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April 22, 2014
In defense of Larry Rawson
Running geeks love to pile on Larry Rawson, verbally rolling their eyes whenever he's on TV. Some of this is over-familiarity with some of his oft-used metaphors as he makes an effort to communicate the speed of top runners to less-sophisticated viewers; some of it is a perception that, after decades on the air (yesterday was Rawson's 40th Boston Marathon broadcast) maybe Rawson is a little out of touch.
The obvious defense is that calling a race on live television isn't easy. You have to be talking not just when you have something to say, like most fans, but all the time. Which means you have to be watching and thinking and talking all the time. Not easy at all. What's more, the amount of information you actually have while watching races on screens is less than you'd think. I say this as someone who occasionally goes to these big races with the express purpose of getting more information to the people talking on camera.
I think Rawson deserves some credit for a few specific moments in Monday's Boston Marathon broadcast:
As Meb Keflezighi was running through the Newton Hills, Rawson drew the parallel between Boston and the Athens Olympic marathon course, where Meb won a silver medal ten years ago. Not only was there a historic parallel — the Boston course was intended to be an imitation of the Athens route's profile — but pointing out that Meb got away once before on a hilly course was an nice comfort to those of us sitting on our figurative seat-edges wondering if he would get caught.
In Brookline, with Chebet closing the gap on Keflezighi almost inexorably, Rawson went out on a limb and suggested that the pursuers had left their move too late and would need to work too hard to actually catch Meb. And sure enough, Chebet got within six seconds of Meb but found himself too spent to finish the job. It was a risky prediction that panned out; you only do that on television if you have a lot of confidence in your sense of the race.
Now, you could argue that Rawson was also sitting next to one of the best marathon-watchers currently in the business, David Monti, and was therefore somewhat aided in this. But as I've noted before, it was Rawson doing the talking live. He still had to decide what to say and what to sit on, which theories he agreed with and which to sit on.
So, maybe let's go easy on Larry this time?
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April 19, 2014
Found Money Report 2014
(If you're interested in previous reports: 2012 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, and 2006.)
It's past time to count the found money bin. This count represents a move back to Massachusetts, and a lot more running in small towns and suburbs, but also a lot more time spent outdoors with children, where you don't necessarily want to model "pick up this thing you just spotted on the ground and stuff it in your pocket" as good behavior.
Consequently the tally is way down, even for a two-year span: $10.20. I know I've left cash on the table — err, sidewalks — that might have gone in here, but I doubt it's been multiple dollars worth. Maybe I just don't get out enough.
- Three one-dollar bills, crisp and folded together. I recall asking a few people if they were theirs, but got no takers, so here they are.
- 13 quarters, 37 dimes, 16 nickels and 145 pennies. Only the pennies were worth rolling, even combined with other change on hand, the first time that's happened.
- I didn't separate out the Canadian cash this time.
- 2 10-kopeck coins. Combined with a 50-kopeck I found in my pocket the other day (probably a leftover from my trip to Russia last summer) that buys… practically nothing.
- Probably even less valuable than the kopecks, a Romanian 5-bani coin. I suspect that was found in an airport on the Russian trip, most likely in Moscow.
And that's the spare change news for this session.
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February 19, 2014
Don't group your problems
At some point in the early afternoon, I got a to-do list. I had the project manager in a screen share showing me the problems she was seeing, and in another window a tech lead giving me feedback on a Github pull request. They were all mostly linked to this one component, so with three new items on my list, I thought, hey, I can refactor this and take care of all of them.
By mid-afternoon I was hopelessly mired, with a new template taking a ridiculous number of arguments, and at the same time Not Working At All, and I couldn't figure out which of the several parts I had in the air was causing the problem.
Instead of bulling through, though, I finally learned something. I stopped, and threw away all the changes I'd made. I looked at just one item on the list, the pull request feedback. It was just changing some IDs on some tags. I changed the IDs and updated the pull request. Simple.
Next item. A status indicator shared between windows wasn't cleared if one window was closed while in an error state and another one was opened. I had been trying to reset it on window close in my Brand New Super Component, but instead I figured out how I could essentially initialize it on window open without touching the existing component. (In the process I learned a little about how to call controller methods from a route in Ember.js, which was a bonus.)
Now I had two items cleared off the list, and I was free to fix the third in any way that worked. And, yes, I created a new component slightly different from the original one, but now I only had to solve one problem, so my new one was not as ambitious and didn't require as many complicated changes. And it worked.
We're gonna make an engineer out of me yet.
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February 4, 2014
Bootstrapping exercism.io
I posted a few days ago about starting out with exercism.io, a platform for doing coding exercises and having your solutions workshopped by others.
It turns out that exercism is an interesting illustration of a classic social-software platform: scaling.
The mechanics of exercism work like this: you submit your first exercise solution. Then you wait for feedback, and iterate. Once you're satisfied with your solution, you can mark the exercise finished, and once you've marked a solution finished, you can start giving feedback to others on that solution.
If you've submitted a solution to an exercise, you can start another one in that language, even if you're still iterating on the first one. This makes a lot of sense, because it turns out that you may be waiting a while for feedback. Essentially, there's no barrier to joining the site and starting to do exercises, but because you need to have completed an exercise (possibly iterating three, six, even ten times on it) before you can start critiquing others, every exercise is almost guaranteed to have a much higher number of programmers submitting solutions than programmers reading and critiquing.
This can get pretty frustrating for a beginner. I sat on my first Ruby exercise for almost a week with no feedback until I got some. I iterated, and waited another four days until I got a "looks good" which I took as enough reason to mark it completed. (My submission for the next exercise has been sitting for six days without feedback.) I have three Coffeescript exercises waiting for critique, and one each of Ruby and Coffeescript waiting for me to start working on solutions.
The only way around this is for those of us who've finished any exercises at all to provide as much feedback as we can to others, and try to increase the pool of readers that way. I'm making an effort to provide as much feedback as I can to others working on that exercise, but probably what I'm doing is creating more work for whoever has completed the next exercise. The Ruby community is clearly larger than Coffeescript - whenever I look there seem to be around 70 active Ruby solutions waiting for feedback, but often there aren't any Coffeescript solutions. So if I want others to be reading my Coffeescript, I need to be critiquing theirs…
ETA: And after I hit publish, I look at Twitter and see they're aware of the problem.
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January 26, 2014
My new coding workout
I'm not going to detail the web-surfing path which led me to discover exercism.io, but I am going to explain why I like it.
The concept is this:
exercism by itself is a small command line utility. When you run
exercism fetch it gets you a programming exercise, which amounts to a
README file and a test suite. The website describes how to set up the command line utility, and how to run the tests in each language supported. It uses GitHub for authentication and to serve the activities; I suspect there's some git involved in storing the completed solutions as well.
The interesting part is what you do once you have the activities. You don't just write code to make the tests pass, although you could. You submit your code to the site, and people who have previously completed the activity critique it. There's a lot of effort put into emphasizing that this should be constructive criticism, and so far it looks like it has been. You get to respond to the criticism or iterate your solution to incorporate it (hence the constructive criticism; it's more like you're workshopping your code than being graded on it).
Currently 12 languages are supported, mostly of the "trendy" variety. Perl5 is offered but not PHP. Go, Clojure, Haskell and Scala are offered but not Java or C.
I'm using Coffeescript a lot in my new job, so I'm using these exercises to get my mind used to the idioms of that language rather than leaning heavily on its Javascript basis. I've also started doing the Ruby exercises; it looks like there's a much deeper user base in Ruby, and maybe more exercises there as well (it's hard to tell until I get deeper). My motivation for trying Ruby is not that I think I need practice but that I think the exercises may teach me some new ways of approaching problems in any language, whereas in Coffeescript, so far, I've understood how to solve the problems, but not how to solve them in a Coffeescript way.
This isn't a site for learning a language; if you're not at least competent as a programmer the first exercise is going to be frustrating. The parallel with a spoken language would be a "conversation class" rather than a "teaching class". I'm debating starting the process in Javascript, as a complement to the Coffeescript work; Python is another language where I only barely know it, but might benefit from some work in the idiom.
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June 27, 2013
Target your recruiting
I'm debugging some Javascript on a page which embeds a Prezi slideshow. It turns out that one of the scripts Prezi loads writes this to the Javascript console:
If you find digging around in stuff like this fun, you might want to take a look at our job page: http://prezi.com/jobs/ :)
I have to wonder if they find anyone this way, but given how specific it is—it's unlikely this message reaches anyone who wouldn't be at least a little qualified—and how low the cost, it's a pretty efficient recruiting message.
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June 5, 2013
JavaScript testing for Rails 3.2 by integrating Jasmine
I wanted to write unit tests for JavaScript components of the Rails application I've been working on recently, and intended to use the Jasmine framework to do it. However, I found a lot of conflicting information about what the current incantations are for making this work properly, and a near-total lack of documentation for my particular setup. Consequently, I'm documenting my process here, in hopes that it will help someone else.
The application uses Rails 3.2 (actually 3.2.13 at the moment). I made a false start using the
jasmine-rails gem, but in the end I had two big problems with that: the
rake task which was supposed to run the tests couldn't find the Jasmine library, and while Rails was able to mount the Jasmine engine, it wasn't loading the scripts I intended to test.
I dumped that branch and went back to master and started over. Following the tip on the Jasmine page linked above, this time I tried using
jasmine-gem. (It was v1.3.0.) I installed it as directed on the gem's README page, specifically by adding
gem 'jasmine' to the project's
Gemfile, running
bundle install, and then
rails g jasmine:install and
rails g jasmine:examples.
(In the end I didn't commit any of the code generated by the
jasmine:examples generator, but it was illuminating.)
The gem then suggests starting a server with
rake jasmine, and sure enough, that worked. It took a bit to get the server seeing the code to be tested, however. This involved tweaking the
spec/javascripts/support/jasmine.yml file to include the proper set of scripts. Specifically:
- The
src_dirvalue needed to be
public/assets. This Stack Overflow question pointed me in the right direction. I had to add a manifest file (i.e.
assets/application.js) to the
src_filesarray as well in order to include the script containing the code I wanted to test.
- I needed jQuery to be available to Jasmine.
jasmine-jqueryturned out to be the solution here, not because it itself is useful (although it is) but because it pointed out that I needed to add jQuery to my
src_filesfile. (It isn't in my manifest because I'm loading it from a CDN.)
Now I had running Jasmine tests. (Once I wrote the tests, of course, within the
spec/javascripts directory. More on this at the end.) However, my
rspec unit tests for Ruby code run automatically when I change the relevant files (either the code, or the test code which tests it) so I don't need to kick off a test run to see if I broke something. I use Guard for this. (Currently v1.6.2.) I wanted Guard to run my Jasmine tests as well, so I'd get the same kind of instant feedback for JavaScript that I get for Ruby.
For this I wound up installing
guard-jasmine. (This was v1.16.0.) Once that was in my bundle (add to
Gemfile, run
bundle install, rinse, etc.) I ran
guard init jasmine and it added a block to my
Guardfile to watch the JavaScript files and Jasmine specs.
Running this was a little trickier, however, because once again I needed to train it to find the code I wanted to test against. This required me to install
jasminerice (v0.0.10), even though I don't need that gem's primary function. Once I had that in my bundle and had created a
spec/javascripts/spec.js.coffee file (essentially a manifest file for my Jasmine specs) and a placeholder
spec/javascripts/spec.css file, this worked fine. I had to restart Guard to make sure it found and started a Jasmine server properly, but it was running the specs I'd written previously with the free-standing Jasmine and they were passing.
Now, about that test code:
There was a step 0 to this process which I had previously stumbled on but hadn't really faced before, which was that in order to test JavaScript, one must have testable JavaScript. A recent article in A List Apart addressed this quite nicely; in short, instead of the usual written-three-lines-at-a-time soup of jQuery functions that normally come along with a Rails application, you want to build real JavaScript objects; then your test code can instantiate those objects and run assertions against their behavior.
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May 16, 2013
Running the 118th Boston Marathon
If you want to run the 2014 Boston Marathon (a.k.a. the 118th), you have a tough road in front of you. I've had a few people ask for advice for getting in. Until we hear more from the BAA, it boils down to: first, get a BQ. Second, get the best BQ you can. Third, pay attention.
There is a lot of discussion about the B.A.A. making allowances for the 118th, relaxing the standards or raising the entry cap. I'll address this later. Until an official announcement is made, we're playing by the usual rules, except that there are several thousand runners—those who weren't able to finish the 117th when the finish line shut down—who will be offered automatic entry, thus beginning to fill the field before registration even opens.
If you already have your BQ, that makes things easier. If you don't have a BQ, you'll need to chase one (and if you do have one, you may still want a better time; I'll get to that later too).
Chances to chase standards are pretty sparse right now. The reason is pretty simple: in most of the country, it's already too hot to run a fast marathon, and if it isn't, it will be soon. Entry is scheduled to open in September, so there may be a chance to run a BQ in September (the actual opening date hasn't been announced yet), but October is almost certainly too late.
It sounds like relatively few people are trying to jump in marathons right away, which is sound; it may be possible to finish a marathon on a month's training, but running a BQ is not that easy for most.
If you can be ready within six or eight weeks and can travel anywhere, some options open up. There's Grandma's in Minnesota, if that hasn't filled; that's in mid-June. Likewise the Mayor's Midnight Sun Marathon in Anchorage, Alaska. There are plenty of races on the calendar but many of them are e.g. trail marathons, actually known for being challenging due to heat, or otherwie tough qualifiers. (There should be extra points for anyone who gets a BQ at the Johnny Miles Marathon.)
Even if you've got a BQ under your belt already, the increased demand for the 118th may pose a challenge. It's been a few years since a BQ meant your entry was assured; more recently, faster is better. Essentially, the faster your BQ, the earlier you get to register, and the more likely your registration will be successful. Therefore, there are BQs, good BQs (5-10 minutes faster than cutoff) and really good BQs (10+ minutes faster than cutoff).
If you've got a really good BQ, you're probably in. If you've got a good one, I wouldn't make promises, but you're probably OK. If you don't have a good BQ, you might want to think about improving it. For that, you'll want to look deep into the summer, even into early September, with the idea of getting into great shape in the summer and hitting one out of the park as close to the registration opening date as you can. You could do worse than to look at Clarence DeMar for this one. (Someone needs to come up with a circuit of races named for Boston champions.)
Finally, pay attention and be ready to change plans if things come up which help you. I've already heard of one pop-up marathon scheduled for late summer expressly to give people a shot at qualifying; odds are there will be more. Look for one with a speedy, certified course (I can't emphasize this point enough), chip timing, and an early-morning start (or other accommodations for heat). It may even be a good idea to have a Plan A and a Plan B.
Now, about the BAA: One thing they understand is that while they own the Boston Marathon on paper, in practice it's a sort of public trust. They are going to do whatever they can for the 118th, and I expect they are exploring the option of a one-time raising of the entry cap. (The idea of a lottery, the way they ran it in 1996, has been floated as well, but in my opinion that's not going to go over well if they can't first allow in all the BQs who wish to run, so if I wanted to run I would be looking for a BQ before I put my hopes in a lottery.)
The hangup is that the field limit is not set arbitrarily by the BAA; it's a limit more or less imposed on them by the towns the course passes through, principally Hopkinton, which has to support the starting area. Hopkinton becomes the running community's public urinal for a few hours every April and bears it with remarkable good grace, but they have much less open space now than they did in 1996. Staging 30,000 or 40,000 runners through that town, if it's allowed to happen, will take a lot of time and patience.
If the cap is lifted for the 118th, we will all owe the towns, especially Hopkinton, a greater-than-usual debt of gratitude. So watch where you relieve yourself, please, and where you toss that empty gel packet. (I am still finding empty gel packets on the Natick roadsides a month after the race.)
The BAA is still clearing up the mess from the 117th, and they have a half-marathon to think about in October. I would not expect an announcement about the 118th until late June at the earliest, and July or August is more likely. Stay tuned, and if you want to run, start staking out that really good BQ.
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February 23, 2013
"Vehicle Protection Center": stay away!
Paper spam, today. An official-looking mailer (fold side edges, then remove top stub to open) starting with bold, underlined text, "THIS LETTER IS TO INFORM YOU that if your factory warranty has expired, you will be responsible for paying for any repairs."
Read that sentence again, because I did. Rephrase it: "If your umbrella is closed, you will get wet when it rains." When I read obfuscation like that, I get suspicious immediately. All caps PLEASE CALL IMMEDIATELY in the next block of the letter really raises my hackles, just because I get ornery when I feel like I'm being herded.
Sure enough, despite including the make, model (Honda) and year of one of our cars, this mailing had nothing to do with Honda, and probably not with any other manufacturer. In fine print at the bottom, "Vehicle Protection Center is an independent nationwide company marketing vehicle service contract on behalf of leading third party administrators." Which means nothing. Third sentence of that paragraph: "Vehicle Protection Center is not affiliated with any auto dealer or manufacturer."
Here's the thing: I never had any intention of purchasing an extended warranty. I turned it down when we bought the vehicle. Our history is of driving cars for years—decades, now—beyond their warrantees, and if they break, we pay for it. (Revolutionary, I know.) So I looked these folks up online. Sure enough, I don't have to scroll too far down in the search results to find a page titled "Don't be fooled by this vehicle extended warranty mailer from Vehicle Protection Center".
This mailer is sleazy, and I'm posting this not because I think my regular readers would be fooled, but because I want that link above to come up closer to the top of search results.
Posted by pjm at 8:14 PM | Comments (0)
December 8, 2012
The webmaster's guide to passwords
Here's the short summary: if you're storing user passwords unencrypted anywhere, you're doing it wrong. If you don't understand why, you should stick to using free open-source packages like Drupal and not roll your own login system. Also, if you're not a webmaster, and you ever get an email from a website which provides your unencrypted password, you should know that this site is probably not doing a good job storing your password securely.
The problem is this: sites get hacked, and databases get compromised. Encrypting the connection (your SSL certificate, the https in the address bar, and all that) just protects the customer's communication with your server. It's nice that they've stopped crackers from harvesting passwords one by one as their users provide them, but what's the point if a successful compromise of the server means everyone's passwords are available to the cracker?
The first thing you need to know (if not understand) is that there are certain functions which are one-way; that is, the input cannot be determined by the output. Some of these are called hash functions. If you run a sufficiently strong hash function on a password, it is not possible to determine the password from the hash. (The output of a hash function is sometimes called a hash.) (Hash functions are like padlocks: some are stronger than others. But even a weak lock is better than none at all.)
"But wait," the inexperienced webmaster says, "how can I tell if my user is providing the correct password when they return to the site?"
Well, think about it. They've stored a hash produced by running a hash function on their password. Why not run the same hash function on the password provided at login time and see if the resulting hash is the same as the one in the database? Problem solved.
(N.B. You might also want to read up on "salt.")
Posted by pjm at 9:22 PM | Comments (0)
November 19, 2012
Tally another rodent
Most of my public internet trail recently has been about little girls, and Izzy has not been getting his proper attention.
Therefore, I should announce that this morning he presented for tagging his first mouse of the season. (Mouse hunting season in most of the states he's lived in runs from September 1 to August 31.) This is his first mouse of his second decade of hunting.
I was thinking about his record today, and unless I'm forgetting some, of the six places we've lived with him, he's caught mice in three, and in a fourth he caught three bats(!) which I count as mice with wings. He also caught a mouse once while visiting A's parents, so I make his total somewhere around eight non-flying mice and three flying mice.
I have a hunch he's not done in this house, either.
Posted by pjm at 9:37 PM | Comments (0)
November 12, 2012
What if?
I don't remember when I started reading XKCD regularly, but their new "What If?" feature has me stifling inappropriate laughter on a regular basis.
An example: a recent piece on the probability of electoral ties compares the odds of nine swing states all producing equal vote totals for the top two candidates with the odds of some fairly unlikely events, including being struck by a bale of cocaine dropped from an airplane, a tornado, and a meteorite strike. (Along the way we learn that a typical location in Florida "…experiences an average 1.4 picotornados per second … a Florida resident suffers an average of 0.64 femtodeaths per second from meteorite impacts … the average person in Florida is struck by an average of 29 zeptobales of cocaine per second" and the average income of a typical acre of Florida land derived from falling bales of cocaine.)
So if you like the absurdum part of reductio ad absurdum, you'll like What If?
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Like the thread title says, How do I enable the wireless switch (RF kill switch)?...
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- 11-22-2007 #1
How do I enable the wireless switch (RF kill switch)?
- 11-22-2007 #2
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Now that depends on what machine u r running (eg. Dell u hold "fn + f2" or Acer u have a small button, etc)
so make sure that yo hardware is enabled and thats it.
It would be nice if u give us the name of yo pc.
- 11-22-2007 #3
- 11-22-2007 #4
Holy mother of Pabst Blue Ribbon I found it!!! It is on the front of the computer (where my wrists sit) on the edge. Sweet!
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Ok look infront of the laptop, then u will see two button, they look like lights, one is bluetooth, and then next one next to the linux in (Green Jack), is the one u press.
i hope u find it.
- 11-22-2007 #6
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Oh good, thats great, u know its always good if someone can figureout there own problem.
Ok buddy
- 11-23-2007 #7
Also, the reason why I was so confused is because I thought it was a software switch I had to set, not an actual physical switch on the computer. And there was no documentation of this switch anywhere. Oh well, it's figured out now. I just wish people jumped in and helped sooner with such a simple question! Well i'll be here to help the next person who has the same problem.


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Women with trouble skin should look at the color of their skin. Is there a lot of redness in it? Are there blue undertones in some areas? Determine the color that the skin is … and avoid those colors in your make up. For instance, if you have redness in your skin, you'll want to avoid putting any makeup or products on your skin that have a red tone because they will emphasize the redness too much. Typically, people with redness or flushed skin can avoid using blush altogether.
If your skin is very dry, due to any topical medications you may be using, you will want to avoid using too much powder. As far as eye shadow is concerned, you want to use powdered eye shadow because it lasts longer and it's easier to apply, instead of crème eye shadows, which can crease and wear off. For foundation, avoid powder foundations and use liquid foundation, which is better than crème. Crème foundations are more difficult to apply, because you have to rub it on the skin, which can irritate it. You have more control with liquid foundation because you can apply it with a brush, which gives you more power over how much product you are wearing. You want your skin to look as natural as possible. Make sure you clean your brush after each use to keep it as sanitary as possible. If you need more coverage, you can apply a little bit more foundation, but just in the areas that you need. A great tip is to use a damp sponge over the areas not affected by the skin condition to blend out the foundation to make it look even and natural.
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Wins for U9 netball teams
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Plymouth College Preparatory School's U9 A and B netball teams walked away victorious from their matches against Mount House this week.
The A team began the match well, passing confidently down the court. At quarter time they were up 3-0. The second quarter was much slower with a lot of shots on goal but only one going in. In the last two quarters the girls settled down with some good passing from the whole team. Consistently good shooting came from Bronwyn Harris and some awesome shots from Isabelle Tanner. The final score was 13-1.
The rest of the Year 4 girls played in the B team, swapping positions frequently to give everyone a game. They also played well and won with a final score of 6-3.


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How Long Did it Take for the Media to Speak Out Publicly about the Viral Video?
So, how low did it take? 8 Days.
How many seconds did TMZ, CNN, etc report MJ The Great leaving this earthly plane? Eight days may not seem like a lot for public acknowledgment but it is. In this day and age when news spreads as fast as a milli second it should not have took that long for someone to prompt a conversation about a young girl being assaulted while it was being recorded with intentions to not only incriminate themselves but to publicly broadcast it to the world. WTF.
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TPC Sawgrass' signature hole is the Stadium Course's 17th, known simply as the "Island Green", although it is technically a peninsula. While gorgeous to view, the hole has been known to scare even the top professional golfers. It measures only 132 yards (121 m) from tee to green (requiring only a pitching wedge for most pros), but consists of nothing but an undulating, 78-foot (24 m)-long green and a tiny bunker in front of it. Save a small path to the green, the rest of the hole is completely surrounded by water, and its location amidst a canyon of trees causes the wind to swirl over the green. Club selection at 17 is a huge consideration, as there is nowhere to land the ball but on the green – or in the water. It is estimated that over 100,000 balls are retrieved from the surrounding water every year, courtesy of professionals and tourists alike trying their luck.
This video is of Steve Lowry during the 1998 Players Championship.
His tee shot successfully landed on the green, a feat in itself. Then a seagull swooped onto the green and picked up his ball several times. The gull found it difficult to hold the ball in its bill, but finally managed to carry it into the air and over the water, where it dropped it.
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AUSTIN — The Texas Transportation Commission today awarded nearly $60 million in federal and state funds to enhance rural and urban mobility programs across the state. The programs provide services to seniors, people with disabilities and other transit-dependent individuals who need help getting to work, school, health care facilities, shopping and other important destinations. The transit agencies supported by these programs reported more than 34 million trips in 2013, which represents a 4.7-percent increase over the previous fiscal year.
"We are pleased to support these services that enhance independence and quality of life for individuals who may otherwise be unable to travel," retired Lt. Gen. Joe Weber, USMC, TxDOT executive director. "Based on the statistics, there is an increasing demand for these types of mobility services and we are proud to work with our partners to meet this demand."
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Tercer mundo tells the stories of Juan, Amaya and Richi, all struggling to make sense of their ordinary, monotonous lives. For them, the solution to their problems lies somewhere beyond their countries' borders, in a mysterious solar eclipse. Using humor and irony, Tercer mundo reveals the fantastic side of Latin American youth culture that, despite a struggle to achieve modernity, still preserves magic and mystery. Winner of the Best Central American Narrative Feature, XII Festival de Cine Icaro, 2009.
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César Caro Cruz, a native of Chile, graduated from the International Film and Television School in San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba. His interest in exploring different narratives and aesthetic possibilities has led him to write and direct several short films. He continues to develop his own film projects, two of which have received the CORFO Development Award and the Audiovisual Promotion Fund of the National Council for Culture and Arts in Chile. Tercer mundo is his first feature film.
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Can Obama be beaten?
Rafe MAIR (Canada)
Judging by the media one might think the answer to the inquiry is "how the hell can he win"? I'm not going to trouble you with statistics but stick to basic political junkism, or what is my gut feel, as a resident 10 miles, from the US border.
There are unforeseeable events to come. As British Prime Minister Harold Wilson once said, "in politics, 6 weeks is an eternity". President Obama must deal with the great questions of the day while Republicans are able to carp, free of any political outfall. But that bald statement is too broad because how the Republicans in Congress play their hands is important to their presidential nominee.
At this writing, either Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich seem to be the most likely nominees for the Republicans which acts as sort of a role reversal as Obama can sit back and fire at will. Since a Democratic leadership race is most unlikely, the President has a preferred chair from which to comment.
For some reason, two small states, Iowa and New Hampshire who hold votes for selecting candidates first, are the political barometers which have a huge impact. It was his weak showing in New Hampshire in 1968 which caused Lyndon Johnson to pull out of the race.
It's not that the eventual nominee must win these states but it's here that that nation at large sees the candidates in full swing, strutting about with permanent smiles, eating chicken for the umpteenth time' and making scripted responses.
These early performances will direct the campaign nonsense to be said thereafter and will also enhance funding or just the opposite. Endorsements will depend to a substantial way upon how the frontrunners handle themselves. After these contests are finished it becomes a free-for-all as the candidates pick and choose where they will campaign and the tactics to be used.
There may be others who step into the race and be the flavor of the month but since that's improbable and unpredictable let's stick with the two front runners.
Mitt Romney's problems are two – his religion and his impassive, unexciting and just plain dull personality makes it difficult for Mr. Romney to project the kind of "humanness" American voter's respect. He is a Mormon, a tightly knit religion that runs against the American grain. The US is the most religious of western nations and the Bible punchers, especially in the Southern States, don't believe that Mormons are Christian but rather a bunch of impostors, a cult that decent Christians reject. That hurts.
The front runner at the moment of writing is Newt Gingrich who belongs to the Bill Clinton Sex School whose motto is, if you're going to have sexual affairs make them as huge as you can and the public will forgive. If, however, one tries to play it down and it becomes a matter for the National Inquirer to speculate about, the public is for some mysterious reason, outraged. Mr. Gingrich, a serial adulterer, seems to be forgiven. Looked at from any angle, Gingrich seems like a far right wing philanderer but he gets away with it.
Before looking at the prospects of president Obama one must ask if there will be a third party in the field able to split the vote as Ralph Nader and Ross Perot have done in recent times? That prospect scares both parties.
Allow me a short pause to recall that in 1948 there was the biggest split in modern history and the President won. Harry Truman, in 1948, saw his party badly split where former Vice President Henry Wallace started a new, further to the left party called the Progressive Party while Strom Thurmond fighting to keep "Nigra's" away from polling booths, formed the Dixiecrats. Against these two and the Republican favorite Tom Dewey, Truman won.
What, then, about the President Barack Obama – what are his prospects? In my view they are better than the polls show. Somehow the Republicans have been somewhat successful in making the case that Obama was responsible to the Stock Market crash, the sub par mortgages, the bailouts of lending institutions and the thieving executives that declared that their services nevertheless required huge bonuses.
This Republican "newspeak" a la George Orwell's 1984, has given the US the Tea Party which is based upon the 1773 incident where American patriots, disguised as Indians, attacked a merchant vessel and dumped its cargo of tea in anger at England's tax on tea. The Tea Party speaks for the wealthy and reduction of their taxes as well making President Obama the culprit for the shocking investment sector all of which is rock-ribbed Republicans.
The Republicans are very good at this. In the campaign of 2004 they made out that the Democratic nominee, the much decorated John Kerrey was a coward while the draft dodger George W. Bush was a hero!
US presidential campaigns have become dirty and hugely expensive with campaigns hugely expensive giving he right wing, big corporation supported Republicans a big boost. 2012 will be no exception.
What must President Obama do to win in 2012? It must be remembered that Obama is no shrinking violet – he is highly intelligent and a very articulate debater. He will not back off outrageous statements as John Kerry did. If the Republicans want to throw mud, Obama will get into the mud-hole and play just as dirty as necessary. He will, as Truman famously in 1948, run against a "do nothing Congress".
Obama's main weakness, in my view, has been in foreign policy. He has not seen as strong on Israel as he should be. As Israel continues to occupy property that doesn't belong to them in defiance of the UN. He has not covered himself in glory over Afghanistan although a departure date has been set. The ameliorating fact is that American foreign policy has been stepping on one cow pat after another for many years.
The US has not been able to find a policy that fits the strongest country on earth. In many ways they're damned if they do and damned if they don't. If they don't support a tin pot dictator, the successor is even worse. Their tendency is to make things worse by their presence in Afghanistan and, when they feel like, getting sideways, for example, with Pakistan.
In a little known area Mr. Obama has allowed his policies abroad ruin the treasury at home. It was George W. Bush's policy of moving the obligation to pacify occupied countries away from the armed forces to the private sector, with private contractors making billions, that has hugely enlarged the public debt. Obama hasn't changed this…
In fairness to the president most of these problems go back to Republican days but Mr. Obama was elected to clean up messes, not grouse about them. My prediction? Barack Obama is better liked, a better orator and better debater that any likely Republican challenger and will win.
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Many Use ER for Routine Follow-Up Care After Hospital Discharge
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MONDAY, Aug. 29 (HealthDay News) -- Many uninsured and publicly insured trauma injury patients who are discharged from U.S. hospitals return to the emergency department for routine follow-up care that could be handled at an outpatient clinic, a new study finds.
These needs include minor issues such as dressing changes and refills of pain medications.
The researchers examined the medical records of 6,675 trauma patients admitted to the Johns Hopkins Hospital between 1997 and 2007, and found that about 13 percent of the patients returned to the emergency room within a month of discharge.
Nearly 90 percent of the patients who returned to the ER were not readmitted to the hospital, which suggests that their ER visit was unnecessary and they could have been treated for less cost in an outpatient clinic, said study leader Dr. Adil H. Haider, an assistant professor of surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
Uninsured patients and those with Medicaid or Medicare were 60 percent more likely than those with private insurance to seek follow-up care in the ER instead of an outpatient clinic or doctor's office, while patients from poor neighborhoods were 70 percent more likely to do so, the study found.
"Just providing patients access to doctors outside of the ER clearly isn't working, especially for those without insurance," Haider said in a Hopkins news release. "We need better ways to help patients discharged from the hospital receive appropriate follow-up care."
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Going apple picking? Bring a peeler with you.
Jen's hack reminds me that I need to schedule some apple-picking this Fall. We're Pacific Northwesterners after all!
What fun is going to pick apples and not eating a few? It's too tempting to want to sample the apples fresh from the tree, but most pick-your-own apples orchards use pesticides that are not removed by rubbing the apple on your sleeve. Of course, your best bet is to find an organic apple orchard, but if you can't, peeling the apples is your next best option. So bring a vegetable peeler the next time you go apple picking!
(Apples have one of the highest pesticide loads - check out http://www.foodnews.org/walletguide.php for reference.)
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Some of the hottest ship-related items on eBay over the past week have been badges commemorating the final voyage of Cunard's famed QE2.
They also are stolen goods.
England's The Hampshire Chronicle, a sister paper to USA TODAY, reports today that the commemorative souvenirs -- which have sold for hundreds of dollars in some cases -- belonged to the captain of the vessel, who planned to give them out to crewmembers next week as a personal gift.
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The Gannett-owned news outlet says Captain Ian McNaught and his wife, Sue, were stunned to discover that 100 of the surprise presents were missing.
"It was obvious when the box of badges arrived that sometime between leaving the manufacturers and arriving on QE2 it had been opened and then re-sealed," Sue McNaught told the news outlet. "It is so disappointing as we wanted to give all the crew something with which to remember their time on QE2 but now it has all been spoiled."
The badges were shaped like Captain McNaught's epaulettes.
The QE2 will begin its final voyage, from Southampton to Dubai, on Tuesday.
Cruise Loggers, do you buy cruise ship and ocean liner memorabilia online? Do you ever suspect some of the items you see are stolen goods?
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Parle Français, elle est du N-B
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tt December 31, 2011
Rick got another free blowjob and got another free fuck. She wore a sexy panties and bra. Rick doesn't know panties from a g-string.
Otop February 13, 2013
Well, I'm French from Paris (in France) and I can tell she's definitely not French, her English is to good. She doesn't have the french accent and french girls don't do nails, hair and teeth like that, that's very North-American. She may be French Canadian, but, even that, I'm not sure.
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shes from montreal
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Malakies December 20, 2011
French people don't speak English.
trololol December 21, 2011
Not French at all, but VERY hot! :p
goofs December 21, 2011
she is french canadian...
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where can i find torrents for these?
thefucker December 21, 2011
She is so NOT French
not french December 23, 2011
French people cant talk english like this ... french my ass
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She's not french because she's not smoking :D
Zero December 20, 2011
She is Canadian, and she is stupid, if this is real -.-
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Anyone know what happened to the Czech/Hungarian guy that was doing the same thing (casting) but with much better looking women ? And he had a bigger cock as well !
lool December 20, 2011
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looool December 20, 2011
she'd be a good fuck, but she aint french plus she's ditsy as fuck!
VV December 20, 2011
Were she really French, she'd have answered the question as to her height in cm, not feet and inches.
quebec December 20, 2011
french my ass shes from quebec
Pat October 25, 2013
De source sure elle est québécoise! Elle a commencé a fréquenté un gars et sont partis aux E-U ensemble!
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Mount Edgcumbe House is the former home of the Earls of Mount Edgcumbe. Set in Grade I Cornish Gardens within 865 acres Country Park on the Rame Peninsula, South East Cornwall.
Whether you are searching for a venue for a family outing or group visit, enthused by the magnificent Grade I Cornish gardens and famous historic house, combining your visit with a cruise of the River Tamar, looking for a civil wedding venue or viewing the national collection of camellias you are invited to come and explore, enjoy, learn its history or even dream awhile.
Mount Edgcumbe House was first built in the 1500s and was restored after World War Two. It is jointly owned by Cornwall Council and Plymouth City Council and is one of the regions most popular historic tourist destinations.
The House and Earl's Garden (admission charged) re-opens for the season on Wednesday 1 April to Wednesday 30 September 2015 (closed to the public Thursday 17 September 2015). It is open Sunday to Thursday and bank holiday Mondays between 11am and 4.30pm (last admission at 4pm). Tickets for the House can be purchased from the gift shop inside the House during normal opening times. Group bookings can also be arranged in March and October.
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The Stables cafe is now running its Autumn/Winter opening hours, 11am - 3pm Monday to Friday and 10am - 4pm Saturday and Sunday. This is until 23 December 2014. Our delicious food is homemade and we source our ingredients locally. We welcome the whole family including the dog! Please phone the Stables on 01752 823823 for further information.
In the formal gardens of the lower park you will also find the Orangery nestled in the Italian Garden. From 8 November open Saturday and Sunday only 10.30am to 4pm or later until Sunday 21 December 2014 serving delicious local seasonal food for brunch, lunch, Sunday roast, local coffee and homemade cakes. The ultimate venue for all celebrations. Book your table early to avoid disappointment on 01752 822586. For further information visit the Orangery website.
New - Disc Golf!
The first of its kind in Devon and Cornwall, Disc Golf is a 13 hole foxed basket Frisbee course utilising the closely mown sections of the park near the ice house and in front of the main house. With most holes having two starting positions the course is suitable for both family and advanced players. In addition to individual and family bookings we also welcome team building events, schools, stag and hen weekends. It's new and different - come and have a go!
For more information please visit the Flyers Disc Golf website.
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|If you didn't manage to make it to the Christmas Fayre here at Mount Edgcumbe this year, then take a look at this You Tube clip.
|Steve Tilston Performance - The winner of Best Original Song at the 2012 BBC Folk Awardswill be performing at Mount Edgcumbe on Sunday 8 September.
|Hay wagon restoration [PDF, 68KB] - making hay while the sunshines - not quite, but we are continuing our programme of preservation with the vehicles of times gone by.
|Ice House Bridge renovation [PDF, 314KB] - even the chilly winter winds can't stop the ongoing preservation programme at Mount Edgcumbe.
|Metta Catherina Project [PDF, 48KB] - with the help of a HLF grant the Metta Catherina will be brought to life at Mount Edgcumbe House.
|Walks around Mount Edgcumbe and the Rame Peninsula - for more information on how to purchase this new guide
|Making the most of Mount Edgcumbe - fun for all the family
|History of the tapestries - find out information on Mount Edgcumbe's three tapestries.
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10 years after introducing 43 Things to the world, we have decided we have met our last goal: completing the incredible experience that has been 43 Things. Please join us in giving one last cheer to all the folks who have shared their goals with the world, as well as all the people who have worked at The Robot Co-op to build this incredible website. We won a Webby Award, published a book, and brought happiness to a lot of people.
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Kingston's Kieran Doherty was very busy in Florida. He crashed in the first turn on the final day and cut his finger badly enough to end his day. Motocross: 85 (12-13) Stock 25th Mini Sr. (12-15) Stock 34th DNS - 37th Supercross: 85 (12-13) Stock 14th 28th - 28th 85 (12-13) Mod 14th 24th - 24th Mini Sr. (12-15) Stock 14th 14th - 14th Supermini 1 (12-15) 21st
#148 Jacob Kolman attended the Mini O's for the first time and gained a ton of experience. Motocross: 51 (4-8) Stock 18th 51 (7-8) Stock 25th Supercross: 51 (4-8) Stock 20th 51 (7-8) Stock 18th
#95 Zak Simmons also got an experience to last a lifetime at Gatorback this year. Motocross: 85 (9-11) Stock 30th 85 (9-11) Modified 20th Supercross: 85 (9-11) Stock 21st 85 (9-11) Modified 16th
#51 is Beau Pollock. He traveled south with Zak. Their crew all looked to be having a great time. Motocross: 65 (7-9) Modified 24th 85 (9-11) Modified 26th Supercross: 65 (7-9) Stock 24th 65 (7-9) Modified 14th 28th - 28th
Cameron Lakie was #57 in SX and #77 on the MX track. Motocross: 250 C Stock 28th Open C Stock 32nd Supercross: 250 C Stock 17th 22nd - 22nd Open C Stock 13th 12th - 12th
#259 Taylor Ciampichini trains with Jay Thompson at MX Schools in Brigden, ON. He had a few great motos. Motocross: 250 B Modified 16th Open B Modified 13th DNS-17th Supercross: 250 B Modified 21st Open B Modified 8th 17th -17th Four Stroke DNS
#164 Mitch Goheen finished off his first Mini O's on a big bike by fracturing his fibula. He's in some tough classes this year and looked ready to compete. Motocross: Youth (12-16) Modified DNS 250 C Modified 19th Supercross: Youth (12-16) Modified 13th 24th- 24th Schoolboy (13-16) 22nd 250 C Modified 20th 15th-15th
Joey Crown crashed Friday and was unable to race his finals due to concussion-like symptoms. Motocross: 85 (12-13) Stock 1st DNS-39th 85 (12-13) Modified DNS Mini Sr.(12-15)St 5th DNS-28th Supermini 1(12-15) 3rd DNS 37th Supermini 2 (13-16) DNF Supercross: 85 (12-13) Stock 1st 2nd-2nd 85 (12-13) Mod 3rd 23rd-23rd Supermini 1 (12-15) 3rd 3rd-3rd Supermini 2 (13-16) 2nd 1st-1st
#747 Nate Hussin hits the famous finish line jump at Gatorback. Motocross: Youth (12-16) Modified 19th 24th- 25th Schoolboy (13-16) 27th 250 C Modified 10th 27th-25th Supercross: Youth (12-16) Modified 14th 26th- 26th
#721 Adam Burk was at his first Mini O's event to gain some experience and have some fun. Motocross: Schoolboy (13-16) 20th 250 C Stock 31st Open C Stock 28th
Jim Scott (right) stands behind his son, #22 Hunter Scott, at the start of a moto. Motocross: Plus 40 15th 13th-14th
#56 Trevor Gervais blasting off in one of his C class motos. Motocross: 250 C Stock 33rd 250 C Modified 24th Supercross: Schoolboy (13-16) 24th 250 C Stock 14th 20th-20th
#494 Thomas Rendall was busy with consolation races and made it into most of his final motos. Motocross: 51 (4-8) Stock 11th 31st-31st 51 (7-8) Stock 17th 23rd-27th 65 (7-9) Stock 17th Supercross: 51 (4-8) Stock 16th 24th-24th 51 (7-8) Stock 14th 23rd-23rd 65 (7-9) Stock 20th
Captured in this photo are 3 riders you'll want to remember. #214 Austin Forkner won Supermini 1 (12-15). In the middle is #29 Mitchell Harrison in his final event on a mini bike. He won the Supermini 2 (13-16). And #299 is Ashton Hayes who won the Mini Sr (12-15).
#22 Hunter Scott chasing down a competitor in the switchback section of the mx track. Motocross: 51 (7-8) Stock 22nd 30th-36th 65 (7-9) Stock 30th 65 (7-9) Modified 27th Supercross: 51 (7-8) Stock 15th 65 (7-9) Modified 14th DNF DNF
If that photo above is the near future, this one is the distant future. You would not believe the speed of #402 Gage Linville and #79 Jett Reynolds! They were doing almost all of the obstacles on both tracks...on their 50s!
#46 is older brother Tanner Scott. He made his finals on both the sx and mx track. Motocross: 51 (4-6) Stock 6th 12th-12th Supercross: 51 (4-6) Stock 10th 13th-13th
Here's our buddy Mike Treadwell. I never really knew him when he raced our nationals, but I do now and he's a really good dude. He grabbed 3 2nds, a 6th, and a 7th.
The B classes will be mostly won by #62 Jordan Smith this year. He crashed out of the Open B Mod class on the mx track but won a total of 9 titles!
#193 Luke Clout is a pro from Cairo, GA. I just thought this shot summed up what it takes to be a pro.
#27 Shane McElrath is a pro from South Carolina. He won 450 Pro Sport in both sx and mx. This pic also shows what happens when someone who knows what they're doing takes your camera and fixes the settings that have been messed up since I bought the camera used TWO YEARS AGO! I can't wait to get to more events now!
Young Larry Reyes was up in the chase for titles in the 65 (7-9) classes. He raced with a Superman Jr. cape so he makes the photo report.
#401 Jace Owen didn't win any of his A or Pro Sport races, but he was in the chase every time he was on the track.
#175 Cooper Webb raced every class on his 250F. He won 6 titles in the A and Pro classes and finished 2nd and 3rd in the others.
#811 Matt Young did not have any luck this year at Gatorback. He took off to Hardrock with Cale Foster to get in some practice and seized his bike up solid. He was unable to get it fixed in time to race. Motocross: 250 B Stock 24th
#107 Ryan Gauld was busy trying to get photos and race his motos. Motocross: Plus 25 7th 5th-6th Plus 30 5th 6th-5th Supercross: Plus 25 2nd 3rd-3rd Plus 30 2nd 2nd-2nd
Yorkton, Saskatchewan's Kennedy Lutz has moved up to the Women's 12+ class for this year. She was at a disadvantage all week on her Supermini and will move up to the big bike very soon. Motocross: Girls (12-15) 6th 5th-5th Women (12+) 29th 28th-27th Supercross: Girls (12-15) 4th 4th-4th Women (12+) 12th 13th-13th
Tanner Ward had some strong motos in the Mini classes. With a good start, he can run the pace of the leaders. Motocross: 85 (12-13) Stock 8th 8th-8th 85 (12-13) Modified 11th 20th-20th Mini Sr. (12-15) Modified 7th 17th-15th Supercross: 85 (12-13) Stock 9th 17th-17th 85 (12-13) Modified 4th 12th-12th Mini Sr. (12-15) Modified 11th 6th-6th
That's gonna do it for another year at the Mini O's. If you've never made it to this event, it should be high on your list. Mitch Goheen has some serious Etch-A-Sketch skills. Huge thanks to MX101, Jay Thompson from MX Schools, and Dan and Mitch Goheen for their hospitality. RIP Christopher 'Jantz' Grodzicki #96.
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