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While car events are picking up here, it's still mostly quiet on Sundays. I've come to appreciate this, however, as I know it won't be this way for much longer! (If I want anyhow, but I do want to hit up as many car shows as I can this year…)
I made many futile attempts to do some shopping, which surprised me as Easter never struck me as a holiday that a ton of places closed for. How wrong I was. Out of the couple places that were open, I only found one Hot Wheels to add to my collection…. At least it was a Porsche. :)
Fed up with closed stores (Target, REALLY????), we decided to head downtown, enjoy the sunny weather and just walk around until we found some place open for lunch. We came across this very nice Camaro SS street parked after we started off. Mmmmm.
We settled on a nice place for lunch, where I got to try a cocktail with huckleberry vodka. Yum. I really love huckleberries!
Finally, we stopped by our new local O'Reillys to get a replacement reverse light bulb for the 911, then proceeded to get that changed out. Unlike the last tiny 911 project, I managed to help out on this one. ;) Pictures for evidence!!
It was a nice way to end March, and I wasn't that sad to see it go. This month I'm somewhat prepping for my Seattle trip in one month exactly with the 911…. We shall see how that goes, as it will determine how many events we do over there with her.
Not that there aren't things we'll be doing here this month, but I'm always planning ahead…. :P


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Yes, he earned his reputation of adding 6 Trillion to our debt, his reputation of 8.2% unemployment, (REAL UNEMPLOYMENT IN THE TEENS) He has earned his reputation of broken promises and being just another Washington DC politician who lies to us and plays party politics.
Yes he has earned what he deserves, he is a TRUE AMERICAN POLITICIAN!!!!
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The Bush administration LOOKED at Solyndra and declined the loan and the Obama administration approved the loan. There is more material on this if you would like.
I already did earlier. I dont want to repeat myself so read my response to Chicago under this article. But one thing i will say is taxes are only ONE PART of the economy. To just say look at the tax rate at any certain part of our history is not accurate. MANY things affect the economy. Stop thinking the tax rate is the ONLY thing that matters. We could ALL pay 50% tax rates but if the government spends more than they take in we are sunk!!!
If you respond to my post that i had earlier to Chicago please respond here so I dont have to go looking for your response. I would appreciate that. Also AGAIN as i just asked WHY should we give more money to the government???? MY POINT is they cant control themselvs now. How is MORE MONEY going to fix that. Lets put in a flat tax and watch EVERYONE cry about spending instead of just some. This tax debate is silly and obama has accomplished what he wanted. To divert the conversation and blame the rich. The guy is a good politician i will give him that.
The 60's, Kennedy CUT taxes in the 60's and the 50's were affected by the fact that we just got past two wars and that was after the great depression, suburbia broke out and people for the first time in about thirty years had no wars and we were basicly the only game in town as far and a big economy in the world that was free to live how we wanted.
If you respond i will respond in the morning. I am done for the night.
Have a good one.
"Yet, its defended"
YEP, its because people dont know the facts, play party politics and hear what they want to hear. They are more concerned with party politics than they are in the truth. And then there are the people who just dont pay attention. I am not saying everyone has to be a political hound and read every article out there on politicians. Just keep your eye on what is happening.
We have people in this country who could not name the Vice President, but yet will vote JUST Republican OR just Democrat without a thought or even bother reading up on certain subjects or take an objective view. There are people in this country who have no idea this tax debate is even going on. I am not saying I know everything, but I try and pay attention as much as i can.
OK, you named one guy after saying that no economist agreed with TD. Sorry but as i said it stated above MANY MANY things affect the economy. Tax cuts alone wont make a great economy or will it kill an economy. But there is a reason MOST people are rich. They are just better than the rest of us at making money, creating products, investing.
In any industry there will always be the few that are just the best in that industry and they usually have the most money and a lot of them have companies that create jobs and money. They all run on a budget and PART of that budget is TAXES. They all will have there profit margins and when taxes go up like ANY OTHER COST THEY HAVE they will cut back and that hurts the economy, when they have more money to play with they will either spend it, invest it back into there company or put it in a personal investment. ALL OF THIS is good for the economy. NOW i am not saying they should pay 0% in taxes.
I know a lot of self employed folks, bug and small companies. They all work off of a budget and Profit and Loss. And none of them think taxes going up is a good thing and will be good for the economy. I ran budgets when i had my two companies and taxes were just part of my P & L. Costs (TAXES) go up i drive up my costs or sut back somewhere. Thats just the way it is.
AGAIN - why should we give more money to the government?
Dont worry, Obama said he wouldnt have lobbyists in the White House. That was just one of a bunch of broken campaign promises.
I find it hard to believe people fall for its all on the rich people and the Republicans. I am not fan of the right in congress as both aprties are taking it to us but why cant people see how corrupt politicians are on so many levels.
We need to get the money out of politics, we need federally funded elections at the fed level, congress up the the POTUS. We need a balanced budget amendment, a flat tax. We need so many changes to compete in the global economy and it seems we are just sitting on our hands playing the same old games.
Thats a bold claim that not ONE economist has ever agreed with "trickle down/supply side" economics.
While i dont agree with the way the Republicans spell out trickle down, sorry but trickle down works. Who ever you work for gave you that job, they created that job and you make money off of doing your job.
What screws up trickle down are politicians from both sides who spend more than we take in, politicians who spend their time in congress repaying the campaign money that was given to them in the form of favors when they vote. As i said above MANY MANY things affect the economy and trickle down and part of that are politicians from both sides.
Who hires in this country? Whp creates jobs? HINT, they usually have more money the the employees. People who argue against TRUE trickle down act NOBODY is employed in this country.
WHAT???? Didnt i read this earlier today?
Elle is correct, MANY MANY factors go into the making of a good or bad economy. Who was the President, what party had congress? What industry was hot and cold at that time, what bills were passed at that time and years earlier that were affecting the economy at that time. What were the spending habits of congress. It goes MUCH deeper than just what was the tax rate at a certain time in our history.
And just so you know, the higher the tax rate in this country the more loopholes in the system. So, a higher % didnt always equal more money being paid into the system.
"Therefore, soak the rich!"
YES, lets raise taxes so the government can spend MORE money. Thats just what they need!!!! Nobody should have their taxes raised until the government learns how to live with what we send them.
Just so you know Kent those evil Rich people still employ the 85% of the folks who work in this country, we dont have a revenue problem in this country we have a spending problem among other issues. And the evil rich people already pay the most in taxes against other segments of society. If we could just get Obama and the right in congress and the senate for that matter to stop spending what we dont have THEN we can talk about our outdated tax system where some dont pay fed taxes.
The rich pay more taxes than other segments of society today.
My personal opinion is that Health Care should be a State right and not handled at the federal level. Each part of the country has different problems, different industries, different weather and so on. Each State could craft its own Health Care for the issues of that area.
"Romney has no guts to stand up to the bigots in his own party, like Limbaugh and Trump"
At this stage of the game what does he have to prove to Limbaugh and Trump? He knows he will get those votes.
I dont listen to Linbaugh so i dont know if he is a bigot, but what is your problem with Trump? I dont like some things he says but I dont see him as a bigot.
"Cleveland is second largest TV market for political ads this year, analysis says"
Too bad for us in the Cleveland area, four months of political lies, mud slinging and slanting what the other guy says but i guess it works because people but it. It will be a long four months!!!
WOW - People useing their talents to make a living. Maybe if more people did that our country would be a lot better off instead of worrying what others make. As i said earlier Joel makes his living off of his books and doesnt take any pay from the ministry. Nothing wrong with living in a nice house if you can earn it. More power to him!!!
Joel preaches to be the best you can be, and that doesnt always include money and not to get dicouraged about your situation, that covers health issues, relationship issues, or trying to improve your money situation if you are not happy with your position in life. He doesnt talk about getting rich. Maybe if more people followed that train of thought there lives would be a lot better off and they would not be worried about what others make or how they get around. Having money and living in a nice house wont taint you or your kids life if you are brought up to respect others and you stay humble and understand what life is all about.
Joel Osteen is an excellent speaker who preaches a positive attitude a strong faith in God and to believe in yourself. He takes no pay from the ministry and gets paid off of his books. He doesnt fake like he is curing crippled folks on his stage and he doesnt cry every five minutes.
I have seen him preach on TV, i dont always watch but i do like to catch him when i can. I am sorry i cant see him this Friday as i had no idea he was going to be in town and I already have plans.
Keep up the good work Joel and thanks for coming to Cleveland.
The article is six years old and is the ONLY one that finds the death toll that high? I find it hard to believe that all the others are no where near 600,000 but you accept this one as correct.
"They STILL think the Iraq war was a good idea, 400,000 deaths later.
I understand the lefts problem with Iraq but 400,000 deaths???? Do you have a CREDIBLE link to this? I have read numerous articles about death tolls in Iraq but not one credible source has it at 400,000. Most sources have it listed around or a little over 100,000.
"lying retrograde sociopaths"
I guess Obama could be listed as "lying retrograde sociopath" since he lies also. You know like no lobbyists in the administration or in the White House, OR closing Gitmo within one year of his Presidency, OR going through the budget line by line, OR Health Care debates on C--Span, OR unemployment will not go over 8% if we just pass the stimulus, OR to tax companies who send jobs overseas.
I guess we have "lying retrograde sociopaths" on both sides of the politicial spectrum. To bad some cant see it.
"This short sighted debasing of the democratic process for political gain is a intentional tactic by well organized Tea-Rino extremists"
Tea-Rino extremists????? WOW, such big words when both sides do this. I guess the left has never heckled someone on the right.

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There were a lot of badasses in Vampire Diaries Season 4, Episode 5, "The Killer." Tyler (Michael Trevino) was certainly among them: We learned that the hybrid not only broke his sire bond, but came up with a whole plan to implement a deprogramming regime for other hybrids. In a Q&A session with reporters, executive producer Julie Plec and writer Michael Narducci told reporters if Tyler is going to put his plan into action. Klaus (Joseph Morgan) better watch his back!
Tyler turning away hybrids from Klaus, is that going to be a storyline?
Julie Plec: That is the beginning. What you just saw is the glimpse of the beginning of a story for Tyler that we are kind of excited about. After all this time it pays off, his sire bond to Klaus, the hybrid circumstance. Klaus's kind of Machiavellian control that he has over these people. And what part Tyler, who himself was able to break it, will ultimately play in this group of the last remaining hybrids in the world will kind of incite a revolution.
Michael Narducci: I also just think that the show is so much about compulsion and addiction and urges that you can't fight. Tyler is someone who beat the sire bond, and now he's free. And he looks at all these other hybrids that Klaus is using to do whatever including be cannon fodder. And a hero would say, 'This is wrong. I should be involved and do something about that,' and Hayley is someone who helps him act on that heroic desire.
We like hero Tyler.
Julie Plec: Hero Tyler. I just saw Episode 8, so he's still being heroic in Episode 8, spoiler alert. But Michael Trevino, on fire. Tyler stepping up and becoming a man and really taking a stand. It's good for him. I like seeing it, and he's doing a really good job at it.
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KABUL(PAN): President Hamid Karzai has strongly condemned a roadside bomb explosion that killed 14 people and injured four others in southern Helmand province early Thursday.
A Taliban-style bomb ripped through a van-shape passenger vehicle on the Lashkargah-Sangin road, killing 14 people, including women and children, and injuring four others in Nahr-i-Saraj area of Greshk district.
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Considering the exceptionally high price on the PAL version of the PlayStation 3 and its limited backwards compatibility with PlayStation 2 games, selling 600 thousand of such consoles is a spectacular achievement, as Sony succeeded in selling more consoles than its rivals Nintendo and Microsoft managed to during the launch weekends.
Will they keep up the momentum? They're certainly hoping so, as those 600,000 units represent a substantial chunk of the entire PS3 market despite it being available for quite some time now. In total, Sony is estimating around €400 million in sales, which includes games and accessories. Perhaps Europe will be what lets Sony turn it around.


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Shellnation is absolutely correct. Unbeweavabl, to make a statement as you did, you are, unbeweavabl, or never had or understood high school physics. It very easy to stop and start driving within 1 second. Even a driver with the reaction time of a box turtle could do that.
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"".cars travel at 50 mph through an intersection, the yellow light has to be at least five seconds long."
"which called for one second for every 10 mph of the posted speed limit."
But at that rate traveling @ 25 mph, you only get 2.5 seconds? Sounds it should be reversed. "
Two factors dictate the yellow interval. The approach speed and the width of the intersection. The approach speed dictates the stopping distance from when a yellow signal is observed. The width of the intersection dictates the time , at a given speed, to traverse the intersection before a red signal appears.
"And still not one shred of evidence that accidents have been reduced. Every public official associated with this program should resign for lying for perpetrating a fraud against the very people they serve. "
Not resign , be fired. The Edison case which started the investigation is a prime example, of engineers doing whatever will keep them in political favor, rather than following accepted engineering practices.
"The point, you end up getting rid of these cameras, you put a person on the payroll, and instead of EVERYONE getting getting a questionable "camera ticket", you actually get the hard core violators, IN PERSON."
Right on target, and you the get the benefit of having a real police presence to observe and prevent all other kinds of crime. The mere presence of a police cruiser slows people down.
"The lights are in compliance with the easily verified posted speed limit. Now if you don't want to stay within the range of the speed limit than that's your problem and you shoudn't expect more time for the yellow light because of your speeding."
It's a basic premise in traffic engineerng, that traffic control devices and signal timing are not based on posted speed limits, but the actual speeds expected to be encountered on the roadway, usually the 85th percentile speed. Be a little cautious next time you make a statement.
The issue of rampant speeding is another matter that needs to be addressed. However , then you open the can of worms, and it's a big one, of whether the speed limits on most roads are inappropriately low, and set by political desires rather than sound traffic engineering.
Once it has been conclusively determined that Hernandez strangled Etan Patz, to me, it seems a just punishment would be a public strangulation of him. Let other low lifes see what can happen to them if they mess with our kids.
"Someone is dead because he had a fragile psyche, not because he was murdered. "
A larger factor in his death , was his mother's lack of acceptance of his homosexuality and her lack of support, more so than anyhting Ravi did.
You have a right to privacy, just like Tyler, and deleting messages, emails, texts, is part of that. Of course tampering with evidence is a trumped up charge to make a prosecutor look like she is handling the case of the century. Brings disrespect upon an otherwise respectable office.
You have a right to privacy, just like Tyler, and deleting messages, emails, texts, is part of that. Of course tampering with evidence is a trumped up charge to make a prosecutor look like she is handling the case of the century. Brings disrespect upon an otherwise respectable office.
First , let me say I feel sorry for the Clementi's loss. However, they are dealing with it inappropriately.
"yet apparently now the Clementis want to go through more dragged out torture. It's contradictory and puzzling. I guess they didn't get whatever revenge....whoops, I mean closure.... that they wanted yet.
Both the defense and the prosecution should have ended it. This is a ridiculous waste of taxpayer money. Incidentally, I have never heard of a prosecutor appealing a sentence."
They lose their son and they go to watch a movie on gay bullying, not exactly closure. Many times victims of loss, can't differentiate between revenge and closure.
Bruce Kaplan needs put the brakes on his overzealous, rogue assistant prosecutor and stop wasting the taxpayers money.
Borrowing to pay for things you wanted to pay cash for. It's called kicking the can down the road. It's the same thing Christie criticized other Governors for doing. It costs the taxpayers big time in interest payments, maybe not us , but our children for sure.
The prosecutor needs to reign in the ego of his first assistant prosecutor. When they offered a plea deal of 300 hours of community service, apparently at time they thought that was sufficient punishment for the crime, or they would not have offered that. Now he is sentenced to more than that and they want even more yet. Political aspirations, and headline seeking at play here. Stop bullying Dharun.
and what about the lawyers soliciting clients at the scene of the Edison Gas Line Explosion?
I don't have a problem with the man owning guns, in theory he could be a collector without eyesight while having a few beers, owning ammunition for them is another story. Can a blind person own a car? Can someone convicted of DWI own a car?
I seem to think that spending time in jail for stealing this mans guns sort of flavored Struck's friendship for Hopler. You think?
I don't have a problem with the man owning guns, in theory he could be a collector without eyesight while having a few beers, owning ammunition for them is another story. Can a blind person own a car? Can someone convicted of DWI own a car?
I seem to think that spending time in jail for stealing this mans guns sort of flavored Struck's friendship for Hopler. You think?
And once a again, the placement of an antenna precludes any hope of a helicopter rescue if necessary.
Are you kidding me, animal cruelty because there was some matted hair on the animal's tail? With the slim possibility of infection and possible amputation, what about the people who electively have their dogs' tails bobbed? Seems that is cruelty. Since the Animal Control Officer has a duty to enforce the laws equally, I am wondering where Hopewell will get the money to pay for her to go around checking eveyone's dogs and cats for matted tail hair. Is the town of Hopewell going to adopt a set of standards for dog grooming, after all it cannot be left to the subjective judgement of the Animal Control Officer.
First control of rooster mating, now dog tail cleanliness, what has Hopewell come to? Mr. Administrator, it's your job to see that the town's resources are put to better use.
Ms. Burnett is obviously a person who cares about animals, and has suffered enough by the loss of a puppy. Don't put her through a legal nightmare.
"Has Christie seen the long lines that form whenever a business announces job openings? Has he seen the army of unemployed people turned away from job training centers because of budget cuts?"
He can't see them, his helicopter is flying too high.
"I'm not going to be with four children driving around the state at 90 miles an hour trying to make stuff. I put my life at risk and I put the lives of other people at risk."
So even after Corzine was nearly killed by a driver using excessive speed, Christie admits doing the same thing. News flash, Governor, the laws, including speed limits, are for all to abide by, the Governor doesn't get a pass.
"We've only used it for business purposes. When I have to use it for political purposes, we make sure we pay it back."
Which is it? For business or political, or both? The helicopter is the property of the taxpayers, it should never be used for political reasons. I recall an Edison Councilman who got in big trouble for using a township photocopy machine for political reasons. But its ok for the Governor to use the helicopter for political reasons as long as he reimburses. Can I take a ride and reimburse the State? Where is your shared sacrifice? If we have a Governor, and staff , who can't properly schedule appointments to allow sufficient travel time, how can we expect him to run the State properly?


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Patti Hammel gave a glowing endorsement of Common Core State Standards to the Georgetown County School Board this week.
By and large its going to make us more competitive, said Hammel, the school districts executive director for Student Performance and Federal Programs.
According to its website, Common Core State Standards are a single set of clear educational standards for kindergarten through 12th grade in math and English that will be taught in every state.
The last three school years are scheduled to be fully implemented next year.
Opposition to Common Core has been growing. Representatives from groups such as S.C. Parents Involved in Education have been traveling around the state for about a year urging residents to get involved to stop Common Core before full implementation.
Opponents claim the program is another instance of the federal government sticking its nose into something that states should control.
Some call Common Core the dumbing down of America.
Hammel said the program was not imposed by the federal government, but was developed by governors and local teachers.
She said the Common Core standards are not that different than what South Carolina had before the program began, and they do not dictate a districts curriculum.
Because all states had different standards, Hammel said South Carolina was sometimes compared unfavorably to North Carolina and Georgia.
Hammel said Common Core will lead to students becoming better readers and writers.
Opponents claim the new standards focus on non-fiction reading over the classics.
We are not throwing away classic literature, Hammel said.
Instead, Common Core is teaching kids how to use non-fictional texts in different ways, and better prepare them to read and comprehend textbooks and technical manuals as they get older, Hammel said.
The state Legislature is currently deciding whether to overturn Common Core, change it, or allow full implementation.
School Board member Arthur Lance asked Hammel what would happen if the state Legislature decides to repeal Common Core.
Hammel said the school district would be ready to go in another direction, but students will be better prepared, better readers and interact with textbooks better because of Common Core.
Our writing skills are markedly improving, she added.
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Three Union County wrestlers took the big stage at Greensboro Coliseum looking for 3A gold at the 2014 North Carolina State Wrestling Championships last weekend.
Sun Valley seniors Billy Benfield (60-3 final record) and Logan Farlowe (58-0) carried the flag for UC at 138 and 160 pounds, bringing hom state championships, while Weddington sophomore Parker Walton (51-2) worked through the 106 pounders to reach the final.
Benfield and Farlowe extended Union County's streak of at least one state champion over the last six years by bringing home the school's second and third golds in two years — one year after Michael Macchiavello put the Garnet back on the top of the podium one season ago.
Benfield outscored his first two opponents by a combined score of 27-4 to reach the semifinal, where he faced Ryan Davis of Havelock for the right to wrestle for gold.
Benfield shut out the top seed from the East 7-0 to advance to the championship.
In the final, Benfield was matched up with the top seed from the Mideast, Mitchell Dean of Eastern Alamance.
Benfield got the match started strong by recording the first take down just 13 seconds in for a 2-0 lead.
Dean was able to escape with 45 seconds left to enter the second down 2-1.
With his choice Dean chose bottom and tied the match up with an escape 47 seconds into the period.
Benfield recorded a second take down with 45 seconds left in the period and then extended the lead to five with a three-point near-fall with 10 seconds left to enter the final period up 7-2.
Benfield went up 8-2 as Dean chose to allow Benfield up and though he was able to get a take down to cut the lead to 8-4, it wasn't near enough.
"This is a good feeling," Benfield said with the gold draped around his neck. "This is what I trained for my whole life. There are a lot of mixed emotions. I trained all Summer for the past two years and it paid off. I worked hard and became a state champion."
Benfield's match was followed about 45 minutes later by Farlowe, who stepped on the mat at 160 pounds against Jacoby Benjamin of Southern Nash.
Farlowe advanced to the championship match with strong defense.
After dominating his first and second round opponents by a combined score of 32-2, Farlowe found offense tough to come by in the semis with a 3-2 victory over East top seed John Ellis of Havelock.
The championship match wasn't much different.
The first period ended with neither wrestler scoring a point as it seemed Benjamin, the second seed out of the East, didn't want to get too close to Farlowe.
The second period started with Farlowe choosing bottom for the best opportunity to score.
The first point scored was an unexpected one as Farlowe used a little knowledge to dupe Benjamin into a locking hands call 13 seconds into the second period for a 1-0 lead.
Farlowe worked to stand up. Noticing the strong grip Benjamin had, Farlowe dropped quickly to one knee inducing the illegal hold.
Once the wrestling started back, Farlowe was able to work the stand up again, this time scoring an escape with 1:19 left in the period for a 2-0 lead entering the third.
Benjamin escaped from bottom to cut the lead in half but again didn't seem to want anything to do with Farlowe on his feet.
Keeping his distance, Benjamin allowed Farlowe to just sit on his lead in the middle of the mat without a stalling call.
Benjamin finally took a late shot but Farlowe blocked it off and once time expired Farlowe exploded off the ground and into the arms of the Spartan coaching staff as he completed the quest that saw his junior year end with a silver medal.
"It's just weird," said Farlowe, the only UC wrestler to go unbeaten this season. "It hasn't sunk in yet. I was just thinking on the mat that I've got this (stuff). I don't know, I can't talk, I just want to run. I want to run to my parents and around the coliseum."
The run that Farlowe and Benfield had propelled the Spartans to a fifth place finish in the team standings of the tournament.
"This has been fantastic," Spartans coach Sean Greiner said. "Both of them worked their tails off all four years of high school. Bottom line is they wrestled to win. A big thing that contributed was they've been to a lot of national tournaments over the last couple of years. They knew what it meant to wrestle the best. In doing so they are the best in the state."
Benfield and Farlowe had to spend the entire Saturday just thinking about the championship match after wrestling in the semifinals Friday night.
Walton's second trip to the state tournament ended with silver as Walton fell to Logan Durham of South Rowan in the final.
Walton gave up just one point over his first three matches of the tournament, including a 5-1 win over Matthew Insogna of South Iredell in the semis.
That brought Durham, who had defeated Walton for the Midwest title 6-0 just five days earlier.
Durham scored a take down in the first period for a 2-0 lead and extended it to 3-0 with an escape to start the second period.
Walton was one second away from cutting that lead down to one but time ran out just as he sent Durham to his back at the end of the second.
Walton could't find a way up from bottom in the third period. He should be a favorite to win the state championship as a junior.
"I just have to work as hard as I can and use it as motivation," said Walton, who went 0-2 as a freshman at the state tournament. "My bottom game needs some work. My on-feet game also needs some work. It feels great to finish second."


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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. --- The New Mexico softball team will host Colorado State Saturday at Lobo Field starting at 4 p.m. MT. The game will be broadcast live on the Mountain West Sports Network with Anne Marie Anderson calling the Play-by-Play and Teri Goldberg doing the color commentary. Saturday will be the final home game of the season and Senior Day for the Lobos. Gametracker and live video will be available online at GoLobos.com.
New Mexico softball will be broadcast for the first time this season Saturday and for only the second time in school history from Lobo Field. The game will be carried live on the Mountain West Sports Network. The Mtn., can be seen on channel 276 for Comcast subscribers, channel 616 on DirecTV and 329 on Cable One. Anne Marie Anderson (Play-by-Play) and Teri Goldberg (Color) will broadcast the game live from Albuquerque. UNM swept Utah in a doubleheader at Lobo Field last year in the first games broadcast at Lobo Field in school history.
The Lobos will honor two seniors Saturday in the regular-season home finale. UNM will honor Samantha Hughes and Analise Rubalcava following the Colorado State game at Lobo Field. Hughes and Rubalcava have been the foundation for the rebuilding process under head coach Ty Singleton and have re-written the record books. Hughes and Rubalcava are the top two hitters for New Mexico this season. The fathers of the players will throw out the first pitch Saturday.
UNM is the product of a rebuilding season and enters Saturday's game with an 11-33 overall record. The Lobos are 2-9 in the Mountain West Conference but have dropped their last six games. New Mexico, who only has 12 active players on the roster, is looking for its first win since April 12 at San Diego State. UNM has lost 25 of the last 28 games and only has four games remaining including Saturday.
Senior Samantha Hughes leads UNM at the plate with a .393 average. Hughes has hit seven home runs, recorded 15 doubles and logged 28 RBIs. Senior Analise Rubalcava is second on the team in hitting with a .344 average but is hitting .412 during conference play. UNM has four players hitting over .300 and the team has a .290 average.
Rubalcava is the ace of the pitching staff and is 5-16 on the season. She has a 5.66 ERA in 122 innings. Freshmen Danielle Castro and Kerry Hodgins have also pitched this season. Castro is 3-15 in the circle while Hodgins is 3-2.
Saturday will be the third and final game against Colorado State this season. The Rams swept a doubleheader earlier this year in Fort Collins but the games were close. UNM dropped two heartbreakers by one run to CSU.
In game one, New Mexico led 1-0 for most of the game and proceeded to give up two runs late. Colorado State won game one 2-1 in seven innings.
Game two was a different story as CSU lead the majority of the time with New Mexico scoring two runs in the seventh to force extra innings. The game was tied 3-3 before the Rams managed to plate a run in the bottom of the ninth for the win.
New Mexico lost a 13-8 decision to New Mexico State Tuesday in the Rio Grande Rivalry held at Lobo Field. The Aggies swept UNM in the two-game series for the first time since 2002 and the first since Singleton took over. Junior Shaunte Duarte went 3-for-3 in the game with two runs and two RBI. The Lobos had five players with multiple hits.
New Mexico has had back-to-back crowds over 1,000 at Lobo Field including a season-high 1,083 Tuesday for the New Mexico State game. UNM has had three crowds over 1,000 this season including the March 15 against against Louisiana-Lafayette during the Judi Garman Classic.
The Rams enter Saturday's game with a 24-22 overall record and a 5-5 Mountain West Conference mark. CSU has won six of its last eight games but have dropped two of their last three conference games. The Rams beat Northern Colorado twice Tuesday in a doubleheader held in Greeley, Colo. CSU pulled out a 3-0 victory in game one and won game two 10-4. The Rams defeated San Diego State last Sunday, 7-4.
Heading into Saturday's game, CSU has five games remaining on the 2009 schedule.
Colorado State currently leads the all-time series with New Mexico, 45-43. The Rams swept a doubleheader earlier this year in Fort Collins, Colo., but New Mexico managed two win three of the four games last year. Lobo head coach Ty Singleton is 3-9 against CSU since taking over the UNM program prior to the 2007 season.
Sophomore Caitlan Stem is leading Colorado State at the plate with a .373 batting average. Stem has 10 doubles, two triples and five home runs this season to go along with 24 RBI. Freshman Christine Thomsen is second on the team in hitting with a .365 average and leads the team with 31 RBIs. CSU is hitting .280 as a team but has four hitters batting over .300.
CSU has used as many as four pitchers. Freshman Kelli Eubanks is the ace throwing 151 innings and is 10-9 on the year. Eubanks has a 3.51 ERA in 31 appearances. Senior Kim Klabough and freshman Danielle Chaplin have both been in the rotation this season. Klaubough is 7-2 on the year with a 4.08 ERA while Chaplin is 6-5 with a 5.32 ERA. Junior Rebecca Penland has also pitched this season for CSU.
New Mexico will close out the 2009 next weekend in Utah. The Lobos battle BYU in Provo on May 7 starting at 7 p.m. before going to Salt Lake City to face the Utes. UNM will play back-to-back single games against Utah on May 8-9. The games will be available on gametracker at GoLobos.com.
Seniors Samantha Hughes and Analise Rubalcava are all-MWC candidates this season. Their outstanding offensive production has them ranked among the best in the MWC. Hughes leads UNM with a .393 average this season while Rubalcava is hitting .412 during conference play.
New Mexico is 6-15 at home this year and is looking for its first win at Lobo Field since April 2. The Lobos last victory at home was against the Utah Utes in the 2009 Mountain West Conference opener.


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Canoe-Kayak National Championships held in Pakistan to Commemorate World Environment Day
Canoeing in Pakistan is still well and alive! The 2011 World Environment Day Canoeing Kayak Championships was held at the Hayat Durrani Water Sports Academy in Quetta, Pakistan on 5th June to coincide with World Environment Day.
The competition, which was organised as per the International Canoe Federation (ICF) rules and regulations, was under the patronage of the Pakistan Canoe and Kayak Federation (PCKF) and was organised by the Balochistan Canoeing and kayaking Association.
In this event, Pakistan Customs took 1st Place followed by Balochistan 2nd Place and Islamabad 3rd Place. The Secretary General of PCKF, Hayatullah Khan Durrani said after the event, "We have very good canoe kayak paddlers because we have a project for youth canoeists. Pakistan Canoe and Kayak Federation provides training facilities for its grassroots programme, therefore the juniors kayak paddlers of HDWSA Balochistan are the best in Pakistan."
The participation of girls in the Championships was also highly commended; it was pointed out that the Federation has many female members and they have taken a keen interest in kayaking sports. Mr. Durrani said, "The position of the Federation now is to make available its best facilities to the girls so that they can be coached properly." The sport is evidently proving popular because the girls have a good level of kayaking skills and it is deemed to be a suitable and attractive sport for girls in Pakistan.
Following the successful National Championships, Mr. Durrani met with Balochistan's Minister of Sports Mr. Shahnawaz Khan Mari in his office to discuss the promotion and the development of Canoeing and Kayaking in Pakistan. He also took this opportunity to inform the minister about the the ICF's assistance in connection with the development of Canoe and Kayak sports in Pakistan, especially the donation of K1 and K2 boats for PCKF paddlers. It was also deliberated that the President of the Iran Canoe Federation and the Asian Canoe Confederation would in the near future confirm Pakistan's team participation in the upcoming Asian Championships in Tehran.
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"Happier at Home:" Gretchen's Project, KJ's Clutter
Sunday, September 9th, 2012 | Connecting the Dots, Motherlode | 9 CommentsMotherlode sneak peek: Next week, I'm going to Boston to meet up with Gretchen Rubin and record a video introduction to a series of posts she'll be writing for Motherlode starting 9/17. Like so many of us, I found a friend when I first opened Gretchen's book "The Happiness Project," and when that words-only friend turned into an actual live friend (at the ASJA conference) a while ago, that was even better—especially now that it means Gretchen will be writing a weekly Motherlode post this fall. (About what? That's the only part I'm not going to tell you here.)
Since Gretchen's writing for me, I thought I'd turn the tables and write, well, not "for" her but "inspired by" her. I know plenty of people started their own "happiness projects" after Gretchen's first book. I did nothing so official, but this time, perhaps instigated by the fact that her very first topic in "Happier at Home" is something I know would make me much happier if I could just get a grip on it: clutter.
Ok, Gretchen doesn't call it clutter. She calls it, rightly, "Possessions," and that just puts a much happier spin on the whole thing, or at least it would, if my "possessions" weren't so buried in my clutter that it's become very hard to tell the difference.
I'll blog my own "Happier at Home" project, which conveniently enough Gretchen began one September, every Sunday night along with my now-weekly Motherlode sneak peaks (and probably the occasional mid-week picture update of my, um, progress).
Gretchen started her latest project with "Possessions" because she's smart enough to know that the clutter isn't all there is to her relationship to her stuff. "My possessions had a powerful influence over the atmosphere of my home, and they contributed to, and reflected, my sense of identity," she wrote.
I know what she means. I battle the clutter and mess of two adults and four children with an abundance of identity in the form of books, toys, magazines, newspapers and small, indeterminate but invariably important plastic objects (whose importance rarely becomes clear before they're thrown away) daily, but the clutter isn't all I'm dissatisfied with as I survey my domain. We just don't live, physically, they way I want to live, or even the way we want to live. It's pretty depressingly Tobacco Road around here, and I suspect the friend who just sent me an email about her new no-filter fish tank may have been commenting on our tank, which has been fish-free and filled with evaporating water for months. (Ok, maybe longer.)Gretchen's goal was to "Find a True Simplicity." Mine is to Cultivate an Ordered Calm. "Simplicity" will never reign here; I like clear surfaces but I also like books and magazines and easy access to things we love and use, and a few toys here and there don't bother me as long as, if the spirit moves the child to put the toy away (and my "spirit" I mean "allowance" or possibly "threat"), there is a clear place to put it.
I'm adopting Gretchen's second resolution, "Go shelf by shelf" as my first. My goal is to remove and clear, and to keep only what I "know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful," with an eye towards finding a place for everything that remains, even if not everything is in its place.
It's not at all realistic to expect that I'll have gone "shelf by shelf" in our 4 bedroom house by next Sunday, but I'll at least write about where we stand, and whether the bookshelf I took out of the guest room upstairs and then couldn't find anywhere to put except the hall floor is gone, next Sunday. Beyond that lie two more resolutions for September: Make it right, and Put it back.
I want to do more than clear the clutter. I want to get what stays behind right: to finally replace the kitchen soap dispenser and repair the broken dresser drawer and put all the pieces in the Monopoly game. That, to me, is "make it right."
And then I want to learn to keep it that way. "Put it back," means more than that. It means embracing David Allen's requirement that if it takes less than 2 minutes, you do it now by putting the tape back after wrapping a present, or picking up the clump of hairbands and replacing them in the box instead of dropping them in the nearest bowl. If I'm going to be happy with my possessions, each thing needs a place, and I need to make a habit of resecting those places.
Honestly, I go into this discouraged and overwhelmed. We've been letting things pile up for the five years since we moved into this house, and we have both had to accept of late that the children never put anything away because we rarely do: yep, there are six plastic spaceships and a half-built lego on the coffee table, but then, there's a Sunday times and an open notepad (mine) next to them, and the bag I brought out yesterday to dig out hand-me-down soccer cleats on the floor next to it, unreturned to its place, and next to me on the end table is the squirt bottle Rob used to squirt the dog for barking at the UPS man on Friday.I set out to clean the hall today, and mostly just stood gazing miserably, knowing that I can't really clean out the shoe cubbies unless I pull out all the outgrown shoes, and I can't pull out the outgrown shoes without something to put them in, and then I will need to take the ones that aren't handed down somewhere and put the ones that are somewhere else, with a label and the hope of finding them in two years (girls) or four (boys). And that's just the shoes; there are jackets and rackets and swimsuits and kites and backpacks and hats…
I finally managed to open the four elfa drawers that store up the projects children bring home from school all year; in a happy, ideal family, one goes through these at the end of the year, pulls out treasures, tucks some away, frames a few pictures and talks to each child about his or her school year. Instead, I dumped last year's contents into the four bins I keep their artwork in in the basement without a word while three were out with various friends and the fourth played Minecraft. Now they're empty and ready for 2012-2013, filled only with my intent to do better next year and the near certainty that I won't.
I'd hoped for before and after pictures of a hallway transformed, but instead, I realized I needed the bins I keep Sam's clothes in upstairs for mittens, etc., which meant taking Lily's doll clothes out of his old dresser and giving it back to him and then switching the bins currently in the hallway for swimsuits up for doll clothes and…well, long story short, all the bins and the dresser are empty; the swimsuits and Sam's entire wardrobe are in various piles, and it is all much, much worse than it was when I started.
What is it Gretchen always says? Happiness doesn't always make me feel happy. But it really, really will feel so good when it's done—and making the mess guarantees that one way or another, I'm going to have to pick it up!
A Cleaner Car = a Better Life
Saturday, May 7th, 2011 | Connecting the Dots | 1 Comment
Let me just say: actual adults could now ride in every single seat of my car. Rob's boss's wife. Your mother. Martha Stewart. (I would let any of them ride in the passenger seat. Of course. But say they were ALL in the car.)
Now they could ride. I would not have to say "Oh, my God, I am SO SORRY." Or "I have a towel. Do you want a towel? Seriously, take the towel." Or "Shit, I don't know what that is, but I'm pretty sure it won't stain." And here is how this miracle took place:
- Washed car in drive-thru car wash (you should hear a robot voice here, saying "Shine and Protect. Please drive forward.")
- Took out mats and sprayed them viciously in self-wash bay with high-powered soap! And then high-powered rinse! And more rinse! I sprayed them so hard they flapped around on the car wash floor like sting rays. It was awesome.
- Double vacuum. Lots of quarters. (You can do this if you park in a spot where two vacuums will reach the car). Lily took one, I took the other, and we sucked the life out of everything we could find. At one point, I accidentally put the vacuum down over my iced coffee straw, and it sucked the coffee up.
- Nice lady in the next bay offered me two of her Armour-all wipes…and then the madness started. Two wipes barely made a dent, but oh, what a dent it was!)
- At home, where we had more wipes, and spray, and a towel, I went at every surface of that car. I dusted in the vents. I scrubbed out cupholders. (And, yo, Buick, those should be removable.) I wiped the backs of seats, I cleaned leather (with dish soap, which was ok, I think), I scrubbed the doors.
- I marveled at the filth. Who dribbled what brown liquid down the side of every door? What was that ground down deep in Wyatt's cupholder? Who got what on the seat belt clip? And how, how did those spots get on the ceiling?
My car is CLEAN. Clean, clean, clean. I only took one before and after picture, and it's kind of lame:
I mean, you can see that it's better, but it's just not dramatic. So how about this. I don't want to get personal, so picture, say, your neighbor's car. You know the one. The SUV you'd never, ever ride in, with the knee-deep goldfish and the stains on the ceiling (how do they do that?). The one that your kid came out of with a lollipop stick, a post-it and a fruit roll-up stuck to his butt last year. That car.
Now, picture a new SUV. Well, not a new car. A new used car, say, about three years old. Get that, and then put some popcorn down in the the gaps the rear seats roll in–you know, the ones no vacuum known to man can reach— and a couple of jelly beans. And then get a crayon and color some above the rear passenger 2nd row seat, and get a pen, and make a few marks on the rear driver's side door, and then rub those off as hard as you can. Oh, and take off one of the radio knobs in the back. And spray it with some Method grapefruit all-purpose cleaner, and rub liberally with a cloth scented with orange cleaner and: Voila! My car!
It is VERY NICE. And it took, um, 4 hours–but you have to add in driving to the car wash and back, and dropping Lily at a playdate, and going through the McDonald's drive-thru, plus a small wait at said car wash.
This isn't everything we took out of the car. It's everything that came out of the car AFTER everything came out of the car, you know–the stuff that was so deep under the seats, etc., that I didn't find it until I was seriously crawling around in there. Plus it's the resulting car-wiping mess.
Can you tell I'm feeling proud? But I'm also feeling dumbstruck. Because while this is the first time I've really climbed in and wiped and scrubbed and wiped some more since probably last summer, I have vacuumed it recently, and thoroughly. And there is, in theory, a rule–that you can't eat in my car.
And it's pretty clear we've been eating in the car. And we have–not just the road trip lunches, either. All of a sudden, every day, it's been afternoon snack in the car. In fact, what, two blog posts ago, there I am, wailing about disastrous parenting resulting from snacking in the car. Our life should not be busy enough to require that we eat that often in the car. Small children can, I'm told, go for several hours without refueling. And they don't need that much food to begin with. And, seriously, they should not need to be bribed with food to go get their older siblings at school.
I'm incentivized. I wish to turn over a new (old) leaf. I do not want them to eat in this, my glorious clean car. And if (when) they do, I want them to clean up. I'm pretty obsessive about that–and yet, I found multiple lollipop sticks under Rory and Wyatt's seats. So:
- No more food in the car.
- And because I know that's going to be really hard to stick to, only fruit roll-ups, cheese, apples–non-crumby food–in the car. And if you get a lollipop, I'm writing your NAME on the friggin' stick.
Our afternoons are too busy. There is one afternoon when Lily and Sam will really need to eat a snack in the car after school, and a second where only Lily will–but that does not mean that others, who can eat their snack at other times, before or after the car ride, will eat too.
I'll admit it, though, it's such good multi-tasking: ride in car for 20 minutes, eat snack. And we don't go anywhere that's not at least 20 minutes. But the results are so unbearable! I have serious incentive, this time. That car cleaning was good for the soul but bad for the nails, and I don't want to do it again. Has anyone (besides my dad) ever succeeded in a no-eating-in-the car regime?
Powerpuff Girls
Saturday, March 27th, 2010 | Connecting the Dots | Comments Off on Powerpuff Girls
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Bubbles and Blossom. Buttercup won't play… Which, if you know
anything at all about the Powerpuff Girls, is totally typical. You should have heard Lily–oops, Blossom–"but we need someone with beautiful black hair like Buttercup!" "No! I don' wanna!"
I think she would have done it if Lily hadn't demanded that she dress up. She'd already spent ten reluctant minutes as a fairy. Rory likes to be comfy.
I have been cleaning out closets, and wondering how we gather all these clothes that I don't even like, that are stained or tacky (ok, in some cases, because I bought them). We have a friend who gives WONDERFUL handy-downs, so it's not that…I think it's that I make the same mistake with the girls that I used to make with myself: I buy stuff on sale. Which means there is nothing to go with it, or the color isn't really right, or I only liked it because it was cheap…
I reformed, not too long ago, and cleaned out my own closet down to a finely honed, kinda monochromatic but very wearable small set. I try to do that for the girls, but I get very caught up in "Oh, but this is perfectly good," or "oh, but Rory will grown into that some day." Boys, too, on a lesser scale. And I have trouble pitching the stained tshirts if they're the tshirts I actually liked.
But it's spring, and spring will continually inspire me to dump more and more stuff, and bring out the summer stuff (ok, we're WEEKS from that) and maybe it will all get a little better. I'll watch Clean House, and that will make me ruthless.
One thing I did was to throw away a whole bunch of the clothes Rory wore when she first came home because (ok, this is awful) I associate them with this time when I wasn't liking her, or life. I don't want to see her in those pants. I hated her in those pants–and it had nothing to do with the pants. Those are tainted pants, and they had to leave the house. And so on. I feel really good about getting rid of them–like I symbolically threw away the way I felt back then, too.
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A grainy photograph is often created when a photo is taken in a low light situation or the ISO is set to high. Although in some cases the creation of film grain is an artistic expression. There are several ways to adjust grain in photoshop. One simple method is to add a surface blur.
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