Prix of Edmonton. With Will Power on pole position, Sebastien Bourdais starting second and Justin Wilson third on the grid, the top three teams in the Triple Crown standings are in good position to take home the honors of Triple Crown Champion. However, with Graham Rahal starting fourth, Bourdais and his Newman/Haas/Lanigan racing teammate seem to have a slight advantage on putting their hands on the Inuksuk trophies created by renowned Inuit Artist Ohito Ashoona.

Currently sitting atop the standings heading into tomorrow’s race are the Team Australia duo of Will Power and Simon Pagenaud with a finishing average of three. Trailing the pair, in second place, is the driver combination of Alex Tagliani and Justin Wilson from RSPORTS with an average of six. Close behind in positions threekeep focused and see what happens."

Edmonton: Matos beats Perera in race 1Raphael Matos (#6 ProWorks) got sweet revenge in Saturday’s first race of a Cooper Tires Presents The Champ Car Atlantic Championship Powered by Mazda doubleheader at the Rexall Grand Prix of Edmonton and extended his lead in the championship standings with his fifth victory of the season.

As an Atlantic rookie a year ago, Matos started from the pole position in Edmonton and appeared to be on his way to his first victory in the series when disaster struck and he crashed with eight laps remaining in the race. A year later, Matos returned with five career Atlantic victories in his pocket and added another one on Saturday after claiming the lead from his Sierra Sierra Enterprises teammate


James Hinchcliffe (#9 NOCO/ProWorks) with 20 laps remaining and leading the rest of the way to beat Frenchman Franck Perera (#11 CJ Motorsport/Continental Cartage Inc.) by 2.247 seconds.

It was Matos’ fifth victory of the season and he now leads Perera in the championship standings by 33 points, 259-226, with three races remaining on the schedule. Matos has now finished on the podium in four consecutive Atlantic races and in seven of nine races overall, and has finished inside the top-six positions in all nine starts this season.

Perera wound up second, breaking his Canadian victory streak after back-to-back wins at Mont-Tremblant and Toronto, but it was his fifth consecutive podium result dating to a third-place run in the second race of a doubleheader at Portland in June. The CondorMotorsports rookie is also the only driver in the series to have finished inside the top five in every race this season, and he extended his lead in the Rookie of the Year standings to 25 points over Canadian Robert Wickens (#3 Red Bull/INDECK).

Mutoh to make Indy Car debut in ChicagoAt a press conference today, Super Aguri Panther Racing announced it will field a third IndyCar Series entry for its Indy Pro Series standout Hideki Mutoh for the season-ending race at Chicagoland Speedway.

The 24-year-old Mutoh currently leads the Lucas Oil Rookie of the Year standings in the Indy Pro Series. He claimed his first career victory on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course in June and has posted eight top-five finishes and 10 top-10 finishes in 11 starts.

Mutoh's


red and white No. 60 car will be sponsored by the Honda Formula Dream Project, a long-range program aimed at developing the talented drivers who compete in world-class racing events. Blair Perschbacher, the race engineer on Mutoh's No. 55 car in the Indy Pro Series, will also be making the move to the IndyCar Series. Mutoh will test his car at Kentucky Speedway, Chicagoland Speedway and Infineon Raceway to prepare for his debut.

Glock powers to Race One victoryTimo Glock brought delight to his home fans at the Nurburgring today by putting on a crushing display in race one, easily winning from Lucas di Grassi and Kazuki Nakajima after putting his nose in front at his pitstop and then romping away before slowing in the closing laps, winning therace by 2.2 seconds and reigniting his recently stuttering championship challenge.

But Glock didn't have everything his own way: a slow getaway at the start by the poleman allowed fellow front row starter di Grassi to take an early lead at the first corner, with the German just holding onto second ahead of a charging Giorgio Pantano, Pastor Maldonado and Nakajima.

Behind them chaos reigned as new returnee Sebastien Buemi seemingly forgot to brake for turn one, his car a battering ram in the side of Luca Filippi before the Swiss driver became briefly airborne as he rolled over the Italian's right rear: the rest of the field had to find the best line they could around the stricken pair, who were both out of the race almost immediately.

Edmonton: Wilson


tops practice 3Returning to the site of his last Champ Car victory, it was no surprise to see Justin Wilson at the top of the timesheet at the end of the final practice session before the second round of qualifying this afternoon. The driver of the CDW racing machine recorded a top lap of 58.931 (120.527 mph).

Lining up behind the 2006 Rexall Grand Prix of Edmonton Champion was Newman/Haas/Lanigan Racing teammates Sebastien Bourdais and Graham Rahal. Yesterday Bourdais captured the provisional pole in his McDonald's car, but today he will have to contend with his teammate Rahal who is hoping to improve where his Medi|Zone car will start for Sunday's main event. Team Australia driver Will Power lined up in fourth while Forsythe Championship Racing's Paul Tracy hadto settle for fifth in his Indeck car.

Hunter-Reay smokes his teammateProving that Champ Car made a grave error in not holding onto to him and never giving him the good ride they promised him to show his stuff, American Ryan Hunter-Reay beat his experienced Indy Car teammate Scott Sharp by a massive 1.5 sec. in qualifying Saturday at Mid-Ohio....this despite making his first-ever IndyCar Series start with no testing and about 72 hours of notice before strapping into a 675-horsepower Indy Car on one of the most technical road courses in the country.

Hunter-Reay (#17 Ethanol Dallara/Honda/Firestone) jumped into the car this weekend without a second of testing and posted the team’s best road-course qualifying result of the season on a Chamber of Commerce weather day at the Mid-Ohio


wait for all-clear(GMM) Lewis Hamilton must wait until another medical check on Sunday morning before discovering if he can race in the European grand prix.

His team McLaren, however, has given him the all-clear after a precautionary CT-scan check at the nearby Bundeswehrzentralkrankenhaus military hospital in Koblenz.

Championship leader Hamilton, 22, returned to the Nurburgring from hospital on Saturday afternoon, and in a McLaren statement said he was "absolutely fine" and wants to race despite the 250kph qualifying crash.

Ron Dennis told reporters that there is "no medical reason" that will keep him out of the car.

But FIA medical delegate Gary Hartstein will have the final say, when he examines the British rookie at 9.30 on Sunday morning.

"I'm feeling fine," Hamilton told reporters in the paddock.

"I'm very fortunate, very lucky IAudi R10 TDI he is sharing with Marco Werner. The reigning Sebring and 24 Hours of Le Mans champions held a 0.151-second edge over teammates Rinaldo Capello and Allan McNish, defending class winners and Series champions.

Massa honors Brazilian dead(GMM) Felipe Massa honored the memory of his countryman on Saturday following Brazil's worst ever air disaster.

After qualifying third at the Nurburgring, the Ferrari driver told reporters that had had driven with black marks on his racing gear in deference to the 191 people who were killed at Congonhas airport in Massa's native Sao Paulo on Tuesday.

The 25-year-old had a black mark on his helmet and was wearing a black band on his left arm.

Hamilton airlifted to hospital(GMM) Lewis Hamilton has been airlifted to a nearby hospital following his horror


250kph crash during Nurburgring qualifying on Saturday.

Two hours after decelerating violently due to a wheel failure in the Schumacher-S complex, the McLaren rookie emerged from the medical centre still on a stretcher and was loaded into a waiting helicopter.

It is understood that he was flown to the Bundeswehrzentralkrankenhaus in Koblenz.

Hamilton, 22, was no longer wearing an oxygen mask but he still had an arm-drip attached, and possibly a heart-monitor.

His concerned father Anthony is believed to have followed Lewis to hospital.

Bosses expect Hamilton to race(GMM) Lewis Hamilton nearly fainted before a drip, oxygen mask and surgical neck collar were attached to him on Saturday, but McLaren's championship leader is still expected to race on Sunday.

"It's early days but that's very much our hope and the indications suggest that that'sthe case," team CEO Martin Whitmarsh answered when a reporter for British broadcaster ITV asked if the 22-year-old would be fit to drive on at the Nurburgring.

Hamilton's silver car speared violently into the 'Schumacher-S' barriers at an estimated 250kmh and he had to be physically supported by medical crews when they arrived at the scene.

Long-lens photography then showed him with his eyes apparently closed as he was stretched into an ambulance.

But Whitmarsh said: "The good news is that he seems to be well, conscious and talking, so hopefully it's nothing serious and he can have a strong race tomorrow."

Team principal Ron Dennis explained that his countryman would be kept at the Nurburgring's medical centre for at least two hours of observation.

"But the early indication is that he has


no injuries," he said.

Asked about Hamilton's participation in the grand prix tomorrow, Dennis added: "It's far too early to say but at the moment he doesn't appear to have pain anywhere, no broken bones.

"We won't be able to decide until after a few hours' observation, but so far, so good."

Hamilton not seriously injured, Kimi on pole(GMM) Lewis Hamilton has had a drip inserted and was wearing an oxygen mask as he was transferred to the medical centre at the Nurburgring on Saturday.

The championship leader's high speed crash during qualifying at the scene of the European grand prix, caused by a faulty wheel gun, has not caused him any serious injuries but he will be under observation for a couple of hours, reports from the venue in Germany suggest.

22-year-oldHamilton's McLaren speared into the barriers at nearly unabated speed, and he was clearly in some leg pain as he rested on the cockpit sides before medics arrived.

He was treated at the scene for some time before being stretched into an ambulance wearing a neck collar.

Such was the speed of the impact that it damaged the conveyor-belt layer on the tyre barrier and took more than 30 minutes to repair.

Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen ended the session with pole. If Hamilton starts the race on Sunday, it will be from tenth on the grid. Qualifying report to follow.

Hamilton crashesUPDATE (GMM) The final portion of qualifying was delayed at the Nurburgring after Lewis Hamilton shunted heavily into the tyre barriers in the newly-renamed 'Schumacher-S' curve.

The rookie Briton, having set the quickest


but to add another grand prix in the United States."

Ecclestone is aware of the significance of America, but so far his unsuccessful negotiations for alternate events in Las Vegas or New York mean that the 2008 calendar will probably not feature a US grand prix.

Toyota team president John Howett added: "A decent street circuit or a very good race circuit close to a major city would be ideal."

Comic relief by Speed at 'Ring (GMM) Scott Speed provided some comic relief at the dreary Nurburgring on Friday.

After a torrential storm washed out GP2 practice at the scene of the European grand prix, Toro Rosso's American racer revealed how he dealt with visitors to the team's motor home who kept using toilets that are reserved for the drivers.

"I got p-ssedof 135.632 mph. Dave Blaney, in Braun Racing's No. 10 Camry, was second fastest at 135.501.

Tracy’s woes continueToronto's Paul Tracy is getting more frustrated by the minute. The longtime Champ Car World Series star, a former champion, has one win this year - last month at Cleveland - but is a distant 12th in the season points after seven of 16 races.

Friday was another miserable day as Tracy was 12th of 17 drivers in the opening practice and, instead of improving, slipped all the way to 15th in provisional qualifying.

"Well, today was pretty much a disaster," Tracy said. "I can't really say much about the car or about the track because I've barely done any laps. I haven't even had a chance to really get up to speed.

"In


the morning I went out and did a few laps and then suddenly something broke on the suspension and it took a while to fix, so we were just sitting in the pits. Then, we went out again and had some type of electrical problem, so we had to come back in, but the session was already over anyway."

Things looked a lot better for the 2003 series champ when he was fastest in the 10-minute warm-up for qualifying.

"The car actually felt pretty good," he said. "It was definitely something we could work with. But we never got the chance to. After only four laps during qualifying, we had a short in the electrical system and the whole car shut off.

"My crew tried to repair it in the pits,but there was a lot of damage. So, obviously, it's a pretty poor start to the weekend. Hopefully, tomorrow well get to do more laps and see what we got." Autonet.ca

Airport track attracts hundreds of thousandsThree years ago, the event didn't even exist. Today the Rexall Grand Prix of Edmonton is one of the hottest weekends on people's summer schedules. A smash hit in its 2005 debut when more than 200,000 people ventured to the City Centre Airport track over three days, the Champ Car weekend is Alberta's only opportunity to witness some of the best open-wheel racing in North America.

It's far more than just Champ Car's Friday and Saturday qualifying and Sunday race. On the track there are also the Atlantic series with races Saturday and Sunday,


the NASCAR Canadian Tire series racing Saturday and the Northern Alberta Sports Car Club presenting its 50th anniversary GT invitational on Sunday.

The cars hit the track each morning with 8 a.m. practice kicking off a full day of practice, qualifying and racing.

In keeping with the city's reputation for partying through major events, the festivities have been going on since Tuesday and will continue at various sites through Sunday.

At 10 a.m. today, the Turn 1 Club Stage and the Winners Circle Stage both open at the City Centre Airport with activities and bands through the day.

From Whyte Avenue to downtown to the race track, there's plenty of live performances, entertainment and refreshments well into the evening.

Parking is extremely limited at the track and there's no parking on the streetschief steward Brian Barnhart said the system "seems to be artificial."

The IRL's current procedure of the pace car picking up the leader and the other cars following in their natural order came under scrutiny near the end of last weekend's race at Nashville Superspeedway when second-place Dario Franchitti could not make a move on leader Scott Dixon because there were four lapped cars between them.

Franchitti wasn't happy with the situation, but he didn't call for a rule change. Danica Patrick, who was two cars behind Franchitti, was furious with the lapped car in front of her but likewise didn't call for Barnhart to make adjustments. In fact, of the dozen Indy-car drivers contacted by The Star this week, only three said they favored the Indy Racing League going


to NASCAR's system of putting lead-lap cars together when restarts occur in the final 10 laps.

"I was actually thinking about that during the caution during (the Nashville) race," Scott Sharp said. "Without the lapped cars, it would have been a much better show because the leaders would be up there fighting it out amongst themselves." More at Indy Star

Petty has choice words for GinnLeading a parade of more than 200 motorcycles for a week can put a person out of touch with racing, and that was the case for NASCAR Nextel Cup driver Kyle Petty on Friday. Understandably oblivious to the news emanating from the stock car world, Petty reacted with surprise when told fellow veterans Sterling Marlin and Joe Nemechek had been released from their rides withFerrari's Felipe Massa for 4th in his BMW.

USGP: Stoner again fastestDucati’s MotoGP World Championship leader Casey Stoner repeated his morning performance in the afternoon session at Laguna Seca - to finish the opening day of the Red Bull U.S. Grand Prix weekend as the fastest rider at the recently resurfaced Californian track.

Honda Gresini’s Marco Melandri was the second quickest participant in the later session, as he was in first free practice, this time lapping 0.180s off Stoner’s pacesetting time of 1’22.997s.

Third fastest rider John Hopkins (Rizla Suzuki) lapped just ahead of American compatriot Colin Edwards (Fiat Yamaha) – whilst Dani Pedrosa (Repsol Honda) completed the top five, having found the rhythm he lacked in FP1 when he finished eleventh.

Q. Nick, would you like to clarify Honda's position regarding


and told me it was Mike. I subsequently saw both Mike and Nigel together and the second conversation was principally with Mike, as I'd already had a discussion with Nigel.

Again, Mike was not someone I knew, so we again had a get-to-know-you-type of discussion, not in great detail, more about what he'd done in the past, about what the issues with our team were. And that was the end of it. Again, in the second conversation there was nothing at all that made me vaguely suspicious at all.

Antinucci tops Indy Pro practiceCheever Racing's Richard Antinucci led preparations for the Mid-Ohio 100 Indy Pro Series race. Antinucci turned a fast lap of 1:14.2590, 109.466 mph. Wade Cunningham, the 2005 series champion, was second quick while Daniel Herrington, Andrew Prendevillebelieve in Ethanol's importance to the world's energy needs and environmental future. The demand for Ethanol will continue to grow and prosper through the important work of the dedicated people at the Ethanol Promotion and Information Council. They are tireless in their efforts and I will miss working with them.

Additionally, I want to thank Bobby Rahal, David Letterman, and all of my friends at Rahal-Letterman Racing not just for the ride, but for the opportunity to be a part of something so ground-breaking. It was a real honor, and I wish them the very best.

Dominguez joins Champ Car 2-seater programThe Champ Car F1x2 Team has now completed six highly successful programs at 2007 Champ Car World Series events, and will feature two exciting additions to its driver line-up


for the forthcoming Edmonton and San Jose rounds. Joining F1x2 regular, Zsolt Baumgartner, in Edmonton will be legendary American driver, Mario Andretti, and Champ Car race winner, Mario Dominguez, from Mexico.

Andretti, who is serving as Grand Marshal of the Rexall Grand Prix of Edmonton this weekend, is a four-time Champ Car World Series Champion and 1978 Formula One World Champion. He will act as high-speed chauffeur for a select band of VIP guests during the Edmonton race weekend, which marks the final race in the Canadian Triple Crown.

Rahal likes Edmonton trackI'm not sure that there's anything specifically about this track (that makes me successful here). I've always liked the airport circuits, here and Cleveland. But at the same time, I think after the last two weeks, the wholescore the 2007 Atlantic title. The qualifying performances by Hinchcliffe and Matos were all the more impressive considering that Matos was 11th in the first practice session, while Hinchcliffe was 16th.

Gommendy crash ends qualifying earlyUPDATE Gommendy has been released from the hospital and will be checked in the morning by doctors but will probably be cleared to drive. However, he hit the wall head-on at 40mph and damaged the tub of the car so it has to go back to Panoz in Georgia to be repaired. The team has a backup car, but Gommendy may be too sore to drive in the morning as he was complaining of a sore neck and back. A 40 mph hit straight on is a fairly violent stop.

07/20/07 Today's Champ Car qualifying


that we're getting really, really better.

Borussia Dortmund joins SuperleagueGerman club Borussia Dortmund is the latest football team to join Superleague Formula – the new motor racing championship that combines the passion of international football with the excitement of top-class motorsport.

The former Champions League winners join AC Milan, PSV Eindhoven, Olympiacos and FC Porto in the championship which will kick off in August next year.

The striking yellow and black livery of the German club's entry was unveiled in Dortmund this afternoon by club coach Thomas Doll, captain Christian Wörns plus leading players including Tinga, Sebastian Kehl and Roman Weidenfeller on the eve of Borussia Dortmund's season opening festivities at Signal Iduna Park.

More than 30,000 fans are expected to see the club's colors adorning the 750-horsepower single seater racecar atthe free public event tomorrow at the venue that hosted a semi-final of last year's World Cup.

The public open day precedes the club's friendly against AC Roma on Sunday.

Edmonton GP: Power leads opening practiceComing off his win two weeks ago in Toronto, Team Australia's Will Power turned the fastest lap in opening practice for Sunday's Rexall Grand Prix of Edmonton. Sebastien Bourdais was 2nd and his Newman/Haas/Lanigan Racing teammate Graham Rahal 3rd.

Crash Clarke hits wallDan 'Crash' Clarke has done it again - he crashed into the turn 4 wall during morning Champ Car practice in Edmonton and brought out the red flag. His car has nose, suspension and rear wing damage. Is there an event he doesn't crash at least once? The green flag is back out with


bright sunshine as they came out on track.

Glock set the early running and kept eating away at his own best lap, with Mike Conway, Luca Filippi and Pastor Maldonado pushing him in the early stages of the session: the German was just 0.02 to the good as the majority of the field came in for their second set of tires.

Di Grassi came out with clear intent of taking his first pole position, claiming the top spot with a 1:41.597 and setting the fastest first sector on the next lap before getting stuck behind a slowing Xandi Negrao.

European GP: Kimi moves Ferrari to topScuderia Ferrari Marlboro ended the first day of practice for the European Grand Prix in first and third places with Kimi Raikkonen and Felipe Massa respectively.Summer still refuses to be a friend of Formula 1 this season and while the morning session was run in dry and cool conditions, heavy rain hit the track during the lunch break between the two ninety minute sessions, meaning the track was still slightly slippery for the start of the afternoon practice. But the more serious problem, which affected everyone was that the wind changed direction from the morning and made the cars harder to drive through the corners when gusts of wind affected the handling.

While the winner of the last two grands prix topped the final time sheet, it was championship leader Lewis Hamilton and his McLaren-Mercedes who was second ahead of the Scuderia's Brazilian driver. As we have seen so often this season it was


but Howett told the Cologne newspaper 'Express' that a decision for next year will only be taken later on.

"We must decide whether or not to extend his contract, and also it is important to know how Ralf feels in the team.

"What you need is a completely firm partnership -- and perhaps Ralf will decide to go somewhere else," he said.

Howett dismissed as "rubbish", however, recent rumors that said Ralf only narrowly survived an ultimatum to up his game during F1's tour of North America.

"He has a 2007 contract, so he sits in our car at least until the end of the season. We stand by our drivers; we never criticized Ralf.

Sheer physical strength required at EdmontonWith the old Lola the Champ Car drivers struggled to finish the Edmontonteamwork brought home the top position for Highcroft Racing at the first practice session Thursday afternoon at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course. Stefan Johansson, who started off the session as the rain dwindled, initially found the track greasy, but said "it quickly improved as the session went on." Stefan made the best of challenging conditions and the team made several changes to the setup. These changes ultimately allowed Stefan to go 4/10 of a second faster than his previous best time in just the first half of his last lap before being called into the pits for a driver change.

These changes paid off when David Brabham took the wheel. Finding the handling a bit difficult in his first couple of laps, Brabs noted that "the balance changed over


television viewers followed German TVs live broadcast on "Das Erste" of the DTM race at Mugello – a record this season. The next highlight is now on the agenda: the race at Zandvoort on the Dutch North Sea coast, to which Audi driver Mattias Ekström comes as overall leader on the last weekend in July.

The Swede has a 6.5 point lead over defending Champion Bernd Schneider (Mercedes) going into the final four races of the year. The Audi team will do everything possible on the 4.307 kilometer circuit through the dunes to strengthen its lead in the most popular international touring car race series.

The foundations are good for this: Mattias Ekström is the only driver to have won more than one DTM race to date at Zandvoort (2002and 2004). The Audi A4 DTM also has a particularly good track record at Zandvoort with two wins from three starts (2004 and 2006). The latest generation A4 DTM demonstrated impressively just how fast it is around fast, swooping tracks last time out at Mugello.

Pilgrim to drive for JR Motorsports for road racesJR Motorsports officials announced Thursday that road-racing veteran Andy Pilgrim will drive the team's No. 88 Chevrolet in the upcoming NASCAR Busch Series races at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve and Watkins Glen International.

In putting Pilgrim in his team's car, Dale Earnhardt Jr. is following through on a promise his dad, Dale Earnhardt, made to the road-course ace some years ago.

According to a team release, Earnhardt Jr. and his dad teamed up with Kelly Collins and Pilgrim to


race a Chevrolet Corvette in the 2001 Rolex 24 at Daytona. Pilgrim tutored both Earnhardts on how to maneuver the lighter car, and the team finished fourth. At that time, Earnhardt promised to one day give Pilgrim a chance to drive one of his cars in NASCAR Competition, but he died in a crash in the Daytona 500 later that year.

"My dad told Andy that he'd give him a shot at driving one of his cars after racing in the Corvette at Daytona," Earnhardt Jr. said. "He wasn't able to make good on that promise, so I'm doing it for him."

Pilgrim was approved for NASCAR competition after completing a successful test session with JR Motorsports at Virginia International Raceway on Wednesday.

"We talked about doing it with Dale yearsApril-June 2007, while Toyota said Friday that it sold 2.37 million.

For the first quarter, Japan's leading automaker said it sold more cars and trucks than America's top automaker for the first time ever - 2.35 million to GM's 2.27 million.

European GP: Hamilton tops practice 1McLaren's Lewis Hamilton has nipped Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen to top opening practice for Sunday's European GP at Nurburgring. Defending world champion Fernando Alonso continues to get outpaced by his rookie McLaren teammate and finished third quick on Friday morning. He was followed by the two BMWs of Heidfeld and Kubica.

Toyota team launches German websitePanasonic Toyota Racing today launched a German-language version of its public website, www.toyota-f1.com/de Fans can now keep up with all the latest news from our team in German, as well as


built in 1957 on US Army land.

The track at Fort Ord was established after the Pebble Beach Road Races had to be abandoned because of safety concerns, with locals - both individuals and businesses - raising the money to complete the project.

Seventeen years later the track - which was originally 1.9 miles in length and formed part of the grounds of the local county park - was handed over to the Monterey County Parks Department, which retains control over the circuit today.

In its time it has hosted various forms of motor racing including Champ Cars and the American Le Mans Series, while MotoGP racing began there two years ago, with local Nicky Hayden having won both races there.

In order to meet FIA and FIM standards, the track hasbeen lengthened to 3.602km (2.238 miles), an in-field run-off area has been added (1988), and pedestrian bridges and the original media centre have been moved.

The gravel pits area has also been enlarged to increase run-off, which was also increased at turn one with the demolition of the press area, while the main straight was widened and last year the hump that was located at the top of Rahal Straight was flattened.

FFSA looking for new venues for French GPFollowing its meeting in Paris on July 19 under the presidency of Nicolas Deschaux, the FFSA Executive Committee wishes to underline the importance it attaches to the French Grand Prix which it saved in 2003 after the event was dropped by the Société du Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours.

The FFSA Executive Committee


would like to reaffirm its determination to organize the French Grand Prix until its contract with the FIA Formula 1 World Championship rights- holding company expires in 2011. With regard to the 2008 race, its entry will be confirmed on condition that contractual agreements are obtained with the Conseil Général de la Nièvre and the Conseil Régional de Bourgogne in compliance with these bodies' pledge to increase their support to the Federation in order to permit the event to balance its books.

Meanwhile, the FFSA Executive Committee has decided to implement a search for sites with a view to durably ensuring the future of the French Grand Prix. This approach, which has become necessary in today's context of growing international competition and the rapid evolution in organizational and accommodationwith analyst Brad Daugherty. Tim Brewer will report from the ESPN DISH Tech Center.

Of the 17 races, the first six will be televised on ESPN, with the final 11 televised by ESPN on ABC. All races in the Chase for the NASCAR NEXTEL Cup will be on ABC, marking the first time since NASCAR instituted the Chase format that all 10 races will be on the same network. Practice and qualifying from 13 of the races will be televised on ESPN2.

ESPN, which has televised more NASCAR Cup races than any other network, is covering NASCAR Cup racing for the first time since 2000. In addition, ESPN2 is the home of the NASCAR Busch Series all season. All race telecasts include a dedicated NASCAR Countdown pre-race show and all


upcoming FIA hearing might change his attitude when the circus reconvenes for the Hungarian grand prix next month, the Ferrari driver continued: "I don't know because I don't know what is going to happen.

"We have to wait and see and then maybe I can say something."

Alonso, Raikkonen, back on attack for title (GMM) Fernando Alonso says he has overcome his early season difficulties and is now much more comfortable at the wheel of his silver McLaren.

The reigning world champion lags Lewis Hamilton by 12 points in the 2007 standings, but at recent grands prix he has come to terms with the pace of his rookie teammate.

"I feel much better in the car now compared to the first few races," Alonso, 25, told Spanish speaking reporters in the Nurburgring(at the start of the pit straightaway) for only $57.

Ethanol plant in the works for MichiganA Massachusetts company announced today that it will build a cellulosic ethanol plant in Michigan -- potentially putting the state on the forefront of technology that could reduce the nation's dependence on foreign oil.

A plant that produces cellulosic ethanol is promising because the fuel would be derived from non-food sources. The majority of existing ethanol plants, including four in Michigan, produce ethanol from corn -- which has been blamed for increasing the cost of feedstock, food and dairy products.

Mascoma Corp. intends to build a plant to produce ethanol from wood, company CEO Bruce Jamerson said in an announcement with Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm.

Mascoma will work with Michigan State University and Michigan Technological University


here but it shouldn't be too bad either.

Lauletta Joins Chip Ganassi Racing as PresidentChip Ganassi Racing Teams, Inc. announced that Steve "Jake" Lauletta has been named president of the organization. Lauletta will oversee all aspects of the Chip Ganassi Racing’s business and marketing operations including both its Concord and Indianapolis facilities. Lauletta was formerly the president of Radiate Sports, the sports marketing division of Omnicom’s The Radiate Group. Prior to Radiate, Lauletta enjoyed a successful 11-year career at Miller Brewing Company. He served in a variety of marketing leadership positions with Miller, most recently as director of sports and event marketing. Chip Ganassi Racing PR

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According to the source available here, 98 packages (4,470 kilograms) of rice were brought from Dimapur on the request of Phungong Kariudai Women's Society at the cheapest rate.

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founded monasteries at Towyn in Merionethshire and Llangadfan in Montgomeryshire,
and later a monastic center on the island of Bardsey (Ynys Enlli), where he was
first abbot. Bardsey developed into a great center of monasticism. It is said
that as he went from Towyn to Llangadfan he passed through Pistyll Gadfan,
Eisteddfa Gadfa, and Llwbyr Gadfan.

His holy well could
be found in the churchyard at Towyn, near his chapel (since destroyed), where
many were cured of rheumatism, scrofula, and skin diseases. It continued to
attract pilgrims long after the Reformation. Baths and changing-rooms were
added until it went into disuse


about 1894.

In the church at
Towyn, there is a stone pillar, called the Cadfan stone, with an ancient
inscription that marks the place of his burial:

"Beneath a
similar mound lies Cadfan, sad it should enclose the praise of the earth. May
he rest without blemish."

A Cadfan also has
an active cultus in Finistère and Côtes du Nord, Brittany. While it is
generally held that this is the same Cadfan (the reason for thinking that he
was a Breton), there are still problems in making the connection between the
two. The question may never be settled. The Breton Cadfan is the patron of a
church at Poullan, near Douarnenez. There is an extant statue of him in
military garb at Briec (Benedictines, Delaney, Farmer).Man City Sack Mancini!

14 May 2013 10:39

The 48-year-old's future had been the subject of intense scrutiny over the last few days.

Mancini learned on Monday night he had been relieved of his duties after failing to achieve the club's "stated targets" for the season.

The news comes exactly a year to the day after City won the Premier League in dramatic circumstances on the final day of last season.

But it is Mancini's failure to build on that achievement that has seen his three-and-a-half year tenure brought to an end.

A club statement read: "It is with regret that Manchester City Football Club announces that Roberto Mancini has been relieved of his duties as Manchester City manager.

"This has been a difficult decision for the owner, chairman and board to make and it


is the outcome of a planned end-of-season review process that has been brought forward in light of recent speculation and out of respect for Roberto and his extensive contributions to the football club.

"Despite everyone's best efforts, the club has failed to achieve any of its stated targets this year, with the exception of qualification for next season's UEFA Champions League.

"This, combined with an identified need to develop a holistic approach to all aspects of football at the club, has meant that the decision has been taken to find a new manager for the 2013-14 season and beyond.''

City's statement added that assistant manager Brian Kidd would be placed in interim charge for the remaining two matches of the season and the forthcoming tour of the United States.International Day Of The Girl

In , as the result of youth advocacy around the world, the United Nations declared October as the International Day of the Girl Child. Its mission is “to help galvanize worldwide enthusiasm for goals to better girls lives, providing an opportunity for them to show leadership and reach their full potential.” It s a day when .A young girl sits in the shade, while her sister sleeps behind her, at an IDP camp in Baidoa for victims of a drought currently affecting Somalia. UN Photo Tobin Jones. October has been marked as the International Day of the Girl. The day aims to highlight and address the needs and challenges girls face, .Since , the United Nations marks October as the International Day of the


There is also a risk that Sharif may use this event to further his own political agenda and bring back focus on the Kashmir issue. Whenever Pakistani leaders visit India they make it a point to meet with Hurriyat leaders. The UPA government allowed visiting Pakistani leaders to have closed-door confabulations with the Hurriyat separatists.

The die has been cast. The diplomatic gauntlet Prime Minister-designate Narendra Modi had thrown to Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif by inviting him — and leaders of seven SAARC countries and Mauritius — for his swearing-in ceremony on 26 May has been bravely picked up by Sharif.

Now brace for a never-before inauguration of Indian Prime Minister in the history of independent India. Modi’s swearing-in ceremony has become an international news story with heavy foreignhe asked.

Dan nodded. "According to my roomie, anyway, and he doesn't strike me as the exaggerating type. He said there was a lock but it was broken."

"Talk about lax," Abby said.

"And weird," Jordan added, rubbing at his elbows as if suddenly cold. "I'm not sure, Abby, this sounds more up your alley. I'm not into all that macabre crap."

"You're not sitting this one out," she told him firmly. "Right, Dan?" Abby's eyes sparkled.

"Of . . . of course not! You've got to come along." For a minute there, he'd hoped he and Abby would end up checking out the office alone.

"I don't know . . ." Jordan kicked at an invisible speck on the ground. "Just seems risky."

He did have a point. No matter what Dan said about


the hallway empty except for Jordan. Abby whispered, "Oh, crap."

"What?" Dan looked back and forth between them.

"I usually meet Jordan after dinner to study. It totally slipped my mind." Abby squeezed her coffee cup so tightly the Styrofoam creaked. "He's going to be pissed."

Dan knew the two of them hung out plenty but he had no idea the study sessions were some kind of hard-and-fast ritual. They slowed down as they approached Jordan looming outside Abby's door.

"Oh, hello. Do you live here?" he asked.

"Jordan, I'm so sorry." Spreading her arms wide, Abby went in for a hug that Jordan nimbly sidestepped.

"No, no, I'm fine. Really. Just break plans without letting me know, it's cool." He had a disposable cup like Abby's in his right hand. As he sippedtrying to pull? My wife is ill and you come in here like that, you damned college kids, always so smart, so clever, eh? Not so clever today—get out! Get. Out!"

Dan hardly bothered to turn, backing out as fast as he could without getting tangled up in the shoe rack and the door. The woman's shrieking followed him onto the stoop. Then Sal was at the door, still shouting, "Get the hell out!" as if Dan wasn't trying to do exactly that.

He ran. He ran until he reached the hill and the path winding back up to the college. What had just happened? What had he said? How could Dennis Heimline be such a sore subject when Sal himself had written about the guy?

When Dan reached his room,


Attached are photographs of Corporal Percy Watson, who originally enlisted with the 7th Battlion, Mancheser Regiment and then was merged into the East Lancashire Regiment towards the end of the war. The 7th Manchester Regiment was a Terattorial Regiment and as Percy was a butcher by trade, it is believed that he was the Butcher to the regiment.
Percy was born on the 27th August 1888 in Burnley to Alfred Watson and Ellen Walters. He...role as a hub for innovation and digital entrepreneurship.

He said Amazon would open a Web Services Cloud Region in India this year and the country would soon become home to the firm’s largest software engineering and development center outside of the United States, located in Hyderabad.

Bezos said Amazon had so far built 21 fulfillment centers with more than 5 mln cubic feet of storage space. He said its link-up with India Post enabled it to reach all serviceable postal codes in the country.

He said the Hyderabad center would create jobs and career development opportunities for thousands of people and a “significant” number of jobs would be created over time because of the deployment of Amazon Cloud Services.

Bezos, the world’s fourth-richest man, made the comments the same day Warren


last two sections explore the advantages and implications of understanding human dignity as (high) moral status, resting on rights and duties, and not as a special kind of value. On the one hand, its moral significance as a moral status remains unsettled and open to debate between opposing interpretations, as the resurgence of the traditional paradigm reveals. On the other, taking dignity as a moral status raises the question about how it relates to human rights and whether it can be seen as their ground. I 1. HUMAN RIGHTS Certainly the moral, political and legal significance of the idea of dignity in our time is inseparable from its association with human rights. After the Second World War, the phrase "human dignity" appears on the main international human rightsdocuments. For example, in the Preamble to the Charter of the United Nations (1945), where in the name of the peoples of the United Nations it is proclaimed "faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small".4 It has definitely been the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR, 1948) that has done most to popularize the use of dignity in human rights discourse. At the UDHR the phrase appears five times: twice in the Preamble ("Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world") and in three


medical treatment and what was called "death with dignity". But it is interesting to recall that, for example, it does not appear in the Belmont Report (1979), which sets out the major ethical principles for the discussion in bioethics.13 In the last years, however, the concept has been also used in debates on biomedical innovations, especially those concerning human genetics, modes of assisted reproduction and enhancement techniques. By the way, the US President's Council on Bioethics, an advisory panel of experts created by George W. Bush in 2001, played a decisive role in placing the issue of dignity at the center of those debates.14 In fact, the Council's first report, issued in 2002, was titled Human Cloning and Human Dignity. Right away, the concept of dignity as appliedsecond has to do with the rigid and stubborn way in which the rhetorical force of the phrase is usually used: "Menschenwürde is typically invoked, both by ethicists and lawyers, as a kind of ultimate article of faith rather than as a principle open to rational debate. It typically functions as a 'conversational stopper' settling an issue and tolerating no further discussion".19 Again, the discussion is limited to bioethics. But it is worth noting that there is a near-perfect fit between both objections and the two features identified by Shultziner regarding the use of human dignity in the international legal instruments on human rights. Human dignity is regarded as an empty label, and yet supposedly apt to block rational debate. Understandably, critics as Birnbacher or Macklin present these


point to understand the traditional usage, because dignity is manifested in public behaviour. In that sense, noble bearing, self-control and manners are the outer aspects of dignity. This old hierarchical conception has had a long life after the demise of the Roman world and the traces are still present in our dictionaries. To give one example, the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen (1789) maintains the use of "dignities" as public offices, even if the text is claiming for the equality of all citizens in the access to them: "All citizens, being equal in its eyes, are equally eligible to all public dignities, places, and employments, according to their capacities, and without other distinction than that of their virtues and talents" (article 6).23 This usageWaldron puts it.38 He thinks that this hypothesis offers a very promising approach for thinking about the rights we enjoy in democratic societies. Waldron's proposal can be supported for instance by the work of the jurist James Q. Whitman. Whitman has studied the differences in the legal cultures of continental Europe and the United States, emphasizing the role that dignity plays in the European legal systems, notably in France and Germany. His research offers a broader sociological perspective, taking into account both laws and social practices, to examine what he calls "everyday social forms of dignity". Moreover, according to Whitman, the contemporary social forms of dignity should be understood in historical perspective, as the result of a history that goes back to the ancien régime in Europe. His


nobility now universalized. In a nutshell, he draws our attention to the core meaning of dignity as elevated status. Engaging as it is, his account leaves some interesting questions open. Actually, Waldron goes no further discussing the notion of status, surely because he takes it to be clear enough in a legal sense; and for him status is a legal concept. Accordingly, the notion of dignity is at home in the law, as he says, being imported from its natural habitat to moral discourse. And, oddly enough, in his Tanner Lectures Waldron regards dignity as a philosophical artefact playing a constructive role in moral thinking, but "not a term that crops up much in ordinary moral conversation".40 But is dignity a term of art? Indeed, this is acritical enhancement of the HDP's (human dignity principle) obligations-grounding function, to the detriment of its rights founding one".47 She sees this trend as a major shift that departs from the use of human dignity in human rights discourse after Second World War, representing a return to the old Roman sense of dignitas. Or, as she says, the legal morphing of human dignity in "human dignitas", because the finde-siècle usage shares with the ancient dignitas two features: first, a similar function of grounding obligations, and remarkably duties towards oneself; second, the same régime of inalienability. Well understood, the crucial point in her account is the statutory conception of dignity, that is, presenting humanity as a status and every human being as depositary of it. From a historical point of


notion, hardly up to the heavyweight demands assigned to it". Once we have the principle of autonomy in bioethics, he says, the loose talk about dignity adds nothing (p. 1). But he wonders why this talk has become fashionable. According to Pinker, there are political reasons behind: dignity is a conservative device used to reject medical innovations that would improve the lives and health of people. More precisely, it is a rhetorical weapon used by the spokesmen of religious approaches in bioethics, especially those related to the Catholic Church. 18 Birnbacher, Dieter, «Ambiguities in the Concept of Menschenwürde», in Kurt Bayertz, ed., Sanctity of Life and Human Dignity, Dordrecht, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996, pp. 107121, p. 107. 19 Ibid. 20 Iglesias, Teresa, «Bedrock Truths and the Dignity ofIs there any way to coax the engine into forcing a ship to take a certain docking port? I had the idea for a shipyard with large docking bays for handling big ships (antares, Aquila, Scarab, Mikeno, etc), and smaller bays built into the outside of those area for the smaller ships, like wolfens and Hammerheads. But it'll look pretty silly if the hammerhead takes the vast docking bay with a whole bunch of loading and serviving gantries, and the Scarab or Mikeno takes a tiny little airlock by the defense turret on the outside of the bay.

I'll make a crude little diagram here, hopefully the spacing won't get removed when it posts....

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Docking bays indicated by: x Bays on arms are on the OUTSIDE of the arm, bays


their parents’ languages fluently. It is economically and culturally more beneficial to speak English.

Migration also plays a large role in language change and language death. When speakers of Proto-Indo-European migrated to most of Europe and large parts of Asia between 6,000 and 8,000 years ago, they probably brought about massive language change and language death. In Western Europe, Basque could possibly be the only modern language that survived the influx of the Indo-Europeans.

In the coming centuries, we may experience an increase in climate-related migration. It is already clear that climate change influences modern migration patterns. Climate-related disasters displaced an estimated 20m people in 2008.

Vanuatu and diversity

The areas affected by climate-related disasters are often ones that exhibit great linguistic diversity and include languages with small numbers of speakers, which97.3%. Vanuatu has 110 indigenous languages spoken in an area of about 15,000 square kilometres (about 6,000 square miles) – that’s about one language for every 136 square kilometres. Half of the languages spoken on Vanuatu have 700 speakers or less.

Losing languages to natural disasters

Some of the countries affected by the earthquake and tsunami that killed about 230,000 people in 2004 are also very linguistically diverse. India has 447 indigenous languages and a Greenberg diversity index of 91.4% and Indonesia has 706 indigenous languages and a Greenberg diversity index of 81.6%.

Researchers had just discovered the Dusner language, which had only a handful of remaining speakers, when flooding in 2010 devastated the Papua region of Indonesia, where the Dusner village is located. Luckily, some of the speakers had survived,


In a consumer-friendly approach aimed at boosting transparency in business operations of the state-owned CIL, the government today launched a web portal for distribution of coal by state-nominated agencies.

Speaking on the occasion, Coal and Power Minister Piyush Goyal said the portal symbolises the level of transparency that the government has promised to people and represents co-operative federalism of all the stakeholders.

Speaking high of the portal, the minister urged Coal India Ltd (CIL) to create its own mobile application. He also suggested tying up with the Railways for coal rake booking of smaller quantities through the portal. Goyal also took feedback from the stakeholders present at the event.

Coal Secretary Anil Swarup hoped that the web portal will revolutionise the way coal business is done in the country.

Motivating states forLeviticus 20

Leviticus 20King James Version (KJV)

20 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

2 Again, thou shalt say to the children of Israel, Whosoever he be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that giveth any of his seed unto Molech; he shall surely be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him with stones.

3 And I will set my face against that man, and will cut him off from among his people; because he hath given of his seed unto Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name.

4 And if the people of the land do any ways hide their eyes from the man, when he giveth of his seed unto Molech, and kill him not:

5


blood shall be upon him.

10 And the man that committeth adultery with another man's wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.

11 And the man that lieth with his father's wife hath uncovered his father's nakedness: both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

12 And if a man lie with his daughter in law, both of them shall surely be put to death: they have wrought confusion; their blood shall be upon them.

13 If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

14 And ifa man take a wife and her mother, it is wickedness: they shall be burnt with fire, both he and they; that there be no wickedness among you.

15 And if a man lie with a beast, he shall surely be put to death: and ye shall slay the beast.

16 And if a woman approach unto any beast, and lie down thereto, thou shalt kill the woman, and the beast: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

17 And if a man shall take his sister, his father's daughter, or his mother's daughter, and see her nakedness, and she see his nakedness; it is a wicked thing; and they shall be cut off in the sight of their people: he hath uncovered his sister's


nakedness; he shall bear his iniquity.

18 And if a man shall lie with a woman having her sickness, and shall uncover her nakedness; he hath discovered her fountain, and she hath uncovered the fountain of her blood: and both of them shall be cut off from among their people.

19 And thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother's sister, nor of thy father's sister: for he uncovereth his near kin: they shall bear their iniquity.

20 And if a man shall lie with his uncle's wife, he hath uncovered his uncle's nakedness: they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless.

21 And if a man shall take his brother's wife, it is an unclean thing: he hath uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall be childless.

22 Ye shall thereforemeans that the threshold voltage to drive the thin film transistor in each pixel must be compensated, so that the current flowing through the organic light emitting diode becomes independent of the threshold voltage.
As shown in FIG. 1, a 7T2C AMOLED pixel driving circuit includes seven thin film transistors and two capacitors, and are respectively a first thin film transistor T10, a second thin film transistor T20, a third thin film transistor T30, a fourth thin film transistor T40, a fifth thin film transistor T50, a sixth thin film transistor T60, a seventh thin film transistor T70, a first capacitor C10, and a second capacitor C20. The pixel driving circuit needs to be controlled by four scan control signals, respectively are a first scan control signal S10, a


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Carolina Coastal Processes Modeling Project

Sponsor: United States Geological Survey

Funding period

June 2007 – June 2012

Description

The Ocean Observing and Modeling Group (OOMG) has been studying coastal circulation dynamics using both numerical models and in-situ observations. Realistic coastal circulation hindcast experiments have been performed for various coastal segments (Gulf of Maine, Middle-Atlantic Bight, South Atlantic Bight, Gulf of Mexico) along the U.S. east coast to develop an understanding of synoptic, seasonal, and inter-annual variability of regional circulation. The group has been utilizing the state-of-the-art Regional Ocean Modeling System (ROMS), which is nested inside the state-of-the-art, data-assimilative, North Atlantic basin-scale model, HYCOM for realistic specifications of offshore boundary conditions. All regional ROMS applications developed by OOMG have also considered realistic local forcing including, surface wind, heat fluxes, and coastal runoff. This proposal2017The 2017 Bronze Age Forum is being held at University College Corkfor registration and further details visit the BAF2017 page

Lunchtime Seminars 2017–18

Our Lunchtime Seminars are held each Tuesday during Term at 1pm in Room J5 (First Floor, Connolly Building).

28 OctoberViking and Early Medieval Research GroupDr Tomas Ó Carragáin: ‘Towards an archaeology of early ecclesiastical estates: a case study of Fir Maige, Co. Cork’Michelle Higgins (MPhil): ‘Place-names and early ecclesiastical settlement in Cork’

13 January Biological Anthropology Research GroupDr Jonny Geber (IRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow): ‘Child experiences of the Great Irish Famine (1845-52): Bioarchaeological insights on the impact of institutionalization at Kilkenny Union Workhouse’Niamh Daly (PhD): '"Til death do us part": A bioarchaeological investigation of female kinship ties in Early Medieval Ireland’

22 October: Viking and Early Medieval Research GroupDr Jane


Kershaw (University College London): ‘Weighted silver as a means of exchange in Scandinavian England’. Followed by a talk that evening on ‘England’s Viking Age: recent contributions from metal detecting’

19 November: Viking and Early Medieval Research GroupDr Rebecca Boyd ‘Houses and homes: a fresh look at the Vikings in Ireland’

26 November: Prehistoric Transitions Research GroupProfessor Gary Lock (University of Oxford): Living with the White Horse: the Hillforts of the Ridgeway Project’. Followed the next day by the Annual School Lecture: ’Humanising Archaeological GIS’ (6.30pm Geography lecture theatre, Wednesday 27th November).

5th February: Prehistoric Transitions Research GroupDr Marc Van der Linden (University College London): How to become a farmer? New research on the neolithicisation of the western Balkans’Preceded on Monday evening, 4th February, at 7pm by a lecture titled:‘Is it worthit? On the scientific impact of development-led archaeology in north-west Europe.’

12th February: Prehistoric Transitions Research GroupAnn Clarke (Edinburgh)‘Stone tools at transition periods: some examples from the Late Mesolithic/ Early Neolithic; Late Neolithic/ Early Bronze Age; and Late Bronze Age/ Early Iron Age of Northern Britain’

19th February: Viking and Early Medieval Research GroupDudley Martin: ‘Viking Age stick pins: a study’Daniel O’Mahony: ‘A comparative study of the Christianization of the Hiberno-Scandinavian population in Ireland during the Viking Age’.

19th March: Historic Buildings Research GroupPaul Rondelez: ‘Ironworking technology in later Medieval IrelandDerek O’Brien: ‘Trade in Medieval Cork from the tenth to the sixteenth centuries’

26th March: Biological Anthropology Research GroupsNiamh Daly: ‘Food for thought: an isotopic assessment of food practices in early medieval Ireland’Katherine Beatty: ‘Skin and bones: the face in the archaeological


imagination’

29th November: Viking and Early Medieval Research GroupDr David Griffiths (University of Oxford): ‘Landscape, burial and identity around the Viking-Age Irish Sea’Preceded on the Monday evening 28 November) by a public lecture on ‘Settlement under the sand: excavation and survey in Birsay and Skaill, Orkney’

10th January: Viking and Early Medieval Research GroupDr Francis Ludlow (Harvard University) ‘Documenting a Millennium of Extreme Weather in Ireland: The Case of the Medieval Irish Annals’.

17th January: Viking and Early Medieval Research GroupCliodhna O’Leary: ‘The early medieval minor cross sculpture of Iniscealtra’Michelle Higgins: ‘Place-names and early ecclesiastical settlement in Cork’

7th February: Viking and Early Medieval Research GroupDudley Martin: ‘Viking Age stick pins: a study’Daniel O’Mahony: ‘A comparative study of the Christianization of the Hiberno-Scandinavian population in Ireland during the Viking Age’.

11th January, 2011:‘The early medieval minor cross sculpture of Iniscealtra’

Tullahedy: a Neolithic enclosure in north Munster. (Tullahedy) Conference, Cork, February 2012.

Tullahedy excavations. NRA Seminar in Nenagh, Co. Tipperary, 2011.

Ben Gearey

Head of the river, source of the sea - Iron Age timber alignments in the Waveney valley, east England; and A place at the table? The ecosystem services framework and peatland archaeology: EAA Helsinki 2012

What do I talk about when I talk about time? TAG 2012, Liverpool

Ways of thinking about 'events' and 'processes' in the palaeoenvironmental record: EAA Pilsen 2013

Irish peatlands: from palaeohydrology to palaeoclimatology, or to complexity and confusion? IQUA, March 2014, Cork

From opprobrium to opportunity: Irish peatland archaeology in the 21st Century: ‘In the Bog’ Conference, Sheffield Hallam University, September 2014

Metal supply and social relations in Chalcolithic Ireland. Prehistoric


Society conference on British Chalcolithic, Bournemouth. April 2008.

Hillforts and Bronze Age warfare in southern Ireland. Bronze Age Forum, University of Sheffield. November 2008.

Knockatreenane and the prehistoric barrows of Co. Cork. Institute of Archaeologists of Ireland annual conference. November 2009.

Copper axes, stone axes. Mining, production and exchange networks in the Chalcolithic of Atlantic Europe. HIMAT mining history conference, University of Innsbruck, Austria. November 2009.

The introduction of tin bronze to Ireland. CISC conference, Madrid. November 2009.

Celts, Romans and the Indigenous Late Bronze Age/Iron Age of South-west Ireland. Conference ‘Rethinking the Bronze Age and the Arrival of Indo-European in Atlantic Europe’. University of Oxford. July 2010.

Beakers and early copper mining in Atlantic Europe, 2500–2000 BC. Conference on Settlement and Mining Exploration in atlantic Europe, University of Braga, Portugal. December 2010.

The hiddenIron Age of Southern Ireland. Conference on the Iron Age, Dept. of Continuing Education,. University of Oxford. December 2011.

Atlantic metals and interactions in the Chalcolithic and earliest Bronze Age. Europa Conference. The Prehistoric Society, University of Durham. May 2011.

Hillforts, warfare and soceity in Bronze Age Ireland. Europa Conference. The Prehistoric Society, University of Durham. June 2012.

Tomas O Carragain

‘Críchad an Chaoilli and the Early Churches of Fir Máige’ Fir Maige – Fermoy From Gaelic kingdom to Anglo - Norman lordship, Conference 02 May 2014

‘The view from the shore: perceiving island monasteries in early medieval Ireland.’ Lecture sponsored by the University of Zagreb International Research Centre for Late Antiquity and Middle Ages (IRCLAMA), Osor, Croatia. Island Monasticism in Early Medieval Europe Conference, 26 May 2012.

‘Recalling Jerusalem, Recalling Rome: the sacred


topographies of major ecclesiastical sites in early medieval Ireland’ Keynote Lecture of the Space and Settlement in the Middle Ages conference, Trinity College Dublin, 27 May 2011.

‘Architecture, Ritual and Reform around the time of Ráith Bressail’ Re-envisioning Raith Bressail, 1111-2011’ UCD Mícheál Ó Cléirigh Institute and School of Music Symposium, 15 February 2011

‘Civitates and Pastoral Centres in Ireland, 950-1150’ University of Oxford, Buildings for Worship in Britain and Ireland, c.950-1150 Conference, 08 January 2011.

‘New insights on settlement patterns from the Making Christian Landscapes project’, Early Medieval Settlements in North West Europe, AD 4001100, International Conference, University College Dublin, 26‐28, November 2010

‘Insular Monasticism and Royal Patronage in the Glen of Aherlow: Survey and Excavations at Toureen Peakaun’ The Early Church in Ireland in the Light of Recent Excavations, RoyalSociety of Antiquaries, 12th November 2010.

‘Making Christian Landscapes in Ireland’ University of Wales, Bangor: Early Medieval Wales in Context, Early Medieval Wales Archaeology Research Group, 25th Anniversary Colloquium, The Archaeology of Early Medieval Wales in Context, 25 April, 2009

‘Patterns of Patronage: Pre-Romanesque Churches in the Dioceses of Limerick, Killaloe and Kilfenora’ British Archaeological Association Conference, University of Limerick, 28 June 2008

Dr Barra O Donnabhain

The Development of the Contextual Analysis of Human Remains in Ireland, Society for American Archaeology, Vancouver, March 2008

Contributor to Fryxell Award Forum, Society for American Archaeology, Sacramento, March 2011

About Face: a ‘careless’ burial from Knowth, Ireland, Society for American Archaeology, Memphis, March 2012

Americans Abroad: Providing Meaningful Archaeological and Cultural Experiences in an English-Speaking Destination, Society for American Archaeology, Honolulu, April 2013.

Colin Rynne

The British naval base


and victualling yard on Haulbowline Island, Cork Harbour, Ireland, c. 1816-1900. A new archaeological perspective on Ireland’s ‘coloniality’. Crossing paths or sharing paths? Future directions in the study of post -1550 Britain and Ireland. University of Leicester, 5 April 2008.

Water-power and the milling of cereals in Ireland, from the earliest times to industrialisation’, Agricultural History Society annual conference, Wexford, 19 June 2009.

Agriculture and incipient industrialisation in the Cork harbour area, c. 1700-1830', Group for the Study of Irish Historical Settlement All Hallows, Dublin, 31 October 2009.

Richard Boyle as a colonial entrepreneur and the development of plantation-period industrial landscapes in south Munster, c. 1600-1640', Ten year's on, Irish Post-Medieval Archaeology Group Conference, 22 February 2010 Belfast.

The development of industrial archaeology in Ireland, future prospects, ICOMOS, Industrial Heritage and Society,13 June 2010.

The industrial archaeology of Cork city, c, 1750-1930, Panel for Historic Engineering Works Conference, University College Cork, 25 August 2010.

The archaeology of water power in early medieval Ireland and Britain, Water-power in the classical and medieval worlds, Institute of Archaeology, Oxford 26 February 2011

The industrial archaeology of the south Munster region, Association for Industrial Archaeology Conference, University College Cork, 26 August 2011.

Identity and allegiance in the British naval communities of Cork harbour, c. 1760-1938', Irish Post-Medieval Archaeology Group Conference, Wexford, 3 February 2012.

Some perspectives on likely Romano-British influences on early medieval agriculture in Ireland', Space and Settlement Conference, TCD, 1 June 2012.

Malt and brewing in early medieval Ireland, Agricultural History Society annual conference, Kilkenny, 15 June 2012.

The Irish comparator. Iron Age Britain and Celtic Diasporas. Population


continuity, and movements into, out of and around Great Britain, c.800 BC-AD400: an academic workshop, University of Leicester, 15-16 November 2014

The built heritage of Lough Gur. School of Architecture, University of Limerick seminar and field trip for 4th Year students. October 2013.

Ben Gearey

From Site to Landscape: correlating archaeological and palaeoenvironmental records and Workshop: an introduction to landscape and archaeological palynology: QUB, Belfast, Cultivating Societies Conference and Workshop,2009

Down By the River: excavations of prehistoric timber alignments in the Waveney Valley, east England: University of Cambridge, Prehistoric Society, October 2011

Aspects of Peatland Archaeology in Britain and Ireland: University of Central Lancashire, Preston, December 2014

William O’Brien

‘The archaeology of prehistoric Ireland’ A series of lectures sponsored by the Department of Historical Studies (Kristiansen, Kristian), Gothenburg, Sweden, 06-09 April, 2011

Hillfort chronology in Ireland.Talk to Hillfort Atlas Project, Department of Archaeology, University of Edinburgh. June 2013.

Why Roscommon matters: exploring the origins of hilllforts in Ireland. Archaeological Society, National University of Ireland, Galway. March 2014.

Dr Tomas O Carragain

‘Rethinking the Archaeology of the Early Irish Church’ Rethinking the Early Irish Church, Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies, Dublin, 05 October, 2013

‘Early Irish monasteries as potential models for Annegray’ Lecture sponsored by National University of Ireland, Galway and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) at Luxeuil, Franche-Comté, 08 August 2013

‘Recalling Jerusalem, Recalling Rome: the sacred topographies of major ecclesiastical sites in early medieval Ireland’ The Cambridge Group for Irish Studies, University of Cambridge, 14 May 2013

‘Recalling Jerusalem, Recalling Rome: the sacred topographies of major ecclesiastical sites in early medieval Ireland’ Department of Anthropology and


the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies sponsored lecture, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA, 29 November 2011

‘The archaeology of medieval Ireland’ A series of lectures sponsored by the Department of Historical Studies (Kristiansen, Kristian), Gothenburg, Sweden, 06-09 April, 2011

‘Viking hoards and hoarding: some issues’, Department of Archaeology, University College Dublin, 12th April 2012

Lectures to Professional Bodies and Local/National Societies

Katharina Becker

New perspectives on the Irish Iron Age: the impact of NRA development on our understanding of later prehistory. With Ian Armit, Graeme Swindles. Stories of Ireland’s past. NRA Archaeology Research seminar. 28.8.2014

Down By the River in Beccles BC: Beccles Museum and Waveney Valley Archaeology Group, Suffolk, April 2014

The Archaeology of Hidden Landscapes: Recent work and thought on Hatfield Moors and other Peatlands: Talk to the Isle of Axholme andHatfield Chase Landscape Partnership, Thorne, east England, October 2014

William O’Brien

Clashanimud hill fort and the prehistory of Cork. Innishannon Historical Society. March 2008.

Clashanimud hill fort and the prehistory of Cork. Cumann Senchas Bandon. March 2008.

‘Patterns of Patronage: Early Medieval Churches and Round Towers in the Limerick Region’ Limerick’s Built Heritage Lecture Series 2011, Limerick County Council, Adare, Co. Limerick, 01 February 2011

‘No Monastery is an Island: The Place of Skellig Michael in the Landscape of Early Medieval Iveragh’ Éigse na Brídeoige Conference, Community Centre, The Glen, Iveragh Peninsula, Co. Kerry, 02 February, 2009

‘Rebuilding the City of Angels: Muirchertach Ua Briain and Glendalough, c.1096-1111’ Cork Historical and Archaeological Society Lecture, April 2009

Landscapes across Europe were transformed, both physically and conceptually, as a result of the conversion to Christianity and the


development of ecclesiastical structures during the early medieval period. This interdisciplinary conference will seek to illuminate this process through case studies of particular landscapes. Speakers will consider a range of settlement and ritual/burial sites as well as territorial divisions and routeways in order to explore where and how people chose, or were obliged, to live, worship and be buried and how this changed over time. Some papers will focus on the initial process of conversion while others will also consider changes in the nature of people's relationships with ecclesiastical sites and structures over the course of the period.

The conference forms part of the Making Christian Landscapes Project (funded by the Heritage Council through the INSTAR programme) and is the 2012 annual conference of the Society for Church Archaeology.It is organised by the Archaeology Department, University College Cork, the School of Historical Studies, University of Newcastle, and the Society for Church Archaeology.

Thomas Pickles, University of YorkStraenaeshalh (Whitby), its satellite churches and estates

Sam Turner and Chris Fowler, Newcastle UniversityParcels and possession, petrification and permanence: the conversion of social relations through the technologies of Christianity in 7th-century England

Elisabeth Lorans, University of RouenFunerary patterns in towns in France and England between the 4th and the 10th century: a comparative approach

John Henry Clay, University of DurhamFrom conversion to consolidation in eighth-century Hessia

Sæbjørg Walaker Nordeide, University of BergenIntroducing Christianity to a challenging environment: the example of Norway

Steinunn Kristjánsdóttir, University of ReykjavíkThe Early Christian landscapes of Iceland

Questions / Final Discussion

Landscapes of Assembly: The Óenach in Early Medieval Ireland

Archaeology Department, University College Cork,


24-25 March 2012

Chief Organizer: Patrick Gleeson, PhD Candidate (Archaeology)

The early Irish óenach was the most prominent of all assembly practices in early medieval Ireland. Although usually translated in modern terms as ‘fair/market’, the original meaning of Óenach primarily signified a political assembly of a kingdom or territory. It was on these occasions, when the inhabitants of a territory came together, normally in a landscape of poltical, historical and sacro-religious import, that the actual business of various scales of community and kingdom was played out. We know, for instance, that an Óenach was an assembly convened by a king, possibly on royal land (mruig ríg),which held legal and judicial functions, such that, it is at major Óenaige that cáin (laws) were promulgated by early irish provincial kings over theirsubjects from the 8th century AD onwards. The Óenach represents an institution that is central to understanding the powers of kings in early medieval Ireland, and moroever, how civil society actually worked. This conference will examine the nature and archaeological manifestation of assembly practices in Ireland, alongside the role of the Óenach in early Irish society.

Saturday 24th March 2012

Session One 11:00-1:00 – The Nature of the Early Irish Óenach

Alexandra Bergholm (Department of World Cultures, University of Helsinki) 'Assemblies and funeral games: re-reading the literary evidence'

Kevin Murray (UCC Dept. of Early and Medieval Irish) 'Óenach in the early documentary sources’

To mark the centenary of the establishment of te Department of Archaeology, the public, academic staff and students of UCC were invited to attend a programme of lectures and events


on various dates in 2009. The evening talk series were delivered by leading international archaeologists on a range of topics connected to the research interests of the Department. A public conference on the origins of Cork city was held in April, which reviewed research on the Viking and medieval walled town. The Centenary Programme also featured a photographic exhibition on archaeological excavations conducted by UCC over the past century.Doha, Qatar - Tunisia's top tennis player Ons Jabeur is having a breakthrough year on the court and is hungry for more success.

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of its franchises who also enjoy games in a similar vein, like Japanese role-playing games, puzzle games, and retro-styled games. From all appearances, so far it's been a full-court press to scoop up this particular flavor of gamer.

This is less obvious a move than you'd think, considering that "Nintendo gamers" were at best a secondary concern for the company at its last two console launches. Wii launched in 2006 with a focus on the "expanded audience," with lots of motion-controlled, easy-to-play party games for the whole family. Wii U in 2012 began with a dramatic attempt to win back the Call of Duty gamer, with a significant focus on Mature-rated, bloody action game franchises. The former tack was a huge success for Nintendo; the latter a big swingand a miss.

The Truth: It's in the Games

Look at the announced list of Switch games, though, and you'll barely find a single title that would fit into either of those buckets. Instead, it's packed with Nintendo fan bait: a single-player Mario game that Nintendo bills as the true successor to the "sandbox" style Mario of Super Mario 64, an open-world Zelda, the RPG Xenoblade Chronicles 2, a sequel to the cutesy J-pop paint shooter Splatoon.

On the third-party front, we've got Japanese publishers bringing back some of the hottest franchises of the 1990s (Sonic the Hedgehog, Street Fighter II, and Bomberman) to Switch, all with throwback-styled graphics. Tons of Japanese role-playing games were announced during the event as well, with Square Enix making a particularly big push onto the


platform with its Dragon Quest series. Nintendo's also gone out and signed a few key indie games that share its sensibilities, like the cel-shaded adventure game Rime and a cartoony RPG called Has-Been Heroes.

It's a weird thing. This is the first Nintendo console launch since the GameCube in 2001 in which the company's top priority is die-hard fans.

Nintendo says Super Mario Odyssey is a more difficult, less casual style of Mario game. Nintendo

Switch's Party Game Is an Outlier

Now, it's generally true that, over the course of the system's life, Nintendo will probably take whatever third parties want to give them. But prior to the actual launch of the system, Nintendo gets to pick and choose what it wants—which developers it works with, which projects it funds. Randy Pitchford,up I had a feeling it may not be a good outcome. And that's exactly what happened. Part of it might be they didn't go to school today so there off their normal routines, but Gibsonburg didn't go to school today either. They didn't use that as an excuse. They just came out and put an old fashioned butt-whooping on us."

A walk followed the HBP to Mancha, setting the stage for Alyssa Escobedo, who laced the first of several big Golden Bear hits, a triple to left center bringing home both runners. Filomena Mendoza followed with a double that dropped down the right field line giving Escobedo, Gibsonburg's pitcher, a 3-0 lead before she ever stepped in the circle.

"That helps a lot pitching, not having to be so


he compiled almost annual bibliographies of Irish authors, usually printed in the Dublin Magazine and as offprints afterwards; d. Dec. 1955;

his son was the publisher Seán Sairséal Ó hEigeartaigh (1917-1967) of Sairséal agus Dill; P. S. OHegartys papers were acquired by the Kenneth Spencer Research Library of Kansas University; a catalogue of his library his held in the National Library of Ireland; a younger br. Seán OHegarty, was officer commanding the First Cork Brigade of the IRA; OHegarty lived in the former home of Edward Dowden on Highfield House in Rathgar, and the reception following the wedding of his dg. Gráinne to Michael Yeats was conducted there in May 1949. DIW DIB DIH FDA OCIL

WorksMonographs, The Victory of Sinn Féin: How it Won It, and How It UsedMerrion 2014), Chap. 13.

CommentarySean OFaolain (The Gaelic Cult, in The Bell, Dec. 1944): the general idea of the Gaelic nation is implicit in the very title of Mr P. S. OHegartys interesting book, The Indestructible Nation which, note, was originally given as a series of lectures to the London Gaelic League in (... the authors own words) the first and best decade of Sinn Féin, in 1911-1913. (Rep. in in The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing, gen. ed. Seamus Deane Derry: Field Day 1991, Vol. 3, p.572.)

J. C. Beckett (The Making of Mod. Irel., Bibl., 465), Ireland under the Union (Lon. 1952), described by the author as the story of a people coming out of bondage, is a highly subjective commentary on political events; but it contains


out of captivity, out of underground, finding every artery of national life occupied by her enemy, recovering them one by one, and coming out at last in the full blaze of the sun. (Dedicatory Preface, A History of Ireland Under the Union 1810 to 1922, Methuen 1952, p.vii; quoted in T. W. Moody, Irish History and Irish Mythology in Hermethena, CXXIV, Summer 1978, p.578; also in Roy Foster, Paddy and Mr Punch, John Lane, 1993, p.18.)

Potent mould: Is it not the fact that those Irishmen who have written English literature have written stuff which is distinct, with qualities which English literature as a whole has not got? While Englishmen who have lived here have imbibed something which changed and strengthened them. ... There is an Irish Soil, andIrish climate, and an Irish atmosphere, which are a potent moulder, not alone of mens bodies, but of their minds. (Dublin Magazine, VII No. 1 (Jan.-March 1932), pp.54-5; see Patrick Rafroidi, Irish Literature in English, Vol 1, 1980, xx.)

Ireland in the coming times: I think that Ireland in the coming times will understand that the great poet who worked for a national culture was during his life one of the most revolutionary influences in Ireland. He worked for a liberation of the spirit, and it is the spirit that moves the body. (W. B. Yeats [obit.], Dublin Magazine, July-Sept. 1939, pp.22.24.)

Review of Ulysses: Here is a big book, perhaps the biggest book that has ever been done in English in the form of fiction, in which the language


is used as it never was used, and used triumphantly. It is not a story merely but an epoch, and an Irish one. Ireland is all through him, and in him and of him; and Dublin, its streets and its buildings and its people, he loves with the wholehearted affection of the artist. He may live out of Dublin but he will never get away from it. Ireland at present will probably not love Mr. Joyce, but he had done her fonour and stands with Wilde, Moore and Synge in representing the Irish spirit. (In The Separatist; quoted in Donagh MacDonagh, The Reputation of James Joyce: From Notoriety to Fame, in University Review, 3, 2, Summer 1963, p.17; note that MacDonagh pairs OHegarty with Con Leventhal as Dublinerswho reviewed Ulysses favourably - but also points to the conspicuous absence of Yeats name in the above.)

The Belfast boycott [i.e., the boycott of Unionist businesses by Irish Catholics, 1920-22]: It raised up in the south what had never been there, a hatred of the North ... it was merely a blind and suicidal contribution to the general hate. (Cited in Tony Hepburn, A short history of boycotts, in Fortnight Review (Oct. 1996, p.25.)

The Belfast boycott - cont.: [It] denied the whole principle upon which separatists of every generation had claimed for the country - independence [...] but it was an utter failure inasmuch as it did not secure the reinstatement of a single expelled Nationalist. It was a blind and suicidal contribution to the general hate There


was not in the mood to be 'shushed'. I stormed further into the bookstore, looking for the face of who i knew I had interrupted. Soon enough, I found her on the second floor, near the romance novels.

Blake Belladonna, Vale's resident brooding cat Faunus and Huntress in training, was sitting delicately on a sofa under a windowsill in a small alcove. Seeing her, all my anger flushed away. I plopped down next to her, laying my arm across the back of the couch.

"What's new, pussy cat?" I asked, coughing to mask the crack in my voice. She didn't answer right away. I was used to it. When Blake gets her nose in book, you couldn't pull the damn thing out.

"Hmm?" she questioned a moment later when she hadfinished the chapter she was on.

"I said… What's new, pussy cat?"

"You're hilarious. I see you've had an exciting day. How many poor defenceless shopkeepers did you rob today?"

"Hey! That guy was not defenceless. Dude coulda tore my tail right off!"

"You're incorrigible."

"I don't know the meaning of the word. Anyways, so this is where you disappear to every weekend? Nice place. It's…"

I looked around at my surroundings. It was mostly dark, despite it being midday, and was only lit by a few desk lamps scattered about. There were stacks upon stacks of books, every shelf labeled a different genre. It felt warm, yet intimidating. Totally Blake-y.

"… cozy." I settled upon.

She took a deep breath and shut the book.

"Yeah. Its a nice quiet place. Gets me away from all the


Comrades on Arms: Exhibit explores military tattoos

Spc. Brian Cook shows off a tattoo that he got after a deployment to Iraq. "Our entire platoon got this one," said Cook, a fuel operator with B Company, 2nd Battalion, 87th Infantry Regiment at Combat Outpost Black Hawk.

There is serious artwork on these warriors, created as tributes to fallen comrades or to signal a personal peace with a 40-year-old war.

And there are some cartoon characters, done on a whim.

That's the range of military-inspired tattoos in a new exhibit at the Clark County Historical Museum.

Eleven local military veterans or reservists shared their tattoos -- as well as their stories -- for "Vet Ink," which opens Tuesday.

The illustrations adorning Kyle Olsen and Victoria Parker commemorate soldiers who were killed in combat operations.

Not everybodygets it, said Parker, an Army staff sergeant who was part of a military police unit in Iraq. Her tattoo includes an image of boots, rifle and helmet, five sets of initials and five dates of death from January 2007 through November 2007.

"People will ask me, 'Are those your kids?'" said Parker, who is a reservist attending Washington State University Vancouver.

"They're all from 2007," she exclaimed. "Does that even make sense?"

Richard Alvarez sports a fairly recent design, but it took decades for the Army veteran to walk into a Portland tattoo parlor. It finally seemed to be the right time in 2008, even though it had been 35 years since Alvarez served in Vietnam.

The tattoo on his left bicep -- a hand wrapped around the neck of a


dragon -- is the battalion crest of the 504th Military Police. It includes the battalion's motto: "Duty Justice Honor."

His MP unit didn't break up bar fights in Saigon, Alvarez explained. Mostly, they were convoy escorts; they also patrolled highways and responded when vehicles were ambushed, or when a Vietnamese minibus collided with a tank.

"I thought about a tattoo for years and years," Alvarez said. "I wanted something meaningful."

And, it took a long time to, as Alvarez phrases it, "make friends with Vietnam."

The tattoo was a way to bring closure. It also is a tribute to the buddies he served with, including a couple who got hit, he said.

"When I got it, I really liked it," he said.

And Alvarez really likes what the image represents: "Dragon and hand, evilheard a lot of that," he said.

Fry and another sailor got their tattoos in a shop along Hotel Street in Honolulu. He liked the image of the sailor-suited skunk, Fry said, because "I was proud of the Navy."

Other influences might have been in play since their route included a bar stop or two.

"We'd kind of been tipping a few," Fry noted.

Brad Richardson, a museum staff member, interviewed each participant for the exhibit's text.

This is not Singh's first experience with military tattoos, by the way. She spent 20 years as a U.S. Army nurse, from Vietnam to Desert Storm. Singh saw a lot of GI skin -- and not just guys with their shirts off.

"There a were a lot of them with no clothes at all," the former Army


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one ticket?" "Watch and you'll see," answers one of the engineers. They all board the train. The lawyers take their respective seats but all three engineers cram into a restroom and close the door behind them. Shortly after the train has departed, the conductor comes around collecting tickets. He knocks on the restroom door and says, "Ticket, please." The door opens just a crack and a single arm emerges with a ticket in hand. The conductor takes it and moves on. The lawyers saw this and agreed it was quite a clever idea. So after the conference, the lawyers decide to copy the engineers on the return trip and save some money. When they get to the station, they buy a single ticket for the return trip. Totheir astonishment, the engineers don't buy a ticket at all. "How are you going to travel without a ticket," asks one perplexed lawyer. "Watch and you'll see," says one of the engineers. When they board the train, the three lawyers cram into a restroom and the three engineers cram into another one nearby. The train departs. Shortly afterward, one of the engineers leaves his restroom and walks over to the restroom where the lawyers are hiding. He knocks on the door and says, "Ticket, please." Comprehending Engineers -- Take Six

An engineering student was walking across campus when another engineer rides up on a shiny new bicycle. "Where did you get such a rockin' bike?" asked the first engineer. The second engineer replied, "Well, I was walking along yesterday


shoes when he's talking to you, rather than his own. Comprehending Engineers -- Take Eleven

Q: Why did the engineers cross the road?

A: Because they looked in the file, and that is what they did last year. Comprehending Engineers -- Take Twelve

Q: How do you drive an engineer completely insane?

A: Tie him to a chair, stand in front of him and fold a road map the wrong way. Comprehending Engineers -- Take Thirteen

An engineer dies and reports to the pearly gates. St. Peter checks his dossier and says, "Ah, you're an engineer -- you're in the wrong place." So the engineer reports to the gates of hell and is let in. Pretty soon, the engineer gets dissatisfied with the level of comfort in hell, and starts designing and buildingand cuts it with an axe. Comprehending Engineers -- Take Twenty-two

Einstein, Newton and Pascal decide to play hide and seek. Einstein is it, closes his eyes, counts to 10 then opens them. Pascal is nowhere to be seen. Newton is sitting right in front of Einstein, with a piece of chalk in his hand. He's sitting in a box drawn on the ground, a meter to a side. Einstein says "Newton, you're terrible, I've found you!" Newton says "No no, Einy. You've found one Newton per square meter. You've found Pascal!" (really more of a science joke). Comprehending Engineers -- Take Twenty-three

During the French Revolution, three men were lined up to be executed by the Guillotine. The first, a priest, asked as his last wish to have his


face pointing upward so that he could see God. He was granted his wish. As the blade raced downward, it stopped just an inch above his neck. A miracle, praise the Lord, and the priest's life was saved. The second man, a mathematician, asked to have his face upward too since it seemed to improve the odds of survival. Once again the blade whizzed down, only to stop an inch above his neck. Mathematics helps, and his life was spared. The third was an engineer. He asked for the same because he wanted to see what was wrong with the Guillotine. When it stopped one inch above his neck, he exclaimed: "I see why it stopped, there's a screw blocking the blade." So they fixed it; it washis last engineering advice. Comprehending Engineers -- Take Twenty-three

A minister was standing in the churchyard when the county engineer came by and said, "Reverend, you'd better leave because the river is rising." The minister replied, "Thank you, but the Lord will take care of me." Later the minister is on the church steps, water lapping at his feet. The county sheriff came by in a boat and said, "Reverend, the river will be rising higher. Get in and we'll take you to safety." The minister replied "Thank you, but the Lord will take care of me." Still later the minister is on the church roof, the water still rising. A Coast Guard helicopter came by and a rescuer called out, "Reverend, we'll save you. Climb aboard." The minister


demanded that the paint companies be held responsible for cleaning it up.

DAVID ROSNER on Moyers & Company:
Our documents showed that they had known about what they were creating, they'd known that children would be poisoned, they were discussing children dying as early as the 1920s and '30s, and yet they had created this huge environmental mess of millions and millions of pounds on the walls of Rhode Island, all of which was waiting to poison future generations. And that they had done nothing about it, they continued to market. And that’s really, I think, enraged the jury.

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And we were thrilled, just thrilled when at the end of this trial the jury came back and for the first time in lead industry lawsuits theywill be shot entirely in 3D. Also, unlike the first film, Clash of the Titans II will supposedly have a plot mapped out before shooting begins.

(Spoiler Alert) Hopefully this sequel will avoid some of the pitfalls of its predecessor. For example, one of the worst scenes from Clash of the Titans was the ending, when Zeus randomly resurrected a character who had died earlier in the film. Resurrection? Talk about an unbelievable cop out? No wonder no one worships Zeus anymore.

Jonathan Liebesman will direct Clash of the Titans II, Coming Soon is reporting. Liebesman, who also directed the upcoming Battle: Los Angeles, will most likely be joined by Sam Worthington and Gemma Arterton, who both starred in the first installment. Unlike the first film, which was retrofitted, the


types, the movie posters are now available online.

The film features Aaron Eckhart as a Marine waging a guerrilla-style resistance movement after invaders "turn the streets of Los Angeles into a war zone," just like Laker fans do after their team wins a championship. But hopefully the aliens won't wear all that tacky purple and gold clothing while they trash the place. (Empire Online)
See all the posters after the jump...

Battle: Los Angeles, the story of a planet-wide alien invasion, began its marketing campaign at this year’s Comic-Con. But for those who didn’t have the time to wade through a sea of virgins and scumbag Hollywood types, the movie posters are now available online.

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For the better part of the past two decades, fans of the Kansas City Royals had set their sights on the minor leagues, hoping that salvation and deliverance from the basement of the American League would come from the young players. While some of the younger players panned out, the Royals hopes of deliverance were typically dashed upon the rocks of reality.

Now, fresh off of a World Series appearance, the Royals prospects are no longer looked at as the saviors of a moribund franchise desperate for any remote sign of hope. Now, they are considered to be the continuation of Dayton Moore’s Process, the lifeblood of a team that expects to cycle through their young players while remaining a force to be reckoned


Ritual Premier Bicycle Playing Cards

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Stempniak has three points in five games since making his season debut on Jan. 12. He was kept out of the lineup for months due to hip and upper-body injuries. Fortunately it looks like rust isn't an issue. Jan 24 - 9:53 AM

It's Stempniak's second game since returning from his upper-body injury. The 34-year-old forward now has two points in two games this season and could be someone to keep an eye on moving forward. Sebastian Aho left the game with a knee injury and if he is out an extended period Stempniak could get a few extra looks on the top line and power play unit. Jan 14 - 6:10 PM

Lee Stempniak registered an assist in