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|David Hernandez
|Arizona Diamondbacks — No. 30
|Born: May 13, 1985
Sacramento, California
debutdate=May 28
|Bats: Right
|Throws: Right
|MLB debut
|2009 for the Baltimore Orioles
|Career statistics
|Win–loss record
|Earned run average
David Jose Hernandez (born May 13, 1985 in Sacramento, California) is an American baseball player. He currently plays as a relief pitcher for the Arizona Diamondbacks of Major League Baseball (MLB). He was drafted by the Baltimore Orioles with the 483rd overall pick in the 16th round of the 2005 Major League Baseball Draft. He debuted for the Orioles on May 28, 2009 in a game against the Detroit Tigers. He was traded to the Arizona Diamondbacks along with Kam Mickolio for Mark Reynolds and a player to be named later or cash.


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4.Going on Trips with my family
5.Seeing my good pals, Mac,Violet and their families
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And had a REALLY great time with my family.The trip there was a little long but I slept the whole way through and was sooo quiet she didn't hear a peep from me.Mom never realized how heavy I could be until she toted me from Check-In to the terminal.At first I didn't understand to stay still but after her traveling with me on her shoulder for a while I realized I had to lay down and relax and let Mommy do all the walking while I watched.We finally got to LAX and Mom had to take something called the Flyaway to Van Nuys and that's where I met Pop-Pop for the first time.I really liked him at first but once we got to his house I was a little weary cuz it was a whole new environment for me to adjust to and felt I had to stay watch of my mom.And Boy did I want my Mamaw.I don't know this guy!!Who is he?
On this venture I met my Aunt Maria(Mom's best friend),Pop-Pop,Uncle Ben and Aunt Leonora(again)And alot more people.I also went up to Palmdale and jumped of a big truck(4 1/2 feet high) got myself out of the back yard and was found a block away by some young kids and terrified my mom but was found after mom heard me bark she ran up a hill and found me hanging out in someones backyard.
There's more but boy are we tired.We had a red eye flight,got into Columbus at 6:45 a.m. went to daycare(mom went to work) so we're turning in.
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Are you feeling confused, depressed or fearful at what seems to be, more and more, the emptiness of life here… (they must have felt the same way when they saw the empty tomb). Are you more and more afraid to go anywhere, do anything, be with strangers in crowds… (they locked themselves in the Upper Room too, didn't they.) Well, we can be blown to smithereens, or die slowly from chemtrails; be so filled with dread we don't want to go to work, or poison ourselves with genetically modified foods; we can live in terror of the unknown, or live in terror of the known, as we watch our children's lives disintegrate before our eyes. Or we can remember. Remember that Jesus blew death to smithereens on the Cross. Remember Easter.
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Beet Salad with Citrus Vinaigrette
- 3 pounds fresh red and golden beets
- 1 cup thinly sliced red onion
- 1/4 cup raspberry vinegar
- 1/4 cup orange juice
- 1/4 cup olive oil
- 1/2 teaspoon sugar
- 1 1/2 teaspoons kosher salt
- 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
- 2 large navel oranges, peeled, sliced into 1/4-inch wheels, and quartered
- Zest of 2 oranges
- 2 cups salad greens
- 1/2 cup crumbled bleu cheese
- 3/4 cup pecans, lightly toasted
Colorful sliced red and golden beets tossed in raspberry citrus vinaigrette topped with crumbled bleu cheese and toasted walnuts.
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- To prepare vinaigrette, combine vinegar, orange juice, oil, sugar, salt and pepper in bowl; whisk to blend. Reserve.
- Trim beets. Simmer uncovered in salted boiling water for 45 to 60 minutes, or until beets are tender; drain.
- Peel beets and slice into 1/4-inch slices. Combine sliced beets, red onion, orange slices and orange zest in large bowl with reserved vinaigrette; toss to blend.
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Calories 262, Carbohydrates 27g, Cholesterol 6mg, Fat 16g, Fat Calories 145, Fiber 7g, Protein 6g, Saturated Fat 3g, Sodium 619mg. Daily Values: Calcium 108.01mg 11%, Phos 140.79mg 14%, Copper 0.27mg 14%, Zinc 1.31mg 9%, Panto 0.63mg 6%, Biotin 1.12mcg 373%, Iodine 1.94mcg 1%, Magnesium 59.34mg 15%, Iron 1.88mg 10%, Vitamin B6 10%, Vitamin C 65%, Vitamin B12 2%, Vitamin D 0%, Vit E-a-Toco 4%, Vitamin A 15%. Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.


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Arsenal's furry friends, who featured in the short film 'Fundraising Day' starring Cesc Fabregas, Andrey Arshavin, Theo Walcott and Bacary Sagna, delivered an early Christmas present to Arsenal's Charity of the Season, Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity and announced a fundraising total of £210,401 from the Gunners' match against Chelsea on Sunday 29th November.
The money forms part of the season-long 'Be a Gooner. Be a Giver.' campaign whose target is £500,000, which will fund an Arsenal Lung Function Unit within Great Ormond Street Hospital. The money was raised through various matchday activities including players, directors and many Club staff donating a day's wages to the cause. The matchday also saw generous donations from to a bucket collection, raffles, sales of special teddy bears and text donations plus a donation of 50 pence from every match programme sold contributed to the fundraising total.
On announcing the money raised, Cesc Fabregas said: "Christmas is a time for giving and we're honoured to be able to announce this fantastic sum of money raised for our Charity of the Season. On behalf of all those who made a contribution on and around the Chelsea matchday, we say a big thank you and Merry Christmas!"
To celebrate the Club's special matchday, four Arsenal players participated in a promotional film which showed them fundraising on the streets of London with hospital patients. This prompted supporters from around the world to follow their lead and donate to Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity.
The season-long 'Be a Gooner. Be a Giver.' initiative is almost half way to reaching its £500,000 target which will fund an Arsenal Lung Function Unit within Great Ormond Street Hospital.
Dr Jane Collins, Chief Executive of Great Ormond Street Hospital said: "We're so grateful to the players, directors and fans for raising such a fantastic amount of money at our dedicated match day. This will help us build our new Lung Function Unit and will make such a difference to our patients and their families."
Arsenal's support will help the Hospital replace the current Lung Function Unit which helps children who have difficulty breathing or sleeping. These problems can mean that children may not grow properly and the Lung Function Unit is vitally important in their treatment. The Arsenal Lung Function Unit will be designed to help newborn babies right through to teenagers and will provide a modern and spacious environment in which to help children and their families.
The current fundraising total for Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity through the Arsenal partnership is £242,859 and a dedicated website has been set up so supporters can continue to donate to the Charity throughout the course of the partnership. To make a donation or to view the players' film visit: www.beagoonerbeagiver.org.
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from entertainent value - yes
from serious mma appreciation - i'd say no
That could be the answer right Sharky there are too many fighters playing the points game instead of going for the finish that's why more of the fights are boring me, I have been a fan since the beginning for over 20 years and for the first time I've started skipping fights or is it because we get to see it every week nearly now??
Am I have having a mid life crisis or does any one else feel the same? Or am I just being a moaning twat?
Points fighting has absolutely taken the excitement out of the UFC for me. Too many fighters these day working the rules rather than finishing the fight. I think lots of fighters today look to play it safe, work a "game plan" and win the decision... you never use to see this in the early days! Can you imaging Oleg Taktarov, Dan Sevren or even Ian Freeman trying to win the decision??? the UFC use to be about a fight..while a realise athletes have evolved etc... its not as much of a fight as it is an athletic competition.
Bring back Pride rules I say...
At it's peak, absolutely. 99 through 2004 ish, Pride for sure was the big show.
Sherdog.com - The number one MMA site on the web today!
Pride 10 and 13 were real eye openers for me.
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Short answer - Yes.
Long answer - Hell yes.
Taking this shit, one day at a time.
Absolutely. The opening ceremony (I think you can justify calling it a ceremony) is spine chilling. I bloody love Pride FC. I hate what is happening to the UFC.
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there are too many UFC cards now which is a really strange thing, also too many fighters.
When i first got into MMA i knew nearly every fighter on a UFC card and looked forward to events for weeks/ months.
Now i dont know half the card, i forget there are events coming up and fast forward for most of the cards.


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"It's surprising that everyone was right all these years," Hugh told Ellen DeGeneres during an appearance on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" last year. "[People were] saying, 'Hugh, why don't you have some children? It changes your life.' And, you're thinking, 'Oh, shut up!' And now that I have [a child], it is life changing. I recommend it. Get some."
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50 Cent is turning his well-regarded entrepreneurial prowess toward a new philanthropic endeavor. The rapper and mogul has recently launched Street King, an energy shot that will help raise funds for feeding the poor in Africa.
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text: Culture 7 February 2000 The New Statesman Essay - New Labour needs a moral compass Alan Ryan argues that Blair's guiding light should be the Liberalism of 1906 Sign up for our weekly email * Ever since he was elected, the Prime Minister has been looking for the Third Way. He has been roundly mocked for it, and the efforts of his intellectual allies haven't always had good reviews either. At the risk of sounding like the man who reckoned to have found the Holy Grail in his back yard, I'd like to suggest that the Third Way is hard to see because it is under our noses. It's what progressive liberals in Britain (no matter what party label they wore) were arguing for throughout the 20th century. It's not entirely clear where I should begin to demonstrate this, though it's clear where I ought to end up. Let's start with President Clinton's devastating defeat at the hands of the Republicans in the mid-term elections of 1994. One of Clinton's responses to his trouncing by Newt Gingrich and his friends was the appointment of Dick Morris, a Republican political adviser and pollster; and from Morris came the bright idea - and the entirely apt word - of "triangulation". The politics of triangulation are simple, unlovely and effective. You plot your course so as to leave your allies and enemies fighting each other across your wake while you nip up the middle between them. So you make enough tax cuts to ensure that your enemies lose all but their most tax-obsessed supporters, and you preserve just enough of your party's traditional programmes to head off a full-scale revolt. Your supporters won't make common cause with your enemies, however annoyed with you they become; so you make as many concessions to the enemy as you need in order to split off their wavering allies and undermine their popular support. You don't on any account pick unwinnable fights - so say goodbye to Hillary Clinton's hopes for a national health service for Americans. And you don't get sidetracked by sentimental attachments to folk who don't deliver votes or money - so you don't try to stop Republican governors who want to experiment with workfare schemes that will create appalling misery in an economic downturn. People who dislike the whole idea of the Third Way commonly think that Clinton-style triangulation defines it. It doesn't; at any rate, it shouldn't. The other starting point is not the rise and fall of Gingrich, but the birth of the Liberal government of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman in Britain in 1906. This was the election that saw the first arrival in parliament of a substantial Labour bloc. And at that time, the Labour programme was almost indistinguishable from that of the "new" or "advanced" Liberals. Some traditional Liberal voters were still concerned with issues that had no resonance with the Labour movement; they were enthusiasts for temperance, for the disestablishment of the Welsh Church, and for allowing non-conformists to avoid paying for Church of England schools through the local rates. But these issues had no great resonance with advanced Liberals, either. What did resonate were the issues that still resonate today: old-age pensions, housing, support for the unemployed - "welfare" issues in general. Other common themes were Home Rule for Ireland, decolonisation, and a taste for federalism as the solution to the problems of diversity in the rest of Britain. Liberal observers from the advanced wing of the movement observed in 1905 that there was little or nothing to separate the demands of Labour from the programme of new Liberalism. This would not have come as news to most members of the Fabian Society. The argument to which both these starting points lead is this: the Third Way as practised by new Labour is half a mess and half a genuine attempt to recapture the centre ground of progressive politics in this country. It is a mess when the Third Way is merely triangulation - when it is an unprincipled attempt to maintain political support by splitting the difference between your own side and your opponents. It is not a mess when it is a search for the radical centre ground. The most accurate guide to the radical centre is the unfinished agenda of new Liberalism - otherwise known as collectivist Liberalism, Liberal-socialism and much else in the same vein. People have mocked Tony Blair for the innocent way in which he recruits 19th-century Liberal prime ministers to the new Labour cause. Quite wrongly in a way, because what Blair should try to be is a Liberal prime minister; but quite rightly in another way, because whom he ought to emulate is not Gladstone, but two 20th-century Liberal prime ministers - Asquith and Lloyd George - and the intellectuals he ought to take seriously come from the London School of Economics of 1900, rather than the LSE of today. Triangulation is a mess because it has no moral compass. When Jack Straw sets out to preserve the government's credibility with the fans of Ann Widdecombe, the results are morally repulsive. "Zero tolerance" is a notion that should have no place in the lexicon of progressives. Pandering to suburban xenophobia is no way to handle policy towards refugees. Allowing the public only as many peeps into government policy as neurotic civil servants will tolerate is no way to approach freedom of information. But these are triangulation. They concede a little to the demands of progressives for humane policies on crime and refugees - more treatment for drug-users, say, or quietly allowing a few more asylum-seekers to stay here - and a little to Labour's long-standing commitments to freedom of information. At the same time, they head off the assaults of Conservatives in parliament, while they placate Middle England outside by mimicking the rhetorical savagery of the right, and by adopting its authoritarianism. The same goes for many other areas of policy. Educational policy is advertised as punishing teachers and students who won't manifest the compliance towards authority that a Conservative government would want to see. Labour supporters are not going to vote Conservative in order to have still more of that sort of thing, so you can safely let down your own supporters in much the same way that Clinton has let down his. Benefits policy is presented in a way that defuses Conservative disapproval of single mothers and "scroungers". And so it goes on. It is not that nothing gets done that a progressive would want done; you still get the working families tax credit, for example, or better provision for parental leave. It is rather that, as with Clinton, the impression is given that the government will lean over backwards to absorb its enemies' views in order to preserve its electoral position. Defenders of Clinton could decently say that he had no alternative. From 1994, he was facing a large Republican majority in Congress, and had precious few weapons with which to fight. Unlike the French president, the American president cannot force a dissolution and go to the country to try to secure a majority for his own party. Essentially, he has to get along with the majority in Congress, to take advantage of whatever mistakes it makes - such as the folly of the Republicans in shutting down government by failing to pass a budget - and get what he can. In Britain, where Labour has a majority of 174, no such argument applies. The affection in which new Labour holds President Clinton and triangulation is therefore mysterious. It is possible that what new Labour really holds in affection is the organisation that first brought Clinton to prominence a decade ago. The Democratic Leadership Council, an association of centrist Democrats desperate to get back the White House, espoused the idea, if not the vocabulary, of joined-up government, and provided the (un)ideological backing for Clinton's campaign for the Democratic nomination in 1991-92. But that was a decade ago, and in a very different political system. To start triangulating with a majority of more than 170 at one's back is an odd way to carry on. If Clinton had had that sort of support in 1993, the US would have a national healthcare system (of some sort) by now. Yet the contrast between Britain and the US may be more apparent than real. Clinton had a large and ideologically fanatical Republican majority against him in Congress, but public opinion in the country was not overwhelmingly hostile - Clinton's job-approval rating stayed at 60 per cent during the impeachment process, though his personal-approval rating was half that. Fanatics were thinner on the ground outside the Beltway; and issue by issue, Clinton was often more popular than the Republicans. Labour's position is slightly different. It has a huge majority in parliament, and a vast lead in the opinion polls. But its popularity in the country, though a mile wide, may be a mere inch deep. If asked to choose between a Labour and a Conservative government, the public is two to one in favour of Labour. But issue by issue, Labour has less of an advantage than that suggests. Still, even if triangulation is wicked rather than silly, triangulation is not what the Third Way ought to be. First, the label of the Third Way ought to be junked; it defines new Labour as not Margaret Thatcher's conservatism, and not Michael Foot's Labour Party. If we are to steal anything from the Americans, let us steal the idea that defined New Deal Liberalism - the idea of "the vital centre". Suppose we ask what constitutes the vital centre, and see our task as capturing the ground where the advanced liberals of 80 years ago voted Labour to realise their liberal aims. The answer comes in two layers; one is a matter of theory, or world-view, or ideology, or whatever term people find sufficiently unpretentious to live with. The other is a matter of how we construct and implement policy. As a matter of philosophy, the Labour Party has always been a liberal party - always opposed to capital and corporal punishment, the party of abortion law reform and the party that decriminalised homosexuality. It is a universalist party: it has never been attached to the proletarian millenarianism of Marxist politics. It has been individualist, welfarist and utilitarian in the way Liberalism was. It certainly saw itself as promoting the interests of working people; but it was always (to the disgust of many of its supporters) a national rather than a sectional party. Even Clause Four aimed to promote the interests of workers by brain as well as by hand. When it came to policy construction, the argument for putting the interests of working people first, and taking those interests most seriously, was familiar to progressive Liberals. First, in a market economy, there is no guarantee that ordinary working people will be able to earn enough to sustain a decent existence. Or, as the new Liberals put it, we want competition above the line of a decent existence for the sake of efficiency and economic progress, but we don't want competition to drive working people below that line. Second, there is no guarantee that, out of working-class wages, it will be possible to provide for emergencies - unemployment, ill-health, the loss of the wage-earner. Those two thoughts alone will generate the minimum wage, encourage collective bargaining and sustain the welfare state. Even on nationalisation - the point where one might expect Labour and the new Liberals to be in opposite camps - they were on common ground. It was taken for granted by writers such as L T Hobhouse - the country's first professor of sociology, and a luminary of the LSE from 1907 to 1929 - property rights, especially rights to capital and land, can be sustained only if they are used for the benefit of society. Whether assets are better owned publicly or privately is a pragmatic question - what good will they do in which sorts of ownership? The new Liberals did not flinch at the idea of nationalising the railways; they had absorbed Joseph Chamberlain's municipal socialism, and were well in advance of us in advocating swingeing taxes on the development gains that would otherwise accrue to landowners by sheer accident. What makes the new Liberals a model for new Labour is what underlay these agreements on policy issues. They thought that the point of politics was to allow all individuals the chance to live interesting, fulfilled and chosen lives; the aim was individual freedom, and the point of social justice was to distribute resources so that everyone could lead such lives. It was a thoroughly anti-authoritarian ideal; it was not the government's job to tell people how to live, nor to make them perfect. It was the government's job to ensure that circumstances did not deprive too many of the population of the possibility of choosing in the first place. The term "social exclusion" is perhaps a recent invention; but the wish to abolish it is at least 120 years old. Like new Labour, the new Liberals were eager to distinguish between the bad sorts of individualism that might pull society apart, and the good sorts that might hold it together. They thought that individuals would be genuinely happy only if they felt that they lived in a society that demonstrated concern for the welfare of all its members. It wasn't to be devil-take-the-hindmost individualism, nor the self-centred silliness of the "me generation". What ought to unite new Labour and its new Liberal ancestors is the depth of their conviction that we are social creatures through and through. Cashing this in policy terms is a delicate matter. But the desiderata are not hard to insist on. In education, for instance, the idea of a learning society can make sense; but it needs to take learning seriously as something individuals do for themselves, with the help of the people we call "teachers". Lose that and you don't set up a learning society but a bureaucratically disfigured instructional delivery system. By the same token, though part of the point of learning is vocational and instrumental, part must also be to achieve individual growth for its own sake. New Labour cannot speak quite coherently about either, not only because of a perfectly understandable impatience after 18 years out of power, but also because of the absence of a moral compass. On the one side, new Labour lurches into treating the young as cannon fodder for whatever the economy demands of them, while on the other, it makes grudging concessions to the cultural legacy of the human race under the philistine heading of "art'n'sport". But the balancing of communal and individual concerns should permeate all social policy. It is reasonable to expect most people to contribute a good deal towards their own healthcare, unemployment insurance, pensions and the like - but wicked to stigmatise those who for good reason cannot. Teaching everyone the connection between their contributions to private and public welfare and what everyone receives is the only basis of a sensible discussion of taxation. But unless we remember that we make collective provision to ensure the welfare of everyone, we get obsessed with whether we get back exactly what we put in. The point of becoming articulate about the progressive tradition in which we are trying to operate is not that philosophers and political theorists can make social policy in the classroom and expect grateful politicians and civil servants to go off and implement it. But without more moral and intellectual backbone than it currently possesses, new Labour will find that the triangulation that serves it well in the short term will undermine it in the longer term. Anyone wanting the 21st century to be the progressives' century ought to be anxious about exactly that danger. The author is professor of politics at Oxford University and the Warden of New College Subscribe from just £1 per issue This article first appeared in the 07 February 2000 issue of the New Statesman, The Prime Minister loses control More


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Nine of London Underground's 12 lines will remain closed until Friday morning when it will take hours to restore normal services.
The strike was called by RMT union leader Bob Crow over concerns that jobs and pensions of maintenance workers have been threatened by the collapse of Metronet. He is planning another three-day walkout next week.
Today, after 2,300 RMT members downed tools, commuters were forced into their cars or to queue for buses, walk or cycle to work.
There was no service on the Bakerloo, Central, Victoria, Waterloo & City, Circle, District, Hammersmith & City, Metropolitan and East London lines.
Large sections of the Piccadilly line were also shut as it shares some tracks with the District line.
Only the Northern and Jubilee lines were working normally.
Mr Crow said his members' jobs had been guaranteed only while Metronet was in administration. He added: "We have been seeking simple, unqualified guarantees from Metronet and its administrator that there will be no job losses, forced transfers or pensions cuts, and we have not had them."
However London Mayor Ken Livingstone, writing in today's Evening Standard, claimed "every concern raised with me by the unions has been met". The Mayor's Transport for London organisation has taken temporary control over Metronet.
Two other unions, Unite and TSSA, called off their strikes after receiving assurances and agreeing to further talks.
Tim O'Toole, London Underground's managing director, said he did not know what else he could do.
He said an RMT claim that it had not received the assurances which had resulted in other unions calling of their industrial action was "patently not true".
Angry commuters also condemned the strike.
At King's Cross, where services were cancelled on three lines, Nick Coombes, 48, from Exeter, said: "These people exist in a totally unrealistic world - one which has long since ceased to exist in the commercial workplace in Britain."
At Victoria, property worker Phil Breeden, 42, from Banstead in Surrey, said: "We're living in a grown-up business world and people should realise we can't protect everyone's job for ever.
"I don't think these strikes do the Tube workers any good - they're so frequent now they've lost the public sympathy."
Business leaders warned the strikes would cause huge damage to London and Britain's world standing.
Maurice Fitzpatrick, of accountants Grant Thornton, put the cost to the economy at anything up to £50 million a day.
The walk-out at 6pm last night reduced the network to chaos yesterday.
Hundreds of thousands of people were stranded as stations closed.
A Metronet maintenance worker earns between £25,000 and £30,000 a year. It is mostly night work.
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Portugal revives royal pomp with Mafra pipe organs
By Andrei Khalip
LISBON (Reuters Life!) - All six historical pipe organs of the Mafra Palace Basilica resounded in public for the first time this month, reviving some of the former grandeur of Portugal's kings.
The Baroque Mafra ensemble, built in the 18th century just north of Lisbon to rival the magnificence of Spain's Escorial and St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, boasts the largest number of pipe organs in any church designed to play simultaneously.
"There are no parallels in the world for six organs of that size built specifically to be a set," said organ master Dinarte Machado, 50, who led a restoration effort which lasted seven years and cost more than 1 million euros ($1.43 million).
Hundreds of meters (yards) of labyrinthine galleries connect the towering instruments -- two in the chancel and two on each side of the Basilica's transept -- providing the nimble, mustachioed Machado and his tuning tools access to the pipes and trumpets above the ornate wooden balconies where the organists sit.
"This is the first time that the general public can hear the six organs' basic sonority," added Machado, who will continue fine-tuning the instruments through the end of April after the first test in public.
Even King John VI, who was regent to his mad mother at the time that the organs were finished in 1807, hardly had a chance to enjoy them before they were silenced by the drums of war.
Napoleon invaded Portugal in 1807, prompting the royal family to flee to Brazil -- then Portugal's largest colony and the source of the gold that had financed the lavish expenses and construction of the grandiose palaces for Portuguese royalty.
Upon the king's return in 1821, with Brazil about to declare independence the following year, five of the organs were being repaired. "The remaining organ was dismantled in 1831, and it was I who assembled it back again," said Machado. Continued...


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Once this is done, using the workflow method of moving from panel to panel, the Detail section, including sharpening and noise reduction can be used.
Noise reduction includes luminance and colour noise, but be careful with these two, as the image can lose sharpness and look soft. The Sharpening tool is very clever though, with a neat trick of letting you control the edges to be sharpened using a controllable mask. By pressing down the Alt key as you move the sliders you can see the effect of the sliders on the image. The Detail slider lets you see the sharpness applied to the edges, by using an embossed mask, while the Alt/Masking slider combination reduces the image to a lithographic-like image letting you choose the level of sharpness on wide to narrow edges within the image.
The final two boxes allow you to correct inherent camera faults, such a chromatic aberration and lens vignetting, as well as letting you calibrate your camera's sensor for accurate colour. The latter is too in-depth for this article, but the Lens Corrections box certainly has a useful tool in the vignetting section. Although primarily designed to correct darkened corners in images, creatively it can be used to add vignetting, whether light or dark, and to give images a vintage look. The Midpoint slider reduces and enlarges the middle of the vignette, while the Amount slider determines the lightness or darkness of the image corners.
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Stephanie Driggs, a 15-year-old student at Canyon del Oro High School, stands up and declares to her fellow students that she has an announcement to make.
"Today, I heard the word faggot five times, gay eight times, and dyke twice," she says while standing on top of a stool.
Her classmates, who are all meeting after school for the Gay/Straight Alliance Club at CDO, shake their heads in disappointment, but don't look the least bit surprised as others start giving their similar statistics for the day.
Despite the derogatory comments, the members of the group -- some of whom are gay and the rest straight -- are, with the exception of the usual high school mishaps, comfortable with who they are.
"These kids are really brave," says Katie Kelley, a science teacher and one of the advisors for the group.
The three-year-old club was started shortly after the death of Matthew Shepard, a young gay man from Wyoming who was beaten into a coma and left to die strapped to a barb wire fence along a deserted highway by two men who said Shepard came on to them in a bar.
The club had meager beginnings, with just four or five regular members, said Bill Maginnis, the other advisor for the club.
"We just wanted a kind of safe place for kids to get together," Maginnis said. Club members have the option of whether to make their sexual orientation known to other members of the club.
Now the membership fluctuates between 10 and 15 students who usually meet every Monday after school for about two hours.
Kelley became one of the advisors for the club because she said she knows how hard high school can be for some students, especially if they are gay, and she wanted to be supportive.
"Being different as far as sexual orientation is really hard. There's such pressure to conform in high school."
"Not me!" interrupts Nick Araya, a 16-year-old junior, with a big smile on his face.
"Nick is one of our special children," Kelley whispers, but loud enough for the other group members to hear, which provokes a collective laugh.
Nick, who came out just last summer, said he purposefully told his "blabbermouth" cousin about his sexual orientation because he knew the news would spread to the rest of his family.
When the news did reach his mother, Connie Freedman, she said it wasn't a big surprise.
"It was just because of the way he is," she said. "He used to play with girl stuff, and he never had any close guy friends."
Nick said while he was growing up, he always felt closer to girls when it came to friendship, but when they wanted more, he felt uncomfortable.
"Girls were cool to hang around with, but when it came to a personal relationship, I just kinda got grossed out," he said.
While Nick said his family has always been somewhat uninvolved in his life even before he came out, Nick has come to terms with it.
"That's how they've always been," he said.
The alliance, which he joined this year, has given him the kind of support he has needed.
"I got more involved in my life," he said. "I used to bottle up stuff inside. Now I do stuff that's a little out of the ordinary for me."
His mother said she knows Nick would be a lot different if he didn't have the club to be a part of.
"It's made a difference in his attitude toward life," she said. "He probably wouldn't be so open (if he didn't have the club) and he would be a lot more afraid of kids at school."
Still, life as an openly gay student is not easy for Nick or other gay members of the club.
"I know how tough it is being gay," he said.
Just last week, before one of his classes started and before the teacher had entered the room, Nick said several other boys in the class thought it would be funny to hold Nick down and try to spray silly string in his mouth and ears. When Nick told them to stop, one of the boys punched him in the stomach.
Nick, who used to take insulin shots in his stomach for his diabetes, said his stomach is very sensitive, making the impact of the punch hurt even more.
"I was literally in tears, crying," he said. "They said they were going to beat me up in front of the buses if I told anyone. I was pretty miserable for the rest of the day."
Nick said the boys never made any reference to Nick's sexuality during the incident, but he has no doubt that's why they decided to harass him.
"Whenever I'm not there, my friends say they talk about me behind my back," he said.
His mother said she has encouraged Nick to go see the principal this week, and in the meantime the two are coping with what happened.
"We'll get through it," she said.
Despite this and other incidents where he has been harassed, Nick said he knows he's not to blame and that it is other people who have to change.
"I've gotten things thrown at my back, but it doesn't change who I am. They're they ones who have to change their attitudes."
Stephanie said she used to let comments other students would make about her affect her, but now she just ignores them.
"So many people yelled things and threw things," she said. "I'm not bothered by that. You just can't let it get to you."
Stephanie said she came out when she was 14 after years of suspecting, and fighting the fact, that she might be gay.
"For the longest time, I was like, 'I can't be a lesbian. That's so wrong,'" she said.
But after she came out, she said she felt relieved.
"This club was the reason I came out," she said. "There was so much support. They made it O.K. for me to be gay."
Her parents said they noticed a huge change in Stephanie after she joined the club.
"She was real quiet and real depressed," said Christi Driggs, Stephanie's mother. "Now she's much happier. I think she'd feel much more isolated and lonely if she didn't have this club."
Driggs said she was also happy that Stephanie's twin sister Mariah Driggs was involved in the club to show support for her sister. Mariah has been the president of the club since the beginning of the school year.
"I think it's a wonderful group," Christi Driggs said. "It's made them more accepting, not just of gay people, but of all people."
Although Christi Driggs said Stephanie never actually told the family she was a lesbian, she said she and her husband had always suspected because she was always unhappy.
Stephanie said her parents found out for sure when the parents of her girlfriend found an e-mail discussing the girl's relationship with Stephanie. The parents then confronted Driggs and her husband.
"They kind of wigged out," Christi Driggs said about the girl's parents. "We just told them we didn't think it was a big deal."
Christi Driggs said that while she and her husband "didn't give a hoot" when they found out about Stephanie's sexual orientation, they were concerned about how other students would treat her at school.
"It makes me feel disgusted that kids are so stupid and so mean," Christi Driggs said.
Stephanie said she tries not to be alone on campus because people bother her less when she has friends around her.
Even straight members who are part of the alliance are often teased and harassed.
Jill Curtis, the lone freshman of the group and one of about six straight club members, also said she has been picked on for her involvement in the club, but said she doesn't let it bother her.
"At the beginning of the year, people made fun of me," she said. "They have no place to say anything."
Jill said she joined the club because she had some friends who were gay and saw the way they were unfairly treated. She said she wanted to make sure her friends knew she cared about them and was supportive.
"People need to know that there are people who care about this issue," she said.
Jill's mother, Gayle, said she was surprised but pleased that her daughter had joined the club.
"The only reason I was surprised was that she actually wanted to participate so extensively," she said. "But I was very proud that at such a young age that she took an understanding on such an important issue. I like that she has an opportunity to give and participate in something meaningful."
But participating in something meaningful can come with a price. The members' good intentions and support are often met with teasing and even violence by some students not involved in the club.
"Some of us went to homecoming together and at least eight soda bottles were thrown at us," Mariah said.
Mariah, who is straight, joined the club at the end of last year to support her twin sister Stephanie.
"I'm very proud of my sister," Mariah said.
However, her support was often met with derogatory comments from fellow classmates.
"People would say to me, 'Oh, you're the sister of the dyke," she said.
Mariah said she has never faltered on confronting people when they use gay slurs, such as dyke and faggot, or using the word gay to describe something in a negative way.
"People just kind of avoid looking at me when I do that," she said. "People act really guilty."
On a recent Wednesday after school, a number of students were asked about the club and its presence on campus, and also about the use of gay slurs.
Teresa Parks, a sophomore at CDO, said she sees nothing wrong with using gay slurs, depending on the situation.
"If you're just joking around with your friends, I don't see anything wrong with it," she said. "If you actually call someone who is gay something bad, then that's wrong."
Teresa said she has no problem with the club being on campus, but said she would never think about joining.
"I wouldn't want people to think I was gay," she said. "I would be really afraid of what people would think."
Parks said she doesn't believe there is anything wrong with being gay, but said she wouldn't want to be labeled something she wasn't.
Dylan Bishop, a CDO junior who said he is straight, also said he would be afraid of what people would think if he were a member of the club.
"I wouldn't let anyone know about it," he said. "It's not like it's something I would be proud of."
Dylan said he would be afraid that other students might make fun of him for being in the club which is why, if he were part of the club, he wouldn't advertise his membership to other students on campus. He also said he sees nothing wrong with using gay slurs, but agreed with Teresa that it depends on the situation.
"I don't think when people use words like that that they are directing it towards a gay person," he said.
However, Dylan also said he would never use racial slurs, no matter what the situation.
"Using words like nigger is just wrong," he said. "That's racist."
"You gotta know who you're talking to," added Jesus Acunia, a CDO junior. "If you actually use words like that in front of a gay person, that's wrong."
Jesus also said he would never join the club, even though he knows there are other straight people in it.
"I have nothing against it," he said. "Everyone has their rights. I just don't agree with it (homosexuality). I just think it's wrong."
Mariah said she hears people using gay slurs at least several times a day, and sometimes even during class. It's those times that frustrate Mariah the most, she said.
"Sometimes they don't say it loud enough for the teachers to hear it, but other times you think they would," she said. "I think (some teachers) just don't think it's a problem."
Mariah said she has often heard students use slang terms for homosexuals, such as "dyke" and "faggot" as insults, which teachers don't seem to care about, she said. But other terms, such as "b----" or "a--h---" are met with reprimand.
"So few people are going to say 'Don't call that girl a dyke,'" she said. "When a kid says you're gay or a dyke or a faggot, teachers don't recognize it."
To try and emphasize the need for tolerance on campus, the group's members have been having other students sign a Declaration of Tolerance this week. If a student signs it, it means he or she accepts every student on campus, regardless of anything that might make them different.
The group will also be participating in a National Day of Silence April 10 with other young people around the country. Members of the club, and anyone else who wants to participate, will be wearing blue ribbons to symbolize peace and will remain silent throughout the entire day, as long as they have written permission from their teachers.
Some of those teachers, and others across campus, have also taken on the job of trying to educate students about the harm of intolerance and gay slurs.
Mariah said she does have one teacher who thinks gay slurs are a problem and does what he can to correct it.
"I'll never forget one teacher, Mr. (Casey) Smythe," she said. "We were in class and someone said, really loud, 'That's so gay.' He stopped the whole class and told her to use a different word."
Smythe, who teaches English at CDO, said he believes it is important for students to feel safe in the classroom without worrying if another student is going to offend them.
"I'm an advocate for kids," he said, no matter what their situation, be it their sexuality, their race, their gender, or any other situation that might make a student uncomfortable.
"Kids spend a lot of time wondering why they don't fit in," he said. "Kids put up with a lot."
Smythe said he has opted to put an upside down pink triangle in the window of his classroom, a symbol of acceptance of all students at CDO. Several other teachers have followed suit.
"It means no put-downs, no matter what," he said.
When students do use put downs, especially gay slurs, he said they often say they don't mean anything by it.
"Then I usually say, 'Can you use the N-word and not mean anything by it?'" he said. "Words do mean something, and they hurt."
Since he has started confronting students when they use gay slurs, Smythe said he has noticed a decrease in the amount they are used in his classroom, but also said it doesn't mean any attitudes have been changed.
"I think, more than anything, my students have figured out I'm not going to put up with it," he said.
However, his no-tolerance policy has led some students to become even more confused about his reasons behind it.
"Some students have the mentality that if you support one, you must be one," he said. "They couldn't see how a teacher could confront students about using gay slurs without being gay himself. That's a mentality that I can't put up with."
James Anders, a P.E. teacher and football and wrestling coach at CDO, said he also confronts his students when they use gay slurs in class.
Anders said he especially hears slurs when the club is mentioned while he reads the announcements on Monday, the day the club meets after school.
"Some students say, 'Oh, it's just a bunch of queers,'" he said. "Usually, I address it with them and tell them it's not very appropriate. I ask them, 'Does everyone agree with everything that you do?'"
Smythe said he has seen a positive impact the Gay/Straight Alliance has had on gay students.
"As an English teacher, you get to know kids on a more personal basis with things like journals," he said. "I think students are more comfortable with coming out now."
However, some teachers aren't sure if the club's presence is making things better or worse for the tension between students on campus.
"The kids have every right to have that club," said Donna Watson, a special education teacher at CDO. "But there's a lot of tension that's created. It sets them up for a difficult situation."
While Watson, who is also the advisor for the Fellowship of Christian Athletes club at the school, said she does think the students in the club "probably need the support," she also said the club might be creating more tension between gay and straight students on campus rather than alleviating it.
"I wouldn't go so far as to say it shouldn't exist," she said. "But do I think it's wise to have the club? I have mixed feelings."
Watson said she chose to be the advisor for FCA because it most closely aligns with her personal beliefs.
"I believe that God loves everyone, regardless of their sexuality," she said. "Do I accept (homosexuality) as a way of life for myself or my children? No."
Maginnis said he believes the club is slowly having a positive influence on campus, despite the existing tension.
Maginnis said members have often had things thrown at them at school and that there have been some instances where members have had their backpacks rifled through, but that it comes and goes, and is gradually decreasing.
"People are getting more curious now," Maginnis said. "Kids are starting to understand that it's O.K. to have friends who are homosexual."
Maginnis became one of the advisors after remembering the turmoil his gay older brother went through and also because he said he feels it's important for students to feel supported and safe at school.
"It's not really a gay issue, it's about making sure kids can go to school and feel safe," he said. "I think it's really important to make sure that everyone takes an active role in making sure that students feel welcome."
Maginnis said some people on campus believe that the club is encouraging homosexuality, which is not the aim of the club, he said.
"It's not Gay 101, Training to be Gay," he said. "We're just trying to help kids understand that it's O.K. to feel however you feel about yourself."
Mariah said she can't even understand the notion that gay/straight alliance clubs would be promoting homosexuality and calls people who believe that "incompetent."
"If it wasn't hard to be gay, then we wouldn't need a club," she said. "Kids walk in the door everyday and talk about a bad experience they had a school just because of their sexuality. If anything, when you come to these meetings, all you see is why it sucks to be gay."
Canyon del Oro High School students participating in CDO's Gay/Straight Alliance Club say they are not only having problems with other students on campus, but with the administration as well.
Mariah Driggs, president of the club, said she has gotten the run-around from the school's principal, Michael Gemma, when the club has sought permission to have activities on campus.
"He has not been exceptionally supportive," she said.
Gemma said there has been a lot of miscommunication between himself and the group, which might be the actual cause of the group's frustrations.
Driggs said she met with Gemma at the beginning of the school year to talk about activities the group wanted to have on campus. Driggs said she felt like she was put off by Gemma when she brought her ideas to him.
"He just said that he didn't know and that we should check with other schools to see what they were doing," she said.
Gemma said that meeting was the last he heard from the group until recently, and that unless the club communicates with him directly and on a regular basis, there isn't much he can do.
"There has to be follow-through," Gemma said. "Unless kids come directly to me to talk about it, I don't know what's going on. I can't micromanage every club on campus."
The club, which brings together straight and gay students on campus during an after school meeting every Monday, is already subject to occasional harassment by other students on campus, and Driggs said her frustrations with CDO's administration makes things even harder on members of the club.
One of the club's gay members, Nick Araya, said he was punched in the stomach by a student in one of his classes. While Araya said the student made no reference to Araya's sexual orientation during the incident, Araya said he had no doubt it was the cause of the harassment.
Since incidents like the one at Columbine High School in Colorado, where the students who shot several of their classmates due to repeated harassment, Gemma said any incident involving student harassment are, and always have been, treated with care.
"We always investigate it to find out what occurred," he said. "If we find out something did happen, then the student (who committed the harassment) has to be dealt with in the appropriate way."
That could mean anything from a discipline referral to expulsion, depending on the severity of the incident, Gemma said.
"Then we always ask the student to moderate what's going on, to make sure there is improvement," he continued. "If I was aware of any student being continually harassed, I would certainly take that seriously."
Driggs said that despite the administration's positive stance on avoiding harassment, she still thinks the group is somewhat hindered when it comes to having events promoting tolerance for gay students on campus.
"It's hard because we wanted to do a lot on campus this year," she said. "(Gemma) didn't seem like a help at all."
Driggs said she was also told by Gemma that the group had to go through student government to get activities approved. Gemma said he told the club they had to talk about their ideas with student government, and that teachers and students often have activities on campus without him necessarily having to approve it.
Katie Kelley, one of the club's advisors who used to be the faculty advisor for the school's swing dance club and Students Against Drunk Driving, said the group has had trouble getting the student government to listen to their ideas about functions to have on campus.
Bill Maginnis, one of the club's advisors, said he has left several messages since October for the student government faculty advisor, Cleve Holifield, to try to get events planned on campus. Until recently, the club hadn't heard anything in reply from student government.
When Holifield was contacted by the Northwest EXPLORER, he refused to comment.
However, Oucinda Timberlake, the president of CDO's student council, said the group has never had to approve student club activities on campus and that she thought the responsibility ultimately lies with the administration.
"I'm kind of baffled by it," she said. "I don't think it should be up to us. Student government is the same as any other club."
Timberlake did say, though, that if approval for the club's activities does lie with student government, it would merely be a formality. The Gay/Straight Alliance did meet with student government a couple of weeks ago, where it approved the group's Declaration of Tolerance, a petition that is being passed around this week that students can sign to show their support for diversity on campus.
"Everybody thought it was cool," she said. "It was pretty unanimous. We really didn't have to talk about it that much."
However, Timberlake said that she still couldn't figure out why it was up to student government to approve the activity.
"But maybe there was just never another club that wanted to do something like this before," she said.
Another activity the Gay/Straight Alliance wanted to participate in was in the National Day of Silence, a movement created by young people across the country to protest the discrimination against gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered people. Participation would mean students would not speak at all during the day, including during class.
Driggs said that Gemma said no to the day of silence, so the group was forced to take things into their own hands, creating permission slips for teachers to sign, which would allow the students to remain silent during class. The members of the club said all of their teachers signed the permission slip and that most seemed very supportive of the movement.
Gemma said he did not say no to the students participating in the Day of Silence, rather, he told them the way it had to be done.
"It has to be a group activity within the confines of not interrupting school days," he said. "When I talk about restrictions, if they can't do it the way they want to, that gets misconstrued as they can't do it at all."
Gemma said he talked with the group further at one of its meetings where members brought up the idea of a permission slip for teachers to sign, allowing students to participate. Gemma said he was fine with the idea.
"It's still up to the teacher this way," he said.
Driggs also said that when she brought up the idea of having a speaker on campus, Gemma told her to "find out what other schools are doing."
However, Gemma said that he only told the group to find out if the particular speaker had ever spoken at any other schools to get some "reviews" to find out if he or she was any good.
Driggs said she still thinks other clubs have a much easier time getting activities approved. She also said she thinks Gemma is simply trying to avoid a potentially uncomfortable situation and upsetting people who don't support the club.
This isn't the first time this year that Driggs said the club has had problems with CDO's administration.
Driggs said the name of the club was referred to as the Matthew Shepard Memorial Student Alliance, a name she said did not get across the mission of the club.
That is the name that is also printed in the pamphlet distributed to students that lists the names of the clubs on campus. Under the description of the club, it states its mission is "to promote diversity on campus," with nothing mentioned about gay or straight students.
The club is also not listed on the school's Web site among the 40 clubs that are listed.
Gemma said, to the best of his knowledge, the club has always gone by the Matthew Shepard Memorial Student Alliance and that it is the responsibility of the club to change its name and make sure the information in the pamphlet is accurate. Gemma also said it is the club's responsibility to make sure its name appears on the Web site, but did not know who was responsible for updating that information. Kelley said she had no idea it was the club's responsibility to provide that information. She also said she agreed with the students that other clubs at the school seem to have an easier time getting activities on campus approved.
Donna Watson, a special education teacher at CDO who is also the advisor for the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, said she has never had a problem dealing with the administration when the group wants to have activities on campus.
"We really are quite free to do what we want on campus," she said.
Watson said the group has had prayer activities on campus, including See You At the Pole, where students meet before school to pray around the flagpole. She said students in the club have also organized prayer groups during lunch, especially after the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11.
"Some of the administrators even joined us for prayer on campus," she said.
According to the Amphitheater School District policy manual, the anti-discrimination policy does not take into account sexual orientation, but does take into account things like race and gender.
Todd Jaeger, Amphi's legal counsel, said the policy includes an all-encompassing statement against discrimination of any student for any reason, which is why the district never felt a need to amend it.
However, Amphi Governing Board President Ken Smith said the board is in charge of making sure policies are being followed.
"These policies were adopted by the Arizona School Boards Association several years ago," he said. "We are always in the process of looking at what needs to be revised."
Boardmember Kent Barrabee said he would welcome comments and questions from the group if they feel like they are being discriminated against.
"If there's a need for them to be protected, I would be in the forefront to do so," Barrabee said. "I think it would be helpful if their concerns were brought to the board."


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|May 31st, 2008, 10:05 PM
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wow, what a crappy/awesome/scary day on the water today.
Where the heck do I start?
Sol Goode and I launched out of Selfridge to go watch the air races, water was rough. Bearable, but rough. So about 3/4's of the way to the Detroit river I realize I have very little throttle response and I am way down on power. So I slow the boat down to check it out. Couldn't visually see anything wrong, but I thought I may have a loose plug wire somewhere....I could idle, but could not come up on plane at all...so we decided to idle into the bar and diagnose it there.
Sol Goode was a ways behind us and blew right by us on his way to the races as we had drifted quite a ways off course. So I got ahold of him and relayed the problems we were having to him and told him to enjoy the races and that we'd call him if we needed a ride.
Found that I had lost a connection to one of my coil packs which left me down 2 cylinders and lots of power. In turn I idled about an hour and a half to the bar and fowled every plug in the motor. Spent the next 3 hours tracking down some plugs. Finally we do and my good buddy hacksaw and I decide to start walking. We bum a ride from some guy and get the plugs.
Swap them out, all is good, decide to go visit out buddy Roger over on the south channel....So we head out of jacks and the boat jumps up on plane and all is good, except for the fact that old mother nature kicked up some 3's and 4's out on the lake. 40 mph max and I am in the air every step of the way.
Half way to the south channel we notice we are being tracked down by the coasties.....we stop, checks my regs, safety gear, lifejackets (which everyone already had on) and he lets us go....no idea why he decided to pull us over, we couldnt speed, we were the only boat on the water, etc......
So shortly after that at about 20 mph we take about half of a 5 footer OVER my bow!! The water was about 6-12 inches deep IN the boat!! I honestly thought we had sunk the boat, I flipped on the bilg pump, checked to make sure everyone was ok, all while trying to keep from taking waves over the stern. I couldnt even get back on plane we had so much water in the boat.
Finally it all pumped out and we were able to get to Roger's place. At that point we decided that it was clearly too rough to be boating and made plans to take the channels to the DNR launch in Algonac and go get my truck and pull out.
Cliff notes.
Started out nice, got crappy, fixed the boat, was rough but manageable, got pulled over for some reason by the coasties, got real scary, then hung out at Roger's and it was nice.
Definitely an interesting day.
|May 31st, 2008, 10:26 PM
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That lake can bite you in the ass in a blink, glad to hear everyone made it safe!
So I'm a asshole, so what!:finger:
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|May 31st, 2008, 10:34 PM
circling the drain
We were literally powering up the waves at about 20-25 and letting off at the top, just came down early on one of them and stabbed straight through the next one.
That was the roughest I have seen the lake in 2 years. I've seen it rough, but this one took the cake.
|May 31st, 2008, 10:39 PM
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|May 31st, 2008, 10:42 PM
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Wow, it looked bad out there. Glad you made it in okay Chad. Sucked driving all of the way across the state to drive home without seeing the good planes. At least we got to see a little something in the air.
The coast guard were funny to watch out there. Looked like a hell of a ride for them even.
|May 31st, 2008, 10:46 PM
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We came to the conclusion that he pulled me over to check to see if we were ok. Or he thought we were flat out wasted since we were the only idiots crossing the lake today and not hugging the shore line.
|June 1st, 2008, 12:26 AM
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Good to hear everyone was ok.
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|June 1st, 2008, 04:42 AM
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It's just as fun in a bass boat...specially when your dad driving it just powers on through, and your ass is spending more time in the air than attached to the seat. I love the fishing on that lake, but damn I hated when it was rough.
Glad you guys got through it ok!
|June 1st, 2008, 05:53 AM
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Too bad the guy that was going to bring that jet boat to the Red Bull races didn't bring it. I would have liked to see how his 8" of freeboard did.. :tonka:
Yeah, it was pretty rough. There was big rollers in the River too.
Are you an official U-boat commander now?
|June 1st, 2008, 07:17 AM
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There was one time I thought I was going over. Romey (riding in the back) gave me a pretty strange look afterwards.
It was stupid out there.
|June 1st, 2008, 07:32 AM
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When I had my 24' boat we put in up at deckers and ran across to metro.. While leaving metro that night they had a small boats warning.. When we left about 2 miles out we had the same thing.. They come and pulled me over.. checked everything.. When I asked why he said he just wanted to make sure we where prepared in case of emergency because of the small craft warning.. Sounds like a crappy time for ya..
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does anyone else see anything wrong with ONE wave almost sinking your boat.. may I recommend some better cockpit drains or actually installing some period?! the coastie probably stopped you because you were there and they were board and needed to fill in X amount of training time doing boardings. I guess be glad you didnt have an I/O to swamp in the back end with all that water. glad your ok and had some fun. I guess this is why I like older baja's and other deep V's with higher free board you can really go out in the big stuff and not worry about stuffing it as bad
|June 1st, 2008, 08:15 AM
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|June 1st, 2008, 08:22 AM
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|June 1st, 2008, 09:22 AM
circling the drain
As for cockpit drains I guess I don't follow? My gunnel storage areas all have drains to the bilge, my cupholders that are in the floor all go tot he builge, etc. The water was not in my cockpit, it was in the builge which was full and runs the full length undermy floor AND my cockpit, it had no where to drain to.
We were clearly in water that was too rough, but to be honest we didn't have much of a choice but to slowly press on and be as careful as possible to get to the truck and or calmer water.
The concern once we took the water on was taking another wave over the stern (as steveo mentioned) as we were running "with" the wind and the waves. I had enough water in the boat I couldnt get back on plane so it was a big concern. My boat sits pretty low in the water even with out a couple hundred gallons of water in it.
To be honest I don't think freeboard would have prevented the "stuff" only length would have. (To a degree of course, but most any boat out there that length shouldnt have been out there)
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