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ON THOSE CROWDED BLUEBIRD DAYS AT FIRST PEAK—a clean, pulsing north swell in the water, a gentle west wind kissing the wedging peak's pencil-thin lips—you could hear a sound—pop pop pop pop—as sets approached the viper-pit pack, pinballing through the jetty's pilings. The East Coast's best surfers knew it well, heard it in their dreams. Ask Kelly Slater; he remembers. Or Jeff Crawford, if you can find him. Mike Tabeling probably heard it on his way out.
For nearly 40 years, Sebastian Inlet groomed more champion surfers than perhaps any wave on the planet, responsible for eight Pipe Masters wins, 16 world titles, and countless major East Coast, national, and World Championship event wins, not to mention dozens and dozens of local, underground, world-class surfers filling in the gaps. Then, in the early 2000s, repairs and renovations to the jetty caused the wave to disappear almost overnight. In its absence, Florida hasn't produced a single World Tour surfer, let alone a world-title threat.
"I miss Sebastian, truly," says Slater, First Peak's prodigal son. "I'd do anything to bring it back to its glory."
ON A BLAZING AFTERNOON in July 1968, the Shortboard Revolution in full swing, a 19-year-old Mike Tabeling walked up to his Cocoa Beach High schoolmate, Larry Pope, carrying a photograph. Pope and close friend Greg Loehr had just been complaining about how miserable Florida summers were, plagued by weeks-long flat spells.
"The surf was terrible," Pope recalls. "And here comes Tabeling with a picture of this wave, and I said, 'When was that?'"
"Yesterday," Tabeling told him.
Pope couldn't believe it. Didn't believe it, actually: There was no way the wave breaking in that photo—a hollow, thin-lipped, emerald peeler—was in the same ocean as the gutless, muddy brown mush lapping upon Cocoa Beach's sandy shores. Tabeling said he'd take him, but he couldn't tell a soul.
"He would have killed me," Pope says. "That's the kind of guy Tabeling was."
For the previous year, the Army Corps of Engineers had been working on extending the small jetties that jutted out from nearby Sebastian Inlet, at the mouth of the Indian River Lagoon, hoping to curb beach erosion and prevent the busy boat channel from filling in. As the jetty was extended, sand began to slowly fill in alongside it, forming a pristine sandbank. The jetty's peculiar angle also seemed to be contributing something.
"When we got down to Sebastian Inlet, we figured out real fast that it was a different wave," Tabeling, who passed away in 2014, recalled to Eastern Surf Magazine a few years before his death. "If you go out and surf that wave after surfing Cocoa Beach your whole life, you're blown away. It's a real hollow wave with form. It didn't exist anywhere else in the county or the state. It was just phenomenal to find that we had such a great wave right there."
"I must have driven by there a million times and just never went and looked," Pope says. "When Tabeling took me down there, it was flat everywhere, and here it was, 3, 4 feet and just bouncing off the jetty."
As construction continued, the wave got better and better. An odd bend in the jetty caused a refraction, especially on north swells, creating a delicious wedge that would double and sometimes triple the wave's size at its peak: a heaving, mutant A-frame surrounded by hundreds of miles of straight, drifty, unremarkable sandbars. It was a miracle.
"I got to watch the inlet be built stone by stone," says Pope. "They were putting in rocks and finishing the end and top of the jetty. Frankly, I think it saved surfing on the East Coast. It was the training ground for Tabeling, Claude Codgen, Jeff Crawford, Greg Loehr, Gary Proper—all these incredible surfers. It gave them a little taste of California or Hawaiian speed—not size, but speed. And we had it to ourselves. I know it sounds tired, but it was a golden era. It was Camelot."
LOCATED ON A narrow finger of barrier island between the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian River Lagoon, Sebastian Inlet State Park starts just south of the mouth of the river and stretches nearly three miles north, spanning over a thousand acres of Brevard and Indian River counties. Known for some of the best fishing in the country, the park boasts one of the most biodiverse ecosystems in the state.
Situated along the Great Florida Bird Trail, it includes Pelican Island, the country's first National Wildlife Refuge, with more than 130 species of birds. Often you can see gannets, shearwaters, migratory songbirds, and, of course, pelicans. Manatees, dolphins, snook, and redfish can be found along the river's mangrove-laden shores. Loggerhead sea turtles make their nests in the lagoon, and baby sea turtles make their home in the sea grass and reefs just off the park's southernmost beaches.
During the winter, right whales—the most endangered whale on Earth—birth their calves just off the coast. Bobcats, panthers, river otters, and alligators all make appearances. And lots of sharks—nearly everyone who put their time in at Inlet has a shark story.
But for the first generation of surfers to establish, or attempt to establish, themselves, sharks were the least of their worries. For one, it was illegal to surf near the jetty.
"It was sort of rolling the dice," says Pope. "You'd see the conservation officers, who were armed so they could deal with poachers or whatever. And they'd come walking out in their little gray uniforms and arrest you, which was such a bummer because they'd drag your ass all the way up to Titusville, which might as well have been a million miles away."
Word of the wave got out nationwide after Tabeling, Kiwi White, and Gary Hook were arrested for surfing First Peak.
The local fishermen were even less hospitable, tossing chum into the water, snagging surfers with alligator hooks, releasing sharks they'd caught into the lineup. Surfer-on-fisherman brawls were commonplace. Occasionally an angler was tossed from the jetty.
The park at the time was yet to institute fees, largely because there wasn't much to charge for. The parking lot often had potholes deep enough to snap a car's axle. In the relentless summer heat and humidity, the first bathrooms under the bridge were, according to Pope, "like the surface of Venus, just indescribably bad." The jetty's walkway was often covered in algae, sending visitors careening through the air, sliding off the edge of the jetty and into the inlet's swirling waters.
But none of that kept the surfers away. "My dad would take me fishing down there," says Inlet standout Bill Hartley. "I remember, even as a young boy, I could see that the wave was incredible. Even though I wasn't a good surfer at that time, I could tell it was just so different from anything in the area."
AS WORD OF Sebastian Inlet got around, a fierce pecking order was quickly and firmly established. Outsiders were unwelcome, and even guests of locals, especially groms, were hazed and barred from First Peak, forced to earn their way up the ranks surfing down the beach at the weaker and smaller Second and Third Peaks.
"I first went there when I was about 13," says Matt Kechele, another Inlet mainstay. "Rich and Phil Salick brought me down in the back of their truck. And it just opened up my world. I was like, 'Oh, my gosh.' I'd seen Larry Pope's photos in the magazines, and it was like, 'Wow, this is the place!' But it was so intimidating. Back then there was no giving waves to groms. The guys were really competitive, and some really gnarly shit went down. But I can tell you this: Jeff Crawford had the key."
Crawford, whose father was a commander at Patrick Air Force Base to the north, ruled First Peak with an iron fist, ruthlessly sending people to the beach, spearing surfers caught in the way with his board, and worse. As they did at so many precious locales in the '70s, locals waxed windows, slashed tires, and stole cars.
"We had some pretty bad attitudes," Pope says. "We all went to Cocoa Beach High, which was not a nice, fun place. There was a lot of ostracizing and hassling. You either got with the program or beat it. They opened the school in '65, and they couldn't put together a football team because we were too busy looking out the window at the flags to check the wind, ready to jump and run, wanting to go surf. But that school produced more world-class surfers than any high school I can think of."
Drugs showed up in '67—pot and hash, mainly. But by the mid-'70s, many of the area's standouts had turned to less-than-honest forms of work, namely dealing and smuggling anything from marijuana and hash to cocaine and heroin, a profession perfectly suited for brazen locals well-versed in intimidation.
"It was cool to me, because we were just these long-haired, dope-smoking hippies," Pope says. "Drugs fit our little surf community like a glove, let me tell you. And it wasn't just nickel- and dime-bag guys. There were big guys. And some were nasty, sociopathic creeps."
Over the years, Sebastian locals would be shadowed and interrogated by agents from the FBI, DEA, and CIA interested in the whereabouts of several of the Inlet's standouts. Undercover agents posed as fishermen, their rods mic'ed, hoping to listen in on the pack's small talk.
"I got questioned by the DEA," Pope says. "'Do you know this guy?' And I'd say, 'No.' And they'd say, 'Well, we know you know this guy, so we're just going to keep an eye on you, how about that?' But it was a different time. Guys got murdered, guys went to prison, or into witness protection."
"It was that era—you know, Scarface," Hartley says. "Blue packages would wash up by the hundreds. We thought it was cocaine that had gotten wet. But it was coca paste. Like, the purest form of cocaine. You could cut that a thousand times over; one package was worth an obscene amount. And there were hundreds of them. My friends were in high school, taking these things home. So then the Colombians came into town and found out who they were, who had the packages, and went looking for them. They took one of my friends and duct-taped a shotgun to his mouth, asking for everything we had. We just said, 'Take it all! Take everything!' It was a pretty radical time to grow up."
IN THE '70S, Sebastian locals began getting recognition on a national and international level. In Hawaii, using what he'd learned in the ferocious First Peak pack, Jeff Crawford scratched his way to the top of the Pipeline pecking order. He was invited to the 1974 Pipe Masters and surprised the world with a win over Rory Russell and Gerry Lopez, both Pipe Masters themselves. In 1976, an upstart IPS (International Professional Surfing, later the ASP, now the WSL) hosted its first East Coast event, the Florida Pro, at the Inlet, where Crawford would beat Rabbit Bartholomew and finish in the Top 16 his first year.
But Crawford was just the tip of the talent iceberg. Coming up behind him was a pack of young rippers who'd grown up watching First Peak's pioneer generation operate. Bill Johnson, Trip Freeman, Todd Morcom, David Speir, and Bill Hartley all began their residence at First Peak, pushing performance surfing as ferociously as any pack in the world.
Many of the top young Inlet surfers ended up on Ocean Avenue's prestigious surf and skate team. Owned by Lewis Graves and professional skateboarder Bruce Walker, the shop was the Zephyr of the East Coast, world-class surfers inspired by the skateboarding they were seeing on land, trying to recreate those lines on the steep, blowing faces of First Peak.
"I was maybe 14 when I started really going down there a lot," Hartley says. "We had the best team on the East Coast for a while. Every day we'd go surf, head back and hang out at the surf shop, go back to the Inlet, come back to the shop. And we had a factory right behind the shop where our boards were built, so we had this little surf city."
In the late '70s and early '80s, some of the best high-performance surfing in the world was being done by Pat Mulhern, Charlie Kuhn, Kechele, and Hartley. While Santa Barbara's Davey Smith is often considered surfing's first aerialist, both Kechele and John Holeman were sending it above the lip regularly by the early '80s.
"Bruce Walker started talking about Alan Gelfand, who invented the ollie," Kechele says. "I'd heard about him doing them down in Hollywood, Florida, at one of the first skate parks. Bruce was describing how he'd hit the ramp with this pop, into the transition. And at that time I was starting to figure it out with the First Peak wedge, and trying to time it and hit it. Once I started finally making some, Bruce was super stoked about it and started trying to document it. But people were kind of tripping on it; they weren't really sure about it."
Someone unhappy about the attention Kechele was getting for his strange maneuvers tagged the Inlet's bathrooms with a little personal ribbing: "Kech, tricks are for kids."
[Left to right, from top to bottom: Four generations of Sebastian Inlet standouts: Bill Hartley, CJ Hobgood, Lisa Anderson, Todd Kline, Damien Hobgood, David Spier, Lewis Graves, Todd Morcom, Charlie Kuhn, Shea Lopez, Kelly Slater, John Valentine. And that's just scratching the surface. "We had such a depth of telent," says Slater. "There were so many good guys. Going back to the Valuzzi's and the Tabeling's, Claude Codgen, then Trip Freeman, Danny Melhado, Paul Reineke - this remarkably talented group of guys. And then there's a whole bunch of guys younger than me, even younger than the Hobgoods. It was just the place." (1,3,4,7,8,11,12) Photos by Dugan; (2,5,6,9,10) Photos by Mez.]
AS A YOUNG BOY, Kelly Slater would spend the weekends at Sebastian Inlet fishing with his family. He and his brothers would dive for stone crabs, bum old bait and fish for rockfish. They'd wade out into the lagoon and dig their feet in the sand until they found clams.
"I have nothing but fond memories from growing up there," Slater says. "We had a van we'd drive down, and we'd pitch a tent under the bridge, before there was a parking lot. There were no fees. You just pulled off on the side of the road and parked wherever you wanted."
Slater would sit and watch the pack take First Peak apart, mesmerized by the ferocity of the crowds, the radical surfing, the violence. Intimidated by the older generation, it would be years before Slater would muster up the courage to enter the lineup.
"I actually don't think I surfed Inlet until I was 10 years old," Slater says. "At First Peak, if it was a crowded day, you were really lucky to even scavenge a wave as a kid. There'd be 70 or 80 guys out. You had to move down to Second or Third Peak. It was a very similar pecking order to Pipeline."
The first time Kechele ever met Slater, he was stuck under an old woman's station wagon, his hair caught in the exhaust pipe. "One of the neighborhood kids came down yelling, 'Hey, some kid got ran over by a car!'" Kechele says. "So we were like, 'Cool, let's check it out!'" [Laughs]
Kechele would take Slater under his wing, piling him, Slater's brother Sean, and David Speir into his VW Beetle and driving down to Inlet any chance they could. Kechele started making Slater's boards, which were small enough to fit inside the VW's hood. Around the same time, a photographer named Tom Dugan, an accomplished surfer himself, began shooting the Inlet, taking Pope's place on the jetty after he stepped away from his camera in 1980.
I was up on the jetty," Dugan says. "Kechele comes up and says, 'Hey, check out this kid. He's going to be good.'"
BY THE EARLY 1980S, the talent level at First Peak reached all-time highs. Pro surfers from around the world came to Sebastian for the Stubbies Pro events.
"I watched the Stubbies every year," Slater says. "Klugel won it one year. I think Kech won it one year. Ross Pell won it. Mulhern made the final every year. I don't think people have a sense for just how good Pat Mulhern was."
"In the early '80s, Pat Mulhern was easily one of the best surfers in the world," Hartley says. "I remember Mulhern paddled out at the Stubbies one year and just started doing these incredible figure-eight cutbacks. I looked over at Rabbit and Simon Anderson and they were looking at each other, going, 'Whoa. We're in trouble.'"
Talented as Slater was, he wasn't exempt from the Inlet's hierarchical pecking order. "I remember Mulhern one time—it was a crowded day, the waves were really good, it was super hot, but I just couldn't get a wave—and this set came, probably six, seven, eight waves, and everyone got a wave," Slater recalls. "I was the last guy sitting out at the peak. Mulhern had caught the first wave, and, by the time the last wave came, he was back out the back. I went to go for it and he paddled for the shoulder, looked at me, and said, 'Don't even think about it, kid.'
While much has been made of Slater's raw, natural talent, observers have acknowledged the bits and pieces of Sebastian locals' approaches found in Slater's brilliant surfing: some Hartley in his bottom turn, a little John Futch in his blow-tails, Mulhern in his positioning, Kechele in his backside tube-riding, Holeman in his air reverses. But if Slater adopted traits, he provided just as much inspiration to the old guard, nipping at their heels every step of the way, keeping them on their toes.
"I've known Kelly since he was, like, knee high," Hartley says. "It was so incredible to watch him grow up and just keep getting better and better and better. I loved it, because Kelly became one of those guys that it didn't matter if you were on the golf course, or First Peak, or Backdoor, he was going to try to make you look like a fool if you weren't at the top of your game. And at that time, the talent level just went off the charts. It became the focal spot—not just on the East Coast, but nationally. I can't think of a spot that produced more talent than Sebastian Inlet."
"It was as important a wave to East Coast surfing as Lower Trestles is to West Coast surfing," Slater says. "It had this power that allowed you to get up and do something, and usually something radical, on a three- to five-second wave. You could bust big airs, you could do big hacks, you could pull into the barrel. You could hone these skills that you needed everywhere else in the world."
THOUGH INLET'S FIERCELY competitive lineup pushed progression forward tremendously, innovations in surfboard design by a handful of local Sebastian surfer/shapers contributed greatly. Mike Tabeling had spent time in San Diego under the tutelage of Steve Lis and brought what he'd learned of twin-fin fish designs back to First Peak. With First Peak as their testing ground, Klugel, Kechele, Mulhern, Johnson, and especially Greg Loehr pushed board design as much as any shapers at the time, anywhere. As early as 1981, Loehr was building boards from Styrofoam blanks and epoxy resin under his Resin Research label. Naming him one of the top 10 shapers of all time, Surfing Magazine would claim "nobody's done more for the future of surfboard design" than Loehr, largely due to his uncompromising pursuit of better materials and constructions.
A bustling industry rose up in nearby Rockledge and Melbourne, which would eventually become the epicenter of East Coast surfboard manufacturing. By the late '80s, Central Florida was producing more and better surfboards than the entire East Coast combined.
Throughout the '80s, '90s, and early '00s, Sebastian Inlet continued to foster the most talented surfers on the East Coast. Lisa Andersen, who grew up a few hours north in Ormond Beach, would turn pro after winning the 1987 U.S. Championships at Sebastian, going on to be named the ASP's Rookie of the Year the next season. In 1991, Tom Dugan and close friend Dick Meseroll would launch Eastern Surf Magazine, setting up shop just up in the road in Melbourne, using the Inlet as the mag's unofficial photo studio. Meanwhile, World Tour heavies like CJ and Damien Hobgood, Cory and Shea Lopez (who would drive two hours from their home on the Gulf nearly every weekend), as well as East Coast standouts like CT Taylor, Paul Reinecke, Scott Bouchard, Kyle Garson, Phillip Waters, Tommy O'Brien, Eddie Guilbeau, Eric Taylor, Blake and Justin Jones, Adam Wickwire, and a handful of others, all rose through the Inlet's ranks.
In 1995, Quiksilver held the first King of the Peak contest. Slater conceptualized the event with Quiksilver, aiming to bring a high-stakes, homegrown event to the wave where he'd cut his teeth, while at the same time raising money for his, and most every other Sebastian local's, alma mater, Cocoa Beach High School, which at the time was under threat of closure. Slater would of course go on to wear the crown first.
THERE'S MUCH SPECULATION as to the specific cause of First Peak's demise. Throughout the '90s and early '00s, a series of Army Corps of Engineers sand-replenishment projects lengthened the beach as sand built up against the north jetty, shifting the wedge's focus.
Sometime around 2002, a large swell caused structural damage to the jetty. A Jacksonville construction company was brought in to make major renovations. In the lead-up to the renovations, almost none of the Inlet's regulars were aware of the project's scope. Even now, few can point to precisely which specific changes caused First Peak to disappear almost overnight. A number of public documents mention that "over 300,000 cubic yards of sand [were] placed on downdrift beaches" and that a "major renovation of North jetty [was] completed with elevated concrete cap, handrails and grate system."
"My understanding was that they weren't changing the pilings underneath," Dugan says. "They put on a new walkway deck that was wider—from, say, 20 feet to 30 feet. They put some extra rocks near the beach, and some out at the end of the jetty. And that changed the current's flow, and of course that changes the bottom."
Regardless of the cause, by 2005 Sebastian Inlet's First Peak was a ghost of its former self, the miraculous wedge now a gurgle of backwash, the groomed sandbank a potted, trenched mess.
"I had a guy contact me a few years ago and say that for $50,000 he could fix the wave," Slater says. "I told him, 'If you can fix it for 50 grand, I'll pay you tomorrow!' Honestly, if there was a way, I would do anything I could to get that wave back. It's such a great spot—good fishing, good camping. Only the wave's missing."
Today, walking over the boardwalk and out onto the jetty, the lineup is often empty—a quiet, lonesome feeling hanging over what was once the takeoff zone. Fishermen crowd the jetty, tourists dine in the fish shack, kids play in the sand and splash in the lagoon. Whether First Peak can ever wake from its decade-long slumber is anyone's guess, but today, standing at the base of the jetty, looking out on a windswept Atlantic, there is only its ghost and a haunting echo, much quieter now: pop pop pop pop.


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So often since we moved here to our small town, people who knew us before ask "How could you leave the city? How can you stand it there without good shopping, good schools, good anything?!"
Well, yes, there are plenty of times I miss Target when we need a quick birthday gift for a last-minute party, or the choices available in a nice big Safeway. But I find we spend a lot less money on impulse purchases of stuff we don't need in those stores, too. Where we are, there's not four places to browse. There's one and if you're lucky they've got the thing. If you're not lucky you make do, do without, or try to find someone else who's got one you can borrow.
Good schools? Well, I work there and feel they do a pretty good job. With having to meet the needs of all the kids, low to high, it's hard for the teacher to serve everyone. I get frustrated with our parents who never check homework, never read with their kids or take them to the library, never come to conferences, never do much of anything except complain about how bad a job they think we're doing. I worked at schools in the city where things weren't any different. Small-town schools aren't necessarily lower in quality.
And we have lots of good "everything". At lunch we looked out the front window over the bog and got to see a red-tailed hawk hunting for his own lunch. For at least 15 minutes he dipped and swooped in the sun, giving us quite a show. Then we went outside in 65-degree weather, a real corker of an afternoon, and watched Pony Girl ride Honey in the big pasture. Now from my chair here I can see a bunch of ducks on the water hole and a heron wading at the edge looking for a fish. It's just quiet enough for me to hear the ocean roar every now and then.
At our old place I'd be looking out over four lanes of traffic, where it wasn't safe for the kids to play in the front yard. Loads of fast-food trash blowing down the street. And for sure at least three sirens would have screamed by our house during the course of the afternoon.
Would we give up what we've got to go back to that? Nope. Not even for Target.
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Arkabutla Lake crappie fishing report 8-18-12
Mid-South tackle crappiei pro Anthony Reason and Big-Bite pro staff member Warren Cotton caught 33 Slabs Today slow trolling minnows on Arkabutla lake.
my bad (97) RANGER
nice catch mr. cotton!! my buddy and I seen ya come back with help next day after somebody got schooled. just sayn. WAS NICE MEETING YA! And that is a VERY NICE 87 RANGER. Hope to school I mean SEE ya again soon.
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Because independent fluctuating incomes have, these represent a high risk of a failure of the repayment. But there are differences in the procurement. So for example, freelancers are rather considered professionals. But those who is currently in the start-up phase, has almost no chances of a loan. The banks want to at least see proof of two years of successful self-employment.
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Posts from — December 2011
UFC 141 giveth and taketh away
UFC 141 must have been a satisfying and devastating night for UFC boss Dana White. First, he watched as the perennial thorn in his side, Jon Fitch, had his welterweight title hopes derailed once and for all courtesy of a crushing lead left hook from Johnny Hendricks after just 12 seconds. Then, he saw his most valuable commodity, Brock Lesnar, kicked into retirement by Dutch juggernaut Alistair Overeem after just 2:26 of his eighth and final MMA bout.
Hate on Lesnar all you like, but his absence will leave a far bigger hole in the UFC heavyweight division than his 6-foot-3, 266-pound mass can fill. He gave up a lucrative job throwing fake punches and pile drivers to test himself as a real fighter, and in his first four fights he became the UFC heavyweight champ and the sport's biggest pay-per-view draw, a galvanizing behemoth who dragged a legion of pro wrestling acolytes to the UFC to cheer and jeer him. Now, a combination of disease and a severe dislike of being hit have ended his second bid for a title and his MMA career, sending him, perhaps, back to the scripted theatrics and flying chairs (and much larger paychecks) of the WWE.
With the sport's second biggest draw, welterweight champ Georges St. Pierre, sidelined for the next nine or 10 months due to a knee injury, it's been an unkind end to 2011 for White.
Still, he can take a quantum of solace in the fact that he know longer has to put up with Fitch's complaints about not getting a second tile shot, something which surely would have happened had Fitch defeated Hendricks as expected (especially with GSP out of action, sparing us — and Fitch — another five-round beating). Instead, Fitch will likely find himself relegated to the undercard for the foreseeable future, unless he can start finishing a few opponents in decisive fashion, while Hendricks has put himself in line for the interim belt.
Meanwhile, Overeem will ready himself for his title shot with Junior dos Santos, a battle of the division's best kickboxer versus the best boxer. The only question is, will JDS choose to stand and trade with the Strikeforce and K-1 champ, just to prove who is the best striker, or will he play it smart and use strikes to work for a takedown and finish it on the ground? We'll have to wait months to find out, so let the speculation begin.
Ed. note: Not much to say about the rest of the card, which, unlike the last two UFCs, was filled with decisions, most notably Nate Diaz surprisingly outstriking Donald Cerrone to a unanimous decision.
December 31, 2011 2 Comments
Video: a serious MMA rap battle
I saw this a few weeks ago, but it seems appropriate to post it now, post-Ralek Gracie rap video.
December 20, 2011 No Comments
Video: Dirk Diggler would be proud that Ralek Gracie goes all "Ice, ice baby"
Ralek Gracie deserves a lump of coal in his Christmas stocking. He should then be beaten about the head with it. And then choked out with it.
Sure, I know it's gotta be tough to be a Gracie, at least if you intend to make your life in martial arts. And maybe that's why the son of UFC founder Rorion Gracie (and nephew of Royce and Rickson) is making a bid to be Vanilla Ice, because a three-fight Dream career just wasn't cutting it. But rapping about jiu-jitsu? This is Super Bowl Shuffle-level bad. I have to wonder if this is some kind of horribly unfunny joke.
December 20, 2011 No Comments
Video: Bob Sapp doesn't know when to quit either
Although curling up from a barrage of strikes is par for the course for the former K-1 notable.
December 19, 2011 No Comments
Video: Jens Pulver proves he's no honey badger
Pro athletes rarely know when to exit their sport gracefully. Their competitive nature, along with a total lack of real-world job skills, keeps them hanging on for one more game, one more match, one more fight. Case in point: Jens Pulver. Once upon a time, Pulver was the honey badger of MMA, a Pride veteran, UFC lightweight champion and WEC featherweight contender. But the 37-year-old hasn't looked good, hasn't been truly competitive, since his IFL knockout of newly unemployed UFC fighter Cole Escovedo in 2006. Last weekend Pulver headlined an RFA card in Nebraska against Tim Elliot. Hopefully, some sense got knocked into him and he'll retire.
December 19, 2011 No Comments
Who can stop Cyborg Santos?
After watching a few of Alistair Overeem's old Pride battles, losing efforts against the likes of Mauricio "Shogun" Rua back when Overeem looked like a Boyz II Men wannabe and tipped the scales at 205 pounds, or about 50 pounds lighter than the Overeem who will step in against Brock Lesnar at UFC 141, I settled in for Saturday's Strikeforce event, which played out in predictable and boring fashion, as expected, especially lightweight champ Gilbert Melendez's five-round decision win over Jorge Masvidal.
Boring except for 16 seconds late in the card, the precise 16 seconds that Cristiane "Cyborg" Santos needed to blast Japanese dominatrix-turned-punching bag Hiroko Yamanaka into a puddle to retain her women's 145-pound strap. The 18 months off since her last fight didn't hurt Cyborg's performance, or maybe it did and she should've demolished the number-two-ranked featherweight in the world in six or seven seconds. After all, she dropped Yamanaka with a left hook and a couple of sharp rights within three seconds, considered and reconsidered a rear-naked choke and then crushed her against the fence with fists.
And again the question needs to be asked: Who can stop Cyborg Santos? Who can match her power, her fury? Ronda Rousey? Don't bet on Rousey ripping Cyborg's arm off. Even if Cyborg drops to 135 pounds, something she'll consider, although making the 145-pound limit is already a test, she'll be the biggest monster on that block, as well.
December 18, 2011 No Comments
Dana White tweets about prison rape
Don't tweet about rape. Don't talk about it. Don't think about it. That was pretty much Dana White's message after firing Miguel Torres for making a rape joke on Twitter. Well, a whole week's gone by and now somebody in the UFC is tweeting about rape.
Yep, the UFC boss himself lets loose on an internet troll who wishes White dead for the holidays, which is an ugly and stupid thing to say (and poorly spelled) but hardly worth responding to, especially with a grammatically questionable rape reference and especially especially not a week after sacking Torres.
White already ignored his "think twice, tweet once" advice when he cyber-bullied a tweeter a couple of days after the Torres incident. What's next, texting in a bomb threat to the White House? Somebody please take White's cell phone away from him.
December 16, 2011 No Comments
Video preview: Fedor Emelianenko vs. Satoshi Ishii
December 16, 2011 No Comments
Junie Browning vs. Thai mafia, Brock Lesnar vs. Bambi, Sean Sherk vs. SWAT and other MMA nuttiness
There's a mixed bag of MMA news on this Friday afternoon, most of it scraps about upcoming scraps along with a few scrapes with the law. So let's get started.
There's Junie Browning on the run from the mafia in Thailand (of course he is); Brock Lesnar busted for poaching in Alberta during a recent killing spree, er, hunting trip (of course he was); Brett Rogers won't face Tim Sylvia in a New Year's Eve DREAM bout because he just got out of jail for beating his wife and can't get a travel visa (of course not); and Sean Sherk was dragged from his car by a British SWAT team (didn't see that coming).
Martin Kampmann and Thiago Alves will headline the March 3 UFC card in Australia, which has to be one of the weakest main events in some time even if it is free. The UFC has scooped up another heavyweight, re-signing Brazilian Gabriel Gonzaga to a four-fight deal starting with Ednaldo Oliveira at, you guessed it, UFC 142 in Brazil. Meanwhile, reports are circulating that Paulo Thiago is out of UFC 142 due to a dislocated elbow suffered during training. He was to face Mike Pyle on the card headlined by featherweight champ Jose Aldo and Chad Mendes.
December 16, 2011 No Comments
Say goodbye to the Strikeforce heavyweights
A quick Strikeforce update. Along with a new Showtime TV contract expect a contraction within the promotion. The heavyweight division will get the axe following Josh Barnett and Daniel Cormier's Grand Prix final (give or take a fight), which is predictable considering that there's not many big men left after it was announced Fabricio Werdum will return to the UFC to face Roy Nelson. Also gone is the Strikeforce Challengers series, which was already redundant given that Strikeforce is pretty much a feeder league for the UFC already.
The new Showtime deal kicks off on January 7 when middleweight champ Luke Rockhold faces Keith Jardine. It'll be the first of eight Strikeforce shows on Showtime in 2012, which makes me think back fondly to when there were barely a dozen UFC events each year, leaving plenty of weeks in between to watch old fights and get pumped for the next great match-up. So maybe a smaller, more focused Strikeforce will be a good thing, delivering just a little bit of that young UFC nostalgia.
December 15, 2011 No Comments


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Get out and enjoy these 2013 Fall Activities and Events for Local Pets and their Human Friends! Thanks to the Chelmsford Dog Association for providing information on many of these great events:
Saturday, September 14 | 12PM-4PM
Farm Fair at Barrett-Byam House, 40 Byam Road, Chelmsford
Sunday, September 15 | 12PM – 4PM
Dog-A-Palooza at Perkins Park, Lowell
Contact: Hilary Behrens (Property Manager at The Lofts at Perkins Park) 978-275-9669
Saturday, September 21 | 7PM
Markus & Leslie Art-Detox Dog Park Fundraising Painting Party, 7 Central Square, Chelmsford (yellow building next to Fishbones Restaurant)
Saturday, September 28 | 10AM – 3PM
German Shepherd Rescue League of New England All Breed Walk, 4-H Fairgrounds, Westford
Sunday, October 13 | 12PM – 3PM
Lowell Humane Society's Steps for Pets Fundraiser, Sampas Pavillion, Lowell
Saturday, October 19 | 11AM – 3PM
Chelmsford Dog Association's Howl'ween Dog Costume Show, Parlee Corn Maze Field, Chelmsford
Thursday, November 7 | 5:30PM
Lowell Humane Society's 140th Anniversary Celebration, Lenzi's, Dracut
Saturday, November 9 | 11AM – 3PM
"Walk & Wag" Operation Delta Dog Walk for the Veterans, Great Brook State Farm Park, Carlisle
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On Boxing Day my husband and I went on a bus and boat trip
to Sydney Harbour for the start of the annual Sydney to Hobart
Yacht Race.
The boat above is Wild Oats who won the race.
This is the Wangi Queen Showboat which was a local ferry for
many years on our Lake. It was sold and moved to Sydney not
long before Christmas. We were delighted to see it go past.


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Kiara Knight, Marina Angel – Dare Dorm
Feb 26, 2014
Kiara, Marina Angel and some other college students were having a pool party in the dorm room! The girls were dressed in tiny bikinis and they were all drinking booze so things went sexual pretty fast.
Both Marina and Kiara found themselves a dick to suck on and soon enough they were having a foursome in the little pool. They moved out and into the beds and kept on fucking like animals.
Check out the full party footage here!
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News Years Eve ins and outs
Filed: Wednesday, 31st December 2008
By: Staff Writer
All the latest gossip regarding potential ins and outs from the back pages on the final day of 2008 ...
* Rocco Dozzini, agent for Inter midfielder Luis Jimenez has claimed that West Ham have tried to sign his client.
Dozzini told El Mercurio that "everybody is asking about Jimenez", adding that "West Ham, Sampdoria, Lecce call me every day" - before confirming that the 24-year-old Chilean international would be staying with the Serie A Champions.
* Nantes have risen to the top of the list of parties interested in signing West Ham's unhappy French midfielder Julien Faubert. Nantes coach Elie Baup told reporters yesterday that "if I could sign anyone, the priority would be Julien Faubert." Faubert is understood to have expressed his desire to return to France earlier this week.
* Scott Parker has been refused permission to discuss a move to Manchester CIty, according to the Independent.
Parker, who along with Craig Bellamy was the subject of a joint £15million bid from moneybags City yesterday is thought to have told West Ham that he would like to speak with the Mancunians - only to be denied permission by West Ham, who still insist publically that they will not be selling their best players next month.
* Lee Bowyer is once again being linked with a move to Birmingham City. Bowyer, who could join up with former team mate Nigel Quashie at the City Ground could be available for as little as £500,000 as West Ham seek to reduce their wage bill by unloading fringe players such as the former Leeds and Charlton star.
* Luis Boa Morte is being linked with a move to Championship outfit Cardiff City. Whether or not the Bluebirds would be able to afford the Portuguese winger's salary remains to be seen.
* Colchester manager Paul Lambert insist that he wants to make Jimmy Walker's loan deal a permanent one. The 35-year-old keeper is nearing the end of his month's spell with the League One club but Lambert is looking to reach agreement with West Ham allowing the popular stopper to remain with the Essex club.
"Jimmy Walker is an excellent goalkeeper and he's been a massive help to us since he has been here," said Lambert. "He reminds me of Andy Goram and I'd like to bring him here permanently."
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by j.simpson
11:55AM 4th Jan 2009
''I'm afraid all this talk from Duxbury is hot air. We're still a selling club, by the end of the week Bellamy, Parker, Upson and Green will be gone. Where's Zola? In Italy. Last person to leave Upton Park turn the light off.''
by Richard
09:52AM 31st Dec 2008
''With the opening of the transfer window and hopefully some of the worst players to ever don the claret and blue moving on (we know who they are) fears arise at the thought of losing Bellamy and Scotty Parker, well Bellamy would be a big loss in current form but as for Parker if we can get good money for him I think we should take it.
I have become a bit worried of late over some of his performances; the Tottenham game in particular comes to mind and the Stoke game just gone as well. He seems to be slow to react in body and mind and some of his distribution has been very average. Yes, against Chelsea he played the best he has for a long time but if Noble is fit and Collison keeps improving and with the never-flash-but-always-steady Mullins I feel we can let him go for a decent price. Of course, I would like to see him replaced but that's going to be difficult.
Striker wise I am afraid Cole does not fool anyone - he is a Championship striker at best and if Bellamy goes and it leaves Cole as the main man we could be in trouble. Di Michele is poor, Tristan is past it and Sears still has much to learn so Nani is going to need to pull a rabbit from the hat for sure.''


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Mother's day ideas
Mum's are so special and for their special day we thought we'd give you some idea's for some activities that you can do with your mum, either as a planned day out or a surprise
(small hint – everyone loves a surprise!)
Book a special spa day
Nothing says 'I love you' more than a spa day. Denbighshire has plenty to choose from and there's no need to travel far.
With spa's in the north, south and centre of the county , then it's easy to find the perfect spa break and relieve all tension for you and your mum.
And lookout for any Mother's Day spa offers!
Check out the spa's of Denbighshire
Enjoy a Mother's Day meal at Cafe R
Book a Mother's Day meal at Cafe R in the Craft Centre in the market town of Ruthin. Whether it is a 2 or 3 course meal Cafe R tailors to all customers diet, and you can treat your mum to a slice of cake (we won't tell anyone!)
Then you can have a leisurely browse through the town shops in order to walk off the Mother's Day lunch.
Book a canal boat ride on the Llangollen Canal
For over 100 years, visitors have enjoyed trips from Llangollen Wharf, why not take your mother to a beautiful part of Denbighshire and experience it's World Heritage Site canal in a different way to walking.
Watch the fish swim lazily by in the clear water delivered fresh from the River Dee as your boat glides silently through the Welsh mountains.
Have dinner at the new 1891 resturant
Book a table at the new 1891 restaurant in Rhyl and enjoy a wonderful dinner that can be followed with a coastal walk across the stunning coast of Rhyl.
With it being on the first floor of the newly refurbished Pavilion Theatre it is a great way to see the town in a new light!
A more adventurous Mother's Day
Mother's Day pampering isn't for everyone……some prefer adventure!
With the like of Llangollen Outdoors, Stand up Paddle-boarding (Corwen) and Pro-Kitesurfing in Rhyl, there are enough activities to get your teeth into if you'd like to book a more adventurous Mother's Day!
(There's even activities for your dog to join in on!)
Woodland walk at Loggerheads
A quiet and tranquil walk through the trees near Loggerheads Country Park is the perfect way to unwind on Mother's Day.
And with all of the family welcome including the family dog (don't forget your lead!) then this makes for a great day out and even a little treat at Caffi Florence at the end of your journey.
A bit of retail therapy in Prestatyn High Street
Forgot to get a Mother's Day gift? Why not have a day of retail therapy as an excuse and buy a present in the busy high street at Prestatyn.
With a variety of shops, cafe's and a beautiful blue flag beach, then a trip to the seaside town can make for a perfect Mother's Day and great day out for the family as well!
Have a day out in Denbigh
Follow these trails through Denbigh and go for a Mother's Day walk around the historic town.
Whether spotting the market town's past or exploring the home landscape of Beatrix Potter and the inspirational location behind the 'Flopsy Bunnies' adventures (with kids activities to do along the way!)
Have a listen to the Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies
Happy Mother's Day to all mum's out there!


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In a blow to the regional economy, Northrop Grumman officials said Tuesday that work at the 5,000-employee Avondale shipyard outside of New Orleans will wind down in 2013.
Northrop Grumman, the defense giant that runs the plant, said that all of the company's Gulf Coast shipbuilding operations will be consolidated at a 12,000-worker yard in Pascagoula, Miss. That means the Avondale yard will have no more work once construction wraps up in 2013 on the remaining two LPD-17 vessels it is building for the Navy.
The job losses associated with the yard's closure promise to be one of the largest from a single employer that the region has seen in recent decades. In addition to 5,000 shipyard workers, the Avondale facility indirectly supports another 7,000 jobs.
"The consolidation will reduce future costs, increase efficiency and address shipbuilding overcapacity," Northrop Grumman CEO Wes Bush said in a news release. "This difficult, but necessary decision will ensure long-term improvement in Gulf Coast program performance, cost competitiveness and quality."
"We are extremely proud of our Avondale shipbuilders and their dedicated contributions to our company and our nation," Bush said. "We will work with federal, state and local officials and others to explore alternate uses for Avondale as the last two ships under construction reach completion."
Northrop Grumman said that some new jobs will be available in Pascagoula for workers leaving Avondale.
The company also said it is looking to off-load its shipbuilding operations entirely, perhaps by spinning them off.
Bob Brown, managing director of the Business Council of New Orleans and the River Region, says the grim news is not unexpected. "It's been looming for a while now, and I don't think there's much that can be done about it."
The number of jobs lost is exacerbated by their high quality, Brown said. "Many of those jobs are jobs that pay extremely well within the landscape of southern Louisiana," he said. "Every job lost takes away a serious salary."
The closure will also result in what Brown calls "human capital attrition." The engineers and technical personnel employed at Avondale will most likely leave the state, causing "brain drain" and social disruption in the local community, he said.
"You lose fathers coaching Little League, you lose mothers doing PTA work," Brown said. "It's a huge problem."
The news came after weeks of speculation about the facility's fate and elicited strong reaction from state and local officials, who say the plant's closure will send shock waves throughout the region's economy.
Michael Hecht, president of the regional economic development group Greater New Orleans Inc., said that while fighting to keep the LP-17 contracts in place, economic leaders need to start looking to bring other business to the location. "It's an ideal location, right on the Mississippi River," he said. "I could certainly see other shipbuilders being interested in it."
For their part, political leaders expressed outrage over the decision.
"This is obviously very disappointing news for our people and our entire state," Gov. Bobby Jindal said in a news release. "Northrop Grumman's announcement is a devastating blow to the thousands of people who work at Avondale every day and to the communities that support the shipyard. We know there are multiple communities and thousands of jobs at risk -- and we are already exploring alternative uses for Avondale. In fact, we have been talking with potential buyers and tenants in order to secure employment levels at Avondale."
Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., expressed similar concern. "While the company might believe this decision will have a positive effect in the short term on its bottom line, the long-term consequences for Louisiana's economy, our national security and Northrop Grumman itself will be devastating," she said in a news release. "In the coming days, I will strongly appeal to (Navy) Secretary (Ray) Mabus and Northrop Grumman leadership to reverse this short-sighted decision."
Sen. David Vitter, R-La., blamed the Obama administration for the decision. "Unfortunately, this isn't shocking given the Obama administration's cuts and delays to the shipbuilding budget," he said. "It's a third instance -- along with the drilling moratorium and cancellation of Michoud work -- where their actions are pushing an otherwise good Louisiana economy south." Vitter referred to the Michoud Assembly plant, where workers recently rolled out the last external fuel tank for the space shuttle program, and are now in the hunt for jobs.
U.S. Congressman Anh "Joseph" Cao, a Republican whose district includes Avondale, said in a news release, "I am extremely disappointed. Taking away thousands of shipbuilding jobs in an area known for its shipbuilding is a real blow to us."
Cao said there are "real possibilities for bridging the funding gaps. This isn't the end for these jobs, and I will continue to fight to keep them here in Southeast Louisiana."
U.S. Congressman Charlie Melancon, D-Napoleonville, lamented the timing of the announcement. "The announcement that thousands of Louisiana workers will lose their jobs in the next three years couldn't have been more cruelly timed by Northrop Grumman," he said. "We are working to cope with the severe economic impact of the BP oil disaster, and now one of our major employers has decided to close up shop and leave our state."
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Thank you so much in taking my hand as we take this journey together and finish this race as Team Robin. As we all know she battled glioblastoma/ brain cancer for a long time. A very rare tumor which we thought she would be the one to pull through and kick cancers ass. Although she never gave up, cancer took over and we lost our mom, friend, wife, and hero August 20, 2013. As it's almost been two rough years without her I'd like to have a support team get together just to show how much love and support we still show her! There isn't a day I don't miss her and as her birthday is the day before this race it will be a breath of fresh air to be around and supported by many family members and dearest friends! I love you all . This is definitely one of those fundraisers I support the most since I watched my mom battle it herself so let's raise some money and help people in the future not have to suffer. "Giving up doesn't mean you are weak, sometimes it means you are strong enough to let go."


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Wild's Bouchard watches, waits for head to healNHL.com @NHLdotcom
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) -Pierre-Marc Bouchard was supposed to be centering Minnesota's second line this season. Instead, he's been out since the first game with symptoms of a concussion.
Bouchard says he hasn't given up hope of playing again this season, but time is running out with only 21 games to go after the Olympic break.
He is unable to work out, other than taking walks, as long as he continues to have headaches. Bouchard was originally hit in the head during a game last March, and he's spent much of the season watching his teammates as a spectator.
Wild general manager Chuck Fletcher says there's no rush to get Bouchard back in the lineup.


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The province of Noord-Holland is 1 of the 12 provinces the Netherlands consists of. From an economic point of view it is arguably the most vital part of the Dutch economy. The province holds a strong international position in various fields.
The traditional open community of the coastal province of Noord-Holland, has always attracted companies and people from all over the world. At the moment the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area alone counts 3,100 international companies and is home to 170 nationalities.
The second most densely populated province of the Netherlands can be roughly divided into 2 economic areas: the 'North', with a focus on innovative agriculture and horticulture, maritime and offshore, energy, life science, health and water. The 'South' is specialised in IT & media, creative industry, logistics, food & flowers and finance.
To many foreign visitors and inhabitants Amsterdam, the capital of the Netherlands, is the touristic highlight of the province of Noord-Holland. Although Amsterdam attracts approximately 6 of the in total 8,4 million annual tourists in this area, Noord-Holland has much more to offer. Here is a list of tourist information services:
Arthur van Dijk has been the King's Commissioner in the province of Noord-Holland since 7 January 2019. Van Dijk chairs the Provincial Council, the 55 people's representatives in charge of the provincial policies.
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|Number of municipalities
|48 (2017)
|Number of houses
|1,300,093 (2016)
|Number of inhabitants p/ km²
|1053 (2017)
|2,813,466 (2017)
|848,861 (2017)
|159,234 (2017)
|153,759 (2017)
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|Gross regional product
|€ 141,784 million (2015)
|Amsterdam Metropolitan Area
|€ 125,000 million (2014)
|Working population
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|Commercial services
|870,320 (2016)
|Non-commercial services
|434,600 (2016)
|Construction services
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|Number of companies (total)
|302,690 (2016)
|134,990 (2016)
|Northern area
|52,370 (2016)
|Southern area
|250,310 (2016)
|Number of foreign companies
|3,100 (2016
|Amsterdam Metropolitan Area
|2,300 (2013)
|Number of foreign tourists
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Harry And Meghan May Start World Tour In Australia
British media outlets are reporting that Prince Harry and Meghan may start their first overseas tour together in Australia.
The couple are expected to make their first overseas trip to Ireland, with some other, short trips planned in the next few months before coming to Australia in October for the Invictus Games.
The couple will be here for a week as part of Harry's charitable event being held for wounded and ill soldiers, which is being held in Sydney.
Britain's Mail Online reports a possible major tour which would start with the Invictus trip in Sydney, then carry on to New Zealand, Fiji and Tonga.
The new Duke and Duchess of Sussex will take on their first official task as a married royal couple when they attend a garden party for charity workers at Buckingham Palace this week
Meanwhile The Sun reports that Prince Harry made a moving speech as the private wedding reception.
The Royal said he and Meghan make a "great team" and said to her: "I can't wait to spend the rest of my life with you."
Harry also said she had "navigated everything with such grace".
Prince Charles also gave an emotional speech at the lunchtime reception, praising his youngest son, and concluding with "my darling old Harry, I'm so happy for you.''
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A Stanford Medical research group advertised for participants in a study of obsessive-compulsive disorder. They were looking for therapy clients who had been diagnosed with this disorder.
The response was gratifying; they got 3,879 responses one hour after the ad came out.
All from the same person.
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A man is recovering from surgery when the Surgical Nurse appears and asks him how he is feeling.
'I'm O.K. but I didn't like the four letter-words the doctor used in surgery,' he answered.
'What did he say,' asked the nurse.
Women to Dentist: Its so painful I'll prefer to get pregnant than getting my cavity filled.
Dentist: Make a decision, I'll adjust the ahair accordingly.
A patient was suffering from a diseases and he was badly in trouble so he went to the doctor and asked,
Patient : "what are the chances of my recovering doctor?"
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SOLIHULL-BORN actress Samantha Hopkins is flying high after being cast as Jane, Wendy Darling's daughter, in a brand new London production of Peter Pan marking the book's centenary.
It's being performed this summer in a specially designed 1,100-seater pavilion in Kensington Gardens and is the first time any theatrical performance has taken place in the original setting for J M Barrie's classic children's novel about the boy who wouldn't grown up.
Samantha, now 28, grew up in the area and is a former pupil at King's High in Warwick.
Since leaving drama school, she's had leading roles in a number of short films and numerous theatre credits.
In 2007, she was selected as a finalist for the prestigious Alan Bates Bursary offered by the Actor's Centre in London.
Like an updated planetarium, the production uses groundbreaking technology to project 360 degree scenery onto the inside of the entire pavilion ceiling bringing all the magical aspects of Neverland to life.
Audiences can virtually fly with Peter to Neverland, stand on the deck of Hook's ship and soar high over Kensington Gardens in the heart of Edwardian London.
The show runs until 30 August.
To book tickets log onto www.visitlondon.com/peterpan or call 0871 386 1122.


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Dragon Angel wrote: ↑2018-04-22 04:21am...Does such a movement with such power exist right now?
Otherwise, this is tilting at windmills. Why should I chase ... not even a ghost, but so far yet, a fairy tale? Let's talk about the alt-left that Trump mentioned after Charlottesville I guess.
Seriously, though, Simon? This is beyond out of left field. Like, I can't fathom how you thought this would be relevant to the context of ray and I's discussion other than "well, this discussion is missing a totally random devil's advocate opinion that doesn't actually provide any more definition to 'wider cultural trend', time to add one right here!"...
Anyway, the Left having "circular firing squad" as a bit of a meme at this point and there being massive infighting right now regarding figures like Farrakhan, I think we're fine for now. People like Farrakhan and the Women's March leaders who follow him would've been better to point at than ... this.
More or less this. My objection isn't about the specific merits of Ray's opinions, it's that bad things happen when we start saying:
"No, it's wrong to even think thoughts like 'gee, this group of people on the left are doing this thing that is a problem in some way,' because our enemies will pick up on it and use it against us."
I mean, that shuts out a wide range of discussion not just about strategy, but about tactics. Because you can't say "this tactic is ineffective," or are only allowed to say it if you're very careful about how you say it. And it encourages the movement to bring into its ranks people who are on some fundamental level deeply hostile to both one another and to the long term goal of creating the desired 'golden future,' as opposed to creating dystopia in the name of revolution.
The far right will make up accusations whether it has material to seize on or not; the Protocols of the Elders of Zion come to mind. We cannot afford to let that fact turn "gee, this is maybe counterproductive" and "gee, we may have a problematic splinter faction emerging within our movement, let's keep an eye on that" into thoughtcrimes.


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So excited to see my Hokies back in the ACC championship game again! So I made a few printables to celebrate – hope you enjoy!
If you're a true Virginia Tech fan then all you'll need is this one:
For those who want a bit more Hokie in their life:
And for the love of the best mascot out there – The Hokie Bird!


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June 6, 2018
Dear Match Community:
I am writing with two announcements.
The first announcement is that today is my last day at Match. I started at Match as a board member 15 years ago, and I have been the CEO here for 7 years. I barely know what to say, in hindsight and as I sign off. Mainly, as I pack up, I think about how much good Match has done for its students and families over the years and for the movement to which we belong, about the wonderful people with whom I have worked here, and about how much Match has grown and invented and changed. Leaving is bittersweet of course, since Match is such a big part of me. But I have loved my time here, and I feel great about the state and future of Match.
Which brings me to the second and most important announcement, one that I make with a smile from ear to ear.
Nnenna Ude will be our next CEO.
I have worked day-in and day-out with Nnenna for the past 5 years, most recently as Nnenna served as the head of our charter school. She is a friend and a colleague, and – as I know from first-hand experience – she is fiercely devoted to our mission and a leader of enormous talent, substance, judgment and work ethic. Like staff in all corners of Match, I have complete trust in Nnenna, and I recommended her unequivocally to our trustees as my successor. After a full national search, our trustees unanimously hired Nnenna yesterday. Please welcome Nnenna. Match is lucky to have her as our next CEO.
Importantly, the full leadership at Match – including Nnenna's key school staff, Scott McCue (who leads our graduate school of education), Claire Kaplan (who leads our national dissemination work), and Anne Healy (our CFO) – is staying on with Nnenna and enthusiastically support her transition to CEO. Things around here should not skip a beat.
One last clarification. The thriving college and jobs organization that we launched a few years ago – initially called Match Beyond and recently renamed Duet – is spinning out into an autonomous nonprofit. It is growing rapidly, has enormous promise as a disruptive innovation in higher education, and needs autonomy and freedom to expand. It will continue to be led expertly by Mike Larsson – its cofounder and current CEO – and it will operate under its own board and independently of the K-12 work (our charter school, our dissemination work, and our teacher training) that Nnenna will now lead.
From here, I can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com. Please stay in touch and, above all, please keep cheering for Match and, as they carry on now, for Nnenna and the team here.
All the best,
Stig Leschly
(PS: And yes, no matter what I do next, I will continue to blog here from time to time on the crossroads of education policy and practice.)


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CHOOSE YOUR SWORD - PROVERBS 5.1 My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding:
2 That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.
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4 But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.
5 Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.
6 Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable , that thou canst not know them.
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My husband and I drove down to Louisiana to visit family, and I saw that his itinerary passed by Columbus, Ohio. "Hey! That is where Chris lives", I told him, "let me email her and try to meet!" So we did 🙂
I have been knowing Cris (aka Quickreaver) from when I first started my online activity, about little more than 3 years ago, and I was immediately impressed by her incredible skills, how beautifully she paints skin, her humility and will to help others. Through the years I've grown to respect and admire Chris even more than that first impression, mainly because of her unique character. She is very down to earth and always has the right words to calm the tempest even in the most heated internet dramas, keeping her comments objective and open minded.
I was so happy to finally meet her. In the eyes of my mind she is this beautiful and tall red-headed woman (Avatars imprinting, see?), and after meeting this beautiful, small and amiable woman, she still is a vampire queen in my mind, tall and red-headed. We had a short and fun time together, we talked about all the big American issues, as gay marriage, politics, religion, abortion and whatnots… I think the only topic we did not talk about was vaccination and autism… I guess it was not such a big issue then 😉 Of course we also talk about art too, digital, traditional and the wonderful environment of traditional galleries.
It was great to meet Cris, it was great to put a voice and some more reality in the little slot of my brain that stored Cris' information. I enjoyed our meeting very much and I really am hoping that we can go to Illuxcon together next year.


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Erick Greene studied at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia and at Princeton University. His research interests are behavior, evolution, and conservation biology. He has worked on birds and insects in the Canadian Arctic, South America and Central America, and the western United States. He is currently an Associate Professor of Biology and Wildlife at the University of Montana. Current address: Division of Biological Sciences, University of Montana, Missoula, MT 59812. E-mail: email@example.com.
Bill Davison developed an interest in birds at an early age while exploring the fields and woods of Ohio. He has conducted research on male parental care and the impacts of Brown-headed Cowbird parasitism on Lazuli Buntings. He earned a B.Sc. in wildlife biology at the University of Montana, and is currently studying the ecology of grassland birds in the Conservation Reserve Program fields for his master's thesis at Eastern Illinois University. Current address: 430 Barker Street, Wellington, OH 44090.
Vincent R. Muehter grew up in New Jersey, where he developed a fascination for music and corvid behavior. After studying music at New York University, he attended the University of Montana, where he combined his interests in music and birds. He earned a B.Sc. in wildlife biology and completed an honors thesis on song-learning in Lazuli Buntings. He earned an M.Sc. at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, focusing on the function of delayed plumage maturation and song copying in Lazuli Buntings. He is now the Associate Director of Conservation for the National Audubon Society. Current address: National Audubon Society, 700 Broadway, New York, NY 10003-9562. E-mail: email@example.com.


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Welcome to Vape Decadence. We are a family owned and run business and we have to add that we are all Vape fans ourselves. Yes it's true, we sell it and we use it. Our objective is to provide a good range of products with an emphasis on the quality of the goods. Natural extracts is a buzz word. Many people search for Free Range this and that in the Supermarket! Well, this is the vaping version of that. We contacted Velvet Cloud because one of us was showing signs of being allergic to Propylene Glycol, a major ingredient in 90% of vape products. It's not harmful but if you are allergic, well that is a problem. Velvet Cloud produces Vegetable Glycerin based goods. What's more, they don't use alcohol to thin them, they use de-ionized water. So, you get these natural flavor extracts which are built on a base of vegetable glycerin. We love the product, it is decadent. There is something here for everyone.
Just B Juiced products are locally manufactured. They use locally sourced materials that all have appropriate certification. It is their attention to detail that encourages us though. They have an uncompromising view on the ingredients, using none of the known risk ingredients that can be found in many other products. Refreshing and strongly flavored. You get bang for your buck here.
To complement the range of juices we arranged to distribute the Vicious Ant range locally. While so many of the popular goods are manufactured in China (including many clones), Vicious Ant are synonymous with quality and emanate from the Philippines. They are precision engineers and trend setters. We know their goods are pricy but, considering that we are still using goods we bought nearly 2 years ago (a long time in the vaping world), we cannot but be impressed by the "value for money" proposition. Buy quality once and be happy, buy cheap once and you buy again (and again)….
Again, welcome to the website. Please visit again soon as we will hopefully add products from time to time.