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The England cricket team achieved a historic feat last month, winning the Ashes in Australia for the first time in 24 years. But at grassroots level, the English game is facing various threats, not least fears over health and safety. Several weeks ago my team, Pacific Cricket Club in north London, received a letter from Islington council notifying us that it was suspending cricket at our home ground. The letter stemmed from an incident in which a neighbour's Porsche was hit by a ball, prompting a £680 insurance claim against the council.
With precious little time before our first match in April, our fixtures are now in doubt – in what marks a low note in the club's history. Pacific CC began life in 1983, born out of the music distribution company Pacific Records. The club originally played at Tufnell Park, followed by a spell at Finsbury Park before moving to Wray Crescent, a small council ground where it played its first match in 1987. Wray is now the only public-access cricket ground in the entire borough. Tufnell Park was turned over entirely to football a decade ago – at the time, Pacific agreed to stop playing there because Islington council promised we would always have cricket at Wray. As for the Finsbury Park ground, that became a baseball pitch.
How times have changed. Delving back further into history, the MCC, in a former guise, played in Islington before moving to Marylebone. But the venue, White Conduit Fields, thought to be in the vicinity of King's Cross station, has long since disappeared as London became more and more developed. There are now few areas suitable for playing cricket.
In 1983 there was a campaign to bring cricket to Highbury Fields, which proved unsuccessful. So where are we to go? Admittedly, Wray Crescent is not perfect for cricket. Because it is not huge, plenty of sixes are hit there. The wicket is artificial, and that had to be replaced several years ago after a scooter was set alight on it. But despite its drawbacks, the ground has its own charm on a summer's evening.
The incident in which the car was hit occurred not during a Pacific game,
but in a midweek Last Man Stands match, a competition that Pacific is not involved in. Pacific have insurance that would cover any damage to property or personal injury of a member of the public, so for our matches to be suspended seems draconian. The greater issue cited by the council appears to be the state of the pavilion. It has been declared unfit and stopping cricket at Wray could simply be an easier option than renovating or rebuilding it. But, again, where are we to go?
After the club stressed its position and drummed up local support, Islington council's Labour leader, Catherine West, has hinted that cricket may remain at Wray Crescent – possibly with the erection of high netting around the boundary. But she points to the financial squeeze faced by local authorities in the current political climate. "The council remains committed to continuing cricket at the park but, in view of the unfair government cuts of almost £40m in the next financial year, we need to explore how we can fund the netting and improvement to the pavilion," she said.
The council told the club it would cost £40,000 for nets to protect the neighbouring houses and £140,000 to £180,000 for rebuilding or repairing the pavilion. Interested parties are invited to a meeting at Islington town hall on 16 March. But in the meantime we are left wondering what fate awaits us this season and, indeed, into the future.
In a similar case in Bournemouth recently, a club called the Suttoners were informed they must leave their ground because of the dangers posed by stray balls, although no one had been hit. The club's chairman, Richard Rigler, told his local newspaper: "The Queen's speech was all about sport facilities for youngsters. There's a couple of youngsters here almost in tears."
But cricketers can at least take heart from a case in 2009 in which a judge threw out a neighbour's concerns that balls were hitting his bungalow overlooking the village pitch in Shamley Green, Surrey, where cricket had been played for 169 years.
Pacific's case is just part of a wider challenge facing English cricket. After decades of playing fields being sold off by councils, and with live cricket disappearing from terrestrial television, there is a real danger of the game becoming confined to more affluent areas.
Of course, all is not doom and gloom. The England side have been more successful in recent years and extra money from Sky has filtered down to some clubs and schools. But still cricket risks becoming an elite sport, rather than a national one. Just look at the make-up of the England side – predominantly drawn from private schools, where children benefit from extensive facilities and coaching.
So the issue is one of accessibility. If the game disappears from the wider national consciousness, where will the next Ian Botham or Andrew Flintoff come from?


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People couldn't send or receive messages using the Facebook-owned app, apparently because of a server problem. Service appears now to be gradually being restored.
The app didn't initially look broken, with chats and contacts able to load. But once a user was into a chat, the app just showed a "connecting" message that never resolves itself, and so new messages couldn't be sent or received.
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The website Down Detector showed a huge spike in problems with the app, suggesting that almost everyone is unable to get online. The problems are focused in western Europe and Asia, but were reported across the world.
There were relatively few reports of problems from the Americas, but that might simply be a result of the fact that timezones mean that many people there were asleep.
WhatsApp Web, which uses the phone's connection, was also broken.
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Life is full of surprises if you're open to them.
On a cold February morning this past winter I set out from our home in Harlem to drive my 7-year old daughter to school. Our usual Friday routine.
We climbed into the icy interior of our little Landrover Freelander. My breath crystalized on the inside of the windshield. An indicator that it was a particularly cold New York morning. I turned the key. It started. Then it died instantly a second later (hmmm).
I turned the key again and it was as though there were no engine for the starter to turn anymore. Like it had been secretly abducted by aliens in that instance. I knew in my gut that this was the beginning of a very long day.
The Stranger Had A Name…Harvey
A little back story would be in order.
1. I'm a music producer. At the time I was looking for my next gig.
2. About a year ago, when we bought the car, it needed service not long after so we needed to find the place you take your Landrover to in Manhattan. Someone who wouldn't rip us off. (Good luck on that one, I know.)
3. That's when I first met Harvey.
Harvey had a repair shop that catered to Landrovers way over on the outskirts of Upper East side. A real character. Older guy with glasses, a blue blazer, crumpled Yankees hat and a Marshall amplifier shirt underneath. He was looking pretty rough around the edges when I met him.
Harvey was in the middle of talking down an irate customer on the phone. After he hung up, I inquired about the T-shirt, making small talk asking if he had anything to do with music.
"Yeah, man. I got a band. We're a bunch of old guys playing rock and roll, you know. We did a gig last night. I got way too fucked up and got home at 4AM. Now I'm paying for it. Oh, my head!"
"Awesome." I said. "How much is my car going to cost me? When can I have it back?"
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Unfortunately, over this past year I got to know Harvey a lot better than I would have preferred. Meaning our car was in the shop more than I had patience or money for. But we would BS about music whenever I showed up. On a more recent visit for a "Service Engine" light that wouldn't go away, Harvey dropped the bomb about our little car.
"How many miles does this thing have?" he asked.
"Around 80,000, I think. Why?"
"Ah shit, man. Ever get your timing belt done?"
"No. Why?" I asked, feeling good news was not imminently in my future.
"These Freelanders, they're dogs, man. Once they get to around 72,000 miles, if that timing belt hasn't been changed you're living on borrowed time, brother. Then she snaps one day and when that happens…" his voice trailed off.
"It's over, Charlie. Blown motor. These engines are trouble, man. And it's a big job. Set you back like two grand. But if you don't…"
Which brings us back to that cold February morning.
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As the tail lights of the flatbed disappeared around the corner enroute to Harvey's place, it was like watching a relative being carted off by the coroner to the morgue after a horrible accident. Like I wasn't going to see this car ever again. I felt a new chapter brewing in my life: the car-less New Yorker.
Sure enough, a few days later the news came in from Harvey. "It's not good news, man."
I figured that. What was the prognosis?
"No compression in the motor. It's over. Ain't worth fixing. Sorry, man"
"But the car was in like perfect shape barring the slight fact that it no longer moves. Prior to this moment it was worth like real money."
"Yeah was. That's the keyword here, man. It was worth money. It'll cost you what it's worth to fix it now."
Fantastic, I thought.
And that's how I became a car-less New Yorker. Death offers no option. It's absolute.
But then something interesting happened.
There was an awakening. From out of the darkness we all create with our fear of the unknown.
Suddenly, there was no more parking hell. No more tickets. No more $60 gas fill ups. No more car insurance or new dings to piss you off. No more…anything.
Total freedom!
Maybe this was a good thing after all? We would finally give Zipcar a go, as we always said we wanted to try.
After a couple weeks I heard from Harvey again. He thought if I left the car with him, maybe there was a chance in hell he could figure something out.
"Nothing new to report, man. I'm sorry. I really tried but my guy wanted like five grand for a new motor. I told you it wasn't gonna be pretty. Come get your baby seat."
And that's what I did. I was finally OK with it all.
I walked into the shop fully prepared to say a quick eulogy for the car and take my baby seat.
In The White Room
Harvey was sitting in the service booth on the phone, as always, when I walked up. An older guy with a blue blazer and an earring was standing outside the booth waiting. Maybe another pissed off Landrover owner waiting to argue over some insane bill. I could only hope. Misery loves company, right?
It was all so surreal. Like standing in purgatory, waiting in the empty white room for your name to be called so God can go over your life with you to see which team's going to draft you.
So Harvey comes out shaking his head.
"I'm sorry, man. I know this sucks."
He looks over at the other guy with the earring. "I'll be with you in a minute, brother. Oh hey, Lee this is the poor bastard I was telling you about with that Freelander, remember?"
"Oh yeah. Hey, man I'm really sorry. What a fucking drag."
"Yeah, thanks." I said.
"Yeah, Lee sings with my band I told about a while back, remember?"
"Yeah, I remember." I said, reaching out to shake Lee's hand.
"Yeah, Lee's here because it's kind of a big night for us. We're getting ready to cut an album. We've been interviewing producers and we're gonna choose one tonight."
"Yeah, cool." I said, not really hearing him, still feeling like I was waiting in that white room.
"Yeah, we never had any music we could sell at the gig when people ask so we needed to go into the studio and make a…" his voice trailed off.
Then I saw the lightbulb go off.
"Hang on a minute. Didn't you say you were a music producer when I met you? You have a studio? That you worked with guys like Joe Walsh and toured the world with…who was that, Foreigner?"
"Yeah I am. I do. I did that, yeah."
The white room was starting to get colorful.
"Yeah! yeah, I remember this now!" Harvey was starting to get amped up. "Lee…Fucking Foreigner! This guy toured with Foreigner!! And Joe Walsh from The Eagles! And the fucking James Gang, man!!"
"That's really cool, man." said Lee, a little more subdued than Harvey.
"I guess, yeah. It was fun," I said.
Harvey was thinking. Thinking and pacing. Pacing and looking back and forth to Lee with eye exchanges. Finally, he turns back to me.
"So…would you, umm, have any interest in checking out the band?"
"As in, if I like the band I produce your record and you give me back my car with a new motor?"
"We could do that, brother."
This was all getting very strange.
"But here's the thing, brother. We're supposed to choose someone tonight and the guys haven't even met you. So do you think you can come down to rehearsal tonight and listen to the band? See if I'm fucking crazy thinking we got some real songs?
Let me know if you're even interested and what you would charge if you are? This could work out for you, man."
I smiled at the absurdity of events unfolding here.
"Yeah, I can do that." I said.
"Fucking cool, man. We'll see you tonight."
I got home that day but I'm not sure how. It was all a blur. I told my wife, who had just sent out a heartfelt email eulogy for our little car to friends and family, that there was a chance there could be life after death for Freelander. I would tell her that night.
And God Said, 'Go Make Them A Record!'
I showed up to rehearsal and met the band. They had this amazing rehearsal room they created above the shop. Any man and certainly every New York musician would seriously envy such a man cave: full stage, PA, mixing position, full bar, couches. The only thing missing was the home theater.
We talked. I listened. Harvey was right. They had songs. There was definitely work to be done here but there was also something to work with. They had the passion. And it was rock and roll. I knew what to do with that.
Harvey asked me in private for my price. I told him I wanted the car with a new motor and an undisclosed sum in cash (mind you, not the kind of undisclosed sum politicians silence sex scandals with but a far cry from a total loss for sure).
He went back into the studio to talk to the guys while I waited outside in the next room. After a few minutes he asked me back in. They were all sitting on the couch so I sat down at the board.
Harvey began, "We've met with a fair amount of guys. And some of them have some pretty cool ideas. But the guys seem to dig you and like your ideas. I'm already sold. So you want to do it, man?"
"Sure. Let's make a record."
We all shook hands and I told them we would start pre-production the following week. Then I said goodbye.
I walked out into the New York night in a part of town that gets real quiet when it gets late. You could see the lights of Roosevelt Island dancing on the East River. A half moon was perched just above the last building on the block, peaking out from behind a few whispy clouds. All was well again with the universe as I walked up to the corner to catch a cab.
What are the odds you could walk into a funeral one minute and walk out with a new lease on life? It was about as far away a possible outcome of that February morning as I could ever possibly imagine.
(hmmm, maybe the answer lies in those last two words)
Possibly, as in possibility and imagine.
Imagine possibilities.
Welcome and entertain them all!
Can you remember a time when something totally unexpected happened in your life that humbled your belief that you knew how everything was going to turn out?
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The future is coming to New Albany-Plain Local Schools when the MIT fabrication laboratory, or "fab lab," opens at the high school this fall between the Jefferson Room and the natatorium.
The future is coming to New Albany-Plain Local Schools when the MIT fabrication laboratory, or "fab lab," opens at the high school this fall between the Jefferson Room and the natatorium.
District spokesman Patrick Gallaway said students who train in the lab can earn certifications that enable to enter the workforce immediately.
The lab is expected to prepare students for a career path and give them stronger connections with organizations partnering with the district on the project, including Battelle for Kids, Columbus State Community College and local manufacturers that use similar equipment, Gallaway said.
"It's not your father's woodshop class because it's all technology-driven and the programming is not hands-on," he said. "Instead, they will do programming through a system to design something on a three-dimensional printer or vinyl poster-maker."
The labs typically include "a laser cutter that makes two-dimensional and three-dimensional structures, a sign cutter that plots in copper to make antennas and flex circuits, a high-resolution NC milling machine that makes circuit boards and precision parts, a large wood router for building furniture and housing and a suite of electronic components and programming tools for low-cost, high-speed microcontrollers for on-site rapid circuit prototyping," according to MIT.
Gallaway said New Albany-Plain Local's version also will focus on robotics.
The district implemented Robotics II the past school year with Henry, a robot that speaks eight languages and is able to recognize faces and respond to requests. He was purchased in 2013 with a $19,000 grant from the Martha Holden Jennings Foundation.
District officials plan to purchase more of the robots this year and expand the class.
The fab labs initially were developed for communities to encourage entrepreneurs but have been adopted by schools as platforms for STEM education, according to MIT's website.
Gallaway said the district is providing professional development to teachers so they can become acquainted with the equipment in the lab and begin planning ways to incorporate its use into the classroom.
The district is targeting high school and middle school students but, Gallaway said, if a fifth-grade teacher links a classroom lesson to one of the machines, the teacher could take the class to the lab.
"It will provide opportunities at our fingertips, so students will not have to leave the campus," he said.
Gallaway said the lab also would be open to students from other districts, similar to the way the district operates the environmental-science class hosted by the Eastland-Fairfield Career and Technical Schools, one of the project partners.
The fab lab is being paid for by a $1,132,229 grant from the Ohio Department of Education's Straight A Fund.
It is part of a $14.4 million grant from the fund given to 16 Franklin County school districts participating in the Innovation Generation initiative, which is part of the national Pathways to Prosperity Network that seeks to establish career pathways in advanced manufacturing/robotics, business logistics, health care and information technology.
Reynoldsburg is the lead district accepting and distributing funds. The other participating districts are Canal Winchester, Columbus, Gahanna-Jefferson, Grandview Heights, Hilliard, Licking Heights, Marysville, New Albany-Plain Local, Olentangy, Pickerington, South-Western, Upper Arlington, Westerville and Whitehall.
A second component of New Albany-Plain Local's grant funds will capitalize on the district's students' interest in medical professions, Gallaway said.
He said the health initiative would include opportunities for students based in community medical centers, learning bio-medical research, engineering and potential health careers.
Reynoldsburg initially announced New Albany-Plain Local would receive $872,228.
Tricia Moore, Reynoldsburg's director of partnerships and shared services, said as the projects have evolved, the budget changed.
Gallaway said district officials plan to sponsor an open house for parents to tour the fab lab this fall.


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New Direction, No Map
Yep - just what you were looking for - another blog. From me. And it's not like I'm posting so much on my other blogs that I need a new place to share.
This one is different - this is mostly for me.
I'm going through a ton of changes in my life right now - mostly good, some strange, others...meh, and also getting a lot of great opportunities. Which is really, really exciting and has also set me off in a creative space that I haven't been for a long time. So I had a few ideas for some interesting personal projects and thought I'd mix them in with some of the more exciting opportunities to come my way. All documented here when I feel like it.
No promises. No promises on finishing what I'm starting. No promises in sharing final versions. No promises.
This is for me (and hopefully, for fun).
BTW - New Direction, No Map also has been inspired (in part, but A LOT!) by Melissa Pierce and her "Life in Perpetual Beta" project - which is really incredible and you should (RIGHT NOW!) go, watch as much as you can and contribute. She's pretty amazing and I think had a ton to do with me being able to play like this. Thanks Melissa.


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Wednesday, February 1, 2017
She had her place outside the station. She told me her name was Jo, and I knew it was true 'cause I'd once heard one of her friends call to her from across the street.
The friend was equally as ragged, pale-faced and skinny as Jo was. Once, I'd seen the friend sitting, legs sprawled out right on the trodden ground, shrieking with joy at a puppy jumping up and down beside her. She had a half bottle of drink tucked under one armpit, and looked like pure joy; like a child unaware of her surroundings, shielded from the suspicious glances of passers-by.
I'd never seen Jo look that happy. She seemed to lose a day of life with each repetition of the same six words; 'spare a bit of change please'. Not even as a question either - she'd repeat it like a mantra upon which her survival rested.
She might have looked a bit like me once. Mousy hair, average build, light eyes. She might have passed people like her on the street and shuddered with fear at the prospect of an existence so raw. She might've had a great appetite for food, a thirst for living, for being alive. Now she sat sullen, in her spot outside the station, and when food came it was joyless, and when life came – a glimmer of hope – it was fleeting.
When I talked to her one day, her speech jarred me. In my mind, she'd been muted by the six words I had heard so many times. They rung inside my head as I ascended the station steps each evening, knowing I'd find her in her usual place. Maybe I finally approached her after all that time just because I wanted to see if she could talk. And when she did, I was shaken into the reality of a real person reduced to a shadow.
She said she needed money to sleep somewhere that night. I said I could give her some. She said things were stressful, and that if she could rustle up enough for a flat, maybe things would get better. I knew I couldn't save her. She knew that too, but it didn't stop her from asking. No trace of gratitude; at first I was shocked, almost hurt, by her nagging pursuit of more, of whatever she could get from me - the intrigued stranger.
But there is no place for courtesy in a loveless world, one where you take whatever you can, one where exhausting, persistent hardship requires you to grasp at anything and everything.
I was a friendly face when she told me her name and showed me the scars on her arms. One face in a sea of faces, or half faces, as they cowered away each day in their hundreds. I knew she wouldn't remember mine.
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Payton O'Brien from casino gaming site Gambling 911 recently interviewed our CEO James. Here's a link to the interview to read about our upcoming poker products and some of the other stuff we've got cooking over here at 3G:
As promised, here is James's appearance on Face the State from Thursday evening:
With online poker now expected to launch in the state of Nevada in the spring, 3G Studios has become the first video game developer to apply for the necessary licenses toward that goal! KTVN even covered the story today:
James is appearing on today's episode of "Face the State" hosted by Chris Ciarlo for KTVN. The segment will air live this evening at 7:00pm, and we should also have a video of it to follow. Tune in!
Just a quick update from James's G2E appearance! An audio recording of the "Social Games: Soaring Technology" panel can be found here:
We at 3G Studios were honored this morning to accept a 2012 "Healthiest Place to Work" award from the Healthcare Forum put on by the Reno-Sparks Chamber of Commerce.
The purpose of the award is to show the importance of healthy employees and to celebrate those companies that have implemented it into their company and mission.Healthy employees miss fewer days at work, in turn, keeping the productivity high, profits up and medical costs down. One of 3G's missions is to work hard and play hard. In order to both, one needs to be healthy. Our company offers a great benefit package to our employees. We also offer great incentives and encourage healthy eating and exercising. Another one of our mottos is to have FUN! Our employees enjoy coming to work every day and a happy employee equals a healthy employee. We strive to find and implement fun, healthy alternatives inside and out of our working environment.
Thank you so much to The Chamber, all of the sponsors, the panel of judges who voted, and to John Ascuaga's Nugget for hosting the forum. We would also like to congratgulate all the other winners, especially the Bosma Group for their runner-up finish in our business category.
From 11:45am – 12:45pm today, our CEO James Kosta is part of a panel at this year's Global Gaming Expo. If you're at the conference this year, please attend! We'll hopefully have some video of the panel to follow.
Big news today! 3G Studios is proud to announce that we will be partnering with Eldorado Interactive, LLC – a subsidiary of Eldorado Resorts. This partnership marks the first time an experienced game developer and a brick-and-mortar casino have entered such an agreement, and we are so very happy to be able to work with such an esteemed company. Read more about it directly from the Eldorado here:
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It's bad enough sharing awkward small talk with a stranger in a lift - but it's worse when they start busting complicated martial arts moves right in front of your face.
YouTube prankster FouseyTube, real name Yousef Saleh Erakat, has released another video of him dressed as a character from the Mortal Kombat video game series to scare people as they enter a lift.
Yousef, dressed as Raiden, crouched on the floor as he waited for his victims before leaping up and shrieking in their faces while faking an attack.
The end result is hilarious - with most people jumping out of their skin before sprinting out the door.
But this time Yousef met his match - with one man berating him as a "crazy person", while another group wrestled him to the floor after he appeared to attack one of their friends.
One woman simply stared in wide-eyed astonishment as Raiden performed an elaborate series of kicks and thrusts before bursting into laughter and applause as Yousef finished his routine.
The YouTube star, who has over 4 million subscribers to his page, attracted some criticism from commenters for the prank, with one saying "people do actually seem scared for their safety in some of the pranks to the point where it becomes unfunny".
He appeared as Sub-Zero in a similar video in September.
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Hitler didn't want a world war, and had no stomach for fighting England, according to Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Louis Kilzer, author of "Churchill's Deception" (Simon & Schuster, 1994).
Hitler believed the future of Western civilization depended on the cooperation of Germany and her Aryan cousins: England and the United States. His territorial demands were limited to conquering Communist Russia, which he regarded as a proxy for Jewish world ambitions. He was determined to avoid fighting a war on two fronts.
The "miracle at Dunkirk" was in fact an extraordinary peace overture to England. We don't normally associate Hitler with such magnanimity.
In May 1940, the British were on the verge of defeat. The English army was trapped at Dunkirk. Rather than take them prisoner, Hitler halted his generals for three days allowing 330,000 men to escape.
"The blood of every single Englishman is too valuable to shed," Hitler said. "Our two people belong together racially and traditionally. That is and always has been my aim, even if our generals can't grasp it." (Kilzer, p.213)
This is not an attempt to exonerate Hitler. His ideology of Aryan racial supremacy and his treatment of "inferior races" are abhorrent to me. My own grandparents were murdered by the Nazis. I believe people can take pride in their race or nationality without seeking to dominate others.
Nonetheless we should understand that our view of Hitler is influenced by propaganda. Furthermore, Hitler was created, manipulated and destroyed by the same Illuminist clique that runs the world today.
According to Kilzer's well-documented book, Hitler was trying to convince the English to make peace. In exchange, he was ready to retreat from Western Europe and from much of Poland.
Kilzer describes how British Intelligence (an arm of the Illuminati) took advantage of Hitler's racist ideology to divert his energies against Russia and trap him in a two-front war. They convinced him that a large pro Nazi (anti Communist) "Peace Party" was prepared to unseat the "war monger" Churchill.
This party consisted of the Duke of Windsor (the former King Edward VIII) and appeasement-minded elitists known as the "Cliveden Set." The Nazis had longstanding social ties with this group and confided in them. Hitler seemed to overlook the fact that Windsor went to stay at the Rothschild castle in Austria after he abdicated.
Rudolph Hess, the Deputy Leader of Nazi Germany, was in contact with the Cliveden group and flew to England May 10, 1941 to negotiate peace. According to Kilzer, Hess had Hitler's complete blessings.
Coincidentally this was the worst night of the Blitz. Afterward, there was a long lull in both Nazi and British bombing raids. It appears the Nazis thought they had an understanding with the British and turned their attention to the invasion of Russia the following month (June 22, 1941.)
Hitler didn't understand that the Anglo American elite was (and still is) intimately connected with international (i.e. Rothschild) finance. Anglo American imperialism is in fact a front for the families that own the Bank of England and the Federal Reserve. These Jewish and non-Jewish families are connected by money, marriage and Lucifer worship (i.e. Freemasonry). Both Roosevelt and Churchill were their flunkies. (All our "leaders" are.)
In 1776 Meyer Rothschild financed the Illuminati, a Masonic secret society that in turn spawned the major revolutions of the modern era including the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917. The ultimate aim is to establish the banker world dictatorship, which is at an advanced stage today.
In the 1930's their purpose was to incite a two-front war that would leave the great nation states (England, Germany and Russia) prostrate. Like all wars, the purpose was to kill millions of people, traumatize humanity, increase public debt and private profit, and make "world government" (the future UN) seem essential for "peace."
The 1930's British Policy of Appeasement was probably designed to encourage Hitler's expansionist tendencies and to provoke war. Douglas Reed, the (London) Times Correspondent in Berlin, was first tipped off to something fishy when his newspaper suppressed his warnings of the Hitler menace. (See his "Controversy of Zion")
Why would the financial elite also want to destroy Russia, which they created?
The transcript of the 1938 NKVD interrogation of C.G. Rakowsky (a.k.a Chaim Rakeover) provides the answer.(http://www.savethemales.ca/000275.html) Rakowsky was an intimate of Trotsky's and former Soviet ambassador to Paris.
Rothschild's agent Leon Trotsky was supposed to succeed Lenin but got sick at the critical moment. Stalin was able to assume power and save Russia from Rothschild control.
In order to control Stalin, international finance was forced to build up Hitler and the Nazi party. Rakowsky confirms that Jewish financiers backed the Nazis although Hitler was not aware of this.
"The ambassador Warburg presented himself under a false name and Hitler did not even guess his race… he also lied regarding whose representative he was… Our aim was to provoke a war and Hitler was war…[the Nazis] received…millions of dollars sent to it from Wall Street, and millions of Marks from German financiers through Schacht; [providing] the upkeep of the S.A and the S.S. and also the financing of the elections…"
Unfortunately for the bankers, Hitler also proved intractable. He started to print his own money!
"He took over for himself the privilege of manufacturing money and not only physical moneys, but also financial ones; he took over the untouched machinery of falsification and put it to work for the benefit of the state… Are you capable of imagining what would have come …if it had infected a number of other states and brought about the creation of a period of autarchy [absolute rule, replacing that of the bankers]. If you can, then imagine its counterrevolutionary functions…"
Hitler had become a bigger threat than Stalin, who had not meddled with money. The British were not going to make peace with Hitler because he threatened the bankers' racket. Furthermore, the Illuminati wanted an extended war, the ruin of Europe and the expansion of the USSR.
The book "Financial Origins of National Socialism" (1933) by "Sydney Warburg" provides another glimpse of how the Illuminist clique supported Hitler. This 70-page booklet was suppressed for many years but was republished in 1983 as "Hitler's Secret Backers."
"Warburg" describes a July 1929 meeting with "Carter," the President of J.P. Morgan's Guarantee Trust, the Presidents of the Federal Reserve Banks, "the young Rockefeller" and "Glean from Royal Dutch." These are all Rothschild dominated.
It was determined that Warburg who spoke German should ask Hitler how much money he needed to overthrow the state. The only stipulation was that Hitler adopts "an aggressive foreign policy."
"Warburg" details five meetings with Hitler between 1929 and 1933. The first took place in a beer cellar where Hitler calculated his needs on the back of a paper plate. About $25 million was transferred. This was extremely important in the depth of the depression because the Nazis provided food and shelter to many of their supporters.
Hitler wasn't told the reason for this support and did not ask. On two occasions, he wondered out loud if "Warburg" was himself Jewish but dismissed the idea before getting a reply.
There is no "Sydney Warburg" but the internal evidence suggests the author could be James Warburg, son of Federal Reserve founder Paul Warburg. Many people dismiss this monograph as yet another fraud but the wealth of accurate detail and anecdote suggests otherwise.
One wonders why anyone would go to this much trouble to alienate the most powerful people in the world if he wasn't sincere. The only people with the power to suppress it are the ones it incriminates and they have a long record of suppressing similar works.
"Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past." George Orwell
The winners write history. Our view of Hitler and the Second World War is largely a Jewish view. I am only beginning this research and will happily admit my errors. These are my tentative conclusions:
While I utterly reject Hitler's racist ideology and atrocities, he may have represented the last serious resistance to the Illuminist agenda.
Paradoxically Hitler was created and manipulated by the bankers he railed against. He lost the war because he didn't appreciate their larger agenda. Naively he failed to recognize that they controlled England and the United States. It's as if he didn't believe his own propaganda.
Blinded by racist zeal, he made a fatal blunder (from his point of view) of not neutralizing England by seizing the Middle Eastern oil fields. He made another fatal error by not promising to liberate the Russian people from oppression. Nazi brutality turned the Slavs into implacable fighters.
But for his demented racist ideology and consequent barbarism, Hitler might have done some good. Many Germans and even some German Jews supported him. Instead he was another pawn in the Illuminati's diabolical game.
Henry Makow, Ph.D. s the inventor of the board game Scruples and author of " Long Way to go for a Date." His past articles exposing feminism and the new world order are stored at his web site www.savethemales.ca He enjoys receiving comments at henryatsavethemales.ca
Dear Henry,
On the subject of Adolf Hitler:
He certainly did not want to go to war with the Englishmen, but I can guarantee you that his demonic reputation is well-deserved.
I have studied a bit of these statements by Nazi leaders on what horrible things the Jewish Bolsheviks were doing to the Slavs in Soviet Union. Those things certainly happened.
Still though, this strikes me as a particularly repugnant case of crocodile tears. Nazi leadership themselves had murderous plans for Eastern Slavic population.
Henry, I advice you next to look into the grand Nazi project known as Generalplan Ost". That was THEIR version of the new world order.
It is the only thing that you need to know about the Third Reich to realize just how morally corrupted its essence was.
Here you have some creepy material on this plan:
17 October 1941, Hitler Monologue, Führer Headquarters, in Madajczyk, Generalny, pp. 69-70.
The [eastern] region must lose the character of the Asiatic steppe, it must be Europeanized! It is for this purpose that we are building great highways to the southern tip of the Crime and to the Caucasus. German cities established along these roadways will stretch like a string of pearls, and around these will be German settlements. The two or three million people we need [for this program] can be found quicker than we think. We will take them from Germany, the Scandinavian lands, Western Europe, and America. Chances are that I will not live to see this, but in twenty years twenty million people will inhabit this territory. In three hundred years we will have a blossoming parkland of extraordinary beauty!
As for the people indigenous to the area, we will be sure to select those [of importance]. We will remove the destructive Jews entirely. We will not enter Russian cities, they must die out completely.
There is only one task: Germanization through the introduction of Germans [to the area] and to treat the original inhabitants like Indians. I intend to stay this course with ice-cold determination. I feel myself to be the executor of the will of History. What people think of me at present is all of no consequence. Never have I heard a German who has bread to eat express concern that the ground where the grain was grown had to be conquered by the sword. We eat Canadian wheat and never think of the Indians.
Get it? Hitler intended to give Injun treatment to tens and tens of millions of Slavic people living on the Western side of Ural Mountains!
Nazis also had highly hypocritical stance on issues like abortion. They actually ENCOURAGED it when it came to non-wanted races.
Check this one out: As Many Abortions As Possible by Mike W. Perry.
The WW II was not fought entirely vain. Churchill in his cynicism came to do some actual good by getting the Great Britain and United States involved in Hitler's eastward push (beginning with Poland), even against his own intentions.
Had they won, Nazis would have, step by step, ethnically cleansed the whole area west from Ural Mountains from Slavic populations (and Jews, or course), and there is no reason to suppose that they would have been exactly scrupulous with their methods.
There would be no Poland or Russia existing today, had that happened only isolated reservations of Slavs used as a cheap labor, which eerily reminds me of Palestinians today.
And I still consider myself as a White Nationalist my secular occupation besides being a Christian.
I believe that Hitler and his henchmen gave a terrible name for White Nationalism. I have no particular ill-will against non-Whites, who don't threaten me and my loved ones.
Keep up the good work, and do some serious Bible study too.
Praying for your safety and ultimate salvation Henry,


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On Wed, 2009-07-15 at 13:26 -0400, Tal Leming wrote: > We (Erik van Blokland and myself) have listened to the various > comments to our initial .webfont proposal[1] and we've rethought some > things, made adjustments and more. In particular, we were intrigued by > Bert Bos' suggestion of a compressed directory rather than a single > XML file[2]. John Daggett's concerns about the file size were also a > good point[3]. The revised format is now a compressed file containing > two files with the following names: > > info.xml > fontdata With all due respect to Bert Bos, I hope that you will instead reconsider using MIME. For most practical purposes, you can regard MIME format as a compressible "directory archive" so most reasons you might have for choosing a file archive format are also reasons for choosing MIME. Among the drawbacks of using a file archive format are, notably, the introduction of metadata fields which are inapplicable in this context such as file timestamps, permissions, ownership data and so forth. Among the advantages of MIME are its general consonance with the design context and its capacity for orderly extension. MIME is generally consonant in this context because of the role it already plays on the web. MIMEs extensibility comes from its capacity for strongly typed components, encoding scheme flexibility, and an existing registry for declaring new component types. The extensibility of MIME points out a weakness of your file archive proposal: you are using file names "by convention" to assert the type and meaning of the components. The file "info.xml" is supposed to contain XML conforming to a specific schema and "fontdata" a font. If later someone wants to generalize your idea and extend it for, say, JPG files instead of font files they will have to choose some distinct name other than "fontdata" yet there is no orderly process in place for the allocation of such names. Finally, if your file type is a directory archive than an ambiguity arises as to how a browser should treat such a file when it is linked to directly ("<a href='...'") Ordinarily the file would often be passed to an archive extraction program but that would not be appropriate for these files. > The info.xml file contains numerous bits of data describing the font > data. We looked at various metadata formats and we drew a lot of > inspiration from the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative[4]. We also spoke > with some foundries to determine if they would need other fields and > made adjustments as needed. A quick overview of the fields: > format - This defines the format of the data in the fontdata file. > Required. > name - The name of the font. Required. > creationdate - The date this particular font file was created. Required. > vendorname - Name of the vendor of the font. Suggested. > vendorurl - URL for the vendor of the font. Suggested. > designcredits - A list of designers of the font. Optional. > license - A license for the font. Optional. > licenseurl - URL to licensing info for the font. Optional. > copyright - A copyright for the font. Optional. > trademark - A trademark for the font. Optional. > allow - A list of URLs allowed to use the font. Optional. > description - Text describing the font. Optional. > privatedata - Arbitrary, private information set by the vendor of the > font. Font vendors could use this to include any data that they deem > necessary. Optional. The work of identifying the needed relations is valuable. The use of XML to represent those relations is, in this case, problematic. I would urge you to consider using HTML + RDFa instead. In that way, the metadata may be made "human readable" with good accessibility while still being machine readable. UAs are spared the obligation to code up a new representation mechanism for a specific new XML schema. The meta-data format will be extensible in an orderly way and not limited in use to the "fields" of interest to a few vendors. This is not to say that there is no value in, having defined the ontology of relations you want to have, defining an XML schema as one possible representation for them. I'm simply suggesting that (a) the relations should be abstract (representation independent, like ccREL) and (b) HTML+RDFa is a parsimonious representation to use in font files. I would, again, urge you to use the ccREL definitions in every case where there is overlap. Otherwise, W3C will find itself with two mutually redundant efforts and, if they are alert, will urge the unification of the two anyway. > Many of these fields include data that may already be in the font > binary. We think it is advantageous to move these out of the binary > for several reasons: it makes it easier for users and browsers to > access the data, it makes it very clear what the details of > the .webfont are since the font file is only one part of the .webfont > and, since .webfont can support more than one font format, it may be > necessary if a future format doesn't include this data. Font vendors > will be able to maintain consistency between the data in the font > binary and the data in the XML file, so there shouldn't be concerns > about inconsistencies. There are many good reasons to have this metadata separate from the main payload, I agree. > Further details about these elements are in the attached file. > If it would be useful for the browsers to have information about the > font, we're open to adding data. For example, several font vendors > thought that adding a list of Unicode ranges covered by the font might > be useful. A perhaps attractive attribute of the HTML+RDFa notion is that it is conveniently extensible in downwards compatible ways. Even as new "fields" (I would call them "relations") are added, human-friendly display continues to work downwards compatibly (old browsers can at least show the user the new fields in a nice format). > The fontdata file would contain the actual font file. The name does > not have an extension so that it can be format agnostic. The format of > the font file is specified by the <format> element in the info.xml > file. Initially the only supported format would be "opentype". (This > covers both OTF-CFF and OTF-TTF.) This is quite ad hoc and uncomfortably non-extensible. MIME will afford you the opportunity to include a type declaration for the font payload in a standard way that is already widely implemented. > As stated above, these files would be compressed into a single file. > We propose .zip as the compression format. If there is another > compression format that would be easier for the browsers to implement, > we are open to suggestions. An informal test showed an average 40% > file size savings over the raw OpenType fonts. A MIME format file can be compressed in a flexible number of ways. > Handling the <allow> element: > In our previous proposal we suggested an unobtrusive alert system that > would be triggered if the domain being viewed did not match a domain > in the <allow> element. John Daggett explained that he didn't think > this would work[5 6]. Instead, he suggested a "page info" window that > would display data about the page including information defined in the > font's metadata[3] plus same-site origin restrictions. We are very > interested in hearing from the browser developers about the > feasibility of these two ideas. To the extent to which you hope browsers will have mechanisms specifically intended to convey copyright and licensing information *as such*, I think that you *must*, to be realistic, be at least responsive to the ccREL effort. Otherwise, you are starting from scratch on a redundant effort. -t > We're hopeful that this is a good format for everyone. It gives users > smaller file sizes. It gives the font vendors a simple format that > allows them to include information about the font. It doesn't require > entirely new technologies from the browser developers. > > Once again, we'd love to know what you think. > > Tal (and Erik) > > > [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-font/2009JulSep/0361.html > [2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-font/2009JulSep/0386.html > [3] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-font/2009JulSep/0406.html > [4] http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/ > [5] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-font/2009JulSep/0362.html > [6] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-font/2009JulSep/0365.html >Received on Wednesday, 15 July 2009 20:04:15 UTC
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David's hands. I took this shot the night of my youngest male child's basketball game. I look at it 651 million times every day. I can relive, it seems, every instant of David's life thru mental pictures of his hands, prompted by this image. Astonishing. So I haven't shared, until now, because I've decided to do a series of David's hands. And Kevin's hands. And Double BB's hands (if he'll permit me).
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You've probably heard of Beer Can Chicken. I don't buy alcohol, so this version uses an olive can and the juice from the olives to make a flavorful chicken that is moist on the inside and crispy on the outside. It's a great addition to your low carb lifestyle. Yum! 8+d
Olive Can Chicken
4 lb whole chicken
6 oz can black olives
3 tablespoons olive oil
1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
1 teaspoon dried parsley
1/2 teaspoon rubbed sage
1/2 teaspoon dried rosemary
1/2 teaspoon dried thyme
1/4 teaspoon onion powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon black pepper
Remove all oven racks except the lowest. Preheat oven to 375.
Put the chicken can roaster in a pie pan to catch any overflow (if desired). Spray or oil the upper parts of the roaster to keep the chicken from sticking to it.
Remove the lid from the olive can and pour the olives with their juice into a bowl. Remove the label and any glue from the can. Use a funnel to return the olive juice to the can. Leave the olives in the bowl and save them for another use.
Put the can of olive juice into the roaster and place the roaster in the broiler (or other large, deep) pan to give it stability and make it easier to get in and out of the oven.
Remove any giblets and wash the chicken inside and out under cold running water. Pat the outside of the chicken with a paper towel to remove most of the water. Put the chicken on the roasting rack.
In the small bowl, add the olive oil and Worcestershire sauce. Add the dry seasonings and mix them well with the liquid ingredients. Pour the oil mixture over the chicken and spread it around with your hands. Make sure to get under the wings, around the legs, etc.
Carefully put the chicken into the oven and bake it for 1 1/2 hours. Carefully remove the chicken from the oven. Let it stand for at least 10 minutes. With hot pads or mitts, carefully remove the chicken from the roaster and place it on a plate or platter to carve and serve it.
*Note: There are many can roasters out there, but I used a BBQ Chicken Can Roaster that I got from Walmart for $5.00.
You can see step-by-step directions with pictures for making it in my How to Make a Low Carb Olive Can Chicken article.


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Three Brothers Arms Hotel
Established in 1841 by Mr S Jackson and originally called 'The Goats Head Inn', later 'The Macclesfield Arms', then 'The Davenport Arms', and now 'The Three Brothers Arms'.
Mr Jackson gave it up after a few years and Samuel Davenport, the 'Squire' of the district, had trouble finding a suitable tenant to replace him. He believed that a well-run Inn was essential if Macclesfield was to benefit from the passing trade, particularly after the Wellington ferry across the River Murray was opened in 1847.
James Hackett arranged with Samuel to take up the lease and he had an inn licensed and operational as the 'Macclesfield Arms' in 1846.
Early hotel licencees
(Awaiting copyright permission to add the full list of publicans)
From a past Macclesfield Newsletter Article (c2012?) (Inset of folk below text)
We continue here with another one of the photos of Macclesfield, from days past, that we are privileged to have thanks to K M Bowen (formerly of Flaxley). This is the Davenport Arms Hotel, which is today known as the Three Brother's Arms Hotel, a popular place for visitors to the Macclesfield area of today.
We don't know the date of this photo unfortunately, nor the names of the folk standing out the front of the hotel by, the motorcar. We can tell from the name painted above, that the hotel was licensed at that time by Kerrison, who was one of a long line of licensees of this hotel over the years and that their telephone number was Macclesfield 2.
The hotel has changed quite a bit since this photo was taken of course, although it is un-mistakenly the one we know today. It appears to be a very substantial building with great stonework and with living quarters in the middle. West End are advertising XXX Bitter Beer and Exhibition Stout and written on the window is an ad for Haighs Scotch Whisky. The window on the left in the photo is marked Bar and looks very similar to one of the existing windows.
The first hotel in Macclesfield (The Goats Head) was established very early in this town's history, around about 1842 and, was a popular stopping place for those travelling later on the east/west route, through to the goldfields and back and to other areas in that general direction.
From the model of the motorcar (Rego No. 228-311) we might suggest a date for this photo in the early to mid twenties. (Note the large wire wheels on the car!). Those among us who are more expert at recognising the dress of these folks, may be able to put a better date on it than that.
It would appear that some of this group have either just arrived in town by this car, or more likely, probably about to leave. Note the suitcase alongside the young woman on the right and the better dressing of the travellers. My guess is that the man in black is the driver of the car.
Not many folk had their own private motorcar in those days and we do know that during a later period, there was a car service running from Macclesfield to the city, so maybe this vehicle is also a service car, rather than a private one?
Did anyone notice that the young lad kneeling down is holding onto a small black dog. Great photo and, it is a valuable addition to our history collection.
Article: Ray Risely
More to come!
Davenport Arms –Publican John N Fox, licensee 1869-1872. Photo found in the RSL building.


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Supporting Material – September 11: Bearing Witness to History
Personal Experience At The Pentagon on September 11, 2001
By Penny Elgas
The plane seemed to be floating as if it were a paper glider and I watched in horror as it gently rocked and slowly glided straight into the Pentagon. At the point where the fuselage hit the wall, it seemed to simply melt into the building. I saw a smoke ring surround the fuselage as it made contact with the wall. It appeared as a smoke ring that encircled the fuselage at the point of contact and it seemed to be several feet thick. I later realized that it was probably the rubble of churning bits of the plane and concrete. The churning smoke ring started at the top of the fuselage and simultaneously wrapped down both the right and left sides of the fuselage to the underside, where the coiling rings crossed over each other and then coiled back up to the top. Then it started over again — only this next time, I also saw fire, glowing fire in the smoke ring. At that point, the wings disappeared into the Pentagon. And then I saw an explosion and watched the tail of the plane slip into the building. It was here that I closed my eyes for a moment and when I looked back, the entire area was awash in thick black smoke.
Related: it was a plane bomb
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For the first time in the history of the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB), three commissions – Coaching, Refereeing and Rules – held a joint meeting at the FIVB headquarters on Tuesday.
Items discussed included team composition (12 or 14 players), review of the trial of Libero rule modifications, review of the latest rule changes (net touch, centre line penetration) and the trial of the Golden Formula during the FIVB Men's World Club World Championships in Qatar.
The joint commission meeting findings will be proposed to the Executive Committee in April. more@fivb


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Story and photos by Mikhaela Locklear Editors' note: This story was written in October 2013. We present it here to honor Harley Clark, who died Thursday at his farm outside of Austin.
It was a bumpy ride down the washed-out dirt road to the little house in Dripping Springs. The home sat in the midst of the greenery that I would soon find to be filled from floor to ceiling with hundreds of books - ranging in subject from gardening to Darrell K. Royal - and knick-knacks that could have only been collected over a lifetime.
"Young lady, would you like a 7UP?" I am asked as I admire the large, self-sustainable rainwater collection tanks that supply water to the little house. He notices and adds, "The next step would be to get some solar panels in that field over there so we can be completely self-sufficient."
On a late Saturday afternoon, amid towers of books, Harley Clark took me back to that legendary day in 1955 when he created the iconic "Hook'em Horns" sign, the ultimate symbol of the University of Texas at Austin.
We walk into the little house and are greeted by Earl, a basset hound, and Evie and Wilma, both dachshunds. I take a seat at his desk littered with papers, books and a Longhorn snow globe that particularly catches my eye. "I get invited to campus to tell the story live, and I enjoy that," Clark says. "People seem to enjoy hearing it, so I guess I'll keep doing it until I wear out my welcome."
It has been 58 years since the sign's inception, yet Clark tells the story with eloquence, as if it had happened yesterday, and a smile on his face. "The year was 1955. I had been elected head yell-leader by the student body and we were coming up on the TCU game.We had, some might say, a mediocre team," Clark adds.
His job as head yell-leader was to help the students "make up in spirit what [they] lacked in talent." Clark had to come up with something to boost morale. Other universities in Texas, especially UT's rivals, had started using hand signals at games. "A fellow by the name of Henry Pitts ... P-I-T-T-S," he spells it out for me to make sure I get it right in my notes, "had got me aside and said, 'You know, if you do your hands like this you can make it into what appears to be a Longhorn.'"
Clark asked his fellow students for opinions. "Most of them told me they didn't think it was good idea and it would never take … How much they knew, huh?" He glances in my direction with a smirk. That Friday night, at the pep rally, Clark introduced the hand sign to the crowd. "You could see them kind of fooling around trying to arrange their fingers," he says.
As he lies back in his chair, Clark begins his favorite part of the story.
Then Dean Arno Nowotny came up to Clark after the rally. "He grabs my right elbow, forcefully, and pulls me around toward him. He looks straight up in my face, and I look down at him. He was a short, little fellow," Clark recounts. The dean was furious Clark hadn't checked with him before proclaiming the hand signal. He was too late though. "The hand signal was out of the box," as Clark puts it.
Clark claims to have told Dean Nowotny, "You need to look on the bright side of things. Instead of our mascot being a longhorn, it could have been a unicorn!" Clark and I laugh.
At the game the next day, Clark says he could tell that his simple proclamation had had quite an effect. "The students in the student section were doing it, and, right around halftime, the signal had crept around the horseshoe [of the stadium]," he says.
After graduating from UT, Harley Clark went on to be a successful judge for many years but has since retired and found new prospects.
Now, he gardens. His connection to "the Big Mother," his name for Mother Nature, is most important to him. He has multiple gardens on his property where he grows "all the veggies," as he puts it. His favorite vegetables to grow are tomatoes. "Tomatoes and I get along … I'm in love with tomatoes," he explains.
He slowly gets up from his desk chair and looks out the large windows that line the back wall of the little house. He's decided to show me his zinnias before I go.
We take another bumpy ride through his property down to the flower garden. He helps me out of the car, and we walk into a sea of pink, orange and purple beauty. He takes a pair of scissors out of his pocket and begins to search for the perfect bloom.
A bee buzzes by and, and Clark greets it with a "hello."
After meticulously combing through the sea of colors, he has picked the perfect four flowers. He places them in a vase, already ready in his car, and hands it to me as a gift. We climb back into the four wheel drive Toyota and begin to head back to my car. As we're driving, a question I had not yet asked occurs to me.
"How many acres do you have here Mr. Clark?" I ask.
To which, he simply replies, "Forty."


text: DigitalFour Ways to Leverage Your Google+ Profile to Land a New JobBy Vicki Salemi|May 13, 2014 ShareBy Vicki Salemi|May 13, 2014 ShareAh, social media. Sure, we're all on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook, but how about leaning on Google+ to self-promote and land your next job?According to a piece on Brazen Careerist, there are several ways to create a solid Google+ profile in order to get your name out there. Consider this: Google+ is the second larges social network out there. Considering it has over 500 million members, it's an untapped market if your profile isn't ramped up. Plus, keep in mind that Google+ feeds Google, as pointed out in the piece. Where do most employers search for passive candidates? You guessed it: Google.1. Complete the entire profile page. Susan Joyce writes in the piece, "Connect to your LinkedIn profile, Twitter account, blog, employer's website or even your favorite posts on Brazen."2. Make the "about page" easy to read. Her advice? Write in the first person and create "short but coherent" paragraphs and a short bulleted list. As people peruse your profile, this will make it easy for them to look at their screen and learn more about you.3. Focus on the absolute best keywords. Remember that the platform you're working on thrives on keywords. Help your profile appear in Google searches by including keywords with job titles.Her advice? "Use the most appropriate job title for the job you have if you're employed or for the job you want next if you're unemployed. You can always change your mind and your profile later, but being vague or generalized won't help."And think forward as well. If the job you want has a specific title or a few titles known in the industry, include them in various forms. Look at the Job Trends page on Indeed to see which keywords are used most often and then do just that — use them often on your page, too.Keywords can be used for skills, too so be specific and focus on skills you already possess as well as the ones employers covet.4. Be meticulous in creating your Google+ tagline. At the top of the story box, take heed to your Google+ tagline. This is going to be included in a Google search result linked to your profile. Plus, Joyce points out your tagline appears in the pop-up window when someone scoots the mouse over your profile picture. Your tagline should create enough interest for people to click and read your profile.The tagline essentially defines your personal brand so get out of corporate mode and vague terms. Instead of saying you're an "experienced media professional," get specific in terms of your specialty. Sharehttp://adweek.it/2kv1m5Q copy Adweek Adweek


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Brakes not working like they use to? There's a point when a rotor is too worn and needs to be replaced to perform properly. A worn rotor will typically be discolored and you can see it is thinner than a new one. We stock a good selection of rotors from multiple brands. Simply replace it… Read more »
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SRAM RED eTAP
We had the chance to ride SRAM's new eTAP wireless shifting today! Expectations were high for the heavily anticipated product. The first thing you take note of is how the shifting is different than any bike you've ever been on. The shifters feature a single button which is very large and easy to press, even… Read more »
Pivot Maintenance
One particularly often overlooked item on a customer"s mountain bike maintenance list is pivot service. If you have a full-suspension bike, it is designed and outfitted with pivot points that connect the rear triangle to the front via bushings or bearings. Regardless of how many bearings/bushings your bike has, this is another serviceable part of your… Read more »
Every cyclist needs this…
In the cycling world you have normal flats and then you have the ride ending massive blowout. Small pieces of glass or metal found on the road often create a small puncture in the tire. Most of the time you can just put a new tube in, air it up and get back on your… Read more »
Derailleur hanger alignment
Derailleur hanger alignment is a very common cause to shifting woes. While the above picture is an extreme case, luckily fixed as this particular frame did not have a replaceable hanger, even the slightest of bends or misalignment we'll say, can cause major headaches when it comes to searching for the right gear in your… Read more »
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Reminder: changing the oil in your fork is very important. Same idea as your car, you will get better performance and longer life out of it. This is what happens when a fork is dry, the wipers get clogged with dirt and act like sand paper. Bring your bike by for a fork evaluation any… Read more »
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As Fred points out in this post, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin (a conservative Republican) is vying to supplant Kaleefornia Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (a less-conservative Republican) as the nation's symbolic green governor. I don't see it as triangulation. I see it as an essential component for both winning the Republican nomination and taking on Barry "Killing Babies Is Just As Important As Not Killing Trees" Obama in the 2012 General Election:
How To Run For President In 2012: Rule #1 – Reclaim what is rightfully ours. Conservatism and Conservation are from the same etymological family tree, so let us be conservative about the environment.
By the way: Arnold is grappling with figuring out how to convert 2786.6 Trillion BTU's (8,359.8 ÷ 3) to renewable energy sources by 2020. Sarah has to convert 399.6 Trillion BTU's (799.2 ÷ 3) to green energy sources by 2025. Sarah's piece of the pie is 14% of Arnold's share. If they both succeed, then Arnold, who has a much more monumental task than Sarah, should get the Green ribbon. Af course Rick Perry (a conservative Republican) might have a say in the matter. He needs to convert just 25% of Texas energy usage to environmentally-friendy sources in order to surpass Arnold's goal (11,558.30 Trillion BTU's ÷ 4 = 2889.575 Trillion BTU's).


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Continuing from the last post, more facsimile fun from the back pages of the Interflug timetable for November 1975 to March 1976. Everything is out of Berlin in this case, and what might be most remarkable are the infrequency of services: barely more than once per day to next door Warsaw, and about four times per week Bucharest and the Yugoslav run to Zagreb—Belgrade as well as Sofia, with once per week to the Black Sea resort town of Varna. On top, the Czechoslovak services show some variety, especially fun is the once weekly Tu-134 landing at the Carpathian ski resort of Poprad-Tatry, a premier feature on the Timetablist.
Further down the sheet is the long, once-weekly pan Asia flight to North Vietnam via Moscow, Tashkent, Karachi and Dhaka. At lower left is the now well-known Berlin—Algiers—Bamako—Freetown—Conakry twice weekly operations, and at the grand finale is the twice-weekly hop over the Iron Curtain, northward to Helsinki.


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Sienna Miller has had an interesting, if not entirely satisfying, career so far. Having been dismissed by many as yet another model-turned-actress after early roles in "Alfie" and "Layer Cake," she proved to be a far more interesting proposition, with an excellent performance in a terrible film, "Factory Girl." She's since proved that wasn't a fluke, with strong work on stage in "As You Like It" and "After Miss Julie," and two very good performances in Steve Buscemi's "Interview" and John Maybury's "The Edge Of Love", stealing the show from Keira Knightley in the latter.
Unfortunately, despite being linked to the likes of "Gravity," Miller's most recent role has been in the truly awful "GI Joe: Rise of the Cobra". However, the star's just signed on for a high-profile project which should give her some exposure in a new genre, even if it's a film we're actively dreading. Miller has joined Jessica Biel, Abigail Breslin, Robert De Niro, Ashton Kutcher, Sarah Jessica Parker, Michelle Pfeiffer, Til Schweiger and Hilary Swank in the decidedly….eclectic cast of Garry Marshall's "New Year's Eve," the follow-up to the director's monster hit "Valentine's Day."
Although it'll share some of the same ensemble feel as its predecessor, no characters or plot elements will overlap — even Kutcher and Biel, who appeared in "Valentine's Day," will play new characters. Otherwise, plot details are mostly under wraps, although if our New Year's Eve was anything to go by, at least one character's storyline will involve them playing "Call of Duty" on their own until 5am, then crying themselves to sleep. The film starts shooting soon, for a December 9th, 2011 release. [Variety]
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Home to Paradise, the final book in author Barbara Cameron's The Coming Home series, is not to be missed! Rose Anna Zook always thought she and John, one of Stoltzfus brothers, would marry, make a home together, and have children. But John, enjoying his Rumschpringe in the Englisch world, has other ideas. Rose Anna is determined to bring her man back into the Amish fold. John is equally determined to live his life free and unencumbered. Who will win this battle of wills? Will love prevail?
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Have you ever wanted to go behind the scenes at YWP, learn more about the animals, and get up close and personal with some of the most powerful and fascinating animals on the planet? Yes? Then a VIP Carnivore Experience is just for you!
Spend a delightful and potentially gruesome two hours in the company of one of our Carnivore Rangers!
Visit the areas not normally viewed by our regular visitors and meet some of our famous rescue Lions, Meerkats and Mongoose, endangered African Painted dogs or Amur Tigers. This is your opportunity to give enrichment to some of our most popular carnivores, at a safe distance!!
The carnivore experience also includes a meal from our fabulous Safari Cafe after the experience. This experience is strictly not suitable for children under the age of five. Participants will also receive a certificate pack as a record of their achievement.
Age Suitability: The Carnivore Experience is suitable for people over the age of 5. All children must be accompanied by an adult (age 16+).
Price: £300 for 2 people (additional guests £125pp), price includes entry into Yorkshire Wildlife Park.
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Can we replace rear camera on Galaxy Note 8.0?
I gone through many review of Galaxy Note 8.0 and found that the only issue with this device is its camera. So I was wondering whether it is possible to replace its rear camera lens with some better 8 MP or 13 MP lens... Please share your view if you have any idea of it.
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