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Smoking with Michael Schumacher
We all have heroes who are professional athletes. They not only are great at their respective sport, but they are exemplary individuals. That's why Michael Schumacher is high on my list of sports heroes. He not only is one of the greatest drivers in the history of motor racing, but he enjoys life to the fullest, not to mention the pleasure of a good cigar.
The thought occurred to me this past summer as the 35-year-old German racked up another world championship -- his seventh -- during the Belgium Grand Prix at Spa-Francorchamps on August 29. I saw the race thanks to Jeremiah and Joshua Meerapfel, the European distributors for Padrón, Fuente and Ashton cigars. The Meerapfels organized a cigar lounge at the VIP stand located at the starting line of the race. Hundreds of people were smoking excellent cigars as they watched the 44-lap race on a cloudy Sunday afternoon in Belgium.
There was more than a little irony smoking a cigar that day with fellow Formula One fans. Last year, the Belgium Grand Prix was not held following the government's banning of tobacco advertising at all sports events. Apparently, though, the country's bureaucrats quickly realized that the Grand Prix was a boon to their economy. They had to allow tobacco back at the event if it wanted the Grand Prix to return. It's nice to see that common sense can prevail occasionally in the world of politics and antismoking campaigns, particularly in Europe. But that's only one positive case in hundreds going against the people's right to smoke. And there's not much we can do about it.
In any case, Schumacher finished second behind Fin Kimi Raikkonen, who was driving a Mercedes. However, the German didn't need to win. He had already totaled enough points from previous races that he earned the championship with his second-place finish. His team, Ferrari, had also already won this year's Constructor's Trophy, which was wrapped up in Budapest during the Hungarian Grand Prix a few weeks earlier.
Ferrari and Schumacher seem invincible together. Is it his terrific driving? Or is it the fabulous race machines of Ferrari? It's probably a combination of the two, but whatever the explanation, Schumacher now wins nearly every race. His dominance has prompted some people to even say that he has made Formula One boring.
But his consistent winning makes him a living legend. Schumacher earned about $80 million last year as the head driver for Ferrari, according to a list of top-paid athletes published in Forbes magazine this summer. Half was for driving and the other half was in for endorsements. That was only $300,000 less than the top-paid athlete in the world, golfer Tiger Woods.
I wouldn't presume to judge which athlete is more deserving of such astronomical amounts of money. But let's get real. Tiger doesn't put his life on the line every time he steps onto a golf course. Schumacher defies death the moment his machine leaves the pit. With about 900 horsepower, his car reaches speeds of well over 200 miles per hour, and he must navigate hairpin corners, "S" curves and other obstacles, where every tenth of a second can mean the difference between winning and losing.
Schumacher also is a keen cigar smoker. According to a friend who works in Formula One, Schumacher often heads to the hospitality trailer of Formula One big boss Bernie Ecclestone in the paddock area of a Grand Prix and enjoys a fine cigar with a couple of schnapps following a race. "He likes nothing better than a drink and a good cigar to wind down after a race," my friend said following the Belgium Grand Prix.
He also said that Schumacher's attitude and style are strikingly different from most of the other drivers in Formula One, who spend most of their time in gyms getting in shape when they are not on the track. The thought of a good smoke and drink would be out of the question. "I guess Michael has nothing to prove," my buddy said. "He is just a regular guy that enjoys life when he is off the track."
In fact, I remember a night about two years ago when I had dinner with Schumacher in Italy. A neighbor who's a friend of mine is a good friend of the son of Luca Cordero di Montezemolo, the then head of Ferrari. Matteo Cordero di Montezemolo brought Schumacher over to my friend's house for dinner following a charity soccer match in Arezzo where the race driver played with some friends.
Schumacher was standing by himself in one corner of the room, looking rather isolated and lonely as 30 or so Italians occasionally glanced at him. I guess they were too embarrassed to talk to the driver, or they were simply in awe. It was easy to understand their bashfulness because after the Pope, Ferrari and Schumacher are considered national icons.
Schumacher was dressed casually in his jeans, plaid shirt and brown suede jacket, and I was trying to figure out a cool way to walk over and strike up a conversation. Then I saw that he was smoking a cigar and drinking a glass of red wine.
I walked over and said. "Hey what are you smoking tonight? Is that a Davidoff?"
"Yes," he said, puffing away on a No. 1, the slim elegant cigar from Davidoff in the Dominican Republic. "I enjoy smoking a cigar when I am relaxing like tonight."
He said that he buys most of his cigars near his home in Switzerland. "I smoke lots of different cigars, from Cubans to Davidoffs, but I find that the Davidoffs are always good and they are less strong than the Cubans," he went on.
"But when you smoke Cubans, what do you normally buy?" I asked.
"I like the Partagas 8-9-8," he said. "They have good flavor and I like the size…so what do you think about this wine?
Schumacher was drinking a glass of 2000 Sette Ponte Crongolo, a Tuscan red made of Sangiovese and Merlot. My neighbor, the party's host, makes it.
"I like it," I said rather timidly. "It's a good, elegant Tuscany red."
"Seems sort of thin to me," Schumacher said, looking at his glass of wine as if there was a hole in it. "I prefer a wine with more body, like a Australian Shiraz."
I thought to myself, "Is this really happening? I am speaking to the greatest driver of all time, a man who my son and hundreds of thousands of others believe is part God, and we are standing around like old friends talking about cigars and wine!"
I literally pinched myself to make sure that I would not wake up and find myself in some sort of smoke- or drink-induced dream.
With that, I thought to myself, "Michael Schumacher cannot drink a thin wine. I must find something he likes."
"Let me find something with a bit more body for you, Michael," I said, taking his glass and dumping the wine into a nearby flowerpot.
I quickly dashed into my friend's cellar in hopes of finding something more to the liking of the grande pilota. There I was in a Tuscan's wine cellar, and the chances of find a jammy fruit bomb from Australia were about as likely as finding buried treasure in the same place. I settled for a bottle of Tuscan Merlot from Fattoria di Petrolo. The cork of the wine was quickly pulled and a glass was served to Schumacher.
"What do you think of that?" I asked.
"It's better, but it's not an Australian Shiraz," he said.
The winemaker of the Merlot was standing next to me, and I was sure that he was going to slit his wrists on the spot. He is a hard-core Ferrarista (his 1978 308 GTO spends most of its life in the garage in some state of disrepair) and he kept on repeating in Italian, "Oh my God, Michael Schumacher doesn't like my wine. Oh my God, Michael Schumacher doesn't like my wine."
Luckily, someone announced dinner, and we were all spared what was already a rather awkward situation. I was seated at a small table of eight in front of Schumacher. We spent the night speaking about everything under the sun except for Formula One racing. We talked about normal things that polite strangers speak about over dinner, from the weather to European politics.
After the first course of pasta with mushrooms, Schumacher began to relight his Davidoff. "Michael, if you wait, I will give you a Cuban Davidoff," I said, now clearly under the influence of numerous glasses of non-Australian Shiraz. "Have you ever had one?"
"No. I didn't think you could find them anymore," he said, looking slightly suspicious. "I would like to try one, though."
I stole the keys of my neighbor's All-Road Audi and sped down the dirt road towards my house, About halfway there, I began dreaming what it would be like if Schumacher was hot on my backside trying to pass as he always does on one of the tracks in Italy, such as Imola or Monza. After two minutes, I arrived at home, went to my cellar and grabbed a box of 1989 Davidoff No. 1's and a bottle of 1997 Montezemolo Barolo (perhaps a long-lost cousin of the then head of Ferrari). I raced back to the dinner without losing my way on the dark, dirt road.
Schumacher and Montezemolo, as well as the rest of the table, had already polished off a huge side of roasted pork. I poured the new wine and passed around the cigars. It didn't take long before a new euphoria swept over the table as we spoke about life's great pleasures.
Although I can't remember the exact conversation, I do recall that Schumacher enjoyed his Cuban Davidoff, and that he said something about looking him up next time I went to a Grand Prix -- something I have never done nor do I intend to do considering how busy he is during a race.
Schumacher remains a hero for me. He is a great cigar smoker and obviously someone who enjoys life to the fullest -- both on and off the track.


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Brought together a little more than a year after the 9/11 attacks with other relatives of victims, the two women have appeared in speaking engagements throughout Europe and the U.S. since then to talk about reconciliation and forgiveness, using the relationship they have forged as the centerpiece of those talks. They presented jointly at TEDWomen last year,
This joint talk is a testament to restraint for speakers. Here's what you can learn from it:
- Less is more: In this case, Rodriguez and el-Wafi's story and circumstances are powerful and compelling, without embellishment. Just standing together makes a statement, so they don't need to make their words or rhetoric grander, more heated or emphatic.
- Speaking for yourself is the most powerful kind of speech: The women can get away without putting too fine a point on their story precisely because it's theirs. Another speaker might have to use more descriptive and pointed terms to build drama and make their story compelling--but because they are speaking for themselves. they have all the power they need.
- Make the big event personal: The women are speaking about one of the most violent political attacks in history, but their words keep it close to home and heart. Rodriguez recalls seeing news reports of el-Wafi traveling to the U.S. when her son was indicted and thinking, "What a brave woman. Someday I want to meet that woman when I am stronger." Almost no one else involved in the 9/11 attacks could say those words, and that personal angle makes this a compelling talk.
- They frame it from a woman's perspective: el Wafi notes that the talk itself is part of her effort to make sense of her agony, and frames it as a call to action for women: "We must be hand-in-hand and do something together. It's not against women, it's for us, for us women, for our children. I talk against violence, against terrorism. I go to schools to talk to young, Muslim girls so they don't accept to be married against their will very young. So if I can save one of the young girls, and avoid that they get married and suffer as much as I did, well this is something good. This is why I'm here in front of you."
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Monday, June 06, 2011
Minneapolis Marathon
Minneapolis Marathon was race III out of V.
Summer arrived in the Midwest this past weekend. Most of us from the area haven't had any heat training yet this summer as the past five weekends have been in the 50s with rain. Friday arrived with summer! 86 Friday, 85 Saturday and Sunday, it is 94 today!
What a way to acclimate, on race day.
I normally love to run in the heat but I have to admit, the heat helped to brutalize the Minneapolis Marathon for me!
I had a few goals for the marathon. One, I wanted to run the first half faster than the Get Lucky Half Marathon in March and two, I wanted to feel good at the half. That would show me any progress I've made on endurance these past weeks. If you read the race report for the half you will remember that I felt like death during that half marathon. I couldn't breathe, I was dizzy, I was a mess. Of course it was only 7 weeks or so post op.
As all Team Ortho races, parking was a treat. $3 parking in a lot less than a block away to the start/finish, hand directed to my spot. So amazing!
This was the second year for the Minneapolis Marathon and I hadn't run it before. There were 4800 registered for either the relay, half marathon or marathon.
I liked the 7 AM start, for me earlier is better. We were able to use the facilities at The Depot Hotel, using nice clean toilets, hot water..what a treat! I walked over to the start and lined up near the 10 minute mile pacers. It was already 65F and felt nice, no sleeves necessary. I was trying a new sunscreen for racing, Skinceuticals, which my friend Alicia recommended. I am beginning to show sun spots and certainly don't need anymore sun damage. This sunscreen is a physical block that is also water/sweat proof. I had been wearing the brand under my make up but hadn't had the opportunity to try out on a sunny hot day.
The start was at the Depot Hotel, running through the Warehouse District, down Plymouth Avenue, to the Stone Arch Bridge. I had never walked down in that area and it was so pretty. Cobblestone roads – which weren't so great to run on – but didn't last very long. We ran through beautiful neighborhoods that I hadn't seen before. It was a 6 mile loop over and back across the river and then we headed back near our starting place before heading out on the out and back marathon run. It really was a pretty loop and most of it was nicely shaded.
There was a relay taking place within the race which was a new event to me. Every 6 miles or so there would be a big RELAY sign with cones directing the participants to their hand off area. It was fun to see new fresh runners with lots of speed burning up the course for a few miles.
The stretch along West River Road was mostly shaded with a few long sunny spots. Whew, those spots warmed me up quickly. I felt like it was 90F already and really it was about 75F at this time.
I have never stood under any of the sprinklers at the summer marathons, but yesterday, I soaked myself under each one. I was that hot! After a cool soaking I felt new life in my body as I continued to run along the course.
Along West River Road was the half marathon turnaround and once the half marathoners left the course, wow, did it thin out! All of a sudden the course was wide and clear with a few runners here and there. Less than 900 finished the marathon.
I was able to reach both of my goals: at the half marathon I felt good, just hot, and I was 12 minutes faster than I was at Lucky 7 half marathon. Good enough!
I continued on and really began to get hot on this exposed section. I was carrying a 24 oz water bottle that I was filling at the aid stations and gulping down a couple little glasses of power aid or whatever the available energy drink was. I was taking a Hammergel every 35 to 40 minutes, I didn't take any S or ECAPS. I was wondering if I should have brought some along with all of the heat.
We made a u turn and then entered the Fort Snelling State Park. Wow, I didn't even know this existed. We ran downhill on a shaded path deep in the woods for over a mile, then hit a sandy trail through the park that was still shaded. 6 nice wooded shaded miles through the park. I liked it, although it was quite hilly. This was an out and back so it did get a little crowded in areas. I noticed that many of the runners coming back were looking pretty tough. The heat was taking it's toll. I finally reached the turn around and headed back out of the park. As we exited the park we took a sharp left and the trail went straight up a huge hill! I could only laugh at it. I began to walk up the hill, sweat falling into my eyes when I realized the sunblock was working very well. It didn't sting my eyes and it wasn't wearing off. Good deal. I also noticed that it felt good to walk up this hill, using other muscles after the downhill running earlier.
I was just looking forward to hitting the 20 mile marker. I was hot and tired. I wasn't sore at all, I wasn't out of breath or dizzy, I was trying to be happy that I felt pretty good and that I have the endurance back. Speed is another thing.
Eventually mile 20 came and went, I just looked for the next mile. At mile 23 I filled up my water bottle and then noticed the 430 pace group coming up the way. I walked out of the aid station, waiting to run the last three miles with the group.
I came into the finish line at 4:34, I felt nauseous by now and had a bad stitch in my side. I thought about my friends running FANS and Kettle 100 and was just glad that I only had a marathon for today!
I had only a short walk to my car where I had a cooler holding a recovery shake and quinoa salad. I could stomach the shake but ate the salad later in the day when I was famished!
No pain or stiffness today, no bleeding or cramping during the race, all is good. The next race in the Monster Series is the Minneapolis Duathlon. Something new for me! I'm looking forward to it.
The Twin Cities Marathon is in 4 months. I'd like to run another Boston Qualifier. I have the endurance down, now the speed workouts begin.
Today is swimming and biking in preparation for the Graniteman Tri in 8 weeks. Another first!
9 comments:
Sound fun!! (sort of!) GREAT JOB! :)
- Helen said...
Nice job Julie. I bet you made a few runners envious with your water bottle :)
I just ready your last post too - that's an awesome goal. You will have a blast volunteering at IM Wisconsin. And I would definitely recommend that race. It was the first of 2 I did and by far my fav.
- Julie B said...
Hey Helen, although I like to dream big, IM WI is quite a stretch as I haven't yet completed my first sprint! I wonder if it is equal to a goal of running a 100 before taking a step? Biking to/from work today with hill running tonight ;)
- Raquelita said...
I just came across your blog, as I was looking for other runners who had participated in the Minneapolis Marathon. Congratulations on an excellent performance on a hot day! I also went for the sprinklers during the race and you are right about how much it thinned out at the half turnaround. It was like two different events!
Great recap!
- Danni said...
Nice work!
- Danni said...
Nice work! BTW, an IM is way easier than 100 in many ways.
- freight audit said...
I want to run with you!
- Julie B said...
Hi Raquelita! It was a warm day, wasn't it. Are you doing the series? Maybe we'll meet at Minneapolis Duathalon?
Hey Dani, thanks and that is GOOD to hear!!
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Newmarket school districts future for its facilities and students remains an unsettled dilemma, causing anxiety for everyone concerned.
While no one individual (myself included) has all the answers, I am confident the school districts current approach and methods of solving this dilemma, have to this point, been wrong headed, causing more anxiety than results.
Amidst all that has already taken place, including the needless wasteful spending of millions of dollars on purchasing land for a new school etc., I believe there yet remains an opportunity that will both satisfy the educational needs of Newmarket students for decades to come, and also reduce the increase tax burden current proposals will present.
First, demand the best education possible for your high school students. This would be to tuition them out of district where they will enjoy greater educational opportunities.
Staffing and maintaining a high school for 220-300 students, even if it is only part of a larger school, is not cost effective and restricts educational opportunities for the students; additionally, the district can save millions through tuition agreements for these students.
Look at Barrington as an example: though tuition agreements, students there currently enjoy three choices of where to attend high school: Dover, Oyster River, or Coe Brown, and for less money than if Barrington were to build, staff and maintain their own high school.
Newmarket students could enjoy similar opportunities if you demand it. Portsmouth, Epping, and Oyster River may all be willing to accept 80-100 students each, if this were an option under consideration.
Second, build a new K-8 school on the newly purchased former Carpenter property and sell the other two properties applying the proceeds to lowering the costs of the new school.
This action is reasonable due to all the money residents have already spent and because research has determined a k-8 school is best for students.
Newmarket residents certainly must be aware by now, that even if a new Jr. / Sr. High school is built, it will not be long before they are asked to pay for a new elementary school; it's inevitable.
The current idea being contemplated by the powers that be to build a new cooperative middle school with Oyster River on the former Carpenter property requiring students from Lee, Madbury and Durham to be bussed all the way to Newmarket is ludicrous; do not allow this to happen.
Once the new k-8 elementary school is built and high school students tuition out, leaving Newmarket a one school town, eliminate the superintendent's office and staff.
Hire a superintendent / principal to run the school or hire a part time superintendent; either way, you save money.
Whether my ideas for Newmarkets educational future are plausible or desirable by the residents I do not know; what I do know is if the residents do not take action and soon, the current proposals based upon deception and misinformation will become a reality, and will result in unsustainable tax burdens for the residents.
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Any day that sees Playboy returning to UNL and tdaxp taking over a warship wouldn't be complete without French political news. From Catholicgauze:
Creoles, Arcadians, and Cajuns! Soon you may be able to once again embrace your French heritage with pride! Americans of all backgrounds may once again look to France as an ally. Soon it will be time for the Old Europe country of France to elect the pro-globalization, pro-American, anti-terrorist Nicolas Sarkozy as Président de la République française.
Market-liberalism combined with social conservatism is marching across the developed world to victory after victory. The latest region to become a battle ground for the Neo-Right is Old Europe. Germany elected Angela Merkel as Chancellor over the center-left incumbent Gerhard Schroeder. The next up for elections is France.
Nicholas Sarkozy has been on tdaxp before.


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Diet disasters happen.
Despite a strong declaration of independence from overeating and under-moving, we fall back into old patterns.When there is a weekend holiday, such as the Fourth of July, added into the mix, the eating (and maybe drinking) isn't just a little more than we planned. It is often way more, so much more it leaves us feeling out of control and questioning our ability or even desire to regain the control!
Why bother?
- Summer is here and I've already accepted my body isn't bathing-suit ready.
- It's hot and I don't feel like doing anything.
- There will be more fattening food, more cold beer, more frozen drinks.
- I like to relax in the summer; I'll get back on track in the fall.
There are 4 good reasons not to go "back on a diet."
Here's a fifth reason not to go back on a diet.
5. Diets are temporary and restrictive. They get in the way of your living your life and when the diet is over, the weight comes back.
Forget about diets and disasters.
You can achieve your weight-related goals by incorporating some new routines into your day!
These routines are user-friendly. Getting started is easy and sticking with them can become habits. They become part of your operating system. It just feels right to do it, and wrong if you don't. It's the kind of wrong feeling we get if we don't brush our teeth!
Eat fruit or vegetables with every meal.
Fruit and vegetables high in nutrients and fiber. They can fill up your plate without adding a lot of calories.
Snack on fruit and vegetables.
This is one group of food where portion control isn't so important. You can eat fruit and vegetables to satisfy hunger without being concerned that you're eating too much. They are easy-to-eat, easy-to-pack snacks. Keep your favorite fruit and vegetables handy as a strategy for avoiding snacking on foods with added fats and sugars and not much nutritional value.
Break up sitting with movement.
Try to get up and walk five minutes for every hour of sitting. It's an easy strategy to help you reach a goal of taking 10,000 steps a day.
Wear comfortable shoes.
The more steps you take, them more flexibility you will have with your eating. If you move a lot you can worry less about how much you're eating. Little bites, licks and tastes (which can really add up) will have less of an effect on your weight-related goals if you're taking 10,000 steps a day.
Discover forms of entertainment that get you up and moving and are so much fun you do it because you love it, not because "it's good for you."
Explore interests and passions to find ways to move that are so much fun you wouldn't want to stop even if they made you fat. It might help to take lessons in your desired activity to avoid hurting yourself and to get more proficient quickly. That will increase your pleasure and that helps to make it a priority.


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This probably won't sit well with David Beckham's people -- and others -- but here we go:
Jesse Marsch taking a swift kick to Goldenballs' privates three years ago may have been one of the greatest things ever to happen to the SuperClásico. (Watch the foul HERE.)
Relax, ladies -- Beckham's manhood is still intact. And in the long run, no one got hurt and no one's career suffered. And let's be clear here: I'm not condoning violence in Major League Soccer.
But as the LA Galaxy get set to host Chivas USA on Thursday night in the Battle of Los Angeles (11 p.m. ET, ESPN2, ESPN Deportes), there's no moment in the history of this rivalry that has added more heat and controversy. A flashpoint that actually showed an international audience that, yes, we Americans can grow our intra-city derbies into nasty affairs, too.
Let's jog those memories back to late August 2007. Beckham was making his long-delayed home debut in MLS more than a month after his injury-plagued arrival. And 27,000 had packed Home Depot Center to see the league's first Designated Player, who was groggy with jet lag after going the entire 90 for England in a friendly against Germany at Wembley just 24 hours earlier.
In first-half injury time, a noticeably exhausted Beckham pounced on a loose ball just past midfield. That's when Marsch, an MLS original, scurried in and applied a swift right boot straight to Beckham's groin.
Welcome to America, Mr. Beckham.
The ensuing confrontation was almost as memorable. Beckham got up and charged Marsch, and Galaxy striker Edson Buddle had to hold back his new teammate to keep him from causing any more mayhem. In the end, a giant pushing match erupted out of the scrum.
Off the ball, LA midfielder Kevin Harmse took a swing at Chivas USA's Alex Zotinca, who responded with a Zinedine Zidane-worthy head-butt to Harmse's face.
Ugly as it was, it was also fantastic theater. The referee handed out cards like he was a Vegas blackjack dealer, and the Red-and-White went on to paste their HDC co-tenants by a 3-0 margin.
Up until that point, the SuperClásico had been all Galaxy, who boasted an 8-1-2 record in those matchups. But from that game forward, the pendulum swung Chivas' way, at least for a little while. It wasn't always pretty, that's for sure. But the Goats got it done with a little elbow grease, a little intimidation and a ton of raw heart.
"That was just part of the emotion," the now-retired Marsch told MLSsoccer.com over the phone on Wednesday. "As much as your job is to put that aside and play the game, you get caught up in the moment."
And that, amigos, is what has turned the so-called Honda SuperClásico from an artificially created spectacle into the type of can't-miss drama it is now, what MLS hoped it one day would become. It showed that a grudge match that was essentially forced on these two teams became an actual grudge match. There were bitter feelings. There was something at stake.
You think SuperClásico and you think of the biggest of the big: AC Milan vs. Inter Milan. Rangers vs. Celtic. Arsenal vs. Tottenham Hotspur. And especially, its very namesake, the real Superclásico: Boca Juniors vs. River Plate. Nasty, awful rivalries, to be sure, which put the very best and the very worst of the Beautiful Game on display.
But regardless, you can't argue with the raw displays of passion -- both on the field and in the stands. It's what makes this game so great, the topics of conversation that dominate the water coolers, pubs, cafés and shebeens all over the world.
Time may heal all, but in this case, it took time to rip the wounds raw. Because this rivalry required a little history and a little organic growth before it could finally turn nasty. Now, it's glitz versus work rate. Haves vs. have-nots. A clash of cultures and a clash of ideologies. In short, what fuels real rivalries.
To be fair, these teams don't flat-out dislike each other. Plenty of them are friends off the field, and some have even played for both clubs. That's part of the weirdness of sharing facilities in a relatively young league. But players on both sides will tell you, there's heat to this matchup now and they get extra-amped to face those guys whose locker room is only 30 feet down the hall.
"It's not like you hate individual players on their team," explained Galaxy midfielder Chris Klein, a veteran of 11 SuperClásicos. "But you hate Chivas."
And for that, we have Marsch to thank. It was one ill-timed foul and it was three seasons ago. But it just so happened to land in the sensitive area of the biggest sex symbol in the game: the very embodiment of the fundamental differences between the two clubs. The perfect protest.
In retrospect, it was a genius move that gave us the first great nasty moment in this rivalry. For the SuperClásico's sake -- for everyone's -- let's hope it's not the last.
Jonah Freedman is the managing editor of MLSsoccer.com. His "Throw-Ins" column appears every Thursday.


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Crazy Super Bowl prop bets
All across the globe, billions of dollars will be placed on this Sunday's Super Bowl. But why drop money on a boring wager when you can wager your home against how long it takes Kelly Clarkson to sing the national anthem?
Clarkson's anthem speed is just one of many crazy bets on the table for Sunday's game (it's over/under one minute, 34 seconds, by the way). You can also bet on whether she'll forget one or more words (5/2 for yes), or if she'll bare some midriff during her performance (3/1).
If wardrobe choices are your thing, Madonna's got you covered. You can put money on whether the Material Girl will wear fishnet stockings, a hat or an NFL jersey during her halftime performance.
Those singer-centric bets are, of course, an insult to true sports fans. If you want to bet on the game itself, try one of these:
- What color will the Gatorade be that is dumped on the winning head coach? (Blue is the longshot at 10/1)
- Who will the Super Bowl MVP thank first? (7/2 on God)
- How many times will David Tyree's 2008 catch be shown during the broadcast? (Over/under 1)
- What will happen to the Dow Jones the day after the Super Bowl? (Market down: EVEN)


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City College of New York students get hands-on experience with the cloud
Rather than allocating limited resources to build new infrastructure, City College of New York looked to Google Cloud Platform to help teach open-source technologies such as virtualization and containers. Now their students have valuable, hands-on training before entering the field of computer science.
Computer science (CS) departments need to provide education and training in the latest technologies used in the workplace, which these days means the cloud and related technologies like virtualization. However, most universities don't have the resources to build out new infrastructure to support these technologies, and the pace of change is so rapid that keeping up with the latest platforms, tools and languages is almost impossible.
At City College of New York (CCNY), the faculty wanted to provide students with hands on experience with virtualization, containers and other cloud technologies, which were not well addressed in their current textbooks and other course materials. CCNY needed a new strategy that would allow it to keep pace with the latest developments in computing in a way that was both affordable and practical.
"Many CS programs tend to be rather theoretical and traditional in their approaches to core data structures, algorithms and operating systems," says Peter Barnett, Adjunct Associate Computer Science professor at CCNY. "It's important to get students to 'bend their minds outward.' We need to provide a visionary education for students to be well-rounded computer scientists."
Building a comprehensive CS education with the help of Google Cloud Platform
Barnett was referred to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Education Grants by Lindsay Siegel, executive director of the Zahn Innovation Center, an incubator at CCNY that includes a startup bootcamp, mentorship, pro-bono services and rapid prototyping facilities.
When Barnett first introduced GCP to his class, he gave his students an exercise to get them thinking about how cloud platforms implement features of traditional operating systems and application servers. They were asked to consider the question "Where are you?"—a container or virtual machine? How can you tell if you're on a particular server or a cluster of distributed machines?
Students were given the choice of working with GCP or another cloud technology provider. For the many who chose GCP, Barnett said they found the tutorials intuitive, making it easy to begin importing data and building applications. They had support from the GCP team and from CCNY's own professors if they ran into any problems getting projects up and running.
Some students worked with Google App Engine and explored how containers worked, while others chose one of the tutorials for building an app in Google Compute Engine. All the students figured out how to explore their virtual machine (VM) or container environments using Linux commands, and explored their database backends with SQL commands.
Encouraging students to think like engineers
By immersing themselves in the cloud platform, students were encouraged to think conceptually about the cloud and to understand that, even in the cloud, they are still using actual hardware. They read articles, watched tutorials and experimented with what they could do inside and outside of containers. They took note of memory and CPU usage and learned about how virtual storage is provided and how their IP addresses are obtained.
Three students—Nissan, James and Michael—went beyond the minimum requirements of creating a sample application. "They imported their own repositories and built their own applications. It worked nicely, and they came away with a good impression of how Google operates as a working environment," Barnett says.
Understanding why and how
When students are encouraged to ask their own questions, they discover far more about a topic. During some of their exercises, students noted how long an application took to respond based on its location—the U.K. or the U.S. This required them to think further about where the physical compute resources were located. One student implemented GCP's MySQL database in his Cloud project, and explored it to understand where the system files were stored.
Barnett encouraged his class to learn about the cloud technologies that most interested them. Some students explored using Kubernetes to manage containers, while others experimented with load balancing in MongoDB. Students then shared their experiences with one another to better understand a range of environments.
"Students aren't going to be working on hard metal servers. The cloud isn't just the future; it's the present."Peter Barnett, Adjunct Associate Computer Science Professor, City College of New York
Beyond the demo
Students in Professor Barnett's Senior Project capstone course at CCNY are currently using GCP to implement the backend portion of serious software projects with significant scientific, social and entrepreneurial potential.
His five teams' projects include: using machine learning to advance the optical character recognition of handwriting; assisting trainers, physical therapists and their clients in developing and maintaining correct form in exercise; enhancing patent search using content analytics combined with machine learning; interior mapping of subway stations and other public places to assist visually impaired people navigate the spaces; and generating quasi-random music with AI that changes in response to user feedback.
Most of these projects use AI in the form of content analytics and machine learning, and GCP provides a robust set of APIs such as ML-Engine and BigQuery to support them. The Google for Education team provided generous grants of time on GCP to each of Barnett's teams to facilitate their development and testing, which is currently under way.
Providing a real-world experience
To be successful computer scientists, students need to learn both the theory and practical applications of the tools used in today's workplace. Cloud services such as GCP give CCNY access to state of the art developer tools and large-scale cloud infrastructure without requiring a huge up-front investment. Students can learn how to work with many languages and cloud platforms, including Python, Ruby, Sinatra and GCP. These tools and languages would be out of reach for many schools, whose limited resources prevent them offering such a variety of technologies to explore. GCP provides an affordable way to offer access to modern computing environments in a way that can scale to serve the needs of all students and departments.
"The cloud environment is the modern manifestation of the operating system," Barnett says. "Students aren't going to be working on hard metal servers. The cloud isn't just the future; it's the present."


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It's no secret that Congress is a total shitshow, unable to fix even the most minor problem. The good news is that they've finally gotten bad enough at their jobs that America has been roused from its usual stupor and is starting to take notice—and now we're ready to throw the bums out! Seriously, all of them.
A new poll found that a record 56 percent of voters would "vote out every member of Congress if there were a place on the ballot to do so." And that sentiment was found across the whole spectrum, from conservatives to liberals. it certainly doesn't look like a good time to be an incumbent. Though we may want to think twice about throwing the entire Congress in the trash. There's a chance their rotting, power-starved bodies will regenerate and form some kind of mutant political gang—like the Garbage Pail Kids—that comes back to terrorize us all. Beware of Bad-to-the-Boehner and Moldy McConnell. Steer clear of Putrid Pelosi and Slimy Schumer... If we're not careful they'll all be back to run for president in 2016.
NBC/WSJ poll: Majority would vote out every member of Congress [MSNBC]
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Grilled Shrimp Gazpacho
Blend the flavors of summer in this light, refreshing meal.
1 garlic clove, chopped
½ yellow bell pepper, cut into pieces
½ red bell pepper, cut into pieces
½ English cucumber, cut into pieces
½ small sweet onion, cut into pieces
¼ cup loosely packed fresh basil
1 tablespoon seafood seasoning
3 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
3 yellow tomatoes, seeded and cut into pieces
1 pound large shrimp, peeled and deveined
1 tablespoon olive oil
Freshly ground black pepper
Combine garlic and next 7 ingredients in a food processor; pulse until finely chopped. Transfer to a large bowl. Add tomatoes to food processor, and process until almost smooth. Stir tomatoes into vegetable mixture. Cover and chill until ready to serve.
Toss shrimp in olive oil, and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Grill over medium-high heat 3 to 5 minutes or until done. Pour soup into bowls; top with shrimp. Makes 2 entrée or 4 side dish servings.
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Brush 2 tablespoons melted butter or olive oil over 6 slices French bread. Grill until toasted. For extra flavor, sprinkle with 1 tablespoon fresh herbs before grilling.
The affordable Chilean Casillero del Diablo Sauvignon Blanc makes a balanced companion to almost any seafood appetizer―and such a nice aperitif you may need an extra bottle for the meal.
Another complement to light fare is San Angelo Pinot Grigio from Italy. If you're in the mood to experiment, try Stonehaven Winemakers Selection Riesling from Australia. This dry white exhibits citrus characteristics that pair well with the smoky grilled shrimp.


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Vatican blames lack of priests on secularism, abuse, parents
VATICAN CITY (RNS) The sexual abuse scandal has tarnished the image of the priest and contributed to a crisis of priestly vocations in the Roman Catholic Church, the Vatican said Monday (June 25), while also faulting a widespread "secularized mentality" and parents' ambition for their children, which leaves "little space to the possibility of a call to a special vocation."
The "Pastoral Guidelines for Fostering Vocations to Priestly Ministry" were prepared over the last seven years by the Vatican's Congregation for Catholic Education.
The document says candidates to the priesthood shouldn't be accepted if they show "signs of being profoundly fragile personalities," and says future priests should learn the "importance" of their future commitments, "in particular with regard to celibacy."
The guidelines acknowledge that "in many places the choice of celibacy is questioned" and say that such "erroneous opinions within the church" are responsible for a "lack of appreciation" for those who make the choice to remain celibate.
In fact, Western culture, with its "indifference to the Christian faith," is "unable to understand the value of vocations to a special consecration."
Data presented by the congregation's undersecretary, the Rev. Angelo Vincenzo Zani, show that priestly vocations over the last 10 years fell sharply in Europe. They remained stable in North and South America and rose significantly in Asia and Africa, though still not enough to offset the rapid growth in Catholics' numbers worldwide.


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The unique "D" shaped butterflies of the Barry Grant D-Flow carb offer more airflow than conventional round butterfly carbs due to the squared-off butterfly shape, which offers a greater flow area than comparable round butterflies. With a standard bolt pattern, the D-Flow produces more horsepower and torque on big motors than round-butterfly carbs. Dyno testing by Barry Grant shows gains of over 5 lb-ft of torque and 10 hp on a mild 502ci 500hp motor. The manufacturer says the D-Flow has a great fuel curve, offers better fuel distribution, and has a great throttle response. The 1.562-inch venturis are available in annular or downleg boosters, and flow 980 to 1,080 cfm. What was originally a 1.75-inch round butterfly is now the equivalent to a 2.020-inch butterfly in a 4150 base.
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September 13, 2011
Chips without wires: The laser connection
An up-close look at any microprocessor reveals millions of tiny wires going every which way to connect its active elements. Go below the surface, and there can be more than five times as many wires. Jurgen Michel, a researcher at MIT's Microphotonics Center in Cambridge, Mass., wants to replace all those wires with flashing germanium (Ge) lasers that transmit data via infrared light.
"As processors get more cores and components," explains Michel, "the interconnecting wires become clogged with data and are the weak link. We're using photons, rather than electrons, to do it better." ...
... In February 2010, Michel and his collaborators, Lionel Kimerling and Jifeng Liu, successfully created and tested a functioning circuit that incorporates Ge laser data transfers. The chip hit speeds of over a terabit per second, or two orders of magnitude faster than today's best chips with wired connectors can do.


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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The Tennessee State football team will hold its annual Signing Day Celebration on Wednesday, Feb. 5 at 5 p.m. in the Indoor Football Facility.
The event coincides with the 24-hour period that high school recruits can agree to commit to a school by faxing a National Letter of Intent.
Video footage of all of the new Tigers will be shown and head coach Rod Reed will provide insight into what each player brings to the program.
TSU's recruiting class has been rated No.1 among HBCUs by BOXTOROW for two straight years.
TSUTigers.com will have a live updates all day Wednesday here and via our social media pages on Twitter - @TSU_Tigers and Facebook.com/TSU_Tigers.
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Dining on a Budget | Panchos & Gringos
Here's something retro in the best way: Housemade Russian dressing.
Sure, it's not much more than ketchup, mayonnaise, Worcestershire sauce and some spices, but it's an item that evokes a lot of happiness.
At Panchos & Gringos, it's an option for salads, and a quite tasty dipping sauce for fries.
This eatery, a solid neighborhood dining option in the Dignowity Hill area of the East Side, offers an array of sandwiches, some main dishes and breakfast all day. For downtown workers, it's only a couple of minutes away by car. Think of it as a big-city diner in a cozy neighborhood.
Most of the lunch sandwiches are offered in two sizes, on a roll about the size of a generous hamburger bun or a roughly foot-long hero, sliced in half.
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900 Nolan St. at Cherry Street, 210-227-6700
Hours: 7-a.m.-7 p.m. Monday-Friday; 7 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday; 8 a.m.-2 p.m. Sunday
Price range: Breakfast sandwiches, $1.95-$4.75; egg dishes, omelets, pancakes, grits: $2.99-$8.75; lunch sandwiches and burgers, $4.50-$8.95; lunch plates, combo sandwiches $5.95-$9.95.
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Miss: Grilled chicken teriyaki topped with unnecessary melted cheese
Lighter Choice: Several salads
Noteworthy: Breakfast all day.
The sandwiches themselves are straightforward with not too many frills. The Philly Cheese Steak isn't a traditional version, instead featuring sliced roast beef and melted cheddar with grilled onions and green peppers. Still, it's tasty.
If you're looking for a Friday fish option for Lent, the fish fillet sandwich offers a better version than the fast-food fried fish staple.
For a guilty pleasure, there's the BBQ Rib Hero, which uses pork rib patties with sautéed onions and melted Swiss cheese.
The sandwiches do not skimp on the filings or size, so you probably won't need any sides. If you decide to get any, try the curly fries.
A few lunch main dishes share space on the menu with the array of sandwiches. One of them, the grilled chicken teriyaki, offered slices of chicken breast grilled on a flattop with green peppers, onions and tomatoes, all tossed with a bit of teriyaki sauce. Ours also included a generous, if unnecessary, topping of melted cheese.
Then there are salads, with fresh lettuces and that killer creamy dressing. It's a dressing that a capable home cook can make, but how many of us do it? Order it and enjoy.
This menu is a study in resourcefulness, of incorporating a relatively small number of ingredients into many different combinations, as diner aficionados can attest. There's also a breakfast section, including several sandwiches served on rolls. You just know those items are better than anything from a drive-thru.
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Professor, Oboe and Flute Deirdre Harkins, Instructor of Oboe at CSB/SJU, has a Music Education degree from the University of Mary and a Master of Music in Performance from the University of Michigan with a focus in chamber music. She has taught at Minot State University, University of Mary and Bismarck State College where she was the Head of Instrumental Music and Director of the Wind Ensemble. She then met her husband and moved to his native
Scotland where she studied Traditional music. She has been an active studio teacher, clinician and adjudicator. She is also very active in Liturgical Music, as a player and composer. As well as being a member of Pastiche, she is also principle oboist of the Amadeus Chamber Symphony.


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I don't know much about this topic so I'm going to ask it out loud. WHY do we have to wear bras? No, really. Is it just for show or is there some compelling reason why we must? Sometimes I find that I'm much more comfortable without one. I always tend to take mine off after I get home from work and I've tried all the brands to find the "best fit" and I always end up going to some high end seamstress that makes them custom because the store bought options are NOT comfortable IMO.
For any of you ladies who may live in a country where it's NOT necessary to wear a bra I would LOVE to hear your thoughts and insights.
Am I alone in feeling like it's yet another cultural ball and chain we have to lug around with us?
Anyone really really LIKE wearing bras?
MEN: You are welcome to participate in this discussion, all I ask is that you have some class. Thanks!
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Thanks Kairan, I took a bit of time to write that and keep it 100% classy!
RE: "The question should be why should anyone strive to look younger than they are to be attractive?" - because in some cultures, age is revered, in this culture at least, age is penalized.
And the question should be why is that?
I think age gets a lot some respect until you're written off as over the hill (as your knowledge is out of date), but in the world of sex and reproduction it is the female biological clock that dictates. I'm not sure that is different anywhere, see child brides and women on the scrap heap if they are not married by a certain age. Do you have any counter examples?
Well, if I don't wear a bra, my ladies are bouncing all over the place, and they could hurt somebody! Also, yeah, my nipples are hard pretty much all the time, and I don't like it to be obvious.
Boy does this take me back to the 1960's when feminists felt a duty to discard or even burn their bras as a symbol of male or social oppression of women. (BTW, most men would prefer to see braless breasts, so don't lay that one at our door!)
By the 1970's women were wearing bras again, having apparently forgotten their symbolic value.
I anticipate you'll get some very practical reasons for wearing a bra ranging from corralling pendulous boobs to making a relatively unendowed girl appear to gathering up whatever she has into a shape that is more visible.
Women have a relationship to their breasts that is unlike any relationship men have to any part of their bodies. Men are very sensitive about their penises, but breasts are out there for all to assess in a way that penises are not.
Unseen, you may be surprised to find out that there were no bra burnings. Here is the post on Snopes.
According to feminist accounts that I have read, the protesters were denied a permit for a fire. The msm ran with the more sensational idea of the bra burning having actually taken place and the rest is history.
I don't know where Snopes gets his information, but I've seen photos of women throwing bras into burning barrels, from decades before PhotoShop or CGI - that didn't "imprint on the mind," as Snope suggests, it imprinted on my retinas.
I like wearing bras. I even sleep in mine... which I probably shouldn't. I have small boobs, too... but I just feel more secure/contained in a bra. I don't wear loose-fitting clothes if I can help it in general. Maybe I like the feeling of being "swaddled"haha. I don't feel forced to wear one... however... I do feel uncomfortable being without a bra in public because I don't like being ogled. Boobies not in bras are distracting to everyone, myself included. I suppose if we were used to seeing them, their bobbing & weaving underneath our shirts would fail to draw attention. As it is, braless boobies are somewhat of a novelty, and everyone stares. I don't like being stared at.
I wear a bra but don't sleep with it on as it becomes uncofortable. My daughter sleeps with her bra on and feels uncomfortalbe if she is not wearing one. I think it is up to the person what they like or don't like
I've never heard of the practice of sleeping in a bra. Meh, to each their own.
It's not a "practice" as much as inactivity. I don't take my panties off before I crawl in bed, either. They're under my clothes and I just don't think about it. It's not uncomfortable so I don't bother.


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The mourning father of a recently deceased reality television star said he believes that a bag of cocaine found near her body was "planted," according to a report from the Daily Mail published Wednesday.
Doug McHenry, the 66-year-old father of Lyric McHenry, 26, called out the man she was last spotted with.
"The least you could have done is call 911," he said. "It would have given my daughter a shot. A chance. So either you were so scared you didn't even think about it, or more than likely, it was so calculated you didn't give a s***. And that's what really rubs me the wrong way."
Lyric, who appeared on the E! network reality series "EJNYC" was discovered lying unconscious on the sidewalk in New York City, specifically on the side of an expressway in the Bronx. She was pregnant at the time, and reports say Lyric was not wearing any pants, perhaps due to a hiked up skirt.
She was out partying the night before in Manhattan for her birthday, including friends like Magic Johnson's son EJ and sister Maya McHenry, according to the Daily Mail.
"If she used at all, more than likely it was infrequent partying," said Doug, referring to cocaine. "I don't know, but it had never been an issue with her. I didn't see any of the signs, and I was in regular contact with her."
He blames the "mystery man" that friends last saw her with, as they departed the Dream Hotel. The New York Police Department (NYPD) has listed him as a person of interest, and released surveillance video showing the two leaving.
"I'm no Liam Neeson, I'm not coming that way," Doug told DailyMailTV. "But I have the utmost faith in the NYPD, and I know they will not rest until we get to the bottom of this story."
Friends of Lyric's told the Daily Mail that she had started getting closer with a man from the Bronx, who they suspected was a drug deal.
"I don't know if he was her regular dealer or what the deal is. Because nobody knows much about him other than the fact she had slept with him a few times," the unidentified friend reportedly explained. Lyric had reportedly kept the apparent relationship hush, and only her roommate had the chance to meet him. "Unfortunately, she used regularly. And recently a lot of people have been dying from coke mixed with I don't know what," said the friend.
Medical examinations ruled that she was likely not raped. The only injuries found were bruises on her knees.
"I called her and she wasn't answering, the phone was dead, so I wasn't able to speak with her. We were all texting her saying 'Where are you? What's going on?'" said Maya. "We guessed that maybe she was spending the night at a friend's because she never came home We actually said a prayer for her that night, asking God to make sure to keep her safe, because we were worried."
A man listed in Lyric's phone contacts as "Dave" was the last to call her before her body was found, and he often went to the Dream Hotel nightclub, Lyric's friend told the Daily Mail. He allegedly hasn't returned to the cocktail lounge since the tragic incident, and police are trying to track him down for further information he may have.
"People are calling and saying 'I'm sorry, I heard about your daughter.' There's ceremonies, there's s*** to get through," Doug said, according to the Daily Mail. "But that ceases, the world goes on. And you're still left with this grief, because it will never go away."
Lyric was laid to rest Sept. 6 at the Forest Lawn Cemetery in Hollywood Hills.


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Welcome to Owen County "where community matters." Owen County, consisting of 351 square miles, is located entirely within the boundaries of I-75, I-71 and I-64. We are less than a one hour drive from Lexington, Louisville and Cincinnati, Ohio. If you love the outdoors, Owen County is for you! We offer a wealth of natural beauty with numerous lakes, streams and rolling ridges providing some of the highest quality fishing and hunting opportunities in the Commonwealth.
The Kentucky River borders the entire western boundary of our county with nearly 30 miles of shoreline and such sights as Horse Shoe Bend, which can be viewed from Highway 355 between the towns of Gratz and Perry Park. Eagle Creek, the world's longest creek, flows through Owen County creating some of the most beautiful sights in the county. Elmer Davis Lake and Kleber Wildlife Area, both managed by Kentucky Fish and Wilflife, provide some of the best bluegill and crappie fishing and hunting in the state.
Owen County is also home of many attractions. Fairway Golf Course is an 18 hole course in the town of Wheatley and Glenwood Hall Country Club, a 27 hold course is located in the resort of Perry Park. Kentucky's largest winery, Elk Creek Vineyards, hosts a gourmet deli, gift shop, wine making tours and sets next to Elk Creek Hunt Club, one of Kentucky's best sporting clay ranges and hunting facilities.
Other great places to visit are Ayres Family Orchard, Hazelwood Farms and Larkspur Press. These vendors are also a part of the Owen County Farmers' Market. The market is open every Friday in May through November from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the market facility behind the Owen County Farm Bureau office on Highway 127 North.
We extend a warm welcome to our home and encourage you to visit Owen County throughout the year, because "community truly matters" to us. We hope you will love it as much as we do!


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Good Times With The Goodguys - Del Mar 2006 Auto Show
The Del Mar 2006 Auto Show
Springtime in Del Mar, California, is a perfect time--the lush green, brisk sea breeze, and all those old cars! Another Goodguys show was upon us, and we had quite a bit of work ahead, not to mention the tough job of picking the CLASSIC TRUCKS Top Ten for the show.
It's always good to have surprises, but we weren't prepared for the number of stop-you-in-your-tracks trucks spread around the fairgrounds despite a few spotty showers over the weekend that deterred the lightweights, who weren't missed in the end. There was a nice concentration of trucks and plenty of hot rods and customs to suit just about any taste. I even spotted our fair editor's old '55 Chevy truck cruising down the midway.
Speaking of the midway, there were plenty of vendors to cruise and shop. Many out-of-towners use the opportunity to meet the people behind the pages of their favorite catalogs and have the instant gratification of hauling something home with them. The swap meet was small this year, but full of everything from little goodies to restored cars and trucks.
Since we are on the clock at events, it's always nice to have the hospitality of vendors like PPG and Air Ride offered to cool our jets, not to mention the help of Tony from Air Ride to fix my rental, the Street Rodder '36 Ford Road Tour car! All in all, we had a great time and managed to bring back some fine features. Enjoy, and make plans to be there next spring; go to www.good-guys.com for the complete schedule.


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City of Glasgow College was formed in 2010 when Glasgow Metropolitan College, Central College and Glasgow College of Nautical Studies merged.
The college has two city centre campuses: the stunning City Campus at Cathedral Street, which opened in August 2016, and the Riverside Campus at Thistle Street, which opened in 2015. These new developments replaced a number of other smaller campuses.
The college offers over 500 courses, and is designed to accommodate up to 40,000 students.
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The college offers courses ranging from NC through to advanced courses at HND and degree level. The college works in partnership with a range of universities throughout the UK to provide opportunities for students to progress with their studies. It has specific links with Glasgow Caledonian and Edinburgh Napier universities, and the University of the West of Scotland.
Courses are taught through four faculties: Creative Industries; Education and Humanities; Hospitality and Leisure; and Nautical and STEM.
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The City Campus boasts modern facilities including: TV, radio and photography studios; commercial hair, beauty and nail salon; 16 professional cookery kitchens; modern IT facilities and libraries; training airline cabin; City Market (including fishmonger, baker and butcher) which is open to the public; and a business centre.
The award winning Riverside Campus is the most modern and most technologically advanced maritime campus in the world, and includes a 360-degree shipping simulation suite and state of the art nautical chart rooms. It has one of the few STEM Centres of Excellence in Scotland.
It is one of only four UK colleges recognised to deliver Merchant Navy Officer training up to Chief Engineer and Master Mariner level.
The college has cafes, coffee bars and restaurants throughout each of the campuses as well as the fitness suite, CitySport+ at the City Campus.
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text: Just Eat It: Chicken Salad By Stiff My inspiration for cooking can come from a variety of things. Sometimes I get inspired by having a dish from a restaurant that I've never had before and try to replicate it at home. Sometimes inspiration comes from recipes I may see on television. I mostly get inspired by the certain items I see in the grocery store or farmer's market. Sometimes I fail at the outcome of what I'm making and sometimes I succeed. I just like to try new things and expand my horizons when it comes to testing new ingredients or cooking methods. James, my fiancé is a great guinea pig. He will generally eat whatever I make and is honest about how the food tastes. Unlike James, I myself am much more critical about how my food turns out. Dill Chicken Salad 2 Skinless/boneless chicken breasts 2-3 Quarts of water 1/3 c. Dill weed 1/2 c. Red lettuce 1 Small shallot 1-1/2 T. Mayo Salt and Pepper to taste Serving Size 4 In a boiling pot, add water and chicken. Add salt and bring to boil and cook for about 25-30 minutes, depending on the size of the chicken breasts. Once cooked all the way through, pull out of pot and let cool completely for about an hour. While the chicken is cooling, shred 1/2 c. of red lettuce, chop 1/3 c. of dill weed and chop shallot. Once chicken has cooled, dice into small pieces and transfer into a large mixing bowl. Add all of the prepped ingredients to mixing bowl and mix thoroughly together until well combined. Add salt and pepper to taste. You can add more mayo if you like a creamier chicken salad. Eat alone or make a sandwich or add on top a bed of lettuce for a carb free lunch. Cook Time: 1:45 minutes (Stiff is an amateur home cook and food blogger. Stiff can be found at a grocery store, Instagram @stifferoni and Tumblr: http://stiffers.tumblr.com/.) Related TAM Blog Articles: Just Eat It: Beef Stroganoff With Orecchiette Just Eat It: Laotian Chicken Noodle Soup Just Eat It: Salsa Verde (Mild) Just Eat It: Asian Meatball Skewers Appetizer With Cilantro Lime Dressing Just Eat It: Sausage Gravy on Toast


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Study: Frequent fighters more likely to die in mid-life
Live like a combative TV reality star and you may die young.
People who are constantly at odds with their families, friends and neighbors are more likely to die in middle age, a big new study from Denmark finds.
The study provides some broad new evidence for what other researchers have found on a smaller scale: Too much arguing is bad for your health.
The Danish researchers, reporting Thursday in the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, also found that people who worry a lot about partners and children or say those family members "demand too much" have a higher risk of dying young.
The study is a reminder that while close relationships can confer health benefits, they also may come with health risks, says lead author Rikke Lund, a public health researcher at the University of Copenhagen. "That tends to be overlooked," she says.
Lund and colleagues asked nearly 10,000 men and women ages 36 to 52 how often they "experience conflict" with partners, children, other family members, friends and neighbors. They also asked about worries and demands in those relationships.
The researchers checked death records 11 years later and found that frequent fighters were two to three times more likely than their more peaceable peers to be dead already — even if their fights were mostly with neighbors, not friends or family. "That surprised me," Lund says.
Those who often worried about or felt pressured by kids and partners (but not other family members, friends or neighbors) also were more likely to have died..
The causes of death for the 4% of women and 6% of men who died were the usual for middle-age: most often cancer, followed by heart disease and stroke, liver disease, accidents and suicide.
The links between conflict and death held up even when the researchers accounted for factors including gender, social class, depressive symptoms and social support.
Still, the study does not prove arguing directly harms health. It is likely that certain personality traits, not measured in the study, contribute both to argumentative behavior and early death, says Carolyn Aldwin, a researcher who studies adult development and aging at Oregon State University. She was not involved with the new study.
"We've known for a long time that hostility has a big effect on cardiovascular disease and mortality," Aldwin says. Expressing hostility through frequent conflict may make things worse, she says, and the new study "makes a very strong case that all the stresses they talk about are linked with mortality."
Some other studies have shown that arguing can have direct, negative effects on the body, says Janice Kiecolt-Glaser, a professor of psychiatry and psychology at Ohio State University. She also was not involved in the report from Denmark. In one study, she and her colleagues inflicted small wounds on the arms of married couples and then had the couples either argue or have more pleasant conversations. The arms healed more slowly after the fights.
Inflammation, linked with diseases from cancer to heart disease, may be one important physiological link between stress in relationships and poor health, Kiecolt-Glaser says.
"There are also indirect, behavioral links," she says. "When we are stressed, we don't sleep as well, we have poorer diets. ... We tend to drink more and exercise less."
So could arguing less save your life?
"It seems from this study that it would be a good idea to reduce the amount of conflict in your life," Lund says. "But I'm not a therapist. I'm just looking at these statistical associations."


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Next Thursday night Forest Williams and Bryan Kennedy will be picking at the Backyard Boogie on Chat Holly Road. I want to warn all the pretty girls to take a step back. Suzanna James Lucas will make her Walton County debut. Ole Miss, home of pretty coeds, has already accepted our adorable grandbaby.
Occasionally you see a baby so ugly they�re cute, and that sums up the much-ballyhooed Simpson-Bowles proposal.
Until Paul Ryan�s acceptance speech, most Americans couldn�t tell Simpson-Bowles from salad bowls so here�s the CliffsNotes version. Simpson-Bowles proposed radically altering the U.S. Tax Code and, when combined with broad spending cuts, it would lead to a sustainable budget deficit. In a way, Simpson-Bowles, like previously mentioned ugly baby, was a little cute.
Simpson-Bowles found itself waylaid on the way to Congress. The Simpson-Bowles super-committee consisted of six Republicans, six Democrats and six policy wonks of various political persuasions.
Rules required a 14-vote super-majority before Congress would vote up or down with no amendments. Legend has it politics makes strange bedfellows, seven voted nay on passage, two liberal Democrats, one moderate, one union boss and three conservative Republicans. Paul Ryan voted against Simpson-Bowles then later criticized President Obama for Simpson-Bowles not passing. George Orwell, you nailed that one.
It wasn�t like Simpson-Bowles showed up like Moses with some inviolate rules � instead they proposed three different variants. Simpson-Bowles offered to eliminate tax expenditures except for the child credit and the earned income tax credit, eliminate the alternative minimum tax and the phase-outs of itemized deductions and personal exemptions, and replace the current six-bracket individual tax rate schedule with a three bracket schedule with rates of 9 percent, 15 percent, and 24 percent.
On the chopping block, in various forms, were home-mortgage interest deductions, employer sponsored health insurance and retirement savings preferences. Gasoline taxes would increase by 15 cents. Preferential treatment for dividends and capital gains would also end.
After it�s all said and done, taxes would increase along with much higher spending cuts, roughly two to one spending cuts versus tax increases. Medicare enrollees would face higher premiums/co-pays if the system had cost overruns. Simpson-Bowles also automatically triggers an increased Medicare eligibility age if costs continue to outstrip inflation.
Along with sharp domestic spending reductions like the obligatory dumping of Big Bird, Simpson-Bowles also included military spending cuts of particular interest to Northwest Florida. It eliminated the Osprey completely while the F-35 program was sliced by 50 percent. Importantly, it doubles the number of defense contractor positions eliminated.
I�m glad Simpson-Bowles got shot down. The spending cuts and tax increases would trigger a recession. Akin to the ugly baby, it encapsulates the problem facing America. We face painful, ugly but essential choices. Blaming politicians is simple, neat and wrong.
We want it all, we want it now and we want someone else to pay for it. Perhaps the magic fairy will wave her job-creator wand and, voila, our problems will vanish. Either we fix things or the bond market does it for us.
Buz Livingston, CFP offers hourly financial planning and fee-only investment management to clients along Florida�s Emerald Coast. He can be reached at 267-1068, email@example.com www.LivingstonFinancial.net.


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WASHINGTON – The Wizards close out preseason play this week against two of the NBA's elite in the Miami Heat and San Antonio Spurs.
Both games will air on WFED 1500 AM and stream online.
The Navy Midshipmen are also in action this week as they visit East Carolina University. The Baltimore Ravens are off this week for their annual bye.
- Wednesday, Oct. 24, 8:30 p.m. Wizards vs. Miami: The Wizards (2-4) face the defending NBA champion Miami Heat (4-2) Wednesday night from the Sprint Center in Kansas City.
This will be the first ever NBA contest played at the five-year-old arena in downtown KC. The Sprint Center hosted an NHL preseason game in September 2011.
- The Wizards will be seeking their second straight preseason win after Saturday's 102-94 triumph in Milwaukee. As always, WTOP sports director and morning anchor Dave Johnson will be on the call, alongside color analyst Glenn Consor.
- Friday, Oct. 26 8:30 p.m. Wizards @ San Antonio: The Wizards conclude preseason play Friday night against the two-time defending Southwest Division champion Spurs. San Antonio is 3-3 in preseason play, having won two of three games at the AT&T Center.
- Saturday, Oct. 27, 3:30 p.m. Navy at East Carolina: The Midshipmen (4-3) seek their season-high fourth straight win as they visit the East Carolina Pirates (5-3) at 3:30 p.m. in Greenville, NC. Pregame coverage begins with the Navy Coaches Show at 1:30 p.m. followed by the official Navy Pregame Show at 2:30 p.m. with Bob Socci, Pete Medhurst and Omar Nelson.
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The folks at Stage of Life asked me to pass along some information about the new features they've helped develop for the Gettysburg Foundation's "Friends of Gettysburg" website:
The website gives history buffs, Civil War enthusiasts, and those who care about the preservation of Gettysburg's Civil War significance a wide array of interactive features including:
- Photo sharing of ancestors who fought in the Civil War or a recent visit to Gettysburg.
- Essay sharing to upload Civil War stories passed down through the generations or an observation about the battlefield.
- Park ranger's preservation blog.
- Historical blog, "This Great Task Before Us" profiling Union and Confederate soldiers.
- Gettysburg Rewards, a perks program offering discounts around Gettysburg, PA.
- Registration for members-only events.
- Member announcements from the Rupp House.
- Online store to purchase Civil War apparel, books…
- And more.
The Gettysburg Foundation's Chief Development Officer, Jerry Moore, said, "Stage of Life delivered a totally unique experience for our members… we've received nothing but positive feedback."
Since its launch, the interactive website has hosted over 10,000 visitors.
Eric Thiegs, CEO of Stage of Life LLC, added, "We're honored our firm was selected to develop this project. It's a chance to help preserve our nation's history."
If you're not already a supporter of the Gettysburg Foundation, then these exclusive new website features should offer some added incentives. There are plenty of other perks, too, including free admission to visitor center programs, discounts at the park's bookstore as well as other Gettysburg establishments, and a subscription to the newsletter. It's a fine organization that does some very good work.