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Christmas is a time to remember what it was like to be a kid. Unfortunately, you will get a reality check if you don't watch what you're doing.
I arrived at my parents' home on Christmas Eve just in time for lunch. Not long afterward, my nephews A.J. and Alex decided to go outside for some sledding and I decided to join them.
The slope outside the house is pretty gentle, so it wasn't nearly challenging enough for two teenage boys. As A.J. likes to say, "If it's safe, it can't be any fun." The boys quickly scooped and pounded a snow ramp into place. They got out their saucer sleds and started running at the ramp. This produced a few YouTube moments such crashes and dead stops. Being young, they bounced right back up and searched for more hazards.
I tried going down the hill and managed to pull a muscle that still hurts. How do you pull muscles while riding a sled down a hill that wouldn't challenge Charlie Brown? Then Alex decided to try some improvised snowboarding. He stood on his saucer and managed to wobble a few feet down the hill before nimbly jumping off.
I decided to try that stunt since regular sledding had been a dud for me. How did it go? Not too well.
Carefully standing on the saucer, I moved a few inches before the saucer shot out from under my feet. Alex says that I "went vertical" with my arms outstretched and crashed straight down into the snow ramp.
The packed snow jumped up and punched me right in the left ribcage. A shockwave went through me and pain followed in its wake. I couldn't even talk. I thought I was going to vomit. I managed to get up and tried to talk, but I couldn't get the wind for it. Words such as "that wasn't too smart" and "this is going to leave a mark" went through my head.
You know those scenes in the movies where the hero falls off a cliff, smashes into the floor and gets up after a few seconds? Well, they're a lot of baloney. Those heroes just got up. I felt like I needed a stretcher.
I staggered to my feet, gasping with pain. "Are you OK, Unk?" A.J. asked. If I could have talked at that moment, my answer would have been unprintable. I'm sure A.J. would have thought it was funny. Alex said he tried not to laugh, but my pratfall was "hilarious." I'm so glad nobody had a camcorder running. I would have ended up on one of the shows where people do stupid things and get hurt while a laugh track is playing. Now I can't help but wince when I watch those videos.
My sister, Karen, saw my performance, too, and asked if I was going inside as I tried not to wobble as I headed for the garage. I managed to get my shoes off and limp to my bedroom where a dry change of clothes was waiting.
Later, I sat down in the living room, aching and realizing that getting older wasn't for the faint of heart. Karen, in her professional opinion, said that a guy in his 50s wasn't as nimble as a teenage boy known for his amazing sense of balance. Both A.J. and Alex can take falls and shrug them off. My shrugs take a lot longer than their shrugs.
Karen was also surprised by the fact I had tried that stunt. I was always the cautious one in the family who followed the rules and didn't take lots of chances. Well, Alex made it look so easy I just had to try it. Somehow, I thought I could just hop off if things got too wobbly. I got off, but not on my feet.
I know that I didn't break any bones, but that shot to the ribs didn't help my pulled muscles. Getting up and sitting down still inspire some pain, but the pain is subsiding, I think. Mom kept asking me if I was OK and I kept letting her know that I was fine — sore and embarrassed — but fine. Later, I wondered how close I came to spending Christmas Eve in an emergency room or flat on my back in bed with bandages pasted over my ribs.
I'm sure my fall will become part of the family stories told around the table during Christmas dinner. A.J. and Alex will retell it with glee and I'll smile and wonder if my ribs have any marks on them. If archeologists dig me up a thousand years from now and examine my bones, they might find some odd marks left by a snow ramp. I'm sure they will fine a mysterious straight line on top of my skull; that's where Karen hit me with a hoe when we were little. She still claims it was an accident. Oh, she didn't hit me with one of those plastic hoes we give children today. Our toys were made of metal.
I doubt if I will try imitating my nephews' unsafe, but fun activities anytime soon. I'll politely watch their efforts and carefully sled down the hill while sitting down where God meant for me to be. I have my memories of jarring impact and pain to keep me safe.
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December 27, 2012
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This is why most girls which fit into this description can not be cheated in buying fake cheap Jordans. The models and designs created for girls are not different from the ones created for boys. Nike offers the same quality materials and the same comfortable shoes for girls as well. Maybe the only difference, for the ones who may want to underline their gender is the color. Pink color for example is not appropriate for boys, but for a girl who plays basketball just as any other person, is the perfect color, which can distinguish her from the rest of the players. Also there are many other patterns which can suit better a girl personality. As you can see Nike doesn't discriminate any one. Cheap Jordans are also available for girls just as they are for boys, and they can be found in both online and offline stores. To be sure that you don't forget you must take good care about these cheap Jordans so you won't end up with fake Jordans in your hand. Air Jordan shoes history Air Jordan shoes history, started 27 years ago when Nike first released these shoes on the market and it was the biggest hit and the most important move they have ever made. The bigger prices didn't stand in the way of the fans to buy them and to bring a lot f money and fame to this brand. Because of that they showed to their customers the respect they felt for them, and they started to create possibilities so everyone could be able to buy one pair, no matter which budget they may have. This is how cheap Jordans showed up on the market. This was not the only reason. They didn't wanted their customers to be attracted more to buy fake Jordans just because of the amount they had to pay for real ones. Nike is famous for their quality products and because they care so much about this image, and for their customers they wanted t offer everyone the possibility to feel the quality and the advantages of wearing Jordans in their feet. Today after they had released on the market almost 23 models during the years you have the possibility to buy cheap Jordans no matter which model you may prefer. Nike Air Jordan shoes true flight If you want to learn how to fly just as Jordan did on the basketball court, is time for you to buy your own Jordan shoes. It will be the greatest experience you can have. The way they make your feet feel, and the comfort you will have during the game will make all the difference in the world. Cheap Jordans can be found in many places, so you have the opportunity to enjoy that incredible leather, those lightweight shoes in your feet, and that great stability only Jordans can offer you. The true flight only happens with your bran new Jordans in your feet. As long you buy genuine Jordan shoes you will have the most incredible feelings and sensations which no other sport shoes can give. Nike deserves all the credit for that and you should thank them because they created such great basketball shoes for you and also for Michael Jordan.

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I havent played a wrestling game since the good ol' days of the 64.. But, I think I might pick this up!
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On Sunday in Indianapolis, Jeff Fisher walked onto an NFL field as head coach for the first time since 2010. We're still waiting for his team to show up.
I've had my sensible take on the Rams' 38-3 loss to the Colts. It's only the preseason, after all, and it was obvious from the start that Fisher's approach to this game was essentially "just another practice." His coaches installed a very limited number of things that they wanted to work on, and rapidly worked the Rams' core starters out of the game so they could evaluate the roster's younger players.
But there's still this disconnect between what we saw on Sunday - the Rams getting rag-dolled up and down the field - and the image we all have in our head of what a "Jeff Fisher team" is supposed to look like. Win or lose, we're supposed to *hit* the other team hard enough to make them feel it well into the next week. You never hear of a Jeff Fisher team getting bullied. You don't see quarterbacks giggling on the sidelines while playing a Jeff Fisher team, even if they're ahead.
Robert Quinn had the right idea, getting up into wunderkind Andrew Luck's face and giving him a couple of good whacks, even if he did pop back up again. Even if he did burn us with a screen pass / touchdown romp to Donald Brown on one of those. As Luck played deep into the second quarter, the Rams' second-string pass rush was turned into Carl Spackler by Luck's wily gopher ability.
But Fisher wasn't interested in leaving Quinn in to prove any points, or to set any particular tone. As it turns out, he was more concerned about his newly assembled staff performing simple gameday management, like getting the plays in on time.
"It's kind of an unusual game because the offense puts a drive together and then, bang, they're back on the field one play later because we gave up a touchdown," the Rams coach said. "Then you're trying to catch up with plays for your defense and then you can't stop them and then you can't get the plays for your offense. We tried to get as many plays as we could on tape and we'll move on."
This is not to paint a picture of chaos, or to prompt headlines screaming RAMS SIDELINE IN DISARRAY!
But it is worth noting that not only is this roster a work in progress, so is this coaching staff. And it appears that Fisher is very much in management mode, watching his coaches percolate their gameplans through their overstuffed position groups. He's been sitting back in practice, watching each of his units at work, only occasionally stepping in with a word here or a play-call there. Yesterday was the first time we saw all the pieces at work together, and as I wrote yesterday, they still look like a collection of parts.
To my mind, pure unadulterated football violence was going to be the glue that helped fit those pieces together. Maybe it's too early for that. Maybe in avoiding injuries of our own, our team was behaving with gentlemanly discretion toward the opponent as well. Or maybe Roger Goodell's crackdown on Gregg Williams and the Saints is still casting its shadow over this team. (WARNING! UNFOUNDED CONSPIRACY THEORY!)
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- NAME: Townes Van Zandt
- OCCUPATION: Songwriter, Singer
- BIRTH DATE: March 07, 1944
- DEATH DATE: January 01, 1997
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Fort Worth, Texas
- PLACE OF DEATH: Smyrna, Texas
- Full Name: John Townes Van Zandt
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Townes Van Zandt was a critically acclaimed folk-country singer/songwriter known for songs like "If I Needed You," "Loretta" and "To Live's to Fly."
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Townes Van Zandt, born on March 7, 1944, in Fort Worth, Texas, became a touring singer/songwriter whose storytelling on albums like For the Sake of the Song and Our Mother the Mountain won acclaim. An underground figure who struggled with drug abuse, Van Zandt saw his tunes "Pancho and Lefty" and "If I Needed You" become hits. Recording for almost three decades, he died on January 1, 1997, in Smyrna, Texas.
"I'm trying to define the relationship between man and the universe. Often it's between man and man, or man and woman, or man and the cosmos. Whatever song comes through the door I'm happy with."
"I lived in Fort Worth till I was 8, Midland till 9, Billings, Montana, till 12, Boulder, Colorado till 14, Chicago till 15 ... Houston till I was 21. And then I started traveling."
"There's only two kinds of music: the blues and zippety doo-dah."
"I kind of got turned on to Bob Dylan [around] the Times They Are a Changin' record..."
Acclaimed country/folk singer and songwriter John Townes Van Zandt was born on March 7, 1944, in Fort Worth, Texas. He moved around quite a bit during his childhood due to his family's oil business, and during adolescent faced major emotional and mental health challenges, being diagnosed with manic depression and institutionalized.
Later citing Elvis Presley and Bob Dylan as major influences on his work, Van Zandt decided to pursue singing and songwriting, taking up the guitar at 15 and continuing to ply his craft while a student at the University of Colorado. He later relocated to Houston and worked as a live performer, influenced by the likes of blues great Lightnin' Hopkins and forming lasting connections with country singer/songwriter Guy Clark.
Acclaimed Albums
After recording in Nashville, Van Zandt released his debut album For the Sake of the Song in 1968 and over the next few years offered up a steady stream of releases: Our Mother the Mountain (1969), Townes Van Zandt (1969), Delta Momma Blues (1971), High Low and In Between and The Late Great Townes Van Zandt (both 1972).
He released a couple of more albums during the late '70s, including Flyin' Shoes (1978), and didn't offer any new recordings for almost ten years. Then throughout the late '80s to '90s, he put forth several new works, with 1995's No Deeper Blue, made in Ireland, being the last album he recorded.
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Van Zandt's music is characterized by moody folk textures, vividly engaging storytelling and his emotionally resonant voice, leading to rounds and rounds of critical acclaim from those in the know and his status as a major influencer of traditional/alt country. He became a mentor of sorts to Steve Earle, and during the '80s his tune "Pancho and Lefty" became a chart topper for Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson, while Emmylou Harris and Don Williams had a hit with their version of "If I Needed You."
Yet Van Zandt never enjoyed major popularity himself, with the musician stating that's not what he was after. He remained a wandering, perennially touring figure and abused drugs and alcohol for decades, which affected the quality of his live performances.
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After receiving an operation for a broken hip, Van Zandt suffered a heart attack and died on January 1, 1997, in Smyrna, Texas. Posthumous anthologies and previously unreleased recordings were put forth along with In the Beginning... (2003), a collection of 1966 demos.
Van Zandt's songs have continued to be covered by a range of artists, and Earle released a tribute album, Townes, in 2009. Filmmaker Margaret Brown also helmed the 2005 documentary Be Here to Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt.
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At the Dixie Center, more than 130 scholars, many of whom are not members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, will give presentations on various aspects of Mormon history.
Speakers include Elder Bruce C. Hafen, president of the St. George Utah LDS Temple and an emeritus general authority of the church. He is a native son of St. George. William MacKinnon, this year's president of the association, will give the presidential address discussing his perspective as "A Presbyterian Afoot in the Mormon Past."
The conference concludes Sunday with a devotional in the historic St. George Tabernacle, built by Mormon pioneer settlers. Southern Utah University President Michael T. Benson and former Dixie State College President Douglas D. Alder are the featured speakers at the devotional, discussing southern Utah higher education and Mormon history.
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At the Pioneer Opera House, portraying Mormon apostle Orson Pratt, re-enactor Leonard Stephenson, said the floor was designed so it could be tilted toward the stage to afford audiences a better view of theatrical productions. Conference attendees were invited to go below the floor to view the mechanism (no longer functional) that allowed the floor to be tilted.
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In the persona of Mormon apostle Erastus Snow, his great-grandson Donald R. Snow spoke to attendees in the St. George Tabernacle and told of its construction.
Despite discouraging conditions in the early settlement, Brigham Young told the people to stay and suggested to Snow that they build a large structure — the tabernacle — "right in the center of town, because that would show the people we're here to stay permanently" he said.
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In addition to the Manatee County Sheriff's Office deputies who patrol through the community on a daily basis, each of the four districts within Lakewood Ranch has a contract with Wackenhut, a national security company.
Based on its contract, a member of the Wackenhut team should spend 40 hours a week serving each district. However in recent months, some supervisors have questioned whether their neighborhoods are receiving Wackenhut's full attention.
"(Wackenhut) has shared responsibilities with (other districts), and that's created some man (power) problems," Lakewood Ranch Community Development District 1 Chairwoman June Stroup said. "We're going to begin looking at other companies and proposals to determine if Wackenhut is (still) the best choice."
During it monthly meeting April 16, the CDD 1 Board of Supervisors discussed whether to retain Wackenhut after its contract expires in December.
"The consensus among the community in general is that it wants to continue to have a safety patrol in district one," said CDD 1 Supervisor Alan Roth, who chairs the district's safety committee. "They feel the $30 a month they have to pay is worth it to have that feeling of safety."
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Recaps are a lovely thing, so it seems a nice way to begin this article. On June 4, 2012 the Houston Astros made Puerto Rican High School Shortstop Carlos Correa the first pick in the MLB First Year Player Draft. Only three days later, Correa agreed to a deal that will pay him a signing bonus of $4,800,000.
$4.8 million is a lot of money, but the backdrop of the new Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) made this signing interesting. The new draft slotting system gave the Astros $11.177 million to throw at their first ten picks, collectively. The Office of Authoritarian Oligarchy, colloquially known as the "MLB Commissioner's Office", determined that $7.2 million would be the appropriate portion for the Astros to bestow upon the first pick of the draft. The ultimate goal of this part of the CBA is to curtail the perceived increase in wealth by youngsters who have yet to begin their professional careers. Well, the men behind the curtain decided that enough was enough and the draft was changed to severely penalize clubs that overspent their allocation.
The Astros instead agreed to a contract that would spend only 67% of the slot recommendation on Correa (bypassing more expensive potential picks in the process), which amounted to only 43% of their total allocation for their first ten lucky contestants. That left a goodly $6.4 million to sign the remainder of their top picks, some of whom are expected to be relatively expensive.
Now that the Correa signing has been put into more perspective than Crazy Stairs, his signing can be compared to other #1 overall picks of recent yore and some early conclusions may be jumped to about the effectiveness of the CBA changes.
The last time the Astros were graced with the mixed blessing of a first overall pick was in 1992, when they famously chose Phil Nevin, thus ignoring all of the choirs of angels that proclaimed the future hall of fame candidacy of Derek Jeter {sarcasm}. Nevin signed for $700K that season, a mere paltry sum compared to Correa's bonus, much less the $8 million handed to Gerrit Cole by the Pirates in 2011.But all $700K's are not created equal, as this one was dealt two decades ago. As the price of gas constantly reminds, dollars depreciate. Using one of the various inflation calculators available on the World Wide Web, one can easily discern that $700K of 1992 money equals a current value of $1.148 million 2012 Washingtons. Still we see that Correa's bonus is worth about four times that of Nevin's.
Below are the previous twenty first draft picks, their signing bonuses, and 2012 current values. The fourth column is the difference between the current value and the current value of the player who signed in the previous year. The fifth column is that difference expressed as a percentage.
From this table, we can see that the 41% difference in current value between Correa and Cole is the second-largest drop-off in bonus money from year one to two in the past twenty years. In fact, one can almost call it the largest drop off because the money paid to Justin Upton as he came out of high school was completely absurd compared to the players drafted #1 overall around him, and the Royals signed Luke Hochevar after a wacky contract dispute the previous year and him pitching in the Independent Leagues that resulted in cost savings.
The other interesting thing that this table illustrates is that the powers of MLB were not crazy by being concerned about the increased draft spending. From 1992 to 2004, other than outlier contracts given to Joe Mauer, Bryan Bullington, and Josh Hamilton, the bonus handed out to the first pick sat between an adjusted value of $1.5 million to $4 million. Then, starting in the early 'aughts, the bonus money handed to first overall picks jumped to the $6-8 million present value range.
It is interesting to note that from 2004 to 2011, four of the number one overall picks were represented advised by the money machine known as the Boras corporation. In addition, public and insider opinion holds that the Padres selected Matt Bush over Boras clients Stephen Drew and Jered Weaver in a conscious effort to save money. One could make the claim that the top of the draft has been heavily influenced and affected by Scott Boras for at least a decade, partially causing the increase in average bonus value during that time. Because of that, the CBA seems specifically geared to rein in the super-agents who have been able to supersaturate their clients' monetary earnings prior to even donning professional uniforms.
In that light, Correa's contract is perfectly reasonable and even slightly above the average contract value for first picks during the pre-hyperspending years. It remains to be seen if future clubs follow the blueprint laid down by the Astros, thus achieving the goal of restructuring the draft in the CBA.
Additionally, the data shows that Correa's contract lines up with the average present value for other High Schoolers drafted in the first spot for the past twenty years:
High School | Correa | |
Average | $ 4,899,861.41 | 98% |
Maximum | $ 7,186,474.65 | 67% |
Minimum | $ 1,592,283.74 | 301% |
And for comparison's sake, he's close to the average present value of post-college number one picks as well:
College | Correa | |
Average | $ 4,587,382.87 | 105% |
Maximum | $ 8,183,018.51 | 59% |
Minimum | $1,147,965.00 | 418% |
So in terms of present value adjusted for inflation, Correa's bonus is not low as some journalists have indicated. Rather, it is more in line with the historical value of the number one overall draft pick. It is a breath of normalcy after a decade of hyper-inflated bonuses.
The next interesting aspect of Correa's signing is how quickly it happened. Traditionally number one picks have the most bargaining power, therefore their agents advisers tie the club up until the last possible moment before the deadline in order to squeeze maximum benefit for his client. For the last three seasons, the Boras Corporation held the players to the very last possible day and even last possible minutes before the signing took place.
Unlike inflation of contracts though, players holding out to maximize their bonus is nothing new. The chart below shows the difference in days between when the player was drafted and when he signed. Only three players in the past twenty years have taken less than about two weeks to sign: Josh Hamilton, Adrian Gonzalez, and Carlos Correa.
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1992 | Phil Nevin* | 6/1/1992 | 6/18/1992 | 17 |
1993 | Alex Rodriguez* | 6/7/1993 | 8/30/1993 | 84 |
1994 | Paul Wilson [b] | 6/6/1994 | 6/18/1994 | 12 |
1995 | Darin Erstad* | 6/5/1995 | 7/26/1995 | 51 |
1996 | Kris Benson | 6/4/1996 | 8/11/1996 | 68 |
1997 | Matt Anderson | 6/2/1997 | 12/23/1997 | 204 |
1998 | Pat Burrell | 6/2/1998 | 7/24/1998 | 52 |
1999 | Josh Hamilton* | 6/2/1999 | 6/3/1999 | 1 |
2000 | Adrian Gonzalez* | 6/5/2000 | 6/6/2000 | 1 |
2001 | Joe Mauer* | 6/4/2001 | 7/17/2001 | 43 |
2002 | Bryan Bullington | 6/4/2002 | 10/30/2002 | 148 |
2003 | Delmon Young | 6/3/2003 | 9/8/2003 | 97 |
2004 | Matt Bush | 6/7/2004 | Could Not Find Date | ?? |
2005 | Justin Upton* | 6/7/2005 | 1/6/2006 | 213 |
2006 | Luke Hochevar | 6/6/2006 | 8/4/2006 | 59 |
2007 | David Price* | 6/7/2007 | 8/15/2007 | 69 |
2008 | Tim Beckham | 6/5/2008 | 6/19/2008 | 14 |
2009 | Stephen Strasburg | 6/9/2009 | 8/17/2009 | 69 |
2010 | Bryce Harper | 6/7/2010 | 8/26/2010 | 80 |
2011 | Gerrit Cole | 6/6/2011 | 8/15/2011 | 70 |
2012 | Carlos Correa | 6/4/2012 | 6/7/2012 | 3 |
This season, it was in the Astros' best interest to sign Correa quickly because that gave them surety over how much cash they would have for the remainder of their top ten. Again, time will tell if future clubs follow the Astros' playbook in this manner, but it is a safe bet that the days of extended player holdouts are over. This is a hugely positive thing, as it gives the player several months of extra Rookie or A level ball that can jump-start their appearance in the majors by a season just by exposing them to professional instruction and competition that much sooner.
The Astros were also lucky to draft a willing partner in Correa who just wants to play ball, play ball for the Astros, make the majors as soon as possible, and become a Hall of Famer. In a draft class with many high-upside players but nobody who clearly stood the best, this perfect storm allowed the Astros the opportunity to sign arguably the top raw talent in the draft class while also allocating money to deepen their farm system with sorely-needed top-level talent. The circumstances could not have worked out better for the Astros for a huge short-term win and a possible larger long-term one.