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Another set of qualifiers for East Side were determined this weekend at the City of Fountains event. I scoured through the results and found the following to be the individuals that have tentatively made Team East Side. Tentative because I going by PDGA listing for their location and these players have to be active KCFDC members prior to the Team Challenge. 119 - Eric Eastwood123 - Ken Franks123 - CD Steiner127 - Matt Perry127 - Tyler Matoon --- tentatively in above here ---132 - Jacob HinckJose, please confirm residency and club status for Tyler Matoon, Adam Johnson and Kitzeln Siebert, thanks.Dick, according to Tom, Olathe league is at Lakeside in May. Do you plan to use one of them as your qualifier?
With Dick being super busy with KCWO TD work, Joe Hesting has volunteered to assistant captain on the West Side to take care of the grunt work in finalizing the KS team. Thanks Joe.
Quote from: Tracy on May 12, 2014, 01:17:06 PMWith Dick being super busy with KCWO TD work, Joe Hesting has volunteered to assistant captain on the West Side to take care of the grunt work in finalizing the KS team. Thanks Joe.Wow, Dick is already bailing as West Side team captain? Looks like he sees the writing on the wall this year. EAST SIDEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
For your information, on the table, and has been in discussion between the team captains and myself, is an issue of state allegiance. This is an issue that has come up before, particularly the first year, when I wasn't prepared to think about it, in the rush to get the event underway that Fall. I don't believe it was mentioned last year, but probably would have affected the same folks asking about it the previous year. To be honest, I don't think the people in question would have made either sides team, however could obviously been captains picked. The difference this year is a player, that had been on a team previously, has moved out of his state of allegiance. That player is Shanan Carson.Anyway, the issue is players living on one side of the state line, but their true allegiance is to the other state. This issue will continue to crop if not addressed at this time when it affects a team level player. I am posting this so there is no mistaking what is being proposed.A player living on one side of the state line, but wanting to play for the other side has to meet at least one of the following criteria to claim state allegiance:A) Raised in and graduated high school in said state, orB) Graduated from College in said state,orC) Have had residency in said state continuously, to the present, for 15+ yearsThat's it, no other reasons will be accepted to establish true allegiance. Players still need to meet the currently living within the area requirement to even be considered under this amendment. Once a player establishes allegiance to a state and has played on that sides team, they can never play for the other side.Finally, players that need to use the allegiance amendment to get on the team of their state allegiance must be selected with a captains pick or alternate spot. No qualifying spots can be obtained by a player using the allegiance amendment.
Both A and B apply to me (graduated high school and college in KS). You should only play for the state you live in. Period.
....Not been enough $hiit talking yet this year. Let it begin!!!


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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Freshman sprinter Marvin Bracyannounced his arrival on the NCAA stage Friday evening at the Razorback Invitational, posting the fastest qualifying time in the preliminary heats of the 60-meter dash at the Randal Tyson Track Complex.
In his first race since injury his hamstring at the Florida High School state meet in May, the Florida State dual-sport star did not disappoint, bolting from the blocks on the way to victory in the opening heat. His time of 6.64 seconds was not only a personal best – he had only run the 60-meter distance once before in high school – but is the third-fastest time in Division I early on in the 2013 season.
"Obviously Bracy has that innate ability to go out after three weeks of practice and he throws down the third-fastest time," FSU head coach Bob Bramansaid. Frankly 6.64 is going to make it (to nationals) every time. …
"He didn't look intimidated at all. He didn't look like he was digging, either. It looked easy"
Bracy heads into Saturday's semifinal round, where he will run out of lane 4 in the first of two heats. The top two runners in each heat, plus the next four fastest finishers will advance to the evening final. FSU teammates David Ambler (6.88) and Dentarius Locke(6.81) also advanced to the semifinal. Ambler will join Bracy in the first heat while Locke will run in the second heat.
While Locke did what was necessary to move on from the preliminary round in the 60, he saved just enough for a solid scoring performance in his 200-meter season debut. The redshirt junior covered the single-lap event in 21.15 seconds, good for a fourth-place showing and the fastest time among Atlantic Coast Conference sprinters this season.
"Locke gets another race (in the 60) and looked pretty darn good in the 200," Braman added.
On the women's side, junior Marecia Pembertonalso moved on to the 60-meter semifinals, qualifying with the fifth-fastest time in the preliminary round (7.50). It's just another step on the comeback trail for Pemberton, who is competing in just her second meet since undergoing hip surgery in the spring.
Competing in a rare, early-season scored meet, the unranked Seminole women closed out the first day with 15.5 points after seven events, good for seventh place in the 11-team event which includes eight nationally ranked teams. The No. 21 Florida State men are in eighth place with 17 points from a field of 11 that includes six nationally ranked teams.
"We did a lot of decent things on both side," Bramans said. "Stefan Brits was pretty good in the long jump. Both girls – Maryke Brits and Der'Renae Freeman– qualified for the finals. … It was a pretty good first day. We've got to put the pieces together. I thought we were OK. We've got some exciting things coming up tomorrow."
Five women earned top-eight finishes to contribute to the Seminoles' point total. Freshman long jumper Maryke Brits, competing in just her second meet, leaped 6.05 meters (19-10.25) to tie for third place. Brits' effort ranks second among ACC jumpers this season. Freeman was seventh with a season-best effort of 5.78m (18-11.75).
A pair of freshmen pole vaulters – Hannah Acton and Karly Jackson – continued to show early-season signs of improvement with new season-best marks. Acton was fifth, clearing 3.87 meters (12-8.25), while Jackson was seventh (3.57/11-8.50). Another freshman, Ewa Marcinkiewicz, placed seventh in the pentathlon. The Swede finished with 3,404 points in her first collegiate competition in the five-event competition.
Over the on the men's side, sophomore Stefan Britsclaimed a fifth-place finish in the long jump, despite a controlled effort. Brits matched his career indoor best for the `Noles by going just 7.37 meters (24-2.25), despite passing on his three final attempts in an attempt not to tax a nagging hamstring issue.
Seth Proctormatched Locke for the highest finish among Seminole men, placing fourth in the 5,000 meters (14:47.16). Proctor led two-thirds of the way through the event before a slight fade over the closing four laps.
Senior Andrew Lahayeclosed out the first-day scoring for the `Noles with a sixth-place finish in the men's pole vault (5.06m/16-7.25).
The Seminoles will return to action Saturday with a full slate of competitors, including both the men's and women's distance teams. Karen Harvey's FSU women will chase national qualifying marks when Amanda Winslow, Colleen Quigley and Georgia Peel line up in the invitational mile run. Kayleigh Tyerman and Jessica Parry will compete in the 3,000-meter women's invitational and freshman Natalie Concepcionwill try and improve on last week's 800-meter personal best as one of seven runners in the invitational section of her speciality.
On the men's side, senior Michael Fout hopes to crack the 4-minute mile barrier for the first time, while David Forrester lines up in a star-studded 3,000-meter field. Darrin Gibsonwill be hunting an NCAA-worthy time in the invitational section of the 800.
Saturday's action will begin with the field events, where sophomore Briana Cherry-Bronson looks to put together an encore performance after her school-record weight throw last week in Alabama. Junior Izzy Ileso will compete in the triple jump for the first time since her 2012 season ended prematurely with a knee injury. All-American Phillip Young will also open his season in the triple jump, where he will be joined by Owen Cain.
The 400-meter dash heats will include freshman Sage Watson on the women's side and both Alonzo Russell and Stephen Newboldfor the men.
Of course the most highly anticipated race will be the 60-meter dash, with Bracy leading the Seminole crew into the semifinals, which are set for 3:25 (ET).


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This achingly beautiful piece is sparsely arranged with piano and intimate strings.
It has two parts. The first part is introspective while the second part raises the emotional level as the strings take the lead.
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Holiday Chocolate Bread from Gluten Free Sourdough Starter
I decided to stop being so pure and create a bread with all the ingredients I avoid all year long: sugar, chocolate, etc. I wanted it to still be highly digestible so I used my basic gluten free boosted sourdough starter. I was concerned that the "sourness" might conflict with the sweet but it worked out really well.
I had an interesting time developing the recipe. I wanted to use cocoa powder, chocolate chips and dried cherries. At this point I have enough experience to have some "instinct" about what basic ingredients to use without following a recipe. By now, I have made enough breads that resulted in excellent texture that I know what I'm looking for in the batter texture: like thick oatmeal. I hand mixed it with a wooden spoon so I could feel the texture change with each addition. At certain times I could feel it needed a bit more arrowroot or flax or water. It was satisfying to choose based on my perceived need and watch and feel it shift to its next stage. I had a rather special experience from it all. I felt connected to centuries of many other bakers who never used written recipes perhaps because they didn't have access to paper and pen or were too busy to write anything down.
The first try was too bitter and not sweet enough. The second was just right! Someone in my family asked why I called it a bread and not a cake. I told him that this bread was not as sweet or light as a cake might be but was more like a sweet bread that wouldn't crash one's blood sugar or turn one into a couch potato. The bread is also made from whole grains and properly fermented so it is highly digestible.
The splurge happens in the chocolate chips and the cherries but the bread itself is not overly sweet. The resulting loaves were very good and were consumed by my family in record time. I made the breads the day before the family came, sliced them, toasted them and served them with a bowl of sweetened whipped cream. They were consumed in record time.
Holiday Chocolate Bread
Yield: 2 loaves
2 1/2 cups boosted brown rice starter
(boosted with water kefir)
(I wanted a lighter starter so I began it with brown rice flour and used sorghum flour for the other feedings)
½ cup chia gel
¾ teaspoon salt
½ cup brown rice or sweet rice flour
1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
¼ cup water
3 tablespoons melted coconut oil or other oil or butter
¾ cup sugar (I used organic light)
¼ cup coconut flour
¼ cup water
½ teaspoon vanilla powder or vanilla extract
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon (optional)
¼ cup tapioca flour
1-2 tablespoons arrowroot flour
3 tablespoons flax seed, ground
½ dried cherries
½ cup semisweet chocolate chips (I used vegan chocolate chips)
½ cup chopped walnuts
A few hours before making bread soak ½ cup dried cherries in water, then drain (this hydrates the cherries making them less likely to burn)
Measure out starter into a mixing bowl
Add chia gel, salt, rice flour and mix.
Add cocoa powder, ¼ cup water, oil and mix.
Add sugar, coconut flour, ¼ cup water, vanilla, cinnamon and mix.
Add tapioca flour and 1 tablespoon arrowroot and mix. If the batter seems very thin, add another tablespoon of arrowroot keeping in mind you will next add the flax seed next which will thicken it considerably.
Add ground flax seed. The batter should now be medium thick. If it needs another tablespoon of arrowroot add it now.
Fold in the cherries, chocolate chips and walnuts.
Carefully spoon into 2 loaf pans only half full. (I used parchment paper with the paper higher than the sides of the loaf pan so I could easily lift the loaf out when it came out of the oven)
Let rise 7 hours and bake at 350 for about 50 minutes.
Remove and let cool 5-10 minutes and lift the bread out of the loaf pan for the rest of the cooling.
This bread rose well during the rise but lost a lot of height during the baking so it became a dense almost brownie-like bread/cake.
It was very good right out of the oven.
It's best warm so after it's fully cooled it can be reheated by toasting in a toaster or oven.
I also tried slicing half a loaf when it was only out of the oven about 10 minutes. Then I put the slices back in the oven for about 15 minutes. They got a nice outer crust, on the road to Biscotti but not so hard. These were good later on without toasting or reheating.


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On January 11-15, 2011, the first ever "Sharing Power Conference" was held in Whakatane, New Zealand and hosted by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the IUCN Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy (CEESP), Te Rūnanga o Ngāti Awa (Mäori Tribal Authority, and Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi (Mäori Tribal University).
The focus of the conference was to ensure a greater level of inclusion of indigenous peoples and local community into policy, governance and management of biocultural resources. A new vision for development which extended beyond the current mainstream economic models was explored.
Keynote speakers were Professor Sir Sydney Moko Mead, Winona La Duke, Ashok Khosla, and Elinor Ostrom. Other Plenary speakers included the Minister of Maori Affairs, Hon Pita Sharples, the Chairs of the six IUCN Commissions, youth representatives and members of the CEESP Steering Committee. Ms Julia Marton-Lefevre, the Director General of the International Union for Conservation of Nature conveyed her message to the participants and organizers of the conference by video.
The Conference provided a crucial platform for Chairs of the Commissions of IUCN to meet with Indigenous Peoples' representatives and other conservation organizations on January 13 2011. At this meeting IUCN agreed to review and advance the implementation of resolutions related to indigenous peoples taken at the 4th World Conservation Congress (WCC4) held in Barcelona, Spain in 2008.
Pacific countries participating at the conference included Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Tonga and Fiji. Also present at the conference was Regional Director for IUCN Oceania Regional Office, Mr. Taholo Kami who provided a presentation under the Regional and Global shared Governance stream talking on the topic Pacific Islands Round Table: Sharing Power through a Shared Vision.
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Now we have the official declaration of Mitchell Hurwitz about the movie, he's directing it.
Right now the AD Movie is officially launched, so I'm going to the hospital bar to celebrate it...
At this point the Arrested Development bit has been utterly destroyed from the sheer volume of people constantly chomping at it, hoping they'll sink their teeth into some fresh meat and sate their hunger for news. Well today, my friends, you'll get a nice hard confirmation of some directorial rumors and a sneak peek about what you might see in the film , straight from series writer Mitch Hurwitz.
The Austin Film Festival recently took place and thanks to the gents over at Austin 360 they've provided in-depth detail about the "Art of Storytelling" panel at which Hurwitz and series executive producer and narrator Ron Howard spoke.
Confirming everyone's suspicions, Hurwitz dropped the bomb that he is in fact hammering out a script for the film right now, and when the time comes he'll be the one in the director's chair. PHEW! Arrested Development faithful such as myself have been a little bit worried that the project would go to someone else with not as much stake in the franchise, but thankfully it will be in good hands and the intertubes can breathe a sigh of relief.
He went on to tell us to expect a heavy jail presence in the film, and that he will include a reference to TARP money as a bit of a jab of the film industry for taking so long to make films that are socially relevant. Who will be in prison, we don't know, but expect it not to be George Sr.
It's an incredibly small bit of news, but knowing that Hurwitz knows where he's going instills quite a lot of hope. We'll be keeping a sharp eye open for anything else to come out of the A.D. camp in the coming months.
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Jackass Number Two: Unrated (US - DVD R1)
Injured idiots aren't really Gabe's thing, but he respects idiocy for what it is...
Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O, Bam Margera, and the rest of the Jackass crew make their way back to the big screen with more grotesque, ridiculous, and sometime hilarious (not to mention blatantly homoerotic) stunts and pranks. Some of the highlights this time around include Steve-O sticking a leech directly on his eyeball, Knoxville being pummelled by various angry bulls, and Bam getting an erect penis branded directly on his buttocks. There are also plenty of testicles, vomiting, and anal leakage to go around.
I'm not a fan of the Jackass TV series, or any of its many predecessors or spin offs (I have a special hatred for Viva la Bam, but a slight soft spot for Wild Boys). I never saw the first Jackass feature film, and never wanted to, but was happy when it pulled in some solid figures at the box office. I know that the film's popularity could easily be perceived as another sign of a decline of modern society, but I choose to see it rather as a sign of home made, independent film sticking it hard to big-budget idiocy. There is a major studio behind this machine, but it makes me a bit warm and fuzzy all the same.
The chance to review Jackass Number Two was not high on my to-do list, but I figured I should give it a go. I expected nothing, but assumed that this was a case where ignorance wasn't necessarily bliss. For the most part I was not let down in my incredibly low expectations, and about half the film is total garbage. What I wasn't expecting was for the other half to shine with faint glimmers of creative integrity, and I'm forced to admit that I laughed more than once. If I didn't give it up for 'Fire Hose Rodeo', I'd just be a prude, now wouldn't I?
This really comes down to taste. Personally I find accidental slapstick much funnier than forced slapstick, so the sequences that featured things not going according to plan were my personal favourites. There is something comedically pure about people falling down that I cannot help but love. Gross-out humour, on the other hand, is a bit trickier for me. Just throwing disgusting images at the screen will not make me laugh, gross-out comedy almost exclusively works only when placed in the proper context. I'm a Peter Jackson fanatic, but I find Braindead far more amusing than Meet the Feebles, as the context, and inherit plot of the former is just genuinely hilarious, whereas I find the later simply too abstract.
So for the most part, I didn't laugh at any of the Jackass crew's bodily function based humour. I see the humour in it, and I wasn't so disgusted that I had to turn away, but it just didn't make me laugh. The same thing goes for the film's many (mostly) well-planned pranks. I appreciated the elaborately planned pranks (like the big one that more or less closes out the show) but it was the more simple pranks, and the ones that resulted in instant, physical damage to the prankee that managed to pull a giggle from my throat. Some of the bigger pranks were too repetitive, and sadly, downright boring.
What I did finally realise about halfway through the film was that what these idiots were accomplishing, intentionally or not, was a violent form of performance art. Jackass is the 21st Century answer to late 20th Century Dadaist and comedic performance art pioneers like Andy Kaufman. The main difference being that Jackass aims its ire at its performers over its audience (like gross-out performance pioneer G.G. Allan, most likely a favourite of the Jackass crew), and is paced for the MTV generation. It's the perfect amalgamation of the most popular performance art categories of recent decades– the sketch show, and the reality show. Despite Johnny Knoxville's obviously intentionally ironic T-shirt that states, "F**k Art, Let's Dance", he and his friends have birthed an insanely popular, and depressingly relevant art form. For that, I have to give them credit.
The video quality varies throughout the picture, but considering the non-theatrical feel to the majority of the film, this isn't too surprising. Sometimes things are incredibly grainy, other times details are insanely sharp. It's all kind of a crapshoot. The one deterring element throughout the print is the presence of edge-enhancement, but who here watches these flicks for their pristine video presentations? Do we really need to see every specific chunk of Steve-O's vomit? So long as it's anamorphically enhanced and readable fans should be happy.
The only time the digital sound is at all required is when the soundtrack kicks in. The film seems to have been recorded with a solitary channel because I didn't notice any directional effects coming from the on-screen action. The dialogue is clear enough, and most of the tracks distortion is due to an explosion or riotous laughter over-loading the on-set mic. The musical selections will give a good system a work out, especially the use of Peaches' bass heavy track 'F**k The Pain Away', which plays in its near entirety.
This single disc set is more loaded than some two disc sets I've purchased (I'm looking at you, Goodfellas special edition), and fans should be happy to know that the majority of the extras are additional stunt and prank footage. Our first bit of nasty business is the cast commentary, which is pretty much exactly what one might expect-a bunch of jackasses laughing at their own jokes. There's some solid behind the scenes information, but mostly it's all about the giggles, which are sometimes quite infectious, but ultimately very tiring. It's always a good time listening to people make fun of Bam's tears though.
There's a 30 minute making-of featurette, which cuts together some funny interviews and behind the scenes footage. Not much to learn here, as the film itself is effectively a documentary, but the unbelievable comradely of these bastards does shine like a polished turd. It's amazing a man can love another man so much, even after that other man has crushed his head with garbage can lids. At the end of the document we learn that Knoxville had an insatiable need to film himself getting injured, to the point that he refused to quit filming even after the movie was in the can. For a guy with a successful Hollywood career, this behaviour strikes me as particularly psychotic. Perhaps that's why we love him though.
Then there are a whole Hell of a lot of deleted scenes, which have been curiously placed into a few varying categories. They are all deleted and extended scenes, despite their categorisation. the unrated additional segments should've probably been called The Penis Reel, as this was the stuff the director and producers were too afraid to even put into the unrated cut of the film. These are introduced by Bam, who warns the more homophobic members of the audience things are about to get a little gay. I admit that this stuff made me wince, especially the Indian man and his penile wrapping skills.
The deleted scenes and additional segments are as mixed a bag as the film. Some of the stunts here are funnier than some of the ones that made it into the film, but the elongated and additional old couple pranks are really dull and deserved to find their way onto the cutting room floor. Of course, there's a whole bunch more waste vacating bodies here, and that's honestly something I could do without seeing. The deleted scenes also curiously contain quite a few celebrity cameos.
The outtakes section is not so surprisingly brief, considering the fact that there really aren't any 'bloopers' on Jackass. This reel is mostly made up of flubbed lines.
The rest of the disc is promotional stuff. This includes a music video, which destroys any doubt as to the homoerotic nature of these friends, a collection of trailers and TV spots, and some MTV Video Music Awards promo spots. The trailers, especially the TV spot where Knoxville straps on a blindfold in preparation for an unseen assaulter, are honestly brilliant.
It's really not my bag, this Jackass Number Two, but I really, truly, and honestly respect these guys as artists, entertainers, and most of all, complete idiots. I won't be looking forward to Jackass Number Three myself, but I do finally get what all the frat boy fuss is about. Fans should revel in this DVD with effectively doubles the runtime of the film with deleted scenes. Despite my negative comments and overall score, people should probably see this as a positive review, especially considering how much I assumed I'd detest the film. If you'll excuse me, I'm going to bury this DVD in my backyard so I never have to watch Steve-O puke up spaghetti again.
Review by Gabriel Powers
Ray Waterway Member Join Date: September 2004 Location: United States Posts: 462
Loved the movie, and I loved the review. Thanks for this! I thought the opening scene alone was worth my $20 I spent on this DVD...
Frank The Rabbit Member Join Date: March 2005 Location: United States Posts: 180
Ouch $20!
Slow news week guy? This is the first post in a week!
Slow news week guy? This is the first post in a week!
Gabe Powers Editor Join Date: September 2004 Location: United States Posts: 4,721
I've actually been moving and dealing with the Holidays. I should have three more belated reviews up sometime this coming week.
AdAmAs Member Join Date: February 2006 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 106
I was curious about the use of CGI in the opening sequence, does the Making Of... sequence show you anything about it?
Tony DeFrancisco Senior Member Join Date: July 2005 Location: United States Posts: 2,652
Great review Gabe! Saw this in the theaters with a few buddies and had a blast.
Ray Waterway Member Join Date: September 2004 Location: United States Posts: 462
My bad - just looked at the receipt - it was $16.
Version 1 Member Join Date: January 2006 Location: United States Posts: 238
Dude,how can anyone hate Viva La Bam,that show ruled!!!!
Gabe Powers Editor Join Date: September 2004 Location: United States Posts: 4,721
I hate it because I'm not fond of selfish spoiled brats with their own TV show. But that's just me.
Fabricio De Zuasnabar Member Join Date: July 2005 Location: United States Posts: 1,350
i must say this movie is quite stupid and they are completely retarded! but I also should say that I laughed out loud (in some occasions) it's fun!
but really a movie to watch it once...
but really a movie to watch it once...
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Disc Details
Release Date: 26th December 2006
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Single side, dual layer
RCE: No
Video: NTSC
Aspect: 1.78:1
Anamorphic: Yes
Colour: Yes
Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 English, Dolby Digital 2.0 English
Subtitles: English, Spanish
Extras: Director/Cast Commentary, The Making of Jackass Number Two, 16 Deleted Scenes, 29 Additional Segments, 9 TV Spots, 8 Promotional Spots, Outtakes, Karazy Music Video, Trailer, VMA Spots
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Jeff Tremaine
Cast: Johnny Knoxville, Bam Margera, Steve-O, Chris Pontius, Preston Lacy
Genre: Comedy
Length: 93 minutes
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Google, the pride of open everything, uses real blurry house number images as its Captchas, so that the general public can tell them what the number really is.
An openly available image of Sergey Brin in the open air.(Credit: Google+,Sergey Brin)
I have spent much of the day blurry-eyed, moved by Google's Sergey Brin declaring his company the only great defender of the open Web.
The tears have, it has come to my attention, mainly emerged from laughter at Google's sweet, thoughtful gall that everything it claims the world desires just happens coincidentally to benefit it commercially.
Still, no sooner had my eyes dried a little when the Telegraph offered me Google' latest exemplar of sheer, beautiful openness.
For it seems that Google is using real images from Street View as security checks. Yes, if you want to access your own Google account, the company is asking you to decipher a slightly blurry image of a real house number.
It seems that if enough people decide on a particular number, then Google sharpens up the image on Street View.
Yes, you are being asked to work for Google, Openly. For free. And if you don't, well, you may not be able to access your own Google account.
The Telegraph naturally declares that certain privacy groups are foaming at the lips on hearing of this little scheme — which, according to a Google spokesman, only occurs in 10 percent of security questions.
But surely some people, on hearing of this and Google being fined $25,000 by the FCC for, um, non-compliance with its inquiry into Wi-Fi eavesdropping, might feel that openness has a highly subjective definition in Google's complex collective cranium.
Google's version of the open Web seems very simple: let us get at everything. Whether it's books, streets, houses, Facebook accounts, iPhoto accumulations or perhaps even the remains of your spaghetti bolognese.
Something is open if Google can see it and scrape it. And when Google sees it and scrapes it, it can create a fuller picture of every element of your life — just in case, you know, some lonely advertiser might pass by and show interest.
Some might call this freedom. There again, doesn't freedom sometimes entail being free not to let rapacious, baby-faced organizations peer into your life?
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GOP hopeful Fred Karger visits CMU; first openly gay man to seek nomination
Fred Karger was not followed into Anspach Hall on Tuesday evening by a swarm of assistants and photographers.
Neither would one suspect, just by looking at him, that he is the first openly gay man to seek the nomination for president of the United States from either of the two major political parties.
"I do everything the big campaigns do but on a more limited basis," Karger said. "Everything's done differently — you don't see the big entourage; you don't see the national press with me."
Karger spoke at 9 p.m. Tuesday in Anspach 169 to members of the College Republicans and Spectrum.
Karger, a California native, said when he first decided he wanted to run for president, he kept it to himself. Though he has worked on many presidential campaigns, including those of Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, he has never held a political office, according to his website.
He said he always wanted to run for a political position but was never able to before.
"I knew I could never run ... because I was gay, just like I would go to dozens and dozens of weddings for friends and relatives and I just knew as I would sit there, or be standing up or something, that I would never get married," he said.
Karger said things have changed since he started his career in the early '70s. After he retired from his long career as a political consultant in 2004, he spent time as a gay rights activist in California, opposing Proposition 8, which banned same-sex couples from marrying in the state.
Being a vocal opponent for Proposition 8 meant Karger had to publicly come out, he said.
"(Publicly coming out) normally wouldn't affect someone who was gay — I mean, my family knew, my coworkers knew, close friends and everything, but it wasn't public. And because I'd had a fairly high-profile life in politics it became a little more interesting. So I did that, but it was very difficult for me," he said.
He said he had the idea to run for president after he had come out and received widespread attention because of his work against Proposition 8, which included launching a boycott against a hotel mogul who donated to the pro-Proposition 8 campaign.
Karger visited Washington, D.C. and New York City and decided not to run for president.
But then, he said, he visited the University of New Hampshire.
"The first night there, I met up with these 35 or 40 students from the (University's) Gay Straight Alliance, and they were in a room about half the size (of Anspach 150) or less on the floor," he said.
At the start of his speech, he said, the students were a little apprehensive, because they did not know who he was.
"But I told my story, and I guess they were kind of in awe that a gay man could run for president of the United States. I got all these Facebook messages and emails, and I did a reversal and decided I would run," he said.
Karger said his campaign found out last week that he would be placed on the ballot in California — the five others being Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul and Buddy Roemer, who is a former Louisiana governor and Congressman.
Karger has recently been placed on the ballot for Michigan as well, which he said opened the door to be placed on the ballot in North Carolina, Maryland and Puerto Rico.
At the speech he gave on Tuesday, he marketed himself as a moderate Republican. He said his moderate views and willingness to compromise set him apart from the other candidates. He said compromising is a skill he learned from his mentor, Ronald Reagan, who told Karger that if he got 80 percent of what he wanted, he was happy.
"I think it's a new paradigm for the Republican Party. I'd like to see more moderate Republicans on social issues but still preaching this fiscally conservative platform. I think that's where the Republicans are going in the future, and Fred Karger is ahead of his time," said Macomb junior Justin Gawronski, president of Spectrum.
Karger has been visiting colleges around Michigan trying to garner support. He said he has visited Adrian, Michigan State University and the University of Michigan and has more colleges to visit in the coming weeks.
He said he will be going after Democrats to vote in the Republican primaries since Michigan does not have closed primaries like many other states. He said Democrats should vote for him, because he has a lot of the same social values and understands the need to be inclusive and compromise to resolve Congressional deadlock.
"I thought he (showed) a lot of courage. I mean, I've been involved in Republican politics, and it's a very unfriendly place for the gay/lesbian/transgender community," said Clinton Township senior Stephanie Jaczkowski. "And so I think him just going out there and going straight for the presidential ticket shows a lot of courage and that he really believes his economic message. That was the best part of the whole thing. We haven't heard anybody come out on this and say 'the economy is what's wrong.' That's Mitt Romney's platform, but it's not like Fred, who just comes out and just goes right at it and wants to cut out whatever needs to be cut out"


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Apple Lawyers "Counsel" with Rubber Hoses.
But Apple's goose is cooked no matter how much they "hose" the Psystar dweebs, the horses are already out of the barn when Apple switched to a generic Intel PC platform for greedy reasons (to get cheap and ALL of Intel's NAND production run). Sticking on a single OS blocking PROM on an essentially generic platform (at twice the price for the Apple Premium) that could just as easily be in a POS Dell made in the very same Chinese Sweatshop mud brick "factories", is not enough to convince any Judge that Macs are anything but a plain ol "my too PC". So any claims of anyone not having "permission" to slap OS heXed on some other generic PC box is just something Apple will not be able to defend.
Smart Ass Stevie? You cooked you greedy own ass. Bwah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.........
Prediction - look for more Clone "me too Macs" coming down the pike and AAPL flailing to $19. p/ share. Oh there won't be more OS X powered Macs, just less that Apple will sell.


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Fascinating Drawings from #DoMoreHIT Dell Healthcare Think Tank Event
John Lynn is the Founder of the HealthcareScene.com blog network which currently consists of 10 blogs containing over 8000 articles with John having written over 4000 of the articles himself. These EMR and Healthcare IT related articles have been viewed over 16 million times. John also manages Healthcare IT Central and Healthcare IT Today, the leading career Health IT job board and blog. John is co-founder of InfluentialNetworks.com and Physia.com. John is highly involved in social media, and in addition to his blogs can also be found on Twitter: @techguy and @ehrandhit and LinkedIn.
This week I got the change to spend the day at SXSW at the Dell Healthcare Think Tank event. This is my third year in a row participating and it's always an exciting event. In case you missed it, I've embedded the 3 Healthcare Think Tank sessions on EMR and HIPAA so you can watch the recorded video stream from the event.
Also, during each of the three sessions of the event, an artist was capturing what was being said. You can see each of the three drawings below (Click on the drawing to make it larger).
Session 1: Consumer Engagement & Social Media
Session 2: Bridging the Gap Between Providers, Payers and Patients


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What do you do if you have lost someone to suicide?
Losing someone to suicide is different than losing someone to other causes of death. When someone dies by suicide, those left behind often feel guilt, anger, and other feelings such as depression or confusion about why the person wanted to die.
To find a support group in your area that deals with losing someone who died by suicide, click here.


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In a country halfway around the world, wheat harvest is under way. Enormous fields meander along a rolling farm landscape that stretches for miles. Flat-topped hills sit in the distance, highlighting why this area is called the steppe region of central Asia. It is part of a country called Kazakhstan.
Most American farmers have not heard of Kazakhstan, but eventually they will. With its massive wheat harvest, Kazakhstan is quickly joining the global era. John Deere and Case IH combines weave through its fields next to Russian combines. Grain is unloaded into U.S.-manufactured Balzer grain carts for immediate electronic weighing. Farm managers travel to the U.S. for training on the equipment and instruction in crop production.
The second-largest crop farmer in the world leases some of the expansive fields in this beautiful grassland. Nurlan Tleubayev farms 1.995 million acres in Kazakhstan. His leases on the land extend for 49 years. They are from former collective workers who farmed it when the country was part of the Soviet Union. Kazakhstan became its own country in 1991, and at that time capitalism was a seed just starting to grow. Entrepreneurs like Tleubayev grabbed hold of opportunity and ran with it.
The largest farm operation in the world also is in Kazakhstan. The farmer who owns this operation is Russian and splits his farm of an estimated 2.5 million acres between the two countries.
How fortunate for Tleubayev and his global neighbor that wheat prices have skyrocketed. And how fortunate for European and American companies that sell equipment, seed and chemicals that these new customers are available.
Asian gold rush
Tleubayev says that he recently committed $78 million in orders for U.S. and Canadian farm equipment for this year. He can take advantage of the high wheat prices to invest in new equipment for his Kazakhstan fields. This area along with Russia and other former Soviet countries are all behind the technology curve compared to Europe and the United States. But now they have the money to upgrade. As a result, these booming ag economies are referred to as the new gold rush.
But Kazakhstan's agricultural business hasn't been golden until recently. The country desperately struggled to farm even a third of the land that was farmed when Russia was in charge. After Soviet control ended, the acres farmed dropped dramatically — from 74 million in 1991 to 24 million in 1998.
"It was a terrible situation for agriculture in Kazakhstan," Tleubayev recalls. But he was in the right place at the right time. Born in a small village, he grew up farming with his father and seven siblings on a collective farm. After serving in the Soviet military, he went to a university. Just as he graduated, Soviet rule ended and he started his own business buying farm companies in bankruptcy. He also bought and sold grain. By 1999, he had nearly 100,000 acres of land.
"When I started, it was just the production of grain," Tleubayev relates. "Then I had a problem because I had no place to keep the grain. So now I have 16 grain elevators where I can keep 2 million tons of grain. In order to export grain, I had to find new markets like Africa, Egypt, Italy and Greece. Now I have a terminal that I bought on the Black Sea to serve the whole world." He also started companies to manage all the pieces of his businesses, like insurance, inspections, leasing, elevators and even fuel.
Tleubayev is referred to as "The King" in Kazakhstan. He is president of a grain union and says he has had to become a specialist in nearly every area of agriculture. "Many people come to me to ask advice and I cannot make mistakes," he says. He is clearly a driven man who has his sights set on farming a total of 2.9 million acres. Then, he says, he will stop. But it's doubtful he will stop building other businesses. Not long ago, he started a construction company in the country's new capital Astana to even out his cash flow. The construction company now posts $100 million in annual sales and is one of the five largest companies in the city.
Local growth
The incredible growth of Tleubayev's businesses has helped inject economic life into farm communities that for years struggled financially. He leases the land and then hires local people to manage and farm it for him. Vladimir Kazarkin is one of those employees. He is director of a 50,000-acre farm where he worked when it was a collective for the Soviets.
"When I started here, agriculture started growing because it brought new technology and it brought new life," Kazarkin says. Instead of relying only on Russian equipment that was less efficient and required frequent maintenance, the farm now uses John Deere and Case IH combines, tractors and seeders.
Tleubayev's inventory of working equipment needed to farm his land includes 51 Deere, 72 Case IH and 298 Russian combines; 114 Balzer grain carts; 129 Deere and Case IH tractors and seeders; and 98 sprayers. "One John Deere combine is worth two Russian combines," he states. Russian equipment companies are now buying components like transmissions and rear axles from Europe to improve the quality of their machines, but prices have increased as well, he adds.
Under private owners and managers, land productivity has improved. "For 36 years, wheat production was 1 ton/hectare. Since Kazakhstan became independent 16 years ago, harvest is now 1.1 tons/hectare [0.45 ton/acre]," Tleubayev says. In comparison, Canadian wheat harvest is 2.5 tons/hectare (1 ton/acre).
Low production costs and high wheat prices have bolstered Tleubayev's profitability. Based on September 2007 wheat prices, he was earning $46/acre profit for wheat. A year earlier, it was only $2/acre. The wheat land in Kazakhstan is located as far north as the U.S.-Canada border. Little fertilizer is used and virtually no pesticides. Every five years, land is rotated into a fallow period.
"Kazakhstan will never be a competitor to the U.S. or Canada because there is not enough wheat grown in the world," Tleubayev says. "The production of wheat in the last 15 years has not increased."
Upward track
Kazakhstan's grain production should grow in the future, especially with people like Tleubayev infusing capital into new technology and production. He expects the country will add another 17 million acres of grain production in the next several years.
Companies like John Deere that sell in this market are helping Kazakhstan's agriculture improve, too. Eurasia, John Deere's distributor in Kazakhstan, has trained 1,000 workers to operate tractors and combines. According to Eurasia's Mustafa Sahin, finding qualified workers is a big problem in the country. To help train its customers' employees, Eurasia holds several workshops, including a farm-vehicle driving school and a workshop on vehicle maintenance. The company also started pilot projects on six farms to demonstrate no-till, minimum-till and standard tillage methods.
Eurasia is building new office facilities in Kokshetau, a northern city located in the wheat fields. Included in its building plan is a new educational facility for training and a health clinic. Poor health is a problem, Sahin adds.
"We are pioneers here," he says. "There are so many opportunities, but limited workers. That's why we're opening our own school."
Although Tleubayev is Eurasia's largest customer, the company sells equipment to another 300 farmers in Kazakhstan. Sahin says most farmers in the wheat area farm between 12,000 and 170,000 acres.
While it has taken more than 15 years, Kazakhstan's agriculture industry is on an upward track. Farmers here have already bought all the John Deere equipment allotted to this country for 2008. And no doubt they have bought the number of machines allotted by the other U.S. equipment companies selling here.
Booming wheat prices have helped build the industry short term, but the country's good cropland, capitalistic society and tolerant population all make Kazakhstan fertile ground for steady growth. More U.S. equipment and products will end up in this largely unknown country. It is on its way to being a major producer of food for the world.
Size: Ninth largest country in the world, behind India (seventh) and Argentina (eighth)
Population: 15.1 million people
Ethnic groups: 53% Kazakhs, 30%Russian, 4% Ukrainian, 2.5%Uzbek and 2.4% German
Religion: 47% Muslim, 44%Russian Orthodox, 2% Protestant
Location: Central Asia; it is equidistant from the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean


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10 Ways to Reuse a Clementine Box Around the Kitchen
Ah, clementines. We love their vibrant orange color and juicy sweetness. If you buy clementines in bulk this time of year, you may find you have a stack of wooden boxes piling up somewhere in your kitchen. Don't throw them away! These semi-sturdy containers can be repurposed around the kitchen in a multitude of ways. Here are 10 examples:
You can use a clementine box...
- To store your spice jars, via The Bitten Word
- To keep your fridge organized, via Susie J
- To keep your pantry organized, via Christine Chitnis
- To store potatoes, apples, onions, via Amanda Butina
- To store pre-made snack packages, via Treasuring Life's Blessings
- As a vegetable party platter, via Dear Baby
- As pantry shelves, via Like Mother, Like Daughter
- As a coffee (or tea!) station, via The DIY Dreamer
- As a planter on your kitchen windowsill, via Real Simple
- As a tray, via Home Bunch
How do you reuse clementine boxes in your kitchen?


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DUSSELDORF, Germany, Jan. 29 (UPI) -- The New Year has started strong for German defense companies, with orders logged for Asia and the Middle East as well as for Germany itself.
The Rheinmetall Group, which has headquarters in Dusseldorf, reports the receipt of multiple contracts from Malaysia, an unidentified Asian country and Kuwait for fire control radars, electro-optic systems and defense systems training.
The contracts received by Rheinmetall have an aggregate value of almost $377 million.
Meanwhile, the German navy's F125 class frigates are to be equipped with Cassidian's TRS-4D naval radar and the German army will receive thermal imaging units for its Leopard 2 battle tanks from Cassidian Optronics GmbH.
Cassidian Optronics is a subsidiary of Cassidian, which itself is a subsidiary of the EADS group, which has headquarters in the Netherlands.
Rheinmetall said the orders received all relate to air defense systems. Malaysia will be supplied with 12 radars TMX/EO Mk2 fire control radars and six electro-optical systems for six new navy patrol boats, it said. Under the contract, the company will provide spare parts and training and transfer technical expertise to local companies.
Delivery of the systems will begin in 2015 and end five years later.
"The Malaysian navy's new 'Second Generation Patrol Vessels Littoral Combat Ships' play a significant role in safeguarding regional sea lanes, where piracy poses a major threat to commercial shipping," Rheinmetall said. "Fire control technology from Rheinmetall will form a crucial element in the OPV's shipboard technology, controlling the vessel's primary and secondary armament.
"This important order underscores Rheinmetall's increasing importance as a supplier of advanced technology to the world's navies."
Rheinmetall said a second customer in Asia, which it didn't identify, ordered the company's Oerlikon Skyshield, a stationary air defense system to protect air force installations. Six systems will be provided. The first delivery will occur in 2014.
Kuwait's contract with Rheinmetall is for training air defense personnel in the use of Rheinmetall systems already in Kuwait's arsenal, including the 35mm Skyguard system.
The contract is for three years and includes the construction of training centers.
While Rheinmetall's contracts came from international customers, Cassidian's were for the German military. Four F125 frigates being built will be supplied with the company's TRS-4D radar, which uses Active Electronically Scanned Array radar -- based on multiple independent emitters and which delivers unprecedented detection performance.
The first system, which will be land based, is to be delivered to the German navy next month. The first system for the first F125 frigate -- the Baden-Württemberg -- will be delivered in August.
"This new radar guarantees high operational availability on long-term missions and also improves the survivability of navy ships," said Elmar Compans, head of the Sensors and Electronic Warfare unit at Cassidian.
The German army is also on the order books for Cassidian. The company's Optronics subsidiary, under a $9.4 million deal, is delivering its third-generation thermal imaging system, called Attica.
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Ryan Phillippe Reveals How His Daughter Brought Both Him & Reese Witherspoon To Tears!
He also had to explain to his mother why everyone thinks he's a 'DILF!'
Ryan Phillippe dropped by The Ellen DeGeneres Show on March 11 and shared how he's able to not only parent functionally with his ex-wife Reese Witherspoon but how their children make them so proud they are moved to tears!
Ryan, 36, said he and Reese, 34, recently attended a school function where their daughter Ava, 11, read a speech about clean water in Africa inspired by Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have A Dream." Her reading was so powerful Ryan said he and Reese both started to cry.
"[Ava's] mom and dad were just so blown away and [she] inspires us on a daily basis," he said.
When host Ellen DeGeneres complimented him for doing such a good job raising the kids with Reese even though they're divorced, Ryan said, "I think we've done a heck of a job."
Ryan also shared a funny anecdote about being a famous child. He said his mother frequently reads celebrity websites and often asks him about what is true. Ryan said she was upset when she started hearing him referred to as a DILF, shorthand for "Dad I'd Like to F–k."
"She took particular umbrage with this," Ryan says. "She said, 'I always read in the comments that they call you a DILF.' She goes, 'I don't like that. I don't know what that means but I don't like.'"
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...doesn't it seem like we do a lot of things just because we can these days? Cars seem to be a prime example.
I wouldn't be surprised if at some point we may see car-bus systems extend out to the periphery, i.e. turning light assemblies, etc. being powered by a common voltage bus but commanded via a CAN or similar RS485 communication system to save on wiring and weight.
with car companies arguing that it's perfectly OK to charge $20k+ for a OEM diagnostics tool that no independent shop can justify while dealerships get them virtually free.
like Bluetooth integration for the phone so that you can call people if you're stuck in traffic.
...I do have a new car these days but here's my last car, pretty much like yours I suspect... Petrol consumption was diabolical (I carried 8 jerry cans in the back) but I bet you can't carry your firewood on the bull bar like that Damn that was a good car, I wish I never sold it and am seriously thinking of looking for another one.


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text: This week has been a very hard week for my family. My grandmother passed early this morning with all of us by her side. Then, after my sister and I drove back to TN to collect our spouses before the services tomorrow and Monday, my sister's beloved English bulldog, Lola, died. There was a mishap with their gate and fence, and she and their other dog got out. They were unaware they were even out of the yard, and they ran onto a busy rode in our town. Lola was hit and killed, and our family is just devastated. I tried to find some photos on my computer of her, but they're all in print. She was 5 and was my sister's first "baby" before she had her 2 children. She was one of the sweetest and happiest dogs I've ever encountered and LOVED those children. I just wanted to share this as we are in need of prayers at this time.


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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Lipscomb softball hosts UAB Thursday afternoon at Draper Diamond in the first of two midweek non-conference doubleheaders against Conference USA schools. The first game is scheduled to begin at 3 p.m.
The Lady Bison are rolling, entering Thursday's doubleheader as winners of seven straight. Lipscomb has yet to drop a home game this season after winning six home contests last week, including a 4-0 sweep through the competition at the Lady Bison Classic over the weekend.
During Sunday's game against Alabama State, senior Whitney Kiihnl earned her 1,000th career strikeout, becoming the third Atlantic Sun pitcher in league history to accomplish that feat. Behind that milestone and four victories last week, Kiihnl earned her second A-Sun Pitcher of the Week award of the season, and the 11th of her career.
Redshirt freshman Ashley Anderson is starting to emerge from Kiihnl's shadow. She hasn't allowed an earned run in 17 innings, picking up her first career shutout victory Sunday against Alabama State and picking up the save later that day against MTSU.
Last Time Against UAB
Lipscomb last faced UAB in 2010, and took three of four from the Blazers. On April 20, the Lady Bison split a doubleheader at Draper Diamond, winning the opening pitcher's duel 1-0 and losing the 7-5 slugfest. At the NCAA Regional in Tuscaloosa, the Lady Bison defeated UAB twice (4-1 and 7-6) to advance to the Region final against top-ranked Alabama.
Big Hitting, Power Pitching Pace Lady Bison
Kiihnl hit .600 and struck out her 1,000th career batter over the course of Lipscomb's 4-0 showing at the Lady Bison Classic. Kiihnl struck out a season-high tying 11 against Drake before reaching the milestone against MTSU. Kelsey Cartwright hit .444 with three homers, including a grand slam and a solo shot against Alabama State.
Lipscomb By the Numbers
The first NCAA stat rankings were released Monday and Lipscomb ranks high in several categories. Kiihnl is second in the nation in wins (13) and third in shutouts (six), while also earning top-100 standing in strikeouts (20th, 100), strikeouts per seven innings (92nd, 7.2) and ERA (97th, 2.03). Cartwright ranks in the top-100 in home runs (25th, seven), slugging (34th, .833) and runs per game (93rd, 0.9). Lipscomb as a team posted top-100 marks in home runs per game (36th, 0.9), W/L percentage (41st, .714), slugging (59th, .439), ERA (2.63, 78th), scoring (83rd, 4.95) and steals per game (86th, 1.24).
Quick Scout
Sophomore hurler Leigh Streetman, a C-USA All-Freshman team selection last year, has a respectable 3-3 record and 3.21 ERA so far in 2012, but may have been usurped on the mound by classmate Lannah Campbell, a little-used utility player last year. She enters Thursday sporting a 5-3 record and 1.52 ERA.
Catcher Mandy Lowman, a two-time All-CUSA selection, has been on a roll this year. The senior is hitting .451 with five home runs and 15 RBI, while sophomore Kristen McGrath has five homers herself to go with 13 RBI. Senior Catherine Crawford is helping out at the plate as well, with her .327 average including four doubles and four triples.
Common Foes
UAB has faced top-ranked Alabama and Jacksonville State, two teams the Lady Bison saw at the early-season Mardi Gras Tournament. The Blazers fell twice to Alabama, 8-1 on Feb. 21 and again at the Alabama Invite, March 4, in a 4-1 defeat. UAB lost to Jacksonville State, 6-5, March 6 in a home single-game match-up. The Blazers swept A-Sun foe Kennesaw State in a Feb. 28 doubleheader.
Anderson, Kiihnl Shine Against IPFW
Strong pitching performances by Kiihnl and Ashley Anderson gave the Lady Bison a midweek sweep of IPFW at Draper Diamond. Kiihnl scattered three hits and struck out eight in the opener, an 8-0 run-rule victory highlighted by home runs from Haley Elliott and Bridgette Begle. Anderson struck out nine in the second game, making a two-run home run by Kelsey Cartwright stand up for the victory. The win is the first of Anderson's Lady Bison career.
Fact of the Week
In the last three years, UAB is 8-4 against Atlantic Sun opponents. Three of those losses were to Lipscomb, with the other coming at Kennesaw State last season.
On Deck
The Lady Bison host Marshall at Draper Diamond Monday, March 19 in a doubleheader beginning at 2 p.m. Lipscomb will travel to San Luis Obispo, Calif. for the Mustang Classic, next weekend.


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What about having a washer/dryer if there isn't one in your RV? It's barely mentioned by anyone, so far, which means everyone has one or it's really not that important. I am shopping RVs and I am finding that most of my favorites have no washer/dryer set up. I've been ruling those out, because back in the day when I didn't have these in my house, the laundromat was the only option. Are laundromats different in RV parks? My experiences have been not so good: machines not working, dryers too hot, people leaving clothes in washer or dryer and leaving, people taking up several machines at once, children who are out of control, etc. It's not always bad, but in a shopping center's laundromat, you never know what you're going to get. This makes me worried about buying an RV that has everything I want except a washer/dryer. Are laundromats in an RV park a nice place to chat and get to know the people and tend to your machine as needed or is it hit or miss?
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Aside from having two successful food blogs and being an expert on all things Malaysian, Bee is a genuinely nice person whom I had the pleasure to meet a couple weeks ago. I've been a big fan of Rasa Malaysia since I first started blogging and her newest blog Nyonya Food is a growing compendium of tastes and traditions from her homeland. I was thrilled when she agreed to write a guest post, but I started drooling when she sent me a preview pic of the this dish.
A few weeks ago, I met Marc and the Zen of Zen Can Cook in New York City. We had so much fun and shared deep conversations about food, blogging and our dreams over a delicious yakitori dinner. After I came back, Marc invited me to guest post on No Recipes and I gladly said yes as Marc was kind enough to write a post on Rasa Malaysia a while back. So, this is my "payback" time! wink
For my guest post, I choose a classic Malaysia street food dish: curry-flavored grilled clams. I was born and raised in Penang, Malaysia– the food Mecca and the capital of street food in Malaysia, if not the region. Throngs of tourists from all over the world come to Penang for its legendary street food (known locally as "hawker food")– hot dishes, snacks, and small bites sold by vendors at hawker centers, kopitiam (local coffee shops), or mobile pushcarts.
Grilled curry clams are often sold by ikan panggang (grilled fish) vendors. The setup is pretty basic: a big and hot flat griddle for grilling fish/seafood and a gas burner. The fresh bounty is displayed at the stall and diners pick their desired fish or seafood, and the vendor will then place the seafood on top of banana leaves and grill it on demand. The tempting aroma of burnt banana leaves and the smoky fragrance of cooked seafood are simply delectable and always set my mouth watering.
Now that I live in the United States, I would always recreate my favorite street food dishes whenever I have cravings. Making authentic Malaysian food in my tiny American kitchen has been quite challenging (my smoke alarm goes off every time I cook!), but I manage to make it work. I grilled these curry clams over my gas stove, using a deep pan (as pictured) or a flat griddle, and I have myself some scrumptious grilled curry clams in less than 30 minutes. The best part? You need only a few ingredients to make this dish.
- Rinse clams with cold water thoroughly, scrub the shells, drain the water, and set aside.
- Heat up the pan on medium heat and add a little cooking oil to coat the surface. Lay the banana leaves on top of the pan. Add the remaining cooking oil onto the banana leaves, add clams into the pan and start stirring. As soon as the clams start to open, add curry powder, hot sauce, oyster sauce and stir well with the clams. Cover the pan with its lid and cook for a few minutes or until all clams are open.
- Dish out and serve immediately.
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The banana leaves will be burnt when the clams are cooked, but that's the essence of this dish as burnt banana leaves impart an impossibly earthy and tantalizing aroma to the clams.


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If you take Cal Ripken Jr. at his word, his quest to become baseball's all-time iron man was not a quest at all.
He would tell you — and he did many times after the Streak took on a life of its own — that his only obsession was with playing on that day, not the ones that came after or the ones that came before.
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I recently attended my 30th high school reunion. I was nervous. So nervous, in fact, that I had decided not to go. High school wasn't a laugh-riot for me though I wasn't bullied. My marks were good. I had friends.
Sadly though, one of those friends betrayed me. After two years of being with the first boy I'd said I loved, the first boy I had sex with, we broke up when I went to school in another city. Days after we broke up and just days before I left, I went to a party. There, on a couch sitting on my now-ex's lap, was my friend.
You could say that what she did was fine -- after all, he and I had broken up. We weren't technically going out. That's essentially what she said.
But I know better.
Friends don't do that to other friends. There are enough guys in the world that, unless you're convinced this one is your soulmate and you're willing to sacrifice your friendship for that, you can obey the law of the sisterhood. She and he broke up a month or two later when she started dating another guy.
It took me years to get over my anger. Her name made my blood boil. The thought of her having any measure of happiness in life seemed like a bad karmic joke. Eventually I got past it, though I've nursed a simmering resentment for the decades since.
So when she was one of the first to RSVP to the reunion, I decided to just stay home.
At the last minute, however, I changed my mind.
I'd had a mind-shift. I remembered back to what I knew of her before she dated my ex. She craved attention from men. She was self-absorbed. Almost childish at times. With what I know now, it's easy for me to recognize that she desperately needed validation from others (men!) that she was worthy. She's now on husband #3 so apparently she's still looking.
But I was able to recognize that her dating my ex wasn't about trying to hurt me. It wasn't about me at all. Surely she knew that my still-aching heart would be a casualty of her choice. But obviously I didn't matter more than her need to have someone pick her.
I decided that I would attend the reunion and that I would let go of 30 years of bitterness. That I would note the fact that all of us had undoubtedly changed in three decades, including me.
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OLYMPIA More than two-thirds of incumbent Sen. John S. Smith's more than $90,000 in campaign contributions have come from donors outside the 7th Legislative District.
His opponent, Brian R. Dansel, has raised more than $13,000, with 13.75 percent of the contributions coming from out-of-district sources, state Public Disclosure Commission records show.
The two are vying for the position to which Smith was appointed earlier this year after the resignation of longtime Sen. Bob Morton. They will meet in the Nov. 5 general election.
Colville Republican Smith's war chest topped $90,000 as of Oct. 17, state Public Disclosure Commission reports show.
Fellow Republican Dansel, a Ferry County commissioner from Republic, had raised nearly $14,000.
Records show 67.36 percent – or more than $60,600 — of Smith's $90,058 in contributions came from outside donors, including several national and regional corporations and political action committees.
Dansel had raised more than $13,800, with $1,900 coming from out-of-district donors.
Dansel said he's proud that most of his contributions came from people who live in the district and not out-of-area corporations, lobbyists and individuals.
"What do they want to do with the 7th District Senate? Why so much for a little race? What's the price of that campaign check?" Dansel asked.
Smith said it's a "misrepresentation" that he has a high percentage of out-of-district contributions. He said a lot of the donations came from groups to which local businesses and residents belong.
"I'm supported by a broad sector of the business community," he said.
And, as vice chairman of the Senate Trade and Economic Development Committee, he said the contributions reflect that he supports a business-friendly atmosphere.
He said he understands Dansel has received some business donations that haven't yet been reported to the Public Disclosure Commission.
Smith has spent $83,173.17. Cash contributions were $96,079, in-kind contributions $1,345, anonymous donations $60, miscellaneous contributions $5.24 and small contributions, $1,274.
Dansel's total contributions were $13,819.13, with a total of $9,707.24 spent. Cash contributions were $13,329.13, personal funds $100 and small contributions $390.
Public Disclosure Commission records show contributions made after Aug. 6 were:
Smith — Farmers Employees and Agents, Olympia, $1,800 (two contributions); Sabey Corp., Seattle, $900; The Kroger Co., Cincinnati, Ohio, $900; United Subcontractors Association PAC, Lakewood, $900; USAA, San Antonio, Texas, $900; Walmart, Omak, $1,800 (two contributions); James Hall, Springdale, $100; BNSF Railway Co., Fort Worth, Texas, $900; Big I PAC, Bellevue, $500; Chris Patterson, Spokane, $160; Dalene Patterson, Spokane, $160; Grant C. Peterson, Chewelah, $160; Linda R. Peterson, Chewelah, $160; Chris Patterson, Spokane, $90; Dalene Patterson, Spokane, $90; Linda Parlette, Wenatchee, 12th District senator, $50; Robert Parlette, Wenatchee, $50; fundraiser proceeds, $2,380; BP North America Employee PAC, Houston, Texas, $900; Pat Bell, Renton, $150; Ash Grove Cement Co., Overland Park, Kan., $500; Nate Narrance, Colbert, $250; Shannon K. Kelly, Colfax, $200; Michael A. Poulson, Connell, $160; Patrick Boss, Moses Lake, $100; Stephanie Cates, Greenacres, $100; Donna Kuhn, Spokane, $100; Phil Stalp, Colville, $100; Shelia Stalp, Colville, $100; Susan A. Wilmoth, Spokane, $100; Kenneth A. Garceau, Spokane, $50; Gretchen McDevitt, Spokane, $50; Perky Osborne, Colville, $50; Kevin Parker, Spokane, $50; Michael A. Poulson, Connell, $50;
Jim Abel, Spokane, $40; Tianna Abel, Spokane, $40; Bonnie Bell-Anderson, Spokane, $40; Judy Greenough, Colville, $40; Steve Greenough, Colville, $40; Carmen Hardy, Spokane, $40; Jennifer Hardy, Spokane, $40; Virgil Hoeft, Spokane, $40; Eric Hubler, Spokane, $40; Peggy Hubler, Spokane, $40; Donna Kuhn, Spokane, $40; Mike Padden, Spokane Valley, $40; Adam Pope, Nine Mile Falls, $40; Tish Pope, Nine Mile Falls, $40; Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp., East Hanover, N.J., $900; Jack Hopkins, Oknaogan, $300; Harmony House Health Care Center LLC, Brewster, $250; Deanna Houston, Okanogan, $250 (two contributions); Steve Houston, Okanogan PUD commissioner, $250 (two contributions);Neely and Neely LLC, Omak, $100; John Sackman, Omak, $100; 24-7 Property Maintenance LLC, Omak, $50; Beverly D. Barker Springer, Okanogan, $50; Shirley Berschauer, Omak, $50; Tom Berschauer, Omak, $50; Don Coppock, Omak, $50; Lonni Coppock, Omak, $50; Kerry Malone, Omak, $50; Ralph S. Malone, Omak, $50; Okanogan Valley Realty LLC, Omak, $50; Deana Zakar, Republic, $50; Josh Zakar, Republic, $50; Dino Rossi, Sammamish, $250; Jim Abel, Spokane, $50; Tianna Abel, Spokane, $50; Dan Cleghorn, Chewelah, $50; Karen Cleghorn, Chewelah, $50; Matthew Pederson, Airway Heights, $40; Millenium Bulk Terminal – Longview LLC, Longview, $900; Puget Sound Energy, Bellevue, $900; Washington Hospital PAC, Seattle, $900; Washington Association of Realtors PAC, Olympia, $900; Northwest Sportfishing Industry WA PAC, Oregon City, Ore., $900; Charlie Crabtree, Bellingham, $250; Luke Esser, Bellevue, $250; Jeff Kent, Custer, $200; Washington State Council of Firefighters Support Team PAC, Olympia, $900; Alaska Airlines, Seattle, $900; Cascade Natural Gas, Kennewick, $500; Washington Affordable Housing Council, Olympia, $900; Bonnie Quinn, Spokane, $320; Johnson & Johnson, New Brunswick, N.J., $500; PMSA Washington State PAC, San Francisco, Calif., $900; Northwest Dairymen's ACA, Seattle, $900; Ponderosa Republican Women, Spokane, $250; Washington Society of CPAs PAC, Bellevue, $900; Green Diamond Resource Co., Shelton, $900; Joe Thomas, Omak, $500.
Dansel – Washington Education Association, Federal Way, $900; Susan Richart, Chewelah, $250, James J. Andrew, Colville, $50.
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Since today feels like five Mondays rolled into one (there's nothing like a four-day weekend but man does Tuesday hit hard), I thought we'd take it easy and talk about our weekends. Mine was just what the doctor ordered. 4th of July weekend usually winds up being a letdown for me because everyone expects you to have great plans and, well, we never do. Not the case this year. We went to the beach on eastern Long Island with some friends who have a house out there and we had an absolute blast. There wasn't much sitting down and there was certainly no book reading or staring quietly into space (unless you count the shooting star sightings we got every night!) but boy was it fun.
Nick and I took Friday off and spent three nights and four days in full-on vacation mode (vacation mode with two children with us 24/7—we all slept in the same room—so not quite vacation vacation). We swam in the ocean, cooked delicious, fresh foods, ate ice cream at the beach, caught lightening bugs, played kickball and, yes, drank lots of wine. When we pulled into our driveway yesterday, Alex and I headed straight to his bed where we both passed out for two hours. An awesome weekend, indeed. Here are some pictures. Enjoy! And tell me how you celebrated the 4th….
Packing four people for the beach is no easy feat--you should have seen the rest of the car!
The Ruddy family on our first beach outing of Summer 2010!
It was a little too bright for photos....
Alex saw the big kids jumping off the lifeguard stand so he had to do it. I was not a fan.
My beach girl
The ocean was a brisk 64 degrees--and rough--but Alex and I braved it.
He got freezing and we got out almost immediately. But I went back in and LOVED it. So rereshing. Like, take-your-breath-away refreshing!
Two of my oldest girfriends. We can pick up where we left off like no time has passed at all--love that!
Alex vs. the sprinkler. Guess who won?
Adult time after the kids went to bed...nice!
Happy 4th everyone!!!


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Thrift Shops, in Belfast, are retail stores that sell secondhand goods and articles, especially clothes, at reduced prices for charitable purposes. However, the items taken or bought from patrons at these shops, are duly reviewed for damages before they are recycled.