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11 Facts About the Iditarod
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The mushers are crossing the finish line today in the Iditarod! The annual dog sled race from Anchorage to Nome began on March 2nd, and the winner, Dallas Seavey, crossed the finish line at 4:04 a.m. Alaska time today. It was the second win for Seavey. For Aliy Zirkle, who crossed at a 4:06 a.m., it was the third time coming in second place. It was also a hard night for Jeff King, who had a 1 hour lead until he was blown off course by a blizzard and had to drop out. The Iditarod can be brutal and trying, but it is always exciting. Here are 11 amazing facts about "the last great race on Earth."
1. Race times have gotten twice as fast since it started.
The first Iditarod took place in 1973, and took about 20 days to complete; currently, it takes about 10 days. The winner this year set a new record at 8 days, 14 hours, 19 minutes. The last place time was 32 days in the beginning, and now it's about 13 days.
2. Sled dogs need 10-12,000 calories a day.
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Each sled is pulled by a team of 16 dogs, and they need to keep on eating. On the trail they get frozen snacks like chunks of meat, fish, or soaked dog food. When they stop at checkpoints they get a warm meal, maybe a nice a slurry of beef, Arctic char, vitamin supplements and kibble mixed with water and chicken fat—cooked in a bucket camp stove that doubles as the driver's seat on the sled.
3. The dogs wear booties.
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It's cold out there on the trail, but that's not why the dogs have to keep their feet covered. Their fur and efficient circulatory systems keep them warm enough. But the ice, snow, and rocky terrain is hard on their foot pads so they have to be protected. Mushers usually make their dogs' booties themselves, and they are required by the rules of the race to have at least 8 extra per dog on the sled.
4. There's a Jamaican Dog Sled Team.
Inspired by the Olympic Jamaican bobsled team, a Caribbean tour operator started a Jamaican dog sled team to compete in various races. (It was sponsored by Jimmy Buffett.) In 2010, team member Newton Marshall became the first Jamaican to compete in the Iditarod. He now competes independently as Mushin' Mon. He recently made Iditarod news when he helped rescue another musher who had broken his ankle chasing a loose dog. That musher happened to be the subject of our next fact…
5. Dogs can be saved with mouth to snout resuscitation.
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The musher Marshall saved, Scott Janssen, a funeral home proprietor known as the Mushing Mortician, made news in the 2012 Iditarod when he saved one of his dogs who had collapsed on trail by performing mouth to snout resuscitation on him. That husky's name? Marshall. Coincidence? Or mysterious karma of the trail?
6. It's a family affair.
There's quite a bit of friendly family rivalry in the Iditarod. This year's winner, Dallas Seavey, became the youngest Iditarod winner at 25 on his first win in 2012. In 2013, his father Mitch became the oldest winner at 53. Mitch's father, Dan, had finished third in the 1973 race. Other Iditarod families include Anna and Kristy Berington, twin sisters both competing for the third time this year, and the Mackeys—father Dick and sons Rick and Lance, who each won the race on their sixth attempt, each while wearing number 13.
7. The finish line is a good place to become a citizen.
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Martin Buser moved to Alaska from his native Switzerland in 1979. He ran his first Iditarod in 1980 and holds the record for finishing the race the most times at 29. He also held the previous record for fastest finish time with his 2002 win. Right after that win, he became a U.S. citizen in a naturalization ceremony held under the monument arch that marks the finish line.
8. Sled dogs have to study their vocabulary.
Part of sled dog training involves teaching them a set of standard commands.
Hike! (Let's go! Get moving!)
Haw! (Turn left!)
Gee! (Turn right)
On by! (Pass another team! or Pay that distraction no mind!)
Easy! (Slow down!)
Whoa! (Stop!)
9. The race is named for a ghost town.
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Or at least for the name of the route than once carried mail, supplies, and gold prospectors to the town of Iditarod. The town was named for the Iditarod River and was once flush with action from an early 20th century gold rush. But after the gold ran out in the 1930s, everyone left. All that's left of it is a few abandoned shelters and a rusty old bank vault.
10. The distance varies.
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The race course is about 1000 miles, but it can vary depending on snow, ice and other terrain conditions. Also, the race alternates between a northern course and a southern course every year. This way, more of the small towns in the middle of the state get to participate in the action and benefit from a bump in visitors.
11. The last place finisher gets a special prize.
It's a race tradition to light a lantern at the finish line in Nome when the race begins and leave it lit as long as there are still mushers out there on the trail. It's a nod to the old custom of the "widow's lamp" which was a safety measure to keep track of when sled drivers were out on the trail and whether they had reached their destination or not. Some sled races started handing out lanterns to the last place finisher as a joke, but now the "red lantern" is an official prize to bear proudly. When it comes to the Iditarod—1000 miles of snow, ice, frostbite, sleeplessness, danger and mud—just finishing is no small achievement.
Follow the action at Iditarod.com.


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Its about damn time. Someone needs to step up already. I wonder what will happen to Death sama when the third line connects, maybe be sucked up into Kidd in a sorta of perpetual Shinigami type cycle where they keep absorbing into a younger body or something
A pie in the sky?
Nice chapter, I like that he finally became a Shinigami but Im sad the original one is going to die
A pie in the sky?
Chapter 111 is out.
My blood is black, indeed.
And so ends the story.
Pretty decent manga. They never did reveal what sex Crona is.
We'll see how Soul Eater Not! picks things up once it gets going again.

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Skip to comments.Slaughtered in the USA: Labeling rule burns meat industry
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Slaughtered in the USA: Labeling rule burns meat industry By Ben Goad - 03/09/13 02:38 PM ET
A meat industry already imperiled by federal budget cuts is lashing back at the Obama administration following the release of new proposed labeling regulations seen as costly and unnecessarily onerous.
The new regulations, to be published Monday for public consideration, are meant to resolve last years finding by the World Trade Organization (WTO) that U.S. rules give American meat products an unfair advantage over those from Canada and Mexico. If the WTO violation is not remedied by May 23, Americas top two meat-trading partners could impose damaging sanctions in the form of tariffs against U.S. meat producers and packers.
The new rules amend country-of-origin labeling (COOL) rules enacted in 2009 to better inform consumers about where their food comes from. Industry groups oppose the rules because they have forced U.S. meat packers to take steps to segregate the products, driving up costs.
In light of the WTO ruling, the groups urged the government to scrap the rules altogether, through congressional action if necessary.
Drafted by the Agriculture Marketing Service (AMS), an arm of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), the new regulations take the opposite tack, adding requirements that labels include information about where each of the production steps (i.e., born, raised, slaughtered) occurred, according to AMS.
The proposed rule would also remove the allowance for commingling of muscle cuts.
USDA expects that these changes will improve the overall operation of the program and also bring the current mandatory COOL requirements into compliance with U.S. international trade obligations, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said.
The American Meat Institute (AMI) did not concur.
Only the government could take a costly, cumbersome rule like mandatory country-of-origin labeling (COOL) and make it worse even as it claims to fix it, " AMI president J. Patrick Boyle said in a statement decrying the proposal.
Government-wide federal spending cuts known as the sequester are already threatening to hit the meat industry. Vilsack has warned that federal meat inspectors would be furloughed if Congress doesnt restore or replace the $85 billion cuts. Meat packing facilities cannot operate without inspectors. That proposed rule would compound the threat, according to the industry. Complying with the new regulations would bring costs that would ultimately be passed on to consumers, Boyle said.
An absurd example of one of the proposed changes is this: a plant or grocery retailer that currently labels its product, Product of the U.S. would now have to change the labels on its packages to read, Born, raised and slaughtered in the U.S., he observed.
Beginning Monday, the public and interested parties will have 30 days to comment. AMS must consider all comments before the rule is finalized.
Free trade is free trade.
A "free trade" treaty is 8,000 pages of EXCEPTIONS to free trade.
people who love their Jimmy Dean samwiches best stay away from a slaughterhouse tour,, not for the squeamish.. but who knows,, do veggies cry?
If a stamp of "Slaughtered in America" means the meat is not horse meat, I am for it. There has been a rash of food sold in other countries that rather than beef, it is horse meat, or dog. Our FDA takes a dim view of that meat being sold in America.
labeling a meat product by where its been birthed/ raised/ slaughtered/ packaged works for me
especially in the days where they are mixing horse (and other) meats into hamburger and sausage.
if you want to be sure, I believe kosher meat is the way to go
"do veggies cry"
Just because you can't hear them doesn't mean they're not screaming as they are ripped from gaia's womb. At least animals can move about and have a chance to flee or fight back. Vegans are monsters. /s
Unfortunately, there was recently a big scandal regarding kosher meat-it really was not kosher. The slaughter house was in Iowa I believe.
then it should be immediately closed and the owners sued into bankruptcy for fraud
Cloward and Piven redux. Kill all free market businesses by overloading with regulations.
And right on this thread members of this place support such regulations.
First Lady: Imagine an America Where Kids Beg for More Fruits, Vegetables It is Possible...
Let them eat tofu! We will dispose of those nasty lobsters and Wagyu beef for them.
Another reason why the Dept. of Agriculture should be on the chopping block for budget cuts along with the EPA, GSA and FCC. I'm surprised that the Dept of agriculture isn't requiring all foods to be halal certified. Just give them time.
If people are concerned about mixing up beef with horse or whatever, why not just grind your own meat? Labeling doesn't guarantee anything. I buy locally produced meats from small farms because then I know where it comes from and the meat in the grocery store just looks bad these days. It's more expensive yes, but if you want cheap food you get what you pay for.
"Government-wide federal spending cuts known as the sequester are already threatening to hit the meat industry. "
That is all I needed to see, to make me go blind.
I wonder if cougar is any good to eat. A cougar was seen taking off with one of my ducks a few days ago. The local Game cop told me that they make great sausage and pepperoni. ;>)
Sorta like "Fair Trade" coffee (or fill in the commodity of your choice). Who decides what's fair? Market plus some percentage? How do I know, or the involved parties know, what's fair? What a joke.
I lived and worked in South America for almost 10-years. I could go into any major super market in Santiago or Lima and have my pick of Argentina beef, (highly over rated), Brazilian, Paraguay, or USA labeled beef.
I have never quite understood why the cattle industry has routinely resisted this? If anything, it would result in more USA-raised beef being sold...what will most people buy; ground round from the USA or from Mexico??
I have indeed seen many of the same reports.
Well. I don't know about you, but 100% AMERICAN beef is something I would rather have. And the idea that it's okay to mix American food with food from other countries without your knowledge is unsavory to me.
I would much rather have oranges, tomatoes, and strawberries from MY side of the Rio Grande. Imported foods should SAY they are imported. If I CHOOSE to buy Australian lamb, which I have, then that is my choice.
Why is it more expensive to label foods straight up, rather than have labels that are misleading at best which say "PACKAGED IN THE USA" and never tell you where the stuff came from?
Very true. In fact, the horsemeat that was sold as beef was labeled as beef; hence the scandal.
Florida panthers prowl the woodlands of Broward County at night -
Nothing like tracking three rowdy fence busting Brahma steers at 10pm on a hot summer night and suddenly seeing huge cat tracks the size of a big stallion's hoofs following you - esp. when you are not carrying any serious firearms.
Time to call it a night and build a stout hogwire and fencepost gravity-gate trap the next day.
I don't think it's American beef growers who resist it, but some major beef sellers (slaughterhouses and some retailers) who sell lots of imported beef. Sellers of many different type products in the US fight country of origin labels. Catfish sellers is another as US growers want labeling, but those who import from Asia do not want labeling. Same story in many industries.
"I wonder if cougar is any good to eat."
My Husband and I have read many Westerns. We have read mention of Mountain Lion being the best tasting of any wild meat. Never have had a chance to try it ourselves but plain old cat is reported as popular in the Far East. As for a really big cat. . . maybe it is good???
Yes exactly. I think it's always a gamble to buy ground meat of any sort unless you have it done by your butcher or get it right from the source. There's ammonia and all sorts of nasty stuff in it. If I was poor I would be a vegetarian.
If it comes back and I see it going after my birds, I just might find out. ;>)
If we find that we don't like it, my dog certainly will. Falco is a GSD and he loves raw meat.
I wouldn't like that experience.
If this cougar comes back during the day, like it just did at 11 in the morning, I'll shoot it with my AR.... one shot and from my bathroom window.
Then I'll learn how to skin a cat. I've heard there's more than one way to skin a cat. ;>)
Well you should personally pay for it then. Don't include me. I am not interested in meat prices increasing due to regulations. It is simply amazing how Americans made it to the 21st century without a nanny state to take care of very single thing in their lives.You would think we would have gone extinct long ago. Geez, only 20 years ago, government was half the size it is today.
I think they were sued and the owner had personal legal problems both criminal and civil. I hasten to add the aforementioned is from memory. I believe it was about one to two years ago. Google search.
By making things more costly to produce, it's more likely horse meat will be a cost saving tactic.
I pay a little more already for fish NOT farm raised in China.
I'd pay more for pork products not slaughtered and processed in China as well.
Totally worth it IMO.
Why do you need some government agency telling you to label the product?
Can't the market manage it?
Let's not succumb to the myth that government keeps our food safe. That's absurd and the facts are against it.
Labeling requirements and their enforcement is a rare area that libertarians can support government mandates.
Picked up a package of rabbit in the meat cooler at the local market yesterday. It was labeled "Product of China". Put that back real quick.
Government shouldn't have to tell you. You would think AMERICAN producers would WANT to label their products. And the same goes for any country that wishes for us to BUY their products. That is only commonsense...unless you are trying to hide something, (like horsemeat or dog or cat,) in which case, go ahead and make me suspicious enough to leave THOSE products on the shelf.
That is why I absolutely will not buy prepackaged hamburgers and/or meatballs or anything of that nature. I actually DO read labels and there are just some things I refuse to put in my house let alone in my stomach or my child's stomach.
For instance, anything that says 'meat' sauce or 'meat' filled that doesn't say 100% BEEF stays on the store shelf.
That's what I was thinking, too. Sounds like a "no brainer" to me.
What thav you got against eating horse meat?
I hear there is a new slaughter house for horses being established in new Mexico.
Relying on a Socialist Obama to amend Free Trade Communism
Of course, most Free Trader Communists are too ignorant to realize that Obama, and most liberal Democrats, are Free Trade supporters. Free Trade is a Liberal idea
No wonder why our country is going down the dump hole
There making the prices skyrocket on purpose. Between sequester, and this action they might just get the reaction from the people they want. They own the press, and they will spin it the Republicans are to blame.
There's no sense in allowing importing frauds to deceive customers about meat was slaughtered in another country by possibly unfriendly foreigners under possibly unsanitary conditions.
So, how do you think the labeling started? I don't have direct evidence, but I suspect it was a conspiracy of crony capitalists using government power to limit or eliminate an innovative competitor.
That's my personal experience with this kind of thing. Why is the current government mandated food label ideal?
Schechita (kosher slaughter) is supposed to be humane and cause a minimum of suffering. It involves severing the carotid arteries, trachea, etc. all in one swift stroke with a specially sharpened knife that has been inspected for perfect sharpness (no nicks in the blade) right before each slaughter. It must also be done by a specially trained individual. Basically, the animal should be "dead before they even feel the cut".
At the Agri-Processor plant in Iowa, they were caught on tape rummaging around with a hook in newly-slaughtered cows' throats before they even lost consciousness, to remove a certain bit of tissue. This was a clear violation of Jewish law. Also, some of the slaughters resulted in cows getting up and walking around with their throats cut, clearly showing that it was not done properly. Properly schechted animals should lose consciousness within about 30 seconds, NOT be trying to get up and walk, or actually walking.
I was always leery of Agri-Processors products (Rubashkin brand), and after a bit of research, stayed away from them. My suspicions were proven correct after the above scandal AND the illegal labor practice scandal.
Thanks. What you advised jogged my memory and is correct. Not being an expert on kosher procedures I assumed they were violated. Would the methods used render the meat non-kosher?
"Schechita" must be more like using a drone instead of waterboarding -
I have seen slaughter houses (meat processors) in KC with a big sledgehammer to the skull of a steer or a quick rifle bullet - I have seen animals hanging from a hook and throats slit.
Is there really any humane way to kill anything?
Can*t we all just feast on the strange veggie crud Moochelle talks about for kids while she stands at a weird angle for the TV cameras in Quasi-Afreekin* designer stuff - and then she has a huge cheeseburger, fries, and a shake.
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I do remember being on the phone with a prominent rabbi while we both watched the secretly taped video of the cows with slashed throats trying to stand, and in one case, actually getting up and walking around. He told me that it did not look like any schechita he ever heard about or witnessed. It was horrible to watch, I had such tears streaming down my face (I gave up eating any red meat several years ago).
According to humane slaughter expert Dr. Temple Grandin, dead animals are not supposed to show more than random leg kicking. This cow was walking in a coordinated manner, it was just sickening. Also, instead of having the more humane walk-in kill box, this disgusting slaughterhouse had a drum which rotated the animal belly-up while alive, to make the throat area more accessible. I cannot imagine the terror of a large animal unnaturally confined in a helpless position. After the slaughter, the drum opened and the supposedly dead animal slid awkwardly down a concrete ramp. That is the point at which some of them tried to stand and the one that walked did. Even if I still ate red meat, I would shun this brand. I won't even buy their chickens. I personally consider this brand to be unkosher, and won't have it in my home.
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How To Get Rid of Fruit Flies
I know--not my usual post subject, but last night, I came up with a fool proof way to rid my house of fruit flies. I don't know why I never thought of this before, seriously.
Not only does it work really well, but you don't need to spend any money on traps. You don't need to rig bottles with funnels, or cover bowls of red wine with plastic wrap and poke holes in it. That last one, by the way, was my usual go to. It worked, but it took time. I don't need to do that anymore!
You know how fruit flies are fast? They see you coming, and they're gone. Seconds later, they've all settled back down on your fruit bowl. You just can't catch them.
But I found a way. Yes, I did! Here's what happened…
I had some brown bananas on the counter. They were in a plastic grocery bag that was mostly closed. I knew I had to freeze them or they'd be disgusting in a day or so. The bag was behind a bowl that's full of garden cukes and tomatoes.
I pulled the grocery bag toward me, and opened it to check out the bananas. As I did that, about 10 or 12 fruit flies flew out. Damn! I knew that even if I got rid of the bananas, the flies would soon be all over my fresh veggies. I tied the grocery bag in a tight knot, and then put that in another bag, then tied that one up. It's outside in a barrel to be taken on trash day. Those nasties that are left in the bag aren't getting back in my house. I still needed a way to get rid of the ones left in the house, though.
Here's how I did it. After the minute or so it took me to get rid of the banana bag, I came back to the kitchen, and sure enough--the flies had settled into my vegetable bowl. You all know that as soon as you move the fruit (or veg), they all fly out and hover there. Watch them! They don't take off to the next room like a regular fly. They hover and wait for you to get out of the way.
- I grabbed my bottle of kitchen cleaner. In this case, it's Fantastik Lemon Spray Cleaner. (Use what you've got!)
- Take hold of the fruit bowl, but gently, so you don't startle the flies.
- Now get ready, and quickly slide the bowl toward you, out of the way of the spray.
- Quickly spray the fruit flies with the cleaner--right where they're hovering!
- Most of them will fall to the counter. Wipe them away with a paper towel.
- If there are a few stragglers, put the bowl back in position, let the flies settle back in, then repeat the above steps.
- Do this until they're gone.
- If you don't have spray cleaner, try hairspray!
That's it! So simple, and yet so effective! Now usually, those 10 or 12 fruit flies would have been all over the vegetables, and probably would've made a lot more little flies in the meantime. The wine method I mentioned above--usually took about two weeks to get all the flies. What a pain!
What I did last night took SECONDS. Two sprays and they were all gone.
I checked the bowl this morning, still full of cukes and tomatoes, and not one fruit fly is left. ZERO.


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I have to put my web site up so you can look into it more. If you are really interested, I'll let you know when it is up and you can check it out then. That should be done sometime tomorrow morning.
New job?
Hi, James! How was your day?
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Thanks for being my friend, have a great day.
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Good morning brother good to see you ,and thank you yes i'm moving fast becuse keep me busy :)
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Good morning and glad to hear that you are getting better.
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My Weekend was great thanks for asking an yours? Same here w/becoming a friend here in this site. Been gone for awhile but now back in the swing. Enjoy the rest of your week.
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Good morning brother hope you feel good today God Bless :)
You are welcome! Thank you for being a great brother and friend!
You are both blessed.
Good idea! Does your wife realize how special she is to have you for a husband?
What are your plans for the week?
At least it was a cold, and it's good that you are back on your feet again.
Your welcome! Did you get a chance to get out of the house any?
Glad to hear it. Hope everything else in your life to doing better. How was your weekend?


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Not only is Minnie Driver an accomplished actress and director (Circle of Friends, Good Will Hunting, The Phantom of the Opera) but she is one of the handful of down-to-earth Hollywood moms who puts family first. This scores high in my book. And while I love her real name Amelia, I also appreciate her choosing a nick name in childhood that rolls off the tongue, as I had to result to similar means in grade school. Who would not think twice about pronouncing Minnie?
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Juan Diego, ranked first by one Salt Lake newspaper and second by the other, traveled to Castle Dale last Friday night and showed the Emery Spartans why they have a legitimate shot at a state title this season. They won the football game 41-6. Juan Diego is undefeated this season and the games have not been close.
Emery started off well and actually won the first quarter 6-0. Unfortunately, Emery had to play the rest of the game. Emery was outscored 28-0 in the second quarter, 7-0 in the third quarter and 6-0 in the final period.
In that first period, Emery held Juan Diego on defense in the opening drive of the game. Juan Diego returned the kick-off to their own 47-yard line and they saw their drive stall at the Emery 25-yard line as the Spartans held on fourth and four.
On Emery's first possession, they traveled the 75 yards for the touchdown and secured their only lead of the ball game. After Chance Ariotti ran the ball for no gain, quarterback Gatlan Huntington hit Dusty Jensen with a pass and they netted 34 yards after the play was through.
After another couple or short runs and a pass interference call against the Eagle defense, Huntington hit wide receiver Tanner Procarione in the right corner of the end zone for a 21-yard touchdown pass. The kick was blocked.
From this point forward, the bigger Juan Diego team showed those at the game why they are highly ranked. They scored four times in the next five possessions to put the game away. They usually started their drives in Emery territory while the Spartans usually started their drives deep in their own territory.
Dusty Jensen, a starting cornerback, started at wing back for Emery and led the Spartans with three runs for 32 yards besides having that reception. Emery finished the game with 79 rushing yards and 64 passing yards. Juan Diego finished with 396 yards of offense.
After the game, Head Coach Jimmy Jones talked about the game, "Our kids played their guts out, they gave it all they had. Sometimes a bigger, faster team just wears you down."
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Amber Reed, a certified aqua therapist and an employee of ProRehab has been holding aquatic therapy classes at the Emery County Aquatic Center 9 a.m.-12 p.m. Monday, Wednesday and Thursday since January 2009.
Each patient spends 45 minutes to an hour in the water, doing exercises supervised by Reed. She is in the water working with each patient to make sure the patients are doing their exercises correctly. Reed demonstrates how she wants the patient to do the exercises and then observes and makes necessary exercise adjustments for the patient. As each patient progresses she shows them new and more difficult exercises to strengthen the muscles. Reed went to Salt Lake Community College for her degree, after graduation she went to Chicago for extra training in Aquatic Therapy. Physical Therapist Assistant is the title of her degree. Reed has been doing physical therapy for three years and aquatic therapy for almost a year. Reed is originally from Cleveland, Utah.
In response to the question, have you had much success with patients that come for aquatic therapy? She said, "We have had a great deal of success, especially with patients with back problems. Water provides natural resistance in exercising. The water is good for taking the load off the body and the patient can then exercise without the pain or compression. This way they can get the needed exercise with little or no pain." This is just another option for relieving back, neck, muscle and joint pain.
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Lilly Harrington a patient said, "The therapy in the pool has helped to remove pains in my joints and makes me feel good. It has really helped me a lot."
Ray Jeffs, as he was treading water in the pool, said, "I hurt my back and hips trying to move a trailer loaded with furniture. I was in a lot of pain and could hardly move for weeks. The pool therapy has made the aches go away. When I finish with the workout in the pool my back and hips no longer bother me the rest of the day. The pains I have suffered with are slowly getting better."
Donna Downard, a patient said the pool therapy has really helped her with the pain in her back. She comes twice a week for therapy.
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Scott Labrum the owner of Castle Dale ProRehab reported that they now provide aquatic therapy for people with joint, neck or back aches and pains. The pool therapy relieves swelling from injuries and stress on the joints. This is also a great way to exercise in the fall and winter when people are not outdoors much. Aquatic therapy is not the same as water aerobics.
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Synaxis of The Three Hierarchs: Basil the Great, Gregory the Theologian, & John Chrysostom
The Gospel according to John 10:9-16
The Lord said, "I am the door; if any one enters by me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture. The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly. I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. He who is a hireling and not a shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees; and the wolf snatches them and scatters them. He flees because he is a hireling and cares nothing for the sheep. I am the good shepherd; I know my own and my own know me, as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep. And I have other sheep, that are not of this fold; I must bring them also, and they will heed my voice. So there shall be one flock, one shepherd."
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July 10 2013 06:59PM
"Sam Gagner has really developed into a leader here, the type of character we want. And that's going to be important when I'm making the decisions that we have the type of culture in that room. We've had a few years of too much of a circus in there. And that's going to change" Craig MacTavish
This is (as the British say) a sticky wicket for player and team. Ideally this contract would have been signed a year ago and run several seasons into free agency. Sam Gagner filed today for salary arbitration, meaning the clock is ticking for a one year deal (the arbitration guarantees a one year contract, since there's no buying free agent seasons). This time next season, Gagner could be the youngest NHL free agent in league history and the Oilers want badly to make sure that doesn't happen.
On the other hand, Gagner has been a good soldier for the Oilers, in fact he's been instrumental in recruitment and has been a pleasure to watch with the puck. It's certain his representation is pushing for a strong number, a number that is likely outside the Oilers comfort zone (obviously, since he remains unsigned).
What's going to happen? In listening to Jason Gregor's show lately, I've gotten the feeling that both sides are interested in getting this thing done. Gagner as an Oiler makes sense, both sides are saying the right things and the money will get done. That's the feeling I get from listening to both sides, suspect it gets done well short of the hearing.
The Oilers made a trade today, a big one, A BOLD ONE, if you will. David Perron is a veteran winger with terrific skills, and should be able to help turn those crazy 2line results from this past season. Perron is signed to a three year deal, and those seasons should be very successful in Edmonton. We talked about Perron here.
I think it's a solid addition by Craig MacTavish, and Perron's conversation with Jason Gregor earlier today suggests he's very much looking forward to playing LW on the Oilers this coming season.
MacT's quotes today were a stunning item for this Oilers fan. Allow me to quote the GM on the addition of Perron:
- "He's right up there with controlling the play and shots for and against differential."
And then this one, courtesy Terry Jones:
- "It'll be a good test for our analytics guys. They have him with some of the game's elite."
What does this tell us? The Oilers are paying attention to advanced stats--shots for and against differential is absolutely Corsi--and that is a tremendous sign for the Oilers and Oilers Nation. And when he talks about analytics guys, those are the people who are digging down to see which players can survive difficult zone starts, tough minutes, miles and miles of bad road. This is a brilliant day.
It means that when the Oilers have a chance to improve their 3line this summer, fall or next spring, they'll be signing or trading for more Daniel Winniks and fewer guys who can't do that difficult job.
It means success. It means, at some level ladies and gentlemen, that the Perron trade might be the second best thing for Oiler fans today.
That's a good day.
Gagner, N. Schultz, D prospect not named Klefbom/Nurse, 2014 1st to CBJ for Dubinski and Nikitin?
Put down the bottle sir, so I smack you wth you with it.
Put down the bottle sir, so I smack you wth you with it.
I need to put down de bottal too...stupid phone been a POS lately.
I hate when that happens.
I think we're pooched on the Gagner thing. Tambo F'd up hard. Now we're looking at over paying big time. I think it's time to look at trading Gagner, Hemmer (retain salary), 2014 first, and potentially a D prospect and Shultz Sr. as bullets. We need for 2 player back min. Then we can sign Grabovski for 2C. I'd rather have Sam, but i'm not hopeful of a good contract at this point. 5 mill for 6 years would be okay. Needs offence scream the Preds. I can dream about getting Jones for most of that package. Maybe? It definitely makes the preds stronger up front and I don't think Weber cares to lose every game 1-0. Or, do we try to work with the Flyers more. Perhaps T.O. They need center help. Perhaps we can get Gunnarson and a forward. At this point we need a lot. A solid D plus both wings for 3rd line, plus a 4th line center. At least the top 6 is set up front. I'm not happy about arb filings for gagner.
A must read for Gagner arbitration can be found at Canucks site . The article is by Jeff Angus" look at Canucks lineup 2013-14 " . At bottom is a link to the article all should read "DEBATING WITH BRIAN BURKE : A LOOK AT NHL ARBITRATION PROCESS . Apparantly it is linked to cap space , etc.. Educational and surprising results .
July 10 2013, 11:18PM
for a 4th line center has Scott Gomez been considered?
Hes an experienced guy who has shown he play very well but took a step back last year and has accepted his new role.
besides if Hemsky doesn't move I would rather see him with Gomez vs Gordon.
You know what strikes me as alarming. Sam Gagner is the biggest guy in our top six.
I'm not saying it's the end of the world, but it is a bit underwhelming.
July 10 2013, 11:28PM
I think Dave Keon lives in Florida, maybe throw him in!
Keon had a knee replacement in the spring but I am sure he'll be in game shape by the time training camp rolls around. ;-)
July 10 2013, 11:37PM
@Ever the Optimist
Short Term maybe, but judging by Mac-T's quotes, his size won't fit the model for the bottom 6. Someone has to be big and it's not our top 6. Gotta be them and the back-end. Probably not the target.
Putting aside all of the touchy-feely comments about Gagner, I look at his situation this way:
He can become the youngest UFA in NHL history at the age of 24. He could easily sign a seven-year UFA deal, and be young enough to sign a SECOND seven-year UFA deal and still be under 40.
If you're his agent, would you want him signing a home-town deal in Edmonton, or do you want him signing two 7 year, big salary deals? And when you look at some of the players this month receiving big UFA money, Gagner is much more attractive than most of them.
July 10 2013, 11:54PM
You know what strikes me as alarming. Sam Gagner is the biggest guy in our top six.
I'm not saying it's the end of the world, but it is a bit underwhelming.
Buck I'm surprised to see this coming from you. Size is irrelevant when considering your top scoring lines. All that matters are two factors: 1. the ability to goals; 2. the ability to win (or break even) the shot and scoring chance differential.
Hall, Nugent-Hopkins, and Eberle proved that they could do both last season. With another year of maturity and RNH's repaired shoulder, they should be expected to improve on last year.
The second line has the potential to score at a fairly prolific level. The biggest question mark lies with their ability to stop the chances against. Perron should help, but the real improvement will depend on Gagner, Yakupov, and Dallas Eakins' new system (aka NewAgeSys's system).
Lastly, Sam is definitely not the biggest guy in the top six. Hobbits are not large individuals.
Bogosian from the Jets (they NEED offence, especially on the RW) for Hemmer and Gagner (should be close in value, might need a prospect). Sign Grabovski. Top 6 forwards = Done. D pair Smid - Bogosian, Ferrence - Petry, Belov - Shultz Jr. I'm happy with that. Although, Carl Gunnarson would be interesting as well. Shultz Sr. for 3rd line RW help. I don't mind a 4th being, Smyth - 4C? - Jones (pretty solid IMO). Providing Jones bounces back. I'm not sure where the Oilers have Jesse Jonesue pegged as playing. I hope not 3 LW. Probably need an upgrade there as well.
well said
July 11 2013, 12:17AM
1: Hall - Eberle - Nuge 2. Perron - Yak City - Gagner 3. HEMSKEY - Gordon - Jones 4. Brown - Smyth - Fraser/konopka
1. Shultz Jr. - Shultz Sr. 2. Klefbomb - Ference 3. Belov - Petry Ladislav SMID
I'd say our top 3 lines are as good as any in the league. Why we need size on those lines. Lets fill our 4th line with crashers and bangers like the old days when we had MacIntyre -STORTINI - Jacques. Wow the energy!
July 11 2013, 12:33AM
@Josh Oiler
Please god no. Big Sexy, Storts and Smac? You have discovered a rare, dangerous new kool aid formula and you downed the lot, didn't you?
Bring back Schremp and Souray while you're at it...
If they re-sign Gagner, it would not surprise me at all to see them run Hall - Gagner - Yakupov and Perron - RNH - Eberle as the top 2 lines.
If I am the Oilers, there is no way I let this Gagner thing get to arbitration. If they Gagner's camp won't get into a salary range the Oilers can live with, I would pick up the phone and start shopping Gagner to a team that needs a RW player, or maybe a second line centre.
My first call would be to Dave Tallon in Florida. Florida is deep at centre and LW, but the RW is pretty weak. I would push Gagner and one of the current depth defencemen for Kulikov and Bjugstad or Goc. Then I would throw the money earmarked for Gagner at Grabovski.
Hall - RNH - Eberle
Perron - Grabo - Yakupov
?? - Gordon - Bjugstad or ?? - Goc - Gordon
Smyth - ?? - Jones
Kulikov - Petry
Smid - Schultz Jr
Ference/Shultz Sr/Belov/Potter less whomever goes to Florida
That's pretty darn close to a playoff team.
Nashville is also pretty weak at RW, and with Seth Jones in the fold, I might see about a trade with Gagner and Josi as the centre pieces if Florida didn't bite.
You know what strikes me as alarming. Sam Gagner is the biggest guy in our top six.
I'm not saying it's the end of the world, but it is a bit underwhelming.
I have trouble believing the listing. 5'11" 199lbs?
Looks 5'9" 190 lbs. In person he looks 5'9"
Hall is listed at 6'1" 194lbs, but I bet after training camp that is updated to 205lbs.
July 11 2013, 07:25AM
I think they will sign Gagner. Trade Hemsky for a 3rd liner and N.Schultz is too expensive they can use him as well
@Josh Oiler
As good as any in the league? Are you Cray foo?
I'd rank our top six somewhere in the 7-10 range, def not tops in the league.
Boston, Pitt, La, Chicago, Philly, stlouis... All better IMO. Even with the addition of Perron.
But the Oilers are definitely better now than they were last season.
Ferrence, Perron, Gordon, Belov. All great additions IMO.
July 11 2013, 08:41AM
I proposed something similar today...there has to be a deal there for Gagner/Bogosian...then go and sign Grabovski. It isn't perfect, but it is another step in right direction.
July 11 2013, 08:43AM
TRADE Gagner, this would be BOLD. Gagner/n.schultz to Philly for Cobourn/coutourier. We will NEVER, I repeat.....NEVER win with midgets. Look at the Division and Centers the oil will play this year, while gagner's stock is high around the league, pull the trigger macT, DO IT
July 11 2013, 09:09AM
darn gremlins
July 11 2013, 10:09AM
Ya Edmonton almost needs a center back in that deal. Almost like a lateral move. I'm racking my brain. But I can't think of a "win win" trade with anyone involving a center.
I mean you can trade Gagner+ for a dman, but then you are still left with a huge whole at center. So I don't claim to know either.
Columbus does come to mind again with maybe a bigger trade involving two or three pieces from both sides...
Gagner's game is a huge hole at center.
July 11 2013, 10:23AM
Does anyone think that manny malhotra would be worth taking a chance on for our fourth line?
I do. I think he still has some hockey left in him.
By "biggest" I meant heaviest, and if you look at the weight, none of the other five are bigger. He's also the one most likely to get in the face of the opposition and drop his gloves. He's the meanest forward in our top six.
People in Edmonton don't perceive him that way, but in watching games last year with non-oiler bias (I don't live in Edm anymore), the colour guys discussing Gagner described him as feisty and unafraid and gritty. It was interesting to see how the "other side" see him.
I don't care if we have a whole team of hobbits as long as they score more than the opposition. My main point was that people might want to adjust how they see Gagner. He isn't "the littlest guy on the team" that everyone makes him out to be. And the last coupel of years, I haven't sene much evidence of "soft" that everyone refers to.


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Hi, I'm David McCollough and I'm a research student at London School of Theology working on Christian initiation in Luke-Acts. Right now I am trying to figure out if didotai in Acts 8:18 is a historical present or a case of metalepsis in the narrative. Two possible reasons why it's not an HP are from Classical Greek: 1) HPs are rare in the Passive 2) HPs are rare in subordinate clauses. See Rijksbaron, A. (2006) "On false historic presents in Sophocles (and Euripides)" in Sophocles and the Greek Language: Aspects of Diction, Syntax and Pragmatics (Lieden: Brill, 2006), 131. Mt 27:38 is an example that somewhat counteracts point 1 above, but there is still point 2. I would love to know how much these Classical Greek principles carry over into Koine!
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By EUGENE SWALBERGGuest Writer
On May 15-16, the Green River Pirate track team consisting of Megan Hatt, Sarah Swalberg and Lindsey Spadafora attended the State track meet where two of the three competed and came away with a first place, third place, fifth place and seventh place finish. Lindsey Spadafora, nursing a nagging injury wasn't able to compete in the long jump but her team mate Megan Hatt competed and took fifth place with a jump of 15' 6". Megan competed in the 100 M dash and placed seventh in the finals with a time of 14:27; not her best time as she ran a 13:79 in the first heat of the preliminaries, but Megan is a Freshman with the talent and desire to compete; plus three more years.
Sarah Swalberg set foot on the infield and came away with a third place finish in the shot put with a throw of 32' even and bested her personal record by 5". Swalberg took a first place finish in the javelin with a throw of 125' 5" besting her personal record, also by 5". Of interesting note, the girl who took first in the shot put, Kandice Gleave from Piute, took third in the javelin. Sarah took first in the javelin and third in the shot put.
The Pirate team struggled throughout the season to maintain consistent numbers of student athletes but the core group continued on through adversity, early morning practices and in the words of some of the girls, bone chilling track meets. Each was excited to attend State and compete against schools in their classification. It was a huge disappointment for Lindsey after a season of consistent numbers to not be able to compete at the state level but she was a true competitor and team mate and fought to the end.
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By Randall Forsyth
Amid all the talk about the so-called Great Rotation out of bonds into stocks, the move actually has been from defensive, high-yielding sectors into more cyclical and aggressive ones in the equity market. That's particularly evident in the slide in usually staid utility stocks Wednesday, with the Select SPDR Utilities ETF (XLU) down 0.9% while the broad market is fractionally higher. The ETF's top holding, Duke Energy (DUK), is down over 1% while Southern Co. (SO) and Dominion Resources (D)are down about 0.8%.
The rotation is evident in the activity among the various Select SPDR Sector ETFs. The share count of XLU fell about 2.6% since last Friday, according to data provided by Dan Dolan of ALPS Distributors, which distributes the Select Sector SPDR funds. Outflows from other erstwhile leading Sector SPDRS have been even sharper although the price response has been relatively subdued. Share count is down 8.8% for the Select Sector SPDR-Health Care (XLV) and 6% for the Select Sector SPDR-Consumer Staples (XLP).
SPDR ETFs seeing inflows include the more aggressive sectors, including the Select Sector SPDR-Industrial (XLI), up 9.3% in share count, the Select Sector SPDR-Financial (XLF), up 2.3%. The passing of the baton of leadership to these traditional bellwethers from the richly valued defensives is another plus sign, say the bulls.


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This is an alpha release of the PygLibs.net networking library.
It was originally meant to be part of that library, but it will not have a new release for some time, so this project has been forked for the time being.
PygLibs.net provides several solutions for fast, threaded, pure-Python servers and clients, primarily targeted at game networking.
There are several different kinds of servers, to fit different needs:
Server/Client - a more complex connection, using two sockets, allowing the server to make requests from the client.
Secured versions of the above, that use an authentication protocol to encrypt/decrypt messages.
And, finally a RPC server/client, and a secure version of it.
Simply download the archive and unzip, the module itself is /net, which can be copied into your program directory itself, or into site-packages.
The docs and tests are in the download, simply go into the /test directory and run any of the tests (they use a bit of fiddling with sys.path to enable them to be run from this directory, and not above the actual net module).
The tests double as a sort of tutorial for each part of the library, though they should have more documentation.
Also, this has not been fully tested as yet, as our server has been down I have only been able to test this on my local machine, and not over a network. So if anyone would like to test this it would be greatly appreciated.
Otherwise, we should have our servers back soon and we can test it ourselves :) Licensed under the LGPL (readme in next release, sorry 'bout that)
Fixed a bug in the code that causes some requests to be lost for unexpected reason's. RPC calls still get lost sometimes though, so it is not recommended you use the remoteObject module at this point. This should be the last update for a while, as I will be rewriting the lib once again here soon, to make it faster, cleaner and more efficient, and to fix the bug in the rpc.
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By PATSY STODDARD
The Emery School District hosted a parent night where four topics involving youth were discussed. Drugs, suicide, bullying and internet safety. The Emery County Sheriff's Office presented first on the different types of drugs which are around today.
Deputy Garrett Conover said drugs are a problem in our county as they are everywhere and he said the sheriff's office does their best to fight it.
One drug especially dangerous that kids are overdosing on is heroin. The problem with heroin is you don't know what you're getting and some batches are more pure than others. Heroin comes in black tar form or a powder. It comes in small balloons. These balloons are cheaper than buying a pill. Oxycodone can go for as much as $20 a pill. The heroin is injected or inhaled. Conover encouraged parents to watch for any type of drug paraphernalia. In a three county area in the last month there were six overdose deaths from heroin. The heroin is brown and has almost no odor. The drug increases the heart rate.
The drug comes mostly from Mexico. The price is about $20 for a balloon. It can be purchased around here or in Salt Lake where the more you buy the better the price gets. Conover said if someone you know is using then get them some help. There is Four Corners Behavioral Health, church groups and others that can help. Heroin is very addictive and dangerous. Only 10 percent of the people who use heroin will ever be able to get off the drug.
Pills are prevalent in the high school. Kids have access to medicine cabinets and they don't care what it is. They will take anything including blood pressure medicine, they trade pills with their friends. Pills are readily available for purchase from one or two to an entire bottle.
Meth is seeing a comeback. It comes in crystal shards and is smoked or the smoke is inhaled. Meth is also injected and meth users will have track lines on their arms and between toes and fingers as well as forearms.
A comment from an audience member was that meth hurts not only those who abuse the drug but those around them. He is currently raising grandchildren because of his daughter's meth addiction. There were more meth labs in the United States, but now most of the meth comes from super labs out of Mexico.
There are small amounts of cocaine around and it is snorted. Meth is cheaper and more potent than cocaine. Crack is still around and it is smoked.
Marijuana is still around and there are small grows here and there, but the large growing operations are down.
Ecstasy comes and goes, but it is still used among high school and college aged kids. The drug is used at the Rave parties and concerts. It is a synthetic drug that overheats the body and heightens the senses. Users will grind their teeth and baby binkies are used to help combat this side effect. The drug makes the user very thirsty.
Conover said you can overdose on any drug.
Spice is also very dangerous. It is a synthetic drug. It doesn't have an odor. It is sold in packages.
A smoke shop was recently busted in St. George for selling spice.
Mushrooms are also around and they are a hallucinogen.
Bath salts are a synthetic drug and can cause severe damage. A Green River boy overdosed on this drug and now has brain damage. This drug is sometimes known as the face eating drug because a man in Florida high on this drug ate the face of another man. The drug is highly dangerous.
Synthetic drugs are on the rise.
Watch for changes of behavior in your children. Parental disapproval of drug use can be a deterrent for some children. If your child's behavior is changing, it may be simple teenager drama, or something more severe like drug use. Be a parent to your children. Set rules and use consequences to teach lessons.
Kids are learning of drugs from the internet, from friends, television and movies. Drug use is sometimes portrayed as being glamorous. But, the kids don't understand the effects, they don't know they can die from just one use of a drug.
If grades start to drop, then step up and find out what's going on. Check on your children. If they say they are going to a friends house, then make sure that's where they are. Follow up on all their stories. Make kids accountable, They need to take the blame and ownership for whatever problems they might have.
Superintendent Kirk Sitterud said for parents to be aware and talk to the kids and ask the tough questions and get into tough discussions with them. If the kids say they are hanging out, then find out what hanging out means and where they are hanging out. Find out who their friends are and get to know them. Sitterud said he has been a foster parent for 25 years with more than 140 children in their care and a lot of these children had parents with drug problems. He is currently raising grandkids, too because of parents involved with drugs. "Don't be afraid to be involved," said Sitterud.
Deputy Shaun Bell said between sixth and seventh grades is an especially rough time for teenagers.
The students are the eyes and ears in the schools and there is a tip box called the Buddy Box where kids can anonymously report drugs, guns and bullying in a school.
Sitterud reminded everyone that the majority of the students don't use drugs.


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GDB 40: Groundhog Day at RX1
Jason Gregor
January 09 2009 12:56PM
Let me apologize for the lameness of this post. Like Jason Arnott, "I just wasn't into it tonight." That is how I am today. I rarely complain about the weather, but I'm sure sick of this -57 crap every morning, and going to the Oiler locker room feels like Groundhog Day.
Same story over and over, except Phil Connors was able to save the kid from falling from the tree, stopped a guy from choking, learned to play the piano and ended up with sexy Rita.
Today I got none of it. I won't be helping Dustin Penner learn to show up even 60 per cent of the time, Ales Hemsky is still hurt, the music will still be sub par at the game tonight and I'll be sitting by Rishaug not some hottie in the pressbox.
There was one difference today. It was an optional practice, on a game day no less, and Robert Nilsson showed up with all of his teammates except Shawn Horcoff. Horcoff will dress, and while MacTavish didn't want to reveal who will be his right winger, I discovered it will be Liam Reddox. MacTavish likes to play Horcoff against the other team's top line, so Reddox gets the call. YIPPIE.
MacTavish did admit that this team is still in a state of flux when it comes to their system.
"There is a bit of transitional period where you go from a team two years ago that was going to be physically reliable and had a certain amount of power to our game and we could rely on that. Now we are transitioning more to offensive puck moving team, and it has been a slower transition than what we would have anticipated based on what we saw last year. I still feel we are making good progress in that regard, and I look forward to a healthy team to see what we have."
FYI Craig, you will be at the halfway point of the season on Sunday. Outside of Hemsky, and Horcoff's wonky back your team has been healthy. Of course, Hemsky makes a world of difference. This team isn't good enough to absorb his absence, and because no one else can score changing up the lines makes little sense.
But I'm kind of torn with his statement. I can go ballistic and say, "What you talking about Craig," or I could applaud the coach for being patient with young guys and sticking to their strengths. Because it is clear the Oilers don't have the horses to play anything resembling a power game. Well, the former is where I stand.
I said at the start of the year, 40 games is where I would evaluate this team, and here we are hours away from game 40 and this team is still as inconsistent as ever. Jekyll and Hyde have nothing on the Oilers. They didn't take advantage of an extended stay at home and now they are in chase mode again. Win five or lose five in a row, at least do something unexpected. How about a line brawl? Or score eight goals. Do something, anything that would be outside of the same old same old routine of the past three seasons.
But just like the Groundhog Day, a win or a loss tonight won't change a thing. The coach isn't going anywhere, the players have yet to learn to be consistent, the music will still be sucky tonight, and I will spend a Friday night at the rink with Rishaug. How depressing. (Let's hope the camera guy at least puts a few of Edmonton's finest on the big screen tonight).
And yes, Dwayne Roloson will start tonight.
January 09 2009, 07:34PM
Holy funk that was ugly. Good Lord and Brownlee that was disgusting.
January 09 2009, 07:34PM
How did no one key in on the always dangerous Brad Staubitz???????????????
January 09 2009, 07:34PM
I'm going to ambush the first person who walks by Nation HQ
January 09 2009, 07:36PM
Semenov and Grier. Still in the NHL.
Someone quick! What year is this?
January 09 2009, 07:36PM
WAIT JUST ONE SECOND. Cole playing on the first line? Doth mine eyes deceive me??
Need your first goal since peewee? Havent won on the road since the '94 lockout? Come to Edm, we shall solve that problem for you.
January 09 2009, 07:37PM
Wanye Gretz wrote:
Semenov and Grier. Still in the NHL. Someone quick! What year is this?
I got my picture taken with Mike Grier at carnival of champions in about 1995.
I also have one with the Polish Prince. Ya dig?
DrPow wrote:
Need your first goal since peewee? Havent won on the road since the '94 lockout? Come to Edm, we shall solve that problem for you.
Truer words have never been spoken!
January 09 2009, 07:39PM
R-DAWG wrote:
About as big as mine… Smokin' Ray wrote:@jeanshorts: probably as big as mine.That's ninety kinds of sick
January 09 2009, 07:40PM
DrPow wrote:
Need your first goal since peewee? Havent won on the road since the '94 lockout? Come to Edm, we shall solve that problem for you.
SNAP Dr Pow you always have the prescription to cure what ails me
January 09 2009, 07:41PM
OK. Roli got his patented sloppy goal-of-the-night out of the way early. Still a chance.
January 09 2009, 07:43PM
loads shotgun
January 09 2009, 07:43PM
January 09 2009, 07:44PM
"Alright. Only two more periods to go until we get to go home." -Everyone on the Oilers bench.
January 09 2009, 07:44PM
Anyone else hear Gregor and Brownlee interviewing Claude Lemieux yesterday? I really wanted one of them to ask, "so Claude you were terrible slow back in the 90's, what the hell are you thinking?"
BOO Oilers... yay beer.
January 09 2009, 07:44PM
Hmmm...Garon may start the second
January 09 2009, 07:45PM
January 09 2009, 07:46PM
Finally somebody decides to step up and do a story on Sundin. I've been in the dark about this whole thing. Thanks for doing us all a favour sportsnet!
January 09 2009, 07:46PM
baggedmilk wrote:
so Claude you were terrible slow back in the 90's, what the hell are you thinking?"
If Penner can do it so can I!!!
January 09 2009, 07:47PM
way to mail it in with the best team in the league boys ....
January 09 2009, 07:48PM
@ Claude Lemieux:
Hey Claude, will we be seeing some of your vintage dives, circa 95, if you make it back into the show?
January 09 2009, 07:48PM
Roli's off. Guess it had to happen eventually. Too bad because it looks like we're tryin' tonight. Still boys against men though.
It would have been nice to consider this a throwaway game instead of a must win - like pretty much every game from now on.
January 09 2009, 07:49PM
Okay everybody; I caught that last goal but haven't seen much else.
Do the Oilers deserve to be down 3-1, or did Dwayne Roloson forget that he's supposed to be good against San Jose?
(I'm betting on the former, but I'd like to know)
January 09 2009, 07:49PM
Claude Lemieux wrote:
baggedmilk wrote: so Claude you were terrible slow back in the 90's, what the hell are you thinking?" If Penner can do it so can I!!!
Claude has more heart than these sausages - what day is payday asked an oiler - Claude is not playing for a paycheque - he wants to cheat father time - runor has it he got a hold of the protein shakes that Chelios drinks
January 09 2009, 07:50PM
Hey I'm just coming back so Sportsnet will have something else to talk about other than Sundin. I'm tired of that bald bastard getting all the limelight!
January 09 2009, 07:52PM
@ Jonathan Willis:
JW, Roli let in an absolutely terrible goal. A change up from the blue line.
January 09 2009, 07:52PM
Deep Oil wrote:
protein shakes
"Protein Shakes"...riiiight
January 09 2009, 07:53PM
@ Deep Oil:
Well with any luck Kris Draper will have a chance to even the all-time face-into-the-board record between the two of them up before Lemieux retires for good.
January 09 2009, 07:57PM
When does MacIntyre beat the hell out of Gene? Why can't that happen?
January 09 2009, 07:57PM
"He signed Todd Marchant to be his first line centre... he single-handedly turned an incredible hockey market into a bad hockey market... he turned a goal-per-game junior scorer into a 4th line checker... he never made the playoffs in eight seasons as a GM... he's Doug MacLean!"
Im late on this but our pp is what 29th in the league and no one can remember pisani is out?
January 09 2009, 08:00PM
@ sean:
You mean the PK, right?
January 09 2009, 08:01PM
Maybe Cole could be sent down to the Oil Kings for conditioning...I know, break a rule or something. I just thought it would be fun to be able to call him "Oil King Cole" Guess I'm still in the spirit of Santa's Bday.
Man, this game blows already...even changed my regular drinking mug to the one my buddy stole from The Black Dog when I moved out to the lower mainland. It worked in game 7 a few years back :(
January 09 2009, 08:01PM
@ sean:
I remember Pisani. I'm fronting the movement to get Gatorade to release the Pisani formula. It takes like meatballs and Alfredo sauce.
January 09 2009, 08:02PM
Deep Oil wrote:
Claude has more heart than these sausages
Stop being funny damn it
OMG Gene really? This is the story you are telling us? Rock paper scissors?
January 09 2009, 08:03PM
baggedmilk wrote:
When does MacIntyre beat the hell out of Gene? Why can't that happen?
Gene is soprano all the way - mess with Gene and you will have Tony and Franko putting a dead horse in your bed.... but really Gene - your steak dinner bit was so lame
suntory hanzo wrote:
Man, this game blows already…even changed my regular drinking mug to the one my buddy stole from The Black Dog when I moved out to the lower mainland. It worked in game 7 a few years back
Ah the black dog. A personal favorite
January 09 2009, 08:03PM
suntory hanzo wrote:
my buddy stole from The Black Dog...
I only saw this part at first and I was hoping you were talking about the movie with Patrick Swayze.
Much to my chagrin.
January 09 2009, 08:04PM
"Does anyone know what time does the shooter special end at Diesel?" - Andrew Cogliano right now
January 09 2009, 08:04PM
If the Oil don't score, I'm gonna fly out to RX1 and kick those Nerdy Oilfan Gingers behind Nabokov. I don't care if I'm a month late
January 09 2009, 08:04PM
@ Wanye Gretz:
I'm sorry, I'm a Barry T's man myself.
January 09 2009, 08:05PM
The Black Dog was my original Xbox live name...then people kept asking about that lame movie.
January 09 2009, 08:06PM
baggedmilk wrote:
@ Wanye Gretz: I'm sorry, I'm a Barry T's man myself.
I once saw Marty McSoreley there in the early 2000s right before it closed. I told him he was great in Con Air and he gave me a look that made my pants soil themselves.
January 09 2009, 08:06PM
suntory hanzo wrote:
The Black Dog was my original Xbox live name…then people kept asking about that lame movie.
Hahah that is absolutely classic.
@ baggedmilk: I figured you for a Pinkys man myself
January 09 2009, 08:08PM
@ DrPow:
Nah, I'm not satisfied with their glory hole.
January 09 2009, 08:09PM
Is Pinky's still there? Friends took me there when I was about to turn 18...first time I had a Molson Dry. Now I prefer to drink Samuel L Jackson's.


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Skip to comments.ScienceCasts: Hidden Magnetic Portals Around Earth
Posted on 06/29/2012 3:21:43 PM PDT by tired&retired
A NASA-sponsored researcher at the University of Iowa has developed a way for spacecraft to hunt down hidden magnetic portals in the vicinity of Earth. These portals link the magnetic field of our planet to that of the sun.
Excellent video on the science of our magnetosphere and how we are just learning about field reversal that open and close between earth and the sun.
I wuz gonna say somethin` but I ain`t gonna say it.
Thanks tired&retired.
Thanks tired&retired.
These aren't "portals" that can transport us somewhere, they are just points of interaction between the Earth's plasma field and the Sun's plasma field. It's funny that NASA gets through the entire video without actually mentioning the word plasma, they keep using related terms like "magnetic field", "energetic particles", and "Sun's atmosphere". They don't want to attribute any significance to plasma in astral phenomena, lest they give the impression that electric universe proponents are actually on to something.
is that what happens to socks
Thank you.
Ping for later
Actually, socks mutate and turn into hangars.
Well said. At the point where they should have been bludgeoned into submission they will still likely deny the obvious. After several more decades of denial, they will choose up sides and then determine it to be self evident; they have known it all along.
Now, about that "dark" matter and "dark" energy...
The chrono-synclastic infundibulum!
Yeah, dark matter, dark energy, what's next? The dark force? It's doing work that we can't detect!
I kid, but I bet you could write a paper theorizing about a "dark force" and get a nice fat research grant.
Postscript: Just out of curiosity, I googled "Dark Force", and someone already beat me to it, rats!
Gotta have a dark force to explain that pesky accelerating expansion that we need to explain that pesky red shift anomaly to make it fit into our gravitational model!
I guess you're just another loser, slow on the draw.....
Yep, I missed da boat on that one :(
Just the research we need to develop the Solarian Bomb!
I think it is just the wire ones..... tangled wire ones! Plastic hangars are useful and thus they disappear.... They become rubber bands.
AHA! I knew it! Now if any finds them I'm missing 127 left socks, white cotton size 12.
Thank you. The word 'portal' is being misapplied.
But hey, he's being funded by NASA so he has to say something that sounds really new and cool to keep the cash flowing.
In his next research paper he'll somehow connect it to Global Warming ;-)
Grey socks turn into wire hangers, black ones turn into plastic hangers.
I may not have made my point very well. What I was saying is the material that makes up most of the universe, being labeled dark matter and dark energy, is still a complete mystery to the Scientific Community. They can't see it or measure it but they can apparently detect its GRAVITATIONAL effects. Since they aren't sure just how gravity works, it's an interesting conundrum and appears to this layman, a circular argument.
There are some researchers(mainstream or otherwise) out there attempting to determine if this so called dark matter and dark energy may in fact be plasma. One of the theories being we don't have the instruments yet capable of detecting it.
In any case, I don't hold out much hope for this bunch since they apparently haven't developed instruments yet capable of detecting a REALLY big flood in the not too distant past either.
No, they can detect plasma, and there is plenty of it all over the universe. The plasma universe theorists don't think that the plasma IS the dark matter. What they think is that the dark matter isn't necessary at all, once you figure in the electromagnetic effects into the equations.
You see, the dark matter is only necessary because a galaxy's motion does not behave as it should if the motion is caused only by gravity. If gravity was causing it, then the outer parts of the galaxy would revolve more slowly than the inner parts, but instead we see that the outer parts of the galaxy keep the same angular velocity as the inner parts. So, the standard model theorists try to resolve this by proposing there is a whole lot more mass in the universe that we just can't detect, and also by putting black holes in the center of galaxies to increase the mass as well.
The plasma theorists say that the galactic motion is entirely explainable if you understand the galaxies are made up mostly of plasma, and the plasma is moving mostly due to electromagnetic forces, and not due to gravity alone.
I suspect they've all overlooked something which brings me to another theory that's just a plausible; maybe moreso, than any of the theirs: God designed it, built it and maintains it; something for Him that takes little more than an afterthought. I also suspect God has a sense of humor and gets a chuckle out of watching the Scientific Community and their efforts to explain His work by following the trail of bread crumbs He left behind. Just a theory mind you...
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