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A school district in suburban Dallas has found a way to save money by turning its oldest buses into its newest. Mike Williams, transportation director at Rockwall Independent School District, recently received delivery of a refurbished 1987 Ward 71-passenger school bus, one that had been destined for the scrap heap. Williams says the bus was rebuilt bottom to top for $30,000 by Lear Siegler Services in New Boston, Texas. "I gave them two raggedy old buses that we would have otherwise sold for scrap, and they replaced the floor, seats, engine, drivetrain, the whole bus, really, with new or rebuilt parts," he says. "It's a neat program." The buses are restored by ASE-certified mechanics who strip the bus to its frame and rebuild it piece by piece. In the process, they also bring the buses up to current standards by adding white roofs, stop arms and tinted windows. The refurbished bus, which was towed to the Lear Siegler facility from the Rockwall bus compound two months ago, has been put into route service, while the second bus is due for delivery in the next few weeks. The bus is being monitored closely. "So far, it looks pretty good," Williams said, adding that he'll make monthly reports on its progress to the school board. He expects the refurbished buses to last from five to eight years and to deliver up to 200,000 miles. By restoring instead of retiring the buses, Williams said the district is saving about $30,000, the difference between the refurbishing cost and the cost of a new bus. Next year he hopes to have three buses refurbished, depending on the program's success. New buses are not entirely out of the picture, however. Refurbishing older buses will help to keep the fleet size at its current level, but Williams says new buses will be procured to help handle the district's rapidly expanding enrollment, which he said is growing about 7 percent each year.
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At Festival of Sails, the Club Marine Cruising Series divisions and Coca Cola cruisers took to Corio Bay in fine and sunny conditions yesterday with a cold but moderate south-easterly breeze blowing them around the track in good time.
Festival of Sails 2013 - Royal Geelong Yacht Club, Geelong (AUS): Horizon Sprint (Sm 50)
Most donned wet weather gear for the passage race, some even wore beanies to stave off the wind chill.
Bryan Dorman's Sympatico, the Beneteau Oceanis 58, led off the mark and continued to hold pole position as the fleet headed into the channel.
Sailing: Festival of Sails 2013, Royal Geelong Yacht Club, Geelong (AUS). 26/01/13. Photo - Teri Dodds. Sympatico
The crew recorded a top wind speed of 20 knots and clocked a fastest boat speed of 10.5 knots as they raced to their first win of the series, and to top spot on the overall pointscore.
It was a pleasing result that boat captain Garry Simmons and the crew are hoping to repeat today, the final day of competition at the 170th running of Geelong's famous Festival of Sails.
Sailing: Festival of Sails 2013, Royal Geelong Yacht Club, Geelong (AUS). 26/01/13. Photo - Teri Dodds. Sympatico
Republica, skippered by Ignazio Parolini, is in second place on eight points, followed by Malcolm Mitchell's Caledonia in third place on 11 points.
In Cruising division B, Barnstormer, a Bavaria Match 42, was a little too eager and jumped the start.
Horizon Sprint, a Radford 35, claimed the win in conditions that skipper Frank Hammond described as perfect, citing crewman Bruce King as an invaluable local specialist.
'The result was terrific, we're over the moon,' Hammond said.
John Newbold's Primitive Cool trails by two points in second place with a tally of 10, while Valiant, skippered by John Newbold is third on 14.5 points.
More than pleased with their first place result in the Club Marine Cruising Series division C, Circe the Southern Ocean 12 M, skippered by Colin Johnston completed the course with a corrected finish time of one hour and 46 minutes. Johnston said he and his 'A-team' crew had a great sail. As for today's final day, their aim is to have a good time and if they win, they win.
Johnston and his crew have a four point lead in the series, over second placed Seduction, skippered by Richard Nichols on seven points. Moneypenny, skippered by Langford Spence is in third place with nine points.
In the Coca-Cola Cruising Series non-spinnaker division, Salt Whistle, a Northshore 340 finished in first place, their second victory of the series. Trybooking.com is in second place on five points, followed by Jonny B Goode on nine points.
Sailing: Festival of Sails 2013, Royal Geelong Yacht Club, Geelong (AUS). 26/01/13. Photo - Teri Dodds. Salt Whistle
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On the heels of Anne Boleyn's death, a marriage is underway. The new Queen Jane Seymour is instantly beloved, thanks to her grace, patience and modesty, and all is content at court. Henry is certain it is only a matter of time before his young bride delivers a male heir.
The dissolution of the Catholic Church continues with vigor and ruthlessness. Henry names Thomas Cromwell Lord Privy Seal in honor of his success heading the Reformation. However, this reward may have been a bit premature—an uprising of rebel commoners, angered by the unnecessary devastation, is stirring in the north. With the help of a local attorney, Robert Aske, they organize and threaten Henry's reign.


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? Top of the Agenda: The Cedar City Council plans to consider a beer license for Cedar Ridge Golf Course, consider signing the Critical Incident Task Force Protocol between Cedar City Police Department and other Iron County law enforcement agencies, review the revised Cooperative Agreement with UDOT on city funding for the South Interchange reconstruction project.
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The Creation and Demise of the Knights Templar
By Carson Taylor Wheet
Bachelor's Thesis, University of Arizona, 2009
Abstract: This thesis investigates the Order of the Knights Templar by examining the varied phenomena that led to the formation of the Order in the early twelfth century and its dissolution nearly two hundred years later. Since the demise of the Order has recently received a great deal of attention in both historical scholarship and popular culture, I analyze and critique numerous theories concerning the trial of the Templars and contextualize it by revealing the causes for the Order's creation. I use an array of primary and secondary sources to explain why each event occurred despite being unpopular with a significant portion of Christian officials. I ultimately contend that most of the aforementioned theories are insufficient to explain the rise and fall of the Order because they fail to grasp the complexity of each event. The Templars' creation resulted from a lengthy theological justification for a unique form of Christian holy war, papal ambitions, and a palpable ethos of fear and violence within Christendom that was redirected against an external enemy. Their demise stemmed from secular ambitions, relative papal weakness, and a unique blend of social fears, legal standards, and organizational rules that proved extremely deleterious in their trial.
Introduction: Modern scholarship and popular culture have recently taken a significant interest in the demise of the Knights Templar. But an analysis of the Order's creation is also necessary to contextualize the Templars' trials as well as the events surrounding the Order's dissolution. By examining both the creation and demise of the Knights Templar, one can more fully understand the Order and thereby gain the necessary tools to either accept or criticize the numerous theories surrounding one of history's most mysterious organizations and the source of endless historical debates. The Templars' unexpected rise to power during the twelfth century was overshadowed by its far more surprising fall at the beginning of the fourteenth century. Both events disrupted the status quo and stunned contemporaries, but each event needs to be understood through an examination of the direct and indirect contributory factors that culminated in each phenomenon. These causal elements must be analyzed with respect to how they related to each other as well as the circumstances of their respective historical settings.
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So, after a night in a luxury hotel, just what can you pack in your bag and carry off? The answer may vary from facility to facility.
But there are a couple of standard rules:
First, any soap, shampoo, hair net, shampoo cap, shoe shine kit, sewing kit, or similar personal service item packaged in the bathroom is yours to take, EVERY NIGHT OF YOUR STAY. While some people can live off an individual shampoo bottle for a week, others remove them every day and placing them into their luggage.
While this may seem cheep and petty, there are some folks who pack several zip-lock bags in their luggage specifically for these mementos and amassing a lot for their home second bathroom or for gifts for the kids.
It's quite another matter when we get to towels and wash clothes. While some try to "score" a fluffy bath towel or two from the hotel, these must be replaced and the act of smuggling one into your bag is a form of theft. If you are not charged for the towel, the hotel must replace it and that drives room costs up for us all!
Now, several facilities have a fluffy bathrobe and slipper in the wardrobe for your use. Usually, there is a sign, offering the robe to you AT THE REPLACEMENT COST. This is frequently at $75 or more per robe, and could prove a costly memento of your stay. Some couples will want them, others can't afford to take them. Make certain you know what you're going to be charged before using them.
Post cards, stationery, note pads and pens in the desk, are also available for your use and taking. Some people enjoy a note written on paper from the hotel, or post cards to remember their stay, but again, these are items that the hotel will replace, and they always cost money ultimately.
If you do decide to take those bottles of shampoo and conditioner, make certain their top is screwed on, and to place them in a zip lock baggie in the interior of your suitcase. You might include a note in that quart baggie to airport security that "We collect our shampoo samples".
But one type of bottle that doesn't travel well is the snap top cap, that slides off up off the plug. As an airplane pressurizes and depressurizes, these type of caps can frequently leak, and that's why you want them in a single or double zip lock baggie. Experience shows this is a wise protective measure! Be advised.
But why bother with this if you're on vacation? Enjoy your trip and splurge on your personal care. Use up your toiletries and leave them behind. Why not? That's what they're there for!


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As of today the XX8 Days of Flight collection of Air Jordans moves on to the Air Jordan V, and into an exciting string of icy soled sneakers. The gooey green look on the bottom is one weve seen before on the Air Jordan V Quai 54′, the only release out there that looks even remotely like whats going on with this pair. Also interesting is the inclusion of the 23′ embroidery on back, a little detail that weve seen weave in and out of retro pairs for some years now. Check back later in the day for an additional view of the sneaks and make sure to show off your Air Jordan V wears today on Twitter and Instagram using the #XX8DaysofFlight hashtag.
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Dine with St. Nick himself at 9 a.m. Dec. 14 at the Neville Public Museum's re-creation of Prange's department store's Breakfast with Santa, part of the Holiday Memories: Prange's Christmas Windows exhibit.
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From: Yulia Frid,
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"We have worked with Colorado Mountain College for the past several years. Johann Aberger has been incredible to work with in creating a well defined team building program for our group of education entrepreneurs. Johann really understands our organization's vision and creates team building activities that are perfect to the development needs of our program. Johann brings a strong feeling of teamwork and purpose to the group.
"The activities are fun, educational, very interactive and create a great ice breaking environment for each of our groups . All the activities had a perfect flow from one to the other (from fun and entertaining to well thought-out and strategic exercises). Thank you for your organization, creativity, and high energy leadership in hosting our teambuilding events. Everyone really enjoyed participating and felt good about the experience and what it meant to our participants."
From: Kathy Swartz, Solar Energy International
"When planning our recent staff retreat, we knew that we wanted to have a team building component and we had heard that Johann at CMC was a good facilitator. After he agreed to work with us, Johann insisted that he meet with the Leadership Circle before the actual staff retreat. Though we doubted his reasons and tried to reduce it to a conference call, he drove over an hour to be with us before the retreat. And from the moment that he started to talk, it became evident why. Johann has a presence about him… something that opens a person up to believe that we can become the organization that we want to be, something that encourages change. During the staff retreat, we were lucky to have Johann with us for four hours. He had done his homework by reading all the staff surveys and planned the day's activities accordingly. It was so evident that Johann had really thought about the flow of the day, and though I'm sure we weren't his only client, he made us feel like were were. During our time together, he directly brought up issues that lay under the surface by structuring activities that had us work with people whom we had conflict with, by encouraging openness during the debriefs, and by giving us challenges that were quite challenging and required good communication.
The impact that the retreat had on the staff was incredible. There was a different energy with the group–more upbeat and positive and I definitely attribute some of this to Johann's work. Johann's strengths also lie in the fact that he is all about the follow-up and holding people accountable to their word. In an organization that gets busy, it's so good to have someone like Johann says, "Did you uphold your word?" or "Let's schedule the next meeting." Thank you Johann!"
From: Linda Jeschofnig,
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"Our company invested in a two-day teambuilding retreat with Colorado Mountain College (CMC) Experiential Development Program on the Spring Valley Campus in Glenwood Springs, Colorado. The training coordinator was Johann Aberger who did an outstanding job of ensuring that all activities, regardless of how much fun they seemed, were relevantly related to our work and company goals. Our team of 22 people stayed in CMC's air-conditioned dormitory facilities. The two bedded rooms each had their own bathroom and shower, were reasonably comfortable, and were appropriate for the event. The shared room arrangements contributed to the team building efforts and the weekend's atmosphere of camaraderie.
"Our campus cafeteria meals were exceptionally tasty, varied, and nutritious, nothing like stereotypical college cafeteria food. We were impressed with CMC's culinary emphasis on healthy eating and enjoyed the sustainably grown fresh fruits and vegetables we were served.
"Johann conducted three half day training sessions for our group; two indoor sessions and one outdoor session that included high rope challenge course exercises. However, Johann actually began working on our company's training program several weeks before our arrival. He polled individual employees as well as upper management to assess our individual and collective strengths, weaknesses, and needs. He then specifically selected and constructed team building and problem solving exercises to help us address our unique issues and to build a productive and sustainable organization.
"Johann's patient demeanor and solid experience with the high rope challenge course gave everyone the incentive and courage to become fully engaged in daunting high ropes activities. Each person challenged themselves in someway and all genuinely interacted in an atmosphere of trust and support as they engaged in activities outside their normal zones of comfort. Subsequent discussions explored how we might utilize this courage and cooperation to move our company into its next levels of growth.
"I have both lead and participated in organized teambuilding activities for over 25 years and believe this particular weekend retreat to be one of the best organized and executed programs I've had the privilege to experience. The CMC campus location overlooking Mount Sopris provides an idyllic setting, the memory of which will reinforce the team's learning experience long into the future. However, the most effective element of the program was our coordinator Johann Aberger whose professional organizational and leadership skills ensured the program fully met our specific goals."
From: Martha LangeProgram
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"This presented a terrific opportunity for our participants to let their guard down and bond in ways they otherwise wouldn't have."
From: Margo Young-Gardey
President Loan Operations Alpine Bank
"I was not sure what to expect, but the group gelled… the overall experience was new and it had positive results."
From: Tom Penzel
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"Johann Aberger has worked with my teaching staff on several occasions. He has a wonderful ability to put people at ease and to make them laugh, to openly discuss issues, and to look inward at themselves. He is one of the finest facilitators I have ever had the pleasure to work with!"
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Problem Solving Court Coordinator State of Colorado, 9th Judicial District, Probation Department
"I am writing to recommend the Challenge Course at Colorado Mountain College under the leadership of Mr. Johann Aberger. The Ray Combest Drug Court and the Probation Department in the 9th Judicial District has had the good fortune to participate in the Colorado Mountain College Challenge Course the past 3 years. The results for our high-risk probation population have been tremendous. Clients have been able to challenge themselves and build skills that have benefited them in every area of their life. Indeed, drug court participants often refer to their challenge course as a turning point in their probation experience.
"The expertise of Mr. Johann Aberger and the spectacular setting makes each course a unique learning experience for everyone. I would recommend the CMC ropes course to any group or organization that is interested in building strong and healthy teams.#
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"The experience was just the best and hard to find fault. Our leaders were people you want to be your friends. Outstanding in every way. Two things stand out for me: breaking down of all barriers… strong friendships formed and going over the edge with support of the group – anything is possible. To see the group come together for the good of the whole was awesome. I wouldn't change anything."
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BJ Adams and Company Real Estate
"Thank you for such an awesome day! It was even more than I had hoped for… We would love to sing your praises!!"
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Associate Professor Colorado Law Enforcement Training Academy Colorado Mountain College
"Early on in each Police Academy session the students spend an afternoon participating in the 'ropes course' that Johann Aberger facilitates… The experience challenges the students to work together to solve problems and in the process gives us and the students the opportunity to see how well they lead, follow, and collaborate in their choice of solutions. Johann skillfully coaxes each student's personality and character to the surface with the exercises he has crafted. The course has become an essential part of the academy experience for all our students. We couldn't conduct an academy without it."
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Valley View Hospital Youth Recovery Program
"The CMC teambuilding and climbing program has been a great resource for helping clients of the Youth Recovery Center become more of a team and supportive of each other throughout their chemical dependency treatment. Also, our clients have shown an increased amount of trust in themselves and in others. Most importantly the facilitators are always able to be flexible and take our clients in whatever direction they need at that time… A great program and it is an essential part of Recreational Therapy at the YRC!"


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Muddling is a bartending/mixology term for crushing fruits or herbs to release their full flavour into a cocktail in the same way a chef would use a pestle and mortar to prepare food ingredients. A muddler is not dissimilar to a rolling pin in that it has a flat end and is usually made of wood. Only use the muddling technique is the base of a shaker or sturdy glass pushing down with a slight twist.
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The New Canaan News recently announced that fired staff writer Paresh Jha repeatedly fabricated sources and quotes in at least 25 stories. The weekly paper also declared that any "stories found to contain fabricated material have been removed from the newspaper's web site."
But at least one Jha story still on the site appears to have been completely fabricated. With the final tally still to be determined, the total number of stories that Jha fully or partly fabricated could easily exceed Stephen Glass' mark of 27 while at The New Republic.
Meanwhile, the paper isn't talking.
Attempts to get a comment from New Canaan News editor Ashley Varese and editorial director of Hearst Connecticut Media Group David McCumber have been met with silence. We don't know if they continue to hunt for examples, or if highly questionable stories, such as the one detailed below, remain on the site because they slipped through their research.
Editors also haven't said if Jha made up entire articles, though an example I detailed yesterday — along with the newly identified suspicious story detailed below — strongly suggest he did. That possibility wasn't mentioned in McCumber's note to readers about Jha's firing.
Number 26?
The article, likely fabricated, that I wrote about yesterday was removed from the website, as per the policy outlined in McCumber's note to readers.
However, a look through some of Jha's other recent pieces that remain on the site turned up at least one highly suspect story, "Not all parents hand over the keys at 16." Update: At some point today, after my story was published, the aforementioned article was removed from the New Canaan News website, leading to the conclusion that it was fabricated.
(I intend to keep looking for problematic stories until someone from the New Canaan News provides information about the status of their search and offers details about what they found.)
Jha's June 7 article about young drivers shares much in common with the recently disappeared Jha story that looks entirely fabricated. It, too, includes unusually named sources with no online profile, an absence of quotes or statistics from official sources, and a series of too-perfect quotes that often feature a parent and child discussing an issue.
Here's a sample quote from "Roxy Trestioli," who the story says was not allowed to drive until she hit 18; Trestioli is nowhere to be found on Facebook or elsewhere online:
"I was really angry and depressed about it in high school. Obviously, all my friends were getting cars and licenses so it was difficult," she said. "But at the same time, a lot of my friends were also getting speeding tickets and into accidents because of all the newfound freedom they had. I still tell my dad I could have handled the responsibility, but in retrospect I didn't miss out on much. I was still hanging out with my friends and having a good time."
That's an unbelievably perfect quote, a long and perfectly phrased idea that sprang fully-formed from the mouth of a young adult. (Nothing against young adults; most of us don't speak like that.)
She must have learned to speak that from her father. Here's Jim Trestioli, who is nowhere to be found in the White Pages or elsewhere online:
"Her safety was the first thing on my mind. Don't get me wrong, I trust Roxy in making the right decisions, but I don't trust the environments she could have been influenced by," he said. "When kids get that freedom around the same time as all of their friends, there is this euphoria about it and they tend to not look at the ramifications of their actions in that situation. I had seen enough car accidents where the slightest distraction could ruin lives, so I decided that Roxy could get her learner's permit, but I wouldn't let her get a license until after high school was over."
And on it goes. We hear from "retired driving instructor" Jocelyn Retrede (a play on "retread"?) who didn't let her sons get their licenses until they were in college. A perfect source for a story about parents not letting their kids get a license at 16, no?
Dan and Laurene Ulrigcht also weighed in about letting their kids get licenses, but then not letting them behind the wheel for a few years. A clever twist on the topic.
Finally, there's Jerry Hafwae (halfway?), whose tricked out vehicle keeps daughter Tina from using her phone or texting. Interesting!
The Hafwae and Trestioli quotes were repurposed in a story published in New Canaan News' sister paper, the Connecticut Post, and in the Stamford Advocate. This suggests the folks at Hearst Connecticut have far more explaining to do. Just how many of Jha's fabricated stories were used in full or in part by other papers in the group? Have those papers issued a note to readers and taken the stories offline as well?
This single example offers multiple sources with very unusual last names, none of which show up in the local White Pages. None of which are linked to profiles on Facebook. None of which show much of anything in Google searches. All in the same story? Really?
In the end, the story is built solely on perfectly-formed, eloquently expressed quotes that sprang forth from ideal sources that were somehow discovered by a writer who turned out to be a serial fabricator.
And the story's still online with nary an editor's note to explain Jha's offenses to readers.


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|Rancid Lead Singer Tim Armstrong lets it all out for The Hootenanny crowd on Saturday night at Oak Canyon.
The hot sun was no match for greasers and cowboys who drove out to God's country to partake in some classic rockabilly and punk music at the 18th annual Hootenanny at Oak Canyon Ranch in Silverado Canyon on Saturday. Though there was no question what type of scene this was (read: cherry sundresses and Pomade), the overall crowd vibe created a fun, energetic time warp that's become an indelible part of summer in Orange County. Any lingering angst was surely taken out in one of the dozen circle pits the three stages had to offer. We now regale you with the best (and greasiest) highlights this year's Hootenanny had to offer.
Funniest Lyrics: Roger Alan Wade
Early in the day, people found spots under an oak tree or the cleverly placed misters to listen to Roger Alan Wade spout off some hilarious lyrics. I feel if this act would have appeared at the end of the day, people would have fumbled over the words, but would've laughed a lot harder. The lyrics seemed to compensate for Wade's quaint acoustic set up on Main Stage A and left everyone in the crowd, including myself, in stitches. You really can't beat lyrics like "I want a butt ugly slut with a bad drinkin' problem and a jealous old man in jail" or "I'd love to run your toothbrush on a sick monkey's butt." It's the kind of humor that's capable of causing even the angriest Rancid fan to crack a smile.
Best Guitar Shredding: Vincent Bury of the Red Devil Squadron
Vincent Bury, lead guitarist from OC-based band the Red Devil Squadron, took no mercy on his fret board as his fingers ran like a marathon runner up and down the neck of the guitar during the group's 2 p.m. set. I turned my head once and looked back at the Side Stage to see Bury channeling his inner Hendrix and placed the guitar on behind his back, resting it on his bushy mane as his blitzed through some impressively fast riffage. I was lucky there were benches close by as my knees began to buckle from the note-heavy awesomeness rained upon me.
Craziest Circle Pit: 3 Bad Jacks
3 Bad Jacks lit a fire under everyone's already over-heated ass when lead singer Elvis Suissa literally set his drummer's cymbals ablaze and screamed "I wanna see blood in that pit!" He requested "all the pretty girls step aside and let the ugly-ass mother fuckers beat crap out of one another. Their supreme cover of "Ace of Spades" pounded through the speakers, as the crowd swirling commenced. Shirts, hats, bottles, bags of popcorn, beads, even a neon green pair of pants went airborne while beefy sweaty guys kicked up dust in a testosterone tornado. Suffice it to say, shit got real.
**Honorable mention: Rancid maintained a constant two-to-four pits through the entirety of their hour-long set. Who needs a fancy workout routine when you have these bands?
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|This crowd surfer was relentless and it took several beefy security guys to hold him down.
Biggest Technical Difficulty: The Supersuckers
Although The Supersuckers put on an energetic show, at some point a fuse blew after one of their songs. But it wasn't a total bummer--the silence that followed left the crowd stagnant long enough for me to sneak away and narrow down my favorite cherry print pin up dress amongst the circuit of retail tents. Though it was a frustrating blunder, the loyal crowd waited for everything to hastily fall back into order and the The Supersuckers went on to produce as set that certainly did not, uh, suck.
Most Crowd Love: The Bouncing Souls
The New Jersey-based band the Bouncing Souls' lead singer Greg Attonito somehow levitated over the gauntlet of photogs to literally get in fan's faces and rock out in stunning fashion. You could feel the love radiate from fans smiles as Attonito practically crowd surfed to give away high fives and hugs. Thoroughly grateful fans rocked out harder which goes to show that when you're on stage, the right amount of sweaty acknowledgement towards the crowd does indeed pay dividends.
Most Wasted: The Growlers
While the Bouncing Souls spread mad crowd love, The Growlers could be seen chugging Tecate while setting up on the neighboring stage. The very plain-faced Orange County-based band mellowed out the pumped up crowd with their psychedelic tunes while lead singer Brooks Nielson nonchalantly proclaimed one of his few comprehensible phrases "I'm drunk." A few giggles later, he tried in vain to throw out some inebriated, hippie vibes amongst the grease folk. "Come on, you rockabilly guys know you take LSD, too."
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|Ariel Perper, 21 and Tori Montroy, 23 ready for the 2012 Miss Hoot beauty contest at the annual Hootenanny on Saturday, July 7th.
Most Anticipated:Rancid
Though pretty much the entire day showcased awesome rockabilly music and fare, the impeding set of Bay area punk legends Rancid kept the crowd giddy with anticipation all day long. The second these Lars Frederickson, Tim Armstrong, Matt Freeman and Branden Steineckert stepped on the stage, barricades swelled and creaked and crowd surfers seemed to emerged from nowhere. For the next hour, we got extremely good at dodging flying feet and fists as the band rocked the shit out of the crowd with their classic and not-so-old singles "Time Bomb" and "Olympia Wa." to name a few, happily tacking their crowd as the indisputable punk kings of the Hoot.
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We're only a few weeks away from the season finally -- mercifully -- getting started, and Missouri just found out that its offense will have a big hole to fill. It was announced on Monday that left tackle Elvis Fisher is going to miss the entire season.
Fisher tore his patellar tendon in his left knee in practice on Monday and will have surgery on it Tuesday.
This is a big loss for a Missouri offense that will be breaking in a new quarterback in James Franklin this season. Fisher started all 13 games for the Tigers at left tackle in 2010 and was an honorable mention on the All-Big 12 team last season and in 2009. Fisher was also named to the first-team Freshman All-American team in 2008.
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It is with great sadness that the Psychology Dept. notes the sudden passing of one of its most senior faculty, John Burchard. John died in his home surrounded by his family on Saturday, January 18 after a short bout with congestive heart failure.
Though he had been slowed in the past few years by hip surgery, John continued to work full-time with his graduate students, and was actively involved in two research projects involving Wrap-Around services , as well as taking over for James Rosen as one of the co-instructors for Introductory Psychology.
John arrived at John Dewey Hall in 1970, and worked diligently to improve the lives of those with cognitive, emotional, or behavioral disabilities through his research and hands-on approach. Many of his former students, both undergraduate and graduate, have made a lasting, positive influence on society through programs John helped to inspire and design.
John also made many formal and informal contributions to the community. He served a term as Commissioner of The Vermont Department of Social and Rehabilitative Services, and instituted programs for children, refugees and other underserved populations which still are models to be followed. He, and Sara, were recently honored by The Kids On the Block, Vermont, a national organization that enlightens children on the issues of disability awareness, medical-educational differences, and social concerns, and their contributions to the community were noted in The Congressional Record.
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Kia's generously-sized seven-seat SUV, the Sorento, has yet to become particularly old or saggy at this stage of its life, but that hasn't stopped the Korean carmaker from giving it a slight makeover.
The American-market 2013 model you see here features a mildly revised front end. There's less chrome in the grille as the current model's shiny grille surround gives way to a more aggressive-looking black treatment while the signature Kia 'tiger nose' treatment comes in the form of a small chrome strip.
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Sokurov's 2011 'Faust' finally makes its local debut
FILM It's taken nearly three years for Aleksandr Sokurov's Faust to get to the Bay Area. That seems apt for what was surely, in 2011, the least popular recipient of the Venice Film Festival's Golden Lion in decades. Jury chief Darren Aronofsky (whose own epic about God and man's purpose and such, Noah, is stone sober by contrast) called it the kind of movie that "changes you forever after you see it." Others — especially those who expect some resemblance to the "tragedy by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe" the film claims to be based on, perhaps its first insidious joke — registered reactions in the general realm of "WTF?"
But mostly, this Faust simply hasn't been seen very much, an odd fate for a fairly expensive art movie that purportedly Putin himself hoped would demonstrate the glory of modern Russian culture to the world. (Even if it is a German-language period piece shot in the Czech Republic.)
One can only imagine Vladimir's subsequent dismay, and possible avowals to never again back auteurs without the surnames Bondarchuk or Mikhalkov — men who can be counted on to grunt out macho, patriotic cine-blintzes that in proud testament to national nepotism invariably get chosen as Russia's official Oscar contenders. (Nikita Mikhalkov's massive 2011 bust Burnt by the Sun 2: Citadel nudged out Faust for that honor, prompting international hilarity.)
What can Sokurov be counted on for? He is a weirdo. Even his popular triumphs — 1997's rhapsodic Mother and Son; 2002's extraordinary 300-years-of-history-in-one-traveling-shot Russian Ark — are very rarefied stuff, disinterested in conventional narrative or making their meanings too clear. In production scale, Faust is Sokurov's biggest project, which hardly stops it also being possibly his most perverse. Whose idea was it to give this guy millions of euros in anticipation of something beautiful, accessible, or at least non-maddening? Surely a few heads rolled at the Russian Cinema Fund, Golden Lion or no.
But whatever bureaucrats' loss is our gain ... finally. Faust is compellingly, often hypnotically dreamlike and grotesque, a film not quite like any other. It rings bells redolent of certain classic 1970s Herzog features, and of course Sokurov's own prior ones (as well as those by his late mentor Tarkovsky). But it has a stoned strangeness all its own. It's not 140 minutes you should enter lightly, because you are going to exit it headily, drunk off the kind of questionable homebrew elixir that has a worm floating in it.
Bruno Delbonnel's camera dives headlong from celestial clouds into a clammy mittle-Yurropeon town in which the thin margin between pissy bourgeoisie and dirty swine is none too subtly delineated when a funeral march collides with a cartful of porkers. Starving — for love, for lunch, for any sign that God isn't just a nagging personal delusion — is Professor Faust (the marvelously plastic Johannes Zeiler), whom we meet dissecting a corpse in his filthy studio. Asked by bonkers assistant Wagner (Georg Friedrich) where the soul dwells, he shrugs "There's only rubbish in here," yanking out the most gratuitous onscreen innards since Andy Warhol's Frankenstein (1973). Impoverished and hungry, the questionably good doctor is an easy mark for Mephistophelean moneylender Mauricius Muller (physical theater specialist Anton Adasinsky), an insinuating snake who claims the soul is "no heavier than a coin," and will happily relieve Faust of his in return for some slippery satisfactions.
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WhatTF is going on with our weather? NYC got hit with 5 micro tornadoes — upturning trees, moving cars, disrupting rail and highways — over the course of about 20 minutes.
The commute home was insane — the railroads were all essentially canceled, with multiple trees on the tracks — and the drive home was simply unimaginable.
I cannot describe what it was like to take one hour to go a single exit. Normally, it takes me 30-40 minutes to get home at 8:30 at nite. I just walked in at 1am. It took me over 4 and half hours to get driven home (courtesy of CNBC).
FIretrucks every where, ambulances, police — it was bedlam.
I've never had a ride like this — an on rare occasion, I drive into the city with ush hour. That takes 60 – 90 minutes. This traffic was about 5X worse — it looked like a post-nuclear war. I was in the car for an hour just to get out the tunnel, and another hour before I got 2 miles east of the tunnel. It was simply unconscionable.
Forget nuclear bombs, terrorist can disrupt the entire metropolitan area with a few tree saws . . .
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Transfer gets six hits and earns Game 1 victory in opener
WYE MILLS, March 13 Chad Wolfe wasted no time making his presence felt with the Skipjacks.
Wolfe, a sophomore transfer from Mount St. Mary´s, went 6-for-8 and picked up the pitching victory in Game 1 Sunday afternoon as Chesapeake College swept Queensboro (NY) Community College, 12-6 and 14-4, in its season-opening baseball doubleheader.
"Chad just did an excellent job," said Chesapeake head coach Frank Szymanski. "His hitting speaks for itself. On the mound, he threw strikes, changed speeds, and was on top of his game."
Szymanski welcomed the pitching performances turned in by Wolfe, Game 2 winner Clarke Rollins, and relievers Matt Clark and Taylor Leeson, especially after losing staff aces Tim St. Clair and Lenny Yagatich from last year´s 26-win team.
"Tim and Lenny combined for 13 wins and ate up the bulk of our innings last year," said Szymanski. "With their success, we had to get them the ball as much as possible last year. Now we need pitchers like Chad, Clarke, Matt, and Taylor to step up for us."
Wolfe struck out seven, walked two and allowed six hits in four innings while giving up five runs in Game 1. He helped himself by going 4-for-4, scoring twice, and driving in another run. Robbie Miller joined Wolfe with a multiple-hit game, going 2-for-3 with an RBI.
Clark pitched the final three innings of Game 1, allowing one unearned run on one hit and two walks while striking out two to earn the save.
Chesapeake used a three-run third to wipe out a 4-3 deficit and take the lead for good in Game 1. Miller singled, went to second when his hit was misplayed in right field, and took third on a passed ball. Queensboro starter Alex Rodriquez got the next two outs before losing his control.
Rodriquez hit Justin Armiger with a pitch and walked Matt Fitzgerald to load the bases. Josh Creighton singled home the tying run before Rodriquez hit Wolfe to force in the go-ahead run. Brett Ireland then walked to force in another run.
Leading 8-5, Chesapeake broke Game 1 open with a four-run fifth. Rollins had an RBI double, while Miller and Jimmy Carroll contributed run-scoring singles in the fifth-inning explosion.
Rollins pitched four innings to get the win in Game 2, allowing four runs on five hits and two walks while striking out four in a contest that was ended after five innings due to the 10-run rule.
"We pitched him (Rollins) last year against Queensboro and he did a great job, so we wanted to throw him out there against them again," said Szymanski. "Clarke´s going to have to pitch more for us this year. He really threw the ball well. He did last year, too, but we didn´t need him in that role as much last year as we do this year."
Leeson struck out one while pitching a perfect fifth inning.
Chesapeake took control of Game 2 with a six-run second inning that broke a 1-1 tie. Wolfe´s RBI double put the Skipjacks ahead to stay and Miller added a run-scoring single. Creighton had the inning´s biggest hit, a three-run, two-out double to left that made it 7-1.
Kevin Weems went 3-for-3 with an RBI and a stolen base. Miller (three RBI) and Wolfe (double, RBI) each went 2-for-4.
The Skipjacks host Harford Community College Tuesday at 3 p.m. in their Maryland Junior College Athletic Conference opener.
"Those conference games are all big," said Szymanski. "We tell our players they have to be ready to play every game, but there´s obviously more weight to conference games."
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Mikaela Shiffrin was 15 when she competed in her first World Cup slalom races.
The prodigy is poised for her coming out.
Her name is Mikaela Shiffrin. She is 18 and already the world's best slalom skier. Shiffrin is sure to come zig-zagging down the side of a cliff in to-hell-with-gravity fashion, directly into your sporting conscientiousness, in the coming days.
Skiers have a habit of doing that, thanks in large part to the Winter Olympics.
That's why Lindsey Vonn, Picabo Street and Bode Miller are household names. For those of us in my generation, there were Phil Mahre, Tommy Moe, Alberto Tomba, Hermann Maier, Franz Klammer and Jean-Claude Killy.
Shiffrin, who has lived in Colorado and Vermont, is already a sensation in modern-day measurements. She's been on the cover of Sports Illustrated and has 24,000 followers on Twitter and 42,000 on Instagram.
She was 15 when she competed in her first World Cup slalom races, which is akin to playing for the Phillies as a teenager. She won her first World Cup race two months shy of her 17th birthday in January 2012. A little over a year after that, before turning 18, she won the world title in the slalom.
Here, Shiffrin could become the youngest U.S. alpine Olympic medalist ever if she climbs the podium. She'll be among the favorites in the slalom and will also have a medal shot in giant slalom.
Eventually, she may also move to the Super G and downhill, the perilous speed races that are less about technical wizardry, like slalom, and more about sheer will and control.
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Bruce Weber gave an oh-so-hilarious speech to a bunch of Illinois fans yesterday, and he closed with this gem:
– Weber, on the Big Ten race: "The league should be wide open and we can be right in the middle of it. I do know one thing, though. I think Indiana will suck. Don't put that on the Internet."
Awwww. Brucey still hasn't gotten over losing Eric Gordon! Isn't that cute?
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The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society has finally settled on a new name for their high-tech interceptor vessel – using the opportunity to honor legendary model, actress, and animal rights activist Brigitte Bardot.
Formerly called "Gojira" (Godzilla in Japanese), the organization was forced to remove the designation after lawyers representing the trademark issues a cease and desist. In a release, Sea Shepherd said they were more than happy to comply with the change, noting that the "Gojira" name had served its purpose in "routing the Japanese fleet" earlier this year.
The relationship between Brigitte and Paul goes way back to 1977 when Captain Watson took Bardot to the ice off the coast of Labrador to pose cheek to cheek with a baby seal. With that one iconic photo alone, Bardot brought the cause and need to protect harp seals to the world's attention, a pivotal point in the fight to stop this annual Canadian obscenity of cruelty and mass slaughter.
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My Garmin HRM works great when I'm shirtless on my treadmill. It works great when I'm wearing a snug-fitting tech fabric shirt against my skin and other layers over that for running out in the cold. It does not work, now that we're in warmer weather, when I run with just a loose fitting tech fabric shirt on. I'm convinced it's from the static electricity effect that I've read about.
The only remedies I've heard for this are: 1) wear cotton shirt; and 2) wet down your tech shirt.
I dread the thought of wearing cotton shirts. I did that years ago and hated the sweat-soaked smelly, chafing experience that came with cotton shirts. I don't like the idea of wetting down my tech shirt. That, to me, defeats the purpose of wearing tech fabric - to stay dry!
I'm toying with the idea of cutting a 4" band of fabric from around the chest of one of my snug-fitting winter shirts that I've been wearing as a bottom layer in the winter. I would then wear this over my HRM chest strap and under my loose fitting tech shirt.
Sounds silly, doesn't it? I don't know what else to do. Any ideas?
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I find that after 8 minutes everything levels out to normal levels. This is always part of my warm-up period so I'm not to concerned with the high readings.
For the last two or three years I've always sprayed the insides of my tech running shirts with Static Guard. I spray it pretty well, usually either the night before or shortly before putting it on. That has totally removed the problem for me. If I ever forget, then I'll have the usual static interference until my shirt gets damp enough from perspiration.
I also keep a small travel-variety Static Guard in my kit bag as well as stick one in my suitcase for destination marathons.
(I may be Static Guard's best customer.)
I might add that I only use the original hard plastic HRM. It is the only one that I could get to work consistently with no problems. The others have an additional point of failure where the HRM snaps into the strap.
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Apply a small amount of Vaseline/lube of some sort to your skin where the body contacts the sensor, you'll get more solid reception with a conductive material directly applied and static shouldn't interfere with this barrier.
Do you use dryer sheets of fabric softener? Take on of those sheets and run it over the inside area of your shirt where the sensor will be touching. Bonus: it smells nice! But it does control the static enough to allow it to work until your body sweats enough to cause better readings.
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Why not wet the contact area of the strap before putting it on? As long as you're not putting it on a very long time before hitting the road, it should show a more consistent elevation in heart rate. Relying on sweat alone to wet the contacts can take a half mile or more depending on the individual.
I've went as far as using electrode gel and it doesn't make a difference. For that reason I just use water now. The issue isn't bad contact, it's static.
This morning I ran with the Solar brand strap, having snapped my Garmin transmitter onto it. That worked fine. This was only a five mile run, but my static-plagued runs using the Garmin strap were a problem from the get-go, so I suspect that this is a "fix" for me.
I know that I could reliably use my Garmin strap when I'm running shirtless - I've had no problems with no shirt on. But, I may as well just stick with the Solar strap and let that play out.
I had on my "list" to purchase Static Guard on my way home from work today. I may still do that and try the technique that RVDowning suggested with my troublesome Garmin strap. If I try that, I'll report back on this thread.
Beware of those straps where you have to snap the heart rate monitor in. The place where it snaps in becomes another point of failure. That place gets damp from the perspiration (salt and water) and ends up a bit corroded and the same old problem returns. It will probably work fine until that corrosion happens. Maybe even a few weeks.
Thank you, RV. In your experience, are the older-style Garmin straps with the hard plastic body also prone to the static problem?
I've only used the old style straps, and yes they have the same static issues.
Yes, but they are the only ones I use. I have tried them all, but the original strap is the one I find most easily fixed by the Static Guard solution.
And it's for that reason that straps are supposed to be rinsed post-run and occasionally laundered.
Tried Static Guard this morning with the Garmin strap. I ran for about 85 minutes. The first 50 minutes were fine. That's an improvement. After that, my heart rate (as graphed) steadily declined significantly behaving just as without the Static Guard. I'm guessing it worked at first, but wore off.
I'm going to go with the Solar strap moving forward. When that wears out, I'll go back to the old-style Garmin strap. I am still kicking myself for actually throwing away my old strap when I first got my first new-style strap a year or two ago. Lesson learned.
Declined??? The visual representation of static issues is sharp spikes in the graph. I have never heard of a gradual decline related to static issues. I would suggest that either you were dying or there is some other issue separate from static. Battery? Strap not tight enough?
Last Wednesday, easy 5 mile run on treadmill (no shirt):
Last Thursday, 8 Mile Hard Run Outside with Shirt On (static problem???):
This morning, 10 Miles - Moderate Intensity with increasing pace - outside with shirt and Static Guard:
You can see in this last one where it tapers off after 50 minutes. Strange because I gradually increased my pace over the last half of this run.
I don't see anything on any of those graphs that I would suggest static problems to me. I'm trying to find an old graph of mine that does show static problems, but it was so long ago that I'm having trouble finding anything.
Ok, found an image. Now if I can just figure out how the hell you are supposed to upload it.
Here's a snippet of what I see at the start of nearly every run in the winter. I find it improves with wetting the monitor strap AND shirt, although wetting the shirt to start a run on a cold winter's day isn't the most fun! I must try RV's static-guard idea.


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They could make the playoffs next year if they be smart about it though in the draft. But most likely they're going to be retards again and draft Rudy Gay or something and that'll be there 6th Foward.
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The Consumer Electronics Show (CES), that munga electronics extravaganza held each January in Las Vegas, is going greener than ever in 2012.
In addition to "green" exhibits areas like the Sustainable Planet and GoElectricDrive (electric vehicles) TechZones, the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), which runs the trade show, will embark on several new sustainability practices at the 2012 CES Jan. 10 to 13.
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New this year, attendee badge holders are made from repurposed vinyl show banners from last year's show, and CEA will collect those badge holders at the end of the 2012 CES to recycle them again. CES general services contractor Global Experience Specialists (GES) will produce signs using a reusable, recyclable kraft paper honeycomb material. CEA will also seek to collect even more magnetic, vinyl and cardboard show signs for repurposing through a partnership with Repurpose America, a local nonprofit focusing on tradeshow recycling.
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"Our green and recycling efforts at the 2012 International CES are unprecedented for the largest annual event in the western hemisphere, covering more than 1.8 million square feet and welcoming more than140,000 attendees," said Gary Shapiro, CEA president and CEO. "We've worked hard to ensure that we are using the latest and greatest sustainability practices in producing CES."
The Sustainable Planet TechZone showcases the latest in eco-friendly products and energy efficiency technologies, while The GoElectricDrive TechZone showcases the full range of high- and low-speed electric vehicles, energy storage devices and charging solutions.
Along with the greening of the International CES, CEA also supports local green nonprofits. Last year, CEA gave $75,000 to Green Chips, a local Las Vegas charity supporting solar power installations. That money was used to install solar panels at a Las Vegas non-profit facility, resulting in substantial savings that allowed the organization to devote more money to serve those in need. CEA plans to make another donation benefiting Las Vegas and the environment at the 2012 International CES.
The CEA says CES also allows attendees to reduce their carbon footprints by gathering in one location. With each attendee reporting an average of 12 business meetings per CES, CES participants collectively avoid more than 960 million miles in business trips that they otherwise would have to take. As a result of attending CES and consolidating trips, the estimated net savings in travel is more than 549 million miles.
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• The Venetian/Palazzo has reduced annual water consumption by more than 97 million, recycles over 55 percent of their solid waste stream, and received silver-certification for the Palazzo by the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED).
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