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I'm sufffering from a severe gastritis flare up. Though I take high doses of ppis and antacids, I can't see any slight improvement after a week. The reason def is 4g pentasa and 6mg entocort. I failed methotrexate injections as they caused me a severe gastritis flare up. I don't have naked eye ulcers in either my intestines or colon and so both my GI and the insurance company won't approve of a biologic.
I'm in a real dilemma. I need to rest my stomach by not taking pentasa and entocort. But if I don't take them, I will end up having a severe flare up. My GI warned me against reducing the dose of any. I did that the last couple of days in hope that gastritis gets better but all I got was D and cramps. So, I increased the doses again.
Does anyone know whether there are other immunosuppressants or 5ASAs in the form of injections. This is what I need at the time being to give my stomach a rest. I'll see my GI after a week and I need to have suggestions to negotiate w him.
Any advice will be highly appreciated.
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Resting from meds sounds dangerous to me. How about
talking to your doc about
a soft diet or EN, supplements and the like--a nutritional way to rest your system?
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Sammies, thank you very much. It seems I was mistaken in my title. I didn't mean to go off medicines totally but to find a med, esp. an injection that would control my Crohn's symptoms and at the same time does not irritate my stomach. I like your suggestions regarding EN and supplements.
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Posted 9/1/2012 4:48 PM (GMT -7)
I dont know if it's the case, but my reflux only lessened, even with anti acids, when I cut the lactose.
Sour good new for me.
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Djin, thank you very much for the advice. But I still insist that pentasa and entocort are the culprits. I only eat toast w very few cheese spread on top of it. I take in the morning half a cup of tea w half a teaspoon of skimmed powder milk. I do also drink banana w few drops of skimmed powder milk. I don't think that lactose is my problem.
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Posted 9/1/2012 9:29 PM (GMT -7)
It may well be that you aren't feeding your tummy enough to protect it from the meds. There are very few meds that I can take w/o food. Ample food.
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Posted 9/2/2012 11:33 AM (GMT -7)
ChronieToo, thank you very much. Well, I still can't eat properly and don't want to push myself to eat in order not to vomit.
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You can't give yourself some cream of potato soup, soda crackers and your meds? Or come cream of rice, toast and meds? Tuna noodle casserole and meds? Scrambled eggs and gluten-free toast and meds?
An empty tummy, even not taking any meds, tends to release stomach acid that has nothing to do but eat away at the empty tummy, i.e. at the tummy itself.
Think of it this way: you have gastritis. Gastritis is inflammation of the gi tract, right? Of the tummy? The tummy meds you are taking are to reduce the production of stomach acid, not stop its formation entirely. So there is still some tummy acid in that inflamed tummy w/nothing to do but cause more inflammation.
Try giving that tummy acid something to do by giving it a reasonable amount of something to work on, something bland and easy to digest. Tummy meds to reduce the amount of acid and something bland and easy to digest for the remaining stomach acid to work on rather than sitting there working on your tummy lining. That food also buffers your tummy against the Entocort and Pentasa but doesn't affect their effectiveness.
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I do feel your pain as a severe CD gastritis sufferer in my past..My stomach hurt and I felt like vomiting whether I ate or I did not eat..I was given liquids by my dr to rest my stomach..It still felt like my stomach was trying to eat itself..It is hard to put food on your stomach when it is inflamed..I continually had a inflamed lining with bleeding every scope in my lower stomach going into my upper small intestines no H-Pylori, no cancer..I was given donnatol and liquid carafate before eating..I was also on phenegren and nexium..It seemed like nothing was helping..Till I was given something to suppress my immune response it was just a vicious cycle..I was stuck it seemed like on meal replacement shakes and baby food..I had my own selves in the pantry..I have inflammation and am flaring right now but my stomach is not affected currently..but I do remember full tummy and empty tummy it was all pain..I remember my weight was in the toilet then to..I do not like the predi weight gain of three years but would have I done it again to get out of the vicious cycle..probably unless I was given a better alternative which I was told there was none for me..I wold get some relief from flagyl for some strange reason??
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ChronieToo and CindywCrohnes, thank you very much. I really appreciate it. @CrohnieToo. I def like the recipes though I can't tolerate eggs at all. It causes me severe d. I know that acid is really harming my stomach but I still can't eat anything more than toast. I think it will take some time.
@ CindywCrohnes. Me too whenever I have a scope there is chronic antral gastritis and duodenitis but I was never told it is coz of Crohn's. My stomach is very sensitive. Early in August I had a similar flare up and my GI prescribed then reluctantly nexium and zofran iv injections. Since the safety of nexium iv has not been established for more than 10 days, so I can't take it this time and have to wait till meds kick in though my stomach has always been a pain in the neck.
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Posted 9/4/2012 7:19 AM (GMT -7)
Minnietoty, I'm so sorry you are going thru this. Only you truly know what you are suffering and what response if any you get from the things you try.
Yup, I've had good luck w/an immune modulator too. Unfortunately, Imuran can take up to 6 months to take full effect and it needs something else to help it along during those 3 to 6 months or so.
Flagyl was a miracle drug for my Crohn's - but I encountered peripheral neuropathy w/it and could only take a half-dose. Fortunately, even the half dose worked for me leaving me w/a tolerable PN.
Maybe peanut butter and soda crackers??? (Couldn't pass up one more idea *wicked grin*)
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I fall back to bone broth cooked for 24 hours to get all the gelatin. If I do not have this then I buy organic gelatin and have it with very simple foods. Perhaps you might try gelatin with diluted grape juice.
If the bone broth is ok on your guts then you might add some very well cooked carrots and some plain baked meat. You can pureee this, add a bit of herbs, and you will have a savory smoothy. Very simple and healing foods for those folks that can take it.
I would eat small meals as often as I can stand it. Can you take fats, like avacado, maybe yogurt made with 1/2 and 1/2 (high calorie and low lactose).
Have you tried activated charcoal?
I could not take high doses of pentasa either, but I was lucky as I am able to get by with a low dose. I was also lucky as pred was making me crazy but entocort had virtually no side efects for me.
I know this is not an answer to your question but just trying to throw some suggestions your way
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Chronie and Dave, I'm very thankful to you. I like your suggestions very much but it seems my Crohn's will let me fall back to just ensure. I'm flaring up:(
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Do I remember correctly that you had a problem w/your veins w/PICC lines, etc.? TPN did wonders for me.
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A public-private partnership has launched a C$18.3 million (US$15.5 million) project to develop and demonstrate solutions making use of an existing but currently untapped source of hydrogen fuel: hydrogen emitted as the by-product of a sodium chlorate manufacturing plant in the North Vancouver area.
Through this project, which was first proposed in 2004, purified hydrogen could be used to fuel a fleet of up to 20,000 vehicles in the Vancouver area.
The 3-year Integrated Waste Hydrogen Utilization Program (IWHUP) is led by North Vancouver-based Sacre-Davey Innovations, working with Westport Innovations.
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Securing a source of hydrogen from a sodium chlorate manufacturing plant;
Demonstrating a compressed hydrogen storage and transportation system;
Demonstrating a hydrogen fuelling station for light-duty vehicles;
Demonstrating a hydrogen and natural gas blend fuelling facility for heavy-duty vehicles;
Demonstrating eight hydrogen-powered light-duty pickup trucks;
Demonstrating four transit buses that use a blend of hydrogen and natural gas fuels (HCNG);
Demonstrating a fuel cell system that will provide electrical power and heat to a car wash.
Sacre-Davey, Hydrogen Technology & Energy Corporation and QuestAir Technologies Inc. are involved in securing, purifying and supplying the hydrogen. T0 that end, QuestAir has already announced the order for its H-3200 hydrogen purifier for use in the project.
Sacre-Davey and Dynetek Industries Ltd. are involved in developing and demonstrating the compressed hydrogen storage and transportation system. Dynetek will provide a 450-bar (6,500 psi), inter-modal compressed hydrogen storage and transportation system, similar to the many Hydrogen tube trailers currently in service throughout North America. This high volume Hydrogen transport system will supply hdrogen fuel to the four Hydrogen buses.
Sacre-Davey and Powertech Labs are involved in demonstrating the light-duty vehicle fueling station, and Powertech is also invloved in the pick-up demonstrations.
Clean Energy and Translink are involved in demonstrating the hydrogen and natural gas blend fuelling facility for heavy-duty vehicles.
Westport Innovations and Translink are involved in demonstrating the four transit buses operating on the blend of hydrogen and natural gas fuels.
Sacre-Davey Innovations Inc., Nuvera Fuel Cells and Easywash Inc. are involved in demonstrating the fuel cell system.
North Vancouver is home to several large plants that produce sodium chlorate: Erco and Canexus.
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Sodium chlorate is an industrial salt that is used by pulp mills to to produce chlorine dioxide used to bleach pulp for the manufacture of white paper products. It is produced by the electrolysis of brine according to the following equation:
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The production requires a great deal of electricity, and it throws off a large amount of hydrogen. The Eka Chimie chlorate plant in Québec, for example, produces 150,000 metric tons of chlorate annually with 8,500 metric tons of hydrogen as a byproduct.
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Another interesting point on the project is hidden in the description of what is done with the hydrogen from the Magog plant in Quebec:
"Around 8,500 metric tonnes of hydrogen are produced in this way annually. Of this total, 65% is recovered and piped to a liquefaction plant owned by BOC Gaz."
And then BOC distributes the hydrogen to all its customers across North America.
There could be some new dynamics in the hydrogen supply scene because I did not see any industrial gas company involved in the IWHUP list of partners.
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February 11th, 2014 09:31 PM #1
Use your top two names or "save" one for later?
When naming a child, do you use your two favorite names or do you "save" favorites for later first names?
Let me use an example. Let's say that your top two favorite boy names are William and Charles. You love them both to pieces, and your SO agrees that they are the best two names on the planet. In a perfect world, you and your SO would have two little boys named William and Charles. Of course, life doesn't guarantee that you'll have another boy down the road, and you can't imagine not using Charles when given the opportunity. So now you're faced with a dilemma. Do you name your first son William Charles, so that you can use your two favorite names, or do you "save" Charles for a hypothetical second baby's first name?
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February 11th, 2014 09:35 PM #3
Hm that would be a tough dilemma!! I intend on using family names for a middle regardless so it shouldn't be an issue for me, but I would say save it. In the middle spot it will be all but ignored, and if you love it that much, I'd want it as a first name!
As a random aside - my great grandfather was Charles Williamjessamyn
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I think it depends. Do they sound better to you as a sibset or a combo? Do they both have significance to you and how badly would you regret never getting to use one of them?
When we named our daughter, we had a very limited list and the combo we chose effectively ruled out using any of the other names (because they would be too similar/versions of her first or middle name). We're totally happy with that. We've fallen in love with something completely different/never before considered by us for daughter #2 if we have one. But, we also never felt like Maura/Molly and Lucy/Lucille were the only good names in the whole wide world, they were just the only names we imagined for this daughter.Mommy to...Maura Lucille and Patrick Donley
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I'd personally use my top two names as first and middle bearing they flow well together.
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People don't often hear or use a child's middle name, so I personally would save the second name. on the other hand, I know a set of brothers which all have as their first name as the middle of the previous son, so if you went with that pattern, you could have (for example, just grabbed some combos from your sig):
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As part of
SOLR-6349, i wanted to take advantage of the new features in SOLR-7147 to inspect shard requests in TestDistributedSearch, but even though i added a proper override of getSolrXml...
@Override protected String getSolrXml() { return "solr-trackingshardhandler.xml"; }
...that value was being ignored, and i was never getting an instance of TrackingShardHandlerFactory.
I poked around a bit and confirmed that getSolrXml() is used by "setupJettySolrHome(File)" but that method is never called by BaseDistributedSearchTestCase - it's only called in framework subclasses like AbstractDistribZkTestBase and AbstractFullDistribZkTestBase. Instead, for simple subclasses of BaseDistributedSearchTestCase the jetty instances seem to be coming from createServers(int)
I don't really understand why there are so many diff ways for a shard instance to be inited, and presumably that should be refactored? .. but a more immediate concern is that subclasses of BaseDistributedSearchTestCase which attempt to override the solr.xml file used can't (unless they are actually a subclass of AbstractDistribZkTestBase of AbstractFullDistribZkTestBase)
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here's a patch i'm currently hammering on ... doesn't completley eliminate all the code/logic duplication, but at least gets us consistently using getSolrXml() (as far as i can tell)
Part of making this work, was to change createControlJetty() and createServers(int numShards) to clone the getSolrHome() dir ... previously (if you subclassed BaseDistributedSearchTestCase) these methods would just re-use the same getSolrHome() dir for all the jetty instances, and only override the cores & data dirs.
Not sure if folks have any strong opinion against this? it seems like a "fix" to the previous awkward hoops, and makes these simple distrib test work more like the cloud tests .. but it would certainly be possible to add more awkwards hoops to only clone getSolrHome() in the event that we need to override the solr.xml.
the previous patch broke DistributedClusteringComponentTest - which is evidently the only contrib test we have that test distributed queries.
Once i got logs enabled for the test, it was clear thatthe problem was that in the contrib test, where getSolrHome() was overridden to point to the contrib test directory with a collection1 that had all the clustering configs enabled, Solr was failing to init because there were do directories under the coreRootDirectory that both had a core.properties claiming they were collection1 ... there was the real collection1 that the test wanted, but there was also an empty cores directory that contained nothing but a core.properties file (claiming to be name=collection1.
I spent a while trying to figure out how the hell this was working before my patch, before finally giving up – because whatever it was actually doing, it seems pretty clear this was some kind of mistake – the core.properties file being created was directly in a ./cores/ directory that lookd like it was intended to be the coreRootDirectory – except the coreRootDirectory was always getting set to be the same as getSolrHome().
In any case: here's an updated patch where the (previously) odd ./cores/ directory is no longer created; the (now cloned) getSolrHome() directory is still used as the coreRootDirectory; a ./collection1/core.properties file is created if and only if it does not exist.
This fixes the problem with DistributedClusteringComponentTest in a way that also keeps my TestSimpleTrackingShardHandler working w/o modifications to either – so hopefully it should work for any end-user subclasses as well.
Still hammering on the full test suite, but i'd really appreciate it if Alan Woodward and Erick Erickson could review this since it seems like a lot of this "./cores/ dir as collection1" weirdness came about as a result of
SOLR-6840 (and perhaps SOLR-6902? ... not certain)
Oh God, I spent days trying to refactor this before I gave up and used the hacky "just create a damn core.properties file" solution. The issue with
SOLR-6840 was that there were a bunch of solr.xml files that defined a core called collection1, and the tests assumed that this core would exist when they started. But the new format doesn't allow for that, so the tests now had to create core.properties files instead.
Anyway, your fix looks good Hoss. I like that it makes it explicit that it's creating a new solr.xml and empty core.
What Alan said.
It looks fine to me too. One quick note is that it's not even necessary (in non-cloud mode at least) for anything to be in the core.properties file if all the defaults are acceptable, its mere existence is all that's absolutely required. Then the core name is taken from the directory core.properties is found in, the data dir is expected to be a directory in at the same level as core.properties etc..
On a side note, it'd be nice, sometime, to get all traces of "collection1" out of there, but that's not something for the faint of heart, nor should it be conflated with this issue...
Commit 1663381 from firstname.lastname@example.com in branch 'dev/trunk'
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SOLR-7171: BaseDistributedSearchTestCase now clones getSolrHome() for each subclass, and consistently uses getSolrXml()
Commit 1663421 from firstname.lastname@example.com in branch 'dev/branches/branch_5x'
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SOLR-7171: BaseDistributedSearchTestCase now clones getSolrHome() for each subclass, and consistently uses getSolrXml() (merge r1663381)


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Waterfalls...one of my favs.
"You mustn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling"
I like Chilli from TLC....she's sexy.
Weird. For a finale that screams the teenage country demo, they have filled it with music for a generation of old fogies from the 50s, 60s, 70s, and 80s.
Scotty and Tim McGraw.
Count your blessings!
Tim McGraw looking just as hot as ever.
"You mustn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling"
I have never heard of Lil John or TLC!
OMG, Tim McGraw! singing with Scotty!
Howdy Doody singing with the always cute Tim McGraw.
It was me. I let the dogs out.
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Emma Straub, Author of The Vacationers, on Being Sixteen and Lonely on the French Riviera
I'd spent every summer at camp since I was seven, sharing a bathroom and moldy shower stalls with 25 other girls, always without a lick of homesickness. The summer after tenth grade, my parents booked me a first-class trip to St.-Tropez, the largest jewel in the French Riviera's crown, and I was ready. This was quid pro quo—we had hosted my French cousin in New York for a month, and now it was my turn to be the foreign guest. My parents were crazy for the idea—they were very fond of my cousin's grandmother, a French woman who wore a skirt suit and a proper chignon every single day—and sent me off with French stars twinkling in their eyes. I would return bilingual, tan, and beaming. The first-class ticket was a bit excessive, I'll admit, but my parents (bless them) thought they were giving me the trip of a lifetime. I was used to drinking wine and smoking at home, but in France, surely both grapes and nicotine would taste even sweeter.
My cousins—four of them, approximately a year between each of them—were indifferent to my arrival. The eldest was a girl just a touch younger than me, and I'd shown her a good time in New York, taking her to school with me every day and bringing her to parties in my friends' free houses. (Free meaning without parents. There was sometimes a fee, if enough beer had been procured in advance.) My surrogate parents were even less interested. They showed me where I was to sleep. When I blanched at the sardines we were having for lunch, the die was cast: I was a spoiled American teenager, the very worst sort of houseguest. They didn't speak directly to me for the rest of the three weeks unless it was absolutely necessary, choosing instead to have one of their dutiful children translate. There was no wine for the children: That much was clear.
A day after my arrival, my cousin asked if I knew how to sail. I pictured the Hudson and East rivers, toxic and freezing. I said no, and so off she and her sister went to their sailing camp without me. Every day, all day. I was left home alone with their two younger brothers, a swimming pool, and dubbed episodes of the short-lived dramedy Relativity, that Friends wannabe starring Kimberly Williams. The house was in the mountains, with ample sunshine and a good strong wind in the evening. I spent most of my time by the pool, alone. No nightclubs, no fancy hotels, no nude beaches. I'd imagined finding a French lover, an older boy of twenty, but I never even so much as saw one. My young male cousins, making goofy faces and jumping into the pool, were my only companions. If I was Brigitte Bardot, they were my tiny little dogs, yappy and cute and entirely unsuitable for romance.
My French was mediocre. I understood some, my ears pricking up whenever I thought they were talking about me, but much of the conversation zoomed by, ricocheting off the neighboring mountains and splashing into the ocean below. My cousins were deep into a version of French pig Latin and often spoke with inverted syllables, further scrambling my already tenuous grasp on what was being said. When my parents called, I would take the phone away from everyone else so that I could cry and complain in private.
Who is more convinced of their tragic stature than a lonely sixteen-year-old girl? While my cousins were off sailing, I sat by the pool and wrote poems and letters, folding them up into unhappy little packages and sending them out into the world. Tina Turner lived across the way, her house a little glittering speck in the distance, and I would stare at it and dream of her rescuing me. I found the pantry, where the loaves of fougasse and chocolate bars were kept, and I made myself snacks. Somehow, this did not lessen my misery.
When my time was up, I flew home, again in a first-class cabin. My parents were waiting for me at the airport, and I burst into tears when I saw my mother's face. She was the Statue of Liberty, Miss America, a stack of Bisquick pancakes. I had never been happier to see anyone in my entire life. I'd been gone for a whopping three weeks. Solitary confinement on the French Riviera! If anything at all had happened, it could have been a novel. Instead, it was just the wrong place at the wrong time.
I sometimes wonder what it would be like if I went back to St.-Tropez. My French, never as good again as it was that summer, is a memory. I have a baby, and my cousin, now married to a boy from sailing school, recently had her second. Her younger sister, always my favorite, just married a woman, which makes me like her even more. My cousins' parents sold the family home and bought a place in town, presumably without a view of Tina Turner's house.
My baby would love the swimming pool, and the wild lavender, and watching the boats bob in the harbor, and so would I. The idea of weeks with nothing to do sounds as glorious to me now as it did to my parents then. I would pay for it now, the whole thing—solitude, sunshine, being ignored. Sometimes glamour really is wasted on the young.
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Discussion in 'Hunting Forum' started by nicklarimore, Apr 22, 2013.
In the woods trying to bust a gobbler, second time ever turkey hunting. Any one have any tips?
First thing to look for is fresh turkey scratch in the leaves. Where there are hens, the gobblers will find them.
Patience, patience, patience! Turkey hunting patience is a whole different ballgame than deer hunting patience.
If you don't have a butt pad, get one asap. The ability to sit absolutely still for extended periods of time is a must.
Don't over call, call every 5 - 10 min., while trying to find a gobbler. Once you've found him and he's answered your call, be very sparing with the calling, he knows about where you are and will find you if he's serious. Listen very closely for gobbling distance and leaf rustling, often they'll walk right in w/o much gobbling.
Once your set-up, always above the gobbler, face down hill, with your gun at your shoulder and be ready and still.
If there are two of you, have the caller above and behind the shooter by about 20 - 40 yards, often gobblers will "hang up" just out of shooting range of the caller.
Wait until he's within about 35-40 yds. and aim for the spot where the waddles meet the feathers, that will give you a better margin for error.
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Betting against Mike Remmel would have cost you a fortune.
Not knowing Remmel, you might have given long odds to anyone wagering that the Jamestown-based California Patrol Officer would return to work a year after an accident that nearly cost him his life.
Consider the circumstances: Remmel lost parts of both his legs in a Jan. 10, 2006, crash at the Pedro Y near Columbia. At the time, a far more realistic question was whether he would survive.
A runaway pickup truck had hit Remmel head-on while he was helping a tow truck driver hook up a car that had been wrecked in an earlier accident. He was thrown 20 feet into the roadside brush, both legs crushed.
A passing motorist, Jennifer Corporandy, saw his body as she drove past the scene. She pulled over and ran to his side. "If this guy was dying, I couldn't stand him being alone," Corporandy said a month later.
Remmel lived, but a week later walking still seemed like a long shot.
That he might be on the job within 12 months was, at the time at least, too preposterous for discussion.
Yet Remmel drove to the CHP office in Jamestown at 8 a.m. today, walked in the front door and reported for duty. Not only that, but he fully intends to pass the demanding physical tests required for patrol and to return to the road within another year.
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To paraphrase John F. Kennedy, Remmel is a profile in courage. Not only that, but he is an inspiration to his community and his coworkers.
His was an accident that would have left many discouraged, embittered and looking for someone to blame.
Not Remmel: Within a week, while still recovering from multiple surgeries at a Modesto hospital, he was focused on his goal.
A shrink told him to be distraught and bitter, to give into his anger. Remmel said he didn't have any.
"That truck got my legs, but it didn't get my head. It didn't get my heart, it didn't get my spine and it didn't get my spirit," he said a month after the accident. "My gold medal is to wear the uniform again."
Some might have humored him. Others might have pitied him. Few believed him.
But Remmel wasn't counting: Within a month of the wreck he began the long, difficult course of physical therapy that would lead him to the front door of the Jamestown CHP office. Drawing on the support of his wife, children and parents, he made remarkable progress.
By June, outfitted with new prosthetic legs, he was walking.
Along the way, he made us believers: First we helped Remmel, with blood drives and fundraisers that raised thousands of dollars for him and his family.
Now he's helping us, talking to fellow officers, other accident victims and community organizations about grit, perseverance and what's really important in life.
Yes, Mike Remmel must still pass that battery of physical tests before he returns to patrol. Only this time we all know better than to bet against him.
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The Industry is affected by politics
You will soon see the last of imports. The industry is affected by political action. Moves are in the works to totally shut down imports of firearms and ammo into the USA. It would appear the moves will be rather successful. The industry as we know it is headed for radical change. I wish it wasn't the case.
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Such moves could be a possibility due to Obama having signed the UN Small Arms Treaty. The intended level of compliance is what everybody is waiting to discern in the future.
If somebody wants a semi-auto gun consisting of imported components and he/she wait very long, then all bets are off: Vz-58s, AK-47 or -74 clones etc.
If our Dear Leader were to soon attempt (by way of his new ATF Director?) to block imports of Russian ammo or MN rifles, his buddies in the Kremlin would be offended, and the import blocks could be switched to Serbian (Prvi) ammo etc.
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Haven't been around the forums for a while, but I just checked the price of 24/47's today just for giggles. I got mine for $175 shipped to the door in 2009, numbers matching with cosmo in everything. The bore was nice and shiny with virtually no flaws. I looked today at JG sales and saw that they only have mismatched rifles. Price is 259, so it would take $285 or so to get it to the door. Glad I got mine when I did, it's probably worth nearly twice what I paid for it with numbers matching and a sample target (it's been fired, but not very much). Gun is a shooter. It'll hold 2.5moa all day long with the old surplus romanian steel cased loads, which aren't known for hair splitting accuracy. On occasion I get a really good group with this ammo, which tells me it is an ammo issue. Mine really likes the PRVI 198 grain hot (not really hot, more what the gun was designed for) loads, it'll hold 1.5 moa with that pretty consistently.
These are very nice rifles, or at least mine is. I picked mine up specifically for the price and the fact that build construction is pretty darn good. It's not made as well as an early K98, no, but it'll certainly shoot with one. I would recommend picking one up while you still can.
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Visited one of the Houston area Gander Mtn stores recently. They'd remodeled the store and now had a used rifle room. First thing I noticed when in the room, around 25 Mausers and about same number of Mosin rifles.
Mausers all turned out to be Yugos. Think the Yugos were $389 and the Mosins were $179.
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I purchased my first K98 in 1968 out of a barrel at Western Auto for $35. All matching 27. Well I was earning the princely sum of $430 a month so this was a sizable investment for me. The times they have a changed for sure. Id love the prices of K98s to be like that today but I sure don't want my income to stay where it was.
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You guys reinforce my appreciation of the luck, that I only sold off about 300 rds. of my surplus 8mm Mauser at a gun show a year ago.
For about two years I never touched the gun, not liking the sights, but last winter's panic gave me a new appreciation for the nice 48A, having about 1,800 rds. of Czech and Yugo ammo.
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Tom Gallicchio on UFC Release "It's Been a Dream of Mine to Fight in KSW"
MMA Latest spoke to TUF 22 and 25 season competitor Tom Gallicchio about being cut from the UFC, and potential promotions that he could sign for in the future.
Gallicchio (19-10) signed for the UFC after reaching the semi-finals of The Ultimate Fighter: Season 25. Losing to James Krause in his debut, "Da Tank" was informed earlier this month that the UFC had parted ways with him.
Q: Before we jump into the whole free agency stuff, talk me through how the UFC broke the news that they were going to release you?
I thought I was going to have another fight, this time at lightweight. I got a letter dated July 7th, saying they were going to keep me, I received it in September. I was getting emails to update my USADA, I never got a cut letter and I got tested by USADA on October 24th. I was hoping to fight sometime in January or February, then they broke the news to me that they need to make a room for new talent.
Q: You made your UFC debut against James Krause in July, then 4 months down the line, they cut you. How surprised were you at this somewhat out of the blue decision?
I'm thankful for my opportunity in the UFC and the fact that they gave me another shot, but it was definitely surprising how it happened. They released a newsletter in September welcoming Jesse (Taylor) Dhiego (Lima) and myself into the UFC, all signs pointed towards another fight. Hearing that I was cut was just heartbreaking.
Q: Have any talks started with a new promotion. I saw you name a few on Twitter, the likes of Bellator, BAMMA, KSW and ACB. Who do you see yourself signing for?
I would love to compete in any of those! A couple of them hit me up, one of which I am very happy to talk with. Since they came out, It's been a dream of mine to fight in KSW. They're taking care of their fighters, I would love to fight for them. I want to travel, I want to see the world, I want to fight. I've got a lot of fans overseas and I want to give them a show.
It's been a dream of mine to fight in KSW.
Still looking for home where you guys can see me @ACB_League @BAMMA @KSW_MMA @ufc @ProFightLeague @BellatorMMA let em know!
— Tom Gallicchio (@TomGallicchio) November 15, 2017
Q: Your long time friend Jesse Taylor was victorious in the TUF 25 Finale, but he has since accepted a 1-year ban for failing a USADA test. What is your take on this given how close you two are?
I know Jesse is not a juicer, I've known him ever since I came down to (Team) Quest. It's probably come from some supplement that he's taking, it sucks for him. I think he went into a little bit of panic mode, he could have done a better job of handling it.
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I don't take supplements, if there was a way, I'd still keep myself in the USADA pool just because I believe in a clean sport. I think it's important we keep the sport clean and if we're cleaning up the supplement companies then good, because no one else is.
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The BAMMA Flyweight belt was ruled for years by none other than Rany Saadeh, During his reign as champion he successfully defended the belt on two occasions. His dominance over the division saw him go undefeated in BAMMA and without a loss since 2012. Following the expiration of his contract, Rany vacated his BAMMA belt to explore new challenges.
He has now signed with ACB and is set to make his debut in only a matter of days at ACB 74 in Austria where he will take on Darren Mima. In a recent catch up with Rany, he explained his reasoning behind joining ACB and his goals in the promotion.
"ACB is the fastest growing organization in MMA. They've promised me an active career with events all over the world and a tempting bonus structure. It was just what I was looking for. I've looked into the competition and I can honestly say that the competition at flyweight is just as good, if not even better than in the UFC. Being the ACB title holder would make me a legit world champion."
Ahead of his bout with Mima, we are set to see some new stuff from Saadeh as he claims to have changed up his style after a solid camp for this fight, guaranteeing us a surprise.
"I didn't need to change anything for him but my style changed in general since my last fight. I've had an excellent camp with high-level training partners and coaches. I'm very grateful for my coaches who have put hours of private work into me this year. Especially with my new boxing coach Luciano Robledo, I can guarantee a surprise."
The confidence is evident as he tells me how he sees the fight going. Promising his well-rounded arsenal of both strikes and grappling are worthy of bonuses, something he'd be very keen on considering the set-up in ACB.
"I will not just completely dominate but also finish." He began, "I can imagine this fight being a wild brawl and dropping my opponent. Also on the ground, I have some slick submissions that are bonus-worthy."
Having been successful in BAMMA, Rany is striving for more glory as plans on taking home the ACB title becoming the first Western European to do so.
"Of course!" he says with determination in his voice, "I'm coming into ACB as a world champion and the #1 ranked flyweight in Western Europe. After winning this fight, the title fight is right there"
It's now been over a year since we've seen, "Prince" enter the cage. A decision voluntarily made by the German as he adjusted his game.
"It was mid last year when I had started to adjust my game. These changes take time and as the wished competition wasn't there, I decided to take some time off fighting to prepare for a bigger challenge."
Now having departed ways with BAMMA, the British promotion now has a new champion in Daniel Barez. Unfortunately for Rany, his reasons for leaving was the lack of competition has beaten everyone put in front of him with money being an issue that stepped in the way too. Despite any negativity derived from his departure, he does not rule out a return to the promotion where he was once Flyweight king.
"The competition in Europe just got very thin. With five fights in BAMMA, I somehow wasn't very impressed with the opportunities left. Neither I got the fights, nor the purse that I needed to take my career further. After two title defenses, it felt like I was standing still which isn't just BAMMA's fault. Altogether, they are a great promotion and I wouldn't exclude a return."
When the UFC announced they would have the best flyweights from around the world enter the TUF house with a shot at the belt going to the winner. Many would have thought Rany Saadeh would have been up there. The season had champions from all over the world but no one from BAMMA, something strange considering the number of champions they signed in the past year from the promotion.
In an unfortunate circumstance for Saadeh, it was not his fault he wasn't in the house as the UFC did come knocking but BAMMA just weren't letting their champ go. Despite this situation, there is no bad blood anymore as Saadeh has moved on with things now.
"The UFC was definitely interested in putting me on the show and it is not true that BAMMA wasn't asked. They were asked but didn't want to be part of it. Without their permission, I wasn't able to take part in the TUF. But I'm not mad at that anymore, I feel like it will make better opportunities possible."
Having missed out on a possible UFC opportunity before, it isn't on his mind anymore as he remains pleased with his life and is mainly looking to support his family in the future.
"I really don't care, I'm set for the next few fights. All I want now is a decent living from fighting and provide for my family in the near future. ACB is not just giving me the chance to reach that goal but also giving me the challenges that I need. So far, I'm a very happy person"
Anthony "PrettyBoy" Taylor wants to knockout Trey Branch then fight Brian Moore in Bellator on St. Patricks Day
Going from postlim fights in Bellator to a co-main event and then a main card fight after with such little professional experience isn't something you'd hear of very often in the slightest. In this case Anthony "PrettyBoy" Taylor is the exception, who in only his third professional fight went to Ireland as part of the co-main event for a fight with James Gallagher. Taylor became well known to many in the build-up to that fight for being so outspoken and quite an entertainer, something he carries with him to the cage.
Anthony Taylor now has himself a fight lined up in a regional show near his home in California at California Fighting Championships. This will be his first time fighting back in America since May 2016. His last two bouts were in Europe as part of Bellator's expansion into Europe. Following two losses he now hopes to get back in the win column in front of a home crowd. Taking this fight as a tune off fight Anthony is confident he won't be touched by his opponent Trey Branch.
"Well, I'm taking this fight because Bellator said I'll be fighting next year for overseas and it will be a good tune off fight for me. I think of trey like any other fighter. Just a guy who's not going to touch me nor beat me."
His opponent Trey Branch is jumping up from flyweight for this fight, Anthony believes he's going to dominate his opponent and knock him out with ease. Now having 3 career losses coming via submission, he is not worried about his ground game, guaranteeing it was improved from training with some of the top fighters in Bellator.
"I believe I'm going to overpower him and KO him. He's coming up from 125lb to fight me which I stated to the world on Bellator that I'm the strongest 45er in the world!! And as far as my ground game, it'd be covered and it's great. Thanks to AJ McKee, Baby Slice, Joey Davis and Aaron Pico. My ground game is great and up there to the level, as there's"
Looking ahead to next year when he competes in Bellator again, Taylor has his eyes set on a big fight in a return to Irish soil.
"Well Bellator loves me and I proved them that I belong there. I haven't been told when I was fighting but I hope it's back in Ireland, and maybe on St. Patricks day and hopefully I'll fight Brian Moore because me and him been wanting to fight the longest."
As a training partner for AJ McKee, Taylor was very pleased with how the fight went down, claiming it was a simple enough fight for his teammate that apparently didn't train much for the fight. Suffering a loss on the initial trip to the emerald isle, "PrettyBoy" wants to come back and take home a win next time around.
"Oh man it was an easy fight for AJ, he only trained 2 weeks for that Brian Moore fight" he laughs "but absolutely it would be a great show if I was also on the show me and James alone still holds the record of views internationally and I'm looking to come back and taking what's mines which is that W"
The win against Brian Moore could now potentially line up a fight between McKee and James Gallagher, fight fans have long sought after. Having fought against James and training with McKee on the regular Taylor isn't convinced that Gallagher is ready for the AJ just yet. He also had some words about SBG fighters who were calling out Baby Slice.
"James is not ready for AJ. And people calling out slice since he's new in the game. Why are sbg guys not calling out Joey Davis?? They are all talk and think that they're better than everyone."
With a win on Saturday, Anthony Taylor thinks it will kick him off to a series of consecutive wins that could ultimately land him in a fight with Emmanuel Sanchez.
"Yes it will start off (Saturday) and I believe it will set me up tremendously. I'm only getting better and I plan on winning fights in Bellator and then taking out Emanuel Sanchez. I do not like him, I hate him"
"I don't like his style and he's always hating on my teammates so I want his head" he added
Away from the fight scene, Anthony is pleased with the life that he's got set up for himself with his newfound love since joining Bellator as he now aims to break into the movie industry too.
"Man it's been great I now have a wonderful woman in my life so I'm happy. I'm acting too, trying to get into the movies industry and God has blessed me which so much love"
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The dented helmet
Newest project - 1/6 Boba Fett Mythos Custom.
I wanted to sell my old Sideshow Boba Fett figure, but since there's been quite a few better 1/6 Fett figures released lately, I decided to make mine stand out from the crowd by customising it, with Sideshow's Mythos statue as inspiration.
It's not going to be an exact recreation of the Mythos design, rather a figure made with the same idea behind it. Meaning - that of a Boba Fett "beyond the movies", shown during some undescribed mission from the character's past. With slightly different gear than his movie loadout, and armour shown with a different stage of weathering.
First up is the helmet. The visor still needs some cleaning and glossing up, but other than that it's pretty much finished. Not having to be a slave to the exact pattern of scratches and damage seen on the movie armour, I could really go to town with weathering for a realistic finish. And though the Dentedhelmet.com purists will instantly notice a "non-canon" mosaic of patterns, the overall look and feel still fits very well with movie Boba. And it makes total sense, since it's unreasonable to think Fett's armour would look exactly the same during all of his deployments.
I plan to repaint all of his gear and armour this way (with some bits having complete colour scheme changes), give him more weapons and some additional fabric elements to his costume.
Note: bear in mind that the following photos have their colour filtering slightly too much on the red side, so it's not 100% representative of the colours in hand.
Here's the original Sideshow helmet for comparison:
Once upon a time I used to collect Hot Toys figures.
I stopped when I realised that:
So I sold most of the 1/6 pieces I own, save for a couple of personal favourites, featuring characters close to my heart. Chief amongst them was Hot Toy's DX09 figure of Michael Keaton's 1989 BATMAN. Not to turn this into yet another internet Nolan-Burton debate (I have place in my heart for both), Michael Keaton's rendition of Batman is amongst my favourite popculture performances of all time.
People more eloquent than me, allready penned numerous articles on why his interpetation of the character was so powerful and evocative, despite being (seemingly) simple in comparison to all the painfuly genre-aware, deconstructive movie supeheroes of today, so I won't be getting into that. What's important is that I decided to keep my Hot Toys rendition of the 1989 version as my One Ultimate Keaton Batman Collectible, couse I simply love me some Keaton Bats.
Especially BATMAN RETURNS Keaton Bats which is a movie whose quirks, melancholy and twisted romanticism I fell in love with as a kid. Plus, that fucking cowl man. Say what you will about the design changes made to the rest of the suit, I won't defend them, but BATMAN RETURNS cowl coupled with Keaton's face resulted in the most badass looking rendition of Batman in any medium. Period.
I mean look at this fucker.
So why am I talking about BATMAN RETURNS? Well, some time ago Hot Toys released their RETURNS version of Batman, which you can see here. It immediately became my newest One Ultimate Keaton Batman Collectible, and is currently on my "to buy list", despite me moving away from collecting 1/6 figures..
It meant that my old DX09 1989 HT Bats was dethroned and destined to be sold to a different collector, since there is room for only one rubber-clad, S&M gargoyle figure in this house. But not before I had the chance to apply some...modifications of my own.
Allright, so the general idea behind this custom was to take the "fresh out of a superhero factory" look of the original figure - which showed Batman at his most presentable - and modify him to look the way he did in the final act of the first film, during the Cathedral sequence of the movie.
With customs like this there will always be an element of improvisation when it comes to accuracy, due to poor documentation of the movie. I scoured the net looking for high quality pictures of the suit used in that scene, as stills from the movie proved to be of little help, mostly due to poor lighting conditions and camera focusing mostly on the cowl and not the rest of the body. Fortunately I found high res photos of the suit, taken at some Hollywood prop auction, which documented every inch of it. Even that didn't fully remove the element of guesswork, since when looking at 20 years-old rubber custumes like this, it's sometimes hard to tell what is intentional "movie damage" and what is just natural degradation of the suit due to passage of time. But I think it did help to better my placement of the damage on the suit. It's not 100% accurate, some of the burn marks on the cowl are a little bit too heavy, but I think the overall feel of the scene was captured.
The damage on the suit was done by doing exactly what it was meant to represent. I burned the rubber and texturised it with hot tools. Btw. the rubber used by HT in this figure is really solid. A far cry from their previous rubber suits which were infamous for quick self-degradation and just generally being shit. In addition to burning, cutting and scratching, I also made sure that there was a glossy, smooth sheen visible on some of the damage, which was meant to represent the glass-smooth surface of liquidised rubber. You can clearly see such glossy patches showing through the patina of dust on the original costume.
The effects of dust and dirt (which I think look a bit better in hand than they do on the photos) were done using modelling pigments, which were later affixed using matt spray varnish. The matte varnish not only helped seal the pigments in place, but also contributed to the dusty, dirty look of the figure, by flatting the surface of the suit, making it a bit greyer, dustier, as it appeared in the movie. However, since modelling pigments never really look 100% dry when covered with varnish, I also applied a second layer of pigments with no protection. Though there was risk that pigments could be eventually misplaced/removed by too much handling, I knew that re-applying them as needed, would be super easy and would only take minutes, so it didn't worry me.
I also painted my own blood effects on the face. Firstly, becouse I wanted this figure to sport the neutral face plate instead of the open one (the figure came with three different facial expression plates, only one of which - the open mouth one - came with blood). And secondly - becouse HT factory painted blood looked really poor and inaccurate, more like an accidental splotch of ketchup.
I also added some fine scratch marks to the belt. Though the pictures you're looking at. show the cleaner version of the belt, before I added futher dirt effects, since after looking at the photographs I decided that the belt looks to pristine and high-contrast in relation to the rest of the figure.
The cape of the figure was de-lined to make it just a bit more flexible and less stiff. Despite the overal engineering excellence of HT products, they are infamous for not beig able to properly produce something as seemingly simple as a cape, which results in their super-realistic, 250$ figures, looking like they're wearing table cloth. It does drape around Bat's shoulders a little bit better now. Unfortunately, by de-lining it I uncovered it's inner surface which is grey and made from a different material than the black, faux-leather exterior. You can see it clearly here.
Fortunately, when the figure is posed in a simple, standing position (which is where he looks best after all), it's not really visible.
There were also some subtle modifications done to the ears.
When DX09 was first showcased, people went crazy for it's fantastic sculpt of Keaton's face and the cowl. My only small gripe with the sculpt is that it's so good, it's almost a little bit too good. What I mean is that HT has done an idealised version of the cowl. The original movie costume was very crude. It was a simple, low-tech ruber cast with lot's of imperfections, bumps and asymetrical lines. The HT sculpt on the other hand was perfectly symmetrical. One of those asymmetries in the movie costume was a certain subtle but noticable curvature to the ears that made them slightly stick out from the cowl. It's especially visible in the cathedral scene.
Here's the curvature that I am talking about, compared to HT's perfectly smooth lines:
I am not sure if this curve was especially noticable during the catheral scene becouse they've used a different suit for that particular sequence (those low-tech, rubber casts always sported some small differences between them, even if made from the same mold). Or was it part of the weathering that the prop department put the suit through for that sequence. Either way, I decided to replicate that effect, by sculpting subtle curves on the sides of both ears and then give it some texture so that it matched the surface of the rest of the cowl.
The important thing here was subtlety. This kind of effect can be easily overdone, so I tried to keep it subtle enough that most collectors wouldn't even notice it if it wasn't directly pointed out. But I do think it slightly betters the accuracy of the suit and adds some of that assymetry visible in the original costume. Here's the final effect:
And lastly, I've modified the base so that it represented the old, moldy, dusty planks of the Cathedral floor, riddled bit cracked bits of dark brown masonry. The planks were made from Algida sticks. Perfect excuse to stuff your face full of icecream.
Anyway, I hope you'll like it.
Here's an obligatory Elfman theme, to cap things off:
Coronation, Starscream? This is bad comedy.


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Featuring two Gigabit Ethernet ports and six USB 2.0 connectors, Fastwel has unveiled its CP502, with a 2GHz Pentium M CPU and a 400 MHz system bus, making it, the company claims, the fastest 3U Compact PCI/PXI board available.
With 1MB/2MB of L2 on-die cache running at CPU speed, it incorporates a chipset based on the 82855GME GMCH with Hance Rapid ICH and can handle up to 1GB of PC333 DDR SDRAM. Its VGA controller integrated in 855GME with shared memory support up to 64 MB. Display interfaces support analog resolution up to 2048x1536 pixels on TFT LVDS panels.
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Andy Murray will find himself ranked world No.8 on Monday - his lowest placing in six years - after his hopes of defending his Miami Masters title were ended by old foe Novak Djokovic in a controversial quarter-final last night.
The Scot's 7-5, 6-3 defeat by the world No.2 will have left Murray with mixed feelings; frustration that he let slip a good chance of another victory over the Serb but also able to reflect on a boost to his morale going into a period of the season in which he has few ranking points to defend.
"If you're being realistic, it's not too far from where I want to be," said Murray, having wasted little time in heading into press after his defeat.
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After a difficult fortnight, during which he and Ivan Lendl ended their relationship after just over two years, Murray showed more signs that he is finding his form, six months after having back surgery.
Having saved break points in the fourth game, Murray more than held his own and when they reached 5-5, the Scot had a golden chance to break. Instead he put a forehand into the net.
That was Djokovic's chance to regroup and the Serb, who won in Indian Wells two weeks ago, broke Murray in the next game, albeit with no little controversy. Ten months after he was penalised for reaching over the net to hit the ball at a crucial stage in his semi-final against Rafa Nadal at the French Open, Djokovic did the same again, only for his actions to go unpunished.
Murray was incensed, beseeching the umpire to see common sense, not least because it was replayed on the big screen in the stadium at Crandon Park. "You are having a laugh man, on the replay his racket is over the net,'' Murray told the umpire, before making three consecutive errors to hand Djokovic the set.
The careers of both players have run almost parallel, ever since they first broke through to the professional ranks. Last year's Wimbledon final will always rank as Murray's finest moment and he knows he can get the better of the Serb when he is on his game.
That would seem pertinent when he broke to lead 3-2 in the second, with the match looking as though it might extend to three sets. However, Murray then lost his way and Djokovic sensed his chance once more.
After breaking back for 3-3, the Serb held and Murray then gifted him another break for 5-3 with an errant backhand. The world No.2 then showed no nerves as he served out to love, clinching victory with a superb forehand to end Murray's reign as champion, having won the last 12 points in a row.
Murray was left to rue what might have been but must now pick himself up quickly as Britain head to Italy for a Davis Cup quarter-final, held in the hotbed of Naples.
That will be his last outing on clay until early May when he plays back-to-back Masters Series events in Madrid and Rome, having chosen not to play in Monte Carlo, the only non-mandatory Masters Series event.
Murray has long said he enjoys playing on clay and Lendl, who watched Murray's efforts in Miami with a more relaxed nature than when he was his coach, believes the Scot can win the French Open.
More importantly, though, Murray has very few ranking points to defend in the next two months - specifically he has 280 to defend - so if his back is up to it, he will fancy his chances of climbing back towards the top four. More importantly, he will be looking to build on his efforts in Miami as he prepares for the defence of his Wimbledon title this summer.
There was enough about Murray's performances, against Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in the previous round and then against Djokovic, to suggest that he will arrive at SW19 in a confident mood. That will not help him shrug off the defeat by Djokovic last night but having overcome back surgery and dealt with the loss of Lendl, Murray knows is progressing slowly.
That may include finding a coach to replace Lendl - Murray wants to have somebody in place by the time he arrives in Roland Garros if he can - but he will also be conscious that rushing into the wrong appointment is a mistake not worth making.
Whoever is chosen to follow Lendl has big shoes to fill, but Murray's momentum is building and clay may just be the making of his efforts over the next six months.
There was a stirring result in the women's draw when Slovak Dominika Cibulkova fought off three match points to claim a 3-6, 7-6 (7-5), 6-3 win over third seed Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland to reach the last four. Trailing 5-4 in the second set and serving to keep her tournament hopes alive, 10th-seed Cibulkova fended off three match points before winning the set in a tiebreak.
She now meets the winner of last night's match between the world No.2 Li Na and Caroline Wozniacki.


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A man who applied to be a police officer with the San Diego Police Department has been sentenced to 240 months in federal prison on charges of receipt and possession of child pornography, U.S. Attorney Laura E. Duffy announced Friday.
San Diego resident Robert Lee Williams, 39, applied to be an SDPD officer in April 2011. While completing a pre-employment questionnaire, Williams admitted he had previously viewed child pornography.
Based on his questionnaire, police turned Williams' information over to the San Diego Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, who launched an investigation.
In May 2011, investigators executed a search warrant of Williams' home, seized his computer and two hard-drives and discovered more than 600 sexually explicit images of minors, some as young as two years old.
Williams – a freelance message therapist at the time -- was arrested for possession of child pornography.
The suspect later argued he didn't do anything wrong because he had been honest on the pre-employment questionnaire and claimed in court that he should not be punished.
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A busy morning on Tuesday, Sept. 4, greeted Idaho's Democratic Party delegates, scheduled to attend the Women's, LGBT and Senior caucuses.
They were also scheduled to attend a caucus designed to reach the Mormon population within the Democratic Party. A group of Utah Democrats led other Western states in a meeting meant to raise the profile of followers of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints who vote for Democrats.
Scott Howell, a Utah Democrat challenging incumbent Orrin Hatch for a Senate seat, told the Las Vegas Sun that the Mormon church is not "a Republican church."
The group hopes to get out the vote among large LDS populations in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico and Idaho.
While the most-prominent political member of the LDS faith remains GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, Democrats believe as many as 1 million LDS church members may be Democrats.