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Despite usually preferring more of an upscale experience, I love hut hiking in Germany.
I love hut hiking in Germany so much in fact that I've celebrated two out of the last three New Years Eves (referred to as Silvester in Germany) in a mountain hut. The same one to be exact.
So What Exactly is Hut Hiking?
It's when you hike to a hut and sleep over. It can be for one night, or multiple nights as when we did the Tour du Mont Blanc. It allows you to explore more terrain each day since you don't have to account for your return time as you do with day hiking – which I tend to do more of.
Eating At A Mountain Hut
Each hut is unique, but generally speaking in Germany, they serve traditional Bavarian food, and the entertainment for the evening is sitting around drinking beer chatting or playing cards. The good 'ole fashion fun is part of the charm and is especially entertaining when done with good friends as we did. Accommodations are usually shared and very simple.
Related Reading: Knoedel-The German Dumpling: What You Need to Know
Hut Hiking Can Be Cost-Effective
Hut hiking in Germany can also be very cost-effective. A place to lay your head in a room with 13 other hikers will set you back €18, or only €8.50 with a DAV (German Alpine Club) membership. Among other benefits, your membership also includes insurance to assist you should you need to be rescued.
Check it out here for full details. (Note: This is Not an affiliate link, I just believe everyone should have insurance if you're heading to the mountains). In Munich, their office is located on the top floor of the sports store Globetrotter. But I digress…
Winter In The Mountain Hut
Don't think that hut hiking is just a summer activity. While you won't have wildflowers, you will have undisturbed piles of snow instead. Hiking in winter really is very pretty and if there's a lot of snow, you can turn it into a snowshoe or skiing trip instead!
So What Is it Really Like to Sleep in a Mountain Hut in the Alps?
As much as I enjoy hut hiking, I don't want to do it every weekend. I wasn't kidding when I said that accommodations are usually very simple. I.e. in Lenggries Hütte (Hut) where we stayed (~1:10 minute train ride from Munich to the start of the hike) there was one toilet for ladies, 2 urinals for the men – all meant to accommodate 52 people!
Albeit there were a couple of extra sinks where you could brush your teeth or check yourself out in the mirror. Needless to say, no one is all glammed up at the hut!
Despite the fact that the only way to get to Lenggries Hütte is a 2 hour+ hike, there are no showers. We were soaked to the bone the first time we did it as it was snowing so much, but it was pretty – check out the photos here. Furthermore, sauerkraut is almost always on the menu, so you've got a hut full of sweaty hikers eating sauerkraut… Let's just say that it doesn't exactly smell of roses.
Related Reading: Why You'll Love Hiking to King Ludwig II's Palace in the German Alps
Don't Expect Glamour
Some huts have private rooms (but still a shared bathroom), but others just offer a few sharing options. The Lenggries Hütte has rooms for 6-14 people. Both times I've stayed there I've ended up in the room with 14 people. That means that unless you're with a big group, you will be nestled up to a potentially smelly stranger who snores! I always try to grab a spot near the wall and get one of my travel companions to sleep in the middle.
Trust me, ladies, it's a good tip! Huts can be busy so if you want one of the private or slightly more private rooms to make your reservations as far in advance as possible. We made our reservation for 4 people for New Years in the middle of October and all the semi-private rooms were already booked.
Related Reading: Hoher Kranzberg, Mittenwald: Fantastic Views from a Little Mountain
This Shouldn't Discourage You From Hut Hiking in Germany
I don't say any of this to try to discourage you. I think everyone should sleep in a mountain hut at least once in their lives, but I do think you should have some idea of what you're getting yourself into. And despite the lack of creature comforts I always really end up enjoying myself. The simpleness of it all, really helped me to focus on what was important – spending time with people who I love….even if they did eat too much sauerkraut.
Know Before You Stay in a Mountain Hut
- Find a hut through DAV. They have a list of almost 200 DAV huts in Bavaria alone (in German only).
- If you have food allergies as I do (gluten allergy) notify the hut in advance. Most huts have very limited menus and may be more accommodating if you give them as much notice as possible.
- You are required to bring a sleeping bag liner. This is just a very lightweight sack. Don't worry about it not being thick enough. Huts provide blankets, the sack just keeps you from sweating on the blankets, which I'm guessing are not washed all that often.
- You will also be required to wear house shoes. These can be slippers or flip-flops, it doesn't really matter as long as you only wear them inside. Some huts provide them as the Lenggries Hütte does, others require you to bring your own.
- You should also bring your own hand towel or body towel(if showers are available). These are not usually provided in huts.
- I highly recommend earplugs in case you end up sleeping next to someone who snores like a bear.


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Judd Apatow's Trainwreck doesn't truly merit its title until this comic venture totally goes off the blasted tracks in its final quarter. What starts out as a hilarious consideration of modern mating rituals, sort of a distaff take on Apatow's earlier comedies (e.g. 40-Year-Old Virgin; Knocked Up), winds up as a queasy quantum leap backwards into the pages of Marabel Morgan's 1973 multimillion bestseller, The Total Woman:
"One of your husband's most basic needs is for you to be physically attractive to him. He loves your body; in fact, he literally craves it . . . .
"Many a husband rushes off to work leaving his wife slumped over a cup of coffee in her grubby undies. His once sexy bride is now wrapped in rollers and smells like bacon and eggs. All day long he's surrounded at the office by dazzling secretaries who emit clouds of perfume.
"This is all your husband asks from you. He wants the girl of his dreams to be feminine, soft, and touchable when he comes home. That's his need. If you are dumpy, stringy, or exhausted, he's sorry he came. That first look tells him your nerves are shot, his dinner is probably shot, and you'd both like to shoot the kids. It's a bad scene. Is it any wonder so many men come home late, if at all? . . ."
Similar in spirit, Trainwreck is about how Amy (Amy Schumer), a cynical magazine writer, after first coldshouldering him, tries to win over Aaron (Bill Hader), a sweet sports doctor, by trying to become his Total Woman. The winning strategy: don a cheerleader's outfit and do splits for him. Before this capitulation to his male needs, she is a feisty, take-the-bull-by-the-horns, politely racist, alcoholic, drug-taking, bisexual serial copulater working for a magazine that publishes articles on the effects of eating garlic on the taste of semen.
Amy (AMY SCHUMER), who has no black friends, starts dating a man who has many, including LEBRON JAMES, starring as himself.
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Well, that doesn't sound women's libby either. So where is the Schumer that Vox.com's Alex Abad-Santos noted has been "hailed as a groundbreaking feminist, a smart voice on women's issues, and someone who oozes subtle brilliance"?
Yes, where is the Schumer who at the Gloria Awards and Gala, hosted by the Ms. Foundation for Women, insisted: "I am a woman with thoughts and questions and shit to say. I say if I'm beautiful. I say if I'm strong. You will not determine my story -- I will. I will speak and share and fuck and love and I will never apologize to the frightened millions who resent that they never had it in them to do it. I stand here and I am amazing, for you. Not because of you. I am not who I sleep with. I am not my weight. I am not my mother. I am myself. And I am all of you, and I thank you."
She's not there in Trainwreck.
Yet this comedy is often so deliriously entertaining and so deftly constructed, you won't realize for a time that one of America's favorite, new, politically astute comics is having her values derailed. The opening scene, an instant classic, has Amy's dad Gordon (Colin Quinn, superb for the first time in his career) lecturing on the tediousness of monogamy and why he is divorcing their mom to a young Amy and her sister who's hugging her plaything: "What if I told you that is the only doll you're going to play with for the rest of your life?"
Jump ahead a decade or so and it is clearly observable that Amy has taken Pop's advice too much to heart. She can't commit and refuses to. She's an uncontrollable serial schtuper who goes to bed even with dudes residing in Staten Island. This causes her lovesick, possibly gay, muscleman/steady lover, Steven (a not-to-be-forgotten John Cena), to be left heartbroken when he learns the woman he desires to marry suffers from satyr-on-the-brain.
At this point, the sports-phobic Amy's assigned to do an article on Dr. Aaron by her editor (Tilda Swinton in another award-worthy cameo). A romance slowly blossoms forth until Aaron admits he has trouble with Amy putting her job before him, that they have both been to bed with the same number of women (three), and that the number of men of who've performed cunnilingus on his love interest could fill Barclays Center.
Oh, no! A rejected Amy quickly realizes one is the loneliest number. But can she start liking sports, rah-rah like a Dallas cheerleader, and do a Carol Brady impression full time to win love ever after? Of course, she can.
Yes, beginning as a Lenny Bruce routine, Trainwreck ends up as a Harlequin Romance.
Fem-politics aside, Schumer is clearly now positioned to be a top-tier film star. When Amy goes for the laughs, she succeeds 90 percent of the time, and when she becomes wounded, you empathize. One only wishes her addictive radicalness on TV could have been transferred to the big screen without the need for any soft-pedaling.
Maybe Schumer, who also wrote the screenplay, should read a little Rebecca West: "I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat."
Schumer should know by now that being a doormat isn't the only way to a garner a first-rate love, although it might aid you at the box office.
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The fourth anniversary of father Boian's ordination as deacon and priest
Today, June 4, 2009, is the fourth anniversary since father Boian, pastor of Mălainiţa and Remesiana and protopresbyter of Remesiana, was ordained deacon by His Grace Dr. DANIIL, at that time Bishop of the Romanians in Serbia.
Father Boian was ordained at the Prislop monastery, founded by Saint Nicodim of Tismana, on June 4, 2005, and the following day, June 5, 2009, was ordained priest in charge of the parish of Mălainiţa and elevated as clergyman, econome stavrophore, protopresbyter and was named protopresbyter of Dacia Ripensis at the monastery in the Retezat mountains in Romania.
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One owner truck with full service history. GEMS 4.6 so none of the Bosh issues, head gaskets done at 120k, airbags replaced and a 3 inch Lucky 8 terrafirma lift coil conversion. Bushings, brakes, radiator ect... all done.
BECM has been replaced.
The Bad:
Hasn't been driven often over the last two years because owner just has too many cars so it's developed some gremlins. Eg: The truck shifts at weird times but it's not the transmission slipping so seems to be the computer shifting at the wrong times?
Still has the original alternator and a new battery was put in but died so I'm thinking that might be the root of those issues.
Has a high idle that could be the control valve?
Has a bad wheel sensor.
@AMGtech - now with more recalls! ever work on GEMS 4.6's? My experience is mainly with Bosh motors so not sure what could be causing those gremlins.


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Video: Krista Dyer's Wushu Championships Fight
Members of the Bermuda Sanshou Association [BSA] are attending the 13th World Wushu Championships in Jakarta, Indonesia, with the team including athletes Sentwali Woolridge, Reyel Bowen, and Krista Dyer; along with coaches, managers, and supporters.
Krista Dyer went down two rounds to one when she faced Hergie Bacyadan of the Philippines earlier today [Nov 15]. BSA president and coach Garon Wilkinson said, "Dyer executed her game plan well and closed the distance on Bacyadan and won the first round by forcing her opponent off of the lei tai twice.
"In the second round Dyer pushed her opponent off of the lei tai again and was awarded two points. She pushed her off a the second time and thought she won the round and the fight when the push off was not awarded. Dyer lost on points in the 3rd round and as a result lost the bout 2-1.
"After reviewing the footage, the Bermuda coaches decided to protest the decision on the second push off. However the competition rules state that the decision will not be overturned and that the judge will only be reprimanded.
Krista Dyer's fight in Indonesia
"As a result a formal appeal was not submitted but the Technical Committee was made aware of the dismay of the controversial call that could have caused Dyer the match." Mr. Wilkinson later added that after further review of the footage, he supported the judge's original decision.
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Well done Krista! You performed well and it being your first time should make you even more proud.


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NEW YORK — Giannis Antetokounmpo was so eager to make a rim-rocking Christmas debut that he overshot the basket on his first attempt, a dunk from one side that ended with the ball all the way in the opposite corner.
"I was so excited that I went a little bit too high and I thought the rim was a foot taller," Antetokounmpo said.
He and the Milwaukee Bucks eventually settled down and showed they belonged on the holiday stage.
Antetokounmpo had 30 points and 14 rebounds, and Milwaukee celebrated its return to the Christmas schedule by beating the New York Knicks 109-95 on Tuesday.
"This is one of the highest stages," Antetokounmpo said. "Special teams play Christmas Day, and just it's an opportunity for us and we're really happy."
Brook Lopez scored 20 points for the Bucks, who played on Christmas for the first time since 1977. They were selected for the showcase slate of games largely because of Antetokounmpo but the timing also was perfect to show an emerging team, which improved the NBA's second-best record to 23-10.
Malcolm Brogdon finished with 17 points for the Bucks, the NBA scoring leaders who bounced back from a season-low 87 points in a loss to Miami on Saturday to win for the fifth time in six games.
"People come to see Giannis play but they've got to watch all of us, so it's definitely a great opportunity for the rest of us to showcase as a team what we can do," Brogdon said.
Rookie Kevin Knox scored 21 points for the Knicks, who have lost six straight Christmas Day games and fell to 22-31 in their NBA-record 53 appearances on the holiday.
"It's on me to stay even in this whole thing, not be up and down emotionally because I (have) to keep their spirits up," Knicks coach David Fizdale said. "They feel it. They're human."
New York has lost five in a row and 10 of 11 since rallying to stun the Bucks 136-134 in overtime on Dec. 1 at Madison Square Garden.
Antetokounmpo was angry that night with Knicks forward Mario Hezonja, who had dunked over him in the first quarter, then stared and stepped over him. Antetokounmpo felt it was disrespectful, vowing to punch Hezonja in the groin next time.
The Greek Freak was perhaps a little too pumped for the rematch — Brogdon grabbed the rebound of his errant dunk in the corner and fired in a 3-pointer — but he quickly got untracked.


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- 1 carrot, peeled and diced
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Kevin Durant Chooses Warriors
Former NBA Most Valuable Player Kevin Durant announced on Monday that he will sign with the Golden State Warriors and leave the Oklahoma City Thunder.
Durant did so on The Players Tribune, in an article titled "My Next Chapter." Durant says that in order to grow as a basketball player and as a person he is "moving out of his comfort zone" and leave the only NBA franchise he has ever known.
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Chambord is a true original the classic French press coffee maker designed in the fifties. And we still produce it with the same painstaking craftsmanship we used way back when with the original. The frame and lid, made of steel, undergo several chrome plating processes to obtain a durable shiny surface that will last for many years of intense use. The only difference in the production process since the fifties is our commitment to the highest standards of environmentally correct manufacturing, which is especially important during the chrome plating process. The black Chambord Polypropylene handle comes in a matte finish that not only gives a comfortable grip while serving but adds to the classic quality of the design. The French press system has always been the simplest and ultimate way of brewing an excellent cup of coffee. Using fresh coarse ground beans with water between 92 and 96 C brings out the very best in all types of coffee.
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Absolutely stunning describes this versatile necklace in the Windsor Castle collection. Wireworked with Swarovski crystals, glass pearls, quartz and more, it uses mixed sterling silver filled & antique silver plated brass chain from across the collection to gorgeous effect. It can be worn long or easily doubled up, and also paired with other necklaces from the Windsor Castle collection.
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From: Thursdays & Fridays, 6:00-7:30am
The Breakfast Program, formerly known as the Caring Committee Feeding Program, is among Central Synagogue's longest ongoing social justice projects. Originally conceived and implemented by longtime congregant Nat Shapiro in 1983, the Breakfast Program was started in response to Mayor Koch's outcry for New York City's religious institutions to respond to an exploding homeless and hungry problem. Today, many clients of the Breakfast Program are working poor who greatly appreciate and regularly rely on the warm, nutritious start to their day.
Currently, our volunteers are helping to distribute pre-made sandwiches and other "to-go" items from the doors in front of the Pavilion entrance. Social distancing is observed and a contactless pickup system for the food has been arranged.
Location: The Episcopal Church of the Heavenly Rest (1085 5th Ave)
From: Thursday, August 8, 6:00 pm
In partnership with the Church of Heavenly Rest, join us for a training session, led by New Sanctuary Coalition, that will teach you how to support immigrants in their meetings with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and during court appearances. During these challenging times, undocumented immigrants need additional support. Your participation can make an enormous difference.
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By John McGifford
As a new contributor to this forum please let me introduce myself. My name is John McGifford and for nearly five years I have been the Chief Executive Officer of Central Football. Central Football is one of seven Federations nationally, who are vested by New Zealand Football with the responsibly of developing the game of football within their regions. Within Central Football's boundaries are Poverty Bay, Hawke's Bay, Manawatu, Whanganui and Taranaki, across those boundaries are just over 170 clubs and in 2015 there were 13,865 players enjoying the beautiful game across the 5 regions.
I refer now to Mr Wayne Ruscoe's story dated 18 February 2016 on this site, where Mr Ruscoe tells tales of "bullying, coercion and staggering incompetence" in football in Whanganui. Mark Twain once said once said "never let the facts get in the way of a good story" so I'm hoping below will provide the facts, all of which can be backed up, that will give readers the balance that Mr Ruscoe has conveniently or perhaps selectively failed to do. I do apologise in advance that this may be quite a read as I will be sparing brevity for accuracy and, as always, honesty.
Let's start with the good things, things that even a bullying and coercive Chief Executive Officer of a staggering incompetent organisation must agree with. Wembley Park is a magnificent venue, and amongst the very best within the Federations boundaries. It is also agreed that it is unique in that nearly all football is trained for and played on at the same venue. This provides opportunities many other regions would give their eye teeth for. Also agreed is that there is a committed and hard-working volunteer base that supports football in Whanganui, just as volunteers do all across the Federation. Without their enthusiasm and love for the game football would be so much poorer, and may not even be able to function. It is further agreed that the hub concept is an inspirational and wonderful opportunity for football, so much so what it is endeavouring to be achieved could well become a blueprint for clubs across New Zealand. So Mr Ruscoe we agree on those things, but maybe only those things.
Now let's now get the facts straight, and let's start with the hub concept. With the greatest respect to NZ Football the first point contrary to Mr Ruscoe's that I must make is that NZ Football didn't "choose" Whanganui as the perfect place to trial the hub. Central Football were the inventors of the concept and it was through this organisations engagement at NZ Football level that it was agreed that the hub be trialled in Whanganui. A small point maybe but the first of many examples I will give throughout this account on what the Federation contributes to the region, despite Mr Ruscoe's rather selective memory otherwise.
The hub is an intended partnership between Central Football, the 4 football clubs in Whanganui and the Whanganui Football Charitable Trust referred to in Mr Ruscoe's story. It has been funded solely to date by Central Football and NZ Zealand Football, at a cost that is significant. I refer again to the word "partnership" which in my simplistic understanding of things the partners work together to achieve shared goals. That has been agreed to and signed off in writing by all 6 partners.
Unfortunately in that partnership we appear to have a renegade organisation who seem hell bent on taking advantage of an agreement of goodwill, trust and collective intent to instead work undercover in damaging Central Football. This is not unusual behaviour for this partner, I have much evidence in my 5 years as Chief Executive Officer but the bad behaviour well precedes me. Despite all the frustrations of "murky dealing behind our backs" Central Football is still committed to the project, and to bringing the schools and Rebel League in. Mr Ruscoe's claims of "strong rumours that the NZ Football funding for the project will not happen unless we appease Central Football" I can't confirm or deny. Whether New Zealand Football remains forthcoming with their support, given they are well aware of the ongoing less than desirable behaviour of a partner, is their decision.
Now let's provide the facts around Central Football using Whanganui as an ATM machine, which would be an ATM we would all love as it gives out more than it puts in! Firstly though it's important to understand that every participating school, club or participant across the Federation in Central Football's competitions and its development programs pay exactly the same amount in fees, unless Central Football makes a concession (good example in Whanganui's favour further below). Not a dollar more, not a dollar less.
Mr Ruscoe believes the Whanganui clubs are being "fleeced". What he fails to understand or wishes not to acknowledge is that the complete opposite is happening. In 2015 income from Whanganui made up 6% of the Federations total income. The total expenditure on the region made up 8% of total costs. So Central Football's general trading supports Whanganui, but OK as we need to do that. But of course Mr Ruscoe knows those percentages as they were the same, or thereabouts, as when he was at a meeting where I presented them to a meeting of clubs late in 2013. But again it is not uncommon to take no notice of facts presented, or take the opportunity to present them in an appropriate forum. I refer now to the 2012 AGM of Central Football in Whanganui when not one club turned up! On that day the Federation presented to a grand total of 2 people!
Mr Ruscoe talks in his story about "affordability" of leagues but again choses to ignore another fact that he is well aware of, being Central Football has adjusted its fee schedule in 2016 to decrease the amount most Whanganui teams will pay. Mr Ruscoe also talks about how the Rebel League have a low cost social league that works well for them but of course fails to mention that non-affiliated competitions don't put a cent back into the game. They don't support any of the development programs for players, coaches and referees, they don't support the advancement of our most talented and they don't support New Zealand's participation on the international stage. "So what" some may say, but I would challenge those people if they had a sibling who wants to aspire in football to say it then. I can't say I'm fine with non-affiliated leagues but I do understand their function as long as those participants realise they can't have their cake and eat it too. And that is why we do need to get the Whanganui Rebel League back into the fold.
Let's now move to grounds, where it has already been acknowledged what a wonderful facility Wembley Park is. So let's deal with (and I quote Mr Ruscoe) "the award winning First Kicks program, which is conceived, paid for and run by local volunteers". Again we agree on the wonderful effort the volunteers put into the First Kicks program, which is replicated by volunteers in their respective areas across the Federation. But again Mr Ruscoe knows but fails to acknowledge that in building the program in Whanganui Central Football provided significant financial support, not received by any other region. It's also not noted that Central Football organised funding for, and bridged finance for, all the First Kicks equipment. This is a cost all other regions meet themselves. And it must be noted this is not the first time the Federation has actively sought and secured outside funding for club projects in Whanganui.
Next we move to goalposts. Central Football own most, if not all, of the goalposts at Wembley Park and in the other regions with the exception of Taranaki. For Federation owned goalposts the clubs/schools use them at no cost, they are asked to meet the cost of maintaining them though. Fair enough deal one would think. I agree the goalposts at Wembley Park are not in the best order as for the last few years it has been "repair to get by rather than fix properly". The goalposts are currently under total repair, at a cost of in excess of $2,000.00. Central Football has funded this themselves in recognition that they should not have been left as long as they have.
Regarding the ownership of the goalposts. Mr Ruscoe is correct that in June 2015 it was agreed that the goalposts be gifted to the Whanganui Football Charitable Trust. The gifting was a goodwill and good faith gesture as well as being in recognition that the Trust owns assets at Wembley Park. This is a very similar gesture as when the Federation passed over ownership of the lights to the Trust, the installation of which was a joint project by the Federation and Trust and which were funded in Central Football's name. Conveniently Mr Ruscoe appears to have forgotten that too.
Back to the goalposts though. Once the commitment was made to gift the Trust set "conditions" under which they were to be gifted. The conditions included terms that could have seen Central Football denied access to Wembley Park. Clearly the gifting stalled then, and I would think even the most unreasonable person would understand why. The gifting finally got back on track later last year but with a partner of the hub running around behind our back and now Mr Ruscoe's incredibly derogatory comments about Central Football you'd have to ask yourself why would we go through with it now.
Let's talk about the "phantom invoices" now, invoices that have applied since well before my time at Central Football and which even Mr Ruscoe's club has paid without question. And referees sheds were in those invoices, as they always have been and are for every other region in the Federation. Mr Ruscoe again is well aware of that as it was explained in June 2015, and repeatedly since. Anyway, last year the invoices were questioned, which is fair enough. A breakdown of costs was given, and there is clear evidence of that despite claims otherwise. But that wasn't good enough, such is the apparent distrust of Central Football invoices were demanded as "proof" that the clubs weren't being fleeced.
Anyway despite the questioning of Central Football's honesty and integrity the invoices were sent to the clubs and proof of work done and charges satisfied. And I must note at this time that Whanganui Athletic was not one of those clubs paying not their dues. Whether they ever considered the invoices "phony" as Mr Ruscoe claims I have no idea but I thank Athletic for their prompt payment, a payment made on time which was appreciated and now justified.
Two quick things while closing on the "not so phantom invoices". Firstly I revert back the Board of Central Football meeting to "discuss the crisis engineered". This meeting was scheduled in November 2015, so please don't they think the Board have hurriedly bandied together just to discuss the crisis a minority from within the Whanganui region have helped create. And secondly withholding transfers to and from unfinancial clubs is common practise across New Zealand, so again Mr Ruscoe you don't need to feel special.
Next, and pretty much the last of Mr Ruscoe's points we have referees. Again contrary to Mr Ruscoe's comment's that "there aren't many refs left anyway" there are actually more Central Football referees in Whanganui than there have been for quite some considerable time, and these referees are appointed to Whanganui games. Are all games filled? – no they aren't, simply because whilst there are a good number of officials there are not sufficient to do all games. This is compounded by Whanganui playing all their games on Saturday, where the other 4 regions play men's on Saturday and women's on Sunday. If Whanganui want to play all their games on a Saturday that's fine. No one is" bullying or coercing" them not to. But of course Whanganui does need to remember that will inevitably continue to place pressure on referee numbers. And again Whanganui is no different as just for every other region if there is no referee a volunteer generally jumps in the middle.
Finally on referees there are a very small number that are no longer with Central Football. That is really regrettable but fortunately we have gained significantly more than we have lost and as aforementioned the current numbers of referees are higher than they have been for a long time. And it is worth closing in noting that Central Football has the most highly achieving referee development program in New Zealand. If confirmation of that is required just check with NZ Football.
I have already gone on much more than I intended but there is one more thing I must mention. In 2014, amongst similar criticism of Central Football by pretty much the same minority of recent times, Central Football commissioned an independent to do a review of the services the Federation provided to the Whanganui region. The clubs and most of the schools were consulted in that review, as was the Whanganui Football Charitable Trust, Sport Whanganui, Whanganui City Council and the Rebel League. Again I don't see Mr Ruscoe quoting the result of that independent review that concluded that Central Football were meeting all their obligations in Whanganui fairly at a level and cost that was appropriate. The review did make a recommendation for Central Football around resources in Whanganui, which were immediately done. So Mr Ruscoe's claim of inappropriateness are a far cry from what an independent reviewer concluded.
In closing if members are in support of Mr Ruscoe's plan to "wrench back control of football in the town" and avoid the "road block to progress" they should be fully informed of the facts and not let them not be told as Mr Ruscoe has chosen to do. I hope all the aforementioned has been helpful in that regard. Before I do close I would like to quote an extract from an email that I sent to Mr Ruscoe only a few weeks back, which may also helpful in consideration of the Federations role outside the competitions that Mr Ruscoe and his minority few seem only to be interested in. That email said:
"………………………….I don't think you know the amount of time, money and resource ploughed into Whanganui in recent years. I bet you don't know we paid more out of Hardship Fund to Whanganui families than any other region last year, or that we have worked hard to get funding for both xxxxxxx (members name deleted for confidentially reasons) and the Whanganui Football Charitable Trust, neither of which would have happened without my personal influence. I'm also not sure if you know how well the Whanganui youth players have done in recent years at Federation Talent Centre, which is a high level Central Football programme recognised as the best of its kind in New Zealand. And they are only a few examples of many……………………"
Unfortunately the naysayers are inclined to ignore where the game has progressed under Central Football as it doesn't suit their own agendas. And I would suggest to those minority few that they take a look at their own track records before they start accusing others of "bullying and coercion", and I have much evidence of that towards Central Football from those who purport the opposite is happening.
I thank you for your time
Yours in football
John McGifford
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San Francisco's Magic Theatre is known for presenting new plays. Their third annual Hot House Season features three world premieres by three exciting playwrights. First comes Nero by acclaimed playwright Steven Sater and Grammy-nominated Duncan Sheik. It's a challenging mix of language, imagery and music that combines classical themes --decadent Romans in Felliniesque costumes and makeup-- with contemporary political farce.
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Royal Court by Jenny Frame is a sweet butch/femme romance about two women who need to come to terms with their own demons if they want a shot and long lasting happiness.
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George, Bea and the rest of the crew are off on a North American tour giving Quincy little time to plan and settle into her new duties. To make matters worse she and Holly clash on nearly a daily basis as she tries to protect Bea and Holly feels she is being stuffy and overly restrictive. Sparks like those, though, come from a deep desire that both women harbour.
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Holly is a bisexual woman. She struggles to form intimate relationships because she is worried about getting her heart broken again and so she chooses to just have flings with men.
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The Narration
Nicola Victoria Vincent is a fabulous narrator. I loved all of her British characters. She gets the emotions just right, the pacing is great and I never find a dull moment in the books she turns into audiobooks.
The one small thing for me was the American accents. I wasn't a fan.
The Pros
This is a sweet romance that will capture your heart.
The Cons
I have a little bit of a dilemma here. I am not a bisexual woman but if I were one and I read a character who was portrayed as Holly was then I would feel a little bit cheated. A big point was made of the fact that Holly stuck to men because she didn't build emotional attachments to them.
While I understand that there are a range of bisexual experiences, I feel like this one was a little too lesbianising a bisexual woman. It's a big deal for bisexual women to get good representation in the sector and I am not sure that Holly was it.
I am also sure that Jenny Frame didn't mean to erase the bisexual experience, she just wanted to express how much it took for Holly to fall for a woman again.
The Conclusion
If you enjoyed the other books in the series then this is a good addition. I enjoyed it and highly recommend all of Jenny Frame's works.
As an audiobook I would also listen to it again, Vincent is a great narrator and going between American and a whole range of British accents is a monstrous task so I applaud her for even trying.
Excerpt from Royal Court by Jenny Frame
They were so perfect for each other. Bea had told her that Cammy had been a bit of a lady's woman in her past, but that had all ended when she clapped eyes on Lali Ramesh.
Would she ever be that lucky?
Holly then shifted her gaze to the seats behind Lali, and to her surprise found Captain Quincy's eyes already on her, the captain's face set in what she thought was a scowl. When Holly had found out the dishy polo player was joining the staff as Bea's protection officer, she had been both excited and scared. Excited because she couldn't wait to find out if Quincy lived up to her good looks, and scared because—just like with Story St. John—Quincy reminded her how much she was attracted to women, and that she was denying a whole part of herself that was screaming to get out. Because she didn't ever want to have her heart broken again.
Since her first love broke her heart, she had sought out flings with men who didn't want an emotional connection. That suited her and had given her the reputation as a man-eater.
But Holly needn't have worried and shouldn't have judged a book by its cover. So far Captain Quincy had been as dull as dishwater. She stood guarding Bea like a statue, never breaking into a smile, and only speaking to bark orders to those staff around her.
Even though Quincy screamed butch lesbian, everything else about her was straight and boring. Plain grey suit, slightly darker grey tie, white shirt. Her short dark hair, simply combed to the side. There was nothing about Quincy that showed any sort of individuality.
Holly longed to go over there and ruffle up her hair and maybe give her a red tie, something to liven up the ordered grey appearance.
Quincy had ignored Holly, and she supposed that suited her, but the cold stares and scowls were annoying. She looked right at Quincy and said pointedly, "Can I help you?"
Quincy looked back down to her computer pad quickly and never replied. "What am I? Invisible?" Holly said.
"Who's invisible?" Bea said sitting back down.
"Nothing. Teddy go down okay?" Holly asked.
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Is there any way I can personalize my favorite tags?
It is a little bit of a pain, considering how quickly "new" topics fly by, to go to the tags page, scroll down and pick what I wish to see, and look at what might interest me. Aside from me feed page, which is a monumental tool, I would like to have a tag short list. That is customized by me. In other words any body that would like to. Is this even possible I don't have the expertise to proffer and have to depend on others to say.
I know that there are platforms where even non-technical people can contribute to ideas, need to get more education in that regard. The gap between users and those that have a clue how all this works is getting wide, not just on Steemit but in general. A user advocate or interpretive body so to speak.
No complaints, very happy just shootin' out a thought. Peace and good will.
Just thought of something else before I post. Trying to put in "tags" and don't know which are most appropriate. Maybe a pull-down?


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Discussion in 'Developer Depot' started by Kilhwch, Oct 30, 2013.
Exactly this - spot on !
Well, we all need to speak with our money. Im putting $$$ back into this game again, I just upgraded one of my 5 bundles from a base village to a town lot (Obsidian village tower). I will continue to put my $$$ towards the things I feel are important in the game to hopefully some day convince the dev's to start breaking their cliques and focus on the meat to make this thing successful such as the new dungeon stuff (which should bring in some good dev bucks)... but that time is limited. If they blow a month on fishing (or the like) then my opinion on its continued success will lessen even more which will lead me to sell off the assets again (Such as my entire duke pledge already at this point) before they are completely lost.
I really don't think, fishing polishing isn't a lot of work
If you watch the crafting trees you will find, that fishing - also cooking - is not providing the variety of other crafting abilities.
However: it was promised to do exactly this. And it should be done.
I could imagine a lot - but unfortunately my imagination is not the reason for developing stuff. The whole reason is a bundle of stuff which was promised. And this should be done. Step by step.
Where my focus is, you can read in a lot of threads over 5 years. This - of course - can't mean this is the high priority and nothing else should be done.
But because my point of view is on story, I can't tell other things aren't also important.
From my point of view the variety of stuff inside this game will let it succeed at last.
My highest priority is Story, Quest and Journal system. Why?
A story driven RPG which promised 5 Episodes needs the best story presentation to keep people interested.
It was said it will be done for Episode 2. And yes, I believe they have learned a lot, the basics are done and now this system come true
But - again - now and the next month there is another promise, which must be fullfilled: fishing
And as you see: Chris is doing the dungeon stuff very fast, too.
So if both will be done until end of year, let's have a new dance emote:
the happy fisher AND of course: the happy dungeon master
And consider this when we are talking about fishing:
What about mussels, which could contain pearls with special abilites for rings and neclace or weapon/armor?
Not only gem sockets could provide improvements ...
Fishing is definately not good enough, at all, so to say it's complete - you obviously are not a player that gets any joy from a mini game of fishing, because the way it works now could only make anyone happy for 5 minutes, let alone 2 years it's been this way.
Having said that, I would really prefer that we focus on fixing existing bugs, especially what got broken after R52 and R54, first.
I do know this and really if you read between the lines what I say is not all about fishinge but if fishing gets a good update and then we move onto other systems one by one. I really want to see focus to get things done.
I don't even say we don't have a wonderful game in so many ways but imagine if old systems got their proper updates one by one imagine that. So taming, cooking, agriculture and more still need love.
Theres so many great ideas out there for all of our systems, so Even if we see work here and there on old promised updates needed that would help but mostly we don't.
Right now it is Fishings turn. Git er done right I say. Lol I'm in Hicksville j/k (thats not the towns name) helping to take care of my mom. Most Everyone here talks in a slow drawl. I can't wait to get home to the game.
Oh and I love that we are getting furniture dye to help us be able to look more individual in our decorating.
This is, in and of itself, a major problem with the game.
I love and support any and all performance improvements tossed towards agriculture! TY!
Sewer updates? Hmmm....
I'm guessing "First time user experience"?
Seems legit. I wonder why the change from NUE "New User Experience"? Either way, glad it's happening!
What's this?
Jason Yenawine: Knowledge flags
Joaquin Del Canto: New Deck Selection UI
Keith Quinn: New User Revamp, Owlshead Sewers T10 upgrade
Todays Stand Up Notes sound verrrry Interesting!
Holy crap! A tier 10 sewer
I won't be going in there any time soon...
I love the focus right now. So many things are being addressed so we can move forward one day in the future to Episode two. I am really so excited for the future of this game.
Chris Spears: Dungeon Blueprints,
Is that adding new ones or fixing the drops that we currently can't get?
Let's visit the sewers next release together! A few (more) of us and we can do it
It has been done Well, next release, I suppose.
Somebody knows, what I.T. could be?
I.T. = Information Technology. It means he's fixing their network or computers or something related.
Or Internal Testing?
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Let's rewind the clock just over 30 years ago. Imagine, back then, telling an NBA fan that, someday, there will be a guy who possessed the all-around game of George "Iceman" Gervin, except with more of a killer instinct and stretched out in a seven-foot body. There would also be a guy who'd be the first player since Oscar Robertson to average a triple-double throughout an entire NBA season (three times over), and he'd also happen to be one of the most tireless and pathologically competitive players of his era. Then, there would also be a guy who'd be one of the greatest singular offensive dynamos since Pistol Pete Maravich. Now imagine telling that fan that all three of those guys would, someday, play on the same team. If he (or she) didn't tell you that you were full of crap, their head would probably explode, right? The next thing out of his or her mouth would be the question of "how many NBA Championships did this team win?" Let's take a look at the best NBA threesome that never was.
Before Kevin Durant joined the 73-win Golden State Warriors, and even before LeBron James made the idea of a "superteam" mainstream when he and Chris Bosh famously joined Dwayne Wade in Miami, there was another superteam already built. We largely give credit to the Warriors for being the first "four-headed" superteam, but the one in question happened to have four legitimate stars as well. Unlike the Miami Heat team formed in 2011 or the Boston Celtics team formed in the summer of 2007 (whom many consider to be the first true "superteam" with three stars in Kevin Garnett, Ray Allen, and Paul Pierce), all four members of this team were drafted and nurtured (at least early on) by the same team.
It's the only super team in NBA history that would trot out three NBA MVP's playing on the floor together.
We're talking, of course, about the Oklahoma City Thunder, the greatest superteam of the past decade that never truly was.
We marvel over the Warriors foursome of Kevin Durant, Stephen Curry, and Draymond Green. But after hitting home runs with their picks in the first round of the 2007, 2008, and 2009 NBA Draft, the Thunder had a homegrown core comprising Durant, Russell Westbrook, James Harden, and Serge Ibaka.
In Harden's rookie season (2009-2010), the Thunder made it to the postseason for only the second time in the past seven seasons. One year later, they made it to the Western Conference Finals. The following season (2011-2012), Oklahoma City finished with the 2nd best record in the NBA. Durant and Westbrook both finished in the top five in the NBA in scoring (Durant led the league with 28.0 points per game and finished second in the NBA MVP voting), Ibaka led the league with 3.65 blocks per game, and Harden would go on to win the NBA's Sixth Man of the Year award. While the main "takeaway" story of the 2011-2012 season will always be LeBron James winning his first NBA title in his second season with the Miami Heat, the fact that the Thunder went 15-3 through the Western Conference Playoffs, and even took Game 1 of the Finals against Miami, gets overlooked.
Still, with the embarrassment of basketball talent riches they had assembled, almost anyone in and around the NBA believed that the Thunder would be the foil to James and the Heat, and it was just a matter of time before the Thunder not only made it back to the Finals but won a title of their own.
But the folks in Oklahoma City's front office were facing a different vision of the future. Before the dust had fully settled on the franchise's first trip to the NBA Finals in 16 years (back when they were still the Seattle SuperSonics), the Thunder brain trust had to determine whether they could keep the young nucleus together. Harden entered the summer as a restricted free agent, and would likely command a premium contract; Ibaka, a free agent the following season, would likely command the same. That forced the Thunder to determine whether it was realistic to try and re-sign both, likely incurring a nasty hit from the NBA's luxury tax as a result, or break up a team swept the defending champion Dallas Mavericks and dispatched Kobe Bryant's Los Angeles Lakers in five games in the first two rounds of the playoffs, and took four straight games against the San Antonio Spurs (who had the best record in the NBA) after going down 0-2 to start the Western Conference Finals.
And this is where Clayton Ike Bennett, the chairman of the ownership group of the Oklahoma City Thunder, enters the picture. Let's get one thing straight: Clay Bennett is concerned more about the bottom line than he does the product. If an inferior product is good for his bottom line, then he's good with the inferior product. If a superior product makes his customers happier but hurts his bottom line, then the most important person remains unhappy — Bennett.
In one of the handful of blemishes on the tenure of former NBA commissioner David Stern, the league allowed Bennett to purchase the SuperSonics franchise, fully aware of the fact that Bennett was a native of Oklahoma City, and sought to capitalize on the legwork the league had done to eventually move a team to that location. Despite lying to the Seattle public with his promise of a good faith attempt to keep the team in Seattle, the cushy nine-figure tax breaks and future business development plans for a new arena in Oklahoma City represented the proverbial writing on the wall.
So what does Bennett have to do with breaking up this core? Simple: the money. Bennett didn't — and doesn't — care about the fans' feelings, whether they be in Seattle or Oklahoma City. Bennett didn't want to pay the luxury tax that would come as a result of the future contract extensions for Harden and Ibaka, so the edict was made to Presti: we can only keep one — regardless of the fact that they'd be breaking up their unprecedented core of talent — and the other has to go. When a young Harden — who was just coming off his third season in the NBA and wasn't even 23 years old yet — looked like a deer in the headlights during the 2012 NBA Finals (his 12.4 points over 32 minutes per game don't fully tell the story of how overwhelmed he looked), Presti placed his chips on Ibaka — the 6'10 forward who was a All-Defensive First Team selection and could even shoot from three — as the guy whom the team would move forward with.
If Presti has any "blood on his hands" for breaking up the burgeoning superteam, it stems from this specific decision. The decision to break up the core can (and should) be attributed directly to Bennett. But the decision of HOW the team would be broken up (or which player would be dealt) is on Presti.
You know how the rest of this story unfolds. In October of 2012, the Thunder traded away Harden to the Houston Rockets as part of a six-player deal that netted them swingmen Kevin Martin and Jeremy Lamb, along with two first round picks. To Presti's credit, one of those two picks did become center Steven Adams, but the other pick turned out to be a complete disaster when they took Mitch McGary from the University of Michigan, who was out of the league after just two seasons.
Harden went to Houston and became just the fifth player in team history to reach 2,000 points in a season. Many people believed Harden should have won the league's MVP award after the 2016-2017 season, but Harden made up for it by winning it one year later. He's also been named All-NBA First Team four times in his five seasons in Houston. And in this 2018-2019 season, he was declared arguably the best player in the world by averaging 36.5 points per game and scoring more than 30 points in 32 straight games.
Despite the enormous successes reached by Durant and Westbrook individually, the Thunder would not return to the NBA Finals after trading Harden. They finished with the second-best record in the NBA the year after trading Harden, only to suffer an early exit after Westbrook suffered a torn meniscus in the Western Conference SemiFinals. Two seasons later, the Thunder would miss the playoffs outright, when Kevin Durant missed nearly the entire 2014-2015 season due to a foot injury. In 2016, they blew a 3-2 series lead in the Western Conference Finals against the Golden State Warriors.
Before the missed 2014-2015 season, Durant was named the league's MVP, after he averaged an NBA-high 32 points per game, along with 7.4 rebounds and a career-high 5.5 assists per game. But with Durant out the following season, it gave Westbrook the ability to showcase his one-man wrecking crew style of play. That's why, when Durant left Oklahoma City after the heartbreaking loss in the 2016 playoffs, Westbrook played with a singular ferocity the likes of which we haven't seen from one player in years, averaging an NBA-high 31.6 points per game, along with 10.4 assists and 10.7 rebounds per game, en route to winning an MVP award of his own in 2017.
When you see what these guys grew and became, it's hard not to think that, if Oklahoma City had just opened up its coffers, it almost certainly could've have broken up the stranglehold that the Warriors have had over the Western Conference for the last four years (especially since Durant might not have departed to win a championship in Golden State in the first place). It's possible that the Thunder would be the team that LeBron James was recruiting fellow NBA stars to beat.
History has not been, and will not be kind to Presti, even if it wasn't his idea to break up the team. There will almost certainly be documentaries about this team, and they'll be riveting. Because the ultimate success the Oklahoma City Thunder could've achieved is the greatest story that was never told.


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Hand deformities – A brief know-how
Hand deformities generally come about in the joints or bones due to congenital defects or other nervous disorders.
Hand deformities are observed in 20-30 newborn babies in every 10 thousand births in the world. [2]
-- Lab tests or imaging sometimes required
-- Requires a medical diagnosis
-- There are no cures to hand deformities
-- Isn't contagious – this disease doesn't spread
Deformities studied in the hand comprise of non-fulfillment of parts of the hand to disconnect, extra thumbs or fingers, cleft hand, syndactyly, polydactyly, etc. Hand deformities can also be congenital, though they are not hereditary.
Ages affected – Between 0 and 25: Predominant; Between 25 and 55: Rare; 55 and above: Rare
Requires medical diagnosis:
Symptoms include malformations of the hand due to bone fractures, scissoring of the fingers, atrophy of the joint cartilage, destruction of ligaments, ruptured tendons, etc.
People may experience:
Distortion of hands – can be caused due to rheumatoid arthritis, osteoporosis, nerve damage, muscle infarctions, etc.
Pain areas – hands, elbows, hand muscles, joints, etc.
Also common – complications while performing simple tasks, limitation of motion, etc.
Once diagnosed with a hand deformity, the patient should abstain from performing any activity which involves rigorous usage of the hands and be wary about using hands in all activities.
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