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Greinke adds another honor with Clutch Performer award
Thank you Royals fans! Your votes helped Zack Greinke become the "MLB Clutch Performer of the Month Presented by Pepsi" winner for April.
Greinke's 5-0 record during April included wins against the Chicago White Sox, the Cleveland Indians and the Detroit Tigers, all American League Central rivals. Zack threw back-to-back, 10-strikeout complete games on April 18th and April 24th. With another victory on May 4th against the White Sox, Greinke is now the third pitcher in Royals history to win his first six decisions, joining Bret Saberhagen in 1987 and Jose Lima in 2003.
At the conclusion of the season, fans will have the opportunity to vote on the "Major League Baseball Clutch Performer of the Year Presented by Pepsi" award winner at MLB.com and the award will be presented during the Major League Baseball postseason. Last season, CC Sabathia was named the season-end recipient.

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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio man whose online video confession went viral was sentenced on Wednesday to more than six years in prison.
Matthew Cordle was sentenced to 6 1/2 years for a June crash that killed 61-year-old Vincent Canzani.
Cordle had been drinking the night of the wreck and was more than two times the legal limit when he drove the wrong way on Interstate 670 in Columbus, striking Canzani's car and killing him.
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Institutions place renewed focus on 'the Balboa Park experience'
For much of its history, Balboa Park has been perceived less as an entity and more as the location of a number of San Diego's most significant cultural institutions.
You attend a performance at the Old Globe Theatre, or visit the San Diego Museum of Art, or take your family to the Natural History Museum or perhaps the Air & Space Museum. Still, as the park's research shows, you rarely do all or a combination of the above.
Although the leaders of Balboa Park's individual institutions have been considering the bigger picture for nearly a decade — first forming the Balboa Park Cultural Partnership and then the Balboa Park Online Collaborative — with the 2015 centennial of the Panama-California Exposition only two years away, they are finally getting serious about emphasizing what they call "the Balboa Park experience."
"We're looking at how to really create more of a seamlessness and an integration around 'the Balboa Park experience,' rather than just have an assemblage of all of the disparate parts," said Paige Simpson, interim director of the Balboa Park Cultural Partnership, which includes representatives from all of the park's organizations.
Given the absence of a cohesive approach, Paige and her park colleagues assert that the park has not gotten the attention from tourists or locals that it deserves, despite being among the city's undisputed treasures.
"Balboa Park, unfortunately, right now is not seen as a destination," said Michael Hager, executive director of the San Diego Natural History Museum and the park's representative on the centennial committee. "It's not marketed as such. The Midway Museum is. SeaWorld is. The zoo is. Those are seen as destinations by people who do a lot of the (tourism) marketing.
"My hope is during 2015, and following 2015, it will be seen as a destination and marketing will help drive people here and kind of bring life to the park."
With roughly 14 million visitors a year — according to Balboa Park Central, the park entity that operates the visitors' center and is responsible for the park's marketing — the park isn't exactly a dead zone. And approximately half of those visitors attend a performance or go to a museum.
"Although we have a high visitation (figure), we have a tremendous story that really hasn't been fully shared," Simpson said. "People tend to come for one or two places and then tend to wander. They don't always even know what else is available to them here. So how can we make that more apparent?"
While the centennial committee is quietly approaching potential donors and sponsors to underwrite a series of high-profile events that could transform El Prado into something resembling a digitally enhanced Disneyland Electrical Parade, the park's institutions are assembling their own exhibitions, some with the help of $325,000 in grants from the committee.
"For museums, we generally plan two years in advance, sometimes three," said Deborah Klochko, the director of the Museum of Photographic Arts and the president of the Balboa Park Cultural Partnership. "So planning the right kind of exhibition for 2015 as a citywide celebration is trying to be formed is an interesting opportunity, especially when we look at 2015 as not just a single-year celebration, but an opportunity to really present the park and 'the Balboa Park experience.'
"We want people to have a good experience and come back. So we want to make sure there's real quality in our exhibitions."
The Centennial Celebration's CEO, Mike McDowell, expects those institutional efforts to form the core of the yearlong centennial fete.
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Lineups: Meche vs. Silva
We spent the morning organizing green ball caps for an upcoming Royals Charities auction next Monday – more on that event soon…
The homestand ends with a Wednesday afternoon game, 1:10 p.m. start. Gil Meche (7-12, 3.82 ERA) on the mound against Carlos Silva (11-13, 4.34 ERA), lineups follow.
For the Royals:
DeJesus – CF
Grud – 2B
Teahen – RF
Butler – DH
Gload – 1B
Gordon – 3B
Brown – LF
Smith – SS
Buck – C
Meche – P
For the Twins:
Tyner – CF
Bartlett – SS
Kubel – LF
Hunter – DH
Morneau – 1B
Cuddyer – RF
Heintz – C
Punto – 3B
Casilla – 2B
Silva – P
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I don't know if anyone from the front office actually reads the comments, but here's to hoping. We have't seen enough to know what Gload or Emil are as baseball players. Craig Brazell leads the ENTIRE Royals organization in home runs, has anyone there heard of Jack Cust in Oakland. Justin Huber hit 18 home runs in limited time in AAA. Gil Meche is receiving the fewest runs per game of ANY starter in MLB. Could we at least see what these guys have. September roster expansions allow teams to evaluate players. What needs to be evaluated about an aging poor defensive outfielder, a solid BENCH guy, and a utility man with a .200(approximate) average in Jason Smith.


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All season long, Randy Moss has been a great teammate to those in San Francisco and has been helpful to the wide receiving core. While the numbers he put up this season is not impressive to watch, his impact is felt when he's on the football field. When Randy is on the football field, the cornerback to his side will either give Randy that 10-yard cushion or will always have safety help over the top. When Randy is on the football field, the chance of a deep pass to his side of the field is high.
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Revision as of 16:08, 16 March 2012 by Advaitjain (Talk | contribs) (→Create a new git repository on internal server)
- 1 Local Clone of a Google Code Repository for Internal Use
- 1.1 Motivation
- 1.2 Create a new git repository on internal server
- 1.3 Coverting a stack from svn to a git repository
- 1.4 Steps on each client machine
- 1.5 Getting a single folder from svn
- 2 Old stuff
Local Clone of a Google Code Repository for Internal Use
- Advait would like to have an internal git repository as well.
- The goal would be to use this as an internal git repository with the option of pushing to gt-ros-pkg hosted on google.com when code is ready to be publicly downloadable.
Create a new git repository on internal server
- ssh mycroft@skynet
- cd internal_git_bare
- get a specific folder from svn and make a git repo out of it:
git svn clone https://svn.hsi.gatech.edu/cckemp/robot1/src/projects/hrl_haptic_manipulation_in_clutter
- Convert to a bare repository using steps from here:
- cd hrl_haptic_manipulation_in_clutter/
- git config --bool core.bare true
- rm -rf *
- ls -la
- you should see a .git
Coverting a stack from svn to a git repository
Steps on each client machine
Clone from the internal server
- cd to whichever directory you want to keep your repo in. (e.g. cd ~/git)
- git clone email@example.com:/home/mycroft/internal_git_bare/gt-ros-pkg.hrl
- git checkout --track origin/internal_hrl
- now you will see two branches (master and internal_hrl)
- usually Advait would expect people to work in the internal_hrl branch
Add a remote branch to work directly with the google code repository
- git remote add -f gt-ros-pkg.hrl_google_code https://code.google.com/p/gt-ros-pkg.hrl/
- git checkout -b google_code_master gt-ros-pkg.hrl_google_code/master
To release code
- create an appropriately named release branch.
- push that release branch to the internal server.
- create a new git repository on gt-ros-pkg for the stack to be released.
- clone this gt-ros-pkg repository to your computer.
- add internal repository as a remote branch on your computer's clone of gt-ros-pkg repo:
git remote add -f <release_stack_name> email@example.com:/home/mycroft/internal_git_bare/<release_stack_name>
- perform a merge:
git merge <release_stack_name>/<release_branch>
- optionally reset the history:
git reset --soft HEAD^
- git commit -a
- put in an appropriate release message.
Getting a single folder from svn
- clone just that folder into a separate git repository using git svn clone etc.
Old stuff
- git checkout google_code_master
- git checkout internal_hrl <path to files to release>
- git commit -a
- type in some descriptive release message.
- git checkout internal_hrl
- switch back to the internal_hrl branch
- ssh to skynet and push to google code.
To get changes from google code repository
Merge the changes in the google_code_master branch with the internal_hrl branch
- git checkout google_code_master
- git pull
- git checkout internal_hrl
- git merge google_code_master
Create bare git repository on internal git server
- ssh skynet.hsi.gatech.edu -lmycroft
- mkdir internal_git_bare
- cd internal_git_bare
- Clone gt-ros-pkg with advait as the user on skynet.hsi.gatech.edu:
git clone https://email@example.com/p/gt-ros-pkg.hrl/
- Convert to a bare repository using steps from here:
- cd gt-ros-pkg.hrl/
- git config --bool core.bare true
- rm -rf *
- ls -la
- you should see a .git
- git branch -m master internal_hrl
- rename master to internal_hrl


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Importance of Educational and Developmental Play in the Early Years
There are many parents around the world that are doing their best to raise their children so they will become successful and intelligent adults. What many parents fail to realize is that the early years of a child's life is extremely important, and a time that will shape their life for the years to come. Some parents may merely look for ways to keep their child occupied and use television and other electronic games to keep their child entertained, but they may not realize that these activities may actually be stunting their child's development and education. It is imperative that parents begin to understand the importance of early childhood education and work to incorporate educational and developmental play into their lives while they are young.Statistics Show a Problem
Looking at the educational, developmental, and emotional statistics on today's children show that there is a disturbing problem. In the past 20-25 years statistics have shown a definite decline in the abilities of children. In the 1990's a study that was done in Manchester, NY on 1,000 children showed a variety of disturbing findings. More than one fifth of these children studied had developed attention and hearing problems from watching television, which lead to difficulty in language development.Back in 1994, studies were done by the National Assessment for Educational Progress on children in the United States, which showed that almost 75% of fourth graders across the country were not reading on a fourth grade level. Even more shocking in this study was that 42% of the fourth graders studied could not even read on a basic level. A recent study in the UK, by psychology professor, Michael Shayer showed that in 1976 the eight year old children had the same thinking skills of 11-year olds today, which shows a definite decline in the development of today's children.Changing Your Child's FutureSince we have looked at the negative statistics that show what television and other electronic toys are doing to children and their educational development today, it is important that we look at how these things can be changed. The first thing that you can do to promote the proper development of your child is to understanding the importance of early childhood education so you can start incorporating educational play and various developmental activities into the lives of your children. There are various activities that you can explore with your children that will help them develop developmentally and educationally as well.Benefits of Educational PlayOnce you start incorporating educational toys and games into your child's life, you will begin to see a variety of the benefits of educational play. Educational play can help a child learn to explore creativity and the world around him. Educational play will also help your child to start developing math skills and even reading skills at a young age as well. Not only there are short term benefits of educational play, but there are long term benefits as well. Many researchers have found that children that played with educational toys as young children actually had an IQ that was 32-50 points higher than children who did not. Other studies have shown that playing with educational toys as a child can significantly affect the intelligence even when they reach their late twenties. If you start using education play with your child, you will see benefits for the years to come.Benefits of Developmental Activities
There are also a variety of benefits of developmental activities as well. Some of the developmental benefits that are associated with these activities include physical, verbal, logical, spatial, intrapersonal, and interpersonal benefits. Some of the physical benefits would include hand to eye coordination and the development of motor skills as well. Verbal benefits would include children learning to listen to, speak, and read a language. Logical benefits would include your child learning to solve problems and to recognize various patterns around him. Each of these benefits is very important to the long-term development of your child, so these activities too will impact your child for their entire life.As a parent, it is time for you to start reevaluating how you allow your child to spend their time. In order for your child to develop properly and to advance educationally through life, it is important that you lay aside previous methods of play and entertainment, such as the video games, the television, and other electronic toys. Start using educational toys and participating in developmental activities with your child. While the statistics surrounding today's children are scary and depressing, as a parent you can make a change. Remember, your child's educational and developmental future lies in your hands, so embrace the importance of early childhood education and start providing the right educational tools and toys for your child.
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Can't wait to hear the story. Nice goat!
Nice goat and great pics, congrats!
Clever posing on that first photo. I have 6 weeks to wait until my goat hunt.
Nice dude! I'm jealous!
Congratulations hardstock. I kind of like the way you framed up that first photo too. Looks like you could kick a field goal through the uprights on that speed goat.
Great pic!! Congrats on a nice tasty trophy.
Congrats on your speed goat!
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Very nice, now for some more pics, please.
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Imagine this, a card is selected from an ordinary deck and is shuffled back into the deck. The magician spring tosses the cards at a nearby window and as the cards fall to the floor, the selected card is seen stuck to the window, ON THE OUTSIDE! Anyone can touch the glass to see for themselves that the card is truly ON THE OUTSIDE! But, wait there's more! Now your spectator sprays the window with window cleaner and as you wipe with a paper towel, THE CARD DISAPPEARS! IT REALLY IS GONE!
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single storm cover for any model DOT stroller*.
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DOT storm cover is HOT! because:
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Kino MacGregor - Ashtanga Yoga: Primary & Intermediate Series
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In the movie "Primary Series" movie demonstrates the complete first sequence of Ashtanga - Yoga chikittsu - in their traditional form which is mastered under the supervision of Guruji and Sharath Rangaswamy in Mysore. Showing a tranquil pace it is accompanied by detailed commentary. For experienced practitioners it offers sophisticated embodiments of the asanas and for "advanced beginners" - a simple modification. For the very beginning the film is hardly suitable but those who have long been involved in Ashtanga may find this helpful Keys for independent practice.


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Those Extra Hot Dogs will Feed Others…
As one of several "green" changes at Kauffman Stadium this season, we just announced a new partnership with Rock and Wrap it Up! – a nationally known program that works with sports teams to help fight hunger in the community. The Royals, with help from the club's food service providers Aramark and Centerplate, will distribute all the extra food items from the concession stands and clubhouses to Harvesters – the Community Food Network.
The Rock and Wrap it Up! program was launched in 2003 with help from Mike Maroth, who is currently pitching for the Omaha Royals, and his wife, Brooke. Now, just five years later, several MLB teams – including Detroit (Maroth's former team), Atlanta, Boston, St. Louis and both New York teams – have launched the program at their stadiums.
For more information on Rock and Wrap it Up! check out their website at http://www.rockandwrapitup.org/index/.
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This is a great idea. There's so many venues like amusement parks, fast food chains, etc. that just throw out the extra food at the end of the night, not even giving away to customers leaving or employees. At least it won't be happening at Kauffman anymore.


text: In gaming, free-to-play can pay Business 30 June 11 by Mark Brown NimbleBit Game developers and app creators of all stripes and all sizes are cottoning on to the idea that free can pay.You only have to browse the gaming news headlines to see how many industry titans, MMO behemoths, obscure Korean game makers and dozens upon dozens of mobile start-ups are releasing their games as "free-to-play", or ditching old price tags and subscriptions.Valve just added a handful of free games to Steam before eradicating the price on its own Team Fortress 2. Blizzard sorta jumped on the bandwagon with a half-hearted stab at making World of Warcraft free. Microsoft is reportedly looking into it on Xbox 360 and every week we see new free-to-play apps hit iTunes and the Android market.The idea works like this. You give gamers a full game, or at least a hefty portion of it, for nothing and let them play the game without upfront payment or subscription fees. Then, once they are suitably addicted and craving more, you spring the trap and tempt them to cough up real-world cash in exchange for virtual items and in-game advancements.If you're a player, maybe you could get a new hat or gun or car for a few pounds, or access premium areas and exclusive hang-outs that only paying customers get to see. In a slow and tedious simulation like FarmVille you could pay a few quid to suddenly make your tomatoes ripe and ready for picking. You can grab pointless aesthetic trinkets, or useful items to get ahead.The idea originated in areas like Korea, China, Russia and Brazil where piracy was so prevalent that selling packaged goods with an upfront fee just became pointless and futile. Instead, companies pivoted on the traditional business model and tried a new approach. They gave away MMOs and multiplayer kart racers for nothing, and then offered up small and optional "microtransactions" on the side.It absolutely exploded. Suddenly, gamers who used to knock-off full priced games were spending ten times that amount of virtual doodads, expediting upgrades and premium features. It hit big, it hit fast and it soon made its way to the west. By the mid 00s we saw games imported from Korea, and by the end of the decade we saw native releases like EA's free-to-play shooter Battlefield Heroes, and Zynga's free-to-play Facebook phenomenon FarmVille. The business model has since ripped through the games industry like a particularly nasty pox. Today, more than eight leading MMOs (from EverQuest II to City of Heroes) have free-to-play elements either implemented today or planned for down the line. On the iPhone App Store, eight out of ten "top grossing" games are currently free-to-play apps. Zynga's CityVille courts 80 million architects a month, EA has 17 million users on free-to-play games. Read page 2 123 Read on one page Latest on wired.co.uk


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For Investors, Lessons from the Death of Borders
Following Chapter 11 bankruptcy, Borders now has to liquidate its remaining stores. But there's a bright side to the big box bookseller's death: Its long and tragic tale provides plenty of fodder for investors. Use these lessons to ensure that your future investments have a happier ending.


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What is Kabbalah?Quite a few people have heard of Kabbalah especially in relation to celebrities bringing it to the forefront, but what does is actually mean and what is it all about? Well in fact, Kabbalah comes from an area of Judaism that is surrounded by important questions and mysticism. While most other religions seek to constantly consider and analyse the big questions like "Why are we here?" and "How do we relate to the universe?" this is quite different in Judaism and these questions are only thought about later and can be interpreted in different ways.
Mystical experiences are important in Judaism and taken extremely seriously. While every day Judaism focuses on man and his relationship to God, Kabbalah looks into the heart of the mysticism of God. The Kabbalah popularised by celebrities takes a part of this wisdom from ancient times and aims to create joy and lasting happiness in your life. Part of this is a healing process and focusing on making people who are ill better in themselves and relates to life's meanings. The popularized form of Kabbalah is related to The Kabbalah Centre which provides help and support to those who seek it out.
The most important thing perhaps about Kabbalah is that it is not, in itself, a religion or biblical, even a belief system but about an individual understanding. There is nothing to be proved or disproved and it is not a cult, but it is a method by which someone can choose to connect and gain knowledge. The Kabbalah Centre, established by Rabbi Philip Berg, was established in 1969 and is a system for self-improvement for all and everyone. They specialize in items such as Kabbalah books in Aramaic and Hebrew, as well as Kabbalah water which is purported to have deep-seated healing powers. Kabbalah is a new way of understanding and living.


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This quilt pattern is a fantastic scrap buster! Look at these sweet little squares - like potato chips. Just wanna eat 'em.
Modern Scrappy Baby Quilt...
Fabric requirements
90 cool-toned 2.5" squares
90 warm-toned 2.5" squares
{total of half yard of fabric}
90 neutral background 4.5" squares {I used RK Kona Ash}
{total of 1.25 yards of fabric}
~~I used the AccuQuilt Go Baby Value Die to cut out these shapes~~
1.5 yards of quilt backing (I used a sunny yellow}
135" or 4.25 yards of binding {I used RK Tufted Tweets}
This pattern is a reverse of the Road To Tennessee block. For the R2T, the background fabric is used for the small corner triangles and the print is used as the base. It's one of my favorite blocks due to the ease of construction and versatility of block arrangement. Huge eye-candy payoff without a lot of fuss.
|Separate the 2.5" squares into two stacks: warm and cool colors.
|Mark the center diagonals with a pencil, chalk pencil or disappearing pen.
|Sew along the diagonal line. I chain pieced one side of these blocks and then did the other side all at once. I clipped the threads after I was done with all of the chain piecing.
|Both sides attached.
|Trim both sides 1/4" away from the seam. Fold open and press. I'm a press-my-seams-open kind of gal, but press them to the side if you prefer. Repeat with all 90 blocks.
|This shows how I pieced the blocks together. I did them in sections, mostly because I find it a little easier to match seams when working with smaller chunks of blocks.
This quilt measures 32 x 35. It can be made larger just by adding more rows of blocks. And you can vary the design by either centering the bullseye or doing it off-center like I did in this one. Quick and easy to put together and super-economical if you use your scraps to make it.
This is a gender neutral quilt, but how sweet would this be in soft florals and ginghams for a baby girl or made with modern, Japanese prints for a boy?! Or what a great bed-size project made with solid fabrics for a manly-man quilt! {Insert happy sigh}
Oh, and make sure you pop over to Moda Bakeshop and check out
Uncle Sam's Quilt made with American Banner Rose!
~This post was originally written as a giveaway for an AccuQuilt Go Baby. Content has been edited to only include the free pattern and tutorial. Comments are now closed~


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When the new season rolls around in just a few weeks or so, there will be a new look in the Northern California Inline Hockey scene. The Revision Revolution will begin their first season as a travel program based out of the Silvercreek Sports Complex in San Jose, CA. While the program will seek to start a new identity there will be no shortage of experience and leadership. Jose Mondragon along with Yoshi Chai will look to build upon the great reputation they developed as a program under the Revision Mustangs name. The Revision Revolution will have teams in several age divisions ranging from Atoms (8 and under) to Juniors (21 and under) and encompassing teams at the silver to platinum level.
Revision Revolution held their open tryouts a few weekends ago. We would like to congratulate the following players below on making the 2013-2014 Revision Revolution. We look forward to seeing you all compete under the Revision family this up coming season.
Atoms (8 and under)
Isaac Stanley
Chase Franks
Tristyn Krieger
DJ Orca
Brendan Bradley
Lowen Provost
Noah Berhe
Steven Nguyen
Brett DeVincent
Mites (10 and under)
Matthew Acosta
Maddy Nelson
Zachary Fein
Ryan Willey
Jared Sharp
Threythan Krieger
Zachary Nolte
Kevin Nguyen
Nathan Hodges
DJ Orca
(G) Tristan Telles
Squirts-2002 (12 and under)
Jeremiah Dolmo
Zachary Ozubko
David Nguyen
Timothy Hodges
Paul Nelson
Jacob Fergason
Jason Weitz
Nathan Hodges
Derek Le
Ryan Willey
(G) Jake Fuss
(G) Derek Bautch
Squirts-2001 (12 and under)
Dylan Franks
Evan Gengarella
Zach Nolte
Patrick Mahany
Mattheu Robinson
Dalton Strous
Nich Willey
Jaden Guzman
Nolan Mahoney
Ryan Tuckwood
(G) Marissa Trevino
Peewees (14 and under)
Bryce Yeager
Andrew Budzinski
Sebastian Fedane
Max Waldron
Devin Mcleod
Neil Liebscher
Ryan Kriegbaum
Alex Muchynski
Donovan Clayton
(G) Alan Reigel-Maupas
(G) Caleb Stanley
Bantams (16 and under)
Ben Colbert
Matthew Bever
Dylan Blum
Clayton Lemoine
Rhyan Fulcher
Eliar Castillo
Cameron Eng
Christofer Breckendridge
(G) Nick Gary
Midgets (18 and under)
Josh Madrigal
James McGaughy
Zach Stanley
Christian Hasenberg
Danny Gross
Rhyan Fulcher
Chris Herncr
Ryan Mitchell
Trevor Rivera
Tyler Trevino
(G) Tyler Dilorenzo
(G) Graeme Chisholm
Juniors (21 and under)
Tyler Gulan
Rhyan Fulcher
Andrew Gottwals
Michael Sharp
Connor Nowlin
Danny Salazar
Shawn Humphries
James McGaughy
Samuel Goldsmith
(G) Nick Swanson
(G) Antonio Venezelo
The new season is almost here. 2013-2014 Tryouts for Revision Vanquish Junior Platinum / D1 and the AIHL Elite and Minor tryouts will take place Saturday October 12th at 4pm at The Rinks – Irvine. Cost will be $10 for the tryout, all players are welcome as this is an open tryout.
The Rink Irvine is locate at 3150 Barranca Parkway Irvine, CA 92606.
For questions email firstname.lastname@example.com
Last weekend the Revision Staff was working overtime at The Rinks Huntington Beach and The Rinks Corona. Winter Wars West started Friday morning in HB and ran through the entire weekend while WCRHL Regionals went Saturday to Sunday afternoon. Read more


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Wonderin if anyone has gotten there hands on em....and how they compare with the Vortex Viper HD 10X42????
Wonderin if anyone has gotten there hands on em....and how they compare with the Vortex Viper HD 10X42????
I looked through them only in the store, however I like the Zeiss. isn't there a big price difference? Although I like Zeiss more for what I need I plan on going with the Viper.
$400 price difference.....but I was just wondering if it was worth it or not.
You will be able to notice a difference, whether that difference will affect your success depends on how you glass-what time of day and for how long. Unless you are spending long hours behind the binos and using them at the last minutes of the night I don't think it will be worth it. If you are planning on using them to find deer that are in their beds in tight spots I feel that is hard to do that type of glassing with binos because it is hard to hold them still enough to get a great picture, but the better glass might help. I think it all depends on how you hunt and scout.
I actually looked through a few binoculars today. One of them being the Vortex 10x42 vipers, swaros 10x40, zeiss, leicas, leupold gold rings and a few others. To be honest here, I couldn't tell the difference between the Vortex and the Zeiss. The only difference I could tell was the from the swaros, but at nearly 2,800 bucks, I'd spend my money all day long on the Vortex. Don't get me wrong, for the right price, I'd buy any of them above. Same goes for the rifle scopes. The best one I looked at today was the Zeiss. I think it held a light edge over the swaros and the vortex. Leupold was darn good also, but for the hunter on a budget, I'd be going with the vortex.
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On the morning of Jan. 25, 2010, it was clear and sunny as Davian Bennett, a field technician for a cable company, drove his work truck over the crest of a hill on U.S. Highway 82 just north of Savoy, Texas. About a quarter of a mile ahead of him, 31-year-old Mindy Ragsdale was waiting for traffic to clear so she could make a left turn from the two-lane highway onto a county road. With her in her white sedan were her 82-year-old grandmother, Peggye Woodson, and her 3-year-old son, Cody.
Bennett had plenty of time to come to a stop behind Woodson's vehicle. But traveling at 71 mph with his cruise control on, he plowed into its rear, causing it to flip over. The impact killed both Woodson and Ragsdale, a mother of two; the child suffered a broken leg. The white sedan was reduced to a heap of mangled metal. Asked by a paramedic if he remembered what had happened, Bennett replied, "I was texting before the accident."
Woodson and Ragsdale were two more victims of cellphone-related distracted driving, a phenomenon that has not only imperiled the safety of motorists but also the balance sheets of corporate America. A year after the tragedy on Highway 82, Bennett's employer, Cable One Inc., reached a confidential settlement of a wrongful-death lawsuit brought by the victims' families. Cable One officials had admitted they had no policy for employees addressing mobile phone use while driving.
"These were people who were just blind, blind to safety," says the plaintiffs' lawyer, Todd Clement of Dallas.
Plaintiffs' attorneys across the country have won similar settlements and jury verdicts in distracted driving cases against employers. If the employee was using a mobile phone for business purposes while within the course of employment, the employer can be held indirectly, or "vicariously," liable. In one of the largest verdicts of its kind, a jury in 2001 awarded $21 million against Dyke Industries Inc., an Arkansas lumber company, finding it liable for an accident caused by a salesman who was talking on his cellphone while driving to a sales appointment.
According to ZoomSafer Inc., a developer of safe driving software for mobile phones, 7.6 percent of the companies it surveyed have faced litigation resulting from injuries allegedly caused by employee use of cellphones while driving. Of those companies with more than 5,000 drivers, 37 percent have been sued.
Given the risk of vicarious liability, the best defense is a powerful offense. That means acting pre-emptively by drafting a corporate policy against mobile phone use while driving on company business. A recent survey by ZoomSafer found that 62 percent of U.S. companies have indeed adopted such prohibitions, but of those companies with policies, only 53 percent make any attempt to enforce compliance. "It's inconvenient to have to enforce" a policy because employees' use of cell phones often benefits the company, Clement says.
One of the earliest major cases involving a distracted employee using a cellphone dates back more than a decade. On March 8, 2000, Naeun Yoon, 15, was walking on the shoulder of a Fairfax County, Virginia, highway when she was struck by a Mercedes being driven by Jane Wagner, a lawyer with the law firm that was then known as Cooley Godward, who was on her cellphone. Yoon's parents alleged in a $30 million wrongful-death lawsuit that Wagner routinely made as many as 40 mobile phone calls a day "with the expectation and acquiescence of Cooley Godward," and the calls "served as a direct benefit" to the law firm. The case against Cooley Godward was settled before trial for an undisclosed amount.
Peter Grenier, of the law firm Bode & Grenier in Washington, D.C., was the lawyer for Yoon's parents. He recalls that the case "generated a lot of media attention," even inspiring General Motors Co. to put together an animated film for employees that depicted the dangers of driving while using a cellphone. "From my perspective, it was a very significant case in the eyes of the law, and employers locally and nationally," Grenier says.
Nine states and the District of Columbia now prohibit all drivers from using hand-held cellphones while driving. In addition, 34 states and the district ban text messaging for all drivers. Earlier this year, the Occupational Safety & Health Administration announced that employers will be required to pay fines for employees found to have been texting while driving on the job, and in 2009, President Barack Obama issued an executive order banning all federal employees from text messaging while driving.
Yet when Grenier commutes to and from his district office, he sees other drivers busily talking and text messaging on their handheld cellphones. "It's disgusting to me," he fumes. "Do you really think they're talking to their child? You know it's probably related to work." Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. reported in 2008 that 81 percent of cellphone subscribers talk on their cellphone while driving. Eighteen percent send text messages while driving.
In a recent survey, CTIA, the cellular industry's main trade group, found that more than 285 million Americans are mobile subscribers, about 91 percent of the total population. "The modern member of our society has an insatiable appetite for the modern Web," says Matt Howard, co-founder and CEO of ZoomSafer, which is based in Herndon, Virginia. Cellphone use, he adds, "doesn't change in the context of the driving experience. The phone is still fun. It's just as much fun to update Facebook when driving as when standing still."
In the business world, cellphones have enabled employers to stay in constant contact with employees who are on the road. A dispatcher, for example, can instantly notify a delivery driver of a route change. On-the-road employees can use their driving time to take care of company business, thus, at least in theory, boosting productivity. "Salespeople make sales calls," says Stephen Schatz, a partner in the law firm of Swift, Currie, McGhee & Hiers in Atlanta who represented an employer in a distracted driving case. "It's how they make their commissions, how they make money for the company." Lawyers can catch up with clients, and executives can do interviews with reporters working on stories.
But all this communication has been to the detriment of road safety. In a seminal study published by the New England Journal of Medicine in 1997, two researchers concluded that the relative risk of driving while using a cellphone "is similar to the hazard associated with driving with a blood alcohol level at the legal limit." A 2003 study went even further, finding that "cellphone drivers may actually exhibit greater impairments ... than legally intoxicated drivers." According to the National Safety Council, at least 28 percent of all traffic crashes—or at least 1.6 million crashes each year—involve drivers either talking on cellphones or texting while using them.
"Driving while distracted is the DWI of the 21st century," Clement says.
In the event that a cellphone-related crash leads to a lawsuit against an employer, the law provides the victim's representatives with a potent weapon. Vicarious liability is also known as "respondeat superior" ("let the master respond"). The doctrine holds an employer liable for the actions of an employee if the employee was acting "within the scope of his or her employment at the time of the accident." Cellphone-related negligent driving cases, Schatz says, usually boil down to two factual questions: Was the employee on a cellphone at the time of accident? And if so, was the employee using the phone for business purposes?
Schatz was the defense lawyer in a case resulting from a collision at an Atlanta intersection in 2003. The plaintiff, Pamela Hunter, alleged that Modern Continental Construction Co. was liable for the injuries she suffered when a truck driven by a shift supervisor, Jeffrey Stasium, ran into her vehicle. Stasium was on his way to work but a Georgia appeals court ruled in 2007 that the commuting exception to the "respondeat superior" rule did not apply because there was "evidence showing that Stasium may have been on his cellphone regarding company business when the accident occurred."
Telephone records, Schatz says, show that Stasium ended his call to a co-worker three to four minutes before a bystander called 911 to report the collision. Nevertheless, while the jury was deliberating, Modern Continental agreed to pay Hunter $750,000 rather than risk a jury verdict. In the Yoon case in 2000, the fatal crash occurred outside Wagner's business hours but she was speaking on a cellphone to a client.
In other high-profile cases:
• International Paper Co. paid a $5.2 million settlement after an employee rear-ended a vehicle on a Georgia interstate in 2006 while allegedly using a cellphone.
• Beers Skanska Inc., a construction company, paid a plaintiff $4.75 million to settle a case over a cellphone-related accident that occurred in 2002 in Forsyth County, Georgia.
• Smith Barney paid a $500,000 settlement after a broker who was allegedly trying to make a sales call on his cellphone ran a traffic signal and killed a 24-year old motorcyclist in Allentown, Pennsylvania, in 1995.
"You can't divorce [this type of case] from vicarious liability," Grenier says. "You don't use a cellphone for a business-related purpose while driving."
Part of Clement's strategy in his case against Cable One was to hammer away at the company's failure to adopt a definitive cellphone policy. "We don't think that's respectful to our associates or reasonable in this day and age to ban communications," Janice St. Cyr, the company's vice president for human resources, testified in a deposition. "We trust our associates to have really great judgment."
"If the evidence in this case establishes that Davian Bennett was texting before this collision, in other words, that it contributed to this collision, would you agree that he used good judgment?" Clement asked.
"I would be surprised," St. Cyr replied. "I've never heard of any of our associates texting and driving. I think texting and driving is a bad decision."
Clement says a "way to create real value" in a cellphone-related negligent driving case "is to have a scenario which really implicates the company for not having appropriate policies. ... You create a scenario where the jury is extremely angry with the company." That anger, he says, could translate into a higher award of compensatory damages and even an award of punitive damages. Cable One, which is based in Phoenix, settled two weeks before trial. "Most of these [cases] are getting settled," Clement notes. "This is not something employers want to go to trial."
Even having a policy in place, lawyers say, is not necessarily enough to shield an employer from a damages award. "It's one little arrow in the employer's quiver," Grenier says. "But it's not a very sharp or powerful arrow." According to Clement, the only thing that can really help employers in court is if they have taken effective steps to enforce a cellphone policy. "The jury is not going to get mad at the company," he explains. "It's not as good a case [for the plaintiff] if just the employee is culpable. The easier case is when you've got a culpable employee and a culpable employer."
ZoomSafer's statistics showing that only about a half of companies with cellphone policies actually enforce them come as no surprise to Jack Hanley, executive director of the Network of Employers for Traffic Safety. He says some companies would rather pay "lip service" to the dangers of distracted driving than enforce a policy that they believe will reduce productivity and alienate cellphone-dependent employees. "Many companies view it as a matter of probability," he observes. "Why spend a bunch of money on a road safety program when accidents are going to happen?"
But Hanley also believes that the distracted driving lawsuits, and the publicity surrounding them, have had a "chilling effect" on employers. "Dangerous driving can do a lot of damage to the brand image that a company is trying to develop," he says. At ZoomSafer, Howard predicts that "Slowly but surely, the risk managers, the attorneys ... [will persuade] corporate America that using a cellphone in the course of employment is just plain risky behavior and the costs associated with that outweigh any potential loss in productivity." In 2009, the National Safety Council reported that 99 percent of companies that completely banned cellphone use while driving experienced no decrease in productivity.
"Is it really worth risking a million bucks?" Clement asks, noting that many small businesses carry liability insurance with a $1 million deductible. "They're literally playing with company money."
Employers now have a broad menu of enforcement options and mechanisms. Clement, who travels across the country speaking to employer groups, says enforcement can begin with training dispatchers to recognize when an employee is talking on a cellphone while driving. Employers can also station security patrols strategically so they can spot whether employees going to and from the workplace are on a cellphone.
For those willing to invest in more high-tech methods, ZoomSafer, Illume Software Inc. of Needham, Massachusetts, and other companies offer software that employers can install in cellphones to prevent employees from calling or texting while their vehicle is in motion. Companies that have a "telematics" system, which tracks drivers' movements and records driver behavior, can also buy software that compares the telematics to the employee's cellphone records. "If you want to manage it, it's not enough to do it on paper," Howard says. "You need an enforcement solution."
But according to ZoomSafer's own research, only 2 percent of companies that enforce compliance use technology as part of their enforcement package. Instead, 61 percent of companies rely on disciplining employees after they have been involved in a cellphone-related accident—the very opposite of pre-emption.
Hanley argues that to address the distracted driving problem effectively, employers need to go beyond the superficial and make driver safety part of their corporate culture. "A policy ... does little or nothing unless it's built into the fiber of a safety program," he says. "You have to ingrain in the corporate DNA that safety is front and center every step of the way." That means distracted driving education and training not only for employees who drive as part of their routine job duties but also those who only use vehicles to commute to and from work.
Hanley says there should be "zero tolerance" for employees who violate the cellphone policy. "If your employer catches you using a cell phone," he says, "you have chosen to no longer work for that employer."
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Four terrible Christmas movies (and one holiday special)
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Every year, the glowing magic boxes we call televisions display movies based around the year's most popular holiday. Some of them, such as "It's A Wonderful Life," are classics. Others are pieces of garbage. This is a list of five of those pieces, in no particular order.
This movie was supposed to be a satire on the commercialization of the Christmas holiday, but while watching it, I saw none of that. I saw it for what it is: a comedy about a father trying to get his son that ONE toy he really wants before Dec. 25. The only redeeming thing about it is hearing star Arnold Schwarzenegger yell, "Put the cookie down!"
The premise is Hulk Hogan runs into a shopping mall and dresses like Santa to hide from police. While in the Father Christmas costume, he gets amnesia. When he looks in the mirror again, he thinks he's Ol' Jolly himself. If that synopsis makes you think, "Man, this sounds good!," then you should probably stop reading this list.
If you've read my other article "The worst of the worst Christmas songs" you know about my hatred for the song, "The Christmas Shoes." The TV movie adaptation is just as bad.
4. "How The Grinch Stole Christmas"
No, not the 26-minute animated cartoon. The live-action feature-length movie starring Jim Carrey. It's bad mainly because the filmmakers decided to concentrate on the set design of Whoville, rather than making sure the story had enough substance to hold itself. They tried with the Grinch's backstory but missed the mark by a long shot.
5. "The Star Wars Holiday Special"
This holiday special is based around the Wookies celebrating Christmas. With mostly Wookie-language dialogue and bad music, it's no wonder why George Lucas will never let anyone see this again -- unless they go to YouTube where they can find the full thing.


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Update 6-6-2012- 11:38pm
Michael Crockett was sentenced to one year in jail with credit for two days served.
In October of 2010, the former correctional officer interfered in an argument between his girlfriend and her ex-boyfriend at Auto Xperts in Tallahassee.
He pulled out a gun and fired. Bullets grazed Josh Gamble, the ex-boyfriend.
Crockett was charged with aggravated assault but the jury instead found him guilty the lesser included offense of improper exhibition of a weapon.
Then they found him guilty of three other misdemeanors which include discharged a weapon in public. Before the judge handed down a sentence, Crockett addressed the court.
"I've always tried to do the right thing and in hindsight I realize I did have a lapse in judgment and I apologize to the court for that and I would like to apologize to the individuals who were affected by it, " said Crockett.
The judge then sentenced him to a year in county jail with two days credit for time served. This is the maximum sentence the judge said he could impose for the first degree misdemeanor convictions the jury handed down.
Update 6-6-2012 --
Michael Crockett was found guilty on four misdemeanor counts involving an aggravated assault for a gun point confrontation at Auto Xperts back in 2010.
Crockett was not found guilty of aggravated assault with a firearm. The jury actually found him guilty of lesser misdemeanors Improper Exhibition of a Firearm and Discharging a Firearm in Public.
The jury took about an hour to deliberate before coming to verdict.. Crockett's has been sentenced to one year behind bars with credit for serving two days.
UPDATED 6.6.2012 by Julie Montanaro
A former correctional officer on trial for an auto shop shooting claims he was standing his ground that day.
Michael Crockett is accused of pulling a gun on an employee who happened to be his girlfriend's ex-boyfriend.
Michael Crockett - who his friends call Chris - is on trial for aggravated assault. He's accused of intervening in an argument between his girlfriend and her former boyfriend Josh Gamble.
"I mean he was in arm's reach. When his arm stuck out, the gun was probably a foot away from my face," Gamble testified.
"What did you say?"
"I looked at him and told him if he was man enough to shoot me," Gamble said.
This was the scene at Auto Xperts that day in October 2010. It wasn't Gamble who came out on the stretcher. It was Michael Crockett.
Fellow employees wrestled Crockett to the ground and even beat him with a shovel to get the gun away. In the process, witnesses testified, a half dozen shots or more were fired.
"I had where a bullet grazed the back of my knee on my right leg and there was a bullet hole through my left pants leg and ankle," he said.
Yet Crockett's attorneys say Gamble and the owner of the shop, Chris Hackney, were angry because Shanda Culp would not leave. He claims they shoved Culp and she screamed out for Crockett to help.
"Mr. Crockett acted instinctively. He's a correctional officer. He's trained with that firearm. He has a conceal carry permit. He couldn't see his girlfriend anymore who was being attacked by these two men and he runs in and he pulls his firearm points it at him and says let her go," defense attorney Kevin Alvarez told the jury.
The defense suggested on cross examination that Gamble's story had changed. He quoted a statement made to detectives the day of the shooting in which Gamble told them he and the shop owner (who is also Gamble's uncle) pushed Culp that day.
They both denied that on the witness stand.
Testimony is expected to continue Wednesday.
June 5, 2012 - Noon -
A former corrections officer is on trial in Tallahassee for an auto shop shooting.
The jury will have to decide if it was aggravated assault or if Michael Crockett was standing his ground.
Eyewitness News reporter Julie Montanaro is at the Leon County Courthouse to cover the trial.
Josh Gamble is on the stand right now.
He described how Michael Crockett pointed a gun at him at Auto Xperts in October 2010.
Gamble said he was arguing with Crockett's girlfriend over a car when she started screaming Crockett's name and he came running with a gun in his hand.
June 5, 2012 10am
Auto Xperts owner Chris Hackney is on the stand.
He says he told Shanda Culp she was disrupting business. He says he told Culp to leave the shop and settle the dispute after hours. He says she refused to leave and started screaming.
"She was out of control," he said. "She was just in a rage."
Hackney said a man he had never seen before ran in with a gun pointed at him and employee Josh Gamble.
Another employee tackled Crockett and that's when the shooting started, he said.
"I was feeling we were in danger. I had a gun within two feet of me. I was definitely afraid," Hackney said.
Hackney said they punched Crockett and ultimately beat him with a shovel until they got the gun away from him.
June 5, 2012 9:30am by Julie Montanaro
Prosecutors say an argument over a Mustang escalated into a gun fight at Auto Xperts.
Prosecutor Christie Utt says Shanda Culp and employee Josh Gamble were arguing over a car they had purchased together when the two dated years earlier. Utt claims Culp refused repeated requests from the owner to leave the shop.
Utt claims Culp started screaming and Crockett came running with a gun pointed at them. Another employee started to tackle Crockett and Crockett started firing. The employees ultimately beat Crockett with a shovel and took the gun away.
Yet defense attorneys claim Gamble hit Culp, the owner wrestled with her and the men dragged her to the back of the shop. Defense attorney Kevin Alvarez says Crockett saw that confrontation and then lost sight of Culp. Alvarez says Crockett acted instinctively as a corrections officer and went to protect his girlfriend.
June 5, 2012 9am Julie Montanaro
Michael Crockett is poised to stand trial for aggravated assault for a gun point confrontation at Auto Xperts back in 2010.
Crockett's attorney plans to argue stand your ground.
The judge is hearing some last minute motions regarding the admissibility of evidence, including the relevance of Crockett and his girlfriend having a child in the car during the fight.
The original story can be read below
UPDATED 10-27 By Candace Sweat at 7:00pm
Michael Crockett was fired by the Florida Department of Corrections today and a spokesperson from the department says he will never be able to work for them again.
Chris Hackney, the owner of Auto Xperts says today trying to get back to business as usual after a violent encounter with a man that could have left him and several of his employees dead.
But now he's dealing with news that the man responsible for the shooting is out on a 10,000 dollar bond.
"He's back on the streets now. Do we have to worry about him coming back and retaliating against us? So I'm definitely outraged about it," said Hackney.
Hackney and several of his employees tackled Michael Crockett after they say Crockett walked into the shop Tuesday morning aiming a gun at one of the mechanics in the wake of an argument over a car.
Ultimately, Crockett left on a stretcher and was later charged with three counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
Word spread fast that Crockett was a correctional officer at the Calhoun Correctional Institute and now a spokesperson from the Florida Department of Corrections says they're acting a swiftly as possible to atone for his actions.
"What he did was disgraceful to his profession, to our professional dedicated, hardworking correctional officers who put their lives on the line. He's absolutely a disgrace," said Gretl Plessinger with the Florida Department of Corrections.
Hackney said, "That's very scary. Someone that's being paid to protect us and keep prisoners detained and in prison and he's out committing crimes himself."
Plessinger says this is not the first time Crockett has had trouble on the job. He was disciplined back in 2008 and 2010 for excessive absenteeism.
And as if that's not enough, several employees at Auto Xperts are telling WCTV that the girlfriends two-year-old son was in the car while the whole thing took place.
UPDATED 10-27 By at 1:00pm
Michael Crockett was released on bail on October 27. Bond was set for $10,000.
Stay with WCTV for details.
UPDATED 10-27 By at 10:30am
Michael Crockett is still in jail. Crockett had a first appearance in court on October 27 at 8:30am where bond was set for $10,000.
Stay with WCTV for details.
UPDATED 10-26 By Candace Sweat at 7:00pm
This is truly a heroic story of thinking and acting quickly. A man comes into the Auto Experts shop here on Monroe street aiming a gun at one of the mechanics. Fellow employees tackle that man, and save the day.
When Josh Gamble came to work this morning, he says he would have never guessed that by noon he would have a bullet wound to the back of his leg. Still, he says he's thankful it was a bullet to leg rather than the head.
"I'm lucky to be alive, for one," said Gamble.
Gamble says it all began around 10:30 Tuesday morning when his ex-girlfriend came to his job at Auto Xperts at 3846 North Monroe Street. They began arguing over a car that was purchased when the two were together. He says she was told to leave the shop.
That's when he says she came back with her boyfriend, 25-year-old Michael Crockett, who had a gun.
"He ran in with a firearm, pointed it at my face," said Gamble.
Fellow Employees saw that Gamble was in danger and acted quickly.
"One of my other employees grabbed the guy from behind and we wrestled for the gun and he basically fired off about 8 shots and we were able to get the gun from him and subdue him until the police officers got here," said shop owner, Chris Hackney.
Gamble said, "A gun being pointed at my head and my chest, there's no telling what he was thinking. And if he fires off rounds with all of us on him he could have done it just as easily in my face."
Ultimately, Crockett, the man who came to the shop with intentions of harming someone, is the one left the scene on a stretcher badly beat up.
Hackney and other employees had bloody clothes and injuries as a result of the struggle but say saving an employees life is worth it.
A story like this one could have very easily turned out tragic.
Crockett has been arrested and charged with 3 counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
The Leon County Sheriff's Office has released a press release in regards to the argument that led to a shooting on North Monroe. Click on the press release above to read the official LCSO version.
Tallahassee, Florida --
A man is taken to the hospital after a shooting at a local car repair shop.
LCSO and Tallahassee Police are still here at the scene at 3846 North Monroe.
A man was taken away in an ambulance. Witnesses say around 10:20 this morning (Oct. 26), a suspect entered the Auto Xperts store with a gun. They say he tried to shoot one of the employees and that's when several other employees wrestled him to the ground and there was a struggle. Employees say the man taken away in the ambulance was the suspect who was injured in the fight.
At this point, authorities are not releasing any other information.
WCTV was first on the scene and has exclusive pictures of the scene attached to the story. Stay with WCTV for details.


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Question: I drilled out my idle jet quite a bit, but I still have the CO-mixture screw way, way out. I've cleaned the carb numerous times. Any clue what the reason could be besides an air like in the inlet manifold? (I ruled that out)
Don't know what carb you have, but it seems to me that if you drill out your idle jet you're enriching the mix, then unscrewing the screw leans it out (if it's an air-bleed screw like the vm28). So to get back in the adjustment range you need a smaller jet.
I really love your bike, you must be really pleased. I've just completed a similar project. Mine's more of a trail bike than a trials bike. I've retained the tool boxes so that I can carry tools and spares for long off road adventures. Here she is in all her glory:I made a video of my doing some pretty muddy ridding as well:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkhW5WtGaQw
Right.....A leaky enfield in a pond of water....LoL...Great pics that Miob takes..Not many backgrounds a Enfield doesn't look bad against.....I never did see so many bright sunny days when I lived there...Maybe it just a spot of sun when he snaps the pics...GM
Very, very, very nice bike and a great video. I wish we had roads/trails like that over here. I posted it on my website, hope you don't mind?
I included a link to your website I'm in Holland, a trip across the pond (preferably to Scotland to be honest) is very high on the wish list (but low on the I-can-afford-this-list).
I've put new tires (Heidenau K60's) on my Enfield and am loving the resukt.The off road grip is great.One technical question though: After riding for a while, espcially during heavier off road use, gear changes (especially shifting back down the gears) gets really hard. At times it is even easer to reach down with my hand and pull the shift lever up because it just takes too much strength to do it with my toes.Gearbox oil is new and up to the right level and I greased it. Any suggestions?
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1956 Ford F-100 Glass Replacement - Clear SailingWritten by on September 22, 2011 New Glass for Old Pickups
There are four important things you need when rebuilding any classic vehicle, you need to make it go, stop, turn in the right direction, and you need to be able to see where you're going. New glass goes a long way in helping with the seeing part. Whether you are doing a complete rebuild or just driving and enjoying a beater, you're more than likely going to end up messing with the glass. Fifty-plus-year-old glass is usually ready for replacement, unless of course, the bubbled and stained glass fits your truck's patina'd motif.
While there are plenty of friendly, professional glass shop owners that would love to install your glass for you, our vast aftermarket industry has made it possible for you to do it yourself. Kits are available with everything you need, and while this is article covers a '56 F-100, the basic operations are the same for any classic vehicle. Windshields and back glass are available either locally through windshield suppliers or through various aftermarket companies. Since the side glass is flat, any odd or unavailable piece can easily be made from templates by a local glass house. Think chop tops. Universal window channel and wiper felts are also around for custom applications.
Those of us that choose to rebuild the best trucks built have two of the best aftermarket suppliers to deal with. The ladies at Classic Haulers have your F-1 needs covered and their sister store, Mid Fifties F-100 Parts has anything the F-100 crowd needs. Don't worry when you hear a friendly female voice on the phone, I guarantee she knows as much, if not more, about your truck and the parts you are talking about. So with a list in hand I gave Diane a call at Mid Fifties and put in my order. She knew exactly what I needed and even suggested a couple of thing I had forgotten I needed. When it all arrived, I noticed the glass was packed so well by their shipping department I think the delivery guy could have thrown it from the truck as he drove by and it wouldn't have hurt it a bit. After ripping open the box and admiring my beautiful new glass and window parts, I settled in and munched my Tooties Rolls that come with every order and prepared for the chore ahead.
My order included the new front and rear window seals, window channels, stainless steel division bars, lower wiper felts, vent window seals, and the screws and bolts needed. The side glass, vent window glass, and front and rear glass was also included. The only complaint I have of the kit is I don't like the stock mounting pins and tabs put on the window channels. I'm very particular about how my channels fit and the pins never line up with the holes correctly. In the installation photos you'll see I carefully cut them off. I'll use black 3M weatherstrip adhesive to glue the channels in when it's time. This way I can have more control over the final fit of the channel end and the division bars and how it follows the opening it mounts in.
In any case, take a look at how I went about installing fresh glass in this F-100, it's a bit of work but nothing a moderately experienced classic trucker can't handle.
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Disassembly starts with the door handles. These happened to be Phillips screws that held the handles to the shafts. Some are small Allen studs. I got real lucky here. Somebody had already changed the shafts to new ones. Mid Fifties have these in stock length and ½-inch longer to fit the extra thickness of an upholstered door panel.There should be two ¼-inch bolts that hold the bottom of the division bar. It divides the side glass from the vent window. The complete kit from Mid Fifties that I'm using has these included.The vent windows have a screw buried in the seal about an inch or so in. The division bar has two more screws at the top of the door frame.The old wiper felts are removed as well as their retaining clips. The clips either pop right out or are kind of a pain. Small side cutters work well also to remove the clips.There's nothing to the vent windows once you get them out. Disassembly starts with the two Phillips screws that hold the pivot plate. On top there is a pivot screw. Remove it and you can pull the window out of the framework. These are the pieces you should have when the window assembly is taken apart.There is a very small roll pin in the vent handle. I have a small punch that has been ground down even smaller to fit this pin. Look for the side of the pin that is sticking out the furthest. Drive the pin out the opposite way so that longer end comes out first. This is what makes up the vent handle. Mid Fifties carries beautiful reproductions of these.The glass will either come right out or it will really be a pain. Normally, I cut the seal with a razor blade and pray. Sometimes I've had to use thinner to soften the seal, cut it, and remove the glass.These are the new vent window seals. The frames will get sanded down and spray bombed black. Then I'll install the new seals. There is a right and left to these, so you need to pay attention to this when installing them. There is a relief in the seal on each side so the window can pivot and open. I work the seal into the frame with a small screwdriver. Make sure to line up the upper and lower pivot shaft holes in the seal with the holes in the frame.
These are the window channels that will go into the doors, and the glass will ride in them. They have to be bent to fit the glass so don't just slide them into the door frame. Start with the end of the channel ¼-inch from the edge of the glass. This will be the amount of window that will be riding in the division bar channel. Carefully work the channel around the outer edge of the glass. Don't try to bend the whole corner at once, work up to it and the stainless beading won't kink.These are the window channels that will go into the doors, and the glass will ride in them. They have to be bent to fit the glass so don't just slide them into the door frame. Start with the end of the channel ¼-inch from the edge of the glass. This will be the amount of window that will be riding in the division bar channel. Carefully work the channel around the outer edge of the glass. Don't try to bend the whole corner at once, work up to it and the stainless beading won't kink.I don't like using these buttons to mount the window channel. They never seem to be in the right spots for me, no offense to the manufacturer. I'm just real critical about the channel's placement and fit so I cut off the buttons and bottom tab and glue the channels in with black 3M adhesive.With the channel in place, I install the wiper felts. The ends that slide between the channel and door frame need to be flattened more. I check the fit to the door frame and re-bend the back part to fit the opening. Drop them into the opening and line up the clips with the slotted holes. Make sure to line up the front edge with the division bar. When in position, use a large blade screwdriver to snap the clips in place, one at a time. The wiper felts are now installed matching right up with the division bar.The side glass window track is next. I use a broken hammer handle, but any piece of hardwood works well. Start at one end and drive the track off the glass, strike sharply and the track will slide right off.After cleaning out the old window tape from the track, wrap a new piece over the glass and place the track over the window tape and glass edge. Stand the glass straight up and strike the track with a dead blow hammer. The track will work its way down onto the glass. Keep going until the track is bottomed out on the tape. Trim off the excess window tape with a razor blade and you're ready to install.With the ends trimmed off and the channel slid in place in the door frame you can see how well it butts up to the division bar. This is because of the ¼-inch setback I used when bending the channel around the window. This is also what you end up with when you bend the channel around the glass itself for a perfect fit every time. By not having the mounting buttons and tab you can keep this fit by just gluing it in place with black 3M adhesive.
With the glass installed into the door and going up and down with no problem, drop the glass all the way down and glue in the window channels to the tabs that stick down in the channel opening.Since it's a black truck I wanted a black-tinted back window. Mid Fifties supplied the front and rear seals. They carry the glass too. There is a seam on the seals that I like having at the bottom of the glass when installed. I find the center of the glass, mark it with tape and line up the seam with the tape as I install the seal.This is the secret to installing the glass and seal. A piece of cord about 15 feet long will do the front, obviously the small back, and will also be enough for the big back window. Starting at the top, tuck the cord into the slot in the seal and work your way around the seal to meet back up where you started. With a couple of buddies to hold the glass, install it from the inside, into the body opening, pull on the cord, one side at a time to fold the seal over the flange in the window opening. When you get to the end of pulling the cord, the window will be set in the opening.Here's Bob installing the seal on the front glass. Take your time Bob, those are kind of tricky to get on the glass as you well know. Bob is installing the cord in the front seal. After the cord is installed I gave it a good coating of glass slip. Dish soap will also work, the seal just needs some lube on it to install and be able to pull the cord out.Bob and Brett are getting the Mid Fifties windshield placed into each corner before he starts pulling on the cord to install. You want the seal tucked up against the opening as you start to pull in the seal. A tip with the '56s, position the top of the glass in place first then let the bottom drop into place. Installed and looking good. Thanks to Mid Fifties and their great-fitting seals and beautiful glass.


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