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Shiru: It took me much longer to translate this chapter. It looks like I still need more practice with fight scenes. I also had to make sure certain plot points were accurate.
"—You sure look confident. Aren't you being a little conceited?"
Mina suddenly spoke.
My match with Mina would begin shortly. The fight between the two Senpais in front of me had just ended and they were shaking hands with each other. It was a good match. I often dreamed of being able to fight and use normal magic like them.
It was supposed to be a dream that shouldn't have come true for me. However, I was standing at this stage right now, regardless of the fact that I possessed healing magic.
As I surveyed my surroundings, I spotted Usato's white uniform among the students wearing black robes.
"No matter how hard you try, nothing will change. It won't change the reality that Oji-sama and the others abandoned you, or how your beloved little sister was pulled away from you. Lastly, there's nothing you can do about your magic. If I had to compare my magic with yours, it would be like the difference of Heaven and Earth."
Right, I have a little sister.
Because of that worthless household of mine, I was separated from her.
I'm sure she has been living in happiness, surrounded by my parents' smiles. I didn't feel jealous. After all, she's my one and only little sister. She thought of me as family until the very end. I wonder what my parents told her about me leaving… I'm sure they gave her some convenient answer like I was working hard somewhere far away. I still didn't understand why they wanted to hide my existence so desperately but it really didn't matter at this point.
"Mina, those things don't really matter to me anymore. Whether it's to be a noble again or getting revenge on you… None of it matters anymore."
"Are you saying you're willing to discard your noble lineage? You still have a chance to start over but because of your foolishness, you would willingly cast away your proud noble status? Nack… Nack Argales."
"You sure say some strange things. I've already been discarded…… By 'Oji-sama and the others', as you would say. That's why we became unrelated to each other the moment those idiots put me in here."
"….In that case, why are you standing here right now? You should know just how painful my magic is… But I've actually been holding back, you know? You're not that much of an idiot, right?"
That's right.
Despite how she's someone that found joy in hurting others, there has never been a time where she seriously used her explosion magic on others. She has only used her magic to inflict the maximum amount of pain that people could withstand. That's what she was doing to me until now.
I couldn't help but smile when I saw that her reaction was exactly what I imagined in my head.
"Have you gone mad?"
"—I actually didn't need to fight and keep this promise with you. I was shown another path but… I'm no good at the moment. When I saw the broad back of 'that' person I admire, I couldn't help but think something this presumptuous: 'I want to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with them'. I haven't gone mad, Mina. I finally found it. It's something worth betting my entire life on…"
Before meeting with Usato-san, I had nothing.
I got kicked out of the place I've called home. I've been frantically and desperately trying to live ever since then. I had no future and lived an aimless, everyday life. But I was given a path… I found hope.
No matter how much abuse I received, my feelings of gratitude didn't change. I'll become a healing magician like Usato-san someday and proudly enter the Rescue Squad. That's how I want to grow and mature as a person.
"Are you referring to that healing magician guy who is secretly a monster? You want to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with someone like that? It's proof you're not sane. I truly feel sad. You actually want to become something that isn't human."
"I'll admit that he's someone with monster-like strength. But no matter how strong a person is, if their character isn't good, it just becomes plain violence. For example, someone who has explosion magic like you."
Her eyes widened.
But I had survived these 3 days. Her wrath didn't startle me in the slightest.
"Mina, I'm going to defeat you and say farewell. Afterwards, I'll slip out of Luquis…"
This was something that wasn't going to happen any time soon. I planned to make various preparations to leave Luquis after this mock battle and head for Lyngle. I don't have any reasons to stay here… I don't have any friends. Still… I don't know whether Kiriha-san and the others could be called friends but it was really heart-breaking to bid farewell to them.
Originally, I was someone that was naturally hated. I was awkward but they didn't treat me any differently. It was painful because I couldn't return this debt of gratitude in any way.
It seemed like my words really startled Mina. Her eyes were wide open in astonishment and filled with scorn. She squinted her eyes and glared at me. I felt a sense of danger.
"…Leaving here? Without my permission? …..That's an interesting joke, Nack. This is surely what it means for someone to be extremely conceited, right? I was only intending to have you taste a bit of pain and let you off but… I changed my mind. Fortunately, Oji-sama and the others have told me 'Do as you like.' for this fight."
Mina pointed at me and continued.
"I'll make you cry and beg me for forgiveness. I'll make sure to have you wear some rags and be my slave for a lifetime. It's an honor, right?"
"You really are someone who does and says whatever you want… No, you've always been like this…"
To begin with, I don't even know how this conversation ended up here. Serving as Mina's slave for lifetime? I'll pass. There's no way I would want to seclude myself here. I took in a deep breath and regained my concentration.
Mina took half a step in response to my words and readied herself and her giant, shiny, silver-colored shield. She then started emitting a large amount of magic power from her hand.
"I'm not afraid of you anymore."
"Now you've said it, you pitiful little dropout."
There was no need to respond to her.
This would be the crucial moment. I would show what I've obtained in these 5 days with Usato-san.
A strange silence dominated the training grounds.
At the same time Mina started firing her magic, I kicked the ground and dashed out with as much strength as I could muster.
A scarlet sphere formed in Mina's palm.
[Explosion Magic]. A rare manifestation of [Fire Magic]. The characteristic of this magic is that it can momentarily heat up the atmosphere of a given space and cause an explosion, roasting and blowing up the target. As I can only attack in close quarters, it's a bad match-up for me.
Additionally, Mina has a shield.
This is a problem. I suspect that her shield isn't for guarding against my attacks. It's probably to protect against her own explosion magic. It's a good tactic to prepare a safeguard like this. The fatal weakness of explosion magic is that it could harm its user.
As I thought this, I kicked the ground once more and leapt to the side.
The place I was just at a moment ago was hit with a ball of magic and the impact caused a small explosion. As I examined the power of Mina's magic, she looked at me in shock.
"It's not like I came here to play around! Take this seriously!"
"Don't underestimate me….!"
She started to form more magic spheres.
Just as Mina said, she added much more magic to her sphere for this fight. It was on a completely different level than the ones that hit me in the past. I wasn't happy at all but it seemed like it was true that Mina was holding back before.
But it was overwhelmingly slow.
It was around half the speed of the magic orbs Usato-san threw. Honestly, it was a little odd for me to use him as a comparison but I ended up doing it unconsciously.
"Way too slow…!"
I ran from one end of the training ground to the other as crimson spheres of magic made their way towards me one by one. Using this time, I started to read where the attacks were aimed at. I twisted my body at the very last moment to dodge one.
I immediately squatted down to avoid another and picked up some pebbles near my feet as I did so.
Without any delay, I started throwing the pebbles at the balls of magic heading towards me. This triggered the explosions earlier, and I jumped back before the impact reached me.
"I've certainly obtained some results… Usato-san."
While I patted the dust off myself, I felt the growth of my strength from my own effort.
I didn't feel proud. But I did feel thankful.
I thought it was a magic that couldn't be used anymore. I thought it had to be a magic that needed to be used for someone else… There was nothing that made me happier than using this magic to strengthen myself.
As I rejoiced, Mina's magic flew towards me.
Despite the fact that the dust hadn't completely settled from her attacks yet, she continued her assault. I could understand just how angry she was due to my words but…
This is a chance.
Mina is just taking shots in the dark. She doesn't know exactly where I am. But I can tell where Mina is just based on where she's firing her magic.
"That's why…!"
I didn't have the endurance to receive a direct hit from Mina's explosion magic. It's highly possible I would faint the moment I got hit. But as long as I couldn't get close to Mina, I didn't have a single chance of defeating her.
For this reason, I have to go.
I placed my right palm on the ground and stored power in my legs.
"I'm going!!"
With that shout of encouragement, I used all my power and ran through the cloud of dust straight toward Mina.
This is a suicidal act as everything would be over if I got hit by Mina's attack while charging in. However, Mina is only firing at where she thinks I am. She wouldn't think I'm trying to recklessly charge her from here. It's still possible for me to run into one of her attacks but it's not like I didn't consider that…
While explosion magic continued to bombard the training grounds leaving dust hanging in the air, I didn't lose sight of Mina. When I was sure of her location, I took a firm step forward with my right foot and jumped out in that one moment.
I broke through the cloud of dust and appeared several meters in the air right in front of Mina.
"Eat this!!"
The momentum couldn't be stopped.
As I dropped diagonally toward her… I coiled my body, preparing to kick the dumbfounded Mina.
"Hah, eh!? Hiiih….!?"
On the spur of the moment, she thrust her shield in the ground. She aimed the shield towards me to receive my kick while she hid behind it— But. That shield wouldn't be enough. It wouldn't be enough to protect you against my efforts in these 5 days!!
"Do you think an iron plate could defend against my kick!?"
"What!? No way! ….Kyaah!?"
I fully utilized my body and rotated it to further increase the penetration power of my kick. Mina was went flying back from the impact of my kick along with her shield.
While she flew through the air, even as she tumbled across the ground, I didn't take my eyes off of her. Her clothes were now covered in dust as well.
"I won't yield to you anymore! Mina Liashia! I'll cut off this tie I have with you today!"
This is my strength.
This is the strength that you and your group looked down on!
I pointed and shouted at her as she got up. It seemed like she scratched herself a little when she landed, as blood dripped down from her mouth. Other than that, she wasn't injured thanks to her shield. But there was a clean dent right in the middle of the shield where she blocked the kick. I could also see a small crack within that crevice.
Even so, Mina still recovered.
"Hah! Very good… I'll make you regret making me get serious…!"
Using her dented shield to support herself, she stood up. While violently wiping her mouth, she glared at me with bloodshot eyes. I entered a ready stance as she glared at me, her intense stare filled with anger and bloodlust.
From here on out, I would be fighting against a frantic Mina. A side of hers that I didn't know…
"He's gotten stronger."
As I was watching the match between Nack and Mina, Senpai, deep in thought, suddenly spoke.
When I took a look around, everyone was dumbfounded… Even the people that appeared to be teachers.
It was natural. I tried to copy and reproduce Rose's training to the best of my ability. I felt a little proud to see my disciple's growth.
"He became stronger thanks to the training. However, he obtained that kind of strength by following through with the training until the end."
It must have been painful. Even my heart hurt to go through with it.
But Nack held on and completed it. It was only 5 days of training but the last 3 days weren't something I planned. They were much more severe, after all.
I watched with folded arms as Nack evaded the spheres of magic.
"I heard from Senpai that it was only 5 days of training but… This is amazing. Wouldn't it be bad if that girl called Mina were to get a direct hit from Nack? Look at his kick from just a moment ago, she would get knocked out."
"Nope. He really should have settled the match with that kick just now."
"Eh, why?"
Kazuki was surprised and turned to face me.
Without looking away from Nack and Mina's fight, I started to explain my analysis.
"Mina's responses were faster than I had expected. But there's also the truth that Nack's only strong point is his legs. Unlike me, his arm strength isn't any different from an average person's. You can think of Nack's kick just now as his most powerful move."
But Mina's shield was tough, matching its appearance. I thought that since it was heavy, it would take quite a bit of strength to lift it. And Nack's speed might have been enough to take advantage of that.
Since Nack couldn't destroy the shield, this is going to be difficult… Mina probably isn't an idiot. You might not have another chance, Nack.
"Well, that's just how it is. Nack also doesn't have much endurance so one hit might just knock him out. After all, I didn't get a chance to make him tougher by beating him up with my fists."
"One punch from you would kill Nack, okay!?"
Inukami-senpai exclaimed.
"Hahaha… Haha."
What should I do? I ended up punching Nack once or twice yesterday as part of his evasion training.
But since I coated my fists with healing magic, it was safe, right? Nack himself looked completely fine too.
I was trembling a little on the inside. If they knew, they would definitely move a few steps away from me…
"You shouldn't lie. Usato, lying is bad. You should confess everything right now."
This little fox….
While I innocently smiled at Senpai and Kazuki, I secretly aimed a finger behind me. As I did so, Amako's face paled and she protected her forehead with her hand. She also started pulling on my uniform and tried to hide herself.
Hey, hey. My uniform is going to stretch if you do that…
I sighed at the sight of Amako concealing her forehead with my uniform.
"Haah… Well, Mina's endurance is about the same. The match will be decided the moment either of them takes a hit. And after seeing Mina stand up without losing spirit despite receiving Nack's attack head on, it's clear she's not just a simple bully. I expected for her movements to falter after receiving one blow from Nack."
"Mina is one of the more 'capable' students in her year, you see." Halfa-san interjected. "She's a bit overconfident but she understands the characteristics of her own magic well. You can see this from how she incorporates the shield into her own fighting style, both for offense and defense. I really have no idea why such a capable girl like her is scared of me… I can't help but have my doubts."
Halfa-san… Your fighting style is the natural bane of most magicians. Your way of fighting is dangerous as well. It's obvious they would be scared…
Still, a magician who uses both magic and shield, huh.
This seems troublesome. If Nack could destroy her shield, I think he would have the advantage. The problem is that he doesn't have that many options to destroy it.
"—But Nack is an evasion-type magician. Although there are aspects where he falls short, there are also aspects where he excels. Actually, he's been dodging balls of magic for the past 3 days. You could say it's a countermeasure for this situation."
While Nack was busy trying to dodge my thrown orbs, I would also use a physical attack.
It was 'Rose's Sandbag Training Revised Edition.' Or maybe it was more accurate to call it 'Usato's Shooting Training'? With my new technique, I would throw orbs like a ranged attack to train Nack's evasion. With this training, normal attacks with balls of magic weren't really effective against Nack anymore.
But it was only 'magic balls'. If something else was added in, then this training wouldn't serve its purpose.
"Don't let your guard down. Even if you've grown stronger, you still have a fatal weakness. If Mina takes advantage of that… It will be severe."
Even if healing magic could heal wounds, it wouldn't erase your sense of pain.
You can't take a beating like me. If you make a slight mistake, you might just suffer a lethal wound.
"It looks like you're fast at running away!"
A scorching hot ball of magic was flying towards me.
I pondered how I could attack after evading it. But the density of this orb was evidently much thicker than before. Maybe it was to prevent me from conducting another surprise attack while using the dust as cover. The moment the orb made contact with the ground and exploded, I jumped away to avoid being caught by the shockwave. This is proving to be a big problem.
"Guaah!? …It looks like I'm not capable of completely dodging it….!"
Explosion magic slammed into my back… It felt like all the cells on my back were being scorched by a hot wind. She had strengthened the power of her attack again… My injuries wouldn't be that bad with healing magic but the pain was tormenting me.
"I'm really envious of your ability to continuously launch attacks like this without a care…!"
"It's a talent I was born with! It's because I'm a genius!!"
As expected of a high-class noble lady like her. Her words were obviously different from the others in the same year.
She was overflowing with confidence. She was a talented girl who couldn't even imagine her own loss since her birth.
It was quite a contrast when compared to someone like me who was abandoned.
Her amount of magic power was abnormal and she had that hateful look in her eyes. But there were things even I could do.
"Here I come!"
I ran with these legs and trained them until my magic was completely exhausted.
As I dodged the incoming orb of magic, I attempted to draw closer to Mina. Although Mina was the one casting and firing spheres of magic, its speed wasn't much compared to Usato-san's. Its only threat was the amount of power it held.
I kicked the ground and started to run in a zigzag pattern.
I closed the distance between us in one breath.
"I'm in range…!"
Mina couldn't use her explosion magic this close or else she would get caught in it too. Grabbing onto to that weakness of hers, I felt confident in my victory.
One blow— I just needed one kick to connect and the frail Mina would easily fall. I jumped to her defenseless right side as she hid behind her shield. I anticipated that she would block her own vision to defend herself and it would be at this very moment where the match would be settled.
"I've got—"
I kicked, feeling assured of my win——— At this instant, I could see Mina laughing through the small crack. No, she isn't just laughing. She's looking this way…..!? It looks like she understood everything from that expression of hers.
I felt a chill like never before and tried to hold back my kick… Without taking my attention off of her, in the next moment— I was assaulted with an impact on my defenseless head along with a 'Gaan!' sound.
My vision went black for a moment but I clenched my teeth, preventing myself from collapsing.
Shit, what did she do to me? While holding my hand against my head and suppressing the pain, I glared at Mina— But the moment I did so, a silver wall made its way towards me with tremendous force.
"Kuh….. Gaah!?"
I could see the attack coming but my body wouldn't move. Mina proceeded to knock me away, slamming her shield into my defenseless body. I collapsed and rolled on the ground in pain while holding my head.
"You really are a big fool…"
Mina smiled in good humor while lifting her shield. She looked down on me in my agony.
Her shield. Don't tell me, she got into position before my kick…? When I flinched, she charged at me with her shield?
"A shield isn't just for defense… At least as far as I'm concerned. Well, it won't work anymore after seeing it for the first time. But don't you think it's good for a surprise attack?"
"Gah…. Hah…."
Did I get cut on my forehead? Blood trickled down my skin… When I tried to operate my healing magic, I felt unsteady and couldn't concentrate properly. If I couldn't concentrate then my healing magic would only have half the effect— My wounds wouldn't heal immediately.
As I fell down to my knees, Mina scowled at me.
"Let me tell you this, you can't win against me just because your legs and vision have improved. A magician who doesn't understand their own magic's properties can't win. Of course, you have to take into consideration the match-up against your opponent. My magic against your magic… is the worst match-up. Actually, why were you so conceited that you thought you could win against me? I thought you of all people would understand that…. The distinction between opponents you can and can't win against."
Opponents I could win against and ones I couldn't win against… Is she saying that there are absolute win or lose match-ups among the students and Halfa-san here…?
"But I'll praise you. You really did well. Even I'm honestly surprised that you've come this far in only one week. How about it? If you surrender now, I'll make an exception and forgive you. You don't want to be in any more pain, right?"
I'm genuinely astonished at how she was openly praising me instead of ridiculing me.
Her words also felt excessively sweet. After all, my situation might drastically change if I were to admit defeat here. I might not get bullied anymore… Yes, this is what I thought.
However, my answer didn't change.
"No.. way."
My situation would change? Wasn't that just a naïve way of thinking? It was true that I felt that this was the first time Mina had recognized my ability. Since she despised me until now, I felt a sense of accomplishment. If I said I wasn't happy, I would be lying. She was basically admitting that I had real ability.
But that's all.
If I didn't defeat her and overcome this, she would still continue to suppress me. My everyday life wouldn't change.
I would be below her, and she would be above me— A relationship I wouldn't be able to reverse no matter what.
"I came here today to beat you up. There's no way I'll recognize my own loss… If I yield here, I think I'll be a loser for the rest of my life… That's why I don't want to yield… Whether it be to my parents, the group that bullied me, or you. I admit that if I forfeit here, my shitty everyday life might become a little better. But then the five days that Usato-san spent on me would be wasted. That's something I definitely don't want."
"….Is it really that important to you? You've only known each other for a week, right?"
"Yeah… That's right. It's only been one week…! In that short amount of time, I've received so much and I can't even express my gratitude for it all! It was harsh, painful, and I wanted to run away… But I was happy…..!"
I didn't want to have expectations for anyone.
I didn't want anyone to have any expectations of me.
I was deserted by my own parents and I couldn't believe in anyone from the bottom of my heart… I wasn't anything special but I was properly trained right here on these training grounds.
He believed in my victory. Wasn't that reason more than enough for me to not admit defeat?
"He said I could choose to believe again… Ever since that day I awakened to healing magic, I've been living at the very bottom in darkness! It was something I never even considered again! That's why even in a situation like this where I'm likely to lose, I will absolutely not surrender to you!!"
"……..Hah. You really just said that. Is this what it means when people get a rush of blood to their head and become idiots? I think it would be better to consider your own circumstances and carefully choose your words before speaking."
"Don't forget, I'm a healing magician… These injuries are nothing!!"
I got off my knees and stood up.
My wounds had already healed. Ironically, this conversation allowed me to buy enough time to recover. I wiped the blood off my forehead and flicked it onto the ground.
I can still fight.
"I see, it can't be helped……. We'll continue."
With a sharp glint in her eyes, she pointed her palm towards me. I immediately retreated and put some distance between us. I couldn't take another hit from her again.
A small explosion appeared at the spot I was just at. Mina sighed upon seeing me dodge. She held a hand against her forehead and directed her gaze at me.
"I'm going to change my method."
"I thought I could just pin you in a corner by aiming my shots precisely but you're more stubborn than I thought. It looks like that won't work… That's why I'm going to change my method."
She thrust her shield into the ground and started using both hands to form a new magic sphere.
But it was different this time. She wasn't creating just one sphere, she was making several smaller ones. The globe of magic split into multiple orbs, five floating in each palm.
Knowing that some kind of attack would be coming, cold sweat dripped down my back.
"Fufufu, although I'm not a monster like that hero, I can at least do this much. I'll just keep launching explosion magic towards the direction you're heading. I won't focus so much on my aim anymore. One ball of magic will trigger the explosion of another, causing a chain reaction. The resulting explosion will lead to your destruction."
Combining the magic in both palms, she has a total of 10.
She showed a fearless smile and spread out her hands. She then quickly jumped back.
"If you think you can run away and escape this… Why don't you show me?"
In the next moment, several bomb blasts violently rushed towards my body simultaneously.
Shiru: Potential spoiler by the author… Read the following at your own risk.
Author: Mina is quite a troublesome character because of her personality. The worst part is that she personally doesn't properly understand the feelings she holds for Nack. As a result, her way of thinking has become twisted. An example would be her desire to monopolize him.


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I came so close to making it through all of 2015 without getting sick. And then as luck would have it, a nasty cold hit me like a ton of bricks at the beginning of the year.
I should have seen it coming. After all, I had been the hostess for Christmas dinner AND a New Year's party. I had family members flying in from all over the place. And to top it all off, business at Aromandina was booming.
Unfortunately, my body could only take so much. All of the stress took its toll on my immune system, and I paid the price!
Of course, I followed my own advice and immediately grabbed some cold-busting essential oils, but my poor body wanted something more. After everything I'd put it through, it was begging for some "me time", and I knew just what to give it — an aromatherapy bath.
It only took two of these baths to make me feel like a brand new person. Not only were my cold symptoms diminished, but I felt completely relaxed!
Before you dive into your own bath, there is one important thing to remember — dilute your essential oils first with a simple emulsifier: heavy cream. That way, they'll mix into the bath water instead of just floating on top of it!
So which oils work best in an aromatherapy bath?
There are plenty of choices, which is why I created this chart. No matter which combinations you go with, combine a total of 10 drops with two tablespoons of heavy cream.
Here are some of blends I suggest:
– Worries Down The Drain: use this when stress and anxiety build up
3 drops Vetiver
2 drops Frankincense
5 drops Lavender
– Flower Vacation: use this feminine floral scent to boost your self-esteem and overall mood
5 drops Geranium
3 drops Lemon
2 drops German Chamomile
– Grounded and Pampered: use this to get rid of those erratic, wandering thoughts
5 drops Cedarwood Atlas
2 drops Palo Santo
3 drops Bergamot
– Walk in the Woods: use this to fight exhaustion, stimulate your circulation, and help you breathe easier
5 drops Bay Laurel
5 drops Black Spruce
A few final tips:
– Sprinkle in 1/4 cup of Epsom salts to help alleviate pain
– Play some relaxing music
– Light some (unscented!) candles
– Have a thick towel, a comfy robe, and cozy slippers waiting for when you're done
– Drink some chamomile tea as your tub fills up
– Use one of Aromandina's Body Oils after you pat yourself dry
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© 2016, Cristina Proano-Carrion, Aromandina LLC

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Mom delivers her baby in Casey's store restroom
"I thought it would be a nice calm night, but that didn't happen," Casey's employee Amanda Teas said.
She was working the graveyard shift early Thursday morning at the Casey's in Greenfield when a familiar face walked in.
"I said, 'Abbie, how are you? What are you doing here at 2:30 in the morning?' She said, 'I think I'm in labor. I'm headed to the hospital,'" said Teas.
Abbie Hinrichs, who is from Greenfield, was stopping to use the Casey's restroom on her way to a Creston hospital just 30 miles away.
"That's all she done and she didn't make it," said Teas.
When Teas when to check on Hinrichs just four minutes later the delivery had already happened.
"She was calm as could be and she just said, 'I just delivered my baby,'" said Teas. "She never screamed. I didn't even know she was delivering. It was within four minutes."
Teas ran outside to tell Hinrichs' mother, husband and son who were waiting for her in the car.
"Her husband was pretty quiet and her mom just ran in here and was like, 'Are you serious?'" said Teas.
Teas called a police dispatcher, who was also surprised.
"When I called in he said, 'She's in labor?' and I'm like, 'No, she had a baby' and he's like, 'Oh, she's having a baby?' and I'm like, 'No, she had the baby," said Teas.
Emergency responders didn't have to go far; the Adair County Hospital is next door to Casey's. They took Hinrichs and her baby to the hospital in Creston.
Paramedics said Hinrichs was very calm and excited about the fact the baby was a girl.
Addison Nicole Hinrichs weighed 7 pounds 12 ounces -- and has a great story to tell about how she came into the world.
"She wasn't born at a hospital, she was born at Casey's," said Teas.
Family members told KCCI Thursday that mom and baby are doing just fine.


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Mustang MonthlyHow To Interior Electrical
How to Install Bolt-In Intermittent Wipers
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If there's one constant, it is change. While some change may not be for the better or may be out of our control, modern technology certainly helps change the way we enjoy our vintage Mustangs. It wasn't that long ago that to enjoy something as simple as power windows in your Mustang meant fabricating your own mounts and using salvage yard motors and switches to make everything work. Today, you can simply bolt-in a ready-made conversion with compact motors and electronics that require no cutting to your door shell and give you the modern convenience you use every day in your other vehicles. Now you can do the same with another such modern convenience—intermittent wiper speeds.
The vintage Mustang's wiper system is sorely lacking an intermittent speed function. For those who drive their vintage Mustangs on a regular basis and who realize their cars will not melt when hit with rain drops (we salute you!), having the added benefit of an intermittent speed function for those light rains that just don't quite require low-speed operation is essential to driving safety. Constantly turning the wipers off and on manually during driving in light rain takes your eyes and concentration off of the road. While intermittent wiper upgrades have been craftily created with later-model Ford switch gear for other year Mustangs, the '67-'68 Mustang's wiper switch design in the face of the gauge cluster makes it all but impossible to mount something in the stock location—until now.
Enter Muscle Car Switch to the Mustang aftermarket. Muscle Car Switch engineers have taken their passion for vintage cars and their expertise in electronic circuit design to create their first direct bolt-in intermittent wiper switch. Thankfully, they chose the '67-'68 Mustang as one of their first projects.
The Muscle Car Switch intermittent wiper switch features five intermittent speeds and retains traditional low- and high-speed wiper functions while maintaining the stock footprint of the OE switch. Except for a minor difference in the switch's control lever, you'd never know that the Mustang is fitted with a Muscle Car Switch and now has intermittent wiper speeds!
Even better, with Muscle Car Switch's optional automatic headlight controller, you can ensure your headlights come on when using your wipers (state law for many) while still maintaining full manual control of your headlights, including high-beam activation from the floor dimmer. The wiring involved is mostly "plug and play" with a couple of basic wire connections and the mounting of the relays. We felt the two products make the perfect pair for driver Mustangs and decided to add them to our friend's '68 Mustang hardtop.
Muscle Car Switch Parts Used
|Part Description
|Part Number
|Intermittent Wiper Switch
|Automatic Headlight Controller
|Total: $140.00


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Dealing with the guilt of shooting someone in the head, Breaking Bad's Jesse Pinkman winds down with the special light gun version of id Software's Rage.
AMC's breaking bad is pulling in the gaming sponsors left and right, so Jesse and friends have developed quite the video game habit lately. First they talked Left 4 Dead and Resident Evil, and now Jesse's got his own special version of Rage, played with a special light gun with what seems to be a built-in recoil.
Now that's immersion! Mix in some randomly flashing coloured lights and you've got the loneliest gamer rave ever.
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Today they are judges in District Court, Probate Court
Twenty-five years ago this week, the Ionia Sentinel-Standard announced that two Ionians passed the Michigan State Bar examination, required for admission to the practice of law.
The two were Robert S. Sykes Jr., son of Dr. and Mrs. Robert S. Sykes of East Main Street, and Raymond Voet, son of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Voet of Jefferson Street.
Today they are the Hon. Robert Sykes, judge in Ionia County Probate Court, and the Hon. Raymond Voet, chief judge of Ionia County 64-A District Court.
Both graduated from Ionia High School, Class of 1980 (and both married graduates of Saginaw Eisenhower High School, oddly enough). But their connection to the community and to each other goes back long before high school. Sykes and Voet went to kindergarten together, and played baseball on the sandlots of Jefferson School, Voet said.
"I never would have predicted that both of us would be sitting here as judges in our hometown," said Voet.
"If someone 30 years ago had said, 'I'll bet you in 25 years you will be two county judges,' I would have taken it – there was no way," Sykes said. "But we both worked hard, and have a sense of pride in the profession and the community. We want to make it a better place to live."
Both men recall vividly the day they received their bar results. It was Nov. 13. Voet said he had heard that Sykes had received his.
"I just came out of court, and the mailman had not showed up yet, so I drove around to find him," he said. "I was petrified. I couldn't open the envelope. I had put so much blood, sweat and tears into the exam." He passed.
Earlier, Sykes had received a call from his mother when he was at work, telling him the envelope had arrived.
"I remember walking back to my parents' home on Main Street, realizing my fate had already been determined, but still with great anxiety," he said. He went to the living room to be alone when he opened the results. He passed.
"There was absolute relief," Sykes said. "No one wants to take the bar exam twice, especially in a small community when so many people knew I had taken the bar."
Sykes was sworn in first on Nov. 19, 1987, in the circuit court room. The Sentinel-Standard the next day reported that nearly all Ionia attorneys attended, as well as the partners of Sykes law firm, judges, and the prosecuting attorney, Gary Gabry. Judge Charles W. Simon Jr. presided.
That night, plaster from the ceiling of the court room fell in large chunks.
When Voet was sworn in on Dec. 2, 1987, his ceremony took place on the landing between the first and second floors of the courthouse steps. The court room was still unsafe to use. Ionia attorneys lined the stair steps between the landing and the second floor to flank the ceremony, the newspaper reported. Judge Simon presided. Gabry made the motion for Voet's admission.
Voet was between jobs when he returned to Ionia. Although he was not born here, it is the only hometown he had ever known. He wanted to do great things, working in New York or Chicago, he said.
"I had just taken the bar, and I happened to be clerking for a local attorney, when a woman who knew my dad told me about an opening in the prosecutor's office for an assistant prosecutor," he said. "The rest is history."
Voet was hired by Gabry and worked as an assistant prosecutor for five years. He then was elected as county prosecutor, a job in which he spent seven years.
"I learned a lot from Gary. He was one of the few lawyers I think of as influencing the way I do business," he said. "Judge Simon taught me how law is practiced properly."
Law is a competitive field, where people can make a lot of money but not necessarily feel good about themselves or like their jobs, Voet said.
"I wanted to make an honest living, support myself and my family, and do good things, and I went into law looking for that," he said. "I found it by being a lawyer."
Voet became Ionia County Chief District Court Judge in 1999, after a total of 12 years in the prosecutor's office. He notes he has only held two jobs in his career: prosecutor and judge, and both in Ionia County.
In the 25 years since Voet passed the bar, there were large cases, like the Kevorkian trial, "a tragedy that brought a circus to Ionia," he said. "I still have conflicted feelings, and I would hate to have 25 years judged by that case."
But he recalls other cases – like that of a young woman who was murdered.
"Her family was very upset by that, and it was a very emotional time. I dare say I invested myself into that case personally," he said. "There are plenty of cases, nameless and faceless to the public, but these are the cases I remember."
Voet compared his career to chapters in novels by Michigan attorney, judge and writer John Voelker, whose pen name is Robert Traver. "Each chapter is a different case he had as a prosecutor," Voet said. "That's how I view my professional life – small, colorful chapters."
His goal now is to stay "cutting edge. I don't want to become complacent, the judge that the lawyers privately are saying 'It's time for him to go. The practice of law has passed him by,'" Voet said. "I want to stay ahead of the time, known as being a leader, a public servant, and remembered for working for Ionia County with steady service, day to day."
Technology has changed the practice of law and law enforcement greatly, he said, from breath tests that have eliminated human error to cameras in police cars, from search warrants done by fax to DNA evidence.
"There are also the things technology has brought to us – computer crimes, email evidence, stalking, text messages," he said.
Societal attitudes toward crime and toward punishment have changed as well and revolutionized the past 25 years, Voet added.
"Drunk driving was not a big deal, domestic violence was a private matter," he said. "It was not unusual for a repeat offender to go to prison. Now, with drunk driving and domestic violence, they are expected to get treatment, and hopefully not come back."
Voet said he is proud of bringing specialty courts to the county, like sobriety court and veterans court.
Sykes was hired as an associate with O'Connor, McNamara and O'Keefe (which two years later became later McNamara, O'Keefe and Sykes) and worked in private practice until his election to the Probate Court bench in 2004.
"I built a practice and became a partner, but my career goal always was to become a trial court judge," Sykes said. "I viewed that as the next step in my career. Being a judge is being an advocate – it is the person making the most difficult decisions affecting people's lives, and I felt that it was a job I could handle, and I work hard at doing it."
Sykes said he was "always partial" to probate court; working with families and children was always an interest of his. When he was in high school and college, he worked with kids in the recreation department over the summer.
"I felt probate was where I could do the most good and work with children and families in need, and make their lives better," he said. "I plan to stay until I retire. I truly love my job. There has not been a day in the almost eight years I have served as probate judge that I have dreaded going to work. It's a good fit, I enjoy it, I work with good people, and I can do some good for people in that position."
One of the most memorable cases Sykes was involved in in private practice was in 2004, when he was hired to represent Craig Stadler, a professional golfer who had been arrested and charged with operating under the influence of alcohol in Ionia County, he said. That case was heard by Judge Voet, who "treated him as any other defendant, no special treatment."
"It was interesting because of the media exposure – he was a celebrity," Sykes said.
As a judge, Sykes recalls a proceeding where two sisters were removed from their mother's custody as she struggled with emotional issues, and there were concerns about the father's ability to care for the girls.
"As the case progressed, it became clear to me that everyone was asking to terminate parental rights," he said. "I just never felt terminating the man's parental rights were in the best interest of the children, and I stuck to what I believed in the face of great opposition. A few months ago, we terminated the case from court jurisdiction. The two sisters are with their father, the mother's rights are intact, they have a relationship with both parents. That's the way the system should work."
Another highlight was last year's adoption day, when Sykes had "the absolute thrill to preside with the chief justice of the Michigan Supreme Court over adoption proceedings.
"Adoptions are special because of the permanence I am giving to a child, and changing the course of that life forever," he said. "It was joyous – to the children, the adopting parents and other family members. I was invited to take my show on the road with three Ionia County families adopting their foster children. It was a great experience."
Among the things that have changed over 25 years is the increase in the number of lawyers.
"With the number of attorneys in practice now, it's not so much a profession as a business," he said. "To me, that is unfortunate. Fortunately, Ionia County is blessed with a lot of good attorneys."
Other changes include the increase of technology, and the ability to do research online rather than in law books.
"This has transformed how legal research is done, how cases are reported," he added. If you don't keep on top of changes, you are not going to be effective as a lawyer or a judge."
The increase in methamphetamine in Ionia County is a "huge problem for our county, and has wreaked much havoc on families," he said. "It's highly addictive and difficult to overcome, which causes all kinds of problems for families. There seems to be a great emphasis on rehabilitation as opposed to punishment, certainly with juvenile court."
Like Voet, Sykes praised the increase in specialty courts. He is especially proud of teen court, over which he presides.
"When someone comes to court and has an alcohol or drug problem, the court system now realizes that, rather than locking them up and thinking that is going to change them, the court has to help them address the problem by offering treatment," he said. "If they are not willing to embrace the services, then there will be punishment, but it has become the last resort, rather than the first resort."
Sykes sums up his and Voet's story, starting 25 years ago.
"We were hometown boys who chose to stay home," Sykes said. "Some of our friends couldn't wait to get out of Ionia. We came home to build careers here, to raise families. It's been a great experience. I look forward to the next 25 years."
Follow Karen Bota on Twitter @KarenB_ISS.


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Throughout the summer, United hope to keep fans up-to-date with the progress of the new state-of-the-art turf.
Experts have begun work on the installation of a Desso pitch, bringing to an end around 153 years of football being played on a traditional surface at the oldest professional football stadium in the world.
Desso GrassMaster is a sports playing field surface composed of natural grass combined with artificial fibres. The artificial grass fibres are injected 20 centimetres (7.9") deep, and cover about 3% of the surface.
While the grass is growing, the roots intertwine with the artificial fibres. The designers claim this anchors the field to create a solid, even structure with good drainage and 'playing comfort'.
Over the summer we are making a time-lapse video of the development, week one's video is now available to watch on BladesPlayer.TV and SheffieldUTube - the official United YouTube channel.


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with Lauren Leduc in Tulum , Mexico
5 nights in Tulum, Mexico
Thu Oct 20 - Tue Oct 25, 2016
Join your top-tier yoga teacher, Lauren Leduc, for an incredible week of relaxation and rejuvination at La Calma. With expert instruction, fresh, locally sourced cuisine, daily beach visits, cenotes (underwater caves) to explore, and loads of other activies, this trip is the perfect way to relax and re-energize.
|6 days 5 nights at La Calma
|Wholesome, locally sourced breakfast and dinner daily (vegetarian unless otherwise requested)
|I'll be leading a daily rejuvenating morning vinyasa yoga and meditation sessions, as well as a daily evening soothing and relaxing yoga and meditation. Let's deepen your practice while becoming super present so you can soak in relaxation, rejuvenation, and adventure!
Stand-up Paddleboarding in the Sian Ka'an Biosphere
Airport Transfers
|Private ground transfers to and from the airport + daily transportation around town
|Flights not included
Travel Insurance
|Travel insurance is mandatory and not included
|For assistance with travel insurance, contact our partner World Nomads.
Not included: flights to/from Cancun (CUN airport) and travel insurance. Guests are responsible for purchasing travel medical insurance and cancellation insurance which are also not included.
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Lauren Leduc, E-RYT200
A deep longing to heal, nurture, and love myself guided me to yoga in 2001. In the depths my greatest darkness, I found that this strange practice of moving and breathing illuminated something within me that I had so desperately needed: a seed of awakening, consciousness, and divine love. That was just the start. For years, I dipped my toes into the waters of yoga, never quite committing to the practice, but always knowing it had a special place inside me. Several years later, in 2011, after health problems and deep depression, I felt supported and motivated to make some major changes in my life and to dive into this healing practice head first. I kept coming back to the mat, a little stronger each time.
In 2013, I made one of the best decisions of my life and signed up for Yoga Teacher Training through Frog Lotus Yoga to study under the amazing guidance of Jennifer Yarro and Jennilee Toner in the beautiful rainforest of Costa Rica. The experience was expansive, authentic, and brought me to a new level of spiritual awakening. This gave me such a strong foundation, not only in anatomy, asana, philosophy, sequencing, safety, etc, but the foundation of my true self: a woman who now sees her bright, fiery light and wants to share it with others.
Since then, I've taught over 1600 hours of yoga, and have developed a strong passion for making yoga available to EVERYONE regardless of income-level. This led me to founding Pop-Up Yoga KC, an outdoor donation-based yoga program, and Karma Tribe Yoga, a nonprofit donation-based yoga studio in Kansas City's Crossroads Arts district.
My aim is to provide a practice that is challenging, stress-relieving, focused, hands-on, playful, and safe. Most importantly, through my guidance of the physical practice of yoga, I want to help you find your true self. I want you to feel strong, powerful, spacious, and beautiful. I want to guide you into healing the pain of your past, the worries of your future, and to find this amazing space we call NOW. I want you to know you are capable of the impossible. I want you to find the fiery light inside of you waiting to burst forth. I want us to cultivate so much love, compassion, and peace, that we can't help but share it with the world. Let's raise the collective vibration, one breath at a time.About Lauren Leduc
Maintain Harmony
La Calma was created with the aim to impact the local Mayan community and wild nature as little as possible. La Calma was built by hand without any help of electricity or heavy machinery. All work, from the development of the land to the final design details were made with the support of local Mayans.
100% Independent
La Calma is independent from the external environment. Electricity is generated from the solar energy using MPPT panels, water is pumped from boreholes. Everything used at La Calma is biodegradable, waste is filtered and cleaned in its own biodigestores. There is no undesirable waste, the house is fully self-sufficient and is in no way contaminating the land.
Design + Beauty
A sense of beauty, functionality, and simplicity in engraved in every aspect of La Calma. Patio design and other decorations are the work of graphic designer and sculptor Ivan Nacvalac.
Peaceful Accommodations
La Calma features seven beautiful bedrooms, each featuring a bathroom and shower.
Includes daily breakfast and dinner.
I'm am so grateful I signed up for this trip with Abbe and Rachael through Trip Tribe! It had the perfect mix of yoga, adventure and rejuvenation! The folks at La Calma took incredible care of us and the food was particularly fabulous!
The trip to Tulum, MX was amazing! The memories we created together will also hold a special place in my heart!
I loved the "off the grid location and accommodations". The meals were incredible as well as the attentiveness of staff. The yoga studio was a great place to practice and get away to meditate.
Great experience.
Trip w/our Tribe /lovely Yogi Guru through the Tulum jungle, Mayan ruins/cenotes went beyond expectations and helped initiate my new phase of life.
La Calma is an amazing location tucked away for a real life of living simply and connecting with the surrounding nature. Our group loved the off-the-grid accommodations and the staff there is magnificent! Theresa's food was our favorite of the Yucatan Peninsula! They also gave great recommendations for things to do both on a budget and to experience more exclusive beauty of the area.
My trip was AMAZING!! The yoga, the excursions, the location, La Calma, the people, everything was simply wonderful!
This trip was amazing! The town of Tulum, and all the surrounding attractions made this trip very memorable, and I would definitely go again :)
The trip was truly excellent! The package included beautiful jungle accommodations with clean sleeping quarters/private baths, a gorgeous yoga area, the hosts were lovely people that provided delicious breakfast/dinner meals for the group and our shuttle service both to/from the airport and around town was friendly, reliable and flexible. My only suggestion would be that the rooms include fans since it was quite hot and we were traveling in December.
The trip went very well, Tara Daly was a very good yoga ambassador, with a vigorous morning practice and a relaxing one in the evenings, La Calma itself is a great out of the way location where we were away from the city noises and could see a sky full of beautiful stars at night. Sadly I don't think I could go back , as missing was a proper ventilation system, I had read in previous reviews that bringing your own battery operated fan is beneficial, I brought my own fan but I find foolish that in that kind of heat and humidity overhead fans are not provided. I will still keep good memories of La Calma where I met many nice ladies and Édouardo !!
This trip was amazing. It stretched me as a person, both mentally and physically. While it was super hot and muggy this time of year in the jungle, I learned out to cope and see the best out of any uncomfortable situation. The food was SO delicious, and the people I met I will never forget! The beaches, the town, and all the fun activities available were unforgettable.
The only negative thing I'd say is the lack of airflow in the rooms. Everything else was great! Especially the food! It's a little farther out from the beach than expected, but the seclusion was nice for a yoga retreat.
It was an awesome trip!!!
What a special trip. It was not what I expected, but in the best way. Natalie and Margaret did a wonderful job organizing everything before we left, with quick responses to questions and concerns. La Calma was a beautiful location, tucked into the jungle which offered a sense of adventure. The sounds of the jungle were so lovely during our yoga classes and while I was falling asleep. Our hosts at La Calma were incredibly kind, helpful, accommodating, and knowledgeable. The food was so delicious, and they were able to accommodate several dietary restrictions. Even the shuttle service that La Calma arranged was amazing. The drivers were so nice and flexible with pickup times and locations. This was not the typical yoga retreat to Mexico, it was so much better. Thank you Natalie and Margaret, it was magical!
Amazing! We would return.
The trip was great! It is definitely in the middle of the jungle. The accommodations were a little "spartan" (no tv, radio, clocks, air conditioning, etc), but it was still fun...Lauren was great! The SUP yoga was a lot of fun, along with the Mayan ruins, the beaches, the Cenotes, etc. The trip was relaxing, but most of the day was filled with things to do...The food was great! (Vegan), and there was tons of it.
La Calma is a sweet and quiet jungle retreat. In the commune area off the Dos Ojos access road, the location is convenient to Sian Kaan Biosphere, Tulum, Akumal, and surrounding areas. The accommodations are simple and clean. The food is all scratch-made and nutritious... and can be catered to fit the needs a given crowd. Please note this retreat is totally off the grid in terms of entertainment (and that is a good thing)... no WiFi, land lines, or TV. If you don't a cell service, you'll need to go into a nearby town to get it.
The yoga retreat nestled in the jungle was the perfect mix of relaxation and adventure. La Calma's location provided an off the beaten path experience, close to a couple local eateries, and the cenotes! Close enough to catch a ride into Tulum and the beaches. But far enough away to escape into the peaceful jungle. Food was amazing, rooms were cozy, on-site massage - huge bonus!
Beautiful, rejuvenating. My mind and body have never felt so good <3
Absolutely incredible, would go back in a heartbeat. Gorgeous location, plenty to do in the area if you want but perfect atmosphere to stay and relax also. Meals were very good, plenty of food, although you only get breakfast and dinner so bring money for lunches. The only negative was the transfer when arriving at the airport. The meeting point was in the departures area and not easy to find, there was also no one waiting for me when I arrived. All sorted but could easily be avoided in future.
Awesome trip, we had the BEST MEALS EVER on this trip, HUGE kudos to our caretaker and chef. The location was perfectly secluded from all the mainstream hotels and each room was unique and accommodating but a little hot for me...be warned the rooms do not have fans...have mercy.
The trip to Tulum and my stay at La Calma was beyond my expectations. I can't remember being so relaxed. I've been back for almost two weeks and I'm still feeling the benefits.
The trip was amazing, being in the middle of the jungle was peaceful and calm. Close enough to the beach for Raul to pick us up everyday and make stops along our way. The food Svodka made was incredibly delicious and healthy. La Calma was a beautiful place to stay, rustic and artsy, with good music, candles, incense, hammocks, setting the mood for true relaxation.
An amazing trip! I would highly recommend it to anyone who wants a time out from life. Its a great way to enjoy the world, enjoy yoga and keep active. I wanted to Nama-stay!!
Trip of a lifetime! Everything was so amazing.
Amazing retreat!! The setting was perfect with the yoga studio nestled in the jungle. The food was super delicious and the staff was more than willing to assist with any needs.
If I had to put one word to it, it would be Amazing. I truly enjoyed myself!
The retreat was as magical, if not more so than expected. La Calma was lovely and plan to host another retreat there in the future.
Amazing. Sabrina was friendly, open minded, non judgmental - just what I needed. Her yoga classes were both spiritual in nature and very educational. I really enjoyed them. I would definitely go on another trip with Sabrina. I'd even try other ambassadors. I was treated with respect and dignity. The other participants were so wonderful as well. I feel as if I made true friends even though it was only one week. The bonds we made were undeniably amazing. Thank you so much Trip Tribe!!!
Great trip, the food was amazing. Everybody was nice. I wish we would have had more than 1 yoga class a day and the bed was inconfortable but other than that, I had a good time and I would recommand it, even go back myself!
Everything was as expected. The hosts were top notch, the location was just what I needed and the activities at the same level. Left very happy.
It was fantastic.
The whole experience was wonderful. From yoga teacher Camille, who has gift of teaching not just yoga but being spiritual, being compassionate and reminded us to be at the moment and learn to love ourselves and others. To Svatka, Lucia and the helpers at the lodge who prepared healthier and delicious foods and their hospitality were so amazing. Ray the driver was great and patiently waiting for us wherever we went. Thanks to all of you. You made our yoga retreat unforgettable.
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The manufacturer, which says the chips are for "energy-conscious [people] or high-performance computing", has launched two 45-watt AMD Athlon 64 single-core processors, (3500+ and 3800+) and the AMD Athlon 64 X2 dual-core processor 6000+.
The 3500+ and 3800+ processors are based on 65nm technology. The company says that using reduced-line widths it can produce processors on a 300mm wafer, while manufacturing processors designed for low-power consumption.
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The already-surging LA Galaxy received another big boost this week with David Beckham's return to the practice field. And though he is hopeful he can feature in the LA Galaxy's game Sunday at Colorado (7 pm ET, Galavision) after returning to training this week, his sprained left ankle is still bothering him a bit.
The English midfielder, who has been out since injuring his ankle in LA's Sept. 1 victory over Vancouver, returned to practice Tuesday when the Galaxy began preparations for this weekend's Western Conference showdown.
"It's better," Beckham told MLSsoccer.com by phone on Wednesday. "Still a little bit of discomfort, but it's good to be back on the field. [I was out] three weeks in the end. I wasn't expecting that, but I'm back now.
"I hope [I can play in Colorado]. I hope so. Trying to get my fitness back – I was working on fitness while I was injured, but nothing, obviously, like playing games and being in training. Hopefully, I can get out on the field and stay fit this week and be involved [against the Rapids]."
Beckham missed MLS home victories Sept. 14 over Colorado and last weekend against Toronto FC, just the second set of games he's missed because of injury this season. He was held out of an April 7 loss at Sporting Kansas City with an assortment of minor injuries, and also has missed matches this season due to Olympic duty, suspension and lineup rotation.
Beckham, who has an MLS career-best seven goals plus nine assists in 21 league matches this season, had been in marvelous form before the injury, with six goals and six assists, all competitions, since the Galaxy (15-11-4) started their turnaround in mid-June. He scored the MLS Goal of the Week with a trademark free kick in the Vancouver match in which he was hurt.
"This injury came at a tough time for me," Beckham said. "I was enjoying playing, scoring goals, and that was a disappointing moment. But I'm back and hopefully I can get my fitness back and be back out there."


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I'm working on re-factoring certain aspects of an existing web service. The way the service APIs are implemented is by having a kind of "processing pipeline", where there are tasks that are performed in sequence. Unsurprisingly, later tasks may need information computed by earlier tasks, and currently the way this is done is by adding fields to a "pipeline state" class.
I've been thinking (and hoping?) that there's a better way to share information between pipeline steps than having a data object with a zillion fields, some of which make sense to some processing steps and not to others. It would be a major pain to make this class thread-safe (I don't know if it would even be possible), there is no way to reason about its invariants (and it's likely it doesn't have any).
I was paging through the Gang of Four design patterns book to find some inspiration, but I didn't feel like there was a solution in there (Memento was somewhat in the same spirit, but not quite). I also looked online, but the second you search for "pipeline" or "workflow" you get flooded with either Unix pipes information, or proprietary workflow engines and frameworks.
My question is - how would you approach the issue of recording the execution state of a software processing pipeline, so that later tasks can use information computed by earlier ones? I guess the major difference with Unix pipes is that you don't just care about the output of the immediately preceding task.
As requested, some pseudocode to illustrate my use case:
The "pipeline context" object has a bunch of fields that the different pipeline steps can populate/read:
public class PipelineCtx {
... // fields
public Foo getFoo() { return this.foo; }
public void setFoo(Foo aFoo) { this.foo = aFoo; }
public Bar getBar() { return this.bar; }
public void setBar(Bar aBar) { this.bar = aBar; }
... // more methods
Each of the pipeline steps is also an object:
public abstract class PipelineStep {
public abstract PipelineCtx doWork(PipelineCtx ctx);
public class BarStep extends PipelineStep {
public PipelineCtx doWork(PipelieCtx ctx) {
// do work based on the stuff in ctx
Bar theBar = ...; // compute it
return ctx;
Similarly for a hypothetical
FooStep, which might need the Bar computed by BarStep before it, along with other data. And then we have the real API call:
public class BlahOperation extends ProprietaryWebServiceApiBase {
public BlahResponse handle(BlahRequest request) {
PipelineCtx ctx = PipelineCtx.from(request);
// some steps happen here
// ...
BarStep barStep = new BarStep();
// some more steps maybe
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Karl Rove's whispering campaign against Hillary Clinton explodes on internet
Washington: Karl Rove's blast at Hillary Clinton on Tuesday demonstrated how the game of political trickery manifests itself in the internet age. Allegation reported, allegation denied, outrage from the victimised party, the initial accusation repeated each and every time - a whispering campaign given full baying voice.
The Republican strategist's questioning of Clinton's health was a joint assault on the minds of voters and the heart of the would-be White House contender, and it probably worked, at least minimally, by injecting into the conversation something no one had been talking about, and spreading a negative assertion without any proof.
The New York Post reported on Monday night that Rove, in remarks to an assembled crowd last week, had repeatedly suggested that Clinton had suffered from a "traumatic brain injury" when she fell and suffered a concussion and blood clot in late 2012.
Or, as the Post headline succinctly put it: "Karl Rove: Hillary may have brain damage."
Rove based his diagnosis on special glasses Clinton wore after her concussion to lessen double vision - fallout of the concussion itself and one that was disclosed by Clinton. (He also told them Clinton had been hospitalised for 30 days, which was not true.)
By Tuesday morning, as Clinton aides pointed at her marathon schedule to insist she was operating at full strength, Rove was cleaning up around the edges. He said that he had never used the words "brain damage", yet he reasserted the bulk of his claim.
"This was a serious deal. She basically was out of action," he told Fox News, which beneath a picture of Clinton ran the headline "Health a 2016 hurdle?".
In the days shortly after her fall, former United Nations ambassador and leading conservative John Bolton accused Clinton of faking a ''diplomatic illness'' to avoid hearings on Capitol Hill on the Benghazi killings. Clinton later testified before the House and Senate foreign affairs committees.
Barring the release of audio, it is impossible to determine whether Rove uttered the words "brain damage", but it's also beside the point. The point was that through his words prospective 2016 voters were reminded of Clinton's 2012 health issues and, by extension, a host of loosely related things, including her age (69 were she to be elected in November 2016) and her family's past resistance to transparency.
Rove is certainly not the first to employ the strategy. In 1988, Ronald Reagan, from a White House podium no less, gave credence to rumours fanned by conservatives that Democratic presidential nominee Michael Dukakis had undergone psychiatric treatment. Asked if Dukakis should release medical records, Reagan replied: "Look, I'm not going to pick on an invalid."
He later said he was "just trying to be funny" but the damage was done.
More recently, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada demonstrated a Rovian strategic bent when - without proof - he repeatedly asserted during the last presidential campaign that Republican nominee Mitt Romney had not paid income taxes.
Romney insisted that he'd always paid a federal tax rate of at least 13 per cent. When that didn't work, he was essentially forced to release his 2011 tax return, giving Democrats even more opportunities to publicly dissect his sizable income.
Politics has never been driven by moral virtue, of course; its operatives bully and threaten and lie outright. But with the world connected electronically in a way that would have drawn gapes even a generation ago, the accusations can explode with a vehemence that is uncontainable.
Which is the point.
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Skip to 0 minutes and 7 seconds So about nine months after I was diagnosed, I had the genetic test done. So some blood was taken and sent to Exeter. And the diagnosis came back pretty soon afterwards that I had MODY3 diabetes. And it was completely different, really. That very day when we got the diagnosis, we decided to stop the insulin, and I felt completely different. Completely different straightaway, and it was brilliant, actually. It was a really, really good day. I can't remember very much about the day, but I remember getting out on my bike and going for a long bike ride, and having just a wonderful time. It was a nice, sunny day. I think it was in May. It was just brilliant.
Skip to 0 minutes and 41 seconds I was so pleased that I didn't have to stab myself in the stomach anymore, and I didn't have to pass out anymore. So it was brilliant. It was a really, really good day. When I got to my A-levels, I was really struggling through my AS-levels. It even got to the point that the teachers wrote it off. They said to me, you won't be– with those AS grades, you won't get into vet school. So once I was diagnosed correctly with a MODY, I had to resit all my AS and A levels in one year. And I got the grades, which is good.
Skip to 1 minute and 9 seconds And I ended up– I farmed again for a year, then I was a herdsman on a farm nearby, and then went to vet school and had a great time and everything. And now turned out I end up wrestling cows all day, every day, and I love it. I love it. When I'm not wrestling cows I like to spend as much of my time outside as possible, and I like going out into mountains for long trips, climbing, and other sports, like mountain biking and paragliding and everything. So I do really, really enjoy my active lifestyle, and it's something that I really struggled with when I was on insulin. I really had it taken away. It was difficult.
Skip to 1 minute and 47 seconds It was very difficult to deal with.
Dan explains in the video how getting a genetic diagnosis and coming off insulin changed his life.
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MIKE DRISCOLL: Happy Easter Sunday to the great people of Torrington
It feels great to celebrating Easter Sunday, in Torrington Conn USA, with my Mom and having the opportunity of visiting so many friends I have been missing since last trip home.
Back in January I stated I will only be writing as a guest writer a half dozen times this year. While kind mails have come in asking where I have been, please understand this is at my request.
Where to begin: well guess I have to thank Heather, Tom, Jon, Joe and Sharon, Ruta and Liev for a visiting me while living in Southwest Florida this year.
Thank you all for going out of your way to visit me, thank you!
Thanks Bruce for ride to RSW, the Kilmer's and DaSilva's for picking me up at BDL and I thank-God knows whom yet-for bringing me back to Bradley again next week!
Moving on: About 100 columns ago, I wrote about how I memorized vanity license plates when living in Torrington for 50 plus years.
So, when I saw a CT plate marked "EBNER" parked at a house less than 2000 feet from my house in Fort Myers Beach, I knew they were from Litchfield County. I stopped by their house and they were from Litchfield, and were very nice people named the Ebners.
Also met a Vinnie Lovallo at their home.
Always see Paul and Sue every other month and even saw Sue, with people visiting from Torrington, while she was marching in the Shrimp Festival Parade in Fort Myers Beach, FL.
Sue always looks great. In other words, I miss Torrington Conn USA and you people more than you know.
So Easter in March is still hard for me to grasp? How about your feelings versus in mid April as it has been all my life? And we even had snow recently when usually people are already teeing it up at Eastlawn or whatever they call it now golfing.
Wishing Thomas P. Keslow a great season up there.
Up at Eastlawn Country Club in the 1960s, when I think the late Judge John Spez owned it with a few dignitaries, there was a killer pool there for us kids off to the right as you pulled facing into the club house. Loved the five cent frozen candy bars sold by a lifeguard named Ruwet out of a broken down shack. Spring is close by, I promise!
As Easter is today, I think back about 40 years ago at this time, a few days prior, back in early 1973. I can see, if only in my mind, the LaMonica brothers - John and Dave - selling flowers all over town with the help of the Persechino clan on this holiday weekend.
To the right of the old North End Theater, where Mr. Persechino had a hair salon, flowers flew off the hand made wooden outside shelves.
At LaMonica's Market, at the present day location of Wolcott and Migeon Avenue, the front of the store bellowed with flowers.
Sidebar: I can still see John's face beaming, as he took pictures across the street from the market hours prior to his daughter taking me to her prom four years later. I will never forget it as Joey took a lady named Donna and we went in my 1966 Chrysler.
We lost the gentle Mr. John LaMonica in the summer of 1986. A very good man. I still visit his wife every time I visit Torrington. LaMonica's Market and Jimmy's for that matter would be lost without the women helping there, yes, even to this day! And Mr. P, on the " top o' the hill " as it was called in earlier years, keeps Jimmy's alive while son Robbie runs the great restaurant within The Yankee Pedlar Inn, a very nice place I stayed at while visiting.
I used to be a workaholic and know one when I see one, great people too.
Moving on to other flower vendors, the late, Mr Moscarello and his late son Joey were to be seen on the top of the hill, East Main Street that is, also then knew as Route 25, but the landscape was very different than today.
Not sure if Phil Kozlak was up also on top of East Main Street then- but he is a fixture there now!
Back due to recent weather-I still cannot get the conversation out of my head about the rope tow ski area at West Torrington a person brought to my attention last week. The rope tow was run by a car motor. Long live Gus Lucia, great guy. We had so many fun times in those 1960's and early 1970's skiing down, back then, that massive mountain.
It is April 23rd as i finish penning this column and I have company from Torrington sitting outside here and they started talking about how they had a rusty barrel in their back yard and they can recall their grandmothers burning the paper trash back circa 1972.
I too can remember being a young kid being allowed to torch the paper stuff nightly as well. It was a great time to be a kid as we did not have cell phones, iPods, iPads, and or other name brand smart phones. We actually talked with our brothers, sisters, mom, dad and we were still fortunate to share precious times with our grandparents.
I cannot imagine today, a parent dropping a kid off with elders, if they own a smart phone. Sadly, to me, while the technology we need is available at our fingertips, it comes with an unsocial climate amongst our loved ones.
Better move on!
Saint Francis Church has lots of memories for me. Graduated the school in 1971, listened to the Beatles in first grade, cried as a silver clock/ speaker told us in 1963 we had lost a president.
Threw Mickey Mantle baseball cards in a game called " leaners" against four inch thick marble sidewalk areas and the closest card to the sidewalk- won the cards.
Then served as an alter boy, played guitar in the school for folk masses while the church was remodeled, circa 1972. But today is Easter Sunday. The day God rose from the dead so we celebrate this truly great day. Hopefully our new Pope, named Francis, will strengthen our church. And yes I know it is called St. Peter's/ St. Francis. Sorry, John Fulop had us play the hardest when St. Peter's basketball players came to our gym.
Well we do not have time to talk about the old school and the fun times playing round ball with Father McCarthy in the old school, long gone.
To all of you, enjoy your Easter Sunday.
PS, is you see me around, please say hello. I have lost 53 pounds as of today, since December 26th of last year by dieting and exercise. If you see a red bike go by on a cold morning, throwing a dog biscuit to your dog, yes, that was me.
God willing, see ya again, in ink, either Memorial Day weekend and or July fourth weekend.
Thanks for allowing me into your houses on this glorious holiday.
Mom, I love you and hope you enjoy the meal I have planned. Have a great day and "call a friend today- do not text them."hope to see you up at Cape Cod this summer. God Bless.
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