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Referring to the popular practice of photoshoping a side ways hat on an individual/animal/thing that's being a "douche bag" as seen in memes. Is a way of branding someone or something as a douche.
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LISBON - A Salem man with a prior criminal record was sentenced to prison on a tampering with evidence charge during action this week in Columbiana County Common Pleas Court.
Corey L. Libert, 35, of West Pershing Street, was sentenced by Judge C. Ashley Pike to nine months in prison after previously pleading guilty to tampering with evidence.
The charge stems from a December 2010 traffic stop in Perry Township, and Libert began swallowing pills when approached by the police officer. The pills were believed to be Vicodin.
Pike noted Libert had a prior felony conviction.
In other court action, a sentencing date of Jan. 25 was scheduled in the case of Anthony C. Mehno, 26, East Fourth Street, Salem, after he pleaded guilty to sexual battery. Additional charges of rape and engaging in sexual conduct with a minor were dismissed as part of the plea deal with the county prosecutor's office.
Mehno was accused of engaging in sexual conduct with a then 15-year-old girl in Salem in April 2010. The girl was reportedly asleep at the time.
Jason R. Sexton, 33, Lisbon Road, Salem, was sentenced to probation by Judge Pike for failing to pay child support. Sexton was accused of failing to pay $16,931 in child support between September 2007 and October 2009.
Jessie L. Webb, 31, McGeehan Road, Lisbon, was sentenced by Judge Pike to six months in prison on a receiving stolen property charge. Webb sold a Bobcat on Craig's List that was stolen from Thayer Power & Communication in July 2011. In sentencing him to prison, Pike noted that Webb has a prior felony conviction.


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A place called TAC Industries, where the mentally challenged or handicapped work. This is actually a bastardization of the name created by the "inmates" themselves.
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Derik Vanderford has been promoting wrestling shows in Union, S.C., for the past several years.
But an upcoming event has him more than just a little excited.
Vanderford is presenting a seminar and wrestling show Saturday at the Union County Fairgrounds. But it isn't just any seminar and any wrestling show.
Terry Funk, one of pro wrestling's most colorful figures, is coming to town to conduct the "Texas Wrestling Legends Seminar," along with fellow Texan Manny Fernandez, and also will take part in an event later that night.
"Terry is one of my all-time favorites. I'm really excited as a fan and as a promoter," says Vanderford. "Terry doesn't get to come to this area much, and I'm just happy to be able to bring something special to the people here. I'm as excited as anybody."
Funk will be in the corner of Deon Johnson and Charleston's Pete Kaasa in the main event of Saturday night's Trans-South Wrestling show. On the opposing side will be Fernandez and Hunter Thompson (managed by Thomas Simpson).
There isn't much that the 69-year-old Funk hasn't done in the business over the past half century. He became a member of an elite fraternity when he won the NWA world title from Jack Brisco in 1975, and more than two decades later, at the age of 52, captured the ECW world championship.
A member of the famous Funk wrestling family, his father was the late, great West Texas star and promoter Dory Funk Sr., and his older brother, Dory Funk Jr., presided over one of the greatest NWA world title reigns in history from 1969-73.
Vanderford says the chance for aspiring grapplers to learn from the WWE Hall of Famer is a rare opportunity that shouldn't be missed.
"There's some great talent out there today, but it does seem like there's something missing. It seems like that 'Terry Funk quality' is what's missing," says Vanderford. "The chance to train with Terry and Manny is special, because Terry was a mentor to Manny when he broke into the business. You're getting quite a faculty of teachers."
No one, though, will be happier to see Funk than "The Raging Bull."
"I love this man with all my heart. He's just so good-hearted," says Fernandez, 59, who credits Funk and the late Dick Murdoch with molding him into a top pro.
Fernandez was a hot-tempered, overly aggressive college football player at West Texas State during the late '70s when Funk and Murdoch, both West Texas State products, saw a future in the squared circle for Fernandez.
Both liked his style and his grit, and began mentoring Fernandez.
"Manny has always been aggressive and hot-tempered. It worked to his advantage in football," says Funk. "He was an excellent ballplayer. He wasn't that big ... probably around 230 to 240 at offensive guard. But he was a damn good one."
"Dickie Murdoch loved the way I played football," says Fernandez. "I played angry, and if you got in my face, I fought you right there on the football field. A lot of people didn't know I was a veteran at the time. I didn't go around telling anybody about my background. Dickie kind of liked that attitude. He wanted me to get involved with professional wrestling."
While Murdoch pushed Fernandez, Funk always was right around the corner, giving the greenhorn sage advice and teaching him the ropes, urging him to wrestle "with shadows and broomsticks," a technique young wrestlers used to hone their craft.
Murdoch, says Fernandez, was brutally blunt with his assessment of the wrestling profession.
"Dickie gave me a lot of advice about this business and how bad it could be," says Fernandez.
"It's a beautiful business and you can make a ton of money, but it's the worst backstabbing business you'll ever be involved with in your life. You've got to watch yourself," Murdoch warned him.
"You're going to be very famous in this business. But remember this. Whatever you take from this business, you give back to it," added Murdoch, who died in 1996 at the age of 49.
It was the best advice Fernandez ever received, and he remembers it to this day.
"I've always remembered those words. You give back to it. So that's what I've been doing all along."
It's also one of the reasons Fernandez joined Vanderford three years ago as a trainer and co-promoter of shows in the Union area under the Trans-South Wrestling banner.
"I took all those lessons and all the things that I learned from all of those greats, and I started teaching Derik. When we started this thing, I told him to keep one thing in mind. Think about what you can give back to the community. Put out a good product. Make the fans feel wanted. They're the main reason you're promoting this show once a month."
"The promotion is very community-oriented," says Vanderford, who adds that the organization often makes donations to worthy area groups.
"Everything we do is connected to the community. That's how it was back in the territory days, dating back to Terry's dad (Dory Funk Sr.) in Texas or Eddie Graham in Florida. The community felt like the promotion was a part of it. That's what we try to do here."
Pro wrestling detour
It wasn't until meeting Terry Funk and Dick Murdoch that Fernandez ever imagined getting into a professional wrestling ring.
A talented amateur, Fernandez was so good that a number of Big 10 and Pac 10 schools offered him wrestling and football scholarships.
A stint at San Jose City College, where he was an All-American in football and wrestling, was followed by a tour of duty in Vietnam.
Fresh out of the military, Fernandez walked on to the West Texas State football team. Within a week he had a full scholarship.
Word of Fernandez's toughness quickly spread among the West Texas State wrestling crowd, most notably Murdoch, and was passed down the line to the Funks, who ran the Amarillo territory.
Fernandez laughed when his athletic counterparts tried to talk him into pro wrestling.
"I think I'm the only person who ever called pro wrestling 'fake' to Terry Funk, Dickie Murdoch and Blackjack Mulligan and lived to tell about it. Apparently they liked me enough to put up with that garbage."
It was Funk, says Fernandez, who gave Murdoch the green light to send the rookie to Florida.
"When they sent me from Amarillo to Tampa, they actually released me to Jack and Jerry Brisco. They took over and started grooming me and teaching me," recalls Fernandez.
Promoter Eddie Graham liked Fernandez's innate toughness, along with the fact that he was extremely popular with the Hispanic audience.
"Terry put me over (for the Florida title) in the middle, and that was just a rocket shot to the moon. That was the biggest thing in the world," says Fernandez.
"There was a reason I did that," explains Funk. "I saw his ability. I knew he was the right guy. Dusty (Rhodes) left out of there at the time and left it high and dry. And I knew Manny Fernandez was the right guy. He had the M.O. He was a great athlete, he had the credentials. He was young, he had the fire and just really fit the bill."
And Funk knows talent when he sees it.
"I have a knack — and still do — where I can look at a guy and tell you if he's going to draw you money or not. That's very difficult to do. I haven't met too many people who can do that ... taking guys and pulling them out of a hat.
"It's because of my father and being in the business forever. I was six years old and knew I wanted to be a wrestler. I've seen a million of them, and I can tell you to this day, when I see someone, I can tell you whether or not he's going to draw money."
Funk, indeed, has one of the best eyes in the business for recognizing talent. But talent, he adds, has to be cultivated and nurtured. To have a chance to succeed in the business, an aspiring grappler must have experience.
"It also takes a bit of luck," says Funk."But you just can't go there without any experience and make it. You have to find someplace to get a jump on it. You can't go the New York (WWE) school in Orlando, walk in that door — having never been in the ring — and make it. I don't care if you're a gold medalist or won the national championship in something. You have got to be experienced when you go there."
Funk is looking forward to working with young wrestling hopefuls at Saturday's seminar, and teaching them a little of his vast knowledge of the wrestling business. At the same time, though, he's not going to advise anyone to leave his day job.
"There's a reason for people like Manny and my brother and for so many others in the business that are training guys. They should go there and learn, but don't give up their jobs. Keep your profession. Do it for the fun of it. Very likely you're not going to have the opportunity to do it to become rich and famous. It's easier to make the NFL than WWE."
"But if you can get there," adds Funk, "you can become a very rich man. If you can't get there, don't spend your entire lifetime trying to."
Learning from the best
Fernandez says nothing can compare with the education he received early in his career. He spends most of his time these days training young wrestlers.
"The younger kids who watched Terry and me coming up now are in their late thirties and mid-forties," he says. "But they're still excited about seeing us old-timers. They still come around."
Fernandez could talk about Funk and Murdoch for hours on end. Funk jokingly says that his friend's admiration is puzzling.
"I don't know why he goes on and on about us. Dickie Murdoch was nuts. But so is Manny," he laughs.
But there's a special bond between the two that runs deep.
"I've always honored and respected Terry. He was like a father to me. So was Dickie," says Fernandez. "When I lost Dickie, it was kind of like losing my own mother when she passed. Dickie always supported me and kept me in check. He was like a dad. So is Terry."
Fernandez will get the chance to rehash old memories and chart the future of the wrestling business when Funk arrives this weekend for what Fernandez refers to as one of their "sit-downs."
"We have these sit-downs where he calls me up and demands that I need to come see him. That's what we call the sit-down. He misses me every three or four months, and we have to go have a sit-down. We talk about the business and what direction it's going."
"I really enjoy getting with Manny," says Funk. "What a character. He's from the old school. He does an excellent job teaching those younger boys. He's very strict and very conservative in his teaching, and I think that's good. He does a fantastic job."
Fernandez admits he's still a "mark" when it comes to the former world champion.
"To this day I still get goose bumps just being in the ring with Terry Funk ... just like I did when I was a rookie. Every time I'm around him, I mark out for him. His knowledge in this business is untouchable. He has taken knowledge from Dory Funk Sr. and old-timers back in the day. He's been around pro wrestling since he was born. There's a lot of great wrestlers out there with 30 years or more experience, but they can't even touch what he knows."
"When you stop learning in this business, you're dead," Fernandez remembers Murdoch once telling him.
"In every walk of life, you should always be learning," says Fernandez. "Terry keeps me young because when I see Terry keep going, and when I do the sit-down with him, we talk about things like that."
No longer can you go in cycles in the wrestling business, says Fernandez. "You've got to reinvent it and improve it."
"You've also got to have respect," he says. "Nothing is more important in this profession than respect."
Funk, he says, is great working with youngsters who want to learn about the business.
"What I love about Terry is that he respects all the kids. He has them laughing, praises their work, tells them about their mistakes. He tells them to be themselves. He will take the time to sit down with them and tell them why he liked something or why he didn't like something, and how they can do it better. You're not going to find a person, especially someone from one of the first families of wrestling, do that."
"I'm so looking forward to being down there with some of these young people," says Funk. "I feel like I can help them out because I've been shown and taught by the great ones, and I'll have the opportunity to get in there and talk to them about the great ones. It's always a pleasure to try to leave a little something, and it's very, very important to me to leave a little bit of my life with them.
"My father left a bit of his life with me. He gave me a gift, as did so many other wrestlers, like Mike DiBiase, Bob Geigel, Verne Gagne and Gene Kiniski. They all left me with something. If I can possibly leave these youngsters with a bit ... I would love to leave them with the bridle, too, but if I can just leave them with a bit."
The seminar is scheduled to begin at 2 p.m. Saturday. Bell time is 7:30 p.m. at the Union County Fairgrounds.
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Post-Workout Endurance Formula
What is RE:CHARGE?
RE:CHARGE is an advanced formula which includes over 17g of protein, 55g of carbohydrate and 1000 milligrams of electrolytes. Re:CHARGE also contains 5g of creatine monohydrate per serving and has zero grams of fat.
RE:CHARGE Benefits
RE:CHARGE has a unique blend of carbohydrates and electrolytes found in RE:CHARGE which supports hydration during exercise and contributes to the maintenance of endurance performance during prolonged exercise. Additionally, the premium protein blend will contribute to the growth and maintenance of muscle mass. At Myprotein we believe that the various components of this product make it the ideal post-workout endurance formula.
Who is RE:CHARGE Suitable for?
RE:CHARGE is suitable for anyone looking get the most out of their training programme. We recommend taking this product immediately after exercise for optimum results.
'We are changing the name of this product to Energy ReCharge. Please note that the ingredients and nutritionals are the same and only the name of the product has changed.
The dietary choices of all our customers are extremely important to us. Whilst this product is manufactured using ingredients and processing aids suitable for the vegan diet, please note that dairy powders are also used within the same production facility and cross contamination may occur at very small levels.
Please note that the labelling on this product is provided in English as a minimum. French, Italian, German, Spanish, Danish, Swedish and Finnish may also be present on a product by product basis.
This shake has been designed specifically to be taken post exercise after endurance events. The RE:CHARGE*™* Carbohydrate Blend will contribute muscle recovery† and the RE:CHARGE*™* Protein Blend will maintain muscle mass‡. To reap the benefits of this product add 1 1/2 large scoops (50g) to 400-500ml of water in a Myprotein shaker after exercise. †Beneficial effect is obtained through consumption of carbohydrates, from all sources, at a total intake of 4 g per kg body weight, at doses within the first 4 hours and no later than 6 hours of exercise. ‡Protein contributes to the growth and maintenance of muscle mass.
Store in a cool, dry place away from direct sunlight. This product is intended to be used alongside an active lifestyle and a balanced diet. Suitable for vegetarians and vegans.
For allergens, including cereals containing gluten, see ingredients in bold. May also contain egg.
Orange Flavour: RE:CHARGE*TM* Carbohydrate Blend (55%) (Maltodextrin (Sulphites), Dextrose, Waxy Barley Starch (CarBarley*TM*), Fructose), RE:CHARGE*TM* Protein Blend (18%) (Whey Protein Isolate (Milk), Whey Protein Concentrate (Milk), Casein Hydrolysate (PeptoPro*®*) (Milk)), Creatine Monohydrate, Vitamin C, Electrolytes (Sodium Chloride, Potassium Sulphate, Calcium Di Phosphate, Magnesium Oxide), Emulsifier (Soy Lecithin), Flavouring, Colour (Carotenes), Sweetener (Sucralose)
Serving Size - 1 ½ large scoops (50g)
Servings Per Container - 30 (1.5kg)
|Per 100g
|Per Serving
|1557 kJ/367 kcal
|779 kJ/184 kcal
|0.9 g
|0.5 g
|of which saturates
|0.5 g
|0.3 g
|63 g
|32 g
|of which sugars
|17 g
|8.3 g
|18 g
|9 g
|1 g
|0.5 g
|Vitamin C
|500 mg
|200 mg
|Per Serving
|Creatine Monohydrate
|5 g
|210 mg
* Reference intake of an average adult (8400 kJ/2000 kcal)
The nutritional information is based on the Orange Flavour version, when choosing an alternative flavour the nutritional values may vary by up to 10%
Where reviews refer to foods or cosmetic products, results may vary from person to person. Customer reviews are independent and do not represent the views of The Hut Group.
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I've only been using this for one week, but so far so good. I was able to visit the gym 3 times in that week when I can typically only manage 2 sessions per week. I was definitely less fatigued after these workouts too. Only time will tell if this improves my immune system too / frequency of colds and flu, but I'll certainly be persevering. Finally, I actually really like the taste (orange flavour). It's the same as Berocca or Lucozade type tablets, which is fine.Goes Well With:Water
After a good session it is a nice boost to the system...tastes great too
Great product, surprisingly tasty. Would recommend and will be buying again
I've been looking for a good product to help recover from long bike rides and runs (training for half marathons and upping my bike distances) and the mix of protein and carbs looked ideal so opted for this. Been using for a few weeks with positive effects on my recovery. However, the taste is most definitely the worst I've experienced from Myprotein. It's a real shame because I've always had positive experiences with MP tastes/flavours. It's pretty sharp to say the least and would be great if they could do this in something more mellow like vanilla (or any others!). Great at what it's meant to do, approach with caution on the flavour! Goes Well With:Water
Despite users complaining about the taste, I can not. Tastes good and the effect is there! I use 20g with 500ml of water, making it some kind of isotonic drink. I use it during my long runs and after every run. I like the product and recommend it to others.
I found the Re:Charge recovery shake really good to use and seriously helpful after my runs but can we please get some new flavours?! I know taste is a personal thing but that orange is despicable. I had to mix in some Robinson's fruit squash just to mask the taste.
I was impressed with previous MP products I've used so thought I would try this to help keep me going through long active days. It was pretty disappointing - doesn't mix well and there is always some powder left undissolved despite vigorous mixing for prolonged periods. The taste is also pretty dreadful, to the point where I use half the amount and add some fruit squash to the mix to try and mask the taste. I definitely won't be buying this again.Goes Well With:The bin?
I drink this during exercise. I need it. I'm 44 and have a punishing 30 min cardio routine before I hit the metal. The secret is drink half the bottle then top up at the fountain. Each time it dilutes. That way you keep topping up the energy and protein for the duration of the workout. The taste to start with is the same as a Berroca. But you dilute along the way. It's fine. It's liquid, you need it. This and Haskells Hades pre trainer get me through 30 mins hard cardio, 1 hours free weights and 30 mins karate training. I'm no spring chicken.
Can't believe people are complaining about the taste. It's so easy to drink and refreshing after a tough session. I have a dodgy stomach so find it difficult to take shakes without feeling bloated. This stuff doesn't do that. Very nice product Goes Well With:Water
Just started running and strength training, this drink provides an amazing boost and everything needed for a quick recovery when your finished. definitely buying again!
Got this as a replacement for the usual protein shakes I've used post-running. I want to start with adressing the taste; it's not as bad as some people here make out. At worst it's like sugar-free Robinson's squash, but I've started putting a banana in with it for some extra protein and whizz it up with a hand blender. This makes it actually very, very nice, almost gives you something to look forward to. I have noticed, like others have mentioned on here, that I seem less sore the day after. This is a big plus as before I could be absolutely ruined for a day or two after a long run. Haven't used it long enough to be able to give a complete picture, but so far it seems to be doing ok. Goes Well With:Water, banana.
The flavour of this drink is disappointing. I am definitely finding it hard to stomach so I am looking forward to something new after I get through this bag. It mixes fairly great after several vigorous shakes but I just don't like the taste. I can definitely feel the difference once I've taken it after a long run so I can't knock the effectiveness but this drink needs an acquired taste!
Mixes well outstanding value and great service from order to home, 1st class productGoes Well With:Whey protein or Water
Very happy with it...does what it says on the tin
Holy cow. Maybe I need to mix it with milk or something - but I bought it for a camp where I knew milk wouldn't be available every day. With water the orange taste makes me want to throw up. I can stomach most things, but this is a new level. Worst of all it takes about 3 scoops to get necessary 20g protein and ~60g carb serving after an endurance workout. Have little doubt in the effectiveness if taken in the necessary quantities, good mix of carb type, protein, creatine and vitamins, but it's a shame not to have something nice to look forward to after training til I get through this bag... Fortunately it won't be too long because 1.5kg is less than 15 servings!Goes Well With:waterboarding, kneecapping and various other methods of torture.
Have been taking after working out at the gym, the mixability is very good no lumps and not too thick, easily drinkable. The taste reminds me of orange calpol but you get use to it. Very pleased with this product as feel my recovery is quicker once I've taken it. Will definitely be trying it when I start back on my training days for running. I have previously taken whey protein plus when was training for a half marathon last year and found it good but prefer RE:CHARGE. Goes Well With:Water
Ads recovery and lets you train more consistently at higher level
Wonderful product for restoration of muscle glycogen after exercise is as vital as on weight and weight loss, because it is very vashney knock catabolism after exercise, RE:CHARGE copes with this! This is a serious mix of simple and complex carbohydrates, protein, creatine, vitamins - in general, all in one! I recommend!Goes Well With:ENER:GEL
Have previously used Recovery XS but decided to give this a go as it was on offer. A bit wary about the flavour (orange) but it's more of a tropical-type taste which is perfectly acceptable. Seems to be doing the trick after long runs and off-road sessions. Will definitely by buying some more in future.Goes Well With:Water
Service fantastic as always and product works a charm
This product is great! Could definitely see an improvement in recovery after taking it for a few weeks! The powder is super fine so it mixes really easily with no lumps and the taste isn't bad either! Will definitely be restocking when I run out! Goes Well With:Water
Seems pretty effective. Tastes good and mixes well.
I'm ordering my second bag of this now. It gives me the legs to play competitive squash 4-5 times per week every week! I've been playing for a few years and playing that much used to break me / burn me out. Not any more! I've put on about 2kgs just in my legs, so I'm guessing the protein content really helps over the longer term, but the instant energy straight to tired muscles really does the job. Regarding taste (as there have been quite a few negative comments about it), it tastes more like pssionfruit than orange and I think it tastes good. Not great, but when you consider what it does for you, itwould be hard to get much better.Goes Well With:Squash
Although a little sweet, this stuff does taste good... Almost an orange and passion fruit vibe going on! Delicious. Perhaps a little grainy... Have been using recovery XS for some time now, and before that recovery EVO, and as I have only been using this for a couple of days it's hard to say whether it's better, but it certainly makes me feel better sooner after a hard workout! Goes Well With:Healthy diet and regular hard exercise!
Great for after bike / running races when you don't want a thick heavy chocolaty recovery drink, orange flavor nice, sweet and easy to drink.Goes Well With:water
I bought this as it was Orange flavor amongst other reasons . I don't like strawberry, Chocolate, banana any of the usual flavors the protein things come in. just like the many other reviews it does get a bit of getting used to. At first It reminded me of antibiotic medicine and Calpol. but more so It is like drinking Sunny Delight you know at the bottom of the bottle when you have not shaken it. I haven't drank it for years because it's sweet and sickly and full of sugars but Re:Charge tastes just like it..well atleast how I recall it tasted. I'd only go to say it goes well with water as I wouldn't want to try it with anything else due to the strong taste. As I take it after long runs I dilute the last half to re hydrate too. Goes Well With:Water
A great product to take straight after hard training, find it really refreshing and reboots my energy levelsGoes Well With:Water and Shaker
This is great for post workout along with PeptoPro, it already contains Peptopro but if you looking for fast intake of protein post workout without feeling bloated, this is a great combo, add creatine and beta alanine and you will not want to go back to usual whey protein again.Goes Well With:PeptoPro, Creatine, Beta alanine
Excellent for after a hard work out. The carb content makes you feel full and it sits really well on the stomach. Maybe not as good as recovery XS but easier on the stomach. The taste is horrendous but I don't take it for the taste.
I read a lot of reviews before deciding to purchase this one, I was almost put off by the comments about the taste but read another review who basically said what I think and its not really about taste but what the it can do for you. I have used it for a few weeks now, after my run and have noticed that my legs dont ache as much for as long... Is it in my mind? Maybe but I will continue to use it. One last thing, the taste is nowhere near as bad as others make out, yes, it is quite sweet, but not so sweet that you have to moan and complain about it! Goes Well With:Slip a Banana with it..
I think this RE:CHARGE does what it says on the tin and am quite surprised about all the reviews on the disgusting taste. Whilst this isn't a delicious milkshake, it really is not bad at all. I use only 200-250ml of water, and once blended it becomes light and creamy and perfectly drinkable. I don't like ice myself, but I imagine replacing some of the water with ice in the blender would mellow the taste drastically.
Good stuff. Does what it says on the tin. Tastes alright to me, but who cares? It's Muscle Beach, not Masterchef. I'm willing to wager those moaning about flavour are the guys that do their hair before a gym session.
I bought this as it seemed to be a new product to go further than the current Recovery XS. On paper it is ideal, however the taste leaves a lot to be desired. I know there's a lot of reviews on here picking up on the taste, but it is very bad and I've not managed to finish one drink yet. I'll be going back to Recovery XS until the taste has been resolved.
Overall RE:CHARGE is good and offers good assistance with recovery, however, for me, the taste is not to my liking. All-in-all not bad, just need to sort the taste out.
This product in combination with the Pre:pare and Pro:Long have had a significant impact on my mass gaining compared to my previous combination of instant oats and total protein pre-workout and maltodextrin and whey isolate post-workout. After starting to use the Pre:pare/Pro:Long and Re:Charge combination I have gained mass every workout where as I've always struggled before. I also get less aching in the days following the workout. The taste of the Re:Charge was a real issue for me to start with, but I now drink it mixed with 400ml of water and lots of ice and I can drink it just fine now. I wouldn't drink it for the taste, but it's perfectably bearable. I think the ice helps a lot. Highly recommended if you can cope with the taste.Goes Well With:PRE:PARE/PRO:LONG
The content and ratios should make RE:CHARGE the perfect product for post workout for endurance athletes. However, the content is only good if you can get it inside you, and the taste is so awful it is a real struggle to drink this. Most endurance athletes have to consume bottles of sticky, sweet energy drinks and gels so the last thing we want when we finish is another sickly, sweet, syrupy post workout drink, which this unfortunately is. Added to that, the after taste is horrendous. I think I will go back to Recovery XS, which is not the right ratios for what I need, but at least I can drink it.
RE:CHARGE has a horrible orange taste, a shame as it's a good product.
On the face of it, RE:CHARGE should be a pretty good product. It's got just about everything I'm looking for in a post workout shake with the added bonus of including creatine so you don't have to mess around with measuring out creatine and getting the resulting "gritty" protein shake. However, the biggest and most fundamental flaw with this product is the taste. It is awful. On first trying I was very briefly reminded of the flavour from dissolvable vitamin C tablets until the disgusting after taste kicked in. It took over half an hour to get the shake inside me as I kept gagging every time I tried to drink it. I personally wouldn't recommend buying this unless different flavours are brought out.Goes Well With: PRE:PARE and PRO:LONG


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Robert Payne passed away on Oct. 17, at Life Care in Reno, surrounded by his wife and three grown children. Born on Aug. 8, 1930 in Bakersfield, Calif., Bob grew up on various ranches where his mother bred and raised Arabian horses. In his youth, Bob was one of the last American cowboys, spending summers driving cattle throughout California.After spending two years in the Armed Forces, Bob managed part of a family-owned business, McMahan's Furniture Stores. He and his brother Pat sold the Orange County stores in 1974, and Bob decided to pursue a degree in history, which had been a long-time passion.He subsequently graduated magna cum laude from UC Irvine.The year 1979 brought big changes in the lives of Bob, wife Teresa, and their youngest child Jason when they traded ocean for mountains, selling their Laguna Beach home and moving to Incline Village. During the next several years, as Southern California housing spread into farm land, Bob worked with his brother to develop their mother's ranch in Chino, Calif. They planted more than 1,800 trees on the Payne Ranch, which ultimately became a premiere planned community in the area.Bob loved travel, photography, foreign films, reading the classics, skiing, Apple computers, and friends. He was a loving and faithful husband, father, and friend, along with having a unique sense of humor. A past president of Rotary, Bob gave impetus to the popular Rotary bench project, now enjoyed by both residents and visitors. These benches are a constant reminder of Bob's originality and leadership abilities.Bob is loved and remembered by his wife Teresa, brother Pat, daughters Athena and Kasandra, son Jason, and granddaughters Joia, Chiara, and Alice. His friends are invited to a secular celebration of Bob's life on Nov. 5, 11 a.m. at the Chateau. Those who would like to share a remembrance of Bob may tell their story.The family requests that in place of flowers, donations be made to either Compassion & Choices or Rotary of Incline Village.
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Saturday, October 19, 2013
High Wire Distilling Co., downtown Charleston's first distillery since Prohibition, has announced that its first two spirits are now available for purchase in local retail outlets. Their Hometown Vodka and Silver Rum will be rolling out to stores the end of this week and will be available for purchase soon in local bars and restaurants.
A gluten-free vodka made from 100 percent corn, Hometown Vodka is an exceptionally smooth vodka with a very clean mouth-feel. It can be enjoyed on its own slightly chilled or mixed into a classic cocktail such as a Tom Collins or martini. High Wire's Silver Rum is made from the finest grade Barbadian molasses. A tad sweet with notes of banana, this rum is perfect in your favorite mojito recipe or blended into a daiquiri for a cool treat.
High Wire offers tours and tastings from its Upper King street locations Thursday through Saturday from 1 to 6 p.m. Visitors can enjoy three 1/2 ounce samples and see the spirits production in action through the Tasting Room's floor to ceiling viewing windows. Visitors can also purchase bottles of High Wire spirits directly from the Tasting Room. Hometown Vodka retails for $27.99 while Silver Rum retails for $23.99. Classic cocktail mixers such as local favorites, Bittermilk and Jack Rudy Cocktail Co. Tonic, are also available for purchase in the emporium.
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The Bachelor: Sean Lowe Blogs About His Montana Dates
I couldn't wait to start my week in Montana on The Bachelor. The L.A. dates were fun, but I wanted to get away and experience new things with the women.
Whitefish, Mont., is one of the coolest towns I have ever visited. The mountains, trees and rivers made this the perfect destination for romance. And I'm an outdoorsy guy, so I knew I would really connect with the women that shared a similar appreciation for nature.
My first date with Lindsay couldn't have gone better. We both felt so comfortable around each other and being together just felt right. We took the helicopter to the mountaintop of Glacier National Park, which was one of the coolest things I've ever done, and we set up our picnic.
What you didn't get to see on TV was Lindsay and I wrestling! This tiny girl told me that she wrestled in high school, so of course I had to challenge her to a match. I've got about 100 lbs. on her, but she still took me down. I love Lindsay's playful and fun spirit, and it's what really separated her from everyone else.
We had even more fun that evening. She opened up about her dad being away while serving in Iraq and the fear that came with that. She also told me of her mother's strength and how she held the family together during his absence.
It finally clicked for me as to where Lindsay's supportive and caring nature comes from. Every other girl would hound me about getting a one-on-one date and Lindsay never did. Instead, she would always remind me that she's not going anywhere and she thinks it's good that I get to know everyone else so that I'll eventually learn that she's the one for me.
We ended the night dancing in the town square. It was one of the most memorable nights of my life. Lindsay definitely solidified herself as a front-runner in my mind.
Group DateThe group date was a lot of fun. The girls were much more excited about the relay race than they were for roller derby. Watching them try to canoe, chop wood and milk a goat was hilarious!
Every girl gave it all she had and so I was sad to see the blue team go home. I remember going home after losing the sailing completion in Bermuda and it was a terrible feeling. Time is a valuable commodity and no one wants to lose it.
After getting ready for the evening, I couldn't stop thinking about the women of the blue team. And then it hit me – I couldn't let a silly race affect my time with these women. After all, I agreed to be the Bachelor in hopes of finding my wife, and it wasn't fair to me to miss out on time with them at this stage in the journey just because they lost a race.
I made the executive decision to bring the blue team back, which obviously upset everyone on the red team. I didn't enjoy hurting their feelings, but I knew it was the right thing to do.
The standout of the night was Daniella. She showed me the vulnerability that I had been looking for. And then there's Tierra ... I had no idea she was going to surprise me and I certainly wasn't ready for it. I didn't know what to think about her visit, mostly because I was in shock seeing her there and knew the other women would be upset if they found out. But I was also flattered that she made the effort. I definitely was not seeing the same person the other women saw.
Two-on-One DateThe dreaded two-on-one date was awkward from the beginning. Trying to show each girl attention during the date was not easy and it was anything but fun. Tierra definitely had the edge on Jackie going into the date, but I was still very open-minded.
Jackie is a quiet person who had a hard time standing out. I knew she was sweet and good-looking, but I didn't know much else. I was really hoping that she would break out of her shell on that date and show me something I'd yet to see, but that never came.
When it came time to make the decision on who gets the rose it was pretty obvious that Tierra was my girl. Keep in mind, I had no idea that the other women disliked her so much! I knew she had a hard time fitting in, but I wasn't privy to the fact that she was simply not nice to the other girls. Things would've been different if I had seen those actions.
Rose CeremonyThe rose ceremony frustrated me because no one would give me specific reasons why Tierra was not good for me. I was listening to what they had to say, but they weren't supporting their opinions with any details. I was in the dark and I chalked up their disdain for her to Tierra simply being out of place in this environment.
The decision to send Robyn home wasn't easy because I truly enjoyed our time together, but I also knew that we didn't share the same chemistry that I had in my other relationships. I had no idea that she had gotten into a fight with Tierra and I definitely didn't send her home because I thought she created drama. It simply came down to chemistry.
I left Montana really down on this whole experience. It was the first time I really grew concerned that my potential wife was not amongst this group of women and that I had wasted everyone's time, including my own.
I was over the drama, over the women talking about the drama, and just wanted to refocus my energy on what mattered – finding a partner that I could see myself with for a lifetime.
We travel to Canada on the next episode, which airs at a special day and time – Tuesday (9 p.m. ET) on ABC.
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Kiteboarding, also known to kiteboarder's as kitesurfing. It involves using a large kite that gives traction and lift, (and these days has 4 or five lines) using a wake type or surf type board with bindings (foot straps) to hold your feet in place. By using the kite's power and holding down the power of the kite using your feet, you can pull off massive airs 30 foot+. The kites normally have a way of storing air inside them incase the kite were to land on the water it wouldn't sink.The boards usually range from 100cm in length to over 180cm.
I'm going kiteboarding tomorrow in the lake.
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Similar to wakeboarding but without the boat. Instead of the boat you use a kite to pull yourself. When you jump off a wave you can get major air because the kite will make you sorta fly.
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Pen and Paper Find a Place in the Digital World
As the saying goes, the pen is mightier than the sword. But I'd also venture that the pen can be mightier than the keyboard. After spending hours each day typing out emails, text messages, tweets, Facebook FB -0.88 % comments and instant messages using similarly dull fonts, the sight of anything written in another person's handwriting can be quaintly touching.
For the past week, I've tried using a tool from Targus that breathes digital life into good old handwriting. It's the iNotebook, a $180 gadget that digitizes and saves words written on regular paper to the iPad.
Using a free, iPad-only app called iNotebook, people can sort their handwritten notes into various notebooks, tabs and pages. They can enhance their notes with cool background images, highlighted text, stamps and different text colors. Audio recordings can be added to notes, and notes can be saved to Dropbox or emailed to friends.
While the iNotebook is definitely a niche product, it's fun to use and more satisfying than writing on a glass tablet surface using a stylus. People who primarily rely on handwritten notes—whether because they can write faster or because they like making quick annotations or drawings with their notes—will want to consider this device.
But its $180 price tag, which is over half the cost of the iPad Mini, will scare buyers off. And in a few instances, the iNotebook pen was a little flaky.
The iNotebook consists of a handsome notebook case, which is available in all black or white canvas with black accents. Inside, a customized pen and a 100-page notebook with lined pages and a black cover slide into the case. (Targus's notebook refills cost $5, but other similarly sized notebooks would also fit.) A special sensor bar runs horizontally above the notebook; it receives signals from the pen as it writes, and communicates wirelessly with the iPad when it's connected via Bluetooth.
Targus isn't the first company to try moving handwriting into the land of digital. Back in 1998, IBM IBM -0.11 % attempted to bridge the gap between PC and paper with its CrossPad, which used a pen with a radio frequency transmitter and required a serial cable to connect to a PC. Microsoft MSFT -1.09 % incorporated handwriting recognition software into its tablet PCs in the early 2000s. And Livescribe has tried since 2007 to popularize its technology, which uses a pen with a tiny, built-in camera and special paper to record and wirelessly transmit text as you write.
The iNotebook sensor and pen both run on rechargeable batteries that can be charged by plugging into a USB port, and an included split USB cord simultaneously charges the pen and sensor. Both last, fully charged, for 60 days on standby, according to Targus. The sensor automatically turns off after an hour if it hasn't been used for writing. In use, the sensor is estimated to last 15 hours while not paired via Bluetooth to the iPad, or six hours when it is paired. The pen lasts for 10 hours of writing.
The pen comes with three standard D1 ink refills. A refill pack of 10 from Targus costs $8. The cap of this pen doubles as a stylus tip, giving users the option to write with ink on paper in the iNotebook device and then quickly switch over to writing with a stylus in the app.
Any paper can be used with the iNotebook—even a cocktail napkin—so long as the iNotebook pen is used for writing and the paper (or napkin) is placed on the iNotebook. Choosing one's own paper will be a boon for those who love their Moleskine notebooks and personalized journals because anything they write there can be sent back to the iNotebook iPad app. Indeed, I made a reminder note to myself on a Post-it Note stuck to a page in the iNotebook, and its text was saved in the iPad app.
The way the iNotebook works is a little complicated. Its special pen and sensor work together using infrared and ultrasonic signals that capture text as it's written; they don't use handwriting recognition. The pen works as a transmitter: When you press down to write, a switch inside the pen turns it on. The pen transmits the text data to the iNotebook sensor. This text can be instantly displayed on the iPad screen as you're writing, which feels kind of magical.
If the iPad isn't nearby or isn't connected via Bluetooth, up to 100 pages of writing can be stored on the sensor by pressing a small button on the sensor. When the iPad is nearby and/or Bluetooth is on, saved pages are imported from the sensor to the iPad app by tapping an option in the app.
I liked the free iNotebook iPad app, finding it simple to use and self-explanatory. I created five different notebooks, which were each automatically given a different color cover and placed on virtual shelves, the same way magazines and newspapers appear in Apple's Newsstand app. In the app, I added pages to a notebook by tapping the "+" icon in the bottom right of the app; on the iNotebook, I turned the page in my physical paper notebook or tapped a Next Page button on the sensor to flip to a fresh virtual page.
The iNotebook requires paper to be positioned just below its sensor. At times, when I wrote too close to the left side of my notebook page, the handwriting didn't come through or appeared as haphazard lines that didn't make sense. When I adjusted the notebook and moved it farther over into its elastic strap holders, my handwriting was accurately captured.
Targus's iNotebook isn't for everyone and its cost will keep away many curious consumers. But it's simple to use, once you get the hang of it, and its iPad app eases the process of organizing handwritten notes.
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on November 25, 2012 - 11:36 PM
First quarter: Hilton rewards
Rookie punter Shawn Powell can't be blamed for the Indianapolis Colts' big scoring play of the first quarter.
Powell hit a 48-yard punt after the Bills' first possession, and it had an excellent hang time of 4.79 seconds, according to The News' stopwatch. But Bills outside coverage men Ruvell Martin and Ron Brooks were nowhere near the play when the ball was caught.
T.Y. Hilton had 15 yards of room to roam upon fielding the ball. Then Hilton, a third-round draft pick out of Florida International, made Lee Smith miss in the hole with a spin move and he was off to the races. It was a 75-yard touchdown return to put the Colts ahead, 7-0, just 5:04 into the game.
Key plays: The Bills got a 33-yard field goal from Rian Lindell with 4:32 left. A 24-yard receiver screen to T.J. Graham helped set it up. … C.J. Spiller couldn't hold off blitzing linebacker Jerrell Freeman and it resulted in a sack on the Bills' first series.
Second-guess: The Colts are one of the young, exciting teams in the NFL. You wouldn't know it from the noise level in Lucas Oil Stadium. It was a polite crowd.
Second quarter: Kicked aside
The Bills handed Indianapolis a gift field goal at the end of the half.
Buffalo took over on its own 8 with 58 seconds left in the second quarter. But the Bills threw two incomplete passes, then ran a draw play. The Colts used a timeout and got the ball back at their own 49 with 32 seconds left.
Andrew Luck had time to drive the Colts to the Bills' 1, and Adam Vinatieri kicked a 19-yard field goal to give Indianapolis a 13-6 lead.
Second-guess I: Coach Chan Gailey eschewed a 52-yard field goal try and punted on fourth and 14 from the Colts' 34. Fifty-two should not be out of Rian Lindell's range.
Second-guess II: Colts receiver Reggie Wayne appeared to fumble at the end of a 25-yard gain to the Bills' 3 with 16 seconds left. Bills safety Jairus Byrd looked like he recovered. The Colts called timeout after the play, so there was plenty of time for the replay booth to review it. There was no reversal.
"I took it out," Byrd said. "I don't know what happened with the review. I don't understand."
Third quarter: Third down and out
Third down has been a nightmare situation for the Buffalo Bills all season. So it went in the third quarter. The Bills gave up four third-down conversions on the Colts' 87-yard drive to a touchdown.
They were tough conversion situations, too. The Colts converted two third-and-6 plays, a third-and-17 play and a third-and-8. On the third-and-17, the Bills lost track of Reggie Wayne as he crossed the width of the field for a 25-yard catch. T.Y. Hilton caught a TD pass from Andrew Luck on third and goal from the 8 to give Indianapolis a 20-6 lead with 4:02 left.
"He set a record for the first player to return a kick for a touchdown and catch a pass for a touchdown in Colts history," Colts coach Bruce Arians said of Hilton.
Tip drill: Ryan Fitzpatrick had two passes tipped at the line of scrimmage for incompletions. He had T.J. Graham open down the seam on the first one and Scott Chandler open downfield on the second.
For naught: The Bills had a 7-yard tackle for loss by Nick Barnett and a 7-yard sack by Marcell Dareus but couldn't get off the field on the 87-yard drive.
Fourth quarter: Wayne's world
Colts receiver Reggie Wayne continued his miraculous season at age 34 and put the final dagger in the Bills' hopes with 1:44 to play. Wayne drew an 8-yard pass interference call on Bills cornerback Stephon Gilmore to allow the Colts to convert a third-and-10 play and run out the clock.
Wayne caught eight passes for 102 yards. For the season he has a league-leading 84 catches for 1,105 yards. He's on pace to smash the NFL record for most catches by a player 34 or older – 108 by Jerry Rice set in 1996.
Said Wayne: "Whenever you play 12 years, you're bound to do something."
Key plays: Ryan Fitzpatrick threw a 1-yard TD pass to tight end Lee Smith with 11:30 to go.
Second-guess: The Bills had first down at the Colts' 32 with 5:27 left. Then came a pass for minus-4 yards and an interception induced by pressure on Fitzpatrick. A run would have been nicer on either play.
Defying the odds: Colts linebacker Robert Mathis on his team's preseason prospects: "I guess that's why you call them experts. We were picked to finish 1-15 and now we're sitting at 7-4."


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quote: Be careful what you wish for, there are a number of studies that indicate ethanol is keeping the price of fuel at the pump lower than it would be if we needed 10% more oil and refining capacity.
quote: You might also post a link to the subsidies big oil receives. What was Iraq all about?
quote: I wish you would show me where the ethanol mandate requires ethanol distillers to produce ethanol at a loss.
quote: Ethanol is a fuel additive. An oxygenate and octane booster. Refiners are able to produce a lower grade gasoline and enhance it with ethanol. Ethanol is required to be used as an oxygenate to clean exhaust omissions in many areas.
quote: As for Iraq, your proof? Nothing but conspiracy theory hearsay? Iraqi oil is a tired, non-existent punching bag. The closest link to oil and Iraq would be to stabilize production.


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BURNHAM - The Burnham Borough Council discussed a new agreement at its regular meeting Monday in which only Burnham borough and Brown, Union and Derry townships will be serviced by Mifflin County Regional Police Department.
Armagh Township is also currently serviced by MCRPD.
The council did not say when the agreement would take effect.
President Bob Soccio said that under the agreement, two police officers will be cut reducing MCRPD's staff to 12 officers. He said it will not hurt patrol time because there will be three shifts coming in and there would always be an overlap of officers on duty.
In the agreement, the coverage area has been split between the four municipalities by a tally of population, miles of road in the borough, and total property worth, Soccio said. Burnham borough is equivalent of around 8 percent, Soccio said. Derry Township has majority of the coverage area with approximately 60 percent, which means they will be paying more than Burnham Borough for police coverage, the council president said.
The amount of money that came in for fines this year was a lot less than in previous years, the council said. The council said it wants officers to step up ticketing, especially for repeat offenders. In 2011, the council spent money to adopt an ordinance to raise fines for repeat offenders, although it has yet to be enforced, the council said.
The money gained from fines and ticketing would help cut costs throughout the borough, the council said. The council said it is trying to figure out why fines diminished despite the increase in incidents.
The council also approved a motion to accept the 2013 budget and approved Ordinance 2013-1 which is an adoption of the tax rate at the same rate as 2011.
In other business, the council:
Approved a motion to allow the Juniata Valley YMCA to host the Sleigh Bell 5K race.
Approved a motion to accept a per capita tax exonerations from Miffco in amount of $85.58.
Approved minutes from the Nov. 5 meeting.
Approved a motion to pay the bills as presented.
The Burnham Borough Council normally meets at 7 p.m. on the first Monday of each month at its office in Burnham.


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Six teams on Nash's trade "list", none Canadian
Posted 11 July 2012 - 01:44 AM
The Columbus Dispatch reported on Tuesday that there are six teams he would be willing to be traded to - the Boston Bruins, Detroit Red Wings, New York Rangers, Philadelphia Flyers, Pittsburgh Penguins and San Jose Sharks.
The news ends any speculation at this point that he could go to a Canadian team like the Vancouver Canucks or Toronto Maple Leafs. The Ottawa Senators were reportedly interested in acquiring Nash earlier this month.
Nash, the franchise's all-time leading scorer, had 30 goals and 29 assists with a minus-19 rating in 82 games for the Blue Jackets this past season.
Nash, 28, is signed through the 2014-15 season and carries an annual salary cap hit of $7.8 million. His contract includes a no-movement clause.
Files from The Columbus Dispatch were used for this report.
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Why not? Detroit have 3 good centers but only 2 can be given top minutes on the scoring lines. This means Zetterberg must be moved to the wing, but both Datsyuk and Zetterberg are better than Filppula at center, while Nash is a better winger than Fillpula, and the natural goal scorer that we look to pair with Datsyuk.
I like the idea of Nash, but it's all about the cost. If we're giving up Franzen, perhaps, but not Flip.
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Posted 11 July 2012 - 03:16 AM
Add to that the factor of time. The deeper into the offseason we get, and as the available salary cap space shrinks for teams (guys like Semin and Doan, whenever they sign, will eat up a decent amount of space for their respective club), Howson has even less flexibility. I'll definitely be interested to see how this plays out.
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Posted 11 July 2012 - 03:56 AM
I agree that Nash is a better player than Parise and more of the type of player we need but Parise is not worth 7.5 and Nash is not worth 7.8 (esp when you factor in what we would have to give up to get him).
Every elite player comes with high cost. If Parise gets 7.5 mil. Than Nash is worth 10mil. Getting Nash with 7.8 mil cap hit is better than Parise for 13 years. Unfortunately what they ask in return is rediculous. Hope Kenny can work magic on this one and bring Nash to Detroit.
i don't think he will be traded by the start of the season and the BJs will have to be more reasonable to get a deal done.
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Posted 11 July 2012 - 06:14 AM
If Franzen and Filppula are involved in any potential Nash trade then they would need to be replaced by 2 top 6 forwards. Nash and Doan perhaps? This would make our yop 6 Dats, Z, Nash, Doan, Sammy and Cleary perhaps. Would Kenny give up Mule, Flip and Nyquist? I don't know. On one hand, I like Nash as a player and think he would do very well here. OTOH, to give up so many assets, I wonder if it would really be worth it. It's a tough call. I still believe Nash goes to the Rangers.
If I had to put a percentage on the odds of Nash going somewhere, I'd say 60-70% that Nash is going to NY. Like 15% to the Wings, 10% anywhere else. Unless someone gives up a ton or the Rangers pull their offer, sooner or later Howson will figure the Rangers deal is the best he'll get and deal him out of the conference. I'm actually okay with giving up a bunch of assets for Nash, we already have plenty of forwards, so if we traded a few for Nash, that would be ideal. Plus, if we give up Flip and Franzen, the cap hit for Nash is next to nothing. Having said that, ideally, I'd like to see this deal get done without having to give up Franzen.
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Posted 11 July 2012 - 06:22 AM
Posted 11 July 2012 - 06:37 AM
Bobby Ryan plz.
Never going to happen. Ducks want a sheet that would blow them straight out of the water. We can't afford to give the assets it would require to acquire Ryan.
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Posted 11 July 2012 - 06:41 AM
Posted 11 July 2012 - 07:21 AM
That kid's is crazy and I want no part in this crazy man's idea of what he thinks is fair. Yes this article is from Feb. 28 but from what we hear Hoswon's price has not changed. Insane.
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Posted 11 July 2012 - 07:34 AM
I would consider Ryan to be a long term, better solution. I don't even know if the asking price is as crazy as Nash's but even if it is I would rather pay it for Ryan. The contract is better, he's only 25, has a RH shot and can play centre from time to time. This is a long term solution that would make it hurt less to lose some prospects as Ryan would potentially be around for another 10 years or so.
Just my thoughts. Oh and lol at the leafs.
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Posted 11 July 2012 - 07:44 AM
I'd rather we trade for Shea Weber or Keith Yandle. Hell, I'd like those or even someone else as long as we get a defenseman. I think our offense is good as it is, I mean it could always be better. But trading for one of the above and then signing a free agent forward or two would be a better investment in my opinion.
Posted 11 July 2012 - 07:47 AM
Howson is out of his mind. Maybe the reason that Columbus has 1 good player is that no one wants to play there and their GM is a derp.
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Yeah, if solid means being average and not screwing up as much while having no physical presence.
Yes, the scoring touch is nice, and if he keeps up the scoring and becomes a threat from the blue-line, I'll gladly eat my words. However, he's still error and penalty prone (although not as bad as previous seasons). He's slow to the puck, doesn't use his size at all, and is LESS physical than Pavel Datsyuk.
I do give Ericsson credit for dropping the gloves with the one dude a couple games ago, although Tootoo, intercepted the fight. I was looking forward to see what it would look like to see someone punching down at someone as they ponder how large of a mistake they made.
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The Sheridan Volleyball Club U14 Yellow team won the U14 Bronze bracket at Volleyfest this past weekend, April 30th & May 1st in Billings.
106 teams from Montana, Wyoming, Illinois and South Dakota competed at the Billings Metra Expo Center.
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Back row left to right: Kairtyn Holden, Hannah Schoup, Coach Jeff Bowie, Lizzie Arnold, Katie Legocki
Middle row left to right: Abby Sanders, Shelby Atkinson, Jordan Frank
Front row: left to right Brooklyn Bowie & Lindsey Hall.
WESTON JOHNSON YOUTH VOLLEYBALL TOURNAMENT - The annual "Weston Johnson" youth volleyball tournament will be played in Sheridan Saturday and Sunday.
They will have four youth divisions they will be using the gyms at the high school the junior and and YMCA for the event. Proceeds from the tournament go to the Weston Johnson scholarship fund.
SNICKERS CUP YOUTH SOCCER TOURNAMENT - The annual "Snickers Cup" youth soccer tournament will be played at the Big Horn Equestrian Center this weekend well over 100 youth teams from our region will compete.
KENDRICK GOLF COURSE - We continue our conversation with Kendrick golf course professional Brian James today.
Over the winter a remodel project of the club house started and James says it's nearly complete.
And he says Junior golf is a big part of any course and they have several things planned this summer for Juniors.
The Sheridan Lady Broncs and Laramie played to a 1-all tie Friday.
The Broncs lost 4-1 against Laramie both teams plat Cheyenne South today
Wyoming Girls Basketball All-Star Roster
Robbi Ryan — Sheridan
Jessie Geer — Gillette
Brooke Cargal — Gillette
Lauren Hallcroft — Gillette
Stevie Hill — Rock Springs
Emily Robertson — Natrona
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Haley Schneider — Worland
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KENDRICK GOLF COURSE - We made a visit to Kendrick golf course yesterday and had a sit down with Golf Professional Brian James.
The course was empty yesterday with the temperature in the mid 30's but James is getting ready for the weather to change and says the course will start the season in good shape once the cold and snow moves out.
UW ATHLETICS - University of Wyoming Athletic Director Tom Burman and some UW coaches were in Sheridan last night making a visit with members of Cowboy Nation.
TROOPER BASEBALL - The Sheridan Troopers are scheduled to open their season this weekend with games set for Saturday and Sunday but wet weather conditions make that unlikely as of today.
We caught up with the Troopers last night as they worked out in the indoor facility Head coach Ben Phillips says they've had a few opportunities to get out on the field at Thorne-Rider stadium and he's liked what he has seen so far.
The girls won the silver championship at the Weston Johnson Never Flinch Invitational Tournament in Sheridan April 10th and the silver championship at the Wyoming Grand Prix in Casper April 24th.
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The Bishop England baseball team placed two players, Zack Madden and Cameron Garrett, on the 2A all-state team, as voted on by the state coaches association. The Battling Bishops lost to Chesnee in the state championship series.
In 4A, no Wando players made the all-state team, but former Warrior Nick Ciuffo earned the Player of the Year honor. Ciuffo played for Wando his freshman and sophomore years before finishing his high school career with Lexington.
Ciuffo, who signed with South Carolina, is expected to be a late first-round selection in the upcoming MLB Draft in June. Most predictions place him in the low 20s pick range.
The Wando girls soccer team won the 4A state championship, concluding a dominating regular season and postseason. The Warriors did not allow a goal in the playoffs and topped J.L. Mann 2-0 in the title game.
The Moultrie News received a team photo after press time.
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Ross Rogers and Mateo Gomez will represent the Battling Bishops in the North-South All-Star game in June at Blackbaud Stadium. Bishop England won the 2A state championship, giving coach Ed Khouri his 16th state title.
The Moultrie News received a team photo after press time.
The 43nd annual Sertoma Football Classic field is set, and East Cooper football teams have tough tests.
Bishop England, a two-time defending champion in 2A, will play two quarters against 4A foe Summerville, Aug. 23. In the previous Sertoma Classic, the Bishops played Stratford and were able to finally end the battle for starting quarterback.
The job went to Nick Theos, who played more confidently than Nick Herbst in the preseason scrimmage. Later in the season, Herbst took over for an injured Theos and led Bishop England to a state championship.
Both quarterbacks have graduated, as have standouts DeAngelo Stephenson, Griffie Loy, Drew Costa and Zach Richter, among others.
Wando, coming off its best regular season in program history, will play 2A perennial contender Hanahan for a pair of a quarters, Aug. 22. The Warriors lost its linebacker corps: Zach Dauscher, Babe Thomas, Stevie Wilson and Blaine Thompson. On the offensive end, Christian Hart, Nate Wright, Cameron Rouse and Casey Clawson are also gone to graduation.
Palmetto Christian Academy starts the string of Aug. 23 game with a scrimmage against Kingstree. With the exception of wide receivers Bayne Hirshman and Adam Graudin, the Eagles return most of its offensive weapons, including four-year quarterback starter J.T. Waters.
Defensively, Palmetto Christian must find alternatives to offset the losses of linebackers Conner Treece and Graham Blunt.
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Today marks 450 years since the birthday of English poet, playwright and actor, William Shakespeare.
Possibly born April 23 1564, Shakespeare is widely regarded as one of the greatest writers in English literature and someone who revolutionized theater. The third of eight children, his father, John Shakespeare, was a glover, trader and local politician, and his mother was Mary Arden. His parents were first cousins, not uncommon in those times.
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There's no such thing as an LED TV. There, we said it.
"But what about my new LED TV?" we hear you cry. Well, it's an LCD TV. With some fancy backlighting.
Before we delve into how an 'LED TV' differs from a basic LCD TV, it's worth noting how popular the new super-slim technology is becoming.
According to market research agency GfK, a total of 8,817,000 LCD TVs were sold in the UK in the 52 weeks ending in July 2010, with LED sets accounting for an additional 355,000.
That's a relatively small percentage, though it's also worth knowing that LED-equipped TVs have rocketed in popularity - just 41,000 were sold in the 12 months prior to July 2009.
AFFORDABLE: Sharp has taken LED tech down to entry-level prices
So LED is popular, but what is it? Effectively an LED-backlight is a replacement for the uniform CCFL backlight that gives a LCD TV its brightness.
Instead of being always on - and therefore not able to dim in specific areas of the screen - LED lights are arranged either along the sides of the screen ('Edge' LED) or arranged behind the entire screen ('Direct' or 'Full' LED).
These LED lights can switch on and off individually, which means the image can have greater contrast - bright whites and deep black in the same image.
LIGHTS ON: LED lights are sometimes arranged in clusters behind the screen
A good example of how this works is with a dark and dingy movie like Batman Begins. For night scenes a traditional CCFL-backlit LCD TV isn't able to dim sufficiently enough to make the black areas of the image convincing, and neither is it able to show night areas, such as headlights or street lamps.
The end result is a picture that isn't dynamic, and dominated by grey where there should be black, and indistinguishable details that ought to be brightly lit. Put simply, the contrast of the panel isn't very good.
A plasma TV doesn't have this problem - each pixel can light up, or switch-off, according to the demands of the picture.
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So to counteract its lack of contrast, LED lights are being used instead of CCFL backlights, though how many - and exactly how they're arranged - depends on the brand.
'Edge LED' systems use an array of LED lights along the side that fire light across into the centre of the screen. It's technically the least effective system in terms of achieving a high contrast ratio because it doesn't offer 'local dimming'.
As a rule of thumb this system does help produce the slimmest flatscreen TVs around. It's also cheaper to produce.
'Direct' LED systems, which could involve somewhere in the region of 200+ LED lights arranged all over the screen in clusters, is visually the most impressive technology, but it's more expensive - and adds a few extra millimetres to the depth of the TV.
Edge LED vs Direct LED
Which is better depends on what consumers want. "Edge LED offers various advantages over Direct LED such as a thinner chassis (meaning a larger TV in a smaller position in the home), it is more power efficient (saving the consumer money on utility bills), and picture clarity is improved," a Samsung spokesperson told TechRadar.
"Direct LED can create a 'halo effect' meaning that clarity from source content is lost. However, Edge LED suffers less from halo effect as the LEDs themselves are positioned around the edge of the TV, meaning the light source is emitting from the guide plate, producing less blurring of the image."
As you might have gathered from that, Samsung is committed to Edge LED tech, citing it as the "superior technology." It's 'halo' argument is valid; clusters of LED lights in the behind the screen can cause bright objects to appear with a slight ring around them. Edge sets do, however, struggle to produce as high a contrast - especially when compared to that other big-screen technology: plasma.
SLIM SET: LG's LEX9 'NANO Full LED' breaks the mould by combining local dimming and a 8mm depth. It goes on sale next Spring
Many manufacturers use both Edge and Direct LED systems for LCD TVs. "LED edge-lit backlighting produces excellent picture quality with high contrast ratios of 500,000:1 or more," says Tom Henderson, Trade Marketing Manager, Philips TV.
"The technology also allows exceptionally thin sets to be designed and produced. Edge-lit sets also have an obvious cost benefit over direct, local dimming versions.
"However, direct, local-dimming LED back-lighting means TVs produce best in class picture quality, with exceptional contrast of 10,000,000:1, new levels of peak light output and, partly thanks to the ability to have a scanning implementation, superb motion reproduction."
Henderson also points out that both LED-backlighting systems dramatically reduce power consumption by over 40 per cent compared to conventional CCFL LCD TVs.
Differentiating LED from LCD
Either way, manufacturers - and that certainly includes Samsung - are marketing the new technology simply as 'LED' without pointing-out that it's simply an update to existing LCD panels.
"For Samsung it is important that LED is differentiated from LCD," said the spokesperson. "Whilst the key part of the technology (the panel) is the same, the backlight is obviously entirely different and manifests a greatly superior picture when compared to CCFL-backlit LCDs.
"Samsung invests a vast amount of engineering and R&D into LED technology, which is why it is treated as a premium product above LCD - and why they are positioned separately."
PICTURE PERFECT: Philips has just released a new version of its super-wide Cinema 21:9 screen with all-new LED backlighting
Henderson at Philips thinks the industry should be completely clear about what an 'LED TV' really is. "As an industry we need to take ensure that the benefits are clearly explained and communicated, particularly at point of sale," he says. "Consumers need to understand that the benefit of LED applies to LCD TVs."
Manufacturers love LED tech because it commands a premium; the sale of flatpanel TVs has long been a commodity market with tiny - and shrinking - profit margins and prices; analysts at DisplaySearch report that the average worldwide price of a LCD TV have fallen by 24 per cent since 2008.
INTO EDGE: Samsung's high-end LED9000 series shows the brand's commitment to Edge LED tech
Samsung and Sharp - two of the planet's biggest manufacturers of LCD panels - are aiming to ship more LED-backlit panels than traditional CCFL models.
The market is shared principally by four companies, with Samsung and Sharp each with 29 per cent, LG on 25 per cent and Chinese company AUO taking 13 per cent.
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LED-backlit LCD TVs premium prices are quickly shrinking. "LED panel prices are falling even faster than CCFL," says David Hsieh, Large-Area LCD Research Team Leader at DisplaySearch. "Panel makers are expecting to grow their shipments through the end of the year as LED panel prices and end-market retailer prices of LED LCD TVs fall rapidly."
With LED prices crashing, there doesn't seem much point buying a traditional LCD TV without LED backlighting of some kind, but which type should you head for - Edge or Direct?
Henderson sums it up nicely for us, saying: "If you want an exceptionally slim TV with excellent picture quality, contrast and power consumption, then buy a LED Edge lit set. If you want a slim TV with exceptional all-round performance, go for a direct, local dimming set."
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This past spring, the UWBG hosted the first ever bioblitz in Seattle. A "bioblitz" is a biological scavenger hunt that aims to inventory all the various organisms living in a given area – the "blitz" part signifies that this inventory is taken within a short period of time.
There are several reasons why the UWBG aims to make bioblitzes a regularly occurring tradition:
- to better fulfill our mission of sustaining managed to natural ecosystems
- to raise awareness of the importance of biodiversity in an urban environment
- to bridge the gap between the academic world and the every-day world by harnessing the power of citizen scientists.
During our first attempt, close to 400 different species of plants, birds, insects, spiders, lichens, mammals, reptiles and fungi were accounted for in the Washington Park Arboretum, a major branch of the UWBG. Several groups predicted that that number would have been higher had the bioblitz taken place during a different time of year. The fungi group, comprised primarily of Puget Sound Mycological Society members, was among the groups itching to come back during more suitable conditions (i.e. fall).
And so, the UWBG, in partnership with PSMS, and with support from the Arboretum Foundation gives you, Bioblitz: Mushroom Edition, "The Fungus Among Us".
- When: Thursday, October, 28th
- What time: 10am – 10pm; with 3 scheduled hunts & a public presentation from PSMS President, Marian Maxwell.
- 10:15am – 12:30pm
- 1:15pm – 3:00pm
- 3:15pm – 5:30pm
- Public Lecture: 6:30 – 7:30pm: "Mushroom Ecology" by Mariam Maxwell, PSMS President
- Where: The Washington Park Arboretum, Graham Visitors Center
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