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Nothing could ever prepare someone for the words "You have cancer." And nothing could ever prepare someone to receive news that a family member or loved one has been diagnosed with cancer. Not that long ago, the CEO of BobCAD-CAM, Larry Pendleton, received that call. His sister Wendy had been diagnosed with Stage IV breast cancer.
Wendy is a wife, mother, daughter, sister, and friend. She was just 41 years old when she found herself in such extreme back pain that she couldn't function. After months of pain, she found out that her back was fractured and she would need surgery. After many hours in surgery, her family received the words that no one should hear: "I'm sorry, but we found cancer." These are words that change a life forever. The doctor did a fantastic job of getting as much of the cancer that he could but it started in the breast and spread to her back, with a small spot on her pelvis and liver. Wendy's diagnosis is Stage IV breast cancer and she needs to be treated as aggressively as possible.
Larry went into action with Give Forward, an organization that created a donation-based website that allows friends and family to help patients fighting illness pay medical and other expenses during such times of need. Now, Wendy has a page on the site to campaign: "United to Win with Wendy." In addition, the company has begun other media campaigns to sponsor and help raise money for Wendy.
Please join BobCAD in this fight to help Wendy so she can win this battle. She's capable of winning this but needs help to support her family and with the medical expenses involved in the fight. Since the cancer has to be treated so aggressively, any amount of money is not too small and it is greatly appreciated.
To make a donation to United To Win With Wendy, please visit http://www.giveforward.com/fundraiser/7c22/unitedtowinwithwendy#.
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I know it may have been proposed before, but still... My main character is a Human Liberated Borg, so I would like to have the cosmetic appearance of the Borg engine, shield and deflector, but the Omega or MACO kits are better. I know that many use the Borg engine and disable the cosmetic, but since I was a Borg, I would like to have only the cosmetic. I supposed this could be done for other kits too.
Yes, please. If the appearance mods added to ships from set items could also unlock their appearances in the starship editor, it would also allow Cryptic to add additional appearance mods without having to tie them to additional set pieces. (STF space boss appearance mods, hint hint.)
They already do this with the STF ground stuff...I see no reason it can't also be done on space items.
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(Photo Credit: Boston Bruins) Though the 2012-2013 season finished about three weeks ago, the Bruins have yet to cease development for the upcoming preseason in September. The seventh annual Boston Bruins 2013 Development Camp hosted at Ristuccia Arena in Wilmington, Mass., featured many new, upcoming and hopefully future stars. The camp started on Wednesday, July 10, and wrapped up last Sunday on July 15. So who are the new recruits, draftees and hopefully future outstanding stars for the Bruins? Here was the roster for the Development Camp: Among these players, some were not originally planned to compete in the camp. Casey Bailey, Ryan Carpenter, Alex Cord, Derek Docken and Garnet Hathaway proved to be talented enough and competed on an invite-basis. With the sun blazing relentlessly over the Bay State's sky, the players competing in the camp had a whole different challenge: hydrating and surviving through the heat. The beginning of the week set a steady and reasonable tone of weather with temperatures reaching 75 degrees Fahrenheit. However, the last two days, which proved to be the most intense, featured heat waves with the temperatures sky-rocketing up to 95 degrees Fahrenheit. Many of the players actually threw up because of the mixture consisting of tough workouts and scorching heat. If that does not show you dedication to the game of hockey, than I do not know what does. Heading into the Development Camp, the Bruins had already signed assistant captain, Patrice Bergeron, and starting goaltender, Tuukka Rask, to eight-year contracts last week. Meanwhile, General Manager (GM) Peter Chiarelli traded and made deals to acquire recent Pittsburgh Penguin, Jarome Iginla, and Dallas Star, Loui Eriksson. Needless to say, the past few weeks have showed little evidence that the Bruins cannot bounce back for the 2013-2014 season and that the team is off to a busy and successful offseason.
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SuSE 8.0 compile problems
I have an new box running SuSE 8.0; it has an MSI K7N2G motherboard with integrated NVIDIA nforce lan and audio chipsets.
I download the nforce 1.0-0248 tar driver set and tried to compile on the box. After much gnashing of teeth and reading the posts on the board, I got the drivers to compile and install. The LAN driver seems to load OK on boot; I get no joy with th audio driver.
When try to insmod nvaudio module I get:
insmod nvaudio
/lib/modules/2.4.18-4GB/kernel/drivers/sound/nvaudio.o: unresolved symbol ac97_probe_codec
/lib/modules/2.4.18-4GB/kernel/drivers/sound/nvaudio.o: unresolved symbol unregister_sound_dsp
/lib/modules/2.4.18-4GB/kernel/drivers/sound/nvaudio.o: unresolved symbol register_sound_dsp
/lib/modules/2.4.18-4GB/kernel/drivers/sound/nvaudio.o: unresolved symbol register_sound_mixer
/lib/modules/2.4.18-4GB/kernel/drivers/sound/nvaudio.o: unresolved symbol unregister_sound_mixer
/lib/modules/2.4.18-4GB/kernel/drivers/sound/nvaudio.o: unresolved symbol ac97_set_dac_rate
/lib/modules/2.4.18-4GB/kernel/drivers/sound/nvaudio.o: unresolved symbol ac97_set_adc_rate
The kernel sources from SuSE are installed from the SuSE ftp site along with the default kernel. I haven't gotten any other symbol errors when compiling and installing other kernel modules. Anyone know why these come up?
I tried installing the rpm packaes for SuSE 8.0 for v. 1.0-0241 and v. 1.0-0236; neither of those would load the nvnet and nvaudio modules either wwithout lots of errors that I am too lazy to capture and append here.
Any help getting this resolved so I can have sound under Linux would be greatly appreciated.
BTW, I've been waiting for several days for someone from Nvidia to respond to my email to the firstname.lastname@example.com address about this problem. Is anyone at home there? Does anyone care that their drivers don't work?
I got the sound to work finally by inserting "modprobe nvaudio" into the /etc/init.d/boot.local file. That loaded nvaudio and the other sound modules and I got sound working under X.
Curiously, YAST still doesn't recognize that a sound card is installed.
Also, inserting "alias sound-slot-1 nvaudio" into /etc/modules.conf wouldn't load nvaudio or the other sound modules into the kernel on boot. The solution above was the only I found that would install the modules on boot and get sound working under X.
although I've no idea of Linux internas, I will happily try the mentioned "modprobe nvaudio" into the /etc/init.d/boot.local file.
Because my Epox 8RDA+ board (also with Nforce2 chipset) won't play any sound so far, with Suse Linux 8.2 that is.
Of course I installed Nvidia's Linux driver for the chipset. Then the onboard LAN does work (which didn't without the driver). But sound doesn't.
Well, I'll report if it does the sound trick for me, too.
I'm too trying to install the src.rpm on a SUSE 8.0 and MSI K7N2G combo.
However, after trying
#rpm --rebuild NVIDIA_nforce-1.0-0248.src.rpm
I get an error message telling me "Invalid option '-falign-functions=4'
So, following advice from somewhere else on the net, I then change "falign" to "malign" by doing the following:
cd /usr/src/packages/BUILD/nvidia/nvnet/
chmod 777 Makefile
vi Makefile
I then change falign to malign
Save and quit vi
I even vi Makefile again to make sure it saved the changes
cd /home /[username] \\Dir where I keep the src.rpm file
rpm --rebuild NVIDIA_nforce-1.0-0248.src.rpm
Only to get the same error again
Could you please tell me what is that I'm doing wrong?
I'm fairly new to Linux, and this is the first time I have to fiddle with drivers. Suse recognised my previous MOBO without any fuss, but it's time to move on.
Thanks a lot
You should be able to autoload the driver with
alias sound-slot-0 nvaudio
cd /to/where/you/put/NVIDIA-nforce-1.0-0248.tar.gz
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SACRAMENTO, Calif., March 16 /PRNewswire/ — The State Water Contractors, a statewide organization representing 27 public water agencies in California, released a new analysis today quantifying how regulatory restrictions, theoretically designed to protect endangered fish species, have severely impacted our state's water supply. Clearly demonstrating the mounting water crisis and profound problems within our existing water delivery infrastructure, the regulatory restrictions imposed on California's two major water projects – the State Water Project and the Central Valley Project – have cut a whopping 478,894 acre-feet of water since January.
To put that in perspective, that amount of water would serve more than 3.8 million people for one year. Looking at it another way, it was enough to refill San Luis Reservoir, one of the state's primary water storage facilities that has been drawn down to record levels due to the three-year drought and the fish restrictions. Total capacity for San Luis Reservoir is 2,027,835 acre-feet and, as of Friday, March 12, the reservoir contained only 1,585,326 acre-feet. Lake Oroville, the State Water Project's main storage facility, is at below normal levels due to less than average runoff.
The state's water projects have been controlled by regulatory restrictions (biological opinions for Delta smelt and salmon) for more than two years now, severely limiting the amount of water that state and federal agencies deliver, even in wet years.
"The amount of water that we've lost during the past two and a half months alone would have filled San Luis Reservoir. The ongoing restrictions are preventing us from recovering from the past three years of drought," said Laura King Moon, assistant general manager of the State Water Contractors. "Between regulatory cutbacks and low runoff from the Sierras, we are looking at another bad year for water supplies."
Meanwhile, the cutbacks have failed to boost fish populations. The State Water Contractors have called on the courts as well as state and federal agencies to consider the many other factors that have impacted fish populations in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta (Delta). However, court action is not expected until the window to capture additional water supplies this year has come and gone.
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Of Queers and Kong
Jay Leno, the zeitgeist diviner of late-night talk, regaled his audience recently with mock footage of a "cameo" from a hot new film. There were Jack and Ennis, the cowboy lovers from Brokeback Mountain, in a fevered clinch, while King Kong sniffed the air around them with evident interest. Though this montage tapped into the nasty equation of gay love and animal behavior, it also faced the unsettling fact that our most cherished icons of masculinity are being queered--at least in the movies.
But just how queer are the greatest ape and those two vaqueros? That depends on what queer is. If the term means homosexual, it has everything to do with Brokeback Mountain and nothing to do with King Kong. There isn't the slightest hint in this remake that the world's most famous alpha is into guys. But director Peter Jackson has changed the relationship between Kong and his human captive in a way that is very queer, indeed. Heterosexual they may be, but this pair is utterly outside the norm.
Both films are sagas of doomed love. In Kong it's the bond between a yearning animal and a helpless woman; in Brokeback it's a secret gay affair set in the mid-century American West. Of these two scenarios the closet drama is certainly more gripping, thanks largely to Annie Proulx's powerful story and Ang Lee's unsparing direction. Brokeback Mountain makes the cruelty of homophobia unmistakable and the consequences of passing for straight painfully clear. And everything you've heard about Heath Ledger's performance as the more locked-up lover is true: His face is a map of deprivation. In the context of their time and place these male lovers are certainly queer, but seen in the present their story seems oddly conventional. That's because it conforms to our current assumptions about homosexuality.
Take the fact that both Jack and Ennis had brutal, distant fathers. It's a devastating critique of patriarchal culture, but it also echoes the fashionable fundamentalist idea that disapproving dads make deviant sons. No wonder the Christian right has been so muted in its objections to this film; some of their websites even praise its loving values, while adding (as a protective afterthought) that the relationship itself is repugnant. Not that Brokeback is a brief for reparative therapy. It soundly rejects the idea that the sexuality of these men is subject to change. It makes their gayness fully comprehensible--you might say Heath legible--and that lays the groundwork for a certain kind of empathy.
Many women (and not a few gay men) will see in Ennis a recognizable type: the man who needs you to break through his armor, though you can't. This shared perception is the key to a gay film's success in the mass marketplace. And as Brokeback's producer has said, women are its target audience. Perhaps it's an aspect of female de-repression, or a sign of the shifting sexual order, but many women enjoy watching gay characters--and not just on Will & Grace. Homo soaps rule the airwaves in Thailand, and in Japan comic books featuring gay romances are bestsellers thanks to girls. One thing about these homo heroes is that no matter how flexible they are, they're really, really gay. All sorts of problems are solved, and anxieties quelled, by making homosexuality innate and essential. Even the ads for Brokeback Mountain affirm this idea of a fixed gay identity--as in "Love is a force of nature."
The love in Kong is impossible in nature. It can exist only in the queerest regions of the pysche, where human and animal selves may merge. But even the subconscious changes, and in order to modernize this beloved but bigoted tale Peter Jackson has had to alter its underlying assumptions about white male power. He can't dislodge the story's racist core, but its sexism proves more malleable. In the original all the captive woman did was scream, but in this remake she bonds with Kong--and that crucial change turns a classic affirmation of the sexual order into a saga of awakening.
The ape, whose life is an endless battle for supremacy, discovers a new feeling through his love for Anne Darrow: delight. And the mighty primate's loyalty unleashes Darrow's own suppressed power. This transference is represented in the film's most moving scenes: the sunset idyll, when she stands by Kong's side, her popping muscles gleaming in the pink light; and the midnight romp through Central Park, when Kong glides along an icy pond on his furry rear with Darrow in his lap. As "he" falls to his famous death, she hesitates for a crucial moment before leaping into the arms of her human fiancé, and in that space between her destiny and her imagination the system that contains her is suspended. Of course, the moment doesn't last: Boys and girls, this is a tragedy!
The suspension of sexual categories, tentative as it may be, makes King Kong more ambitious than Brokeback Mountain, though it's hardly as accomplished a work of art. But the most notable thing is the way both films see the world. It's a brutal, unforgiving place in which love outside the norm struggles to be something more than a self-destructive gesture. That's as true in our time as it was in cowboy country a generation ago or during the Depression, when Kong is set. Explanations for sexuality change, but queerness remains.


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- Jeff Carter, with his 17th goal in 23 games, is on a 60 goal pace for a normal 82 game season.
- The Kings' victory over the Flames doesn't count in the season series tie-breaker.
- Tomorrow's game counts. The Kings are up 2 points on the Flames in the season series, and this is the last game between the two teams this regular season.
- The Kings are still 3rd in points-blown, and 5th in the official standings.
- The Flames have dropped to the bottom of the official standings, but in points-blown they're 12th, and Columbus, despite their recent success, is still 15th.
- No-one has played as few games as the Kings and Flames, with 23.
- The Ducks are within two point-blown of the Blackhawks, who have lost two in a row.
- The Kings now have 28 points after 23 games. That is the best start in the Lombardi era, tied with 2009-2010.
- Justin Williams leads all Kings in +-/60. Followed by Jake Muzzin, Anze Kopitar, Slava Davis Drewiske, Trevor Lewis and Alec Martinez.
- Leading all NHL defensemen in goals/60 (5-on-5) is…Jake Muzzin.
- Voynov is 10th.
- Toughest matchups (as measured by QUALCOMP) continue to go to Kopitar's line, followed by Richards' line, then Fraser's, then Stoll's.
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– Best start without two major pieces of the Stanley Cup team.
– Carter keeps up this pace, he has to be talked about for MVP.
– Seems Muzzin has played himself in to the top-4.
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Just one question: who's Slava Davis Drewiske?
DD2 changed his name. Thus, more ice time.
Any thoughts on why Toffoli was called up?
Most likely, someone's hurt.
Open spot, why not? With the log jam starting to break its a good time to have a look.
Interesting discussion at JftC about who will be Toffoli's linemates, assuming he's swapped in for Richards. JZarris observed that if he swaps right into Richards' role alongside Carter and Penner, then Penner becomes the playmaker on that line. Which is a weird thought, but he's right.


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Mikuriya Jin makes a woodcarving from the remains of a guardian tree, but he gets much more than he bargained for when girl materializes from the statue! Her name is Nagi, the troublesome and at times violent deity of the land; and with nowhere to go, she announces that she will stay with Jin. Now, with Jin's help and a magical girl wand purchased at the local convenience store, Nagi aims to exorcise the impurities that are infecting the land. Though when the sacred tree is finally uprooted, it is only a matter of time before her powers will diminish; thus, a new object of worship is required, and what better object than Nagi herself! However, obtaining your goal of becoming a popular idol is not so straightforward, especially when you have to compete with your sister, who is unwilling to share her fan base and plans to sabotage you at every step!
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Kannagi has its ups and downs. The story iteslef is good, but it feels like so many other harem anime. The childhood friend who loves him secretly, and all these other girls around fall for him as she watches, but never does anything about her feelings. Toward the end the story takes a dive, imo. like they had to come up with something quick to end the series, which is what happens way to much in anime ... read more
I'd heard about Kannagi thanks to Sankaku Complex. It piqued my interest since it had something to do with Japanese myth and being a big fan of any sort of mythology, I went to go take a look and see.What I found was a fanservice anime that wins my award for OVERHYPED SERIES OF THE YEAR.Kannagi is supposedly about a goddess who appears in the human world because a human carved a statue out of the sacred tree... read more
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Dehali Kannadiga: Seminar on "Basavanna Movement in Karnataka", Kannadiga Hall, 80, Munirka village, 9 a.m.
MMTC Limited: MMTC Akshay Tritiya "Festival of Gold-2008": Community Centre, MMTC Colony, entry from Sri Aurobindo Marg, Malviya Nagar; MMTC Showroom, F 8-11, Flatted Factory Complex, Jhandewalan, 10-30 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Asthika Samaj: Samashti Upanayanam(Brahmopadesam), Aiswarya Mahaganapathy Temple, Keshavpuram
Russian Centre of Science and Culture: Inauguration of photo exhibition and documentary film screening as part of the function "Our Great Unforgettable Victory", 24, Ferozeshah Road, 5-30 p.m.
The Art People: Exhibition of paintings and drawings "Summer Show 2008", Poorva Sanskritik Kendra, 14 Laxmi Nagar District Centre, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Mystiq Art Gallery: Exhibition of paintings by Rahul Solanki and Monika Solanki, D-3 (LGF) Defence Colony, Near Nirula's, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Italian Embassy Cultural Institute and Indian Council for Cultural Relations: Exhibition of contemporary art "Springs in White", Lalit Kala Akademi, Rabindra Bhawan, Ferozeshah Road.
Press Club Art Gallery: Exhibition of paintings by Subachan Yadav, Press Club of India, 1 Raisina Road.
India Habitat Centre: Exhibition of paintings titled "Unending Quest" by Arup. K. Biswas, Open Palm Court, IHC, Lodhi Road, 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.
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College Degree is Worthwhile, but Not If You Break the Bank
By Janet Bodnar Kiplinger's Personal Finance
Your column on two young men who chose different paths to college was not my favorite. You made it seem as if the first young man was morally inferior because he "had" to have a first-rate college experience. What about the notion that education is a worthwhile end in itself, not just a means to make a buck?
Of course, we all admire the second young man for making the most of what he had. But we also suspect that he will regret missing out on an important life experience.
I believe that how we spend our money should reflect what we value most in life. And many of us highly value education. I'm proud and glad that was the choice that my daughter made, too.
I certainly sympathize with your sentiments about education being a worthwhile end in itself. But I don't think you can conclude that the first young man had a first-rate college experience because he attended an expensive, "name" school (and owes $100,000 in student loans), and the second young man somehow missed out because he attended a community college and then transferred to a state university. That smacks of educational elitism. And I'll wager that the second young man, who graduated with just $9,000 in debt, would disagree with you.
Like it or not, attending college today is an economic decision as well as an educational one. Students and their families need to balance a lot of factors in order to get the best possible education without breaking the bank.
I appreciated your column on how students paid for their own education. It always gets under my skin when people assume that parents will foot the bill. In my house (and in my hometown, for that matter), that just wasn't the reality. There were six children in my family, my dad was a high school teacher, and my mom stayed home with us kids. My parents encouraged us to save money and to get good grades for scholarships because we would be on our own.
I didn't get a scholarship. So how did I pay for school? Hard work! I saved enough working as a grocery bagger in high school to cover my first semester's tuition. I attended college year-round and graduated in three years. I didn't own a money-sucking car.
And I worked part-time on campus: cleaning toilets at the basketball arena (honestly, the most fun job I ever had), working as a secretary in a campus office and working various jobs on the student newspaper. All told, I graduated with only $9,000 in debt, which I paid off in three years, and priceless experience. For me, it was a personal triumph.
My thanks to my Kiplinger colleague, Erin Burt, for sharing her personal triumph.
Janet Bodnar is deputy editor of Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine and the author of "Raising Money Smart Kids" (Kaplan, $17.95). Send your questions and comments to firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Prep wrestling: Edmonds-Woodway Double Dual
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Former Edmonds-Woodway coach Bryce Cook poses with Meadowdale wrestler Morgan Smith (left) and Edmonds-Woodway wrestler Marq Brown after Friday night's meet. Cook, who faced his brother and former Meadowdale coach Bruce for the final time 20 years ago, visited his old school to take celebrate Warrior wrestling.
EDMONDS -- For the first time in 20 years it was a great night for a Cook off at Edmonds-Woodway High School.
Friday night marked 20 years since brothers Bryce and Bruce Cook squared off for the final time as coaches of Edmonds-Woodway and Meadowdale wrestling teams, respectively, and Bryce was on hand to enjoy his former team take on his brother's former squad. Edmonds-Woodway got the better of Meadowdale 52-25 and Bryce and two star wrestlers from each team -- Marq Brown from E-W and Morgan Smith from Meadowdale -- donned T-shirts commemorating "The Last Great Wrestling Cook-Off."
"It was quite a night," said E-W head coach Brian Alfi. "Hall of Fame coaches like him are rare and you want to celebrate them.
"He was the most popular person in the room," added Alfi of Cook. "Everybody had to have their picture taken with him. He had a blast."
Both Cooks coached their respective teams for 30 seasons and guided them to the heights of wrestling success in Washington. Bryce, who was inducted into the Washington State Wrestling Coaches Hall of Fame in 1994, coached his teams to three Wesco titles and coached six individual state champions. He was the 1989 AAA Coach of the Year.
Bruce, who lives in Arizona, was unable to attend the dual meet.
One special part of the night was the attendance of the Wrestling Rhinos Club, which the Cook brothers and Mike Hess founded in 1974. The future of Edmonds area wrestling got a chance to visit with the past.
The present also got a chance to visit with the former coach and got a few tips as well, according to Alfi. "He was getting down and talking to the wrestlers," Alfi said. "He was right in there coaching like nothing had changed."
Edmonds-Woodway 60, Mountlake Terrace 15
113 Sidat Kanyi EW wins by FFT; 120 Nathan Nash EW wins by FFT; 126 Noah Cuzzetto EW wins by FFT; 132 Mark Hood EW wins by FFT; 138 Taron Caselton MLT pins Issac Jackson 4:33; 145 Wes Korbein EW wins by FFT; 152 Nathan Vulliet EW pins Kevin Massey 1:45; 160 DeShaun Washington EW wins by FFT; 170 Matthew Cuzzetto EW pin S Poole 1:26; 182 Marq Brown EW dec Tim Zuehl 8 to 1; 195 Spencer Schultz EW dec Brett Potter 5 to 4; 220 Forrest Clement MLT pins Jasen Turnquist 2:19; 285 George Johanson EW pin K Davis :37 seconds; 106 Trung Banh MLT dec Gabe Baltazar 12 to 6
Edmonds-Woodway 52, Meadowdale 25
120 Nathan Nash EW wins by FFT; 126 Noah Cuzzetto EW wins by FFT; 132 Mark Hood EW wins by FFT; 138 Issac Jackson wins by FFT; 145 Wes Korbein EW wins by FFT; 152 Nathan Vulliet EW wins by FFT; 160 C Davis MD�maj DeShaun Washington EW 20 to 9; 170 Morgan Smith MD dec Matthew Cuzzetto 7 to 4; 182� Marq Brown EW pins M Smith 2:41; 195 Ciran Ball MD pins Spencer Schultz 1:44; 220 Timmy Smith MD pins Jasen Turnquist 2:49; 285 George Johanson EW pin M Montoya :37 seconds; 106 Gabe Baltazar EW pins Kayla Dewesse :19 seconds; 113 B Millet MD pins Sidat Kanyi 2:57
Meadowdale 45, Lynnwood 36
106--Kayla Deweese (M) forfeit; 113--Beck Millet (M) forfeit; 120--Andrew Rios (M) forfeit; 126--Caleb Lubag (L) forfeit; 132--Isaiah Calloway (L) forfeit; 138--Mathew Calkins (L) forfeit; 145--Zach Lubag (L) forfeit; 152--Reald Markokaj (L) forfeit; 160--Colton Davis (M) pinned Cody Stocker; 170--Morgan Smith (M) dec. Hunter Lord 7-2; 182--Cameron Anstice (L) pinned Mason Smith; 195--Ciaran Ball (M) forfeit; 220--Tim Smith (M) pinned Andy Soeur; 285--Miguel Montoya (M) forfeit. Records--Meadowdale 1-1 overall. Lynnwood 1-1.
Lynnwood 41, Mountlake Terrace 24
106--Trung Banh (MT) forfeit; 113--double forfeit; 120--Caleb Lubag (M) forfeit; 126--double forfeit; 132--Isaiah Calloway (M) forfeit; 138--Mathew Calkins (M) dec. Taron Catleton 6-0; 145--Zach Lubag (M) forfeit; 152--Reald Markokaj (M) pinned Kevin Massey; 160--Cody Stocker (M) forfeit; 170--Hunter Lord def. Shawn Poole by tech. fall; 182--Cameron Anstice (M) dec. Timothy Zuehl 11-6; 195--Brett Potter (MT) pinned Andy Soeur; 220--Eric Breznen (MT) forfeit; 285--Kaleb Davis (MT) forfeit. Records--Mountlake Terrace 0-2 overall. Lynnwood 1-1.
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Some Assembly Required: A Journal of My Son's First Son (original 2012; edition 2012)
by Anne Lamott, Sam Lamott
I am so surprised that I did not enjoy this book as much as I had anticipated. After reading the book's description, I was sure that I would connect with the author and her account of becoming a young grandmother, but alas, that was not the case. Instead, Ms. Lamott's journal-style memoir seemed to focus more on secondary details and glaze over the bigger picture. I struggled to connect with any of the story's characters; Anne, Sam, or Amy. I suppose I just expected to read more of her own journey towards accepting and embracing the situation and less about new-agey meditation rooms. With that being said, there were a few gems hidden throughout that made me chuckle, such as Ms. Lamott's internal battles against her own tendency to try and fix everything. Now that I can relate to.
Please note that I received a complementary copy of this book from Shelf Awareness which has not influenced my review. Thank you.
I've read most, but not all, of Lamott's books and I've got a good handle on her "I'm a terrible person with a blackened soul" schtick. But in this book, I started to think, "You know, maybe Anne Lamott really IS a terrible person with a blackened soul." She's just...irredeemably unlikeable in this. She's the mother-in-law that daughter-in-law's are always complaining about. She's possessive, unreasonable, and downright mean about her grandson's mother. She never bothers to balance out all this meanness with any insight or growth, either, so the entire thing just reads sour.
Speaking of growth, how can a person with such deep personal faith, who writes extensively on this faith, show so little of it? Also, what is her obsession with the earthy spirituality of brown people?
I'm really surprised that I'm giving Lamott one star. I usually like her quite a bit. But this? Skip it.
I could not finish this book. I didn't find the book amusing (although it tried to be.) Also there was no interesting plot. It was just young unmarried parents raising a child from a grandmother's point of view.
Anne Lamott always moves me and makes me look around at others in the world with love and wonder, and this book is no exception. I'm going to be a first-time grandmother in October, so it had special meaning for me -- especially the bits where she's trying to figure out how to be a grandmother -- but it's just classic Anne Lamott, everyone can read it and find themselves in it somewhere. I was much more interested in her contributions than in those of Sam (or the others who contributed small bits, emails, etc), but the book as a whole was great fun to read.
Anne Lamott always moves me and makes me look around at others in the world with love and wonder, and this book is no exception. I'm going to be a first-time grandmother in October, so it had special meaning for me -- especially the bits where she's trying to figure out how to be a grandmother -- but it's just classic Anne Lamott, everyone can read it and find themselves in it somewhere. I was much more interested in her contributions than in those of Sam (or the others who contributed small bits, emails, etc), but the book as a whole was great fun to read.
not as good as Operating instructions.... :9
Ugh. I really don't enjoy the author's "presence" . . . much less her relentless anti-Catholic barbs and more than slightly patronizing tone. I finished this one in the constant hope that the put-upon mother of her grandson would wise up and get as far away from her as possible. Alas, that didn't happen by the end, although it was hinted at.
I am not sure what I was expecting with this book, but I found it to be a preachy, self-absorbed tale of one woman's journey into grandmother-hood. I did not enjoy reading this book very much at all, mostly because I found many of the characters so darn unlikeable. The author was a controlling, self-absorbed and very religious woman who spent most of her time navel gazing and making ponderous ruminations on the nature of love and life. I found it ever-so-tedious almost immediately. Add to this the ostensible lead characters, namely the son (and father of the grandchild in question) and his partner who are both immature and selfish. They are, of course, perfectly entitled to be both at their age, but it makes for unenjoyable reading.
Yes Anne Lamott can be a bit over the top at times, but she is funny and she can write so amazingly well that you just have to stop sometimes and think about how wonderfully she just said something. This is a chronicle of her first year as a grandmother. Anne and I are the same age and so are our children, and I can only imagine how shocked I would have been to have had a 19 year old present me with a grandson. The story of how she transitions from mom to grandmother (not always well) is honest and well told.
I picked this up because I had read and loved Operating Instructions. I supposed I would've appreciated and related to this book much more if I were a grandmother, but Anne Lamott's well-written and beautiful words kept me reading and I finished feeling satisfied.
I will want to re-read this again when I have grandchildren ;)
I LOVED Operating Instructions. As a matter of fact it was one of my all-time favorite books. This follow up is good (a lot of her humour is in it), but just is not as hysterical as the first one. Still a good read.
An addition to this book is sections written by her son, Sam. Readers of Lamott's books will be familiar with Sam as she has told stories about him throughout her books. These intermixed chapters provide refreshing breaks from Anne Lamott's tendency to provide a bit too much introspection at the cost of not recognizing the world around her.
However, while there is a certain interest in hearing both of these voices, there was something that was missing in comparison to other books by her. There was a certain "phoned-in" quality to the book. The freshness and vibrancy of her prose seemed to have fallen a bit flat for this book. It would not be that surprising, much of her comments are about how tired she is. Perhaps part of the reason is the journal style of the book. The book is arranged by dates in a journal. It is not stated how much editing went into the journal entries for publication, but this format lends itself to the flatness of the prose.
This memoir covers the first year of her grandson. She reflects on this change in her life, as well as the impact on her son's life, Sam. It's fun to read and hear the connections between the Lamott's first year as Mom, and her understanding of Sam's first year as Dad. The joys, fears, pains, and hopes that accompany parenthood are evident in this book. Definately recommended!
Author: Anne Lamott
Title: Some Assembly Required: A Journal of My Son's First Son
Description : Anne Lamott's son Sam learned that he and his girlfriend, Amy, would become parents when Sam was just nineteen. Lamott, who wrote about Sam's first year in Operating Instructions, continues the tradition here with the first year of her grandson Jax.
Writing style: Classic Lamott. She writes here in journal form, with dates as headings, rather than chapter titles. There are some passages written by others: friends, family, and especially Sam, who receives co-author credit.
Audience: Christians, non-Christians, parents, grandparents, teens, people who hope to be parents, sober people.
Major ideas: As much as we love those who are closest to us, we cannot live their lives or make their decisions for them. Everything does not revolve around me, even when I think it does.
Wrap-up: I've called Anne Lamott my literary bff, so I wait for every one of her books like kids wait for Christmas. She has preceded me in life by just a little: Sam was nineteen at the beginning of this book, and my own son is seventeen now. So I read her books and learn from her and try to remember what she has taught me. She's funny and wise and real. 5/5*
I love Anne Lamott. I look forward to her next book. I don't know her, so everything that follows is a review, not some kind of reporting or psychological analysis.
I didn't like this book, and it's hard to say this, because it does contain some real gems. But she wrote it too soon. I get why she had to write it - it's Jax's first year. The subtitle explains it, wittily, but a bit sadly: "A Journal of My Son's First Son". She's a writer of often brilliant memoirs and personal reflections. She wrote a journal of her son's first year. Now her son's son is born. How can she *not* write about her son's son's first year? But she pulls her punches because she's not ready.
She's always been so honest, but here she clearly has to hold back. She loves her family, but she's really angry with them, and it's painful. She loves her son and Jax, and she wants to love Jax's mom, but she doesn't, not yet. So there she is: her own history - she was an older mom, but the pregnancy was unplanned and, initially, very distressing - constrains her from expressing her anger and disappointment. As well, her faith - which for Lamott is a daily, hourly, breath-by-breath experience - somehow seems to demand that she refrain from anything ungenerous or unkind. She's been able to balance that before, to hilarious and smartly subversive effect, but with her most beloved son and grandson, she has to retreat. I get that. But this book wasn't ready to be written, so it kind of hurts to read it.
Anne Lamott wonderfully and honestly described having an infant in Operating Instructions. Here she, along with her son, Sam, writes about Sam's new baby, Jax, and her role as grandmother. Check out my complete review on my blog here: http://www.notthenewyorktimesbookreview.blogspot.com/2012/06/some-assembly-requi...
The very first Anne Lamott book I ever read was Operating Instructions, her wonderful, honest retelling of her first year with son Sam. My own son was either in his first or second year when I read it (it had been out for a while by then) and it was so incredibly reassuring to see that I wasn't the only mom out there who was gobsmacked by both the incredible miracle of that baby and the bone weary frustration that comes as a package deal with an infant. She never sugar-coated the lows even in the midst of celebrating the highs. This second memoir of babyhood is not about Sam, long since a young man, but about his son Jax. It is every bit as much a love letter as the first book was but from an entirely new perspective, that of a doting grandmother.
Sam is only 19 when he and his girlfriend Amy blindside their families with the news that Amy is pregnant. Lamott chronicles her rather unenthusiastic reaction to this news honestly and goes on to describe the turmoil and struggles these two young people face as they negotiate a relationship with frequent rocky patches and the added responsibility of an infant. Told both through Lamott's reminiscences and through e-mails between she and Sam and other friends, this almost has a very familiar feel to it. As Sam grows into fatherhood, maturing faster than he might have without the advent of his son, Lamott observes his struggles, with school and responsibility and relationship. She is quite candid about her own insecurities and imperfections as a grandmother, desperately afraid that Amy will move back to the Midwest or the East Coast with baby Jax, taking him out of Lamott's daily orbit. Her friends' wise counsel about her fears and her doubts calm her and make her more able to avoid confronting Amy out of fear but these repeated anxieties do begin to sound overly self-centered and occur altogether too frequently.
Unlike in Operating Instructions though, Lamott seems to be choosing many of her words very carefully. Operating Instructions was unvarnished truth; Some Assembly Required, when focused anywhere but on herself, is cautious and mindful of the potential to hurt others, which unfortunately weakens the memoir, leaving the reader to wonder if Lamott's been as candid as she would if she wasn't worried about Sam and Amy's reaction to her take on their relationship and the experiences of Jax's first year. Lamott also suffers a bit from that grandmotherly malady, unreserved, untempered, gushing love for her grandchild. Not that she didn't love Sam from the deepest corners of her heart, but she was able to more clearly chronicle the struggles of his babyhood and the emotional trials that motherhood brought. Here it feels more as if Jax's babyhood is nothing but wonderful aside from her worries about Sam and Amy's relationship wobbles and her own imagined anxieties about Amy's state of mind. I do like Lamott's non-fiction and I think this was a good enough book but she's been great so this was a bit of a let-down.
It's easy to see one's self in Lamott's middle-aged angst. While relishing the fruits of her rich faith, fellowship, and career, one also still recognizes that the journey relational-maturity never ends. In Some Assembly Required, Sam, now a young adult, steps into a new role as a father, propelling Lamott into a grandmother role. And that might be all joy but for the challenges of relinquishing control.
Lamott does a wonderful job of letting the reader take a peek into the crazy, wonderful love that grandparents have for their grandchildren. Also, she demonstrates how difficult it can be to let her child be a parent, learning as he goes, just as she did. She allows Sam to share some of his journey through interviews and emails, and in this way we get to know Sam better.
Overall this is a lovely little book that I enjoyed very much. It isn't her best, and if there is one weakness here, it is a necessary one. In her attempt to love and respect her adult son, her grandson's mother, and that young woman's extended family, there is a sense of holding back at times. Lamott simply cannot delve too deeply into the troubles that seem to plague this young couple. Instead she focuses on what is good and hopeful. This is appropriate, but something is lost there too. Like all of Lamott's nonfiction, her story, just like her life and every life, is revealed to be a joyous and challenging work in progress.
I usually adore Lamott's memoirs, but this one just didn't do it for me. Too much like a simple diary, not enough introspection.
I am so surprised that I did not enjoy this book as much as I had anticipated. After reading the book's description, I was sure that I would connect with the author and her account of becoming a young grandmother, but alas, that was not the case. Instead, Ms. Lamott's journal-style memoir seemed to focus more on secondary details and glaze over the bigger picture. I struggled to connect with any of the story's characters; Anne, Sam, or Amy. I suppose I just expected to read more of her own journey towards accepting and embracing the situation and less about new-agey meditation rooms. With that being said, there were a few gems hidden throughout that made me chuckle, such as Ms. Lamott's internal battles against her own tendency to try and fix everything. Now that I can relate to.
Please note that I received a complementary copy of this book from Shelf Awareness which has not influenced my review. Thank you.
This memoir covers a new role in her life, that of Grandmother, as she with her son, Sam, chronicle the first year of her grandson, Jax's, life. We met Sam in her previous memoir, "Operating Instructions" where she recounted her first year as a new mother.
In this memoir she writes of her feelings, her hopes, fears, joy and sorrow that come with life...especially when you must stand on the sidelines and watch your son become a father.
I enjoyed the book and find it very believable!
Within a few pages, I was reminded of just why I love Anne Lamott. She has a brutal honesty about herself and her life that is both self-depreciating, amusing and authentic. She writes from her heart, and she isn't afraid to show us all aspects of herself—from her neurotic and selfish sides to the spiritual and open searching soul she works on so assiduously. Her writing is never fancy or condescending. Rather, it is heartfelt yet with a sly irreverence and joking tone that always lets you know she is aware of her frailties and flaws. I'd love to have her as a friend.
The subject of her son's first son is fraught with all kinds of emotional minefields that challenge Anne in a myriad of different ways. Not only does she struggle with the idea becoming a grandmother at the age of 55, but her son's complex and volatile relationship with his girlfriend Amy adds a tricky new dimension to Anne's relationship with her grandchild Jax. Anne falls hard and fast for Jax and has clear ideas about how things can and should be for this young couple. Yet Amy is a strong-willed young woman who decided to have Jax regardless of what anyone else felt ... and she has her own ideas about how things will be. Worse yet, Amy's roots are not in the San Francisco area where Anne and Sam are deeply ensconced. As Amy struggles with her identity as a mother and her need to be with her own family, this threat of Jax being "taken away" hangs over Anne's (and Sam's) head like a piano held by the thinnest of threads.
When a young couple who are not established in the world or with each other (Sam is still in art school when Jax is born and Amy is staying with Sam in his tiny apartment; they have a volatile relationship and had broken up several times before Amy became pregnant) decide to have a child together, it isn't easy for a mother (including one who pays many of the bills) to simply step aside and watch them. Throughout the book, Anne struggles with how involved to get, how much she can say, how much support to offer. It is a tricky balancing act that requires all of Anne's spiritual maturity to sort through—and even then she is plagued with moments of needing to control things that overwhelm her and threaten to engulf the precarious new relationships developing between everyone. Yet with her considerable support system, Anne manages to work through her new identity as grandmother and forge a kind of peace with the role.
In addition to getting Anne's point of view (which includes everything that is going on in her life during this year, including a trip to India and a book tour), the book also includes sections written by Sam Lamott about how he is viewing fatherhood at the tender age of 19. It was enlightening and heartening to get a glimpse inside Sam's psyche and his obvious delight and love for Jax. It is very clear that Anne and Sam have a mother-son bond that is solid and tightly woven with strands of love, understanding and respect.
Anne Lamott has led an interesting life (having overcome alcoholism, family dysfunction and taken on single motherhood when she was financially and emotionally unprepared) and managed to come through with grace and good spirit. I love how she is utterly herself (including her trademark dreadlocks) but is so completely relatable that you feel like you know her already. Her writing has a directness and beauty to it that is characteristic of someone who is writing from their authentic self. Besides this book, I'd also recommend Operating Instructions and her excellent writing book, Bird by Bird. Her memoirs on her spiritual journey (although Traveling Mercies is the only one I've read so far) are also well done. Although I've read two of her novels, and found that I prefer her memoirs more.
The thing that's so wonderful about Anne Lamott is that she says all the things I sometimes think but wouldn't dare say out loud. When she doesn't feel like going to church but goes anyway, she'll say that it sucks that all those hymns give God an unfair advantage so that she can't stay mad. She refers to her mentor as horrible Bonnie, no doubt because Bonnie always says the things she doesn't want to hear, but Anne knows she needs to hear them so she still turns to horrible Bonnie when she's hurting. Because that's the other thing about Anne Lamott. She says seemingly mean that most other people simply couldn't get away with, at least not right out in public. I think the key is that she's so willing to talk about her own foibles and moments of foolishness and, perhaps more important, that she's so open and embracing of other people.
This love of life comes through in the way she writes. She's a very observant writer who makes note of small details and describes them in down-to-earth ways. Her prose is poetic, yet earthy. And her frequent sarcasm keeps it from seeming precious. She gets away with a lot that would have me rolling my eyes if it came from another writer. In writing about her faith, she doesn't come across as trying to teach people how to be better Christians. She writes about it because it's part of her life and not talking about it would be impossible, dishonest even.
What I love about this book precisely what I love about Anne Lamott's other nonfiction. Her wit, her honesty, her insights, her openness. It's all there. It is a little different from her essay collections in that it's a journal and revolves largely but not entirely on her new role as a grandmother. But her voice is her voice, and that's what I sign up for when I read Lamott. She didn't disappointment me there one bit.
See a longer version of this review at Shelf Love.
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Rocks, Rain & Red at Robertstown.
A combination ADV ride and paddock bashing saw a few of us heading for Robertstown South Australia.
Friends of Aussie Trev & Bernie own a camping & dirt bike paradise.
A few pictures to start:
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Location: Gawler, South Australia
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My Robertstown experiences over the years have all been great. Friends own the property just north of the town and enjoy having us use it to ride bikes around. The steep hills and rocky trails are more easily used by lighter dirtbikes but DRs and 690s get around there alright.
I encouraged some ADV mates to come up there this week and we were to explore some trails out to the north of Burra and use the property as a base over a few days.....great idea.
Monday arrived and Id spent Sunday loading up the Tiger and my other requirements. Headed off Monday morning and besides the obligatory stop at the Eudunda bakery for a strong coffee, pasties and choc donut, it was a quick and uneventful trip.
Saw Kizz at Robertstown so I stopped to show him the way in. Bernie pulled up as we were leaving and PBee had taken Toot to the Truro Sunrise Bakery on his way in.
Got into the Hollows and opened everything up. Lots of beds, firewood and shelter. Seemed that some weather was making its way towards us, so we got things in place quickly and settled in.
Some of the boys toured the property and Bernie was intent on learning some more about his YamWR250F....he hit the hills etc pretty hard. I took off with the trailer and cut up a fallen tree just to supplement the firewood wed need for a couple of cold nights.
I jumped on the Tiger and did a 60 minute loop out to Worlds End (Burra Creek Gorge), into Burra and then down the Old Burra Rd back to Robertstown. A fast and flowing blast but the cooler weather got me and I started to freeze. Pumped up the Oxford grip heaters and started to feel the instant heat glow through my fingers......luverly.
Back to the Hollows in time for a beer or two and then some dark grape juice before contemplating dinner.
Toot got his Rapter quad mobile and found his way around some tracks too.
Warm night around the fire, a filling meal and laughs etc until late. The rain was on and off and seemed threatening for the morning.
Tuesday came around and various others started to arrive. The most notable was the sound out on the road (a kilometre away) of Big Jims Super Ten arriving.....very nice pipe. Masterbrewer, TonyRDR, Desert Matt on his Tenere, and then later in the day, Sundowner and DR Ozzy added to the crazy group.
The intended ride to Terowie was abandoned after the weather turned bad and was heading the same way as us. To make things worse for me my helmet visor was not locking slightly ajar and when closed was totally fogging over. That made for some interesting riding on sloppy tracks when I had to open the visor to see and then manage the rain on my sunnies....my eyes were starting to hurt badly.
The weather began to clear up but my eyes were not happy so I headed back to the Hollows only to run iinto Toot and PBee heading to a pub for lunch. That sounds like a good idea, so I parked the Tiger, quick change of clothes and jumped in with them. Nice country meal at the North Burra Hotel and then back to the Hollows. The boys had returned with stories of mud filling up low front guards etc but all were intact.
Beers started, we loaded up the fire, warmed up the clothing and settled in for a long night. I did a fruit damper but just slightly burnt the outside of it by having the camp oven too hot........pointed out to me by Sundowner but I chose to ignore him......oops!
I bailed about midnight and left the players to it.
This morning was slow and enjoyable, talking to the boys and getting everything organised so we could leave the place ready for the next guests.
Might find some good weather next time but day trips out of there are all the go for me from now on. The Tiger enjoyed those long dirt road out that way.........
Thanks guys, great company, again. Cheers.
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Location: Gawler, South Australia
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Some photographs......
We've arrived....
Fixing the quad
Another Helinox chair under stress...
Fixing something Sundowner??
See that Masterbrewer's new helmet looks like a sleeping bag??
It's a tough life....but someone has to do it...
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Location: Angaston, Barossa Valley, South Australia.
Oddometer: 295
Great report so far guys, keep the pics coming.
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Was looking forward to this ride. Flew in on monday arvo from a good weekend at the footy in beautiful weather in Melbourne. SA's weather was more like Melbourne, and would prove dust was not going to be an issue. Back in the shed and the battery on the big girl was dead flat so a charge up before bed and a good night sleep.
Was woken by a heavy downfall of rain around 6. Checked the water gauge. 1/4 inch over night. Went to the shed and fit the high front guard and begun rugging up and get on the bike to take off in the light rain. Past road trial experience had me dry and warm with wet weather pants inside my riding pants and I gave thanks to the inventor of goretex for my jacket. This water on the visor and fogging would take some sorting though, but the 60 km ride to one of the best properties I can remember visiting had me sorted and working out wind stopper gloves get wet and cool hands down considerably when riding in the wet.
After intro's and a chance to assess the weather we finally saddled up and rode north. By the time we got to Burra we worked out we rode into the weather band, and with some big bikes and low guards we chose to head south, rather than risk the clay around Hallett.
But 10 km south Trev had had enough of his pesky visor, and wanted to return to the Hollow, so he handed the lead reigns to me to show the boys around.
How would I go showing one if the great leaders if the state, Masterbrewer, around. The pressure was eminence. I started to delve into my memory and cross referenced on Masterbrewers map, and took off. We got to the Black Springs wind farm to find only 5 riders. TonyRDR must have stuck with Trev. After taking in the views, shot off down Tothill Valley with Big Jim's request of solid roads ringing in my ears. As a result I ignored all gap roads east it west and just stuck to the main road, only to find it to was a tad sloppy. I pushed on and waited at the end. We waited for Jim, before Bernie went back to check and found him closer than expected and we got to witness him pulling up with a flint wheeler that barely spun. Good skill there Jim!
At this southern point Jim took off to the black top and back to civilization. We headed further south and got onto the tracks passed on to me by Doc. A quick stop at Julia Creek cop shop, and inspiration point before a quick run into Robertstown for lunch supplies.
In town we found what could almost be described as the most bike friendly locals of the state. Waves all round, shop keepers canceling lunch to chat about bikes and property while defrosting sausages. A thoroughly enjoyable visit.
Back to camp, Bernie and I conquered the widow maker before settling down for a few beers, a snag and some good times. Trev insisted I ride his bike, after much arm twisting I obliged. I'm glad that she was taken, for if she was single I may have strayed from my happily married life. Nice bike Trev. I had a bit of an explore around Gods Country, no wonder it was called Hallejuyah Hills. Beautiful views east and north from the many hill tips. Beautiful.
Thanks for the invite Trev. These mud week, sorry midweek rides need to happen more often.
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Cloudy periods with just a few light showers, the weatherman said
30 minutes before departure ........................ the sky opened up & up & up & down & down & down it came pounding the iron verandah roof Mmmmmm! ......................... thoughts of ringing TonyRDR to pick me up in his 4x4 tempted the tough & gnarly adventure rider soul, but I resisted.
But then as fast as it unloaded its fury ....................... it stopped.
Bugga!~ there goes any excuse I was contemplating and so met up with TonyRDR to fight the peak hour (unfortunate for some ) city traffic north outa town in the dark.
Following the aftermath of the storm all the way to Robertstown, we counted our blessings & were treated to blue sky on arrival.
While we met & gret, TonyRDR had obviously been planning 'an entrance'.
.................................................. ....... straight up the "widow maker" fully loaded.
The view from the top
But it wouldn't be long before the next rain dump was arriving.
So the 'Trev Takes Tiger To Terowie Trip' was ruled out & coffee in Burra was looking good, stopping in Worlds End Creek to tackle a few tracks Trev knew about, but alas his plan was thwarted.
The now ever smilin' man (for more than one reason ), couldn't care a less so long as he could get back on his mighty steed asap, well! ........ in his case, a Big Cat
The showers continued while we coffeed as Trev revealed he was having trouble with what was coming out of his mouth.
.................................................. ......... a whole lot of hot air.
His brain was taxed to find an answer for a fogging visor ........................ chewing gum should hold it open slightly, so he madly went to work mixing a few batches
He appeared to have so much fun finding the solution that the boys soon wanted a piece of the action too.
But it wasn't really that successful or so he told everyone, obviously keeping the extras for himself.
After fighting our way along a sloppy, ever narrowing road from grader works, he & TonyRDR headed back to camp and the rest of us took in the sights through an occasional "open gate"
It wasn't long before the next rain band was on it's way ....................... and so were we.
Continual showers were deteriorating the road surfaces making life on the big bikes interesting
.......... and for the whole family actually
Desert Matt was our designated leader today as it was his back yard we were playing in & Julie Creek Police Station ruins looked interesting ......... glad I'm not a copper
Absolutely fabulous views from Inspiration Point
........................................ with of course more showers
A quick run down the hill to Robertstown for lunch, unfortunately no one told them we were coming and the General Store was closed for lunch.
Mmmmmm! ..... an interesting concept when you think about it
Just as we were about to leave an old gentleman pulled up & shouted out, "you guys look hungry............. I may be able to help"
I replied " are you good a picking locks?" .................. "No but I have these, the keys to the store" Apparently he helps the owners from time to time & was just passing, saw us & gladly opened up. Nothing hot was available, so he suggested frozen snags.
"Let me defrost them for you, boys" was his attitude. So refreshing to meet such friendly country folk. We enthusiastically thanked him & headed back to the "Hollows" to count our blessings
....... and an early start to the evenings B.S. (and that's his initials by the way)
A meal for champions.
First time I've seen a rib eye lolly pop though.
Miss Molly of MollyDookerWinery was making her presence felt again (although not in person)
After a big night of tall stories & true, everything seemed a tad blurry in the morning. Sundowner & TonyRDR missed curfew or they were just avoiding the snoring den
Next morning saw me take a walk around the ridge tops to clear the head. Easy to see which direction the wind blows here.
The views are to die for
Appreciated the opportunity to enjoy a mid week escape Trev, thanks and all I can say is the trip wouldn't be complete without a bakery stop and after recommendations Eudunda Bakery filled the void on the way home.
.................................... wait for it
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I want to come to SA again for a play you guys are having a lot of fun down that way.
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Nice one
Well done boys. Looks like a great coupla days away in a great spot.
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Yes, it's a great property and the hospitality of the owners needs to be respected, so we only go up there with groups every now and then...rather than have the place churned up too often.
The weather plays a small part, but the beauty of the place is the ability to ride around it between showers if it turns wet. I couldn't get my PE started on Friday and that was going to be my back-up plan, so I just left it home.....no big deal. I reckon I might end up with a 250 thumper and leave it there....something no frills but reliable enough.
Bernie and I are going to investigate the ability to leave gear up there so we can ride up on the bigger bikes when we feel like it, and stay a few days without having to cart everything up with us.
Might have solved some of the problems with the helmet; looks like I had all the vents closed!! that might have had something to do with the fogging over. The cams on the helmet were slightly out of alignment, so I've removed the lot and started again. It may have worked. Spent last night with eye drops in trying to cure the ache from the rain on Tuesday.
Might keep an eye on the weather and try to get up there again in June, although I see that Masterbrewer is trying to get some interest in a trip to Finke/Alice this year...not necessarilly on bikes. Anyone got a diesel 4WD and a week spare??
Now, back to the real world and some little jobs around the place - including a big clean-up for the Tiger.
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Big thanks to Trev for organizing another great ride, a great spot to go with a fantastic little cabin to stay at and an enduro track to play on on the property and lots of adventure stuff around too ... had a ball, too good
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Jeez you guys don't waste any time do you. This is the fastest I have seen a report go up.
What a great place, amazing tracks all around and a couch to sit on at the end. Thanks Trev that was excellent . It was good to put some faces to the names on the lists. Great riding with you all.
Cheers Tony
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that looks like a top spot to spend a few days.
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As for bikes, I've got a shed full at the moment. Did spend some time this morning looking at cheap 250 thumpers and might even go for a DR250 which is the bike that got me back into all this in the first place.
Would just leave eskies, chainsaws, clothes, cooking gear and other essentials there, bringing food and refreshments as required.....sounds like a plan.
Although the Tiger wasn't as dirty as some, it was still a mess....so out in the yard this afternoon, water, CT18, water, air hose, WD40 and done!
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November 19, 2009
McAlvey cut hair for nearly half a century at his shop, Gary's Bull Pen. His trained barber's eyes help him determine how to create hair on an aspen elk.
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McAlvey shapes wood and lets the wood shape his life
He had already retired from nearly half a century of cutting hair and settled into a leather-tooling hobby when Gary McAlvey attended the county fair five years ago.That spun his world on its axis, at least as far as what retirement would look like. Since
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