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Hi Lynne and Gary,
You guys look so well! It sounds like you are having a great time. It is so funny, but we actually met Christine and Justin in Thailand. Justin is a definite wildlife enthusiast and I wasn't surprised to read that the underwater pictures were courtesy of them.
All is well and very much in the norm of life in Britain. Well, apart from the fact that there has actually been sunshine of late. I've finally managed to get some colour back since returning.
Keep having adventures so we can all be jealous!
Diving Komodo Style
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The first night.
Having checked out of our room and paid our 3 million Rupiah bill, we then dropped our backpacks off at the dive school before going for breakfast. We are both very excited about the 8 night 17 dive live aboard called The Jaya, our very own pirate ship for the week. Having sat on the beach for the day, we arrived back at the dive school at 4pm to meet our fellow divers and dive crew. The boat holds a maximum of 12 divers plus dive staff and crew, lucky for us only 8 people had signed up for this trip so lots of room on the boat.
The Jaya was moored up just off shore so we piled into a motorised dingy ready for our eight nights at sea. We had been warned that the boat was a bit basic but it was still a bit of a surprise how basis she was. We had our own cabin.... well we had a cupboard with a double bed in and room to stand our rucksacks up in. There is a massive shaded deck with bench seats at the end and deck chairs scattered round. This leads to a sun deck that is a bit scary as it has no sides so you could potential fall in if the sea got rough. It was however a fantastic place to lie watching the stars. The front of the boat was decked out with dive gear, tanks and a large compressor user to fill the tanks up after every dive.
The dinner bell went and we ventured down to the galley to tuck into rice, veg and chicken our first meal on the boat. It was dark by the time the boat set sail and we spent the evening getting to know everyone and staring up at the colossal amount of stars that were visible because there was no light pollution. We all turned in hoping our rooms weren't going to be too uncomfortable. Our room was very hot and was visited by a number of baby cockroaches throughout the night, so no not that comfortable. This didn't dampen our spirits as a number of the others had dragged their mattress off their beds and slept soundly on the deck.
Day 1 – First Dives.
We woke up early happy to leave our wretched room and go up on deck. The other basic thing on this boat is the toilet and shower, two very small rooms with enough space for a sink, toilet and hose. Fresh water is very sparse so you have to have a quick shower down with the hose, lucky we are diving every day or it might get stinky.
We had a quick breakfast of cornflakes and banana, before climbing into our dive gear for our first dive of the day on Medang reef off the island of Mayo. The first dive is an easy dive, a get you know you dive. This gives the dive guides knowledge of how well we can dive and whether we are going to be able to handle the strong current diving in Komodo. The diving was pleasant and the other couple Justin and Christine were paired up with us and our great dive guide Anna (from Sweden, smoking body*). The others on the boat are two young girls from German, Anna and Eva, a guy from the UK called Kip and Helly from Finland who has a perfect and very posh English accent. The other dive guide is Christian (Anna's Boyfriend) who is a solid lump of muscle with a fantastic dragon tattoo and finally, Shannon who is our cruise director and an expert on diving in Komodo.
We came up from the dive to a second breakfast of pancakes which were consumed within minutes and spent the next few hours finding our sea legs, exploring the boat but mainly sitting round chatting. The second dive at Satonda reef off the island of the same name was equally easy, nice gentle start to a week of diving.
That night we dragged our bed up on to the deck and snuggled down for a cool and bug free night under the stars.
Day 2 – Swimming in a volcano
Woke up with the sunrise, not the most spectacular one I have seen but still great to be able to watch it from the comfort of your mattress. Our first dive of the day was to Bubble reef off the island of Sangeang. This volcanic island has lava close to the surface so when we dived over the black sandy bottom you could see small bubbles floating up to the surface and the sand was warm to the touch when you pushed your hand into it. There was also a number of nudibranch (sea slugs of different colours) which are very rare to see normally so it was wonderful to spot so many and such a variety in one area.
We moored up on Satonda Island and took the small boat over to the jetty. Another volcanic island this one has a huge lake in the middle of it. We walked up to the view point, which made us puff and pant but the photos were worth it. The long walk back down left us looking forward to a cool off in the lake, but when we got in it was hotter than we were and also oddly salty.
A lot of chilling on the boat before our next dive and a ton of food, they do feed us well on this trip. Our second dive was called High Voltage Reef and the current was real strong and we all came up knackered from constantly swimming into it. Dinner was ready when we got back up and sat around chatting for a while but the early mornings and a tiring dive meant most of us were ready for bed by 7.30pm. As we were all just dosing off, the tiniest cloud appeared and the rain fell down, with no real cover against the rain we had to scurry back to our roach infested, cabins for the night, however we were all so knackered we slept like babies.
Day 3 – Dragons & Manta's
The boat arrived in Komodo late evening and we woke up early the next morning ready to meet our first Dragons. We had a guide walk us through the national park, telling us stories of tourists being bitten by them and how a small local boy got eaten by one. This filled us with confidence as we walking through this small woody area. We saw half a dozen Komodo Dragons who were wandering round the ranger's office and a few on the way back to the boat. They are very big and although they don't look it, very fast. They feed on deer and buffalo and have the full run of the island. It is breading time and all the Dragons go to the north of the island to mate and build nests for their eggs. We were on a tight schedule because of diving and were unable to do the full tour, which would have taken nearly 4 hours, so we only got to see a few of the lazier ones that don't wander too far from the ranger station. This was fine by us, it was so fantastic to be on Komodo and to have actually seen a real Komodo Dragon.
Our first dive of the day was at 10am and was another tough dive, very fast current and we fought like mad against for 35 mins before running low on air and coming up. This is the first dive on Komodo, we have two more to do today.
Dive number two was awesome, probably one of the best dives I have ever done. Firstly there was a strong current but one we just sat in and let it take us along. The current took us past the highlight of the dive a Manta Ray cleaning station. The visibility was not great so when the first two Manta's were pointed out I couldn't really see them. As we got closer I realised I had been looking for something much smaller, each Manta had a 4 metre wing span and were stationary in the current while the cleaner fish went work on their nooks and crannies. The only movement was the tips of their wings waving up and down, they were magnificent to see. Gary turned round and came face to face with another one who had just swum in for a clean, he was so close you could have stroked him. We grabbed on to a rock so we didn't drift away and watched them all for a while. As we drifted off in the current again we came across a huge black Manta, bigger than the others we had just left. We left him and saw two more having the works done. Isn't nature amazing? We all came up in awe of what we had just seen, it was fantastic.
Our third dive was an adventure. We took the small boat for a 40min journey through big waves that crashed over the boat soaking us all, one of guys had to bail the water out so we didn't sink. The journey took forever and was a bit of scramble getting ready in the wooden boat, while sitting on the edge and trying not to fall in whenever someone moved and rocked the boat. Eventually we were all ready and roll backwards off the side of the boat into the water. We all met up at the bottom and set off for our dive. Within seconds the currents changed and we all found ourselves stuck in between two strong currents trying to drag us off the reef. We found bits of rock and hung on by our finger tips while the dive guides edged their way round to find a better route. We ended up climbing our way up the reef face, like Spiderman, until we were near the surface and then we let go and drifted up. We were down a maximum of 19 mins and up and back on the boat and heading in, Batu Balong reef was left unexplored. It hadn't been too stressful but the dive guides where worried we hadn't enjoyed it and thought it had put us off......not a chance.....bring it on!
Day 4 – Turtles and Rescues
After a fantastic night sleep up on deck, we went to bed at 8pm and woke up at 6.30am ready for our first dive of the day. I think we were so worn out from the three dives the day before. I was aching and tired and not up for an early dive at all, we kitted up and climbed into the small wooden boat. We crashed along the waves back to our nemesis, Batu Balong, our disastrous dive the previous day. A little unsure we wanted to revisit it, but by the end we were glad we did. We saw six turtles all crunching their way through the coral. One of them we drifted down the wall face and stopped right next to him, he was hanging on reef chomping his way though some coral, turned round and looked at us as if to say 'Sod off I'm eating my breakfast'. While looking at the turtles, we nearly missed a shark also resting on the reef. The small 2 metre reef shark then got up and swam past us. The whole dive was very cool and made getting up early worth it.
Two hours rest before the next dive which had us diving in off the big boat and back into the fast current, drifting along looking for mantas again. It's very relaxing going with the current, travelling along watching the sea bed go by. We found five more manta rays but then our dive was interrupted when Kip's regulator stopped working, which for none divers is the bit that goes in your mouth and gives you air. With wide eyes full of fear he swim 15 metres against the current up to the dive guide, which for this dive was Shannon, grabbed his regulator out his mouth and started sucking on it like a baby. They both then went up to the surface we all followed. He was fine when we got to the surface, a little shaken but happy enough that by the time we got back to the boat he let us tease him about it. That's what happens when you go upside down under a manta ray.
The third dive had no exciting ends, it was a lovely relaxing dive with a eagle ray thrown in. We were back on the boat for the afternoon and enjoyed sunning on the deck and reading books while the young members of our group when to climb a mountain......mad fools....they also came back and did a night dive!!! Life is easier on the boat now, we have found our sea legs and got into a routine.
Day Five - Diving Komodo
Morning comes round far too fast on this boat, another sunrise watched from our bed on deck. First dive of the day was one we have been practicing for all week. We had to learn something called negative entry. Normally, when you dive with any dive school everyone gets their dive gear on and gets in the water, you then all bob around on the top to check your equipment, clean your mask and just generally make sure everyone is together and ready to dive before you then go down for your dive. Negative entry means you jump in or back roll off the small boat into the water and keep on going, get yourself head first and kick until you reach the bottom or the rest of your group. The reason you do this is to combat strong current. If you all met at the top before going down the current would have you 2 miles away before you got everyone in the water. Komodo diving is the best in the world but also the hardest because of the unpredictable currents, they can be calm one minute and then racing at 2/3 knots either pushing you up to the surface, down to the bottom or out to the blue. Shannon has over a hundred and fifty dives on komodo and can read a change in current or whether a dive is going to worth doing or not. The first dive of the day was at Castle Rock and we are going to do something called split diving. This is when the current hits a pinnacle under the water and it splits to go round it, which leaves a nice little pocket in the middle with no or little current. We drop into this pocket and hopefully see all the big fish, sharks and mantra that come in with the current to feed. The current wasn't too strong and we dropped in to the pocket very easily we found a rock to hang on to and watch a performance of white tip sharks and schools of fish swim past. It was very relaxing. We come up from the dive abuzz with things we had seen and how easy it had been. Breakfast of banana pancake met us when got back on board and an hour and half rest until the next dive.
The second dive was at Crystal Rock also off Komodo. This also had a strong current and we found a good few rocks to hang on as we watched a white tip reef shark swim up and down in front of us getting closer and closer as he got use to us being there. Just as he was getting really close he was chased off by a big fish called a travally. Reef sharks are about two metres long and are the most common sharks you will see on any reef. The currents shifted while we were down diving and we had to almost rock climb up the reef to get to shallower depth because the current was push us down too fast. Hand over hand from one rock to the next with the roar of the current in your ears. When we got to the top the current there was pushing up and over the reef we got swept in to the blue and had to do our safety stop drifting along. We drifted for a while but then noticed lots of bubbles round us. Above us, below us, to the side of us, these were our bubbles but they had got caught in another couple of currents, one going up and one coming down, making like a washing machine effect with us in it. Nothing scary but it was really weird, you couldn't see anything but bubbles and we kept going up and down with the currents like jack in the boxes.
The third dive of the day was back to Castle Rock as everyone had enjoyed it so much the first time. We were told the current had changed but no one expected it to have changed that much. The current was racing round the pinnacle at 4 knots and there was no split so no way of getting out of it. We rock climbed up the reef with the relentless current beating down on us, trying to drag us backwards. It was hard work and I used up most of my air just getting to reef and climbing up it to meet the others. We still had the dive to do. Eventually one of the other girls and I were low on air so we all let go and drifted out to the blue to get picked up but the boat. It was a difficult dive and had been exhausting. The afternoon was then spent relaxing and swapping stories. The diving in Komodo isn't dangerous, it's just difficult. Before all the dives we are giving a briefing and told what to do in case thing go wrong. In most cases it just a case of let go of the reef and the boat will pick you up.
The two German girls Eva and Anna are leaving us today. We dock for the night in Flores where they are getting a flight back to Bali before flying home. We all went ashore for the evening to have a few drinks on dry land. Shannon and Kip have taken a shine to these two pretty frauleins so stayed behind when we all left to go back to the boat... ahh young love! We waited on the jetty for Harry (one of the boat crew) to drive us back in the wooden boat. We started to get a lot of attention from the local kids, before we knew it we were surrounded by about twelve of them all asking twenty questions. They thought it was very funny the way we got into the small boat and all posed for a photo when Gary got the camera out.
Day 6 Castle Rocks!!!!
Woke up before sunrise, so sat up and watched it emerge over the islands of Komodo, beautiful! By 7am everyone on the boat is up and about getting cornflakes, washing, brushing teeth, etc.. First dive of the day is back to Castle Rock with hope of easier currents and lots to see. Our little group is now down by two, so each dive guide has taken two people, we still got to keep Anna, Justin and Christine were with Christian and Helly and Kip were with Shannon. The current was good and we found a comfortable rock at 30 metres down to hold on to while we waited for the show to begin. The current didn't disappoint, as we peered into the blue water from our vantage point on the reef we noticed all the larger fish suddenly make a dash back to the reef and disappear. We then saw a large gray shark glide in followed by......a dolphin!!! The dolphin swam in about 4 metres from us, turned round and swam out to the blue. It was back in a flash followed by a smaller dolphin and their baby. They all swam around in front of us for a short while, doing that thing where they swim on their tails. Then as soon as they appeared they then turned round and shot off to the surface and then they were gone, back out into the blue. Leaving us with massive smiles behind our regulators and doing little dances while still holding on the rock. The gray shark was then followed by a white tipped reef shark but they now looked so small against the dolphins, and to be honest we were so keyed up from the dolphin sighting that even when we saw a turtle on the way up ..it was only a turtle!!!
Everyone was envious that Gary, myself, Anna, Christian and Christine were the only ones to see them. Christine's husband didn't feel well and sat out this dive......he was gutted. The others had just left the area we were sitting to go higher.....they were livid. It's very rare to dive with dolphins, but for them to come that close and with their young, it was very special.
We had a long rest and a bit of a journey before the next dive, so lots of sitting round reading books and taking about our dolphins. The second and last dive of the day, only two dives today, was at GPS Point. This started as a bit of a rock climbing dive again but we found a nice calm pocket in the middle of the current and drifted round admiring the coral. A large gray shark swam past me and Anna but only Gary saw it, Anna and I were sharing into the blue looking for something exciting..... we didn't know it was behind us.
We are on our way back to Gili Trawangan now, full steam ahead, we have two more dives tomorrow and then we will wake up in Gili T. The sea was fairly calm so I asked the skipper if I could have a drive of the boat. He showed me our heading, basically keep that island in your sights, and then went off to have his breakfast. I was fine for a while but then the front sail caught the wind and the boat swung 45' and we were heading for a different island. I gave out a panicked yelp and the skipper came running. I don't think I am very nautical. It was a good job I chose then to have a go at my seafaring skills as a short time after the wind picked up, the waves got high and we were being thrown all round the boat. It was a bit stressful for a while.
Day 7 - Last two dives
It had been a rough night, the wind was still blowing hard when we got up at 7am. Kip was sleeping on the top deck, he gave up at midnight and slept in his bunk, at 3am his mattress (and these things are heavy) sailed off the top and smashed into our deck below, good job he wasn't still on it! All it meant for us was put a few more layers on and snuggle under the covers.
It was so rough in the morning at it didn't look like we were going to dive. We sailed on through and by 10am the sea calmed down and wind had dropped and diving was back on. We had two easy dives to finish our week off. Gary found a Manta Shrimp that punches the air to get rid of predators. Shannon found a Pygmy Seahorse, which is the smallest thing I have ever seen and I have to say looked like a bit of snot on the coral...but don't tell Shannon that he was very pleased with his find.
With our two very relaxing dives over a few of us got the dingy over to the Island of Moyo where we walked to the waterfall. It was a very odd feeling as I walked longer the tree lined path to the falls, the ground kept tilting and rocking like I was still on the boat. The waterfall wasn't that impressive but the local lads that had followed us showed us just how impressive the waterfall could be. They grabbed a swing rope that was tied to a tree and then started throwing themselves off the top of the waterfall and in the deep water below. More impressively they then walked back up through the waterfall to do it all over again. Our guys had a go too, Gary and I sat this one out getting a bit old for those sort of things.
We had a few beers with our last dinner on the boat and spent the evening recapping on the events of the week. We have had a fantastic time and loved every minute of being on the boat and the fabulous diving. Made some good friends and hope to do a similar trip again someday.
Day 8 – Breakfast on the beach
We got up with the sun and watched it rise over Gili Mino and Lombok, hopefully our last sunrise for a while.....I would like to sleep in longer. We packed our rucksacks and met on deck for our goodbye speech from Shannon. Breakfast burritos where waiting for us on the beach, so we all climbed in the wooden boat and waved goodbye to the crew and the Jaya for the last time.
The diving was excellent, the adventure was priceless, the staff and crew where fantastic. If you dive then you have to dive Komodo!!!!
*Comment by Gary
**Underwater photo's courtesy of Justin and Christine
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Hi Lynne and Gary,
Wow how funny is that....small world!!
Had such a great time on the Jaya, it was a must do.
Glad to hear you're still keeping up with our travels.
L & G xxxx
What a great trip... It reminds me my holiday in Komodo in summer 2008.
Komodo for my experience is has good has bali diving , hope to come back there as soon as possible


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Yet, it must be admitted, the measure had been mainly precautionary. Helen had gone to confession, on the present occasion, in much the same spirit as an experienced traveller visits his dentist before starting on a protracted journey. She regarded it as a disagreeable, but politic, insurance against possible accident. Her distaste had been increased by the fact that there really were some rather risky matters to be confessed. She had even feared a course of penance might have been enforced before the granting of absolution—this certainly would have been the case had she been dealing with that firm disciplinarian, and very astute man of the world, the Jesuit father who acted as her spiritual adviser in Paris. But here in Naples, happily, it was different. The fat, sleepy, easy‐going, old canon—whose person exuded so strong an odour of snuff that, at the solemnest moment of the confiteor, she had been unable to suppress a convulsive sneeze—asked her but few inconvenient questions. Pretty fine‐ladies will get into little difficulties of this nature. He had listened to very much the same story not infrequently before, and took the position amiably, almost humorously, for granted. It was very wicked, a deadly sin, but the flesh—specially such delicately bred, delicately fed, feminine flesh—is admittedly weak, and the wiles of Satan are many. Is it not an historic fact that our first mother did not escape?—Was Helen's repentance sincere, that was the point? And of that Helen could honestly assure him there was no smallest doubt. Indeed, at this moment, she abhorred, not only her sin, but her co‐sinner, in the liveliest and most comprehensive manner. Return to him? Sooner the dog return to its vomit! She recognised the iniquity, the shame, the detestable folly, of her late proceedings far too clearly. Temptation in that direction had ceased to be possible.
Then followed the mysterious and merciful words of absolu‐ page: 424 tion. And Helen rose from her knees and slipped out from beneath the frayed and greasy curtain a free woman, the guilt of her adultery wiped off by those awful words, as, with a wet cloth, one would wipe writing off a slate leaving the surface of it clean in every part. Precisely how far she literally believed in the efficacy of that most solemn rite she would not have found it easy to declare. Scepticism warred with expediency. But that appeared to her beside the mark. It was really none of her business. Let her teachers look to all that. To her it was sufficient that she could regard it from the practical standpoint of an insurance against possible accident—the accident of sin proving actually sinful and actually punishable by a narrow‐minded deity; the accident of the veritable existence of heaven and hell, and of Holy Church veritably having the keys of both these in her keeping; the accident—more immediately probable and consequently worth guarding against—that, during wakeful hours, some night, the half‐forgotten lessons of the convent school would come back on her, and, as did sometimes happen, would prove too much for her usually victorious audacity.
But, it should be added that another and more creditable instinct did much to dictate Madame de Vallorbes' action at this juncture. As the days went by the attraction exercised over her by Richard Calmady suffered increase rather than diminution. And this attraction affected her morally, producing in her modesties, reticencies of speech, even of thought, and prickings of unflattering self‐criticism unknown to her heretofore. Her ultimate purpose might not be virtuous. But undeniably, such is the complexity—not to say hypocrisy—of the human heart, the prosecution of that purpose developed in her a surprising sensibility of conscience. Many episodes in her career, hitherto regarded as entertaining, she ceased to view with toleration, let alone complacency. The remembrance of them made her nervous. What if Richard came to hear of them? The effect might be disastrous. Not that he was any saint; but she perceived that, with the fine inconsistency common to most well‐bred Englishmen, he demanded from the women of his family quite other standards of conduct to those which he himself obeyed. Other women might do as they pleased. Their lapses from the stricter social code were no concern of his. He might, indeed, be not wholly averse to profiting by such lapses. But in respect of the women of his own rank and blood the case was quite otherwise. He was alarmingly capable of disgust. And, not a little to her own surprise, fear of provoking, however slightly, that disgust had become a reigning power with her. Never had page: 425 she felt as she now felt. Her own sensations at once captivated and astonished her. This had ceased to be an adventure dictated by merry devilry, undertaken out of lightness of heart, inspired by a mischievous desire to see dust whirl and straws fly; or undertaken even out of necessity to support self‐satisfaction by ranging herself with cynical audacity on the side of the eternal laughter. This was serious. It was desperate—the crisis, as she told herself, of her life and fate. The result was singular. Never had she been more vividly, more electrically, alive. Never had she been more diffident and self‐distrustful.
And this complexity of sensation served to press home on her the high desirability of insurance against accident, of washing clean, as far as might be possible, the surface of the slate. So it followed that now, standing in the chequer‐work of sunshine within the great basilica, self‐congratulation awoke in her. The lately concluded ceremony, some of the details of which had really been most distasteful, might or might not be of vital efficacy, but, in any case, she had courageously done her part. Therefore, if Holy Church spoke truly, her first innocence was restored. Helen hugged the idea with almost childish satisfaction. Now she could go back to the Villa Vallorbes in peace, and take what measures—
She left the sentence unfinished. Even in thought it is often an error to define. Let the future and her intentions regarding it remain in the vague! She signed to Zélie Forestier—seated on the steps of a side‐chapel, yellow‐paper‐covered novel in hand—to follow her. And, after making a genuflexion before the altar of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception, gathered up her turquoise‐coloured skirts—the yellow‐tufa quarries were not superabundantly clean—and pursued her way towards the great main door. The benevolent priest, charmed by her grace of movement, watched her from his place in the confessional, although another penitent now kneeled within the greasy curtain.—Verily the delinquencies of so delectable a piece of womanhood were easily comprehensible! Neither God nor man, in such a case, would be extreme to mark what was done amiss. Moreover, had she not promised generous gifts alike to church and poor? The sin which in an ugly woman is clearly mortal, in a pretty one becomes little more than venial. Making which reflection a kindly, fat chuckle shook his big paunch, and, crossing himself, he turned his attention to the voice murmuring from behind the wooden lattice at his side.
Yet it would appear that abstract justice judged less leniently of the position. For, passing out on to the portico—about the page: 426 base of whose enormous columns half‐naked beggars clustered, exposing sores and mutilations, shrilly clamouring for alms—the dazzling glare of the empty, sun‐scorched piazza behind him, Helen came face to face with no less a personage than M. Paul Destournelle.
It was as though someone had struck her. The scene reeled before her eyes. Then her temper rose as in resentment of insult. To avoid all chance of such a meeting she had selected this church in an unfashionable quarter of the town. Here, at least, she had reckoned herself safe from molestation. And, that precisely in the hour of peace, the hour of politic insurance against accident, this accident of all others should befall her, was maddening! But anger did not lessen her perspicacity. How to inflict the maximum of discomfort upon M. Destournelle with the minimum of risk to herself was the question. An interview was inevitable. She wanted, very certainly, to get her claws into him; but, for safety's sake, that should be done not in attack, but in defence. Therefore he should speak first, and in his words, whatever those words might be, she promised herself to discover legitimate cause of offence. So, leisurely, and with studied ignorance of his presence, she flung largesse of centissimi to right and left, and, while the chorus of blessing and entreaty was yet loud, walked calmly past M. Destournelle down the wide, shallow steps, from the solid shadow of the portico to the burning sun‐glare of the piazza.
The young maws countenance went livid.
"Do you dare to pretend not to recognise me?" he literally gasped.
"On the contrary I recognise you perfectly."
"I have written to you repeatedly."
"You have—written to me with a ridiculous and odious persistence."
Madame de Vallorbes picked her steps. The pavement was uneven, the heat great. Destournelle's hands twitched with agitation, yet he contrived not only to replace his Panama hat, but opened his white umbrella as a precaution against sunstroke. And this diverted, even while exasperating, Helen. Measures to ensure personal safety were so characteristic of Destournelle!
"And with what fault, I ask you, can you reproach me, save that of a too absorbing, a too generous, adoration?"
"That fault in itself is very sufficient."
"Do you not reckon, then, in any degree, with the crime you are in process of committing? Have you no sense of page: 427 gratitude, of obligation? Have you no regret for your own loss in leaving me?"
Helen drew aside to let a herd of goats pass. They jostled one another impudently, carrying their inquisitive heads and short tails erect, at right angles to the horizontal line of their narrow backs. They bleated, as in impish mischief. Their little beards wagged. Their little hoofs pattered on the stone, and the musky odour of them hung in the burning air. Madame de Vallorbes put her handkerchief up to her face, and over the edge of it she contemplated Paul Destournelle. Every detail of his appearance was not only familiar, but associated in her mind with some incident of his and her common past. Now the said details asserted themselves, so it seemed to her, with an impertinence of premeditated provocation.—The high, domed skull, the smooth, prematurely‐thin hair parted in the middle, and waved over the ears. The slightly raised eyebrows, and fatigued, red‐lidded, and vain, though handsome eyes. The straight, thin nose, and winged, open nostrils, so perpetually a‐quiver. The soft, sparse, forked beard which closely followed the line of the lower jaw and pointed chin. The moustache, lightly shading the upper lip, while wholly exposing the fretful and rather sensuous mouth. The long, effeminate, and restless hands. The tall, slight figure. The clothes, of a material and pattern fondly supposed by the wearer to present the last word of English fashion in relation to foreign travel, the colour of them accurately matched to the pale, brown hair and beard.—So much for the detail of the young man's appearance. As a whole, that appearance was elegant as only French youth ventures to be elegant. Refinement enveloped Paul Destournelle—refinement, over‐sensitised and under‐vitalised, as that of a rare exotic forced into precocious blossoming by application of some artificial horticultural process. And all this—elaborately effective and seductive as long as one should happen to think so, elaborately nauseous when one had ceased so to think—had long been familiar to Helen to the point of satiety. She turned wicked, satiety transmuting itself into active vindictiveness. How gladly would she have torn this emasculated creature limb from limb, and flung the lot of it among the refuse of the Neapolitan gutter!
But, from beneath the shade of his umbrella, the young man recommenced his plaint.
"It is inconceivable that, knowing my cruel capacity for suffering, you should be indifferent to my present situation," he asserted, half violently, half fretfully. "The whole range of page: 428 history would fail to offer a case of parallel callousness. You, whose personality has penetrated the recesses of my being! You, who are acquainted with the infinite intricacy of my mental and emotional organisation! A touch will endanger the harmony of that exquisite mechanism. The interpenetration of the component parts of my being is too entire. I exist, I receive sensations, I suffer, I rejoice, as a whole. And this lays me open to universal, to incalculable, pain. Now my nerves are shattered—intellectual, moral, physical anguish permeates in every part. I rally my self‐reverence, my nobility of soul. I make efforts. By day I visit spots of natural beauty and objects of art. But these refuse to gratify me. My thought is too turgid to receive the impress of them. Concentration is impossible to me. Feverish agitation perverts my imagination. My ideas are fugitive. I endure a chronic delirium. This by day," he extended one hand with a despairing gesture, "but by night"—
"Oh, I implore you," Helen interrupted, "spare me the description of your nights! The subject is a hardly modest one. And then, at various times, I have already heard so very much about them, those nights!"
Calmly she resumed her walk. The amazing vanity of the young man's speech appeased her in a measure, since it fed her contempt. Let him sink himself beyond all hope of recovery, that was best. Let him go down, down, in exposition of fatuous self‐conceit. When he was low enough, then she would kick him! Meanwhile her eyes, ever greedy of incident and colour, registered the scene immediately submitted to them. In the centre of the piazza, women—saffron and poppy‐coloured handkerchiefs tied round their dark heads—washed, with a fine impartiality, soiled linen and vegetables in an iron trough, grated for a third of its length, before a fountain of debased and flamboyant design. Their voices were alternately shrill and guttural. It was perhaps as well not to understand too clearly all which they said. On the left came a break in the high, painted house‐fronts, off which in places the plaster scaled, and from the windows of which protruded miscellaneous samples of wearing apparel and bedding soliciting much‐needed purification by means of air and light. In the said break was a low wall where coarse plants rooted, and atop of which lay some half‐dozen ragged youths, outstretched upon their stomachs, playing cards. The least decrepit of the beggars, armed with Helen's largesse of copper coin, had joined them from beneath the portico. Gambling, seasoned by shouts, imprecations, blows, page: 429 grew fast and furious. In the steep roadway on the right a dray, loaded with barrels, creaked and jolted upward. The wheels of it were solid discs of wood. The great, mild‐eyed, cream‐coloured oxen strained, with slowly swinging heads, under the heavy yoke. Scarlet, woollen bands and tassels adorned their broad foreheads and wide‐sweeping, black‐tipped horns, and here and there a scarlet drop their flanks, where the goad had pricked them too shrewdly. And upon it all the unrelenting southern sun looked down, and Helen de Vallorbes' unrelenting eyes looked forth. One of those quick realisations of the inexhaustible excitement of living came to her. She looked at the elegant young man walking beside her, appraised, measured him. She thought of Richard Calmady, self‐imprisoned in the luxurious villa, and of the possibilities of her, so far platonic, relation to him. She glanced down at her own rustling skirts and daintily‐shod feet travelling over the hot stones; then at the noisy gamblers, then at the women washing, with that consummate disregard of sanitation, food and raiment together in the rusty iron trough by the fountain. The violent contrasts, the violent lights and shadows, the violent diversities of purpose and emotion, of rank, of health, of fortune and misfortune, went to her head. Whatever the risks or dangers, that excitement remained inexhaustible. Nay, those very dangers and risks ministered to its perpetual upflowing. It struck her she had been over‐scrupulous, weakly conscientious, in making confession and seeking absolution. Such timid moralities do not really shape destiny, control or determine human fate. The shouting, fighting youths there, with their filthy pack of cards and few centissimi, sprawling in the unstinted sunshine, were nearer the essential truth. They were the profound, because the practical philosophers. Therefore let us gamble, gamble, gamble, be the stake small or great, as long as the merest flicker of life, or fraction of uttermost farthing, is left! And so, when Destournelle took up his lament again, she listened to him, for the moment, with remarkable lightness of heart.
"I appeal to you in the name of my as yet unwritten poems, my masterpieces, for which France, for which the whole brotherhood of letters, so anxiously waits, to put a term to this appalling chastisement!"
"Delicious!" said Helen, under her breath.
"Your classicism is the natural complement of my mediævalism. The elasticity, the concreteness, of your temperament fertilised the too‐brooding introspectiveness of my page: 430 own. It lightened the reverence which I experience in the contemplation of my own nature. It induced in me the hint of frivolity which is necessary to procure action. Our union was as that of high‐noon and impenetrable night. I anticipated extraordinary consequences."
"Marriage of a butterfly and a bat? Yes, the progeny should be surprising little animals certainly," commented Madame de Vallorbes.
"In deserting me you have rendered me impotent. That is a crime. It is an atrocity. You assassinate my genius."
"Then, indeed, I have reason to congratulate myself on my ingenuity," she returned, "since I succeed in the assassination of the non‐existent!"
"You, who have praised it a thousand times—you deny the existence of my genius?" almost shrieked M. Destournelle. He was very much in earnest, and in a very sorry case. His limbs twitched. He appeared on the verge of an hysteric seizure. To plague him thus was a charmingly pretty sport, but one safest carried on with closed doors—not in so public a spot.
"I do not deny the existence of anything, save your right to make a scene and render me ridiculous as you repeatedly did at Pisa."
"Then you must return to me."
"Oh! la, la!" cried Helen.
"That you should leave me and live in your cousin's house constitutes an intolerable insult."
"And where, pray, would you have me live?" she retorted, her temper rising, to the detriment of diplomacy. "In the street?"
"It appears to me the two localities are synonymous—morally."
Madame de Vallorbes drew up. Rage almost choked her. M. Destournelle's words stung the more fiercely because the insinuation they contained was not justified by fact. They brought home to her her non‐success in a certain direction. They called up visions of that unknown rival, to whom—ah, how she hated the woman!—Richard Calmady's affections were, as she feared, still wholly given. That her own relation to him was innocent, filled her with humiliation. First she turned to Zélie Forestier, who had followed at a discreet distance across the piazza.
"Go on," she said, "down the street. Find a cab, a clean one. Wait in it for me at the bottom of the hill."
Then she turned upon M. Destournelle.page: 431
"Your mind is so corrupt that you cannot conceive of an honest friendship, even between near relations. You fill me with repulsion—I measured the depth of your degeneracy at Pisa. That is why I left you. I wanted to breathe an uninfected atmosphere. My cousin is a person of remarkable intellectual powers, of chivalrous ideals, and of superior character. He has had great troubles. He is far from well. I am watching over and nursing him."
The last statement trenched boldly on fiction. As she made it Madame de Vallorbes moved forward, intending to follow the retreating Zélie down the steep, narrow street. For a minute M. Destournelle paused to recollect his ideas. Then he went quickly after her.
"Stay, I implore you," he said. "Yes, I own at Pisa I lost myself. The agitation of composition was too much for me. My mind seethed with ideas. I became irritable. I comprehend I was in fault. But it is so easy to recommence, and to range oneself. I accept your assurances regarding your cousin. It is all so simple. You shall not return to me. You shall continue your admirable work. But I will return to you. I will join you at the villa. My society cannot fail to be of pleasure to your cousin, if he is such a person as you describe. In a milieu removed from care and trivialities I will continue my poem. I may even dedicate it to your cousin. I may make his name immortal. If he is a person of taste and ideals, he cannot fail to appreciate so magnificent a compliment. You will place this before him. You will explain to him how necessary to me is your presence. He will be glad to co‐operate in procuring it for me. He will understand that in making these propositions I offer him a unique opportunity, I behave towards him with signal generosity. And if, at first, the intrusion of a stranger into his household should appear inconvenient, let him but pause a little. He will find his reward in the development of my genius and in the spectacle of our mutual felicity."
Destournelle spoke with great rapidity. The street which they had now entered, from the far end of the piazza, was narrow. It was encumbered by a string of laden mules, by a stream of foot passengers. Interruption of his monologue, short of raising her voice to screaming pitch, was impossible to Madame de Vallorbes. But when he ceased she addressed him, and her lips were drawn away from her pretty teeth viciously.
"Oh! you unspeakable idiot!" She said. "Have you no remnant of shame?"
"Do you mean to imply that Sir Richard Calmady would page: 432 have the insolence, is so much the victim of insular prejudice as, to object to our intimacy?"
Madame de Vallorbes clapped her hands together in a sort of frenzy.
"Idiot, idiot," she repeated. "I wish I could kill you."
Suddenly M. Paul Destournelle had all his wits about him.
"Ah!" he said, with a short laugh, curiously resembling in its malice the bleating of the little goats, "I perceive that which constitutes the obstacle to our reunion. It shall be removed."
He lifted his Panama hat with studied elegance, and turning down a break‐neck, side alley, called, over his shoulder:—
"À bientôt très chère madame."


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Sean "ShutDown" Smith sure has fallen from the good graces of FH.
Sean "ShutDown" Smith sure has fallen from the good graces of FH.
On what basis does this guy set his expectations? He has 5 career INTs in 64 GS. He is a poor tackler. He doesn't make plays on the ball. He doesn't shut down opposing WRs - the only thing he's good at is playing press coverage against the bigger, slower WR types. He walks we won't notice. Spend the money on Long before Smith. And if we franchise him it suggests Ireland is completely incompetent.
Keenan Lewis come on down.
Deshaun Watson is the TRUTH!
The biggest thing that bothers me about Sean Smith is... he is soft! Translation - he's not a football player.
Royalshank referred to his production of 5 INT's in 64 Games... he's the defensive version of Brian Hartline. Good player, makes some plays, hasn't developed himself physically and doesn't produce.
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To be fair it's not like he's gonna come out and say he wants 5 mil to start off negotiations....let him walk though, cop a CB in the first round of the draft, sign Jennings/Wallace and grab a DE and another WR in other rounds.
If Ireland pays him that kind of money, he needs to be walked out of the team facilities immediately, no way hes worth that.
I've been a Smith fan since before we drafted him, but I gotta say that's simply not going to happen anywhere. If he's looking at 8M+ a year, we can and will replace him. For a converted WR, he really has terrible ball skills. Our team set a record for LEAST TAKEAWAYS EVER by a Miami Dolphins team. I can't imagine that the CB who doesn't stop 1st downs or TD's at a good rate and doesn't create takeaways is going to get 10M a year. It just doesn't make sense.
Everybody is going bonkers about Jake Long's salary ... he's twice the player Smith is and at a muuuuuuuch harder to replace position.
I'm guessing this is all a massive bluff. The FA market will not pay more than 7M and I bet he resigns with us for 6.5M-7M. If someone is willing to give him more than 7M, congrats.
For a guy who's head is in the sky, you'd think he'd be able to locate the football when it's in the air every once in awhile...
And he acts as if he made the game winning play with his incomplete arms celebration every time he makes a routine play.
Dude is not good, at all. Just like Vontae, he's the very type of player we need to lose on this team.


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What do you aim for next when you have achieved your career goal by the age of 23?
Don't ask harness racing driving freak Dexter Dunn because he admits he doesn't know.
The Canterbury horseman will this weekend almost certainly join the elite club of New Zealand reinsmen to have partnered 1000 domestic winners, as he sits on 996.
The 1000 club has always been the big time in New Zealand racing - of either code - as only the very, very best get there. When Dunn salutes the judge after reaching the mark he will be the 20th Kiwi driver to do so.
Most of the recent graduates have reached that summit in their 40s. Dunn will do it just two months after his 23rd birthday. To put that further in perspective, the only other driver to get to 1000 in their 20s was Mark Jones and he was 29.
Considering drivers don't start their careers until they are 16 at the earliest, Dunn will reach the milestone in half the time it has taken any other reinsman and about a quarter of the time it took the likes of outstanding drivers like Maurice McKendry or David Butcher.
"It is a little bit hard to believe," Dunn told the Herald.
"The 1000 club has always been the one only the great drivers get to and when I started my career if somebody told me I would get there ever I would have struggled to believe them. And now I am probably going to do it this weekend. Now it is coming up I am starting to realise it is a big deal."
Dunn is already well past 1000 wins worldwide, after successes in Australia and North America.
Having driven there, he has no immediate ambitions to return. "I know the opportunities are there and maybe one day I would like to make the move to Aussie or the US.
"But I have too good a thing going here at the moment to consider moving." That good thing going includes huge support from a massive base of trainers, most importantly Cran Dalgety, who could well win this season's premiership. "Cran has a lot of horses in work and is great at placing them.
"And to be honest that makes driving some winners very easy. Some of his horses start very short and all I have to do is steer them.
"Cran has been very good to me and I'd like my 1000th winner to come in his colours because he has helped me get here."
Dunn has obvious future goals, like winning New Zealand Cups and Interdominions, and maybe somewhere a decade or two in the future he will catch Tony Herlihy as New Zealand's most successful ever horseman, which could well total 4000 winners before the great man retires.
But Dunn's most immediate target is more specific. "I'd love to win a Derby or an Oaks.
"I know there are quite a few of them around if you count the ones in Australia but I've never won one.
"So one of those this season and the premiership again and I will be happy." Coming from any other 23-year-old that was sound arrogant. From Dunn, it sounds like a certainty waiting to happen.


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They say that memories are a powerful thing to the human mind. Some are easily forgotten, and others stay with you whether you want them to or not. Only one type of memory is more dominant than a good experience; A bad experience. So there should be no doubt about the fact that the 4th ranked Oregon Ducks have not forgotten about the 51-42 loss at the hands of the Stanford Cardinal last season in Palo Alto. Last year Stanford running back Toby Gerhart drove right through the Duck defense that seemed overmatched for one of the few times all season, as Oregon suffered their only Pac-10 loss. However, this week when the 9th ranked Cardinal lumber into Autzen Stadium to face off with the Ducks in a clash of top-10 ranked teams the men on the Oregon sideline are sure to have only one thing on their minds: revenge.
On offense the Ducks need to display vast improvement from last week's mediocre performance in Tempe. This week's match-up is drastically different from last week however. Arizona State displayed quickness, burst, and athleticism unlike the Ducks have faced all season and that proved to be a problem for the offensive line. This week Stanford poses a more power-oriented defense that looks to rely on production more so than big plays. The Stanford defense is designed to wear down opponents with their physical mentality and sometimes just be smarter than the other team (it is still Stanford after all). But a relatively unathletic linebacking core could prove costly against the likes on LaMichael James and Kenjon Barner, two running backs that if given even a little crease will take off and not be caught. So expect the Cardinal to stack the line much like Arizona State did last week against the Ducks. So the pressure may fall on quarterback Darron Thomas to throw the ball over the top to his weapons at receiver and tight end. Thomas's two main targets this season have been receiver Jeff Maehl and tight end David Paulson, and look for both of them to be productive again in the short passing game. However, Thomas has shown that if the opportunity presents itself he will throw the ball deep, so look for Lavasier Tuinei to snatch a few touchdowns in the game as well. But in tough games like this it cannot be stressed enough how vital it is for Thomas to be productive but accurate. At this stage he needs to worry about helping not hurting by turning the ball over and giving Andrew Luck extra opportunities. Look for Chip Kelly to call a conservative game, or as conservative as possible for a coach that seems to confuse "conservative" with "get the damn ball in the endzone…a lot." The Oregon offense should find ways to score, so the emphasis is on the defense.
This year's Cardinal team is spearheaded by quarterback Andrew Luck, without a doubt one of the most talented and productive players in the country. It is by no accident that Luck is near the top of the list of Heisman Trophy candidates as well as those of NFL scouts who drool over every college quarterback that knows how to through it to his own team. But how much does Luck really have to do with success? Stanford has thus far faced 4 teams that are without winning records this season, much like the Ducks remaining relatively untested. So this week's game will provide a barometer for the prospects of both teams in the remainder of the season. While the Cardinal may have the best college quarterback in the nation lined up behind center Saturday, they do not have the luxury of a dual threat like last year with Gerhart. Luck has done well thus far with the weapons that he has, but the Ducks superior athleticism and speed on the defensive side of the ball should play into Oregon's favor. Coming off of a 7 turnover performance against Arizona State, look for the Ducks to remain aggressive and win the turnover battle again this week. The main battle will be Luck versus the Oregon defense, because if Luck is forced to stay on the sidelines and watch the Duck offense run up and down the field it would be hard for him to keep his team in the game. Luck, like most good quarterbacks, works best when he is in command of the game and is allowed to work in rhythm with his offense. If the Ducks force turnovers, put pressure on Luck and force the Cardinal to punt then Stanford is in trouble. But if Stanford is permitted to play at their pace and dominate time of possession, look for this game to go down to the wire and if you are a Duck fan hope Stanford does not have the ball.
There is no question as to the magnitude of this game in the minds of the players, the fans, as well as the national audience. ESPN's College Gameday will be returning to Eugene for full coverage of the contest. This provides a scene for analyst Lee Corso to place a giant Duck helmet on his head if he picks Oregon to win (if he picks Stanford, your guess is as good as mine as to how he will put a tree on his head). Last season Gameday visited Eugene for a game against the USC Trojans, so trust me when I say Oregon fans know how to make fun of opposing mascots. With a primetime start to the game, all eyes will be on Autzen Stadium Saturday to see who really brings the wood. The Ducks will look to cut down the Cardinal and log this game in the win column. The show "Axe Men" is shot in Oregon for a reason, so look for the Cardinal to leave Eugene to the sounds of "Timber!"
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It's the morning work out. Something some of us dread. But for 18-year-old Michael Walch being active is his passion.
"He's a sports nut," said Lisa Walch, Michael's mom.
So, it won't surprise you when you hear one of Michael's goals in life.
"Would probably be being a gym teacher," said Michael Walch, Project LIVE student.
It's a goal Michael is working to achieve through Project LIVE, or Lifelong Independence and Vocational Education.
The program, which just started this year in the Holmen School District, is designed to help special education students, between 18 and 21 years of age, transition into the real world.
"The last couple years of high school, when you have a child with disabilities, you're thinking... okay, we're starting to look to his future. What's he going to be able to do," said Lisa.
Michael has some mild cognitive disabilities, and has been diagnosed with a degenerative, neurological disease called Friedreich's Ataxia.
"What it does is it wears away the nerve tissue around the spine, and so he'd gradually lose the use of his legs which he has," said Lisa. "He can stand for a little bit now and then. It affects other things physically as well."
But Michael pushes on and isn't letting his diagnosis stop him from achieving his life-long goals. And the LIVE program is by his side supporting him every step of the way.
"In the transition, recreation and leisure is critical," said Nicholas Slusser, Project LIVE program director. "So, when he comes out there they get to do their customized workouts and they get to go swimming and especially with Michael... with his disability. It's great to have him in the water with the other boys because he's able to use his legs where as otherwise he's in his wheelchair all day long."
"It's important to me so I can stay strong, build muscle, get in the pool," said Michael. "So, I can stretch out and move around."
Twice a week, an adaptive physical education teacher from the Holmen School District meets Michael and the three other boys in the Project LIVE program at the YMCA for individualized workouts. But physical health is only a part of the program's real-world training.
"Everything else from there on out is individualized," said Slusser. "For example, if one of them is struggling with budgeting and financial needs, I'll have a lesson plan set-up specifically for him. For another one, he's credit deficient at the high school. So, we have him doing some independent work on the computer.
On Thursdays, we go down to Riverfront," said Slusser. "We take the MTU bus so they learn how to use public transportation. We use shared ride public transit service to get around town. We get out in the community. We get to know how to shop, how to budget. Grocery shopping is a big one. We do that every week at Festival Foods."
The class also learns apartment living skills like how to cook, clean and general hygiene. Things many of us don't have to think twice about.
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Well, it took less than a day for someone to read the post and fire an email to disagree… thanks for the email… now Mr. Anonymous… I would like to invite you to read all the way to the end of the last post.. it says "We will talk more about the other pieces to building the program in the next few posts.. so stay tuned!"
So here you go.. Part 2 of "If you build it they will come".
In the last post I focused on the Scout Leadership and how fundamental that point is in developing your program so 'they' will come. Once that is established, or at least progress is being made to that end, it is time to sell the program.
How do you sell a calendar? As simple as I can put it, just show it. And how you show it is through relationships. Your unit needs to have several relationships to grow. The first is obviously with the Packs. Yeah, PACKS, plural. It is not good enough to rely on a single Pack to "Feed" your unit. The reason I say that is because we are selling a specific program. Let me take a minute and explain that.
Our program, our plan, our Troop is not like every other Troop. Each Troop has its own flavor, its own way of delivering the promise, its own style. The beauty is that given the Mission, Goals, and Values of the Boy Scouts of America we (all Scout units) can do it that way, we can all have our own flavor or style to achieve the Goals, work through the methods and deliver the promise to the young men that come to and stay with the Troop… so having said that what we are selling is OUR program, and that applies to every Troop out there.
Relationships with multiple Cub Scout Packs is critical if you want to maintain sustainable membership numbers. It is realistic that not every Webelos Scout will cross over to your unit. It is fair to give the Webelos Scouts and their parents choices in their selection of Boy Scout Troops. Den Chiefs that assist the Pack and Dens are great recruiters and sell our program weekly. They demonstrate through their stories, there teaching, and their presents that we have a unit that values their leadership. The Den Chief is encouraged to make open invitations to the Webelos Scouts to attend Troop meetings and camp outs.
The Den Chief is the front line of recruiting for a Troop.
The second line of recruiting and relationship building between the Troop and the Pack is Adult leaders that have their hands in the program. The Scoutmaster or Assistant Scoutmasters should maintain a friendly presents within the Pack. Attending Pack meetings, Den Meetings and participating in special Pack functions. Relationships with Den Leaders and Cubmasters are important in the process of transitioning a Webelos Scout to a Boy Scout Troop. This process never ends and is only effective when it is real and part of the annual plan. Dedicated time and energy is a must to the recruiting effort. Your Troop should have dedicated leaders, both youth and adult that can and will give effort to building and maintaining relationships with those Packs.
The relationships that you build become lasting and meaningful when you give that time. Some things that we find are successful are; helping the Packs with their recruiting efforts, providing assistants with Pack programs like family camps, pinewood derby races, parades, and working with the Webelos Scouts on activity pins. Providing youth "teachers" to help the Dens of the Pack achieve belt loops is another great way to get your Troop program sold. That and by having the Scouts do it, they develop their leadership styles and demonstrate to the parents of the Cub Scouts that our program fosters youth leadership, skills development, and and over all delivery of the Scouting program. Taking the Cub Scouts on a Fishing derby, working with them on a Wildlife conservation effort, participating with any of the sports related belt loops provides opportunities to lead and recruit, all the while selling the Troops program.
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Andy Souwer vs Bovy Sor Udomson 2010
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This was a quarter-final match-up in the 2010 S-Cup.
Andy Souwer is a two time S-Cup champion and was a heavy favorite to win the fight and progress to the finals. He typically fights a cerebral, point-scoring game that increases in pace as the rounds go on. This is in stark contrast to the damage-absorbing, Terminator style of his opponent.
Bovy Sor Udomson is a legend of Muay Thai with a reputation for being somewhat inhuman in the ring. His uncompromisingly aggressive style won him the Rajadamnern belt at the young age of 19, but his career peaked quickly because of the damage he took. He's moved up slowly in weight from 122 lb super bantamweight to continue fighting at 67-70 kg, 147-154 lb, though with obviously dimmed reflexes.
Bovy wears blue gloves here and Andy the red.
Thanks to GalaxyJill for putting this up! Andy is known for being slow starter and seems to be thrown off his game by the physical style of Bovy. Like most Thai Muay Thai fighters, Bovy is a very strong clincher and Andy ends up on the loser's side of some very messy tie-ups. The big surprise comes at the end of the first when Andy is dropped by a clubbing right hand. It looks like he mis-timed a bob and caught the inside of Bovy's glove on the back of his head.
He may have been thrown off by Bovy's muscling, messy game, but he seemed to have found his zone by the end of the second. The high kick he threw was just beautiful and, though the bell rang just afterward, he quickly established punching distance and finished Bovy with aggressive combos in the third.
Before his next bout with Toby Imada, Andy allegedly complained about discomfort in his back. If you watch his clinches with Bovy, you'll see Bovy repeatedly go for a lower back lock, which is illegal in Muay Thai because of danger to the spine. It's hard to say whether this injured Andy, but either way, it was one of the more effective weapons Bovy employed to make the match much harder than predicted for Andy.


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just watched both Clear and Present Danger, and Star Wars sort of a Harrison Ford night. also caught Wedding Crashers.
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An entymologist (Peter Graves) and his photographer gal pal helps the army defeat a swarm of giant grasshoppers mutated into giant size by radiation in Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Beginning of the End. Bad creature effects were actual shots of real insects, including some shots of the bugs crawling over photos of city buildings.
The Illusionist was pretty solid fare. Bit of a stretch at the end, but still very entertaining.
Two conscientious drifters (Henry Fonda and a remarkably youthful Harry M*A*S*H Morgan) ride into town and join a lawless posse out to hunt down cattle rustlers and murderers after a local ranch owner is reported dead in The Ox-Bow Incident. After finding a trio of men camped nearby, the mob votes to hang 'em without trial, before finding out they are innocent of the crime.
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"That's the best deal you're gonna get. I won't tell you you can save yourself, because you can't."
Watched The Flintstones and Slums of Beverly Hills
Looking for CW 2010 Sidious and TX-20...if anyone can help it would be greatly appreciated. thanks
After reading what Dark Artist watched, I dont feel so bad about admitting I watched the FF last night
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Shaun of the Dead for the first time in probably a year or so...damn I love that movie.
Just watched the animated Iron Man film on Cartoon network.
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Mummy of the raincoat is a gigantic trollop.
Watched "High School High" on dvd....one of my favorite comedies, plus appropriate since I'm now working in the school system.
"You know I love the guy but I swear he writes like freaking Yoda."-Dean Winchester
R12:2-Be Transformed
Just finished up Tombstone. Still a great movie.
Great performance by Val Kilmer. My two favorite lines in the movie come from him: "I'm your huckleberry" and "you're a daisy if you do."
Up, up, and OKAAAAY!!!
Val Kilmer's best performance ever in one of the greatest westerns of all time! Yes, I loved "Tombstone" I even downloaded it from iTunes for my iPod!
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Missing Pieces: Uncertain India, Aid Transparency, and More
- Uncertain India: India, long seen as a vibrant democracy headed for prosperity, has lately become known for sagging growth and political paralysis. An Economist special report surveys the scene. Though global weakness has harmed India's economy, it says, "the greatest pains are self-inflicted." Troubles include a large deficit, an unfriendly investment climate, high inflation, and inadequate infrastructure. Both elected politicians and bureaucrats stymie needed reforms and efficiencies. Literacy has risen from 52 to 74 percent since 1991, and "some 97 percent of school-age children enroll." India also has the world's largest number of higher education institutions (26,500). However, the quality of instruction ranges from "variable" to "often wretched," producing a shortage of skilled professionals. Meanwhile, government welfare spending to combat poverty is up, but many view it as inefficient and prone to corruption. Still, the report foresees a brighter future for India—"eventually." Read more »


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Are you here to participate in one of our current school-based festivals? If so, choose your school and follow the instructions:
A couple pulls up to the Briarcliff campus, a mysterious, rarely used, part of Emory. The girl asks the guy where they are, and the guy goes on to explain that this was the site of Lord ... more
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A homeless man is given a chance for redemption, but first he must defeat five enemies.
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Enjoy these cheesy French bread and ham sandwiches with strawberry syrup - perfect for an on-the-go dinner that's ready in just 20 minutes!
Croque monsieur, or Monte Cristo sandwiches, are making a comeback! Traditionally a French-style grilled ham and cheese sandwich that has been dipped into a beaten egg mixture and fried in butter, this version becomes a rich and sensational French toast! Mix equal amounts of strawberry syrup and sour cream for a different topping flavor.
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