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World War II was a bloody war that brought conflict and bloodshed to all corners of the world. It was a tragic and pivotal event in history that reshaped the world and directly affected much of the world's population. Over 80 million people, both military and civilian, lost their lives as a direct result of the war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. There has been much written about the key figures involved in the war, including Winston Churchill, Adolf Hitler, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Josef Stalin, the policy-makers, and much is known about strategies and actions of both the Allied and Axis Powers. Truth be told, World War II is one of the most talked-about events of the 20th century, if not in world history. There have been numerous books, television shows, and films produced about this brutal war.
As might be expected, in wartime, just about anything can occur and usually does. However, very few would expect some of the strange reports that came out of the war; those of ghost planes, a UFO attack over California, the complete disappearance of a group of jets, or even famous government relics that went missing. Throughout the war, these things occurred and many more even stranger events and, even after seventy years, many of them remain unsolved. Some have been attributed to the fog of war or perhaps to the confusion that follows the devastation of battle. Others, though, lack rational explanation and remain baffling. Here are fifteen of the strangest unsolved mysteries of World War II.
15 The Mysterious Death Of Subhas Chandra Bose
Subhas Chandra Bose was the leader of the Indian Nationalists during World War II, and opposed British rule to the point of seeking aid from both Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. He is remembered as a defiant patriot and a hero of India. To the Allies, he was a traitor. Throughout the war, Bose dodged British surveillance and attended covert meetings with Axis commanders. All of this is pretty much accepted as fact. What is disputed, however, is the apparent death of Bose; reportedly, on the eve of an Allied attempt to capture and try Bose for treason.
According to reports, on August 18, 1945, a Japanese Air Force bomber took off bound for Tokyo. On board the bomber were Bose and 12 other passengers and crew, including a high-ranking Japanese general. Soon after take-off, the plane crashed in Japanese Taiwan. The Japanese report his body was immediately retrieved, cremated, and taken to a temple in Tokyo. Many believe that those aren't his ashes interred in Tokyo, and that Bose escaped the war, living out his life in secret. The Indian government acknowledges they are in possession of approximately forty secret files on Bose, all sealed, and they refuse to divulge their contents. Many assert that if they were opened they would be detrimental to India's international relations. In 1999, one file came to light about sightings and the subsequent investigation into the whereabouts of Bose that occurred in 1963, when it was believed that he was living secretly in Bengal. However, the government has refused to comment.
14 The Battle Of Los Angeles
It was in the early morning hours of February 25, 1942; just three months after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. The U.S. had just entered World War II and the military was on high alert when it responded to what was believed to be another unprovoked attack above the skies of California. Witnesses reported a large, round object, glowing pale orange, in the skies above Culver City and Santa Monica, cruising along the Pacific coast.
Air raid sirens sounded and searchlights began scouring the skies over Los Angeles, as over 1,400 shells from anti-aircraft guns barraged the mysterious object as it quietly moved across the night sky, vanishing from view. No enemy aircraft were shot down and indeed no satisfactory explanation could be given for what occurred. The Army's official statement was that "unidentified planes" had invaded Southern California air space, but then Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox countermanded and dismissed those reports as "war nerves" and a "false alarm." No satisfactory explanation was ever given to explain the bright lights in the sky that were tracked across Los Angeles.
13 Die Glocke, The Nazi Bell
It was called Die Glocke, German for "The Bell." Reportedly this wundewaffe, "wonder weapon," was code-named Project Chronos and was given the highest classification. It was said to resemble a giant metallic bell, hence the name, approximately 2.7 meters wide and 4 meters high. It was composed of an unknown metal and based out of Der Riese, a facility near the Wenceslaus mine in Poland, near the Czech border. The Bell contained two counter-rotating cylinders said to contain a metallic liquid called Zerum-525. Through an unknown process, when activated, The Bell would emit an effect zone of approximately 200 meters. Within this zone, crystals would form in animal tissue; blood would coagulate and separate, while plants would rapidly decompose. Reportedly, many of the original scientists died horribly during the initial tests. The weapon was also able to rise off the ground and hover in the air as it was meant to be launched over the Northern Hemisphere, detonating in the jet stream releasing its deadly radioisotopes causing the death of millions.
The main source for this report is a Polish journalist named Igor Witkowski, who claimed to have read about the weapon in KGB transcripts of the interrogation of SS officer Jakob Sporrenberg. Sporrenberg claims that the project was under the direction of SS General Hans Kammler, an engineer who disappeared after the war. Many believe Kammler was secreted into the United States, possibly with his prototype of The Bell. The only physical trace of the project is the ruins of a concrete framework, called "The Henge," about 3 km from the main complex of Der Riese, that may have been a test rig for anti-gravity and propulsion experiments with The Bell.
12 The Nazi Ghost Train
The legend says that, in the final days of World War II, in April 1945, with Soviet forces fast approaching, Nazi soldiers loaded valuables onto an armored train in Breslau (now Wroclaw), Poland. The train departed and headed west toward Waldenburg (now Walbrzych). It's about a 40-mile (60-km) trip and, somewhere along the way, the train, with all its valuable cargo, vanished in the Owl Mountains. Reportedly, the train was filled with Nazi treasure, including gold and precious metals looted from Jewish families. Over the years, many have tried to find the legendary "ghost train," but none have. Historians claim that there is no definitive proof that the train actually ever existed. While it is true that, during the war, Nazi Führer Adolf Hitler ordered the creation of a network of underground tunnels in the Owl Mountains, as part of Der Riese, a Nazi secret facility, there is no concrete indication that a train was ever hidden inside.
With the stories going back some seventy years now, the lack of evidence has not deterred treasure hunters from looking for the "ghost train." The original story can be traced back to a Polish miner who claimed he heard from some German miners after the war that they had witnessed a train being pushed into one of the tunnels in the mountain. Presently, two anonymous men have come forward claiming to have located a possible location for the mysterious train using ground-penetrating radar. They have agreed to lead an expedition in exchange for 10% of the value its contents. The Polish government has agreed but, as of yet, the train still hasn't been located.
11 WWII Ghost Planes
Few can imagine watching a plane soar through the sky only to disappear into thin air, but for many World War II veterans, it was almost a common occurrence. Those planes, called ghost planes, went missing in action during the war, only to return and be sighted decades later, long after the war ended. One common location where this is witnessed is the infamous Peak District in northern Derbyshire, in England. Over 50 planes have crashed there and it has gained a reputation for being a hotspot of ghost plane activity.
One of the first stories reported there involved Richard and Helen Jephson who were driving nearby, their car windows down, when they spotted a WWII-era bomber flying through the sky. They remembered it appeared to be flying very low but, remarkably, made no sound. They say the bomber just vanished as it flew by. A Royal Air Force veteran, who was nearby also witnessed the plane, believing it to have been a 4-engine American B-24 Liberator bomber. Another witness, who was golfing in the area, agreed it looked like a Liberator and was camouflaged. Local airport officials and the military confirmed that there were no historical planes in the air or nearby air shows. In fact, there were very few of these very loud B-24 bombers left over from the war and even less that were still operational. This was a classic ghost plane sighting and there have been many others documented over England. What could explain these sightings? Did these planes get lost in a dimensional portal, fated to forever fly in a time loop for eternity? Or, are they dedicated airmen still flying to defend the Allies, even in death?
10 The Disappearance Of Raoul Wallenberg
Swedish businessman Raoul Gustaf Wallenberg is considered a hero of World War II. He was a humanitarian who saved around 60,000 Jews from Nazi-occupied Budapest in Hungary, providing them with forged passports, food, medical treatment, and shelter. However, when the Soviet Red Army marched through Eastern Europe, he was arrested on suspicion of espionage. In 1945, Wallenberg all but disappeared into the hands of the Soviets. Later, the Soviets claimed that Wallenberg had died a prisoner at Lubyanka Prison, on July 17, 1947. They claimed he passed away suddenly in his cell of apparent heart failure. Prison records indicate the prison doctor certified the death and had the body cremated without an autopsy.
The outside world remained unconvinced. In 1991, the Russian government agreed to look into the matter. The ensuing investigation concluded that, most likely, Wallenberg was executed at Lubyanka in 1947, possibly by the administering of C-2 poison (carbylamines-choline-chloride), which was used by the Soviet secret police at the time. This would explain why the body was cremated quickly to avoid any complications from an autopsy. However, this inference is speculation and the investigation was inconclusive. There have been other claims about his final days, with some former Lubyanka prisoners, as recent as 1987, claiming Wallenberg survived and remained in prison for about 40 years. Yet Soviet records still haven't been released explaining exactly why he was imprisoned in the first place, or why he might have been executed. It has remained a mystery all these decades.
9 Hitler's Missing Globe
It has to have been the world's most famous globe. Charlie Chaplin parodied it in his film, The Great Dictator. This massive globe, known as "The Führer Globe" or "The Columbus Globe for State and Industry Leaders," was specially built for Nazi Führer Adolf Hitler. It was huge, easily as large as a small group of people and it was Hitler's prize possession. It sat in a custom-built stand in his office at the New Reich Chancellery and, after the war, it disappeared.
Once the Red Army captured Berlin, Soviet Minister of Internal Affairs Lavrentiy Beria inspected the Reich Chancellery. It is entirely possible, and believed, that he had the globe seized and returned with it to his headquarters at Lubyanka, where it might remain to this day. If the globe is still there, at the old KGB headquarters or possibly the FSB building, Russia has denied any knowledge of it. In fact, they refuse to confirm or deny if they were ever in possession of the famed "Führer Globe." Over the years, other Nazi globes have been recovered, even one discovered at the war's end by an American soldier inside Hitler's Eagle's Nest compound near the Bavarian Alps. That one appeared too small to have been Hitler's famed globe. Nonetheless, it was sold at auction for £68,000 ($100,000) in 2007. Some remarkable replicas have been built as well, but the real one's whereabouts are unknown and will probably never be found.
8 Erwin Rommels' Hidden Treasure
Field Marshal Erwin Rommel was one of the most respected military commanders of Nazi Germany during World War II. He was the famous Desert Fox, popular with the German public and fiercely dedicated to his nation. He was so dedicated that, in 1944, when it looked like the tides of war were turning against Germany, Rommel attempted to hide treasures to avoid them being captured by encroaching enemy armies. The valuables were seized by German forces during the Tunisian campaign. The story goes that Rommel entrusted four elite Waffen-SS divers with treasures that included 440lbs of gold bullion, silver, precious stones, and artwork. The divers were instructed to bury the stash deep in the sea. No one is quite sure where this occurred, but many believe it was around the many underwater caves that can be found off the eastern coast of Corsica, in the Mediterranean Ocean. They say the treasure would be worth at least an estimated £20 million ($26.8 million).
A British researcher, who has spent the past fifteen years searching for the missing treasure, believes the mystery might be close to being solved. An old photograph of a German soldier was discovered with mysterious writing on the back. It turns out it was a code, a code many now believe translates into coordinates that lead to the location of Rommel's treasure. Plans are underway to narrow the search to an area less than a mile from the Corsican port of Bastia, off Marana Beach. After seventy years, this mystery might actually be close to be solved.
7 Foo Fighters
No, we're not talking about Dave Grohl's band, but the World War II phenomena after which his band was named. The term was used by Allied pilots during the war to describe the unidentified flying objects they encountered, originally coined by America's 415th Night Fighter Squadron. The term became formally adopted by the U.S. military in November 1944. Believed originally to be secret Nazi aircraft sent for reconnaissance, most pilots reported seeing strange glowing balls of light that maneuvered around their aircraft at night, flying at great speed. Sometimes the mysterious lights would chase the planes, other times just keeping pace with them. Usually radar operators were unable to see the mysterious UFO's on their screens, but sometimes they could confirm their existence.
A postwar scientific panel was unable to adequately explain the phenomena. One theory concluded that the UFO's were St. Elmo 's fire - a weather condition where a strong electric field causes a glowing discharge to emanate from certain objects. Another theory was that the phenomenon was just cases of ball lightning, which are brilliant spherical balls of light that can appear in thunderstorms. Most pilots who witnessed the strange glowing lights that chased their planes dismiss these theories. This is one mystery that will most likely never be solved.
6 Where Is The Infamous Nazi Blutfahne Flag?
The Blutfahne, or Blood Flag, is the Nazi hakenkreuz (the infamous angled swastika) flag that was used in the failed 1923 Munich Beer Hall Putsch in Germany. During the Putsch, the flag became soaked in the blood of dying Nazi Brown Shirts (SA) who were killed in the conflict. The flag then became one of the most honored objects of the Nazi Party. It was used in ceremonies and was greatly valued by Adolf Hitler. Reportedly designed by Hitler himself, the flag became the key Nazi symbol. The story goes that the flag was rescued from the armed conflict and hidden until Hitler was released from prison, whereupon it was presented to him to commemorate their cause.
Despite the fact that the flag displayed by Hitler as the true Blutfahne contained no dried blood and was reportedly not even the same size as the one used in 1923, its legendary status still grew among Nazis. The flag was last seen in October 1944, at one of Heinrich Himmler's public Volkssturm induction ceremonies. It was initially believed that the Allies destroyed it during the round-the-clock bombings of Munich, but many were unconvinced. Numerous people throughout the years have claimed to have seen the actual flag, with some claiming it has secretly been in their possession all this time. The true location or fate of this symbol of Nazi tyranny has never been revealed.
5 The Pearl Harbor Ghost P-40
One of the most intriguing ghost plane reports of World War II, this story involves the P-40 fighter that got shot up and crashed near Pearl Harbor. Doesn't sound too mysterious, right? Only this plane was witnessed a year after the Japanese attack and, when investigated, no pilot's body was found in the cockpit.
It was December the 8th, 1942, and U.S. radar picked up an identified plane heading straight for Pearl Harbor from the direction of Japan. Two fighters were instructed to investigate and quickly intercepted the mysterious plane. It was a P-40 Fighter, of the type used in the defense of Pearl Harbor the year prior, and not used since. What was even stranger was that the plane was bullet-ridden, missing its landing gear, and the pilot could be seen to be covered in blood and slumped forward over his controls. The intercepting pilots claimed the other pilot waved at them briefly before his P-40 nosedived directly towards the ground and crashed. Rescue crews were dispatched immediately and combed through the wreckage. There was no trace of the pilot. They did recover a diary that indicated the plane was stationed on the island of Mindanao, 1,300 miles away in the Pacific Ocean. If he was a wounded Pearl Harbor defender, how did he survive in a shredded plane for a year? Without landing gear, how did he get his plane off the ground? What happened to his body? This has remained one of the most perplexing mysteries of the war.
4 Who Were The Auschwitz British 17?
This mystery lay dormant for more than sixty years after the end of the war. In 2009, an excavation at the Auschwitz Concentration Camp in Poland uncovered a mysterious document. It was a list that contained the names of seventeen British soldiers believed to have been prisoners of war. With names like Osborne, Lawrence, Gardiner, Lamb, Symes, Saunders and Holmes, eight of those listed had small marks next to their names. Many believe that indicates that those eight had been executed along with many other captured British soldiers during the war. However, others are unconvinced.
On the back of list, there is written, in German, twenty words with their English translations. These words include, "since then," "never," and "now." This has led some to the conclusion that those soldiers were actually part of a secret British Schutzstaffel (SS) unit that fought for the Nazis against the Allies during World War II. Of course, neither theory can be proven, as all there is to go on is a dusty old document and a lot of conjecture, but it is a mystery.
3 Who Turned In Anne Frank?
Most people know something of the tragic story of Anne Frank. She was a young German Jew, fifteen years old, living in hiding with her family in Amsterdam during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. She and her family were captured by the Gestapo in 1944, and sent to the Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp. Young Frank died there, but left behind her now-famous diary, written while living in hiding. Her father, Otto Frank, survived the concentration camps and published her diary as a testament to her life. What has remained unknown all these years is exactly who tipped off the Gestapo and revealed the family's hiding place?
There have been various suspects named over the years, most blaming Willem van Maaren, the warehouse manager of the complex in which the "Anne Frank House" was located. Van Maaren denies any involvement and even helped Otto Frank rescue the diary of his daughter after the war. Another suspect is a cleaning lady, Lena Hartog-van Bladeren, who feared her husband would be arrested and is known to have been aware that Jews were secretly living on the property. However, a 1948 investigation indicated that numerous complex employees were aware that the family was hiding in the secret annex that became to be known as the "Anne Frank House." A subsequent 1963 investigation located the former SS non-commissioned officer, Karl Silberbauer, who arrested the Frank family. However, he claimed that he didn't actually speak to the informant. He claimed his supervisor, Julius Dettman, received the phone tip and then ordered Silberbauer and his team to investigate the claim. Dettman committed suicide at the war's end. There is no conclusive evidence as to who actually turned in the Frank family and it will probably never be known.
2 The Amber Room
It was called the Eighth Wonder of the World. The legendary Amber Room from the Catherine Palace of Tsarkoye Selo, near St. Petersburg, was known worldwide prior to World War II. It was actually built in Prussia in the 18th century and then transported in pieces to Russia as a royal gift to Tsar Peter the Great in 1716. The room was entirely comprised of beautiful amber panels, with gemstones, gold leaf trim and mirrors. Following the German invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II, the Amber Room was disassembled and transported to Königsberg in East Prussia and displayed at the Königsberg Castle.
In January 1945, Hitler ordered all relics to be removed from Königsberg, although it is known that the man in charge of the relic fled without removing the Amber Room. Just months prior, in August 1944, the whole area was under heavy bombardment by the British Royal Air Force. Then, by April 1945, the city was near to being utterly destroyed by the advancing Soviet Red Army. The Amber Room could have been destroyed at any time during this period. However, numerous reports have come to light of people owning individual panels from the Amber Room, with some witnesses claiming the entire room was loaded onto the German transport ship, Wilhelm Gustloff, sometime after Hitler's January 1945 order. Despite these claims, most investigators believe that the Amber Room was most likely destroyed during the bombing raids in 1944, though it cannot be proven. Subsequently, a replica of the Amber Room was built by the Soviet Union and now can be viewed by the public at Tsarskoye Selo.
1 The Disappearance of Flight 19
This is probably the most famous mystery of the war, although technically it occurred some months after the war's conclusion. Flight 19 was a group of five TBM Avenger Torpedo Bombers involved in a training flight off the coast of Florida. It was December the 5th, 1945; Lt. Charles Taylor was in charge of a navigation training flight that originated from the Naval Air Station, Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Sometime during the exercise, Lt. Taylor reported that his compass was malfunctioning and that he couldn't ascertain the flight's position. It was decided that all the planes would stick together and, when one ran out of gas and had to ditch in the ocean, all the planes would ditch together. The tower lost contact with the flight and it was presumed they had run out of gas and had to make an emergency water landing. A PBM Mariner flying boat was dispatched to try to locate the ditched planes' location. However, mysteriously enough, the tower lost contact with the Mariner as well. The planes and all of the men disappeared, six planes and 27 men in total; all assumed dead; but how?
The Navy's investigation originally placed the blame on Lt. Taylor; however, they later changed the official report to reflect the loss of planes to "Cause Unknown." They have never been able to determine with any certainty the reason for Flight 19's disappearance, nor the loss of the PBM Mariner. No bodies and no aircraft have ever been found. The mystery has only added to the Bermuda Triangle legend.
Sources: history.com, firstpost.com, timesofindia.indiatimes.com, dailymail.co.uk, telegraph.co.uk


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Believe nothing, no matter where you read it,
or who said it, no matter if I have said it,
unless it agrees with your own reason
and your own common sense.
- The Buddha
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- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are,
and doing things as they ought to be done.
- Josh Billings
Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him
a situation which common sense,
without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
- Walter Lippmann
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if he has common sense on the ground floor.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Everybody gets so much information all day long that
they lose their common sense.
- Gertrude Stein
A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
- William James
The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.
- Dean Inge
Society is always taken by surprise
at any new example of common sense.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing,
moving at different speeds.
A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
- William James
Common Sense is that which judges
the things given to it by other senses.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Science is simply common sense at its best,
that is, rigidly accurate in observation,
and merciless to fallacy in logic.
- Thomas Huxley
Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.
- Josh Billings
Common sense is not so common.
- Voltaire
It is a thousand times better to have common sense
without education than to have education without common sense.
- Robert Green Ingersoll
Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful
theory was killed by an ugly fact.
- Thomas Huxley
Common sense is judgment without reflection,
shared by an entire class, an entire nation,
or the entire human race.
- Giambattista Vico
I think things like food, the food of the south is
sort of the common tie that binds us all,
Black and White, the sense memories.
It's a very particular part of the country.
- Sela Ward
If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional,
and common sense continual.
- Robertson Davies
Common sense often makes good law.
- William O. Douglas
Common sense is perhaps the most equally divided,
but surely the most underemployed, talent in the world.
- Christiane Collage
Historical methodology, as I see it,
is a product of common sense applied to circumstances.
- Samuel E. Morison
Our best theories are not only truer than common sense,
they make more sense than common sense.
- David Deutsch
Common sense and history tell you that rewarding illegal
behavior will only encourage more of it.
- Ric Keller
Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal.
What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've
lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma.
- Jack Kevorkian
All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.
- Thomas Huxley
I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes
sports hates common sense.
- H. L. Mencken
What a grand thing it is to be clever and have common sense.
- Terence
Work hard, use your common sense and don't be afraid to trust your instincts.
- Fred L. Turner
No brilliance is needed in the law.
Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails.
- John Mortimer
Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue.
It's a spiritual dissipation.
- Margaret Deland
The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells
us that our existence is but a brief crack of light
between two eternities of darkness.
- Vladimir Nabokov
In any war, the first casualty is common sense,
and the second is free and open discussion.
- James Reston
The problem is that agencies sometimes lose sight of
common sense as they create regulations.
- Fred Thompson
Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity -
frowned on by the authorities -
and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher.
- Dan Simmons
Requiring valid, photographic identification is a common
sense step to ensure voter integrity and sound elections.
- Sonny Perdue
Spaniards have always shown great maturity and great
common sense when it comes to voting.
- Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
My Lords temporal, today is the day to rise up against
the regiment of Lords spiritual and proclaim the values of enlightenment,
compassion and common sense.
- Polly Toynbee
Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.
- Thomas Huxley
The left no longer stands for common sense,
as it did in the days of Tom Paine.
- Christopher Lasch
Philosophy is common sense with big words.
- James Madison
It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything.
I am strongly in favor of common sense,
common honesty, and common decency.
This makes me forever ineligible for public office.
- H. L. Mencken
A balanced program for tax reform based upon the common
sense idea of lowering taxes out of surplus revenues.
- Andrew Mellon
My success was not based so much on any great intelligence
but on great common sense.
- Helen Gurley Brown
Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy
than reason and common sense.
- Voltaire
The fact is that my wife if she had common sense would
have more power over me than any other whatsoever,
for my heart always alights upon the nearest perch.
- George Byron
We have drained common sense out of our politics.
The more we focus on tactics and games,
the more good people check out and give up.
- Deval Patrick
A man of great common sense and good taste -
meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
- George Bernard Shaw
Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.
- William Osler
Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist;
two to one,
he is a pedant.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Conscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is
a mighty dangerous thing.
- Margaret Deland
I personally believe that those who are leaders with
political power over the world will be forced some day,
sooner or later, to give way to common sense and the will of the people.
- Alva Myrdal
Don't leave hold of your common sense.
Think about what you're doing and how the technology can enhance it.
Don't think about technology first.
- Esther Dyson
Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination
and bottling the common sense.
- Helen Rowland
Common sense is in medicine the master workman.
- Peter Latham
After a week of back and forth, and forth and back over firearms,
it's good to see a consensus developing on this common-sense
amendment to keep handguns away from children.
- Herb Kohl
Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.
- George Santayana
I have confidence in people's basic common sense.
- Dixie Lee Ray
Common sense varies among the young,
as among the old.
- John Edward Christopher Hill
Experience join'd with common sense,
To mortals is a providence.
- Matthew Green
A person of any mental quality has ideas of his own.
This is common sense.
- Franz Liszt
It is common sense to take a method and try it.
If it fails, admit it frankly and try another.
But above all, try something.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
This is a bipartisan effort.
This is just good common sense.
This is where the public wants us to go.
They want us to not be so dependent on foreign oil.
- Sam Brownback
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
- Albert Einstein
The House passage of our bill is a victory for this country!
Common sense wins out.
I'm just so thrilled and excited.
The sale of guns must stop.
Halfway measures are not enough.
- Sarah Brady
Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature.
A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
- Joseph Addison
Common sense as well as common values all lead us.
Our future depends upon it and our present is going
to be vastly better when we get back to these basics.
- Joan Blades
Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words,
breaking the rules of normal speech,
violating common sense.
Freedom is violence.
- Norman O. Brown
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On to the new start and stash! My Mom and I drove to London, Ontario to Thread & Eye, a superlative needlework shop. I had in mind that I would kit up one design to support a brick and mortar LNS and instead I kitted up 2! I had thought I'd only pick up this Ink Circles mandala:
I also fell in love with Handblessings Walk With Dad:
And I started it right away so I hope to have it fully finished well before Father's Day. I'll justify my new start like Jo of Serendipitious Stitching, the 5th Friday of the month deserves a new start!
I had planned on stitching the entire piece in WDW Lucky, but when I started the Dad character it seemed too stripey, so:
I frogged that part and restitched with DMC 895. I think the green suits well and I like the look of solid colour better. I'm trying to stitch this one in the evenings and DH is around, but hopefully not paying attention to what I'm doing. I keep the chart kind of hidden from him so he can't tell and I hope to work on this when he's not around when the motifs take shape a little more. I also plan on adding a little more hair to the child like in the other Handblessings designs:


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Might help you if you are learning Guitar! "Guitar Pro" can also do this but that is not a freeware.
Check out: http://jguitar.com/chordname
Might help you if you are learning Guitar! "Guitar Pro" can also do this but that is not a freeware.
Old article but a good read. It makes me laugh while it sounds some what relevant though J Guess I will grow some *ix beard & C moustache haha
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Having studied English for almost 21 years, it shocked me when I read an article claiming, "There is no future tense in English!"… I felt like, "What nonsense! If English does not have a future tense where does the words, "will", "to be" or "going to" fit in? I know that Japanese does not have a future tense but English??
That is how my search started two days ago & I finally am convinced with the fact! Let me try to explain it in the way how I understood…
ESL Team (English as a Second Language) defines verb to be
The tense of a verb is a form that (usually) defines whether you are describing an action of the past, the present or the future.
The reason English does not "have" a future tense is that there is no future form of the verb itself that would describe the future.
Let me quote an example,
Present tense – Eat, walk, riseNow what is the future tense - ?? Don't tell me "will eat" or "going to eat". That is NOT the future tense of the word "eat". Don't you agree? Okay, I don't know anything about French but for the basics which I learnt over the online free French tutorials. In French, there is a direct word for "I will go". That is J'irai.
Past tense – ate, walked, rose
Let's consider Tamil…
Present tense – saapidugiren (eat), nadakkindren (walk), ezhugiradhu (rise)Let's do the same again for Hindi now…
Past tense – saapittuvitten or saapitten, nadandhen, ezhundhadhu
Future tense – saapiduven, nadappen, ezhum or ezhapogindradhu
Present tense – jaana or jaa rahi hoon (going or go)Did you see? French, Tamil and Hindi have an appropriate verb for future tense where as English does not.
Past tense – gayi
Future tense – jaayengay
So, what are the WILL, TO BE called as? They are the Modal Auxiliary Verbs in English. See English Modal Auxiliary Verb for more.
English just uses these modal auxiliary verbs to phrase a sentence to refer ac action that might happen in the future. This is not always true though… Let's consider the example…
I will play guitar tomorrowLet's see one more example
I'm going to play guitar tomorrow
My guitar class starts at 9:00
I'm going to play the guitar (i.e. I will play Guitar very sooner may be in a minute or two)
Person A: What's up?Did you notice the last sentence? There the word 'rains' itself implicitly denotes something that might/ expected to happen in the future!
Person B: Nothing much. I am watching Tv.
Person A: Crap! Let's go out, dude.
Person B: Sure, but what if it rains?
As we saw, all of the above sentences describe something that is to happen in the future! We at times are also using the words to denote the action that will happen in the future.
- about to,
- want to
- have to
- need to
- be supposed to
- intend to
- plan to
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Hi friends,
I am writing a new series, "MaJa – Learn Japanese the easy way". The word MaJa is an acronym to "MAsti JApanese". The word masti means a lot. To mention a few, it can be said synonymous to excitement, happiness or simply having fun. I believe, learning Japanese is having fun… to me at the least J Hence the name MaJa. On the other hand, MaJa is the name of a South Indian movie which my most favorite actress Asin acted in :)
What MaJa is all about?
MaJa series will help you learn to write/read and speak Japanese. MaJa is targeted towards those who are totally new to the Japanese language and those who are in the beginner's level of learning Japanese. So, if you are an intermediate or advance level Japanese speaker, then do not expect much out of this series. As of now and also for the next few months, MaJa will only cover basic level of Japanese. One I feel I have covered everything a beginner should know, I might then move on to the Intermediate level. MaJa will also concentrate on the JLPT 4 & JLPT 3 exam aspects but it will take quite some time to reach there, as I first need to lay strong foundation for my readers to start with Japanese.
Why MaJa?
I know how you feel, "Yet another Japanese online lesson? Same old crap!" Well, I initially did not want to have a series like this as there are hell a lot of resources available in the net teaching Japanese the best way and professional way! I then thought, when every non-native Japanese speaker is trying to contribute something to the 'World of Japanese Students!" why should I not? I am preparing for JLPT 3 this year December 2009 and hence my knowledge in Japanese will not be as fluent as you think but still I have my own learning and my own stuff to share. In MaJa I will share my personal tricks & tips which I used and using to learn the Japanese scripts the easy way. I will also share some self-recorded audio files, documents for my readers. I also will share list of other resources which I referred and still refer to enhance my Japanese knowledge. Intermittently I will also share some interesting facts about Japanese and Japan .
Interest to learn Japanese and English fluency are the two things needed to follow MaJa series. Yes, you need not know even the 'ABC's of Japanese. I will get you started!
If you would like to contribute articles to MaJa then please drop me an e-mail at email@example.com (remove that NOSPAM when you mail me :))
Watch out Masti Japanese for more!
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Before we start on let me tell you frankly... This is just a FAKE trick! Call it lame, I don't care :)
When you right click on your My Computer Icon and Select the last most Properties option, you see a System Properties pop-up window, yeah? There you will see the detail about what Processor is your PC built upon. This description is displayed based on the Registery setting ProcessorNameString. To reach this, do the following:
- Click Start, Click Run, Type regedit and then Click OK.
- Scroll down to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE -> HARDWARE -> DESCRIPTION -> SYSTEM -> CentralProcessor. On the right pane, you will see a "ProcessorNameString". Right click on it and select Modify. Change it to any processor name. That's it!
Well you might be wondering why would I want to chane that stuff anyways. Think that you are about to sell your old AMD processor PC to someof your mates. You can claim as if you have a better processor for a cheaper price LOL That's cheating by the way :)
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Nokia Universal Codes
These Nokia codes will work on most Nokia Mobile Phones.
*3370# Activate Enhanced Full Rate Codec (EFR) - Your phone uses the best sound quality but talk time is reduced my approx. 5%
#3370# Deactivate Enhanced Full Rate Codec (EFR) OR *3370#
*#4720# Activate Half Rate Codec - Your phone uses a lower quality sound but you should gain approx 30% more Talk Time.
*#4720# Deactivate Half Rate Codec.
*#0000# Displays your phones software version, 1st Line : Software Version, 2nd Line : Software Release Date, 3rd Line : Compression Type.
*#9999# Phones software version if *#0000# does not work.
*#06# For checking the International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI Number).
#pw+1234567890+1# Provider Lock Status. (use the "*" button to obtain the "p,w" and "+" symbols).
#pw+1234567890+2# Network Lock Status. (use the "*" button to obtain the "p,w" and "+" symbols).
#pw+1234567890+3# Country Lock Status. (use the "*" button to obtain the "p,w" and "+" symbols).
#pw+1234567890+4# SIM Card Lock Status. (use the "*" button to obtain the "p,w" Go to Top and "+" symbols).
*#147# (vodafone) this lets you know who called you last.
*#1471# Last call (Only vodofone).
*#21# Allows you to check the number that "All Calls" are diverted to
*#2640# Displays security code in use.
*#30# Lets you see the private number.
*#43# Allows you to check the "Call Waiting" status of your phone.
*#61# Allows you to check the number that "On No Reply" calls are diverted to.
*#62# Allows you to check the number that "Divert If Unreachable (no service)" calls are diverted to.
*#67# Allows you to check the number that "On Busy Calls" are diverted to.
*#67705646# Removes operator logo on 3310 & 3330.
*#73# Reset phone timers and game scores.
*#746025625# Displays the SIM Clock status, if your phone supports this power saving feature "SIM Clock Stop Allowed", it means you will get the best standby time possible.
*#7760# Manufactures code.
*#7780# Restore factory settings.
*#8110# Software version for the nokia 8110.
*#92702689# Displays - 1.Serial Number, 2.Date Made, 3.Purchase Date, 4.Date of last repair (0000 for no repairs), 5.Transfer User Data. To exit this mode you need to switch your phone off then on again. ( Favourite )
*#94870345123456789# Deactivate the PWM-Mem.
**21*number# Turn on "All Calls" diverting to the phone number entered.
**61*number# Turn on "No Reply" diverting to the phone number entered.
**67*number# Turn on "On Busy" diverting to the phone number entered.
12345 This is the default security code.
Press and hold # Lets you switch between lines
IMEI number: *#06#
Software version: *#0000#
Simlock info: *#92702689#
Enhanced Full Rate: *3370# [#3370# off]
Half Rate: *4720#
Provider lock status: #pw+1234567890+1
Network lock status #pw+1234567890+2
Provider lock status: #pw+1234567890+3
SimCard lock status: #pw+1234567890+4
IMEI number: * # 0 6 #
Software version: * # 0 0 0 0 #
Simlock info: * # 9 2 7 0 2 6 8 9 #
Enhanced Full Rate: * 3 3 7 0 # [ # 3 3 7 0 # off]
Half Rate: * 4 7 2 0 #
IMEI number: * # 0 6 #
Software version: * # 0 0 0 0 # or * # 9 9 9 9 # or * # 3 1 1 0 #
Simlock info: * # 9 2 7 0 2 6 8 9 #
This will show your warranty details *#92702689#
Basically increases the quality of calling sound, but decreases battery length.
Deactivates the above
Shows your software version
*#746025625#This shows if your phone will allow sim clock stoppage
Half Rate Codec activation. It will automatically restart
Half Rate Codec deactivation. It will automatically restart
To Restore Factory Settings, simply use this code *#7780#
To see Date of Manufacturing *#3283#
Only For TDMA Phones
This will put your phone into programming mode, and you'll be presented with the programming menu.
Select "NAM1"
Select "PSID/RSID"
Select "P/RSID 1"
Note: Any of the P/RSIDs will work
Select "System Type" and set it to Private
Select "PSID/RSID" and set it to 1
Select "Connected System ID"
Note: Enter your System ID for Cantel, which is 16401 or 16423. If you don't know yours, ask your local dealer for it.
Select "Alpha Tag"
Enter a new tag, then press OK
Select "Operator Code (SOC)" and set it to 2050
Select "Country Code" and set it to 302 for Canada, and 310 for the US.
Power down the phone and power it back on again ISDN Code
To check the ISDN number on your Nokia use this code *#92772689#
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I LOVE this one. If you can't get the meaning, install Photoshop and just open up it up. You sure will then appreciate it!
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Let it be real life or Internet Community Boards or Chat rooms, every time I meet a fresher or experienced one working in the Unix/Linux platform, I seem them discussing 'Which Unix/Linux certification to do?". Nothing wrong, everyone needs recognition yeah J Well, I am not going to say, "Don't go for a certification. Rather practice. Have hands-on and real time experience with the system. That is how you would become a great *nix person and not just by means of a paper - the so called certification!" Even though, what I said is 100 percent true, certifications do play a major role.
It is the certification that adds weight-age to your resume. It is the certification that helps you estimate yourself as to where you stand in the level of expertise. However, certification solely does not speak for your expertise but experience does. I don't really want to discuss the merits and demerits of IT Certification here. Rather, I will suggest which certification path to go for...
Do NOT read any further if you are not aware of what UNIX and Linux are. I don't want to waste your precious time :)
Recommended UNIX Certifications available in the Market:
Recommended Linux Certifications available in the Market:
LPI Certification
Red Hat Certification
Novell Linux Certification
CompTIA Linux+ Certification
Which one will best suit you?
This is a tricky question but I said in the beginning of this article that we will together try to choose the most suitable one for you. So, let's work it out together :) I want you to answer some questions... Help me out in helping you :)
1 – Beginner Level
Start with LPI-1 or CompTIA's Linux+ certification. These certifications are not specific to any distribution and they test your general *nix skills that are common to almost all the distributions
2 – Advanced Level
Go for LPI-2. I am not sure if you would want to do LPI-3 as well. I leave it to you. To brief on LPI-3, it is designed for the "enterprise-level" Linux professional.
3 – Distribution Oriented
If you have reached here from "Personal Interest" then read this
Here you have wide variety of choices. There are various distributions of Linux and various flavors of UNIX including the ones I quoted above under" Various UNIX/Linux Certifications available in the Market". Choose the one which interest you. If you ask me for a suggestion, I would then say the RHCE and Solaris distributions are the most widely used distributions in the current IT industry. (Please note - I am not saying that the other distributions are not used at all. My point is that RHCE & Solaris are the MOST widely used ones)
If you have reached here from "My Job Demands" then read this
This is very clear. If you job demands one then get the one which it demands. Generally speaking, Job will demand only distribution based certifications. So, pick the one which is relevant to your job.
4 – To make my career in any *nix environment
When you say '*nix career' it can either be a development (a.k.a. programming) career in an UNIX/Linux based environment. You know the Shell scripting, UNIX Programming, Cronjobs sort of stuff. The other kind of *nix career would be to be a System Administrator. If you prefer to work on development side in any of the UNIX environment then the basics will do. You need not break your brain with the installation and troubling shooting stuff. It does not hurt to know but not really needed anyways. So you can go for the basic UNIX or Linux certifications like the LPI and CompTIA's Linux+ etc.
5 – To make my career as a *nix administrator
To be a UNIX or Linux system/network administrator is to be able to install, maintain, troubleshoot and the secure the system and network whichever you administrate. From the Market demand's perspective I would suggest you to go for RHCE or Sun Solaris either. The former one is a hottie! I think no employer would want to reject a RHCE certified person unless and until
- that employer is not recruiting for a *nix opening [OR]
- you passed the RHCE using dumps or luck and hence you did not qualify the interview round
6 – What do you need is not a certification but a break! Get some sleep and come back here tomorrow
Yes! Not trying to be funny here but you should know what you need a certification for. If you say you don't know, you are not in need of one. Spend time learning and not in wasting your bucks on certifications. There is a beautiful saying in Alice in Wonderland.
Alice: "Which road do I take?"
Cheshire cat: "Where do you want to go?"
Alice: "I don't know,"
Cheshire cat: "Then It t doesn't matter. If you don't know where you are going any road will take you there"
To conclude and also to remind you again, getting a certification does not mean that you know it all! It is just a proof that you know stuff, a value-add to your profile.
Happy learning :)
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Are you the one who loves Flash or Flash works? You need to check these sites out then!
Tracy Chapman - Official Website
St. Francis is Happy in Greenville
I wonder how many months it would have taken to complete these sites! Sites like these makes me hate to leave them :)
How much time do you think it would have taken for me to design this logo?
It's just 2 seconds. That is, the time taken for me to type in cyberdrop :)
Yes, it is the Go Logo's magic. This site is really cool. You type something and get a random logo for it. Not trying to be offensive, I personally would not use any of their logos but it is fun to play with.
Go Logo
That's a song by Jason Mraz! It is the recent best acoustic pop I heard. You can not say you don't like it unless you want to lie J check it out at leisure.
It really is cute when Jason sings the lines,
"Well open up your mind and see like me
Open up your plans and damn you're free
Look into your heart and you'll find love love love love
Listen to the music of the moment people, dance and sing
We're just one big family
And it's our God-forsaken right to be loved loved loved loved loved
I've been spending way too long checking my tongue in the mirror
And bending over backwards just to try to see it clearer
But my breath fogged up the glass
And so I drew a new face and I laughed"
Do not forget to listen him scatting… I mean those D-d-do do you, but do you, d-d-do J awesome track! If you are into acoustic then grab his whole album, "We Sing, We Dance, We Steal Things"
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Have you ever tried to use the Debug mode in DOS? No?? Here is a chance for you...
Start->Run->debug and type d ffff:0 as shown below. This tells you your BIOS' manufacture date. My system's (at office) BIOS manufacture date is 08/04/08.
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Make a TrueType font from your own handwriting for free. All you have to do is…
- Go to Your Fonts
- Print out a template from the site,
- Write in your letters,
- Scan & Upload
Voila! There you have it :)
As we all know, Bespin is a fictional planet in Star Wars films and books. Mozilla has recently started an open source project called Bespin and it is a Web-based code editor.
If you think, "What's so cool or funky about a Web based code editor? They are available dime a dozen these days", Bespin is not any similar to all those editors.
Know more at Bespin in Mozilla Labs
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Came across this very recently and I feel it s pretty creative! A great way to turn a mandatory element into a design element!
Check out for more:
Barcode Revolution Gallery
Funny Barcode Designs
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Hi, welcome to my blog. Let me briefly introduce myself. In July 2009 I started a new chapter of life when our family moved to Örebro, Sweden after I accepted an offer to help lead Operation Mercy, a very cool international relief & development organization based in Sweden with over 300 staff doing project work in Central Asia, Middle East, and North Africa. See www.mercy.se
The previous chapter was happily lived in Istanbul, Turkey where Katarina and I worked for 22+ years and raised our four children who are now fine young adults. In Turkey I was a partner in a managing consulting business and worked as the regional director for Millennium Relief & Development Services. See www.mrds.org So, I have been living "abroad" for more years than I had lived in America.
This new chapter finds me learning a new language, working long hours, and traveling more than ever. In 2011 our youngest son started university so this new chapter is equally defined by Katarina and I becoming 'empty-nesters'. Katarina works as a palliative care nurse at the local hospital. When I get a chance, I do renovation projects in our 100 year old house and occational 'moonlighting' as a consultant/facilitator in leadership development and do a bit of lecturing at Örebro University's School of Business on international management, Corporate Social Responsibility, and cross-cultural leadership.
I finished my doctorate at the University of Edinburgh's School of Education (Moray House) in January 2014. My research took a ground theory approach to explore the professional journeys of exemplary expatriate field leaders in the international aid sector. I have a Master's of Divinity from Trinity Theological Seminary with an emphasis in counseling. I also have a Master's of Education and a Bachelor's of Business Education from James Madison University. I was raised mostly in the Virginia suburbs of Washington DC, but have now lived over half my life in Asia and Europe. I suppose we are all on a journey in one way or another. My most important journey is learning to follow Jesus. I have adopted the Latin phrase praesis ut prosis ne ut imperes or lead in order to serve not in order to rule as a personal motto. It is very close to what Jesus taught about leadership and I like the Latin because it seems to make an elegant expression out of what, in real-life, is a rather sobering and difficult ambition. I see myself as a long-term student of leadership, peacemaking, resilience, and professional development.
When I have spare time I enjoy fishing in Sweden's many lake's and rivers and re-telling good jokes. I suppose my spare time activities are consistent with the Irish proverb: "You don't always have to be good at something to enjoy it."


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Our restaurant is available for private events: weddings, business lunches, dinners, cocktail receptions, and more. We would love to discuss how to be a part of your next event. Please inquire about the Award winning 2018 Xmas menu now. Most of the weekend dates get booked before the summer break
We refuse to compromise on quality in our restaurant. That's why we source our fresh ingredients from local farmers' markets.
Vancouver Dine Out hotspot on the other side of the river. The lamb Ossu Bucco is to die for.
"The chef knows their way around pasta in this restaurant in Surrey; one of the best food spots in Surrey and South Surrey area. Best steaks in Surrey.
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There is a whole lot variety of food available to us all around the globe. There are thousands of cuisines and styles which are offered to us and they all have their own special ingredients. A person works so hard … Read More
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Partisan politics is not necessarily a negative term in politics. Partisan politician is a politician that is completely committed to his party and the ideology and line of the party. However partisan politics is seen in a negative light in … Read More
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Are you using Instagram to grow your following and drive traffic to your blog yet? Instagram hit 600 million users last month, making it a great place to find new readers and make connections with like-minded bloggers and fellow social sharers. We've shared some tips before to get you started, so once you've got the basics down, here are some ideas for how to use Instagram to extend the reach of your blog:
Make your Instagram feed reflect your life.
Here are some WordPress.com bloggers I follow who share their content on Instagram too:
Sharing the real you is a great way to cultivate a following of interested, engaged readers. Personally, I love sneak peeks and behind-the-scenes looks, so Instagram feeds that include images that show real life are my favorite.
I recently started bullet journaling, so I've been sharing little glimpses…
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Yo RK Fellas!
Iain, Collin and myself decided to go skate LA and then go to Santa Barbara and party it up! Check out the pics!
I got this finger blades like 8 years ago when I lived in Spain. They are still in good shape as you can see!
Here is Anthony Williams doing a very elegant TrueFishbrain with a manly grab.
I was surprise to see Ranier blading around. Home boy keeps it real and still holds it down.
Here is Anthony Holding a Backtorke forever.
Learn form Iain… He knows best about blading!
Here is Iain going mac30 transferring soul to soul. He was very close to land it. He said he can land it but he run out of energy after getting 25 clips on this ledges. Next time guys!
After skating LA. Collin drove to Santa Barbara to this garage party. It was amazing so many college girls! it was really fun. My camera died I didnt get a chance to take pics of some of the Honey Dips that were there. We gonna be doing another trip there pretty soon and I'll make sure my camera is fully charged.
This Bum was seriously tripping on acid. But hell.. he was having a great time!
See ya on the next adventure introducing the fifth RK member!


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cha-summer product preview… idea-ology
it's that time bloggers…cha summer is just around the corner so let's start some product previews! i am so excited to share many of the new release products i have coming out at this show. there will be some great projects to share once it's showtime, but for right now, i want to show you Continue Reading


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Leadership is, perhaps, the distinguishing social idea of our time. It is seen in individual actions taken by a many people in every organization and group within which people daily interact. It is only when we try to pin the idea of leadership down in a specific, concrete definition that it becomes confusing and illusive. This is not to say that leadership is a figment of organizational imaginings, that there is no such thing as leadership. On the contrary, we see leadership practiced every day as literally millions of group members act in leaderlike ways. Of course, they may also act in other ways during that same day—as technicians, managers, experts, clerks, or laborers. Understanding of leadership need only be placed in the context of careful observation and experience to be understood.
The widespread interest in leadership today is merely the latest iteration of a sustained interest in leadership theory and practice throughout recorded history. Unfortunately, this interest had failed in capturing its essential essence. There remain about as many definitions of this dynamic as there are people who write and talk about and teach leadership. The full nature of leadership continues to elude us. For example, some people see leadership as any head person, as the nominal chief executive, whatever the title given. Others see it as a function of charisma or personality, an attribute of the personality of a few extraordinary people. Still others define it in terms of skills, knowledge, or abilities by some people and not others, and so on. In sum, after a hundred years of discussion, leadership remains an idea in flux.
While intellectually it may be hard to define, operationally leadership is part of all organizations, at least occasionally, often continuously. The careful observer of leadership must conclude that the leader's role is different from that of other group members. Leaders are set apart from their fellows by their personal appeal or the allure of their programs, ideas, and ideals. A few character traits frequently cited in the literature include integrity, concern for results, and desire for responsibility. Less frequently cited are desire for conformity, formal business training, likability, and appearance. As we begin a new century, coalescence around a few, more comprehensive dimensions of leadership is also forming. The following discussion delimits much of the essence of leadership as it has evolved over the past hundred years. Thus, leadership includes a few contextual factors, some common values, some specific tasks, and a few personal characteristics.
Leaders are sensitive to their own intimate personal needs, as well as those of their followers. Their task is to honor the innate uniqueness of each stakeholder and at the same time develop skill in integrating all followers into work communitys to make a difference. Theirs is a task of helping individual stakeholders develop their full selves, of energizing their innermost—spiritual— cores along with their current job skills. They understand that to ignore the whole person—the spiritual dimension—of each follower is to waste valuable talent and to deny workers of some valuable job benefits and the corporation of valuable contributions. Leadership, of necessity, deals with the core, spiritual values that define the whole person (Pinchot and Pinchot, 1994).
Competent leaders have learned to deal comfortably with ambiguity in both people and program. They are integrated themselves and in their approach to leading others. Their task is to attain stated goals while finding ways to let followers develop their full talents, drives, and desires. Today's world is one of interdependence, not dependence; of uncertainty, not order; of negotiation, not edicts; of persuasion, not command (Gareau, 1999). The need is for leaders who will use their power to empower others and help them become leaders and practice spiritual leadership themselves (Fairholm, 2000a).
Leaders are self-confident risk takers willing to make hard, risky decisions of the kind not routinely required of most managers. These leaders operate on the margin as they move the organization forward, into the unknown. The payoff is commitment to the common cause, increased energy applied to the task at hand, and satisfaction in knowing that followers accept the leader's goals and expend effort in their attainment.
Finally, leaders understand and respond to their followers. Today's workers are demanding more personal attention and concern for their special needs and capacities. Today's workers are blurring the connection between work and nonwork activities. Increasingly their private activities are impinging on their professional work lives and vice versa. Today's worker is generally better educated, and educated workers want to use their knowledge in ways that benefit them and their community(s) of interest. Leaders accept their role as encompassing all stakeholders and the need to share their leadership with them.
Three factors define the social context (Klenke, 1996) of leadership: the work community led, the followers, and the situation. Each factor is critical because leadership happens in a matrix of interaction and interdependency between a leader and a follower reiterated for each work community member. Leaders assemble around them people who see the potential for satisfying their personal needs in following the leader and adhering to his or her values, programs, methods, and goals. Indeed, leadership is inseparable from followers' needs and goals. Given this situation, the leader's success—even leadership per se—is best gauged by the willingness of followers to follow.
The leader's task is to create cooperative, action-oriented work communities that provide the environment—culture—within which both leader and led can operate out of a sense of spiritual wholeness and personal authenticity. The task is one of correlation of a variety of experts, each knowing more about his or her specialty than does the leader, and wanting about what the leader wants. In this cultural context, leaders construct work community visions that will tie leader, coworkers, customers, and their larger communities of interest together into an integrated whole while retaining the integrity of each individual, including themselves.
Leadership can be circumscribed by a few attitudes, and behaviors that support them, permeate all that the leader does (Crosby, 1996). Leaders use their personal professional values to focus the group and get their support. They love—care for—their followers, respect their individuality, and are interested in and concerned for them (Bilchik, 2001). They also trust their followers (Bedell, 2001) by behaving predictably (Bennis and Nanus, 1985). Greenleaf (1977) adds an attitude of service to this definition. He says followers will follow only leaders who are proven servants. McClelland (1976) relates leadership to confidence. He says people must have confidence in their leader before they will follow.
Leadership is also defined by certain behaviors or tasks that focus leader behavior and describe its distinctiveness. Obviously, leaders execute some tasks common also to managers. They also perform some fundamentally different tasks. Leaders hold some values managers—or other organizational actors—do not; they behave in unique ways and seek some similar, but other quite dissimilar, goals that differentiate the leaders from other work-community members. For example, leaders are influential in the work community and with its members in ways that use positional authority power but go beyond this typically managerial tool. They use personal types of power that lets them influence others and secure their willing compliance when they do not have command (managerial) authority over their followers.
Leaders are horizon thinkers ("Forecasting techniques for managers," 2001). They create a future for the work community in the form of a vision that articulates a compelling description about what life, the work community, and the individuals involved can or should be like. Leaders communicate that vision and focus member attention and energies on attaining this "good" future state of being. They spend less time on day-to-day problem solving and more on simulation of a future no one has experienced yet. They are symbol users who communicate their meaning to all stakeholders and engage their minds in ways that imply equality, caring, and respect for the ideas and logic of the other persons (Bennis and Nanus, 1986).
The essence of leadership—and all of this discussion—casts the leader in the role of change agent, but a different kind of change agent (Gareau, 1999), the object of which is to transform both the client and the client system.
Leaders inspire and preside over a broad-scoped change process that impacts each leader personally and each individual stakeholder. Many of the results sought take many years to attain.
Nonroutine approaches to routine problems are becoming the norm. The impact of the move to creative, encompassing leadership will place new pressures on the leaders to both be creative and teach stakeholders to follow suit. Successful leaders influence change in the values, attitudes, abilities, and behaviors of followers (Bass, 1987). In this sense, it is transformational of the people and their organization (Caill, 2000).
Given these observations, it follows that our past models of leadership are faulty. They focus on skills, structure, and system. These concepts are firmly within the scope of management, not leadership. Leadership is more than technical skill in analysis, control, and structure formation (Covey, 1991). It doesn't deal primarily with programs or structure. Rather, it deals with people, their development, growth, and a commitment to work community values and results. To the degree the past theories focus on management ideas, they divert our thinking from real leadership issues.
Leadership in the twentieth century was essentially an iteration of Scientific Management, a "hard sciences" technique of management masquerading as leadership. The effect has been to try to make leadership, like management, a science, controlled, precise, predictable. The fact is leadership is not management. Management systems cannot be substituted for leadership.
Leadership is fundamentally simple, not scientific. It is a series of dynamic relationships between people at their core—spirit—level.
The times call for results-oriented, spirit-focused leaders with an uncompromising commitment to their stakeholders, for leaders who urge others to share their vision for the work community and get involved. This kind of leader is out front with a vision of what the organization is and can become. It asks the leader to move the organization's people from believing to doing to being to becoming. This task is vastly different from directing, planning, and controlling. It is enlarging work community member's perceptions of themselves and their role. It is getting them to explore the possibilities in themselves and in the situation. It is drawing out the individual, raising his or her capacity and ability to perform.
The idea of leadership is often confused with that of management. Yet understanding of neither the theory of this discipline nor its practice can be successful until the special elements of the leader's task are clearly articulated and integrated into the mind-set of stakeholders—whether leaders or followers. Both traditional and contemporaneous definitions of leadership deal at least in part with common traits. Leaders are those persons who demonstrate traits of character in common with all other leaders (Deal and Kennedy, 1988). That is, unless a person is defined in terms of the following definitional characteristics, one can assume that that person is not a leader or only partially meets the necessary definitional criteria. Experience with work groups suggests that at least the following definitional characteristics describe leadership:
Leaders are different from others—they may be described as charismatic, magnetic, powerful people, set apart from the average (Cashman and Burzynski, 2000).
They are self-confident (Bass, 1981).
They are enthusiastic (Braham, 1999).
They are risk takers (Cashman and Burzynski, 2000).
They have a future focus (Bjerke, 1999).
They are characterized by a participative style (Bennis, 1999).
They have an integrating perspective (Tesolin, 2000).
They are committed to help others become leaders and then practice leadership themselves (Plas, 1996).
They have a sensitivity about leader–follower relationships (Santovec, 2001).
They demonstrate a respect for the changing situation (Gareau, 1999).
Leadership defined as it is above is not management. Management deals with such issues as performance, productivity, system, control, and measurement (Antonioni, 2000). The burden of management is to make every system, activity, program, and policy countable, measurable, predictable, and therefore controllable. Leadership, on the other hand, partakes of a different value-set. Leaders think differently; value people, programs, and policy differently; relate to others differently. They have different expectations for followers and seek different results from the work community or individual members.
Loosely, one can consider leadership to be the art of influencing people to accomplish the leader's aims. On the other hand, management is the ancillary and subordinate science of specifying and implementing means to accomplish the ends others—leaders—set. Managers maintain the balance of operations, leaders create new approaches and imagine new areas to explore (Zaleznick, 1977). Managers are transactional; leaders are transforming (Burns, 1978). The leader integrates the goal of the individual with the goal of the organization (Plas, 1996; Hersey and Blanchard, 1978). Leaders define the goals of the organization and then design an enterprise distinctively adapted to these ends (Selznick, 1957).
Given these essential differences between leadership and management, past theories that combine the two systems of behavior and ideology must necessarily be faulty. They ignore essential features of each or else overemphasize features of one to the detriment of the other. What is needed is a new conception, a new theory, that focuses fully on leadership as a discrete set of values, attitudes, and techniques, a discrete systems of behaviors, skills, and methods. Such a theory is found in the new leadership model described in the following chapters.
The special characteristics of leadership versus management is summarized in the following kinds of statements taken from the conventional wisdom of the past few years. These statements are illustrative only. No claim is made to delimit the range and scope of this difference so fully documented in the literature. This list serves only to point to the essential differences in these two concepts.
Leadership is doing right things, not just doing things right (Bennis and Nanus, 1985).
Leadership involves horizon thinking, thinking in the longer term, and thinking in more global terms ("Forecasting techniques for managers," 2001).
Leadership emphasizes the intangibles as well as the specifics working with others (Kalafut, 2001).
Leaders are cheerleaders, not cops, enthusiasts, not referees, coaches, not detractors (Lombardi, 2000).
Leaders look beyond the unit to all stakeholders impacted by the organization (Plas, 1996).
Leaders reach and influence constituents beyond their immediate jurisdiction (Badaracco and Ellsworth, 1989).
Leaders put heavy emphasis on the intangibles of vision, values, and motivation (inspiration) (Spreitzer, De Janasz, and Quinn, 1999).
Leaders understand the nonrational element in leader–constituent interaction (Spreitzer, De Janasz, and Quinn, 1999).
Leaders have political skill to cope with conflicting requirements and multiple constituencies (Fairholm, 1993).
Leadership is a multidifferentiated idea. Understanding it is, like all important aspects of life, a thing of the mind. An individual's idea of leadership is not so much the objective reality of leadership as it is his or her perception of it. Defining any dynamic concept like leadership is therefore difficult. In spite of this difficulty, for current purposes we can describe leadership in terms of several paradigms, or mind-sets currently in vogue in the discipline. The specific mind-set individuals adopt to understand leadership is personal; it is selected as they experience, read, and think about leadership.
Everyone has a mind-set that tells him or her what his or her truth is. These mental (not necessarily objectively real) perceptions are often so strong that no other perspective seems reasonable or even true—even when that mind-set is contradicted by observable reality. Each person thinks leadership is what his or her current mind-set tells him or her it is. Viewpoints other than the individual's current reality are seen as wrong, incorrect (it may be that alternative conceptions are simply inconceivable).
Five mental models of leadership can be identified in the 100-year history of the intellectual movement to full understanding of leadership. Each is true in the sense that it helps describe some part of the leadership task. But it is only together that they define the full picture. They rank along a continuum from control to spiritual holism and include the following ideas:
Leadership is the same as management.
Leadership is synonymous with good management.
Leadership is a function of the values held by leader and led.
Leadership is a task of creating a culture high in mutual trust.
Leadership flows out of the core spiritual values held by both leader and led—it is ultimately these core values that determine individual and group action, success, and satisfaction.
The sense of leadership today revolves around these descriptive ideas. Which, if any, are the real leadership perspective—or if none are, or if only together can we sense the real idea of leadership—remains in the mind of the beholder.
Defining leadership this way fundamentally changes the nature of leadership practice and of leader development and training.


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3 tips for showstopping planters + pots this spring and summer!
I may be guilty of leading most of my indoor plants to an untimely death, but when it comes to gardening and landscaping, my thumbs are emerald green! With the pollen finally gone and the temps holding steady in the 80's, it's finally time to get my flower pots ready for spring and summer! I've always had luck with my flower pots, so I thought I'd share a few easy tips that have worked for me time and time again:
Good drainage is key. If your pots don't have holes, make some yourself! When I bought my whiskey barrel planters, I ended up having to drill a bunch along the bottom. It's super easy and will ensure that your plants won't rot.
Put your pinecones to good use. Filling your pots halfway with pinecones before you add potting soil is a trick I learned years ago and it provides a ton of benefits! It keeps your pots lighter in case you need to move them, helps with drainage, gives you a break on the number of bags of potting soil you need to schlep home (especially helpful with bigger pots!) and helps get rid of all those pinecones all over your yard! You can also use empty plastic water bottles or packing peanuts, although, I will warn you that the packing peanuts make a MESS.
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When purchasing malls now dominate the retail scene in George City, lots of hundreds of years-aged shophouses are still running together with the city's flea marketplaces and moist marketplaces, for example Chowrasta Sector.
Together with these, a startup Group has been expanding in the city, such as the likes of Piktochart and DeliverEat.[202] Attracted by town's less expensive living costs and also the presence of various multinational technology companies in Penang, the city's startups also are remaining actively encouraged with the Penang condition governing administration and also the non-public sector, with initiatives to encourage entrepreneurship and market the Internet of Matters (IoT).[218][219]
The town's cheap of living and nicely-created infrastructure have also been cited as pull factors.[74]
His Repeated visits culminated in the famed 1910 Penang meeting which paved just how towards the ultimately productive Wuchang rebellion that overthrew the Manchu govt.
Like the remainder of Malaysia, Penang Island contains a tropical rainforest local climate under the Köppen local climate classification (Af), although it also borders on the tropical monsoon climate. Penang Island does experience somewhat drier disorders in between December and February of the following year.
In addition to that, tau sar pneah outlets are available all over the island, selling delectable bean paste biscuits.
In the following many years, George City retained its free port status, as guaranteed from the British colonial authorities prior to granting independence to Malaya.
The central hills of Penang Island serve as a huge environmentally friendly lung and h2o catchment place for the urbanised island.
In the meantime, the solutions sector is slated to become the biggest financial sector in Penang, due to the island's track record like a well known tourist place and the outsourcing of Superior companies into the condition. The page substantial concentration of Worldwide financial institutions in George Town has also made Penang Island the economical centre of northern Malaysia.
Amid mounting concerns with regard to the reduction-making ferry assistance, it absolutely was introduced in 2017 that Prasarana, which already runs Rapid Penang, will purchase the ferry services, and that is to become renamed as Speedy Ferry.
The first method of transportation in George City was the horse hackney carriage, which was well-known among the late 18th century and 1935, in the event the rickshaw acquired acceptance.
As a result of a number of procuring malls and hypermarkets on Penang Island, the town is the leading shopping hub of northern Malaysia. The retail sub-sector is supported by the big range of vacationer arrivals, and Penang's nicely-designed logistical connections and infrastructure, which facilitated the import of products. Given that 2001, procuring complexes in George Town registered the most important will increase in Malaysia.[170]
That has a heritage courting back to 1800, it is the url oldest area council in Malaysia plus the successor on the country's to start with town council - the George City City Council.
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Snow Date for this conference: March 18th
This conference is also being offered in Amherst (March 4).
We appreciate online registrations. If you prefer a paper registration form, download one here.
This year's conference will center around the wonderful world of weather and the seaons of the year -- a popular early childhood topic and one rich with creative possibilities. This hands-on day includes activities for school, home, library and community settings designed to strengthen pre-literacy and literacy skills for children 2-8.
We'll do movement, music, drama and visual arts activities that are engaging, joyful and linked to the conference theme. We'll also focus on early literacy, displaying and discussing a variety of books related to the weather and the seasons.
Particular attention will be paid to meeting the needs of children with developmental and learning differences. Participants will take away sample lessons as well as a wealth of user-friendly ways to link the seasons - and the arts to children's literature and learning.
Teaching artist presenters include Deborah Stuart, Will Cabell, Kelly Doremus Stuart and Richard Moses.
Presented by: The Arts Alliance of Northern New Hampshire and VSA New Hampshire as part of our ongoing Arts in Inclusive Learning collaboration, under a contract with the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Our thanks to Franconia Children's Center and Preschool in the VIllage for hosting this winter's conferences.
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Shortly after developers and real estate agents George (1855-1947) and Edward Amerige (1857-1915) laid out the Fullerton townsite in 1887, residents established the first school, a combination high school and grammar school, located at East Wilshire and Harvard (now Lemon) Avenues. Realizing that the fledgling town was going to need technical and professional workers, such as teachers, lawyers, and librarians, to flourish, residents began to push for a college. California was the first state in the nation to enact legislation creating public junior colleges. The 1907 law allowed the board of trustees of a high school district to provide post-high school courses in the high school, and Fullerton residents were eager to follow the cities of Fresno, Santa Barbara, and Bakersfield in establishing a junior college. On April 25, 1913, the "College Department" was launched by a unanimous resolution of the Fullerton Union High School District Board of Trustees. Admission requirements were a high school or secondary school transcript and "evidence as to good moral character". The college opened for classes on September 15, 1913, with an enrollment of twenty-eight male and female students who registered for twelve classes, including English, Art, History, Logic, Psychology, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, German, Mechanical Drawing, and Manual Training. Fourteen of these students came back the next year and were joined by a new freshmen class of twenty six. During the school year 1915-1916, the enrollment reached a total of forty-four, and during 1916-1917, sixty students placed their names on the roll. Courses were scattered over the high school campus in rooms that were used during periods of the day for high school classes. Later, certain rooms and buildings were used exclusively for junior college classes. Early records indicate that a student fee (tuition) of $10 to $20 per course was seriously considered, but it was eventually decided that no fee would be charged. Later, a tuition fee of $200 was charged for those residing in another junior college district or outside Orange County. At the first commencement, June 23, 1915, a pioneer class of ten (five men and five women) was graduated.
In 1921, the California legislature enacted legislation which allowed the formation of separate junior college districts, and in 1922, the Fullerton Board of Trustees organized the Fullerton Junior College District as an independent entity. Fullerton Junior College (FJC) continued to operate on the high school campus for more than twenty years. Then in 1934, during the Great Depression, the Board of Trustees took a momentous step by purchasing a separate site for the college, sixteen acres of walnut grove, a short block east of the high school, for $30,000 (the former James C. Sheppard ranch). The location of the site, close to the high school, made it possible to gradually build the college. The Trustees launched a building program for the campus and the beginning of a gradual transfer of college classes from the high school to the college campus. The first structure, the Commerce Building (later the Business Education Building), was started in 1936 and was ready for occupancy in January 1937.


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Just in time for Christmas, MOSI is lowering admission to $5 on Saturday.
From 10 a.m. until 6 p.m. Dec. 13, anyone who wants to visit Tampa Bay's Museum of Science and Industry can get through the door for a 5-spot. Children under 6 are free as always.
The discounted ticket includes the museum's permanent exhibit galleries, including the hurricane simulator. It also includes a standard IMAX Dome Theatre film, the limited-engagement exhibit "3D Printing The Future" and a show at the Saunders Planetarium.
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Bad news – red wine isn't as healthy as you think
Bad news on the alcohol front as guidelines are rewritten
There are a few bits of health news many of us hold on to, such as everything in moderation and red wine being good for you. Unfortunately for those who enjoy a regular tipple, it seems that guideline is about to be rewritten.
For years we've been advised that red wine can help cut the risk of cancer and heart disease, and it's also been linked to maintaining a healthy weight. However, according to Britain's The Sun newspaper, new terms will be released this week (beg04Jan16), stating much of this is not the case.
The report apparently comes from the Chief Medical Officer Dame Sally Davies, and it's being published due to concerns that some people have been overindulging in red wine as they believe it's healthy.
It's not just those who enjoy the beverage who are in for a shock either. There will be new guidelines stating men should drink the same as women, according to the report, with all people advised to have a minimum of two alcohol-free days weekly. Currently men are told they can consume 21 units a week – or seven pints of high-alcohol lager – while women can have 14, equivalent to just over four large glasses of wine.
"The report will send a clear signal that the dangers of drinking are far more than previously thought," an insider told The Sun.
The guidelines are said to be backed up by science and mark the first time there has been any change made for 20 years. When they were last updated in 1995 it was thought that small amounts of alcohol could cut the risk of heart disease, but now it's felt regular drinks might actually be detrimental to health. Experts apparently feel that any benefits are just as easily reaped from regular exercise sessions and concentrating on eating a balanced diet.
The news comes after a recent survey found many people don't realise how much alcohol there is in wine. American researchers carried out tests on 127,000 wines and found the alcohol content to be higher than on the label in 60 per cent of them – with Chilean, Argentinean and Spanish reds the worst offenders.
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According to The Weather Channel App, the weather prediction for this year's Alley Loop in Crested Butte, Colorado was for low 30's and a possibility of snow flurries. The prediction was pretty close.
I found some old Toko red premix fluoro in my wax box that was probably 15 years old. It seemed to fit the bill with a temperature range of 28-18°F. That was finally ironed on over Swix LF Violet. I felt pretty safe until I saw Boulder Nordic's Friday wax suggestion of a much colder wax. Oh well. I put in a few drops of Swix LF blue and called it quits. Turns out my wax was great and only a tad bit slower on the second lap.
I was very happy with the race and felt the training over the last few months has been right on mark. My training/exercise hasn't been high intensity, but focus on mileage and technique. I admit that I don't have much control of my pulse on steep hills but do have the mindset to stop and let my pulse come back down – or try to ski slower. Let's just say that I've had lots of practice and ski time with the Diagonal V Skate.
The Diagonal V Skate (DVS) does have a wimpy connotation to it though. I mean, you'd never see a elite skier use it in a race, right? So, when I'm using the DVS I often question myself whether I would even be able to V-1 up an entire hill? I mean, I'm stopping so much, and then reverting to the DVS to keep my pulse down. Anyhow, that has been one of my self-doubts leading up to the Alley Loop.
No need to worry! On the steepest of hills, the DVS wasn't much slower then V-1 skiers, while many of the less experienced skiers were revertiong to the herringbone and no glide at all. I was happy just to keep momentum on the uphills.
I've been worried about the high pulse rate during training. My pulse was pretty high at the Alley Loop and stayed pretty consistent between 150 and 160 bpm and hovering on the high side for 1 hour and 37 minutes. The high pulse thing kind of surprised me but most probably because I've lost touch with this racing thing. But I survived! Had Fun! And, drove Her crazy with my post event blabbering.