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Ron Funches knows that he writes pretty awesome poetry, Mark Forward sings while awaiting an important text, and Dan Soder doesn't approve of his friends breeding.
ladies and gentlemen.
And also welcome,children at home
who probably shouldn'tbe watching this.
Especiallywelcome to you.
You know, wasting your childhoodyears watching Comedy Central
is a formativeexperience.
Say hello to the childrenat home...
...who are listeningto it quietly
in case their parentshear the word [BLEEP].
And they won't have evenheard that.
They'll have just hearda bleep.
Underneath that bleep,I said the word [BLEEP].
We have three magnificentcomedians for you tonight.
Before we start,I, last year,
took a stepinto the future,
and it felt terrible.
I joined Twitterfor the first time, and...
[AUDIENCE CLAPPING]Really? Really?
Or should your response bethe opposite of that?
Because it felt likean overwhelming defeat.
And when I was about to sendmy first tweet,
I was thinking to myself,Why have I been so reluctant
to engage in this?
Why have I feltso repelled by it?
You know, people seemto enjoy it.
It's done someamazing things
all over the world.
Why have I notliked this?
And within seconds,
actual seconds of sendingmy first tweet,
I received a message backthat simply read,
"You're terrible.Go eat a bag of dicks."
And it was the speedof the response that shocked me.
Not the content, that wasbasically what I was expecting.
It was the speed.
Because it hit methat human fingers
could not have typedthat message out
in the speedin which it got to me.
Which meant that some guybeen sitting over his computer
for six years,
since the inventionof Twitter, going,
He's going to join.
He's going to feel likehe has to join.
And when he does,I shall be here first.
And he shall knowhow I feel.
There he is. Boom!No, that was Jamie Oliver.
Sorry, Jamie.That was friendly fire.
That was nota recipe suggestion.
a little bit.
I don't know if you could tellby that giggle.
But it has so many uses.
When I have something,I write pretty awesome jokes.
When I run out,
I write pretty awesomepoetry.
I'd like to share one.
"I don't needno new friends!"
That one's called Just My Thoughts.
My son is 10,which is wonderful.
He has autism,
which can be difficult.
He's also a huge [BLEEP].
Some people don't like it
when I call my 10-year-olddisabled child an [BLEEP].
To which I always respond,
If you only use 30 words,
and your three favorite
are "more, pancakes, beyotch..."
Actually,that's pretty cool.
I didn't know how to describeraising a child with autism
till I went to a festivalrecently.
Then it became clear.
To me, taking care of this childis like taking care
of your very best friend
after they've doneway too many 'shrooms...
while you yourself
are on a moderate amountof 'shrooms.
I'm not confident aboutall the decisions I'm making.
But I know you should notbe eating a mouse pad right now.
Oh, hello, everybody.
How are you guys?
Let you know,in case you were wondering,
I do not have children.
Aww. I don't trust them.
They have sticky handsand they're full of lies.
You call it imagination.I call it bull[BLEEP].
That's what I call it.
I just don't--I don't trust them.
The main reasonI don't trust them, actually,
is just becausetheir parents are my friends,
and they shouldn'tbe breeding.
They're animals.
And ultimately that'sthe generat--
Like, this new version,the 2013 model?
No, thank you.
Because thisis the generation
that's going to haveto defend us against China.
Do you feel safe?
Feel safe knowing that?
We're going to havea whole army that's like,
"I would storm the beach,but I have a shellfish allergy."
Feel comfortableknowing that?
In 20 years, an entire militarythat can get wiped out
with a bag of gluten.
It's not going to beatsuper power China.
They do calisthenicsevery morning.
I don't know. I just feel likewe're treating them soft.
We're-- We're--We're treating them too soft.
Like, I went to my cousin'sson's soccer game a month ago,
and I was therefor a half-hour.
Finally askedone of the parents.
I go, "Hey, excuse me,uh, what's the score?"
And she looked up from heriPhone all proud of herself.
She was like,"Um, we stopped doing that."
You stopped doing what?
We stopped keeping score.
It's bad for theirconfidence.
[BLEEP] you, lady.
I got money on this game.
You think I just showed upto a park on a Saturday for fun?
I put 300on that orange team.
I got some dangerous peoplelooking for me,
and I need to makesome money.
Thanks a lot.I'm really good.
Um, no I am.
I'm one of the best, so...
Um, a lot of the other peopletonight were telling jokes.
And, uh,that's one way to go.
Um, I've had a prettyrough day.
Um, I've been waitingon some test results.
And, uh,
I'm supposed to get themtexted to me.
They're not for me.They're for my grandmother.
So, um,instead of doing jokes,
um, I'm just going to doa half-hour
of me and my grandmother'sfavorite songs.
And if you guys couldgrow the [BLEEP] up
and stop laughing,that'd be great.
[SINGING]If I lay beside you
If I was inside you
What wouldthe people...?
I got a text.
It's the results.
Oh, thank God.
She's not my grandmother.
That song has been so awkwardfor so long.
I, um,


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Leicester scored three unanswered tries to record a 28-12 Premiership win over London Welsh at Welford Road on Saturday.
Leicester scored three unanswered tries to move to the top of the Premiership table after a battling 28-12 triumph over London Welsh at Welford Road on Saturday.
Adam Thompstone's touchdown and three George Ford penalties opened up a 16-3 lead at the break.
Gordon Ross kicked a three-pointer in the first half for Welsh before adding three more in the second period to close the gap, but tries by Niall Morris and Dan Bowden sealed the victory for Leicester.
With several internationals away, this was perhaps Welsh's best chance to secure a win over one of England's powerhouses.
They certainly got off to a good start when Ross slotted a penalty after two minutes. But despite their absentees, the Tigers have the strength-in-depth to cope with those losses.
And Ford levelled matters with a three-pointer before adding another from the tee soon after. Although the Exiles started brightly, the hosts gradually began to grind them down.
Lyn Jones' men eventually succumbed to the pressure when Thompstone touched down to take the score to 13-3.
Leicester's fly-half then extended their advantage to 13 points at the interval after Michael Hills had been sin-binned.
However, London Welsh are a belligerent outfit and refused to fold to their more illustrious opponents. They got themselves back into the game through three Ross penalties in quick succession, but almost immediately the Tigers hit back through Morris' try to relieve the pressure.
Despite that setback, Welsh continued to press and Jordan Crane found himself off the field for 10 minutes after a cynical infringement saw the back-rower yellow carded. But they couldn't take advantage and Bowden's last minute touchdown secured the win.
The scorers:
For Leicester:
Tries: Thompstone, Morris, Bowden
Cons: Ford 2
Pens: Ford 3
For London Welsh:
Pens: Ross 4
Yellow card: Hills
Leicester: 15 Mathew Tait, 14 Niall Morris, 13 Matt Smith, 12 Anthony Allen, 11 Adam Thompstone, 10 George Ford, 9 Sam Harrison, 8 Jordan Crane, 7 Julian Salvi, 6 Tom Croft, 5 Graham Kitchener, 4 Louis Deacon (c), 3 Logovi'i Mulipola, 2 Rob Hawkins, 1 Marcos Ayerza.
Replacements: 16 George Chuter, 17 Kieran Brookes, 18 Fraser Balmain, 19 Ed Slater, 20 Brett Deacon, 21 Micky Young, 22 Dan Bowden, 23 Geordan Murphy.
London Welsh: 15 Tom Arscott, 14 Phil MacKenzie, 13 Gonzalo Tiesi, 12 Sonny Parker, 11 Nick Scott, 10 Gordon Ross, 9 Tyson Keats, 8 Ed Jackson, 7 Michael Hills, 6 Adam Balding, 5 Matt Corker, 4 Jonathan Mills (c), 3 Greg Bateman, 2 Neil Briggs, 1 Franck Montanella.
Replacements: 16 Dan George, 17 Tom Bristow, 18 James Tideswell, 19 Martin Purdy, 20 Ed Williamson, 21 Seb Jewell, 22 Gavin Henson, 23 Rob Lewis.
Venue: Welford Road
Referee: Tim Wigglesworth
Assistant referees: Steve Lee, Stuart Terheege
Timekeeper: Anthony Turner
Assessor: Nigel Yates

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Overturned vehicle on Highway 49 at S. Auburn Street
November 8, 2013
A vehicle overturned on Highway 49 near the South Auburn Street exit around 2 p.m. Monday.
Grass Valley resident Dicksie Bilder, 86, was driving her Ford Explorer south on Highway 49, tried to move into the other lane, realized a driver was in the other lane, moved back into her lane and hit the highway divider, according to California Highway Patrol Officer Mark Zelhart.
Her tires rolled up against the wall, and her vehicle flipped over, landing on its roof, Zelhart said.
Bilder was the only one in the Explorer, and no other vehicles were involved in the accident.
She is in stable condition, Zelhart said, but because of a major laceration on the nose and a large contusion on the left cheek, it was advised she be flown by helicopter to Sutter Roseville Medical Center.
Traffic was reduced to a single lane, Zelhart said, adding the incident took about an hour to resolve.
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CricZo XI - 5 Draft Winner
Scorecard Draft (2010) V Sehwag, D Amiss, D Bradman (c), C Cowdrey, P Umrigar, A Faulkner, R Marsh +, M Marshall, W Hall, M Hughes, B O'Reilly
Alphabetical Draft (2011) S Watson, G Kirsten, D Bradman (c), K Sangakkara +, C Cowdrey, K Pietersen, A Flintoff, M Marshall, B O'Reilly, F Trueman, T Alderman
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Good spell by Rashid!
34 needed from 36
Mooney should go for his shots now!
Kev O'Brien goes. For 4 off 13 balls.
Trent Johnston the next man in. Still got Cusack and White to bat, and McCallan and West aren't mugs either.
32 from 33 - 5 wickets in hands....
Mooney gone - Ireland floundering now.
Couple of edges here and there...
And that will give our Aussie mates a reason to cheer
Shah the bowler bettered Shah the batsman!
89/7 now. What a choke.
WTF has gone wrong with Cricinfo, it's going backwards
Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.
Walt Whitman
Cricketeurope is giving the score as '94 all out' with McCallan still to bat. They've been a wicket ahead for a while though.
lol....I agree 93/7 - then 89/7 and now back to 16th over - haha
I am trying to check it on BBC
WTF - Shah is bowling dot balls?
Thats all for Irish it seems!
8 down now!
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Jul 17, 2011
The Story of the Pachyderm and Iyer
Arun wonders what a pachyderm is and I explain to him that it is none other than our dear elephant. An elephant is very visible in South India, especially Tamil Nadu and Kerala. It is part of most pomp and ceremonies, always a part of temple festivities and religious festivals, both Christian and Hindu. We see them now and then, on the road, being walked by their mahouts from temple to temple, doing work like pulling tree logs and of course at virtually every big temple, serenely eating coconut leaves.. In our own village, we have a temple and there used to be a famous elephant called Pallavur Parameswaran.. Arun is astounded. You give names to elephants? I explain that they have an important position in our society and that the most famous of the lot was the Guruvayur Kesavan…an elephant so famous that a movie was made about its life and times. He thinks I am fibbing. Now what more can I do to convince a kid who prefers to believe what Eminem raps? I guess that if I show him Kesavan's web page, he would believe me, but there is no such website. Google does come to my help though, I find documented references to the great Kesavan and show them to Arun. He is a bit perturbed though. This angle is new to him….Elephants with names, movies about them?
With the help of Google, I show him that there are books on Guruvayur elephants, Kerala elephants and so on…I show him pictures..he finally seems convinced and so we continue with the tale.
Oh, I love the Indian elephant…..Arun asks why I like the India pachyderm more than the African one, I ask him to look at both pictures and decide. The Indian elephant looks more proportionate and rounded, also less ancient, but he does not quite see it that way, so we agree to disagree.
Ram my friend, I met him at Istanbul, is from Mannargudi, a town in the Tanjavur district – Tamil Nadu. Mannrgudi has a great Krishna temple, visited by many devotees. Remember that many stories and life in South Indian villages are related to temple life and this happens to be around the temple elephant.
Krishna Iyer was a miserly chap, not everybody liked him though he was omnipresent and sometimes overbearing. If something important took place, Krishna Iyer would be there to offer his two cents worth of worthless advice. He was generally considered a nuisance though relatively harmless. He presented an interesting picture, bare bodied except for the loin cloth or dhoti, the weather beaten punul (sacred thread) across his chest…and bare footed, adorned with the discolored thorthu mundu (towel) across his shoulder.
Arun has to interrupt, he wants to know what the Punul is, and why he was not wearing any shirt or shoes. I ask him to recall the sights and sounds from our last visit to Kerala and the temples. I remind him that it was the custom around temples, especially for those who were working in the temple and who had to go in and out of the sanctum sanctorium often…It is easier not to have to wear & remove shirts..that he understands, though it was strictly speaking not the right explanation.
Krishna Iyer did not have any living family, he never married, which was good of course since 'they' would have had a miserable life. He lived his simple life, eating free temple food or 'Nivedyam' wandering here and there and being himself…mostly a general but harmless nuisance.
The temple had its elephant and this was a very calm and nice elephant. He never harmed anybody, the mahout would even take him around the 'Agraharams' and the village to bless children with its trunk…in return for some money (meant for the mahout) or some food (plantains usually).
Arun gets the picture..The elephant is a great big animal who is kid friendly like a giant teddy bear and who would put out its trunk when a coin is inserted in the right place…Aha…OK..good ...good ...go on…cut to the chase..
But elephants do become wild at times, especially when in Musth…I have difficulties explaining this to Arun, as it is a not so well understood phenomenon, a time when elephants become crazy and unpredictable. I tell him that elephants have such bad periods in their life, which he eventually accepts. When a captive elephant such as our temple elephant goes into Musth, it is pretty dangerous, there are stories of these 'rouge' elephants trampling masses, killing mahouts and so on..
This was a normal day in the Krishna temple in Mannargudi and Krishna Iyer was wandering around. He could not find anybody who would listen to him, but after wandering around a bit, he saw our elephant and his mahout…(No Arun, Ram uncle did not tell me the elephants name. I am not sure if Tamilians names their elephants like us Malayalis).
Krishna Iyer had with him some Nivedyam plantains and he decided to offer what he had to the elephant..he lifted his hand and the Pazham (plantain) to the animal. What followed was a disaster. Nobody is sure if the elephant was in Musth, the mahout is also confused why all that happened, but the elephant simply curled its trunk around our man Krishna Iyer, lifted him high in the air, spun him a couple of times and dropped him on the floor. A very simple maneuver like you see in WWF these days…only thing was that during the high speed spin, Krishna Iyer was spun on his vertical as well as horizontal axis …
Arun wants to know why the elephant did this. I have no idea, He tells me to call Ram uncle in Istanbul and find out. I tell him that probably Krishan Iyer pelted the elephant with a stone when he was a kid..elephants never forget…(remember Agatha Christe's novel??)
Nothing much would have happened to a younger fella, but K Iyer was by then over 45 years old and he had a lot of difficulty getting up from where the elephant had dropped him. He got up once and then promptly collapsed. The mahout hollered his head off and a lot of good and not so friendly people gathered around our fallen man. They decided to take him to the hospital.
The doctor who checked Iyer, was sure that K Iyer had internal injuries. So he was sent of to the district hospital. They checked him again, and admitted the poor chap, did test after test and said that he probably had his intestines twisted. After a while, they discharged him saying that his condition was stable, but Krishna Iyer was in big trouble, he simply could not eat. Whatever he ate, he threw out. So he had to continue on a liquid diet…There was no reason for a major surgery, so nobody did it.
This continued on for many years. The old Krishna Iyer changed, he became a real constipated, cranky nut as months went by. He viewed life through his pain and suffering and spread gloom wherever he went. He consulted many doctors, he even went to Vellore CMCH, but nobody could help. He was a lost soul. He became more religious and started spending more and more time at the temple, but he fastidiously avoided both the elephant and the mahout, and of course we know by now why it was so.
The only man who could tolerate him was the temple priest. They would talk of all the village politics and the worldly issues during the balmy evenings after the last prayers & 'Poojas'. On one such occasion, the priest jokingly said that the only person who could set Krishna Iyer right was our friend the Elephant. And by then Krishna Iyer was desperate, he did not want any possibilities unexplored (ask any other constipated guy and he will agree). He went in search of the mahout and asked him if there was any hope for him. The mahout asked Krishna Iyer to come back with some plantains for the elephant (the mahout never actually had any plan, he thought this was a good way of getting some grub for the pachyderm). Krishna Iyer did exactly that..He went to fetch some plantains from the temple kitchen.
He came back with the plantains and stretched them out toward the elephant. Mr Elephant, which was dozing a bit, lifted its head and took a long look at the thin specimen of manhood in front of him. They say ( as i mentioned before) that elephants have a long memory, and this time too, its memory did not fail him. He remembered Krishna Iyer.
Arun is wide eyed…no, dad, don't tell me 'that' happened.. I can't believe this. I said, 'let me complete Arun, and ask Ram uncle the next time you see him, he is the one who told me this tale'.
The elephant again picked up Krishna Iyer with its trunk, just like the last time, and spun him. twice, thrice and then put him on the ground..Nothing more, nothing less. Only this time he spun him around the other way, anticlockwise ..on both axes.
When Krishan Iyer came to, he felt like a new man. No more pains or discomfort, so he asked for a pitcher of water and drank the whole of it, without any more pain, just like he used to do in his younger days. He was finally cured…BY THE ELEPHANT!!!
Ram insists that this tale is true, he tells me that I can go anytime to his village and ask around or even meet Krishna Iyer. He swears by it..Arun laughed his head off then and giggled for days later thinking about this, in mirth. But when we went to the Pallavur temple later, he would not go near the elephant. Today I am sure Arun a college going student must be thinking it was one of my 'tall' taes.
Maybe we will visit Mannargudi some day, some time, maybe we will meet Krishna Iyer & the elephant, to expore the truth & get further details..until then, this sure is one hell of a tale!!!
7 Response to "The Story of the Pachyderm and Iyer"
- harimohan said...July 18, 2011
well i was as amused as young Arun of those days ,on this tale of centrifuging a constipation
- Mohan Panikkar said...July 22, 2011
your 'ramblings' are most beautiful
- Maddy said...July 24, 2011
thanks hari..
though i guess it was a case of a twist in the intestines..which got unravelled...
- Maddy said...July 24, 2011
thanks mohan...
plenty more in these pages, do take your time and peruse...hopefully to your hearts content...
- Anila J. said...April 19, 2013
Trying to create awareness and hoping to put stop (anybody is welcome) to a cruel practice followed in Kerala all in the name of tradition/religion/economics whatsoever. Please check in on FB page for STOP Elephant Abuse in Kerala and if you believe in it and if you are not worried of Devaswom Board/elephant owners/religious sentiments, request you to pass it on to others. The site is not meant for newsfeed/updates but more as an awareness creation tool (link given to Joyce Poole's speech is highly recommended for those interested) and is being used to comment on other posts. Hopefully this practice will come to an end with or without on the field campaign asap.
Commenting on blogs selecting them at random from google searches (hoping to do min 20 a day….crazy? jobless?), I am not a blog follower (tried blog past 2 yrs for the same issue). Any inconvenience caused is regretted.
- jk47 said...December 05, 2013
Hi Maddy,
This is the most beautiful one u have ever written, even i was curious like Arun to know what happened next. I am always at awe at this majestic animal, they also possess incredible intelligence as well. As a child i used to wonder how a small human can control such a huge animal. I grew up in my maternal ancestral home until i was 16. And our home was very close to the temple & had a lot of land attached to our tharavadu( of course all of it is now sold ). So the mahouts during festivals used to bring elephants to our place. I was just 4/5 yrs old then & i remember my uncle carried me in his arm & went under the elephant's huge belly. It is believed that if we take a child under the belly of an elephant they will never be afraid again ! Believe me, it is just a superstition...We also had a famous elephant in our temple, his name was Gangadharan. But he died tragically due to some kind of illness. There is a belief that Lord Narasimha is present in our temple( it is a Shiva Temple ), so elephants wouldn't live long if they r kept in the temple premises.
I am nostalgic about those times. Ours was a joined family; but our family also drifted apart as time went. It makes me extremely sad that our family disintegrated, people became selfish. My childhood days were like a dream & elephants were a huge part of that. My uncles used to take me to the temple to see the elephants during festive seasons. This article really touched my heart. I became teary eyed (no exaggeration) after reading this as it brought about a flood of memories to me. Now it is all just a distant, painful memory.
What is disturbing now a days, is the increase of attack against these beautiful animals. Now a days, a lot of new rules have been formulated regarding the upkeep of elephants, but like every other laws in India, people will break these laws too. I agree with u regarding the beauty of Asian elephants. They r so rotund & their little ones r unbelievably cute.
- Maddy said...December 07, 2013
thanks jk..
glad you enjoyed this little tale...
interestingly the ram in the story was in the news as one of the injured in the nairobi mall shootings..
how he survived is another story...


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"It's a summer kick-off party," says Jewkes. He continues, "Our goal as an organizing committee is to create a fun experience unlike any other for both young and old to memorialize. That's why we've added a medieval theme to nearly every activity. There might even be some medieval characters visiting the event." Jewkes believes that with nearly 150 volunteers involved in coordinating, not to mention cast members and entertainers scheduled to appear, that the event will be an astounding celebration.
This year the event features a low cost medieval style "Feast" that includes food served in the medieval period. Strolling minstrels and actors in medieval character and costume will roam the street. The evening concludes with a theatrical stage production and appearance by local band "Hitch." Arrangements have also been made for pedestal jousting, castle bounce houses, bingo, horseless polo, goldfish moat, Dance Dance Revolution, and dozens of other activities for residents of all ages. Vendors and booths will also comprise what the event calls "Faire of Camelot."
Commissioner Drew Sitterud, member of the Blacktop Knight Organizing Committee, states, "I hope everyone gets out and supports Blacktop Knight and that we can make it an annual event. The organizing committee has put a lot of work into this full evening of events with something for everyone, and we feel it will be a good thing. This is one you don't want to miss."
Mark your calendar for the evening of May 27 and plan to attend the first annual Blacktop Knight gala. Information about the event and how to get involved is available at city and county government offices, libraries, and online at www.emerycounty.com/bnoc.


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South African scrum-half Rory Kockott has been handed a starting spot for Castres in Friday's Heineken Cup clash at Northampton.
South African scrum-half Rory Kockott has been handed a starting jersey for Castres in their Heineken Cup clash with Northampton Saints on Friday.
Kockott has been in the headlines recently after publicly stating his desire to leave the club in order to pursue Test rugby with France or SA.
The French outfit visit Franklin's Gardens on Friday sitting two points ahead of the Saints in Pool 4, meaning that a victory is essential for the home team to continue their European journey.
But the Saints are in contention thanks to an against-the-odds win over pool leaders Ulster in December, and boss Mallinder says that the atmosphere in the camp this week has been similar to the days before the trip to Ravenhill.
"We still have a massive point to prove in Europe, and the players know what is expected of them on Friday night," he told the Northampton website.
"We need a win to keep our destiny in our own hands, especially as Castres are two points ahead of us in the pool.
"We also know that it will not be easy against one of the top teams in France. Castres have been in superb form over the past few months and have been playing a style of rugby which makes the most of their big forwards and speed out wide.
"It is a massive challenge for us, and all of the focus has been on what we need to do on Friday. We are just about playing knockout rugby, so getting the win is all that matters.
"But we've been playing well recently, scoring good tries and defending well, so there is plenty for us to build on and we are in a positive frame of mind to get our home form back."
Northampton name James Wilson in place of Ken Pisi, who is ruled out due to an ankle injury. Stephen Myler continues at fly-half ahead of Ryan Lamb while England squad members Calum Clark and Tom Wood join now Saxon Phil Dowson in the back-row.
The teams:
Northampton: 15 Ben Foden, 14 James Wilson, 13 George Pisi, 12 Dom Waldouck, 11 Jamie Elliott, 10 Stephen Myler, 9 Lee Dickson, 8 Phil Dowson, 7 Tom Wood, 6 Calum Clark, 5 Courtney Lawes, 4 Samu Manoa, 3 Paul Doran-Jones, 2 Dylan Hartley (capt), 1 Soane Tonga'uiha.
Replacements: 16 Mike Haywood, 17 Alex Waller, 18 Tom Mercey, 19 Mark Sorenson, 20 GJ Van Velze, 21 Martin Roberts, 22 Ryan Lamb, 23 Tom May.
Castres: 15 Brice Dulin, 14 Max Evans, 13 Romain Cabannes, 12 Rémi Lamerat, 11 Marcel Garvey, 10 Daniel Kirkpatrick, 9 Rory Kockott, 8 Antonie Claassen, 7 Yannick Caballero, 6 Jannie Bornman, 5 Iosefa Tekori, 4 Christophe Samson, 3 Anton Peikrishvili, 2 Mathieu Bonello, 1 Yannick Forestier.
Replacements: 16 Brice Mach, 17 Saimone Taumoepeau, 18 Michaël Coetzee, 19 Matthias Rolland, 20 Paul Bonnefond, 21 Pedrie Wannenburg, 22 Pierre Bernard, 23 Thomas Sanchou.
Date: Friday, January 11
Kick-off: 20:00
Venue: Franklin's Gardens
Referee: George Clancy (Ireland)
Assistant referees: Paul Haycock (Ireland), Michael Black (Ireland)
Television match official: Peter Ferguson (Ireland)
Timekeeper: Matthew Peters (England)
Citing commissioner: Douglas Hunter (Scotland)
Assessor: Fergus Neil (Scotland)


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The Lady Dolphin Basketball Team went 1-2 over the weekend at the NWAACC Crossover Tournament in Ontario, OR at Treasure Valley College with 8 teams from across the NWAACC participating.
SCC opened the tournament against the host team, Treasure Valley CC, and the Dolphins came up short, 67-51. Kylie Williams lead SCC with 22 points.
In the consolation round, Shoreline faced Clark College from Vancouver, WA and defeated the Penguins, 59-52. Kylie Williams again led SCC with 19 points while Lynsey Sandum added 12. Clark led at half-time by 1 but Shoreline outscored Clark by 8 points in the second half to take the victory.
On Sunday, in the Consolation Final, SCC faced Lower Columbia College and shot only 21% in the first half and fell behind early and Lower Columbia pounded the Dolphins 72-55. Kylie Williams again led the Lady Dolphins with 15 points.
SCC is now 4-4 on the season and have already matched the number of wins for the team in 2009-10. SCC will now take a Christmas break from games and resume play on January 5 against Bellevue College at BC in the opening game of NWAACC Northern Region play.
Kylie Williams
The Lady Dolphin Basketball Team split two games over the weekend. SCC traveled to Yakima Valley CC on Saturday and was defeated by the Lady Yaks, 87-39. SCC was caught in snowstorm on the way over and shot just as cold, shooting only 25% for the game and falling behind 40-20 at half and never getting into the game during the second half. Lynsey Sandum led SCC with 13 points.
On Sunday, SCC defeated Douglas College 60-34 as SCC held Douglas to just 8 field goals in the game. The first half featured bad shooting on both sides, as Douglas shot only 7% and SCC 21%. Douglas only made one field goal in the first half as SCC led 20-11 at the break. Shoreline came out in the second half and took control in the first five minutes, as they pushed the lead to 20 points and never looked back. Lynsey Sandum led the Lady Dolphins again in scoring wtih 22 points and Kylie Williams added 12 points with 10 rebounds, and five steals. Jenny Voss added 7 steals and four assists.
SCC is now 3-2 on the season and travel to the NWAACC Crossover Tournament next weekend in Ontario, OR, at Treasure Valley Community College. SCC takes on the host school, TVCC, at 7 p.m. on Friday night, December 17th.
Lynsey Sandum Jenny Voss
The Lady Dolphin Basketball Team defeated Northwest Indian College on Friday in Bellingham, WA by the score of 73-56. This is the second time SCC has defeated NWIC this season.
The SCC squad was led by Nani Hooyman who scored 18 points, followed by Kylie Williams with 15 and Lynsey Sandrum with 14 points.
SCC is 2-1 on the year and travel to Yakima Valley Community College on Saturday for a 2 p.m.game and then return home on Sunday, to face Douglas College from Vancouver, BC for a 2 p.m. home game in the SCC Gym.
Nani Hooyman


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I play golf at least once a week and this App kicks butt......tracks everyting you would want to track score wise. The GPS Is insanely accurate within a yard....
Worth every penny!
I have researched practically every GPS device on the market including laser range finders. And by far, Golshot: Golf GPS is the most economical thing on the market and does all the work of other models without the high cost, monthly or yearly fees, extra devices to carry, attaching to your computer etc. My buddies all have some sort of golf GPS device and my iPhone is as good if not better than them all and my favorite feature is the ability to select your layup distances so you know exactly what distance you need to hit your tee shot to get your ideal layup or favorite club. Additionally the statistic are awesome….talk about game improvement at a great $price$. Money well spent Would like to see an improvement in battery expenditure
This is my favorite app on my phone. I love it. I was concerned about how accurate it would be. It is very accurate, almost always within a yard or two of what the course yardage markers. One slight drawback is the map they use. Because it is a satellite image, when I am in the sun it is difficult to see where the fairway ends and rough starts, etc. But it is probably too difficult to actually draw out every single course that is available. I have compared it to the expensive GPS units for sale, and this is just as good if not better than all others that I have tried.
I have seen other apps like this but none of them have had courses i golf at. This app had every one i could think of. It even has a junky little par 3 course at a local driving range. it works very well... it is very accurate ( i would say within 2 yards at the most) and keeps stats of your round. I highly recommend this app. The only thing to be aware of is that it does drain the battery quickly. if you use the power saving mode you can make it through a round but you will be waiting for it to reaquire the satalites. if you keep it on you can only get about 12 holes before it gets into the red. i bought a battery backup case for $40 to use and it works great. Try to find a golf GPS that does all of this for less than $70. Also it will email the scorecard to all of your friends at the end of the round.
I have used this app for 2 months and it is incredible. Accuracy is amazing. I play 36 holes back to back and still have over 30% battery. Best $30 I have spent.
Great product!! Lowered my handicap from a 14 down to 9 very acurate!!
I used this app for the first time yesterday and I absolutely love it. Great golf tool.
So I purchased this app. to replace my "Golf Guru" gps. First I played nine holes to get familiarized with it. Today I played eighteen holes and MAN, was this great to have. I have an iPhone 3Gs; I left home with 94% battery life and finished eighteen holes with 34% battery left. I turned off my Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and e-mail to save the battery. That helped tremendously. I also powered off as much as I could between shots. The accuracy is within a few yards which is more than accurate enough for me. I golf for fun not a living. The only complaint I have is learning to be patient and allowing the gps to get my true location. It takes about ten seconds. Otherwise, I'm glad I made this purchase. The best $30.00 I've spent on golf so far. The features are the same as all the expensive stand alone units. You can't go wrong with this app.
Excellent GPS and scoring functions. On line stats very helpful.
I just bought golf shot and love it. I have (or had) the sky caddie, sonocaddie, golfcard for iphone, and viewti for iphone. Compared to these products, this app holds its own. Generally I don't write long winded reviews because I have too many other things that I can do with my time. However, I figured if you make the next version better, it only helps me play better. Here are my suggestions for the next version. 1. It doesn't list the distance to the front and rear of greens. and it doesn't zoom in enough. 2.This is probably the most important request. When you activate the touchpoint to determine if the front and back of green,(or for any layup point) it doesn't give you the option of turning it off so that you can get the get the distances to the center of the green 3.The gps in the iphone is inherently slower, expecially when it has to reaquire the satellites if you turn off the phone. It tends to give incorrect readings (which look correct) for about 30 sec. I was fooled on a few holes and was pretty unhappy. I guess it would be nice to visually cue to see if there are enough satellites acquired. Perhaps as a strength meter next to the distance yardage at the top of the screen. It isn't the apps fault that the iphone is giving incorrect numbers, but it would be great to get a sense of how confident that number is . Skycaddie and sonocaddie are don't have this lag. 4.The a battery life is really an issue. I can seldom finish 18 holes even with my 3Gs on a full charge. I would suggest that you sell some from your website or give links to products that offer external batteries for the iphone. I bought an external battery charger (on ebay) which is a necessity. 5. There is no way to jump to a specific hole. So you have to scroll through 19 screens if you want to start on the 10th hole. Not great for shotgun, back nine rounds, or just skipping holes. 6.The blue, yellow, red is the only way you can tell if it is a par 3,4, or 5 hole. Putting the par and distance would be great. 7.It had to turn off the function that shows the score card when the phone is sideways. It is nice but distracting when I put the phone down or in my pocket. Unfortunately, without this shortcut, viewing your scorecard is a pain. 8.Great job on score entry. It is better than most other golf apps. 9.It would be nice to shorten the back nine screen on the score card screen so that you can see the 18 hole totals. (this is what you normally have on a paper score card.) Currently with golfshot, you have to scroll between 3 screens to see the whole score card. You can differentiate the 18 hole column by using a different color. 10.The stats section is great. I love the ability to email people. I think that my friends will all want to buy the golfcard after they get their score in the email. You should send them the color figures from the primary users game so that they can see what they are missing. Also throw in a $5 dollar referral discount. 11.GolfCard app has the ability to map out courses. I used it to map out driving ranges so I don't need my laser range finder any more. It would be nice if Golfshot had the same. Overall, it a probably the best golf app. The high pricetag means that it has to offer that much more than other apps. I think future versions willl make this a 5 star app.
Excellent GPS and scoring functions. On line stats very helpful.
So I purchased this app. to replace my "Golf Guru" gps. First I played nine holes to get familiarized with it. Today I played eighteen holes and MAN, was this great to have. I have an iPhone 3Gs; I left home with 94% battery life and finished eighteen holes with 34% battery left. I turned off my Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and e-mail to save the battery. That helped tremendously. I also powered off as much as I could between shots. The accuracy is within a few yards which is more than accurate enough for me. I golf for fun not a living. The only complaint I have is learning to be patient and allowing the gps to get my true location. It takes about ten seconds. Otherwise, I'm glad I made this purchase. The best $30.00 I've spent on golf so far. The features are the same as all the expensive stand alone units. You can't go wrong with this app.
My Google Maps of the courses looks really funky right now. Also, I think an easy back button would be helpful. Other than that, five stars.
Just buy it. Sell your rangefinder and bushnell laser. They don't keep score/stats and are$$$$$. This app is outstanding. Also it's idiot proof.
First, let me state my bias up front: like most low-handicap players, there is one number that matters the most to me by far, namely the distance to the pin. Hence, I prefer laser range finders to GPS devices. Having said that, I think this is a very decent GPS app, which appears to have a lot more functionality than other similar apps or devices (like Sky Caddy) I particularly like the aerial photo of each hole, which is very nice when playing a course for the first time. The stats function is not my cup of tea, but it seems reasonably well designed. My major complaint, which is probably more of a GPS issue, is that yardages are very noisy. For example, if I want to measure the distance of last shot (something I cannot easily do with rangefinder), I notice that, even before I move from the position where I started the measurement, I am showing over 10 yard distance as GPS tries to lock in. As an experiment, I tried this on a hole where I could easily get a very accurate laser measurement of my drive distance. I clocked 262 yards with laser, 257 (after it finally settled down) with GPS -- acceptable. A week later, I made exactly the same measurement, and got 222 yards instead of the laser 262 yards -- unacceptable. I am pleased I bought the app, and would do so again. But it will not replace my rangefinder
Best app ever. Just as described. Better than sonocaddie...
My game has improved since the purchased. That's all that counts.
I have used this app several times now and it is very good. The distances are very close to to a skycaddie SG4 (three to six yards difference). The stats and scorecard are really helpful and easy to enter. I enter the stats between tee boxes. The app does eat up the battery even when the gps powersave mode is on. When phone is allowed to time out, it saves a lot of battery power, but gps takes a few minutes to re-engage and can sometimes be a little frustrating. I bought a backup battery/charger and use that when my battery gets to 20%. Overall, well worth the one time fee and no annual fee is a huge + for me. Highly recommend this app. I intend to look at other apps as well, including golflogix.
Been using it for nearly three months...I golf at least once a week a different courses. I was about to drop ~$350 on a range finder or gps unit and decided to give this a shot due to it being inexpensive. What a surprise. This app saved me $$$. It does what I need it to do.
Very accurate and worth every penny. Have used for over 3 months and could not be any happier. Don't hesitate to buy this great golf gps!!
This app is $29.99, which sounds like a lot considering so many apps out there are free or less than $3. However, taking into account what this does and the cost of alternative units that cost hundreds of dollars, this app is cheap. For the most part, the yardages are fairly accurate. I shoot in the 90's so to be off by 10 yards or so doesn't hurt me--might be a bigger deal for those who shoot in the 70's or lower. Several times I have had to shoot from nearby a fairway yardage marker and the reading that I got from this app was within a yard or two of what the marker said--that ain't bad. The biggest benfit this app has over golflogix is that you get a view of the entire hole layout from tee to green. I downloaded the golflogix app and thank goodness they give you a 24-hour freebie. It had good visuals and the yardage seemed good, but i need to have something that provides the hole layout--especially when playing a course for the first time. Golfshot gives you that along with layup markers, distances to bunkers, etc. It's a very handy app. Another great benefit of this app is the scoring engine. It keeps track of fairways hit, greens in regulation, penalty shots, sand shots, and number of putts. It also saves your scores, e-mails them to you, and automatically keeps track of your handicap. When I first started entering this information, I thought it was a pain in the a*s, but it really only takes a minute to enter all this information and the payoff is great. There's a stats feature that has great graphics depicting how you're playing. I only have two gripes about this app. First, the shot tracker that measures distance is a bit quirky. I turned it on, left it in the cart to go hit my shot, came back and it already measured 6 yards--I hadn't even moved and it measured 6 yards!! Granted, they state it's accurate within 7 yards, but I found that to be odd. Second, it takes a while to update the distance. It's not as accurate as a handheld GPS device like a Garmin Nuvi and takes longer to get the distance. This is only a big deal if you have a group riding your a*s; you may need to give yourself an extra 30-60 seconds to get an accurate reading. Overall--excellent app. I've been perusing the others but this one seems to be the best of the lot!!!
I gave away my GPS Golf Buddy after using this for about 6 rounds. Way worth the money. Very user friendly. Thanks for a great app.
I was nervous about paying this much for an app, but it's been well worth it. I use it every round, the stats are great and worth the cost by itself. I took pictures of 5 courses that weren't in the system and they were updated within a week. Gps is very accurate. I love it.
Truly an amazing application that is very easy to use. The app doesn't even interupt the flow of the game its so convienent. I've tried to manage stats before to see where my game needs improvment with little success. This application tracks and shows me exacty what I need to focus on at the driving range in readable comprehendable graphs. Great UI with one complaint - the color scheme for indicating par 3,4 and 5 don't match to the standard Red, Gold Blue distance so this throws me. Might I suggest actually stating Par 3, 4 and 5 on the top of the form? I'm in Silicon Valley and all courses are available and GPS is quick. Occasionally lost GPS signal and it takes 15-20 seconds and sometimes you wait to see if the distance is going to change again. looking forward to seeing stat tracking for multiple players too!
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I have a huge base on the moon too, it's called
"facepunch moon HQ"
Well, I've penned this:
I mostly want to see how he responds to unbridled sympathy and understanding for his situation.
tbh I am legitimately afraid he won't be able to read it
Not to ve racist but as soon as i heard escalade i kinda knew the person behind the wheel would be someone like him. And defending him is atrocious.
I hate the dumb fucks who try to defend the other dumb fucks that do shit like this. That guy in the OP going "fuck those people that died" is way too much. Goddamn people are so stupid.
I'm glad there are people like you who try to understand what the brother is going through. The brother is obviously going through some serious shit after this accident and he has no idea how to react to all the hate coming at him and his brother. I'm not saying that saying "fuck the dead people" is okay, but before labeling him as scum, try understanding what's going through his mind at the time.
Maybe I'm just overly optimistic about people.
Kinda sad to see this kinda shit happens, in Australia loads of people text while driving and it makes my blood boil.
The thing is, if the 17 year old had been gotten killed by someone speeding and texting everyone would be crying on his facebook saying that the driver deserves the death penalty or something.
You don't know him, so it is very easy to judge him. The closer you are to someone, the poorer your judgement gets due to the cognitive dissonance caused by what you believe the person to be and what you now know to be true. Even if someone you know commits murder, the first thing out of a person's mouth usually is "He was always such a nice person" because they are trying to justify their association with whom they are now trying to redefine their relationship with.
These people are his friends and family, and it is going to take a long time before they come to terms with what has happened in a sensible way.
At 7 am that morning they had someone they called a friend, brother, son, nephew, whatever that relation that may be.
At 10 am they had to redefine all of that to include or justify his actions or what they believe to be an accident.
Fuck me sideways, those comments infuriate me to no end. How can people possibly be that fucking ignorant and utterly idiotic about a situation like that?
Take it easy on his brother, he seems like a completely normal and hurt person from what I gather communicating with him and on his profile.
I think this is an absolute tragedy on all sides.
Mostly for the family who have been torn apart by the death of a child and her father, but also for the family of the driver because what tends to happen around these events is that the driver's family will come to his defence, as any family would. But because of this, they are demonized along with the perpetrator. Whilst their view that the driver should be defended entirely is misguided, they are still his family so it is only natural.
I don't believe that the driver should be defended much at all however. Even though he is young, he is still old enough to realise that driving dangerously will never end well. It still stands that he took the life of two innocent people, one of which was a child. Defending him will not educate him on how he was wrong, there comes a point where it is merely excusing him of his acts in his own mind.
His family is paying it surely as well.
What do you expect from texting and driving?
I still think the brother was a bit out of it too much.
AT THE VERY LEAST, he should back off a bit and not even respond. His brother still was pretty reckless and saying the things he said seems completely overboard.
They aren't gangstas like in the movies where they kill whoever they feel like and get away with it.
Still, the driver is gonna be pretty fucked up from now on. Waking up to know he killed a man and his little girl, every day...
I wouldn't be able to live with that.
Everyone is just shocked, and that really just brings out sad stupidity, but I totally understand, I just wish some people would understand how stupid they're being.
Is he being charged?
Charged for vehicular manslaughter according to the police report.
argh, i feel incredibly sorry for the family and friends who have to suffer because of one stupid kids inconsiderate actions. I hope he goes to prison for life and never sees the outside world ever again. Teenagers should be limited to certain litres of cars such as a 1.5 and less.
my biggest worry is that he'll forgive himself and rationalize that it was just an acceptable mistake--someday soon. probably not much going on in that vapid shit-for-brains head of his anyway, so you never know.
sounds like the whole lot of his friends are fucking idiots too. funny thing is, these pics of him are an even greater caricature of what I had imagined he'd look like (although I assumed he was white). I assumed he was some saggy-ass trash, but he looks fucking ridiculous. I wonder if his parents are trash too, and how they're reacting to the situation? letting their kid act like that, not doing anything about those multiple speeding violations, allowing him to drive some ghetto souped-up SUV.. but I do feel sorry for his family, I can imagine they're in immense pain (hopefully worrying about the right things).
I live in concord too, but I've never had speeding violations so I don't know what the legislation is on that--at what point do they suspend your license? I mean, he kind of screamed "take my fucking license away forever" before this happened.
Those fucking people on facebook... I feel more hatred towards them than the driver right now.
But what particularly disgusts me is people like a cousin of mine, who works as a welder at a shipyard and makes a ton of money, and his car history is basically: a BMW 330i, which he crashed into a light pole because he was speeding at night near his house, a suzuki swift sport (brand new mind you), that he crashed on the highway, almost killing a woman (tried to overtake through a narrow space after getting on the highway, hit the car he was overtaking), a FUCKING E36 BMW M3, which he crashed with his girlfriend in the car trying to impress her by drifting it around his neighborhood, she broke it off with him the next day because it's not exactly sane to date someone who does futile, dangerous shit like that for attention. It's revolting. He owns a Mercedes 190E now, and it's been his longest running, mostly because his father (who is nowhere near as careless as he is) put a smaller restrictor in the engine and left it with about 30% less horsepower than stock.
I just can't believe his friends more than anything else. That Demitri asswipe said "fuck those people who died.. you needa stop talking, cuz I'm the wrong n**** you wanna be fuckin with
More and more reasons why I should stay away from Facebook.


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By GARY ARRINGTONSports Reporter
Whenever these two schools have met, they have usually battled to the end before the outcome was known. Last Friday night was no different. The Emery Spartans hosted the Carbon Dinos, the seats were full of fans and they were treated to another barnburner. The Spartans outlasted the Dinos 70-61 and clinched a play-off spot to boot.
The two teams battled to a 16-16 first quarter tie that looked ominous for the host team. Emery was called for 11 fouls in that opening period versus four for the Dinos, the Emery fans were nervous to say the least. Chandler Pearson had eight points in that quarter to pace the home team.
In the second quarter, the offense started to look good and the defense was flowing as a unit and those nasty fouls stopped happening. The team outscored the Dinos 18-11 in the period and the team of old appeared to be back. Emery hit four 3-pointers in the period and seven for the half as their shooting touch returned. Keaton Cowley had three of his game high four in that first half of ball. The Spartans now led 34-27.
The third quarter provided more solid basketball and Pearson continued his big night from the high post as he had four baskets going inside. The Spartans outscored the Dinos by nine to take a 52-36 lead.
Carbon refused to play dead as they roared out in the fourth quarter and closed the gap to 57-50. The Emery fans were, at this point, a hair nervous. The Spartan players gathered themselves and outscored Carbon 13-11 in the final 3:30 of the game to take the win. Bowie Jeffs had two driving baskets in the quarter along with 6 of 6 free throws to aid the cause.
For the game, Pearson led the way with 24 points and 9 rebounds. Jeffs added 20 points, Cowley added 12 points, Zeke Atwood added 6 points and 6 blocks and Isaac Bawden, Matt Stucki and Mike Blomquist added a basket each.
After the game, Coach Todd Jeffs said, "This is something to build on. When we play that hard, good things usually happen. Tonight we had energy but we didn't always play smart, we need to work on that."
The Emery Spartans will be looking to improve their region record this week as they travel to North Sanpete Tuesday night and Delta Friday night to conclude the region schedule. Two wins should cement the Spartans in second place and give them a home play-off game. Both games are around 7 pm, right after the girl's varsity games. Good luck Spartans.


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Sen. Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah) issued the following statement upon news of the passing of President Gordon B. Hinckley, leader of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, headquartered in Salt Lake City.
"I am deeply saddened to hear of the passing of President Gordon B. Hinckley. He was a beloved Prophet of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. His life was a true testament of service, and he had an abiding love for others. His wit, wisdom, and exemplary leadership will be missed by not only members of our faith, but by people of all faiths throughout the world.
"He was an articulate leader and defender of our Christian principles; and had a unique gift and way about him to communicate with people from all walks of life, and all religious persuasions. I truly loved this wonderful man. I know that he is happily reunited with his sweet wife, Marjorie, who he has greatly missed. I am sure there is a loving reunion in heaven with Marjorie and with so many others with whom he has served. Elaine and I feel deeply privileged to have known such a remarkable man and been touched in so many ways by his life and example."
Senate President's statement on the passing of President Hinckley.
John L. Valentine, President of the Utah State Senate, posted the following on the Senate Site:
"Karen and I were heartbroken to hear of the passing of this great leader, wonderful man, and servant of God. He inspired us to be kinder and more compassionate in our daily lives. We will remember him not only as a man of God but as a world leader. His words and his legacy will continue to bless and encourage all of us for generations to come.
"As Utahns, we were incredibly fortunate to hear one of President Hinckley's final public addresses when he rededicated the newly restored State Capitol Building on Jan. 4. May we all rededicate ourselves to all the good he left us by word and example."
Statement from University President Michael K. Young on the passing of LDS Church President Gordon B. Hinckley
The University of Utah family joins with millions worldwide who mourn the passing of President Gordon B. Hinckley, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and a cherished alumnus of the U. Citizens of all nations will miss his great faith and boundless energy, his vision and spiritual resonance, and his compassion and gentle good humor. Truly the world is poorer today because of his passing.
President Hinckley leaves behind a rich legacy of courage and compassion. I saw these characteristics in action while I served on the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom. On countless occasions President Hinckley shared his personal conviction that all people be afforded the right of thought, conscience and belief. Such was the power of his conviction that hearts were changed and decisions were made that furthered religious freedom around the globe.
A graduate of the University of Utah in 1932, President Hinckley was awarded an honorary doctorate from his beloved U 60 years later in 1992. To honor his contributions to education and his passion for literature, the University, through the College of Humanities and with the generous support of his family and many caring friends, established the Gordon B. Hinckley Endowment in British Studies. This endowment supports the annual Gordon B. Hinckley Lecture in British Studies, and the Gordon B. Hinckley Professorship in British Literature and Culture.
President Hinckley was a great friend to the University of Utah and to many of us personally. We are heartbroken by his passing, but find in his 1998 commencement address prophetically fitting words to describe the life of this true gentleman: "My message to you today...is that you resolve to dedicate a part of your time...to those in distress and need, with no consideration of recompense. It will not be enough to be an able lawyer, a man of medicine, a skilled architect, a proficient engineer, or whatever. There will be the need for another dimension in your life-that of reaching down to someone who may be in distress to offer your strong hands to lift him up." Gordon B. Hinckley spent a lifetime reaching down to lift others up. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family and with all those will feel so deeply the loss of this great man.


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So this is the first 'REAL' post then and hopefully the clue is the title….
I wanted to cover the one area of business I consider the lifeblood of any small company trying to build their business – Networking.
Networking is the process of getting out and meeting other business people at breakfasts, lunches dinners and other functions…..true networking in my opinion is an art form. The most important thing to remember about it (and where I feel that so many go wrong) is that it's not a short term solution to getting business, it's about building relationships over time. Being seen at the same events regularly will help build trust in you as a person (your personal brand) and the company you work for. In some cases I've only started getting leads from people that have known me for 3+ years, purely because it's taken them that long to see that my business is one that it wishes to work with. You must work at networking….
There are loads of opportunities in life to network. In fact if you wanted to, you could network every day of the week…and then at the weekend too, in fact I'm regularly told that I never stop networking When in start-up phase you need to put yourself about (quite literally) – get out there as much as possible, invite yourself to everything you can and ask others where they network. DON'T BE SHY. If you want to find networking groups in your locality then Google it. If you're in Exeter and reading this then here is a list of local networking groups for you to try: networking groups in exeter
Ok, so now you've found your groups lets go networking….
It can be a pretty scary prospect going to a networking group – a room full of people you don't know can seem quite intimidating. Thoughts like 'who do i speak to first' and 'how to do I interrupt them to start a conversation' all spring into your mind. This is especially true when you're starting up and don't know anyone – these feelings are entirely natural and are probably being felt by many other people in the room. Don't worry though, it gets easier….
To help in your quest I've put together Banksy's top five tips for networking:
Tip 1 – Quite simply, get there early!!! It's not hard when you think about it, if you get there early, the room isn't full and it will be the other people that have to come in and worry about who to speak to and how.
Tip 2 – Have a plan before you go. If you can, try and get a list of who is going to be there. Make a target list of who you want to speak to and remember that you can always ask the organisers to introduce you to someone if you don't know what they look like.
Tip 3 – You're not there for the food and drink, you're there to do business (hence the title of this post)…Don't just sit there and eat your food and drink your drink in the corner…get out there and NETWORK. The quality of the lunch or breakfast should come a distant second to whether you can make some good contacts.
Tip 4 – Listen. This is probably one of my most important tips. No one likes a person who turns up and talks at them…me me me….it's quite a turn off. Try asking the person you're speaking to about themselves and their business and only talk about your business when they ask (they will get round to it…unless they are completely egocentric ). Try some of the following posers – and please, please, please sound like you're interested:
>> So what business are you in?
>> How long have you been going?
>> Is business good at the moment?
When I'm networking and asking these questions I'm always thinking about my own business and how I can create an angle on what I do when I'm finally asked about it. Then, if clever, I can relate my own business to theirs and suddenly the selling process becomes much easier. (As an example: If I find that I'm talking to an estate agent and business is not great at the moment, when I get asked about Optix I can tell them that I look after other estate agents in other parts of the country and what has worked well to bring them new business through the web – immediately they are interested and you can move to the follow up…)
Tip 5 – Follow Up – If you go to an event with people where you collect business cards then make sure you follow up. Send a quick email saying how nice to meet them it was. If you've told anyone you'll call them then make sure you do (and within a couple of days so it's still fresh in their minds).
Networking can be one of the most powerful ways of bringing in new business. Optix went from 2 to 8 staff on the strength of networking alone. I made sure that I was at every event I could be in the early days, now I try and make sure all my staff are doing the same.
For some groups that I have personal experience of check out:
• BNI (worldwide) – My Local chapter in Exeter has its own website here: BNI Chapter in Exeter
• Business Network (South West)
• Chamber of Commerce (check your local area – Here is Exeter Chamber of Commerce) Optix also design and maintain Barking and Dagenham Chamber of Commerce Website
• TBX (Devon)
• Best Of (Exeter)
• XYBC – Exeter Young Business Club
Quick Update to Post: Check out All Networking in a couple of weeks time here – Over 750 people now registered: www.allnetworking.co.uk
So now that you are armed with my top tips, get out there – don't be shy and network until you're blue in the face – I KNOW it will work for you. Let me know how you get on…


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Joe Flacco went to Disney World. The quarterback he bested in Super Bowl XLVII went to the tattoo parlor.
Ater leading his San Francisco 49ers to within 5 yards of a championship, Colin Kaepernick was back under the needle Wednesday night, getting a tribal tattoo added to the large, script words he already had inked on his upper chest.
KAEPERNICK: 49ers see bright future
SPORTS ON EARTH: Kaepernick says "we'll be back"
Kaepernick's "Against All Odds" tattoo is now surrounded by a tribal design that Orly Locquiao, the tattoo's artist, says represents "family, inner strength, spiritual growth and humility."
Are these tattoo merit badges? I guess later ones will deal with mental toughness, resilience, love, conquering and not being afraid of the dark inside a large domed stadium.
It took until 2:30 a.m. on Thursday for Locquiao to finish the design. He posted pictures of his work on the Humble Beginnings Tattoo page on Facebook. Kaepernick tweeted the others.
The ink looks nice, if that's your sort of thing. We want to know know whether Kaepernick was going to get the same tattoo no matter the result of Sunday's game or if he had dueling designs, like when presidential candidates have to write victory and concession speeches. Because, in some cultures, getting Jim Harbaugh's face tattooed over the Lombardi Trophy probably represents "inner strength and spiritual growth" too.


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Where Is the Pilot Who Landed a Weed-Filled Plane in Houston?
Attention! If you landed a plane at the Houston Executive Airport in Texas on Monday, and then disappeared, the police would like to talk to you. About the fact that your plane is filled with marijuana.
Authorities are searching for the weed-plane's pilot (Santa?), who seems to have run away very quickly after landing his (or her!) vehicle:
Before the landing, the planes operators would not talk to the airport tower controllers. Once it arrived, the nose gear collapsed. No pilot was found on the plane.
What was found on the plane was pot:
When law enforcement officers arrived at the scene shortly after the incident around 7 p.m. CDT, they found
a large amount of marijuana inside the abandoned aircraft, Kremmer said.
"You could certainly classify it as a lot more than just personal use," Kremmer said.
The plane (a "small twin engine" vehicle) "sustained minor damage." No word on the marijuana.


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"The Oak Grove and Browse roads have been closed for public safety throughout the summer in response to extremely dry fuels and dangerous fire conditions combined with the fact that these two roads are the only ways in and out of the areas they access," says Randy Beckstrand, Acting Pine Valley District Ranger. "The rain we received in July alleviated these dry and dangerous conditions for the most part and have allowed the fire restrictions to be lifted and these two roads to be opened back up for public access."
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Men's National Teams are training in the Centre Sportif in Gatineau, Québec. The centre offers over 18, 000 square meters of recreational space and has been designed with sustainability in mind. Up to 80% of the building's heating and air conditioning requirements are to be met with over ninety geothermal wells. These provisions along with extensive heat recovery systems and a vegetative roof to reduce heat indoors during the summer will result in an over 50% energy savings.
The gymnasium features a centre court and may accommodate up to 3 volleyball courts at once. The floor is made of Taraflex material and the ceiling clearance is 9.5 meters. The Men's National Team office is loacted within the building, as well as its treatment centre. The facility accommodates up to one thousands fans; 500 in permanent seats and 500 in movable stands.


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More of the long-term unemployed workers are finding jobs as the economy improves and the housing rebound boosts unemployed construction workers. But some of the jobless simply stop looking for work.
The prospects of the nation's most beleaguered workers — the long-term unemployed — are improving
The number of Americans out of work at least six months fell to 4.7 million in January, down from 5.5 million a year ago and the lowest since June 2009, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported last week.
The long-term unemployed represented 38.1% of all jobless Americans last month, vs. 43% in January 2012 — the largest 12-month drop in the payroll recovery, which began in February 2010.
The 4.7 million total is still more than three times the pre-recession level, notes Maurice Emsellem, policy co-director for the National Employment Law Project.
But at least some of the decline can be traced to more of the chronically jobless finding work. The housing rebound, in particular, is lifting some of the 2 million construction workers who lost their jobs in the real estate crash and recession, says Wells Fargo economist Mark Vitner. Construction payrolls are up by 300,000 the past two years.
"There's no question folks are finding jobs," he says.
A study out this week from the San Francisco Federal Reserve found that from January 2011 to October 2012, people out of work 20 months or longer snared jobs at a higher rate than a similar group during the previous economic expansion, from 2005 to 2007.
"Many of them are people who have good skills" but have been hurt by a persistently weak job market, says study author Rob Valleta.
Valleta also attributes their rising fortunes to an improving economy and job market.
By contrast, he says, people out of work for an extended period during the mid-2000s boom "probably had very poor job prospects."
He says his findings upend the widespread belief that many of the long-term unemployed won't work again as their skills atrophy and they battle employers' negative perceptions.
"If we see a sustained economic recovery, we'll largely get rid of long-term unemployment," he says.
There are also other reasons long-term joblessness has declined.
In 2011, for instance, there was a sharp drop in the number of people out of work less than six months. That left a smaller pool of people who moved into long-term employment in 2012, says Mark Zandi, chief economist of Moody's Analytics.
Also, stricter criteria for receiving unemployment insurance knocked about 1 million jobless people off the benefit rolls last year, says Heidi Shierholz, an economist with the Economic Policy Institute. Many likely were discouraged workers who dropped out of the labor force since they no longer had to keep looking for work to be eligible for benefits, she says.
While that temporarily pushes down the unemployment rate, many discouraged workers likely will resume their searches when the job market improves, raising the unemployment rate. The exception: people in their late 50s or early 60s, who retired early.
Still other Americans who lost their benefits likely took jobs that they might have declined while they were still getting unemployment checks.
Clyde Lance, 52, of Pleasant Garden, N.C., lost his job as an electronics technician three years ago, and recently landed a spot testing equipment for a manufacturing training facility. It pays more than his old job but doesn't fully utilize his technical skills, and involves a 70-minute commute each way, forcing him to spend $400 a month on gasoline.
Noting his jobless benefits were running out, he says, "I was getting desperate."


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After 26 races, seven months and one unprecedented penalty, NASCAR's 'regular season' has come to an end.
The Chase for the Sprint Cup begins in Chicago this weekend as 12 drivers have moved one step closer to the circuit crown.
In handicapping the Chase, it's important to remember that the playing field is once again level. All 12 qualified drivers now have an equal shot at the Cup, regardless of how many races they have won or lost up to this point.
So, who do you like?
Jimmie Johnson was the first to clinch his chase spot, doing so over a month ago at Aug. 11's Watkins Glen International. Clint Bowyer and Matt Kenseth have had their berths clinched for a couple weeks and have likewise been able to cruise through the final races prior to the Chase. Kyle Busch qualified by winning Atlanta two weeks ago and was joined that same night by Kevin Harvick, Carl Edwards and Kasey Kahne, leaving five spots up for grabs in Richmond.
The field was filled out on the final weekend before the Chase with: Dale Earnhardt Jr. Kurt Busch, Joey Logano, Greg Biffle and - at the time - Martin Truex Jr.
Truex may have been the sentimental favourite as he fought valiantly down the stretch, driving with a broken right wrist, but he was removed from the Chase by NASCAR officials after initially securing a spot when his Waltrip Racing teammates Clint Bowyer and Brian Vickers apparently manipulated the outcome of Saturday night's Richmond race under orders from the team.
The penalty vaulted Ryan Newman into the Chase by virtue of wild card qualification. When looking for who has the inside track, history can tell us a few things.
The first, as always, is don't overlook Johnson. Number 48 has five Sprint Cups under his belt and was far and away the best driver for much of the 2013 campaign. After two years on the outside looking in, he could be hungry to add a sixth Cup to his trophy case.
Bowyer - last year's runner-up - may be eager to conclude some unfinished business. Bowyer, like Johnson, narrowly missed the Cup last season by virtue of two disastrous sub-20 finishes during the Chase that marred an otherwise excellent run.
Kenseth's five checkered flags this season are tops heading into the Chase but last year's season ended on an inconsistent note. While Kenseth won two of the 10 Chase races, he was unable to crack the top 10 in all but one of the others, leading to a disappointing seventh-place finish.
Kyle Busch is something of a wild card. He locked up his spot by winning Atlanta and has taken two of the last five checkered flags. However, the last time he was in the Chase in 2011, he finished last amongst the top 12, reaching only one podium.
His brother Kurt has been good entertainment all year, even if he hasn't won many friends. He got into a shoving match with Tony Stewart and caused a seven-car pile-up. In the meantime, he's been a Jekyll and Hyde performer. Heading into Richmond, Busch had finished top-10 in 11 of his last 18. That said, he'd also finished lower than 30th three times over that same span.
Kurt is one of just four drivers to have successfully navigated the Chase, so he could be out to surprise.
Fans will also be eager to see if Dale Earnhardt Jr. can finally return his family name to the Championship conversation after three straight unsuccessful Chases. Junior remains one of the most popular drivers in NASCAR, but many still await his big breakthrough.
Logano has earned his slot through consistency. While he only has one checkered flag this season, he has essentially lived in the top 10 since Indianapolis including a pole-checker double at Michigan.Biffle, too, is a driver who shouldn't be overlooked, as he'd have long ago locked up his spot had it not been for a disastrous spring that saw him finish in the 30s three times between Richmond and Charlotte, dropping from fourth to 13th in the standings in the process.
Newman, for his part, is back in the Chase for the third time in five years and may be eager to make good on the chance he's been given to compete thanks to the Truex penalty.Last year Brad Keselowski took the Chase by surprise, entering it in seventh but then winning Chicago and holding tight the rest of the way with the aid of two duds from Johnson in the final weeks.
Will this year have another dramatic finish? Who do you like?
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