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You'll be serving your own craft beer from your own keg system with our Double Faucet Tower Keg Kit. Kegging has a number of advantages over bottling including saving energy, saving beer and saving time due to the fact that you can force carbonate your brew in a matter of days instead of weeks. You hardly have an excuse to bottle again!
This kit comes standard with a Taprite Dual Gauge Regulator, x2 Chome Faucet, 3" Chrome Tower, Standard Faucet Wrench, x2 Ball Lock Liquid and x2 Gas lines w/Disconnects, and options for extras and add-ons.
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In my previous article (Performance Tuning Resources For Web Clients) I discussed why you should care about the performance of your web client and then listed out some of the better places to go on the web to find information on how to go about tweaking your web clients to get that better performance. In this article I am going to dig a little deeper and call out specifically what I think are the Must-do-No-excuse-not-to-do-them-You-are-really-being-unprofessional-if-you-are-not-doing-them tweaks that you should be performing on every single one of your web development projects.
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New iPhone apps flood the market daily. So many, consumers can barely keep up. Suffice it to say any good idea is now or soon will be available on your iPhone.
One did catch our attention today, because when we heard about it the voice of Homer Simpson came to mind. "D'oh?"
The app translates a baby's cry and instantly tells parents what is wrong.
Homer's half-brother Herb Powell came up with the same idea during a 1992 episode. Homer funded the project and when the idea took off, Herb showered the Simpsons with gifts.
Some 17 years later, it jumped from the cartoon page to reality.
The real app claims 96 percent accuracy and costs $29.99.
It breaks down five distinct cries they claim tell you whether the baby is hungry, annoyed, tired, stressed or bored.


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The Traxler counter attack derives from the two knights defense from black after white develops into the Italian game.
After white moves his knight to g5, attacking the weakened f7 square, black counter attacks with Bc5, disregarding his own safety for a lethal attack on white's king side.
If white captures the pawn on f7 with his knigh, forking the queen and the rook, black can start the counter attack with Bxf2.
It is extremely difficult for white to avoid having his king chased around the entire board and although black is down in material early, black can easily bring his pieces into action very quickly while white usually has a hard time moving any of his queen side pieces.
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What we really need to do is arrive at a fundamental acceptance of impermanence. Even though they are continually changing and unreliable, we believe that we are thoughts, emotions, and stories.
However, the only thing that is constant, unchanging, and reliable, is the clarity of our mind stream. Whether we are happy or sad, the cognizant quality of pure consciousness is with us throughout our lives, and continues until enlightenment.
In spite of the fact that the world is so decadent and difficult, and that our lives can be so complex, if we have discovered the inner freedom of the mind, we ourselves can be simple and uncomplicated, and maintain a carefree dignity.


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I am looking for some relaxing, funny maths article that one can read when tired. For instance, I found Bouton's paper "Nim, a game with a complete mathematical theory" very funny. If you know something similar, like articles dealing with simple games that you can play with friends, or with a combinatorial theory that you can write down in a C program, or any other amusing aspect of mathematics that does not require a huge background and that you can read when you are very tired, but not too much tired to give it up, I would be grateful if you could share it!
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i heard the news today, and, oh boy, i'm at a loss. As a Functional Alcoholic Slurperson (Temporal) and tender bartender here at the Bar None, i'd like to take this opportunity to make an official statement in support of Justin Bieber and against the hyena's arrest.
The Bar None is protesting the arrest of Justin Bieber and, not just Miss Bieber but the incarceration of all little girls throughout the world. What kind of police state are we living in when a little girl can be stopped by the police and thrown in prison? What if she has her first period in jail? Will the wardens teach her how to use a tampon? i don't think so. What if her boobs start growing behind bars, is there such a thing as a prison issue training bra ? i would bet there isn't.
i'm sure that there's a good explanation as to why Miss Bieber consumed alcohol. It's our understanding that she was at a birthday party with her other girlfriends just before, so maybe a prankster poured vodka in her apple juice. As for driving the race car, in her addled condition, she no doubt mistook the Lamborghini for a Disney ride and was probably more frightened than anyone when the police helped her bring the car to a stop.
The point is this, a wee lass's business is not police business. Childhood can not be regulated. Let little Justin's parents worry about her education, for lest we forget, he is someone's daughter.


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Weather Watch: Unusually Warm Feels Cold
It felt extremely cold outside last night.
There was a light but cutting wind, the temperature was around 35 degrees, and it was raining. Persistent drizzle mixed in with occasional spitting rain. The raindrops cut like ice when they hit my face, but they were entirely liquid. I couldn't help but wish it would cool a few degrees, so the rain would turn to snow and it would feel so much warmer.
Believe it or not, yesterday's cold weather is an extension of the above-average temperatures we've been seeing over the last couple of months, as described in this recent Addison County Independent article. The high temperature on Tuesday was around average levels, but the low temperature was well above average. This relatively warm weather kept the nocturnal precipitation as rain, and over the last few weeks has even led to some confused bulbs, as seen here.
Despite Vermont's warmth, much of the United States has been very cold over the last week or two. Southern California has experienced unusual freezing temperatures and extremely high winds; the interior West is socked in with frigid temperatures; and snow has fallen from Texas through the mountains of the Deep South. Last week the metropolitan Atlanta, Georgia area was colder than Burlington for two days. Vermont's warmth, and the cold elsewhere, are being driven by the current path of the jet stream. As it plunges south over the West Coast, it is dragging air south from the Arctic. It then is swooping over the warm Gulf of Mexico and pulling that warm air northward towards Vermont. If the jet stream were just a bit further east, we'd likely be pounded by nor'easters instead. In fact, the next wave of precipitation, forecast for tonight and Thursday morning, is taking a more eastern track, and this time we're probably in for a couple of inches of snow. As with the snowstorm two weeks ago, a slight change in the track could mean a dumping of snow or a near-miss with more rain. As of 6:30 on Wednesday night, it's about 35 degrees and drizzling, so if it cools off much more we'll get at least light snow. Beyond this storm, it appears that we will be settling in to a more winterlike pattern... but I'm pretty sure I said that two weeks ago too. We'll see!
Charlie Hohn is a recent graduate of the UVM Field Naturalist graduate program. He has been closely watching the weather ever since he was a child in southern California. Charlie will be posting occasional blog posts here about Addison County weather. He also maintains a blog about water at slowwatermovement.blogspot.com.


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Deus Ex: Invisible War (PC) review
"I suppose its unfair to expect anything to be as deep, involving, and utterly groundbreaking as Deus Ex, a game that is frequently imitated but seldom equaled. Whats interesting is that its sequel, Deus Ex: Invisible War, was also developed by Ion Storm, and headed by many of the same individuals (I checked), yet it still feels like the kind of pale mimicry that would come from a team alien to this sort of thing, who understand where theyre going but have no idea how to get ther..."
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adidas Golf introduces new adicross Tour footwear
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adidas Golf has been front and center this year, promoting the company's new footwear beginning with the popular adizero.
Now, adidas is at it again with the introduction of its adicross Tour golf shoe, which will be available on May 1.
The adicross Tour is described as an, "anatomical–inspired performance through natural motion and stability. adicross tour features state-of-the-art outsole construction aimed at freeing the foot and body in a way it was inherently meant to, from the ground up to the shoulders."
Here's the press release we were sent about the new shoes:
CARLSBAD, Calf. (April 16, 2013) -- adidas Golf, an industry leader in innovative, technologically-advanced high-performance footwear, has announced the release of the new adicross tour footwear line. Engineered with revolutionary materials and state-of-the-art construction methods, adicross tour was designed to allow for stability with flexibility, freedom of movement without sacrificing support, and provide lightweight comfort.
"With adicross tour, we created a lightweight golf shoe specifically-designed to allow the foot and body to work the way it was naturally intended to move, " said Bill Price, Vice President of adidas Golf Footwear. "With this revolutionary new shoe, a golfer can freely flex and rotate from the ground up to the shoulders, resulting in a more efficient, natural swing."
The adicross tour, created with anatomical-inspired performance through natural motion, features a new PUREMOTIONTM construction TPU outsole for greater stability and PLUSFLEXTM technology for greater flexibility and ground contact to promote more force and power. Seven-spike configuration with THINTECH® low-profile technology ensures optimal traction and added stability for every condition.
Combining performance with style, the upper touts stand-out design with a new iconic blucher toe, deco-stich detail and is made of premium, full-grain aniline leather complemented by a new ripstop nylon saddle to further increase flexibility. Inside, there is an ultra-light CLOUDFOAMTM sockliner that provides lasting comfort and cushioning with every step.
"The new adicross Tour has all the performance and support I need in a tour shoe plus a look that fits my style, "said Tour Staff Professional Dustin Johnson. " The bold colors are great and I knew it was for me the moment I saw it."
Available in four colorways beginning May 1, 2013: BLUEBERRY / RUNNING WHITE / METALLIC SILVER, RUNNING WHITE / ALUMINUM / BLACK, BLACK, RUNNING WHITE / UNIVERSITY RED, and WHEAT / RUNNING WHITE / LEATHER carrying a MSRP of $200 USD. Two-year waterproof warranty.
Also new is the adicross tour spikeless, which utilizes the same waterproof upper as the adicross tour with a versatile, spikeless outsole. Unique to the adicross tour spikeless is the "x-shaped" performance torsion bar in the midfoot that extends into the heel for added lateral support and stability. Also, like the adicross tour, it is designed with a new anatomical last that provides enhanced volume in the forefoot for increased comfort and stability.
The adicross tour spikeless will be available in two colorways beginning June 1, 2013: TAN BROWN/RUNNING WHITE/LEATHER and RUNNING WHITE/ALUMINUM/BLACK carrying a MSRP of $150 USD. Two-year waterproof warranty.
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FLINT, Mich. - For Angela Stamps, riding her bicycle around the city of Flint isn't just a fun activity - it's a way of life.
Stamps hopes to pass that mentality along to Flint youth with The Berston Bicycle Club Project, a program designed to teach kids how to use bicycles as a form of transportation, encourage healthy living and teach bicycle safety.
At the end of the nine-week course, each participant receives a new a bike, helmet, bike bag and reflective vest, among other things, and all for free.
'That's the beautiful thing about it. Everything is free,' Stamps, 42, of Flint, told The Flint Journal. 'I'm just trying to show them that they can get around anywhere in the city or outside on a bicycle. And we have loads of fun.'
Stamps finds used bikes for the program to teach to the kids, ages 11 to 18, how to properly ride a bike and shows them different parts of the city.
After one year completed, Stamps has some goals for the program this year, which starts back up in May. Between now and then, she hopes to go from 15 to 30 used bikes, which are used during the program for lessons and riding.
She wants to bring more awareness to the issue of childhood obesity and healthy living, which will hopefully attract more interest in the bicycle club.
The bicycle club partners with the Crim Fitness Foundation and Safe and Active Genesee for Everyone (SAGE) and is funded through the Ruth Mott Foundation with a $27,000 grant.
Lauren Holaly-Zembo, active living director for the Crim Fitness Foundation, said Stamps' program is the only bicycle club that she knows of in the city of Flint.
'Angela is just really passionate about bicycling and getting kids to be physically active. We are hoping they use it for transportation. If kids use it that way, they are going to get their exercise in for the day,' Holaly-Zembo said. 'I think there is a lack of recreational activities for the kids in the city of Flint. This is something that can get them involved. I definitely think it's something that's needed.'
The program focuses on the growing problem of childhood obesity, she said. It helps teach the participants lessons, like healthy eating and living, that hopefully they can carry on throughout their lives, Holaly-Zembo said.
It also teaches them directions and other skills while riding. The program always starts at the Berston Field House, where the youth are first given a short lesson and adjust their bikes and take them out for a ride.
'I'm hoping that, whether they like bicycling or not, they will continue on with an active lifestyle,' Holaly-Zembo. 'We want to see more kids involved, larger classes.'
Stamps grew up in Flint but lived in Los Angeles from 1993 to 2010. In 2006, she lost her vehicle and was forced to walk or take a bus everywhere, until someone gave her a bike.
It was that bicycling lifestyle that she wanted to teach to youth in Flint.
'I've been riding ever since then,' Stamps said. 'This is something that if you pour it into your life, you can use it for the rest of your life.'
Stamps has a bigger goal of opening a recreational center for the city of Flint within the next two years, she said. But right now, the bicycle club is her main focus.
Qudsiyyah Meeks, 13, of Flint participated in the program last year and said it was a great experience. She learned information on bicycle safety she didn't know before and saw different parts of the Flint River Trail that she had never been to before, she said.
'I like to learn new things,' Qudsiyyah said. 'Even though I've lived in Flint most of my life I've never seen some of the places we had been. It was nice.'
The program runs for nine weeks at a time, and participants ride three days a week, although they are only required to ride two of the days to complete the program.
Information from: The Flint Journal, http://www.mlive.com/flint


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What if going to church was an epic quest, filled with hazards and gut-wrenching decisions that affected the people you loved? You'd think pretty seriously about your choices, wouldn't you?
That kind of weighty aspiration is exactly what Unwritten: That Which Happened is aiming for. The in-development PC game being made by Roxlou Games' Joe Houston, who worked most recently on Dishonored. The Kickstarter page describes it as a roguelike RPG hybrid where decisions and death are permanent and lasting. And players will be able to make their own quests for each other to play.
Unwritten looks like it could address a lot of the issues people say they have with narrative delivery in games, where choices made in a campaign don't seem to matter and the stakes feel too small. If you like the ideas floating around in the pitch video, head over to the project page to learn more.


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Thrown pistols, an injured officer and a car chase through the streets of the Lancaster city limits on Tuesday, Dec. 4, added up to a multitude of charges for a Lancaster man.
One of Lancaster County's state representatives is taking Gov. Nikki Haley and other leaders to task on the handling of the massive tax data breach at the S.C. Department of Revenue.
District 27 Sen. Vincent Sheheen, whose district includes southern Lancaster County, issued a statement Nov. 29 during a press conference at the Statehouse in Columbia.
The name of U.S. House District 5 Congressman and Indian Land resident Mick Mulvaney is being floated nationally as a possible replacement for Republican South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint who is leaving the Senate to head a prominent conservative think tank.
The news comes during a week in which Mulvaney was appointed to the House Financial Services committee.
A state grant has been awarded to help make the roads safer in Lancaster County.
The Lancaster County Sheriff's Office announced Friday, Dec. 7, that it was notified two days before by the S.C. Department of Public Safety about a grant to fund a DUI Enforcement Team in Lancaster County.
The $219,131 grant will pay for salaries, retirement and other fringe benefits, equipment, vehicles, mileage and training for two deputies. The grant takes effect immediately and will run one year at a time, according to a media release from the sheriff's office.
Stan Emanuel will lead the University of South Carolina Lancaster on an interim basis when current dean Dr. John Catalano steps down at the end of the year.
Emanuel, an adjunct business professor at USCL for 17 years, will assume those duties Dec. 31, as University of South Carolina officials continue their search for a permanent dean, a search expected to be completed next semester.
USC Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost Michael Amiridis made the announcement Friday.
At first glance, nothing seems to be out of place in Gonzie Mackey's assembly workshop.
Various hammers, pliers and screwdrivers line the walls, while assorted bicycle parts are strewn about the room.
With a wrench in hand, Mackey tightens the bolts connecting a bicycle wheel to a metal frame and everything seems in order.
But for Mackey, a Lancaster City Councilman and owner of Gonzie & Son Assembly Shop, that couldn't be further from the truth.
Tears flowed on both sides of the courtroom Monday afternoon, Dec. 3, as a Lancaster man was sentenced to 45 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to the murder of a man this summer and the attempted murder of a sheriff's office investigator two months later.
With members of both his and murder victim Donald Morris' families sitting mere feet away, Keith Tyrone Robinson Jr., 20, listened intently as Circuit Court Judge Brooks Goldsmith handed down a long list of concurrent sentences.
Talks about building an industrial park close to Lancaster County Airport have ended – at least for now.
Last month, Lancaster County Council voted unanimously to stop negotiations regarding 110 acres the county has had in holding. The land, owned by Dr. Malcolm Edwards, is near the airport on the south side of S.C. 9 near the Chester County line.
The vote was 6-0. Councilwoman Charlene McGriff was absent that night.
The S.C. Election Commission heard the concerns of former state representative candidate Richie Yow on Nov. 27, but in the end decided by a 5-0 vote to uphold the victory of incumbent Ted Vick in the S.C. House 53 seat.
Vick, a Democrat, won the Nov. 6 general election by 723 votes. Yow, a Republican, claimed there were enough discrepancies in voting procedures in Chesterfield County to more than offset that margin.
Blake Faulkenberry isn't worried about the possibility of becoming an identity-theft victim.
Three days after hearing about the information breach at the S.C. Department of Revenue, Faulkenberry registered for free credit monitoring. Since then, he said there's been no notification of any suspicious activity. He also monitors his bank statement online daily.
"I haven't seen anything strange happen," said Faulkenberry.
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The race is a great test for experienced runners and first time racers alike. The gently sloping course drops more than 800 feet over the 6.2 mile course.
The race has new life under the direction of Scott and Mindy Saunders and a host of sponsors.
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- 27 Fourth St Bowden SA 5007
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Library Charges
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Research Costs
- $15 per half day ($10 pensioners & students); $60 per hour for research by Archives staff
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- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday 9.30 am - 4.30 pm (Closed Wednesdays, weekends and public holidays)
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The Lutheran Archives is the official repository of historical material relating to the Lutheran Church of Australia (LCA). As well as holding records of the present LCA, it holds records of the earlier Lutheran Churches in Australia which in time amalgamated to form the present Lutheran Church of Australia.
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We have a large collection of Parish Registers from all over Australia. They contain information on births, baptisms, confirmations, marriages, deaths and burials of people who were associated with the Lutheran Church. These are extremely valuable for family history research. To assist researchers, the names in the registers have been entered into a computer database, and so it is easy to determine what records do exist for any person and then locate them. There are about 500,000 entries in the database.
Our collection includes church papers (starting in 1860), church almanacs and yearbooks, congregation histories, biographical records of Lutheran pastors and teachers, family history books, and photographs (churches, schools, missions, pastors, teachers).
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Staunton's loss: Zirkle Mill gains new owner
A Shenandoah County treasure is now in the hands of a preservation group. On January 5, Robert Andrews and his sister, Sherryl Belinsky, descendants of the Zirkle family, purchased the historic Zirkle Mill.
"This is a win-win situation," says David Zirkle, president of the Zirkle Mill Foundation. "The mill stays intact in Forestville under the stewardship of preservationist-minded individuals, and Shenandoah County retains one of its oldest historic treasures."
Andrews and Belinsky had been involved in negotiations with the mill's former owner, Sonny Bowman, for several weeks leading up to last week's news.
Last year, the Museum of American Frontier Culture in Staunton negotiated with Bowman to purchase the 1760 mill and move it to the Queen City to serve as the centerpiece of a new education-themed village.
Gov. Mark Warner nixed those plans in July.
Andrews' goal is to use the mill as an education attraction. "Our mantra is preservation, restoration, and education," he says.
Bowman declined to comment.
Frontier Culture Museum executive director John Avoli says the museum's executive committee is awaiting revisions to the development's site plans before deciding what to do next.
Andrews' efforts had the support of the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities– which included Zirkle Mill on a list of the Commonwealth's most-endangered historic properties earlier this year.
"Zirkle Mill is important not only because of its own unique history but also because of its position in the Forestville community," APVA executive director Elizabeth Kostelny says.
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We had the chance to review a rather interesting new game for the Wii called Pikmin recently. It's a remake of a game that came out way back in 2001, so if your kids played that one, there's not a lot different for them this time around.
The concept is simple: A little guy has crash landed on a planet and the parts of his ship are scattered everywhere. He's about 2 inches high, so it's not like he can just walk over and pick up the pieces. The environment is like something out of Honey, I Shrunk the Kids where a small rock is a mountain of an obstacle and simple bugs are monsters.
Luckily, you quickly find help in your quest, and it's what this game is all about. There's these little seed creatures that apparently think of you as their mother and will blindly follow you wherever you go. You direct them to create more creatures, tear down obstacles, and battle bugs on your hunt for parts of your ship. There are 3 different types that you can direct, each with their own capabilities and you have to figure out how to leverage them to gain access to different areas of the world.
The crux of the game is to figure out what needs to be done to find the next part of your ship. What makes that difficult is the time limit the game imposes on you. You have 30 game days to gather what you need before your air supply runs out and you apparently die some horrible death. Each day is about 15 minutes long, so you need to get whatever you plan on doing done in that amount of time.
This is what can make the game frustrating for kids who oftentimes just want to explore and have fun. If you really want to make progress, you'll have to hit the ground running and solve puzzles as fast as you can. Otherwise, it will be impossible to complete it within the time given. If you do really screw up one of the days, you can go back to a previous day and try again, but it would have been nice if the game allowed more freedom for the kids just to do whatever they want. Furthermore, you don't have much area to explore unless you do make progress, so you'll get extremely tired of seeing the same blades of grass and flowers if you're just looking to explore.
The kids did enjoy the fact how everything was giant and got a kick out of directing a mob of 100 creatures around (which really is fun for a while), but quickly grew frustrated when they couldn't proceed past certain points in the time given. I think without the time limits, they would have been able to think about and try different tactics, but ever-present push to make progress all the time took some fun out of it. In the end, it's a cute and unique concept, but younger kids will probably need assistance in the difficult parts or they'll quickly abandon it.
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Interesting new revenue breakdown for Apple. Macs are growing like crazy but are just 20% of revenue.
Products that didn't exist a few years ago? iPhone 39%. iPads? 17%. iPods (The lion's share is iPod touch iOS) 13%. Throw a few percentage points in for AppleTV and iOS is comfortably at 2/3rds of Apple revenue.


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With Monday being Presidents Day, I thought it would be fun to rank the Mets with presidential surnames. There are 23 of them (although Russ Adams is in camp and played for Buffalo last season, he's never suited up for the Mets and doesn't qualify for this list), and I used Baseball-Reference's version of Wins Above Replacement to rank them in reverse order. I have a feeling that you've probably already guessed the top three, but here we go:
23. Paul Wilson (-2.8 rWAR): I'll admit, this one surprised me. I knew Wilson struggled while he was with the Mets, but I didn't realize how much. A former number 1 overall pick and member of "Generation K", Wilson started 26 games for the 1996 Mets, going 5-12 with a 75 ERA+ (and a 5.38 ERA). In terms of rWAR, Wilson's 1996 is the single worst season by a Mets pitcher. Craig Anderson (-2.0 rWAR, 1962) and Randy Jones (-1.8 rWAR, 1981), are in the discussion, but it's not really close. Wilson would go on to have moderate success in Tampa (and later in Cincinnati), but he seriously under-performed his hype while with the Mets.
22. Hawk Taylor (-1.8 rWAR): Robert Dale "Hawk" Taylor was a catcher/first baseman/left fielder for the Mets from 1964-67. According to the Wikipedia, Taylor appeared as a pinch hitter in the first game at Shea Stadium on April 17, 1964. This is true, though not especially significant (he struck out, and he wasn't even the first pinch hitter used: that "honor" belonged to Ed Kranepool). The Wikipedia also credits him with hitting the first pinch hit grand slam in franchise history (against the Pirates, on August 16, 1967). So he's got that going for him.
21. Darrin Jackson (-0.6 rWAR): Darrin Jackson had to very good years for the San Diego Padres in 1991 and 1992, posting 4.4 and 3.8 rWAR respectively as the Padres made an ill-fated push for the NL West pennant. Jackson was then caught up in the Padres' infamous fire sale and traded to Toronto for future-Met Derek Bell (and minor leaguer Stoney Bell). It didn't work out in Toronto and Jackson was traded to the Mets on June 11, 1993 for fellow former Padre Tony Fernandez. Jackson slashed .195/.211/.241 in 31 games for the Mets, which translated into a woeful 22 OPS+ (78% worse than the average outfielder). Jackson left for the White Sox during the following offseason where he rebounded in the strike shortened season (2.4 rWAR).
20. Roy Lee Jackson (-0.5 rWAR): Possessing one of the cooler names in franchise history, Jackson appeared in 40 games for the Mets between 1977 and 1980 (starting 14 of them). He was on the AAA shuttle for most of his time with the Mets: 28 of his 40 appearances came in 1980 (when he was worth 0.1 rWAR). Jackson was traded to Toronto (for Bob Bailor) and had some success for them in 1981 (1.2 rWAR) and 1982 (2.1 rWAR).
17 – 19. Mark Johnson, Chuck Taylor, Billy Taylor (-0.4 rWAR): I'm not going to bother splitting these guys up, but I will add these three comments: 1). When he signed with the Mets, Johnson was one of three active "Mark Johnsons" in MLB. He wasn't the best, but he wasn't the worst, either. So there's that. 2). This Chuck Taylor did not have a signature shoe line. 3). Billy Taylor was involved in one of the worst trades in franchise history, having been acquired for Greg McMichael and Jason Isringhausen. While Taylor was gone from the Mets after the 1999 season, McMichael and Isringhausen combined to produce 1.5 and and 11.8 rWAR in their careers. On a related note, Steve Phillips stinks.
16. Brian Buchanan (-0.2 rWAR): Buchanan was involved in two fairly big trades: the Yankees sent him to Minnesota with Eric Milton, Christian Guzman, and Danny Mota for Chuck Knoblauch, and the Twins later sent him to San Diego for Jason Bartlett. His last appearance in the majors came with the Mets on August 29, 2004.
13 – 15. Sammy Taylor, Tom Wilson, Preston Wilson (0.0 rWAR): Again, I'm not going to bother splitting them up, but I will add three comments: 1). Sammy Taylor actually appeared in 90 games for the Mets in 1962-63. I thought this was a record of sorts until I found that former Met Willie Montanez' career total was also 0.0, but in 1,632 games. Now that's impressive. I guess. 2). Tom Wilson was hitless in four at bats (with one walk) for the 2004 Mets. 3). Preston Wilson went on to have a decent career, but I doubt there's a single Mets fan that wouldn't have traded him for Mike Piazza.
11. & 12. Chris Carter, Ben Johnson (0.1 rWAR): I'm sure you remember the Animal (I'm going to miss that character. Not much, but still). Ben Johnson was acquired (along with pitcher Jon Adkins) for Heath Bell and Royce Ring. Adkins pitched one (flawless) inning for the Mets and Johnson received 30 plate appearances over nine games. Ring's bounced around (-1.0 rWAR) but Bell became one of the best closers in the game (91 saves in 111 opportunities, 9.0 rWAR for San Diego). This is probably Omar Minaya's worst trade.
9. & 10. Bob Johnson, Stan Jefferson (0.2 rWAR): A pair of championship Mets. Bob Johnson of Aurora, IL (Wayne's World! Party time, excellent!) was a September call-up for the 1969 Miracle Mets, throwing 1 2/3 scoreless innings over two games. That offseason, he was traded to the Kansas City Royals (along with Amos Otis) for Joe Foy in one of the seemingly-countless trades the Mets made for third basemen. Most of the angst in this trade is generated by the loss of Otis, but Johnson had a decent career himself (6.6 rWAR over his next six seasons. In a twist of fate that means absolutely nothing to no one other than this author (and maybe his parents), Johnson played his final major league game on the day I was born.
A native New Yorker, Jefferson was a September call-up for the World Champion 1986 Mets, slashing .208/.296/.375 in 27 plate appearances (over 14 games). That offseason, he was sent to San Diego along with Kevin Brown (thankfully, not the Hall of Fame candidate), Kevin Armstrong, Shawn Abner (the second former number one overall pick referenced in this post) and Kevin Mitchell for Kevin McReynolds, Gene Walter, and Adam Ging. Two September call-ups on championship teams later involved in franchise altering trades. How's that for a coincidence?
8. Claudell Washington (0.5 rWAR): Washington appeared in 76 games for the 1980 Mets, his only season with the club. I always remember Washington as a Yankee in the late '80's (he had his second-best season with them in 1988), and I kind of wondered why the Mets let him get away. In the long run, it turned out to matter very little: the Mets outfield was more than solid for the rest of the decade.
7. Vance Wilson (2.5 rWAR): This was another surprise for me. Although he wasn't an offensive superstar in his six seasons with the Mets, Wilson hit well enough (.254/.308/.354) to be slightly above replacement in each season. Wins Above Replacement is a cumulative stat, and he compiled enough steady seasons (in which he did little to help, but even less to hurt) to accrue a decent career rWAR.
6. Al Jackson (4.5 rWAR): An original Met, Jackson was something of a bright spot on some pretty crappy teams. Though never even a league-average pitcher (his highest ERA+ during those seasons was 94 in 1962), Jackson didn't embarrass himself: he was never worth less than 0.5 rWAR in any given season and was worth 3.1 in 1962. His second stint was less successful (-0.6 rWAR in 1968-69). He didn't get to see the Miracle Mets reach the promised land in 1969, but he returned to the club after retirement and has held a number of front office positions since.
5. Ron Taylor (4.8 rWAR): Another member of the Miracle Mets, Taylor had a productive run with the club from 1967-71, averaging almost a full win above replacement each season (0.96 rWAR). A spot starter earlier in his career, Taylor was exclusively a reliever with the Mets. He appeared in 269 games and earned 49 saves while never having an ERA+ lower than 94 (his average ERA+ in those years was 115). His post-playing career was also very successful: he graduated medical school in 1979 and became team physician for the Toronto Blue Jays in 1979.
And now, the Mets' "Mount Rushmore":
4. Lance Johnson (8.9 rWAR): As Patrick Flood noted, Johnson is "The Trivia Answer": he holds so many unique distinctions that, as Flood so aptly put it, "If you ever see a Mets trivia question, and the answer could be Lance Johnson … the answer is probably Lance Johnson". I hated the trade that sent him away, but in hindsight it wasn't that bad: Johnson accumulated just 0.3 rWAR in his remaining three seasons. It appears as if he emptied his tank in 1996-97. Sure, we had to put up with Mel Rojas, but Brian McRae at least had one decent season and the Turk Wendell experience was pretty awesome, so I guess it wasn't as bad as I thought at the time.
3. Gary Carter (11.2 rWAR): "The Kid" cracks the top three on our list of Mets with Presidential surnames. Carter was a WAR machine from 1977 to 1985, averaging 6.02 rWAR and failing to top 5 rWAR once (in the strike-shortened 1981 season). His 1986 wasn't too shabby either (3.8 rWAR), but he fell off a cliff the next three seasons: 0.9 (1987), 0.1 (1988) and -0.3 (1989). Like Lance Johnson, he makes this list because of two excellent seasons.
2. Mookie Wilson (19.4 rWAR): I make no bones about this: Mookie Wilson is one of my favorite Mets of all time, and I'm thrilled to see him make this list. He was like clockwork from 1982 to 1988: he accumulated 17.8 rWAR during these seasons, averaging 2.5 rWAR and never going lower than 1.8 (1982) or higher than 3.2 (1984 & 1986). And, to top it off, he had one of the most pleasant public image I've ever seen an athlete have. I have to digress for a moment and share two personal stories about Mookie, one big, one small:
- 1986 was my first full season as a Mets fan (I only started watching baseball in the summer of 85). On that fateful night, I went to bed at some point during the game. I guess my parents felt that bedtime was more important than the World Series, but I've never asked them. And, as a dumb kid, I listened to them and went to bed. Anyway, I have mixed memories about what happened next. My Dad definitely woke me up with the Mets trailing 5-3 in the bottom of the tenth. For a long, long time I thought he did it to let me watch my favorite team's season end, but for the past ten years or so I've had a sneaking sensation (a false memory maybe?) that he woke me to see a bit of baseball history: the Red Sox' first World Series since 1918. I've never talked to him about it because I'm not sure I want to know. But I do know this: what happened next was one of the greatest moments to ever happen to me, and I love my Dad for waking me up.
- My first game professional game was the second half of a day/night doubleheader against the Cubs. I think it was 1987, but it could have been 1988. Either way, I remember being terribly confused and almost violently upset when the Shea faithful booed as Mookie Wilson lead off in the bottom of the first. My uncle laughed at me and explained that they were screaming "Mooo!" Needless to say, I screamed it at the top of my lungs each time he came to the plate after that.
1. Howard Johnson (24.7 rWAR): Hojo's 1989 (7.7 rWAR) was a season for the ages: according to B-R.com it was the fifth best season in Mets history, trailing only John Olerud's 1998 (8.1), Bernard Gilkey's 1996 (8.1), Carlos Beltran's 2006 (8.0), and David Wright's 2007 (7.8). His six-year peak was generally excellent as well: he averaged 4.84 rWAR from 1986 to 1991 and received national recognition for it with three top-10 MVP finishes (including top-5 in 1989 and 1991) and two all-star appearances. And just like that, it was over. He earned just -1.4 rWAR over his final 1,165 plate appearances for the Mets, Rockies, and Cubs. In a minor coincidence, he left the organization (after they made him wait months for a job offer that turned out to be a major demotion) in the same year that Mookie Wilson returned to it.
And so, to recap:
- 23 Mets share a surname with a POTUS.
- There are five Johnsons (Andrew, Lyndon Baines), five Taylors (Zachary), five Wilsons (Woodrow), and three Jacksons (Andrew), two Carters (Jimmy), one Buchanan (James), one Jefferson (Thomas), and one Washington (George).
- When their careers are combined, the 23 Mets are worth 70.0 rWAR.


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I just moved up to Wisconsin from Illinois and went on my first toy run the other day. In the area, there is only a Target, so I'm SOL for WM and TRU exclusives. Unfortunately, the Target only had Enboo figures and three TAC white TIE Fighters. Thankfully they at least had pegs for TAC figures, but they were nowhere to be seen, nor in the stockroom. No Comic 2-Pack pegs, no space for Battle Packs, no Order-66 packs either...I think I've found another reason to hate moving!
Holy crap! Thats almost exactly what I saw, there were also three TIEs at my Target I was just omplaining about! Are you sure you were in Wisconsin?
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It was a night of all-around philantrhopic creativity as the Joffrey Auxiliary Board hosted more than 200 guests at Block 37 for the Third Annual Pointe of Departure Art Exhibition. Notable artists were commissioned to create pieces of work inspired by the Joffrey's winter program, "American Legends," which were then made available for sale to benefit the Joffrey Ballet. While the Joffrey's "American Legends" features pieces by Jerome Robbins, Twyla Tharp, Gerald Arpino and Stanton Welch, the commissioned visual artists took their inspiration from such diverse sources as classic American art and dance. One piece that resonated in particular? A portrait of Mr. Joffrey by Jason Mecier. Photography by James Atkins


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In any case, here's the preview for FDR: American Badass! This film promises lycanthrope versions of Hitler, Hirohito, and Mussolini. Also, Kevin Sorbo plays Abe Lincoln, and Ethan from Lost is hanging out. The release date has yet to be announced, but a sweep of the Independent Spirit Awards is a lock.


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Christina Marie Schneider and Nathaniel William Dunlavy, both of Estherville, will exchange vows on Nov. 3, 2012 at St. Patrick's Catholic Church in Estherville.
Christina is the daughter of Marlene and Jerry Hansen of Estherville, and Carey and Joleen Schneider of Fairmont, Minn. Christina is a 2002 graduate of Estherville Lincoln Central High School. Christina was a graduate of the Iowa Lakes Community College Nursing Program in 2005. She is currently employed as a nurse manager at the Estherville Good Samaritan Society.
Nathaniel is the son of Gary and Trudi Dunlavy of Bloomfield. Nathaniel is a 2003 graduate of Davis County High School in Bloomfield. He attended college at Hawkeye Community College and graduated with a Police Science Degree in 2007. Nathaniel is currently employed at the Estherville Police Department as a police officer.
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The filing cabinet in my office is gone as are most of my binders with copies of much of my research. I decided it was time to go paperless for the most part. After watching a video* on Legacy Family Tree last fall given by Mary Hill I went to Walmart and purchased a couple of see through totes to hold my streamlined filing system and a shredder. I didn't think a color coded system would work for me but so far it has proved to be the best system I have used. In fact I like it so much that I will also be using One Note to duplicate this same system on my computer.
*The video is no longer freely available but you can download it on the Legacy site for $9.95 or you can check out FamilyRoots Organizer for additional information.


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E. de Pressensé
French Protestant leader
He was born at Paris, and studied at Lausanne under Alexandre Vinet. He went on to the University of Halle and Humboldt University, Berlin under Friedrich August Tholuck and August Neander, and in 1847 became a pastor in the Evangelical Church at the chapel of Taitbout in Paris.
He was a powerful preacher and political orator; from 1871 he was a member of the National Assembly, and from 1883 a life senator. In 1891 he was elected a member of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques. Pressensé laboured for the revival of biblical studies. He contended that the Evangelical Church ought to be independent of the power of the state.
In 1854 he founded the Revue chrétienne, and in 1866 the Bulletin idéologique. His works include: Histoire des trois premiers siècles de l'Église chrétienne (6 vols. 1856-1877; new ed. 1887-1889), L'Église et la Révolution française (1864), Jésus-Christ, son temps, sa vie, son œuvre (against Ernest Renan, 1866), Les Origines, le problème de la connaissance; le problème cosmologique (1883).
Works by E. de Pressensé
While the German movement towards higher criticism of the Bible brought modern scholarship to the field of scriptural interpretation, it also led many theologians to reject some of orthodox Christianity's foundational beliefs. It became quite fashionable for scholars to reject the existence of miracles or the divinity of Jesus, for example. De Pressensé considered such views an affront to Christianity. Along with books and essays directly rebutting various liberal theologians, de Pressensé published The Early Years of Christianity—a history of Christianity that did not immediately discard orthodox teachings. Through providing this alternative, de Pressensé sought to revive a less skeptical strain of biblical scholarship and interpretation.
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I'm a huge fan of using sound in RIAs. I think that having audio cues is just as important as visual cues and that a click sound, or a subtle noise when you interact with an application makes for a much more usable experience. Unfortunately it can be kind of a pain to add those kinds of sounds to Flash applications. In general you have to go hunt down royalty free sounds and use MP3 files in your application which can add a bit more size to an application than some people want. We made some changes to the sound APIs in Flash Player 10 that let you generate sounds and while I was in Singapore I talked to the guys from Sonoflash who have a really great solution.
You can download a series of libraries from them which are all different soundscapes and have different themes. Add one or more of those SWC files to your application and then you can just call the sounds with some simple ActionScript code. All of the sounds are generated by AS3 an so take up a lot less weight than having to deal with MP3s. It also means you can tweak the sounds on the fly and use the APIs to modify the pitch, frequency, or other variables when you call it. I did a video with them in which they show off some examples and how to use it.
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Darwinists maintain that "there is no need to dot the 'i's and cross the 't's" in order to prove evolution and that "all the world already believes in evolution," and that this is therefore enough to prove the validity of the theory. In order to corroborate their claims, they suggest that there is nobody in the world's greatest universities who does not know about and support evolution.
It is true that evolution is espoused in the great universities of the world, taught in almost all countries and known to the entire world. The reason for that is EVOLUTION IS PROTECTED UNDER NATIONAL LAWS UNDER IMPOSITION FROM THE DARWINIST DICTATORSHIP and that opponents of evolution ARE SILENCED by this sinister dictatorial system.
Some of the scientists removed from their posts simply for questioning for evolution
Evolution is of course known across the world, and people are forced to support it as a result of this unpleasing imposition. People have to appear to support this theory if they are not to lose their jobs and careers. The administrations of the world's most eminent universities make support for evolution a precondition in teaching. Because of this pressure, everyone from the first person in the world's top 500 universities to the last knows about evolution and has to appear to support it.
This Darwinist dictatorship that has taken control of all official institutions, management units, education systems and press and broadcasting organizations has been using various media institutions for the last 150 years to convince people that the evolution deception is true. It has kept 300 million fossils proving Creation carefully hidden away, spread Darwinist frauds across the world in a highly organized manner and sought to give the impression that science corroborates evolution. The Darwinist dictatorship keeps evolution in the public eye through despotism and fraud. That is the sole reason why evolution is taught in schools and insistently defended in the world's best-known scientific journals despite being an utter fraud.
For comprehensive articles about the Darwinist dictatorship, see: http://darwinistdictatorship.com/
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Lost Valley Visitor Center, overlooking the Nippersink Creek valley in Richmond, Ill., is one of McHenry County's most wellknown conservation areas and serves as the gateway for a day's adventure in natural history. Encompassing 3,200 acres, Glacial Park is McHenry County's most well-known conservation area and is visited annually by more than 64,000 individuals. The facility hosts many environmental education programs, workshops and camps, and is a regional center for the district's study of its natural resources. When the Center's director needed a new exhibit hall and dining hall, she called on Williams Architects and Armstrong to design flooring that would be both naturally beautiful and highly durable. Utilizing Armstrong's PREMIUM Commercial Laminate and PREMIUM LUSTRE Commercial Laminate, this partnership was able to create a beautiful and resilient result.
"The Lost Valley Visitor Center is a place where people can begin their outdoor journeys from the inside," said McHenry County Conservation District Executive Director Elizabeth S. Kessler.
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When Oliver Lathrop came to Vermont in the late 1700s the land was covered in heavy spruce and fir trees. His son, Jim, cut one of the first Lathrop homesteads, the Lust Farm in Lincoln, from deep mountain forest. That's where his son Noah was born. Years later, in the summer of 1880, Noah and a business partner purchased the former Eastman Mill in Bristol Notch at the mouth of five converging brooks. There the mill ran on waterpower and churned out lumber and wooden tubs for butter. Five years later, Noah bought up the mill and ran the operation himself until 1903, when a forest fire claimed the trees and the mill as it burned through Elephant Mountain. But it was a small hindrance for the long line of Lathrop lumbermen who spent their lives in the forests of Vermont. Today, Tommy Lathrop — Noah's great, great grandson— is one of those men. He owns Lathrop's Maple Supply off Route 116 in Bristol, a mill that specializes in hardwood flooring and high-end lumber for cabinets. He has not moved more than two miles from his childhood home where he grew up in his father's mill yard on River Street. Tommy has always had a natural love for lumber — it's in his blood."My business is about going up the road here, two, three miles, buying some timber from a local farmer, trucking it back here, sawing it up, making hardwood floors out of it, shipping it back to that town or another town, somewhere around here, selling local," said Tommy. "It's funny because I think back to my ancestors and that's how they did it. Horses and oxen could only go so far to bring in the round log."It was horses and oxen that helped rebuild Noah Lathrop's mill after the 1903 fire, which was said to be so powerful that it baked the potatoes underground. Noah and his son Clarence renamed the business N. Lathrop and Son. The mill was now powered by steam and grew to be the largest lumber mill in Addison County, turning out dress lumber, shingles and clapboards. When World War I rolled around, spruce timbers were harvested off of the pitch of the mountain, south of the Bristol Village, and used to build airplane propellers. At this time the U.S. government would buy a railroad boxcar full of lumber for an astonishing sum of $5,000. Clarence and Noah usually had 15 to 20 men working for them, eight teams of horses and three yolks of oxen. Most of the logs came into the mill at full length, 40 to 50 feet, to maximize the cuts from the wood. Seven hundred thousand to one million board feet of lumber was cut annually by hand, using crosscut saws and axes. "The market is totally different nowadays," Tommy said. "The way timber is harvested as well as the needs for wood. Years ago the stuff they made out of wood today they make out of plastic and metal. It's just a completely different world we live in."In 1924, Clarence and Noah closed their mill. Noah had grown old, and much of the timber on Elephant Mountain had been charred or cut. Then, in the late 1920s, Clarence inherited a farm in south Bristol where Lower Notch Road meets route 116, called the Butler Farm. He was a dairy farmer, but in 1935 he set up a sawmill on the farm, selling the lumber locally. A majority of the pine went to the Thomas Box Shop in New Haven, a store that made small boxes for men's razors and trinkets. He sold oak to the Barry Chelsea Railroad Company.During World War II, gasoline and tire rationing took its toll on the business. Clarence moved his mill to Waltham and cut logs on site and shipped the lumber. At this time, he powered the mill with a diesel engine. In the summer of 1944, Tommy's father Claire bought the Waltham mill from Clarence and decided to finish harvesting the timber — Clarence went on in the '50s and '60s to serve several terms in the Vermont legislature as a Bristol town representative. After the timber ran out, Claire moved the mill to River Street in Bristol in the fall of 1947. Claire bought a former five-story coffin factory known as Bristol Manufacturing and set up his portable mill. There, he cut winter timber until 1960, taking Tommy up to the 1,200 acres of land he bought from the Brown Paper Company that stretched over the mountain into the Mad River Valley. Tommy remembers watching the men log birch, the snow banks towering over his head. During the summer of his 10th grade year at Mt. Abraham High School, Tommy was the first person to run the resaw at his father's mill. He sawed loads of maple during the Japanese export boom in the 70s. Maple was a huge commodity in Japan then, said Tommy, because they were building bowling alleys. When Tommy graduated from high school, he went to wood grading school and returned to Bristol to grade about 600 boards an hour for 10 years at his father's mill until he went into business for himself."The most important thing I could ever remember from all of it is hanging around the old timers and listening to their stories about when they were younger and how different things were then," said Tommy. "It just brings you to the fact that change is always happening. Change is never rapid in the lumber industry. Change is usually a gradual thing and you really have to be up with it if you want to stay competitive." Today, Tommy said, the quality of the logs just isn't the same as it once was. Claire once stated that between the time he purchased the mill in the 40s and the time he retired, the diameter of the hardwood lost an average of six inches per log. Tommy explained this is because loggers keep cutting the forest prematurely — before trees are 100 to 200 years old — and today, he said, you will not find trees much older than this. "The oldest trees that we cut were alive during the Revolutionary War down in Bridport," he said. "They were white oaks, and there was one of them that we counted as 270 years old. It was close enough so it could hear the cannons firing at Mount Independence from the British. This is how old these tree were." Between 1978 and 1980, Tommy started his own business called Lathrop's Maple Supply. He specializes in figured maple, flooring and high-end lumber for the cabinet business. Tommy handles ash, basswood, butternut, beech, cherry, cedar, hard and soft maple, red and white oak, pine, spruce and hickory. Tommy continues to sell his products locally — an idea, Tommy says, is not as new as everyone seems to think. And to Tommy, a handshake is still as good as a written contract. "I've known nothing else but lumber mills and being around lumberyards," Tommy said. "It's really been a unique life in the fact that we're so closely tied to the land. And I'd imagine that the quarry people in Barre and the farmers and timber men and lumbermen all have that similar connection to the land that other people will never know or never experience."


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UNC basketball fans � much like Duke fans � have become spoiled over the last few decades.
I am a UNC basketball fan. I have always been a UNC basketball fan. I will always be a UNC basketball fan.
I didn't attend UNC, but when I was 9 years old there were no cooler dudes on the planet than James Worthy, Sam Perkins and Michael Jordan. My father took great joy in turning down the TV audio (i.e. drowning out Billy Packer) and listening to Woody Durham's radio play-by-play. Yes, there was a time when the TV and radio feeds were almost in sync.
During one of the times I was lucky enough to see the Worthy/Perkins/Jordan triumvirate play at Carmichael Auditorium, a player by the name of Lee Goza for Georgia State got things going by grabbing the tip-off and scoring a goal under the wrong basket. Not only did this poor schlub have the task of trying to contain Sam Perkins, he gave UNC a two-point head start.
When UNC won the NCAA Championship later that year, someone gave us a six-pack of the UNC Championship commemorative blue soda. My parents believed I think quite rightly that the purpose of the soda was for it to be more of a conversation piece than an actual beverage. In other words, the can is cool to look at but don't even think about drinking the liquid.
A few weeks later while on a school field trip to the N.C. Zoo in Asheboro, a guy I knew named Ward drank one of the commemorative UNC sodas with his lunch. It was apparent after about 20 minutes that Ward had made a horrible mistake.
Now it's possible it wasn't the soda's fault. Maybe Ward had a preexisting condition that caused him to reenact a scene from 'The Exorcist.' Whatever the cause, the noises emanating from his stomach actually scared a Hamadryas baboon so much it commandeered a zebra, jumped a fence and climbed on top of a Hardee's across the street.
UNC basketball fans � much like Duke fans � have become spoiled over the last few decades. Any season ending with less than 30 wins is seen as a disappointment, while most programs rarely if ever have that kind of year. UNC in particular is having a rough year, and with that comes calls for the coach to retire, which I think are a tad premature.
I don't care how good of a coach you are, if two star players leave the team sooner than expected it's going to cause a problem. Does this mean your team should lose to the likes of Belmont, a team who hadn't won a game since playing Girl Scout Troop 37 during the Roosevelt administration? No it doesn't � but by dad's gum I'm not sure this is Roy's fault.
During the post-game interviews this season, I've heard UNC coach Roy Williams say he should do a better job motivating his team. As far as I'm concerned, that shouldn't even be on his list of things to do. If you've been blessed enough to make it onto that team, you shouldn't need any motivation.
Also, everybody needs to stop whining over Reggie Bullock's decision to turn pro. Anyone reading this would microwave their own head to earn a spot on the L.A. Clipper's roster. If they offered me a tenth of what Reggie's earning I'd hitchhike cross-country wearing a pink tutu to get there. Reggie, if you need a publicist or anyone to wash your car, my digits are at the bottom of this column.
Even though UNC is having a tough year, Tar Heel fans need to stick together. Carolina will be playing Duke soon, and it's going to be ugly. Duke is going to beat us, and they're going to beat us badly � rented mule badly. But UNC fans shouldn't stoop to the level of our competition by hurling petty personal insults that have nothing to do with the game.
As a matter of fact, Duke Head Coach Mike Krzyzewski has turned out to be quite the humanitarian. For the last several years Coach K has traveled the globe, dunking his head into bodies of water that have been ravaged by oil spills. You can just look at the shellacked sheen on his 66-year-old hair and tell he's doing his part to remove petroleum from our fragile natural habitats.
Whenever the Strategic Petroleum Reserve is running low, the U.S. government brings in Coach K for a haircut. No matter your collegiate affiliation, you have to admit the man is a patriot.
To all you Duke fans out there, just realize this is a feeble attempt to get a few shots in before you guys eviscerate us in a few weeks. People I haven't heard from in months will be crawling out of the woodwork to sneer and jibe as if they were the ones making all the rebounds from our missed shots. Just let me have my fun now....while I still can.
Jon Dawson's columns appear every Tuesday and Thursday in The Free Press. Contact Jon at 252-559-1092 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Purchase Jon's new book "Counterfeit Sauerkraut & The Weekend Teeth" at the Free Press office and jondawson.com.


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Rod Sherman is excited about the upcoming high school football season. I know because he used the word "excited" several times in a brief conversation. Yes, I know, that statement might sound …
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Rod Sherman is excited about the upcoming high school football season. I know because he used the word "excited" several times in a brief conversation.
Yes, I know, that statement might sound silly since Sherman has been associated with the Valor Christian football program that has won 112 games over 10 seasons and seven state championships. Most people would be excited about coaching within the program that exists at Valor.
Sherman was the Eagles' head coach the past five seasons, but Valor announced in December that he was out as football coach.
He examined other opportunities but was named on Feb. 15 the new coach at Arapahoe, a program that has gone 8-15 the past two seasons.
"We just felt like this was right," said Sherman. "I think sometimes when you get pushed out of the nest you take a step back and say: `Where is the opportunity for impact and where is an opportunity to maybe hopefully do something that is great?' My wife and I feel that opportunity exists at Arapahoe. We're really excited about it."
Sherman has met with Arapahoe players and their parents. He explained his visions for changing the culture at Arapahoe.
"When I was at Valor I helped set the athletic culture," said Sherman, who was Valor's first athletic director. "There are adjustments when you are changing cultures versus when you are starting from scratch. There are probably more similarities. Sometimes communities, schools and football programs don't understand they can be great."
He mentioned Pomona, which ranks 65th in CHSAA enrollment figures, as an example that big things can be accomplished. Pomona has an enrollment of 1,432, but the Panthers over the past few years have won state championships in football, wrestling, gymnastics and boys track.
Arapahoe's enrollment is 2,155, the 14th-largest in the state.
Sherman said players have been receptive to his ideas and he is creating his coaching staff with members of the Warriors staff, coaches he has coached with before and some former players.
"There is great excitement at Arapahoe, and that's not a statement that there was not excitement in the past," added Sherman. "I am incredibly excited. I didn't take this job because I have a son I want to coach. I didn't have to have a football job. I took this job because of how excited my family and I are to build the program at Arapahoe High School that can ultimately be synonymous with excellence in football."
Pilot seasons
Boys volleyball, girls wrestling and unified bowling are closer to becoming Colorado High School Activities Association's sanctioned sports.
All three activities were approved Feb. 21 by the board of directors to begin pilot seasons.
Under a newly adopted bylaw, the three sports were the first to present pilot programs for consideration. The Classification and League Organizing Committee, the Sports Medicine Committee, the Equity Committee and the Legislative Council need to support the new sport.
The boys volleyball pilot season will be this spring. Girls wrestling will start its pilot season in the 2018-19 winter season. The timetable for co-ed unified bowling will be revealed at the April meeting of the board of directors.
Boys volleyball and girls wrestling will have two-year pilot seasons.
There are 23 states that currently sanction boys volleyball and seven states, including Colorado, considering the sport. There were 50 club boys volleyball teams competing in the Colorado Boys Volleyball Association in 2017.
Only six states sanction girls wrestling but Georgia, Oregon and Colorado are considering adopting the sport. During the recently completed season there were 235 female wrestlers who competed on boys teams and there were several girls-only tournaments.
Changing seasons
Spring is approaching, as official practice for spring sports teams started Feb. 26. Baseball, girls golf, boys and girls lacrosse, girls soccer, boys swimming, girls tennis and boys and girls track are the spring sports.
Defending area state champions are Valor Christian in 4A baseball, Ralston Valley in 5A girls golf, D'Evelyn in 4A girls soccer, Mountain Vista in 5A girls soccer, Valor in 4A boys lacrosse and Cherry Creek in 5A boys lacrosse. Cherry Creek is the defending 5A girls tennis champion. Lutheran is the defending 3A boys track and field champion.
Jim Benton is a sports writer for Colorado Community Media. He has been covering sports in the Denver area since 1968. He can be reached at email@example.com or at 303-566-4083.
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Facebook shares closed below $20 today.
The first time it crossed this threshold—nearly half the price at which it debuted on the stock market—was in August.
The stock rallied after CEO Mark Zuckerberg spoke at a conference in San Francisco in September. Among other remarks, he explained the company's missteps in mobile and said that the company was committed to building a strong, valuable business.
It fell again in October, then rallied after Facebook announced third-quarter earnings that showed a reacceleration in growth.
Since then, post-IPO lockups on insiders have started expiring, releasing more shares on the market and generating downward pressure on the stock price.


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