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Porter, those kings of the man bag revival via Japan, delivers two great takes on their Cambio oversized totes. The waterproof nylon outer keeps your privates safe and dry. The added leather strapping and base make it durable and long lasting. One advantage to Porter is that if you tire of the bag, you'll easily be able to trade/eBay up to something new. My guess is that you'll just keep it for life. (zozo)
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This paper presents a new probabilistic neural network model, called IPNN (for Incremental Probabilistic Neural Network), which is able to learn continuously probability distributions from data flows. The proposed model is inspired in the Specht's general regression neural network, but have several improvements which makes it more suitable to be used in on-line and robotic tasks. Moreover, IPNN is able to automatically define the network structure in an incremental and on-line way, with new units added whenever necessary to represent new training data. The experiments performed using the proposed model shows that IPNN is able to approximate continuous functions using few probabilistic units.
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So it turns out there is no simple way to run multiple Couchbase nodes on a single machine (purely to play around) unlike other DBs - eg: mongo. I haven't been able to figure out how to change ports on Couchbase either. So using VirtualBox to run couple VMs. Loaded with Ubuntu. Hope this helps you out!
Step 1 - Create two Ubuntu VMs
I'm running under Win 7. Choose your OS and run VirtualBox. Start with creating a new machine, give it a name and pick Linux -> Ubuntu. Pick a small RAM size (default 512M). Follow the wizard to the end. Upon starting it will prompt you for the image - download your version of choice and use that (I am using the Desktop version). Follow the wizard.
In the Settings change the Network to "Host-only Adapter"
You should end up with a 192.168.* address and allows other VMs and the host to have access.
TIP - You can right-click and "clone" to create a second one quickly! - Just change the host name in /etc/hostname
Step 2 - Install Couchbase
Follow the instructions on Couchbase site to setup the first node. Follow the install on http://localhost:8091 to create a new cluster.
On the second node after installing, pick to join a cluster and you should be set!


text: I was a little worried about this meal since previous meals hadn't gotten great comments before and the menu didn't seem too exciting. But on a second look, there were interesting choices, and at least 6 for each course. The place was jammed when we first got there at 8 (as was the north end in general, surprised to see a festival around Fleet St. I think) but quieted down fairly quickly. Not that it takes much to jam that tiny place. Waitress was pleasant and on top of things throughout. Friend got a beer and I ordered some basic white wine which came in one of those non stemmed glasses that I hate. There was a look on top that maybe I got some just cleaned glass with soap leftover, I didn't taste it but the look overall was unappealing. Decent bread with olive oil plus a little dish of peppers and olives to put on top. He started with the greens, pancetta and whatever else which was my first choice but I'm glad I got steered toward the gorgonzoloa stuffed figs wrapped in prosciutto. These were decadent, served warm which was a surprise in balsamic and great all around. I had the salmon with crab, avocado and some cucke/tomato salad. Again, very nice and enough to take a small doggy bag home. Flank steak served with peppers tasted good on a small bite. I had a good espresso panna cotta for dessert and he had amazing mini cannoli, there was something about the shells that was much better than most. A great experience overall.


text: Culture 29 May 2000 The New Statesman Essay - The Pangean catastrophe Millions of years ago, disaster hit Earth, killing 95 per cent of all species. What caused it? Condi Sign up for our weekly email * Next time you look in the mirror, consider how remarkable you really are. Big mammals are normally confined to their continents of origin, yet humans have traversed the oceans on rafts of floating vegetation. Five times heavier than a kori bustard, the largest extant bird capable of flight, humans have also learnt to cross the globe through the air. Humanity has turned itself into a planetary freak, unprecedented in Earth's history, and, in so doing, it has had a profound effect on other animals. Until very recently, New Zealand had moas, huge eagles, pelicans, swans, giant ravens, as well as flightless ducks, coots and geese; Madagascar had elephant birds, two species of giant tortoise, a dozen lemurs up to the size of a gorilla, an aardvark, a pygmy hippo and a giant mongoose. Within a few centuries of our arrival, all were extinct. Had we not rafted across the Pacific, the world would be about 20 per cent richer in bird species alone. Much of this devastation has been brought about by hunting and habitat destruction, but just as important - probably more so in the long run - has been the liberation of other organisms from the bonds of the natural order. Once, hitch-hiking across oceans attached to other creatures was the particular talent of seeds and snails. But in the past few thousand years, rats have started doing it, too. And cats. And even cows. Never in Earth's history had a breeding population of cow-sized animals rafted across an ocean; but, in a geological microsecond, humans changed the rules. The ancient geographical barriers that have long restricted migration are breaking down. Continental humans tend to regard goats, for example, as rather inoffensive. But to island plants, which often lack defences against such animals, they can be lethal. Because these mobile waste- disposal units can survive on almost any type of organic material, they simply continue to eat whatever is available until their adopted landscape begins to resemble a moonscape. When first discovered in 1501, St Helena was densely covered with a luxuriant forest vegetation. Today, thanks to the goats introduced by the Portuguese in 1513, that native vegetation survives only on elevated ridges and in narrow gullies. Of 33 plant species endemic to the island, goats have eliminated ten and endangered a further 18. On Great Island off New Zealand, 73 of 143 plant species were exterminated by goats between 1890 and 1934. Rabbits and cats can have similar effects. In 1759, Thomas Austin shipped 24 rabbits to Australia from England and released them on to his estate as game; 120 years later, the rabbit population of Australia stood at 700 million, causing, as one commentator put it, "the greatest single tragedy that the economy and the native animals ever suffered". In New Zealand, cats have contributed to the decline of kakapos, bush wrens, bell birds, parakeets, New Zealand shelducks, collared grey fantails, New Zealand stilts, wekas, pheasants, quails, long-billed plovers, kiwis, shearwaters, petrels, penguins, terns, gulls (short-tailed and long-tailed), bats and some lizards. On Stephen's Island off New Zealand, a single cat belonging to the lighthouse keeper eradicated a rare endemic lizard and the Stephen's Island bush wren. Although displaced mammals provide the most dramatic examples of ecological change, it is only in the past few years that scientists have begun to appreciate that the most insidious threat comes not from particular species, but from the slow stirring of the biosphere as a whole. Botanists, for example, find that oceanic islands across the globe are beginning to look depressingly similar. Over the past few thousand years, the same trees have been planted and the same alien plants introduced. We have taken sacks of our most productive agricultural grains and fruits on our journeys, and weeds and insect pests have hitched a ride, too. Island ecosystems are particularly vulnerable to aliens, but continental land masses are under siege, too. Of the 6,500 species on American soil that are currently under threat of extinction, it is estimated that half are threatened by alien invaders. Nor is the problem just a terrestrial one. A study of the ballast tanks of ships arriving in Oregon from Japan found 367 different types of animal and plant lurking inside. The most notorious ballast-tank stowaway of recent years must be the Eurasian zebra mussel, which is currently causing havoc in North America. Zebra mussels reproduce rapidly, carpet lake and river beds, clog up municipal and industrial water inlets, disrupt algal populations and alter the concentration of nutrients in the water. The cost of clearing them from blocked intake pipes alone has been estimated at $2bn. But the most important result of global mixing is not the economic inconvenience to us, but the homogenisation of the bio-sphere. From a geological perspective, the rate at which we are doing it is truly staggering: we have been stirring life for just a geological microsecond, less than 0.0001 per cent of the Cenozoic era in which we live, which is itself less than 0.02 per cent of the history of life. Some scientists think that this is an even bigger problem than global warming because, as one such scientist has put it, many of the effects of global warming could be eventually reversed, "but once you homogenise the biodiversity of the world, there's really no going back from that". The biological implications are profound. Just as a globalised economy removes protection from local, specialised jobs and industries, so a globalised biology would remove protection from local, specialised plants and animals. As the biologist Richard Fortey has put it, "if everything could compete, there would be more losers than winners . . . In this respect, a world joined would be a world reduced." In fact, the long-term impact of our actions on the biosphere may be more profound than anyone has hitherto realised. And we can have some idea of that impact because, as the fossil record shows, something rather like it has happened before. At the end of the Permian period, 250 million years ago, the geo-graphy of Earth was very different. All the major areas of continental crust had coalesced into a single land mass called Pangea. Either side of the equator, covering much of what is now North America, Europe and South America, were colossal, searing deserts. The Palaeozoic equivalent of rainforests flourished in what is now China, the Malay Peninsula and Venezuela. Girdling the southern pole were forests of the cold-weather, fern-like plant Glossopteris, which must have dominated this part of Pangea in much the same way that conifers dominate northern climes today. A single ocean dubbed Panthalassa surrounded Pangea, except in the east, where a huge embayment called the Tethys Sea separated Eurasia from the southern continents. Variation in climate maintained a variety of habitats between the equator and the poles; but with all ocean barriers eliminated, very similar types of creature roamed the length and breadth of the Pangean supercontinent. Palaeontologists are certain that tetrapods were much less diverse than they are today. We had global mixing 250 million years before human beings had the bright idea of lashing trees together into rafts. At the height of this continental amalgamation, the biosphere suffered the greatest mass extinction in history. Many people know that a planet-wide disaster wiped out the dinosaurs during the Cretaceous period, but that was a relatively minor affair compared with the global crisis at the end of the Permian. It has been estimated that 95 per cent of all species on Earth died out. Even insects, traditionally the most resilient of land animals, which rarely suffer extinctions even at the family level, lost seven whole orders. Crinoids (sea-lilies) lost two subclasses. Trilobites disappeared completely, as did blastoid sea urchins and all the characteristic Palaeozoic corals. Reefs did not reappear in the fossil record for another seven to eight million years, one of the longest periods without these distinctive marine communities in Earth's history (corals must have survived somewhere, but we haven't yet found them in rocks of this period). Many brachiopods, the Palaeozoic equivalents of bivalves (the common seashells found on beaches across the world), were either extinguished or reduced from groups containing a hundred or more species to just two or three. On land, the extinction was just as severe. In southern Pangea, the endless Glossopteris forests were suddenly replaced by a low-diversity assemblage of conifers and clubmosses. Elsewhere, other types of peat-forming trees disappeared, leaving a coal gap in the fossil record lasting several million years. Tetrapods were particularly badly hit: 21 terrestrial families passed away, a greater proportional loss than in the oceans. The extinction of land animals seems to have consisted of a prolonged decline in diversity over the last few million years of the Permian, culminating in a sharp event that wiped out many small omnivores, all large herbivores, all gliding reptiles and six of nine families of amphibian. The surviving communities were peculiar in being of very low diversity and exceptionally cosmopolitan. In the succeeding Triassic period, over 90 per cent of the earliest tetrapod fossil assemblages from the super- continent of Pangea consist of just one genus of mammal-like reptile, the medium-sized Lystrosaurus. What could have happened at the boundary of the Permian and Triassic periods to produce such wholesale devastation of life both on land and in the sea? What agent of destruction could have wiped out 95 per cent of all species on our planet? The answer emerging from recent research is disquieting, given our current environmental predicament: it seems that the greatest disaster in the history of life was brought about by the combined effects of global mixing and global warming. The evidence for elevated global temperatures at the end of the Permian is now overwhelming. Late Permian peats in Antarctica and Australia are similar to those formed at such latitudes today, but they are rapidly replaced in the Triassic by soils indicating much warmer, temperate conditions. Similarly, the Glossopteris forests of southern Pangea were quickly replaced by warm- climate plants. In Australia, the flora flipped from assemblages characteristic of present-day latitudes around 70 degrees south to those of much warmer regions around 40-58 degrees south. In the Karoo Basin of South Africa, the climate switched from temperate to semi-arid. When you also consider that the earliest part of the Triassic is the only geological interval in the past 600 million years for which there is no evidence anywhere of ice, the case for planet-wide warming seems irrefutable. The warming of tropical regions has been estimated at around 6oC. The increase in temperature at higher latitudes would have been even greater, leading to a flattening of the temperature difference between the poles and the equator. The result was the complete loss of high-latitude floras and the establishment of a uniform warm-to-hot climate across most of the planet. The catastrophic decline in tetrapod diversity and the establishment of a single, low-diversity assemblage of animals may have been partly due to the spread of arid conditions, but the most important factor was probably the homogenisation of habitats across Pangea. Not only were all the land areas joined together, and thus easily navigable by walking animals, but suddenly the pole-to-equator variation in habitat type began to fade away, too. Everywhere started to look the same, and the animals of the planet naturally followed suit. The oceans were drastically affected, too. The solubility of oxygen in water falls as temperature rises, so global warming would have lowered the concentration of this essential element for life. But the reduction of the pole-to-equator temperature gradient, which drives the circulation of the oceans, probably had a greater impact. Flatten it, and ocean circulation slows down. Flatten it enough, and circulation could stop altogether. This is probably what happened at the end of the Permian. Unstirred, the oceans began to stagnate. Deep waters lost oxygen, and species vanished. Eventually, the oceans stagnated to such an extent that the upper part of the water column ran out of nutrients. Planktonic plants cannot survive without nutrients; without plants, the whole marine ecosystem would have collapsed like a house of cards. What happened to cause such a severe episode of global warming? Worryingly, the same process that currently afflicts our planet: the release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Chemical analyses of rocks suggest that CO2 enrichment of the air began well before the final cataclysmic extinction. The most likely source of the extra carbon was the Glossopteris coal-bearing deposits of southern Pangea, which were uplifted by tectonic activity and oxidised, thus releasing large volumes of CO2 into the atmosphere. Another big dose of CO2 was vented into the atmosphere over a period of around 900,000 years right at the Permian-Triassic boundary by the eruption in Siberia of between two and five million cubic kilometres of basalt, the largest continental outpouring of volcanic material in the past 600 million years. The disaster at the end of the Permian teaches many lessons about the processes we have set in train on our Cenozoic earth. If the continental land masses had been separated as they are today, it is inconceivable that the mammal-like reptile Lystrosaurus, the seed-fern Dicroidium and the bivalve Claraia would have come to dominate the early Triassic so completely. Diversity would have fallen sharply without doubt, but there would have been different Lystrosaurus analogues on different continents, and many widely separated ocean basins and areas of continental shelf to protect and foster whatever marine diversity remained. Barriers isolate organisms from each other, and isolation is crucial for maintaining and promoting biodiversity, whatever the extraneous circumstances. Today, we may not be pushing the world's land masses together in a physical sense, but our global wanderings are having much the same effect. In fact, the rate of biospheric mixing is greater now than at any other time in history: Pangea came together and then broke apart over tens of millions of years, but we have breached the same geographical barriers in just a few thousand years. Everywhere is starting to look the same again, and this time it is happening in a geological microsecond. The rate at which we are warming the atmosphere through the release of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases is just as alarming. Estimates of the increase in average global temperature over the next century range from 1oC to 4.5oC, with most scientists plumping for a figure somewhere in the middle. In almost all cases, the models predict rising temperatures for several hundred years after 2100. If fossil fuel consumption continues to increase, the rise in average temperature could be as much as 5oC to 10oC by the middle of the 22nd century. A 3oC rise in average global temperature is only half that suggested for the Tethys region at the end of the Permian, but this time we are talking about a timescale of only a hundred years, a period which does not qualify even as a tick of the geological clock. Even the basalt eruptions in Siberia took 900,000 years. It probably took several million years for the Permian world to cook right through. To contend that we are heading towards a Permian-like environmental crisis would be an irresponsible conceit. The world is a very different place now. For a start, if all the continental landmasses were joined together and surrounded by a single ocean, as they were in the Permian, it would be much simpler to predict climate changes. We also know that Earth has experienced marked changes in climate at other times in the past - most notably during recent Ice Ages - without suffering anything like the wholesale extinctions that characterised the Permian-Triassic transition. Perhaps the potential for global mixing at the end of the Permian was the key difference. Perhaps it was the sustained nature of the warming over several million years. Perhaps not. We simply do not understand the past or present behaviour of our planet well enough to make trustworthy predictions about the consequences of our current experiments in planetary change. But even if we reject the end-Permian disaster as a valid analogue for our present environmental situation, we should at least have the humility to take it as a warning. The writer is a lecturer in natural history at the School of Geography, Nottingham University. This article is extracted from his Why Elephants Have Big Ears: nature's engines and the order of life, published by Gollancz this month, £18.99 (£18.03, including p&p, at www.newstatesman.co.uk) Subscribe from just £1 per issue More


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Eagle Brook Church opened a sixth campus in Anoka March 25, and worship services that weekend were overflowing with people – 6,545 total.
Every chair in the building was pulled into the lobby Sunday, March 26, to try and accommodate 700 people that were unable to find seats in the primary worship space for the 11 a.m. service.
Attendance has dwindled some in the last three weeks with 3,800 people attending worship services last weekend, but Easter is expected to draw even bigger crowds. Eight services are planned April 13-16 to celebrate Jesus' resurrection.
Walking into the church at 1100 Highway 10, it is hard to imagine the space was a vacant Kmart store 10 months ago.
Approximately 24,000 square feet of space was demolished at the front of the building to allow for landscaping. The inside of the church is 62,000 square feet with a large area for the church's youth, offices and an auditorium-like worship space that seats 1,000.
A cafe and bright lobby greet people when they walk in the door.
The building was completely renovated at a cost of $18 million. The project was finished debt free thanks to Eagle Brook attendees' generous contributions, according to Brad Hunt, Eagle Brook communications director.
The church, initially called First Baptist Church, started in 1948 in Sam and Ethel Hane's White Bear Lake home. It was renamed Eagle Brook Church in 1995 and today has campuses in Anoka, Blaine, Lino Lakes, Spring Lake Park, White Bear Lake and Woodbury.
The church had been holding services at Coon Rapids High School since 2013 to prevent overcrowding at Blaine and Spring Lake Park campuses, but with the grand opening of its new Anoka site, Eagle Brook has ceased operations at CRHS.
Between 1,000 and 1,200 people converged at the high school for weekly worship, according to Aaron Damjanovich, campus pastor. There were about 300 volunteers. Numbers have tripled in the last three weeks.
The Lino Lakes campus is the largest of Eagle Brook's six, and the weekly message is usually broadcast live from that site. Music is always performed live at each site.
There are lots of bright lights, and the volume is loud.
"We want to be engaging and inspiring and full and relevant," Damjanovich said.
Bob Merritt, senior pastor, or Jason Strand, teaching pastor, generally deliver the message with a goal to make it directly applicable to attendees' daily lives. The most recent series, called "Don't Mess With My Grande Non-Fat Vanilla Latte Faith," dived into faith becoming routine, like grabbing a latte in the morning. The series encouraged attendees to set aside convenience for transformation in relationship with God.
"Our messages are very relatable, very real, very biblically based," Damjonovich said.
The church's mission – "empowered by God to reach others for Christ" – is at the heart of every decision Eagle Brook makes, according to Damjonovich.
"We want to be welcoming to all people," said Damjonovich, who grew up unchurched and found his way to Jesus at a church he described as very much like Eagle Brook in Montana at age 18. His mother died at 41 less than a year later, and at her funeral, Damjonovich felt the call to become a pastor.
"Jesus changed my life. He changed my mom's life," Damjonovich said. He wants others to experience that same transformation.
"Come as you are, and grow in your faith," he said.
Generally, services are at 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. each Saturday and 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. each Sunday in Anoka.
For Easter, a 7 p.m. service is planned Thursday, April 13; 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. services are set for Friday, April 14; a 2 p.m. service in addition to 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. services will be held on Saturday, April 15; and as is typical, worship will begin at 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. Sunday, April 16.
To learn more about Eagle Brook, visit www.eaglebrookchurch.com.


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Co Loerakker is a Dutch comic artist and author of illustrated children's books. Born in Haarlem, he studied Geography in Amsterdam. His interest in drawing people, animals, houses and Dutch landscapes led him to cancel his studies and become a freelance artist in Haarlem in 1974.
He first came to notice when he made the illustrations for the publication of the 1975 Children's Book Week and his illustrations for Mies Bouhuys' book 'De Grote Vivat'. He has illustarted a great many nature and picture books, including an educational book about Holland for Oberon, called 'Elf Lage Landjes en een Heleboel Water' (1981). This book formed the inspiration for the comic series 'Van Nul Tot Nu', which he created with writer Thom Roep between 1982 and 1990.
In this series, an old man called Methusalem tells the schoolgirl Ankie about the entire history of the Netherlands. The series was published in parts in the weekly magazine Donald Duck, of which Roep was editor-in-chief, and collected in four books. The series was supplemented by a fifth installment about everyday life. The latter was published in Sjors & Sjimmie Stripblad, however, because the content was a bit too adult for the Donald Duck audience. The book collections were published by Oberon and later reprinted by Big Balloon. The humorous way of describing the past, without making it a dull summation of facts, led to regular usage of the books in primary education.
Wondege Wegeld strip for Eppo/Wordt Vervolgd (#1, 1985)
Loerakker has also worked on several of Oberon and Big Balloon's 'Bobo' publications, of which the educational book series around 'De Klup van Gisteren' was the most famous. He has illustrated text stories for Donald Duck weekly, including Allard Schröder's series 'Het Dagboek van een Kat' ('The Diary of a Cat'), and wrote and illustrated the animal section 'Natuurtalenten' until the early 2010s. Co Loerakker was also an artist for Eppo/Wordt Vervolgd, with the strip in the 'Wondege Wegeld' section from 1985 to 1988.


text: Doug Stanhope brings stand-up comedy to Empty Glass By Bill Lynch September 11, 2013 Story Share Courtesy photo Taking a walk along the darker side of comedy, acclaimed comic Doug Stanhope comes to The Empty Glass on Sept. 19. WANT TO GO?Doug StanhopeWHERE: The Empty Glass, 410 Elizabeth St.WHEN: 10 p.m. Sep. 19TICKETS: $25 INFO: Call 304-345-3914 or visit www.theemptyglass.com_____CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Doug Stanhope gets a little flustered when he's asked to talk about his stand-up comedy act.Sighing, the 46-year-old comedian said, "I suck at talking about my act. I do what I do."Of course, people are welcome to come give it a try. The former "Man Show" co-host performs Sept. 19 at The Empty Glass. If you're interested in trying before buying, he also has a new comedy special, "Beer Hall Putsch," available on Netflix.The title is a reference to Adolph Hitler and the Nazis' unsuccessful attempt to seize Munich, Germany and ignite a revolution in 1923.Stanhope's putsch is less ambitious -- maybe make a few people laugh, continue to make a living. He doesn't have to make a whole lot. He lives in a small town. His house is paid off. "The plan is we put that [the special] up on Netflix, then next week it goes digital and then we release it on DVD," he said Monday.He sighed, sounding a little unsure as to how this might be successful commercially. Finally, he added, "Everything is kind of weird now."Stanhope's comedy can get more than a little weird. It's sometimes very dark and often incredibly personal. In "Beer Hall Putsch," recorded in the spring, he discusses, among other things, violent sexual fantasies involving professional football players, the ineptitude of "Occupy Wall Street" and helping his mother commit suicide.He's currently working on new material. "I just put out the special," he said. "I need all new sh-t. I'll be pulling any half-baked, unworked idea out of my a-- over the next couple of months to make another beautiful baby."The problem is there hasn't been a lot going on past the usual. To his girlfriend in the next room, Stanhope yelled, "Hey honey, is anything new with me?"When she didn't respond right off, he considered for a minute, then said, "I did acid for the first time in years up in Canada. That was weird. I don't recommend it. That's a young man's sport."And he thought he'd picked up a cough for his troubles."My immune system is threadbare on a good day. Even if I'm bordering on a cold, there's nothing like hallucinogens to kick it into overdrive." The smoking probably doesn't help, not that he planned to quit. He kind of resented that his girlfriend Amy "Bingo" Bingaman had."She just quit smoking," he said. "She's pretty much quit drinking, and she'd going to aerobics classes. She's lost 15 pounds and is looking all buff and tan -- and I'm like, what part of co-dependent don't you understand?"She's supposed to be on the other end of the same couch I'm never off of when I'm home."Stanhope won't be home for a while, however. Over the next few weeks, the comedian is embarking on what is billed as "The Sh-t Town Tour 2013," though he acknowledged that not every town on the tour, in fact, is actually a "shi-t town.""I don't know that I've ever even been to Charleston," he said. "I'm sort of assuming it is, but a lot the tour is just because of the routing."It hardly matters whether Charleston is a sh-t town or not. Stanhope said he likes playing towns he's never been to before. West Virginia is new to him, and he thought The Empty Glass definitely sounded like his kind of place.Other comedians, he's sure, would never deign to come to a place like Charleston."Somebody has to," he said. "Jim Gaffigan sure isn't."The closest Gaffigan gets is Louisville, Ky., in October.Aside from performing in new and unusual places, Stanhope said each new place is an opportunity to raid the local thrift stores for old clothes."I have a closet full of vintage 1970s 'Anchorman'/'Caddyshack' clothes."He's always looking for something to add, which can take the sting out of not making a lot of money every single night on the tour. But it's OK. The money isn't the only thing."We can make it up in Chicago," he said. Reach Bill Lynch at firstname.lastname@example.com or 304-348-5195. Story Share Story Share Trending Now 1 Deer in 8 WV counties found dead from EHD 2 New company planning $73M synthetic fuel plant in Greenbrier County 3 St. Albans rallies to beat Riverside, 21-17 4 Judge denies motion to recuse himself in WV heroin trafficking case 5 WVU law professor announces run for Congress Art-A-Palooza at East End Bazaar and Capitol Market Previous Story 5 Questions with Hobo Clay Next Story


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i like how that black vw almost runs down the kid from behind.
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i like how that black vw almost runs down the kid from behind.
That was cool :thumbsup: Peter Fonda all the way EZ Rider:scooter:
Too cool. Nice old footage.
No helmet either, I remember the days!!!!!:thumbsup:
Anybody else here remember a late 1960's/early 1970 T.V. show called "Then Came Bronson"? About a guy riding a Harley every where with a sleeping bag strapped to his bike?.........This reminds me of that T.V. show. Kool video; Thanks for putting it up.
That was a really nice video. No helmet on the streets, you know that was a long time ago.
That was the theme song for the movie Midnight Cowboy. Hearing that sone brings back good memories. Video was very cool and professionally done.
Super cool! The minibike looks like a Bonanza to me from the fork lowers but it was hard to see!
Notice how fast it is off the line with his skinny :asshole: on it


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CHINO HILLS >> In a hotly contested quarterfinals matchup Monday afternoon that lasted well into the evening, Chino Hills came away with its third straight penalty kick victory of the CIF-SS Division 2 playoffs, winning 5-4 over Westlake.
"To win three penalty kicks in a row, I know our lucks running out, and hopefully we can win the next one in regulation," Huskies coach Andy Plascencia said. "Nobody's played as many minutes as we have with three penalty kick games, and our fitness and preparation is great, we'll just keep going."
The game was tied at 0-0 after regulation and two overtimes.
Chino Hills (26-2) scored on all five of its penalty kicks while the Marmonte League's Warriors (14-5-1) scored on their first four kicks.
The fifth Warriors player kicked the ball high towards the left post, but Huskies goalkeeper Ricki Ives dived to secure the victory with a block.
"It was a hard game, the referee was making some sketchy calls, by not calling it both ways, but we did a great job to battle and after 100 minutes of soccer and penalty kicks, I'm beyond thrilled," said Ives.
Throughout the match, the Huskies dominated ball possession and had numerous shots on goal that didn't end up in the net.
But after Ives blocked that final penalty kick, the entire team was relieved.
"I knew this was my time after going through so many penalty kick games, and I just wanted to step up," Ives said. "To go back to the semifinals is beyond amazing."
Late in the second half of regulation, the Huskies had multiple opportunities to score but couldn't come away. Dayna Garcia caught a crossing pass in front of the net as she headbutted the ball just above the post, missing the potential score. Ashley Gonzales missed two potential goals wide left and wide right late. The Huskies applied tough pressure late, but the Warriors defense did enough to move the game into overtime.
In the first overtime, Gonzales missed a potential score as her kick bounced off the top of the post, negating another opportunity.
Into the second overtime, a Warriors player just missed the game-winning score as Ives got caught out of position attempting a save, but her teammates came to the rescue as a Huskies player stepped right in front of the goal way to kick out the Warriors' shot attempt.
In penalty kicks, Gonzales, Amanda Ball, Alexa Orrante, Dayna Garcia and Denise Garcia all scored in succession.
Plascencia had plenty of praise for Ives.
"She's really grown this year, losing her spot and then earning it back, and she was studying and doing extra work just on penalty kicks and now it has all paid off," he said.
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As film formulations improve and providers – with occasional nudges from forward-thinking customers – continually push the envelope with more creative applications, wraps will continually evolve into more expansive, visual-communication arenas. Mossy Oak (West Point, MS), a multi-faceted company that provides an array of products and services for hunting, camping and outdoor enthusiasts, had its in-house graphics team promote its newest camouflage pattern, Shadow Grass Blades, in an unusual way: they inflated a weather balloon, built a contraption to send the balloon into space, and wrapped it with 3M™'s Controltac™ IJ180Cv3-10 air-release media. They also installed a weatherproof video camera to document its ascent for a YouTube posting.
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AN Oxford Mail reader led detectives to Liam Pipkin's home where they found the thief with a copy of the paper open on the page featuring his 'Wanted' appeal.
Pipkin, who preyed on a 97-year-old pensioner, appeared in our pages after detectives issued an appeal to readers on April 3.
He had approached his elderly victim in a shop in Iffley Turn on March 10 and said he wanted to buy his car.
They went back to the pensioner's house to discuss the sale and while there Pipkin stole £125 from the pensioner's wallet while he was out of the room.
The 22-year-old agreed to buy the car and gave him some money but then Pipkin tricked him into handing over his bank card and PIN number on the pretext he was owed some change.
Pipkin, of no fixed abode, told the pensioner he would withdraw the cash and return but then disappeared. No attempt was made to use the card to withdraw money.
Pc Matthew Hodgetts said: "Pipkin was identified as the offender quite soon after the incident, but he soon became aware we were looking for him. We were trying a large number of addresses for him without success and appealed to the public to help us locate him.
"The day after an article appeared in the Oxford Mail we received an anonymous tip-off about his location from someone who had read the newspaper.
"When we attended the address, we found and arrested Pipkin.
"On the kitchen table in the premises was the newspaper open at the page of the article showing his face and stating he was wanted."
After admitting the theft at Oxford Magistrates' Court on April 12, Pipkin was sentenced to 22 weeks in prison.
And he wasn't the only criminal served a court sentence after featuring in the Oxford Mail.
Thomas Pancott, 33, who appeared in our Badvent Christmas crime campaign, was sentenced to a mandatory three years in prison after pleading guilty to burglary on April 20.
Detectives interviewed him at HMP Gloucester on February 1 after his DNA was found on a metal bar used to break into a house in Church Hill Road in Iffley on December 12 where he stole two laptops and a camera.
Pancott had been at a residential treatment centre but had been expelled from the programme and recalled to prison.
He then went on the run and it was during this time he committed the Church Hill Road burglary.
Pc Hodgetts said: "Judge (Anthony) King quite rightly emphasised that the major wrong in a burglary of someone's home is not the loss of the homeowner's possessions but the loss of a sense of personal security due to having one's privacy invaded.
"Given Pancott's previous offending history, the mandatory sentence for a third dwelling burglary was inevitable."


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RETAIL sales volumes in Scotland dipped 0.5% in the final three months of the year as the festive shopping frenzy failed to make up for weak demand through the autumn.
The trading on Scotland's high streets also continued to lag behind the wider UK, which posted a 0.4% decline between October and December.
The Scottish Retail Sales Index (RSI) showed there was no growth in sales value figures, without adjusting for inflation, between the third and fourth quarters of 2012.
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In comparison to the final quarter of 2011 volumes were up 0.7% and value by 1.1%.
However both those figures remained poorer than the equivalent year-on-year UK numbers which showed a 1.4% rise in volume and an increase of 2.1% by value.
CBI Scotland's David Lonsdale said the festive season had lost "some of its sparkle" for retailers and added: "The high street is likely to continue to face tough conditions in the months ahead as a result of subdued consumer spending, changes in shopping trends, and higher overheads.
"Government at all levels can assist by keeping a firm lid on those costs under its control which impact on retailers, particularly business rates and regulations such as the proposed carrier bag levy."
Euan Murray, from Barclays Corporate Banking in Scotland, said: "The Christmas shopping spree could not counter the restrained consumer spending we saw through most of the last quarter of 2012.
"Early discounting put pressure on retailers to sell more and those who failed to appropriately marry online with bricks and mortar felt the impact."
Finance Secretary John Swinney said the Scottish Government was doing all it could to help retailers.
Conservative finance spokesman Gavin Brown called for the creation of a town centre regeneration fund and a scrapping of a retail levy on larger stores.
Recent data from the Scottish Retail Consortium suggested a 1.5% year-on-year rise in sales value in December, which matched the UK growth rate for the first time in two years.
Earlier this week British Retail Consortium figures for January showed retail sales running 1.9% ahead year-on-year in spite of inclement weather.
There have been several high profile retail casualties in recent years with Jessops, Blockbuster and HMV among the most recent to suffer when they went into administration in January.
Many high street retailers are battling with expensive long-term rents, falling margins, and competition from supermarkets and online marketplaces. Constrained consumer spending in the wake of prolonged UK Government austerity measures and a double dip recession has also adversely affected the sector.
Yet some in the sector have thrived in the tough conditions, as shown yesterday when John Lewis Partnership reported weekly sales up 20% to almost £175 million.
Within that the Glasgow department store showed 11.9% growth, Aberdeen posted 14.1% and Edinburgh was the star performer with a 17% rise.


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A few weeks ago, I wrote a love letter to Indian husbands. That column inspired a flood of emails from many of you; in fact, some of the more positive responses classified as love letters, too. But I also received hate mail, one from a man accusing me of "one-upmanship" instead of true equality. My column, if you recall, was targeted at female managers who need, and often receive, more support at home. Enter the liberated Indian husband, who picks the children up from school, handles the social calendar and ensures the house runs smoothly.
One reader asked me where she could find such a man. Another lamented that such support was great, but what about single mothers? A few of you complained that your husbands were just hopeless. A recurring question: Why not put the onus for work-life balance on companies?
While I pledge to write about the issue often, today and next week's columns will be devoted to this theme and workers who have figured the juggle out—or at least look like they have, thanks to their employers. Stay tuned for a profile of a man who could have been the recipient of my original love note. But in the spirit of one-upmanship, ladies first... Here's her tale:
Jyotika Dhawan works surrounded by dolls, a plastic slide and a toy jeep.
On a recent afternoon, she was on the phone with a potential hire from the Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi, imploring him to come to her office. "We must meet today," Dhawan said loudly, not just to emphasize her point but also to drown out the sounds of The Munnabhai Show from the room next door. "You can come tonight after dinner, if you'd like."
Dhawan is a human resources manager for Bharti Airtel Ltd. Most days, except for her in-laws downstairs, a maid and her two-year-old daughter, the human resources around her are scarce. The 30-year-old mother works from home, thanks to Airtel's flexible time policy, just steps away from the most important human in her life.
As a new mother in 2004, Dhawan said, she thought her career was over.
Airtel disagreed.
For the last few years, Dhawan, a political science topper in Class 12 and an XLRI graduate, says she has received steady salary increases, stellar reviews and one promotion. And as the IIT student she interviewed quickly realized, her timings never really begin, or end.
A recent study by Korn/Ferry International, the global executive search firm, shows Dhawan's progression isn't the norm—even in a wired world. The study found that 61% of 1,320 global executives surveyed think people who work from home are less likely to advance their careers, compared with those in a traditional office.
While telecommuting is gaining ground in India, the findings reflect why Dhawan and her situation are still rare. A services economy built partly on the theory that a job can be done anywhere has somehow not applied the same lesson to its workers.
According to an ICICI Bank study, women represent 26% of workers in the services sector. The benefits for working mothers are apparent. But companies, too, might find their most productive employees in the inherently multi-tasking sex who, by not setting fixed hours, end up working more of them.
All along, through her ambitious 20s, a smooth pregnancy, even her first month as a mother, Dhawan thought she would slip right back into her old job. When an infant Nandini started to coo and cry for her mother, Dhawan requested a one-month, extension and then another month and so on. By the sixth month, Dhawan's supervisor advised her to invoke Airtel's sabbatical policy and pursue an executive MBA. Dhawan arrived for a campus interview with a nursing baby.
So began the blurring of work and family life. "My husband is running an IT company," Dhawan said. "It is very important for one of the parents to be around."
As Nandini celebrated her first birthday, Dhawan told her boss the same thing—and was granted a schedule where she could come to office in the morning and be home by her daughter's afternoon nap. When the office moved to Gurgaon, Dhawan began working from home full time.
She heads the Young Leaders programme, which recruits trainees from top universities. "I used to shy away from saying I am good. I used to think the company was doing me a favour," she says. "But if I wasn't performing they wouldn't have given me this kind of benefit."
This year marks Dhawan's ninth at Airtel. There are drawbacks to working from home, she points out. Her time seems to belong to her employer or her family. She can't remember the last time she entertained at home. "You try harder. Because you work from home, you have to prove you are working," she said. "But I guess women have an inherent capacity to manage multiple tasks. Although one does feel stretched at times."
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Soccer team into final of Section 5AA tournament
The scare came a game earlier than Champlin Park might have expected, but the hope is it does the trick this week.
Riding an undefeated perfect season, and the top seed in the Section 5AA boys soccer playoff, the Rebels took a literal approach to the survive-and-advance technique often times needed in postseason success.
Champlin Park advanced into this week's section championship game by surviving a semifinal match-up with Spring Lake Park that threatened the Rebels' state tournament aspirations.
Senior Ramadan Hassan was credited with the only goal of the evening Oct. 11, as his cross three minutes into a second overtime session deflected in off a Spring Lake Park defender to lift Champlin Park to a 1-0 victory.
The own-goal was a gift, but it was also enough to get the Rebels into a Oct. 16 Section 5AA final date with third-seeded Mounds View.
"We expected a tussle," said head coach Gavin Pugh. "We knew they would be up for it, and they were really organized defensively. It was difficult for either team to break the other one down. We were a rock defensively, and we needed to be because very little was coming easy on the other end."
It was a direct contrast to how the rest of the season had played out up until then. Champlin Park had averaged over three goals per game throughout the regular season. That trend continued in the playoff opener Oct. 9, when the Rebels upended eight-seeded Osseo 3-1 to advance into the semifinals.
But Spring Lake Park mustered the type of effort befitting of a postseason upset. Champlin Park avoided it with a bit of luck, something the Rebels hadn't needed much off in roaring to a 14-0-1 record heading into the game.
Hassan's goal led to win No. 15, and a 16th would lead to a state tournament berth.
The Rebels last played in the state tournament in 2009, and they will be seeking a fourth trip this week when they face Mounds View.
The game will be a rematch of a 3-0 Champlin Park victory from Sept. 15, and it will come with the Rebels fully understanding what is at stake.
"I do think this last game was enough of a scare for the guys to know this is the real deal," Pugh said. "I don't think I'll need to talk to any of them about how big the next game is."


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Audio Fidelity Set to Release Phil Collins & Genesis Albums
Marshall Blonstein, president of Audio Fidelity, has announced April 24 as the release date for the reissue of two classic rock albums. Phil Collins' chart-topping 1989 solo set BUT SERIOUSLY will be released as a 24-Karat Gold CD, and Ten Years After's 1971 A SPACE IN TIME, released in 24-Karat Gold format last year, will return in a 180-gram vinyl LP edition. Both recordings will be available as numbered, limited editions that will be sold through online and brick-and-mortar retailers alike.
Additionally, on April 21, in support of the fifth annual "Record Store Day," Audio Fidelity will reissue Genesis' rare 1977 EP SPOT THE PIGEON. This rare recording will be available only from the some 700 independent music retailers participating in the annual event.
On April 21, in celebration of Record Store Day-the annual national event that salutes more than 700 independent music retailers-Audio Fidelity will issue Genesis' rare 1977 EP SPOT THE PIGEON, comprised of three tracks recorded for but left off the band's WIND & WUTHERING album: "Match the Day," "Pigeons" and "Inside and Out." The band's final release before guitarist Steve Hackett departed, SPOT THE PIGEON, which rose to No. 14 on the U.K. charts, has only sporadically been available (on Genesis anthologies) since it was first issued. Audio Fidelity's reissue is poised to stir interest within both the collector and audiophile communities because it will feature all three songs on both sides, but one side will play at 45 rpm, the other at 33 1/3. It will also be pressed on the same blue vinyl as its original incarnation. The SPOT THE PIGEON EP will only be available from independent record retailers participating in "Record Store Day" nationwide.
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When you are deep in a book, it's my experience that you check out of life a little; to others you look like you're there, but you're never completely present. You try talking, but you can't quite tune in; you try listening to people, but you can't quite concentrate. You're working harder than ever, but you have little to show for it, and it grows ever harder to explain what you are up to: at the instant somebody asks, you're probably attempting a dozen different things, none of them really intelligible to an outsider because they may or may not form part of an as-yet inconceivable whole.
The trouble with this quote is that it explains my life rather than any specific moment when I am writing a book…
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Session β: Overture of the paddock – part one -
He raised his right hand and pointed his finger to the remaining Syndicate thugs. He grinned victoriously.
He fell. But he didn't feel the impact of the stone hard stairs hitting his face. Everything went dark around him. Then the cold kicked in. It didn't matter anymore anyway. The dream was finally over. He finally found peace.
He woke up and found himself in the same stairway he fell on again. But something was different this time. There was only the stairway; the sky, the floor before and after the stairs, everything was gone and was replaced by darkness. Looking up he realized that the number of the stairs increased, crimson carpet over it like a thread he should follow. Up there was a familiar light. He decided to go up. There weren't many options anyway. His hands in his pockets he climbed step by step, in a long endless journey of reaching the light. What felt like an eternity, he finally passed the last step and entered the light.
He found himself in a train station; not the one he was used to, the nostalgic ones from those old western movies. It was dusk, an orange heaven spread over him, as if it was burning with the sun's fire. He walked over a smooth surfaced floor, alongside the rails which followed him like a scar. He reached a public bench, two column pillars standing beside both endings. Above it was this ad "Son of a Gun" of this Cowboy wannabe he couldn't remember his name. Only this time it was he himself who was on this ad, holding his trademark gun and grinning like an idiot. The cowboy huffed at annoyance.
"Hey, buddy, long time no see", came the deep voice in front of him. He looked down the bench. On one seat was a green frog. It raised his one foot and made a greeting gesture and...smiled?
"Oh great, you again", Spike sighed and crossed his arms.
"Yo, man, show some li'l respect, it's not my fault I was born as a frog", the green amphibian whined.
"Yeah, yeah, whatever", Spike was fumbling all over his clothes, but couldn't find what he was looking for. "I suppose frogs don't have something to smoke, do they?"
"Hey, we aren't called classy for a reason." Suddenly out of nothing his left foot he had a cigarette between his fingers, his right one holding a zippo lighter. Spike took the thin cylinder and bowed closely to the frog so it could lighten the cigarette up.
"Thanks", the bounty hunter said and took a long breath from the smoke, the cherry pop on the other end glowing in the dusky heaven.
"So, what yer doin' here?", the green amphibian asked.
"Waitin' for my train coming", came the reply from the human.
"Oh, then you have just missed the last one. The next one will come much much later", it shook its head apologizing.
"Well, then I got no choice but to wait", Spike said and sat beside the frog.
They remained quiet for a while, both enjoying the warm weather and the scenery in front of them. Winged monkeys were flying on the sky, traveling to the north. A cold wind was breezing Spike's hairs a little, while he was smoking his cigarette.
"So",the frog started and looked up to Spike. "You finally woke up from the dream?"
"Yeah, I did", the bounty hunter answered, removing the cigarette to puff in the air with smoke rings. "It was a crappy one, but still worth the time."
"Hell, man, I can't blame ye. I mean, who would want to dream being a lowlife bounty hunter?",the frog babbled, receiving a look from the bounty hunter. "No offense, man."
"None taken", Spike said calmly, and looked around. "Am I the only one here?"
"Yeah. There was a girl here however. A blonde one", Spike's eyes opened wide when he heard the frog's reply. "We had some really nice conversation."
"And? What she said?", the bounty hunter tried to remain calm.
"Oh, sorry, can't tell ye, I promised her to keep it as a secret."
"Huh, a frog with a code of honor", Spike grumbled and took a long breath from the smoke.
"However, she told me if a guy with fuzzy hair should show up, I should tell him something", the frog said and eyed Spike critically. "Hey, come to think of it, it matches your profile."
"So, what's the message?", Spike mumbled while having his last smoke between his lips.
" 'Don't wake up' ". Spike gave another look to the green amphibian.
"What does that mean?", was his question.
"I dunno, she entered the train immediately after saying this. Didn't even say a Goodbye to me. Women, really, nothing but trouble...", the frog sighed and shook his head.
"I hear ye", Spike agreed.
The conversation between them went on, grasping different topics, both of them giving their two mulons about any matter they could come up with. Then, after what also felt like an eternity, a train came. The locomotive with a smooth violet surface and possessing a boiler in the form of a horn , each wagon of the train had a different color with different symbols plastered on them. Spike finally took his last smoke and threw the tip of cigarette away.
"Looks like my train has finally arrived", he said with a smoking sigh and got up.
"Yer sure that's the right one?", the frog asked uncertain.
"Yeah, got a feeling it's the one", Spike said, cracking his neck. The door opened and he started to enter the train. "Well, was nice knowing ye."
"See you then, Space Cowboy",the frog said, winking with its tiny foot. "Little advice for you, from frog to man: Confound these ponies, they drive you to drink."
"Huh?",Spike looked back and wanted to go out as he realized something. But the doors shut down quickly.
"HEY WAIT!", the bounty hunter screamed and hit the doors panicked. But the train started to move finally.
Damn, he took the wrong train.
He heard a voice. It was the one of a woman, the tone a really gentle one. She was humming something, something really beautiful. Spike never heard this song before, but still, really beautiful. Then, the voice stopped, and the singer seemed like placing something on a table near by. He wanted to open his eyes, but he felt so tired. He didn't want to wake up.
"Ehmm, Twilight, are you sure it was a good idea bringing him here?He looks kinda...scary", he heard another voice of a woman whispering softly.
"Of course it's alright",the more confident sounding voice replied. It switched then to an worn up giggle. "Oh my god, this is so exciting, a real life angel! This is much better than I hoped for!"
What, angel? Did she meant him? Oh, the irony.
"But he doesn't look like one", a voice of another woman commented, this one was raspy. "I mean, aren't angels supposed to have...I dunno, wings?"
No shit, Wattson.
"Appearance can be deceiving. We can ask him all this once he regains full consciousness", replied the confident voice.
God, couldn't these chicks be quiet? All their voices were ringing like bells in his head.
"So, how d'we know when he wakes up?", another female voice with a redneck accent asked.
"He was put under cyrogenic freeze as far as I figured out. It is some sort of artificial coma. But if I have done it right, he should be up in an hour or so.", the confident voice was replying.
Huh, this explained why he felt like crap.
"Now, where is this dragon? I got to report this to Princess Celestia immediatly! This is the discovery of a century!" The voice of this confident smug girl was getting on his nerves already. "Spike? Spiiike? Where are you, Spike?"
"I'm right here, dammit", Spike grumbled. "Can't you give a man his beauty sleep?"
A round of shocked gasps were triggered by his surprising answer, but he didn't care. Damn, women were nothing but trouble, that frog was right. He hated when frogs were right. He still kept his eyes closed as he got up, raised his arms, and yawned like a lazy lion.
"He's...he's awake already!", the one redneck voice shouted aloud.
"Morning to you too, sunshine", Spike shot back absently, his throat strained like dried beef. The voices were whispering around him in an uncertain way, as if they didn't know how to handle the situation. Damn, what has gotten into them? Never seen a man before?
The bounty hunter started feeling his bare chest as he scratched it, breathing in and out. The he felt his legs and the fabric of baggy pants over them. He cross-legged and pushed with his right arm his head to receive a satisfying CRACK from his neck, his eyes still closed from his exhaustion.
"Uhhh...how are you feeling?", the confident sounding voice asked, a hint of fear was detected by Spike.
"Like being in a bad dream you can't wake up from. The usual", the bounty hunter replied calmly. "So how long have I been out cold?"
Another round of whispers. Boy, they sure do talk a lot, he thought. The confident voice said again: "Well, we can't say for sure, but-"
"Whatever, sorry I asked", Spike interrupted her abruptly, annoyed by all this girly gushing. He fumbled on his trousers to look for a pack of smokes, but to no avail. "Say, you don't have any cigarettes around, do you?"
"What's a cigarette?", a high pitch voice of a girl asked. Spike blinked mentally. Okay, the bounty hunter concluded, where I landed is not up with current modern times.
He sighed and opened his eyes slightly to make a sarcastic retort. But then he stopped. His eyes opened wide, noticing what was before him.
He saw ponies; ponies everywhere,each of them in different colors. He looked around carefully. It were six totally. Two of them had wings, the other two had horns on their head.
He took an extra notion of the one nearest of him. This was a violet pony...or unicorn? Anyway, this one was breathing hysterically, from the tone he concluded this was the one with the smug confident voice. Wait, this could talk?
He eyed her with half close eyes then and remained silent. Then suddenly, he grabbed her snooze and opened it forcefully, causing the pony to gasp at surprise.
"He-hey, wha' a' ye' 'oing?", the pony asked shocked. Spike said nothing and looked inside the yap. It didn't resembled the anatomy he knew from a normal horse. It even had an uvula at the end, just like a human.
"Eh", he groaned and let go of the pony's yap. He gave her his cold shoulder then and lied back to the bed, eyes closed again. "I must be still under drugs or something."
"How rude!" The confident pony lost her coolness and rambled angrily: "What does he think he is?"
"Ehm", the more softer voice tried to answer shyly. "I think he thinks we aren't real."
"'Course you ain't real", the bounty hunter chuckled humorlessly. "I mean, talking horses; seriously? I'd rather hit a cold shower than to argue with you critters right now." Spike then tried to get sleep again. Once he had clear senses again, he could then figure out where he was.
"Well...if ye say so", the redneck voice replied uncertainly. "Rainbow Dash, would ye?"
"His wish is granted!", the raspy voice answered proudly and Spike heard a dashing in the air.
Wait, what?
Then he felt ice cold water pouring down him, knocking his senses back to reality.
"WAAH!", he screamed and jumped up out startled. "That was a figure of speech, you stupid..."
He stopped and looked down. They were still here, those...
"...Ponies?", he finished the sentence, his mind not processing what was before him. Even with sharp senses, he still couldn't believe it. He must have been still dreaming, there was no other way. He took notion of the surrounding then:
Spike was in some sort of wooden house. Wait, the house seemed to be a tree itself! He was standing in the highest floor of this tree, because he saw stair leading downstairs. The bounty hunter saw several decorations like a cuckoo clock, but that wasn't worth the attention. But what he noticed was the huge number of bookshelves on the walls which stored a alot of books, making it appear to be a library or something. He turned to his bed and saw a white cloud floating before him. On it sat a blue and winged pony whose tail and mane had rainbow colors. Behind her was a window shut by yellow curtains.
"Ehehe, hi", the blue flying horse said, nervously chuckling. It was the one with the raspy voice. Spike gave her a blank stare. Then he pushed her to the side roughly, causing the pony to shout "WOAH",removed the curtains and looked outside the window.
"What the hell?", Spike yelled. He saw a small village, the kind of rustic village where you would take a vacation if you had enough of your job and family. But there were no humans outside. There were ponies, everywhere just sponies! Flying ponies, normally trotting ponies, chatting ponies, his whole view was filled with ponies. This wasn't a dream. It was a nightmare!
"Look, I know you may be confused right now, Mr. Angel", the violet pony said to the horrified bounty hunter. "So please, let me explain-"
"You there, the yellow one with the wings", Spike interrupted her and pointed a finger at said pony.
"M-me?", the yellow pegasus meeped, revealed herself to be the one with the soft shy voice, and hid her snooze between her mane.
"Yeah, you, come over here", Spike said annoyed. The pegasus looked uncertain at the others and crawled towards the bounty hunter. She was barely half as big as Spike. He frowned down her, but then held his hand before her.
"Bite my hand", he commanded.
"Wh-What?", she stuttered, her face turning pale at this order.
"I need to make sure I am not dreaming. Go on, bite it", the bounty hunter urged her, getting impatient.
"I-I don't now if I...", she was to terrified to continue and hid her snooze deeper between her mane.
"Don't worry Fluttershy, you can count on me!", the pink pony said, who had this high pitched voice. She jumped between the two of them, and bit into the bounty hunter's hand deeply.
"YOUCH!", Spike screamed out of pain, getting tears in his eyes. He withdrew his hand and railed against her. "Not so hard, dammit!"
"Hm, tastes like hotdogs", the pink one ignored him and licked her lips, probably enjoying having bitten him.
"You...you things are real!", Spike realized as he stared at his bitten hand wide eyed, and made a terrified glare at the ponies. "Wh-what are you?"
"Eh-hm", Twilight Sparkle coughed slightly and neared before the panicked bounty hunter to introduce herself: "I'm Twilight Sparkle and this is-"
"Answer my question, dammit!", Spike snarled, grabbed her instantly, and hold her close. Rapid wild brown eyes were meeting shocked violet ones. "What the hell are you? Where am I? Why have you brought me here?"
"I...I...", Twilight Sparkle stuttered, her careful manners forgotten and feeling the tension rising in the room. Maybe it wasn't a good idea to bring him here after all.
"ANSWER ME!", he roared at her and shook her brutally.
"Hey, let go of her, you jerk!", Rainbow Dash yelled and dashed to the enraged Spike to free her friend. But Spike avoided the attack, headbutted the pegasus to the other side of the room, and threw Twilight Sparkle like a spear towards her out of instincts. The other ponies were gasping and wanted to save Twilight and Rainbow from the abuser. The bounty hunter took the chance to jump over them and sprinted down the stair. The ponies were surprised, but continued to reach their wounded friends. Pinkie Pie however stopped as something was twitching. She followed Spike who was trying to reach the door.
"WAIT!", Pinkie Pie shouted at him, causing Spike to turn to her shocked.
"Get away from me, you freaks!", he threatened and made a fighting pose.
"Look out for -!", before Pinkie Pie couldn't finish the warning, the door opened widely and smashed the thrown off bounty hunter to the sides. "-the door."
"Say, I heard screaming. Is everything alright?", the purple dragon asked concerned. Pinkie Pie pointed at something behind him. Spike turned and saw that he knocked the angel out cold. "Oh, sorry."
End of Overture of the paddock – part one -


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Northwest Fire Paramedics responded to the Circle K at 4900 W. Ina Road just after 6:30 a.m. for a reported childbirth.
A 911 call was received from the husband of the patient who indicated that they left their Dove Mountain home enroute to the hospital as his wife was in labor. The husband indicated that they would meet emergency crews at the Twin Peaks and I-10 interchange, however, they arrived faster than anticipated and he then indicated that they would continue on to the Circle K on Ina and I-10. A closer Paramedic Engine Company was dispatched and met the couple in the parking lot of the business.
Just after their arrival, the paramedics from Engine Company #33 delivered a healthy baby girl. Two paramedics accompanied mom and baby to the Women's Center at Northwest Medical Center via ground ambulance. Both mom and baby are reported to be in excellent health.
Northwest Fire responds to several childbirth calls throughout the year, but very rarely do we actually have a delivery in the field. Most women who are in labor and call 9-1-1 remain in labor throughout the transport and delivery at the hospital.
Northwest Fire has equipment and medications to assist in the delivery of babies. Paramedics are also trained and recertified in the OB area to be prepared for calls such as this.
Interviews with the Paramedics who responded to the call are scheduled for 1400 hours today at Northwest Fire Station 33 located at 2811 W. Ina.
I am working to make contact with the new parents to determine their participation desires.


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They ran on narrow, rugged trails. They ran out of valleys and into hills. They ran until they were bent at the waist, staggering to find their legs.
And they ran.
And ran.
This summer, Countryside's boys cross country team logged more than 60 miles a week on practice runs.
Most of those were at parks and trails in North Pinellas. But they also spent a week in July in the Appalachian Mountains, where the elevation and terrain helped translate into stamina and strength in flatland races.
"The guys put in a lot of work this offseason," Countryside coach Eileen Givens said. "I think we're starting to see it pay off."
On paper, things have lined up nicely for the Cougars to defeat archspoiler Seminole and win the conference title. Not only does Countryside have experience (all five varsity runners return), but it faces many county teams who lost stars to graduation, including the Warhawks.
Countryside, though, is thinking beyond conference. The Cougars believe they have a legitimate shot to contend for a state title.
A series of emphatic, early-season triumphs suggest they have a chance.
Last week, Countryside swept the top five spots at a meet featuring mostly north county teams.
The Cougars followed with a runnerup finish at the Elite Running Invitational in Winter Haven last weekend. At that meet, Countryside knocked off state-ranked Winter Park and was just 20 points behind champion Orlando Dr. Phillips.
"I think that opened a lot of eyes, and it helped give our guys some confidence," Givens said.
On Tuesday, the Cougars placed all five runners in the top 12 and won their own invitational for the first time.
Zach Christenson has set the pace for Countryside, winning the opening meet of the season and finishing runnerup at the Elite Running Invitational and Cougar Invitational.
But the more encouraging sign is that his teammates are not too far behind. Nick Ribble and Kosta Fotopoulis have finished in the top five in two of three meets this season.
"Before it was just Zach by himself," Givens said. "Now they're all jostling for position. And they're getting faster. Nearly all the guys were running around 18 minutes at this time last year. We're now around 16 minutes."
Givens knew it would take time to build the program into a winner.
"You have to give yourself three years to really see results," Givens said. "We're starting to see that progression."
No one is accusing the Cougars of traveling an easy road. Countryside is participating in elite meets, such as the Flrunners.com Invitational and the Disney Classic within the next month.
"You have to put in the hard work," Givens said. "And when you win, it makes the hard work that much easier."


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