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by Scott Boyle
The Monticello High School drill team captured the second place trophy at the 1A, 2A, 3A state drill team championships last Saturday at Utah Valley University. The Buckaroos captured second place in all three categories, Military, Dance and Character to grab the second place state trophy. First place in all three categories and overall went to the Duchesne Eagles, for the 11th year in a row.
Additionally, three Lady Buckaroos, Denae Carter, Averi Christiansen, and Kamri Langston were chosen to the 1A All-State Drill Team.
Eleven years ago, Monticello didn't even have a drill team. The drill team/cheer team was started about five or six years ago with Sydney Young heading up the cheer squad and Monique Christiansen leading the drill team.
Its a long season for drill and cheer too, as they start in the fall and go until basketball is over, longer than any other season. And many of ther girls participate in other sports as well, such as cross country and volleyball. Several of the team can even be seen playing in the pep band at some games. Despite all that and thanks to two hour practices every for many months, the Buckaroo Ladies have made a quick climb to the top, especially in 1A, where Duchesne wins almost by default every year. Congratulations to the girls and coaches.
Sportshorts noticed a great act of sportsmanship at the Drill Competition. Immediately after the awards ceremony concluded, the San Juan drill team threaded their way through all the drill teams seated on the floor of the UVU Center to congratulate the Buckaroos on their second place finish. There was lots of happy smiles, high fives and good feelings all around.
Buckaroo senior Tanner Eardley scored a career high 26 points Friday night in Monticello to lead the Bucks to another Region 19 win over Pinnacle Canyon Panthers, 74-23.
The win was a good one for the Buckaroos, after they let one slip away Tuesday night in Monticello to the San Juan Broncos, 63-60, in a game that had it all, almost.
San Juan led early, only to have MHS forge a nine point halftime lead which they stretched to 15 at one time in the third quarter.
SJ's Diquan Lopez led a furious SJ comeback, which saw MHS not only give up an 11 point lead but fall behind by 10 late in the fourth quarter after a 28-6 Broncos run.
Then with just two minutes left and trailing by 10, the Bucks staged a huge rally of their own, getting within one and trailing by three points in the final seconds only to rim out a desperation three point heave by Dillon Maughan at the buzzer that would have sent the game to overtime. Take a big breath right here before you read on!!
Lopez finished the game with 23 points and three treys. He scored 11 points with all three treys in the fourth quarter alone as the Broncos rallied. Max Morley contributed to the Broncos 29-point fourth quarter with seven while Tyrel Pemberton added nine 4th quarter points.
The Broncos were eight of ten from the free throw line in the fourth, with the only misses coming with just four seconds left, giving the Bucks time for the desperation heave. Morley had 15 points for the game and Pemberton 14.
Austin Maloy had an outstanding night for Monticello with 28 points and four treys, but it wasn't enough. Sheldon Black tossed in 14 points and two treys while Tanner Eardley added two more three pointers and 12 points.
The Bucks rebounded against Pinnacle, winning going away. The first quarter started slow for the Bucks, as they made just five of 15 shots to lead 13-7. Austin Maloy made two treys to start the game but the Bucks went cold the rest of the quarter.
Eardley started to get untracked in the second quarter and finished the half with 16 points as the Bucks outscored Pinnacle in the second quarter, 21-4 to take a 34-11 halftime lead. Eardley and Maloy both had ten more points each in the second half as the Bucks found the range from the three-point line. They finished the game making 12 of their last 14 shots to seal the win.
In addition to scoring 26 points, Eardley added nine rebounds and three steals to the Buckaroo effort. Maloy finished with 16 points, four rebounds, four assists, two steals and two blocked shots.
Dillon Maughan had nine points. Sheldon Black scored eight points as did Matt Freestone, who also had two blocked shots. The wins and loss run the Bucks overall record to 11-2 and 6-0 atop the Region 19 standings.
The Lady Bucks ran their region record to 5-1 and 12-5 overall with two region wins in one week. Tuesday the girls raced to a 31-11 halftime lead on their way to a 61-36 win over Monument Valley. Zoe Chadwick had the range for the Bucks with 22 points. Atlanta Black scored 17 while Aapree Sheeran and Mary Beh both added eight in the win.
Friday night the Bucks beat the Panthers from Pinnacle Canyon School in Price by a similar 62-32 score. The Ladies from Monticello threw a press on the Panthers that was brutally effective, getting 17 steals and forcing even more turnovers to handily beat the Panthers.
Mary Beh was particularly effective inside with 16 points, three assists and four steals. Black added 13 points, six assists and four steals, too. Allie Maughan had nine points, four rebounds, two assists and two steals to go with Tawna Well's eight points, seven rebounds and two steals. The Buckaroos had 14 assists as a team on 28 baskets as they shot 52 percent from the field on 28-54 field goals. Saturday's game with Navajo Mountain was canceled for both the boys and girls on account of bad roads.
Went to the Buckaroo wrestles the other night. And what an awesome night it was, 27 matches against opponents from Moab, Monument Valley and Whitehorse, with Monticello winning 22 of 25 matches, two hours of good ole Buckaroo wrestling!
Most folks left feeling very entertained and satisfied with two hours of wrestling, the most matches I've seen at MHS in years. With nowadays wrestling schedules set with tournaments nearly every weekend, and rightly so since every wrestler is guaranteed several matches, the individual duel match isn't matching up, especially when one of the teams only has 7-9 wrestlers as was the case this year in duel matches against San Juan and Dolores.
Monticello received five forfeits in its duel with San Juan the very next night in Blanding. Until last Wednesday, there were several Buckaroos that I hadn't even seen wrestle this whole year. Longtime Buck coach Kent Adair may be on to something with the "Packed Duel", several small teams together to guarantee at least one match for everyone everytime.


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Not every weather system zips along in the jet stream.
Sometimes, a system is cut off and, basically, gets stuck in a geographic area. This happens on occasion with upper-level low pressure systems, and they're commonly known as "cut-off lows."
Such a system will hover over parts of the eastern United States over the next few days, and it will bring rainy, chilly weather to the Charlotte region.
The low pressure system is crossing the Carolinas today, and it contains some cold air in the higher levels of the atmosphere. That is helping create instability, and the result will be showers and probably a few thunderstorms this afternoon.
With cold air aloft, any thunderstorm that develops could produce hail.
These cut-off lows tend to meander, since there's no jet stream to guide them along. On Tuesday, the low is expected to be somewhere over northeast North Carolina or southern Virginia. It'll still be close enough to bring us showers, and with clouds and chilly air, we'll be lucky to climb above the mid 60s in Charlotte.
That's about 15 degrees below average for this time of year.
By Wednesday, the cut-off low will drift a bit farther north, which means showers chances will diminish (but not disappear ... many areas will get another shower or two) and temperatures will reach the low 70s.
And by Thursday, the low pressure system is forecast to be far enough north and east that the Charlotte region will return to more seasonal conditions.
If you're looking ahead to Friday's and Saturday's events at Charlotte Motor Speedway, the forecast looks good. High temperatures Saturday are expected to reach the middle 80s.
Monday, May 16, 2011
Wet and chilly for a few days
Not every weather system zips along in the jet stream.
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- Anonymous said...
Anybody who thinks today was too "chilly" deserves to spend the rest of their lives in Florida where you can melt to your hearts content. I say let the cut off low stick around for a few months.
- May 16, 2011 at 3:35 PM
- Anonymous said...
I agree.... I live in Florida after living in Charlotte for a dozen wonderful years!!! It's hot a humid here and would love to be back in Charlotte! Gorgeous city to live in!
- May 16, 2011 at 5:54 PM
- Anonymous said...
Why on earth did you move to Florida? I've been warning you all for 5 years what a hellhole it is. I was there for 17 miserable years. And with any luck I'll be back in upstate NY by next summer.
- May 16, 2011 at 6:04 PM
- Anonymous said...
Ditto here! Today was very nice! I was born & raised here, moved to Orlando for 16 years! The ONLY time I miss it is in Jan and Feb!
But now we have rain for the rest of the week :-(
- May 16, 2011 at 7:53 PM
- Anonymous said...
I've lived here for 51 years. Over 80 is too hot below 45 is too cold.
- May 16, 2011 at 8:11 PM
- Anonymous said...
that omega block sure does like us!
- May 16, 2011 at 10:47 PM
- Anonymous said...
Nobody ever said it was "too chilly". The article said it was "chilly". As it said, it's going to be 15 degrees below normal. That would be "chilly" for this time of year.
- May 17, 2011 at 7:21 AM
- Anonymous said...
Florida is one thing, but the most God-awful place on the earth has got to be Columbia, South Carolina in the Summer.
- May 17, 2011 at 10:25 AM
- Anonymous said...
Try the Washington, D.C., area in the summer. In the days before air conditioning, the combination of heat and humidity (oh, the humidity!) qualified federal employees for a special hazardous-duty stipend.
- May 17, 2011 at 7:20 PM

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VAIL, CO (March 28) - A large crowd of residents and guests of the Vail Valley got the opportunity to welcome home their newest Olympic champion Friday evening, March 28, as the Vail Valley Foundation and the Town of Vail hosted the "Gold Rush" celebration for Mikaela Shiffrin.
Shiffrin arrived at Championships Plaza for the celebration on a Vail fire truck, accompanied by 2015 World Championships mascots Pete the Mountain Lion and Earl the Raccoon. She walked to the stage on a carpet that listed her World Cup wins and titles, along with her 2013 World Championship and Sochi Olympic medals.
On February 21, the now 19-year-old Shiffrin became the youngest Slalom champion in Olympic Alpine Skiing history, with her .53 victory in Sochi over Austria's Marlies Schild. Four days earlier, she made her Olympic debut with a fifth place showing in the Giant Slalom.
When asked about how much of a whirlwind the last month has been, she replied, "The best part was getting off the fire truck and seeing all of you. I was trying not to cry."
In addition to her Olympic exploits, Shiffrin recorded her fifth World Cup Slalom victory of the current season March 15 in Lenzerheide, Switzerland to wrap up her second consecutive World Cup Slalom title. Over the course of the past two winters, Shiffrin has claimed a total of nine World Cup slalom wins.
"We are truly honored to say that the Vail Valley is home to this great international champion," explained Ceil Folz, president of the Vail Valley Foundation and head of the 2015 World Championships Organizing Committee. "We could not ask for a better ambassador to inspire the next generation of skiers in our community and our country."
Presentations on the evening included a lime green cruiser bike from the Vail Valley Foundation and a lifetime ski pass from Vail Resorts. Sharing the stage was also one of the signs that were put up throughout Eagle-Vail during the Olympics, signed by the community.
In addition to special presentations, the Gold Rush celebration included free music, an autograph opportunity and the chance to be part of a community photo.
"We are thrilled that the community came out to welcome Mikaela home," offered Folz. "We are obviously extremely proud of her accomplishments and look forward to even greater things to come, especially as we now look ahead to the 2015 World Championships in Vail and Beaver Creek."
Scheduled from February 2-15 of 2015, the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships in Vail and Beaver Creek are expected to showcase athletes from over 70 nations, with an estimated 750 million worldwide television viewers and an onsite media and broadcast entourage of approximately 1,500 members.
For additional information on the 2015 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships in Vail and Beaver Creek, visit www.vailbeavercreek2015.com.
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Winter 2013
Profile: Far from the Manse and the White Picket Fence
Claudia M.'s teen and adult years threw her more than a few curve balls, taking her life in a direction she could not have foreseen. Today Claudia educates and supports fellow Latinos and HIV-positive women in prison.
By Peter Carlyle-Gordge
Claudia M. grew up in a rough neighbourhood of Toronto. The only child of a single mother, who emigrated from Bogotá, Colombia, when Claudia was just five, she led a protected life. Her mother sent her to Catholic schools in the safer parts of town because she didn't want Claudia spending time in their neighbourhood. Change came when Claudia was 15 and landed her first job, at a theatre. "I began to make friends and socialize beyond my sheltered world," she says.
Claudia became best friends with a young man whom she fell in love with. Shortly after they met, she began attending his Presbyterian church. At age 16, influenced by his religious practices, Claudia became a born-again Christian. Her life plan included marriage, four children, a nice house and a white picket fence.
But Claudia was also a teenager who was discovering her sexuality. "Sex before marriage for me was always wracked with guilt," she says. "I was young and full of sexual desires, including bisexual ones, but the church had taught me that to act on these without being married was sinful, so I rarely enjoyed sex. The solution was to hide my bisexual desires and to get married."
Not long after becoming engaged, Claudia began to realize that something wasn't quite right between her and her fiancé. They were both young and vibrant, yet a sexual spark seemed to be missing and she wondered why they had sex so infrequently. "I started having an affair to avoid the problems my fiancé and I faced in our relationship," she says, which only compounded her sense of Catholic guilt.
Then, one month before their wedding date, in the middle of a heated argument, Claudia's fiancé admitted that he had been sleeping with men but wasn't happy about it and thought it sinful. Claudia knew that if she blew the cover off of this, her mother and family would never let her see him again and she would lose her love and best friend. So she decided to believe her fiancé when he said that he had closed any gay chapters in his life. They married as planned.
AS THEY SETTLED into their new life, Claudia and her husband knew something was still amiss. They decided that having a child might fill the void. In 1993, at age 23, she gave birth to her son. While pregnant, she had been physically sick and suffered from depression. In Latino culture, Claudia says, women are supposed to be strong and carry on regardless. "I felt that I couldn't reach out to my family because of my depression but also because I wanted to shelter them from my marital problems. And pretending that we had a great family and great life was all a part of fitting in at church."
"We continued to be active in the church," she says, "but I slowly began to realize that organized religion had fed me many lies." Claudia and her husband disclosed their marital secrets to their minister, whose advice was to pray and come to him for counselling. A pivotal moment occurred when she was talking to the minister's wife: The subject of a lesbian march for Gay Pride Day came up. The minister's wife was vicious in her views on lesbians, which Claudia did not like. "This so-called Christian woman said that she wouldn't let a lesbian even eat from her dog's bowl."
She joined a support group for women married to bisexual men and was appalled by what some of them put up with to keep their marriage going. One of the women described how her husband of 12 years always went into another room to undress. "When I heard that story," Claudia reflects, "I realized that nothing we could do was going to change the fact that my husband was attracted to men." She began to feel that being bisexual was not something that needed to be fixed but something to be embraced.
During her first year as a mother, Claudia was haunted by doubts, depression and illness. Isolated and depressed, Claudia began cutting herself. Gradually, the marriage deteriorated. In April 1994, a combination of ongoing weight loss and concern about being exposed to HIV led Claudia to take an HIV test. The result was positive. "The diagnosis knocked the wind out of me," she recalls. Claudia urged her husband to get tested; he too was positive. They continued to support each other as friends, but the marriage was over. In 1996 she moved out with her son.
Initially Claudia blamed her ex-husband for her diagnosis, but "my real anger was with myself for being so naive," she says. "I knew that we could get HIV, but I refused to take off the blinders and recognize that HIV could affect me. Looking back now, I can connect all the factors that contributed to my diagnosis: lack of HIV/AIDS information, my religion, low self-esteem, childhood trauma from seeing violence in my family, and gender power imbalances in the relationships I chose."
A SEVERE TWO-YEAR BOUT of depression followed her diagnosis. The only thing that kept Claudia going was the need to take care of her young son. She wanted to look after him as well as do a better job of looking after herself.
Keen to give back to the community that had supported her when she was first diagnosed and trying to move beyond her depression, Claudia began volunteering at various AIDS service organizations (ASOs)—with the Speakers Bureau at the Toronto People With AIDS Foundation (PWA), Teresa Group and Positive Youth Outreach.
Her first paid job in the field was at Voices of Positive Women. Claudia later became an employee at PWA and in 2006, she and a friend, community activist Samuel Lopez, established Latinos Positivos, an advocacy organization run for and by HIV-positive Spanish speakers in Toronto. Many of the Latino people living with HIV in Toronto, and elsewhere in Canada, are new immigrants. They often feel isolated, which Claudia says is in part due to the ignorance and prejudice about HIV in the Latino community and a lack of culturally appropriate services. But today things are improving and newcomers come in to Latinos Positivos every week to seek peer support and a sense of community.
Claudia has seen the homophobia that exists in Latin culture from her own family members. "I think the fact that my husband contracted HIV from having sex with men made it harder for my family to forgive him than if he had contracted it through heterosexual sex," she says. "This homophobia makes it much harder for me to come out to my family as queer."
To overcome homophobia and HIV-related stigma and discrimination in Latino communities, a lot of education is still needed, Claudia says. In 2008, Latinos Positivos produced Nuestras Caras, Nuestras Historias (Our Faces, Our Stories), a Spanish educational video that features Latino immigrants to Canada who are living with HIV (see "Art Posi+ive: Latino Positivo," in the Spring/Summer 2010 issue). The six men and women interviewed—Claudia included—tell their stories about living with HIV.
More recently, Claudia also shared her story in the 2012 documentary Positive Women: Exposing Injustice, about how the criminalization of HIV non-disclosure impacts HIV-positive women in Canada. "The issue of criminalization is very important to me," she says. "I believe that everyone has to take responsibility for the risks they take when having sex, instead of playing the blame game."
IN 2009, CLAUDIA took on the full-time role of women's prison program coordinator at PASAN (the Prisoners' HIV/AIDS Support Action Network). PASAN is an ASO that provides education and support to prisoners and ex-prisoners in Ontario on HIV, hepatitis C and harm reduction. Claudia delivers educational workshops and provides support to women living with HIV in prison. "I love the work I do. The system has let these women down," she says. In her job, she helps fill a gap in services for women who have been in trouble with the law, who are marginalized because of [societal] attitudes. "I let them know that they are not alone and that someone out there cares about their health and livelihood."
Claudia has balanced her work in the HIV community with the challenges and joys of being a mom. When her son was three, Claudia tried telling him about HIV, "but he was too young," she recalls. "When I mentioned that mommy had HIV, his response was 'Well, I want HIV too, like mommy.'" After her son turned seven, she began to explain more. He wondered, for instance, when she was paralyzed with depression why she wanted to lie on the couch. Those conversations were sometimes difficult, but Claudia thinks it's important for parents to be open with their children: "We think children are fragile but they are intelligent and often know if something is wrong," she says. "So you need to talk to them." It's also essential, she believes, to reassure them that you'll be around for a long time yet.
While Claudia still struggles with depression, she feels stronger and more optimistic than ever before. When first diagnosed, she thought she'd be dead by age 40. That didn't happen; in fact, she only recently started taking HIV meds after being positive for over 18 years. And now, in her early 40s, she likely has another 30 to 40 years ahead of her.
"What I need to stay away from in order to stay alive is stress. I'm always trying to find balance in my life, so I can fully enjoy it. Part of that balance comes with helping others; I, in turn, help myself. I feel more connected with the universe," she muses. "The more I've fought and broken down barriers, the more fulfilled and happy I've felt in life."
Winnipegger Peter Carlyle-Gordge is a former writer for Macleans, Time Canada and The Financial Post. He has also worked as a CBC Radio broadcaster and producer and is a former UK correspondent for the Toronto Star. In the 1980s he was president of the Village Clinic (now Nine Circles Community Health Centre), a key player in the HIV epidemic in Manitoba.
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Sunday, August 26, 2012
Starving Amidst Plenty
Socialist or capitalist monopolies lead to rationing societies where production is restrained and innovation is discouraged. The difference between the two is that a capitalist monopoly can be overcome. A socialist monopoly however is insurmountable because it carries with it the full weight of the authorities and the ideology that is inculcated into every man, woman and child in the country.
We have become a rationing society. Our industries and our people are literally starving in the midst of plenty. Farmers are kept from farming, factories are kept from producing and businessmen are kept from creating new companies and jobs. This is done in the name of a variety of moral arguments, ranging from caring for the less fortunate to saving the planet. But rhetoric is only the lubricant of power. The real goal of power is always power. Consolidating production allows for total control through the moral argument of rationing, whether through resource redistribution or cap and trade.
The politicians of a rationing society may blather on endlessly about increasing production, but it's so much noise, whether it's a Soviet Five Year Plan or an Obama State of the Union Address. When they talk about innovation and production, what they mean is the planned production and innovation that they have decided should happen on their schedule. And that never works.
You can ration production, but that's just another word for poverty. You can't ration innovation, which is why the aggressive attempts to put low mileage cars on the road have failed. As the Soviet Union discovered, you can have rationing or innovation, but you can't have both at the same time. The total control exerted by a monolithic entity, whether governmental or commercial, does not mix well with innovation.
The rationing society is a poverty generator because not only does it discourage growth, its rationing mechanisms impoverish existing production with massive overhead. The process of rationing existing production requires a bureaucracy for planning, collecting and distributing that production that begins at a ratio of the production and then increases without regard to the limitations of that production.
Paradoxically the rationing infrastructure increases in direct proportion to the falloff of production as lower production requires even greater rationing. This is what we are seeing now in the United States, in a weak economy, there is greater justification for the expansion of rationing mechanisms. And the worse the economy becomes, the bigger government will become to "compensate" for the problems of the economy.
In a production society, the role of government is to expand the territories of exploitation and to protect those territories. In a rationing society, the role of government is to control the available quantities of production with a view to distributing them fairly. Naturally, the rationers, as always, get the best rations. In a production society, government is a means of protecting everyone's ability to produce. In a rationing society, government prevents the bigger from grabbing the rations of the smaller and protects everyone from grabbing all the rations at once and starving to death.
The sort of society we have is fit for passengers adrift at sea on a lifeboat parceling out their last crackers. It is an emergency society for the lost and the starving. And perversely we are starving amidst plenty.
The rationing society discourages people from farming and encourages them to peer in each other's mouths to see who is eating more than his fair share. In the rationing society everyone is certain that they are not getting their fair share and eager to sign on to initiatives to get their group's fair share. In a rationing society everyone is an informer because everyone's livelihood depends on informing on others.
In a production society, people compete for production. In a rationing society, people compete for entitlements. Everyone is always bitter and suspicious in a rationing society, and when they aren't, they're resigned and phlegmatic. They either accept that life is unfair or they rave against it. They are either jealous or give up on material things entirely making their society into a comprehensive failure.
In a rationing society, people are certain that if another has something, then he came by it unfairly. And every group has an exaggerated sense of the material prosperity of other groups. This is not a bug, it is a feature. The rationing society deliberately cultivates a sense of unfairness to make it clear that individual efforts are meaningless and the only thing that matters is one's connections to the rationers and the degree of mutual support from the group for the rationers and the rationers for the group.
Individual initiative is discouraged by a web of bureaucracy to make it difficult for individuals to act outside the plan. In a monopolistic system, rules and permits make it difficult for the individual to move forward. The permit regime also promotes corruption which makes honest enterprise almost impossible. Through these means the system restrains the micro, which is ordinarily too small to be properly controlled, while focusing on the macro.
The rationing of present day America, which has the resources, the wealth and the techniques to produce, is being managed in political terms. The politicians still talk in terms of innovation and production, even while enacting policies meant to discourage both. The dominant political class has been dedicated to one form of rationing or another throughout the 20th Century. The only difference between them is the degree of radicalism and their understanding that the rationing is a transition, rather than a safety net or an emergency measure.
When you listen to the larger message of the left, it is one of finity. We have a finite amount of planetary resources and domestic wealth. This finity represents a global and national crisis that has to be tackled with rationing mechanisms. We are all on a lifeboat and some of us are gobbling up more than their fair share of rations. Unless the rationers step forward, seize everyone's rations and pass out limited rations, then we are all doomed.
The essential 21st Century conflict is between the rationers and the producers. This is not a class conflict, that is the fallacy that the left has fallen into for over a century. It is a conflict between a system of bureaucratic collectivism and a society of individuals. It is not a conflict between the rich and the poor, the majority of the rationers are either rich or close enough to it. Their charges may be poor, but the representatives of their victim groups invariably become rich. The rationer camp is funded by some of the wealthiest men and companies in America who agree with its premise that we need to ration everything from children to jobs to food to carbon emissions.
This is a fundamental philosophical conflict between those who believe in a free society and those who believe in a managed society. It is not simply a conflict between capitalism and socialism, many of the capitalists are on the side of the rationers because they agree with them or profit from the rationing. It is a conflict that predates the American Revolution, a conflict that became inevitable with the rise of the supercity and the closing of the frontier.
Scientific management, rather than predicting human variables, has done its best to make everything predictable, and a perfectly predictable thing is static. It has no ability to move forward. The drive to make the behavior of people predictable has led to the institutionalism of every aspect of life. And that has led to rationing programs that depend on predictability, and when that predictability fails,respond with greater efforts at control.
A production society defines achievement in terms of production. A rationing society defines it in terms of control. In a rationing society, it is possible to starve amidst plenty because the rationers would rather see people starve, than lose control over them.
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- Anonymous said...
Are those F-4's? I though maybe they were PV-2's but it is hard to tell with no wing. Plus I'm an old man and while the eyes are as beady as every, they don't work like they used to.
Excellent analysis. Socialism has changed radically (how else) since the word was coined in the mid 19th century. As has capitalism. I'm thinking that there are no pure 'isms' left. It is awkward to say some country is 60% capitalist, 20% socialist and 20% fascist. If I may, I will use production and rationing in the future.
Charlie don't surf.
- 27/8/12
- Anonymous said...
There are people who require rationing. Some people refuse to work, or rather work very hard at being disabled and dependent. They will quickly exhaust all the available produce as they have little appreciation for production. What do you propose to do with such folks in a production society? Right now, I estimate half of the American population fits into this category.
- 27/8/12
- Anonymous said...
DP111 wrote..
It has been noticed by the "rationers", that employed work has beneficial effects on the individual, both psychological and physical. Therefore, employed work will be rationed in the future.
The PJ Tatler has obtained documents from the Justice Department detailing efforts to recruit attorneys and staff who are dwarfs or who have "psychiatric disabilities" or "severe intellectual disabilities." On May 31, 2012, Assistant Attorney General Tom Perez issued a directive to affirmatively recruit people with these "targeted disabilities."
- 27/8/12
- Geoffrey Britain said...
"This is a struggle between those who believe that people should be managed and those who believe that people should manage themselves."
"Men by their constitutions are naturally divided into two parties:
1. Those who fear and distrust the people, and wish to draw all powers from them into the hands of the higher classes.
2. Those who identify themselves with the people, have confidence in them, cherish and consider them as the most honest and safe, although not the most wise depository of the public interests.
In every country these two parties exist, and in every one where they are free to think, speak, and write, they will declare themselves." –Thomas Jefferson to Henry Lee, 1824.
- 27/8/12
- Friday said...
"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them." Henry Lee to Thomas Jefferson
- 27/8/12
- Anonymous said...
To learn who rules over you, simply find out whom you are not allowed to criticize.
- 27/8/12
- Anonymous said...
Ever hear of survival of the fittest?????
- 27/8/12
- Edward Cline said...
What you might have done is present a précis of Ayn Rand's dystopian novel, Anthem. In a society reduced to manual labor and subsistence existence, and whose top achievement is the invention of the candle, one man invents the light bulb. This is his reception when he offers it to the government (personal pronouns such as "I" have been banished, except for collective pronouns). The relevant text is here:
"Should it be what they claim of it," said Harmony 9-2642, then it would bring ruin to the Department of Candles. The Candle is a great boon to mankind, as approved by all men. Therefore it cannot be destroyed by the whim of one."
"This would wreck the Plans of the World Council," said Unanimity 2-9913, "and without the Plans of the World Council the sun cannot rise. It took fifty years to secure the approval of all the Councils for the Candle, and to decide upon the number needed, and to re-fit the Plans so as to make candles instead of torches. This touched upon thousands and thousands of men working in scores of States. We cannot alter the Plans again so soon."
"And if this should lighten the toil of men," said Similarity 5-0306, "then it is a great evil, for men have no cause to exist save in toiling for other men."
Then Collective 0-0009 rose and pointed at our box. "This thing," they said, "must be destroyed."
This is in Chapter 7.
The society in which the hero (who escapes with his light bulb) is a rationing society.
- 27/8/12
- Edward Cline said...
To correct my last sentence: The society in which the hero lives (who escapes it with his light bulb) is a rationing society.
Daniel: This is another excellent essay. But it was so on point with Anthem that I couldn't help but excerpt the relevant dialogue from Rand's novel.
- 27/8/12
- Daniel Greenfield said...
Yes I think it fits excellently.
- 27/8/12
- John D McComas said...
Let us not forget our Friederich Hayek. Any civil society, that is a fully functioning (producers) society, should have and almost requires that it have safety net provisions for the systemically misfortunate/marginalized, as a matter of ethic, expediency, and pragmatism. To posess that societal feature (quite incorrectly "owned" by the Left) and retain a productive society are not mutually exclusive. The exclusion occurs on the flip side of that coin. The fully rationing society (to once again borrow Greenfield's coinage) cannot insist upon its preeminence at the tasks of creating/mandating/managing/distributing/guaranteeing the safety net provisions and wealth transfer programs without always-already first excluding or at the least dulling the impulses and actions and the collective mindset that make the productive society so peculiarly productive. In short, it is not hypocrisy to want and achieve both ends, if you first organize society with a mind toward individual sovereignty as opposed to collective well-being.
- 27/8/12
- John D McComas said...
Above comment was a response to Anonymous #2.
- 27/8/12
- Tom Rankin said...
Oh God now we have to count the comments to know whos who?
Good post but Rand beat you to it.
- 27/8/12
- EbonyRaptor said...
Anonymous is concerned about the welfare of the free-loaders. But they are only free-loaders because of that welfare, which in the hands of rationers is the incidious opiate used to enslave ever more.
- 27/8/12
- Joseph said...
Ebony who are you to call anyone a free loader?
- 27/8/12
- EbonyRaptor said...
Joseph, Anonymous was making the charge that there are some who refuse to work and other who work hard at being disabled and depentent - I chose to call them free-loaders, but it was obvious that Anonymous was singling out those who game the system. I focused on the same group and stated my belief that it is the wanton politicalization of the welfare system that allows free-loaders to game the system and breeds continues to breed more free-loaders.
To be clear - the free-loaders are a separate group than those who really need assistance. I believe the vast majority of the American people, including myself, are happy to contribute to help those in real need - which is quite different than contributing to a system that allows people to be lazy and knowingly cheat the system.
- 28/8/12
- Anonymous said...
It seems the republican poobah are a rationing society trying to throw off the ladder to the ranks of climbers. Lars
- 28/8/12
- Brennan said...
Lars, are you saying elephants are throwing a ladder to the ranks of the climbers, or kicking it away? Your tone seems to imply the latter. Perhaps you think this was a Republican-supporting screed--I disagree.
The author made clear that at least at the Federal level, most Republicans (as well as most Democrats), being part of the "dominant political class," have been complicit in advancing bureaucratic barriers to innovation and individual sovereignty. The difference in culpability is merely one of degree.
Hope this helps!
- 30/8/12
- Brennan said...
Excellent analysis. I've read tangential studies of shame societies vs guilt societies that were enlightening, but not one that's dealt with the economic impact of the societal attitude that permeates a people based upon what perhaps boils down to their sense of optimism.
I'm left with trying to understand the mindset of those who would still think a rationing society would be a good thing. I'm not speaking of the rationers, of course, as their support for a rationing society is self-evident. Rather, I'm thinking of those trapped within the penumbra of rationing, who view it as the natural and right way of being.
This is difficult to analyze, as normally one assumes people will act rationally (no pun intended). However, the term "rational actors" is too vague, as it assumes all people approach a given issue from the same perspective--this is rarely the case. So to understand the perspective of those who, to themselves, rationally support a rationing society, we have to delve into what they deem important. And here's where I get to my frustration with those who support a rationing society.
At the risk of becoming too long-winded (too late!), I look to history. For centuries, societies have been beset by self-appointed Wizards of Smart who were convinced that human productive capacity had reached its peak. Malthus is a prime example. Yet here we are, with more proven oil reserves than ever, nanotechnology set to revolutionize computing, medicine and manufacturing, as well as transportation and communication capabilities unheard of a mere 50 years ago.
Every time the nattering nabobs of negativity claim the sky is falling, they have been proven wrong by the innovations that increase our ability to meet human needs. What makes the current crop of Chicken Littles so much smarter than their forebears who were proven wrong? Every neo-Luddite today will, I predict be proven wrong in the next 50 years. Unfortunately, there will be others to replace them 50 years hence. They'll also be wrong.
- 30/8/12
- golfguy said...
Great article! You now see the manifestation of the revolt against the rationers in the U.S. Talk today is of self-reliance and the rationing of one's own enterprises so as to be able to survive the inevitable collapse that all rationing elites bring on to all societies throughout history. It is now dawning on more people who have unhooked from the paradigm of media propoganda that their own productivity is being siphoned away to keep these elected elites in power. Going galt by just a few % of the population at this time will bring the whole system down and the rationers know it.
When the end comes as it surely will and always has, it will leave the least productive in our society in a very vulnerable state. Their laziness will be their undoing and no matter of money printing will feed them if they have no means of confiscating someone else's work.
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3 US Senate candidates to square in debate in Portland, Maine
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Three U.S. Senate candidates are squaring off for the first time in three weeks.
Republican Charlie Summers, Democrat Cynthia Dill and independent Angus King are appearing at the Portland Regional Chamber of Commerce's monthly "Eggs and Issues."
Chris Hall, senior vice president for government relations, is moderating Tuesday's program, which will focus on issues affecting the business community.
It's the first time Dill, King and Summers have faced each other in a debate since Sept. 17 in Lewiston. King has accused Summers of ducking debates, but Summers says there are plenty of debates between now and the election.


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Having been an observer of the National Hockey League for decades I've come to acknowledge several truths. The first is that I adore hockey. The second is that the NHL owners don't give a damn about individual fans. The third is that collectively they are the 30 (ish) worst billionaire businessmen on the planet. Last of the great truths is that being an NHL fan is like being in an abusive relationship; they withhold attention, make arbitrary changes to how things are done, and trample all over your livelihood, friendships and pleasure activities on the smallest whim.
The biggest issue, as Ive said all along in this lockout is an owner versus owner issue. It is soluble. It just isn't fixable by bludgeoning the fans and players to death. Both the big owners and small owners do have points about he revenue sharing issues in the NHL. Yes the Toronto, Montreal, Boston, and other older and traditional market teams are propping up a lot of the league. On the other hand, without the teams in Florida, California, Ohio, and Texas getting a national television deal in the USA would be impossible. That TV deal, and the advertising revenue that go with it are vital to the league.
Both contraction which the ill informed argue for all the time, and mass relocation are undesirable, and unworkable. Once you take those two options off the table, and factor in reducing the burden on the top revenue earning teams the answer becomes obvious: Expand.
The expansion fees could be used to help get teams like the Islanders out of their current arena mess and into a new arena that will actually generate revenue. Likewise a low interested ten or so year loan to the Devils that got them not just out of financial peril, but gave them a cushion potentially gives you two more viable teams in a major market. The Coyotes may or may not be beyond fixing, but for damn sure owning their own arena would be a giant leap forward. With a wave of expansion, properly conducted little to no money would come out of the NHL' owners doing the best pockets, and they'd end up with well placed teams long term to help generate revenue reducing their burden eight, twelve and twenty years from now.
Where is the best place for the new teams? If we start with two waves of two teams, say Quebec City and somewhere in the Greater Toronto Area, they like Winnipeg will have four or five years of strong attendance just for showing up, regardless of how bad the teams are. Seattle is another city likely to have a firm fan base as long as it appears the owners have clue one about how to build (and market) a team. Portland Oregon also shows some potential. Then markets like; Salt Lake City which has an NBA team, but no other major sport. Milwaukee, and Indianapolis have marks in their favor, as do Saskatchewan and possibly even a second Chicago area team. Teams in places like the GTA, and Quebec city are likely to end up in the top 10/12 for revenue.
Given that the top ten teams earn roughly $1.5billion a year, If after year four in existence those teams are earning 15% below the average off the current top ten, those 12 teams alone will be generating almost 2 billion a year, that's almost 65% of the current leagues income. Seattle and wherever the fourth team landed might do roughly 12% below that, which is still another quarter billion. And that doesn't even factor in higher income from teams like the Islanders getting better arenas or better arena deals.


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Connects2 SWC.2 Steering Wheel Control Interface Adaptor plug and play installation. Connecting to the original radio connector and plugging in to the back of the new head unit is simple to fit.
A stalk/steering wheel control adaptor enables you to utilise the original factory remote audio (whether built onto steering wheel or fitted on a stalk next to the steering wheel) with an aftermarket unit.
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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 34 diseños de 9 diseñadores freelance.
Need a CD label and insert design that matches our company design and colors. Plus will also update our existing business card templates.
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We are looking for someone to create a CD Label and Jewel case insert that we can use to distribute our Investor Presentation. In addition the winning designer must be able to take our existing templates for our business cards and add our email address to the template. The current templates are in photoshop. The necessary information is on our website (work in progress) in the company page. Here is a link http://www.langthomas.com/company.html
On this page you will find our current templates for our business cards, an avery label template for the cd label and jewel case and our Investor Presentation. Our Investor Presentation is printed on our company letter head.
Please use the colors and designs of our letterhead and business card in your design for our cd labels and jewel case insert. We will be printing this in color!
This is a very simple very short contest. I have done two other contests on this website but they were last year so please look them up. We will pay the winner by paypal or corporate check. We have a short deadline in that we need to pick a winner and then have it printed before Monday the 12th since we are doing a presentation for investors on the 13th.
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A bit about us!
Ninukot was started by Svanborg Oskarsdottir in 1996. Since then hundreds of young Europeans have found work in the Iceland through Ninukot.
Ninukot started on a small farm in south of Iceland. There, Svanborg lived with her family, her thirty or so cows, two hundred sheep, her dogs Voffi (Barky) and Logi (Fire) and her cat Vaela (Whiner).
Svanborg's co-workers are Kristrun, Bjarney, Nína and Siggi.
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The Dolores River runs from the high peaks of the western San Juan and La Plata mountains, through the towns of Rico and Dolores, into McPhee Reservoir, then downstream through some of the most beautiful canyons around until it joins the San Miguel River near Naturita. It then heads north until is finally enters the Colorado River in Utah a few miles west of the state border with Colorado.
The river is truly one of the gems of western Colorado and is one of the most pristine and continuous wilderness river boating experiences in the West.
As most rivers in the West, it is also pushed and pulled in the attempt to meet the potentially conflicting needs and desires of a lot of people.
Since 1885, the water from the Dolores River has fed farms, ranches and communities in the Montezuma valley. This area is not in the Dolores basin, but is part of the McElmo Creek and San Juan River basins. In 1984, with the completion of the McPhee dam, the diversion of water from the Dolores to its neighboring river basin to the south increased. There are now 73,600 acres of farm and ranch land irrigated with Dolores River water outside the rivers basin.
Since time unknown, the Dolores River has been home to a variety of fish, some of which were once plentiful but are now in danger of disappearing, not only from the Dolores, but throughout the West. The numbers of native fish below McPhee have declined since the dam was built. These unique fish, found only in the Colorado River basin, are at risk of disappearing forever.
In 2004, the San Juan Citizens Alliance approached the Dolores Water Conservancy District, and together, the two organizations set up a public process to wrestle with Dolores River water issues, known as the Dolores River Dialogue. For the last few years, this diverse group has been working to find ways to protect the water rights of the farmers and ranchers, the ability to boat and fish through the canyons below McPhee, and the continued existence of the native fish and a healthy river ecosystem.
An outgrowth group was formed to focus on the issue of native fish and just came out with the Lower Dolores River Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation Plan For Native Fish.
The plan looks at the causes for the decline in native fish, and lays out a variety of opportunities for ensuring their survival, while meeting the needs of water rights holders, boaters and fishermen. An overview, and the complete report, can be found at http://ocs.fortlewis.edu/drd.
Finding solutions through a locally driven, diverse stakeholder process is to everyones benefit. The alternative is a legally driven, antagonistic process that will produce winners and losers.
One option requires and builds community, the other can destroy it.
The plan is an important step toward finding workable answers to old questions. The complete report is big and complex, but the overview is clearly written and is highly suggested reading for everyone interested in the Dolores River and our region.
email@example.com. Dan Randolph is executive director of the San Juan Citizens Alliance.


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Last week Secretary of State John Kerry warned graduating students at Boston College of the "crippling consequences" of climate change. "Ninety-seven percent of the world's scientists," he added, "tell us this is urgent."
Where did Mr. Kerry get the 97% figure? Perhaps from his boss, President Obama, who tweeted on May 16 that "Ninety-seven percent of scientists agree: #climate change is real, man-made and dangerous." Or maybe from NASA, which posted (in more measured language) on its...
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How to look your best on camera
Few things can make a person feel as awkward as being in front of a video camera. If you or an executive need to go under the lights, these tips can help you look more polished and natural.
Most people believe an actor's job is simple.
You go to hair, make up and wardrobe, and then you sit in a trailer and wait until someone ushers you on set. You work for a few minutes to deliver your lines, and hit the mark.
This is a common perception, that is, until you or someone on your executive team has to be on camera for a corporate video shoot.
The reality is on-camera work is challenging. You're put under a microscope, and expected to perform, be natural and articulate, and speak with passion while staying on message.
Oh, and remember to blink, smile and not talk with your hands.
Being on camera is distinctly unnatural-the lights, the crew, the pressure. So, how can you rise to the challenge when it doesn't come easily to you?
Over many years working with non-professional talent, my team and I have developed tips and tricks to make the most of our on-camera personalities, ensuring they portray themselves in the best possible light. I like to say we get paid to make people look good.
You may be on camera for a live television interview, be one of many people being interviewed for a larger piece, or have to deliver a pre-scripted message using a teleprompter. Whatever it is, these tips will ensure you make the best of the occasion.
1. Remember that it's not what you say, but how you say it.
More often than not, people fixate on the words they use to deliver a message and give little thought to the delivery itself.
Video is a visual medium, which makes the delivery far more important than the content. Yes, what you say must be correct, but consider the viewer taking in your message. As you speak, the words fly by. The viewer's brain processes the words, but the feeling and experience will leave the stronger impression.
Consider your experience watching your favorite band perform live. The environment, delivery and feeling stay with you for hours, if not days. If you were able to record the concert and play it back, you'd plainly hear the technical gaffes; the live content would fall flat compared to a studio recording. But the feeling is far more potent than the content itself. The same holds true for video.
2. Be authentic, but not yourself.
Before you sit down and clip on a microphone, you should have a clear idea of how you want people to perceive you. How you're perceived is different from just being yourself. Understanding the target audience and objectives will help you tailor your perceived self for the camera.
When I was working with a senior executive to prepare for an employee-facing campaign launch, I asked him how he wanted employees to perceive him. He considered my question, and admitted he'd never given it any thought; no other video producer had ever asked.
We decided he should come across as approachable and authentic, yet firm-much like a college football coach. In that situation, focusing on a specific delivery style ensured the executive was not only authentic, but well received.
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This is something people rarely consider. At my firm, it's quite common to edit three to four hours of interview footage down to two to three minutes. In that situation, interviewees can say almost anything because we will painstakingly edit. However, if you're delivering content that producers don't plan to edit very much, each part of your delivery must be clear, concise and well-delivered.
4. Don't over-prepare, and do stay within your wheelhouse.
These two tips go hand in hand. If you're speaking on a topic you know well, there's no need to over-prepare, and your delivery will be natural. Over-preparation kills delivery. You'll appear insincere, even canned. Stay with what you know, and the content will appear fresh. If you're forced to deliver content that is not in your wheelhouse, plan your message carefully, but don't lay out the delivery in advance. Save that for the camera.
5. Don't try to hide anything.
There is no faux pas worse than trying to hide a technical element from your audience. If you have notes, put them on the table. It's OK to look down at notes if you admit they're there. If you have a teleprompter, don't try to make it look as if you don't. People use teleprompters all the time. If you want to add in a pre-taped segment, just mention and introduce it. There's nothing wrong with pre-taping an element for technical reasons.
These are just three examples we deal with often. The point is to embrace things as they are. An audience will be forgiving if you're honest. If you aren't honest, all your efforts to look your best will make you look worse.
Other important tips to consider:
- Don't dart your eyes.
- Don't swivel in your chair.
- Hold a pen to give you something to do with your hands (but don't click it!).
- Speak with confidence.
- Don't move into delivery mode (shifting your voice up an octave and beginning to act).
- Don't beat yourself up for small slip ups. Almost everyone feels awkward on camera. That's what editing is for.
- Remember that it's OK to be nervous.
- Have fun!
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Mark Drager is the founder of the Toronto-area video production firm Phanta Media. A version of this article originally appeared on the Broad Reach Communications blog.
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Ever look at your open rate and wonder what all of those non-openers are doing? Why don't they open your emails?!? Is your subject line not promoting an action? Are you sending too much? Well, it is time to test the waters of subscriber engagement and see what these non-openers really want. Below are three things you can try to reengage your non-openers:
- Resend – Send your non-openers the same message with a different subject line a couple of days after your original send. Make sure the new subject line has a sense of urgency and a great offer to encourage the subscriber to open it (and hopefully to click through to your website). We have seen ecommerce clients resend to non-openers and get an additional $5,000 in sales!
- Test Frequency – Segment your non-openers and start sending to them at a different frequency. For example, if you typically send weekly, send to your non-opener segment every other week. Start with your six-month non-openers; you can send the same content as you do for your engaged list. This is a great way to see if you can reengage them by not sending to them as often.
- Start a Reengagement Campaign – Create a segment, or a new list, of your six-month non-openers, and then create an email targeted to them. You could do "We miss you, here's 15% off" or a really targeted message speaking to how you differentiate yourself from your competition. You can then send another message a couple of weeks or a month later with a strong call to action. After you send both of these messages, you should remove any non-openers from your sends moving forward.
It is always hard to let go of subscribers, but at the end of the day, you need your list to be working for you. That means subscribers need to be opening, clicking, and hopefully buying or reading. We have seen so many clients hesitate to do any of the three points outlined here, but once they try it and see some results, they understand why it is important to keep their list active and engaged.
Share with us what you've done to reengage your non-openers in the comments section below!
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It was a beautiful fourth day of competition here in Surfer's Paradise, Australia. The skippers meeting was held at 10:00am and all the riders were eager and ready to start the day.
Race director Olaf Van Tol made an announcement to postpone the start of the competition until the wind becomes more suitable. While the riders were waiting for wind everyone was out enjoying the warm, sunny weather and took in some fun surf sessions. Surfers Paradise offered waist high waves with shoulder high sets.
The top riders and local talent were out on the water in full force pulling off wave 360 and trying to get cover ups in the hallow beach break. Guilly Brandao was one of the standouts pulling clean aerials and nice cutbacks.
The 2010 PKRA freestyle World Tour title champion Andy Yates was also out showing off his surfing skills by catching the perfect spot every time. The light onshore wind was also a perfect opportunity for locals and kiteboarding enthusiasts to test trainer kites and land buggies. Wave competitor Ian Glaza was zooming around the beach on a buggy with a 12m kite.
The famous PKRA kiteboarding babes also took full advantage of the surf this afternoon. Bruna Kajiya, Karolina Winkowska, Jalou Langeree and Johara Sykes-Davies were all out in the line up catching their fair share of waves PKRA style… "Go hard, or go home" is their motto.
Everyone had a really enjoyable happy day relaxing, fixing gear, reading the latest kitesurfing magazines and visiting the sponsor booths along the event site while sipping on Red Bull that's got everyone super charged up for tonight's party at the Temple. Riders are really looking forward to the fashion shows and Australian cocktails. No one knows how to put on a show quite like the Aussie's do.
The wind is predicted to pick up in the next few days and with the 2010 wave title still up for grabs, all the tops guys and girls are staying very focused. We are looking forward to a possible match up between Guilly Brandao and Mitu Monteiro in the early rounds after local Australian and fast rise to stardom rider, Keahi De Aboitiz knocked out Guilly Brandao in the first round.
Even though Andy Yates is already known as the 2010 PKRA World Tour Champion he still needs to prove himself on his home turf in front of his family, friends, fans and local crowd. The best riders in the world are here in Australia ready to charge for a final chance at a podium spot in 2010, so no ones gets an easy ride in this competition.
Today justifies why so many tourists make the trip to Surfers Paradise, perfect warm sunny weather, waves, nice people with a really cool English accent and a great all around vibe.
No one says it better than the Aussie's, "Good' day Mate".
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