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DEAR MAYOR DAN . . . Want a fast 50 grand to help balance the city budget? The one you're crying the blues over?
All you have to do is go online and write a little essay for Reader's Digest about what makes Anchorage special and what you need to make it even better. And voila, we could be one of 110 cities to win money to pay for some municipal project.
Ear isn't sure exactly how the whole thing works. For instance, does the city ever do anything that only costs $50,000? Plus, people have to go online and vote for you. Whatever, it's worth checking out. (This is an election where even Ear would gladly vote for you.)
Ear found the website at readersdigest.com/America.
HE WROTE IT . . . Earwigs report jaws dropped Wednesday evening at the Taproot in Spenard during the taping of Shannyn Moore's show when Vic Fischer opined that Governor God had so violated his constitutional oath of office that he could be impeached. It was apparently about the governor's desire to cut oil company taxes and arose as a result of a question from the audience.
Earwigs will recall that Vic is one of the few people still alive who helped write the Alaska Constitution. You can see his comments for yourself when the show airs -- today at 3 p.m. on KYUR, Channel 13.
ANCHORWOOD . . . Well, they've finished shooting "The Frozen Ground." The famous actors are all gone. Some of the production types will stick around for a couple of weeks to wrap things up. Earwigs say the crew ended its visit here with a genuine Alaska experience. As the story goes, there's a scene where a moose menaces the teenage hooker-heroine who helps nail Hansen. So they rounded up a regular street moose that promptly got spooked and charged for real. Wonder if the scene will make it into the finished product.
Anyhow, Ear enjoyed their presence here and wishes them well.
ON THE MOVE . . . Dani Carlson, a former aide to several Republican legislators, has joined the Channel 11 news team in Anchorage where she'll be news producer for the 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. newscasts. Dani worked for Lesil McGuire and Jay Ramras, then ran Lite Gov. Mead Treadwell's campaign in Fairbanks. But before all that she was the political reporter and weekend anchor for KTVF, also in Fairbanks.
Dani says she left journalism for a while because she wanted to find out how politics really worked. Hmmm, McGuire, Ramras and Treadwell? Guess she found out all right. And it looks like she's going to have special challenges at the new job:
Channel 11 seems to have become a safe haven for bad boys. Former Palin mouthpiece Bill McAllister landed there after his public run-in with that wacko Kentucky professor over whether Sarah was really Trig's mother, and after very public written comments about his now-ex-wife. Everyone -- well, not everyone -- thought his journalism career had contracted rigor mortis when Channel 11 surprised the doomsters by signing him up to report. So far he seems to be staying out of trouble there.
The newest bad boy to join Channel 11 is Brendan Joel Kelly, recently separated from his job as editor of The Anchorage Press. Brendan is a good writer with interesting ideas but considered -- perhaps wrongly -- hard to handle. We'll see. Remember the little girl with the curl in the middle of her forehead? She was either very good or very bad but always interesting.
SO SORRY. . . Dermot Cole, an excellent columnist for the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, is all stoked up over the top of an ADN weather story Wednesday:
"Cold weather fouling your holiday mood this week? Here's something to be thankful for," said the story. "At least you're not in Fairbanks."
So what's the problem? It was like 40 below in Fairbanks. Who wouldn't be thankful? But Dermot says expressing this simple truth is rude, that ADN doesn't send reporters to the hinterlands anymore, so they don't know the wonders of places like Ear's favorite City on the Edge of Nowhere.
For heaven's sake, the story has a Mike Dunham byline. Mike has probably been to more places in Alaska over the years than even Dermot. Nevertheless, Ear doesn't want Fairbanksans to feel dissed so, sorry darling northern neighbors, sorry it was 40 below and Anchorage earwigs were lucky not to be there.
All better?
OOPS . . . If you want to knock Ear's Favorite Good Morning Newspaper for its weather coverage, check out the Wasilla temperatures reported in Tuesday's paper.
PROOF . . . Do you still doubt that Anchorage is a superior city? Business Week has published a list of America's 50 "best" cities, and Anchorage is 10th. (Maybe Fairbanks is on the list between 11 and 49, but Ear got bored and didn't finish reading.) Cleveland is last.
Tenth best city in America? Ha! Fooled 'em again.
YES, GLORIOUS. . . Hurricane Dave and Matt Hammer are scheduled to play a benefit Dec. 3 at the Town Square Grill on West Sixth, near F Street. The concert is to benefit the Marines Toys for Tots, and the Mat-Su Santa program. Ear is delighted to report that Dave has written a new Sarah song for the occasion:
"There's no drama these days in Alaska.
All is calm and all is bright.
It's Christmas without Sarah
What a glorious silent night."
Compiled by Sheila Toomey. Message Sheila at 257-4341 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Find Ear online at adn.com/ear.


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William Harvey
3 of 19 portraits of William Harvey
© National Portrait Gallery, London
William Harvey
by William Faithorne
line engraving, published 1653
5 in. x 3 1/4 in. (128 mm x 82 mm) paper size
Given by the daughter of compiler William Fleming MD, Mary Elizabeth Stopford, 1931
Reference Collection
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- William Harvey (1578-1657), Physician, discovered the circulation of the blood. Sitter in 19 portraits.
Artistback to top
- William Faithorne (circa 1620-1691), Engraver and draughtsman. Artist associated with 712 portraits, Sitter associated with 4 portraits.
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- NPG D22768: William Harvey (from same plate)
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We all make food choices every day. Getting students excited about making choices that support a sustainable food system combined with teaching them practical stills for earth-friendly eating is a great way to expand your green curriculum. Using the "Growing Food" and "Farm to Table & Beyond" modules of the Linking Food and the Environment (LiFE) curriculum series as a foundation, this session will investigate how to break down our food system in ways where students will analyze, think deeply and be critical; explore how to compare and contrast the environmental impact of various food system choices; and demonstrate how to lead students through the process of planning, implementing and tracking dietary change that leads to more sustainable food choices.
Suitability: Upper elementary through high school youth educators, and school administrators.
Pamela Koch is the Executive Director of the Center for Food and Environment at Teachers College Columbia University and the lead author of the Linking Food & the Environment curriculum series. Passionate about educating children and adults to make food choices that support their own health and the health of our fragile planet, she is a regular speaker at National Science Teachers' Association conferences and very active in the food education movement in New York City.
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Afghanistan to deport Christian group
Afghanistan is to deport hundreds of visiting South Korean Christians after Islamic clerics demanded their expulsion, accusing them of trying to spread Christianity.
About 2,000 Koreans say they came to Afghanistan for a "peace festival and educational and entertainment programmes".
Kang Sung Han, a member of the visiting Korean team in Kabul, said on Thursday: "Yes, yes, we have been told to leave Afghanistan because of security concerns".
Han said the Koreans in Kabul have been confined to their accomodation while those outside the capital are preparing to leave the country.
A foreign ministry official in Seoul said the Afghan government had already deported 35 of the evangelical Christians in the past few days and would soon send home another 900.
"The government has started the process of deporting the South Koreans, but securing available planes to take them back to South Korea would not be a easy job," the official said.
Afghanistan says it will deport hundreds of South Korean evangelical Christians amid fears for their safety.
They have been accused by Islamic clerics of preaching Christianity. Afghanistan bans attempts to convert people to non-Islamic faiths.
Around 1,500 South Koreans arrived this week for a "peace festival", and education and entertainment programme.
On Wednesday, hundreds of Afghans held a protest rally against them at a mosque in the city of Mazar-e-Sharif.
'Highly sensitive'
"They were given tourist visas and now it seems they are misusing their tourist visas," a government official told the AFP news agency.
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National Broadband Network
What is the National Broadband Network?
The National Broadband Network (NBN) will ensure that all Australians have access to very fast broadband using a mix of technologies. The Australian Government is committed to completing the construction of the NBN sooner, at less expense for taxpayers and more affordably for consumers.
You can find out more about the NBN on NBN Co's website.
Variation of Telstra's Migration Plan: Finalisation of Regulatory Instruments
On 27 January 2015 the Government finalised two regulatory instruments supporting the variation of Telstra's migration plan:
- Telecommunications (Migration Plan Principles) Determination 2015 (PDF, 1.3 MB)
- Telecommunications (Migration Plan – Specified Matters) Instrument 2015 (PDF, 844.4 KB)
The instruments were developed in consultation with Telstra and NBN Co and finalised following consideration of submissions received via a public consultation process conducted between 16 December 2014 and 7 January 2015. The consultation paper from this process, and all non-confidential submissions received, can be viewed at the Submissions to the Variation of Telstra's Migration Plan consultation paper webpage.
Finalisation of the instruments allows Telstra to lodge its revised Migration Plan with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) for consideration. Telstra's Migration Plan supports its structural separation by outlining the steps the company must take to disconnect voice and broadband services on its copper and hybrid fibre-coaxial (HFC) networks in the course of migrating customers to the fixed-line NBN. The making of the revised Migration Plan is a key step in moving to the multi-technology mix (MTM) National Broadband Network (NBN).
The instruments set out the matters that Telstra's Migration Plan must cover and the manner in which the Migration Plan must deal with those matters.
Commercial Agreements to support the NBN
On 14 December 2014 NBN Co signed amendments to its commercial agreements with Telstra and Optus that will facilitate the multi-technology mix NBN. Under the agreements NBN Co will progressively take ownership of many parts of Telstra's copper and HFC cable networks, as well as Optus' HFC cable network, and will use this infrastructure in the NBN. The amendments are subject to a number of Conditions Precedent, including relevant regulatory approvals.
Further information is available at:
- Australian Government media release: NBN Co and Telstra sign revised Definitive Agreements
- Australian Government media release: NBN Co and Optus strike deal for faster network rollout
- NBN Co media release: Landmark deal paves way for faster NBN rollout
- NBN Co media release: NBN Co to acquire Optus cables to enable faster NBN rollout
- Telstra media release: Telstra signs revised NBN Definitive Agreements
- Optus media release: Optus strikes agreement with NBN Co on HFC network
Implementation of the National Broadband Network: Migration Assurance Policy Consultation Paper
On 2 September 2014 the Government released a consultation paper seeking feedback from all interested stakeholders on the best way to reform the migration of services to the National Broadband Network (NBN). Submissions in response to the consultation paper closed on 26 September 2014. More information, including a list of the submissions, is available on the Migration Assurance Policy Consultation Paper page.
Cost Benefit Analysis of National Broadband Network
On 27 August 2014, the Government released the Cost-Benefit Analysis of the NBN prepared by the panel led by Dr Michael Vertigan AC.
- Independent Cost Benefit Analysis of Broadband (PDF, 2.6 MB)
- Independent Cost Benefit Analysis of Broadband (DOC, 11.8 MB)
Please note: These documents are not completely accessible due to the redaction of some content.
The Cost-Benefit Analysis confirms that there are real economic and social advantages in deploying high-speed broadband infrastructure to Australian households and businesses.
The Cost-Benefit Analysis considers the costs of different approaches to providing fast broadband in Australia. It also considers preferences and potential future demand f
Statement of Expectations
The Government has issued NBN Co with a new Statement of Expectations. This statement will guide the next steps in delivering the NBN. It replaces the interim Statement of Expectations issued in September 2013 and all previous statements.
- Shareholder Ministers' advice to NBN Co (PDF, 746 KB)
- Shareholder Ministers' advice to NBN Co (DOC, 79 KB)
- Interim Statement of Expectations (PDF, 799 KB)
- Interim Statement of Expectations (DOC, 253 KB)
NBN Co Review
The Government has committed to undertake a series of reviews into the NBN in order to refocus the rollout around its policy objectives which include using a wider range of technologies to connect homes and businesses to the network sooner. The individual reviews will cover:
- NBN Co's costs, structure, commercial prospects and strategic plans
- the public policy process which led to the NBN and NBN Co's governance
- the economic and social costs and benefits of the availability of high speed broadband of differing properties via various technologies, the role of Government support and a number of other longer-term industry matters.
On 3 October 2013, the Minister outlined the Terms of Reference for the first of these reviews, which has been undertaken by the new NBN Co Board. The Government received a draft of NBN Co's Strategic Review on 2 December 2013. On 12 December 2013, NBN Co published the Strategic Review into the NBN rollout after detailed consideration. Further information on the conduct and timing of the other reviews will be provided as decisions are announced by Government.
Independent Audit of the NBN Public Policy Process
On 7 March 2014, the Government announced the appointment of Mr Bill Scales AO to conduct an independent audit of the public policy processes that led to the establishment of the NBN.
The Scales report is published online on the Australian Parliament House website. A copy of the report published on that website can be accessed here.
More information on the audit can be found on the Independent audit of the NBN Public Policy Process page.
Cost-Benefit Analysis and Review of Regulation
On 12 December 2013, the Government announced the terms of reference for the Cost-Benefit Analysis and Review of Regulation of NBN (the third of the reviews listed above) and the Panel of Experts who will provide a report to the Government.
The panel has provided the following reports to the Government:
- The Statutory Review of Part XIC of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (the Statutory Review). The Statutory Review was tabled in both Houses of Parliament on 16 July 2014.
- The Independent Cost-Benefit Analysis of Broadband. This was released on 27 August 2014.
- The NBN Market and Regulatory Review. This was released on 1 October 2014.
Broadband Availability and Quality Project
The Department of Communications has undertaken a comprehensive analysis of broadband availability and quality in over 78,000 local areas of Australia to assist with the prioritisation of the National Broadband Network (NBN) rollout.
On 20 February 2014, the Minister for Communications published the full results of this analysis, following the release of a national summary report on 23 December 2013.
The full Broadband Availability and Quality Report compares the broadband technologies available to Australians in every part of the country and the download speeds that can typically be achieved over each platform. A complementary website, MyBroadband, allows people to view results for their local area and provide feedback on the broadband quality and availability ratings.
- Broadband Availability and Quality Report (PDF, )
- MyBroadband website: http://communications.gov.au/mybroadband
- Broadband Availability and Quality: Summary Report (DOC, )
- Broadband Availability and Quality: Summary Report (PDF, )
The Broadband Availability and Quality report has been provided to NBN Co. The company has been asked to consider the findings and prioritise construction work in underserved areas of the country, where is it logistically and commercially feasible to do so.
The report found that deploying the NBN through a multi-technology mix (MTM) – which involves a combination of fibre to the premises (FTTP), fibre to the node, hybrid-fibre coaxial, fixed wireless and satellite technologies – provides net benefits of $18 billion to the community and the economy.
MTM produces these benefits because it can be delivered quicker and at less cost, improving broadband access for Australians who really need it. The report also found that MTM is far more 'future proof' in economic terms: if future demand grows slower than expected, it avoids the high sunk costs of having deployed FTTP. MTM also provides the option of future upgrades to FTTP, once there is sufficient demand to make it worthwhile.
The Cost-Benefit Analysis also drew from the following work:
If you would like more information about this program, please contact:
Infrastructure Group
Department of Communications
GPO Box 2154 Canberra ACT 2601
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Aptitude tests, personality tests, psychometrics – such tests are made for the purpose of understanding a person's personality and for understanding each and every one of ourselves as a unique individual. If your job involves recruiting, managing or developing people, then it is a wise decision to try using these kinds of tests, for instance, conducting a DiSC profile assessment.
What Does DiSC Mean?
DiSC stands for dominance, influence, steadiness and conscientiousness. These 4 letters actually and realistically describes the 4 human behavior patterns or styles. As one person is entirely unique from the others, it has been noted that there are some people who possess just only one style while others possess two, and there are some people who can even possess 3 styles.
The Value of Conducting a DiSC profile Assessment Test
If you have never used a personality test before as one of your tools in hiring potential workers into your company or managing/developing their skills to make the company stronger, then you will definitely find some value in conducting a DiSC profile assessment right now.
By conducting DiSC profile assessments to the people in your company, you get to learn and understand more about yourself, your workmates, your boss, even your clients, and you will at some point attain overall harmonious relationships that is conducive to productivity at work not just in the office, but also anywhere you may be.
With the help of the disc certification online, you will find out which employees can be potential leaders, and which ones would do pretty well as the followers. Not only that, you will also get to further understand that there are leaders who prefer to do the projects hands-on while there are those who are more effective in supervising and micro-managing workers, instructing them what to do and how to do it in the best way possible. There are also some leaders who prefer to lead yet still implement solutions based on the input and ideas of their subordinates after it has been discussed and approved. Such leader-type personalities include emotions and thought processes such as sensing, feeling, judging, insight, ability to perceive potential outcomes, etc.
For those who have already used many personality tests and the DiSC profile assessment whilst hiring and improving employees, they will definitely agree that the DiSC profile assessment tests really has value – it helps employers or the hiring manager to build up productive teams, boost up sales and deliver satisfactory customer service via training employees to understand themselves and their customers even better.


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Honoring women in wireline leadership roles
In our fourth annual Women in Wireline feature, FierceTelecom is celebrating those women leaders who are making their mark in the industry through their work developing products and innovations or serving as advocates for specific technologies or service provider groups.
AT&T won't be Europe's economic savior
Where will U.S. telcos purchase assets next? Eyes are turning toward Europe, as the continuing economic trouble there makes telecom acquisitions more attractive. But will investors' hopes be dashed in the coming months if AT&T, Verizon, or other carriers balk at a major purchase?
Tier 1 incumbents AT&T, Verizon, others meet wireless backhaul demand
If the advent of Apple's iPhone is any indication, the proliferation of easy-to-use smart phones and tablet computers is driving a host of new bandwidth-hungry data and multimedia services. The rise in bandwidth-hungry traffic that users are accessing from their phones means that wireless operators require a higher speed wireless backhaul network.
Bridging the copper-to-fiber gap needs more than Verizon, AT&T interim solutions
Two weeks ago, Verizon announced it would be replacing damaged and destroyed copper voice lines on some of the barrier islands off Long Island, N.Y., and in New Jersey with its recently developed Voice Link service. With deployment of this wireless-based alternative to traditional voice service beginning this month in other rural regions, Verizon's solution sets a troubling precedent for incumbents migrating off of legacy wireline networks.
Consumer broadband lifts the ILEC wireline tide
One of the common themes that continues to be seen in the consumer broadband segment--both telcos and cable operators--is that the first quarter is the best quarter in terms of net additions, and Q1 2013 was no different.
Finding new opportunities in the data center
The data center market continues to evolve from a place where enterprises and service providers store racks of equipment to a platform for delivering managed services. One of the key trends driving the new interest in data centers, for both traditional providers and ILECs that are trying to transform themselves from voice-centric telcos, is cloud services.
Have a great Memorial Day
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Submarine cable equipment underdogs prepare to shake up the market
The submarine cable systems market doesn't get much attention beyond those within its specific telecommunications segment. With the exception of those times that a significant cable cut--such as a recent slew of outages in March off Egypt--impacts countries across a region, submarine cabling rarely makes the news. That may be changing.
CenturyLink dips its feet into the 1 Gbps FTTP waters
CenturyLink, like its fellow RBOC AT&T, has been conservative about transforming its last mile network that leverages a hybrid copper/fiber fiber to the node architecture, but its new pilot in Omaha shows that it wants to consider fiber to the premises as part of its broader last mile access toolkit.
Meet the 2013 rising stars of wireline
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The Struggle: Covert War, Minimum Wage, Isolation and Exile
Monday, May 05, 2014
On today's show: We'll look into the history of covert operations, stretching all the way back to the Truman Administration. George Prochnik traces the life of Stefan Zweig, and tells us why this major literary star of the 1930s killed himself in 1942. Our series Strapped: A Look at Poverty in America series continues with former Labor Secretary Robert Reich on the economics of being poor and whether raising the minimum wage can actually help workers get out of poverty. And Mona Simpson talks about her latest novel, Casebook.
America's Shadow Wars
Deniable covert operations are not new—they've been ordered by every president and every administration since the World War II. In many instances covert operations have relied on surrogates, with American personnel involved only at a distance, insulated by layers of deniability. Larry Hancock and Stuart Wexler trace the evolution of these covert operations from the Truman era through the Obama Administration. Their book Shadow Warfare: The History of America's Undeclared Wars also explores relationship between the CIA and the military.
Writer Stefan Zweig in Exile
By the 1930s, Stefan Zweig had become the most widely translated living author in the world, but after Hitler rose to power, Zweig became an increasingly isolated exile, and in 1942, he killed himself. Biographer George Prochnik tells his story.
Minimum Wage and the Economics of Poverty
For our series Strapped: A Look at Poverty in America, Robert Reich discusses the economics of poverty, the debate over raising the minimum wage, and how the recession has affected the poorest Americans. He'll also talk about how growing income inequality is connected to poverty, and a recent report that the American middle class is no longer the wealthiest middle class in the world and what that change means. Professor Reich is Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley and Senior Fellow at the Blum Center for Developing Economies and was Secretary of Labor in the Clinton administration. He has written 13 books—his latest is Beyond Outrage—and the film "Inequality for All."
Casebook, a Novel by Mona Simpson
Mona Simpson talks about her new novel, Casebook, about a young boy's quest to uncover the mysteries of his unraveling family. What he discovers turns out to be what he least wants to know: the inner workings of his parents' lives.
Guest Picks: Mona Simpson
Writer Mona Simpson was on the Leonard Lopate Show recently to talk about her novel, Casebook. She also told us about what she's listening to -- on the radio, in the car, at home.


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31 Oct 2014
Fire It Up! It's Halloween!
Happy Halloween CFB!
I hope you all are recovering well from a solid week of training. How are those hands and shoulders after "Eva'? Well done to everyone that attacked that. It's not easy going in and looking at 5 rounds with times over 30min. Yesterday Neal spoke of Box Breathing and Feeding the Right Dog. Be sure to review that blog post and start incorporating deliberate, positive thoughts into your workouts, especially when they're "Eva".
Before we get into why I want you to keep practicing mental toughness and the upcoming workouts…
Halloween Potluck at CFB tonight at 7:30pm! Bring your favorite Halloween dish and costume. We'll have music and good times and there are already 20 people who have RSVP'ed. Get excited and sign up below to let us know you're coming!
Also, if you're looking for more fun with CFB, this Sunday at 4pm we will be having "Afternoon Tea with Linda" and attacking the "Linda" WOD. I hear Coach Mickey will even have his favorite pot of tea brewing. Just show up ready for some fun and throw-down!
Ok, now to the future… What's in store for the month of November? Why is Coach Pat writing the Fire It Up Friday blog?
Neal has given me the privilege to program for the best athletes in Boston. Yes that's you CFB! I have put together some solid programming for the month of November with a good bit of challenge and mental toughness opportunities as well as a dash of fun. Of course I think it's all fun and I hope you will too.
This month I want each of you to think about what you enjoy the most in a wod and what you enjoy the least. What are your goats? What are your weaknesses? How can you improve yourself even by 1% everyday this month? I challenge you all to commit to two days a week that include things you're not good at. The only way we improve and get better is by deliberate practice and mental toughness. Attack the things you're not good at two times every week and do it with positive thoughts and deliberate focus. If you accept this challenge I guarantee you will see some PR's this month and feel much stronger as we head into the holidays.
Every Friday I will post the workouts for the next week. Please review them and be prepared not only for what's in store, but whatever mother nature may be throwing our way. If we need to be outside and it's raining or cold, we will be outside. Be prepared. Of course if it's raining to hard or safety is an issue we will come up with an alternate plan, but be prepared to do quality work regardless.
Without further ado, the programming for next week …
"Pat's Partner Stadium"
Partners Alternate
1 Section + 3 Push ups
4 Rounds For Total Reps w/ 1min Rest Between (Teams of 4, Rotate Each Round)
750m Row (Time Keeper for Each Round)
Box Jumps (24/20)
Pull Ups
1a. Wall Climb to 20sec Handstand Hold x4
1b. 4 Pistols Each Leg (scale by standing on Box) x4
2. 15-12-9-6-3
Back Squats (155/105)
Barbell Roll Outs from Knees
10 Double Unders*
*Add 10 Double Unders after each round
1. Deadlift
3 reps @ 70%
220.127.116.11.2 Strict Handstand Push-ups, rest 3:00
3 reps @ 80%
184.108.40.206.2 Strict Handstand Push-ups, rest 3:00
3+ reps @ 90%
184.108.40.206.2 Strict Handstand Push-ups
5 Strict T2B
50m Bear Crawl
5 Ball Slams
PR Wednesday
1. 1RM Jerk – 15min
2. "Helen"
400m Run
21 KB Swings (1.5/1)
12 Pull Ups
1. 10RM OHS – 15min
2. Complete For Time …
500m Run w/ Plate (45/25)
18 Burpees to Plate
18 Box Jumps (20" Box + Plate)
18 Burpees to Plate
18 OH Walking Lunges w/ Plate
18 Burpees to Plate
18 Goblet Squats w/ Plate
18 Burpees to Plate
500m Run w/ Plate
3 Hang Squat Clean @70%
3 Push Ups
5min Rest
3 Power Clean @60%
5 Hollow Rocks (Scale w/ 10" Hollow Hold)
You know what to do CFB….
Fire it Up! It's Friday!
Congratulations to Drew Tennant for placing second at the 50th HOCR!
Hope everyone had an awesome weekend enjoying some of the best rowing in the world at the 50th Anniversary of the Head of the Charles Regatta! Drew is a rower from Community Rowing who has been working with Renegade Rowing to get stronger and faster without overtraining. He raced in the Men's Masters Single Event last weekend and took home some hardware while rowing less than 50k a week. He will be joining the Renegade Rowing Club this winter to help push everyone to improve their 2k and get pumped for CRASH-B's – The World Indoor Rowing Championship.
The Renegade Rowing Club will hold coached practices on Tuesday mornings at 6am starting November 4th. There will also be practices on Wednesday nights at 6pm where I will participate and throw down with all of you. Get excited and let me know if you're going to join us. Send me an email and signup in the gym!
Congratulations to Ashley S. for taking first in the 18th Annual RPS Power Challenge: Boston last weekend! Here is a video of her crushing her opening Deadlift at 330 lbs. She went 6 for 9 on all of her lifts with a total of 775. In the Back Squat she hit 275 and in the Bench she hit 170. After this weekends competition she is now in the top ten lifters on the RPS Leader Board. Well done committing to your training Ashley and keep up the awesome work! If you guys see her in the gym give her a pound!
For more information and results on the meet checkout revolutionpowerlifting.com
Renegade Rowing Breakfast – Sunday @10:30am!
If you're interested in joining the Renegade Rowing Club this year we will be starting in a couple of weeks. Come by the gym this Sunday (10/19/14) at 10:30am to enjoy some coffee, bagels, and stories of years past. We will be getting everyone fired up about the upcoming Renegade Rowing League and training for the best 2,000m race of your life at the CRASH-B Indoor Rowing World Championship in February! Please send me an email – [email protected] – if you're planning on stopping by or if you'd like to join us this year. After breakfast and the info session we will all be heading over to the Charles River to cheer on the crews racing in the Head of the Charles Regatta!
Hope to see you all Sunday!
08 Oct 2014
Breathe, Walk, Cheer! CFB and RR Represent!
Hey CFB! Great work on those rowing intervals on Tuesday. Everyone really got after it and the form is definitely coming along. Keep it up! Speaking of rowing…
Life get's crazy, especially this time of year as we gear up for fall parties and the holidays – CFB Halloween Party Anyone? In the Rowing World, the Head of the Charles is known to rowers as Rowing Christmas. Every year on the third weekend of October, rowers past and present gather to remember the good old days and push themselves to the limit against the best in the world. If you can get outside today, go for a walk along the Charles River. You will more than likely see other random people both tall and small looking at the bridges and turns scouting their line for race day. Keep an eye out for coaching launches filled with coxswains doing the same thing from the water. The biggest regatta in the world is just over a week away. Time to get excited!
If you're interested in checking out the Head of the Charles next weekend, October 18-19, I'll be cheering on our very own Bob E. around 9am on Saturday morning from the Western Ave. Bridge. He'll be racing in a single for the first time and I can't wait to see him get after it. On sunday you can also check out the Boston College Men's Crew Team who I've been training with Renegade Rowing. Either way it should be an amazing weekend with lots of fun activities, so get outside and drink it in! Here's a spectator's guide if you'd like more info.
Never seen the Head of the Charles Regatta before? Try the following today! Take 15 minutes today to stop. Breathe. And go for a walk. Watch some rowing. How does the boat move in relation to the body? What part of the stroke does the boat move the fastest? How's the form look compared to your erging on Tuesday?
If you're lucky enough to do this please share your thoughts, where you were, and what you saw!
20 Sep 2014
Beat The Streets!
Beat The Streets Fundraiser
From Tina Ramos – Founder of CrossFit Kids Boston
When I started my CrossFit journey five years ago I knew this was a training method I wanted to use to help kids and teens. I have been fortunate to be able to use this type of training to help kids while I was at CrossFit Boston. Since June I have been out pursuing the other half of my dream~ making CrossFit accessible to the most needy kids in the City of Boston. I've been doing this in partnership with Neil Jacobs, the founder of The 3PointFoundation.
The core mission of The 3PointFoundation is to help inner city kids prepare and go to college. The teachers who work in the program do this by taking the kids out of the city and to a summer camp over a 4-week period—an academic camp. For 8 hours a day these kids must be in the classroom studying the basics of math, writing and reading. It's a rigorous program for most 5th grade students and on top of the high academic expectation is a curriculum that the boys must live everyday—high character expectations. The boys are held to high standards of behavior and the curriculum makes character a part of the daily requirements.
During the school year the academic preparation continues at the Reggie Lewis Center every week.
The hook is basketball. Thus, the 3Points ~ academics, character and basketball. This year we are adding a new hook, CrossFit! I am writing to you the CrossFit Boston community to get involved and help support us as we branch out. You love CrossFit and you know these boys and girls will! What does your support go towards? Great question!
We are first trying to build awareness amongst many leading CrossFit communities in and around Boston. We are letting you know we will be launching our program at the Reggie Lewis Center in Roxbury. We are raising funds to help pay for equipment and eventually send CrossFit coaches to Kid certification courses. We have a plan to make this program a part of the bigger Steve's Club National Program for at-risk youth. With your support we can make this one of the strongest programs in the nation. The goal is to have a CrossFit program for inner city youth at the Reggie Lewis Center and to help these kids continue to pursue excellence in school so that someday they can go to college.
Who knows, one day these 5th grade kids may become a member of the CFB community but it all starts on Saturday, October 4th.
We are having BEAT The Streets Throw Down at CFB during the morning hours. Get your team ready ~ One Male and One Female per team. Scaled and Rx Divisions! Sign up on the white board with your partner.
What you donate is up to you. We are so happy to have you join our BEAT The Streets Team!
When: Saturday, October 4th
Time: WOD 1 takes off at 9 a.m. with Scaled Division; followed right after by the Rx Division
WOD 2 starts at 10 a.m. with Scaled Division; followed by Rx Division
WOD 3 starts at 11 a.m. with Scaled Division; followed by Rx Division
It's a morning of competition and celebration. We are celebrating building a wider community for the most needy of our kids in the City of Boston.
And if that wasn't enough we are continuing the fun at UMass Boston on Sunday, October 12th. The top 3 teams in the Rx and Scaled division will make the finals at UMass Boston and go against the top teams from the other participating affiliates:
Reebok CrossFit Back Bay
CrossFit New England
CrossFit 617
CrossFit Medusa
So get your game face on and get ready to help a kid here in Boston! Your participation is necessary to make this dream a reality. If you can't compete either day consider volunteering your time.
If you need more details please let me know. You can email me at: [email protected]
29 Aug 2014
It's the last Friday of Summer! Labor Day is Monday and the kids start school the day after, if they didn't already. It's a great time to recommit to your fitness and goals. We have a lot of programs coming up to help you do just that. Strength Challenge 2.0 is on the horizon, Mobility class, and the Co-Ed Throwdown. I know the list definitely has gotten larger the last few days of those participating in the Throwdown. It's going to be a ton of fun for everyone.
We will be running one class this Monday at 9am. It's none other than "Fight Gone Bad". Put in the work to recognize all the contributions workers have made to the strength, prosperity, and well-being of our country.
The last two weeks have been spent finding 3RM's in many lifts. Beginning this upcoming week the strength lifts will be based on percentages of those lifts. You need to compute the Estimated 1RM for each of the lifts to ensure you get the most out of the training. Here's how:
1 Rep Max = wt lifted x 3 reps x .0333 + wt lifted
Lets assume you hit 300 on the back squat for 3 reps. Punch that into the formula and it looks like this:
1RM = (300 x 3) x .0333 + 300
1RM = (900 x .0333) + 300
From here you will take your percentages as written for the day.
Saturday 8/30
CF Warm up
1. Back Squat – 10-1-10-1-10
2. 3 rounds for time
400m run
21 Front Squats, 115/75
15 Pull-ups
Sunday 8/31
With a partner complete for time
200m Medball run, 20#/15#
Max Burpees
400m Medball run, 20#/15#
Max Power Clean, 95/65
800m Medball run, 20#/15#
Max Back Squats, 95/65
While 1st partner completes the medball run, partner 2 performs max burpees. They switch partner 2 runs while partner 1 performs max burpees. Continue until both have completed the 800m run. Score is both time in seconds + reps completed.
Monday 9/1 – Labor Day 9am WOD ONLY
"Fight Gone Bad"
3 rounds of:
Wall-ball shots, 20-lb. ball, 10-ft. target (reps)
Sumo deadlift high-pull, 75 lb. (reps)
Box jump, 20-inch (reps)
Push press, 75 lb. (reps)
Row (calories)
In this workout you move from each of five stations after a minute. The clock does not reset or stop between exercises. This is a five-minute round from which a one-minute break is allowed before repeating. On call of "rotate," the athletes must move to next station immediately for best score. One point is given for each rep, except on the rower where each calorie is one point.
Tuesday 9/2
1. Heaving Snatch Balance – 3 x 5 keep it light and focus on technique
2. Complete reps of 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1
Squat snatch, 135/95
Push-ups (double the reps)
PR Wednesday 9/3
1. Back squat
5 @ 60%
max dips BW – rest 2:00
5 @ 70%
8-12 dips BW+ (AHAP) – rest 2:00
5+ @ 80%
8-12 dips BW+ (AHAP)
2. "Grace"
30 Clean and jerks for time (should be no longer than 6 minutes)
Thursday 9/4
1. Run 3 x 500 @ 80% rest 2:00 between efforts
21 Russian Swings, 32kg/24kg
14 Goblet Squats, 32kg/24kg
7 Pull-ups
Complete 2 rounds for time
25 Deadlift, 275/175
25 Box Jumps, 24/20
25 Wallball shots, 20/15
25 Power clean, 185/125
25 Wallball shots, 20/15
25 Box Jumps, 24/20
25 Push press, 135/85
Saturday 9/6
1. Shoulder press
5 reps @ 60%
Max strict pull-ups BW, rest 2:00
5 reps @ 70%
8-10 strict pull-ups (AHAP) BW+, rest 2:00
5+ reps @ 80%
8-10 strict pull-ups (AHAP) BW+, rest 2:00
2. Complete 3 rounds for time
Row 500m
35 Air Squats
20 Aug 2014
Do you have a Pistol? Want to master them?
Howdy CFB! How's your training going? When's the last time you mastered a skill? Have you done a strict Handstand Push Up or Double Under yet? Have you dreamed of doing Pistols? Well this September it's time to make those dreams a reality! You're coaches will be rolling out extra skill programming to be done before and/or after classes. In order to improve and continually progress we must challenge ourselves, and that means working on our goats on a consistent basis.
I'll be helping everyone master Pistols!
Before we get going I'd like you all to read an article on why your squat may be different then someone else's. This way we're on the same page and can begin working on why you don't have a pistol yet. We need to figure out your optimal stance for the squat and then consider how this might affect your setup for the pistol and what you need to improve. As you read this article you'll discover why some people can squat narrow and some people have to squat wide. Should everyone strive to squat with their butt to their heels? You shall find out.
The Best Kept Secret Why People Have to Squat Differently! (from themovementfix.com)
After checking out this article and video, comment here with your ideal squat stance and why you think that is.
18 Jul 2014
071814 – Fire It Up Friday!
It's a great morning here in Ol' Latrobe while getting away with the family for a few days. We have been spending time relaxing, hitting the parks for the kids, and reuniting with family that we haven't seen for some time. Getting away is good for recharging the batteries so we can hit it hard again once we are back in town. I am looking forward to hitting some heavy iron!
It's about time for me to FIRE IT UP and here is what I am going to be doing for my workout today:
2 suicide sprints on the basketball court
5 Burpees
10 Push ups
15 Sit-ups
20 Squats
Next Friday is our In-House Throwdown beginning at 6:00pm. The heats will go off every 30 minutes with 8 athletes at a time. Right now the plan is for 5 Heats finishing the final heat at 8:30pm. Afterwards we will be ordering in delivery from Soul Fire BBQ or you can bring something from home. Bring your favorite summer beverage and kick back with some friends.
Sign up for your Heat HERE.
Saturday 8/19
1. EMOM 12 – women 4 snatch/men 2 Snatch @ 75%
2. Row :30/:30 – 20 rounds
:30 @ 90% take 7-10 seconds off your 500m pace
:30 rest
Hold the pace for all 20 rounds
Sunday 8/20
"Grace + Helen"
With a partner perform the following:
60 Clean and Jerks, 135/95
6 rounds of
400m run
21 KB Swings, 24kg/16kg
12 Pull-ups
For the clean and jerks the partners must alternate every 10 reps until all 60 reps are completed. Then the partners will alternate every round until both complete 3 rounds each of the workout. The total time to complete the entire workout is the score.
Monday 8/21
Perform three rounds of this couplet for time.
Three muscle-ups
50 sit-ups
1) Perform any sit-up you want.
2) If you still can't perform the muscle up. Give us 15 strict pull-ups and 15 strict dips per round.
3)Typically, you'll have the strength for a muscle-up when you can do 15 pull-ups and dips without a pause.
Tuesday 8/22
1a. Front squat – 4 sets x women 8-12 reps/men 5 reps @ 70%; 21×1, rest 2 mins between sets
1b. Dips – 4 x Amrap (-4), stop 4 reps shy of failure
2. 10 sets x :10 L-sit hold, rest :30 between sets
3. 21-15-9 for time
Goblet squat
Wednesday 8/23
Tabata Squats
Rest 4 minutes
Tabata Thruster, 45/35
Rest 4 minutes
Tabata Clean, 95/65
1) The Tabata Interval is 20 seconds of work followed by 10 seconds of rest, repeated 8 times.
2) Add the three scores from each effort for a total score for the workout.
Thursday 8/24
1. Power Clean – 4 sets x 22.214.171.124 @ 70%, rest 3 minutes between sets
2a. Deadlift – 8, 8, 6, 6 – touch and go, rest 1:30
2b. Handstand push-up cluster – 3.3.3 x 4 sets, rest 1:30
3. Row as far as possible in 7 minutes.
Friday 8/25
1. High Bar Back Squat – 5 reps x 3 sets @ 70%; 22×2
2. "Bell"
3 rounds for time
15 Deadlift, 185/125
15 Pull ups
15 Front Squat, 185/125
1. 3 attempts (10 min) to establish a 2RM Front Squat
1 minute rest then
Row 16 calories
8 Burpees
The CrossFit Boston In-House Throwdown will be next Friday, July 25th at 6:30pm with food and beverages to follow. So the question is…. Are you ready to compete? Against yourself? Against others? Below are a couple of my thoughts on what it means to be an athlete, and even better, a firsthand athlete. Read through, reflect on your training and experience in the gym, and share what you think it means to be an athlete.
The Firsthand Athlete
A firsthand athlete has the competence and confidence to rely on personal experiences to prepare for, execute, and learn from a performance both as an individual and as part of a team. The in-house throwdown at CrossFit Boston is a unique opportunity to test your athleticism because there is no coach calling plays, talking you through the pre-comp warm-up, or cueing you on that one technical or tactical fix during the wod.
If you can't make the throwdown because of vacation, you will still need to know what to do to keep up with your training. When an athlete is away on vacation there is no coach to walk them through a workout. When an athlete enters the arena on game-day or goes home for vacation it's up to them to know what to do, what to think about, what to fix, and what to focus on. The firsthand athlete actively communicates with their body, teammates, and coaches to continually learn and work towards their goals.
The CrossFit Boston Athlete
One of my main goals as a coach at CrossFit Boston is to develop Firsthand Athletes. With a class full of Firsthand Athletes, who can work hard together and stay focused on what they must do as individuals to make the rest of the group better, the possibilities are endless.
Have a great Thursday, work hard this week, and see you at the Throwdown next week!


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heres what i figure.
material costs for one set: 20 dollars
for a 1'x1'x1/2" piece of aluminum its roughly 60 bucks and you can get about 16 plates of that much material. 1x2 is 100 dollars and so on. the bigger piece of aluminum you get the cheaper the cost.
designing and programming
50 bucks as it is a simple design and simply takes minutes
bit wear and replacement
? as i do not know tooling but i would imagine pretty cheap as they use one bit for quite a while.
profit. alot seeing as they wanted to charge me 71 dollars for each piece and wouldnt budge when i told them that i knew how much it cost for the material. he tried teling me it cost 60 dollars for one piece of aluminum lol
That 1' x 1' piece of aluminum is sub $20 at any good shop.
The programming and setup time is prolly 1hr at most typical shop rates vary from $65-$150/hr.
Tooling for this job would be simple, fixturing could prolly be done in a vice.
What you are forgetting is that its a cheap job to do yes, but if that machinist and his machine could be making complex parts for another customer at a much higher $/hr rate than what you are asking him to do. So he is going to make up some of that lost time and pass the $ along to you.
Cars and junk overwhelm my life.
you could always check out emachineshop.com
Cars and junk overwhelm my life.
do you know the distance on center for the screw holes ?
Cars and junk overwhelm my life.
ive decided to wait until erevlydeux comes out with his as i dont want to step on someones toes when we as a whole want the cheapest solution without having to buy from a company that solely looks at profit. if we get 10, 36 bucks is a steal. ive already put down that ill take 2 for myself and my buddies a4. so thats 4 or 5 so far. need 4 or 5 more and hopefully we will have a solution.
Last edited by 05GTIMarine; 05-12-2011 at 01:22 PM.
theres the image.
priced out for a lot of 40 which is 10 sets and alowing 25 days of lead would come out to about 31 dollars a set not including the 4 dollars in hardware. so 35 dollars altogether without shipping.
i'd take a set
Cars and junk overwhelm my life.
Just because I'm wary of the moderators deleting a separate thread specific to all this purchasing/group buy stuf... who do we have on the lineup for people interested in spacers in general? This is not specific to me, or 05GTIMarine... we've both been talking and are working to collaborate more than anything.
List so far:
- me
- 05GTIMarine
- dknl
- bigivn
- 24Vjrod1.8T
- nofearhawk
theswoleguy? Vegeta Gti?
If you are interested. pls put your area code in with it so that we can get an idea on shipping pls
Last edited by 05GTIMarine; 05-12-2011 at 07:15 PM.
yeah i'm down..sorry lol
96706 son
Shipping is a flat rate the way I'd do it. $5 in the continental U.S. $10 to Canada.
As far as the chamfer, I just wouldn't bother with it on the outer edge with that design... mostly because I think it'd gonna look poopy because they'll never be able to keep that crisp wing/circular edge with the chamfer. I have to make some adjustments then I'll post up a picture of what I have in mind.
hawaii dude
as of right now
List so far:
- erevlydeux
- 05GTIMarine
- dknl
- bigivn
- 24Vjrod1.8T
- nofearhawk
- brightgolf
- vegeta gti
thats 9 boys and girls just need one more or hell lets get 20 if we can. any more interested in these.
you can add me to the list if you dont mind
List so far:
- erevlydeux
- 05GTIMarine
- dknl
- bigivn
- 24Vjrod1.8T
- nofearhawk
- cincytt
- brightgolf
- vegeta gti
we have 10 . is there any more of you out there that would like a set. the more that are in the less the cost.
I'll go in on a set.
Im in.
Leon Cupra R AWD 2008cc E85, PPT5935R 0.82ar, 723bhp
Also, just to make it very clear.... these won't be $36 shipped to your door as mentioned above. That was a raw pure cost of manufacturing figure I had mentioned, which doesn't factor in other costs that come into play as they get passed on from me to you. They'll most likely be closer to $60 shipped, $70 if you want hardware with it. (These two numbers, respectively, will go down with a bigger set of people interested.)
Like my PostReleased products, though, these will work, and work well, and I am doing a lot of test fitting, measuring, remeasuring, printing, mocking up, cutting, fixing, tweaking, etc etc, to make sure that not only you feel confident sending me your money, but that I feel comfortable taking it.
Here is a mockup of what I personally have so far. You'll notice that I keep the base flange thin (so that hold downs won't be out in space an inch over your coilpacks and you'll also notice the alignment tab holes in the center bore to keep the coilpack from rotating around too much.
(Note that these will actually be mounted at a 45 degree angle to the long edge of the valve cover, and the alignment hole tabs for the coilpack will need to be adjusted... but that will happen and this is just a mock up when I threw them in for fitment testing.)
Adjusted list:
- erevlydeux
- 05GTIMarine
- dknl
- bigivn
- 24Vjrod1.8T
- nofearhawk
- cincyTT
- brightgolf
- Vegeta Gti
- sabbySC
- Gulfstream
- Yareka
Last edited by erevlydeux; 05-12-2011 at 09:18 PM.
Bump ....Toby builds some great stuff. Hey hit me up when these are done...will take em for a test run on my daily.
Eurodyne Software
PAG parts turbo kits
42DD Exhaust systems
lookin good, just let me know when you need some money sent your way.
brightgolf and i are backing out as these are not what we want.
1. they will not allow fitment of the ecs hold downs we already have as with others.
2. the notches will not allow the proper seal as this is the main goal of the plate in the first place.
3. your making 30 dollar profit on test plates. per set. so 3-400 dollars on a run. what happened to at cost. i already got flamed for ppl thinking i was trying to make a profit.
4. they look like **** and poorly planed.
theres no positive as these wont work and wont seal.
im going back to the drawing board and redesigning them to:
fully seal the coilpack
ensure that they accept ecs hold downs
and are strong enough to hold up to constant heat changes.
40 plates = 10 sets at approx 7-8 dollars a plate your looking at 32 dollars a set of plates and 4-6 dollars in hardware. then add shipping and we will probably be at around 40-45 dollars/set.
there will be no profit on my side as i will pay what you are paying for the same product the more we get the cheaper it will be. i will even provide all documentation to reassure you that i am not making any profit. this section of the forum is not meant to make money. if you want to make a profit go post in the classifieds.
I said yes to 35$ not 70+$.
Im out.
Leon Cupra R AWD 2008cc E85, PPT5935R 0.82ar, 723bhp
ah yes the drama begins.
Cars and junk overwhelm my life.
I will go with Marine. Make sense and $70 is a bit high.
Instead why don't we focus on I don't know, the actual coilpacks and spark plug gap? Instead of machining little adapters that are not absolutely necessary if you swap your valve cover.
Or if you flatten, bend and drill some metal then toss in some material to be a phenolic spacer, DIY coilhold downs for like 10$.
To get the thread back on track mine are on the truck to me now, I have some brand new plugs pregapped to .040 and will be putting everything in after work today. This will be on a 2001 Audi TT AMU.
yeah, I'm not seeing all the issue here about needing spacers... Toby does make great stuff, I'll give him that.
What I will say though is, if you want a spacer to seal the difference in height and use the hold downs. It would cost roughly $50-$100 to have the valve cover modified, as in weld spacers on and grind it down to look OEM.
*THE PANDIT PROJECT(click me!)
Relax, nobody is butthurt over it, but lets just keep this on track before it is 5-6 pages of spacers and arguing then the meat and information is scattered between.
There is another thread started for this now. Thank you, its just tough trying to look through everything for the good technical information when you have to scroll through quoted pictures and drawings and differences in pricing etc.
Has anyone tested beyond .40? I will be stepping up this weekend until I find a "limit" APR 93 file on a not so big turbo (ko4-023)


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22.04.08 - By Anthony Coleman: First of all lets get something out of the way: yes Saturday nights Light Heavyweight title fight between Joe Calzaghe and Bernard Hopkins was boring and ugly. It featured the script of a typical Hopkins fight: grappling, clinching and fouling. Secondly, the fight was still of extreme importance. We had two of the best fighters of the last fifteen years facing one another while they were still pound for pound level guys and not semi-washed up geezers. Despite the low quality of the action the fight actually meant something to the legacies of both men and the business of Boxing. Now it is the time to reflect and really consider what we have learned from Saturday nights encounter.
For Joe Calzaghe this victory continues the roll he has been on since destroying Jeff Lacy in their Super Middleweight unification match two years ago, and he can now make a legitimate case for being the pound-for-pound best fighter in the sport.. However, unlike the aforementioned Lacy annihilation and his win over Mikkel Kessler, Calzaghe was not impressive. Besides getting dumped on his pants in the first round courtesy of a perfect Hopkins right hand, there were obvious holes in his game. Calzaghes punching technique was way off. While he has always been known as a slapper, on Saturday night, his punches lacked any semblance of snap. The man only landed soft powerless combinations (which is infuriating because he has very good punching power when he throws his weight behind his punches). Plus at times he was open to counters because his punches were wide. A lot of Calzaghes sloppy technique can be attributes to his opponent, but some of the deficiencies we saw could have been avoided.
Yet Calzaghe was able to soldier on and land enough of his punches, to earn the victory, and bank more points in his pound-for-pound ratings. By beating an all-time great for the Light Heavyweight title, and winning undisputed recognition as the Super Middleweight champion with his win over Kessler last year you can make a strong case for him being the Number 1 fighter p4p. Also there are more big money paydays to look forward to. There is a talked about showdown between he and Roy Jones Jr., but he could also fight Middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik, rematch with Kessler, square-off with Chad Dawson (who I think will not be so avoided anymore after reviling how bad his chin was in his controversial win against Johnson) or face off with Glen Johnson (and I would love to see that fight). The doors are opened for Joe to make some serious cash before he rides off into the sunset of his tremendous career.
While the sky is still blue for Calzaghe, the same cannot be said for Bernard Hopkins. He was able to make the fight close for three reasons. The first being that knockdown, the second was his John Ruiz-esque grappling, and the third is the fact that to the day he dies he will always be one of the best defensive fighters in the sport. Even though Calzaghe landed the most punches on the modern day Old Master than any fighter before him, the man still had a hard time landing and if he did he rarely landed cleanly. This performance proves again that,whether you like him or not (and lets be real many simply do not like him), Bernard Hopkins is an effin Boxing God.
However, besides those weapons, the rest of his performance left a lot to be desired and the now former Light Heavyweight champ and one of the greatest Middleweights in history has a lot to be concerned about. The most obvious thing that we should note was his total and utter lack of handspeed. All night long Hopkins was in position to land his lead right hand counter, but he had trouble landing it. Make no mistake; Calzaghe exhibited holes in his defense that, even as late as the Taylor fights or the Tarver fight Hopkins would have capitalized on with his right hand and except in the first round it wasnt a huge factor because his hands couldnt get there fast enough to Calzaghes face. You could see him thinking about it, but his body wouldnt allow him to do what he commanded it to.
Plus Hopkins couldnt sustain an offensive attack. He is no longer capable of landing that right hand and left hook to the body or head in combination. He offensive attack Saturday night was to hit a single counter shot then force a clinch.
Hopkins also couldnt stick to his game plan. His main objective was to keep the fight at center ring and to maul and land his punches on Calzaghe. Youll also notice that Hopkins was spending most of the fight on the ropes; and it wasnt because he decided suddenly to change his strategy. His legs wouldnt allow him to stand at center ring with an opponent of Calzaghes caliber.
But perhaps the most alarming sign was the fact that Hopkins, a man known for his superhuman conditioning, was visibly fatigued. By the 9th round his stamina was clearly fading as he was obviously breathing from his mouth for air. When was the last time you saw a Bernard Hopkins fight when his opponent had more energy than he had when the 12th round began? Hopkins energy shortage was shocking to me.
Even at his diminished physical state Hopkins would probably be good enough to defeat contenders in the Light Heavyweight division. But judging from his performance on Saturday night, he simply doesnt have the speed, reflexes, or even the stamina to defeat Boxings elite fighters. Based on an admirable effort and his fantastic body of work, B-Hop will still be in my personal pound-for-pound list. However, it might be time for him to retire.
While this fight may have bordered on suckiness, it actually had repercussions on the sport. We saw a great fighter add another badge on his trip to Canastota, and we may have seen the curtain call on the career of one of the greats. In the next couple of months we will see the ripple effects of this fight.
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NBA Jam( I don't know, maybe it has something to do with that?) No, I'm obviously not talking about the basketball music that played in that one shooter on an annoyingly infinite loop, nor the return of crystal clear PNG banners, but the fact that I beat a sports game. And not one of those Wii tech demo sports games, either; this is a real sports game with real sports people. I'm aware that most of you think my experience with any sports game would look a lot like the last ten seconds of this clip, and while I did suck pretty hard at the game, I am kind of autistic, so it wasn't all bad.
Normally, I start with the story, but this is a sports game, so fuck that. Wait, I know: I can tell the story of how I came to play this game. Some time ago (my brain is no longer capable of registering time), I saw some footage of NBA Jam in Dalai's blog. I'm not gonna tell which blog until he pays me, for I don't advertise for free. Anyway, something about that video sparked in me a revelation: I could play that game! It's not like it's football, the Halo of sports (it's near inaccessible and speaking ill will of it will lead to your demise), or baseball, the turn-based sport (the only people who still care about it are most likely from Japan); this is basketball, the....um....Pong of sports. If you found that joke lacking, then you know how I felt when I actually started playing as the secret characters in this game, like Al Gore. Yes, Al Gore is in this game, which is reason enough to party Al Gore-style. Or it would be if Al Gore was actually any good. He's about as good a basketball player as he is a doll, and the worst part is that if you decide to play as a secret character, you HAVE to play as them. No supporting role for Al Gore, the Vice President of the 90s; this is his time to shine, and there's nothing you can do about it.
Except play as another character, although I don't see how much good that would do. They all kinda suck, and not in that their stats aren't all 9s or anything like that (everybody's the same); they just start to suck as the game goes on. Get used to those easy dunks early on, because by the end of the third quarter, both the ball and the net will develop the exact same magnetic field, causing your awesome dunk to fly right into the opposite net. I know that I shouldn't expect somebody leaping nine feet into the air at the speed of sound to be thinking about accuracy, but I demand pay-off for my whacky dunks, damn it! They're the only insane thing in this game, at least meet me halfway! I know that I should've explained the basic gameplay by now, but we all know how to play basketball: some people slam a ball into the ground repeatedly, shoot it into a basket, and wait for the mascot to climb up the ladder and get the b...wait, they don't do that anymore? WHAT HERESY IS THIS!? How else have they desecrated this game? Goal tending? Yea, I remember getting that a lot, but I still don't know what it means. I'd say that it's grabbing the ball at a certain point mid-air, but it was never clear when grabbing said ball was wrong. I'm guessing it's just a "let's give the computer the points anyway" mechanism hooked up to a random number generator.
By now, it's pretty obvious that I know nothing about basketball, which explains why I went for an extremely cheap strategy. First priority: get the ball. Button mashing at the beginning usually works, not much there. Next, I take my sweet time making it to the basket. I know of the turbo button that lets me run and return to my farm on Kansas, but fuck Kansas and the ability to run, for neither are necessary to anybody. Not that it matters, since I soon noticed that the pace remains the same, no matter how fast you run. Oh, and speaking of unnecessary, don't pass the ball ever; you can't control the other guy, and they're just gonna waste it on a dunk. You know better than that. You're going to the corner for a 3-pointer, mainly because the guys who made this game never figured out what "equidistant" means. Sure, it's gonna miss a lot, but you've prevented the opposition from scoring a lot AND each one you get puts you ahead by at least 1 point, given that the computer loves dunks, even if they are Cleveland. Or any Eastern team, really; they all suck. Now add an audience that applauds telepathically, repeat about 900 times, and you've beaten NBA Jam. (There's no single player campaign, or at least it's not very obvious.) *preemptive record scratch* Yet none of that makes it a bad game. If I've learned anything from playing Wii Sports Resort, it's doing the same thing over and over again in a way not intended by the game doesn't help it. NBA Jam's still a good game if you have 30 minutes to blow and the right music, so I give it the Half Houral Sex Award.
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- Bill Clinton's in this game, and unlike the latest NBA Jam, a Democratic president works here. (Hint: politicians don't work as joke characters if they're actually good at basketball.)
- Too bad none of the other characters work.
- A functional, if repetitive and commonplace game.
I'll never understand Earth politics. Why is Christine O'Donnell denying her witchiness? It's really obvious that she's a witch, and such a thing would really benefit you in the long run. Look at her latest ad, which I like to call "The Mindfuck":
Adventure Island III( Hey, look, a standard game that won't confuse everybody involved!) Wait, it did exactly that!.......It's not often that I finish the opening paragraph in two short sentences. in fact...yea, I can't remember doing something like this EVER. Since I can't think of any way to add substance to this without fucking up the rest of the blog, please enjoy my insane ramblings. Or don't. It's not like anything I'm saying now matters to anything at all.
Unlike this paragraph, which has some relevance. Still completely random, though, but that's the game's fault, really. Ron Jeremy's on this island with his sex doll, whom I suspect went through a Pinocchio-esque quest and became a real slut, when suddenly, a UFO abducts the crap out of her! It's now up to you and the Loch Ness monster to rescue your girlfriend. You accomplish this by following the UFO across the land and yelling at it, which probably explains why it runs away almost every time you visit it. That's not how you rescue a blow-up doll given life, Ron Jeremy! You yell at a UFO, and all you'll get are boss battles! Wait, you're riding a dinosaur that farts out fireballs? Fuck it, then; no boss in the game can withstand the power of dinosaur fireball farts. Just walk up to them, hold down the turbo button, and you'll immediately find out why the spaceship ran away in the first place.
Oh, right, I forgot to explain that there are mounts in this game. Probably because I did the exact same thing in my Adventure Island II blog, but I'm getting ahead of myself. I can't let myself win this race, that dick. Wait, what was I talking about? Right, the mounts. There's a skateboard you'll never use (who uses a skateboard when there are DINOSAURS about?), and a bunch of dinosaurs that balance out really well. I know that it sounds like a weird thing to say about a game at all, especially after telling you how a mediocre Xbox 360 JRPG will destroy all the bosses in the game, but note how I said that it destroys bosses; if you want to destroy the rest of the game, you'll have to switch out different dinosaurs for different situations. For example, you could just destroy all the levels by flying above them as the pterodactyl, right? WRONG! You do that, and you'll never collect all the fruit you need to stay alive; you only use the pterodactyl if you want to annihilate the five vertical levels in the game. For all the horizontal levels (why did I even need to write "horizontal"?), you need to put more thought into it, taking note of the possible terrain and/or any liquids available in said level.
And by liquids, I usually mean lava; dive in there with the right dinosaur, and you can find secret item rooms and warps. Kinda. They're not warps in the sense that you skip levels, but warps in the sense that you play different levels. "Then why use them?", you ask. We've been over this a lot: do not interrupt my blogs, damn it. Just for that, you don't get an answer. Instead, you get to hear me rant about how lazy the game is. See that picture up there? Two things wrong with it: I added Jack Skellington (it's the NES, obviously), and all end parts of the level look like that. I'm pretty sure I could've made that in MS Paint in the late 90s, back when all my computer knew was either a typing tutorial or a shitty Flash animation. You'll be seeing them quite often, mostly due to the fact that you can blast through the levels in under a minute by holding right and turbo, also known as the Kung Fu Master Stratagem. But the biggest way it's lazy? The game itself is just a copy of Adventure Island II. No, not in that pussy Mega Man way, where it's still another game; at one point, I actually consulted YouTube on the matter. I'm still not sure. To be fair, I should logically give it the same score I gave the previous Adventure Island, since I'd have roughly the same level of enjoyment with both games, given the similarities, but I'm way too lazy to look up scores in this behemoth. Besides, I'll buy into the illusion that it's a worse game due to my increased awareness of its flaws (one-hit kills are not fun), since that makes me as lazy as the game. OK, we even? Good. Sunday Funday Award for Lazy NES Copy-Pasting.
Review Synopsis
- The story answers very few questions. What grows when Ron Jeremy's blow-up doll lies?
- It's Adventure Island II.
- It's really damn easy.


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Take a look searching on this national paper/website (Soundings)
Some $125-$132k ! with a 1998 C36MKII at $118k. That is maybe more than the boat was new. I guess it depends what was added and the condition. But you are correct, if you are vigilant and keep looking you can probably get a real nice "fairly new" Catalina 36MKII at a good price. (I found one that was almost a steal....on the market less than a week and I made an offer, before everybody else.....he,he,he)
I love my C36MKII but sometimes some people want something different and the C350 offers that. There are alot of very nice features incorporated in the new C350 that would be nice to have on my boat. (But no boat in this size range can beat the C36 main salon...;-).
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The Phillies still aren't putting an official timetable on Chase Utley's rehabilitation from patellar tendinitis, but general manager Ruben Amaro Jr. did offer some optimism on Saturday evening.
According to Todd Zolecki of MLB.com, Amaro told reporters on Saturday afternoon that he's hopeful Utley will be ready to return to the Phillies' starting lineup before the end of May.
Utley was cleared to begin a running program only nine days ago and has already progressed to straight-line sprints. He has also been participating in light fielding drills and has avoided setbacks to this point.
The Phillies have been using Wilson Valdez primarily at second base since the regular season began. He got off to a hot start but has just one hit in his last 16 at-bats and is down to a .264/.316/.321 batting line.
- macjacmccoy - Apr 24, 2011 at 9:30 AM
Seems a little long to me. After all the updates of late and the videos of him running I figured hed be back middle of May. Dont get me wrong Im happy they are going to take it slow. Id rather the Phillies be extra cautious and be without him now when there winning then to need him later when there not winning and Utley not being able to play b/c they rushed him back and he exasperated his condition.
Anyway after hearing what Amaro said when do you think he will start making rehad assignments 19th-20th? To give him a full week of game action before he rejoins the team. Or do you think they will start him earlier and have him play a game then rest a day or 2 to see how it responds? And continue to do that until hes able to go everyday.
- Jeremiah Graves - Apr 24, 2011 at 3:42 PM
Given all of the early projections of season-ending surgery and "hopefully by the All-Star break"…I'd say this is still pretty optimistic and has to be considered good news for Phillies fans.
Now we'll see if/when he actually makes it back to the field.
- hateradeonrocks - Apr 24, 2011 at 10:07 PM
utley needs to make sure he's absolutely 100% ready. He's a warrior but he always rushes.
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Chase, Rube and Chuck, don't rush it back. Rest up for as long as you need. Don't come back until you are 100%. The Phightins are holding it together right now. They'll need you much more later on in the season for the playoff push and playoffs. Take it easy.
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In a slide show presentation in Microsoft PowerPoint, you can create a hyperlink to a mailto Uniform Resource Locator (URL) to send mail to a specific recipient. The mailto URL uses the following syntax:
where mailto is the protocol, and <email_address> is the e-mail address of the recipient (for example, mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com).
This mailto link can be used in a presentation running in Kiosk mode; however, the Kiosk station must have a method, such as a keyboard, to write the message. Nevertheless, you can format the mailto URL to address a mail message to a specific recipient when you activate the link. This article describes how to create a mailto hyperlink.
To create a mailto hyperlink, follow these steps:
NOTE: For this to work, you must have an e-mail client installed and it must be running correctly.
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