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Sorry for the false post a few days ago — this is the real one.
Summiting Kilimanjaro is not for the faint of heart. Turns out, I'm extremely faint-hearted. Good thing my wife is less so, otherwise I'm not sure we would have made it.
The first five days were a cakewalk. Our vital signs were great, we felt great, and 4-6 hours of moderate hiking was pleasant. Then came the summit, which was like going from kindergarten teeball to the Major Leagues over night.
Here's how it went down:
At dinner on the 5th day they tell you what to expect: Don't look up. We'll go extremely slowly so that we need very few breaks due to the cold. "Should I wear this third layer?" Yes. "How about this fourth layer?" Yes. "And I have this fifth layer…" Yes. "Also, should we bring toilet paper?" Yes.
They wake you up at 11pm after a post dinner nap, if you can sleep — we hardly could because of the anticipation, as well as the altitude (16,000 feet at Barafu Camp) and the cold. You have a brief snack around 11:30pm, make final preparations, then head out at midnight.
It's pitch black, except for an endless trail of headlights straight ahead — rather, straight up. Everyone tells you not to look up, which makes you want to do nothing but look up. It's truly daunting. And when you hike up for what seems like hours to the first "ridge," you realize it's not a ridge at all and the headlight ants continue for miles still.
Pretty soon into our midnight hike, Jill started to feel awful. Very nauseous. She seemed wobbly on the trail, which is steep and narrow, and I got nervous for her. She sat down on a boulder and tried to close her eyes for a second, which is when I first thought something might be seriously wrong — it took a reminder from Ayumwi that she couldn't doze off there (in the middle of the trail in freezing temperatures). She was in bad enough shape that we contemplated turning back. But she got up, went "to go see a man about a horse" a little further off the trail, had some electrolyte-infused water, a bite of a Cliff Bar, and then soon started to feel much better.
Just about as soon as Jill started to feel better, I started to tank. I felt lightheaded, nauseous and just exhausted. The altitude was crushing me. We were only two hours into the summit hike and I was completely miserable. Ayumwi and John kept telling me to throw up if I could — and boy did I try — but I just couldn't get it out. We must have seen six other people throwing up on the side of the trail, so I clearly wasn't alone in my state.
Unfortunately, I didn't get better. As we kept climbing, I kept feeling weaker and weaker, and more and more nauseous. Jill and I had both tested great on our vital signs up to 16,000 feet but I guess those last 4,000 are another story. Every step was brutal. We couldn't feel our fingers or toes, our remaining water was completely frozen, we were physically exhausted, and the altitude was eating me alive (and while I wasn't exactly thrilled that Jill took this photo of me at time, it makes for good blog material).
Finally, the first sign we were close was the sunrise over neighboring Mewenzi Peak, which at 18,000 feet is the third highest in Africa. We were told it would take anywhere from 6-8 hours to reach the summit, so if we had left at midnight and were now seeing the sunrise we were getting close. And getting out of the dark certainly helped our spirits a bit too.
Those last thousand feet or so to the lip of the crater were just brutal. I had to go about ten steps at time then take a break. But there was no way I was turning around. I knew it wasn't about winning… ok it was all about winning and goddammit I was going to make that stupid summit.
We hadn't been on remotely flat ground or taken more than a 30-second break (due to the cold) for seven hours, so when we finally reached the ridge I just about completely collapsed onto a boulder and stared out into the crater. I couldn't speak. Jill came over and we were both crying. It was that punishing, and that rewarding.
The final kick in the shorts was that we still had another hour to hike up around the rim to reach Uruhu Peak, the actual tallest part of the mountain and the single highest point in Africa. That hour was just as brutal as the last. But reaching it was an unrivaled feeling.
After about 10 minutes at the summit taking photos, we got the hell outta Dodge. It only takes 2-3 hours to get back to camp because you slide down this massive meandering loose dirt trail alongside the one you went up. Descending can be more dangerous than summiting, since trekkers are completely exhausted and therefore super accident-prone. I watched a guy right next to me try to slide down too quickly, slip, and break his ankle. Three guides had to carry him down the remaining 3,000 feet from the summit to get him in a wheelbarrow-like stretcher — and then down a horribly bumpy trail for the last 16,000 feet. Our guides later told us that three people that morning had to be taken down in a stretcher. We also found out later that a nice guy gamed Eric to whom we had given a ride from the Kili airport made it to 19,000 feet before vomiting blood and needing to be raced down the mountain due to acute altitude sickness.
We slept like babies that night then had a relatively easy five-hour hike back down to the gate, where we had a final picnic lunch before heading to Mbahe Farm for our first shower in a week and a farewell dinner party with all of our porters.
So given all that… Would I recommend summiting Kilimanjaro? Absolutely. It was brutally hard, and perhaps harder for me and Jill than others, but we both consider it the greatest physical achievement of our lives. Simon's company, SENE, earned a Triple A+. Amazing competence, professionalism and support from top to bottom — from Simon himself, the office, our guides, our porters, Mbahe Farm, the food, everything. Thanks to Catie and Sharon for introducing us to Simon at Catie's wedding in California!
All in all, an experience we find ourselves reminiscing about constantly, and one we'll surely never forget.


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Christopher Ruddy, March 11, 1999
Russia and China -- Our Friends?
Many Americans find it unthinkable that Russia or China would launch an attack on the US knowing that it would mean millions of casualties on their soil. But what Americans fail to take into account is the mindset of the authoritarian communists who still occupy every important military and political office in those countries.
These are the same people who gave the world brainwashing, the Secret Police, and the Gulag. Under these communist leaders and their predecessors, China and the Soviet Union became the most murderous regime in the history of the human race, and the primary victims were their own citizens.
According to Professor R. J. Rummel, author of Death By Government:
"Almost 62 million people, nearly 54,800,000 of them citizens, have been murdered by the Communist Party -- the government -- of the Soviet Union. "Old and young, healthy and sick, men and women, even infants and the infirm, were killed in cold blood. They were not combatants in civil war or rebellions; they were not criminals. Indeed, nearly all were guilty of... nothing." [Death by Government, pp. 79-80.]
Second only to the Soviet Union in mass murder, is Communist China. At least 35,236,000 people have been killed in Red China. Rummel writes:
"These poor souls have experienced every manner of death for every conceivable reason: genocide, politicide, mass murder, massacres, and individual directed assassination." [Death by Government, p. 92]
Have Russia and China "reformed," and become peaceful lambs, as President Clinton would have us believe? The evidence is overwhelming to the contrary.
Americans and the world would like to believe that the fall of the Berlin Wall ended the threat of international communism. For a few years that indeed seemed to be true, in at least parts of the former Soviet Union.
Free elections were promised. Multiple political parties were allowed. Captive nations -- such as Latvia and Lithuania -- were set free. Press censorship was scaled back. There was some attempt at free market reforms. And foreign capital was invited in.
However, the reforms were at best paltry. As Joel Carmichael, editor of Midstream wrote last year, "Out of the 12 fragments of the former Soviet Union, only one -- Russia -- has received a popular election." And of those 12 countries, virtually every one is run by former high-ranking communist officials.
What of the highly-touted free market "reforms"? While small, privately-owned businesses were allowed, virtually all farming and manufacturing -- including Russia's dominant defense industries -- remain firmly in control of the state, as well as virtually all communications, transportation, and housing. (Last year, a measure to allow private ownership of homes was firmly defeated in the Duma, Russia's parliament -- a parliament controlled by the communist party.)
In brief, the centralized apparatus of economic control remains firmly in the hands of "former" communists, both in Russia, China, and throughout the states of the former Soviet Union. And the same people are in charge of the economy. Richard Ebeling, Professor of Economics at Hillsdale College and a regular visitor to Russia (his wife is Russian) states bluntly, "The same people in the same offices are still running the economy. Only the names of their offices have changed."
What of the highly-touted new free market "businesses" in Russia? All but the smallest businesses are controlled and run by the Russian Mafia, which in turn is controlled by former KGB (state security) agents and the Russian government.
Even the USSR's Gulag -- the concentration camps that were the epitome of totalitarian communism -- remain and, in fact, have grown. Avraham Shifrin, author of The First Guidebook to Prisons and Concentration Camps of the Soviet Union and the world authority on the Gulag, stated in 1996:
"Basically the situation in the camps of Russia, the Ukraine (as well as other parts of the USSR with the exception of the Baltic states) has not changed. As a matter of fact, the Russian authorities have had to transform their entire industry and base it on forced labor of prisoners; for this purpose, the camps -- within the last few years -- have been gradually enlarged..." Shifrin noted ominously, "The West believes the Russian lies, as it wants to believe there will be a quiet life, but there won't be."
In 1996, I had the honor of interviewing Dr. Edward Teller, the former director of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Teller is one of America's premiere scientists, best known as "the father of the hydrogen bomb."
It was Teller who persuaded President Truman to develop the hydrogen bomb -- a thermonuclear weapon 1,000-times more powerful than the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Teller's recommendation proved critical when Russia exploded their own thermonuclear device shortly after the United States. If the Soviet's had had a monopoly on thermonuclear weapons, they might well have dominated the earth.
In the 1980's, Teller also convinced President Reagan to begin development of the next generation of superweapons, known as "Star Wars."
When I spoke to Teller at his home, he was very worried about Clinton's military polices, which he called extremely "dangerous." According to Teller, under Clinton the US has ceased the development of virtually all strategic weapons, especially nuclear ones.
Teller seemed perplexed that an American president would do such a thing, especially since the Russians and Chinese were building new and more powerful weapons at breakneck speed. If this goes on, Teller said, the US military would witness no real improvement in its weapons systems for a decade -- exposing America to pre-emptive attack.
I asked Dr. Teller to quantify the risk of the United States becoming involved in a global nuclear war if Clinton's policies continued. He replied that in 1992 the chances of the United States becoming involved in a global war was at most one chance in a hundred, with the main risk being accidental war. However, under Clinton's military stagnation policies, Dr. Teller explained, the chance of global nuclear war will increase to 50-50 during the next few years.
Dr. Teller also stressed the importance of technologically-advanced weapons in safeguarding our society. He noted that for centuries China's culture was considered more advanced than West's, but the West was still able to dominate China and the world. Why? Because, Teller, explained, the West had developed the technology to effectively use gunpowder -- the first superweapon. This new weaponry, coupled with advanced navigation aides, gave the West dominance of the seas and control of the world.
The same principle holds today, Teller said. The nation that achieves dominance in superweapons of mass destruction dominates the world.
The US may have dazzling gadgetry in the cockpit of an F-16, and formidable aircraft carriers, neither of which the Russians have. But in a nuclear war, such weapons are not that important, compared to nuclear weapons. (Saddam Hussein understands well this concept. By UN estimates, he has given up $120 billion in lost oil sales during the past decade, rather than abandon his biological, chemical and nuclear programs.)
The Soviet strategy for the past three decades has been to achieve numerical superiority in superweapons while preventing the West from developing new superweapons.
President Clinton has been a willing accomplice with Russia's agenda. Not only has he refused to develop any major new weapons systems, he has halted underground testing of nuclear weapons, which is crucial to the development of new superweapons. At the same time, he did nothing when Russia conducted no less than five underground nuclear tests during the fall of 1998 alone.
To put it briefly, the West has been disarming, while the Russians and Chinese have been building their militaries rapidly -- especially their strategic forces, or "superweapons."
Since its inception in 1917, the Soviet Union followed the policy of alternating periods of repression with relaxing of authority and opening to the West to attract Western capital and aid. Then, a few years later, revitalized by the infusion of Western money and technology, they would clamp down again, more brutally than ever. China has done the same.
Time and again, the West has been taken in by this trick. Indeed, throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the Soviet Union was the darling of myopic intellectuals in America and Europe who praised it for its "noble" ideology, donated funds and urged Western aid -- while ignoring the mind-numbing repression, concentration camps and mass executions.
Anatoliy Golitsyn, an important KGB defector, warned the CIA that the USSR would launch a massive "liberalization" movement, as a ruse to get the West to disarm.
Golitsyn's 1984 book, Old Lies For New: The Communist Strategy of Deception and Disinformation, eerily predicted that the Soviet Union would "collapse", that Eastern Europe would be "liberated", and that the Berlin Wall would be torn down -- all as a way to deceive the West into disarming. All of these events have taken place, including massive Western disarmament under Clinton (described in detail in later articles of this series).
Golitsyn claims that the Western public has been fed a steady diet of disinformation about Russia. During this period, Golitsyn warned, Russia's military-industrial complex would not shrink but would rapidly expand. What's the purpose of this enormous military expansion?


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I don't know if it was the candy colours, or the strong plastic smell, but I found it kind of intoxicating.
Me and some other boys discovered that the BC Telephone Company a couple of blocks away was just throwing away lengths of telecom cable into the dumpster in the alley.
We'd climb or lean into a dumpster and pull out whatever lengths of cable that we could reach. It felt like finding a mystery. What was it used for, and who threw it away? How long had the cables been before they were cut? How were they made, and where, and by whom? I knew the metal inside the wires was copper. Dad had told me that copper was one of the best electrical conductors. How much electricity had these wires carried, and to where?
Me and the kids doing it must have figured that what we were doing could still get us in trouble, because we were kind of furtive and fast about it. Part of me figured it wasn't really stealing, because it was already in a dumpster, but maybe it was stealing too, because we took what we could without any permission. In fact, to me it felt a bit like finding buried treasure!
Later at home in my bedroom came the secret unwrapping of my ill-gotten gain. I didn't want Dad to know about it, because he'd probably consider what I did to be stealing. I'd use my little pocket knife to hack off the thick grey outer casing, and out would splay dozens of brightly coloured little wires, with all kinds of lines and patterns on them, and more of the strong plastic smell. It was almost like doing surgery – splitting open a vein or cutting into a tree branch, and seeing the mysterious structure inside.


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The crowd cries out with vengeance in their heart. "Crucify Him!" A remnant of people look at Him, their hearts imploding with sorrow. They want to run from this insanity playing out before their eyes, but they can't. Dedication. Adoration. Love. This keeps them in the margins, without power, yet feeling pain.
Truth dies a slow death, as a majority continues to demand vengeance. "Crucify Him!"
There He is. Their Savior. Their healer. Their deliverer. Bruised, broken and bleeding.
Truth is not always what the majority say is truth. Jesus is the perfect example. He stood in their midst, often silent, without defense or any type of provocation, no need to prove Himself. The religious condemned Him from the start just for being who He actually was, Truth Incarnate. He was in their midst, but they did not see.
Again it hits me. Truth is not always what the majority say is truth. I can be sure that when I choose to follow Truth, my eyes open to see Him as He is, to follow Him where He leads, and to know Him with eyes wide open. I can be sure that on this path, many will cry out for my own destruction if I stand against the grain of popular opinion or political correctness. To proclaim that Jesus is the way offends many who don't want to acknowledge Him Savior or follow Him as Lord.
How do we who follow Christ respond to this vengeance? This attack against righteousness? Oh, do I hear you say that you have not experienced this? Then I would question what way you actually follow, what path do you walk, what Lord do you acknowledge.
All who follow the Lord truly follow Him into a narrow place of proclamation of His great love and mercy towards humanity will be persecuted. Narrow place? What do I mean by that? Not narrow in the sense of judgment and condemnation. Narrow in the sense of living a life contrary to the world at large. Living a life from a kingdom position sitting in heavenly places. To follow this truth will cost us everything – our lives, our reputation. Anything less than that is simply a watered down version of Christianity.
So many Christians stand in the margins, looking at Truth, grieved that it is dying in our midst, but out of a sense of being safe, secure, and comfortable, they stay hidden. But, for those who want to step out it will cost us.
Truth positions us in the crossfire of cultural insanity and political correctness. Don't think for one minute that those who are with you now will not also cry out "Crucify Him" or "Crucify Her" tomorrow. Truth will always cost us something. It appears to me that it is often in the American church where Christianity requires nothing more than a verbal affirmation of belief while denying the power of life lived following Christ.
It's time to come away from the margins, into the middle of the fray. To stand for Truth despite anything that would come our way. Don't look for the majority to follow you. They won't. Trust me. They won't. To truly live for Christ in a deep personal relationship, you will be persecuted and looked upon as an anomaly by a majority who rule. Come out anyway. Stand for something or stand for nothing.
He says, "I am the way, the truth and the life. No man comes to the Father except through me." He is the answer. He is the way.
To rise up in this revelation is to be revolutionary. Yet, we rise up, not in self-righteousness but willing to die so that His life lives in and through us. To live is Christ. To die is gain.
Truth is not always what the majority say or what the majority want. In my opinion, we love to follow in the wake of other's beliefs. Or, we create a god in our own image, with all the perks that come with this so as to live a life free of commitment and confrontation.
A shepherd boy named David stood for truth and because of this stood against Goliath when everyone else turned away. His own brothers doubted his character, mocking him because of his youth and lack of experience.
Now Eliab his oldest brother heard when he spoke to the men; and Eliab's anger was aroused against David, and he said, "Why did you come down here? And with whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your pride and the insolence of your heart, for you have come down to see the battle." And David said, "What have I done now? Is there not a cause?" Then he turned from him toward another and said the same thing; and these people answered him as the first ones did. 1 Samuel 17:28-30
Is there not a cause? Here it is again as I look at David. Truth rises up against a majority who see life through a different lens. This is life. I can give you example after example of those who stand in truth amidst opposition and persecution. I challenge each of us to stand for Truth, Jesus Christ. We stand in humility, grace and love alongside power, passion and conviction. There is a cost to be paid. Thank God, Jesus paid it with His own life.
The world is in chaos and truth is falling, falling, falling all around us. There is a way though – a way of trust, joy, obedience, love, hope, mercy, goodness, grace……..it's all in Christ. To follow Him is to walk in truth in this life. The majority may disdain us, abhor us, ignore us and persecute. Yet, we walk in Truth. He leads the way.
Meditate on these words of Jesus.
John 14:6 (NKJV Strong's,) Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
Matthew 16:24-26 (MSG) Then Jesus went to work on his disciples. "Anyone who intends to come with me has to let me lead. You're not in the driver's seat; I am. Don't run from suffering; embrace it. Follow me and I'll show you how. 25 Self-help is no help at all. Self-sacrifice is the way, my way, to finding yourself, your true self. 26 What kind of deal is it to get everything you want but lose yourself? What could you ever trade your soul for?
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Tuesday, September 29, 2009
More fun than a lousy quilter should be allowed to have
Apparently, there is nothing more motivating to my brain than the prospect of being published. I have been despairing of late that I have no more original ideas for humor articles to submit anywhere, and thinking how sad it is to be washed up so soon. Then I get word from the editor at another quilting mag that she is also interested in my work! I was spewing out article ideas left and right after that, and now I have a list of 9 to start working on. Do I have other things I should be doing instead? Oh, yes I do. Will I be a good girl and do them? Fuck, no. Mamma's gotta make some money with the funny.
And while I am sitting at my computer, giggling to myself over my juvenile humor, I will also be waiting for my trusty UPS man to deliver MY NEW SEWING MACHINE. No, it's not one of them fancy Berninas or Huskerduvarnas, just a little better model of Brother. I'm hoping this one will be better for the machine quilting I hope to start this fall, and if not, I'm sure the video I take of me running over it with my car will go viral and provide me with a small measure of satisfaction.
8 comments:
- Laurel said...
Megan, I just read your article from the fall issue of Quilter's Home. As always, you did an awsome job and I love your quirky humor.
On a totally different note, I, too, am getting a new Brother. I pick mine up on Saturday (its been on layaway for the past month). Which one did you get?
- September 29, 2009 at 5:40 PM
- Brenda said...
You are just a crack up! Good luck with the new machine and your articles!
- September 29, 2009 at 5:47 PM
- Gene Black said...
I am a subscriber, so I wonder how they will handle it if there is no more after December.
I loved your Zen article.
- September 29, 2009 at 8:11 PM
- floribunda said...
It's hard to imagine what the magazine will be like without Mark's personality taking up 75% of the space! I think my subscription ends with the next issue, so if they go under it won't be much of a hassle for me --but I feel bad for everyone who's been displaced by the whole situation. Congrats on your articles!
- September 29, 2009 at 8:36 PM
- Anne-Lise at Rag, Tag, Bobtail said...
Thanks for todays giggle - really needed that!
- September 30, 2009 at 3:55 AM
Too funny! I found you thanks to Michele of Quilts 'n Kids! Tami
- September 30, 2009 at 11:47 AM
- KnoxBlox said...
Too funny! I found you thanks to Michele at Quilts 'n Kids. Tami
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Carol and Gerald Lobb joined us on the Thursday evening with their Standard Pick Up for a fish and chip supper and a spot of B&B before we all left at 9am Friday for the 2016 rally.
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The first day of Spring, and a spritely Budget from Chancellor George Osborne.
If the facts and figures given by the Chancellor are true, as of course they must be, then the Budget statement augers well for the U.K. economy in the coming months and years. It was blazoned as the Aspiratiion Nation Budget, for those who aspire to achieve through hard work and benefit from the government's policies for those who do something for themselves, in a fiercely competitive global environment where jobs can be re-located anywhere.
"All Western nations live in very economically challenging times", said the Chancellor. Yet, British exports to Brazil, China and India are up by two-thirds.
Unemployment has been down since the coalition government came in. For every one job lost in the public sector, six new jobs have been created in the private sector, thanks to the government policies to encouraging job creation and enterprise.
This government is reducing borrowing, and helping the nation live within its means. "The Labour government borrowed £159 billion in its last year in office. By comparison, this government has borrowed £114 billion last year." Project figures for the years ahead are on a similar note. Less and less borrowing each year, reducing as a ratio of GDP. Which would ensure continuing low interst rates, I guess, and a stable environment for growth.
In this regard, "unconventional monetary tools" would be deployed. I imagine a trans-Atlantic influence when the new Bank of England boss Mark Carney takes over. Some indication of the new tools will become clear in June.
Government departments are to spend £11 billion less this year. "The year end rush to spend whatever is remaining in the kitty has to stop". This seems a sound policy, to curb extra extra ordinary spending before 5th April each year which used to be the tradition. In hard times, it is essential to use money wisely.
On the more positive side, an additional £130 billion will be available from April 2014 under the Mortgage Guarantee Scheme that will enable people buy a house (old or new) under the Help to Buy scheme. And the Right to Buy Scheme is to be extended, so people can buy their council houses.
An additional 15,000 new Affordable Houses are to be built, and this will certainly bring cheer to many, many people.
This was a brilliant Budget, delivered by a Chancellor who is very much in touch with the aspirations of the people, in a fiercely competitive global environment. He commends it to the people, and his dropping of the 2p extra on beer is something people can cheer with.
There are other good measures in this Budget, which I will write up later.
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Harvey Pollack has worn many hats during NBA games. He�s the only person who has been working for one of the league�s teams since its inception in 1946.
During the 1961-62 season, Pollack was the Philadelphia Warriors� PR director and the official statistician at Warriors� home games, as well as a writer for the Philadelphia Inquirer and multiple wire services.
But on March 2, 1962, Pollack had no idea that he would become a central figure in one of the most incredible individual performances in sports history.
That day, the Warriors �hosted� the New York Knicks at 8 p.m. at the Hershey Sports Arena.
�It was a night to remember,� said Pollack, nearly 50 years later.
Making history
The Warriors� Wilt Chamberlain, then a third-year center, had already accumulated 41 points by halftime.
Game referees Pete D�Ambrosio and the late Willie Smith marveled at Chamberlain�s performance during intermission.
�We went into the dressing room and said, �Boy, it�s going to be 80 for him tonight,� � said D�Ambrosio, now 92.
Upon hearing the news, the Inquirer asked Pollack, who wrote for them in the days before beat writers attended every game, to chronicle every point Chamberlain scored in the second half.
There was no way he could do it.
�I needed that like a hole in the head,� Pollack said.
In the interim, photographer Paul Vathis, who was there as a spectator watching with his son, decided to retrieve a camera from his car, according to Pollack.
When play resumed, Chamberlain kept scoring on Darrall Imhoff and the overmatched New York big men.
Imhoff and a few of his Knicks� teammates insisted that the 7-foot-1 Chamberlain was getting too many calls.
�Darrall Imhoff complained the referees were favoring him,� said D�Ambrosio, who had officiated some of Chamberlain�s Public League games at Overbrook High. �My final retort about Darrall was he couldn�t score with nobody playing him.�
Meanwhile, Pollack updated his Inquirer running story during timeouts and stoppages of play.
Chamberlain increased his scoring pace, breaking his own NBA record by getting to 79 points with 7:51 left.
PA announcer Dave Zinkoff riled up the crowd of 4,124 by giving out Chamberlain�s total with each basket and/or free throw. For example, �That�s 78 for Wilt with a Dipper Dunk.�
�When he hit 98 points, they were like caged lions � ready to leap,� Pollack said.
Chamberlain reached the century mark on a layup from reserve Joe Ruklick with 46 seconds to go, giving him 31 points in the fourth quarter.
Pollack recalls that Chamberlain, apparently preferring to stay at 100 points, merely leaned on a railing and watched the last 46 seconds when play resumed following a nine-minute delay from fans rushing onto the court.
Chamberlain finished 36-for-63 from the field and a surprising 28-for-32 from the foul line (he was a career 51.1 percent free-throw shooter).
That�s when Pollack went into high gear.
Pollack, who turns 90 on March 9, composed a one-paragraph lead for the Inquirer on his portable typewriter and left instructions to pick up what he had written earlier after that. Then he compared boxscores with official scorer Dave Richter, ensuring the information was accurate.
Next, Pollack headed into the Warriors� locker room. Pollack suggested to Vathis, the spectator/photographer and the only guy in the locker room with a camera, that it�d be a good idea to take a photo commemorating the achievement.
So Pollack wrote the number 100 on a piece of paper he took from Philadelphia Bulletin writer Jim Heffernan and handed it to Chamberlain.
Vathis� photo remains the evening�s most enduring image � it�s in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
More work to do
Pollack went back and dictated a story to the United Press International (UPI) via telephone. By the time Pollack finished, the boxscore had come off the ditto machine. Pollack instructed 15-year-old son Ronny, working his first game outside of Philadelphia, to read it to the UPI.
Next, Pollack, who is now the 76ers� director of statistical information, wrote his story for the Associated Press (AP). He again had Ronny handle the box.
Pollack, who can � and is more than willing to � talk about Chamberlain for hours, then returned to the press table and wrote an updated story that appeared on the front page of the Inquirer.
�It didn�t say �By Harvey Pollack,� � Pollack said. �It said �Special to the Inquirer.� I let everybody know then and still do now that I wrote it.�
Chamberlain, who headed to his home in New York in a car with some Knicks players, gave Pollack the game ball to get it back to the Warriors� offices at the old Sheraton hotel in Center City (trainer Billy Bates handled that duty).
Pollack and the stat crew packed up their belongings, including the paddles to indicate the number of team and individual fouls that had been committed, and started the ride home well after midnight.
�I said to (Richter, the driver), �Stop at the first bar. I�ve been under constant pressure for I don�t know how many hours,� � Pollack said.
They found an open tavern and Pollack enjoyed his traditional one Sidecar before returning to the car for the rest of the trip.
�They were potent drinks,� Pollack remembered. �They made you forget the game.�
No chance on that night.
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By: Monte Perez
I must preface this article by clearly stating, two weeks ago I wrote a piece saying, Odell Beckham Jr. is on pace to be the greatest wide receiver of all-time. Even if you don't like OBJ, his numbers are better than any other WR in NFL history. He is doing this without a running game or a legitimate number 2 WR. I also believe that after the helmet to helmet hit, he should have been ejected. I am also a Jets fan so I have no "Horse in this race" so to speak. Now with that said, here is my take on it.
The NFL Network's Deion Sanders and ESPN's Adam Schefter have both reported that a few Carolina Panthers players carried black baseball bats on to the field and threatened OBJ. There are now videos and pictures of a practice squad player dressed in all black with a bat, threating OBJ. You want to say that is part of the game, part of intimidation fine. But, the Giants play in MetLife Stadium, they don't share the field with the New York Mets or Yankees. This was premediated by Carolina and it is bush league. I am all for trash talking and trying to intimidate a player. Boston Celtics legend, Larry Bird was the master of trash-talking. But this goes above and beyond. Carolina packed these bats and brought them to the stadium. That is a weapon! They should be fined and who ever had a bat on the field should be suspended.
Now, one might say that OBJ shouldn't let that bother him, it is just trash talking and they are trying to get in his head. That is all true, but one of the very first plays of the game Josh Norman picked up OBJ and body slammed him. As he was in the air OBJ is waving to the official to call a penalty and the back judge didn't.
At this point, you could clearly see OBJ frustrated and he went after Norman on the next play. OBJ is the best player on the Giants, when stuff like this happens you take matters in your own hands. On the very next play (after he was body slammed by Norman) the Giants should have run a sweep at Norman and two or three lineman should have blocked him legally but hard. No one stuck up for OBJ after he was shoved to the ground and that shows lack of leadership and togetherness. OBJ had 6 catches for 76 yards and 1 touchdown. It was an average day for Beckham but a great day for any other receiver.
A lot of my friends on social media called OBJ a thug and a punk. No, Greg Hardy is a thug, he brutally beat his girlfriend and threw her on a day bed that had several automatic weapons on it. Adrian Peterson is thug, here is a father who says he is a man of God and brutally beat his 4 year old son. Say it out loud, Peterson's son had welts on his buttocks, legs and testicles. OBJ is not a thug, he was threatened and body slammed and nothing was called or done. Do I condone what happened and his actions, absolutely not, but if you are going to suspend him, several players on the Carolina Panthers should be suspended as well. OBJ is a weekly guest on the Michael Kay show, each week Kay and his co-host Don La Greca try to get OBJ to talk trash and bring up something controversial. OBJ never engages, he is almost a boring interview and never disrespects his opponents.
Norman's nickname is Batman… hence the bats. It was immature and classless. Both of these players are considered to be one of the best at their positions. There is no room in the game for this type of intimidating thuggery and bullying. The NFL has enough off the field problems with violence to tolerate this. Mike Greenberg said on his morning show, (Mike and Mike in the Morning) that all officials should be suspended as well. I agree, how Norman didn't get a 15 yard penalty at the start of the game is mind boggling. That non call set the tone. I never think a player should make anything personal at the cost of his team, OBJ did that. I am also not a violent person but here are some movie quotes to describe what OBJ must have thought after the first few plays of the game and what I would feel if someone threatens me.
Rambo: "They drew first blood"
Sean Connery in the movie, The Untouchables: "They pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue."
Head Coach Dan Devine in Rudy: "No one and I mean no one comes to our house and pushes us around."
Shame on the NFL Officials for allowing players to have bats on the field.
Shame on the Giants for allowing OBJ to be body slammed and no one came to his defense.
Shame on Norman for trying to be a thug
Shame on OBJ for giving a head to head blow.
All Parties were wrong here but Carolina was definitely the premediated instigator. More fines should come and more players should be suspended.
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I can't get enough of this Kandinsky pop-up book, Le livre à pois (authored by David Carter). It is French (obviously), and I don't speak French, but I love the illustrations, which do more than just pop-up, they spring from the page and seem to really capture the feeling of the Kandinsky artworks. If you fancy some more Pop-Up books, check out Ohpop-up.
If you would like to get yourself a copy, it is available from Amazon.
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FNMA Helps Short Sales
Fannie Mae Announces Tool to Escalate Short Sales
Real estate professionals who find themselves stuck in the short sale process can turn to a recently expanded tool from Fannie Mae.
The HomePath for Short Sales tool can be used by agents to escalate the short sale process. The tool is only for loans owned by Fannie Mae.
When agents escalate a case, Fannie Mae will contact the appropriate agent or servicer to address the challenge that may be stalling the process. Examples of issues that can hinder the process include valuation disputes, delays by servicers, or uncooperative subordinate lien holders.
Agents can also use the tool to receive a recommended list price from the GSE before listing the property.
"Our goal is to prevent foreclosures and help stabilize communities," said Jay Ryan, VP for real estate sales at Fannie Mae. "By giving agents a straightforward, transparent way to escalate short sale issues to Fannie Mae, we will close more sales, prevent foreclosures and help neighborhoods continue to recover. Getting short sales done benefits everyone involved and we're committed to doing our part."
The GSE reported instances of when the tool was able to help real estate professionals.
"I was working on a short sale recently with a servicer who was not being responsive, so I used the HomePath for Short Sales site to escalate the case to Fannie Mae," said Kelby Teer, a real estate professional with HomeSmart. "I heard back very quickly and within two days the sale was approved. My clients will now be able to avoid foreclosure."
"I've found HomePath for Short Sales to be an easy tool to communicate with Fannie Mae," said Maryann Little, VP for short sale mitigation with AA Premier Properties, LLC and Short Sale Mitigation, LLC. "Recently I escalated a file to work out a difference in valuation and in less than 24 hours it was resolved. I appreciated that I could send comps directly to Fannie Mae and let them know what we were seeing on our side of the short sale."
According to a company release, Fannie Mae has competed 58,376 short sales through the first nine months of 2012.


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Wednesday, June 10, 2009
REI Recalls Trionfo Road Bikes
Recreational Equipment Inc. (REI) of Washington state has announced a recall of Novara Trionfo road bikes (pictured to the left). The bikes have carbon fiber Aprebic forks.
There have been two reported incidents of the Aprebic forks separating from the steerer tube (the tube that inserts into the frame). In the defective bikes, the separated steerer tube causes the front fork and wheel to disassemble from the bike and the rider to fall. There have been two incidents involving the Novara road bikes with reported injuries.
This is the second recall by REI of one of its bicycles in the past couple of months. In May REI announced the recall of Dahon folding bikes. In that case the Dahon folding bikes had a faulty hinge at the handlebar that was capable of breaking.
A large number of posts on the Illinois Bicycle Law weblog have been devoted to reported the number of defective bicycles on the market. Many of these defective bicycles that are the subject of recalls have been by some of the best known and most trusted names in the business. And this illustrates an important point: no matter who makes the bike, it is a machine, and machine can break due to poor maintenance, inadequate design, or faulty manufacturing. Because of this, Illinois law provides a recourse to those injured by defective bikes through a case based on product liability.
A consumer may bring a case for their injuries when the bike or one of its parts is unreasonably dangerous, and that dangerous condition led to the injury. The law in these cases is often complicated and multifaceted. If you have been injured because of what you believe to be a faulty bicycle, please contact Attorney Mike Keating at 312-208-7702 or email@example.com.


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Here is this week's edition of Beggs on the Used Car Market. It's great to have you tune into as we face the final full week of 2012. As we look back over the past couple of months, the weather has been pretty mild across most of the country until last week when a full blown winter storm came across the Rockies, the western plains and up through the mid-west. Even the upper part of the southeast got some of the white stuff. This may be a good thing for…Continue
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Here is the latest used-car market report from Ricky Beggs, Managing Editor of Black Book.
This time of the year seems to get people in a very festive mood for both holiday parties with co-workers, friends and families as well as the end of the year retail sales push within the auto industry. We always hear about the large percentage of sales in general department stores…
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Here is the latest used-car market report from Ricky Beggs, Managing Editor at Black Book. Over the last couple of years many of us in the industry have said we are not in a normal market. This has referenced supplies, value trends that have seen both up and down movements and some of those trends do not match the…Continue
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Tis the season for "December To Remember" and the Big Red Bow holiday advertising. However, based on recent December car-shopping patterns, should we be placing big, green eco-friendly bows on the top of those vehicles?
According to vehicle search patterns and lease transfer data from national car-leasing firm, Swapalease.com, the previous two Decembers have shown an uptick in eco-friendly vehicle…
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