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DRO March Meet Journal: NO REST FOR THE BEST AT FAMOSO TEST
In anticipation of upcoming March Meet, Drag Racing Online reports that: "As SoCal braces itself for what locals call 'extreme weather event" and what the rest of United States refer to as 'rain,' a handful of nitro-burning teams will be making the trek through the San Joaquin Valley en route to Famoso Raceway in preparation for the mother of all Heritage-style drag racers, the 2014 Bakersfield March Meet."
Among those sorting out their combinations at the pre-March Meet test: Jim Murphy and his WW2 AA/Fueler and Mendy Fry in the "Smokey's Darkside" AA/Funny Car. Story by Cole Coonce.
(Note: This interview originally ran in Drag Racing Monthly in 1998. With Roland Leong having been re-hired this month to tune the Troy Lee Design's Nitro Funny Car in NHRA Heritage Series competition, I felt this was a good time to republish this piece—Cole Coonce)
Interview by Cole Coonce
At the risk of sounding xenophobic, it is always interesting when somebody from distant shores and who is smitten with Western culture naively tries to tap into Americana. A classic example would be the efforts of a young and green Roland Leong, fresh off the pineapple boat out of Honolulu, Hawaii, who — way back in 1963 — fancied himself as a dragster driver just like his heroes Don Prudhomme, Tommy Ivo and Don Garlits. In order to fulfill his fantasy, Leong came to California. It started out innocuously enough: Doorslammers on the mainland which segued into driving a Dragmaster Top Gas dragster in California. But then the teenager from Polynesia tried to ratchet it up a notch — he wanted to drive a Top Fueler.
This experiment was an unmitigated disaster.
Under the anxious and watchful eye of the late Keith Black, the legendary engine builder whose engineering prowess pretty much established the pushrod hemi as de rigueur in serious drag racing competition, Roland's discombobulated debut as a nitro dragster driver at Lions Drag Strip culminated with the in-over-his-head Leong on his head. Looking to enjoy a few more 1/4 mile luau's, the kid who answered to the moniker of the "Hawaiian" knew which side of the steering yoke he preferred. Ergo, Roland adapted to a new career — as the car owner. And he flourished: In 1965 and 1966, Leong's AA/Fuel Dragsters captured consecutive Top Fuel Eliminator titles at both the NHRA Winternationals at Pomona, as well as the U.S. Nationals at Indianapolis. Wow.
And although he had cut his teeth with a Top Gas car, Roland took to the applied science of burning nitromethane like an umbrella to a foo-foo drink.
Shrewd, savvy, and understated, Roland created a mystique with a succession of "Hawaiian"-labeled drag racing machines, first with the fuel dragsters and then — as the "Plastic Fantastic" phenomenon seduced race fans across America — with a flurry of popular, highly successful Funny Cars. Even more remarkable was this fact: Roland changed drivers about as often as he changed spark plugs. Indeed, the list of Roland's employees is as tall as a Kona Island palm tree. A partial litany of his haole hired honchos include Don Prudhomme, Mike Snively, Mike Sorokin, Pat Foster, Bobby Rowe, Butch Maas, Denny Savage, Mike Van Sant, Russel Long, Larry Reyes, Leroy Chadderton, Norm Wilcox, Larry Arnold, Rick Johnson, Ron Colson, Billy Meyer, "240 Gordie" Bonin, Mike Dunn, Johnny West, Jim White, Glenn Mikres, etc., etc.
Regardless of who was pushin' the pedals, any race car emblazoned with the bamboo-lettered "Hawaiian" logo was sporting a de facto "bleeding edge" tune-up. It commanded respect — ironically, perhaps more than even Leong himself.
But the days of Leong as a business owner are over; he is now an employee. In fact, everything come full circle. Roland Leong is now under the employ of Don "the Snake" Prudhomme, as the crew chief for Prudhomme's Funny Car. And, strangely enough, now that he is longer signing the payroll checks, Leong is finally gaining respect from his peers as one of the finest theoretical minds in drag racing.
Drag Racing Monthly thought it would be ono to chat up one of the epic figures of drag racing, a man who has witnessed the arc and trajectory of the sport from the days of flag starts to the modern era of five dollar beers. It was kinda' serendipitous that we rolled tape on Leong in the Year of Our Lord, 1998, at the Pomona Fairplex, sight of many of the Hawaiian's greatest conquests. As a punctuation mark to our conversation, Leong tuned Prudhomme's Ron Capps-driven Funny Car to the Winternationals Winner's Circle.
DRM: You're a Hawaiian native. Why the move to California?
Leong: As a kid I always wanted to drag race and in the 60s this was the place to be.
DRM: Who were some of your heroes? Who drew you over here?
Leong: Well everyone had heard of Garlits, Prudhomme, guys like that
DRM: So it's kind of ironic that you and Prudhomme have a history that is still intertwined…
Leong: When I decided to build a fuel car it just so happened that Prudhomme was driving the Greer, Black & Prudhomme car. When the new track in Hawaii opened the guy who owned the track also raced boats — and he had a Keith Black engine in it. That's kind of how we all met. This was in 1964. '63 or '64.
I came over here and worked for Dragmaster (chassis builders) and I lived at Jim Nelson's — one of the owners of Dragmasters — house. My first job was sweeping the floor — I was probably 16 or 17 years old at the time, but then I'd get homesick and go home; then I'd get tired of Hawaii and come back over here. I went back and forth for a couple of years.
DRM: You got homesick? In California in those days there were two girls for every boy.
Leong: Yeah, but at the time racing was more prioritized than girls were.
DRM: During that time you drove a Top Gas car that was built by the Dragmasters.
Leong: Right. I raced it over here then took it back to Hawaii and sold it. This was still during the period when I was going back and forth. Then I decided to build a fuel car and attempted to drive it at Long Beach — it was my first pass in a fuel car — and ended up crashing it. Keith Black was overseeing the whole project because I knew nothing about running fuel or hemi engines because all I had was a gas car. Anyway, he was a nervous wreck because I was probably 17 years old and he knew my parents. I guess he thought, "Jesus, if I kill this kid how can I explain it to his parents?" He came to me after I crashed the car and said, "because of business reasons I'm going to give up running the Greer, Black & Prudhomme car. Prudhomme is going to need a ride — maybe you two should get together and let him drive it." That's kind of how it all began.
We raced around the coast — any place you could race, we raced. Every weekend. If there was a race for Top Fuel, we'd be there. Fontana, Lions, Riverside, Pomona here once a month. Even once we went to San Fernando at the end of '64. Then in '65 we came to the Winternationals here and ended up winning. Then we went up to Bakersfield for the U.S. Fuel & Gas Championships — whatever was around. I told Prudhomme, "Why don't we back east like the other guys?" And he said, "Well, how are we going to make a living?" I said, "Well, you book the car and off we go." He started calling up (promoters) and they wanted us. We went ahead and built a trailer. Like how I put it — how I tell him at times, "You were working in a body shop as a car painter at the time and ever since I talked you into going on the tour you've been a professional racer ever since."
DRM: The '65 Winternationals we were quite an event. That was the race where they ran the entire event in one day.
Leong: I don't even remember that; all I know is that we won.
DRM: You won it the next year too.
Leong: Right. In the meantime Prudhomme had gone on tour. He had an opportunity to drive the B&M Torquemaster car which was owned by B&M and Milodon. He took that deal so I had to dig around and look for a new driver; I came up with a guy named Mike Snively. We won the Winternationals and the U.S. Nationals, it was the first time anyone had won the Winternationals and the U.S. Nationals in the same year. Then in the meantime I said, "Maybe I'll try and book this car and we can go back east." A lot of them didn't know who I was because Prudhomme had been the one who called them before. When I first called them prior to the Winternationals (to book the car), the answer was kind of "no." They'd say, "I already got Prudhomme." A lot of them didn't know he wasn't driving the car anymore. After we won the Winternationals and I called 'em back and off we went. I've been going down the road racing since 1965.
DRM: Do you have any regrets about your chosen vocation?
Leong: Oh no, I wouldn't change anything.
DRM: The motors that everybody is running now is really based on the Chrysler 426 hemi. Is it fair to say that you were on the ground floor of the research and development of that motor?
Leong: The late model motors…the Ramchargers and Garlits probably had them before us. We were the first people on the West Coast to have a 426, which was through Keith Black. Actually, at the time we were running two cars — I still had my 392 with Snively. We ran the 426 mostly on the West Coast with Keith Black running it because I was back East — I had to make a living.
When we first ran it, it was quite a bit different running than the 392, right? The combustion chamber was a lot bigger, there were a lot of little things (different) that were pretty important. We had to find out what would make it go and not go.
DRM: It's amazing how over 30 years later it is still what everybody uses. So Black used your car a test bed with Mike Sorokin driving. This combination won the 1966 AHRA Winternationals in Tuscon…
Leong: Ahhh, I don't even remember…
DRM: I'll tell you what you won and you just agree with me. Despite all your early success, people are just now acknowledging your talents as a crew chief.
Leong: Back in those days there was no such thing as a "crew chief." Even now it would be hard to acknowledge me a crew chief. I guess I would have been the crew chief all along because I owned the thing and I ran it!
Like I tell people, this would be the first real job I ever had — thanks to Prudhomme. He's been an excellent boss as far as I hire the guys, run the car, and buy all the parts. I basically do everything but pay for it. But then again my make up is the way I did things when I owned it is the way I do it here. I think I bring a little more (to the table) because at one time I owned it and had to pay for it out of my own pocket. In that respect, I'm probably more in tune. I won't go "just get it, just get it, just get it."
I'm not saying other guys aren't doing the same thing, it's just that it's a different perspective when you never had to buy it. When you actually had to buy it, you just think differently.
DRM: Would it be fair to say that you were Keith Black's star pupil?
Leong: I wouldn't go as far as to say that. He helped a lot of people. But my theory is that nobody knows everything about everything. The trick is to be able to go to the right people and get the right answers — answers that you don't know about or don't want to about. Then again, you have to be able to know so much about what you're doing or what you're trying to do to be able to relate to this person because most of the time this person you are trying to relate to doesn't know what you are trying to do or what you are up against. Take one of these engines: Yes, it is an automotive engine; but there ain't an engine in the world that goes through the torture (laughs) on a lot of these parts that we put them through.
DRM: It's another universe.
Leong: Right. it's just another plane.
DRM: You were the first to go 290 mph in a funny car. That was with Wes Cerny tuning. What did he bring to the plate?
Leong: Well, it's just like anything else. Wes is a very intelligent person. If he needs something and nobody makes it, he'll go make it himself or can go make it himself. There ain't very many people in these pits (points 180 degrees) than can do that. They might have an idea but if they can't get it made….A guy like Wes, he can make it himself.
DRM: What did you and Wes do together to make it go 290?
Leong: Well…it wasn't one thing, okay? It never is. My theory is that there isn't a part on this car that makes it go, it's a combination of parts that makes it go. It's just a matter of giving it what it takes, so to speak. When you make a run and you come back and tear everything apart, different things are telling you something. I relate it to a baby: A baby cries and you don't know if it's hungry, if it wet its pants, or if it's sick. That's the theory I go by here: Different parts are telling us something and it's up to us to figure out what it's telling us — and then figure out how to fix it. Nothing fixes itself — that's another one of my theories. Everything has a reason why it happens. It don't just happen to happen — and it ain't gonna' fix itself. Whatever problems we have, I feel it's up to us to figure out what it is, what's doing it, and try to fix it — as opposed to just bolting another motor in there. Something might have happened — this things always throw you a bone, you know? They'll throw you a bone on a run and you'll say, "I got it now." And the next run, it won't repeat it. Or something else happens, you know?
So the bottom line is you have to just pay attention to everything that is going on just as close as you can and hopefully — hopefully — you know what causes it, good or bad. But then again on another token, it seems like it don't matter how smart you are, or how many championships you got or how fast and quick you ran. Everybody gets into trouble. It just seems like the good guys, they don't stay in trouble — eventually they find the trouble. I see people that got in trouble, and for whatever reason — not saying that they were stupid, maybe they ran out money before they found the trouble. I think all of us — whether it's the team, whether it's the driver, or whether it's the crew chief, we're all gonna' have good years and bad years, okay? And not just is drag racing; if you go back in history you can look at Roger Penske when he didn't qualify for the Indy 500. You know it wasn't for a lack of money; you know it wasn't for a lack of the right people because he can buy them all; you know it wasn't for a lack of the driver. That's the way it goes sometimes; that's reality.
DRM: In your career, you have been through a litany of drivers. You and Ron Capps seem to have a real rapport — more of a rapport than was apparent with your former drivers. Do you have more of a respect for the driver now? Have you always had a respect for the driver?
Leong: I've grown up a lot. I've made mistakes — like everybody else. But I think that Ron and I do have an excellent rapport. One of the biggest things is that he has proven to me that he could the job — and I've proven to him that I could do the job, okay? He doesn't mess with me and tell me how to tune this car and I don't mess with his area and try to tell him how to drive it. My explanation, what I tell him, is that, "Hey, you do the best you can or whatever it takes to put that win light on; and I'll try to do the best that I can and do whatever it takes to put that win light on. If we're both on the same page, with a little bit of luck we'll do great."
DRM: He went through a real trial by fire last year. The car shook, rattled, and rolled while he was trying to just get a bead on driving a nitro Funny Car.
Leong: Well, on top of that he's just an ordinary guy. He's a very optimistic guy — always upbeat. Things are gonna' happen, I don't care what you do or how long you do it, things are gonna' happen. And I will get upset with myself at certain times and it just seems like he's the one that is always optimistic and is holding all of us together as a team, myself included. And on top of that, I can honestly say that he is one of the best drivers I have ever had an opportunity to work with.
DRM: Wow. So let's rewind a little bit. After you went 290 in the "Hawaiian Punch" funny car, you took a brief hiatus and then returned to the sport tuning Ray Higleys' car, who is kind of low-buck racer.
Leong: Right, I did that for about a year and a half.
DRM: For lack of a better term, wasn't it kind of a neat learning experience? Wasn't it nice to be in charge as just a hired gun?
Leong: It was different. I was always in charge because I always owned my own deal, but then back in '88 or '89 with all the sponsors and trying to keep all the sponsors…the business part had gotten so complex and rigorous that I couldn't do both (owner and crew chief) so I decided then that I needed a crew chief to run the car. So I hired Wes Cerny.
In '91 we ended up number 2 in the world points, set the speed record and was killing everybody…
DRM: This was with Jim White driving.
Leong: Right. Then in '92 Procter & Gamble bought Hawaiian Punch (Leong's sponsor) from RJ Reynolds around 1990 and they kept the (drag racing) program through '91, but then after that, like a lot of companies do, when they changed hands — or even as much as change upper management — they look for different direction or different things to do with their advertising dollars.
In '92 I didn't do anything (in drag racing), but in '93 the state of Hawaii approached me and I did a deal which was supposed to be a three year program, but I was kind of lied to by some politicians.
DRM: Imagine that.
Leong: Anyway, in '93 — knowing the program was going to last three years — I went ahead and hired Leonard Hughes. So prior to that, I had never made any real tuning decisions myself since '89.
The only reason I did the Higley thing was because I had known Higley since I came over from Hawaii back in the '60s — we both worked for the same company, Dragmaster. He had a car, he was attempting to run Funny Car so he called me and I agreed to do it.
Prior to that, all my cars had whatever it took to get the job done. When I went over there he had, the way I put it was, "No money, no parts and no people." That's what it made it tougher, right? I had to change my whole way of thinking in going over there. My actual goal was to get the car to qualify…as it was, we were able to go a couple of rounds in a couple of places. At Indy, we were the third qualifier. For the parts that he had and for the money that was there, like I say, I had to be very careful because he just didn't have the funds. That made it harder to learn — not making all the qualifying runs and so and so forth. When Prudhomme called me to do this thing, I had to change my whole way of thinking again.
Like he said, "Don't worry about parts, just win the race."
DRM: Money is no object, eh?
Leong: Well not that it's no object, it's just a different way of doing things.
DRM: I remember when Higley's car was running some five-teens and some five-ohs…
Leong: At Indy, when we were third qualifier, we turned five-flat.
DRM: That car was kind of crowd favorite amongst race fans in the know. People love an underdog, and when you parlay that with your connection to the car…
Leong: Come to find out it was a 14-year old chassis — it still is — that I owned way back when. I didn't know that until I got there and started looking at it and I said, "You know this car really looks familiar, where did you get it from?" He bought it from a guy that I had sold it to 8 years prior.
DRM: Do you think part of your recent success with Prudhomme is timing? The conventional wisdom was that part of Prudhomme's problem earlier — before he hired you — had been the result of some really funky clutch discs.
Leong: Yes and no. Yes, it (problematic clutch discs) had been a problem, okay? To me the hardest problem in drag racing is putting together a good team: Finding the right combination of people. The way I explain is that putting together a good team is like having a race car that runs good; there isn't one part in a race car that makes it go, it is a combination of parts and pieces that make it go. It is no different when you put together a team, okay, it's a combination of people. Sometimes you have go through different people the way you go through different parts. You have to find the right combination.
But nowadays with all the work that has to be done and with the schedule that we have, good people means a lot more.
DRM: So it's chemistry as much as anything else.
Leong: Well, yeah. You can have one of the smartest guys but let's face it: Egos in this business run pretty high. A lot of the young guys — and some of the older ones — but the young guys it's like they haven't "been there" yet. They haven't experienced things that a lot of the older guys have. We went through all the periods of adjustments and transitions and all the bullshit. I'm pretty sure a lot of us changed, changed our way of thinking, changed the way we look at a lot of things: We've mellowed, the whole works.
Some of the younger guys, not that they're stupid or screwed up, they just haven't gone through that. Nowadays, when you've got five or six guys on the team to travel all across the country with these cars, when you get different personalities, different egos and all that involved — Jesus! that makes its a lot tougher. I mean you know when you are the crew chief or the boss of these guys, you got to be a psychiatrist, a psychologist, a dad, the whole works.
But that's what the game has become — it is just part of the game. You do whatever it takes.
This weekend at the 42nd Pepsi NIghtfire Nationals in Boise, Idaho, veteran dragster driver Jim Murphy attempts to claim the lead in the NHRA Heritage Series Points Chase.
Follow the AA/Fuel Dragsters at aafd.tv and facebook.com/AAFDTopFuel
Famoso Fuel Flopper Friday!
Two session of fuel funny cars on Friday at Famoso Raceway. Here are some photos. (all images by Cole Coonce)
"Never Slow Down — Keeping The Candles Lit with Chris Karamesines"
A feature on Chris "the Golden Greek" Karamesines — who is still driving Top Fuel dragsters at age 81 — has hit your local magazine rack: Page 58, the March 2010 ish of HOT ROD Magazine…. — CC
Chris Karamesines
The worlds quickest and fastest octogenarian.


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I could give several personal reasons for opposing it. My income took a big hit this year when I had to give up working full time. I'm now on a fixed income just when I'm facing serious medical expenses. Not only that, but I'm not able to avoid the tax by routinely running up to Billings, so I'm stuck paying it.
Still, I'm voting yes, and here's why.
The simplest reason is Powell is a community, and I'd like to keep it that way. I want to have good streets, a water system that doesn't spring leaks and other services necessary to life in a community. I will vote yes for the same reason I pay to have my house maintained, I don't want it to decay.
I support amenities such as a golf course I will never use, and an aquatic center that I use sometimes and city parks. Amenities make a town congenial to its residents and easier to sell when it's necessary to recruit, say, new doctors or qualified police officers.
I don't think the extra penny will increase traffic to Billings, because people who use the tax as an excuse are already going north.
I don't think I am overtaxed. Most states I have visited have higher sales taxes, and we have no income tax. I can't say for sure about property taxes, but I know mine are lower than those of people I know in other states.
In short, I think the extra penny is a reasonable increase given the needs of our communities and the county, and I'm going to vote for my community over my personal situation.
On a different topic, I noted with interest the letter we published last week taking the Powell student body to task for unsportsmanlike conduct because they turned their backs while the Cody volleyball team was introduced before a recent match. The Cody students, the writer noted, had exhibited no such behavior.
Then I noticed, with amusement, a similar letter in our Park County rival paper chastising Cody students' similar treatment to the Lady Panthers, while PHS students were polite. Well, something is clearly amiss here. It appears to me that each writer was looking at the situation from a different viewpoint or each was only watching one side of the gym. Either way, it is evident that both writers were biased.
The letters reminded me of two letters Newsweek published side by side back during the Watergate Scandal in the 1970s. One letter castigated the magazine for its totally unfair coverage of President Richard Nixon. The other condemned Newsweek for letting old Tricky Dick off the hook too easy and suggested an investigation of his entire administration.
Well, in politics as in gymnasiums, fairness and sportsmanship are all in the eye of the beholder, but the politicians and their supporters are less honest and more vicious about it than the kids, who are after all, only having fun.
Finally, the death of Sen. George McGovern, war hero and anti-war senator who was soundly defeated by Mr. Nixon in the 1972 presidential election for his stand on the Vietnam War, recalls this memory.
I had assigned papers justifying support for one candidate or the other to the members of my government class, and they wanted to know who I was going to vote for. Not wishing to influence their choices, I kept putting them off, telling them I would tell all on Election Day, when the paper was due. When I told them I had voted for McGovern, who, if memory serves, received only about 100 votes in Greybull, several of them were surprised.
The next day, one of them asked me how I felt about having voted for a guy who had been beaten so soundly. I told them my vote had demonstrated my willingness to take an unpopular position I thought was right, rather than following the flock, and I was proud to have voted that way.
Forty years later, I'm still darn proud of that vote.

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By Delivrine Registre - bio | email ALBANY, GA (WALB) - Albany Police have a report of a man who has been exposing himself just feet from a daycare facility.
A 19-year-old woman told officers that a white man in a truck has been driving down the 200 block of Hillside Drive exposing himself for the past six days.
This is just feet away from the Children's Friend Learning Center.
The 19-year-old told police there was no one else in the vehicle at the time of the incident. She was able to give them the tag number that was registered to 2000 Black Chevy truck.
Officers have not been able to get in contact with the driver.
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Teens & Cosmetic Procedures: Minimally invasive trend makes decisions easier
19 year old Braelynn Harris has wanted to do something about her stomach and outer thighs since she was 17 years old.
"Probably my senior year I was still really fit but I've always had the one area and the one body type so then since high school," Braelynn said.
Now the SMU sophomore has decided to take the plunge with a non invasive procedure the Food and Drug Administration approved in December.
It's called Liposonix and uses advances concentrations of ultrasound to destroy fat cells under the skin.
Braelynn said many fellow students her age are having cosmetic procedures—some of them of the more invasive variety.
"I know a lot of people have breast augmentation, nose jobs, especially in the area that I'm in so I think it's a bigger percentage than normal," Braelynn said.
Dr. Bill Johnson is the medical director of Innovations Medical in Dallas, Texas. Dr. Johnsons estimated that about 10% of his patients are 18 and 19 years old--many of them drawn to minimally invasive technologies.
"I think there is starting to be more interest in that," Dr. Johnson said. "I think it's easier to say yes as a clinician to that, you know that there is minimal risk and it's a good place to have a first experience with this kind of work."
Dr. Johnson said most women have achieved their normal body shape by 17 or 18--under that age many procedures would not be recommended.
Braelynn's trouble spots are marked and then the ultrasound is applied.
Dr. Johnson said the only real side effect is minor bruising.
Braelynn said it feels like a bee sting.
"It feels like needles are pricking me every once in awhile," Braelynn said with a smile.
Dr. Johnson said the targeted fat cells are gone for good.
"The fat cells themselves are destroyed so that fat can't come back because the cells they were living on are gone have been destroyed and then dissolved by the body," Dr. Johnson said.
Braelynn said her parents are supportive of her decision to have the elective minimally invasive procedure which will cost upwards of $4,000.00.
Braelynn said surgery wasn't an option.
"This is a lot less frightening."
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Q&A with A Fashion Love Affair.
Cara was so kind to answer some questions for us about herself and blog, A Fashion Love Affair!
1. What made you start a blog?
I was inspired to begin my own blog by other bloggers including Blair from Atlantic-Pacific, Emily from Cupcakes and Cashmere, and Julia from Sincerely Jules. I wanted to place where I could share my sense of style with a fashion community, and have a creative outlet outside of my day job.
2. How would you describe your personal style?
Personal style is so hard to define…I definitely don't follow any fashion rules and love to try new things, but I can say that I like clean lines, layering and pops of colour!
3. What is your favourite part about blogging?
My favourite part about blogging is definitely putting together the outfits I am going to post, it is so fun to push myself and I love when I put together a look that I am really proud of. I also love the blogging community, both online and in person-I have met some truly amazing people through blogging!
4. Any tips for Canadians wanting to stay warm but still want to look stylish?
Layer, layer layer! I love looks that have different colours and textures, and I think that is the best way to stay cozy during the Canadian winter
5. What is one of your favourite items in your closet?
My sister just gave me a Diane Von Furstenburg wrap dress this Christmas…it instantly became a favourite because it was from my sister and because it was my first DVF wrap dress!
6. What other Canadian fashion blogs do you read?
I read so many blogs…and there are so many wonderful Canadian bloggers out there! One of my absolutely favourites is Elizabeth of Chic Heroin. For a full list of blogs I read, you can check out my "blog roll" on my blog :)
Thanks again Cara for being our Kanata fashion blogger of the week!
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FERRUM, Va. (AP) - Ferrum College officials have lifted a lockdown that was put in place after students reported two attempted robberies on campus, one of them possibly involving a gun.
Campus police said the lockdown was lifted about 6 a.m. Friday. A college spokeswoman didn't immediately return a message.
The private college in southwest Virginia issued an alert at 10:22 p.m. Thursday after the first attempted robbery was reported near Riddick Hall. Less than an hour later, another robbery was called in on campus and a lockdown was ordered as a precaution.
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QUEST TV – Inventing the Future: Bikes, Bugs and Fashionistas
Meet innovators building sun-powered velomobiles, transforming flies into fishmeal, and converting husks into fashion. Also, discover a vast network of ocean observatories.
QUEST TV: America's Energy Future
Tour a solar energy farm, investigate fracking, and explore new energy-efficient home designs in this television episode.
Cementing a More Sustainable Future
A team of innovative students at UNC Charlotte develop a game-changing material poised to improve the way we build our cities and our homes.
Q & A – How Will the Solar Industry Shake Out?
Plummeting prices, trade war, record growth – it's been a busy year for the solar industry. Reporter Lauren Sommer talks to a solar analyst about how California is doing in the rapidly changing global market.
Looming Trade War Shakes Up U.S. Solar Industry
Federal officials have put trade tariffs on Chinese solar panels. American solar companies are split on whether it will be good or bad for the industry.
Solar FireworX: First X-Class Flare of the Year
The first X-Class solar flare of the year went off yesterday, on March 7th, in spectacular fashion. Fortunately the flare went off where it's supposed to: on the Sun. Had this intense magneto-plasmic explosion gone off on Earth, we'd be toast; one of these releases an amount of energy on the order of 100 billion megatons of TNT.
The Sun Shows A Flare for the Dramatic
A solar flare, associated with the big sunspot numbered 1402, erupted on January 23rd, launching a coronal mass ejection–a "cantaloupe" of plasma that makes Earth look like a grape. Rated as an M9-class flare, it packed umph just shy of what's necessary for adult "X-class" flaredom, the most powerful kind.
Clean Tech Earns Its Stripes
The largest energy user in the United States is the U.S. Military. Its annual energy bill runs about $15 billion dollars a year, which is why the Department of Defense has developed a keen interest in finding other ways to meet its energy needs, including investing in alternative energy.
As Renewables Boom, California Struggles to Quit Coal
California is known for its "green" reputation, so it might be a surprise that residents in Southern California still depend on coal power when they turn on the lights.
Serving Up Delicious Scoops of Sun Daily
The Solar Dynamics Observatory was launched last year, and since then has been capturing high resolution, multi-wavelength visible and extreme-ultraviolet imagery at very frequent intervals.
Reporter's Notes for Energy Storage: The Holy Grail
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Solar Heats Up in S.F.
The solar industry has descended on the Moscone Center in downtown San Francisco this week. QUEST Senior Radio Editor Andrea Kissack reports from the Intersolar North America Conference and Expo.
Finding a Home for Big Solar – Part Two
A plan that requires California's utilities to generate one third of their electricity from solar, wind and other types of clean energy by 2020 has been held up by a glacially slow permitting process. The Panoche Valley, south of Hollister, is finding itself in the center of one of those debates.
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University of Northern Iowa faculty members have cast a "vote of no confidence" in UNI President Ben Allen and Provost Gloria Gibson.
The quorum met in the Gallagher-Bluedorn Auditorium Friday afternoon, with dozens of adjunct faculty members and UNI students in attendance. After an hour and a half of debate, the vote of no confidence in Allen passed 197-53, with one voter abstaining. The same measure regarding Gibson passed 172-62, with nine voters abstaining.
The vote is in reaction to several major budget cuts. Faculty are concerned about programs on the chopping block and the lack of input faculty has had in the process.
It's not just the faculty who are concerned about the President's proposals. Students are wondering how the cuts could impact their education.
"I'm going to be deployed soon with the Iowa National Guard. It'll happen soon. And I would hate to see my department is gone when I come back," said Brad Friend, a UNI double major in management and physics.
As if fighting for our country wasn't enough, Friend now feels like he's fighting for his own future.
"I didn't expect budget cuts would interfere with my long-term plans," he noted.
Physics is one of many UNI academic programs the president has put on the chopping block. For freshmen, like Lynne Johnson, it may mean the end of her time at UNI.
"These cuts are basically eliminating all the programs that I'm in. So it's going to force me to change schools," said Johnson.
Friday afternoon, in an auditorium filled with students and non-voting professors, more than 250 faculty members debated President Allen's actions. Some argued, he's not the one to blame. But after an hour of debate, faculty members voted, and the vast majority agreed -- they can no longer support President Allen or Provost Gibson.
UNI Faculty member and United Faculty spokesperson Cathy DeSoto said, the vote doesn't prevent cuts from happening, but it does send a strong message.
"It might be naive, but I would hope this will improve relations. There's been a breakdown of communication, and if anything I hope this helps. I think this is a sad day. It's not something to be joyful about," she said.
A large group of students were at the meeting to show their support for President Allen. Senior Morgan Johnson said, she's disappointed in the faculty's actions, and concerned about the consequences.
"In a meeting I was in on Wednesday, President Allen came and spoke. And he mentioned that he would consider resigning in the event that the faculty voted no confidence in him. And that saddens me a lot. He has done so many great things for UNI in his six years here, that in this time of crisis I'm not sure this is the time to be searching for a new president," said Johnson.
But other students are proud to see their professors make this difficult decision.
"I support the faculty. The students may be the lifeblood, but without the faculty the degree wouldn't be worth the paper it's written on," said Johnson.
The faculty members voted on secret ballots, so there is no way of knowing which professors voted yes or no. That's something students say they will keep in mind as they head back to class on Monday.
Stacey Christensen, a spokesperson from UNI University Relations, said President Allen and Provost Gibson are still moving forward with plans to cut the university's budget.
"The vote is disappointing, but it's non-binding in the sense that both of them are going to continue to do their jobs. They're still going to continue to make the tough decisions that they have to. But, again, it's with the best interests of the students and the university at heart," said Christensen.
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I'm trying to familiarize myself with using gcov to analyze an OpenMP program. I've written a simple/trivial program to create 4 threads, print the number of threads and return. ***************************************************** #include "omp.h" #include "stdio.h" int main() { #pragma omp parallel num_threads(4) printf("Threads: %d\n", omp_get_num_threads()); return 0; } ******************************************************When I run "gcc-fprofile-arcs-fopenmp-ftest-coverage test2.c && ./a.out && gcov test2.c&& grep[56]: test2.c.gcov" to see how many times lines are executed I find that gcov reports |#pragma| line is run between 3 and 5 times and the |printf| line is run
one less time than the |#pragma|. However, "Threads: 4" is always printed 4 times.If this is a bug I'll gladly report it. If not, can you explain why this is happening so I can understand the results of more complicated programs?
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Truly a memorable night.
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Your behavior in this comments section pretty well defines what Icepyro and the author are talking about. One can have greivances. One can have complaints. One does not have to rant, rage, call names, or otherwise QQ about it. One can critique thier class's ability to pvp, but one does not have to resort to whining.
Besides that, I thought both Icepryo's comment and the article were well written, and ring true.
Disgruntard said...
Presenting reasons why I think the hunter class is broken does not constitute "ranting and raving," but accusing people of "whining" and "qq" when they express opinions that differ from yours is flat-out trolling. You have a lot of nerve criticizing anyone for their "behavior" when you're clearly looking to attack people, rather than rationally discuss the issues I raised.
I am also concerned about the way many bloggers play up the hunter class, not being honest about its severe deficiencies, the huge skill requirement, or how frustrating playing a hunter is in PVP. People have a right to hear the truth, preferably before they have spent months investing in a game or character that isn't what it is being advertised as. If telling people the truth and discussing things openly constitutes "whining" in your eyes you need a serious attitude check.
You need to keep writing Disgruntard. Every reply I read is getting less and less QQ and more calm explanation. It's the hyperbole and the insulting the reader that turn others away from you. I agree that I haven't worked out how to effectively PvP and I can't tell if that's the class or me. Maybe hunters are terribad right now. Maybe there is a design flaw. I will say it's taking me more than a few minutes to figure out how to not suck and the class is not faceroll anymore. I'm happy about the latter, though not so much about the former. As I said before, presenting reason and facts are good. It's telling the world that the sky is falling because we suck because the PTR nerfs suck because Blizz needs to listen to me that are bad. That is how some comments come off and that makes me not even really care what is said. This calm concern makes me think you actually care and can tell me what the real deal is. That's comepletely different. I know I have a hard time finding that line myself, but I try and wanted to thank for trying too.


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Will be sailing on the Volendam end of October out of Ft Lauderdale, with my parents and other family.
Would be good to meet any others on the cruise for excursions, drinks, etc. Family is older (60's - 80's) so I'll probably have plenty of free time after the 5:45 dinner seating. LOL
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With just over a month of regular-season NFL games left, Florida's teams have yet to emerge from Sunday with a victory from all three teams. Sunday was five points away from achieving that goal. The Jacksonville Jaguars won their second … Continue reading
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Week 11 was an exciting one for Florida's NFL teams. Tampa and Miami won in two completely different ways, and Jacksonville continued to be the front-runner to win the first pick of the 2014 draft. The action in Jacksonville started fast and in … Continue reading
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Winnipeg Free Press - PRINT EDITION
At 55, I'm wise to what's real in life
I turn 55 this week.
I'd never considered the possibility of the palindrome or, if I had, I attached the word "Freedom" before the numbers. When I was 55, I'd be grey-haired and sitting on a dock with my handsome husband in his khaki Dockers and boat shoes. We'd be retired and there'd be adorable grandchildren to visit when we returned from our latest adventure, which would involve hiking or visiting an exotic country or doing something else hearty and not at all typical of senior citizens.
I have a handsome husband, although, thank the lord, he doesn't wear baggy khakis. My hair is not grey, but the red has gradually faded to blond. We don't have a dock or grandchildren. The heartiest thing I do is walk the dog, who is not the well-behaved golden retriever I imagined. My husband and I both work and likely will for a few more years.
Here's what I've learned in 55 years.
- You will never remember the $5,000 you saved, tucked into RRSPS or used to buy new triple-pane windows. You will never forget the trip you took instead.
- Life is often hard and sometimes unfair. Your character is determined by what you do about it.
- The first time someone calls you "ma'am" is the hardest.
- You can choose to be insulted when the teenager at the movie theatre automatically gives you a seniors' ticket or you can be delighted you saved a couple of bucks.
- No one wants to listen to you complain about what hurts. Start now and you'll be alone at 80.
- Spanx are good.
- But gravity wins.
- Sometimes, it's OK to eat fries.
- Don't buy anything you can't pay for. Debt can make your tummy hurt. If it doesn't, you're not taking it seriously enough.
- Your mother was right: Wear sunscreen. And a hat.
- Try not to glance at yourself in a mirror unexpectedly after 50. The shock might kill you.
- Hang on to your friends. It's lovely having someone who remembers me when I was 18 and who shared the adventures.
- If you want to experience pure, unconditional love, have a baby.
- Ditto if you want to experience colic and broken curfews.
- Be kind. Regret is usually for saps, but you will regret your unkindness.
- Very few of the "life-changing" decisions I made actually changed my life. They just led me down different paths.
- Apologizing is good. Meaning it is better.
- Decide what you really want and how to get it. Don't talk about luck.
- As my mother says, "You don't know how young you really are." Pictures taken a decade ago prove it.
- Red wine isn't the answer to anything. Unless the question is: "What can I do to give myself a fat headache and regrets?"
- If you have siblings, stay close. They can back up your childhood memories.
- When you pick a partner, always go for the one whose eyes light up when you enter the room, not the smooth talker.
- If you wouldn't want your grandmother to see the photo, don't let someone take it.
- Get excited. Get excited about the colour of the sky and the neighbour's baby and the book you're reading. People like enthusiasm.
- Laugh. I like that my wrinkles come from grinning and that I smile like a hinge-jawed Muppet when I'm really happy.
- Be thankful. You're better off than the majority of people. Remember that when your taxes go up a little, the mosquitos are bad or you're stuck in traffic.
- No one wants to listen to you whine, especially if they've already heard you whine about something repeatedly. Trust me on this one.
- Chocolate cake is the best kind.
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition June 18, 2013 A2
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About Lindor Reynolds
National Newspaper Award winner Lindor Reynolds began work at the Free Press as a 17-year-old proofreader. It was a rough introduction to the news business.
Many years later, armed with a university education and a portfolio of published work, she was hired as a Free Press columnist. During her 20-plus years on the job she has written for every section in the paper, with the exception of Business. She'll get around to them some day.
Lindor has received considerable recognition for her writing. Her awards include the Will Rogers Humanitarian Award, the National Society of Newspaper Columnists' general interest award and the North American Travel Journalists Association top prize.
Her work on Internet luring led to an amendment to the Criminal Code of Canada and her coverage of the child welfare system prompted a change to Manitoba Child and Family Services Act to make the safety of children paramount.
She has earned three citations of merit for the Michener Award for Meritorious Public Service in Journalism and has been awarded a Distinguished Alumni commendation from the University of Winnipeg. Lindor was also named a YMCA/YWCA Woman of Distinction.
She is married with four daughters. If her house was on fire and the kids and dog were safe, she'd grab her passport.
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Officials warned consumers today about potentially contaminated melons sold in several states, including Washington and Oregon.
Del Monte Fresh Produce, Inc. of North America, known as "Del Monte Fresh," is voluntarily recalling 4,992 cartons of cantaloupes, each containing four plastic mesh sleeves with three cantaloupes per sleeve.
The melons may be contaminated with Salmonella Panama, an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems.
The Florida-based company distributed the fruit through warehouse clubs in Alaska, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington. The handles on the mesh sleeves are orange and have the Del Monte logo and indicate "3 count, Product of Guatemala."
These were available for sale between March 10-21. The cantaloupes, grown in and shipped from Del Monte Freshs' farm in Guatemala, have a light brown color skin. The recalled cartons of cantaloupes are dark brown cardboard with the "Del Monte" logo in red lettering and "cantaloupes" in yellow lettering on a green background. The cantaloupes have the lot codes: 02-15-24-10, 02-15-25-10, 02-15-26-10 and 02-15-28-10.
This cantaloupe recall is being implemented following a notification from the Food and Drug Administration of an epidemiologic link between the cantaloupes and approximately 12 reported cases of Salmonella Panama. Del Monte Fresh has put on hold the production and distribution of the product from the affected farm. The FDA and the company will continue an investigation.
Healthy persons infected with Salmonella Panama often experience fever, diarrhea (which may be bloody), nausea, vomiting and abdominal pain. In rare circumstances, infection with Salmonella Panama can result in the organism getting into the bloodstream and producing more severe illnesses such as blood vessel infections, endocarditis and arthritis.
Consumers who believe that they are in possession of uneaten cantaloupe affected by this recall should return it to the place of purchase for a refund and for more information may contact 1-800-659-6500.
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A partisan war is brewing that could bring the government to a screeching halt as early as January -- and no, it's not over the fiscal cliff.
It's all about the filibuster.
Democrats are threatening to change filibuster rules, in what will surely prompt a furious GOP revolt that could make those rare moments of bipartisan consensus even harder to come by during the next Congress.
Here's what Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is considering: banning filibusters used to prevent debate from even starting and House-Senate conference committees from ever meeting. He also may make filibusters become actual filibusters -- to force senators to carry out the nonstop, talkathon sessions.
Republicans are threatening even greater retaliation if Reid uses a move rarely used by Senate majorities: changing the chamber's precedent by 51 votes, rather than the usual 67 votes it takes to overhaul the rules.
"I think the backlash will be severe," Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), the conservative firebrand, said sternly. "If you take away minority rights, which is what you're doing because you're an ineffective leader, you'll destroy the place. And if you destroy the place, we'll do what we have to do to fight back."
"It will shut down the Senate," the incoming Senate GOP whip, Texas Sen. John Cornyn, told POLITICO. "It's such an abuse of power."
The push will happen at the start of the new Congress, when Reid will unveil a rules package certain to have some changes to the filibuster. The exact contents of that package have yet to be finalized, as is the decision on whether to invoke the so-called nuclear option -- 51 votes -- to push it through. But Democratic senators are urging Reid to take steps ranging from the most draconian one of virtually eliminating the filibuster to more piecemeal changes designed to discourage the use of the stalling tactic.
What Reid appears most likely to do is push for an end to the filibuster on so-called motions to proceed, or the beginning of a debate on bills or nominations. If Reid goes this route, senators could still filibuster virtually any other aspect of Senate business, including any movement to end debate and call for a final vote on a bill.
And Reid is strongly considering pushing for other filibuster changes, too -- most notably requiring senators to actually go to the floor and carry out an endless talking session, rather than simply threaten them as they do now. Reminiscent of the 1939 movie classic "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington," the idea has picked up steam in liberal circles -- and its intent is to discourage senators from filibustering, though it would fundamentally change the very nature of the modern Senate.
"We cannot allow the Senate to be dysfunctional by the use of filibusters," said Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Reid's No. 2. "We've had over 300 filibusters in the last six years -- it's unprecedented. What we're talking about is very basic -- you want to start a filibuster, you want to stop the business of the Senate, by goodness' sake, park your fanny on the floor of the Senate and speak. If you want to go to dinner and go home over the weekend, be prepared, the Senate is moving forward."
By and large, Reid and his caucus are on board with this approach -- they are furious at what they see as deliberate attempts by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and his Republican colleagues to threaten filibusters on even the most routine pieces of legislation or noncontroversial nominations simply to stall President Barack Obama's agenda.
"They have made it an almost impossible task to get things done," Reid said.
While several incoming freshmen, including Massachusetts liberal Elizabeth Warren, support changing the rules by a majority vote, it could present a problem for other new Democrats who ran as consensus builders to have to cast a partisan vote on their very first action next year.
"It isn't a concern just because the Republicans are concerned," said Rep. Joe Donnelly, the incoming Indiana Democratic senator. "We want to make sure we protect the things that make the Senate unique, so I want to make sure I make the right decision on this."
Republicans say this is a problem of the Democrats' own making. They blame Reid for quickly attempting to shut down debate without giving Republicans a chance to offer amendments, even on bills that skip the committee process entirely.
Republicans say eliminating filibusters -- even on a piecemeal basis -- will undermine the fundamental underpinnings of the Senate as a body designed to operate on consensus and protect the minority party, making the body run like the House, where the majority rules with an iron fist.
"If what [Reid] talks about doing is in fact what he does, ... then that reduces that much more leverage of the minority to insist on an open amendment process," Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) said. "I worry about it."
At the start of the 112th Congress, Reid and McConnell -- along with Senate Rules and Administration Committee Chairman Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), and the top Republican on the panel, Sen. Lamar Alexander -- brokered a "gentleman's agreement" to operate the Senate more openly and avert a filibuster showdown on the floor.
But that process quickly broke down, and Reid later admitted that he made a mistake when he dissuaded Sens. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) and Tom Udall (D-N.M.) from pushing forward a sweeping filibuster reform package, which they dubbed the "constitutional option." The procedural squabbling hit fever pitch in October 2011, when Reid forced through a change in the rules to limit the ability of senators to force votes on amendments once a filibuster was defeated.
While the change in the rule did not alter the legislative process substantively, the process employed by Reid outraged Republicans, since he forced through a change to Senate precedents by a 51-48 vote -- rather than by two-thirds. While this arcane process is allowed under Senate procedures, it's rarely employed for fear future majorities would replicate the tactics and work their will over minority rights to stall legislation -- something McConnell gravely warned Reid about.
When Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) threatened to employ a similar maneuver in 2005, Democratic critics labeled it as the "nuclear option."
"Then-Sen. Obama thought it would be wrong to make the changes when the Republicans were in the majority; then-Sen. [Joe] Biden thought it was a bad idea when the Democrats were in the minority; and Harry Reid thought it was an awful idea when he was in the minority because he said no one group should be able to run roughshod over the other group," said Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), No. 4 in GOP leadership.
Other Republicans warn it will further damage an already toxic political climate at a time of monumental economic and budgetary problems.
"This is not the time to create a divisive distraction that Democrats said in 2006 would destroy the United States Senate," Alexander told POLITICO. "One of the biggest ways to do that, not to [reach a budget deficit deal], is to do what Sen. Reid said in 2006, would be to use the nuclear option to blow up the Senate by trying to change the filibuster rules."
But Democrats don't think the changes will prevent the minority from exerting its rights. And if Democrats push through their "talking filibuster" plan, both Barrasso and Coburn say they'd be willing to go to the floor and make their objections heard.
"I'll filibuster any way I can," Coburn said. "If you want to filibuster, you ought to be willing to get out and earn it. I don't have any problems with that."


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Expect Cooler Nights with No Precipitation through the Remainder of the Week
Monsoonal weather patterns have moved into the Grand Canyon area decreasing fire danger. As a result, on Tuesday, July 8 at 8 a.m. fire managers lifted fire restrictions within Grand Canyon National Park. More »
Two Bats Collected in the Park Have Tested Positive for Rabies
One on the North Kaibab Trail and the other at Tusayan Ruin/Museum. Rabies can be prevented if appropriate medical care is given following an exposure. Any persons having physical contact with bats in Grand Canyon National Park, please follow this link. More »
Weighted Lottery for 2013 Noncommercial River Trips through the Grand Canyon Now Open
Contact: Shannan Marcak, 928-638-7958
Grand Canyon, Ariz. - The National Park Service is now accepting applications for noncommercial river trip permits to raft the Colorado River through Grand Canyon National Park. The permits are for specific launch dates within calendar year 2013. A total of 449 permits will be available for 12- to 25-day river trips. Eligible individuals may apply online at the weighted lottery web site which may be accessed by visiting to the park's home page at www.nps.gov/grca. Select "River Trips/Permits" then "Weighted Lottery". Applications will be accepted online through noon (12:00) Mountain Standard Time on Wednesday, February 22, 2012.
Each year in February, a main lottery is held to assign launch dates for river trips occurring the next year. Public notifications regarding main lotteries are made by both email and news release. In addition to the annual main lottery, follow-up lotteries are held as needed throughout the remainder of the year to reassign canceled and/or left-over river trips. Public notifications for these follow-up lotteries are made through email, an RSS feed, and Twitter (twitter.com/GCRiverPermits).
The weighted lottery web site can be accessed for free year-round to create or modify an account and to sign-up to receive e-mail notifications. Individuals who are interested in a future noncommercial river permit are strongly encouraged to create an account. Lottery applications are accepted through the weighted lottery web site only when lotteries are open.
Individuals must be 18 years or older to apply for a river trip permit. Noncommercial river trips must be self-guided, and technical whitewater experience is mandatory on each trip. Individuals may participate on a maximum of one river trip per year (commercial or noncommercial).
Individuals interested in professionally-guided river trips should not apply through the lottery, but instead should request space on a commercial trip. A list of commercial companies offering guided trips can be found by visiting www.nps.gov/grca, selecting "River Trips/Permits", then "3 to 18 Day Commercial Trips".
For more information about this 2013 weighted lottery, please visit the Grand Canyon National Park web site at http://www.nps.gov/grca/planyourvisit/whitewater-rafting.htm, or contact the River Permits Office at 1-800-959-9164 or 928-638-7884, or by e-mail e-mail us.
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At the tender age of ten Darcy Copperfield was expelled from St. Peregrine's School for Boys for writing 'Anne of Green Gables is a nymphomaniac' on the blackboard How times have changed, nowadays Copperfield's observations about sex and perversion in literature are respected and salivated over worldwide. Darcy Copperfield lectures on Pornographic Writing. He lives in London and hankers to get his hands on a signed pair of Russel Brand's leather trousers. Here in these pages Darcy will give his opinion on great literature in his own inimitable way
Understanding JKK Rowlkien
J K K Rowlkien's Lord of the Philosopher's Ring is, on the surface, a classic fantasy tale of good over evil. Rowlkien's central character, the young Harry Baggins, is a hubble (a non-human creature) who finds himself suddenly enrolled in Rivenwarts, an ordinary school for ordinary people.
We all know how the story goes, Harry is soon in possession of the philosopher's Ring. Blah, blah blah. That's all very entertaining, but it's the underlying meaning of the work that has always intrigued me. The sexual content of Rowlkien's masterpiece is thinly veiled in what one might refer to as a not very good invisibility cloak. For example, Baggins is always inserting his hairy, but deft finger into the Philosopher's Ring and on virtually every page we find him thrusting a Nymphus 2000 between his non-human thighs. He also has a peculiar relationship with aging hippy headmaster Professor Gandledore, played by the excellent Richard E Grunt in the feature film.
Rowlkien sets out to illustrate Baggins' sexual leanings by having him come out of the closet-under-the-stairs-that-lead-to-the-shire so early in the book. The Lord of the Philosopher's Ring is a work bestrewn with phallic symbolism and erotic metaphors.
Stripped of his powers, the villain of the piece, Lord Gollumort takes up residence in the sweaty loin cloth of Bilbo Quimble, Rivenwarts' IT teacher, and it is when this is removed, (look out for one of the most erotic pieces of writing ever) that the strange scar of Harry Baggins' foreskin goes red.
My erotic rating? XXXX
Jane Eyre Unbuttoned
It is a truth universally acknowledged that Jane Eyre is probably one of the most misunderstood writers of all time.People, even those you'd think would know better, constantly muddle her up with Fanny Burney, or think, wrongly I must stress, that she wrote Middlemarch and was a man.
Jane Eyre is the supposedly prim little genius who wrote the famous frock frolic in which the snobby Heathcliff gets, eventually, to marry Elizabeth. But where's the sex you ask? There's plenty of it I can assure you. When the Vicar of Ambridge points out that Lady Catherine Deneuve of Rosings Park has several staircases he's doing it to let the reader know that Heathcliff will be hotfooting it up one of them to get to Miss Bennet's boudoir. By that time he's already smitten with the comely country girl and has, no doubt, already dallied with her day bonnet on more than one occasion. Remember how he said her eyes were brightened by exercise? Well how could he know? And what form of exercise does the eminent Mr Heathcliff, of Wildfell Hall, enjoy? Put it this way, he's not described as proud and upright for nothing. Need I say more? Not really but I will. Heathcliff is clearly not the innocent we like to think him, after all, he's got a mad wife locked away in the attic. What turned her crazy I'd like to know. And how does he pay Grace Poole? There's never any mention of her getting her wages and it's Eyre's omission of the facts that leads me to deduce that Grace was in receipt of more than a handful of thr'pennies. An erotic book? If you take out all the 'Pray tell me's' and substitute the phrase 'afternoon tea' with a 'good hard humping' it most certainly is. My erotica rating? XXX
I hope you enjoy my ramblings.


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Breaking a ballerina is cheaper than replacing a stage floor, I'm not saying it's right I'm saying it's cheaper. My stagecraft instructor on the subject of raked (slanted downward towards the audience) stages which suck to dance on.
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Public Health Thank You Day 2014: November 24
Did you get your flu shot this year? Donate blood or give your time to health services? You are part of keeping our communities healthy as well so thank you!
On the Monday before Thanksgiving, Research!America and leading public health organizations take time to recognize public health professionals who work tirelessly every day to protect us. From the ordinary to the extraordinary, these heroes keep our drinking water safe, air clean and children healthy. Read about the work some public health heroes are doing around the country.
"Professionals throughout the public health system work 24/7 to protect Americans from health threats," Tom Frieden, MD, MPH, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said in a statement to mark Public Health Thank You Day. "The recent federal shutdown was a stark reminder of how much we rely on these professionals day in and day out to detect outbreaks, respond to health emergencies, and promote health every day. Their dedication reflects their scientific ethic as well as their continuing commitment to serving the public."
We will update our Public Health Thank You Day materials later in 2014. The links below will give you an idea of the resources we have to celebrate Public Health Thank You Day — to be held November 24 this year.
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- Like our Public Health Thank You Day Facebook page!
- Connect with your state and local public health heroes
- Write to your policy makers
- Use our template to submit a letter to the editor of your local paper in support ofpublic health
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- If you teach, use those templates in your classroom - let your students know that they can and should be advocates for public health research!
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- Send a thank you e-mail to your public health heroes using our thank you image
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Have another idea? Tell us how you will celebrate Public Health Thank You Day.
Research!America and the Campaign for Public Health Foundation, the American Public Health Association, the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, the American Association Public Health Dentistry, the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Public Health, the Ohio State College of Public Health, the Society for Public Health Education, the University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health and the National Alliance for Hispanic Health ask Americans to give special thanks to their state and local "public health heroes" who protect the nation's health throughout the year.


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"all heroes", a short film I directed alongside my friend Sean Wallace of Eyeball Moving Image for adidas Originals & the NZ All Blacks.
Featuring: Jonah Lomu, Liam Messam, Sonny Bill Williams, and Daniel Carter.
Producers: Ivy Ong, AJ Moriarty, Adam Daysh.
Illustrations by: Elliot Francis Stewart. (http://www.elliotfrancisstewart.com/)
October 2010, Tokyo Japan. Detox is for hippies.
- Frank


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How the Green Taliban spreads its poison gospel
Quite probably you missed the big story in yesterday's Independent that, according to a "think tank", the economy would be £20 billion a year better off if it focused on wind power. Personally, I'd put more faith in the scheme once mooted by the Daily Mash to pay off the national debt by breeding unicorns and selling them to the Chinese at £250,000 a pop. But the difference is that the Mash is a satirical publication whereas the Independent – at least in theory – is not.