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Thursday, July 31, 2008
Meet The Final Table 009: Peter Eastgate
A lot of you out there have asked me who I think is most likely to win the whole crate of kippers this Thanksgiving Season, and as tempting as it is for me to speculate, I must demur. I can't play favorites, it wouldn't be fair to the others, especially not to Darus Suharto, who doesn't have a prayer.
Godspeed to them all.
Name: Peter Eastgate
Age: 37
Occupation: Hero.
Nickname: "Galahad."
Poker Style: Pure. Strong. Brave. True.
Card Capper: A lock of his fair lady's hair, sealed by the grateful tears of a consumptive orphan.
Favorite Country Song: If I Can't Be Number One In Your Life, Then Number Two On You,by Lorleena Smitty.
Brief Bio: Peter is the best person anybody will ever know. He eats organic honey and craps gold nuggets. He rides around the world astride his mighty steed, Bruce, helping any people who need it, standing up for the little guy, pulling himself up by his own bootstraps, pulling the little guy up by the little guy's bootstraps, making bootstraps for the bootstrap-less, helping kittens out of trees, helping baby birds back into trees, helping trees see themselves for the forest, and helping forests pay their mortgages before foreclosure. It's what he does. He cannot tell a fib, though he can run a mighty bluff. He can ford a river, jump a canyon, rope a steer, bench press an ostrich, roast a fine and tasty brisket, and teach a woman how to love. He can't cure cancer, but he can rough it up a little.
Tales about his good deeds are endless. Once he came across an old lady whose family farm was about to be foreclosed by an evil corporation that wanted to put up a strip mall on the spot. As the villains twisted their mustaches in vexation, they watched as Peter Eastgate rode up and, without a thought to his own safety, used his own funds to put that old woman in the finest nursing home available.
Another time, he came upon an Oklahoma town stricken by drought. Nobody could find a well, no matter how they tried, and the crops were drying up. They didn't have anything to wash with, and feared they'd have to leave their town or die of thirst. Peter Eastgate came into that dusty town one summer evening, and told them so many first-rate knock-knock jokes that they forgot their troubles for a spell. Afterward, they saw he'd eaten most of their fresh fruit, but comedy is hungry work.
I tell you what, buddy. If he ever teams up with the A-Team, the forces of petty cruelty and mendacity had better watch their backs.
Fun Fact: If Peter Eastgate wins the tournament, he is going to give it to you. That's right, you. Because he loves you, that's why.
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Meet The Final Table 008: Kelly Kim
"He's currently running a completely made-up set of "bios" on the WSOP November Nine."
What??! Are you for real? This is pretty hard to chew and even harder to swallow. I think I've been clear from the start that every minute mote of this is gospel. These men are my teachers, my schoolchums, my running buddies. I know them, I know their stories, and I'm going to tell the world about them, even if the powers-that-be tsk-tsk me to death. I even had to burn ESPN to the ground to protect myself and to insure your ability to read about these guys who made the final table. I suppose this assumption of Al's is based on some of the more colorful details in these biographies, but I can't help that, people. I do not embellish; I merely report.
Again, and I'm telling you for the last time. These are the Daves I know, I know. These are the Daves I know.
Name: Kelly Kim
Age: 22
Occupation: Internet Pro, Student, Scrimshander.
Nickname: "Ahab."
Poker Style: Tight-aggressive. When he's aggressive, he's very very aggressive. But when he's tight, he's horrid. He makes Scandinavians nervous. Scandinavians also make him nervous, but that's another story and has to do with herring soaked in lye.
Card Capper: A bust of Stu Ungar carved from a whale's tooth.
Favorite Country Song: Mama Get A Hammer (There's A Fly On Papa's Head), by Digger-Doug Dale.
Brief Bio: Kelly is the youngest of the nine final tablists (he is also the only one with two girl's names, but let's just let that one slide). I used to baby-sit for his younger siblings when he was a high school freshman. Even then he was 8-tabling Party and crushing. He's never played an MTT online before, sticking strictly to cash. Until now he's been completely unknown in the poker world, but famous in trailer parks and nursing homes across the nation, not to mention anywhere in Dollywood or Graceland, for his art.
He's used $475,082 of his online winnings to purchase tons of fossilized whalebone, into which he carves meticulous shapes, mainly of characters from old sitcoms. His Mama's Family whalebone retrospective fetched a record price on QVC. He's carved a scrimshaw replica of every sweater Bill Cosby ever wore. He did a life-sized A-Team out of a blue whale's ribs. He's carved every one of Rachael's hair styles. He did one of Sanford (sans Son) faking "the big one", and every individual Redd Foxx whisker is articulated as clearly as the blades of grass on God's own lawn. The work on the suspenders alone . . . why, he must have sweat blood to get the effect he wanted. Clearly, this is a kid with the determination and patience to win it all.
The other thing about Kelly: He can't jump. No vertical whatsoever. The kid can't clear a stick of gum. I don't know if this will matter in heads-up play, but it's something to think about when you're placing prop bets.
Fun Fact: Kelly will be protested in November not only by Greenpeace, who takes issue with his medium of choice, but also by the Screen Actor's Guild, for use of images without proper approval, and by the nit-picking standards committee of his gated community, which believes that he is in the bylaws forbid him from painting his mailbox whalebone white. They also have a problem with the 43 foot high pile of whale remains in his front yard. And whale remains aren't even mentioned in the bylaws, anywhere. What a bunch of bottle-noses.
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Meet The Final Table 007: Ivan Demidov
Name: Ivan Demidov
Age: 214
Occupation: Ninja, U.S. Presidential Candidate
Nickname: Strangely, "Ivan Demidov" is a nickname. The man's real name is Chip-Slick Slim Buddy-Ace, so you can see why he just sticks with the sobriquet. Call him by his given name and you might just get an ashiko in your jugular.
Poker Style: Surfs the crest of variance's wave. Sucks out way more often than most.
Card Capper: Nothing but a firm glare and a poker chip.
Favorite Country Song: How Can I Miss You If You Won't Go Away? , by Sandy Sun.
Brief Bio: Ivan trained me at UC Berkeley in the deadly art of the ninja, and he certainly made an impression on the whole class. In fact, he killed all but two of us. Cadaverous in appearance, mercurial in nature, and deadly as month-old sushi, Ivan Demidov resides in a short castle on a tiny island just north of South Padre in Texas with his pet Komodo Dragon, Steve, and his major domo, Beatrice, who makes a delicious quiche and assists Ivan with housekeeping, appointments, and light killing.
Born in the early 1800's in Philadelphia, Ivan has preserved himself through diet and meditation, and also he might be lying about his age. Don't tell him you suspect tomfoolery, though. He'll cut you, I promise. He's an old guy, but he can still run up a building and put a sai in your eye.
Every four years, Ivan runs for president as the official nominee of the Ninja Party. They favor elimination of taxes on payments for assassinations, incentives for grappling hook investment, a repeal on the embargo on throwing stars, chigiriki, and neko-te. They also favor open markets, a strong military, mandatory stealthiness for schoolchildren over the age of twelve, solar and wind development, and, of course, the liberal use of pirates in medical experiments.
In 2004, he got 35 votes, and he hopes that his run in the WSOP will allow him to improve upon that record.
Fun Fact: Ivan likes to knit.
Monday, July 28, 2008
Meet The Final Table 006: 'David' Chino 'Rheem'
Then Dennis emailed me, saying that none of the stuff I said was true at all, and that he'd never met me, and that he'd certainly never overthrown the government of Antigua. He was acting really angry. He'd even created a completely different email address to complete the ruse. What a clown.
Just another example of the silliness I have to put up with for bringing you the truth unvarnished.
Name: "David" Chino "Rheem"
Age: 54
Occupation: Circus Freak Talent Scout
Nickname: "Mister."
Poker Style: Tight for hours, and then, suddenly, drunkenly, violent.
Card Capper: The world's smallest woman (14" tall).
Favorite Country Song: You're the Reason Our Kids Are So Ugly, by Pappa T. Coleslaw
Brief Bio: Chino is a small, neat, and unassuming man, and you'd little suspect that he's the most respected finder of human oddities in North America. He was born into the life. His mother was an acrobat and his father was a clown, and he is the great-great-grandnephew of the legendary "freak" Zip the Pinhead.
His profession aside, he has in private life all but rejected his roots in the business of show. He cultivates the image of a man of taste and refinement, serves as a judge of note at vodka tastings, competes in amateur bullfighting tournaments and is a chef of great skill. He enjoys entertaining at his villa, Italian opera, philately, and pheasant hunting. He can tie his own bow tie while blindfolded. He grooms his thin hair with a mustache comb. He almost never blinks. He is the veteran of 28 transcontinental balloon expeditions.
Chino travels the world seeking primo exotics, following leads and meeting with royalty and peasant alike. He's very precise; only the finest freak will do. He rejected a 20" little person once for having bad ankles. He's found a four legged boy in Mongolia, a worm girl in Hanoi, bearded ladies galore in Bavaria, a man with an eyeball for a head in the Tennessee foothills, and he is personally responsible for the signing of Alex Rodriguez to the New York Yankees.
They even say he once found a real live gnome. Pointy red hat and all. It's impossible to verify, but, once you know the rumor, it is equally impossible not to be unnerved when you take lunch on the patio of his house. He has an immense garden, and his collection of gnomes is impressive. There are perhaps more than a thousand clay gnomes peeking from every rose bush and bramble, and you'll never know if one set of eyes aren't watching you.
Fun Fact: Chino can hold 104 Necco Wafers in his mouth simultaneously, a record he currently holds with the good people at Guinness. He tried the same trick on Day Four with his chips and was hit with a three-orbit penalty (it should be noticed that Doyle Brunson has had 3 poker chips tucked into each cheek since 2003 without penalty).
Sunday, July 27, 2008
Meet the Final Table 005: Darus Suharto
Thank you for bearing with me in my week-long absence. Please understand that this lacuna in my posting was very, very, very, very, very fun. Necessary! I meant necessary!
As you know, I was amazed to discover a fortnight ago that the entire final table of the 2008 Main Even of the WSOP was made up of my friends and acquaintances. I know! Unbelievable! Because of this extraordinary confluence, I did what any responsible and decent human being who was trying to make a quick buck would have done: I started publishing unembellished and true profiles of them, the better to inform the poker community at large, or at least to inform all the people who read my blog, by whom I mean, Pete.
But soon my altruism led me into a morass of danger and ugliness. Shadowy entities threatened me first with legal action, then with bodily harm, and finally with grisly death for me and my family. Upon investigation, it became clear to me that ESPN, fearing the damage I would do to the false narrative they wished to foist upon the nine finalists, had put a significant price on my head. And that's why I had to go underground for all of last week, trusting only on my wits, my millions of dollars, my rugged good looks, my near-encyclopedic understanding of all makes and calibers of deadly weapons and explosives, and my decade's training in black ops elite counter-espionage assassin ninja school at UC Berkeley.
Now I have finished what business I had with the Worldwide Leader, and I'm quite pleased to report that my victory has been absolute. Nothing but a smoldering crater marks the spot which once was the turbid town of Bristol, Connecticut. Kenny Mayne has sworn fealty to me and promised a mighty tribute each year in cash, beef jerky, and play poker chips on ESPN.com's poker room. Bill Simmons has agreed to only print my letters in his Mailbag for the next seven years, and to never write about poker ever again. Stuart Scott has signed away both his lazy eye and his "Boo-ya" to me.*
And so, finally, it's over. I and my family have been put beyond the reach of that nefarious network, forever. I'm free to finish delivering to you, as promised, the nine true human faces behind the hype that has already begun to foment from the media moss like so many poisoned mushrooms. Therefore, today, and every day for the rest of this week, I'll be bringing you the triple truth, Ruth, and that should finish us up for the final table.
* I will, of course, put "Boo-ya" in escrow, ensconced in a safe deposit box, where it will never bother anybody ever again. You are quite welcome.
Name: Darus Suharto
Age: 34
Occupation: Stuntman, Elementary School Teacher.
Nickname: "Mildred Massachusetts."
Poker Style: Darus actually isn't yet aware that he is playing poker. He thinks he is playing a Euchre variant called "Oopsie Dingus", and is operating under the assumption that Ylon Schwartz has been his playing partner since halfway through Day 5. I would assume somebody will tell him before November. If nobody else does, I will.
Card Capper: Darus just rests his head on the table, which includes his cards. Good enough.
Favorite Country Song: Dropkick Me, Jesus, Through the Goalposts of Life, by Bobby Bare
Brief Bio: Darus is one of the toughest dudes in the world. You cannot hurt him. Don't even try it. Better men than you have dented their sledge hammers, bent their front bumpers, and made their brand new brass knuckles cry 'uncle.' He's one of guys they use in the movies whenever they want to drop somebody off of a building.
Don't believe the talk about safety nets and CGI, etc. It's all been unionized since the 1940's, back when there were no special effects technology or precautionary measures, and as the Forties is the decade when the rules got drafted, the practice thereof has not budged so much as a Moorish menhir ever since. So, even if the studio uses CGI, they have to pay union fees just the same as if they'd dropped somebody for real. They even had to cough it up for union stunt work on The Simpsons Movie. Sometimes if the studio is in a pinch, they'll drop a dummy, such as Dustin Diamond or Cory Haim, but even so Darus gets paid anyway. Pretty sweet gig if you have the pain threshold for it.
Darus gets all the building drops in the Midwest territory, so whenever they are shooting in Chicago or the Twin Cities or even Bad Axe, Michigan, Darus is the guy they call, unless the person being dropped goes through a window of some kind. They've got another guy to get thrown through windows. Daris actually prefers working Bad Axe to Chicago, where the tallest building is a mere two-and-a-half stories. After they dropped him off the John Hancock building the first time, he couldn't remember anything that started with the letter "T" for a while. The second time, he couldn't poo for sixteen months. It's tough stuff, even for somebody as rugged as Darus, but that's why he's paid the big bucks. His current hobbies are drooling while staring off into the middle distance, and stroking a tiny piece of chamois cloth, which feels so nice and soothing on his palms.
He likes poker, mainly for the felt tables. They're so soft.
He's one of my oldest chums. I've known him since 2nd grade. I hope he wins, because he plans to use some of the money to buy a new spine and a reinforced skull.
Fun Fact: Much like known pros such as "Skittery" Phil Laak and David "David" Williams, Darus played Hungry Hungry Hippos for years before finding prominence in the poker world. He is a star on the professional Hungry Hungry Hippos tour, where he's won over $14,000 and a lifetime supply of S'mores.
Friday, July 18, 2008
Meet The Final Table 004: Scott Montgomery
I'm not going to even disclose what state I am in at this point. I may even be abroad. I am typing this on a disposable laptop with an encrypted ISP. I'm destroying it as soon as I hit "Send."
It was ESPN. I should have known ESPN was behind this from the start. But they made a big mistake. They let me get away. Now I get supplies. Now I take the fight to them. This ends on my terms.
I'll be back in a week with the rest of the profiles of my friends and acquaintances at the final table.
Name: Scott Montgomery
Age: 40
Occupation: Telephone psychic, fortune cookie poet.
Nickname: "Throatwobbler Mangrove" aka "Hicky Burr", aka "Skinny"
Poker Style: Trappy; will shoot angles at every opportunity.
Card Capper: A fortune cookie, which he'll eat only if he wins the whole thing.
Favorite Country Song: If I Had Shot You When I Wanted To I'd Be Out Of Jail By Now, by Gordon Earl Bainbridge III
Brief Bio: Scott Montgomery is the kindest predator you'll ever be eaten by. He puts in 12 hours every day on the phones, except for Saturday, dispensing platitudes disguised as supernatural insight. His voice is the gentle purr of the car filling your garage with exhaust. He can get your social security number from you like a parson picking a pauper's purse. You won't even know you gave it. He'll give you great advice, though. Save your marriage. Get the girl. Improve your love life, or your golf swing, or mend your relationship with your children. Then he'll slash your credit rating and buy himself a car. He stole my identity once, but he didn't like it and gave it back. There was gum under the seat. He's a slob.
On Saturdays, though. . . that is when his soul sings. That's when he takes the most heart-rending, the most beautiful, the most compelling of his client's stories, and crafts beautiful sparse poems about them for a fortune cookie magnate out of Chicago. His services are in high demand, and he is careful not to give away detail that would cause him to be caught telling tales out of class.
Once a night, however, he just can't help himself, and he throws a poison paper grenade in there, something dark and too specific. You don't know if, following a repast of General Tso's Chicken, you'll open your little twisted biscuit to read:
She knows it was you.
You're not fooling anybody.
Meet me at the corner of Mulberry and Swanson. Wear a white silk hat so I'll know it is you. I have your money.
or simply.
They're coming.
His greatest fear is that one day he'll get amnesia and unwittingly steal his own identity. Such a weird guy.
Fun Fact: Montgomery goes antiquing obsessively. He can often be found at the flea market, buying, oh, just about anything. Living room, bedroom, dinette. Oh yeah, you can find him, at the market -- I'm talking 'bout flea market -- Montgomery, flea market. It's just like a mini-mall. Hey hey. Flea market. Montgomery. It's just like . . . it's just like, ah, a mini-mall.
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Meet The Final Table 003: Ylon Schwartz
I am writing this from an undisclosed motel with free (or at least unprotected) wifi. To make a long story short, I am on the lam from shadowy forces in the poker power structure.
I woke up this morning and peeked through the shades on a whim. I'm not given to paranoia but the lawyer with his mafia bodyguard yesterday spooked me. What I saw when I made that fateful peek chilled my blood. There was a yellow car with Harrah's Entertainment decals on the doors parked across the street from my house. Inside the car was the unmistakable figure of Lon McEachern, wearing a fake mustache (possibly borrowed from Norman Chad) and holding binoculars. As I gazed, I saw the rumors of a sniper rifle on the passenger seat. I never poured milk on my cereal, but instead hustled my family out the back door.
Let me be blunt. The organizing bodies behind the World Series of Poker is trying to take me out. To silence me. All because I happen to know each and every member of the final table of this year's main event, and am giving my readership the real story about them, unvarnished and without pancake makeup. Apparently the threat of the public seeing these players as human beings, blackheads and all, instead of as mighty warriors, conflicts enough with the interests of the illuminati that I have become a liability and an intended casualty.
I could stop, but we've gone too far now. I'm going to keep moving for a week or more, but when (if?) I find I safe place, I will return to give you these profiles. The world ought to know the truth. It must.
Godspeed, my friends.
Name: Ylon Schwartz
Age: 29
Occupation: Pig iron seller; thief.
Nickname: Yoln.
Poker Style: Passive-aggressive. You may take his chips, but he'll give you a serious guilt trip about it.
Card Capper: The world's smallest manhole cover, pried from the sidewalk in front of a roach motel.
Favorite Country Song: You're The Reason Our Kids Are So Ugly, by Lindylou Biddinger.
Brief Bio: Ylon has been a sort-of-friend of mine since grade school, and still crashes on my couch whenever one of his girlfriends is trying to find him while holding a hammer or worse. He's that friend. You know the one; seven kinds of fun and eight kinds of trouble. He was kicked out of our middle school for arranging a hamster-fighting ring for gambling purposes. Those hamsters were no good after that; you can't feed a hamster pellets when it has the taste for blood.
He bummed around, finally dropping out of technical college two weeks in after he got his soldering gun privileges revoked for malicious tomfoolery and horseplay with a motherboard after curfew. It was nothing but one hustle after another from there. He finally settled into thievery when he found that he could get top dollar for scrap iron. He has incredibly strong fingers and the arms of an ape, so manhole covers are mere Frisbees to him. One incredible October fortnight, he filched every single manhole in Norwitch, Vermont. He moves from city to city and leaves significant potholes in his wake, and if you suddenly taste sewer water in the middle of your walk, it may just be courtesy of this fellow.
He is the first person in WSOP history to have used raw iron to buy into the Main Event (though Phil Hellmuth used it for a $2000 NLHE Event buyin back in 1987).
Fun Fact: Ylon has 7,934 patents pending, none of them for actual inventions. He's tried to patent solar energy, the idea of holding things in tubes, inertia, gravity, currency as a concept, urination, flatulence, pork pie hats, sidewalks, and himself. When you meet him, he'll present you with his bill for royalties for making use of his intellectual property, which is why the $9 million first place prize seems like peanuts to him.
Also, he's a crazy person.
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Meet The Final Table 002: Craig Marquis
Thus, I'm bringing you the full list of final table-ists, the inside scoop from a man who knows them.
However, a dark side has developed. A vicious lawyer with a face like a melted ice-cream scoop showed up on my front stoop at 8:00 AM sharp, and served me papers to cease and desist. Apparently my utterly true accounts have ruffled some feathers and don't jibe with the "story" that Harrah's Entertainment and ESPN want to "craft." They also claim that I am a "mental case" who is "making" stuff "up". I assure you, nothing can be further from the truth. Nevertheless, this lawyer seems like he means business. He had a Ukrainian bodyguard with him whose neck was riddled with prison tattoos and whose face crawled with dueling scars. I offered him some green tea but he just growled.
No matter. I mock danger and giggle at litigation. So here we go.
Name: Craig Marquis
Age: 72
Occupation: Animal wrassler, truck stop attendant.
Nickname: "Stenchy Pete"
Poker Style: Tighter than Greg LaMond's shorts.
Card Capper: A toe he shot off'n the woman he loved one night when there warnt no moon.
Favorite Country Song: I Wouldn't Take Her To a Dog Fight, Cause I'm Afraid She'd Win, by Prickles P. Sicking
Brief Bio: Craig Marquis was born in Hartford, CT with a silver spoon in his mouth, and another one in each ear. The doctor had never seen anything like it, but at least his parent were rich enough to pay for removal. His mother was heiress to the Schnoolty paper clip fortune and his daddy was a potato baron who moved them all to Idaho when Craig was just seven. Weeks later, the Depression had claimed every dime and his father had committed suicide by jumping from Boise's tallest building (two stories at the time, but there was a picket fence at the bottom) and his mother wandered off into the wilderness, leaving young Craig Marquis with nothing but his clothes and his teeth.
Luckily, Marquis was taken in by area survivalists, who fed him jerky and trained him in feats of strength by having him fight beasts for their amusement. He started off with larger squirrels and the occasional peevish prairie dog, but soon grew in strength, agility, and local fame, and by the time he was ten he could smack a stoat or beat a badger. At sixteen he "rassled" his first "ba'ar", and the rest was history, or would have been if history cared about near-feral teenagers who could take on large mammals.
Of course all this pugilism took its toll, and by the time I met him on a road trip up to the Northern Territories, Craig had lost an eye, a foot, and most of one thumb to his profession, but, as he will tell you, at least he still has most of his vertebrae. He deals Three Card Monte outside a truck stop outside of Gibbonsville and will fill your tank for you, or shine your bumper. You won't have to ask.
Fun Fact: Craig Marquis has a different toupee for every day of the week, each made from the pelt of a beast he's bested in mortal combat. For the final table, he's planning on wearing the crocodile skullcap.
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Meet The Final Table 001: Dennis Phillips
The stakes are high and the odds are pretty much exactly the same as they ever were, except if you are chasing a flush draw. It's been an incredible series, with an incredible amount of money at place, an incredible amount of media and public interest, and, of course, Norman Chad is incredibly annoying.
What is more incredible is that I know each one of the finalists personally! I know, I know, it's crazy. What are the odds? I know that over the next few months, there's going to be thousands and thousands of articles and talk show appearences and covers of cereal boxes and wind up dolls and Dancing With the Stars and affairs with Madonna and surprise guest sightings at the World Spelling Bee Championship (winning word: chthonic) and the Westminster Dog Show. It will be a whirlwind. Bigger than the North Carolina Hollering Contest, I'd warrant.
But right now, none of you know anything about them, which is a perfect opportunity for to introduce you to them with the inside poop. I've contacted each of them, and they've agreed that they'd like me to present their true bios before the press gets hold of them. In case it isn't obvious, all of these profiles are totally, totally factual.
I will be posting one a day, until the whole story is told.
Name: Dennis Phillips
Age: 64
Occupation: Former Perfume Girl, Cowpuncher, Global Sportsman, Needlepoint Template Designer
Nickname: "El Tornador"
Poker Style: Triple aggressive with elbow grease; protects his blinds by blinding you with a nail-gun (as a result, WSOP director Jeffery Pollack has stated that pneumatic tools will be disallowed at the table for the 2009 WSOP).
Card Capper: Dennis uses a puma. A live puma.
Favorite Country Song: Tequila Makes Her Clothes Fall Off, by Joe Nichols
Brief Bio: Born into extreme poverty in Po Biddy, Georgia, during World War II, Dennis Phillips lit out for the territories as soon as he could shave, and hitched West to seek his fortune. Upon discovering that there no longer were any territories, his disappointment was so great that he sold his banjo for a cruel sneer that he still keeps in a velvet lined box to this very day. He'll show it to you if you give him a fiver.
After a brief stint as a perfume girl behind the counter at Macy's department store in San Bernardino, ran cattle for a time before he made his fortune with a popular line of pornographic needlepoint templates. Dennis now travels the world with his pet shrimp, Oodles, playing all the world's sports and enjoying some of them. He's best known to his friends for an almost complete disregard for safety regulations, whether posted or implied.
Dennis Phillips first came to my attention when I was vacationing in Rio back in the winter of 1973 (the summer of cheese). He was staying in the same hotel as me, and had hired a speedboat for water-skiing. Dennis is a powerful wintertime skier, but he hadn't quite made the conversion to water as he insisted on wearing full cross-country gear. Nearly blinded a kid with his poles before it was done. I acted as his attorney in the legal action that proceeded, which happily ended with us both fleeing the country zipped into carry-on luggage.
Dennis owns a complete set of Alvin and the Chipmunks recordings, even the underground stuff. I think his interest stems from the fact that he actually sounds a lot like Theodore when he sings.
Fun Fact: Dennis once toppled the government of Antigua by accident. He was cricketing and, as he stepped to bat, sneezed with such a violent forward motion that he knocked the wicket-keeper into a coma. The guy turned out to be the prime minister. He was across the border enjoying pool drinks in Barbuda before he realized what he'd done. So he came back with plenty of rum, and soon all was forgotten.
Sunday, July 13, 2008
Warm-Up Exercise 003: C
C is for Cabinet Nesters. These wee trinkets are secreted in cabinet drawers, beneath your last pair of stockings, in the right pocket of forgotten trousers, or in the lining of your second-favorite cap. They are as smooth as marble and as light as cotton; intricate alabaster statues of the true love that might once have been and now never will be. On the base is inscribed the reason for the loss. Cabinet nesters cause sweaty madness and brain decay among those unlucky enough to read that inscription. It is unknown whose hand crafts them.
Friday, July 11, 2008
We Represent
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Warm-Up Exercise 002: B
Monday, July 7, 2008
Warm-Up Exercise 001: A
A good warm up should leave you wanting more, which is obviously the same point with a novel, except that a warm up only takes a few minutes.
Harlan Ellison once made a creature glossary and I think Edward Gorey has done the same. The idea is a creature for each letter of the alphabet. So, I'm stealing the idea. They can have it back when I'm done with it, though I may leave the gas tank empty, and Gorey is dead.
Anyway, here's a warm-up. There are obviously 25 more of these, so if you like them, yay! more coming! If you don't, you might want to take this opportunity do a headstand in a bucket of piranha.
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A is for Auntie Diluvian. Nobody in Elm's Oak is older. She lives in the Gingerbread Hotel, and can be reached at the last minute. Ring the bell at the lobby, and the rubber-legged concierge will show you up. She holds the secrets you haven't told yourself yet. Stay away from her unless you want to know the truth at a price higher than you are willing to pay. Auntie bakes strange spherical goodies coated in red chocolate that smell like yesterday and taste like youth. Eat one, and your best question will be answered. Eat two, and your fondest dream will come alive.
Don't eat three.
Saturday, July 5, 2008
Week 1
This week has been all about the gear-up. I'm perusing my first draft. I'm working on a plot synopsis. As a warm-up, I've written 2,000 words of a short story called "Running It Twice." It was going to be my BBT3 story until I realized there was no way I could be gone around now (and congrats to Tuscaloosa John for taking the prize). Now it's just my story, and who knows what I'll do with it. I like how it's come out so far, and I know where it's going. I'll finish it sometime soon, maybe tonight.
Donkavatar has kind of slowed, by which I mean it's totally dead. I'll give it some heavy plugging when the blogger tournaments get over their BBT hangover. But, if you want a custom avatar, and you are a donkey, go to Donkavatar!
I've updated the blogroll. If I comment on your blog or you comment on mine, or we've played a blogger tourny before, or if you just think I've forgotten you, hit me in the comments and I'll correct it forthwith.
More when there's more. Good luck to all our comrades in the Main Event!


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Chandra Grahan in April 2014 Not Visible in India – Chandra Grahan Time – Lunar Eclipse April 14 - 15, 2014
Chandra Grahan, partial Lunar Eclipse, will take place on April 14 - 15, 2014 but it is not visible in
India. According to NASA, the Chandra Grahan is a
Total Lunar Eclipse and will begin on the night of April 14, 2014 and end
during the early hours of April 15 (time) and is visible in United States, Canada,
England, South America, West Africa, New Zealand
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The Chandragrahan will be taking place between 9:58 PM on April 14 to 03:33 AM
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The specialty of this Grahan is that the moon will appear red in color.
Hindu calendars and Panchang have not marked the Chandragrahan on April 14, 2014. There is not need to follow any ritual in
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Chandra Grahan and Hindus
Usually during a Chandra Grahan, a fast (Upvaas) is observed by certain communities in Hindu religion. The fast begins about 9 hours before the beginning of Chandra Grahan.
People also take a bath in cold water and chant mantras dedicated to Lord Vishnu or Shiva like the Ashtakshara Mantra or Mrityunjaya Mantra. This is done whenever Surya and Chandra are under the influence of Rahu. Pregnant women chant the Santana Gopala Mantra.
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In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game game, rilmani are the exemplar race of the Concordant Domain of the Outlands. These outsiders represent true neutrality and focus on maintaining a balance throughout the multiverse.
They are the only beings (out of major deities) completely unhindered on the second level of magic cancellation near the Spire.
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Rilmani names are based on the alchemical sequence of metals. There is room for a seventh rilmani (stanach?) based on tin (stannum)
- Aurumach: (aurum, gold) The most powerful rilmani and the de facto leaders of the race.
- Abiorach: (a- bio: no life, maybe mercury) Agents that watch over the various elemental planes.
- Argenach: (argentum, silver) Maintain the Balance, particularly on the Material Plane.
- Cuprilach: (cuprum, copper) The spies and assassins of the rilmani.
- Ferrumach: (ferrum, iron) The countless minions of the rilmani.
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Northwestern Lehigh Athletic Director Jason Zimmerman was elected as the new District 11 chairman, replacing the retiring Jack Wabby, at the annual spring meeting on Wednesday at the Pottsville Club.
Zimmerman, the vice chairman, was voted to the position on an 11-7 vote over Whitehall Athletic Director Bob Hartman and district secretary.
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Lets send them all home
The Storming of the Winter Palace during the 1917 Russian revolution, as depicted in the film October.
Its the triumph of the web and the social media by Sergio Di Cori Modigliani
"Its the virtuous face of the Internet, its turning what makes sense, upside down. Its that silent civil revolution that is often pompously discussed, in an academic, statistical way, a high-tech way of selling stuff to young people and discounted stuff to everyone. Long live e-commerce.
Its the virtual world that influences the real world.
It imposes change because of how it is.
Its the defeat of the nostalgic reactionaries, of the Luddites, of those who hide behind the senescent cloak of oh yes when I was a lad because from this tiny massive victory- the so-called silent majority come out defeated, replaced for ever by the new chaos caused by the comic strips on Facebook, by the stolen quotes, by the bilious rancorous outbursts, shouted out, spat out in the spasmodic search for a Meaning: the new noisy cacophonous majority, the multicoloured and blundering lot that we all are.
To give us back a Meaning to our civil existence.
Its the silent revolution that the media mafia dont talk about and dont give credit to. Because they cannot.
Because they will not.
Because, if they were to do so, they would be signing their own documents of surrender, their inevitable retirement and their subsequent removal to the attic, beaten by the history of human progress.
According to them, according to the mummies, we are all populism.
Its what historians have always called popular outrage.
We will never again see these people in parliament: Scilipoti, Scajola, Belsito, Rutelli, Rosy Mauro and Alfonso Papa.
It was the anger of the people that sent them home.
Its been our bulimic anger that has forced the mummies to have electoral committees.
They are starting to understand that the count down has started for them.
They are starting to realise that we are sending them all home.
And this is just the beginning."
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"But of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God — and righteousness and sanctification and redemption — that, as it is written, 'He who glories, let him glory in the Lord.'"
Saturday, March 22, 2008
Why Does the Resurrection Make a Difference?
Lee Strobel discusses the evidence for and importance of the resurrection.
NKJ Romans 10:8-10 "8 But what does it say? "The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart" (that is, the word of faith which we preach): 9 that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation."
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How often would an investigative reporter have reason to visit mental hospitals? What is the percentage of patients in mental hospitals who claim to be God? I do not believe that Lee Strobel met a lot of people in mental hospitals who claimed to be God. I think he is just making that up for dramatic effect.ReplyDelete
First,I think what Strobel actually said was, "As a skeptic I said I met a lot of people in mental hospitals that I would cover as an investigative reporter who would claim to be God...."
Second, he is referring back to the kinds of things he said before he was a believer, "when he was a skeptic," so we might not want to press him too much on it now.
Third, I understand why you are suspicious, especially since my own dealing with mentally ill people has not been that there are a lot who think they are God. However, I don't have the years of experience reporting on such things that Strobel has had, and I would guess you don't either. At any rate, I don't see how you can be sure enough to openly accuse Strobel of lying.
Excellent short presentation supporting the resurrection.ReplyDelete


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Freezing temperatures may be putting a damper on your Easter egg hunt, but fear not, the peach crop is doing OK — at least so far.
Drew Echols, Jaemor Farms manager, said some early varieties are blooming, but even if a freeze this week killed all the open blooms at the Alto farm, they'd still be in great shape.
"Is it ideal? No. But it works," he said. "If we lost all the open blooms right now, we would still have a full 100 percent crop of peaches, it's just the fact that we've got a little bit less of a cushion going into the next three weeks, and really we've got to worry about the next three weeks."
He said the farm is at about 25 percent bloom now, with varieties like Flavorich, Ruby Prince and Rich Lady coming out first among the farm's 25 varieties.
That's right on schedule, he said, unlike last year where everything was blooming early.
"You want things to be on their normal schedule," Echols said.
Though they picked more peaches than normal this past season, those peaches were smaller.
And when the season starts earlier, it ends earlier, too, which isn't good for Jaemor.
"One of our bread-and-butter tickets is that we always run later than everybody else in the state of Georgia," he said.
"So a lot of your profit's made on the tail end of the crop. So with them finishing up earlier, that's not necessarily a good thing."
That leaves him more optimistic about this year's crop than last.
The concern for now is what may happen if the wind dies down.
Michael Wheeler, county extension coordinator for the UGA Cooperative Extension in Hall County, said that's what can cause problems for plants.
"When the wind stops, that's when the cold can really settle in, because cold air sinks, and that's when we get more of a freeze on plants," he said.
Many orchards, like Jaemor, use wind machines to prevent that problem, he added.
"You just do what you can do. Do we really ultimately affect the outcome? I don't know," Echols said with a laugh.
"It's in God's hands."
Wheeler said effects also depend on just how cold it gets and how long it stays that cold.
Many plants can withstand 32-, even 30-degree temperatures, but if it gets much lower, there could be issues.
Concerned homeowners can cover their plants with a cotton sheet; of course that only works if the wind dies down, Wheeler said.


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Metals industry left out of stock rally as product prices stay low
One sector that's missing the big run-up in stocks is the metals industry, including U.S. Steel Corp., Alcoa Inc. and others that have a Pittsburgh connection and stocks near 52-week lows.
Low metals prices, excess supply, high fixed costs, a decline in exports, and weakness in the all-important China market continue to form a bleak environment, driving shares of the largest domestically based producers down from highs reached as recently as January.
U.S. Steel's shares closed on Friday at $20.21 after reaching $26 in early January. Its 52-week high was $31.64 on March 19, 2012. Alcoa closed at $8.63, about where it has traded for most of the past 12 months after attaining a high of $10.60 last March.
The environment for both steel and aluminum is affected mostly by low prices for their products, said analyst Charles Bradford of Bradford Research in New York. The strength of the dollar is a factor as well "because it makes foreign companies much more competitive."
"We are concerned about the direction of the international marketplace at this point," said David Phelps, president of the American Institute for International Steel in Falls Church, Va., which represents steel importers and backs free trade in steel.
Exports in January compared with January 2012 declined by 14.6 percent, according to the institute.
"Steel exports declined to all regions in the year-to-year comparison as international economic conditions and steel-related demand sagged," said Phelps.
Anthony B. Rizzuto Jr., an analyst with Cowen Securities in New York, anticipates lower first-quarter profit forecasts. "We expect AK Steel, Nucor and Steel Dynamics to disappoint the market."
On Thursday, Nucor Corp. of Charlotte, the nation's largest steel producer by sales, cut its first-quarter forecast to about half of actual results of a year ago. It said earnings will range from 20 cents to 25 cents a share compared with a profit of 46 cents last year, because mills did not see their typical pickup in the first three months of the year.
"If Nucor has those problems, other companies will do worse," said Bradford. "I expect U.S. Steel to lose money; the question is how much."
Nucor closed at $46.60, down from its 12-month high of $48.23 on Feb. 14.
Despite continued challenges, U.S. Steel CEO John Surma said on Jan. 29 that he expects slightly better demand in the first quarter from makers of cars and other hard goods, as well as from offshore oil rig operators. U.S. Steel is the largest company by production.
Steel prices have remained low, even after price increases were announced last month, Rizzuto said.
In late January, asking prices for hot rolled coil steel were $630 a ton, Rizzuto said. The industry had just announced a $40-$50 per ton price increase and followed that with a similar increase in February. But prices are still about $630, he said. Hot rolled coil is a high-volume product used for auto bodies and major appliances like washing machines.
Weakness in China, the world's biggest customer, could weigh on the U.S. market, said Rizzuto, who has "hold" ratings on AK Steel, U.S. Steel, Nucor, Steel Dynamics and ArcelorMittal, the world's largest producer.
China started the year with production increases, but weak demand led to higher inventories and lower iron ore and steel prices. Chinese steelmakers at first were optimistic about government stimulus projects, but that was followed by doubts that demand would rise.
"A meaningful move lower in Chinese steel prices could prevent further United States price increases as imports become increasingly more economical," Rizzuto said.
The three largest producers — Nucor; U.S. Steel; and AK Steel Holdings Corp. of Middletown, Ohio — had mixed results in 2012.
U.S. Steel lost $124 million, including a loss of $353 million from the sale of U.S. Steel Serbia. AK Steel lost $1.03 billion as revenue fell 8 percent to $5.93 billion. Nucor earned $504.6 million.
One sign of improvement came on Friday from ArcelorMittal CEO Lakshmi Mittal at an investor presentation. He predicts a reasonable opportunity for a U.S. recovery despite low prices, according to Bradford, who attended the conference in New York.
John D. Oravecz is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. He can be reached at 412-320-7882 or email@example.com.


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The French-German European Campus of Sciences Po, established in 2000, offers a fundamental and pluridisciplinary curriculum in social sciences (history, economics, law, political science, sociology). It hosts 350 students (about one third of whom are currently spending their 3rd year abroad), who come from France and German-speaking countries, but also from other places: in all, 28 nationalities are represented. Courses are taught in three languages (French, German and English); students can also learn Arabic, Spanish, Swedish or Russian.
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"Using the buddy system, dedicated volunteers Chuck and Ginger make calls to get supporters fired up and ready to re-elect President Oba
"Using the buddy system, dedicated volunteers Chuck and Ginger make calls to get supporters fired up and ready to re-elect President Oba
Last Friday evening was no typical night at the Oakland office. We kept our doors open well into the night, welcoming new volunteers to
@BarackObama is ready for OFA_CA #SOlympics Fired up, ready to go! Let's do this! #Fellows2012 twitter.com/sammiam0211/st…— Samantha (@s
I woke up one morning, about three and a half years ago, to horrible pain. My face hurt so badly it felt like someone was cutting me op
Summer Organizer Rachel celebrating her 16th birthday in our LA field office Rachel will be too young to vote for President Obama this
The Crenshaw office is unique because it's not new. The storefront space served as the Los Angeles neighborhood's Obama campaign headqua
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When the President announced he was making our immigration system fairer and more just, he reaffirmed my decision to start working for t
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Our Oakland office is packed with volunteers, but there's still room for you! Come out today and make phone calls to battleground state
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April 27, 2009
The First 100
Rather than displaying a blasphemous painting comparing out Community Activist in Chief to Jesus Christ, a more fitting tribute to our having survived the first 100 days of this surreal nightmare might be posting a list of the Moonbat Messiah's first 100 mistakes.
Imagine how long the list will be before this is over.
On a tip from Burning Hot.
Posted by Van Helsing at April 27, 2009 8:03 AM
Two days before the 100th day, the Government is already broke. And China is pulling out of dollars and going into gold.
Posted by: Gregory of Yardale at April 27, 2009 8:08 AM
I see that list, and the reference to it, all over the net. Somehow, I think it is woefully incomplete and maybe even poorly composed, I would like to see a better list. Maybe I'll work on it, though I'm sure others would do it better.
Posted by: Eric at April 27, 2009 8:09 AM
Just plain Karma! All the hate the left dumped on Bush is coming back with a vengeance. Their messiah is a fool, only the most dense of the sheep try to deny it.
Posted by: TED at April 27, 2009 12:43 PM
There is one on that list that should have been combined with another F-up and another that happened durring his campaign. But still, that's a LOT of FUBARs!
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This latest update is aiming to address some concerns user have been having about data usage. Obviously streaming music uses data if you are on the go. For those on lower level data plans, that can cause quite an issue. Google has added a new setting to Play Music that now allows you to control the quality of the streaming music over your mobile network. Happily named  "Mobile networks stream quality". You can now change the settings from Low, Normal or High. Low being intended for on the go listening over your carrier if you have data limits and caps in place on your account. If you are on a new unlimited plan, or a grandfathered one, then you can feel free to hit the High quality streams and rack up those Gigabytes.
Not a bad update at all. You know how to get into the Play Store and update your apps, right? If you don't feel like going the LONG way, you can click the link below and pop straight to Google Play Music. While it is showing as updated today in the online Play Store, not all my devices are seeing it just yet. I wonder if they are using their staged roll out update process on this too. If you are just as impatient as i was, hit the APK links down below for the latest version.
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Kid Rock cancels Tennessee show
Usually when a singer cancels a show, you get a quick note from the promoter or hear about it on the radio. But it looks like Kid Rock really wanted to do the gig he was scheduled for in Knoxville, Tennessee on Wednesday.
He went on his Web site, saying he has taken "every shot and steroid" in an effort to get better in time to do the show. But he says despite his best efforts, his health has only "gone more downhill."
He hopes to be better in time for a show tonight in Memphis.
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Horror of Dracula
Adhering closer to the original tale than its successors, Horror of Dracula is one of the first color retellings of the classic vampire story. When Dr. Van Helsing arrives at Castle Dracula to discover his friend Jonathan's lifeless body, he sets out to find Jonathan's fiancee, Lucy, to give her the sad news. But it seems Dracula has already designated Lucy as his next prey.


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1Floating Pool in a River
The design team behind the impressive endeavor managed to exceed their $250K goal, raising a whopping $273,114 at the time of publication. These funds will go toward the construction of a Floating Lab -- a 35 by 35 feet pool where testing of the project's filtration system will take place. (Source | Via)
2To Put a TARDIS in Orbit
3Giant Paper Mache Suspended Brain
Imagine walking thru Black Rock City, or APOGAEA!, and out of the dust clouds appears a gigantic brain sculpture raised above the desert floor, seemingly floating above the ground, connected to the playa only by its brain stem. After all these years, has the playa finally developed a mind of its own?
The giant brain is constructed of paper mache with a small metal structure for support and is 9 1/2 feet long by 6 1/2 feet wide and 5 feet tall. It's hollow on the inside, and when raised it stands at 9 1/4 feet at its tallest point, with the spinal cord connected to the support structure and extending down to the ground. The paper mache will be weather sealed and painted. It will be tall enough to allow easy access for everyone from underneath, or inside the brain. (Source)
4Miley Cyrus Twerking Shirt
So, there goes another funded project by Daniel Bañaga. (Via)
5Let Snowden Fly
The campaign, aptly named "Fly Edward Snowden Fly," was started by Christian Honey, an Oxford University neuroscientist who hoped to raise money for Snowden's travel and legal costs, should he go to Venezuela, where he was offered asylum.
The campaign site included links to a variety of articles, all justifying the end goal of raising $200,000 by outlining limited flight options due to no-fly zones across Europe. (Via)
6Flying Bicycle
A pair of flight enthusiasts, John Foden, 37, and Yannick Read, 42, have devised a two-wheeled bike — christened the XploreAir Paravelo — that transforms into an aircraft. The British inventors say it is the world's first fully-functional flying bicycle. The machine can travel at speeds of up to 15 miles per hour on the road and 25 miles per hour in the air, reaching altitudes of up to 4,000 feet.
Foden and Read hope that at $16,000 the Paravelo will appeal to inner-city flight hobbyists, and believe that it may also be be useful as a "cost-effective aerial reconnaissance vehicle for forest rangers and border patrols."
The flying bicycle's inventors looked for support through Kickstarter but only raised approximately a fifth of their $78,000 goal. (Via)
7Remee Daydreaming Mask
Unbelievably, over 6,500 people were intrigued enough—or, hallucinating from lack of sleep—to raise $572,891 for the project. Their goal was only $35,000. (Source)
8Pi-Shaped Pie Pan
9Lionel Richie's Head
The creators started this ambitious and, frankly, odd public art project almost a year ago. Inspired by internet pop culture, their goal was to make an installation with which people could interact and talk. After gaining a little notoriety from their first Kickstarter fail, Josie and Rob da Bank offered to help. They've kindly set aside space at Bestival so that Lionel Richie's Head can pop up and say "Hello" to everyone for the first time.
The project not only met their pledged goal, but doubled it. Way to go, Lionel. (Source | Via)
10Watermelon Holder
Surprisingly, the project only attracted 6 backers.


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D'Angelo, Sinclair on NWSL teams' list
The NWSL announced 10 Canadian Women's National Team players, including goalkeeper Sabrina DAngelo, who helped the Western New York Flash capture last years title, will be subsidized this season.
"We are very appreciative of and excited by Canada Soccer's continued support of the league as well as the meaningful impact their players are having on and off the field," NWSL commissioner Jeff Plush said. "It is also important for the sustained growth of our league to have the top players from around the world."
DAngelo made three saves as the final was decided with a penalty kick decision over the Washington Spirit, the Flash becoming the North Carolina Courage after the season.
Also on the list in Portlands Christine Sinclair, Canada captain and all-time leading scorer (165 goals).
Forward Nichelle Prince and goalkeeper Kailen Sheridan were made available for selection in the NWSL College Draft. Sheridan (Clemson University) was selected No. 23 overall by Sky Blue FC and Prince (Ohio State) was selected No. 28 overall by the Houston Dash. Josée Belanger and Kaylyn Kyle will be available in the Distribution Draft.
Canadian subsidized players for the 2017 NWSL season:
Boston Breakers: Allysha Chapman
Chicago Red Stars: None
Houston Dash: Janine Beckie, Nichelle Prince
FC Kansas City: Desiree Scott
North Carolina Courage: Sabrina D'Angelo
Orlando Pride: None
Portland Thorns FC: Christine Sinclair
Seattle Reign FC: Diana Matheson
Sky Blue FC: Kailen Sheridan
Washington Spirit: Stephanie Labbé, Shelina Zadorsky


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An umbilical hernia is a bulge in the abdominal wall near the
navel (umbilicus) that sometimes contains abdominal tissue, a loop of
intestine, fat, or fluid. An umbilical hernia may be present at birth or develop shortly thereafter.
Most of these hernias are noticed when babies are a few days or weeks old, after the umbilical cord stump falls off. But infants and toddlers can get them too. In most cases, they heal without treatment. Sometimes surgery is needed.
Adults can have umbilical hernias too. They are more common in women and people who are obese. And treatment is usually needed.
An umbilical hernia
usually is not painful or dangerous.
Hernias can vary in size
from less than 0.4 in. (1 cm)
to more than 1.6 in. (4.1 cm)
across but are rarely more than
0.8 in. (2 cm) across.
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We have a multilanguage website with approximately 50 subsites, running 1 copy of the Drupal software and several databases. After upgrading the core and all contributed modules to the latest recommended releases, we were locked out of all the sites with the message "The website encountered an unexpected error. Please try again later."
After some investigation, we pinpointed the problem to the Entity Translation module, and found that emptying the cache solved the problem. For the majority of the websites, we were able to go directly to www.example.com/admin/config/development/performance and hit the "Clear all caches"-button. For some sites, however, we got the "The website encountered an unexpected error."-message even here. The solution was then to downgrade to an older version of Entity Translation, go to www.example.com/admin/config/development/performance, upgrade again to 7.x-1.0-beta2, hit the "Clear all caches"-button and run update.php.
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A judge yesterday told the city to come up with a plan to vacate a former jail in the Bronx that has been used to house homeless families, but allowed the temporary shelter to remain open while that plan is being developed.
The decision by Justice Helen E. Freedman, of State Supreme Court in Manhattan, provided a respite from the intense pressure on the city and the Department of Homeless Services as it struggles to cope with the record families who have flooded the shelter system this sultry summer. But in what is becoming symptomatic of the relationship between city officials and advocates for the homeless, it also set off a quarrel about just when the city has to come up with a plan to vacate the River Avenue Annex -- a converted wing of the unused Bronx House of Detention for Men -- and exactly when the shelter will close.
''It is crystal clear that they cannot show up in court next time without a plan to end use of the shelter,'' said Steven Banks, counsel for the Legal Aid Society, which is representing the homeless plaintiffs.
Justice Freedman was to have held a hearing tomorrow on Legal Aid's motion to hold Linda I. Gibbs, commissioner of homeless services, in contempt because so many families were sleeping on the floor of the Emergency Assistance Unit in the Bronx, the primary intake center for homeless families, a violation of previous court orders. Yesterday she postponed that hearing by a week, to Aug. 28.
Michael A. Cardozo, the city's corporation counsel, said the Aug. 28 court date was not a deadline for resolving the issue of where to house scores of homeless families who seek shelter each night.Continue reading the main story
''There is no deadline for a final plan,'' he said. ''That doesn't mean we should delay working closely with the plaintiffs and special master to resolve this.''
The River Avenue Annex has become an early flashpoint in the increasingly strained relationship between the mayor and the city's advocacy groups for the homeless.
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg came into office hoping to have a better working relationship with advocates than his predecessor, Rudolph W. Giuliani, but the city has been overwhelmed as the number of homeless families has risen to record levels. As of Sunday night, 8,476 families were using the shelter services system, according to the city.
Seeking relief for the desperate situation, the city decided this month to use the Bronx jail as an overnight shelter for families who could not be placed by the Emergency Assistance Unit. The Bloomberg administration was immediately assailed by advocates for the homeless, who maintained that use of such a shelter was unlawful and could traumatize young children.
Last Wednesday, tests commissioned by lawyers for the homeless found lead paint in the jail, causing the city to stop housing families with children under the age of 7 there, cutting by almost two-thirds the number of families who ended up staying there overnight and creating a public relations fiasco for the mayor.
While the judge's ruling clearly asked the city to come up with a plan to end use of the River Avenue Annex, it also allowed the city to go forward with a plan to clean up the lead paint at the annex, a move which, if completed and approved by health inspectors, could mean that families with younger children would again be allowed to stay there.
''We are very pleased with her ruling,'' said Mr. Cardozo, a sentiment that was echoed by Ms. Gibbs in a terse statement she released last night.
''She ruled no contempt,'' Mr. Cardozo said. ''She ruled we may do remediations on the lead paint and at the end of that we can house kids younger than 7 in the facility if we need to.''
But Mr. Banks called the city's version of events ridiculous.
''We asked the court to direct the city to submit a plan to end use of the prison shelter and the court did exactly that,'' he said. ''For the city to claim this is a victory only means there is likely to be more court confrontation since they clearly don't intend to submit the plan that the judge just directed them to this morning.''
Just how quickly the city will have to move from the annex will probably become clear over the next two weeks. Last night, Justice Freedman traveled to the annex with Mr. Banks and city lawyers to tour the center, a visit that lasted an hour. Ms. Gibbs and Mr. Bloomberg were also on hand.Continue reading the main story


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Bloodhound was donated to the police the previous day
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Bloodhound Tank Tebow was donated to the police Monday and began his career with the officer Tuesday. Two hours later, the police were dispatched to an apartment complex on a tip the parole violator was there. But by the time the police arrived, the man had disappeared.
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Utah Carol
And now my friends you've asked me, what makes me sad and still,
And why my brow is darkened like the clouds upon the hill?
Run in your ponies closer, and I'll tell to you my tale,
Of Utah Carol, my partner, and his last ride on the trail.
We rode the range together, and rode it side by side,
I loved him like a brother, and I wept when Utah died.
We were rounding up one morning, when work was almost done,
When on his side the cattle started on a frightened run.
Underneath the saddle that the boss's daughter rode
Utah that very morning had placed a bright red robe.
So the saddle might ride easy for Lenore, his little friend.
But it was this red blanket that brought him to his end.
The blanket was now dragging behind her on the ground,
The frightened cattle saw it, and charged it with a bound.
Lenore then saw her danger, and turned her pony's face,
And leaning in the saddle tied the blanket to its place.
But in leaning lost her balance, fell in front of that wild tide.
"Lay still Lenore, I'm coming!" were the words that Utah cried.
His faithful pony saw her, and reached her in a bound,
I thought he'd been successful and had raised her from the ground.
But the weight upon the saddle had not been felt before,
His back-cinch snapped like thunder, and he fell by Lenore.
Picking up the blanket he swung it over his head,
And started cross the prairie, "Lay still, Lenore!" he said.
When he got the stampede turned and saved Lenore, his friend
He turned to face the cattle and meet his fatal end.
His six gun flashed like lightning, the report rang loud and clear,
As the cattle rushed and killed him he dropped the leading steer.
On his funeral morning I heard the preacher say,
"I hope we'll all meet Utah at the roundup far away."
Then they wrapped him in the blanket that saved his little friend,
And it was this red blanket that brought him to his end.


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She did not however say i couldnt show pictures to people directly LOL.
A little off topic, i can tell mentally im ready to pick the boat up, as last night i kept having dreams the boat was stolen in transit. I recall from my dream i was watching it on the computer from Satalight, and then saw it stop moving when it shouldnt have been. Then all the sudden it was headed back where it came from. Then i got a call from the dealer saying my boat was stolen.... I woke up in a panic this morning, luckly my alarm was going off in 15 minutes. So i just got up LOL
Isn't the moc up in the plasti dip thread....
Am I close?
My guess is he went Tige


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Original post made on Oct 19, 2013
Read the full story here Web Link posted Thursday, October 17, 2013, 8:12 PM
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a resident of Birdland
on Oct 19, 2013 at 3:52 pm
Daveg is a registered user.
Well Harvey, perhaps it's due to unmitigated "stupid" statements by the union reps. Not worth commenting on.
Web Link
I would say the newspaper is accurately reporting facts. If you don't like the facts, go elsewhere.
a resident of Livermore
on Oct 19, 2013 at 4:22 pm
the hidden curl in the girl = gracy crummy-gan
a resident of Livermore
on Oct 19, 2013 at 4:38 pm
In the past when I've merely implied that perhaps color had something to do with touchy nerves, I was told to shut up and lickety split I shut up!
Needless to say I was up in arms and since them, thousands upon thousands of my posts have been deleted! The only other thing I might suspect is that something got caught all up in there! a wild hair? who knows...only the goddess knows.
The mee mee mee has made me sleepy but like I say I repeat my mantra easy does it, easy does it, can we all get along and then the goddess rosa maniosa pops in and I'm way happy again.
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HUNDREDS of businessmen and women will battle it out to be the fastest firm in the city as part of the York 10K corporate challenge.
This year's event was launched yesterday outside York Minster and organisers hope to build on the success of last year's race which saw more than 250 business people take part from across Yorkshire, running through the city centre on August 3.
Morrison Utility Services - a loyal supporter since the inaugural 10k event in 2009 - has once again pledged its support for the corporate challenge.
Speaking at the launch event, Morrison's construction manager, Mike West, said: "We have been involved right from the very start. I have known Mike Tomlinson for years, we used to go to school together. He asked us to get involved at the start and it is good for the business.
"We had about 60 of our own people taking part last year and we are hoping for about 80 this year."
Accountancy company Garbutt and Elliott, which has offices in York and Leeds, has already gathered a team to take part.
Payroll executive Tom McCisker said: "We look forward to participating every year. The support we get from colleagues, whether through donating to charity or providing support on the day, really pulls everyone together."
Teams taking part in the event, which was originally started by Mike Tomlinson, husband of Jane, the inspirational fundraiser and cancer sufferer who dedicated the final years of her life to raising money for charity, enjoy hospitality on race day and are also invited to a pre-event social evening.
At this event competitors will be able to pit their wits and physical prowess against each other in a cycle-themed 10K tournament in honour of the Tour de France.
The corporate challenge is open to teams of five or more. The times of the first three team members home are added together and averaged out, with the quickest team carrying off the prizes and the bragging rights.
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Showing some love to their Canadian fans, the cast of "Maps to the Stars" showed up at the big Toronto International Film Festival premiere on Tuesday night (September 9).
Marking another collaboration with director David Cronenberg, Robert Pattinson is dreamy in the new UK trailer for "Maps to the Stars."
Stepping out for a special screening, Robert Pattinson, Mia Wasikowska and Julianne Moore showed up at the 67th Annual Cannes Film Festival premiere of "Maps to the Stars" on Monday night (May 19).
Venturing further out into the art film realm, Jake Gyllenhaal looks fabulous in the new red band trailer for "Enemy."
Now available on DirecTV, the psychological thriller follows a man who seeks out his exact lookalike after spotting him in a movie.
Following up last week's exciting teaser trailer, Sony Pictures just unveiled a new international trailer for "The Amazing Spider-Man 2" for all to enjoy.
The new promo clip includes new footage and plenty of action and adventure as Peter Parker and Gwen Stacy try to navigate the crazy world of a superhero.
Giving eager fans a glimpse at their upcoming animated comedy, Open Road Films revealed the trailer to "The Nut Job" on Friday (September 27).
The Peter Lepeniotis-directed flick is officially described as follows: "Surly, a curmudgeon, independent squirrel is banished from his park and forced to survive in the city. Lucky for him, he stumbles on the one thing that may be able to save his life, and the rest of park community, as they gear up for winter - Maury's Nut Store."
There was plenty of electricity in the air as "Cosmopolis" held its Canadian premiere in Toronto on Monday night (June 4).
And of course, fan favorite Robert Pattinson showed up at the TIFF Bell Lightbox to pose for pictures and sign autographs before heading inside for the screening.
Taking care of his media duties, Robert Pattinson was spotted at a photocall for his new film "Cosmopolis" in Toronto, Canada today (June 4).
The "Twilight Saga: New Moon" actor was joined by his castmates Sarah Gadon, Emily Hampshire, Paul Giamatti, and Kevin Duran as well as director David Cronenberg.


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Alert - I just found several packets of flower seeds at Lowes with walnut hulls as an "inert material." Read your flower seed ingredients!
Tree Nut Allergy
Tree nut allergy is one of the most common food allergies in the United States. A tree nut allergy occurs when the immune system mistakenly interprets the proteins in a product containing tree nuts as a harmful substance. When a person with this allergy comes in contact (touching, breathing or eating) with the tree nut he or she is allergic to, the body produces antibodies to fight the harmful substance, and this triggers an allergic reaction.
The most common reactions include rash (atopic dermatitis), redness and swelling around the mouth, hives (urticaria), asthma, stomachache, cramping, diarrhea or vomiting, asthma, and in extreme cases anaphylaxis. Reactions can occur within minutes or several hours after consuming the allergen.
Tree nuts are a botanical food family with many different members, including almonds, cashews, pecans, etc. (more listed below). If you are allergic to one member of a food family, you may also be allergic to other members of the same food family. See Botanical Food Families.
Tree nut allergy is rarely outgrown. Most people remain allergic for their entire lives. It is also possible to develop a tree nut allergy later in life. If you suspect you have an allergy to one or more tree nuts, avoid all foods that contain tree nuts, and please see a board certified allergist or immunologist as soon as possible. A skin prick test or RAST can confirm the allergy. (Do not use antihistamines for 7-10 days prior to the test.)
Note – Neither coconut nor nutmeg are members of the tree nut family. Coconut is the seed of a fruit. Nutmeg comes from the seeds of a tropical tree.
Note – If you are nursing a baby and suspect or know the baby has a tree nut allergy, do not eat any foods containing tree nuts. The protein is passed through breast milk.
Note – There is a very high risk of cross contamination during the processing and packaging of nuts. For that reason, many allergists recommend that if you are allergic to one type of nut, you stay away from all tree nuts and all products that list "nuts" as an ingredient, even if you are allergic to only one type of nut. Consult with your physician before eating any type of nut.
Which Foods and other Products Contain Tree Nuts?
Tree nuts can be found in a number of surprising places, both food and non-food. It is commonly found in a variety of non-food products, such as cosmetics, "spa treatments", scrubs, sunscreens, soaps, shampoos, craft materials, conditioners, lotions, creams, ointments, bird seed, pet food, vitamins, massage oils, bean bags, kick bags/sacks, hack sacks, and more.
Always read all labels for foods and personal products. Manufacturers occasionally change recipes and manufacturing processes.
Note - Adopt the rule, "No label, no thank you!" Read the ingredient label every time you purchase a product. The ingredients can change at anytime. When eating out at the house of family or friends, or in a restaurant, do not eat a food if you don't know the exact ingredients and how it was prepared.
These Foods Contain Tree Nuts
- almonds, almond paste, almond butter, almond oil, almond flavoring
- anacardium nuts
- artificial flavoring
- artificial nuts
- Brazil nuts
- calisson (a marzipan-like candy made from almonds)
- cashews, cashew paste, cashew butter, cashew oil, cashew flavoring
- chestnuts, cashew paste, canned or fresh
- extracts flavored with nuts
- filberts
- gianduja (a creamy mixture of chocolate and chopped toasted nuts)
- hazelnuts (filberts), hazelnut spread, hazelnut butter, hazelnut oil, hazelnut flavoring
- hickory nuts
- macadamia nuts
- marzipan/almond paste
- natural flavoring
- natural wintergreen extract (for those allergic to filbert/hazelnut)
- nougat
- Nu-Nuts™ artificial nuts (peanuts that have been deflavored and reflavored with a nut such as pecan or walnut)
- nut butters (cashew butter, almond butter, etc.)
- nut extracts (such as almond extract)
- nut meats
- nut oil
- nut paste (such as almond paste)
- Nutella (a chocolate and hazelnut spread)
- pecans
- pesto
- pine nuts, pignolias, pinion
- pistachios
- pralines
- Queensland nut (macadamia)
- shea
- walnuts, walnut oil, walnut flavoring
These Foods May Contain Tree Nuts
Always read all labels, even for foods you wouldn't expect to contain nuts. I recently picked up a package of rice that I had bought for several years only to find it is now packaged on the same line as nuts.
- Baked goods (cakes, cereal bars, cookies, doughnuts, energy/granola bars, muffins, pastries and more)
- baking mixes (cornbread, pancake, waffle, biscuit, cake, cookie, etc.)
- barbecue sauces
- candy (all types)
- cereals
- chips
- chocolate
- coffee (some commercially bagged ground and whole bean coffee, also self serve bins are usually cross-contaminated)
- crackers
- dressings, gravies
- energy bars, nutrition bars
- ethnic foods, especially Asian foods
- fried foods
- granola, granola bars
- ice cream, frozen desserts, frozen yogurts, sundae toppings
- imitation or artificially flavored extracts
- main course dishes, such as chili, trout amandine and more
- muesli
- natural, imitation or artificial flavoring
- nut-flavored coffee/liqueurs
- peanut products
- popcorn
- salads, salad dressings
- sauces
- snack foods
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On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 12:43:25PM +0100, Manuel Kasper wrote:
> So how do you get m0n0wall to send those packets to your DMZ interface
> anyway? The answer is with 1:1 NAT!
Not really. Routing is the point. But as NAT seems to be performed before
routing in FreeBSD+ipfilter, the packets are sent to the interface, the
NATed addresses are belonging to.
> It's only there to replace the automatic IP aliasing on WAN that we used
> to have before pb27.
Manuel, why is there the restriction to the WAN interface? Why any
restriction to interfaces and IP-addresses anyway? A simple 'arp -s
hostname hw_addr pub' hasn't such a restriction. What I would like to
see, is a table hostname|hw_addr|description, so that I for myself can
define what MAC address to use (needed for VRRP for example).
Ciao ...
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Pursuit Of Happiness! ! - Poem by Hemant Arora
In the pursuit of happiness
I purchased a car
Though it was comforting
Entertaining & satisfying experience
I ended up comparing with others
& my heart again got a scar!
In the pursuit of happiness
I bought a flat
Such a wonderful kick it was
A great feeling of owning something
But it just remained a house
It made me sad, I didn't have a mate!
In the pursuit of happiness
I started looking for a mate
It didn't take long to find a lovely girl
With an assumption that I loved her & she loved me
We settled in my flat to make it a home
It was all good until I found I was entrapped with bait!
In the pursuit of happiness
My life was gone
I don't remember when I lost my brawn
Life had become a series of yawn
Unless I found the enlightenment of my own
Happiness is not external
It's an effect of our Internal Dawn! !
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Joan Blades: A Woman Making History
March 15, 201030 Women Making History In recognition of the 30th anniversary of Women's History Month, Women's Media Center is profiling 30 extraordinary women making history. Our goal is to raise $10,000 to support WMC Exclusives — every dollar raised will go directly toward hiring women writers to comment on major news stories and report topics often neglected by the mainstream media. Will you contribute $30? Click here to donate: https://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/937/t/10343/shop/custom.jsp?donate_page_KEY=6015 or text WOMEN to 50555 to make a $10 donation. Joan Blades: A Woman Making History by Michaela Monahan Joan Blades is a woman making history – and leading the movement to change our future. A self-proclaimed "accidental activist," Blades stepped back from her successful career as a software entrepreneur in 1998 to co-found MoveOn.org, a progressive web-based political action and fundraising organization. Twelve years later, MoveOn.org offers its 5 million members the opportunity to form a powerful collective voice in national politics. "We aim to express the passion of our members in something actionable that we can all, in fact, do," Blades said. Serving as a grassroots rallying platform for these members, MoveOn.org helps concerned citizens directly influence the outcome of congressional elections and decisions, thereby restoring some of Washington's power to the people. But Blades' advocacy efforts haven't stopped there. In 2006 Blades also co-founded MomsRising.org, an organization that uses online advocacy on behalf of American mothers and families, with Progressive Women's Voices alumna Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner. She is also a regular contributor to the Huffington Post blog, where she writes on family issues and motherhood. Blades' evolution from a software tycoon to a progressive activist truly inspires me. Her objective for MoveOn.org demonstrates to me that you don't have to be a politician or pundit to play a significant role in shaping our nation's future. We are all citizens and should be as engaged as possible. Blades and MoveOn.org afford us the opportunity for that engagement by offering us a voice in our democracy and a platform to change our world.