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I kept fishing up, with every cast envisioning that 4lb smallmouth inhaling my popper. I kept catching fish, but not the target species.
This is where it gets interesting (and long-winded)....as I wade upstream, I am having to watch every step as there are some slick shoals with lots of troughs and drop offs. I cast upstream and give the popper a couple of good pops. I look down as I make another step forward and look back up to find my popper missing. I set the hook (like Bill Dance) and I have successfully hooked into the best smallmouth I have ever hooked into. Unfortunately, almost as quickly as I hooked it, I lost it. My 8lb tippet snapped in half like it was 6X. Not at the knot, but in the middle. It was not worn as I had just re-tied. I did catch a glimpse of it and it was at least a 20", 4lb fish. I feel like a 5wt is no longer suitable for this pursuit. That fish felt like a bull red. My knees were shaking and I felt sick to my stomach. It was like winning the lottery and finding out there was a mistake and you didn't win. However, I guess those are the experiences that keep us going back for more. That makes 2 very nice creek smallmouth I have lost after extremely short battles. I am starting to wonder when I will have my day.
Well the girlfriend called again it said it would be about another hour, so I decided I would check on the section I usually fish. After a quick game of "pick the spot that looks the least snaky" I cautiously made my way down the weedy bank.
I made a few casts, more green sunfish and small redbreast. I get up to the more productive water and make a cast close to the bank. That cast moved something, but not a fish.
He started angling toward me and I thought it was a good time to retreat, since my gun was in my car. He was as big around as a baseball and apparently pissed that I disturbed him. This was the second time I had shaky knees and thought that was good for one day.
I caught shellcracker, bluegill, longear, green and redbreast sunfish in the panfish category. Then largemouth and smallmouth bass. I would say that's a good variety.
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By George Bell
From: Boulder, CO
Jul 25, 2007
A fun route and not sustained at 5.9.
FA: Dick Dorworth and Sibylle Hechtel, 1972
By jayci
From: Flagstaff
Apr 9, 2008
|The corner discribed above is more of a giant flake. I felt that getting to this flake was the crux of the climb. Once in it you are led straight up to the bowl. I didin't feel that any pitch was harder than any other once you are climbing the main feature.
By sibylle
From: Colorado
Mar 1, 2010
We didn't have any large gear, since it didn't exist ... I think all we had was stoppers and hexes.
It was barely my second season of leading, and I was very inexperienced. Dorworth pointed to where I was to go and sent me up .... I borrowed someone's parka, which was lucky since we got caught in a huge thunderstorm in the dark, at the summit.
By sibylle
From: Colorado
Nov 14, 2011
I wrote about our first ascent here:
By PerryMason
Aug 21, 2012
I thought the climbing on this route was better than the Northeast Face of Pingora for basically the same grade. The 5.9 is one well protected wide lieback section. This is how we did the route, route finding was straight forward in my opinion
Pitch 1: Find a detached pillar at far right of the overhangs, climb left side of pillar and traverse over to roof. Pull the roof and climb a wide ugly grass filled crack to a nice ledge (5.7)
Pitch 2: Head straight up on easy terrain to another roof with a crack shooting left, pull roof and follow nice finger crack left to a belay on top of a pillar (5.8)
Pitch 3: Head straight up a right facing dihedral to the apex and pull roof to the left, follow left leaning crack /groove to a belay at a mess of slings around a pillar (5.8)
Pitch 4: Head out and left around pillar to enter the obvious crack/flake system above, follow really fun flakes to a wide lieback crux (#4 nice but not essential), belay directly above on a ledge. Long pitch (5.9)
Pitch 5: Follow corner/flakes up through an easy chimney section and belay shortly after on a grass ledge. Another long pitch (5.7)
Pitch 6: Follow flakes up and right, as the flake system arches into a roof and the rock gets a bit rotten, step out right onto the face and follow great holds up and round the roof to 4th class terrain into the upper bowl. Run the rope out to a belay (5.8)
Pitch 7: Climb up an obvious trough/chimney on the left side of the bowl a full rope length to a ledge below the fang of rock (5.4)
Pitch 8: Climb up steep delicate flakes out the roof into 4th class terrain and belay when comfortable (5.6)
Descent: Scramble up and left for a good ways crossing an exposed notch to the plateau below the true summit. Head down grassy slopes towards North Lake until you can see the shoulder of the southwest slopes up to your right. Head up a couple hundred vertical feet to the shoulder and then descent directly to Jackass Pass on easy grassy slopes.
Rack: nuts, and doubles from fingers to #3 and a single #4
By sibylle
From: Colorado
Sep 15, 2013
I think one can easily climb this without the #3 or #4 - I wouldn't want to carry in the big heavy gear!
We had no Cams in 1972, climbed the route using stoppers and hexes, and neither of us were super climbers, certainly not in 1972!
By Chris Dickson
From: Telluride, Colorado
Aug 4, 2015
It seems as if there are several different ways to gain the R-facing corner/flake system that constitutes the main business of this climb. We seemed to be just left of the route described above, until we linked back up with it on our 4th pitch. The corner pitch is AWESOME. I highly recommend you do the entire corner to the ledge in one long pitch. Save the big gear for the very end because that is where the crux is. There is a stuck hex up in the wideness, but you'd probably need 6ft long arms to clip it. I placed a #3 at the crux (you have a nice foot ledge to place from) before entering the final wide moves in the corner. What a pitch!
Also, the descent: from the notch (climbing straight up logical 4th class gets you here), look straight ahead toward several ridge. Cross grassy 3rd class across the top of one large gully and onto another ridge. From here, you will see another obvious notch in the next ridge to the south, scramble over to this notch, descend into that next gully and follow this down to grassy meadows that contour back to the skier's right to the top of Jackass Pass.
By Jared Spaulding
From: Central WY
Aug 1, 2017
Chris, thanks for the descent beta: spot on. I would only add: expect to traverse at least 100+ meters from the ridge above the route before seeing the '"obvious notch."
I found Joe Kelsey's topo and beta most useful.


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The Arizona Cardinals and Green Bay Packers released their final injury report in advance of Sunday's Wild Card game in Glendale, Ariz. As expected, the Cardinals are the team with major health concerns, as both WR Anquan Boldin (ankle) and CB Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie (toe/knee) headline a list of six players who are questionable.
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There is a POI limit of 400 in MapThis. MapThis loads the 400 closest POIs to the point you are where you loaded them.
If you move the cursor, and load them again, you'll see POIs closest to that new point.
hi people,
im so happy with my psp-290 in germany, just one thing is bugging me:
If i zoom into my city and search for POIs, for example "spped-camera" or "bank" it shows every single spped-camera or bank there really is.
If i zoom to half, or whole of the country, it just shows a few of them in mapthis, it downloaded around 1000 POIs.
How should i change the "lat/lon devisors" when searching for POIS so that it makes sense?
Or is there a POI limit in mapthis and they actually were downloaded but just not shown?
and i wonder if there is a way/version to change this issue?
would be really helpful
There is a POI limit of 400 in MapThis. MapThis loads the 400 closest POIs to the point you are where you loaded them.
If you move the cursor, and load them again, you'll see POIs closest to that new point.
ok but that does not explain, why there are sometimes not all POIs there. I tried a higher lat/lon devisor. once it worked but sometimes it creates about 2000 POIs, and not a single one is shown in mapthis :S
I don't understand what you mean by "lat/lon devisor". Could you post (in attachment) the POI file that doesn't work?
lat/lon divisor are options in the gmdl POI menü tab. i dont exactly understand what it does ^^"
i attached a non-working poi file for germany
I think MapThis just has a problem with _that_ many entries. Deleting the first 1000 or the last 1000 or so yields a file which works just fine. Too bad...
oh ok thats no problem then.
i would just create like 4 files for the quarters of the country or more. thanks for testing, just wanted to make sure, im not doing something awfully wrong
My pois still don't work. I made a file of just 10 entries.
Gas stations to be exact. They don't show up.
I placed them right into the _map folder.
ONLY if i ADD a POI in mapthis itself, the 10 poi's show up, but not as gasstations, but as red dots.
How could this be ?
of course you can download it using gmdl.
There is a menu tab in the upper screen wich says POI. Just move the map to your chosen part, click get numbers and search for "gas-station" , "speed-camera" and so on...
by the way, when searching you should use the name of the icons, you can chose in the lower parts to find something useful ^^
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Not really a trade proposal, but would any of you guys be interested in him as the next starting PG for the P's?
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Not really a trade proposal, but would any of you guys be interested in him as the next starting PG for the P's?
I definitely would. Overall hes been pretty solid throughout his career. He is not a spectacular PG, but I think hes a reliable one.
"So, which one of you guys is going to come in second?" - Larry Bird before the 3 point contest. He won.
I think he would blossom here. He has a lot of potential and could still emerge as a big time player. I've always wanted him here.
I'd take him over TJ in a heartbeat. Of course I'd trade TJ for a pack of gum.
"Just look at the flowers ........ BANG"
I'd pass on him.
I'm not impressed by him at all. Bobcats fans aren't either. I don't see how he is an upgrade over TJ. He defiantly doesn't give the Pacers more defense.
People on the Bobcats board cannot stand the guy. They suffer from why-not-play-our-young-safe-and-nice-point-guardinitis. Just like us. I don't think he is what we need. He'd just be more of the same.
"I keep wondering the same thing. Last week they had the 4th worst record in the league, had an 11.9 percent chance of winning the lottery and were in line to land a franchise type player like Derrick Favors or DeMarcus Cousins. This week? They have a 1.7 percent chance of winning the lottery, have the 8th worst record and are in line to draft Cole Aldrich or Greg Monroe. Way to go Jim O'Brien. Rest Danny Granger the rest of the season (if it isn't too late) and give Josh McRoberts lots of minutes. That ought to do it." - Chad Ford on winning meaningless games
Way to go Jim, you may have just put our franchise back another 4+ years.
Would all depend on the specifics of the deal. What are his salary considerations and what would we have to give up?
I'd consider him decent at best given his career trajectory, although he's probably having his best year now. Still probably better than our current PG crop, IMO.
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Whiskey Girl, one of Downtown's most popular spots for late-night/early-morning drunken debauchery, is moving out of its space on the corner of Fifth and Market. But fear not stoked frat boys, bachelorette gaggles and metrocentric boozehounds, a new tenant with enthusiasm for good times and alcoholic beverages is moving right on in.
The space is being taken over by the Verant Group, which includes Tavern at the Beach, True North Tavern, Sandbar Sports Grill, Offshore Tavern and Grill, West Coast Tavern and Brewley's Pint. The name for the new venue, the group's first in downtown, will be barleymash. It's an homage to barley's role as a key ingredient in two libations that are en vogue in SD right now - beer and whiskey. As such, they intend to have a wide variety of both on hand.
The food component will consist of yet-to-be-defined "progressive bar fare" built around an "Americana" theme will also be present in the venue's interior design. Details are few at this point, but barleymash is slated to open in March of next year and will be located at 600 Fifth Avenue. Given the constant flow of tourists and partygoers on the Gaslamp's main drag, it's a prime location. Proof comes via the success of Searsucker, another resto with a wide open floorplan and elements of Americana right across the street. Is there enough hunger for this concept to fill two such eateries? Guess we'll find out.
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20 days to the 2010 Dakar Rally From snow to sand: Volkswagen team is ready for the "Dakar" Wolfsburg (13 December 2009). Now the going gets tough: The Volkswagen drivers concluded their comprehensive preparations for the latest running of the...
20 days to the 2010 Dakar Rally
From snow to sand: Volkswagen team is ready for the "Dakar"
Wolfsburg (13 December 2009). Now the going gets tough: The Volkswagen drivers concluded their comprehensive preparations for the latest running of the Dakar Rally in South America with a weekend in snow. Next appointment for the defending champions around Giniel de Villiers is now the ceremonial start on 1 January where the five Volkswagen Race Touaregs set off on their 9,000 kilometre long journey through Argentina and Chile. In Flachau (Austria) the drivers, co-drivers and team members as well as numerous celebrities and media representatives met for the final time in Europe. On this occasion the Volkswagen squad appeared not only self-confident and in peak physical form but also in a great mood.
"The last few weeks were extremely busy for the entire team. We've spent a lot of time together and worked hard," says Dr Ulrich Hackenberg, Member of the Board of Management with responsibility for Technical Development. In addition to mechanic training for drivers and co-drivers and a week of preparation covering everything to do with navigation, the final medical check up for the drivers at the Sport Clinic Bad Nauheim was on the agenda. Result: Volkswagen is ready for the "Dakar". Volkswagen Motorsport Director Kris Nissen: "We've now done everything to prepare both man and machine perfectly for the challenge 'Dakar'. The fantastic event this weekend wasn't just a lot of fun, but it also showed just what a closely-knit team our guys have become."
Football trainer Mirko Slomka, actor Wilson Ochsenknecht, moderator Milka Fernandez or motorsport legend Hans-Joachim Stuck - just a selection of the celebrity personalities who were able to experience the fascination of cross country rallying live and up close in Flachau. The guests got an impression of the prototype's abilities, which became the first diesel powered vehicle to win the Dakar Rally in 2009, with taxi rides through the snow alongside the "Dakar" winner or a spectacular jump show involving Touaregs and motorbikes. Furthermore, more than 60 media representatives from Europe and overseas received final first-hand information on just how the Wolfsburg based automobile manufacturer will approach operation "title defence" from drivers, co-drivers, team members and Motorsport Director.
The schedule over the forthcoming weeks is very tight. In the next few days the five Race Touareg will be flown with cargo aircraft to Buenos Aires. Fifty tonnes of material - including trucks and other service vehicles - have already been at sea since the end of November and will be collected again on 28 December. Technical scrutineering follows on 29 and 30 December before the vehicles roll over the start ramp on New Year's Day.
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In case you're wondering what kind of food you can purchase at the recently opened Kung Fu Saloon in Uptown a recent picture posted to their Facebook page should sum things up nicely.
Dubbed The Dank, the sandwich requires two bamboo skewers for structural support and includes the following...
two cheese and jalapeno stuffed beef patties topped with bacon, onion rings, more cheese, and the works, stuffed between two grilled cheese sandwiches.
The rest of the menu sticks to traditional and slightly less caloric bar fare. They offer chicken wings with various sauces, lettuce wraps for the carbohydrate conscious, sandwiches including a Philly cheese steak I'd like to check out in the coming weeks, and tacos.
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Wealth Management Reigns Supreme at UBS
Wealth management employees at UBS are probably breathing a sigh of relief this week as their investment banking brethren learn their fate at the firm.
Bob McCann, CEO of UBS Group Americas and the head of Wealth Management Americas, held a quarterly conference call yesterday with wealth management employees to brief them on the direction of the unit, according to a person who was on the call. A spokeswoman for UBS confirmed the call and its contents. McCann was not available for comment.
McCann told wealth management employees that it is necessary for the bank to scale back its investment banking operations in light of the regulatory environment and invest more resources into the wealth management division, according to the person.
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TUESDAY, Sept. 6 (HealthDay News) -- A considerable proportion of hospitalized children are exposed to polypharmacy, with exposure to more drugs significantly more likely among those with rare conditions, according to a study published online Sept. 5 in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine.
Chris Feudtner, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H., from the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, and colleagues examined the prevalence and patterns of exposure to drugs and therapeutic agents among 587,427 children younger than 18 years of age, hospitalized in 411 general hospitals and 52 children's hospitals throughout the United States in 2006. Daily and cumulative exposure to drugs and therapeutic agents were the outcomes measured.
The investigators found that the most common exposures differed by patient age and hospital type. On the first day of hospitalization in children's hospitals, patients younger than 1 year at the 90th percentile of daily exposure to distinct medications and those 1 year or older received 11 and 13 drugs, respectively; and those in general hospitals received eight and 12 drugs, respectively. By day seven of hospitalization in the children's hospitals, patients younger than 1 year at the 90th percentile of cumulative exposure to distinct medications had received 29 drugs, compared to 35 for patients 1 year or older; those in general hospitals received 22 and 28 drugs, respectively. Higher exposure to drugs was more likely among patients with less common conditions.
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If there's an overriding theme to this edition of Kill! Kill! Kill!, it's the virtue of sticking with your own kind. But that might be loosely interpreted as racial commentary, so we'll have to stick with sweet animal slaughter as the idea we're driving at.
Up top, a bird beards the lions in their den (btw, an idiom I've never fully understood) to less than desirable results. The fact that it's the lionness who makes the kill robs me of an opportunity to make a cheap Ndamukong Suh joke. We'll just have to imagine it as Jim Schwartz's overly violent home life.
Below, we see a gator straying too far into Hippo 'Hood. While you could think of that as any Florida player getting mauled, I like the image of Tebow paying the ultimate price for trying to cut off a line of defensive lineman at the buffet. Get 'em, Wilfork.
[Oopity! A commenter points out that's a crocodile. Well there goes that lazy joke. You'd think my Crocodile Mile expertise would have enabled me to make that distinction, but just shows to go ya that a Slip 'n' Slide rip-off isn't the tool for learning we it thought it might be.]


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CARLSBAD (CNS / CBS 8) - Warning signs remain up at Ponto Beach and Batiquitos Lagoon Monday, after a broken pipe sent thousands of gallons of sewage into the lagoon.
The main line break Sunday caused about 2,000 gallons of sewage to spill into Batiquitos Lagoon near the Carlsbad-Encinitas city line, according to county environmental health officials.
The spill was reported about 8 a.m. and health officials were posting signs around the coastal wetlands area warning of the contamination, according to the county's Department of Environmental Health.
The signs will remain in place until samples confirm the water is safe for recreational use, DEH officials said.
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Ministry's Al Jourgensen on His New Biography, Dying Multiple Times, Alien Encounters + More
The "back-asswards" life of Ministry mastermind Al Jourgensen has finally been documented with incredible detail in the musician's official biography, 'Ministry: The Lost Gospels According to Al Jourgensen.' The authorized bio, co-written with author Jon Wiederhorn, recalls Jourgensen's many years of drug addiction, the recording sessions for each Ministry record and some of the most insane stories you've ever heard.
We recently spoke with Uncle Al about not only various accounts from the book, but the creation of the biography itself. In this exclusive interview, Jourgensen reveals the exact amount of times he's been declared legally dead, his dislike for performing live, strange encounters with extraterrestrial beings + much more!
I got a copy of your new authorized biography, 'Ministry: The Lost Gospels According to Al Jourgensen.' To create this book, did you just sit down with author Jon Wiederhorn and tell him all your stories?
Yeah, well Jon and I have known each other for 18 or 19 years. I've done interviews when he had a show at MTV and things. We followed up with each other and I trusted him. Every time he interviewed me he'd confront me with some story that he heard through someone else and he'd ask me to confirm it. Most of the time I'd say, "Yeah, that's pretty much what happened." He'd say, "Dude, this is insane. It has to be a book." So he came out [to my place] for about a week. We went through multiple gallons of vodka and wine and I just told him the stories for that week.
As a matter of fact, he's called me – he knows I have at least another 150 crazy ass stories that have happened. He wants to do another one; I don't want to do it. That was enough for me. We just got drunk for a week, he recorded it and then he went and did his due diligence and put a lot of research, talking to people, calling and finding witnesses to these stories. They're not just made up. We've got multiple witnesses for all this stuff. Obviously, my personal opinions are mine, but the actual stories and stuff; yeah he has a lot of different sources. I stand by most of the stories even though I was kind of there.
I was there physically, but mentally it was tough for me to re-hash some of these things. In the state that I was in in the '90s, some of these things you don't know if it's reality or if you're in some weird Salvador Dali nightmare.
Ozzy Osbourne said recently that he doesn't remember any of the 1990s whatsoever.
Yeah, that's where you get a good guy like Weiderhorn that you trust and know that's going to follow up on it, because you know what? Half the stories in there I don't even know if they are bulls–t or not. I don't know if they're reality or not. It's good that he checked them all out and they all seemed to check out. I think there are only two of them that he couldn't get enough sources to confirm and I'm not going to mention those now or anything, but the rest of them are, "Yeah that's happened I guess." I was there, sort of.
I'm pretty sure you've read all of the different excerpts in the book where a lot of legendary musicians praise you and Ministry. Which ones mean the most to you?
Well, the Mikey [Scaccia] ones of course. Of course I appreciate it and all that, but I could write a second book right now listing all the people that I want to thank for influencing me of various different natures — everything from Stockhausen to Buck Owens, Johnny Cash, whatever. It's really nice but I don't take it for anything more than that. I'm glad they got inspired to do their own music. Some of the music from the people that have talked is pretty good too. It's good. Mikey's obviously are the most personal. We've spent the most time together.
He literally was like my little brother. Losing him was very difficult, especially losing him two days after finishing recording the record, all his parts and all my parts –everything. Then I had to mix the record after going to his funeral. So I had to hear him every day after the funeral. That was kind of tough. Time moves on and he makes his presence felt around here, trust me. He likes it here. I think he switches time between Dallas and El Paso between haunting houses. [Laughs] He moves s–t around, he knocks things over. He's still rowdy, he's having a gas.
In the book there are so many instances, even in the prologue, of you basically dying multiple times. How many times do you think you've been legally dead?
Three. That I know for sure. Jon even did research at the hospitals and got actual reports from the emergency rooms and things. There's been three times where I've been dead. One of them I truly recognized as a life-changing kind of spiritual thing where you know there's an afterlife. The other two, I think I was just too f—ed up to know I was dead. [Laughs]
I remember reading that you really don't enjoy playing live, touring or being onstage. Despite that, do you enjoy being a public figure?
No. Actually, that's even lower on the list of scumbag things to do. That'd be the worst part of it. I'm very shy. I'm very quiet unless I get around people that I know, people that I trust like Mikey. Then I can become a bit of a handful. Generally, I just mistrust everyone. I think I had a quote a few years back, I forget in what context, but it was something about my fans and I go, "I know my fans and trust me, I don't trust them." [Laughs] Generally, at the end of the day, I just say, "Stay the f— off my property and buy my merchandising and CDs." That's it. [Laughs]
In the book you equated performing as being a jukebox or a crossing guard for kids who are fighting and throwing stuff at you…
Does that sound fun to you? I mean, really? Would you trade your life to be stepped on, thrown s–t and people yelling and you can never satisfy them. You can never play the songs that they exactly want or this and that. Then they throw darts and coins and bottles at you. How can that be an enjoyable experience? Then literally, what comes back on the bus, the big glamour part — the groupies — generally look like the seven that are in that net on the 'From Beer to Eternity' cover.
This is not glamour, dude. This is a really horrific job. I often wonder if I would have just had a normal job and done music as a side thing, as a cathartic thing, but a couple of years ago I finally decided, "You know what? I don't think I can cut it at Best Buy or WalMart either, if I had a job." I finally got my face tattooed because I figured I wouldn't have to go do another job interview. [Laughs] So, that's where I stand on it now.
Back to playing live — on the other hand, do you enjoy seeing live bands?
Not really, to be honest. I know it sounds like I'm an old curmudgeon or something, but the point is I know how it's done. I know what work goes on to make a set: the visuals, song structures, set structures, the rental companies, this and that. It becomes very tedious work. Where as I hang out with authors or actors, the grass is always greener. I don't understand their process as well. My process, for me, it's kind of boring; me up there recreating songs. The creative process, don't take me wrong — that's not boring. I love being in the studio with people like Mikey or other friends that I've recorded with over the years or Billy Gibbons or Rick Neilson and doing creative music spontaneously and having the technology to capture that and have that live either on a shelf forever or be made available to the public. That's fascinating to me. Instead of a band or having a manager or record label snooping around, we get to do what we do because I own my own recording studio.
So, I get some friends and that process is completely invigorating, but then they go up there and re-create the process. You will never have that moment again, especially with not the exact same people that you might have played it with. People screaming for other stuff and [me] being spat at and thrown at — it's just dumb. I feel like the worlds best-paid babysitter. Mom and Dad go away, the kids run rampant and I got to sit there and scream at them the whole f—ing time. That's what live playing is to me.
Another interesting part of the book is about your alien encounter at the age of 5.
That's a weird one. That one … my grandmother is dead, but Jon did call my mother who did remember something — a triangle on my neck. A green triangle that lasted for about three weeks. It was right around Christmas when I was 5 years old. [Jon] did get some substantiation. I do have some recollection of that. I was raised Catholic, so when these three beings appeared in my bedroom, I thought they were the three wise men from Catholic lore. I wasn't afraid of them. I don't remember anything bad happening to me, but the next day my grandmother noticed this green triangle, like a tattoo, on my neck. She tried to scrub it off she thought I was playing with markers or something, but it didn't come off and it went away by itself about three weeks later. I've had another couple of encounters with these guys and I don't know if they're friendly or unfriendly, but I'm not afraid of them and they're not afraid of me obviously. I don't recall ever being anally probed or anything so I don't think they're sex addicts or hostile to me. I think they just check in with me every so often and see what the f— I'm up to.
Very interesting. It was weird because when you were describing the green triangle around Christmas time, I thought of a Christmas tree.
Right, that's what my grandmother thought. I took a green marker and tried to draw a Christmas tree but, she couldn't get it off. I remember that because I had to sit there and I think she went to some kind of Teflon scrubber and tried to scrub it off. I didn't do it. I told her about the three wise men that came and they just said, "Yeah, yeah, whatever. Maybe you can skip Sunday school next week." [Laughs] Maybe he's a bit crazy already with this; we'll lay off the Catholicism for a week or two until the triangle goes away.
Ministry's 13th studio album, 'From Beer to Eternity', will be released on Sept. 6. To purchase a copy of the just-released book 'Ministry: The Lost Gospels According to Al Jourgensen,' click here.


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What temperature are your heater hoses going to & coming from the heater core?
Feel the heater hoses, they should be very hot. If one hose is hot & the other one is cold, then you have a clogged heater core.
If both hoses are hot, then you more than likely have a temperature blend door that is broken or a temperature blend door actuator or control knob concern.
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Overland Park, KS, United States, 2014/06/03 - Safeguard Self Storage purchased land for a new self-storage facility on 5026 North Sheridan Road. The new Uptown facility will feature 770 storage units in various sizes.
Safeguard Self Storage has announced the purchase, on May 28, of a land parcel to build a self-storage facility in the Uptown neighborhood of Chicago. The store, located at 5026 North Sheridan Road, will be the 69th store for the company nationally when completed and the 12th store in the Chicago area. Another store in the West Rogers Park neighborhood, will be the companys 11th store in Chicago and is presently under construction.
The Chicago area is a terrific market for Safeguard and provides the company with the opportunity to add value to the Safeguard portfolio, says Allan Sweet, Safeguard Chief Executive Officer. This property is in a region where the company already owns and operates stores and we consider its addition to our real estate holdings as an important next step for the company.
The 52,000 square-foot Uptown facility will provide 770 storage units in various sizes. Amenities at this location will include heated and air conditioned storage area, drive-up loading area, computer-controlled building access and digital/video recording of the property. The facade of the store has been modified and upgraded to blend into the surrounding neighborhood.
The Uptown store, similar to all our Chicago facilities, is designed to provide an exceptional customer experience, said Ken Finlay, Safeguard Senior Vice-President of Operations. This facility will complement our product offerings in Illinois and demonstrates our commitment to and confidence in this strong market.
The Uptown store and the West Rogers Park property are scheduled to open in 2015, said Jim Goonan, Senior Vice President of Development.
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"I'm part of something great"
"I'm very excited to vote for President Obama in my first election. I'm voting for him because of Pell Grants—I wouldn't be able to afford college without them. Student loan reform is also big—he's already helped me a lot."
"I'm glad he talked about how important education is to our country's future. If Mitt Romney had his way, I'm not sure everyone here today would be able to afford college."
"I plan on voting early for President Obama—I think it's cool, and I want to vote as early as I can so that I can help out on Election Day. I've been registering students on campus to vote, and it makes me feel like I'm part of something great, getting people out there registered and ready to vote."
—Aaron, a first year communications major at Bowling Green State University who helped out at President Obama's event on Wednesday.


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Flag-waving supporters of Egyptian President Mohammed Mursi have staged a final rally ahead of a divisive referendum on a new constitution.
The Islamist leader hopes will bring an end to weeks of political crisis and street clashes.
Cairo and other cities have seen a series of often violent demonstrations over the past three weeks.
Three weeks ago Mr Mursi assumed sweeping new powers to push through the constitution.
He sees it as a vital element of Egypt's transition to democracy after the overthrow of autocratic predecessor Hosni Mubarak last year.
At least eight people have died and hundreds have been injured in clashes.
A leading opposition figure warned of more blood on the streets during the voting tomorrow and next on a draft the opposition says is too heavily influenced by Islamists.
The referendum is being held on two days because there are not enough judges willing to monitor all polling stations.
Egyptians will accept or reject a basic law that must be in place before national elections can be held early next year.
It is hoped that elections can steer the Arab world's most populous nation towards stability.
Islamists who propelled Mursi to power in June's presidential election assembled at a mosque near the president's palace in Cairo.
Members of the liberal, secular and Christian opposition began to gather to protest against the basic law outside the presidential palace.
Mohammed ElBaradei, an opposition leader and Nobel prize winner, urged Mursi to cancel the referendum "before it is too late".
Amr Moussa, a former head of the Arab League also prominent in the opposition, called on Egyptians to vote "no".
The measure is nevertheless expected to pass, given the well-organised Muslim Brotherhood's record of winning elections since the fall of Mubarak.
Many Egyptians, tired of turmoil, may simply fall in line.


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A prominent Jewish community representative responded Thursday to controversial comments by Freedom and Justice Party deputy leader Essam al-Erian advocating that Egyptian Jews living in Israel return to Egypt.
The "miserable social and economic conditions in Egypt do not encourage the return of Jews," wrote Azy Naggar in a letter published in London-based Al-Hayat newspaper Thursday.
Naggar, the head of the Association of the Jews of Egypt in Israel as well as another association for claimants of the rights of Arab Jews, said a number of questions must be answered as a "guarantee" before Jews of Egyptian descent can return.
Erian has recently said that Egypt should encourage Jews of Egyptian descent living in Israel to return here as a solution to the Palestinian crisis. The deputy head of the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party also blamed former President Gamal Abdel Nasser's policies for forcing Jews to leave the country in the 1950s.
Their presence in Palestine contributes to the Zionist occupation of Arab lands, and every Egyptian has the right to live in his country, Erian said during a TV interview last week. Both President Mohamed Morsy's administration and the Shura Council have distanced themselves from Erian's remarks, although he has since reiterated his position.
"Before studying your suggestion on the return of [Egyptian Jews], I would be happy if I received an answer to these questions which would help me in making a rational decision before returning to live in Egypt, as we cannot return without ensuring housing, a source of income, a decent life, freedom, and democracy, and cannot only live by the Sharia law, which does not encourage the acceptance of your suggestion," Naggar's message read.
"Am I going to have a house to live in here in Egypt or will I return to my family's house in Cairo? Or will I have to live with hundreds of thousands of people who live in graveyards in Cairo?"
Among other questions, he also asked, "Am I going to have a job in Egypt or will I be out of work along with millions of unemployed academics in Egypt?" and, "Am I going to enjoy a free democratic life?"
Naggar finished his letter pointing out that he sent a congratulatory message to Morsy after the presidential election. He also said he appreciates and respects the Egyptian people and thinks they deserve a decent life worthy of a state that leads the Arab world.
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Downriver: Fracking and Consumerism Eroding Rural Communities
Rev. Leah D. Schade
Waite's e-book, Downriver, is a series of six vignettes that give us brief yet compelling glimpses of life in America moving between rural and suburban landscapes and communities. I have lived in both places and found myself nodding in recognition of the details in these tiny portraits. Waite beautifully captures a child's perspective on a farmer-neighbor's death, the twang of conversation between two old friends reminiscing and the humorous family drama of a canoeing trip.
The opening piece, "Fractured," is a taut short story about friendships, farms, communities and cows negatively affected by the shale gas industry. While the story is realistic fiction not based on actual events, the circumstances of a farmer faced with the decision to lease his land to drilling or face the demise of his farm is all too common in Pennsylvania and Ohio. The tragic irony is that his decision results in more loss than he, his wife or his friends could have ever anticipated.
The piece "On Target" is a wry, rueful essay contrasting a big-box store with a country store, and a Main Street town with the pre-fabbed "community" going up on the outskirts. As a pastor, I was reminded of Jesus's parable of the rich man storing up his wealth when I read Waite's poignant words: "In the end, when the builder is dead and gone and the piles of money are spent and lost forever, the destruction of that beautiful farmland will remain. And still, there will be no community."
Waite wields her words like a fine-bristled paintbrush: "She remembers standing at the window, staring at the holsteins dotting the field, wrapping thick muscular tongues around patches of grass." Her descriptions of fields and farms, plants and animals are vivid: "Notice the way the shoots of those corn stalks grab at the soil and hold on tight, like two rows of fingers trying to maintain a grip on time fleeting." Yet some of the portraits are quite sparse, and you may have to go back and re-read to fill in the white spaces meant to engage imagination. I believe this is part of Waite's technique, intended to draw in the reader and have them complete the picture in their own minds.
My only complaint is that there was not more. The book can be read in one sitting and is a bit like pulling up to a table of appetizers that tease us with a taste of the chef's talents, but leave us hungry for more. This is not necessarily a bad thing. Small-plate reading, like fine dining, affords you small bites of intense flavors that stay in your memory and give you a glimpse of what is possible when a well-trained writer focuses her lens on glimpses of life that really matter.
And what matters to Waite? Small town communities. Stewardship of land and beauty. Honesty. Neighbors with relationships that go beyond a wave at the mailbox. And a willingness to reveal one's regretful, but unavoidable complicity with an economy that cares nothing about the aforementioned values.
For a miniscule investment of time and money, the reader will be treated to a finely-crafted work by an author whose writing reminds us to slow down and pay attention to those fleeting moments and disappearing places. Sadly, as we watch family farms ruined by fracking and rural communities collapsing under the pressures of consumerism and dispersed industrialization, little gems such as Waite's recollections may be all that remain of our most important resources—land cherished for its intrinsic value, people cherished for their humanity and communities cherished for their commitment to protecting both.


text: Getting educated about obesity is an important component in understanding the complexity of this disease. Torrance Memorial Health System offers several educational resources available to help you in your weight-loss journey. These tools will give you the information that you need to make an informed decision about what to do about your obesity. Torrance Memorial Wellness and Health Programs Torrance Memorial offers a number of different classes, services, and programs to help advance your health-related knowledge. Exercise and Fitness Classes Stress Management Classes Medical Weight Loss Program Smoking Cessation Program Quit Smoking Guide Wellness Services: Massage and Therapeutic Bodywork Healthy Recipes Healthy Heart: A Guide to Heart Care Heart Risk Assessment Torrance Memorial Support Groups The best place to find those kindred spirits is in a support group. The following support groups can teach and help you make smarter and healthier nutrition choices: Between Starving and Stuffed Support Group Mindful eating for a healthy weight. Every 3rd Monday of the month | 6:30pm - 8:00pm Torrance Memorial Health Conference Center, Room 1 and 2 310-891-6735 Bariatric Nutrition Support Group Led by a registered dietitian. Every 2nd Monday of the month | 6:00pm - 7:00pm Torrance Memorial West Tower, 2nd Floor, Room A 310-891-6735 Community Programs Diabetes Prevention Program Torrance-South Bay YMCA ymcala.org Reduce your risk of type 2 diabetes and gain tools for healthy living. Helpful Websites Obesity Action Coalition Obesity Society Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Overweight and Obesity U.S. National Library of Medicine: Obesity


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The Legend of Dragoon
Review by PContaminator
"Sony V.S. Square....Who will win?"
This is one of the most impressive RPG projects I've ever seen. This is quite possibly the best Non-Squaresoft game I've played and maybe even....The best? I really don't know yet, due to the fact that I haven't finished yet; but so far every aspect of this game kicks ass! This game is an awesome visual feast that surpasses that of FFVIII and Vagrant Story! The sound is very mood setting and enriched. The Control is perfect especially in battle (which I might add is very original and addictive), and the story, is so deep and developed, it might as well be a book. Overall this is by far the best RPG effort sony has put out yet and it might just be better than anyone could have imagined.
Graphics 10/10- Holy SH**! These highly detailed pre-rendered backgrounds are the best I've scene and the cinemas (Which include Voices!) are even better. All the moves and morphs are brilliantly colored for an awesome light show effect. But what really sperates this from Final Fantasy is the ability to move pre-rendered objects. Trees fall down and thy're pre-rendered and the water and lava liiks REAL!
Control 10/10- The controls are smooth and responsive and with the awesome battle commands, it allows for optimal control and gameplay. Since the gmae is dual hock compatible, its always a plus.
Sound 10/10- Ahhh, the melodies are so cool and SOO mood setting. From the happy go lucky shopkeepers music to the bos battles and the mighty castle tunes, all the music gets two thumbs up. The sound effects might even be a bigger accomplishment all the sounds from swords to flowing lava really sound authentic and puts you in the game.
Gameplay 10/10- This is just as important if not more important than the story, and this is where Dragoon excells. The battle system Rules! Every attack gets the chance to get an addition. Additions are like timed attacks from SMRPG. If you push the attack button at the right time, you get extra hits. The more levels you go up, the better your additions get. The better they get, the more hits you can do. And you also get DRAGOONS! Dragoons transform you and allow you to pull off special addition attacks and magic. And this just scratches the surface.
Story 10/10- From what I understand, You are Dart, a warrior whos parents were killed by an evil prescence when he was only five. He has just come back from a journey to find it and his home is in a time of war with Emporer Doel. The story often relates back to 11,000 years ago where the human race gains independence over the winglies. You later find out your a dragoon, with the power of dragons.
Replay ?- Just what you would expect from an RPG masterpiece, lots-o-replay. You have the option of searching the entire world up and down for rare items called stardusts. There are only fifty throughout the entire four-disc epic. If you find all of them, you get to fight the hardest guy in the game.
Overall 10/10- This game packs a punch! There is no slowdown, the graphics superb, once you get the hang of it the menus are easy, the gameplay is some of the best I've seen in a while, and the story is so captivating, you may not put the controller down throughout this 40+ hour game. Squarewho?
Reviewer's Rating: 5.0 - Flawless
Originally Posted: 07/02/00, Updated 07/02/00
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"Dairy Collaboration" is the theme of the 40th Annual Southern Dairy Conference to be held Jan. 13 through 15 at the Embassy Suites, Atlanta Airport in Atlanta, Ga.
In honor of the 40th Anniversary, a special pre-conference tour of Williams Dairy in Madison, Ga., will be held on Jan. 13. Owners Everett Williams and family have recently opened a new carousel parlor to milk their 1660 cows and are welcoming tour participants.
On Jan. 14, the conference begins with the usual excellent presentations on Dairy Market Outlook (nationally and internationally) and milk marketing by SUDIA (Southeast United Dairy Industry Association).
In addition, Congressman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) plans to discuss the Farm Bill, Patrick Smith, the new Southeast Milk Market Administrator will add his perspective, and there will be presentations about the SNAP (food stamp) program, dairy grazing in the Southeast, organic milk production in the Southeast and the future of dairy foods research.
A presentation on "Building Foundation Coalitions" will lead into the Jan.15 program which includes "Dairy Collaboration" perspectives from dairy producers, academia, state dairy development programs and media.
The grand finale will be the milk cooperative perspective featuring Paul Bikowitz, CEO, Southeast Milk, Inc.; Jim Baird, President, Lone Star Milk Producers, Inc.; Randy McGinnis, COO SE and Central Area, Dairy Farmers of America; Jay Bryant, CEO, Maryland and Virginia Milk Producers Cooperative; and Tom Pittman, General Manager, Premier Milk, Inc.
For the full agenda and how to register for the conference, please go to the conference website at www.southerndairyconference.com. Early registration discount holds until Jan. 5. To insure a room at the conference rate of $95, please register directly with Embassy Suites by January 2.


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RAWALPINDI: Local PPP has bedecked Liaquat Bagh's outer walls with party banners and posters to mark the fifth death anniversary of Benazir Bhutto but what die-hard PPP workers find missing is a monument to their slain leader.
Central leaders of the ruling party may face uneasy questions when they arrive to address a big rally planned on the occasion at the politically historic park on Thursday.
"Every anniversary we come a long way to Liaquat Bagh to pay tribute to our leader but where do we do that? There is no place to revere her," observed Shakil Azmat, a PPP activist from Attock, surveying the poster-bedecked scene.
"All that, sorts of, marks the spot where she fell to assassins' bullets is a dusty portrait of her put up by a worker," he told Dawn.
Malik Mazhar, who used to energise party rallies with his slogan chanting, agreed with his angry party colleague from Attock. He said PPP's failure to raise a monument to Benazir amounted "to washing away the memory of BB".
"It hurts," he added.
"How can we expect our leaders promoting her vision when in the five years that the party has been in power they could do nothing to keep her memory alive?"
On the occasion of the first death anniversary of Benazir in 2008, the PPP-led federal government had promised the Rawalpindi PPP "a mega development package" for the city but nothing came of it.
Perhaps the multi-billion flyovers and tunnels constructed by the Punjab government, run by the rival PML-N, close to the Liaquat Bagh make the PPP's "failure" look larger to its workers.
Disheartened by his leaders "failure", Mazhar has plans to collect donations from PPP workers to build the dream monument for their dear slain leader.
"You know PPP came to power at a time when the whole world was submerged in severe financial crisis. Our government faced the challenge but the package for Rawalpindi could not materialise in the situation," explained Amir Fida Paracha, president of the city PPP.
But the explanation does not seem to have cut any ice with the party workers who feel "the central leadership of PPP is just not bothered".
Rawalpindi PPP information secretary Shujaat Haider Naqvi however disagreed with them.
"There is no space for raising a monument of size at the place. It is too narrow," he said about the spot on the busy road along the Liaquat Bagh where Benazir was assassinated on December 27, 2007, just weeks before schedule general elections in the country.


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SABIC Certified 'Top Employers Asia Pacific 2014' in Multiple Markets across Asia
February 17, 2014 - New Delhi, Delhi , India
"SABIC believes that the true mark of a top employer is in creating Chemistry that matters™ with our employees, customers, partners and communities to enable long term success. We relentlessly aim to provide a foundation for our employees to operate ethically and an environment to nurture innovation. Our employees play a key role in conceptualizing and delivering our CSR programs in strengthening our community relationships across the region," said Janardhanan Ramanujalu, Vice President, SABIC South Asia & ANZ.
"Our people are our most vital asset. The endorsement of our Human Resources management processes across the region is a testament of SABIC's commitment to nurture and create optimal employee conditions that support the professional and personal development of our people," said Li Lei, Vice President, SABIC North Asia.
SABIC's Employment Value Proposition (EVP) seeks an alignment with its corporate strategy; however, it aspires to be a leader rather than a follower in the market. SABIC focuses on developing different segments in its organization: early career, middle managers and senior managers. Programs focusing mainly on change management, change leadership and coaching are designed and tailored for each segment.
Training is also a key element in SABIC's EVP. In 2013 approximately two-thirds of the employees were developed in soft skills, leadership skills, functional expertise and also in industry programs.
The annual international research undertaken by the Top Employers Institute, including an audit of Top Employers Institute's processes by Grant Thornton, an independent audit, tax and advisory firm, recognizes leading employers around the world: companies that provide excellent employee conditions, nurture and develop talent throughout all levels of the organization, and which strive to continuously optimize employment practices. SABIC is proud to be one of the select companies to achieve the exclusive Top Employers Asia Pacific 2014 certification.
Notes to Editors
- SABIC should be written in every instance in all uppercase.
- High resolutions images are available upon request
- For more information on the Top Employers certification, please visit http://www.top-employers.com
About SABIC
Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) ranks among the world's top petrochemical companies. The company is among the world's market leaders in the production of polyethylene, polypropylene and other advanced thermoplastics, glycols, methanol and fertilizers.
SABIC recorded a net profit of SR 24.72 billion (US$ 6.59 billion) in 2012. Sales revenues for 2012 totaled SR 189 billion (US$ 50.40 billion). Total assets stood at SR 338 billion (US$ 90.13 billion) at the end of 2012.
SABIC's businesses are grouped into Chemicals, Polymers, Performance Chemicals, Fertilizers, Metals and Innovative Plastics. SABIC has significant research resources with 17 dedicated Technology & Innovation facilities in Saudi Arabia, the USA, the Netherlands, Spain, Japan, India, China and South Korea. The company operates in more than 40 countries across the world with around 40,000 employees worldwide.
SABIC manufactures on a global scale in Saudi Arabia, the Americas, Europe and Asia Pacific.
Headquartered in Riyadh, SABIC was founded in 1976 when the Saudi Arabian Government decided to use the hydrocarbon gases associated with its oil production as the principal feedstock for production of chemicals, polymers and fertilizers. The Saudi Arabian Government owns 70 percent of SABIC shares with the remaining 30 percent held by private investors in Saudi Arabia and other Gulf Cooperation Council countries.
About SABIC Asia
Established in the 1980s, SABIC Asia has over 40 offices and more than 2,400 employees across the region. With 9 manufacturing and compounding sites in China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand, SABIC constantly strives to better serve our customers in the Asian region. A leading global organization in research and technology, we have two Application Centers in Moka, Japan and Sungnam, Korea and two Technology Centers in Bengaluru, India and Shanghai, China. Today, Asia is SABIC's fastest growing region globally with strong double digit growth.
Source: Business Wire India


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Marc Anthony's new romance 'faces pressure'
Marc Anthony's new romance with 21-year-old heiress Chloe Green could face a tough test due to his busy work schedule.
The singer stepped out with 21-year-old Chloe Green at Disneyland this week. The pair were seen holding hands and hugging as they spent the day with his twins Max and Emme. Marc's latest romance has raised eyebrows, but insiders claim he has known the Topshop heiress "for years".
It is not yet known how serious the relationship is, but sources maintain that it could be tested by Marc's upcoming work commitments.
"Marc's headed to Miami to record some music," a source told New York Post. "Then he's doing shows in Honduras. If she shows up, that'll be the real test."
Chloe's father is British businessman billionaire Sir Philip Green, who is friends with stars including Kate Moss, Naomi Campbell and Kate Hudson.
At 44, Marc is 23 years older than Chloe and the romance is a departure from his previous relationship with ex-wife Jennifer Lopez and Venezuelan beauty Shannon de Lima.
According to the New York Post, Marc's ties to the Church of Scientology could be influencing aspiring designer-and-actress Chloe.
Chloe posted a cryptic tweet after arriving in Los Angeles for the launch of a new Topshop store last month.
Quoting a friend, she tweeted, "'LA thank you . . . I've found myself,' " followed by "So have I!"
Marc's representatives have previously denied he is a member of the controversial religion.
Speculation is also rife about whether Chloe will spend her 22nd birthday with her new beau.
The blonde took to her Twitter account to reveal she was looking forward to celebrating her special day on Saturday.
"Birthday countdown begins!!! 2days!! #birthday #fun 2nd March!! ♥ (sic)" she wrote.
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Capitals center Jay Beagle finished up his workout with four other players at the Kettler Capitals Iceplex at about 10 a.m. on Wednesday morning. The group continues to secure ice time at least three times a week at the team's practice facility, trying to keep a routine during the uncertain time.
The sessions also serve a different function for Beagle as he prefers to get his updates on the labor progress from two of his workout partners – Capitals winger Jason Chimera and Jeff Halpern, a former Capital now with the New York Rangers.
Players are scheduled to hold a conference call on Monday night for an update on the weekend's negotiations, and Beagle said while he's encouraged that the sides continue to talk, he'll wait to hear the specifics from Chimera, the team's representative to the players' association.
"I don't really have much input to bring," said Beagle, who signed a three-year contract extension in July. "I'm a guy who just came into the league, and when they tell me to play, I'm going to be playing. I stay away from it, and when I hear some good news, it's obviously uplifting and I get excited."
While many of Beagle's teammates have scattered the globe with some playing overseas, the 26-year-old Calgary native never gave much thought to leaving the area, even with regular season games cancelled through Nov. 30 and last week's decision to call off the league's annual Winter Classic, which he called "sad."
"I feel like the minute I go, I'll be coming straight back. That'll be my luck," Beagle said before leaving KCI on Monday.
Instead, Beagle – who recorded five points last season in a career-high 41 games before a broken foot in the playoffs ended his year – will keep doing his best with his new routine and wait for the lockout to be lifted. When other players are scrambling to get back to the area once the stoppage ends, Beagle will be waiting for them, preferably sooner than later.
"We're not used to this," Beagle said. "This is tough to be in November and not playing games and not playing hockey. It's definitely a different experience. We're looking forward to hopefully something getting done in the next couple weeks and playing some games and getting back to our normal routines."


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The voting is over. The tally is in. The fans at Soapdom.com have spoken!
The 4th Annual Soapdom Cybby Awards are based in part on the 30th Annual Daytime Emmy Nominations for Daytime Emmy 2003. We take the Emmy Categories and ask YOU to vote in your choices as if you were on the Emmy Committee. Sometimes you pick the same winners. A lot of the time you don't! With the 31st Annual Daytime Emmys right around the corner, take a look at how your choices compared to last year's results. Then, stay tuned to Soapdom.com for the 5th Annual Cybby Awards -- Preliminary Round: Your Nominations for the Fun -- categories coming the week of February 23, 2004!
For the 4th Annual Soapdom Cybby Awards there are surprises in the Emmy Categories, and in the Fun Categories. One fan favorite won not once, not twice, but three times!
We had a tie in another Fun Category. All the networks and shows are represented, except for two shows that got completely shut out, even though they faired well in the nomination process. For the 2nd and 3rd Annual Cybby Awards, Passions and All My Children were the hands down overall winners. In the 4th Annual Cybby Awards, Passions did not garner one vote, and another soap monopolized the wins.
Click the links below for Soapdom's complete 4th Annual Cybby Awards coverage.
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Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 4:13 AM
When it hurts so bad
What am I to do with this heart? It's all torn to pieces and lied to! How am I suppose to heal this heart? It's full of deception such a feeling of neglect that it rejects what it needs most! Am I really to carry on with this heart? Heavy as a black cloud fragile as an infant mighty as a lion but can't call it quits! Dear Lord please take the broken pieces of my heart and make it into a Masterpiece for the world to know... I am the love Queen thou shalt love me nonetheless love thy self
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By GARY D. ROBERTSONRALEIGH, N.C. (AP) â¿¿ North Carolina legislators unveiled a long-awaited proposal Wednesday to more quickly pay off the state's nearly $2.5 billion unemployment benefit debt through higher business taxes and scaled back payments to future jobless workers. The plan presented in a General Assembly study committee would wipe from the books the borrowing from the federal government in 2015, or three years earlier than if nothing occurs. The proposal also is designed to replenish the state's unemployment trust fund after the Great Recession cleaned it out and revealed what Republican legislative leaders called a host of troubles. North Carolina is among nearly 20 states that still owe the federal government when unemployment insurance tax payments by businesses failed to keep up with benefits from the flood of applicants starting four years ago. North Carolina's balance is the third highest in the country behind California and New York. Employers and those laid off in the future will share the burden of paying the debt and building up the system, a key negotiator said. The proposal would bring the state's trust fund balance to $2.5 billion by 2021, according to projections from legislative analysts. "We have to make the system solvent. Otherwise, it will fail everyone in the state," said Sen. Bob Rucho, R-Mecklenburg, co-chairman of the Revenue Laws Study Committee. "What we're going to try to do is ... to make sure that everybody is helping provide the solvency of the system." But activists for low-income workers told legislators reducing benefits would harm the very people for whom the system is designed to help in difficult times. Under the proposal, the maximum weekly benefit for workers would fall from the current $525 to $350, while the maximum number of weeks a jobless claimant could receive state benefits would drop from 26 weeks to 20 in periods of the highest unemployment
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No School?Ā No Problem?Ā The Sterling Rock Falls YMCA is hosting Fun Days on February 15 and 18.ĀĀ This fun, safe and educational programing is $25 per day for members, $33 for non-members and $20 per day for each additional child.Ā The programs is from 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.Ā Early drop-off is available for a small fee. Ā
Februarys 15:Ā Hearts on Fire!
February 18" Sports or Art, You Choose!
Please preregister for this program.Ā If not registered by the Sunday before the week of care, there will beĀ a $10 late fee.Ā For more information and to register, please visit www.saukvalleyymcas.org or call 815.535.9622.Ā The YMCA is at 2505 YMCA Way in Sterling.