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The Cardinal's Column
Francis Cardinal George, O.M.I.
April 27, 2008
Truth and enthusiasm: Pope Benedict's visit
Cardinal George's Schedule
- April 27: 3 p.m., Charismatic Convention, UIC Pavilion; 9:30 p.m., Sunday Mass, De Paul University, Lincoln Park Campus
- April 29: 1 p.m., Administrative Council Meeting, Pastoral Center
- May 1: 11 a.m., United States Holocaust Memorial Museum National Days of Remembrance Ceremony, U.S. Capitol Rotunda, Washington, D.C.; 6 p.m., Bishop Timothy J. Lyne's Anniversary Dinner, Westin River North
- May 2: 11:30 a.m., 25th Anniversary Mass with priests celebrating silver jubilee of ordination, Mundelein; 5:30 p.m., James E. Quigley Society Reception, Residence
- May 3: 9 a.m., Archdiocesan Pastoral Council Executive Committee, Holy Name Cathedral Parish Center; 3 p.m., University Convocation, Mundelein
- May 4: noon, 170th Anniversary Mass, St. Patrick Parish, Lemont; 4 p.m., Blessing of Grotto, Ss. Cyril and Methodius, Lemont
- May 5: 10 a.m., Episcopal Council Meeting, Residence
- May 6: 9:30 a.m., Presbyteral Council Meeting, De Paul University (O'Hare Campus); 6 p.m., Catechetical Ministries Awards Banquet, Drury Lane, Oakbrook Terrace
- May 8: 2 p.m., Board of Advisors Meeting, Mundelein
- May 9: noon, Catholic University Presidents Meeting, University of St. Francis, Joliet
- May 10: 9 a.m., Archdiocesan Women's Committee Meeting, Pastoral Center; 3 p.m., Feast Day Mass, Our Lady of the Cenacle (Fullerton Parkway) Chicago
Cardinal's Appointments
March 20 , 2008
His Eminence, Francis Cardinal George announces the following appointments:
Rev. Ho Chan (Simeon) Cha, from the Diocese of Incheon, South Korea, to be director of St. Paul Chong Ha Sang Catholic Mission, Des Plaines, effective immediately.
The visit of our Holy Father to the United States and to the United Nations Headquarters last week was planned many months in advance, and it kept to schedule. What wasn't planned was the reaction of so many to his presence and his words. Enthusiasm built from his meeting at the White House on the first full day of the visit to his encounter with young people and seminarians in New York on the day before he returned to Rome.
Popular enthusiasm and papal response
The enthusiasm of the people, who lined the streets each time his car moved from one event to the next, was matched by the happiness of the pope. He is, as everyone should know by now, a rather shy man. People could see that side of him, along with his kindness, and they reacted to his authenticity. With the people's reaction, he seemed to relax and respond with a vigor that surprised even many who know him well. It was wonderful to see him relate to the young people he had explicitly asked to address. It was wonderful as well to see how he appreciated the love and enthusiasm that surrounded the celebration here of his birthday (April 16) and of his election as Bishop of Rome (April 19).
Two of the most poignant moments for me were his meeting with children who are disabled and his prayer for all those who died at Ground Zero and for their families. The meeting with six men and women who had been abused by priests some years ago was also part of his pastoral concern for all those whose lives have been affected by tragedy.
The pope is a masterful teacher, so his gestures surrounded a series of addresses and homilies, each very carefully prepared. These talks will be studied more thoroughly in the months to come, but my hearing them, one after the other throughout the week, helped me to see how, on each occasion, he returns to our search for truth. This is a theme he reiterates constantly, and he did so again during this apostolic journey to our country.
Truth and prayer
In his address to the bishops, he echoed our own analysis of the pastoral challenges to the mission of the church here and insisted that the church must above all teach people to pray. How can we know the truth about God if we are never united to him in prayer?
Before coming here, the pope had written to us: "I shall come to the United States of America as pope for the first time, to proclaim this great truth: Jesus Christ is hope for men and women of every language, race, culture and social condition." He did that by relating the search for truth to a full range of concerns that mark our lives today.
Truth and unity
During his homily in Nationals Stadium in Washington, he drew a connection between truth and unity. We cannot act together as Catholics, face the future together as Christ's people, unless we are united in the truths of our faith.
Truth and freedom
The Holy Father pointed to the relationship between truth and freedom first of all in his address at the White House, where he said that history shows, time and time again, that freedom loses its foundation without truth. Political leaders must be guided by truth and bring the wisdom born of firm moral principle to decisions affecting the life and future of the nations they govern. To educators, he pointed out the communal nature of truth, which moves the seeker from his or her own individualism into the objective order of things, discovered in research and study. The truths of God's revelation, the pope said, must permeate every aspect of life in a Catholic university or school system.
Truth and peace
To our dialogue partners of different faiths, Pope Benedict showed the relationship between truth and peace, our common goal. If there is to be peace, not only what we already share in common but also our differences must enter into our conversations. To Christian leaders of other churches and faith communities, the pope spoke of the truths of the Gospel as the context of our dialogues.
Truth and life
To the young people in Yonkers, he spoke about how life is fulfilled in surrender to truth, because truth is a person: Jesus Christ. This note was sounded again when he spoke to almost 60,000 people during the Mass at Yankee Stadium.
At the United Nations Headquarters, Pope Benedict explained that each member of the human family is possessed of human rights. These are more basic than civil rights and must be protected by government. He taught that national sovereignty is therefore less important than the protection of human rights. Should a country's government infringe the human rights of the country's citizens, the international community should find ways to intervene nonviolently in order to protect people oppressed by their own government. This thesis will, I am sure, be discussed at some length in the months to come.
Finally, the truth sets us free because it shows us the source of our hope. "Christ Our Hope" was the general theme of the week that the Holy Father spent with us. The young men and women in New York completed the theme when they greeted him loudly: "Christ our Hope, Benedict our Pope." For many Catholics in this country, it seems that Benedict XVI became their pope in a new and more convincing way during his visit.
He leaves us more confident in our faith and more grateful for our church. We will keep him in our prayers with more personal satisfaction in the years to come.
Sincerely yours in Christ,
Francis Cardinal George, OMI
Archbishop of Chicago


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Google has moved its advertising services from MySQL to a new database, created in-house, called F1. The new system combines the best of NoSQL and SQL approaches.
According to Google Research, many of the services that are critical to Google's ad business have historically been backed by MySQL, but Google has recently migrated several of these services to F1, a new RDBMS developed at Google. The team at Google Research says that F1 gives the benefits of NoSQL systems (scalability, fault tolerance, transparent sharding, and cost benefits) with the ease of use and transactional support of an RDBMS.
Google Research has developed F1 to provide relational database features such as a parallel SQL query engine and transactions on a highly distributed storage system that scales on standard hardware.
The store is dynamically sharded, supports replication across data centers while keeping transactions consistent, and can deal with data center outages without losing data. The downside of keeping the transactions consistent means F1 has higher write latencies compared to MySQL, so the team restructured the database schemas and redeveloped the applications so the effect of the increased latency is mainly hidden from external users. Because F1 is distributed, Google says it scales easily and can support much higher throughput for batch workloads than a traditional database.
The database is sharded by customer, and the applications are optimized using shard awareness. When more power is needed, the database can grow by adding shards. The use of shards in this way has some drawbacks, including the difficulties of rebalancing shards, and the fact you can't carry out cross-shard transactions or joins.
F1 has been co-developed with a new lower-level storage system called Spanner. This is described as a descendant of Google's Bigtable, and as the successor to Megastore. Megastore is the transactional indexed record manager built by Google on top of its BigTable NoSQL datastore. Spanner offers synchronous cross-datacenter replication (with Paxos, the algorithm for fault tolerant distributed systems). It provides snapshot reads, and does multiple reads followed by a single atomic write to ensure transaction consistency.
F1 is based on sharded Spanner servers, and can deal with parallel reads with SQL or Map-Reduce. Google has deployed it using five replicas spread across the country to survive regional disasters. Reads are much slower than MySQL, taking between 5 and 10ms.
The SQL parallel query engine was developed from scratch to hide the remote procedure call (RPC) latency and to allow parallel and batch execution. The latency is dealt with by using a single read phase and banning serial reads, though you can carry out asynchronous reads in parallel. Writes are buffered at the client, and sent as one RPC. Object relational mapping calls are also handled carefully to avoid those that are problematic to F1.
The research paper on F1, presented at SIGMOD 2012, cites serial reads and for loops that carry out one query per iteration as particular avoidance points, saying that while these hurt performance in all databases, they are disastrous on F1. In view of this, the client library is described as very lightweight ORM – it doesn't really have the "R". It never uses relational or traversal joins, and all objects are loaded explicitly.

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Literature, Aesthetics, & Politics: The Function of the Literary Magazine in the Current Moment
Date: Friday, January 20, 2012 - 11:00am - 6:00pm
Location: FHI Garage - C105, Bay 4, 1st Floor, Smith Warehouse
Co-organized by the Franklin Humanities Institute and Center for Philosophy, Art, and Literature
Please join the FHI and PAL for a day-long event addressing the function of the literary magazine/literary journal at the current moment. Members of the editorial collective of the New York-based journal n+1, Carla Blumenkranz, Mark Greif, and Marco Roth, and writers and members of the Kenya-based Kwani Trust, Billy Kahora and Keguro Macharia, will participate in a set of panels engaging the enduring and changing social and political significance of literary journals, the role of writers as public intellectuals, and the importance of literary writing in cultural shaping and social critique.
11:00 am - n+1 Panel with Carla Blumenkranz, Mark Greif, Marco Roth
2:00 pm - Kwani? Panel with Billy Kahora and Keguro Macharia
4:30 pm - Roundtable with Ian Baucom (chair), Fred Moten, Aarthi Vadde, n+1 & Kwani? participants
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Man in the Mirror: Part Four
Short Story by: JenniferNichole
Status: Finished
Genre: Romance
Part 4.
Man in the Mirror
Heat filled her lungs and burned her throat. It was hard to breath. She rose from her bed and stumbled to the nearest window, opening it. Immediately the cold night air offered relief from the tormenting heat. She fanned at herself and moved on opening another window in her kitchen as she passed through to the living room where she felt for the thermostat needle and realized it was off. She checked again in disbelief, but the heater was indeed off. A little disoriented she wondered if she had left the oven on. She didn't think so but she checked anyways, all of the burners where off as well as the oven.Sarah wanted to jump into a swimming pool. She settled for a glass of ice water. Opening the freezer she stuck her head in for a minute enjoying the borderline painful cold. Okay. It was beginning to cool off in the house. She shut the freezer door and went back to bed with her ice water.
Sitting up in bed she sipped and lay back with her eyes closed as a gentle breeze slipped in her window sliding along her skin as she started to drift off once more. The mirror popped into her mind and she jerked awake, opening her eyes to stare at it silently. Soft light from the bathroom bounced off its surface reflecting in her eye, the heat had to have come from somewhere…why would it come from the mirror, what would it mean? Did it have anything to do with this heat that had been steadily rising in her?
An urge to be close to the mirror came over her suddenly, and was so strong she didn't think to hesitate. She had to touch it, feel it against her skin; know that he was near. Her features where shadowed and dark in the mirror, her hair tussled and loose about her face. Wanting was written all over her and she hoped he saw it as clear as she did. She only slightly hesitated as she brought her full lips to press against the surface of the mirror.
She felt him before she saw him. He had entered her through the mirror. His desire rose in her throat like a moan, his breath filled her lungs and his arousal near causing her to orgasm as she felt him inside her. Then his soul separated from hers making her gasp as he took physical form out of thin air, he was pressed up close behind her. She saw his reflection in the mirror and watched as his hands caressed up her stomach and he smiled at her. Looking down at his hands upon her stomach she knew, felt, that he was indeed, very real.
She watched as one slid up wards and caressed her breast firmly possessively and let herself lean back into his chest. His jacket was gone this time and all he wore was a white tee that hugged his chest. He saw that she was weighing him and smiled once again, pulling her hair away from her neck. As much as she wanted to she couldn't take her eyes off the mirror. She watched him and looked into his eyes as he lowered his lips to her shoulder teasing the curve of it with their first kiss. His kissing traveled up, to the curve of her neck under her jaw and behind her ear and his gaze never strayed from hers in the mirror.
"Hello." He whispered against her ear.
"Hello." She whispered back, at a loss for words.
She watched helplessly as his eyes closed and he breathed in her scent. She started to turn but his arm stayed her body in place. Her breathing became shallow as she looked to his face beside hers. He shook his head, nodding towards the mirror. A little confused she complied and was startled to see not their reflections, but his and another woman's.
Sarah felt his arm tighten around her waist and knew this was his silent way of assuring her she was safe. So she watched on as he held her.
It was obvious the setting and the woman were of another century, another time. She wore the dress of a gypsy and held herself proudly as he inspected her wares in the back of a wagon. The way their words transmitted into Sarah's mind was like the echoing of a radio gritty with static and she found it surreal next to the clarity of the images flashing at her from the mirror.
He was dressed for another century as well, his hair was a little longer and his white shirt was billowing in a light breeze, he was still hansom she thought to herself smiling.
He held out a small satchel to the woman pointing to something that lay apart from the other wares, something out of Sarah's view. The woman shook her head, refusing the offering with upheld hands…"No, no sale, the mirror is not for sale. It is cursed and waits to be destroyed."
"I don't believe in curses." He replied to the woman. "Why must it be destroyed?" Sarah read desire in the man's eyes, the same desire she had seen reflected in her eyes from the mirror. He wanted it bad.
"The mirror, consumes the souls of men. It is dark for them always…sometimes they return to us, but they are damned for eternity. Damned to hunt in the darkness of the night, seeking the satisfaction of blood, the blood of man. It must be destroyed!" She ranted at him vehemently slicing one ringed hand through the air in finality.
"Why hasn't the mirror been destroyed by your people by now if they believe this to be so?" He questioned the woman doubtfully.
"It cannot be destroyed, we have tried. The strongest of our men have struck it blows that have broken their swords, their axes. Fire does not scorch its surface. The mirror is powerful. It does not want to be destroyed. It causes tragedy to those who would seek to harm it. My people are afraid of it." She admitted, spitting on the ground to emphasize her despising of it.
"I will take the mirror away for your people, if you will let me. I will make sure it never harms your people again, or any other. I promise." He said offering his hand to the woman who took it grasping it tightly.
"If you speak words that are untrue may you be cursed for five hundred years, you will be damned! But, if you do this thing you promise for my people you will receive the gratitude and the debt of my people forever, we never forget a debt. I don't know if this is wise." She said shaking her dark head and looking around to see if they had been overheard.
"It's a deal then." He said and handed the woman the satchel, this time she accepted it stuffing it quickly under her garments and gesturing him to hurry. He didn't hesitate, lifting the heavy mirror from its shadowed place in the back of her wagon. Sarah's eyes widened as she watched, it was the mirror. The very mirror she watched them from now. So it was true. Vic's stories about the mirror had been true.
As if controlled by a hidden remote, the scene in the mirror went black. Power off. For a moment Sarah thought it was over. Then the mirrors surface came back to life with a vengeance. Images flashed across the scene like a slide show on fast forward.
She saw the man asleep in his bed, the mirror mounted above it. A woman coming out of the mirror…on top of him…having sex with him…biting him…him lying in bed in the daytime as if ill…him dying…and then him waking to the night with hunger and sickness in his eyes…him taking the blood of a man who lay in a prison cell…the blood of a woman who gave her baby to a strange man for some money to buy alcohol…the blood of a man coming out of a dark alley having just raped a woman…he was a vampire.
Sarah felt icy fingers of fear streak across her stomach where his hand lay. 'No.' She thought becoming rigid in his embrace, but he held her steady in his embrace and put his face next to hers willing her to still and watch on. She relaxed and opened her mind to the possibility that he'd done the best he could, to survive. She felt his closely shaven cheek next to hers seeking acceptance and waiting for her to decide. The mirror flashed catching her attention.
His family watched him sleep away the daylight hours…she could see they loved him by the way they looked the other way from his strange new habits…catering to his needs and hiding his secrets from the rest of the world.
All of a sudden an image came to Sarah of the pictures in the house where she'd found the mirror. The sightless faces in the pictures, these were those people. The house was his. She didn't have much time to reflect on this new discovery.
The faces of his family members aged and disappeared from the scenes one by one, while he remained the same. Then she saw him in the house where she'd found the mirror…his home. He was in the attic…a girl bringing him something in a case, vials of blood, her face was hidden in the shadows of the attic…she hadn't been allowed to see him…the man hiding day after day in solitude…waiting for something more than the blood, never aging. Then she saw herself looking into the mirror, into her own reflection. She was at the estate sale. She watched as he appeared behind her and saw the surprise on her face in the mirror at the estate sale. Then the screen went blank.
She quickly deduced that he was in fact Vic's great uncle, when Vic thought him only her uncle…then he had hired her to settle the estate because he could not. Things were coming together now in her mind, but why would he have risked the mirrors release into another's hands?
"I wanted you from the moment I saw you in the mirror." He said tightening his hold on her and pressing himself up against her in an unmistakable way from behind her. "I had to have you. I called my niece from my cell after seeing you in it, and told her to sell the mirror to anyone who was interested, but I had only you in mind. You obviously were very interested, yes? If the wrong person had taken a shine to it, I would have made sure that they changed their mind very quickly. The mirror would not have fallen into the wrong hands." She knew what he meant and shivered at the thought of him deciding to show his darker side, he had hunted her.
One more image flashed across the screen before it went black for the last time.
She saw herself driving home from the sale with the mirror in the back…then the semi truck swerving into both lanes nearly missing many cars…her making that turn…then the flash of light that had caught her attention in the rearview and him appearing in the mirror distracting her from the road.
He'd saved her life, but she had already known that in her heart.
There was just too much information for Sarah to absorb all at once, the room began to tilt and Sarah felt her knees give out. A few moments later she woke to find herself safely in her own bed in the darkness of her own room the coolness of the night flowing in through her bedroom window causing a curtain to billow…had it been a dream?
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Hello." He whispered against her ear. (I SHIVERED when I read this)
She felt him before she saw him>>AWESOME sentence! My heart started thumping then.
Well well well. Interesting gear shift on the fly. I like how she felt him and his essence, be it warm, snuggled, icy or trembling.
It's always inspirational to watch my friends try something new as you've done here with winning results. Inspiration is wonderful and thank you so much for sharing such an interesting story line Rain.
I was really trying to project that scene into my readers mind, Him entering her body through the mirror and her feeling him in every part of her, then him leaving her body~ it was so hard!
I'm so glad you liked it. That's what counts for me;)
I'm smiles all the way!
Oh I hope not! Ha! Damn, this chapter just topped the last, if that's at all possible! It was very compact, and very well written, not to mention hot (you tease! haha!) Also, what a great story. Did you have this all set up in your mind before you started writing? I didn't expect any of it, it's very original - I love evrything about it! ~ Nixie
Yes and no, I started out with just the idea of the girl finding the mirror at an estate sale and I knew I wanted it to be possessed or haunted...it went on from there all its own. So happy you liked it, ;) It was my first erotic short story, so I was a bit nervous about the out come!
GOSH...vampire ??
Oh no...
I LOVE vampires, hehehe. each part is better and better rain. you've truly outdone youself with this. eeek. I love it!
Ha! Isn't it funny how the story takes control of the writer? This was sooo good Rain. This idea has really developed into a great story.
Lacey! Your back;) Hi,
It does tend to start breathing, and take on a life of its own doesn't it? It's beautiful in a way really, and amazing!
Thank you so much Lacey, from another awesome story weaver that means alot!
Can't wait to see what you think of the ending...(sly smile)...;) Please let Lacey approve...
This is wonderful. You did make it seem to jump into my head as I read it.
Gawd this is good, But a vampire?!
Note: this must be the post I looked at last night
the font is small and hard to read..
good job the others were at a better size
would not bother to read it at this size.
I'm just to lazy and selfish to put myself
through any hardship. It's a bad trait ...
Now, onto chpt. 5
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1901: This year is the first of an organized bodybuilding contest in Europe when a famous German Strongman, Eugene Sandow, judged an event at the Royal Albert Hall in London. The event drew an attendance figure in excess of 2,000.
1906: The Health & Strength League was formed on a wintry evening in December by a group of enthusiasts who wished to pursue all aspects of physical culture. The league title was taken from a fitness magazine of the same name – first published in 1894.
1930: The first MR & Miss Britain Title was held. This inaugural event caused a great upsurge in membership and 1936 alone 11398 new members enrolled. The organization became Worldwide and had a motto ´Sacred thy body even as thy soul´ inscribed on its membership badge. By 1943 the League had a staggering 191,000 members.
1948: Health and Strength magazine organized the first MR Universe contest to commemorate the Olympic Games being held that year in London. Won by John Grimek, twice MR America winner who had previously represented the USA as a weight lifter at the 1936 Olympic Games.
1950: NABBA was formed. MR Universe was won that year by MR America Steve Reeves, who later went on to make more than thirty Hercules movies. The following year, when Reg Park won, one of the competitors was a young man from Canada, Joe Weider.
In the years that followed the top bodybuilders worldwide came to England to try and win the Universe title. Famous names like John Grimek, Steve Reeves, Bill Pearl, all Americans, were part of a group which also included Reg Park, England and Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austria, a 4 times Universe winner. These 5 were the most influential winners who later became the legends of the Universe.
1955: The late OSCAR HEIDENSTAM was appointed full time secretary and became the main driving force in NABBA for more than thirty years.
1983: Bob Gruskin, the President of NABBA USA, was responsible for bringing NABBA to the United States. Bob attended his first NABBA Universe this year and was so impressed with the efficiency of the organization, its world-wide establishment, and its direction in catering to and having athlete's interest foremost, he took it upon himself to lay the ground work for NABBA USA.
1984: At a meeting in London NABBA International was formed and became host to the European, World and Universe Championships. This branch of NABBA is now supported by more than fifty countries.
1992: NABBA USA was officially christened, providing athletes with a new opportunity to compete nationally and internationally as an amateur and to qualify for professional competitions.
1998: We celebrated fifty years of the NABBA Universe – a time span that has made the federation the oldest and most established in the history of bodybuilding. At a celebration dinner in Birmingham, England, several hundred people attended the greatest night in the history of NABBA. More than thirty former Universe Champions, men and women, were present, including NABBA legends Steve Reeves, Bill Pearl, Reg Park and Mickey Hargitay.


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Nick Crow March 11, 2013 at 4:30pm
Average Setting Pushed back to April 3
We will start average setting April 3 at 5:30 tee off. Same rules and payments as last year. Payout of positions will be based off number of teams.
Nick Crow September 6, 2012 at 12:19pm
Year end party THIS SUNDAY!
Just a reminder the year end party and payouts will be this Sunday 9/9 at 10:30AM at BlueGill. We will be playing doubles with a PRO/AM random pairing. Please plan on $5 donation to the course, $10/man doubles, and $5/man CTP that will be divided up over 5 separate holes.
This is limited to league members or subs of the league only.
Payouts will be after the round for the doubles and the league. Please be on time or close at least to get things started. If you need directions, please contact me or someone who knows. See you all Sunday!
Nick Crow August 9, 2012 at 2:04pm
Year end party is set for September 9th at BlueGill, 10:30 start.
Please plan on attending the year end party on the morning of the 9th. We are targeting 10:30AM on this day at BlueGill. IF this will not work for you, please send me an email or call. We want everyone to make it if possible. We will be playing doubles prior to the payouts with lunch afterward. There will be at least 4 different CTPs and Long putts to win, so it's worth attending if you can make it. Good year guys!
Nick Crow August 9, 2012 at 1:58pm
Wed Night Continues
We will continue to play at 5:30 on Wed nights. We will likely play $5/$1 doubles with layout decided by majority vote and daylight remaining. Anyone is welcome to join us, not just league members.
Nick Crow August 9, 2012 at 1:53pm
Congrats to Huntin'Van for winning the Shiva!!!
LongShak and Huntin'Van battled it out going into extra holes, but the late charge by Huntin'Van was too much to handle and they emerged victorious on the first extra hole! Way to go guys!
Nick Crow March 26, 2012 at 2:08pm
Average Setting Rounds begin this week!
The first of 2 average setting rounds will take place this week (3/28) with tee off at 5:30, please be a few min early to make sure we're done by dark. IF you can not make the first 2 weeks, preshoot rounds are accepted, but preferred to be shot with another member. The first week of matches will begin 4/11. More details will be available shortly, or send me a note/call if you have questions. All the details have been decided by committee, and will be documented and available to all who are interested. Thanks, Nick


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AMMON, Idaho - Two men arrested over the weekend on charges of aggravated assault with a knife after an incident in the Ammon Walgreen's parking lot.
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Dr. Katherine Douglas cordially invites you to join her in welcoming Commissioner Destito who will deliver an Executive Budget presentation on behalf of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo Friday, in the Triangle Lounge on the Corning Community College Spencer Hill Campus. Please join us as we learn more details about the governor's fiscal plan for 2014-15. Light refreshments available.
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Trail running.
I really wish that I got a chance to do more of it. My very first, and only trail run was a Half Marathon. Yep, I figured, go big or go home. I ran the Northface Endurance Challenge Half Marathon 2 years ago. I absolutely loved it and I wonder every day why I don't do it more often.
To be honest, it's just more time consuming. I have to drive far to get to a good one and let's be honest…I get up early enough to get my long runs done as it is even when I'm running from my front door. I look back on my time in Colorado and am kicking myself for not doing more trail running! I mean how can a runner live in CO and not run some kick ass trails?
We all know that proper running attire is key to any good run right? Long gone are the days of cotton tshirts and sweatpants (thank goodness).
Conveniently a few weeks before my trip to New Hampshire, Dynafit North America reached out to me to see if I wanted to try a few pieces in their Spring 2015 Running line.
Dynafit is actually a brand dedicated to mountain athletes….ski mountaineers in winter and trail runners in summer. While I'm not a dedicated trail runner, nor do I live in the mountains (hello concrete jungle), I am an outdoorsy person and with family in New England, there is always opportunity for me to benefit from some awesome outdoor gear.
It was perfect timing because I knew we had several hikes in our busy schedule on vacation. Let me also say right off the bat….I had BIG plans for some awesome pictures for this post. In fact I got some amazing photos up in the Flume in NH. Which is also sadly where my phone met it's demise before my photos had been uploaded to the Cloud…sigh. I think I may have been more upset by the fact that I lost the awesome photos of the Dynafit gear than I was at actually losing the phone. Seriously…these were AWESOME photos. I still get a tear in my eye thinking about how I will never get them back.
Ok, enough of the pity party…..
Thankfully some had uploaded prior to our day trip and after the demise my dad so graciously took a few photos for me.
*Please note, I received Dynafit items in exchange for a review. All opinions expressed here are my own.*
I received 4 items from Dynafit's Sprin 2015 line:
So let's break the pieces down individually, shall we?
Traverse Hybrid Jacket
This is a light, hybrid jacket with Primaloft and breathable stretch material. It is super light, water repellant, and wind resistant. I was worried about how much room it would take in my suitcase, but it rolled up into a tiny ball.
For comparison, this is a sandwich baggie (which is obviously a little too small)….but, it would easily fit in a quart sized ziploc bag. The fact that it is so light and packable makes it a perfect jacket for hiking or trail running in the early spring or fall and easy to throw in a backpack if you don't need it. You can guarantee I will be bringing this with me to Ragnar (I'm hoping it will be a chilly night, the weather could go either way here in October).
Thumbholes are a must in my book.
The primaloft in the front keeps you nice and toasty on a chilly day and the breathable panels on the side wick away that sweat as you get moving.
I like the addition of the reflective detail on the back of the hood as well.
And if it gets really windy, the hood coverage is awesome.
This was seriously the BEST layering piece that I brought with me on my trip to NH. We did a little hiking and it was a chilly day (at least for me coming from the heat and humidity). The temp was in the mid 50's and this was perfect.
Enduro Tank Top
The Enduro Tank top is another super light weight top made with micro mesh and 4-way stretch. It was super light and sweat wicking and would be a great addition to a summer running wardrobe.
React 3/4 pant
Clearly this company specializes in lightweight apparel because these 3/4 length running tights were just that. Super light and breathable made with 4 way stretch, it really felt like I was wearing nothing. The material felt durable but barely there.
It's hard to find a pair of running tights with the seams in the right places, but the seams on these were perfection. Accentuated and flattered the booty just as every girl hopes for! The wide elastic waist band was a nice touch as well. As a mom that has loose skin from having babies, it did a nice job of holding it all in and tucked in just the right places!
I liked the addition of the pockets on the back waist band….
And on the side of the leg… While it didn't fit my Iphone 6 (before I lost it in the river), it would be the perfect size for some Gu or ipod, etc. There is a top layer of material that comes over the top of the pocket to keep everything in.
My one complaint about these is that they stretched out a little in the knee area. I like my tights to be tight, and while they were everywhere else, this is the one place that they weren't. Now, with that said, I do have thin chicken legs, so that could have something to do it it. If I went down a size the pant would have been to small everywhere else. But overall, these were great!
And last but not least…
Pantera S
The Pantera S is a rugged trail running shoe.
- "sensitive fit" meaning it has a lot of wiggle room in the toe box.
- form fitted upper
- duo motion control
- 8mm drop
- multipad mid sole: "independent sole units enable dynamic adaptability to rugged alpine terrain:
- runner toe and heel bumpers
- ortholite foot bed
- sole by Vibram
Like I said, I'm not an avid trail runner (although I would like to be), I do like to have a pair of trail shoes around for those impromptu off road hikes that don't require a boot. I loved the color and the feel. They are a little bit heavier and rugged than I'm used to of course, but they felt great. I had worn them on a short trail run in NH and I felt safe and secure and knew that I wouldn't be slipping around in these on the gravel or packed trail.
Toe box space is a huge factor for me when buying a shoe, and I felt like these had ample room. I'm a fan of cushioned running shoes and I felt these had plenty of cushioning.
Cute too, aren't they? Love the color.
Overall, I was VERY impressed with Dynafit. They were a company I had never heard of, so wasn't really sure what to expect. I must say though, my absolute favorite piece was the jacket. I will be wearing that for a long time to come. They are all wonderful pieces, but that was the piece de resistance for me without question. Definitely check Dynafit out if you get the chance!
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Haley and Sellers' made Time's "40 Under 40" list of top young politicos, which was released onThursday.
Haley, 38, is a fourth-term representative and the Palmetto state's GOP gubernatorial nominee, while Sellers, 26, is a second-term Democratic state lawmaker. Four years ago, Sellers was the youngest person ever elected to serve in the S.C. General Assembly – and while we've ripped him in the past on various issues, it's hard to dispute his emergence as one of the more thoughtful members of the legislature.
Both lawmakers hail from rural Bamberg County, S.C.
"Haley, the daughter of Indian immigrants, may seem an unlikely figure to lead the rebirth of South Carolina's Republican Party," Time writes. "But when the stiletto-heeled 38-year-old bested three white men to win its gubernatorial nomination in June, she proved that the good-ol'-boy culture of Southern politics is no match for a charismatic conservative newcomer who promises to shake up the Palmetto State."
(To view Haley's write-up, click here. To view Sellers' write up, click here).
Interestingly enough, both candidates were asked a series of five questions – one of which was to name their "go-to political blog."
Haley chose RedState.com – a national conservative blog with close ties to her Beltway-based political consultant, Jon Lerner (who also advises S.C. Gov. Mark Sanford). RedState.com aggressively defended Haley earlier this year when allegations of infidelity rocked her campaign. In fact, three days after FITS founding editor Will Folks was forced to go public with his "inappropriate physical relationship" with Haley, RedState's Erick Erickson claimed that Folks had been paid to smear Haley – and that he knew who was behind it.
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"It's actually a conservative blog in South Carolina. It's called FITSNews," Sellers told Time. "It's not too friendly to my side of the aisle, but it's interesting reading."
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Good question. Recent trends suggest it will be a while. US Airways, one of Las Vegas' major airlines, saw traffic drop 34.5 percent this February compared to last. Southwest experienced a drop as well, but only (and I use that word loosely) 9.3 percent, which may indicate more passengers are choosing the low-cost carrier over its legacy-line rival. Still, even Southwest is struggling in Las Vegas, a sure sign that interest in the city is low.
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"You take the Bad.." Now this week really started off great, getting the money back from Carnival, our bags nearly all packed, our banks know we will be overseas so they will not freeze our accounts while we were on our trip, newspaper stopped, L.A. Fitness account on hold for three weeks, mail stopped for the three weeks as well. It seems all the stars are lining up and it will be smooth sailing from here on end... Then, Thursday, April 3rd, I woke up like every morning (thankfully) and got dressed, had my breakfast cereal (Special K) and turned on CNN news.. the same ritual I go through every morning. However, this time my favorite anchors were mentioning how ATA Airlines had filed bankruptcy and left all their passengers in the air (so to speak) and we were one of those passengers. We had a flight set for April 26th to get to Miami on ATA and now we were left pondering on how we would get to Miami. The good news, we used our credit card to buy our tickets and our credit cards will pay us back, if you pay cash ..well ..good luck in ever seeing that money. So, here is a lesson for all of you out there, ALWAYS USE A CREDIT CARD WHEN PURCHASING A TICKET. (who said my blog would not be educational..LOL..
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Well it has been an interesting year. First a bear destroyed some of my hives despite an electric fence, then I got divorced, and now I have wax moths.
This morning I noticed the 4 hives that were partially destroyed by the bear, which have been sitting in my barn, were completely infested with wax moths. I am sure this is my own fault since I never removed the frames with honey. No one ever said I was smart.
So now I have four hives that have been exposed to wax moths. Do I clean them up and let them sit in the barn all winter? Here in MA we have subzero temps throughout the winter. Or, do I destroy everything and start from square one? Wouldn't be such an issue but the money I used to have is now is someone (ahem) else's account.
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It was painful to watch, painful to hear, and it's painful to write about.
A pound of flesh was demanded and paid in full last Tuesday by former radio talk show host and mayoral candidate Kevin James.
By an 11-0 vote the L.A. City Council confirmed James to the Board of Public Works to serve alongside Mayor Eric Garcetti's other board appointees, Matt Szabo, Barbara Romero, Mike Davis and Monica Rodriguez. Kevin was then quickly chosen by his new colleagues to serve as president.
"To the victors go the spoils" is a long and venerated political tradition and Kevin James certainly earned his reward by playing a vital -- many believe determinant -- role in Garcetti's victory over Wendy Greuel last May.
Kevin not only landed the most effective jabs at Greuel during the seemingly endless debates, his post-primary endorsement of Garcetti and enthusiastic stumping helped swing enough Valley votes into the Garcetti column to push Eric across the finish line.
By any standard Garcetti owed Kevin something and that something turned out to be the top position on the city's only full-salaried commission, a $134,000 a year plum.
That isn't the painful part.
The pain came prior to the confirmation vote during James' often obsequious and cringe-inducing responses to the council's condescending and sanctimonious questions on subjects a galaxy removed from the Board of Public Works' bailiwick of filling potholes and paving streets.
Council members Gil Cedillo, Jose Huizar and Paul Krekorian zeroed in on James' talk radio career at KRLA AM 870 and KABC AM 790 where he voiced skepticism about global warming and was a passionate and exceptionally well-informed opponent of illegal immigration and L.A.'s sanctuary policies, specifically the LAPD's Special Order 40.
"In that career (the point is) to create controversy, to get a response," James explained to Krekorian when asked about a 2008 TownHall.com piece authored by James critical of climate fear-mongering.
I'm sure more than a few James voters and former listeners were shocked to learn that Kevin was not always telling us what he really believed rather what he hoped would generate "controversy" and provoke a "response."
I've been in the radio racket for nearly 20 years. I have known talk show hosts who were 100 percent phonies; frauds who would say whatever they believed would generate ratings. Kevin was not one of them.
First as a colleague, then as a competitor, Kevin James earned the respect of his audience and co-workers for the intelligence and passion he brought to the fight for secure borders and an end to L.A.'s sanctuary city policies.
Last Tuesday we learned he believes otherwise.
"There are people who have so much to offer this country and for no good reason we put up too many barriers to get in their way," James told Cedillo, as if anyone was talking about H1-B visas for foreign engineers and doctors.
Many, including this columnist, have changed positions over the years. But Kevin's evolution from anti-amnesty warrior to non-partisan agent for "positive change" -- aka the Spring Street party line -- reeks of appeasement.
But his flip-flop pales in light of the hypocrisy of a City Hall culture that lectures endlessly about tolerance and diversity yet continues to demonstrate intolerance for any point-of-view that deviates from the PC script: border enforcement before amnesty equals racist/xenophobe.
Kevin James earned his place on the Board of Public Works by working hard to elect Mayor Garcetti. I just wish it hadn't been so hard to watch him claim his prize.
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With the Southeastern Conference having no remaining undefeated teams the league won't have a chance to place a representative in the BCS title game this year unless two of the three remaining unbeatens--Oregon, Kansas State and Notre Dame--stumble down the stretch.
If there was a playoff a couple of SEC teams that look like they would be ready to make a strong run based on the way they are playing now are Georgia and Texas A&M.
I think Alabama falls into that category, too, but, as Texas A&M showed, a team with a quarterback who can throw the ball with an offensive line who can protect him can give Alabama problems because the philosophy of its defense is to stop the run and make the opponent beat them by passing. If you are good enough to do it, you are going to have a chance to beat them. There just aren't many college quarterbacks who are good enough to do that, but you saw one on Saturday when Johnny Manziel and Texas A&M went into Tuscaloosa and beat Alabama.
A&M is a lot better football team than most people thought they were going to be in their first season as a member of the Southeastern Conference. I think a lot of that has to do with how well the Aggies are playing on defense. They stopped Alabama from being able to run the football and that really set the stage for them to win that game.
Georgia vs. Alabama in the SEC Championship Game should be a good match. Georgia has a little more balanced football team than Alabama. I believe Alabama has probably got a little stronger offensive line than Georgia, but I don't think there is much difference in the quarterbacks or the running backs. Georgia throws the ball a little more than Alabama.
Defensively, with all of the talent Georgia has on that side of the line of scrimmage and the way they have come on strong, Georgia might be even better than Alabama. That is one of the reasons I voted Georgia fourth and Alabama fifth in the Legends poll this week.
I voted Texas A&M in the Top 10 behind Florida, South Carolina and LSU, but the Aggies could very well be better than those teams right now. I would sure like to see a playoff system so we would be able to see on the field at the end of the season exactly how good the top eight teams in the country are.
Georgia looked bad at times early in the year, but has really come on strong and I think the Bulldogs would be a very tough opponent in an eight-team playoff. Georgia is playing as well as any team in the country in recent weeks and it seems to me the same is true with Texas A&M, a team that has improved considerably since the start of the season. The Aggies could be capable of making a run at the championship.
Auburn closes its home season on Saturday against Alabama A&M, a team I don't know much about, but I do know it is Senior Day. I hope it is a good experience for those young men who have to be suffering going through a season like this one, a season that is disheartening for me to see and it is disheartening for Auburn fans everywhere. Those seniors contributed to three bowl wins and a national championship and that is something they can be proud of for the rest of their lives. Long after the details of the 2012 season have faded from their memories, they will remember the excitement of their championship year and being a part of an unbeaten team.
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Israel's army said it detained another 37 Palestinians overnight as it searched for three missing teenagers and extended a crackdown on the Hamas Islamist group it accuses of kidnapping them.
There were no reports of clashes between the soldiers and Palestinians in the raids in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, where the military says it has detained 361 people since the Israeli students went missing on June 12.
The crisis has stepped up tensions in the West Bank which, along with east Jerusalem and the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, Palestinians want as part of a future state.
An Israeli military spokeswoman said the latest operations took place in Jenin, a militant stronghold, and in the Hebron area, close to where the three disappeared while hitchhiking.
"As part of on-going operations, (Israeli) forces detained 37 suspects and searched 80 locations," the spokeswoman said.
Palestinian officials said Israeli soldiers also entered Bethlehem and Nablus.
Hamas has neither confirmed nor denied responsibility for the disappearance of the students - Gil-Ad Shaer, U.S.-Israeli national Naftali Fraenkel, both aged 16, and Eyal Yifrah, 19.
Hospital officials in the West Bank said four Palestinians have been killed during clashes with Israeli forces since the search for the teenagers began.
The kidnapping and subsequent arrests have also put pressure on a unity pact between Hamas and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Israel has urged the Western-backed leader to scrap the agreement.
Abbas has condemned the kidnappings and his security forces have been helping in the search - cooperation that has stirred anger among Palestinians.
But he has also called the Israeli sweeps "collective punishment" and his Palestinian Authority has sought to convene the U.N. Security Council to try to end the incursions.
The Palestinian Liberation Organization, the Palestinians' main ruling body, said in a statement that Israel had "tightened and sometimes closed checkpoints", disrupting travel, and had barred any entry or exit from Hebron in the past 10 days.
Hamas has called for Israel's destruction, although various officials have at times indicated a willingness to negotiate a long-term ceasefire.
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Please remind your child to check outside the elementary office for lost items. We really appreciate it when a student's name is written on jackets, etc. We are then able to find the owner of the lost item! As parents, feel free to periodically check the lost and found too.
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Dear Parents: To help with the traffic flow at the end of the day, we are again encouraging the use of car rider signs. If you are new to the district, or have misplaced last year's sign please contact the Elementary office.
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Most people when standing at a bus stop may only glance at the adshell poster but would you take a second look if you were in the ad?
Adobe, showing off the use of its Photoshop software, did just that in Sweden. They took images of people waiting for a bus and pasted them into adverts being shown at the stop.
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I think this is what they wrote the 5th Ammendment for!
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I think this is what they wrote the 5th Ammendment for!
After careful consideration, I can neither confirm nor deny that I would take action pertaining to the question at hand. It all depends on what your definition of "would" is.
I always follow the orders of the US government
I will just say that I will do my best to preserve,protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States. And that not lost to me the fact that all those politicians trying to destroy the Constitution swore that oath with their hand on a Bible, before God. Shame on those that break that sacred oath.
Wut? O.o can I get you a beer or subthang?
Perhaps we should discuss this over at the Green Dragon Tavern.
Does this include My Little Kitty pink plastic bubble gun???
I still have the right to remain silent...for now...
*Chillin' at the Green Dragon Tavern with 1MoreGoodGuy*
I am a law abiding kind of guy. If a law to confiscate guns was passed today, by tommorrow afternoon I would have them all piled up high on the curb to make it easier for the goverment lackeys to just pick up and throw in the back of their truck.
Since I would no longer have any guns, I would probably just stack my ammo cans like bricks at the front of my yard by the guns.
If it was hot out, I would offer whoever came to pick up the stuff some ice cold lemonade. If it was cold out I would offer hot chocolate or coffee. I would do whatever I could to assist the gentlemen that were only doing their job.
I know that the powers that be are only trying to keep us safe and that they would never do anything to hurt us. I understand that its for our own good and that of our children. They want us to be a peacable society, so I figure that the least I could do is help them to achieve their goal. Since I am a "team" player, its the right thing to do.
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I purchased laminate flooring, via a sales rep Gary from Smart Carpet March 2010. During the demonstration, he used a sample of the flooring and purposely did damage to via water and dropping items on it, to show it was durable and can withstand water if cleaned right away. I purchased approximately 385sq ft in my living room and dining room. When the installers arrived to lay down the flooring, they damaged my glass coffee table in the process. In exchange, they compensated me. A few months after install, I noticed the floors were buckling. For example, I spilled a bottle of water on the floor on my way out for work.
I immediately cleaned the area with an old towel. When I returned home later that day, I noticed that area had a bubble or buckle like raised area. According to the sales rep, cleaning the area right away will not cause any buckling. A year later, my mother had a bathroom leak in her residence. She had a water restoration company respond to repair the damage. Since they had to repair the walls, they had to lift her dura ceramic tiles which were not damaged by the water. When they lifted the flooring, the company noticed they were not installed correctly by Smart Carpet. My mother contacted Smart Carpet with the complaint. They wanted to rectify by replacing it.
She no longer wanted their products and had new tiles and engineer floors placed in her home. She told them they can come to my residence and do they job here that they owe her. I had them cut a small area by the front door and place tiles there. About a month or toe after install, I noticed two tiles began sliding and the grout was breaking up. My contractor who renovated my bathrooms looked at it and stated it was not laid down as good as it should have been. I contacted Smart Carpet & they sent a flooring inspector. He falsified information on his report blaming a creek behind my home which has NEVER caused water issues in these homes for decades.
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After DC's announcement earlier Saturday that the sequel to Man Of Steel would be a Superman/Batman team up, the pressure was on for rival superhero factory Marvel to top the bombshell during its Hall H Comic-Con panel last night. It delivered, announcing The Avengers: Age Of Ultron and showing new footage from Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Guardians Of The Galaxy and Thor: The Dark World. The peak in fan-froth was an appearance by Loki (actor Tom Hiddleston) in full garb — he clearly relished in the moment as he addressed the cavernous room. "Silence, you mewling quims," he said, referencing The Avengers' most notorious line of dialogue. Needless to say, the bit killed. Check it out:
Comic-Con: Loki Crashes Marvel Panel
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Puny god!
Hall H
Man, do I miss movies with balls…
Wow, absolutely embarrassing.
How embarrassing for an actor to have to do this. Dress up in a stupid outfit and go sell a product to the rubes. Can't help but compare it to those people with the tables at the supermarket offering you a piece of cheese on the end of a toothpick, hoping you'd go an buy the product after taking a sample.
Yeah, Tom Hiddleston must hate his life. To have to perform before fans who came to the event for his movie.
I'm sure Marvel/Disney is paying him well for that little bit of his time. Actors are overpaid as it is in Hollywood. He should be lucky his is a series of movies that are hits.
how embarrassing that you've forgotten this is an entertainment business.
Sure, it's the entertainment business. I get that. Just like a children's party clown is an entertainer too. Doesn't mean the guy inside the clown outfit isn't really ashamed and feeling humiliated as he dances for the amusement of the kids, wishing he were anywhere but there at that moment.
Sorry if I don't consider superhero movies anything more than garbage for the illiterate masses.
I'm sorry you have to lead such a gray, humorless existence. How can you even sully your mind by reading such a website devoted to covering such a vulgar and uncouth industry? Go tune your ukelele, you hipster clown. Some people can keep abreast of politics, science and culture while still enjoying the edifying thrill of two-fisted pulp fiction and four-color tales of heroism.
And who the hell are you to denigrate children's entertainers or anyone else? Jesus, what a stuck-up snob you are. Hiddleston doesn't look the least bit embarrassed here, nor should he. He looks like an actor connecting with an enthusiastic and appreciate audience and having a blast while doing so.
Get the hell over yourself! Hiddleston was having a hella time up on stage. And I'll bet if he was paid, it wasn't much. He did it for the kicks! And, lets face it, he probably knocked up three chicks in the audience with his pelvis thrust alone.
How many Tolstoy novels have you read over the last month? Dickens? Hardy? Or do you consider reading Deadline as a sign of your superiority over the "illiterate masses"? Here's some advice: know what you are and what you're not. You're just a guy commenting on a Hollywood website, that's it. This is what I am too, but – then again – I don't consider myself anything more, either. Then again, you're so smug and shallow that you could probably get a job as a New York film critic.
or perhaps they enjoy entertaining children. Food for thought but you might just be a snob.
So what great productions have you been in?
Why the hell are you deliberately reading about them? You tiny little hater? Professional hater?
Come off it, Tom Hiddleston clearly enjoyed it as much as the audience did. The spirit of ComicCon is geeky fun and this was geeky fun at its very best. :)
Haha wow. internet ridiculousness reaches new lows. Yes, how embarrassing for an actor to dress up in character (sarcasm)
I think it was great of him to do this! The children in Hall H sounded absolutely thrilled!
Oh, what's that? Those were adults? Oh, dear…
Dense much? Go look at YouTube, there are several videos, some 5 minutes long, and Hiddleston was having a lot of fun.
And Yet you read the article and posted a comment!
Well the fact that he DIDN'T have to do it, he WANTED to do it might mean something to you. But probably not. I guess the screaming fans who loved it also mean nothing to you. Surely the successful business that is Marvel Studios means nothing to you. I would, however, suspect the fact that you are bitter and want everyone else to bow to your taste and make movies just for you, does in fact mean something to you.
A lot of folks love the Avengers — to those in attendance they will never forget that moment.
And seriously people lay off the snark. Considering where we are in the world today a diversion like comic con is greatly needed.
A marvelous actor acting before an adoring live audience. He seemed to be relishing the moment (or acting that he was). Most actors love to do at least some stage work because of the intimacy of the moment and immediacy of the response to their performce. Perhaps instead of seeing this audience as "rubes" he thinks of them as his adoring public or at least as his most rabid fans. But what does this rube know, I will bow to the wisdom of the others making comments to this post.
Embarrassing for you.
Or maybe it's just a hell of a lot of fun.
Would you rather that these actors portend that they are above you and shove your nose in it? What, in the process of playing dress up in front of a camera and reciting lines someone else has written, raises them above attending comic con and enjoying it along with everyone else? You sir are the rube
What's that you say, Rubie? Look, over there, you can win more comic books just by throwing a coin onto a greasy plate. Go play it, I'm sure you'll win.
From Loki I have learned the word Quim is both singular and plural, like in sheep.
Say my name. That was hilarious. And he seemed to be enjoying himself.
Wow. Marvel is about to announce a wrestling franchise.
Loved it and all his glory…cannot wait for second Avengers feature!!!
This was a perfect Comic Con moment. Love Tom Hiddleston for doing it, and it looked like he had a blast. There is better video of this up at youtube. This is too cutty, and leaves off the ending.
There were over 6,000 people in that Hall, and I bet there was no one complaining. As an actor that started in the theatre that was absolutely perfect for him, you could see the smile on his face that was clearly Tom and not Loki. People love his character and he really does have his "army of fans". This wasn't "embarrassing" or just to sell a product, this was his way if saying thank you to the fans, because that's the kind of guy he is! Generous and thoughtful and wonderful. This moment will go down as one of the greatest Comic Con moments in history.
Bet he got laid after that!
Im sure he enjoyed himself. I don't think it's embarrassing to have thousands of people treating you like a superstar and doing something to make them happy (while earning a few bucks for yourself). Hiddleston has been quite good to the fans and they appreciate it.
You are aware, aren't you all, that Hiddleston attended Eton, Cambridge (where he majored in Classics, i.e. Greek and Latin) and RADA, that he won the Laurence Olivier Awards in 2008, and that he is one of the greatest Shakespearean actors of our time? Because if you're going to complain that he's an uneducated rube you're clearly someone who doesn't know a lot about him.
And if performing live before 6,000 people is good enough for him, it ought to be good enough for the likes of us.
My son would have loved this! hail Loki!
Very few actors actually get to interface with an audience that large, so I'm sure Tom Hiddlestonenjoyed his time up there. If you didn't like this or get it, you probably have no place at Comic-Con. This is the type of stuff people wait all day for.
This was the best moment of Comic-Con this year! Hiddleston OWNED that stage for the brief minutes he was on it and had the audience (and everyone on the net) eating out of the palm of his hand. He's someone who TRULY appreciates his fans and actually enjoys the character he plays. Nothing embarassing about it. This is COMIC-CON! Probably the ONLY place on the planet where an actor can dress up as his character and get away with it. It was absolutely EPIC! Marvel is definitely the best comic book franchise out there. They know their fans…..
He clearly enjoyed his performance and seems to think his fans are as great as they think he is! Love an actor who appreciates his fan base…as an actor should! They are who keep him in demand.


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can't snake bathtub drain
Hi, This is something I never solved.
I have a bathtub drain that clogs often, usually because of long hair...
I tried to snake it with the long plumbing snake. However, the head of the snake is bigger than the drain slots. I can;t even put the snake in unless I unscrew the drain slots.
How do people snake the bathtub drains?
you need to take the drain cover off.
When I put it back on, I would only need putty to seal it?
Bleach dissolves hair and doesn't discriminate as to length.:laughing: A couple of applications for bad clogs, allowing to sit a few minutes, followed by nearly boiling water is usually successful. If this is a persistent problem consider a strainer of some sort.
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Run the snake through the overflow(remove the trim plate and plunger)
Also, on small drains I run a cable with no blades and a slight kink at the end of the cable- helps to turn 90's
Yes, it has been persistance. every 6-9 month. The renters there are two girls with very coarse long hair. I provided several strainers. Everytime I go check, the strainer is missing. They said once "because it is dirty to pick things out of the strainer. "
And believe me I pray to god that they can move out soon!!! leagally, i cannot kick them out. thanks to our provincial law!
i have a wife and 4 girls and all use same tub/shower and there hair is extra long.
(long as in my girls have never cut their hair and my wife's hair is almost 6 feet long)
and i use a watco push and pull drain and every 3 weeks we remove the push pull assembly by unscrewing and pull hair out with needle nose pliers from cross bars. never had a clogged drain yet and only takes a minute.
You are right---do not unscrew the drain cross thingy---that is what keeps the tub from leaking---
Follow E-Plumbers advice----use the over flow---and try one of those long plastic strips with the barbs---that usually clears the tub drain opening----I use a bent coat hanger some times---
thanks for sharing your experience. My renters can't stand cleaning the strainers. They definitely won't do the cleaning every 3 weeks....
This is how I do it also!
they will unless they like waiting in dirty water up to the tub skirt :thumbup:
show them how give them needle nose to keep in medicine cabinet and tell them to have a good day. my wife and oldest daughter will do it now when it gets to the top of there toes. :laughing:
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Use the Hot bleach, Boiling water method, then: fill the tub about 4 inches dry the tub and duct tape off the overflow. Now use your black deep force pump on the drain and blow her clear.
6 feet long, man that must be something to see. Whats her name Rapunzel?
Wow I've never seen hair that long. I wonder if she would let you post a picture, Thats amazing.
My girls have long hair too. It does get kind of gross to pick out. I pay my young son a loonie to do it. he doesn't mind
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Westby man receives gift of life from love of his life
Couple advocating for more organ donors
WESTBY, Wis. (WKBT) - On average, about 18 people die every day because of a shortage of donated organs.
More than 119,000 people in the U.S are currently waiting for an organ transplant. And every 10 minutes, a new name is added to the waiting list.
A Westby man was one of the lucky ones.
You could call it luck, you could call it fate, but there's no denying the love that bonds David and Wanda Johnson of Westby.
"She has blessed my life in ways that are just, there's not enough words to say thank you," said David.
The two met online almost 3 years ago and got married about a year later on 10-11-12. "We were friends, then we became best friends, and then we became husband and wife," said Wanda.
For years, David has struggled with health issues. In fact, he's been living with a cadaver kidney since a transplant back in 1995. "It's worked great, but age and wear and tear from the anti-rejection meds have worn it out."
After the first transplant, David says he was given his life back.
"It was just like somebody turned a light switch on, the way you felt. All of the sudden you went from being tired all the time to having energy and feeling like doing things again."
Now, he's back on dialysis and in need of another transplant. But this time, he didn't have to look any farther than across the kitchen table.
"When I found that his was failing, I told him, I'm going to donate," said Wanda.
"She said, 'I gave birth to two beautiful children by c-section, I can give you a gift of life.' She said 'I want you for many, many years to share a life with' and how are you going to argue with that?"
Wanda says she never even gave it a second thought. "I'm not doing it for praise and glory, I'm doing it because I love him."
David said, "it is the gift of life. Without it, my life becomes contained to dialysis 3 times a week or being tied every night to a dialysis machine at home."
Now, David and Wanda want others to know what a difference they too can make in someone else's life.
"If you were blind and you received a cornea transplant, what kind of emotions would you have the first time you saw your child or your wife for the very first time? To see those emotions in a family and to see life come back, instead of existence, that's what's so moving to me," said David.
Wanda said, "just knowing that you don't have to be a family member, you can be a complete stranger and you can donate and that's what I think is so amazing."
For David and Wanda, it's not a new beginning, but rather a new chapter as they exchange the greatest gifts of all.
"To express my love, all I can do is give her my heart and she's had that since day one," said David.
"We always knew God brought us together for a reason so not only to enjoy the rest of our life together, but to better his life."
An update to this story: David and Wanda successfully underwent the transplant surgeries at UW-Hospital in Madison in late January.
They both were able to leave the hospital just 3 days after the transplant.
David says he's feeling a lot better and they both feel very blessed for all of the support they've received.
Some of the support has come from a transplant support group at Vernon Memorial Hospital.
Their meetings are held the third Monday of each month and are open to anyone who's awaiting a transplant or who's already had a transplant and their family.
For more information, call Bonnie Anderson at 608-637-4292.
To become an organ donor in Wisconsin, you need to register your name on the Wisconsin Donor Registry. Otherwise, you can find your state's registry here.
Keep in mind, having the orange donor dot sticker on your driver's license is not sufficient, unless you received it on or after March 29, 2010.
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I developed this thick and creamy sauce in an attempt to re-create a peanut butter topping we had at a restaurant. Served over any kind of ice cream, it's to die for! —Mary Long, Amherst, Virginia
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- 1 cup creamy peanut butter
- 2/3 cup confectioners' sugar
- 1/2 cup corn syrup
- 1/4 cup water
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 Nutrageous candy bar (3.4 ounces), finely chopped
- In a large bowl, combine the first six ingredients; fold in candy. Transfer to jars. Cover and store in a cool dark place for up to 4 weeks.
- To serve, cook and stir in a small saucepan over medium-low heat until heated through. Serve with ice cream. Yield: 2 cups.
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