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Zones, Day 2
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I came in a bit late this am (getting the house ready for an open house). That meant I had to warm up in the rec pool with no backstroke flags. Not ideal and perhaps contributed to some misadventures in my 100 back.
400 Mixed Medley Relay, 3:57, 100 back split, 1:02.11
We grabbed first place overall and will definitely end up high in the TT rankings. We also had two swimmers who had just swum the 100 IM, and were pretty tired. My 100 back was fraught with turn problems. They seem to be due to my stroke count from the flags changing from prior years. I'm wondering if doing a fair amount of backstroke with agility paddles has helped my pull? I've customarily taken 3 strokes and flipped. I did this on the first 25 and my feet went entirely over the gutter, no push off. A huge collective groan from my team on the side. I just started SDK-ing like mad. The second turn I took two strokes and was too far from the wall. The third turn I took 2 1/2 strokes and that worked best. But who can plan on that? I may have to work on taking 2 long hard strokes before flipping. Any other advice? That must have cost me .5+ seconds. If I had had only a decent turn, I would have had a PR; my prior best was 1:01.99 with the floaty suits. So, I was pleased with the time considering the execution problems. It's actually .3 faster than I went at Nationals last year, though I had a terrible day on day one last year for various reasons. I am hopeful I can take a second off that swim with a full taper. My splits were 29.7/32.4. I swam it 50 easy speed, 25 build, 25 sprint. I will stick to that pacing strategy at nationals. I did put in a split request for this event as well.
100 fly, 1:00.8, PR
I had a lot of rest after 100 back, which I was grateful for as that is an exhausting leg dominant event. I planned to swim the race 75 easy speed + 25 whatever I have left. The last 5 strokes were horribly painful and piano-ish. But I was thrilled thrilled with the time. I haven't swum a decent 100 fly in SCY since 2010 (1:01.3). Splits were 28.0/32.7. I can't really get these any closer without training more for this event. This is only .5 off the NR. That .5 was lost in the last 5 strokes for sure. Still, this was the end of a two day meet. I was very happy with it. It helped to have friends cheering at the end of my lane. I'm hopeful it will hold up well against nationals times. And I'm glad I got it off my plate for the season!
Women's 200 medley relay, backstroke lead off, 27.3
We finished first overall! I only had about 20 minutes after the 100 fly for this race. I did have time for maybe a 250 warm down. I thought my legs would be beyond fried for the 50 back. But they didn't feel too bad. I did feel a bit ragged the last 10 yards. But this is a great time for my 7th event over two days.
Overall, I couldn't be more pleased with my Zones meet. This is the best one I've had in years. I usually do a more gradual rest going into a non-taper meet than I did last week. But 4 days of drastic rest really helped zap the fatigue and produce some great times.
I may start using my nose clip for all my 50s.
Feeling quite bushed at the moment. Will just do a recovery workout tomorrow.


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But, I LIKE this Cliché!
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The only catch-all non-explaination that needs to be said of the traps which still work after centuries without maintainence: "It's Magic!" or rather "Enchantment!"
One that you didn't touch on which was in Dragon Age: Origins as well as in many other RPGs since they first came into being-- the implacable Unstoppable Legions of Darkness who really wouldn't be that much of a problem with modern weapons technology.
Guns and missiles would have made short work of the DarkSpawn and the ArchDemon before the Blight even began, possibly because there would be a Blight-Detector handy. One could probably have nuked Merunes Dagon in Oblivion, as well.
This is a good one. Also, i really like how the main character can single-handedly (or with a few guys) break into the Fortified Fortress of Fortificated Doom and make his way to the top/inner chamber/etc, even though there are supposedly BILLIONS and BILLIONS of troops inside.
Also on that idea, the "i can kill waves and waves of enemies and not feel a single bit of tiredness" trope. At least Baldur's Gate had some fatigue introduced.
I was amazed when you could opt to "skip" one of these scenes in Dragon Age: quite a stunning feat of virtual dialog between the player and the devs, i would add. The whole fight was incredibly hard (featuring about 10 archers surrounding from all sides, two mages, two fighters and an elite boss-type enemy), but if you won, you never got captured. Ace.
Also, health potions. They cure you up, they give you life, they heal your wounds, but when, with your pack chock full of'em, you meet a fellow dying soldier, the thought NEVER occurs to chug a red vial down his throat and watch him get up like nothing's happened.
Nobody else is every trying to save the world. There going to let a band of teens do it while they stand around and parrot the same few lines over and over.
The best treasure is always at the very end, right behind a giant boss that always seems to waiting for you to come.
No matter how many generals of evil you kill or how many cities you save, nobdy knows who the hell you are.
The hero always wields a sword but his supporting crew can wield guns, axs, staffs, and shoes or anything other odd and end.
Everyone, even if they live in a magically sealed off cave in the negaverse, accepts the same currency. They also usually have very similar prices on goods.
Your map never has anything listed on it until you visit that spot dispute the fact that it often has a picture of the location beforehand.
Haha, brilliant. This should be done in RPGs.
The unusual loot you pick up from enemies and I think World of Warcraft must be the worst for this. Right, that's the small army of rats dealt with, let's see what we've got:
10 x rat meat (pretty standard for rats, really)
My favorite - Meeting the Big Bad Boss several times throughout the game and instead of ending it with one quick stab to the neck, talking to them like an idiot and letting them proceed with world domination so that you can fight a long, drawn out battle with them when they become 100 times more powerful.
"Do i have to do everything around here?"
Wouldn't it be kinda neat if there were other bands of adventurers wandering around the land doing quests as well. The player need never see them, but if u choose to do one quest, complete it, then head back to the quest-giver, and try to do another, they could say "Oh that? Some other guys cleaned that up." Then it would encourage multiple play-throughs, and make the player think very carefully about whom to help.
I think that's a neat idea. Anyone else think so? Also, funny article, here's a piece of pie...
The Ancient Well-Lit Tomb with Traps that Still Work:
Yeah, true. But a few times I would wander around places, go into inns and just take what was in the chests. My lockpicking was really high so I got into pretty much everything that didn't require a key.
What about the "Lets foreshadow a difficult boss battle, by letting the beast scream and growl and you hear it from far away".
See Firekraag dungeon in Baldur's Gate 2 && Tower of Ishal in Dragon Age.
ok, one, NERD!!!!!!!!!!!!
I love the airship, flying dragon, or spaceship that you get as a means of getting around toward the end of the game. That was until they invented fast travel. Which somehow makes LESS SENSE.
Mostly an older one that never seems to work nowadays, but the one where you kill a monster and it drops things that it should not be carrying. Kill a rat and it drops a magical sword. Kill a deer and it gives you 500 gold pieces. Wizardry has this one in abundance, but I cannot tell you how many old school games have this one.
As for more modern cliches, I am getting tired of the "you need to use the correct key in this door" one. I have a mace, can't I just bash it down? If it alerts the guards, then so what? I want to roleplay the consequences.
The "whoops did I just.."
Which makes you suddenly unleash huge shit into the world. Like killing the Ocean planet in Kotor (which one? cant remember), the Dimension wand in Baldur's Gate 2..
Humans being the kind, benevolent race...give me a break. We're capable of startling cruelty and selfishness, but we like to kid ourselves with the idea that we're wonderful and helpful towards all.
.. how many RPGs did you play yet?
I find this very hard to believe.
Plenty...granted, it needs to be an RPG where there are more intelligent, significant races than just humans, i.e. not Fable. What do you find hard to believe?
I love the cliche too how you can just go around someones home and then steal all the stuff and they will still be all smiles and sunshine!
Never played Fable tbh because nothing from it sounded remotely interesting..
But tell me, in which games did this happen? The Baldur's Gate Saga features a lot of annoying, stupid, racist, evil and about every other adjective you care for.. human. And elf, dwarf, halfling, gnome etc.
I dunno. Maybe you played other games than me.
I remember the one in KOTOR, which pissed me off to no end because the entire quest was a dark side trap. There was literally no way to finish that quest without getting dark side points. I was playing as a light side character for my first playthrough and I had to waste multiple hours trying to finish it in EVERY. POSSIBLE. BLOODY. WAY. After I discovered it was a dark side trap, I had to revert back to a DAYS old savegame. That still pisses me off to this day.
Why is my character so willing to exchange the trusty sword that he probably received as a gift from his parents when he graduated from adventuring school and his well-worn suit of armor that fits him perfectly after all these years for some bigger-looking sword and thicker-looking armor that a random bandit leader was using before you stuck him full of arrows? Doesn't anything have sentimental value anymore?
Would make an intereting twist.
or the fact that no-one would want to be a merchant what with a million respawning bandits
A lot of people seem to be forgetting that these cliches are supposed to be good.
With that in mind I offer "ridiculous economies." With the number of people I killed in Oblivion, and the number of swords I looted off their lifeless bodies, swords should have been worth less than gold pieces. Let's not also forget the price difference between spending the night at an inn in the slums of Midgar and one in Wutai.
Great article, like Tv Tropes without the missing lunch part!
I would say the absurd amount of stuff the PC has in their inventory, and the obligatory looting of fallen enemys!
We're looking for GOOD RPG cliche's. Did anybody actually LIKE the fact that, minutes into a desperate quest to save the world in "Oblivion", you end up in a sewer fighting rats? Because I sure as heck didn't...
And while we're at it, scrap the "You are the CHOSEN ONE!" rubbish and let the hero earn his goddamn spurs. And with those spurs, let him earn some decent privileges that go with being the savior of the entire world. For example: in "Oblivion" you get a nice new suit of gold armour. Wooo! Shiny!
I tell you a good RPG cliche: SECRET PASSAGES. I can't get enough of 'em.
"Sad thing"? It's one of the few game series in existance with a consistant story and very good voice actors (Kain is played by Simon Templeman, the same guy playing Loghaine in Dragon Age). The only exception is Defiance which is pretty crap gameplay-wise.
Enemies never flee.. ever.
There is no surprice-tactics either, because every enemy (even goblins) knows exactly who the enemy is and where they are.
There is no reason to NOT kill everything, because you would loose loot and xp. So there is very little reason to sneak around, spare lives of henchmen and do a good clean in-and-out.
Talk about your rats, pal. Where I'm from, rats carry laser guns and swords...well, not really, it's more like deadly diseases and freakish persistence.
Yes, with the exception of the first one, every game after -consistantly- aborts the story just when it's supposed to get interesting and puts off the climax for another game.
Except Blood Omen 2, which was just bad.
Consistant story my arse.
Usually the same games have a major villain and evil empire that are also human.
Dragon Age is surprisingly different in that its big bad IS NOT human in any way... altho there aren't very many -good- humans in that game either...
I find it rather weird but every single RPG in the world seems to have giant spiders in it. Also, the big final boss battle will have a cutscene that goes something like this:
YOU: It looks like this is the end
Oh right, and about that temple stuff, you are so right about that, but I don't like those temples and ruins. I'd rather have an adventure in the woods, or on a mountain or something than in another underground tomb.
The head engineer could be a mini-boss!
You left out:
And of course, the fact that your nemesis always escapes the first and second battle, to make a final stand elsewhere, but this time he transforms into some impossibly freakish demonoid bossmob.
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The Boy Scouts of America announced today (April 29, 2008) that the Order of the Arrow, the BSA's national honor society, will conduct its largest national service project since World War II.
The service project named ArrowCorps5, will be conducted at five U.S. Forest Service sites across the country over a five-week period during the summer of 2008. This service project is expected to include 5,000 members of the OA providing more than 250,000 hours of service.
"ArrowCorps5 is the largest, most complex, most challenging
conservation project ever conceived by the Order of the Arrow
and Boy Scouts of America," said Brad Haddock, chairman,
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The national forest sites selected for this project are Mark Twain, Missouri; Manti-La Sal, Utah; George Washington and Jefferson, Virginia; Shasta-Trinity, California; and Bridger-Teton, Wyoming.
"Kids must understand why forests are so valuable so they will grow into citizens who support conservation. Building on the Forest Service tradition of conservation education, we will work with partners to ensure that American children have the opportunity to experience the great outdoors, whether it is a remote mountain wilderness or a spot of nature in the heart of a city," said Forest Service Chief Gail Kimbell. "Today's children—and theirs—will need to be able to take the baton and finish the race. For that, they will need a full understanding of why forests are so valuable, along with a strong land ethic. It is our job to give them both."
Scouts from all across the United States will be given an opportunity to make significant and positive impacts on their national forests. These service projects will include ecosystem restoration, invasive plant and tree removal, trail construction and maintenance, bridge work, campsite improvements, erosion and weed control, and fence removal.
The project also serves as a precursor to the Boy Scouts' plans for its 100th anniversary celebration in 2010. "For nearly 100 years, the Boy Scouts of America has created a strong foundation of leadership, service, and community for millions of America's youth," Haddock said. "We celebrate this legacy as we reaffirm our commitment to inspire and prepare future generations of leaders through historic and meaningful projects and partnerships."
ArrowCorps5 Service Project Schedule
Missouri—Mark Twain National Forest—June 7-14, 2008
Utah—Manti-La Sal National Forest—June 14-21, 2008
Virginia—George Washington and Jefferson National Forests—June 21-28, 2008
California—Shasta-Trinity National Forest—July 12-19, 2008
Wyoming—Bridger-Teton National Forest—July 26-August 2, 2008
Serving nearly 4.7 million young people between 7 and 20 years of age with more than 300 councils throughout the United States and its territories, the Boy Scouts of America is the nation's foremost youth program of character development and values-based leadership training.
More than 180,000 youth and adults are members of the Order of the Arrow, the national honor society of the Boy Scouts of America. The purposes of the Order of the Arrow are to recognize those Scout campers who best exemplify the Scout Oath and Law in their daily lives, develop and maintain camping traditions and spirit, promote Scout camping, and crystallize the Scout habit of helpfulness into a life purpose of leadership in cheerful service to others.
Established in 1905, the U.S. Forest Service is an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The Forest Service manages public lands in national forests and grasslands. These public lands encompass an estimated 193 million acres of land, an area the size of Texas. The Forest Service has a long and distinguished history of service to the public and stewardship of our national forests and grasslands. The agency's mission is best captured by the phrase "Caring for the Land and Serving People."
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Associated Press
The General Assembly this year kept earmarking all North Carolina lottery proceeds for education, just as its predecessors said they would when they approved the state-sponsored gambling in 2005.
This education link is why it's always been branded the North Carolina Education Lottery. But lawmakers decided to rid themselves of the original formula for how net lottery profits received annually � projected for $481 million this fiscal year � would be distributed. And they again designated some funds to education initiatives not identified in the original North Carolina State Lottery Act. Backers of the formula's repeal argue it hadn't been closely followed for several years. They add that lottery money has been moved around to cover shortfalls for education programs beyond the formula, and even for Medicaid.
The updated lottery law still makes clear the profits must be used for "education-related purposes." "It really wasn't a substantive change in terms of actual budget practices over the years," said Sen. Pete Brunstetter, R-Forsyth and co-chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee. He called it "just a cleanup of Lottery Act language." Others are worried the state is slipping away from the basis upon which the lottery was sold to lawmakers and the public.
County governments are particularly troubled as they've watched their slice of the lottery pie for school construction nearly cut in half. "The lottery was created with the proceeds to be for the educational system, and I think it should strictly adhere to that," said state lottery commission member Jody Tyson of Greene County. Any "citizen or government official's first thought should be to protect the integrity of that original formula or that original purpose, and that was for education."
The 2005 law directed 50 percent of net lottery proceeds be used to reduce class sizes in early grades by hiring more teachers and to support pre-kindergarten programs; 40 percent to a special fund for school construction needs; and 10 percent to college scholarships for needy students. The state is expected to exceed $3 billion in all-time lottery earnings next month. The legislature essentially followed the 50-40-10 formula it approved for the lottery's first three full years.
With the formula not enshrined in the state constitution, future sessions of the legislature could simply pass a bill to change the formula. Instead of getting rid of the formula, however, legislators simply directed in the budget law that one-time exceptions be made. The biggest shift occurred during the 2010-11 fiscal year, when Democratic lawmakers facing an extended fiscal crisis budgeted more than 60 percent of proceeds for hiring teachers and pre-kindergarten, while 25 percent went to school construction.
Legislators also allowed some unclaimed prized money and "excess receipts" to handle a Medicaid shortfall. The shift toward teachers and pre-K continued under Republican control of the legislature. School construction received $100 million again this year, or 21 percent of lottery profits. Lottery money will go this year to seven initiatives, three of which weren't identified in the 2005 law. They include student financial aid for University of North Carolina students and digital learning technology for public schools, which new Gov. Pat McCrory wanted.
The North Carolina Association of County Commissioners � which made getting back its 40 percent share a top priority this legislative session � saw its fortunes reversed with the formula's repeal in the budget law. Many counties borrowed money to build schools on the belief that a steady stream of lottery funds could be counted on to make bond payments. Had the 40 percent requirement been followed, counties would have received $210 million more over the previous three years, the commissioners' group says. Johnston County expected to receive $4.5 million annually from the lottery to help pay for school construction and renovations following a successful 2007 bond referendum, county manager Rick Hester said. Now the county is getting only $2.3 million per year.
"That is equivalent to two pennies on our tax rate. It's definitely had an impact on us," Hester said.
The county has made cuts elsewhere in county government. Rep. Leo Daughtry, R-Johnston, said he got fellow House budget-writers to retain the formula in its version of the budget bill. But the Senate, which wanted to repeal the formula, ultimately prevailed during negotiations. Daughtry says he's hopeful the formula can be restored next year, saying lawmakers should stick with the lottery's original intent. "Changing it now is going back on the state's word," Daughtry said.
Brunstetter, a county commissioner for 13 years, said by email the General Assembly has given fiscal breaks to counties in other areas in recent years, most notably ending the requirement that they pay 15 percent of Medicaid expenses. Others worry the formula's repeal will make it harder to ensure lottery funds add to the overall education budget, rather than replace money that can be shifted to other agencies.
John Rustin with the North Carolina Family Policy Council, a longtime lottery opponent, said proving the funds were supplemental in nature was always going to be impractical. "There is a real responsibility by the legislature to ensure that the manner in which the lottery was sold is lived up to," Rustin said, "and there's just no guarantee that has been or will be the case."


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Pursuant to the President's Management Agenda initiatives concerning competitive sourcing, human capital, and restructuring and the Department's One-ED process, which is designed to implement these initiatives, OCR formed a One-ED Team to analyze its primary business process—the case resolution process. The Departmental process provides an integrated, five-year human capital, strategic sourcing, and restructuring plan that builds on the Department's Culture of Accountability Report and echoes the Strategic Plan themes by focusing on "No Employee Left Behind" and providing employee learning and achievement opportunities.
OCR produced a business case analysis of its process and conducted a presentation for the Department's Executive Management Team (EMT) that considered the relative benefits of maintaining the status quo, reengineering the case resolution process, and subjecting the process to competitive sourcing. OCR recommended reengineering. The EMT issued a decision adopting OCR's recommendation. The business process reengineering strategies, when implemented, will result in a case resolution process that provides consistent high performance, quality customer service, and enhanced efficiency.


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The $9.2 billion figure is nearly 40 percent higher than the $6.6 billion value based on a similar UA study that used year 2000 numbers. The UA's Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics compiled both study results.
"While agriculture in Arizona continues to experience a super flux of changes, the 2004 data reaffirms that Arizona agriculture is a growth business producing a bounty of the highest quality food and fiber products at affordable prices," said Kevin Rogers of Mesa, and president of the Arizona Farm Bureau.
The more recent study indicated the financial benefit produced by agriculture for every Arizonan in 2004 was $1,550, compared to $1,200 in 2000. The new study said Arizona agriculture created 74,500 in 2004, compared to almost 73,000 in 2000.
"These new figures directly link agriculture as a major player in the prosperity of local and state economies. We deserve respect for our efficiencies, productivity and value," Rogers said.
According to the UA, three major reasons led to the $2.6 billion increase between the two studies including higher prices for milk and beef, a continued increase in Arizona milk production and the increased value of lettuce and other vegetables.


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Danny B. Head 12/10/2010 5:29:54 AMSo cute! ....it has been below 20 here in the deep south too! brrr #9090847
Michelle Alton 12/10/2010 5:45:08 AMYou certainly built up a rapport with them. Looks like they were sitting for a family portrait. Great stuff!
R. J. Laudenbacher 12/10/2010 6:30:18 AMHow precious is this? I just love it and you captured it so well. They sure posed for you didn't they? What a treat this must have been. You must be having a heat wave up there because it has been about 2 degrees here and with the windchill close to minus 10. :) #9090931
Mary Beth Aiello 12/10/2010 6:54:56 AMOh, the expressions and poses are perfect, Karen. At least they're enjoying this cold weather. Just took Bailey, our Golden, out for a walk in the snow, and bbbbrrrrrrrr!!!!! It's cold out there. #9090975
Jack Gaskin 12/10/2010 11:07:45 AMThey just keep getting better , WOW... TERRIFIC !!!
Your right about our temps today WAY TOO COLD....
Happy Shooting
Tarun Bose 12/10/2010 11:51:22 AMOutstanding image with super pose by these beautiful animals, Karen. #9091383
Judy A. Lawhon 12/10/2010 2:19:54 PMthis couldn't be any better...absolutely awesome, Karen!! #9091654
Patrick Rouzes 12/10/2010 7:38:33 PMThat is one endearing & lovely image, Karen! Love the tones, clarity, expressions & display of affection! WTG, indeed! #9091953
Randy D. Dinkins 12/11/2010 5:42:24 AMWonderful capture, very cute. #9092482
Karen Celella 12/11/2010 6:08:10 AMThanks so much for your wonderful comments. It was amazing to watch them walk around, explore, chase each other, and then settle into a rest or nap.
Here is one shot of us in our parkas and boots that Nat Hab supplies for their visitors.
Karen Celella 12/11/2010 6:22:21 AMI forgot to say that I didn't know about the "three dog night" meaning. Thanks Cathy! It certainly is a three bear night all the time in Churchill! LOL #9092565
Karen Celella 12/11/2010 6:52:34 AMJanet McNeil
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member since: 8/16/2006 Great capture, Karen, love how they seem to be keeping each other warm!! It is also cold here-actually 10 and we have 40+ inches of snow to go along with it!!
Terry Cervi 12/11/2010 1:59:15 PMWhat a great family portrait, Karen!! Just beautiful! #9093177
Freddy Bland 12/11/2010 7:40:49 PMTotally adorable capture, Karen!! Brrr...glad they can keep each other warm!! #9093593
Rona L. Schwarz 12/11/2010 8:08:12 PMWow! Straight into my favorites, Karen! Wonderful family portrait - they are posing just for you! Superb exposure, clarity and detail, too. And I loved your Churchill cold weather look! #9093607
Julie Christiansen 12/12/2010 2:57:18 PMTruly amazing image. #9094964
Phyllis H. Burchett 12/13/2010 9:46:45 AMFantastic Karen, you were lucky to get young cubs! #9096532
Karen Celella 12/16/2010 10:50:02 AMThanks Terry, Freddy, Rona, Julie and Phyllis. Yes, we were very lucky too see so many active bears! I'll never forget this awesome trip! #9109278
Kathryn Wesserling 12/4/2012 3:22:20 AMThe highest Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww-Factor, ever! Congratulations for a special POTD. #10449768
Christopher Budny 12/4/2012 3:34:34 AMFantastic capture! Congratulations! #10449791
Tammy M. Anderson 12/4/2012 3:39:58 AMWondeful POTD. Congrats, Karen. #10449799
Usman M. Bajwa 12/4/2012 3:45:14 AMLovely find and capture, Karen. CONGRATZ on the POTD!
Linda S. Smith 12/4/2012 3:56:22 AMHow precious Karen! Great capture! Congrats on your POTD! #10449846
Michelle Alton 12/4/2012 3:59:43 AMCongratulations, Karen. This is WONDERFUL as are the vast majority of your photos! Funny, I don't remember seeing this before or writing the comment that I wrote. I believe someone is impersonating me (smile)!
Also, hearty congratulations on your October GOLD! I see the watch shot that intrigued me BIG TIME has actually made the BP BIG TIME! #10449856
Colette M. Metcalf 12/4/2012 4:12:27 AMA big congrats on your POTD!!! #10449881
Cheryl Schneider 12/4/2012 4:13:59 AMAwesome shot, Karen! What a wonderful experience that had to have been. #10449885
Patricia A. Casey 12/4/2012 4:21:53 AMLOL at Michelle's always witty repartee...Congratulations Karen on POTD for this absolutely beautiful wildlife scene! Cheers =^..^= #10449901
Leslie McLain 12/4/2012 4:26:38 AMCongrats on an awesome POTD, Karen. #10449917
Linda D. Lester 12/4/2012 4:34:29 AMOutstanding capture of this family!
Joy Rector 12/4/2012 4:34:42 AMcongrats on the POTD #10449948
Nancy Marie Ricketts 12/4/2012 4:36:11 AMWow, Awesome capture! I'd never want to get that close! HUGE congratulations on this spectacular POTD, Karen! #10449951
Andre Larose 12/4/2012 4:40:55 AMCongratulations Karen! Beautiful capture on this awesome POTD! #10449966
Anita Hogue 12/4/2012 4:49:34 AMTotally awesome, Karen! Congratulations on this wonderful POTD!
Carol Eade 12/4/2012 4:51:16 AMBeautiful shot, Karen, congratulations on your POTD! #10449986
Pamela K. Barrett 12/4/2012 4:54:23 AMLove your Polar Bears. You are so lucky to get these type shots in your travels. Your gallery is fantastic.
Katarina Mansson 12/4/2012 5:09:59 AMSuch a cute and stunning capture - congratulations on your fantastic POTD Karen! #10450023
Deborah C. Lewinson 12/4/2012 5:22:04 AMCongrats on your POTD, Karen, for this marvelous engaging image!
Debby #10450070
Paul R. Nelson 12/4/2012 5:24:41 AMWonderful capture, Karen. Congratulations on your POTD! #10450077
Ilene Samowitz 12/4/2012 5:54:09 AMCongrats...this is awesome. #10450142
Terry Cervi 12/4/2012 5:57:09 AMCongrats on your fantastic POTD, Karen! #10450150
Phyllis H. Burchett 12/4/2012 6:10:13 AMYou know I love this one Karen, big congrats on your POTD!!! #10450160
Bojan Bencic 12/4/2012 6:32:05 AMGreat capture, Karen. Congratulations on your POTD! #10450200
Lana Arcemont 12/4/2012 6:36:54 AMOutstanding Capture!
Nikki McDonald 12/4/2012 6:37:25 AMJust a wonderful capture in every way, Karen - exposure, focus and best of all subject and expression. Love the combination of cold (snow and the way they are cuddling) and warm (the feeling this gives me inside) :) Congratulations on the POTD. #10450208
Heather Loewenhardt 12/4/2012 6:39:45 AMWhat a tender moment you have captured Karen. Congrats on POTD! I live in Saskatchewan, right next door to Manitoba, and I have yet to make it ti Churchill to photograph the polar bears. Definitely on my bucket list. We have a ton of snow this year already. #10450211
Mariann Kovats 12/4/2012 6:40:57 AMHuge congratulations on this wonderful POTD! Just a wonderful capture! I hope, we'll see this again, Karen! #10450212
Kitty R. Rodehorst-Hanna 12/4/2012 6:53:27 AMAn INCREDIBLE POTD, Karen...WTG!!! :-) k #10450225
Donna La Mattino Pagakis 12/4/2012 6:55:24 AMSo very sweet, love this Karen. Huge congrats!! #10450228
Stephen Zacker 12/4/2012 7:20:06 AMFantastic capture and setting. Congratulations #10450271
Nancy L. Green 12/4/2012 7:36:06 AMAWESOME capture Karen, CONGRATULATIONS on a wonderful POTD!!! <>< #10450298
Rona L. Schwarz 12/4/2012 8:08:08 AMWTG, Karen! I remember this - definitely one of my favs and a most wonderful polar bear capture! I also remember your trendy cold weather outfit! Super Congrats on this marvelous POTD! #10450385
Susan Williams 12/4/2012 8:13:01 AMCongratulations on your POTD, Karen. Awesome capture and a well-deserved award! I love this! #10450400
Mary K. Robison 12/4/2012 8:23:11 AMExceptional family capture, Karen!
David Hurt 12/4/2012 8:34:06 AMCongrats on your POTD Karen. #10450423
Daniella Puente 12/4/2012 10:09:13 AMAmazing and so beautiful photo Karen, congrats on the POTD! #10450513
Maria Coulson 12/4/2012 10:25:51 AMHuge congratulations on this fabulous POTD! #10450529
Richard B. Hallick 12/4/2012 11:11:58 AMOUtstanding image, Karen. Congratulations on the well-deserved POTD! #10450584
Debra R. Harder 12/4/2012 11:15:46 AMHuge congratulations, Karen, on your FABULOUS POTD! This is wonderful! #10450588
Mitch Spence 12/4/2012 11:28:05 AMAn extraordinary sight to see, Karen, and a beautifully captured family group here. They look soft enought to cuddle, but I'm sure that wouldn't be a good idea. Big congratulations on the POTD. #10450607
Jack Gaskin 12/4/2012 12:29:50 PMTHUMBS UP GREAT ONE
Jack #10450770
Jeff Robinson 12/4/2012 3:35:15 PMCongrats Karen on your Wonderful POTD! #10450981
Kim Andelkovic 12/4/2012 4:27:51 PMCongrats on such a gorgeous POTD Karen.......awesome capture :-) #10451027
Thomas E. Hinds 12/4/2012 4:30:54 PMBeautiful image of these amazing creatures, Karen! Congratulations on this POTD! #10451032
Stanley C. Sims 12/4/2012 4:45:59 PMBig congrats on this cold weather photo. "Brrrrrrrrr" #10451055
R. J. Laudenbacher 12/4/2012 5:51:33 PMA big congrats on this heartwarming POTD, Karen. I love it! :) #10451121
Suzanne Crawshaw 12/4/2012 6:45:56 PMWonderful family photo, congrats on your POTD! #10451258
Jeffrey R. Bange 12/4/2012 7:56:15 PMCongratulations Karen on a most deserving POTD and I'm sure we will be seeing this one again at the end of the month. #10451324
Craig D. Minton 12/4/2012 10:11:31 PMWay to go, Karen! #10451394
Amanda D. Austwick 12/5/2012 12:14:08 AMWonderful bear family portrait! Congratulations! #10451468
Amanda D. Austwick 12/5/2012 12:14:08 AMWonderful bear family portrait! Congratulations! #10451469
Nadia Paul 12/5/2012 2:49:42 AMWonderful! Congrats on your POTD Karen. #10451601
Ellen Hodges 12/5/2012 2:27:00 PMHuge congrats on a fabulous POTD, Karen!! #10452454
Nancyj E. Hovey 12/5/2012 3:52:10 PMOUTSTANDING....Congratulations! 8o) #10452533
Cindy Bendush 12/5/2012 8:17:53 PMSo sweet - a real smile-maker! Congrats on your POTD! #10452773
JudyAnn Rector 12/7/2012 1:04:43 PMPriceless, Karen...
Lori Carlson 12/10/2012 4:00:09 AMAwww, look at this polar portrait!!....too sweet!! Thanks for sharing & big congrats! =) #10458502
Carol L. Fowler 12/27/2012 11:10:46 PMWonderful Finalist! Congrats #10481842
Nadia Paul 12/27/2012 11:59:47 PMGorgeous Karen - congrats! #10481936
Kathryn Wesserling 12/28/2012 1:18:42 AMWe'll see Gold on this one. #10482061
Ann Coates 12/28/2012 1:23:49 AMOh wow, amazing shot. I bet this goes gold too. #10482067
Jeff Robinson 12/28/2012 5:42:09 AMCongrats Karen on your Finalist! #10482664
Nancy Marie Ricketts 12/28/2012 5:50:15 AMCongratulations, Karen, on this great finalist! #10482688
Jeffrey R. Bange 12/28/2012 6:03:38 AMCongratulations Karen on your well deserved finalist photo and best of luck in the next round. #10482723
The Judges at BetterPhoto.com 12/28/2012 8:25:08 AMBeautiful. #10483308
Donna La Mattino Pagakis 12/28/2012 8:46:14 AMCongratulations Karen, a fantastic finalist! #10483383
Sherran Andersen 12/28/2012 10:10:18 AMCongrats. #10483781
Ellen Hodges 12/28/2012 10:57:29 AMHuge congrats and best luck on your wonderful finalists, Karen!!! #10484022
Bojan Bencic 12/28/2012 1:44:02 PMSo sweet. Congratulations on your finalist, Karen! #10484803
Randy D. Dinkins 12/28/2012 6:51:37 PMGreat job and perfect re-sub for this MT. Congratulations!!! #10485673
Nikki McDonald 12/28/2012 8:42:02 PMJust a wonderful Family MT entry, Karen, and one I am thrilled to see again. Added the silver - hope you add a 2nd gold, too. #10485941
Patrick Rouzes 12/29/2012 10:24:40 AMWOWWWWWWWWW, big congrats Karen!
Lucy Abrao 12/29/2012 2:03:48 PMSuch a cute capture, Karen. Congratulations on this well deserved finalist!
Phyllis H. Burchett 12/30/2012 10:30:50 AMCongrats on this wonderful finalist Karen! #10489573
Michelle Alton 12/31/2012 3:24:44 AMIt was a winner from the moment you pressed the shutter button. Congratulation on this and your other great winner! #10490815
Colette M. Metcalf 12/31/2012 3:30:56 AMCongrats to you!! #10490834
Mary K. Robison 12/31/2012 3:43:49 AMCongratulations on your sweet Second Place Gold Winner, Karen! #10490862
Deborah C. Lewinson 12/31/2012 4:32:37 AMWhat a delightful winner, Karen!
Debby #10491011
Bojan Bencic 12/31/2012 4:34:20 AMLove this one. Congratulations again, Karen! #10491018
Joseph T. Pilonero 12/31/2012 5:36:06 AMBet this "bearly" missed first, Karen. What a shot to get. Congratulations on the Gold Badge - again! #10491216
Monnie Ryan 12/31/2012 5:40:25 AMGreat job - congratulations on your win, Karen! #10491230
Danny B. Head 12/31/2012 6:07:03 AMSimply awesome! Congrats! #10491282
Nancy Marie Ricketts 12/31/2012 6:13:40 AMCongratulations Karen, on your GOLD win! #10491303
Susan Williams 12/31/2012 6:17:15 AMCongratulations on your well-deserved Gold, Karen! #10491315
Phyllis H. Burchett 12/31/2012 6:22:49 AMCongrats on this wonderful winner Karen! #10491332
Kathryn Wesserling 12/31/2012 7:02:14 AMKaren - how wonderful that this terrific image got a Gold. It wouldn't be a Winner's List if you weren't on it.
Looking forward to a 2013 full of your images. Happy New Year. #10491429
Jeffrey R. Bange 12/31/2012 7:11:21 AMCongratulations Karen on your well deserved gold, in my opinion it should have gotten first place. #10491450
Memoriee G. Sconce 12/31/2012 7:21:28 AMCongrats on these guys.
Bill Currier 12/31/2012 7:32:17 AMWow what a fantastic family portrait! Congrats on your Gold. Just wonderful. I also wish you a most healthy and prosperous 2013. #10491508
Stephen Zacker 12/31/2012 8:11:56 AMFantastic! Congratulations #10491679
Thomas E. Hinds 12/31/2012 8:35:49 AMBeautiful Winner, Karen! Congratulations! #10491765
Debra R. Harder 12/31/2012 8:55:47 AMThis is priceless, Karen! Huge congratulations on another EXCELLENT GOLD WINNER!! #10491821
Mary Beth Aiello 12/31/2012 9:44:32 AMNo surprise here, Karen. Another huge congrats on another beautiful GOld. #10491945
Amanda D. Austwick 12/31/2012 12:25:03 PMCongratulations on the Gold, for this wonderful Polar Bear Family photo!!! #10492404
Randy D. Dinkins 12/31/2012 1:01:36 PMThis one had gold all over it, too cute. Congratulations!! #10492516
Anita Hogue 12/31/2012 2:59:03 PMA sweet and beautiful family portrait! Congratulations, Karen! #10492688
Richard B. Hallick 12/31/2012 4:50:01 PMCongratlations, Karen. A real winning portrait. #10492873
Lucy Abrao 12/31/2012 6:59:36 PMCongrats, Karen. A well deserved gold.
Nadia Paul 12/31/2012 7:29:21 PMCongrats on a well deserved winner Karen! #10493074
Ujjwal Mukherjee 12/31/2012 7:59:30 PMCongratulations on your fabulous Winner,Karen!! Love this image!! #10493105
Andre Larose 1/1/2013 5:34:52 AMWTG Karen! Congratulations on this spectacular capture! Well deserved!
André #10493559
JO ANN CLEVELAND 1/1/2013 7:45:31 AMSooo sweet Karen..congrats on this adorable 2nd Place Gold Winner!
Happy New Year!
jo ann c. #10493764
Ann Lyssenko 1/2/2013 5:29:25 PMWonderful! Congratulations on being a winner. Ann #10496263
Mary L. Olson 1/3/2013 9:20:26 AMwonderful image!! Congratulations on your Gold winner. #10497338
Cindy Bendush 1/4/2013 4:20:30 PMSo PRECIOUS Karen! Congratulations again! #10499610
Carla Capra 1/6/2013 11:30:21 AMThis is outstanding and amazingly beautiful. Congratulations! #10502035
Renee Doyle 1/6/2013 5:53:09 PMSo adorable!! Congratulations on this wonderful winner Karen!! #10502654
Rona L. Schwarz 1/6/2013 9:41:14 PMSo glad to see this fabulous capture again, Karen! One of my favorites and so deserving of another GOLD Winner! Huge Congrats! #10502940
Merna L. Nobile 1/20/2013 12:57:13 PM
January is a month of reflection for me, I remember how privileged I was to observe all the outstanding work and beautiful photographs of the past year. For the last time this year, I would be honored to congratulate you for your spectacular work and willingness to share with all of us, Happy New Year, Merna Nobile
Richard D. Love 3/25/2013 11:20:34 AMCongratulations, Karen. Perfect timing and exposure!
Rick #10623375
Karen Celella 4/18/2013 11:00:11 AMI really appreciate the time and energy it takes to send these very kind and supportive words. Thank you all very much! #10658129
Patricia A. Casey 8/14/2013 7:46:37 AMCongratulations on the 'SNAPSHOT' placement of this photo today, Karen....still tugs at my heartstrings....wonderful! #10807775
This polar bear family at Hudson Bay, Churchill, Manitoba, Canada, would like to visit us here on Long Island today, as the thermometer says it's 17 degree's!
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Day 2 of Lollapalooza in Grant Park has crossed the finish line. Here's an hour-by-hour account with reporting from yours truly (GK) and the ever-vigilant Bob Gendron (BG):
11:44 a.m.: Want to go to Lollapalooza without having to buy tickets? Become a volunteer. Adam Hennan, in his fourth year of helping with recycling, works a four-hour shift and gets the rest of the day to roam. He says that veteran volunteers get the choice of better time slots but that opportunities are also handed out on a first-come basis. Hennan is also proud that, for the first time in its history, Lollapalooza has extended its composting program to the general public. Previously, it was just used for performing artists. Rather than merely giving lip service to the "green" concept, the festival seems to be getting serious about it. People like Hennan (a self-described "compost Nazi") stand around bins all day to ensure concertgoers put their trash in the right bins. It's one reason why, this morning, the clean park doesn't look as if more than 90,000 people passed through last night. (BG)
12:14 p.m.: Goodness gracious, great balls of fire. J. Roddy feverishly pounds the piano keys, summoning the spirits of Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnnie Johnson and other early rock n' roll pioneers schooled in gospel. Wearing a flannel shirt, blue jeans and sunglasses, the singer, with long curly locks and a perpetually kicking right leg, resembles the spawn of Mott the Hoople. His stool threatens to tip over on more than one occasion, as gravity remains the only force holding him down. Sacred church music he absorbed and played as a kid comes through in every note he strikes. Meanwhile, his '60s styled band delivers raucous, Southern-steeped boogie and two-fisted R&B that pass through Nashville, Memphis and Carolina coastal towns. Songs are loose, normally uptempo and cut with colloquial accents. Before finishing, the quartet tears the seams off a cover of Little Richard's "Lucille," Roddy's throaty voice and hiccuping accents running off the rails with gusto. "I was pretty sure it would be worth it but you didn't know," he wisecracks, thanking the crowd for arriving early. "You made a good decision." (BG)
12:43 p.m.: Backstage, Walston hasn't yet caught his breath. His only disappointment is that the group played a headlining set on Friday night and didn't get to bed until 4 a.m. Everyone arrived at the festival at 9 a.m. Not that the quick turnaround changed the foursome's approach. "If one guy paid, he should get the dame show as if 1000 people paid. We do it as much for ourselves as everyone else out there," he says, admitting that the group has experienced what it's like to perform in front of an audience of two fans. "We've been loving what we do since day one. We have to. After four years, we've just started to get paid in the last few months." (BG)
12:55 p.m.: "Check it out, we brought the clouds," says Disappears singer-guitarist Brian Case. The Chicago quartet's music does indeed feel like the voice of doom descending from on high. Jonathan Van Herik's bass and Steve Shelley's drums cruise down the Autobahn built by German art-rockers Neu, propelling the music forward with hypnotic fervor (and yes, it's that Steve Shelley – on temporary leave from Sonic Youth). The guitars of Case and Damon Carruesco swim in reverb, playing patterns that surge and decay. When two members of White/Light augment the quartet with lap slide-guitar and electronics, the sound gets even bigger, more menacing. When the set's over, it starts to rain. Perfect. (GK)
1:21 p.m.: Let the other rock duos rely on gimmickry and frills. An Horse is getting by just fine with simplicity and solid songwriting, thank you. If the combo claims any unusual trait, it's singer Kate Cooper's Australian accent. Otherwise, she and percussionist Damon Cox stick to the basics, maximizing the potential of a guitar and stripped-down drum kit without overdoing volume, power or distortion. Cox uses mallets and a tambourine to augment his backdrops. The tandem prefers to sing and tackle rhythms via a choreographed manner during which everything happens simultaneously. When a certain part stops, they both pause. When a vocal bridge arises, they each sing. Tunes such as "Little Lungs" and "Dressed Sharply" are models of catchy persuasion, with Cooper's guitar coughing up just enough fuzz tones to rough up any pretty spots. (BG)
1:33 p.m.: Typhoon barely squeezes all 12 band members onto the relatively small BMI stage. It's a mini orchestra including string and horn sections and two drummers, and no instrument is superfluous in the expansive arrangements that ebb and flow in density and volume. The instrumentation colors in the pensive songs of singer-guitarist Kyle Morton, avoiding preciousness by touching on Caribbean and South American rhythms, lush harmony vocals and syncopated handclaps. (GK)
2:05 p.m.: Lollapalooza expanded its franchise to Santiago, Chile, earlier this year, and as part of the musical exchange a handful of native bands were booked for the North American counterpart. Among them is Chico Trujillo, who infuse traditional cumbia rhythms with punky energy. The octet doesn't aspire to much more than uptempo party music, but on that count it succeeds completely. (GK)
2:20 p.m.: If there were a Lollapalooza dance-off, Friendly Fires singer Ed Macfarlane would surely be among the finalists. He's got the slinky snake dance, plus variations on the boogaloo, the shake, the shimmy and the spazz-matazz (I made that last one up). He also plays a wicked cowbell solo, and enjoys wading into the crowd to connect with "the people." The band writes big, arching melodies vaguely reminiscent of vintage U2 stadium-rock, merged with insistent dance-or-die rhythms. Everything about this band is designed to play to the back corners of an outdoor park, a trait shared by many of the U.K. bands at Lollapalooza. Like Muse and Coldplay, Friendly Fires knows its way around the European festival circuit and has been bred to entertain the multitudes. It's all a bit cheesy, but in a big field on a summer day, it's difficult to deny. (GK) 2:32 p.m.: The sun pokes through the clouds for the first time in more than an hour as Maps and Atlases treat songs as shapes meant to be twisted, tilted and turned. Having just returned from a long tour to their Chicago home base late Friday, the avant-pop band seems genuinely happy to be part of the fete. Singer-guitarist Dave Davison looks as if he's just emerged from a log cabin in the mountains, but the gruff appearance belies his gentle demeanor. He's the ringleader of a circus that concocts frisky, barely glued-together aural canvasses out of non-linear fragments, clattering effects and staggered spurts. When Maps and Atlases launches into a tune, "The Charm," that actually adheres to a recognizable structure, it's as surprising as the quartet's customary unconventional material. (BG) 2:49 p.m.: After more than three dozen people were sent to hospitals for a variety of concerns on Friday, all is primarily quiet at the main medical tent. Cloud cover is helping keep down the amount of heat-related problems. Yesterday, the various medical facilities remained constantly busy due to heat issues and foot injuries. The latter are so prominent that, for today and tomorrow, each tent is being staffed with two freshly hired podiatrists. Apparently, too many concertgoers are going barefoot and paying the price. Band-aids are in great demand. (BG) 3:13 p.m.: Making compelling mash-ups isn't as easy as it looks. In light of last night's Girl Talk concert, Super Mash Bros.' take on the electronic art falls short. Lacking continuity and flow, the L.A. trio's creations resemble stations being changed on a radio dial. Rather than recontextualize film dialogues, popular club hits and classic-rock riffs, the group's art simply co-opts them. A multimedia attempt at synching the sound with visuals doesn't fare much better. Among the three of them, the video game-loving geeks can't spell one Girl Talk. Another difference hamstrings the set: The now-open panels of the Perry's tent muddy the sonics and encourage some goofs in the audience to toss their beverage cans through the openings, where they descend and hit those closer to the stage in the head. (BG) 3:15 p.m.: Fitz and the Tantrums is a 3-year-old Los Angeles band, but the sound is rooted in Harlem's Apollo Theatre, circa 1960. The old-soul revival shtick climaxes with singers Michael Fitzpatrick and Noelle Scaggs working themselves into a double-time frenzy, with Fitzpatrick collapsing on stage. Then, it's time to fast-forward all the way into the '80s and a cover of Eurythmics' "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)." Who needs the 21st Century when the 20th can still be so much fun? (GK) 3:40 p.m.: Lollapalooza promoters say 40 percent of the 270,000 fans who attend this weekend's festival are coming from out of town. Rob Edmonson, 40, has been coming to Lollapalooza with his wife, Kim, from Toronto for the last four years. "It's gotten bigger, eh?" he says as they watch Dom at the Google stage. But the couple still is enjoying themselves. "Lots of bands, lots of space, they need more room," he says. "It's great because you just walk around and you're bound to hear something good." (GK) 3:50 p.m.: Dom's a tall, shambling figure with knack for writing catchy pop-rock melodies and oddball lyrics. "Burn bridges, make yourself an island," he advises. A fan in the audience blows soap bubbles – an appropriate visual aid for music that revels in its own disposability. The scrappy, engaging set is punctuated by a faithful cover of the Cure's "Boys Don't Cry" and closes – somewhat reluctantly, Dom says – of his tongue-in-cheek quasi-patriotic anthem "Living in America." (GK) 3:57 p.m.: Been caught stealing. Six fence jumpers are nailed in the act near the Monroe entrance. Despite the presence of a security guard posted every 20 feet around the grounds' perimeter, and the fences, daredevils intent on getting into Lollapalooza gratis believe they can beat the system. On Friday, approximately two dozen high-school age students that rushed off of Lake Shore Drive found out that, after the infamous Rage Against the Machine gatecrashing incident, the no-tolerance policy has stiffened. (BG) 4:14 p.m.: "Was anybody there at the Empty Bottle six years ago? Does anybody know what the Empty Bottle is?," asks Death From Above 1979 drummer/screamer Sebastian Grainger, referring to the Chicago club. Yes, times have changed. DFA 1979, recently reunited after a five-year hiatus, realize the strange currencies involved with nostalgia and tastes. His duo stirs up the sort of terrorizing noise that would otherwise seem out of place at a huge festival, as the group's sonic collisions are better cut out for underground venues and basement parties. Yet here he and bassist Jesse Keeler are, entertaining tens of thousands of people as their hyperactive outbursts hint at everything from a procession of backfiring NASCAR race cars to sparking power lines to the deafening cacophony of a steel plant. Grainger doesn't sing; he yelps, howls, cries and shouts. After half an hour, the tandem's corrosive, gunk-coated blitzes start to overlap. Sensing that DFA 1979 is short on enough material to fill an hour-long set, Grainger gets wise, and breaks out into his best Brian Williams impression as he teases with a few refrains of AC/DC's "Thunderstruck." How about "Highway to Hell" as an encore? (BG) 4:30 p.m.: The classic Ennio Morricone theme from "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" that introduces "Medicine Show" – must be time for Big Audio Dynamite. On a day with a retrograde flavor at Lollapalooza, with '80s covers surfacing on every stage, here's the genuine article. This was Mick Jones' first band after he parted ways with the Clash, and its blend of funk, rock and electronic sampling still sounds fresh. Keyboardist Don Letts still sports dreadlocks that dangle to his hips, as if he hadn't snipped them since the quintet's heyday. Jones still cuts a dashing figure, his barbed guitar lines cutting through the dense dance rhythms. The band shows it's serious about this comeback and not just collecting a nostalgia paycheck as it introduces a solid new song, "Rob Peter, Pay Paul." As Jones says with a laugh, it's "our global financial meltdown explained in 3½ minutes." (GK) 5:10 p.m.: A boy who can't be more than 5 years old crowd surfs as Deftones vocalist Chino Moreno blares, "Guns! Razors! Knives!" at the top of his lungs. Moreno is nonplussed by the sight, and jumps off of any object within his reach, occasionally stretching his arms into the crowd from the safety of a ledge. He hops on and off a balance beam as the California quintet flushes out the tension ridden in grinding metal grooves and hazy, atmospheric soundscapes. For him, conscious-probing excursions such as "Diamond Eyes" equate to catharsis, and he plunges the microphone into his chest as if it were a sword and he were committing hara-kari. Deftones cause the ugly to become beautiful, at least for brief moments. Still, the group is victimized by inferior amplification that renders its disturbing squeals, low-end thunder and tortured releases in mono. (BG) 5:35 p.m.: Local Natives is one of the acts I was most anticipating at Lollapalooza, particularly after seeing their fantastic set last year at the Pitchfork Music Festival in Union Park. The quintet's lustrous harmonies and Afro-pop rhythms suggested a potentially star-making moment in prime time at Lolla. But on a beautiful late afternoon, the band sounds unusually languid. Even their sharp cover of Talking Heads' jittery "Warning Sign" comes off flat. The group's harmonies are still intact, but the bounce in their step is lacking. (GK) 6:21 p.m.: "Alright, thanks Bonnaroo...I mean Lollapalooza." That Spinal Tap moment comes courtesy of Gene Ween, who immediately recognizes his mistake. And no, the normally sarcastic guitarist/vocalist isn't kidding. Which only makes the innocent blunder doubly ironic, as his namesake band Ween prizes parodies of the rock-star lifestyle. There's a reason why the veteran group keeps its cult status. Ween runs through psychedelia, prog, R&B, dinosaur rock, country and calypso with arch humor and oddball eclecticism that contrast its serious musicianship. Whether intentional or not, "Bananas and Blow," with its "sitting in my cabana/living on bananas and blow" refrain, assumes extra comedic significance. VIPs watch the band from the comfort of elevated cabanas where catered food has just been served. With an exaggerated smile and faux sinister vocals, Gene passes as one of the campy arch villains from "Austin Powers." But don't underestimate his abilities. In full-on impersonation mode, he and the band nail a note-perfect rendition of David Bowie's "Let's Dance," missing not even the Thin White Duke's onstage moves. (BG) 6:45 p.m.: What a frustrating set. Cee Lo Green instantly makes a statement with a bizarre outfit – including spiked shoulder pads – that looks like it was lifted from an S&M shop. His all-female band resembles a coven of dominatrixes. "Don't you dare let this wonderful outfit go to waste," Cee Lo says. But it's his strangely erratic performance that wastes the opportunity. Though the set has its moments – a romp through the Violent Femmes' "Gone Daddy Gone," the ebullient "Bright Lights, Big City" – it never sustains any momentum. Rather than letting his magnificent, gospel-fired voice carry the show, Green starts and stops songs, admonishes the audience for lacking enthusiasm, and comes off as a cranky, distracted presence. Talk about a waste – not just of a wonderful outfit but of a wonderful songbook. (GK) 7:35 p.m.: Swedish singer Lykke Li and her band are all in black, arrayed on stage as if in a particularly bleak Ingmar Bergman movie. But the music is not nearly so somber. Instead, it brings a Phil Spector-like grandeur to heartbreak, including a stunning cover of the old Drifters plea, "Please Stay." Li sings with a wounded ache about the boyfriends who done her wrong, but then hammers away at a drum, ripping open the undercurrent of anger and violence in her songs. (GK) 7:49 p.m.:Enlist Atmosphere to teach a sign language class. The Minneapolis MC prompts the audience to use its fists as hammers, turn fingers into scissors, flash peace signs, collectively clap and yes, wave arms in the air. A great prelude to Eminem, the Minneapolis rapper dishes rhymes and narratives related to everyday events and normal people. Hangovers, girlfriends, abused partners and consequences of poor decisions litter his lyrical landscapes, which probe dark subconscious zones without ever exploding in anger. Instead, Atmosphere treats physical and emotional shrapnel as slow leaks, and applies a mellow salve in the form of positive sentiments and head-bobbing beats. As a survivalist, it's hard to take his claim that, after a night of hard partying, he almost called in sick to cancel with any seriousness. There's no way the savvy veteran would've missed a chance to win over new converts on a big stage. Backed by an edgy band, he doesn't let the opportunity go to waste. (BG) 9:52 p.m.: Surrounded on two sides by some of the city's finest skyscrapers, My Morning Jacket responds with dazzling architecture of its own. Sharp melodic figures dart through spacious openings, dual-guitar harmonies soar and percussive rejoinders crackle, functioning as punctuation marks on a wide-ranging two-hour set. His face obscured by his long hair, singer-guitarist Jim James leads the ragged glory, spinning around and sliding across the stage on his knees. James' wailing voice reflects normal wear from the road, but he hits falsetto highs without problem. My Morning Jacket balances massive firepower with blissful balladry, and toward the end, gets adventurous with simmering cosmic rock ("Dondante") and elongated electro-tinged soul ("Holdin' on to Black Metal"). Years of constant touring whipped this band into a force. It's the best of both worlds, a unit that can be as loose or as taut as it desires, and one that knows when to pull in the reins on extended jams. All that the Kentucky collective lacks tonight is a large crowd. Seldom has it been easier to get so close to a headliner. A majority of Lollapalooza patrons chose to see Eminem. (BG) 9:55 p.m.: Eminem rushes through a career's worth of hits, usually truncating them as if in a race to fit as many as possible into a 90-minute set. Bruno Mars makes a quick cameo to sing the hook from the MC's latest single, "Lighters," and then exits, never to be seen again. It makes for a quick survey of past accomplishments rather than a truly engaging and engaged performance. The rapper born Marshall Mathers avoids some of the more starkly violent songs from earlier in his career, and instead focuses on his own struggles in recent tracks such as "Not Afraid" and "Love the Way You Lie." He strives to portray himself as a more mature artist who has learned from his mistakes. In the most telling moment, he threatens to take a swig of vodka, only to spring several "leaks" from a rigged hoodie after he swallows. "Give my man a hand for staying sober this long," says hype man Kon Artis. It's not a moment played for laughs or dark humor; indeed, the set is strangely devoid of any levity at all as Eminem performs with a nearly joyless, workmanlike focus. "Can I take you back when I was (screwed up)?" Eminem says. Then he strings together snippets from songs such as "My Name Is," "The Real Slim Shady" and "Without Me" that made him one of the most notorious figures in pop culture, and also one of the most popular. Now, post-rehab he has become just as successful, but you're left wondering whether he's enjoying it. (GK) email@example.com


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Oct. 9: Last day to register to vote for the Nov. 6 election
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The Colorado Secretary of State has signed off on Boulder County's ballot procedures, and a federal judge tossed a lawsuit that aimed to stop the practice of printing identifying numbers on ballots. But Boulder County elections activists are still concerned that Boulder County Clerk and Recorder Hillary Hall's policies could lead to voters' choices being revealed.
Over the weekend, a group of activists went to the private printing facility in Aurora where Boulder County's ballots are printed to inspect the ballots and observe the sorting of the printed ballots. They were denied entrance to the facility, a move that they say raises questions about transparency and accountability.
On Monday, Hall said the decision to not admit the observers was made by the printing facility, not her office. Ten other counties print their ballots at that facility, and there is no secure area for observers to watch but remain separate from the work process in the facility.
Printing and sorting of ballots is not one of the steps in the election process that state law requires observers be allowed to watch.
Hall said she has no objection in theory to activists observing the process, and the next time her office issues a request for proposals for the printing contract, she'll ask that potential printers address the issue.
"It's how you balance that with security concerns," Hall said.
Mary Eberle, a Boulder County elections integrity activist, was one of several people who traveled to Aurora to attempt to observe the sorting of the ballots.
Eberle said representatives of the printing facility initially told them they could come in if Boulder County was OK with it, and then told them they could not come in. Hall said the person who spoke with the activists was under the mistaken impression they worked for Boulder County.
Eberle said activists have security concerns of their own -- such as whether Hall is following through on her ballot-printing plan as presented to the Secretary of State's Office and whether that plan really will produce ballots that cannot be traced back to individual voters.
"Without being able to observe the process, how can we have confidence in the process?" Eberle said.
Until recently, every Boulder County ballot had a unique number that distinguished it from every other ballot. That number made it easy for election workers to retrieve a specific ballot if it wouldn't scan properly or had over-- or undervotes that needed to be assessed manually.
However, election integrity activists contended that through comparisons with voter rolls, those unique numbers could reveal how individual people voted.
Hall's new plan has those identifying numbers repeated 10 times within each ballot style -- making the numbers particular enough that a problem ballot can be retrieved, she contends, but common enough that no ballot will be unique.
For additional security, Hall also had the ballots printed in a scrambled order and then manually sorted so they would not be distributed in the order they were printed in. In precincts with a very small number of ballots, every ballot will have the same number to make sure a ballot could not be linked back to a voter.
Hall said there will be no way -- through internal databases or otherwise -- to link particular ballots to a particular voters.
Hall said she also had the printing and sorting process videotaped and that videotape will be publicly available.
Eberle said activists still want to visually inspect the ballots before they are mailed out.
Ballots are scheduled to be mailed to Boulder County voters Oct. 15.
A federal lawsuit seeking to stop the printing of Boulder County's ballots was tossed last month, largely on jurisdictional grounds. Marilyn Marks, president of Citizen Center, the Colorado election integrity organization that filed the lawsuit, has said she plans to file an appeal in federal court.


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"Everything in moderation."
Grandmothers' most oft-repeated lifestyle advice
It was a principle that worked well for the petitely proportioned women of our grandmothers' generation. In the 1950s, when "everything in moderation" was the only dietary advice widely dispensed, the average dress size was a 6. By 2003, it was 14 and rising.
There has never been so much dietary advice so readily available and yet America has never been so fat. Could the solution be as simple as tuning out a multi-billion dollar industry's messages and taking Nana's advice?
In this day and age, not quite. Back when "everything in moderation" was helping Nana cut a foxy figure in her skin-tight clam diggers "everything" did not include 42-ounce sodas, French fries served in paper grocery bags, doughnuts that pack 20 per cent of one's daily calorie requirement and bacon-cheeseburgers served on said doughnuts (a specialty at a St Louis ballpark).
In Nana's era, a girl looking to indulge might have enjoyed a little pie or a strawberry milkshake. And that milkshake would have been served in a glass. Back then it would have been impossible to buy food by the bucket unless it was for livestock. Now, buckets frequently constitute a single serving and ordering the smallest bucket is considered moderation.
Move upscape beyond the outrageously unhealthy end of America's foodchain and it's still very easy to be immoderate by Nana's standards. Compare, for instance, the dessert plates currently made by the even the finest porcelain houses with pudding bowls from the 1950s. I inadvertently did that this week.
In the market for new dessert plates, I'd been coveting a number of them in a kitchenware store. But during an unexpected trip to the outer suburbs I was drawn to a glass pudding bowl at a local thrift store. It reminded me of a set of such bowls my grandmother used to own and just how daintily proportioned they were. I suspect if Nana were to encounter dessert plates circa 2006 she would believe them to be serving platters.
I christened my new thrift-store pudding bowl by making a modern, morning-friendly take on trifle, a dish that was fashionable in Nana's era. The breakfast version combines thick, skim-milk yoghurt with wholegrains, ground almonds and an ingredient far more fashionable in years gone by than now - stewed prunes. (I make mine using Orangette's stewed prune recipe.)
Despite their reputation for being largely the domain of the elderly or those with a digestive disorder, prunes are absolutely delicious. And, health-wise they've got way more going for them than just being high in fibre, coming in at number nine on the United States Department of Agriculture's list of the 20 foods with the highest concentration of antioxidants.
Of course, if one is not a prune fancier some other variety of stewed, poached or even canned fruit could be substituted. The breakfast trifle concept works with whatever fruits, nut meal and rolled grains or granola you may have on hand. One of the great things about it is that it's best prepared the night before - perfect for people who are in a hurry most mornings. And it can even be made in a plastic tumbler with snap-on lid for a busy-day power breakfast at your office or health club.
Filled to capacity, my new old-school pudding bowl accommodated only about half the quantity of fancy breakfast trifle I'd usually make. I guess that's one of the reasons women's average dress size in the 1950s was about half what it is today.
Fancy breakfast trifle
Plain, thick skim-milk yoghurt
Rolled oats (or mixture of oats and other rolled grains such as rye, barley and spelt; or granola)
Ground almonds (or another ground nut or seed, such as hazelnut, walnut, flaxseed)
Stewed prunes (or any other stewed, poached or canned fruit)
Layer the yoghurt, wholegrains, ground nuts and fruit in a glass or a glass bowl, finishing with some fruit on top. Cover the trifle tightly with plastic wrap and leave in the fridge overnight. The grains and nut meal will absorb liquid from the fruit and yoghurt, softening them and making the yoghurt even thicker and creamier.


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In their first match against the University of Northern Kentucky, the Bisons won 6-1.
Doubles winners for the Bisons include Mario Hernandez and Daniel Hangstefer, who defeated Dlabik and Arenstein 8-6.
James Murrell and Chad Pierron defeated Ortiz and Knoll 8-6. Joe McArdle and Andy Mizell defeated Fraser and Luwengran 8-6.
The Bisons advanced to take a significant lead in singles, winning all but one set.
Singles winners for the Bisons included Joe McArdle, who defeated Ortiz 7-6, 2-6, 13-11 (10 point tie-breaker).
Daniel Hangstefer defeated Arenstein 6-2, 6-4. James Murrell beat Knoll 6-2, 6-1.
Other singles winners included Josh Cummings who defeated Krano 6-0, 6-0. Mario Hernandez beat Weaver in a close 6-4, 6-3.
The Bisons went on to play the University of Dayton in their second match of the tournament. Lipscomb won in a tight match 4-3.
Unable to clinch the doubles point, the Bisons gained momentum in singles in order to take the lead.
"After winning the Northern Kentucky match our guys really struggled in the doubles.," said coach Andrew Harris. "We still need to work on finishing points and games when closing matches.
"However, down 2-0 to Dayton after losing the doubles point and James Murrell pulling out with an injury in singles they found a way to get the job done. That is what I am most proud of about these wins today is that it was a total team effort."
Singles winners included Joe McArdle, who defeated Rohana 6-3, 6-3. Daniel Hangstefer was another winner for the Bisons, defeating Warneck 6-2, 6-4.
Bruno Melibeu won in a close, but tough match 6-7 (7-3), 6-2, 7-6 (8-6). Mario Hernandez lost his first match against Weigand, but took the second two matches, winning 5-7, 6-1, 6-2.
"Everyone had to step up and make something happen no matter how bleak the situation might have been," said Harris. "They pulled themselves out of some huge holes tonight and did what they needed to in order to get the win."
The Bisons are 4-1 overall. Their next home match will be against Abilene Christian on Feb. 26. The place and time of the match are to be announced.
1) Hernandez/Hangstefer vs. Dlabik/Arenstein LU Won 8-6
2) Murrell/Pierron vs. Ortiz/Knoll LU Won 8-6
3) McArdle/Mizell vs. Fraser/Luwengran LU Won 8-6
1) McArdle vs Ortiz LU Won 7-6, 2-6, 13-11 (10 Point Tiebraker for the Third)
2) Melibeu vs. Dlabik NKU Won 6-2, 7-5
3) Hangstefer vs. Arenstein LU Won 6-2,6-4
4) Murrell vs. Knoll LU Won 6-2,6-1
5) Cummings vs. Kranno LU Won 6-0,6-0
6) Hernandez vs. Weaver LU Won 6-4,6-3
Final: LU 6 Northern Kentucky 1
1) Hernandez/Hangstefer vs. Rohana/Peyton UD 9-7
2) Murrell/Pierron vs. Sherman/Koscieliski UD 9-8 (8-6)
3) McArdle/Mizell vs. Womack/Weigand UD 9-8 (7-4)
1) McArdle vs Rohana LU 6-3, 6-3
2) Pierron vs. Sherman UD 6-2,4-6,6-3
3) Hangstefer vs. Warneck LU 6-2,6-4
4) Murrell vs. Peyton UD 4-6, 1-4 Ret
5) Melibeu vs. Kosckieliski LU 6-7, (7-3) 6-2, 7-6 (8-6)
6) Hernandez vs. Weigand LU 5-7, 6-1, 6-2
Final LU 4 Univ. of Dayton 3


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JOINT BASE LEWIS-McCHORD, Wash. -- A military jury Friday sentenced Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, who pleaded guilty to killing 16 Afghan civilians, to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Bales, 40, entered the guilty plea last June in a deal to avoid the death penalty.
During his court-martial here Thursday, Bales had apologized for his actions but did not offer an explanation for the violence. He described the killings as an "act of cowardice, behind a mask of fear, bulls -- and bravado."
"I'm truly, truly sorry to those people whose families got taken away," the father of two said. "I can't comprehend their loss. I think about it every time I look at my kids."
The six-member military jury deliberated about two hours Friday morning following closing arguments. As a result of Bales' guilty plea, jurors were only deciding whether he would be eligible for parole.
During the proceeding, his defense sought to humanize him as a dependable and upstanding man -- a good father, a good soldier, a good friend -- who had been tormented by war.
Noting his use of steroids and alcohol, prosecutors countered that Bales has a troubled history with his marriage, finances and authority figures. They also focused on the toll the rampage took on the families he attacked and on the military's relationships in Afghanistan.
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The panel is being organized to discuss the recent confirmation of Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE) in the county and the subsequent aerial spraying in limited areas. Recently another mosquito-related disease, West Nile Virus, has also been confirmed in Chittenden County.
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Former CIO of the Air Force, John Gilligan, spoke with Threat Level to explain how the USAF made all this work. It all started with the NSA, which performed several penetration tests on the Air Force network back in 2003. These tests showed that the network was a swiss cheese, and that "more than two-thirds of their intrusions were possible because of poorly configured software that created vulnerabilities". In some cases, it were features that were never locked down because they had never been used, and in other cases it were features that were locked down, only to become vulnerable later (for instance, it needed to be re-installed but patches were never re-applied).
So, the USAF talked to Ballmer, and the CEO actually got personally involved in the project. "He has half-a-dozen clients that he personally gets involved with, and he saw that this just made a lot of sense," Gilligan said, "They had already done preliminary work themselves trying to identify what would be a more secure configuration. So we fine-tuned and added to that."
The USAF worked together with several other agencies and Microsoft to create a single secure and locked down configuration of Windows XP. They changed the way administrator passwords were handled, but Microsoft also implemented "automated tools to update patches and to detect and prevent someone from altering the configuration". Overall, more than 600 settings were locked down.
This single locked-down configuration brings several advantages to the USAF, most importantly the ability to install patches within 72 hours instead of 57-100 days. Since they're now using a single, consistent configuration, a lot less testing is involved when it comes to new patches. This testing is now done by Microsoft, and not by the USAF itself.
The USAF began installing this on systems in 2005 and finished in 2007. They also demand that vendors pre-load this configuration to make these systems secure out-of-the-box. The USAF saved 100 million USD because they now buy a single configuration instead of having 30 different contracts.
So, how secure is this system? Gilligan said that 85% of attacks are blocked by the new configuration. "Turns out when you configure things properly and don't touch them, they actually work pretty well," he added. The Air Force configuration is now in use in many other departments because it has been such a success.
Gilligan also said tat he hopes that this project marks the beginning of the end of companies arrogantly resisting locking down their products. "They're still in the model that they want to give all the features enabled to clients," he said, "But I think we've reached a point where that model is one that is no longer effective. I'm of the opinion that all products ought to be configured with these locked-down configurations, and if the customer decides they want to undo them, then they can do that. They cannot continue fielding products where the cost that is being borne by the consumer in terms of having to maintain configurations and deal with attacks is so high."


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The Atlanta Dream re-signed All-Star guard/forward Angel McCoughtry to a multi-year contract on Thursday.
McCoughtry won her first WNBA scoring title in 2012, averaging 21.4 points along with 5.0 rebounds, 2.9 assists and 2.5 steals per game. She also helped Team USA win gold at the London Olympics.
"We're very excited to have Angel back," said Dream head coach and general manager Fred Williams. "She's an Olympian and elite player who has played extremely well during her WNBA career in Atlanta, and it's exciting to know she will continue to build her career with the Dream. Angel has helped us reach the Finals twice, and wants to continue to contribute that success as part of the team."
McCoughtry has spent her entire four-year career in Atlanta after coming to the Dream as the No. 1 overall pick of the 2009 WNBA Draft. In her first season, she averaged 12.8 points, 3.1 rebounds, 2.1 assists and 2.2 steals while being named WNBA Rookie of the Year.
The 26-year-old has helped guide the team to four consecutive playoff appearances, including back-to-back trips to the WNBA Finals in 2010-11. In 2011, McCoughtry averaged a career-high 21.6 points en route to being named to the All-WNBA First Team and the WNBA All-Defensive First Team.
In 125 career games with the Dream, McCoughtry has averaged 19.0 points, 4.5 rebounds, 2.6 assists and 2.2 steals.
"I'm happy and excited to be able to continue my career with the Atlanta Dream," said McCoughtry. "Atlanta is now my home, as well as the only WNBA team I've ever played for, and I look forward to competing for more championships with my teammates in the years to come."


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The Republican National Committee's approach to repairing the Republican Party will never succeed ("Diversify or die, Republican National Committee is told," April 13). Their attempt to be genuine with women and Latino voters cannot be achieved because anti-abortion and anti-immigration views are core values of their party. As far as addressing misconceptions, I know exactly what they stand for, so I don't see any misconceptions. They need to split the party if they want to get the American voters to show any interest. It is split now anyway.
Clem Gavenas, Carney


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Diary for 14th March 2008
Hold up! Before you read on, please read this...
This post was published more than 10 years ago
I keep old posts on the site because I often enjoy reading old content on other people's sites. Not everything that is old is bad. It can be interesting to see how views have changed over time: for example, how my strident teenage views have mellowed and matured.
But given the age of this post, please bear in mind:
- My views might very well have changed in the 10 years since I wrote this post. I have written some very silly things over the years, many of which I find pretty embarrassing today.
- This post might use language in ways which I would now consider highly inappropriate or offensive.
- Factual information might be outdated.
- Links might be broken; embedded material might not appear properly.
Okay. Consider yourself duly warned. Read on...
Why do Costa insist on serving tea in stupid pots without spouts? They are simply impossible to pour from without disastrous spillage! «
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Tacoma Dealer Adds Cruiser RV Fun Finder X
February 24, 2011 by RVBusiness · Comments Off on Tacoma Dealer Adds Cruiser RV Fun Finder X
Tacoma RV Center in Fife, Wash., has recently signed on as Cruiser RV's newest dealer for the Fun Finder X product line.
Tacoma RV Center has been in business since 1987 and has established itself as a leading dealership on the West Coast, according to a news release.
"We are grateful to Tacoma RV and LaDonna Kummerfeld for this opportunity. We're confident the Fun Finder X will be an excellent fit at their dealership," stated Jeff Fought, executive vice president of Cruiser RV. "The Tacoma and Seattle markets have proven to be great for our lightweight units and we know Tacoma RV will represent us well."
A wide selection of Fun Finder X models will be landing at the dealership soon, just in time for the Tacoma RV Show, March 17-20, at the Tacoma Dome.
Find out more about the Fun Finder X by visiting www.cruiserrv.com or by contacting Tacoma RV Center at (866) 949-7725.