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by justmebd » Wed Dec 07, 2011 11:51 am
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by LakeErieWarriors » Wed Dec 07, 2011 8:07 pm
by peeker643 » Wed Dec 07, 2011 8:22 pm
LakeErieWarriors wrote:"I think it's fair to start wondering how long Mike Holmgren is going to hang around in Cleveland if this is all the Browns are capable of producing. Just more of the same mediocre football, year after frustrating year. Honest answer, Browns fans: Were 1996-97-98, the years Cleveland had no NFL team, much, much worse than the ensuing 13 seasons?" -Don Banks SI Power Football Rankings
by LakeErieWarriors » Wed Dec 07, 2011 8:43 pm
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by Fire Marshall Bill » Thu Dec 08, 2011 11:51 am
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by Hikohadon » Thu Dec 08, 2011 4:18 pm
by mattvan1 » Thu Dec 08, 2011 4:42 pm
Hikohadon wrote:I think Banks just threw some shit against his keyboard to see what the random compression of the letters might produce.My dream as a Cleveland Browns fan involves Scarlett Johannsen and a blimp. Maybe the blimp is over the Super Bowl, maybe it isn't, the dream somehow focused on other things.
by Hikohadon » Thu Dec 08, 2011 5:51 pm
by motherscratcher » Sun Dec 11, 2011 10:15 am
Hikohadon wrote:OK, we'll try this dream on for size (trying to keep it within the bounds of semi-reality):Andy Reid is fired by Philly. He becomes the Browns' OC due to his close ties with, well, everyone in the org. He takes over playcalling duties. He lures DeShaun Jackson to Cleveland, who Philly lets walk b/c of bad blood and the Browns pay significantly more than other teams who are wary of his 'tude. Browns and Hillis kiss and make up and ink a 2 year deal (not a huge fan of Hillis, but the FA market for RB's sucks). They pick up Carlos Rogers from SF to take Sheldon's place. And, sadly, they have to go with aging but still functional Kareem McKenzie at RT for a few years b/c they don't have enough draft picks/cap space to fill every gap in one offseason. With the #4 overall pick, they select RG3. With the 2nd pick of the 1st Rd, #18, they take LB Zach Brown from NC. They take Whitney Mercilus, DE from Illinois, in the 2nd Rd.
by justmebd » Sun Dec 11, 2011 2:26 pm
by rebelwithoutaclue » Sun Dec 11, 2011 3:11 pm
The problem I see at this point with trying to draft a Blue Chip QB is this: If you are RG3 or Matt Barkley, why would you want to come here?If either of those guys ended up getting his name called when the Browns step up to the podium, I wouldn't be surprised (or offended at this point) if they pulled an Eli Manning.This place kills QB prospects with piss poor management and coaching. Again, that all goes back to ownership.I'm sure Mike Holmgren will shrug his shoulders all the way to the bank to cash Randy Lerner's checks after we hit the reset button again.
by Govbarney » Sun Dec 11, 2011 3:49 pm
peeker643 wrote:LakeErieWarriors wrote:"I think it's fair to start wondering how long Mike Holmgren is going to hang around in Cleveland if this is all the Browns are capable of producing. Just more of the same mediocre football, year after frustrating year. Honest answer, Browns fans: Were 1996-97-98, the years Cleveland had no NFL team, much, much worse than the ensuing 13 seasons?" -Don Banks SI Power Football Rankings What chance did he really have?An open check book, an enabling and adoring fan base, the access to high draft picks, filling the organization with his hand-picked hires, nowhere to go but up, an absentee owner who washed his hands of things after hiring him....Fuck Mike Holmgren in the face if he doesn't want to 'hang around'. He can suck a dick if that's the case.Seriously. Fuck him.
by Triple-S » Sun Dec 11, 2011 4:58 pm
Swerb wrote:Go start a blog if you want to tell the world your incomprehendible ramblings.
Cerebral_DownTime wrote:I have a big arm and can throw the ball pretty damn far...... maybe even over those moutains. The Browns should sign me, i'll let you all in locker room to drink beer. Then we can all go out the parking lot to watch me do motorcycle stunts.
by LakeErieWarriors » Sun Dec 11, 2011 5:20 pm
Triple-S wrote:Watching the Saints/Titans game..(mind you one team is elite..the other "eh") amazes me.It's like watching a completely different sport than watching the Browns failure on ice every sunday afternoon.That's all were asking for. TO BE ENTERTAINED. To be able to go into games against the Inbred and Rats and be like "You know what, they may have a slight edge to them, but we have a shot""Here we are now, entertain us".
by LakeErieWarriors » Sun Dec 11, 2011 5:29 pm
by Govbarney » Sun Dec 11, 2011 8:50 pm
LakeErieWarriors wrote:Also, a question: Does anyone think that the casinos in Cleveland in the very near future will make the city more attractive to athletes/make Cleveland a better city in general? I know that gambling/booze/strippers makes any situation better, but my question is whether or not it will make a significant positive impact.
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Yum! I need to try this. Did you sweeten up the ricotta, besides the chips?I did a NY style skin, pre-baked with several types of choco chips and shaved chocolate with Nutella drizzeled on top. Yeah, good pizza crust and chocolate. How can you go wrong?Jack

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Samuel Jackson Gossip
Samuel Jackson gossip, latest news, photos, and video.
"Suit up"
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It's such a cheesy f-cking expression, "Suit up". And I LOVE IT SO MUCH. But that's probably because I love the Avengers. If skeevy Superman Henry Cavill were saying it to skeevy Batman Ben Affleck, I'd probably feel differently. Captain America: (the Avengers) Civil War opens next week in North America. Full Story
Hateful Eight's last-minute Oscar push
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Oscar nominations are due this Friday, so there's a lot of activity all over the place as everyone makes their last-minute pitch to get their named called on January 14, when the nominations are announced. To that end, Samuel L. Jackson and Walton Goggins were in New York last night, at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards, accepting a special award for The Hateful Eight composer Ennio Morricone. Full Story
Dear Gossips,
When you have a few minutes today, please read The Hollywood Reporter's Actors Roundtable featuring Samuel L Jackson, Michael Caine, Mark Ruffalo, Will Smith, Benicio Del Toro, and Joel Edgerton. It'll take 5, maybe 6, tops. Read Full Intro
The Hateful Eight continues to look amazing
Quentin Tarantino has recently found himself at the center of controversy—again—after he went to a protest against police brutality and made some comments that angered police officers and has resulted in an ever-spreading boycott by police unions and organizations across the country. Full Story
Hot Harry in a hoodie
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Prince Harry and Prince William (am I allowed to put Harry before his brother?) played in the Audi Polo Challenge yesterday in Ascot wearing the sh-t out of their white pants. Look at that string around his neck while he's checking his phone. God, he's such a 2006 frat bro sometimes, it kills me. Full Story
Kingsman: The Secret Service review
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There's a scene in Kingsman: The Secret Service (why the subtitle? It's dumb) in which Colin Firth, as dapper gentleman spy Harry and Samuel L. Jackson as megalomaniac Valentine, talk about their love of old spy movies, bemoaning that modern spy thrillers have "grown too serious". Full Story
Skins meets Bond
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The redband trailer for the upcoming Kingsman: The Secret Service has been released. Colin Firth plays a Bond type. He recruits and trains a new member of the Secret Service – a punk kid who looks like he could have been in Skins. It's a comedy. And … I'm into it. SO into it. Full Story
Samuel L Jackson and the Beckhams
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Did you see Victoria Beckham at Wimbledon yesterday? She and David were seated next to Samuel L Jackson. And everyone was saying it was an "awkward meeting". It wasn't an awkward meeting. She was awkward. He was looking at her like, why the f-ck is this woman so awkward? Here's a clip: It's like she can't decide – should I smile? I shouldn't smile. Full Story
Scarjo opens up…a little
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Scarlett Johansson was with the cast of Captain America: The Winter Soldier in China yesterday. That's a pretty prominent v-neck on Chris Evans, non? Here's how I see the v-neck: it can't go with big arms. You have to choose one. Go with a v-neck if your arms aren't stretching to hulk the sh-t out of your shirt. Full Story
The Grandmaster in New York!
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Wong Kar-Wai's The Grandmaster (now presented by Martin Scorsese) screened in New York last night. The director and his stars, Zhang Ziyi and Tony Leung, were there with Susan Sarandon and Samuel L Jackson. As you know, like a proper Hong Kong girl, I LOVE Tony Leung. And he looks so great in this black suit. Full Story
The Avengers assemble for the Oscars
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The Academy sent out a press release this morning announcing that the cast of The Avengers—RDJ, Mark Ruffalo, Jeremy Renner, Chris Evans and Samuel L. Jackson—will be presenting at the Oscars. There are a couple noticeable absences, though. Scarlett Johansson, who's currently on Broadway so it's conceivable she couldn't take the time off, but where in the world is Chris Hemsworth? He has his own franchise and Thor 2 is opening later this year. Full Story


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Question for the mods:
How is this thread different than the thread I started about Stubbs earlier? I'm not sure I understand why it got shut down given that Stubbs is basically the #1 thing that RedsZone folks want to talk about right now...
"Ill kind of have a foot on the back of my own butt. Thats just how I do things. -- Bryan Price, 10/22/2013
"Since I've been with the Reds in 1989, we've never had a farm system this loaded," Bowden said. "If we were the New York Yankees and had unlimited dollars, we could have traded for Colon, (Jeff) Weaver, Rolen, (Cliff) Floyd, (Kenny) Rogers and Finley and gotten them all -- and still held onto our top five prospects. That's an amazing statement."
Stubbs making some improvements
Walk rate nearly doubles, K rate drops about 30% and still posting a BABIP in the normal range. Gotta like that.Code:Split PA AB H 2B 3B HR BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS BB% K% BABIP Aug 64 61 15 2 0 3 3 20 .246 .281 .426 .707 4.7% 31.3% .316 Sept 77 70 19 0 1 5 7 17 .271 .338 .514 .852 9.1% 22.1% .292
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Sometimes it seems it can get a little one sided in appeach to evalution around here, IMO. And I think that leads to threads getting closed, when sides are duking it out in spirited debate about their opinions.
And in the end that's what they are, opinions. So many absolutes get thrown around, but in the end, its just a guess.
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Eight homeruns and seven stolen bases in 131 at-bats. He has a chance to join the 10/10 club!
And, the updated general stats through 131 at-bats:
.260/.312/.473 for an OPS of .785. The 7 sbs are in 11 attempts. Still just the two doubles, as has been often pointed out in this thread, a triple to go with the 8 home runs. He's walking a little more, now up to 10 walks, but still not enough to get that OBP really up. The walk in the 8th last night was as encouraging for me as the first inning homerun. I do have a general question on the doubles...doesn't GABP suppress doubles to some extent? A few more homers, and a few less doubles for all players, all things being equal?
Really an oddly interesting debut, no matter how you slice it.
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After some of the contracts Krivsky gave out that Lettuce Bob was forced to eat, I'm not sure he or his wallet is ready to eat some of Jocketty's contracts.
What does that mean? Lettuce Bob's paying Taveras $4M for 2010, and it'll be to play for the Reds, rather than not playing for the Reds.
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Having better players makes "the right time" or "the big hit" happen a lot more often. PLUS PLUS
I think the odd stats are likely just small sample size. It's not like many of his HR's have been cheap, he's scorched most of them.
I expect his doubles will increase since he has the speed to turn singles for most hitters into some doubles.
His HR/FB rate of 22.2% likely cannot be sustained.
He will need to walk more and hit some more doubles to maintain a .750 OPS. His walk rate has been steadily incresing, so I suggest that is possible.
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3 Things You Should Know About Small Business: Nov. 28
NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- What's happening in small business today?
1. Startups lead recovery in hiring and job creation. The pace of recovery in hiring and job creation since 2008 is stronger in newer firms -- those two years old or younger -- than in more established companies, according to the "Job Creation, Worker Churning, and Wages at Young Businesses" report released Wednesday by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation .
Despite higher employee turnover rates, the share of hiring based on job creation is much greater at startups than at more mature firms. According to the report, four out of every 10 hires at young firms are for newly created jobs, much higher than at older firms, where the ratio fluctuates between 2.5 and 3.3 hires.
The research draws its conclusions from the U.S. Census Bureau's Quarterly Workforce Indicators, which use federal and state administrative data on employers and employees combined with core Census Bureau data. The Census report recently began including firm age and size information, making it possible for the first time to review jobs, earnings and employment turnover using that criteria, and to make regional and demographic comparisons, Kauffman explains.
The Kauffman report also found that, not surprisingly, earnings per worker are lower at young firms than at more mature firms. Just before the 2001 recession, startup employees earned about 85% as much as workers at mature firms. By 2011, this earnings ratio had dropped to 70%, the report says.
2. Six reasons you should relocate your startup. Selecting an appropriate location for your business is just as important as the product or service you are selling. Depending on your industry, there are regions in the U.S. and internationally that might be better suited for your business.
"For example, consumer-focused Internet start-ups thrive in Silicon Valley, Boston's best for biotech and big data, and for media- and fashion-focused ventures, Manhattan's the biggest apple," Forbes contributor Peter Cohan writes.
But, of course, relocating is a pain in the neck, which means the benefits must outweigh the costs. Cohan notes there are six elements to decide whether relocating is the right thing to do: pillar companies or large companies that may have customers for your business; universities, which can offer a great source of intellectual property and talent; human capital including a full range of talent from C-level executives to salespeople to marketers; access to investment capital; mentoring programs and finally, values.
"Silicon Valley has a unique set of values that guide the way people behave -- it bets on ideas that will disrupt the way the world works, it pushes people to give back without expectation of short-term gain, and it rewards intellectual humility," Cohan writes. "Such values may be critical to your venture's prospects for success. One entrepreneur who relocated to Palo Alto told me that in London -- where he came from - it is very difficult to meet with people who have capital or valuable advice and those masters of the universe only help if they see an immediate short-term benefit for themselves. This helped prompt him to leave London."


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Seven women, seven inspiring weight loss stories.
Every day�on TV and in magazines, from our friends and coworkers�we�re inundated with conflicting messages about weight loss. If you want to lose a few pounds, it can be difficult to know where to start. Should you take a stab at that juice cleanse your BFF has been raving about, or should you go low-carb like your sister suggests? To get real answers, we picked the brains of seven real women, all of whom lost substantial amounts of weight through tried-and-true, healthy methods (read: no starvation or gimmicks). Although each woman tackled her weight loss with a slightly different approach, there were some common threads throughout. The best way to lose weight, it seems, is relatively straightforward, a combination of sensible eating, physical activity, and a heckuva lotta willpower. Need some inspiration to drop those lbs? Steal these women�s no-nonsense secrets for weight loss salvation. Shannon Cooper, 35,�Minneapolis, MN Weight Loss: 125 pounds One day shortly after her wedding, Shannon stepped onto her bathroom scale and was shocked by the number staring back at her: 308 pounds. �At that point, it feels like you�re too far gone,� Shannon remembers. �It�s difficult to even think about being at a healthy weight.� Losing 125 pounds seemed unfathomable, so she started small. �I started with 25 pounds,� she says. Shannon, who had barely ever stepped foot into a gym, joined her local YMCA and eventually hired a trainer for some guidance.��It was helpful to have someone teach me how to do it,� she says. She lifted weights three hours a week and did cardio two to three hours a week. In addition to exercising, Shannon logged everything she ate via MyFitnessPal. �I made changes I could stick with,� she says. She focused on consuming whole, nutrient-dense foods and upping her protein intake. Still, though, she won't say no to the occasional dessert. �I always have room for treats,� she says. �If you don�t incorporate treats into your eating plan, you�re setting yourself up for failure.� At the end of the day, the desire to lose weight has to stem from self-love, not hate, she says. �It�s easy to hate your body when you�re overweight,� Shannon says. �But at a certain point, that hate gets in the way of your goals. Your body is not your enemy. It is never going to be perfect. You have to accept the body you have and sculpt it.� Jennifer Espinosa-Goswami,�36,�Minneapolis, MN Weight Loss: 100 pounds �I was always a fat kid,� says Jennifer Espinosa-Goswami, a Minneapolis-based consultant. �I was never able to shop for average size clothes. I wore plus sizes.� When she was a senior in college, Jennifer�s beloved grandmother passed away. �She was the matriarch in our family,� says Jennifer, who weighed 265 pounds at her heaviest. �She was very active. Everyone loved her. She was a very positive person. I realized that if I continued living like I was living, I would not make it to 88. I was not treating myself well.� Jennifer began keeping a food journal and tried to stay below 2,000 calories. �I wrote down everything I ate for one month to become more conscious of what I was eating,� she says. Jennifer�s second piece of advice? Don�t drink your calories. Soda and other sweetened beverages can really make a dent in your diet�stick to plain-old water. �Drink a glass of water before and after to eat to fill up,� she suggests. Recently, Jennifer made the decision to go vegetarian. �It�s been challenging,� she says. �I�ve gone from a girl who told her parents she would never eat vegetables again to eating vegetables at every meal.� �You have to take time for yourself,� says Jennifer, who chroncicles her weight loss journey on her website, Weightless Chronicles. �Too many people wait until the last minute to take care of themselves. There�s no reason to do that.� Joan Gunter,�53,�Olathe, KS Weight Loss:42 pounds When she joined Weight Watchers, Joan Gunter weighed 174 pounds�four pounds lighter than her heaviest weight of 178 pounds. �Everyone loses weight before joining Weight Watchers,� she says. �It�s a typical response.� Joan's father died in 1997. For years, she had watched him suffer from a number of weight-related health challenges, including high blood pressure, five bypass surgeries, diabetes and a blocked carotid artery. Joan says that this experience was her wake-up that she needed to change her unhealthy ways before it was too late. She joined Weight Watchers eight times over an 11-year period. The first seven times, she would never stay for a meeting. �I didn�t want to admit I was out of control,� says Gunter. �I always have everything under control.� The eighth time was the charm. Weight Watchers focuses on whole foods. �It�s not about will power, it�s about want power,� Joan says. �It�s hard work,� she adds. �That�s why group support really works. Everyone is there to support each other. We all have issues. We�re all in this together.� Weight loss doesn't happen immediately, Joan says; it requires serious lifestyle changes. In order to lose weight, you have to eat the right food, exercise and change your behavior. �It�s not going to happen overnight,� said Gunter. "There are ups and downs, and you have to learn to adapt. You have to ask yourself how bad do you really want this. The answer will tell you. You have to have a goal; you can�t just say you want to lose weight." Donna Hollars,�49,�Mt. Pleasant, SC Weight Loss: 75 pounds Donna Hollars was reading the newspaper when her eye caught the name Noah Moore, who had decided to get healthy after his son was born nine years ago. �He was in the paper because his little boy had died,� she said. �It broke me in so many places. I looked at myself in the mirror and thought about what if I lost my nine-year-old daughter.� At the time, she weighed 212 pounds. �I had never been this size,� Donna says. �I�ve always hovered in the healthier range.� The weight had crept up on her slowly over the years. �It was easy to overlook a pound or two.� After she read Moore�s story, she made the commitment to lose weight. �My first goal weight was 150 pounds,� Donna remembers. �I didn�t know what 150 pounds looked like.� She started on June 2, 1013 and by December 31 had lost 65 pounds. She now weighs 137 pounds. �It�s still a journey,� she says. �But I don�t worry about the number anymore.� Donna started running and eating healthier. Running is her sanity. She did her first 5K run to support ending childhood obesity. Noah has been a continual source of inspiration for herself and her child. �I want to meet him and shake his hand.� She recommends taking front and side pictures of yourself and using a belt or measuring tape to take your measurements and then writing them down. �I weigh myself every day,� she says. �If I notice a fluctuation on the scales, I look back at my food journal and that tells me why. I learned my body�s nuances.� �You have to find something that works for you and dedicate yourself to it,� adds Donna. �What works for me may not work for someone else. I found something that works.� She eats more protein and consumes her carbs before 2 p.m. and doesn�t count calories. What motivates her is knowing that what she was doing is having a positive effect on more than just her. �I want to be my daughter�s role model,� Donna says. Stacy Kresic,�44,�Concord, OH Weight Loss: 80 pounds Nine years ago, Stacy Kresic was at her heaviest weight: 221 pounds. �I�ve always been heavy,� Stacy says. �I can�t remember a time when I wasn�t overweight. I didn�t feel comfortable with myself.� There was constant inspiration to change. �It was a constant struggle,� she says. In an attempt to lose weight, she wouldn�t eat anything all day and then would have a candy bar because it was low in calories. �I was always miserable.� After trying everything in a bid to lose weight, Stacy grew discouraged and ultimately threw in the towel. �It seemed like an unwinnable battle,� she said. She was eating whatever she wanted and was gaining one pound every two weeks when she heard a commercial about the Atkins diet. �It was completely different. The science was interesting.� She thought it was worth a try. �I loved it,� said Kresic. �I felt so good. It was such a healthy thing. It was a great feeling once I started.� She lost five pounds in the first two weeks. Within a year, she had lost 80 pounds. �I always adhere to it,� she said. �It has become a solution in my life. I can enjoy life without thinking about what I�m going to eat next.� Kresic advises women to find a plan that works within their lifestyle and commit to it. �I found the right way to eat that is so much healthier,� said Kresic. �It�s been a momentous life change.� Donna Parry,�59,�Arlington, VA Weight Loss: 53 pounds When Donna Parry looks back on old photos of herself, she sees she a �chubby girl� as far back as early grade school. �I�m 5�11�. I wasn�t overweight, per se,� she says. �I was just a big kid.� When she retired from the Air Force in 1999, she weighed between 185 and 190 pounds. She started gaining weight slowly gaining weight every decade. �Every year, I gained five pounds,��she says. One day, while watching a Sunday morning news show, Donna heard about Duke Diet & Fitness Center. She was immediately intrigued. �It stuck in my mind,� she says. She attended the program in July 2012 and lost 18 or 19 pounds. �It�s a common-sense approach to weight loss,� Donna says. �It�s slow and achievable.� While at Duke, Donna learned the importance of counting calories. �You go for a month and you�re immersed in it.� Participants are placed on a 2,000 calorie diet and get to choose what they want to eat. �It�s good food,� she said. �It�s filling. I never felt hungry.� She stayed on the Duke program and watched what she ate. By January 2013, she was down to 190 pounds. To this day, Donna still writes down everything she eats and aims to consume between 2,000 and 2,500 calories a day.�There is no magic bullet for weight loss, she says. It takes the old fashioned way: calories in, calories out. �You owe it to yourself,� Donna says. �Don�t give up. There are no quick fixes.� Legna Ralat,�35,�Springfield, IL Weight Loss: 85 pounds As a kid, Legna Ralat�s favorite food was salad. �My mom could make any salad taste good,� she says. Throughout high school, she weighed an average of 155 pounds. It wasn�t until after the birth of her third child that she started gaining weight until she reached 210 pounds. One day her daughter asked her, �Mom, why don�t you look like other moms?� �It really stuck with me,� says Legna, who wanted to find something that would make her daughter proud of her. She had always wanted to compete in fitness shows. �I would look at these women and think I want to do that someday,� says Legna. After her first daughter was born, she set a goal of competing in her first fitness show before she turned 35. In 2013, she did her first fitness show and earned her pro card. �It was my childhood dream,� she said. �It was a major accomplishment.� The journey to that end has not been easy. She was diagnosed with hypoglycemia. �My doctor told me I needed to lose weight,� Legna says. �I was tired of being depressed and carrying this weight.� She changed her diet. Because of her hypoglycemia, she was doing needle sticks before every meal. �I would eat every three hours.� She cut out fast food and stopped eating out and starting eating clean. She ate a protein and a vegetable at every meal. In 2007, a friend told Legna about Gold�s Gym. She started going to the gym three times a day. �I was determined to take off the weight,� says Legna, who had lifted weights and ran track in high school. �I applied the stuff I did in high school.� It stuck. Now, Legna says, "The gym is my drug." �You have to do it for yourself,� she adds. �Your body is the only thing you have control of. You deserve it.� This article originally appeared as on Spry Living


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World War II: Which Countries Fought?
The Second World War was basically a battle between the Axis Powers and the Allied Forces for control of the world. Comprising the Axis were Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany, Benito Mussolini's fascist Italy and Hirohito's Japan, though other countries came and went from this side of the fight. The Allies initially were Britain, France and Poland; however, when the United States was eventually drawn into the war that country also fought for this side. Much like WWI, the Second World War drastically altered the geopolitical landscape and left a long-lasting impact on the world. In Part 3 of our series on WWII, WatchMojo.com finds out who was fighting whom during the Second World War.


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August 15, 2012
SCYSL is hosting a CYSA Cal-North Coaching Clinic on Saturday, August 25th from 2pm-4pm at Sutter Field located at 3200 Forbes Avenue geared towards U7-U10 Recreational coaches. The clinic instructor is Paul Sapsford, Cal North Director of Coaching - Recreational, Sports Science and College Advisory.
CYSA Cal-North provides FREE coaching clinics provided their two Staff Directors of Coaching. These Free Clinics, geared towards adult education, are available to Cal-North affiliated league/club coaches at no expense to participants.
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Quite often we listen to each episode of the Archers three times: at seven o'clock, at two o'clock and the whole week's drama through again on Sunday. How sad is that?
But it is even worse! This Ambridge excess is followed up by visits to the Archer's message board, to see what other people have made of the day's Ambridge events. That is about an hour a day, Sunday to Friday, listening to or thinking about the Archers. Saturday is a non-Archer day; it has its own distractions.
To the six hours of Archers we must add the three point eight hours a day, I am reliably informed, that people spend watching television - about twenty-seven hours. Fifty-six hours a week are spent sleeping, or trying to sleep. Say, ten hours a week are spent preparing and eating food. A somewhat depressing calculation – about three hours a week are spent in the bathroom and another four are spent shopping. Grand total: one hundred and six hours.
The point I want to make by these obtuse calculations is that there are fifty hours each week that are not occupied by "necessary" activities. If I had a job there would be just enough time left in which to do it. But I don't. Not anymore.
I shall not make this an even more profound exercise in banality by writing at length about normal every day events. But I still have fifty hours a week to fill and how I try to do that is the subject here.
Should you stumble across my blog and begin to wonder who on Earth could write such stuff, here are a few biographical details about the author, explaining everything and nothing.
I cannot remember any major turning point in my life that involved pre-planning and conscious decision making. Everything just seemed to happen, either on a whim or with the feeling that, since what is about to happen is inevitable, lets just go with the flow.
I have a theory that I am the sum total of all the people I have bumped into along the way - my family and friends. This would include Long Suffering Wife, of course, and Daughter No.1 and Daughter No.2. (It was only after years and years of looking after this pair that someone told me that I could give them away!)
The friends who, according to my theory, bear the burden of responsibility for making me the man I am today, begin with Oldest And Dearest, who is actually a distant relative I have known all my life. There are Old University Friends 1 and 2, who know things about me known to none other, Former Colleagues from my days in East Africa and a Fellow Sufferer who shared the burdens of more recent employment. These are not of course the only influences on my life, but these, should I happen to refer to them in my future scribblings, are far less likely to sue.
Having got from the end of the Second World War to the present without much conscious effort or attempt to achieve any particular outcome, it might seem unfair that I have always felt reasonably happy. I draw no profound conclusion from this except, perhaps, that it is better not to know where we are going.


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Hit-and-run suspect flees on foot with children
Car rear-ended in Town of Cottage Grove
COTTAGE GROVE, Wis. - A man suspected of fleeing from the scene of a crash in Cottage Grove Thursday morning was found in Madison, according to Cottage Grove police.
Police were called to County Road BB and Vilas Hope Road in the Town of Cottage Grove at 7:06 a.m. for a report of a hit-and-run crash. Officers said a westbound car trying to make a left turn onto Vilas Hope Road was struck from behind by another vehicle.
Police said the vehicle that rear-ended the car fled and was later found by Madison police behind a business on Cottage Grove Road.
A 32-year-old Sun Prairie man fled the vehicle on foot with his children and was located by police on Vernon Road, according to police.
The man was cited on suspicion of operating while suspended, hit-and-run and failure to report a crash.
Madison police are also investigating a crash the man was involved in shortly after the crash in Cottage Grove.


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Gridiron, one of Wichita's oldest and most hilarious stage shows, stars members of the local media singing (sort of), dancing (sort of) and spoofing the past year's news and newsmakers.
It stars media legend Bonnie Bing, local funnyman Bucky Walters,Ted Woodward of KNSS and many, many more. Several "mystery guests" also tend to pop up on stage each year.
Gridiron is put on by the Kansas Pro Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, and its purpose is to raise money for journalism scholarships for Kansas college students. Each year, Gridiron awards $10,000 worth of scholarship money.
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This deluxe 2 bedroom, first floor apartment is situated on a quiet development in a prime location between the lively town of Torrevieja and La Manga.
The apartment is self-catering and is furnished to the highest standard. It has a fully equipped kitchen with seperate utility area and the bright and airy double and twin bedrooms both have fitted wardrobes with ample hanging space. The open plan lounge/dining room includes a comfortable sofa, a dining table and 4 chairs, a TV and DVD player. The living room benefits from air-conditioning. The bathroom has a bath, shower, washbasin, toilet and bidet. Bed linen and towels (with the exception of beach/pool towels) are provided for your use. The apartment is in a very quiet area and overlooks a lovely park area with childrens playgound. Outside is a private balcony and is the ideal place to enjoy breakfast or an early evening cocktail. The resident's private swimming pool has both adults and kiddie's pools, a play area and landscaped gardens.
The local shopping is just a few minutes walk from the property with a supermarket, shops, restaurants, bars and internet café. The area offers excellent shopping, a weekly market and many cafes, and a vibrant nightlife.
The Zenia Boulevard one of Europes lergest shopping malls is just a 5 minute drive away, which is home to all the Spanish high street shops including H&M, Zara, Primark and many more.
The Costs Blanca has the finest beaches in Spain and there are many lovely sandy beaches nearby that have been awarded 'Blue Flag' status for their cleanliness, safety and facilities but two of the best are at nearby La Zenia and Cabo Roig.
The coast also offers safe swimming, beautiful marinas, rocky coves and beautiful cliff and promenade walks.
Day trips to the beautiful Isle of Tabarca are available during the summer from Torrevieja marina.
For the children there is a waterpark at Aquopolis with its river rapids and kamikaze slides, a theme park at Terra Mitica a fairground, safari park and a number of go-karting track.
There are three superb par 72 courses less than 5 minutes drive away so it is an ideal base for golfers.
Car hire is recommended.
|Sleeps up to 6, 2 bedrooms
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|Family friendly
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Follow our 12 week triathlon training programme
Lunch RUN: 30 minutes steady.
Evening CYCLE: Warm-up 15 minutes steady. Main: 45 minutes keeping a tucked riding position on the aerobars or drops. Cool-down: easy spin 5 minutes
Stroke Count Counting the number of strokes each length (typically 25m) takes. As you become more efficient you take less strokes and go faster.
Cadence The number of revolutions your legs make per minute (rpm). Typically cycling at a cadence 80 to 95 is most efficient.
Gearing Combination of the front chainrings (1, 2 or 3 of them) and the rear cassette which is a cluster of cogs numbering between 5 and 10. The bigger the chainring on the front the larger the gear and the harder to pedal, the bigger the cassette at the rear and the smaller the gear and easier to pedal it becomes.
Brick A run immediately after a
bike ride. Bricks are a great way to
mix indoor cycling and treadmill running in a gym.
Aerobar An attachment allowing you to put your forearms in the centre of your handlebars. They narrow your balance base, making them less stable than drops.
Catch ups Put both hands together on the water in front of you. Pull your left hand down and through the water, keeping your right arm extended. Bring your left arm over until it touches your right, before repeating the stoke with your right arm, while keeping your left extended in front. And so on.
Drops The lower section of the handlebar which drops your body lower. Bend your elbows and be sure you can still breathe.
NPSB Non-Preferred Side Breathing breathing on the side you find most difficult. It s important to breathe out underwater before lifting your head and not bringing the lower eye above the water.
Out and back Running away from a point for a set distance, and returning faster.
Time Trial An exact distance raced against the clock to help find out how fast and well-paced you really swim.
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Interactive Travel Map|Text the Secretary|Trip PageAbout the Author: Luke Forgerson serves as DipNote's Managing Editor.
Secretary Clinton recently began a week-long trip to Asia, which includes visits to Japan, China, and South Korea. The Secretary will meet with senior government officials in all three countries, visit the USA Pavilion at the Shanghai Expo and participate in the U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue in Beijing.
Along the way, the Secretary's travel team and U.S. Embassy and Consulate colleagues will offer updates on the trip. Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Kurt Campbell already provided us a preview of the trip and a video from Andrews Air Force Base, and U.S. Embassy Beijing's Robert Raines explains how U.S. diplomats are connecting with 400 million "netizens" in China.
The U.S. Embassy's efforts in Beijing are just one example of the commitment President Obama and Secretary Clinton made to reach out beyond ministerial buildings and official meeting halls -- as important as those places are -- and engage with civil society. Secretary Clinton said, "[W]e are ready to listen. Actively listening to our partners isn't just our way of demonstrating respect. It can also be a source of ideas to fuel our common efforts."
We are looking for your ideas and questions. We're trying something new this trip via @StateDept on Twitter, collecting questions and sharing answers between you and Assistant Secretary Campbell, U.S. Ambassador to China Jon Huntsman, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Philippe Reines, as well as other officials -- so start tweeting us your questions now!
You can also expect more behind the scenes coverage with senior members of the delegation and our advance team on the ground. You can follow everything on DipNote's Travel Diary as well as the Secretary's Interactive Travel Map, re-launched for this trip with new engaging features. You can view the map in 3-D, comment on trip stops, add your own photos, and more! If you haven't already done so, I encourage you to take a look at the map and participate in the Secretary's trip to Asia. We look forward to hearing from you.


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The closest place that I officially know of for Air Ball is Hell Survivors. And I live in Romeo, about 30 minutes out of Clinton. It's about an hour away from where I live.
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first recordings by morton and barbara monk feldmanPosted by David Toub in CD Review, David Toub, OgreOgress, tags: Barbara Monk Feldman, Feldman
Strings, Keyboard, Percussion, Voices, Horn
Karen Krummel (cello), Glenn Freeman (percussion), Paul Hersey (keyboards), Christina Fong (violin), Debora Petrina (piano/celeste),Paul Austin (French horn), Gwendolyn Faasen (voice), Alicia Eppinga (cello), Brian Craig (voice), Barbara Witham McCargar (voice)
OgreOgress Productions (DVD-A)
I had heard about this project a few years ago on the vertical thoughts listserv. At first, I wasn't sure much of this represented music Morton Feldman wanted heard-it seemed like music that was fragmentary, or else possibly discarded by Feldman, and perhaps only of real interest to musicologists and die-hard Feldmanites like those of us on the listserv. I'm delighted to say that this is not at all the case. Indeed, this disc represents a badly needed addition to the Feldman discography. While I'm delighted by the multiple recordings of Triadic Memories and For John Cage, there remain several works by Feldman that remain unrecorded, and the list has been winnowed down thanks to this album. Yet unreleased works include:
1943 Jubilee (string orchestra)
1943 Night (string orchestra)
1945 [Composition] for string orchestra (no basses)
194? I Loved You Once (voice, string quartet)
1946 Sonatina for Cello and Piano (3 movements)
1949 [or 1959] (458-0808) Lost Love (voice, piano)
194? [Composition] for piano
1953 Intersection (piano?)
1972 Half a Minute It's All I've Time For (clarinet, trombone, piano,
All of the works by Morton Feldman on this audio DVD (mp3's will no doubt be available on iTunes, Amazon and others in the future) are important works in his oeuvre. The one oddity is the very brief For Stockhausen, Cage, Stravinsky and Mary Sprinson (1972). This piece is half a minute long, and makes most of Webern's works seem like, well, late Feldman. I'm not sure what Feldman intended for it, or if it is a complete work as indicated by Glenn Freeman, but it is nice just the same. I could have a contest, perhaps, to see who knows who Mary Sprinson is, but I'll give it away-she was a girlfriend of Feldman's in the 70's.
Two Pieces [For Danny Stern] is an early work of Feldman's yet is a lot like other works he would write in the early 50's. It is short and sparse, but has his fingerprints all over the notes. Extensions 5 is a beautiful work for two celli, much like the other works in the Extensions series. Two Instruments is perhaps my absolute favorite piece on this album. It is like Four Instruments in concept, but is not at all the same work or a rehash. It is a series of tones for horn and cello, all quiet and always beautiful. I can't get it out of my head.
The album includes two brief vocal works, both of which are pleasant. Then there's the Dance Suite, which is in four movements for percussion and piano/celesta played by two performers. It is often sparse and static like much Feldman at that time, and seems to predict later works like Why Patterns and For Crippled Symmetry in regard to the timbres.
Besides the premieres of music by Morton Feldman, this DVD-A is remarkable for its inclusion of four works by Feldman's wife, Barbara Monk Feldman. Written between 1988 and 1998, they encompass the decade just after her husband's untimely death from pancreatic carcinoma. Not surprisingly, they owe much to Morton Feldman, but also express an individual voice. For example, the Duo for Piano and Percussion, written just after Morton's death, seems to me to be a riff on For Bunita Marcus, and expands on some of the chords from that long piano work. I enjoyed listening to it a great deal. The Gentlest Chord is a solo vocal work that is also worth hearing. Clear Edge is a brief piano piece that, I think, owes the least to Morton Feldman. Finally, there is the work Pour un Nuage Violet [after Marguerite Clerbout] that I think expands upon the musical universe that her husband created. There are parts that certainly remind one of late (Morton) Feldman, but this is also a work that has its own unique voice. The rapid pizzicato textures between the violin and cello are not anything I've ever found in any of Morton Feldman's works, and while some of the chords inhabit part of his galaxy, the work itself is from another universe. It's an incredible piece, and I'm glad it is available, along with the other works by Barbara Monk Feldman.
The performances are first rate and the many artists on this album were clearly devoted to doing the music justice. This album belongs on any Feldmanite's holiday wish list, and should be heard by anyone with any interest in late 20th-century music. Now, I'm still waiting for the other works on the list above to get recorded already. And I definitely want to hear more music by Barbara Monk Feldman.


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The Volcanic Tableland offers exceptional bouldering opportunities, because of its unique geologic features formed by the cataclysmic volcanic eruption of the Long Valley Caldera 750,000 y.a. which left a highly dissected landscape of Bishop Tuff. Through time, this once barren tableau has evolved to support a unique and fragile environment that takes a keen eye and time to appreciate. The Volcanic Tablelands is situated at the ecological cusp of the Northern Mojave and Great Basin floristic Provinces where plants and associated wildlife species combine to make this an unusual and biologically diverse landscape. It has taken millennia for this environment to evolve and it will take responsible recreational users to preserve it into perpetuity - so enjoy and protect this place.
In the early 90´s, the Tableland was visited only by local climbers. By the late 90´s, thousands of climbers were coming from all over the world to try out their climbing skills on the many boulder problems the Tableland has to offer. With this dramatic increase in use, the BLM and the local climbing community has developed a climbing management philosophy to protect the natural resources while preserving access to climbing opportunities.
The Happy drainage and Sad drainage are located along the Inyo-Mono County line, approximately 7 miles north of Bishop, California. Both drainages are oriented in a north-south direction extending north from the Owens Valley. The crest of the Sierra Nevada of 14,000 ft (4,265 m) lies 16 miles (27 km) to the southwest, and the crest of the White mountains of 12,500 ft (3,800 m) is 11 miles (18 km) to the east. Both areas are in the transitional zone between cold semi-deserts of the Great Basin to the northeast and the hotter Mojave to the south.
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Admission is dependent upon completion of 60 semester hours, which includes both UF admission requirements as well as College of Nursing pre-professional courses. UF general education required courses are detailed in the UF Undergraduate Catalog.
Enrollment is limited due to availability of clinical learning facilities and the availability of qualified faculty to maintain appropriate faculty-to-student ratios in all clinical practice settings. Due to this limited enrollment and a large volume of applications, UF students must meet tracking requirements by the end of the spring semester, sophomore year, to be considered for admission.
Please Note: Students who have a Bachelor's or Master's degree in a subject unrelated to nursing are only eligible for the Accelerated BSN program, not the Traditional BSN.
Pre-professional requirements specific to the nursing major include:
- 3 credits of social and behavioral science with prefix of PSY, SOP or SYG
- 3 credits of physical or biological sciences with prefix of BSC, CHM or PHY
- Anatomy & Physiology One: 4 Credits (including a lab component)
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- Microbiology: 4 Credits (including a lab component)
- Statistics: 3 Credits
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- Completion of two sequential courses of foreign language in secondary school or 8-10 semester hours at the post-secondary level, or documentation of an equivalent level of proficiency.
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Students who have an AA degree from a dual enrollment program, including the majority of prerequisite courses for the Traditional BSN program, will be permitted, if admitted to UF as Freshman, to apply for admission to the upper division nursing major during the Spring Semester of their Freshman year. Students meeting these requirements must work with the College of Nursing Undergraduate Advisor to develop an academic plan of at least 12 credit hours in each of the Fall and Spring Semesters of their Freshman year. This plan should include completion of all required nursing prerequisite courses. If the student achieves a 3.3 overall and 3.3 pre-professional GPA, including both the AA courses and courses taken during the Freshman year, he/she will be considered a native (UF), on-track pre-nursing student for purposes of nursing upper division admission consideration.


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U.S. National Parks > Joshua Tree National Park > Ryan Mountain > Climber's Log
Ryan Mountain Climber's Log
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|Easy Breezy
|Cool hike. There are better more isolated mountains to climb in J.Tree, but this hike is cool.
|Posted Aug 7, 2006 11:09 pm
|Great day off hike
|Hiked the Ryan Mountain trail many times in the last 30 years especially on windy and rainy days when the only other alternative was to go home. Great view of J Tree from the top.
|Posted May 17, 2006 5:47 pm
|Ryan Mountain Trail
Date Climbed: Apr 26, 2006
|Had a nice early morning start and beautiful weather. My son spotted one of the elusive desert bighorn sheep staring down at us about halfway up. A truly beautiful peak with minimal effort required to reach the top and almost guaranteed good weather.
|Posted May 6, 2006 6:02 pm
|USC Outdoors Club
Date Climbed: Mar 12, 2006
|Nice short hike to a panoramic wonderland. Hiked with the USC Outdoors club. Take only pictures, leave only footprints...
|Posted Mar 17, 2006 7:14 pm
|Route Climbed: various Date Climbed: 2000
|real nice views...a must do..
|Posted Jan 7, 2006 11:26 am
|Route Climbed: Is there more than one? Date Climbed: April 2005
|Nice easy hike with beautiful views of a beautiful park. If you go to J-tree, make sure you watch the sunset from Ryan Mountain.
|Posted Jan 1, 2006 11:58 pm
|Route Climbed: Ryan Mountain Trail Date Climbed: April 3, 2005
|Finnaly climbed my Mountain! All I need to do now is to climb Smith Mountain and I'll be set.
|Posted Dec 31, 2005 8:06 pm
|Route Climbed: trail Date Climbed: Many
|good diversion from the rock routes.
|Posted Oct 16, 2005 2:26 pm
|Cookie Addict
|Route Climbed: Normal Date Climbed: March 19, 2004
|Hurt to bad to climb that day in J-Tree so bagged a small summit.
|Posted Oct 14, 2005 4:52 am
|Route Climbed: Main Trail Date Climbed: March 1998
|Short Easy climb with good view of Park.
|Posted Sep 15, 2005 6:19 pm
|Route Climbed: Ryan Mountain Trail Date Climbed: March 28, 2005
|Amazing views from the summit. Windy descent.
|Posted Sep 1, 2005 10:34 am
|Bob Burd
|Route Climbed: Trail Date Climbed: Mar 28, 2005
|First of 4 HPS peaks Matthew and I climbed in the area. A find spring day with great wildflowers, particularly on Queen Mtn. Trip Report
|Posted May 25, 2005 7:54 pm
|Route Climbed: From Parking Area Date Climbed: Can't Remember
|Ran up this one time years ago ... nice view of jtree from up there.
|Posted May 18, 2005 2:47 pm
|Route Climbed: trail Date Climbed: May 7, 2005
|Hiked with Eszter. Popular short hike with great views, and very interesting rock formations.
|Posted May 9, 2005 2:07 pm
|Matthew Holliman
|Route Climbed: Trail Date Climbed: Mar 28, 2005
|Final day of a four-day tour of SoCal via the HPS List. Bob and I tagged this one, Queen, Lost Horse, and Inspiration before driving back to the Bay Area in the afternoon and through the evening. Nice hike/jog, not so nice drive.
|Posted Apr 12, 2005 5:49 pm
|Route Climbed: Off trail from Sheep Pass Date Climbed: January 15, 2005
|After climbing at Sports Challenge Rock with Gibran Begum and company, took me about 25 minutes to jog off-trail from Sheep Pass to the top of Ryan Mountain. Nice sunset that day.
|Posted Mar 2, 2005 6:00 pm
|Route Climbed: Ryan Mountain Trail Date Climbed: 01Jan 2003
|didn't feel much like climbing after the previous nite spectacle (j. thesenga and his white gas trick.) Biked to Saddle Rock and stashed it; x-country to the trail, top out and continued following the ridge south-ish (?) all the way down then back adjacent to Ryan Camp, past Saddle Rocks and hunted for my bike (which was still there!) A fine day!!!
|Posted Feb 14, 2005 3:20 pm
|Route Climbed: The Trail Date Climbed: The 70's
|Climbed a couple of times in the winter.
|Posted Jan 14, 2005 5:27 pm
|Route Climbed: Ryan Mountain Trail Date Climbed: December 27, 2004
|We hiked up this mountain in the morning of our second day in Josh. We were staying at Ryan campground so it felt little funny driving to the trail head, but it would of add a significant distance to the hike. Besides we were hopeing to go climbing afterwards. It was just to cold to climb yet. I walked it up in about 1/2 hour, but my husband took little longer. It is a nice hike to keep you going on a rest day from climbing. I also saw someone trail running it, just another option.
|Posted Jan 8, 2005 12:42 pm
|Date Climbed: Septemeber 2003
|Ran up the marked trail, got to the huge carin (too huge to call it one maybe) in about 8 minutes. I wasn't going harder than 6min pace, which makes me doubt the accuracy of the distance, plus I did 14 that morning, so I wasn't all that fresh. Beautiful vegetation.
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For pizza sauce I don't use onion at all. Either just good San Marzano tomato or more recently Bubba's saucehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJCzh33argM&feature=youtu.benow for pasta, that's a whole nuther story. Fresh onion is the way to go.Mark
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The piece is often described as a "problem play." Cole references Shakespearean scholar Anne Barton's description: "It is a problem play, meaning that it presents a moral issue or problem, that is worked out, in this case, in the form of a tragi-comedy, and asks the audience to consider its own attitude towards the conflicts."
Cole agrees. "The play is about the game of manipulation—sexual, moral, political, religious and psychological—that is played when one pursues an 'absolute' belief," he said.
"Measure for Measure" follows the Duke of Vienna (Zach Levin), who has neglected to enforce the strict morality laws of the city. As a result, the society has broken down at every level. The duke, pretending to leave the city to fight a war in Poland, hands over authority to the severe judge Angelo (Michael Climek). In disguise as a friar, the duke moves about the city to spy on the effect of Angelo's justice.
One law that Angelo enforces is the punishment of death for the act of fornication. When Claudio (Brian Heyman) is sentenced to death for getting his fiancee Juliet (Allison Kleber) pregnant, it is up to Claudio's sister, Isabella (Samantha Mason), to plead with Angelo for her brother's life.
Corruption is exposed at the highest level of authority when Angelo, the seeming upright judge, agrees to spare Claudio if Isabella (who is about to enter the convent) will become his mistress. A torn Isabella turns to her brother for advice. Knowing his life hangs in the balance, he implores Isabella to accept the offer. Lurking in the shadows is the Duke of Vienna disguised as the friar, who suggests that Isabella offer herself and promises that he will substitute Angelo's old love and former fiancee at the last minute to trap him.
The design team includes Johan Godwaldt, scenic designer; Kitty Macey, costume designer, assisted by senior theatre majors Kayla Greeley and Kate Dolan; and senior theatre major Greg Brewster, lighting designer. Meghan Nolan serves as stage manager. Julie Pretzat, chair of SUNY Oswego's music department, composed original music for the show.
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Conservation boost for 'ugly duckling' antelope
Ulaanbaatar/Bonn/Geneva, 13 September 2010 - Under the leadership of the Convention on Migratory Species (UNEP/CMS), a broad alliance of government representatives from Kazakhstan, Mongolia, the Russian Federation, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, UN bodies, inter-governmental organizations, non-governmental organizations and local communities have come together to discuss and agree on a new conservation strategy for the Saiga antelope.
During an international conference held in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, the Central Asian States and the Russian Federation agreed this week to include the Mongolian Saiga antelope in an international Saiga agreement concluded under the auspices of CMS. With Mongolia signing the agreement, all Saiga antelopes will benefit from this international cooperation.
Saiga antelopes roam the vast planes of Central Asia and the Russian Federation. They can undertake migratory journeys between summer and winter ranges of over 1,000 kilometers. Although described as the ugly duckling of the world's antelopes, the Saiga is a vital part of the natural and cultural heritage of the plains of Eurasia.
Saiga antelopes still numbered around one million in the early 1990s, but declined to around 60-70,000 in 2006. Since then, and in response to conservation efforts, their populations have stabilised at this low level. Today, the majority of populations are starting to increase, but one transboundary population continues to decline. Current populations are reported to number about 85,000 animals in Kazakhstan (almost 12,000 died in the disease outbreak in May 2010), 8,000 in Mongolia, at least 10,000 animals in the Russian Federation and several thousand in Uzbekistan in winter. No Saiga mass migration has been observed in Turkmenistan in the last 10 years, where the species used to migrate to in harsh winters.
Despite legal protection, the Saiga are hunted for their meat and horns, which are used in oriental traditional medicine. Other threats include disease, pasture degradation through overgrazing by livestock and other disturbances from oil and gas extraction work and possibly climate change.
New measures being introduced are expected to harmonize monitoring and surveys to regularly track all populations. Aerial and ground surveys will determine changes in the winter and summer territories of the Saiga, with emphasis on calving, rutting and migration areas. Due to their long migration between winter and summer pastures, it can make it extremely difficult to find them.
The experts at the meeting carried with them figures released in a report commissioned by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) and compiled by TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade monitoring network, which raised the alarm over the levels of illicit trade in Saiga horns even before this year's mass die-offs. The report, entitled "Saiga Antelope Trade: Global trade with a focus on Southeast Asia", brings together information on the Saiga horn trade gleaned from interviews with Saiga experts and government officials, together with market surveys in Malaysia and Singapore where Saiga horns are readily available.
"The key to success for the conservation of these unique looking antelopes of the Eurasian steppes has been the engagement of local people," said CMS Executive Secretary Elizabeth Maruma Mrema. "This week's meeting paves the way for implementing the international action plan for the conservation of this remarkable animal across its entire range."
Governments are seeking to address the fundamental motivation for poaching Saiga, namely poverty and unemployment. Involving local communities is therefore critical to the conservation measures implemented under the CMS Saiga agreement. Incentives to combat poaching are being developed through alternative livelihoods in deprived steppe communities. Many grassroot initiatives have sprung up, such as in Uzbekistan, where local women make handicrafts, the proceeds from the sale of which are directly fed into Saiga conservation projects. In Russia local people participate in Saiga monitoring while going about their daily livestock herding.
In Kazakhstan individual Saiga have been equipped with radio and satellite collars allowing rangers to obtain their position in real time and protect them better from poaching. These tracking devices also allow researchers to understand the migratory routes of the species as well as the driving forces for its movements. This in turn can help determine which areas should be protected.
Spurred by their success, the countries where Saiga antelope survive pledged to redouble their efforts to restore the populations of these animals to their former numbers, so that they can regain their place in the spiritual, cultural and economic life of the Eurasian plains.
Both CMS and CITES Parties will continue to actively involve local communities to restore Saiga populations to healthy levels and ensure tightly controlled sustainable use of the species for regional and East Asian consumers.
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In 2002 the sub-species Saiga tatarica tatarica, which includes several transboundary populations was listed on CMS Appendix II. In 2006 a Memorandum of Understanding concerning Conservation, Restoration and Sustainable Use of the Saiga antelope (Saiga tatarica tatarica) came into force. It is aimed at restoring Saiga populations and has been signed by all countries, where Saiga antelopes live in the wild today. Since 2008 the entire species has been listed on CMS Appendix II. In line with the abovementioned expansion of the MoU to include the Mongolian Saiga, the agreement is now called Memorandum of Understanding concerning Conservation, Restoration and Sustainable Use of the Saiga antelope (Saiga spp.). In 1995 the Saiga was included in Appendix II of CITES primarily to ensure that international trade in Saiga horn does not threaten their survival.
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In short: Great morning out!In full: Much better organised than expected after reading last year's ratings - although finding the place was a challenge (more signs?), and the bike route was a little lacking in signs - I think a few got lost.All in all, the routes were enjoyable, the organisers friendly, transition area OK (despite being put together at the last minute), and I'd recommend anyone to try it!!!Date of review: September 27, 2012
In short: Fine as a Fun Run, but not as a RaceIn full: The second time I've been celebrating a massive PB, only to find the route was short (remembering Cardiff Half Marathon 2010)Pity is, it's so nearly a great event! A few comments for the organisers: Great to have 'K' markers, just make them accurate? Great to have chip timing.....just use it?....Oh yeah, don't move the start after everyone has lined up - you tend to get people ambling along with headphones on, in front of serious club runners. Date of review: March 9, 2012
In short: Excellent-again!!! Well done Brackla Harriers!In full: So pleased that the organisers managed to keep the atmosphere that has always made this race so special! Thought it would be a little bit of a post-Christmas anti-climax, but it was as uplifting as ever! Keep up the good work Brackla!Date of review: January 20, 2011
In short: Great course, but too narrow early onIn full: Just to re-iterate what others have said. Super flat course, good atmosphere. But why didn't we use both sides of Lloyd George Ave at the start? and too many runners over-estimating their ability by starting too far forward - again!!! We can see who you are by the difference in gun and chip times......Date of review: October 17, 2010
In short: Weather great, Marshalls fantastic, water stations superb, hate the switch-backsIn full: Excellent for a "first ever event", and really well supported!Well done to the organisers-great job! As I was fearing it wouldn't be due to the lack of pre-race info.It's only my preference, but I wouldn't run this again if the course is the same, I just hate turning around a cone - the leg out to 23m was grim, and nearly finished me! Although I do realise options can be limited when things 'outside our control' come into play!Keep up the good work - there's massive potential :-)Date of review: April 19, 2010
In short: Great race, but not as good as previous yearsIn full: I love this event, but without being able to put my finger on it, didn't enjoy it as much as the last 2 years.The on-course marshalling was great, drink-stations superb, mile-markers all present and correct-ish!Think it was, (a) having to park in the woods, (b) having to queue up for a chip, and (c) a downhill start(when it's crowded) with an uphill finish is the wrong way round for my liking!All in all I really enjoyed it, hopefully a few of the teething problems which come a new course will be ironed out for next year....Date of review: March 29, 2010
In short: Some good, some badIn full: Probably the last time I'll run this one. After doing 3 in a row, time for a break. Traffic-free is great, but after 3 goes I'm finding the route a bit dull now. I prefer a loop rather than out and back along the same section-passing other runners/cyclist going the other way.The mystery of the extra 400m or so may be that 2 years ago, we didn't run behind that factory (about 3.5m), but ran all the way to the end of final cove (10m); last year we did the 'factory' bit, but only about half of that cove; this year we did both!Anyway - thanks for the encouragement and enthusiasm from the Marshalls:-) No thanks for letting everyone line up then announcing a delay :-(Date of review: March 17, 2010
In short: Superb - again!!!In full: Well organised and a great atmosphere - keep it going Brackla H's!!Date of review: December 15, 2009
In short: Another great race by Sospan RRIn full: Second time for me - not much gets me out of bed early on a Sunday when it's pouring down and blowing a gale - but for this, it's worth it!Cross-wind on the beach made it tricky, but all the same, it's a great course with every kind of terrian thrown at you!Was really well marshalled too -probably more comfortable running than being stood for ages in the cold and wet!One gripe - the start time should be given as "10:45-ish", delays always happen, but please let us know when we're likely to start?(It could easily have been lashing down)Date of review: December 6, 2009
In short: Gower Half:Hard as nails - but ready for more!In full: Second year for me running this one. Much improved organisation - friendly atmosphere and a great course, with lots of mud, crazy hills, and stunning views!Its one of those where after 3 miles or so, you get flashbacks about how tough the rest is gonna be! Major respect to the Full Marathon folk, specially as it ended up being 28 miles -just looking at the map for that one made my legs tired! Well done EL!Date of review: December 6, 2009
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The evidence could offer a clue at who was behind the crash, though the prosecutors say they still cannot prove a "causal connection." It is widely believed that the Boeing 777 was downed by Russian-backed separatists in Eastern Ukraine, although Russia has repeatedly denied claims of any involvement. Last month, the country vetoed a UN resolution to set up an international tribunal to prosecute those responsible for the crash.
The Malaysian Air flight, on its way from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, crashed in July 2014, killing all 298 people on board, most of them Dutch citizens, including 80 children.
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