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Crewsaver ISO 9650 Ocean Liferaft (Over 24hr)
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The ALL NEW 2015 model of Crewsaver ISO 9650 (+24hr) Ocean Liferaft is the latest model from world renowned liferaft manufacturor RFD Beaufort, who own Crewsaver.
It is manufactured in compliance with the NEW ISO 9650 European Regulations which have brought the liferaft regulations of all the various countries of the European Community into line with a single standard. (Ideal for UK vessels located in France, Italy & Spain etc)
The Crewsaver ISO 9650 Ocean Liferafts are designed for open ocean navigation and the most challenging conditions. Designed to Group-A standards they are suitable for operating temperature -15C through to +65C and are ideal for long distance cruising, offshore voyages and ocean racing yachts.
The structure is the result of proven design experience with a wide entrance facilitating easy access from the water and also aiding helicopter recovery from above. The Crewsaver ISO 9650 Ocean Liferaft also features a self deploying boarding ramp, together with a combined boarding ladder that makes boarding the liferaft much easier.
Designed with an insulated floor for thermal protection, the bottom of the liferaft is constructed with new high capacity 125L ballast bags, in a bright yellow material for enhanced visibility, ensuring that the liferaft has the highest stability factor compared to budget makes or models of liferaft.
To make location easier these liferafts are equipped with retro-reflective tapes on the canopy as well as BOTH an internal and external SOLAS lighting system. The self erecting canopy includes a rainwater collection system as well as a closable ventilation / viewing hole.
All models in the Crewsaver ISO 9650 Ocean Liferaft range are hermetically sealed offering three year service intervals for both valise and container models, backed up by a manufacturers 12 Year warranty on fabric and seams. Crewsaver are the only brand who can truely offer a full worldwide service network. With 10 x UK Service Stations, 6 x Service Stations in France and many more worldwide.
Emergency Equipment Packs: Over 24Hr
The standard equipment pack supplied in most makes and models of ISO 9650 liferaft is the "Less than 24hr Equipment Pack" (<24hr) which is suitable when rescue is likely to occur in under 24hrs.
However, these NEW Crewsaver (+24hr) model liferafts come supplied with an "Over 24hr Equipment Pack" which is suitable for extended range cruising and ocean passages when rescue may take several days to arrive.
Crewsaver ISO 9650 Ocean Liferaft "Over 24hr Equipment Pack" Contents:
1 x Rescue Quoit & 30m Line
2 x Paddles
1 x Bailer
2 x Sponges
1 x Pump
1 x Repair Kit
1 x Sea Anchor & Line
1 x Whistle
1 x Waterproof Torch
1 x Signalling Mirror (Heliograph)
1 x Survival Instructions & Liferaft Manual
1 x SOLAS Card of Distress Signals
1 x Floating Liferaft Safety Knife
6 x Anti Sea Sickness Tablets / Per Person
3 x SOLAS Red Hand Flares
2 x SOLAS Red Parachute Rockets
1 x SOLAS External Lighting System
2 x 125L Water Ballast Pockets
SOLAS Retro-Reflective Tapes on Canopy
Rainwater Catching System on Canopy
Insulated Thermal Floor
1 x ISO First Aid Kit
2 x SOLAS Thermal Protective Aids
1 x Additional Torch & Batteries
3 x Additional SOLAS Red Hand Flares
1.5L x Drinking Water / Per Person
500g x Survival Food Rations / Per Person
Liferaft Packed Dimensions: (Over 24hr Equipment Pack)
Size | Length | Width | Height | Weight |
4-Man Valise | 695mm | 495mm | 230mm | 51kg |
4-Man Container | 797mm | 567mm | 210mm | 47kg |
6-Man Valise | 790mm | 495mm | 260mm | 57kg |
6-Man Container | 797mm | 567mm | 310mm | 63kg |
8-Man Valise | 810mm | 520mm | 290mm | 69kg |
8-Man Container | 820mm | 640mm | 310mm | 74kg |
10-Man Valise | 810mm | 520mm | 290mm | 78kg |
10-Man Container | 820mm | 640mm | 360mm | 83kg |
12-Man Container | 820mm | 640mm | 350mm | 92kg |


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11 January 1713 A.D. Rev. Pierre Jurieu Passes—French Huguenot Theologian & Professor of Hebrew
Pierre Jurieu (December 24, 1637 – January 11, 1713) was a French Protestant leader.
He was born at Mer, in Orléanais, where his father was a Protestant pastor. He studied at the Academy of Saumur and the Academy of Sedan under his grandfather, Pierre Du Moulin, and under Leblanc de Beaulieu. After completing his studies in the Netherlands and England, Jurieu was ordained as an Anglican priest; returning to France he was ordained again and succeeded his father as pastor of the church at Mer. Soon after this he published his first work, Examen de livre de la reunion du Christianisme (1671). In 1674 his Traité de la dévotion led to his appointment as professor of theology and Hebrew at Sedan, where he soon became pastor.
A year later he published his Apologie pour la morale des Reformés. His reputation was damaged by his argumentative nature, which sometimes descended into fanaticism, despite his sincerity. He was called by his adversaries "the Goliath of the Protestants." On the suppression of the academy of Sedan in 1681, Jurieu received an invitation to a church at Rouen, but, afraid to remain in France on account of his forthcoming work, La Politique du clergé de France, he went to Holland and was pastor of the Walloon church of Rotterdam till his death. He was also professor at the "école illustre".
Jurieu did much to help those who suffered by the revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1685). He turned for consolation to the Apocalypse, and succeeded in persuading himself (Accomplissement des propheties, 1686) that the overthrow of the Antichrist (i.e. the Pope) would take place in 1689. HM Baird says that "this persuasion, however fanciful the grounds on which it was based, exercised no small influence in forwarding the success of the designs of William of Orange in the invasion of England." Jurieu defended the doctrines of Protestantism against the attacks of Antoine Arnauld, Pierre Nicole and Jacques-Benigne Bossuet, but was equally ready to enter into dispute with his fellow Protestants (with Louis Du Moulin and Claude Payon, for instance) when their opinions differed from his own even on minor matters. The bitterness and persistency of his attacks on his colleague Pierre Bayle led to the latter being deprived of his chair in 1693.
One of Jurieu's chief works is Lettres pastorales adressées aux fidéles de France (3 vols., Rotterdam, 1686-1687; Eng. trans., 1689), which, notwithstanding the vigilance of the police, found its way into France and produced a deep impression on the Protestant population. His last important work was the Histoire critique des dogmes et des cultes (1704). He wrote a great number of controversial works.


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Mr. Arbuckle is Jon Arbuckle's father who tends the family farm. Based on Jim Davis's own father, Mr Arbuckle is portrayed as the quiet, no-nonsense father type. As proven in one strip, he has very rarely been off the farm. Also, every Christmas he reads the Christmas story "Binky, the Clown Who Saved Christmas" to everyone, despite his lack of interest.
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Want to relax with a big company in Lviv, then this property is for you. The apartment is located in the heart of the city, to the Rynok square is just 2 minutes on foot. Opposite the complex of Bernardine Church and monument of Danylo Galytskyi. Near there are many shops, cafes, restaurants, Central grocery market and shopping mall Roksolana. Apartment is located on the third floor of the new house with a neat entrance (combination lock) and a lift. Parking next to the house. The apartment has four bedrooms, an area of 200 m2. There are air-conditioners, screened balcony. Stylish design creates a feeling of space and light. Three spacious insulated bedrooms with comfortable double beds will only contribute to rest after an eventful day. One bedroom has a single bed. In addition, large spacious closets allow decomposed clothes with maximum comfort. Living room bright and spacious furnished, at least, there is a folding sofa with armchairs, large TV (cable), specially equipped place to work at a computer or laptop, Wi-Fi. Classic style red salon chairs and dining table, equipped with refrigerator, gas stove, microwave oven, electric kettle, dishwasher, kitchenware. You can prepare your own meals or reheated brought with him from café or restaurant. The apartment has two bathrooms with showers, washing machine. It offers pure sets of bed linen and towels.
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The disembodied spirits, mainly - though not exclusively - of dead Men, especially those trapped by unusual circumstances rather than departing to follow their natural destiny. Ghosts are mentioned often in Tolkien's tales, but most commonly in a metaphorical or symbolic sense. For example, when Húrin returned from his confinement in Angband in the First Age, those who saw him imagined that he was a ghostly warrior returning from death (though in fact he was a living Man). At the very least this shows that the inhabitants of Middle-earth took the existence of ghosts as a simple fact.
Where ghosts do actually appear, the circumstances are rarely straightforward. After Gorlim betrayed Beren's father Barahir, for instance, Beren dreamed that Gorlim's spirit came to him across a lake and confessed his treachery. Though this was a dream, it was a dream of a real event, so it must have had some kind of supernatural source, however nebulous.
The strange lights of visions of the Dead Marshes also seem to be what would commonly be called 'ghosts', though in their case there is little reason to think that they were the actual spirits of those who had died in the Marshes. Rather, they seem to have been a ghostly memory or impression of the great slaughter that had taken place there.
Not only Men, but even those of the order of the Ainur had a ghostly spirit that could be released. In her encounter with Sauron, Lúthien threatened to strip him of his bodily form and send him back to Morgoth as a ghost. Sauron apparently took this threat seriously, so we must assume that he could have been made a ghost (indeed, from a certain point of view, this is exactly what happened to him after the Downfall of Barad-dûr).
The most definitive ghosts1 in Tolkien's work are those that dwelt in the Paths of the Dead beneath the Dwimorberg. Spirits of Men held in Middle-earth by the curse of Isildur, they were doomed to roam the White Mountains until the time came when they could fulfil the oath they had broken. When Aragorn released them in the War of the Ring, they faded away on the wind, finally able to follow their fate and take the journey to Mandos and beyond.
The Dead of the Haunted Mountain are explicitly called the ghosts of Men by Legolas. The fact that he qualifies this by mentioning that they were specifically the ghosts of Men implies that there may also be ghosts of Elves in Middle-earth. None are specifically mentioned, but Elves, like Men, had a spirit (in Elvish a fëa) that survived their bodily death, and so (at least in principle) an Elvish ghost would be a possibility.
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In her continued efforts to address and fight childhood obesity and food insecurity, the First Lady came to Iron Street to see how Growing Power and the local community have been working towards producing healthy and sustainably grown food in urban environments. While touring the facility, Mrs. Obama got her hands dirty in our vermicomposting bins and examined our aquaponics systems and oyster mushroom production.
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VIRILL300 Getting Started with System Center Virtual Machine Manage 2012Microsoft TechDaysTuesday, October 25, 2011 from 4:15 PM to 5:30 PM (EDT) |
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In order to participate in this Hands-On Lab technical session at Tech·Days 2011 in Toronto, ALL registrants need to bring a personal laptop with them to the event.
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In this lab, you will explore System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) 2012 Beta. This lab is designed to walk you through a configured VMM infrastructure to help you understand the new concepts, terms, UI elements, and configuration tasks. You will accomplish this by exploring the three key elements: Clouds and Services, Fabrics, and the Library. Clouds and Services are collections of virtual workloads which provide services on slices of infrastructure. The fabric is a collection of hardware based resources including virtualization hosts, storage, and network devices which provide the physical implementation of clouds and services. The library is a collection of predefined objects which are the building blocks for clouds and services.
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THE setting is Washington in March 1933: the economy is deep into the Depression, the stock market is a wasteland, bread lines are long and banks are closing. The nation totters.
Herbert and Lou Hoover, the 31st President of the United States and his wife, are rattling around the White House on the eve of the day they must vacate the premises for the incoming Roosevelt family. Herbert faces the move with equanimity, but Lou wants revenge. She is planning to steal some White House silver and a portrait of George Washington -- it's not as if there aren't plenty more around the place.
Herbert tries to cheer her: ''It could be worse -- I could have been re-elected.'' She goads him. This being their last night, she says, isn't there something he'd like to do that is not entirely proper? There is, which leads to the rude, gleefully childish blackout that ends the sketch titled ''Franklin D. Roosevelt to Be Inaugurated Tomorrow.''
This is just one of the numbers in the Drama Dept.'s enchanting resurrection of ''As Thousands Cheer,'' the 1933 Irving Berlin-Moss Hart topical revue, which is at the Greenwich House Theater.
Continue reading the main storyA 1933 topical revue that's still funny? Yes. One of the marvelous things about intelligently written, skillfully performed revue material is that the humor can shine through in front of audiences for whom the original associations have grown dim or, perhaps, never existed at all. Watch children watching a sketch whose point is utterly beyond them and they laugh at the right places. Such comedy has a rhythm that can be as infectiously comic as content, even when the subjects might be John D. Rockefeller Sr., the five-and-dime heiress Barbara Hutton, Mahatma Gandhi, Hollywood's morals czar Will Hays, unemployment, and thievery at the Automat.
The wonder here is that you can delight in both the content and the rhythm of ''As Thousands Cheer,'' which is presented with nutty enthusiasm, and sometimes vitriol, as it sends up the American scene at one of the darkest moments in the country's history. Directed as a series of collegial, go-for-broke turns by Christopher Ashley, whose credits include ''Jeffrey'' and the recent Encores production of ''Li'l Abner,'' the show is a kind of tabloid version of the original Broadway hit. It has been cut to run a breezy 75 minutes, played without an intermission by a cast of six acting and singing clowns, accompanied by a piano and a bass.
Like the Atlantic Theater Company, which recently revived ''Once in a Lifetime,'' the classic 1930 George S. Kaufman-Moss Hart comedy, the Drama Dept. possesses an awareness of the theater's historical past that deepens and illuminates the company's present work. This was apparent six months ago in its ebullient, witty, very original deconstruction of Harriet Beecher Stowe's ''Uncle Tom's Cabin or Life Among the Lowly.''
In choosing to search for the life within ''As Thousands Cheer,'' the Drama Dept. is rediscovering the art of the revue as it has evolved in the American theater from the days of minstrel shows. Spawned in its present form in the years before World War I, the intimate revue took over during the Depression, when soaring budgets made the elaborate, Ziegfeld-type spectacles too risky to produce. Revues have existed in all sizes and shapes from the teens, 20's, 30's and 40's into the 50's: a glorious grab-bag kind of theater, brainy beyond the aspirations of burlesque and vaudeville, composed of sketches, songs and dances, sometimes with a common theme and, most important, with a consistently skeptical point of view.
I think of London in 1947 and the first revue I ever saw, ''Sweetest and Lowest,'' a hilarious, very jaundiced look at life in grimly austere, postwar Britain, starring an almost youthful Hermione Gingold. A highlight: a sendup of Noel Coward's role as a goodwill ambassador during the war (''While disguised as Mr. Eden/ He was smuggled into Sweden/ Where he cleverly put on 'Private Lives' ''). The cheeky effrontery of undergraduate humor, which I then knew best, had been transformed into art.
By the early 1950's, television had already appropriated the variety-show format of revues, and Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca briefly made the entire country sketch comedy-conscious on ''Your Show of Shows.'' Yet producers of theatrical revues persisted: Ben Bagley with his ''Shoestring Revue of 1957,'' Julius Monk with his brilliant, mini-scaled shows in whatever nightclubs were available, and the indefatigable Leonard Sillman, whose ''New Faces of 1952'' was the most successful of all the ''New Faces'' shows he had been producing since the 30's.
Among the discoveries of the 1952 edition were Ronny Graham, Alice Ghostley, Paul Lynde and Eartha Kitt. As this show introduced Ms. Kitt, she introduced what was to become one of her signature songs, ''Monotonous.'' The most memorable production number, choreographed for frenzy by Richard Barstow, was Michael Brown's exuberant hoedown, ''Lizzie Borden,'' which has the refrain: ''Oh you can't chop your papa up in/ Massachusetts/ Massachusetts is a long way from New York!''
Some of the priceless sketches: a Paul Lynde monologue in which a man with a Rotarian's desire to please, though still heavily bandaged and on crutches, relates what happened on the Trip of the Month Club's African safari he took with his late wife; a vignette about the Loman family in which Willy's frail, worried wife implores her sons to pay attention, to become bank robbers like their exhausted dad; and Ronny Graham's takeoff on Truman Capote, who is lying in a hammock and talking (if I remember correctly) about moss.
Gorgeous material, some of it written by a writer then billed as Melvin Brooks. He, of course, was also one of the contributors to ''Your Show of Shows,'' which used a platoon of talents that included Neil Simon, Carl Reiner, Larry Gelbart and many others.
What is it about these revues that makes them so irresistible?
When they work, they capture the temper of the times with brevity, with an accuracy that sometimes shocks and with a gift for parody that restores sacred cows to human dimension. A blending of first-rate sketches laced with songs as funny and melodic as Berlin's for ''As Thousands Cheer'' can be among the most bracing of theatrical entertainments. We have let the genre go to seed.
For a while, it seemed as if television would meet the demand for sketch comedy, but then not even Sid Caesar could stick it out. Television eats up material like an office shredder. The incomparable Carol Burnett endured for 11 seasons and kept the quality way, way up. ''Saturday Night Live'' has had its golden moments, most of them many years ago. I think of an Edward R. Murrow ''Person to Person'' sort of parody in which the self-absorbed interviewer has his back to the television screen on which his guest, who looks like Elizabeth Taylor, starts choking to death on the chicken leg that has had her ravenous attention.
''Saturday Night Live'' produced some great sketch actors: John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd and the best of them all, the grandly and subtly gifted Eddie Murphy. Remember his sketch about how white folks behave on the bus to work when black folks aren't around? Bells go off, music suddenly blares, saucily dressed waitresses appear, to serve martinis and canapes. The imagined merriment is nonstop and strictly segregated.
The show still introduces good new performers but, in what could be an attempt to affect a 1990's sort of cool, the sketches tend to be resolutely without point. The idea is that to express passion, even in a satirical way, is definitely un-cool.
THERE have been suggestions that the revue sketch is dated today, that audiences (especially television's) are not interested in it and much prefer shows that feature stand-up comics. Yet the range of subjects covered in stand-up is limited. It is usually so self-referential (dating, the difference between men and women, terrible sexual performance, parents, looks, weight) you might suspect that the comics and their audiences have turned their backs on the rest of the world.
If that's true, it's no wonder so few people bother to vote.
The time may have come for the theater to reclaim the topical revue. There is no shortage of writing talent available. Tick off the names: Larry Gelbart, Neil Simon, Betty Comden and Adolph Green, Terrence McNally, Wendy Wasserstein, A. R. Gurney, Christopher Durang, Whoopi Goldberg, Paul Rudnick, Nicky Silver, David Ives, Jane Wagner, Jon Robin Baitz, Douglas Carter Beane, David and Amy Sedaris, John Leguizamo -- and they are just some of the people we know about.
Meanwhile, you can see what a hit 1933 revue looks like as put on by people whose parents might not even have been born when the original production opened. ''As Thousands Cheer'' is a theme show, each sketch or song supposedly torn from a newspaper headline of the day. In this way, it was something of a prescient parody of the Living Newspapers that were to be put on under the sponsorship of the Federal Theater Project, which was established by the Works Progress Administration in 1935.
Unlike the Living Newspapers, however, which examined housing, health care, labor unions and the like, ''As Thousands Cheer'' mostly examines such issues as why a man might bite a dog and the private personas of public people, usually behaving badly. The Berlin score includes the steamy and funny ''Heat Wave'' and, for an abrupt change of mood, the poignant ''Supper Time,'' which is cued by a headline about a lynching and was sung in the original show by Ethel Waters.
The members of the Drama Dept. cast are a delight. Some highlights: B. D. Wong (Gandhi and the man who bites a dog), Kevin Chamberlin (hilarious as the dog that's bitten and Mr. Hoover), Judy Kuhn (Joan Crawford, Barbara Hutton), Howard McGillin (John D. Rockefeller Sr., Douglas Fairbanks Jr.), Mary Beth Peil (Aimee Semple McPherson, Mrs. Hoover), and Paula Newsome, who plays and sings up a storm. Among her numbers are Berlin's superb ''Harlem on My Mind'' and ''Supper Time.'' David Evans is on piano, Lou Bruno on bass. This is a very good crew.
Footnote to history: In her book, ''Irving Berlin: A Daughter's Memoir,'' Mary Ellin Barrett reports that when ''As Thousands Cheer'' was trying out in Philadelphia, Clifton Webb, Marilyn Miller and Helen Broderick, the show's three white stars, refused to share the curtain call with Ethel Waters. Berlin's reaction was to suggest that this wasn't a show in need of curtain calls anyway, and that they should be cut. At the next performance the cast took its bows together.
'The Dying Gaul'
Craig Lucas's fascinating new play, ''The Dying Gaul,'' closed last Sunday night after a limited engagement at the Vineyard Theater, where a scheduling conflict made any extension impossible.
Too bad, but there are hopes that it will reopen in the fall for the unlimited run it deserves. Or, to put it another way: ''The Dying Gaul'' is even more theatrically imaginative and engaging than Mr. Lucas's ''Prelude to a Kiss,'' the quirky fairy tale of a modern love story seen on Broadway in 1990.
''The Dying Gaul'' is quite different. It is also a love story of sorts, but one in which anger and lust take a terrible toll, at least in part through the magic of Internet technology.
The setting is Hollywood and the principal characters are Robert, an aspiring screenwriter of mystical bent, in mourning for his lover who has recently died of AIDS; Jeffrey, a bisexual producer who buys Robert's first script and seduces him into a mutually satisfying, supposedly no-strings-attached affair, and Elaine, Jeffrey's wife, an intelligent, loving woman whose patience runs out.
The Vineyard production, staged by Mark Brokaw, was just about flawless, with Tim Hopper as Robert, Tony Goldwyn as Jeffrey, Linda Emond as Elaine and Robert Emmet Lunney as Robert's psychiatrist, who is as important to Mr. Lucas's intricate plotting as the existence of the Internet.
If Mr. Goldwyn appeared to stand out, it was because the role is so scarily flamboyant; his colleagues were equally centered in their performances. Adding to the classiness of the production: Allen Moyer's serenely handsome, vaguely Japanese unit set, which suggested Hollywood glitz as interpreted by a very expensive decorator in a minimalist mode.
''The Dying Gaul'' indicates that Mr. Lucas is writing better than ever these days.
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The retailer said it is targeting the estimated 25 million UK consumers who have yet to own a smartphone. It is offering each device in exclusive colours. The phones are the Alcatel OT903, priced from £26.96, the LG L3, priced from £35.96, the BlackBerry 9320, priced from £89.96, the Samsung Galaxy Ace, priced from £71.96, and the Nokia Lumia 610, priced from £71.96.
Graham Stapleton, chief commercial officer at Carphone warehouse, said: 'We have seen smartphone adoption grow exponentially, particularly given the raft of new operating systems that are reaching the market from the major manufacturers. It's great that, this year, we will be able to offer these products to everyone, with a host of value for money smartphones, so that everyone can enjoy the benefits of having the latest technology.'
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When he heard the call for a volunteer, senior linebacker Aaron Hill jumped at the chance. The Golden Gopher football team was going through boot camp with a leadership and team-building group whose instructors usually have a military background.
"They called for somebody to come out and lead the warm-up," Hill said. "I went out there on a three-quarter jog."
Going into boot camp, Hill and his teammates were not sure what to expect. They soon found out. Hill got an earful, questioning his effort. The instructor sent him back and asked for a new leader.
"I went right back out there full tilt," Hill said. "I'm a competitive guy, so I knew right away as soon as he called that I was going to step right back up there and get back in the fire. That was definitely an eye-opening experience, in the aspect of knowing that you can always give more. If we want to turn the program around, it's going to start with us as the players. It's a mindset of us going out there and bringing it every day."
"I felt sorry for him at first, because he volunteered for it, and then he's getting ripped in front of everybody," Minnesota strength and conditioning coach Eric Klein said. "But I respect him for jumping right back up and taking charge again and handling the situation in the right way."
The leaders challenged Hill to see how fast he could get his team lined up for drills, and to lead them in precise, coordinated exercises. He said that the instructors' critique of his leadership skills helped him to know his strengths and weaknesses, and that vocal leadership was an area he knew he needed to improve. He had a chance to work on that right away, as leading drills required constant, effective communication.
Hill may have only recently found his voice, but he has been a leader by example all along. The St. Charles, Mo., native originally walked on to the Minnesota football team. He has now been a regular starter the last two years. Prior to the 2013 season, head coach Jerry Kill called Hill one of the best leaders on the team.
"I'm a positive guy," Hill said. "I bring a lot of energy. I think that's one thing that's critical and important, especially during the season."
In each of the past two seasons, Hill has also received the team's Butch Nash Award for competitiveness on the field and in the classroom.
"I think it's very important," he said. "Education is important in my family. I think that's been important to help me play the game. Academics is always a big thing."
Hill credits former teammates, including Mike Rallis, Gary Tinsley, Keanon Cooper, Simoni Lawrence, Nate Triplett and Lee Campbell, with teaching him to lead. The experience of going through a coaching change during his college career has also helped him learn the importance of "being able to adapt and adjust. I think the biggest thing is just being yourself, going out there and working hard every day to be the best you can be."
Hill would, of course, like an opportunity to play in the NFL. But whenever his playing days are over, he plans to become a strength and conditioning coach. He has learned both in the classroom, as an applied kinesiology master's student, and in the weight room, from Klein. Klein believes that Hill's practical and academic understanding, and his ability to relate to people, would make him successful in the profession.
"He's a natural leader," Klein said. "It's never forced. It just comes out of him naturally, and it's really awesome to watch. I think he's got a good command of his own presence, and I think guys feed off of that."
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meet and greet??
i was wanting to plan a meet in greet in medford on may 8th for GO TOPLESS DAY just wondered if anybody is interested??? let me know either here or facebook steven wales is my name:punk:
i'm down. doesnt sound like i'll be out of town that weekend. Where would this be? i'm interested in hitting some trails or even some mud or snow but i'm new to the area and dont have a clue where to go.
i dont have a location yet gotta think of a good place not to far away for people.
So what's up on this weekend? Btw is this steven that used to work at lithia.
Disregard. It was probably the 8th on 2010..... I didn't pay attention to the date of the thread when I searched for "Go Topless Day". My bad.
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I could…I really could…but I won't
I could write about the Giants win last night, stopping a season worst 5 game slide…but I won't. I could make some asinine arguement about TIMMY'S BAAAAAACK…but I won't. I could make some pithy comments about the Hunter Pence trade (seriously, see ya Nate. Thanks for 2010. God bless ya and good luck, chief)…but I won't. I could mention the fucking Dodgers lost thus putting the Giants in 1st place SOLO…SANS COMPETITION…but I won't.
No, you gentlemen(?) will certainly cover all those bases (rimshot) as the day goes by just as we all did last night. So I will simply go where I wish to go this morning.
The last time I did one of these things the subject was actors who looked like they could really play pro-baseball. Being the unimaginative twit that I am, today will be the opposite. Baseball players who look like they can really be actors. On that last thread some Flappers already brought up pro-baseball players who achieved good careers in film and TV. Namely Bob Uecker, Chuck Connors and Kurt Russell. But the facts show the successful crossover is extremely rare. Football players thrive better in this area for whatever reason. I have my theories but that would make this thread go on forever.
Now, other Flappers mentioned Babe Ruth playing himself in THE PRIDE OF THE YANKEES. What a lot of people don't know is that The Bambino actually had a short but respectable film career as an actor while he was still a ballplayer. Sure, he always played a guy named Babe Ruth who was a baseball player but "playing yourself" in movies isn't as easy as it sounds. It's not like being yourself for an interview. You have to memorize your lines, pick up your cues, know your blocking, be prepared for multiple takes, etc. but primarily to be good you also have to appear natural. As much as I love Sergio Romo (Monday's game not withstanding) and his little Giants game promos, they *are* a little awkward (that's actually a lot of their charm). As game as Romo is, he's a bit stiff, mannered and obviously out of his element. And Brian Wilson. Despite his obvious love of the spotlight, frankly he looks a bit stiff in all his media appearances as well. In fact, only Buster Posey shows a certain amount of natural presence in his spots.
Willie Mays appeared as "himself" on the occasional sitcom. Probably the best was a cameo on BEWITCHED and the joke was the reason he was so good was because he was a witch himself. And I'm sure you all remember the SEINFELD two part episode with Keith Hernandez. Now HE was good. That's a guy that who took an acting lesson or two. And he's also been on LAW AND ORDER and a couple other things.
No, most of these guys are one-offs, mainly because they all suck(ed) as actors. Sandy Koufax on DENNIS THE MENACE, Wade Boggs on CHEERS, Mark McGwire on MAD ABOUT YOU, Johnny Bench on THE PARTIDGE FAMILY. Yogi Berra, Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris got to share some screen time with Doris Day and Cary Grant in THAT TOUCH OF MINK delivering striking performances (with apologies to Dorothy Parker) that ran the gamut of emotions, from A to B. Former Giant Royce Clayton just played former Giant Miguel Tejada in MONEYBALL and did just okay. Even managers try to get in on the act. Sparky Anderson on W.K.R.P., Leo Durocher with the hat trick appearing on MR. ED, THE MUNSTERS and THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES. Trust me..ain't NO ONE gonna ask Bochy to say a few lines on HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER.
But no one besides Uecker, Connors and Russell seemed to have been able to make a career of it. Don Drysdale did pretty well in the acting arena and showed a natural affinity playing in everything from LEAVE IT TO BEAVER and THE BRADY BUNCH to THE RIFLEMAN and THEN CAME BRONSON. Quite a few appearences. But still…primarily a ballplayer.
However, I am grossly neglecting one guy…
Johnny Berardino!!!
11 years in the big leagues, the Show for crying out loud, with the St. Louis Browns, the Indians and the Pirates. Sonavabitch also took 3 years outta baseball to be in your World War II!!!! a FUCKING WAR HERO!!! (it was a big war, a major war, we went in to win, we wanted to win..we won) and still an acting career that lasted between 1948 and 1993!!! Including 30 years alone on GENERAL HOSPITAL!!!
I didn't mention him till now because, well frankly, I didn't think anyone, with maybe the exception of Loo and/or twin, would even know who the hell this numbnut was.
Ya'll know me. I could have gone on forever so I left a lot of guys out. Did I miss any of your favorites? Or better yet, what major league baseball player *really* dropped a steaming load of horse manure on celluloid?
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If the Giants somehow win this game, it'll be unreal. They took Niese out, anyway.
Mets reading the Giants playbook on finding ways how not to score when runs are basically handed to you.
After that kind of scoring ineptitude, usually the other team scores and wins. Hear that Giants, that's your cue. Get 'er done… -
We *should* be losing 8-1. The Mets sucks more than the newest harlot straight of the bus from Indiana at Chuck's whorehouse looking to make a dollar…
Anyone concerned about the D-Backs? Are the Snakes in it to win it?
Well, you aren't. You gave the division to LA. Remember?
I almost forgot…Frankel, 'nuff said. Best fucking thoroughbred on the planet.
The Sussex Stks. was nothing more than a gloried workout, but it was still an honor and privilege to watch that son of Galileo (whose Coolmore hat I continue to sweat in) strut his stuff. Bravo. -
Every time AZgets close, they fall back. IF the Giants hadn't lost 5 in a row, they wouldn't be so close.
Any word on how Pablo's progressing?
Jeeeesus. Whay am I watching this? Torture in the worst way.
Got 'em right where we want 'em…
Is the Giant BP still considered a strength?-
For the opposition, yes…
snarkk- When you saId "bingo" above, it was for bogus stats. Unca likes to quote bogus stats to prove a point. He's been doing it on multiple blogs. He told us Pence is hitting .290/17/90. Actually it is .269/17/59.
He got the 17 right?
Bongo… -
I;m talking averages, skippy.
How does .269 avg and 59 RBI compute as an average of .290 and 90 RBI Master Skippy?
Looks like about .267 now.
dude, pls, give it a rest. Nate's gone on to greener pastures–good luck and enjoy the weather. Hunter Pence has been a good player for a while now, and as a RH hopefully will do well here. If you want to chat up Nate, I'm sure the Philly blogs would be glad to hear it. It would give them something to talk about beside Ruben Amaro Jr.
It was a bad trade. Actually, I'm hoping I'm wrong, but I doubt it. Pence is not as good as you guys think.
OK. That;s why. Un fucking believable.
OMFG. Another DP by the Mets. The Mets *should* be winning by 10-1 now. If we somehow win this shit in the B9, it'll be the biggest game we didn't DESERVE to win.
WTF is the Mets closer? He's not on any of my fantasy teams.
It's official.
The Pence trade is a bust… -
Jesus H. Fucking Christ! That ball was outside. But it's 0-2, gotta protect the plate…
I'm sorry, Scutaro will always be an Athletic to me. I can't root for him. Same as a Pagan.
2-1 or 8-1 as it should have been. A loss is a loss is a fucking loss.-
Learn to.
Even the Rosetta Stone won't help me there. No can do…
Sorry Bergs i was wrong.
It's .290 30 95
Wonder what Nate's averages are?
Who has those numbers?
Those are Pence's seasonal average.
How's that .267 looking? Did you notice Nate won the game for the Phillys today?
Yeah, trades are always judged by one game.
Sorry, those numbers are .290 21 HRs 79 RBIs for Pence.
Go root for them, skippy.
OK Here's Nate:
.270 4 19.
Yeah, the Giants got fleeced.
Who won today? Who is getting about 12 extra million? You go on loving .267 Pence. He is not worth 13 million.
Yeah, base the trade on one day. Good one. Nate's in last place. He's starting because they just traded 2/3 of their OF.Boo hoo.
May I suggest the Giants offense has been horsemanure on this home stand. Wow. Almost every starter we face is Walter Johnson or Lefty Grove reincarnated. Not to mention defense reverting back to slop, and the Pen looking pedestrian as hell. Very disappointing…
Pence moved into the cave today and got nothing rocking. I'm sure the talk here will be about no hits for Pill while Pence will get a pass. This site loves Pence.
Not I said Frank the Cat. I hate everyone.
Berger, you need to read the Flapper Code of Conduct. It's a link on the rightside of the page. Article 1 says that overly repetitious stuff meant to stir stuff up can be deleted.
Why is this repititious? Pence is fresh material. You guys pat each other on the back for agreeing with each other while I go to bed. When somebody disagrees with the blog posse you can resort to deleting. This must be a closed knitting circle.
I went and saw my therapist today. I still hate everyone. And yours truly is batting lead off. Move over Blank Zero…
No knowledgeable fan judges a player by one game. Pill *or* Pence.
Good point, but it happens here much. It depends if you are an "in" or an "out" player with this crowd.
Really Bergs? Playing the clique card?
The point is, No one on Earth equates Pence with Nate. Look at their career numbers.
I liked Nate. I still do.
But, I'd take Pence over Nate 8 days a week. No contest. No sober GM in MLB would say otherwise…
As the moon shines over my cowshed…I bid you all adieu
Later my brave compatriots
Ain't no big thang
Sleep well, lads. Remember, you're all gentlemen (question mark)(s)-
Did ya take a good gander at the Earth's satellite tonight? It's glow shines upon the Flap. Ted, you really outdid yourself — again. You're A-#1 when it comes to movies, actors and terrific reviews. Who needs IMDb when we got you. I really appreciate and take into consideration all of your entertainment history and background. I'm a huge fan myself. It's nice to know that I have a Yoda to teach me here on the Flap.
"No! Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try."
I hope Bochy and company are listening…
Right Bergs. Pence's numbers in his career mean nothing. Just like Nate's mean what?
Whitehead optioned. Sanchez activated.
Another August off to a rip-roarin' start for the Giants.
Yeah, they're 0-1.
Losing 3 of 4 at home to the Mets would be pretty fucking sad.
BTW, one more thing about Philly, not only is Nate in RF, making one of his patended great catches to save their game, Kevin Frandsen is at 3rd.
And Philly is in last place.
Yeah, get Frandsen back. How did we let him go?…
Yeah,we should trade Panda for Frannie.
Now I know Snarkk has been pulling our legs all night. Gold, baby.
While Chuck gets Frannie back for Panda, let's trade Buster for Tommy Joseph. He's younger and has a better ankle… 😉
Bergs, just shut up and go away. Your one-note song is stale.
It was a bad trade. But that opinion gets you ostracized here. You bet I'm going away. A conversation with the dog would be more fruitful. Like I said earlier, you guys pat each other on the back over this bad trade. I get it, opposing opinions need to go away. We'll revisit this confab in 30 days.
Dude, when you're comparing Pill and Pence you *should* be talking to the frigging dog.
Because as opinons go, that's a pretty silly one.
The Giants needed a RH hitter with some pop. They got that for a backup OFer and a couple minor leaguers. Pence isn't a rental like Beltran was last year.
I'm not comparing Pill to Pence. I was just making a point that Pence will get a pass while Pill won't. They bothwent ofer. This site has the "in" players and the 'out" players. Pence is already in and Pill is neither, yet.
That's completely ridiculous- of course a player with a proven track record of success gets more slack. Pill's situation has nothing to do with how some bloggers view him- he needs to perform better or he'll be back down-for good this time.
Even if SF wins tomorrow, they'll be 4-6 on this home stand. That would be tolerable, barely, on a roadie. But, at home, that just is a killer…
Ridiculous. You just gave the division to a team that just got swept at home. What was that?
WTF are you talking about? That's a "killer" is a term of art. I didn't give LA anything because of this home stand. I'm not taking that bait…
No, you already gave it to them. So how is their getting swept at home not "killer"? No "bait"- you are just being inconsistent.
Pill's hope in staying is to provide some power OFF THE BENCH. I wouldn't count on him padding his numbers much, Berger.
TF- Nobody is the answer with Bochy. He is great with a pitching staff but his teams will always struggle to score. Just like Dusty Baker's and Don Baylor's teams will always hit well. Bochy needs to change his offensive approach. Just my opinion.
Yeah, the league is littered with All-Stars who "escaped" Bochy. Bulletin- nobody scores much here. It's not called a pitcher's park for nothing. We've been in the upper half in the NL in scoring on the road the last 3 years. You need to look a little closer at things, Berg.
Look, Bergs, Nate had his shot,. He didn't take advabntage of it.Get over it. Pill isn't cutting it. Their success with drafted position players are Buster and Panda. They have been fair to middling with FAs. The problem with the hitting is they don't have a true power hitter. They haven't had one since Bonds left. Pence isn't the answer, but he's better than anything they have not named Buster. When Panda comes back, this team will be in much better shape. When the 3-4-5-6 is Melky, Buster, Panda, and Pence, they will score runs.
Nite ya nuckleheads…
Let's get one thing straight: With the recent trades that have gutted the second division teams in both the Central and East, smart money is that BOTH Wild Cards will come from those divisions. Cincy, Pitt, Wash, and Atl will be beating up on their division rivals who will be starting The Stooges in their outfield. No WC will come out of the NL West. Win the division or…
No- you get it straight- you have no idea how this will play out.
Nate and Frannie are going to lead Philly to the playoffs, Dennis.
From Baggs: The Giants optioned Justin Christian and activated Shane Loux. Giants going with a 13-man staff for now.
13-man pitching staff? Just saying that "We DESERVE to lose," isn't enough. This is the penultimate Sabean/Bochy move that broke my already fractured spine.
"We're going to Colorado, best get another pitcher." Fuck that thinking and your mother.
Fuck this goddamn bullshit mentality. I have both Rutledge (great p/u on my part) and Cargo on my Flap fantasy team. 13 is my lucky number… -
"Penultimate"? Why is it the "penultimate" move?
I DARE anyone of you to tell me that having 13 pitchers on your roster is a good move.
You can't. Don't even bother. If you do, I'm going to have Mel Brooks kill your first born male child.
REPEAT after me: Thou shall not have thirteen pitchers on thy roster.Hail Bochy, full of shit
13 pitchers are with thee
Blessed art thou among relievers
And blessed is your lineup that
screams Jesus H. Christ
Holy Buster, son of a bitch
that's all you can give us
pray for Hunter Pence
now as we lose to "My" Dodgers
amen -
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Thursday, July 28, 2011
CVS trip
So I went to CVS today since I needed formula and got all this for $31.36.
Two 23.2 once cans of Gerber formula
Schick hydro razors 4 count
Schick intuition razors 3 count
Kotex U tampons 18ct
Edge shaving cream
Two softsoaps
Softsoap body wash
Before coupons total was about $90 then with coupons I got it down to $31.36 plus I got $14 in ECB for my next trip. They were sold out of some items, so I really need to start going sooner it seems sale items are selling out a lot quicker lately. Anyone else feel that way?
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ERCOT Conducts Rolling Blackouts In South Texas The operator of the electric grid for most of the state of Texas initiated a series of rolling blackouts in South Texas after problems arose in the area's transmission network.
Texas' Electricity Projections Improve, But Still Low The agency that oversees most of the Texas power grid says future power projections have improved but the state could still struggle with peak demand — possibly even next summer.
ERCOT Calling For Afternoon Energy ConservationYesterday the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) announced that electricity demand had set a new July record. Today the electric grid operator for most of the state is recommending conservation.
ERCOT: July Ends With Record Electricity DemandThe Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) announced Tuesday that the demand on its power grid peaked at 65,790 megawatts (MW) setting a new July record.
Official: Texas Electric Supply Will Be Tight The Texas power grid barely has enough electricity to meet demand this summer, and an unexpected drop in generation or spike in demand could lead to rolling blackouts, the president of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas testified Tuesday.
Texas May Increase Wholesale Electricity RatesThe Texas Public Utility Commission is considering raising the price cap on wholesale electricity rates by 50 percent this summer in hopes it will spur construction of new power plants.
ERCOT Announces Record Use For June DayAs it stands, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) is performing under normal conditions and no emergency electricity alerts have been issued, but persistent hot weather could change that.
Energy Company Offering Free Electricity At NightIf you are a "night owl" and a TXU customer a new service plan could save you hundreds of dollars a year on your bill. TXU now has a set of plans that offers customers free nighttime energy usage.
No Rolling Power Outages Expected This SummerIt looks like Texas will make it through the summer without rolling power outages. Officials with ERCOT) say forecasters are not anticipating the same extreme temperatures seen during last summer's record drought.
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A tribute to and a lament for Marshall McLuhan continues. If he had lived Marshall would have been 100 on July 21, 2011. Join me in the countdown to his centennial, and an exploration of more of his observations on the way media work in the electric age in which we live.
Newspapers don't make news.
Marshall McLuhan (1965, age 53). You do.
"The only connecting factor in any newspaper is the dateline… . When you enter through the dateline, when you enter your newspaper, you begin to put together the news – you are producer."
Me (January, 2011, age 58). If so, it doesn't matter that Sarah Palin couldn't name a paper she'd read:
Their names are irrelevant. If you don't like the sense Sarah Palin makes of the stories that flash past her eyes don't blame it on the newspapers she reads or doesn't read. It's not what she reads but what she does with what she reads.
Cordially, Marshall and Me
Marshall McLuhan, "Address at Vision 65," in Essential McLuhan, 1995, p. 227.


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I am a Gemini, and sometimes use that as an excuse. I have my moments when I'm really focused on work and super serious, but I will also go all out on a Friday or Saturday night. I like to go out and dance, watch plays/musicals, occasionally attend yoga, check out the local breweries, or chill at home watching TV.
Looking to meet a guy and see where it goes.
I also like to help stage manage for a local theater company. I kind of enjoy the responsibility and organization (although it can be stressful). It's also my creative outlet - being part of a show's creation to performance.
Movies - Clue to Moonlight
Music - alt-J to Sondheim
Food - I'll pretty much eat anything
Books - To be honest, I'm not much of a reader, but I do listen to audiobooks (Yes Please, The Goldfinch, and A Little Life are recent listens)
Podcasts - This American Life, The Ensemblist, Story Corps
2) Food
3) A comfortable home
4) Music
5) The Internets
6) Entertainment (via TV/movies or going out)
And the future, though I'm trying my best to live more in the moment :)


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Anyone rejoicing at the failure of the T-SPLOST earlier this year (hey, remember that?) needs to read this article in the Athens Banner Herald:
Repeal what? The proposed tax failed, right?
Well, the tax part failed (in all but three regions in Georgia) but the rest of the "Transportation Investment Act" is still law. Like the part that said the percentage of LOCAL funds for transportation projects will be 10% in areas that approved the T-SPLOST but must be 30% in areas that didn't approve the T-SPLOST.
That's not going to happen. Emphasis mine, but that's also the sentiment under the Gold Dome.


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Salish Sea Canoe Journey Underway
Over 100 family canoes are set to land at the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community on July 25th as participants in the annual Tribal Canoe Journey. The journey is hosted by different communities around the Salish Sea, which stretches from the Puget Sound past Canada's Vancouver Island. Some teams have been paddling since June and their efforts will culminate in a weeklong potlatch. The voyage, inaugurated in 1989, has revitalized intertribal hospitality and allowed for dialogue about common concerns. Canoe journeys of this kind were the principle means of trade and cultural exchange which characterized the rich and water dependent Coast Salish economy. Although primarily a regional event, canoes from as far away as Hawaii and New Zealand are partcipating.
More information on this year's journey is available from the Swinomish here. Each host operates a different web portal for the Journey (next year's host will be Squaxin Island), but a third party blog hosts general information about the events.


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I Love HorsesRiddles are little poems or phrases that pose a question that needs answering. Riddles frequently rhyme, but this is not a requirement.
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Palm Centro 685 (GSM)
Alternative Web Browser?
A friend of mine picked up the AT&T Centro the day it came out. I am contemplating getting one as well. We were wondering, does one have no choice but to use the included Blazer web browser, or are there other third-party browsers, e.g. Opera Mini, that can be downloaded and installed on the Centro?