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In a collectively crafted message to residents of the Mendhams, the Chesters and Washington Township, the towns' mayors said negotiations over what's currently the West Morris Regional High School District have "created animosity between our towns that is neither productive nor is it reflective of our communities as a whole."
"It is time for all us to move on and proactively work together on issues we can accomplish as a collective community that will benefit all of us," the mayors said in an email distributed to residents.
At present, Mendham Township, Mendham Borough and Washington Township each have a K-8 district. Chester Borough and Chester Township share a K-8 district. All the towns send their students to the regional high school district, which operates two schools. West Morris Central High School serves Washington Township. West Morris Mendham High School serves the remaining communities.
But for years, residents of some of the communities have complained funding for the schools is unevenly provided — that residents of the Mendhams and Chesters pay more in taxes, because they have much higher property values. Last year, the regional school board decided not to hold a referendum that would have asked voters whether they'd support changing the funding formula. The idea was to move away from one based on equalized property values, and toward one that collected tuition from the towns for each student they send to the schools.
Officials have estimated such a change could mean a major tax hike for Washington Township residents — about $1,000 a year for an average homeowner. The idea saw support from some residents, including the Citizens for Better Schools organization.More recently, the mayors have been talking over larger changes to the district configuration. And though each district pledged $10,000 in 2012 toward a study, the five towns' governing bodies couldn't come to an agreement over which options should be on the table.
At issue was whether the districts should consider one, giant K-12 district — the so-called "mega district" option — for the five towns. Mendham Township and Chester Borough officials have said they wouldn't fund any study that included that option.
The town officials also discussed other, less controversial options. One called for a K-12 district for Washington Township, a 9-12 district for the other towns, and the continuation of the existing K-8s in the Mendhams and Chesters. Another would have created two K-12 districts, one for Washington Township, one for the remaining towns.
"The mayors worked diligently to reach consensus on a study but, due to strong positions taken by all involved, all five towns unfortunately could not arrive at a consensus," the mayors wrote in their letter to residents.
The funds set aside for the study in 2012 won't be set aside in the towns' 2013 budgets, the mayors said.
Washington Township Mayor Ken Short — who had advocated studying all of the possible options — said his town is projecting that its student population will drop significantly in the coming years, and that Washington's per-pupil cost could actually rise significantly.
Just before superstorm Sandy, the mayors had scheduled a meeting that was eventually put off because of the storm. At the time. Mendham Borough Mayor Neil Henry said one last-ditch option to save the study was being bandied about — that the towns supporting a study of the "mega district" option be the only ones to fund that portion of the study.
But ultimately, that proposal fell flat.
"I'm gathering that idea has not been well-received in some towns," Henry told NJ.com at the time.
Henry said at the time he would have liked to see the mayors come to some sort of consensus, rather than see a year's worth of talks go to waste.
"We've got $10,000 sitting in a line item for this. When's the last time that happened?" he said.
In the letter to residents, the mayors said their talks "provided the opportunity for some much-needed dialogue between our towns and have opened doors for us to work together on issues beyond education."
They plan to meet at 7:30 p.m. on Jan. 31, 2013, at Chester Borough hall, to discuss lessons learned from Sandy, and options for shared services. The meeting will be option to the public.
"We're a little town, and our surrounding towns are the same size or smaller," Short said, adding Washington already has several shared-services agreements with other communities and would welcome talks about more. "We don't need to reinvent the wheel with everything we do."


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The exercise, held earlier this month in Mongolia and organized by Britain, was designed to prepare peacekeepers for future multilateral security operations.
U.S. military police trained with Chinese civilian police and soldiers from Britain, France and Mongolia.
Troops from Russia, the fifth permanent member of the Security Council, were expected but were unable to come, according to the British newspaper The Guardian.
Mongolia is not a permanent member of the council.
The exercise was designed to help future peacekeepers overcome the training and doctrinal differences among countries, said Capt. Joshua Hamilton, commander of the 88th MP detachment at Camp Zama.
Zama MPs joined members of the 247th MP detachment from Okinawa for the training.
Participants practiced peacekeeping operations such as manning checkpoints, reacting to ambushes and improvised explosives and creating a quick-reaction force.
U.S. soldiers praised the training and the Mongolian training camp which featured portable bathrooms with flush toilets and sinks.
The hosts entertained visiting troops with traditional horse dancing, sports such as archery and wrestling and delicacies such as fermented horse milk.
It tastes like vinegar, said Sgt. Michael Blume, desk sergeant. They tried to make a point of showing us the culture.
They heard Mongolian throat singing, in which singers carry two notes at once, and experienced nomadic tent houses called girts.
The also experienced the vast sweep of the world's highest desert.
Once you leave the city, it's nothing but mountains, said Staff Sgt. Jason Hathaway, dog handler for explosives. The countryside was beautiful.
The training didn't have any setbacks, but most soldiers suffered through stomach ailments and faced death weaving through traffic on the roads, according to several servicemembers.
The training did give them many chances to interact with other countries through age-old military traditions such as trading patches and gear and playing sports.
It was a great experience, said Sgt. Joel Kaye, an MP investigator. I had fun working with all the different countries.
Britain paid for the exercise and the transportation for Chinese participants the first time China joined a multilateral training mission outside its borders, The Guardian reported.
Chinese forces have joined about a dozen U.N. peacekeeping missions since signing a U.N. peacekeeping agreement in 2002, according to Chinese defense leaders.
Mongolian peacekeepers have served in Iraq and Afghanistan and the other participants serve in multilateral peacekeeping efforts around the world.
The U.S. soldiers said during the training they learned peacekeeping strategies that Britain developed in Northern Ireland and riot-control strategies used by French forces during mass protests.
They also learned much about China and Mongolia.
I was very impressed with the Mongolian army, Hathaway said.
I think some of the French civil disturbance techniques were very effective.
He was most interested in interacting with Chinese forces, because we hardly ever get to, he said.
Some of the troops' best memories came from unique experiences, like a pool table in the middle of a plain or human telephone booths, where people stood holding cellular phones for rent on the roadside.
I've never seen anything quite like it, Blume said.
The trip aside, he said the highlight was the training.
The training was very good. If I had a chance to go back I would.


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Advance Placement U. S. History over Textbook chapters 1-6
The treatment of the Native americans by the Spanish conquistadores can be described as
at times brutal and exploitative
European Contact with Native Americans led to
the deaths of millions of Native Americans who had little resistance to European diseases.
Men became conquistadores because they wanted to
gain gods favor by spreadiing Christanity; escape dubious pasts; seek adventure,as the heroes of classical antiquity had done; satisfy their desire for gold
The stage was set for a cataclysmic shift in the course of history when
Europeans clamored for more and cheaper products from Asia; Africa was est. as a source of slave labor; The portuguese demonstrated the feasibility of long range ocean navigation; the renaissance nurtured a spirit of optimism and adventure
In the new interdependent global economic system that emrged after Columbus's discovery, the new world provided
raw materials
the Christian crusaders were indirectly responsible for the discovery of America because they
brought back news of valuable far Eastern spices, drugs, and silk.
Europeans wanted to discover a new, shorter route to eastern Asia in order to
break hol that muslim merchants had on trade with Asia; reduce the price of goods from Asia; gain more profits for themselves; reduce the time it took to transport goods
Some of the more advanced Native American cultures did all of the following
est. large, bustling cities; make strikingly accurate astornomical observations; study mathmatics; carry on commerce
The European explorers who followed Columbus to North America
Continued to view themselved as Europeans
The ideals that the colonists cherished as synonyomous with American life included reverence for all the following
individual liberty; self- government; religious tolerance; economic prosperity
The economic theory of merchantilism would be consistent with which of the following statements?
It is vital that a country import more than it exports
A major impact of the French and Indian War on the attitudes of Americans was
It led to many colonists who had perviously supported independence from England to call for moderation because they feared that the huge British military presence in the colonies ( brought over from England to fight the French) could not be turned on rebellious colonist
With the British and American victory in the French and Indian War
A new spirit of interdepence arose, as the French threat disappeared
The immediate puropse of the Albany Congress of 1754 was to
prevent the french from attacking American outposts
French motives in the New world included the desire to
est. agricultural communitied to produce profitable staple crops
The climactic clash between britain and france for control of the n. Amer/ continent sprang from the rivalry for contrl of
Mississippi River
The great Awakening
Undermined prestige of the learned clergy in the colonies; spilit colonial churched into serval competing denominations; lef to the founding of Princeton, Dartmouth, and Rutgers colleges; was the 1st spontaneous mass movement of the Amer. people
In 1775, the _____ Churches were the only two est. (tax supported) churches in colonial Amer
Congregational and Anglican
In 17th century colonial American all of the following are true regarding women EXCEPT
abusive husbands were punished
Slave society that developed in N AMer was 2 of few slave societies in history to
produce a new culture based entirely on African heritage
Slave christianity emphasized all the following in their faith EXCEPT
concepts of humility and obedience
For those Africans who were sold into slavery, the "middle passage" can best descirbed as
gruesome ocean voyage to Amer
The headright system which made som epeople very wealthy entailed
giving the right to acquire 50 acres of land to the person paying the passage of a laborer to amer
During the 17th sent indentured servitude solved the labor probelm in many English colonies for all the following reasons EXCPET that
in some areas families formed too slowly
Inidian policy in ealry PEnn best described
NONE of these... benevoolent;influ mainly by state sup church; bad at 1st but improving later; harsh
According to Anne Hutchingson a dissenter in Mass. Bay
the truly saved need not bother to obey the laws of god or man
Roger Williams beliefs included all following EXCEOT
condeming the taking of Indian Land without fair compensation
Initially MAss Bay Colony enjoyed all following advantages EXCEPT
Reciving many fairly prosperous and edu immigrants
Cultivation of tobacco in Jamestown resulted in all the following EXCEPT
soaring prosperity in the colony
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Police have accused two Duncannon men of dumping an unconscious and intoxicated 14-year-old boy under a railroad bridge near the Susquehanna River on June 30. State police said the boy was under a bridge near Ann and Water streets for several hours before he was discovered by a person walking by the tracks just after 6:30 a.m.
The boy, who was taken to a hospital, had a blood-alcohol level of 0.23 percent, court records state. Police said the boy had been given vodka by Jesselee James Atwood, 18, of the first block of Susan Street, and Dustin Wade Black, 18, of the first block of Ann Street.
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A Forest Grove man was arrested and accused this afternoon of pointing a gun at three young boys who tried to cut across a gravel driveway on his property, the Forest Grove Police Department reported.
Shortly before 4:15 p.m., a woman called 9-1-1 and reported that a man pointed a gun at her son, a second-grader, in the 4300 block of 22nd Avenue, said Capt. Aaron Ashbaugh, a Forest Grove police spokesman. Police responded to the location, met with the mother, and learned that her 7-year-old son and his two friends, both of whom are 9 years old, had gotten off at the wrong bus stop in the neighborhood, Ashbaugh said.
The boys then tried to take a short cut across the driveway, and the man reportedly threatened them. He ordered them off his property and pointed a .22 caliber handgun toward the boys, Ashbaugh said. Police think that the gun was not loaded.
Officers talked to the man, whom they identified as Norman Allen VanDyke, 67, at his home, Ashbaugh said, and he was subsequently arrested on three counts of menacing. He was taken to the Washington County Jail.


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Police Chief Gray resigns
ARLINGTON After an executive session on "personnel issues" following the Monday night Arlington City Council meeting, Arlington Police Chief John Gray announced his resignation Tuesday morning, June 24.
The public and the press are not allowed in executive sessions to provide the Council to discuss confidential issues. Any action as a result of the executive session must be taken in public meetings.
The city's assistant administrator, Kristin Banfield, said Gray met with Mayor Margaret Larson Tuesday morning. Gray has been police chief in Arlington since 2001. His contract was due in October.
"We have mutually agreed to part ways," Banfield said. The city will start a search once the dust settles, she added.
"It's way too fresh at the moment," Banfield said Wednesday morning, June 25.
The city is working on an agreement with Gray and will likely take action at the next City Council meeting July 7.
"Unless we decide to have a special meeting during the June 30 workshop, in which case we will notify the public.
Lieutenant Terry Quintrall will be acting chief in the meantime, she said.
A source who spoke on condition of anonymity said that Gray went to his office and started packing before the executive session was complete Monday night. That source also said there had been a vote of "no confidence" by members of the police force, although Banfield denied that.
Banfield did confirm that two officers resigned from the department in recent months.
Gray did not return calls from The Arlington Times.
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In old itunes I could insert a CD, it would show up in itunes, I could join tracks and import. Now, in itunes 11.0.1 I insert CD, and it doesnt show up, AND I did go into preferences and tell itunes to SHOW CD. Any ideas? I
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I was having the same issue and found your post. Here is what worked for me. When you insert the CD and the do you want to import dialog comes up select no. Once you do that it comes up as a CD and allows you to join tracks under the Options menu then select Import and set your encode settings. Hope this helps.
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Thanks Doc. Only problem is I dont get the import dialog. I get nothing. The CD doesnt even show up in itunes. It does in FINDER but not itunes.
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- Last water release in New Mexico leaves farms at mercy of Mother Nature
- Groundwater offers help, but that could change
- From frying pan into the fire.
- Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District will release the last of its supplemental water supply July 1.
- All of New Mexico's reservoirs are running at historically low levels.
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As they suffer through a third year of extreme drought, farmers in the Middle Rio Grande basin of New Mexico are beginning to wonder why they call the great river there "grand" at all.
Last week the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District (MRGCD), the agency responsible for allocating irrigation water to farmers and ranchers in central New Mexico, announced it will release the last of its stored water reserves this week and warned rural residents and agriculture related businesses to expect reduced river flows in the days and perhaps weeks and months ahead.
The District manages the waters of the Rio Grande for a 150-mile stretch beginning at Cochiti Dam in the north to Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge in Socorro County. That stretch of river provides irrigation water to all agricultural users through a 1,200 mile system of irrigation canals and ditches that are opened or closed periodically to ensure every water user gets his fair share of the available resource –that is, until water supplies are depleted.
"We are truly at the mercy of Mother Nature now, and rain is our only option for increased water supply," said MRGCD Hydrologist David Gensler in a statement released last week.
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According to that statement, the Conservancy District will release the last of its supplemental water supply July 1. The District stores water in El Vado Reservoir in northern New Mexico and releases it at peak irrigation times to supplement the natural flow of the Rio Grande. The last of the supplemental water released from El Vado should reach mid-valley irrigators, depending upon their location, between July 3 and July 8.
The District began releasing supplemental water on May 21, earlier than normal because of low flow in the Rio Grande. Now that the supplemental water storage is exhausted, the District must rely on only the natural flow of the river.
"It will be vitally important for all irrigators to schedule their irrigation and share what water is available," Gensler added, warning that even river's natural flow is limited "until the rains return."
According to the District, the Bureau of Reclamation will be releasing water to benefit the endangered population of the Rio Grande silvery minnow, and a limited amount of water will be available to a number of New Mexico's Pueblo communities.
All eyes now look to the skies for lasting relief from the summer drought. July and August are historically the monsoon period in the mountains of New Mexico and southern Colorado. If the summer monsoons deliver adequate rain, runoff could help recharge over-used reservoirs and could mean additional water available to resume normal irrigation schedules through the end of the season.
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The 21st annual Kadel's Golf Classic brought 144 golfers to Langdon Farms Golf Club on June 10 and raised $28,000, including a $3,000 donation from Enterprise Rent-A-Car, for the Children's Cancer Association. Don Braden was event chairman
Milagro (Miracle Theatre Group) celebrated its 30th season of Latino arts and culture at "¡Feliz Cumpleaños, Milagro!" June 24 at El Zócalo in El Centro Milagro. Board president John Rodarte chaired the event, which drew 82 guests and raised $4,200 to support next season's artistic programming. Milagro's mission is "providing extraordinary Latino theatre, culture and arts education experiences for the enrichment of all communities."
The Festival of Arts & Wine, sponsored by the Benedictine monks at Mount Angel Abbey, drew a crowd of more than 400 people on June 24. The event raised $99,000 for the Abbey Foundation of Oregon, which supports the Abbey Guest House, Mount Angel Abbey Library and the monastery. Trustee Gene Dieringer was event chairman.
The National College of Natural Medicine's "Min Zidell Garden Gala" drew approximately 200 guests to the college campus on June 26. Susan Hunter, vice president of advancement, was chairwoman for the event, which honored The Portland Children's Museum, Tree for All Project, Grow Portland and Ingenuity Innovations. Assistant professor Marcus Miller, MD, ND; and president David J. Schleich co-hosted the gala, which was the final fundraising event of the year. Funds raised in 2014 totaled $275,000. NCNM is the oldest accredited naturopathic medical school in North America. A nonprofit medical school, it offers graduate medical degree programs in naturopathic medicine, classical Chinese Medicine, natural medicine research, nutrition and global health.
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The Baroque Orchestra of NJ will perform Ballet Music Music by Verdi and BEETHOVEN's Symphony #1. The orchestra will then be joined by pianist Paul Zeigler who will premiere his Piano Concerto.
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Below is a look at some excerpts of Carson's more than 20-minute speech; you can see President Barack Obama sitting near the podium Carson stood, listening to the entire speech. Carson appears to be a rising political star because of his comments.
Carson, however, hasn't confirmed or denied he's interested in running for president in 2016. Several media outlets and blogs have suggested that he could be a viable option for the Republican party because of his career accomplishments and stance on key issues like healthcare, tax reform and jobs.
Read some of Carson's transcribed speech excerpts and related topics below (courtesy of Lybio.net) or watch the video at the end of this post and let us know what you think about Carson's political potential in our comments section. He's a Detroit Southwestern and University of Michigan graduate who was raised by a single mother and reportedly struggled in school before he found his career path.
Video of Carson's speech, as of 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, generated 2,037,727 views on YouTube and 9,027 comments.
Political correctness
"The PC Police are out in force at all times. I remember once I was talking about the difference between a human brain and a dog's grain, and a man — and a dog's brain, and a man got offended. You can't talk about dogs like that. [laughter] People focus in on that, completely miss the point of what you're saying. [laughter] And we've reached reach the point where people are afraid to actually talk about what they want to say because somebody might be offended."
Education, family values
"My mother couldn't stand the fact that we were doing poorly in school, and she prayed and asked god to give her wisdom, what could she do to to to make her sons understand the importance of wisdom? God gave her wisdom. At least in her opinion. It was to turn off the TV, let us watch only two or three programs during the week, and read two books apiece and submit to her written book reports which she couldn't read, but we didn't know that. [laughter] She put check marks and highlights and stuff — [laughter] But, you know, I just hated this. And my friends were out having a good time. her friends would criticize her. they would say you can't make boys stay in the house reading books, they'll grow up and hate you. and i would overhear them and say, you know, mother, they're right. but she didn't care."
National deficit
"And one of our big problems right now, and like I said, I'm not politically correct, so I'm sorry, but you know – our deficit is a big problem. Think about it. And our National Debt – $16.5 Trillion dollars – you think that's not a lot of money? I'll tell you what! Count one number per second, which you can't even do because once you get to a thousand it will take you longer than a second, but…one number per second. You know how long it would take you to count to 16 Trillion? 507,000 years – more than a half a million years to get there. We have to deal with this."
Patriotism, political unity
"Now, what about the symbol of our Nation? The Eagle. The Bald Eagle. It's an intereting story how we chose that but a lot of people think we call it the bald eagle because it looks like it has a bald head. That's not the reason It comes from the Old English word Piebald, which means crowned with white. And we just shortened it to bald. Now, use that the next time you see somebody who thinks they know everything. You'll get 'em on that one. But, why is that eagle able to fly, high, forward? Because it has two wings: a left wing and a right wing. Enough said."
"What about our taxation system? So complex there is no one who can possibly comply with every jot and tittle of our tax system. If I wanted to get you, I could get you on a tax issue. That doesn't make any sense. What we need to do is come up with something that is simple."
Universal healthcare
"We need to have good health care for everybody. It's the most important thing that a person can have. Money means nothing, titles mean nothing when you don't have your health, but we've got to figure out efficient ways to do it. We spend a lot of money on health care, twice as much per capita as anybody in else in the world, and yet not very efficient. What can we do?
Here's my solution. When a person is born, give him a birth certificate, an electronic medical record and a health savings account [HSA], to which money can be contributed, pre-tax from the time you are born, to the time you die. When you die, you can pass it on to your family members so that when you're 85 years old and you've got 6 diseases, you're not trying to spend up everything. You're happy to pass it on and nobody is talking about death panels."
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Salo (short for Salomon) Flohr was born 1908 in Horodenka, which was in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Alas, 1908 was a bit close to WWI (which started in 1914), and when his parents were butchered during the war, Salo and his brother, suddenly orphans, successfully made their way to Czechoslovakia in 1916. They were accepted as war refugees, and the kindness of the Czechoslovakians allowed them to build a new life. Not everyone would recover from trauma of that magnitude, and this might explain why he had trouble with school and problems finding a "normal" profession.
Fortunately his true calling found him, and when he discovered chess it became yet another example of the love affair between man and chess pieces. Eventually he moved to Prague, where many cafés were filled with chess players. These cafés turned into his chess schools and his job, since he quickly realized that he had an amazing talent for blitz chess. Years passed, he became the monster of the cafés, he made a living from blitz bets, and he learned more and more about the game as time ticked by.
This bohemian lifestyle might have gone on forever, if a Czech journalist hadn't asked Flohr to come with him to a big international tournament (Kissingen) as an assistant. He accepted and found himself fascinated by the tournament atmosphere, but he did his job and pretty much stayed to himself. However, when the players would fill a local café to look at their games, he couldn't resist pointing out new ideas or improvements. Coming across an unknown who had such a deep understanding of chess is almost unheard of, and a buzz was created in the chess community.
Here's what the great Max Euwe had to say about Flohr's "outing" after the Kissingen event:
"A few weeks later a big tournament was held at Berlin; again Flohr was present as an assistant journalist, but this time he was no longer unknown. In the Café Konig, where the tournament was held, there was another room in which chess players regularly assembled. Every day, after lunch, a busy chess life developed, which only petered out, after strenuous struggles with the waiters, at about 3 AM. Mainly skittles were played, for money stakes. Here was something just to Flohr's taste! He came, he saw, he conquered; and within a few days everybody in the place, not excepting three or four of the competing masters, was in his debt. He was well known to all the masters by now, but another year elapsed before the international public got to know of him."
Flohr's first tournaments didn't have the nuclear bang that a Hollywood movie would create, but his initial results were nothing to be ashamed of.
Flohr was quickly getting used to tournament chess, and after taking a couple months off to figure out what he was doing right, and what was wrong, he finally achieved the desired results:
Now he wasn't just a player with talent but zero experience, he was a player with talent and SOME experience. And that small amount of experience, and the confidence he gained by winning those two events, came together when he was invited to play in a very strong tournament.
The rest of 1930 saw a mix of 1st, 2nd, and 3rd places. In 1928 he was a nobody, but by the beginning of 1931 (after a bit more than two years in tournaments) he was in the top 10 in the world. His results kept improving as he ironed out his openings, fine-tuned his pure positional style, and honed his endgame ability to perfection. And, of course, he gained more and more experience:
This was a very impressive result and showed he belonged among the world's elite. He followed it with:
All great players can attack, combine, play brilliant positional games, and smoke the opponent in the endgame. Though Flohr was known as a positional god, he could also mix it up, as the following game demonstrates!
Salo Flohr – Ludwig RellstabHastings, 1930-31
1.c4 c5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.g3 d5 4.cxd5 Nxd5 5.Bg2 Nc7 6.b3 e5 7.Bb2 Be7 8.Rc1 0-0 9.Na4 Nd7 10.Nf3 f6 11.Qc2 Ne6 12.Nh4!
The white knights make an odd impression – they create the illusion that White's position has wings!
12...Nb6 13.Nf5 Nxa4 14.bxa4 Rb8 15.f4 exf4 16.gxf4 Re8
Here's a puzzle:
17.Rg1 Bf8
And here we'll create another puzzle:
The next game shows the perfect blend between tactics and positional mastery. Each one supports the other.
Salo Flohr - Frederick YatesHamburg Olympiad, 1930
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 d5 4.Bg5 Be7 5.e3 Nbd7 6.cxd5 exd5 7.Bd3 0-0 8.Qc2 c6 9.Nf3 Re8 10.0-0 Nf8 11.a3 Ne4 12.Bxe7 Qxe7 13.Bxe4 dxe4 14.Nd2 Bf5 15.f3 Qg5 16.f4 Qe7 17.Ne2 Nd7 18.Ng3 Qf6 19.Nc4 Nb6 20.Ne5 Nd5 21.Rae1 Qe6 22.h3 Rad8 23.Nh1! (Starting a deep plan to tie Black's piece down to the defense of e4.)
23...f6 24.Nc4 Bg6 25.g4 Bf7 26.f5 Qe7 27.Nd2
27...Nb6 28.Ng3
28...Bd5 29.Rf4
29...Qc7 30.Kf2!
White sees that Black's pieces are passively posted when they have to babysit the e4-pawn. But if White takes that pawn too early, it would give Black some unearned activity.
We'll illustrate this with a puzzle:
How should Black play if White gets greedy with 30.Ngxe4?
30...Re7 31.h4 Rde8 32.g5
Black's e-pawn is a traitor that is killing the activity of his pieces. In the meantime, White builds a strong kingside attack.
32...Nd7 33.Rg1 Qc8 34.Ngxe4
White finally chops the e4-pawn, and Black's game. But he only does so since the knight on e4 is a tower of strength and directly aids the kingside attack.
34...fxg5 35.hxg5 Qb8
We'll finish with a puzzle:
And on and on it went, mixing mostly good results with a few sub-par moments. Highlights:
In 1933 Flohr won several matches against solid opposition, but the real test was a 12-game match against no less a player than Botvinnik! The score was tied 6-6.
Here's a very instructive position from the Flohr – Botvinnik match. It's always been a personal favorite of mine:
The position seems to be good for White since Black's knight is dead and Black's c-pawn is under pressure while his queenside pawn majority seems frozen. If Black ever plays ...c6-c5 then, after White replies with b5, the d5-square will be a magnificent home for the bishop. What can Black do?
Flohr was at the top of his game at this point, and he was clearly in the top 5. Then something huge occurred:
He followed this with:
Salo Flohr | Image Wikipedia, taken from the match book Botvinnik - Flohr, Moscow 1933
And now we will come to a sharp STOP!
Why didn't this man get to play a match for the World Championship? What happened to deprive him of his place in history as an all-time great? He was loved in Czechoslovakia, he was dominating the world chess scene, he was young, talented, and he was clearly very, very strong.
When one considers that Flohr had drawn matches with two of Alekhine's main rivals (Euwe and Botvinnik), and come ahead of both Alekhine and Capablanca in tournaments, the mystery appears to be even stranger.
The answer certainly couldn't be found in his personal life – things were going very well for Flohr. He had just gotten married, and he was a rock star in Czechoslovakia! His name was on everyone's lips and, like businesses today, if a name is big, a wise company MUST use it to advertise their product(s)! And so Salo Flohr perfumes and scents, Salo Flohr cigarettes (he didn't smoke!), Salo Flohr collars, and even Salo Flohr slippers were hot products in Czechoslovakia.
So, what could possibly cause Flohr, the golden boy, to fail? The answer comes in two parts:
Reason One
Remember me saying that after Flohr's parents were murdered in WWI, "not everyone would recover from a trauma of that magnitude." Now imagine this man, a refugee during WWI, seeing Nazi-Germany rumbling about taking territory from the nation that took him in during WWI (Czechoslovakia) – this picked up steam in 1935 and 1936. Flohr, a Jew, had to be freaking out as a new war was brewing (Fascist Italy invaded and conquered Ethiopia in 1935/36 and German and Italy signed a treaty of cooperation on October 25, 1936).
It was no surprise when FIDE (which was founded in 1924), in 1937, nominated Flohr as the official candidate to play Alekhine in a match for the World Championship. Unfortunately, Flohr wasn't the only person who saw war clouds on the horizon. It turned out that investors were impossible to find, and so all thoughts of the match were tossed away.
From this point on, his results became less and less consistant:
After 47...Kf6 48.Kd4 Ke6 49.Kc5 Kd7 50.Kb6 Rb8+ we reach a puzzle position.
Should White take on a6 via 51.Kxa6, go deeper with 51.Ka7, or retreat and reset with 51.Kc6?
In the game Black played 52...Kc6. How would White deal with 52...Kc7?
Reason Two
Would Flohr have beaten Alekhine (who was no longer near his peak)? Probably not, due to something most people aren't aware of. Here's what Euwe wrote in his book, Meet the Masters:
"…we must also recall that he has never scored great successes against his fellow grandmasters. His specialty is beating masters who are not quite in the very top rank, and in this he is supreme. Even when scoring his greatest successes his record has been, almost monotonously, a series of wins against lower players but draws against fellow grandmasters."
Is that true? Let's take a look:
Then came the famous AVRO Tournament, one of the strongest events of all time. In this tournament there were no weak players, and when you add in the fact that Europe was on the verge of war (meaning Flohr was in full tilt!), his beyond bad result was understandable:
Euwe's view seems vindicated. Of course, Flohr did win quite a few games against the world's best, just not as many as one would expect from a World Championship candidate.
Fearing that he was going to die at the hands of the Nazis, he and his family eventually made their way to the safety of Moscow (with help from Botvinnik!). Now he was a refugee again, and his style became more cautious than ever. And, unfortunately, he gave up all aspirations for the World Championship. However, his play improved and he had some good results:
Not bad at all, but returning to Euwe's idea that Flohr drew the good players and beat the bad ones, we can see more support of it here:
Flohr's "beat the weak players and draw the strong ones" mentality wouldn't bode well in a match against a dynamo like Alekhine. To make a prime Flohr's chances against Alekhine even dimmer is the fact that he was never able to win a game off of Alekhine (5 wins for Alekhine, none for Flohr, and 7 draws). True, Alekhine had never won a game off of Capablanca when he took the title from the Cuban genius. But I don't see Flohr doing the same thing to Alekhine –different personalities, different styles. Nevertheless, Flohr deserved a chance to try, and it was taken from him by the fickle winds of fate.
Unlike the unfortunate Zukertort and Spielmann, whose lives ended badly, Flohr continued to play (less and less frequently... as the years went by, chess journalism took precedence over chess combat) into the late 1960s. He died peacefully in Moscow in 1983.
I'll end this article with two more puzzles for those that love brutal mates:
The flohr of yore! Thanks for the article @Silman
Excellent article! Thank you Mr Silman!
I was curious about this Sir Georges Thomas who won Hastings 1934-35 with Flohr and Euwe ahead of Capa and Botvinnik, seeminglhy out of nowhere... Could you please tell us more about this gentleman?
excellent article!
Excellent articles! Keep them coming please!
Great article (again). Just a small tip - there never was a nation of Czechoslovakians. Czechs or Slovaks. Just a little cultural thing. Neither would be happy being called that.
Thanks for these articles about the masters of the past. With much information !
I love chess history presented the way mr. Silman does it. Thank you and Im looking forward for more!
P.S. Do you think Vidmar is in that class of players that you could wrote some article about? :)
Thank you for such a good article/information dissemination.
Awesome article hope there's some more like this
Extremly informativ ! The 30's of past century are like a bridge between Titans (Lasker, Capa, Alechin) and new generation (Botvinnik, Fine, Keres, etc) then the II war; Titans died, new genaration of chess players was shattered ... some recover some not. I think that reason Two cannot be confirmed - there was not enough time before war to check if Flohr could compete with others on the highest level - Avro was just one tournament. WAR is the only factor thats matter - both wars put scares on chess history, and both took their victims. I would love to see Rubinstein playing with Capablanca if there was no war. I would love to see Avro 1939, 1940 ...if there was no war.
Sweet and beautiful. Another excellent story from the golden era of chess. Silman, please tell us a story about Tartakower...thank you..
Thanks again for such a wonderful article IM Silman.
"Czechoslovak" as a dweller of the Czechoslovakia country was a perfectly normal term. Like "Austro-Hungarian" before 1918 - nobody mixed up Austrians and Hungarians as nations, but Austro-Hungary was the official country name.
And, if you're so intent on historical correctness - they fled to Bohemia in 1916 and then lived in Czechoslovakia after the coutry was formed in 1918.
very good article thank you to inform us so well
I never realized how strong he had been, excellent article! Something on Charusek next?
In his 1938 article, Flohr wrote that he and Alekhine even signed a formal agreement, and the match was to take place in Czechoslovakia in Autumn 1939.
The Nazis, sadly, had other plans.
I looked up the crosstable for AVRO 1938. Yep, he didn't do very well there; it was a very strong field. Sounds like Euwe's observation was spot on.
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Committee on Work and Pensions
London: TSO, 2006 (House of Commons papers, session 2005/06; HC 616)
The committee comments on the government's proposals for the reform of Incapacity Benefit and the national roll out of the Pathways to Work initiative. While they congratulate the government on some of the messages and targets within the proposed reforms, the Committee expresses concern about the lack of funding for the changes and suggests that without adequate resources targets will be difficult to achieve. They also complain that the proposals are short on detail and risk creating an impenetrable bureaucratic maze.
L. Platt
Journal of Social Policy, vol.35, 2006, p.391-410
This article uses administrative data to explore benefit dynamics for children in Birmingham from January 1998 to June 1999. It confirms previous research findings with regard to extensive sub-annual moves on to and off means-tested benefits. It reiterates the increased risk of longer spells on benefit associated with income support receipt, lone parenthood and living in local authority housing. However, it has also developed existing research in three ways. Firstly, it has looked at the experience of children across both couple and lone parent families, focusing on the experience of the child rather than that of the family as a whole. Secondly, it has investigated moves back onto benefits as well as exits, thus capturing characteristics associated with the risk of repeat spells on benefit as well as those associated with longer spells. Finally, it has included the effect of ethnic group, making it the first study of British benefit dynamics to identify ethnic differences in risks.


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Getting out our cracked crystal ball and looking ahead to the Major League Baseball season ...
Three Teams Trending Up
1. Washington. The Nationals recall the 2008 Phillies; a young team coming off a playoff disaster with a dominant lineup, a deep and awesomely talented pitching staff and a veteran manager who knows how to win. There's not a team in baseball that wouldn't trade their five starting pitchers for Washington's and not many that wouldn't do so with the starting lineup, from which the Nats could get 120 homers and 60 steals from the middle of their order of another Phillies reminder, Jayson Werth, plus Ryan Zimmerman, 2012 NL Rookie of the Year Bryce Harper and Adam LaRoche.
2. Kansas City. Yeah, you've heard this one before in April, but if the Royals can stay healthy and their young starting staff follows the lead of newly acquired James Shields they should be in the wild-card hunt behind a terrific bullpen and a power-plus lineup that should get 15 homers from eight spots in the order.
3. Toronto. On paper this is the second- or third-best team in the American League but one wonders about chemistry after so many new acquisitions and adding such egotists as Jose Reyes and Melky Cabrera. But the starting pitching, led by R.A. Dickey, Mark Buehrle and Josh Johnson, is so good it may carry the Jays to their first pennant in 20 years.
Three Teams Trending Down
1. New York Yankees. The Yanks will have one of the best bullpens in baseball and a fairly decent starting staff, but their once-powerful lineup is in tatters, the team is aging before its fans' eyes and injuries are a matter of when, not if. The Yankees could lose 85 games.
2. Houston. How much further down can the already awful Astros go? A lot. General Manager Jeff Luhbow has done what few GMs dare these days: acknowledged that things are bad, the team needs a complete reconstruction and things will get worse before they get better. Moving to the loaded AL West doesn't help. Houston might lose 120 games.
3. New York Mets. No Dickey. No Johan Santana. Shaky bullpen. Plodding lineup. The Amazins may be amazingly bad.
Safest bet in the sport
Pittsburgh's streak of consecutive losing seasons will become old enough to drink at 21. The Pirates are not horrible, but they did little to get better in the offseason -- Russell Martin will help at catcher, though -- and field a lineup with a lot of one-dimensional players aside from the marvelous Andrew McCutchen. Also, there's no more Houston in the NL Central for almost-free wins.
Player whose name you don't know now but will by August
Adeiny Hechavarria, shortstop, Miami. The next Ozzie Smith?
Unwelcome anniversary
Wrigley Field will turn 100 next April and will almost certainly still never have seen the hometown win a World Series. If the Cubs don't finish last in the NL Central, it will be a miracle. GM Theo Epstein has stockpiled some young talent but it won't change this season. Wait 'till next year. Again.
Pickups of the year
B.J. Upton and Justin Upton to Atlanta. Instant energy for a Braves offense that needed some. If these two play to their talent, Atlanta is not far behind Washington.
Smart trade of the year
Also Atlanta -- shipping Tommy Hanson to the Angels for righty reliever Jordan Walden. More strength for the best bullpen in baseball.
Manager who'll need to be as good as he was last season
Robin Ventura, who somehow kept an incomplete and strikeout-heavy Chicago White Sox team in contention until late September. If he does that again with the Sox, who are again fundamentally flawed and lack depth, he should be the manager of the year.
Peerless Predictions
American League
AL East: Tampa Bay
AL Central: Detroit
AL West: Los Angeles
Wild cards: Kansas City, Texas
MVP: Miguel Cabrera, Detroit
Cy Young: Justin Verlander, Detroit
First manager fired: Joe Girardi, New York
National League
NL East: Washington
NL Central: St. Louis
NL West: San Francisco
Wild cards: Atlanta, Cincinnati
MVP: B.J. Upton, Atlanta
Cy Young: Clayton Kershaw, Los Angeles
First manager fired: Bud Black, San Diego
The 2013 World Series will be won by ...
Washington, in six games over Detroit. First World Series champ since 1925 in our nation's capital. Stephen Strasburg will be to this team what the great ace Walter Johnson, to my mind the greatest pitcher of all time, was to that one.
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USS Abraham Lincoln leaves Naval Station Everett for the last time | SLIDESHOW
EVERETT — Compared to the crowds who had cheered their return just a few months ago, relatively few families stood on the pier to say farewell to their sailors, since most had already said their goodbyes before that point.
Still, it was no small number of siblings, parents, spouses and other loved ones who marked the final departure of USS Abraham Lincoln from Naval Station Everett by braving the cold rain to see the ship pull out of port on the morning of Wednesday, Dec. 7.
Marysville's Lakey Malan shared laughter with a couple of Naval Station Everett sailors with whom she's become friends in the three years since her brother, Adam Taylor, has served on board the Lincoln.
"This was his first and only duty station in the Navy," Malan said. "It was great, because he got to spend so much time at home with the family. We were even able to take in other sailors who were further away from their homes during the holidays. It was nice just to be able to have him around as often as I did to give him hugs."
Taylor will soon be departing the fleet to start college, so Malan won't be missing him for too long, but she regrets the bonds that she'll be losing with her brothers' shipmates.
"I've made a lot of friends on that ship that I'll probably never see again," Malan said. "We became like family. We were there for each other, to the point that you could call each other at 3 in the morning and know that you'd do whatever for each other. It's hard when you get attached like that."
Navy wives Shannon Huff and Danielle Sawicki also made Marysville their home while their husbands served on board the Lincoln. While Huff was an Oregon native who was well acclimated to the Pacific Northwest, Sawicki came from New York, but both agreed that the local community made them feel right at home.
"It was so supportive and welcoming," Sawicki said.
"This is a very military-friendly area," Huff said.
The Lincoln had just returned to Everett this March, and Huff lamented that she would again be missing her husband, Mitchell, over the holidays, especially since they have a newborn baby, the family's first child. Sawicki joked that she and her husband, Phil, only have a dog as their "child." While Sawicki will soon be moving to Virginia, where the Lincoln will be home-ported after it completes its routine deployment, Huff isn't sure how long her husband will have to be a "geographic bachelor" before she can join him.
"It's the Navy, and it is what it is," Huff said. "You have a couple of days of sad, then you buck up, deal with it and move on."
"As a Navy wife, you kind of know what you're signing up for, but it's never easy," Sawicki said. "It's for the greater good, though."
Naval Station Everett Executive Officer Cmdr. Dan Limberg was on the pier to see the Lincoln off, and noted that the transition between the Lincoln and its replacement, the USS Nimitz, which he anticipated would arrive around February of next year, is more complex than civilians might realize.
"We've got a lot of Lincoln families who are still living in the area, waiting for when their sailors get orders to somewhere else," Limberg said. "I'm sure we'll see a lot of them coming back to the area as they get opportunities to serve on the Nimitz. We've also got some Nimitz families who are already living in the area, both on base and out in the community. Either way, the community's support makes a big difference. This is some of the best community support I've seen in 23 years."
Marysville Mayor Jon Nehring reflected on how much the Lincoln has meant to his city since the carrier's arrival in 1997.
"Lincoln families are a significant segment of our community's population, for reasons ranging from affordable housing and a family-friendly culture to proximity to both Naval Station Everett and the Commissary/PX in north Marysville," Nehring said. "Sailors aboard the Lincoln and their families have contributed in so many positive ways to the social and cultural fabric of Marysville, and we are a better community because of their contributions."
"It has been a joy to have the families of the USS Lincoln in our community," Arlington Mayor Margaret Larson said. "These sailors and their families have given much of themselves to help make Arlington a better place. We will truly miss each and every one of them. At the same time, we are excited to build similar partnerships with the families of the USS Nimitz."
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Cicero, NY -- Christmas came early for the Rumo family this year.
After a two-year long process, Paul and Julie Rumo's adoption of three brothers from Haiti — Kenzie, Kenson and Kenley — became official in Family Court in Syracuse Thursday morning.
"It's the best Christmas present ever," Julie Rumo said, as friends and family gathered in the courtroom. When Judge Michael Hanuszczak signed each child's paperwork and declared them an official Rumo, the room erupted in applause and cheers.
The Rumos, who live in Cicero, were working to adopt the boys when an earthquake devastated Haiti in January. The Rumos feared the boys were hurt and spent hours waiting before they heard the boys were alive. The Rumos next went to work to get permission to bring them home.
Finally, the adoption was cleared and the boys flew to the United States on Feb. 9.
"It's been a long journey," Julie Rumo said. "I don't have to worry at night anymore. What if something happens to us, what will happen to them? There's a lot less worry now that the adoption is final."
Two years ago, Paul and Julie Rumo decided that they wanted to adopt a child to add to their family. The couple has two children, Zach, 18 and Emily, 17.
Paul Rumo said they wanted to adopt brothers, over the age of 3, but they were open-minded. They received information on Kenzie and Kenson – twins who are now 5-year-old - and Kenley, who is 4. Paul Rumo said he knew instantly that they were the perfect matches for the Rumo family.
"I tell people they choose us because I saw their picture and I knew right then that they were ours," he said. "It's been amazing."
When the boys arrived they were underweight. Kenson weighed about 35 pounds and today he is about 48 pounds and he has grown 6 inches in 10 months. Kenzie, the older twin by 5 minutes, weighed about 30 pounds; today he weighs 42 pounds and has grown 5 inches. Kenley was 30 pounds and now weighs 42 pounds and has grown 3 inches.
"It's almost like having triplets on our hands," Paul Rumo said.
Something else that's tripled has been the family's grocery bill.
In the orphanage in Port-au-Prince, where the boys lived since November 2008, the boys ate three small meals a day. They had spaghetti for breakfast; rice and beans for lunch; and oatmeal for dinner. Today, eating is the boys favorite thing to do, Julie Rumo said.
"In the beginning it was four or five staple items, rice beans, pasta or oatmeal," she said. "Now they will eat anything you give them. They like certain things, but they will eat anything."
The boys said they like smoothies, Chicken McNuggets and fries from McDonalds and Chinese rice from Wegmans.
"It seems like were always cooking," Paul Rumo said. "And they're always hungry."
When the boys first arrived they did not speak English. The Rumos used a Creole-to-English dictionary to communicate with them. The Rumos knew about 20 words in Creole and they taught the boys how to speak English.
"It used to be a lot quieter here," Paul Rumo said. "The boys were fluent in English by June. Everyday they just get better and better."
The boys don't speak Creole anymore, but the family has tried to keep the boys aware of their culture, including enrolling them in an African dance class.
Kenson and Kenzie are in half-day kindergarten in the North Syracuse Central School District and Kenley attends half-day preschool in North Syracuse.
"I like to go to the gym and library a lot," Kenson said. He said he also likes to read.
The boys have three very different personalities, Paul Rumo said. Kenson is the athlete, Kenzie is the talker and Kenley is the "antagonizer."
"Who gets in trouble the most?" Paul Rumo asked his family and everyone pointed at Kenley as he smiled and raised his hand.
The past 10 months have been a whirlwind for the family. Everything the boys do is new to them. Kenley had his first birthday party in June and the three boys have been on family vacations to New York City and the beach in North Carolina.
"I'm just amazed at how far we've come in the journey and to finally put it to rest is wonderful," Paul Rumo said. "We waited to see what the government was going to do and we waited for the paperwork to come in from Haiti. Now it's finally here."
Julie Rumo chronicled the family's adoption journey on a blog, rumofamily.com, and the family has received financial support from people across the country.
"We didn't see ourselves at this place," Julie Rumo said. "That's why I tell everyone to consider adoption. If you aren't actually bringing children into your home, then consider supporting those who are because adoption is incredibly costly and it's incredibly emotionally draining."
The Rumos said they couldn't have done it without the support from their family, friends, community members and their church, Liverpool Community Church. The family will celebrate the finalization of the adoption with the community at 6 p.m. Monday at the church, 800 4th St., Liverpool.
"I sit back and say 'should we have done this' and when I look at these guys, I would have it no other way," Paul Rumo said. "They fit our family perfectly. The sarcasm, the sense of humor, the attitudes, the amount of food that they eat, they just fit perfectly in our family."


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First impression on unpacking the Q702 test unit was the solid feel and clean, minimalist styling.
For work use, Microsoft Word and Excel programs pre-installed on the device are adequate for preparing short documents.
The Fujitsu LifeBook UH574 allowed for great mobility without being obnoxiously heavy or clunky. Its twelve hours of battery life did not disappoint.
The screen was particularly good. It is bright and visible from most angles, however heat is an issue, particularly around the Windows button on the front, and on the back where the battery housing is located.
My first impression after unboxing the Q702 is that it is a nice looking unit. Styling is somewhat minimalist but very effective. The tablet part, once detached, has a nice weight, and no buttons or switches are located in awkward or intrusive positions.


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Harrisburg City Islander fans will have plenty to cheer about this fall and winter. Numerous current/former Isles Guys have signed to play in the newly formed NISL. As you know, you will be able to follow all the action here on the blog. Pierce, Kern, Lookingland, and Bascome will all be back with the Baltimore Blast for 2008-09. Add to that the fact that Ryan Heins just re-signed with the KiXX and we have quite a few guys to watch and feed our soccer fix this winter.
The season gets started for the Blast in mid-November and their opponent for the home opener is not yet finalized. The Orlando Sharks decided not to compete in the NISL this season so the schedule that was set a few weeks ago has to be revised. However, it may end up working out ok as the league is looking at adding another team (possibly from Springfield Mass.) to even out the slate.
You can read more about this on the Baltimore Sun website. The league will feature the Philadelphia KiXX, Monterrey LaRaza (Mexico), Baltimore Blast, Rockford Rampage, and possibly one more team. Rumor has it that the teams may play exhibition friendly matches with other teams from Mexico and maybe even teams from the XSL (ie. Detroit, New Jersey, etc.). I think friendly matches with XSL teams would be neat. No matter who they play, I am excited for the 2008-09 Blast season to get started. Watch the blog for more info coming soon...
Photos from last year
Here are some cool photos I found from last season. Soon we will have pics from the new season and the new league.
CLICK HERE to see Dave Kern celebrating the championship.
CLICK HERE to see David Bascome in action
CLICK HERE to see Pierce heading over to celebrate after a goal.


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BirthPlace: Placentia
Year as a Power Player: 1st
Occupation: Grad student at CSUF studying Kinesiology
Career Goal: Become a professor for Kinesiology
Why did you want to become a Power Player? Hockey is my all-time favorite sport and not only have I played It for 11 years, but at my first Ducks game, I saw the Power Players on the ice and knew I wanted to be one of them.
What are you most looking forward to this season? Beating the Kings and watching all of their fans walk silently out of the arena after the game.
What's your most memorable Ducks moment? J.S. Giguere winning the Conn Smythe in 2003.
Favorite part about hockey: The intensity. There is constantly something going on every second, and there is never a dull moment.
If you played hockey, what position would you want to play? I do play hockey and I've played all positions (forward, defense, goalie, and even coach). But I mostly am a forward.
What do you in your free time? When I do have free time, I love to watch sports, work out, and go karaoking.
What's something unique about you that most people don't know? I like to participate in pie-eating contests. And I win.
Describe your personal style: I feel I'm a practical dresser, but I love to accessorize. Cool tones are usually my color palette because they complement my skin, hair and eyes. I also like my feet to be free. Sandals on every occasion except Vegas, workouts, and snow.
What do you do to stay fit? I love to play sports so I do that to be physically active. I also just love running, biking, and rebelling against convenience.
What are some of the most played songs on your iPod? "You and I" by Lady Gaga, just because it is my ab workout song.
What are three things that you cannot live without? My family, friends and sports.
Biggest pet peeve: People texting and walking. I've learned to just stop and let them run into me.
Guilty pleasure: I like to rap Eminem.
Go-to karaoke song: "You Oughtta Know" by Alanis Morrissette or "Love the Way You Lie" by Eminem.
#1 bucket list item is: Go skydiving in Australia.
Favorite sport to play: Hockey, hands down.
Favorite season: Winter because I love the cold weather.
Favorite Holiday: Christmas! I love going shopping and buying people gifts.
Favorite place in Orange County: Not the 91 freeway. Probably the hills in Orange. I love going on trail runs and looking at the view of Orange County with the beach in the distance.
Favorite movie of all time: I can't pick just one all-time favorite movie, but I can quote "Matilda" word for word from watching it as a kid.


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Of all the ways to divvy up brushless DC motor designs, one important one boils down to their fundamental layout. Axial models offer a simple construction and can be designed to produce lots of torque, while rotary motors have a familiar form factor working for them. Now, a truly new motor design from NovaTorque Inc. reconciles these mutually exclusive design approaches.
When I tell people weve come up with a new kind of electric motor, they react with disbelief, but we have. Its an axial motor with the absolute form factor of a rotary motor, says John Petro, NovaTorques president.
NovaTorque pulled off that feat with what Petro describes as a simple trick. Rather than the usual two-dimensional interface between the rotors and field poles, the new motor design uses an opposing pair of magnetic conical rotors, which it creates by mounting magnets on steel cone structures produced in a low-cost powder metallurgy process. The cones, in turn, are attached to the motor shaft.
This strategy addresses one of the key shortcomings associated with axial designs while preserving their intrinsic efficiency. As Petro explains, a traditional axial motors steel wont saturate at the flux levels put out by weak, low-cost magnets. That forces motor designers to either upgrade to powerful but pricey magnets or accept a reduction in performance.
In NovaTorque motors, however, the conical structures act as flux concentrators by increasing the surface area between the rotor and the pole face. This increase allows the motor designer to optimize the magnetic flux density in the field poles and bump up the air gap area for gains in efficiency and torque output, according to Robert Rogenmoser, NovaTorque chief operating officer.
Angles on the cone can vary as NovaTorque tailors the designs to different applications. A 30 percent angle, for example, would double the surface area and the flux density. Its pure geometry, says Rogenmoser.
At the same time, the cones' shape still preserves the straight flux path that helps axial motors avoid efficiency-threatening flux leakage. And the conical sections also allow the motors to be wound with no end-turn copper, a significant source of both I2R losses and added copper cost in rotary motors. All the resistance in the end-turn copper is waste, says Rogenmoser. The design also does away with the back irons that also contribute to further losses in rotary designs.
NovaTorques models and measured benchmarking studies show significant efficiency gains from going conical. Figures vary depending on the point of comparison on different torque-speed curves, but Petro says overall efficiency improvements can exceed 10 percent, a huge figure in the motor world and one that has implications for motor sizing, thermal performance and even design flexibility. Efficiency is the root of all motor trade-offs, Petro says. The motors also shine in the power density department. Petro says they have at least a 100 percent power-density advantage over induction motors and a 50 percent edge over conventional permanent magnet motors.
NovaTorque functions as a development company and plans to license its motor designs. The company does, however, have a pilot production plant capable of producing motors up to about 60 mm, or about 1 hp, for a range of applications in HVAC, appliances and more. The company is also modeling much larger motors, up to a couple hundred hp, for use in electric vehicles.


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Tickets are still available for the opportunity to ride with the AeroShell Aerobatic Team when it performs at the upcoming SUN 'n FUN International Fly-in and Expo at Lakeland Linder Regional Airport (KLAL) in Florida. The raffle drawing is a fundraiser for Angel Flight Southeast, which provides free air transportation for patients who need far-from-home medical care. [Read more…]
Breitling supports Angel Flight Northeast
Swiss watch company Breitling has donated $100,000 to Angel Flight Northeast (AFNE), a nonprofit organization that schedules free air transportation for patients who need to access life-saving medical care that is not readily available to them due to their geographic location and who lack the financial resources to travel commercially to receive treatment or diagnosis.
Angel Flight South Central to relocate HQ
DALLAS — Angel Flight South Central (AFSC) will relocate its corporate headquarters to Ambassador Jet Center at Dallas Executive Airport.
Run For The Angels 5K slated at ORL April 19
The Orlando Executive Airport will host its fourth annual "Run for the Angels 5K" on April 19. All proceeds will benefit Angel Flight Southeast, [Read more…]
Angel Flight gives cancer patient altitude
Providing an extra lift for cancer patients has become the focus of one flight school in Victoria, Texas. The airplanes at Calhoun Air Center are mostly used to train new pilots, but the school is now allowing local pilots access to its planes for transporting patients, at the cost of fuel only.
Run for the Angels 5K slated
The second annual Run for the Angels 5K will take place April 5 at Orlando Executive Airport (ORL) in Florida. All proceeds will benefit Angel Flight Southeast, which, for more than 25 years, has been providing free air transportation for children and adults with medical or humanitarian needs.
Angel Flight Southeast to host Texas Hold'em tournament at Sun 'n Fun
Angel Flight Southeast, which coordinates free air transportation for children and adults with medical or compelling humanitarian needs, will host a charity Texas Hold'em Tournament March 31 during the Sun 'n Fun airshow in Lakeland, Florida.
WOWK reports on charity flight challenges
WOWK, a CBS-affiliate in West Virginia, is another in a long line of mainstream media outlets pointing out the challenges (both current or potential) of "new costs and regulations for general aviation flights could put programs like Angel Flight in jeopardy." Read the full story at the WOWK website.


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Someday soon, the FBI might investigate you. Quietly. Covertly. Unofficially. You wouldn't even know it. No one but the agent would.
Suspicion or probable cause would be unnecessary. There would be no need to prove to superiors or a judge that you're a threat or a criminal. There would be no one looking over the agent's shoulder, literally or figuratively. There would be no paper trail, because, the FBI says, filing paperwork is such a hassle.
Just an agent at a computer, prying into your business, possibly for no reason.
Maybe he believes you're guilty of a crime or that you're hanging out with dangerous types, or maybe he's angry because you're dating his ex-wife.
And if the agent doesn't find anything in commercial and criminal data bases, rummaging through your trash is okay, too. No permission needed for that, either.
Does that give you the willies? It should.
"But," you say, "I haven't broken any laws. I'm a law-abiding, tax-paying American. Why would the FBI dig for dirt on me?"
That's easy: Because it can.
The FBI is rewriting its rules and broadening its authority – it says it doesn't need permission – and the latest power play will make it easier for the agency to investigate innocent people and push the envelope on privacy. Without the need for paperwork, abuses will be nearly impossible to detect.
The agency says streamlining rules will help it move faster. Paperwork (and creating a paper trail) just slows agents down. The FBI's general counsel called the modifications merely "fine-tuning."
It's more than that.
Here are a couple of examples: Today, when the FBI wants to investigate someone, an agent must open an "inquiry" before checking a data base. Under the new rules, soon to be enacted, agents can search databases without creating that paperwork.
Under current rules, agents can't administer a lie-detector test or rummage through someone's trash unless a "preliminary investigation" is opened. That requires some evidence for suspicion of illegal activity. The new rules relax that requirement. Agents will dumpster-dive at will.
Scary stuff.
More scary stuff: The FBI does not need permission to alter its rules as long as the new policies fit within broad guidelines issued by the attorney general. The agency insists the new rules conform. Still, to calm fears, FBI officials say the agency has carefully weighed each change and possible abuses.
Don't worry, they say. We would never misuse these powers.
Does that make you feel better? It shouldn't. Because in 2007, an inspector general found that the FBI had frequently abused "national security letters," which allow agents to obtain information, like phone records, without a court order.
A 2010 Justice Department report revealed that the FBI wasted time and resources while improperly investigating political activists when the agency should've been targeting real threats.
Earlier this month, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) said security agencies often use liberal interpretations of the Patriot Act, then conveniently classify those interpretations so they cannot be challenged.
Congress must examine closely the FBI and the rule changes. Given the agency's history, more oversight is needed, not less. If the attorney general refuses to yank the leash, then Congress must.
"It's troubling," said Mike German, a former FBI agent, now senior policy counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union in Washington, D.C. "Every time there has been an opportunity for oversight at the FBI, it's been watered down or eliminated."
Law-enforcement officials ask: What's the big deal? Agents already have data bases at their fingertips. True, but given the FBI's past abuses, a paper trail to trace their actions is a minimum.
Security agencies are charged with keeping us safe, but they can't forget that it's also in our national interest to protect American freedoms and values.


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OCC Lip Tar/RTW ($15.00 for 0.14 fl. oz.) is a new way to get your Lip Tar delivered to you, as it is packaged in a clear tube with a doe-foot applicator, instead of a squeeze-tube that requires a lip brush. I figured I would try two shades that I found more challenging to apply, and then two shades that applied quite well to see if the doe-foot really helped for application/delivery of the product. From the four I tried, I don't think that the doe-foot deposits too much in general, but Black Dahlia's very liquid, almost runny formula makes it hard to apply, period–marginally easier than the squeeze-tube but a brush would still be better. I think they are more foolproof to apply with the doe-foot applicator.Read Full Review
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Lip Tar / RTW ($15.00)
An all-new way to experience LIP TAR, our cult-classic liquid lipstick. Presenting: LIP TAR / RTW! Housed in a cylindrical tube that features a user-friendly doe foot applicator, the same innovative formula and dynamic color of Lip Tar is now combined with an all new, easy-to-use applicator that promises to make this a must-have liquid lipstick that beauty lovers everywhere will keep reaching for! Lip Tar is now ready to wear. 25 SKUs | .14 fl oz/4ml.
- Anita
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- John Doe
- Hollywood
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- Digitalis
- Femme
- Grandma
- Queen
- Memento
- Hush
- Black Dahlia
- Black Metal Dahlia
- Stalker
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- Technopagan
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- Belladonna
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Availability: August 14th at OCC, Beautylish, and Nordstrom
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OCC Cosplay and John Doe Lip Tars
OCC Cosplay Lip Tar ($18.00 for 0.33 fl. oz.) is described as a "teal-toned green." It's a muted, medium-dark green with very subtle, cool undertones and a satin finish. It had rich pigmentation that covered the lips evenly and smoothly without turning patchy/streaky, which is what I have found many green-based shades suffer from in the past. The color sits in lip lines slightly, but it didn't seem to worsen during wear. It wore for seven and a half hours and left behind a bluish stain. It is mint scented, like other Lip Tars, and it was a little drying towards the end. Colour Pop Bunny (P, $5.00) is darker, more shimmery, warmer. Colour Pop Charm (P, $5.00) is lighter. NYX Risque (P, $6.00) is darker, more shimmery. See comparison swatches / compare dupes side-by-side.Read Full Review
5 Yellow-Orange Eyeshadows for Summer
It used to be hard to find a more yellow-based orange (most of the orange-hued eyeshadows would have a strong red base), but now, there is more variety than other. I think that yellow-toned oranges can sometimes be easier to wear if you're new to orange eyeshadow! Here are some of my current favorites:
- Burberry Shell — a shimmery, golden orange
- ColourPop Sunnies — a pop of yellowed orange with a satin finish
- Makeup Geek Chickadee — a yellowed, medium orange with a matte finish
- OCC Mimosa — a shimmering tangerine
- Milani Bella Mandarin — a muted, yellowed orange
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- Cha Cha Pale tangerine (Matte)
- Femme True baby pink (Matte)
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- Cha Cha Pale tangerine
- Femme True baby pink
- Belladonna Ultra violet
- Cosplay Teal-toned green
- John Doe Pale ash-toned taupe
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Availability: June 1st on www.occmakeup.com, as well as Beauty.com, Beautylish, and Nordstrom
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5 Shades of Yellow & Orange Eyeshadow for Spring
I was inspired by reader Dusty's question about what was my favorite bright yellow eyeshadow to compile a top five of some of my favorite shades of yellow and orange! Hope you enjoy 🙂 I'd love to hear yours!
- Make Up For Ever ME400 Buttercup — a bright, shimmery yellow
- MAC Bright Sunshine — a bold, frosted sun yellow
- Sugarpill Buttercupcake — a bright, matte yellow
- OCC Mimosa — a shimmering tangerine
- ColourPop Sunnies — a satiny tangerine orange


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5/26/2011 at 7:03 AM
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5/26/2011 at 8:57 AM
You forget something: Geni is not adding or maintaining any profiles - the users are, and since you are her daughter you should have full edit access to fix this yourself.
If you are not connected (you did not include a link to the profile) you should use contact manager both to fix and make sure that you get in control of this line. The profiles are probably not public, so no curator will be able to help you.
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5/26/2011 at 9:10 AM
Hi Marilyn!
I fixed the name spelling for Montie Abel Dees. I sent you two requests: 1. family group request, and 2. collaboration request. If you accept those requests, you will be able to edit any profiles that I manage for your family. I'm sorry that you were blocked. I think that happened because we are related/connected through marriage and not by blood. Once you accept my requests, I can add you as a profile manager on your family's profiles. Please don't hesitate to contact me at my personal e-mail address if you have questions or need help with the family tree.
Thanks for your advice, Bjorn! Marilyn just accepted my invitation to join the family tree. I didn't realize she was blocked from her family profiles or I would have initiated these requests already.


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The Saranac Lake Fish and Game Club hosted the Beast Feast Father's Day Barbecue and Sportsman's Competition Saturday.
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Madison Clark, 10, takes aim in the BB gun competition during the Beast Feast Father's Day Barbecue and Sportsman's Competition Saturday at the Saranac Lake Fish and Game Club.
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So, here we are at the start of another fall television season and, once again, none of the shows I dreamed up made it to the screen.
I realize TV producers and network execs get a lot of suggestions, but I really thought "Dancing With People No One's Ever Heard Of" could have been a boffo offbeat success.
One TV executive said my idea had merit, but thought it would be better if we had celebrities dance with the people no one ever heard of. I guess he missed the whole point.
I see there are some re-do shows this year.
A whole hip, new cast is populating a "Hawaii Five-O" and I bet "Book 'em, Dan-o" will soon be uttered by a whole new generation.
Of course, "Hawaii Five-O" never really went away. There's that silly outrigger canoe dance drunks still do at weddings when the disc jockey plays the show's theme song. And I believe drug dealers on the street still yell "Five-O" when they see a cop approaching.
Also coming is "Nikita," which is the fourth version of the "La Femme Nikita" theme. Now, instead of doing her killing for the organization that kidnapped her and trained her and forced her to kill against her will, Nikita apparently has escaped and is killing people just because she wants to.
I had been thinking that a new show called "Nikita" would have been more entertaining if it was about a lovable, irascible, pudgy premier of the United Soviet of Socialist Republics. Imagine following Nikita Krushchev as he gets into all sorts of adventures and rascally misunderstandings — even banging a shoe on a table to get attention — in New York City and on a nearby Caribbean island during the fun-filled 1960s' Cold War!
I understand why nobody liked "Are You Smarter Than Jeff Foxworthy?" because, frankly, who isn't?
And I can see why "Poundage" — in which skinny little twerps we all hate because they have metabolisms that allow them to eat like pigs and never gain any weight are force-fed in an attempt to make them chubbos like us — didn't get much support from a skinny-conscious TV industry (remember, TV adds 10 pounds to those who appear on it and 40 or so if you just sit on the couch and watch, munching on Doritos and Klondike bars.)
But I really thought "America's Cruelest Videos" was the next logical evolutionary level for a show that has audiences splitting their sides laughing and almost wetting their pants watching videos that show the zany antics of people being scared spitless, maimed and otherwise injured — not to mention all the guffaws and giggles at the silly gyrations of animals that, clearly, are rabid.
Frankly, I'm sorry to see the original "Law & Order" bite the dust, to make room for "Law & Order: Omaha" or wherever, but, frankly, there are so many "Law & Order" shows on the air now that I am totally lost when it comes to figuring out the characters. Heck, I even saw one the other day where the bad guy was an actor who later came back as one of the assistant DAs. Talk about confused!
I'm holding out for one of my dream shows, maybe a Hallmark movie: "When NCIS and JAG Gang Up on Army MPs, I Finally Meet Your Mother."


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It's close...........Ohhhhh so close! Whether they (MB) like it or not, mother nature is handing us helping hand with the rain. Don't forget to bring your wet weather gear tonight just in case she thinks the Pirates need a bath! LOL
The world is run by those who get involved.
to pick up my tickets this afternoon and they told me that they had sold over 500 tickets so far for the game Woo-Hoo. GO BOBCATS... Bring it on Mother Nature....
I won't rub it in GrimmReaper. I know you would, but I won't !
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Sutter won't be tuning in to trade deadline coverage
The trading deadline is nigh, and it's cynical and easy to call it part of hockey's "crazy season" when there are a good number of stories written by terrific reporters that offer an accountable glimpse into the fluctuating market of player movement. There are also reports on potential moves that probably won't come into fruition, and occasionally information circulated that simply doesn't make sense at all.
Does Darryl Sutter stay on top of every last report? Is he glued to the television in the lead-up to the March 5 deadline?
"No, because most of it's [road apples*]," the Kings' coach said.
"I wish I got paid to lie or make stuff up. That'd be great. That'd be unbelievable."
Darryl Sutter, on why so much attention is paid to the trading deadline:
Don't ask me. Ask them. You guys pay the same dues. I don't. [Reporter: It just comes on Direct TV. I can't get rid of the damn thing.] Oh, I know. All summer, you go back to Canada, all these experts, they talk about – because it's easy to get the math and figure it out. Just do it. Just add four million plus five million, a hundred and sixty thousand. Just add it up. So a lot of teams aren't doing anything. So now all of these teams are doing something? So what happened? Did they just change the rules? [Reporter: Brian Burke always said that the two times out of the year you get your fans the most interested in your team are the trading deadline and the first day of free agency.] I guess if you're a bad team. [Reporter: I think that's kind of why all the hype is around this time of the year.] So, that's good. You answered his question.…It's easy to say…'Well, he's going to be unrestricted July 1st,' or 'He's 40 years old,' or 'He's not playing,' or 'He's overpaid,' or 'He doesn't make enough.' Give me a break…Quite honest, there are guys that think it's a big day because they get interviewed more. It's a big day for some guys. They get cameras. You just have to remember who's saying all those things always.
*For context, the use of the [road apples] bracket first originated in this story last season.
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It would be fair to say that I am completely and utterly obsessed with everything Pinterest. If like me you enjoy favourite-ing and bookmarking photos of things that you make your heart sing on Flickr, Etsy, websites and blogs come and join in the fun! You can request an invitation here.
Thank you Dawn for introducing me to the world of pinning, I love it!
I love reading your comments, thank you for taking the time to write them ♥
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I was trying to join it a couple of weeks ago, but my computer was being so slow that I gave up. Looks like my kind of thing though, so I will definintely give it another try.ReplyDelete
Wanted to tweet you yesterday, but twitter keeps playing up for me too. Sometimes there is no way of leaving a tweet! What I wanted to say was poor you with the cardi! Gave me a laugh though - sorry! What a rotten thing to have someone say to you.
Reminds me of what a hairdresser said to me after I became a mum. We were chatting when he said 'you are quite slim now, were you slim before?'.
Felt like I wanted to cry. Not sure if it was an out and out insult or a very backhanded compliment.
I have clothes that make me look lumpy, so I only wear them at home and wear what I call my 'thinner clothes' out and about!
Your board is just lovely, Morwenna!! I, too, am a visual person and what a fun project to do...putting the things near and dear to your heart in an assemblage! Ah, digital visual bliss!! Sending love and hugs your way, Sherry xxReplyDelete
I see people talk about pinterest and didn't have a foggy clue of what they were speaking. A couple of weeks ago, I requested an invitation but still have not received one, so I will wait til they'll have me, I guess!! But yes, I love it!! What a great idea!! What happened with the cardi---I may have to go back and read old tweets. I think I may have missed something!ReplyDelete
Have a lovely week dear Morwenna!! Your positive spirit and energy are so welcoming on these tragic days of such bad news---wonderful to step away for a few moments and cherish the simplest of joys!!
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Hi Morwenna darling...I'm catching up on old posts & rejoicing in my new laptop!! I got the invitation too...Pinterest looks great & I love your boards so far. Not sure that I'm up to it. I'll keep checking yours & Dawn's & decide then! Gorgeous xoxo LoveReplyDelete
OK this is something I really need to do. Imagine having a collage of all my favourite finds at my finger tips. I wonder if I just have the photos if it will satisfy me not to shop? Not happening!ReplyDelete
Thank you very much. I love to read it. I really like your blog. Its a bombastic blog.ReplyDelete


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It is double short.
You declarative as ~ s hol ~es are a f ~k g dime a dozen.
I am waiting for 20 too.
I repeat my target.
ok you can buy BOIL at 22.5 on JAN 2016 LOL you missed the boat....
Sentiment: Strong Buy
I see it time kill.