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There have been many odd and interesting developments in American conservatism in the last few years, but there are few that liberals find more incomprehensible than the belief among many conservative Christians that not only are they currently being oppressed for their religious beliefs, but that today's outrages are but a prelude to a far more vicious and violent crackdown on Christianity that is right around the corner. There's a movie I want to talk about in a moment, but first, I'd like to explore where this is coming from, both from the perspective of the conservative Christians themselves, and the liberals who have such a hard time understanding it.
Part of the problem is that the Christians most liberals know are more likely to be liberal Christians (I'll cop to that), so we've never actually sat down with someone who really feels oppressed and explored their thoughts on this issue. Another part is that the idea of Christian oppression gets its most visible airing from the nincompoops on Fox News, who in their endless search for material for the day's Umbrage Report will grasp at nearly anything. I have trouble believing that too many actual Christians walk into a Macy's, see a sign that says "Happy Holidays," and feel that they've been stabbed in the heart, but I could well be wrong.
You could even blame the left. The flourishing of identity politics in the 1990s included something derisively referred to as the "Oppression Olympics," where different minority groups competed with each other to claim the highest of moral high ground by saying their suffering was worse than anyone else's. That may be less common than it once was, but it left a residue in our public debate in which victim status is considered highly desirable, in part because it allows you to make claims for redress. You see this particularly in the way conservatives talk about race these days, where they insist that racism against black people has virtually disappeared and therefore blacks cannot make any such claims, while the true victims today are conservative whites who are unfairly accused of racism and subjected to vengeful attacks from the minorities who hold all the power.
So today, conservatives are if anything even more eager than liberals to say they're the real victims. Take a look at this preview for a new film called Persecuted, which vividly shows the terrifying future that awaits us:
I'll give the Christian movie industry this: their production values are definitely improving. There seem to be some visual effects in the film, and while the cast may not be A-list, it's full of real actors with recognizable faces. While the movie won't be in theaters until May, our friend Sarah Posner caught a screening at CPAC; you can read her description here. The nutshell is that a righteous evangelist is framed for murder by an evil senator when the evangelist refuses to support a vaguely-described bill that will give "equal time" to all religions and thereby subvert Christianity, then has to go on the run to prove his innocence and save the country.
Is it silly hyperbole? Sure, but it's drama and that's what drama does. What interests me more is the fact that it's tapping into a genuine sentiment, even if it's a sentiment that has been whipped up by professional blowhards on radio and TV.
The main objection liberals have to the idea of Christian oppression is that it sweeps aside the important distinction between things that make you uncomfortable or uneasy or limit you in a way you might not like to be limited, and actual oppression of the kind we've seen many times through history. It should be obvious to any thinking person that when the government (or the department store) doesn't take affirmative steps to honor your particular religion, like putting up a nativity scene on the steps of City Hall, that not only isn't the same as literally arresting you and sending you to a concentration camp, it isn't even in the same universe.
But liberals should acknowledge that for more fundamentalist Christians, there's a genuine feeling that underlies their fears. In many ways, the contemporary world really has turned against them. Society has decided that their beliefs about family—in which sex before marriage is shameful and wicked, and women are subordinate to their husbands—are antiquated and worthy of ridicule. Their contempt for gay people went from universal to acceptable to controversial to deplorable in a relatively short amount of time. If you are actually convinced that, in the words of possible future senator and current congressman Paul Broun, "I don't believe that the Earth's but about 9,000 years old," then modern geology is an outright assault on your most fundamental beliefs. And so is biology and physics and many other branches of science.
When your kids go to school and learn about evolution, it feels like an attack on your most cherished beliefs, because it is. We like to pretend that science and religion can carve out their unique spheres (what Stephen Jay Gould called "non-overlapping magisteria"), but as well-intentioned as that may be, it's just not true. Yes, much of religion is concerned with unanswerable questions, but every religion also has a creation story, and the fundamentally scientific project of explaining how the physical world works was one of the main reasons ancient peoples began creating religion in the first place.
If your religion is the most important thing in your life and it's being rejected in one way or another by the people and institutions that used to exalt it, that's something that's hard to accept. Placing the blame on society or modernity or science or the evolution of moral values can make it seem like your defeat is inevitable. Government, on the other hand, is an enemy that can be confronted and changed. So deciding that's the source of your oppression gives you something to focus on, and even if you're spinning out apocalyptic tales, it actually makes things seem less scary.
Tue, 2014-04-08 20:50
The contemporary world HAS turned against conservative Evangelicals, who are fighting a last ditch battle against modernity, and that's a good thing. But as a liberal Christian I'm getting flak too--because most urban-coastal upper middle class secularists don't make fine distinctions. And when they do, they assume liberal, mainline Christians are "enablers"--circling the wagons to defend our fellow Christians against secularism.
I recently unfriended a Facebook acquaintance, a New York journalist, who asked me in all seriousness whether I 'believed in evolution'--because I was Episcopalian. In his secular echo chamber religious belief (other than minimal, non-theistic Buddhism) doesn't exist. And Christians are exotic specimens--like the 'yahoos' and 'rubes' Mencken described in his reports of the Scopes Monkey Trial.
No I'm not 'oppressed'. But the fact is that religion has become a class marker, and the assumption is that if you're a Christian of any kind you're rural trailer trash.
Wed, 2014-04-09 13:42
Wed, 2014-04-09 12:56
Good points, but we've also got an epidemic of white people claiming to be oppressed and men claiming to be oppressed so I think "Christians feeling oppressed" is part of a bigger picture. If you're accustomed to privilege, the questioning of that privilege can feel like oppression. Surveys keep showing that aging white men are the bedrock of Fox News and the right-wing media. Is this surprising?
I agree with the earlier commenter that "religion has become a class marker." And affluent liberals, who tend to talk a lot more about race and sex than about class, can be really clueless on the subject.
Wed, 2014-04-09 12:57
This culture of fear and oppression was created and is still maintained by those who lost influence and desperately want it back...at any price. Evangelicals wee influential under Reagan, and both Presidents Bush, then lost their influence with the election of President who believes the constitution specifically calls for the separation of church and state...a concept abhorrent to many in our country. None of them see the slippery slope here. Allowing religion to influence our laws begs the question "which religion calls the shots?"
Wed, 2014-04-09 13:03
Right-wing Christians are upset that the unquestioned privilege their views have enjoyed for so long is finally encountering some real pushback. The nation no longer pays the accustomed hypocritical tribute to their professions of virtue— they have sex before marriage, drink too much, get divorced and use birth control (and seek abortion services) at the same rates as the rest of the population; they expect, however, that because they wring their hands about it at church on Sunday morning that they are entitled not merely to condemn but to try to illegalize other people's moral choices. Finally the social momentum is shifting against them: gay Americans are *Americans*, and are entitled to the exercise of the same rights as any other Americans. Being required to recognize the rights of someone who is different from you is what real liberty means; only a bigot could feel oppressed by it.
Wed, 2014-04-09 13:54
Something white liberal Christians might recall is that fundamentalists and evangelicals basically split from them in the sixties over support for Civil Rights. And it was often along class lines. I remember a popular "definition" of Episcopalians as people who advocated integration and sent their kids to private school. Radical Catholics were considered beyond the pale. I believe there are still racist undertones among fundamentalists in which they project onto others what they would like to do themselves. Certainly, if there's any threat of theocracy, it comes from the right, not the left. As for "Christian" movie-making, Bob Jones University has been cranking them out for decades.
Wed, 2014-04-09 15:00
Karen Armstrong wrote a book, "The Battle for God," in which she traces the history of fundamentalism in the three Abrahamic religions. She begins by distinguishing between two different ways of knowing in the pre-modern world: "mythos" and "logos". They were then equally important and complementary ways of arriving at truth. "Mythos" was concerned with the meaning of life, not with practical matters; the truths of myth were timeless and constant; they gave us a way to find the deeper meaning of our daily lives. Myths were expressed in the language of metaphor that was understood intuitively and were never meant to be understood as literally true in the modern, scientific way of knowing. "Logos", on the other hand, was concerned with the here and now, with practical matters that helped us function in the world. Where myth looked back at foundational truths, logos looked forward to discovering practical ways to gain more control over our lives. Both were essential in the pre-modern world.
In the modern world, logos became pre-eminent, but not without terrible conflict and disruption. And with the rise of the scientific method, religious conservatives began, for the first time, to read the truths of myths as though they were true in the modern, factual, historical, scientific way. Unfortunately, religious myths were never meant to be subjected to modern scientific scrutiny. Myths cannot be demonstrated or proved scientifically, and if we try to understand them scientifically, they lose their entire reason for being. Stephen Jay Gould's "non-overlapping magisteria" captures Armstrong's argument, I think. Treating religious myths as though historically and scientifically true only diminishes and trivializes religion, and may well be a reason for the growing number of Americans who reject organized religion altogether.
Nevertheless, human beings find it hard to live without a belief that life has an ultimate meaning and value. In the pre-modern world, myths gave us that knowledge. Many modern religious believers know that these religious myths - understood metaphorically, intuitively, poetically - can point to ultimate truths that transcend the rational and give meaning to their lives. So I guess the message is that the next time someone tries to sell you on the idea that the Bible is true word for word, tell them that literal truth misses the point entirely. And when we try to make the modern world conform to religious myths, bad things happen - but that's another subject.
Bob From District 9
Wed, 2014-04-09 15:24
Christians in this country are being sold a lie that evolution is not true. Yet the overwhelming majority of Christians in the world are members of churches that accept the truth of evolution.
I will take conservative Christians seriously when they start taking Christ seriously. Jesus spoke of people going to hell, but there is only one place where he explicitly said anyone would go to hell that I have found. Though I am Catholic I will reference the KJV since most Americans are protestants.
This is from Matthew:
025:041 Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from
me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil
and his angels:
025:042 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty,
and ye gave me no drink:
025:043 I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed
me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
025:044 Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we
thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick,
or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?
025:045 Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you,
Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did
it not to me.
Thu, 2014-04-10 23:27
While you offer no examples, there are violent incidents of the persecution of Christians occurring on an almost daily basis. In the US, most attacks are limited to sarcasm, ridicule, marginalization, etc, but Prop 8 resulted in quite a few incidents of property damage, including the defacing of religious statues and church buildings. If I recall correctly, activists after losing the vote attempted to lay responsibility for the entire loss at the feet of the Mormon church. In China, the government has started bulldozing churches because too hih a percentage of the citizens in one province? have adopted the Christian faith. In Syria, a Jesuit preist who's been serving the poor there for decades was kidnapped and executed just last week. Another woman in some middle eastern country was drug from her car last week because she had a crucifix hanging from the rear view mirror. The skin was ripped from her face and she was beaten to death by a mob. Somewhere else last week a group of men were sentenced to death for writing the word Mohammad in a tweet, they were also Christian missionaries.
What most on the left fail to recognize is that many of the religious "rules" for behavior are the types of rules most societies adopted thousands of years ago to bring some order to daily life, reduce disease, ensure newborn babies didn't all end up thrown out with the garbage, to reduce crime and help ensure the survival of the community. They weren't just some words pounded out on a tablet. Today those rules look divorced from reality when the real issue is the rules didn't really evolve along with human understanding. As I'm sure many of you saw reported recently, academic studies show that the secret to a middle class or better life for any child is a two parent household with self disciplined parents capable of delaying gratification and teaching those "values" to their children. Where those values don't exist we pour billions and billions and billions, and conditions never change. America was never exceptional because of White people or "Christian" people, but because the prevalent community value system pushing people toward a behavioral mean had a tremendous impact on the stability, growth and innovation that, along with the luck of two great oceans insulating us from our enemies led to the development of an incredibly rich and powerful nation. Many today are actually more worried about the disappearance of those proven values than the demographic shift or the move away from religion. To us, the move toward a Euro style social democracy, strong central government, speech codes and all sorts of victim classes who pay little in taxes and vote for bigger entitlements is a shift that will kill the goose that's been aying lots and lots of golden eggs.
Fri, 2014-04-11 13:29
The only values you and the right are interested in passing on to your children are the values of hatred, bigotry, intolerance, and yes, RACISM! Time and again, the right attacks the freely elected President of the United States calling him a socialist, a Muslim, and, in the South, nigger. This persecution complex started the day this country's first black President was elected, and the folks who were calling the shots under the embarrassment known as George W. Bush realized that those days were over. Your paranoia will be the end of you yet.
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I have been reading a few articles about the question why we don't feel/notice gravity in everyday life, but I couldn't understand why exactly we don't feel/notice it, that is, why we don't feel a strong force pulling on us at every moment.
Theoretically, the only unambiguous way to "feel" gravity would be to travel near an extremely strong source of gravity, or rather an extremely strong gradient of gravity (e.g. a black hole), and feel tidal forces from such a massive object. (that, or gravitational waves from a binary system of black holes)
The rest is a matter of definition. We could define "feeling" gravity as perceiving its effects on our bodies. And the way we perceive the consequences of gravity on Earth is a sensation of the ground "pushing" upwards on our feet, and preventing us from freefall towards the center of the planet.
However, don't forget that gravity is basically curvature in spacetime. When you're in freefall, you simply follow a geodesic through the curved spacetime in your vicinity. In this sense, you can't "feel" gravity because there's nothing to be "felt" -- in the absence of other forces, your body is simply following a geodesic that is curved by the presence of a massive body (the earth).
If you were inside a free-falling box, you would never be able to tell whether you're in deep space (far away from any massive objects), or plummeting towards the surface of the earth. So, in this sense, gravity cannot be "felt."
You don't 'feel' gravity because your nervous system is differential.
Your body measures contrasts and adapts to constant values. Since you're always experiencing the same gravitational force, your sense of 'down' is constant and not reported to your brain as anything to take notice of. Take off in a plane or ride a roller coaster and suddenly your nerves report the change.
This is a neurophysiology question as much as a physics one.
Yes, you can get an intense feeling of gravity when you spend enough time in a zero gravity environment.
For example. You could get inside a pool for an hour or more and then get out of it to experience the pull.
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The geometry of spacetime dictates that objects under the influences of no forces will follow certain trajectories--"free-fall" trajectories, called geodesics. Gravity alters the geometry of spacetime, changing the trajectories of geodesics, but gravity alone cannot make an object follow a non-geodesic path. The uniqueness of geodesics is why we consider motion only under gravity to be the absence of forces. That is, in relativity, we do not consider gravity to be a force.
On the other hand, electromagnetic forces and such are still forces, detectable and measurable in a way that multiple observers can agree upon. Hence, they can be "felt."
All in all, this concept is merely an extension of an idea from Newtonian mechanics: that objects under forces follow straight paths. When spacetime can become curved, the notion must be modified, as straight paths are no longer natural (consider, for instance, lines of longitude on a sphere, which seem straight and parallel to one another at the equator but intersect at the poles--does that make them no longer straight?). Free-fall paths are the analogous notion in relativity.
It is my contention that this is what's commonly meant--that gravity does not contribute to four-force. There are other aspects to this problem as well, several of which that don't require relativity. The near-uniformity of Earth's gravitational field near its surface means that, were you in free-fall with a collection of objects, how would you even really know you were falling? They would all accelerate the same way you do, after all.
Conversely, a rocket accelerating in empty space versus sitting on the ground on Earth can't be distinguished. This is exactly one of the thought experiments used to commonly discuss the problem, and note that a rocket accelerating accelerates forward, while a rocket sitting on the ground appears not to accelerate, but to maintain the symmetry of the situations, we must conclude it is actually accelerating upwards. Upward is the "real" force we're being subjected to.
Yes, the human body is attuned to being under the influence of an upward force, but the question is more one of telling the difference between being stationary in outer space, in the absence of gravity, vs. moving freely under gravity's influence with nothing to stop you. These two cases cannot be distinguished, really, without making reference to some frame of reference that you decide must be fixed (a planet, background stars, etc.).
Probably this opinion means that when feeling gravity one actually feels reaction force. For example, while standing you feel pressure of the ground upon your feet.
But when you fall down you feel weightlessness, while you are under action of gravity in fact.
This is because gravity acts on all your body's cell or atom equally.
These are all geek's points.

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HighAdventureTour 2012: From Insanity and Beyond....
Well I spose it's time to hit the road, fly the coup, get outta dodge... time to take off on another High Adventure...
As much as I love Sherri, my friends and family it's been long enough hang'n close to home... I GOTTA FLY!
This road trip will start the day after tomorrow and last through August and into the beginning of September if all goes as planned... (Turns out it will go until the END of October:0 ... ) If there continues to be a plan.
Hadn't thot of a name for this RR yet... so my brother from another mother Terry says "From Insanity and Beyond" perfect!
"I have lived on the lip
of insanity, wanting to know reasons,
knocking on a door. It opens.
I've been knocking from the inside."
― Rumi
Been THRASHING for the last few weeks getting ready and jumping a couple hurdles... fresh top end, new DRZ400 forks, new Gen2 swing arm, both stator and clutch cases opened , radiator, new tool tubes, 18" rear wheel, brakes...new calipers, rotors, lines and front master cylinder, bars with HDB goodies, Vapor and all controls, luggage, and MUCH MUCH MORE!
Here's Des' 2 weeks ago, still sporting alotta old stuff...
Here she is last week (after the TOTAL make over... pretty much everything but the frame and overflow bottle have been swapped out) on a shake down ride sans stickers... gotta get those new smaller pelicans stickered up before launch.
This ride will bring me into contact with lots of other folks and the Dreams they are living... a chance to step off the edge of my world and land onto theirs for a spell. It will also kinda force feed all the magnificent beauty of the land and sea (Mother Earth) as well as the energy of Father Spirit deep into my flesh and being. A new awareness always settles into me as I travel the pathways of land and air, my mind and being becoming more and more saturated with the true possibilities we all possess. All in all this ride will have changed me yet again by the time I return back to N.E. Pennsylvania... as a ride like this surely changes everyone who would step onto its trance like magic carpet.
Then on another shakedown ride last week I met Amy, she was doin' some fish'n up on Lycoming Creek north of Trout run, had to pull a U-turn and go meet her... Vava Voooooom, what a cutie.
She's from N. Eastern PA but now up in N. Central working the Marcellus Shale Gas fields gig. Bringing lotsa $$$ to the local area.... my thoughts on the Fracking are still not all ironed out.
Then at Kemlers Restaurant where I'm having one of my last breakfast before take off, I see two of my favorite girls.... Codie and Alanna. So inquisitive about life, people, and places to see... just beautiful:)
Last summer at the end of my HighAdventureTour 2011: Spills, Thrills aaand Puurrty Giirrls, I was going to do a loop through Labrador and the Maritimes, but a high speed get off that broke me up pretty good including fracturing my spine yet again, and also destroyed Desiree's entire front end put that off... yet again. I've been trying to ride that part of the World since July 2008... always being denied entry, maybe I've been forcing it too much? I hope to make it up there this summer after this Rally Ride portion is finished up... we shall see.
It turns out there are a few Rally's going on this summer... like 8-9 just in the West, I'll see how many I can hit as I pass through their space.
It kinda goes against my grain to have much of a plan... so to do these events is gonna take patience.. and a lot of it!
I will be hooking up with NomadGal, and Parepin for a good bit of the journey too, as all our adventures will cross paths at different times... together we'll see what kind of a summer we can create!
This link from last years ride will let you see who I was last year... it started out as a 6 week ride out to Spokane to get back surgery, removing a plate and screws from my Sacrum... it turned into 4 months burning 17,000 miles, and a return visit to spinal injury:0
I'll leave ya with this...
If you bring forth that which is within you,
Then that which is within you
Will be your salvation.
If you do not bring forth that which is within you,
Then that which is within you
Will destroy you. -the Gnostic Gospels
Peace FF'S... see ya somewhere on the path,
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Well, I did all the purrty giirls touer with you so might as well tag along for this one too, Let's git a little a more sleep this this time,
I'm a lot older and need a nap everso often OK. IN !!!!
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I'm in.
This will be fun!
Here we go Jim, here we go!
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Dang Jim you sure plan to put down some serious miles this summer! I know you will have a great time and keep spreading the good word! Thanks for taking us along and ride safe my brother!
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Thanx Alot guys...
OK was up till 4:30 this morning getting Desiree' ready and putting the required stickers all over the new smaller Pelicans with my Buddy Jenny and a couple beers. Gett'n on the road soon and headed for Diamond Lake and Beyond.
Lets Gooooooooooooooooo YeeeHaaa
Jim outta here!
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JJ...... Won't be making the Diamond Lake get together, cause I don't have a KLR, but you are definitely in my neck of the woods and would be happy to put on a few miles with ya or purchase a beverage or two @ Kelly's in Newport, WA if you should find the time.... Won't be making the trip the Hells Canyon this year as we will be headed to the Arctic..... Anyway, shoot me a PM if you're down for a brew or ten.... Cheers brother......Phil
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Thanx Phil.... I'll see and PM ya
I just spent two hours typing an EDIT for the first post to say why I really do this ride... instead of "yea I'm going from Ato Z and Blaaa blaaaa blaaaambla bla" But have lost it TWO TIMES sooo I'll post it up later whan I can... 700 mi yesterday and only 2hrs sleep ( because I woke up early feeling like I had to EDIT this thing LOL)
Well...... that'll have to wait. But before I post again I WILL EDIT THE OPENER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Let the poeple know what's really goin' on!
Jettn Jim out
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OK I'll cheat and post one before I Edit the first post..
Just checked into a Super8 in Worthington Minnesota... and there are two ADVRider stickied bikes out back by mine...LOL nooo Shit small world eh. A DR650 and a KTM950 The DR has a rear tire goin waaay flat so I blocked up the guy or gals opposite foot peg so they don't find the bike on it's side in the morning...
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I really dig your outlook on life and your spirit. We talked about Eddie Vedder and his song Guaranteed, I listened to it again after I got home and some of the lyrics seen to fit you and your journey through space.
Everyone I come across, in cages they bought
They think of me and my wandering, but I'm never what they thought
I've got my indignation, but I'm pure in all my thoughts
I'm alive...
Wind in my hair, I feel part of everywhere
Underneath my being is a road that disappeared
Late at night I hear the trees, they're singing with the dead
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OKAY back from the edge....
Thanx Chad for the GREAT convo we had as like minded Seekers! That E. Vedder song definately fits me well....Thanx for posing it up. And look forward to contacting you in the future.
Like I said soon after starting this RR... I had to do some contemplating to see if I could put down in words what this is really all about???????
For any of you who read my last RR you can kinda get the jist of it there..... I believe I will expand on it more here.....
Just taking my time to feel how I really feel..... Tryin' to spread Joy, Happiness, Love, Fun, Folly and Play... as well as a good Work ethic while making the money to do these fun things and while DOIN' these fun things. Excepting negative/low energy for the balance/learning tool it can be.... It's more than this of course and I'll get to that later, but at least I've decided to get back to it.... todays news from home kinda spurred me along a bit.
Had a longtime friend get murdered over the weekend, shot and drug into his house not to be found for days (rural town out in the country) .... and again it got me to doin' some deeeep introspection about myself, my life, my message and how I can better communicate to the community of life as a whole....
And got me to seek more answers.... more TRUTH..... I'll check back in with ya soon.
On a lighter note............ it's been 7 weeks on the road now and I've ridden from PA to Northern Wash and Idaho, down into Moab then back across into NorCal and Oregon........Pulled a 300lb guy out of a flip and roll over on the Extraterrestrial Highway at 3a.m., helped an ol' boy with a flat on the McGruder, helped another couple stuck in the snow West of Troy... had to put a fawn out of her misery near Kane Creek outside of Moab etc..... met a TON of great people and seen some crazy cooool shit!!!! I'll start rehashing it here now. Been on the road with Parepin agian on and off... and we're head'n Nord 2mro for some 4th of July MADNESS in and where...... we've no damn Idea! But rest assured it will be goooood! Another foray into B.C. seems iminent too.
Can't wait to post up pics of all the KLRWorld/ADVRider friends I've met along the waaaay.
Love of my life Sherri Lynn, not soooo happy I'm leavin'...........
Helping another seeker (NomadGal) along......
Rokklym and Collarbone outside the Motel 8...
Heather who really helped me to start taking notes again and commit to the RR.....
Carol in Alzada MT... Love fer suuure....!^)-
Diamond Lake techday at Norris's place......
Me n Desiree' fix'n up Colts quad....
Relaxing with Colt's Mama, Becky and little sister Ruger....
John helping machine parts for NomadGal's Spirit....
In some sticky situations in the Black Forest..... on the McGruder.
Journey's End Revisited......
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Nice to see and update. My thoughts go out to you on the loss of your friend. Such as shame.
I'm sure this is going to be tons of fun as you add your photos and thoughts. Keep riding and spreading Joy, Happiness, Love, Fun, Folly and Play... as well as a good Work ethic.
Post when you can and take a bit of time to enjoy the flowers along the way.
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Dang Jim, sorry to hear about your buddy, that really sucks! I know for some reason you will find something good to come out of all the bad shit and it will cause something in you to work even harder to spread the positive energy! As always, just following along...you rock man!
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Posted: Thursday, July 02, 2015 by Daniele Meneghini
"The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man."- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Brest-Litovsk didn't bring peace to a battered Russia. The divisions inside the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party see the minority faction – the Mensheviks - always struggling against the majority one – the Bolsheviks. Meanwhile border countries once part of the Russian Empire are considering the possibility of taking advantage of their former "Motherland"...
Revolution Under Siege GOLD, the first complete historical simulation on PC of the Russian Civil War between 1917 and 1923, is out now!
Posted: Wednesday, July 01, 2015 by Daniele Meneghini
Over the years, Slitherine has developed some of the most in-depth and well-researched wargames in the market. Combining historical accuracy, cutting edge AI and enhanced combat models, Slitherine games have always been more about what is under the hood than before the eyes.
A crucial appreciation of these efforts is now coming from experts at defense, security and aerospace multinational BAE Systems. In particular, real time wargame Command: Modern Air/Naval Operations has been chosen to start a collaboration with Slitherine and its development partners
Posted: Wednesday, July 01, 2015 by Daniele Meneghini
They come from the sky but not as a conquering force. Despite their overwhelming Fleet their goal is not to gain more planets or solar systems. They don't feel anger, vengeance, tiredness or desire. Debris and ruins are the signs of their passage.
Their only aim is the extinction of all life forms. They are the Machines!
As the release date of the game is approaching it's time to have a close look at the menace Mankind will have to face!
Get more information about Legions of Steel from its official Product Page
Posted: Friday, June 19, 2015 by Daniele Meneghini
"There can be no mercy. No surrender. If we survive this day it will be a miracle." (Commissar Sebastian Yarrick)
Today is a good day to join the fight for the Emperor! Warhammer 40,000: Armageddon, after having managed successfully to capture the unique tabletop feel of the franchise, has reached a new important step!
Today iPad owners will be happy to know that the game and all its expansions are now available on tablets!Benefiting from extra months of development, this adaptation contains all of the updates released since November, including the free Untold Battles expansion and the latest 1.08 patch (check the changelog here) with fully localization in German, French & Spanish.
Posted: Friday, June 12, 2015 by Daniele Meneghini
Posted: Friday, June 12, 2015 by Daniele Meneghini
The last part of the Waterloo Diaries is on line on our YouTube Channel and its huge! In this part Matthew from the development team will introduce you to the Sandbox campaign!
While Sandbox battles were already in the previous games of the series, this time you are also able to run it for your campaign!
Get more information about the game from its official product page
Posted: Thursday, June 11, 2015 by Daniele Meneghini
"Now is the winter of our discontent/Made glorious summer by this sun of York" – Shakespeare, Richard III, Act I, Scene I
Darkness and coldness are finally giving way to summer, and is there anything better than a summer discount to celebrate this important turning point?
You now have the chance to grab plenty of awesome games at a discount so as to better enjoy your spare time!
Posted: Tuesday, June 09, 2015 by Daniele Meneghini
Posted: Tuesday, June 09, 2015 by Daniele Meneghini
"The Guard dies but does not surrender!" (General Pierre Cambronne)
It is the morning of June 18th 1815. The whole French army led by his Emperor in person is marching trough Belgium to engage with the forces of the Seventh Coalition. The armies of the Duke of Wellington and Blücher's are still divided. It is the last chance to defeat them, before they become too organized.
This will be the battle where the fate of Europe is shaped!
Today all of you fans of the musket era have the chance to become immersed in the final chapter of the Napoleonic Wars with the official releaseof Scourge of War: Waterloo!
From Hougoumont to La Haye Sainte including Placenoit, you will do your best to coordinate your infantry, cavalry and artillery units in order to outsmart your opponent in huge battles counting thousands of soldiers, while seizing the key locations in time.
Posted: Thursday, June 04, 2015 by Daniele Meneghini
What have the Middle Ages, the Second World War, Ancient Rome and Hellish demons got in common?
Probably nothing, apart from the fact they are the settings of our games in the Weekly Humble Bundle!
Starting today a huge list of Slitherine/Matrix games will be available through the Humble section.
You can name your price for Conquest! Medieval Realms, Frontline: Road to Moscow,Battle Academy, andRise of Prussia Gold.
If you wish, you can pay $6 or more to receive Qvadriga and Hell as well.
And last but not least, for only $10 or more you will receive all of the above plus Close Combat: Gateway to Caen, the latest release in the critically-acclaimed Close Combat series!
Posted: Thursday, June 04, 2015 by Daniele Meneghini
Posted: Thursday, June 04, 2015 by Daniele Meneghini
Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy is now available on PC and Mac!
Developer Black Lab Games focused on designing a unique sci-fi game with deep tactical mechanisms. Thanks to the simultaneous turn-based approach, not only do players have the time to think about their next moves, primary targets, and fleet positioning on the battlefield, but they also have the excitement to see the result of their choices during intense real-time sequences.
Human and Nautilid factions have very different assetsand superior firepower will not be enough to seize decisive victory when the enemy benefits from more units and better positions. So daredevil commanders will have to keep a cool head if they want to see the end of the war…
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Posted: Wednesday, June 03, 2015 by Daniele Meneghini
Pandora: First Contact has been updated to Version 1.6.0!
This large free update tremendously improves the AI, overhauls espionage and rebalances diplomacy. Thanks go to community member Alexander Stumpp's hard work for making it possible. The update also adds the long-awaited French translation, thanks to Steve Torres.The AI will now play a lot more like the best human players play the game: expand slower, dynamically improve tiles, adjust the tax-rate, handle resource emergency situations, prioritize refitting, perform flanking and out-of-sight maneuvers, build more diverse units, effectively use artillery and much more.
To address the repetitive nature of the espionage mechanic, success chance for missions can no longer reach 100% and agents can now lose health even if they complete a mission successfully. To combat exploitative behavior when factions have cities close to eachother, agents now lose all their movement points when entering another faction's territory.
Posted: Wednesday, June 03, 2015 by Daniele Meneghini
Posted: Monday, June 01, 2015 by Daniele Meneghini
We were succeeding. When you looked at specifics, this became a war of attrition. We were winning." (William Westmoreland – Chief of Staff of the US Army from 1968 to 1972)
Vietnam '65 has been updated to what we could call "the Napalm Upgrade"!
Releasing today on both iPad and PC, this new version of the game introduces major changes that not only affect the gameplay but also the overall replay value and immersion level! A custom game mode with 10 variables to tweak, combat modifiers, fog of war, zones of control mechanics, village and unit names, weather, hex overlays on maps, and many other new features come together for a completely overhauled Vietnam experience!
Download the patch from here
Posted: Friday, May 29, 2015 by Daniele Meneghini
It's time to see what the Naval Strike Group 7 has in store to face the Nautilid threat!
All of the human military spacecrafts have shields on 6 different segments that receive individual damage. Also there is a specific setup for every single alien unit. As a consequence, attacking from top rear or left front, for instance, will have totally different results depending on the target and weapons selected.
Be sure to the check the videos on our YouTube Channel!
Stay tuned! Space is vast, but it is not empty. Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy is going to fill it with plenty of capital ships and aggressive aliens next week, on June 4th.
Posted: Friday, May 29, 2015 by Daniele Meneghini
Posted: Thursday, May 28, 2015 by Daniele Meneghini
What defines complexity, after all? Does a game for experts need to be hard to play? Over the years there has definitely been a race to add more details to the games. Abstraction has become an design target few wargames developers are willing to pursue, because it breaks the rule of historical accuracy, but is the real thing fun to play?
Posted: Thursday, May 28, 2015 by Daniele Meneghini
The second part of the Scourge of War: Waterloo Diaries is now online on our YouTube Channel! Surtur is back with an interesting focus on one of the most important features in the game: the Chain of Command.
In Scourge of War: Waterloo battles can be fought from several perspectives depending on your position in the military hierarchy.
As in the previous video, this is in-game footage, without any post-editing!
Stay tuned for further videos!
Posted: Wednesday, May 27, 2015 by Daniele Meneghini
"An ally has to be watched just like an enemy" - Leon Trotsky
At arms Comrades!
Five years has passed from the initial release of Revolution Under Siege, the simultaneous turn based historical wargame set during the postwar struggles in the eastern Europe, but we had never rest!
Revolution Under Siege GOLD is a project of SEP REDS aided by volunteers from all over the world, all dedicated fans and contributors of the historical strategy games from AGEod!
This new edition contains a myriad of new options and game mechanisms to immerse you even more in the Russian Civil War; dozens of big fixes and game balance additions, as well as hundreds of minor improvements based on the last 4 years of players experience and feedback, and more!
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Ebay was the first place I checked. I've bought a replacement off of there for my laptop but I only had the battery for about a week so I couldn't really test it out (for quality).
If you want guaranteed quality, go directly through the manufacturer. Just expect to pay a premium.
There are a lot of knockoff batteries sold on ebay that are still quality and much cheaper. Just be careful and try googling the item number. I know some friends who have bought good batteries on ebay, but I have also heard of people getting trash.
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I always use battdepot.com (.ca for me). They usually ship same day and I get the battery next day from BC to Ontario.
Their US depot is in WA.
Their prices are pretty in line with what you would be paying off ebay.
Posted 15 August 2009 - 03:10
That's .au so I probably won't use it.
Try here: http://www.betterbatt.com.au/ for Oz
I couldn't find the site on BBB.org but it gets pretty mixed reviews when searching Google. Haven't decided if I will go with that site, need to talk to my father as it will be his money as his laptop.
Wow geez... a replacement battery (which I really need soon in time for school, both my XPS M1210's batteries are toast) costs $159.99 US on Dell's site, whereas it's not even offered for their Canadian site. And it's only $64.99 CAD on this site.
Thanks for sharing that site.
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Christmas can be a strange time of year, bringing to the surface conflicting emotions, heightened expectations, broken promises and long cherished memories. Aside from the overly sweet and often hollow carols which assault our ears in December each year, there are other less conventional songs which feel so much more real. Such songs deliver all the chaos of Christmas and provide us with an alternative view.
One song in particular that always comes to mind is Fairytale of New York by The Pogues. Performed as a captivating duet between The Pogue's Shane MacGowan and Kirsty MacColl, it is a song which covers a wealth of human experiences that we can all relate to…
Got on a lucky one
Came in eighteen to one
I've got a feeling
This year's for me and you
So happy Christmas
I love you baby
I can see a better time
When all our dreams come true…
You were handsome
You were pretty
Queen of New York City
When the band finished playing
They howled out for more
Sinatra was swinging,
All the drunks they were singing
We kissed on a corner
Then danced through the night…
I could have been someone
Well so could anyone
You took my dreams from me
When I first found you
I kept them with me babe
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Can't make it all alone
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Does anyone here work for or have ever worked for Johnson Controls?
All I need to say is "DX-9100"
God Bless our Veterans
God Bless the USA
I would say that there are a few why do you ask.
Arguing with your Boss is like wrestling with a pig in
After a while you realize that while you are getting
dirty, the pig is actually enjoying it.
It is not exactly cheating, I prefer to consider it
creative problem solving.
25 years ago we had Bob Hope , Steve Jobs , and Johnny Cash today we have no Hope no Jobs and no Cash !
I can fix broke but i can't fix stupid !
big company, lots of guys have been through those doors.
I'm new here, but I do.
I use to work for York. I started planning my exit when it was announced that JCI was acquiring them.
I was slightly upset that I had about a half dozen check stubs from JCI before I could get out of there.
Quite a few of us have drank the blue kool-aid
Law Of The Thermostat: He who has the thermostat wins!!!!!
I loved it when it was York , Was very proud to put on the uniform. So much has changed.
Been there 2 months, so far so good, no problems and it beats the crap out of unemployment. The answer to your question is how do you cope with very large company issues and the systems they may implement at any given time, just because some idiot behind a desk thought it may be a good idea? If your coming from a small shop it's going to be a culture shock so be prepared. The other way to answer your question is talk to some mechanics at the branch and talk to your BA. The old York guys are not as happy as the old Johnson guys but that is to be expected and they have that right. But a vast majority of them are still there.
No matter where I worked in the last 30 years I have noticed there are 3 types of mechanics.
1. Guys that really like who they work for.
2. Guys that hate who they work for and complain about everything.
3. Guys that just go to work everyday and just go with the flow.
I have been all 3 at different points in my career and right now I am a #3, and yes we have all of the above at my branch too.
Johnson is losing a huge market share in this area not sure if its just here or not.
Any Job is a good job in this economy its rough work wise out there.
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Johnson is losing a huge market share in this area not sure if its just here or not.
Any Job is a good job in this economy its rough work wise out there.
Not any job is a good job if you're equating your job to your employer.....
Klove help the handicap out what do you mean?
Warts and all, the best job I ever had was York International Engineered Systems, from what I did to who I did it for. (I'll let your imagination fill in the next part of this explanation.)
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Hey All, I wanted to share my experience with Corsair's Customer Support as they have been fantastic.
It started when i posted a thread on here that my power supply seemed to be going faulty, my voltages were through the roof, testing a different PSU and it was fine, so my trusted Corsair HX 620w had started to fail and it is 4 years old.
After contacting Corsair, they said ship the item to us, however this was going to cost me £30, just in shipping! I told them this and they arranged UPS to pick up the PSU and their cost. Which was the first great thing.
Next i get an email saying they have issued a replacement, I was expecting a refurbished HX 620 but its a brand new retail TX 650, the second great thing about this experience.
I am really happy with Corsair and just wanted to give a little review on their customer service.
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VIDEO: OK Go inspired GPS art
OK Go - the kings of the viral music video, have inspired fans to take on their Range Rover Evoque Pulse of the City project, by creating GPS art works of their own - just as the band did with its hit Back From Kathmandu.
And the best efforts can be seen in the video above.
Ok Go's own GPS artwork for the original video (created using the Range Rover Evoque Pulse of the City app) was nominated for an MTV award, and featured a marching band along an 8.5 mile route in LA.
If you missed it when it came out at the end of last year, here it is again....


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The extraordinary mental feats of bees are forcing us to rethink what we thought we knew about intelligence. Prepare to be surprised at what a tiny brain can do as we take a look at some of what these industrious honey-makers get up to. David Robson
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Located in the heart of Belgium's historic Ardennes forest, the 6.976-kilometer Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps is one of the most beautiful and challenging tracks in the world. Circuit de Spa is also one of the oldest sports-car tracks in Europe, having hosted races virtually nonstop (the exception was during World War II) since 1924. The Proximus 24 Hours of Spa promised to be one of the highlights of this year's FIA GT Championship season, with double points awarded to the top finishers.
Unlike the Automobile Club de l'Ouest (ACO) and the sanctioning body for the American Le Mans Series (ALMS), the FIA does not allow prototypes to compete. The GT series is nevertheless very popular with motorsports fans, of whom around 150,000 crowd into Spa's 12-turn circuit for each year's race.
For 2006, the 45 qualifying cars were divided into four classes, based on weight and engine size. The Phoenix Racing Aston Martin DBR9 sat on the pole, with a time of 2:14.871. Four ex-Pratt & Miller Corvettes-two C5-Rs and two C6.Rs-were among the top starters, and these were supported by five Pratt & Miller employees.
GLPK Racing entered one C6.R, which was piloted by the driving team of Longin, Kumpen, Hezemans, Mollekens. The yellow No. 4 was the fastest of the Corvettes and started fifth overall, with a time of 2:15.854.
Belgium's PSI Experience entered a C6.R and a C5-R. The No. 34 C6.R won its class at last year's 24 Hours of Le Mans, where it was driven by Oliver Gavin, Olivier Beretta, and Jan Magnussen. Piloted by the team of Menten, Jean-Philippe, Bornhauser, and Bouvy, the car qualified ninth at Spa.
The No. 36 PS1 C5-R was previously owned and raced by Pacific Coast Motorsports, from California. PSI assigned drivers Kuismanen, Palttala, Dehez, and Radermecker, who managed to qualify 10th. Soulet, Horion, Hart, and Buncombe, meanwhile, drove the No. 35 Renstal Excelsior C5-R to an 11th-place qualifying spot.
The green flag was waved at 4 p.m., starting the 24-hour around-the-clock grind. At the end of the first hour, the GLPK and PSI C6.Rs were in first and second overall, and it was becoming obvious that the race would be tightly contested between Corvette, Maserati, Aston Martin, and Saleen.
The Renstal C5-R was the first Corvette casualty, withdrawing during the second hour with a broken driveshaft. By the fourth hour only the yellow GLPK C6.R was still running with the leaders. During the sixth hour the No. 34 C6.R ran off the course and brushed the wall at Turn 12, causing extensive body damage. This incident put it well down in the standings.
Up front, the Aston Martin, Maserati, and the single GLPK Corvette continued to battle for the top three positions. During the race's eighth hour, the yellow No. 4 car pitted to take on seven liters of oil. Curiously, the car was not smoking, and no oil was visible on the pit apron when it exited. In response, team engineer Mike Gramke instructed the drivers to shift at a lower rpm and pit whenever the oil light illuminated.
During the 12th hour the No. 36 PSI C5-R had an on-course incident that severely damaged the right front and side of the car. It spent a number of laps in the garage being fitted with a new front bumper and having several loose body panels repaired.
The No. 4 car, meanwhile, had begun pitting every 45 minutes for oil, taking on another seven liters with each stop. (By the 23rd hour the car had consumed an astonishing 43 gallons of the stuff, much of it borrowed from other teams along pit row.) Ultimately, these frequent stops put the C6.R behind the two race leaders and eliminated any chance for an overall victory.
By the 18th hour the No. 36 C5-R had moved up to 18th position. The No. 34 C6.R was sixth, despite having lost Fourth gear around the 20th hour. After consulting with their Pratt & Miller colleagues, PSI team members decided to continue racing without a gearbox change.
During the last hour the No. 1 Maserati MC 12 passed the No. 5 Aston Martin to take the lead. The Maser would hold on to take the checkered flag just 1:41.5 seconds ahead of the Second-place Aston. Despite its insatiable appetite for oil, the GLPK C6.R still sounded strong when it crossed the finish line in Third overall, nine laps behind the winner. The badly battered PSI No. 34 C6.R was Fifth, while its C5-R teammate finished Eleventh.


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Best thing to use is an unscented baby wipe and a terry cloth to dry
- Answered by Keith G from Prairieville
For the polyurethane covers, I just use a disinfecting wipe that has been wrung out a bit on the outside only. That cleans it very well. As far as the inside goes, I never clean that as that is cloth.
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I always use a microfiber cloth, stop in at your nearest OPSM or any eye wear store. No need for cleaners, chemicals or even water..
- Answered by Duane H from Alice Springs
I have the mini with a genuine smartcover on top, Samrick poly protecter below and use Fellowes multi-suface wipes for both of them AND the screen, just wipe with micro fibre cloth after, total job 20 seconds
for the fluffy bit inside the cover, I've only had 1 minor stain, but waiting till fully dry and gentle brush with nailbrush did the trick
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The iPad mini cover is a set of strips and a magnet covered in thin artificial leather with a smooth side and a sueded side. Here's how to clean it quickly and without having to worry about water or having the thing sit around drying for heaven knows how long.
1. Use ninety-percent or above rubbing alcohol from a spray bottle to wipe down the smooth side either with a paper towel or a lint-free terry cloth.
2. Use a nail brush lightly on the sueded side (the side that touches your screen).
If it is especially dirty—if it is turning black in patches from use as a stand and contact with your hands while you use the iPad with the cover folded back—you can spray the inside cover lightly with rubbing alcohol and then use the nail brush.
Caveat: using a nailbrush on sueded plastic will cause little tufts of soft plastic to come off so you'll have to use it carefully and sparingly. It will most likely wear through the sueded surface eventually, but I find it lessens an older cover's tendency to drop long, dirty lines on my screen every time I close it.
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Hi, I know visit you very rarely. I run Polish fanpage and today we started this topic that I wanted to share and read your opinions. What if... article - this is for those who speak Polish.
Long story short, the idea is that if read so much of fantasy books, especially Discworld, but others too, we create some sort of our own worlds that exist in other dimensions. No, imagine that one you wake up, but it's not the Earth anymore. Maybe you have passed away but you don't know about it anymore. All you know it must have been some kind of a long dream. You are now in this fantasy world. The longer you are there, the less you remember from previous life, you are familiar with this world, but still discover it as if it was your first visit there.
No, taking it further, if faith can bring a godess to living and imagination can create worlds, take a combination of those two and think of Sir Terry. There must be a world, maybe Discworld being somewhere. It's both old and young in the way it is still learning about itself. After that many books this world is not only easy to imagine, but also predictable to learn it's history and sociology.
Now imagine, that this world, ones it's created by Terry, it is calling for it's creator. It wants to know everything and answer ultimate questions. It even started organising him a transportation which our (Earth) doctors call an Alzheimer...
I wonder what do you think.


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COLUMBUS – The Starkville Academy Lady Volunteers went across the river to Columbus for the third time this season and once again brought back a victory.
Starkville Academy defeated the Heritage Academy Lady Patriots 55-35.
The South AAA champion Lady Vols improved their record to 29-4 overall and 11-1 in the conference.
"It was a good game to work out some of the kinks before playing Jackson Academy for their senior night Friday," SA girls coach Glenn Schmidt said. "Everyone got into the action so it was a good team effort."
The Lady Vols jumped out to a 15-3 lead after the first quarter and never looked back. They held a 28-12 advantage at halftime.
Starkville Academy shot 47 percent from the field (25 of 53) and out-rebounded Heritage 26-21.
Nora Kathryn Carroll led the Lady Vols with 14 points, while Sallie Kate Richardson also scored in double figures with 10. Julianne Jackson was next in the scoring column with seven points.
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UFC will not sign him.
It is not 2000 anymore. He would get smashed by anyone.
The Gracie era is over since a very long time. Now every time a Gracie steps inside the UFC, he gets embarrassed and immediately cut.
UFC will not sign him.
It is not 2000 anymore. He would get smashed by anyone.
The Gracie era is over since a very long time. Now every time a Gracie steps inside the UFC, he gets embarrassed and immediately cut.
Not only brazilians can do this stuff
I still think Roger Gracie should have been built up. Renzo should too, but I don't see him getting high up in rankings.
Maybe they should have put him against Soa Palelei or Nikita Krylov, who gave one of the worst fights in recent months.
When you watch performances like Gracie's, or Palelei's/Krylov's, it is impossible to believe that they are professional fighters. Not to bash them, I know that they would easily kick any "normal" person's butt. But seriously to watch them perform in such a sloppy way and to be absolutely gassed after a couple of minutes....
Not only brazilians can do this stuff
And Renzo in the UFC is a clearly bad idea. Three and a half years ago when he said he would have 6 fights in the UFC, it was a bad idea... and he was tuned up by K1 Hughes so badly I thought he would immediately retire. Yes, he's a legend, but there is no way he can compete with the top 75% of any division. Imagine what some upper-level midcarder like Ed Herman or Matt Brown would do to him.
Survival is Triumph Enough
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i honestly dont think there is a single person in the ufc that renzo can beat right now in this stage of his career/life.
Dana White: 'I don't know why Renzo Gracie wants to come back'
"I have to ask Renzo Gracie why," White said. "Renzo, you've been around forever, you've accomplished so many things. You have the respect of the entire combat world in every country. I just don't know why he wants to come back at his age and fight again."
Renzo Gracie (13-7-1, 1 NC) signed a six-fight contract with the UFC after Abu Dhabi's Flash Entertainment purchased 10 percent of UFC's parent company Zuffa in 2010 and made his Octagon debut at UFC 112 in Abu Dhabi, losing to Matt Hughes via TKO. Gracie's last win took place in 2007 against Frank Shamrock at EliteXC.
"I mean," White continued, "he lost badly to Matt Hughes, who was at the end of his career too."
Speaking of Abu Dhabi, White revealed he's scheduled to visit Sheikh Tahnoon Bin Zayed Al Nahyan after UFC Fight Night 30.
"I'm going back to Abu Dhabi in October," he said. "After the Manchester fight, me and Lorenzo (Fertitta) are flying down there and meeting with the crown prince and Sheikh Tahnoon and all those guys. We'll probably be there for two or three days to talk about what's up and what's next."
Renzo Gracie Informs Dana White Why He Wants To Return
For having nothing to prove nor nothing to gain," said Gracie to MMA Fighting. "To fight for what it is without reason, without greed, just for the passion to step once again in the arena and be an inspiration for a future generation of great fighters. To prove that age is only a handicap for the soft ones."
"For having nothing to prove nor nothing to gain"
"To prove that age is only a handicap for the soft ones"
Well, that was coherent.
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Honors: Indoor Second Team All-America Honors (DMR - 2013, 2014)...Outdoor NCAA All-America Honorable Mention (800m - 2013)...NCAA Outdoor Participant (800m - 2013)...NCAA Indoor Participant (DMR - 2013, 2014)...Indoor ACC Champion (DMR - 2014)...Outdoor All-ACC (800m - 2013)...Indoor All-ACC (800m - 2013, 2014; DMR - 2014)....Indoor School Record Holder (DMR - 2013)...Indoor All-ACC Acadmemic (2013, 2014)...Outdoor All-ACC Academic (2013)...ACC Academic Honor Roll (2013, 2014)
2013-14: Competed four times during the fall, opening the season with a ninth-place showing at the adidas XC Challenge (9/20)…placed second for the Blue Devils and 25th overall at the highly competitive Notre Dame Invitational (10/4), running a 5K time of 17:39.7…saw a personal-best 6K time of 21:11 at the Wisconsin Invitational (10/19)…Indoors, qualified for the ACC Indoor Championships (2/28) in the DMR and the 800…led off the Duke DMR that won the conference title in a time of 11:15.57…also placed third overall in a converted time of 2:06.91 in the 800, earning her second All-ACC honor of the meet…ran a season-best converted 800 time of 2:06.64 in the preliminary round of the ACC Indoor Championships (2/28)…ran a personal-best mile time of 4:46.41 at the Penn State National (2/1), placing sixth overall in the process…opened the indoor season with a second-place finish in the mile at the Dick Taylor Challenge (1/24)…participated in the DMR as the 1,200 leg on five separate occasions, including a first-place finish at the Iowa State Classic (2/14) that saw the relay clock a time of 11:06.87, the third-fastest time in Duke history…also led off the DMR at the NCAA National Championships (3/14), as the relay placed 10th overall…Outdoors, qualified for the ACC Outdoor Championships (4/19), placing fifth overall in the 800...clocked a personal-best 800 time of 2:05.80 at the Georgia Tech Invitational (5/17), moving her into fourth on Duke's all-time list…qualified for the NCAA Preliminary Round (5/29) in the 800, placing 14th overall in a time of 2:06.00…twice competed in the 1,500, placing fifth at the Georgia Tech Invitational (5/16) in a season-best time of 4:24.20 and finishing 20th at the Virginia Challenge (5/10) with a time of 4:28.54…led off the seventh-place finishing DMR at the Penn Relays (4/24), as the relay ran the fifth-fastest time in Duke history, 11:18.29.
2012-13: Competed twice during the fall, posting a time of 18:16 over 5K while running unattached at the Three Stripe Invitational...outdoors, qualified for the 2013 NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships in the women's 800 after finishing twelve overall with a time of 2:07.84…finished 24th on the first day of the NCAA East First Round after running a personal best time of 2:06.82…earned All-ACC honors after finishing third at the ACC Outdoor Track & Field Championships with a time of 2:07.44…Indoors, earned Second-Team All-America honors at the 2013 NCAA Indoor Championships by running the 1,500 leg of the distance medley relay that finished ninth overall…the squad broke the school record in the event by combining for a time of 11:01.50 at the Alex Wilson Invitational March 1 in South Bend, Ind…earned All-ACC honors after finishing third overall in the women's 800 with a time of 2:07.92…earned a spot on Duke's all-time list in the event after clocking a personal best 2:07.64 at the Armory Collegiate to finish fourth overall…ran the 1,200 leg for the distance medley relay team that finished second at the 2013 ACC Indoor Championships with a time of 11:24.61...her outdoor season was highlighted by earning a qualifying spot for the NCAA Outdoor Championships in the women's 800 by running a career-best 2:06.82 at the NCAA quarterfinals in Greensboro, N.C…earned NCAA All-America honorable mention honors by running a 2:08.30 to finish 17th in the semi-final round…earned All-ACC honors in the event with a third place finish and time of 2:07.44 at the ACC Outdoor Championships…Duke's top performer in the women's 1,500 with a time of 4:23.26 to finish ninth at the Raleigh Relays…member of the 4x800 relay that clocked 8:40.96 to finish eighth at the Penn Relays and rank third on Duke's all-time list…excelled in the classroom and was named to the All-ACC Indoor and Outdoor Academic teams.
Prior to Duke: Four-year letterwinner for Bob Morrissey at Mamaroneck...two-time indoor track state champion in the 1,000m...finished the 2012 indoor season with the second-best time in the country in the 1,000m and the third-best time nationally in the 800m...also won a state title outdoors in the 800m as a junior...anchored her squad's 4x800m relay which placed third in the state during her final season...garnered All-America distinction after taking third in the 800m run at the 2012 New Balance Nationals Indoor...a three-time all-state selection both indoors and outdoors...recipient of the Officials' Award from the Armory Track & Field Center...also named to the Armory All-Star team...captained her indoor and outdoor squads as a junior and senior...also lettered three years in soccer, earning all-section honors...member of the National Honor Society...garnered first honors each year.
Personal: Daughter of Jonathan and Sudeshna Banks...born March 30, 1994...has one sister, Stephanie...godfather, Mark Crow, was a member of the Duke basketball team (1974-77)...father, Jonathan (1978) and uncle, Derrick Mashone (1979) also graduated from Duke.
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