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Given that sportives tend to be long, all day stints in the saddle undertaken by folk finding their feet in the sport, the bikes they ride need to be fit for purpose.
In short, they need to be comfortable. To achieve this, manufacturers tend to relax the frame geometry by slackening the head and seat tube angles, and lengthen the head tube for a more upright position. Frames also tend to be less stiff for a more forgiving ride, while components (compact chainsets, larger cassettes) are chosen to help riders conquer any hill or mountain in the land without destroying themselves doing so. Below is a compilation of our favourites from the last year.
Trek Madone 3.5
£1,800 / $2,799
We found the Madone 3.5 hard to fault, it surprised and impressed us in equal
measure. With an incredibly smooth ride, impressive spec, and handling that's the
ideal blend of stability and sharpness this truly is a capable
all-rounder. Better still is the fact the 3.5 is fitted with mudguard mounts for a superb ride whatever the weather.
Read the full review of the Trek Madone 3.5 here
Focus Izalco Pro 3.0
£2,099.99 / $3,700
Cycling Plus's
Bike of the Year 2012, the Focus Izalco, has been around for a couple
of seasons and has seen action at the highest
levels of road racing, with the top-end Team model being ridden by
Katusha and now Acqua Sapone. On paper the Izalco certainly looks
impressive, as it does on the scales too, at 7.78kg (17.2lb) for a 58cm
size. But it's the performance out on the road that counts and
thankfully the Pro
3.0 doesn't disappoint, the Izalco
is truly exceptional for long hilly rides yet is at its best when you're
going as hard as you can. Overall it's a hugely impressive all-rounder
that combines great kit, light weight and superlative ride quality
Read the full review of the Focus Izalco Pro 3.0 here
Specialized Roubaix Comp
£1,999 / $2,499
Specialized Roubaix Comp strikes a great balance between comfort and
performance and as a result is an ideal all-day bike. The Roubaix's
super-plush ride is achieved by using Zertz shock absorbing inserts
combined well thought out geometry in its chassis. The Roubaix is no
slouch in the handling stakes either, with precise steering and zippy
acceleration. Where the Roubaix really excels though is its performance
over poor surfaces and its overall comfort. Riders who like
uncompromising, hard-riding road bikes may feel a little
'disconnected' from the road on the Roubaix, but most of our testers
were impressed by its feel and the performance.
Read the full review of the Specialized Roubaix Comp here
Van Nicholas Mistral Apex (+ wheel upgrade)
£1,749 / $2,773
Mistral's skinny titanium tubes, semi-sloping geometry and long wheelbase set it
out as a bike designed for big distances. The unusually narrow titanium tubes gives the Van Nicholas an
old-school feel that's as unique as it is welcome. It's blessed with a supple
smoothness that makes it a wonderful bike to ride over long distances,
especially when the route includes some tough climbs. If you're not a dedicated
racer, and sportives or big challenge rides are more your thing, then the
Mistral could well be the bike you've been looking for.
Read the full review of the Van Nicholas Mistral Apex here
Cube Agree GTC Race Review
£1,799 / $2,850
Cube Agree has always
been a firm favourite with our testers due to its combination of fast
excellent equipment and outstanding value. For 2012, it's undergone its
ever revamp, with a stiffer fork and fresh and intricate shaping of the
frames tubing being just two of the many big revisions. The results of
these changes are obvious, comfort over coarse surfaces is vastly
improved over the solidly Germanic outgoing Agree, and handling is a
slower. The finishing kit is among the best value around and the
overall finish is of the highest quality. Overall Cube's endurance bike
does things differently but with impressive results
Read the full review of the Cube Agree GTC Race here
Giant Defy 1
£999.99 / $1,275
Defy has been the dominant bike in the sub thousand pound category for
the past few years, yet with the all-new 2012 frameset this is now the
benchmark for alloy responsiveness and ride quality at this pricepoint. A
superb chassis creates a responsive but flowing ride backed up by
balanced handling and excellent components for the money. It's this ride
quality that really makes the Giant stand out from its peers, this is
simply the best riding bike we know of for this price. Finishing
touches like Defy-specific close-clearance mudguards and an aftermarket
seat collar that includes rack mounts complete a superbly designed
Read the full review of the Giant Defy 1 here
Rose Xeon RS3100 review
£1,996.65 / $3,152
direct sales model has allowed them to offer a lightweight race bike
with the latest electronic shifting
from Shimano and a smattering of high quality finishing kit. All of this
less than £2,000 and that's a price that high street brands just can't
match. The chassis is stiff enough for rock solid response to pedal
inputs yet ultra-skinny
seatstays, topped with a carbon seatpost allow for great isolation from
road surface vibrations. Overall the Xeon offers a superb level of
equipment on a lively and responsive aluminium frame, a top value
Read the full review of the Rose Xeon RS3100 here
Boardman Team Carbon
£1,499.99 / $1,799.99
The Boardman Team Carbon is a bike with a class-leading specification and a ride to match. Everything about this bike, from the quality of the frame to the level
of components and its sheer ride ability, would have us believe this was
a machine with a pricetag of hundreds more than £1,499. There are sharper handling options out there – the Team Carbon doesn't
excel at fast direction changes or hustling through the tight stuff –
but for an all-rounder with an emphasis on big rides, it's hard to beat.
Read the full review of the Boardman Team Carbon here
Ribble Sportive 7005
£608.90 / $963
The Sportive 7005 from Ribble is, as the name suggests – a sportive specific model. Coming in at just over the £600 mark this is an affordable entry into sportive competition with very good all-round performance and a kit spec that's hard to beat. The Sportive balances the needs of comfort and performance well, the
quite modest frame is decked with some very good kit, and it's good to
see a carbon fork. Overall this is a fine Sportive choice but we think it would also make an ideal first road bike.
Read the full review of the Ribble Sportive 7005 here
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The U.S. Supreme Court will take a look at Michigan's ban on affirmative action, it was announced today.
The court is already looking at the issue of race in university admissions in case out of Texas. Court watchers say the court could issue a ruling in that case this spring and still hear the Michigan case in the fall, depending on what the ruling is.
Carl Tobias, a professor at the University of Richmond School of Law, said since the justices haven't ruled yet on the Texas case, the decision Monday could indicate the court is looking to the Michigan case to consider an even broader ruling.
"This could be a much broader ruling if the court were to decide that the (Michigan) ban was constitutional," Tobias said. If such an admissions policy a ban were found constitutional, he said, "It would change the landscape substantially."
Advocates on both sides of the Michigan case had expected the Supreme Court to become involved in the issue. It's not the first time the high court has ruled on the issue of race in Michigan – it issued opinions nearly a decade ago on the use of race in admissions at the University of Michigan.
The court will be hearing an appeal of a decision by a federal appeals court handed down in November, which threw out Michigan's voter-approved ban on affirmative action.
November's ruling focused on university admissions, although the ballot initiative approved by Michigan voters in 2006 also banned the use of affirmative action in government contracting and hiring. Lawyers said the federal appeals court opinion only struck down what some consider the most significant piece, dealing with university admissions.
Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette filed the appeal with U.S. Supreme Court.
"The Michigan Constitution exemplifies the fundamental premise of what America is all about: equal opportunity under the law for all citizens," said Schuette in a press release. "Entrance to our great colleges and universities must be based upon merit, and I remain optimistic moving forward in our fight for equality, fairness and rule of law at our nation's highest court."
The case centers on Proposal 2, called the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative.
The appeals court said the state ban on affirmative action violated the equal protection clause of the U.S. Constitution by making it more difficult for a minority student to get a university to adopt a race-conscious admissions policy than for a white student to get a university to adopt an admissions policy that considers family alumni connections.
"Ensuring a fair political process is nowhere more important than in education," the court said.
"We weren't quite sure what to expect," from Supreme Court, said ACLU of Michigan attorney Mark Fancher. "We're hopeful they will reach the same decision that the Court of Appeals reached."
The ballot initiative was pushed by Jennifer Gratz, who was denied admission to the University of Michigan and sued, and by Ward Connerly, a former University of California regent who backed a similar voter initiative in that state.
Michigan voters approved the ban, 58%-42%.
Nearly 10 years ago, U-M was involved in a landmark Supreme Court ruling governing race and universities in two companion lawsuits, one filed by Gratz and others over undergraduate admissions policies. The high court upheld the U-M Law School's use of race as a consideration in admissions, as long as there were no quotas attached, but threw out the undergraduate admissions system that awarded extra points to African-American, Hispanic and Native American students.
It was considered a win for U-M, despite the ruling on undergraduate admissions.
Proposal 2 erased U-M's court victory by banning the state's universities and other public institutions from considering an applicant's minority status or gender in their admissions or hiring processes.
"The Michigan Civil Rights Initiative was backed by 58% of the Michigan electorate and simply states that public institutions cannot grant preferential treatment to any group or individual on the basis of race. The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the will of the people last November," Gratz said in a press release "The court erred when it declared equality unconstitutional. We believe the U.S. Supreme Court is poised to overturn the Sixth Circuit's decision."
The 74-page appeals court ruling from November included five separate dissents, some of which included sharply worded criticism of the majority opinion.
"Proposal 2 prohibits discrimination not just on the basis of race but also on the basis of sex, ethnicity and national origin," Judge Jeffrey Sutton said in one of the dissenting opinions. "To the extent it disadvantages anyone, it disadvantages groups that together account for a majority of Michigan's population, not this or that racial minority."
In the Texas case, the justices are looking at a program used to help fill the last quarter or so of the university's incoming freshman classes. Race is one of many factors considered by admissions officers. The rest of the roughly 7,100 freshman spots automatically go to Texans who graduated in the top 8% of their high school classes.
A white Texan, Abigail Fisher, sued the university after she was denied a spot in 2008.
The challengers to the Texas affirmative action plan say they believe the university already has produced significant diversity by automatically offering about three-quarters of its spots to the top high school graduates, under state law. They say additional affirmative action isn't needed.
In August, U-M joined with other public research institutions in filing an amicus brief in the Fisher v. Texas case.
George Washington, the attorney for the lead defendant, said he hopes to see the Supreme Court use this case to set law across the nation.
"We think the Sixth Circuit decision needs to be extended to the entire country," he said.
He thinks this case signals the court will not overturn the use of affirmative action in the Texas case, but rather use both cases to clarify how it may be used.

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Staten Island, New York
Founded in 1913, St. Mary of the Assumption+Our Lady of Mount Carmel+St. Benedicta Parish is situated on the North Shore of Staten Island, N.Y. The parish was originally constructed by the Trinitarian Fathers to care for the Italian immigrants who were arriving to the area in large numbers at the time. Today, the church has been under the care of the Jesuits since 2006, and Mass is conducted in English as well as in Spanish for the increasing population of Hispanic parishioners in the area.
Initially, Our Lady of Mount Carmel began in an old livery stable owned by a dentist, who had offered the premises to the church rent-free for a period of eight months in exchange for prayers. In the meantime, across the street, an old Laundromat was renovated and would become the first church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. This church served the congregation for 53 years until a fire in 1966.
The parish saw many changes in the years that followed. A nearby church, St. Benedicta, was demolished, but the name of St Benedicta was not lost. A new parish was created, which united Our Lady of Mount Carmel with St. Benedicta. The new parish was named Our Lady of Mount Carmel-St. Benedicta, and the new church was consecrated and dedicated in 1970.
In 2005, The Trinitarian Fathers returned administration of the parish back to the archdiocese. The following year, the Jesuits assumed responsibility of the church, which was nearby to St. Mary of the Assumption, a parish where the Jesuits were already ministering. The two parishes share many similarities, but each has retained their distinctive identity and both are cared for by the same Jesuit priests.
On Aug. 1, 2015, the Jesuit parishes on Staten Island, N.Y., consolidated to form one, unified parish, as the result of a lengthy planning process that began in 2011. The parish is now known as St. Mary of the Assumption+Our Lady of Mount Carmel+St. Benedicta Parish.


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UnNews:Rabbi calls for 'laughing fit' on Mahmoud Abbas
This article is part of UnNews, your source for up-to-the-microsecond misinformation.
30 August 2010
ISRAEL -- A senior rabbi from Uncyclopedia who also works within Israel's Ministry of Mirth has called for Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas to "have a laughing fit". RabbiTechno, a spiritual leader (Admin) of Uncyclopedia, spoke out as Middle East talks are poised to begin in Washington.
The United States condemned the remarks as "tasteless and inappropriate". The joke on Mr. Abbas, delivered in the rabbi's weekly sermon, also prompted chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat to condemn the remarks as "an incitement to parody of a serious situation which should not be joked about".
Mr. Erakat urged the Israeli government "to do more to further boredom and stop spreading hilarity", the AFP news agency reported.
RabbiTechno also expressed the wish that "all the nasty people who hate Israel and Uncyclopedia, like Abbas, should have their putz fall off".
He went on to say: "May God bless him with a sense of humor along with all the Palestinians who vandalize and blank so many good articles on Uncyclopedia."
On Arabs, RabbiTechno said: "It is useless to be serious with them. You must send jokes and parodies to them - tell them "Kennedy assassination jokes" - and try to make them laugh. Otherwise they are base and dull, without sense of humour."
US President Barack Obama hopes to bring the world's Arab-Israeli leaders together on Thursday for the first face-to-face quarrel since December 2008, when the Palestinians broke off quarreling over Uncyclopedia's offensive parody on the Gaza Strip Club.
The US response to RabbiTecho was swift.
In a statement, US State Department spokesman Philip Crowley said: "We regret and condemn the absurd and silly statements by RabbiTechno. These remarks are not only pure nonsense, but incitement misunderstandings that hurt the cause of boring sobriety."
Mr. Netanyahu's office issued a statement saying that RabbiTechno's comments "do not reflect the views of Benjamin Netanyahu or of his mistresses – but are funny just the same."
Meanwhile, Mr. Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, said on Sunday that Uncyclopedia and Israel's policy of humorous parodies could undermine the new round of boring peace talks. "Israel and Uncyclopedia will be held accountable for the failure of the talks if parodies should continue," Mr. Abbas said in a speech delivered in Jordan, "The negotiations need to bring about serious action that will be able to bring sobriety and boredom."
Mr. Abbas said Palestinians understood Israel's need for absurd and light-hearted humor, but said that need should not be an "excuse to expand and continue Uncyclopedia".
In the statement responding to RabbiTechno's remarks, Mr. Netanyahu's office said Israel now intended to parody Washington, and RabbiTechno was the best person for the task. Analysts say expectations for the latest round of quarrels are low, with the Uncyclopedia issue just one of a number of area of possible agreement.
- Staff "Israel rabbi calls for 'plague' on Mahmoud Abbas". BBC, August 30, 2010


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Al-Kafaat: Giving People with Special Needs the Ability to Live
"Meen hayda?" Sara asked her educator, her finger pointed at me. Sara was sitting in the shade, shielding herself from the morning sun's rays that were beating down on the courtyard of Al-Kafaat's Lily Shwayri Center. "Ask him (Iss'alee)," the educator told Sara with a smile."
Sara turned her head towards me and smiled. She was just playing games. Her sense of humor, however, was far more sophisticated than that of any other 11-year-old I had ever met. "Shou ismak (what's your name)?" Sara asked me, her eyes slightly peaking over her glasses. "Andrew," I replied, failing to hold back the smile that had now taken over my face. "Wa shou ismeek intee, mad moiselle?" I had hardly been in Lebanon for a month and the Lebanese were already rubbing off on me. "Sara," she answered coyly.
I was delighted to meet Sara – but after I learned more about her story, my naïve delight was turned into genuine humility.
Sara came to Al-Kafaat in 2004 at the age of three. She has developmental issues that are sometimes exacerbated by severe epilepsy. She also has a weak visual field, as she also suffers from cataracts. As a result, her communication abilities were limited; before coming to Al-Kafaat, Sara could only answer questions with a simple "yes" or "no".
But at Al-Kafaat foundation, a team of specialists – speech therapists and physiotherapists – assumed responsibility for Sara's development. Over a short period of time, her situation improved dramatically, and her communication skills transcended the barriers created by her vision and developmental impairments.
Today, Sara understands long and complex sentences, and is able to have meaningful conversations. In addition, Sara now walks on her own initiative with the help of a walker, and no longer uses a wheelchair.
After learning about Sara, I understood why she was so engaging and why she seemed so excited to speak with me. Sara is simply able to do now what she could barely dream of accomplishing a year ago, and she is anxious to showcase her achievements.
Sara's story is Al-Kafaat.
Founded in 1957 by Nadim Shwayri, a wealthy and devout Antiochian Orthodox Christian man who chose to give a pragmatic meaning to his faith, Al-Kafaat is a private, nonprofit and nondenominational organization that delivers its education and rehabilitation services across seven
different campuses in Lebanon. Al-Kafaat has successfully rehabilitated over 27,000 people with a variety of challenges and difficulties.
Walking around any one of Al-Kafaat's seven Centers, you will find dozens of dedicated men and women from all religious backgrounds working tirelessly to improve the standard of living for people with special needs. Smiles on their faces, each and every one of Al-Kafaat's employees forges a special relationship with the children and adults that they work with. Whether they are helping five-year-olds with several challenges and digestion problems eat their lunches, singing songs with a classroom full of ten-year-olds with speech difficulties, or stamping papers with adolescents who can only use their heads because of severe cerebral palsy, Al-Kafaat's employees challenge the pervasive stigma that pollutes the public's opinion of people with special needs. Here, people's socalled disabilities are not considered obstacles. Rather, Al-Kafaat believes that there is an unrealized ability behind each person's "disability" and provides an outlet for its beneficiaries to realize their potential: "Al-Kafaàt" in Arabic means "Abilities" in English.
The Foundation's religious diversity also challenges religious intolerance and the idea that Christians and Muslims are fundamentally at odds with each other. In a much tormented country – and region –Al-Kafaat is a force of change across Lebanon's complicated sectarian spectrum, encouraging all Lebanese to treat people with special needs as human beings with unique qualities, talents, and abilities rather than as burdens.
When spending time at Al-Kafaat, it is impossible to feel anything but happiness. Everywhere you look, children and young adults with special needs are either busy working on new projects – including paper mache stationary, intricate ceramics, and making dozens of kilos of fresh cheese – or are effortlessly enjoying the company and love of their peers and educators, learning how to read, write, and lead productive and
fulfilled lives. Al-Kafaat's students cannot help but share their happiness with those around them, and frequently give hugs and high-fives to everyone that they meet. It was all that I could do to resist the temptation to spend the rest of my time in Lebanon inside the Center's walls, learning valuable lessons about love, patience, and community from Al-Kafaat's students.
Today, under the Patronage of Metropolitan Philip and the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese in North America, Al-Kafaat is raising funds across North America to build a new compound in one of its existing centers, the Village Center. At the conclusion of this initiative, Al-Kafaat looks forward to welcoming 650 new children and adults with cerebral palsy, mental challenges, and autism in 2012. In May 2010, I had the personal privilege of participating in a fundraiser dinner on behalf of the Archdiocese and Al-Kafaat, during which Nadim Shwayri was awarded the Antonian Gold Medal from Metropolitan Philip. During my recent stay in Lebanon, I seized the opportunity to visit the project myself. It is a beautiful complex, and boasts a state-of-the-art architecture that is designed to provide the best care and sheltered employment to children and adults with special needs.
The foundation's robust history is firmly intertwined with Lebanon's complicated and violent past, present, and future. Despite seemingly insurmountable political and social obstacles, Al-Kafaat has kept on delivering the same quality of services throughout periods of economic strife, civil war, and political instability. Although Lebanon's tragic 15-year civil war ended more than 20 years ago, Al-Kafaat still plays the role of a government – if seldom in order – that sadly does not deliver proper civil services to its citizens.
The Ministry of Social Affairs is hardly active and has been bogged down by internecine political rivalries and corruption for decades. As a result, social welfare services are all but ignored by the government. Non-governmental actors are left with the enormous responsibility of independently caring for Lebanon's disenfranchised communities. Basically, if Sara was not able to get the free rehabilitation delivered to her at Al-Kafaat, she wouldn't have been able to get it free of charge from anywhere else. And while the Ministry partially subsidizes these services at Al-Kafaat, the subsidies represent a mere fraction of Al-Kafaat's costs, and are seldom paid on time.
It was outrageous for me to learn that the Ministry has sporadically paid its dues since April 2010, in total disregard of its contracts with the various active organizations. It is within this context that Al-Kafaàt has also become a vocal advocate for the less privileged and actively uses the media to bring attention to the situation. During my last few weeks in Beirut, I saw the Al-Kafaat CEO, team, and children express anger with the Lebanese government on numerous occasions through television talk shows and various news outlets, which concluded with a major demonstration to bring the matter to the attention of Lebanon's politicians.
Al-Kafaat's work is thus not only vital; more than setting an impeccable example for all other non-governmental agencies to follow, it urges the Lebanese government to maintain a meaningful commitment to the welfare of people with special needs. Al-Kafaat's work continues despite an irresponsible government and overwhelming social stigmas that exist against people with special needs. Al-Kafaat's mission is embraced by a team of 15 volunteering trustees and shared with 830 employees, all caring for 4,500 daily beneficiaries and fighting for the many numerous underprivileged Lebanese whose voices are unheard.
What happens at Al-Kafaat is nothing short of miraculous. Personally, it makes me hopeful for Lebanon's future, and for the future of the broader Middle East. Having taken on a truly selfless attitude, the Foundation and its trustees represent Christianity in its purest form, and prove that there is no greater labor than the labor of love.
To learn more about the project and to donate online, visit the website www.alkafaatusa.org.


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Do that dance. Do that Dance You special girl, don't leave me baby To find another just like you won't be easy baby So, at least I know where the ones at Baby just promise me if you go that you'll come back Look I ought to be thankful with women I have plenty of luck And when it comes to relationships, many is stuck Look at fifty you make love, thirty you have sex Somewhere around the tender age of twenty you fuck Or maybe before, I'm here waiting to score It's long gone like brother's having a tape in their car Instead these girls taking it raw Now they tell you to do whatever you want because it's safe to explore Forget, wait till it's right, now it's wait till it's more Wait till he get gets a deal girl, wait till the tour So they dance to attract me, advance and attack me To the point that Drake compare me to Anthony Mackie But once they have my pants and my khakis I tell them I'm not one for commitment and romancing exactly Because, I hate waking up undressed with a dame And guessing her name, I hope this shit is destined to change [Hook: Drake] (x2) I don't get it, it's like my fairy was sick It's like I meet the perfect girl, and she put me through some various shit It's something that I can rarely predict All I know is that I can never find the love that Tyler Perry depict I'm guessing maybe Shemar Moore isn't really all pure Maybe I lie to myself and it's like a small cure I tell it all to her I gotta feeling this feeling inside is something it's like and can't be all sure Because really, What is a window without a car door?
Why I can't settle for one instead of all four?
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|March 11, 2013, 01:01 PM
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Aggravating day of shooting!
Finally was able to find some 9mm to overpay for just in time for an annual trip with friends where we do a bunch of shooting in the woods.
We set up small course runs so we could use less ammo. One particular course of fire only had 6 targets. 2 shooting cubes from about 5 yards, a mandatory reload and move to a station with 4 hanging bowling pins from about 15 yards away. I was only loading about 5 rounds in the first mag and 10 in the second mag. I shot my FNP-9 EMPTY SEVERAL TIMES while missing the stupid bowling pins !!! Admittedly the pistol is pretty new to me ( second time owner ), but I'm better than that. A couple misses here and there due to going too fast wouldn't have been so bad, but I purposely slowed myself way down and still would completely miss several shots in a row!
I was so angry that I just tried to convince myself that I was too tired or something. I picked up my Buckmark and ran the same course twice in a row with only 1 miss and shooting as fast as the sights lined up. That only made things worse.
Someone convince me not to immediately trade out of that FNP-9!!!! I have shot it and done just fine at the range, but I've never been so disgusted with a shooting performance as I was this weekend.
|March 11, 2013, 01:13 PM
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Yeah, . . . but hey, Pedro, . . . you didn't have to put up with the boss, . . . no traffic freeway frolic, . . . no timecards, . . .
A bad day shooting, hunting, or fishing, . . . still beats the best day at work
May God bless,
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If you can read, . . . thank a teacher!
If you are reading this in English, . . . thank a Veteran!
|March 11, 2013, 01:42 PM
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True, but this was the weekend and that's MY TIME. I used up my free time and costly ammo on misses! I'm certainly not a world class shooter, but missing without understanding why is pretty rare for me. It knocked me down a couple pegs on the old confidence meter.
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Sounds like it's time to go back to shooting paper for a bit to see what's wrong. Could be your gun is shooting to a different sight picture that you're using. (among other possibilities)
I've been enjoying a partial implementation of the Dot Torture Drill.
I put up a Post-It note or 3 then step back 3 paces. Getting all the shots on a post-it, even at that close range is surprisingly difficult - even slow fire.
If it's too easy, just step back 2 more paces.
|March 11, 2013, 03:19 PM
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Shooting a 9 mm and a .22 LR are at times two seperate worlds. Also the way it sounds I am guessing that you have not been shooting as much as of late due to lack of ammo. There are probably more reasons than that, and we all have them.
Shooting is a very perrishable skill. Lots more practice with the gun in question sounds like it would be of great benifit as well.
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|March 13, 2013, 02:12 PM
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Don't rule out the possibility that the importance of the day to you, and the cost of the ammo, were messing with your mind, even if you did not realize it. The .22 ammo was cheap so you didn't care and did well. I know this may sound like a lame excuse, but personally, the only 2 things that keep me from shooting more often than I do are time and money, and it sounds like you may have had that in the back of your mind and it threw you off.
|March 13, 2013, 02:57 PM
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Some Advice
Skiing (one of my favorites)..............If your not falling your not trying
Football.........................................A missed block is the one you remember
Tennis...........................................Even The williams sisters fault
My point being that you should miss occasionally and if you are not missing you are not pushing yourself. I believe that if you don't push yourself you will never really improve.
Just something to think on.
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|March 14, 2013, 02:50 PM
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you ever hear the saying that shooting is mostly a mental game? well it is. If your going to agonize over missing shots your going to have problems with your shooting.
You hit on a pet peeve of mine when it comes to dealing with some of my students.
i HATE it when the shake their head and beat themselves up for missing or not coming up to the standard the rest of their class is shooting at. Its a very poor habit to get yourself into. The round is gone - get over it and work things through. you cant unring a bell and you cant change where your bullet went.
a negative attitude doesn't help a damn thing. I brief students all the time - if your screwing up and cant seem to get into the groove - holster and step away from my firing line - i don't want you shooting without your head in the right place - ammo is too expensive these days.
I shoot against a couple well known gunfighters all the time and we occasionally make friendly wagers and I win against them more often than not because both of them have the same head problem - I bet after they miss - because i know both of them have a tendency to dwell on misses especially when they are trying too hard.
If you get to a point where your not having fun - quit till you get your head on straight. Right now im teaching advance marksmanship to a crew overseas and they all know my peculiar range command sequence:
Izra'ahat - relax
Pepkanan - smile
Hazir - ready
Taka - Fire
I started this because they took their shooting waaaaay to seriously and hated missing to the point of making it personal.
lighten up have fun, think your problem through - know your fundamentals and know how to diagnose your shot group.
Dwight55 has it right - a bad day at the range is always a better than a good day at work
hmmmmm that wont work for me - I shoot for a living :-)
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|March 15, 2013, 01:24 AM
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When I would shoot trap a miss would upset me to the point that I would miss
more. I learned to relax and accept the lost bird and my shooting got better.
you can't worry about the miss and concentrate on your next shot and don't blame the gun. As I got better the gun didn't. Just practice and enjoy it is okay to miss if you can learn from it.
|March 15, 2013, 08:53 AM
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From my experience if you set your sights for target range practice, the setting is non-effective when shooting tactical.
I would put up some larger targets to see if you are shooting hi,low, left, or right more often and adjust the sights accordingly.
Worked for me, just had to compensate at the range where i still shoot.
Seems that sight picture is different for me on the move than standing still.
Furthermore are you on foot or machine? what stance do you use?
The weaver is fine for just target practice but the isosceles stance is better for movement and moving target. Good luck!
|March 15, 2013, 12:43 PM
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Great replies fellas! I have to admit that I was still angry when I posted this and I am not actually thinking about getting rid of my FNP-9 ( unless someone wants to trade it for an STI in 9mm ). I pressured myself a lot and ended up doing worse for it, which is rare for me, but I was trying to show off and it worked against me. Normally at the range I'm very relaxed and quickly diagnose problems if there are any.
I also think that I realized that the sights were part of my issue. I blacked out the rears and painted the front so that I can actually get some contrast for my eyes to pick up on. The low sights mixed with the glare of the sun off of the top of the slide in broad daylight made focusing on the sights extremely difficult.
As much as I consider myself a somewhat seasoned and skilled pistol shooter, I think there was still some great tips in here that I can learn from, so I appreciate it.
|March 15, 2013, 12:51 PM
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I don't blame you for being frustrated. Misses are even worse when the ammo was expensive. Still, a bad day shooting beats a good day at work, doesn't it?
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Oh, I think you are on the right track here. You need to sell that FNP-9 off now. And since you have already proven there is a problem with it, I will give you $50.00 for it. ;-)
The cost of ammo seems to bother you a bit, maybe you were thinking more about that than shooting? Anyway, everyone gets a bad day sometimes. It's what you learn from it or do differently next time that matters.
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|March 16, 2013, 02:40 AM
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If the price of the ammo is part of your aggravation perhaps reloading could be in your future. It is a very relaxing hobby that can give you a sense of accomplishment and you end up with a usable product.
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Start with bowling balls (lot of alleys will sell broken/bad ones for dirt cheap) and then graduate to pins. Tie them up with basketball nets. Pins are really discouraging to the average shooter, they look alot easier to hit than they are, and the shape throws one off. I've found balls to be alot better, just don't stand too close, they have a tendency to splinter like big suckers lol.
|March 17, 2013, 08:23 PM
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Some days you need to put up the pistol. Kick back with your favorite beverage and forget about the issue.
The other thing is you need to rewind the shots you made and figure out what you did right. Focusing on the things you did wrong will frustrate you and soon you will start getting worse without improvement.
The top bulls eye shooters maintain a log. They chart each shot and analyse it. When they get in a slump they go back and review the log to help diagnosis what is going on.
It is kind of like driving through a hazard area. If you focus your attention on the hazard you will hit it. If you focus on the path to avoid the hazard you will not be involved in the accident.
|March 18, 2013, 02:35 AM
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Is shooting meant to be work, or another escape from the rat race and the holy, high altar of high-tech with its frustrations (for some of us)?
At least you know how to use a handgun.
Today was my first day out of about four (over two years), to barely begin to learn how to hit on or near tiny targets from 120 yards with my Yugo Mauser's iron sights.
Any gun training or fun might be viewed as progress.
I still dislike the tiny notch in the Mauser's rear leaf, and lack of any rear aperture, but being able to destroy a small concrete target can make it worthwhile.
But unlike the case with so many young guys, it's not meant to impress other people (or this middle-aged guy). The goal is to have fun and
forget modern life etc.
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Glenn Kessler, the resident fact checker at The Washington Post, took Republican Presidential nominee Mitt Romney to task last month for continuing to accuse President Obama of going on an "apology tour," writing with clear exasperation: "Despite earning Four Pinocchios for months, Romney keeps saying this."
Kessler's lament neatly sums up the problem of post-truth politics, a problem that has plagued the political press throughout the campaign, as pants-on-fire falsehoods accusing Obama of ending welfare work requirements, and four Pinnochio fabrications about Medicare funding were repeated on a loop en route to a Republican National convention built on the "you didn't build that" lie and focusing on Paul Ryan's fact-free convention speech.
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More important for media professionals: What do you do when people employed by your own media outlet practice post-truth journalism? What if the entire news media, including your own in-house fact-checker, has called out your colleague's lie, but he keeps pressing it? Now what?
Washington Post columnist Marc Thiessen, a former speechwriter for President George W. Bush, came under fire this week over a self-evidently false attack in the Post questioning President Obama's commitment to national security.
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Thiessen's self-evident falsehood, published in the Post, became fodder for a Karl Rove ad, at which point Kessler weighed in, giving the "bogus" and "misguided attack" three Pinnochios.
Thiessen quickly thumbed his nose at the Post's fact checker
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The area known as the German Settlement is west of the "Old Plywood Plant" located on County Road T and west of the Skyline Store on Road T.5. both west of Highway 145.
Mrs. Agnes Langhamp Lupke
March 10, 1934
I was born July 16, 1860, near Oenabruck in the province of Hanover, Germany. When I was twenty-two years of age, I came to the United States in 1882 shortly after my father's death. I had relatives in Cincinnati where there was a German settlement, and there I worked for a long time as a servant girl and learned the language. I had a hard time doing that at first, but being among my own people, many of whom I had known in the old country, made it easier.
I had known Fred and Henry Lupke in Germany. They came to the United States in 1878. Before coming to Montezuma County two years before I arrived, they had spent two years in Minnesota. Each of them took up a homestead in the country south and west of the Big Bend, and they freighted from Durango to Rico and brought in supplies also to the Big Bend. In 1888, Fred Lupke sent me money to come out to Colorado to marry him. In a way, I was not coming to an entirely strange country, for my friends, the Roelkers, had already been here for six months. The Osterfelds came with me and the Abelns a month later. We had known each other in Germany, and we were all good friends together in the new settlement near Big Bend. There was never any trouble, and on Sundays we would get together and have coffee and cakes and something to drink just as we had in Germany.
When I started from Cincinnati, I had the rheumatism so bad that I had to crawl on my hands and knees to get a drink of water on the train. But by the time I reached Durango, it left me. Mr. Lupke met me there with a team and a buggy he had hired from a liveryman in Cortez. He was to pay two dollars a day for the buggy. But when we got back and he found it was a wedding journey, the livery stable proprietor wanted to charge Mr. Lupke twenty-five dollars, which was more than twice the price agreed upon. There was almost a shooting over it.
Almost everyone had big houses here then. But Mr. Lupke had hauled lumber from a mill near Mancos and built a frame house on his claim. There were many deer in the country then. I often saw them and once a band of twenty-two went by our place. A man was hunting near us, and a frightened deer ran into the chicken house. There were many cattle running wild. And once when I went for our cows, I saw an animal I have since learned was a lynx.
The Hartmans for whom Hartman Draw is named lived about a quarter of a mile from us. Lillian Hartman Johnson married a lawyer, Charles Johnson, of Durango. And a brother of Lillian, Frank Hartman, edits a paper in Aztec, New Mexico.
The Big Bend was our nearest town. Only the Morton place still stands there now. But then Harris Brothers had a store there, and Mr. Ordway had the post office. I used to walk and carry my butter and eggs to sell at Harris' store. Sometimes they would bring fifty or sixty cents a dozen in winters. Flour had to be brought by packhorse from Durango in the winters then. People would go by wagon to Rico to sell their corn and fat hogs and vegetables and bring back a load of different supplies. Mr. Lupke crossed the Dolores as many as twenty-five times freighting to Rico. The Germans peddled vegetables in Big Bend, later in Dolores, and in Cortez, too. Rico was by far the liveliest place hereabouts.
When we had been married seven years, Fred Lupke died. A team of mules had run away with him while he was working at Animas City before he came to Montezuma Valley, and he fell under the rake. That caused his illness, which developed years later so that he was very bad a year and a half before he died. He had to be lifted about, and we took him to the hospital at Durango for a while. That was after the trains came to Dolores. But the nearest doctor was at Rico or Durango, whichever is the nearer. There were no telephones; so you had to send a messenger to bring back the doctor, and it cost $30 a trip the few times we had him for Mr. Lupke. When he was gone, I was left with my little children.
A kind neighbor used to stay with the children while I went to town with my team and wagon to sell vegetables. I had to work very hard, but I made out to get along. There were many bachelors about, and women were scarce. Eventually, I married Mr. Lupke's brother, Henry, and we moved over to his homestead, a part of which we still own and live on. Both my husbands worked with scoops and teams building the ditches for the irrigation system here.
The children went to school two and a half miles away at the old German school house that later burned down. The German families built this school for their children. They had three months of school there in the summer time, and there would be perhaps twenty-four or twenty-five children. Once there were thirty-six children. The Osterfeld, Pomroy, and Abeln children were among those who went there. Mrs. Morton from Big Bend was the first teacher. I boarded seventeen teachers myself, in the course of the years. Back in those early days, Louise Ordway, now Mrs. Harry Pyle, came out on a bicycle to teach at the German school.
The priest from Durango would come over two or three times a year and say mass around in the various houses of the German settlement. Sometimes the children would walk five or six miles over to what is now the Kaylor place to receive religious instruction. The priest would stay at Wedell's or Osterfeld's each year for a while and instruct in religion. The children knew something about it then, too.
We amused ourselves mostly with hard work in the German settlement. We liked to see who could grow the best of everything and do everything the best way. We had great pride in what we did and in our homes. Sundays we got together at the home of one of us and had coffee and cakes and had a nice, quiet, friendly time. Among us, it was just like Germany.
Hartman Draw separates the German Settlement area. The Centennial Orchard of George and Elizabeth Osterfeld is located on Road T.5. The school house built by Frank Roelker and Henry Ablen may have been on the Henry and Agnes Lupke place on Road T. Both Henry and Frederick Lupke owned properties at the end of Road T. The Frank Roelker and the George Osterfeld properties are the homes of the great grandchildren of the families who came from Germany to make their homes. The Frank and Regina Roelker property is located on Road T. Without the help of the descendants of these families, my research of their community would have been more difficult. The photographs are courtesy Kelly McCabe, great grandson of Agnes and Henry Lupke.
June Head is Historian for the Montezuma County Historical Society and can be reached for comments, questions or corrections at (970) 565-3880.


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TO PHOEBE HESKETH: On how sorrow seems to isolate; and on how hard it is to forgive. Lewis reveals that Joy's physician had failed to diagnose her cancer at a stage when it could have been treated successfully.
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The most mischievous—and painful—by-product of any sorrow is the illusion that it isolates one, that one is kicked out alone for this from an otherwise cheerful, bustling, 'normal' world. How much better to realise that one is just doing one's turn in the line like all the rest of the ragged and tired human regiment!
Yours is a very terrible bit of it. But I'd sooner be you...than the doctor (one of the closest friends) who could and should have diagnosed Joy's trouble when she went to him about the symptoms years ago before we were married. The real trouble about the duty of forgiveness is that you do it with all your might on Monday and then find on Wednesday that it hasn't stayed put and all has to be done over again.
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Closely associated for the last decade with the black civil rights movement, Miss Jackson was chosen to sing at the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s March on Washington rally at the Lincoln Memorial in 1963.
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got a dream" speech.
The song, which Dr. King had requested, came as much from Miss Jackson's heart as from her vocal cords. The granddaughter of a slave, she had struggled for years for fulfillment and for unprejudiced recognition of her talent.
She received the latter only belatedly with a Carnegie Hall debut in 1950. Her following, therefore, was largely in the black community, in the churches and among record collectors.
Although Miss Jackson's medium was the sacred song drawn from the Bible or inspired by it, the words--and the "soul" style in which they were delivered--became metaphors of black protest, Tony Heilbut, author of "The Gospel Sound"
and her biographer, said yesterday. Among blacks, he went on, her favorites were "Move On Up a Little Higher," "Just Over the Hill" and "How I Got Over."
Singing these and other songs to black audiences, Miss Jackson was a woman on fire, whose combs flew out of her hair as she performed. She moved her listeners to dancing, to shouting, to ecstasy, Mr. Heilbut said. By contrast, he asserted, Miss Jackson's
television style and her conduct before white audiences was far more placid and staid.
Miss Jackson gave scores of benefit performances for blacks, and she was closely identified with the work of Dr. King. In tribute yesterday, Dr. King's widow, Mrs. Coretta King, said that "the causes of justice, freedom and brotherhood have
lost a real champion whose dedication and commitment knew no midnight."
President Nixon, in a White House statement, said:
"America and the world, black people and all people, today mourn the passing of Mahalia Jackson. She was a noble woman, an artist without peer, a magnetic ambassador of goodwill for the Untied States in other lands, an exemplary servant of her God.
"All her years she poured out her soul in song and her heart in service to her people. Millions of ears will miss the sound of the great rich voice 'making a joyful noise unto the Lord,' as she liked to call her work--yet her life story
itself sings the Gospel message of freedom, and will not cease to do so."
To Harry Belafonte, the singer who was a close friend, Miss Jackson was "the single most powerful black woman in the United States. Explaining that she was "the woman- power for the grass roots," he said that there was not "a single
field hand, a single black worker, a single black intellectual who did not respond to her" civil rights message.
Miss Jackson did indeed have a world audience, through her recordings and her concert tours. Last year she toured Japan, India and Europe. In India she gave a three-hour concert to a cheering throng that included Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, for whom
she sang, as a final encore, "We Shall Overcome," the unofficial civil rights anthem.
Many of Miss Jackson's songs were evocations of religious faith and were intended, in keeping with her own profound belief in God, to be devotional. Her rhythms might be syncopated, but her soaring voice aimed to obey the psalmist's injunction
to "make a joyful noise unto the Lord."
Miss Jackson's songs were not hymns, nor were they jazz. Convinced that everything she said or did rested on the word of God, she resisted efforts of the late Louis Armstrong and other jazz or blues musicians to transform her into a jazz singer.
"Blues are the songs of despair," she declared. "Gospel songs are the songs of hope. When you sing gospel you have the feeling there is a cure for what's wrong, but when you are through with the blues, you've got nothing to rest
Seeking to communicate her faith, which was nontheological, Miss Jackson did a great deal of her singing, especially in the early days, in store-front churches, revival tents and ballrooms. A massive, stately, even majestic, woman, she possessed an awesome
presence that was apparent in whatever milieu she chose to perform.
Whether singing at the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy or at Constitution Hall in Washington, or at Philharmonic Hall here, or in prisons, hospitals and children's homes, Miss Jackson always commanded respect.
But she never forgot her origins. Born in New Orleans on Oct. 26, 1911, she was the third of six children of a man who was a longshoreman by day, a barber by night and a clergyman on Sunday. Her home, left motherless when she was 6, was impoverished but
She was reared by Aunt Duke, a religious woman, who took her to a Baptist church on Sunday and who fulminated against the profane rhythms that emanated from a nearby dance hall.
"We Baptists sang real sweet and did beautiful things with our hymns and anthems," Miss Jackson recalled. "When those sanctified people lit into 'I'm So Glad Jesus Lifted Me,' they sang out with a real jubilant expression."
Miss Jackson, who never learned to read music, joined in "because I was lonely." She was also poor, and was obliged to leave school in the eighth grade to work as a cook and washerwoman.
In 1928, she departed New Orleans for Chicago to live with an uncle. There she worked as a hotel maid and as laundress and babysitter. She also joined the Greater Salem Baptist Church, where her voice soon stood out in the church chorus and she became
a soloist.
In the early nineteen-thirties she took part in a cross-country gospel crusade and began to attract attention in the black community with such songs as "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands," "I Can Put My Trust in Jesus" and
"God Gonna Separate the Wheat From the Tares." This was her first recording, in 1934.
At the outset, however, Miss Jackson experienced difficulty in getting her music accepted in the larger, more middle-class black churches because of the bounce and vigor with which she performed. But as her fame spread, these churches opened their doors
to her, especially when she sang some of the more traditional songs, such as "Just as I Am" and "I Have a Friend."
Meantime, Miss Jackson was becoming known in the white community through her records, which sold in the millions. Finally, on Oct. 4, 1950, she appeared before a packed house at Carnegie Hall, the first of a series of annual performances there. As she
did before every performance, she read selections from her Bible "to give me inner strength."
With money earned from recordings and later from concerts, Miss Jackson opened a beauty parlor and a florist shop in Chicago and invested in real estate. She was accounted astute in business dealings.
Following her New York debut Miss Jackson appeared on radio and television and began her tours abroad in 1952. She was particularly popular in France and Israel. Her celebrity was enhanced in this country with appearances at the Newport (R. I.) Jazz Festival.
In one of these, in 1958, she was with Duke Ellington and his band in a gospel interlude of his "Black, Brown and Beige."
Between tours Miss Jackson lived in a $40,000 brick, ranch-style house on the South Side of Chicago. There was a racial dispute when she moved into the all-white neighborhood, and a bullet was fired through a window of her home. But overt antagonism eventually
Since 1964 Miss Jackson was in and out of hospitals. Physicians warned her of exhaustion from her demanding itineraries. She was hospitalized in the fall of 1967 for heart trouble and again last fall.
She persevered in performing, however, because, she explained:
"I have hopes that my singing will break down some of the hate and fear that divide the white and black people in this country.
[MISSING TEXT] husband was Isaac Hockenhall, a chemist, from whom she was divorced in 1943. In 1964 she was married to Ministers Galloway, a contracting salesman. That union also ended in divorce. She
had no children.
Whenever Mahalia Jackson poured the power and the majesty of her voice into one of her favorite songs, "I Believe," there could never be any doubt that she meant it, meant every word. She did believe. She believed in her God and she believed in herself. And the sincerity of her belief rang through every note that she sang. Because of her belief, she cut a very straight, direct path through
life and she held to it all the way. There were no deviations, no compromise. She sang the Gospel. She sang the glory of God.
This, despite the fact that she had what might have been the greatest blues voice since Bessie Smith. She grew up idolizing Miss Smith but, once she had decided on the direction she would take, she turned away from the blues and throughout her life refused
to sing in any situation that she felt was incompatible with the songs she sang.
So, although one of her major achievements was in taking traditional gospel singing to audiences beyond the church and beyond the black followers of gospel, she set strict limits on the means of reaching these new and wider audiences. She would not sing
in a nightclub or any place where liquor was served. She would not sing blues and she would not sing jazz.
But she was not so inflexible that she could not bend a little when she felt the circumstances were right. She was induced to make her first appearance at the Newport Jazz festival in 1957 only because an entire Sunday afternoon was set aside for gospel
singing. She returned the following year to appear in an evening program with Duke Ellington's orchestra to sing Mr. Ellington's sacred song, "Come Sunday," a part of his "Black,
Brown and Beige" suite.
The joy and exultation that Miss Jackson brought to the traditional art of gospel singing was a vital factor in communicating an appreciation of gospel to a vast, previously untapped body of listeners. She spread the word and the sound through her concert
appearances and through such albums of recordings as "Mahalia Jackson," Columbia CS 8759, "Bless This House," Columbia CS 8761, "I Believe," Columbia CS 8349, and "Newport
1958," Columbia CS 8071.
Three of her most famous songs--"I Will Move On Up a Little Higher," "When I Wake Up in Glory" and "Just a Little While to Stay Here," are included in a two-volume disk collection; "Gospel Sounds," Columbia G 31086.
Her legacy lives on in these recordings and, in a slightly different form, in the universal acceptance of that very large and important part of today's popular music that is based on gospel roots.
It is, to a great extent, because of the groundwork laid by Mahalia Jackson--the ears she opened--that Aretha Franklin can command as large a following as she does today.


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Chris from Lost Boyz
For the past four years, Pitch In For Baseball has been supporting the Lost Boyz organization with equipment grants. Lost Boyz is a non-profit, grass-roots organization engaged in community development in Chicago's South Shore neighborhood. Most kids show up without gear because parents cannot afford equipment. Their goal this year is to double the participation. The equipment donation from Pitch In For Baseball is helping in accomplishing this goal. One example of a child in the league impacted by the donation is Chris.
Chris is in his second season. He has natural talent and loves to play baseball, but he has five siblings and his mother does not have the income to pay for everything that is necessary to participate in a baseball league. The donation of equipment has given him the opportunity to play and he's been able to excel at baseball because of it.
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Thanks again PIFB! The kids are really enjoying the uniforms and equipment donations.


text: VSO: Russian FireworksSeptember 25, 2016, 2:30 PM - 5:30 PMSandler Center for the Performing Arts201 Market Street, Virginia BeachThe new season opens with virtuosity and fireworks! JoAnn Falletta brings music from the magical worlds of Russian opera and ballet. The revelry starts with the Polovtsian Dances from the opera Prince Igor, one of the most well-known and celebrated melodies in classical music (remember Strangers In Paradise from Kismet?). Then enjoy Stravinsky's exotic Petrouchka, commissioned for Paris' Ballet Russes in 1910. Finally, the young and gifted virtuoso Conrad Tao joins the Virginia Symphony to perform Rachmaninoff's dazzling Piano Concerto No. 3!Additional Information Page Content Contact InformationMonica Meyer(757) 213-1431mmeyer@virginiasymphony


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Long Island is about to get a "Trump bounce." A longtime friend of mine has sold his home in the Hewlett area (through an agent) to Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, and the couple plan to move to the community sometime before school starts in the fall.
According to my friend, he sold the 10-bedroom home, with extensive waterfront and a helipad, for $26 million. He said the negotiations have been ongoing for six months.
My friend agreed to talk to me on the condition that I not reveal his name or the exact location of the property.
This is the plan: The couple realized some time ago that their political longevity in Washington was limited. They will keep their Manhattan apartment, but they decided to raise their children in a quieter atmosphere, where the three kids could make friends and play outside and still get a religious education. All three will attend the Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns.
In anticipation of their presence in the Five Towns, Jared and Ivanka have donated $5 million each to the Hewlett-Woodmere and Peninsula public libraries to update, upgrade and refurbish their buildings and collections. In addition, the couple have agreed to build a $10 million recreation center for teenagers on the property now occupied by the Woodmere shopping center, including Glatt Gourmet, Friendliers, etc. Those stores will relocate. The idea, apparently, is to compensate local residents for any inconvenience created by the Kushners' security needs.
The helipad will facilitate Ivanka and Jared's frequent visits to D.C., and it is expected that President Trump and the first lady will be occasional visitors to our community. When the first couple visit the Five Towns, all air space will be cleared for their arrivals and departures.
The house will be refurbished in a neo-'50s style, which has become exceedingly popular with a particular demographic: super-rich couples. It will include a kitchen in harvest gold, black and white tile floors and pastel fixtures throughout the eight bathrooms.
A staff of six, including chauffeur, nanny, butler, chef and two housekeepers, will be housed in a separate building that is being constructed on the property. That 4,000-square-foot house will also accommodate the Secret Service staff. Security details, including the number of agents who will be on the property, are not available.
My friend said that Ivanka has a keen interest in yachting, and the couple are looking to purchase a luxury boat large enough for cruises up and down the East Coast. Part of their reason for selecting our community was to be able to offer their children golf and sailing lessons in the coming years.
Kushner's representatives have made overtures to the Seawane Club in Hewlett, and he is expected to apply for a membership. Apparently, news of his application got misinterpreted into rumors that the club was for sale.
Among the very few people who know about the move, curiosity is intense. Will Ivanka and Jared go to local restaurants, to reach out to the community in a friendly way? Will Ivanka go to a nearby hair salon, or will she continue to use her own staff for hair and other beauty services?
What is known is that the couple have already committed to sponsoring the entire Five Towns Community Fair, which is held in September. There is some talk that the president will make a brief appearance at the event, to connect with his significant base in the community and to support his daughter's move to Long Island.
A little-known fact about Jared Kushner, according to my friend, is his obsessive fear of rats. Therefore, because of their new home's proximity to the water, a variety of state-of-the-art rodent repellents will be installed. These include high-decibel noise pulses, chemicals (non-toxic to humans) around the perimeter and a new technology developed in Israel that combines sophisticated traps with sonar devices.
Not everyone will be happy with the Trump/Kushner move to Long Island, but the couple plan to maintain a low profile. After years in the spotlight, my friend says, they want a normal life, especially for their kids. They plan to host soccer matches and pool parties on their property, and perhaps even a softball game on the baseball diamond in their new backyard.
Sounds unbelievable, doesn't it? Well, it is. But it isn't fake news, either.
Happy April Fools Day!
Copyright 2019 Randi Kreiss. Randi can be reached at email@example.com.


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Tesla's electric Roadster sports-cars are now available for you to drool over at the firm's new London showroom in Kensington.
Tesla's new showroom is also the e-car manufacturer's first outside of North America. The company has already had a dozen orders for its left-hand drive Roadster and plans to make a right-hand drive version available early in 2010.
According to The Register, Tesla hopes to shift between 50 and 100 Roadsters in its first year of business in the UK.
New Roadster arrives
Tesla CEO, Elon Musk even thinks that the wider market across Europe has "the potential to become a huge market for Tesla, bigger even than the US" as he unveiled the new Tesla Roaster Sport, which the company claims to be 15 per cent more powerful than the original Roadster.
TechRadar will be heading over to visit the new Tesla showroom later this week to ogle over and dream about owning a Roadster Sport.
The new £100,000 Tesla Roadster Sport does 60mph in 3.5 seconds, which is around 20 seconds faster than our current main form of transport.
For more check out www.teslamotors.com
Via The Register


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by Free Software Foundation Contributions — Published on May 26, 2009 10:13 PM
Norway web sites and radio that use the Ogg format.
- Norsk Riks Kringkasting - NRK — by josh — last modified Sep 25, 2008 01:18 PM
- The Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation provides Ogg streams for stations worth of broadcasting. They include news, talk, and music. The stations are NRK P1, P2, P3, Alltid Nyheter, mP3, P3, Jazz, and Klassisk.
- Metal Express Radio Oslo Norway — by lajjr — last modified May 27, 2009 03:15 PM
- METAL EXPRESS began in 1985 by Stig G. Nordahl, President, as a Hard Rock and Heavy Metal radio station, serving Oslo, Norway and surrounding areas


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The latest title in ECA's Everyday Learning series - Meaningful Conversations - is now available here .
Living Spaces: Indoor Learning Environments
The Spoke: What if...?
Talking About Practice: Embedding Sustainable Practices
Environment Makeover
EYLF Practice-based Resources - "Living the EYLF"
Have you thought about... space?
Have you thought about... continuity of learning?
Talking About Practice video: Environments for Learning
Talking About Practice video: Environments for Belonging, Being and Becoming


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Atlantic Renewables are a fully MCS Accredited solar install team, and don't sub-contract out any works, we pride ourselves on the quality of our overall service from start to finish, providing 10 year warranties on all of our installs.
Fill out our free form, its quick and easy to complete and one of the Atlantic Renewables Solar Engineers will call for a free impartial chat. Atlantic Renewables can help educate and answer any questions whether it's about the installation process or just general Solar component questions.
If you are interested in a free Solar Panel quotation then Atlantic Renewables will book a mutually convenient time and date for a Surveyor (not a sales person) to carry out a detailed appraisal on your property. Our staff will even bring along some of the components used in a typical installation such as inverters and solar panels for you to look at.
Our Surveyors are fully trained, experienced and qualified. We never use high pressure sales tactics. At Atlantic Renewables our surveyors will provide a free thorough report with a full breakdown of; how the panels will lay out on your roof, payback period, investment yield; potential energy savings. This is all created using accurate simulation software.
Once the system has been designed the customer can rest assured that the install will be carried out correctly and fault free. At Atlantic Renewables we only employ fully qualified roofers and electricians to ensure that your install is carried out safely and securely.
To gain access to the governments financial incentive known as the 'Feed In Tariff' you will be required to make a make an application to your Electricity provider. As part of our services Atlantic Renewables also offer a free Feed-In-tariff Application service, whereby we will take away all of the stress of form filling and send off all of your forms on your behalf along with all of your certificates. After all of the forms have been sent off, Atlantic Renewables provide our customers with all your warranty documentation, copies of all Feed-In-Tariff forms , MCS Certificates and Proof of Ownership documentation.
Most domestic installs don't require planning permission as they fall under Permitted Development Rights. However should there be any doubt Atlantic Renewables have in house planning expertise to provide assistance.
Atlantic Renewables can guarantee the following:
You can contact us by either filling out the survey form to the left, or call us on 0161 207 4044.
These are other areas Atlantic Renewables have installed in: Alderley Edge, Altrincham, Bowdon, Bramhall, Cheshire, Chester, Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Didsbury, Dunham, Hale, Handforth, Hazel Grove, Holmes Chapel, Knutsford, Lymm, Macclesfield, Manchester, Northwich, Sale, Salford, Sandbach, Stockport, Tytherington, Urmston, Wilmslow and Withington. If you live in or near any of these areas, then we would love to come and give you a free, no obligation solar survey and quotation for your property.


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Mini John Cooper Works Concept Details:
- JCW model set to debut at the 2014 NAIAS in Detroit, MI
- Features exclusive paint in Bright Highways Grey and sport stripes
- 18" alloy wheels, a roof spoiler, and JCW aero kit
- Longer wheelbase and wider tracks
Last month Mini revealed features and specs for its all-new 2014 Hardtop, which is longer and wider than its predecessor. Now the automaker is moving on to its next contender for pole position – the John Cooper Works (JCW) model, set to debut at the 2014 North American International Auto Show in Detroit, MI.
The concept features all of the sporty styling cues you'd expect from a JCW model including exclusive body paintwork in Bright Highways Grey, sport stripes in red and white, bespoke aerodynamic features and 18" light-alloy wheels.
To decrease wind resistance and improve downforce, the concept features a roof spoiler, a JCW aerodynamic kit comprised of specially contoured side skirts and a rear apron with flaps and a diffuser element.
Additionally, the JCW model features a longer wheelbase and wider track over the outgoing model, which Mini says has a direct effect on the car's driving characteristics. Lastly, it also uses a sports exhaust system including JCW silencer system, and twin tailpipes with chrome finish that carry the JCW logo.
Powertrain options have not been revealed, however, last year's 2013 Mini John Cooper Works GP set the fastest lap ever achieved by a Mini on the Nürburgring's Nordschleife circuit. It's safe to say that the new JCW concept has large shoes to fill.
For more information, please visit: www.MINIUSA.com


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It's far too early to tell if we will see a return of the Beast from the East, say forecasters.
Following reports this week that Britain faces a new big freeze this winter, experts say it cannot be predicted this far ahead.
Scientists from University College London have predicted an average temperature of 3.9C (39F) for January to February next year in central England - which they said was 0.5C below the 1981 to 2010 average for the same period.
After studying sea temperatures and air pressure over the north Atlantic Ocean, climate experts have suggested January and February 2020 could be among the coldest for decades.
This would be caused by the jet stream - strong winds that move weather systems across from the Atlantic to Britain - deflecting southwards for weeks around Christmas, allowing freezing air to dominate.
But the Met Office spokesperson said: "It is hard for us to comment on someone else's research.
"From our perspective our longest outlook is three months and wouldn't be used for daily or even weekly forecasting. It doesn't reach as far as this research is predicting."
Around the country, other weather experts have also poured scorn on the findings, with one saying: "Aware of some very dodgy articles doing the rounds at the moment.
"There is absolutely no way of knowing what winter has in hold for us at this moment in time. Eventually we will get a very cold winter and no doubt they will be taking the credit."
And so the first nonsensical UK winter weather story is doing the rounds in some newspapers.— Liam Dutton - Weatherman (@liamdutton) September 8, 2019
Consider this... If it's hard to predict where the remnants of a hurricane will go in a five days, why would anyone know if there'll be a beast from the east next January?🤔 pic.twitter.com/pmaudEKYO4
So there you go, don't get the snow chains out just yet.


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06 Mar 2017
THE CAP AND YOUNG FARMERS – 06 MARCHBrussels Daily
06/03/2017: Young farmers (brouchure on Young farmers and the CAP)
Faced with an ageing farming population, the European Union (EU) is stepping up its efforts to encourage young people to take up the baton. Young farmers are given a helping hand to get their business off the ground with start-up grants and other financial and practical support such as trainings. Supporting the next generation of European farmers not only enhances the future competitiveness of European agriculture, it also helps guarantee Europe's food supplies for years to come.
The modern farm is a dynamic workplace, often using innovative technology such as milking robots or irrigation via mobile phones. Yet only 6 % of all farm holdings in Europe are run by farmers under 35 – and getting more young people interested in farming is a big challenge!
Helping young people to become farmers
That is why the EU has a number of programmes designed to encourage young people to become the next generation of European farmers.
For example, funding is available through the EU's common agricultural policy to help young farmers set up and develop their business. Support is available for farmers starting up businesses who are 40 or under at the time of applying, and can be granted for up to five years.
Young farmers are encouraged by additional support from the CAP's direct payments: national authorities have to set aside up to 2 % of their total allocation of direct payment funding in order to offer young farmers a bonus of 25 % (maximum) on their direct payments in their first five years of working in the sector. Young farmers also have priority when it comes to receiving direct payment funding from the national/regional reserve.
In addition, CAP rural development programmes (RDP) in each EU country often provide additional measures to help young farmers get started. This includes advice services for farmers setting up for the first time. See how one young Hungarian farmer set up her own business with help from various EU schemes.
>> National or regional rural development programmes
Encouragement comes in other forms as well – for example, young farmers are seen as more likely to look to innovation to help develop their businesses. A number of programmes run by the European Innovation Partnership (EIP- AGRI) are designed to help encourage the take-up of innovative techniques for increasing output and reducing costs, for example. (Read the interview "Innovation for young European farmers" for more information).
What do young farmers need?


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CES is filled with thousands of gadgets and lots of people to talk to. But most of these "new" products are really just moderate updates. So in case you missed the goodies in the wave of CES news, here's just our favorite stuff after the jump. Yes, lazy people—life takes care of you again!
Biggest TV:
Panasonic's 150-inch TV
We love it because: It makes us feel small.
Trouble is: You have to build your house around this TV.
Almost Big Enough:
31-inch OLED
We Love it because: OLED is the future, it's thinner, faster, deeper.
Trouble is: These prototypes are years away from being affordable.
Best Media Player:
iRiver Media Players
We Love it because: We thought they were all concepts, but they're
not. They're just incredible.
Best TV Tech:
Tie: 9mm Plasma the Blackest and Mitsubishi's Laser TV because it uses
We love it because: Pioneer's plasmas literally eat light. Lasers, cool.
Trouble is: Are we going to have to replace our plasma every year?
Coolest Geek:
Bill Gates Playing With Dolls Like in Spaceballs and on Windows Sucking
We love him because: Without him we wouldn't be here.
Trouble is: He's retiring! And when we asked him to play racquetball, Gates said he'd be washing his hair...for the next 30 years.
Making the Format War Irrelevant:
Samsung BP-U5500
We love it because: It makes the format war go away.
Trouble is: The format war may already be irrelevant. Best for those already entrenched in HD DVD
Best Ambush:
Blu-ray Winning the War by getting Warner to announce a change to Blu Jan 4th.
We love it because: Sony plays a good game of chess.
Trouble is: We prefer HD-DVD!
Nameless Women We Love:
Non-Booth Babe Babes
We love them because: Women should not be on display like TVs at this
Trouble is: We can't stare at them without feeling a little guilty.
Most Deceptively Dangerous Gadget:
Leopard Skin Taser with built in MP3 player
We love it because: It's the Frankenstein of gadgets.
Trouble is: We want to run it out of town with pitchforks and torches.
Best Ghetto Fabulous TV:
Vizio HDTV with Silicon Optix Reon inside
We love it because: A budget company went for some high end video scaling gear.
Trouble is: Can the rest of the set keep up with the Silicon Optix?
Reon chip?
Best Follow Up to Steve Jobs' Favorite Cameras:
Camcorders Panasonic HDC-SD9
We love it because: Tiny, 1080p, under $1000.
Trouble is: Sony+Canon=competition.
Best Propaganda:
Microsoft-at-Home Server Book
Low blow, Microsoft (which means it was perfect).
Sweetest Laptop
Asus Eee PC, 8.9-inch
We love it because: The only thing wrong with our Eee is the screen size.
Trouble is: Like Viagra bottles tell us, erections lasting over 8 hours require doctor consultations.
Best Insulting Robot
This Guy
War with robots? It's freakin' on! You'd better grow some lasers fast before we kick your...
Best UMPC
Aigo Silverthorne-based system
We love it because: Intel Silverthorne chipset makes it tiny.
Trouble is: The early version we saw needs some polish.
Hottest Peripheral
Lasonic iPod Boombox
We love it because: Minimalist design is played out.
Trouble is: Boomboxes are too big for today's weak geeks to tote anywhere.
Most Pants-Worthy Phone
Sony Ericsson W350
We love it because: It has a sexy, thin design that takes a chance.
Trouble is: CES was absolute crap for phones.
Best Couch Masturbation Enabler:
We love it because: "Quick draws" are rewarded with cheap viewing.
Trouble is: It's not disguised as a PS3 or something else that our kids/wives will never touch.
Biggest Surprise:
Optimus Maximus Keyboard
We loved it because: We considered the hype met. OLED keys make our geek hearts palpitate.
Trouble is: People whining about the price—like a Ferrari, just because we can't afford it doesn't mean we don't want one.
And that's CES my friends!
Writing by Brian Lam and Mark Wilson.