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    Grant Likely wrote:
    > I'd really like to get patches 1-4 merged into 2.6.40. Please test.
    > I'm also running through build testing here, and when it's complete
    > I'll push it out to a 'devicetree/irq-domain' branch on
    > git://

    I pulled this, built and booted my x86-dt box and nothing exploded so far.

    If you merge Linus' tree then you will get a conflict (sooner or later) in
    ioapic_of_irq_map() in arch/x86/kernel/devicetree.c:

    - return io_apic_setup_irq_pin_once(*out_hwirq, cpu_to_node(0), &attr);
    - if (io_apic_setup_irq_pin(hwirq, cpu_to_node(0), &attr))
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Induction of Don Baker

Banner Elk, NC--Lees-McRae College inducted former coach Don Baker into the Fred I. Dickerson Athletics Hall of Fame during Homecoming festivities Saturday, October 6.

Baker graduated from LMC in 1957. At various times between 1960 and 1995, Baker served the college as tennis coach, Director of Public Relations, Director of Alumni Affairs, Admissions Recruiter, Dean of Men, School Photographer, Yearbook Advisor, Instructor of Art Appreciation and Athletic Director.

Baker coached the LMC tennis men's and women's teams to three conference championships, three regional championships and to five appearances at the National Junior College Athletic Association Tournament. His honors include Coach of the Year in the Western Carolinas Junior College Conference 10 times and the National Junior College Athletic Association Football Hall of Fame Pioneer Award 2000 among many others.

Baker was roasted at the ceremony by fellow LMC classmate, Dick Weaver. Former LMC coach Lewis Hall and others at the ceremony were given the opportunity to express their feelings and tell stories about Baker. Baker was inducted into the Hall of Fame by LMC President Earl Robinson.

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leftovercutiesAlright, I’ve held out on Christmas music for this long, but now I am almost forced to share Leftover Cuties‘ recent Christmas EP. This four-piece band from Venice, California, has made some really nice arrangements of Christmas classics that have many various stylistic traits to them, including New Orleans jazz, and 50s doo-wop. The group truly combines a retro feel with modern musicality.  Shirli McAllen does a great job on vocals for all six songs, and I was very impressed with multi-instrumentalist Mike Bolger’s trumpet fills and solos throughout the EP. Without the trumpet, I’m not sure if the album would have caught my ear. You can listen to “Santa Baby” below, and support Leftover Cuties by buying the rest of the EP here. You still have some time! Merry Christmas.

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Warriors and Wolves

Warriors and Wolves, which was launched in July, 2011. This new theraputic program works with our returning combat veterans to assist them as they make the transition back to society and start the healing process.

Take a moment to scroll down and meet the Warriors who’re involved with the Warriors and Wolves program. Or use the easy navigation selector below to jump to their individual page.

SoCal Wolf Rehab Program Gives Vets “Space to Figure Things Out”

“They just don’t fit in society, much like the veterans coming home.” – John Muir

Wolves and wolf-dogs rescued from around the country are rehabilitated along with U.S. veterans recovering from the traumas of war in the Southern California Warriors and Wolves program. Whit Johnson has the Life Connected report for the NBC4 News at 11 p.m. on Sunday, May 24, 2015. (Published Monday, May 25, 2015).

Our ambassador wolfdogs make trips to meet our nation’s heroes. These Veterans are given the opportunity to work closely with these wolfdogs and set up lifelong friendships. The often difficult walk back home is not one that they should have to make alone.

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  • This program offers a unique opportunity to help our heroes recover from the stresses and traumas that result not just from military service but from the readjustment involved in coming home.
  • The wolfdogs at Lockwood ARC live in an “in-between” world – not quite wolves and not quite dogs – just as many veterans who have served their country do not feel quite at home as civilians after being Warriors.
  • Both misunderstood and disenfrancised, the wolfdogs and the warriors find solace in each other.
  • Licensed therapists and alocohol and drug counselors are available to address the mental and spirtual health issues facing our veterans.
  • Animals and nature offer a special opportunity for healing and remembering how to be trusting, grounded, and fearless once again!

In an enheartening and wonderfully candid interview Matthew Simmons and Dr. Lorin Lindner take some time out of the Alaska Wolf Dog Rescue to speak about the “Warriors and Wolves” program. Warriors and Wolves is a program that helps Vets overcome the trauma / PTSD of war; in providing a unbreakable bond between the sometimes (also) traumatized animals and the Vets. ParrotCare (www.parrotcare.org) is a similar program located at the Vet Center in West Los Angeles.

And Now Meet the Warriors!

Tyler served in the Gulf War from 1992 through 1996. He was attached to the 24th infantry.Ty is currently being treated at the West Los Angeles VA for PTSD. As part of this therapy he is working with the wolfdogs at the Lockwood Animal Rescue Center. Ty is a somewhat quiet guy who has started to come out of his shell and loves working with the wolfdogs.

Lilly is a coast guard veteran and one of the first search and rescue personnel dispatched to Alaska. Lilly was involved in rescues of both civilian and military personnel during her service. She is also currently enrolled in the PTSD at the VA Medical Center. She came to us as a volunteer and is now not only managing Serenity Park in Los Angeles but also working with the wolves as part of the “Warriors and Wolves” program in Ventura.

Jeremy Stanford

Army Veteran 2006-2009 Iraq for 15months. Jeremy is one of the newest members of the Warriors and Wolves Team. He got a chance to split firewood for our upcoming fundraiser and was introduced to Wiley while working. Jeremy will get his first tour wth the woldogs this week and we can’t wait to team him up with Samson (a young upstart at the LARC facility).

Troy Freeman

Army Veteran 1973-76 plus 8yrs reserve. Troy has been working with the wolves since 2011. He was vital in the construction of the new enclosures at LARC for the big alaska rescue. Troy has also helped with socialization and feeding of all the wolfdogs and his ability to customize their environments has been crucial to their successful adjustment.

Victor Smith

Army Veteran 1980-83. Victor has been working at Serenity Park in Los Angeles for four months. Victor has also started a dog walking service in West Los Angeles. His affinity for animals makes him an exceptional warrior in the “Warrior and Wolves” program. Victor helped with construction and cares for the animals on a daily basis.

Richard Mitchel

Marine Corps Veteran 1990-93 + 4yrs reserve and 3yrs 3rd service support. Richard recently started working for LARC. As time progresses well see where he fits in on the LARC team. His passion and dedication to his duties is remarkable. Its like they say once a marine always a marine.

Desmond Rice

Army Veteran 82nd Airborne 1984-86. Desmond served with wings on his shoulder and seems to fly throught his duties. Currently assisting with the firewood project and the animals at Serenity Park. We hope to move him to LARC this month. His promtptness and dedication are what we have grown to expect from a Ranger.

Stanley McDonald

US Navy Veteran, 12yrs 1982-94 Combat Veteran. Stanley McDonald a graduate of Serenity Park, part-time volunteer at LARC, and a full-time foreman for L & M Construction is always willing to help out a veteran and care for the animals at both non-profits. Stanley is always on time and willing to go on a rescue anywhere in the United States. Stanley has traveled 23 states rescuing animals and supporting the efforts of both LARC and Serenity Park.

Mike Tucker

Navy Veteran. Mike served both here and abroad. Mike has suffered from PTSD and despression and is currently enrolled in a residential treatment facility while also working at the Serenity Park in Los Angeles caring for the parrots.

Marine Corps Veteran. Roy served as a security guard on a submarine base and in the infantry during his 4 years service. He brings expertise in many administrative tasks that are necessary for LARC to continue it’s mission and achieve it’s goals.

Matt Simmons

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This is the official website of London Tonight, on ITV1 in London and the South East every weeknight at 6pm.

London Tonight Tonight Wednesday 27th June

I am so sorry to be late with this little missif but Tony Blair finally called it a day, today, and Gordon went to the Palace and, we suspect, stayed on for a sarnie and sherbert which has made everything else run late! Oh what a life. The King is dead, long live.... the right to linger, loiter and keep London Tonight Tonight waiting. I despair.

Bet Tony was on the phone on the way to the Palace to say goodbye and bet Gordon was, too, telling all his mates to tune in and see his magic moment on the telly. That's fine... but if the driver had done it while at the wheel then he'd have been for the high-jump. You know that. Or do you? Lots of you are driving as if you didn't. Phil has the evidence and will remind you of the risks you are running.

Running the Olympics from a sporting point of view is going to be a doddle compared to running it as a property business. How much will the Olympic Park be worth in 2013? One careful, albeit Olympic size, owner? £800 M? £2B? It matters because upon it hinges, like a creeky barn-door, the amount the National Lottery Good Causes will get back. Or not.
Bit of a gamble, then, for the National Lottery to have lent the money in the first place. Harris is the man in the shades at the roulette wheel.

Travelling on a bus shouldn't be a gamble, nor should glancing at a stranger be risky. For Martin Dinnegan, on his way to a Youth Club, both proved fatal. The why's and wherefore's are mind-numbing but Glen will be taking you through them and we'll be asking you what you make of it.

Cue the music: Crowded House are reforming - ( I didn't know they had broken up) - just in time to hit the concert circuit as they ban smoking in enclosed places. Will this be good news or bad, for them? Everywhere you go, it seems you can no longer do what you want...
(Only if you are a selfsh polluter: Ed)
Stub it out, guv! It was only a play on the words to a song..
(Oh, alright then: Ed)
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During the month of September, contributions from dining out at participating restaurants will go toward grants, supplies, and technical assistance to organizations that feed children who are at risk of hunger.

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PASADENA (CBSLA.com) — A veteran’s son is hoping to raise enough money for a New Year’s Day Rose Parade float honoring female World War II pilots.

Albert “Chig” Lewis said his mother, Dorothy “Dot” Lewis, earned her “silver wings” with WASP: the Women Airforce Service Pilots.

Dorothy trained male pilots and performed domestic operations.

“They flew every advanced aircraft that we had,” Lewis said. “My mother flew the B-26.”

The women aviators, however, were dismissed when male pilots came home from combat; their feats are absent from many history books.

“They lived in the wind and sand … their eyes were on the stars, how they could serve and fly. They loved to fly,” Lewis said.

In September, weeks before Dorothy’s 98th birthday, she passed away in Idyllwild.

Lewis, who spoke to KCAL9’s Serene Branson via Skype from Washington, D.C., is determined to make a float in the name of his mother and the other unsung heroes of the war.

“It fits right into with what happened now with the opening of the services to women based on their capabilities. It’s important that we try to find the good broad reach of media in things like the Rose Parade,” Lewis said.

Although the application for the float was accepted in March, Lewis said the WASP’s nonprofit group, Wingtip-to-Wingtip, is short on funds, as floats cost about $200,000.

“We’ve raised close to half, but we need to have enough to be sure we can pay the builder for his fine work,” Lewis said.

Lewis said if they don’t raise enough money by Veterans Day on Monday, they may have to ground the project. He hopes a corporate sponsor or aircraft company will step in.

“It was a wonderful, wonderful service they did for our nation, and we want everyone to know about it because it’s a part of history we all should be proud of,” he said.

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Somang Beauty Credit Milk Hand Cream & Milk Hand Balm

I think handcare is very important...after all our hands are so active all the time, exposed to the sun etc. it´s important to take good care of them.

I go through handcreams like nobody else. I think I easily use up a tube per week so I get the opportunity to test lots of handcare items within short time actually =)

Recently I found these cute Milk items from Somang Beauty Credit on Sasa so I hauled them as I firstly like everything with milk and 2nd the things were cute and cheap!

I got the Milk Hand Cream and the Milk Hand Balm (which is long gone by now) and am delighted with both, especially with the Hand Balm!

I like the design with that cute fat cow (she looks like she´d have lots of milk!)....and I have a weakness for all kind of beauty products containing milk!
Both hand treatments smell really yummy, a light milky vanilla-baby powder kind of scent.

The Milk Hand Balm comes in a 40ml tub which sounds little at first but actually a little goes a long way so I enjoyed the balm for about 2 weeks before it was gone (with about 2-3x daily use). The Milk Hand Balm is rich and thick and very creamy and makes my skin buttery soft so I decided to order a few more tubs on Sasa!

The Milk Hand Cream comes in a 100ml squeeze tube which is a quite generous size as in my experience most hand creams contain between 50-75ml.
This is lighter than the balm but moisturizing enough for dailiy usage. If you need a deeper care with more lipids I´d recommend the Hand Balm.
All in all this stuff is nice, too!

I ordered both items from Sasa and paid about US$4 for the Milk Hand Balm and US$5 for the Milk Hand Cream.

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*gasp*.. a tube a week?! Seriously?
:) Thanks for the review, now I'm itching to get this as well heehehe.

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i've been using the milk balm as well and am loving it! also love the super cute packaging :)

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This milk balm sounds very interesting. I may have to get it. I love milk scents too.

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These look so cute ^^ they also look yummy to eat too ^^

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I go through hand creams quickly too! These are super duper cute! I will have to grab some on my next Sasa order. Thanks for sharing, I love your reviews!

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Red Hot Chili Peppers fans, the time is almost upon us. Earlier this year the group revealed that they had a wealth of songs that they would be releasing on top of the music that fans were already getting from the ‘I’m With You’ album.

The tracks were recorded during the sessions for their latest record, and the first of nine pairs of 7-inch singles will be release this Friday (Aug. 10). The band has announced that ‘Strange Man’ will be the A-Side, while ‘Long Progression’ is the B-Side.

The songs will be available in both vinyl and digital formats via the band’s website and at iTunes. In addition, fans can order the complete singles collection bundle, including all nine 7-inch vinyl records, digital downloads, and a custom 3X3 recycled plastic holder that can be used to display each 7-inch vinyl record on your wall.

‘Strange Man’ and ‘Long Progression’ will be followed by ‘Magpies’ and ‘Victorian Machinery’ on Sept. 11. The third pair of songs will be ‘Never is a Long Time’ and ‘Love of Your Life,’ with those arriving Oct. 2. The titles for the forth, fifth, and sixth 7-inch releases will follow on Nov. 6, Dec. 4, and Dec. 18, respectively, with the final releases following in early 2013.

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No, Not An Auspicious Start

As I write this there are riots in the streets.

The newscasters are calling the scene post-apocalyptic. Police cars smoulder with vandals' flames, and tear gas envelops the entire downtown core. Windows have been smashed. The Queen Elizabeth theatre was showing Wicked and families are trapped in the foyer, afraid to leave the building.

The city is burning.

And all over a lost hockey game?

There are times in my life when I felt left out because I didn't live in Vancouver proper. I grew up on the North Shore, an underpriveleged kid in an upper-middle-class neighbourhood. When I married I migrated to Roastawasp, another city in Greater Vancouver (not its real name, but my grandmother used to get a kick out of calling it Burn-A-Bee, so I may as well honor her memory). It was always a pain, an annoying but necessary pain, to have to transit in from elsewhere, but it seemed inevitable.

But now? Now I'm kinda glad I'm not out in that mess.

Speculation is that it's probably not the hockey game that started it. That it was an excuse for people to riot; that there are anarchists involved and that all the "real" fans went home safely. I don't know, because I'm not well-versed in politics and frankly, I want to stay out of it.

But this is not an auspicious start to my blog.

And yes, I'm aware how self-centred that sounds. But in my defense, I wasn't expecting this turn of events. I am a Canucks fan, married to a Canucks fan. There was quite a bit of tension leading up to the game and I was having a hard time trying to compose my first entry. I have so much I want to say, because I recently came out of an amazing experience with fellow writers, I have lots to share, and as of yesterday I'd decided to switch from Livejournal to Blogspot.

This is not the time.

And so, like many other Canucks fans and Greater Vancouverites, I apologize to the world for this mess. We are not all like that. If you check the Twitterverse, you'll see many more apologies like this.

When I started to compose this post, it was right after the game ended and I thought I had something clever to say about how the game inspired a story idea for me. This? I'm sure something fictional will come of it, but it's sure not what I intended.

  1. Well said, Laura. The whole situation is so untypical of what celebratory crowds in Vancouver are usually like. I hope VPD is eventually able to identify the hooligans that instigated the worst damage and make them pay, but it seems anarchists manage to get in and out and move on to another locale.

  2. I'm a big sports fan, but I never understood the whole rioting in the street thing. It's times likes these you remember that "fan" is a derivative of fanatic. Sports+emotion+alcohol=trouble, I guess.

  3. I know I shouldn't make gross generalizations, but after meeting and sharing a room with you, and shaing my home with your fellow Canookian, En, I don't think either of you have anything to apologize for. There are always idiots, best that can be done is to kill them and never get into the Stanley cup finals again ...

  4. This is hard, I know. I lived in Columbus, Ohio when the "riots" happened. (I use the quotes, because really, it was a couple cars and some unruly folks; I don't think anyone was hurt, and most of us in the city didn't know there was a riot until we saw it on CNN). But the fans in the stadium, while they booed some (I think) during the presentation, seemed to be pretty good. It was a hard, hard loss, I know. But yeah, riots always make people feel bad about living where they are.

    I'd be a little distressed about the whole "anarchist" thing. I mean, when people rioted in Columbus, it mostly wasn't students, just ne'er do wells looking for an excuse to be destructive, but there wasn't any political motivation there.

    I'll keep you in my thoughts! Take care!

  5. Wow - I'm so sorry to hear this. Not to spread stereotypes, but all the Canadians I've met have been remarkably nice people. I think you're probably right that it's not simply disgruntled fans, it's agitators of some sort looking for an excuse in the midst of alcohol fueled unrest. Like Emily, I've seen football riots in Columbus and they never went this far. Keep safe! and keep us updated.

  6. Thank you everyone for your comments and support. It was a crazy few days, but things seem to be approaching normal now. I feel good about it.


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No injuries reported in mobile home blaze on County Road 8100

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Flames erupt from the mobile home fire this morning on County Road 8100 in Lubbock.
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No injuries were reported after an abandoned mobile home on County Road 8100 burst into flames this morning

The West Carlisle and Shallowater fire department and EMS personnel responded to the fire in the 6500 block of County Road 8100 in Lubbock around 8:45 a.m.

Lubbock County official Hugh Sutton said a firefighter was on his way to work when he saw smoke coming from the bottom of the trailer. That firefighter called into the fire department to come out to the area. By the time the Fire Department got there, the trailer was in flames.

A neighbor who declined to declined to identify herself said she saw the smoke coming from beneath the house and immediately called the fire department. She said someone previously lived in the recently moved out.

She added that the former tenant returned to the property to collect a few things on Saturday but didn’t plan on returning to the home. The witness said strong winds blew metal and debris from the trailer onto other neighbors’ lawns.

Firefighters arrived on scene around 9 a.m. to tall flames and thick, strong smomke. With each flame firefighters extinguished, another popped up. Shallowater responded to the scene in a backup role.

Firefighters extinguished the flame around 9:45 a.m. The cause of the fire is under investigation.

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Dear Neil: I had several Joe Pye weed plants (Eupatorium) this summer. They were butterfly favorites. They grew to 5 feet tall and 4 feet wide, but now the stems have lost all their leaves. Should I cut them back? Do they bloom on old wood come next spring?

Answer: Yes. As with many perennials that start going downhill a few weeks or months after they finish flowering, Joe Pye weed plants should be cut back to within a few inches of the soil after the first freeze (earlier if you need to tidy things up). They flower on their new growth. Give ’em a trim.

Dear Neil: We have tall nandinas that really ought to be trimmed back from our windows. How can we do it? The plants have lots of berries. When can we prune them without ruining the berries?

Answer: It sounds like you have the old-fashioned standard nandinas. There is an odd pruning technique that is rather specific to them. You want to sort through their stems and select the tallest one-third of the stems. Cut those canes clear back to the ground, leaving the other two-thirds intact. Those cut canes will send out new sprouts that will fill in from beneath, giving the plants a fresh, rejuvenated look. If they’re really overgrown, you could even cut the tallest half of the canes back to the ground.

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Answer: Apply an all-nitrogen fertilizer such as 21-0-0 at the rate of 1/2-pound per 100 square feet of bed space. Fertilize in early to mid-February, in anticipation of the new growth. Water the fertilizer in deeply, to get it immediately to the plants’ roots. You can also make a similar application after you finish harvesting. Otherwise, just keep the plants well mulched and moist.

Dear Neil: I have two blackberry plants that have been very productive. I’d like to plant more. Can I get more plants from the two that I have?

Answer: Absolutely. That’s the way they are propagated. You can either dig the existing root sprouts that have formed around the two mother plants, or you can use root cuttings from large roots. They will develop their own roots and top growth. Winter is the best time to get your new plants going.

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WASHINGTON (AP) - From the outset, it was clear that presidential friend Vernon Jordan was more than a little annoyed about answering questions again regarding his job search for Monica Lewinsky - especially from a Republican House prosecutor.

Transcripts released Friday from Jordan's deposition earlier this week reveal glimpses of a famous, powerful lawyer who is treated with great respect by the House prosecutor, Rep. Asa Hutchinson of Arkansas. Jordan, meanwhile, seems by turns jovial and dismissive.

Early in the questioning, Hutchinson told Jordan, "I've looked forward to this opportunity to meet you," to which Jordan jokingly replied: "I can't say that the feeling is mutual."

"I certainly understand," Hutchinson commented as those in the room laughed.

A few minutes later, Jordan reacted with apparent disdain when Hutchinson asked him to define what "making rain" means at the 800-lawyer firm of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld.

"I think even in Arkansas you understand what rainmaking is," Jordan said before defining his job as one that brings in new business.

"We've read (John) Grisham books," said Hutchinson, referring to the lawyer-turned-novelist who wrote "The Rainmaker," which was made into a movie.

Later, Jordan said he once charged upwards of $500 an hour but now has moved beyond billing clients. "Not bad for a Georgia boy," he said. "I'm from Georgia. You've heard of that state, I'm sure."

Most of Jordan's testimony covers familiar ground: that he helped Ms. Lewinsky look for a New York job using high-level contacts at Revlon and elsewhere and that he often helps people find jobs; that President Clinton was concerned and was kept apprised of the search; that Ms. Lewinsky denied to him that she was having a sexual relationship with Clinton, and that the job search was not linked to Ms. Lewinsky's affidavit denying the relationship.

Despite that, Jordan said he called Clinton the day Ms. Lewinsky signed the affidavit because the president "was obviously interested in her job search ... I would say, `Mr. President, she signed the affidavit. She signed the affidavit.' "

"And what was his response?" Hutchinson asked.

" `Thank you very much,' " Jordan replied.

Jordan was forced to correct earlier testimony denying that he'd met Ms. Lewinsky for breakfast at the Park Hyatt hotel on Dec. 31, 1997, after Hutchinson confronted him with credit card receipts.

And although Jordan acknowledged they talked about love notes Ms. Lewinsky had written the president, Jordan flatly denied telling her to get rid of them.

"Mr. Hutchinson, I'm a lawyer and I'm a loyal friend, but I'm not a fool, and the notion that I would suggest to anybody that they destroy anything just defies anything that I know about myself," Jordan said. "So the notion that I said to her, `Go home and destroy notes,' is ridiculous."

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Depression is a form of mental illness that affects the way a person feels, thinks and acts. Childhood depression, if left untreated, can lead to school failure, alcohol or other drug use, or even suicide.

Signs of childhood depression include:

Persistent sadness and hopelessness.

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i did some research about the PG-13 issue and found this...just some info i think all of you should read since you're all making a big deal about the board being PG-13
i don't agree with the idea of a nude mod, but there really isn't anything wrong with it on a PG-13 rating as long as it isn't sexually oriented. a naked person running around fighting sith with a lightsaber isn't something to get worked up about

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I just saw him as a robot that opened one important door, then sat around 'answering' about 4 irrelevant questions with a few beeps, while refusing to make me any more computer spikes, greedy little bastard.

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Hey there, glad to see another person join the LumberJocks community! It’s a great place to meet new people, post projects, ask questions and so much more, hope you enjoy it as much as I do. Welcome!

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Welcome to LJ’s. We are here to help you with your woodworking endeavors. Feel free to ask for advise. But Be aware…this site can be very addictive…………LOL

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Welcome to Lumberjocks!

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Hello Dan,

Let me welcome to LJs. I am sure that you will find being a member of this group to be an interesting, as well as exciting, experience. Have fun and enjoy.

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Welcome aboard. Nice to have you join us on Lumberjocks.

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Welcome to LJs a place were there are great people super projects and outstanding woodworkers. Enjoy

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Welcome to LumberJocks. Glad to have you aboard. †

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Welcome to LJ’s Dan… Nice to see another Intarsia Artist here. Enjoy !!

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Hi all lumberjocks my 37 yearold son died feb 6 I well be back on line in a week or two

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Hello Everyone, I’ve only been Scrolling for a couple of years now, mostly just simple projects my saw is not nearly accurate enough for real delicate fret work, I have always glued the pattern to the wood and covered it with clear packing tape and fought the battle of removing the sticky residue from the wood after cutting, last night I tried Sheila’s method of the blue painters tape with the pattern glued to the tape and it worked out great, I was doing the happy dance that’s for sure … all I can say is bye bye packing tape, hello blue painters tape … Thanks Sheila for that great tip.
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I’ve used painter’s tape for several years now and it does work great. Usually the blue tape is the good stuff, and if you can afford it, that’s the way to go. You can use any painters, or masking tape though with the same result. The only thing you have to watch for is the time listed on the tape. Please allow me to explain.
On some tapes, it’s listed on the tape as four hours tape, or one day tape, sometimes more. I found out the hard way what that meant. That is the time frame one has to stick the tape on and still remove it without leaving a sticky residue that isn’t quite as bad as packing tape, but an aggrevation all the same.
Because of this problem I have found, there is an easy solution. If I’m working on a project that I know may be taped for days on end, or longer, I stick with nothing but the blue stuff. If I’m working on something quick that’ll be untaped in a couple of hours, I save money and use the cheap stuff I picked up at the Dollar Store.

Welcome to Lumberjocks. I’m always happy to meet fellow scrollers too. I added you to my buddy list so I can maybe catch some more of your posts.

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First of two treasure chests for my kids.

The half round top was the challenge. Working on my second.

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Really nice clean craftsmanship. I am sure this will be long treasured (no pun intended.)

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Great job…especially with the top!!!

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#3 posted 05-04-2008 08:18 PM

This is a very nice piece. I like the curved lid, of course but your joinery and the bright brass hardware add nice details to the chest as well.

Pine is a pretty wood, especially when it is given a natural finish.

Nice post.

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#4 posted 05-04-2008 08:55 PM

Nice work. Made a couple chests like this one about 15 years ago. Yours looks much lighter !

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Very nice project. Echo the thoughts on the top above; the angle cutting must be so precise. Looks robust and good use of dovetails in a timber that can make that joint tricky.

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Great looking project. How did you make the lid?

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Great treasure chest that will definitely spark imaginative and creative play time.

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I’ve been looking for ideas for such a box for my grandkids…thanks for the ideas.

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#10 posted 05-05-2008 02:23 PM

To All of you, thanks for your kinds words. But most of the credit belong to my kids who are pushing me to do this kind of stuff.

To answer some of the questions, the lid was the challenge for me. I scrap the first one I did…lack of time on the glue up. The lid is a half circle, 6 inch radius and made of 32 slats, 9/16 wide x 3/4 thick. If I remember correctly, with an angle of about 2.8 deg on each side.

Use white glue….gives me more time and the help of my my wife; another pair of hands came real handy !!!

Again, thanks for the kind words

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#11 posted 05-06-2008 04:47 AM

Nice chest. I like the design !!
I have been wanting to something similar on a blanket chest.

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I made a ukulele kit for my daughter when she was born, 7+ years ago. She had an under ocean themed room so I got the hand held router and added some fish, a seahorse and her name. now its almost time for her to make her own.

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That’s Neat!!

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wow…cool idea! I love the fish!

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Thanks guys, it was kind of a simple, but fun little project. I think its time for her to build her own.

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#4 posted 02-28-2014 05:16 PM

Pretty instrument and little lady as well. I’m sure it’s one of her treasured pieces. Great job!

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You can make it out of plywood, but you may want to include some hardwood or edge banding for the exposed edges, unless that is the look you are going for. I have seen it done without edge banding, sort of a modern or industrial look.

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Hi all. I’ve just moved to NW Arkansas and am looking for woodworking stores and lumber stores. Anybody got any leads?

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On purpose ? ;o) P.S., I used to live in NE Arkansas – Blytheville. :o(

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I know it can be a hike – but there is an outstanding guild in Tulsa.

I would at least contact them, as they will have a good inside track on perhaps a 100 mile radius of that neck of the woods, for sawmills, specialty items etc.

That guild also brings in good speakers, like Michael Fortune, to do talks.

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#3 posted 05-02-2014 03:48 PM

SUPER helpful, DrDirt! Thanks so much!

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#4 posted 05-02-2014 06:04 PM

NW Arkansas? What a great place! I might be a bit bias as you can tell by my profile picture but there’s so much up there, even more since I left. However, last time I was back there for a bit I did some research on woodworking stores and lumber yards but didn’t have much luck. I even looked in Fort Smith (my hometown) and all I could find was big box stores and 84 lumber.

I figure there’s got to be at least some sawmills and hopefully a good lumber store around there somewhere. You might want to look in the Eureka Springs area as well. Doug Stowe, the famous box maker, works out of there. You might even consider trying to contact him and see if he has any suggestions. Besides, the drive from Fayetteville to Eureka Springs sure is pretty, especially in the fall.

Good luck! If you do find anything let me know, we usually try to head that way at least once a year. Woo Pig Sooie!

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#5 posted 05-03-2014 12:23 AM

Jeff, I’m in Jenks (Tulsa) and have a sawmill. I really like to saw unusual woods (mimosa, blackjack, etc). Come visit any time.

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#6 posted 05-03-2014 01:51 PM

That’s a great area.
Sure has a lot of Tyson folks there.

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CENTRAL FALLS, R.I. (AP) — A new audit shows Central Falls now has a $1.7 million budget surplus, about 2½ years after becoming the first city in Rhode Island to declare municipal bankruptcy.

Mayor James Diossa says the city's back on the right track and can now fix streets and sidewalks that have gone into disrepair over the years.

City officials say the surplus is the result of spending cuts, more property tax revenue than expected and savings on the cost of health care for city workers including police officers and firefighters.

The audit by Providence-based Marcum LLP showed Central Falls has a $1.3 million surplus from the 2013 fiscal year and a $400,000 surplus from the previous year.

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I'm gonna Betty Crocker the sh*t out of the apocalypse.

So I bought a food dehydrator this weekend.
You know what this means.
I’m ready for the zombie apocalypse.
Okay, fine.
I’m ready for any apocalypse. Bring it on, Mayans.
But in all seriousness, I fear the zombie apocalypse like nobody’s business. Once upon a time, I thought it was just a funny scenario to joke about lightly over a bucket of popcorn while watching Shawn of the Dead."Zombies? Oh, how droll! How 1950's B-grade horror movie!"
And then that dude in Miami ate a guy’s face off.
Did you not hear about that?
Allow me to educate you. A MAN ATE ANOTHER MAN’S FACE OFF. They speculated as to why afterwards. “Maybe it was a combination of bad meth and heroine that made him do it.” “Maybe it was marijuana.” And then there was the Bath Salt theory. Apparently, Bath Salts are a club drug of sorts that cause you to have a huge adrenaline rush, compounded with a feeling in invincibility. Essentially it turns you into the Hulk. …or Hulk Hogan. I don’t know. (It’s ok. When I first heard it on the news, I, too, went and threw away all of my bath salts sitting on the tub because I was afraid of what I would do to my husband [Carter] the next time he left the toilet seat up.)
But then the tox screen came back. The only drug in his system was weed. Weed makes people lethargic, hungry, and philosophical. It does not make people vicious cannibals that require 8-10 shots in the torso to be taken down. Therefore, this can only mean one thing.
The zombies are coming.
Now, here’s the thing. My husband has spent countless hours playing ALL of the Resident Evil games. He loves zombie movies. He, like every other game-playing male, CAN’T WAIT for the zombie apocalypse. Because it would be all of his virtual fantasies come true. Short of hopping a flight to a war zone, it’s the only way he’ll ever get to put all of that tactical and strategical experience that he's gained from Call of Duty to use.
Let me tell you, kids. I’ve seen the man work. If the zombie apocalypse does happen, and my plan falls through, Carter’s the man I want to be holed up on the roof of an abandoned shopping mall with. (I would, of course, have raided the Auntie Anne’s Pretzel kiosk for supplies. He brings the large weapons. I bring the baked goods. It’s how we work.)
So what is my strategy? I’m so glad you asked.
Betty Crocker the shit out of the apocalypse.
(Note: Technically, “Pioneer Lady the shit out of the Apocalypse would probably be more appropriate, but what can I say? I’m southern. Which means I’m delicate. That, and Betty Crocker was an Alpha Delta Pi like me, so I figure those 4 years of membership dues should pay off sometime.)
I plan to take my food dehydrator, make a generator out of a bicycle, and head to the most remote part of northern Canada. (Less people, less zombies. Remember?) There, armed with my Snuggie, my trusty labradoodle, and my food dehydrator, I will survive the zombie apocalypse by making fabulous jerkies and fruit leathers with the things I find around me. I will also have taught myself by that point to not only be an excellent archer, but to make a bow and arrow with the Yew branches and animal sinews that will be the fruits of my labors. (Suck it, Laura Ingalls Wilder.) Carter can come too.
Knowing him, he will bring with him an arsenal. And a lifetime supply of Trader Joe’s Dark Chocolate Covered Pretzels.
Now I know what you’re thinking. And yes. The pretzels are that good.
Yes, I know this will require some preemptive action. But I have an incredible sense for things and when people start to get all wonky and I hear news reports of a mass flu epidemic in NYC, that will be our cue. We’ll load up the Tahoe with my dehydrator (With 9 extra trays, mind you. I don’t mess around.), Carter’s Xbox, our bicycle generator, and head to Trader Joe’s to buy every bag of pretzels they have. Then it’s northward, pilgrims! We’ll wait it out, maybe domesticating some North American Gray Wolves while we are up there, training them to smell zombies. And then we will find other Betty Crockers and our children shall marry and we will make the earth anew!
What’s wrong with this plan? Nothing’s wrong with this plan! It’s a perfect plan!
...Except for the part where Carter and I have to spend every second together for however long it takes for the zombies to starve to death. We’re in love, yes, blah blah blah. But eventually, we’re going to get to the point where one of us will lose it.
I can see it now. I will have slaved all day on that damn bicycle preparing a beautiful dinner of moose jerky and wild grape leather, all for him. And I will be chatting blithely about the events of the day. And he will turn to me and say, “Woman, if you say one more word about your hostile uterus, I’m going to go get a zombie to bite me and come after you.” (He’s so harsh, right?)
Or, alternately, and INFINTELY more likely, it will go like this:
We will both be sitting on our rock and animal hide sofa in our North Woods Canada cave, bitching about how neither of us wants to ride the bicycle. And I’ll be all, “I ALWAYS cook and clean the carcasses.” And he’ll be all, “Well I always have to hunt the damned things and THEN I do the dishes!” And I’ll be all, “You call those slate chips dishes? And what about all that fruit leather?! Do you think that those berries just magically fall from the sky into the dehydrator, perfectly mashed and ready for your enjoyment!?!? DO YOU?!?!?” And then he’ll be all, “Well your fruit leather tastes like ass.” And I’ll be all, “You take that back!” And he’ll be all, “Damn you, woman! One of these days!” And I’ll be all, “My uterus is falling out!!!!!!”
Two will enter. One will   win   survive.
He’ll be bitter at me that I made him cower up north instead of fulfilling his video game fantasies of “murkin’” zombies. And I’ll be bitter that there’s no one who truly appreciates my culinary talents and craft abilities when it comes to making a pretty centerpiece out of a moose antler and acorns. (I know, I know. I’m good.)
In other words, we probably won’t survive. And the people who had the BETTER idea of going underground to wait it out instead of going to the coldest place ON EARTH will later find our bones. Our skeletons will be found with our hands around each other’s throats. And these survivalist anthropologists will say, “Ah, yes. Marriage.”  (Or if you pronounce it correctly, “Mawwiage.” It’s what bwings us togever today.)
But on the off chance that we do survive (because let’s face it folks, we all know the zombies are coming), I have been practicing. Last night I made Sun-dried Tomato Kale Chips in the dehydrator. The verdict. Friggin’ addictive. Carter’s reaction was not so enthusiastic.
CARTER: I just can’t get used to the fact that it’s like a chip. But it’s a leaf. Too weird for me.
I, however, happen to love them. We’re experimenting making jerky tomorrow. So watch out, Zombies. Katie and Carter are on a whirlwind survivalist adventure. You won’t want to get caught in the crossfire.
( Note: In the event of the zombie apocalypse, I fully expect to be forced to compromise. Oh, I'll get my bicycle generator, alright. But it will be located on the top of an abandoned shopping mall and we will shoot pigeons for food and make pigeon jerky and Carter and his cronies will be playing the Duck Shooting Gallery Carnival Game with the zombies below. I, true to form when nervous, will cower. The entire time. And curse Carter in my head. And bitch about why there's no internet for me to watch Colonel Meow with. And wait for my uterus to fall out. Because I'm pretty sure that's bound to happen sooner or later. It hates me that much that it's just waiting for the opportune moment to escape. And then I will enter premature menopause and grow a fantastic mustache. Aren't you glad you read this blog?)

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Atlanta Braves announce new Senior Director of Information Technology

The Atlanta Braves have hired Greg Gatti as their new Senior Director of Information Technology. Gatti begins his new assignment today.

Gatti will be responsible for all aspects of the Braves technology strategies and operations. He will manage the existing Braves Information Technology department and work with all Braves business and baseball operations departments to best utilize technology to improve all aspects of the Braves organization.

Based upon a completed and comprehensive technology review of the Braves organization by a leading IT consulting company, Gatti's initial focus will be on a list of projects that the Braves have identified as a priority. He will also work to refine and further develop the Braves innovative technologies already in use including, a state-of-the-art CRM system, digital ticketing initiatives, Turner Field Wi-Fi, high definition video and LED systems, player video highlights and statistical archivals.

Gatti will report to the Braves Technology Leadership Team and will relocate to Atlanta.

With over 18 years as an IT professional, Gatti was most recently the Chief Technology Officer for Synovus Financial Incorporated in Columbus, Georgia and before that was with Aflac as their 2nd Vice President, IT Infrastructure Services.

Gatti is a graduate of the United States Military Academy with a B.S. in General Engineering with a concentration in HPA Economics. He received his Master's Degree in International Relations from Troy State University.


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There's Someone More Important Than Clefairy?!
Someone More Important Than Pippi Appears?!
Collected in Vol. 1
Chapter number 4
Location Petalburg City
Manga series Pokémon Ruby-Sapphire
Previous Chapter Something Happened!! Let's Go After Pikachu!!
Next Chapter Let's Try To Be Idols!!

There's Someone More Important Than Clefairy?! (Japanese: ピッピ以上の大物登場！？ Someone More Important Than Pippi Appears?!) is the fourth chapter of the Pokémon Ruby-Sapphire manga.

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Red, Clefairy, Pikachu and Tyrogue arrive in Petalburg City. They are exploring the streets when they are startled by Poké Balls whizzing by. They follow the Poké Balls to Petalburg Gym, where they discover that they are being kicked around by the Gym Leader, Norman. They discover that the reason why Norman is kicking Poké Balls and drinking is because his Slakoth does not want to take part in any battles. Furthermore, the group heard from Norman that the Balance Badge is swallowed by Slakoth.

Clefairy tries to surgically extract the Balance Badge, however, Red refuses to let him do it. Clefairy then decides to take a nap. However, Slakoth grouchily begins attacking Clefairy, as Clefairy is being lazier than it. It uses Yawn to make Clefairy sleepy. Clefairy refuses to let himself fall asleep, strapping several alarm clocks to himself to keep awake. Slakoth responds by eating all of the alarm clocks, and swallows Clefairy as well.

Inside Slakoth's stomach, Clefairy finds the Balance Badge amidst the clocks and an assortment of other garbage that it has eaten. Slakoth starts attacking Clefairy by hitting its stomach so that Clefairy will not steal the Badge. However, Clefairy managed to dodge all the hits, and crawls out when Slakoth knocked itself out with the badge. Norman demanded the group to return the badge, but Clefairy refused. Norman then angrily chases after him and the others.

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Pirates win challenge to prevent a Cardinals run

Pirates win challenge to prevent a Cardinals run

ST. LOUIS -- Pittsburgh manager Clint Hurdle successfully challenged a call at third base, and it saved the Pirates a run in their game against the Cardinals.

With Jon Jay, who had singled, running from first base with one away in the third, Matt Holliday pushed a single through the hole scooped up by the onrushing right fielder Travis Snider, who threw to third.

Snider's throw came in high, and third baseman Pedro Alvarez slapped the tag on Jay. Third-base umpire Ted Barrett ruled safe, but the call was overturned after a review of two minutes and 36 seconds on Hurdle's challenge.

Hence, Matt Adams' ensuing a single off Gerrit Cole did not produce a run, merely putting runners at first and second. Yadier Molina then bounced to third to end the inning.

Tom Singer is a reporter for MLB.com and writes an MLBlog Change for a Nickel. He can also be found on Twitter @Tom_Singer. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Miller to focus on fastball command before start

ATLANTA -- Shelby Miller will carry a four-game winning streak into his next start, scheduled to come in Pittsburgh on Sunday. He intends to make sure that he takes the mound with improved fastball command, too.

Frustrated by inconsistent command of his fastball, particularly when throwing it to the third-base side of the plate, Miller said he plans to throw about 40 fastballs in his between-starts bullpen session this week to try to get a better feel for the pitch. The righty has too frequently been missing off the plate with it.

"That's my best pitch, and I feel like if I have that, everything else falls into place," Miller said. "It will come along. It's still early, and I'm still trying to grind out some of the mechanical issues."

Though the Cardinals have won four of the seven starts Miller has made, the 23-year-old right-hander has not felt fully in sync in any of those outings. The walks (23 in 39 1/3 innings) are an indication of that, as is the fact that Miller has yet to pitch into the seventh.

Jenifer Langosch is a reporter for Read her blog, By Gosh, It's Langosch, and follow her on Twitter @LangoschMLB. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Rocket Man

Aviation legend and convention-buster Burt Rutan leads the charge among civilians out to claim the point position on manned spaceflight. Will such barnstormers of space supplant NASA?

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The high desert 90 miles northeast of Los Angeles was once the bottom of an ancient sea. Today highways run arrow-straight through the desolate terrain, past crooked Joshua trees that stand like sentinels. At an airport near the old mining town of Mojave, rows of mothballed jetliners bake in the desiccating heat.

In vivid contrast, the Mojave Airport also offers a window on the future. Here sit the Civilian Flight Test Center and some of the most advanced aircraft in the world. For more than 60 years, the real attraction of this place has been the azure dome overhead, where a flier can see for 30 miles, 360 days a year. It is pilot heaven, home of Edwards Air Force Base, and the birthplace of the sonic boom.

Mojave also is home to Burt Rutan. In a world that celebrates test pilots and fighter jocks, Mr. Rutan has attained his own special status as one of the nation's most visionary aircraft designers.

To the public at large, Rutan is best known as the creator of Voyager, the willowy plane that hangs in the lobby at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington. The propeller-driven aircraft made aviation history in 1986, flying nonstop around the world on a single tank of gas.

To aviation enthusiasts, Rutan is renowned for creating designs that marry lightweight materials with sophisticated ideas. His home-built craft have set new standards for speed, distance, and fuel economy.

Now 60, the crusty engineer with the trademark muttonchops is poised to again seize the public imagination by applying his do-it-yourself approach in a quest for space - one that deliberately excludes NASA. And even as Washington dreams - one year after the loss of Columbia - about moon bases and missions to Mars, some experts maintain that it is private individuals like Rutan who will shape the race for the final frontier.

Bankrolled by Microsoft billionaire Paul Allen, Rutan plans to send three civilian test pilots in a rocket plane to the threshold of space. By making the subor- bital flight to an altitude of 100 kilometers (62 miles) twice within two weeks, Rutan hopes to win the $10 million X Prize, an international contest created by a group of space enthusiasts eight years ago. The idea was modeled after the contest with a $25,000 purse that spurred pioneer aviator Charles Lindbergh to prove in 1927 that it was possible to fly a plane alone across the Atlantic.

Rutan not only wants to set records and make history, but also to shatter conventional notions about the near-impossibility of private ventures sending ordinary folks into space.

"He's motivated by a desire to be different and startling as much as anything else," says Peter Garrison, a contributing editor at Flying magazine who has known Rutan for 30 years. "He's certainly the most prolific and imaginative designer of his time."

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Mindful of his role on the global stage, Rutan wants to show that he has developed the world's first private program for manned spaceflight - and then hand the keys to a new generation of pioneers he calls "the barnstormers of space."

His vision of the future of space travel includes a visceral antibureaucratic streak that Rutan expresses with blunt candor. He has emphasized that his space program, which cost an estimated $25 million, has used no government money and relied on no government labs.

"We have no government customers and no government technical interface," he told a group of test pilots in Los Angeles in September. "That's fun."

When Rutan first unveiled his experimental spacecraft for the public last April, he also was, consciously or unconsciously, conjuring up the lost gonzo spirit of the Right Stuff.

In the 1950s, the United States was developing two different ways of launching astronauts into space. One was the Mercury Redstone rocket, a ballistic missile topped by a manned capsule that test pilots back then derisively called "Spam in a can." The other was the X-15, a rocket-powered aircraft carried to high altitude by a B-52 bomber. The X-15 dropped away from the mother ship, the rocket engine ignited in midair, and the pilot aimed for the great yawning void.

This was the way Chuck Yeager had punched a hole in the sky in 1947 when he broke the sound barrier in the X-1, the ship that was the primogenitor of all the winged rockets that followed.

With the ascendancy of NASA, however, the idea of reaching space in a rocket plane evaporated like a contrail in the sky.

Now Rutan has returned to that path not taken. With no B-52s at his command, he created a stunningly unusual mother ship, the White Knight, to carry his rocket plane and launch it at about 50,000 feet.

The star-spangled rocket plane, SpaceShipOne, has made at least eight flights since last April, when Rutan announced his quest at Scaled Composites, the company he founded in 1982. This lightweight spaceship, made of graphite and epoxy, has short wings and twin vertical tails that flip up to act like a giant air brake, enabling the aircraft to drop like a shuttlecock as it reenters the atmosphere.

After several glide tests, SpaceShipOne broke the sound barrier in its first powered test flight Dec. 17, a milestone that coincided with the 100th anniversary of the Wright Brothers' first flight.

As the rocket ship reached near weightlessness at 68,000 feet - the apex of its flight - ground observers heard test pilot Brian Binnie exclaim over the radio, "Wow! That was a wild ride!"

But Rutan isn't ready to step up to the microphones just yet. The rocket man has rebuffed media requests to discuss his work in progress in recent months. Instead, he has burrowed into his Mojave lair, sending strong signs that he won't reappear until he has accomplished the 21st-century equivalent of landing at Le Bourget field.

Even if Rutan is successful, the extent to which private barnstormers could displace NASA's role in the future of manned spaceflight remains uncertain.

Daniel Goldin, the former NASA administrator who got into a rancorous tiff over space tourist Dennis Tito's $20 million ride to the international space station in 2001, professes great respect for Rutan.

"I think Burt Rutan is just one of the great engineers of our time," says Mr. Goldin. "He has done wonderful things. That Voyager, nobody thought it could be done, and Burt pulled it off."

Goldin would not discuss how aerospace entrepreneurs, wannabe tourists, and other space buffs have embraced Rutan's venture.

Still, even the last man to walk on the moon seems to doubt NASA will be the one to send his successor there. In an interview with Australian Broadcasting in 2002, 30 years after his mission, Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison Schmitt spoke of mining the moon as a logical step toward sending humans to Mars.

"There's a lot of engineering, exciting engineering that has to be done to make it possible and economic to do," Mr. Schmitt said. "We need to find a way to create that technology base without asking the taxpayer to do it for us."

Such thinking is what makes Rutan's venture so appealing.

"Burt Rutan's project is huge for the alternative space community," says Greg Klerkx, author of "Lost in Space," a recently published book that describes NASA as a bureaucratic monopoly that strangles private initiatives in its realm.

"For the first time, really, you have the combination of a company with a strong track record in aircraft and spacecraft development paired with significant private backing," Mr. Klerkx explains. "If Scaled Composites is successful with SpaceShipOne, it will be a simple, relatively inexpensive template upon which other vehicles can be built."

At NASA headquarters in Washington, spokesman Michael Braukus calls Rutan's work "phenomenal." But he says the space agency doesn't really have an official position concerning manned spaceflights undertaken by the private sector.

"What the X Prize is trying to do is stimulate space tourism, and that's wonderful," Mr. Braukus says. But space tourism, he adds, "is not something that NASA's geared toward."

Saying that he is not familiar with the alternative space community or its specific complaints about NASA, Braukus maintains that "what NASA does is high-risk research. That's what we've done since we were founded.... We do things that are dangerous, that deal with exploration, in aviation as well as in spaceflight."

But Rutan's views about NASA have only sharpened with scorn through the years. To Rutan, NASA's culture of denial has led to too many accidents, its technology is too expensive, and its programs have grown - ironically - too risk-averse.

"We seem to be making acronyms for engineering welfare, rather than having the courage to actually fly something," Rutan said last April.

In his presentation for test pilots in Los Angeles last fall, Rutan referred to NASA as "Nay-Say" and promised the brotherhood of fliers that his quest to reach space would create "a whole bunch of new jobs."

"And I mean fun jobs," he said, with another jab at the aerospace bureaucracy, "and not just a job to test the latest software upgrade for the F-18."

Elbert L. "Burt" Rutan was born June 17, 1943, and raised in Dinuba, in California's Central Valley. As the youngest of three children, he paid close attention as his brother Dick, who was five years older, took flying lessons in 1954. Their sister Nell later became a flight attendant for American Airlines, although Dick says she did not share her brothers' fixation.

"Both of us had an abnormal fascination with aviation," recalls Dick Rutan, who would go on to fly 325 combat missions in Vietnam.

"Of course, his particular interest was in the design and structure and the flying products and stuff," adds Dick. "And me, I just wanted to fly."

Dick remembers their mother taking Burt to buy a model-airplane kit, but even then his younger brother didn't want to build planes from a kit. He wanted balsa wood so he could build his own airplanes, "so that was his focus from Day 1."

At 16, Burt soloed in a single-engine Aeronca Champ after logging only five hours and 44 minutes in flight training. He attended California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, and graduated with an aeronautical engineering degree in 1965. For the next seven years, he worked as a civilian flight-test project engineer at Edwards Air Force Base.

In 1974, after a two-year stint as test-center director for the Bede Aircraft Co. in Newton, Kan., Rutan returned to Mojave, where he founded the Rutan Aircraft Factory to develop his own designs for the growing market in home-built aircraft.

At the time, home-built aircraft took a lot of metal fabrication and woodworking skills in mini machine shops. Blueprints practically required an engineering degree to read, and there was little text for guidance. But Rutan's small company came on the scene with bold new ideas for aircraft made of lightweight composite materials, and it offered customers an extraordinary level of service and technical support.

In 1975, when the prototype VariEze landed at the annual fly-in convention at Oshkosh, Wis., "it practically caused a mental meltdown," says Dan Patch, a pilot who lives in San Diego. "This amazing little plane just 'dropped in' after flying all the way from California, and proceeded to break the closed-course endurance record for its weight class four days later," says Mr. Patch. "No loud talk, no self-promotion, just, boom, right in front of the world's largest gathering of aviators."

Patch says he later heard Rutan give a talk about his VariEze prototype, and found elements of the aerodynamic design extremely sophisticated. Having a doctorate in engineering physics, Patch says he had a pretty good idea that Rutan knew what he was talking about. He bought a set of plans the week they came out.

"Well before I finished my plane, VariEzes were setting records for range and efficiency," says Patch. "It flew circles around the increasingly overpriced and old-fashioned 'factory built' planes."

Another VariEze owner, Rich Steck of Roswell, Ga., remembers attending an open house that Rutan regularly held for home-built enthusiasts at the Mojave Airport. After patiently answering their questions, Rutan rolled out his VariEze prototype. Rutan fired up the Volkwagen-engine conversion, recalls Mr. Steck.

"It quit just as he lifted his long left leg into the cockpit," Steck writes in an e-mail. "He glanced at the instrument panel, grinned, and said: 'Runs longer with the fuel switch on.' "

To visiting pilots, the episode made Rutan seem fallible, and human, Steck recalls. "Made it seem possible we could build what he had designed."

Rutan followed the success of his VariEze design with a series of other remarkable aircraft, including the Defiant and Long-EZ. By the early 1980s, however, he decided to transition out of the home-built aircraft market, mostly because of mounting pressures arising from his exposure to liability.

"I always felt that [I should take] very good care of those that I did sell plans to, and help them ethically and safely build and fly their airplanes," Rutan said in an online interview about five years ago with Air & Space magazine. "The guys that I was at risk from - and still am - are people that buy an airplane someone else has built, and the relatives of whoever he may take for a ride."

In 1982, when Rutan founded Scaled Composites as a separate business, it was chiefly to make proprietary designs and composite scale models of prototype aircraft designs for various customers. For the next 20 years or so, he became involved in a number of projects, including his biggest failure - developing an aircraft for Beech Aircraft in 1985 called the Starship. The project was intended to replace the Beechcraft King Air, but commercial production proved to be too complicated and costly for the Raytheon subsidiary.

By the following year, Rutan was overseeing test flights of the Voyager, with his brother Dick and copilot Jeana Yeager at the controls. While Burt Rutan oversaw the design and construction, his brother and Yeager oversaw fundraising for the $2 million mission, with much of that donated by fellow aviators.

"It was a very informal thing, very much like a private 'skunk works,' if you will," said Jack Norris, who served as technical director in mission control for the Voyager flight. "He can do a couple of calculations and wing everything in between because he started out as a kid designing and building model airplanes."

Yet Mr. Norris, who spent his career in the aerospace industry, says he also was struck by how quickly Burt Rutan could absorb information. During a Voyager test flight off the California coast, Norris realized nobody had prepared a press release that included all the key information about the flight. So he wrote a draft and showed it to Rutan after he returned from an out-of-town trip.

"I never saw anybody in any circumstance read a dense piece of paper, thoroughly digest it, and come back with the exact answer anywhere near that quick," Norris says. "In about 30 seconds he had read the whole thing, digested it, and said, essentially, these 11 things are right, these seven things are wrong, and here's what you want to say. Boom. Boom. Boom."

In the years following Voyager's flight, Rutan's career soared as Scaled Composites produced scores of startling and imaginative designs for aircraft. The company also developed a wing-type sail for an America's Cup catamaran in 1988, a General Motors Ultralite show car in 1992, and a 40-meter wind-power turbine.

Rutan also took on a number of military contracts, including "black budget" work - military research done under extreme secrecy - on a 40 percent scale model of the B-2 Stealth bomber. Rutan's company also designed a high-altitude, remotely piloted vehicle for the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization. It built a 62 percent scale prototype of an advanced transport plane for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

"He was a pioneer in the use of composite materials in private aircraft," says Dick Rutan. What defines his brother, he says, is his ability to "dive into his pool of nonsense and chaos" and find the perfect solution way out in a corner someplace.

Today, Burt Rutan has overseen designs for more than 300 aircraft. Forty have been built and flight-tested. But the only Rutan design ever certified by the Federal Aviation Administration is Starship, which was discontinued shortly after Beech entered production. The rest are classified strictly as experimental aircraft designs.

"It would be a waste" to seek certification, says Dick. "He's an innovative, creative designer. Why should he waste all of his time trying to certify an airplane with a bunch of know-nothing bureaucrats?"

As it is, his intensity may have carried a cost. Burt Rutan has been married four times. He had health problems in 1998, and since then only flies with a second pilot seated next to him.

"That really was his own fault," says his brother. "He was just so engrossed in his designs and in running the company that he just gave himself a heart attack. He was drinking about 20 cups of coffee a day, sitting ... in front of a computer, eating tacos, and popping Rolaids."

"Burt can be funny and pleasant and sometimes he can even be modest," says Flying magazine's Mr. Garrison, "[but] he has a big ego and he wants things to go his own way. People who work for him don't always have the most adoring reports."

At the same time, Garrison says, Rutan's health problems "gave him a sense that he has a limited amount of time to establish his place in the firmament. And that's what this [space program] is all about."

It may also be helping to drive his participation in another big-budget project: to build a plane to fly nonstop around the globe with a single pilot - and in a third of the time it took Voyager. Test flown last month, Virgin Atlantic-backed GlobalFlyer was designed by Scaled Composites to loop the earth in 80 hours.

After 10 months, Scaled Composites still has given no indication when SpaceShipOne will attain its ultimate goal in the thermosphere. But Rutan's team appears close - and the timing could provide another, more poignant, contrast for the people who live and work beneath the celestial sphere.

In 1986, after Rutan's Voyager was two or three days into its around-the-world flight, people "started to catch onto the idea that this thing was real," says Norris, "and maybe it's going to happen." It was just before Christmas, the same year in which the shuttle Challenger was lost. "So where the Challenger was a big downer," Norris remembers, "the Voyager turned out to be this big uplifter."

Now Rutan is poised to do it again with SpaceShipOne, just as the nation recalls the loss of Columbia one year ago. If he has his way, his base in this ancient landscape could soon be designated a legal spaceport.

The high desert north of Los Angeles really is a place of vivid contrasts.

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World Cup: How the USA got it so wrong against Ghana

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Of all America’s exits from the World Cup, this one will go down as the greatest opportunity missed.

Flawed though the USA was – fatally, as it turned out – there lingers the sense that the team left its own story at this World Cup unfinished. For the first time, perhaps, the USA is going home when it not only expected more, but seemed capable of delivering it.

There is no shame in losing to Ghana, 2-1, in extra time. The 18 places between the No. 14 USA and No. 32 Ghana in the FIFA world rankings suggest a greater gap than there is, perhaps.

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Yet there is no doubting that Ghana is a team that the USA could – and maybe should – beat with some regularity. And in that fact lies the USA’s disappointment.

Never in four World Cup 2010 matches could the USA summon for 90 minutes the defensive team effort that it summoned in last year’s 2-0 win over then-world No. 1 Spain.

Had Algeria’s Rafik Djebbour kept his early shot six inches lower, the USA would have gone behind within the first 15 minutes of that game, too.

But never was this so evidently the coach’s fault as in the loss to Ghana.

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The sports maxim says that “players must come ready to play.” Saturday, however, was a lesson that players are often only as good as the system in which they are placed.

This is particularly true of the USA, which has no Lionel Messi or David Villa to overcome the limitations of poor coaching strategy through individual brilliance.

And in the first half against Ghana, it must be said, USA coach Bob Bradley got it totally, catastrophically wrong.

He as good as admitted this in taking off Ricardo Clark after only 30 minutes – an extraordinary decision – and replacing him with the player who had excelled in the two previous matches, Maurice Edu.

Yet it was even more evident at the beginning of the second half, when, for the third consecutive match, midfielder Benny Feilhaber replaced an ineffective forward, in this instance, Robbie Findley.

Feilhaber’s range of passing and ability to retain possession were crucial.

Yet, perhaps more important was how his introduction changed the shape of the USA on the field.

More than anything else, it allowed the USA players to take control of the game.

In short, Feilhaber gave the USA a platform from which it could be more flexible and inventive, making it harder for Slovenia and then Algeria and then Ghana to know where key USA players would be, while at the same time providing more defensive rigidity.

In soccer parlance, the change appears minimal. With the introduction of Feilhaber, the USA switched from a 4-4-2 to a 4-4-1-1. Gone were two central forwards, playing far up the pitch. In their place was the one remaining central forward, Jozy Altidore, paired with Clint Dempsey, who took up a roving role in “the hole” – that undefined area between forward and midfield.

Why would such a small change have such a profound effect?

World Cup defenses are generally very comfortable playing against two center forwards. Center forwards are always playing near the opposing goal, so they are always near the defense – in other words, defenders can stay in their hip pocket with a minimum of effort.

When the USA switched to a free-roaming Dempsey, however, he caused problems. Should the defense pick him up far from goal and make itself vulnerable to other USA players running behind it? Or does the midfield add him to their already significant list of duties?

Most World Cup coaches have already abandoned the two-striker system, realizing that it makes their teams more static and actually less dangerous going forward. Bradley appeared only to realize this in the second half of every game.

What appeared to be a first-half commitment to attacking soccer – playing with two forwards – was, in fact precisely the opposite, robbing the USA of the ability to keep control of the ball and confuse opposing defenses.

Much has been made of the USA’s startling tendency to allow early goals. It was, in the end, their undoing. Why couldn’t USA players come “ready to play”?

It is easy to say that the USA had to be “punched in the mouth” in order to be roused to a response. But it is noteworthy that the USA was comprehensively outplayed not merely in the first few minutes of the Slovenia and Ghana matches, but for the entire first half.

It was not until Bradley sacrificed his second forward that USA players came to grips with the games and indeed dominated the second halves of each.

In many ways, Ghana’s second, decisive goal can be forgiven. It was a classic Ghanaian goal: A ball hoofed from midfield. Ghana’s rugged lone forward, Asamoah Gyan, absorbing the sort of foul from USA defender Carlos Bocanegra that would have sent almost any other player sprawling to the turf. Then Gyan dispatching a brilliant shot over Howard’s hands.

Well done, Ghana.

No, it was the first – the so aptly described “comedy of errors” – that shattered American hopes. And it was the sight of Clark – who probably shouldn’t have been on the field in the first place – trying vainly to dribble singlehandedly through the Ghana midfield that is most instructive.

In the second half, the USA was a pinwheel of passes, spinning the Ghana midfield and defense dizzy. USA players were coming from every direction and Dempsey and Landon Donovan were pulling the strings with deft deflections and one-touch passes that left Ghana creaking like a ship in a storm.

Where was that movement, that dynamism, that one-touch passing when Clark tried to dribble upfield alone?

It was with Feilhaber on the bench.

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