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John Doppenberg
John Arthur Doppenberg, a longtime resident of Stevens County, passed away on June 29, 2011 in Spokane at the age of 34. He was born in Memphis, Tennessee on Oct. 8, 1976, the son of Gary and Karen (Driskill) Doppenberg.John attended school in both Orient and Kettle Falls. John enjoyed life and loved spending time outdoors. He loved listening to music and playing his harmonica. John was a free spirit and will be missed by all who knew and loved him.John is survived by his father, Gary Doppenberg of Colville; his mother, Karen Hamel (Ron Davis) of Colville; his grandmothers, Janet Doppenberg of Colville and Lorene Driskill of Kettle Falls, as well as numerous other family and friends.The urn graveside service will be held at 11 a.m., Monday, August 1 at the Mountain View Park Cemetery in Colville. The Danekas Funeral Chapel and Crematory in Colville has been entrusted with arrangements.


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A major decision is announced Wedesday, in the lawsuit filed by Katie Autry's family... against Western Kentucky University.
WKU, The Student Life Foundation, and five university employees in their official capacities are no longer defendants in the civil suit.
Katie Autry's Estate filed the lawsuit in September, claiming that the university's lax security procedures and the negligent actions of five of its employees directly led to the brutal rape and murder of the WKU Freshman in her dorm room in May.
Western's Lawyers claim the school is immune from a civil suit because it is part of the government and say any legal action against the school should be taken before the Board of Claims.
That type of case does not call for a jury trial and limits the amount of money that Autry's Estate could recover.
But attorneys for Autry's Estate argue that since no classes are conducted in Hugh Poland Hall (where the murder took place) the school is not entitled to immunity.
Autry's lawyers say they plan to appeal Judge Tom Lewis' decision and remain confident in their case
The aunt of Katie Autry says she is in shock right now, and while she says she knows Western's employees did not actually commit the crime against Katie, she says by failing to comply to the safety measures that were supposed to be in place, WKU's employees allowed it to happen.
In a statement released today, WKU states it regrets the terrible crime against Katie Autry, but is confident that neither its staff nor its policies played a role in that crime.
Once the Estate files its appeal, it could take the Court of Appeals up to a year and a half to make a decision.

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5 Scientific Reasons You're a Bad Employee
#2. We're More Racist at Work Than We Think
Racism, much like that muttering hobo that has slept in the parking garage for the last five years, still lives in the workplace even if no one wants to acknowledge it. For instance, a study at the University of Chicago, analyzing five thousand resumes, determined that an applicant's name can determine whether or not they'll get a call back--that is, whether or not their name sounded white.
"Mr. Ulammabat, would you consider switching to 'Rick'?"
People sporting names like Kathleen or Pam got 50 percent more callbacks for interviews than people with names like Lakisha or Shaniqua. A follow up experiment by 20/20 found that when posting two identical resumes, one with a "white name" and one with a "black name," at a job website, the "white named resume" got contacted 17 percent more often than its black counterpart.
Well, you think, everyone knows that people who work in HR are jerks. After all, they consistently reject you from any jobs you apply to, just because you Photoshopped some boobs on the CEO that one time. But you're not racist, right? In fact, if you heard someone make so much as an offhand racial insult, you'd confront them and/or avoid them at all costs from that point forward. Right?
"...maybe I stop parking next to Bob."
Well, an experiment at York University showed that people vastly overestimate their reactions to racism, as long as they're not a member of the race being discriminated against. The experiment took 120 people (no minorities) and split them into two groups. Sixty of them were asked, as a hypothetical, would they be willing to partner up with a person after hearing them make racist comments. Only 10 to 20 percent said they would.
The other 60 subjects, meanwhile, were put in a waiting room along with two people in on the experiment--one white, one black. The black person got up and "accidentally" bumped the white person's knee before leaving the room. The white person would then turn to the subject and say a phrase like, "Typical, I hate it when black people do that," or in some cases, use an outright racial slur. When those subjects were then given the chance to partner up with the racist to complete a task... 63 percent did.
Instead of meeting the racism with fury, it was met with relative indifference. The attitude seemed to be, "I'm totally against racism in all circumstances, unless the person I'm working with hates black people."
"Why isn't Terrence laughing at Jen's Lil Kim impression? She said her black sorority sister thought it was funny."
#1. We Are Bad Judges of Our Own Competence
How many subjects would you say you're an expert on? Well, you're safe in claiming at least one: yourself. After all, you have intimate knowledge of every one of your own secrets, shames, talents and failings. You spend every day with yourself. If a boss says you're incompetent, your first reaction will be to wonder what gave him this clearly false impression. Whether you say it out loud or not, a part of you is always thinking, He doesn't know me!
Well... science says otherwise.
We hope you like eating alone at lunch, Science.
Surveys asking people about how they compare with their peers have turned up a surprising result: Almost no one thinks that they're comparatively bad at anything. One study showed that 94 percent of college professors thought they did above average work. Another one involving students had 70 percent claiming to have above average leadership skills. That's physically impossible, obviously. Everyone can't be above average. The average wouldn't be average any more.
"Above average shape, yeah."
This trend exists in most areas of expertise, and it's caused by illusory superiority. If you're wondering how a person can screw up time and time again and still think they're better than those other "below average" folk, you can thank the infamous Dunning-Kruger effect, a catch-22 seemingly designed by Satan himself that makes incompetent people unable to judge their own incompetence because measuring competence is the thing they're least competent at.
Our delusions about ourselves are so bad that total strangers can take one look at us and gauge our own skills as effectively as we can. One study had people being recorded while reading some text, and then showed the resulting tape to a stranger. The stranger's assessment of the subjects IQ scores was just as good as the subject's self-ratings.
Meanwhile, research has also shown that we tend to overestimate our knowledge of a subject, while underestimating how much we'd benefit from studying it. Like the aforementioned employees trying to adjust to their new computers, we assume every subject is easy until we find out otherwise, at which point we immediately declare it impossible. It's amazing we ever even learned how to operate a broom.
"So ... now what?"
So, be honest:
When you read this article, did you honestly think it applied to you? Or were you spending the whole time thinking that it finally explained those other incompetent fools--you know, the ones you work with? If it's the latter, don't worry: They're thinking the same thing about you. It's science!
Science: Because suck it.
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Become a Palermo's Pizza "insider" when you take the only pizza factory tour in the city! Start with a fun and engaging video that shares the success story of Milwaukee's hometown frozen pizza manufacturer. Then get a bird's eye view of the production floor, where Palermo's expert Pizzaiolos craft the pizza everyone loves. Lunch – a slice of our fresh, hand-stretched pizza and a beverage – in Pizzeria 3301 and a souvenir are included. Tour and lunch take approximately 1 hour. No walk ins. Reservations required.
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CLEVELAND - The Browns are playing it safe with Trent Richardson.
Cleveland's star running back will not play in the club's exhibition opener tonight against the St. Louis Rams as he continues to recover from an injured right shin. Richardson was accidentally kicked in the shin - the same one he hurt during spring practice - last week, and the Browns won't risk him hurting it further.
"We're going to be smart," coach Rob Chudzinski said following Wednesday's practice, which was moved indoors because of heavy rain.
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SITTING OUT — Cleveland running back Trent Richardson watches during training camp Tuesday at the team's facility. He will not play tonight.
-- Associated Press
Chudzinski said Richardson could have played if it was a regular-season game, but the Browns are being careful with the former first-round pick, who has had a history with injuries and played most of last season with two broken ribs.
Chudzinski said he is not concerned about Richardson's durability.
"It's the preseason, we have a plan of working him and making sure that he gets reps as needed out here in practice and we build him to be ready for the beginning of the season," Chudzinski said.
Richardson did not play in any of Cleveland's exhibition games a year ago, when he was recovering from minor knee surgery. He recently said one of his goals was to play in all four of Cleveland's preseason games. Richardson took part in some drills on Wednesday, but was not on the field during team activities.
Chudzinski said Richardson understands the reasons for the Browns keeping him out.
Richardson rushed for 950 yards and caught 51 passes for 367 yards as a rookie. He played in 15 games, missing only the finale at Pittsburgh with an ankle injury sustained the previous week at Denver.
Chudzinski said Dion Lewis will start in Richardson's spot. Also, starting strong safety T.J. Ward (hamstring) and starting guard Shawn Lauvao (ankle) will also sit out against the Rams.
The Browns plan to play their starters for about one quarter, meaning quarterback Brandon Weeden will only have a few series to impress Cleveland's coaching staff and maybe silence some critics who don't think he's Cleveland's long-term answer at QB.
Weeden has showed progress during training camp, and seems more comfortable with the Browns' new offense.
His goals against the Rams are pretty simple.
"Just string together consecutive good plays, string together couple good drives, just get the feel of the game," he said. "It's a little different than practice, obviously there's going to be some emotions, there's going to be a lot more adrenaline and stuff like that. So I think it's just put together a couple good drives and completions and just manage the game and do the things I need to do to move the ball up the field."
The Browns' defense has had the upper hand during recent practices, but Weeden feels Cleveland's offense is starting to gel.
On defense, the Browns will get their first chance to unleash the aggressive scheme installed by new coordinator Ray Horton.


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Fans of high school football in Ohio know that this weekend will have a different feel.
It's the first week of the playoffs, when teams begin their runs at what they hope will be state championships.
The intensity will be a little greater as a simple reality sinks in - it's the first week of a five-week, single-elimination tournament.
Win and you play again - lose and it's wait until August.
Steubenville Catholic Central, Steubenville Big Red, Indian Creek and Harrison Central all will represent our area in the Ohio playoffs. Central, 6-4, will visit Mogadore, 10-0, at 7:30 p.m. Friday night in Division VI play; Harrison Central, 7-3, will visit St. Clairsville at 7:30 p.m. Friday in Division IV play; and, in Division III action, Indian Creek, 9-1, will visit Millersburg West Holmes, 9-1, at 7 p.m. Saturday and Big Red, 8-2, will host Zanesville Maysville, 9-1, at 7 p.m. Saturday at Harding Stadium.
To earn a spot in Ohio's annual post-season tournament is a difficult assignment. According to the Ohio High School Athletic Association, 717 schools in the state fielded football teams each year, with only 32 teams in each of the state's six divisions advancing to the playoffs. That's only 192 teams, or about 27 percent. To put that number into greater perspective, the OHSAA reports that there are 96 schools playing football which have never made the playoffs.
That puts our teams in pretty elite company. Consider that Mogadore is making its 26th playoff appearance while Big Red is making its 25 appearance. At the other end of the list is Maysville, which has qualified for the first time. Catholic Central is making its 10th playoff appearance, Harrison Central its fifth and Indian Creek its third.
The tradition at Big Red and Mogadore runs so deep, in fact, that the schools are tied for fifth on the all-time playoff victory list with 46, and Big Red is ninth in playoff winning percentage at .687 (46-21.)
Playoff football carries a simple goal for each team: Big Red and Indian Creek are shooting for the Division III title game, which will be played at 11 a.m. Dec. 1 in Canton; Harrison Central for the Division IV title game, which will be played at 3 p.m. Nov. 30 in Canton; and Catholic Central for the Division VI title game, which will be played at 11 a.m. Nov. 30 in Massillon.
There will be plenty of support among area fans for this year's playoff teams, and we're sure Weirton Madonna will find similar backing when it begins play in West Virginia's Class A playoffs next weekend.
Congratulations, then, to our area playoff football games.
While we would never venture a guess as to how the games will turn out, we feel confident in predicting they each will have a great deal of support whenever and wherever they play.


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I would appreciate feedback on that pano (don't look at nadir, I didn't correct it yet) about HDR settings. Do you think it's too much or is it ok ?
Flash interactive version: http://www.skivr.com/temp1/pano.html
I would appreciate feedback on that pano (don't look at nadir, I didn't correct it yet) about HDR settings. Do you think it's too much or is it ok ?
Flash interactive version: http://www.skivr.com/temp1/pano.html
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Hi Vincen,
looking at the pic my first impression is it's too much. It seems to be better for me on the pano/html file. Color saturation could be a little bit lower for me. The colors look better for me for example in the right corner of jpeg.
Hello Vincen
I tend to agree with Heinz, but when I look at the actual interactive panorama I think that the intensities of the colours suit the subject.
As I don't know the subject it is difficult to to know if his is really what it looks like, but the vibrant colours do look as if this is what the creators of his church intended.
So many churches in England were really magnificently colourful in the past, but can be less so today so I think it is great to celebrate this building in this way.
You could tone down the HDR just a touch, but this will probably detract from the result, but then what do I know? Like you are doing here, I like to experiment and I do like this one.
Al the best, Hugh.
The purpose of HDR is to take a scene with a wide dynamic range and render the image the way our eyes see it. Your whites are blown out in the windows and doors. First get a handle on processing blown whites, then concentrate on the color levels. I do not do HDR, so I cannot point you in the right direction.
Hello Vincen
I take the point that Dennis has made and wonder if you are using HDR to blend bracketed exposures or simply to control the colour intensity.
I use HDR for the first purpose where light levels vary widely across the subject and recently took panoramas from seat locations at Wimbledon Tennis and Twickenham Rugby where the courts/pitches were in sunlight and the back of the stands almost in darkness so I bracketed 7 exposures at one stop intervals for each shot, which resulted in a huge number of images and a lot of processing, but I am assuming, because the windows and doors in your image are over exposed, that you are using the HDR tools to control the colour intensity. Is this the case?


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Changes I made....
* The film now opens with a gunbarrel, taken from FRWL. The theme is Leroy Holmes' cover, heavily cut down to fit the sequence. And, as per Charlie Feldman's alleged idea, Bond audibly fires a cork gun!
* The entire sequence about Bond's retirement, from the dignitaries meeting at the crossroad to Bond's property being blown up, forms a pre-title sequence. The final explosion leads into the opening titles.
* The opening titles now segue into Dr. Noah telling his women that Sir James Bond is back, via a tiny bit of footage of falling cards sourced from Tremble's dream later in the film.
* The Cooper/Detainer scene is now followed by the entire Mata Bond sequence, starting with Bond and Hadley discussing International Mother's Help.
* The introduction of Le Chiffre and resulting Berlin Wall explosion are followed by Bond sneaking into Vesper's office, and the introduction of Tremble.
* Tremble's scene at Q Branch is followed by his arrival in France, where he punches the customs agent.
* The customs scene is followed by Mathis meeting Tremble in the lavatory - the film's original pre-title sequence (for absolutely no reason).
* As it should, the lavatory scene goes directly into Mathis and Tremble at the car wash.
Except for the filmmakers' idea that the funnier scenes should come sooner (i.e., half of Sellers' material), there is no reason why the film should have been released out of order. Nevertheless, the obviously wrong chronology seems to be one of the biggest gripes this film has received over the past 43 years, but since MGM never fixed it, I've done their work for them.
THIS is exactly how "Casino Royale" should be viewed!
Edited by TheLazenby, 16 October 2011 - 06:58 AM.


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He's not used to the cold, you guys, and there's a shiver in his spine that feels absolutely abysmal.
He doesn't have the money for this but doesn't care. He figures, one can never assume that this type of series will happen even twice in a lifetime so he nabs a ticket right behind the third base line for the price of a 72 inch flat screen that's not nearly close to being on sale just so he has the right to stand outside this cathedral of consternation and gaze happily into its gates with the patrons of protection standing guard with their scanners and nanny packs stuffed with ripped ticket stubs.
The sky is white grey the color of cold oatmeal and there is a salty taste in the air. A concerned few wonder if there will be a rain delay at some point and panic and wonder if they left their umbrellas or jive pink ponchos in their Expeditions or Blazers or Humer H3′s. The women tell the husbands to run out and collect the objects to which the husbands reply, 'You think I have a chance at getting back in here with those electronic scanners? They'll say I scalped and cause a fuss and I'll never get back in here.' It's probably true. Baseball games these days are a much different experience from when they were kids. This isn't 1972 when they were able to stand at the gates of Old Tiger Stadium and jump through the lines at opportune times. Back then, once you were inside you were lost in the masses and there was no getting out until the final pitch ended. These days you're scanned for bombs and guns and bottles of water by those minimum wage treasurers who are just happy to earn eight bucks an hour so they can be inside the basilica walls to watch the part time millionaires play for three hours and dash hopes that their dreams of Ben and Cody and Jasper and Matthew could ever play ball professionally. Not because their kids aren't good at baseball but because kids named Miguel and Rafael and Juan and Carlos are so so so much better.
But, still, the stadium speaks to you. It calls out in lines of bright color and amphitheater black, screams to you with the smell of cutgrass and foamy beer filled to the brim of plastic cups. There must be forty thousand of you who stream inside like jagged pillars wearing Joseph's coat of dreams. How many listen? How many look at a neighboring stranger and harp about the price of a shriveled dog cooked lukewarm and how the boss screwed you this morning and you nearly missed the game that you paid a half a month's salary for? How many listen when she tells you that a social media challenge presented by the latest mobile phone has been issued between the two fan bases and that you should feel free to update multiple times throughout the game using the appropriate hashtag. Is it your buddy who whips his smartphone out and pound pound pounds away at the touch screen then curses under his breath but loud enough for a certain number of people to hear? Apparently there isn't very good tower reception where he's standing and he's quite frustrated with this.
Arguments ensue in random places and time moves on which frightens the men and bothers the women.
The color guys are behind home plate in their balcony of explanation wearing salmon orange ties and blue blazers who scratch their great shiny foreheads off camera and talk into their microphones about Leyland who refused once again in the tunnels to explain the reasoning behind his batting order which is a source of great frustration among the social fan base and therefore a viable topic of conversation, you know, ratings and such.
Dickerson, who's called games since the last days of Ernie Harwell is talking into the mike about how the Tigers offense needs to attack early if they want to have any chance of winning this game. Wayne, the producer of WCBS Radio is on the phone with his assistant.
"Got to get a masseuse or someone like that up here, Price's throat is about to collapse on itself and he hasn't even gotten thru the pregame."
"No, no, that won't work. We need to get someone who knows what they're doing to help out here. He's been at this since February and he shouldn't even be working part time much less every night given the condition his throat is in."
"Just get it done."
Back in the crowd he settles into his seat, a good one in fact it's the best one he's ever had, three rows behind the end of the infield a seat away from the concrete aisle in case he needs to use the restroom and close enough to the field so that he can see CABRERA spelled out in Old English Blue just above the thick bold 24 and he breathes a sigh of excitement as he gazes out over the rest of the park and soaks in the magnificent colors of a professional ball field. And it's not just any ball field, he tells himself. A ball field is a pretty sight on an average July night but this, this is a World Series game, six years since the last series was held in this stadium and 28 since the last championship in this city. He can never get used to how much smaller the stadium looks up close than how it appears on television. You can have all the HD and 3D you want, he thinks to himself, but nothing, absolutely nothing compares to the beauty of a major league field in person.
Of course, then he remembers the fact that the team is down three games to none and that the narrative of this series has quickly gone from "A.L. Pennant and beyond" to "let's not get embarrassed here" rather quickly. It's the offense that's so petulant, so miserable. The Tigers may be in the World Series, sure, but when their two best hitters aren't hitting the team looks as bad as the Houston Astros, in fact four or five of these guys would fit perfectly on the former Colt .45's roster and some very well may find themselves there before spring training hits.
He watches as the field clears out of personnel and players and not long after that the pregame festivities begin. God Bless America is sung by some famous person who doesn't really know what baseball is and as the pink sun sets slowly into the fair weather sky the crowd begins to roar like an ocean of angry sea monkeys and he stands there soaking in the forty thousand plus, soaking in the possibility of this being the last game of the season. There's no real way to make someone care about the game. It's not like you can take your wife or your football frenzied uncle to a playoff game and make them understand the history of the team. They don't think back over the last six months and know anything about the tough luck losses and disappointing players. They don't know about the long August and September games which at times feel like a slowly turning knife in the small of the back. They don't know about the exhilarating feeling of impending success or utter doom with a week to go and no one is sure if the Tigers are even going to make the playoffs. They don't really care about the five game series against Oakland that Justin Verlander won when he needed to most, they hadn't paid attention to their utter domination of the Bronx Bombers. It's just a game to them. But it's not just a ballgame to the forty thousand plus. It's not just something you do to relax, not this deep into the season. It's a journey, a path that you've taken with the dozens upon dozens of millionaires out on the field. It's romantic and ridiculous and you just don't care about anything other than a win. You throw stats out the window. You throw names out the door. Someone needs to step up. Someone needs to make baseball last a little bit longer.
Someone needs to win game four.
And then it begins. Scherzer finishes his warm up throws and Pagan strolls up to the plate, slowly, confidently. He's had a good couple of days for the G-men of San Francisco Bay but that first 90 mile per hour fastball for a strike set up a leadoff punch-out and just like that the game is underway and the game's most effective strikeout artist of the year is doing just what he does best. After a popcorn-yankee fly and a second strikeout against Kung Fu Panda, Scherzer marches off the mound to the thundering roar of the Detroit faithful, hoping that the offense could score a run and earn a lead for the first time, unbelievably so, in the entire series.
But a two out Cabrera walk does nothing as pressing Prince pops up in the infield and the Bengals once again leave their half of the inning scoreless.
Pence and Belt combine for five total bases in the top of the second and give the suddenly national favorite Giants a 1-0 lead
One guy says: "It's over."
Another guy says: "This team is an emotionless disaster.
Our protagonist who hears these two chimes in: "It's only one run, you can't say that yet."
"Where have you been? This team couldn't score if they had a guy start on third base every inning."
That is true for the bottom of the second as Dirks, Peralta, and Infante all make easy outs after a leadoff single from Young. Two innings, two men left on base. Down one zip. Thankfully, the top of the third leaves the score unchanged and after one out in the bottom of the first third of the game, Jackson works a walk and after a failed bunt attempt the Triple Crown winner strides to the plate.
"This is it," one guy says.
"Blast." Another adds.
"Has to do something here. They haven't led at any point in the World Series," declares a woman.
And then with Cain having chucked two 90 mile per hour fastballs for a ball and a strike he lobs up a changeup, one that speeds in a bit too fast, at something like 86, and Cabrera swings, and the ball launches towards the right field fence and with this wind push push pushing out away from home plate that white meteor is picked up and sent right into the stands.
He feels the stadium explode. Forty thousand people leap to their collective feet, at least those who weren't already standing do so as the ball disappears into the bleachers and suddenly for the first time in twenty innings the Detroit Tigers find themselves ahead in a game.
And nothing happened for two innings. A sigh of relief has fallen over the city. The game was slowly creeping to an end. With a lead you wanted the game to move along, to end, just so that your boys could take one and get the ball back to Verlander.
But then the sixth inning happens.
Scherzer is still in the game, dominating. Through five innings he has struck out six and only given up that one run. He has given up four hits and walked one. What more could you ask for from a guy who had battled arm fatigue over the last month of the regular season and here he was possibly pitching the last game of the season a few days before the month of November would begin.
A single on a soft ground ball to third base that Cabrera can't handle. That's the problem with such an offensive minded club. Would a more athletic player made that play? Perhaps so. No one knows. But it's a moot point. Kung Fu Panda comes to the plate. He's already made himself a name with those three bombs in the first game of the series off the Tigers best pitcher. It would just be so the Tigers luck if he launched another one right here.
But the seventh pitch of the at bat was whiffed at and the round mound of pound was sent back to the bench, a failure this time.
Unfortunately, for Mad Maxwell, he can't find the same result with Posey who launches a second pitch changeup into the left field bleachers and suddenly the Giants lead the game again, 3-2, and the silence that blanketed the stadium before is perhaps even worse than the thunderous roar that deafened his ears three innings earlier.
Somehow, it doesn't feel like disaster and he's not sure why. Maybe it's because Cain is starting to falter. Maybe it's because the Tigers really have hit the ball with some sort of authority tonight. But with Cabrera, Fielder, and Young due up in the bottom half of the end of the second third of the game, you just knew something would happen.
But nothing from Cabrera. Nothing, again, from Fielder. And it was weird. It felt as if something would happen. And of course something did. It was a slider on the outer half of the middle of the plate that did it. The pitch didn't move much and that was why Young could handle it. And he did, he lifted it into the cold rainy air, the slight mist tried but could beat the white sphere down out of the right field atmosphere and when it landed he game was tied.
Young homers.
One guy cries out: "Get a ball in the air to right field tonight and it's like winning the lottery. Tie game!"
Another screams: "That ball was Jewish. Had to be Jewish!"
A third: "Oh this is going to be torturous."
And he can't help but agree. Although, did anyone really want a boring game? Easy games are for May. Easy games are for Toronto fans.
The seventh inning is just as dramatic. Scherzer gets knocked out of the game and Smyly relieves him successfully. Then Dotel successfully relieves Smyly and the Giants can't score in the seventh and there's hope, hope that the Tiger bullpen can pull this off. Of course, the Tigers make Cain look outright dominant, especially when Jackson strikes out to end the inning, but Cain is seen receiving handshakes upon entrance in the dugout and it is naturally assumed that both starting pitchers are now out of the game.
The top of the eighth is a bit scary but after Dotel walks the leadoff guy he manages to get the Panda to bounce into a double play, then he strikes Posey out and the Tigers now have six outs to the Giants three.
Garcia pinch hits for Berry and facing new G-man Affeldt, falls behind one and two. But three fouls later, eight total pitches all fastballs, the pinch hitter finds himself trotting down to first base
"Let's go" screams a fan.
"Let's go" screams forty thousand fans.
But Cabrera swings through a couple pitches and Fielder finds himself in a position to return the world series goat that had been delivered to his house that morning.
He falls behind 1-2 on a nasty 76 mile per hour curveball from Affeldt and then swings feebly at a fourth offering. Once again the two most dangerous Detroit hitters fail when they are needed to deliver and it is left to Young, the Free Agent to be, the most frequently mocked member of the team, and yet the most productive offensive force this postseason to deliver, once again.
The count at 2-2. Garcia stands at first. The game knotted at three.
And then another strike.
Affeldt walked the first guy, a rookie, a twenty one year old bruiser, and then struck out over $45 million bucks in salary with ease.
Baseball knows no law.
There is a slight sense of panic in the air. He recalls back to the beginning of the game where the mood sat between disastrous and something that was halfway hopeful. Now? What's this? We have Phil Coke, the ridiculous wrangler of a personality who struggled with his mental game for most of the year on the mound for the Detroiters and he starts the ninth off with a strike to Pence who is as awkward as Coke is weird. And Coke continues his postseason reincarnation and strikes Hunter out with three easy pitches. Belt comes up, works the count full and then strikes out on a heater right smack dab down the middle of the plate and Coke pumps his fists, the crowd evicts their approval and Coke starts the next guy off with another strike, swinging of course. Blanco is that annoying player who is peaking right when his team needs him to but right now the U.S.S. Coke doesn't care because right now he's seeing red and black and blue and firing missiles and he gets the little outfielder looking and our reliever is just as good as your reliever, San Francisco. Take that.
So Dirks finds himself at the plate to lead off the bottom of the final third of the last third of the game. A run wins it. A run sends them to die another day. A run hammers home hope. The possibility of not losing this series. At least not yet.
But six pitches into the at bat, Dirks strikes out and it's hard to justify taking the lefty Affeldt out of the game even though he's at 26 pitches and so Bochy leaves the guy in the game to face a righty in Peralta. Peralta launches one to deep right center and it's just deep enough and Pagan has to turn just awkwardly enough to make it exciting but in the end after all the roaring of the crowd and the excitement in Dickerson's voice it's just a long out and Bochy senses he is pushing his luck so he takes the reliever out of the game in favor of this right handed Casilla character.
Infante who doesn't have much power is the first dude to face him.
He's sitting there thinking about how the Tigers just have to win this game. It's been such a dramatic affair and Detroit's not giving up even if they are facing utter elimination. Here they are, at home. A loss now means failure in their last at bat. A win means a rip roaring jumping walk off. There's no way they can lose and–
–the pitch hit him. Casilla hits Infante right in the left side of the left hand and Infante goes down in obvious pain. But a runner. A runner with two outs. Could it be? As Worth trotted out to first to replace Infante, Laird strolls to the plate, a chance to be a hero.
But no.
He grounds the ball into the dirt in the direction of third and Pablo tossed to second to record the force and postpone the game that the Tigers need to win, the game that the Tigers cannot afford to lose.
The game heads to extra innings.
Phil Coke has now faced seven batters in the World Series and struck out seven. That's sort of insane, something he didn't know from his really good seat behind the third base line. But that all ends with Theriot who leads off the innings with a single. Crawford is instructed to give up an out to move the runner up, so he did, and bunts Theriot over to second on a sacrifice to the pitcher. Coke then throwa down his Unabomber face and strikes Pagan out on four nasty pitches. And here's Scutaro, the man named Marco, who won the NLCS MVP but is just hitting at a 20 percent clip in the world series.
"This is the man to get for Phil Coke," says a fan.
But Scutaro singles up the middle of the field and Theriot scores to make it 4-3 and the silence returns even when Coke gets Pablo to make an out somewhere on the first pitch of the next at bat to end the top of the tenth and the Tigers run off the field with Jackson, Garcia, and Cabrera due up in the bottom of the frame.
A car insurance advertisement asks if you need a blender with 23 buttons to chop an onion.
Sergio Romo places his bearded frame on the mound, the closer for the G-men and here comes Jackson.
Jackson strikes out.
We're looking at a walk off. A walk off on Woodward Avenue.
Kelly pinch hits for Garcia.
Because baseball knows no law and neither does Leyland.
All the fans want to see is the Tigers live to see another day.
Kelly, but of course, strikes out.
The Tigers are down to their last out. It seems only appropriate that it's Cabrera.
What does he do?
Takes a breaking ball for strike one.
The outfield is as deep as they can go. If he hits it out there it's either over the fence or a single.
Breaking ball off the plate away.
Breaking ball whiffed at for a strike.
Breaking ball low and away.
Nothing's been faster than 80 miles per hour.
A foul. Off a breaking ball.
Strike three called. A fastball at 89. Ten miles per hour faster than any other pitch in the at bat.
Baseball knows no law.
The Tigers know no victory.
He's not used to the cold, you guys, and there's a shiver in his spine that feels absolutely abysmal.
He didn't have the money for this but didn't care. Win or lose one can never assume that this type of series will even happen twice in a lifetime so he nabbed a ticket right behind the third base line for the price of a 72 inch flat screen that's not nearly close to being on sale just so he has the right to stand right outside this cathedral of consternation and gaze happily into its gates with the patrons of protection standing guard with their scanners and nanny packs stuffed with ripped ticket stubs.
The sky is now black the color of blackboard and there is still that salty taste in the air and the stadium still speaks to you, calls out in lines of bright color and amphitheater black, screams to you with the smell of cutgrass and foamy beer filled to the brim of plastic cups. There must be forty thousand of you who stream out of her like jagged pillars wearing Joseph's coat of dreams. How many listen? How many look at a neighboring stranger and harp about the price of a shriveled dog cooked lukewarm and how the boss screwed you this morning and you nearly missed the game that you paid a half a month's salary for? How many complain that is was all for nothing, that it was a night wasted, a season lost?
How many care to recognize the irony that the team's most valuable player hit the two run home run to put them ahead but then ended the season looking at a third strike? How many realize that the best reliever on the team all postseason was the one who lost the game?
He turns just as he hit Woodward Avenue and turned back to look at the cathedral of failure with a stick sad look on his face and a feeling of emptiness in his heart.
"Hey what third world country gets all those Tigers World Champions t-shirts?" A kid asks loudly, sarcastically as he blows by with a bunch of friends.


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Try some other gloves in a store, to see what size fits you on average.
E.g. in a shirt I'm a medium or a large.
However I bought my gloves in a store, after looking at the whole range on display, and trying on a few of them for feel.
They 'fit me like a glove'.
When I was looking for winter gloves (with full-length fingers and an inner lining, which are more difficult to fit that finger-less gloves are), in an outdoor sports store with a cycling-clothing department, I found a great variation in the quality of the design, and in the quality of the manufacturing (i.e. the stitching).
Most I tried were not comfortable. I chose the best for me.
Maybe they provide a sizing chart online, where you can measure around your hands at the knuckle and determine the appropriate glove size. Otherwise, you might be better off buying gloves locally, so you can try them on.
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Hunter Laing
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Hey all. I'm starting up this log because I had a scare recently that I would lose my excel file where I log my workouts when my computer crashed. Luckily I was able to retrieve the data, but I'm still gunna log online too as a back up.
Goals right now are a 135# snatch, 185# clean, 10 sec adv tuck front lever, and a 10 sec tuck planche, and a strict, slow muscle up on rings.
I started with the olympic lifts on May 14, 2013, with my max lifts at a 95# power snatch(I was unable to get into an ohs to catch the full lift) and a 125# clean and jerk.
This friday I hit
125# on the snatch
180# on the clean
and I'm working with 15 sec sets of tuck front levers and band assisted planches. I've been working these gymnastic progressions for 3 weeks so far, and I've been following the outlaw way to some degree for my oly lifting, a couple weeks behind, since the start of the hatch squat cycle. Before that I used the Catalyst Starter Program.
Sun 9-8-13
am - SASa1
A1. wall assisted tuck half press HS - 5 x 3
A2. tuck front lever hold - 5 x 15 sec
Press HSs felt good, focusing on getting as much of my low back off the wall at the bottom of the rep while still maintaining good control. The tuck front lever holds also felt strong. I have been focusing on keeping my scaps depressed during the movement by trying to make my neck as long as possible, and today working on this turned some of the sets into almost a flat tuck position, so my 10 sec adv tuck front lever shouldn't be far off.
B1. band assisted tuck planche - blue x 5 x 15 sec
B2. knees to elbows - 5 x 10
The band assisted tuck planches felt strong today, staying focused on strong protraction, and keeping the neck long to help with depression. My hips have been getting a little high in these so it might be time to use a lighter band. Knees to elbows were kinda shit today, as by the ends of the sets I was pulling too much with my arms and back and ending in almost a front lever position, which isn't my goal with this movement.
C1. YTWLs - 5s x 1 x 5, 3s x 2 x 5
First time trying these. They were fun, got a nice burn in my upper back. Will keep these in the mix on straight arm days.
e.pm - SASb1
A1. rto support - 5 x 15 sec
A2. arch scap pulls - 5 x 7
Ring supports are finally getting easier with the rings turned out, focusing hard on having elbows completely extended on these. Bumped the reps up from 6 to 7 on the arch scap pulls, but I need to remember to keep my neck long and really force my head backwards.
B1. low straddle L - 5 x 15 sec
B2. german hang with pull out - 5 x 15 sec
I need a better place to do my low straddle L's so I can work on getting my hands facing forward instead of sideways, but other than that these felt fine, just need more compression flexibility. The german hangs felt good too, I'm finally started to feel my shoulders loosen up on these.
I was gunna do false grip hangs and some wall handstand holds but the workout was cut short by some family drama.
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Mon 9-9-13
am - BAS2
A1. false grip ring rows - 10 x 6
A2. PPPU - 10 x 6 / 30X1
Still focusing on scapular depression and retraction on the ring rows, but now throwing in some false grip so I can start working on the MU in my next cycle. I didn't really have the hang of the false grip until the last couple sets, and most reps weren't tempo-ed, so I'll stick with the same ring height in my next BAS workout. Really happy to finally hit all 10 sets of 6 in the PPPU. I think the next push I'll work in BAS will be piked HSPUs.
B1. seated db ext rot - 6.5# x 5 x 10 each arm / 4012
I had gone up to 7# on these last time, but I wasn't feeling as much of a burn in my shoulders which is what I'm really going for so I dropped down. I might even go back to 5# and work the reps super strict next time.
e.pm - OLY
stick halos/dislocates
AM fem/bar
A1. 1RM 2 pos(low hang, hang above knee) snatch
75 x 2 x 1
80 x 1
85 x 1
90 x 1
95 x 1
100 x 1
105 x 1
-worked up to this last time but failed the hang rep
110 x f
110 x 1
I've been working on getting a closer stance ohs on my snatch catch, so it takes me a while to get the position warmed up. I also was cutting my pull short today until around 95#, but I was getting under the bar really quick. I missed the hang rep on my first attempt at 110# because I didn't stay on my heels and let the bar get too far in front of me; I still stood up with it, but I caught it in a power pos so I count it as a fail.
B1. 3 x 1 @ 90% of above
100 x 1
100 x f
100 x 2 x 1
Most of these reps felt fast and strong. I missed the low hang rep on my second attempt because I came onto my toes and let the bar get out front, but when I focused on staying back the next 2 sets were easy.
C1. ankle mobility
I've figured out that my ankles are keeping me from achieving the position I want in my snatch and clean catches so I've been mobbing the shit out of em lately.
pm - EQ1
A1. back body line drill - 3 x 15 sec
A2. bridge pushups x 10, 8, 6
The back body line drill is basically a hollow body hold, keeping the low back flat on the ground, while trying to keep the rest of the body as extended as possible, and I'm using the bridge pushups to open up my shoulders a little more.
B1. HS body line wall drill - 3 x 30 sec
B2. straddle pike pulls - 3 x 10 w/ 10 sec hold on last rep
The HS body line wall drills went really well today, I think I'm getting closer to finding the proper body position for a solid handstand. My wrists today were less than an inch from the wall on all three sets, my back was flat, my belly was sucked in, and the weight was distributed across my knuckles instead of the palm of my hand. I also noticed that trying to spread the floor with my hands helps the position feel more solid.
My straddle and pike flexibility is still crap.
C1. gatherings, piked x 10, 8, 6
Did the first set unbroken, fell on rep 6 of the second set, then made it through the third unbroken. These are fun.
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Thanks man, but those lifts are pounds, so not that awesome yet.
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Tue 9-10-13
e.pm - OLY
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dyna flex
Am fem/bar
A1. 1RM: 2 clean pulls + 1 clean
95 x 2
115 x 1
135 x 1
145 x 1
155 x 1
160 x 1
Probably had 165# at least on this, but I had forgotten how much doing pulls before the full lift tires out my legs and I wanted to save em for squats so I stopped with a 5# PR. Front squat position was also very comfortable today, and I was extremely focused on keeping my feet close with my knees out.
B1. 3x1 @ 90%
145 x 3 x 1
No problems here. All reps were quick and easy.
b x 10
95 x 5
135 x 3
160 x 5
180 x 5
190 x 3
205 x 2
225 x 1
225 is the weight I projected as my max when starting the hatch program with outlaw, but I hadn't actually had that much weight(not that its a lot of weight) on the bar in a long time, and this single was fairly easy, with good form, so I'm happy with it.
D1. Front Squat
b x 5
95 x 3
120 x 5
140 x 4
150 x 4
160 x 4
These felt good today, even though on the second rep at 140# I got really lightheaded and dizzy, so I just stood there with the bar racked until I felt better, then finished the set. I think the bar was pressing into my throat too much.
E1. ankle mob
I think I'm starting to get to the point with my oly lifts where my legs are going to start holding me back more than my technique. Hopefully this hatch program pays off with some much bigger squat numbers so I can keep my lifts going up.
pm - EQ2
A1. back body line drill - 3 x 15 sec
A2. bridge pushups w/ 10 sec hold on last rep - 10, 8, 6
B1. HS body line wall drill - 3 x 30 sec
B2. straddle pike pulls - 3 x 10 w/ 10 sec hold on last rep
C1. gatherings, piked, 10 sec hold on last rep - 10, 8, 6
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Wed 9-11-13
am - SASa2
A1. wall assisted tuck half press HS - 5 x 3
A2. tuck front lever hold - 5 x 15 sec
Front levers felt really strong today. The first hold was basically an adv tuck position for the whole 15 sec. Still focusing on retracting scaps hard and lengthening my neck for depression.
B1. band assisted tuck planche - blue x 5 x 15 sec
B2. knees to elbows - 5 x 10
Tuck planches went well today. I tried to focus on feeling my serratus working, and it worked for a couple sets, but I started to lose depression, so I need to remember to feel my SA while keeping my neck long. Knees to elbows felt better today too. I think the secret to them is to keep the upper back and shoulders active the whole time, because I was swinging less on the way down and not getting into as much of a FL position on the way up.
C1. YTWLs - 3# x 3 x 5 ea
These are a really good cool down/prehab movement for my straight arm days.
e.pm - SASb2
A1. ring support - 5 x 15 sec
A2. arch scap pulls - 5 x 7
Not much to say here, ring supports are getting stronger every time I do em, and I'm having to arch less and less on the scap pulls. I just need to remember to focus on hard retraction at the top, and I'm trying to externally rotate my arms a little at the top too because I can pull much harder in the arch scap hang with a neutral grip than with pronated one.
B1. bent knee straddle L - 5 x 15 sec
B2. german hang w/ pull out - 5 x 15 sec
Decided to try out bent knee straddle L's instead of straight leg straddle L's because I feel like the low straddle L isn't helping bring up my compression strength which, along with some pike flexibility, is what I really need to a true straddle L. Got deeper in the german hangs, and started lowering into them in an adv tuck back lever.
C1. YTWLs - 3# x 3 x 5 ea
My shoulders and upper back feel awesome after these. Its incredible how much of a burn you can get with so little weight.
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Thu 9-12-13
e.pm - OLY
dyna flex
AM fem/bar
A1. 5x3 snatch off blocks (below knee) @ heavy trip
75 x 2 x 3
80 x 2 x 3
85 x 3
90 x 3
90 x 3
95 x 3
105 x 5 x 3
Snatches felt awful today. They were all over the place. Some reps I wasn't getting my elbows high, some I wasn't extending completely, some I was getting under fast enough. My feet were all over the place too, sometimes to wide, sometimes too close. Despite hitting a 10# PR for my work sets, not a single rep felt good today.
B1. 5x2 clean off blocks (below knees) @ heavy dub
105 x 2
115 x 2
125 x 2
135 x 2
145 x 2
150 x 5 x 2
Same basic shittiness with cleans today, although they were a lot better than the snatches. My landings were slightly more consistent, but my legs felt really tired.
C1. ankle mob
C2. shrimp - back knee only x 5 x 5 each leg
I like shrimps as part of my ankle mobility, because to get into the right positions the knee has to go a decent way over the toes, and I feel like it will lead to more ankle mobility while also developing strength in the new range of motion as opposed to unloaded static and dynamic stretches. it also makes my knees feel good.
pm - EQd
A1. back body line drill - 1 x 15 sec
A2. bridge pushups - x 10 w/ 10 sec pause on last rep
Back body line drill is getting better, I might bump it up to 20 sec next time. I don't think the bridge pushups are opening up my shoulders like I want them too, so next EQ workout I'm gunna try a weighted box shoulder stretch.
B1. HS body line wall drill - 1 x 30 sec
B2. straddle pike pull - 1 x 10 w/ 10 sec pause on last rep
HS body line is getting better up against the wall, and its getting easier to hold the hollow position upside down. I'm getting deeper in my pancake/straddle pike stretch, but I might have pushed it a little far because my left inside hamstring is a little sore. Hopefully it wont affect my lifts tomorrow.
C1. Gatherings, piked - 1 x 10 w/ 10 sec pause on last rep
Took a headstand too far forward and fell, but rolled out of it without injury. I might start doing these on a raised platform so I can stretch towards a pike more without my feet hitting the floor.
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Fri 9-13-13
am - BASd
A1. false grip ground row - 6, 4+2, 1+3+2, 4+2
A2. ring dips - 6, 6, 6, 5 / 31X1
I need to go back to incline rows to train the false grip more, because I kept slipping out of it into a kind of bent-wrist grip. All the +'s in the reps for FG ground rows are where I had to regrip to finish the set. I also need to put more focus into depression and retraction during these reps. Ring dips felt good. Will continue to work these til I get 10x6, then start working on rto dips.
B1. seated db ext rot - 5# x 2 x 10 each arm / 4020
These felt good. Got a good burn in my shoulders. I think I'll stick with 5# on these for a while because I got a better burn here than with 6.5# and 7#.
Also, thank god I've got more deload sessions coming up because my body has been feeling really beat up.
e.pm - OLY
AM fem/bar
A1. Snatch 1RM
75 x 3
85 x 2
95 x 2
105 x 1
115 x 1
125 x 1
130 x f
130 x 1
Tried starting with a wider stance on my pull, and I think it made it a little easier, but I started jumping my feet out really wide, causing my knees to come in every time I stood up. I might try, over the next couple weeks, to work on starting wide and not moving my feet at all to keep my stance close. 125# flew up today, and I got under it really well. The first attempt at 130 was high enough but I lost it forward. The second attempt was pretty easy, but I didn't catch it all the way in the hole, although from the video it looks like I was below parallel.
Also, I definitely did something to my left inside hamstring, as it started to bother me around 115 on snatches.
B1. Clean 1RM
115 x 2
135 x 2
155 x 1
170 x 1
Called it at 170 because my hamstring was starting to bother me more and I wanted to save it for squats, so no clean PR today. Although, now I am 5# away from both my snatch and clean goals.
b x 10
95 x 5
135 x 3
160 x 4
170 x 4
180 x 4
190 x 4
All reps felt pretty easy, but by now my left knee was really bothering me, partly because of wide snatch catches and partially because of the hamstring, so I decided to skip front squats today too.
D1. ankle mob
D2. shrimp - back knee only x 5 x 5 each leg
D3. harop curl - 5 sec neg/hand assist x 5 x 5
I was hesitant to work the harop curl at first, but it actually made my hamstring feel better. Shrimps were easier today, and as always my knees felt good afterwards when they, and especially my left, had felt pretty sore earlier in the session.
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Sat 9-14-13
am - SASad
A1. wall assisted tuck half press HS - 2 x 3
A2. adv tuck front lever hold - 2 x 15 sec
I couldn't really get into a groove today on the press HS for some reason, and my right wrist wasn't feeling great. Front levers felt really strong though, and I'm pretty confident I can call them adv tuck now, my back even started to unhollow a little on the first set as I tried to extend farther, but I made sure to fix it on the second set.
B1. band assisted tuck planche - red/purp x 2 x 15 sec
B2. knees to elbows - 2 x 10
Tuck planches felt good today. My hips were a little high on the first set, but I fixed that with a little more forward lean on the second set. Protraction and depression were also both strong, although I might need to depress harder on my left side, and my neck stayed long. Knees to elbows were pretty easy. I did slightly tweak something in my middle back on the right side, but I dunno if it was from snatches and cleans yesterday, or from something today, but I only started feeling it after I was done with B1 and B2.
C1. YTWLs - 3# x 1 x 5 ea
Felt good, except for where my back was tweaked.
e.pm - SASbd
A1. rto support - 2 x 20 sec
A2. arch scap pull - 2 x 7
Both of these felt strong today. On the ring dips, I've been trying to push my chest out more so I'm less hunched over, and the position feels much stronger. I'm also working on not having my arms touch my sides while in the support. The arch scap pulls felt good today, especially in the first couple reps of each set, where I was basically pulling into a half lay front lever for half a second, and I was controlling them better on the way down.
B1. bent straddle L - 2 x 15 sec
B2. german hang w/ pull out - 2 x 15 sec
I did the straddle L's on pushup handles today, because my wrists have been feeling beat up. I might work them like this for a while so I'm not stressing my wrists a lot in every workout I do. German hangs felt fine. I started lowering into them through an adv tuck BL, and hit a half lay BL for a second on the first set. I also lowered myself to hang through an adv tuck FL after pulling back to an inverted hang. Luckily my back tweak didn't affect any of the exercises I did in this session.
C1. YTWL's - 1 x 5
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My wrists have been sore near the palm of my hand, and I'm pretty sure its from starting to train the false grip, but its been making it hard to get into positions supporting my weight on my hands, so today I just did the stretch portion of my wrist routine, and I did the conditioning exercises afterwards. I'm gunna try this method for all upper body sessions for a while and see if I like it better.
A1. false grip incline rows - 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6
A2. ring dips - 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 5
False grip held up better today, although I did have to regrip for the last couple of sets. I also need to focus more on retraction and depression, as well as pulling with my lats and not my arms, because I started to kind of curl myself to the rings instead of row myself. Ring dips felt good, I was surprised I made it through so many sets of 6, but I was having a hard time locking my elbows out completely at the end of some of the later sets.
B1. seated db ext rot - 5# x 5 x 10 each arm
I'm still not sure if I'm doing this movement right, but I've been trying to focus on pulling the dumbbell up with just my rear delt, and I think it was working a little better.
C1. wrist conditioning
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A1. hi hang snatch - work to non max heavy single
75 x 2 x 3
80 x 2 x 3
85 x 3
90 x 1
95 x 1
100 x 1
105 x 1
These were pretty easy, but my right shoulder was feeling a lil dodgy. I think I need to work on my overhead position with the snatches; I need to try to retract my scaps more and point my elbows more backwards than down, while also catching the bar with bent wrists. All the lower body mobilization I did to warm up made the bottom position of the ohs much easier to hit, although I still wasn't getting my knees out like I want.
B1. knee series
I figured that I do a series for scaps, shoulders, and wrists, so why not one for knees. This time I did inside squats for 5 reps, cross leg squats for 3 reps each way, assisting myself off the floor with my arms, and twisting squats for 10 alternating reps. I figured with this being a deload week for all my lower body lifting that it would be a good time to see how my body reacts to some knee work.
C1. pistol switches - 25# x 5 x 5 sec each side
I'm gunna work these for more knee ankle stability as well as more ankle motion, because I'd like to work up to pistols with no weight to counterbalance as a display of ankle flexibility.
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16 More Images You Won't Believe Aren't Photoshopped
As we established in Part 1 and Part 2 of this series: Sometimes, real life is stranger than Photoshop.
This is the third edition in our chronicle of jaw-dropping pics that make you shout "FAKE!" the moment you see them, but in fact are not. Even if, in some cases, we really wish they were ...
#16. The Predator Checks a Map
This undoctored photo is part of an art project--and possibly also an awesome assassination scheme--where they meticulously paint clothing to match the surroundings.
We can't imagine how much time they must have put into creating photos that, after all that effort, will be dismissed as Photoshop by nearly every single viewer.
#15. The Scene of the Most Hardcore LARP in the World
This looks more like a painting than Photoshop, but it's actually an enormous, elaborate set from the opera Ein Maskenball with a scene depicting Death reading from the book of life.
Have you seen Quantum of Solace? Remember the opera scene where they're on that huge set shaped like an eyeball? That's from the same opera. So is this inexplicable image of naked, fat and very old actors in Mickey Mouse masks.
Man, why couldn't they have shown Bond chasing bad guys through that?
#14. We Can't Stop Staring at the Huge Shoes
Sadly, this is a woman in England with a growth abnormality causing her legs to reach enormous size. It's a debilitating condition and we're not going to make fun of her. But still, look at those shoes.
#13. "Screw Your Boat Race, I'm Outta Here"
We'd like to think that if you were in a speed boat race and Jesus called you to walk out on the water, he'd be cool with you slowing down first. At least for the safety of the other drivers.
Of course, in reality, the photo just captured this guy a split second before tumbling horribly into the water at inhuman speeds. According to a source that talked to the dude in the hospital afterward, all he was concerned about during his recovery was how to make one of his friend's speed boats go faster. Way to learn from your mistakes there, buddy.
#12. Yes, That's a Dog
Yes, an actual living dog. The above monstrosity is from the Super Groom competition, where the boundaries of animal abuse get relaxed, if only for a day. It's basically the Ace of Cakes of dog grooming, complete with what appears to be an airbrush paint job.
#11. I Didn't Want "Instant," That's Gross
Despite our desire to keep our lunches down, we looked into this one a little further and discovered that it's a real product, made in China and elsewhere.
It turns out that Jew's Ear is a colloquial (and somewhat politically incorrect) name for a fungus also known as "jelly ear," which doesn't sound any more appetizing. We've squinted at the window in the packaging to figure out what the hell that stuff actually looks like. All we know is it doesn't make us want to eat it more.
#10. The Reason Your Car Insurance Rates Keep Going Up
Behold The Uno: a one-wheeler motorcycle invented by an 18-year-old. That's right, while you spent your senior year of high school trying to get a peek up the cheerleaders' skirts at basketball games, this dude went out there and completed some engineering slick enough to make every Segway owner jealous.
It operates just by tilting your weight forward or back to accelerate. Now we'd just like to see him pop a wheelie.
#9. What Icebergs Do to Hide Their Holiday Weight
Yes, that's a real iceberg and no, it hasn't been painted. These icebergs were observed off the coast of South Africa. It turns out those stripes are caused by sediment or even dead krill getting trapped in the ice in layers over time.
We'd like to think of the process as deliberate, with the krill submitting themselves for cryogenic freezing until somebody invents a cure for being a tiny little shrimp. Hopefully technology won't let them down.


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Field names:
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HUC8 Text, length 8
Python Code: !WDB_HUC12![:7]
- VBScript : Left([WDB_HUC12], 8)
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If you want to achieve immortality, the easiest way is to first rise to prominence, and then just completely disappear off the face of the earth. Think about it--would you have ever heard of Jimmy Hoffa otherwise? The man's been gone for 30 years and they're still trying to find his ass.
Well, here's six more people who seemed intent on giving Hoffa a run for his money:
#6. D.B. Cooper
Who was he?
On November 24, 1971, a man boarded a plane in Portland under the mundane fake name of Dan Cooper (we would have gone with "Viktor Blimpmuscle" or "Saxon Wolfcock" but to each his own). He was dressed in heavy clothing and sunglasses and had a bomb in his suitcase. This was in an innocent time before anyone realized passengers should be checked for that sort of thing, so security was based on the honor system.
Mr. Cooper sat down and handed a note to a stewardess telling her the plane was being hijacked and that he had a bomb (hijackers weren't nearly as rude back then). He demanded $200,000 and four parachutes upon arrival in Seattle.
This is the point in most hijackings where the plane lands and a police sniper shoots the hijacker in the head. Cooper, however, had a plan.
Once on the ground Cooper let all the passengers off (keeping three crew members on board to fly the plane) and in exchange, he got his cash and parachutes. He ordered the pilot to take off once more, while the FBI could only stand on the tarmac below and shake their fists up at the sky.
Cooper and the crew flew to Reno, Nevada, where he forced them to fly the plane low and slow, which are parachutin' conditions. Cooper lowered the rear stairs, jumped out, and was never seen again. All he left behind were two of the parachutes and his tie.
When the police couldn't find the body or the parachutes they started hauling in everyone and their hijacker-looking friends. The list of suspects was at one point around 1,000 people. The first suspect they dragged in was a Portland man named D.B. Cooper who was quickly cleared as a suspect, although the media ran his name as the hijacker's alias (again, all this could have been avoided if he picked an alias like "Brock Meatstone" or "Senator Samson Loveblast").
What They Say Happened:
Officially the FBI has stated that Cooper didn't survive the jump. The FBI reached this conclusion based on the fact that Cooper appeared to be a card carrying idiot, seeing as how he jumped in the middle of a heavy rainstorm and could have had no idea of where he was going to land (he was somewhere northeast of Portland when he jumped). In 1980 a local boy found $5,880 of Cooper's ill-gotten cash washed up on the shores of the Columbia River. The FBI figured the money meant he was either dead or got mugged by Bigfoot.
What We Think Happened:
We'll give him the benefit of the doubt and say he landed. We like to think that immediately after, he was accosted by a group of mountain men who did indescribable things to him. They then took his money, moved to Seattle and opened the first Starbucks.
#5. Ambrose Small
Who was he?
Ambrose Small was a Canadian theater tycoon, which is several stages below "Nigerian pogo-stick tycoon" in the tycoon hierarchy. At his height he owned virtually all the theaters in eastern Canada, which he was able to acquire with the help of his wife, a heiress to a brewery fortune. He was also known for being a gambler, a womanizer and openly hating poor people. He was equally known for being a possible walrus hybrid.
In 1919 he decided to get out of the theater business, selling his properties for $1.7 million. The day after he sold all his properties he left his lawyer's office and was never seen again. Your thinking to yourself, "Well he was a rich asshole with enemies, someone probably killed him for his money!" The only problem is that his money was left untouched.
The police were baffled. There was no ransom note and no motive for Ambrose to leave the country without his cash. The police tore the country apart and found nothing, which is what you would expect to find in Canada.
His wife became a suspect, as Ambrose had several mistresses who rode the walrus over the years in a secret room he had built into his office. She was cleared as a suspect and would later donate the money to the Catholic Church.
What They Say Happened:
When they couldn't find anything, the Canadian police followed their SOP and contacted some crazy people claiming to be psychics. The popular theory among them was that Ambrose suddenly came down with a case of amnesia and in his forgetful state, he decided to fucking hide from everyone. They finally closed the case in 1960 after exhaustive Canadian research concluding that if he wasn't already dead, then he would be really fucking old.
Today people claim that his ghost haunts two of the theaters that he used to own, at least until they're torn down to build a couple more Tim Hortons.
What We Think Happened:
He was shamed by his lifestyle and decided to leave the money behind, stored up on blubber and went back to his kind.
#4. Judge Joe Crater
Who was he?
Joseph Force Crater was your average 1930s man: hard working and had a middle name that could kick your middle name's ass.
In April of 1930, he was appointed as an Associate Judge to the New York Supreme Court by future president FDR. Life was looking up for Crater. He had a wife, a good job, a mistress and more potential for corruption than a Teamsters Union President could shake a stick at.
But while he may have been smart enough to become a judge, he hid his corruption with the subtlety of a coked-up elephant driving a semi through an elementary school. Or with all the subtlety of someone named Joe Force Crater.
Not to be confused with the wrestler of the same name
He repeatedly went on "long business trips" away from his wife and made a habit of storing briefcases full of money in his office.
He was last seen on August 6, 1930 entering a cab after having dinner with his mistress. He disappeared along with the contents of his safety deposit box and two briefcases full of money. Most experts figure that because he had the criminal mind of chimp with a railroad spike through its head, he fled to either escape before he was arrested or was killed by the mob.
What They Say Happened:
In 2005, the police received a letter saying that someone knew where the body was buried and who did it. The letter said that he was buried under what currently is the New York Aquarium and named several cops and mobsters as the killers. Crater's mistress was also believed to be involved, although she also disappeared a couple months after Crater. Sadly for her the concept of a disappearing people had already lost its novelty amongst the American public.
The cops came forward and said that they found a body at that site in the 1950s, but not recognizing it as Crater, dumped it in a pile of other unknown bodies and buried them all together. Sure, they could dig through all those unknown remains to run DNA tests, but experts note that the task sounded like a huge pain in the ass.
What We Think Happened:
In his short story The Reapers Image, Stephen King claims that Crater looked into a Death Mirror that caused him to disappear. Who are we to argue with the man?


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Giving the President a Pass
Published: Friday, June 20, 2014 at 12:03 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, June 20, 2014 at 12:03 a.m.
Where are reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, and The Washington Post's Ben Bradlee, when you need them? For far lesser crimes, they were able force a president to resign for the good of the country.
If only President Barack Obama would do the same. Where are the tough questions and fact checking about Benghazi or the illegal swap of five known terrorists for one soldier who may or may not have deserted his outfit?Congress is gutless and the media keep giving Obama a pass.
The nation can survive the Obama administration, but I fear that it cannot survive the philosophies of the voters who put him in office.
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Anybody else see this in Wired or on io9?
The second picture in the gallery is of a theoretical superhero called Average Joe. He looks just like any one of us wearing a Woot logo branded hoodie. Part of a project by a Pixar animator.
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alright you guys, what should be this guys super powers if he is to accurately describe us?
is he gonna be like the computer kid from Heroes?
@wootfast: Super bargaining powers!
Now what's a good battle cry? - y'know, like SPOOOOONNN!!!
@narfcake: WOOT!, obviously!
The description on the concept art says "Average Joe goes unnoticed by the world." I don't think so! Not with that logo on his chest.
"You want a BoC? Fine. Give me a bag and a minute..."
In the first issue, Average Joe battles his arch nemesis, Dr. Retail, and tries to defeat the army of killer Roombas armed with just his wits and a certain exclamation point branded skillet.
@mml666: Are Retail's minions all wearing royal blue Forever Deadlys?
@wootfast: The power to find great deals on bulk buys of refurbished merchandise and disperse them to the masses for a reasonable profit.
I love it and I declare that it is indeed a Woot logo. Super power is to scream in a high pitch sound that sends the villain to his knees in pain.
untill he is "recruited" into the Amazoinian Commerce Guild, and after a couple years of relative autonomy, They give him a complete makeover, and Tick off/disenfranchise many of his loyal (yet whiny) fans...
@thunderthighs: No need for Average Joe to do the screaming - "I defeat my villains by firing off these monkeys!"


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Crown Prince chairs Cabinet session (7/23/13)
July 22, 2013
Crown Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz chaired the Cabinet session at Al-Salam Palace in Jeddah this evening. The Council began by expressing its appreciation to the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz for his order to provide SR 1.4 billion [$373.28 million] in assistance to families covered by the social security system to cover their needs during the holy month of Ramadan and the blessed Eid Al-Fitr.
Next, Interior Minister Prince Mohammed bin Nayef bin Abdulaziz delivered a briefing on the outcome of the 20th annual meeting of the Governors of Regions, during which security and development in the Kingdom's various provinces were discussed.
Turning to foreign affairs, the Cabinet listened to a number of reports on the latest regional and international developments. It reviewed the Kingdom's latest foreign consultations, while renewing its call to put an end to the genocide and human rights violations being carried out against the Syrian people.
The Cabinet also issued a condemnation against the bombing of a mosque in Bahrain targeting worshippers performing evening prayers, describing it as a sinful terrorist act aimed at destabilizing security, killing innocents, and terrorizing people during the holy month of Ramadan.
Conversely, the ministers welcomed the decision by the European Union to end its cooperation with Israeli settlements in the occupied territories, declaring that the decision embodies the EU's consistent rejection of Israel's settlement policies and its violations of international laws and conventions.
Addressing its remaining agenda items, the Cabinet approved a number of measures regarding the draft strategy to promote competition in the Kingdom; authorized the Minister of Interior to sign a draft cooperation agreement in the field of fighting crime with the Republic of Georgia; authorized the Minister of Civil Service to sign a draft Memorandum of Understanding in the field of civil service with Morocco; approved the bylaw of Social Care Homes, as annexed to the decision; and approved the organization of the Public Transport Authority.