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LOGAN — Matt Wells addressed the media Monday as part of his weekly press conference.
In that conference, he addressed a number of questions, not the least of which was the naming of Darell Garretson as the starter for this week's Mountain West football game against the New Mexico Lobos.
Here is a transcript of that press conference, along with quotes from senior receiver Travis Reynolds and senior defensive tackle AJ Pataiali'i, as provided by USU Athletic Media Relations.
Head coach Matt Wells
Recapping the Boise State game:
"There were a couple points in the Boise State game where I just didn't feel like we took a couple of opportunities. They ended up, ultimately, not allowing us to get back into the game. In the first half we had a couple of midfield positions and only came away with one score. As the second quarter wore down, we used our timeouts, got a punt block — which was a great block by Devin Centers. We threw two fade balls in the end zone and didn't come down with either one of them on plays I thought we could have and should have made. I have no problem calling those again. Then there was the blocked field goal. It was a good job by them, just not good enough protection on our part. I thought those two different opportunities and not getting the position or points made it a lot more of an uphill battle in the second half.
"As I told you after the game, I don't think we quit. I've seen the tape three times now and I know we didn't quit. There are some things to take away from that. A 91-yard drive there at the end, even when the outcome looks inevitable, is a big positive on our end. There are things to improve on and there are things to correct, just like we always do after a win or a loss. We've got to move on. That's a good team and they took advantage of it. There were miscues on both sides of the ball and they made us pay. That's what good teams do, and they're a good team."
Looking ahead to New Mexico:
"The biggest thing that stands out to me is coach (Bob) Davie brought a good attitude in there and rallied those kids. I think they play hard, they play with great effort, and they run the football really well. Their O-line does a nice job. Kasey Carrier, I've known him since I coached there, is a really good back. I've got a lot of respect for him and what he does. It will be a big challenge, one that is similar to Air Force only in the fact that they run it a lot. The challenge for our whole team is to bounce back from back-to-back losses and go on the road against a Mountain West opponent, and to be able to stay in the race and the bowl hunt and all that goes within that. We have to do this and regroup and bounce back on the road in Albuquerque."
On Darell Garretson being listed as the starting quarterback for this game:
"That's correct, Darell will start this week. As you go back and evaluate it, I thought Darell came in in the third quarter when I didn't think we had any momentum and kind of needed a boost to tilt it back in our favor. He struggled a little bit with the first couple series, but I thought he gained composure and played well down the stretch. In that last drive, there are a lot of pluses to that for him. I thought he was pretty calm from a communication standpoint with the plays and the signals. I thought he carried himself well, and I'm excited about seeing what he'll do this week."
On returning to New Mexico since coaching there:
"There are good and bad memories there. We struggled a bit my last year there, but winning the New Mexico Bowl and getting to nine wins in 2007 was cool. I coached two really good receivers (Travis Brown and Marcus Smith) who were both first-team all-MW, the first time it had been done there. They were both 1,000-yard receivers in the same year, so that was special. We've got friends there and (my son) Wyatt was born there, so it will be neat to go see some of that. But this is a business trip. We're going there to compete and win a ballgame and stay on track for some of our goals here. It's different than going to a stadium you've never been to."
On Kasey Carrier:
"He runs with balance, his lower body is strong, and he's shifty. He's got a good first step and he runs with balance. He's a really good receiver out of the backfield."
On Nevin Lawson being named MW Defensive Player of the Week:
"I'm really happy for Nevin. The way he's played and the confidence that he's playing with. Nevin has really expanded his game and played well. He's made plays with the ball in the air twice, and that pick six was an awesome play."
On depth concerns with injuries:
"I've got concerns at every position. We're thin at every position — O-line, quarterback and running back. The only group that's pretty healthy right now is all the wide-outs. I've got a lot of concerns."
On the lack of experience at tight end without D.J. Tialavea:
"It makes us be a lot more mindful of what we're doing with the tight ends."
On New Mexico's defense:
"They're a multiple, odd-front defense. I think they play really hard. The two defensive linemen play hard. Jacori (Greer) is active at nose guard, Javarie (Johnson) is long and athletic. He plays the boundary linebacker. They don't play a lot of nickel, they play in their base personnel. They fly around and they play hard. Dante (Caro) comes up and does a nice job from the secondary position."
On Darell Garretson's interceptions and fixing them:
"Chalk the first one up to being a freshman and chalk the second one up to it happens in the game on a vertical shot. We've got to look back at the receiver a little bit sooner, and he's got to keep the ball a little more outside and up field. The first one will never happen again, you can mark my word on that. It's just a young kid making a mistake, and I can live with that. He won't do it again.
"I thought he kept his composure well, he acted good on the sidelines. When you ask a young quarterback 'What did you see?' after you just saw it, whether from a pressure or secondary situation and he tells you exactly how you saw it, he's dialed in. It gives you good confirmation that he is."
On Craig Harrison's response to not being the starting quarterback:
"He's very positive. He's a really good teammate. He understands the situation and is ready to go in if and when he has to be called upon."
On the two blocked field goals in the last two games and the special teams concerns:
"We're trying to make changes and corrections all the time. Those two blocks were in two different spots. There are always corrections and improvements. You've got to get a kickoff in order to get points. I can take it if he misses a field goal, but it's a struggle if they block it. We have to do our very best up front."
Senior wide receiver Travis Reynolds
Recapping the Boise State game:
"The bottom line is, the offense didn't come out the right way like we should have. Coach Wells stressed to us all week that we have to come out and execute because we have a couple key players that we lost due to injury. I go out there and tell my guys that we can cry all we want, but great teams find a way to win. This game is not about one person; it's about the team. If we want to continue to reach our goals we have to play as a team and execute as a team. In the Boise State game we didn't do that. Going into this week, we know we lost a game in the conference and Boise State has lost a game in the conference. If we want to continue to have a shot at this, we will have to win out and that's our objective now. We're going into this New Mexico game with high intensity and we're preparing to execute the right way, unlike we have been the last two games. I feel like we're going to be fine. There are some things that we've got to clean up, a whole lot of things that we have to clean up, and we'll be good."
On when he knew senior tight end D.J. Tialavea was injured and out for the season:
"I didn't know that D.J. was out until the day of the game. We had meetings and a little walk-through and coach (Jovon) Bouknight shared that with us. He informed us that D.J.'s foot got worse and he's going to be out. That's a devastating blow to our offense because he's a big part of it."
On the wide receiver group being one of the only groups to remain healthy this season:
"(Travis) Van Leeuwen and I have really put this group on our back. Our toughness and playmaking ability has really carried over to each and every person in that room. Everybody in there is embracing that and becoming playmakers. Coach Bouknight prides himself on us being tough and being the team to carry this Utah State team, we just take pride in that."
On assuming more of a leadership role:
"That all goes back to my grandfather saying, 'You want to leave everything out there on the field,' and I think about that each and every day. As me and (Travis) Van Leeuwen are leading this young group of receivers, we always tell those guys, 'There are going to be rough days, but it's how you overcome those tough times that makes you a better player.' Being coachable and taking the technique that we are being taught is what matters. I'm just trying to be that leader that this team needs."
On the differences between Craig Harrison and Darell Garretson:
"Both of them are similar and both throw the ball very well. Craig is a little bit more experienced than Darell. There are some things that he would do that Darell wouldn't and some things that Darell would do that he wouldn't. It doesn't matter who they put out there at the end of the day, we've just got to execute."
On fixing some of the turnover problems:
"That's basically just shooting ourselves in the foot, like I said, execution. We're not executing right, we're not playing as a team on offense, and we just need to get back to that as a team. This week we're going to go back to the film and correct those mistakes and come together as a unit."
On if he's seen much of New Mexico on film yet:
"I haven't seen much of them at all. Today we had meeting, but it was to go over the film and correct the things that we did so we can move on to this New Mexico game. I'm going down this afternoon to evaluate film and I should know more about them then."
On the receiver corps evaluating themselves:
"Anytime you have a game like that, you always want to go back and look at your mistakes so you can correct them for future reference. As an offense, we are known to execute so even when games are good for us we always want to go back and look at little things so we can be perfect on them. We just continue to evaluate film and correct those mistakes."
On Nevin Lawson being the Mountain West Defensive Player of the Week:
"Nevin week-in-and-week-out is always a hard worker, so that didn't surprise me. I knew he would probably be the defensive player of the week this week because he has worked hard all season. I've been going up against Nevin since high school, so I know his work ethic and he knows mine."
On how close he is with Nevin Lawson:
"We're very close. When we go home (to Florida), I can basically walk down to his house and hang out with his family. My family is up here right now, and he was just up chatting with them yesterday. I feel like all of us Florida boys are very close."
On what the emphasis is for the receivers this week:
"I would say we've got to clean up our alignment a little bit. There were a couple of times where we were lined up wrong. Also, being physical. At the beginning of the season, we were known as that group to get after them a little bit, get after the corner and physical him up, but I feel like ever since Chuckie (Keeton) went down we kind of went away from that. We're going to go back to being that physical caliber group and clean up those mistakes."
On what it would mean to get a win before the bye week:
"It would mean a lot. You talk about team motivation and confidence for the rest of the season, because the season is far from over. I tell my guys everyday that you never know what can happen. All we're facing is adversity right now, and great teams overcome adversity, so we've just got to keep fighting. A win before this bye week will definitely put us in great position."
On gaining some confidence from the final drive of the Boise State game:
"It definitely gives us confidence going into the next game, but as an offense we know that we can execute and find rhythm, it's just been the minor mistakes that have kept us from doing that. As an offensive unit, we're not too surprised by us getting into rhythm like that because we normally do, we've just got to clean up the minor mistakes and penalties and stuff like that."
Senior defensive tackle AJ Pataiali'i
Recapping the Boise State game:
"In the Boise State game, I thought our front seven played well. We played the run pretty well, we just had a few missed assignments on the back end, and that's how they got their touchdowns. There are things that we have to fix in the back end. The physicality and the talent that the defensive players have is there, it's just the mental side that we have to fix on game day. We just have to lock in on game day so the defense can win games, because it starts with defense. Our goal is to be Mountain West champions, so it starts with defense. Defense wins championships, that's what our coaches always stress."
On looking ahead to New Mexico:
"They're ranked second nationally in rushing, so it's a big game for us defensively to stop the run. It starts with the defensive line. If the defensive line doesn't have a great game, our chances of winning the game go down, so it starts with us. We are the backbone of this team and it starts at the defensive line and works its way out. They're going to run the ball and they're very good at that, obviously. If we play with great technique, as we have all season, we will have a chance to win the game."
On New Mexico's offensive line:
"Their offensive line has pretty good size up front, but it comes down to our technique on the defensive line to be stout and stop the run. That's our goal as a defensive whole, to stop the run every game. Week-in-and-week-out we've got to stop the run to give ourselves a chance to win games on Saturday."
On if the team felt at a point in the Boise State game that things were going wrong and needed to be turned around:
"At the beginning of the game, we played good. The first series, they went three-and-out, but their offense just kept moving the ball. We just had some missed assignments on the back end, but I trust our defensive backs and our secondary to clean that up and they'll fix it come Saturday."
On having Connor Williams back:
"It's good, I've missed seeing him out there. He's a great leader, he's been here for five years, and he's a guy that you'll be seeing on Sundays. He's a great athlete, he leads our core and we look up to him. When he speaks, we listen. His experience helps the younger guys, and we have a lot of young guys, especially at the defensive end position. Our D-line is very talented, we take to heart every week that we have to play well to win. We take that upon ourselves to win games on Saturdays. The defensive line just has to play great to win games."
On what happened that helped him blossom as a player:
"Being a junior college player is different from Division I, I've seen both ways. Coming in, there's so much technique. I didn't know as much about assignments as I know now. Coach Frank (Maile) trusted me when I first came in but I didn't know the plays, the techniques or how they wanted me to play. As the season went on, my technique started to get better and he trusted me more. Then, I just had the starting job and I took over from there and just tried to lead."
On his leadership role growing:
"I'm the type that just sets the example, I'm not a vocal guy, I'll leave that up to Connor (Williams). Everyone knows that I'm not really a vocal guy, I like to show my peers how to work hard and how to believe in yourself and your teammates. It just comes down to trust, everybody is talented at this level. If you're here at the Division I level you can play ball, so it just comes down to leadership and showing what you can do. I just like to lead by example and show my brothers that I can play."
On what he saw from Nevin Lawson on Saturday:
"Nevin, you'll see him play on Sundays. Those caliber players, they do it on game day and they do it during practice. You see it on game day because he does it throughout the week. He's one of our main leaders on defense and when we're down and things aren't going our way he's there. He's a vocal leader, he'll tell us 'step it up, let's go.' He's the type of guy that you want on your team and all the stuff that he's doing now, his future looks good."
On if all the injuries on offense put pressure on the defense:
"Week-in-and-week-out, we take the game into our hands. We want to win and the defense has to win the games. It sucks to have our players go down, but every week the defense emphasizes that we have to play great. There's no pressure and nothing fazes our defense. It's just mental errors that we have to fix, missed assignments, that's all. We've just shot ourselves in the foot."
On what the defense took out of the second half of the Boise State game:
"It just shows what kind of men that we have in this program. We don't care what the score says, we're blue-collared men, and we know how to work hard. We're going to finish until the end, no matter what the score says. Our coaches know that we work hard for everything we have and things just didn't go our way that night."
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Knocked unconscious, the young bomb aimer was saved when his flight engineer pushed him out of their stricken Lancaster
By Tom HAWTHORN Special to The Globe and Mail Tuesday, August 19, 2003 - Page R7
Victoria -- A Second World War bomb aimer who survived an ill-fated mission during which his friend Andrew MYNARSKI was later awarded a posthumous Victoria Cross for trying the save a trapped fellow crewman has died. Jack FRIDAY, who spent his peacetime career with Air Canada, died in Thunder Bay.
Mr. MYNARSKI's sacrifice awed a generation of children who learned of it in their school readers. Mr. FRIDAY was often asked to recount what happened aboard his doomed Lancaster as it burned over France. What many did not realize was that Mr. FRIDAY only learned the details of Mr. MYNARSKI's heroism after the end of the war.
On June 12, 1944, his Royal Canadian Air Force crew was assigned to bomb the railroad marshalling yards at Cambrai. The mission was similar to others in recent days, as No. 419 (Moose) Squadron attacked German reinforcements being rushed forward to repel Allied forces in Normandy.
Six days earlier, the crew had bombed coastal guns at Longues in the early-morning hours before the invasion fleet landed on D-Day. The Cambrai target -- their 13th mission -- was to be attacked on in the early morning hours of June 13. Later, superstitious survivors would speak of that coincidence as a missed omen.
Their Lancaster lifted off the runway at Middleton St. George in Yorkshire at 9: 44 p.m. on June 12. After crossing the English Channel, the bomber was coned -- caught in searchlights -- but the pilot, Flying Officer Arthur DE BREYNE, managed to manoeuvre his craft out of the dreaded lights.
The reprieve did not last long.
Rear gunner Patrick BROPHY, who sat in an isolated compartment at the rear of the aircraft, spotted an enemy fighter below. "Bogey astern! Six o'clock!" he shouted into the intercom, just before a Junkers 88 attacked.
Mr. DE BREYNE threw the bomber into an evasive corkscrew. In an instant, though, his plane was rocked by three explosions. Both port engines were knocked out and the wing set afire. A hydraulic line in the fuselage had also been severed and the midsection of the plane was burning.
The pilot ordered the crew to evacuate as he struggled to prevent the Lancaster from going into a dive. Mr. FRIDAY's duty as bomb aimer was to release the escape hatch. As he did so, the rushing wind whipped the steel door open, striking him above the right eye.
Flight engineer Roy VIGARS was the first among the other crew to clamber to the hatch.
"I made my way down to the bomb-aimer's position and found Jack FRIDAY slumped on the floor, unconscious," Mr. VIGARS told Bette PAGE for her 1989 book, Mynarski's Lanc. "I rolled him over, clipped on his parachute pack, and slid him over to the escape hatch and dropped him through the opening while holding on to the ripcord."
The act was risky, as the parachute could have wrapped around the craft's tail wheel. Mr. VIGARS saw that Mr. FRIDAY's parachute had opened clear of the bomber. He then jumped, followed by wireless operator James KELLY, navigator Robert BODIE and the pilot, who had recovered control of the bomber and set it on a gentle descent.
Unknown to those men, a terrible drama was being played out at the rear of the flaming craft.
As Warrant Officer MYNARSKI prepared to jump, he looked back to see that Flying Officer Patrick BROPHY was still at his rear-gunner's position.
Mr. MYNARSKI, the mid-upper gunner, crawled through the burning fuselage, his uniform and parachute catching fire. Mr. BROPHY was trapped in his seat and the men struggled desperately to free him.
Finally, Mr. BROPHY told Mr. MYNARSKI to jump without him.
Mr. MYNARSKI crawled back through the fire, stood at the door, saluted his doomed comrade, and leapt into the inky sky with his uniform and parachute in flames.
Aboard the Lancaster, Mr. BROPHY prepared for certain death.
Some miles away, Mr. FRIDAY floated unconscious to earth by parachute, landing near a chateau at Hedauville. A pair of farm workers found him in a vineyard the next morning. He was taken to a local doctor who feared reprisals for treating an Allied airman. The injured man was turned over to the Germans.
Mr. FRIDAY finally regained consciousness on June 17, wakening in a prison cell in Amiens. He feared he had lost his eye. A fellow prisoner peeked beneath Mr. FRIDAY's bandages and saw that a flap of skin was blocking his vision. The wound had not been stitched.
Mr. FRIDAY was reunited with Mr. VIGARS as their captors prepared to transport prisoners to Germany.
The pair were sent to an interrogation centre near Frankfurt, before being transferred to Stalag Luft 7 at Bankau, outside Breslau (now Wroclaw), in Silesia near Poland.
The men were separated again on January 18, 1945, as the Germans marched prisoners out of the camp ahead of the advancing Soviet army. The forced march was arduous. Many died of disease, exposure and exhaustion. Mr. FRIDAY survived by stealing frozen beets and potatoes from farmer's fields. He would later remember the only warm night of the march was spent in a barn, where he snuggled overnight with a cow. Mr. FRIDAY was at last liberated by the Soviets in April.
He returned to England in May, where, as recounted in the 1992 book, The Evaders, he prepared a statement, the brevity of which perfectly captured his sense of the dramatic events. "Took off from Middleton St. George. Do not remember briefing or takeoff. First thing I remember is coming to in a hospital in Amiens."
Only later did he learn what happened aboard the Lancaster. As the bomber crashed, the port wing struck a tree, causing the plane to veer violently to the left. The force freed Mr. BROPHY from his turret prison and he landed against a tree, far away from the burning wreckage. He had survived.
Mr. MYNARSKI, the son of Polish immigrants and a leather worker in civilian life, was not as fortunate. He was found by the French, but was so badly burned that he soon died from his injuries. He was 27.
The other crewmen, including Mr. BROPHY, evaded capture with the assistance of French civilians.
John William FRIDAY was the third son born to a pharmacist in Port Arthur, Ontario, on December 21, 1921. He graduated from Port Arthur Collegiate Institute before joining the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1942. He was demobilized with the rank of flying officer. He worked as an Air Canada passenger agent for 31 years before retiring in 1985.
In 1988, he joined his former crew mates in ceremonies marking the dedication of a restored Lancaster at the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum at Mount Hope, Ontario The aircraft, which was refurbished in the colours and markings of the crew's plane, has been designated the MYNARSKI Memorial Lancaster. MYNARSKI's name also graces a string of three lakes in Manitoba, as well as a park, a school and a civic ward in his hometown of Winnipeg.
Mr. FRIDAY died of cancer in Thunder Bay, Ontario, on June 22. He leaves Shirley (née BISSONNETTE,) his wife of 54 years, five children and four younger sisters. He was predeceased by two brothers.
Mr. BROPHY, whose life he tried to save, died at age 68 at St. Catharines, Ontario, in 1991. According to the second edition of MYNARSKI's Lanc, Mr. VIGARS, who saved Mr. FRIDAY's life, died in 1989 at Guildford, England; Mr. DE BREYNE died at St. Lambert, Quebec, in 1991; and, Mr. BODIE died in Vancouver in 1994. Mr. FRIDAY's death leaves James KELLY of Toronto as the only survivor.
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"The conditions were really favourable," said man-of-the-match Ishant Sharma. "The wicket was helpful for the fast bowlers so that paid off for us.
"Bounce and pace is my strength but Bhuvee (Kumar) and Umesh bowled really well," he added.
Meanwhile Dhoni, whose side have now won all four of their matches at this tournament, warned England that India could get better.
"The bowlers have done really well but still there are a few areas where we'd like to improve," he said.
Sri Lanka captain Angelo Mathews top scored with 51 in an innings where no other batsman made more than the 38 of Mahela Jayawardene, who two years ago became the only man to score a hundred in a losing cause in a World Cup final.
"The toss was absolutely crucial; if we won the toss we would have bowled," said Mathews.
"It was seaming, swinging -- the batters were finding it really hard.
"We didn't play well but credit should go the Indian bowlers - they bowled really well."
India cruise into final at Sri Lanka's expense
"The conditions were really favourable," said man-of-the-match Ishant Sharma. "The wicket was helpful for the fast bowlers so that paid off for us.
Sri Lanka were six for one when Kusal Perera edged a drive off Kumar and was caught at second slip by Suresh Raina.
They suffered a further setback when Tillakaratne Dilshan, after playing an on-drive, pulled up with a right leg injury.
He received on-field treatment but retired hurt shortly afterwards on 12 in the fifth over.
Ishant Sharma, with the aid of two excellent second slip catches by Raina, reduced Sri Lanka to 41 for three by removing Lahiru Thirimanne and dangerman Kumar Sangakkara.
It was a deserved reward for Dhoni's decision to attack the batsmen with two slips and only two men outside the circle.
The 23rd over saw Dhoni pass on wicketkeeping duties to Dinesh Karthik, a specialist gloveman but mainly deployed as a batsman this tournament.
That allowed Dhoni to bowl himself in conditions suited to his medium-pacers and with his second ball he nearly had Jayawardene, on five, lbw only for the batsman to overturn the decision on review thanks to an inside edge.
Jayawardene was bowled by left-arm spinner Ravindra Jadeja after an ugly swipe across the line
For all Sri Lanka slingshot seamer Lasith Malinga's skill, his bowling average of 40.88 against India is his highest against any country.
And the tone for India's reply was set when left-hander Dhawan uppercut Malinga for a stunning six off the last ball of the bowler's third over.
Worse followed for Sri Lanka when Dhawan was dropped by first slip Mathews off Nuwan Kulasekara and put down by wicketkeeper Sangakkara, standing up, off the same bowler.
Dhawan cashed in with a 73-ball fifty before he he was dropped by Sachitra Sennayake, substitute for Dilshan, at point again off Kulasekara.
He was eventually stumped off Jeevan Mendis but by then India were in sight of victory.
World champions India thrashed Sri Lanka by eight wickets at Cardiff on Thursday to set up a Champions Trophy final against tournament hosts England at Edgbaston on Sunday.
India, chasing a modest target of 182, finished on 182 for two with 15 overs to spare to set up a final against England, who beat South Africa by seven wickets at The Oval on Wednesday.
Opener Shikhar Dhawan, dropped three times, made 68 as he extended his record as the tournament's leading scorer to 332 runs, at an average of more than 110, following previous innings of 114 against South Africa, 102 not out against the West Indies and 48 against Pakistan.
Virat Kohli was 58 not out, with India now having won seven of their last eight one-day internationals (ODIs) against their Asian rivals.
The course of Thursday's match, a repeat of the 2011 World Cup final India won by six wickets in Mumbai, was set in the first innings.
After India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni won the toss, his seamers exploited the helpful overcast conditions as Sri Lanka were restricted to 181 for eight.
Ishant Sharma took three wickets for 33 runs following impressive work by new-ball duo Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Umesh Yadav.


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Q. When would you select a digital SLR over a mirrorless camera system, and what are your thoughts on the different SLR brands?
-- D.C., Milwaukee
A. Either type of system can perform most any photographic task. Personally, I use my Micro Four-Thirds mirrorless system for travel, family and general all-around use. I prefer SLRs in the studio, for low light and for action photography.
Most digital SLR systems have been adapted from legacy 35mm systems. The advantage is possible compatibility with older lenses. The disadvantage is extra weight and bulk. Most digital SLRs have a sensor that is smaller than 35mm film, so the bodies and lenses are larger than they need to be to handle the sensor size. It is with this in mind that Olympus and Panasonic developed the Four-Thirds system, an SLR system "designed for digital" from the ground up. Panasonic discontinued their SLRs to concentrate on the Micro Four-Thirds mirrorless interchangeable lens camera system. Olympus still manufactures a few Four-Thirds SLRs, but now focuses most of their efforts on Micro Four-Thirds as well.
Some SLRs do have large sensors the size of 35mm film. These are referred to as "full frame" cameras. These are the ultimate for image quality, but are expensive, demand the very best optics and create very large files that quickly fill up your memory card and hard drive. Most digital SLRs use an "APS-C" sized sensor that is smaller than full frame but a bit bigger than Four-Thirds.
Canon and Nikon are referred to as the "big two" and dominate the SLR market. These are the most comprehensive systems in the industry and include a wide variety of specialized pro bodies and expensive, high performance optics. If you are a budding professional or a serious wildlife photographer with a big budget, these are the systems for you. Consumers can hardly go wrong with any camera from either manufacturer. I am not as impressed with either company's inexpensive lenses, and that is one of the reasons I think better value can often be found elsewhere.
Pentax is my personal choice and has been going back to the film era, when I used Pentax medium-format film cameras. I love the way the cameras feel in my hands and love the color and sharpness of the pictures. Pentax's inexpensive kit lenses are excellent, and Pentax also offers a unique line of tiny fixed focal length lenses with top-shelf optical performance. Pentax SLRs have image stabilization built into the camera body,which means every lens you mount is stabilized. The top-rated, high performance Pentax K-30 is one of the best values available in a digital SLR. It sells for a street price of $662 with 18-55 lens.
Sony has a full line of SLRs, including both APS-C and full-frame models. Like Pentax, image stabilization is built into the body and as of late Sony has really fleshed out the system with high-quality optics under both the Sony and Zeiss names as well as some interesting cameras using the legacy lens mount and form factor, but with electronic viewfinders for better video and high-speed photography functionality. I have not tested one and surmise I would prefer an optical viewfinder, but my colleagues who have tested them have been very impressed.
Contact Don Lindich at www.soundadviceblog.com and use the "submit question" link on that site.
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For a little more than a month, Penguins captain Sidney Crosby - like most locked-out NHL players not already overseas - has been twirling around the rinks of suburban Pittsburgh waiting for a labor resolution.
With that surplus of energy comes a little boredom - and perhaps bravado.
Crosby, in a wide-ranging interview with the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, addressed Claude Giroux's claim that he broke both of Giroux's wrists during the Flyers' epic first round series against the Penguins.
"I don't try to go after his wrists, but if I caught it, I'm not sorry for it," Crosby said. "I really like to win the face-off. I think it's hilarious that I hear that stuff from Philly. It's comedy to me, to be honest with you. They're probably involved in that stuff more than any team in the league and they're the ones always talking about it.
"I guess I'm not apologetic. I was trying to win a face-off and if I caught his wrist, then I caught his wrist. He seemed to play okay so I couldn't have hurt him that bad."
Giroux told the Timmins (Ontario) Press this summer that Crosby would "hack me across the wrists instead of going for the puck when it was dropped."
Giroux had offseason surgery on both wrists. After netting 6 goals and 8 assists in the 6-game series against Pittsburgh, Giroux was limited to 2 goals and 1 assist in 4 games in the following series against New Jersey. Giroux was suspended for the Flyers' season-eliminating game against the Devils.
He has since recovered and has been tearing up the DEL (German Elite League) for Eisbaren Berlin with teammate Danny Briere.
With at least some semblance of progress having been made in the NHL labor negotiations in the last 48 hours, this banter should whet your appetite for hockey. Remember how great that series was?
For now, back to your regularly scheduled programming.
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See another side of India while travelling from Mumbai to Chennai.
Tour India from Mumbai to Chennai. This trip is the perfect combination of adventure and relaxation. For starters you've got Mumbai, India's most cosmopolitan city. Then travel overland through the Western Ghats for a stay on the stunning beaches of Goa and head into the hills for a homestay in the tea and coffee plantations of Wayanad. Back on the coast, explore the lush waterways of Kerala's backwaters by boat, rounding the southernmost tip of India en route to the magnificent temples of Madurai. Finally, travelling through Tamil Nadu, pass through a part of the country many travellers never get to see before ending our Indian adventure in the bustling city of Chennai.
Meet the locals over a chai in Kerala
Learn of the stories behind the Kathakali dances
Discover Gallic influences in Pondicherry
Look out over the Indian Ocean from the sub-continent's southernmost point
Kick back on Goa's beaches
Experience the bizarre and the beautiful in India
Imagine the royal life in the Maharaja's Palace
Take up the challenge of a fiery fish curry
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BiographyCharles Buck has been the Director of Operations for the Bindley Bioscience Center (BBC) at Purdue University's Discovery Park since December, 2004. He coordinates multidisciplinary scientific research efforts as well as overseeing the day-to-day activities of the BBC. His responsibilities include organizing research grant initiatives, managing large scale research projects, directing research services, quality assurance and compliance, and recruitment and management of Bindley research staff. Engagement with corporate partners and commercialization of Purdue technology are key Discovery Park metrics and another focus of activity for Charles. Dr. Buck was previously Chief Scientific Officer at Oridis Biomed in Graz, Austria, a company that he co-founded in 2001. Dr. Buck successfully developed partnerships, generated capital funding, managed the research activity, and developed the patent portfolio of the company. He earned his Ph.D. in Molecular Neurobiology at Cornell University Graduate School of Medical Sciences in 1988. Prior to starting Oridis, he held faculty positions at Emory University School of Medicine, the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) and the University of Utah School of Medicine. His research expertise is in the molecular biology of vertebrate nervous system development and response to injury as well as in human liver diseases and cancer. With broad experience with high throughput gene and protein expression analysis, he has received research project funding from the NIH, the American Paralysis Association, the Austrian Genome Project, and the European Commission Framework Programme 6.


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From its beginnings, the Boy Scouts of America had a strong foundation of woodcraft, nature study, and conservation. Many activities in Scouting come from activities of Native Americans. Many of the principles that Scouts uphold come from the conservation ethics of early founders, in particular Ernest Thompson Seton and Daniel Carter Beard. The BSA has taught more than 110 million young environmentalists throughout its history. Currently, with nearly 5 million members, the BSA continues to train the youth of America in principles of conservation and environmental science.
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- Environmental Science merit badge is on the Eagle Scout required list (requirement 3.h.).
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DALLAS (AP) — US Airways says second-quarter profit fell 6 percent from last year but still beat Wall Street expectations as the carrier heads into a merger with American Airlines.
Passenger traffic rose 6 percent in the quarter, compared with an increase of less than 1 percent on Delta Air Lines, which also reported second-quarter results on Wednesday.
Passengers who felt more crowded on US Airways weren't imagining things. The average flight was 86 percent full, an increase of 1.4 percentage points from a year earlier.
But if they had less room to move around, at least many passengers got a break from higher fares. US Airways said that the amount passengers paid per mile fell 3 percent from last year, with much of the decline on US Airways Express regional flights. That's another sign that airlines have been unable to push prices higher in the face of fairly flat travel demand.
Tempe, Ariz.-based US Airways Group Inc. said that net income was $287 million, or $1.40 per share, in the April-June quarter. That's down from $306 million, or $1.54 per share, a year ago. The company blamed an $85 million income tax provision that was triggered as it used up an allowance for operating losses carried over from previous years.
Excluding merger and debt-retirement costs, US Airways said that it would have earned $1.58 per share. That topped the $1.52 per share that analysts expected, according to FactSet.
Revenue rose 3 percent to $3.87 billion, beating analysts' forecast of $3.84 billion.
Fuel costs fell 4 percent but labor costs rose by a similar percentage. Total operating expenses increased 1 percent.
US Airways shares rose 63 cents, or 3.5 percent, to $18.68 in morning trading.
CEO Doug Parker said his airline's second-quarter performance "provides excellent momentum as we transition into the new American Airlines. The teams are working very well together and we continue to expect to close the merger in the third quarter."
Antitrust regulators at the Justice Department are still reviewing the merger, which would create the world's biggest airline. It would keep the American name but be led by Parker and most of his executive team.
Parker has been trying to head off the possibility that the Justice Department could try to force the companies to give up takeoff and landing slots at busy Reagan National Airport outside Washington. The combined company would be easily the biggest carrier there, but Parker has argued that United, Delta and Southwest were more dominant at key airports after their mergers, which the regulators allowed to go through.
The merger also faces a ruling on Aug. 15 by the federal judge overseeing the bankruptcy reorganization of American's parent, AMR Corp. AMR creditors are expected to favor the merger.


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Washington, DC - Priests for Life, a national anti-abortion organization, praised the decision of a Cook County judge who ruled that a frozen embryo destroyed in a Chicago fertility clinic was a human being whose parents are entitled to file a wrongful-death lawsuit. Judge Jeffrey Lawrence II said "a pre-embryo is a 'human being' ... whether or not it is implanted in its mother's womb."
"Judge Lawrence understands what science has taught for a long time," said Fr. Frank Pavone, national director of Priests for Life. "Rulings of courts should be based on these simple scientific facts. Otherwise, public policy will be subject to the whims of those who want to exploit human beings by defining them as less than human."
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WATERBORO — Two men are facing charges of burglarizing a home in Waterboro on Wednesday, Dec. 5.
At approximately 3:20 p.m. that afternoon, deputies from the York County Sheriff's Office were called to a residence in Waterboro, following a report of a burglary that had just occurred.
The homeowner reported that he had returned home to find two males fleeing from his residence, according to Major William King, of the sheriff's department. He quickly discovered that his residence had been burglarized and 10 handguns were stolen — and eight of those firearms were reported as loaded, King added.
Deputies arrived and summoned the assistance of a Maine State Police K9 unit to aid in locating the suspects. Trooper Matt Williams and his K9 partner, "Landy," arrived and began tracking. Landy found the handguns secreted in a nearby wooded area. Landy also located two subjects who were hiding a short distance away, King said.
Deputies arrested Travis Wakefield, 22, of Lyman, and Nathan Desfosses, also 22, of Shapleigh. Both have been charged with Class B Burglary and are being held at the York County Jail on $10,000 bail each.
Both men were arraigned at Biddeford District Court on Friday, Dec. 7.
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Chemical Reference Materials: Setting the Standards for Ocean Science (2002)Ocean Studies Board
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The accuracy of chemical oceanographic measurements depends on calibration against reference materials to ensure comparability over time and among laboratories. Several key parameters lack reference materials for measurements in seawater, particles in the water column, and sediments. Without reference materials, it is difficult to produce the reliable data sets or long-term baseline studies that are essential to verify global change and oceanic stability. This report identifies the most urgently required chemical reference materials based on key themes for oceanographic research and provides suggestions as to how they can be developed within realistic cost constraints.
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- Any new effort to provide reference materials to the ocean sciences community must also put in place a number of educational and advertising efforts to make researchers aware of the existence of appropriate reference materials and to provide instruction on how to make best use of what is bound to be, at best, a finite resource. The committee, therefore, also identifies education as a critical need.
- In the past, whenever such data sets have been acquired without using suitable reference materials, a great deal of effort has subsequently been needed to adjust the data to a common scale.
- Matrix-based reference materials that can be exchanged between different laboratories will enable researchers to better understand their own techniques and the information they provide.
- Reference materials are costly to produce particularly if they are certified for a number of constituents and it has not always been clear to the ocean science community that this cost will be repaid with significant added value.
- Seawater studies require certified reference materials for biologically important dissolved components such as carbon (both inorganic and organic), nutrients, and trace metals, as well as for salinity, which is hydrographically important.
- There is also a striking need for reference materials based on particulate matrices, where many of the analytical techniques used are matrix dependent and differ markedlyin their implementation from laboratory to laboratory.


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Angela Wilkinson is the program director of the Futures Directorate at Oxford University's Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment. She spent nearly a decade on Shell's corporate scenario team.
Angela Wilkinson is the program director of the Futures Directorate at Oxford University's Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment. She spent nearly a decade on Shell's corporate scenario team. Roland Kupers, an associate fellow at Oxford University, is a consultant who has written about complexity and futures. He was formerly a senior executive at Shell and at ATT. They are the authors of a forthcoming book on the history of Shell scenarios.
I read this in 2016. I have the impression that today's homogeneization (due to the web and the social network impact on information sharing, and in general to a markets regulation policy that don't priviledge differentiation over cost advantage ) is making scenarios planning always less fruitfull. The number of variables free to change is shrinking: industries are dominated by oligopolies ( e.g. the Gas Turbine industry went from dozens of players to around 3 in just 15 years), nations are clustering into macro-economics areas, Comsumers are feeded with the same brands in every city of the world. The only variables still uncertain are the sudden swings of mind of some politician that can decide over a specific commodity / market access point / local regulation in an unconsistent way. So scenarios are always less about evolutionary trends and always more about betting on human freewill. Does this make scenarios still appetible or simple un-usable? I fear to be keen to the second one.
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"Zoosk boasts 'Millions of Members!' Well, this is true, and not true. What Zoosk fails to mention is how many of those millions are actually active. See, if you join Zoosk and quit, your profile remains active. It still shows up years after you are gone. After the big push with Facebook in 2007, nearly all of those accounts are dead.
In reality, only a small percentage of the people you see on Zoosk are current, active members. The rest are dead profiles.
This is easily proven by finding photos that are date-stamped. It is not unusual to find photos stamped 2006, 2007 or even older. Dead profiles, guaranteed.
So, if you were to randomly email 30 people on Zoosk, odds are that 85% of those profiles are dead and you'll never get a reply. 4 of your emails might make it to living, breathing members. Not good odds.
Zoosk even tactfully uses these dead profiles in their extra charge services, such as "Boost". You physically need to be online to activate this service. Yet, when you click on a boosted member, you'll find that they haven't been online, even recently. So, how did they get onto this extra-charge service? Zoosk pretty much randomly loads in members for their "Boost" feature when they don't have enough current members willing to pay for it.
If you want to test this theory, do a search, say within 50 miles of your location. Keep track of those members who show up as "Currently Online" or "Recently Online". If the member isn't tagged with either one of those, odds are it's a dead profile.
If you decide to quit Zoosk, take down all your photos and delete the bulk of your profile. This will keep from misleading other members 10-years from now."
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Technology continues to make learning things simpler and easier. Curious about something? You can instantly Google it and find all sorts of information. This may tempt you to bring your laptop to class and use your superior typing speed in order to take down more notes.
However, more is not always better. In recent research done to test the efficacy of typing out vs. writing out notes, those who wrote their notes out the old fashioned way were better able to handle conceptual questions about the topic.
The researchers believe the cause for this is the tendency of those who use a keyboard to take down the lecture verbatim. Those who write out their notes, because of the slow speed, can't afford this luxury, forcing them to summarize what the speaker is presenting.
What's the takeaway from this?
Whether you use pen and paper or a laptop, do not try to take down "exactly" what the lecturer is saying. Instead, focus on summarizing the lecture by getting to its core. This will put an extra load on your comprehension through active engagement of the material, resulting in higher retention.
Divide your page into two columns, the right being about twice the size of the left.
The right side is going to be for note-taking while the left is used for keywords or questions. When taking the notes one should be careful not to write out too much. Paraphrase, summarize, and condense as much as possible. As you move along use the left column to write out the big idea keywords for your notes and write down any questions about the topic.
Leave some space at the end of each page. This will be used to summarize the page of notes as a whole (one should attempt this summary no longer than a day after the lecture).
Why is this method of note-taking so effective?
Cognitively, you are essentially packaging, unpackaging, re-packaging, and wrapping a nice little ribbon around the whole thing.
The right column condenses the lecture into short comments which is then chunked into a keyword or idea. Any question you may have gets written down which helps to clarify the details creating a more accurate picture of those ideas. Finally, the summarization of the page of notes ties all those points together.
You don't come home from the grocery store and try to carry in each item individually; You bunch them together, making the workload much easier (one trip or bust). When you chunk up the lesson into a clear and concise whole, the details of the lesson are retained more efficiently.
No matter what system you use to take notes it needs to organize the information in a way that can be easily summarized.
Your best asset for packaging what you are trying to learn is your ability to think critically about the subject.
Learning important subjects should involve active, deliberate effort.
Thinking critically about the topic allows you to categorize it more efficiently and with more clarity. You get to ask questions about it, clearing up any confusions. You get to pry deeper into the details. Finally, you get to criticize the idea and see how it holds up.
Today, the equivalent may be a team putting out an order for late-night pizza while they are working hard on pushing out a release update or finalizing a new product feature.
Edison was always keeping his eyes and ears open, watching what others were doing. When he learned that the competition — in one case, Alexander Graham Bell — was nearing completion of a phonograph, Edison called a confab and his closest colleagues and contributors came to a three-day session to help solve the challenge.
The lessons that Edison can teach us about collaboration are vital and very applicable in today's work world. Many of the following points were integral to Edison keeping forward momentum on his projects:
Embracing his team's creativity was a huge asset for Edison. In fact, he encouraged them to contribute ideas, jot down ideas, and sketch out diagrams. The best ideas from his experimenters were identified and developed — keeping creation at a group level rather than favoring individuals.
According to historian Greg Fields, Edison's keen insight into the creative process was what set his work apart from the rest.
"One of Edison's greatest overlooked talents was his ability to assemble teams and set up an organizational structure that fostered many people's creativity," Fields says .
Many of Edison's inventions involved a complex menagerie of parts, machinery, and electrical wizardry. Edison relied heavily on drawings and sketches to help map things out and manage complex concepts in his inventions. They also helped out when it came time to filing for patents.
As Edison pursued the advancement of electricity, his notes and drawings for work on the electric light grew so big they required their own notebook.
Today, there are many scientific links to the power of doodling out ideas by drawing, again showing how well Edison presaged modern productivity methods.
And then, of course, there's one of the world's most famous to-do lists.
Edison isn't quite considered the father of the to-do list. But, his lists — especially the four-page 'things doing and to be done" he created in 1888, established an important system of managing and tracking all the projects he had going on during the opening of his West Orange laboratory and the projects he planned to start.
In the span of a few notebook pages Edison penciled in work he wanted to manage for the cotton picker, the electric piano, ink for the blind, the phonograph, and a chalk battery. While he certainly didn't complete everything on this massive list, it represented the opportunity to get ideas at many different stages committed to paper.
"He did keep a very careful record of the experimental work. At West Orange, every project was assigned a number. At all of his laboratories, you can find account records and experimental records. He was managing costs, figuring out where things might start to get too expensive," said Paul Israel.


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Fr. Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, commented on Dubay v. Wells, a civil action brought in federal court by a Michigan man who claims that the constitution protects him from having to pay child support for a baby he didn't want carried to term. The case has been dubbed "Roe v. Wade for men."
"We do not want the law to make it any easier for men to evade their responsibilities," Fr. Pavone declared.
He also pointed out that this case challenges the consistency of the "pro-choice" position. "The problem here for abortion supporters is that they either have to uphold the notion of reproductive choice and leave single women with no monetary support to raise their children or they have to say that reproductive choice is a human right that only applies to some humans," declares Fr. Pavone. "Of course, they're good at claiming that basic human rights apply only to some humans."


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When the call went out for entries to the 2009 Super Chevy Suspension & Handling Challenge, Hotchkis went with what some may consider an unusual choice for a hot-handling entry: Art Alvarez' '65 Chevelle wagon was tapped to represent the Southern California-based company, and after seeing it perform we understand why.
Some particular models of cars are like good candy, once you're hooked, you can't stop. For Art, that irresistible automotive candy is two-door wagons. Back in 1997, Art got the taste for Chevelle two-door grocery getters when he bought his first one, a '64, and found several other enthusiasts with the same addiction. After that wagon proved to be a problem child with numerous electrical issues, Art passed it onto his son who worked in Michigan as a mechanic and bought a cherry '64 wagon with only 34,000 miles.
After having some fun with his second '64, Art heard that his good friend, Chevelle builder Dick Etchison, was moving to Colorado and parting ways with a '65 Chevelle wagon. Art quickly sold his second '64 wagon to buy the '65. Art also knew Dick had done a ground up restoration on the car and it was in pristine condition. After the deal was struck and Art had the Chevelle at home, he quickly began transforming the two-door from a bone stock hauler into a corner-carving import intimidator. First to go were the stock wheels and tires in favor of some Torque Thrust five-spokes (which later became billet 20s), and finally the Bonspeed two-piece wheels wrapped in Nitto NT05 rubber for the Super Chevy Challenge.
Because Art likes to drive his cars all the time, a Vintage Air climate system was installed, and Malibu interior trim from Original Parts Group replaced the standard Chevelle 300 trim the wagon came with. To give the wagon some extra grunt, the 350/200-4R it had between the fenders was replaced in favor of a GM Performance Parts ZZ383 pumping out 425hp backed by a 700R4 transmission built by Bowtie Overdrives.
So the car could handle all that power, Art went with a Hotchkis Sport Suspension Total Vehicle System with tubular upper and lower A-arms with the correct offset for B-body spindles for improved suspension geometry. The Hotchkis control arms feature fully TIG welded construction with 1.5-inch diameter tubing, CNC machined spring cup with stackable spring shims for adjusting ride height, polyurethane spring isolators, and laser cut steel arm gussets for extra strength. Providing some extra cushion are Bilstein/Hotchkis HPS1000 shocks.
Out back, a Hotchkis adjustable rear suspension package was installed, with adjustable upper and lower trailing arms that positively locate and control the rear axle for smooth and consistent launches with reduced wheel hop. The adjustable upper arms also allow for easy pinion angle changes to better tune the rear suspension when the car is lowered. The stock 10-bolt rear was pitched in favor of a 9-inch rear with 3.25 gears and a limited slip system to put all the 383's power to the pavement.
Keeping the body level is Hotchkis' Extreme Sway Bar Set, with tubular 13/8-inch diameter front bar and 15/16-inch rear bar. The rear bar has two adjustments, 75 percent and 100 percent stiffer than stock, with TIG welded end links and polyurethane bushings. Both bars feature Hotchkis' market-first fully articulated mounting system, which improves traction, decreases body roll, and allows the handling/balance tunability to compensate for larger rear tires and front/rear weight bias.
Making sure the wagon stays under control is Hotchkis' Performance steering rebuild kit. The kit comes with new inner and outer tie rod ends with 4140 forged ball studs and triple lip sealed boots installed in hardened steel forged housings, and center link assembly. Stopping all the action is a Baer Aluma Sport braking system, with dual piston calipers and cross drilled 12-inch rotors.
Driver's Impression - On the Autocross Course This wagon performed exactly what we've come to expect from Hotchkis Sport Suspensions and was a total blast to drive. Even with OEM (read: very slow) ratio steering, navigating the autocross course was quite manageable. This nimble wagon also drove "small," which made threading the cones much easier. As for the brakes, well ... the Chevelle had the best brakes of all the cars I tested that day. These stoppers worked perfectly for the weight and balance of this car; they were confirmed, consistent, and complimented the suspension quite well.
I used the weight of this car for an advantage on corner entry and had much fun throwing it through the gates, then catching it at the apex and hammering the accelerator pedal to motor on down the course. The initial offset slalom posed no problems for the Chevelle grocery getter and I got great turn-in and smooth transfer back to power entering the crossover. After the offsets that approach the end sweeper, applying the brakes smoothly and uneventfully slowed the car allowing me to get over the hump and transition back to throttle a lot sooner than almost any other tested car. Back across the course to the power section found a light engine ping but this was momentary. Can this unassuming, tan wagon handle this job? A definite vote of "yes" from me.
What I particularly like about the Hotchkis suspensions is the predictability. I often tell people that there are no surprises; a Hotchkis car will come around on Tuesday but pre-warn you Sunday. I was able to plan and control my track line placement, and found the car very neutral and well-balanced. You'd never expect a grocery getter to get an "A" for my part of this automotive flog fest but this one sure did! Like its older sister, the Newman Car Creations 210 Wagon, I loved every minute spent behind the wheel. -Mary Pozzi
Driver's Impression - On the Street What is it with the Suspension & Handling Challenge contestants and station wagons (Newman Car Creations brought a '57)? Or should I ask, what's with the tan '65 Chevelles, as DSE had one too? Either way, we had a blast driving them all. Who knew a plain-Jane '65 wagon could be so much fun or so nice to drive?
This entry got top marks in the comfort category. Tilt wheel, power windows, and custom-stitched bucket seats got my attention at first, as they were somewhat unexpected, but it was the ride quality that left a lasting impression. Simply put, it was outstanding. Maybe it was heavier than a Chevelle hardtop or sedan, but we wrote in the test log, "BMW ride quality. It doesn't float. It just soaks up the bumps." It's hard to fathom that a 45-year-old car with large 18-inch/35-series rolling stock could deliver such an impressive combination of ride/handling.
Also getting good grades were the Baer brakes, which had very reassuring pedal feel. Hit the whoa pedal and the long A-body stopped quickly and straight.
There was a big numb spot on center with the steering, but other than this it delivered good feel on the road. - Jim Campisano
Hotchkis Sport Suspension '65 Chevelle Wagon Specs Engine Type: Gen I ZZ383 small-block Block: GM Fuel Delivery: Barry Grant Speed Demon 750 carb
Drivetrain Transmission: Bowtie Overdrives built 700R-4 Rearend: 9-inch style with 3.25 gears and limited Slip
Chassis Suspension
Steering: stock '65 Chevelle with Hotchkis Performance Steering Rebuild kit. Front Suspension: Hotchkis Spindles: Tall B-body Chevrolet Front Shocks: Bilstein/Hotchkis HPS 1000 Front Springs: Hotchkis Sport Springs with 1-inch drop Front Control Arms: Hotchkis TIG welded 1.5-inch diameter tubular upper and lower Front Sway bar: Hotchkis 13/8-inch diameter tubular Extreme Sway Bar with fully articulated mount Rear Suspension: Hotchkis Rear Shocks: Bilstein/Hotchkis HPS 1000 Rear Springs: Hotchkis Sport Springs with 1-inch drop Rear Sway bar: Hotchkis 15/16-inch diameter tubular Extreme Sway Bar with fully articulated mount Rear Control Arms: Hotchkis adjustable upper and lower trailing arms Front Brakes: Baer Aluma Sport twin-piston calipers with 12-inch diameter cross-drilled rotors Rear Brakes: Baer Aluma Sport twin-piston calipers with 12-inch diameter cross-drilled rotors
Wheels & Tires
Wheels: Bonspeed Crokus two-piece, 18x8 front, 18x9 rear


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BOSTON — Chris Kelly scored 20 goals during the regular season but refused to take credit for improving his offensive game.
Even after he scored the overtime game-winner in the Bruins' 1-0 win against Washington in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Quarterfinals Thursday at TD Garden, he was still crediting his linemates and the organization. Whether he likes it or not, however, Kelly was the hero of the pivotal first game of the best-of-seven series.
"Well, I think it's fitting because to ask, I guess, our coaching staff, he was, without a doubt, our unsung hero this year, for what he's accomplished — you know, scoring 20 or some goals, something he'd never done before, [and], you know, how he's handled the players that have been with him this year," Bruins head coach Claude Julien said. "He hasn't always had the same wingers all the time, and still, that line's always been good. … So it was nice to see, again, we talked about that line being able to hopefully get some secondary scoring like our third line did last year, and so far, they're off to a good start."
Brian Rolston and Benoit Pouliot both assisted on the goal that started with a Tim Thomas save on Marcus Johansson and then a Joe Corvo breakout pass off the glass.
For the complete game story, log on to NHL.com.
•Alexander Ovechkin was limited to one shot on goal. Read that again: Alexander Ovechkin was limited to one shot on goal. That was just the 10th time this season he was limited to that few shots. He averaged almost four shot on net per game in the regular season.
Dennis Seidenberg and Zdeno Chara were draped on him all night and combined for 10 hits. Ovechkin recorded seven hits. Read more about shutting down Ovechkin in my CBSBoston.com column.
•Thomas made 17 saves for his sixth career playoff shutout. His best save of the night was a stop on Ovechkin with the right pad during a Washington power play in the third period.
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•Johnny Boychuk returned to the lineup after missing the last two games of the regular season. He logged 17:58 of ice time and paired up with Andrew Ference to match the Nicklas Backstrom, Jason Chimera, Alexander Semin line.
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The Durango and Bayfield high school volleyball teams learned their seedings Monday for the CHSAA Volleyball State Championships, scheduled to open Friday at the Denver Coliseum.
Durango (17-8) was selected as the No. 8 seed in the 12-team field in Class 4A.
Bayfield (22-3) was named the No. 3 seed in the 12-team field in Class 3A.
Under the new state tournament format for Class 3A and 4A, the Wolverines and Demons will play one pool-play match Friday and another on Saturday.
If they win their three-team pools, they would move into the state semifinals Saturday afternoon.
The state championship matches in all five school classifications will be played at 7 p.m. Saturday at the Denver Coliseum.
No. 8 Durango will take on No. 12 Silver Creek of Longmont (11-13) in the first state match at 8 a.m. Friday.
The Demons, making their third consecutive trip to the state tournament, will play four-time defending state champion and No. 1-ranked Cheyenne Mountain (21-4) on Saturday (approximately 9:30 a.m.). Cheyenne Mountain topped the Demons 3-0 earlier this year, winning 25-21, 25-21 and 25-16.
Here are the other state pools in Class 4A:
Pool II: No. 2 Lewis-Palmer (21-4), No. 7 Thompson Valley of Loveland (16-8) and No. 11 Mountain View of Loveland (15-10).
Pool III: No. 3 Longmont (24-1), No. 6 Coronado (22-3) and No. 10 Broomfield (15-10).
Pool IV: No. 4 Windsor (22-3), No. 5 Valor Christian (18-7) and No. 9 Ponderosa (11-14).
Bayfield, making its fifth consecutive trip to the state tournament, will go against No. 10 Colorado Springs Christian (18-7) on Friday afternoon.
The Wolverines, who finished tied for third at state last year, will play No. 6 Gunnison (22-3) at 11 a.m. Saturday.
Here are the other three-team pools in Class 3A:
Pool I: No. 1 Valley of Gilcrest (25-0), No. 8 Holy Family (16-0) and No. 12 Manitou Springs (19-6).
Pool II: No. 2 Platte Valley of Kersey 919-6), No. 7 Eaton (19-7) and No. 11 Roaring Fork (22-3).
Pool IV: No. 4 Greeley University (18-7), No. 5 St. Marys of Colorado Springs (24-1) and No. 9 Sterling (15-10).
Eaton is the defending Class 3A state champion.
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Introduction to One-Way Love
I've never been more excited about a writing project than I am about my forthcoming book One-Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World (David C. Cook). The final edits have been turned in and it will be released on October 1. It's a "manifesto" of sorts, where I issue a passionate call back to the heart of the Christian faith–grace. Below is the introduction to give you a sense of what the book is about.
A few years ago, I read something astonishing. Dr. Richard Leahy, a prominent psychologist and anxiety specialist was quoted as saying, "The average high school kid today has the same level of anxiety as the average psychiatric patient in the early 1950s." It turns out the problem wasn't limited to an age group. In 2007 The New York Times reported that three in ten American women confess to taking sleeping pills before bed most nights. The numbers are so high and unprecedented that some are calling it an epidemic.
This came across my screen about the same time that the news broke about the meteoric rise of Americans claiming no religious affiliation, shooting up from 7 percent in 1990 to 16 percent in 2010. When those under the age of 30 were polled, that percentage more than doubled again, to nearly 35 percent. While the numbers themselves were a bit of a shock, I wish I had been more surprised by the findings. From my vantage point as a pastor, I can tell you, it is truly heartbreaking out there. The good news of God's inexhaustible grace for an exhausted world has never been more urgent.
What I see more than anything else is an unquestioning embrace of performanicism in all sectors of life. Performancism is the mindset that equates our identity and value directly with our performance and accomplishments. Performancism casts achievements not as something we do or don't do but as something we are (or aren't). The colleges those teenagers eventually attend will be more than the place where they are educated- – they will be the labels which define their value as a human being, both in the eyes of their peers, their parents, and themselves. The money we earn, the car we drive, isn't merely reflective of our occupation,; it is reflective of us, period. How we look, how intelligent we are, and what people think of us is more than descriptive,; it is synonymous with our worth. In the word of performancism, success equals life, and failure is tantamount to death. This is the reason why people would rather end their lives than confess that they've lost their job, or made a bad investment.
This is not to say that accomplishments are somehow bad, or even that they aren't incredibly important. It is simply to say that there is a difference between taking pride in what we do and worshiping it. When we worship at the altar of performance-and make no mistake, performancism is a form of worship-we spend our lives frantically propping up our image or reputation, trying to do it all, and do it all well, often at a cost to ourselves and those we love. Life becomes a hamster wheel of endless earning and proving and maintenance and management and controlling, where all we can see is our own feet. Performancism causes us to live in a constant state of anxiety, fear, and resentment, until we end up heavily medicated, in the hospital, or just really, really unhappy.
The Christian church has sadly not proven to be immune to performancism. Far from it, in fact. In recent years a handful of books have been published urging a more robust, radical, and sacrificial expression of the Christian faith. I even wrote one of them-Unfashionable: Making a Difference in the World by being Different. I heartily "amen" the desire to take one's faith seriously and demonstrate before the watching world a willingness to be more than just Sunday churchgoers. That Christians would want to engage the wider community with God's sacrificial love–living for their neighbor instead of for themselves-is a wonderful thing and should be applauded. The unintended consequence of this push, however, is that if we're not careful we can give people the impression that Christianity is first and foremost about the sacrifice we make for Jesus rather than the sacrifice Jesus made for us; our performance for him rather than his performance for us; our obedience for him rather than his obedience for us. The hub of Christianity is NOT not "do something for Jesus." The hub of Christianity is "Jesus has done everything for you," and I fear that too many people, both inside and outside the church, have heard this plea for intensified devotion and concluded that the focus of the Christian faith is our love for God instead of God's love for us. Don't get me wrong, what we do is important. But it is infinitely less important than what Jesus has done for us.
Furthermore, it often seems that the good news of God's grace has been tragically hijacked by an oppressive religious moralism that is all about rules, rules, and more rules; doing more, trying harder, self-help, getting better, and fixing, fixing, fixing–-ourselves, our kids, our spouse, our friends, our enemies, our culture, our world. Christianity is perceived as being a vehicle for good behavior and clean living-and the judgments that result from them-rather than the only recourse for those who have failed over and over and over again.
Sadly, too many churches have helped to perpetuate the impression that Christianity is primarily concerned with legislating morality. Believe it or not, Christianity is not about good people getting better. If anything, it is good news for bad people coping with their failure to be good. Too many people have walked away from the church not because they're walking away from Jesus, but because the church has walked away from Jesus. Ask any of "religious nones" who answered their census questions differently in past years, and I guarantee you will hear a story about either spiritual burn-out or heavy-handed condemnation from fellow believers, or both. Author Jerry Bridges puts it perfectly when he writes:
My observation of Christendom is that most of us tend to base our relationship with God on our performance instead of on His grace. If we've performed well-whatever "'well"' is in our opinion-then we expect God to bless us. If we haven't done so well, our expectations are reduced accordingly. In this sense, we live by works, rather than by grace. We are saved by grace, but we are living by the "'sweat"' of our own performance. Moreover, we are always challenging ourselves and one another to '"try harder'." We seem to believe success in the Christian life is basically up to us; our commitment, our discipline, and our zeal, with some help from God along the way. The realization that my daily relationship with God is based on the infinite merit of Christ instead of on my own performance is a very freeing and joyous experience. But it is not meant to be a one-time experience; the truth needs to be reaffirmed daily.
What Bridges describes is nothing less than the human compulsion for taking the reigns of our lives and our salvation back from God, the only One remotely qualified for the job. "Works righteousness" is the word that the Protestant Reformation used to describe spiritual performancism, and it has plagued the church-and the world-since the Garden of Eden. It might not be too much of an overstatement to say that if Jesus came to proclaim good news to the poor, release to the captives, freedom for the oppressed, sight to the blind, then Christianity has come to stand for, and in practice promulgate, the exact opposite of what its founder intended (Luke 4:18–19).
It is a terrible irony that the very pack of people who claim that God has unconditionally saved and continues to sustain them by his free grace are the very ones who push back most violently against it. Far too many professing Christians sound like ungrateful children who can't stop biting the very hand that feeds them. It amazes me that you will hear great concern from inside the church about "too much grace," but rarely will you ever hear great concern from inside the church about "too many rules." Indeed, the absurdity of God's indiscriminate grace always gets "religious" people up in arms. Why? Because we are by nature glory-hoarding, self-centered control freaks–-God-wannabe's. That's why.
But the situation is more than ironic, it is tragic. It is tragic because this kind of moralism can be relied upon to create anxiety, resentment, rebellion, and exhaustion. It can be counted upon to ensure that the church hemorrhages the precise people that Jesus was most concerned with: sinners.
Are you exhausted? Angry? Anxious? Fearful? Guilty? Lonely? In need of some comfort and genuinely good news? In other words, are you at all like me? Then this book is for you. I can't promise it will answer all your questions or cover every theological base. But I can promise that you won't hear any "buts,", you won't feel the tapping of the brakes, and you won't read a list of qualifications. What you will encounter is "grace unmeasured, vast and free,", the kind that will frighten and free you at the same time. That's what grace does, after all.
It is high time for the church to honor its Founder by embracing sola gratia anew, to reignite the beacon of hope for the hopeless and point all of us bedraggled performancists back to the freedom and rest of the Cross. To leave our "if's," "and's," or "but's" behind and get back to proclaiming the only message that matters-and the only message we have-the Word about God's one-way love for sinners. It is time for us to abandon once and for all our play-it-safe religion, and, as Robert Farrar Capon so memorably put it, get drunk on grace. Two- hundred-proof, unflinching grace. It's shocking and scary, unnatural and undomesticated-…but it is also the only thing that can set us free and light the church, and the world, on fire.
A graduate of Columbia International University (philosophy) and Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando (M.Div.), Tullian has authored a number of books including Jesus + Nothing = Everything (Crossway). He travels extensively, speaking at conferences throughout the U.S., and his sermons are broadcast daily on the radio program LIBERATE. As a respected pastor, author, and speaker, Tullian is singularly and passionately devoted to seeing people set free by the radical, amazing power of God's grace.
When he is not reading, studying, preaching, or writing, Tullian enjoys being with people and relaxing with his wife, Kim, and their three children: Gabe, Nate, and Genna. He loves the beach, loves to exercise, and when he has time, he loves to surf.