text: Tweet Share Send Rate Views (5770) 11/8/2013 MX Sports Pro Racing Announces 2014 Lucas Oil Pro Motocross Championship Schedule Two New Venues Added for 43rd Season MORGANTOWN, W. Va. (November 7, 2013) - Following another extremely successful racing season, MX Sports Pro Racing and Alli Sports, a division of the NBC Sports Group, announce the 2014 schedule for the Lucas Oil Pro Motocross Championship, sanctioned by AMA Pro Racing. Making its highly anticipated return to Lucas Oil Pro Motocross, the Glen Helen National will kick off the season Saturday, May 24 in San Bernardino, Calif. The 12-round series will then make stops throughout the summer at premier motocross facilities in the country, while introducing a brand new venue in Indiana before concluding with the Utah National in Tooele, Utah on August 23. Joining the Lucas Oil Pro Motocross Championship for the first time is the Midwest''s Indiana National in Crawfordsville, Ind., serving as the penultimate round in 2014. Lucas Oil Pro Motocross'' newest venue has played host to a round of the Grand National Cross Country Series for nearly 20 years. Many of the series'' traditional stops return in 2014, including Hangtown, Thunder Valley, High Point, Budds Creek, RedBud, Spring Creek, Washougal and Unadilla. Additionally, following two highly successful inaugural events, both the Tennessee and Utah Nationals return to the 2014 schedule. The world-class venues included in the 2014 season will provide returning fans and new guests the chance to witness the fastest racers on the planet in head-to-head competition, while enjoying a day outside interacting with elite series sponsors. "It has long been our goal to present the most legendary, spectacular tracks in American motocross on the schedule, as well as mixing in a few new facilities to add diversity to the schedule and new challenges for the best riders in the world," said MX Sports Pro Racing President Davey Coombs. "In 2013 we presented new rounds in Tennessee and Utah, both performed even better than we hoped. Now we look forward to yet another new venue in Indiana, as well as the return of the iconic Glen Helen Raceway in Southern California as the 2014 opener. Adding those events in with such premier motocross tracks as RedBud, Unadilla, Washougal, Hangtown and more, and you have the makings of an exciting summer of Lucas Oil Pro Motocross for fans all over the country." The Lucas Oil Pro Motocross Championship is the pinnacle of professional motocross racing, attracting the world''s most talented athletes to compete on the country''s toughest and most scenic motocross tracks. Reigning 450 Class Champion, Monster Energy Kawasaki''s Ryan Villopoto, will look to defend his Lucas Oil Pro Motocross Championship crown during the 2014 season, while 250 Class Champion Eli Tomac makes his move to the 450 Class. Additionally, Red Bull KTM''s Ryan Dungey will be joined by former world champion Ken Roczen in the 450 Class, while former champions James Stewart and Chad Reed, along with Trey Canard, all hope to return to the top of the leader board. Add in Team Honda Muscle Milk''s Justin Barcia, Villopoto''s Kawasaki teammate Jake Weimer, Toyota/JGR Yamaha''s Josh Grant and Justin Brayton, plus a talented pack of up-and-comers and you have what must be considered one of the most competitive fields in motocross history. Tickets for all 12 rounds of the 2014 Lucas Oil Pro Motocross Championship will go on sale Thursday, November 7 at our new URL ProMotocross.com. Keep an eye out for promotions and offers that will roll out continuously leading up to the start of the 2014 Lucas Oil Pro Motocross Championship. 2014 Lucas Oil Pro Motocross Championship Schedule May 24 Glen Helen National San Bernardino, Calif.May 31 Hangtown Motocross Classic Sacramento, Calif.June 7 Thunder Valley National Lakewood, Colo.June 14 High Point National Mt. Morris, Pa.June 28 Tennessee National Blountville, Tenn.July 5 RedBud National Buchanan, Mich.July 12 Budds Creek National Mechanicsville, Md.July 19 Spring Creek National Millville, Minn.July 26 Washougal National Washougal, Wash.August 9 Unadilla National New Berlin, N.Y.August 16 Indiana National Crawfordsville, Ind.August 23 Utah National Tooele, Utah For additional information on the series, please visit promotocross.com and follow us on Facebook , Twitter and Instagram for exclusive content and additional information on the latest Lucas Oil Pro Motocross Championship news. For media information about the Lucas Oil Pro Motocross Championship, please contact MX Sports Pro Racing via email at firstname.lastname@example.com. MX Sports Pro Racing MX Sports Pro Racing manages and produces the world''s most prestigious professional motocross series - the Lucas Oil Pro Motocross Championship, sanctioned by AMA Pro Racing. The industry leader in off road power sport event production and management, its mission is to showcase the sport of professional motocross competition at events throughout the United States. Through its various racing properties, partnerships and affiliates, MX Sports Pro Racing organizes events for thousands of action sports athletes each year and attracts millions of motorsports spectators. Visit www.mxsportsproracing.com. Alli SportsAlli Sports is a media, event and branded content company that specializes in action, adventure, and adrenaline based sports. Alli Properties include the Dew Tour, Lucas Oil Pro Motocross Championship, the Red Bull Signature Series, World of Adventure Sports presented by Go Pro and Octane Academy founded by Ford and Alli Media, which creates original content, produces and presents content with partners and distributes content through a variety of channels. Alli Sports is a division of the NBC Sports Group. More information can be found at www.Allisports.com. AMA Pro Racing AMA Pro Racing is the premier professional motorcycle racing organization in North America, operating a full schedule of events and championships for a variety of motorcycle disciplines. Learn more about AMA Pro Racing at www.amaproracing.com. NBC Sports GroupWhen the Comcast-NBCUniversal transaction was completed in January 2011, the sports assets of the two companies combined to form NBC Sports Group, which serves sports fans 24/7 with premier live events, insightful studio shows, and compelling original programming. The sports media company consists of a unique array of broadcast television, cable television, radio and digital sports assets, including NBC Sports, NBC Olympics, NBC Sports Network, Golf Channel, 12 NBC Sports Regional Networks, NBC Sports Radio and all of their respective digital properties. NBC Sports Group possesses an unparalleled collection of television rights agreements, partnering with some of the most prestigious sports properties in the world: the International Olympic Committee and United States Olympic Committee, the NFL, NHL, NASCAR, PGA TOUR, PGA of America, USGA, Churchill Downs, Premier League, MLS, Tour de France, French Open, Formula One, IndyCar and many more. Lucas Oil Products Lucas Oil is a worldwide leader in the production of oils, lubricants and additives. Based in Corona, Calif., Lucas Oil Products is one of the fastest-growing additive lines in the consumer automotive industry, featuring a premium line of oils, lubricants and problem-solving performance additives. Through innovative product research and development, along with aggressive marketing programs, Lucas Oil Products has established itself as the top-selling additive line in the American truck-stop industry. Lucas Oil is involved in an array of motorsports sponsorships, including the "Official Motor Oil of the Pro Motocross Championship." Visit www.LucasOil.com Tweet Previous Motocross Articles SX Ed Season 2 Trailer (11/06/13) SX Ed Season 2 Trailer (11/06/13) SX Ed Season 2 Trailer (11/06/13) SX Ed Season 2 Trailer (11/06/13) Monster Energy Teams Up With Nuclear Cowboyz as Official Energy Drink Sponsor (10/23/13)


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Bermejo's profession is that of a scientist whose work has focused on the investigation of motor control. For many years side by side with his scientific activity he has also been an artist. He always assumed that there was some parallel activity going on between his scientific involvement and his art. I realize that parallels can always be drawn between art and science but that they are not necessarily the most useful in describing his art, which is best seen rather than talked about.
Some of his art work is involved in light and color and its interdependence.
And for the purpose of giving some idea of a model to verbally draw upon would be between Josef Albers's
investigation of color on the one hand, and James Turrel's investigation of the perception of light on the other,
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ROCKFORD - Cold weather makes for good business in the auto repair industry.
Mechanics and tow companies are raking in thousands of dollars and towing more than 100 cars daily to keep up with the need of stranded drivers. Experts say that any vehicle part in questionable shape is likely to break in extreme temperatures.
"This time of year is when (the cold weather damages) all of the mediocre batteries that are still hanging in there. Even some good batteries will die," said DJ Wilson, co-owner of Coachman's CCR Bodyshop & Towing, 1232 Shappert Drive in Machesney Park. "We do have to have all hands on deck when the weather gets like this."
The temperatures dipped into the double-digits below zero this week, missing Tuesday's record low in Rockford of minus 22 by 4 degrees, according to the National Weather Service. The mercury is expected to climb to 14 degrees at noon today but feel like zero with the wind chill.
The severe weather has led to more cars needing a tow.
On average, Coachman's tows 75 to 115 cars a day in winter. By 4 p.m. Monday, the company had already towed 107.
Wilson said Coachman crews have found cars stranded in alleys and in the middle of parking lots because the vehicles cannot move through the sheets of ice and snow. Car parts are so frozen that they cannot operate properly.
"When the battery is frozen, it can't make the chemical reaction needed to make electricity and make the car start," he said.
Getting a vehicle to the shop is only half the battle.
Mark Butitta, owner of Mark's Auto Service, 2429 S. Alpine Road in Rockford, said cars are coming to his business in a block of ice. His crew has had to keep vehicles in the garage overnight to warm up before mechanics can begin repairs.
Vehicles that have not had parts replaced, fluids checked or regular oil changes are at risk of breaking. Any piece of equipment that was in mediocre condition may not have been able to sustain the harsh conditions.
"We are going through batteries like popcorn. Our main parts supplier is here every half-hour," Butitta said.
This winter has helped his company, which has been open since 1949, grow from a just below $600,000 business to a $1.1 million business between 2012 and 2013.
"We're probably going to have the best month in history."
Drivers aiming to prevent their vehicles from getting stuck or needing serious repair should have their cars inspected in the fall.
Bob Reed, owner of Reed's Auto Repair, 50 E. Monterey St. in Freeport, said a mechanic should look under the hood to determine whether the parts are in good enough shape to handle a harsh winter. A marginal battery may be work just fine in higher temperatures but could run out of juice when they drop.
When it does get cold, motorists should let their cars warm up for a few minutes before driving and do not drive as fast as if it were summer, Reed said. And the vehicle will make odd noises in the cold.
"You've got a piece of machinery that isn't going to be all the way warmed up. Just be nice to it."
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A growing number of ultrawealthy people are "jurisdiction shopping," often seeking greener tax pastures, according to a recent article on Wealth-X News.
Singapore, Switzerland and Hong Kong are currently the hot landing spots for billionaires wishing to take up a new residence, according to the new UBS and Wealth-X Billionaire census.
Only 36% of Singapore's billionaire population, 34% of Switzerland's and 25% of Hong Kong's grew up locally.
So far in 2013, a record 2,369 individuals have either renounced their U.S. citizenship or terminated their long-term residency, the article said, citing Treasury Department statistics. The previous annual record was 1,781 in 2011.
The chief reasons for these departures were the long arm of the IRS' taxing authority and strict disclosure requirements about foreign bank accounts and assets, according to the article.
Among high-profile individuals who gave up their U.S. passports in recent years were Eduardo Saverin, a Facebook co-founder; songwriter Denise Rich; and oil heiress Isabel Getty.
They had lots of company from other countries. Last year, for example, the French actor Gérard Depardieu made headlines when he decamped to Russia to avoid his country's proposed millionaire's tax.
Arton Capital, a global financial advisor, estimates that 20,000 families look for migration solutions every year, according to Wealth-X. The firm predicts that some 20 countries will compete for their business in coming years.
Caroline Garnham, the chief executive of family office advisor Family Bhive, told Wealth-X that ease of mobility combined with expanding wealth was making nationality swapping more common.
Tax havens, including Luxembourg and the Cayman Islands, welcome them.
Garnham said the most successful migrations were those from countries where people's ties were not strong to begin with, initially drawn by jobs or marriage. She warned that those with close ties to family and friends might come to regret leaving their country of residence.
"My first advice is never to let the tax tail wag the dog," she said.
Micha-Rose Emmett, a managing director at CS Global in London, told Wealth-X that rich people had many reasons besides tax considerations to change jurisdictions, including a desire for more privacy and anonymity, reduced administration and increased global mobility.
This, in turn, has led to an increasingly popular trend of citizenship-through-investment. Some governments, she said, are offering citizenship to foreigners in exchange for investment as a way to boost their treasuries.
Malta has just begun offering citizenship and EU access to investors who contribute a minimum euro-equivalent of $882,000—provided they satisfy regulatory requirements and pass background checks.
The article noted that the main nationality shoppers today were old-money wealthy, residents in developed markets and rich retirees.
High-net-worth people in emerging markets tend to stay put, at least so far. Eighty-six percent of Chinese billionaires and 95% of their Indian counterparts who have their primary business in China and India grew up there.
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Snowflake Bentley, a Caldecott Medal-winning book about Wilson Bentley, is an example of a multigenre picture book. Along with the biographical text are large, colorful woodcuts and sidebars describing Bentley's experiments with microphotography and other biographical data. In this lesson, students examine and sort multiple texts about snow, discuss the multiple genres represented in the Snowflake Bentley text, and develop a working definition of the term multigenre. Using that definition, they then work in pairs or small groups to create their own multigenre piece about winter using the Multigenre Mapper interactive and related resources for guidance.
- Multigenre Mapper: Students can use this interactive tool to create original multigenre, multimodal works using both drawings and written texts and naming genres for each section.
- Multigenre texts: This booklist provides many choices for students to select books of interest they can analyze for multiple genre representation.
These days, when students read and write, often it is not only in one genre. Instead, the types and kinds of reading and writing intertwine and blend together. Their work becomes multigenre. Tom Romano describes how multigenre texts work: "Multigenre allows us to 'meld fact, interpretation, and imagination,' into a series of self-contained pieces called crots that appear in forms that include poetry, prose, drama, and exposition" (109). In this lesson, students will be melding together folklore, fiction, nonfiction, and art to discuss the cross-curricular topic of weather. Teaching multigenre in the classroom is a natural way to incorporate reading, writing, and research into the content areas and other disciplines.
Further Reading
Romano, Tom. 1995. Writing with Passion: Life Stories, Multiple Genres. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook.
Grierson, Sirpa T. et al. "Exploring the Past through Multigenre Writing." Language Arts 80.1 (September 2002): 51-59.


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This new work comes out waiting for the next album that is going to be made up entirely of original riddims produced by the same VirtuS. "Waiting fi album" is a collection of singles already released and unreleased songs, all of riddims are composed by third party. There are several names that have contributed to the realization, from italian companies already known as Bizzarri, B-dub, Can-I-Bis, Eleven Beats, Filomuzik, Greezzly, Random Production, Scara Soul Dub and Shiny D (B-Side/Acoustic Impact) to the french as FuryBass and Ahoe records.
There are so many styles on the album: roots-flavored tracks like Tek care and People a fight, fresh sounds as in Girl fi life, reinterpretations of roots riddim in a hip-hop wise as the single No Informer. In addition, there are dancehall and raggamuffin hot tunes including She nah ready, Gagsta no good and Bun 'till a morning. The latter is pressed on vynil (B-side) with Ward21 (A-side), whereas the tune Ragga music inna mi life is scheduled to be released on December with Yami Bolo and Million Stylez's tunes on the same riddim.
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1. No informer (International farmer riddim - FuryBass prod.)
2. She nah ready (Poko Rate riddim - Ahoe rec.)
3. Tek care (Fade Away riddim - Filomuzik rec.)
4. Bun 'till a morning (Thc riddim - Can-I-Bis rec.)
5. Man a conquerer (Conquerer riddim - FuryBass prod.)
6. Good bad bwoy (Bad bwoy riddim - B-Dub prod.)
7. Dancehall (New Day riddim - Scara Soul Dub)
8. People a fight (A-gain riddim - Bizzarri rec.)
9. Girl fi life (Way Forward riddim - Greezzly prod.)
10. Ragga music inna mi life (Bellyfull riddim - FuryBass prod.)
11. Respect the elders (Bababoom riddim - Random prod.)
12. We a digital (Kazio riddim - Ahoe rec.)
13. Sweetest ting (Last riddim - Bizzarri rec.)
14. Money fi live (Mad Beat riddim - Eleven Beats rec.)
15. Gangsta no good (Follow Dem riddim - Eleven Beats rec.)
16. Weh di lova deh (Liberation riddim - Filomuzik rec.)
17. No things (Back to black riddim - Shiny D prod./ Acoustic Impact / B-Side)
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Too many veterans are forced, by paperwork backlogs, to wait a long time for their disability benefits. Solutions are needed, but it appears they, too, will take longer than anyone wished.
Too many veterans are forced, by paperwork backlogs, to wait a long time for their disability benefits. Solutions are needed, but it appears they, too, will take longer than anyone wished.
The U.S. House has approved legislation that includes more funding to help ease the backlogs, through such means as 94 additional claims processors and an ongoing transition to electronic records. The measure also would take some existing money and redirect it to help regional Veterans Affairs centers with the worst backlogs. The legislation now goes to the Senate, which should treat it as a priority � and be willing to further increase funding, if necessary.
VA officials note that disability claims are not only more numerous than in the past but also more medically complex.
Difficulty in obtaining complete medical history and personnel records (often from the Department of Defense) is a leading cause of delays, according to testimony given at a March hearing before the Senate�s Committee on Veterans Affairs. Also creating problems are misplaced and lost documents, a result of the �multiple hand-offs� involved in paperwork, according to the Government Accountability Office.
A speaker at the Senate hearing said that 37 percent �of our inventory and backlog� stem from Vietnam-era veterans; Gulf War veterans constitute 23 percent; veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan are 20 percent; and World War II- and Korea-era veterans make up less than 10 percent.
Fewer than 40 percent of the backlogged claims are from first-time filers. The majority are �supplemental� claims, VA Undersecretary Allison Hickey told senators.
Demand for disability benefits is �at an all-time high,� Hickey said. �We have added more than 940,000 veterans, almost a million veterans to the VA compensation rolls, by completing their claims over the past four years, which is more than today�s active duty, Army and Navy combined.�
Claims are considered �backlog� after 125 days. Through much of 2012, the average time it took for the VA to complete a claim was 260 days, according to a report by the GAO. Long waits for benefit decisions pose great challenges for those veterans who face serious illness, foreclosure and such. They deserve a prompt answer.
The good news on this issue is that steps are being taken to reduce procedural hurdles, improve records access and handle claims as well as appeals. Congress in recent years has directed more funding to these efforts, and federal agencies are at least pledging to improve coordination.
Yet there remains much room for improvement, with little time to implement change before waves of new claims roll in.
It is not easy for large bureaucracies to transform themselves into nimble efficiency � especially when some of the needed records are decades old or even nonexistent. But every day in which veterans are left dangling in doubt about their benefits is one too many.


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This is the second part of a quick two-part series on the Louisville-Kentucky rivalry, with the ultimate matchup taking place this weekend in the Final Four.
Yesterday I walked you through the rivalry's surprisingly brief history. Today, we look at the two biggest stars of Saturday's matchup: the coaches – Rick Pitino and John Calipari.
Rick Pitino versus John Calipari
Technically Calipari is 8-7 based on the fact that one of the losses came during the 1996 Final Four that he and UMass later vacated, but I'm almost certain that the game actually took place. So 8-8 it is!
During Pitino's time at Kentucky, he was 4-1 versus Calipari with the lone loss coming early in the 1995-96 season that later saw them meet again in the Final Four. One of the other matchups came in the NCAA Tournament, when Kentucky beat the Minutemen by 10 points in 1992 in the game before the East Regional Final (aka the one with the Laettner shot).
Calipari and Pitino split their eight games while the two were Conference USA foes at Memphis and Louisville, respectively. The Tigers won three of the first four meetings, and the Cardinals did the same over the remaining four. The teams met twice in the C-USA Tournament with Louisville winning both, the second of which was in the 2005 Championship Game. That game is remembered less for Louisville's victory and more for Darius Washington, Jr.'s missed free throws that could have won or tied the game with no time left on the clock.
Since coming to Kentucky, Calipari is 3-0 against Pitino and the Cardinals, winning each game by at least seven points with the most recent victory coming on New Year's Eve in a contest marred by 51 fouls.
So at the end of all that, they still have an 8-8 record against one another.
Louisville fans will be quick to cite Pitino's 4-0 post-season record against Calipari. But since the last NCAA Tournament matchup was 16 years ago, and since the last conference tournament matchup was seven years ago, it's difficult to say how relevant that is. However, you also can't point to the fact that Calipari is undefeated against Pitino at Kentuckyand but completely dismiss Pitino's track record of overall tournament success either.
As a college hoops fan with no dog in this fight, I have the luxury of not having to pick a side in that argument. Instead, I can sit back and enjoy what should be an entertaining game between two heated rivals, both of whom boast well-known and successful coaches. And as a fan, you can't ask for much more than that.


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There are of course many ski resorts but there is only one Espace Killy! This vast French Alps ski area encompasses the world famous resorts of Tignes and Val d'lsere. Come join one of the most experienced group of fully qualified instructors in the Alps including British Demo Team members and BASI examiners, to take to the slopes and gain an internationally recognised Ski Instructor qualification. With over 300km of piste and endless off-piste, Espace Killy offers the most challenging slopes in Europe and is rated the best all-round resort in the world.
The Frontier 10 week ski instructor course is brought to you by Gapski, the market leader in delivering quality professional BASI training to aspiring instructors.
This course is the first step to getting a foot in the industry. With a balance of practice and coaching, along with post training support, we will help you along your path to becoming a top ski instructor. All this, whilst staying in the heart of Tignes and experiencing the best part of the season! You'll feel a part of the life and vibe of Tignes whilst loving the awesome ski and board opportunities that one of the world's best resorts has to offer.
A good base level is expected from the start, we recommend that you are able to ski parallel with ease and cope with red runs. You should be in control in off piste conditions and be able to make rhythmical turns close to the fall line at a steady pace. An average experience across courses of this type is roughly 10 weeks previous skiing, but you may wish to travel out a couple of weeks early to gather the experience and enhance your technique beforehand. Let us know if you wish to arrange this and we can advise appropriately for transport and accommodation.
Tignes, Espace Killy, France
Airport pick-up
Dinners 7 days a week in a restaurant in town
Hot lunch on the hill 7 days a week during course
Project orientation and over 150 hours coaching Espace Killy lift season pass (covers both Val d'Isère and Tignes ski areas)
Exam preparation
2 day approved BASI first aid course
In-country emergency support
24-hour international HQ back-up
Train with Espace Killy's best instructors who are all BASI Level 4 certified
Three full days per week on hill training. The first two weeks are full time five days per week
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Practice your jumps in the two best snow parks in France
No hidden costs, all exam fees included
Experience Tignes' incredible après ski and vibrant night life
Receive seasonnaire prices in the bars and clubs
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Race training
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Work opportunities after the course with a ski school
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You will start with an intensive personal performance course covering high-speed, off-piste, bumps, steeps, racing, snow park and free ride, mountain safety and off-piste awareness. This is followed by a BASI Level 1 Instructor Course, then five weeks of full-time training and shadowing of ski instructors in the workplace, and culminating in the two week BASI Level 2 Instructor Course. Generally training runs from Monday to Friday with the weekends off for free skiing.
The first two weeks are very busy but fun. When you arrive in Tignes you will have welcome drinks at The Alpaka Lodge where you can meet the team. There will be a resort orientation and the chance to settle into resort life. You will be skiing hard with 10 full days training, to prepare yourself for your first exam. You will have the weekends to relax.
Monday to Friday will be full days on the slopes doing your BASI Level 1.
During these weeks you will receive three full days performance training per week to improve your personal skiing the rest will be taken up with your own personal training and the other subjects mentioned below. With the aid of your trainers you will put your action plan from your BASI Level 1 Course into practice and aim to maximise your potential.
You will complete 70 hours of shadowing and ski school industry experience. You will follow instructors at work and get a first hand view as to what it's really like to be a ski instructor.
Learn to use a transceiver properly, how to minimise risk when travelling in off piste terrain, how to spot the danger signs and the procedure to follow in the event of an accident. Most GAP courses don't include this module.
You will complete a 2 day first aid course recognised by BASI, without which your BASI license will not be valid.
This compulsory module is essential for working with children and gaining your BASI qualifications.
Try your hand at racing, trained by our own highly qualified and experienced race coaches.
This course is two weeks of continual training and assessment, with the weekend off in the middle. On successful completion you will gain the BASI Ski Instructor Qualification. A party and celebrations will be held on the final evening to mark the end of your time and to congratulate you.
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When you arrive at the airport you will be greeted by your ski rep who will take you on the 3 hour coach transfer up to the resort. Once in Tignes you will be taken to your comfortable lodge and given time to settle in before the evening meet, greet and welcome drink. You will also be given your Espace Killy lift pass which covers the whole of the Tignes and Val d'lsere ski areas, which comprise of over 300km of piste runs to explore.
You will be staying alongside your fellow trainee instructors in lodge style accommodation, Tignes le Lavachet. These are genuine ski-in / ski-out (simply cross the road to reach the slopes), and right in the centre of resort. No buses needed, no cold long late night walks home. Your lodge has sky TV, free wireless internet, and proper beds, not just bunks.
The lodge will provide breakfast each day. The course is very sociable and for seven nights of the week dinner is provided for all trainees in a local restaurant in town. In addition a bar will offer a hot lunch seven days a week.
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In your free time during the weekends or evenings there are a vast amount of other activities. Tignes après ski and night life is legendary, so get involved and immerse yourself in all the resort has to offer. Try your hand at heli-skiing, paragliding, parapenting or an overnight mountain hut trip with your new friends. Work on your technical knowledge in ski tuning clinics and specialist classes. Or brush up on your French in lessons and practice it whilst making the most of the resort facilities. And if you're visiting in March, take the opportunity to get inspired by the professionals as they show off at the Winter X Games in Tignes. You can enhance your learning with lectures on health, wellbeing, injury prevention and rehabiliation in a Physiotherapy clinic in Val d'lesere. Discounted treatments and massages are available for your use. Also work opportunities after the course are available at a ski school.
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On September 27, the Board of Supervisors adopted by ordinance the above district boundaries (maps) which became in effect that day. Election Code section 21506 provides that the new boundaries will be used in the first election for supervisors following the adoption of the new ordinance. A supervisor shall be elected from each district under the new boundaries for each district with the same number of the district for which an incumbent supervisor's term will be expiring. Under the current election rotation schedule, this means that supervisors will be elected from the new Districts 1, 4 & 5 in 2012.
All residents of Yolo County are represented by all members of the Yolo County Board of Supervisors. The district in which some residents live may have changed with the update of district boundaries, and therefore may have a new Supervisor representing that district. Residents should feel comfortable contacting their new representative for assistance, the one previously representing their district or any other member of the Board of Supervisors.
California Elections Code section 21500 requires that the Board of Supervisors of a county adjust the boundaries of any or all of the supervisorial districts following each decennial federal census so that the districts shall be as nearly equal in population as possible and so that the districts are in compliance with the Federal Voters Rights Act of 1965. Districts must also comply with basic federal and state constitutional equal protection provisions.
On February 1, 2011, the Yolo County Board of Supervisors established an advisory committee to assist them in the process of updating the supervisorial districts, as required by law. Under State law, the Redistricting Advisory Committee (RAC) was required to make its recommendations to the Board of Supervisors no later than August 1, 2011. State law also required that the Board of Supervisors to adopt revised district boundaries by November 1, 2011.
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Many of the contenders for the post attended Marshall's speech at Queens college last week. Barry Grodenchik, Melinda Katz, Peter Vallone, Jr., Leroy Comrie and Jose Peralta were all in their Sunday best. Tony Avella was not at the coming out party, but he was never the partying type. (He actually kicked off his campaign at his home on Sunday), but we'll see enough of him later...trust us.
Vallone has the most money, Melinda has the most experience, Barry has the fewest enemies and Leroy currently has the most political support. Avella has pulled off the biggest upset win (Senate victory over Padavan) within this small army of political stars and Peralta might have the best union ties.
Each of these strengths could change over night, but few can argue that the race is compelling because each actually has the ability to do a great job.
Peralta has the best union ties, Katz has been out of politics for a while, Comrie has not even filed to run yet and is considered the least organized of the group. Avella has a reputation for being prickly, Vallone leans too far to the right for many Queens voters, and Grodenchik, who had a very brief stint in the Assembly a few years back, has low name recognition.
Kind of like doggie years, a month in politics is like seven months in real time, and an awful lot can happen very quickly. We'll keep you posted.


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2012 NL West Predictions & Preview
Today, I've decided to focus on the final remaining division in my 2012 MLB Predictions series. In case you missed my division previews, you can read my AL East Preview, AL Central Preview, AL West, NL East and NL Central preview by clicking on the links provided.
I've used the Major League Baseball Yearbook magazine to provide the statistical projects.
Here's how I think the NL West will end up:
1st Place: San Francisco Giants. (My prediction 88-74)
The Giants finished in second place to the Diamondbacks last season, but I think that they'll win a few more games in 2012 with the return of Buster Posey to the lineup. I had trouble picking a winner for the NL West, because I love the Giants starters, the Diamondbacks are solid offensively and pitching wise, and the Rockies offense looks great. Ultimately, I had to go with the starting pitching.
Posey suffered a gruesome injury on a home plate collision that cut short his 2012 campaign. The former Rookie of the Year is healthy now, which should help an otherwise below average offense.
Aubrey Huff struggled a bit last year, hitting just .246 with 12 homers. At age 35, you have to wonder how much he has left in his declining skill set. Ideally, you'd like to see more production from your first baseman than Huff offered last season.
Freddy Sanchez dealt with shoulder issues last year and hopes to be ready for opening day. The former NL batting champ gives the Giants good defense and a solid average year in a year out.
"The Kung Fu Panda" Pablo Sandoval should provide the most pop in the lineup. He walloped 24 dingers last year. Sandoval just needs to keep his weight in check so it doesn't hinder him defensively.
The Giants outfield is sub par. There's Melky Cabrera, who has bounced around in recent seasons and would classify as an above average outfielder,
but then there's Angel Pagan, who doesn't offer much of anything offensively,
and Nate Schierholtz, who doesn't offer much either.
The Giants playoff aspirations will hinge on Tim Lincecum and the starting staff. Lincecum has arguably been the best pitcher in the National League since his debut several seasons ago.
Matt Cain, who becomes a free agent at the end of the season, should be motivated to put up huge numbers in his 'contract' year. Cain would be the ace of most staffs, but fits in nicely behind Lincecum as the #2 of this staff.
Is it just me, or does Cain look eerily similar to this guy in that picture:
Actor John C Reilly.
Madison Bumgarner had a 3.21 ERA last season. That's amazing for a #3 starter.
Ryan Vogelsong had the comeback of the decade, rebuilding his career and posting a 2.71 ERA while becoming an All Star at age 34. Vogelsong struggled mightly in Pittsburgh when he was the centerpiece of the Jason Schmidt deal that sent Schmidt off to the Giants. After a couple seasons as a mop up man in the Pirates bullpen, Vogelsong disappeared – he went and played in Japan for awhile – before resurfacing last year to baffle NL batters. What a story.
The 5th man of the rotation will be Barry Zito, who will make 19 million dollars in 2012, and still hasn't posted a winning record or sub 4.00 ERA in his 5 seasons with the Giants. His contract has really hurt the Giants, who could've used those millions and millions of dollars to add more offense. Maybe he should focus more on pitching and less on guitar and destroying his liver:
The closer will be the crazy Brian Wilson. I vote for his 2013 Topps Card to be a landscape of this shot: Nothing more:
Wilson surely will look creepier and creepier as the season progresses. What's he planning on doing with his beard? Will he ever cut or trim it?
2012 Statistical Projections:
C Buster Posey .297-18-75
1B Aubrey Huff .258-15-63
2B Freddy Sanchez .291-8-56
3B Pablo Sandoval .306-24-77
SS Brandon Crawford .243-6-38
LF Angel Pagan .272-10-73
CF Melky Cabrera .314-11-65
RF Nate Schierholtz .273-11-53
SP Tim Lincecum 14-12, 2.91 ERA, 213 IP, 223 K
SP Matt Cain 12-11, 2.97 ERA, 218 IP, 174 K
SP Madison Bumgarner 13-11, 3.05 ERA, 195 IP, 176 K
SP Ryan Vogelsong 11-10, 3.89 ERA, 204 IP, 174 K
SP Barry Zito 5-9, 4.73 ERA, 116 IP, 85 K
RP Brian Wilson 2.85 ERA, 35 SV, 60 IP, 67 K
RP Sergio Romo 1.99 ERA, 1 SV, 50 IP, 65 K
2nd place: Arizona Diamondbacks (My prediction 85-77)
The Diamondbacks won the division last season with 94 wins, which shocked baseball, especially since they had only won 69 games the year before. 25 win improvements are very rare. Nearly the same team returns in 2012, with new additions Trevor Cahill and Jason Kubel. However, I think that the Diamondbacks greatly overachieved in 2011, and probably won't quite duplicate their success.
Miguel Montero is one of the better young catchers in the game. He'll also be a free agent soon and may look for Yadier Molina type money.
Paul Goldschmidt will man first base. He's some power, but he's a young player who could face difficulty. He'll be one to watch.
Aaron Hill used to be really good with the Blue Jays, but lost his way last year when he only hit 8 homers. He hit 36 homers in 2009. What happened?
Ryan Roberts is a defensive liability, but has some power to go along with all of those crazy tattoos.
Stephen Drew had a down year in 2011 and could bounce back after only hitting .252-5-45 in 2011.
The outfield of the Diamondbacks is solid – way better than the Giants. They've got Justin Upton, who hit 31 homers last year,
Chris Young, who also has pop – 20 homers in 2011, but has struggled with his batting average and on base percentage,
and Jason Kubel, who only hit 12 bombs in 2011 with the Twins, but hit at least 20 in his previous three seasons.
The starting rotation is anchored by Ian Kennedy, who had the best record in Major League baseball last year at 21-4. Can he duplicate it? I say not likely.
Daniel Hudson will be the #2 starter, who posted a record of 16-12 last year.
Trevor Cahill, and Josh Collmenter are slightly above average and round out the rest of the rotation. The #5 job could go to Barry Enright or Wade Miley.
The Diamondbacks were extremely strong in the bullpen last year. Their weakest link was Craig Breslow, and his ERA was a decent 3.79. JJ Putz had the second best season of his 9 year career when he posted a 2.17 ERA with 45 saves.
Bullpen pitchers are tough to predict though from season to season. I think the Diamondbacks may see a bit of a regression in the later innings this year.
2012 Statistical Projections:
C Miguel Montero .292-17-80
1B Paul Goldschmidt .275-24-78
2B Aaron Hill .265-15-76
3B Ryan Roberts .247-16-57
SS Stephen Drew .261-11-68
LF Jason Kubel .264-20-87
CF Chris Young .235-19-69
RF Justin Upton .286-30-90
SP Daniel Hudson 17-12, 3.23 ERA, 231 IP, 180 K
SP Ian Kennedy 17-8, 3.13 ERA, 207 IP, 185 K
SP Trevor Cahill 15-13, 3.86 ERA, 200 IP, 143 K
SP Josh Collmenter 13-13, 3.50 ERA, 193 IP, 125 K
SP Wade Miley 10-10, 4.32 ERA, 154 IP, 127 K
RP JJ Putz 2.41 ERA, 40 SV, 52 IP, 57 K
RP David Hernandez 3.98 ERA, 6 SV, 75 IP, 72 K
3rd place place: Colorado Rockies. (My prediction 82-80)
Even though the Rockies have used the humidor for a few years to negate the effects of high altitude offense, the Rockies look to have a potent lineup for the coming year.
Ramon Hernandez, formerly of the Cincinnati Reds replaces Chris Iannetta at catcher.
Todd Helton, who once put up ridiculous stats, hasn't hit 20 homers since 2005, but still can deliver a decent batting average.
Second base could feature Eric Young Jr, Jonathan Herrera or Chris Nelson
I'm not a fan of Casey Blake as the team's third baseman. He's 38, and the Rockies should be nervous that this is the season where everything kind of falls apart for him and he needs to be a backup or retire.
Troy Tulowitzki is the Rockies best player, and could possibly win the NL MVP award if the Rockies have a decent year. Not too many shortstops in the game can provide 30 homers and 100+ RBIs anymore.
The outfield looks great. The speedy Dexter Fowler, rumored to have increased his muscle mass, will roam center field.
At the corners, the Rockies have a star in Carlos Gonzalez – who belted 26 homers last year,
and free agent acquisition Michael Cuddyer. Cuddyer hit 20 bombs for the Twins and has been a consistently solid performer.
The Rockies rotation looks iffy. Without Ubaldo Jimenez, there is no clear ace. Possibly Jhoulys Chacin could fill that role. He pitched well at just 23 years old last year.
There's also Jorge De La Rosa. He was injured last season, but went 5-2 with a 3.51 ERA when he did pitch.
Who will be the closer this year? Rafael Betancourt? He's got good stuff, but his career high in saves is 8. How will he handle the pressure? I guess we'll find out.
2012 Statistical Projections:
C Ramon Hernandez .278-13-42
1B Todd Helton .292-13-66
2B Chris Nelson .263-7-32
3B Casey Blake .281-15-73
SS Troy Tulowitzki .311-34-117
LF Michael Cuddyer .301-26-101
CF Dexter Fowler .268-7-51
RF Carlos Gonzalez .307-32-110
SP Jorge De La Rosa 10-4, 3.33 ERA, 127 IP, 126 K
SP Jhoulys Chacin 13-13, 3.58 ERA, 193 IP, 161 K
SP Juan Nicasio 9-10, 3.95 ERA, 171 IP, 140 K
SP Tyler Chatwood 8-13, 4.54 ERA, 157 IP, 86 K
SP Esmil Rogers 9-11, 5.35 ERA, 168 IP, 137 K
RP Rafael Betancourt 2.82 ERA, 27 SV, 61 IP, 78 K
RP Matt Belisle 3.16 ERA, 0 SV, 83 IP, 72 K
4th place: Los Angeles Dodgers (My prediction 76-86)
The Dodgers went 81-81 last year thanks mostly to the MVP caliber season of Matt Kemp and the Cy Young season of Clayton Kershaw. Kershaw was valued at 7 wins above a replacement starter,
and Matt Kemp, a whopping 10 WaR. That's 17 wins.
Without those 2 guys, the Dodgers might have been 64-98 last year. The fact of the matter is, that they have those two guys, and although I think Kershaw and Kemp will do great in 2012, I don't think they'll match their 2011 campaigns.
Matt Kemp however, disagrees. He's projecting a 50 homer, 50 steal season from himself. For the Dodgers sake, hopefully he can, because the rest of their team is very average.
AJ Ellis as the starter? Replacement level player.
James Loney hasn't nearly done anything close to what he's capable of doing. As a youngster in 2007 he hit 15 homers with a .331 average. He's never bettered either of those numbers since.
Mark Ellis is average at best. He had some good seasons in Oakland years ago, but he's 35 years old now.
Dee Gordon brings blazing speed to the top of the lineup. He has no power whatsoever, but will make pitchers sweat a little extra when he takes his lead off of first base.
Juan Uribe was horrendous in 2011, hitting just .204 with 4 homers. Ugh.
Andre Ethier didn't contribute much last year, hitting only 11 homers in 135 games. Where did his power go?
Juan Rivera could take the other outfield spot, hitting 11 homers last year, although personally, I'd rather see Jerry Sands there. Sands hit 35 homers in 2010 and 33 in 2011 between AAA and the bigs. Big power.
Besides Kershaw, the Dodgers also have Ted Lilly – who is a class A jerk during batting practice. Lilly is a soft tossing lefty who has been moderately successful in the major leagues.
Chad Billingsley has had some decent seasons in the past, and is young enough that he could return to the Billingsley of 2007-2008.
The other starters, Chris Capuano and Aaron Harang, are just average at best.
2012 Statistical Projections:
C AJ Ellis .279-8-54
1B James Loney .287-12-72
2B Mark Ellis .260-7-43
3B Juan Uribe .227-8-36
SS Dee Gordon .285-0-29
LF Juan Rivera .261-13-73
CF Matt Kemp .308-35-115
RF Andre Ethier .287-14-66
SP Clayton Kershaw 18-7, 2.41 ERA, 224 IP, 234 K
SP Ted Lilly 11-12, 3.67 ERA, 189 IP, 160 K
SP Chad Billingsley 11-11, 4.03 ERA, 185 IP, 156 K
SP Aaron Harang 13-9, 3.80 ERA, 211 IP, 168 K
SP Chris Capuano 9-10, 4.65 ERA, 163 IP, 149 K
RP Javy Guerra 3.11 ERA, 30 SV, 64 IP, 55 K
RP Kenley Jansen 3.69 ERA, 9 SV, 63 IP, 69 K
5th place: San Diego Padres (My prediction 65-97)
The Padres are in rebuilding mode and went 71-91 last season, quite a disappointment after winning 90 games in 2010. I expect things to get a little worse before they start to get better in San Diego.
Of all five players in the infield, none hit more than 9 home runs in 2011. That's a major offensive power outage. Granted, the Padres play their home games at the cavernous Petco Park – but they also get to play 81 games on the road.
Nick Hundley looks to be the starter until top prospect Yasmani Grandal, acquired in the Mat Latos deal, is ready.
Yonder Alonso, also acquired in the same deal, will man first.
The O-Dog, Orlando Hudson, has had a nice career as a middle infielder, and will hope to rebound from a .246 avg from last year.
Remember when Jason Bartlett was an All Star and getting votes in the MVP award race as a Rays shortstop? Well he's far from that now, hitting just 2 homers last year to go along with a .245 average. His WaR last year was a 0.1, meaning he was basically a scrap heap replacement level player. He definitely needs to improve or the Padres could give at bats to Everth Cabrera.
Chase Headley was once a top prospect, ranked #32 overall in the pre-2008 season. It's four years later, and he only has 36 homers in 2,114 plate appearances to go with a .269 average. He needs to produce, or could risk being non-tendered after the season.
The outfield features Carlos Quentin, Kyle Blanks, and Cameron Maybin. They all possess the potential to put up power numbers and should make for interesting batting practices.
Quentin is still only 29 and may have some good years left in him.
Maybin is the face of the franchise now, signing a five year, $25 million contract in the offseason.
There's also big Kyle Blanks, who could potentially hit 20 homers.
The rotation features Edinson Volquez, acquired for Mat Latos. Volquez needs a bounce back season after posting a 5.71 ERA in 20 starts last year.
Tim Stauffer could be the ace, posting a 3.73 ERA last season.
The closer this year will be Huston Street, brought in to replace Heath Bell.
It's going to be another long year for the Padres.
2012 Statistical Projections:
C Nick Hundley .286-13-45
1B Yonder Alonso .285-13-67
2B Orlando Hudson .256-8-53
3B Chase Headley .276-6-46
SS Jason Bartlett .254-3-38
LF Carlos Quentin .251-19-74
CF Cameron Maybin .260-11-42
RF Will Veneable .248-11-47
SP Tim Stauffer 9-12, 3.47 ERA, 171 IP, 118 K
SP Edinson Volquez 7-9, 4.32 ERA, 144 IP, 140 K
SP Clayton Richard 12-11, 4.00 ERA, 191 IP, 130 K
SP Cory Luebke 12-10, 3.64 ERA, 195 IP, 184 K
SP Dustin Moseley 8-11, 3.46 ERA, 182 IP, 106 K
RP Huston Street 3.99 ERA, 27 SV, 56 IP, 51 K
RP Luke Gregorson 3.06 ERA, 4 SV, 65 IP, 59
So there you have it.
How do you think they'll finish?
There's only 19 more days. NineTEEN – we are officially in the teens. It won't be long now. Also, you could win this CC Sabathia shirt tomorrow, so check back for that.


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The gambling device was a purple, hand-held spherical gambling toy covered by angles and curves, as if fashioned from exotic seashells. The gambling device fundamentally altered the laws of probability so that those who won would experience good luck, and those who lost would experience bad luck.
A person plays the device by pressing a key located on the surface – winning was signified by glowing accompanied by a humming sound, losing by a whistling sound only. It was not known how to turn the device off, and its power source was assumed to be internal.
In 2370, Cos brought the gambling device to Deep Space 9 where it was acquired by Martus Mazur after Cos's death. After Quark offered to purchase the device for use in his casino, Martus realized that the device could bring him profit. He replicated several larger versions of the device and opened a competing casino, "Club Martus", across the Promenade from Quark's. Whereas the original device only affected the user, these large-scale devices affected seemingly the entire station, resulting in a plethora of bizarre coincidences and improbable accidents. It was only after Lieutenant Dax discovered an easily traceable side effect - high percentages of otherwise-equal neutrino rotations - that they were discovered to be the cause. Sisko and Dax then destroyed them all via phaser fire. (DS9: "Rivals")
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Originally, there were three designs for the probability machine; the handheld device (which was initially designed larger than its appearance in the final episode), the larger device created by Martus, and a four-person gambling orb for the casino. Ultimately, only the first two designs (with some elements from the third) were incorporated into the final production. (The Making of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, p. 47)
The script for "Rivals" describes the handheld version as "small, spherical, softball-sized, handheld GAMBLING DEVICE. It has a strange design, covered by curious angles and curves, as if fashioned from exotic seashells." [1]
The handheld version of the gambling device was sold off on the It's A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay. [2] [3] [4]


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As humans go, new Viking receiver Greg Jennings is young. As dogs go, he's ancient. As NFL players go, he's somewhere in between.
Either way, Jennings is definitely sensitive about the fact that he's pushing 30.
"I'm not old," Jennings said during his introductory press conference, via NFL.com. "I'm 29. I'm not old. Let me throw that out there. I am 29-years-old, I will not be 30 until well after the league year starts."
Regardless, he'll be 30 on September 21 — early in the 2013 season. But he nevertheless scored a healthy contract from the Vikings despite his age and the fact that he didn't have a very good contract year.
Regardless of how his career goes from this point forward, Jennings has squandered seven years of goodwill in Green Bay. He chose between being reviled like Brett Favre or worshiped like Donald Driver, who soon will have his own street.Instead, the only thing Jennings will have in Green Bay is his own cheer. Second word: you.


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Third-person shooter Inversion invites a lot of comparison to Gears of War, another third person shooter that you may have played.
Outside of camera perspective, the two also share an affinity for co-op gameplay, which is something you're probably familiar with. You might not be as familiar with defying the laws of physics. In that case, I suppose it's a good thing that Inversion encourages you to bring a friend.


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Fast forward two seasons later and Manuel, at the ripe old age of 17, is an IHRA World Champion in Quick Rod. Yes, you heard that right; Manuel is an IHRA champion at just 17 years of age, just two years removed from Junior Dragster.
"Yeah, it is a bit surreal. It all just feels like a dream, like it didn't really happen. You are not supposed to win one of these things so early, but here we are," Manuel said. "This whole thing is just so crazy, I can't tell you what it means to be number one."
But Manuel is number one in the world and he owes a lot of that success to the man calling the shots - his big brother, 2010 Super Rod World Champion and 2011 IHRA Sportsman Driver of the Year Cameron Manuel.
Everyone knows the incredible success that Cameron has enjoyed over the last two years. A world championship in 2010, multiple divisional titles, a driver of the year award and absolute dominance in more than one class fill out the resume of the man from Winston Salem, N.C. And with Cameron looking on when not campaigning his own Top Dragster in the TOC, Corey did the unthinkable by navigating one of the toughest races in the country and coming out on top after just two years in a big car.
Now young Corey adds his name to the family legacy by collecting the Quick Rod championship at the IHRA Summit Racing Equipment World Finals in Memphis, taking down a man who had already won one world championship on the night to do it.
"It feels awesome knowing that I am carrying on the family name and to be in the winner's circle of this race just like my brother is amazing," Manuel said. "When I got to the final I treated it like just another race. I tried not to let my nerves get to me and I think even if we had raced I would have had a good shot at the win with a really good light."
Manuel didn't go the usual route to get into this year's Summit Racing Equipment Tournament of Champions presented by AMSOIL, winning the Richmond Dragway Summit Pro-Am race in May to automatically qualify him for the tournament.
With the win Manuel spent the rest of the year focused on gearing up for the tournament with hopes of having a big weekend in Memphis.
"We won at Richmond earlier this year and that got us a ticket to come here," Manuel said. "We were doing good in the D2 points, but we didn't go to Darlington so we didn't finish it out. Really we only had that one race win, but we have been running consistent all year and then we came here and got it done."
Once in Memphis Manuel began his quest for a championship with a round one win over Division 4 competitor Michael Pennington in a closer than hoped for first round decided by a few hundredths at the line. In round two Manuel battled Division 4 champion Dale Scates, overcoming an eight thousandths difference at the tree with an 8.910 run to Scates' 8.920 in the 8.90 index class. Manuel continued his big day by downing another divisional champion, D9 winner Carey Long, with an 8.903 pass as Long broke out by .013.
All in all Manuel had a solid weekend thanks to the help of his family, even though a few minor issues earlier in the day threatened to derail their plans.
"Things went pretty smoothly. We had a few problems with the car, it was leaking transmission fluid so we had to rig something up to where it wouldn't leak so bad," Manuel said. "Other than that my brother helped keep me calm through the day and he told me how to do it since he won this thing two years ago."
Now Manuel has stepped out of the shadows and defined himself as more than "Cameron's brother" by not only winning a title, but adding his name to the history books as one of the youngest champions in IHRA history.
"Thank you everybody that helped make this happen," Manuel said. "This is such a big deal and I was exciting to share that with my family. And to make history, that makes this win even that much more special."


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We were called to a Cat A red call "Severe Respiratory Distress"for a gentleman in his late 60s. Arriving on scene I waited for my colleague to get the O2 resus bag off the truck and then I locked up. Our address was in the centre of Big City in a renovated block of Victorian tenement buildings originally built as a barracks in the middle of the 19th. C.
It was blowing a gale and the temperature had dropped a few degrees since yesterday making the air almost freeze on our breath. After what seemed like an age we gained entry through the controlled access main doors. Our patient resided on the ground floor almost next to the entrance. A party was going on next door with sounds of laughter and music coming from within.
On entering the gentlemans flat we were first confronted by the stale smell of alcohol and the familiar aroma of self neglect. The gentleman was sat on the edge of his bed and breathing very fast trying to take in air and talk to us at the same time. After a few words of encouragement we managed to slow his respirations down. No need for the O2.
It was plainly evident that he was a alcoholic as littered all around us were empty bottles of whiskey and other sources of alcohol dependence. (I dont think he was collecting them to put "ships in a bottle.")He was emaciated and looked worse for wear. My colleague asked him questions about how he felt, had he any pains, did he suffer from anything, what meds did he take etc. He had no family left.
I asked him…"does your heating not work?" to which he replied that it did but he was afraid of the fuel bill! It was more cold in his flat than outside! We located the thermostat and turned his heating on. (Better to be warm and dead than cold and dead.) A quick look around and we could see that he was not coping and needed help. All the while he was telling my colleague about what he was going through. He seemed like a once proud man who had been taken over by alcohol.
His obs were acceptable…O2 sats 95%, B.P. 142/90, pulse 100, resps 24 per minute and his blood sugars were 6.5.He seemed to be anxious and shaking saying he had been like this for 11 days since stopping drinking the whiskey. Alcohol withdrawal can manifest itself in many ways…one way in which we were soon to discover.
Up until now he had been orientated and articulate in his responses and offered rational explanations for his predicament. He was obviously a social case and did not need to go to A/E. I noted the state of his bedroom…like a scene from Miss Havishams house in Great expectations, only this time the cobwebs were replaced by dried blood on the walls and wardrobes! This was due to the many falls he had recently whilst under the influence.
We attempted to contact the "Falls Team"who would be able to assess our patient and put in place a package of care. That was the theory…unfortunately we had rung outside of the allotted hours of their response. I did not want to leave an answer phone message which may or may not be picked up the next day! The next option was to arrange for a out of hours GP Doctor to call that night and hopefully arrange a direct admission to an elderly ward. (it sometimes works!) I passed on all the relevant details to the call handler and awaited for the Doctor to ring back…and waited……and waited……….and waited………..and waited!
Our patient seemed happy enough with the arrangements we were trying to put in place for him. (On reflection it would have been easier to have chucked him on the truck and dump him in A/E but that would not have been fair on anyone). Whilst chatting to our gentleman he turned around and called for "Maureen" to back him up on his answers to our questions!
"Who are you talking to Albert?" We knew that there was no one else in the flat. "I,m talking to Maureen, shes marvellous…" he said looking towards the back of his bedroom. I thought about this and asked him if he had "Life-Line" installed* saying that it was a brilliant system for people on their own. He agreed with a nod of his head.
Suddenly he piped up…"I cant sleep at night either!" Due to the coldness of his flat I was not surprised! He continued "…they come in the middle of the night and wake me up, making all kinds of noises!" I asked who it is that wakes him up? "Its his friends!" pointing to no-one at the other end of his bedroom. "He had about twenty people behind the wardrobe and on top of it….all of them having sex!" He then went on to explain in puzzlement that "I dont understand it….those wardrobes are flush against the wall!"
My colleague and I looked at each other, then looked at Albert. He was now becoming more and more animated and his breathing was coming in short gasps as he let fly into a tirade of abuse at his "friend". We decided that perhaps the out of hours GP was now not an option. After calming Albert down we told him that it would be better for him to get a good nights sleep at the A/E. I re-contacted the GP and stood him down, not that I think he was in a hurry to attend anyway!
We carried Albert out and past his neighbours with the party just starting to get into full flow. We settled him comfortably on the truck and took him the 2 miles down the road to A/E. Handing over to the nurse I quickly explained our actions on scene and that we had brought him in as a last resort. She was not happy. But then she had not spent the last hour and a half in a filthy flat trying to get this once proud man the care that he desperately needs.
I,m just glad that we did not leave him waiting for the GP to attend as I,m sure he might have fallen again or even have had another visit from his "friends"or he may even have started up on the whiskey again. It just never ceases to amaze me that when people like Albert need help the most, the appropriate agencies only work day light hours Monday to Friday. Everything falls back onto A/E.
I hope Albert got some sleep!
* Life-Line…an alarm system linked to a regional control centre that can be contacted by pulling a cord or pressing a button.


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Rum Review: Ron Abuelo Anejo
Posted by Arctic Wolf on February 24, 2011
Ron Abuelo Anejo rum is produced by Varela Hermanos SA in Panama, Central America. This company has a history which dates back to 1908 when Don José Varela Blanco launched the first sugar mill in the then recently formed Republic of Panama. In 1935 the site began to distill sugar cane juice for the production of liqueurs. Today the company produces an impressive array of products which includes over one million boxes of liqueurs and of course a strong variety of rum. The Ron Abuelo brand is just one brand from this wide assortment.
My first taste of this rum came in Miami (Rum Renaissance) at an event sponsored by Abuelo Rums. At the end of the event I was given a courtesy gift bag by the sponsors, and it contained a small 200 ml glass flask of Ron Abuelo Anejo which I kept unopened until now when I decided to sample the rum for the purpose of this review.
According to the website Ron o Anejo is produced from sugar cane juice rather than molasses and it is aged in white oak bourbon casks. A little research indicates that the Anejo is probably a 3-year-old rum. It stands at the bottom of the rungs, with respect to the Ron Abuelo lineup, accompanied in the brand line up by a 7-year-old and a 12-year-old rum.
Here is an excerpt from my review:
"…Vanilla, caramel and citrus peel lead out first but I soon taste firm fruitiness reminiscent of black cherries and wild field-berries. The fruity tastes are reminiscent of a Port wine influence, and they have me somewhat baffled by their appearance in such a young rum which has been aged in a bourbon cask. The rum also contains more familiar strong flavours of brown sugar, spicy cinnamon, and even perhaps a little tobacco and leather…"
You may read the full review here:
Rum Review: Ron Abuelo Anejo
As well I have included a nice cocktail suggestion, The Mandeville.
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While federal courts throughout the nation weigh in on the constitutionality of the government's Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, California is quickly moving ahead with change.
Given the recent spate of court decisions, it remains to be seen whether the state may have to abandon its aggressive measures.
So far, four federal district courts have handed down decisions on the validity of the health care act. Two have upheld the health care law as constitutional. One has declared portions of the law unconstitutional, and just days ago a federal district judge in California declared the entire act unconstitutional.
At issue seems to be reliance on two different parts of the U.S. Constitution. Proponents argue that the act falls under the right of Congress to regulate interstate commerce, found in Article I, Section 8. Opponents rely upon the 10th Amendment, which guarantees the states the right to deal with issues not specifically mentioned in the Constitution.
The differing interpretations will be sorted out by the U.S. Supreme Court, although in all probability not for another 18 months or so--just about the time that the 2012 presidential election campaign enters its most frenetic stage.
Meanwhile, what are the states to do?
At least two states, Florida and Wisconsin, have declared that they will ignore the law in the absence of any clarity.
Not so in California, which last November became the first state to conform with the new health care rules and emerged as a financial winner. In the waning days of the Schwarzenegger administration, California negotiated a huge deal with the federal government to receive $10 billion over the next five years in health care funds.
The money will be used to move 1.5 to 2 million Medi-Cal recipients into managed care programs, thereby reducing the state's burden considerably.
Nothing could be more welcome in a state struggling with a $25 billion budget deficit.
All this would now seem to be in jeopardy on two fronts. First, the Republican-led House of Representatives is threatening to defund previous health care financial commitments. Second, there is a real chance that the U.S. Supreme Court will toss out the act by a 5-4 margin along the same ideological lines that have framed other recent decisions.
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Monday, May 26, 2014
Recognizing a Great Grandfather
Howard Lutter (1889-1959) was born and raised in Newark, New Jersey. He relocated to California around 1950. A talented pianist and musician, he created player piano rolls, from which I acquired my first picture of Howard.
The second discovered picture was from a digitized trade magazine for the player piano industry: The Music Trade Review, 1923.
My aunt gave me a batch of family photographs to scan and organize. My grandfather, Clifford Lutter, was a photographer in Newark. A lot of photographs are not of our family, but rather people he photographed for various reasons. Most are not labeled with the name of the subjects. I created a separate page on this blog for people to view the photos and perhaps recognize someone.
One of the photographs struck me as a familiar face. It was a man, dressed in a suit and tie, with glasses, sitting among various papers. With no identification on the picture itself, I posted the picture with the rest on the page for Clifford Lutter's photographs. I kept looking at the face, feeling that this man was not a random subject. Then I showed the picture to my aunt and uncle and they agreed that this image could very well be Howard Lutter, maybe in the 1940s, when he was in his fifties.
This man is posed in the same direction as the known picture of Howard Lutter, so we can compare them side by side.
What do you think? Is this the same man?
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It could easily have been an older photo of the talented Mr. Lutter who arranged rolls "from" those recorded performances between 1923-1931.ReplyDelete
Supposedly he was listed somewhere as a "Vitaphone Expert" (I forget the source) but evidently went to California, following the lure of talking pictures - as did others like Robert Armbruster of Aeolian.
Good luck on this project! Arrangers were often kept in the background since companies were selling pianos playing rolls by "famous artists" (but the released rolls were arrangements, primarily by people like Lutter). Vee Lawnhurst was interviewed by a friend of mine - years ago - and in the published article she said "Howard did everything" (at Licensee) and when asked about the rolls being different from her playing, she remarked "The idea was to make a better sounding roll", so she understood - as a pianist - what roll making was all about. [The article by Peter Mintun appeared in The AMICA Magazine in the '80s, as I recall, co authored by Frederick Hodges.]
Let me know if my posting is approved.ReplyDelete
Of all the commercail arrangers Howard Lutter (under his name and many pseuodnyms) is my all-time favourite.
Thank you for you input, Douglas, and thank you for helping to preserve these memories.ReplyDelete
Jody, That close up photo (presumably by Clifford) struck me as being perhaps Howard. There is an advertisement in the background that appears to have the name "Feist" on it. Leo. Feist was a major publisher in Tin Pan Alley, and Howard certainly would have used their publications during his arranging days. There were also a few small dance bands in Clifford's files, which also made me wonder if they included Howard. Since Clifford was a professional (commercial) photographer, it is likely he took photos for every kind of client imaginable. Therefore, the band photos may not have anything to do with Howard. The monogram "M" is on the band stands in one of the bands. You have done an amazing job researching and cataloguing these things and I congratulate you.ReplyDelete
Hi Jody , I just purchased the property of 171 Ampere Pkwy Bloomfield NJ where Howard lutter use to reside , I came across this blog while doing some research on the house . Super cool to know that such a talented musician lived here .ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks for letting us know, Angela! Hope that this house becomes a warm home for you and your family.Delete


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Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Dueling Desserts
My daughter, Emily had been begging for apple tart tatin, but those last peaches of the season were asking for inclusion in something. It was such a good peach season in Maryland that I kept eating and not baking them. This was my last chance before the Triple Crown season of apple/pear/pumpkin desserts began.
Tarte tatin can do no wrong in my world – apples too mushy -- who cares? Apples stuck to the pan and the tart patched back together –I'll eat it anyway. Armed with confidence, I made the tart, center ring of pear, then alternating granny smiths and peaches with blackberries scattered around any holes I found in the pan.
It even looked like I had imagined in my head. The blackberries performed the task of paintbrush and lightly tinted all the fruit with a red pomegranate color. I loved the taste, but Tom and Padma, I mean Sam and Emily, said that they didn't like tasting just one fruit in each bite, they would prefer a bite of apple, pear, berry and peach each time they cut a piece. So there was born round two of the tatin battle. The second method was a little soupy and messier to turn out of the pan. But the pool of syrup on the counter was easily removed with fingers and licked. The taste was precisely what the critics were after and the blackberries more uniformly colored and glazed the dessert in red. I will give you both options so you can decide.
Rainbow Tart Tatin 8 to 12 servings
Storage: Store covered with plastic in the refrigerator for up to 3 days.
1 sheet parve frozen puff pastry (from a 17.3-ounce box)
8 tablespoons parve margarine
3 Granny Smith apples
3 small pears
3 unripe peaches
6 ounces blackberries
Preheat the oven to 400°F. Thaw the puff pastry at room temperature for 45 minutes. You will need a deep, ovenproof skillet about 11 to 13 inches wide. Make sure the handle is ovenproof as well. Take a piece of parchment about 16 inches long and sprinkle some flour on it. Roll out the puff pastry sheet until it is 1 inch larger than your pan. Place the pan on top of the rolled pastry and use a sharp knife to cut a circle in the pastry the size of the pan. Remove excess dough and set the dough circle aside.
Place the margarine and sugar in the skillet and set over medium-low heat. Cook for 5 minutes, stirring often. Meanwhile, peel and core the apples and cut into quarters. Peel the pears, halve and remove cores. Peel the peaches, halve and remove the pit. Add the pears to the center of the pan, cored side facing up with the stem end facing the center, so it looks like a flower. For the next ring outside the pears, alternate apple and peach halves, core and pit sides facing up to fill up the pan. Sprinkle the blackberries around and place in any gaps between the other fruit. Cook for 15 minutes uncovered without moving any fruit.
Place the skillet in the oven for 10 minutes. Remove from oven. Take your pastry circle and, using your hand under the parchment, lift up and flip the pastry over on top of the fruit. Be careful, the skillet is hot! Peel off the parchment and use a sharp knife to cut a few holes in the pastry. Return skillet to the oven and bake for 15 minutes, or until the pastry is golden.
Remove from oven and let rest for 10 minutes. Use a silicone spatula to gently push any fruit poking out of the pastry back under the pastry. Put on oven mitts. Place a large serving plate or platter over the pan and then flip the tart over onto the plate or platter. If any of the fruit get stuck in the pan, use a spatula to scoop them out and place where they belong on the tart. Serve warm or at room temperature.
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Remove and then place the pastry on top, following the instructions above. Place back in the oven for 15 minutes, or until the pastry is golden.
Remove from oven and let rest for 10 minutes. Use a silicone spatula to push any fruit poking out of the pastry back under the pastry. Place a large serving plate or platter (one with a rim works best) over the pan and then flip the tart over onto the plate or platter. If any of the fruit get stuck in the pan, use a spatula to scoop them out and place where they belong on the tart. Serve warm or at room temperature.
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