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November Marks Big Month for Cross-Border Drug Tunnels
By Diana Guevara
| Thursday, Nov 22, 2012 | Updated 2:17 PM PST
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November has become the season for finding border drug tunnels. Four tunnels were discovered in Otay Mesa in the last two years
With the discovery of four sophisticated tunnels in Otay Mesa over the past two years, agents with Immigration and Customs Enforcement have linked marijuana's summertime harvest season to the month of November.
By September it's been packaged and ready to be pushed out. So we were seeing it by November, [thats] when its coming through," said Joe Garcia, Deputy Special Agent in charge of ICE Homeland Security Investigations.
NBC San Diego took a trip back to where a 600-yard border tunnel was discovered on Thanksgiving Day back in 2010. While things have been quiet this November, Garcia says the Sinaloa Cartel, is still hard at work.
Video showed a demonstration of a heavy duty horizontal directional drill.
According to ICE, the drill is the latest gadget the cartel has been using to try and dig passages to send drugs across the border into the U.S. The machine is traditionally used to lay underground tubing.
If you have a 10-inch or a 12-inch you can get a package through there. And put in on a pulley system and you could pull it thru, said Garcia.
ICE showed photos where they confiscated the machine in two separate attempts near El Centro last summer.
One was found hidden in a house, while the other was stashed in an abandoned supermarket.
Although both attempts were unsuccessful, according to ICE, one tunnel was at least a quarter-mile long.
"We don't believe we've stopped this threat, explained Garcia. This is a very viable threat for the cartels to use."
With history having a tendency to repeat itself, Garcia and his team are not taking any chances.
You need to be patient, you need to be diligent and you need to be tenacious, he said.
A total of 52 tons of marijuana were found between the two tunnels discovered last November.
More than 70 passages have been found along the U.S. Mexico border in the last four years.
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Hotel Dwor Polski is a Wroclaw classic which charts its romantic history back to the 16th Century. Legends abound about this hotel and 'The Polish Court' is even said to have been the rendez-vous point of King Sigismund III and Anne of Habsburg before they tied the knot. Wooden floor boards, creaking oak beams, polished suits of armour and medieval swords help retain a flavour of times yore; whilst mini-bars, satellite TVs and internet connection in the rooms offer guests all the modern comforts they need. Be sure to check out the Dwor Polski's separate restaurant, pub and cafe. Each make a fine refreshment point. Located on the charming Kielbasnicza street in the Old Town, the hotel is conveniently just a few steps away from the Market Square.
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Barbara from United States Reply
Charming hotel with lot's of history behind!
Jorge from Spain Reply
Nice 4-starer with lots of history. Perfect location
Jurgen from Germany Reply
We enjoyed our time in Wroclaw a lot. Especially with such a location!
Robert from Germany Reply
Charming hotel with lots of history behind! Perfectly located, excellent for a romantic trip!
Willem from Netherlands Reply
I had dinner here (with six) and it was a fine evening. Good Polish cuisine for a very nice price...
Carl from United Kingdom Reply
Very good location and historic building, but could use some modernization
Michael from Germany Reply
We stayed there a while ago nad we enjoyed that very much! The hotel has a perfect location, and the service is very good!
JaBoy from Netherlands Reply
I spent one night in the Dwor Polski Oct 07. It was fine for my needs. Where some people see charm, others may see a hotel in need of brightening-up. It was clean and the staff were helpful. I had to eat breakfast standing-up, because there were no available seats in the tiny breakfast room.
Michael Fullerton from United Kingdom Reply
Excellent place. Book in advance, otherwise you won't get a room!
Prof M.Katz from Israel Reply
I stay at the Dwor whenever in Wroclaw since 15 years ,on the everage twice a year -it is my home away of home.I love the place Clean,friendly,a great location -even when a meeting takes place in one of the fancy hotels I always ask to stay there My next reservation is for the begining of October 2007 -I was there in April 2007
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Hi just back from Wroclaw spent four nights at the Dwor its ok only trouble is you have to walk round about three hundred metres from hotel to get to bar and resteraunt they said it was the only way,other wise it is ok a bit dated and breakfast room is to small it can only sit about 20 at a push and there was ten in my group would stay their again,Jack Robertson, Glasgow

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New England general manager Michael Burns has confirmed the club is in talks to sign FC Sion defender José Gonçalves.
The former Portugal under-21 international, 27, emerged as a potential target for the Revs several months ago and linked up with the club for a training spell before the club departed for the winter. Gonçalves apparently showed well enough during that stint to prompt the Revs to pursue a move.
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Poem: Emotionally Stable - Poem by Joseph James Breunig 3rd
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"You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it's going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogma or goals, it's always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt."
"His appearance gives no clue to what his profession might be, and yet he doesn't look like a man without a profession either. Consider what he's like: He always knows what to do. He knows how to gaze into a woman's eyes. He can put his mind to any question at any time. He can box. He is gifted, strong-willed, open-minded, fearless, tenacious, dashing, circumspect—why quibble, suppose we grant him all those qualities—yet he has none of them! They have made him what he is, they have set his course for him, and yet they don't belong to him. When he is angry, something in him laughs. When he is sad, he is up to something. When something moves him, he turns against it. He'll always see a good side to every bad action. What he thinks of anything will always depend on some possible context—nothing is, to him, what it is: everything is subject to change, in flux, part of a whole, of an infinite number of wholes presumably adding up to a super-whole that, however, he knows nothing about. So every answer he gives is only a partial answer, every feeling an opinion, and he never cares what something is, only 'how' it is—some extraneous seasoning that somehow goes along with it, that's what interests him."
"For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between those who claimed that your life belongs to God and those who claimed that it belongs to your neighbors—between those who preached that the good is self-sacrifice for the sake of ghosts in heaven and those who preached that the good is self-sacrifice for the sake of incompetents on earth. And no one came to say that your life belongs to you and that the good is to live it."
"I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day."
"I know. I know that I shall never again meet anything or anybody who will inspire me with passion. You know, it's quite a job starting to love somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment, in the very beginning, when you have to jump across a precipice: if you think about it you don't do it. I know I'll never jump again."
"Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke."
"Why did the old Persians hold the sea holy? Why did the Greeks give it a separate deity, and own brother of Jove? Surely all this is not without meaning. And still deeper the meaning of that story of Narcissus, who because he could not grasp the tormenting, mild image he saw in the fountain, plunged into it and was drowned. But that same image, we ourselves see in all rivers and oceans. It is the image of the ungraspable phantom of life; and this is the key to it all."
"When from a long-distant past nothing subsists, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered, still, alone, more fragile, but with more vitality, more unsubstantial, more persistent, more faithful, the smell and taste of things remain poised a long time, like souls, ready to remind us, waiting and hoping for their moment, amid the ruins of all the rest; and bear unfaltering, in the tiny and almost impalpable drop of their essence, the vast structure of recollection."
"In historical events great men—so called—are but the labels that serve to give a name to an event, and like labels, they have the least possible connection with the event itself. Every action of theirs, that seems to them an act of their own free will, is in an historical sense not free at all, but in bondage to the whole course of previous history, and predestined from all eternity."
"Is there in the whole world a being who would have the right to forgive and could forgive? I don't want harmony. From love for humanity I don't want it. I would rather be left with the unavenged suffering. I would rather remain with my unavenged suffering and unsatisfied indignation, even if I were wrong. Besides, too high a price is asked for harmony; it's beyond our means to pay so much to enter on it. And so I hasten to give back my entrance ticket, and if I am an honest man I am bound to give it back as soon as possible. And that I am doing. It's not God that I don't accept . . . only I most respectfully return him the ticket."
If you dig Moby Dick, read Jed McKenna. Dude blows the lid off of some Moby Dick. I've never read a more concise spiritual personality who demystifies enlightenment and has a good time in the process.
What about "Thus Spoke Zarathustra"? I think that might replace a number of these--especially number 10.
you forgot the stranger.
i actually enjoyed The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand quite a bit more than Atlas Shrugged. I just can't see the "capitalistic" world as so beautiful and without any flaws as she puts out in this book.
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I would also include: Don Quixote by Cervantes, 1984 by Orwell, Foundation Trilogy by Asimov, The Dharma Bums by Kerouac, Master and Margarita by Bulgakov, Journey to the End of the Night by Celine, and Notes from the Underground by Dostoyevsky
"Novels" loosely - Canetti AUTO DA FE, Naipaul ENIGMA OF ARRIVAL, Perec LIFE A USER'S MANUAL, Pessoa BOOK OF DISQUIET, Moravia BOREDOM, Kundera IMMORTALITY, Kafka THE CASTLE, Ionesco THE HERMIT, Calvino IF ON A WINTERS NIGHT, Bellow HERZOG
vonnegut---cats cradle....all you need to know to survive in this world
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
A lot of really good books on this list, Steppenwolf and Atlas Shrugged in particular, but to me personally, I can't stand Moby Dick.
Who is the composer of this list? It seems both spotty and naive. The omission of Mann's "Magic Mountain" is a case in point! and " Melville's "Billy Budd" is another, Not to mention Conrad's "Heart of Darkness"........ Philosophy has major divisions such as Ontology, etc. Do any of the suggested works address central issues of philosophy? Only tangentially.
I think The Fountainhead is 100 times better than Atlas Shrugged.
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Atlas Shrugged is probably the greatest novel ever written.
i agree with "cat's cradle," but perhaps i am biased as it is my favorite book.
Flatland by Edwin Abbott
No way does Atlas Shrugged belong in this company. Completely flat and simplistic characters and philosophy. More suitable as a graphic novel, despite Alan Greenspan's foreword and Rand's self-aggrandizing afterword. The present economic situation proves how wrong she was. Shame on you for sullying your list with this one. Influential, perhaps. Great? Neither her book nor her acolytes.
The Holographic Universe is wonderful. I read it years ago and will soon re-read it.
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
When I saw this list I swore if it didn't have "The Man Without Qualities," I'd throw a fit!
Pardon a correction to an earlier poster: Atlas Shrugged moat assuredly belongs in this company. Completely hardcore philosophy, even i find it difficult to agree with some of her 'purist' thoughts, yet I see that she has a grip on some part of thought we all seek. The present economic situation proves how horribly right and prescient she was. It is the waiving from a pure capitalist system through inadvisable Statist interventions that has brought us to our current troubles. Bravo to you for placing her tome on your list. Influential, alas, not enough. Great? perhaps in the future she'll rate higher. We can only hope...
of ALL time? maybe of the last 160 years, but it is highly doubtful that the "Top 10 Greatest Philosophical Novels Of All Time" have all been written since 1850...
Our current economic situation is the result of the massive amounts of government regulations that this country is under. We are not, nor have been, a capitalist nation. People hate on Rand WAY too much. She stood for individual freedom; if you're against her, what do are you for? Atlas Shrugged should definitely be on this list.
Thanatos Syndrome by Walker Percy
I 2nd the call for Zarathustra
I agree about Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Amazing Amazing. There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
I prefer "Zorba The Greek" by Nikos Kazantzakis over Robert Pirsig's "Zen..."
Franny and Zoey by Salinger. Also I would have included Mahabharata instead of war and peace.
don't be stupid. what country have you been living in? we have done nothing for the past 8 years but let the most capitalisty of our society run things, and deregulate like crazy, and our economy is in the shitter. your ideas have been TESTED FALSE. atlas shrugged is garbage played out in a perfect world. notice how all the objectivists are handsome or beautiful, whereas any other ideology is portrayed as shapeless or ugly.
No Vonnegut? Ayn Rand? No Nietzsche? No Kafka? No Orwell/Huxley? Who wrote this list?
agreed... The Stranger should definitely be on this list
Cats Cradle was The Book in my life
zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance should be #5 at least.
Atlas Shrugged is complete shit. Ayn Rand was a total moron. No real student of philosophy would waste his/her time on that drivel. Only two-dimensional fools take her seriously-- yeah, I'm referring to you!
Disagree with much of what Rand says, but this current economic crisis was not caused by a free-market system. There was DIRECT government pressure from both the left and the right to make housing loans accessible to low-income people; this is the opposite of how a free-market functions. In a free market, there is no external political pressure - if you think something is a good financial move, you do it. Unfortunately, due to this pressure billions of dollars in loans were made to people who had no hope of paying them back. Then when they defaulted on their mortgages, the whole system imploded. This has NOTHING to do with true capitalism - true capitalism would have left the lenders alone to make loans to whomever they feel is qualified.
Isn't it funny how Atlass Shrugged is the most discussed book in the comments, yet it's either you love it or you hate it. It wasn't written by a complete moron, and has caused more than enough philosophical discussions to be on the list. I personally think that Caligula by Camus should also be here.
I love how everyone is commenting on the placement of books on this list, but there's a good chance that most have not read ALL of the books, therefore not understanding them enough to grade them on a numerical scale.
there is no such thing as a "free market" never has, never will. the "free market" is just another buzzword to lead the sheeple. also, where is fight club? that book changed my life.
I submit that "Stranger in a Strange Land" by Robert Heinlein is as deeply philosophical as any of the novels on this list. I would also call your attention to a perhaps little-known book, "The River Why" by David James Duncan. And Ayn Rand? Really? Oh, and any Henry Miller would be good here.
Most of these work for me. One of my favourites though was James Clavell's novel "Shōgun".
well I found this list very interesting, but I believe it remains incomplete without James Joyce's Ulysses!!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra is missing
I agreed with Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
Grok this. Stranger in a Strange Land is a great science fiction novel. That's it. To put it in the same category as Zen and the Art, or Camus is to be absurd.
I agree with "bongmaster420". Ayn Rand didnt expect people to like or understand her novels or philosophy. She wrote what she wanted to write and she became big! I wanna see you try and write something meaningful like she did. I like her philosophy. I mean, How can you stand next to the truth and not see it?
I would like to include "The Lamplighter" by Anthony O'Neill.
Whether you agree with me or not, investing the time necessary to enjoy Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow was one of the highlights of my young life and should be considered here.
Emile. Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
Atlas Shrugged? Greatest Philosophical novel of all time? Not even close!
good list. I remember reading Moby Dick when i was younger and thought it was boring. i picked it back up some years later and thought it was much much better the second time around. I'm sorry but i think there should have been something else on the list instead of zen. cats cradle would definitely been a better choice. Also, every time I try to read Tolstoy,its just too boring. I've read all of war and peace, and it had a few sparks of imagination, but not enough to make a fire. War and Peace should be replaced by Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Nietzsche was and is a fucking hauss. And one more thing: Ayn Rand is the tits. People argue over her and her philosophies because they deal with an important subject: man and his morals.Laissez-Faire capitalism works,and if you don't think so, I bet you think that our money system is fine having: 1)massive inflation on a national currency 2)our currency controlled by a PRIVATE BANK called the federal reserve system 3)having no "real" money because our money is based on credit, meaning it's based on a promise to pay back debt. Since every U.S. dollar printed off is worth less than it was before it was printed (due to inflation of money supply),we will never be able to pay back our debt. Oh, by the way, there is such a thing as free capitalism, it just has never fully be utilized. People have been taught more and more to beg and cheat for their money, and i bet that statement included the retards who hate Ayn Rand. If you think Laissez-Faire capitalism doesn't work, you tell me a better system of capitalism. You prove that another system is better, in every way. Go ahead, try it.
@ala n mckinlay I found your comment to be very amusing. Nobody commented on it, but saying it's absurd to compare Heinlein to Camus just tickled me.
Interesting points all around. I have my own reservations and preferences, but I'm inclined to believe that the point with these lists or any 'quantifier' for that matter, is twofold: to suggest and to provoke. As much as I enjoyed reading this list, I also enjoyed it's comments. So, chances are you 're reading this because you haven't reached wisdom yet or you probably wouldn't have googled your way into. Rather than protest, find something that tickles and get your hands on it. Never read Musil and will probably do. ( Happy to see Dosto and Mel make it. Would have been happier with a Salinger, Bellow or Kazantzakis instead of Rand)
Atlas Shrugged is amazing. Liberalism is a mental disorder.
Kevin, since you've compared "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" to "Zen & The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance," I feel compelled to point out Nietzsche's comprehension of Buddhism was abysmal. Nagarjuna's "Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way" kicks the crap out of Nietzsche's philosophy in every way possible except emotional rhetoric. And without Nagarjuna there would be no Zen and without Zen, no "Zen & The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance." Zen & The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is also a better book, imo.
I remember reading this list before I ever read Atlas Shrugged. I read the quote provided, and was very impressed. A year later, I read Atlas Shrugged, and it was the most important book that I have ever read. Finally, someone who gives mankind another option! Atlas Shrugged provides a philosophy for living on Earth - it helped me to see that my life is my own to live, and my happiness is my own to achieve. Thank you for including this book.
I can't say that I have read all the books on this list, so I won't argue against any, but I would throw out that Ishmael by Daniel Quinn is a fantastic philosophical book, for anyone interested
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance was a load of horseshit.
I would like to see "The Island" - Aldous Huxley
Ayn Rand sucks major right wing shit....
No love for Sophie's World ?
Atlas Shrugged, was one of those books which wasn´t meant to be taken literally, to apply the word ¨purist¨ would loosely fit an adequate description, it was meant to be offensive in some of its notions for people to grasp at least halfway what is meant for an ideal reality, at the same time I found it congruent with Sartre´s view´s on responsability or even Nietzsche´s Ubermensch, but for the literary part I have to admit it was boring, the caracters were either heroes or villians, the view wasn´t original but it was a slap in the face, maybe not the most depurated philosophical work but it achieved it´s goal, personally I found astonishing that no one commented a peep of Brothers Karamazov, that to my point of viez was the most interesting book on the list only because it wasn´t written from one philosophical point of view, but rather from a clash of diferent perspectives and how would they play out in a sad sad world, at the end I could only identify one common ground all the characters lived in a despair of their own, being signalized as a basic human condition... someone care to disagree, please comment? (please excuse gramatical errors, English is not my first language)
I loved Atlas Shrugged. I'm not smart enough to explain why, only it shook some of my core principles and beliefs about ability and art in terms of economics and society. I know it's not a novel, but I like The Giving Tree.
I am surprised not to see Ayn Rand's "Fountainhead". This novel has been considered one of the best philosophical novels of her time.
I love number one. By far my favorite.
Where is Aldous Huxley on this list, the greatest and most philosophically versed writer of the 20th century ? His final and greatest novel, "Island", certainly bears mentining here, along with almost anything else he has ever written. And to all you 'Atlas Shrugged' fans out there, liberalism is NOT a disease - you think it is now, but when you or a loved one needs an act of compassion at a future point in life, you better pray the person on the giving end isn't a hard-liner like the person presently looking back at you in the mirror.
Ayn Rand is a fucking fascist twat.
How the heck is Ayn Rand fascist she supported pure unadulterated freedom and greatly criticized acts of manipulation towards a populous. It's really not correct to call her right wing either as she supported things like gay marriage and abortion as well as an end to welfare. I would call her libertarian but she wouldn't like that. Also whether or not you agree with the philosphy doesn't determine it's place on the list.
I think that the people that don't believe that a stranger in a strange land doesn't belong on this list need to take a deep look at the word ALLEGORY. The story itself was a deep look at society as a whole, the way we treat things or people we don't understand and what would happen to a person with magical / mystical / religious powers of healing and personal self control over mind and body. I also believe it shows just how much programing we go through in our day to day lives starting with our parents imprinting us with all of their prejudices and life experiences which we in turn use to dictate the rest of lives.
Atlas Shrugged: Juvenile commentary from someone who refused to enter the adult world.
The Root of Heaven and Earth, by E. A. Grace -- a really spectacular vision of what it means to be human, full of rich ideas, complicated, and full of life. I can't think of another novel that offers such a complex interweaving of really substantive ideas along with such a satisfying and meaningful story. The characters feel real and the ideas are powerful and important. Great book.
It seems that some of the comments on this list about Atlas Shrugged are very hostile. I myself haven't read it and therefore can not support it or attack it. It seems however that critics, rather than say how Ayn Rand is wrong on a certain topic, tell of how she is a "fascist twat", "a moron", and "right wing".
Most of the books listed are mostly well known but I have read an unknown novel that was the most "philosopjical" I have read: Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis by Vaughn Petterson.
Seems like AynRands "Atlas Shrugged" is the only novel that brings out the "haters"- Hmm Not sure why unless it's the most damaging to their point of view. The Fact that they use such vile language is very telling as to who we are dealing with here. Simple minds say simple things : )
Great selection! For years I have been wondering why 'Brothers Karamazov' isn't given the credit it deserves. This is indeed the most profound classic ever written. Thank you
Magic Mountain Thomas Mann
Bro u forgot Shri Madbhagavad Gita... It's regarded as the single most influential philosophical book ever... It's narrated by Lord Shri Krishna himself... Just have a glimpse at it n I'm sure u will place it in the no.1 position... It's the only standalone texts of more than 4000 year old with highest Scientific accuracy...!
To the Ayn Rand comment about compassion and hoping that the person on the other end isn't a hard-liner, I believe Ayn Rand's philosophy was that each person should do as they wish with the capital they employ and not be tethered to certain causes or obligations. She didn't advocate against charity; she advocated against the misappropriation of funds. This means one could supply budding potential contributors with stipends, but snub drug addicts, perhaps directing them to a soup kitchen for their sustenance. Instead, we have a blanket establishing a minimum level of appeasement. Whether this is beneficial or not, I'm truly not certain. If you look at an approach more in line with Ayn Rand's philosophy, such as the organizations receiving funds from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, there is a much more rigorous review and approval process. For example, people seeking assistance from Catholic Charities must speak to the organization, describe their situation, provide justification, detail what any funds provided would be used for and then provide identification so that records can be properly maintained. The organization then decides whether to assist or not. Another example is private scholarships versus government grants for education. In strike contrast to the government, where benefits are provided to anyone within certain metrics. Who knows if the elites within society would establish and/or voluntarily contribute to causes similar to the ones taken on by government without being threatened with imprisonment, but I believe it is important to understand the philosophy Ayn Rand has proposed. If someone assumes control of a type of value creation, they are the ones that most likely possess the best inherent understanding of it and therefore should be able to scale it per their understanding, which may include providing funds to administrative bodies (like the government). It is the use of force to compel relinquishment that Ayn Rand was disapproving of, not charitable activities or social services.
great list
Pirsig's book is nothing more than New Age crap, on the same level as Coehlo, not to be taken seriously to be honest, the other ones, well, "Atlas Shrugged" is unreadable and too long so...


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Wizards Of The Coast is indeed owned by Hasbro. Four million dollars over ten years for WOTC's major brand is a pretty small amount, though perhaps if the deal is done more through Hasbro, the license fee makes more sense.
Alrik, the best way to check what edition and what set your D&D box is, would be to do a search on the ISBN number. Also going by the date would be a good guideline as well, that info is probably in the publication details somewhere in the books.
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LEGO Brick Timeline
1932 Ole Kirk Christiansen, master carpenter, establishes his business in Billund, Denmark. Starts manufacturing stepladders, ironing boards stools and wooden toys.
1934 Company renames itself to LEGO, from Danish "Leg Godt." It means "play well." In Latin, LEGO means "I put together."
1939 Germany and Soviet Union invade Poland. WWII start.
1940 Hitler invades Denmark and Norway.
1945 Germany surrenders. Hitler kills himself, he never got to play LEGO or invade Legoland (take that, sucker!)
1947 Lego buys its first plastic injection-molding machine for making toys.
1955 LEGO launches the first LEGO system of Play, with 28 sets and eight vehicles. The first ancestor of the modern LEGO sets.
1958 The original LEGO brick, with its studs-and-tube coupling system is born: at January 28 1958 1:58 pm, the original patent is filed.
1961 LEGO invents the wheel.
1966 The first LEGO train system and the first electric motor (4.5 volts) is introduced.
1967 The LEGO Duple brick is invented, so the youngest kids can play without risks.
1973 LEGO starts operations in the US and selling products directly.
1974 LEGO figures are born, but they are still made of bricks.
1977 LEGO TECHNIC. set made more complex pieces for advanced builders, is introduced.
1978 The LEGO minifig is born. Without arms or faces! (Thank god this was solved a year later)
1979 LEGOLAND Space is introduced, the first LEGO theme. (incidentally, the Galaxy Explorer was the first LEGO I remember having and still my favorite)
1984 LEGOLAND Castle is born, woth one of the largest LEGO sets ever
1989 LEGOLAND Pirates arrive to port. Aye aye!
1996 Google co-founder, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, use bricks as the external low-cost and expandable casing for 10 4- GigaByte hard disks when they were busy developing the Google search engine.
1998 The first LEGO MINDSTORMS is introduced.
1999 LEGO Star Wars launches into space. The Force is strong in this one and becomes the best selling LEGO line ever.
2001 LEGO BIONICLE is introduced. Whatever.
2006 LEGO MINDSTROMS NXT is introduced. Very sophisticated but easier to use than the previous generation.
2008 50th Anniversary of the LEGO block. Worldwide happiness ensues.
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I am always astonished by the cruelty of some people.
Yesterday I received three comments presenting "the other side" in one of our cases. The information this person offered was unhelpful in the extreme to our boy; yet, in the interest of getting to the truth (no matter what the truth might turn out to be), we at first took this person's allegations seriously.
I wrote back to this commenter—an anonymous person identifying him/herself only as "WC"—explaining that, because these allegations could have a significant impact on the quality of justice meted out to a juvenile, I was going to delay publication of the comments until we had vetted the commenter. I received no reply.
As it turns out, the e-mail address provided by the commenter was phony. Our e-mail messages to the commenter were bounced back to us and the IP address turned out to originate in a blighted redneck town in Florida, hundreds of miles from where our kid lives and is locked up.
As it happens, that blighted town is Pensacola, a place with which I am quite familiar because of my history with Derek and Alex King. Pensacola is their hometown and the place that incubated the perversion of justice that has characterized the King Brothers' story from the start. Pensacola is a mean and ugly place that I am always happy to leave. Years of reading online comments to stories about Derek and Alex make me wonder if Pensacola isn't home to a social ethos that is particularly cruel.
This afternoon I received word that Paul Henry Gingerich's home, Kosciusko County IN, has surfaced in the news again as a place that favors cruel and unusual punishment. This time a boy named Lucas Anthony Howland received a two-year jail sentence for breaking into a church and stealing $8.00. The judge on this case was none other than Duane Huffer, the same guy who presided over Paul Henry's rushed, pre-wired, and unconstitutional waiver hearing, and the prosecutor was Dan Hampton, the same guy who also figures so prominently in Paul Henry's case.
According to court documents, Lucas told police he had just been kicked out of his parents' home at the time of the break-in. He was 18 years old, unemployed, and homeless. I don't know much about the case yet, but Lucas did show up on a list of missing children back in 2009, so it's a safe bet that the kid had a troubled home life.
These guys in the Kosciusko County court are so unbelievable. They are going to lock the kid up for two years at a cost to taxpayers of at least $35,000 for stealing less than ten dollars! This excessive punishment will not rehabilitate the boy; it may, in fact, harden him and guarantee his recidivism. Prosecutor Dan Hampton was quoted by a local television station as saying that the kid got off easy; he could have gotten 20 years, according to Hampton. So knowing how these guys work, the 20-year sentence is probably what Hampton was using as a threat to get the kid to agree to a plea. Lucas had a court-appointed defender.
Just as one is able to statistically map crime "hot spots," I am wondering if there aren't also "hot spots" of injustice and cruelty? In places like New Castle PA, Pensacola FL, and Warsaw IN, bad judges and prosecutors do not operate in a vacuum, but within a social culture that supports (or at least does not object to) their actions. I am wondering if injustice is a symptom of a more general malaise in the community—a state of spiritual rot that affects many more things than just the functioning of the courts and law enforcement?
If this is so, the task ahead of us is very daunting indeed.
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The Padres end their penultimate homestand of the season this weekend with three games against the Colorado Rockies.
Right-hander Burch Smith has been promoted from Triple-A Tucson to start Friday night's game (7:10 p.m.).
The Rockies swept the first two series of the year between the teams and are 12-4 against the Padres this season, including a 5-1 edge at Petco Park. The Padres are the lone team in the National League West that the Rockies have a winning record against.
ROCKIES (66-75) at PADRES (62-77)
Time: 7:10 p.m. Game: 1 of 3
TV: Fox Sports San Diego
Radio: 1090-AM, 860-AM (Spanish)
Today's matchup
Rockies RHP Juan Nicasio (8-7, 4.82 ERA)
Nicasio vs. the Padres: 2-0 career, 3.20 ERA in four starts (0-0 this season, 3.00 ERA in one start.
Nicasio at Petco Park: 0-0 career, 1.29 ERA in one start (first appearance this season).
Nicasio, 27, will be making his second start of the season against the Padres and his first at Petco Park. The 6-foot-3, 230-pound native of the Dominican Republic allowed two runs on four hits over six innings against the Padres at Coors Field on June 9, although he didn't factor in the decision. In 25 1/3 career innings against the Padres, Nicasio has 31 strikeouts against four walks. Nicasio is 4-5 in the road this season with a 5.43 ERA and 4-9 on the road in his career with a 5.29 ERA in 24 starts.
Padres vs. Nicasio
Alexi Amarista: .333 (1-for-3, 2 SO)
Kyle Blanks: .000 (0-for-5, BB, SO)
Ronny Cedeno: .000 (0-for-2, SO)
Chris Denorfia: .125 (1-for-8, HR, 2 SO)
Logan Forsythe: .000 (0-for-3, SO)
Jesus Guzman: .125 (1-for-8, 2B, 2 SO)
Jedd Gyorko: .000 (0-for-3, SO)
Chase Headley: .667 (6-for-9, 2 HR, 3 SO)
Nick Hundley: .375 (3-for-8, HR, 4 SO)
Will Venable: .333 (2-for-6, 2B, SO)
Padres RHP Burch Smith (0-1, 11.37)
Smith vs. the Rockies: First meeting.
Smith at Petco Park: 0-1 career and this season, 12.79 ERA in two starts.
Smith, 23, is starting his third tour with the Padres this season. Smith began the season in Double-A and was 1-2 with a 1.15 ERA (and 37 strikeouts in 31 1/3 innings) with San Antonio when he earned his first promotion to the Padres on May 11. After going 0-1 with a 18.41 ERA in three starts for the Padres, he was optioned to Triple-A Tucson, where he was 5-1 with a 3.39 ERA in 12 starts. Smith was the Pacific Coast League's Pitcher of the Week for the final week of the season.
Rockies vs. Smith
No Rockies hitter has faced Smith in the major leagues.
Starting Lineups
Colorado Rockies
1.Dexter Fowler (S), CF -- .260-12-42
2.DJ LeMahieu, 3B -- .282-2-22
3.Troy Tulowitzki, SS -- .314-22-71
4.Michael Cuddyer, RF -- .331-18-74
5.Wilin Rosario, C -- .292-21-74
6.Todd Helton (L), 1B -- .249-12-50
7.Josh Rutledge, 2B -- .228-7-19
8.Charlie Blackmon (L), LF -- .279-4-12
9.Juan Nicasio, RHP -- .161-0-3
San Diego Padres
1.Will Venable (L), RF -- .275-20-50
2.Chris Denorfia, LF -- .273-9-42
3.Jedd Gyorko, 2B -- .244-16-43
4.Chase Headley (S), 3B -- .240-9-37
5.Kyle Blanks, 1B -- .254-8-34
6.Alexi Amarista (L), CF -- .266-5-30
7.Ronny Cedeno, SS -- .284-2-7
8.Nick Hundley, C -- .240-11-37
9.Burch Smith, RHP -- .000-0-0
Looking Ahead
Thursday: Off.
Saturday: Rockies RHP Tyler Chatwood (7-4, 3.29) at Padres RHP Tyson Ross (3-7, 2.99), 5:40 p.m.
Sunday: Rockies RHP Chad Bettis (0-3, 5.45) at Padres RHP Ian Kennedy (6-9, 4.96), 1:10 p.m.
Monday: Off.


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January 23, 2014
Team USA has unveiled its Opening Ceremony uniforms for its 400 athletes and 200 officials. Created by Ralph Lauren, the uniforms are sourced from domestic vendors following widespread protests in 2012 that the American uniforms were made overseas.
"We've learned a lot," David Lauren, Ralph's son and the company's executive vice president of global advertising, marketing and communications, said in USA Today. "This is an important issue for many Americans and one we have fully embraced, and we want to continue to lead the way and find all kinds of vendors who can produce amazing products made in America."
The difficulty, Lauren said, was in finding American vendors that could handle the requirements. Most domestic vendors have either shut down or moved overseas.
Here's three-time Olympic hockey player Julie Chu modeling the uniform in closeup:
Team USA will put the uniforms in play at the Opening Ceremony on Feb. 7.
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U.S. women's hockey goalie Jessie Vetter had an awesome concept for her 2014 Sochi Olympics mask: Using actual 23 karat gold in the paint – hey, she's going for gold, right? – and adorning it was inspiring American iconography.
One of the images was of the Constitution's famous opening line, "We The People" and some text from that historic document. But when Vetter takes the ice for Team USA next month, it won't be found on her mask – the International Olympic Committee ruled it had to be deleted.
From IN GOAL Magazine and mask artist Ron Slater:
"[It] had to be removed because no writings of any kind to promote the country is allowed," Slater explained in an email to InGoal. "A sort of 'our country is better than your country" kind of thing that the IOC frowns upon. Her name had to come off because they see it as self promotion. They wanted everything to be team based. … Our original idea was 'land of the free, home of the brave,' and that would have had to have been removed as well."
The IOC's Rule 51 bans any sort of advertising, demonstration, and/or propaganda on an athlete's equipment at the Olympics. American men's hockey goalies were hit with the regulation in the 2010 Vancouver Games, as Jonathan Quick's "support our troops" slogan and Ryan Miller's "Matt Man," a tribute to his late cousin who died of leukemia, were stripped from the mask designs.
Vetter and Slater were able to keep a USA logo, the Statue of Liberty and a bald eagle on the mask, as apparently none of that is propaganda. Here's the new back to the mask.
And the side, which was maintained:
Look, the Olympics have any number of silly restrictions on freedom of expression, and the idea that the U.S. Constitution is seen as "propaganda" rather than a procedural document establishing societal and governmental rules is asinine.
It's not like the preamble reads, "We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union and be soooo much better than you unwashed heathens across the oceans …"
But our real question here: If Jessie Vetter can't have a few words of the Constitution on her mask, why can Team Slovakia have their ENTIRE NATIONAL ANTHEM sewn into their hockey sweaters?
With the news that Lindsey Vonn, the most famous American skier and arguably the U.S.'s best-known winter Olympic athlete, will miss this year's Olympic Games, there's a star-power vacuum at the top. Sure, there's snowboarder Shaun White, and Vonn's fellow skier Ted Ligety, but most of the U.S. team isn't as well known.
Mikaela Shiffrin, one of Vonn's fellow skiers, is about to get her turn in the spotlight. She's only 18, but she's the current slalom World Cup champion. Shiffrin's skill is in the technical aspects of skiing, having won two of four World Cup slaloms this season already. Shiffrin is already targeted as a potential medalist in both slalom and giant slalom.
She can fight through adversity; as recently as last Saturday, she won a slalom event in Bormio, Italy, while skiing through rain and poor course conditions. The race had to be moved from Zagreb, Croatia because weather conditions were so poor. The fact that Shiffrin was able to flourish given such drastic shifts bodes well for her future, given that Olympic skiers must deal with an entirely new level of attention and, in some cases, adversity.
"I never wanted to be a racer who could only win on hard snow or just soft snow, or just a steep pitch or just a flat," Shiffrin said after the win. "I want to be really good in all-around conditions and getting a win [Saturday] has given me a lot of confidence that I can ski out of ruts in the second run."
Of note: Shiffrin's key rival, Marlies Schild of Austria, will pose a significant challenge in Sochi. Schild won the other two slaloms that Shiffrin did not, and at age 32 and recovering from two knee surgeries, completes the other half of the youth-versus-experience battle. That showdown should make for one of Sochi's more compelling stories.
Just don't call Shiffrin the "next Lindsey Vonn." "When they say I'm the next Lindsey Vonn, they are shooing her out the door, and I don't think that's fair," Shiffrin told Today.com in December. "Imagine being her, reading that someone is the next Lindsey Vonn — it's like saying, 'Get out of the way, there's no room for two Lindsey Vonns.'"
Maybe not. But in Sochi, Shiffrin will have the whole stage to herself.
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All right, this is good stuff. Behold the helmet of Canadian skeletoner Sarah Reid. It's one of the high-concept helmets for four members of the Canadian skeleton contingent, and you'll see plenty of them next month in Sochi.
"I had been wanting to get my helmet painted for quite a while, and originally wanted an image that I found off the Internet of a girl's face that was half normal, half skull," Reid told Canada's official Olympic website, thereby assuring that she will be metalheads' favorite Olympian. When an artist informed her that a symmetrical look would be better, she went with a "Day of the Dead" approach.
Here's fellow skeletoner Eric Neilson:
His explanation for his helmet is equally straightforward: "The story behind mine was pretty much that I wanted a very bad ass helmet. I know you can't put that in a write up, but that's what I wanted. It's pretty much a 'Demon Head' helmet that is on fire and is breathing fire out of the mouth that are skulls." Again, awesome.
Next up, John Fairbairn, with the neon brain:
Finally, there's Mellissa Hollingsworth, who won Canada's first-ever medal in skeleton, a bronze at Turin in 2006:
We love all of these and are now declaring Canada our favorite skeleton team of the Games.
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Lindsey Vonn failed to finish a downhill race at Val d'Isere, France, on Saturday after her surgically repaired right knee "completely gave out," but insists she's no more injured than she was before the race. Vonn believes she is still on track for success at Sochi, though she indicated she will take a brief break from racing.
This was Vonn's fourth race since returning from an injury suffered last February in Austria that required surgery and extensive rehabilitation. She had hoped to reach a podium prior to the Olympics, but that may not be possible now.
Vonn cut her race short when she missed a gate, and appeared to be in pain following the race, according to the AP.
"I didn't hurt myself more than I'm already hurt," she said. "It was a small compression, and it was fully loaded on the right ski and my knee just completely gave out. I tried to pressure the ski again and it gave out again. I had no chance of making that gate, unfortunately."
Vonn said she would "play it safe" and run only one or two more races before Sochi in early February.
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December 19, 2013
The 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi were already shaping up to be an event at which sexual orientation played a significant role, in large part because of Russia's stringent anti-gay propaganda law. The United States upped the ante this week by naming two gay athletes to its delegation attending the Games. And now, another member of that delegation, Olympic figured skating legend Brian Boitano, has come out in a move that is clearly designed to endorse a more open form of communication and tolerance than exists in Russia.
Boitano, who won gold in men's figure skating in 1988, has been in the public eye for decades, yet has consistently declined to address the issue of his sexuality despite longtime speculation. The fact that he is coming out at this point, then, is certainly an inextricable part of the overall narrative.
Boitano's statement, in full:
I am currently skating in Europe but want to provide a statement regarding my appointment to the Olympic delegation. I have been fortunate to represent the United States of America in three different Olympics, and now I am honored to be part of the presidential delegation to the Olympics in Sochi. It has been my experience from competing around the world and in Russia that Olympic athletes can come together in friendship, peace and mutual respect regardless of their individual country's practices.
It is my desire to be defined by my achievements and my contributions. While I am proud to play a public role in representing the American Olympic Delegation as a former Olympic athlete, I have always reserved my private life for my family and friends and will continue to do so. I am many things: a son, a brother, and uncle, a friend, an athlete, a cook, an author, and being gay is just one part of who I am. First and foremost I am an American athlete and I am proud to live in a country that encourages diversity, openness and tolerance. As an athlete, I hope we can remain focused on the Olympic spirit which celebrates achievement in sport by peoples of all nations.
Clearly, the tolerance issue as regards to sexual orientation will continue to play a significant role at the 2014 Games. Boitano is the third openly gay member of the United States delegation to the Games, along with tennis legend Billie Jean King and ice hockey player Caitlin Cahow.
There will be a day when an Olympian's sexual orientation is as irrelevant to his or her story as hair color. That day isn't today, but days like this will make that time draw nearer.
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December 10, 2013
Lindsey Vonn's recovery from a catastrophic knee injury suffered in February has been nothing short of amazing. How amazing, you ask? Last year, Adrian Peterson suffered a similar injury and made a highly-celebrated return to the NFL just 226 days afterward. Vonn beat him by 50 days.
Here, Red Bull charts not only Vonn's return as compared to a "normal" human being (she'd beat us back to full strength by six months) but also her impressive training regimen and work ethic. Check it out, and be impressed:
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December 10, 2013
Evan Lysacek, defending men's Olympic figure skating champion, will miss the 2014 Olympics in Sochi because of an injury. It's a blow to both the United States' medal hopes and the storyline aspect of the Games; Lysacek was expected to be one of the lead stories of the Olympics.
"This has been my entire life, training and representing my country," Lysacek said, according to the Associated Press. "So it's just kind of difficult. As much as I knew it could go either way, I never accepted it wouldn't. I always thought it would work out. I was crushed. I am crushed."
Lysacek last competed in 2010. He was attempting to recover from a torn labrum in his left hip, but it became clear he would not be ready for Sochi. Even had he been healthy, he was by no means a certainty to match Dick Button's two golds in 1948 and 1952. But now, he will not even get the opportunity.
Lysacek now joins Johnny Weir as highly recognizable men's skating competitors who will not make the trip to Sochi. Weir retired earlier this fall.
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December 06, 2013
Lindsey Vonn is back in action ... and even if she's a bit deeper in the standings than she'd like, it's better than being on the sidelines.
Vonn raced in a World Cup downhill at Lake Louise, Alberta on Friday afternoon, her first competition since a catastrophic wreck back in February and marks a surprisingly quick return to action after tearing her ACL less than three weeks ago. Her unofficial time of 1 minute, 59.22 seconds had her outside the top 25, but nonetheless marked an important milestone in her quest to defend her downhill Olympic gold medal.
The race was briefly delayed due to extreme cold. Temperatures at Lake Louise were minus-18, with wind chill from skiing plunging far lower.
This marks a significant step in Vonn's return from injury. In a February crash in Schladming, Austria, Vonn tore the ACL and MCL in her right knee and broke her leg. That required months of rehab, and Vonn suffered another setback last month.
"You kinda know if your body is ready or not, and I feel ready," Vonn told USA Today Thursday. "It's been a long time coming, but when I come here it doesn't feel as if I've been gone that long. It feels like the start of a new season."
The World Cup competition, which continues this weekend, could not come at a better locale for Vonn. She's won the last seven World Cup races held at Lake Louise, and has not placed lower than second at the site since 2008. Overall, NBC Sports noted, she's won 14 times at Lake Louise, the most of any skier at any single venue in World Cup history.
The Sochi Games are less than two months away. However, there are no actual trials to qualify for the Olympic alpine ski team; a combination of objective criteria and coaches' discretion is used to create the United States roster.
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December 02, 2013
Tom Daley, a British diver who won bronze at the London Olympic Games in 2012, has become the latest athlete to publicly declare his sexual orientation. In a YouTube video designed to end "rumors and speculation," Daley announced that he is indeed gay.
"Come spring this year my life changed massively when I met someone and they made me feel so happy, so safe and everything just feels great -- and that someone is a guy," said Daley. "Of course I still fancy girls but right now I'm dating a guy and I couldn't be happier."
Daley, age 19, tried to head off the inevitable backlash : "In an ideal world I wouldn't be doing this video because it shouldn't matter, but recently I was misquoted in an interview and it made me feel really angry and frustrated, and emotions that I've never felt before when reading something about myself, and for me honesty is something that I really do believe in."
Daley won bronze in the 10-meter dive at the London Olympics, and hopes to compete in Rio in 2016. He remains a popular figure in England.
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IMG Academy launches high school Track & Field and Cross Country program
On the heels of breaking ground on a state-of-the-art multi-sport complex that will feature an 8-lane, 400m track and additional training areas for jumps and throws, IMG Academy has officially announced the launch of a Track & Field and Cross Country program. Student-athletes will begin training and competing in the Fall 2013.
"We are excited to extend our world-class academic, athletic and personal development programming to passionate track & field and cross country student-athletes from around the world," remarked Greg Phillips, Vice President and Athletics Director, IMG Academy. "Given our history of developing athletes to excel in college and beyond, and the work we are already doing with each of our athletes from a speed, agility and movement standpoint, it seemed only fitting that we begin this college preparatory program."
Track & field and cross country student-athletes will call the new multi-sport complex their training home. The first phase of completion, set for August 2013, will include a stadium featuring: 5,000 seats with the ability to scale to 10,000; an 8-lane, 400m track and adjacent training areas for jumps and throws; a professional-quality Bermuda grass surface with TV-ready lights; a broadcast-ready press box with coaches', press and radio booths and hospitality suites; and a collegiate-style video board. The second phase will follow in December 2013 and will include a 40,000 sq. ft. field house with professional locker rooms, meeting spaces, and offices.
World-renowned track and field coach Loren Seagrave, IMG Academy's current Director of Speed and Movement, will serve as Director of Track & Field and Cross Country. Presently, Seagrave architects the speed and movement curriculum for IMG Academy's youth, collegiate, adult and professional programs. Seagrave is also a USA Track and Field Master Coach in the sprints and hurdles, as well as the IAAF (International Association of Athletics Federations) Curriculum Coordinator for the Coach Education and Certification System for sprints and hurdles and Director of the IAAF Coaches Academy in sprints and hurdles.
Over the years, Seagrave has worked with athletes at every level of the game – from aspiring juniors to collegiate runners to veteran NFL players and track and field Olympians. Past and present track and field program pupils include: Angelo Taylor (four-time Olympic medalist, including gold in the 400m hurdles in 2000, 2008); LaShawn Merritt (two-time Olympic gold medalist in 400m, 4x400m in 2008); Joice Maduaka (six-time British women's 100m champion, four-time British women's 200m champion); Tianna Madison- Bartoletta (2012 Olympic gold medalist in the 4x100m); Demetrius Pinder (2012 Olympic gold medalist in the 4x100m); Dwight Phillips (2004 Olympic gold medalist in the long jump, four-time World Champion in the long jump); and Donovan Bailey (two-time Olympic gold medalist in 100m, 4x100m in 1995, 1996 World Champion in 100m). In the late 1980s, Seagrave also coached LSU's Women's Track & Field Team to five NCAA national titles.
Outside of track and field, Loren Seagrave has worked with numerous professional athletes to increase their speed and movement capabilities and enhance their overall performance. He most recently helped prepare more than 40 top NFL prospects for the 2013 NFL Scouting Combine, including seven first-round Draft picks like Luke Joeckel (#2 overall), Sheldon Richardson (#13), and Eric Reid (#18). Past NFL pupils include: Russell Wilson (Seattle Seahawks, 2012 Pepsi MAX NFL Rookie of the Year); Luke Kuechly (Carolina Panthers, 2012 NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year); Eddie George (Tennessee Titans); and Herschel Walker (Dallas Cowboys). He has also served as a consultant for the Atlanta Falcons, Detroit Lions, Jacksonville Jaguars, and the Chicago Bulls.
Remarked Seagrave of his newest endeavor: "I am looking forward to combining my years of experience working with high-caliber collegiate and professional athletes with IMG Academy's cutting-edge technology and facilities to offer the world's best college preparatory program for the aspiring track & field and cross country athlete."
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Aria lives in a future world that has been ravaged by aether storms. Safe from the outside world, she lives in a pod and spends most of her time in a virtual reality known as the realms. When we meet Aria she is in an abandoned pod with a group of friends where things get out of control. She only survives because an Outsider saves her. But she's blamed for what happened and is exiled, expected to die.
The people who live outside the pods are thought of as savages and the two worlds are very separate, until Aria runs into Peregrine, the same Outsider who has already saved her once. He's a hunter, can feel people's emotions, whose nephew was taken by the Dwellers. Perry is determined to rescue his nephew and Aria needs to find out if her mother is OK. They are so different, yet both have something the other needs. And thus starts their wild journey to find the person Perry thinks can help them.
The world in Under the Never Sky often feels brutal and dangerous. It's full of action and adventure and includes a very different mythology. The world is rich and complex, the characters vibrant and well drawn, and I found I could not put it down. Did I also mention that it includes cannibals, violent storms, and people who have extraordinary powers of sight or scent? And it's beautifully written.
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Note: The data used for the chart above is very hard to come by — it does not exist in any off the shelf software. Very little exists prior to the 1970's. As far as I know, this is the longest test of a strategy similar to the Crash Canary and global-focused Atlas Order. The above chart only switches between holding U.S small cap, large cap, t-bills, corporate bonds, long-term bonds and mid-term bonds. The free Crash Canary signals switch between 19 sectors and asset classes. The private Atlas Order signals switch between 80 ETFs world-wide. The more, the better because there are more opportunities to hit your target gains…like having more pellets in a shotgun shell.
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