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It was a radio transmission 50 years ago that first alerted Norman Bower to the trouble on board the USS Thresher.
It was April 10, 1963, and U.S. Navy ships had lost contact with the nuclear-powered submarine. Bower, who was serving as chief of the USS Albacore at the time, remembered hearing radio chatter about the Thresher's disappearance.
His thoughts jumped to the fate of the crew, a group of 129 men that included three former shipmates. Among them was Wayne Lavoie, a father of five from Gonic.
Bower remembers it was another 16 or 20 hours before the Navy officially announced the ship had plummeted to the ocean floor, taking the crew members with it.
Now 77 and retired, Bower has worked over the years to help preserve the memory of the Thresher disaster. The tradition will continue this weekend, as Bower and hundreds of others gather on the Seacoast to reflect on the 50th anniversary of the ship's sinking.
The Thresher catastrophe marked a turning point in the Navy's safety operations. It also changed the trajectories of countless lives, including that of Peter Charron, of Rochester. Charron grew up never knowing his father, Robert Charron, a civilian sonar technician who perished on the ship. Peter Charron was 16 months old at the time.
Now 51, Charron said the circumstances of his father's death propelled him toward his career in funeral services. As a high school sophomore, Charron decided to enter the field to help provide closure to other families in pain.
"I decided, 'OK, I'm going to do for other people what dad couldn't have,'" he said.
Charron will attend a memorial service at Portsmouth High School this afternoon with his 89-year-old mother, two sisters and two brothers. U.S. Submarine Veterans Incorporated Thresher Base, the group organizing the ceremony, anticipates that hundreds of surviving family members will be on hand.
The event is closed to the public, but the Defense Video & Imagery Distribution System is planning to broadcast the event live on the Internet. The ceremony, which starts at 1 p.m., is expected to be viewable online at http://www.dvidshub.net/webcast/2935.
A separate service will also take place in Kittery, Maine, on Sunday morning. The Thresher Memorial Project Group will dedicate a new 129-foot flagpole in the center of Memorial Circle to the victims. Ship's bells will also ring every 10 seconds during the 9 a.m. ceremony.
The Thresher was the world's most advanced fast attack submarine when it was commissioned in 1961. Built at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, and based in Groton, Conn., the ship featured a cigar-shaped hull and nuclear propulsion. The 278-foot-long submarine could travel underwater for long distances, and it could dive deeper than earlier submarines, enduring pressure at unforgiving depths. The Cold War-era vessel was also designed to be quieter to avoid detection.
The Thresher was conducting sea trials off the coast of New England with another ship when it sent a message at 9:13 a.m. stating, "We are experiencing minor difficulties, we have a positive up angle, and are attempting to blow. Will keep you informed."
Only minutes later the other ship, the USS Skylark, received two garbled messages, followed by high energy, low frequency disturbance. The sound was the mangling of the ship, which had fallen below crush depth.
One hundred and twenty nine men perished, including crew members, Portsmouth Naval Shipyard officer observers, civilian workers and contractor technicians.
A special inquiry later determined the submarine likely sank due to a piping failure, loss of power and an inability to blow ballast tanks rapidly enough. An extensive search found the ship some 8,400 feet below the surface. The dead included 16 officers, 96 enlisted men, and 17 civilians.
For the families, the silver lining is that subs are now safer. The Navy accelerated safety improvements and created a program called "SUBSAFE," an extensive series of design modifications, training and other improvements.
People involved in the SUBSAFE program are required to watch a documentary about the Thresher that ends with an actual underwater recording featuring the eerie sounds of metal creaking and bending as a U.S. Navy submarine breaks apart with the loss of all hands.
"It's important because the real legacy of Thresher is the SUBSAFE program that the Navy initiated after the loss of Thresher, which has kept submarines and their crew safe since then," said Lori Arsenault, of Gorham, Maine, whose father perished in the accident. "And the real important thing to understand 50 years later is the people making decisions are too young to remember that day, and so by consciously remembering it, we can keep working at making sure that it doesn't happen again."
Arsenault's father, Tilmon J. Arsenault, was a World War II veteran who served as chief engineman on the Thresher. Lori Arsenault says her father was her mentor, and he got her interested in music and technology. She is now director of operations and concert manager for the School of Music at the University of Southern Maine.
"I sort of got my passion for these things from him," she said.
Arsenault was 8 at the time of her father's death. She recalls that her mother learned of the tragedy while attending a PTA meeting at the local school in the evening.
"The families — the Navy was trying to contact the families throughout the day, so it was even late at night and they were still trying to contact my mom. She was at a PTA meeting, and then they finally found her at the school. She came home — she doesn't remember the drive home — but she came home and we all huddled in the kitchen and cried."
Barbara Currier, whose husband, Paul, was a civilian worker on the Thresher, was shopping with her daughters when she heard the news on the radio in a store. What followed was a blur of activity for her family. Navy officers in dress whites showed up on doorsteps. Friends and neighbors brought food.
After the submarine was declared sunk, President John F. Kennedy ordered the nation's flags lowered to half-staff. International leaders sent condolences.
"The men, they were heroes. Most of them were doing what they wanted to do for their country to keep the country safe," said Currier, 86, who never remarried and still lives in the same house in Exeter, N.H. "They were pushing things to the limit."
Because of their tender ages, and the lack of a body or proper grave site, children like Vivian Lindstrom, who lost her father, Samuel Dabruzzi, a Navy electronics technician, were unable to grieve properly.
Thanks to the reunions, they at least know they're not alone, said Lindstrom, of Glenwood City, Wis.
"We've experienced the same things, felt the same things," she said. "We feel like family. We call ourselves the Thresher family."Foster's staff writer Jim Haddadin and David Sharp of The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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A day/week/philosophy in/of the life of our homeschooling family:
We start our school week on Sunday because the rule at our house is that if you finish your work by 5 PM the day before it is due you can keep any schedule you want. To keep that privilege you must do three other things. You must be able to meet your obligations both inside and outside the house. You must maintain a good attitude toward others and life in general. You must turn in B or higher level work.
On Saturday I e-mail the kids their school assignments for the week. I don't care how or when they get them done as long as they are done by Thursday at 5 PM and are done well. Technically they are not supposed to watch TV or play vid games until their work is done but I don't really monitor that unless I'm particularly worried anymore. I usually just have faith and trust them to come through for their own education and passions.
I also print out a master list, three hole punch it and put it in my grading binder. If I don't check it off, it didn't get done. They are required to show me the work or e-mail it to me. Telling me doesn't work because I will forget what they said much of the time. It must be written out. This drives the kids crazy sometimes as they would MUCH rather just talk to me than write it down. I can't blame them but such is life.
They are going for an academic degree because they both think they want to go to college. Much of what we do is with an eye to college or life on their own, prep.
I grade by the keys the curriculum comes with or by my own criteria. I also give them a "daily effort" grade based on their attitude and work ethic. I put these grades into my Excel Worksheet ASAP. It makes averaging a snap. Their grades are based on 1/3 daily effort grade, 1/3 work turned in and 1/3 any tests they take. I truly hate grading but I do think it's important the kids have standards to live up to and a concrete grade to know how they are doing. Each year I do more based on what I think about the work (a lot of it is essay) and less answer key stuff.
So back to a day in the life:
Most days I wake them around noon or as I call it, the "morafternoon" with lunch. Some days I've already been out working and come home, some I've been able to sleep in, ahhh! I usually work 2-3 mornings a week, though I also have a few weekend and night gigs.
My husband works two months on night shift and two on days. He will work two or three nights/days then have two or three off on a revolving basis. So if he is off this Saturday, Sunday and Monday, he will be working the next.
We never have a full Friday/ Saturday/ Sunday weekend off with him. We do have him home more during the week than many Dad's though. Our schedule is therefore always in flux and a bit crazy.
I've always been a night person no matter what life demanded of me. So it suits me to let the kids stay up. Most of the time I go to bed before they do. The rule is you don't wake anyone, up unless it's a true emergency or they need to be somewhere very soon, on pain of death!
After that is what I like to call Prime School Time. This is from whenever they are done with lunch to 5 technically. However many days we head off to the library, the local science museum, errands, tennis, driving lessons, or some other activity during this time.
If that happens they must borrow from "free time" in order to get school work done. They can work at 3 AM if they want. I don't really care. The idea is that they learn before they go off to college or work how to realize their obligations and keep a schedule that will maintain good health, good work and so on.
They remember the 7 plus hours they used to do in public school and then having home work. So they are plenty happy with their work.
During the week they have precious few chores to do. This kids are pretty lucky in this area compared to some of thier peers but then I don't do that much myself. Mostly it just picking up after themselves or feeding the turtles or something like that. I often offer opportunities to "make money."
That means, they can volunteer to do things I don't feel like getting up and doing. If they volunteer, they can make a little money. I usually won't tell them how much until I see how well the chore was done and how cheerfully. I will not negotiate but I'm a fair and generous, if frugal employer. If they don't volunteer, they may get ordered to do it or I may do it myself, depending on my mood and how much work needs to be done.
When we are about to go out of town or have people over, I give them things to do to help clean up. Mostly these are things that will hurt my body so the kids get to do them. Again, we are not the cleanest neatest family. I tend to "spread out" when working on a project. I'm always working on a project or three. Also if "it" is not right in front of me I can't "see" and "it" will get lost so, um, no, not the neatest person in the world. I have "stacks."
The kids have a desk, book shelf and computer in their rooms but we have more of all these in other rooms. When asked if we have a home school "room" I say no. We might even go to the park for lessons if the day is pretty. Any room, the front porch, the old tree house, the car and many more places have been our "classroom."
Mostly the kids study their lessons by themselves. I'm usually here to answer questions, help them or find more resources but they learn much on their own. They consult each other. My daughter tutors my son in algebra which has the added bonus of helping her stay fresh and/or patch any holes in that subject herself
We do a lot of discussion together about concepts and ideas. I'll ask did you read X? Then I'll ask what they discovered. A conversation ensues. I can easily tell if they "got" it or not. Regardless, we enjoy and learn much this way.
We also do a lot of reading. Some of it is for pleasure. It's truly surprising how much you can learn from novels if you think about the concepts in the novels, the world views, the historical or geographic area, how much of that fiction is fiction and how much is woven with fact? This sort of thing fascinates me.
I'm very much a "no busy work, follow your passions", kind of education facilitator. If the kids can show me they know a math concept, I'm satisfied without them doing a hundred problems. Unless, of course, you are trying to make sure they can compute with speed.
Writing is very important to me. The rule is that they must write two page reports in 9th grade, and add a page for every year thereafter. Another rule is that I better not be able to google a phrase or sentence from their report and find it on the Internet or in any of your sources materials. That's a huge no, no.
They have to pick a writing project every three weeks. They have two weeks to write it and one week to polish it, three weeks total to get it turned in. They have some specific areas of writing they must work on during the year but for most of the rest they can write game reviews or anything they want.
Reading is also very important to me but I'm not very into requiring all the books I had to read in high school or anything like that. I personally believe that requiring a child to read for twenty minutes a day (as most local public schools do now) can kill their love of reading. I only require them to read two books on or above their level, take the quiz on it if there is one at Bookadventure.com, and write a book report each year.
Other than for study and research, they can read or not read, anything they want the rest of the year. I do require them to read The Diary of Adam and Eve by Mark Twain and Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes before they get out of high school. This year my daughter has six or so novels and a great many poems to read for British Lit. In the past I've required certain good books in certain subjects for both kids, such as Ender's Game. I went over every book my husband and I were required to read in high school. I honestly don't think any of them are all that important so none of them went on my list of required reading.
This year the kids are truly following their passions for the first time in their education. My son has told me to make his Japanese (Rosetta Stone, free from the library online, though that is going away soon) assignment one a day instead of one a week for instance. Okay, son, I'll do that! *L* It's a beautiful and inspiring thing to be around. It's been one of my goals since we started homeschooling, five plus years ago!
We usually eat at noon, 3-4 7-8 and possibly they will get a snack later as well. The noon and 7-8 meals are usually family meals but my husband is rarely with us at noon.
At the 7-8 my husband usually cooks that meal. If he is home we eat it by candlelight then take a walk after the kitchen is cleaned up. If not we usually have left overs from what he has cooked before.
My boy is often seen making ramen noodles cause he is always hungry. My girl often wants to cook a different protein than the one I make or their Dad makes, since she became a "veggie".
I usually cook only when I have a craving for something that only I make. Most of the time I don't feel like I have time. I tend to keep packages of peanut butter and crackers in the car and other somewhat healthy easy snacks in the house. I won't go hungry but I rarely go to much trouble either. I like fresh veggies and fruit a lot too. We all enjoy cooking at times but for my husband it's a real passion.
So, that may not explain it, but that's how we do our days, weeks, year and life. Every day is different. If the kids suddenly decide they are avid to study something we do that, but they have their core high school subjects they work on too. I've bought them very good curriculum (which they have helped pick along with me) to use for those subjects. I consider their main job to be students right now.
My goals for them are to be able to maintain themselves, their cars and homes, well. I want them to be happy and comfortable with themselves. I want them to be comfortable making choices in their lives. I want them to pick out healthy positive people to be in their lives. I want them to contribute to society in a positive way.
Oh and I would very much like them to give me grand kids when they are about 33 or so and have been happily married for, at least a couple of years. LOL!
Other than that, I don't have a particular path I want them to follow. This is their journey. That path is theirs to find or possibly make and to enjoy.
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Hey Stellar! I stumbled across this again this morning. Seems like I read it when you first posted and didn't have time to reply...then never came back to it.
I really got a kick out of reading your description. It's off the beaten path and encourages me as I try to sculpt our days. I have a pretty good idea what I'd like to get to...still trying to get there.
My boys are 11, 9, 5, and 22 months. It seems that their greatest passions are wrestling each other, video games and playing tricks on me! Somewhere in the midst, we do get some great reading in there. We just completed the "Chronicles of Narnia" much faster than I had anticipated. We'll finish "A Taste of Blackberries" today then, probably start "The Hobbit" tomorrow. My oldest son looks forward to reading more than anything else. I hope to keep tweeking our days so that every class is that enjoyable for ALL of them.
Thanks again for sharing!
I really got a kick out of reading your description. It's off the beaten path and encourages me as I try to sculpt our days. I have a pretty good idea what I'd like to get to...still trying to get there.
My boys are 11, 9, 5, and 22 months. It seems that their greatest passions are wrestling each other, video games and playing tricks on me! Somewhere in the midst, we do get some great reading in there. We just completed the "Chronicles of Narnia" much faster than I had anticipated. We'll finish "A Taste of Blackberries" today then, probably start "The Hobbit" tomorrow. My oldest son looks forward to reading more than anything else. I hope to keep tweeking our days so that every class is that enjoyable for ALL of them.
Thanks again for sharing!
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Pilgrimage Tour in Nepal includes many ancient pilgrimage sites. Each temple is attached to a legend that glorifies the miraculous powers of its deity. There are many pilgrimage sites in Nepal, such as-Pashupatinath temple, Swayambhunath Stupa, Barah Chhetra, Tribeni, Gosainkunda, Pathibhara, Tengboche; Manakaman, Gorkha, Lumbini, Muktinath, Halesi Mahadev, Janakpur, Ranimal, Tansen and Swargadwari, Khaptad Ashram etc. Nepal is also the Gateway to Kailash Mansarovar, the mythical abode of Lord Shiva. Devotees from various parts of Nepal and India throng the temples during special festivals.
pilgrimage tour in Nepal includes pilgrimage sites of Nepal like Muktinath and Gosainkunda make popular trekking destinations. Muktinath is a pilgrimage center for Buddhists and Hindus. You'll see Tibetan traders as well as sadhus from the far south of India. The shrines in a grove of trees include a Buddhist gompa and a Vishnu temple of Jiwala Mayi . An old temple nearby shelters a spring and natural gas jets which provide Muktinath's famous eternal flame. It's the earth-water-fire combination that accounts for Muktinath's great religious significance. From Muktinath you can retrace your steps to Pokhara, or simply to Jomsom and hope to catch a flight from there. pilgrimage tour in Nepal is possible to continue beyond Muktinath and cross the Thorung La pass to walk the rest of the Annapurna Circuit but this long walk is better made in the opposite direction.
Nepal is the richest country in terms of cultural activities which are blessed by God. Culture is a way of life of society. According to these statements, it holds particularly true in every aspect of life, cuisine, clothing and even occupations are culturally guided. Nepalese culture includes the codes of manners, language, dress, rituals, norms of behavior and systems of acceptance.
Discover the culture and history of Kathmandu and Pokhara city and its World Heritage sites, visit Hindu Pilgrimage sites Pashupati Nath the holiest temple of Nepal and the Buddhist pilgrimage sites of Boudhanath Stupa and Swayambhunath Stupa and more.
Kathmandu Pilgrimage sites, world heritage monuments, Nagarkot and Changu Narayan temple, Chitwan Sauraha for jungle safari tour and combine with soft adventure trekking around pokhara city.
All season or all months are the best time to visit.
Upon arrival in Kathmandu, Tribhuwan International Airport, we will receive you with private vehicle and transfer to hotel in Kathmandu within BB plan. Our representative will give you information about further programs.Day 02: Pre-trip meeting and sightseeing around the Kathmandu valley.
After the pre-trip meeting, your sightseeing trip will start at around 8:30 am. You will have a private vehicle and a professional tour guide. The sightseeing places we visit will include:-Kathmandu Durbar Square (World Heritage Site)
This complex of palaces, courtyards and temples, built between the 12th and 18th centuries, used to be the seat of the ancient Malla kings of Kathmandu. An intriguing piece here is the 17th- century stone inscription set into the wall of the palace with writings in 15 languages. The Durbar Square is the social, religious and urban focal point of the city. There are also three museums inside the palace building.Swoyambhunath Stupa – The Monkey Temple (World Heritage Site)
Watches over the valley from the top of a hillock on its western side. The huge stupa is one of the holiest Buddhists sites in Nepal and its establishment is linked to the creation of the Kathmandu Valley out of a primordial lake. Swayambhu is also known as Samhengu and the Monkey temple because of the countless monkeys living in the premises.Pashupatinath Temple (World Heritage Site)
Pashupatinath is one of the most sacred Hindu shrines in the world and lies 5 kms east of the city center. The richly-ornamented pagoda houses the sacred Linga, or phallic symbol, of Lord Shiva. Chronicles indicate the temple's existence prior to 400 AD. Devotees can be seen taking ritual dips in the holy Bagmati River flowing beside the temple. Overnight at Hotel.Bouddhanath Stupa (World Heritage Site)
Lies about 6 kms to the east of downtown Kathmandu and is the largest stupa in the valley. It looms 36 meters high and presents one of the most fascinating specimens of stupa design. Buddhanath is also known as Khasti, or dew drops, after an account that builders had to use dew to mix the mortar as Kathmandu was suffering from a severe drought during the construction of Bouddhnath.Ason (The oldest markets of Nepal) Kathmandu
Asan Tole is jammed with buyers, sellers, and passers-by, making it the busiest square in Kathmandu. Every day, produce is carried to this popular marketplace from all over the valley so it is fitting that the three-story Annapurna Temple is dedicated to the goddess of abundance, Annapurna, represented by a purana bowl full of grain. At most times, but especially Sundays, you'll see locals walk around the shrine, touch a coin to their heads, throw it into the temple and ring the bell above them. Nearby the smaller two-story Ganesh shrine is coated in bathroom tiles. To the south is the Yita Chapal, was once used for festival dances (the dance platform out front is still visible). On the western side of the square are spice shops. Near the center of the square is a small Vishnu or Narayan shrine.Day 03: Drive to Nagarkot (32 kms) hill station, 1.5 hrs
Very early morning, drive to Nagarkot hill station to get the sunrise view over the Himalayan horizon. Hill station Nagarkot offers sweeping views of the Himalayas in 120 deg angle. Five of the world's ten highest mountain/peaks can be seen from here and they are Mt.Everest, Mt.Lhotse, Mt.Choyu, Mt.Makalu and Mt.Manaslu are visible from here. Nagarkot is such a popular spot to watch sunrise and sunset. Than take a breakfast in Nagarkot and start hike to Changu narayan Temple.Changunarayan Temple (World Heritage Site)
Situated on a ridge overlooking the Kathmandu valley, about 12 km to the east of the city. It is dedicated to the Hindu God Vishnu. It is one of the finest and oldest specimens of pagoda architecture built in 323 AD by King Haridutta Verma. The temple is richly decorated with sculptures and carvings, and its position above the Kathmandu valley affords a beautiful view of the surrounding countryside. Than we proceed to drive further down the hill to Bhaktapur kings palace.Bhaktapur Durbar Square (Bhadgaon)
During our sightseeing in Bhaktapur Durbar Square, you can experience the collection of pagoda style temples and shikhara style temples grouped around a 55-window palace of brick and wood. The attraction of the Bhaktapur Durbar Square is the Lion Gate, the Golden Gate and Golden gate, the 55-window palace, art galleries and the statue of King Bhupatindra Malla. After driving back to Kathmandu, there will be a farewell dinner for you in the evening in a typical Nepalese restaurant with cultural dance and music. Then transfer back to Kathmandu for stay overnight at a hotel.Day 04: Kathmandu to Chitwan Sauraha for jungle safari tour, 190 kms, 5 hours drive
After breakfast, we travel overland from Kathmandu to Chitwan National Park. We experience you lots of Safari activities; jungle walks, canoeing, 4 WD safaris and so forth… Once the night falls down, we entertain you with cultural performances including bonfire before going to bed.Day 05: Chitwan Jungle Safari day
Breakfast, the next, you get a full day safari activity in Royal Chitwan national Park – if you are lucky, you will see many amazing creatures that you spend most time to looking for; rhinoceroses, Chitwan's royal Bengal tigers, leopards, monkeys, many types of deer and reptiles. Check your camera gear – preferably with a telephoto lens and you will not miss any shots. Stay overnight at Lodge.Day 06: Drive from Chitwan to Pokhara (192 kms), 5 hours
After breakfast, we depart for Pokhara and commence a half day sightseeing of Pokhara, the most popular destination in Nepal after Kathmandu, spend enjoyably the morning trip along the bank of Phewa Lake, you can admire the stunning view of the Fish Tail's Peak reflected in the silver surface of the water. You can also see the wonderful Annapurna panorama forms a superb backdrop to Pokhara from the lake. Aside from Phewa Lake, we keep visiting some best places to see. Stay overnight at the Hotel.Day 07: Drive to Dhampus Phedi. Trek to Dhampus hill (1770m/5,788 ft), 40 minute drive, 2 hours trek
We drive from Fewa lake side to Dhampus phedi which takes about 40 minutes roughly. Then we walk through sparse villages, farm terraces and forests we reach to the Dhampus hill after few hours of walk from Pokhara. A close face to face view of a long range of Annapurna and other mountains greets us on reaching Dhampus. We enjoy the amazing sunsets in the Himalayas in the evening and sunrise next morning, a scenery that you will treasure for long. Besides the breathtaking mountain views, Dhampus will also offer you an opportunity to experience the peace and beauty of the Nepalese countryside, watch their farming lifestyles and interact with local people.Day 08: Trek to Sarangkot hill station. Sarangkot Sunset Tour! (1,590m/5,199 ft), 6 Hours)
After breakfast, we commence our trek to Sarangkot hill station. This hike is easy mostly passes over the ridges near Pokhara valley with never hiding views of Annapurna Himalayan ranges. The trek passes through small towns, rice paddies, beautiful hills and chanting birds. It is a short and easy walking gives us peace of mind. Sarangkot is a viewpoint where many people drive from Pokhara early in the morning for sunrise views over the Himalayas.Day 09: Trek to Phewa Lake, drive to Pokhara (820m), 3 Hours
Once we enjoy the beautiful sunrise over the Himalayas we will start our trek to Phewa Lake bank from where we will catch a boat to cross the lake before reaching Pokhara. This is the easy day following an only downhill trail to get Pokhara town. On one side, we will have magnificent views of the Himalayas including Dhaulagiri, Annapurna family and Manaslu with Fishtail and in another hand amazing views of the Pokhara town. Both views are incredible. Once we reach Pokhara, we drive to your hotel. We leave your luggage there and conduct our day tours in Pokhara city.
Today our sightseeing in pokhara city covers: Tal Barahi Temple is located at the middle of Phewa Lake, we visit there with boat drive. Many other religious places can be found in Pokhara like Bindabasini Temple, Gupteswor Mahadev Temple inside the Gupteswor Cave, Tibetan refugee camp. In the evening we can explore the lakeside.
Early morning flight to Kathmandu. Drop you at Kathmandu International Airport onward your final destination and our trip ends. Wish you your wonderful journey back home.
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Our special display Bloomsbury Art & Design opened last month. It brings together a wide-ranging selection of work by the remarkable Bloomsbury Group. We asked exhibition curator Dr Rosamund Garrett to tell us about curating the display.
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In November I was appointed the new Bridget Riley Art Foundation Curatorial Assistant at The Courtauld Gallery, a unique role that allows me to work across the entire collection. With Dr Barnaby Wright, the Daniel Katz Curator of Twentieth-Century Art, I was charged with curating our current Special Display: Bloomsbury Art & Design.
This display brings together the highlights of the Courtauld's collection of paintings, design drawings, ceramics and furniture by the artists from the Bloomsbury Group to look at the movement that shaped early twentieth-century modernism in Britain. It was my first project after having been completely immersed in my doctoral research in a rather different field – Renaissance tapestry – so I was eager to take up the challenge.
Given my specialisation in tapestry, I was keen to display the large rug designed by Duncan Grant, with its bold colours and eye-catching geometric design. Rugs are usually displayed on the floor, but with several large pieces of furniture featuring in the display, floor space was at a premium. To ensure the rug could be shown I asked our Head Conservator, Graeme Barraclough, if we could do things a bit differently.
Tapestries are often displayed on slant boards: a board at a slight angle that allows the tapestry to be viewed vertically whilst its weight is gently supported across the entire surface. I thought that Grant's rug would look striking displayed vertically on one of the short walls, and would complement the series of abstract rug designs that we intended to display beside it.
We started drawing up the plans for the slant board, but, after a thorough examination by conservation, the rug was found to be too fragile to be displayed in this way. Graeme, however, is never deterred. He and our technician, Matthew Thompson, devised a new method of display that combined a slant board with a roller, allowing us to display a section of the rug vertically whilst the roller holds most of the weight. Exhibitions always rely on the expertise, creativity and skills of many individuals, not to mention their physical presence – lifting the roller with the heavy rug onto our adapted slant board was no mean feat!
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Saturday, April 26, 2008
In-Progress At Talladega: Sprint Cup Qualifying On SPEED
Mike Joy will host one of the most unique qualifying sessions that NASCAR fans will see this season.
Talladega is an impound race for the Cup Series, so the teams that are locked into the Top 35 will be qualifying in race trim.
This leaves those outside of the Top 35 to put all their effort into getting in complete qualifying trim. The results are two very different groups of cars on the racetrack. Viewers may well see many of the top speeds set by the "go-or-go home" bunch. One of them may well be on the pole.
Larry McReynolds and Darrell Waltrip will be joining Joy in the booth. Jeff Hammond should also be along, perhaps in the area of the Hollywood Hotel. On pit road will be Hermie Sadler. The other NASCAR on Fox pit reporters are Krista Voda, Steve Byrnes, Dick Berggren and Matt Yocum.
This program will begin at 11AM and is scheduled to continue until 2PM Eastern Time.
This post will serve to host your TV-related comments about the Sprint Cup Series qualifying on SPEED. To add your opinion, just click on the COMMENTS button below and follow the easy instructions. The rules for posting are on the right side of the main page. Thanks for taking the time to stop by The Daly Planet.
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- Anonymous said...
Weather could definitely be an issue today, especially with the tight schedule. There's a band of showers cutting across Alabama, that'll most likely hit during the middle portions of the the qualifying order.
- April 26, 2008 at 10:27 AM
- Anonymous said...
JD: FOX has changed their pre-show for Sunday. It now begins at 1 PM ET instead of the previously scheduled 1:30 ET. Green flag is scheduled for 2:21 ET. Looks like FOX is doing one of those extralong preshows like the almost 90 minute one from Las Vegas.
But I'm seeing conflicting info about what that change does to RaceDay on SPEED, which was originally scheduled for 11:30 -1:30 ET. The RaceDay time has now changed on some online TV schedules (like Zap2it) to air from 11-1 ET, instead of 11:30 to 1:30. However on my cable schedule and SPEED.com it still says Raceday from 11:30-1:30.
Any idea from your SPEED contacts if the RaceDay time is really changing to 11-1? And if so, is RaceDay contractually forbidden to run at the same time as the FOX broadcast? I think RaceDay made a habit of overlapping the preshows on ABC and TNT by half an hour last year, but not FOX. Thanks.
One other note: Tradin' Paint is only airing one time this weekend, at 11 PM ET tonight. No repeat tomorrow. I think they should air this show at least twice a weekend but they often don't. NASCAR Performance gets two airings, at 10:30 PM and 10:30 AM Sunday.
- April 26, 2008 at 11:48 AM
- Daly Planet Editor said...
Anon 11:48AM,
I will be putting this information together in a new post shortly and explaining the TV schedules for Sunday.
- April 26, 2008 at 12:07 PM
- Anonymous said...
If you are not going to bother showing an event live, don't show it at all. This taped delayed qualifying is horrible. It screws up the viewer's ability to complement the broadcast with information from other sources, such as NASCAR.com. Whatever moron who decided to show qualifying like this must not know about the internet.
Show everything live, or if TV insists on making room for commercial breaks, NASCAR needs to delay the action on the track.
Tape delaying sporting events in this day and age is inexcusible. Pathetic.
- April 26, 2008 at 12:18 PM
- Newracefan said...
If tape delay means we see more cars then that's ok by me. We all realize that commercials need to be put in somewhere so Tivo it is
- April 26, 2008 at 12:41 PM
- Anonymous said...
I know this is off topic, JD, but regarding the absence of NASCAR Now yesterday, I believe it was planned that way all along. At the end of Thursday's show, Nicole Manske mentioned that the next episode would be on Sunday morning with Dale Jarrett and Andy Petree.
Just thought I would point out that it appears this was planned. Strange that the ESPN2 tv schedules weren't updated.
- April 26, 2008 at 1:02 PM
- Newracefan said...
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- April 26, 2008 at 1:05 PM
- Newracefan said...
The no Nascar Now on friday had to be decided several days before for Comcast to have it, their TV schedule (which is not always the most up to date) did not have it listed.
- April 26, 2008 at 1:06 PM
- Daly Planet Editor said...
The ESPN guys told me it had been cancelled some time ago, which makes sense.
I used the wrong source for my listings, which I have since changed.
- April 26, 2008 at 1:09 PM
- Anonymous said...
Great qualifying coverage today. The TiVo style works well with all the TV elements. I don't care if you can't use other online elements, with this format we miss very few drivers AND THAT IS BETTER.
Anon @ 12:18 PM I AM TALKING TO YOU!!!
If it was live we would miss many more drivers due to commercials and many more people would complain. You want to know who decided to cover qualifying like this? It was the fans.
- April 26, 2008 at 1:18 PM
- Anonymous said...
Speed is only about 2 cars behind. Great lap for AJ Allmendinger. 2nd fastest.
- April 26, 2008 at 1:23 PM
- Anonymous said...
For cryin out loud, SPEED!!!!
Schrader makes a bonzai run and you guys don't interview him???? He's one of YOUR GUYS, you nimrods!!!!!!!
You have time for "blah,blah,blah" in the 'hotel' but don't have the smarts, or fan courtesy, or loyalty to Schrader to interview him???
All so you can get to a taped moto cross event????
Here's alittle inside info to your on-air program decision guy......pssstt, you can actually delay the start of a videotaped show and not miss anything....
- April 26, 2008 at 4:45 PM


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RainbowsAndCottonCandy wrote:no name wrote:Luckybreak:IMO HCDB has failed several players by ignoring their strengths in favour of 'getting to our game' (other examples being Martin and Michalek).
Intresting i never thought of this but can't argue with it. But could it be Shero mis-identified their playing styles as to how they would fit into Dan B's system. Cause Tangradi never seemed to be fit for the pens style either.
I would agree that it is more about finding a player that fits your system rather than building around their talents in the PENS case. We already have enough guys to define our team and our systems.
On a team that does not have this luxury it becomes important to focus on your core players skill sets and go from there. There are coaches who are excellent tacticians like HCDB and there are coaches that excel at doing with what they got, Hitchcock.
Then there are guys who are good at both...Babcock.
Shero wanted to bolster the D and identified M+M as being relatively mobile skaters who would fit the 'system' thinking he had the blueprint. Whilst they failed to adapt, Niskanen (similar size and considered a good skater) flourished. I think there are many reasons for this but it is clear that Bylsma's system doesn't suit everyone and you cannot attempt to pick 'clones'.
I don't want to start a debate on which coaching style is best (all can be successful), but I have always wondered how the players the Pens had/have would respond to a more 'Hitchcockian' coach? I hope this season HCDB learns from past inflexibility and lacking a 'plan B'. Perhaps Shero has removed Dan's blinkers? Perhaps the love affair with CFA will come to an end? Perhaps Tangradi's positive attributes will be utilised more effectively?


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The beetle's larvae have destroyed tens of millions of trees as it has moved steadily east from Michigan, where it was first discovered in 2002.
State environmental regulators have banned untreated firewood from entering New York and forbidden moving it more than 50 miles from its source within the state since 2008 as they have tried to hinder the beetle and other pests. They also imposed local quarantines regulating movement of ash products by loggers and other forest product businesses.
On Wednesday, regulators replaced the local quarantines with a single ban covering all or parts of 42 counties from western New York to the New England border. The Adirondacks, other parts of the North Country, New York City, and Rockland, Westchester, Nassau and Suffolk counties aren't included.
The Department of Environmental Conservation said newly discovered infestations added a number of counties to the list and helped drive the decision to create a blanket quarantine.
Eric Carlson, executive director of the Empire State Forest Products Association, said Thursday that the industry worked with state and federal regulators to unify the ban, which he said eliminates a patchwork that made it more complicated for companies to comply with the rules for handling logs and bark.
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Roman Frydman is Professor of Economics at New York University and Chair of the Program on Imperfect Knowledge Economics (IKE) at the Institute for New Economic Thinking. He was one of the early critics of the Rational Expectations Hypothesis, arguing in the 1982 article in the American Economic Review that REH models do not provide an adequate representation of rational decision making.
Over the last decade, Frydman has worked with Michael Goldberg on a new approach to representing rationality in formal macroeconomic analysis that rests on the core premise that rational individuals recognize that they cannot fully anticipate the consequences of their decisions.They presented their approach in their book Imperfect Knowledge Economics (Princeton University Press, 2007).
In subsequent articles and a follow-up book, Beyond Mechanical Markets (Princeton University Press, 2011), Frydman and Goldberg developed an alternative approach to modeling rational decision-making and applied it to the analysis of a number of outstanding problems in macroeconomics and finance that have confounded the prevailing approaches for decades. They also showed how IKE leads to a new way of thinking about state intervention – and, more broadly, the market-state balance – in modern economies.
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What we learned was that on this date 31 years ago, the Capitals traded a third-round pick in the 1981 draft to the Philadelphia Flyers for goaltender Wayne Stephenson, who passed away earlier this summer. But what caught our eye was the player the Flyers chose with that pick – Barry Tabobondung. Hockey has more than its share of interesting names, and this one seems to be among the more interesting, so we looked it up. And what we found at the hockeydraftcentral.com web site was quite a story.
First, there was the matter of his feistiness. Playing for Oshawa in the OMJHL in 1980-1981 leading up to the 1981 draft (he was eligible in 1980 but was not selected), he amassed 320 minutes in penalties in 61 games after moving from defense to left wing. Yet, he still managed 18 goals. It was a combination that led the Flyers to take him with the 47th overall pick in the 1981 draft (only seven picks after Chris Chelios as it turns out). But being picked did not appear to be enough for the young Mr. Tabobondung. Hockey Draft Central picks it up from here…
"Tabobondung attended the 1981 NHL Entry Draft in Montreal, marking only the second year that junior players had attended the draft in large numbers beyond those likely to be taken in the first round. Tabobondung was so excited to be chosen in the third round that he jumped over the front row of seats at the Montreal Forum in order to greet Flyers officials at their draft table. Unfortunately, in one of the draft's most embarrassing moments ever, Tabobondung's foot got stuck in a folding seat, and arena attendants, along with Flyers special-assignments coach Joe Watson, needed at least five minutes in order to get Tabobondung out of the seat. One of the arena attendants had to unscrew a portion of the folding seat to free the player.
"As Tabobondung was being extracted from the seat, NHL executive vice-president Brian O'Neill, who was running the draft from the main podium, joked the Flyers could at least be sure that Tabobondung would be available for all of their games in Montreal. Flyers coach Pat Quinn responded to O'Neill's joke by saying "We gotta play the kid. Obviously, we can't afford to have him sit." Asked about the incident, Tabobondung jokingly told Jay Greenburg of The Hockey News that he wasn't even embarrassed and was glad he was able to "do something to get the attention off the first-rounders."
Hard to imagine something like that taking place at a draft these days. Unfortunately, that was likely his high-water mark as an NHL prospect. Tabobondung bounced around after that, playing for the Maine Mariners of the AHL, the Peoria Prancers of the IHL, and doing stints with two teams in Erie – the Golden Blades of the ACHL (he was the league's most valuable player in 1984-1985) and the Panthers of the ECHL. He never played a game in the NHL.
He returned to his hometown of Parry Sound, Ontario (hometown to another player a bit more famous – Bobby Orr), where he coached hockey for kids and was active in the First Nations community (Tabobondung was a full-blooded Ojibway). Unfortunately, though, his life would come to an untimely end in July 2000. Again, from Hockey Draft Central…
"[He] died in a vehicular accident at age 39 in native Wasausking First Nation neighborhood. The accident happened when Tabobondung and his 8-year-old son, Thomas, were riding in the cab of a road grader in which Tabobondung was working. Tommy Tabobondung fell out of the vehicle, and Barry jumped out of the cab to try to save his son from being run over. Barry and Thomas both got caught under the road grader's rear tires. Barry Tabobondung was taken to the West Parry Sound Health Center, where he was pronounced dead. His death wasn't in vain. Police on the scene said there was no doubt Barry Tabobodung managed to save his son's life, and the young boy came through the accident with only a broken leg."
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Very few talk about it but many founders feel it — jealousy. Here's one woman's advice on how to stop letting other people's success make you unhappy.
By Karen X. Cheng (Designer, Exec)
You know the feeling. When it hurts to see other people succeed. When you read articles about Mark Zuckerberg, the world's youngest billionaire. When you watch some freak child prodigy playing piano like a mini Mozart. When your friend gets that thing you wanted for yourself.
I used to feel this way all the time. It was exhausting to live in a world where I was constantly jealous of everyone else. I didn't want to be this way, but I couldn't help it. When other people did well, it made me feel inadequate. I was obsessed with success.
Today, I don't get jealous anymore. Okay – I do still feel jealous sometimes. But for the most part, I am genuinely happy for other people when I see them do well.
What changed?
I learned one thing – how happiness works. Turns out, people are really bad at figuring out what makes them happy. We think we'll be happy if only. If only we get that job promotion. If only our longtime crush would date us. If only we had a bigger house, a better car. That's not how happiness works at all, though.
Sure, these things give us a short-term boost in happiness. But they don't affect long-term happiness. We quickly adjust to the new normal and start wanting more. Lottery winners surveyed a year later aren't any happier. The reverse is true too – if you got into an accident and became paralyzed, miraculously your happiness will return to about the same level a year later.
Humans are biologically programmed to be resilient to hardships, but it's the same trait that leaves us perpetually wanting more. It's crazy — I've noticed that the people who most frequently post about their glamorous lives on Facebook are sometimes the most miserable inside.
Circumstances (like wealth and relationship status) make up only 10% of your happiness. Of the other 90%, about half is genetics. Some people are wired to be happier than others – it's in their brain chemistry.
But the other half is completely within your power to change: it's your mindset and how you choose to spend your time. Appreciating what you have. Taking the time to have meaningful relationships with friends and family. Helping others. This isn't new age-y stuff. This is cold, hard, science.
Once I realized this, I could stop wanting things that other people had. I finally understood that their achievements and possessions weren't the keys to their happiness. I could get my own happiness just by changing my mindset and behavior.
A lot of my friends are entrepreneurs, and I frequently get asked why I don't start a company. I'd always thought the pinnacle definition of success would be to create a big-shot company. As someone who used to be obsessed with success, the entrepreneurial dream was certainly seductive.
But I haven't started a company because I don't think it will make me happy. Some people love it, and building a company makes them happy. But that's not me. What makes me happy is learning and having fun. Designing is fun, and dancing is fun. The hours I spend doing these things aren't work. They're play. Because I'm having fun, it's easy to go all in. And going all in makes you a lot more likely to succeed.
Do you want to be happy, or do you want to be successful? If you choose happiness, then you can have both.
This post originally appeared on Karen's personal blog.
About the blogger: Karen lives in San Francisco and is a designer at Exec. She enjoys creating something out of nothing, whether it's a song, a logo, or the design of an app. She also likes to write and perform music and plays in a band, Electric Villain. At the moment though, her instrument of choice is cello.


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Young Racers' Club January 2009 - Mack English
Young Racers' Club: Dedicated to supporting youth in racing
Mack English is a 20-year-old newcomer to dirt track racing. He is also this month's Young Racer's Club winner. Hailing from Tiger, Georgia, Mack is like many of our YRC winners, he comes from a family of racers. His father, Wesley, and his two uncles, Doug and Melvin, have all been racing for more than 25 years. Compared to some YRC winners, Mack got his start in racing a little late. He climbed behind the wheel of his Limited Late Model at the end of last year at his home track of Toccoa Speedway in Toccoa, GA. So far this year, he has raced almost every weekend and in addition to Toccoa's shows he also competes in the Southeastern Late Model Sportsman Series. As of this writing, Mack's best finish is a third and he currently sits fifth in Southeastern Late Model Sportsman Series points.
The whole family helps with getting the Barry Wright car ready each week and they all turn out for the racing on Saturday night. The Englishes prove that racing is a family sport with all members proud of their newest racer. Well Mack, we know that the $250 from our friends at RHS will be put to good use. Good luck and let us know when you notch that first win!
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2 Anne Arundel County robberies under investigation
Shell gas station, woman robbed
Anne Arundel County police said they are investigating two robberies.
Officers were called to the Shell gas station in the 700 block of Nursery Road in Linthicum for a report of an armed robbery around 12 p.m. Wednesday.
Police said that a man entered the business, displayed a handgun and demanded money from the clerk, who handed over an undetermined amount of cash from a register.
The robber fled on foot. Several officers and a K-9 unit searched the area, but were unable to find the man.
Police said the robber is described as a black man, about 5 feet 10 inches tall, 180 to 200 pounds, bald with facial hair, wearing glasses with black frames, a black T-shirt, khaki-colored long shorts and gray shoes.
In a separate incident, officers were called to the area of Monaegan Court in Severn for a report of an armed robbery around 7:40 p.m. Wednesday.
A 25-year-old woman told police she got off a bus at Jacobs Road and Stillmeadows Drive and a man robbed her at gunpoint of her cellphone and iPad.
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Lady Flames Midfielder Rebecca Smith
The Liberty women's soccer team faced a stiff test, Wednesday night, squaring off with No. 7 Virginia at Klockner Stadium. The Cavaliers' offense posted goals at the beginning and end of the first period and capped the night off with one more in the second to defeat the Lady Flames, 3-0. Virginia's Makenzy Doniak finished with two markers, while Carolina Miller rounded out the Cavaliers' scoring. Miller, defenders Morgan Stith and Olivia Brann and goalkeeper Danielle DeLise were all credited with assists to help Virginia improve to 2-1 in 2012. The loss drops the Lady Flames to 1-2 on the year. The Cavaliers wasted little time lighting up the scoreboard in the contest, infiltrating the Liberty net in the opening 90 seconds. Brannon created the opportunity, finding Miller, who broke away from the defense and lobbed it into the net to give Virginia the early 1-0 lead. Undeterred by the quick goal, the Lady Flames tried to even the score in the fourth minute. With the Virginia defense applying pressure, sophomore midfielder Helena Pereira managed to fire a shot at the Cavaliers' net. However, the Bristol, Conn., native's attempt sailed a few feet wide, preventing the tying marker. Virginia nearly upped its lead in the 28th minute, but the goalkeeping efforts of Karen Blocker thwarted the home team's opportunity. Following a foul, midfielder Julia Roberts took the penalty kick for the Cavaliers. Blocker stuffed the shot to keep the score the same. Liberty was able to hold off the Cavaliers' attack until the final six seconds of the first period. After Stith sent a pass into the box, Doniak headed the ball into the net, giving Virginia a 2-0 halftime lead. Much like the opening period, Virginia posted a goal early in the second. During the 50th minute, DeLisle sent a blast to Miller. The forward flicked a pass to Doniak, who tapped the ball into the net for the Cavaliers' third and final goal. Virginia posted seven more shots during the period, but the Liberty defense fended off each attack, resulting in the 3-0 final. The Cavaliers outshot Liberty 19-1 in the contest and held a 6-1 advantage in corner kicks. Goalkeepers Churchill O'Connell and Delise split time in the net for Virginia, playing 45 minutes, apiece. Blocker played the full 90 minutes in between the posts for Liberty, making five saves. Liberty returns to Osborne Stadium on Sunday, playing host to USC Upstate in the first-ever meeting between the two teams. Game time is slated for 2 p.m.


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Intel Announces Atom 'Clover Trail+' SoC Platform for Smartphones and Tablets
Intel Announces Atom 'Clover Trail+' SoC Platform for Smartphones and Tablets
Intel has just announced its Atom 'Clover Trail+' SoC platform for smartphones and tablets. This mainly marks a step up in terms of graphical performance from the existing Intel Atom Z2760 SoC that is featured in numerous Windows 8 tablet. As mentioned earlier, the new Clover Trail+ chips comprise the Intel Atom Z2580, Z2560 and Z2530 processors. They feature dual-core performance, with support for Hyper-Threading that enables up to four processing threads for execution on each physical core of the chip.
With the introduction of these new SoCs, it also marks Intel deepening commitment to the smartphone market; its initial entry was actually the Yolo, a low-cost Android handset, developed in collaboration with Kenyan service provider, Safaricom. The Yolo is powered by an Intel 'Lexington' Atom Z2420 processor first introduced at CES 2013. We reported earlier that the Lenovo K900 is the first phone to feature the new Clover Trail+ platform.
Although Intel has updated the graphics core engine of the new Intel Atom chips, one major impediment is the lack of 4G LTE support for the new chips. One of the strongest players in the smartphone market, Qualcomm has just announced its RF360 baseband chip that is touted to eliminate LTE band fragmentation due to its support for over 40 such bands. Hence, its adoption by high-end smartphone makers may be an uphill task. For the official Intel press release, do visit this link.
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Matthew T. Hall
EDITOR'S NOTE: BoltBlitz.com launched on February 26th of 2013. The two weeks prior to the launch were spent building the site and getting things in order to begin what I had hoped would be a successful blog. The website had a ton of success in its first year. I brought over Greg Williams with me from a site that we used to write for in the past. Jarvis Royall has been a part of my team for the majority of its existence. Williams and Royall are ranked number two and three, respectively, in number of articles written on BoltBlitz.com.
Little did I know, it would be working together with Thomas Powell to take this thing to a high level at a very rapid pace. Take a look at all we were a part of in 2014. It is quite humbling when you see it all written down. We were clearly blessed last year.
The 2014 Charger season began with Booga in North Carolina while I was here in San Diego. We had just started to team together to make BoltBlitz.com the biggest fan site for Charger news and information. We also wanted to unite Charger fans from Facebook and Twitter. Then Booga landed a radio show on 107.9 fm Mountain Country here in San Diego, BoltBlitzLIVE. So he, at a great sacrifice to himself, left North Carolina and moved in and the framework for our plans began to unfold. He had been covering the team from across the country and we could communicate better in achieving our goals with him here in San Diego.
So with BoltBlitzLive set to air in June of 2014, Booga arrived in April. We planned our goals and what we both wanted to achieve. Then he left for New York and attended the NFL Draft a few weeks later. But before he left, the plan was set in motion to unite Charger fans: A BoltBlitz Meetup. The date was set for May 31st at the Tilted Kilt in Mission Valley. While he was gone I promoted the meetup and when he returned we went like a steam train putting the news out there.
While pushing and promoting the meetup, we had many questions about its success. One of the main concerns was whether or not fans would show up in the middle of May to talk Charger football. I mean, it was the offseason. Booga and I worked on the players and the media to get them to attend. Nothing this big had ever been done before, but we were determined to make this a very special event for the fans. Booga was set to raffle off over $4,000 dollars in Charger gear he had obtained over the years. The many hours of planning for this were, at times, overwhelming. But we knew it was worth it. Even the Chargers front office got wind of the event as people were getting excited and sharing the news all over Facebook and Twitter. Booga and I were hoping for between 50 or 70 people for this event.
As May 31st came, we learned for the first time to not ever underestimate Charger fans and their devotion to the team. People were arriving 2 hours before the event took place. By the time it started an astounding 225 people packed the Kilt from the front to the back. Charger offensive linemen Craig Watts and Jeremiah Sirles showed up for autographs and pictures with the fans. Our good friend Jesse Arroyo of www.arroyophotos.com took pictures of the fans smiling and laughing together and the group picture. Derek Togerson of NBCSanDiego came with his video camera to broadcast it on the 6:30 pm newscast that night. Fans were making friends and exchanging numbers. Laughter and smiles filled the room. Everyone had one thing in common that night, a deep devotion to the Chargers. A team that loves a team! The next morning Facebook was flooded for hours with fans sharing their pictures of the event on social media. The meetup was a smashing success. That morning we started planning the next meetup.
But first was the debut of BoltBlitzLive. Booga did the very first show live by himself. Then he was joined by Jamie Hoyle our staff writer at the time. I joined them a couple of weeks later to create a 3-man booth. We interviewed Craig Watts, Marion Grice, Alden Darby, Thomas Keiser, Adam Rank of NFL Network, Steve Adler and Eddie Brown UT Staff draft writer. We had Antonio Garay, Derek Togerson, and Fernando Ramirez of SportsSpeak (who covers the Chargers) live in studio. We took calls from fans from all across the country including Arizona, Florida, Illinois, Delaware, New York, Nevada, Washington, Texas, Michigan and, of course, San Diego among other places in California. It was a great time but now the 2nd meetup was ready to go!
The 2nd BoltBlitz meetup was at the Tilted Kilt on July 12th. The excitement was building through social media for another event. Most of our staff writers were there. So were CS Keys, Dan McLellan formerly of CBSSports, Eddie Brown of the UT and Tricia Mathews (Ryan Mathews' mother). She was there to support their charity the Door of Hope Chest to help single mothers gets the necessities of life. She came all the way from Bakersfield. She took pictures with the fans and donated a pair Ryan Mathews autographed cleats. One fan came all the way from Seattle just to attend the meetup. It was such an honor for us to have him there and introduce him. The turnout was an astounding 250 people. The night ended with Booga and I in dresses posing for pictures. Fans exploded with laughter. It was another huge success that night.
As the season approached we attended the Chargers MCAS Miramar practice with press passes. It was a practice with the Military, their family members and the Charger players. We were able to take pictures and talk to several players and members of the organization afterwards including Philip Rivers, Tom Telesco and Mike McCoy. The preseason kicked off with Booga in the press box for the Dallas game and quite a few regular season games. I was able to attend practice on Wednesday covering the team as they prepared for Oakland. We were both very appreciative of the access the Chargers allowed us. We owe a big thank you to Bill Johnston for those opportunities.
As our 3rd meetup approached at the Fox Sports Grill in Downtown. LaDarius Green showed up for a meet and greet. Many of the fans were now not only friends but family. The view over the bay was gorgeous and Jesse Arroyo handled the group photo again. The management there was kind enough to donate five $50.00 gift cards for our raffle. We realized at this one to put an emphasis on incorporating the kids in our events. We had a few of the youngsters hop on the microphone and announce some of the raffle winners. Lesson learned.
The Bolts started the season off strong and all was good in Charger land. So a celebration was in store during the bye week. An intimate evening for the fans: A bonfire at Fiesta Island under the stars. I have to admit this was one of my favorite events. Everyone – about 80 fans – standing near the fire under the night sky smiling and laughing again. But this one was special because we met so many of you for the first time. There were so many new faces at this event. Everyone who attended has become very close friends with Booga and I. They have joined the family and have done so much for us. Future bonfires will happen. The amount of people were smaller than the meetups, but the interaction was so much more personal. It was a great night for all of us.
Through the exposures of these events we were contacted by Paddy Pickford of Evolution Lighthouse to help hold an event downtown where Eric Weddle would sell his jewelry to help stop domestic violence against women. It was held at Taste and Thirst in downtown. It was quite personal as a lot of our guests shared their experiences of what they have gone through. The event raised more money than any other charity in their history. Again, don't ever underestimate Charger fans, folks.
Our focus of uniting Charger fans and supporting the Bolts continued as we planned 4 viewing parties for the away games. We gathered at La Bella's in Chula Vista. Fans gathered to be with their fellow family members to watch the games together. It was a good time and San Diego went 3-1 at La Bella's when the BoltBlitz family got together there.
This brings me to the most fun I've had in a long time. We were welcomed to the Bolt Pride tailgate in P4 at the Qualcomm stadium parking lot. We are simply boys among men with these guys. When you are passionate about something in your life, you want to share it with people who share that passion among others; the ones who feel the same way you do. The atmosphere there is amazing. It is a close-knit family sharing the same experience. It is what Booga and I envisioned yet they had already achieved. The music and the dancing was legendary. Bolt Pride, we thank you all so much for the experience. Truly a heartfelt thank you goes out to Rafael Alvarez, Josh Casillas and Johnny BoltPride. You are Charger fan legends and we thank you all. Much respect to all of the BoltPride members and we love your group and all that you do.
Thanks to Joe Allen again, we were asked to cover the 2nd Annual Ryan Mathews Golf Tournament. It was a great day as we hung out with Mathews, Seyi Ajirotutu, Ronnie Brown and their friends at the Rancho Bernardo Inn and golf course. All three Chargers were really cool and each had a great sense of humor. I won't get into their golfing abilities.
I am an administrator on several Charger pages on Facebook. While cleaning up one of these pages I came across a 3-year-old with terminal brain cancer. I stared at his picture for 10 seconds and he had me. Something about his mother's post just got to me. It's not like we don't see these posts all the time, but this was like love at first sight. Killy's mother, Amanda Sardelis, stated he was a Ryan Mathews fan. They were contacted by Joe Allen from Strikes for Kids and got Killy a signed football and autograph. But the boy stayed on my mind. At work, at home, and while sleeping he was on my mind. Maybe because my kids just moved away. I don't know, but he was my obsession. He wasn't looked upon as a son, exactly. Nephew? Nah. Brother? Nah? But he was mine. I fell in love with him immediately.
My father died of cancer, as did my grandfather. You took them but you're NOT taking him, PERIOD! This was so personal to me. ALL I cared about was a boy named Killy. Cancer talks to so many today. We all know someone. But a 3-year-old? Seriously? Come on? NO! You won't take him, not him, NO! Love overcomes all and people will love him.
I had no idea the impact that Killy would have on others as he did on me. I went to Booga and shared his story. We decided we're going to do something for him. We talked and due to having many media contacts and influence among the fans, we wanted to reach out to as many people as possible. The fans have taught us many things. Most importantly, we're family!
When a family member gets sick, what does family do? They come running in like the cavalry. And you certainly did come blazing in. We shared his story on Facebook and Twitter and you fell in love with him too. We all were going to make this boy's Christmas the best of any child on earth. The family was assembled and the family responded in such a way that brings me to tears. We can get 40-50 fans together to bring him Christmas presents. YES, that is it. We'll meet him and bring him presents.
We then asked our Facebook friends to change their profile picture to him 2 weeks before the event on Dec 13th. HA! The next morning everyone changed their picture to the little boy in a Charger Santa hat. I thought maybe 30-40 people would change their profile picture. Over 400 people (could be more we don't know the exact numbers) changed their pics. Killy was EVERYWHERE! Mess with family but don't mess with Charger Family!
When people call San Diego a bandwagon city, tell them to go Google Killy. Even Matthew T. Hall of the UT ran a story about the movement. Killy actually proved if we unite in a cause it can be overwhelming. Nancy Castro of Telemundo, Derek Togerson, Dan McLellan and Annie Heilbrunn all changed their profile pictures to Killy. Presents were sent in from Twitter and Facebook from all across the country. Even Thomas Keiser sent Killy a gift. #KillyStrong and #KillysArmy were hashtagged everywhere on Facebook and Twitter. But would the fans respond? Would they show up to an event to meet our little celebrity on December 13th twelve days before Christmas? YES, YOU DID! Around 80 people showed with presents at Chargers Complex on December 13th to meet Killy. Then we all hopped in our vehicles and headed out to the Q, cars honking to party with Killy and show him what a tailgate is like.
Dan McLellan dressed up as Santa Clause and Elmo, per a referral from the Make A Wish Foundation, came. Animals for Children came as well. Every fan lined up to meet Killy personally and hand him a present. To everyone who attended, you're forever in my heart. I love you so much. To Amanda,Valerie and Jimmy we support you and love you. To Killy, you know how we feel about you. You are incredibly special!
Our last event of 2014 was our final viewing party at La Bella's. We were all shocked and heartbroken by the week 17 loss against the Kansas City Chiefs. We accepted that the loss, as heartbreaking as it seemed, was just a loss. Now back to family. Amanda brought Killy down to spend time with the BoltBlitz family. We laughed and shared memories with him after the game. Why? Because that is what family does! So many of you are our family. I can't tell you enough how much we love you all. For those who have welcomed us into your homes, we thank you. For those of you who have been in our home, we thank you and you appreciate you being in our lives. To Bolt Pride, the media, and the fans, we LOVE you!
By uniting we all showed what can happen when we come together. Now, let's go fight for our stadium and Keep Our Bolts in San Diego! You've proven that anything can happen. We have two exciting events coming up in the last week of February that we'll be making announcements about in the coming days. Let's make 2015 smash 2014.
Leave a comment on the website in the section below. Not on FB or Twitter, but below. Let us know we met you and at what event. That would be great information to help us all share in the amazing memories. And, of course, always stay #KILLYSTRONG!
Thank you all for your support.
Thomas Powell


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The alleged Marian apparitions at Medjugorje have had a sordid history. Much of it to some extent successfully glossed over or reinterpreted by the Franciscans that run the parish at Medjugorje. A document was put out by Bishop Ratko Peric, the ordinary of the Diocese of Mostar-Duvno that encompasses Medjugorje, which was translated by Richard Chonak of the Catholic Light blog, that put to record of what actually occurred in Medjugorje and how the alleged apparitions were fabricated and manipulated by dissident priests such as Tomislav Vlasic and Slavko Barbaric.
I want to briefly summarize some highlights from this translated document first, which then be followed by the translated document in full.
1. Tomislav Vlasic, in collusion with his superior, undermined the authority of the bishop by relocating himself to Medjugorje without asking permission. They waited an entire year to do so.
2. Tomislav Vlasic and Slavko Barbaric, the spiritual directors of the alleged seers, did not allow the seers to report any alleged messages from the Madonna without coming to them first so they can have their stories straight.
3. A grave theological error that the alleged apparition stated that all people in Heaven have their souls and their bodies with them. I guess Tomislav Vlasic never studied the Nicene Creed.
4. Tomislav Vlasic claimed to have visited the Pope (John Paul II) when he never did.
5. The Madonna wanted Slavko Barbaric to replace Tomislav Vlasic as the spiritual director so he could document the entire episode of the visions. Slavko Barbaric passed away in AD 2000, and the alleged apparitions continue to this day… without Slavko Barbaric. Another "vision" that never came true.
There are many more, but I just highlighted the big ones that I thought were prescient. The following is the completed translation of Bishop Ratko Peric's documentation of the many errors of the apparitions in Medjugorje:
Just as last year, when the Holy See sanctioned the Rev. Vlasic with interdict, warning him of more severe penalties if he would not obey, once again numerous comments have appeared in the mass media to proclaim the non-connection between the "Medjugorje phenomenon" and the "Vlasic case". If in both the letter and in reference to the two more serious penalties there is an explicit reminder of the "Medjugorje phenomenon",[1] in which Tomislav Vlasic in involved, why is there never any connection between the one and the other? We would like to recall just that undeniable connection, from the beginning.


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Readers were all bent out of shape after LeAnn Rimes appeared on the cover of Shape magazine, given the country crooner's home wrecking past.
On the October 2010 cover, Rimes smoldered in a barely-there red bikini, showing off her toned and beach-ready body. The shot triggered an avalanche of angry amails from readers who thought the magazine was making her look too sympathetic. Because of their complaints, Shape Editor in Chief Valerie Latona has issued an apology to fans via email.
"Please know that our putting her on the cover was not meant to put a husband-stealer on a pedestal -- but to show (through her story) how we are all human ... It did not come across that way ... And for that I'm terribly sorry," read the email, obtained by TooFab.
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Latona went on to say that Rimes turned to exercise to get through her tough times. "[Rimes] found strength in exercise in what she said was her most difficult personal moment. But it did not come across that way ... And for that I'm terribly sorry."
The 28-year-old singer was married to Dean Sheremet when she began seeing "CSI Miami" actor Eddie Cibrian, who was also married at the time. Rimes dumped Sheremet just as Cibrian divorced his wife, model Brani Glanville, leaving both jilted spouses bitter. Glanville, now a single mother of two sons, was arrested for DUI early Friday morning in Bevery Hills, People reported.
Rimes responded to the Shape affair Friday morning via Twitter, saying that she was getting to the bottom of the matter. "It's the first I've heard of this. Shape is throwing me a party next week as a thank you and a congrats for being on their cover for the 3rd time.
"I find this very contradictory."