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Someone asked if this site was becoming the new cutter site. Gosh I hope not.
From a cutter's standpoint, That's not why I'm here. The fact that I am a cutter is not a reason to have a journal.
And for all those WANNABE cutters out there that think it is all cool, I can tell you that it is not. People die that way.
I started cutting at the age of about ten. They say it is a mental disorder but I am not a mental case and there is evidence some really famous, intelligent people are and were cutters.
But to keep this site clean from the scurge of cutter entries, I will stop there.
So............ nice day. There is sun here in Casper and that always makes things warm and fluffy.
I am extremely depressed today and I really don't know why. I feel like just being alone and I am realizing that this is Memorial Day weekend coming up and I will have to deal with three brothers and my mom all weekend. I shouldn't really say that because it's not that big of a deal but in the delicate state my brain is in, it could be.
Jerry and I could spend some time together but I also need to study for my last two finals. Maybe it's something in the water because my little brother came and jumped in bed with me last night. He used to do that a lot right after my dad passed away. I can always tell when he's feeling a little fragile, a chip right off his big brother's block apparently.
You can tell where he's at because I said, "hey what's up?"
"Nothing," he said. Then he buried his head against my chest.
You know, we've tried to talk and nothing ever comes out of him. Partly because I think he knows that I understand already and partly because he's like me, if you don't talk about it, it doesn't hurt.
Maybe I'm not the great example for him and the others that I think I am.
Jerry said, "would it really kill them if they found out they had a gay, cutter brother that is capable of tears occasionally?"
Jerry says that I never allow myself to fall backward and trust that someone would be there to catch me. Sure I do! I'D BE THERE TO CATCH ME.
It is a pain in the ass when you have to be your own support system even though you know if you could just allow someone else in, they'd be there for you.
Ever since I was a little kid I can remember my mom saying to different people, "He's so independent."
After a while people start expecting you to be independent and stop offering support. Then some genes and hormones and blood plasma kicks in and you realize you have alienated yourself from everyone, at least for the purpose of support. You're still thought of as the "good son" but you always hear "leave him alone, he'll be fine."
I think the last time I went crying to my mom was when I was about three and smashed my finger in the garage door. After Chucky came along, he did enough crying for the both of us in his first year of life on earth. They finally figured out that he was lactose intolerant.
By the time the other boys came along I was well on my way to being "big brother" able to leap tall buildings at a single bound.
So here I am, a teen now with a strong desire at tmes to suck my thumb and hold my blanky, (or cut) and my friends call me spiderman ( because of my tall stature not because I shoot webbing from hidden apendages). Somehow it has stuck and even Jerry calls me Spidy.
I admit this is all self-inflicted. One whimper and my mother would come running and stand in my general area ready to administer first aid, but not without my OK first.
"I'm fine don't touch me. It's just a broken leg and a skull fracture."
Jerry says I still hold some parts of my innerself outside his reach. I am sure I do, but Jerry is the first person in a long time that has started to crack the shell that guards the soft underbelly of Spiderman, but its like giving up the golden rings. If you patronize me too much, I'll close the door and lock it.
It all started like this..........
I remember now, I was 9 years old and I fell off the swing and the damned metal thing came back and nailed me in the forehead giving me this nice little scar that you can see here. Mom and dad rushed to my side to find me bleeding like a stuck pig but of course not crying.
Mom started making cooing noises like a mother pigeon and of course that started the tears.
Her words to my dad were,"Honey we have to get him to the hospital for stitches. Damon never cries and if he's crying it must be really bad."
I think it was the word "stitches" that got my attention. I dried up the tears in a big hurry and claimed that I had sand in my eye.
This my motto: "Smile at all assaults to the human heart and body except at funerals and then smile when necessary." Sounds like something Mark Twain would say, doesn't it.
I don't know about mental disorder. I think that like alcohol and drugs, it is a coping strategy, and one that does nothing to change the reason you cut. If you drink to forget, when the alcohol wears off, the problem is still there AND you're hungover (AND there's some guy in your bed and you can't remember his name). So, cutting is just distraction from problems, and more cutting will be required the more it goes on, since one little cut will lose its impact over time and turn into two cuts, three cuts, etc.
There seems to be some thinking that cutting is benign on here, which I don't believe to be true.
"Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there." -- Josh Billings.
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That was me that asked. I feel special that I pushed someone to write a long journal about it.
"And for all those WANNABE cutters out there that think it is all cool, I can tell you that it is not. People die that way."
This is a kind of silly remark to make if you're a cutter yourself.
Maybe cutting has become a way for people to pull attention to themselves, however want isn't necessarily need.
If you see your flaws in the past (which I think you're trying to say you notice), then why not do what you can now to fix them? Like find a supportive group of people? Or is it that you feel no regret for alienating yourself.
Is Jerry your boyfriend? We have the same name. :D
~Domo Arigato, Mr. Roboto!~
Cutting is an addiction just like a drug and hard to kick. As far as drawing attention to ones self by cutting, that is not the case since most of us hide it at all cost from everyone except for places like this that are basically anonymous.
You can die and we all realize that just like the drug addict realizes he can goof up and die.
I have pretty much stopped cutting because I realize I am smarter than that.
Yes Jerry is my partner and he has been responsible for teaching me how to be more careful with myself. Support groups for the most part suck. They are for people who want them and I don't. They are hugely patronizing in most cases. There is some merit in finding your own way out of the proverbial paper bag.
When I say support group, I mean like a group of friends that you can talk to about shit. You can turn your house into a support group if you have the resolve to do so.
I don't see how one can relate drug use and cutting, seeing as how there is no physical addiction to cutting. i.e. If someone has an addiction to caffiene, they can't go through the day without feeling chills, headaches, etc.
Hmm, giving out your name and showing your picture... Gotta' love the anonymity.
~Domo Arigato, Mr. Roboto!~
Anonymity is relative. It's not like anyone in Oasis is going to knock on my door within the next hour and ask me what the hell I'm doing. I would never use my real name in any journal and as far as my picture goes, those who would recognize me, also know I have been a cutter. I don't have a huge circle of friends and besides my partner, nobody seems to really give a damn.
Drugs can cause both a physical and mental addiction. Likewise, an addiction can be described as a state of mental compulsion with or without the physical effects. The U.S. Lottery Commission spends about 6 million a year trying to reduce the number of people addicted to gambling. The only withdrawal symptoms known so far is the actual ability to pay your bills and feed your children.
Conversations like this could start me on the road to a quick recovery by virtue of aversion therapy.
I've always felt that there are other ways to support oneself without cutting. It's good to see it in writing, and also good to see that you've begun to stop cutting. Remember, it always help to have someone to catch you if you fall, because you won't always be there.
"A friend is someone who bails you out of jail; a best friend is someone who stands in the cell next to you and says 'that was freakin' awesome'"
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I have been trying to make banana bread taste good without flour, butter and sugar forever, but without success. However, this time is different, this healthy banana bread is moist and delicious, you'll never want real banana bread again! No one was around when I made this, but I wanted to run around screaming I finally did it, I finally did it! And, maybe I did anyway, you may never know.
After many gross, flat and mushy breads, I'm proud of this baby. It didn't fall and it tasted fantastic. My mom used to make this amazing chocolate banana bread with this crumbly topping that was absolutely delicious. So, that's what I was trying to recreate here, without the buttery sugary topping of course!
What you'll need, preheat oven to 350:
- 3 very ripe bananas
- 1/4 cup honey
- 1/2 tablespoon vanilla
- 2 eggs
- 1/4 cup peanut butter
- 1 tablespoon baking powder (I know this sounds like a lot, but without real flour, it helps it raise)
- 4 tablespoons cocoa powder
- 1 1/2 cups of almond flour (almond meal)
- 1/2 cup oat flour
Mush the bananas add the remaining wet ingredients, add dry ingredients together, then add dry to wet, not over mixing, Bake for 30 minutes. Keep an eye on this bread, I thought it would take almost an hour like most banana bread recipes do, but it actually cooked pretty fast. I would recommend checking it after 30 minutes, then see if it needs to be in longer.
Remove from the oven and enjoy your decadent healthy banana bread without feeling guilty!


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Currently Armbrister is working with the city to install historic markers in the area. One would commemorate the Grove's first church, St. Agnes, which was built on Thomas Avenue in 1895 but has since been renamed Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church and relocated to Douglas Road. Others would honor the first six settlers on Charles Avenue, schools, and different settlements. She is also writing a book about the history of the Grove's black community.
"The first house here was built 101 years ago. It's up here on Charles Avenue on the south side, built out of pine wood. For the most part, the people who came from the Bahamas, they had carpentry in the blood when they were born, I think, because they have done outstanding work without any professional education, you know. They were also good at fishing and sponging. They came here for a better way of life, the same reason I came here. There wasn't no boom then, but they were building the Grove, clearing property. Old Man Stirrup [realtor and builder E.W.F. Stirrup, Sr.], he had come from the Bahamas in the late 1880s and he stopped in Larkins first -- that's now South Miami -- then he came up to Coconut Grove, where more of his own people had come.
"Stirrup had some money, so he paid the men to start clearing lots. He would get a lot for every lot he cleared, and then he would sell the lot cheap to the black men because he had the idea of everybody owning their own home. His own house -- 1897 he built it -- is the two-story building right behind the bank, the last building at the east end of Charles. Across the street, one of his lots behind the playhouse on Charles Avenue was called Stirrup's Quarters or the Bachelors' Quarters. Nobody lived there at the beginning except men -- they were paying something like a dollar and 50 cents or two dollars a week to stay there -- and the men would come over here and work and get enough money to go back to the Bahamas to get their fiancees or send for them.
"Across the street and down a ways to the west, the house that sits way back was Hiram McCloud's house. He and his wife lived there, and they would have the single women there waiting for the men to get to where they could move into a house. In the meantime they did a lot of laundry there. Back then they called Charles Avenue by the name Evangelist Street, until they named it in the late Twenties after an early settler called Charles Frow. But this street was it. It was the main drag. It was the hopping place to be. Williams Avenue to the north was a back street, nothing but a cow path for years and years. Both Charles and Franklin, the next one over to the south, were rocky, rocky, rocky, nothing but crushed rock -- they used to call Franklin Rocky Road. When I came here, they had eventually gotten 'round to tarring them.
"Coconut Grove formed around seven or eight settlements, I think it was. You had Stirrup's up there, you had Counts's Quarters down here on the corner of Hibiscus and Charles Avenue -- that one belonged to Old Man William Counts. I don't know why they always call him `Old Man,' 'cause he had to be young sometime in his life. Counts, he was one of those rich Negroes who could afford a barn and cars and horses; he had men living there who helped develop his property. There also were some white men -- Mundy and Rice -- they were quarters also -- Mundy Town and Rice Town. Mundy and Rice, they had fruit groves and the black people who worked on the premises would work in the groves.
"Katie Biscayne subdivision was another big one. It was owned by Old Man Stirrup and one of the Burdine brothers, up there where Grand Avenue crosses into Coral Gables. But Katie Biscayne was more for people who could afford better-type housing. The houses they built there didn't have shutters like the ones you push up. They had screens and all, like the white people had. As a matter of fact, Stirrup owned once upon a time part of Burdine's downtown, and believe it or not, the Stirrups could go in there and try on clothes and no other black person could do it. And he owned part of the Coconut Grove Theater, and his children could go but they had to go in the back door.
"Now over in Golden Gate, over there between U.S. 1 and George Washington Carver Junior High, that's where the squatters lived. Charles Le Jeune and George Merrick were building up Coral Gables and were using that property to store their lumber, so people would just take some and build a lean-to or a shack. Well, Le Jeune and Merrick wanted to build Coral Gables, but the blacks down in Katie Biscayne were in their way. So they were given the choice of a shotgun house with a lot next door, or just two lots.


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Northville man wins big on 'Wheel'
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NORTHVILLE Local teacher Joe Spano's spin on ABC's Wheel of Fortune landed him a new car and a trip Curaçao.
The 27-year-old substitute, who also is trained as a stuntman, was the top contestant on the popular game show Thursday, landing an impressive $29,310 in prizes. Wearing red pants, a maroon shirt and a bow tie, Spano won the Chevy Sonic after solving the second puzzle.
He won the Caribbean trip after solving the third puzzle of the show, which landed him a berth to the bonus round. But his success ended there, after the four letters he chose failed to reveal enough of the puzzle for him to win the grand prize: A Toyota Land Cruiser.
That didn't bother Spano though.
"Oh, I already got one," he said.
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My XP box got hacked, got infected to oblivion with all kinds of malware, and was pretty much zombified beyond all recognition. No Antivirus could fix it, so I finally made the linux jump and was very happy with what I got.
My XP box got hacked, got infected to oblivion with all kinds of malware, and was pretty much zombified beyond all recognition. No Antivirus could fix it, so I finally made the linux jump and was very happy with what I got.
Linux for me has always been a mild curiosity. I have always enjoyed the freedom and the amount of things you can do to your software installation. It appeals to my tinkerer nature and keeps me learning new and interesting things. I still have a long way to go before i am considered "good" with Linux, but the journey so far has been amazing, if not sometimes frustrating.
About two years agoI kept wondering what the buzz was all about so I tried Ubuntu; I liked it well enough but my video drivers were always a problem(still are). I quit for a while and enjoyed Windows for about a year afterwards.
Well a good few months back; I took it upon myself to install Debian; I loved it. I don't know if it was my previous knowledge that helped me through but I still love it. I'm doing so much more than what I did do with Ubuntu.
When I was running Ubuntu, I had no idea what really could be done with Linux. It really is a full-fledged OS with all the glam and glory. I really underestimated it and if it was an actual person on the street; I think I'd walk up and apologize for not realizing how terribly awesome it is.
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Father Nicholas Gruner is a priest in good standing, ordained more than 26 years ago. He has his degree in Bachelor of Commerce from McGill University. He received his S.T.B. (Bachelor of Sacred Theology) and S.T.L. (Licentiate of Sacred Theology) and has successfully passed all his courses with highest honors in his studies for the S.T.D. (Doctorate in Sacred Theology) from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome. As an alumnus of the prestigious Angelicum and a student of St. Thomas, he continues his theological research in the light of the message of Our Lady of Fatima and publishes his insights in the Fatima Crusader and other Fatima Apostolate publications.
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George Noory was joined by Father Nicholas Gruner, one of the world's leading authorities on traditional Roman Catholic doctrine and practice, for a discussion on the series of apparitions at Fatima, Portugal from May to October 1917, in which a number of predictions, requests and warnings were allegedly conveyed by the Virgin Mary to three shepherd children. In the first hour, author Jonathan Maberry talked about the historical roots of supernatural and paranormal creatures such as zombies, werewolves, and vampires. ... More »
Host: George NooryFatima Secrets
Catholic priest, Fr. Nicholas Gruner of the Fatima Center discussed his research into the Third Secret of Fatima. He declared the alleged visitation by the Virgin Mary in 1917, and her message imparted to three young children, to be "the definitive revelation of our time." Based on his research, he said that it is a misperception that the Virgin Mary bestowed three separate secrets. Instead, he claimed that the message is a sequential series of events with the infamous "third secret" being the conclusion. Detailing new information which suggests that the "official release" of the third secret by the Vatican in 2000 was actually incomplete, Gruner revealed that when Sister Lucia wrote down that portion of the prophecy, she divided it into two parts. "One is the words of 'Our Lady' and one is the vision," he said. According to him, the Catholic Church only released the description of the vision and not the words spoken by Mary. Gruner talked at length about the suspici ... More »
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Cryptozoologist Loren Coleman offered updates on Bigfoot and Mothman and also discussed his new book, The Copycat Effect, which describes how the media can fuel violent behavior. ... More »
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Douglas Hagmann of the Northeast Intelligence Network and author Steve Quayle joined together for a discussion on terrorism, globalism, and the 9-11 attack. Quayle commented that while the U.S. has done an excellent job of preventing further terrorist acts on our soil, America is rapidly becoming the victim of economic terrorism. As the dollar's value continues to plummet, he noted that countries such as China, Russia and India are participating in an "orchestrated sell off" of the U.S. currency. ... More »
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Father Nicholas Gruner, one of the Catholic Church's more controversial priests, was the main guest on Thursday night. A tireless advocate for devotion and interest in the messages delivered at Fatima in 1917, Gruner believes they hold the key to the fate of mankind. ... More »
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Rajasthan Power Generation Company: BE/ BTECH Electrical, Electronics & Tele-Communication/ Electronics & Communication, Thermal, Production & Industrial, Control & Instrumentation, Civil, Power Plant Engineering | Government Jobs in Rajasthan, Jaipur.
Feb 28, 2010 Apply online, Civil, Control, Electrical, Electrical & Power, Electronics and Communication, Electronics and Telecommunication, Government Job, Industrial, Instrumentation, Job After Btech, Power Plant Engineering, Production, Thermal, With experience
BE/ BTECH Graduate Engineers required in Rajasthan Power Generation Company, Rajasthan (Jaipur).
Apply Online from 3rd March
Last date: 17th March, 2010 (up-to 5.00 pm)
- Junior Engineer-I (Electrical)
- Junior Engineer-I (Mechanical)
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There are days where she
forgets how to fly;
wings all tangled up in
misguided heartstrings.
"There is nothing wrong with me,"
she insists,
"Nothing at all.
I just can't seem to
grow up."
The clock strikes
midnight -
she's nothing but
misled faith,
broken trust,
and withering pixie dust.


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What Is Interstitial Cystitis?
Interstitial cystitis (IC) is a painful condition of the bladder. If you have IC, your bladder wall is tender and easily irritated. This leads to uncomfortable symptoms. IC is chronic (ongoing). This means it has no cure. But you can manage the symptoms to help you feel better.
When You Have IC
Your bladder stores urine (liquid waste) until it's passed out of the body. It is not clear what causes IC. However, doctors note some changes in the bladder that may be responsible. The protective lining that keeps urine away from your bladder walls seems to become thinner. The walls seem to stiffen and harden so your bladder can't expand to hold urine. During certain tests, doctors may see pinpoints of bleeding (glomerulations) on your bladder wall. In rare cases, health care providers may also find a crater (called a Hunner ulcer).
Symptoms of IC
Symptoms in women may get worse during their period. Symptoms may go away for a period of time (remission), but they often come back again. Symptoms include:
The frequent and urgent need to urinate
Pain or pressure in the bladder area, often relieved for a short time after urinating
Pain in the genitals or anus
Painful sexual intercourse
Possible Causes of IC
Damage to the protective bladder lining, allowing urine to irritate your bladder wall
Infection of your bladder
Allergic reaction in your bladder
Neurological (nerve) problems
Substances found in the urine that are irritating to your bladder


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Iker Casillas has been determined today to have been the world's second best goalkeeper during the last 25 years.
The International Federation of Football History and Statistics, who voted the 31-year-old as the world's best for the calendar year of 2012, have determined that he ranks only second to Gianluigi Buffon in a wider-reaching analysis.
The IFFHS has polled 'selected editorial staff and experts from all the football continents' for a number of awards on an annual basis and have taken a look back at the past 25 years' worth of votes to determine the highest ranking goalkeepers.
Each position a goalkeeper achieved in each year's vote has been given a score from 1987 to 2012, to determine the overall highest placed shot-stoppers of the past quarter of a century.
Juventus and Italy's Gianluigi Buffon has come out on top, beating Casillas by just 13 'points'. Edwin van der Sar is third, whilst Peter Schmeichel and Oliver Kahn complete the top five.
Former Barcelona 'keeper Andoni Zubizarreta finished joint eighth in the poll alongside Walter Zenga, whilst Victor Valdes was ranked joint 17th overall.
Think you know your Spanish football? Share your knowledge, tips and comments to win cash prizes in OLBG's tipster competition - £11,000 to be won monthly!


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EUGENE, Ore. — Michael Gottfredson moved into his office at Johnson Hall on August first and he's already busy at work getting to know his new school. Gottfredson spent his first days here meeting with students and parents at orientation, attending board meetings and joining in at campus-sponsored events.
He says he plans to eventually focus on two key pillars as a public university: access and equality. For the first month on the job, and for the rest of the summer, his task is getting to know his environment.
"I'm on a big learning burve and that's my business: learning. So, I'm enjoying learning about the university and the town. There's a lot to do and a lot of people to meet."
Gottfredson is spending this week touring up-and-coming areas of campus facilities like the sixty-five million dollar Lewis Integrative science building.


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@MrMoody - I believe that they are more or less the same, with the exception that the GIS technician would be expected to become familiar with computer software.
Traditional cartography goes back thousands of years and was a tedious, hand drawn process. GIS nowadays seems to be primarily software driven.


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New Under Armour Ad Featuring Cam
Posted 21 February 2012 - 05:00 PM
Posted 21 February 2012 - 05:16 PM
Under Armour would be wise to do what Nike did with Jordan and centralize their marketing around Cam Newton and building around him.
Jordan took Nike from one of the bottom dwellers of apparel and shoes to the undeniable king. Newton could do the same for Under Armour.
You aint lying. I have never seen a sports athlete retire from a sport and can still get folks to spen $100 plus for a pair of sneakers with his image on it. We're talking about kids who NEVER seen Jordon play in their life time paying so much for his sneakers.
Posted 21 February 2012 - 05:17 PM
Posted 21 February 2012 - 05:18 PM
Posted 21 February 2012 - 05:20 PM
great commercial but this is the best one
It takes real men to do a commericial like that..:leaving:
Posted 21 February 2012 - 05:22 PM
That was an awesome commercial. I definitely can see him possibly getting into acting after football, he seemed pretty natural unlike most athletes in commercials (see those Rogers commercials, etc).
My question is, why is he diving for the end zone when there's no one else there?
cause he's superman?
Posted 21 February 2012 - 05:44 PM
somebody teach me how to see that video vie email...
I want every deadskins and cowpuke fan I know to see it from me.
Posted 21 February 2012 - 05:48 PM
Posted 21 February 2012 - 05:54 PM
if you're on gmail you just have to put the link in the body of the email. if the receiver is gmail too then it puts a thumbnail in the message.
mircosoft outlook.
Posted 21 February 2012 - 05:56 PM
Posted 21 February 2012 - 06:12 PM
mircosoft outlook.
they'll just have to click the link you give them then
Posted 21 February 2012 - 06:38 PM
And, right on cue, the camera shows Newton as he cuts, spins and leaps into the end zone.
Afterward he stands, tall and proud, and, as the music stops, Newton screams to the heavens as he rips open his Superman pose.
Then he looks straight into the camera, through it really (the kid's got chops after all), and with emotion and rage pent up for more than a year the QB half smiles and half growls -- WHAT?!!? -- questioning us, challenging us, daring us to say something about him now.
best part of the commercial.
#58 Guest_Bwood15_*
Posted 21 February 2012 - 07:14 PM
Maybe one day Cam will live up to the real elite QB endorsement deals.
Posted 21 February 2012 - 07:21 PM
Posted 21 February 2012 - 08:41 PM
Cam went all out with that dive at the end! Love it!
Probably jumping onto an airbag.


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Nov 5th (SAT) – Hang out Throw Down (Yea!! Motel Party) Location: Motel 6 located at 214 South 24th St. Phx, AZ 85034. Details: Food, Drink, and Slow Races, Music by DJ Kuntry Room Reservations 602-244-1155 Wait for Operator to answer. Nov 5th (SAT-NITE) – COME GET Your BOOGIE ON! Event time: 8PM-1AM Location: The Big Fish Pub located at 1954 East University Dr. in Tempe, AZ 85281. Details: Join the friends and family of the chosen Few MC.. 2 for 1 well drinks 8-10PM, Food, Drinks, Dancing, DJ and Trophies. Nov 6th (SUN-AM) – [After Party] LAST MAN STANDING location: Revolution ~The Capital 1505 East Weber in Tempe, AZ 85281.
Nov 5 {SAT}- CORONA, AZ* 5th Annual Vail-Corona Veterans Day Community Fair Details: Presented by American Legion Post 109. Benefits Vail-Corona and Post 109 charities. Lots of vendors and fun for the whole family. Come on out and enjoy the day with other veterans and their families. Food, entertainment for all. All vendors who would like to set up a booth please contact Lance at the contact info below. Event starts at 11am. American Legion Post 109 located at 15921 S. Houghton Rd. in Corona, AZ. FMI: Lance: 520-405-0629 or email@example.com
Nov 5 {SAT}- TUCSON, AZ*Pride MC Poker Run Details: Presented by Pride MC Wilmot. Benefits Families of Fallen Correctional Officers. Come roll with Pride Wilmot Chapter on our 1st Annual PRIDE MC poker run. You can register by clicking here or you can register the day of the ride at Big Johns Garage from 9am - 11am. This is not an escorted run so you can ride in a group to your comfort and riding level. Riders are $20.00 and Passengers are $5.00. Big Johns Garage located at 4156 E Grant Rd in Tucson, AZ. FMI: Call 520-981-0343 or email www.pridemc-wilmot.org
NOV 5-6 {Sat /Sun} - GILA BEND, AZ* (ON THE WAY TO ROCKY POINT) GILA BEND 9TH ANNUAL DESERT SHRIMP FEST – Event times: 10-10 Sat. & 10-6 Sun. Details: Make Gila Bend's 9th Annual Desert Shrimp Fest a Poker Run Stop! Fest draws attendees statewide for shrimp eating contests, dancing, live music and fun, family atmosphere. Menu includes: coconut shrimp, fried shrimp, shrimp scampi & cocktails, fish tacos & more. Arrangements being made to have AZ Centennial Copper Chopper on display; 2 bands Sat; Beer Garden all weekend, food booths & vendors. Children's carnival & contests. Minimal entry fee. Hrs: 10-10 Sat. & 10-6 Sun. For more information: Chris Hubbard at 602.999.9689.
NOV 6 {Sun} – TUCSON, AZ * IRONWOOD Cycle Hosts "Club Caffeine" Event Time: 7:30-9:30AM Event Location: Ironwood Cycle at 329 E. Grant Road Tucson, AZ Description: "Club Caffeine", the first Sunday of each month on your calendar. You're invited to come by Ironwood Cycle Sunday morning between 7:30am and 9:30am for free coffee and pastries...Get your Sunday morning started right.. Everyone is Welcome.. We hope to see you there. 7:30am. At Ironwood Cycle 329 E. Grant Road in Tucson, AZ (520-396-3507). For more information call the shop or email firstname.lastname@example.com
Nov 6 {SUN} – TUCSON, AZ* Bikers for Babies Arizona Details: Presented by March of Dimes. Join die hard bikers and weekend warriors to support March of Dimes. Start at Sir Veza's, enjoy a scenic ride along the Santa Catalina Mountains and end with a celebration at Musselman Honda Circuit. Great food, live music, and a club race. Enter to win a custom bobber from Big Sky Motorcycles. Breakfast, Patch, Ride, Post-Event Celebration. Admission: $10 pre-reg/ $15 day-of. 10am. Sir Veza's Taco Garage Tucson, AZ. FMI: Call 520-298-5490 or email firstname.lastname@example.com or see website www.bikersforbabies.org
Nov 6 {SUN} – PICACHO, AZ* Youth Haven Ranch Toy Run DETAILS: Presented by CMA. Benefits Youth Haven Ranch. $10 and $10 toy per person. Registration 8am-9am at Youth Haven Ranch in Picacho. Includes Lunch Bake Goods, Auction. Games with Kids, Kids Choice Bike Show. From Phoenix: Travel South East on I-10 about 55 minutes to exit 211-B near Picacho. Take Hwy. 87 North 1 mile towards Coolidge and turn right on Milligan Rd. Take Milligan to Vail Rd. and follow the highway marker signs right. Youth Haven is on Vail Rd. From Tucson: Travel North West on I-10 about 45 minutes to exit 211 near Picacho. Take Hwy. 87 North 1 mile towards Coolidge and turn right on Milligan Rd. Take Milligan to Vail Rd. and follow the highway markers right. Youth Haven is on Vail Rd. 8am. Youth Haven Ranch in Picacho, AZ. FMI: 520-403-6391 www.cmsswr2.org/az email@example.com
NOV 7 {Mon} – TUCSON, AZ* Bike Night at Rusty's Sports Grille the 1st Monday Event time: Party starts at 6PM. Event location: Rusty's Sports Grille, 2075 West Grant Rd. in Tucson, AZ. Telephone: 520-623-3363 Description: Join Us the first Monday of every month for Bike Night starting at 6pm at Rusty's Sports Grille. There's Special parking for your bike. We have Beer & drink specials and giveaways. Rusty's Sports Grille, 2075 W. Grant Rd. in Tucson, AZ. For more information please give us a call at 520-623-3363 NOVEMBER 10-13 {Thur – Sun} - SEA OF CORTEZ/PUERTO PEÑASCO, SONORA, MX* ROCKY POINT RALLY – Mystery Poker Run from U.S. to Mexico, Welcome Party, Ride-In Bike Show, Walking Poker Run on Calle 13, Toy Run for Niños, local parade, biker events on El Malecon. For more info: www.rockypointrally.com. November 10-13 - Puerto Peñasco, Mexico* 11th Rocky Point Rally DETAILS: Presented by Castaways Rocky Point. The Rocky Point Rally is an annual event held in Puerto Peñasco that showcases motorcycles and other 2-4 wheel vehicles. Many people from around the world gather to watch parades and contests between motorcycles and other recreational vehicles. This year will be the first ever "Rocky Point Rally Kick-Off Party", held on Thursday night, this event will be one of the most exciting parts of the rally! Featuring 2 large concerts, one of which from Arizona's own Mogollon band. Don't miss out! Check out and like our facebook page here. 4pm. Puerto Peñasco, Mexico FMI: (602) 380 7203 www.castawaysrockypoint.com email@example.com
Nov 11-13 {FRI/SAT/SUN} – SOUTHERN, AZ * Veterans Day in Cochise County Presented by Thunder Riders. Benefits Veterans and Cochise Country. This event is to support our County Sheriffs, like Cochise's Larry Deaver and to put homeless vets together with rural ranchers and farmers in our border Counties that two retired Generals call a "War Zone". The goal is no homeless vets and no more dead ranchers, farmers or law enforcement officers. The event will run all over Cochise Country down to Douglas for different events and destinations. Tombstone, Sierra Vista and Douglas. Vendors space available in Benson Admission: $20.00. 1pm. Arena Bar located at 250 N Prickly Pear Ave in Benson, AZ FMI: 520-413-2397 or email firstname.lastname@example.com
Nov 11 {FRI} – TUCSON. AZ *Bike Night at Big John's Garage Event_Time: 6:00pm to 10:00pm Event_Location: 4156 E. Grant Rd. Tucson, AZ 85712 Event_Description: Bike Night at Big John's garage, with FREE food and drink, Bike Show and Live Music. Come out and enjoy our cool summer nights and vote for your favorite American or Metric bike. For additional details please email: firstname.lastname@example.com or Call 520-322-9933.
Nov 12 {SAT} – TUCSON. AZ *The Huns MC Steak Fry Event_Time: 5:00pm to ?? Event_Location: Territorial Bar in Tucson, AZ 85712 Event_Description: The Huns MC is having our Annual Steak Fry again but instead of at the clubhouse we will be at The Territorial Bar 3727 S. Palo Verde Rd. Tucson, AZ. Price is still only $15 for entry and one of the best steak dinners in town. Live music will be provided by The Effect. Of course there will be Drinks available. Door prizes, Fun and Food provided by The Huns. For more details email Mike at email@example.com
Nov 12 {SAT} – TUCSON, AZ* Territorial's 5th Annual Heroes Holiday DETAILS: Presented by Territorial. WE will have a scavenger hunt and donations, All proceeds will go to making a better Christmas for our soldiers overseas. The Saturday after Thanksgiving we will box everything up and get them ready to send to our Men and Women fighting to keep us FREE!!!!!. Starts at 9am. Territorial Bar 3727 S Palo Verde Rd. in Tucson, AZ. FMI: 520-514-9035 or email firstname.lastname@example.com
Nov 12 {SAT} – TUCSON, AZ* The All Veterans Charity Event Details: Presented by Vietnam Vets Legacy Vets M/C. Benefits MIAP. This event is to raise money for the Missing In America Project, to purchace urns, headstones, and flags. These fallen veterans deserve a proper burial - "it's the right thing to do". All are welcome. Admission: $10.00. Starts 1:00pm-6:00pm. At Putney's Sports Bar 6090 N Oracle Rd Tucson, AZ FMI 520-909-3227 or www.vershonorvets.com
Nov 12 {SAT} – TUCSON, AZ* Los Vatos Christmas in the Barrios 3rd Annual Toy Run Details: Presented by Los Vatos/Wooden Nickel. Benefits Christmas in the Barrio. Help us help the children. Join the parade from South Tucson to The Wooden Nickel Tavern. Fun, Food, Music. 100% Benefits the children of South Tucson's Christmas in the Barrio Party on Christmas eve. More info coming. Admission: $8.00. 10am. Food City South Tucson Tucson, AZ. FMI: 520 260-2242 or firstname.lastname@example.com
Nov 12 {SAT} – TUCSON, AZ* John Lauther Memorial Charity Poker Run Details: Presented by Thunder Mountain Moose Riders. All proceeds go to the Benefits American Heart Assn. in Tucson. We will be honoring the memory of our brother John Lauther with a poker run. This will be a pure bar hopper with high/low and 50/50. We lost John on Veteran's Day last year, R.I.P. Admission: $10.00. 9am. Thunder Mountain Lodge 2442 S. Harrison Rd. in Tucson, AZ FMI: 520 603-4668 or email@example.com
NOV 12 {Sat} – TUCSON, AZ* Chuy's Bike Night and Car Show on Valencia Event Time: 6PM – 9PM Event Location: Chuy's on Valencia 1825 W. Valencia Rd. Tucson, AZ. Description: Bike Night and Car Show at Chuy's on Valencia every 2nd Saturday starting at 6:00 pm. 50/50, Raffles, Door Prizes, Food & Drink Specials.
Nov 13 {SUN} – TUCSON, AZ* Loners MC – Tucson host STUFF the BUS! Details: Presented by Loners MC Tucson. Help us stuff the bus! Let's see if we can make this year an even better success than the last! Food drive benefit run for Caridad de Porres. Event admission will include a meal after the run. $10 / person, $15 / couple & food donation. 9am. Cowpony located at 6510 East Tanque Verde Road in Tucson, AZ. FMI: 520-306-8371 or 520-307-0243 or holyfamilychurchtucson.org
NOV 17 {THUR} –TUCSON, AZ* HARLEY –DAVIDSON of TUCSON and THE HOG PIT SMOKEHOUSE BAR & GRILL Present BIKE NIGHT – Event Time: Starts at 6pm Event Location: The Hog Pit Smokehouse Bar & Grill– 6910 E. Tanque Verde Road, Tucson, AZ Description: The Hog Pit Smokehouse Bar & Grill and Harley-Davidson of Tucson presents Bike Night starting at 6 pm – 6910 E. Tanque Verde Road. There will be special bike parking (east parking lot), Food & Bar Specials. Try their Slow and Low smoked BBQ, original BBQ sauces and ribs; all made in-house by Chef John Mertes. The Hog Pit/Harley-Davidson Bike Night is the third Thursday of each month. Come early to avoid traffic problems. Free admission. For more info: 520.722.4302 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
NOV 17 {THUR} – TUCSON, AZ* Branding Iron North presents Bike Nite Event Description: Join us every 3rd Thursday of each month at 6pm. Special attractions will be best bike burnout contest, and a hot legs contest with 1st, 2nd and 3rd place cash prizes for both events. $2.00 Domestic Beer. Also free door prizes: Detail and oil change from Knuckleheads detail. Prizes also by Heavy Metal Designz. everyone welcome. 6pm. Branding Iron North, 2660 W. Ruthrauff in Tucson, AZ (520) 888-9452
Nov 27 {SUN} – TUCSON, AZ*Southern Arizona ABATE Breakfast Meeting Description: All bikers are welcome to join us for a great breakfast. Where? The Kettle Restaurant at 22nd St. and I-10. (Street address: 748 W. 22nd St. – Tucson, AZ. Meet us at
Nov 27 {SUN} - TUCSON, AZ* Annual Santa Claus Toy Run Details: Presented by Renegade Classics and The New Casino Del Sol Resort Hotel. Benefits: Groups and Organizations that provide toys for under privileged kids during the Holidays. What it costs: $20 and An Unwrapped Toy. What You Get: Breakfast, Run T-Shirt, Run Pin, BBQ Lunch, Live Music, Vendors, Grand Prize Drawing Entry, Gaming Credit and More Pre-registration: November 19th through 26th at Renegade Classics Biker Outlet on Speedway Day of Event Registration: 8AM to 11AM. Last Bike Out to Casino Del Sol 11AM Enjoy Lunch, Party, Music, Etc. 11AM to 5PM at Tucson's Brand NEW Casino Del Sol Resort - Casino, Hotel, and Conference Center (opening 11-11-11) Information and vendor inquiries: 520-400-8463 or email email@example.com Renegade Classics Tucson 4757 E. Speedway in Tucson, AZ 520-400-8463 www.tucsonbikerevents.com/toyrun.html
Dec 3 [Sat] - SIERRA VISTA, AZ * HUNS MC – Sierra Vista Chapter Hosts 32nd Annual Toy Run. Event time: 11:00 AM Event location: Buddy's Bar in Wetstone, AZ Description: TOY RUN starts at 11AM, $10 or $5 + Unwrapped toy. Come party with the Huns MC – Eat, Drink, and be Merry. Poker walk, Dancing, Live Band, FMI: (520) 559-0694 Dancer (email: brotherdan @ cableone.net) Dec 3 [Sat] -TUCSON/CATALINA, AZ* CATALINA CRUSADERS 10TH ANNUAL KIDS TOY DRIVE & POKER RUN– Event time: Poker Registration begins at 8:30 am / Main Event 12-6PM Event Location: Ride starts at Players Pub on 16024 N. Oracle Road; Description: The day starts with 5 stop poker run ending back at the Players Pub. Activities include an Auction, raffle ($1000, $300, and other prizes, high hand, low hand. Raffle tickets currently being sold for a $2800 Quad, with the winner being drawn at the end of the ride. For more information: Please call 520.825.3699, 520.825.5478 or 520.820.0282. All proceeds benefit the Catalina Crusaders local children's projects through the Golder Ranch Fire District.
Dec 3 {Sat}- PHOENIX, AZ* Arizona Biker Leathers Customer Appreciation Day. Thank you for 9 great years. We would like to invite you to join us for our 9th Anniversary Party from 12 noon til 4 pm at 19th Ave. and Thunderbird. Free food and drinks. Raffles - Vendors music. We have a lot of great raffle items tickets are $1.00 each or 6 for $5.00. Free Vendor setup, call for more information and reserve your spot. 602-843-5847 or visit www.arizonabikerleathers.com Dec 4 [Sun] – CASA GRANDE, AZ* 25th Annual Casa Grande Toy Parade & Auction to benefit Casa Grande Salvation Army. Event time: 10:00am, Event location: Staging area = David White Park. Description: Parade leaves at 12pm/Noon, rain or shine. Auction starts at 1pm at The Property. Mogollon is playing this year!! Entry = $10 or An unwrapped Toy. Run Pins to 1st 750. All Motorcycle makes & models are welcome, also Hot-rods & Antique cars. Toys are distributed through Pinal County by the Casa Grande Salvation Army. All Monetary contributions are payable to: CG Toy Run Fund. FMI 520-421-2772 or 520-876-9365. DEC 10 {SAT} - TUCSON, AZ* SUNRIDERS 30TH ANNUAL TOY PARADE PRE- PARTY –Event time: 12 noon to 6 pm Event Location: Pre-party at Kennedy Park in Tucson, AZ. Description: Come join the Sun Riders on Saturday, December 10, 2011 for the 30th Annual Toy Parade Pre-party at Kennedy Park from 12 noon to 6 pm. There will be food, drinks, auction prizes, door prizes, 50/50 drawing, vendors, music and much more. For more info: 520-682-7528, www.tucsonsunridersmc.com or email@example.com.
DEC 11 {SUN} - TUCSON AZ* SUN RIDERS' 30TH ANNUAL TOY PARADE - Benefits Event time: (Sign-in 8am) Event Location: Registration starts at Freedom Park on 29th street in Tucson. Description: Aviva Children's Services. Registration starts at Freedom Park on 29th street in Tucson. The parade leaves for Kennedy Park on Ajo Rd and Mission at 12:00 noon. There will be live music provided by Argumentative (Frog Promotions). There will be food, drinks, vendors, 50/50 drawing, door prizes, auction prizes and we are raffling off a new 2010 Harley Davidson 1200 custom Sporster. Pre-registration is $15.00 and $20.00 day of event. EVERYONE brings a toy for the kids. 8am. Freedom Park 5000 E 29th St. For more info: 520-682-7528, www.tucsonsunridersmc.com or email@example.com.
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Brave, Crazy & Determined September/October 2012 EBJ (Issue 73) - Our spring bear hunt in British Columbia wasn't going as planned. We arrived in early June, but spring was four weeks late. Deep snow hadn't melted from the tops of mountains. Many logging roads and passes weren't passable, taking a toll on our hunt. Earlier, my excitement about this 16-day grizzly and black bear adventure had been beyond words. First, I would be hunting with my 32-year-old son and best friend, Dale. We had been planning this trip for almost two years, working with bowhunting consultant, Mark Buehrer, of Safari Consultants. That led us to Spike Lewis, an avid bowhunter, of Bolen and Lewis Outfitting. At last, we were hunting 16 hours a day with our guide, Chad Miller, who over-delivered in every way. I knew lifelong friendships were developing. Each day we awoke around 7 a.m., left camp at 8:30 a.m. and we hunted until 10:30 p.m. Then came a long hike back to the truck and at least a two-hour ride back to the cabin. At 1 or 2 a.m., we'd eat supper and grab a few hours of sleep, so we would be ready for another long day of hunting. |
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The Thunder Rolls September came and the five months of anticipation didn't chase it away at all. My pack mule and nephew, Craig Kail, arrived at the end of the first week of the month. I invited him along to experience the jaw-dropping emotions I felt five years ago on my introduction to the pursuit of elk. My plan was to spend three or four days at spike camp up in the mountains in an area where motorized traffic of all kinds was not allowed. Arriving at the trailhead, I was a bit disappointed to find six or seven other hunting rigs greeting us. With 30 to 40 pounds on each of our backs, off we went. |
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Icing on the Cake The ever so slight whisper of my footsteps on the new snow fell only upon my ears, and thankfully not on the bedded mule deer buck I was rapidly closing in on. Helping cover any noise also that day was the wind, we all know that the wind can be the best or the worst of companions we have in the field. |
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Making it Count You gave all protecting freedom and I humbly thank you….Devin, this one's for you. THWACK, SMASH, CLANK is all I heard as the bull lifted his head and stood motionless for a moment. I asked Gary, "Did I miss?" This hunt began in March of this year when I logged onto the Game and Fish website and read the words "Drawn." I had been telling my friend, Ronnie Michael, since we put in for elk, I was going to draw a tag this year with only seven points. |
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Hard Lessons Learned |
No matter how long we've been in the game, it's never too late to learn a trick or two. I've always been told to learn from other people's experiences and or mistakes. The advice of that person has shared with you could really pay off someday. Now, I'm not saying at all that I've listened. In fact, had I listened to advice offered just a little bit, my success afield would probably a lot better than it is. A hunt from just last fall plays out this script to the "T". |
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Blessed with Blacktails I am very fortunate to live in northern California where some of the biggest blacktail bucks call home. Growing up in the area I hunt has allowed me opportunities to meet a lot of people which has resulted in gaining permission to hunt several quality ranches and properties with trophy buck potential. Hunting blacktails over the years has turned into an obsession for me year around. From shooting my bow year around, staying in good physical shape, scouting every chance I get, I have been rewarded with my efforts in the field. Hunting early season bucks due to the state's regulations, the deer can somewhat be patterned if you scout correctly. |
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Holding Out After fumbling over the keyboard on the Arizona Game and Fish website with hopes of what the 2011 elk and antelope draw had in store, I input my information. I was 28 years old and I had finally drawn my first trophy elk hunt. My last archery elk hunt was in 2006, and with the draw odds not in my favor on this 2011 hunt number, I couldn't be any happier. |
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Notch With the sun beating down, I stared through my peep as my focus narrowed and my concentration intensified. My entire summer had been dedicated to this one moment, this one opportunity. My finger wrapped around the trigger of my release as I began to pull through the shot. As the shot broke, my eyes started to track the arrow on its course through the air. |
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On a String and a Prayer This hunting story begins in 1984 in the rolling hills and canyons of south central Montana. I was 12 years old when my dad took me to Montana to hunt mule deer for the first time. My Dad has been hunting in Montana since 1971 and I finally had my chance to join him on this annual trip. We have made the annual trip together for the last 27 years and it is the strongest tradition I know in my life. |
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Spring Adrenaline Sitting behind the glass, deep in the wilderness, a couple of buddies and I laid eyes on a monster chocolate boar. The big boar fed out into springtime meadow grass on the opposite side of the canyon. It was my turn for the stalk, so I made my landmarks and started off. I quickly dropped two thousand feet to the river in the bottom. Between my big chocolate and me was 3,000 cfs of raging river. Combined with my buddies this was the seventh river crossing, so I had our system down. |
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Succeeding Because of Failure After more than a decade of applying for a coveted elk tag in Wyoming's unit 31, I finally abandoned the idea and went looking for something a little more realistic. My son, Riley, and I had shared a wonderful hunting experience in 2010 in the north central part of the state where we saw some very good bulls. Based on that, I applied for the same unit and finally got lucky. |
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The Shed Every spring my buddies and I set out to find those big bucks and bulls before they shed their antlers. It was the spring of 2010 when Griff Yates, Barry Johnson and I were walking back from an exhausting day of shed hunting and stumbled upon a long main beamed monster blacktail shed. It was the biggest blacktail shed that either of us had found. We hunted all over the area for a couple more hours looking for the other side. We were unsuccessful that day, but came back the next four days in a row looking for the other side. |
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The Brother's Bull It was already half way through Oregon's general archery elk season, and I was headed out elk hunting for the first time this year. Until now I had been calling and spotting elk for friends. After a recent heavy rainstorm, the bulls were rutting hard and I had located several bulls. On my first afternoon I let out a bugle, which received multiple answers. My brother, Cody, went after one bull and I chose another. The bull I headed after stopped responding to bugles and was only interested in hot cow talk. |
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A New Take on Hunting |
Last year started a new challenge in mule deer hunting. I went on my first archery hunt with a friend, Dillon Ham, and watched him harvest a nice buck. It placed a whole new set of goals in my mind. I wanted to get that close to a mule deer and play the hunting chess game with them. I was fortunate enough to receive a bow for Christmas and from that day on it was time to get familiar with the bow and practice, practice, practice. The time had finally come to put in for tags then the long wait for results. |
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A Change in Plans At the beginning of 2011, I was laid off from my job just prior to the birth of my second child. My wife and I decided it was worth it for me to stay home and be Mr. Mom. With our household income being cut in half, I knew that it was going to change things down the road. One big thing I knew it was going to effect was my hunting season. Typically my father and I will travel to central or northeast Oregon for a full week of elk hunting. This year we were going to have to hunt on a little tighter budget and stay closer to home and only hunt weekends when I could be relieved from my duties. |
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18m. The rounded arete used to provide a good little route, sadly the birch tree at the base is smothering it. Approach the rib via a wide diagonal crack. Above this there is one fierce pull (small wire) before it eases to fine climbing up the rib. USER COMMENTS
The tree gets in the way. Easy 5c move with the tree, hard 5c move without it. The top is much more enjoyable especially if you break through the greenary into the sunlight.
Tree has now been chopped back, revealing a great route. A well-protected fingery crux move is followed by a romp between breaks to the top.
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Broadband Expert Study Expects U.S. Consumers Could Save Up to $396 Million by Switching Internet Providers in 2012
Study Summary:
• Typical Household Can Save $60 Per Year and Receive Better Broadband Service
• Broadband Comparison Website Estimates 250,000 Americans to Use their Service to Switch Providers in 2012
• Potential savings of nearly $400 Million if just 10% of the population were to switch
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Miami-based Broadband Expert is projecting it will save consumers at least $15 Million per year by switching internet service providers. However, a Broadband Expert survey of U.S. broadband usage concludes that a typical American family could easily save $60 a year on broadband usage and if just 10% of the US population were to switch the potential savings would rise to $396M per year. Rob Webber, CEO of Broadband Expert, says this is based on a Broadband Expert study of U.S. Broadband rates and services. Webber adds, "Broadband Expert estimates at least that 250,000 consumers will use its service to switch internet, TV and phone services in 2012."
Broadband Expert allows consumers to check the availability of cable, satellite and Internet providers in their area, compare prices and read reviews by other consumers. Webber says, "This allows the consumer to make a more informed purchase and save money where there is a choice between a number of different providers." The typical consumer spends countless hours researching consumer electronics´ specs and details but spent little to no time researching broadband services.
"The majority of the electronic devices found at the CES show require Broadband service to function, hence it is vital to make sure that you have the best broadband service available in your area," said Webber. Broadband Expert provides this service free of charge to consumers but earns a fee from service providers when a consumer signs up to a new service.
Whilst not all US consumers have the choice between more than one internet provider Webber says the potential savings for consumers are huge. With an estimated 66 million households* with a broadband connection and a typical 2.5Mbs — 15Mbps broadband connection costing $38.11 per month according to the OECD´s latest report if even 10% of those households were to switch to a cheaper provider saving $5 per month this represents a saving of $396 million dollars per year.
Webber explains that he sees switching becoming a growing market as he predicts the number of services available to consumers is likely to increase. Webber says that, "the amount of choice between providers, and in some cases there is none, differs dependent on where you live. Ultimately choice and competition between providers is healthy for the consumer and as this increases, as we predict it will, Broadband Expert will be well positioned to help consumers switch providers and save money".
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Broadband Expert is launching a consumer survey to allow American consumers to rate their current service providers as well as the importance of having an apples-to-apples comparison site of different plans. Webber adds that Broadband Expert will also give-away 12-months of free service as an incentive to take the survey http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/broadbandexpert.
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Broadband Expert is part of RichWeb Media LLC, a privately owned company specializing in consumer advice and price comparison websites. Broadband Expert is independent of all internet providers and mobile broadband providers and aims to give a no nonsense guide to choosing the right service for your internet needs at the lowest price. At Broadband Expert, we research internet providers and mobile broadband providers to help you see the true cost including any hidden extras. We provide consumers with tools to check availability in their area and compare internet providers by download limits, speeds, set up fee, first year cost and minimum contract.
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- 66M US households have a broadband connection based on PEW Internets´ estimation that 60% of US adults have a broadband connection at home and a conservative estimate of 110M US households.
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Strokes to "Shift Sound" on New Record
Next February, New York quintet the Strokes will push aside their respective solo projects and reunite to begin writing songs for their first new record since 2006's ambitious First Impressions of Earth. And when they do, bassist Nikolai Fraiture tells SPIN.com their new musical experiences will bring "a shift from our regular sound."
"The dynamic will be different and it will seep through [into our new music]," Fraiture says. "Maybe that'll be our producer, maybe it will be different songwriting -- it's a little too early to tell.But I think the only way to go forward is to change."
"Everyone in the band is eager to get back," he continues. "We've been trying for the last two years, on and off. But people need to do what they need to do. That's how all of the side-projects came about -- wanting to continue to play music."
While we await more about the Strokes' new album, Fraiture is doing just that -- playing music. His debut album as Nickel Eye, the stripped down and folksy Time of the Assassins featuring cameos from Regina Spektor and Yeah Yeah Yeahs axeman Nick Zinner, drops Jan. 27, and he's already planning a supporting tour with members of U.K. rock trio South as his backing band.
But even with the Strokes onslaughtjust around the corner, fans of Fraiture's Nickel Eye work don't need to worry about the bassist's return to his old chums. "It's a three-album deal," Fraiture says of his contract with Rykodisc. "They're very flexible and understanding of my day job."


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LL Cool J attended Chris Lighty''s funeral on Sept. 5.
LL Cool J poses backstage at the Grammy Nominations Concert on Nov. 30, 2011 in Los Angeles.
The NCIS: Los Angeles star declined to play Guitar Hero at the E! station on the red carpet, but he was happy to talk about his co-star Chris O'Donnell. "Chris is great. We've been having a lot of fun ... We're very grateful."
LL Cool J, a blogger on the website Global Grind, welcomes new editor in chief Russell Simmons, left, during a news conference Wednesday in New York.
The pair have been collaborating since the Def Jam Records days in the early 1980s, when the young rapper recorded for Simmons' pioneering rap label.
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Issue Number: Internet Works, January 2005, Pages 39-43, Issue 92
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Internet Works Marketing Masterclass on advertising and how brands can work better with agencies. New media Maze interviewed about how to choose an agency.
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Dictionary » E » Extranuclear ExtranuclearPlease contribute to this project, if you have more information about this term feel free to edit this page Results from our forumMithocondria - again - which are the best mithocondrias?... a clone embrio which could be used to harvest totipotent stem cells. I know that most of the DNA is contained by the nucleus but there is also extranuclear DNA contained by plastides - mithocondrias. So, if the nuclear DNA was human the mithocondrial DNA was that of a rabbit. I know that mithocondria ...
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The Postal Service today presented a 5-year business plan that it calls a Plan for Profitability. The plan represents the impact of the investment bank Evercore partners and clearly indicates that Evercore was required to develop a plan that maintained the financial and market restrictions of a quasi-governmental Postal Service. Therefore the plan differs significantly from successful plans for profitability of most foreign postal administrations. The two key differences are 1) the plan does not include an infusion of capital, mostly coming from private sector; and 2) the plan does not include the commercial freedom to fully exploit the value of the Postal Service brand or its human, physical or intellectual property assets.
Evercore's influence appears to have caused the Postal Service to make three changes in its business plan:
- The plan adds a net cash target for the Postal Service. Meeting that cash target is what drives the operating and rate changes proposed.
- The plan includes rate increases for all mail classes. Up till now the Postal Service has been circumspect about the need for increased pricing and appeared to back off on the idea of an exigent rate increase. The price increase headline is a 5 cent increase in single piece First Class mail. However, the proposal includes an exigent rate increase and it appears that the Postal Service may become more aggressive in seeking rate increases in Standard Mail even if rate increases result in lower volumes.
- The Plan includes an aggressive schedule for implementing reductions in service and employee head count. The decision of the Postal Service to implement the Network Optimization Initiative soon after the May 15 moratorium ends represents a clear example of the Postal Service taking an action that will generate substantial political heat that in previous years it would have deferred.
The Plan Depends on Congress Passing Legislation Similar to S. 1789
The plan depends on Congress to make changes in law that do the following:
- Eliminate the Retiree Health Benefit Prefunding and incorporate Medicare into the retiree health benefit package;
- Possibly set up a new retiree health benefit for current employees;
- Allow the Postal Service to withdraw from the federal health benefit program and set up its own benefit plan for employees
- Refund of the overfunding of FERS as identified in the Obama administration budget;
- Permit the Postal Service to eliminate 5-day delivery;
- Allow the Postal Service to implement a 5 cent single piece First Class mail rate increase without Postal Regulatory Commission review;
- Allow the Postal Service to implement a rate increase without proving an exigent circumstances; and
- Allow the Postal Service some modest expansion of the types of services that it can offer.
Most of these changes are included in S. 1789. The Postal Service legislative wish list adds significant price increases that are not included in the bill as it stands. Given that S. 1789 has already generated significant objections due to the service changes that it would allow; adding major increases in prices to the package would not appear to make passage of legislation any more likely.
What the Business Plan Missed because it Stuck With the Government Business Model
This Postal Service business plan, just like all plans that came before, started with the assumption that the Postal Service remains a quasi-governmental entity. As noted in the introductory paragraph, the business plan does not include two key parts of successful business models of foreign business administrations:
- the introduction of private capital; and
- The expansion of the product range that the national post can offer in order to exploit its band and its physical, human and intellectual property assets.
Why Private Capital Would be Interested: Brand, Real Estate and Pension Assets of the Postal Service
The Postal Service has three types of assets that have significant value for private investors. They are the value of its brand, the value of its real estate, and the value of its pension and retiree health benefit assets.
The Postal Service has tried to exploit the value of its brand but current legislation and regulatory decisions do not permit the Postal Service to create brand expansions that would brand products that other entities sell that are clearly linked to the Postal Service's core services. These services include branded mailing supplies and there maybe others.
The value of real estate is obvious and the conclusion of the Network Optimization Initiative would provide a number of opportunities for real estate development that private sector investors might find quite interesting.
The value of assets associated with CSRS and FERS pensions and the retiree health benefit accounts are less obvious but much larger. Currently both CSRS and FERS accounts hold assets that exceed the expected liability and the excess assets are expected to grow each year for the foreseeable future. The overfunding in these accounts would be even larger if these funds could be invested in the types of assets that are commonly used by private sector pension funds. A privatized Postal Service could then remove some of the assets from these funds to improve its cash position as well as provide a dividend to investors.
A similar benefit could come from investing the retiree health benefit assets in stocks and bonds that are commonly used in the private sector retiree health benefit funds. Combined with a more current estimate of the actual liability for retiree health benefits and expansion of the use of Medicare to cover retiree benefit costs, the new investment policy could shift the retiree health benefit obligation form a severely underfunded status to one that is either fully funded or close to being fully funded.
Private sector management of the retirement benefit assets would provide another benefit to the Postal Service, lower operating costs. With pension plans fully funded, the Postal Service would not have pension expenses and depending on future actuarial analysis may be looking at periodic cash transfers from the pension asset accounts back to corporate accoutns. Private management of retiree health benefit assets, and a lower unfunded liability would significantly reduce annual costs of the retiree health benefits below the levels that the Postal Service has estimated in its new Business Plan.
Combining full access to brand, real estate, and retirement assets provide private investors with the potential of some quick profits while at the same time improving the capital structure of the Postal Service far more than the plan that the Postal Service and Evercore Partners just came up with.
Expansions of the Product Range: How the Quasi-Governmental Model Precludes Significant Revenue Growth
A key part of foreign postal administration's successes come from their expansion into markets outside physical delivery of written communications. These administrations growth has come in four areas: parcels, communications integration, retail services, and e-communications.
While the Postal Service has delivered parcels for well over 100 years, its parcel business looks much more like a start-up than a mature firm. Competitive parcel volumes are now growing at double digit rates as the Postal Service becomes the core delivery service for home delivery of light weight parcels. This business needs significant capital investments to upgrade Priority Mail Service and expand the goPost parcel lockers. Given that on-line retail sales are expected to grow by 20% or more, the Postal Service's parcel business could grow faster with proper investments. The business model provides little information about how the Postal Service will get the capital to make the necessary investments in its parcel business and therefore it is unclear if it will be able to grow its parcel business as much as it needs to replace declines in print communications delivery
A less regulated Postal Service would be free to offer services that integrate the last mile delivery into earlier or later steps in the print communications process. For example, the Postal Service could work with billers to improve payment processes by linking sortation of payments with transfers of checks to banks in the city where the mail is originally sorted rather than transporting the letter to the biller's address. The current business plan does not touch on that subject due to concerns about a government entity competing with the private sector.
The key to retail services is expanding what is offered beyond traditional postal services. Providing other government services is a nice idea but the revenue associated with these services is likely to be insufficient to support the Postal Service's retail infrastructure. Freeing postal retail outlets to provide the full range of services that Australian retail outlets provide could turn a money losing service into a money maker. A modern retail network would also include contract operations but again making contract operators successful requires the Postal Service to be able to offer retailers more than it can now and the Australian model again provides a good example of what a private investor would want to exploit. The problem with the Australian model is the potential conflict with private sector firms by a government sponsored enterprise.
Electronic communication extensions of the Postal Service's physical communications services have been the topic of a number of United States Postal Service Inspector General Reports. However, potential competition with the private sector is the largest barrier from the Postal Service offering these services.
With the exception of parcel services, forcing the Postal Service to operate under a quasi-governmental business model creates a conflict with the private sector that precludes the types of brand expansions that are common in successful transformation to a profitable national post outside of the United States. This barrier is a key reason that postal reform legislation allows the Postal Service to expand into services that no firm that lobbies Congress could object too, and therefore services that are unlikely to generate sufficient revenue to make a noticeable difference in the Postal Service's expected revenue.
Time for Fresh Thinking
The plan prsented yesterday is not much different from one presented two years ago for the simple reason that it continues to work with the assumption that the Postal Service must remain quasi-govenmental entity. As such, the Postal Service's new business plan illustates the limitations of the government business model and the operating, marketing, and pricing changes all have key opponents among postal stakeholders; The plan offers:
- postal labor little more than massive job losses and reductions in compensation;
- those on the wrong side of digital divide slower service and much higher prices; and
- large volume mailers significant above inflation price increases and reduced service levels.
While any business plan is likely to result in significant unpopular changes, by sticking with the quasi-governmental business model, the Postal Service ensured that the changes are greater than they needed to be.
It is clear that the business plan that the Postal Service has chosen is not the one that has worked in other countries. The plan avoids talking about either private capital or expanding the breadth of service offerings as neither are on the legislative table. Introducing thinking about how private capital could be introduced and the product offerings could be expanded forces stakeholders to think about privatatization, an idea that is nearly as unpopular as the changes that the proposed business model introduced. However, as this brief post notes, privatization offers significant financial advantages that could reduce the operating and price changes envisions by the Postal Service's business plan. Therefore, those who see the greatest harm from this plan need to see if the advantages of privatization could benefit their interests sufficiently to overcome long-held objections to the idea.


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It is a strongly held belief that population growth and the demand for better accommodation and leisure facilities, combined with a desire to improve the landscape, will result in the need to develop more underground spaces. This phenomenon, which started in countries subjected to extreme climates, is now becoming more widespread.
Underground spaces are being utilized for a wide diversity of needs. They range from classical excavations to subway constructions; underground sports halls; power stations; waste repositories; underground cities, and many others. Their construction techniques are also varied, from open-air excavations to newly developed injection methods.
The response of the underground structures on the imposed loadings depends on a number of parameters that sometimes are too complex or not fully understood, resulting in budget overruns or even failures that lead to loss of property or life. Such uncertain cases need to be addressed and engineers should be able to accurately predict the construction's performance throughout its construction and service life.
The First International Conference on Underground Spaces discusses not only structural and environmental material characterization aspects but also the trends regarding the utilization of underground spaces. This book contains papers presented at the Meeting, and covers a wide range of topics including: Use of underground space for industry; Underground power stations; Toxic and nuclear waste repositories; Energy underground reservoirs; Underground sewerage plants; Waste storage and management; Road and railway tunnels; Utility tunnels; Fire defence; Defence against terrorist attacks.


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