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May 2, 2009
– Larry Goodman
NWA Anarchy returned to the NWA Arena in Cornelia Saturday night for their first television taping since Hardcore Hell.
It was a very good follow up show. No bad matches. Storylines were advanced in a satisfying way, shockingly so in the case of the
heavyweight title. There was no need to start a lot of new directions because the main stories are fresh, providing the imaginative minds
at the helm plenty to work with.
Attendance was 120. Decent heat for a crowd of that size. They picked their spots, and that's becoming the norm. The fan base has
(1) Skirra Corvus (with The Reverend) defeated Chris King and Kyle Matthews in a triple threat match by pinning King at 5:55
But thing the key thing about this match was the performance by Corvus. He's been part of Rejects for a while now, and merrily
curbstomping heads in his wake, but this was his inring debut. Talk about a perfect fit for the Rejects. The sack over the head and weird
ghoulish face paint work visually. But it's the stringbean of a body and an amazing flexibility that allows him to do stuff nobody else is
doing that sets him apart. Taco Delgado was back as red carpet roller outer. Turns out it was a busy night for him, but we all know
Mexicans don't shy away from manual labor. It opened with heels doubling up on King. Then King got to shine with some nicely executed
one-on-two spots. The spot in this match had a nice rhythm to them. Corvus did a kneeling Matrix move that was off the hook. As
Matthews and Corvus fought over who would make the pin, King nailed them with a double bulldog. Corvus busted a kneeling/standing
variation of cattle mutilation on King. Matthews broke it up with a top rope double stomp on Corvus. Matthews tried for a slingshot suplex
and got dumped by King. Corvus blocked King's rocker dropper and curbstomped him for the three count. It didn't have great
heat, but this was one fine opener.
Todd Sexton hit the ring with a running knee on King. The fans got on him about tapping out to Slim J at Hardcore Hell. Sexton said it was
disprect for the Young Lions to be booked, while he was left off the card. "The excellence of Sexecution� (yes, he actually said that)
challenged any of the Young Lions to a match.
(2) Technicians (Bobby Moore & Tyler Smith) beat Rowdy Friends (Jessco Blue & Billy Buck) via DQ in 6:43
Blue is over as this crude, zany backwoods guy. It's best not to ponder what that says about the Cornelians. Moore interfered to
distract Buck, and Smith knocked him through the ropes to start the heat. Technicians cut the ring in half and worked over Buck's
back. Buck made a diving tag to Blue. House cleaning ensued. Blue broke up a Technicians double team with duel low blows for the DQ.
Postmatch: Don Matthews lectured Blue about acting more civilized.
Official Express (Mike Posey & Wes Adams) cut an excellent debut promo to position themselves as the heel challengers for the tag
team titles. Posey referred to Adams as "the Nostradamus of referees� or some such. Adams informed the fans that they were
looking at a piece of history. They made a big deal out of being the NWA Alabama Tag Team Champions and did their catch phrase – â
€œThe Official Express: get on it or get run over by it.â€�
(3) Iceberg pinned Orion Bishop in 7:49
Doing a rematch from Hardcore Hell was not the original plan here. Adjustments, however, had to be made. This was similar to that
match – a test of wills between two behemoths. A powerslam shook Bishop up. Advantage Iceberg. Bishop answered with a
knockdown lariat. Bishop hit DDT and went to work on Iceberg's knee. The Reverend was spouting disparaging remarks about
Iceberg's performance. Bishop ran his face into the turnbuckle on a mad rhino charge, and Iceberg pounced with the Ground Zero.
Postmatch: Iceberg helped Bishop up. The Reverend went ballistic and stormed to the back. Iceberg and Bishop exchanged nods of
respect, and fans were popping for Berg.
On the Wrestlevision, we saw a backstage interview with Truitt Fields conducted by Greg Hunter. Fields talked about his history with Phil
Shatter (currently in Bolivia see notes below), the bond they formed when both were Marines in Iraq. He said they came to Anarchy to be
the best tag team ever. Things didn't work out that way, but they agreed to stay out of each other's hair. Fields said Shatter broke
their pact at Hardcore Hell by costing him the TV Title. Ace Rockwell entered. He said they had a problem in common - they had both
been betrayed by Shaun Tempers. NWA Anarchy owner Jerry Palmer joined them. He referenced the unholy alliance between Tempers
and Shatter and gave Fields a rematch against Tempers. Rockwell told Palmer that Hardcore Hell proved that barring people from
ringside doesn't work too well. Rockwell asked Palmer to grant him a manager's license for the evening, so he could protect
Fields. Palmer said OK. Well done.
(4) Slim J & Bo Newsome beat Seth Delay & Brodie Chase when J submitted Delay at 8:02
Chase has gotten in phenomenal shape for his age. Hell, for any age. You don't see guys walking around with deltoids like that. The
babyfaces worked on Delay's arm early. The highlight was an up and over into a deep arm drag by Newsome. Chase clotheslined
Newsome from the apron. The heat was a showcase for Chase to beat on the kid. He powerbombed the bejeezus out of Newsome
punched the "pretty boy� in the face. When Newsome kicked out of a double team neckbreaker, the crowd got behind him huge. J
cleaned house with the hot tag, until Delay didn't know which end was up. Fishermanbustah! Chase made the save. Chase went for
another powerbomb, but J headscissored him over the top. J locked Delay in the Roach Clip. He fought it hard before tapping.
Postmatch: Mr. "Hands of Steel� Delay put J's lights out with the brass knucks. J was down and out for a while, but he got a
pop when he rose and made it to the back under his own power.
NWA Anarchy Heavyweight Champion Shadow Jackson was introduced by Greg Hunter. The place went nuts. "The People's
Champion� addressed his flock. Jackson was channeling Dusty here. Jackson said it was time for his wrestling family to meet his
family. "It was your love and prayers that brought him into our lives. So I thought I needed to bring him into yours.� Jackson's
wife carried their five month old son into the ring. It was touch and go right after he was born. The kid has a bit of a Mohawk going.
The feel good moment of 2009 was disrupted by the appearance of Jeremy Vain on the ramp. Jackson's wife scurried to the back
with the baby. Vain patted the baby on the head as they passed by. Jackson's eyes were on fire. If looks could kill, Vain would have
dropped dead on the spot. Vain told Shadow to calm down. Vain said he wasn't making any excuses for being pinned. â
€�Shadowmania was running wild at Hardcore Hell, and I felt it first hand.â€� Vain said he had just one nagging question. "Is that
really your kid or what?� Jackson decked Vain with one punch and jackhammered his head. Rob Adonis hit the ring. Jackson decked
him, too. Adonis clipped Jackson's knee. Vain put Jackson in the figure four and grabbed the ropes, while Adonis pulled on Jacksonâ
€™s arms. Rockwell and Fields finally ran out for the save. Vain had this disgustingly wicked gleam in his eye as security backed him up
the ramp. Cold, dark, edgy and at the same time so old school. Vain has sunk to depths of evil of which I had no earthly clue.
(5) Malachi beat Azrael (with the Reverend) to retain the Young Lion's Division Championship in 4:25
Again, Malachi tried to trade strikes with Azrael. He must be a glutton for punishment. Malachi hit a bridging german suplex to spark a
high impact comeback. It looked like Azrael was going for a Ted Bundy off the ropes. That would have been completely insane, not that I
would put it past Azrael to try it. Like at Hardcore Hell, Azrael took the bump and got pinned with the frog splash. Good match but Azrael
shouldn't be losing clean to anybody in under 5 minutes, and definitely not in the same manner he lost two week ago. I pictured it as
a real test for Malachi, like 8 minutes worth with Azrael avoiding the frogsplash like the plague.
(6) Jeff Lewis & Andrew Alexander (with Jay Clinton) beat Chrisjen Hayme & El Veterano IV in 7:23
Hayme & IV went lucha style on Alexander. Hayme used a Gedo Clutch for a near fall. Hayme went to the top and fought off interference by
both Lewis and Clinton. Taco ran out for further distraction, and Alexander caught Hayme with a hotshot. As per usual, Lewis feasted on
an incapacitated foe. Hayme escaped from a double vertical suplex to make the tag. IV started flying around. His stuff didn't look bad
at all. IV tagged Hayme and hit a double jump dive to the outside. Lewis then pinned Hayme with a lightning fast spinning neckbreaker.
(7) Mikal Judas pinned Mike Mosley in 2:45 with El Crucifijo
No loss of fan love for Judas. Mosley hit him with his book before the bell. Judas made a quick comeback and goozled him. Mosley
escaped, then dodged a corner clothesline and took Judas off his feet with a lariat for a two count. That should not have happened. No
near falls for this guy. Judas busted Mosley's lip with the corner clothesline and tossed him half way across the ring with his finisher.
Judas had a message - "To be or not to be. Kimo is not meant to be.�
(8) New Wave (Steven Walters & Derrick Driver) beat Official Express (Mike Posey & Wes Adams) to retain the NWA Anarchy Tag
Team Titles in 11:20
Official Express were billing as being from Stamford, Ct. They used the Midnight Express entrance music. Posey said they would soon be
double champions. New Wave opened up a can of combo moves on Posey. A Posey knee to the back of Walter set up a decapitaton
lariat by Adams. Express worked on the neck of Walters. Express hit a slingshot leg drop/side slam combo. The work was fine. Very little
heat because nobody was buying Express as a legit threat. After the hot tag, Posey caused New Wave to collide and got a near fall on
Driver. Express set up for a double team finisher. Walters knocked Posey off his perch to foil it and Driver pinned him after the Unskinny
Bop. Eight minutes would have been plenty for this.
(9) Shaun Tempers (with The Reverend) pinned Truitt Fields (with Ace Rockwell) to retain the NWA Anarchy Television Championship
in 6:07
The pop for Fields and Rockwell tied with Slim J's for second behind the one for Jackson. Fields is less cut but more bulked up than
he's ever been. Fields was pissed. Before the match could get underway, he blasted Tempers off the apron and gave him a wicked
beating all around the ring. Tempers was stumbling around in a daze. Back inside, Fields busted out the Polish hammers. Tempers
barely escaped from the Killing Fields. When Fields went for a top rope huracanrana, the Reverend managed to hook Tempers' foot
in the ropes and Fields crashed to the mat. Rockwell was not happy about being bested by the Reverend. Fields hulked up. Tempers
dumped Fields. The Reverend was ready to crown Fields with the Staff of Righteousness, but Rockwell intervened. The Reverend
scooted away on his butt begging for mercy. Tempers softened up Fields' neck. The crowd got as hot as it had been all evening.
Fields made the comeback and hit a bridging Northern lights suplex for a near fall. The Rejects ran out to attack Rockwell. He picked up
the staff and took a stance like he was in the batter's box at Wrigley Field. The Rejects backed off. But Kimo (with Jeff G. Bailey)
nailed Rockwell from behind. While this was going on, Tempers pinned Fields with the hangman neckbreaker.
Postmatch: The Reverend showed his warped approval of Bailey and Kimo's assistance. My mind sickens at the prospect of this
unholy alliance of formerly bitter enemies.
NOTES: Anarchy has added a rare fifth Saturday show on May 30…Shatter was booked on a tour of Bolivia through David Marquez of
NWA Showcase…J.T. Talent is out of action due to a back injury suffered in that brutal match at Hardcore Hell. He plans to be back in
action at the next TV taping…Official Express defeated Hayme & former NWA Wildside star Adam Jacobs to win the NWA Alabama Tag
Team Championship on April 11 in Scottsboro, Alabama.


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Tim Worstall, Contributor
I write about business and technology.
Perhaps a little premature, this idea that the end of Facebook is nigh, but certainly the end of the beginning.
The bad news for Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's 27-year-old billionaire creator, is that many people are doing just that. They're using Facebook less, or leaving it altogether – which is known, would you believe it, as "Facebook suicide".
Figures show that 100,000 British users deactivated their accounts during May, reducing the total number to 29.8 million. And six million logged off for good in the United States. What started off as an exclusive online social club at Harvard University has saturated Western society. Now it could be on the way down.
The thing with being rated as a hot growth stock is that when the growth starts to slow you're rated as an ex-hot growth stock.
Facebook is still growing very fast in terms of page views and number of users. But as these new figures show, there does seem to be some sort of limit to that growth. And it's not the number of people on the planet nor the number of hours in the day which is that limit. There really are people who have tried it, tasted it, and gone, umm, no, I don't want that thanks very much.
Which is almost exactly what Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg and the various shareholders wouldn't like people to be finding out as they prepare for next year's mooted IPO. For everyone would like to IPO when still rated as a hot growth stock.
There's a larger issue too, as Felix Salmon has pointed out. Yes, certainly, there really was a Google that came out of the dot com boom. And an Amazon, an e-Bay. But to value every company as if they are the next Google, rather than valuing them all as if one of them might be, is pretty much the definition of a bubble.
And in the social media space perhaps even more so. For we've had a number of companies that were that new Google over the years. Bebo, Friends Reunited, MySpace: all killed by Facebook (or all killed by the one that came after them, Facebook just being the latest).
Who really is willing to bet: well, OK, quite a lot of people actually, but who ought to be willing to bet that there's no one about to come up behind Facebook and do the same all over again?
"there's no one about to come up behind Facebook and do the same all over again?"
And what if it's decidedly More Appealing?
While you may think that Facebook is "dying" keep in mind, that you are confusing two basic things: User Growth vs Monetization. By focusing on the user growth – you are showing a fundamental misunderstanding of online businesses – and how Facebook can and will make money while retaining it's dominance. Yes – there will be another service that makes it big, but Facebook is now part of the plumbing of the internet, just like Google or Amazon.
Even if Facebook closed registrations to new users for a year or more – they still wouldn't die. Now is their chance to focus on monetization of their huge social graph they have accumulated with 600 million users. Recall that Google at one point was criticised because "how do you monetize this giant search database you've created?" – well AdWords certainly ended that speculation a few years later once a few billion in revenue was generated and kept growing. I expect the same of Facebook – but with an even steeper curve upwards in terms of monetization of their data sets and advertising potential.
Just because Facebook is not growing their user base as fast as before, has no bearing whatsoever on how they will continue to monetize the existing 600 million members. It is naive and simplistic to think that.
One other thing that is important: Almost every other site you ever hear reporting statistics about users is referring to total user registrations. Someone who has logged in once, 4 years ago – is considered a user. Meanwhile – At Facebook, they consider a "user" to be someone who has logged into their Facebook account in the last month. These are ACTIVE Users. Losing a few million users here or there, especially out of a base of 600 million members is not a big problem – they may actually sign in again this month…
I tried it, didn't like it, deactivated my account, and eliminated another aggravation from my life.
I strongly agree! Facebook is losing its mojo. For some reason, I don't find myself using Facebook so much anymore, and many of my friends have quit facebook all together. I'd rather do Twitter. It's less time consuming.
Personally, I clicked off of Facebook when I realized that I didn't know or even like most of the people who were my 'Friends'. I lost track of how I defined friendship and pretending to care about people who pretend to care about me was not it.
My name is lucy and I am ten days Facebook clean and proud of it!
I think I will just leave that right there.
It's not a funny joke… Facebook and their $100 Billion IPO could rupture in a way that reverbrates throughout this faux economy built around it. You have developers working with the API, ad and marketing / PR companies convincing people to do massively expensive ad campaigns, and industries spreading resources thin – new labor and dollars towards Facebook. The bottom is likely going to fall out from under it, and we need to be prepared. The Groupthink and self interest is very alarming, and we all need to be big enough to step away and realize…. it's failed for business, and it's failing as a business.
Thank you for this article.
The next social network is in the works (I'm sure you've all heard of Diaspora), but will it replace Facebook?
Facebook is so everpresent in our online lives that letting it go isn't easy, not just for personal reasons, but because it's so integrated into all websites. And people only switch networks if their friends are doing it. Previous social networks have never had such a massive number of users, so switching was a hassle, but time eventually led all of us to Facebook. But for all millions to decide to migrate somewhere else? Unlikely, and if it does happen, it would take at least a decade at this point.
Just because a select few are deciding this isn't for them, others can't part because it's become such a basic necessity to stay within social circles that allow us to have social lives outside the Internet.
I have to say that I have watched this site grow and don't really care for what it has turned into. Profiles are getting hacked at least every other week, spammers are running rampant, people slamming you with every silly game or gift application and page/events invites from all over the country and the world. To me it's getting more and more chaotic and out of control. I don't spend near as much time there as I use to. For business I use Linked In and have moved back to the trade forums
I think one of the biggest concerns people continue to have with Facebook is that of privacy… what are they doing to do with this ridiculous amount of data that they hold on 500 million of the world's population?
But nonetheless, I do not believe that it is over for Facebook. Yes, 100,000 people deactivating their accounts in the UK is a big number… but it's less 'big' when you consider the total number of users. Ultimately, social media platforms will keep people because of the communities around them and the friends they have there. There are enough of my friends using Facebook, for example, that I wouldn't consider leaving. I don't think that I'm alone in that mindset.
There are enough Facebook users, as far as I am concerned, that it will keep the masses there.
Of course it's the end of the beginning. The honeymoon is over. The 'oh my God, what's this new thing everyone is on?' rush of interest is dead. Now everyone knows what Facebook is, the next challenge is the hook. You have your audience, Facebook. How do you persuade them to stick around and even invite non-users (if they know any)?
The end of facebook?? Seriously, because a tiny minority tried it and didn't think it was for them? Facebook has hit critical mass. None of the other companies ever became a verb/action. "facebook me"
http://seekingalpha.com/article/298471-google-in-social-media-it-s-all-about-the-data Now this article here makes an interesting point.
Every time I have logged onto my Facebook account (I haven't done so for a few months) I am amazed at what boring, lackluster experience it is. I have come to regard it as the "lemming site," for children.
I deleted my account last week. Seems to me that Facebook is so yesterday
Facebook has become old and tired very quickly. The site looks nothing like that which I signed up to. It's such a frenetic mess; a chaotic up-chuck of content thrown all over the page. It used to be easy to use, easy to navigate, and easy to find everything I wanted. The ratio of hassle to gratification was very low. Now, there's a lot more hassle to gratification. It's this ratio of obtuseness and poor user experience that's causing it to relegate itself to the Do Later pile. This is why I know, without a shadow of a doubt, there will be a Facebook replacement. It might take a while, but it will come… and it will be much, much easier to use, far easier on the eyes, and be a platform that serves US in our daily lives, not increasingly get in the way and ask us to serve IT.
They're just taking it way to seriously. It got really hyped up, but people just needed to remember it's a social site. Yes, worth a little money, but no, not worth what people thought it was. They need to consider also how forced constant design changes have affected it. Honestly, timeline killed it for me. It was a terrible idea, still works terribly and wrecks the experience. All there is too it. Blunt force change in user experience, the idea was deadly from the start

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Product Description
- Frame: Rush Carbon, 110 mm
- Fork: Lefty Speed Carbon SL, 110 mm
- Rear Shock: FOX Float RP23
- Hubs: Mavic CrossMax SLR UST
- Pedals: CrankBrothers Egg Beater
- Chain: Shimano 9-speed
- Bottom Bracket: Shimano XTR
- Handlebars: FSA Carbon K-Force, 25 mm rise
- Headset: Cannondale HeadShok Si
- Seat Post: Thompson Elite, 410mm
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|Reviews 1 - 7 (7 Reviews Total)
User Reviews
Date Reviewed: February 10, 2009
Strengths: Comfortable, Agile, overall quality, strong, reliable.
Weaknesses: Attracts people that want one too.
Bottom Line:
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Duration Product Used: 6 months
Purchased At: Chamizo in Elzestraa
Similar Products Used: V1000 cannondale
Bike Setup: Maxic SLR, sram X9, FSA White handle bar and sadle
Date Reviewed: August 1, 2007
Strengths: Everthing is awesome, but the Fox rear Shox.
Lefty is IT!
Weaknesses: Rear suspension does not work like intended - Fox Shox Sux.
Bottom Line:
I wanter to wait to do this review until I did a race on it with the Manitou, and there are not many here in the summer. I did one with the Fox and the quality of the damping cannot compare. I just did a race with the Manitou on an up and down course(ski slope). This thing climbs like I was floating up the hill(no bobbing->SPV) yet took care of the bumps with grace. On the way down, it is like a rocket at everything but the steep bumpy straight sections(where the limited travel revealed its only weakness).
Overall, I was sooo pleased and finished with a big smile(and on the podium).
If you are over 200lbs. I would not recommend the SL version of the Lefty as I am about 190lbs. dry weight and I do notice some flex (The Rush 2 would be a better choice since its Lefty is much stiffer). Albiet way better than any other light weight cross country fork on the market by a long shot.
With the upgrade, it is definitely a 5 chile rating. The best bike I ever owned. Before the upgrade, who cares!
The 4 chile value rating reflets the fact that I had to buy 2 shocks(which includes the one that came on it).
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Duration Product Used: 3 months
Purchased At: The Bicycle Company El Paso, Tx.
Similar Products Used: Cannondale Prophet is the most similar.
Started with Pro-Flex 955(in 1995), K2, a few GTs.
Bike Setup: Bought the frame and SL Lefty. Put on 2005 Crossmax SL, Salsa Flat Bar (risers are for downhills only!) 2006 XTR Cranks, Rotor Rings, Still using 8-speed XTR cassette.
Date Reviewed: July 1, 2007
Strengths: junk
Weaknesses: junk
Bottom Line:
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Duration Product Used: 6 months
Price Paid: $5500.00
Purchased At: RUSH
Similar Products Used: anything
Bike Setup:
xt, xtr r/d, tubeless, Carbon fork is 'BLOWN' JUNK.
Date Reviewed: June 30, 2007
Strengths: Incredibly light weight (23 lb's, give or take), top of the line components, climbs like an angry mountain goat, stable at high speed, incredible handling, floats over rock gardens, roots, whatever, and it handles technical sections with ease.....
Weaknesses: dont care much for the grips... can be a bit expensive, but you dont really need two kidneys now do you?
Bottom Line:
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Duration Product Used: Less than 1 month
Purchased At: Sicklers Bike Shop (a good deal)
Similar Products Used: GT Ruckus hardtail and i-drive, Haro x-6
Bike Setup: stock Rush Carbon 1-
Date Reviewed: June 18, 2007
Strengths: Top cross country and marathon/Enduro bike. i have now done a number of 100 milers on it and its a great all day bike.
Weaknesses: None other than getting used to the lefty - looking down and realising that half the suspension is missing can be a bit off putting. !!
Bottom Line:
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Duration Product Used: 3 months
Price Paid: $5800.00
Purchased At: Cycle Soth, GA
Similar Products Used: Nothing really. Other bikes are cross country racers - Specialised Carbon hardtail, and Cannondale 1FG SS.
Bike Setup: Standrard, apart from new Stans No Tubes Crow tyres - awesome set up with great grip.
Date Reviewed: May 21, 2007
Strengths: Very stiff and responsive frame. Lefty fork does not flex and stands up well under acceleration. New XTR group shifts very crisp. Crossmax SLR's roll fast. Very low standover clearance. Weight around 24 1/2 pounds. Very little or no suspension bob.
Weaknesses: Maxxis Crossmark tires corner really well but lack the grip on roots compared to Serac IRC. XTR brakes are weak compared to my old Avid Juicy 7's.
Bottom Line:
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Duration Product Used: Less than 1 month
Price Paid: $5200.00
Purchased At: Adventures
Similar Products Used: 02 Giant NRS XTC
Bike Setup: Rush Carbon 1
Date Reviewed: March 26, 2007
Strengths: Very confident inspiring. By far, the most comfortably riding bike I've ever owned. Excellent components: it comes with full XTR if that doesn't say enough, Mavic SLR Disc UST, RP23, Thompson seatpost, FSA bar, Carbon Lefty...basically, everything I would have upgraded to eventually on a lesser equipped bike. The handling is incredible once you feel comfortable riding on one fork leg. It climbs like a crazed mountain goat (propedal engaged), and descends like a paraplegic monkey on X.
Weaknesses: Pricey, but I come from the school of thought that 'you get what you pay for' philosophy. Longer wheelbase and lower bottom bracket than anything else I've compared it to.
Bottom Line:
I find myself riding further than my usual routes with less soreness on this bike. My other bikes were hardtails though but weighed pretty much the same.
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Duration Product Used: 3 months
Price Paid: $6500.00
Purchased At: LBS
Similar Products Used: Kona Fire Mountain, M800 Cannondale, OCLV Trek, GT Zaskar
Bike Setup: Stock. (See product strengths) The bike comes ready to rock and roll with the best of them.
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Surullitos is an easy recipe for cornmeal cheese sticks that can be served warm as a side dish or as a snack. They are also great made ahead and served for after school snacks.
Prep Time: 20 minutes
Cook Time: 10 minutes
Total Time: 30 minutes
- 6 cups water
- 4 teaspoons salt
- 3 cups yellow cornmeal
- 2 cups grated cheddar cheese
- vegetable oil for frying
- Combine the water and salt in a saucepan and bring to a boil.
- Stirring constantly, slowly and steadily (so as not to interrupt the boil) pour the cornmeal into the water.
- Continue to stir for 3 to 4 minutes, until the mixture is smooth and thick.
- Remove the pan from the heat and mix in the cheddar cheese.
- Let the mixture cool to room temperature.
- Divide the mixture into 24 equal portions, then shape each portion into uniform cylinders about 3 inches long. Place them on wax paper to prevent sticking.
- Heat the oil for frying, then fry the surullitos in small batches of 4 at a time for about 5 minutes each. Turn them while frying for even browning.
- Drain on paper towels and keep warm until serving time.


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Shop Talk
Retailers, consumers and prices
Target investors shoot down Ackman
When an activist investor comes to town, it appears that Target security goes on high alert.
While Target had its shareholders, including hedge fund manager William Ackman, and the media fly to one of its yet-unfinished stores outside of Milwaukee to attend their annual meeting, it greeted them with a heavy security detail.
From guards zooming around the parking lot on segway personal transporters to chase down wayward parkers, to Target employees scanning shareholders with handheld metal dectors when they entered its stores, Target made it very clear it was in no mood for fun and games at its annual meeting.
But the heavy handed approach did not seem to be needed.
Target shareholders ended up handing a loss to Ackman, who was seeking five spots on the retailer's board in a closely watched proxy battle with the large U.S. retailer.


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International public health organization, Global Dialogues, has issued a call for entries for their latest video challenge. The theme this year is Love, Freedom … Pregnancy?
Each year, Global Dialogues challenges filmmakers of any walk of life, discipline or skill level to participate in a challenge where they kick off a story and it is up to participating filmmakers to complete the story with their own vision in two minutes or less.
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Oracle Fail Safe Manager Display Issues with Windows
On Windows 8 and Microsoft Windows Server 2012 systems, Oracle Fail Safe Manager may not display dialog boxes correctly. Windows may not display the graphical user interface (GUI) elements with the correct layering or z-order.
For example, if you click a drop-down list in a dialog box, the dialog box will drop behind its parent window, leaving the drop-down list displayed over the parent window instead of the dialog box that it belongs to. Similarly, in a dialog box with a tooltip, if you move your cursor over the window, the tooltip is displayed but the dialog box will drop behind its parent window.
This issue exists in previous versions of Windows, but with the upgrade of Microsoft Management Console (MMC) to.NET 4.0 this issue is now seen in MMC applications that use Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) to create forms. The new Oracle Fail Safe Manager is MMC based and uses the WPF in most windows and dialog boxes. Thus, the new Fail Safe Manager is likely to encounter the z-order issues. Oracle is working with Microsoft for a solution to this issue.
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I'm almost happy for all the fear-mongering stories written about MySpace. Thankfully, there have been more stories about predators than actual cases. My hope is that this over-hyped bad press will scare away many Conservatives from investigating this network's potential.
Similar anxieties of obsolescence kept conservatives from letting their children investigate social phenomenons such as reading novels, zippers, jazz, television, rock & roll, and now P2P networks. And thank god for that - for a while, liberals were the only ones listening to jazz, quickly dressing and chilling on MySpace.
MySpace just passed Yahoo! for the most pageviews per day in the country. 95 million people have set up accounts and built pages. 95,000,000. But the network's size is NOT the important part!


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This year's inspirational brunch performers are sure to inspire and move you. Take 6 is an American a cappella gospel music group from Huntsville, Alabama. Originally formed in 1980, the group got their start at Oakwood College. Since then, they have been awarded 10 Grammy Awards, 10 Dove Awards and a Soul Train Award.


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Those hoping to see a new and larger public library in El Cerrito are seeking an alternative location to the small lot that has long been home of the old library next to the BART tracks on Stockton Avenue, former El Cerrito City Manager Gary Pokorny told the El Cerrito Rotary Thursday.
Pokorny, who's heading up fundraising for the fledgling campaign for a new library, said a few options are being considered but that the focus of the El Cerrito New Library Campaign right now is building awareness of the need for a new library and generating support.
One thing is certain, he told the Rotary Club of El Cerrito at its Thursday luncheon at the Mira Vista Golf and Country Club.
"I'm here to make you aware of a real need we have here in El Cerrito, a need for a new library," he said, outlining what's wrong with the current structure, which was built in 1949 and renovated in 1960.
"It's old, fully used up, technologically challenged," he said. "It has inadequate parking, sits right under the BART tracks ... It's too small. The roof leaks, and when we had our heavy rains a couple of weeks ago, the basement flooded. There was a about three inches of water in the basement. Those are only a few of things that are wrong with that library."
Rebuilding on the current site is the not the preferred option, Pokorny said. The small lot and the library building are owned by the city, while the staff and most of the materials are provided by the 26-branch Contra Costa County Library system. Materials are provided also by the nonprofit Friends of the El Cerrito Library.
"It would be very difficult in the place where it is now," Pokorny said. "The footprint of that building is very small. And the BART tracks make it less than optimal. I suppose if you had a really creative architect, you might be able to do something with a two- or three-story building. The parking problem would remain."
Another problem for multi-story libraries is the need for more staff to oversee them, library planners say.
"We haven't settled on a site yet," Pokorny said. "We have some ideas about what might be good, but there's no firm site yet. It's very early. The goal right now is raising awareness and getting people excited about the need, and talking to the council about it."
He urged those who want to see a new library to contact the City Council, especially during its formulation of the city's new Strategic Plan.
"They (the City Council) are going to be sitting down in January to set some priorities," Pokorny said. "... Talk to them. Let them know that you care about libraries and that a new library should be part of that process, should be a high priority for the city."
The council will hold a Strategic Plan study session from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Jan. 26 at City Hall to "finalize the vision statement and list of organizational goals, as well as develop goals and strategies," according to a city announcement. Those elements will then be put into a draft Strategic Plan to receive community input before being adopted by the council, according to the city.
The cost of a new library for El Cerrito is estimated to be $20-25 million, Pokorny said, and would require a bond for the land and building. Donations too would be needed for interior equipment and materials beyond what the county library could provide.
The new librarian of the El Cerrito Library, Liz Ruhland, also attended the luncheon and added a comment about the changes that contemporary libraries are undergoing as people read fewer books made of paper and make more use of digital materials.
"There will be over time, slowly less need for stacks," she said. "Hopefully print books won't go away entirely, but public libraries are changing and evolving."
Modern libraries contain more space for programming, such as story times and other programs that foster early literacy, as well as lifelong learning opportunities for adults, including cultural programming, she said.
New libraries also incorporate group meeting rooms and more computing space, both for use of the library's computers and for patrons to bring their own laptops and tablets for a place to plug in and obtain Internet access, she said.
Pokorny urged those who would like to be kept informed about the new library initiative to sign up at the El Cerrito New Library Community Campaign website to receive updates and the newsletter.


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Journalist Elvis Mitchell interviews twenty-two African American leaders, ranging from athletes and academics to politicians, social activists, and artists, providing a series of living portraits-a unique glimpse into the zeitgeist of black America-and redefining traditional notions of a 'blacklist'.
From PBS: After 1968, African Americans set out to build a bright future on the foundation of the civil rights movement's victories, but a growing class disparity threatened to split the black community.
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Jake Owen Scores T-Pain, Mike Posner for Epic 'Beachin'' Remix [Listen]
Christus St. Michael Senior Health Center will host three "Seniors Living Well" Seminars
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Tornado victim is outed as a neighborhood thief by the storm!
Massachusetts couple wants to change their middle name to "Seamonster".
Australian inmates screw up a really good thing!
Congratulations to Joelle Jordan the winner of the Flyaway contest to see and meet Florida Georgia Line at one of the most incredible concert venues in the world. Joelle and her guest win an all-expense paid trip to Colorado to see the show at the amazing Red Rocks Amphitheater just outside of Denver.
YouTube of course has a lot of funny videos, but it also has a ton of great videos to learn from as well!
Texarkana Texas Police investigating an altercation between a couple of male suspects.
We found a very fun short day trip while I was on vacation from work.
Sometimes, remixes work and sometimes, they really work. The Jake Owen 'Beachin' [Remix]' is the latter, thanks to help from T-Pain and Mike Posner.
This is just one of the funniest videos! Watch this husband ask his wife the question "If you're traveling 80 MPH, how long will it take you to go 80 miles?
Every Hayniac would dissolve into a puddle if Hunter Hayes serenaded them with his new hit 'Tattoo.' In his new music video, he sings the catchy (and utterly adorable) song to a gorgeous brunette, and he seems so smitten with her it seems that he'll be the one to dissolve into a puddle just by looking at her.
There are fewer decisions bigger in life than going ahead and putting an offer on a house. It's fraught with stress, worry, concern, doubt and apprehension.
Christus St. Michael Senior Health Center will continue its free Seniors Living Well series during the month of August. Held in partnership with Texarkana Regional Center on Aging, the seminars highlight a variety of topics relevant to persons 65 years of age and older
The Texarkana Arkansas Police Department has been inundated with juveniles who are committing misdemeanor offences, such as theft or simple assault, that do not result in any type of corrective programs or incarceration
What happens in Hall H stays in Hall H ... at least when it comes to 'Batman vs. Superman.'
During Comic-Con 2014, fans at the Warner Bros. panel got to see the first 'Batman vs. Superman' teaser trailer, featuring a suited up Ben Affleck with glowing blue eyes glaring at Henry Cavill's hovering Superman, ready to do battle. However, if fans were hoping to see this same footage online shortly after, you're out of luck.
Luke Bryan has announced dates for his sixth annual Farm Tour.
Another month in the books, another month of news bloopers in the books.
Tyler Farr does heartbreak like Miranda Lambert does crazy. His new song 'A Guy Walks Into a Bar' is a dark story wrapped around a decades (centuries?) old joke. Spinning something familiar is the quickest way to build a hit, and Farr's first single from his second album should be his biggest yet.
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So to Reade Seligmann, Collin Finnerty and David Evans, the three Duke lacrosse players whose lives were mangled by an unsupported rape accusation, I say two of the hardest words in the English language: I'm sorry. It's not enough, and I won't pretend that it is. For the last year, your lives and those of your families have been more difficult than any of us can possibly imagine. I'll never know what it was like walking around normal society labeled a rapist. I'll never know what it's like to lose everything — your school, your program and your life — because of one unproven accusation. You deserve all of that back and then some, but unfortunately, you won't get it.
Surely by now you know I am sorry. I am writing these words now, and in this form, as a bookend to 13 months of Duke lacrosse coverage, my role in which started with a March 27 column that began: "Members of the men's Duke lacrosse team: You know. We know you know."
This has been difficult territory. I'm paid to write about what I think as things happen. But rest assured, I know my errors. And now you know I know.
Why won't the Duke president or the culpable faculty apologize?Because deeply entrenched among the Left is a notion of moral justice that transcends the law and is now to be adjudicated by elites versed in race/class/gender theories. In this way of thinking the "rape" is just a matter of semantics, the law an obstruction to the larger question still unresolved: a poor black woman performed sexually for white rich males. De facto this is an indictment of our entire male-dominated capitalist system that put the poor, the female, the person of color in bondage to the white, male and wealthy. In that prism, technicalities of law don't matter and surely don't address these larger pathologies so endemic in the United States, against which the university nearly alone exists to combat. That the "victim" lied under oath, ruined the reputations of innocents, was on drugs, was engaged in promiscuous sexual activity, and had a criminal record is simply proof of her victim status. This notion of a higher law unto themselves is used frequently by Left and Right, it is true, but never in such an injurious or hypocritical fashion as by the academic Left that on campuses has developed a real contempt for our laws of free speech and due process—again, seen as impediments to their version of heaven on earth.
Sure he leans left, but at least he admits it freely...
This Atty. general is giving the Duke players all the ammo they need to destroy Nifong.
Mainly cause i would SO love to nail her...
And not of them are harpies like Grace.
i'm gonna go out on a limb here and suggest that the press's handling of this issue wasn't born from liberalism, but from sensationalism
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Receiver Brandon Lloyd, the protypical high-priced Redskins bust of recent years, was making your truly look bad when he led Chicago in receiving yards and had two touchdowns — one on special teams for crying out loud — after four games.
However, Lloyd turned back into his usual problematic self the next six weeks after spraining the PCL in his left knee. Lloyd was supposed to miss 2-4 weeks, but he was out for six weeks before returing with two catches for 17 yards in Sunday's 37-3 bludgeoning by Green Bay.
Lloyd was actually held out the previous week against Tennessee by a coaching staff frustrated by how long it was taking him to get back by his statement that he wouldn't play until he was 100 percent. As if any NFL player is 100 percent in November.
"What I meant is that I want to be able to make the kind of moves I always make — run the kind of routes and make the kind of cuts," Lloyd said. "If I don't have that confidence, I'm worthless. If I'm not out here playing how I normally play, what good am I?"
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Girls who are their parents' only child will be admitted in Kendriya Vidyalayas from class VI onwards even if they do not qualify in admission test - provided they have minimum qualifying marks, it has been announced. The facility will be ...
Give some thought to the syllabus
A look at the elements and components that should go into the making of a syllabus.
New offerings from a pioneering institute
The Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), a trailblazer in the field of social work education, is offering some new courses this year.
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The Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology (NSIT), rated among the top 20 institutions in the country (as per the Dataquest IDC NASSCOM survey last year), has released the admission notification for the coming academic year's B.E ...
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The following are the new additions in the British Library, Thiruvananthapuram. These books will be on display from March 20. Austen, J. - Northanger Abbey; Baird, N. - Criminal Law 2005 - 06 Q&A; Brown, D. - Digital Fortress; Calloway, S.- ...
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As it celebrates its silver jubilee, Kerala Agricultural University's College of Cooperation, Banking and Management is all set to launch a new course in agribusiness management.
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How to Save $3,000 This Year
Learn how to cut your banking costs to put the average tax refund in your pocket.
As you wrap up preparing your taxes this year, I hope you're one of the many people set to receive a healthy tax refund. Last year, the average tax refund was over three thousand dollars! Three thousand can make a huge dent in some debt or fund a pretty nice vacation.
[In Pictures: 10 Smart Ways to Improve Your Budget.]
What if I told you that you could find that kind of money just by spending a few minutes of research? If you think that sounds like a get-rich scheme, wait until I explain it. Right this minute you might be overpaying for services you simply have price shopped in a while. When was the last time you look at the fees your bank is charging you? Or how much you're sending to the auto insurance company each month? That's right—the key to saving thousands of dollars each year is in shopping around for these products.
Banking Services
With the advent of banking reform, a lot of banks are scrambling to replace the billions in dollars of fee income they've come to rely on to juice up their profits. A lot of free checking options are going away, replaced by account maintenance fees or higher minimum account balances.
According to Bankrate's 2010 Checking Study, only 65 percent of non-interest checking accounts were free, down from 76 percent in 2009. If this has happened to you, or you're simply unhappy with your bank, there are many more fish in the sea and it benefits you to see if you could do better elsewhere. One stop on your search has to be a local credit union or an online bank. Credit unions work for the depositors and they typically have better rates than commercial banks. Online banks have much lower overhead costs and pass a portion of those savings along to their customers. In both cases, they will have low minimum account balances and won't inundate you with fees.
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Did you change jobs recently? Have you reviewed your assets to do some rebalancing or otherwise adjust them to meet your changing needs? One of the easiest ways for you to save a lot of money is selecting the right assets in your retirement account. Number one on that list should be reducing expenses.
When I left my last job, I opted to rollover my 401(k) into a Rollover IRA at Vanguard in order to simplify my finances and reduce my expenses. My fund options at my former employer's 401(k) were good but the expenses were a little on the high side. By moving my assets over to a single account, it was easier for me to manage and saved me some money. It won't look like much but half a percent can become very large over forty years. It's also important to review which assets you have in which account. A Roth IRA isn't subject to income taxes if you make qualified withdrawals, so it's best to do most of your active trading within that fund.
A regular IRA or 401(k) isn't subject to income taxes until you start making withdrawals either so you don't benefit from long term capital gains tax treatment. If you plan on building a dividend portfolio or holding onto stocks for at least a year, a taxable brokerage account is optimal because you benefit from lower capital gains rates.
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Insurance is such a tricky expense because the only time we think about it is after something bad happens! In reality, it's an expense we are paying each and every day, even if it's only collected once every six months or invisibly deducted out of your paycheck. Almost all of us have auto insurance (if you drive), homeowner's or renter's insurance, and health insurance (hopefully!).
A few of us have life insurance, business insurance, and perhaps a blanket umbrella insurance. Regardless of what you may have, it pays to shop around at least once a year to see if you could be paying less. The easiest way is to look at online insurance quotes, since you can do it in the comfort of your own home. Be sure to consider all the discounts available to you when you do get individual quotes. Sometimes bundling, having multiple policies at one insurer, can net you big savings.
While you're at it, make sure you have all the discounts you're entitled to at your current insurer. Shopping around once a year should cost you nothing except your time, so take advantage of it!
Jim Wang writes about personal finance at Bargaineering.com. When he's not tackling money issues, he's usually looking forward to his next vacation and writing about it at Wanderlust Journey.


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To educate local voters about the elections on Nov. 6, the public is welcome and encouraged to attend three upcoming "Meet the Candidates Nights" events.
The second forum will take place tonight at Narragansett Town Hall. Candidates for Rhode Island State Senate District 35 and 36 speak from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., followed by Rhode Island House of Representatives Candidates for District 33 and 34 from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m.
The local league will also conduct forums for those campaigning for the offices of Rhode Island State Senators (Districts 37 and 38) and Representatives (Districts 35 and 36) and for those vying for a seat on the Town Councils and School Committees of Narragansett.
The first forum for South Kingstown School Committee and South Kingstown Town Council was held last week. For our live blog from that event, click here. For complete video, click here for school committee and here for town council.
This year all forums will be held at Narragansett Town Hall, so that they can be broadcast live via PEG Access television (Cox 17 and Verizon 28). Here are the other two dates:
Wednesday, October 10, 2012 @ Narragansett Town Hall, 25 Fifth Avenue, Narragansett, RI
6:30 PM – 7:30 PM: RI State Senate Candidates Forum (Districts 37 & 38)
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Wednesday, October 24, 2012 @ Narragansett Town Hall, 25 Fifth Avenue, Narragansett, RI
6:30 PM – 7:30 PM: Narragansett School Committee Candidates Forum
8:00 PM - 9:00 PM: Narragansett Town Council Candidates Forum
These forums are a great opportunity for voters to learn more about the candidates and a chance for anyone to ask their candidates questions.
"We hope that everyone can attend and that they submit thoughtful, comprehensive, and productive questions," Pam Ancheta, President of LWVSK/N, said. "For efficiency and better preparation, we prefer that questions be submitted well ahead of time through our email address: firstname.lastname@example.com. Of course, before the start of each forum, written questions from audience members will be solicited and vetted."
Each candidate will be given time for an opening and closing statement and an opportunity to answer as many questions as time allows. The forums will be cablecast live via the Westerly PEG Access studio (Cox Channel 17 and Verizon Channel 28) and rebroadcast on the same channels until Election Day on Nov. 2.
The videos will also be posted and available for viewing at www.lwvri.org. (Editor's note: Arrangements are also being made to host the videos on Patch, and we will be live blogging each night.)
"Don't miss this opportunity to meet the candidates and hear what they have to say about the issues that are important to you," Nancy Burroughs, the LWVSK/N Voter Service Chair, said. "If you think that 'Meet the Candidates Nights' are an essential part of our election season, consider joining the League or helping out at one of the forums."
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The plight of the tall girl
Lucie, 22, lives in the West Midlands. She's been working in journalism since she was 17 and hopes to edit a successful music magazine. Her big passion, besides writing, is rock music and she'd kill for a drum kit. She adores art, history and literature and travels the country with friends learning more about them all.
Lucie is perplexed by the stigmas she's encountered just for being tall.
Some people stand out in a crowd. Many of them have no choice in the matter, and looming within this category is The Tall Girl. She is, ironically, belittled. She spends her teen years in ill-fitting clothes and shoes. And as she trawls the high street in vain, passers-by may commit the most heinous of crimes - asking her what the weather is like up there.
I stopped growing when I was 15, having reached a statuesque six foot two. It's baffling to see people register surprise when they ask me for the measurement. They can see how tall I am, so why the numbers matter I can't fathom. "Wow, finding clothes must be difficult," they speculate. I excuse myself for a few moments to give the twitch beneath my right eye time to subside.
I was 16 before I owned a pair of adult women's shoes. During my school career I had subsisted in men's brogues (which I now occasionally return to with a guilty twinge, for reasons of style), but then came the startling discovery of small selection of size 10 ladies' shoes within Brantano. Bliss. By the time this grail of selection had inexplicably diminished to half a shelf behind a pillar, I had discovered that Evans also does size 10 shoes and I cannot possibly fault the service they provide in glamorising my toes.
With a 36" inside leg my saviour for leg wear was always Dorothy Perkins' tall section. There was one in my local shop, much to my relief. Recently, I staggered from this particular branch wounded and offended, on discovering that only the tall section had been removed in favour of 'designer' ranges. I was, and remain deeply insulted by, this sweeping aside of a specialist size. Not being aware of another branch with a tall section, my only refuge is the website, where I'm obliged to pay Ł4 postage for the privilege of discovering my new jeans don't fit because I wasn't able to try them on.
A few months back I discovered a young lady of six foot five with size 14 feet. As a (tall) freelance journalist, I felt entirely qualified to interview her for a local magazine. However, the parents of this 16-year-old informed me, via the school receptionist, their daughter was no longer speaking to the press as they had misquoted and mocked her. They made her out to be a freak. As a result the publicity that the girl had, until that point, been enjoying, was cut short because a few bad writers tried to make a quick buck on her stature. Hard to believe this would have happened with an especially diminutive person.
"I was 16 before I owned a pair of adult women's shoes. During my school career I had subsisted in men's brogues."
Having had my fair share of loudmouthed short friends, I have often wondered what leads people to believe The Tall Girl will be the pushy, intimidating one. I have known so many short girls of five foot three or less who suffer violently from Napoleon Complex, whilst I have always been friendly, but shy of people and conflict-phobic. To my spluttering disbelief, I recently discovered these attributes, common to so many tall girls, are known as Reverse Napoleon Complex (RNC). We don't even get our own title for our own mental disorder!
And of course, it's the bullying and the consequent emotional doormat status that leads to RNC in the first place. It also led to a stoop in my case, which I thankfully conquered before it ruined my spine for life.
One of the most offensive slights against The Tall Girl was a comment I heard about Uma Thurman, on one of those pointless 'top 100 somethings' TV shows. A male who claimed be a comedian said: "if you can get past the fact that she's six foot tall and has 'man hands', I suppose she's attractive."
I may not be able to alter my height, but I don't have to be happy about the small-mindedness that forms the bizarre stigma surrounding it, or the lack of support there is for the tall girl. Oh, and in case you were wondering, the weather is up here is exactly the same as the weather down there.
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Agent calls Yankees a 'dark horse' in Iwakuma biddingBy
Via NPB Tracker, agent Don Nomura called the Yankees a "dark horse" in the bidding for Japanese righty Hisashi Iwakuma. I don't know about you, but this sounds like a classic case of an agent trying to drive up the price by looping the Yanks into the mix. I posted about Iwakuma yesterday, and we have zero indication that they actually have interest in acquiring him, at least until this report from his agent. The posting process started today, so we should found out a results in the next week or so.
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I hope the Red Sox pay out the nose for him like they did Daisuke, then have him suck like Daisuke.
I don't know about you, but this sounds like a classic case of an agent trying to drive up the price by looping the Yanks into the mix.
Just curious, but why would an agent want the bidding for his player to go up? Doesn't that money go to his current team?
Wouldn't it be more like an agent trying to get his player more attention and looks?
But a higher posting fee with more bidders involved is something agents use as a proxy for estimated demand when the subsequent contract is negotiated.
DiceK got more money than any other NPB import because his posting fee was higher than any other NPB import. Nomura will go into negotiations saying "Since he was posted for X million dollars, it means he's worth X million per year, or he's going back to Japan."
I see your point. However, DiceK got more money and a higher posting fee because of who he was and his hype. There is a flaw in the way you put it.
I didn't say it wasn't flawed.
Not the system, your logic. You stated that DiceK got the most money because his posting was the highest. You ignored the fact that the main reason why he got the most money was that he was the most hyped and biggest import in a long time.
No, I didn't ignore it, it's part of the process.
He got the most money because his posting fee was the highest because he was hyped because he was a big import. They're all related.
You didn't ignore it, you just failed to mention it. To my point that his agent is trying to garner more attention for his client, not necessarily increase the bidding. The increase in bidding is the byproduct of his real motives. You seem to think his goal is the byproduct. I could be wrong, but we are on different sides of the same coin. It just sounds weird your way.
In my opinion, it sounds weird your way because you insist on splitting the smallest and least significant of hairs.
Oh, dear lord. You can take it personal if you want. I simply pointed out something that is flawed in your logic. Don't you do that like 20 times a day?
It's ok to be wrong on the internet dude.
Which one of us is taking it personal, now?
Not me. I am actually amused by this.
…Why can't we be friends, why can't we be friends, why can't we be friends, why can't we be friends…
I'll agree to disagree. It's all good.
I hope that they take a chance and submit a low bid. He sounds like the type that might be able to squeak out a decent year or two on deception alone.
japanese pitchers = intentional walk
Just like Hiroki Kuroda right? Or Hideo Nomo? Or Hisanori Takahashi? Let's not go down the 'Dominicans are lazy' path with this.
political correctness = sucks @ss
Broads with ponytails are stupid. I said it.
It was politically correct of you to substitute an @ for the letter itself in the word "ass," for what it's worth.
Also, Hiroki Kuroda – with his 2.06 BB/9 during his MLB career – says hello.
Someone doesn't understand what 'politically correct' means.
Eh, I guess he could be alright for a 5th starter if Pettitte retires or Lee doesn't sigh with the yanks. I would still prefer that job go to Joba but it doesn't look like the yanks see him as a starter.
Exactly. Pass on this cat and his low ceiling. If they're pinched for a starter, Joba is the best way to go. They either need to put him back in the rotation or trade him.
darvish or no one.
media hype
Dice K was a better japanese prospect.
Iwakuma's four-seam fastball averaged about 91 mph in the WBC. He got 11 inches of hop and six inches of tail, which is pretty typical for a four-seamer. He threw it 19 percent of the time to left-handed batters and 24 percent of the time to right-handed batters. He had some trouble throwing it for strikes, missing for a ball 48 percent of the time. Here is a photo of his four-seam fastball grip.
Iwakuma's two-seam, or sinking, fastball averaged 90 mph, and he got eight inches of hop and nine inches of tail on the pitch, which is about four to five inches of movement relative to his four-seamer. He threw the sinker 17 percent of the time to left-handed batters and 18 percent of the time to right-handed batters. He did a better job throwing this pitch for strikes (68 percent) and he induced six ground ball outs against four air balls. Here is a photo of his two-seam fastball grip.
His split-finger fastball averaged 86 mph, and he got three inches of hop and eight inches of tail on the pitch due to spin. Adding in the effect of gravity, the splitter dropped about nine inches relative to his four-seamer. He threw the splitter 31 percent of the time to left-handed batters and 20 percent of the time to right-handed batters. It was his main strikeout pitch, accounting for five of his nine strikeouts in the last three games of the WBC. Batters swung and missed at 34 percent of his splitters, which is an excellent mark. Here is a photo of his split-finger grip.
Iwakuma's slider averaged 80 mph, and he got four inches of horizontal deflection on the pitch. He threw the slider 20 percent of the time to left-handed batters and 35 percent of the time to right-handed batters. He did a decent job of throwing this pitch for strikes (63 percent), but it didn't deceive the hitters that much, only garnering whiffs seven percent of the time, half the major-league rate for the slider. Here is a photo of his slider grip.
He threw a curveball infrequently, and it averaged 72 mph, with seven inches of lateral deflection and three inches of drop due to spin. He threw the curve 13 percent of the time to left-handed batters and only three percent of the time to right-handed batters. Here is a photo of his curveball grip.
Iwakuma's splitter is the only pitch that strikes me as an above-average major league pitch. His other pitches seem passable, but I'm somewhat skeptical whether they will play against major-league hitters.
That's a SR from a reputable source. Posting (almost) complete articles is a bit of a no-no, so I wont link back to it.
If you want to have some fun, try to guess where it's from. For those of you who want to say 'my dog's ass', I'll just preemptively say you're wrong.
Mike Pagliarulo?
It's amazing how little nostalgia I have for just about every Yankee from the 1980′s. I could wake up one morning and hear that Rick Cerone, Dennis Rasmussen, Mike Gallego, Alvaro Espinoza and Bob Tewksbury could be riding on a bus that goes over a cliff, and I don't think I'd stop eating my cornflakes.
Any decade where Mets win the WS = Generally not a good decade.
Mike Fast from BP.
Your cat's ass, clearly.
From this scouting reports it seems like he is a jack of all trades, master of none, as far as pitches go.
He can only get by with deception for so long.
Maybe, but guys who mix their pitches well and throw strikes can be effective without any one outstanding pitch. The real key with Japanese pitchers not getting gun shy in the bigs. Way too many have come here and thrown a quality pitch that gets deposited in the seats, and then they start nibbling. Nomo and Dice-K come to mind. They have to stay aggressive to be successful.
True, but you can say that about most pitchers, not just Japanese pitchers.
No doubt. It's only worth noting because some of them had huge success in Japan, and then fizzled in the US.
Yea, I kinda see Japan as AAAA though. Better then AAA but not necessarily good enough to stick it in the majors, thus the inflated numbers.
I think if we could get him on a two year deal I'd go for it. He could be a great 6th or 7th starter. Give him around 20 starts and use him out of the pen the rest of the time. Basically an Aceves like role.
Speaking of Ace, any word on his injury/surgery?
Doesn't make sense for Yankees to bid much on him, so I guess they are only a dark horse team in the sense that if nobody else bids high, they are in contention.
We have two rotation spots available and Andy Pettitte and Cliff Lee are both available still. It does not make any sense to invest 10+ million in a starting pitcher until one of those two is retired/off the market.
I don't want anything to do with this guy at all.


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Any team hoping to secure the chance to draft quarterback Robert Griffin, the reigning Heisman Trophy winner, likely will have to trade up to acquire the second-overall pick, which the St. Louis Rams currently own.
New Rams coach Jeff Fisher on Friday morning shared with reporters some thoughts about the value of the No. 2 pick and the possibility of trading it.
"From the standpoint of when you're given a new opportunity, a fresh start, yes, it's a great opportunity," Fisher said. "Certainly it will define the immediate, and hopefully the long-term, future of this franchise. We have a lot of options, and we're going to be prepared to do whatever."
Fisher believes the rookie wage scale implemented last year will make trading up more attractive to other teams.
"We have options – the option to stay there and take the best player or listen to whoever is willing to talk," Fisher said. "If we're in a situation where we've got another member club that has expressed interest and the deal is good, it could be done before the draft day. We'll be prepared."
Griffin's height measured over 6-foot-2 on Friday morning, which should at least calm any team's fear that he is too short. By extension, the value of St. Louis' No. 2 pick increased a bit.


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Once again, Massapequa residents have resisted our attempts to hoodwink them and correctly guessed the answer to our Mind Boggler. You guys and gals are certainly on a roll lately!
Last week's Mind Boggler was one of the more iconic sights of the area: the newly re-designed and painted Chiefs mural at Massapequa high school. It seems that the close-up picture of the Chief's knuckle we provided last week was all you people needed.
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