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Thursday: 03.3.2011
Daily Dose – March 3rd
I feel like days should extend to 26 or 27 hours in late February then into March as there is just so much going on. I've got nearly 30 hours of podcasts to catch up on and the oldest one is about a week old so it's not like I've let it accumulate. My Read It Later app is bubbling over with content. My "to do" writing list has plenty to take care of on it. My book list is growing (and adding another next week when Jonah Keri's Extra 2% comes out). The release of MLB 2K11 is next week. Plus I've got a 30 Clubs in 30 Days (Kansas City) on the DVR as well as some Spring Training baseball I'd like to check out.
And all that is before fantasy draft prep which will begin in earnest next week as keeper lists start to roll in. Jeez. So much to do and so little time. Especially when you factor in my regular job and sleeping. Oh well, no need to complain. It's better than being bored out of your mind. February to Opening Day is one of my favorite times of the year despite the fact that I hate winter weather. It's not really that bad in Texas plus it's usually done by the beginning of March.
Ian Casselberry has a very perceptive post on willful ignorance and how it is oftentimes downright annoying. I deal with the dismissiveness of Twitter a lot when discussing sports with people. They always say some derivation of "I don't care who's eating a sandwich on their couch" as if that's all you can find on Twitter. Yes, it started as essentially a place of Facebook statuses, but it's become SO MUCH more.
Yet despite how often they dismiss it as useless, they come to me just as often for news on trade deadline action and various other breaking news because they know I'll read about it on Twitter well before it's up on ESPN.com. For some of the dissenters, I've watched them morph from Twitter hater to Twitter user. Instead of rubbing it in, I just nod to myself quietly. As Ian says, it's not for everybody, but anyone dismissing it as useless out of hand has no idea what they are talking about and comes across as pretty stupid.
Are you trying to curb your enthusiasm for your baseball team, but struggling to do so as you read countless glowing and optimistic reports about them from Spring Training? Grey Papke does the dirty work for you with his "Why Your Baseball Team Sucks" piece. It's a perfect dose of reality to temper your expectations for the upcoming season.
After reading up more on the Zach Sanders piece I shared yesterday on Fantasy Value Above Replacement, I realized it is essentially an extension of something our friends at FB Junkie threw out earlier last month with "Why Not Fantasy VORP?". So if you read FB Junkie's piece back on February 1st, use Sanders' as a fleshing out of their notion behind fantasy value.
Justin Bopp of Beyond the Boxscore has put together an easy to use Baseball Stat Acronym Pronunciation Guide. I disagree with the BABIP as I just say it like a work "Ba-bip", but otherwise he's pretty spot on.
Sticking at BtB for a moment, Chris Spurlock has offered a great article covering in detail the changes to the bats in college baseball and making it easily digestible whether you're a math novice or hardcore mathlete. As mentioned in the article, this should be good news for MLB, primarily from a scouting angle. While it would suck if it really hurt the college game which is a niche sport already, I am glad it is an improvement for MLB. Prospect scouting will still be an inexact science rife with failure even at the high end of the draft, but at least it's a step in the right direction. Plus I've always been someone who enjoys a 3-2 game, so a lowered offensive output in the college game won't keep me away from following my Longhorns and watching them live a couple times a year.
Ray Guilfoyle of FakeTeams released his catcher rankings today and there were some surprises to be sure. Regardless of whether or not you agree with his ranking of the top guys, one thing remains clear to me: catcher has some depth to it. Sure there are still stars at the top, but if you miss out on the Mauers and Poseys, you're not toast.
Mike Fast from Baseball Prospectus has a cool piece up (for free) looking at the accuracy of Baseball Info Solutions pitch locations. If you like second, third and even fourth level baseball analysis, in other words really detailed stuff, then you'll love Fast's work. This particular piece has a stunning revelation about the data and specifically it's usage at FanGraphs.
The San Diego Padres are going to have a tough time replicating their 2010 success (success being relative here as they fell short of the NL West crown on the last day of the season despite leading for quite some time throughout the season) with the loss of their one great hitter Adrian Gonzalez, but there is reason for optimism in the future. John Sickels breaks down their top two pitching prospects, Simon Castro and Casey Kelly (acquired in the Gonzalez trade), in his Prospect Smackdown series.
This one is nearly a month old, but it got put on the back-burner once I went into full SP guide mode there in early-to-mid February, so in case you missed Jon Weisman's look at the upcoming "Moneyball" movie, I suggest you take a read. I have been in the minority with him in that I have been very excited about the movie from the moment I heard it was being made. It's gone through a lot, but I think it can be good. I hadn't thought of the links to a very popular 2010 movie that Weisman mentions in the piece. I'd love to see it emulate the success of that film, but even if it doesn't I think it can be a success in its own right.
One of the best guys over at CBS as far as I'm concerned is Al Melchior. He's definitely a stats-heavy guy which is something I inherently lean toward (though he favors taking pitching relatively early so we disagree heavily there), but also the interactive graphics used in his pieces at CBS are fantastic. The latest is one on positional scarcity and it has a really fun chart to play with at the bottom. Al is part of the CBS podcasts, too and they just recently finished their positional previews. They have moved onto Sleepers and Breakouts. I'd presume that a Busts episode is next as each of the positional podcasts had a Sleepers, Breakouts and Busts portion within it.
One of my favorite things of the fantasy preseason is articles where industry members participate in a mock and then do a write up on their team with the thought process behind each pick. I find them more helpful than just seeing a list of where everyone went. In fact, I find the latter next to useless as the flow of a draft, while not as dynamic as that of an auction, is still dynamic nonetheless and it's hard to get a feel for why things happened without some commentary. Cory Schwartz participated in a mock picking from the 9-spot and breaks down his draft for us.
Come Chat Tonight: I am still planning on a hosting a chat here at paulsporer.com soon, but tonight I will be chatting at Rotojunkie at 7 PM Eastern. It will have a pitcher tilt to it of course, but as with my first chat here at the site, I will answer anything fantasy baseball-related.
Baseball Apps: Need to get your iPhone and iPad baseball ready for the season? Take a look at these baseball apps that should get you well equipped to enjoy the season on the go.
You've No Doubt Seen This: But just in case, the baseball fan flowchart is a funny image floating around the blogosphere and Twitterverse.
Remember When… …Lance Johnson was a triples machine? From 1991-1996, Johnson led the league in triples for five of six seasons and hit 12 in the off year (1995, when he had an absurd power surge with 10 HR after never topping 3 before). I was upset when he left the AL before the 1996 season (10 team AL-Only league) because he had a career year including 50 stolen bases, 117 runs scored, .333 average and 69 RBIs, all career highs. His nine homers were close to a career high.
It's purely coincidental that the first two of these segments happen to be about Chicago White Sox, but "One Dog" was a key cog of my early fantasy teams (probably explains why I didn't win any titles as a kid) and again because I watched a lot of WGN when the Tigers weren't on, I was very familiar with Johnson and the Sox.
Despite playing three fewer seasons, Johnson has one more career triple than Kenny Lofton (117 to 116). I found that pretty surprising, but Lofton only had two double-digit seasons in triples and they were 11 years apart (league-high 13 in '95 and then 12 in '06). Of course Lofton has nearly twice as many stolen bases (622/327), nearly four times as many home runs (130/34) and had a significantly higher success rate on the base paths (80%/76%), though both were really good.
Knowledge Bomb: Here is an absurd statistic from Mike Axisa about Hall of Famer Greg Maddux. Absurd might even be an understatement. It's just unfathomably great. Are you ready for this? You may have already seen it, but it resonates even on second and third viewing:
As Scott Van Pelt & Ryen Russillo say on their radio show, "let that soak in your mentals for a minute". That's so amazing. Only another 160 saw a 2-0 count. Maddux was just not a fan of getting behind. He only retired in 2008 so he is still a few years from getting on the Hall of Fame ballot and while it's already a joke, the HoF voters would thoroughly embarrass themselves yet again if they made Maddux sit through another round of voting instead of putting him in on the first ballot.
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Tuesday: 02.8.2011
Daily Dose – February 8th
I can't believe how close pitchers and catchers are to reporting. Baseball season is right around the corner, I can feel it!! It's the only thing getting me through this awful cold weather. Let's hit the dose for Tuesday:
I've been a fan of Daniel Tosh (@danieltosh) since he was an unknown comic doing Taco Bell commercials years ago. I saw him at the local comedy club around that time and the next time he was in Austin, I was one of the three comics who got to open for him. Once I heard he was going to have a show, Tosh.0, I didn't really care what it was going to be about, I knew I'd watch it. I have not been disappointed as it's easily one of, if the funniest show on TV. As much as it makes me laugh on a week to week basis, this clip might be my favorite of all-time:
A while back, Unreality Magazine did a piece covering the 10 Hottest Girls in TV Comedies. I figured it was a pretty good idea for a column. While I disagree with some inclusions and the order, it is hard to argue with the content otherwise. Alison Brie and Katrina Bowden were far too low given that they actually excel in both the hotness and the comedy whereas some were included merely because they are very pretty and part of comedy shows even if they aren't particularly funny themselves.
No arguments for the picture of Kaley Cuoco they used as she looks great there, but anyone who watches Big Bang Theory knows that that particular picture is definitely Ms. Cuoco at her peak. I'd have had a bit further down the list despite the fact that she's pretty funny on BBT. By the way, I'm sure I'm one of many, but I was saying that the eldest daughter on Modern Family looked like a younger Mila Kunis from the very first moment I watched the show. It's a pretty easy link so I'm not trying to suggest I started it or anything. Any time you are getting compared to Mila Kunis, you know you're awesome.
A pair of tweets about two of the best Cleveland Indians players had to give fans some hope for the upcoming season. Buster Olney (@Buster_ESPN) tweeted that Grady Sizemore is running and taking swings with April 1st, Opening Day for the Tribe, not out of the question. Meanwhile the Cleveland Indians Twitter feed (@tribeinsider) tweeted that Carlos Santana has been cleared for batting practice and catching activities. Olney mentioned that Santana is a bit ahead of Sizemore in the rehab process.
Over at Beyond the Boxscore, Justin Bopp (@justinbopp) created a sweet picture of Albert Pujols' spray chart from last year. Click on the picture itself and it enlarges to about 3x the size. He also did one for Carlos Gonzalez last month. I'm a sucker for infographics like this which is why I can't get enough of Craig Robinson's work over at Flip, Flop, Flyball. If you're familiar with Robinson's work, you might want to pre-order the FFFb book due out in July. Hell, even if you're not familiar with it, you'll love it once you click the link and you'll still want to pre-order the book.
ESPN is running a series of columns grading each team on their offseason grouped by division. Jerry Crasnick (@jcrasnick) and Jayson Stark (@jaysonst) have done the first four (East & Central) and I'd assume they're going to do the whole series. Crasnick covered the American League East and Central while Stark had the National League East and Central.
Sticking with the Worldwide Leader, they have been posting videos from their Fantasy Baseball Summit a few weeks back and it could be (read: most definitely is) because I'm kind of a dork, but I'm loving them. They started with a Mark Teixeira v. Kevin Youkilis debate and have since released clips on Jayson Werth, Joe Nathan and Adam Wainwright. The Wainwright clip is especially interesting and I suggest everyone in mixed or NL-Only leagues take a look.
One thing I really enjoy about John Sickels' Minor League Ball site are his series articles. The ones I can think of off the top of my head that he does are Crystal Ball, Prospect Retro and Career Profiles. He's been doing a lot of reader request Career Profiles of late and I recommend you check them out: Eric Chavez, Francisco Liriano, James Loney, Rickie Weeks and Jayson Werth are just a few that I really enjoyed. You can look through the rest here and find players that interest you most. In addition to Project Prospect, who I mentioned yesterday, Sickels' site is another must-read for anyone interested in the minor leagues. Whether you already consider yourself a prospect maven or you're interested in becoming one, his stuff is great.
Twitter Recommendation: CNBC sports business report, Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell), is an absolute must-follow on Twitter. Don't let the sports biz moniker deter you either, he covers more than just sports and posts tons of interesting facts and great links about a wide variety of topics. If I could only pick five people to follow on Twitter, Rovell would easily earn a spot.
Knowledge Bomb: Be careful with stats, they can be dangerous. Houston Astros third baseman Chris Johnson came out of nowhere last season to put up 94 games of fantasy goodness including 11 HR, 52 RBIs and .308 AVG. Some will look at his line and think that a full season will bring about even better numbers for the 26 year old in 2011. In fact, I've seen him being trumpeted over Pittsburgh Pirates third baseman Pedro Alvarez based on one stat: OPS.
In his 362 plate appearances, Johnson posted an .818 OPS. Make no mistake, that's a pretty solid figure especially for an unknown like Johnson. Not many think he can repeat next year (including me), but those that do have dangerously wielded that .818 OPS around like a sword. In his 386 plate appearances, Alvarez "only" had a .788 OPS, 30 points away from Johnson.
While OPS is a useful stat for quick and dirty catch-all production estimations, not all OPS marks are created equally. The problem here is that OPS brings batting average into the equation so a fluky batting average, like Johnson's which was powered by a .387 BABIP, can artificially boost one's OPS. Alvarez had just a .256 average which cut deep into the OBP end of OPS. But when you go second level and look at the Isolated Power of each, Alvarez clearly has the brighter future based on their first 90+ games.
Isolated Power is Slugging Percentage minus Batting Average. Alvarez popped a .205 IsoP, 5th among National League third basemen. Johnson had a .175 mark, good for 9th. Alvarez probably won't hit .300 in 2011, he may not even top .270, but as Johnson's luck regresses his average will sink and he may end up struggling to stay above .270 himself. Without the batting average advantage, you start comparing the two in runs scored, driven in and home runs and Alvarez wins a walk.
Alvarez has legitimate 25 home run power already with the potential for more while Johnson is a middling power contributor who will likely top out in the mid-teens. He's one to avoid for 2011 as his 2010 numbers, including his OPS, will undoubtedly inflate his value to a level that won't be commensurate with his performance this year. If you want a bargain at the thin hot corner, talk up Alvarez's down average and strikeout tendencies and then swoop in and take him and reap the hefty rewards.
Pitchers and Catchers report in five days…
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It was late into the evening when reports that a lorry had ploughed into a Nice crowd celebrating Bastille Day first started to surface.
Many were alerted to this tragedy via the hum of a smartphone, the whistle of a twitter app or a Facebook alert from friends in Nice, who were able to use a new function on the site that can mark people in tragedy-struck areas as 'safe'.
At this stage many people would have turned to online news and social media to find out more about the unfolding events – but were they prepared for the images that greeted them?
Early footage of the tragedy from the scene, which largely comprised of user generated footage, was graphic and shocking.
Even traditional news outlets and individual journalists did not shy away from uploading disturbing images of the scene onto their websites and social media feeds, some of which included footage from witnesses and victims of the aftermath: broken, bleeding bodies and shocked survivors.
The Nice coverage serves as a reminder that improved quality of live streaming technology and the growing popularity of apps such as Periscope, YouNow and Facebook Live are enabling anyone to broadcast events from anywhere – but, as Emily Bell wrote in her Monday Guardian column, none of us seem prepared for it.
While adults find images from attacks difficult enough to process, for children, it can be much harder. Yet when kids have access to mobile technology and 24 hour multiscreen news feeds it can be hard to avoid them being exposed to some disturbing images.
Perhaps the best thing we can do as parents is to open up a conversation when them about what they are viewing and teach them to be more critical of their news sources.
It's worth pointing out that while the footage they see on TV is subject to internal and external regulations and that there is a short delay in live broadcasts which allows news crews to cut away from violent images, internet streaming services have no such limitations. Your child needs to be aware that they could just be a click away from some very upsetting images.
Encourage your child to question the motivations behind the filming and uploading such footage - why people are filming and also why are they uploading or sharing the footage at all. How has the footage/ news report been tagged? Be wary of anyone prefacing their reports with sensationalist and attention grabbing posts that read like clickbait: 'This is what horror looks like…' (sadly an actual tweet from a journalist reporting on Nice).
Finally, it's worth pointing out that not all streamed footage of tragic events should be avoided. 'Citizen journalism' – where members of the public upload footage of unfolding news events - can be a powerful thing and can add new layers to a story - so long as its intent is not to objectify victims and exploit morbid curiosities.


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'Hi baby, goodnight, it's Teleka': Doctor, 30, who vanished three weeks ago is seen in new video singing Diana Ross song and showing off meal to her 'love interest'
Dr Teleka Patrick, from Michigan, was reported missing on December 6 when she did not show up for work
Co-worker drove her to Radisson hotel where she failed to get a room
Her car was found two hours later abandoned in ditch 100 miles away in Portage, Indiana
Her mother, Irene, said her daughter had just bought a plane ticket for Florida, where her family lives
By Nick Enoch
New footage has emerged of a Michigan doctor who vanished three weeks ago after receiving a suspicious call.
Dr Teleka Patrick, 30, who started her residency at Borgess Medical Center in Kalamazoo, Michigan this year, is seen on the YouTube video saying: 'Hi baby, just to tell you about my day' and also, 'Hi baby, goodnight, it's Teleka'.
In the clip, uploaded on November 10, she then shows off a meal she has made for someone special and sings the Diana Ross song, When You Tell Me That You Love Me.
Dr Patrick, who got her PhD this spring, adds: 'We both have orange juice, and the flowers from last time.'
Dr Teleka Patrick, 30, who started her residency at Borgess Medical Center in Kalamazoo, Michigan last year, disappeared in early December
The young doctor, who was reported missing when she didn't show up for work on December 6, also shows off a meal she has made in the video
The young doctor was reported missing when she did not show up for work on December 6.
Surveillance footage showed her the night before failing to secure a room at a Radisson hotel just five minutes away from her apartment.
According to police, Dr Patrick worked a shift at Borgess on December 5 and had one of her colleagues drive her to the Radisson after work.
Both her purse and cellphone were found left behind at work, and surveillance footage at the hotel shows her trying to get a room with cash, but not having enough money.
In the footage, without audio, Dr Patrick talks calmly with the front desk clerk for about 15 minutes before leaving after not getting the room.
She is then seen boarding a complimentary hotel shuttle back to her gold Lexus parked at the medical center - the last time anyone saw her.
'It was really sad to watch it because this is the last video record of her before she went missing,' Teleka's sister Tenesha Patrick told WWMT.
Just two hours later, Dr Patrick's car was discovered abandoned in a ditch on the westbound side of 1-94, more than 100 miles away in Portage, Indiana.
The keys were missing from the inside of the car.
Dr Patrick was officially reported missing the next day when she failed to show up for work.
One of her colleagues told investigators that she received a phone call that day and that her demeanor changed after she hung up.
Dr Patrick's parents, who live in Florida, said she has a busy schedule but usually calls them once a week, usually on Sundays.
They did not believe that their daughter was in a romantic relationship.
Two men arrested after disappearance of teenage boy who... Coast Guard searches for passenger who 'jumped' overboard...
Her mother Irene told CNN: 'She has an outgoing personality... she's a warm, friendly, lovely person to be around.'
She added that her daughter had just bought a plane ticket to fly to Florida.
Trying to find a room: Dr Patrick is pictured walking up to the Radisson hotel in Kalamazoo after getting a ride there after work
Why was she there? Dr Patrick's family doesn't know why she was trying to book a room. Investigators later found she left both her phone and purse at work
No cards: Dr Patrick was caught on the hotel's surveillance cameras trying and failing to secure the room with cash
'Who was calling her, what was that about, does that have anything to do with her disappearance?' her sister asked.
Her family is currently offering a $10,000 reward for information on her disappearance, and have hired their own private investigator.
'We keep getting closer to Christmas, and it keeps getting further and further away,' Tenesha told ABC News.
Anyone with information on Dr Patrick's disappearance are being asked to call the Indiana State Police at 219-696-6242 or the Kalamazoo County Sheriff's Department at 269-383-8748.
Leaving: The last time Dr Patrick is caught on surveillance cameras, she is seen boarding a complimentary hotel shuttle which took her back to the medical center where her car was parked
Dr Patrick had started her first year of residency in Kalamazoo after graduating from medical school last spring
Close to home: The hotel is located just five minutes from Dr Patrick's apartment
Videos raise more questions about missing Michigan doctor Teleka Patrick
Missing Dr Teleka Patrick seen in video singing Diana Ross song to 'love interest'

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United Airlines is now matching the American Airlines promo for double miles on flights to Mexico until November 13, 2012. The AA deal started just over a month ago and United was a bit slow on the draw to catch up. Plus the United version is limited to only the first eight (8) trips south of the border while the AA version has no limits. And the United version requires that the ticket be purchased after October 10th, the day the promo launched; tickets purchased prior will not earn the bonus per the T&C.
And I really thought that the old Continental route map out of Houston had a few more random dirt strips on it. Apparently not quite as extensive as I thought it was.
Hat tip to Brendan for noticing the new promo on the UA site.
I just bought tickets to MEX from EWR this morning before seeing this. Is there a way to get those extra miles now?
I think you'll be OK, Matty, so long as you register prior to travel. Especially if it is done same-day I doubt there will be a problem. Also, the terms say that you have to register before travel, not before buying the tickets. Finally, if you really are concerned about it and if you can find the same fare still you should be in the 24-hour free cancel window.
But I'd just register now and go with it.
I count at least 29 Mexican destinations from Houston on the United route map, so I'm not sure why only 17 are listed in this promo. Some of those could be code shares, but I can't think of any airline United is in bed with that would fly to obscure cities in Mexico.
Not all the Mexican destinations are participating. I assume they still fly to HUX.


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Messianic Jews in Israel Seek Public Apology for Attack
Posted on April 24, 2010 by particularkev
Christians await court decision on assaults on services by ultra-orthodox Jews.
ISTANBUL, April 23 (CDN) — After a final court hearing in Israel last week, a church of Messianic Jews awaits a judge's decision that could force an ultra-orthodox Jewish organization to publicly apologize to them for starting a riot and ransacking a baptismal service.
A ruling in favor of the Christian group would mark the first time an organization opposing Messianic Jews in Israel has had to apologize to its victims for religious persecution.
In 2006 Howard Bass, pastor of Yeshua's Inheritance church, filed suit against Yehuda Deri, chief Sephardic rabbi in the city of Beer Sheva, and Yad L'Achim, an organization that fights against Messianic Jews, for allegedly inciting a riot at a December 2005 service that Bass was leading.
Bass has demanded either a public apology for the attack or 1.5 million shekels (US$401,040) from the rabbi and Yad L'Achim.
The case, Bass said, was ultimately about "defending the name of Yeshua [Jesus]" and making sure that Deri, the leadership of Yad L'Achim and those that support them know they have to obey the law and respect the right of people to worship.
"They are trying to get away from having any responsibility," Bass said.
On Dec. 24, 2005, during a baptismal service in Beer Sheva, a group of about 200 men pushed their way into a small, covered structure being used to baptize two believers and tried to stop the service. Police were called to the scene but could not control the crowd.
Once inside the building, the assailants tossed patio chairs, damaged audiovisual equipment, threw a grill and other items into a baptismal pool, and then pushed Bass into the pool and broke his glasses.
"Their actions were violent actions without regard [for injury]," Bass said.
In the days before the riot, Yad L'Achim had issued notices to people about a "mass baptism" scheduled to take place at the facility in the sprawling city of 531,000 people 51 miles (83 kilometers) southwest of Jerusalem. In the days after the riot, Deri bragged about the incident on a radio talk show, including a boast that Bass had been "baptized" at the gathering.
The 2005 incident wasn't the first time the church had to deal with a riotous attack after Yad L'Achim disseminated false information about their activities. On Nov. 28, 1998, a crowd of roughly 1,000 protestors broke up a Yeshua's Inheritance service after the anti-Christian group spread a rumor that three busloads of kidnapped Jewish minors were being brought in for baptism. The assailants threw rocks, spit on parishioners and attempted to seize some of their children, Bass said.
In response to the 1998 attack and to what Bass described as a public, cavalier attitude about the 2005 attack, Bass and others in the Messianic community agreed that he needed to take legal action.
"What is happening here has happened to Jews throughout the centuries," Bass said about persecution of Messianic Jews in Israel, adding that many in movements opposed to Messianic Jews in Israel are "arrogant." He compared their attitudes to the attitudes that those in Hamas, a Palestinian group dedicated to the destruction of the State of Israel, have toward Israelis in general.
"They say, 'Recognize us, but we will never recognize you,'" Bass said.
Long Battle
Bass has fought against the leadership of Yad L'Achim and Deri for four years through his attorneys, Marvin Kramer and Kevork Nalbandian. But throughout the process, Kramer said, the two defendants have refused to offer a genuine apology for the misinformation that led to the 2005 riot or for the riot itself.
Kramer said Bass's legal team would offer language for an acceptable public apology, and attorneys for the defendants in turn would offer language that amounted to no real apology at all.
"We made several attempts to make a compromise, but we couldn't do it," Kramer said. "What we were really looking for was a public apology, and they weren't ready to give a public apology. If we would have gotten the public apology, we would have dropped the lawsuit at any point."
Despite several attempts to reach Yad L'Achim officials at both their U.S. and Israeli offices, no one would comment.
The hearing on April 15 was the final chance the parties had to come to an agreement; the judge has 30 days to give a ruling. His decision will be issued by mail.
Kramer declined to speculate on what the outcome of the case will be, but he said he had "proved what we needed to prove to be successful."
Belief in Israel
Bass said he is a strong supporter of Israel but is critical of the way Messianic Jews are treated in the country.
"Israel opposes the gospel, and these events show this to be true," he said. Referring to Israel, Bass paraphrased Stephen, one of Christianity's early martyrs, "'You always resist the Spirit of God.' What Stephen said was true."
Kramer said that the lawsuit is not against the State of Israel or the Jewish people, but rather for freedom of religion.
"It has to do with a violation of rights of individuals to worship in accordance with the basic tenants of their faith and to practice their faith in accordance with their beliefs in accordance with law," he said.
Terrorist Organization?
Bass' lawsuit is just one of many legal troubles Yad L'Achim is facing. In February, the Jerusalem Institute of Justice (JIJ), a civil rights advocacy group, filed a petition asking Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein to declare Yad L'Achim a terrorist organization and order that it be dismantled.
In the 24-page document Caleb Myers, an attorney for JIJ, outlined numerous incidences in which Yad L'Achim or those linked with it had "incited hatred, racism, violence and terror." The document cited instances of persecution against Christians, as well as kidnappings of Jewish women from their Arab partners.
"Israel is a 'Jewish and democratic' state, while the actions of Yad L'Achim are not consistent with either the noble values of Judaism or the values of democracy," the petition read. "Not to mention the fact that it is a country that arose on the ashes of a people that was persecuted for its religion, and has resolved since its establishment to bear the standard of full equality, without discrimination on the basis of gender, race, religion or nationality."
According to the document, Yad L'Achim went after people it viewed as enemies of ultra-orthodox Judaism. The group particularly targeted Messianic Jews and other Christians.
"Yad L'Achim refers to 'missionary activity' as if it was the worst of criminal offenses and often arouses fear of this activity," the document read. "It should be noted that in the State of Israel there is no prohibition against 'missionary activity' as the dissemination of religion and/or faith among members of other religions/faiths, unless such activity solicits religious conversion, as stated in various sections of the Penal Code, which bans the solicitation of religious conversion among minors, or among adults by offering bribes. Furthermore, the organization often presents anyone belonging to the Christian religion, in all its forms, as a 'missionary,' even if he does not work to spread his religion."
Particularly damning in the document was reported testimony gleaned from Jack Teitel. Teitel, accused of planting a bomb on March 20, 2008 that almost killed the teenage son of a Messianic Jewish pastor, told authorities that he worked with Yad L'Achim.
"He was asked to talk about his activity in Yad L'Achim and related that for some five years he was active in the organization, and on average he helped to rescue about five women each year," the document read, using the Yad L'Achim term "rescue" to refer to kidnapping.
The 2008 bombing severely injured Ami Ortiz, then 15, but after 20 months he had largely recovered.
Teitel, who said Ortiz family members were "missionaries trying to capture weak Jews," has been indicted on two cases of pre-meditated murder, three cases of attempted murder, carrying a weapon, manufacturing a weapon, possession of illegal weapons and incitement to commit violence.
In interviews with the Israeli media, Yad L'Achim Chairman Rabbi Shalom Dov Lifshitz said his organization wasn't connected with the attacks of the Ortiz family or with Teitel.
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Christians Accused of Desecrating Quran Freed in Pakistan
Posted on December 21, 2009 by particularkev
Country's notorious 'blasphemy' law used against innocent father, daughter.
LAHORE, Pakistan, December 16 (CDN) — A Christian in Faisalabad district and his 20-year-old daughter were released on Monday (Dec. 14) after 14 grueling months in jail on false charges of blaspheming the Quran.
Khalil Tahir, attorney for Gulsher Masih and his daughter Ashyana Gulsher (known as Sandal), said the case was typical of the way Pakistan's blasphemy laws can be used to harass innocent Christians.
"Christians are the soft targets, and most of the people implicated in these inhumane laws are Christians," Tahir said. "We Christians are fighting for the same, noble goal – to provide justice to the victims of blasphemy laws."
Masih said that inmates beat him at least five times since he was arrested on Oct. 23, 2008. His daughter was arrested two weeks earlier, on Oct. 10.
"These long 14 months seemed like ages," Masih told Compass. "There was one inmate, Ghulam Fareed, a rich man, who always harassed me, trying to coerce me to convert to Islam by saying he would make me rich and would send me abroad."
Fareed, who also promised high quality education for Masih's children, joined with Islamic extremists jailed for terrorist acts to beat him in an effort to force him to "come into the fold of Islam," Masih said. While in jail, he said, his wife told him that their daughter had been beaten several times by the superintendent of police.
Masih and his daughter were charged under Section 295-B of the Pakistan Penal Code for blaspheming the Quran. Before charges were filed in October 2008, Masih said an initial incident occurred on Aug. 25, when Ashyana Gulsher found some burned pages of the Quran in a garbage dump outside their community of Chak No. 57, Chak Jhumra in the district of Faisalabad.
Masih said she handed the charred pages to a woman, Lubana Taj, saying, "These are the holy page of your Quran and I found them in the garbage, so you take it."
There were still some pages left, which she gave to their neighbor, Khalida Rafiq, who burned them, he said.
"She had borrowed wheat from us a few weeks ago, and when my wife demanded it back, Khalida Rafiq said that we had burned pages of the Quran and was now accusing us of taking wheat," Masih said. "Some other women of the village also accused my children of making paper airplanes of the pages of the Quran."
The escalating conflict was defused with the help of other neighbors who knew the truth, he said, and local Muslim cleric Amam Hafiz Muhammad Ali also intervened, saying Masih's daughter had done a good deed and questioning why the neighbor women were repaying her with evil.
"We thought that the matter was buried, but it arose again on Oct. 7, 2008," Masih said. On that day 20-year-old Muhammad Qasim went throughout the village on bicycle exclaiming that Christians had burned the Quran, Masih said. Upon hearing this, village landlord Rana Sarwar called Masih and told him that his children had burned the Quran and had used pages to make paper airplanes.
"I told them that I was working in Asghar Christian Colony and never knew about the incident, and the son who had been accused of blasphemy had gone to school," Masih said.
His accusers were unmoved, he said.
"In the evening when I was returning home, I heard announcements from several mosques that Christians had burned the Quran," he said. "After hearing the announcement, people began pouring in. These announcements were made by Tariq son of Hafeez, Maqbool son of Hafeez and Maulana Tawaseel Bajwa."
When Masih called emergency police, they arrested him and sent him to the Jhumra police station, Faisalabad.
"The police asked me where my children were, and when I told them that the children were in the village, the police went back to arrest them," he said. "Rana Sarwar, Wajid Khan and Rana Naeem Khan came into the police station and argued that my children had blasphemed, so why was I the one being beaten? I told Rana Sarwar in front of the police that if my children have done this, then I was ready to bear consequences."
Police told them that the crowd outside wanted to hang him and that this was why they had arrested him. Masih said that the next day Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Yousuf Zai came and asked him why he had committed blasphemy.
"Rana Sarwar then told the DSP that it was all a political ploy, and that I had been implicated in the case for voting for the opposition party," he said. "If that day those Christian Members of Parliamentary Assembly had spoken up, then the police complaint wouldn't have been registered against me."
Masih added that the station house officer felt that he was innocent but had become legally entangled due to lack of support from the community. Masih said that the next day, Oct. 8, a few Muslims gave conflicting statements against him when charges were filed.
"One said he saw me burning the pages of the Quran at 10 a.m., the other said that he saw me burning the pages at 12 p.m. and still another said that he saw me burning the pages of the Quran at 2 p.m.," he said. "When I was sent in jail, the investigation office swore that I was innocent."
In a further contradiction, the complainants accused him of cutting up pages of the Quran and tossing them in the air, not burning them, Tahir said.
The complainant in the case was Mohammad Farooq Alam, and other prosecution witnesses named were Mohammad Maqbool Ahmad and Mohammad Akber, according to Tahir.
Masih said that initially he appeared before Judge Zulfikar Lon, but that whenever a judge asked for witnesses, he was transferred.
"In this manner eight months passed, and then Judge Raja Mohammad Ghazanfar came" and refused to be transferred, Masih said.
After Tahir's cross-examination of witnesses, Ghazanfar dropped all charges and ordered their release.
"During cross examination, I proved that the whole case was concocted, frivolous, fake and that the charges against the accused Christian brother were unfounded," Tahir said.
Tahir said that he had provided only legal assistance to the victims, with Johnson Michael, chairman of the Bishop John Joseph Shaheed Trust, providing paralegal assistance. An MPA in the Punjab Parliament, Tahir is the body's secretary for Human Rights and Minority Affairs and also serves as executive director of advocacy group Action Against Discriminatory Laws Trust Pakistan.
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Some Christian, Muslim leaders back US Somalia military support
Posted on August 22, 2009 by particularkev
Some Christian and Muslim leaders from the Horn of Africa region are anxious about the consequences of increased U.S. military aid to Somalia, but others back the move, in a country where some extremists in the name of Islam are reportedly removing gold teeth and ordering the separation of the sexes, reports Ecumenical News International.
"Although we see this as a noble attempt to help the government, it should not be the only way," said the Rev. Fred Nyabera, executive director of the Fellowship of Christian Councils and Churches in the Great Lakes and Horn of Africa in an interview with Ecumenical News International.
Nyabera said he believed that lawlessness in Somalia meant that the weapons once in the country might be resold.
Report from the Christian Telegraph
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BANGLADESH: CHRISTIAN CONVERT'S LIFE THREATENED
Muslim family pays price for son's conversion; father shunned, ordered confined to home.
DHAKA, Bangladesh, October 16 (Compass Direct News) – Muslim clerics and neighbors have ordered the father of a man who converted to Catholicism to remain confined to his house until retaliatory punishment can be exacted from the convert.
"Are you not ashamed that your son became Christian?" the founder of a mosque here asked Ruhul Amin Khandaker, father of a 32-year-old businessman who went to Australia earlier this year to court a Philippine Catholic woman, converting to her faith in April. "Why did you not sacrifice your son like cattle before telling the news to us?"
Khandaker has become a social outcast whose family lives under threat from fellow Muslims, in violation of Bangladesh's constitution and international human rights safeguards. His son, Rashidul Amin Khandaker, has applied for protection from Australian immigration officials as he believes police in 88 percent-Muslim Bangladesh would do nothing to protect him from Islamists threatening to kill him.
"They will try to kill me anywhere, any time in Bangladesh, and the police and the authority will not protect me," Rashidul Khandaker wrote in his plea to Australian authorities. "There are records that show a converted person is not protected by the police, authority and society."
Khandaker's life would be in danger if he returned to Bangladesh, said his brother-in-law, identified only as Siddik, adding that "we are also surviving in the society at our own peril."
Rashidul Khandaker's brother wrote him in May to cease all contact with the family. Rakibul Amin Khandaker stated in the letter that Muslim authorities had threatened to ostracize the family because of his brother's conversion, and that his life would be in danger if he returned to Bangladesh as Muslim extremists believe they would get to heaven by punishing him.
Muslim leaders in Dhaka have ordered Khandaker's 65-year-old father to disown his son and exclude him from his wealth and property.
"If he comes to Bangladesh, you must hand him over to us and we will punish him," the founder of the mosque told the elder Khandaker.
Khandaker, who operates an oil lubricant refining business in the Kutubkhali area under Jatrabari police jurisdiction in central Dhaka, told Compass of the grief he experienced when his son informed the family from Sydney that he had become a Christian.
"My other sons and relatives informed it to the nearby cleric of the mosque so that the cleric could console me," he said. "Unfortunately the cleric was so furious . . . [He] told me that, 'You cannot keep any relationship with your son. A man of a noble Muslim family cannot be a Christian, and the society cannot accept it."
Home Ransacked
When Rashidul Khandaker, who worked as director of marketing in his father's business before going to Australia to pursue a relationship with a woman he met over the Internet, telephoned friends in Dhaka about his conversion, seven or eight of them broke into his house to loot his computer, scanner, printer, documents, sofa and other valuables, his father said.
"They told me, 'We will return everything when your son comes back. Whenever he will come back, you must hand him over to us – we will take revenge for his activities. Until he comes, don't mix with the people in the society and stay in your house.'"
The elder Khandaker said his son's former friends also threatened to harm the family if they informed police about the looting.
"We did not file any case against them. If we file a case, they will do more harm and we can not stay in the society," Khandaker said.
After receiving the threats from the local residents and Muslim leaders to remain confined to his house in front of his three sons and other relatives, Khandaker's blood pressure spiked and he suffered a stroke, he said.
"Local doctors did not come to my house to treat me – they are afraid of the society and they also hate us," he said. "I was taken to the hospital. The doctors did a brain scan and they said there was a hemorrhage on the left side of brain."
The ostracizing of the elder Khandaker was especially painful during Ramadan, culminating with the festival of Eid al-Fitre on Oct. 2 after a month of day-long fasting and nightly feasting.
"Nobody, including neighbors and relatives, did come to my house, and I could not go to anybody's house," Khandaker said. "My relatives did not come lest they be in trouble. I was alone during the festival, and nothing has happened like this in my 65 years of life."
Yet Khandaker said he does not want to deprive his son of his property and wealth. "If all of my property and wealth is destroyed, I can tolerate that, but one thing I cannot tolerate is to carry the coffin of my son on my shoulders," Khandaker said.
Any unwillingness of authorities to defend the rights of Rashidul Khandaker or his Muslim family members against the threats against them would violate the freedom of religion asserted in the Constitution of Bangladesh, which states in Article 41.1 in Part 3 that every citizen has the right to profess, practice or propagate any religion.
"My son changed his faith according to his will, and our constitution supports this kind of activity," the elder Khandaker said. "Why the constitutional rights should not be realized in the society?"
The social pressures also defy international human rights safeguards guaranteeing freedom of religion. Article 18 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) to which Bangladesh is a party, says that everyone shall have the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion. This right shall include freedom to have or to adopt a religion or belief of his choice, and freedom, either individually or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in worship, observance, practice and teaching.
"My son converted to Christianity according to his own will – we did not support it, and we are not converted. Why should we bear the brunt of his faith?" said the elder Khandaker. "I want to get rid of such a claustrophobic, social-outcast life for my son's conversion to Christianity."
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FOXE'S BOOK OF MARTYRS
Posted on September 27, 2008 by particularkev
BEING AN AUTHENTIC ACCOUNT OF THE SUFFERINGS
AND DEATHS OF PRIMITIVE AND PROTESTANT MARTYRS
IN VARIOUS COUNTRIES
As Edited by William Byron Forbush
Has Had Material Deleted and other material Added Compared to the Original
This is a book that will never die – one of the great English classics. Interesting as fiction, because it is written with both passion and tenderness, it tells the dramatic story of some of the most thrilling periods in Christian history.
Reprinted here in its most complete form, it brings to life the days when "a noble army, men and boys, the matron and the maid," "climbed the steep ascent of heaven, 'mid peril, toil, and pain."
"After the Bible itself, no book so profoundly influenced early Protestant sentiment as the Book of Martyrs. Even in our time it is still a living force. It is more than a record of persecution. It is an arsenal of controversy, a storehouse of romance, as well as a source of edification."
James Miller Dodds,
English Prose.
"When one recollects that until the appearance of the Pilgrim's Progress the common people had almost no other reading matter except the Bible and Fox's Book of Martyrs, we can understand the deep impression that this book produced; and how it served to mold the national character. Those who could read for themselves learned the full details of all the atrocities performed on the Protestant reformers; the illiterate could see the rude illustrations of the various instruments of torture, the rack, the gridiron, the boiling oil, and then the holy ones breathing out their souls amid the flames. Take a people just awakening to a new intellectual and religious life; let several generations of them, from childhood to old age, pore over such a book, and its stories become traditions as individual and almost as potent as songs and customs on a nation's life."
Douglas Campbell,
"The Puritan in Holland, England, and America"
"If we divest the book of its accidental character of feud between churches, it yet stands, in the first years of Elizabeth's reign, a monument that marks the growing strength of a desire for spiritual freedom, defiance of those forms that seek to stifle conscience and fetter thought."
Henry Morley,
"English Writers"
Read this classic work at:
http://particularbaptist.com/library/martyrs_foxe_contents.html
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Winning our First Gong at the Event Technology Awards
We were thrilled to be presented with the award for Best Admission & Visitor Management Technology on Friday 15th October at the 2013 Event Technology Awards.
IVS directors Paul Pike and Steve Jenner (centre) collecting the award for Team IVS
Crowning an incredible year for IVS and contactless technology in the live event space, this award recognises our past and ongoing work at Goodwood Festival of Speed. This was just one of numerous activations successfully completed by IVS in an incredible year that saw our technology in use at The Ashes, Isle of Wight Festival, Queen's College Cambridge May Ball and many more.
IVS is steadily emerging as a market leader in event technology having seen off competition from suppliers to the MTV European Music Awards, Farnborough Airshow and The Event Production Show, amongst others in this category.
Upon receiving the award Paul Pike, Director of Intelligent Venue Solutions commented: "We've been thrilled by the performance of, and reaction to, our technology this year. It's a true perk of the job to see both clients and attendees' experiences at events both improved by what we can offer. To go a step further and to receive an award like this is an extra layer of icing on the cake that we're really honoured by. We're looking forward to further implementing RFID and contactless technology within the events sector throughout 2014."
We were also shortlisted for the Best Use Of RFID and Best Use Of Social Media categories.
With one win successfully under our belts, the IVS team now turns its attention to the UK Festival Awards on Monday 2nd December where we have been shortlisted in the 'Best Use of New Technology' award category, in recognition of our work on behalf of Barclaycard at the British Summer Time events in London's Hyde Park.
IVS director Paul Pike will be taking part in two panel sessions at the UK Festival Conference on the day of the UK Festival Awards – 'Cashing Out – A Revolution in Payment Methods' and 'The Tech Blast'.


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In 2008, the average household in the U.S. spent about $2,200 in home energy costs, according to the Alliance to Save Energy. Furthermore, the typical home causes more pollution than a car. About 17 percent of greenhouse gas emissions come from home energy. You can protect your wallet and the environment by making your home more energy efficient. Below are some easy ways to conserve energy — and your money.
Make sure there are no gaps or leaks in caulking around windows. If there are, apply new caulk. You also can keep out the cold by putting weather-stripping on the bottoms of doors and installing foam insulation behind electrical outlets and switches. Most importantly, make sure your home is properly insulated. Attics, ducts, cathedral ceilings, floors above unheated garages, foundations and exterior walls should be properly insulated to keep heat in and cold out.
Install a programmable thermostat, which allows you to set different temperatures for various times of the day. For example, you can set a programmable thermostat to keep your home cooler during the night or during hours when everyone is at work and school. Then program it to warm up during those hours when people are home and awake. Clean furnace filters at least once a month during the winter. Dirty or clogged filters make furnaces work harder and use up more energy.
The Federal Trade Commission requires EnergyGuide labels on most home appliances but not on home electronics. This guide provides estimates of products' energy efficiency. Products with an Energy Star label label have met energy-efficiency criteria established by the U.S. Department of Energy and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. According to the Alliance to Save Energy, households that replace appliances with Energy Star models can save more than $600 a year in energy costs.
Turn down the temperature of your water heater to 130 degrees. Using cold water to wash clothes also saves energy for water heating. Run heat-generating appliances like dishwashers and dryers in the evening to help heat your home in the winter. Clean the lint trap in the dryer, replace old sealing on the refrigerator door, and turn off the television when no one is watching.
Replace incandescent bulbs with compact fluorescent lights, which generate an equivalent amount of light but use less energy. Use less artificial lighting by opening blinds and drapes during the day. Painting walls a light color also reduces the need for artificial lights.
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I by chance have stumbled on to one that may fit the bill. The owner said it is 26' long double axled with new tires and bearings, supporting system consists of adjustable arms with rollercoaster's. he said he used it to transport a 26' Helms swing keel sailboat... he must have meant a 25' Helms, a 26' Helms I thank was not made. Even still it is very similar to the Chrysler 26', I am hoping one foot + or - does not compromise matters. My question, has anyone dealt with this type of supporting system... adjustable arms with rollercoasters?
I only wish that I had that problem,I cant seem to find a used trailer anywhere close to me! As to your question i dont think a foot difference would really make a big difference, I once borrowed a trailer that was set up for an O Day 25 and had no problems.I would at least make sure the trailer is rated for at least 5,000 pounds but 6 or 7k would be better.
You need twin axles and 8,000 lbs and it has to sit on its keel and be set-up to be supported by pads at the bulkheads or stringers. there are VERY impt.issues re: toungue weight and I saw some great diagrams and calculations for this on the internet. also, the entire rig from the pavement to the highest point should not exceed 13 feet; also the BEST way to trailer a sailboat, hands down is with a cradle (saddle) set-up, the only maker that does this is TRIAD as they do for the J-24, apparently these saddles are very hard to make in steel and since I still have the OEM shipping cradle that very snugggly cradles my hull, I was told to trace or copy the OEM saddles to be remade into steel for a trailer set-up.
One of my trailers has cradle style support for my C22.
Each support is on a pivotting mount. On top of each pad is a mounted closed cell foam protector for the hull.
The only reason I mention this is that I rarely get the boat on EXACTLY the same way every time. The "pivoting" pads make it very easy to get the boat on.
The pads always go every direction until I back the trailer into the water. Then the closed cell foam floats causing each pad to float straght up! Perfect position to slip a boat onto! As I pull the trailer and boat out, the boat settles onto the trailer and the rocking supports adjust themselves to the hull!
The draw back is you must float the boat over the trailer.You can not slide the boat up onto the trailer similar to most boats. Because of this, the trailer has a 10 foot extension! I can back it down and completely submerge it at float the boat over it.
Just thought I'd toss that in at ya!
I have spent more time working on my trailer, than on the boat itself. My C26 came with a three axel trailer that was not properly designed for it. Rather than just "making it work", I thought it would be nice to redesign the whole thing. You can see in the picks how far I got in about 10 months.
Now, I have never owned a sailboat, and have only launched one once about 20 years ago. So I am no expert on trailer design. But I do have a local harbor that has over thirty sailboats on trailers as reference. I am amazed the diversity.
There is an important thing to note in designing a trailer for a sailboat, most of the weight is in the keel. So the side bunks, or cradles, main function is to keep the boat from tipping over when going around corners, and should NOT support the weight of the boat. My boat had sat for ten years with most of it's weight on the side bunks, and they indented the hull! Fortunately, since I have had the weight off of those bunks, the hull has miraculously popped back out.
My current project is setting up some keel guides to make sure that it lines up properly, as the keel bunk has a pocket for swing keel and I want to make sure it lines up between those 4x4s.
Thanks for the information keep it coming, useable used trailers for the Chrysler 26' seems to be a hot topic. Sailbob the trailer I am looking at does indeed sound like you EZ type. If it is no troubler e-mail me a photo of you Chrysler 26' on the trailer. ( glidern2954c@excite.com ) I will be checking it out in person in a couple of days, if the twin axels measure up to 8000 lbs or real close, I am sure I will be bringing it home. Keep looking njerrell there out there. I found this one in @ three weeks, I hope it is not to good to be true. My next trick will be finding a Chrysler 26' to go on top of it.
Anyone know what depth of water I would need at a ramp to float off a fixed keel c-26?


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Grad Hohenburg – sedaj le še skromne ruševine – je ležal nad naseljem Pusarnica zahodno od mesta Špital ob Dravi v zahodnem delu avstrijske zvezne dežele Koroške. Manjši, že precej razpadel višinski grad stoji na podolgovatem skalnem grebenu severno od Lurnskega polja. Je ena redkih stavb ali ostankov, ki sega v 12. stoletje. Nekdanja grajska kapela je bila leta 1707 prezidana v romasko cerkev Marije v Hohenburgu in je še danes dobro ohranjena.

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Grad je bil zgrajen že konec  11. stoletja. Prvič je v pisnih listinah omenjen leta 1142 kot »castrum Hohenburc« kot sedež stare plemiške družine grofov Lurnskih, ki so upravljali Lurnsko območje. S smrtjo tridentinskega škofa Altmana leta 1149, ki je bil zadnji lurnski grof, je z njegovo podaritvijo grad prešel v last Salzburške nadškofije.  Ta je na gradu naselila svoje ministeriale kot upravitelje posesti. Ti so nadškofiji povzročali težave, da uveljavlja lastninske pravice. Tudi  grofje Ortenburški so imeli interese na tem strateškem gradu. Od leta 1263 je pripadal del posesti grofu Frideriku Ortenburškemu. Takrat je bil na Hohenburgu dvojni grad, na enem so živeli vazali Ortenburžanov na drugem salzburški ministeriali. Ob bratski delitvi dediščine, kar je potrdil koroški vojvoda Ulrik III., je lahko Friderik obdržal Hohenburg.  Salzburški nadškof Konrad je leta 1311 drugi del gradu podelil grofu Otu Ortenburškemu in njegovim sinovom. V salzburško last je že dalj časa spadal del Hohenburga, ki je bil imenovan »Krški grad« in del opisan kot "planchen zaigent hinumb der cistern und dem poumgarten vor dem hous".  Hohenburg je izgubil svoj pomen ko je bil upravni sedež salzburške posesti  na Lurnskem polju prenešen na grad Feldsberg.  Grad Hohenburg tako že leta 1433 ni bil več naseljen in je bil prepuščen propadu.  Leta 1542 so novi grofje Ortenburški posest in območje imenovali  Grajske ruševine.  Ni pojasnjena domneva, da je bil grad porušen v bojih med Goriškimi grofi in cesarjem Friderikom III.

Prva grajska kapela, znana iz vira iz leta 1473, je bila posvečena sv. Marku kot podružnična cerkev. Njena polkrožna apsida sodi v romansko obdobje.  Sama trdnjava je imela obliko podolgovatega gradu, ki je bil zavarovan z dvema močnima zidovoma. Dolžina glavnega gradu je bila  približno 80 m, širina pa okoli 12 m.

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 Franz Xaver Kohla: Kärntner Burgenkunde. Band 1: Kärntens Burgen, Schlösser, Ansitze und wehrhafte Stätten (= Aus Forschung und Kunst. Bd. 17, 1, ). 2., vermehrte Auflage, mit Ergänzungen, Exkursen und Nachträgen von Gotbert Moro. Geschichtsverein für Kärnten, Klagenfurt 1973.
 Hermann Wiessner, Margareta Vyoral-Tschapka: Burgen und Schlösser in Kärnten. Hermagor, Spittal/Drau, Villach (= Kärntens Burgen und Schlösser. Bd. 3). 2., erweiterte Auflage. Birken-Verlag, Wien 1986.

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Petty Officer First Class Jason Workman—March 2012 Shipment Honoree
With the death of Navy Seal Jason Workman, San Juan County, and the nation as a whole, has lost one of its best warriors.
Navy Seal – Petty Officer First Class Jason Workman
Workman, an elite Navy Seal, was killed in action in Maidan Wardak province, Afghanistan on August 5, 2011. Blanding native and Navy Seal Jason Workman was killed in action on August 5. Courtesy photo
Petty Officer First Class Jason Workman will be buried in Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, VA with full military honors. Funeral services had not been announced as of the press deadline.
A memorial service is still in the planning phases in Blanding.
Members of the Workman family from San Juan County, including his parents and brother, traveled to the East Coast to greet the body and participate in funeral services.
Homes throughout San Juan County flew flags in recognition of Workman's service and sacrifice.
The Blanding native, age 31, had served in the United States Navy for the past eight years. As a member of the elite Seal Team Six, Workman was one of the best trained and most accomplished members of the U.S. Armed Services.
He was killed in a Chinook helicopter when it was brought down by enemy fire. In total, 38 men were killed in the accident, including, reportedly, Workman's entire troop.
The helicopter was ferrying the group of Navy Seals to a firefight involving Taliban troops and U.S. Army Rangers. The helicopter was arriving in the area when it was hit. It has been reported that all those who were in the helicopter were killed instantly.
While there are roughly 2,500 Navy Seals, there are believed to be just four squadrons of the Seal Team Six. Workman is believed to have been a member of the Gold squadron, known as a "Premier" squadron. The Red squadron, an "Assault" squadron, is believed to be the group that was involved in the death of Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan in May, 2011.
For many years, the existence of the secretive Seal Team Six was not even officially acknowledged by the United State government. The majority of the group's activities are highly classified.
While the group was disbanded in 1987 and renamed the United States Naval Special Warfare Development Group (NSWDG), commonly known as DEVGRU, it is still generally called Seal Team Six. It is one of three special mission units of the United States military. Seal stands for Sea, Air and Land.
Workman is a 1997 graduate of San Juan High School, where he excelled in sports and academics. An accomplished athlete, Workman was a leader for the Broncos on the football field, basketball court and baseball field. He earned a host of All-State awards.
Workman served a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Brazil and Pennsylvania. He earned a bachelors degree in criminal justice from Southern Utah University.
After graduating from SUU, Workman joined the United States Navy with the intention of becoming a Navy Seal. He served in the Navy as a Seal for the past eight years, including several years as a member of the elite Seal Team Six.
Workman is the son of Betty and Rodney Workman of Blanding. He is survived by his wife, Stacey; 21-month-old son, Jax; parents; and three brothers, Corey (Eva) Workman of Blanding, Stephen Workman of New York, NY, and Timothy (Joan) Workman of New Jersey.
Navy Seal Jason Workman
Workman is the fourth serviceman, and second member of the special forces from San Juan County, to be killed in action in the Middle East.
Lance Cpl. Quinn A. Keith, of Blanding, was killed on September 6, 2004. The Marine was killed in a car bomb attack near Fallujah, Iraq.
Sgt 1st Class Nathan Winder, of Blanding, was killed in Iraq on June 26, 2007. He served as a Special Forces Medic in the U.S. Army.
SFC James E. Thode, a platoon sergeant from the Blanding armory, was killed in action in Afghanistan on December 2, 2010.
In total, 27 local members of the military have been killed in action, including five in the Vietnam War, 14 in World War II, and four in World War I.
Source: San Juan Record – San Juan County mourns death of Jason Workman Navy Seal from Blanding
Jason Workman Memorial
The funeral service for Jason Workman was held in the stake center today. There was a large crowd. Gov. Herbert as well as Elder Webb, a 70 representing the church and several dozen Navy Seals attended the funeral. Bishop Joe Lyman conducted and did a good job. All his brothers, as well as his mother gave moving tributes and memories about his life. One of his close friends in the Seals also gave insights as to the level of danger in his assignments, and how well he had performed in each mission.
It was a fitting tribute to Jason and many of his friends came to pay tribute. After the funeral they asked us to remain in our seats and they took the casket followed by his family outside. They did a 21 gun salute, plus they played taps. Jason will be buried in the Arlington cemetery this coming Friday. He was only 33 years old.
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Graffiti artist EGR fills gallery with fantasy women
When you look at a work of art, how much does knowing the identity of the artist affect how you perceive it? With her new show at Mark Christopher Gallery, entitled WE ARE NATURE, local artist and illustrator EGR (pronounced "eager") confronts this question head-on, as she explores the frequent objectification of women in the arts by reflecting back to us those very images of idealised female beauty.
As EGR explicitly situates her work within a feminist framework, she's part of a growing global movement of female street artists who are fighting to be recognised in a very male-dominated arena. Rede Nami, for one, is a feminist network of artists in Rio de Janeiro that promotes women's rights through street art, and whose president Panmela Castro EGR cites as a particular inspiration.
In terms of subject matter, however, EGR's work owes a lot to the French female street artist Fafi, whose overtly sexual cartoon women, called the "Fafinettes," have decorated everything from the gritty streets of Toulouse, France to Adidas and Le SportSac products. When Fafi first started spraying, feminists quickly painted over her work in black, so disturbed were they by the images presented.
EGR (also known as Erica Gosich Rose) may be focused on female empowerment, but like Fafi's Fafinettes, these are definitely not your typical feminist pieces. As EGR explains, her work is about "crossbreeding fairy-tale like figures with male fantasies," and each painting--using a mix of oil, aerosol, and found materials--depicts a cartoonishly sexualized female character that resembles a more scantily-clad Bratz doll. The main source of inspiration cited is Mel Ramos, whose brash and kitschy 1960's nudes turned the demure pinups of the '40s and '50s on their heads.
EGR's women, whom she calls "flylets," have no connection to the real world in the WE ARE NATURE exhibit, and their inflated proportions are paired with fairy wings and pointed ears. But while they may be fantastical creatures, the women also subscribe to very real-world expectations of beauty, clearly opting first for bikini waxes before they frolic in the woods. In many of her earlier pieces, EGR has placed these dream women in real-world locations: a seedy bar, a city streetscape.
This contrast naturally drew attention to the disparity between expectation and reality, a contrast that is missing from the fantasy world of WE ARE NATURE. EGR is a truly talented artist, but the line between re-appropriation and regression is a thin one, and I'm not sure on which side of it the show ends up.
In her artist's statement for the exhibition, EGR stresses that she wants the viewer to consider how her works change depending on what one knows of the gender of the artist. And had I been unfamiliar with EGR and the history of her work, I probably would have dismissed the work as simple male wish fulfillment, and generally consistent with traditional representations of women in street art. But there are definitely clues for the perceptive viewer that the Fafinettes don't simply exist to titillate the viewer, despite the couple of male spectators at the show who gleefully pointed out which works in particular "turned [them] on."
The undoubted centrepiece of the show is a largely over-sized female face that watches over the proceedings. As one of the few "Flylets" to maintain eye contact with the viewer, her commanding look seems to crafted to draw visitors out of the fantasy, lest they become too comfortable in the role of spectator to such eroticised images.
With WE ARE NATURE, EGR seeks to "challenge archaic perceptions of women, by portraying physically powerful women in nature." But is it actual power, or just irony that's being portrayed? The fact that I'm still grappling with the answer to this question proves that EGR's work is worth a look. And one thing's for sure, whether or not you approve of her subject matter, the woman's got some definite graffiti chops.
WE ARE NATURE runs at Mark Christopher Gallery until November 17. Open Wednesday- Sunday, 10-5pm.
Photos by Scott Snider
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No mystery here: CBS' crime drama Unforgettable won't be returning for a fourth season.
The network officially confirmed the news Friday, following the end of the drama's third season on Sept. 14.
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