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Rockies save face and rock the place.
Giants vs Rockies Game 2 Ever heard of the Long Haul Bombers?..I hadn't, these dudes play softball and are on a nation wide Stadium tour knocking the covers off softballs.
The Bombers use aluminum bats and the softballs had no problem reaching the concourse. I think there were six batters and they each were allowed to hit 15 softballs.
I'm telling you if felt like the Home Run Derby(in my mind).
The damn softballs were crashing all around me yet I remained empty-handed. I watched Robert snag one of the first softballs hit out to left field. His spot of choice was the last row of the pavilion…Good choice. No worries, I managed to snag a ball today during BP. I should have been sporting several more but two I misjudged and one landed right in my glove and bounced out…totally my bad.
I watched Tulo crush a ball about ten feet to my right and I was stuck because there was a family of four right blocking my access to it. As the ball neared I realized it was zeroing in for the father of the family standing beside me.
He was totally clueless so I screamed "Heads up dude", it scared the sh*t out of him and at the last second he raised his glove up to his head and protected his face. He was stunned and stood there for a few minutes repeating out loud "That almost hit me".
In all honesty I was waiting for a "thank you" from either him or his wife but it didn't happen.
Your welcome anyway dude. Enjoy your life with an undamaged face courtesy of the Ranter.
Jorge started for the day, here's Bob Apodaca giving him a little pep talk.
The first pitch of the game.
Different and works if you're hitting a Rave after the game.
Jorge at bat.
Fowler hitting a fouler.(that's good huh?)
Floral print mishap of the game. Somebody really should tell him :)
Jorge posing as a first baseman.
Timmy looking much too chill.
A perfect evening.
Carlos was 1-3 with two runs scored.
Tulo went 2-3 with one RBI.
Packed and pump'n
Some Giants confusion late in the game. This dad disappeared and came back with a purple head. His kid lost it.
He ain't getting by Todd Helton, not tonight.
Not my best shot of the evening but here's Ian Stewart hitting a three run rocket in the sixth tying the game and spuring a seven-run inning. That single play totally shifted the momentum of the game in our favor.
Rounding first base.
In the sixth inning with two out, Todd Helton blasted a two out homer to right field about twenty feet from where I was sitting. Man that was fun. So much fun I must have misplaced my voice. When I woke up this morning it was gone along with my fear of getting swept.
The Rockies punish the Giants tonight 14-11 in front of 47,178 and I was able to laugh back hard at my friend Todd (the guy I have the season long Giants bet with), because this win was a come from behind win and those just mean more when you're bragging up your team.
Easily one of the hottest and best Rockies games I've been to all year. Props to my friend for helping out a guy when he really needed some shade today.
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Colorful attire at the game! We are keeping you and your family in our prayers.
Hi D…
Our thoughts are with you during this time, keep the faith brother. I'll be in Denver for the Sept. 4-5 games against the D'backs. I hope you are there! Hang in there…..Jim
Hey D,
I'm praying for good news soon.
How bout dem Rockies?! Man is it good to be a Rockies fan! Walk-off Grand Slam by Spilly! Yeah baby! Don't get no better den dat!
JULIA-Thank you🙂
JIM-Dammit Jim, I'm here all season and the day I pick for a road trip your in town…I'm heading out Sept 4th bound for KC to watch the Royals and the Angels for two games. It's possible I'll be back for the Sunday game on the 6th.
R-LUV-Thank you. Tuesdays game was pretty exciting too. I'm working on that entry right now…It is a long one so I'll have to split it. I'll have part one up before the game today(Wed)…D
Always love seeing those Long Haul Bomber guys on the field before the game. Some of the shots they take can rival anything hit with a baseball.
But it always seems to depend on the guy on the mound. The guy they got to pitch for them while they were at the Trop was putting them in there a bit high and they had to over swing on the ball, which is either a line drive or a pop-up in most cases.
Glad to see thew Rockies have made a game of it now coming down the stretch.
Hey, maybe the Rays and Rockies can make it into the post season………….always a chance.
Heard you are going to be one of those new writers on Fanhuddle.com when it launches in September.
Hope you have massive success from that and keep up the faith…
Rays Renegade
Great pictures. The Rockies have really put on some kind of show. They have been amazing since June when they were down 15 in the West.


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ROCK HILL, NY — No power since October 29th, no heat, no water—and 22 puppies, 15 dogs, 28 cats and numerous kittens to care for. That was the increasingly desperate situation that the Sullivan County SPCA faced when shelter manager Debbie Dittert posted her plea for the loan of a spare generator on Facebook.
Thomas Stampfli, digital media manager at The River Reporter brought the request to the attention of fellow staffers who suggested calling Home Depot. Stampfli picked up the phone and established a three-way conversation among himself, Dittert and Diane Sheard, manager of the Monticello Home Depot. Minutes later, Dittert learned the shelter would receive donations of a generator, cases of water and dog beds from the hardware chain store.
Home Depot pro associate Carl Desantis quickly gathered up the items so that the generator (an item in very high demand that day) wouldn't be sold. Later, the busy store would sell nearly 200 generators in a two-hour period to meet local demand. Sheard, who has three dogs of her own, said that while it's important to meet the needs of humans at such times, it's easy to forget about the animals that may be suffering or in need of support.
"When there's a need, we do what we can to help," said Sheard. "It's all about building a relationship with the community. We like to give back to the people who support us. I've already had people stop by to thank Home Depot for helping the shelter."
More help came from Pete Melay of Duke Electric, who offered to install the generator and pick up the supplies. "I've just been amazed at the outpouring of community support," said Dittert. "It's enough to bring me to tears."
While power has since been restored, the shelter is still in need of a special type of bed that lifts the dogs out of contact with the cold cement floors and is virtually indestructible (visit www.kurandabed.com [1]). The shelter currently needs five such beds.
In addition, the Agway in Liberty maintains an account for the Sullivan County SPCA. Donations can be made by phone using a credit card and the shelter can obtain what it needs by accessing the account.
Volunteers are also needed to walk the dogs and provide companionship and comfort. "The animals are really stressed right now. Not only have they been cold, but we haven't had light and their routines have really been disrupted. They love to walk and it helps to reduce their stress."
For those who are thinking of adopting a pet, the shelter is eager to assist.
For more information visit www.sullivanspca.com [2] or www.facebook.com/pages/Sullivan-County-SPCA/195910901490 [3] or call 845/796-3120.

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I loved it.
I am 100 percent in favor of athletes charged with the fervor of wanting to dismantle their opponents.
Last week, Houston Rockets shooting guard James Harden took subliminal shots at his former teammate Chandler Parsons, to which Parsons responded on Twitter, "Think before you speak." This is exactly what we want.
We watch sports for the genuine competition and will to win that these athletes show. Seeing opponents act extremely friendly with one-another is disheartening and slowly removes the aura of athletes doing anything to win.
Suffice to say, I'm tired of the buddy-buddy nonsense.
Do we want them going all out into a Street Fighter-esque brawl? No, although, Jermaine O'Neal is known to throw one mean Ryu-like shoryuken.
I just want some good, old-fashioned competition.
During the middle of this past NBA regular season, Indiana Pacers forward Paul George said he would want to work out with LeBron James over the summer. The same LeBron James who knocked his Pacers out of the playoffs back-to-back years and would do so once again in the coming months.
Michael Jordan did the same thing when filming "Space Jam," inviting players to Los Angeles to work out with him. Those that joined in essentially helped the best player get even better. Former Rockets guard Kenny Smith, who joined in, refers to this as a huge mistake. (Take the hint, George.)
The opposite is happening with arguably two of the best cornerbacks in the aforementioned Sherman and the Arizona Cardinals' Patrick Peterson, who have traded jabs at one another all offseason, with regards to who's the best at the position (if you don't know who Sherman thinks, you've missed out).
Many ridiculed former Pacer Lance Stephenson's breeze heard 'round the world, but, hey, he gets a cookie for at least attempting to get an edge on his opponent.
That's competition, and it's slowly losing its luster.
Again, I'm not asking for throwbacks like the Detroit Piston Bad Boy-like angst or Kevin McHale clotheslines from hell. I just want athletes to give off the "my team against the world" vibe.
There's a certain line that you cross when getting overly competitive turns into fists being thrown.
There's another line that gets crossed when getting overly friendly turns into the slow death of competition.
Let's bring genuine competition back, please.


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War on Soda Escalates
You didn't think sanctimonious moonbat totalitarians would quit with cigarettes, did you? Soda pop is under siege:
Soda and other sugary drinks have unsafe levels of high-fructose corn syrup or other added sugars, a consumer group says, and it's urging the government to determine a safe level to reduce Americans' "dangerously high sugar consumption."
The Center for Science in the Public Interest filed a petition today with the Food and Drug Administration urging the agency to identify a safe level for added sugars in beverages. …
Beverage companies can use natural non-caloric sweeteners and sweetness enhancers instead, [CSPI Executive Director Michael] Jacobson says.
How generous of him. However, there is no guarantee that a jihad against artificial sweeteners won't follow. Forcing a rat to eat a pound a day of aspartame could be found to cause health problems (not that aspartame would count as "natural" anyway).
Self-righteous health initiatives like the War on Soda are popular because they achieve two of liberals' main objectives: control for the sake of control, and confiscation of other people's wealth through punitive taxation:
The state Senate judiciary committee has pushed forward a proposal to add a fee to sugary beverages in Hawaii.
The judiciary committee's vote Tuesday came just a day after the Senate health committee approved the same bill.
Moonbat Governor Neil Abercrombie will eagerly sign the bill, in order to "fight obesity" and more importantly rake in $38 million in revenue with which to buy votes from society's barnacles.
Even the health fascists of the FDA recognize staples of our diet like sugar and corn syrup as perfectly safe. But nothing is safe if you consume enough of it. A woman who died of a heart attack after drinking an astonishing two gallons a day of Coca-Cola has been seized upon as evidence that bureaucrats must regulate our soda drinking for our own good.
The beverage industry will be tempted to pour every penny it can scrape up into the Democrat Party in hopes of bribing it to call off the attack dogs. This won't help. Next will come lawsuits from greedy parasites sniveling that Pepsi made them fat. Eventually soda will be either prohibitively expensive or illegal.
Next to be taken away from us will be… hot dogs? Pie? Potatoes? Who knows? All we can say for sure is that liberals will never stop boxing us into an ever smaller space.
On tips from Jimbo, Robert B, Wiggins, and johnnosk. Cross-posted at Moonbattery.
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#96089 - 02/18/03 01:46 AM Stiffneckedness/Stubbornness
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Which word do u think is better?
Well when i write narrative essays,i like using stiffneckedness,it's a quite descriptive
I first read this word from the book of Morman
but i've never seen any author using this word
Is this word ordinary in comptemporary English?
wat is the appropriate way of using it?
#96090 - 02/18/03 02:00 AM Re: Stiffneckedness/Stubbornness
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I associate stiffnecked(ness) with religious language, particularly the Bible. I'm not sure, but I think it may be a loan translation from the Hebrew. I think it would only be used where both speaker and listener had a good knowledge of the Bible. For more ordinary language I'd use stubborn(ness).
#96091 - 02/18/03 06:07 AM Re: Stiffneckedness/Stubbornness
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Stiffneckedness is not, in my experience, a commonly used word. Its meaning is readily understandable but it isn't commonly used. Stubbornness would be the better choice in normal writing. You should wait until you don't have to ask this question before you use stiffneckedness.
#96092 - 02/18/03 06:27 AM Re: Stiffneckedness/Stubbornness
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Does stiffneckedness have anything to do with having an air of superiority? Don't know why I'm thinking this, but.
#96093 - 02/18/03 07:05 AM Re: Stiffneckedness/Stubbornness
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having an air of superiority?
I would agree with this, and add that it also, to me, shows a bit of stupidity...
I had never connected stiffnecked to anything biblical, what's that all about?_________________________
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#96094 - 02/18/03 08:25 AM Re: Stiffneckedness/Stubbornness
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Stiffnecknedness is refusal to bow the head to authority.Stubbornness is the refusal
to yield, but does not include the token of refusing to bow. I can be
stubborn in refusing to give up a bad habit.
#96095 - 02/18/03 08:33 AM Re: Stiffneckedness/Stubbornness
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The Bible uses the word a number of times in different books in the sense of stubborn or obstinate, both of which are substituted for it in some books.
This is typical:
The Lord said to Moses, I see this is a stiffnecked people. Now let Me be, that my anger may blaze forth against them and that I may destroy them... (Exodus, 32: 9, 10)
Plus ça change, plus c'est la meme chose.
#96096 - 02/18/03 08:42 AM Re: Stiffneckedness/Stubbornness
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what version of Bible are we talking? wouldn't the translation of that be dependent on when the translation was made? King James vs. a later one?_________________________
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#96097 - 02/18/03 09:03 AM Re: Stiffneckedness/Stubbornness
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There are later ones?
#96098 - 02/18/03 09:21 AM Re: Stiffneckedness/Stubbornness
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Re: There are later ones?
spoken like a true blue englishman! yes, there are later ones, and earlier ones, and other translations. the Catholic Church (Roman) does not accept the KJV of the bible to be a "true" translation...and various other religions would not accept the KJV either.
it it the most widely known translation, and certainly, the english in the translation is very poetic, and flowing. one only has to google to find hundreds of different translations._________________________
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Gloria MasonHelpdesk Associate, IT Services, UNK
The Board of Regents is pleased to present a KUDOS award to Gloria Mason, a Helpdesk Associate for Information Technology Services at the University of Nebraska at Kearney.
On any given day, Information Technology Services receives a multitude of questions and requests – from all corners of the campus – requests that are often laced with panic and frustration. About 75 to 80 percent of all these problems are resolved at the Helpdesk, and Gloria manages to handle them with patience, calm, professional attitude – and the unique ability to clearly communicate technical procedures.
Gloria's colleagues praise her for her expertise in information technology, but also for her skill in troubleshooting problems. Her major responsibility is to provide support for the faculty, students and staff who contact her by phone, email and web. But she also has additional responsibilities that include the supervision and training of student workers, maintaining Helpdesk web pages, creating training materials, and conducting large group and individual training sessions on a variety of topics.
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Gloria is joined today by her husband, Larry.
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Skip to comments.THE SAVAGE NATION!!!!!! 7-27-12
Posted on 07/27/2012 2:51:56 PM PDT by dynachrome
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Lots of LINKS to listen to the Savage radio show here!!! - updated 19-Jun-2012
KDWN - Vegas - 000's favorite city!!!
Call the show at 1-800-449-8255
Rock and Roll Friday!
(Colorado shooter was seeing a shrink. Was he on psychoactive drugs?)
Has it been a week? Unbelievable!
The person who died from Chick-Fil-A is not the president nor founder, it was the VP of PR.
I've been meaning to get to Chick-Fil-A ever since this whole boycott started to make it fail even more.
Live we are!
Aug. 1 is BUY-cott Chik-a-fil-a day.
Chick-Fil-A also has these "First 100" events when they open a store. If you're one of the first 100 to camp overnight 24 hours before they actually open, they'll give you a free meal each week for 52 weeks.
I have 3 kids who work for Chick Fil A. Fantastic organization! They also have winshape.org and have camps etc for kids. Love CFA!!
I'm going up to one on aug. 1 and ordering some chicken!
Not too many talk show hosts will talk about Tolstoy and Dostoevesky
" Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism. "
Arnold Bennett
Savage didn't come up with this .
They have THE BEST!
I don't know if pessimism is agreeable, but I am always pleasantly surprised when my pessimism is wrong.
I'm curious. Does anyone plan to see Mike live? Or want to?
I would like to see him live to see if he is the same in person as his radio persona.
I'd like to see Savage live. I'm surprised he didn't talk at all about it today. That was until I saw that the day for ticket sales has been delayed,
Thanks for the reply.
"dynachrome wrote:
Not too many talk show hosts will talk about Tolstoy and Dostoevesky"
and compare themselves to them
I never did finish reading "The Brothers Karamazov" by Dostoyevski. I should break that out and try it again. Don't know if this old brain can soak it all up though.
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I never did finish reading The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevski. I should break that out and try it again. Dont know if this old brain can soak it all up though."
I know what you mean! I should try again too.
I like Three Questions - a short story by Tolstoy, never read much more of him.
I'll post it here next message-why not? yes it is short
Hope some of you like it
It once occurred to a certain king, that if he always knew the right time to begin everything; if he knew who were the right people to listen to, and whom to avoid; and, above all, if he always knew what was the most important thing to do, he would never fail in anything he might undertake.
And this thought having occurred to him, he had it proclaimed throughout his kingdom that he would give a great reward to any one who would teach him what was the right time for every action, and who were the most necessary people, and how he might know what was the most important thing to do.
And learned men came to the King, but they all answered his questions differently.
In reply to the first question, some said that to know the right time for every action, one must draw up in advance, a table of days, months and years, and must live strictly according to it. Only thus, said they, could everything be done at its proper time. Others declared that it was impossible to decide beforehand the right time for every action; but that, not letting oneself be absorbed in idle pastimes, one should always attend to all that was going on, and then do what was most needful. Others, again, said that however attentive the King might be to what was going on, it was impossible for one man to decide correctly the right time for every action, but that he should have a Council of wise men, who would help him to fix the proper time for everything.
But then again others said there were some things which could not wait to be laid before a Council, but about which one had at once to decide whether to undertake them or not. But in order to decide that, one must know beforehand what was going to happen. It is only magicians who know that; and, therefore, in order to know the right time for every action, one must consult magicians.
Equally various were the answers to the second question. Some said, the people the King most needed were his counselors; others, the priests; others, the doctors; while some said the warriors were the most necessary.
To the third question, as to what was the most important occupation: some replied that the most important thing in the world was science. Others said it was skill in warfare; and others, again, that it was religious worship.
All the answers being different, the King agreed with none of them, and gave the reward to none. But still wishing to find the right answers to his questions, he decided to consult a hermit, widely renowned for his wisdom.
The hermit lived in a wood which he never quitted, and he received none but common folk. So the King put on simple clothes, and before reaching the hermit's cell dismounted from his horse, and, leaving his body-guard behind, went on alone.
When the King approached, the hermit was digging the ground in front of his hut. Seeing the King, he greeted him and went on digging. The hermit was frail and weak, and each time he stuck his spade into the ground and turned a little earth, he breathed heavily.
The King went up to him and said: "I have come to you, wise hermit, to ask you to answer three questions: How can I learn to do the right thing at the right time? Who are the people I most need, and to whom should I, therefore, pay more attention than to the rest? And, what affairs are the most important, and need my first attention?"
The hermit listened to the King, but answered nothing. He just spat on his hand and recommenced digging.
"You are tired," said the King, "let me take the spade and work awhile for you."
"Thanks!" said the hermit, and, giving the spade to the King, he sat down on the ground.
When he had dug two beds, the King stopped and repeated his questions. The hermit again gave no answer, but rose, stretched out his hand for the spade, and said:
"Now rest awhile-and let me work a bit."
But the King did not give him the spade, and continued to dig. One hour passed, and another. The sun began to sink behind the trees, and the King at last stuck the spade into the ground, and said:
"I came to you, wise man, for an answer to my questions. If you can give me none, tell me so, and I will return home."
"Here comes some one running," said the hermit, "let us see who it is."
The King turned round, and saw a bearded man come running out of the wood. The man held his hands pressed against his stomach, and blood was flowing from under them. When he reached the King, he fell fainting on the ground moaning feebly. The King and the hermit unfastened the man's clothing. There was a large wound in his stomach. The King washed it as best he could, and bandaged it with his handkerchief and with a towel the hermit had. But the blood would not stop flowing, and the King again and again removed the bandage soaked with warm blood, and washed and rebandaged the wound. When at last the blood ceased flowing, the man revived and asked for something to drink. The King brought fresh water and gave it to him. Meanwhile the sun had set, and it had become cool. So the King, with the hermit's help, carried the wounded man into the hut and laid him on the bed. Lying on the bed the man closed his eyes and was quiet; but the King was so tired with his walk and with the work he had done, that he crouched down on the threshold, and also fell asleep--so soundly that he slept all through the short summer night. When he awoke in the morning, it was long before he could remember where he was, or who was the strange bearded man lying on the bed and gazing intently at him with shining eyes.
"Forgive me!" said the bearded man in a weak voice, when he saw that the King was awake and was looking at him.
"I do not know you, and have nothing to forgive you for," said the King.
"You do not know me, but I know you. I am that enemy of yours who swore to revenge himself on you, because you executed his brother and seized his property. I knew you had gone alone to see the hermit, and I resolved to kill you on your way back. But the day passed and you did not return. So I came out from my ambush to find you, and I came upon your bodyguard, and they recognized me, and wounded me. I escaped from them, but should have bled to death had you not dressed my wound. I wished to kill you, and you have saved my life. Now, if I live, and if you wish it, I will serve you as your most faithful slave, and will bid my sons do the same. Forgive me!"
The King was very glad to have made peace with his enemy so easily, and to have gained him for a friend, and he not only forgave him, but said he would send his servants and his own physician to attend him, and promised to restore his property.
Having taken leave of the wounded man, the King went out into the porch and looked around for the hermit. Before going away he wished once more to beg an answer to the questions he had put. The hermit was outside, on his knees, sowing seeds in the beds that had been dug the day before.
The King approached him, and said:
"For the last time, I pray you to answer my questions, wise man."
"You have already been answered!" said the hermit, still crouching on his thin legs, and looking up at the King, who stood before him.
"How answered? What do you mean?" asked the King.
"Do you not see," replied the hermit. "If you had not pitied my weakness yesterday, and had not dug those beds for me, but had gone your way, that man would have attacked you, and you would have repented of not having stayed with me. So the most important time was when you were digging the beds; and I was the most important man; and to do me good was your most important business. Afterwards when that man ran to us, the most important time was when you were attending to him, for if you had not bound up his wounds he would have died without having made peace with you. So he was the most important man, and what you did for him was your most important business. Remember then: there is only one time that is important-- Now! It is the most important time because it is the only time when we have any power. The most necessary man is he with whom you are, for no man knows whether he will ever have dealings with any one else: and the most important affair is, to do him good, because for that purpose alone was man sent into this life!"
[The end]
Leo Tolstoy's short story: Three Questions
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Alaska State Troopers are searching for a missing 31-year-old survivalist from Wisconsin who set out alone in the Alaska wilderness in late September.
Thomas Seibold of Three Lakes, Wis., is described as an experienced outdoorsman who works as an instructor at the Talking Drum Outdoor School.
The Anchorage Daily News says Seibold had planned to stay in the northwest Alaska backcountry through October and had booked a flight home to Wisconsin on Nov. 15.
Troopers spokeswoman Beth Ipsen says Seibold didn't make the flight.
Tamarack Song, director of the Talking Drum Outdoor School, says Seibold traveled to Alaska in June, staying first at an Alaska Native fish camp in Southeast Alaska before heading north.


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Pugwash in the Obbie
Started by ArthurDaley, Jan 11 2013 07:41 PM
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Posted 11 January 2013 - 07:41 PM
A large VAT Dave please.
Allso known as Teodozjusz Matuschanskavasky
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Posted 11 January 2013 - 07:49 PM
Good to see the amount of coverage we have in tomorrows addition with input from the chairman,captain and Mr Pugwash as well as the match preview,hopefully a sign of the coverage we will get regularly.
Well done to the club and the Obbie.
Well done to the club and the Obbie.
Success does not consists in never making blunders,but in never making the same one the second time.
Posted 11 January 2013 - 08:56 PM
I don't get the Obbie, what's the fuss about, I haven't written to them!
Bobbie Goulding is God
Andrew Birch is Pugwash.
"Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask yourself if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future".
War doesn't decide who is right, just who is left!
Andrew Birch is Pugwash.
Posted 13 January 2013 - 11:09 AM
Not one word about Hornets in the observer over xmas but saturdays ob had great coverage .Hope they keep it up.


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TEXICO — The Eastern New Mexico Rural Water Authority is optimistic about an omnibus.
That appears to be the fate for the potential Senate authorization for the Ute Water Project, which would pump water from the Ute Reservoir in Quay County to authority members.
Federal consultant John Ryan told authority members during Wednesday's meeting that the $432 million project — with funding percentages of 75 percent federal, 15 percent state and 10 percent local — is one of 96 bills joined together to create Senate Bill 3213.
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• David Lansford made his resignation as authority chair official, and he was replaced as chair by Clovis Mayor Gayla Brumfield.
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Skip to comments.Romney Could Win in a Landslide
Posted on 04/26/2012 12:11:24 PM PDT by Kaslin
RUSH: Look, I know. I'm a lone wolf. I'm really a lone wolf on what I'm gonna tell you. Some of you may be where I am, but within the circle of friends that I have (and beyond that people I know) I'm telling you: I'm practically alone on this. I'll illustrate it for you. I had ten friends -- well, five couples -- in for the annual Spring Fling. It's a blast. It's a combination Big Chill weekend plus it's like-minded people. It's some of the finest intellectual stimulation... This what my guests tell me: It's some of the best intellectual stimulation they get all year. They're with friends. They know it's self-contained and private. They're free to say whatever they want to say -- and, unless I talk about it, nobody's gonna hear about it.
Every night at dinner... Well, actually the whole weekend. It's not just at dinner we discuss these things. It's afternoon out by the pool. It's the morning at breakfast. But specifically one night at dinner somebody... And a lot of these people, a lot of the guests are immersed in politics professionally. I'm not. This is a key. I am not a professional politician. I'm a broadcaster. I, as you know, pay very little attention to political consultants. Political consultants, to me, all exist to accomplish one thing, and that is to sell their candidates on the idea that they and they alone are the only ones who can tell the candidate how to go out and win the independents.
Every presidential election is about the independents.
You know the theory: You shore up your base during the primary, and then after you win the nomination and head into the general election, then you move to "the center," where you have to pick up the independents. What this ultimately leads to is an election where, if the consultants have their way, campaigns are tailored to winning a majority of 20% of the voters in the country. Well, I'm sorry, that leaves me cold. I've never understood it. I've never liked it. I've never intellectually understood what the point is in trying to win a majority of 20% of the population who takes pride in telling you they don't think anything. Now, this is not a put-down of you independents.
I don't want you to misunderstand here. Independents and moderates are two different things. But independents, by definition, don't have any opinions. Independents, by definition, are not tied to either ideology. Sorry, I don't believe that. Whether people know it or not, they are either conservative or liberal. They're not squishy sponges. If you're not conservative and you're not liberal, you are just existing. And you are totally unaware of anything other than your own pleasure. And there's nothing wrong with that. But aiming campaigns at them is something that does not interest me. Now, I am totally aware that there are a lot of people whose lives are totally devoted to their sybaritic pursuits.
But to base presidential campaigns on that has always puzzled me and left me cold. Because I believe you want to win elections on the basis of specific policy that gives you a mandate after you win. And I believe that cheerfully articulated conservatism wins every time it's tried. Consultants do not, particularly Republican consultants. (Well, leave out the liberal consultants because they, of course, would never believe in conservatism.) And so the quest every four years is to go out and get the majority of 20% of these people. And people wring their hands over it, and they worry what the independents are gonna do.
And look at the trap that we Republicans or conservatives have allowed some of us to fall into. And that is, "Any criticism of the left, any criticism of a Democrat -- the Democrats or Obama -- will force those independents running right to the Democrats!" So we tie our own hands behind our backs because we think, "These independents, they don't like confrontation! These independents, all they want is conversation. They don't want confrontation! They don't like raised voices. They don't like passion. The independents don't like opinionated people! Oh, no, no, no, no! The independents like squish. They like mush."
I'm sorry; I just don't buy it. But every consultant goes out and tries to get the gig by selling candidates on how he or she or their team knows how to get those independents. I say all this just as an illustration that I am not a professional politics person. I am not a politically scientist. I will admit this may not... Hmm. Let's put this way. When looking at the presidential race, I don't say, "Okay, well, such-and-such has to win Ohio because he's gotta get to 271. If you don't win Ohio, you have to win Florida." I know it's the electoral vote tally and all that stuff matters, but not to me. Not as far as campaigns are concerned, as far as winning the election.
When you start divvying up the country this way, when you tell a candidate, "You're gonna have to win Ohio."
"Okay, what do you do to win Ohio?"
"Well, you go to Ohio and you figure out what Ohioans want to hear."
Sorry, that defeats my purpose of having across-the-board conservatism for everybody, which I believe is wonderful and great. And is the best thing that's ever been devised for human beings as a means of managing their affairs and their lives, securing prosperity and freedom and so forth. Conservatism's it. And I'm all for teaching it to people who don't understand it rather than pandering to people that don't understand it and give 'em what they claim they want. So if Ohioans (just to pick a state) are interested in the mating habits of the Australian Rabbit Bat and that's the thing that's gonna determine their votes?
Then a consultant's gonna come along and give a candidate the best way to go out and get people to care about the mating habits of the Australian Rabbit Bat. Sorry, I'm just not interested in that. And I don't think it works anyway. And even if you do win doing this, it's not real. And, as you know, I live in Realville. I believe in conservatism. I believe in shouting it. I believe in passionately teaching it, passionately explaining it, passionately living it. And I've got the evidence on my side. This country is the evidence. Our founding is the evidence of the greatness of that particular ideology. It triumphs over all others.
Communism, socialism, Marxism, independentism, moderatism, you name it. That is a lengthy (and I apologize for it) setup to the dinner conversation that I wanted to describe to you. The question was asked around the table: "Do you think Romney has a chance to win?" That was the question everybody at the table was asking: "Does Romney have a chance?" I appreciated the question. It's a great question to get discussion going. But, at the same time, I was admittedly a little appalled by it. Can Romney win? The question is, can Obama win? In my world, the question is: "Can Obama win?" But I understand. Obama's the incumbent. He's got a lot of power.
There are a lot of things an incumbent president can do that a challenger can't do. He can forgive mortgages. He can forgive student loans. He can give away the country. I understand that. But conservatism has overcome that stuff when properly articulated, properly utilized in a campaign. Conservatism works pretty much every time it's tried, particularly against this kind of liberalism. Never before in my lifetime have we had the opportunity to draw a greater contrast. Anyway, a couple of the guests are professional politicians. They have been involved in running campaigns, and they started answering the questions in that context.
"Well, you got 235 electoral votes here. You need 270. North Carolina could be big. Ohio, too. Romney's gonna have to..."
All of this consultant esoteric stuff, and I'm just listening to it. And it sounds impressive. And it is. It sounds like the person answering the question is a lifelong expert in this stuff. It's very impressive, if that's your business. And then everybody else took their turn at answering the question, and almost everybody was filled with insecurity, lack of confidence over whether or not Romney could win. And finally somebody said, "Well, Rush, what do you think?" And I went through my little, "Look, I'm not a professional at this. I'm not a political scientist. Counting votes, securing votes, that's not my business. My business is attracting an audience and holding the audience for as long as I can so I can charge confiscatory advertising rates, and that's not the same thing as getting votes.
"That being said, I think Obama's gonna lose in a landslide."
And their mouths fell open! And these are all us, folks.
By the way, don't misunderstand. None of this is criticism. If anything, I'm trying to tell you how out of the mainstream of thought at this particular dinner I was. Nobody else at the table thinks that Romney is gonna win in a landslide or Obama's gonna lose in a landslide. I didn't say it's going to happen. I said it could. The way I look at things, Obama could lose this big, and I went through my riff of the problems the White House is having, the polling data that they have that shows them scared. I illustrated my belief that they're scared by citing examples of what Obama's doing and how he's doing it and where he's going and what he's saying, how he can't run on his record. There's not one positive thing that's happened in this country since he took office that he can cite.
So in a sane world, in a just world, which isn't the one we have. We don't have a just world. We don't have a sane world right now, but if we did, Obama would be laughed out of office. I also said there's a big, big vote out there lying to pollsters. Pollster calls you on the phone, you don't want the pollster to think you're a racist so you tell 'em that you approve of Obama's job performance and you might even vote for him. I said, "I'm not predicting it, but I won't be surprised if this is a blowout." And I cited the 1980 campaign as an example. I said, "Effectively we're going through Jimmy Carter's second term here, only worse." And I'm mentioning this to you only because I believe it. And also I'm mentioning it to you because it explains why I am not wringing my hands over Romney and his flip flops.
Look, at this point it's academic anyway. Romney is the nominee. There's nothing that could be done about that. If you don't like it, if it disappoints you -- and I understand, look, the Tea Party, big 2010 midterms, it would have been great if we'd of had a full-fledged conservative that could have gotten this nomination, but that didn't happen. I told these people I think Romney's gonna end up surprising a lot of them. A lot of them were negative on Romney, his tendency to flip-flop, his baggage of things he said in the past. I said, "I've seen some evidence of Romney running a much, much different campaign than McCain did that will have many more attacks on Obama and his record than McCain ever had the desire or guts to engage in. And I think you all are gonna be surprised," I said.
RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, Mitt Romney, with all of his material advantages, has not spent the last four years, six years of his life in seedy, run-down motels only to roll over for Obama after Labor Day. John McCain was content to be nominated. (imitating McCain) "That's right, Limbaugh, that's right. Looks great on the resume, that's right." Romney is determined to be elected. This is not a faux campaign. That is going to make a huge difference.
Now, we've got polling data out here, and I've got it coming up in the audio sound bites. Remember all this war on women stuff. This is just to put these consultants in their place. Remember I mentioned to you that the Republican establishment wanted me to shut up about all this war on women, don't go there. They wanted me not to talk about the social issues, "Don't do it, Rush, please, it's gonna scare the independents." During this whole past six weeks, the war on women and all this phony stuff that the Democrats mounted, Romney is leading huge in independents right now.
So we have an opportunity to dispel a myth. And that is that criticizing Democrats sends independents running right back to Obama. Folks, there is no reason for people -- this is not a standard, normal, run-of-the-mill, every-four-years presidential election. We are losing this country. People are losing their freedom, and they know it. They are losing their opportunity for economic advancement, and they know it. They see the debt piling up, they know what the tax rates for themselves and their kids and their grandkids are gonna be, and they don't like it. This is not an average, run-of-the-mill, every-four-years presidential race. We're losing the country, and people know this, and they don't want to lose the country.
The days where independents would get mad at Republicans for being critical of Obama and run to the Democrats, there's no reason to run to Obama. The only people Obama's gonna have are the people he's already bought and the people he's gonna be able to buy between now and the election. But there's nobody that's gonna run to Barack Obama who's not already there because of policy, because of track record, because of competence, because they want more of it. Not one single person wants any more of this. Not one.
RUSH: Now, let me finish on this Romney stuff for the election before we move on. And understand: This is April 26th, and anything can change. I'm telling you what's in my mind and heart right now, and I will admit to you that a lot of what I'm telling you is something I really hope for. I'm not fooling myself. I'm not in denial. I am not ignoring reality. I am sharing with you where I hope the people of this country are. And I also am sharing with you where I think the people of this country are. But many, many people disagree with me, particularly when I say Obama could lose in a landslide. For Obama to lose in a landslide it means a lot of people are gonna have to vote for Romney.
And there are people who don't see any enthusiasm for Romney.
And I can't deny that.
There are some people that have zilch enthusiasm for Romney. I've always believed here that to win an election, you have to have people voting for you. And I believe that here. I don't think a landslide's gonna happen simply because people are voting against Obama, although in 2010 that's what happened. In the midterm elections, with not a single Republican name on a ballot anywhere, nationally -- of course, there were House races and so forth -- that was an anti-status-quo election. And it was deep, and it was big, and it was down the ballot, and the Democrats lost in excess of 700 seats in the House, in statehouses, all the way down to town councils.
It was big.
And it's worse now than it was then. Now, one of the theories -- ah! One of the FEARS is that there are many millions of conservatives who so distrust Romney that they just won't vote, is that they are unhappy with the way the nomination process ended up and they're not happy with Romney. They're not enthusiastic, and they just might stay home. They just might sit at home and not vote. There are people who fear that that will happen. There are people who think that no matter how bad Obama is, Republicans don't have the answers, either.
Not conservatives don't have the answers; Republicans don't have the answers. And I will concede these hardcore Republican operatives and the consultants and so forth, I do think they're like everybody else in the Beltway: They live in a bubble, and they don't know what's going on outside the Beltway. They think they do, but they don't. And I think too many of them are counting on people like me to gin up enthusiasm for them.
They're counting on Obama to gin up enthusiasm for them rather than doing it themselves. I don't think that they grasp the lack of confidence in them among Tea Party conservatives and Tea Party Republicans. So anything can change between now and then. I just wanted to share with you the dinner party story and what I said. There was one other guest who agreed with me. He thought that Obama was gonna go down big, and I think it's still entirely possible.
Monkeys could fly out of my butt.
Right now electorally there are enough states in play (like Ohio, Virginia, etc) that Romney very well could skunk Obama. Keep in mind that Romney is beating Obama with independents by 13%. That's huge.
From one analysis I read it could come down to Virginia. If that happens Romney wins.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled Romney bashing.
I predict that we will have a close election and that the pro-sodomy, pro-abortion, anti-gun, pro-socialist not Christian candidate will win.
Well, it largely depends on how odious Obama appears around election day. It says much more about Obama than it does about Romney. Romney is the figurative Republican ham sandwich. If the Democrats overplay their hand and keep stumbling like the proud fools they are, then Romney won't have to do anything but sit there and look pretty to waltz into the White House.
I predict that we will have a close election and that the pro-sodomy, pro-abortion, anti-gun, pro-socialist not Christian candidate will win.
Romney won't win, Obama will lose.
Interesting. I think there is going to be a lot of voter fraud in the big cities. That will pull the numbers down for Romney. I do think Romney will win though.
Anything is possible, it's what's likely that really counts.
Nice rant by Rush here. I hope he's correct!
Fun-nee... but one has to confess, that other than being non Christian, Barack Obama puts much more energy into these anti's than Mitt does.
I think Obama will lose BIG. This is 1979 all over again. The dumba$$es that voted him in are out of college, they can't find jobs, they've gotten a taste of reality in the real world. The "Obama" stickers aren't out in full force like they were this time in 2008. Obamacare is wildly unpopular. Obama will lose, unless, he decides to manufacture a calamity. Which IMO is entirely possible.
Excellent point
I think the real situation is that there is an identity theft fraud going on and a basis for independence here, a real case.
When a seller of crap Chinese counterfeits (Romney GOP-E) cannot sell, they will let a thief steal your identity and buy the stuff for you (Obama and Democrates).
Romney is going to cover up for Democrates. The gig is in, America is committing suicide, either way.
So, if the giggers decide to cover up for the crimes of Democrates, Romney wins, if they agree to put the barrel to their mouthes and let the Democrates a$$ rape them instead of dying blissfuly with Romney Mormon cult kool aid, Obama will be let go to win.
I'm not convinced. What Mitt did for sodomizers in Mass makes Obama look conservative.
I saw several anti-Obama bumper stickers today at Costco. This was a first.
I think Rush could be right on this...
This could happen, but the die-hard Romney haters will have to wake up. Please don't ban me again for telling the truth.
Mitt appears to have waved the white flag in advance in Massachusetts rather than letting the juggernaut come at him through a court order. That he can be faulted for. He isn't, however, talking about mowing down DOMA.
Let me know how the election goes, I'll be sitting this one out. I will not vote for mitt the liberal.
I think it's true. The Romney haters around here of course want to discount that. But the fact is, Obama is simply the worst president, EVER. Sooner or later, that will catch up to him, and the polls---which have been constantly jimmied with "adults" and "registered voters" will swing pretty sharply when they are forced to deal with representative samples of likely voters. So, yeah, Rush is right . . . again.
Obama's spirit brother could win in a landslide, no escape from reality! Their spirit father will be happy regardless.
But in the end, Obama will be "The Devil You Know", once all of Romney's flaws are exposed.
It all depends on the white vote and the turnout, especially in the bible belt. If Romney gets enough of them to show up for him to cancel out the black vote, he will win.
And my question is this:what has gotten better for the Dems or us since the thumping they took in 20120?Nothing!
Wait ,wait ,wait.
Is RUSH talking nice about Mitt?
I know he never supports anyone but is he hoping for a Mitt win?
A vote for Romney is the only way to get rid of Holder, Sebulius, Napolitano, et al!
Absolutely, as I've said all along.
Which is why Joe L. won't endorse, or the Federalites won't stand behind the Coffee Server.
Instead they've placed their appointed Mandate-Man to save themselves. Federal Take continues, the plan.
Not voting for Mitt the liberal is in fact voting for Obama the Marxist. Please don't complain about one thing in the four years following the election, no matter who wins, if you care so little about your right to vote that you would sit it out because there isn't a candidate you like running. Lesser of two evils and all that. And spare me the argument that not voting will send a message to conservatives to run a conservative candidate. Not voting for McCain accomplished 4 years of the Obamanation. If Obama wins or steals this election, he has NOTHING stopping him from completely destroying what's left of our country. No, Romney isn't my idea of a good candidate, but I don't believe he hates America or would be hell-bent on destroying our way of life as POTUS. The same cannot be said for Obama.
It would be more accurate to say "Obama could lose in a landslide."
Just as in 1980 when there was a large anti-Carter vote causing Carter to lose in a landslide, there will be a large anti-Obama vote this time.
And, for those with short memories, in 1980 there was not a huge pro-Reagan vote. People were unsure about Reagan, but they were sure Carter had to go.
In 1984 there was a huge pro-Reagan vote.
In other words, since Conservatives buy ammo and not Chinese crap, their identity is stolen, taxes are levied on them, the money is distributed to retards who shop at WalMart or Macy's instead, buying Chinese ROmney counterfeit crap. Obama does the job for them, and they act stupid, like they do not know he is a crook and a criminal, letting him walk with this, worse than gun walker.
The GOP-E are pieces of crap.
Your butt not withstanding, Rush is 100% correct.
Romney will probably win in a landslide thanks to Trayvon Martin.
Obama has apparently sided with the Black Panthers in a race war against all the rest of us. Anyone who is not on the Federal dole and is the least bit undecided has just been scared straight away into the Romney camp.
A blowout requires Romney to win states like NH, MI, WI, MN, CO and NV plus win Ohio and Florida. Not likely IMHO.
Most ignorant post of the day and, believe me, that's sayin' something today.
He's not an idiot and supporting Obama, of course he is for Mitt.
So is that what he is doing now? Waiving the white flag again? By selecting an open sodomizer as his main spokesperson, and by attacking the Boy Scouts? What future court order is he afraid of now?
Remember Romney's roots are Mormon. If Sodomy is equated to Marriage and allowed to stand, then the basis for not allowing polygamy which is more common throughout the world falls too.
So if Romney wins either by a hair or a tsunami, we will get:
1. Liberal judges
2. Gun Control
3. Romneycare
4. Gay marriage everywhere
5. etc. etc. etc.
It doesn't so much matter who wins the presidency now as it does who controls the Senate.
At this point in 2008 all they could talk about was obama --- we were at a birthday party for one of them last week --- there were at least thirty there --- not one single word about the election.
As BB sang --- "The thrill is gone....".
If so, sounds like suicide moves to me. Why, when Barack's doing this was driving voters to him? I haven't heard folks on Townhall complaining about this yet, but it's surely only a matter of time (it is by no means in the tank for Romney, he has a lot of enemies there).
Don't sit it out. Vote for Goode and the Constitution party. Send a signal to the Republicans that they aren't the only game in town for conservatives.
I would add incoherent to the go along with ignorant.
Hubby and I just had this same conversation the other day.He was talking about all of the buys he works with in is union shop who are ready to go to DC and remove Obama from office themselves.Many of these guys have ever voted R before but this time they are fed up.You see the factory was given stimulus $$ to build a new dept. then the epa came in and said they couldn't do that because the hill next to them would trap pollutants too close to residential areas.There is a pottery less than 1/4mi away that uses much worse stuff than the glass factory does.
King Barry loses in a landslide and we get King Barry in a different package.
I don't see Bishop Romney appointing conservatives to the USSC, especially if he'd have to fight to get them through Congress, and I don't believe Bishop Romney will repeal BarryCare if the USSC upholds all or part of it. Even if BarryCare is off the table, no one in their right mind can believe Bishop Romney will do the sort of cutting that needs done or cut the right things when he makes token cuts to try and look like he's doing something. Internationally, he's an even sadder sack of manure.
The only hope is to have a Congress that is as driven and well managed as it was under Newt to counter whoever wins. What are the odds of getting someone like Newt given the fact that the Vichy Republicans worked harder to get rid of Newt than the Fascists themselves did?
Bishop Romney doesn't have what it takes to deal with things finally hitting bottom. We're in free fall now having already gone over the cliff by electing Barry in the first place. All Bishop Romney will be good for is to take the blame for everything so the Fascists can bandy his name around for four or five decades the way they did the name Hoover.
Hubby and I just had this same conversation the other day.He was talking about all of the guys he works with in his union shop who are ready to go to DC and remove Obama from office themselves.Many of these guys have ever voted R before but this time they are fed up.You see the factory was given stimulus $$ to build a new dept. then the epa came in and said they couldn't do that because the hill next to them would trap pollutants too close to residential areas.There is a pottery less than 1/4mi away that uses much worse stuff than the glass factory does.
This must be garnering him opposition even within the Mormon camp — many there still view it as a "clean living" faith.
How is this going to give any state Romneycare that didn't already want it? Or how would Newt Gingrich, say, have stopped that from happening?
Rush joined the "in" crowd. He's for whoever the Vichy anoint with elephant urine and make into the candidate.
It's too far out to have anything other than a gut feel, but I agree with Rush. When people get in the booth and wonder about four more years of this crap, knowing no one will know how they voted, they will vote against the regime.
The left ridiculed Reagan so much that it became very uncool to support him in 1980. But in the booth, people wanted no more of what the peanut had made of the country.
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the team as a whole. Obviously, it's a group effort and there's talent
But, I've never been a fan of anyone or anything before. I never under-
stood why people became so "fan"atic. But, now I do. Kind of.
So, please don't despise (and I'm not addressing this to you personally)
those of us who are on cloud 9 because we happen to enjoy one of
the players more than another.
"Winner of the coveted "Chink in the Armor" award!"
B- for a rook he's great. We all know what he does well. He still gets exposed on defense by more athletic PG's (i mean...Norris Cole?!?!) and has a hard time fighting through NBA screens...which i guess gets better with time.
Magic Johnson - 5 x as a PG before his premature retirement
Michael Jordan - 6 x as a SG and SF
Bill Russel - 11 x as C
Too bad those players only come along once every decade or two.
I started watch NBA, because i very like Cinderella story. I think knicks make amazing job in team strategy and media, because Jeremy Lin is something good.
Yes, Lin can't run like Rondo, and yes Lin can't dunk like Rose, But Lin have one thing who dont have Rondo, CP, Rose, and mass NBA players. This one thing is Basketball IQ.
And for me great pleasure to watch, how play smart guy agains best atlethes in league.
-because i very like Cinderella story ==> becaue I like Cinderella story very much
-I think knicks make amazing job in team strategy and media, ==> I think the Knicks did an amazing job ............ (handling the media? riding with the media hype?)
-because Jeremy Lin is something good ==> because Jeremy Lin is rather valuable. (is such a good player)
-But Lin have one thing who dont have Rondo, CP, Rose, and mass NBA players. ==> ...............................
-how play smart guy agains best atlethes in league ==> ..............................
To me there are many great NBA players now. Truly!
Do you know how good they must be (and must have been for a long time) in order to earn them a spot in NBA?
So they are all good players to me. And whoever shines a lot in this kind of competitive world is a great player.
This is Jeremy Lin's team. He's running the offense and getting everyone involved.
Jeremon Linbury
He is becoming the leader of this team. It's strange though, because he's basically a rook and he commands that kind of respect. Turning the team around and being able to handle himself in crunch time will do that i guess..
And he can grow into an allstar caliber player.
It's his personality. He does it quietly and humbly. Though, I caught (for the first time) his hand signals last night to get the players closer to the hoop. He's so likeable (to me) and the team can only get better. There's a lot of talent there, and the excitement level is tremendous.
"Winner of the coveted "Chink in the Armor" award!"


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I had my little one just about 3 weeks ago. I started nursing at the hospital after having a C-Section and everything seemed fine. We went home 2 days after delivery. On day 4, she started getting really fussy and you could hear her tummy rumbling/gurgling. I thought it was possibly just something I ate that did not agree with her little system. On day 5 we called our pediatrician, explained what was happening and he suggested that we give her formula and that I pump to see how much I was producing. I only pumped 5 ml's. I feel so horrible about starving her for a day and a half!!
I saw my doctor who prescribed Reglan. I am currently on day 12 and my milk production is only up to 7-10 ml's every 2-3 hours.
Our pediatrician told us to just add these ml's to the formula bottles. I so wanted to have a breastfed baby.
A little back history: In 2006 I had breast augmentation, above the muscle. The doctor swore that it would have no negative effect on breastfeeding. Of course he would say that wouldn't he?
I have two questions:
1. Is the 7-10 ml's really helping her get the antibodies and such that I so desperately want her to have? Quite a few people are telling me that it's not worth the effort of pumping every 2-3 hours.
2. Is there anything else I should do/take to get my supply up more? I've been reading about Fenugreek, Blessed Thistle, Red Rasberry, Mothers Milk Tea... It's all a bit overwelming to me. Should these things be taken in conjunction with the Reglan? Is this a question better suited for my doctor??
I'm trying really hard to do what is best for her and not quit if my little bit is helping. Also, I am trying to not be discouraged. I wanted to be that mom that breastfed for as long as possible.
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Frederick "Rick" Heath, financial adviser for Merrill Lynch, recently joined the Boulder office. Health received his bachelor's degree from The University of Delaware and worked in Merrill Lynch's office in Reston, Virginia, for seven years.
David Lubchenco has joined Boulder-based Chautauqua Capital Management as a partner. Lubchenco will be responsible for client development and service for the Chautauqua International Growth Equity strategy and the Chautauqua Global Growth Equity strategy. Prior to joining Chautauqua, Lubchenco was the executive vice president responsible for sales, marketing and client service at Scout Investments. He has more than 20 years of experience having also worked at Transamerica Investment Management, Janus Capital and Founders Asset Management.
Ron Eller has agreed to join Boulder-based Siva Therapeutics Inc.'s business advisory board. Eller runs his own management consulting and investment firm, Monroe Street Capital, LLC and is a principal with a private equity firm, Top Rock LLC. Eller recently held senior executive positions with Ascent Solar, Hewlett-Packard and Compaq Computer Corp. Also, Dr. Mark W. Dewhirst, an internationally recognized leader in hyperthermic therapy, joined the company's scientific advisory board.
The Broomfield Resource Center hired Mike Saunders as coordinator. Saunders has a master's degree in marketing, serves as an adjunct marketing professor at several colleges and is a consultant with the Small Business Development Center. He will provide resources to new and existing businesses in Broomfield.
Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar appointed Michael Barningham of Broomfield to the Front Range Resource Advisory Council, which advisees the Bureau of Land Management Colorado's Front Range District including the Royal Gorge and San Luis Valley field offices. Barningham will focus on public land issues as they pertain to transportation and rights-of-way interests.
Tom Smerdon has been named interim leader of the University of Colorado's technology-transfer department. Dave Allen, former associate vice president for technology transfer at CU's four campuses, said last month that he would leave to take a similar role at the University of Arizona. Allen made $250,000 in the job. Smerdon will make $200,000 in the interim role. He is based at the CU-Boulder campus. The office focuses on licensing intellectual property to companies.
Boulder-based LinkSmart, a provider of text link optimization solutions for web publishers, appointed Mike Stigliano as vice president of business development. Stigliano has 14 years experience in the publishing and digital media industries. Previously, he was the director of business development at Hearst Digital, responsible for partnership development and strategy across the Hearst Magazines' Digital Media portfolio including magazine brand sites such as Esquire, Cosmopolitan and Good Housekeeping, as well as standalone digital properties including Delish.com, RealBeauty.com and thedailygreen.com.
Boulder-based InspiringApps hired Donald Ness as a software engineer. He will focus on JavaScript and iOS programming for mobile business apps. Ness received a bachelor's degree in computer science from Texas A&M University and most recently worked at SpeakWrite LLC where he was a software engineer. He was a member of the Peppered Software team when it released Scribe, an app featured by Apple. He has more than 10 years of experience in software development.
Louisville-based Inovonics Corp., a provider of wireless sensor networks, promoted Don Commare to vice president of marketing. Commare will develop, oversee and implement the company's marketing strategy to ensure it aligns with and meets corporate goals. Prior to his promotion, Commare was director of product management.
Broomfield resident Gregory Dean Blanchard has been named a member of the 2012 President's Council of New York Life. Members of the President's Council are among the top 8percent of New York Life's elite sales force of 12,250 licensed agents. Blanchard has been a New York Life agent since 1986 and is associated with New York Life's Colorado General Office in Arvada. He has been named agent of the year on two different occasions, is a member of the Million Dollar Round Table, and served on the board of directors of the Denver Association of Life Underwriters among other achievements.
Gene A. Ciancio was appointed to the Metropolitan Football Stadium District Board for a four-year term. Ciancio is a founding attorney with the law firm of Donelson Ciancio & Grant PC and a devout Denver Broncos fan. Ciancio has served with ACCESS Housing, Westminster Legacy Foundation and the Community Reach Center.
John Paul Sales, wealth-management adviser with Merrill Lynch Boulder, was recently named president of the Boulder Hockey Club's board of directors.
"I Have a Dream" Foundation of Boulder County hired Adam Million as development coordinator and Daniel Sikkink Johnson as college and career coordinator. Both were AmeriCorps members with the organization. Million will write grants, coordinate marketing efforts, work with Dreamers on their writing, reading and college preparation activities, and collaborate on special events. Johnson will provide case management to alumni Dreamers, coordinate precollegiate, job-shadow and summer internship programs, work with high school students on the college application and financial aid processes, and collaborate on events.
Boulder-based Zeal Optics Inc., a maker of high-tech ski goggles and sunglasses, named John Sanchez president. He previously was with Zeal's parent company, Maui Jim Inc., a sunglasses maker based in Peoria, Illinois. His previous role at Maui Jim was vice president of product development.
Boulder-based Apex Sports Group hired Todd Poseley as director of sales and marketing, and TJ Larson as national sales manager. Also, Robert Paige was hired as the company's sales representative for Western Canada.
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Appeals Court Ruling Upholds
May 29, 2002
Further Information:
The State Board of Education was directed by Judge Gettleman to draft the transition rules to bring the certification of special education teachers into compliance with federal special education laws. Special education certification was based on the specific categories of disabilities served, and Judge Gettleman directed that the state revise its approach to certification in order to have the certification system facilitate compliance with the federal law's Least Restrictive Environment requirement. Gettleman ordered the State Board in August 2001 to begin implementing the transition rules.
The transition rules provide ways for current special education teachers to attain the cross-categorical certification that will be required of newly trained special education teachers. A summary of the rules may be accessed on the web at http://www.isbe.net/coreyh/htmls/coreyhupdate.htm The request for a preliminary injunction was filed by a group of special education teachers from outside the City of Chicago and a group of special education students outside the City of Chicago, collectively known as Reid L. In denying the request for injunctive relief, the Court of Appeals explained that the Reid L. groups were not likely to succeed on the merits of their claims.
The groups also asked for the right to intervene in the Corey H. case. Gettleman ruled that the groups could not intervene at this stage and the Court of Appeals agreed.
In denying the intervention request, Gettleman cited several reasons: (1) timeliness, since the case had been litigated for nearly ten years; (2) prospective intervenors had not shown they had standing to sue, given that " they were asserting only a generalized interest in a sound educational system;" (3)failure to "demonstrate that their interests had not been adequately represented by an interested party, namely, the ISBE; " and (4) prospective intervenors "failed to show that their rights or interests would be impaired by anything in the Corey H. settlement," since placement decisions for students would continue to be made on an individual child basis through an IEP and teachers would maintain their certification with professional development to help them ailor their training to the new system.
The appeals court also upheld Gettleman's right to order the changes despite objections of state officials. The legislature's Joint Committee on Administrative Rules had objected to the rules and directed that they be suspended and both the Illinois House and Senate had passed a resolution opposing the implementation of the transition rules. The Seventh Circuit decided that Gettleman acted properly in ruling that "state authorities did not have the power to override an injunctive decree issued by a federal court to remedy a state's violation of standards established by federal law."


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By Kevin Wilson: Freedom New Mexico
Eastern New Mexico University, already at 2-5, is going into today's game at Greyhound Stadium without record-setting quarterback J.J. Harp or its No. 2 receiver. And the No. 13 team in Division II is coming into town.
The situation has all the signs of a trap game — or it would, if Sam McElroy believed trap games existed in the Lone Star Conference South, a division where the Texans (6-1, 1-1 South) are one of four nationally-ranked squads.
"In this league, in the South," said MeElroy, 36-13 in his fifth season at Tarleton, "you better play your best game every Saturday or you've got a chance to get beat. We understand that and we think everybody in the league does."
With an indefinite suspension hanging over the heads of four Greyhounds, including Harp and sophomore receiver Darian Dale, it's not a good time for the Hounds (0-3 South) to be facing the Texans.
But there never would have been a good time, ENMU coach Mark Ribaudo said.
"They're big, they're strong, they've got experience," Ribaudo said. "Tarleton is a physical football team. They're going to hit. Last week (34-24 loss at West Texas A&M) was the most physical game we've had, but these guys are going to be even more physical."
The Texans have been led by their defense, sparked by defensive back Matt Knicky and linebacker Marcus Phillips.
"We haven't been consistent on offense," McElroy said. "But when we do execute, we've had some success. It hasn't been bad, just not where we want it to be."
The Greyhounds' offense, meanwhile, has slowed since division play began but is still averaging more than 530 yards per game. Part of the reason for the slowdown is a minus-5 turnover margin in three division games.
"We've been turning over the ball, but we're leading the conference in takeaways," Ribaudo said. "We're doing good things and we're doing not-so-good things. We need to do more good things."
The offense will be turned over for this week — Ribaudo figures the player suspensions will only be for a week — to freshman Wes Wood, who last season threw 64 touchdown passes and led Muleshoe to the school's first Texas Class 2A state championship.
"He's been rolling with the 1s this whole week," Ribaudo said, "and he's looking pretty good."
Even though a spread is predicated on timing, McElroy said he expects Wood will do the job.
"We're going to face a team at Eastern that's really moving the ball well and is scoring a lot of points," McElroy said. "Their defense is playing with a lot of excitement and effort.
"We've got to keep their offense off the field. If we can take care of the ball and have some success moving it, that will go a long way to help our defense."
Tarleton State (6-1)
at ENMU (2-5)
6 p.m., Greyhound Stadium.
Radio: KSEL-FM 105.9.
Coaches: Tarleton State, Sam McElroy, fifth season, 36-13. ENMU, Mark Ribaudo, fifth season, 15-34.
Last meeting: 2008, Tarleton 42-21. The Greyhounds lead the overall series 12-5, but the Texans have won the last five meetings.
Last week: The Greyhounds fell 34-24 at West Texas A&M. Tarleton State rallied from a 21-3 deficit and to beat Midwestern State 31-28 on Garrett Lindholm's 55-yard field goal as time expired.
Tarleton players to watch: Lindholm, QB Scott Grantham, RB Roderick Smith, WR Devin Guinn, KR Evan Robertson.
Notes: The Greyhounds will be without sophomores J.J. Harp and Darian Dale. Harp, who leads the Lone Star Conference in passing yards, total offense and touchdown passes, and Dale, 39th in Division II in receptions, are two of four players under indefinite suspension for violation of university policy. Freshman Wes Wood, who led Muleshoe to the Texas Class 2A Division I championship last season, will start at quarterback.


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From Ibrahim to Khalil: Healing through the flames, American Islam and Palestine/Israel
The recent visit of some American Muslim leaders to Jerusalem to engage in interfaith dialogue with the Jewish leaders has yet again opened deep wounds for the American Muslim community. It is Ramadan, and it is Gaza. It is a sacred time, and it is a time of profound sorrow and outrage as we see Baraka and pain mingling. Let us hope that these words may help usher some healing for our community.