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SFAmaral replied to h' Zerocats's discussion Anyone interested in volunteering for North Coast Music Festival?
"I can work the saturday early position, and maybe the sunday early. Hit me up"
Aug 19, 2010
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Jun 25, 2010
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Aug 12, 2009
SFAmaral is attending Kathy Schubert 'n Suzy Schnauzer's event

Tour of the 32nd Ward at Holstein Park

September 5, 2009 from 10am to 2pm
Saturday, September 05, 2009Tour of the 32nd WardSTART: Holstein Park, 2200 N. Oakley, Chicago10:00 AM20 miles, 10 to 12 mphWe will tour the interesting sites of the 32nd ward, which includes Bucktown, Wicker Park, Lincoln Park, West Lakeview, Roscoe Village and more. Stops at Our Lady of the Underpass, a state of the art energy saving home, recycling facilities on Goose Island*, an artistic fence are only a few to be included. The ride leader requests that all riders please wear a helmet.…See More
Aug 12, 2009
SFAmaral is attending DanaW's event

FBC Full Moon Fiasco at Gingerman

September 4, 2009 all day
Open to anyone with pedals, we ride every full moon. Meet up is at GANNON'S at 8PM, ride at 9. The destination is not yet nailed down.
Aug 12, 2009
SFAmaral might attend Fork and the Road's event

Fork and the Road - Unsung Chicago Classics Tour at Various

August 30, 2009 from 10am to 1:30pm
Fork and the Road: Chicago's Biking & Eating AdventuresOn the Unsung Chicago Classics tour:* Visit the city's oldest year-round outdoor market for exceptional Mexican street food.* Make a stop in Greektown for one hot tableside specialty.* Indulge in a different kind of heroic sandwich.Visit our web site for more information and to sign-up.See More
Aug 12, 2009
SFAmaral commented on Benny D's group Chicago Student Bikers
"New to the city, UIC urban planning grad student looking for some like minded cycling people to ride with...."
Aug 12, 2009
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Chicago Student Bikers

This group is for Chicago students who enjoy riding their bikes to class, on campus, or simply have an enthusiasm for riding.See More
Aug 12, 2009
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Aug 12, 2009

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Call Today! 217-546-3600

The Corner Pub & Grill is the modern day version of a traditional Springfield neighborhood pub.

Established in late 2006, it has become the place on Springfield’s west side for family, friends and neighbors to come together for great food, cold drinks and to watch their favorite sport on one of the many TV’s.

Whether young or old, The Corner Pub & Grill has a lot to offer.  Offering a wide variety of both food and drink choices, including burgers, sandwiches, fish, pizza, salads and horseshoes,  it is the home of the Original Horseshoe Pizza, a combination of Springfield’s very own horseshoe and a pizza - unlike anything else around.

The Corner Pub & Grill has quickly become known as one of Springfield’s favorite places to eat and drink, being voted Springfield’s “Best Bar” for 5 years, with Springfield’s “Coldest Beer” 3 years in a row.

Meet Ya, Down At The Corner!

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First time here?

theCrag.com is a free guide for rock climbing areas all over the world, collaboratively edited by keen rock climbers, boulderers and other nice folks.

You can log all your routes, connect and chat with other climbers and much more...

» go exploring, » learn more or » ask us a question

Sitting above the Southern Tablelands and set a little back, are a group of tall boulders offering a variety of climbing styles - slabs, cracks, steep face and subterranean excursions.

Descent notes

All boulders have rap chains or lower-offs.

Some content has been provided under license from: © Canberra Climbers' Association (CC BY-SA) © ANU Moutaineering Club (Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike)

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21 * Rock Spiders Sport 20m 2, 2

Two pitches can be done independently; second pitch can be accessed by scrambling up the chimney to the left of Fat and Healthy. Only second pitch shown on topo - up and left past two bolts to the summit.

FA: George Rehn, 1988

Start about 30 metres left of 'Sound as a Trout'. Up the dirty scoop and pull onto the slab above. Originally two bolts, now back in its natural state of none.

FA: Tony Barten & George Poultney, 1987

24 * Fat and Healthy Sport 13m, 3

Start about eight metres left of 'Sound as a Trout'. Climb the wall and arete with three bolts. The crux is past the first bolt.

FA: Tony Barten & Mike Peck, 1987

Open project Sport Project 14m, 2

Up the blunt arete on the right-hand side as you enter the Sound as a Trout passageway.

21 ** Sound as a Trout Mixed 13m, 3

Sustained and varied. Start in the passage in the middle of the summit boulders. Bridge up to the first bolt and crimp your way past two more. Climb the crack to a small patform. Belay off White Rabbit's abseil station. Bolts replaced 2007 (approx)

FA: Mike Peck & Craig Kentwell, 1987

16 * White Rabbit Sport 10m, 2

Popular. Start a few metres right of SAAT. Up the dark slab to emerge through the hole. Optional cam. Belay off rap anchor. Rebolted 2007 (approx).

FA: Anne Hastings, Mike Peck, Tony Barton & Caron Avis, 1987

12 * Get Your Motors Running Mixed 20m, 2

A good route that should be on every Canberra beginner's hitlist. The start is located in the bowels of the earth. Scramble into the chimney just right of Roxely RIP. Climb the nice handcrack that widens until you emerge onto a sunny slab. Up past two bolts to Rap station. The 2nd edition of the granite guide mentioned a RHV past a bolt. This bolt is probably part of a finish to Midsummer Madness. Rebolted in 2007 (approx).

FA: Phil Cullen & Mark Lithgow, 1978

15 Piltdown Man Trad 15m

Walk through the passageway to a large oblique slab wedged across its eastern exit. Climb to the top of the slab. Step left onto the steep chimney wall and move up to the right of the huge jammed chockstone. Chimney easily to the summit.

FA: John Finnigan & Will Steffen, 1982

22 ** Roxley R.I.P. Sport 15m, 6

Start 2m right of WR. Up the slab and onto the headwall. Rebolted 2010.

FA: Ken Luck & John Churchill, 1992

Start on the dirty slab below the southern side of the summit group of boulders. Up to a sloping ledge, right and onto upper slab and into an easy left leaning crack.

FA: Steve Harper & Scott Albutt, 1984

18 * Midsummer Madness Mixed 21m, 1

Start on the southern side of the summit group of boulders at a left leaning fist crack. Up the flake and diagonal crack. Move left along the ledge and up the slab past a bolt to the summit. Down-climb and go to the pub. Take Camalot 2-4.

FA: Phil Cullen & Damien Jones, 1977

10 The Lecher Trad 20m

The obvious chimney six metres right of 'Midsummer Madness'.

FA: Damien Jones & Judy Costin, 1977

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Cal Eldred

Beware The Five Inch Screw

Matt Garza heads to the DL for a "bone contusion" just above the elbow and his 25 man roster replacement, Lou Montanez finally winds up in the Cub starting lineup with a memorable night. As you recall, Montanez was the Cubs 2000 first round amateur draft pick  (3rd pick overall) as a high school SS and after a stay in Cubville East (the Orioles System), he now resurfaces with the Cubs in RF. Getting back to Garza, let me think out loud with you readers about what seems to be the problem.

From TCR's last thread:

Let me stipulate that I AM NOT A DOCTOR (but I play one on tv) my opinions are just based on long miserable experience with the Cubs.

Garza's injury is being reported as a "bone contusion." Correct me if wrong but in my experience that's the same as saying he has a bone fracture except the fracture has no deliniation. Also, it's in his elbow so that implies that it involves cartilage as well as bone. This doesn't sound like something that heals in a week. Contusions often take longer than outright fractures to get better.
If the Cubs bring him back after missing one more start...look out.

In Garza's situation, using the term "bone contusion" is clearly an MRI diagnosis. I do have some issues with using this term here and (hopefully) I can provide some clarifications of muddy concepts being bandied about.

 I love my headline (nope, I'm not going there, so shame on you) but you need to read on for some Serious Splainin' Lucy.

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  • video of Maddon.

    always nice that he actually tries to honestly answer questions. Does mention that he wanted to give Zastr? a chance in a meaningful spot rather than a mop-up role.

    Rob G. 11 hours 18 min ago view
  • from Muskat:

    #Cubs Maddon: "I'm not going to make up an excuse for why I did what I did. It has nothing to do with lack of confidence" ... "It was the right thing to do today based on what I saw, what their lineup looked like and Rob Z.'s availability." #Cubs

    Rob G. 11 hours 23 min ago view

    Hammel not particularly understanding of getting pulled he should. Be curious what Maddon had to say. All I can think of is is keeping arms fresh and maybe wanting to see if Zastr? is worth considering for the playoffs and how he'd do against the Dodgers.

    Rob G. 11 hours 28 min ago view
  • great defense

    Heyward, Russell, Baez, Bryant, Ross in particular...although Bryant's a bit hard to judge with all the positions.

    Fowler and Rizzo in the top half of the NL for their positions as well (per fangraphs)...Zobrist right at the halfway cutoff for 2b in the NL.

    I'm sure some luck is involved too, but the Cubs and Maddon knew what they were doing.

    Rob G. 11 hours 40 min ago view
  • If all the starters have FIP > ERA, is that luck or good defense?

    Craig A. 11 hours 51 min ago view
  • #Cubs plummet to 19-5 in August.

    Fun with FIP

    • J. Hammel   3.07 ERA/4.27 FIP (3.68 FIP last year)
    • J. Arrieta     2.62 ERA/3.05 FIP (2.35 FIP last year)
    • J. Lester     2.81 ERA/3.67 FIP (2.92 FIP last year)
    • K. Hendricks  2.19 ERA/3.37 FIP (3.36 FIP last year)
    • J. Lackey     3.41 ERA/3.72 FIP (3.57 FIP last year with Cards)
    Rob G. 12 hours 16 min ago view
  • zastyryzryzryzny put in 3.2ip 1h 0bb 3k

    he's great when his control is "on"...problem is it's rarely "on" consistently. he could vault up the cubs prospect list if he ever gets better with that aspect of his game.

    crunch 12 hours 57 min ago view
  • JD's take was just trying to get in a lefty to better deal with mostly lefty Dodgers lineup.

    My second thought was what you came up with. My first thought was he was trying to light a fire under Hammel.

    Jackstraw 14 hours 9 min ago view
  • Maybe he was trying to spare him another brutal road start? NY, Colorado...

    billybucks 14 hours 26 min ago view
  • joe got a pitcher up for hammel at nearly the 1st sign of trouble in the 3rd...pulled after 2.1

    not injured and though it wasn't his day so far he wasn't looking like a pure disaster.

    really short leash on him. zastryznzryzryny in.

    crunch 14 hours 30 min ago view
  • Russell and Soler can attest that Urias has a pretty good curve/slider - two big strikeouts looking to get out of that jam in the first.

    Eric S 15 hours 15 min ago view
  • Classic Scully - great stuff.

    Thank God we'll still have Hawk next season. (cricket cricket cricket)

    Eric S 20 hours 5 min ago view
  • Here's Scully's call on Bryant's 10th-inning homer:

    "And it's a long fly ball, a mean fly ball, and a gone fly ball."

    VirginiaPhil 21 hours 19 min ago view
  • When the Cubs were the old, hundred-year Cubs, one bad hop did not undo their opponents.

    VirginiaPhil 21 hours 23 min ago view
  • If only he was clutcher. More clutcher.

    Jackstraw 22 hours 41 min ago view
  • cubs win...bryant with 7HR in his last 8 games.

    crunch 1 day 5 hours ago view


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Forgive Mark Sanford

Sex scandals like Governor Sanford’s and John Ensign’s are private matters that don’t affect public policy and shoot down rising political stars. It’s time to end hypocrisy in America.

06.29.09 1:01 AM ET

Plus: Read more of The Daily Beast's coverage of Palin's resignation and the GOP implosion.

When I first heard about Governor Sanford’s sex scandal, I was flooded with disappointment for many reasons. Particularly since his admission of an extramarital affair came so closely after Nevada Senator Ensign made a similar confession. I don’t know if it’s the fact that I am younger, or that just have a more open-minded view of politicians and sex, but it’s of very little concern to me who elected officials sleep with. Frankly, I think all of that is a private matter between a husband and wife, even if it is made public. Beyond that, life is complicated. And I can’t even imagine how complicated it must get after 20 years of marriage and four kids.

Of the times I have spent with Governor Sanford, I remember his family being absolutely beautiful in that way Southern families often are. I remember my dad describing his boys as “all looking just like Huckleberry Finn.” In other words, theirs was the very definition of a picture-perfect political family. It never crossed my mind that there would be any kind of scandal one day, but, especially in politics, you can’t judge a book by its cover.

The GOP is struggling right now to find anyone who looks to be our next leader. Going forward, I suggest that the party concentrate less on what goes on in the bedroom and more on what is going on in policy.

But what goes on in Governor Sanford’s personal life, I believe, just isn’t relevant to his role as a public official. The problem I see, like most problems I have with politics, goes back to the same thing—the hypocrisy of it all. One thing making everyone so mad, myself included, are the clips being played of Governor Sanford publicly blasting former President Clinton for his affair with Monica Lewinsky. It looks horribly hypocritical. And it is. We have to stop requiring that our politicians live at such a high level of moral superiority, as if they are infallible creatures. Let me assure you, they are not. Because when these same politicians fall from grace—especially in the South—we demand that they leave office immediately. (Unlike, say, Eliot Spitzer, Governor Sanford didn’t do anything illegal. If he were to be convicted of misusing state funds for traveling to Argentina, then, of course, it is a different matter entirely and he should step down. )

Now I do not condone Governor Sanford’s actions. Far from it. I am a big believer in the sanctity of marriage. And how the entire drama played out was far too intimate for me. Those excruciatingly personal emails. His strange and emotional press conference. Jenny Sanford’s long, Gospel-quoting press release. All of it is an uncomfortable glimpse into the inner workings of a political marriage and we as Americans eat it up with a spoonful of schadenfreude. Was Governor Sanford wrong to have an affair? As a husband, of course he was. But should we burn him at the stake and make him leave office? I don’t believe so. Because sex and politics are two very different things, even if sometimes they seem hopelessly entwined. What he does in his personal life, I believe, would have nothing to do with how he balances his state’s budget or conducts business.

Above all, the Sanford scandal just makes me sad for my party. The GOP is struggling right now to find anyone who looks to be our next leader. Those who have been anointed so far have ended up falling completely short. Going forward, I suggest that the party concentrate less on what goes on in the bedroom and more on what is going on in policy.

France—home of my absolute favorite foreign first lady, Carla Bruni—perfected the laissez-faire attitude toward the sex lives of its public leaders. Not here. We hold our politicians to impossible standards. We elect them, put our hopes and dreams for a brighter future on that one person, and then expect sainthood. Republicans— and Democrats—should forgive these private sins and move on. Life happens. People—especially politicians—make mistakes.

I, for one, lean more toward compassion and understanding—yes, even if Governor Sanford had been a Democrat—because I know from personal experience the pressure of perfection that is put on politicians and their families. At the end of the day, a politician’s job is to fix our country and take care of the states and constituents they represent. Yes, sex is an issue but it shouldn’t be the only issue.

Meghan McCain is originally from Phoenix and graduated from Columbia University in 2007. She is a New York Times bestselling children's author, previously wrote for Newsweek magazine, and created the Web site


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Foursquare's Stalker Problem

Social networks that broadcast your exact location make it easy for strangers to watch your every move—and become part of your life without you even knowing it.

08.08.10 11:20 PM ET

Social networks that broadcast your exact location make it easy for strangers to watch your every move—and become part of your life without you even knowing it. The Crime Report's Lisa Riordan Seville on geotagging and stalking.

In the world of social networking, Carri Bugbee is hardly a novice. The social-media marketing strategist from Portland, Oregon, has 7,164 followers on Twitter, 1,197 friends on Facebook, and more than 500 connections on LinkedIn. But when she ventured into the world of geotagging—the technology behind many of the social networks that broadcast your location to the Internet—she received an unsettling wake-up call.

One evening last February, she picked up her phone and "checked-in" to a local restaurant on foursquare, the popular location-based social network that lets others know where you are in real-time. Foursquare posted her location to her feed and Bugbee went back to chatting with her friends over the menu. That's when the hostess came over to the table and told her she had a call on the restaurant telephone.

Bugbee didn't recognize the male voice on the other end of the line, and the voice didn't offer to introduce itself. It told her she shouldn't use foursquare because if she did, certain people might find out where she lived. She nervously laughed off the creepy comment, telling the caller it was pretty hard to find her house. That set him off. "You stupid bitch," he said, an opening to a string of insults. She quickly hung up, rattled.

The caller had tracked down Bugbee through, a website designed to warn people about the risks of geotagging by aggregating and publicizing updates from foursquare. In Bugbee's case, the warning was effective.

"I was totally creeped out," she recalls. "I just didn't ever think it would happen to me ... I slept with all the lights on that night." She also immediately quit foursquare and hired a house sitter. She says she felt that someone "basically stalked me," and she's become, as she put it, a "geotagging curmudgeon."

"I think that a lot of people have drunk the Kool-Aid without actually thinking that hard about" location-based technologies, says Bugbee. "At some point, some tragedy will occur."

PleaseRobMe shut down last spring after a string of incidents like Bugbee's suggested it might be a little too helpful to would-be criminals. Nevertheless, its founders said they had accomplished their goal of educating users about the risks of broadcasting their location to the world. And even without PleaseRobMe, it's often easy enough to find someone's location on foursquare itself, especially since many people cross-post their check-ins on Twitter and other websites.

"What is often forgotten is that you're not really talking to a small group of friends," says Douglas Salane, director of the Center for Cybercrime Studies at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. "You're potentially talking to anyone on the Internet."

"I think that a lot of people have drunk the Kool-Aid without actually thinking that hard about" location-based technologies, says Bugbee. "At some point, some tragedy will occur."

Erin Gleason, a spokesperson for foursquare, emphasizes that users of the service can and should exercise control over who their locations are seen by. "Foursquare is meant to facilitate communication about location between friends, not between friends and strangers," she says. "When a user decides to check into a venue using foursquare, this check-in is only viewable by people that the user has chosen to accept as friends. Many users do choose to link their foursquare accounts to their Facebook and/or Twitter accounts and share their check-ins on these sites as well, but this is not required."

The future of the Web will likely rely heavily on information that users produce and broadcast, either actively or automatically. And much of that information may be geographical. Facebook, which hit 500 million users in July, plans to roll out a location-based feature any day now. And people today are leaving millions of pieces of location information in their digital wake.

Ben Jackson and Larry Pesce had both safety and privacy in mind when they started in May. With $1,000 and some programming language, the New England-based securities information researchers picked up where PleaseRobMe left off.

ICanStalkU shows that even if you try to avoid location-based social networks like foursquare, you may still be unwittingly telling the Internet exactly where you are. ICanStalkU automatically searches thousands of photos on Twitter for geotags, tiny location markers attached to about three percent of all photos posted to the micro-blogging site. Then it turns them into a location message, showing how photos can be used to trace people in real time, using information many have no idea they put out there.

Despite the eyes-in-the-dark logo and dramatic name, Jackson said they intended the site to teach rather than threaten. "We just want people to make an informed decision," explained Jackson. "If they are posting this information, we want them to know what kind of risk this entails."

Stalking experts say the rapid evolution in locational technology has increased the risks. "It doesn't cause stalking, but it makes stalking a lot easier," says Rebecca Dreke, a senior analyst at the National Center for Victims of Crime.

About 25 percent of the 3.4 million people who reported being victims of stalkers during 2005-2006 said they had been stalked using some form of cyber technology such as email or instant messaging. The data, reported in a 2009 study by the Department of Justice, predated the wide use of newer technology such as geotagging, and so may seriously underestimate the scope of the problem.

Dreke helps educate law enforcement about how they might use the same technology to help uncover the offenders. It's an uphill battle. "The offenders and the criminals are usually keeping ahead of the people investigating the crime," she said.

Todd Zwillich, the Washington correspondent for the National Public Radio program The Takeaway, was driving around the capitol on a recent Saturday when he spotted a blue Chrysler with the license number NCCI70I. He grabbed a friend's iPhone, and ran into traffic to snap a shot of the "awesome" plate. "It's awesome because that is the ID number of the Starship Enterprise," said Zwillich, with a laugh.

Zwillich knew the image would lay bare his Trekkie obsession to friends and followers. But until ICanStalkU picked it up and The Crime Report contacted him, Zwillich didn't know that suddenly all of the Internet knew he was standing "nearby 669 New York Avenue NW Washington D.C." that day.

The idea didn't sit well. "I'm not interested in having constant GPS social surveillance," he said. "It's information I want to control."

But increasingly complex privacy settings and out-of-date laws can make that hard to do. In the courts and on Capitol Hill, debates have begun about how to fashion laws governing cellphone records and electronic communications that strike the right balance between safety and privacy.

"Most people's intuitions about their privacy and public space are wrong or out of date," says Andrew Blumberg, a professor of mathematics at the University of Texas, who has done extensive work on locational privacy. Which is why he welcomes sites such as PleaseRobMe and ICanStalkU as useful counterforces to the notion that citizens have nothing to fear, as long as the users of such metadata act responsibly.

"Is it legal to keep (such information) forever?" wonders Blumberg, who co-authored a paper on locational privacy with the San Francisco-based Electronic Frontier Foundation, which defends privacy rights in cyberspace. "We need to have a national debate about what the right legislation is."

The debate has started. The law currently governing the use of email communication is the 1986 Electronic Communications Privacy Act. In an unusual show of cooperation, privacy advocates, tech companies, and service providers from the ACLU to Facebook have come together to form Digital Due Process, a coalition seeking to update the law for today's geotagging world.

But ICanStalkU's Ben Jackson isn't sure the law can ever keep up. That's why he and others on the cutting edge of technology will likely keep setting up sites to show the world the digital breadcrumbs people have left behind.

Jackson is already thinking beyond geotagging. The question stuck in his mind is: "What's going to happen next year and the year after that to information I don't know I'm giving out now?"

A version of this story originally appeared on The Crime Report. Read it here.

Lisa Riordan Seville is a freelance writer and contributor to The Crime She writes often about criminal justice, the arts, and Brooklyn.


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Muslim Brotherhood, Activists Face Off On Egypt’s Streets

Opposition protesters said they feared violence from the Brotherhood, while the president’s supporters of the president claimed to be victims of cheap politics.

12.07.12 10:35 PM ET

When Yehia el-Gammal heard the rumors, he gathered up his medical supplies and set out for Egypt’s presidential palace. The Muslim Brotherhood was rumored to be calling on its people to mass at the palace gates, and Egypt’s opposition activists expected trouble.

For the past two weeks, crowds have taken to the streets in numbers not seen since the 2011 revolution, to protest a power grab by President Mohamed Morsi, who heads the Brotherhood’s political ticket. While Morsi has promised to hold talks with the opposition to defuse the situation, each side appears to have hardened against the other. Over the past few days, violence has broken out between rival supporters. On Wednesday, as a small core of activists camped out in front the presidential palace, disciplined Brotherhood vigilantes instituted a bloody crackdown, tearing up tents and beating bystanders. A pitched battle between the two sides ensued, leaving at least six dead and hundreds injured.

Now, on Friday night after prayers—traditionally a time of mass protests in Egypt, and one that proved critical during the revolution—activists and regular Egyptians had turned out at the presidential palace to register their discontent. A festival-like atmosphere reigned: families toted around small children, while vendors hawked popcorn and pranksters set off dazzling fireworks. People waved flags and chanted anti-Brotherhood slogans.

Many of the protesters said that, while they had voted for Morsi or the Brotherhood during last year’s presidential and parliamentary elections, they no longer trusted the party. “We used to be together during the revolution, but we’re not anymore,” said Sami Maleck, a 33-year-old technician in Cairo who was standing atop a makeshift barricade outside the presidential palace. “The old regime used to treat the Muslim Brotherhood in a very bad way,” he added, but the Brotherhood was now the one abusing the power of its position.

“The Muslim Brotherhood wants to make rules only for itself.”

“I’m afraid there will be blood,” said another demonstrator on the barricade.

Other activists said that the Brotherhood—like the army generals and former dictator Hosni Mubarak before them—appeared only to be interested in power, and that they cared little for the ordinary people of Egypt. “The Muslim Brotherhood was pretending they were with the people during the revolution, just to get their power,” said 33-year-old Moatasem Othmam, a gym worker in Heliopolis, where the palace is located. “They only want to rule, that’s it.”

As Morsi has refused to rescind his November decree, which effectively eliminated any outside checks on the president’s power, Egyptians have started to talk about the Brotherhood in the way they once talked about Mubarak or, after his ouster, the Army and its generals who ruled the country until the elections and who tried to institute a series of mandates to solidify their dominance. As if to prove the point, at the anti-Morsi demonstrations outside the presidential palace, 21-year-old Nada Hamma—a student at Cairo University—stood next to a friend who waved a flag with a picture of a young martyr, killed by the army last year. The military, she said, “are the ones who helped [the Brotherhood] rule us.”

As Friday’s protest swelled outside the palace, word on the street trickled in that the Brotherhood was planning to round up its members and descend on the scene. The crowd remained calm, but nerves were clearly frayed. As the evening wore on, the barbed wire that kept the protestors from reaching the palace was removed and the protesters were allowed to swarm up to the palace gates.

Gammal, the Cairo activist who brought medical supplies to the palace in anticipation of bloodshed, sounded wary. “I think this is some sort of trap—they are trapping people inside,” he said. “I’m not sure what’s going to happen.”

Families started to drift away from the area. One man, leaving with his wife and daughters, explained, “everybody’s worried because the Muslim Brotherhood is on their way. So we’re bringing the women and children out.” Not far away, a bespectacled 12-year-old boy named Seif trailed after his parents. “I think the women and kids should go,” he said in a somber assessment of the situation on the ground. “But some people should stay so they don’t take the whole area back.”

On the periphery of the crowd, black-clad policemen were silently leaving the scene. Some people tried to beg the authorities not to leave: “The Muslim Brotherhood is coming, please protect us!”

Ten minutes away, in front of the grand Rabaa el-Adawya mosque, members and supporters of the Brotherhood had gathered in a show of support for Morsi. Men chanted slogans on bullhorns and waved Egyptian flags, while passing cars honked in support. Motaez Reda, a 35-year-old Cairo lawyer participating in the proceedings, said he was there “just to make sure the people at the palace know they’re not the only people in the country…and to show the people the truth.”

Many in the crowd said that no violence would happen and that the media and the political opposition were trying to whip up a politically-motivated state of fear. Khaled Emam, a 30-year-old university professor who was not part of the Brotherhood but supported Morsi, said that the crowd had come together “to show the whole world that we are demonstrating peacefully.”

“If they don’t want Mohamed Morsi,” he added, “they should wait four years and elect another president. That’s democracy.”

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Emam and his friends said they didn’t think they were supposed to be heading to the palace, but added that they might be spurred into action if the activists attacked the presidential palace.

The father of a family attending the rally also speculated that no one would march to the palace, adding that everything Morsi has done has been “for the right of the revolution.” Still, he added, “The Muslim Brotherhood and the Salafis have a force. Right now, they are kind. The other face will be very, very bad.”

But Dr. Ahmed Aref, a spokesman for the Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party, said that rumors of Brotherhood violence have been mistaken. Speaking about the crackdown on Wednesday—in which a handful of Brotherhood supporters died—Aref said that the so-called activists camped out in front of the palace had been common criminals and that the Brotherhood had stepped in to clear them out so that the Army didn’t have to, which could have set off a political firestorm. Brotherhood members “sacrificed their lives in order to keep the army and the police from being in that bad situation,” he said.

Aref, who insisted that no march on the palace would take place, said, “We have a serious problem with the press because they’re not telling the truth. The opponents—we believe they are scared of the election…these types of people don’t know anything about democracy.”

“They want people to be scared of the Muslim Brotherhood to make the president leave,” he said. “And that’s cheap politics.”


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Ban E-Cigarettes? The Anti-Smoking Lobby's Clueless Crusade

The anti-smoking movement is going after e-cigarettes, the harmless inhalers that help people kick the habit. Nick Gillespie on why their single-minded zealotry has gone too far.

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H.L. Mencken famously defined puritanism as “the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.” He might have been describing contemporary anti-smoking activists, that dour band of fuss-budgets constantly on the prowl for new ways to make life slightly less bearable by limiting the choices available to grown adults.

Incredibly, the latest push from tobacco eliminationists doesn’t involve actual smoking, which has already been driven out of polite society more thoroughly than Rev. Jeremiah Wright sermons, early David Allan Coe records, and Three’s Company-era gay jokes combined. But it does lay bare the prohibitionist mindset and its fixation on scrubbing the planet clean of any behavior or attitude the crusader deems unacceptable.

This time, the buttinskys are trying to douse the dreaded e-cigarette, a device that supplies a safe nicotine hit to the user without bothering or endangering anybody else. E-cigarettes use replaceable cartridges in which nicotine or flavors are heated, vaporized, and inhaled (users are called “vapers”). Some e-cigarettes look like conventional cancer sticks and others look more like something from a bad Sylvester Stallone movie set in the near future. Questions of fashion aside, they are not just a safer way for smokers to get the nicotine they crave, they are apparently as safe as milk (well, pasteurized milk, anyway, and assuming you’re not lactose intolerant).

Critics warn that trace amounts of bad stuff can be found in e-cigarettes’ vapor, but that is not necessarily cause for concern, much less prohibition. As a new review of the literature on e-cigarettes from Drexel University’s Igor Burstyn concludes, “Current data do not indicate that exposures to vapors from contaminants in electronic cigarettes warrant a concern. There are no known toxicological synergies among compounds in the aerosol, and mixture of the contaminants does not pose a risk to health.” In fact, the inability to show proof of harm was one of the reasons the Food and Drug Administration’s 2010 bid to control e-cigarettes as a “drug-delivery device” failed in court. Burstyn notes further there is even less reason to be concerned with second-hand fumes, which are by definition even less concentrated that what the vaper sucks down. His main concern is that users knowingly choose whether they’re getting nicotine or not.

As Michael Siegel, who teaches at Boston University’s School of Public Health, wrote in a recent New York Timesdebate on e-cigarettes, despite evidence that e-cigarettes reduce overall harm from smoking, “many anti-smoking groups oppose these products because they are blinded by ideology: they find it difficult, if not impossible, to endorse a behavior that looks like smoking, even though it is literally saving people’s lives....What’s not to like?”

Well, plenty, it turns out. E-cigarettes are the subject of an ever-growing list of bans, prohibitions, and expert opprobrium (just read some of the other participants in that Times’ debate). As always, New York – a town once called “Fun City” that still likes to pretend it’s tougher than the rib-eyes for sale at the few remaining Tad’s Steaks in Times Sqaure – is leading the charge against e-cigarettes. As Gothamist reports, Michael Bloomberg is “quietly enact a sweeping ban on flavored e-cigs.”

The same impulse is afoot in less trendy parts of the country. Illinois has banned e-cigarette sales to teens and Massachusetts is considering legislation that would ban giving away free samples or using the devices anywhere that tobacco is already verboten. Despite the lack of second-hand smoke, school districts around the country have lumped in e-cigarettes with banned tobacco products on campuses, and the Federal Aviation Administration has blocked their use on commercial flights.

In one sense, you’ve got to admire anti-smoking activists and their willingness to constantly look for new fires to put out. Like the March of Dimes, which scrambled for a new cause once polio was effectively eradicated (and found one in the all-encompassing categories of preventing birth defects and premature births), the anti-smoking movement is a victim of its own success. In the wake of increasingly high-handed bans, taxes, and regulations, smoking is everywhere in retreat. In the mid-1960s, over 40 percent of Americans smoked, compared to less than 20 percent these days. Yet it’s no coincidence that the biggest decreases in smoking rates came in the early decades after the U.S. Surgeon General’s 1964 report on smoking told Americans what they already knew: cigarettes were called “coffin nails” and “cancer sticks” for good goddamned reasons.

Informational campaigns about the terrible health consequences of smoking, along with restrictions on advertising and other broad-based cultural trends that valorized being in shape and not stinking like an ashtray went a long way to creating a smoke-free society. People actually respond to logic, argument, and persuasion. Who knew?

But as the percentage of Americans who smoke has stayed relatively stuck in the high teens and low twenties, the anti-smoking movement has turned to increasingly paternalistic, dictatorial, and infantilizing measures to achieve its goals. From statewide bans on smoking in more and more places to the censoring of marketing terms such as light and mild that have ushered in an age of childishly color-coded cigarette packs to plans for scrubbing smoking in movies and TV shows, there’s no logical stopping point for treating us all as moral defectives incapable of making our own choices.

Indeed, taking a page from the Stalin-era Soviet Union, prohibitionists even managed to erase omnipresent cigarettes dangling from the lips of artist Jackson Pollock and bluesman Robert Johnson in iconic images used for postage stamps (would that activists had been half as successful at curbing public urination, Pollock’s other signature move).

And now, the prohibitionists are taking on e-cigarettes because... because... because... smoking tobacco is bad for you. And they don’t think you should decide how to live your life.

Which reminds me of a different Mencken quote about those who would control our choices: “The only guarantee of the Bill of Rights which continues to have any force and effect is the one prohibiting quartering troops on citizens in time of peace.” These days, even that may be up for grabs. But there’s no question that in a nanny state, all of us- even those of us who don't smoke tobacco or puff on e-cigarettes- are all treated like children incapable of making our own choices.


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China, U.S. in Climate Deadlock

Copenhagen got a little colder Monday as China and the U.S. reached an impasse in climate negotiations, with China refusing to allow international monitoring of its emissions levels despite having announced a target for reducing its emissions growth rate—a sticking point for the U.S., which says it cannot accept any deal without verification of China’s actions. The U.S.-China stalemate is yet another contributor to the glacial pace of climate negotiations, which many worry could bog down the ability of heads of government—who begin arriving later this week—to reach a final accord. Still, some were confident that a deal could be reached: “They’re going to wait until the last hour of the last day and just as the other side is walking out they’ll say, ‘Hey, come back.’ Just as they do every day in every market in China,” said Barbara Finamore of the NRDC. “That’s why they’re the best negotiators in the world.”


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Sunday, December 4, 2011

Tomato, Corn, and Black Bean Soup

Look at what I got in the mail:

A six pack!

Of tomatoes!

Red Gold Tomatoes sent me such a cute little sampler of their tomato products to try that I wasn’t quite sure what to make with them first, but a quick glance out the window helped me to decide.

Soup! It’s downright wintery out there!  Unbeknownst to the Red Gold peeps, I actually had a can of their tasty tomatoes in my cupboard, so I’m saving the sampler pack for some other quick tomato meals. Stay tuned for those. In the mean time, let’s cook some soup.

I am not a fan of most canned soup, I’ll have you know. Frankly, I’m not quite sure of what’s in it. Usually, there’s too much salt. Sometimes, there’s stuff like corn syrup and fillers. And if your argument to me is that canned soup is convenient, then I will counter that with the fact that making your own soup is almost as easy.  Check it out—I did this on the fly, with some things I had in the cupboard (and the freezer).

Tomato, Black Bean, and Corn Soup
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2 tablespoons olive oil
1 clove garlic, crushed
½ large, sweet onion, chopped
2 cups frozen corn (fire-roasted, if available)
1 (28 oz) can whole tomatoes, chopped, with liquid
1 (15-19 oz) can black beans, drained and rinsed
4 cups vegetable stock
1 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons chili powder
1 teaspoon Italian seasoning

Heat the olive oil in a large saucepan over medium-high heat.  Lower the heat to medium and add the garlic, onions and corn. Sauté until the onions are softened, about 5 minutes. Add the tomatoes, beans vegetable stock, chili powder and Italian seasoning. Stir well and bring mixture to a boil. Lower the heat and simmer soup for 20 to 25 minutes.  Serve the soup hot; garnish with crushed tortilla chips and shredded cheese, if desired.

I chose to use some fire-roasted frozen corn that I had in the freezer. It added just a hint of smokey flavor.

Canned tomatoes make easy work out of soup—of this I am a great fan. Good, fresh tomatoes are hard to find this time of year (not to mention, pricey), so canned tomatoes are a must. The thing is, they work in so many things. Besides soup, you can sub canned tomatoes for fresh in spaghetti sauce, on pizzas, and in casseroles. My mother-in-law likes to take a can of stewed tomatoes and use them as gravy over mashed potatoes.

So why Red Gold brand tomatoes? It really wasn't a fluke that that was the brand in my cupboard. The Red Gold company is a third generation family owned company out of Indiana. They started in 1942 and all they do are tomatoes. They know their stuff! Red Gold is located right in the middle of tomato country and I've found all of their tomato products to be of stellar quality. But, I digress. Let's get back to my soup.

This was tasty just the way it was, but I felt it needed just a little something.

How about using all of those crushed tortilla chips at the bottom of the bag? It's a shame to waste them, even if they aren't so good at scooping anymore.

Now, just add some shredded cheese and you are good to go.

See? Wasn't that easy? And now that all of my soup is gone, I've got some ideas for the rest of those cans. Next up on the menu: Cincinnati Chili Pizza.

Is there something special you make with canned tomatoes?

Disclaimer: I received free product from Red Gold Tomatoes in order to do this review. As always, the opinions expressed are my own.

  1. Mmmmmmm....what a delicious soup!!! Simple, healthy and delicious!!!

  2. What a wonderful soup for a cold day. That roasted corn sounds like a great addition to a spicy soup. Pass the cheese, please.

  3. That soup looks fantastic - thick, hearty, and full of tomatoey goodness, perfect for a frigid day in North Dakota. Thanks for the recipe and the inspiration for a dinner idea this week.

  4. Looks and sounds awesome! I'd probably throw in a little cumin too. Gotta say, I've never heard of Red Gold Tomatoes, OR frozen fire roasted corn! I'll have to keep an eye out for both.

    I know what you mean about canned soups! I'll buy a can of tomato every couple of years, but that's about it. I was shocked the first time I saw Wolfgang Puck's soups. I thought hmmm, maybe I'll give his a try, then I read a label and saw how much sodium was in them. NO THANKS!!!!

  5. This soup seems perfect for the weather we have up here, looks yum as well! As for tomatoes in a can... I can't make a tomato souses with out them! Wishing you all the best and stay warm in those freezing winter days :)

  6. I read about this soup recipe recently and went right out and bought the ingredients. I could not find any vegetable stock so when I prepared the soup a few nights ago I made a beef stock with sliced carrots and celery in it, and used that in the soup. I also cut the seasonings in half as we don't need that much salt and also did not want the soup to be too "spicy" for us. We were very pleased with the taste of the soup and had it again this evening. My husband likes oyster crackers so we had them on the soup instead of tortilla chips. There is enough soup for a few more servings. I will make this soup again; perhaps will make a half a recipe next time. Martha, Jen's mom.

  7. Martha, how nice to meet you through my blog. I'm glad the soup turned out for you--thank you for giving it a try! :) Jen is such a great dinner club friend. How nice that she shared this with you.


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Weekend Sports Round-Up

Boys Soccer

BOTKINS — The St. Marys boys soccer team peppered the net with shots on goal that just missed their mark before the floodgates finally opened in the latter part of the second half against the Botkins Trojans.

St. Marys scored two goals in each half and beat Botkins 4-0 on Saturday afternoon in the shadow of the rushing traffic of I-75 in Botkins.

The first half featured a St. Marys Zach/Zac attack. Zach Lemmerman opened the scoring for St. Marys with nine minutes lef in the first half off an assist by Zack Wilker. St. Marys’ Wilker booted in the Roughriders’ second goal with two mintues left in the half off an assist by Zac Nelson.

Joe Poeppelman put in the Riders’ third goal with 25:30 left in the second half on a cross from Nicolaj Olsen. Patrizio Martinez finished off the scoring with a goal with 14:30 left with an assists from Poeppelman.

St. Marys improved to 5-1. They host Elida on Tuesday as they put their 2-0 Western Buckeye League record on the line against the Bulldogs.

The New Knoxville boys soccer team beat Kenton 3-0 behind Ben Kuck’s three goals.
Dean Frankenberg made four saves at goalkeeper. New Knoxville had nine shots on goal to Kenton’s eight.

NEW KNOXVILLE — The New Knoxville Rangers made quick work of the Botkins Trojans 25-11, 25-7, 25-17 in a non-conference match-up at The Barn on Saturday. New Knoxville scored 12 straight points at one point in the middle of the first set to ballon a lead from 6-4 to 18-4.  New Knoxville’s Meg Reineke had a pair of kills and an ace to help put the Rangers up 22-9, and Madison Lammers earned the final kill to give the Rangers a 25-11 first-set victory.

New Knoxville scored the first five points of the second set, with kills from Reineke and Lammers. Haley Horstman, Rachel Leffel and Reineke kills pumped up the lead to 9-3. Reineke added four kills and an ace in an eight-point span as the Rangers went up 16-4.

Reineke finished the game with a game-high 14 kills to go with 13 digs and 10 assists. Lammers added six kills for the Rangers to go with 16 digs. Leffel had five kills.

A Horstman kill, a Kenzie Schroer kill and a Serena Hostetter ace put New Knoxville up 19-6. New Knoxville scored the final five points to take the second set 25-7. Horstman had five kills, 15 digs and 23 assists. Schroer had four kills, 10 digs and six assists.

Botkins pushed the Rangers in the third set before New Knoxville pulled out the 25-17 win.Kalyn Schroer had 24 digs, Abby Rohrbach added six digs and Jenna Schwieterman had three kills for the Rangers. The New Knoxville JV team won in two sets, 25-14, 25-19.

New Knoxville hosts Houston on Tuesday at 5:30 p.m.

MINSTER – It wasn’t quite the dominating match Celina head coach Amy Sutter wanted to see from her Bulldogs coming off a tough loss in a Western Buckeye League showdown to Ottawa-Glandorf on Thursday, but the Celina volleyball team swept the Minster Wildcats in three sets 25-15, 25-21, 26-24 by coming back from early set deficits to the Wildcats.

“I don’t know if that match was in their head or what, because that wasn’t my team out there today,” Sutter said. “They weren’t mentally out of it and I don’t want to say they weren’t taking Minster seriously. It was just a Saturday afternoon and we were half asleep.”

“Pride and the fact that we want to win ball games got us through today,” Sutter said. “When they feel a little pressure, then they perform. I want to reach a level of a consistency where we’re hammering all the time and we don’t let up.”Minster held a lead for much of the first set before Celina tied things up at 14-14 before the Bulldogs rattled off 11 of the next 12 points to take the first set 25-15.

The lead changed hands  with Minster leading 15-14 in the second set before Celina took a 16-15 lead and never gave it up. They built a 23-19 lead and held off a late Minster charge for the 25-21 second-set victory.

Minster again jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the third set before Celina built a 15-7 lead. Minster clawed its way back to even at 15-15 with eight straight points, only to watch Celina win six of the next eight points.  Minster came back from a 23-20 deficit to tie things at 24-24 with back-to-back aces from Megan Kaiser, a kill from  Bridget McGowan and back-to-back kills from Hannah Schmitmeyer. But Celina won two straight points and earned the 26-24 third-set win.

Kaiser led Minster with eight kills on the day. Lauren Roetgerman and Sara Hosey each added six kills. Schmitmeyer had five kills. Kaiser and Regan Hahn each had three aces.

Minster hosts St. Marys on Tuesday at 5:30 p.m.

Cross Country

Spencerville Bearcat Invite
Area teams had a lot of success in the Bearcat Invitational on Saturday morning in Spencerville, with the St. Marys girls and New Bremen boys teams winning invite titles.

Girls Black Division
The St. Marys girls cross country team won the Black Division race. The Roughriders were led by Kristen Dammeyer, who finished third with a 20:31.8 time. Amanda Dues was sixth (21:01.1). Megan Hertenstein finished 13th (21:42.6), Kelly Wilker was 15th (21:46.8), Rochelle Sudman was 22nd (22:03.4), Hannah Tobin took 31st (22:31) and Lexi Grothause was 32nd.

Boys Red Division
New Bremen’s boys won and New Knoxville’s Isaac Kuntz finished second in the Red Division race. The Cardinals’s Cort Speckman led the way with a fifth-place finish with a 17:25.9 time. Brad Rammel was 10th (18:00), Drew McClurg was 11th (18:02.6), Nathan Herriott took 12th(18:03.5), Jason Zircher was 20th (18:21.4) and Kaelen Reed was 29th (18:42.5). Kuntz turned in a second-place finish and 16:52.0 time. Jacob Shaw was 18th (18:15.6) and Marcus Nitschke was 32nd (18:47.9).

Boys Black Division
The St. Marys boys finished ninth in the Black Division standings with 240 points.
Matt Jutte led  the Roughriders with a 28th-place finish and an 18:32.6. Matt Schroyer finished 45th (19:08.3), Zack Goodwin was 48th (19:13.4), Forest Baldwin was 57th (19:37.6) and Kyle Oswalt was 62nd (19:42.0).
South Adams won the Black Division with 39 points.

Girls Red Division
The New Bremen girls finished fourth and New Knoxville’s Hannah Privette finished third overall in the Red Division girls race. New Bremen scored 143  points to finish fourth behind winner Covington, St. Henry and Fort Recovery. New Bremen’s Amy Elking finished 22nd (21:51.5), Bailey Bronkema was 32nd (22:27.4), Kendra Paul took 36th (22:41.6), Veronica Hirschfeld was 40th (23:01.3), Ashley Berning was 44th (23:25.9) and Erica Niekamp was 53rd (23:50.9).
Privette took third overall with a 20:10.6 time.

The St. Marys girls tennis team earned a 4-1 win over Lima Senior on Saturday morning, sweeping the singles matches in straight sets.

St. Marys’ Anna Ernst won first singles 6-0, 6-0. Abby Wilker won in straight sets at second singles, 6-0, 6-0. Hannah Felver also won a 6-0, 6-0 match at third singles. St. Marys Jennifer Lauth and Kaitlyn Ross won second doubles 6-1, 6-0. The Riders’ Jenna Perry and Bailey Rust fell at first doubles, 2-6, 4-6 to the Spartans.

St. Marys improves to 2-6. The Riders travel to Defiance today for a 5 p.m. WBL match.


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Freeload: The FADER Issue 62 Podcast

We and you and everyone we know has been trumpeting the Summer Of Love 2009, and it was our mantra as we put together FADER Issue 62. We scoured the universe for the summeriest, most barbecuey music this year and came up with an issue that, if you scratch-and-sniff it, smells vaguely coconutty like Hawaiian Tropic (not really). As such, this issue's podcast, presented by Bacardi B-LIVE, is about as clear a definition of what we think you should be listening to in the coming months as we could possibly make. It's got songs from every artist in the issue from cover stars Phoenix, Major Lazer, Maluca, DJ Sega and Popo; featured power-bros Young Dro, Dum Dum Girls, Wavves, Crocodiles, Family Time Records fam, Gen Fers Omega, D-Lo and Sleepy D, Esser, CFCF, and like a trizillion more people! Download it below and listen while reading the issue, scorching hot like the sun on newsstands right now. And come back to in two weeks for the free issue PDF that you can save on your computer until the robots take over.

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Crocodiles, "Summer of Hate"

DJ Sega, "Colors"

Sleepy D, "Sleepy Fuckin D"

CFCF, "Crystal Mines"

Phoenix, "Lisztomania"

Major Lazer, "Hold the Line"

Amadou & Mariam, "Sabali" (Paul Epworth Remix)

Foreign Born, "Early Warnings"

Wavves, "To the Dregs"

Young Dro, "Clean With It"

Dum Dum Girls, "Brite Futures"

Rapid Youth, "In the Trench"

Popo, "Kill Tonight"

Esser, "Headlock"

Jenny Wilson, "Like a Fading Rainbow"

Trudgers, "Nothing Perfect Ever"

No Paws (No Lions), "Robert"

Ancient Crux, "In Teen Dreams"

Maluca, "El Tigeraso"

Omega, "Tu No Ta Pa Mi"

Twin Lion, "White Fur"

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Hello I am in Denver for the summer and I am a big fly fisherman. I was curious if anyone who could give me tips on certain spots to try on rivers and flys to use? I would really appreciate it! Thanks!

spiderninja 07-02-2013 04:33 PM

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Welcome to the forum. You are surrounded by good fishing. I'd suggest this book:

It lays out some of the best fly fishing in the state. It has access points, hatch charts, and all around solid info. Of all the books I've got, this one has been getting opened a lot.

skiprock 07-03-2013 01:39 PM

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We were recently visiting in the Denver area and while there did some nice fly fishing on the Big Thompson river, just below the dam at Estes Park. Quite scenic, very good public access and friendly/helpful people at local fly shops.

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I would also recomend two websites / books

1) Fly Fishing Rocky Mt National Park
2) Rocky Mountain Fly Fishet (josh Rickard does great you tube videos and helps keep it simple )

There are tons of "common areas tat are great flyfishing.....Big T, Blue, Poudre, S Platte etc etc but you can run in to moderate crowds. If you are willing to hike a mile or so you will have tons of serenity

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I uncovered, literally, the slip box for GTA IV that normally covers the plastic disc case, with it's own manuals, map and art slip-sheet. The cardboard slip over case has a fold out with even more art from Liberty City. I don't get out much, I missed this nice visual treatment since my GTA IV came in just the plastic box, perhaps it's the PC version only? Could be, but whatever the case, I put together a YouTube video showing it off, not uploaded just yet... but perhaps if it's not seen online easily, could see to scanning them in as well

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January 11, 2008, 10:15 AM
I was surfing over at Varmant Al's site and saw this (http://www.varmintal.com/ahuntold.htm). Since then I researched the concept of 'fitted necks' a bit further and found that it is nothing new.

There is a statement in this article that states: the brass should last indefinatly.

I haven't been able to confirm that statement. Anyone here try this or know if this is true? Is this method worth the effort and costs involved?

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January 11, 2008, 10:37 AM
With the proper sizer, proper technique, and proper setup, brass will last a long, long, time. Work hardening is what kills brass.

If you are barely sizing the body, (.001 or less), barely bumping the shoulder,( .001 or less), and have .0005 to .0075 neck clearance with a loaded round, it will work.

We do this in Benchrest and shoot "hot" loads, but the fine Lapua brass, using these methods, lasts a long time. When you go through a lot of trouble to prep brass, this is a good thing.

It is not for the new reloader. You cannot just set up your custom cut sizer once and go either. The new soft brass will slowly get harder and springier. If you don't keep up with the measurements and how much you are
bumping the shoulder, and adjust accordingly, it will go wrong. You have to adjust as you go until the brass "settles" in. If you bump it too much you will overstress your brass. If you bump to little, it will get to be to hard to chamber, and you will never get it back right once it is "settled in" at the wrong length. We are talking less than .001 error here.

The good news is you don't have to cut it that fine to get extended brass life, it just won't be as good as if you did. It can still lenghten brass life enough to be worthwhile, along with some accuracy enhancment by getting the bullet lined up with the bore a little better.

January 11, 2008, 10:51 AM
Understood Walkalong.

So, you still have to bump the shoulder a bit for it to work. Too bad the redding competition shellholders only go in 0.002 increments...sure wish they made 'competition' sizer dies with micro adjustments...

So how many reloads would you get from brass processed like this? Would it be any different from 'normal' chambers and neck annealing (about 20 reloads)?

And what fails? Incepient splits or neck splits?

January 11, 2008, 03:03 PM
I really don't know. I don't keep count. My first batch of .222 mag brass finally got so work hardened I tossed it. I got at least 20 fireings from it and could have annealed it again. It had not failed. I was using a Lee Collet die and it had left "creases" in the neck where the split in the collet was because it was so soft from annealing the first time. I just did not like that so I tossed it and changed to a Redding bushing type sizer.

I have shot 6PPC brass probably well over 50 times each before changing. I have not worn it out, the barrel needed changing and so I made a new set for the new chamber, no matter that it was very close to the last chamber.

You should not have any case seperation doing this, if done right. You would eventually see a split neck or body I guess.

You do not have to bump the shoulder much, but you must bump it a tad. Under .001 will work. I try to get it where I can barely measure the difference. I just adjust the lock ring on my sizer a hair at a time, using a special tool to measure the amount of bump. It is a short piece of an old 6MM barrel with the neck and the very first part of the shoulder cut into it. Slip it over your neck and measure from the base to the end of the tool. It rests on the shoulder and will show any difference. Sinclair has similar tools for doing this. they all work. You can use the Stoney Point (http://www.sinclairintl.com/cgi-bin/category.cgi?category=REMTHT&type=store) headspace tool to do this. Or a simple bullet comparetor that has a hole size that will slip over your neck.

January 11, 2008, 10:41 PM
Very good information.

I have the tools to measure and confirm headspace and neck thickness. Add to that some machine skills with a mini lathe and mini mill. Just enough skill to be dangerous (0.001 accuracy).

Anyway, one last question, if I may.

I'm thinking this would not work with drop-open actions. For example, my TC 308's headspace is 1.627 to the breach. After firing a round, the headspace of the fired round is 1.633. That's an increase of 0.006 that I have to bump back. Why it's 0.006 longer is an issue for another thread... It's probably the nature of the action. I guess it could work, but work better in a bolt or lever action.

Thoughts on this?

January 11, 2008, 10:43 PM
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January 11, 2008, 11:01 PM
Don't bump it back .006, bump it back .001 or less. Control headspace with the sizer. All brass should be done this way for long life. Don't just full length size it. Adjust the full length sizer untill the bolt closes easily and no more.

The front half, give or take a bit, expands to seal, fill and grip the chamber and while the back half tends to "slide" and "stretch" back to the bolt head or breechface while the front half is stationary in the chamber, which is where you get the case stretching that causes case head seperation.

January 11, 2008, 11:11 PM

The article is not talking about extending brass life by controlling cartridge headspace. The gist of the article is about having minimal clearance in the neck portion of a tight necked (not SAAMI) chambered rifle. This cannot be done with factory chambers.

January 11, 2008, 11:55 PM
A drop-open action is a little different than bolt or lever actions. I have all three in 308. I can get away with a shoulder bump of 0.001 in the bolt and lever actions since the 'breach' or bolt doesn't move when fired.

If the drop-open TC were rock solid, it should size to 1.627. But because of flex in the system, it will lengthen to 1.633. I did try to bump 0.001 on that 1.633 cartridge and got vertical strings because it was pre-loading the action. When I sized to 0.001 (1.626) to the breach, it was perfect. 1.626 is not full-length sized, but sized to fit the TC.

Anyway, you've answered my questions and I thank you. Think I'll get a barrel made and give it a try.

January 12, 2008, 12:14 AM

Understood. It's a given this is not a factory chamber, or even a match chamber but much tighter. So tight, in fact, that neck tension is controlled by neck thickness and neck sizing isn't done, per se, but cartridge sizing must be done (very little) to maintain correct headspace.

The shoulder bump we're talking about is nothing new to me. For my fire-formed brass, I do it.... if the action allows it.

It's a given that this will increase accuracy. But, an additional benefit is extended case life. I'm not sure how much space they give for a match chamber, but this appears to be a different concept entirely. Thus the term 'fitted neck' verses 'match chamber'... two totally different concepts.

January 12, 2008, 01:49 AM
A "match" chamber is usually not that much tighter than a standard chamber and does not need "fitted" necks.

A custom "tight necked" chamber is what we are talking about. We are talking about more than what the article included. Just shootin' the S***

My 6PPC chamber has a .262 neck. I ream and turn my brass so a loaded round is right at .2615. Pretty tight.

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Horse owners utilize many management practices to limit calorie intake for obese horses, including restricting pasture access via a grazing muzzle. However, research has shown that horses often increase pasture intake when returned to an unrestricted situation. Drastic changes in grain intake are known to cause digestive upsets, particularly in the hindgut, so researchers set out to determine if drastic changes in pasture intake yielded similar results.

The research team, led by Paul D. Siciliano, PhD, associate professor in the North Carolina State University Department of Animal Science, separated six mature light horse geldings of similar weight and body condition into two groups.

A control group had access to pasture continuously while a restricted group wore a grazing muzzle for 12 hours per day. After seven days, the groups switched protocol for an additional seven days. On day seven of each period, blood and feces were collected at intervals for plasma protein and fecal pH determination. In addition, pasture samples were obtained for chemical composition analysis.

After reviewing their results, the team found that hindgut health in horses with restricted access to pasture by grazing muzzle for 12 hours per day was not compromised compared to horses with unrestricted access to pasture.

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Potomac horse fever (PHF), a somewhat regional rickettsial disease, causes acute diarrhea and leads to death in up to 30% of affected horses. In an effort to understand the disease better, Sandra Taylor, DVM, PhD, Dipl. ACVIM, of Purdue University's school of veterinary medicine, performed a retrospective study in which she and colleagues looked for specific factors that were favorable for survival among PHF cases. She presented the results at the 2012 American Association of Equine Practitioners' (AAEP) Convention, held Dec. 1-5 in Anaheim, Calif.

Potomac horse fever is caused by the intracellular bacterium Neorickettsia risticii, which impacts specific white blood cells and cells lining the colon. The disease was first identified in the early 1980s, and while its mode of infection was largely mysterious in the early years, researchers now understand that the reservoir for this bacterium is a fluke, which parasitizes water-borne snails, aquatic insects, birds, and bats. Larval stages of aquatic insects such as mayflies or caddis flies become infected. Birds and bats can eat the aquatic insects and pass the bacteria in their feces. A horse can be exposed by inadvertently ingesting aquatic insects infected with flukes carrying the bacteria (in contaminated forage or feed), or by drinking flukes directly from rivers or streams.

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Taylor and her colleagues examined the records of 50 horses diagnosed with PHF over 15 years (1996-2011) and noticed that most cases were seen in August, with some occurring June through December. Blood testing with PCR confirmed positive diagnosis in most horses, while veterinarians found high blood antibody levels against the bacterium in others.

Researchers recorded presence of diarrhea in 66% of horses, fever in 48%, lack of appetite in 42%, depression in 40%, and colic in 38%. Laminitis developed in 32% of the cases; 88% of these horses were affected in all four feet. In general, 76% of all PHF cases survived to discharge but those with laminitis were less likely to survive.

While PHF has a serious clinical impact on affected horses, some parameters are associated with survival. The outcome was correlated to the severity of colon disease, which was reflected by the amount of specific electrolyte losses from the bowel. Blood chloride, sodium, magnesium, and calcium concentrations were all decreased in nonsurvivors. Blood creatinine, blood urea nitrogen, packed cell volume, and anion gap were all increased in nonsurvivors; these parameters indicate significant dehydration secondary to diarrhea.

The use of antibiotic oxytetracycline improved survival odds twelvefold. Taylor's take-home message was that if there is any suspicion of PHF infection (based on location, time of year, and presence of diarrhea) prior to a confirmed diagnosis, it is prudent to start a horse on oxytetracycline and intravenous fluid therapy right away.

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Researchers found that of 119 CVM-affected Thoroughbreds, horses exhibiting mild neurologic signs and mild spinal deviations on radiographs that were managed conservatively were the most likely to make it to the track for at least one start.

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But when horses respond well to treatment, they can have a full life ahead of them. Hoffman and researchers at the Peterson and Smith Equine Hospital, in Ocala, Fla., set out to determine which radiographic and neurologic exam findings indicate that affected horses might achieve athletic function with conservative management.

“Diagnosis of CVM does not necessarily equate to loss of use,” said Hoffman.

The team retrospectively reviewed the racing records of 119 Thoroughbreds diagnosed with CVM during an eight-year period and found that horses exhibiting mild neurologic signs and mild spinal deviations on radiographs, and that were managed conservatively were the most likely to make it to the track for at least one start. Mild deviations included caudal epiphyseal flare (an inflammation in the vertebrae similar to developmental orthopedic disease in joints) or extension of laminae in the spine, which researchers noticed resolved with growth. In fact, 30% of horses with these clinical signs eventually raced. On average, horses that did not make it to the track had more severe neurologic signs.

Conservative management of the successful horses was focused on decreasing inflammation using oral or intravenous anti-inflammatories and corticosteroids, and dimethylsulfoxide (DMSO); minimizing concussion to the spinal cord by restricting turnout to small paddocks; and managing horses' growth rate via nutritional changes to prevent damage to the area.

Radiographs revealed that horses with a visible over-curvature of the back or spinal cord narrowing were less likely to make a racing start. These types of changes resulted in more severe clinical signs that were less likely to respond to conservative management.

Other issues, such as bone cysts, did not significantly impact a horse’s prognosis, the team noted.

“It's difficult to determine the prognosis for the horse, especially on initial evaluation when there was some sort of acute trauma that led to inflammation and the horse's sudden neurologic signs,” said Hoffman. “That is part of why we performed this study: to determine what their prognosis would be based on neurologic signs and radiographic findings.”

The study, "Prognosis for racing with conservative management of cervical vertebral malformation in thoroughbreds: 103 cases (2002-2010)," appeared in the March/April issue of the Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine

About the Author

Natalie Voss

Natalie Voss is a freelance writer and editor based in Kentucky. She received her bachelor's degree in equine science from the University of Kentucky and has worked in public relations for equine businesses and organizations. She spends her spare time riding her Draft cross, Jitterbug.

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