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At the end of Utah's game with Stanford on Saturday night, Larry Krystkowiak beamed as his players raced to midcourt and hugged one another because ... well, he had to. How else is a man forced to stand and watch his team get beaten in earlier games this season by 40 and 36 points, and, even worse, by 17 at the hands and elbows and feet and knees of the worst team in the Pac-12 supposed to react?
"It was tremendous," he said afterward. "When [wins] come few and far between, this feels awfully good."
Seconds later, as the first-year Ute coach stood in front of his team in the locker room, he couldn't even give utterance.
"This is the first time I've been speechless," he said. "It was neat to hear the silence. I just wanted to feel the chills from winning the game."
In a season of many words and few chills, the Utes somehow in their final home game found a way to beat the Cardinal, 58-57. After guard Chris Hines hit a ridiculous fadeaway 3-pointer from the left side with 27 seconds remaining, the thing came down to the last possession, when Stanford missed a bomb and the Utes celebrated. It was their first victory in their last nine tries, their sixth win overall against 22 losses.
Troubles had gotten so severe at times for Krystkowiak, he had to look at the sweated-through jerseys of his players as, in the eloquent words of Ernest Hemingway, the flags of permanent defeat.
Hines called this season "a whirlwind."
But Krystkowiak also allowed, "You don't always have to be winning games to win."
Against the Cardinal, after falling behind in customary manner, by 10 points in the initial nine minutes, Utah charged back to take a slim lead before the break. The highlight of that run was a Jason Washburn 3-pointer as the shot clock evaporated. Nobody at the Huntsman Center could remember the last time the Ute big man had hit a deep ball because ... he had never hit one before.
Talk about the sweet edge of a promising night.
Utah held on for dear life through the back half, scrambling on defense and showing aggressiveness on offense not seen in previous outings. In their last three games, the Utes had shot a total of 21 free throws. On Saturday night alone, they shot 21.
"We made some big shots," Krystkowiak said, and he called the win "huge."
Still, there are no new conclusions to draw about Utah basketball based on what happened here. The Utes are not a particularly talented team, a fact that is not their fault. They are what they are. They are playing for Krystkowiak and his down program because he or a former Utah coach recruited them. More often than not, they aren't as good as the other guys, even in the Pac-12, a league not filled with strong teams.
But they have progressed this season, a time when everybody knew they would struggle after Jim Boylen was shown the door and a few of his better players on a bad team followed him through it.
Krystkowiak is simply trying to drill the foundation of a new attitude into the bedrock beneath his program. It's not even a matter of developing the players he has into stars. Some of the guys here won't be on future Ute teams. They'll have to go.
The coach already has signed five newcomers, and his assistants are still actively recruiting. Past Washburn, a 6-10 junior who played the best game of his life against Stanford 17 points and six blocks and Hines, who had 19 points and seven boards, as well as injured center David Foster, there aren't any difference-makers in the fold.
The Utes have learned to play hard, though. And that counts for a lot, even on a team that ranks near or at the bottom of almost every meaningful Pac-12 statistical category.
They battle honorably, just the way they did against Stanford. Only this time they were rewarded for their effort with a rare win.
"We just keep fighting to the end," Krystkowiak said. "And it was really a great ending."
Added Washburn: "It was kind of like a dream."
The Utes may end up losing four times as many games as they win this season, but the flag of defeat presently flying over their program is not permanent. It's bound to fade, the way it did on Saturday night.


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Michael Hirsh: "Every Federal Reserve Board chairman comes into office with a secret agenda, a hidden passion. It's the sort of thing you don't hear about at the confirmation hearings, and yet it is often this grand passion—suddenly given voice in the world's bulliest economic pulpit—that shapes the nation's future in unexpected ways. Alan Greenspan, the erstwhile 'maestro' of the Fed, wanted to turn finance into the kind of laissez-faire market that his mentor Ayn Rand, the uber-libertarian author, had always envisioned. The result was the across-the-board deregulation of banking. When Ben Bernanke took over Greenspan's job, he appeared to be just another conservative economist in the mold of his predecessor (who had endorsed him). But his great passion was applying his life's work as a scholar of the Great Depression to stop another one. Only people who really knew Bernanke were aware of how the balding, mild-mannered man with the slightly quavery voice was committed, body and soul, to ensuring that the 2010s did not turn out like the 1930s. Thus, the startling spectacle of a Republican-appointed activist chief exploding the Fed's balance sheet by trillions of dollars to keep the economy going."
"What is Janet Yellen's secret passion? By the accounts of her friends and colleagues, the 67-year-old Yale-trained economist doesn't have many secrets… But that is the public Janet Yellen. Disciplined, determined, and brilliant, Yellen is also the product of an old progressive tradition of activist, pro-government economics. Above all, according to colleagues, she takes the nation's worst problems, especially unemployment, as a deeply personal challenge. Yellen, who is all but certain to be confirmed, represents a strain of interventionist thinking that has not found expression at such a high level in Washington in decades—at least since Ronald Reagan and his Milton Friedman-inspired attempt to shrink the size of government."Save to Favorites

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The Stephens County Board of Registrations and Elections is getting a new member.
William "Bill" Grant will serve as the Republican nominee to the Board for a two-year term.
Grant replaces Michelle Grafton, who is resigning from the Board of Elections at the end of her term on June 30.
Stephens County Commissioners unanimously approved the changes during their meeting on Tuesday.
Agnes Oglesby remains the Democratic representative on the Board of Elections.
Meanwhile, Stephens County Commissioners also held a first reading of a proposed ordinance amendment to the county's timber harvesting rules during a meeting Tuesday.
According to Stephens County Administrator Phyllis Ayers, the proposed change to the ordinance just brings the ordinance in line with what is already on the county's timber harvesting application regarding building gravel roads within a timber harvesting area.
Nobody spoke during a public hearing on the proposed change prior to the first reading.
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Update, Tuesday 3:15 p.m.: Tom Torlakson, state superintendent of public instruction, issued a statement reflecting his disappointment about today's ruling:
"All children deserve great teachers," Torlakson said. "Attracting, training, and nurturing talented and dedicated educators are among the most important tasks facing every school district, tasks that require the right mix of tools, resources, and expertise. Today's ruling may inadvertently make this critical work even more challenging than it already is.
"While I have no direct jurisdiction over the statutes challenged in this case, I am always ready to assist the Legislature and Governor in their work to provide high-quality teachers for all of our students. Teachers are not the problem in our schools, they are the solution."
Of course, Marshall Tuck, who will try to take away Torlakson's job in the November election, had a different take:
"Today's decision is a major victory for California's students, and a repudiation of the failed Sacramento status quo," said Tuck's statement. "I applaud the nine students who took a courageous stand for all of California's kids. But the truth is, no student should ever have to go to court to get a quality education – and no elected official should ever put bureaucratic laws ahead of students' interest.
"For too long, State Superintendent Tom Torlakson and the Sacramento education establishment have defended a broken status quo. Instead of working to make sure every child has access to a quality education, they have wasted taxpayer money fighting to derail this lawsuit.
"Now, State Superintendent Torlakson faces a critical choice. I urge him to do the right thing for California's students, and not appeal this landmark ruling …"
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California's tenure protections for public school teachers were ruled unconstitutional Tuesday by a judge presiding in a lawsuit brought by nine students.
Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Rolf Treu cited the historic case of Brown v. Board of Education in ruling that all students are entitled to equal education, and said the current situation discriminates against minority and low-income students in placing ineffective teachers in their schools.
"Plaintiffs claim that the challenged statutes result in grossly ineffective teachers obtaining and retaining permanent employment, and that these teachers are disproportionately situated in schools serving predominantly low-income and minority students," the decision said.
The judge said the plaintiffs' equal-protection claims validly stated that the statutes violated their fundamental rights to equality of education.
The judge stayed implementation of the ruling pending appeals. The case only involves K-12 teachers.
Other states tackling the issue are also paying close attention to how the case plays out in the nation's most populous state.
One issue at the center of the lawsuit was whether bad teachers should be so heavily protected by tenure laws that they are almost impossible to fire. The lawsuit asked the courts to strike down several laws providing teachers with tenure, seniority-based job protection and other benefits.
Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent John Deasy testified during the trial that it can take over two years on average to fire an incompetent tenured teacher and sometimes as long as 10. The cost of doing so, he said, can run anywhere from $250,000 to $450,000.
Treu heard two months of testimony for and against the lawsuit filed by students who claim that they are being deprived of a good education. The plaintiffs said that the state's teacher tenure system, which allows only two years for evaluation before a teacher is hired permanently, does not provide sufficient time to weigh a teacher's effectiveness.
The trial represented the latest battle in a nationwide movement to abolish or toughen the standards for granting teachers permanent employment protection and seniority-based preferences during layoffs. Dozens of states have moved in recent years to get rid of or raise the standards for obtaining such protections.
Lawyers for teachers object to changes that they say will allow the firing of teachers on a whim. They argue the current system preserves academic freedom and helps attract talented teachers to a profession that doesn't pay well.
The lawsuit, Vergara v. California, was brought by Beatriz Vergara and eight other students who said they were saddled with teachers who let classrooms get out of control, came to school unprepared and in some cases told them they'd never make anything of themselves.
"This is a piece of a national debate and legal policy battle," plaintiffs' attorney Theodore Boutrous Jr. said. "It's being watched around the country."
James Finberg, who represents the teachers, agreed that Treu's decision could be a bellwether for other states. With 325,000 teachers and 6 million students, California has one of the largest educational networks in the country.


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Hi Stacy, I recall reading on the C&R list that you were moving, but I didn't realize you were moving to TN. I'm woefully ignorant on what goes on there in the west part of the state, but I do recall there used to be a collectors association there that put on a gun show once or twice a year. My recollection is it either failed or their show venture wasn't successful. RK Shows is the only game in town as far as I know.
In any case, welcome! Hope you can hook up with others in your area who can help you learn the lay of the land quickly.


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No, its fucking rediculous. The fucking paranoid pussy parents* of this nation are ruining things for younger generations because they don't want them to get hurt. It's amazing that any kids actually lived through the 50s the way some of these people talk. Shit, when I think of some of the dangerous things I did as a kid growing up. And half of those things my ad was right there saying "You go first and I'll watch, then maybe I'll try".
*To the parents on here, I dont think ALL parents are paranoid pussies. I know there are cool ones too.
wow. its understandable. but i dont see how they can be considered toys. they have a MOTOR.
Who comes up with this? Our govenrment spends time to ban "lead containing motorbikes", and were in the middle of a depression. GREAT time to start banning things. As a parent, this pisses me off! I was going to buy Hunter a 50 for his birthday this year.... get him started early.
I think whomever came out with this needs to be sacked. Then sack the people that came up with this.
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They contain lead??? Seriously? The kid is supposed to ride the bike, not eat it. If anything, I would be more worried about the 2 stroke nature of the motorbike over the fact that some of the parts on it contain a certain percentage of lead. I mean, how terrible is it to breathe in the fumes of a 2 stroke motor? Its burning oil for cris-sake!
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Though Ann Curry's quick exit from the "Today" show was widely believed to be due to a rift with co-host Matt Lauer, a new story in New York magazine reveals just how wide the rift was.
An NBC staffer told reporter Joe Hagan, "Everybody at NBC, everybody at the Today show, everybody understood that Ann was kicked out of her position because Matt didn't want her there. That's why it was so personal between Ann and Matt."
With just two weeks until the 2012 Presidential Election, Barack Obama and Mitt Romney converged on Boca Raton, Florida for the third and final debate.
This time around Bob Schieffer handled the moderating duties, and both candidates did their best to win over as many undecided voters as possible with their foreign policy expertise.
She's in a career transition after having been replaced as anchor of the "Today" show, and Ann Curry was chosen to cover the August 2012 issue of Ladies' Home Journal.
The 55-year-old TV personality showed off her endearing smile on the front page while dishing about everything from her passion for TV news to where she sees herself five to ten years down the road.
There's been much speculation over her possible new title, and today (June 29), confirmation came as the network announced Savannah Guthrie as Ann Curry's "Today Show" replacement.
Previously a staple of NBC's 9 a.m. hour, Guthrie will now join the anchor seat alongside long-time co-host Matt Lauer.
She's been working alongside Matt Lauer ever since Katie Couric hit the road, but Ann Curry's tenure at the "Today" show is coming to an end.
This morning (June 28) Ms. Curry will announce that she's leaving the NBC morning show, due to a slip in the ratings and a few kinks that have cropped up along the way.
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Warren Buffett Makes Ridiculous Money In 2013
According to a report at msn.com, Warren Buffett gained more wealth than anyone else in the U.S. in 2013, and when you break down the numbers, the money he made is nothing short of ridiculous.
Buffett added an unbelievable $37 million in wealth a day in 2013. Yep, that's $17.5 million by the time he broke for lunch. Imagine waking up in the morning and by the time you have a cup of coffee and take a shower, and head off to work, you've made about $12 million. Not a bad morning, right?
Let's take it another step further. At that rate, Buffett, makes about $1.5 million an hour based on a 24 hour day. For a normal 8 hour work day, he makes a cool $4.6 million an hour…an hour!!
Let me put that into even more perspective for you. If Warren Buffett listens to Miley Cyrus' "Wrecking Ball", by the time it's over, he's made a little over $77,000. He makes close to $7 million dollars during the length of the morning show.
And I'll leave you with this one. In the average time it takes you to walk into the bank to cash your paycheck, Warren Buffet has made another quarter of a million dollars for himself.
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Killington, VT: 12/16/12
If skiers are wondering if The Beast is back, the answer is a rousing "I have no idea what that means." However, I did ski at Killington today and if it had been with William Faulkner he might have called his book the Sound and Sting of the Fury.
Early season isn't my favorite time to ski, but because skiing is my favorite activity I'm compelled to take advantage. In turn, yesterday was the last day to take advantage of a 2-1 ticket deal from Ski Magazine. So a few motivated friends met up to make turns in the face of a cruel wind and the double-edged sword of an ideal snowmaking window before Christmas break.
As always, being out early sure helped. Visibility was tough all day, but empty early runs on Superstar accelerated the process of getting comfortable on skis again. You couldn't see if you were about to ski into an erratic mogul or a falling skier, so it was important to use the force to feel the snow underneath.
Cascade was the trail of the day. A large and scary "Experts Only" sign up top yielded to a perfect bump line for brave skiers that could navigate the ice, loose rocks, and wind at the gondola terminal. It was pretty gruesome, but a clear alternative to the white ribbons that had become clutter with skiers by midday.
A couple of hours in, I noticed that it was actually snowing at a decent clip, too. That snow mixed in well with the man made, and made the afternoon very pleasant. It was a great day. Nothing beats skiing in falling snow because it holds in the air a promise of better turns tomorrow, and hopefully for all of us.
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What doesn't kill you will make you stronger.
Same report for Monday. Cascade was it. Snow held well on the race training hill (poma) and rams head…no wind down low. Lots of training runs.


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At the Google Play Store, HTC One (M8) owners will find some changes for BlinkFeed. Users of the new HTC flagship will see optimized scrolling, additional social content and the proverbial bug fixes. The Gallery app also has received an update, available in the Google Play Store, that allows you to tap the screen anywhere to get the Foregrounder effect. There are four such effects thanks to the dual-cameras on the HTC One (M8), Sketch, Zoom Blur, Cartoon, and Colorize.
Sketch makes the background of your pictures look like the animation from the 1980's classic "Take on me," while Zoom Blur lets you make a blurring effect from where you start the focal point on the picture. Cartoon makes the background on your photo look like a colored pencil drawn cartoon background and Colorize cools off the temperature of the color on your picture.
This is obviously the wave of the future, taking updates away from the slow process of carrier testing, and giving the power to the consumer. If you have the HTC One (M8), you can head right to the Google Play Store and update your new phone.
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MILWAUKEE -- With third baseman Blake DeWitt sidelined because of an aching lower back, Dodgers coach Larry Bowa suggested to manager Joe Torre just before the game that he play Chin-Lung Hu as a fill-in.
Torre tossed aside the advice of his friend and decided instead to start backup catcher Gary Bennett, who hadn't played in more than a week.
Bennett hit a three-run homer, and Andruw Jones and Jeff Kent added solo shots during a six-run seventh inning to lead Chad Billingsley and the Los Angeles Dodgers over the Milwaukee Brewers 7-2 on Thursday.
"Great suggestion, obviously," Torre deadpanned.
Bennett also added an RBI double in the ninth in his first action since May 7, while regular catcher Russell Martin played third base for the fifth time in his career. Nomar Garciaparra is still on the disabled list.
"Even when you're not playing, you still come in and get your work done. It's not like if you're not playing, you just sit on the couch and do nothing," said Bennett, who was told 15 minutes before the game that he would start. "You still get your work for situations just like that. You never know, one foul tip in the first inning and you can end up in the game. I just always try to stay as ready as I can."
Billingsley (3-5) didn't allow a hit until Brewers starter Ben Sheets, a career .078 hitter, singled with two outs in the fifth.
Billingsley gave up three hits and struck out five. The 23-year-old right-hander was pulled with a 6-0 lead after giving up Jason Kendall's leadoff triple in the eighth and walking his fourth batter.
"I just really had good command with the fastball and was able to throw it where I wanted to and keep it down in the zone," Billingsley said.
Jonathan Broxton got J.J. Hardy to ground into a double play that scored Kendall. Ryan Braun then homered -- after agreeing to an eight-year, $45 million contract with Milwaukee before the game.
"It was a hectic day," said Braun, who hit his 10th homer this season.
Still, the Dodgers showed most of the power. After coming in tied for last in the NL with 26 homers, Los Angeles jumped on Sheets (4-1) with a surge in the seventh.
"I'm sure it looked baffling," said Sheets, who dismissed any physical problems. "I would say that's probably my worst inning ever, personally. I don't know if it statistically is. But it wasn't a good inning."
Jones, hitting .182, turned on a high fastball for a solo homer to lead off the inning, his second homer and seventh RBI this season. After an out, Sheets hung a breaking ball and Kent made it 2-0.
"He made a mistake and I was able to take advantage of it," Jones said. "In that inning all of sudden, he started throwing balls up and we were able to hit him."
Sheets then came unraveled. James Loney tripled and scored on Martin's single. Luis Maza's first career hit put runners at the corners with one out and set up Bennett's homer, the 22nd of his 13-year career.
Sheets was finished after Bennett's homer, allowing six runs and nine hits. He had five strikeouts in 6 1-3 innings after starting 4-0 for the first time in his career.
"Runs are like gold when you are talking about Ben Sheets. He was pitching so well and then to get the three-run homer, that was huge," Torre said. "If you go out there and control the game with your starting pitching, it gives you a chance to do things. You can think small and all of a sudden, you throw up a six spot."
- The Brewers put RHP David Riske (hyperextended right elbow) on the 15-day DL and purchased the contract of journeyman minor league pitcher Mark DiFelice. DiFelice has never pitched in the majors, spending 11 years in the minors.
- Torre chatted with Bobby Thomson in the Brewers dugout before the game. Thomson, famous for the 1951 NL pennant-winning homer, was in town as part of a celebration of the Milwaukee Braves. Thomson played for the Braves from 1954-57, while Torre started his career with the Braves in 1960.


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The Start published an update on Encik Panjang, the guy who patches potholes around JB. More details were revealed of this good samaritan and a hero of mine.
More details were made known about Panjang in the article. He was a businessman and had worked in Singapore for 25 years. He's also from a well off Penang family.
Regardless of his background, what I admire most about Panjang is that he takes initiative to remedy a troublesome situation, specifically the state of pothole ridden roads in JB, when it's clearly not his responsibility to do so.
The world would be a much better place if there are more heroes like Panjang. It's good to know that he's been receiving support from JB citizens. God bless all of you.


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Mohd. Nasir, Mohamad Na'im (2010) Study of direct current bus instability driving by photovoltaic source with constant power load. Masters thesis, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Electrical Engineering.
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My 3 year old was running in the woods, she let out a loud yelp and came running out. Checked her over and she had a little blood on both nostrils, other than that she was fine. I thought maybe she ran into a tree. Got home and she had trouble getting out of the van and up the stairs. By morning she could hardly move and I couldn't put my hand on her lower back at all. Off to the vet. We were very surprised to hear she has arthritis going down her spine and she said it was quite bad. She said in the woods something must have happened and a little piece of arthritic bone chipped off. She showed us the x-ray against a normal spine x-ray, so I do believe her. Just kind of funny when she never had a symptom before this. So now she is on Tramadol for pain, Metacam for inflamation, and we are going for an injection of Cartrophen for 4 weeks in a row. She also told me to get Glucosamine to give her. Does this sound like a good way to treat this to anyone out there that might have experience with arthritis. Any guesses why such a young dog would get this? She comes from a very good breeder. The vet said her hips and elbows are great. Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks. :)
Sounds like she injured her neck.
Did they mention an FCE?
I do have experience with hip dysplasia with severe remodeling in one that age. Symptoms came on after a cold swim about the same age. No experience with cartrophen but I know some who have had good results with adequan. All she ever needed until the end was fish oil and glucosamine/MSM supplement and some metacam maybe the last 6 months of her life (she died of hemangiosarcoma at 9)..but I really thought the value of glucosamine was joint lubrication and this is not a joint issue like hips are.
Grim has some spinal arthritis (spondylosis, bridging) but he is 9.5 and it is mainly at the thoracic/lumbar junction. He gets turmeric and some chinese herbals and fish oil. Turmeric has a lot in common with metacam - it is loaded with natural cox-2 inhibitors. The downside of metacam is you will need to go in every 6 months for bloodwork and it is expensive. The good thing though is the liquid can be metered down so that you can give the minimal effective dose. For Cyra the dose for a 20lb dog worked just fine with her 50lb body.
DEFINITELY the omega 3 fatty acids in good quality fish oil (The EPA and DHA) are highly anti-inflammatory and need to be included so I would ask the vet about that as well.
Acupuncture and cold laser haver really helped Grim (the one with spondylosis) - If he were younger I would be doing more research into stem cell therapy. Our vet just mentioned some kind of new cytokine therapy but I am clueless and looking into it. My vet is also certified in chiropractic but not with the arthritis.....
I would also talk with a vet physical therapist if you have one about appropriate excercise. Excercise is excellent for any arthritis but you don't want to add further injury. I would think jumping in and out of vehicles would be forbidden and walking and swimming probably excellent.
Arthritic changes can happen at any age, puppies at 4 month old can already have arthritis in joints.
My first dog (Mastiff x) was on Cartrophen injections and glucosamine for 8 or 9 years, they did help her joints a lot. I have no idea if it will help with spinal issues but there's probably only one way to find out - the main thing is you need to be patient with the Cartrophen and the glucosamine especially it takes time to work, at least a month until you see a difference.
With Max it made a huge difference, the Vet told me to have her put to sleep when she was 4 years old because she was arthritic and had had surgery to repair a torn ACL - she lived to 12 years old :) She did get Rimadyl for the least 6 month because she was uncomfortable without any pain relief.
All my dogs now get a joint supplement with glucosamine and MSM - the older girl because she's 6 years old as a preventative (she's showing no signs of pain) and the 11 month old pup because he already showed arthritic signs in his elbows at 4 month old and had surgery to fix an ununited anconeal process :( They are both on a low maintenance dose of this stuff Joint Guard For Dogs - Nature Vet :)
I would also look into acupuncture like jocoyn said :) It worked great on one of my ex race horses that had spinal issues :)
I would think at this age if it is arthritis then it would be rheumatoid - auto immune.
Also, I think a better check w/an ortho and a consult with a chiro after that to confirm...unless you could see yourself by comparison on the x-ray.
I would be more inclined to go with the neck injury because of the bleeding nose.
My aunts dog had acute lameness (a sheltie), suddenly wouldn't jump down off the bed and got lethargic...vet said lets check for HD, didn't have...so put on metacam instead of checking the knee (acute!)...dog now has kidney disease...
Another woman I met, Vet tests for HD, no HD (shep/husky)...couldn't walk, put dog on metacam, started spilling black tarry diarrhea...vet suggested PTS...she was giving the dog another couple of weeks while she struggled with the decision:(
I had met this woman in line at costco (may 2012) and somehow started talking about our dogs...My dog had blown his knee, so I thought that may have been what teh vet missed w/her dog...I recommended to her Fast Joint Care + (by genuine health), home-made bone stock (mostly chicken cartiledge w/splash of vinigar to the stock) and Wobenzyme...2 weeks later her dog was walking a 1/2hr...she called again a couple months after and couldn't be happier with his improvement, wanted to know if he could go swimming, lol:)- she called me again just before x-mas - said he was like a puppy again going on hour long walks, running...you get the idea (?)
A lot of the pain after a spinal injury is muscle spasms which will cause a dog to be very stiff, painful and not want to walk.
I'd ask your vet about methocarbamol + Neurontin for the muscle spasms and pain.
That med combo has helped a number of our own dogs and foster dogs here (Dachshunds, famous for spinal issues).
The bloody nose the sudden onset all may point us to something else (such as running into a tree or, as has been suggested, an FCE) but we are not veterinarians and we have not seen the x-rays. If the dog does have spinal arthritis, it may well be that a sudden impact caused one of the over growths to break which can cause great pain.
What you may want most is a consult with an orthopedic vet specialist.
In our case, our dog had spinal stenosis, a sort of arthritis, and he just spontaneously got the embolism (FCE).
But if she's got mild changes, it could be the impact with the tree (if that's what occurred) caused it to happen.
I don't know, when the OP says "could barely walk" if was due to pain or she physically couldn't move.
Our dog's back legs weren't working, one was worse than the other but neither were working like they should :(
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C.J. Wilson and CC Sabathia will both be free agents in a matter of days, but that does not mean that the Red Sox need to pay hand over fist for either of these pitchers. Yeah, what a concept, free agents that the Red Sox don't have to sign. Call me crazy, but the Sox don't really need either of these guys. It's true that the Red Sox pitching was an absolute embarrassment at the end of the season and the team's in dire need of some impactful roster changes, but not like this.
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Another thing going for Bruce Chen is that the defense behind him has been spotty. The Royals over all fielding rating (according to fangraphs) is 10.4; the Red Sox sport a top 3 42.8
I'm also a fan of getting Buehrle. He probably won't demand a ton of years since he has hinted at retirement soon.
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My almost 8 year old fractured his tibia skiing and is looking at the next 5-6 weeks with a cast and crutches. He'll heal fine, but he's used to being active, independent, and being able to play and run around with friends often.
We've relaxed our screen-time rules, are playing lots of games with him, and are going out of our way to get him to spend time with friends, but he's still so sad and upset and generally grumpy and emotional. I know this is to be expected, I just feel so bad for him and would love some suggestions from those who may have been through something similar in helping him.
He has a habit of feeling sorry for himself sometimes, and a broken leg is not helping. He'll do things like say "no one wants to see me" or "it's all my fault I broke my leg" or "you think I'm stupid". It's horrible, and I honestly don't know why he has this kind of orientation. All I do is continually reassure him that it's not his fault, yes, his friends want to see him, etc. but then this just turns into a back and forth argument that goes nowhere. I'd be lying if I said I never got frustrated and just threw up my hands and gave up.
Help me help a sad kid, please :)
I spent 3 months in a full leg cast, bent at the knee, when I was 16. And then another 3 months after that still on crutches.
It sucked. But after a couple of weeks of moping and feeling sorry for myself I got bored and got up off the couch and went out.
Your son will learn to get around with a cast and lead an almost normal life, even on crutches.
Stuff that helped me. The stuff you're already doing. More screen time. Books, Games. Having friends over.
Maybe have active family fun time? Once the pain has subsided, maybe invent games to get him on his feet.
Time how long it takes each of the family members to get across the house on his crutches. Or have races across the room hoping on one foot.
If he is at all active, he will learn to be active in a cast and on crutches. Once he realizes that it just slows him down a bit but doesn't stop him, he may be fine. Just try not to be fearful that he will hurt himself. The cast should protect him quite well.
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I totally feel your pain. My 9 yr old broke his leg and is in a full leg cast, playing baseball. He is a very active kid too,and has broken this same bone 3 times playing various sports. He will be in a cast for 8 weeks, a boot for 2. Honestly, 5 to 6 weeks is not too bad. Can he put weight on it? If not, once he can your life and his will be greatly improved! Devon's last break he was just in a walking cast and still played and ran around with friends. More of an annoyance than anything. We are sad but trying to come to grips with it. Trying to look into the water proof cast cover so that he can be around the water, think this will help!
Hi there .. I posted this back in March so he's been out of the cast for almost two months now. He ended up having the full leg cast for about a month and then a half leg cast for another month. He walked on the half leg cast with a shoe for the majority of the time he had it. When he got it off he had one of those boots that he wore for a couple of weeks when we went out.
The problem now is that he's still limping .. we finally got him into physical therapy and we're hoping he'll be ready to play soccer in August. He grew something like three inches while he was in the cast, plus he has a very tight body type, if that makes sense. He's not very flexible (can hardly touch his toes). So he shot up, tightened up, and had muscle atrophy in the broken leg. Poor kid. The physical therapist says he'll be fine, he just needs to keep up on his exercises and stretches.
So, this has been a much longer proposition than I expected, but I guess that's just how it goes.
My son broke his leg (at a younger than yours but also at a growth spurt) and he lagged physically for about six months after his cast was off. We revised his day camp plans as he wasn't able to keep up with kids his age at the beginning of summer, but was fine by the end. He also fatigued easily until his muscles rebuilt somewhat.
The doctor also told us we could have a CT scan done about a week before the cast is to come off just to make sure it's healed, as the x-rays can't show the complete picture. I wonder if this might be an option for you even though it's 2 months out, just to see that the bone is completely back to normal and ready to play sports. My son was so anxious to get back to sports that we let him play, I wish we would have waited, and could have possibly avoided another break.
Yes, my ds was 4 when he broke his leg (skiing) and it was a real nightmare. He went to physical therapy after getting the cast off and it did take some time, but he is fine now, and has been for a long time (he's 7 now). Mostly he had to learn to trust that his leg was OK again and really use it. Just yesterday he was playing a jumping on one leg game and I noticed it was his previously broken leg he was jumping on. He had favored it for so long, it was really good to realize he treats both legs completely equally now.
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Poor little guy. :(
My son broke his arm badly last year. He was in a cast for almost 8 weeks, right at the start of baseball season. (He's big time into baseball!) It was really depressing for him also - no swimming, no baseball, couldn't write easily for several weeks...
We just gave him a lot of TLC, asked people to help him out, had a special 'party' for him at the house so he had extra friends around. We still took him to every baseball practice and game - he was base coach/bat boy. I was so proud of him for that!
Hang in there - he'll heal quickly and be back to his active self before you know it!
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DD broke her ankle 3 weeks into summer when she was 8. She is a total active and outdoorsy kid and that meant it pretty much blew her summer (though I was impressed at how much she could get around at the playground with the cast--I had a fit when she crutched off with friends and I got distracted talking to the friend's mom and next thing I know she's waving at me from the top of the web rope climing structure!).
We went to a lot more "touristy" places (like the zoo and aquarium) than we normally do, and I rented her a wheelchair. 3 weeks before she got her walking boot, I discovered that I could have rented one of the little scooter things (not motorized, but the ones that look like a little bike where you rest a leg on it and wheel yourself along) for about $10/week--if I had known that earlier we would have gone more places with that thing.
I let her two best friends' parents spoil her to death. She got to go see a lot of movies, more sleepovers than usual, ect.
It was kind of a bummer summer though.
BTW I don't know if you ever broke anything as a kid or adult (I hadn't) but my DD was thrilled when she got her leg cast off and she had a hairy pirate hobbit foot/leg! (At least she wasn't freaked, but it would have been nice to get a warning) I guess because of the cast, the hair isn't bleached/rubbed thin like normal, so she had a lot of fun with that once she was in the boot. She wanted to show everyone and liked to pet it while watching TV. My kid is very weird.
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Well, let me tell you, it's pure insanity. I don't understand how much hair can come off of her! With the amount of hair I've brushed off of her, swept off the floor, lint brushed off the furniture, and breathed in from the air (yech) I feel like I've collected about 3 dog's worth of fur. By all logic Lola should be completely bald by now. I'm glad she's not, but it might be a little bit easier!
I'm afraid I'm going to be spitting up hairballs soon! Last night we had obedience class which is held at a doggy daycare center with a black rubber floor. I brushed Lola thoroughly before class in hopes that she wouldn't leave me in a cloud of hair at class. I had to clean out the slicker brush several times, but she finally seemed to be fairly smooth. At class she does beautifully. She's focused, happy, friendly, everything is great! Before we leave I glance back at our little spot and the black floor is carpeted with a thin layer of white fluff. She managed to leave a nice pile of hair in just one hour! Sheesh. I hope we're done with this soon.
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WASHINGTON – In a desperate bid to preserve a critically endangered species, a U.S. zoo is taking the controversial step of trying to mate brother-and-sister captive Sumatran rhinoceroses.
The coupling of 6-year-old Harapan and his older sister, Suci, could take place as early as August at the Cincinnati Zoo in Ohio, animal keepers say.
The tactic has stirred strong emotions, but Terri Roth, director of the Lindner Center for Conservation and Research of Endangered Wildlife, said she has no other choice.
"We are in a really tough spot and we just don't have any other options," she said.
Conservation experts say there are as few as 100 Sumatran rhinos left in the wild in their native lands of Indonesia and Malaysia.
There are only 10 animals in captivity around the world. Of them, four are closely related, with three having been bred in recent years in Cincinnati.
A fourth, born in Indonesia last year, is the son of a Cincinnati-bred captive rhino and a formerly wild rhino.
For Suci, who marks her ninth birthday this week, the only available suitors are her relatives, Roth said.
The other captive male of breeding age in Indonesia is her older brother.
Harapan, who is on the cusp of adulthood, was brought to Ohio earlier this month from his previous home at the Los Angeles Zoo.
Artificial insemination has never worked in Sumatran rhinos, so shipping sperm from a genetically unique mate is not a viable alternative.
"Unless Indonesia were to capture more animals and an unrelated male became available to us, we don't have the genetic diversity that we need," Roth said.
In the meantime, experts say female rhinos need to breed in order to keep their reproductive organs from developing cysts that eventually render them infertile.
"Female rhinos, if they don't reproduce, they tend to lose the ability to reproduce. It is kind of use it or lose it with them," said Susie Ellis, executive director of the International Rhino Foundation.
Ellis said the population of Sumatran rhinos has dwindled dramatically due to humans encroaching on their land and poaching for their horns, which some Asian cultures believe carry healing powers although they consist of simple keratin, the same protein found in nails, hair and hooves.
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Still, the decision to breed siblings carries risks, including abnormalities, harmful genetic mutations and poor sperm quality in the offspring.
"In general, we are very much against the idea of breeding relatives, because we know that more often than not it causes problems," said David Wildt, head of the Center for Species Survival at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute.
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> I'm working with a list of lists, such as {{1,2}, {3}, {4,5,6}}, and I
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And to your other question, only about half of gun deaths are folks seeking to kill anyone but themselves so once you factor all those out, the whole death by gun numbers don't look all that bad given the population.
This is a discussion on Now is ABSOLUTELY the time to talk about gun control! within the The Second Amendment & Gun Legislation Discussion forums, part of the Related Topics category; Exactly...............!!!!!!!!!!...
And to your other question, only about half of gun deaths are folks seeking to kill anyone but themselves so once you factor all those out, the whole death by gun numbers don't look all that bad given the population.
"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the outcome of the vote." ~ Benjamin Franklin
This does seem a more appropriate place to carry the conversation from the other thread containing the news of the horrific shooting. Seems like the topic was shifting to an emotional debate that didn't really belong there.
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This is one major screaming pet peeve of mine, the constant use of the term "gun violence" and the incessant demand for gun control when the problem is the CRIMINALS. Once we have criminal control there will be no need of so-called gun control. The lame stream media is constantly blaming the gun where the real problem is the criminal behind the gun. We need to constantly remind the media that they are broadcasting falsehoods and when we hear such fallacies brought up in conversation to redirect it to the criminals rather than to the gun.
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As the social engineers come out to tweak laws to move society away from its corruption or closer to an enforced Utopia, maybe it is about inanimate objects. And practical adaptation. They cry for more control of access to guns in spite of the fact that CT's laws worked as well as possible to limit access but did not prevent a murder and theft of firearms. Of concessions on Constitutional rights, on things like magazine capacity for the honest, law-abiding masses, on a broken mental health system to prevent any potentially violent lunatic from going over the edge, and all these laws to engineer society. As if someone has a social answer to an individual terrorist act.
How about we give training and drilling a chance? It works with fire as no child has been killed in a school fire in over half a century. How about we beef up the glass that the psycho shot out to gain entrance to the school? Isn't that a lot more efficacious than another attempt at engineering society?
Security is only as good as its weakest link. And as far as security against a terrorist, laws are about the weakest link. Somehow, I think that the founders had a great sense of this and did not look for security from the top down but expected and protected and encouraged self-sufficiency. And I think that it's a real tragedy if we lose that.
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when the intervention of society... may be too late to prevent an injury.
Think of this.
A carpenter is building say ..a wooden box. If youll hang with me here Im going somewhere with this.
OK .So, he builds a wooden box. It is suppose to be evenly square, but it isnt, it is obscenely off kilter, out of whack, and very oblong butt-ugly.
Do you blame the tools the carpenter used? Is the pencil he used in his hand to draw a crooked line at fault? And is the saw he held in his hand at fault for cutting a crooked cut? Or is it the carpenters fault because he didnt follow proper procedure?
If there are already restrictive gun laws in place that prohibit someone from using a gun to commit a crime, or that restricts someone from legally obtaining or from owning or even simply possessing a gun and yet they still do, do you blame the gun laws? If you pile on more restrictive gun laws, will more gun laws stop someone whom has no regard for any excising gun laws at all in the first place follow any more new, more restrictive guns laws?
Take for the sake of augment Chicago < sorry windy city>. It was or still is VERY illegal to even have a gun in your house there. Yet there are houses there that do. People within the city limits of Chicago are in fear for their lives to simply walk the streets in some areas of Chicago because of the gun violence in an area where it is totally against the law to simply have a gun in your possession, yet there are people who do.
How much more restrictive can any gun law be?
You cant, if I am correct, even buy any bullets anywhere, with in the State of Illinois, without a permit!
How much more restrictive can a gun law be?
And yet Chicago is over run with illegal firearms and you want to make more gun laws more restrictive? The ones in place now do not work.
Please someone tell me how much more restrictive can you make a law then one that states: YOU CAN NOT LEGALLY OWN OR POSSESS A GUN WITHIN CHICAGO'S CITY LIMITS?
If someone is DUI and they kill someone while driving drunk do you blame the car and the booze or the driver behind the wheel? We already have laws prohibiting that and yet, there are still people not only doing it, but some get off with just a slap on the wrist! If Im not mistaking, more people are killed by drunk drivers then by firearms? So lets outlaw cars and all types of alcoholic beverages too.
So now some will say: Well that is comparing avocados to walnuts.
Well the premise is the same. Someone committed an illegal act and they killed someone. Are you going to try to tell me that the sorrow of the parent's of any 5-yr old child is any less hard to cope with because they were run down by a drunk driver, then that of the parent's of those children killed in the school shooting in Connecticut?
Those that are 2A Right avocets are not going to be able to ever reason in any ways shape or form with the antis period! Lets just hope that our law makers have enough sense to know when to leave well enough, somewhat alone! It is a no win situation for either side.
Just like with that carpenter, any tool in the wrong hands isnt to blame; its the hands that it is in at the use of that time.
And taking any of those tools out of circulation isnt going to stop crooked lines from being cut!
There is no easy answer or ways of means, to explain that to any of the antis either. Because they do not want to hear it! They rant and rave it is our way or the highway. I'm guessing that the 2A Rights side is willing to listen though and I'm sure most if not all agree with reasonable restrictions such as those now in place. But, flat out banishment will not work.
Now then let us all get back on track, and go back to working to save the financial train were all on, which is about to go over the cliff, and let the poor people victimized by the horrid event in Connecticut, morn in peace!!!
no, I'm not calling for such a thing, but you get my point. Local gun laws are kinda useless when surrounding states have much looser laws. Only national laws make a difference.


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Russia threatens to make Ukraine prepay for gas.
Russian Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev suggested that Russia demand prepayment from Ukraine for the natural gas it supplies, since the neighboring country already owes $2.2 billion for previous supplies. President Vladimir Putin, however, replied that consultations should be held first, "considering the complex situation in which Ukraine finds itself and our unfinished negotiating process with the EU." This is typical Putin: His actions, such as the annexation of Crimea and the destabilization of Ukraine's southeastern regions, are a major reason for the "complex situation." Among other things, starting this month, Russia has raised the price of gas for Ukraine from $268.5 to $485.5 per 1000 cubic meters, more than European Union customers pay. Ukraine intends to stop buying Russian gas for now and negotiate the price. Both sides know, however, that the issue is political and the future of Russian gas supplies is linked to a much broader deal that will determine relations between Russia, Ukraine and the EU post-Crimea.
British minister resigns after over claiming expenses.
U.K. Culture, Media and Sport minister Maria Miller resigned after a parliamentary watchdog told her to repay $9,700 in expenses she had over claimed on her mortgage in 2008 and 2009. Miller was also told to apologize -- and made a 30-second formal apology that angered many in parliament. Prime Minister David Cameron defended Miller and wanted her to stay in her job, and that is likely to damage his standing with the public ahead of the European Parliament elections in May: A poll showed that 62 percent of Britons thought he had handled the affair "badly" and 32 percent "very badly." In the end, finance minister George Osborne apparently prevailed on Cameron to let Miller go, because the scandal over her expense account had become a major distraction for the Conservative government. The word "distraction" even figured in her resignation. She was not convicted of any conscious wrongdoing: It was just that the media's pursuit of the story was so relentless that there was no other option for Miller but to step down. This is a very European case of public opinion mattering more than the facts.
Hollande completes leadership reshuffle.
French President Francois Hollande is said to hate firing people. After his Socialist Party's resounding defeat in recent municipal elections, however, he has radically reshuffled the cabinet, and now has also replaced his chief of staff. He has brought his classmate Jean-Pierre Jouyet to the Elysee Palace from the finance ministry. Jouyet is not only a close friend of the president who "speaks Hollande fluently", in the words of an insider, but also an experienced, accomplished civil servant who knows the French bureaucracy well and knows how to manage it. In addition to the key appointment, Hollande also revealed the list of 14 new junior ministers. With all the frantic activity looking as if this were the beginning, not the middle of Hollande's presidential term, it might seem the famously indecisive French leader is out of his comfort zone. In fact, he is trying to recreate it by bringing into government people he knows well, such as another classmate Michel Sapin, the finance minister, and ex-wife Segolene Royal, the environment minister. What they intend to do together, however, may be very much like what the previous lineup did: Make mild, slow changes while insisting the EU should get off France's back about its high budget deficit.
German authoritiesreturn confiscated art to Nazi dealer's son.
Cornelius Gurlitt, 81, the son of a prominent art dealer to the Nazis, is getting his collection of 1280 paintings, drawings and sculptures back. The collection, which includes works by Picasso, Matisse and major German expressionists, was discovered two years ago when German authorities suspected Gurlitt of tax evasion and searched his apartment in Munich. Investigators confiscated the art, suspecting much of it was Nazi loot. Gurlitt, who had lived off the collection and loved nothing else in his life, fought the confiscation and eventually succeeded in making a deal with the prosecutors. According to the deal, a special government task force will have a year to determine which of the artworks had been stolen by the Nazis and who stood to inherit them. Gurlitt agreed to hand over those works, though he was not legally obligated to do it. What with the handover and the war of claims that is already unfolding, it will be years before the public is allowed to see the enormous collection. In fact, it may never be displayed in its entirety. That is grossly unfair: An exhibition should have been a condition of any deal.
Deutsche Bank to raise top managers' base salaries.
Deutsche Bank is considering raising the base salaries of its management board members by more than a third in response to EU regulations capping bankers' bonuses at twice their fixed salary. The raise will mean that the salaries of the co-chief executives, Anshu Jain and Juergen Fitschen, will increase by about $1.3 million a year. If they receive twice the base in variable compensation for 2014, they will actually make more than they did last year, when they made $3.17 million each in salary and $7 million each in bonuses. Deutsche Bank's proposed plan highlights the problems of the bonus cap: In the end, it will lead to top bankers' making more money in bad years. Regulators should be more interested in the variable pay of mid-level executives at investment banks, which sometimes exceeds their base pay by a factor of 15, encouraging these largely unknown people to take huge risks.
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hey guys i am very new to the sport, i have gone 3 times now and i enjoyed it alot. So i figured that it was time to buy my own set up. So i was looking around on ebay for a board and i found a m3 discord size 152 came with flow amp9 bindings and i payed 200 for it. not sure if thats a good price but thats realy not my concern. Since its a since i have help a 152 and it came up to my lip i figured that would be the right board size for me what i didnt know is that weight was a factor i weigh about 180 and im scared that i made the wrong decision. Will this board be fine for me or will it split under my feet? id apreciate it if any one could help me out thank you. here is the link to the board i purchased
eBay: 2005 M3 snowboard with flow bindings (item 280072857380 end time Jan-21-07 16:15:43 PST)
can any one help me?
How tall are you? Just by your weight I would say it's way to small for you, 'tough they say you should start with smaller board, but I'm not the person that knows best about this, kirkwood will answer you eventually ;)
Anyway... hate the bindings, bad choice there...
im kind of short i think im 5'5 maybe 5'6 so yeah i mean the thing isnt gonna break underneath me right and i only chose the bindings cause they look easy to get into and save me some time at the top of the hill i guess that was a newb move but yeah is the board a peice of crap to or is that not bad and did i get ripped off paying 200 for all of it?
That's bad thinking, you should not go for the easiest, but for something with quality, the time you think you'll win at the top of the hill you will loose with other problems you'll have with that bindings, but... try and see, than I want to know if you think the same way ;)
You are as tall as I am and I ride a 151, and I weigh 140, not to mention I'm a girl. What can I say, if I were you I would check before I buy, not after. But, since you can not turn back now, I hope you fit good with the board and enjoy it. Don't worry that much, I've seen friends of mine riding with shorter boards and with goofy feet being regular, that went pretty well :laugh:
As for the board, I can't say anything, I never heard of that brand, we don't have it here in Portugal, so I don't know if it's good or bad, wait for someone more experient to reply to you. But, from what I see, I would never get things from that brands but, $200 is not bad for board and bindings in second hand. It will certainly work for you to play a little and have some fun, when you see it sucks just buy good stuff, that kind of money you spent for the gear is the money you are saving in rentals for the season, so next season, if you get better and really like the sport, buy new one, BUT ASK FIRST, you can find great deals when you search in the right places and ask the right people.
Good luck with your new equipment ;)
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u can ride it, but in the deep stuff u will have to put all Ur weight on Ur back leg
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