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Let us not forget: Today is Saragarhi DayOn 12th September, 1897, twenty-one Sikh soldiers of 36 Sikh in British Indian Army under the command of Havildar Ishwar Singh took one of the greatest 'last stands' at Saragarhi in present North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan against 10,000 of Orakzai Pushtun tribesmen. The detachment consisting of one Non-Commissioned Officer (NCO) and twenty Other Ranks (ORs) fought throughout the day without any hope of reinforcement and unbelievably killed several thousands of Pushtun tribesmen. Not even a single surrendered, not even a single survived wounded. All of them died. Even the British could never forget the gallantry of these twenty-one brave-hearts.
The names of these twenty-one courageous men are written in golden letters in the annals of Indian military history. However, Indians are slowly forgetting those heroes whom the entire soldiering community of the world remembers.
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The past few days I have been trying really hard to get ahead on some cooking. Now that we are settled into the house and I have a deep freezer it is time to fill it up! I made some Poor Man's Steak for dinner yesterday and made double so that I could put one meal in the freezer. I also got a good deal on bananas the other day so I sliced them up and put them in the freezer. Today I am making meat balls and meat loaf to put in the freezer. I also have a whole chicken in the crock pot since last night. I am using it for dinner and then putting the rest in the freezer. I haven't completely figured out what I am going to make with it for dinner. Probably just something quick and easy.
It feels great to be getting some meals in the freezer. I really hope to have lots of meals stocked up so that way dinner will be on hand after I have the baby. We don't have much in the way of family living close to help out with things like that. I know that I will be too tired to cook much so I figure planning ahead will be the best way to continue to care for my family after things get turned upside down. I wish I would have been able to plan ahead for my first trimester because poor Blake had to fend for himself since I was so sick.
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From Our Files — August 30, 2017
50 Years Ago — August 31, 1967
Marin-Ouellette Wedding — Miss Teresa Marin, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Marin of St. Agatha, and Robert J. Ouellette, son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ouellette of Caribou, were married Aug. 12 at St. Michael's Chapel at Birch Point. The Rev. Albert Long officiated and celebrated the nuptial Mass. Paul Marin provided music at the console.
Egg Splatterings Part of Picnic —The St. David Church choir had its annual picnic at the Birch Point on August 19, with the main events being tossing eggs back and forth. The idea, choir director Paul Sabo said, was to start pitching the eggs at each other from a few feet and then keep backing up until something gives. Oh yes, the eggs are not hardboiled.
Lobster enjoyed by employees — A lobster feed was enjoyed by employees of A.J. Nadeau and sons a week ago Wednesday night at camp of Roland Nadeau on Eagle Lake. The menu also included fresh clams, fresh corn on the cob, salads, hot rolls and blueberry cake.
25 Years Ago — August 19, 1992
Eight Complete Advanced Babysitting Course — Northern Maine Medical Center in Fort Kent recently held an advanced babysitting course from July 20-24. Eight individuals from around the Valley, ranging in age from 13 to 15, successfully completed the course. They are: Sarah Thibodeau, Beth Marin, Leslie Hartt, Jana Marin, Rachelle Guy, Angela Daigle, Crystal Bossie, and Kelly Martin.
Up and Away —On Friday, July 10, Alfred Parent and his son-in-law, Kevin Bouchard, went for a hot air balloon ride. The rides were part of the Hot Air Balloon Festival co-sponsored by Funland in Caribou. The balloon and its passengers took off from Goughan's Berry Farm and remained aloft about one hour. During the flight, Parent and Bouchard had a beautiful view of central Aroostook's planted fields and even saw a moose. Parent is 81 years old and a Lille native.
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Music Festival features Valley performers — Where there's thunder, there's lightning. Where there's smoke, there's fire. Both these axioms held true Saturday afternoon in Grand Isle, when a bolt of lightning struck the south side of the St. Gerard-Mt Carmel Church steeple, resulting in a minor fire. According to Grand Isle Fire Chief Ken Beaulieu, the fire was extinguished quickly in the steeple itself, "no more than 15 to 20 minutes," he said. The key to containing the fire was gaining access to the Grand Falls (N.B.) fire ladder, which extends a full 50 feet above the Van Buren Fire Department's ladder, which only extends to its full height of 55 feet.
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I'm grateful for my family's good health.
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In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, new henjutsu schools began to gain influence in the Kanto plains (eastern Japan) and intrduced a new method of practice shinai-u hikenjutsu, in which swordsmen with protective gears actually thrust at each other with a shinai bamboo sword, whereas in the traditional schools the method was called kata-uchi, which is a practice of forms only. New schools continued to gain influence up until the 20th year of Meiji Emperor's reign [toward the end of 1880's], and in the later years they together had a decisive on the formation of modern kendo.The current series of studies focus on how the tranditional martial arts were transformed into a sport of kendo and on how the new sport spread in the Kanto Plains based on case studies of such new schools at the time as Nenryu school, Jikishinkageryu school, Shintomunenryu school, Kasumishinryu school.The first in the series, the present study tries to illustrate how the prominent schools gained their influence in the Kanto Plains, notably in Tokyo and its vicinities, toward the end of 1880's by drawing a distribution map of their spheres of influence.
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Once scarce to the area, seals are making a comeback in the waters surrounding Nantucket, and they are coming in closer and closer contact with humans on boats and on the beach with potentially dangerous consequences.
State Environmental Police sergeant Dean Belanger said he has been flooded with calls in the past few weeks regarding people fishing in the Great Point area on charter fishing boats or private craft feeding seals bluefish.
�It has the potential to become a real nightmare,� said Belanger.
Not only is it illegal to feed seals, Belanger said, but the more people do it, the more accustomed the seals become to receiving food from people.
�The problem is that the seals start begging for food from boats, which people are only too happy to give out,� said Belanger. �And then the seals start to make the connection from people in boats handing out food, to people on the beach handing out food.�
On a trip to Great Point on Belanger�s State Police boat this week, there was a group of 20 or more seals resting at the tip of Great Point, some 15 yards from a family spending the day at the beach.
�They aren�t a threat as of now,� said Belanger, looking at the seals. �But I�m just worried it�s only a matter of time before someone gets bit.�
�When you get to the point when they are hand- feeding them and the seals are comfortable with that, they are absolutely going to come up and bite someone on the beach,� said Mark Scharwenka, owner of Nantucket Adventures, which offers seal cruises.
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�It�s a novelty for them,� said Scharwenka. �It�s another aspect for entertaining guest on their trips. If you play by the rules, it�s a much better show anyway. On my tours we stay about 300 feet away and the seals, which are inquisitive by nature, will come up to the boat and check things out.�
One charter boat captain, who did not want to be named because of the small, close-knit community at the docks, said the problem is widespread and getting worse.
�Its ridiculous,� said the captain. �It�s a circus act for these people. Its almost every boat down here doing it to the point people are asking if feeding the seals is part of the trip and I�m losing business because I say I won�t feed them.�
Belanger said he will be making regular trips to Great Point and handing out tickets to offenders of the no-feeding policy.
The situation is comparable, but not on par with, the feeding of bears in Alaska where there is a saying that a �fed bear is a dead bear� because they become used to getting hand outs or taking an easy meal from a trash can and then see areas of human habitation as feeding grounds.
�The seals have sizable teeth and could deliver a nasty bite,� said Belanger of the seals.
Already area fishermen have reported an increased level of aggressiveness in the seals around Great Point. Reports of seals waiting for a bluefish to be hooked and then simply plucking it off a line are common this year.
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While self policing and education of charter and recreational boats being the most effective way of reversing this trend, law enforcement can also work. Belanger said anyone who sees seals being fed should report it to him and take pictures if possible.


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The 12 Hours of Sebring wasn't the only season opener to take place this past weekend, as teams across Japan descended on Suzuka for the first race of the 2010 SuperGT season. And spectators didn't just enjoy the inaugural outing of the new Honda HSV-010 GT500 racers, they saw two of the five Hondas crash in spectacular fashion.
A slight drizzle at the start of the race resulted in the pole-sitting No. 18 Weider Honda, piloted by Takashi Kogure, to run off track and fall towards the back of the pack. Kogure later set the fastest time (1:55.555) during his fifth lap, working his way up to eighth place in the process. But one lap later, Kogure, the No. 32 Epson HSV-010 and No. 8 ARTA HSV-010 made an impromptu sandwich going into the first corner, sending the No. 18 and No. 8 Honda's into the wall.
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The Karni Mata Temple is a sacred Hindu religious shrine located in Deshkote, which is 30 kms South of Bikaner in Rajasthan, India. This unusual shrine is dedicated to Goddess Karni, an Avatar of Goddess Durga. The temple is famous for harboring rats which are considered holy and supposedly the descendants of the deity. These rats, called Kabbas are deeply revered by devotees and people travel great distances to pay their respects to these creatures. The temple is a popular pilgrimage center which draws visitors from across the country and numerous tourists from all over the world.
The present structure is believed to have been built by Maharaja Ganga Singh of Bikaner sometime in the 15th century. The imposing façade of the shrine is entirely built of marble and inside the temple complex, a pair of silver doors open up to the main shrine of the Goddess. These stately doors are made of solid silver and were donated by Maharaja Gaj Singh, while on a visit to the temple.
According to legend, Karnis Mata's stepson drowned in a pond while attempting to drink from it. The pleas of the Goddess to Yama, the God of death to revive him, were accepted and from then on, all male children in her lineage were reincarnated as rats. These rats are widely perceived to be humans in a state of transition, to be born again in their natural status. The food nibbled on by rats is considered holy and devotees eagerly devour the leftovers. In the event of the demise of any of the rats, it is replaced with one made of silver.
The Image of the Goddess housed in the main shrine is depicted with several holy articles at her feet. Rats surround the entire periphery and Karni Mata is portrayed wielding a trishul (trident) in one of her hands. The Image is 75 cms in height, adorned with a crown and decorated with a garland of flowers. Images of her sisters flank the Goddess on either side. Almost 20,000 rats reside in the temple complex and these are well fed, protected and worshipped. The rats can be seen frolicking around and feeding from huge metal bowls of milk, sweets and grain. The presence of these rats is considered auspicious and enhances the religious fervor of the temple. It is also deemed highly propitious if a rat runs across one's feet. White rats are rare, but several do frequent the premises and it is considered favorable if one gets a glimpse of these holy creatures.
The premises is wired and grilled to keep the rats safe and offers protection from birds of prey and other animals.
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The temple was built in the late Mughal style by Maharaja Ganga Singh of Bikaner and completed in its current form somewhere in the early 20th century. The beautiful marble façade is a tribute to the craftsmanship of the artisans and indicates the effort put into the making. Shri Kundanlal Verma of Hyderabad based Karni Jewellers further added to the splendor of the temple in 1999 by donating the silver gates and other marble carvings.


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Japanese All Time Baseball Team
Baseball in Japan is a big deal. Since 1880 is the most popular team sport in the country and it's played in all levels, from little leagues to high school to college and of course, Pro Baseball. The Nippon Professional Baseball League (NPB) is the highest competition of professional baseball in Asia and has produced the best players in Japan History from the first one, Eiji Sawamura to the latest, Masahiro Tanaka. That's why we have designed our all time line up of Japanese baseball.
Pitching Rotation
Five starters:
Eiji Sawamura
Gone too soon, Sawamura was Japan baseball's first great star and national hero who died in war. He arrived to NPB with the Yomiuri Giants and he became one of their aces. It is estimated that he threw the fastball at 90-95 mph, he had a Bert Blyeleven-curve ball and a circle change. He had such a great command over his pitches that Connie Mack wanted to bring him to America but he rejected the offer saying: "I hate America".
Sawamura's best year was 1937, his record was 33-17, pitched the first two no hitters in the league history and his ERA was 1.83, winning the Triple Crown. In 1938 he went to war and was back to baseball in 1939 with a shoulder injury that affected his performance and despite that, he pitched another no-no.
In his career he posted a 63-22 record, with 554 strikoous and ERA of 1.74. His number uniform (14) was retired in 1947, the same year the Sawamura Award was established to be given to the most active, whole-game, starting pitcher.
Sawamura had died in 1944 at age of 27. On December 2 that year, Sawamura went to the warfront in Philippines by ship for the 3rd time. Tragically, his ship was attacked and sunk in the East China Sea.
Masaichi Kaneda
Left-handed pitcher, born to Korean parents, Kaneda was known as "The Emperor" for his dominance on the mound.
Kaneda started his career with Kokutetsu Swallows in 1950 and retired with Yomiuri in 1969 and was inducted to Japan Baseball Hall of Fame in 1988. His record was 400-298, 365 complete games and 82 shutouts (all time records), 2.34 ERA and 4490 strikeouts (world record once), plus 1 no hitter and 1 perfect game.
His fastball was estimated at 100 mph, his 2-seam fastball at 94-96 and his best pitch was the slurve, which he overused causing him injures. He also had the change up in his repertoire.
A pitcher with control problems at the beginning of his career, he spent 14 years with the worst team in NPB, the Swallows, during his stance there he won 45% of the team's victories. Due to the lack of hitting support, Kaneda lost at least 20 games in 6 seasons. He won 20 games or more for 14 seasons in a row, including two 30-wins seasons. He accumulated 10 strikout tittles, setting a then record of 350 K's in 1955. Three years later he established a world record of 64.1 innings pitched not allowing any run.
Victor Starffin
Born in 1917 in Russia, his parents took him to Japan shortly after and he lived as Japanese. He was nicknamed the Blue-eyed Japanese.
Putting his baseball achievements aside, his life was fascinating. He spoke 3 languages, which allowed him to work as interpreter of SCAP during WWII and at the beginning of the conflict, he was placed in a detention camp at Karuizawa with other foreign diplomats and residents. He was already forced to change his name to be Japanized, "Suda Hiroshi", since 1940. After his baseball career ended he worked as an actor. Asked how he felt about his baseball legacy, Starffin only replied: "I feel sad… and lonely". He was killed in a car accident in 1957 after a long battle with alcoholism and depression.
He spent the first 9 years of his career with Yomiuri, setting a season record in wins with 42 in 1939. Previously (1938) he won the pitching Triple Crown with 19-2 record, 146 strikeouts and 1.05 ERA. He compiled a streak of 18 games with a win. He amassed 350 complete games, three 30-win seasons, 1 no hitter, 2 MVP awards and in 19 years of career his ERA was only 2.09. His lifetime record was 303-176, being the first pitcher in NPB history to reach the 300 wins. He also played for the Taiyo Robins, the Kinsei/Daiei Stars and the Takahashi Unions.
Kazuhiza Inao
Inao's greatness was of such dimension, that fans coined the expression: "God, Budah and Inao". He posted a career mark of 276-137 with 1.98 ERA and 179 complete games with 2574 strikeouts, his nickname was "Iron Man".
He was the youngest of 7 siblings from a poor family. When he arrived to Pro Ball he was not even considered a prospect, but he pitched the opening game of 1956 season, threw a shutout and started an 8 game winning streak, finished the season with 21-6 record and 1.02 ERA. He was named Rookie of the Year.
In 1957 Inao established a Pacific League record of 38 wins, including a 20 wins streak, 10 complete games and the MVP award. He gained his nickname due to his bulk of work, that season he also threw 20 games as reliever.
For 4 season in a row, Inao won at least 30 games, that's why when he won only 20 in 1960 it was considered a decline, but a year after he tied the japanase record, winning 42 games with 1.69 era, completed 25 of his 30 starts, striking out 353 batters and won half of his team victory. His last great year was 1963: 28-16 record, 226 strikeouts and 24 complete games. He won two Triple Crowns (1958 and 1961).
Inao's most memorable performance took place in the Japan Series of 1958 when his team, Nishitetsu Lions faced the Yomiuri Giants. Inao started game 1 surfering oh high fever and lost. He didn't pitch game 2 but his team lost again. In game three, still weak for the fever, Inao only allowed 1 run but lost the game. Down 3 to 0, Inao took the mound for the Lions and kept the Giants scoreless for 7 innings and won the game. In game 5, Inao didn't start but when the game went extrainnings he pitched a perfect 10th inning and later hit a walk-off home run. Inao convinced his manager to let him throw game 6 and he pitched a shutout. With series tied at 3, Inao pitched game 7, allowing 1 run in 9 innings, getting the win and the pennant for the Lions. The greatest comeback in baseball ever!
An shoulder injury in 1964 make Inao's performance decline, it virtually ruined his career. Inao continued to be a great pitcher but no longer a demigod.
Hideo Nomo
Nomo was not the first Japanese player in MLB but he was the first to shine and he opened the door for those who came after. His professional debut occurred in 1990 with the Kintetsu Buffaloes and he struck out 287 batters in 235 innings. His success was attributed to his unorthodox pitching mechanics and his forkball.
Taking advantage of a loophole in his contract, Nomo announced his retirement in Japan and was free to play in the United States. He played for the Dodgers in 1995, earning the Rookie of the Year Award, opened the All Star Game and pitched a no hit no run the next year.
Nomo's legacy is not only measurable by the numbers but also by what he represented. He allowed us who live in the western side of the world, to see for the first time a legitimate exponent of the high level of baseball that is played in Japan. He opened the door to many Japanese stars that have since played in the majors (Ichiro included). Nomo was inducted to Japanese Hall of Fame last year.
Yukata Enatsu
Left-handed. His personal problems aside, Enatsu was a very successful starting pitcher before switching to the bullpen, a role in which he succeed as well. When his career ended he held the league record for saves with 193, since broken. He was one of the first closers in the history of Japanese Baseball History, assuming the role in the late 70's and winning five Fireman of the Year awards.
As a starter, he won 21, 23 24 and 25 games. He set the seasonal record for strikeouts with 401 in 1968. He also set a record with strikeouts in 23 consecutive innings, which would last 34 years. A 16-time All-Star, Enatsu won MVP awards in 1979 and 1981, led the league in ERA in 1969, won a Sawamura Award in 1968, led the league in wins in 1968 and 1973, led in saves 6 times, strikeouts 6 times and shutouts 5 times.
Despite spending a good portion of his career in the bullpen, Enatsu ranks among the top 20 all-time in NPB in wins with 203, is tied for 12th with 45 shutouts and 5th in strikeouts (2,987). He is 16th in career ERA (2.49).
Enatsu was jailed in 1993 for heroin possession and spent three years in jail.
Katsuya Nomura
Nomura is a no-doubter choice for Japan's all time Catcher. No one was better than him in that position. He appeared in four decades: his first season was 1954, the last 1980. He retire at age of 45. He never played a single inning in any different position.
He's second in the all-time home run list: he hit 657 four baggers, a world record for catchers in professional baseball. He led the pacific league in home runs 9 times, 8 in a raw. He led the league in RBI's 6 times in a row, 7 overall. In 1965 he won the first Batting Triple Crown in NPB history: .320 batting average, 42 home runs and 110 runs batted in.
He played 27 full seasons behind home plate. He holds the world record in professional baseball for most games caught: 2918 and there was one season when he caught all of the innings of his team (150), including 16 double headers. He was starting catcher of all games of his team in five seasons.
Between 1970-1977 he was manager-player of his team (Hawks). He retired with the Lions. He was then a successful manager winning three Japan Series with Yakult.
First Baseman
Sadaharu Oh
There is no need of introduction for him. He's the most recognizable character of Japanese baseball in the world. He holds one of baseball most precious records: most home runs in the world: 868.
Oh was a main piece in the most successful dynasty in Pro Baseball: the Yomiurui Giants that won 9 pennants in the 60's and 70's. His stardom started in High School, when in the mythical Koshien Tournament he pitched with a bleeding blister in his hand.
His growth at professional level was slow. Hard work finally paid and he became the greatest player in Japanese Baseball History. Between 1963 and 1970 he amassed 8 seasons in a row over .300 batting average, in the middle he won 3 batting crowns. Overall he had thirteen .300+ batting average seasons and 5 batting championships. He led the league in home runs 15 times, 13 of them in a row. He batted 50 or more home runs twice, including 1964 when he set a then record of 55 home runs. He led the league in RBIs 13 times with two streaks, one of 4 seasons and another one of 8. Oh also won the Batting Triple Crown twice in a row: 1973 (.355, 51, 114) and 1974 (.332, 49, 107).
He was named the league MVP 9 times and won 11 Japan Series with the Giants. Defensively, he won 9 Gold Gloves awards. He's Japan all-time leader in runs scored (1967), runs batted in (2170), On base percentage (.446), slugging (.634) and OPS (1.080)
Second Baseman
Shigeru Chiba
Shigeru Chiba was the star second baseman for the Yomiuri Giants in the early days of the club. He led the league four times in walks and was named the best second baseman of the league seven times. His debut occurred in 1938 and led the league in triples in his first season.
Overall, Chiba had hit .284/.384/.388 in his career, with 913 walks and 981 runs in 1512 games. He hit 96 home runs, 81 of them to the opposite field. His tendency to hit the ball to right caused teams to employ an outfield shift towards that direction. Chiba was always amongst the top leaders in batting average, on base percentage, walks and stolen bases. He was the first player to draw 100 walks in a season. He was also expert in fouling off pitches to keep the plate appearance alive and to make pitcher waste time. He later taught Wally Yonamine the trick and both could make the opposite pitcher to waste 25 pitches to start the game.
His last game was in 1956, being the first player to have a "retirement game" in his honor, a tradition that has been held since. He wore uniform number 3 for the Giants, a number that the following player inherited.
Third Baseman
Shigeo Nagashima
Mr. Baseball,as he is called in Japan, is one of the most complete ball players ever produced by that country. Legend could be the perfect word to describe him. Nagashima showed off his talent since the very beginning of his career.
In his first season (1958), he hit 28 home runs, a record for rookies and it could have been more if he would have touch first base in a four bagger that was eliminated. His batting average was .305, led the league in runs batted in with 92, runs with 89 and doubles with 34, slugging, home runs and total bases. Besides Rookie of the Year, he was selected as the third baseman of the Best nine, award he would achieve in all of his seasons.
In 1959 he hit .334 winning the first of his six batting crowns (only surpassed by Ichiro's seven crowns). In 1960 he set a record by hitting a triple in 4 consecutive games. In 1961 he got his first MVP award and last home run crown. Nagashima had become so famous that his wedding was televised.
Other Nagashima's achievements include 10 times leading the league in hits (record), in runs two times, three times in doubles, twice in triples and five in RBIs. He's 12th in the all time home run list with 444, 8th in triples with 74 and sixth in doubles with 418. His 2471 rank seven all time. He won 5 MVP awards, tied with Nomura and surpassed only by Oh.
In the history of Japan Series he ranks first in MVP awards (4), batting average (.343), hits (91), doubles (14) and RBIs (66). His numbers do not say he was the best player but his relative short career (17 years) allowed other players to surpass his marks. His name is worshiped in Japan.
Shortstop (tied)
Yasumitsu Toyoda
In 1953 he won the Rookie of the Year with the Nishitetsu Lions after posting a .281 batting average with 27 home runs. In 1956, Toyoda won the Japanese batting title with a .327 average and was also honored with the Japan Series MVP award.
Toyoda was a weak fielder. He led the Pacific League in errors twice and topped 27 errors eight times. Later in Toyoda's career, he moved over to first base. During his career, Yasumitsu was chosen for six Best Nine squads and nine All-Star teams. He had a .277 lifetime batting average with 263 home runs. Toyoda was inducted into the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame in 2006.
Yoshio Yoshida
One of Hanshin Tigers legends, his number 23 is retired. He was one of the best defensive shortstops. He was famous for his steady batting and his defence at shortstop, and received the Best Nine Award of the NPB nine times, in 1955-60, 1962, 1964-65. This is the best record till now.
After retirement, he became the manager of the Hanshin Tigers three times, in 1975-77, 1985–87, 1997-98. The 1985 season was his best. His Hanshin Tigers won the Central League's championship for the first time since 1964, and broke the Seibu Lions in the Japan Series. This is the only time the Hanshin Tigers won the series. He finished his career with 2007 games played with 1864 hits and 66 home runs.
In 1989-95, Yoshida lived in Paris, and managed the French national baseball team.Since then, Yoshida has had a new nickname, "Monsieur". He was selected as a member of the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame in 1992.
Isao Harimoto
He was born during WWII in 1940 in Hiroshima and survived the release of the Atomic Bomb but he lost his sister who worked as nurse, shortly after he lost his dad. Due to an accident as a child his right hand was severely burned, rendering his middle, ring and little fingers virtually useless and twisted in to a "curved in" shape. To compensate, the boy forced himself to become left-handed–and played as a left-handed hitting and throwing baseball player.
He arrived to Professional Baseball in 1959 with Toei Flyers and earned the Rookie of the Year Award. With time he became the best hitter in Japan history, he could hit for average and power, he had the speed and patience. He won the MVP and the Japan Series MVP in 1962. After the Flyers, he played for the Giants and Orions.
On may 28th, 1980, Harimoto hit his 3,000th hit: a homer, becoming to this day the only hitter with 3,000 hits in Japan. His lifetime average was .319, collecting 16 seasons over the .300 mark and his highest average was .383 in 1970. He finished with 3,085 hits, 504 home runs and 319 stolen bases, alongside Willie Mays, they are the only players in the history of Professional Baseball with at least 3,000 hits, 500 homers and 300 stolen bases.
Harimoto scored 1676 runs, he went to the All Star Game 18 times, won 3 MVP awards and had 5 seasons of at least 30 home runs. He won 7 batting titles (record shared with Ichiro) and he's remembered for having a fast and elegant swing.
Yutaka Fukumoto
At one point he held the world record for career and single-season stolen bases. A member of the Hankyu Braves for twenty years. In 1970, he stole 75 bases in 90 tries, taking the first of 13 consecutive stolen base titles and made the first of 17 All-Star teams (he was MVP of three All-Star games and his 19 steals in all-star action is a record).
The speedy center fielder really hit the prime time in 1972 when the 24-year old hit .301 and more importantly, he swiped 106 bases in 131 tries, setting a then-world record to break Maury Wills's mark. In one game he stole five bases, a Pacific League record. That year he had his legs insured for 100 million yen. He scored 99 runs, leading the league; he would lead the Pacific in each of the eight seasons to follow and would lead 10 times in his career. He was named to the first of ten Best Nine teams, won the first of a record twelve consecutive Gold Gloves and was named MVP for the only time in his career.
In '73, he led the league in doubles for the first time (he would do so three more times) and won the second of eight triple leads. In 1976 he was named Japan Series MVP after leading the Braves to their second Japan Series victory in a row. That year he led the league with 73 walks, the first of six times he would lead in that statistic. At the age of 28, he broke Japan's all-time career stolen base record.
Fukumoto retired in 1988. In addition to the previously mentioned records and honors, he holds the NPB records for triples (115). He is tied for 5th all-time in hits. His 1,656 career runs are second only to Sadaharu Oh and are the record for the Pacific League. He retired with 1,065 steals, 469 more than the #2 man in Japanese pro baseball history.
Ichiro Suzuki
Undoubtedly the most famous Japanese baseball player in the world, Ichiro has shined in all scenarios he had showed up. If he had power, Ichiro would be recognized as the most complete Nippon player of all time. Nagashima, Oh and Harimoto never played the majors, which could be an argument to back up Ichiro's candidacy as Japan Best Player in history.
Ichiro started his career in great fashion with the Orix Blue Waves in 1994, in that season he hit 210 hits, becoming the first player in the history of NPB to hit 200 hits. That year he won the first of his 7 batting crowns, a record shared with Harimoto. Had Ichiro stayed in Japan his full career he could have doubled that mark. His last season in Japan was in 2000, he finished his stint in his country with 3 MVP Awards, 7 Gold Gloves, 7 Best Nine selections, and a lead in RBIs and home runs.
In 2001 he arrived to the majors with Seattle and was named MVP and Rookie of the Year. He was the first player in MLB history to collect 10 consecutive seasons with at least 200 hits, he's been in 10 All Star Games, has won 10 Gold Gloves, 3 Silver Slugger Awards, 2 batting crowns and he set a season record of 262 hits in 2004. He holds 22 records in the American League. Still not retired but looking for a new contract, Ichiro will probably be the first Japanese player to be inducted into Cooperstown's Hall of Fame.
Designated Hitter
Hiromitsu Ochiai
A batting machine, his original position was third base, he also played first but his defense was always a headache. His offense, au contraire, was the cause of his fame.
Unlike most of the players, he didn't reach pro baseball via College, he actually quit on school due to difference with his coaches. After dropping up school he played in the Industrial Leagues and from there he jumped to NPB with the Lotte Orions.
Hiromitsu Ochiai is known as the exception to the Japanese baseball culture's way of conformity and structure. He wouldn't take batting practice or infield practice if he didn't want to. He refused to change his bucketfoot swing despite many coaching efforts to do so. Because of that, he was not regular in a line up until he was 28.
His first full season was 1981, he hit .326 and .325 the next year, leading the league in hits with 150, doubles (32), home runs (33) and RBIs (99), winning his first Triple Crown.
In 1985 he earned his second Triple Crown with .367 batting average, he set a record of 146 RBIs in a season with 118 runs and 52 home runs, he was his fourth batting crown. In 1986 he hit .360 with 50 home runs and 116 runs batted in, clamming his third Battin Triple Crown, with Mexican Hector Espino, they are the only ones to win 3 Batting Triple Crown.
He managed the Chunichi Dragons too.


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Gym Rats and Ball Players: Solepack Has the Perfect Gym Bag Solution For Sweaty Kicks
School, work or on the train—you know who the athletes are. They're the ones lugging a gym bag over their shoulder. There's one flaw in this design: your lunch bag sits in the same space as your workout kicks, which Solepack, a Staten Island company, is here to fix.
Solepack creates separate, detachable compartments for athletic shoes, what Solepack inventor and founder, Mike Sala, calls "the premier shoe-transport bag." Now you can avoid contaminating your textbooks with the funk you worked up on the court in those Jordans.
How did you come up with the idea for Solepack?
The idea revolved around my life as a commuter back in the '90s when I commuted to NYU from Staten Island. Basketball was my life and I was a gym-to-class-and-back type of guy. One of the biggest things I hated was packing my b-ball kicks in the morning. Always in a rush, I usually either threw my kicks in my backpack, stinking it up, or carried a separate plastic bag tied around my fingers. It was a Footlocker bag (or a Herman's one for you older cats out there) that cut off circulation in my fingers and I really hated that. I really had one of those moments while traveling over the Verrazano Bridge on a S79 bus. I said to myself, "There's got be a better way to carry my kicks right on my backpack."
I looked and looked and there were none! So I made it my mission to develop a better way at that point. I just started cutting up bags to see what worked. I was finishing up my degree in Physical Therapy at the time at NYU, so I also made our Solepack bags ergonomic. Storing your kicks on the sides of your backpack puts less strain on your back versus having them stuffed in or having them dangle on your pack.
I came up with some rough prototypes that worked, and had the idea patented in 2005. And the rest is hard work and history leading up to where we are today. We are an evolving company passionate and dedicated to giving people a functional and practical product.
What lead to the final design for the SP-1? How did you go about finding a way to manufacture it?
Not too many people know this part of Solepack history so I'm glad you asked. After many months and numerous trips to patternmakers in the garment district, we finally decided what we wanted the final bag/concept to look like. We arrived at a bag big enough to house a size 11 or 12 men's high-top basketball shoe (the current size L of our bag today). Ballers would be one of our target markets, and if their shoe could fit in there, then shoes of the other niches surely would as well. The silhouette and sole pattern was actually based off of a Nike Terminator shoe I got along the way. It sits in my office till this day reminding me of where the journey began.
As far as manufacturing, we spent a lot of the early years—the trying years—hunting down small biz manufacturers in the garment district, a time that really tested our fortitude. There were dozens of prototypes that just weren't well made. Months and months of waiting resulted in unacceptable samples. I always view these trying years as a necessary step in the equation. Then one day, a friend-of-a-friend had introduced me to a manufacturer in the urban clothing industry. After one look at our patterns, they delivered a perfect prototype within a few weeks. I had another one of those moments—I knew we had the bag that we can introduce to the world. What makes this product versatile is its ability to snap on any existing backpack you already have.
Dealing with sneaker heads and athletes alike, what's been the overall feedback on your product?
Honestly, the overall feedback has been amazing. When they see the SP-1 in person with a pair of sneakers inside of it and I snap it off my display backpack, I get a genuine look of, "Dang that's pretty ill!" Or when they see from far away, they appreciate that it's a whole new concept of traveling with kicks. The versatility of our bag as an accessory is truly our biggest and strongest differentiator. I learned a long time ago that it's all about accessories. Being a detachable bag that stores shoes on the outside, you never have to stuff dirty shoes in your backpack's cleaner interior, and, just as important: it no longer takes up precious interior room. You can rock with your day-one backpack or your brand new backpack. Just tag us along as needed. If kicks aren't necessary, simply leave it at home.
The sneaker heads love that they never have to stuff their grails inside their backpack or luggage. They get to keep a close eye. Our bag provides that separate place—a sanctuary—during travel. Athletes love that they can still pack their large kicks with our SP-1 and still have plenty of room for their other things in their backpack.
Most of your marketing has been directed toward basketball, football and running aficionados. Are there any plans to expand to other genres like extreme sports?
We are reaching out to the soccer community as we speak. We have a lot of players saying that either the turf or grass they play on always ends up sticking on their shoes after playing, and inevitably gets dragged back into their bags or homes—our bag would be perfect to help combat that.
We also have some early initial conversations with the CrossFit world, which could be another perfect market. Where there is a need to pack an extra pair of kicks, we will surely do our best to work on a grassroots level with those communities.
There have been a few custom SP-1's shown on social media. Should we be on the lookout for any upcoming collabos?
We embrace and appreciate the love we have gotten from our local Staten Island community. Up next and even into the next few months, we have a few limited pieces releasing with another local and growing brand called Rosedreams. Stay tuned as a few Solepack products will be released in one of our local shops, Richmond Hood Company. It's a great shop that has been instrumental in our growth as a brand. We also have another big collab to be announced in the middle of May, which I can't reveal at this time. But please stay tuned!! I'm humbled to be a small part of their announcement and journey.
Are there any Solepack products dropping in the future? What's the next step?
We continue to grow our current line by expanding our colorways, as well as different patterns and materials. We have a few line extension items that are planned and will be revealed over the summer. We have another major item, one to surely add to the foundation of our brand, set to be released by Christmas.


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One of Donald Trump's top advisers said about the White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer that he had offered alternative facts during his statement about Trump's inauguration audience.
Kellyanne Conway told NBC's Meet the Press on Sunday that Spicer's statement which occurred 1 day before in White House's briefing room was something along the lines of an "alternative view" and she drew a vigorous response from the talk show host Chuck Todd who characterized Spicer's comments as plain falsehoods, as alternative facts are no facts at all, i.e. everything that runs against mainstream media dogma is not true.
The discussion was about Sean Spicer claiming on Saturday that Trump's inauguration audience was the biggest ever, based on so-called misleading Metro ridership numbers and various other metrics. Sean Spicer declined to answer questions from reporters during his briefing on Sunday and he did not offer an "official" estimation from the White House with regard to the specific number of people that attended Donald's inauguration. Conway also blasted Chuck Todd's obsession with crowd size:
"Presidents aren't judged by crowd sizes at their inauguration, they're judged by their accomplishments.
"We're going to have to rethink our relationship with the press…
Yesterday, we allowed the press into the Oval Office to witness the signing of executive orders and what happens almost immediately – a falsehood is told about removing the bust of Martin Luther King Jr – that's just flat-out false."
"You want the American people to think they can't trust The White House press secretary, that's a very dangerous statement to make. Your job is to report the news, not to give your opinion, you're not an opinion columnist."
…you've got a 14% approval rating, that you've earned…"
President Donald Trump said that he's basically in a "shooting war" of sorts with mainstream media for over a year now, accusing reporters of underplaying the real numbers of people attending his swear-in on Friday.
After Conway's remarks, White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus accused media's obsessive crowd-comparisons from Trump's inauguration which in his view amount to an attack on the President's political legitimacy:
"There's an obsession by the media to delegitimize this president, and we are not going to sit around and let it happen. We're going to fight back tooth and nail every day, and twice on Sunday."
Here's a couple of pictures from Donald Trump's inauguration vs what was pedaled in the mainstream media, judge for yourself:
And here's the same stuff from another angle:
Source: Bloomberg
Here's the full interview:


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The Impact of Student Loans on Your Credit Score
Due to the fact that 44.2 million Americans have already taken a student debt, they are now making sure that they are properly educated when it comes to student loans.
We will now discuss how a student loan will really affect your credit score.
By reading this article, you will be educated on how a student loan can contribute on your score and what techniques you should follow in order to maintain the best possible score that you can have.
Understanding Credit Score
Who is responsible for calculating your credit score? How is it calculated?
FICO is the largest and the most popular company that issues credit scores; hence, most probably they are the ones that will issue your score too.
There are many factors that are taken into consideration with regard to how it is calculated such as:
Latest Credits
How Long a Credit History Is
What are Included in Your Credits
Payment Transactions
The Total Amount that You have to Pay
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Mathematical computations are utilized in order to come up with a credit score. These specific calculations are not shown by FICO.
If you want to know your credit status, you can several ways for it, in fact, there are some bureaus and companies that can provide you with the information that you need.
If you really want to check your credit score online, you can check a website called Credit Karma.
An annual credit report can be requested from various credit companies such as Experian, Equifax and TransUnion in order for you to know how well you performed that year.
An Excellent Credit Score Should be Maintained
Knowing what makes a good, very good, and exceptional credit score will help you maintain an exceptional score.
Based on FICO standards, they are classified as follows:
If a score is between 670 and 739, it is already considered a GOOD score
A score is considered VERY GOOD if it is between 740 and 799
If a score is between 800 and 850, it is already considered an EXCEPTIONAL score
Since we already have an idea on where the favorable scores are classified, the next thing that you should find out is how to maintain them. The truth is, you can easily do this by simply making your payments.
This would mean that you have to pay any type of credit that you have in full amount once they are due.
Once you have a favorable credit score, you can be assisted in having a home loan and rent an apartment, in fact, you can even buy a car and get more school loans. In cases like this and many more, those people who have a stand between you and your goals will definitely check the credit score that you have.


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I've got another exciting piece of news for folks who don't knit: yes, I frequently work on more than one thing at a time. It depends on how much concentration the thing takes, or how boring the thing is, or if I'm just plain tired of blue yarn. Or big needles. Or cotton yarn. Believe me, I have lots of needles. I can do lots of things at once.
One of the things I'm making is this scarf. It's for mindless backstage knitting and will probably end up as a present. It's some Lion Brand Micro-Spun. Found two skeins of red for a dollar each. Perfect for random actor Christmas gifts.
And I finished these for a Christmas present for one of my brothers. (I'm pretty sure they haven't found this blog. They'd better not. I'd feel like a total idiot if my brothers knew I blogged about knitting.) Anyway these are the Trigger Gloves from a 1940 Knit-For-The-Troops pattern. (Am still too lazy to link. Sorry. Tech rehearsals do that to you.) These were super easy to knit, but slightly dull. I think gloves need some sort of stitch pattern to keep me interested. Still, quick. And left enough yarn over for a pair of short socks, so yay. Mostly I am hoping that the yarn is manly enough for a dude.
And the seed stitch poncho continues, but you can just look at the last picture of it, because it still pretty much looks like that.
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Should Police Be Able to Stop a Self-Driving Car in a High-Speed Chase?
The second those red and blue lights start blinking in your rear-view mirror, you have two choices. You can pull over and get the inevitable ticket, or you can take off like you're Bo and Luke Duke. Most of us wisely choose the former, but what will happen when the car in question is a self-driving vehicle? According to Slate, there are some serious questions about just how much control the police should have over self-driving cars. We are required to obey laws when we are driving and it makes sense that self-driving cars obey the same laws. If they can be programmed to stop at lights and yield to pedestrians, then they should be programmed to stop for a police officer too. RELATED: How Autonomous Cars Could Save Us Billions
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There are concerns about data security and the extent to which the authorities should be able to gather information from autonomous vehicles. Our cars have an increasingly large amount of our personal information. A police officer could, hypothetically, pull over a car and download all of that information in the course of a traffic stop in order to identify the vehicle's occupants. Determining how much of that data is okay to use and how much is too much poses a problem.
Aside from the data, there's also the possibility an officer could take control of a car. This could eliminate a lot of dangerous car chases, but it again poses the problem of placing limitations. How much control is too much? These are the questions that both the law enforcement community and the public need to answer before autonomous cars become the norm.
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by Chris White
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A former member of President Donald Trump's transition team is angling to block "nuisance" Exxon Mobil shareholders from forcing the company into adopting climate resolutions.
Steve Milloy, a climate skeptic and Exxon shareholder, told reporters earlier this month that he intends to ask the government to scrap petitions entirely. He hopes the effort will prevent activist shareholders from pushing the oil company into accepting resolutions on global warming.
The lawyer-statistician said he wants the oil producer to end support for a national carbon tax, rebuke the Paris agreement on climate change, and discontinue funding climate research. Milloy submitted his resolution through a mutual fund he ran called the Free Enterprise Action Fund. The resolution requests Exxon change its bylaws blocking stockholders from filing resolutions.


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To refinish or not...great article...
Saving The Finish
By Jeff Jewitt
Sooner or later, every woodworker is faced with the prospect of refinishing an old piece of furniture. Whether it's a treasured "find" at a flea market or auction, or a favor for a relative or friend, etc., most people consider stripping off the old finish and refinishing the only option of successfully restoring the appearance of the piece.
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Finally, a hunter transmog! Now I have uploaded at least one of each class ^-^
Hunter has so far been the hardest class to create a good outfit for. As you might have noticed by looking at my transmogs, I like bright colours, and it seems like hunters mostly have dark, greyish brown gear.
I am not crazy about this outfit myself, but so far it will have to do (the lack of hunter transmogs in my blog was starting to bug me...). When I put this set together I started out by picking a bow that I liked and ended up with the [Ironfeather Longbow], which is a quest reward in Well of Eternity. The rest of the items are a mix of boss drops, quest rewards and crafting items. The shoulders can only be crafted with leatherworking and they bind when picked up, and therefore only leatherworkers can achieve this transmog.
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Matthew Hagee spoke how God has always known Who He is. He's always known He deserves glory and praise.
One day Lucifer decided he wanted some glory. God kicked him out of heaven. (Isaiah 14:12)
Some people want glory or attention. They may say, "I am having a bad day. Do something for me. I'm having a rough time."
This is different from the beggar on the street with no home and no feet.
I admit to having had a good day yesterday. I got some unsettling news and had to wait 24 hours to get further information about it. This planted the seed of making my day a mess. I know we make our choices as to how we react ourselves,and how we take info., but, I am still definitely a work in progress.
God is maturing me from the pity party spirit as Elijah had in 1 Kings 19: 4.
Realizing from whence I came, I wasn't born into a family that had to scrimp and bite hard for every dollar. I thank God for that. When I was murmured against, laughed at and had gum put in my hair by girls on my High School bus, I was floored. I still haven't completely recovered. I hate to admit, but I think I'm owed something like I am special. God help me.
Since I had evil girls trip me, kick me, put soup in my hair in High School, surely I deserve good now.
God, why are we still waiting more than a month for house number one to close? We are obedient kids.
God asks me why I still refer to myself as a kid. He is maturing me. I thank and praise Him. It's an ongoing process, though. I won't "arrive" till I reach heaven, but I must contemplate every detail of this process in order to write my book.
We are all writing the books of our lives just by living.
God, alone, deserves the glory
Matthew Hagee spoke how God has always known Who He is. He's always known He deserves glory and praise.


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Infogalactic is a wiki encyclopedia project created by alt-right staple figure Theodore Beale in 2016[1] that "aspires to be more objective" than the allegedly crooked and bias-ridden Wikipedia,[2] while simultaneously giving power to "corelords", corporate professionals who have purchased the ability to oversee the editing of pages related to their industry.[3]
Founding by Beale[edit]
According to Beale, who goes by the online blogging handle of "Vox Day", part of his inspiration for creating the wiki was his biography on Wikipedia: "The page about me there has had everything from my place of birth to the number of times I've been married wrong. And that's not even counting the outright abuse, such as when Wikipedians replaced the entire page with a definition of a sexually-transmitted disease or with a string of obscenities."[4] (Apparently, the vandals had made light of the fact that "Vox Day" usually signs his posts with the acronym "VD".)
Beale's wiki has minimal structure and mostly consists of unedited pages plagiarized from Wikipedia. Although he claims that "We already have 11 million pages",[5] that number isn't backed up by the site's own statistics page, which reports barely a fifth of that number.[6] Vox Day cites Wikipedia's alleged godlessness as a reason for why it will be superseded by Infogalactic:[5]
Wikipedia has lost the Mandate of Heaven. As a result, Infogalactic is going to become a top 100 Internet site en route to becoming The Planetary Knowledge Core. And it is going to do so faster than anyone likely believes possible… That is far from the entirety of our vision, that's all we're willing to discuss publicly for now. Believe me, if you think what we've said so far is outlandish, you haven't seen anything yet… Where I've improved over time is finding more, and more capable, partners to execute and produce, and staying out of their way. And the core Infogalactic team is not merely good, they are scary good.
Vox Day notes:[7]
One way you can be certain that Infogalactic already threatens the SJW's control of the cultural high ground that is the online knowledge base is the reaction of SJWs to it. I am reliably informed our old acquaintance and master of rhetoric, Cameltoes Freckeltongue, is bent out of shape about the fact that our editors are removing the ideological graffiti that litters many, if not most, Wikipedia entries… I do so love the smell of SJW outrage in the morning… What concerns them is maintaining control of the flow of information and converging it to suit the Narrative as necessary, which is why Wikipedia's 531 thought police patrol the encyclopedia so relentlessly. Infogalactic threatens that control and the SJWs know it. They're already past the Ignore phase and have entered the Mocking phase, which is remarkably fast considering that we only launched it one week ago. We'll know Infogalactic is firmly established when they do a 180 and go from mocking it as "Voxopedia" to denying I had anything to do with its success.
Some Kings Wiki editors have questioned whether their website will become irrelevant now that Infogalactic exists, which is presumably a more "alt-right friendly" alternative to Wikipedia with a much more comprehensive focus than Kings Wiki.[8]
Some Redditors are very on board. TheSlicemanCometh explains, "The wikipedia killer will be a decentralized wikipedia with contributors having reputation. SJWs get horrible rep and get banned and their former contributions auto-deleted."[9]
As of November 2017, the website popularity is in decline from a peak of popularity at rank 52,821 in July 2017 to the current rank of 82,792.[10]
For some reason, the Brave web browser uses Infogalactic as one of its built-in search engines, and, like the other built-in search engines, is unable to be removed.[11]
External links[edit]
- ↑ infogalactic.com Traffic Statistics Alexa (archived from July 13, 2017).
- ↑ "Infogalactic is non-ideological and the Starlords will ruthlessly eliminate all ideological spin, framing, narrative, and context from the Fact-level pages regardless of whether they agree with it or not." https://infogalactic.com/info/Infogalactic:Seven_Canons
- ↑ https://infogalactic.com/info/Infogalactic:Corelords
- ↑ http://www.brianniemeier.com/2016/10/infogalactic-planetary.html
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 http://voxday.blogspot.com/2016/10/the-doubters-doubt.html
- ↑ Infogalactic's Statistics page. As of 2017 November 17, there are only about 2,054,000 actual content pages.
- ↑ http://voxday.blogspot.com/2016/10/sjws-are-bitter-about-infogalactic.html
- ↑ http://en.kingswiki.com/wiki/Talk:Infogalactic
- ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/Anarcho_Capitalism/comments/57qfq1/infogalactic_the_nerdy_alternative_to_wikipedia/d8v25mt/
- ↑ infogalactic.com Traffic Statistics Alexa (archived from 17 Nov 2017 04:51:03 UTC).
- ↑ https://github.com/brave/browser-laptop/blob/master/js/data/searchProviders.js#L133-L141
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The following article appeared today on iSeek, the Diocese of Missouri's online newsletter. The editor introduces the article:
One of the projects of the next diocesan mission trip to Lui involves art and the children of the dioceses of Lui and Missouri, and is the brainchild of the Rev. Anne Kelsey, Rector of Trinity Episcopal Church, Central West End, St. Louis. In this article she writes about her history with trips to Lui and how the idea for this project came about and developed.
Notes for the Journey
The Children's Art Project
The Rev. Anne Kelsey, Rector, Trinity Episcopal Church, St. Louis
When I first met Bishop Bullen Dolli at the fall convention of the Diocese of Missouri in 2005 I told him, as much out of politeness as anything else, that I would like to go to Lui. His reaction wasn't a conventional response; it was "When will you come?" I never really expected it to happen. I was the rector of Trinity, served on Diocesan Council, and had much to keep me more than busy as it was. Southern Sudan was a world away, literally, and I did not think that I had anything much to offer on any kind of mission trip. Then Bishop Smith called and asked if I would go to Lui with him, the Canon to the Ordinary the Rev. Dan Smith, and the President of Standing Committee, Ida Early, in April of 2006. We would be formally representing the Diocese of Missouri and signing the Covenant agreement between the two dioceses.
How do you say no to two bishops? You don't. On the day after Easter I left for Sudan as part of our mission team, trying to stuff my fear of flying under the seat along with regret that I wouldn't be traveling to California with my husband to see our first grandchild who had been born only a week earlier. It took so long to get to Lui on so many different airplanes that the trip itself was a kind of inoculation against my fear, and I actually sat in the co-pilot's seat in the tiny plane that took us from Nairobi to Lui and back.
Being in Lui with the people of Southern Sudan was a conversion experience. The Anglicans in Lui have survived a terrible civil war, suffer from hunger and disease as constant companions, and have seen their cathedral bombed three times. Under those circumstances you might expect anger and bitterness and hostility towards those of us who have so much. Yet, as those who have been to Lui will attest, there is only gracious and generous hospitality and tremendous faith. Worship is fervent and joyful, thronging with children who learn to drum at an early age.
As part of my preparation I'd thrown in my suitcase some colored pencils and a sketch pad. I have an undergraduate degree in art and hadn't done any drawing in years, but thought maybe there would be something of interest to inspire me. One afternoon when we were given some free time, I pulled out a plastic chair and sat at the edge of the cathedral compound with my sketch book and pencils and began to draw one of the houses called tukals. As I struggled with rusty drawing skills a man came up to me, knelt down and admired the half-finished picture. Then he turned to me and said, "Will you come and teach our children?"
It was a beautiful and overwhelming and impossible request and I didn't want to lie, so I said that I would love to come and teach the children. Going to Lui once had seemed more than improbable; returning looked impossible.
The Lui Children's Art Project grew out of that one simple question. The question remained in my heart until I developed it to present to the Companion Diocese Committee. The committee approved the project, which will be part of the next mission trip to Lui in November. This fall children ages six to twelve will be able to attend an art workshop at several parishes here in the diocese of Missouri. In November I will return to Lui to hold those same workshops in four or five villages. Following each workshop the children's pictures will be displayed for their families and villagers, and I will bring some of them back to the United States with me. Each picture (both Lui and Missouri) will be accompanied by a photo of the child artist who created it, and next year the selected pictures will be displayed at a special art show here in St. Louis.
There is so much that is needed in Sudan, from clean water and medical supplies to irrigation plans and mosquito control. These fall under the category of development. However, our relationship with Lui is more than raising money, as much as that is needed. It is about spending time with people and discovering the commonalities that bring us together as Christians.
The language of art is universal, and speaks without words across the world. The opportunity for children to create art is an important experience, and one that we in Missouri perhaps take for granted. Our children have paper and crayons from an early age, and even when they are quite little they can express themselves vividly. Look at a piece of paper filled with black scribbles and slashes, and you might accurately guess that the child who made them was angry at the time. I am eager to give children in Lui an opportunity to exercise creativity, even in such a limited way as a single workshop. It will give them a chance to express what they cannot say in words, both happy things and sad ones as well.
As I prepare once more to go to Sudan I reflect on all of the ways God works and surprises us with grace. Out of a chance encounter and a simple question, mission is born. I am very grateful for the opportunity to develop and present this project, even as I am both eager and nervous. I am sure that God has more surprises in store.
[Ed. note: The photo at left depicts the Rev. Anne Kelsey with Mama Janifa, a priest in the Diocese of Lui, during Anne's April 2006 trip to Lui.]
The next trip to Lui will depart from St. Louis on Sunday, November 22, and return on December 5. Several initiatives will be included, most of them focused on information exchange and relationship-building; the initiatives will depend on the missioners selected for the trip. If you are a member of a parish in the Diocese of Missouri and want to join this mission, complete the application form here. Applications are due Monday, August 24.
If you want to make a financial contribution to this project, go to the diocesan site, select "Diocese of Lui" from the menu, navigate through the pages, then put "Lui Mission Trip" in the "purpose" field.


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Excellent! More 1994 F1 Circuit! :D :D :D
gracias marco por converti esta historica pista, simpre un gran trabajo. excelente
Great track to drive and to look at.
Only things that could be improved are the jagged edges of the curbs and tire marks.
I don't understand, it looks much worse than the previous version...
I have a track called "BolognaHistoric_AMS _V1.0" and it's much, much better...
Also, I feel like it's not accurate...
Villeneuve corner feels too "fast" or something...
Road is too narrow in some parts.
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Nice work.
I look forward to annihilating the curbs with the v8s.
Fantastic to see old Imola here at last. Can't wait for Monaco
Very well done. And you mentioned Monaco... Can't wait!
Thank you! great feeling of riding
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Remembering August
This morning we're socked in with fog as thick as potato soup. I can't even see the trees across the driveway. This is what August is–heavy wet mornings that give way to sunny, hot afternoons.
For several summers beginning with my twelfth or thirteenth year, I barned tobacco and grew my bank account. I worked on two different kinds of harvester. The first kind bridged the gap between the old timey stringing the tobacco on stick under the shelter of a tobacco barn and stringing the tobacco on sticks on a moving harvester. I strung the leaves in this operation.
The other kind was a two-story machine with croppers breaking off the leaves of the stalks on the bottom level and sending them by way of a vertical conveyor belt to a basket that collected the leaves on the top level. I cropped the leaves on this operation.
The leaves in August, dripping with thick fog and dew, drenched gloves and sleeves and pants and shoes before we made it half way down the row. By mid-morning and the time for a Mountain Dew or Pepsi and a pack of orange crackers that we called Nabs, our fingers would be shriveled just like we'd been swimming for the past three hours.
Now, when my window shows me mornings draped with heavy moisture, I can't help but remember those long ago mornings in the tobacco fields. I'm grateful for the time I had there with the people who accompanied me and the lessons I learned about hard work. I'm grateful also that I get to sit at a typewriter and watch the fog and remember.
A New Chapter
My house is a tomb today.
And I am in mourning.
Three college move-ins/visits in five days.
No sounds in the house except my laptop's swooshy breathing as it waits for me to add words to the empty screen.
No giggling from downstairs.
No piano playing and off-key singing.
No nerf-gun battles.
The washing machine sits, silent and dry.
I loved it while it lasted.
Thanks be to God who gives good gifts.
Love you, Anna, Hattie, Lane, and Quinn.


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