86, however, after a lengthy hearing, the judge
rejected the plan.
"It's obvious the judge decided I was
the guy with the black hat on," Goodwin was quoted in the Los Angeles Times in
September 1986. "He decided I screwed Mickey real bad, and I have to pay for it.
I'm not a people person. All I care about is results. If somebody has a contract
with me and they don't perform, I'll take their legs off if I have to to get them
to perform."
"I'm a dumb Irishman," Thompson was
quoted as saying at the time. "I'll believe anything. But my wife, she knew, she
knew. This is the first time in my life I've been involved in something like this.
But I'm not going to give up."
Thompson's attorneys tried to collect
on the judgment. But in September, SMC changed its name to Entertainment
Specialties, Incorporated (ESI), and went into bankruptcy, getting automatic
protection in bankruptcy court. Thompson's attorneys tried to collect on Goodwin
personally, but 30 days later Goodwin himself filed for bankruptcy. With both
Goodman and his company in bankruptcy, Thompson was effectively stymied. Goodwin
told business associates and sent out press releases stating that he expected to
be vindicated on appeal, that like Texaco and other big corporations, he was
merely taking these actions to prevent Thompson from destroying his business.
In December '86, the assets of ESI,
primarily its mailing list and contract with the American Motorcycle Association
(AMA), were put up for bid in bankruptcy court. The successful bidders were
Goodwin's wife, Diane, and a Goodwin associate, Chuck Clayton. Fronting for
Goodwin under the new corporate banner of SXI (Supercross, Incorporated), they
purchased ESI's assets for $625,000. Clayton and Diane immediately hired Mike
Goodwin to run the new company at a salary of $240,000. Goodwin "laughing," told
the L.A. Times in a January 22, 1987, article, "Nothing's changed, really. Only
now I'm getting money from my wife instead of the other way around." Goodwin had
effectively transferred his assets to a new corporate entity that could not be
touched by Thompson.
Then in the summer of '87, Anaheim
Stadium accepted bids from Goodwin, Thompson and Houston-based Pace Management to
promote motor-sport events at the venue. When the smoke had cleared, Thompson had
won out. Anaheim granted Thompson an exclusive contract to promote all motor-sport
events at that facility in 1988. Officials at the stadium wanted one promoter to
handle all the events—truck-and-tractor pulls and mud-bog competitions, off-road
racing and motocross. Stadium execs felt that MTEG was best equipped to handle
such a broad range of events. Thompson had beefed up MTEG with new, experienced
personnel and was proceeding with his plan to phase out his and Trudy's
involvement. Anaheim officials were impressed with his organization and his bid.
Goodwin attempted to have an
unfair-competition suit served on Thompson during a press conference to announce
the Anaheim decision. Thompson, however, sniffed out the process server outside
the stadium and demanded the papers before he could execute a grandstand play. The
suit was later dismissed. MTEG brought Challenger 1 out to the stadium for a photo
opportunity on the day of the press conference.
"Mickey was so proud that day,"
recalls Phil Bartenetti, Thompson's attorney. "Something he always visualized had
come to pass. MTEG had really established itself as the moving force in stadium
motor sports. That was a very important day for him."
And an equally bleak one for Goodwin.
In a July 3 article, Los Angeles Herald Examiner motor-sports writer Chic Perkins
declared, "The Anaheim Stadium decision is the one that may finally bury Goodwin."
The story quoted Goodwin as saying, "A company like ours cannot profit without
Anaheim. The Anaheim Supercross event subsidizes the rest of our events." In an
article that appeared the following August, Perkins proclaimed, "Not since the
infamous USAC-CART war over control of Indy-car racing back in the late '70s and
early '80s has there been a motor-sports-related feud as bitter and prolonged as
that between stadium promoters Mickey Thompson and Mike Goodwin."
Reward poster issued after
the Thompson murders, showing composite drawings of the three suspected hired
Meanwhile, the original judgment
against Goodwin had been affirmed by an appellate court, and Goodwin filed a
petition to the Supreme Court. In January 1988, that petition was denied. Goodwin
had finally exhausted all avenues through the courts. Goodwin claimed, as he had
in bankruptcy court, that his legal fees had topped $1 million, more than the
amount of the judgment itself. According to Bartenetti, Goodwin went through 14
attorneys in the course of the legal war. "The foolishness of it is that he
[Goodwin] could have settled this back in June of '86," adds Bartenetti, "but he
wound up spending even more on attorneys fees."
All along Goodwin maintained that
Thompson was out to destroy him, telling the L.A. Times in September '86 that "his
[Thompson's] people have told me that 50 percent to 80 percent of their time is
spent trying to figure out how to destroy Mike Goodwin." But that wasn't true,
according to Bartenetti: "Mickey knew he had to go the course. He told me, 'I just
want to collect what's due me, do whatever is necessary to get it done.' He was
prepared to go the whole nine yards. Meanwhile, Goodwin wanted to prove a
point—that he was right and Mickey was wrong. He believed it was a win/lose
situation, but he kept it up until it became a lose/lose situation."
There's little doubt that Goodwin was
bitter. According to one racer close to Goodwin, "Mike just couldn't stand the
idea of losing to Mickey. His ego is so big he just couldn't take it. It drove him
crazy." Adds Sal Fish, "I don't know how anybody could handle what happened to
Goodwin—because he lost everything."
Whether or not Goodwin was truly
ruined by the war is a matter of some conjecture. On May 2, Supercross,
Incorporated, sent out a press release stating that the company had applied to
Anaheim Stadium for a 1989 date and quoted Goodwin as saying, "We hope to bring
quality AMA Supercross back to Anaheim Stadium and elsewhere in 1989." Insiders
call the release "wishful thinking." Goodwin's financial and legal problems, they
say, have hurt his reputation in promoting motor sports. Goodwin's attorney,
Ronald Coulombe, admits that Goodwin "had a disastrous 1988, mostly due to the
lawsuits filed in federal district court concerning his rights under the 'in
sport' agreement with the AMA, which had refused—unjustly, in our view—to grant
him a sanction for the events he planned that year.
One longtime employee of Goodwin's now
works as an executive at MTEG. He says that Goodwin was far from happy about his
defection to the opposing camp. "Mike and I had a difficult time. I've seen him
fly off the handle quite a bit. If something made him angry he would scream, rant
and rave, throw a fit. He had a hard time dealing with situations when a lot of
things went wrong at one time. The guy would just go crazy.
"He couldn't handle losing. He once said to an associate, 'If I go down, Mickey's
going down with me.' That's a matter of record. I've reported it to the sheriff's
department. I've also told them that I received a death threat from Mike. He
called me at 1 o'clock in the morning and threatened to kill me. It was right
after I started working with Mickey, when the litigation was getting really
serious. He was upset, sounded really wild, swearing, cussing, calling me names,
saying, 'I'm gonna kill you, you're a dead man,' on and on. Mickey got similar
threats from Mike, which he told me about.
"After the murder Goodwin told people
that he feared for his life, that mobsters were after his and Mickey's businesses,
and he might be next. That's total bs. We've never had anyone approach us wanting
our business—mobsters or otherwise.
Thompson's sister Collene,
and friend Ernie Alvarado at the murder scene
Ironically, Thompson's business is
better than ever. The executive notes that this year will be the first that MTEG
turns a profit. And the future is bright. "We'll do 10 cities next year, 12 after
that, and I already have dates booked in 1991. Toyota alone is spending a million
and a half on its team this year. And it's all because of Mickey Thompson, all due
to his foresight. We will make his dream continue—without a doubt."
Bill Marcel, recently appointed
president of MTEG and a longtime friend of Thompson's as well as a former mechanic
who worked on his Indy cars back in the '60s, says he is committed to the
continued development of a number of unfinished projects, including a Thunderdrag
stadium series and, most importantly, the proliferation of one of Thompson's
inventions, hydro-barricades—portable, plastic, water-filled barriers that are
rapidly replacing less-safe concrete walls at races.
In the midst of it all, however,
continuing now even after Thompson's death, the Feud goes on. The judgment against
Goodwin still stands, and Thompson's attorneys are currently waiting for Goodwin's
attorneys to propose a plan to make payment. However, according to Goodwin's
attorney, Coulombe, "Mike Goodwin and the Thompson camp have commenced a
comprehensive, meaningful, global settlement of all litigation existing between
them. Those negotiations were commenced long before the homicides. One of the
things we have had to deal with is the high level of emotion that was tainting
every decision in the case. The homicides were a very unfortunate thing for us.
They sparked a new fire. We were talking, agreeing on things for once. All of a
sudden, communications were cut off for a while because their energies were
directed toward this unfortunate family tragedy. Now, instead of dealing with
Mickey, we are dealing with the estate of Mickey Thompson, a whole new cast of
characters who come to the table with a whole different mind-set than before, so
we've had to adjust the settlement."
The main "character" is Thompson's
"little" sister, Collene Campbell, the executor of Thompson's estate, who has
picked up the flag and is pressing her brother's battle. According to Bartenetti,
Collene's mind-set is no different from Mickey's. "She feels a judgment was made
and believes it should be paid, 100 cents on the dollar," says Bartenetti.
Like her brother, Campbell shares the
Thompson tenacity. After her son, Scott Campbell, was murdered in 1982, allegedly
thrown out of a plane over Catalina by drug dealers, the search for his killers
quickly hit a dead end. So Campbell herself embarked on a five-year-long campaign,
hiring private investigators and lobbying with police and prosecutors, until the
culprits were finally apprehended, tried and convicted.
Campbell intends to carry on her
brother's fight with the same energy. "They are not dealing with anybody but me,"
she says. "I feel exactly the way my brother did. Nothing has changed. The
settlement is not going to be handled any differently now than when Mickey and
Trudy were alive. I believe it should be paid in full, and we are going to take it
as far as we can. He [Goodwin] cheated Mickey, and whatever he owes is what we
want to get."
In the months following her brother's
murder, Campbell has been wading through his personal possessions as well as a
slew of requests. "The Smithsonian wants Challenger, and others are calling for
his cars, but I'm going to try to keep the entire stable together—it spans
generations of racing history." Thompson, in fact, had a 13-car garage at his
Bradbury home, crammed to the rafters not only with race cars and motorcycles, but
"millions of feet" of racing-film footage, a mountain of clippings, photos,
keepsakes, trophies and mementos. Campbell hopes to eventually establish a museum.
"It was important to Mickey to be an inspiration and example to kids," she says.
For now, however, the memories are
tied up in attorneys' briefs and court documents in a bizarre feud that has
survived at least one of its antagonists and taken on a life of its own. "I don't
know him," Campbell says, speaking of Goodwin. "I only know that in all the time I
spent with my brother, which was my whole life, he never had problems dealing with
anybody. This was the only business deal I can recall that ever caused him to say
he feared for his life."
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by the IRL., NASCAR, FIA, Sprint, or any other series sponsor.
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