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Hey survivor – pay attention. We are under attack.
I know right now you think it's not that big a deal. You probably think, like I did once, that you can shrug it off forever. But you're wrong. We all have our limits, and I don't want you waiting around to find out what they are. Believe me when I say that you could die.
It wouldn't be an accident. It's what the world expects. In movies, news, and whispering gossip, we learn that survivors don't exist – but victims do. Suicides, and drug addictions. Jail, and mental wards against our will. Death row just for men – what petition of mercy for a killer did you ever hear (designated terrorists excepted) that didn't include every gritty detail of his molested childhood?
They are waiting for us to die, and we know it. For as long as you've been a survivor, this is a weight you have carried. Remembering, privately, words like "except," and "anyway." Living for us means defying, and thriving is beating the odds.
Think about what they make us go through – the polite society of normies all around us, with their shocked panic whenever one of us announces being in the room. Think about the weight of fitting in, pretending we aren't who we are just to make them feel at ease.
We lack the privilege of community. We have no automatic allies and we're randomly distributed. But it is hard to find each other, because we lack the privilege of even group identity. We don't dare throw parades to celebrate being alive; our joy can and will be used against us, even in the court of law. Can't be that traumatized if you went to a party.
And because we're not a group, and because we're not in the open, we don't get to lead on any issues that affect us. The burden of doubt (thanks, society) keeps us so busy defending and proving and playing the part we think will be accepted that taking political command is practically taboo. Can't be that traumatized if you're able to talk about politics.
And we are under attack. We've always been under attack – we're used to it. But suddenly, right now, it feels like we're getting somewhere. If we don't join together and learn how to defend ourselves, as a group, #metoo will fade into thin air, like so many other reckonings. We all know there's nothing this world of normies would rather see than for us to get buried again.
Think about the ways they're trying to shut us down. Think about Project Veritas.
This is a think-tank founded by James O'Keefe. Donald Trump is among its many funders. The latest project it pursued was named, "To Catch a Journalist" – as an apparent diametric to Chris Hansen's Dateline NBC program, "To Catch a Predator." Hansen's show had investigators catfishing child-molesters to help police arrest them before real children could be harmed. O'Keefe's project was instead supposed to catfish investigators so as to discredit molested children and help a child-molester win a Senate race.
Project Veritas accordingly sent a woman to the Washington Post with a made-up story about having been raped by Roy Moore, impregnated as a teenager, and forced to have an abortion. It didn't work, of course; the paper followed the woman back to Project Veritas headquarters and wrote about the failed attack on journalism. So, great. One attack against us didn't succeed. But, my people, think about – just think about – the depth of the ever-present media attack against survivors.
O'Keefe was able to fool NPR. He fooled ACORN. He fooled Planned Parenthood. He didn't fail in fooling the Washington Post because they're better detectives. He failed because this time the story he was trying to sell was rape – and that's a story nobody wants to buy.
Anyone who thinks doubt is a rational response to a news story relating to rape just has no idea what the world is like for survivors. Even O'Keefe, who made a conscious decision to lead a smear campaign against us, was not able to prepare for that denial – and he controls a billionaire-funded think-tank.
Every time we get the slightest bit of traction toward a preferential option, the powers invested in rape culture pivot hard to take us down. They're not even subtle about it.
In a series of tweets dated November 29th, editor-at-large Ijeoma Oluo of The Establishment described an email exchange, followed by phone call, from USA Today. They wanted her to write "the opposing view" to a piece that would argue that, though it's good victims of sexual abuse are now coming forward, due process must still occur.
Oluo responded that, um, she also believes in due process – but she could write a response: "I'll happily write about how their priorities are skewed and that the due process that's missing is the due process for the women coming forward." She continued that, "if anything, these stories of years of abuse are testament to men getting more than due process. And maybe instead of immediately trying to recenter the concerns of men because, like, 5 white dudes got fired, we should wonder about the countless women whose careers never even got off the ground because when they were harassed, there was NO process, let alone due process."
After a few minutes' conference with editors, the low-level representative from USA Today again called Oluo, explaining that they wanted her response to focus on how she just doesn't believe in due process and is fine with a few innocent men losing their jobs to expedite the reckoning.
Oluo refused. Her November 30th article describes the same incident, and the thoughts that ran through her mind after the call had ended.
"Did this really just happen? Was I seriously just asked by the third-largest paper in the nation to write their 'feminazi' narrative to counter their 'reasoned and compassionate' editorial? Was I just asked to be one of the excuses for why this whole 'me too' moment needed to be shut down?"
Oluo asks us, in the end, to consider how often we are suckered into supporting this kind of narrative.
If we count the ways that journalism works against survivors, we find ourselves in the thick of a pervasive gaslighting campaign. No one bats an eye when we come across a sentence like, "Los Angeles radio anchor Leeann Tweeden made allegations that Al Franken groped her as she slept." Allegations made by Tweeden are referenced on internet, TV, and printed press as the subtitle or introduction to the picture in which we clearly see Al Franken groping her.
Similarly, one teenaged girl among several made allegations that R. Kelly raped her. Allegations – despite there being a widely-viewed and mocked video of it happening. Things that we see with our own eyes are generally called facts, not allegations. As the news, you should know the difference.
And yes, I'm aware that publications have legal departments requiring the insert of such disclaimers. That's my exact complaint: this isn't accidental. How have we allowed judges who rule in favor of rapists who sue, lawyers who believe certain truths are impossible to defend, and papers that fear telling hard facts about abusers, but think nothing of telling us, impulsively, over and over, that survivors could be lying – even when we can't be?
The word that other groups of people might use for these events is "defamation." We survivors are, publicly, constantly, and by conscious decision disparaged. "Allegation," "accusation,"
"supposedly," "accuser" – these have become codewords. Some are hardly used outside the context of sexual abuse, and never replaced within it. Articles don't introduce survivors as "plaintiffs," "indicters," or "statement-givers." We don't read about "reports," "cases," or "accounts" of sex abuse, nor reference to "facts in question" or "disputed testimony." It is important, in the news, to signify that special kind of justice that only has to do with rape.
The coding is more than just widespread – it's active programming. In response to Roy Moore's abuse of a teenage girl, David Hall, chair of the Alabama Marion County GOP, offered: "It was 40 years ago. I really don't see the relevance of it. He was 32. She was supposedly 14. She's not saying that anything happened other than they kissed."
The injection of doubt here has to be kneejerk; Hall's usage of the word "supposedly" serves no legal or rational purpose. He literally isn't saying that he doubts the woman's story, and in fact by his downplaying the severity of sexual abuse in the next line we're given to understand that he has no problem with believing she was kissed. What the adverb tells us literally is that Hall doesn't believe in her – the survivor – as a living human being.
Supposedly she was fourteen when Moore was 32. How can we really know? What makes us so sure she moves through time at the typical rate, or that she's existed alongside other people who counted her years as she grew? She could be any sort of creature, who cares what Moore did.
Hall's efforts to mythologize are unconscious, and are unconsciously accepted by a society that has forever been subject to systemic gaslighting. We are trained, all of us, to doubt survivors claiming to be ordinary, while at the same time to believe survivors capable of impossible monstrosity. I have seen better people than Hall reflect the training.
Immediately after 2016's election, I took to facebook, posting furious screeds against the president-elect and the people who handed him power. I came closer to some of my friends, who shared my anger, and blocked many others, who didn't. One acquaintance who became a closer friend asked permission to copy-paste some of my messages (my security settings compromised the "share" feature). I said yes, and saw many of my messages re-posted on her wall. But once, I noticed a very long post had been edited. The change was subtle – just one word. Instead of a "KKK-endorsed child-rapist," the message now called Trump a "KKK-endorsed accused child-rapist."
Though she'd credited me by name as the author of the message, and used quotation marks at the beginning and end to make clear that they weren't her words, my friend included no note on the edited portion. I did a double-take; I had to revisit my original message to check if I had actually used that word. I hadn't.
I don't think the revision was a conscious enough decision on her part to consider asking my permission or explaining to her audience that there had been an edit. But it was a change she went out of her way to make – on her own, no legal departments forcing her. This is the self-replicating power of steady programming against us. My sensible, smart-mouthed friend thinks the word "rapist" so dangerous that it can, if written once over the internet with no disclaimer, do more damage to the President of the United States of America than she would wish on her very worst enemy (who is, at this moment, the President of the United States of America).
It's no wonder that we aren't a faction. In poisonous moments, we have been told that the most dangerous thing in the world is for us to open our mouths. Now everywhere we go that message plays on repeat.
The irony is that, when it comes to sex-crime, survivors are the only group with a vested interest in justice. People act like we're out here trying to kill you. We are the ones who can save you.
In a world where survivors' voices lead our responses to sex abuse, I predict a great emphasis on restorative justice. This is because, from experience, we are the only ones who seem to realize how normal is a rapist and how overlooked each survivor. We'll figure out quicker than the rest that the sheer scale of rape makes any other kind of justice logistically impossible.
Justice to a survivor also has to be restorative, because the special stigma that sex crimes carry for us becomes a toxic obstacle to healing. We need to be supported and believed. And we've seen time and time again that unless our abusers stand up in public and admit what they've done, no amount of evidence will be enough to make most folks believe us. We don't have the luxury of prioritizing retribution. Our survival requires that we center concerns on our own immediate safety and the safety of our communities. We want to know that these crimes won't keep happening, to us or to anyone else.
Can you, who are not survivors, decide for us under what conditions we might begin to feel safe? If not, then I suggest you stop doing what you do in trying to defend us: stop controlling what we say.
It is notable, and not surprising, that #metoo became a big movement at the urging of non-survivors. I mean, I don't know what your twitter feed looked like when it first took off, but I remember so many tweets asking us to come out of the closet, now, as a demonstration of the scale of sexual abuse – written by people who identified being unable to do so themselves, due to their lack of personal victimhood.
I'm not saying allies don't have a place in our movement. What enabled us to come out en masse was the sudden societal permission, after all. Guilty as survivors always are about everything, it made sense to speak out when it was for a good cause – not just us being selfish thrusting our nasty problems in other peoples' faces. But I couldn't participate. Just weeks before I'd written out a full disclosure on my blog, and I wasn't yet in a place emotionally where I could brave another outcry.
This is not something many allies seem to understand; wanting to be believed does not mean our stories should be available on-demand, much less for the satisfaction of those who need to be showered with personal proofs of statistics we told them already. And this is not the point of our movement – it's not our job to save the normies from their own programming they haven't done work to dismantle.
For a non-survivor who has nothing to add to our conversation, the right thing to do is stop talking. Those willing to do the harder job of being our allies can use their own stories instead of demanding our proof. We've all seen sexual abuse, harassment and gaslighting. Assault has occurred at awards shows, on gameshows, and improvised moments during mainstream comedies, without much or any an uproar. Did you even see it, normies? Did you, and did you know that it was wrong, and yet say nothing, to keep things nice and polite?
That is the proof you were asking for. Use that in our defense. And good, if it's hard for you to share it. Learn from that shame what it's like to be in our shoes. Learn the feeling of being powerless and out-of-place, and bring that up next time you hear someone suggest there are people crying rape for attention. Nothing about you is so much bigger and more dignified that you would have reason to fear speaking up where we would be spared embarrassment.
It's telling, and typical, the form of #metoo. Across the internet, survivors were given the job of divulging raw, personal data. And institutions were given the job of deciding what to do with it. In the void between us – scattered, providing survivors on the one hand, and on the other hand the looming keeps of power – our allies have been stepping. Directing political winds, proclaiming on our behalf what they want our movement saying.
It's a problem.
I didn't think so at first. It excited me to read in tweets, "Let's get #TrumpSexualPredator trending!" "16 women accusing Trump of misconduct deserve justice!" I thought, finally. They're getting it. Days passed, and I noticed people saying, on mentions of Roy Moore and other predators, "Don't forget, this is also true of the President!"
Yup, I thought. Don't forget. Within a week, the hot take had become, "Every liberal celebrity accused has already lost his job, and Al Franken's under investigation. When are we going to see Trump held responsible?"
Suddenly, I could see the conversation shifting. In the hands of well-meaning non-survivors, we're steering away from the topics we started with. We're sidestepping rape culture and systemic abuse to paint our targets on the biggest bad apple.
Do the normies realize, do you think, that a rich-and-famous man without a job can still assault people? Do they understand that we have more work to do in each of the cases they labeled "dealt with" – that the institutions allowing those with power to abuse for all these decades must not be labeled "better" because the faces of scandal are gone? Have they wondered whether these abusers will return, quietly, gradually, after six years, in the slithering way of Mel Gibson?
Today, with eight survivors having come forward against Al Franken, and Democratic Senators suggesting Franken should resign, I am on Twitter reading: "Franken shouldn't step down until Moore and Trump resign."
These people are not our allies.
If I thought there was a chance in hell that non-survivors appropriating our momentum could actually bring Trump down, I'd keep my mouth shut. But, being a survivor, I know this tactic is the very least likely to work. It was tried and failed in advance of Trump's election. Exactly nothing is different. We're watching it fail again as we speak in Alabama. Using survivors to shame a sex-offender out of office is just the kind of bright idea that only occurs to the normies who, due to movies, attribute to the rape-whistle mythical magical torch-wielding-mob-summoning powers that seriously don't exist. I'm telling you. Sexual abuse is institutionally protected. You can't take down the abuser in a seat of power without challenging the institution.
Survivors need to start leading. We can't depend on allies to speak for us; we are a huge and diverse community. We have more to accomplish together than non-survivors have ever considered. To help with finding political allies in each other, I propose a new hashtag: #ImasurvivorAnd. Because declaring our existence is only the beginning of our movement. We are the ones who should get to decide what comes of it.
Try it out:
#ImasurvivorAnd I don't know who raped me because I don't have legal access to my records of time in state custody.
#ImasurvivorAnd I want to know the names of some famous male survivors who did better things than serial-killing.
#ImasurvivorAnd I want the Catholic Church to recognize marital rape.
If you can't start a sentence that way, you need to take a backseat to those of who can. If you can start a sentence that way but don't want to because your circumstances keep you in the closet, we can still ensure your political inclusion with a movement designed to identify the politically active among us. The conversations that occur in private will inform the causes we pursue as a faction.
Victimization is a spectrum. So too, we should expect a spectrum of identity in a survivor-lead movement. It is for each of us to decide how closely we identify as survivors and how deeply invested we are in what happens to us as a group. The most inclusive data reports that one in three women and one in six men have at some point in their lives been assaulted sexually, and I'd bet my life real numbers are higher. Non-physical forms of sexual abuse involve even greater numbers.
As with any invisible identity, there are no external qualifications to determine who is one of us. A survivor movement is bound to promote consent culture over patriarchy and the rape culture that springs from it. Structural sexism enables rape. It doesn't follow that an insignificant number of men and non-binaries are survivors, or that women are excluded from the pool of rapists. Language that is inclusive of all genders is important, because all survivors are important.
For those who felt inclined to shout down men using #metoo, I recommend taking Black Lives Matter for a model. Though white supremacists still point at white people shot by cops as evidence that there's no such thing as racism, BLM has no problem going to bat for white victims of police brutality. No one's forgotten for a second that this is an anti-racism effort. If supporting male survivors undermines some element of our movement, we need to make our movement better. We will only work as a faction if we work as a community that supports and hears each other.
We need to stand strong against derailers and doubters who try, time and time again, to control the narrative around us. We need to feel within our rights to tell our tone-deaf allies to back it up and stay in their own lanes. Right now, the ball's in our court. Let's never give it back.


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Medal of Honor: Allied Assault | War Game | Size : 1.8 GB
In Medal of Honor Allied Assault™ from Electronic Arts, players will assume the role of Lt. Mike Powell, member of the famed 1st Ranger Battalion who gets recruited by the OSS and battles through over 20 levels that are based on historical military campaigns of World War II.
Set during the most trying years of the war, 1942-1945, Medal of Honor Allied Assault gives players a sense of the courage it took to survive the landings at Normandy, the assault at Arzew, a rendezvous with the Resistance outside the village of St. Lo, and the push through the heavily defended border of Germany itself to take the bridge at Remagen.
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Introduction: Premium Accounts are frustrating at best. From 1 day (24hrs - which includes server down time of -1/2 hr) to 3days, 1 month etc. No one, and I repeat, no one can fly for 24hrs unimpeded (again-server down time is not factored into this). Using the 1 DAY Premium Account as an example, an individual can play for 23.5 hrs at best, which does not include any breaks, time for kids, meals, work, health, life beyond, etc., which a number of others have commented as reasons for their Premium days as being days of frustration.
What I find incredibly disturbing is that in World of Tanks, an individual can get 1 hour, or 2 or more, of Premium time. These options are not available to WoWP , and I cannot speak to WoWS as I have just started playing and have not explored the possibilities of Premium.
Why the discrepencies. I read one Post which commented in a similar manner, as to the unfairness of Premium in WoWP, and readers commented commented that, "thats just the way it is, live with it" (intentional paraphrasing).
If I unlock my Premium Day in WoT, I can utilize it for WoWP. I tried for the Premium Hour, with no success. Havent tried with WoWS. Gold and Free Experience can be used accross both games, not so with WoWS.
Now Wargamimg has introduced a launcher that combines all the games. Why not combine the perks? Especially Premium Accounts? I know there is already a discussion about gold vs doubloons and tokens, and I'm not sure where the developers are heading, on the one hand, putting all games under one roof, but on the other hand, saying the games are different and should be handled differently, to a point. Why. They are not that different. Gold and Free Experience can be utilized across both WoWP and WoT under my account, as well as Premium, to a point.
When I first started in WoT, I thought it would be easy to learn WoWP since i had a basic understanding of the rules and setup. Only to be completely disillusioned. Frequently, when you think you got something figured out, the rules change, like changing out pilots, for example, which has cost me dearly. There was/is absolutely no relation between WoT and WoWP crews. Sure, they are different games, made by the same company, but the details regarding training etc, do not coincide.
If you want to make it fun, make it consistent, less complicated. Keep the rules consistent, or at the very least, similar. And remember we are all human beings with virtual lives outside the world of computers.
I can have an hour of Premium time in WoT, when I want. When its convenient for me. Not when the mission is completed as in WoWP, which is often during an inconvenient time as it cannot be all utilized and leads to a lot of frustration. Many of the Modules and skills require a lot of play time, and premium alleviates some of that by making things attainable- reasonably attainable goals!
Having a Premium hour in WoWP is possible. It is already done in WoT, so there really is no excuse. Having the ability to turn on Premium time and turn it off is also possible, so a month of Premium, to use when you want, is possible!
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These well-designed drawknives, made from hot-forged high-carbon steel (hardened to Rc55), have blades ground to a 36°-37° bevel angle, then polished on a felt wheel to a razor-sharp edge.
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Includes a leather blade cover to protect the edge. Excellent drawknives for working green or dry wood.
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About 2002, I received an email from a cousin and this individual suggested that I talk to another cousin who had done quite a bit of research on the Spracklin family back in the early and mid 1980's. This cousin was my half cousin. She was a descendant of the second family of Daniel D. Spracklin and his wife Sarah. She lived in Miles City, Montana and I decided to go and visit her.
So in 2003, my sister and I, drove to Miles City in my 1995 Aerostar Van to visit our cousin. Neither one of us had met her before so it would be a great adventure. We would stop at motels or hotels as we got close to the end of the day and use the coupons you get in those newspaper booklets they distribute at rest stops. Usually I book my motels and lodging in advance because I don't want to mess with it while driving around.
As usual my genealogy research trips are very complicated and involve many facets. On this trip it would be researching Spracklins, Mc/MacDonald's, meeting family and visiting museums and various sites along the way.
We left Seattle about 11 am on Tuesday September 2nd and made it to Rathdrum, Idaho. It takes about five hours to get to Spokane if you don't stop at all the rest stops for coffee and cookies.
We were going to meet up with a childhood family friend. Mickey had lived with our Aunt Vivian, our father's sister, when he was a boy. He was her nephew on her husband's side and a member of the McKanna family. He had a cabin near a lake just across the border from the Spokane area in Idaho and we were stopping there for the night. We knew him when we were kids and he is part of my Mac/McDonald family memory and I wanted to see him and have him tell me more stories. I had reconnected with him several years earlier. He had kindly loaned me a photo book that was formerly my Aunt Vivian's, I had scanned all the photos and have used many of them in my posts on my blog: The Man Who Lived Airplanes. McKanna's actually came to Miles City and Mickey asked me to see if I could find out anything more about them.
The next day we headed further east and stopped at Wallace. I was hoping to find out something about my great Uncle Angus McDonald so we stopped at the museum. I was trying to place him in the area but it was not going to happen. Angus was my grandfather's older brother. http://wallace-id.com/ The Wallace District Mining Museum had city directories and there were McDonald's listed but it was hard to tell if they were my McD's. http://wallaceminingmuseum.org/
We arrived in Missoula, Montana where we stopped for lunch. We asked about the forest fires and decided to go a different route to stay as far away from them as possible. We could see and smell the smoke.
Here is a little excerpt from an online paper about those fires.
By most measures, the fire season of 2003 was historic for Northwest Montana. Not since 1910 had there been such an array of wildfire in the region, not to mention the rest of the northern Rockies.
By mid-September there were 16 large fires in Northwest Montana that ended up covering more than 300,000 acres.
Individual fire acreages were impressive: the Robert Fire covered 57,570 acres, Wedge Canyon 53,325 acres, Little Salmon Complex 88,000 acres, Rampage Complex 24,488 acres, Blackfoot Lake Complex 29,836 acres and Middle Fork Complex 11,851 acres.
Combined, the 2003 fires accounted for roughly half the acreage burned on the Flathead National Forest and Glacier National Park over the previous 20 years.
"The year 2003 will go down as a very historic fire year," declared Steve Barrett, a fire ecologist who has studied long-term fire histories across Northwest Montana. – By Jim Mann Daily InterLake, December 27, 2009. http://www.dailyinterlake.com/members/a-monster-year-for-fires/article_e529a93c-f2a6-11de-8498-001cc4c03286.html
We left Bozeman around 8:30 am on Wednesday September 3rd. We headed for the Lewis & Clark Cavern's which was a very amazing experience. This is what I wrote in my travel journal in 2003: http://www.visitmt.com/listings/general/state-park/lewis-and-clark-caverns-state-park.html
Once inside the park we traveled a wiggly waggly road for about 4 miles before reaching the parking lot for the caverns. We paid for our tickets and checked out the little gift shop at the café. After a wait of about 30 minutes we started up the trail to the caverns. It was hot and so the trail up was warm but pretty easy except for the steepness of the grade. The vista was beautiful of the Jefferson River in the valley below. We waited about 15 minutes at the cavern entrance before the guide came and started with guidelines to the caverns. He was a young man who reminded me of friend but a bit shorter. He was very nice and friendly and cracked silly jokes. I was not prepared for the caverns at all but was truly amazed at what we found. It was a wonderous place and a world all its own. The stairs were tight to walk down in the dim light but I managed well. There were stalagmites and stalactites and strange formations that only a cave can create from the action of the water dripping down. Each area that we stopped in was unique and had its own eerie beauty. Several of the areas were large caverns with these incredible formations that had taken millions of years to make. Unfortunately damage had been done by guests of earlier years and you could see the ragged edges of the broken pieces that were left behind. The cave was supposed to have bats but there were not very many at this time of the year. It took the 2 hours that they said it would to view the caverns but it was well worth it especially the part that we had to get down on our butts and slide down a section of the trail. There was a lot of ducking of the head and I banged mine several times. The walk was mostly down and the steps took us to this cavern they called the Cavern of the Gods and it was like descending a long beautiful twisting spiral staircase. All great things come to an end and this little adventure found its own conclusion down a very long tunnel with two doors. The doors were there to prevent a wind tunnel effect that would rush the air in and cause the caverns to dry out. In 2010 I visited these caverns with my hubby. He is tall so it was a challenge for him.
Further along our trip we took in the The Western Heritage Center in Billings, Montana which had a wonderful exhibit about the history of Montana and provided me with a basic history of the area when Reed Spracklin migrated there. We visited an old pioneer cemetery on Boot Hill and drove to the Pictograph Caves which are southeast of Billings. http://stateparks.mt.gov/pictograph-cave/.
Miles City is about two hours from Billings. We arrived in Miles City on Friday about 5 p.m. to be warmly greeted by Bertha at her trailer. We spent the evening chatting and settling in. We made cheese sandwiches to fill ourselves up. I gave the research copies of research from my trip to Iowa and more to her and she spent some time reviewing them. I spent a lot of the time at her kitchen table that week studying her research and learning about the Spracklin family and getting to know my cousin. She had done a lot of work and had gathered a lot of information by writing letters to family members and research archives seeking information about the family. She was very generous with her research and shared all that I wanted.
During our stay we visited the Custer County Community Cemetery where various family members are buried including Amos and Iva Spracklin, Bertha's parents. This cemetery is in Miles City and Find A Grave has a listing for most of the cemetery.
We also visited the Range Rider Museum which is amazing. They have newspapers in flip displays, display cabinets filled with artifacts, black and white photos of the Indians that are outstanding, photographs of the ranchers in the area who are placed on their wall of fame. http://www.rangeridersmuseum.com/. The buildings outside house wagons, automobiles and more.
Unfortunately, Miles City's genealogy society did not survive so you have to visit historical societies or go to museums like the Range Rider. We did visit the Miles City library where we did some obituary research. I did not go to the courthouse in Miles City another stop if you have ancestors there. It was a busy visit so I had to pick and choose and my focus was the research that my cousin had done.
Several days later Bertha took us to her ranch, west of Jordan, Montana. It was a two-hour drive from Miles City to Jordan and then about thirty minutes to the ranch. As we drove along I realized that Bertha was the rancher. She was raised in Montana and became her father's right hand man. Amos and Iva's children were all were girls. Amos of course, had wanted a son to help him with the ranch but it didn't happen. So Bertha took on that role. She knew everything about the ranches along the highway and chatted away telling us the history of the area and story of the families that lived there. She knew about barbed wire and what each type was for and she could recognize individual cattle something her father had trouble with.
We arrived in Jordan the county seat of Garfield County. They have a the Garfield County Museum which we visited briefly.
The ranch is not too far from Jordan. You go west for about 20-30 minutes…
We approached a fork in the road and she mentioned the 1996 FBI standoff with the Montana Freemen that was located 20 miles up the road from the fork. The left fork in the road was the road to Bertha's ranch. She said that we needed to go over several cattle guards before we got there and I think she said it was about 5 miles from the fork in the road. As we drove along she pointed out where her land was describing it to us and telling us she had 4850 acres all paid for. The road had become gravel a while back.
We passed a big pile of wood on the right and on the left were metal buildings that were the barn and corral. The house was up on a slight hill. Cars, trucks and other buildings were scattered about the land. We climbed out of the van. Bear, Bertha's small white poodle, jumped out and was running around checking out the area and leaving his calling card. There was a beautiful Border Collie named Hey who was on a chain and he turned out to be a very friendly and a gentle dog. He was the black and white typical of that breed but his eyes were like a wolf's. We entered the ranch house by way of the basement door. Ahead of us was a wooden staircase that lead up to the main floor of the double wide mobile home that Bertha had installed on a cement foundation. I later noticed the metal strip and the bolts along the lower part of the mobile home. The other thing that I first saw was the head of an antelope on the basement wall.
We headed for the stairs to the main floor of the house. We turned a corner and found the son in the kitchen preparing dinner. He was standing over a large pan of sliced potatoes. I found myself wandering out to the deck area that had a vista of the land around the ranch. I wasn't sure of the deck area but it seemed sturdy. The view took in the barn area and the land that stretched out before me. The wind was hot on my face and was blowing bits of dirt about. There were buttes in the distance and cattle out on the land grazing. There was much talk about wayward buffalo coming onto the land.
Dinner was served and the barbecued ribs just melted off their bones. They were delicious. The potatoes were also good and I ate two helpings. Everyone was gathered around the two tables in the kitchen area. Everyone ate heartily.
We then went on a tour of the ranch again, from my travel journal in 2003:
Bertha and son took us on a tour of the ranch showing the house that she grew up in. It was in a sad state of deterioration. It was also filled with farm things. The floor was rotting out and the ceiling was coming down. There were old torn and tattered pieces of furniture scattered and piled about. There was a stove or two. There were even jackets still hanging on hooks by the door. The house had only three rooms in the beginning but was later expanded to include the kitchen area. Amos and Iva slept in the bedroom on the first floor while kids slept upstairs. Behind the old farmhouse was the shed that was used for several tasks. The right end was for the chickens and the left end was used for the milking cows. The backside was used as the granary. It was showing its age and they were planning to tear it down. There were at least three round tower like structures now used for grain. They were better and easier to use. We then made our way down to the barn area and we walked around there. Bertha talked about repairs and rotted posts and what needed to be done to fix things up. They explained how the gates worked and walked us through the barn, pointing out their saddles and showing us the initials on the stalls for the horses. You had to walk carefully because there were cow piles all about and even a carcass of an antelope left to rot. I may not know much about ranching but it seemed to me to be a never-ending task.
The Lights of Jordan — I mean Jordan in Montana from my 2003 travel journal:
The evening was not yet over and the major event of the night was about to take place. Bertha wanted us to see the lights of Jordan from a bluff on her land. So just before dusk we all piled into her son's big black truck. I had to climb up and in. We started out the gate of the ranch past the barn area and onto the gravel road crossing it towards the south. We picked up speed and so far things seems pretty okay and I would say he went about 4 miles then he make a sharp turn to the left off the road and we were as it is called "bushwhacking." We bumped along over sagebrush with bunnies hopping frantically out-of-the-way. Bertha and her son discussed the route up the hill in their usual feisty way. He reminded her he knew the way as good as she did. I probably will never know how he knew the way in the dark but they both seemed to know exactly where they were and where every bump and creek bed was. I actually did pretty good although I was tossed around quite a bit. Just when I thought he was going to go over a big cliff and he stopped the truck and turned off the motor and pointed to the lights of Jordan in the distance. Then Bertha pointed to the house lights of the ranch. The son remembered and said that he used to come up to this hill with his Dad (Jim) and sit and look out for fires till 2 a.m. in the morning. Lighting was playing out its game to the right of us and sending strikes out but so far no rain. Within about 10 minutes or a little more he started the engine and proceeded to go straight ahead. The cliff that loomed before us was not as bad as I had thought but we did go pretty straight down for a bit. The drive back to the gravel road was a little less wild and bumpy and we actually seemed to get back to the road faster. As we drove along Bertha was pointing out deer and we couldn't see anything. So the truck abruptly stopped by a big piece of farm equipment and out came a spotlight. They held up the spotlight and we then started to see lots of animals. First you see their eyes flashing in the dark and then you can make out there form. We were told that you can tell the type of animal by the color of their eyes. We saw lots of deer, the most I have ever seen in my life. It was great. We made it back to the house in one piece and I headed for bed. It was very hot.
On the way back from the ranch, the next day, we stopped at the Pioneer Cemetery in Jordan where Reed and Julia Spracklin are buried along with other family members.
We stayed in Miles City for about a week and then headed out. Our goal was to visit Yellowstone but we were going to do that in a little different way by viewing the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Park and then driving to Sheridan and across the Bighorn Mountains to Cody and from Cody to Yellowstone.
I drove to the battlefield. It was raining and the wind was blowing so the weather was not really great. We almost missed the battlefield because we got on the wrong road. We found the Crow Wing Agency sign and we doubled back and headed to the East until we caught up with the main road and it was just a little farther to go.
The wind was really cold at the Little Bighorn Battlefield. We arrived at around 3 pm. It took a lot longer than I anticipated to get there. We were able to attend a lecture by the ranger about the battle even though the wind was cold and the big nasty rain cloud threatened above. I was listening to the ranger talk but became quiet fascinated with the mud on his boots which was caking up and then falling off as he worked his way closer to the shelter as the rain came down on him. http://www.nps.gov/libi/index.htm
Custer's last stand was definitely a broader and larger military maneuver than I had imagined. The events took place over a very big area stretching to the Wolf Mountains to the south. Custer's part of the battle took place in a small area close to the visitor's center. To see the rest of the battlefield we had to drive a road for about 3-5 miles. The formal cemetery was near the visitor center. They said that the Indian village stretched two miles in the valley below. That must have been a site to see. The Little Bighorn River Valley was beautiful to look down on from the hills where most of the fighting took place. Apparently this is the only battlefield that has tombstone markers scattered about the fields. The men were buried where they fell.
After our visit to the park, we headed to Sheridan in Wyoming. There were very ominous clouds in the distance but we made it before they dumped on us. We started up the highway to the Bighorns but decided it was getting too dark and we better find a place to stay. Sheridan was not far and found this wonderful old style hotel with creaky floors and a big steep staircase. The hotel room was lovely and old-fashioned making you think of bygone days. Spracklins lived in Sheridan, they are the descendants of Peter Spracklin a brother to our second great-grandfather Daniel D. Spracklin. So it was good to see the town. I didn't have time to do any research there. If you want to know more about Peter and his family go to the blog Solomon Goss in Fearing Twp. for information.
After breakfast we made our way to the highway that takes you over the Bighorn Mountains. I am a big fan of Longmire having read the novels and watched the TV show. So when the show came on I was remembering the area. Absaroka County does not exist, but it is in the area on the west side of the Bighorns. The show is actually filmed in Arizona. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1836037/
The next morning after breakfast and gas for the car, we set out for the Bighorn Mountains. What an experience. The road winded up the side of the foothills going steeper and twisting around the sides of the hills. You could look ahead and see the road winding up the side of the mountain and could look back and see the valley below and get an incredible vista. The height of the passes in the Bighorns were 9000+ feet and we climbed and climbed up to a wonderland of trees and ground lightly laced with snow. The road itself was clear but the hills were snowy. Cattle are allowed to roam freely so we came upon some migrating down to better pastures. I will never forget the one white cattle that came at the car with such determination and with its power. I have never been in direct line of a large animal so it was cool to see it move toward us. They moved off the road toward the trees in order to avoid the car. There were about 20 coming down the road. They may have been domesticated animals but they were a site to see in this high mountain area. We came upon more of them along the road and had to stop, I believe one more times.
Arriving at the visitor center and we got out of the car. It was cool and crisp. The quiet and the stillness were almost soft. It was beautiful. We spent some time in the visitor center reading the exhibits. http://www.bighornmountains.com/ I bought a Smokey Bear doll as a memento he was very special to me when I was a kid.
As you get to the western side of the road you start going down and the scenery gets more barren and rocky. We chose to go the Shell Canyon route and that took us through some real magnificent geological formations of rock that had pushed up from the earth's core. They looked like someone had laid then on their side.
We came off the Bighorn Mountains onto the Bighorn Plateau where the road took us to Cody, Wyoming. It took about 50-60 miles to traverse this big fertile plain which was rather flat, barren and straight. After awhile my sister, who was driving, became restless and wanted a curve in the road. As we approached the foothills to the Rockies we started to see more step formations. Cody lies at the base of these foothills before you head to Yellowstone.
We stopped in Cody and had some dinner and found a place to stay.
Apparently Buffalo Bill Cody founded the town of Cody and lived near it. The Buffalo Bill Museum is actually 4-5 museums. We spent time in the Plains Indian's Exhibit. I took quick tours of the other exhibits and almost lost my sister in the first. http://centerofthewest.org/explore/buffalo-bill/
We had rented a cabin in Yellowstone near the main lodge so we needed to get there by Sunday night.
I had not been to Yellowstone since the mid 1950's when we went their with our parents. I didn't remember much except Old Faithful and the bears. There was one that my dad named Professor. He was a little black bear who was able to walk around the rim of the garbage cans. My mother and I sat in the car, our food was up in the tree on a rope. This type of behavior in bears is now discouraged for their safety as well as the visitors. I was about seven years old at that time. We also drove down to the Grand Tetons and I do remember them.
We found our cabin behind the main lodge and settled in. I called my hubby to check in and a coyote ran by as I was talking to him. http://www.nps.gov/yell/index.htm
While we were at Yellowstone we participated in several Buffalo Jams. A Buffalo Jam is where the buffalo get on the highway and you have to stop and wait.
It was rutting season so the males were being distracted and butting heads. They made this guttural puffing sound.
We saw a coyote eating a wolf kill. He was very cautious because the wolves would kill him if they found him.
There was elk and one male was herding his females across the river.
I did remember the lake for it was big:
Yellowstone has abundant geysers and we explored. Unfortunately I did not keep careful records of where we went, so I have pretty geyser pictures but I am not sure what geyser areas we were at. You can walk out over some of the areas to get close up on these board walks.
There is a lot of texture in the geysers, steam, heat and the smell of sulfur.
The pools are many and beautiful…
I did remember the mud pots because I thought they were funny back when I was a kid. The sound was gulp gulp. Trying to get a picture of them erupting is very difficult, this took a bit of time.
Of course you cannot miss old Faithful which I do remember from my childhood visit. This time I got to sit on the veranda of the lodge with a nice glass of wine to watch the spectacle.
We headed back to Seattle a couple of days later and just made the drive from Yellowstone to home. It was a good trip. I was pleased. The trip was about 2427 miles with little excursions here and there. My Aerostar Van did great. This might be my longest car trip for it beats Ontario.
MAKE A JOURNAL OF YOUR TRAVELS, a little advice…
About 2003 I started to journal my trips, both genealogical and vacation, because I realized that I was forgetting. A journal of our trip to Yellowstone in the mid 50's would be amazing to have now. Some of the trips I had taken required me to backtrack and recreate what happened. Currently, I journal at night before going to bed each day of the trip. It is still fresh in my mind. I learned this from our cousin Paul Goss who did a lot of research on the Goss family in the 1930's, 1940's and 1950's. He traveled to many places and met relatives and interviewed them about the Goss family but he didn't realize that his trips were actually sources and important, especially when he talked to family and got their stories. Going back to my early years I wish I had journals of those trips, not to mention photographs. It is difficult for me to remember when and where we went on all the camping trips with my parents.
I would like to encourage you to journal your trips or at least write out an outline of the days events. You would want to put in your journal the following. Here are a few suggestions and don't forget to take pictures.
- What you saw that day like a bridge that was really cool, a valley view, a river, what towns you passed through a picture of the sign announcing the town. A town's water tower. A museum, library or archive you visited. A ferry you took. I wrote in my Ontario journal that I was in Paris, Paris in Ontario. I also drove across the Thames river several times. The Thames is a river in Ontario that flows through London, Ontario. What road were you on, what was the weather like. My trip from London to Strathroy in Ontario it was pouring rain and getting into my hotel was a big experience. I was driving in western Ontario and there were these amazing windmills coming out of the ground. The only thing I didn't do was get a good picture.
- When driving you can get lost and that can be an interesting experience. Or there is a really scary part of the road like the round about in Montreal that I barely made it through.
- Where you stayed. I have had some really interesting experiences at motels. The one I stayed in Hartford, CT the first time was really bad so the second time through I found a better place south of that city in a lovely B&B. One man had a toupee on and I noticed this as he was checking me in. What was the place like? I like Bed and Breakfasts and they can be really beautiful or it is a beautiful old hotel.
- What you ate and where you ate it. Yes, really, so if you go back you can find that same restaurant especially if you liked it. We did this in Hawaii and I did this in Ontario.
- Who you met both family and people you encounter. At Niagara Falls my waitress at the restaurant overlooking the falls was very knowledgeable and we chatted about the falls. She told me many interesting things. I spent a lot of great time visiting with cousins and close cousins and I tried to write out what was talked about. Now, not all encounters a great and I write about them in my journal.
- I have several large binders with my trip itineraries, journals, maps and memorabilia and I frequently refer to them. My Aunt Miriam went to Russia with my mother. She did a journal but there was no mention of my mom or other people, just the facts. She did mention me taking them to the airport. What I would give to get her impressions of the people she interacted with.
- Yes, I post my travels online with photos. I also journal my trip in a Word.doc which allows me to write a more personal version. They are all saved on my G drive under Genealogy trips Vol. I, Vacation Vol. II in my binders.
What I have written above is a short version of the actual trip to Montana in 2003 and this particular trip I did not post online because I didn't start blogging till about 2010.


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Snap: Marching to success
With trumpets blaring and tubas piping, the Cavalier Marching Band created a wall of sound on the Charlottesville Downtown Mall Friday night as part of "Paint the Town Orange," an annual kick-off (pun intended) to the UVA football season. Indeed, the season opener, held on Saturday night, September 4, went well for the Cavs as they defeated their coach's old team, the Spiders of the University of Richmond, 34-13, at Scott Stadium. (Speaking of coach-swapping, after losing London, Richmond grabbed the Cavaliers former wide receiver coach, Latrell Scott as the head coach–- along with five assistants)
Correction: Oops, first gave wrong final score as 35-13, but 'twas 34-13.
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Tonight, the last two teams punched their tickets to Jerry's World and the 1A state championship, so today would be a good time to look back on one of last year's state title winner…the Richland Springs Coyotes and their record-tying eighth state championship.
Having won the state title in 2015, coach Jerry Burkhart had five starters back on both sides of the ball, and the Coyotes were easily everyone's top pick to repeat as state champions. They entered the season as the #1 team in division two and never relinquished that position.
Key players returning for Coach Burkhart were junior 1st team All-State running back Walker Tippie, junior 1st team All-State linebacker Hutton Lusty, senior 1st team All-State nose guard Colt Carlisle, junior 2nd team All-State quarterback Jordan Burkhart, and sophomore HM All-State tight end Cameron Parham. To say the Coyotes were loaded was an understatement.
They rolled through their schedule, mercy-ruling all nine regular season opponents. In the playoffs, they crushed Walnut Springs in bi-district 74-8 and then faced a tough Milford team in the second round. Milford, led by sophomore spreadback Taron Smith, put some points up on the Coyotes and gave them their first full four quarter game of the season, but Richland won by 35, 78-43. Next up was a big game with Calvert and the game was tight until Calvert's star spreadback, Ja'Quan Thompson, hurt his knee, rendering his running game virtually useless. Richland Springs rolled to a mercy rule win 86-36. In the semifinals they faced off with a pass happy, but very tough team Crowell, who had been to three-straight DI title games. Now in DII Crowell gave the Coyotes a game in a rainy night in Jim Ned. The game lasted over four hours but in the end Richland won by 30, 92-62.
This set up a big showdown with the west's representative, Balmorhea.
The Balmorhea Bears were a strong, but young team that had great defensive skills. Marcos Mendoza and Kyle Garcia were a terrific one-two combination out of the backfield, with quarterback Marco Martinez a solid young play caller and passer for the Bears. Mendoza was also one of the state's top defenders as well.
They entered the state game having won 14-straight games and coming off a hard fought 74-52 win over Valley in the semifinals. Head coach Vance Jones would be playing in his sixth state championship game with his fourth different team, having gone 1-1 with Marathon ('75, '76), 0-1 with Sanderson ('02), and 2-0 with Garden City ('09, '10). Richland Springs would be entering the game on a 28-game win streak.
An interesting thing about this season was that ESPN producer Scott Harves was following a few select division two teams around, filming and interviewing people, putting together a documentary on six-man football. Two of the schools he focused on were Richland Springs and Balmorhea. The film crew had been at the semifinal games and at least one regular season game for each school and was now given a state game showdown between the two, which would only help aid their film.
State Championship Game – Wednesday Dec. 14th 4:00pm at AT&T Stadium, Arlington
Balmorhea received the kickoff to start the game and drove down the field for the first touchdown on a 10-yard pass from Marco Martinez to Danny Vasquez, a Marco Mendoza's kick gave the Bears an 8-0 lead at 7:58 in the first quarter.
Richland Springs would answer, taking just three plays to tie the game up on a 50-yard pass from Walker Tippie to Traven Day.
Not to be outdone, just two plays later, Balmorhea struck again, on a 47-yard pass from Martinez to Mendoza giving the Bears a 16-8 lead.
The anything you can do I can do better contest continued when the Coyotes, on their next possession, scored on a two-play drive, culminating with a 58-yard touchdown run by Tippie and we were all knotted up at 16, with still 5:32 left in the 1st quarter.
Finally, someone's defense showed up and Richland Springs managed to hold the Bears, forcing a punt. On the first play of their drive, Tippie burst loose for a 41-yard touchdown run, and Richland Springs would have their first lead of the day, 24-16.
Balmorhea then put together a seven-play 71-yard drive with a steady dose of runs by runningback Kyle Garcia, who rushed 36 yards for a touchdown, as time ran out on the first quarter of play. The PAT failed and at the end of the first quarter, Richland Springs led 24-22.
A Bears onside kick attempt went out of bounds and the Coyotes would start their fourth drive of the game at their own 30-yard line. Like their last possession they needed only one play, as Tippie dashed 50-yards for his third rushing touchdown on the night extending their lead to 32-22 just 12 seconds into the second quarter.
Balmorhea began their next drive at their 20-yard line and moved the ball only six yards before facing a fourth-and-nine. The Bears went for it and Kyle Garcia's pass fell incomplete, and the Coyotes were back in business at the Bear 26.
The Bears defense slowed the Coyotes down, getting two big sacks and forcing a fourth-and-23, but Tippie turned it on, racing 34 yards for his fourth rushing touchdown making the score 40-22, with 5:24 left in the first half.
Balmorhea responded by marching the ball downfield on a six-play, 60-yard drive that ate up 2:25 of the clock, as Marco Mendoza threw a four-yard strike to Eric Carrasco. The Mendoza 2-point kick was good and the score was now 40-30, with 2:59 to play in the half.
That score appeared to breathe some new life into the Bears. They forced the Coyotes to turn the ball over on downs, however, on the Bears first play after the stop, a Martinez pass was picked off by Tippie. With only 14 ticks left in the half, Balmorhea was able to keep Richland Springs out of the endzone and the halftime score stood at 40-30.
It had been a great game thus far, with Balmorhea hanging in there against the favored Coyotes. The second half would prove a little different.
Richland Springs received the kick to start the second half and started at their own 22-yard line. In a prelude of things to come, on their first play, Tippie rushed 58 yards for a touchdown, his fifth of the game and the Coyotes were back comfortably in front, 48-30.
Tippie then recovered a fumble on the Bears ensuing possession and on their fourth play Tippie ran 37-yards for a touchdown, extending the lead to 56-30.
Balmorhea would have an 11-play drive on their next possession, only to turn it over on downs at the Coyote 13, Then, on the next play, Tippie busted out another 63-yards for a touchdown Richland Springs now lead 64-30.
For the third-straight time the Coyotes would stop the Bears drive, this time again on a failed fourth down attempt, and the third quarter would end with Richland in possession and up 64-30. The Coyotes had run eight plays (two in the current possession at the end of the quarter) rushed for 187 yards and three touchdowns in the third alone.
The fourth quarter was more of the same, but with Balmorhea scratching out 20 more points. With the first play of the fourth quarter, third of the drive, Tippie hit Hutton Lusty for an 11-yard pass and catch, and the score was 72-30.
Balmorhea took one play to score on the ensuing possession, when Martinez hooked up with Mendoza for a 61-yard passing touchdown to 72-36.
The Bears held Richland Springs on downs, then scored their own quick touchdown on their first play, on a pass from Kyle Garcia to Eric Carrasco and the lead was cut to 72-42.
Like a broken recording, another one-play drive from Tippie, as he raced ran 33-yards for a touchdown pushing the lead out to 80-42.
Balmorhea took a whole three plays to score on their next possession, a 35-yard pass from Garcia to Avery Mendoza, slicing the lead again to 30, 80-50, with 6:06 left in the game.
Then, you guessed it.
On their first play, Richland Springs scored on a 23-yard run, this time by Lusty and it was 88-50. On what would be their final possession, Balmorhea drove down field, but turned it over Richland Springs 18-yard line on downs.
Three plays later, the game was over when Lusty ran 41 yards to paydirt, for a 44-point lead. Martin's PAT kick gave them a 46-point lead and mercilessly it was over, with 2:03 left in the fourth quarter. Final score: Richland Springs 96, Balmorhea 50.
Richland Springs had six 1-play drives in the game. Walker Tippie had an amazing game, rushing for 414 yards and eight touchdowns on just 15 carries. He also was 4-6-0 for 62 yards and one touchdown passing. Defensively, he had an interception and a fumble recovery to go along with his 10 tackles. Jared Martin converted every one of his PAT kicks, going 12-for-12, the most kicks made, while also converting 100% in a state championship game.
Richland Springs out-rushed Balmorhea 530-177, but only out gained the Bears 592-471 in total yards thanks to 294 yards passing for Balmorhea. Walker Tippie would earn Offensive MVP honors and Jordan Burkhart would earn Defensive MVP honors.
-Tippie's 414 yards rushing is fourth best in a six-man state championship game, his 8 rushing touchdowns is tied with two others for the most in a six-man state championship game.
-Brandon Tharp led Richland Springs in tackles in the state game with 13, as he made some big tackles all night especially on special teams.
-Scott Harves' film "6-man" still airs on the ESPN family of networks from time to time. It featured schools Harrold, Calvert, Mount Calm, Balmorhea, and Richland Springs
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She Kills Monsters is the story of Agnes Evans who, after the death of her teenage sister, Tilly, discovers Tilly's Dungeons and Dragons module, or map, for a Dungeons and Dragons adventure that Tilly created. She decides to play the game and embarks on an epic, comedic journey of discovery and action-filled fantasy role playing in the imaginary story that Tilly created as a world of wish fulfillment. The imaginary monsters Tilly battles in the D&D world are metaphors for the true monsters of her high school world: bigotry, bullying, gender and sexual orientation discrimination, fear, indifference, and intolerance. Through this journey, Agnes discovers the true soul of her sister, Tilly (The Lost Soul of Athens), as well as the geek and warrior within herself.
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Phil Ward either sensed the next big cocktail trend or instigated the craze himself when he opened the tequila-focused bar Mayahuel in New York City's East Village this spring. Whether the chicken came before the egg, tequila is hot, and industry insiders are referring to Mexico's agave spirit as the latest resurgent potable. Ward's newest concept goes beyond the idea of simply stocking lots of different tequilas and gets into what can be done with them.
Why a tequila bar and why now? "Opening a bar that focuses on tequila was an organic process," says Ward, who made his reputation at Death & Company, another cocktail destination a mere block away from Mayahuel. "I'm really into classic and historical cocktails, but there are no tequila classics. This was a natural progression for me."
Ward took it upon himself to fill the void in the cocktail lexicon at a sweet spot in the East Village, on 6th Street's Curry Row. Mayahuel (a reference to the goddess of the maguey plant) resembles a Mexican cantina and monastery rolled into one, complete with candles emblazoned with images of Jesus and Mary, church pew benches and a small, beautiful bar that centers the room like an altar and draws the gaze to 30-some bottles of tequila and mezcal lining the back bar.
If you're lucky enough to nab a seat at the bar, you might be in the company of a seasoned industry insider — such is the respect Mayahuel has garnered — but it's just as fun to squeeze into one of the booths and marvel at a menu that preaches agave spirits. The menu is divided into several parts: Agave Fresco (more refreshing concoctions), Strange Stirrings (complex cocktails that are more spirit-based), Punch-O-Villas (a selection of punches), Tea-Killa Cocktails (tequila infused with teas), Vino En Mi Copa (tequila versions of Sangria) and Cerveza Cocktails (beer-based mixed drinks, some of which are made with tequila and mezcal). Each drink brings out the earthy, smoky, vegetal and herbaceous qualities of tequila and mezcal. For the most part, the cocktails are complex and the spirit is never overshadowed. Bitters, amaro, vermouth and sherry all seem to work beautifully with the agave spirit at Mayahuel, and there isn't a single Margarita to be had on the menu.
Four visits later and I still haven't had a drink I didn't like at Mayahuel, but a handful stood out: the delightful, smoky and elegant Whoopsy Daisy (Blanco Tequila, elderflower, grapefruit, lime, egg white, soda and a dash of orange bitters), the slightly vegetal Sunset Park (Reposado Tequila, dry vermouth, Mayur's Homemade Picon and Maraschino), the layered, smoky and citrusy Smoked Palomino (amontillado sherry, Crema de Mezcal, grapefruit and lime with a salted rim) and a slightly boozy and bold cocktail, much like a tequila version of the Sazerac, called the Slynx (Reposado Tequila, apple brandy, pear liqueur and whiskey barrel-aged aromatic bitters).
Tasty nosh is Mayahuel's strong point too. Chef Luis Gonzales makes a perfectly piquant bowl of popcorn seasoned with lime, cotija cheese and ancho chili, succulent and flavorful tacos and a decadently moist Tres Leches. As Ward remarks, "It's rare to find a place that has good cocktails and good food." Lucky for us, both co-exist very nicely at our latest favorite cocktail bar. NCB


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LOS ANGELES -- The Dodgers continued the expansion of their scouting department Tuesday with eight changes to the professional and international staffs.
The club will use a pair of advance scouts, promoting Willie Fraser, who was a professional scout, and hiring longtime White Sox scout Gary Pellant.
Also on the professional side, Chris Smith returns to the organization after four seasons with Cleveland, and will join newcomers Ron Mahay, Peter Bergeron and Greg Booker. Mahay, a pitcher with 14 Major League seasons, was in the Dodgers' Minor League camp in 2011; Bergeron was an original Dodger fourth-round pick who was traded with Ted Lilly to Montreal in the Carlos Perez trade; Booker is a former big-league pitcher who spent the last four years as pitching coach for Washington's Triple-A club at Syracuse.
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The Minnesota Vikings had gotten off to a 5-1 start in the 2004 NFL season but had struggled thereafter. By the time they faced the Detroit Lions on December 19 they were at 7-6 and trying to stay alive for a playoff spot. Coached by Mike Tice, the offense featured sixth-year QB Daunte Culpepper (pictured above), adept at running as well as passing, and highly talented – if also temperamental – WR Randy Moss. They had beaten Detroit four weeks earlier.
The Lions, under Head Coach Steve Mariucci, were a rebuilding club with a 5-8 record, having lost six of their last seven games. There was young talent on offense in QB Joey Harrington, WR Roy Williams, and rookie first draft choice Kevin Jones, but Harrington was proving to be inconsistent and the defense was tough but thin on depth.
There were 62,337 fans in attendance at Detroit's Ford Field. The home team had first possession and drove 59 yards in 13 plays. Harrington completed four passes and Jason Hanson kicked a 32-yard field goal to make it 3-0. The Vikings came right back with a long series of their own, going 85 yards in 12 plays. Daunte Culpepper completed five throws along the way, including two to TE Jermaine Wiggins for first downs and a 36-yard touchdown pass to WR Nate Burleson. It was 7-3 in favor of Minnesota after one quarter of play.
The teams traded punts heading into the second quarter before the Vikings struck with a big play. In a third-and-24 situation at his own 18, Culpepper threw to Randy Moss for an 82-yard TD and, with another successful PAT, a 14-3 lead. The Lions responded with a long, sustained 11-play drive that covered 83 yards. Harrington completed a pass to Roy Williams for 24 yards on a third-and-three play and Kevin Jones carried the ball 6 times for 42 yards that included a 16-yard scoring run. In the final two minutes, Detroit added a 23-yard field goal by Hanson and it was a 14-13 game at the half.
In Detroit's first possession of the third quarter, and backed up deep in its own territory, Harrington (pictured at left) threw to Williams for another big gain of 37 yards. But the drive ended with SS Corey Chavous intercepting a pass at his own 37. The Lions got a break three plays later when Culpepper was picked off in turn by FS Brock Marion, who returned it to the Minnesota 33. However, three plays after that Jones fumbled and DT Spencer Johnson recovered for the Vikings to snuff out the threat. The teams traded punts for the remainder of the period.
Early in the fourth quarter, Harrington was intercepted by CB Brian Williams and the Vikings proceeded to put together an eight-play, 68-yard drive. Culpepper connected with Burleson for a 37-yard touchdown. Detroit came back with an 83-yard series that featured a Harrington pass to WR Az-Zahir Hakim for 40 yards, who then lateraled to RB Shawn Bryson for another 22 yards to the Minnesota 14 and, three plays later, Harrington threw to Roy Williams for a nine-yard TD. With the successful two-point conversion on a pass from Harrington to WR Tai Streets, the game was tied at 21-21.
There were just over six minutes remaining as the Vikings took over for their next series. Culpepper came out throwing, with the big completion to RB Moe Williams for 28 yards to the Detroit 34. The tenth play of the 73-yard drive was an 11-yard Culpepper pass to Williams for a TD. Morten Andersen added the extra point and it was 28-21 with the clock now down to 1:37.
Now it was Harrington throwing on every down as the Lions took over at their 20 following a touchback on the kickoff. Three consecutive completions got the ball to the Detroit 40 and, after an incomplete pass, Harrington hit Streets for 15 more yards to get the ball into Vikings territory. A 23-yard toss to Roy Williams moved the Lions to the 15 and a penalty on Minnesota took it to the one. From there, Harrington threw to Williams for a touchdown and it appeared that the game was going into overtime.
However, on the usually-automatic extra point attempt, a bad snap by long snapper Don Muhlbach bounced before reaching holder Nick Harris. Unable to set the ball for Hanson to kick, Harris was tackled and the PAT was no good. The Vikings recovered the ensuing onside kick and were able to run out the remaining seconds and win by a score of 28-27.
The game was close statistically as the Lions barely edged Minnesota in both total yards (463 to 461) and first downs (24 to 21). Detroit sacked Culpepper five times, while Harrington was dumped twice by the Vikings, but the Lions also turned the ball over three times, to one suffered by Minnesota.
Daunte Culpepper completed 25 of 35 passes for 404 yards and three touchdowns with one interception. Nate Burleson (pictured above) had 5 catches for 134 yards and two TDs and Randy Moss contributed 102 yards on his four pass receptions that included the long touchdown. Jermaine Wiggins had the most receptions for the Vikings with his 6 for 39 yards. RB Michael Bennett gained 51 rushing yards on 13 carries and also had another 51 yards on three catches.
For the Lions, Joey Harrington was successful on 25 of 44 throws for 361 yards and two TDs while two were picked off. Roy Williams, despite suffering from a hip injury, caught 7 of those passes for 104 yards and two scores. Az-Zahir Hakim gained 108 yards on four receptions. Kevin Jones (pictured below) rushed for 79 yards and a touchdown on 19 attempts and also made four catches for 35 yards.
The Vikings lost two close games to finish out the regular season at 8-8, but they still qualified for the playoffs as a Wild Card. They defeated the division-rival Packers in the first round but lost to Philadelphia at the Divisional level. The loss to Minnesota officially eliminated the Lions from postseason contention and they ended up third in the division at 6-10. Still, it was still the club's best record since 2000.
For Daunte Culpepper, it was a year in which he led the league in passing yards (4717) and completions (379), both career highs, as were his 39 TD passes, 8.6 yards per attempt, and 69.2 completion percentage. He was chosen to the Pro Bowl for the third time. It was also the pinnacle of a career that quickly faded. Culpepper was limited to seven games in 2005 due to injury and never again played in more than eight during a season as he moved around to three more teams and, eventually, the UFL.
Likewise, Joey Harrington never lived up to his promise. He, too, achieved career highs in 2004 in passing yards (3047) and touchdowns (19) but failed to meet expectations in '05 and was dealt to Miami – where he became a teammate of Culpepper.


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The Commonwealth Bank has confirmed that it is experiencing issues with its NetBank site resulting in the online banking portal being inaccessible to some users.
Others reported wiped account balances as a result of the glitch.
"The Commonwealth Bank has identified the cause of the late running overnight file and is currently in the process of finalising its processing into customer accounts," a bank the spokesperson told Computerworld Australia.
"As stated earlier, the file primarily related to business customer accounts, but in processing the file we identified a small number of retail customers who are also affected."
According to the spokesperson "at most", up to 5 per cent of accounts have been affected by the outage.
"We expect that the processing of the file may cause some minor, short-term disruption to CommBiz and NetBank customers as we update balances in affected accounts.
"The Commonwealth Bank again apologises to those customers who are experiencing difficulties. We are working on this as a matter of priority and will have the matter rectified this morning."
One customer contacting Computerworld Australia said the site had been inaccessible to them since 6am this morning.
At time of posting, the site was still inaccessible.
The spokesperson did not comment directly on what, if any, remedial action the bank would carry out for its customers.
As reported, the NAB has received a number of compensation claims following its recent IT debacle.
It is also expected Commwonealth Bank CIO, Michael Harte, and likely other members of his team will take a hit in their collective pay packets as a result of the outage. The bank's senior IT team has up to 40 per cent of its "at risk" pay tied to customer service and the performance of customer-facing IT.
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