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Pete "Mr. U" Utschig Reports from Navikill in Ecuador
Monday, December 10th, 2012
Pete "Mr. U" Utschig of the Tactical Ironmen reports from his latest tactical adventure in Ecuador -
"The last event of this year for the Tactical Ironmen had the guys split between Wayne's World Game in Florida where the Ironmen were led by Mike Paxson and Billy Wing, and the event I went too in Guayaquil Ecuador. Although I heard amazing things about the Wayne's World Game I am really happy I made the trip to Ecuador.
The Tactical Event I played was called Navikill which in Spanish means the Christmas Kill, very fitting. The event was organized by Ecuador's top ranked tactical team Waiakill, and the team puts on an amazing event . The game pitted three teams of 35 players each in a virtual tug of war. The field was 500 yards long with two rows of two-story cement houses full of alleys, windows and corridors.
It was a tactical paintball player's dream come true, especially one armed with a DYE DAM. There were kills to be had around every corner. Two teams competed at a time while the third team judged. The team's mission was to acquire a key from the other team's safe zone and then unlock a chained up hostage located in a maze in the center of the field. Both teams had the same assignments, which meant the gunfights in the center of the field were intense.
Paint was raining from every window above and below, nowhere was safe. Games were 30 minutes long and re-generation was allowed in the first 15 , which meant the first 15 minutes were full blown slugfest and the last 15 a tactical a chess match. There was no leaving the field to reload or air up. This left me at a huge advantage with a couple of loaded first strike clips in my harness. I was eliminating players at will with my DAM while they were struggling, down to my last rounds.
During lunch, with the help of Luis from DYE Ecuador and Team Evolution, and Gazzu also from DYE Ecuador and Team Zurikatas, we organized a 2 vs. 2 Tactical DAM tournament and Sniper competition. All the players involved were blown away by the DAMs accuracy, versatility, and fire power. I hope that we are able to adopt this set up at some tactical events next year. It was some of the most fun paintball I have ever played. Make sure you check back for all the POV video footage coming soon!"


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Ground has been broken for a much-needed entity that was identified by the study conducted on whether or not Aiken would be able to support an international horse park.
The Surgery and Lameness Center at Performance Equine Vets will fill a greatly needed void, and veterinarians Dr. Sabrina Jacobs and Dr. Ty Wallis, will be the partners in the practice.
Plans call for the facility to open in April. There will be an open house, and the public is invited to attend.
"It's something that's been greatly needed in Aiken," said Wallis. "Obviously, there hasn't been a boarded surgeon in Aiken with a full-service referral type of facility. It's been a dream of both Sabrina's and mine, so that meshed really well for us, and I find it very rewarding to finally be able to offer something that's needed."
The goal is for the facility to be a complete, full-service surgical and sports medicine practice, Wallis said.
The Surgery and Lameness Center at Performance Equine Vets is designed with the public's needs in mind, he said.
"I feel very fortunate to have landed in such a growing community, with great owners, and such high-level horses, and people that take care of them," said Wallis. "I feel like that meshes very well with my desire to grow a referral practice and offer specialty kind of services."
Wallis' interest are in lameness and equine orthopedic surgery, but the center will be able to offer a number of surgical procedures.
The center will be accessible for clients and will include a surgical suite, so they'll be able to watch the surgical procedures being performed on their horse.
The facility will also have a covered lameness evaluation area that will have two different surfaces and will feature a covered, pull-through unloading area to keep the horses and clients out of unfavorable weather.
Jacobs and Wallis were classmates at Texas A&M, and both went through the school's veterinary program. After graduation, both veterinarians kept up with each other's career paths, and as fate would have it, they would end up in the Southeast – Jacobs in Aiken and Wallis in Knoxville, Tenn.
Ultimately, the two doctors would like to see all areas of the practice expand, Wallis said.
"For the time being, it will be just the two of us," said Wallis. "But, we're looking to bring on a third partner very soon. As the surgical case load grows, maybe we'll need another sports medicine specialist to take care of the lamenesses in the field before they move into the hospital."
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SGP Kuel H10 stylus pen review (or: How I win at Draw Something)
SGP Kuel H10 is a compact, convenient, capacitive stylus for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. It's made from a special silicon with high polymer abrasion-resistant coating, which SGP says allows for smooth touch and incredible control. In my experience it's the multitouch sensors in iOS devices themselves that are the limiting factor when it comes to any stylus, but SGP has certainly made a pen to be proud of.
In order to put the Kuel H10 to the test, I did what any self-respecting technology blogger would do -- I used it to see if it could help me dominate at the game Draw Something. (What, like you wouldn't?) It came in really handy, getting my hand out the way so I could see what I was drawing and giving me far greater control than finger painting alone would allow. I could generally get precise lines and smooth curves. Because the tip that allows for the capacitive touch is spongy, you do have to press harder than you would with a finger but it's produced better results than other stylus' I've tried. In fact, it's currently my favorite stylus to use.
The Kuel H10 is smaller than many of the other styli on the market, but the outside has a good grip and it never caused any issues. It also has a cap to protect the silicon cap and its polymer abrasion-resistant coating, with a handy strap that attached to the 3.5mm headset jack. That keeps your stylus connected to your phone and makes it harder to loose. (Though I do worry that it might hit, grind against, or otherwise cause a problem with the screen.) Also, the cap on my review unit has loosened over time, so I worry it might slip out and get lost anyway if I'm not careful. There's also a small metal edge on the top of the 3.5mm plug that I wish wasn't there.
The good
- Cap protects stylus tip and attaches to phone to keep it handy
- Compact design makes it convenient to carry
- Easy to grip and comfortable to use
The bad
- Cap can loosen, leading to lost stylus
- 3.5mm plug has an unnecessarily rough tip
The bottom line
I love the SGP Kuel H10 stylus and recommend it. This is my absolute favorite stylus to date. That may change as we test more of them here at iMore, and as next-generation Bluetooth 4.0 styli come out that allow for pressure sensitivity. For now, however, the small size, beautiful finish, and convenient way it connects to my iPhone makes the SGP Kuel H10 a winner. (And not just because it's helping me dominate at Draw Something, though that's certainly a bonus!)
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SGP Kuel H10 stylus pen review (or: How I win at Draw Something)
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I was wondering the same thing, although I looked at youtube and there was some pretty good videos. So im downloading and will let you know.
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i think this game blows big time
I know it's been a while since somebody's posted in here, but just in case people are still wondering...
Don't bother wasting your time downloading this. I gave it a try thinking it'd be something similar to the armored core games-It's nothing like them. It is really confusing, the server lags, the graphics aren't so great, there weren't many players on when I tried, and did I mention it's really confusing?
To those thinking about trying this one, don't bother.
i think its boring too....its laggy i dont like it its very confusing...ide rather play RO.
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very confusing
definately not noobfriendly
i hated it. no offence
It's a good time waster, but it is INDEED boring and laggy.
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I had severe pre eclampsia with my 2nd baby, only discovered the day I had him, so bad they were preparing to do an emergency c-section. I went into labour naturally so they allowed me to give birth naturally, but I was monitored extremely closely throughout labour. I was given medication to speed the labour up, my waters were broken within 15 minutes of labour starting, etc. My pre-e. was only discovered because I had a urine test at hospital after having a watery show over the weekend. Had I of not gone for that urine test and laboured at home, the doctor said me and my baby would have been in serious danger.
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Singer-songwriter Al Stewart offers historical perspectiveWritten by Vicki L. Kroll | | email@example.com
Chatting with the affable Al Stewart is as enjoyable as listening to him wield words in song.
"I often say I only have two talents in life: I can rhyme just about anything, and I can read a wine list. And as it happens, these are the two things that you need to do my job," he said and laughed.
Most know the artist for the jazzy, piano-driven "Year of the Cat" with its memorable sax and guitar solos and clever lyrics. The cool song was a surprise hit in 1977 during the disco era.
"We really didn't see that coming," Stewart said. "I purposely tucked ['Year of the Cat'] away at the end [of the album of the same name] because I thought it was the least commercial track. I had no idea. I tend to put the long songs at the end."
He reminisced during a call from a tour stop in London.
"I think some people were confused because they'd come to hear 'Year of the Cat' and I'd play 'Roads to Moscow.' Sixteen-year-old girls are not necessarily interested in the Russian pact from World War II, so I think a lot of people were a little confused initially," he said. "'Year of the Cat' and 'Time Passages' were, I think, atypical in my career."
Born in Glasgow, Scotland, Stewart grew up in Bournemouth, England, telling everyone he was going to be a rock musician.
"I discovered to my horror when I bought an electric guitar that I really didn't have a talent for it," he recalled. "I was really hovering in total anguish at 17. Then at 18, along comes Bob Dylan; he pretty much saved my life because he couldn't sing or play either, but, of course, he was able to unspool these vast amounts of words by, as one of my songs says, 'throwing them like fireworks in the air.'
"And I thought: I can do that. I can't do it exactly the same as Bob Dylan, but I get the principle: You buy an acoustic guitar and then you write hundreds of words in songs and turn them into stories. So I sold my electric guitar and became a folk singer."
By the mid-1970s, Stewart's stature as a storyteller reveling in history was set.
"I write my songs to be like the books and movies that I like," he said. "There's usually plot development; a lot of them take place in different countries, different time zones and different centuries even.
"And a lot of them have several different things going on at the same time, so you don't really know if it's a historical song or if it's an allegory. So there's a certain amount of intrigue."
Stewart will bring that musical mystique to The Ark in Ann Arbor, where he'll play at 8 p.m. Aug. 15. Tickets are $30. Doors open at 7:30 p.m.
"It's a very unusual job, performing things you've made, things you created," he said. "The fact that you could write songs and somehow pay your way just by doing that is quite extraordinary to me. … I've been able to do this for 50 years and make a living at it. It's a wonderful gift."
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Every generation has its doomsday scenario. The invention of gunpowder was supposed to end civilization. In 1798, the Rev. Thomas Malthus convinced the world that overpopulation was outstripping food production leading to apocalyptic famines.
When I was a kid people built underground bomb shelters and schoolchildren practiced "duck and cover" against the coming nuclear holocaust. Later it was pesticides and food chemicals that were supposed to wipe us out (I remember spending three months on a brown rice diet).
Now it's global warming, renamed climate change because, maybe, the planet isn't warming after all. This July was the first since 2009 without a 100-degree day.
Apparently the ice caps are melting and sea levels are rising. (Curiously, the Chesapeake shoreline is sinking faster than the bay is rising. Is that climate change, too?)
What no one really knows is whether climate change is man-made or simply part of nature's eternal flux. Nor do we know whether mankind, by itself, can reverse climate change.
But the folks who run Maryland aren't waiting to find out. They've committed our state to an environmental austerity program that, frankly, doesn't make any sense.
For instance, thanks to the O'Malley administration's "war on sprawl," the single-family detached home will soon be a luxury affordable only to the rich. Maryland's new septic tank ban, stormwater controls, nutrient controls and refusal to provide infrastructure (schools and roads) outside public water/sewer districts are designed to "redirect" growth back to the cities.
In other words, our grandchildren will live in condos and apartments clustered around Metro stops in the "sustainable, walkable communities" the social engineers have designed for them.
Even worse, last month Gov. Martin O'Malley committed us to renewable energy goals that are as likely as the O's playing the Nats in the World Series.
The green lobby's great dream is converting us from fossil (carbon) fuels to renewables (wind, solar, hydro, biomass, etc.). In 2004 Gov. Robert Ehrlich Jr. and the legislature forced Maryland's electric power companies (Pepco, BG&E, Potomac Edison, Delmarva, etc) to get 7.5 percent of their energy from renewables by 2019.
Not to be outdone, in 2008 Gov. O'Malley increased the mandate to 20 percent from renewable by 2022 with an additional requirement that solar be 10 percent of the renewables. These targets won wild applause from the environmentalists and looked good in O'Malley's re-election brochures, but were utterly fanciful.
Today, (2012 data) Maryland's electric power comes from coal (42.7 percent), nuclear (35.9 percent), natural gas (13.1 percent) and renewables (7.9 percent). Not only are renewables trending down from their 9.3 percent share in 2011, but only a tiny fraction are so-called "good renewables" (wind and solar).
Two thirds of Maryland's renewable energy is hydro (dams and water) with most of the rest coming from burning wood, trash and chicken litter. Bottom line, slightly more than 1 percent of Maryland's energy is coming from wind and solar. Repeat, 1 percent.
Clean energy's real superstar isn't wind/solar, it's natural gas, which increased from 3.6 percent of Maryland's energy (2006) to 13.1 percent (2012). Thanks to deep-well hydraulic shale drilling (fracking), natural gas is abundant and cheap (prices are down 50 percent), undercutting coal and nuclear prices.
Natural gas fracking is replacing coal-burning power plants, restoring American manufacturing and business by cutting energy costs, lowering trade deficits by serving as an attractive export, boosting the economies of North Dakota and Western Pennsylvania and promises to make America energy independent from foreign oil.
But, although Western Maryland sits on top of the rich Marcellus Shale deposit, Maryland government prohibits fracking pending environmental regulations which, just released, appear to be the nation's harshest.
Instead of fracking, Maryland is turning to offshore windmill farms which need carbon fuel back-ups, lack transmission lines and, according to a new report, operate at half their projected capacity.
But, most importantly, wind and solar are much more expensive than natural gas. Nevertheless, last month O'Malley once again increased Maryland's renewable mandate to 25 percent of the power companies' energy supply by 2020. He also wants us to reduce our electric power consumption by turning off lights, using efficient appliances and turning down the A/C (during global warming?).
According to O'Malley and the greenies, Maryland is going to teach the world a lesson by single-handedly adopting harsh energy restrictions that cripple our industries and punish our citizens without making any impact, whatsoever, on climate change.
Maryland is 1.8 percent of the U.S. population and the U.S. population is 4.4 percent of the world population. While the rest of the world's economies belch out smoke and pollutants Maryland is going to "lead by example," says O'Malley. And this guy wants to be president?
But here's what really gets me: it's the oceans of red ink, not sea water, that most threaten our grandchildren. The global warming alarmists don't care a fig about the global debt crisis, which is totally man-made.
If O'Malley and Maryland really want to "lead by example" against a coming apocalypse that we can actually do something about, they should get the state's fiscal house in order.
Real leadership would be convincing an unwilling public that without fiscal austerity, we really are doomed.
Blair Lee is chairman of the board of Lee Development Group in Silver Spring and a regular commentator for WBAL radio. His column appears Fridays in the Business Gazette. His past columns are available at www.gazette.net/blairlee. His email address is email@example.com.


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Ben was a bat, and I was a pregnant witch. A witch who should have worn sneakers instead of really tight dress shoes. And extra points for my husband Jay who dressed up as Shrek……….he's a brave soul. Its tough to be green. Especially when we realized very few parents dress up. We are dorks.
We got through the night with no tantrums and no jawbreakers in the treat bag….so I'd call it a success. Hope you all had a Happy Halloween!
P.S. Thanks to all who voted for my fall pillow tutorial over at the Sew Mama Sew blog... you guys are awesome!


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All we can say is "Wow" right now, after seeing some pictures of Love And Hip Hop star Somaya Reece as she attended the Tribeca Film Festival in New York this weekend.
Reece has undergone a breast reduction (which she's been documenting in a series of video diaries — you can watch the latest one here) recently in addition to sticking to a weight loss regimen that has seriously paid off. (Not that she wasn't beautiful before, but she looks seriously incredible right now.) What do you Love And Hip Hop fans think of her transformation??
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Updated photos of the first delivered F80 M3 – interior photos as well as comparison pics posing with an E90 M3. Also a great video clip of the F80 M3 exhaust.
We're thrilled to announce our very first F80 M3 delivery! The lucky BIMMERPOST member is uae247, who just took home an Alpine White F80 M3 with Sakhir Orange interior, DCT transmission, Carbon Fiber roof, and all loaded options.
Check out the first pics and his impressions inside!
Some videos from Istanbul, Turkey where many M4 coupes have now been spotted and recorded on video. The cars are there for the M3/M4 M Power Experience 2014 event, which begins May 18.
Here's part 3 of BMW's inside the BMW M3 and M4 interview series. This one interviews BMW M engineer Juergen Poggel, Head of Development M Engines.
So a new engine has been developed for the BMW M3 and BMW M4?
Jürgen Poggel: Yes. The previous engine was a naturally aspirated V8. For the new BMW M3 and BMW M4, we in the M engine development department in Munich' Preussenstrasse have designed an M TwinPower Turbo inline six-cylinder design and readied it for series production.
What is … CONTINUED
Have a look at the first real life photos of the F80 M3 (in Yas Marina Blue) vs the E90 M3 (in Fire Orange).
We are pleased to formally announce that twenty BIMMERPOST Members have been officially confirmed for BMW European Delivery on June 23, 2014. This represents the first major organized group to accept US Welt Deliveries for the most anticipated BMW vehicle in recent history, the new 2015 F80/F82.
A look at how M cars have gotten ever wider, complete with dimensional comparisons and fancy graphs.
We've just had a chance at the 2014 NYIAS to sit down and discuss the all-new M3/M4 with the M3/M4 project manager, Michael Wimbeck (pictured) and M3/M4 product manager for BMW NA, Victor LeLeu.
Thanks to these two gentlemen, here are some hopefully enlightening answers.
Are there official EPA MPG figures for U.S. M3 and M4 yet?
No, not yet.
Will M3/M4 be subject to gas guzzler tax?
We'll wait for the official EPA numbers to provide an answer. We do expect a substantial increase in … CONTINUED
Have a first look at the BMW M4 Convertible in Individual Frozen Red.
It is all change for the reigning DTM manufacturers' champions as for 2014 the brand new BMW M4 DTM will take the place of the successful BMW M3 DTM. The 2013 car went out on a high as, when Timo Glock won the final race of the season, this was the 51st victory of the BMW M3 in the prestigious touring car series. Add to that the fact that Marco Wittmann was the Rookie of the Year, Augusto Farfus was second in the drivers' … CONTINUED
While we are all familiar with the upcoming M3, we haven't really gotten too many looks at the F80 in colors aside from Yas Marina Blue and Austin Yellow.
BMWUSA has given us the treat of the car in the sure to be popular Silverstone II. The 2014 New York Autoshow lighting makes it look downright sinister.
While we all wait anxiously for the BMW M3 and M4 to hit the showrooms, BMWUSA has been kind enough to indulge us with some additional colors to look at. The car is absolutly sinister is Black Sapphire Metallic!
Welcome the all new 2015 BMW M4 Convertible.
The highlight for BMW at the New York Autoshow has to be the M4 Convertible. The car shares the same drivetrain and dimensions as the M4 Coupe, but ditches its fixed top for a retractable hard top and weighing in at around 3900lbs.
BMW has confirmed that the car will arrive to U.S. showrooms during the summer of 2014 and will be priced nicely at $73,425 (including Destination & Handling).
An F82 M4 and F80 M3 were in attendance at this past weekend's Long Beach Grand Prix, where the M4 gives us a listen at its exhaust and rev sounds.
Have a first look at the F80 M3 and an F30 M Performance Parts equipped 3 Series side-by-side.
How do you think the two compare?
This new exhibit is on display in the lobby of the BMW Museum – featuring an e30 M3 race car and two actual F8x test mules. The M4 is in Austin Yellow and the M3 in black. Both cars were driven by engineers and BMW's factory DTM drivers on the Nürburgring / Nordschliefe. The M4′s dashboard was signed by the DTM drivers; a nice touch for these special cars. Hopefully these "test mules" will avoid the crusher.
The M car display can be seen in … CONTINUED
BMW M3 and BMW M4 Inside (part 2): The new brake systems. Interview with M engineer Klaus Dullinger.
The BMW M3 and BMW M4 both feature a new type of brake system. Let us begin with the M compound brakes – what is special about them and in what ways do they differ from the M compound brakes installed in the previous model?
Klaus Dullinger: M compound brakes have a grey-cast friction ring in a floating arrangement that is connected by pins to the aluminium brake … CONTINUED
We'll have a chance to sit down with the M3/M4 Project Manager at the 2014 New York Auto Show next week, so if you still have any questions on the M3/M4, please let us know here and we'll try to get answers.


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Wednesday, March 20, 2013
I doubt that jazz musician Wynton Marsalis knows our state motto. But recently he provided great insight into how we can make that motto real and meaningful for us as South Carolinians today.
Dum Spiro Spero — While I Breathe I Hope.
I have always loved that motto because it is probably the single most optimistic and hopeful statement a person or a state could possibly make. It says that as long as I as a person or we as a people can draw a breath, we are hopeful. No matter how bad or bleak things may be, if we are still breathing, we are hopeful and optimistic about the future.
What an amazing spirit and tenacious determination is embodied in those words.
First adopted in 1776, at a time of great revolutionary hope and fear, I sometimes wonder whether this motto is still real for us as a state today, or whether it is simply the dry, empty utterance of a time gone by.
The short answer from Wynton Marsalis is, it depends. It depends on us, and whether we have the courage and ambition to make it real for our time.
A few weeks ago, I was on one of those solitary late-night drives where the greatest challenge is to find some way to stay awake on an endless stretch of boring interstate between where I'd been and where I needed to be. As the radio randomly searched through the fading in and out of distant stations, it stopped on the soft, melodic voice of Marsalis talking about his music, his life, and what he has learned over all these many years.
Then he said something that jarred be out of my boredom-induced stupor. "Hope and struggle are two sides of the same coin. If you don't struggle, then there is no reason for hope – and if you are not hopeful, there is no reason to struggle."
How simple and how true.
Those who are resigned to the status quo, who have no ambition, or have no fight left in them – they have no reason or need for hope. The power and encouragement of hope doesn't matter; they have given up. But if you have hope, then you will struggle, you will work to improve things, you will fight to make life better – and the power and encouragement of hope is real and valuable. The hope sustains the struggle.
It seems that too many of us here in South Carolina have recently lost both the hope and the struggle. We are merely trying to get by, with no big ambitions or big dreams. In fact, it sometimes seems that the only folks in our public life who are "dreaming big" are Steve Spurrier and Dabo Swinney.
Football is great, but it is not a foundation for building a competitive state in the global economy of the 21st Century.
For too long now, our political leaders haven't even tried to inspire us. Most of them – in both parties – are well-meaning people who want us to "do better," but they have become caught up in a system of broken government and corrupt special-interest politics that effectively kills our state's dreams and stifles our ambitions.
So what now?
I go back to Wynton Marsalis – we need both the struggle and the hope. We all need to find ways to struggle against the broken and corrupt politics that's killing our dreams. Each in our own way, we need to fight – fight to stay informed, to get involved in some positive solutions to real problems – any problems – from better schools, to more affordable healthcare, to real political reform. Big struggles and little struggles, they are all important.
And most of all, we need to not lose hope. It can be better. Our history shows us that things can change, that big ideas can take root, and that regular people can do great things.
While I breathe I hope.
We need to make those words more than a motto. We need to make them a call to civic duty — and a way of civic life.
Phil Noble is a businessman in Charleston and President of the SC New Democrats, an independent group started by former Gov. Richard Riley to bring big change and real reform to government and politics in South Carolina. firstname.lastname@example.com www.SCNewDemocrats.org
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The Hoosiers attempted an on-side kick and recovered, although they were not able to capitalize as Ewald missed a 55-yard field goal attempt. PSU took over possession at its own 39-yard line, but Zwinak lost a fumble on the second play of the drive, setting up a 46-yard field goal by Ewald to make it a 28-22 game at the 8:34 mark of the third quarter.
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Despite the lopsided victory, it wasn't all smiles for the Nittany Lions as standout linebacker Michael Mauti was carted off the field in the first quarter with a left knee injury. Ineligible for postseason play due to NCAA sanctions, the Nittany Lions will close out their season next weekend against Wisconsin.
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The Amazing Johnathan was performing in front of a crowd full of fans in San Diego about two months ago when he knew it was time to call it quits.
He'd planned for this moment for a while now. The famous comedy magician was diagnosed back in 2007 with a serious heart condition, cardiomyopathy. It means the heart muscle, for whatever reason, is beginning to deteriorate, leading to heart failure. At the time, the situation looked grim. Johnathan, who'd been a regular act in Las Vegas for years, made plans for retirement. But then, after losing weight and getting on blood thinners, everything seemed OK. He decided to cancel the end of his career.
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Johnathan's voice spoke of his mortality — which he gleefully pretended to imperil on a nightly basis for much of his adult life — in matter-of-fact terms. This is happening, and that's that. "They were wrong last time about it. They said that it was going to deteriorate, and it didn't. For six years, I was fine. And now, it's just starting up again. So we'll see what happens."
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For 30 years he has performed his wild brand of comedy magic — part purposefully bad tricks, part old-fashioned geek show, part prop comedy, part genuinely great illusions — and just now he's reaching a point where he feels like he's perfecting it.
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