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Breezy cotton madras brings the casual look of summer to your child's room.
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- Blackout lining blocks out light and reduces sound.
- Belt-loop tab top construction creates soft inverted pleats.
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Regarding sausage from a deli, I'm often reminded how much people do not understand about sausage (and I didn't until a few years ago). Others can correct me, BUT all of sausage land is divided in two (Ceasar said three), . . . smoked and non-smoked. What that means -- if I have my wits about me -- is that the smoked is "cooked" and the non-smoked (commonly referred to as "fresh") is NOT cooked. For pizzamaking -- at least in my book -- uncooked or fresh sausage is preferred. But differences are what makes the world go around, right? So if smoked or cooked sausage is one's thing, then . . . why not?Happy New Year to all, --BTB

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Here's how RW members rated this race in the past (22 votes).
In short: fantastic, friendly, very well organised!Date of review: January 2, 2013
In short: Great organisation! Great race! Love the quirk about not using a watch....Date of review: January 2, 2013
In short: Very good race, good for a PB. Lovely Scenery Date of review: January 2, 2013
In short: Cracking race, most scenic and enjoyable race all yearDate of review: January 2, 2013
In short: great way to end the yearIn full: i'm not a member of a running club or anything and felt a bit intimidated when i turned up to see lots of people in vests and shorts when the temp was only just above zero. I didn't even want to take my fleece off! I needn't have worried, it was a great atmosphere and very friendly. Lovely touch of prizes for closest actual to estimated times - i even thought i was in with a chance of bagging one which would have been a first!Date of review: January 2, 2013
In short: Blows the Christmas cobwebs off nicely.Date of review: January 2, 2013
In short: Terrific holiday race - more challenging than it appears!In full: This was a very well organised, first-time, 10k trail race, with the added twist of 'no watches' and prizes for those whose predictions were closest to actual results. While most of the route was on flat walk/bridle paths or canal towpaths, the short 'hill' section added some challenge as did the narrow and tricky towpath surface. Friendly marshals and volunteers and good humour amongst the 200 participants made for a great atmosphere. I echo the earlier comment that not only should this be an annual event, but a midsummer evening event would also be welcome.Date of review: January 2, 2013
In short: Great race, v friendly & lovely courseDate of review: January 2, 2013
In short: Very enjoyable race to end 2012! Trail race, so unlikely to be a pb course, but relatively fast course for a trail course as no major uphill bits. Many thanks to the race organisers and the friendly marshalls for putting on an excellent race.In full: Excellent last race to end 2012. Date of review: January 2, 2013
In short: Great way to shake off the Christmas excesses.In full: Great location with fine facilities and welocme at the Miners Arms pub. Clockwork organisation and a route that although flat, is still a challenge being all trail or towpaths. Bacon butty at the end and an unusual twist to proceedings with the chance for everyone to win with it being based on predicted time. Deserves to be an anuual event if not twice yearly. An evening, summer version would be fantastic.Date of review: January 2, 2013
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Mrs. Flinger: A work in progress
UPDATE TO Mrs. Flinger October 16, 2015
Because the Universe has a wicked sense of humor, after this delcaration, my blog threw up all over my last upgrade.
So I'm starting over using Craft. Turning 40 and kid entering Jr High next year, sometimes it's just time for a change. These archives will still exist in the way the last child goes off to college and their room is the same for 20 years, but it's just time to move forward.
She's Geeky Jan 25, 2014
In an inadequate attempt to capture the spirit of a few hundred geeky women sharing advice, knowledge, code snippets, work ideas, and life discussions, I can summarize as best as I can.
In a word: Support.
In two words: Comforting Validation.
In Three Words: We Laughed Together.
In Four Words: I made new Friends.
In Five words: I came away more empowered.
In six words: We gathered to solve big issues.
And in seven words: I hope we see you in Seattle.
Love you forever, like you for always, as long as I'm living, my baby you'll be Jan 06, 2014
You giggle as I kiss your cheeks. I hold your hands as you turn your face left to right, giving me full access to the large, luscious cheeks, round and red. You laugh as you spit and shove off my kisses. I pretend to look sad and then hold your arms and start the process over. You are giggling as you pretend to stop me. I win at the kisses, landing on your cheeks as you laugh. You tell me I'll never give you another kiss again. I chuckle. "Do you remember the Love You Forever book?" I ask. You shake your head no. "The mom comes for all of her son's life to give him love until she can't anymore and one day, he sings the song, 'I love you forever, I like you for always, as long as I'm living, My Mommy you'll be.'" Your eyes are wide and you ask, "Why would you tell me that before bed? Now I'll have bad dreams!" "No, Love, you won't," I reply grabbing your hands again from any defense of my kissing, "Because we have so many years before you have to worry about that. The point is, you can't stop a mom from kissing her children." I lunge for the final kiss assault and you squeal with laughter and turn your face. I plant five kisses on your cheek, nose, and forehead. You are still laughing when I promise to stop. "It's bed time," I say sternly. "Time for sleeping." You look up at me with your brown eyes glowing in the light and whisper, barely audible, "I love you forever, I'll like you for always, as long as I'm living, My mommy you'll be."
I leave your room smiling with tears in my eyes as I go to see your sister, sitting in her bed reading Harry Potter, and plan my kissing attack. My life is an amazing wonderland. I shall never forget this.
The Path to Grandma's House Dec 14, 2013
I remember the roads to my Grandmother's house. We called her "Bamma" to distinguish her from my maternal Grandmother, who would later be know simply as G'ma, and hold an even more important role in my life. As a young child, growing up in the suburbs of Houston, we would make the six hour trek to my Bamma's house, just north of Austin. I remember the terrain changing to a hilly roll.. I remember the van's AC unit working with an easier hum as we drew closer to my Bamma's house. I remember my dad going over some of the rolls of the road and yelling with triumph, "WOAH! That will get you in your belly!" when the car hit zero gravity for a split second, gliding over each crest of ... to our minds.. mountains.
In reflection, after living in Washington state and visiting Germany and the Swiss Alps, those Texas mountains of my youth are Ant Hills to my present. But my childhood mind blows them up to disproportionate heights. Like every aspect of childhood, those trips take on a cartoon-like shape. I visit those memories like someone on a video game would now: Reaching back to that last saved game and running it through from start to finish. Each consecutive trip a level to discover.
I wonder if my children will think of their lives this way or if they will have better therapy to help organize their memories from Atari to Frontal Matter.
Either way, I stare now at the map of Texas, a flat representation of my youth. I smile at the familiar roads: 45, 518, NASA1. I lived there as a child, giving my most formative years to the southern-suburbs of Houston. And again, as a young career woman, giving my future to the college of Galveston, where I first taught computers and subsequently changed my career path forever. This map of Texas is not only familiar, it's engrained in the very being that peers at it, from so far away, nearly 2,345 miles away, to be more exact.
I marvel at the flexibility of the human brain. That I have not one, or two, but three homes. That I find comfort in two countries and two very different states. That I can walk through the Nürnberg Market on a Saturday and feel as much my childhood as I can in Kroger in Houston on a Sunday. The fact that I live in a Wine Country in the north-east of Seattle seems to not matter; familiarity is bred deep within my brain and the roots dig to experiences I share with few. Inhaling the wet, humid, salty air of Houston is as much a welcome as the crisp, dry air of the Mountain here. And in the manner, so are the signs of German in a variety of villages and menus and friends as I wander the countryside of a country I was born in to by proxy.
Home is a fluid dynamic, not nearly as static a representation as we think as children.
Looking at the map of my childhood, remembering the trips of my youth, I think of how wide I thought my world grew on those trips north to my Bamma's house. The six hours in the car meant a change in climate, but not language or comfort. Having traveled from Nürnberg to Prague and München and back, I can appreciate travel in a new way. I understand how small and yet wide our world is. How mindful and yet closed our fellow humans are. I see a world that I both am familiar and that I have no amount of experience in.
I think this is maturity. There is no way to pass this to my own children, who whine about the three hour drive to their own Grandparent's house. There is no speaking reality or passing down a sense of "big". You must experience that before you embrace it. Years, distance, ownership; those are the keys to knowing how a small map, seemingly so large many years ago, can make one smile in remembrance of those experiences held tightly in the memory of decades past.
Brain, Heart, and Colon late at night: A true tale. Oct 04, 2013
Brain wakes up, "Hey! We didn't make kids' lunches! It's too late for us now. What should we do?"
Heart answers, "Um, tell them to fend for themselves?"
Brain replies, "Uh, you mean 'Buy Lunch Tomorrow'? Sure, ok We've got money in their accounts for lunch."
Stomach wakes up, "Did someone say lunch? Because I didn't eat that today and I know it's late, but we could really use some…."
Brain interrupts, "STOMACH! No, down. It's time for bed. In fact, it's PAST time for bed. Clock?"
Internal clock ticks like a bomb. It's well past due but never seems to implode.
Crap. It's two hours past bedtime.
Brain tells body "Enough is ENOUGH! Let's hit the sack NOW before shit goes down!"
Colon wakes up, "Shit going down? Did Someone Call?"
Heart reminds Brain to be quite and not wake up the internal organs so late at night.
Brain tries to whisper but is in a panic now, "OMG OMG OMG we have to wake up in six hours, oh, shit, oh no…"
Colon asks again, "Did someone say shit?"
Heart has had enough and checks out. "BACK LATER" hangs on the door.
Snore takes over. "So, like, are we ready to do this or what?"
What wins. The rest is history.
Good night.
A letter to my son in therapy Aug 15, 2013
Tonight I checked on your sister but not you. It's not that I didn't want to; It's that I didn't realize how much the door jams would swell in the heat and rub against the door when I tried to open one. So as I squeezed in to your sister's room with a loud "thhhhhhuuuummmmmpppppppppbbbbbb" and heard her squirm in her bunk, I knew my chances of waking you up were even greater. Also, your dad checked on you both just moments earlier because he is not as afraid to wake you both. I, however, remember countless nights of your flopping about in my belly with a knowing "oh no you didn!" squealing in my head.
So, please tell your therapist twenty years from now I did not love you, or your sister, more. I was simply more knowledgeable of the child laying in the bed after the hot squeak of the door jam. And that I still love you both very much. Even if I take it for granted, or your daddy's word, that you're asleep.
Living The Punchline 1: You have to look the way you're born Jun 24, 2013
Day 1 of my new plan: "Living For The Story," which, in reality, is more like "Living the Punchline" because y'all - Seriously.
You know the phenomenon where woman want curly hair who have wavy/straight and curly hair women are always trying to straighten theirs? I'm no exception. My sister and her daughter have the envious curls while my daughter and I are stuck with straight, stringy, flat, lifeless hair. It's the kind of hair nobody talks about. "Hey, can I look like her? The lady with the non-noticable hair? It's so ... nothing."
As an experiment, my daughter and I decided to go old school with rollers.
Since it's been roughly 181 years since I've done this, I forgot how long it takes hair to dry when it's twisted up tighter than Sarah Palin's knickers. So, when after several hours I needed to run to the grocery store, I put a scarf around them and went anyway.
I did get a few looks but I'm pretty sure it was the cleavage.
Having failed at waiting long enough the first time, last night I had a grand idea to color my hair and then set it in curlers before bed. SURELY this would get me the results promised on the front of the package.
I figured it would look more amazing if I was a red head. Why not? I've never been a red head before.
Wrapping up my hair in giddy anticipation of what I would look like the next morning, I fell in to a fitful, uncomfortable, neck-bending sleep on the "soft" curlers.
I had dreams of my hair.
The time finally came to unveil the auburn ringlets this morning.
Aside from the red roots, dark dark black ends and uneven pig-tail curls next to waves of chocolate, I think it looks about right. An Advertiser's win.
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***It's worth it
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Start Living For The Story Jun 21, 2013
I recount my day in exaggerated details. Suddenly when I tell my sister about that meeting I had, I say the words I *should* have said at the time. She laughs. It's so much better when I say it out loud after the fact. It's never funny at the moment. But the story grows in to life and life grows in to reality.
Bob and I sit on the kitchen counters most nights and discuss philosophy and self improvement. Why we chose the kitchen counters, I can only guess. In the kitchen near the knives and scalding faucet that doesn't run cold water (we really need to fix this), it seems like pondering life's meaning is more thrilling. Death is all around us! We must embrace life before it's too late! Or until we get third degree burns.
Then again, maybe we sit on the counters because it's just closer to the wine.
Writers see life as a series of possible parables. Life is a hyperbole. Casual interactions with office mates become hilarious antidotes, sometimes causing me to chuckle to myself listening to a story nobody else hears. My children provide a series of short essays, poems, and entries in the DSM-5.
Facebook friends ask to hear the story behind vague updates. They reply saying, "Oh, but it would've been such a good story." And then it hits me. WHAT IF I DID THOSE THINGS?
What if I lived my story in real time and not after the fact? What if I made the choice BECAUSE it would be a good story?
Why not?
People live a year of the bible. They strive for a year of this or that. Why not make the choice, once a day, to live because of the story?
So, Here is it. A year of living for the story.
Every day I will attempt one good "story". To push myself to try something simply because it's a good story. And if I'm lucky, perhaps, I'll write 365 fun tiny stories. And if I'm not? Please employee the crazy lady in the back of the office because really, she's highly intelligent and employable and a hard worker, she just had this crazy experiment…
Re-imagining history Jun 21, 2013
"You walk very fast." I hear the words at the same time a wet nose bumps my calves. I turn to find an older woman walking on the trail next to me. I had slowed down to text a friend briefly when she unexpectedly popped in to my path during my walk. She smiles, "I wasn't able to catch you until now. It's why I said something. Usually I'm way ahead of everyone but you walk as quickly as I do."
We enjoy a nice chat as I pace along side her. I explain that I used to run but now walk because of my bad knees. She confesses she used to run marathons and was unsure about this walking business but really enjoys it. We both agree we can't run to save our lives now and not ironically, that's when she asks if I've seen the coyotes. We both agree perhaps we should carry pepper spray.
It's about ten minutes, my time with her, this older woman in her late fifties? Early sixties? She has amazing legs and a warm, kind, lovely face. I think she never wore makeup and I identify with this. I ponder myself at her age, if I would still be walking on this trail. Would I let myself be natural and light and would I still talk lightly to another woman, a stranger?
She graciously explains she has dinner guests coming soon so she must turn here but he will keep a look out for me in the future. She tells me her name and I tell her mine. We wave as we part.
Something about her strikes me. Lately I've been so flustered at work. I feel so tired, exhausted, and overwhelmed. There are both wonderful, and challenging, parts of life right now and desperation consumes the harder times and a flood of light fill the good ones.
There are many stories of people's future selves coming to encourage their present ones. Perhaps the most famous, by Elizabeth Gilbert in "Eat, Pray, Love" explains, "Maybe it was this present and fully actualized me who was hovering four years ago over that young married sobbing girl on the bathroom floor, and maybe it was this me who whispered lovingly into that desperate girl's ear, 'Go back to bed, Liz…' Knowing already that everything would be OK, that everything would eventually bring us together here. Right here, right to this moment. Where I was always waiting in peace and contentment, always waiting for her to arrive and join me."
I bring this up at one of Mr Flinger's and my marathon kitchen talks. He reminds me of a Northern Exposure episode where a similar thing happens to Shelly who is pregnant with their first child and runs in to her future daughter at a variety of stages in the laundry mat. Clearly this is a fictional tale, but so are the memories of my life. Always writing stories of interactions and re-writing my own history to include the pieces I should have said or would have done in retrospect, there's a part of me that wants to remember the lady on the trail as the future me, kindly affirming life is alright and if we push through the difficult times, I will one day meet a young woman on a trail as my dog rubs her calf and perhaps it will change her life.
Where are the women? Technology conferences trying to represent females. Jun 17, 2013
Where are all the girls?
There's a lot of discussion around women in the technology field and specifically surrounding tech conferences. I'm a huge proponent of women in computer science. I mean, I'm not just the president, I'm also a client.
There is a dissertation sitting somewhere on a dusty desk, or trash bin, with my passionate scribbles on this topic. It contains theories on How To Help Retention Rates Among Undergraduate Women In Computer Science. It's full of ideas on brain psychology, technology, and community. There's a trifecta of reasons women do, or do not, stay in technology fields.
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I'm not talking about a Venus versus Mars analogy, but men and women are very different. We approach issues differently. We look at maps differently. I mean, common, there's "Chick Mode" available now on smart phone maps just for us.
"Women use the cerebral cortex for solving problems that require navigational skills. Men use an entirely different area, mainly the left hippocampus—a nucleus deep inside the brain that's not activated in the women's brains during navigational tasks," says David Geary, PhD, professor of psychological sciences at the University of Missouri.
With all this knowledge, it makes sense that a man teaching a programming language would connect better to other males. I know this, from a lot of personal experience, because I can offer an architectural solution and get quizzical looks by my male teammates but end up saying the same thing after a few rounds of specs. We go around the same problem, arriving in the finish line staring at each other.
Code quality should be a science but it's very subjective. If something doesn't validate in HTML, it can be overlooked depending on the reason for that validation. Perhaps the spec isn't complete for that attribute. Maybe you're implementing CSS3 on a browser needing a shim to utilize that technology. Because of the subjective nature of code, because there is more than one way to "skin the cat" as it were, there are "better" and "worse" methods for solving a problem and it depends on the audience which way is correct. It can be maddening if the audience is primarily male and with a set of skills very different than the ones of that who created the code. Yes, we can certainly agree on some fundamentals, but once we nit-pick nuances, isn't it just better to ship? Even if perhaps it isn't exactly what you would do?
Taking the above in to consideration, it stands to reason that some programming languages will be better suited for female thinkers. In graduate school, I was forced to code in Java. Java is a great language for some people. For me, though, I would picture a toothpick being shoved under my large toenail when coding server sockets. However, the same question could be presented for me to apply in PHP, and I could come up with something useful fairly quickly.
Since then, I've embraced a stack of technology that works for my brain. PHP, MySQL, HTML5, CSS3. Javascript is there, but on a fringe. It's something that makes more sense the longer I play in it. Apache and web services were always more clear to me and using a CMS like ExpressionEngine or Symphony gives the "chaos" a bit of structure for my projects. I understand MVC architecture so much better now as a result. You'd think learning this in graduate school would be enough but it wasn't. The technology we applied it to didn't hit home for me. It wasn't until the CMS and backbone use that I really grasped the concept of removing content from architecture and so on.
Women have been working in teams for centuries. They naturally work together in the home, on the playground, in social settings. Women bond together over dishes and feasts, providing for families, or stepping is as "the closest mom" to grab a hurt child and help them back to their family. It happens in set social structures and loose ones. Women by nature seek community. Look at the online community of mom bloggers if you don't believe me. Supporting each other is just one of the ways women find fulfillment in life.
It's unnatural for women to be competitive at work. I find myself stepping outside my normal standards when women want to compete in the work place. Why shouldn't we just bond together like girl scouts over cookies? [This is the point of the post where I'm using my high-pitched cheerleader voice.] Can't I just work with you to achieve this goal? Why on earth would I want to be better than you when we can all win together?
But seriously [normal somewhat-lower-than-you-might-expect voice], as a woman in a male-dominated field, I'm conditioned to find mentors and colleagues to work WITH. I often as opinion and seek to learn. Never to I believe MY answer is the right one, unless I've researched thoroughly. I give and take lessons freely.
If men programmers could be a stereo type, I think embodying the exact opposite of this philosophy would be highest at the list. Many Many (not all, as you will see) male developers are egotistical, socially awkward, and refuse to believe their code could be anything less than "right". Oh hell no, you did not just say I used too many global variables. You want me to scope that function where? It's fine where it is. Whereas if you told me I use too many global variables I'd agree that I do. And scope my function in that object? Oh, right, because that makes more sense. Ok. (And then I'd go cry in the bathroom because I'm a girl. Just kidding. Sometimes.)
This is where I believe the TRIFECTA comes together. This isn't a cheesy commercial, either. This is a woman writing about the reasons I love and contribute to a community of developers I feel supported and educated in:
Jess, a woman, set out to pull all these pieces together. It's a tech conferences created by a woman. Re-read that. It's not a conference promoting A WOMAN speaker, or even two. It's a conference CREATED BY a woman. She's a developer like me: someone who has brain psychology similar to my own (by nature), someone who uses the same technologies, and someone who wants to encourage community. The problem? There aren't any women coming. WHERE ARE THEY?
We've both reached out to our women business partners, programmers, ex-collegues. We're wanting to show the technology field that it is possible to be both engaging and welcoming. We're not going to sit around talking about menstruation or waxing upper lips (all the time) but instead are looking to help women grow in a field sometimes intimidating. This is the type of conference a woman can learn, ask questions, reach out, and be affective. We just need, you know, the women.
If you're a student or a new developer, and a woman, looking for a group of mentors (male and female) to help drive your career and your knowledge beyond what you can achieve in school or on your own in your male office, please consider coming. It will make such a difference in your outlook of the technology field. You will find that it's OK to ask questions and this technology will even MAKE SENSE. Also, it doesn't hurt that everyone likes beer. That's just a bonus but the time when you realize you're not a woman in a male-dominated field, you're surrounded by brothers in a community.
Please join us. Also? I need a roommate.
No Regrets. Or. Why we need version control for life. Jun 03, 2013
They always say not to have any regrets in life. Thing is? It's hard to avoid.
There's that time you thought the tattoo of Winnie the poo was going to be a good idea wen you were 16. There's the night you got so drunk you told off the barmaid who happened to be your boyfriend's sister's ex-lover and a former heavy weight boxer. (Consolation: your black eye looked a bit like an Eeyore so you claimed a "pooh" theme.)
There's the time you majored in Exercise and Sports Science when you MEANT to major in Computer Science. (This one I actually have done. I'll tell you about it some day.)
And then there are the three days you spent watching Felicity in sequence that you'd gladly take back.
I have the perfect solution for this: Git: Version Control For Life.
Regretting that last breakup? Roll back to your latest commit!
Feeling unsure of your current job? Stash your employment until you gain some more confidence and come back to it.
Need a few more hands around the house? Clone yourself!
Want to spend some time dating someone? Why not Git Checkout? #raur
Ready to get married? Git merge!
Then, when the time comes, you can fork your branch and have new, baby repositories to configure and watch become whole little applications, I mean people.
See? Seriously, if god was going to redo this whole human kind malarky, I think he should start with Version Control. It even gets saved IN THE CLOUD.
Roll back to day #5, God, and set up your repository correctly.
*PS* For those of you that might not be of a technical career, Git /ɡɪt/ is a distributed version control and source code management (SCM) system with an emphasis on speed.
In other words:
It's like a huge-giant UNDO for teams.
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Escaping New York / L.A. & Shacking Up With Some Chicks
Published on July 29, 2011
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The title of this post is really my own little person fantasy. As of now, I have just baby stepped out of L.A. and I am about to baby step into New York City and I already have one chick, but she isn't the egg laying type. She is the egg eating type, if you know what I mean. In the near future, I would love love love to take a big step out of NYC / L.A. and land somewhere in the world, where having a bevy of chicks calling my name wouldn't seem that unusual to the local folk.
For all those chick/canning dreamers out there, I present to you, two books sent to me out of the blue. Keeping Chickens and Canning Preserving with Ashley England. Two very well written and designed books about you guessed it, raising chickens and canning your own food for the urban dweller who thinks about escaping to a simpler life.
The author Ashley turns out to be a recent escapee. She is on her own adventure figuring this modern homesteading type of life out for herself and the books are a way of sharing that adventure. She even has a blog (small measures) and a few videos if your not the reading type. Her series of books which go for $14 each, would make a great gift. I thought the books were really well done. I give them two monkie stubs up…


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Posted 18 January 2013 - 10:58 AM
Why don't you guys keep an airball field up? It's in the perfect location right next to your pro shop. I would drive down there from Troy instead of driving up to Wetumpka every weekend. You could have so much promotion with the field being right there on the road. As soon as it's up, I'll start going.
I don't speak for the field but I know that they have told me is that: Not many people come play airball, if they do its on sundays. I know that some of their bunkers have holes and since not many people come play they feel its not worth it for the upkeep of it. They use their hyperball field as a substitute for one.
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Posted 19 January 2013 - 11:14 PM
Does Keith still do the Friday night lights thing?
Not that I know of.. The netting has been down for awhile. Some air bunkers have holes so its not a complete field.
Posted 25 July 2013 - 12:14 PM
Playing here this Saturday (7/27) with several buddies, and making the drive up from Tallahassee, I can't find info about pricing though. Any help?
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Here's how RW members rated this race in the past (98 votes).
In short: Superb, fantastic experience !In full: Organisation and attention to detail was fantasticExcellent flat traffic free course and the support all the way round from marshalls ,volunteers and the general public was fantastic.The goody bag was awesome, the t shirt alone would cost more than the entry fee and the medal was top notch.All in all a great day and Adrian and his team deserve a huge pat on the back....well done !!!Date of review: February 12, 2013
In short: Good atmosphere and lots of nice touches along the route, like an Elvis impersonator and drummers. Great for a beginner like me. Date of review: February 12, 2013
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In full: Brilliant enjoyed it goody bag was great medal was to defo doing next years.Date of review: February 12, 2013
In short: Personal best for me despite the conditions. Everyone I spoke to and met we're really friendly. A long way from Doncaster but glad I went.Date of review: February 12, 2013
In short: mad dog 10k ... great value .. great people ..great route .... LOVED IT !!!In full: my 1st ever run at 10k distance and at 38 yrs old new to running and when someone asked if i would participate in something self worthy and putting something back in to charity .. why not hey ?PRE RACEbooking was easy online with lots of info pics and videos on the website as well as a handy facebook page with some great people posting comments of banter and support to others.VENUEthe base for the race was ideal a big school ideal as it was raining plenty of under cover split into sections .. tshirt pick up ..registration free massage area and much more .. and hundreds arrived you could feel the buzz and the smell of deep heat .. must say some very fine looking ladies handing out free drinks water / energy drinks lovely gesture..THE racestart was delayed due to sefton council but who cared ..plenty to do and plenty of nice people to talk to .. finally around 2500 runners lined up of all ages al abilities in the rain but who needed the sun with the coastline was awash with mass hi viz .. the route is windy if it doesnt get you on the way forward it will as it doubles back to the finish .. ENTERTAINMENTon course bands brazilian steel samba band provided shivers down your spine and kicked off a great buzz for all runners while elvis appeared by the pier providing classic tunes and humour .. also free bottles water was provided round about the halfway mark and marshalls and air cadets were inspirational providing not just a clap but real heart felt encouragement to all they were the stars much needed for 1st timers like myself who needed that extra push and when they weren't there i found great pacemakers behind some of the parbold pink panther ladies worth keeping up the pace there :-)THE FINISHwell i as approached the finish line of my 1st ever 10k run i guess i got the bug .. the people shouting clapping and massive feeling of self worth and the end .. priceless !! VALUE FOR MONEYthe goody bag was amazing packed full of drinks biscuits sweets glucose tabs vouchers and a lovely big heavy medal as wall as your tshirt which is not just a momentum but a great running shirt to be worn again .. if you dont think you get value for money i will give you a big kick up the bum and slap your face because the organisers have put everything they could into a great day for me that wont be beaten .. gonna do another one soon but mad dog set a standard i'd say wont be beaten ..look forward to the next on 2014 ... amazing thank you mad dog ..johnDate of review: February 12, 2013
In short: Fantastic feels like a major marathon minus the distance.In full: Hats off this is the best race. Great personal touch info from organisers, great scenery, personalised numbers, chip timing, great race, entertainment, food, the T shirt is excellent and the medal is bespoke and a real keepsake. Goody bag is rammed and freebies been given out all over the place after the race. It has everything you'd expect a major city marathon to offer you, minus the obvious scale and miles!! Sign up you will love it.Date of review: February 12, 2013
In short: Fantastic event,highlight of the yearIn full: This is an event i look forward to every year.As soon as i finish this event, i count down to the next one.This is a brilliant thing for everyone in Southport, whether running, or supporting.Date of review: February 12, 2013
In short: Definite for next yearDate of review: February 12, 2013
In short: Brilliant raceIn full: Fantastic friendly and supportive marshalls, excellent organisation,great flat traffic free course with musical entertainment en route. Tee shirt, medal and goody bag plus knocked 4 mins off my time from last year! Cannot rate this one highly enough. Give it a go next year, highly recommended.Date of review: February 12, 2013
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ARTWalk Extension – Call for Submissions
If you live, work, or play in the city, you may have noticed that parts of University Ave have been under construction for several months. I happen to live, work, and often play downtown so it has very much been on my radar, but I recognize that it may not be as noticeable to others.
This construction is part of the ARTWalk Extension, which is not only an expansion of the decorative nature of the Neighborhood of the Arts community but is also addressing needed updates to replace the area's roads and sidewalks. You can learn more about all of that here.
As a resident of NOTA, one of the most interesting parts of this project is the call for local artists to submit their work to be incorporated into mosaic light poles, artistic benches, a bus shelter, a bike rack, and several utility boxes. The first call for submissions is for sidewalk engravings, which will be accepted through early December. Learn about the current and future calls for submission on the ARTWalk Extension's website.
This is an excellent opportunity for local rising artists and designers, and I would love to see their work incorporated into this part of our community. Be sure to pass the information along to anyone you know with any variety of artistic abilities!


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Today's photo of the week comes to us from the U.S. Mission in New Zealand, where the Mission staff in Wellington and staff at the Consulate General in Auckland have been providing services following the magnitude 6.3 earthquake which struck on February 22, 2011, and affected the city of Christchurch and surrounding areas. The photo shows members of the Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) from USAID's Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA), as well as members of the Los Angeles County Fire Department Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) team, one of the most skilled USAR teams in the world. OFDA is going to do their best to make a difference in Christchurch and wherever else their help is needed.
While OFDA has provided support this week in New Zealand, U.S. consular officers have also been providing assistance to Americans in Libya. President Obama said this week, "We are doing everything we can to protect American citizens. That is my highest priority. In Libya, we've urged our people to leave the country and the State Department is assisting those in need of support. Meanwhile, I think all Americans should give thanks to the heroic work that's being done by our Foreign Service Officers and the men and women serving in our embassies and consulates around the world. They represent the very best of our country and its values."
President Obama continued, "I've also asked Secretary Clinton to travel to Geneva on Monday, where a number of foreign ministers will convene for a session of the Human Rights Council. There she'll hold consultations with her counterparts on events throughout the region and continue to ensure that we join with the international community to speak with one voice to the government and the people of Libya."
G. in the United Kingdom writes:
Prayers for the living and the dead from Oregon, a friend of a friend is among the missing.
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New Zealand victims
I'm interrupting the news to sleep .. New Zealand due to the earthquake that everyone I know that many people suffering, people are still alive in collapsed building, it is difficult to attempt to save the sad news, too. Perhaps hoping to get a helping hand, think it was sent to news.
More equipment and personnel will be needed. If perhaps a bit exaggerated, though, might be showing a video, too cruel to give the survivors think. Bleeding, even next to the person, say lack of energy, I just think experience is gone down. Was too painful. By any chance, if you have survivors, I hope, God bless to survivor.


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Tom Connick, who also is an attorney, filed a lawsuit this week in Lake County Common Pleas Court claiming Scott Barber, an assistant coach for the Titans, committed assault and battery against his son during the game at Haven's Baseball Complex in Jefferson Township.
According to the suit, Barber ordered his pitcher on the mound to "throw at" Connick's son, which resulted in the boy "severely" breaking his left hand.
"Immediately after (Michael) fell to the ground, and while writhing in pain, defendant Barber again yelled from the dugout, 'Good!,' thus confirming and ratifying his order to 'throw at' and intentionally and recklessly … hit the plaintiff," Tom Connick stated in the suit.
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Michael's father, who said he and his wife did not attend the June 24 game, stressed that his family is not suing for the money.
"Anything he gets will go toward his medical bills, then a college fund through probate court," Connick said. "I'm a lawyer, but I'm also Michael's father. I don't want people thinking I'm some scumbag attorney."
I'm sure the second hand knowledge he received will hold up well in court
Connick and his wife, Corrina, are seeking more than $25,000 in damages, lost wages and attorney's fees.
Lost wages?!? Christ when I was 13 I had a paper route, my wages were $25/week.
Attorney fees? Is he gonna give himself a family discount or will he gouge the numbers to get that settlement up there?


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A remarkable new tool is becoming increasingly available to help end extreme poverty and ensure dignity and opportunity for people around the world -- a tool that few people think about when they consider how to bolster international development efforts. That tool is data, and in particular "open data" -- data freely available in formats that are easy to use in new and innovative ways, while rigorously protecting privacy.
The possibilities are truly endless -- it could be regional epidemiological statistics being made available to community health workers; or real-time weather information being made available to small-holder farmers; or loan information being made accessible to first-time borrowers. In these and countless other arenas, open data has the potential to not only improve transparency and coordination, but also dramatically accelerate progress in development.
In order to explore new ways of leveraging open data for development and to help strengthen our commitment to open data with others inside and outside of government, we joined with colleagues from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy on December 10 for a DataJam at the White House.
This unprecedented event brought world-class innovators and entrepreneurs together with U.S. government leaders and decision-makers to discuss the impact that open development data has already had on strengthening entrepreneurship in the United States and in developing countries -- and the additional impact that can be had going forward. We also brainstormed about new partnerships we could form to facilitate the opening of new pockets of data that many of us deal with in our work every day and that have potential added value across the development domain. For USAID, this effort reflects our increasing focus on throwing open the doors of development to problem-solvers everywhere.
The DataJam showcased some of the groundbreaking work that innovators and entrepreneurs have accomplished with open data in the development sphere -- from tracking election transparency in Kenya with the non-profit Ushahidi; to the State Department's Tech@State and TechCamp conference and workshop platforms that bring in-country technologists and entrepreneurs together to solve local -- and global -- problems; to the exciting announcement that FEWSnet, USAID's Famine Early Warning System Network, is launching a competition to analyze USAID data to better inform and improve our own decision-making. As Presidential Innovation Fellow Dmitry Kachaev, explained, "Technology is not the hard part. The hard part is getting the information."
That's where we all come in, and that's why we are issuing a call to action for open data. There are data sets and information resources across the government that could serve a greater good and be effective tools for change if they were made more accessible and usable, while ensuring that privacy and confidentiality are always rigorously protected. We want to collect these data -- these potential change agents -- and present them in their most creative and effective forms. We want to engage students and volunteers to help us clean and organize the data to make this information accessible and useful, just as USAID's Development Credit Authority did with its crowdsourcing project to clean up and map loan data records. We want these same data to be available to entrepreneurs and innovators who are building new organizations and creating local and lasting change.
Although we often talk about our business-like focus on data and the importance of delivering concrete results, the reality is that the open data movement has been inspired not only by analytical logic but also in large part by a shared passion to help change the world. When you apply your vision and expertise to this task -- when you add to the growing stores of data for use in new and creative ways -- you are helping an infant take its first easy breath and live to celebrate her fifth birthday. You are helping farmers grow more nutritious foods, fostering healthy families and prosperous communities. You are helping end the enduring outrage of human trafficking. This is the power of open data.
We're excited and think you should be too.
Related Content: Watch a video of the DataJam event, visit USAID's website for more information about open data, and learn more about the Presidential Innovation Fellows.Editor's Note: This entry also appears on USAID's Impact Blog.
Robert L. in Canada writes:
Open source, and truly secure! and clean data is changing our world right in front of our eye,s.It is absolutly fascinating to watch this happen in real time.Your dept has been and is! the best,most effective and I must say,"open" Goverment source for action on this that our world has ever seen,Education,diologues,asking for idea,s![very important], and enacting solutions as fast as they appear,, impressive! I must say,..well done!, more please?..This is new territory we are on here, a learnig curve, this is why OOTB idea,s must be sought and investigated for usefullness, it is only those who have the need, that so often come up with the real time solutions, asking and digesting those idea,s then enacting them is making "it" happen,.."engage"
Palgye in South Korea writes:
Q- what purpose of Google ceo and former governer visit North Korea?
and who are originate and support?
The White House? therefore State object?
Please, answer to me.
i want.............................Open from North Korea.
Palgye in South Korea writes:
If i see the new video
Sec appears
i believe Sec's back.
And never say they are just pretend, Sec's saying. not give any opportunity, even press political press to me, very hard.
i have not money buy a rice.
not south korea that's are north korea
why State object Google ceo and company visit to north korea?
President and Sec Hillary......
go with us President's and Sec's to
north korea. Power game is not good in
Syria and north korea.
then Osama bin Laden case...
at any co-work, at any President and Sec had used that case for politically.
so not good news, appears tv news show. they are just ridiculous you are doing.
i think.
not thank you in this case.
Mari in the U.S.A. writes:
You don't get development from data. You get it from power plants, water diversion projects, railroads, and so forth. Data can contribute to the process, but without actual concrete development, all the gee-whiz computer stuff is just for entertainment. Starving people in the Maghreb will have access to American porn.
Palgye in South Korea writes:
Google's CEO personally wish that owns the exclusive rights for the internet business, in North-Korea, I think.But, perhaps, the judgment of the Department of the President Obama who personally. Your consultation, issues which need to be addressed, and how to be Koreans or Korean companies to participate personally, but wish me some Internet companies in Korea, benevolent enterprises exist is not.
, Perhaps, the way in which the internet network and connect to China's Internet companies of the United States, founded North Korea's Internet system is able to get him established, North Korea's own Internet network, is likely to be installed across North Personally I think. North Korea's unique and proprietary way, perhaps, to start, I'd expect ....
A little too bad .....
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I'll post a life story soon (yawn), but until then, here are a few new cups I got last night. I finally got my nuka glaze to melt.. but I can't remember which test was which. Doh!
Also, here is a link to the last body of work I did two years ago, many of which are tea cups. Please ignore the embarrassing bike racing pictures.
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Welcome to Summer Quarter! At the start of every quarter the library receives a lot of questions from learners who are wondering how to get a hold of their course materials. Here are some of the most Frequently Asked Questions.
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More than 100 students, colleagues, relatives and friends of the late Dr. Stanley G. Nathenson filled the Ethel and Samuel J. LeFrak Auditorium of the Price Center/Block Research Pavilion on October 16. They came to pay tribute to the late professor of microbiology & immunology and of cell biology whose groundbreaking research contributed to making organ transplantation a routine medical practice. Dr. Nathenson's longtime friend and colleague, Dr. Peter Cresswell, the Eugene Higgins Professor of Immunobiology at the Yale School of Medicine, was the inaugural speaker of the annual lecture series, established to honor Dr. Nathenson's memory following his passing in October 2012 at age 79.
In his talk on chaperone functions in MHC class I molecule assembly and peptide binding, Dr. Cresswell noted, "Science is a collaborative venture. Stan exemplified that more than anyone I know."
Stanley Nathenson joined the Einstein faculty in 1965, and played a key role in making immunological research an area of excellence at the medical school. He gained particular recognition for studies that helped reveal the immunological basis for the rejection of transplanted tissues and organs; these findings led to therapies for preventing the occurrence of rejection. Dr. Nathenson's seminal research focused on transplantation antigens, the cell-surface proteins that trigger the body's rejection of transplanted tissues and organs. He was the first to purify, chemically characterize and completely sequence mouse H-2 transplantation antigens.
In his welcoming remarks Dr. Allen M. Spiegel, Einstein's Marilyn and Stanley M. Katz Dean, observed, "Scientists such as Stan leave a major legacy in two forms: their body of work and the people they trained. Their trainees are a testament to the qualities of the person who mentored them."
Dr. Nathenson mentored nearly 80 students and fellows at Einstein. The event was organized by his close colleague and friend Dr. Matthew Scharff and one of Dr. Nathenson's most distinguished trainees, Dr. Teresa DiLorenzo, who came to Einstein in 1996 as a postdoctoral student in his laboratory.
Dr. DiLorenzo, now a professor of microbiology & immunology and of medicine and the Diane Belfer, Cypres & Endelson Families Faculty Scholar in Diabetes Research at the College of Medicine, recalled her mentor for the assembled guests: "Besides his extraordinary scientific achievements, today we remember and celebrate Stan's gentle nature, his loyal support and friendship, and his trusted advice, which continues to guide us even in his absence."
A member of the National Academy of Sciences and the author of more than 200 articles, Dr. Nathenson was named distinguished professor in 2005 and received the Marshall S. Horwitz, M.D. Faculty Prize for Research Excellence in 2008. At the time of his death, he held the Samuel H. Golding Chair in Microbiology.
"Stan loved Einstein," said Susan Nathenson, Dr. Nathenson's widow, at the reception following the lecture. "Over the years, he had many offers to go to other places, but he could never leave because he found the people here so collaborative and caring."
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The GNU package mcron (Mellor's cron) is a 100% compatible replacement for Vixie cron. It is written in pure Guile, and allows configuration files to be written in scheme (as well as Vixie's original format) for infinite flexibility in specifying when jobs should be run. Mcron was written by Dale Mellor (see his personal web pages).
Mcron was proposed to the FSF (2003-07-11) as a component of the GNU system, and accepted on 2003-12-02. Version 1.0.1 was the first release of mcron as a GNU package homed at gnu.org.
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Q. David Bowers: The following narrative, with minor editing, is from my "Silver Dollars & Trade Dollars of the United States: A Complete Encyclopedia" (Wolfeboro, NH: Bowers and Merena Galleries, Inc., 1993). Note: the Notable Specimens list should be used with caution - it has been updated in my 2013 edition of "The Encyclopedia of United States Silver Dollars 1794-1804."
OBVERSE 2: 16 stars, arranged 9 to the left and 7 to the right. Highest wave of hair, below upright of E, is lightly defined, probably due to insufficient depth of punching of the Draped Bust motif into the die (and not due to relapping). Prominent lump in field below star 9. Heavy die file lines in front of neck. One is vertical with several others slanting down to right.
Obverse die used to strike 1797 BB-72 (earlier) and BB-73 (later).
REVERSE B: Described under 1795 BB-51, herewith repeated: Small Eagle. Small Letters in legend. Eagle stands on clouds. Wreath is composed of a palm branch (right) and olive branch (left), the latter with seven berries. A short, prominent die scratch extends up to left from tip of right, inside leaf below (observer's) left wing. Berry under A of STATES; a quick way to identify this reverse.
Reverse die used to strike 1795 BB-51; 1796 BB-62, BB-63, and BB-66 (now relapped); 1797 BB-72; and 1798 BB-81.
Die State I: Perfect dies (no cracks). Earliest state of the obverse; equivalent to 1797 BB-73 Die State 1. Reverse die relapped, equivalent to 1796 BB-63 Die State II.
ABOUT MINTAGE AND RARITY: How many exist? 1797 BB-72 has been subjected to widely varying estimates of rarity over the years, with some observers stating that only about 20 are known, and others ranking the population at Sheldon's Rarity-4 (76 to 200). The latter is probably closer to the truth. I believe that 200 to 300 exist today, and believe that this figure is conservative (I wouldn't bet against someone who suggested that even more than 300 could be traced). At a convention a few years ago, I purchased four specimens for stock –s omething that one usually can't do if only 20 are known. At that rate, one would see a 1797 BB-72 dollar only about as frequently as an 1876-CC 20-cent piece (of which I believe about 20 are known)-but that isn't the case.
In reality, the fame of the 1797 BB-72 has been larger than reality. However, the BB-72 is still eminently desirable. It is just that quite a few more than 20 are known. In trying to track down why the issue has been listed as a major rarity, I concluded that the culprit is the low mintage of just 7,776 for the calendar year 1797. If only 7,776 were minted, and if 1797 BB-72 is the rarest variety of the year (which it is), then the mintage of BB-72 must have been some tiny fraction of 7,776. What might the mintage be? From that point, it was a short step to the inspection of the calendar year 1797 delivery figures by day: February 28: 342; May 26: 1,060; June 30: 3,881; August 13: 2,071; August 28: 422. The lowest figure, 342, fit the bill exactly; q. V., 1797 BB-72 dollars were all delivered on February 28, 1797, and the mintage was 342. Neat idea. However, it doesn't square with the fact that nearly that many are known to exist today.
Robert P. Hilt III, in Die Varieties of Early United States Coins, 1980, stated that the mintage of Bolender-2 (BB-72) was not 342, but composed the entire production of 7,776 for the 1797 calendar year. He went on to suggest that if the survival rate of the issue was 1.45% of the mintage, 112 coins would exist today. He further stated that the other two varieties, Bolender-1 (BB-73) and Bolender-3 (BB-71), were struck in 1798. While I do not agree with all of the numbers, the Hilt theory comes far closer to what I consider to be the truth, than anything else I have seen in print. (I believe the mintage of 1797 BB-72 to have been in the range of 4,000 to 4,500 coins, also probably minted in 1798; I, too, believe that BB-73 and BB-71 were minted in 1798, or at least a majority of each was.)
COLLECTING NOTES: Of all 1797 varieties, the BB-72 is at once the rarest, best known, and most sought after. This issue occupies its own niche in numismatic literature, where it has been showcased as a rarity in some instances and ignored in others. Doubtless, it is the best known die variety of the 1796-1797 years combined. Indeed, it may well be the most famous variety after 1794 and before 1804.
While various cataloguers over the years have ascribed great rarity to 1797 BB-72, I believe that about 200 to 300 exist today, as explained in detail above.
In this die combination, the obverse shows very prominent and bold denticulation and excellent relief. The reverse, not deeply punched to begin with, and since relapped, always appears to be shallow and weak in comparison to the obverse, as the relapping largely destroyed what protective rim there was initially. Part of each reverse rim denticle has been ground away. Because of the low rim, a coin whose obverse grades VF, may have a reverse grading only VG. Typically, if a single grade is given, the grading is by the obverse only, although in the past there has been no consistency in this regard. A split grade such as VF/Fine or Fine/VG is more informative.
This Small Letters reverse die is famous in its own right, as already noted, and was mated with obverses dated 1795, 1796, and 1798, in addition to 1797.
Nearly all known specimens of 1797 BB-72 are in grades from VG to EF, with VF being most often seen. True EF coins are rarer than auction or other data suggest, as often grading has been on the liberal side for this rare variety. AU coins are virtually unheard of, the only one coming to my attention being the Carter specimen. Whoever carried it away for $6,600 scored a real coup, in my opinion.
Newman Specimen. MS-62 Eric P. Newman Numismatic Education Society. Die State I. Frosty lustre with lovely peripheral toning. Examined and graded by the author, March 1993.
Carter Specimen. AU-50 Amon Carter, Jr. Collection, Stack's, 1984: 218. AU, frosty lustre.
Ebsen Specimen. EF-45 Superior, Buddy Ebsen Collection, 1987: 1887. "Somewhat shallowstrike, perfectly centered on a problem-free planchet. Surfaces, still retain a good deal of lustre, particularly in the protected areas of devices. Attractively toned grayish violet highlighted by light golden and deepening to iridescence about the stars, date, etc."
Chalkley Specimen. EF-45 Superior, Chalkley Collection, 1990: 2839. "Cloudy, old cabinet toning with blue high-lights clinging to devices. A. single rim bump below 1 of date has been partially repaired. Blunt reverse strike. Early die state with two points of recut star visible below star 9 on obverse."
Aspen Specimen. EF-45/40. Bowers and Merena, Nelson Page Aspen, M.D. Collection, 1989: 361. "Traces of mint lustre noted around stars. Centering of obverse gives the coin a very pleasing cameo appearance, and both sides have rich golden, rose and gunmetal-blue coloration. Exceedingly faint tooling above Liberty's head, and there is evidence of removal of a spot in front of her mouth."
Austin Specimen. EF-40 Bowers and Ruddy, Austin Collection, 1974: 14. "Choice EF. Exceptional strike [on obverse]. Reverse characteristically weakly struck." Montgomery Collection, Bowers and Ruddy, 1976: 1426. EF, exceptional strike. Reverse weakly struck .March Sale, Stack's, 1983: 930. EF. Exquisite orange-russet over gray.
French Specimen. EF-40 Stack's, French Family Collection, 1989: 546. "Natural light gray with pink overtones."
H. Roland Willasch Specimen. EF-40 (ANACS)Superior, H. Roland Willasch Collection, 1990: 465. "Deep blue and gold toning on obverse, even deeper gray color on reverse. Numerous tiny contact marks, and some planchet roughness. Early obverse die" state with file lines connecting Liberty's neck to her chest and both points of the recut star visible in the field below ninth star."
Gross Specimen. EF-40JJ. Teaparty, June 1985. Sold to the following. Yolanda Gross Collection.
Hollinbeck-Kagin Specimens. EF-40 June, 1970: 603. "LIBERTY and outer portions of bust are quite sharp (grading EF to nearly Uncirculated), the legend, wreath and outer portions of eagle also grade EF to nearly Uncirculated." 21st MANA Convention Sale, Kagin's, 1973: 1301. "About EF with sharpest struck eagle we can recall seeing! Nominal even wear and without any nicks, scratches and other abrasions, Attractive bluish golden patina." 50th Anniversary Sale, Kagin's, 1978: 808. "EF with attractive even toning. Remarkable sharp strike, Stars and denticles full. Minute handling marks." Atlanta Sale, Kagin's, 1987: 3224. "Very sharply struck EF-40 or better. Light mark in right obverse field and an old scratch on reverse running from edge below U and down to right. Faint adjustment marks visible below eagle's wing to right. Lovely light gray color with a touch of beautiful, iridescent blue toning on obverse and lustre beneath suggesting a higher grade."
Green Specimen, VF-30. Col. E.H.R. Green Collection.
Davis-Graves Games Davis) Collection, Stack's, 1954: 1278
AJ. Ostheimer, 3rd Collection, Lester Merkin, 1968: 242. "Nearly EF, with considerable mint lustre, weak in centers as usual, reverse exceptionally well struck for variety, wing feathers clear and part of breast feathers visible, claws and all leaves plain. Mint lustre around letters; gray tone, clean surfaces."
Herdegen Specimen. VF-30. Schulman, Herdegen Collection, 1973. "Strong VF, with some light scratches."
Miller Specimen. VF-35/20. Warren Miller Collection. Double struck.
"Colonel" E.H.R. Green - Green Estate - Partnership of Eric P. Newman & B.G. Johnson (St. Louis Stamp & Coin Co.) - Eric P. Newman, who paid $125.00 - Eric P. Newman Numismatic Education Society - Heritage 11/2013:33503, $381,875
Cardinal Collection - Dr. Hesselgesser Collection - Goldbergs 9/2011:5029, $58,937.50 - Freedom Collection - Stack's/Bowers 8/2013:4321, $36,425


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Hey everyone, looking to get into yoga to improve my flexibility and hopefully ease out a few injuries in turn.
Does anyone have a good beginner dvd recommendation and what type of yoga i am looking for?
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Linnéa76 wrote: I think Hatha yoga with it's slower pace is good for beginners.
blinki wrote:Linnéa76 wrote: I think Hatha yoga with it's slower pace is good for beginners.
Would it be a terrible idea to do the other sort? Ashtanga is it? I found a class I can make but now but it's that sort and I'm not sure if it'd kill me- especially right now with my back being a bit dodgy
I guess I'm not just asking you but anyone
meli wrote:With a hurting back I'd recommend you've a look at Scaravelli yoga, or restorative yoga (Yin yoga), or a beginner's Hatha class.
Ashtanga is probably a bit too hard if you have never done it before -Asthanga yoga is a set of approx. 130 poses (with a coordinated breathing pattern for each pose) you should know by heart if you attend a class.
You can also do some yoga at home with dvds and props to relieve back pain and for a good stretch... (if you need links etc. let me know)
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Mike Tison knows all to well it's all about what have you done for me lately.
The Harrisburg High School head boys golf coach came into Tuesday's Southern Illinois River-To-River Conference Golf Tournament at Hickory Ridge with high expectations.
Rightfully so. All season, Harrisburg has been dominant against its opposition, leaving many of them in their wake en route to low scores.
And then Tuesday happened.
For the third time in as many years, Massac County took the team title at the Southern Illinois River-To-River Ohio Division boys' golf tournament.
The Patriots blistered the field with a 311, followed by a 318 from Benton for second place.
Harrisburg was denied its opportunity at Hickory Ridge Golf Course in Carbondale and Tison knows the bigger picture is still in sight.
Harrisburg finished third overall with a team total of 321 as they now set their sights on next Tuesday's regional at Kokopelli Golf Course in Marion.
Finishing fourth was Herrin with a 335, followed by a 340 from Murphysboro and a 364 from West Frankfort.
The Harrisburg duo of Alexander Tison and Ryan Williams joined eight others on the SIRR All-Conference list as both shot a 77 for the Bulldogs.
I thought we had a real chance to have four golfers on the all conference team, but we did have 2 golfers on the team," Tison said. "If the whole season was taken into account rather than just the tournament, we would have.
"Ryan was consistent with a 38 on the front and 39 on the back," Tison said. "His ball striking has been very good this year. Alexander, has had a great year and was 5-over after eight and played the last 10 holes even par. He started hitting the ball really well and had a couple drives over 300 yards."
Dillion Street shot an 83 for Harrisburg, while Patrick Bittle put up an 84.
The other two scores not counting towards the team total came from Garrett Jenkins' 87 and Ben Fowler's 90.
On the Mississippi side, Nashville won its fifth straight conference championship with a 308. Since 1996-97, the Hornets have won 12-of-17 team titles.
Carterville came in second with a 343, followed by Pinckneyville (353), Sparta (367), Anna-Jonesboro (376) and Du Quoin (434).
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Dalhausser, Rosenthal Win FIVB Long Beach Grand Slam
LONG BEACH, Calif. (July 27, 2013) – The U.S. men's beach volleyball team of Phil Dalhausser and Sean Rosenthal became the only team to win three FIVB tournaments on Saturday as they defeated Spain's Pablo Herrera and Adrián Gavira in front of a packed house at the FIVB Long Beach Grand Slam, part of the World Series of Beach Volleyball.
Dalhausser (Ormond Beach, Fla.) and Rosenthal (Redondo Beach, Fla.), seeded No. 4 in Long Beach, defeated Herrera and Gavira, 21-15, 21-18 in in 45 minutes and won $33,000. In the bronze medal match, the U.S. team of Jake Gibb (Bountiful, Utah) and Casey Patterson (Van Nuys, Calif.), seeded No. 1, fell to Italy's No. 6 Nicolai Paolo and Daniele Lupo, 21-16, 21-13 in 37 minutes.
Dalhausser gave credit to Rosenthal for the victory in the gold medal match.
"Sean played great. He made every single play that he could," Dalhausser said. "I made a few plays at the end. He basically won it single-handedly for us."
Rosenthal added, "I'm not quite sure about that. It was a lot of fun to be out here in front of fans, friends and family.
"It usually happens this way where the team you practice with a lot you end up playing. We practiced a couple times this week with Pablo and Adrian and sure enough we end up playing them in the finals."
Dalhausser and Rosenthal had to come back from trailing in both sets. In the first set, they trailed 12-10 before scoring four straight points on three Rosenthal attacks and a Dalhausser kill to take the lead. In the second set, they trailed 15-13 and again at 17-16 before Rosenthal scored with two straight kills. Spain tied the score at 18-18, but Dalhausser responded with an attack and two straight aces to the back right corner to win the match.
Dalhausser and Rosenthal also won gold medals at the FIVB Fuzhou Open in April and the FIVB Rome Grand Slam in June. Overall, Dalhausser has won 26 FIVB gold medals over the course of his career, 23 with former partner Todd Rogers (Santa Barbara, Calif.). Rosenthal has won seven FIVB gold medals, four with former partner Jake Gibb (Bountiful, Utah).
"Phil and my goal this year was to win more than anybody else on the tour," Rosenthal said. "With the parity on the tour this year, it's going to be hard for another team to get more wins than us, especially if Phil and I go out and win a couple more."
The fourth-place finish was disappointing for Gibb and Patterson, who have medaled in three FIVB events this season. Gibb and Patterson have defeated Paolo and Lupo the last two times they played them.
"Italy played really well and I just left my partner out to dry," Gibb said. "He can't play defense behind what I was putting up for a block. It was tragic."
Patterson agreed that he and Gibb could have played better.
"It was all on our end," Patterson said. "We didn't do anything that we needed to do to get (Italy) in trouble. They dealt better with the scrappy, dirty long rallies. "
After another week off next week, the top U.S. beach volleyball teams will be back in action at the $440,000 FIVB Berlin Grand Slam in two weeks in Germany.
Ross, Kessy Top Walsh Jennings, Pavlik in World Series Cup Semis
LONG BEACH, Calif. (July 27, 2013) – The U.S. women's beach volleyball team of April Ross and Jennifer Kessy defeated compatriots Kerri Walsh Jennings and Whitney Pavlik on Saturday and advanced to the final of the World Series Cup, part of the World Series of Beach Volleyball, in Long Beach, Calif.
Ross (Costa Mesa, Calif.) and Kessy (San Clemente, Calif.) came back from a 9-2 deficit in the third set and beat Walsh Jennings (Saratoga, Calif.) and Pavlik (Laguna Beach, Calif.), 18-21, 21-17, 16-14. Ross and Kessy will play Brazil's Taiana Lima and Talita Da Rocha Antunes in Sunday's final at 1:30 p.m. PT.
After losing the first set, Ross and Kessy had a strong second set and led by as many as six points before winning 21-17. In the third set, Walsh Jennings and Pavlik jumped out to a 9-2 lead before Kessy and Ross posted their comeback, using a 9-2 run to tie the score at 11-11. They also fought off match point at 14-13 with three straight kills from Ross to take the victory.
"I told Jen afterward that that's why I love playing with her," Ross said. "I know that we can be down 9-2 and we still have so much fight, I don't doubt that we can come back. It's just a matter of calming down and figuring out what the right thing to do is."
Kessy said she and Ross wanted to take advantage of the fact that Walsh Jennings and Pavlik were a new team playing their first match together.
"We wanted to serve a lot of middle since it's a new team," Kessy said. "I hadn't seen Kerri play this year. It's only her second time… and we wanted to hold on defense and make good runs."
Walsh Jennings said the loss "lit a fire" in her.
"We should have beaten them. That's terrible," she said. "That loss is going to be with me for a little while; Every time I hit the gym."
The men's semifinals in the World Series Cup are scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. PT on Sunday, with Latvia's Alesandrs Samoilovs and Janis Smedins taking on Brazil's Pedro Salgado and Bruno Schmidt in the international semifinal.
The U.S. semifinal will feature Sean Rosenthal (Redondo Beach, Calif.) and Phil Dalhausser (Ormond Beach, Fla.) against Jake Gibb (Bountiful, Utah) and Casey Patterson (Van Nuys, Calif.). The men's final is scheduled to be played at 3 p.m. on Sunday.
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SILVER SPRING, Md. – Vivian Irene Coon, 85, a native of Hancock, passed away on Saturday evening, Jan. 5, 2013, after a long illness.
A graduate of Hancock High School and Michigan Tech, Vivian worked for the State of Michigan Health Department's office on the Michigan Technoligal University campus as a medical technologist.
She was an active member of the Hancock community for most of her life. She enjoyed golfing, bowling, bridge and traveling.
For the past 13 years, she had resided in a memory care facility in the Washington D.C. suburbs.
Preceding her in death were her parents, Thomas Albert and Edith Mae Coon; four brothers, Carl, George, Jack and Tom Coon; one sister, Alice Crowell.
She is survived by her sister, Mary Roberts of Battle Creek; and many nieces, nephews and cousins.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Jan. 19, 2013, at the Church of the Resurrection in Hancock with Rev. Fr. Brian Gerber to officiate. Spring burial will be in the Forest Hill Cemetery in Houghton. Friends may call on Friday, Jan. 18 from 6 until 8 p.m. in the O'Neill-Dennis Funeral Home in Hancock.
The O'Neill-Dennis Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Please go to oneilldennisfh.com to leave condolences.