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I've priced out a set of Handspun wheels with Stan's ZTR Arch rims and X9 hubs. They're going to run me around $340 including shipping.
Is there another tubeless wheelset I should be looking at (in that price range) instead?
I've priced out a set of Handspun wheels with Stan's ZTR Arch rims and X9 hubs. They're going to run me around $340 including shipping.
Is there another tubeless wheelset I should be looking at (in that price range) instead?
Thats what I have, and thats a good deal. I run them tubeless. Very happy with them. The hubs arent the lightest but still a good set. Mine are a little heavier than advertised. Front is a little over 800 grams and the rear is 1100 grams. Who is building them for you and what spokes are you using?
$340 is a really attractive price. I'm not willing to try Stans rims. (I was considering the Flow) Too many poor reviews...probably from dudes my size...hacking their way through the woods like me. My next rim (rear) will probably be a 721 or 729.
If you're not set on Stans, check out bicyclewheelwarehouse. They occasionally have deals that really blow me away. Keep an eye out for the 50% flashy things.
Well, the more I read about X9 hubs, the less I like the idea. My room mate has this same set of wheels, and rides the same things I do. He's a better technical rider than I am, I probably need all the POE I can get. The X9 hubs only have 12 POE. There are a lot of wheels on ebay built up with XT hubs. Those don't seem to have stellar reviews either.
I'm still very torn. I'll give your place a look ed.
Nothing wrong with XT hubs, IMO. Decent and inexpensive. Mostly what I use.
"I tell you, We are here on earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you any different." - Kurt Vonnegut jr.
I recently upgraded the back to an XT hub, DT swiss competition spokes, and Mavic EN521 rim. I have been really happy with it so far. The main good and bad thing about the XT hub is that it is ball bearing and not cartridge, so it will need maintenance every once in awhile (but allows more personal configuration for a faster spinning wheel). Since I can't afford a Hope Pro 2 the XT was the next best bang for buck that I could find through my research. It doesn't cost much, and replacement parts aren't bad either.
I don't mind maintenance. I ride vintage bikes and really enjoy working on them more than the riding. The bad reviews I've seen involve failing freehubs.
Ya gotta do some maintainance on the freehub, too.
"I tell you, We are here on earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you any different." - Kurt Vonnegut jr.
I find cup an cone hubs to loosen up with time on rough trails. Kind of annoying because your disk brakes squeal when the hubs are loose, and the races get beat up. Never had that problem with the XT hubs on my touring/road bike.
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Stan's rims have served me well for the past few years - previously owned a 26" set of Flows and currently own both Flow 29's and Arch 29's. I've weighed anywhere from 185-210lbs while running Stans rims and I descend like a (fast) bag of hammers. The Flows are listed as DH rims, which is totally nuts unless you are a super lightweight. Most of my riding is XC/Trail in central NC, but I prefer to go up and over instead of around(prefer more techy trails), so I have put my wheels through their paces. If you want a really stiff rim, the Flows are not for you. I mainly run them because they set up tubeless really easily with a lot of standard tires(non UST/tubeless). I plan on building up another set soon.
Anyways, can't go wrong with Mavic's, but I wouldn't swear off Stan's.
I got the Arch rims cause Im a little on the husky side (194lbs). Looking at alot of reviews, all the ones Ive read have said the X9 hubs are a great value. The reviews on the XT hubs were'nt as good. But thats just the reviews Ive read. Ill give periodic reports on mine and let you know how they hold up. I know the Stans rims are very easy to set up tubeless and all the reviews on the ZTR rims were really good.


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You might have to give proof that you're getting tax credits if you wanted to claim benefits such as:
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I have some fitteds turned contour diapers (lost their elasticity) lol.
What kind of closure are they? If they are no closure I think they are pretty compairable to using prefolds. It takes some practice to get the fit right (with snappi or pins) but I personally think they work just as good as any fitted at keeping stuff in.
If it's a good price I'd go for it (but I'm a diaper addict!!!)
I have two Kissa contours (true contours, no elastic at all) and I like them. They are nice and stretchy and fairly soft, and I like them just as much as I do my prefolds. I'd say about the same absorbancy too.
Camilla, DH '06, DS '08, DD '10, DS '12
Oh, I also have some Bumkins contour diapers (cotton outer, microfiber inner) that have some elastic in the legs and no closure option (not even good for snappying) but I absolutely love them. I use them in my Flip covers once baby is big enough (I used them on DD from around 16 months on) and they fit perfectly under the flaps of the Flip covers like a trifolded prefold or something, but with better coverage. They are discontinued though.
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I have some of the Kissas Hybrid OS contours. I like them. They have some elastic around the leg. I think they'd be pretty bulky on a newborn though.
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I have two of those bumpkins contours and HATED them and just kept thinking, man, I bet these would be perfect for a flip cover, lol.
I sewed a long strip of fabric across teh back hanging off about 2 inches on each side. I can snappi them now :)


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Bellevue's Emergency
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Goldfrank longs to continue treating patients and to let others fight over budgets and survival plans. Yet last spring, when Governor Pataki initiated a $2 billion cut to the state's $25 billion Medicaid program, Goldfrank was hauled upstairs for a reckoning. Bellevue's share of the cuts was so large that the hospital needed far more than layoffs and bed closings to survive: it needed a fundamental change of philosophy. Last spring, Pamela S. Brier, then the executive director, told the assembled staff that Bellevue would have to modify its open-door policy. She then distributed a one-page document listing 26 services that could be restructured or eliminated to cut $83 million; a 40 percent staff reduction, or 1,920 people, and a strategy to generate $15 million by attracting paying patients.
To Goldfrank, such a proposal is morally indefensible, a blueprint for rationing health care that illustrates a terrible conflict: to underwrite even a remnant of its historic mission, Bellevue has to attract paying patients and slash services for the poor. How can a public hospital treat some and turn others away? "There is a schizophrenia to what this hospital is," he bitterly concluded. "Are we caring for the most complicated cases or are we caring for all human beings?"
That, finally, is the question that the nation's 450 remaining public hospitals are now grappling with as the health care revolution exacts its toll on state and Federal budgets. Can Bellevue and public hospitals like it survive? Are they even worth saving?
THERE ARE TWO WAYS TO ENTER Bellevue: by walking, through the front door, or by rolling, through the emergency-room door from the ambulance bay, which is how Michelle C. arrived. Thirty minutes earlier, a Mack truck plowed into her car after running a red light. Now her high-pitched screams, the sound of a nervous system in shock, filtered through the emergency room. Waiting patients looked up as she was whisked past -- a blur of bandages, imploring eyes and stiff dark hair -- and into the trauma slot.
The "slot," a small room tucked inside the emergency room where gunshot, fall, stabbing and car-wreck victims are stabilized, is the heart of Bellevue's first-resort services. It has also become a vital source of business: almost all of its patients will be admitted needing costly treatment that another entity (whether workmen's compensation or no-fault insurance) will end up paying for. Michelle C. is the patient prized above all -- a welfare mother automatically insured by Medicaid.
An IV fed saline into her right arm. Her left arm hung by a sinew: muscles, white bone and blood vessels were visible. "Leave it alone," she shrieked as doctors probed the wound. As a doctor kneeled on the floor for a closer look, Michelle turned her head to see him. Instead, she caught sight of the jagged wound where her arm used to be. "I feel like I'm going to throw up," she moaned.
The door swung open and a registration clerk, Velia Dawson, appeared holding Michelle's chart. "Any property?" Dawson asked. Beneath Michelle's stretcher were tattered jeans and Reebok sneakers splashed with blood. Dawson itemized them carefully and retreated to her desk.
Dawson, a Belize native with a cloud of dark hair, knows one thing after 20 years of registering Goldfrank's patients: Medicaid is like manna -- through good times and bad, it has fallen from the sky. Although Medicaid is not a particularly generous insurer, it does pay on time. It is also Bellevue's largest source of revenue, a fact that has led directly to the hospital's present crisis.
When Dawson arrived in 1975, Bellevue was the dump for indigent Medicaid patients that voluntary hospitals would not treat. Now, however, facing rising costs and empty beds, the same voluntary hospitals have become insurance blind. The result is brutal competition for Medicaid patients, whom Dawson follows the way a bookie follows the races. During her cigarette breaks in the ambulance bay, she can see the threat to Bellevue's solvency. There are five voluntary hospitals nearby, their towers visible, all vying for the city's limited pool of Medicaid patients. Besides offering patients terry-cloth robes and hotel-like gifts, some hospitals are even offering bribes to ambulance drivers for each patient they bring in, according to Leon Pachter, Bellevue's director of trauma services. Managed-care companies have joined the fray, enrolling nearly 700,000 patients since 1991; they are well paid by the state to provide preventive care and limit costly hospital use.
This "revolution" boils down to a struggle for income in which the least competitive hospitals close and the most competitive thrive. It's a competition Bellevue can't win, given its open-door policy. As voluntary hospitals and managed care siphon off Medicaid patients, Bellevue winds up with the uninsured that no one else wants to treat -- and less and less income to offset the cost. "We are begging for Medicaid patients," Dawson said, as more charts of uninsured patients landed on her desk.


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Established in 2001, The Baywood Clinic is one of Toronto's leading Cosmetic Centers. Our team consists of board certified doctors who specialize in cosmetic and medical laser treatments.
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Cosmetic, Laser, and Vein Medicine are serious medical treatments – you can trust our experience and count on our commitment to caring for you as your physicians.The Baywood Clinic is regularly featured in the media (The Toronto Star, The National Post, The Life Network, CBC Radio).
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2 NEW Bikeshare Stations are open in Montgomery County!
Check out the new station at Lyttonsville Rd & Lyttonsville Place across from the Coffield Community Center in Silver Spring and the new station at Woodmont Ave & Strathmore St. in Downtown Bethesda!
56 Capital Bikeshare Stations are operating at the following locations:
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Bethesda & Arlington – 19 docks at Bethesda Row
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Welcome to OTAVI, a Brand of the S&B Group
Founded in 1900, over more than a century in operation OTAVI has earned a stellar reputation for quality, service, innovation and sustainability. Our vast experience and commitment to customer service have made us a leader in the processing and trading of a wide range of the highest quality industrial materials used mainly in glass, ceramics, metallurgy and refractories applications.
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Located in Neuss, in western Germany, we operate two milling facilities with ample raw material storage and access to Europe's major waterways, ensuring convenient access to our customers and reliable, just-in-time deliveries. Our milling capabilities also allow for strict quality control and precise, made-to-order formulations.
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Along with an extensive range of conventional raw materials, OTAVI delivers processed AI203 based materials for refractory products, and is a leading supplier of industrial solutions in the European Glass and Ceramics Industry.
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|Otavi Minen und EisenbahnGesellschaft (Mining and Railway Company) is founded on the 6th of April 1900 with the legal status of a "German Colonial Company" and has its registered offices in Berlin. Its sole purpose is to exploit copper deposits and to build a railway in what was then the German Protectorate of South West Africa (now Namibia).
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|The "German Colonial Company" of Otavi Minen und Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft is converted into an "Aktiengesellschaft" (public joint stock company) under the name of Otavi Minen AG.
|A 33 – 1/3 percent share is taken in General Enterprises Sarides S.A. of Piraeus (Greece), which operates a raw perlite production plant in the island of Milos.
|Cookson GmbH, a subsidiary of Cookson plc of London, acquires Erlus Baustofiwerke AG's share in Otavi Minen AG.
|Mineralmühle Schulte GmbH, a minerals processing plant is acquired.
|Cookson Matthey Ceramics announces that it now holds 86.7 percent of Otavi.
The company Otavi Iberica SL was founded, as the Spanish subsidiary of Otavi Minen AG.
|Silver & Baryte Ores Mining Co. S.A., of Athens, takes over the shares in Otavi Minen AG from Cookson Matthey Ceramics and announces that it now holds 87.6 percent.
|OtaviMinen AG is restructured into a management holding company. Otavi Minerals GmbH and Otavi Perlit GmbH are established.
|6th of April, 100th Anniversary, official celebration on 21 June 2000.
|Silver & Baryte Ores Mining Co. S.A., sold the German expanded Perlite business to Deutsche Perlite.
|The Otavi Minerals business becomes a fully integrated division of the S&B Industrial Minerals Group.


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AROUND TOWNREVEALED: Paid signature gatherer company for No on K supporters
The name of the company that No on K supporters have refused to identify for months? PCI Consultants, Inc. of Calabasas,...Original post made by Resident of Ventana Hills on May. 27, 2016
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CRIMES & INCIDENTSPleasanton woman indicted for alleged visa fraud ring
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AROUND TOWNNo on K supporters spend another $30,000+ since 4/25/16
99%+ of the funding for "No on K" continues to be provided by some of the wealthiest residents of Pleasanton, several of...Original post made by Resident of Ventana Hills on May. 27, 2016
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SCHOOLS & KIDSSteinle family sues San Francisco, federal authorities, former sheriff
The family of Kate Steinle, a Pleasanton native who was shot and killed on San Francisco's Pier 14 last July, today filed...Original post made on May. 29, 2016
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BOOKS & MOVIESPleasanton schools already set with rules around gender identity and bathrooms
Schools across the country are grappling with the Obama administration's request that public schools allow transgender students...Original post made on May. 26, 2016
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BOOKS & MOVIESMemorial Day observance at 10:30 a.m. tomorrow outside Pleasanton Senior Center
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COMMENTS ON STORIESEditorial: Vote to re-elect Alameda County Supervisor Nate Miley on June 7
Alameda County Supervisor Nate Miley, first elected to the county board in 2000 and now also representing Pleasanton, is...Original post made on May. 29, 2016
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Foreign Wars have claimed the lives of many American family members. After more than seventy years the pain lingers for our...Original post made by Michael Austin on May. 29, 2016
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COMMENTS ON STORIESEditorial: Vote Yes on Measure K
Measure K on the June 7 ballot for Pleasanton voters affirms the action of the City Council last January in approving the...Original post made on May. 23, 2016
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AROUND TOWNPleasanton imposing excess water use penalties despite rain
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AROUND TOWNWant to protect the hills? Vote YES on Measure K
The Lund Ranch property is NOT currently preserved and Measure PP does NOT prevent homes from being built on it. Remember...Original post made by Voting YES for the Truth on May. 28, 2016
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This is my first time voting (I'm 18) and I wanted to clear a few things up about measure K. 1. I do not feel any guilt...Original post made by Anthony on May. 25, 2016
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AROUND TOWNI am voting NO on K, NO to 43 MORE Executive Houses in Pleasanton
After reading my voters pamphlet and talking to my neighbors I finally decoded the whole Measure K thing. I am against...Original post made by No on K on May. 27, 2016
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AROUND TOWNAnother reason to Vote YES on Measure K--Assembly Bill 2522
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The head of the state Republican Party on Friday called on Sen. Maria Cantwell and political operative Ron Dotzauer to disclose details...
The head of the state Republican Party on Friday called on Sen. Maria Cantwell and political operative Ron Dotzauer to disclose details of their financial relationship.
At issue is a personal loan of $15,000 to $50,000 from Cantwell to Dotzauer and his role as a federal lobbyist.
"The question is: Can he lobby her when he owes her money?" asked GOP Chairwoman Diane Tebelius.
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Tebelius' comments came after The Associated Press reported that Cantwell had secured millions of dollars that helped Dotzauer's clients.
Much of the money, about $3 million, was directed to the Army Corps of Engineers to build a new barrier dam to help salmon near Lake Tapps. The Cascade Water Alliance, a group of eight Eastside cities and water districts, sought the funding along with Puget Sound Energy, which owns dikes and other infrastructure along the lake.
The Cascade Water Alliance hired Dotzauer's firm in 2002 to lobby Congress on water issues.
Rep. Dave Reichert and former Rep. Jennifer Dunn, both Republicans, also advocated for the project, said officials from Puget Sound Energy and Cascade Water Alliance. Tebelius agreed that the projects had popular support.
Dotzauer and Cantwell have know each other since the 1980s, and he ran her successful Senate campaign in 2000. He became a registered federal lobbyist in 2002.
In an interview with The Seattle Times last May, Dotzauer said he was not personally involved in lobbying for Lake Tapps, but a member of his public-affairs firm, Strategies 360, accompanied local lawmakers as they made the rounds on Capitol Hill.
Grant Degingger, mayor of Bellevue and chairman of the Cascade Water Alliance, said the group hired Dotzauer's firm because Dotzauer was already working for Puget Sound Energy. In addition, Dotzauer had political contacts within Seattle City Hall, which also has a stake in regional water issues.
"It's not unusual to have a group like the Cascade Water Alliance have a public-affairs firm assisting them," Degingger said.
In May, Dotzauer said he has never spoken with Cantwell about any of his clients.
In a prepared statement, Michael Meehan, an aide for Cantwell, said: "Senator Cantwell has fought for nearly 6 years for the Lake Tapps water project, long before Mr. Dotzauer started working on the project."
As for the 1999 loan, which first appeared in financial disclosure documents in 2001, Meehan said "when a friend needed help, she was lucky to be in a position to loan him money … . It's cynical to imply that her efforts for the Northwest were swayed because she is owed money from a friend."
Dotzauer has said he doesn't remember why he obtained the loan or why it hasn't been paid off. The loan's reported value — $15,000 to $50,000 — is the range contained in Cantwell's financial disclosure forms.
It's an uncommon financial arrangement, said Massie Ritsch, communications director for the Center for Responsive Politics, a Washington, D.C.-based watchdog group. But personal loans from supporters to lawmakers are more scrutinized because of the possibility that sweetheart deals could influence legislation. Cantwell's situation raises fewer alarms, he said.
"It sounds unusual. It doesn't sound concerning," Ritsch said.
A year before he got the loan from Cantwell, Dotzauer was ordered to pay tens of thousands of dollars related to a divorce settlement that had gone unpaid for nearly three years, court records show. A King County Superior Court summary of the judgment listed the amount as $85,922.
When the divorce was finalized in 1995, he was ordered to pay his ex-wife $60,000. His wages were garnished and he was twice cited for contempt of court the following year when he failed to make scheduled payments on the debt.
Attorney David Balint, who was hired by Dotzauer's ex-wife, said the debt eventually was paid, but he could not recall the date and his client's file was in remote storage.
Dotzauer couldn't be reached for comment Friday.
Seattle Times staff reporter Susan Kelleher contributed to this report.
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For your boobs, wear supportive bras. I'm still breastfeeding my 14 month old and I've been wearing sports bras the whole time, nursing bras just aren't supportive in my opinion. If you're breastfeeding, don't wear them too tight where they can slow your production. If not, wear as tight as you want. They're also comfy to sleep in and then you're always supported. Mine aren't as perky as they use to be, but I can honestly say I'm happy with them.
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Time running out for CSTV and Cox to see the Aztecs
In football terms, it's late in the fourth quarter, the clock is running, and San Diego State football fans stand to be the big losers unless CSTV and the Mountain West Conference stage a huge rally.
The Aztecs are advertising their Aug. 31 football opener against UTEP -- the start of the Chuck Long era on Montezuma Mesa -- as a national TV contest. But right now, the game won't be seen in San Diego, the Dallas-Fort Worth area, Las Vegas and the state of Wyoming -- all parts of the Mountain West Conference, which has an exclusive deal with CSTV.
And depending on your cable provider and tier, it won't be shown in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Florida or many other parts of the nation that have TV sets.
But you can see it in Utah, Colorado and New Mexico where CSTV struck a deal with Comcast, the cable provider in those areas.
The point of contention is CSTV's negotiations with Cox Communications.
Negotiations started at the local levels in San Diego, Las Vegas and Dallas but have broken down.
Now, according to Cox officials, the negotiations are being handled at the national level at Cox's corporate offices in Atlanta.
According to one source, CSTV officials initially asked Cox for $1 million for the rights to the Mountain West Conference package. But CSTV was sold to CBS and the price jumped to $5 million. At $1 million, Cox might have absorbed the cost. At $5 million, Cox would have to pass along a price increase to its customers, something it isn't likely to do.
"My gut feeling," said one Cox official, "is that someone will blink and the games will get on the air."
Don't, however, count on Cox blinking.
You might recall several years ago when ESPN and Cox were embroiled in a rights-fee dispute. There was talk of Cox dropping all ESPN programming. Do you remember who blinked then? Here's a hint: It wasn't Cox.
"We're mostly watching and waiting just like everyone else," said San Diego State athletic director Jeff Schemmel. "We at San Diego State are great friends with Cox, but the schools don't own their own rights. The conference does.
"It is, however, incredibly imperative that we work this out. This deal doesn't work unless there is distribution.
"I don't have a feel for timing on this, but I'd like to see it done yesterday. I'd hate to see this come down to the 11th hour."
Craig Thompson, commissioner of the Mountain West Conference, is very aware the clock is ticking.
He understands teams need TV exposure to help recruiting in football and basketball.
"We are actively negotiating," Thompson said. "But this is a big jig-saw puzzle.
"Getting Comcast on board gave us a big portion of the pie. But San Diego has 92 percent cable penetration, so we need to get that done. Las Vegas is very heavily cabled. And we need the Dallas-Forth Worth area. I know Cox and CSTV are talking. That's all we can ask for.
"Both sides have a different view of the value. That's why they're called negotiations. The deal has to make sense for both parties."
What doesn't make sense is why the Mountain West Conference gave up a deal with ESPN for a start-up network like CSTV.
One reason athletic directors cited is the ability to control kickoff and tipoff times in order to ensure better home attendance. ESPN often dictated those times, but a 9 p.m. start for basketball on Monday nights meant MWC teams were on ESPN's "Big Monday." That means huge national exposure.


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