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St. Francis in CIF Southern Section Division III preliminaries: Reigning All-Area Boys' Track and Field Athlete of the Year James Knowles ran to a return berth in next week's finals at Cerritos College.
"This is just to get him ready for next week," said St. Francis Coach Patrick Donovan of Saturday's prelims at Estancia High. "[His results were] what we were hoping for."
Knowles won his heat in the 300-meter hurdles with a personal-record time of 38.12 seconds, which was third-fastest across the board. He also advanced in the 110 hurdles, taking second in his heat with the fourth-best time of the day at 14.55.
Also in the DIII prelims, Hoover's Jeremy Zadoorian finished ninth in his heat of the 800 in 2:01.72 and did not move on.
Crescenta Valley, Burbank and Glendale in Division I preliminaries: Michael Davis showed he means business again this year, as he took first in the 100-meter dash in 10.67 and fourth in the 200 (21.58) to qualify forward.
The Falcons' Josh Strachewski qualified for the finals with an eighth-place finish in the 110-hurdles (14.89) and just missed the cut in the 300 hurdles (18th, 40.68), as did CV's Mike Duncan in the 800 (11th, 1:56.50). Burroughs' Anthony Monroy, however, according to Coach John Peebles did qualify after a dispute involving hand-kept times, allowing Monroy, who was initially though to finish 10th at 9:25.62 to advance.
Burbank's Isaiah Amos and Andy Hurtado took 17th and 26th in the 1,600 (4:25.72) and discus (122-8), respectively. The Nitros 1,600 relay team of Davis, Jeffrey Massin, Carlos Esperanza Navarro and Tristan Pacba took 23rd (3:26.04).
Flintridge Prep in CIF Southern Section Division IV preliminaries: Prep had a solid day, sending four athletes on to next week's divisional finals after solid days at Carpinteria High.
Gareth Weiss was tied for the top qualifying mark of 12 feet in the pole vault, while Barrett Weiss notched the ninth and final qualifying spot with a vault of 11-6. James Bradley was third in his heat and seventh fastest to earn qualification in the 800 at 2:00.74. West Nowotny notched a personal record by more than two feet with a shot put of 48-11 to finish third overall and move on.
"I'm very happy with five moving on to CIF finals," said Prep Coach Nick Ponticello, who also had girls' runner Kate Kennedy move forward. "I also like that we have so many people in that many events. I like the diversity."
Crescenta Valley, Burbank, Glendale in Division I preliminaries: Glendale's Sophia Amodia fell just short of the finals twice when she took 10th in the 300 hurdles (45.64) and 13th in the 100 hurdles (15.40).
The Falcons' 1,600 relay team of Kayleigh Carrillo, Emmie Walker, Megan Melnyk and Cali King took 15th (3:59.71) with Burbank's team — Kayla Martil, Julia Newton, Felicia Tomitsa and Keren Zepeda — in 32nd (4:14.84).
The Nitros' Leana Setian took 16th in the 1,600 (5:19.70) with King taking 29th (5:33.64).
Carrillo went on to take 14th in the 200 (25.05) and 15th in the in the 400 (59.22) for the Falcons, who had Walker take 13th in the high jump (5-1). Brooke Moultrie also finished 16th in the 3,200 (11:44.18) for CV, which had Melnyk King finish 17th (2:19.30) and 25th (2:23.45) in the 800, respectively. The Falcons' Claudia Sepulveda took 19th in the 100 hurdles (16.01).
Burbank's Haley Pirruccello finished 25th (48.93) in the 300 hurdles, Newton ran to 31st (21.76) in the 100 dash, Hannah Barlow was 27th in the triple jump (33-7) and Martil was 36th in the 400 (1:01.68).
The Bulldogs' 400-meter relay team of Newton, Pirruccello, Tomitsa and Zepeda took 23rd overall (49.36), while the Falcons group of Walker, Carrillo, Sepulveda and Noel Wong took 29th (49.97).
Flintridge Prep, Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy in CIF Southern Section Division IV preliminaries: The Rebels had one girls' participants move on to next week's division finals. In the 300 hurdles, Kate Kennedy qualified with a time of 46.08, which was second in her heat and eighth-best across the board.
Flintridge Sacred Heart had two individuals and a relay team qualify for the finals.
Noëlle Niederhaus finished fifth in the 800 (2:18.42) and Caroline Treinen tied for seventh in the pole vault (9-6) to advance. The Tologs' 4x400 relay team of Stephanie Vargas, Drew Washington, Niederhaus and Kayla Montgomery clocked 4:05.92 to finish fourth and move on.


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The team will be among the more than 230 top US Youth Soccer Boys and Girls teams from the 14 US Youth Soccer State Associations competing for the regional title, June 18-24 at the US Youth Soccer Region IV Championships at Reach 11 Sports Complex in Phoenix. Daily reports and complete results from the tournament will be available on http://Championships.USYouthSoccer.org/regionIV.
The Region IV Championships feature top teams in the Under-12 through Under-19 age groups beginning with round robin games Monday, June 18, through Wednesday, June 20. Following a rest day, quarterfinal matches will be played Friday, June 22, with semifinals Saturday, June 23. The Region IV Champions will be crowned following final games on Sunday, June 24.
US Youth Soccer State Cup champions and select runners-up from 14 US Youth Soccer State Associations in Region IV, including host Arizona will participate. The other State Associations represented are Alaska, California North, California South, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wyoming.
Regional winners of the U14 through U19 age groups earn a berth to the 2012 US Youth Soccer National Championships July 24-29, at Manchester Meadows in Rock Hill, S.C.
One of the 12 national crowns awarded is the James P. McGuire Cup, the oldest trophy in youth sport dating back to 1935 with the inaugural youth championships.
The dates and locations for the 2012 US Youth Soccer Regional Championships and the 2012 US Youth Soccer National Championships are:
US Youth Soccer Region I (East) Championships | Lancaster, Pa.
Classics Park Soccer Complex, Hempfield High School, Elizabethtown College
Opening Ceremony: June 28 | Clipper Stadium, Lancaster, Pa.
Round Robin: June 29-July 1
Semis: July 2
Finals: July 3
Teams: 260
Age Group: U12 – U19
US Youth Soccer Region II (Midwest) Championships | Saginaw, Mi.
Saginaw Township Soccer Complex
Registration: June 22
Round Robin: June 23-25
Semis: June 26
Finals: June 27
Teams: 212
Age Group: U13 – U19
US Youth Soccer Region III (South) Championships | Greenville, S.C.
Opening Ceremony: June 14 | Fluor Field
MeSA Soccer Complex
Round Robin: June 15-17
Quarters: June 18 U14, U15, U16
Semis/Quarters: June 19 Semifinals U13 & U19/ Quarters U17 & U18
Finals/Semis: June 20 Finals U13 & U19 / Semifinals U14-U18
Finals: June 21 Finals U14-U18
Teams: 200
Age Group: U13 – U19
US Youth Soccer Region IV (West) Championships | Phoenix, Ariz.
Reach 11 Sports Complex
Round Robin: June 18-20
Quarters: June 22
Semis: June 23
Finals: June 24
Teams: 248
Age Group: U12 – U19
US Youth Soccer National Championships | Rock Hill, S.C.
Manchester Meadows
Player Luncheon: July 24
Round Robin: July 25-27
Finals: July 28-29
Total Number of Teams: 60
Age Group: U14 – 19
For more information on the US Youth Soccer National Championships, visit http://championships.usyouthsoccer.org, the online home for the US Youth Soccer National Championship Series, providing the latest in news, information and more. Get all US Youth Soccer National Championship Series updates are on Twitter (@usysncs).
About the US Youth Soccer National Championship Series – The US Youth Soccer National Championship Series provides more than 10,000 teams from US Youth Soccer's 55 State Associations the opportunity to showcase their abilities against the best in the nation while emphasizing teamwork, discipline and fair play. The yearlong competition begins with over 185,000 players in the US Youth Soccer State Championships. These champions and selected wildcard teams, through US Youth Soccer Regional Leagues, advance to compete in one of four the US Youth Soccer Regional Championships. Champions (U-14 through U-19) from each regional event advance to the US Youth Soccer National Championships. The Under-15 through 17 Boys and Girls age groups have two teams representative of the US Youth Soccer National League, in which the top two teams in each gender age group earn a direct path to the national championships. Overall the National Championship Series provides top collegiate coaches with the premier stage to identify and scout the most coveted players in the country. For more information, visit http://championships.usyouthsoccer.org.
About the United States Youth Soccer Association (US Youth Soccer) – US Youth Soccer - "The Game for ALL Kids!®" is the largest youth sports organization in the country and largest member of the United States Soccer Federation, the governing body of soccer in the United States. US Youth Soccer registers more than 3 million players annually, ages 5 to 19, and over 900,000 administrators, coaches and volunteers in 55 member State Associations. US Youth Soccer programs provide a fun, safe and healthy environment for players at every level of the game. For more information, visit www.USYouthSoccer.org.
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Montana agrees to let bison roam outside Yellowstone
New agreement designates additional winter range for bison, likely avoids annual slaughter
- Eight state, federal and tribal agencies agree to plan that allows Yellowstone bison to roam into Montana's Gardiner Basin during winter months
- Expanded range is welcome step in ending needless slaughter and restoring wild bison to other parts of Montana
Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks is introducing a breakthrough plan today that will allow bison in Yellowstone National Park to travel north into Montana's Gardiner Basin during winter months. The plan would likely end the annual capture and shipping to slaughter of many of the bison that leave the park each winter in search of food and may help set the stage for restoring the animals to other parts of the state. The eight partners of the Interagency Bison Management Plan are hosting an open house to discuss changes to the plan tonight at 5 p.m. in Gardiner, Mont.
The following is a statement from Jonathan Proctor, Rocky Mountain Region Representative for Defenders of Wildlife:
"The agreement reached between state, federal and tribal wildlife managers to allow wild bison to roam Montana's Gardiner Basin outside Yellowstone National Park is an important step forward. For decades, pressure has been building in Montana and around the country for an alternative to slaughtering bison that leave the park in search of food during harsh winters. Increasing tolerance for bison to roam outside the park in winter is a key part of the solution.
"Ultimately, we believe that wild bison should be free to roam like all other wildlife, and this plan gets us closer to that goal. We don't shoot bears or elk simply for crossing the park boundary, so we shouldn't shoot bison for doing the same. The difference between managing animals as wildlife and keeping animals in a zoo is giving them the room to roam and survive on their own.
"Ranchers' concerns about potential conflicts with cattle do not justify the mismanagement of bison that has been going on for years. Those are workable issues, and with a little extra effort we can help protect cattle without confining bison to Yellowstone National Park. This plan provides a path forward that will help demonstrate that it is possible to live with bison outside of the park."
"Governor Schweitzer is well positioned to be the first governor in the history of the country to restore bison as wildlife in a meaningful way. We thank Governor Schweitzer for his leadership and all the state, federal and tribal agencies involved for their efforts to create some space for wild bison in Montana. We also encourage the state to work with the tribes of Fort Peck and Fort Belknap Reservations who have expressed interest in restoring wild Yellowstone bison to their tribal lands."Background:
The proposed bison plan will open 75,000 acres in southern Montana, just north of Yellowstone National Park, to bison during winter months. A cattle guard has already been installed to prevent bison from traveling beyond Yankee Jim Canyon—a narrow spot at the north end of the basin. A short fence is soon to be built. The plan also includes a provision to allow expanded public bison hunting as an alternative to sending the animals to slaughter. Defenders of Wildlife has committed at least $50,000 for fencing and other related costs for projects to help restore bison to tribal lands and Montana's Gardiner Basin.
Over the past two decades, thousands of bison have been sent to slaughter after migrating beyond the park boundaries. This year, however, when hundreds of bison began leaving the park in search of food, Gov. Schweitzer issued an executive order that effectively prohibited the shipping of bison to slaughter through May 15. Since then, 600 bison are being kept in a capture facility and are expected to be released into the park later this spring.
Read Montana's bison management plan
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WASHINGTON - Already reeling from a pair of scandals, the Internal Revenue Service is drawing new criticism over plans to hand out millions of dollars in employee bonuses.
The Obama administration has ordered agencies to cancel discretionary bonuses because of automatic spending cuts, but the IRS says it's merely following legal obligations under a union contract.
The agency is about to pay $70 million in employee bonuses, said Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, a senior Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, which has jurisdiction over the IRS.
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"The IRS always claims to be short on resources," Grassley said. "But it appears to have $70 million for union bonuses. And it appears to be making an extra effort to give the bonuses despite opportunities to renegotiate with the union and federal instruction to cease discretionary bonuses during sequestration."
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famous anecdote about how Steve Jobs spent weeks making his family discuss what they wanted from their washing machine.
Jobs's meticulous unpacking of the values embedded in different washing machines, and his insistence on comparing them to the values he wanted to live by, would be applauded by moralistic philosophers of technology from Heidegger to Ellul, though it may be a rather arduous way of getting on with life. But Jobs understood the central point that philosophers of technology had tried (and failed) to impart: that technology embodies morality.
Emphasis mine. Technology may be morally neutral in the abstract, but when we make technology choices, we are making moral choices, either because of the details of how the technology is made, or because the technology filters moral possibilities.
The problem was that Jobs, while perfectly capable of interrogating technology and asking all the right questions about its impact on our lives, blatantly refused to do so when it came to his own products. He may have been the ultimate philosopher of the washing machine, but he offered little in the way of critical thinking about the values embedded in the Macintosh, the iPod, and the iPad. When he discussed his own products, he switched from philosophical reflection on the effects of consumer choices to his Bauhaus mode of the vatic designer.
I would put it this way: Towards the end of his life, Jobs took his passion for product design in the autocratic and paternalistic mode, and applied it to everything about the products he oversaw.
"Steve believed it was our job to teach people aesthetics, to teach people what they should like," [one of his ex-girlfriends] said.
This is the real reason why the App Store exists. This is why iOS is locked down, and why the Mac is being moved to an App Store model. Sure, the revenue stream is welcome, but it's really about paternalistic control.
"It just works"—Jobs's signature promise at product launches—was soothing to a nation excited and addled and traumatized by technology. Nothing could go wrong: Apple had thought of everything. The technology would work as advertised; it was under total control; it would not get hacked.
This is the new Apple philosophy. Sacrifice control to paternalistic Apple, and you can relax. The benevolent leader will teach you what to like and what not to like, keep you safe from danger and ugliness. The fact that this philosophy is utterly opposed to the values expressed in so much Apple advertising is remarkable, and shows how cunning and slick their advertising and marketing people really are.
People fall for it, too. I know many self-professed libertarians who believe in absolute freedom of speech and say that they trust nobody to be a censor, but who nevertheless line up to buy iPhones and iPads and give Apple control over what software they can run on their phone, what books and magazines they can read on their tablet, even how they are allowed to arrange app icons. (Try removing Newsstand from your iPad.) Business travelers with iPads complain all the time about being forced to submit to the TSA when they take a plane flight, but what is the App Store if not the TSA of software?
Some iOS users engage in doublethink, recasting their lack of "freedom to" as a positive "freedom from". ("Sure, I'm not free to download a wifi scanner… but I'm free from viruses!") It's true, all apps have metaphorically gone through the scanner and had a minimum-wage drone check their boarding pass, and you can be sure they aren't carrying bottles of water that compete with the drinks sold by the gate, but that's not how real security works.
Some iOS device owners ease their sense of guilt by rooting the device, ignoring that they've already cast a powerful vote for loss of freedom by buying it. Most, however, seem content to live in cognitive dissonance, apologetically pointing out that Apple hasn't been that bad a dictator, and has mostly not eliminated competing services. I mean, yes, they've forced other magazine and book sellers to move their stores to web only to escape Apple control, but so far they haven't blocked those web sites, so it's OK, right?
Which brings us to the web. Criticize the lack of freedom represented by the iOS devices, and before long you'll likely be told that it's simply not a problem, because there's a web browser. Sure, Apple says no porn on the iPad, but you can get porn on the web via Safari so somehow there's no censorship occurring. But people are pointing out that Apple's 'app economy' is increasingly threatening the web itself. Apple (and other corporate entities like Amazon) are managing to mold the web to be what they want it to be. And that doesn't appear to be what I want it to be.
[…] Jobs outright rejected the possibility that there may be a multiplicity of irreconcilable views as to what the Web is and what it should be. For him, it is only a "direct-to-customer distribution channel." In other words, Jobs believed that the Web is nothing more than an efficient shopping mall, and he proceeded to build his business around what he believed to be the Web's essence.
Some people even claim that the web is dead, and that as we move into a post-PC era of tablets and phones as the primary Internet access devices, the web will be replaced by apps. And freedom will be replaced with complete corporate control.
Our choice is between erecting a virtual Portland or sleepwalking into a virtual Dallas. But Apple under Steve Jobs consistently refused to recognize that there is something valuable to the Web that it may be destroying.
A virtual Dallas, a prospect that will make every Austin web developer shudder.
So I now realize that this is where I parted company with Apple. When the Jobsian paternalism was restricted to matters of hardware design, I mostly appreciated it. I wish my laptop had a replaceable battery and anti-reflective screen, but mostly I'm happy with what I was told I should like—the large trackpad, the solid metal casing, and so on.
But when the paternalism was extended to books and movies and video games and applications, and when it started to threaten the web—well, that was several steps too far.
Everyone says they love freedom, and that freedom is important. But as the cliché says, "freedom isn't free". Freedom means ugliness. Freedom means danger. Freedom means complexity. Apple, in a stroke of marketing genius, offers you freedom from those things. And by accompanying that promise with images of freethinkers and a 'think different' message, it manages to make you overlook the fact that what you are really doing is giving up your freedom, and financially rewarding the very entity you are giving it up to.
So what's the alternative? Well, sadly you won't find a mobile platform with a rich ecosystem that doesn't require ceding some control to others. Many people have said to me "Well, since that's the case, what's the point? I might as well go with the best." But I'm not an absolutist; I don't believe in the idea that if you can't be perfect, you might as well not try. Rather, when it's time to make a choice, I'll choose the imperfect option that's better.
Even Google, with its naïve technocratic ethos, is more committed to questioning the impact that it is having on the Internet and the world at large. They fund a bevy of academic and policy initiatives; they have recently launched a Berlin-based think tank dedicated to exploring the social impact of the Internet; they even started a quarterly magazine. […] Apple, by contrast, holds itself above the fray. It seems to believe that such discussions of meanings and consequences do not matter, because it is in the design business, and so its primary relationship is with the user, not with the society.
And then there are things like the Data Liberation Front, AOSP, and the periodic table of open APIs. You can even run Android devices without Google, pretty much. Try using a new iPad without an Apple ID.
So until something better comes along, I'm going with Android for my phone and tablet needs. Freedom is too important. Google might not be perfect, but in the specific area of mobile platforms, they are a lot better than Apple. © mathew 2017
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Meri Saheli Meri Bhabi is a sad love story of two cousins, Fareeha and Saarim who are engaged since childhood. The parents of both the families never get along and the negativity has exacerbated since they have become neighbors. The protagonists are unable to tie the knot because the families have never practically accepted the relationship.
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We report on an experiment designed to explore whether and how anger affects future levels of cooperation. Participants play three consecutive one-shot games. In between two identical two-person public goods games there is a mini dictator game that, depending on the treatment, either gives or does not give the recipient the opportunity to scold the dictator via a text message. We find that the recipients that receive an unfair offer contribute significantly less in the second public goods game. Yet, such contribution cuts are less frequent and notably smaller when messaging is allowed for. We conclude that although anger has a lasting negative effect on cooperation, giving voice to it helps to curtail selfishness.
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Mashed potatoes are my guilty pleasure. I've flavored them in the past with garlic, pesto, plaintains, olives and purple sweet potatoes, just to name a few. This time, I used broccoli. It complements the flavor and gives a beautiful color to the purée.
My favorite way to make this dish is to simply mash them using a potato masher, then add milk, cream and lots of butter. It might not be the healthiest approach, but it's certainly the most delicious for creamy mashed potatoes!
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What at difference a century makes. As Denver prepares to host the 2008 Democratic National Convention this August, it seems fitting to look at the city's preparation for our last and only other political convention: the Democratic National Convention of 1908!
Denver Mayor Robert Speer built a shining new City Auditorium that just happened to be dedicated on the day of his inauguration on June 1, 1908. When the convention opened in Denver in July 1908, William Jennings Bryan was the party's nominee. He later lost to William Howard Taft.
Although 2008's convention will be held in the Pepsi Center, the interior will surely bear some resemblance to the Auditorium's decoration from 1908. Pictures of George Washington, Andrew Jackson and Thomas Jefferson (presumably), dominate the walls. In addition, the rare 46 star flag hangs on the walls and rafters signifying the recent addition of Oklahoma to the union in 1907.
This picture shows the Auditorium rising from the corner of 14th and Champa. The building was constructed in record time, the cornerstone being laid in September 1907. The beautiful buildings to the rear of the Auditorium are unknown to me. What is apparent however is the residential character was forever altered with the construction of this building. The large homes and mansions along 14th Street began their swan song as the street became increasingly commercial in nature after 1910.
The home of Dr. Charles Denison stood at the corner of 14th and Champa, specifically 1402 Champa, opposite the new Auditorium. Many stately homes lined the street including the home of former governor John Evans at 14th and Arapahoe. It was demolished in 1910 to make way for the Denver Tramway Headquarters. That building today is known as the Hotel Teatro. To see what hideous building stands on the Denison grounds today, click here.
Denver, as capital of Colorado, has always been a place of visiation of politicians of all stripes. Here, President Woodrow Wilson and his wife Edith exit City Auditorium in 1919.
While the building still stands today, the decorative domes that dominated each corner were removed in the 1950s. The renovated building is known today as the Quigg Newton Denver Municpal Auditorium. But it more commonly associated with the Ellie Caulkins Opera House which is found within its walls. Here is a picture from DenverInfill showing the renovations taking place when the Ellie was being "installed".
For additional information on Blocks 100-105 that the City Auditorium is a part of, click here.All black and white historic photos are from the Denver Public Library's Western History Collection.


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GSW opened the season hosting its annual Remembrance Run and concluded the regular season on on the same course with the PBC event. The Lady Hurricanes had five runners shave more than two minutes off their time on Saturday.
Jessi Young paced the Lady Hurricanes by finishing the 6K course in 22:50 for 20th place out of 100 competitors. Young shaved 2:10 off her time at the Remembrance Run.
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With 54 points, Flagler College finished comfortably ahead of Columbus State (96), for the PBC team title.
Freshman Sara Mund from Flagler crossed the finish line first overall with a time of 21:35.
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6. GRU Augusta (167)
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What Exactly is PageRank Anyway?
PageRank (spelled as one word) is a trademarked technology, belonging to the search engine Google. It was designed as a numerical system of ranking the relative importance of web pages, created at Stanford University in California, by Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. The concept they used was, in Google's own words, to calculate the "uniquely democratic nature of the web by using its vast link structure as an indicator of an individual page's value."
If Google's definition is taken literally, the entire system rests on the incoming and outgoing links, from the billions of web pages that form the internet. On the surface, the system seems simple enough. If web page A links to web page B, Google considers web page A as actually voting for the importance of web page B.
Of course, like anything else in life, the reality is far more complicated than what it first seems.
Be sure to always keep in mind that PageRank is not the same thing as your site's ranking on the search engine results pages (SERPs). They are entirely separate items. PR is the relative importance of a page on the web, expressed as a number. The SERPs are where your site appears on a search for your keywords.
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PageRank Numbers
Note carefully that PageRank is for each individual web page, not the entire web site as a whole. Every page in the Google data base has its own PageRank. In other words, sites don't have "rank." Rather, every separate page on your web site has its own PageRank.
Incoming links for web pages are, in the opinion of Google, votes in favor of that page. On the other hand, Google considers some votes to be more important than others. The simple number of incoming links to a page is calculated by Google, but the relative importance of the "voting page" is given even more weight in the mathematical formula.
The pages that are considered to be more important votes, in turn increase the importance of the page they link. More important pages pass along more voting power. This is measured numerically as PageRank.
The PageRank numbers range from 0 to 10. These numbers are usually expressed as PR0 (for PageRank 0) to PR10 (for PageRank 10).
What do these numbers mean?
First of all, you need to find out what your PageRank is, for every page on your web site. To do that, you can download the Google Toolbar. It can be found at http://toolbar.google.com/ and can be downloaded and installed in your browser in just a few minutes.
Note: Unfortunately, the Google Toolbar is not available from Google for Mac users.
When the Google Toolbar is loaded, you will see a green line shaded from left to right, located under the word PageRank. Wave your mouse over the gauge, and words will appear stating the Google PageRank "importance" of the page being examined. The Toolbar will give you the PageRank for every web page you visit.
A PR0 page will show a blank white gauge, while a PR10 page will have the entire PageRank indicator filled in, with green from side to side.
When a page has a PR0, it is either below the threshold for a PR1 in Pagerank, is a brand new page, or is under a penalty from Google. Pages that show a gray colored bar, in place of green or white, are either not included in the Google index, or are under a substantial penalty for violations of Google's rules.
{mospagebreak title=What is the Difference in PageRank Importance?}
The PageRank number shown on the Google Toolbar, is thought by many people, to be merely an estimate of a page's true PageRank. While there is no real proof, one way or the other about the accuracy of the PageRank as presented, we can only assume is a good estimate. Only Google knows the actual PageRank, and they aren't talking.
PageRank is not a series of equal steps; it is logarithmic in its calculation. In the same way that the earthquake Richter scale is exponential in calculation, so too is the mathematics behind Google PageRank. It takes one step to from a PR0 to a PR1. It takes a few more steps to PR2 and PR3. Now, it takes even more steps to PR4, many more steps again to PR5, and so on. Each level is progressively harder to reach.
Let's consider an example.
For illustration purposes, think of a PR5 page. It is indicated by the PageRank meter being half green and half white. What does that mean?
Google PageRank is not a series of stepped numbers, as presented on the Toolbar. It is more of a continuum where our PR5 example may be barely over the boundary from being a PR4, or almost but not quite, a PR6 page. There is a lot of territory in between.
For our example page to reach a PR6, it will take many more incoming links, and perhaps higher PR pages as well, to reach that new higher level. It will be much more difficult to increase from a PR5 to a PR6, than the move was from PR4 to PR5.
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PageRank is a form of a voting system. A link to a page is a vote for that page. Higher PageRank pages are viewed by Google as more important. Their votes are given more value by Google. In some cases, much more value.
Adding incoming links to your web pages will add PageRank. Every inbound link adds some PageRank, regardless of its own level. PageRank flows from one page to another, adding to its store of importance.
Not all incoming links provide the same inflow of value. It may take many PR2 incoming links to increase your targeted page to PR5. On the other hand, it might only take one PR6 page to give you the same result.
Google has published their original PR calculation formula:
PR(A) = (1-d) + d(PR(t1)/C(t1) + … + PR(tn)/C(tn))
While we are not certain if this formula is still the one used by Google, it is probably at least very similar.
In the formula, PR(A) is the PageRank of the page = (1- d) where d is a "damping factor considered to be about 0.85 + d(PR(t1) where t1 is the PR of the incoming link page + …+ PR (tn) is the Page Rank of all of the linking pages. Each page is divided by C which is the number of outgoing links from each page.
Note that the PR flow from a page is divided equally between all of the links on the page. If a page has one outgoing link, that receiving page gets the entire flow. If there are ten links on the page, the PR flow is divided ten ways, lessened by the 0.85 damping factor.
Simply put the formula is this:
PR(A) = .15 + .85 * the PR share of every incoming link page.
Based on the formula, the more incoming links from higher PR pages the better. On the other hand, fewer outgoing links from the sending page, the better too. You get less PR if it's divided among more outgoing links. Everyone gets their share of the PR pie. Your piece simply becomes smaller if there are more mouths to feed!
You can theoretically gain more total PR from a PR4 page, where you are the only recipient, than from a PR8 page divided 100 ways.
The bottom line is to add, within the context of an overall linking program, as many incoming links as you can. They all add PR to varying degrees.
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Google only lists your incoming links that have a PR4 or higher. Because of that display restriction, many people believe Google doesn't count all of your links in your PageRank calculation. While they are not shown, Google counts them all. The lower PR pages may not bring a lot of incoming PR with them, but they all add up, although in much smaller increments. Don't ignore lower PR pages for link exchanges, as today's PR2 may be a PR7 in the very near future.
You need to keep adding more incoming links to maintain your site's PR. As you link out from your site, it's thought that PR "leaks" to other sites. While not everyone agrees on whether PR leakage actually occurs, it's a good idea to keep your PR increasing. Keep in mind that Google considers internal links, within your site, as backlinks. They add to your overall PageRank. They can't, however, do the job by themselves. Outside sources of PR are still required to fuel their PR.
While Google isn't saying, it's doubtful that you can double or triple PR flow from one page to another, by adding more than one link to a page. It seems as if Google only counts a link to a page once.
In much the same way, and again Google is tight lipped on the matter, a page probably won't have a link counted by linking to itself. That is not the same as other pages within the same site linking to the page. They count. Remember, its page PR, not site PR.
Some Tips on Link Exchanges
When requesting exchanges, always request the page upon which your link will appear. Don't let your link trading partner place you on a PR0 "links page" with hundreds of other outgoing links. Make certain they don't use a java link that prevents the passing along of PR. Another thing to avoid is the discovery that your links have been hidden or cloaked. Make certain all link exchanges are fair and equitable ones, that pass along the appropriate Pagerank.
Don't fall into the habit of only considering link exchanges, or soliciting incoming links from high PR sites, just for the sake of PR. While they are good to have, be sure to consider the value of your linking program from your visitor's point of view. It's more important for links to be helpful to your visitor traffic. Your goal is sales. The PageRank is only part of the means of getting there.
As your PageRank rises, it can help you move higher in the search results, for your targeted keywords. While PR is only one of about 100 or so factors considered, in the Google algorithm (the mathematical formula used to determine your site's location in the search results), it is still an important consideration.
As you add more and more incoming links to your many web pages, you should see a rise in your PageRank.
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10 small basil leaves
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Friday, April 20, 2012
Hiding The Containers
Years ago I was managing my own business and had been hired to create a beautiful luncheon for a client and her friends.
She ordered all of the food and wanted me to set up and style the table and create the flower arrangements and so on.
"Get rid of these containers. All of them. I don't want to see any containers lying around anywhere!"
She was serious.
While I was trying to create and style- she was busy scurrying around plating the chicken salad and asked me to dispose of any and all containers.
I assumed she meant this- let's get rid of the garbage before the guests arrive.
Later on, during the meal, what she actually meant took on new form...
It went down something like this....
Guests: Did you make this chicken salad?
Hostess: Yes...
Guests: Oh my gosh this is amazing!
Hostess: Thank you!
Guests: Did you make everything?
Hostess: Oh yes...
On and on it continued throughout the luncheon....
The raving. The complimenting. The fanfare.
And it wasn't long before I realized....We never took the garbage out after all.
Maybe we hid all the containers. Maybe there wasn't any evidence lying around-
But the garbage? It was front and center stage.
Why do we do this to ourselves?
Why do we as women feel the need to try and be so fabulous all of the time?
Why do we feel the need to try and impress others to the point that our hearts are so heavy and our spirits are so weighty that we couldn't take our own spiritual garbage out if we tried?
And so we settle for a life of simply hiding the containers.
We hide the containers in the school fundraiser. In meetings at the office. We hide them in our marriage. In our parenting. We hide them at our children's birthday parties. We hide them
in the name of just trying to be a good Mom, wife, sister, daughter and friend.
I don't think this is what the Father meant when he spoke about the abundant life.
Because if we are hosting and entertaining and inviting friends over just to impress-
If we are taking intellectual property and creative property and trying to slap our name on it-
All in the name of trying to be fabulous and win every ones approval....
Then we'd better get more than a Hefty Cinch Sack.
We need Him.
Because life with Him will require us to face it all and offer it up to the One who knows how to pull that drawstring best...
Life with Him will eventually require us to say....
This is me.
The good . The bad. And the- I wish I was really this fabulous.
He can take every sense of unworthiness, every insecurity, every unmet need and every gaping wound and tie it all up and dispose of it properly.
And in exchange He will offer us a life of freedom and security and the confidence to leave the empty containers out on the kitchen counter and give credit where credit is due.
He will offer us a life where we can be true.
Where we can have the courage to be exactly who He has called us to be.
The courage to open our hearts and say to one another- this is me.
He will offer us the opportunities to extend hospitality - just to be a blessing to someone.
Without any hidden agendas or motives and without any need to try and impress.
In doing that...
In offering up the life we've tried to make for ourselves...
This hiding of the containers life.
We can discover a life that is better than we imagined.
We have to be willing to lose our life to find it... Matthew 10:39
We can discover that we were wonderful all along.
We really are creative.
We really are fearfully and wonderfully made.
We really do have a genius deep inside waiting to be discovered.
One who is brilliant and beautiful and was just hidden underneath mountains
of empty containers labeled I wish I was enough.
We are, you know.
In all of our mistakes.
In all of our shortcomings.
In all of our past and present poor decision making.
In all of our undecorated homes and stained furnishings and cars that need to be detailed.
In all of our take out meals and missed appointments and deadlines.
In all of our piles of laundry. The clean. The dirty. The lost and the found.
Even in the midst of all of this....
We are beautiful vessels filled with opportunity and purpose and possibility.
We are overflowing with ideas and creativity. We are radiant with glory, destiny and details that
He has written on our hearts and in our spirits. We are expectant with dreams and desires and
the hope that is our future.
Here's to a weekend of discovering it all through Him sweet friends....
25 comments:
- lizziefitz said...
Through tears I write a sincere ThanYou Sibi.
- April 20, 2012 at 10:51 AM
- Shakin' the Foundation said...
Wow!! Amazing post Sibi!! It has opened my eyes to a area in my life. Thank you for sharing~
- April 20, 2012 at 10:53 AM
- DeeDee said...
I love this!!! God is really, really teaching me that who I am in him is 'FABULOUS' and that I don't have to live up to world's standard of fabulous is. Very good stuff! Thanks for sharing!
- April 20, 2012 at 11:33 AM
- Maria said...
Amen and Amen!!!
- April 20, 2012 at 11:36 AM
- Just Ask Beth said...
so true..it is ok to succumb to help.. I love to make everything homemade and when I am trying to get it all done my family pays if I get frazzled..I usually have a handle on it..but Today, yes before I read this..I told the hubby..I am not NOT putting this pressure on US anymore..if I don't want to do something I am not going to feel bad saying no!! Great POST!!
- April 20, 2012 at 11:42 AM
- Tiffany said...
Such great truths! Good reminders!
We just need to be ourselves! Be who He created us to be!
- April 20, 2012 at 12:11 PM
- paige said...
aaaaahhhh! so true.
beautiful words my friend
- April 20, 2012 at 12:12 PM
- Preppy Pink Crocodile said...
Oh this was such a fabulous post!
- April 20, 2012 at 12:24 PM
I have been having this revelation with myself so much lately. Great post. I am striving to be a mother who is open and exposed so that I can live a fuller life and so can my children. Thank you
- April 20, 2012 at 1:02 PM
- Jennifer said...
i needed this post today...as i keep playing in my mind all the things that have to be accomplished to the best over the next few weeks. i have to say i have that "working mom" symdrome that when it is time to do something i have this feeling of trying to prove how i can get it all done...thank the sweet Lord for putting this on your heart to post...i needed it!
- April 20, 2012 at 2:05 PM
- Ruth said...
So true!!
Your blog has been such a blessing to me. I can't get enough.
It is so much easier to hide the containers than to admit the truth.
Thank you for sharing what the Lord puts on your heart.
- April 20, 2012 at 2:21 PM
- Unknown said...
Thank you Sibi! The right words at just the right time!
- April 20, 2012 at 3:24 PM
- Tiffany said...
Thank you for these beautiful words written from the heart. As a young wife and mother just trying to keep it all together, I needed this gentle reminder to just be me. I don't need to be pretend, I just need to be me. Thank you for speaking to my heart this afternoon. You have a blessed weekend as well.
- April 20, 2012 at 4:35 PM
- Love Being A Nonny said...
You speak what we all need to hear. We are all in this mess together. Thank goodness for Grace...and bought chicken salad. :) love your heart Sibi.
- April 20, 2012 at 4:43 PM
- Michele said...
Beautiful Sibi! Love that this was just another one of your posts written just for me :) Tears streaming down my face dear friend! xoxoxo
- April 20, 2012 at 4:47 PM
- MDP said...
Oh, my! You have NO idea the hoops I have jumped through today to try to make every upcoming party perfect for the guests of honor - complete with lots of homemade food after a full day of work and putting the kiddo to bed! I finally sat down to rest and stroll through blogs. Thank you!
- April 20, 2012 at 8:45 PM
- SheilaG @ Plum Doodles said...
Thank you. Really. Thank you for being the Father's voice today.
- April 21, 2012 at 9:49 AM
- 3 Peanuts said...
GREAT post Sibi. Although I could not (and would not) lie about making something I did not make....I am sure that I "hide containers" in my own life. This is something really worth thinking about. I wonder about the messages it send our kids too.
Thank you. you are so very gifted.
- April 21, 2012 at 1:17 PM
- nonnie said...
I so needed this today! thank you!
Hope all is well, and all are healthy :)
Love you!
- April 21, 2012 at 1:23 PM
- Home: Inside and Out said...
Oh Sibi! This is one of many reasons why I love you! Thanks for this today!
- April 21, 2012 at 4:16 PM
- susan@avintagefarmwife said...
Ahhh, Sibi! Thank you for this. Satan tells us over and over that we aren't enough-that we are fat and "she" is thin, that "hers" is cuter, that "she" is better. He keeps us jealous and envious and unsatisfied. Thank you for the reminder that in Christ we already have everything that matters.
- April 22, 2012 at 6:20 AM
- shannon p said...
Amen, Amen, Amen...I have been praying over this same topic and so badly want to let EVERY woman I know and those I don't know that THEY ARE ENOUGH....you so eloquently just said it for us all. You are a Blessing!
- April 22, 2012 at 8:43 AM
- lori carolina said...
How sad. Will ponder this and think through any containers in my life, thanks Sibi!
This makes me think of a Pin I have on my Laughter board...
" I see these moms who can do everything, and I think, I should have them do some stuff for me." :)
Thanks for the sweet comment by the way and I'm always glad to share pins with you!!
- May 3, 2012 at 1:20 AM
- Valerie said...
I can't believe I haven't commented before now...I was just checking to see if I had missed any blog updates and reread this one...I loved it sooooo much!
Thank you, Sibi, for being who you are!!!
P.S. Still hoping to connect with you sometime in July!!! I would love to meet in person. I hope your store front is doing well!
- May 8, 2012 at 9:50 AM
- RachelRAdams said...
love this post. love all your posts... but this one is holds alot of truth
- May 12, 2012 at 4:17 PM


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In her Jerusalem Post column today, Caroline Glick comments on the blockbuster Hamas production featuring Steve Centanni, Olaf Wiig and Ismail Haniyeh as well as the purported Israeli missile strike on the Reuters vehicle: "Terrorist theater tricks." In the course of her column, Caroline takes note of our own efforts and those of many others in the blogospohere who are trying to sort out fact from fiction in the media component of the war on Western civilization:
What are we seeing when we watch events from the Middle East on our television screens? Is it news or is it terrorist theater?
Let us observe two media events which occurred on Sunday in Gaza. Sunday afternoon released hostages and Fox News journalists Steven Centanni and Olaf Wiig spoke before the cameras. The fact of their release and their statements were reported by more than 1,000 news organizations throughout the world.
At the press conference, Centanni and Wiig, who were forced by their Palestinian captors to convert to Islam, praised the Palestinians. Centanni said, "I just hope this never scares a single journalist away from coming to Gaza to cover this story because the Palestinian people are a very beautiful, kind-hearted and caring people that the world need[s] to know more about." Wiig similarly praised the Palestinians.
While their remarks were covered extensively, no one seemed to think that the fact that their first post-release statements were made at a Palestinian Authority sponsored media extravaganza in Gaza was significant. No one noted that the men were flanked by Palestinian "security forces," and stood next to Hamas terrorist leader and Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh.
No mention was made of the fact that the two were initially kidnapped by just such PA "security officials," or that Haniyeh is one of the leaders of one of the most fanatical jihadist organizations in the world, an organization that the majority of the "beautiful, kind-hearted and caring" Palestinians voted into office last January.
That is, no mention was made of the fact that until the two men left Gaza, they remained unfree. No one asked whether they had been given the option of not giving a press conference in Gaza. And now that they have spoken, there can be little doubt that a second press conference by the two men, in Israel or the US where no one will force them to convert to Judaism or Christianity or threaten to kill them, will draw far less media interest. After their press conference, the two men became yesterday's news.
Conveniently, the same day the PA released the men who its own forces had kidnapped, Reuters reported that the IDF had shot a missile at its press vehicle and wounded two cameramen – one from Reuters and one from Iranian World TV network – while they were en route to a battle taking place between IDF forces and Palestinian terrorists. Reuters, which is demanding an independent investigation into the attack, is portraying its cameraman Fadel Shada as an embattled hero who would do anything to bring the truth to the world.
Yet it is unclear why anyone should believe either Shana or Reuters. Shana told Reuters that as he was driving to the battle scene, "I suddenly saw fire and the doors of the jeep flew open." He claims to have been wounded by shrapnel in his hand and leg. These are minor injuries for someone whose vehicle was just hit by a missile.
But then, the photographs taken of his vehicle after the purported missile attack give no indication that the car was hit by anything. There is a gash on the roof. The hood is bent out of shape. But nothing seems to have been burned. Cars hit by missiles do not look like they have just been in a nasty accident. Cars hit by missiles are destroyed.
Yet the glass on the windshield and the windows of Shana's vehicle isn't even shattered. In the photographs taken of Shana on the way to the hospital in Gaza, he lies on a stretcher, eyes closed, arm extended in full pieta mode. He is not visibly bleeding although there are some blood stains on his shirt, but then his undershirt is completely white.
I did not see these pictures in the media coverage of the purported IDF attack on the Reuters and Iranian cameramen. I saw them on Powerlineblog Web site. I did not see any questions raised from either the Israeli or the international media on the veracity of Shana's tale, which of course, provides a nice balance to the Centanni-Wiig hostage story.
AS IS the case with the Palestinian war against Israel, one of the most notable aspects of Hizbullah's latest campaign against Israel has been the active collaboration of news organizations and international NGO's in Hizbullah's information war against Israel. Like their rogue state sponsors, subversive sub-national groups like Hizbullah, Fatah and Hamas, see information operations as an integral part of their war for the annihilation of Israel and defeat of the West. And their information operations are more advanced than any the world has seen. As becomes more evident with each passing day, they have successfully corrupted both the world media and the community of NGOs that purportedly operate in a neutral manner in war zones.
It is not a coincidence that I saw the pictures of the Reuters' vehicle on Powerline and not in the media coverage of the purported attack. Both the global media and the international NGO community abjectly refuse to investigate themselves. As democratic governments and their militaries have proven incapable of dealing with the phenomenon (in part because they seek to curry favor with the media and the international NGO community), the blogosphere has taken upon itself the role of media watchdog.
BLOGGERS HAVE become a critical component of the free world's defense in the current war. During the Hizbullah campaign in Lebanon, bloggers scrutinized coverage of the war in a way that has never been done before. Their work has exposed the dirty secret of the Middle East that the media has hidden for so many years: The global media and the international NGO community, which profess to be neutral observers, are in fact colluding with terrorist organizations.
The blogosphere, and particularly Little Green Footballs, Powerline, Zombietime, Michelle Malkin, and EU Referendum, have relentlessly exposed the systematic staging of news events, fabrication of attacks against relief workers, and doctoring of photographic images by Hizbullah with the active assistance of international organizations and the global media.
Please read the whole thing, and don't miss Caroline's stirring conclusion:
As each day passes it becomes clear that the responsibility of protecting our nations and societies from internal disintegration has passed to the hands of individuals, often working alone, who refuse to accept the degradation of their societies and so fight with the innovative tools of liberty to protect our way of life. The vigilance of just a handful of bloggers brought us the knowledge of the corruption of our media and the network of global NGOs that we have come to rely on to tell us the "objective" truth.
It is up to all citizens of the free world, who value our freedom to recognize this corruption, applaud the bloggers and join them in refusing to allow these corrupt institutions to cloud our commitment to freedom.


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"Biebian" is a new term for lesbians who sport the teen pop-star Justin Bieber's hairstyle.
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Word of the Gay: "Biebian"
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4 comments:
- Diane J Standiford said...
Who is Justin Beiber? OK, I'm too old for this word, it will be gone before my next bowel movement.
- June 9, 2010 at 11:45 AM
- Queers United said...
Haha Diane I almost spit out my coffee! I don't really know about this Justin guy but he is all the rage among young girls and is becoming a superstar.
- June 10, 2010 at 11:30 AM
- SickNTired said...
so please tell what was this call be justin beiber,
- June 10, 2010 at 7:08 PM
- Bridgeout said...
Oh no you did NOT just post that!! HA!!! What a hoot!
- June 19, 2010 at 4:56 PM
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So, I decided to start a webcomic based on the Space Wars. The idea is to retell the story through Paint-drawn strips. Also, this comic will educate as well as entertain - with every strip I will post a related link to the Brikwiki or TV Tropes.
Here's today's link.


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Strava has really gained traction among the San Francisco Bay area cycling community. In some group rides, in particular competitive non-racer groups like Mission Cycling and SF2G, typically 3/4 of the riders will upload rides, all the more remarkable considering it requires an expensive GPS-enabled cycle computer (although the price of entry gets lower with each new generation of Garmins, as the users dump their old units).
Here's the Marincello trail page for cycling (which includes both mountain biking and road biking). As I write this, 99 users have uploaded rides which include this segment, ridden a total of 567 times. The top time, by David Beldon, was with a VAM of 1194 meters/hour, quite impressive for a gravelly dirt fire road. I'm ranked 24th.
But Strava isn't just about cycling. Basically any activity which involves transport by human power is compatible. Strava activities can be categorized in a number of areas, and of course running is one of these. The Marin Headlands trails, every weekend day are full of trail runners. This is an absolute hotbed of trail running in the United States, and the Marin Headlands are a favorite for both training and racing.
So after running in the headlands today, I created a segment for the Marincello trail. "Run 1 time by 1 person". I'm ranked first. And only. What's up with that?
Come on people, get on the program. I'm not sure what website the trail runners are uploading their GPS too, but it's obviously not Strava. What am I missing?
Sunday, April 3, 2011
Strava, running versus cycling
Labels: Strava, trail running
2 comments:
- MtnStephen said...
+3. There are lots of options for sites to upload my activities to, all of which have a few features I like. None of which have all the features I want. Plus Three wins for me, just on the feel-good aspect of earning $$$ for causes.
Apologies if you've covered this elsewhere in your excellent blog.
- July 11, 2011 at 12:48 PM
- djconnel said...
Thanks for the suggestion! Others have suggested +3. I think the user-defined segment definition of Strava is fantastic: I don't think +3 has anything that good (could be wrong).
I do note that in my favorite running grounds, San Francisco and the Marin Headlands, I'm seeing more and more times show up. It's getting harder and harder to get KOMs! So things seem to be picking up for Strava with the wheel-less crowd.
- July 11, 2011 at 12:57 PM
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Supposedly, the Jets are giving him a tryout.
12evanf wrote:The last one is absolutely amazing.
razor150 wrote:Pretty cool, but can he do it with somebody running straight at him or when the game is on the line?
SEC FAN wrote:razor150 wrote:Pretty cool, but can he do it with somebody running straight at him or when the game is on the line?
Yeah you never know. It is a highlight reel. I'm no kicker aficionado but I did some kicking back in the day. He does get good lift on his longer kicks which is the biggest thing. A good amount of kickers can kick from long range if they line drive it, but the key is not to get the ball batted down at the line of scrimmage or take to long in the approach. He seems to have a reasonably short approach (40 yards and less), his longer kicks he seems to take a longer approach but he does get good lift. Bonus: it looks like he can punt it 60 yards over the uprights.
JesterHawk wrote:Would be a cool story if he makes it.
JSeahawks wrote:Yea, but can he make an extra point with 70,000 people watching and 11 dudes trying to block it, when he only has one take? I kind of doubt it.


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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 56 diseños de 15 diseñadores freelance.
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I'm an entreprenuer trying to increase the appeal, visibility and product "recall" of my sign manufacturing business amongst potential customers. We're a full service sign manufacturing company, producing all types of signage, from the smallest floor graphic to pillar signs to vehicle wraps and every sign in between. We can reproduce signs from artwork customers already have, to developing signs from a "blank slate" where customers have no or only a vague idea what they want.
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I'd like to see at least 1 rendering that uses a stylized script "M" like I've included in the attached file or something like it, but I'm not tied to that exclusively........
I would also like to see at least 1 rendering with an image that conveys "majesty" or "majestic" rather than initials or letters.
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While in Chapters filling in some gaps in my Dark Horse Berserk volumes, I decided to finally pick up some Vagabond! VizBigs 3 in 1 volumes really make this easy and affordable to buy! Can't wait to get home to start reading it!
Well, you're not missing anything at the moment, we're still waiting to discuss the next events as well, whenever that may be. I'm looking forward to it myself.
Can't wait to get home to start reading it!
Glad to hear that, let us know what you think!
I'm really enjoying it so far. I instantly connected with Musashi, Matahatchi, and Otsu.
Me to. Jokes aside, I am glad to hear that you are enjoying Vagabond.
Brand new to this series, I have a few volumes a friend gave me, but they're mismatched...like 2 and 11 or something. I absolutely love the art. The story and who it's based on always seemed fascinating to me. I think I'm going to look for vol 1. so I can start this series! I've only heard good things about it.
PS: I like that when you scroll over the Vagabond emoticons it says Berserk names. Heehee.
Hello, quite new here. I just started reading Vagabond. I've gone through two volumes so far, and it seems like a good manga. Everyone here says it gets even better as it goes on, so I'm going to stick with it. Besides I need something to hold me over for more Berserk.
So I just read Vagabond and finished it. I started a lot of times but never finished reading the whole manga.Now my question is: are the new episodes/chapters released in a Berserk way, or more frequent? So basically do we have to wait months for even news of a new episode/chapter?And I really enjoyed Vagabond, not as much as Berserk. But it was an awesome read, especially the fighting scenes.
I recently acquired volumes 1-22.Do you have anything to say before i start reading ?
Thanks ! I'm gonna read slowly because I don't really have much time these days. I want to read the serie since the first volume have been released in France (March, 24 of 2001) anyway. So I've been very patient


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