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Not that long ago, American teen-agers were handed the keys to two tons of trouble and loosed upon on the roads. This is one man's story about the fun he had not getting killed despite himself. — Ed.
Wild and rumbly, the car was an impostor, and when we sped together over back-county mountains, I knew it tried damned hard to keep me from killing myself. It was a $1,400 maroon behemoth, a 1978 Mercury Cougar with a cracked windshield that spent it's original years under a tarp in some old codger's barn, taken out only before the occasional Sunday worship. I never wanted to admit that it was a lemon –- it was -– and after the sting it gave my parents' wallet on day one, it spent the next 28 months driving deep and hurtful wounds into the tiny one I sat on. A transmission, an engine, wheels, tires and all manner of mechanical voodoo beset our short courtship –- if only I'd tried to get fresh maybe I'd feel a little better about all that shelling. Big fat tires and unnecessary shocks kicked the car's ass skyward, a street cobra with no venom, ready to pounce and brutalize some poor pedestrian. I tortured it every day with misadventure; one would think auto-abuse was a hobby. No, I was just 15 years old, which means if it wasn't masturbation or a disregard for automotive safety, my underdeveloped brain couldn't get around it.
Hours flittered by as I mothered the thing, bathing the car like a surgeon preparing for a tonsillectomy on bubble boy. I only saw the other kids and their wheels from the end of my nose – terrible abominations of expense and decay -– not near enough knuckle and wax to show that you had copious amounts of free time. Pop had some weird fetish for spotless autos – so along with my third-hand "this is good, and this is shit," knowledge on foreign and domestic car sales – I'd picked up that washing the beast must involve no less than seven bottles of chemicals. You need to start with a double wash -– clean the thing with hose-water and a liberal application of soap -– and get those britches off too, we're going to do this Nebraska style and get filthy. Rinse the car off, then decide if you need to do the soap again — with the special way the birds aim those arcing gray ropes out in the plains, you often do. Next comes the wax. Cherry smelling gunk goes on in deep layers, then left to bake to a yellow crust under the relentless Midwestern sun. Now we buff it all out, first with the machine and then with your elbows -– this stuff goes everywhere. Half a bottle of window cleaner now, get every piece of mirror and glass – inside and out – then wipe it all down, twice. The interior comes at the finish of the ceremony -– vacuum, wipe, vacuum, polish, and wipe again. It all ends with me sitting in the driver's seat, surveying everything, nauseous on the compounds now inside of my skin.
"That's one fine looking auto," the occasional old timer would say, "looks brand new." My chest always swelled a bit more after this, clicking in the seatbelt then slamming the gas while parked just for his benefit. You couldn't beat that ball-rumbling song. The Cougar growled deep perfect threats every time I'd poked a stick in the cage, and when idle, the luh-luh-luh-luh –- the power plant barely keeping conscious –- got nods from those who'd remembered real go-fast cars from their youth. I'd throw around terms like "air shocks" and "351 Windsor" like they had actual meaning to me. The car was a scary old Sean Connery type of thing; it looked terrible and suave and sounded like it could dissolve panties – but when put to the heat, it lisped through braces and struggled to do a pushup. I'd get it to scream though -– it just took some patience. "Highway geared," was the quick explanation for it's sluggish take-off, whatever that meant. I was caught up in this world of muscle car language where I didn't even understand the idioms I was slurring. "Yeah, that's got a hemi charged dual piston crack-stop. You'll probably need a double geared timing chain if you don't want to burn out third in a quarter, and God help you if the crank over-fuels." I could really sling some nonsense in those days.
The easy way to get it screaming was out on the dippy highways – I just kept my foot to the floor and gravity did the rest. On the boiling pavement I played a dicey game with friction, watching the needle limp to the right and praying that everything held fast. You can't do one hundred and ten miles an hour in a beast like that and expect to live –- but I did -– and when I'd got the car home for it's bi-weekly wash down, the brakes hissed clouds of steam up over everything, a reminder that without those, me and some poor bastard's livestock would've been fused to the engine block about six miles back. You give a kid some junk car at 16 not because they're mature enough to drive it properly. You give a kid some junk car at 16 because their stupid pink bodies are still malleable enough to bounce back from minor impact. The cars need to be cheap too, for this very reason, but without those terrifying drivers education videos, things could be much worse. Maybe if we'd spent our teenage weekends looking at more corpses slung over car windows via videotape, things might be a little safer, at least on the roads. Blinkers come on five hundred feet before a stop-sign now because all the little bastard can think about is his bloody eyeball, hung from the mirror by reckless gristle.
"Bring it on," it seemed to say, thumping it's chest in defiant confrontation, "I can do this all day."
The back roads were the most dangerous parts of the fun. Fucking mountains, man, these gravel roads. They dipped and dived in every mile, and were mercilessly straight in most parts — ripe and perfect for some teenage mutiny. I'd take the thing at double whatever limit sign was gun-shot down ages ago, and more than once I saw my passenger's hair touch the top. I got it airborne too, just the once. I summoned Bo Duke and hollered a dixie horn, speeding over a hump while making way to various high-school graduation parties. The guy in the back seat was holding a cup of soda, and everything around him just slowed down, like the projector malfunctioned. All four wheels broke gravity for just a fraction, and from the rear mirror I watched the guy with the soda go astronaut -– brown fluid climbing straight up in front of his face, shirt collars and tight haircuts lifting skyward a few inches. We landed hard, stupid hard. Teeth rattled and thirty white fingers gripped onto armrests while we wore shocked faces, bringing the car to a reasonable speed for once, just before the next party house. The Cougar was largely untouched, dual exhaust pipes (with cheap chrome tips) just an inch or so higher than moments before. While mechanical failure plagued the car, the elements did little to ruffle it's feathers. A Camry hit it from behind once, totaling the import, while the Cougar suffered but two hair-line bumper scratches. "Bring it on," it seemed to say, thumping it's chest in defiant confrontation, "I can do this all day."
I'd sold it to my brother's friend once I'd turned 17 and financed something that didn't eat up three tanks of fuel every week. Watching him drive off in my Cougar was difficult -– I hadn't prepared to come so close to tears, and almost went full-bitch right there in my parent's driveway. It was a real punch in the guts, one of the top ten bummers of my high school years, and I can relive the feeling with startlingly easy recall. I had a thousand dollars in my pocket, but I'd lost a devilishly expensive and untrustworthy cohort in that car. I wish I'd been reading books or spending my folding money on more than car parts back then, but when you're 15 years old with wheels, there's a whole world of backwoods ways to try and kill yourself.
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The Cambrian Period is a geological age that began some 520 million years ago and is estimated to have lasted 10 million years. Apart from single-celled organisms and a few simple multi-celled organisms, no traces of living things from before that period are to be found in the fossil record. But in the exceedingly short Cambrian Period (10 million years being a very brief space of time in geological terms), all the animal phyla emerged simultaneously, with not a single deficiency among them. In the geologic periods that followed. Basic classifications such as fish, insects, amphibians, reptiles and birds, and subgroups thereof, also appeared suddenly, and with no forerunners preceding them.
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Courageous Faith
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Publication Date: August 01, 2003
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Obstacles* Battles* Weakness* Fears*
Learn to face life's greatest challenges with courageous faith in the power of God.
Faith is the key that unlocks the power of God in our lives. It enables us to live by His promises and experience His blessings in our personal lives. In COURAGEOUS FAITH, Ed Hindson encourages us to live beyond the normal limits of life and experience the unlimited power of God on a regular basis. based on the lives of the Hebrews heroes of the Old testament, this exciting book challenges us to overcome our barriers, conquer our fears, realize our goals, and start over when we fail. Relive the greatest moments of faith and triumph in the lives of the men of God who dared to believe His promises in their lives.
This practical and powerful study is based on the lives of the Hebrew heroes who dared to believe that God keeps His promises
ABRAHAM The Journey of Faith SAMSON Making Them Your Strengths
JACOB Hanging Tough in the Tough Times BOAZ Especially those Who are Different
JOSEPH Starting Over When it All Falls Apart DAVID Confidence in the Face of Danger
MOSES Overcoming Your Past JONATHAN Value of True Loyalty
JOSHUA Conquering The Opposition DANIEL Developing Spiritual Determination
GIDEON Overcoming Your Fears NEHEMIAH Leaving a Legacy You Can Be proud Of
JEPHTHAH Even When it Costs You
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ED HINDSON is one of America's most popular Bible teachers. Dr. Hindson is the Assistant Chancellor and Dean of the Institute of Biblical Studies at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia. he also serves as the speaker of The King is Coming telecast and as the President of World Prophetic Ministry in California. He holds the D.Min.from Westminster Theological seminary and the D.Phil. from the University of South Africa. he is the author of over twenty books, including the best-selling commentary Revelation: Unlocking the Future (AMG).


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Healthy Lowrie quietly consistent for A's
Career plagued by injury, illness and bad luck takes fragile turn for better
OAKLAND -- Judging his level of superstitions on a sliding scale of 1-10, Bob Melvin places himself firmly at an 8.5. Sometimes the A's manager will take the same route during his commute to the Coliseum, or maybe he will use a certain pen when filling out his lineup card for the day's game.
"I think probably everybody in baseball has their superstitions based on the way the game's played," Melvin said. "It's played every day. You just try to find some ways to insulate. It occupies time."
So perhaps it is best to avoid focusing on Jed Lowrie, who has -- in lieu of any jinxes or bad karma -- so far managed to avoid the injuries that have dogged him for most of his career. More so, he has quietly produced as one of the A's most reliable players while other players on the team, such as Yoenis Cespedes and Josh Reddick -- players who were expected to lead the way if the A's were going to compete for a second straight division title -- continue to perform under past levels of production.
Yet here the A's (64-47) stand in the early August as leaders of the American League West, backed largely on offense by Lowrie and third baseman Josh Donaldson, who may very well have been selected for the All-Star Game if not for a stacked field at the position.
Lowrie is Oakland's Swiss Army knife, a player who provides the utmost flexibility for Melvin as someone who can play anywhere in the lineup (he has batted at Nos. 1-6) and at both middle-infield positions. That and Lowrie's ability to hit from either side of the plate makes him an especially malleable piece for Melvin, who employs a platoon at multiple positions based on the opposing team's starting pitcher.
"It's rare that you get that versatile a player who has played both shortstop and second -- both of the middle-infield positions are very taxing -- and then on top of it, he's a smart player," Melvin said. "Some guys have a difficult time moving around in the lineup, and I'm sure he would like to hit in one particular spot, too, but he never complains about it. He knows the intricacies of not only the positions but where he's hitting in the lineup and what's expected of him."
But maybe most encouraging -- and this is where superstitions come into play -- is that Lowrie is the healthiest he has been in his professional career; more important than his .289 batting average and team-leading 27 doubles are the career-high 408 at-bats he has seen in 105 games this season.
Lowrie had not played in more than 100 games in any of his five past Major League seasons, the closest being 97 games last year with the Astros. He has missed time because of injury -- mostly of the freak variety -- and illness, when he missed half of the 2010 season after contracting mononucleosis during Spring Training.
Lowrie's abilities have never been in question. In the first half of last season, Lowrie had 14 home runs and was on pace to exceed the nearly 30-year-old Astros home run record for shortstops before he sustained ankle and knee injuries after Gregor Blanco slid hard into his extended leg on a double-play attempt.
It was not the average wear-and-tear injury. Nor was the damage to Lowrie's left wrist that occurred when a player slid into it in May 2008, which he played through until the end of Spring Training 2009, when he had surgery to repair what turned out to be a torn ligament. Or his collision with a left fielder that left him with a subluxed shoulder in 2011.
While those injuries all had very specific and perhaps unavoidable causes, Lowrie was nevertheless wary that he would be viewed around the league as a fragile player waiting to get hurt at a moment's notice, which was a main factor in why he played so long with the injured wrist.
"A lot of guys get labeled really quickly as being injury prone, and I was conscious of that," Lowrie said. "I think I played with injuries to not get that label, and because of that ended up getting that label.
"As a young player, too, you're kind of finding out what the difference is between injury and kind of banged up, nicked up. And those lines aren't always clear. And I think they become more clear with the more experience you have and the more you play."
Players are often unable to gauge the magnitude of how hurt they truly are. Such a conflict plagued Reddick when the A's right fielder injured his right wrist but continued to play before hitting the disabled list on May 8, hitting .152 at the time.
"Looking back at it now, I should've realized that this isn't the Josh I know who can play baseball," Reddick said. "I've always been a guy who felt like I could play through anything, and this was the first time that I tried to play through something serious as a wrist injury, as opposed to some other stuff being painful at times where I can treat it before a game, treat it after a game and be fine the next day."
Reddick's production has increased since his return, but he is still yet to mirror the player who clubbed 32 home runs as the team's No. 3 hitter last season. Part of that can be attributed to the type of funk any player can go through, but it also contrasts how Lowrie has been able to bounce back almost immediately upon the completion of his stints on the DL.
Lowrie had accrued a career .250/.326/.417 line with 35 home runs and 159 RBIs in 353 career games prior to this season -- numbers that, while no more than serviceable at first glance are particularly impressive considering that baseball requires timing and in-game experience for improvement.
Now, healthy and thriving, Lowrie is one of the driving forces of one of the best teams in baseball.
"He's been our middle-of-the-lineup guy whenever myself or Cespedes haven't been swinging the bat the way we want to," Reddick said. "I know the guys who we had in the [No.] 3-4-5 holes aren't doing what they did last year, and he's come in here and stepped up. He might not be the perfect three-hole hitter that everybody defines, but he's doing one heck of a job for us in that role right now."


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If you're looking for a place in this world that has lush green grass, tall trees, and clean air; you might want to visit some of these natural green cities. These won't be cities in the middle of nowhere. The places we'll give to you are mostly popular or maybe a site to see. These are the world's top five greenest cities.
Starting off with a place you might never heard before, Malmo, Sweden. This city uses green electricity, hydropower, which reduces carbon footprints. They've used this system for a decade; reducing the carbon dioxide by 5%. They recently raised that bar to 25% making it one of the cleanest air cities.
This next city has been reported to be one of the greenest cities in South America, Bogota, Colombia. The city is a nice tourist attraction having a wonderful green forest and beautiful view of the city. To keep the city green doesn't take much. They use more buses than cars and have more bike paths to keep carbon dioxide levels low.
A city that most Americans wouldn't know is a green city, Minneapolis, Minnesota. You may ask how this city is green with the mass amounts of buildings and lack of Agriculture. They have created a new green program called GreenStep. This program was a statewide program trying to make an eco-friendly impression. The city has 130 miles of bicycle paths; 46 running through major roads and 84 running through parks and green spaces.
Our next city is in Germany, home of sauerkraut and beer. But Freiburg wanted to put a different vision in people's minds. The people of Freiburg have taken extreme measures and now reduce energy use in homes. Germany is known for its very cold winters. But the people of Freiburg only use 40 gallons of oil for heat. Unlike the usual use in Germany which is 1,600 gallons; this being less carbon dioxide in the air for the Freiburg people. So if you enjoy cuddling up with your loved ones in the cold to help the environment, then this city has your name written all over it.
The last city has to be one of the most future green cities in the world, Vancouver, BC, Canada. The city of Vancouver is trying the impossible, Carbon-neutral. Meaning less fossil fuels and more solar, wind, and water powered. Of course this isn't a quick procedure but they plan on making this happen in the year 2107. Vancouver is already a green city with devices like dual-flushing toilets, light sensors, and geothermal heating. By this rate Vancouver will be the cleanest city in the world and one of my top locations for tourism.
Well that sums up some of the greenest cities in the world but there's more out there. It takes the whole city as a team to make an eco-friendly place. This world has enough climate, pollution, and power problems as it is. But to see cities around the world doing something better gives us a future for living green.


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Equity futures went on to push to a new high overnight in both the DOW and the S&P. Amazing how major events like hurdling major resistance occur at night… simply amazing. Oh, and oh so not real. But it is what it is, and it's exactly why I'm not gambling in the current market. Here's a computer generated image of overnight computers generating the image for us:
I am seeing massive INSTABILITY in the markets. Bonds, in particular, are zooming upwards this morning (actual bond market is closed, but futures are trading). That is usually the direction bonds go when stocks are going down. BE CAREFUL, a major top is approaching in equities. The dollar did break to a new low beneath the 75 level. There is no more support for the dollar until the 71/72 area and below that there is NOTHING. A dollar collapse will NOT be good for equities. It will KILL the middle class, as in DEAD. And we don't know how much more abuse the dollar can take before intervention comes into play – there is simply no guessing what the knuckheaded mental teenagers running our country will do next. At any rate, gold went on to make a new high at $1,118, and oil is back above $80 a barrel.
Here's an hourly chart of the dollar, the double red lines were the last area of support prior to the 71/72 level:
I hope everyone watches the movie "The Secret of Oz." I am going to propose exactly how to cure these problems once and for all. The solution will not be found in either the gold standard nor debt based fiat. Bill Still's saying, "It's not what backs the money, it's who controls the quantity," is spot on (the money). Keep that in mind. I also want to highlight an area in which I've been mistaken, namely I have always sided more closely with the gold bugs when I used to say, "Every fiat money system in history has failed." While that's true, it ignores the fact that every gold backed currency in history has also failed! What's the answer? I'm going to lay it all out there in the days ahead and my hope is that a political movement can rise up around it.
Meanwhile, big bank bonuses are up 40%! Does everyone see the flow of money here? The government bails out the banks with zero interest loans, oh and by exchanging their worthless debt instruments for cash, then the banks use that electronic money not to lend to you at a reasonable rate, no, they use it to back their HAL 9000's who monkey and play with the markets running over resistance levels at night while you're asleep. Of course the government doesn't really have the money to give them in the first place and thus they print up more interest bearing credit dollars and buy up their own debts, thus circumventing the very way the system is supposed to work as they designed it! That process drives the dollar down in value, in essence a hidden TAX on the American public. In other words, you and your money is financing the games in the market and you are absolutely paying the record bonuses to the Bozo's on Wall Street. And yet, the whole system is going to come down, the outcome of which will be a result of those involved. They are guilty, and history shows that much real pain can and will follow their highly immoral actions.
China claims to have created something like 16% growth in sales and production!!!
Production rose 16.1 percent from a year before, the most since March 2008, the statistics bureau said in Beijing today. Retail sales gained an annual 16.2 percent in October, it said. The trade surplus almost doubled from September, to $24 billion, as the slide in exports eased to the slowest pace this year.
Of course they directly injected something like a quarter trillion dollars and exports are still way down. Huge bubble, massive collapse, now another HUGE bubble! What a roller coaster ride! Anyone thinking this is TERRIFIC, it's the future, is NUTS. It's a recipe for disaster, it is the very definition of high risk. To those pumping overseas markets, I say GOOD LUCK, you will need it. There is not a REAL economy out there that I can see… the world is devolving due to the massive debts and derivatives, and interventions that now permeate the globe.
Tomorrow we finally will get a little economic data with the weekly jobless claims, the worthless MBA Purchase Applications, the petroleum report, and we'll get to peak at the completely untrustworthy Treasury Budget report and Fed Balance Sheet.
We all better hope that the dollar does not degenerate into a free fall. In my opinion, that outcome is far, far worse to a country and its people than a deflationary depression. The dollar can be saved by pulling liquidity and by making moves to balance our budgets, but who believes that's going to happen any time soon with the bonus boys fingers on the computers? At any rate, the technicals have so many divergences that their little computers are going catch fire sooner or later. We are actually doing the same exact thing that occurred at the '07 top where we broke beneath the rising wedges and then followed them up to new highs before rolling. Roll it will, it's just a matter of time. By the way, the gaps left in the RUT and NDX are still there, they did not fill yesterday.
Dollar going down, market going up, it's simply the Oligarch's Grand Debt Based, Fractional Reserve Illusion…
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Go be that starving artist you're afraid to be (inspiration).
(src: 1, 2)Go be that starving Artist you're afraid to be. Open up that journal and get poetic finally. Volunteer. Suck it up and travel. You were not born here to work and pay taxes. You were put here to be part of a vast organism to explore and create. Stop putting it off. The world has much more to offer than what's on 15 televisions at TGI Fridays. Take pictures. Scare people. Shake up the scene. Be the change you want to see in the world. You'll thank yourself for it. - Jason Mraz


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I like to share on mulitple social media platforms; one of them is youtube but if you've read my blog for any length of time you know this already! I had been filming from my desk in the office part of the space but I'm working on bigger substrates now so I need to move into the larger space.
My studio/office/craft space is in the unfinished part of my basement. This is to my benefit. While I would love one of those Martha Stewart too pretty to create in spaces being in the basement allows me to nail or spill paint all I want. That being said I created a camera rig out of pvc pipe and connectors attached to the rafters.
There is one part that slides so I can move the camera horizontally. I have a 360 flexible gooseneck cell phone clamp that is 31 inches long do I can move the camera vertically. Also a flexible monkey desktop tripod hanging on that. My lights are from the hardware store and have daylight bulbs. I need one more.
I've been away from video making and blogging. But I am returning!
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D-backs president reflects on state of franchise
Hall shares thoughts on tickets, outreach, team's financial health and more
In honor of Presidents Day, MLB.com sat down with Arizona Diamondbacks team president and CEO Derrick Hall to discuss the state of the organization.
MLB.com: How are ticket sales going so far this year? I know you have been creative with the variety of plans that you offer. Are there any new programs this year?
Hall: We have some more options and plans and we have more payment options, which is something we had gotten a lot of feedback about. Fans and prospective buyers had said if there were more payment plans to stretch out their payments, to pay monthly for 12 months, it would help them, so we've made some changes with that. We are pacing well ahead of where we were last year at this time. We are just hoping to hit our projections, which are very similar to last year. We hope to be above it a little bit, and the way we're pacing, it looks like we will be.
MLB.com: You guys always have ranked at or near the top in the affordability indexes that come out with regard to ticket prices. Will that be the case again this year?
Hall: We'll still be the most affordable when it comes to fan cost index, which takes into account hot dogs, soda, beer, programs, tickets, caps. We'll always be the most affordable in baseball.
MLB.com: You are opening the regular season against the Dodgers this year in Sydney, Australia, and it seems like the organization has really made some efforts internationally in recent years. I know you've made several trips to Japan and Latin America as well as signing the first player from Brazil.
Hall: I think there's tremendous opportunity internationally from a talent standpoint. Being able to evaluate and recruit talent is a big opportunity for us as well as spreading goodwill and planting our flag and brand in the sand. So for us over the past couple of years it's been a real focus -- spend more time in Mexico, spend more time in Japan. We're going back to Japan again this year, Kevin Towers and I, in August. I've spent a lot of time naturally in Australia because of our game there. In Brazil we now have a scout full time and we're looking at the possibility of opening up a smaller-type academy there. More time in the Dominican, more time in Venezuela. So it's a focus and a priority and hopefully it will result in more players as well as more interest in baseball and the Diamondbacks.
MLB.com: What kind of feedback have you gotten from people in Australia in your time over there so far?
Hall: Great feedback. I think we've already made quite a statement. Australians like the underdog and they consider us the underdog in these two games, in this series. I've really enjoyed my time there and I think our time there is going to be great. Australia is really a market that is growing for us. The interest in baseball, the participation level in baseball is on the rise. I think from what I've seen firsthand in Australia and New Zealand is residents there are looking for an opportunity for their kids to go to school in the United States and hopefully getting it paid for through athletics. And the best way to do that is not through rugby or cricket, but through baseball and softball. So those sports are on the rise and it's a perfect time for us to go over on behalf of Major League Baseball and more importantly for this organization and this brand.
MLB.com: The organization has recently committed to supplying Arizona Little Leaguers with D-backs uniforms. Where did that idea come from?
Hall: Back in my Dodgers days, I used to dream up the idea and concept and discuss it with our employees and staff, how we could one day have an all-Dodger league -- maybe uniforms that were reversible where they could be blue one week and white the next -- but never really brought it to fruition. This is a takeoff from that, but even bigger. This is a community initiative as well, because we're taking care of the largest expense for them. We interviewed directors of all the leagues and asked them what their biggest need or concern is and they've always said the uniforms, the jerseys and caps. So we thought if we could relieve them of that, free them of that, they could then take that money or savings and direct it wherever they want. Maybe they could use it for field improvement, for concessions, for reducing the fees that kids need to pay. As a result, registration has gone way up, we've saved some leagues $30,000, others $20,000. We want to crawl before we can walk so we've taken about a fourth of the leagues in the state. So we're going to supply over 20,000 jerseys and caps for players and coaches in 33 different leagues. Quite a few of the leagues we saved, because they were going under. So we kept them afloat and it's going to be remarkable to see all the kids wearing D-backs uniforms. We give discounts to the Team Shop to the parents in their welcome kits, so they're able to buy merchandise.
MLB.com: That seems to be what you've tried very hard to do -- have kids grow up rooting for the D-backs.
Hall: Absolutely and the feedback we've been getting has been awesome. There's been full embrace from all the leagues; the kids are ecstatic. I'm getting notes and emails from friends saying my kid is so excited, my kid got the D-backs camouflage jersey. I got a note from someone saying their grandson got a green D-backs jersey, what's with the green? I wrote back that in the lower leagues where there are so many kids and so many different teams we had to use as many different colors as we could, other than blue and orange. He wrote back and said, "Oh, I get it, no Dodgers, no Giants."
MLB.com: With the debt of the deferred salaries now paid off, increased revenue coming in from Major League Baseball's national television deal as well as a new local television deal in the works, it seems like the organization is maybe in the best financial shape it's ever been in. Is that accurate?
Hall: We are as financially stable and healthy as we've ever been. We no longer have any debt; you know being debt-free is tremendous. Our revenues are at an all-time high for a number of reasons. National revenues have gone up and all boats rise there, not just ours. Our advertising and corporate sponsorships are at an all-time high, ticket sales are on the rise -- not our largest ever, but on the rise -- and that's our biggest opportunity. Our local broadcasting rights -- our radio deal is a long-term deal so we don't have to address that for a number of years -- but our television deal that we're in the midst of negotiating right now is going to perhaps bring us our biggest upside in regards to revenue. So I think with all that, our fans will continue to see an investment in the team. That's why our payroll is higher than it's ever been.
MLB.com: Where are things at with your television deal?
Hall: It expires after the 2015 season, but we had a window where we could negotiate now to create our own network if we wanted to. So we've looked at all our possibilities and it opened the door for us also to begin negotiations with our current partner, FOX. Being the current rightsholder, naturally we want to explore that possibility as much as we can just out of loyalty and partnership, but there are some other opportunities that we're very intrigued by. In either case, whichever direction we go, it's going to be a game-changer for the organization.


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The applicant sought permission to erect two 55kw wind turbines on land to the south and east of Solbury Farm, each measuring 34.2 metres in height.
Planning officers recommended that the plans be approved subject to conditions, including a standard time limit for implementation, development in accordance with revised siting details, and compliance with noise levels, assessment and mitigation.
The site is located approximately 1 kilometre to the north of Tiers Cross, to the east of the local road which runs from Tiers Cross to Ratford Bridge, and to the south west of Haverfordwest in an area of open countryside.
Tiers Cross Community Council raised a number of concerns about the proposal, while Walwyns Castle Community Council gave its approval.
Speaking on behalf of the applicant, Martin Horne said the limited visibility of the site made it a 'highly suitable' location for wind turbines, and approving the application would result in a 'win win scenario', for the applicant and the environment.
Local resident Mr Jones addressed the committee on behalf of the objectors. He said the site adjacent to turbine two contained a variety of bird and plant life, as well as an endangered species of butterfly.
He also raised concerns about the development's proximity to the road, which could lead to motoring accidents. "Only last Sunday night a car overturned on that dangerous stretch of road," he said.
Cllr Brian Hall's motion to recommend approval was seconded by Cllr Wynne Evans, and the vote was unanimous in favour of the proposal.


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Totem Tribe II: Jotun official website will be deployed next week
Posted 06-15-2013 at 08:10 AM by berserker
We managed to put together official website for TT2 which will be available at www.totemtribe.com
We will be deploying it next week and after extensive testing will make it available live to everyone. Hopefully testing won't take too much time and website will be available next week too.
You might ask why it took us so long to setup a basic website where there are a lot of website engines and frameworks available, both commercial and free ones. The answer is, because website is built around the game itself and with launching it we are launching part of the game as well (the technical part that handles accounts, registrations, logins, etc.) and website is basically a superstructure on top of Totem Tribe 2 account server.
Thus, this post is one of the last blog posts here, future news will be posted on the new website, and forums will be moved as well.
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Maybe the testing is taking longer than they thought it would? I don't know if they work weekends, so they could mean a weeks worth of weekdays, so maybe Monday?
Hopefully soon anyway.
Posted 06-22-2013 at 05:19 PM by smjjames
Posted 06-22-2013 at 06:39 PM by berserker
Posted 06-22-2013 at 06:40 PM by berserker
Posted 06-22-2013 at 06:52 PM by anneer
Hopefully is will be soon.
Waiting is so hard!!
Posted 06-22-2013 at 10:19 PM by brendatimj
Well, it's gotta be released this week hopefully
Also, just a thought, shouldn't the URL be totemtribe2.com? Given that the project is TT2.
Posted 06-24-2013 at 02:52 PM by smjjames
Posted 06-24-2013 at 04:14 PM by berserker
Posted 06-24-2013 at 07:52 PM by Ves31996
This has been a long-awaited treat .. you have taught my family (all of us totem tribe fans) just how much time and work goes into game creation. Thanks for all of it! We will keep checking back for game launch.
Posted 06-24-2013 at 10:59 PM by Delraylady
@ Ves31996: I hope not, they do need a better forum system IMO, and definetly one that is good at keeping out spambots.
Posted 06-25-2013 at 04:52 AM by smjjames
The site has forums and it is all build on top of the game itself. It's an in-house solution, that's why it took so much time. Slapping 3rd-party system like vBulletin is actually not that hard, the problem comes when you want to integrate it with the game to have shared account. I find it extremely inconvenient, when you have to register again on forums after you already registered in the game. It also inconvenient for users, cause it's not clear to find people who post on forums in the game.
With our current solution you will have same account, same protraits, same people both in the game an on forums, and everything else will be shared - friend list, etc. When you add someone to ignore list, you will ignore him/her both in the game and on forums. That might sound like a minor feature, but good experience is build from such small nice touches.
Posted 06-25-2013 at 06:56 AM by berserker
Posted 06-25-2013 at 09:55 PM by anneer
Posted 06-26-2013 at 05:28 AM by berserker
"@Totem Tribe II: Jotun official website will be deployed next week
Posted by berserker at 06-15-2013 04:10 AM"
when start? 06-26-2013 now
Posted 06-26-2013 at 07:29 AM by Miklok
Posted 06-26-2013 at 10:09 PM by Ves31996
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2 men and a woman get lose at sea and end up stranded on an island. A couple of months pass by and they eventually give in to their "basic human desires" and get it on.
A couple of months later the woman decided she can't take it anymore and kills herself. Another months or so passes by and the 2 men once again get these desires and figure what the hell and they get it on.
After about a month of this they both agree that what they are doing is just "wrong", so they finally bury her body.
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The random number generator chose Pokémon Silver Version. That's interesting.
Pokémon Silver Version was a Game Boy Color game that came out in October of the year 2000. It was one of the two video games that introduced players to the second generation of Pokémon (the group of 100 Pokémon that were revealed to players after the first 151). Silver Version's mascot is the legendary Pokémon Lugia, who had been introduced to audiences earlier that year in the second Pokémon Movie, "Pokémon the Movie 2000".
When Pokemon Gold and Silver came out, I didn't get Silver right away, but I did get Gold Version the first day it came out. I chose Gold instead of Silver because I preferred Ho-oh over Lugia. To me, Ho-oh seemed like a Pokémon that was even newer than Lugia, and that is what made me decide to get Gold first.
I eventually received Silver as a Christmas present, seemingly on Christmas of 2001, but it possibly could have been 2000. My memories of that time in my life are a bit fuzzy. The only evidence against me having gotten it for Christmas of 2001 (that I can think of) is that Pokémon Crystal was already out at that point, and Silver was considered to be inferior to Crystal. I can't say for certain whether or not I got Crystal on its release date, but if I really did get Silver for Christmas of 2001, it seems that Pokémon Crystal might have been received on another occasion some time after its release date.
I was about 9 back then, and looking back at it, I seemed to be more focused on playing through the story rather than playing beyond the end. I got all 16 Badges in the game and beat Trainer Red like I had done in Gold Version, but in Silver, that's where I stopped. My starter Pokémon was Totodile because I had already chosen Cyndaquil in Gold, and because Chikorita was in my opinion the lamest of the three.
In those days, I had a guide which I attempted to use with my friend Jonah to complete the Pokédex, but it was a fruitless endeavor. There was no known way to get Mew or Celebi without cheating, and I wasn't goal-oriented enough to capture the other 249 that were possible to catch. My first real attempt at catching em all would have to wait until Generation 3.
I remember reading that Pokémon Silver Version was considered by the Scholastic Book of World Records to be the most sold video game. I don't think it was true though, even at the time it was printed. Maybe it was the most sold game during a specific year, but I'm not sure. Even so, if it was true that more copies of Silver were sold than Gold, it seems to indicate that people favored Lugia over Ho-oh at that time, even though the metal Gold is usually considered to be more valuable and thus better than Silver. The reason for Lugia's popularity might be its design, but it seems to me that people were starting to prefer Pokémon that they were familiar with over those that were perceived to be new. Lugia had its movie, and although Ho-oh did appear in the first episode of Pokémon on TV, I know I never saw that episode until years later, so to many, it was completely new. The sentiment of preferring the familiar would drive some people who had previously liked Pokémon to dislike the newer Pokémon simply based on the fact that they were new and not of the original 151.
Pokémon Silver Version was good, but it was pretty much the same exact game as Gold. It was because I had already beaten Gold and Silver that I later found Pokémon Crystal to be not worth finishing until I finally did in 2014, but that's a story for another time.
Technically, I have still not played through the remake of Pokémon Silver that came out in 2010. I played Heart Gold but it was my brother who played Soul Silver. I'll be sure to think of an excuse to play through Soul Silver one day.
I played Pokémon Silver again in the year 2014. I won't tell you why, but you may be able to guess. Until the time is right, I'm leaving it as a sloppily kept secret. By the way, here's a trailer for The Yellow Quest!
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So I love DIY's especially when it comes to skincare but who doesn't. I came across this old wives tale recipe for dry skin a long time ago and for some reason never had the time to post it until now 😛
But it works and it is something you can create just from your kitchen pantry so I know you'll love it.
Lush also has an oatmeal face mask called oatifix and a lot of the ingredients you will be using here are in the Lush face mask.
- 1/2 a cup of oatmeal (obviously plain don't get the ones filled with sugar or chemicals)
- 3 tablespoons of Milk
- 1 tablespoon of honey
- 1/4 of a banana
- Ground almonds
1) First soak the oatmeal in the milk. You can use water but I like to use milk since it's a natural cleanser and it was rumored that Cleopatra used to bath in milk for her clear complexion. If it's good enough for her, it's good enough for me 😛
Also measurements are not exact, it's just the way I like it, but play around with it until you get the texture you want.
2) Then I like to add honey to the mixture since its a great cleanser and great for your skin, you even find it as an ingredient in many skincare products.
3) Then I add a 1/4 of a banana, it's usually the bottom bit of the banana that has turned black and since I'm not going to eat it, might as well use it! Banana is great for your skin, in fact many people use it alone and it works. Banana nourishes your skin and works as a mild skin tightener.
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We're all going to get old and wrinkly one day and it's a terrifying thought to most of us. That's why I really want to believe that these freaky Japanese rubber goggles will somehow make wrinkles disappear.
The goggles are called Mejikara and made of silicone rubber. Supposedly they have "specially-designed ridges which massage and help your skin" by putting "gentle pressure on [it] and pushing those sagging eyes back up to where they once were."
You can buy a pair of these goggles for $48 if you really want to, but I suggest that you're probably better off spending that money on some makeup. [Japan Trend Shop via 7Gadgets via Dvice]


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Situated just off the mainland of Malaysia to the very north, the pretty island of Penang – known as Pulau Pinang in Malay – is a great place to spend a few days. Bordered by Thailand to the north, many people head straight to Penang after taking the train through Thailand and across the border.
There are many reasons to visit Penang. With its beautiful beaches, Kek Lok Si – perhaps the largest and finest Buddhist temple in Asia – and spectacular scenery, it is easy to see why the island has earnt the nickname Pearl of the Orient.
Don't miss Kek Lok Si, the terrific pagoda-style temple situated atop Penang Hill. Not only is this a great place to relax and meditate, but the views from the top are spectacular as well. Another good place to visit is the Botanical Garden. This 30-hectare garden was created in 1884 and features a sparkling waterfall as well as beautiful wild Rhesus monkeys.
Also known as Foreigner's Rock, Batu Ferringhi is a picturesque beach resort. Take a break from temple hopping and trekking through the jungle to simply lie back on the sand a soak up the sun for a while. The Penang Butterfly Farm is located nearby at Teluk Bahang. The butterfly farm is set in picturesque tropical gardens and has thousands of species of butterflies and insects.
In 2004 Time Magazine announced that Penang had the 'Best Street Food in Asia', a fact that many dedicated gastronomes have known for some time. People flock from all over Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand to sample the wide range of cuisines available, which include Malay, Chinese, Indian, Nyonya, Thai and a sprinkling of Western dishes such as pasta and hamburgers.
As you walk through Penang's Indian area, you are greeted by the scent of dozens of stalls and small shops cooking up spicy biriyanis, masalas, daal and dosas whilst meat marinated in tandori spices roasts on spits and in ovens.
If you fancy a treat, take a spin in the Revolving Restaurant on 25A Lebuh Farquhar. It takes an hour for the restaurant to make a complete revolution, allowing you to enjoy spectacular views of Penang.
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The Stockholm Syndrome is a psychological process whereby a hostage identifies with their kidnapper, to the point of defending the kidnapper's reasons for their own capture.
For the past eight years ASIC appears to have been suffering from a similar condition, with only the public revelation of wrongdoing, rather than wrongdoing itself, provoking action.
The Senate hearing into ASIC's performance shows the regulator emerging from its captive state to see the true state of financial planning at Commonwealth Bank.
The daily revelations of big bank malpractice and regulatory inaction is a real-life horror show.
In her work covering ASIC's investigation into Financial Wisdom and Commonwealth Financial Planning, both owned by CBA, Fairfax's Adele Ferguson reported on a 'mystery shopper' exercise conducted by ASIC in 2007.
Covering 51 randomly selected planners, the advice of 38 of them was rated as 'critical'.
According to an ASIC letter sent to the Tim Gunning, CBA's former general manager of wealth management, in February 2008, the reason for a 'critical' rating included 'fraud and dishonest conduct', 'deliberate or reckless failure to disclose fees, costs, charges, relationship and warnings' and 'no evidence of appropriate advice'.
Surely the bank would be keen to rid themselves of these 38 planners, especially as two similar surveys at CBA's Financial Wisdom's branch in Cairns and Commonwealth Financial Planning's Bankstown office in 2006 revealed similar concerns?
Err, no. It got rid of just 12.
The annexures in ASIC's letter to Gunning, detailing cases where 'the product recommended was more expensive than the client's existing product' and 'the recommended product would cost the client $6,280 more than if he had remained in the existing product', give a hint as to why.
ASIC put two and two together, stating that there might be a 'correlation' between the amount of business that representatives wrote and CBA keeping them on.
But ASIC did not pursue the 26 'critical' planners CBA retained and on Saturday – a full eight years after it became aware of the problems – Ferguson revealed that nine still work for the bank.
Eight months after the Gunning letter, whistleblower Jeff Morris warned ASIC about dodgy planner Don Nguyen and the bank cover-up of his activities. After substantial prodding, the corporate cop stumbled to its feet and dusted down its excuses.
But for the Senate inquiry, Morris and a handful of Fairfax reporters led by Ferguson, in one of the more obvious examples of regulatory capture, ASIC may well have been happy to let the matter slip.
After all, even former ASIC insiders claim the regulator favours big business.
And yet against all evidence, before the inquiry began ASIC head Greg Medcraft was tirelessly defending the indefensible, claiming that 'recent media reports have tried to cast doubt on ASIC's good work and smear our staff and culture'.
Medcraft should have held fire on the messenger. The Senate investigation reveals ASIC doing a far better job of casting doubt on the quality of its work than even its most aggressive and cynical critics.
Fortunately, Medcraft appears to be recognising the nature of the relationship his organisation has with its kidnapper, although in a whiny 'jilted lover' kind of way.
Here's Fairfax's Georgia Wilkins on CBA's artisanal compensation process and hand-crafted disclosures:
'In a Senate estimates hearing on Wednesday, ASIC chairman Greg Medcraft expressed his strong regret that the regulator had been misled by the bank over the compensation, which involved $51 million being paid to victims on an unequal basis.
He said the bank had failed to be upfront with ASIC in advising of its decision to change the process. "I think it is fair to say that the level of trust and confidence was misplaced by us".'
How's that saying go? No shite Sherlock? So if ASIC can't trust CBA, why should we?
Let's put these facts together. In 2006, an ASIC survey established concerns with CBA planners. Between February 2007 and 2008, it randomly surveyed another 51 planners, finding 75 per cent of them to be poor in some form or other.
CBA ditches 12 planners but keeps 26 of them – who just happen to be good sales performers – on the payroll. ASIC does nothing.
Whistleblower Jeff Morris rocks up after the regulator fails to respond to his initial contact in 2008. It takes a further 16 months for ASIC to act, which doesn't include telling Morris to claim whistleblower status so he had protection against retaliation and discrimination (although he was told to 'get out with what you have left').
Then CBA appears to have based its compensation on something other than the sums its clients lost and the pain they endured. It misleads ASIC on a number of issues, including the number of claims paid.
Meanwhile, ASIC throws the book at environmental activist Jonathan Moylan, who released a clearly fake ASX announcement. Moylan faces up to 10 years in jail and a fine of up to $765,000.
CBA's dodgy planners continue on their merry way.
Because of his experience, Morris recently urged potential whistleblowers to 'think twice' before calling ASIC.
Then, in the face of budget cuts, Medcraft urges more whistleblowers to come forward.
This is movie material, surely, but only as satire or horror – the truth is simply too implausible.
Year by year the evidence piled up on ASIC's desk but it took a Senate hearing for the regulator to realise its dealings with the CBA had to change.
Senator Williams summed it up:
'I'm sick of hearing about people getting their nest eggs robbed. I expect the industry to be cleaned up and I want a regulator that is feared, not a wimpy group of bureaucrats.'
Good luck with that, Senator.
Due to budget cutbacks, Medcraft recently warned that the corporate plod would no longer be 'on every corner' and that investors must take more responsibility for themselves.
Greg, mate, we knew that years ago.
People seeking financial planning advice are swimming with the sharks while the lifeguard props up the bar.
Medcraft for once is right: you're on your own folks.
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Ahed Tamimi's detention was extended for two days after a military judge postponed a decision about remanding her until the end of her trial or releasing her on bail. The 16-year-old and her mother Nariman will be back in court on Wednesday.
At a hearing at Ofer military court on Monday, prosecution lawyers asked the court to keep the teenager in detention until the end of the trial, arguing she is dangerous. Her lawyer, Gaby Lasky, argued for her immediate release.
"There is a complete difference between the law that applies to settlers living in the occupied territories than to Palestinians living there. The difference is so harsh, that even grown-ups that have done things more brutal than what Ahed is accused of are released and are not kept in detention till the end of their trial," Lasky told journalists after the hearing.
Ahed's father, Basem Tamimi, told Palestine Monitor he fears Israel will want to use Ahed's case to "send a message to Ahed's generation" that there is a high price to pay for political activism.
Ahed was charged on 12 counts and faces up to ten years in prison after the was filmed slapping and kicking an Israeli soldier stationed in the front lawn of her home in Nabi Saleh, a village near Ramallah, to get him off the property. Some of the charges, however, relate to previous incidents and evidence for them was gathered after her arrest, including photographs from her mother's Facebook profile.
Shortly before the incident, the teen's cousin, Mohammed Tamimi, had been shot in the face at close range during clashes that had broken out in the village.
Ahed was arrested during a raid on her home three days later, followed by her mother, who had livestreamed the event on Facebook, and her cousin Nour, also seen in the video, who has now been released on bail.
Palestinians in the West Bank are governed by military law, while Israeli settlers come under Israeli civil law. Israeli military courts have a 99.7 percent conviction rate.
Every year, approximately 500 to 700 Palestinian minors are detained and prosecuted in the Israeli military court system, according to Defense for Children International Palestine (DCIP). Prisoners' rights group Addameer says there are currently 350 children in Israeli military detention.
Ahed Tamimi's arrest has shone a spotlight on the plight of children in Israeli detention as an international campaign began for her release.
"Ahed Tamimi's arrest and military trial exposes the Israeli authorities' discriminatory treatment of Palestinian children who dare to stand up to ongoing, often brutal, repression by occupying forces," said Magdalena Mughrabi, Deputy Director for the Middle East and North Africa at Amnesty International, which called for her immediate release.
"Nothing that Ahed Tamimi has done can justify the continuing detention of a 16-year-old girl. The Israeli authorities must release her without delay," Mughrabi said.
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What a wonderful read, in so many ways. Finding a true story that is truly a page turner is amazing. I learned so much about the London East End and public health in the 1950s. The poverty and struggle are quite graphically portrayed but it is the beauty and the courage of the women that shines through. At a time when much of London had disgustedly turned a blind eye to this region of slums and dockyard tenements, it was the trained midwives of a local convent that bravely laboured to work amongst the poorest of the poor. Visiting homes at all hours of the day and night, often on a bicycle, they offered safety and support to those women who could not afford doctor assisted deliveries. But this book is about so much more than childbirth.
Jennifer Worth was a midwife and she tells her own engaging story. But she doesn't portray herself as a heroine. Jennifer considered the women she served and delivered to be the true heroines for managing to keep families happily together in unbelievably squalid, cramped, and inadequate conditions. Worth guards against judgment and instead seeks to look deep within and find the good in everyone. She achieves this with a lighthearted style that includes a great deal of good humour, frivolity, and irreverence…even in a convent!
Call the Midwife is the first in the trilogy, followed by Shadows of the Workhouse and Farewell to the East End. I chose to read the Illustrated Edition, full of original photos and historic posters, which greatly enhanced the reading.
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DEKALB — Harlem discus thrower Audi Nichol is a first-time state track and field qualifier.
That's a great accomplishment for the senior, who back in February underwent surgery on her skull because of a brain condition called Chiari Malformations, which are structural defects in the cerebellum, the part of the brain that controls balance. Hand coordination and fine motor skills might be affected.
Before her diagnosis and later surgery, Nichol suffered with vision and balance problems and headaches. After her surgery, doctors weren't sure she should throw again because of possible injury.
"That wasn't going to happen," said Nichol, who despite missing half of the indoor track season because of rehab, worked her back to throwing again and now is a state qualifier. She threw 124 feet, 2 inches to finish second at Thursday's Class 3A DeKalb Sectional. The first- and second-place finishers in each event or those that equaled or surpassed the qualifying standard in the sectional finals qualify for next weekend's state meet at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston.
"I'm excited," Nichol said. "It wasn't expected. So, after everything I've been through, I'm just relieved and happy for this — especially being a senior and this being my last year."
Nichol's performance paced a solid effort for the Huskies overall at the meet. Harlem, which finished ninth with 30 points, had its 800 relay and Allison Hartman in the 800 run (sixth, 2:19.38), all qualify for state. The 800 relay team of Anisa Talic, Breanne Henderson, Haylin Bade and Jordynn Warren finished second at 1:47.94.
"It was a PR (personal record) for them and an unexpected finish for them since they came in seeded fifth," Harlem first-year coach Scott Sholl said. "This was a big meet and they all brought their 'A' game."
The Lutzow sisters of Belvidere North came through big in the distance races. Carley Lutzow, a junior, won the 3,200 run at 11:10.38 and later finished fifth in the 1,600 (5:11.99) to qualify for state for the first time. She is joined by her younger sister, Jenna, who qualified for state in the 800 run (third, 2:16.75) and in the 1,600 (third, 5:09.89).
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I hope this 2-4 is "gradually" sinking in the minds of all those still resisting the obviouskookfest wrote:"Pump Me Up" is correct. I'm privy to a lot of new kite testing. No kite will stay upwind under about 8 knots, regardless of the board. There is no kite in the world that will even fly in 2-4 knots. People sometimes get confused about kites because of the phenomenon of "gradient". The wind speed at 40ft can be completely different to the speed at ground level.
Hey Oldnbreaking news .....the "crazy" originator was D. (see above quote )Dimitri M wrote: I would like to thank you for doing this because you don't know how many INFINITY kites we have sold for the past 6 months, it's crazy
Hilarious! Could be time to restock the warehouse: Another Infinity has just been sold because of this ONE post. Along with some Cabbage Rolls (λαχανοντολμαδάκια) and a tub of tzatziki dip.SupaEZ wrote:(Taken word for word from D.'s e-mail sent personally to me on 4/29/13)
He wrote :
But for sure i should give you a commission since because of you we are sold out of INF V2
My response to that :
Always will be sold out if all you stock is 2-4 kites max in a warehouse
In retrospect.....clearly the Epi(c)tome of BSDimitri M wrote: It is time for a "LIGHT WIND SHOW DOWN"[/u][/i].
I meant what I said. The INFINITY v3 can fly in 2 to 4 knots and it has been proven so many times. And the last time was in NAPLES two weeks ago. Don't worry once again I have videos to show the reaction of the people on the beach. If you know NAPLES, it is a Cabrinha territory. Very hard to convince them.
SupaEZ I will be coming to COCOA beach December the 11th . Hopefully it will be blowing less then 5 knots so you can see it from yourself what the INFINITY v3 is all about.
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