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Getting ready to celebrate
There will be several Fourth of July celebrations to choose from around the Copper Country.
Ahmeek: Ahmeek's Fourth of July activities begin with a bicycle parade at 11 a.m. Then there will be children's games, food, live music, raffles and more for the rest of the day. In the event of bad weather, events will be moved to the fire hall.
The event could go as long as 7 p.m., said Ahmeek Fire Chief Mike Maninga.
"It all depends what the band is playing, how long they want to play," he said.
Copper Harbor: The parade begins at 10 a.m. Thursday; after, there will be games in the park and a cookout by the Copper Harbor Fire Department. A large fireworks display will be held at the harbor at dusk.
Dollar Bay: Free horse and wagon rides start at 6 p.m. Wednesday, followed by a street dance at 7:30 p.m. Starting at 6:30 p.m. there will be refreshments at the Dollar Bay Fire Department hall. Thursday's activities begin at 10:30 a.m. with the opening of a snack and refreshment stand, pasty sale and chicken barbecue. The Veterans of Foreign Wars will hold a memorial service at 11 a.m., followed by the Fourth of July parade at noon.
At 1:30 p.m., children's games begin behind the fire hall. Franz Family Ministries will play at 2 p.m. in Pioneer Park.
Gay: The parade begins at 2 p.m. Thursday. There will also be a bazaar from noon to 4 p.m. at the Gay Community Hall. From noon to 3 p.m. at the Gay School, the Gay Fire Department will have hot dogs and drinks.
Hubbell/Mason/Tamarack: The parade will begin at Osmose in Hubbell at 10:30 a.m. Thursday. Starting at 1 p.m., kids' games will be held at 1 p.m. at the Hubbell waterfront and Tamarack Park.
Lake Linden: At 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, refreshments from the Lake Linden Fire Department and live music begin, capped by fireworks at dusk. Thursday, the parade begins at 9 a.m., followed by live music, games, food and plenty of activities at the park throughout the day. A children's parade will be held at 6:30 p.m.; for grown-ups, there's a street dance from 6 to 10 p.m. at the Lakes Lounge with music from the Recess Bullies.
Mohawk: There will be a flag raising in Allouez Township Park at 10 a.m., and a children's parade at 10:30 p.m. Games, food and other treats will continue in the park until 2 p.m.
South Range: Events stretch from 8 a.m. until dusk Thursday. They include children's races at 11 a.m., the parade on Main Street at 2 p.m. and children's games at 3:30 p.m. in Veteran's Park. It concludes at dusk with fireworks in the park.


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With only a few weekends before the Dirty South 100K its becoming obvious that I need more seat time. �Last year I was getting more outdoor riding in at night, but I rode the 100K without riding many longer rides before hand. �I was really hurting before it was done. �I wanted to be more prepared this year.
The first sign this was a bad idea was the cold, it was upper 20s around 9AM when I was supposed to meet Luke for the ride. �I called Luke to see if he wanted to wait a bit before heading out. �The second sign was that Luke would have been OK with just pulling the plug since it was so cold, but he was happy to meet me at 10AM.
I pulled my Nashbar Touring Bike from the trainer and got to work getting it ready to ride outdoors. �I had to change pedals, and since I don't have a nice long pedal wrench I almost always cut my knuckles on the chainring when taking off the drive side pedal. �I tried to turn the wrench from a different angle and cut my knuckles even worse. �Hmm, maybe that was a sign.
I put a new chain on my touring bike and I waxed �it with Paraffin first. �Stupid I know, but I wanted to test it out. �I got geared up and got underway, as soon as I began pedaling hard the chain skipped on the cassette. �"Hmm. �Maybe I should just go home," I thought. �I decided that it wasn't skipping to bad and it would probably get better as I rode.
I met up with Luke and got to see his rig fully kitted up for Tour Divide. �He's been riding it fully loaded to get used to the weight, and he's recently switched over to Salsa Woodchipper bars. �It's a unique ride. �He's been focusing on riding gravel roads to get ready for the long grinds that will be required for the Tour. �We headed out of town with my bike skipping in about half the gears.
The first interesting part of the ride was the descent down Jenny Ridge, its a short and super steep grade that we were dropping down and our first taste of gravel for the day. �The recent ice storm and freeze thaws had turned the gravels into wet mush. �It was a good idea to keep your speed in check on the way down. �About 3 miles down the road I went to check our mileage and realized my Garmin was longer on my handlebars. �The 4th signal this ride was doomed.
Luck was with me, we rode back and found my Garmin on the side of Jenny Ridge, no worse for flying off my bar. �One of the biggest improvements they made the Edge line of bike GPS's was improving the mount. �It's very easy for the Edge 305 to seem like its on, then fly off on the first big bump.
About when we had rode to where I realized my Garmin was no longer with me I got my first flat. �It was on the back where I run a 28mm Vittoria road tire. �I've done lots of rough gravel riding on this bike and this was the very first flat I've had on it. � I couldn't find anything in the tire so I put in a new tube and we were underway in a �short time. �I completely ignored the 5th sign.
The next challenge was Tom Dick Hill, a rode I've went down several times but never climbed. �Its about 250 feet in about 3/4th of a mile and super steep. �The only reason I had continued the ride was that bike drivetrain was pulling in the 2 lowest cogs so I knew I could make the climbs. �I was in my granny gear and having trouble turning the gear over while Luke seemed to effortless spin up the climb with his weighed down mountain bike.
Now we were in the sticks and riding rough and wet gravels with lots of big hills. �The constant elevation changes required lots of shifting which is slow and annoying in my big winter gloves, and since my drivetrain wouldn't pull half the time I just gave up and spun up the hills slowly in my granny gear.
We were on the exciting and challenging Appel road and I got my next flat, �a classic double hole pinch flat, probably from the high speed gravel descending. I patched it and aired the tire up, but either it had another hole or the patch didn't take because it was losing air. �I found the tiny hole from my first flat and patched it and we were underway again. �(Ed. Note: �He's totally left out the drama and wide range of profanity that was invoked during this repair.)
At the top of the next climb it was time to stop for flat number 4. �I found another tiny hole in the tube and patched it. �If I owned a cell phone at this point I would have probably called someone to come pick me up.
We got on the rail trail at Stonefort and it was like riding in quicksand, or wet concrete which I guess is almost what it was. �I was breathing hard and my legs were killing me and we were riding about 10 miles per hour. �It was awful. �Luke explained that he had been riding the saturated and soft rail trail alot lately because he wanted to find the most physically and mentally grueling riding he could to get ready for 15 hour days on the Divide. �I can't imagine any riding worse then gridning through this slop, at one point when the trail climbs I couldn't take it any more and went out to the highway. �Luke matched my pace for awhile on the rail trail.
When we got back to Harrisburg I realized how happy I was that I did the ride. �I had figured out all the things that needed to be fixed on my bike. �My aching back and neck told me what I needed to work on in regards to my body. �The ride was on a large part of the Dirty South course so I got an idea how epic and hard the ride was going to be. �I made it home in time to get to work, so, great ride, even if all the signs were against it. �I also got to see what 2000 miles
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My Rant Oct 23rd 2011 – Why I became a Customs Officer
I don't know about other officers…but I know why I did…if you don't mind I would like to share with you my thoughts.
My journey to become a Customs Officer started with the realization that I felt most fulfilled when I helped other people. Perhaps it's genetic…I don't know…my parents also devoted their lives to help others to the chagrin of my grandparents. Both sides sacrificed a lot to give my mother and father the best education and life possible only to have them declare their path to be one not focused on material wealth but one of religion and helping mankind.
Now I love to help people, but don't get me wrong…I hate to help people under the duress of obligation. I love to help people because…I want to…not because I have to. It is more kind in my opinion to do something nice for someone because you want to, with no benefit to yourself other than self satisfaction. I know, I know, not exactly altruistic. But it's the truth.
I get such a sense of satisfaction and fulfillment by going above and beyond for people that can never repay me. It's not the same when someone does you a favour hoping for some kind of reciprocal behaviour.
That's why random acts of kindness blow people away. They don't expect it.
Unfortunately at Customs, this is precisely often the case….Nobody expects kindness.
The public says they expect professionalism and service. But what they really prepare themselves for is gruffness. They expect harshness. They expect rebuke. They expect disgruntled unionized public servants feeding off the trough of taxpayer dollars. Too often they return home as weary travellers only to be met by long line ups, grilling questions, and surly attitude.
I can sympathize with my colleagues though as sometimes dealing with person after person can be trying even on the most patient of us who wear the uniform. If Mother Teresa was poked in the forehead hundreds of times a day for 30+ years I'd suspect even she might not be remembered as the figurehead for peace, love and service to mankind….OK maybe Mother Teresa…but I think you get my drift.
It's not an easy situation. People are cranky and tired after a long flight. People are annoyed and frustrated sitting in line on a bridge for hours with screaming kids in the back seat. Importers and brokers want their goods yesterday and everyone thinks that as a citizen or taxpayer they should not be subject to questioning, delay, scrutiny, entering or shipping their own personal effects into their own country.
Many people erroneously believe that their Charter rights are being violated. But in truth the Supreme Court of Canada has upheld the Customs process.
According to the decision in R v. Simmons, "The degree of personal privacy reasonably expected at customs is lower than in most other situations. Sovereign states have the right to control both who and what enters their boundaries. Consequently, travellers seeking to cross national boundaries fully expect to be subject to a screening process. Physical searches of luggage and of the person are accepted aspects of the search process where there are grounds for suspecting that a person has made a false declaration and is transporting prohibited goods."[1]
Further more, the decision goes on to say…
"Persons entering Canada, whether or not they are citizens, are placed in a unique legal situation at the point at which they enter the country. They expect to submit to a certain degree of inspection of their baggage, and in some cases, their person. Their situation is distinguishable from one where an individual is stopped or detained in the course of his activities within Canada."[2]
What about if you want to lawyer up?
"The purpose of the right to counsel is to ensure that the individual is treated fairly in the criminal process and, in particular, to prevent the individual from incriminating himself. In a border search the issue is not one of self‑incrimination. A search at the border is part of the process of entering the country and is not part of the criminal process. The right to counsel will arise only where a searched person is placed under custody as part of the criminal process. This does not mean, however, that no right to counsel can ever arise in searches which occur at ports of entry. Where the purpose of the detention, interrogation, or search arises in criminal proceedings, as distinct from those concerning entry into the country, the Charter protection against unreasonable search and seizure and the right to counsel will apply."
So my point is yes you do have charter rights…but within the process of crossing a border, and those rights are not the same as they would be domestically once you have entered the country…citizen or not…unless you are being pursued criminally.
So yes it's not easy having people become indignant at the first question.
Could things be done better, more efficiently? For sure they could. But front line officers don't make those decisions. We don't decide how many officers we should staff on a given day or how many new recruits we need to replace the ones that are retiring. We also don't write policy. Currently there is a hiring freeze and cuts to our budget due to the current fiscal policy to save as much money during these difficult economic times.
I wish the public understood that like most law enforcement officers, as a Customs officer, a gatekeeper to the country and our home…in order to do my job well…I believe… that I must work on a balance of possibilities and not probabilities. You're probably an upstanding resident of Canada but there's a possibility that you are not and therefore I need to make that determination in order to safe guard this country and the people that call it home.
Customs officers on the other hand could turn it down a notch and realize that not everyone is a criminal or lying. I'm a proponent of Pareto's law or the 80/20 principle. For the purposes of my rant, I believe that 80% of people are compliant to the rules and regulations. 80% are hard working honest people. But the other 20% will be in various levels of non compliance from the failure to mention a trinket purchased for a nominal sum, the drug mule, to the terrorist bent on the destruction of western societies.
So instead of viewing every person with suspicion…I urge my coworkers to hone their ability to detect this 20% and save the hard line for them and not for the family coming back from Disney.
I urge my fellow officers to let the "spirit of the law" dictate their discretion. This world is not black and white. It is filled with shades of grey. Policy is not legislation and you are not a robot. You are…I hope a sentient being, a human being and a Canadian.
As a Border Services Officer we are empowered by the law to make "unfettered" decisions and to exercise our discretion. So stop and consider what is behind the legislation. What was the intention? If you follow the spirit of the law then you will be aligned with the purpose behind the legislation; and you cannot go wrong.
One of our agency mandates right now is to focus on "Service excellence" or Client Service. I believe this means more than just meeting our service standards. I believe this to mean, in broader terms, to serve Canada by serving Canadians. How do we do that? By helping the public adhere to the policies and regulation, by educating and outreach, and by behaving and treating the public in a respectful, fair and professional manner.
Berating a member of the public achieves nothing but to anger them and nurture negative sentiment. Refusing to help and throwing the proverbial book at the smallest unintentional infraction is not what the spirit of the law intended. We were given powers of discretion for a reason. You are also a human being with a heart. Use it!
Our responsibilities are paramount to the economic prosperity and safety of Canadians. We are mandated to facilitate the free flow of people and goods. This is vital to our economy in this day and age of globalization.
We also need to keep the wrong people out and let the right people in.
Without immigration this country cannot remain competitive or support its growing aging population. Canadian are not having enough children. Who will pay for all the services we need when we are old? Who's going to pay the taxes? Who's going to fund healthcare? CPP may not even be around in 20 years.
We need educated law abiding new immigrants who are willing to come to Canada and start a new life and be part of the economy. We need immigrants who will invest in this country by creating businesses and jobs. We need skilled workers to come to Canada and help fill the void in occupations where we have known shortages.
But I digress. My intention was to write this post to explain why I chose to become a Customs Officer and then I started ranting. Sorry. I guess I feel passionate about this stuff.
I became a Customs Officer to make a difference and serve my country.
It makes me happy when I know that I have helped someone, really helped someone, and not just given directions to the washrooms or to stand in this or that line. I enjoy many aspects of the job too, not all, but many. The rush of finding concealed narcotics fulfills my enforcement side and guiding and educating the public on how to import their goods equally satisfies my desire to help others.
This job is great if you like interacting with the public. This job is also rewarding if you excel in the area of critical analysis and have good work ethic….you will find the contraband.
If you don't like people and you don't like to dig…this job is not for you.
This job truly encompasses the old police motto of "serve an protect". That is what we do. I feel the same joy whether I find GHB (narcotic known for being used as a date rape drug) knowing a little more is off the street, or I help teach some mom and pop small business importer how to clear their first shipment.
Our new motto by the way is "Protectio, Servitium, Integritas" or "Protection, Service and Integrity".
Our values are "Respect, Integrity and Professionalism".
As you may have noticed, Integrity is in both the motto and one of the values and I am not going to comment on whether we live up to this but it is definitely a goal worth striving for, and I hope, I implore, my fellow officers will join me in striving to uphold this.
And to the public, I say, try to understand what we have deal with everyday. Try to understand that some of us chose this profession because we care. Not because we didn't have a choice or we wanted some cushy government job. Try to understand the scope of our responsibility and how we are mandated with encouraging Canada's prosperity and ensuring its safety.
Recently I have seen quite a few colleagues retire and it saddens me. In some ways this is a thankless job. And after 35 years, a plaque and a handshake, you're out the door and a few months later it's like you never worked there. People forget you and the big wheel keeps on turning.
Many officers end up embittered about how this or that happened to them over the course of their career and never recover. Why does this happen? I think it's because they are so over invested in their jobs that the smallest thing is blown out of proportion. So then they react negatively completely out of proportion to the issue. They lash back at coworkers, management, the agency or even the public; ending in discipline or being sidelined from career advancement. The result then is that sooner or later they feel stabbed in the back by the system, agency or management. After a while they stop caring. They come into work just to collect their pay cheque and they start counting the days to retirement.
Sometimes the complaints these types of officers have is legitimate. But if you let it get to you, it will do you no good. This job has to be done for its own sake and for Canadians. You have to find your own motivation to come in each day to do the best job that you can.
My martial arts master once said, "…most people are not good at everything. Some students will excel at punching, some at kicking, some at throwing and some at grappling etc…so take something you enjoy like punching and cultivate it and make it yours. The end result will be that it will transfer over to other skills because the principle behind them is all the same; Circle Flow Harmony."
I try to carry this philosophy with me on the job. I don't let things get to me. When I'm frustrated about something, I focus on what I enjoy and love and it miraculously expands. It carries over into everything else I do.
When I am finished my shift for the day, I go home. I spend time with family and friends, I blog 🙂 and each day before I start my shift I pray to God and ask for help in being the best officer I can and for the ability to help someone.
One day, my day will come and it will be time for me to move on.
When that day comes I will leave knowing I did my part, and I did my best. I will not leave angry. I will leave with the satisfaction that I made a difference in my own way; which is why I became a Customs officer in the first place.
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[1] R. v. Simmons, [1988] 2 SCR 495
[2] R. v. Simmons, [1988] 2 SCR 495
[3] R. v. Simmons, [1988] 2 SCR 495
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Four Beach Teams to Compete in Saint Lucia
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (October 10, 2013) – Four U.S. men's and women's beach volleyball teams are set to compete in the ninth stage of the NORCEA Beach Volleyball Circuit from October 11-13 in Saint Lucia.
The U.S. teams of Heather Hughes (Fallbrook, Calif.) and Lane Carico (Manhattan Beach, Calif.) along with Kaitlin Nielsen (Santa Rosa, Calif.) and Sarah Day (Huntington Beach, Calif.) are featured in the women's division.
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Carico and Hughes captured gold in the eighth leg of the 2013 NORCECA Circuit in Chula Vista, Calif., while Nielsen and Day took home silver. Additionally, Carico finished first in the seventh leg in Puerto Rico alongside Sara Hughes.
The teams of John Hyden (San Diego, Calif.) and Tri Bourne (Aiea, Hawaii) along with David McKienzie (Lakewood, Colo.) and Austin Rester (Grapevine, Texas) will represent the U.S. in the men's division.
Hyden and Bourne are looking to improve on their second-place finish last weekend in Chula Vista.
This event will be the international beach volleyball debut for McKienzie, who was on the men's indoor team, at the 2012 Summer Olympics.
Pool play begins on Friday and continues through Saturday. Semifinals and medal-matches are set for Sunday.


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The Hobbit Movie NightApril 19, 9:15pm - 11:30pm
Mānoa Campus, Campus Center Ballroom, 3rd Floor
The Campus Center Board Activities Council invites you to our last free movie night of the semester!
Join us at the Campus Center Ballroom (3rd Floor) on Friday, April 19, 2013 for a special showing of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey!
Peter Jackson (The Lord of the Rings trilogy) directs The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, adapting the enduringly popular masterpiece The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien. The title character Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) is swept into an epic quest to reclaim the lost Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor, which was long ago conquered by the dragon Smaug. Approached out of the blue by the wizard Gandalf the Grey (Ian McKellen), Bilbo finds himself joining a company of thirteen dwarves led by the legendary warrior Thorin Oakenshield (Richard Armitage). Their journey will take them into the Wild—through treacherous lands swarming with Goblins and Orcs, deadly Wargs and Giant Spiders, Shapeshifters and Sorcerers. Although their goal lies to the East and the wastelands of the Lonely Mountain, first they must escape the goblin tunnels, where Bilbo meets the creature that will change his life forever... Gollum (Andy Serkis). Here, alone with Gollum, on the shores of an underground lake, the unassuming Bilbo Baggins not only discovers depths of guile and courage that surprise even him, he also gains possession of Gollum's "precious" ring that holds unexpected and useful qualities.... A simple, gold ring that is tied to the fate of all Middle-earth in ways Bilbo cannot begin to know.
The Hobbit Movie Night:
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National Public Radio commentator White (Mama Makes Up Her Mind) collects her short stories, which she's read on air over the years. In "The Progress of Deglutition," Sally's Thanksgiving is cut short when her husband asks for a divorce out of the blue, while in "Return to Sender," a woman tries to order items from the 1909 Sears catalog reprint to keep her memory alive. While these stories are not cheery Christmas tales-several don't seem to have even a slight relationship with any holiday whatsoever-they are all interesting and well written. For most short story collections.
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The Creators Project: Hi. What are you up to these days?
Brodinski: Loads of stuff. I'm working on a bunch of big projects now. I'm hungover from all the parties!
You're only 22 years old and getting well-earned attention. How does it feel?
The internet is the single biggest reason for my success. It really is an amazing tool for communicating with people across borders and sharing music. It's hard for me to fully fathom my career today, but I feel positive about it, and I appreciate every moment.
What's your secret for getting the crowd going?
Well, if I told you it wouldn't be a secret. Seriously, though, I think experience is the best way to learn the tricks of any trade. After the last two years of DJing everywhere in the world, I can anticipate what people expect from me in the moment.
Can you speak a bit about your artistic process? How did you go about producing your first tracks?
I produced with my friend Yuksek in Reims. He's a really good friend of mine, and an amazing producer. In fact, I'm continuing to work with him at the moment, and we just wrapped a new track.
You've said you don't like spending time in the studio. Why?
It's boring. I hate to be alone in the studio because I don't really know how to produce by myself, and I don't have an audience to play off of, so I need somebody helping me every time. Yuksek is the best for that!
What kind of technology is the most important in your work? Has it changed since you began DJing a few years ago?
CDJ2000s are the best thing for work. Every club has them, so I can find them and work with them at any time.
You're a prolific remixer. How do you approach each remix?
It's really different each time because I'm inspired by something different each time. Recently I did a remix for Crookers and it's not techno at all. Sometimes people who ask me are disappointed because I give them something they don't expect. But I also enter the process not knowing what to expect.
You've made some of your greatest tracks with other musicians. What is it about collaboration that appeals to you?
I love to collaborate because it's simple and really interesting. With the internet, I just send over some samples and we construct the track together. It was like that for the track with Mumdance, and the one with Noob. And I will do a lot more like that this year. It's always exciting to work with somebody new.
What is the blog house movement? Three years ago, young guys like me were producing stuff especially for the internet, and finding a label was not a priority. After that, blog house became the name for all strange house music that fell anywhere on the spectrum between mainstream and badly produced. Now, blog house envelopes everything, and it's not a term I use anymore. I don't really know if it still exists in the same way.
Why are blogs so important to you?
Because they have everything! You can find what you want, when you want it, because of blogs. I have a list of a hundred blogs I consult every day! I think it's the future of the press.
I've heard that you're a real computer/internet addict. Is this true?
Yes, it's unfortunately true. It's awful. I really don't know what I could do without the internet… NOTHING!
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From the outside, the ITC Green Centre isn't much to look at. For one thing, it's not even green. Nor does it have greenery on the roof, or even solar panels. So when a major television station called to ask, "What's so special about this building?" I launched an inquiry. I had to look no further than my colleague at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Mr. Padmanabhan, who has been supporting and championing the green building movement in India for many years.
Padmanabhan explained that the ITC Green Centre has a platinum rating as a green office building, as certified by the U.S. Green Building Council for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED). This rating, secured with the help of USAID, is extremely hard to get. When it was built in 2005, it was the largest completed platinum rated green office building in the world. To understand why, you really need to tour the building with the expert.
This is exactly what Secretary Clinton did this afternoon when she visited the site, the first stop on her visit to New Delhi. Executives from ITC showed Clinton around, pointing out its various features. These include extensive use of natural lighting (the glass allows the light in but not the heat), use of recycled materials in things such as carpets and furniture, water management and conservation (the pool outside is actually wastewater!) and a white roof with reflecting coating. All told, the building has a 30% smaller carbon footprint than similar sized buildings and uses half as much energy.
After the tour and a private discussion with NGO and corporate leaders on climate change issues, Secretary Clinton emerged downstairs in the lobby with the Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern and Indian Minister for Forests and Environment Jairam Ramesh. Secretary Clinton described the ITC Green Centre as a "monument to the future," that could stand alongside India Gate and the Taj Mahal as India's achievements. She said the Green Centre not only represents the promise of a green economy, it demonstrates the importance of partnership between India and the United States in the 21st century. Her honesty clearly hit home, when Clinton forthrightly acknowledged U.S. contributions to greenhouse gas emissions, but also highlighted steps to improve our position, including an $80billion stimulus bill to invest in clean energy technology. Even more popular to the Indians was her statement that the U.S. would do nothing to impede economic development in India; that progress for India was progress for the whole world.
On the other hand, Secretary Clinton did not let India off the hook, reminding them that their greenhouse emissions were projected to increase by 50% in the next 20 years, and emphasizing their vulnerability to rising sea levels and melting glaciers.
Neither she nor Minister Ramesh shied away from the controversial topic of mandating carbon emission caps, proposed recently at the G8 summit in L'Aquila. The issue for a time dominated the Q&A, which then inexorably moved back to Pakistan.
Secretary Clinton stayed longer than scheduled, a fact appreciated by her doting hosts at ITC. And they were pleased to accommodate her delegation's last-minute request for some of ITC's organic goodies, made with ingredients produced within a 100 kilometer radius of Delhi (part of a movement known as locavore). At this event, even the food was green!


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Thursday, May 21, 2009
As a nursing student, Heather Miller knows the human body and its limitations.
As a track and field heptathlete, she will test those limits May 21-22 at the NCAA Division II Outdoor Track and Field Championships in San Angelo, Texas.
After four events Thursday, Miller was in eighth place. She took sixth in the 100-meter hurdles, ninth in the high jump, eighth in shot put and sixth in the 200 meters. Friday she completes the heptathlon with the long jump, javelin and 800 meters.
Later Friday the junior from Sun Prairie, Wis., competes in a solo event -- the triple jump.
Miller is a two-time NCAA Division II Indoor Track and Field All-American. In March she finished fifth in the triple jump and eighth in the long jump.
She won Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference (NSIC) outdoor titles in the heptathlon, triple jump and 100 meter hurdles. She is the NSIC Outdoor Women's Field Athlete of the Year and High Point Performer.
During the NSIC indoor season, Miller won three titles, taking firsts in the pentathlon, triple jump and 55 meter hurdles.
About 620 athletes will compete in the Outdoor Track and Field Championships at the LeGrand Sports Complex at San Angelo State University. View the live results.
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Mrs. Flinger: A work in progress
UPDATE TO Mrs. Flinger October 16, 2015
Because the Universe has a wicked sense of humor, after this delcaration, my blog threw up all over my last upgrade.
So I'm starting over using Craft. Turning 40 and kid entering Jr High next year, sometimes it's just time for a change. These archives will still exist in the way the last child goes off to college and their room is the same for 20 years, but it's just time to move forward.
A few projects Sep 01, 2009
I've been working with the Design Tramps to pump out a few projects recently. As my graphic pimps, I'm their sexy code whore. (Which, having typed that should really should get me the type of awesome, high quality traffic that is probably looking to hire a web developer who puts out. Sigh.)
A few of the most recent projects include, but are not limited to:
Huge thanks to the Design Tramps for being so fabulous to work with. I have a few more projects on my plate and more code to nom on. And I've never been happier.
Next up! TWO YEAR OLDS IN THE WOODS. And why I wish I still wore diapers.
Guess what I did last summer Aug 31, 2009
So look, yea, I know, it's sort of a sickness. I'm going to need a 12 step program for NOT CHANGING MY BLOG.
But not today.
I thought I'd play with a few ideas I had and literally took 4 hours to redo the whole shibang here. I utilized a template pack from EE Templates to integrate my existing configurations and added in a dash of my own flavor. The result is a major overhaul in roughly the time it takes to watch three Northern Exposures (the theme of the font in title and nav)
You'll also see the main part of the site is updated with a rotating "What's coming up this week" feature.
I've started blogging most of my posts on the weekends which is the only way I can manage to write, work, feed children and shower/workout/talk to my husband/have friends, etc. Which means that most Mondays, I already know what's coming. And now? So do you. Just a little summin' summin' for you to look forward to. Like, WHY YOU DO NOT TAKE CHILDREN CAMPING IN THE WOODS ALONE. And WHAT MENSTRATION AND THIS PHOTO HAVE IN COMMON.
And ohmylands, the yelling. Sorry. Got a little carried away what with the excitement of a launch and all that nonsense.
So click around. Test it out. This is a "mid-point" or a "launching off of" or a "god this sucks" theme. I don't know the future of the graphics here, but I do know things are changing again.
But aren't they always?
I met a new man at work AKA: Affairs of the heart Aug 25, 2009
I've been working diligently on standardizing code, upping standards, and being "The Best I Can Be" (without joining the US Army). So today when I downloaded the new Safari 4, I literally fell head over heals right away.
Do you believe in love at first site? (Get it? SITE? ... sorry, baby got nerd.. cough) I do.
At least, I do now.
This badboy is SEXAY.
Safari and it's on-board web console for developers is like the icing to my cake.
He's like the Travolta of the 70's sleeked up and made in to one badass browser singing to sweep me off my feet.
Like Kitt and Night Rider.
Like Bret and Jamaine.
He walks me through my code, showing me exactly what loads and how long it takes. He works with me to find bugs, errors, and ways to improve.
He knows how to woo me, giving me things I like. He listens to my needs and attentively displays those sites I work on the most recently.
He listens.
He's also quick. Which, I know, right? Kind of cliche, but sometimes a girl needs a fast man. Get the site up and let's get on with our lives. Places to go, people to see, and sites to develop.
He is the fastest browser in the west beating out IE8.
But most importantly, he's safe, secure, and protects my online information. He's like a big, strong bear hug for my fragile ego.
And I'm leaving Firefox for him.
Sorry, Firefox. I know we have a long history together. But really, how could it last? We both knew one day we'd move on to other things. We just.. grew too much apart, you with your whoring out plugins and whatnot. You went too far too fast and now you're slow and old. Safari? Has a list of features you can't even touch, babe.
Feel free to call one day, FF. I hope we can still be friends. But maybe see a shrink first. I just can't help you anymore.
We sing our own song Aug 23, 2009
The actualized self, the best version of yourself, is there urging yourself to grow. There are methods and practices, some more intuitive than others, that bring you closer to your potential. It sounds so new-agy, all sorts of "two-thousand-oh-nine" but I believe it is closer to truth than the thirty previous years of my religious experience.
I've been discussing. I discuss atheism with my husband, Christianity with one group of friends and eastern religion with others. I watch the intuitive nature of my children, how they are both full of love and utterly selfish, clashing in to tempers and fits. Their struggle is visible, palpable. I watch their emotions unfold outwardly. My job, according to our culture, is to teach them to suppress, handle, resolve, and come to an appropriate action. They are to work it out internally, sometimes suppressing their own desires for the sake of the other. It's a process that takes years to figure out, nuances of society as complex as the laws of English where sometimes it's 'e before i' and sometime 'y is a vowel.' So much of what I teach them is subjective, coming from my own 33 years of experience. Sometimes I have no reason other than "I told you so" which runs as acceptable in our culture as Mary was a Virgin at the time of Jesus' Birth.
It doesn't always make logical sense.
I am here at this precipice. I often come to edges as I walk along life's path wandering through trails with people or alone. I've taken beaten paths with congregations of christians, trails with buddhist, large fields with atheists. I've walked with them asking questions, learning and wondering. The paths are symbolic but just as real as any pilgrimage. And now I am here, glancing over the edge not knowing what is below but understanding I do not want to go back to where I came from.
The mind is magnificent, forming segments for complex issues. Taking large truths and chewing them in to smaller more manageable bites. Was Jesus saying he was the son of God or that he is the son of man, a human with an amazing message, to love, to let go of the past, to make your heaven on earth? Is the war for religion necessary? Is one group going to a hell while the other rises up? Do we really not know which is which?
Or are we so used to rolling with our historic cultural preferences that we fail to seek the reason and truth behind a larger picture?
It is this place I stand with my children and my husband, watching the world and the future. I see a trail back down to one way, a softer path to another. I want to stretch each of us, to find truth and peace and harmony. To teach my children that love is innate, it is inside us, but it is bigger than us.
I do not think I need religion to do so.
So we will sing to our own tune until someone sings along with us. You're welcome to join and harmonize. We wouldn't turn you away.
We will sing our own song but we're not alone. We're joined by an inner, greater Love.
5-ish reasons you should follow Mrs. Flinger on twitter Aug 21, 2009
I've noticed a lot of "Best Tweeple!" going around lately. And I see that there's a very large oversight in the names that are being tossed about.
Like, for example, while Jennifer James had some great suggestions, she forgot one very important person.
I'll give you three guesses.
And no, it's not Alyssa Milano even if her rack puts my rack in the rack of shame.
There are also some sort of "Twitter Awards" or something. Which, you know how well I do at awards. Clearly I sweep 'em with my 1.9% of the vote and no, I don't hold on to that for nearly a year, what? Why do you ask?
So while you may not want to follow my always-the-brides-maid-never-the-bride blog and you may not find me nominated for.. well.. anything tweet worthy, I thought I'd give you the top [ten] five, because I don't have ten, reasons why you really should be following my on twitter.
1. You can learn new words from following Mrs. Flinger: (I impart wisdom)
2. You can find great beers (or wine, or vodka, or rum) to try: (I impart drunkeness)
3. You can find new hashtags for which to filter your tweets with.
4. You can voice your frustrations (GRRR! SMASH!) at various PHP based CMS. And then drink beer. (Again with the beer)
5. You can become a PHP programmer yourself. All, for the love of, beer. (Seriously, me and beer are like *THIS*)
Frack the voting and the awards. Let's have a beer. :: CHEERS ::
Next up? I finally summarize my blogHer experience in another numbered list. It also contains beer.
An Ode to My Friend MIchelle: On Her Birthday Aug 20, 2009
There once was a girl named Michelle
She was leading a mom group quite well
We met at a date
I was, as usual, late
From hiking in frozen hell
It's been nearly three years since we met
We've done a lot of stuff I can't forget
Over the years we did hang
We talked of politics and wang
And watched our hair go from blonde to brunette
There was the time we went for that run
Carrying a pineapple the size of the sun?
Or that time in San Fran
where I was hit on by that man
And the cops came ask him questions.
We dressed up like early 80's hos
We've done gymnastics though we're old
We both peeter out
when our friends are just about
To hit the slots in Casinos for gold
Happy birthday to you my friend Michelle
We all think you are very swell
I hope that your day
goes exactly your way
And not same the usual hell.
Because sometims all programming needs is a rap Aug 20, 2009
*For Nick. Who is also a Cracker.
OOP Based Roughly on the OPP rap by Naughty By Nature.
Nerded up by me.
OOP how can I explain it
I'll take you frame by frame it
To have y'all jumpin' shall we singin' it
O is for Object O is for Oriented
The last P…well…that's not that simple
It's code and jive and variables like strings
It's catching exceptions and return theresult.toString()
There are functions and methods, classes too
You instantiate an object, yea you know what to do
Bust it
You down with OOP (Yeah you know me) 3X
Who's down with OOP (Every last geek)
You down with OOP (Yeah you know me) 3X
Who's down with OOP (All the geeks)
This girl ah tried to learn OOP
I was this girl and mater-of-fact got a degree in that
Had a thesis, some classes, projects and whatnot
Instead of Java it was PHP she sought
It was hard until the little rhyme, it clicked
'Cos after that she kept on coming back not ticked
She was creatin' the objects to extend other objects
She said, "Oh no, I love you Tech" as she reflects
It was parse errors that got her down, the made her frown
But she kicked them to the curb with a curly brace rub-down
This was a thing, a little thing, you shouldn't have put your heart
'Cos you know it was OOP, hell from the very start
Come on, come on, now let me tell you what it's all about
You down with OOP (Yeah you know me) 3X
Who's down with OOP (Every last geek)
You down with OOP (Yeah you know me) 3X
Who's down with OOP (All the geeks)
Layoffs Aug 18, 2009
I'm handing out pink slips.
Tiny pink slips to parts of the list, the giant list of "things I do."
Tiny pink slips to excuses.
Tiny pink slips to not setting expectations.
Tiny pink slips to missing out on field trips.
Tiny pink slips to quick dinners and faster bed times.
Tiny pink slips to the constant glow of the computer screen.
At the end of the day I often hear, "but you're your own boss," and I puzzle. I am?
I have people, clients, friends, websites. I have a husband who enjoys seeing me and children who need me.
I am my own boss but I share the load.
And these people don't let me lose focus.
At least not for long.
Stage 2: Inspiration Aug 16, 2009
The continued story of how I decided to live barefoot:
Prefix: The Acorn and Me
Stage 1: Stage 1: Realization
Through the year and a half I was in Texas, a dynamic shift occurred in both my physical self, my group of friends, and my relationship with God. I began the year teaching preschool at a non-denominational church with every intention to get a master's degree in Elementary Education. The experiences I had that year led to my rebellion. "Rebellion" that is.
As I processed the difference between my home in Bellingham, the mountains and parks, and my new home in Houston, I wrote an entry on April 30, 1999:
"It's cold enough to cause my arms to have chills. In fact, it's about the same temperature as Whistler on an August night. I expect to look up from the picnic table to see Bobby boyfully playing with a stick or building the fire by our tent in the woods. The sun is setting but this night it does not fall behind the mountains casting a long shadow on the river. No, this night the sun, much larger than back home although most likely from distortion of mind than of atmosphere, is setting behind oak trees and houses and power lines."
The church, the people, the path I was on began to choke the desire out of me. I attended bibile studies and spent days volunteering at psych wards and elderly homes. This experience, if done with the right heart, could be invaluable. I stretched my comfort level to help people with needs much different than my own.
But oh, I was so proud of myself for that. I fell in step with the judging, the "doing good works" and pitying others. Feigning imperfection, we'd be self righteous. Claiming to be "for the good of others" we'd thank God for our own authority. I was conflicted, at best, torn between being genuine and fitting in.
I continued to lament about leaving Bellingham.
"I'm sitting on this plain
beneath the only tree
across from a man made lake
There's nothing to stop the wind
it's a strong breeze
But the leaves above me don't shake
The sun is warm enough
to think it's mid June
In my other home across the way
I can almost smell the salt
wish I hadn't left so soon
My home beside the bay"
It was a day, and a conversation, nearly a year later, on an airplane heading back to my misty mountains and my Bobby, that I finally cleared the muddled expectations. A lovely man looked right through my story. "We're best friends," I explained, "I can't marry him because the church, and my friends, tell me we have to be equally yoked." I hadn't even told him the part where we spoke to each other every day via phone the entire time I was gone when he looked right at me, and said, "Bullshit. You love him."
Well, yes, but…
"Move back, be with your love. Do not let time or people or space keep you from someone you love. Life is too short to play that game."
So when we stepped off the plane in Portland, OR, where Bobby flung me up on himself in a huge bear hug, I looked over his shoulder and saw my plane-mate smiling with a knowing grin, a wink, before he walked away.
And he was right.
The six months that followed involved plans to move back. I stopped going to the church having been ostracized for wanting a man who had no faith. I began hanging out with pot smoking sky divers. I tried to convince Bob that he loved me but we were on a rocky path of "best friend vs lovers" not wanting to ruin the friendship we'd built for 13 years together with "emotion" and "love" and "expectations." So I planned to move back, myself, because it was what I wanted. I was, for the first time, going to do the thing that *I* wanted. Not my parents, not my church, not my friends, not the bible.
I was also realizing my future was in programming and technology. I planned to get a masters degree in Information Technology after teaching at the community college in Galveston and falling in love with the students, the freedom, the academia. And so I pursued a job in Portland doing tech support at a School District.
And I got it.
I was moving home to the North West simply because I wanted to. This made me drunk with Power. It was the first time I'd been in touch with what I wanted enough to pursue it, follow through, and make it happen.
It was the start to the rest of my life, in many many ways.
During a visit to finalize some move details, I pulled in to Barns and Noble and randomly grabbed the book, "Beyond the Sky and the Earth" by Jamie Zeppa. I read the entire book in a weekend. That book, along with "Walden: Life in the Woods" by Thoreau, became my bibles. I studied, made notes, wrote passages. I memorized the messages: freedom, seeking, nature.
"It wasn't that my life seemed unreal to me, it just seemed very ... small" -page 4 Beyond the Sky and The Earth
".. I could walk down to safer ground, or I could throw myself over that edge, into what, what is out there, what is it that I am so afraid of beyond this last safe step where I am now standing? It is only my own life, I realize, that I am afraid of, and at each high point I am given the chance to throw myself over and back into it." - page 276 Beyond the Sky and The Earth
"When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence- that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of reality. Out life is frittered away by detail." - chapter 2 Walden
These principals became my daily inspiration and I sought to simplify, become who it was I was always seeking on the inside. I rejoiced in going home. Home! I would no longer be sweating in February. I would have my mountains and mist. It was one year and 4 months later from the day I arrived in Houston that I drove all my necessary belonging across the Texas State Border back in a quest for a new life in an old familiar place.
And I was on my way home.
(To be continued)
Thirty Days is a really really really long time Aug 15, 2009
It's hard enough to hit a goal of "doing pilates/yoga for thirty days" without other stuff getting in the way. It's hard enough to tell yourself that on this lunch break you will spend the first 45 minutes of that hour in downward dog watching your arms shake while you hold your tummy in tight and will yourself to be stronger, leaner, meaner. It's hard enough to choose to twist your body and flex your ab muscles (wait, ARE those ab muscles?) instead of grabbing a coffee and working.
So when my ovaries grew to the size of a small state and began to ache, I mean, explode, I knew my plans were for not. Of course, I figured it was because I was dying from some strange ovarian virus. Something like, "THE OVARIAN FLU OF DEATH!" So I figured why exercise when I'm about to have my life ended prematurely and damn there's that deadline I have so I better get that wrapped up before this ovary takes over my brain and I become nothing but a coat rack.
I went to the doctor on Thursday. I told her all about my Giant Ovary Of Doom! and she let me know it's not that uncommon, although a bit shitty, and I have a cyst that is rupturing and will re-absorb in to my body within a week or two. And, she says, in the mean time, TAKE IT EASY.
I look at her perpexed. "Take it easy? You mean, I can do YOGA but, like, not vacuum and stuff, right?"
"You mean I can do Pilates and walk but get my husband to do the dishes and put the kids to bed, right?"
"This is really going to mess with my blog, you see. I have this Thirty Day Challenge going and I'm going to have a lot (or 3) people upset with me if I don't complete it."
"That's nice." And that was that.
What she said was take it easy and what I heard was "EAT ALL THE CHOCOLATE YOU CAN FOR A WEEK! WEAR SWEATS! CHIPS ARE GOOD!"
(For the record, she also suggested I go on the pill for an indefinate amount of time to keep my ovaries from exploding again. But what I heard was that "Man, your husband is gonna be so glad he never did get that snipped because OHBOY he'd be pissed if he knew you needed to be on the pill. Oh funny, that fate, hahahaha. Then she pointed at me and laughed for ten minutes. In my head.)
Because I'm an over-achiever, I can't possibly just sit around not doing anything waiting for menstration to even out my hormones and my body to suck up the gunk known as Ovarian Crap.
So I'm starting over. What's that? Yes, I know. It's Right Smack Dab at the midpoint and ohhoho I'm all mixin' up the rules and such. It's what I do.
So I'm starting thirty days of sobriety. Alcohol. None of it. Zero. Why? Well, why not? It was my next thirty day challenge I wanted to make and this timing seems right. So, here I go.
Thirty days of alcohol free evenings.
Wish me luck. A lot of it, actually. 'Cause I thought Pilates was hard.< love some wine >kids< /drive me crazy >
(Speaking of, how is it going for you? You still hanging in there? Day 15. Or 1. Either way, check in!)


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Beachroots Volleyball in Vanuatu
I have come back to where my grandfather, father and a guy named James Michener once travelled and worked. My grandfather John Fitzgerald, based out of the Tahiti, fighting to eradicate the dreaded Elephantiasis disease from all the thousands of islands, for the World Health Organization and as a parasitologist from UCLA. France gave him the French Legion of Honor medal, their highest award for the work he did. My dad John Delbert, was a captain in the Navy and this was his theater for World War II for his ship. I remember one story that upset him greatly of how two Dutch ships left the convoy in the harbor where I now am today, in hurry to get to their final destination, only to both be sunk by enemy submarines just hours after departing. He had made good friends with the Dutch as the battle to bond IMPACT manual line so well states. Author James Michener wrote his Pulitzer Prize winning book Tales of the South Pacific in this very town and island I am now working at myself.
In his book Sports in America, written in 1976, Michener writes about our sport...
In the final three chapters of this book I have been preoccupied with money and violence, and I apologize. I seem to have lost sight of my preeminent criterion, that sports should be fun, but it has never been far from my mind. I should now like to conclude with several short examples of the delight one can find in the sublime nonsense of games. These are the highlights in a lifetime of following sports:
Hilarity. The most sheer fun I ever had in sports was playing volleyball, a game I commend highly. I understand that an effort is under way to establish a national league of professional volleyball teams, and if you have ever seen the great women's teams of Japan and Russia or the equally good men's teams of Cuba or East Germany, you know how exciting this playground game, which requires so little equipment, can be.
I had learned volleyball in the navy, where all the captains and admirals wanted to be spikers, and I found then that a man who can subdue his own desires and master the art of serving others can make himself invaluable. In choosing sides, the team captain always chose the good spikers on the first and second choice, but then the spikers would grab his arm and whisper, 'Take Michener.' I was never chosen lower than third, because I was needed. I wasn't good, but I was faithful.
So you know why I take some of my precious vacation days from work, to come to this area and ...well work, for it is part of my heritage, to help these island nations, far from the mountains of Colorado and away from my kids. Two years ago for an FIVB course, I was able to bring both Cody and McKenzie along to Fiji, where I worked 10 days of the 11, while they adventured - going to school, working on a ranch, attending the National HS Track and Field Championships and one day even snorkeling with dear old dad on my one day off. McKenzie said on the flight back, Dad, it did not feel like we were tourists there, it was like we lived there, a nice observation to hear.
This journey took 35 hours, and five flights, on Air New Zealand, Air Fiji and Air Vanuatu - final leg on an old 16 passenger Twin Otter, bouncing through the rain clouds - for it is the start of winter here. I traveled most the journey with Ivan, an Irish dairy farmer who I met in Los Angeles, who happened to be making the same long journey to the same town, but in his case, to get on a yacht there and sail away for 3 weeks of vacation. I learned a lot about dairy farming...
Vanuatu, formerly known as New Hebrides, is a nation of 183 islands and 110 different dialects, spread among the five provinces - each with their own culture. Volleyball and Football are the two biggest sports here, and I am working with Sarah from New Zealand who does a large Women in Sport project, with FIFA support, to see if we can make beach soccer and beach volleyball courts cooperatively. Espritu Santo, the town/island I am based at has wide roads, complements of the US Armed Forces from 60 years ago. It is known for its great peanuts (served on the root as they come out of the ground) and mandarin oranges. Families must pay for their kids to go to school, and there is a key continue/stop education test given in the 6th grade. With80% being rural, public schools are not common, only found in the larger cities. Average monthly wage is $200, but there are no taxes here, so this is a tax haven for many wealthy, as well as unscrupulous folks from around the world. I am told some 200 Australian Tax police base here, looking to find tax cheats just from their nation. Their national language is a form of phonetic Pidgin English and French . Let me give you a couple of examples from the volleyball book we are using
To show how beach volleyball does not allow open handed tipping they write "You no allow pushum bol long finga" or for the rule of not setting the serve they will read "Yu no save setem wan serve" It is not something I can understand too well when they speak fast, but as you can see, reading it makes general sense.
So what I would propose to all still with me, is to enhance the leave a ball behind program, extending it to Regional Teams ending their season at the RVA Regionals, with each RVA "Adopting" an FIVB nation like Vanuatu - and sending their collection of used, and hopefully good luck signed, volleyballs to the National Federation. The need for volleyballs is the #1 and #2 need....they can make courts, make nets, and play with passion and skill, but the "pikinini" - the kids - need a ball to play. Here, Debbie, the Secretary General of the Beach Volleyball Federation, a former player from Darwin, NT in Australia, has spent the last five years of her life working to grow the game. She knows some Americans who come here often, and in this case, if we just ship the balls to her friends in California, they will bring them the rest of the way. So seems to me to be a good way to inexpensively impact the sport in a hugely positive way in these nations.
The former head of Vanuatu volleyball was former MLB player Troy Neel, who played mostly in Japan, then moved here and made some good things happen I am told. They did a raffle to win a kit house, that still sits on the beach training courts area in Port Vila - which is just a hop over the wall from the national prison. His passport ran out and "Went down the gurgler..." as the Aussies say. His new situation can be found here http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=4150634
William, the head of VVF is here administrating the course and translating at times when the ideas or science gets a bit too multisyllabic and confusing. While power here is 240V, I was pleased to see that my projector works, so we are showing them some great Beijing Olympic footage. When I asked the group how many had access to email, nobody did, let alone a computer, or a TV....so these images are all new - they read the paper and knew we had done well in Beijing, but that was all they had seen.
First full day of the course and what do we get? A full day of rain, including rainbows at time, but sometimes raining so hard it drowns out what we are talking about. So lots of theory and not enough practical, but the weather is to turn, and we can get on the court more. The courts are saturated so much the tree trunks used as standards fell inward when we tightened up the net, so had to teach them how to make deadman anchors, in addition to making antenna out of bamboo stalks. Tomorrow one of the participants is going to teach us all how to make a ball from Coconut Tree leaves. Looking forward to learning that....
There is a relaxed level of time concern here - they call it Vanuatu time....but that does not work when their teams travel internationally to compete and have to be right on time. So Debbie makes their tournaments follow the saying "Time is Time" so that if it is a 10 am start, that is when they start. I guess month one team arrived 10:03, and they simply were not allowed in the event. Next weekend she said that team was there at 9:30. We started our clinic late as well, and then an attendee came up and a "Contract" for the attendees
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As in, cell phones off, come on time, no smoking allowed (this is a sporting event), ask a lot of questions and share ideas.
One of the reasons for coming here is a friend named Brian Minikin, with the Oceania Olympic Committee who has been a friend for over 30 years since we worked in Australia - Tasmania in fact, on growing the sport. He knows of IOC grants and other ways to help this area, and a woman's beach team here is the top team in any sport internationally, so they deservedly get big press. Debbie Wooster has done a smashing job in growing the beach side of the game in Vanuatu, and tirelessly has worked to find sponsors, build courts, and get their best athletes playing.
My old friend Natalie Cook, 2000 Gold medalists in Beach now is coaching more and helping these two players, who now have 12 month visas to Oz, stay and train with her. That is a BIG part of why we worked over the years to get Beach VB into the Olympic Games - for of the 220 nations who are members of the FIVB, MOST cannot afford to send or train a 12 person indoor team. However, with just two talented international level players, you can be very competitive at a more affordable level.
Steve Anderson, coach for Natalie when she and Kerri Pottharst won the gold, is also both helping train these two ladies and others, and will be back in Port Vila later this week when I go there to run PE Teacher , referee and player trainings before I return home. The spirit of the Vanuatu people is wonderful to see and with the work of these other people, I hope to see World Tour and Olympic Qualification from these talented athletes here in the South Pacific. Time to get to the course and share more ideas, beneath the rainbows that come with the rain...
Please feel free to leave your thoughts below in the comments section...I strongly encourage it!
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On July 12, 2009 Stan Combs wrote
I hope John has the opportunity to get out to some of Vanuatu's many small villages. Out there, volleyball is the real national sport, although male-dominated soccer gets all the publicity. Nearly every, if not every, village has a dirt volleyball court set up in its centre, even if the net is only vines strung between two posts. Most evenings when it is not raining men, women, boys, and girls of all ages gather for impromptu games between teams made up of all genders and ages. Volleyball is also played at more organized social gatherings, such as church picnics.
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Welcome to the Brigham Young University-Idaho paintball club! Feel free to post any nearby tournaments, games, or scenarious being organized. Lets try to get organized enough to have at least one, maybe even a couple teams to play SRPPL events, and maybe even in the AA class of the NW NCPA which other NorthWest schools are trying so hard to make happen!
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Posted 15 October 2008 - 06:20 PM
... If there is a srppl series next year i'm doubting there will be but hopefully JBI does something... they had a couple of great tournaments this year.
Posted 15 October 2008 - 11:44 PM
... If there is a srppl series next year i'm doubting there will be but hopefully JBI does something... they had a couple of great tournaments this year.
I am not sure how the scene was this year, All I ever see posts for in PbN was Ground Control playing out at splat and when we pretty much always got a group just about every weekend to JBI. And the one weekend I played with Fusion (guys from Quality Control by Rexburg) we played in a tourny in Montana. I will be on my mission next year, but I was sure hoping while I was there the last 3 semesters we could get the ball rolling on the club. I'm hoping the guys can put something together, even if maybe they get the NW NCPA going would be awesome.
Posted 04 November 2008 - 03:49 PM
A friend and I are up here at BYUI and were wanting to play some tourny's weither thats starting our own team or playing on one. anything you find out or are wanting to organize hit me up. email is email@example.com
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Apple shares were down incrementally in premarket trading Wednesday.
Futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average were up 17 points, or 2.13 points below fair value, at 13,876. Futures for the S&P 500 were up 1.75 points, or 0.89 points below fair value, at 1494. Futures for the Nasdaq were up by 4.25 points, or 0.27 points below fair value, at 2712.
Major U.S. stock averages rebounded Tuesday from the prior session's swoon after a raft of upbeat economic data and earnings reports, and after Bernanke indicated continued support for monetary easing in his semi-annual testimony before Congress.
Bernanke said, though, that the Fed alone couldn't bear the entire burden of spurring the economic recovery, and urged lawmakers to find alternatives to the sequestration ahead of a March 1 deadline.
Bernanke gives his semi-annual testimony before the House Financial Services Committee in Washington starting at 10 a.m.. He spoke before the Senate Banking Committee on Tuesday.
The Census Bureau reported that durable goods orders fell 5.2% in January after rising 3.7% in December. Excluding transportation, orders rose 1.9% after a 1% increase the prior month. Economists were expecting durable goods orders to fall 3.5% in January and the number to rise 0.2% excluding the transportation component.
At 10 a.m., the National Association of Realtors is forecast to say that its pending home sales index rose 1% after falling 4.3% the previous month.
In overseas action, the U.K.'s FTSE 100 was up 0.24% and the DAX in Germany was up 0.33% on Wednesday.
Hong Kong's Hang Seng index finished up 0.25%, while the Nikkei Average in Japan closed down by 1.27%.
Gold for April delivery was sliding $10 to $1,605.50 an ounce at the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange, while April crude oil futures were down 5 cents to $92.58 a barrel.
The benchmark 10-year Treasury was rising 9/32, diluting the yield to 1.857%. The dollar was falling 0.27%, according to the U.S. dollar index .


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Review: Van She — Idea of Happiness
Celebrating their second full-length release in 4 years, Australian quartet Van She show they have lost none of their potency. Their unabated electronic style has attracted listeners for not only its uniqueness but also its honesty. The band distills Caribbean influences on ...
Alex Hall
August 30th, 2012